ISSUE ONE NOW WHAT FALL 1987 $4 AIDS, CANCER CURED BY HYPER-OXYGENATION WHY WAR FREE ENERGY OPTIONS ELECTRO-ACCRETION: GROW SHELTERS FROM SEA MINERALS PLANT GROWTH ACCELERATION METHODS GLOBAL REFORESTATION URGENT AIRWELLS: FREE WATER FROM THE AIR unauthorized information unapplied science clean resources world healing options transition logistics CONTENTS NOW WHAT AIDS, CANCER CURED BY HYPER-OXUGENATION DESIGNER DISEASES: AIDS AS BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE WHY WAR BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE PREDICTIONS FREE ENERGY OPTIONS ELECTRO-ACCRETION: GROW SHELTERS FROM SEA MINERALS PLANT GROWTH ACCELERATION METHODS: THE ELECTRICAL TICKLE by Mobius Rex GLOBAL REFORESTATION URGENT AIRWELLS: FREE WATER FROM THE AIR (Articles are by Waves Forest except where stated otherwise.) NOW WHAT #1. Uncopyrighted 1987. No rights reserved. Any or all of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means available, for any purpose that seems appropriate at the time. (Otherwise, when profit is a higher priority than rapid release of vital information, it simply encourages the same economic situation that caused the suppression of such information in the first place.) NOW WHAT appears irregularly, and costs $4, including postage, or $15 for four issues. For foreign orders, add $2/issue to cover overseas postage. Notes on format: This unconventional material requires a non-ordinary arrangement, if it is to be spread swiftly enough to do its job. Readers are encourgaed to make and distribute copies to anyone who might use the information. Instead of binding this collection of articles as a standard magazine, it is stapled at one corner only, so that the sheets can be easily separated and run through rapid copiers. The main reports are designed to be reproduced and distributed with or without the others accompanying them. Articles are printed all in one piece; nothing is "continued on page so-and-so". Whenever possible they are arranged so that each article or combination occupies an even number of pages, so as not to waste paper or postage when being re-copied and mailed to others. Where pages are numbered at all, the numbers are for the pages in the article, rather than the sequence in the magazine. NOW WHAT is basically an unauthorized informal public service and does not qualify as either a business or a proper non-profit organization; as far as banks are concerned it does not exist as a financial entity at all. However its author does, sort of, so checks should be made out to him rather than it. Waves Forest PO Box 768, Monterey, CA 93942 USA NOW WHAT We still appear to be hanging on the brink of either a New Age or Armageddon or some weird combination of both. Yet real solutions exist and are not widely known or used, for all of mankind's supposedly unsolved problems. An entire body of unused technology is waiting to be implemented, that works by cooperating with seldom-recognized basic forces instead of struggling against them. A world economy based on abundance, health and cooperation, rather than scarcity, disease and conflict, can emerge as soon as enough people want it intensely enough to make it happen. Many times in recent history, various inventors and visionaries have offered our civilization cleaner, safer and cheaper methods of obtaining the resources and capabilities we require. These offers have all been turned down on our behalf, without most of us ever hearing about it, by certain owners of established industries and monopolies that will become largely obsolete when these breakthroughs are widely known and used. They understandably wished to postpone their obsolescence as long as possible, but no further delay of the impending economic overhaul can be allowed. Once we can independently obtain whatever we need in the way of energy, water shelter, food, safety or mobility, there is no longer any need for the massiv ebureaucracies that presently sell it to us and regulate every aspect of what we do with it. When options free up on this scale, people are released from tension and restraints, and become mroe active, healthy, imaginative and powerful, and very hard to control. The prevention of such fundamental improvements in publicly available technology has not really been that hard to manage. The regulatory agencies and institutions in charge of agiven resource or function, like energy, transportation or medicine, are invariably headed by assistants to the owners of the industries holding the primary monopolies on it. They have the incentive and influence to get their people put in charge. That's how they usually get off so light after being forced to investigate themselves for various illegal activities. But it would be naive to assume that suppressed technologies are merely suppressed, and not secretly in use by those who withhold them. It's helpful to regard the world as a sort of giant intelligence test, like a huge elaborate "what's wrong with this