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OB OY Le VEN? WHITE HOUSE TARGETS CONSPIRACY THEORISTS and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," he said. a” The company claims the technology can be used to supply energy for most devices, from mobile phones to cars. A big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible. "For the first six months that we looked at it, we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on, but we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. "We have had scientists come in, test it, and off the record they are quite happy to admit that it works. "But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into people's lives, we need credible academic validation in the public domain—and hence the challenge," McCarthy said. (Sources: PhysOrg.com, August 18, 2006; Steorn Ltd, http:/www.steorn.net) document quoted by US President George W. Bush in a recent speech on how to "win the war on terror" cites conspiracies as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to "address" and "diminish" the problems they are causing the government. Bush referred to the paper as "an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September 11, 2001" that takes into account "the changing nature of this enemy". The document says that terrorism springs from "subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation". It goes on to say: "...terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda." The terminology echoes Bush's speech to the UN General Assembly on November 10, 2001, in which he stated: "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September 11, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty." (Source: PrisonPlanet.com, September 7, 2006, http://www. prisonplanet.com/articles/ september2006/070906terroristrecruiters.htm.) SCIENTISTS CALLED ON TO TEST "FREE ENERGY" TECHNOLOGY ie company Steorn Ltd is challenging the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine in mid-August. Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy—a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics. "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting GARBAGE BINS PACK SPY CHIPS Gus bins all over England are under surveillance. At least 500,000 "wheelie bins" now have passive RFID tags screwed into a hole in the lip of the bin. As the bin is hoisted up for emptying, an RFID reader on the rubbish truck interrogates the chip, which divulges a serial number identifying the property owner. The weight of the bin is recorded by the truck's sensors and is registered in a database entry along with the serial number. The database entries for the day are downloaded at the dump and stored in a vast central databank of property owner behaviour. You should remember that many of the articles you buy (and sooner or later throw away) are now also equipped with passive RFID tags that detail the item's brand name and product name. If it's possible to scan the tag on the rubbish bin with an ID, it's possible to use similar equipment to scan your can quickly to uncover your purchasing habits. This might be a good time to insist on zombie RFID tags on consumer products; they can be turned off when you take them from the store. (Source: Technovelgy.com, August 31, 2006, http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/ 060831_technovelgy.html) ae INTERNET BAU KG HAs) TVRHED ouT TO BEA REAL }! pearpontment ro me. /) (eal ——— fice] Fl ee ; eee. | ( Fe a4 Soa 2 res Ae 6 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2006