Cable TV Conspiracy

Dear NEXUS: I attended a friend's gathering recently and met a very interesting man. I feel as though I have a responsibility to contact you.

This person has spent the last 20 years working in the US for one of the large TV cable companies. He started as a basic technician and moved up in classification and clearance level over the years and was technically trained by the company at various stages of his time there. He was one of the leading design technicians for the new cable technology when he left the company and moved here.

I had quite an in-depth conversation over the afternoon with this man as I am a studying electronics engineer and have Foxtel cable installed in my home. After several beers, the chap seemed to warm to me and then said something that initially confused me.

"I would never recommend any cable TV be installed in any of my friends' places." I thought he might be referring to the mess they make or the escalating costs that suck you in over time. "No, I mean I would never let anyone come anywhere near my house and lay cable all over the trouble. Think about it."

This man witnessed the top level co-operation between the cable companies and the government as part of a giant surveillance and information-gathering network. He was responsible for designing the new range of TV top boxes that all cable systems employ as a junction 'decoder'. He said that all of these new junction boxes contain a tiny microphone inside and a black and white fisheye camera behind the clear plastic on the front, and that the cable has return channels included into its specification for sending these signals back to the carrier.

It is possible for them to tune in to any house with cable installed and listen in and see what is happening at any particular time. He said that he had seen it used in the US for detection of drug dealings and talk of tax evasion without the user's knowledge, and as a way for the government to "monitor and track its society's real movements and thoughts". He said that they gave away "free connection" in a sort of competition scam to people they wanted to monitor.

He said he saw the system abused on a continual basis, and that in the early days he was pushed and ordered around by "men in black overcoats" who would march into his lab, asking him to access confidential records and taking his schematic drawings. After complaints by his department in regard to this behaviour, it abruptly ceased. Several months later, whilst modifying the system, he discovered that an outside line had been installed, without his knowledge, with direct access to the master computers to somewhere that was "classified".

All this sent my mind racing, but it did make sense. One time, when I wished to have some extra channels turned on for viewing, I rang up Foxtel. The receptionist said it would take a day to turn on, but, as I wished to watch a programme that started in five minutes, I asked if it was possible. She put me on hold and then transferred me to another section. The following conversation gave me shivers and left me wondering. A guy answered and reeled off my name and address. He then asked which TV I wanted the channel on-the downstairs lounge room or the upstairs bedroom! He then asked me to change to the channel in question whilst still on the phone. I missed the button on the remote and landed on one channel away. He then said, "No, not 25, channel 26." He knew which channel I was watching! He could also theoretically then know which programmes I like watching. For all I know they could have records of it all. Very scary

The guy at the barbecue told me to use black gaffer tape on all the clear plastic to block the camera sight. He also said that if you knew where to look you could open up the box and take out the microphone and that he has had to do this a few times. He is coming around next week to do it for me. I won't feel safe to speak until he does.

Please warn your readers of this potential invasion to their privacy. The quickest way to protect yourself immediately is to unplug the 'in' cable from the back of the box when you're not using it. This should give them 'fuzzy' TV reception! Don't be surprised if you get a knock at the door by a cable guy to fix your "faulty cable" problem if you do!

EUROPOL'S SECRET PLANS

Fears are growing that Europol, the new European police force, is beginning to resemble a secret intelligence agency. The public is not to be informed about their plans, and is to be discouraged from speculation about them. A report in the respected German newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, reveals that although Europol was officially founded in February 1995, there still exists no legal ground, let alone valid justification, for their plans. All discussion on the subject is held behind closed doors. The article goes on to mention that Europol will gather detailed information on every European citizen, and that Europol is to be independent of any control by law.

Source: Suddeutsche Zeitung, 22 June 1995

SECRET PLAN TO TAP ALL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

Plans for an international network of Centres able to tap mobile phones anywhere in Europe have been prepared by European law enforcement agencies.

Confidential European Union documents leaked in Germany and obtained by the Observer outline plans for instant-access centres across Europe, equipped to tap every type of communications system including mobile phones, the Internet, fax machines, pagers and interactive cable television services.

Under the plan, Europol 98, European telecommunications companies will be required to build tapping connections into their systems. Each EU. country's "interception interface" must be capable of allowing member states to tap communications throughout the EU.