picture?" puzzle. Some of what's wrong is kind of obvious, but much of the rest is conceale remarkably well. Finding out what seems to be wrong is already a popular pastime, and whining about it is even more popular. However it's a lot mroe challenging and rewarding to go on from there and actually correct it, as opposed to just getting used to it and tolerating it under protest. If the real reason for any problem is accurately diagnosed, it can be solved. This applies even to "terminal" illnesses, whether biological, mental, political, economic or ecological, though it is possible with incorrect treatments to damage the victim beyond recovery. Simply labeling and describin the condition doesn't reveal its cause, or result in any effective solution. When problems persist and worsen despite massive corrective efforts, their true cause has not been identified, and the wrong thing is getting "corrected" War, poverty, disease, crime, insanity, pollution, and shortages of water, energy, shelter and food, all are persisting and worsening, even though supposedly no one wants them. This means the true underlying causes of these problems are not being widely recognized, let alone corrected. So, look to see who really profits when the problems continue. The artificial and deliberate origin of the crises, shortages and disasters plaguing mankind are camouflaged by blaming it all on human overpopulation and stupidity, which are merely contributing factors. Most of these conditions actually result from specific means used to accomplish an earlier incorrect "solution" that has been pursued for generations by some of the most powerful, wealthy and ruthless men on Earth. The "problem" was assumed to be that there were simply too many people, with too much individual freedom and variety, to be effectively kept under control, while ownership of Earth's land and resources was consolidated. Guess what solution they came up with? Not all who've agreed to this hard decision are necessarily evil. It was just the only thing they could come up with to ensure their own survival, without giving up much of their authority and control of the world's resources, and risking reprisals by mobs of unforgiving peasants, for their former exploitation. Blaming war entirely on conflicts between nations, religions, and political systems conceals its true roots. The creation of wars is a basic method used by the most powerful to acquire still more territory, and displace or subdue whoever was there already. Visible wars are mostly a surface feature of the ongoing undeclared economic war waged by certain of the most wealthy against everyone else, even sometimes each other. And like it or not, both the spread of "western civilization" and the "high American living standard" have depended on global land-grabbing, destruction of native populations and cultures, and conversion of survivors into cheap labor forces. It's now widely observed that none of our political leaders have any real agenda or plan for actually solving any of the crises threatening Americans, other humans and life in general. However, there really is a very detailed agenda, consisting of those very crises and their calculated effects. It's proceeding more or less as planned. Most political figures are going along with it whether they like it or not, and most of you would not enjoy the next phase of it, even slightly. So it's totally up to individual citizens to take responsibility for what happens from here. The pieces of a painless and elegant plan for global survival are still just lying around waiting, in the form of nearly forgotten inventions, discoveries and options that ran aground on the economic dynamics of their time, and fear of industrial upheavals. It turns out it is not really necessary to undergo the massive population reductions and overt enslavement of survivors planned for us by modern feudal lords. There are much more pleasant and efficient solutions for our resource shortages and other economic and ecological difficulties. Through mass media control, the world's invisible rulers have been very effective at preventing most of their subjects from hearing about free energy systems, unused water sources, plant growth acceleration methods, gravity control, crashproof vehicles, weather control, proven cures for supposedly incurable diseases, or anything else that might free people from dependency on the established monopolies. When news of such a discovery does leak out, to the point where the major news services can't ignore it, they mix it with disinformation of varying absurdity and portray it as part of the lunatic fringe, which persuades most people not to examine it closely or consider its potential if valid. NOW WHAT offers another chance to peel away the layers of deception, and find out what is really going on around here, how we can make the best of it, and what we can do to soften the impact of whatever horrors we have yet to face. A great amount of territory must be