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GLOBAL NEWS GROUNDWATER DEPLETION RATE ACCELERATING A previous list, dated 1971, indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20 per cent efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies "in excess of 70-80%". One may fairly ask if disclosure of such technologies could really have been "detrimental to the national security", or whether the opposite would be closer to the truth. One may further ask what comparable advances in technology may be subject to restriction and non- disclosure today. But no answers are forthcoming, and the invention secrecy system persists with no discernible external review. (Source: Secrecy News, 21 October 2010, http://tinyurl.com/26mlf6t) "A core group of the world's leading economies need|s] to come together and hammer out an understanding," said Charles Dallara, the IIF's managing director. An IIF policy letter authored by Dallara and dated 4 October made it clear that global currency coordination is needed, in the group's view, to prevent a looming currency war. Dallard encouraged a return to the G-20 commitment to utilise International Monetary Fund (IMF) Special Drawing Rights to create an international one-world currency alternative to the US dollar as a new standard for foreign-exchange ie recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions depend on has more than doubled, say scientists who have conducted a global assessment of groundwater use. These fast-shrinking subterranean reservoirs are essential to daily life and agriculture in many regions, while also sustaining streams, wetlands and ecosystems and resisting land subsidence and salt water intrusion into fresh water supplies. Soaring global groundwater depletion bodes a potentia disaster for an increasingly globalised agricultural system, says the study's leader Marc Bierkens o Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands. "If you let the population grow by extending the irrigated areas using groundwater that is not being recharged, then you will run into a wall at a certain point in time, and you will have hunger and social unrest to go with it," Bierkens reserves. Likewise, a July United Nations report called for the replacement of the dollar as the standard for holding foreign-exchange reserves in international trade with a new one-world currency issued by the IMF. The 176-page report, "World Economic and Social Survey 2010", was issued at a high-level meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council and published in its entirety on the UN website. (Source: BlackListedNews.com, 11 October 2010, http://tinyurl.com/34bxkta) BIG BANKS AND UN CALL FOR A GLOBAL CURRENCY he Institute of International Finance (IIF), a group that represents 420 of the world's largest banks and finance houses, has issued yet another call for a one-world global currency. warns. Groundwater represents about 30 per cent of the available fresh water on the planet, with surface water accounting for only one per cent. The rest of the potable, agriculture- friendly supply is locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps. This means that any reduction in the availability of groundwater supplies could have profound effects for a growing human population. The new assessment shows the highest rates of depletion in some of the world’s major agricultural centres, including northwestern India, northeastern China, northeastern Pakistan, California's Central Valley and the midwestern United States. (Source: ScienceDaily.com, 23 September 2010, http://tinyurl.com/26hf679) Tr STARTED HATPEriMé Oaice | Yow TURWED Tato BIL Luge. fi! ; | SeTTA Lay OFF THE FRrER Feop] of Ach sev To & GYM, Hi 2 | ei "2 8 * NEXUS EXPANDING EARTH THEORY DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com