The USA, Canada and Australia are likely to participate in the network, giving the FBI and other non-European security agencies access to communications in Europe.

The leaked document was published in late November by the German Internet magazine, Telepolis.

EU DROPS INVESTIGATION INTO 'ECHELON' SPY NETWORK

The European Parliament has swept aside concerns about alleged surveillance and spying activities conducted in the region by the US Government, according to a Green Party representative of the body quoted on Monday (5 October).

Specifically, the EU allegedly scuttled parliamentary debate late last September concerning the Echelon surveillance system. Echelon is a near-mythical intelligence network operated in part by the National Security Agency.

"The whole discussion was completely brushed over," said Patricia McKenna, a Green Party member of the European Parliament.

The US Government has refused even to acknowledge Echelon's existence. But since 1988, investigative journalists and privacy watchdogs have uncovered details of a secret, powerful system that can allegedly intercept any and all communications within Europe.

The Green Party believes the resolution to defer its decision on Echelon, pending further investigation, was influenced by pressure from the US Government which has tried to keep the system secret. Echelon is said to be principally operated by the US National Security Agency and its UK equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters. It reportedly also relies on co-operation with other intelligence agencies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Source: by Niall McKay, Wired News. www.wired.com. 10 October 1998

UK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TO RECORD ALL NUMBER PLATES

Police and security agencies are placing large orders for surveillance cameras that will track the movements of millions of drivers in the UK.

Using sophisticated software, the cameras will read the number plate of every passing vehicle, and automatically check it against a police database of known or suspected offenders.

As the network expands, it will be possible to find or follow any vehicle in Britain simply by typing in the registration number. The cameras will also be used to detect unregistered vehicles, enforce road laws and monitor traffic congestion.

Starting in spring 1997, Customs-operated cameras at ports will log the number plates of every vehicle entering the UK.

Source: The Sunday, Telegraph [UK], 15 September 1996

UK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS FAIL TO BEAT CRIME

Closed-circuit (CCTV) cameras have been the subject of several documentaries and banner headlines claiming large reductions in crime, but these claims are not actually true!

Two independent studies in the UK show there is no hard evidence whatsoever to support these claims. One of these studies reveals that CCTV has had little impact on many types of crime, with some even increasing.

Vehicle crime, burglaries and vandalism dropped, but theft, possession of drugs and robberies all increased during the year after the cameras were switched on.

To avoid being seen by the cameras, many criminals started stealing from people when they were inside a shop. And despite the cameras, most assaults still took place in the High Street, "concentrated around McDonald's, Burger King, pubs and the railway stations."

It would appear that the introduction of CCTV has merely displaced crime from one place to another.

Despite these studies, the British Government is determined to push ahead with its planned national surveillance system. In November 1995, the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, announced that the government was making 15 million pounds available to local councils for the introduction of another 10,000 CCTV cameras in more than 100 towns around the country. This is on top of the 5 million pounds made available to councils in October 1994.

Source: New Scientist, 23-30 December 1995

AUSTRALIA'S DSD CONFIRMS 'UK/USA' PACT AND 'ECHELON' SPYING

On 23 May, on Channel 9 TV's Sunday programme, Australia became the first country to admit participation in a global electronic surveillance system that intercepts the private and commercial international communications of citizens and companies from its own and other countries.

The disclosure was made by Martin Brady, director of the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) in Canberra, who acknowledged the existence of the UK/USA agreement in a letter to Channel 9, stating that the DSD "does co-operate with counterpart signals intelligence organisations overseas under the UK/USA relationship."

The DSD's main contribution is a base at Kojarena, near Geraldton in Western Australia, built in the early 1990's, where four satellite tracking dishes intercept Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean communications satellites. Reportedly, 80 per cent of intercepts are sent automatically to the CIA or the NSA. Although it is under Australian command, the station - like its controversial counterpart at Pine Gap, Central Australia - employs American and British staff in key posts.

In return, Australia can ask for information collected at other UK/USA stations via the ECHELON system [see feature article this issue]. A second and larger, although not so technologically sophisticated, DSD satellite station has been built at Shoal Bay, near Darwin, Northern Territory, where nine dishes listen to regional communications satellites, including systems covering Indonesia and Southwest Asia.