covered here, in a compressed and casual form that can be swiftly grasped and acted upon; for more detailed writeups of individual subjects, readers are encouraged to refer to the sources listed. Some of this material will have a rough unfinished appearance, being assembled and run off with some haste, since people are dying for lack of these options, each day they are not widely known and used. NOW WHAT draws from many sources, from mainstream to sidecreek, without regard for establishment approval ratings. Exotic and underground science and news sources offer vital information omitted from official media. Yet equally useful material can turn up in the most standard publications, patents and references, which goes unnoticed and unused, swallowed up in the flood of false or insignificant information surrounding it. At the level of art, consider the entire Earth as a vast aesthetic composition, that has deteriorated somewhat, due to age and general lack of appreciation of what she is and how she works. Restoring her original beauty and serenity is the ultimate in Earth Art, and can happily engage as many as want to take it on. To subtract the artificial ugliness that interferes with the natural beauty and joy of life on Earth,straighten out the cirumstances that have been allowing it to occur. It's really not that much more difficult than adding more local things of beauty, if gone about gently, and the effects can reach farther. The media available to be shaped and combined in new ways include every kind of communication, information, activity and resource, and all the networking already underway among them. Along with however else you apply it, send copies of this information to your favourite teachers, reporters, broadcasters, musicians, comedians, directors, actors, politicians, anyone whose words reach many listeners. That way it can no longer be suppressed just by removing its early disseminators. And the more other people know about it, the safer you are as well. Don't hesitate to send it to people of considerable wealth and power, or their children, for that matter. Problems can indeed be solved by throwing money at them, if it's thrown right, and it can cost much less than it has to create the problems. One way those who maintain the problems manage to spread the blame around, is to pretend as though they represent the interests of all wealthy people. This stimulates categorical hate and fear between rich and poor, and tends to discourage representatives of each side from getting together and working something out. The poor and middle classes often fail to differentiate between the two basic types of wealthy people. Most of the wealthy built their fortunes by finding a genuine need and filling it, and have attempted to improve conditions for mankind in general. But the others could care less about all that, and choose to create and fill artificial, non-survival needs, such as for weapons, narcotics, poisons, assassination teams, torture equipment, and massive bank loans for governments to finance wars. They have no more reservations about exploiting the rest of humanity than they do about using any other natural resource on "their property". Unfortunately this second group has had the competitive advantage. Being unencumbered by ethics or compassion, they can engage in strategies for domination that the more benign wealthy would not consider, and have tended to take over the top positions in the world economy. Lucky for us, their own ruthlessness and treachery keeps many of them from trusting each other enough to collaborate as effectively as they might, in doing in everyone else. There are still plenty of wealthy people who are either unaware of the planned exterminations, or suspect it's possible but can't quite believe it. Others do know and are collaborating only because it appears to be the only plan for the future that anyone with big money is seriously behind. They haven't thought of any better idea and are afraid to cross the really big guys, and wind up among the victims. The momentum for "covert" global exterminations comes more by default than from the plan's inherent appeal, except to a few really diseased minds stuck in pain-inflict mode. It is not impossible to identify the most powerful and least visible of Earth's unpublicized owners, and sort out which are pro-genocide, but then what? What options are there, if any, for rendering these self-appointed population pruners harmless? Any direct assault on the powers behind the scenes, whether judicial, legislative, military, or through media, gets smothered or sidetracked because those same powers already control any official agencies that would be assigned to investigate, report, prosecute and so on. The heads of all those government branches are linked to the principal war merchants through their membership in such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is a quasi-governmental private organization formed in 1921 to formulate foreign