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OB OY oF VEN? NEW-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AWARD AUSTRALIA'S IDENTITY CARD DUMPED dvanced Energy Research Organization, LLC (AERO), headed by CEO Dr Steven M. Greer, is offering an up-front US$200,000 licensing award and a minimum $5 million two-year royalty program for a qualifying new-energy breakthrough. The company, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, is leading a worldwide search for promising out-of-the-box inventors and scientists who have provable energy-generation inventions that need support, further development and widespread public exposure. Over the past 100 years, many major energy breakthroughs have withered on the vine, died with the inventor or been absorbed into secretive corporate or government programs. It is AERO's mission to see that these new technologies are protected, supported and massively disclosed to the public so that we can go beyond our current addiction to oil, gas and coal and begin a new, sustainable era in human history. AERO says it is uniquely qualified to see that such technological innovations make it to market: "Our network includes 'A-list' celebrities, Nobel Prize winners, current and former heads of state and millions of people who follow our work. The inventor or team that has a qualifying system for energy generation will have the full force, support and he incoming Australian Labor 4 Government has moved quickly to scrap the Howard administration's _ controversial AUD$1.1 billion Human Services Access Card. The $1.1 billion project— intended to provide every Australian with a unique health and welfare number and biometric photo on a smartcard—has languished since mid-2007, after an all-party Senate committee rejected the draft-enabling legislation as wholly inadequate and lacking in protections against the card's use as a de facto identity card. Bidders are understood to have spent millions on preparing their tenders for systems integration and card issuing, and the Office of the Access Card has spent more than $50 million on consultants, administration and advertising. Although the Australian government attempted to paint the Access Card system as a "Human Services Access Card", there's little doubt that it would have doubled as an effective national ID system. Information printed on the card was to include one's name, photo, signature and entitlements, e.g., with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Encrypted information contained within the card's RFID chip would have included a person's legal name, date of birth, gender, address, signature, card number, card expiration date and Medicare number. Provisions were also included that would allow additional information deemed to be necessary for "the administration or purposes of the Act". Australians are unhappy about the idea of being forced to carry a unique ID card merely for the purpose of interacting with basic human and health services, and the proposal faced opposition from _ its inception. (Sources: The Australian, 7 December 2007, http://tinyurl.com/ypeygs; arstechnica, 24 December 2007, http://tinyurl.com/2hbufz) protection of this unique, global network." "The invention must be already built, robust and running reliably, with a net exportable (usable) power output of at least one kilowatt or greater. The system must use no power from the power grid, and if batteries or capacitors are used they must remain fully charged. The system must create no greenhouse gases or other polluting emissions and must be a closed-loop system (that is, the output energy is sufficient to run the energy needs of the system and also provide the minimum one kilowatt of usable net power)." To view the criteria list or to apply for this award program, visit www.aero2012.com. (Source: AERO press release, 1 Nov 2007) a (Se Se meruihs FORMER ITALIAN PRESIDENT SAYS 9/11 AN INSIDE JOB ‘ormer Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 6 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008