On 6 May, in Strasbourg, the Science and Technology Options Assessment panel (STOA) of the European Parliament approved as a working document the "Interception Capabilities 2000" www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm (IC2000) report on communications interception and the ECHELON system. The report is therefore available for public distribution from the European Parliament office in Luxembourg, and a web version is available at website

Source: Intelligence, 31 May 1991

MOBILE PHONES HIDDEN AGENDA

Dear Duncan:

Being a sales representative I 'enjoy' the use of a mobile telephone.

One glorious day during my travels, I happened upon the burning wreck of a car on the side of the road. Like a good citizen, 'I'll call the Fire Brigade,' I thought, for the smoke alone was reducing visibility to nil. After informing the operator of the service I required, and before asking me anything she told me my mobile phone number (!), the road number I was travelling down at the time and the fact that I was using a mobile phone while on the move!!!

Is this not yet another case of our civil liberties being infringed? For myself, I feel horrified that this woman knew this much about me!

To add insult to injury, one of my colleagues later told me of a similar situation he had found himself in. He, however, stopped at the scene and was later charged by the Police for using a mobile phone whilst on the move!

Are the Global Positioning satellites being used to triangulate people with mobile phones? Are mobiles nothing more than radiation - emitting ID tags?

I have since cancelled my mobile phone subscription - and anyway, doesn't the radiation cause cataracts and brain tumours? Oh, the pain of it...

SUBLIMINAL SURVEILLANCE

Dear Duncan:

My wife and I hired a video on Saturday night - one that has been watched by hundreds of millions of children world-wide (we're both just kids at heart ourselves).

The video was called The Lion King. It was your typical kids' video, up until the point where the hyenas started marching in columns in front of Simba's Uncle Scar. At this point a swastika could be seen in the rock throne in the background.

Most people I talked to who had seen the film had missed this bit of background subliminal propaganda. We all know Hitler did terrible things during World War II, but this bit of background subliminal propaganda is way out of place in a kids' film. It really makes you wonder what other messages are hidden in this film.

We also saw the film Seven last week. This film brought up an interesting point which had to do with how the police found the murderer.

One of the policemen had a contact in the FBI who checked their computers to see who had been borrowing certain books from the library. It turned out that once you borrow certain books from the library the FBI forever after that keeps track of you and what books you borrow, e.g. black magic, how to build a nuclear bomb, etc.

Even if this theme is just part of a film, it still makes you wonder if Big Brother is watching you.

ARMY PREPARES FOR "THE THREAT"

The Australian Army has been issued with a secret training manual which gives explicit guidelines on how to set up and enforce what is tantamount to a 'police state'. The only thing missing is the excuse for legislation to be passed, enacting the conditions outlined in the manual. The manual contains guidelines on how to fire on unarmed crowds, how to collect material on 'dissidents', and how to establish civilian detention centres.

Under the heading of "The Threat", the manual provides details on how the Army should respond to requests to assist civil authorities with incidents such as industrial, social and political disturbance.

The manual also instructs the Army to lie to the media when reporting on situations which could result in bad publicity.

Detailed instructions are given on how to search people, their houses, cars, bikes and, where applicable, farm outbuildings and haystacks. The manual states that particular attention should be paid by searchers to the hair of women and children.

The list of intelligence gathering requirements includes not just information about dissidents, but also dissident "sympathisers", sources of material and financial aid for dissidents, dissident re-supply systems, locations of dissident safe areas, and the attitude of the media.

One wonders how this manual ties in with the obvious 'high level' agenda on Australia becoming a republic?

Source: The Sun-Herald 6 June 1993

BIG BROTHER ON THE FREEWAY

The technology to put Big Brother into the passenger seat of your car is now at hand, and it may be implemented before you think!

Authorities already have the capability to monitor how far you've driven, where you've driven, and, perhaps the most frightening of all, where your car is at any given time!

If you marginally exceed the speed limit on an empty road at 3am, it is technically possible for a fine to be automatically despatched, even though there was no other soul within 20 kilometres; indeed, your bank account could be instantly debited or your licence electronically cancelled.

According to a paper presented to the National Intelligence Vehicle and Highway Systems Conference in Australia last October: 'totally automatic video enforcement of speed and registration violations is under development.'