policies that would forward "American business interests" around the world, then persuade the government to adopt those policies. Members include the heads of the NSC, CIA, Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, Joint Chiefs, and Federal Reserve, as well as the heads of all the largest banking, media, energy and industrial conglomerates. Although containing the core of the executive branch, they aren't answerable to any government agency, and their actions are designed to further their own interests, not America's. The point is, their control is complete enough to defuse any standard legal corrective actions, or any other traditional methods of dethroning a corrupt power. A violent uprising would be disastrous and provide just the right excuse for massive retaliations, roundup of dissidents and suspension of civil rights. Forget the usual revolutionary strategies, they've got all that stuff covered. In fact, no corrective approach will work that is based on anger, punishment, revenge, or destruction. So what's left? Let's try talking our way out of it. Instead of trying to seize control from those now holding it, let's come up with an arrangement where they use their power to straighten this whole mess out, and sell them on it. It could be that under the great pressures of inter-corporate struggles and secrecy, none of them ever stopped to realize they had another choice than the one they're committed to. Going into crash-production on the whole system of perviously suppressed or ignored technology could eliminate the harmful effects of "too many people" without having to eliminate any more people, and still improve life for them personally. Plus they would get to be heroes instead of creeps. They can even take credit for the idea. If we think up a better deal for them than what they're currently going for, in terms of safety, freedom and happiness, it could persuade them that maybe the rest of us aren't too stupid to live after all. If we can't, then maybe we are. Perhaps we can directly renegotiate our collective future, once the true situation has been publicized broadly enough to be no longer officially deniable. Strike an agreement of mutual non-retaliation between both sides while long-range transition logistics are worked out. We forgive them and their employees for past atrocities, and for being so greedy, cold-blooded and ruthless. They forgive us for exposing and ruining their plans, and for being so infernally lame, gullible and numerous that exploiting and repressing us has been irresistable. With enough citizens cooperating in the amnesty, we can guarantee the super-rich and their palaces remain safe from lycnh mobs and looters. In exchange they arrange for: 1) a global ceasefire and release of all political prisoners (they have the power to do that), 2) full disclosure of all "state secrets" (in other words, full confessions), and 3) the diversion of the wealth currently spent on plan A (advanced covert genocide technologies, operations and coverups) over to plan B (crash program to implement previously suppressed technologies and improve conditions for all). It might be worth it to them, not having to constantly be on guard against their victimized public, and each other. People do enjoy life more when they don't have to lie and worry about getting caught all the time. In other words, let's acknowledge that they've won the game they've been playing, where the goal was to concentrate control of the world into as few hands as possible, by any means available. The surviving multibillionaires could go on battling and absorbing each others' empires, but why beat it into the ground? They've thoroughly proved they can plunder the planet and get away with it, so enough already. Let the winners and losers shake hands and start a new game with more interesting goals, that we can all pursue together. AIDS, CANCER CURED BY HYPER-OXYGENATION (Waves Forest) Several dozen AIDS patients have not only reversed their death sentences, but are now back at work, completely free of the disease. They destroyed the virus in their blood by hyper-oxygenation, known in various forms as oxygen therapy, bio-oxidative therapy or auto-hemotherapy. This is a simple, inexpensive and very broad-spectrum healing process that many feel could force a complete overhaul of the medical industry. The two basic types of oxygen therapy are ozone blood infusion, and absorption of oxygen water (hydrogen peroxide) at very low concentrations. It turns out that the AIDS virus cannot tolerate high oxygen levels in its victims' blood. Not only that, every other disease organism tested so far apparently has the same weakness. Even cancer growths contract and disappear when the oxygen saturation is sufficiently increased in the fluids surrounding them, since they are anaerobic. AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr, cytomegalovirus and other lipid- envelope viruses are readily destroyed by hyper-oxygenating the