The NSW (New South Wales) Roads and Traffic Authority has already developed a system called SAFE-T-CAM whereby a camera automatically recognises and photographs trucks, digitalises the images and uses an optical character recognition program (OCP) to read number plates.

According to an RTA spokesperson, 'Information comprising the exact location, the time, and the vehicle registration number are transmitted to a central computer which then matches that information against data received from other SAFE-T-CAM stations.'

In the first seven-day trial of the system last year, more than 17000 images were captured and transmitted to a central databank.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

MOBILE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS

There recently appeared on Australian television a documentary on the wonders of hidden video cameras.

While the programme did show several positive examples of hidden videos catching crooks and corrupt politiciansin the act, it wound up the show by saying, in effect, that video surveillance cameras are good, and only those with something to hide need worry about them.

In other words, this was a blatant grab at convincing gullible TV viewers that hidden surveillance cameras are good for them.

Weel, the next step in video surveillance has arrived. An Australian company, Trafalgar Security, has developed what it believes is the world's firsst robot security camera, able to roam about buildings, without being seen, quietly watching staff and others at work.

Known as Tracam, it consists of a colour television camera that runs up to 8 km per hour on a rail inside a dark perspex tunnel fixed to the ceiling.

Although the camera can see through the perspex, it is almost impossible for anyone to see into the tunnel.

By adding infra-red sensors, the robot camera could be made to follow people anywhere within a building.

Plus, an electronic card which can be attached to visitor passes is under development. The card would enable the camera to find and pursue a particular person anywhere in a large office block or wharehouse.

About 80 Tracam systems are operating around the world. The first customer, British Post, begasn installing Tracam in 1992.

It is suggested that employees could use the mobile cameras to observe staff relationships, who people talked to, and even to monitor body language.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1994

PROTECTING GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE PUBLIC

One of the more remarkable documents to emerge from the Energy Department's openness initiative is a 1947 Atomic Energy Commission memorandum on the classification of human radiation experiments. It states:

'It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiment with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion, or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be classified secret.'

Thus the true enemy is identified: public opinion. And the means to defeat the enemy? Classification!

Source: Secrecy and Government Bulletin, No. 33, March 1994

WILL MOBILE PHONES BECOME MOBILE ID TAGS?

Not many people realise that the technology exists to track a person's whereabouts from their mobile phone handset via certain types of satellite.

The next step in our technological 'evolution' from the consumer's point of view is that virtually everyone will have their own personal mobile phone. With their own personal mobile phone ID number. Each of these mobile phone handsets emits a virtually continuous signal which is picked up by satellite or ground tower and relayed on. It is rumoured that most handsets emit this signal even when the power is turned off It is any Big Brother's Dream Come True in terms of knowing where anyone is at any time.

It was announced in UK newspapers that by 1998, mobile phones will go global. Your handset will give you access to a satellite-based system that will allow calls to be made practically anywhere on earth..

"Iridium, a consortium of 17 major companies led by Motorola, proposes to launch 66 satellites in orbits crossing both poles., ensuring a satellite will fly over every spot. at least once every nine minutes.

At any one time, at least three satellites will be in view, enabling the handset's precise position to be located."

Source: The Weekly Telegraph,[UK], no.173, 2-8 November, 1994

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

In response to the steady escalation of crime, many cities and towns have introduced street corner surveillance cameras. These were used to good effect recently during the disturbances in Newcastle's city centre following the failure of the home side to win the Premier League Championship. Subsequent TV video footage and over 100 newspaper stills showed graphic scenes of gratuitous lamppost and roof climbing and folk obviously standing with yobbish intent. Later dawn raids across the North East have resulted in arrests and sentences for over 50 individuals.

One has to ask if this is a real step forward in the reduction of crime? Or could it be just another way of stripping away civil liberties and giving more power to the authorities?

BIG BROTHER GOES HIGH-TECH

Information on individuals in the developed world can now be obtained by governments and corporations using, new surveillance, identification and networking, technologies. These new technologies are rapidly facilitating the mass and routine surveillance of large segments of the population without the need for warrants and formal investigations.

In Britain, nearly all public areas are monitored by over 150,000 close-circuit television cameras (CCTV). Equipped with a powerful zoom lens, each camera can read the wording on a cigarette packet at 100 yards. These cameras can track individuals wherever they govern within buildings.

The FBI has developed miniaturised CCTV units that it can put into a "lamp, clock, radio, duffel bag, purse, picture frame, utility pole, coin telephone and other [objects]" and then control remotely to "pan, tilt, zoom and focus".

Another type of surveillance camera currently in development boasts the equivalent of X-ray vision and can penetrate clothing to 'see' concealed weapons, plastic explosives or drugs. Known as the passive millimetre wave imager, it can also see through walls and detect activity.

Other emerging fields of surveillance include intelligent transportation systems (ITS) which track the movements of all people using public or private transport. Such systems are linked to ordinary bank accounts and can generate records that show a driver's name and address and the exact time and place where tolls have been charged.

Nine states in the US already use similar systems to track over 250,000 vehicles every day, and 12 more states will soon put their own systems on line.

NEW POWERS FOR POLICE TO BUG CONFESSIONALS, DOCTORS SURGERIES AND LAWYERS OFFICES.

In a classic example of problem-creation for manipulation, we take yet another step closer to the Big Brother totalitarian police state. Offered as a solution to the (elite manipulated) terrorism problem, these three previously 'sacred' areas of confidentiality are no longer so. Since last April, under the Police Act of 1997, the police have had legal powers to break into homes and install covert listening devices. Since July 1st 1998, this has included solicitors offices, doctor's surgeries and priest's confessionals.

Meanwhile, covert surveillance by secret services has increased by 25% in the past year.

The Express 24.07.98

POLICE CALL FOR NATIONAL DNA FILE

Chief Superintendent Peter Garnmon president of Police Superintendent's Association, has called for a DNA database covering the entire population in order to make police-work 'more efficient'. At present, the database run by the Forensic Science Service on behalf of the police holds more than 250,000 samples.

Daily Mail 06.05.98

CIA IN CONTROL OF THE INTERNET

The media recently reported that the National Science Foundation has turned over Internet domain name registration to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of Hendon, VA, USA. The media failed to note some interesting connections.

Web Review, a biweekly online magazine (see Special Report at http://gnn.com/wr/) revealed on 26th September 1995 that NSI was purchased in May '95 by Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, CA.

SAIC is a US $2 billion company indicted by the Justice Department on 10 felony counts for fraud in managing a Superfund toxic clean-up site (SAIC pleaded guilty), and sued by the US Justice Department for civil fraud on an FBI 5 fighter Contract.

SAIC's board members include Admiral Bobby Inman, former NSA (National Security Agency) head and Deputy Director of the CIA; Melvin Laird, Nixon's Secretary of Defence, and Retired General Max Thurman, Commander of the Panama invasion.

Recently departed board members include Robert Gates, former CIA Director; William Perry, current Secretary of Defense, and John Deutch, the current CIA director.

Current SAIC government contracts include re-engineering information systems at the Pentagon, automation of the FBI's computerised fingerprint identification system, and the building of a national criminal history information system. "At the very time the Internet community is struggling with the issues of encryption and privacy, I'm more than a little uneasy to find this bunch of ex-spooks sitting at the very entry point of the Net," says Jim Warren, a leading activist in making government records accessible.

The article was written by investigative journalist Stephen Pizzo, Web Review Senior Editor and co-author of the book, Inside Job, an expose on the savings and loan looting.

Source:Forwarded from: standeyo@iinet.com.au [Stan Deyo to] nexus@peg.apc.org. [NEXUS Magazine] on 15 October 1995

PHONE TAPPING TO INCREASE

1) Germany - Security forces have demanded that all mobile telephone operators in the country must ensure that police can monitor all calls on a proposed new digital network. German Posts Minister Wolfgang Botsch presented a draft bill before parliament in Bonn in May.

A spokesperson for Germany's three main operators said it could cost each operator around DM50 million (USD$40 million) to meet the regulations.

SMART SURVEILLANCE - 1

British police scientists are close to a breakthrough that will allow CCTV cameras to 'recognise' criminal activity. The technologies utilise leading-edge neural and pattern recognition systems developed for space and defence applications. ' Dr Mike Taylor, head of Scotland Yard's technology operations, and recent London conference that it is "perfectly feasible to develop software which can distinguish certain actions", such as the sound of breaking glass, but that the main barrier to date has been overcoming the problems with image quality.