patient's blood with ozone. This was demonstrated by among others Dr Horst Kief in Bad Hersfeld, West Germany. Dr Kief has already cured a number of AIDS victims by drawing blood, infusing it with ozone and returning it to the patient, at regular intervals until all the virus is gone. (He can be reached through Biozon Ozon-Technik GmbH, An Der Haune #10, Bad Hersfeld, D-6430, Federal Republic of Germany.) Dr S. Rilling of Stuttgart and Dr Renate Viebahn of Iffezheim are among the growing number of physicians who have obtained similar results with their patients. They are with Arztlich Gesellschaft fur Ozontherapie and JrJ Hansler GmbH, respectively. THE BASIS OF BIO-OXIDATIVE THERAPIES For many years the health sciences have been seeking to identify the primary physical cause of all diseases, and the cure-all that this basic principle would yield. Now noth have been found, but their utter simplicity makes them difficult to accept at first, since it seems like if it's that easy, we should have been using them all along. Our bodies are composed mostly of water, which is eight ninths oxygen. Most nutritional studies tend to get caught up in the small details of biochemistry and overlook our most abundant and essential element, and the fundamental role of its depletion in causing illness. Of all the elements the body needs, only oxugen is in such constant demand that its absence brings death in minutes. The main difference, for healing purposes, between benign micro-organisms (including our own cells), and those which cause disease, is that the latter require much lower oxygen levels. This is due to their more primitive evolutionary origins, during the ages when free oxygen was far less abundant. Now their descendants can only survive in low-oxygen environments such as accompany stagnation and decay. To become a growth medium for such parasites, one has to have allowed the oxygen saturation of the body's fluids to drop well below the loptimum level for healthy cell growth and function. The simplest substances available for restoring one's oxygen balance to a healthy range are ozone (O3), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is much easier to obtain and use. These are both highly toxic when concentrated, which has tended to obscure their germicidal value except as a skin antiseptic. But when diluted to therapeutic levels (for H2O2, 1/2 of 1% or less), they are not only non-toxic but uniquely beneficial. OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT Ozone overcomes the AIDS virus by a fundamentally different process than usually attempted with drugs. Instead of burdening the liver and immune system with more elaborate toxic substances, ozone simply oxidizes the molecules in the shell of the virus. The treatment is remarkably simple. The ozone is produced by forcing oxygen through a metal tube carrying a 300-volt charge. A pint of blood is drawn from the patient and placed in an infusion bottle. The ozone is then forced into the bottle and mixed in by shaking gently, whereupon the blood turns bright cardinal red. As the ozone molecules dissolve into the blood they give up their third oxygen atom, releasing considerable energy which destroys all lipid-envelope virus, and apparently most other disease organisms as well, while leaving blood cells unharmed. It also oxygenates the blood to a greater degree than is usually reached, what with poor air and sluggish breathing habits. The treated blood is then given back to the patient. This treatment is given from twice a week to twice a day, depending on how advanced the disease is. The strengthened blood confers some of its virucidal properties to the rest of the patient's blood as it disperses. The disease will not return, as long as the patient maintains his blood in an oxygen-positive state, throug proper breathing, exercise, and clean diet. A Dr Preuss, in Stuttgart, has written up ten case histories of AIDS patients he has cured by this method. But his and the other physicians' reports of cures are all anecdotal rather than in the form of "controlled studies", since they could not be expected to treat some patients and deny treatment to others just for the purpose of accumulating evidence. Thus their results are not considered "proof" by the US medical community. So the Medizone Company in New York has taken on the task of doing the controlled studies required for the treatment to be approved in the US for general use. MEDIZONE TESTING OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT In the summer of 1986 Medizone obtained from the FDA an IND (Investigative New Drug) Approval for ozone, which falls under the heading of drugs even though it isn't. They verified that ozone destroys the AIDS virus in vitro, and completed their animal tests in the fall of 1986. The tests demonstrated no indication of toxicity, at ten times the equivalent amount that is proposd for human treatment. The Medizone Co is at 123 E 54th St, Ste 2B, NY, NY 10022; phone is 