Automatic policing of entire areas could soon become a reality with these CCTV systems.

Source: Weekly Telegraph, 9-15 Dec 1998

SMART SURVEILLANCE - 2

Researchers in California have created Ran Autonomous Observer.(A0) robot that could be developed into a surveillance system that follows a target wherever it goes. Currently, other systems can't follow moving objects that are trying to evade detection, if an object disappears from view, the tracking system loses it.

To overcome this, computer scientist Jean-Claude Latombe at Stanford University has developed small mobile robots that not only watch targets but also work out their potential escape routes. The robots can then position themselves for an optimum view.

Source: New Scientist 17 October 1998

ELECTRONIC CV PLANNED FOR EVERY CITIZEN

Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Administration Service, in a report to the Department for Education, has called upon the Government to create a database for every citizen in the UK to hold their life's educational achievements from the age of five. In future, information would be fed automatically to the database by the awarding bodies. This would, according to Higgins, help to match people to jobs, leading to 'a more socially cohesive and better educated population'.

(Independent 02.04.98)

IRIS SCANNING TECHNOLOGY NOW IN THE HIGH-STREET

The first iris-scan cashpoint machine went on-line in April this year in a trial at a Nationwide Building Society in Swindon. This new technology enables the machine to recognise the individual by scanning the unique pattern of the iris, even through spectacles or contact lenses. The initial scan converts details of the iris pattern into a bar code which is held on a national database. The iris holds 250 features unique to each person compared to only 40 for fingerprints. It is considered that this will make cash cards and their PIN numbers obsolete.

The six-month trial if successful, will see the introduction of iris-scanners in Nationwide branches throughout the country.

Daily Mail 24.04.98

CIA REMOTE-VIEWING REPORT

There is a CIA research report on remote viewing, "Psychic abilities" and "apport phenomena", dated 3 August 1964. It is designated as Information Report 00B321-02171-64.

I've asked the CIA for a copy, but was told that it is classified national security information and cannot be declassified. I believe that it is not currently and properly classified, but they have not reviewed it adequately for possible declassification because they have not even released the title page. If several dozen people ask for a copy, perhaps they will rethink their analysis on this document which, after all, is more than 32 years old.

If you are interested, just send a simple letter requesting a copy of Information Report 00-B321-02171-64, under the Freedom of Information Act, to:

Central Intelligence Agency Information & Privacy Co-ordinator Washington, DC 20505, USA.

Tell them that you would like all segregable portions of the document that can be declassified-even the title page.

Source: Michael Ravnizky, MikeRav@ix.netcom.com

WORLD GOVERNMENT BY THE YEAR 2000?

The UN-funded Commission on Global Governance has completed its three-year study and has now publicly announced its plans to implement "global governance" by the year 2000.

Henry Lamb, of the Environmental Conservation Organisation, predicts that the United Nations will convene a World Conference on Global Governance in 1998 "for the purpose of submitting to the world the necessary treaties and agreements for ratification and implementation of world, government by the year 2000."

Writing in a recent issue of Media Bypass magazine, Henry Lamb warns that global governance, as envisioned by the UN and its obliging commission, "would be a catastrophic act of violence, resulting in the loss of national sovereignty, property rights, individual freedom, and all hope of achieving personal prosperity." He charges that the new "Earth ethic" endorsed by the Commission "ignores the fundamental values on which America was founded and promotes instead a form of global socialism."

Welcome to the New World Order!

"The Commission intends for the United Nations to correct the injustices in the world by taking wealth from the rich and giving it to the poor. To achieve this massive redistribution of wealth, and take virtual control of all the world's resources, a number of specific structural changes are proposed for the United Nations system," reports Lamb. "The Commission's recommendations would consolidate the power of the United Nations into the hands of a very few individuals," he observes. The UN Trusteeship Council would assume control of the "global commons", which is defined to include everything from the depths of the ocean floor to the farthest reaches of the atmosphere.

Lamb points out that "the Commission calls for the creation of a new Economic Security Council" whose most important duties would be "to establish independent funding mechanisms for the United Nations system [and] to enforce environmental treaties by initiating trade sanctions and levying fines or withholding funding to nations deemed to be in non-compliance with treaty provisions." He explains that "This is the UN body which would collect the wealth from developed nations and redistribute it to developing nations."

A UN standing army is also on the agenda, with the UN Secretary-General serving as Commander-in-Chief. Perhaps most ominous of all, says Lamb, are plans for the UN to "expand its authority and assume responsibility to act in behalf of people within the borders of sovereign states with or without the request or permission of the state."

"Many of the recommendations published in this report have been underway for several years," observes Henry Lamb. "The now-published time line for full implementation suggests that UN strategists are confident that the world is ready to accept global governance."

(Source: Behind the Headlines 8 December 1996, America's Future, Inc., 7800 Bonhomnie, St Louis, MO 63105, USA;

phone (314) 725 6003; web site: http://accessus.net/~eamiller/af/)

BIG BROTHER'S ULTIMATE CONTROL DEVICE?

If ever there was a desire on the part of some future world-wide dictatorship or one-world government to secure absolute control of the whole of the Earth's population, how could it be done?

The answer would probably lie in the area of micro-chip technology. The technology exists now to use chips in cards both for access to personal details and to transmit messages into the mind of the carrier to control behaviour.

Apparently Bills have been put before the US Congress that will allow the government to microchip children at birth. Also it is said that IBM have developed an invisible bar coding system of three sets of six numbers which can be installed on the skin by laser without the person being aware of its existence, and is currently being used on cattle.

There have been microchips tested as a contraception device in India and as a behaviour modifier in Vietnam veterans. Also it is said a specific chip has been developed as an identification tag, which will contain details of a person's name, picture of their face, security number, finger print, physical description, home address, occupation, income tax information and criminal record.

An interesting quote from the Bible, Revelation 13:16/18: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is the wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number (is) Six hundred threescore (and) six." - A prophetic warning?

Well, without getting paranoid I guess the bottom line is that we should remain sensibly suspicious and watchful of any moves by government to have citizens identified any more closely than is tolerated at present. It would be easy for most of us to think: "Well, there's no bloody way I'll let them put a chip in me!" But we can be sure, that if ever there was someone in power who was absolutely determined that they wanted you to carry a chip around with you - embedded in your head or whatever - then they would devise of a way to try and make it damn near impossible for you to refuse it. A clue perhaps as to how you could be forced to have one, lies in that same biblical passage: "…And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark…" Yep. Those who refused chips could end up becoming the "outcasts" from our society; unable to buy or sell food - unemployable untouchables. And coupled with that gentle art of persuasion would no doubt come a rational and emotional plea that the introduction of a micro-chipped population would make the world into a safer place, doing away with crime and creating a better world for our children…

I wonder who would get the Advertising and Promotion Consultancy contract for that one.

Eternal vigilance is the key.

We must never ever presume that those in power will always have our best interest at heart.

EMPLOYEES TRACKED BY NEW TECHNOLOGY

Hitachi has found out a new way by mobile phones tracking people writes the NEW SCIENTIST.

The method does not only tells where the person is, it can also give information whether the person stands, sitting or is in bed. The method has in fact been ment to track confused or sick people who have lost themselves and can not find the way home.

But since the equipment is costly, 225.000 Sw Cr ($US 30.000) is the technology most used by big companies to control its salesmans and of police to know where their agents dangerous missions are.

TT is the main Swedish News agency.

August 1999. on TT 25

WORLD'S FIRST SATELLITE-TRACKED HUMAN IMPLANT DEVICE Applied Digital Solutions, Inc, today announced that it had acquired the patent rights to a minature digital transceiver. . .The implantable transceiver sends and receives data and can be continually tracked by Global Positioning Satellite technology. . .When implanted within the body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of the muscles, and it can be activated either by the "wearer" or by the monitoring facility. www.adsx.com/news/

TRACKING DEVICE IMPLANTS FOR CHILDREN COMING SOON
A tracking device designed to be inserted under the skin could allow parents to keep tabs on their children, help track court offenders or make it easy to find lost hikers. But civil liberties campaigners are already worried that the device might be abused. "This kind of stuff has enormous potential for abuse by the authorities, or by anyone who can break into the information," says Emily Whitfield, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union. New Scientist, January 2000.

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