212-421-0303. Medizone says it has obtained the rights to US Patent # 4632980, on "ozonation of blood and blood products", from the company "Immunologics", in exchange for Medizone stock shares. The patent pertains specifically to inactivating lipid-envelope virus. In humans, this includes AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr virus, and cytomegalovirus, among others. Medizone obtained tentative FDA approval in April 1987 to begin human testing, but for a variety of "bureaucratic reasons" the FDA has postponed the actual start of the tests eight times now, with requests for further data, some of which had already been given to them. Twenty months have now passed [as of December 1988], along with several thousand AIDS victims, since the first announced starting date was postponed. The Medizone staff is hoping to finally begin in the spring of 1989, but are no longer announcing expected starting dates with much confidence. "There are no technical problems, but this is the FDA we're dealing with, after all." As the Company's future hangs on their decision, no one at Medizone wants to risk anatgonizing the FDA, by speculating about their actual motives for stalling such a broad-spectrum cure. All this has been with virtually no publicity. The official reason for this is that the accepted procedure for publishing medical breakthroughs is to complete all the tests first, even though victims may die waiting for the cautious, methodical testing procedure to run its course. No one in the industry wants to raise false hopes, let alone repeat the medical disasters that ahve resulted in the past, from rushing approval on new treatments. On the other hand, the enormously expensive and dubiously effective drug AZT was widely publicized many months before it was approved in the US, as is ongoing research into possible AIDS vaccines. In fact, FDA Commissioner Frank Young has even announced a proposal to make experimental drugs available to AIDS victims as swiftly as possible, without waiting for the full FDA approval procedure to be completed. So there appears to be a severe double standard involved here. It seems that highly profitable "treatments" with serious side effects can be demonstrated in Europe, with minimal cost and no apparent harmful effects, must be delayed and kept quiet while panic and deaths mount. Surely at this stage the benefits of unauthorized publicity will outweigh the risks. SAFE PURIFICATION OF BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS Ozone infusion also provides a simple method of purifying stored blood and blood components, eliminating any possibility of disease being transmitted by transfusion. It also pre-oxygenates blood to be transfused, greatly reducing the burden on the body receiving the blood. This application alone, of the Medizone process has enormous profit potential, and the treatment will have vast international demand as the news spreads. This has not gone unnoticed by various investment analysts. "Confidential: Report from Zurich", "Penny Stock Insider" and "Low-Priced Stock Edition", among others, are urging their readers to get in on Medizone now, comparing the opportunity to getting in on Xerox, IBM or Polaroid while they were still unknown. Various physicians have independently discovered ozone to be also effective against cancer, leukemia, arthritis, coronary heart disease, arterial circulation disorders, colitis, gum diseases, and assorted childrens' diseases. Some of these findings have now been collected and published in the volume, "Medical Applications of Ozone", available from the International Ozone Association, 83 Oakwood Terrace, Norwalk, CT 06850. Some of the medical uses of ozone have been appreciated for years in Europe, Brazil and elsewhere, as well as its advantages over chlorine for water treatment (no toxic residues, 5000 times more rapid disinfection) but it's still relatively unknown in the US. OXYGEN WATER A much simpler type of Oxygen Therapy uses hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is what ozone (O3) forms on contact with water. It can be taken orally if diluted with water to 1/200 or less, absorbed through the skin by bathing in it (anywhere from 1-8 pints of 3% H2O2 in a standard size bathtub half full), or in severe cases it can be injcted (250 cc of .075% to .15%, or roughly 1/1300 to 1/650). Injections obviously require a physician's assistance, but self-treatment is possible with oral and skin applications. The principle is the same as with ozone blood treatment. All hostile micro- organisms prefer lower oxygen levels than the body's cells require to remain healthy. Boosting the oxygen level revitalizes normal cells while killing virus and other pathogens. The domestic sales of hydrogen peroxide are rising at 15% per year, as the news of this option spreads at the grassroots level. The rapid expansion of the peroxide movement is especially remarkable considering there has been almost no media coverage, and in fact the FDA, American Cancer Society and other enforcers of established medicine have tried hard to discourage the practice. Hydrogen peroxide is the only germicidal agent composed only of water and oxygen. Like ozone, it kills disease organisms by oxidation as it spreads through the patient's tissues. This also destroys cancerous growths which are anaerobic. Nobel Prize-winner Dr Otto Warburg demonstrated over fifty years ago the basic difference between normal cells and cancer cells. Both derive energy from glucose, but the normal cell requires oxygen to combine with the glucose, while cancer cells break down glucose without oxygen, yielding only 1/15 the energy per glucose molecule that a normal cell produces. This is why cancer cells have such a huge appetite for sugar, and also why people who consume excessive quantities of sugar tend to get cancer more often. The anaerobic breakdown of glucose by cancer cells forms large amounts of lactic acid as a waste product, the same substance formed by fermentation of lactose, as in spoiled milk. The liver converts some of this back into lactose, in an attempt to salvage a food source from a toxic waste. In doing this the liver uses only 1/5 the energy per glucose molecule that a normal cell can then derive from it, but that's three times the energy a cancer cell will get from it. The more the weak, deranged cancer cells multiply, the more energy is lost to the normal cells. Thus we find that low levels of both oxygen and energy tend to occur where cancer is present, and vice versa. This wasteful metabolism becomes self-sustaining and dominant unless the oxygen and/or energy levels are sharply increased, or the cancer's food source eliminated. HEART TRANSPLANT PIONEER RECOMMENDS OXYGEN WATER Dr Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first heart transplant, said in March 1986 that he was taking peroxide and water himself, several times daily to reduce arthritis and aging, and he recommended it highly at that time. Since then he has come under heavy attack by the medical establishment for this position, and now states that he "is not involved" with the peroxide movement. But he does not retract his original endorsement, nor deny that he still uses it personally. Over a hundred physicians are already curing a broad assortment of "incurables" with this natural anti-microbial agent. This includes some forty or more in the US. A principal liaison to these free-thinking physicians is Dr Charles H. Farr, who wrote "The Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide". He directs the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, and publishes the "IBOM Newsletter" which contains procedural updates and technical refinements for physicians using intravenous H2O2 therapy on their patients. By classifying the treatments as experimental they can get around the FDA's archaic restrictions for now, until massive public demand and/or media exposure force official approval. Dr Farr summarizes the beneficial effects of H2O2 in "IBOM" issue #2: these include killing bacteria, protozoa, yeast, and virus, oxidizing lipids from arterial walls, increasing oxygen tension intracellularly, stimulating oxidative enzymes, returning elasticity to arterial walls, dilating coronary vessels, and regulating membrane transport. IBOM is at PO Box 61767, Dallas/ Ft. Worth, TX 75261; 817-481-9772. Dr Farr is at 11330 North May Ave, Oklahome City, OK 73120; 405-752-0070 and 799-8781. H2O2 CAN BE SELF-ADMINISTERED The oral and skin applications offer the option of home treatment, as no blood needs to be drawn, and hydrogen peroxide is cheap and plentiful. Keep it diluted though; in high concentrations it can irritate sensitive skin and induce vomiting when ingested. (Veterinarians routinely give common 3% H2O2 to animals that have swallowed poison, to make them throw it up.) The starting dosage is one ounce of .5% (1/200) H2O2 in water, and some will find they need to start with less. As the peroxide contacts pathogens in the stomach it liberates free oxygen, so those with high levels of virus and streptococcus in their stomachs may feel slight nausea while the reaction is occuring. The dosage is increased by an ounce per day, up to five ounces on the fifth day, then up to five ounces three times daily for a week (or until disease is no longer present). Then the dosage is tapered back down over a five week period. Food-grade or Re-agent (these are 35%, dangerous if undiluted) is better for internal use, since the common USP 3% H2O2 contains small amounts of chemical stabilizers and other impurities. It can still be used if food-grade is unavailable; it just isn't as pure. An alternate dosage regimen uses three drops of 35% H2O2 in a glass of water, three times a day, which is then increased by a drop per dose, per day, up to 25 drops per dose in extreme cases. Candidiasis victims should start at one drop per dose, and build their tolerance gradually. Some find the taste rather bleachy and unpleasant, and may wish to chase it with plain water. It can also be mixed with fuit juice, and citrus juices in particular cover the taste pretty well. Adding seven drops of 35% H2O2 to a gallon of drinking water and shaking well purifies it and gives it a pleasant waterfall-like flavor. For more dosage details and extensive references on H2O2 taken internationally, contact Walter Grotz, Box 126, Delano, MN 55328; 612-972- 2144. His progress report, "ECHO", costs $1. He provided much of the material regarding H2O2 in this article. Another source is Father Richard Wilhelm, Box 18, Union Rd., California, KY 41007; 606-635-9297. These gentlemen have continued the research initiated by Dr Edward Carl Rosenow (1875-1966). They have located over 4000 peer-reviewed medical articles on the applications of hypdrogen peroxide, some dating back to the 1800's. They received the National Health Federation's Pioneer Award in Medicine this year, for this ongoing research. Walter Grotz, in particular, has been touring and lecturing extensively on the benefits of self-administered H2O2, literally saving lives wherever he goes, and bringing hope to people who had been told their cases were hopeless. Dr Kurt W. Donsbach at the Bio-Genesis Institute in Rosarita Beach, Baja Mexico (714-964-1535), has achieved a remision rate exceeding 70%, in over 300 patients at last count, most of whom had been previously told they were beyond hope, and had "tried everything else". Bio-oxidative therapies are now applied to all cases that arrive at this clinic, and all respond except for some of those who arrive already very close to death. The Guadalajara Medical School, Mexico's largest, is initiating their own tests this summer, and will add it to their curriculum upon verification. As Dr Donsbach has pointed out, no US clinic or institution has ever tested intravenous H2O2 as a treatment for cancer, so any claim that it is not effective is not based on clinical trial, and amounts to wilful disinformation. The Gerson Institute and La Gloria Clinic in Mexico are also using Hydrogen peroxide therapies on their patients, after the staff tested it on themselves and found it to be beneficial. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN NATURE Hydrogen peroxide occurs naturally in rain and snow, from atmospheric ozone, and in mountain streams where rushing water is continuously separated. Most of us learned at an early age to drink from a stream only where the water's running white, because that's where it gets cleansed of germs. The reason is that H2O2 is forming there due to the water's rapid agitation, and that's what kills any harmful mcirobes present. By just shaking a bottle of water vigorously for a while you can tuck enough extra oxygen into it to form detectable amounts of H2O2, improving its purity, flavor and vitality. It turns out that the soring waters at Lourdes, France, long recognized for their remarkable healing properties, are very high in natural hydrogen peroxide. The spring is fed by high-altitude snowmelt, so the snow apparently absorbs unusually large quantities of ozone on its way from the upper atmosphere. Other less-known high altitude springs are said to be likewise effective. Similar benefits can be obtained in a swimming pool or hot tub, by discarding the chlorination system and simply puring in H2O2, or by bubbling ozone through the water. One simple method of making pool-grade ozone is to pump air past an enclosed ultra-violet lamp. Raw, uncooked vegetables and fruits contain natural hydrogen peroxide. Cooking drives off the extra oxygen. Fresh fruit juices are well known for their blood-cleansing and revitalizing capabiltiies, particularly when they are not combined with other foods; this is largely due to the H2O2 they contain. Reconstituted frozen juices have much less, and are no longer "alive", thus they are not nearly as effective. H2O2 IS HEART OF IMMUNE SYSTEM Mother's milk contains a high amount of H2O2, especially colostrum, the first milk secreted after birth, which activates the newborn's immune system. H2O2 is the first line of the body's defense systems, and key to many other metabolic processes. Under conditions of optimum health, H2O2 is produced by the body's immune system in whatever amounts are needed to quickly destroy any invading hostile organisms. It is made by combining water in the body with the free oxygen that is supposed to be constantly available. When the body is oxygen-starved, it can't produce enough H2O2 to wipe out invading pathogens, which can then get the upper hand and cause visible disease. OXYGEN BOOST IS KEY TO OTHER HEALING METHODS When penicillin is effective against infection, it is largely due to the formation of bactericidal amounts of H2O2, when glucose is oxidized by O2 in the presence of penicillin notatin. (General Biochemistry, Fruton & Simmonds 577.1 F944 p. 339) Much has been made of the healing properties of Interferon, but it is unbelievably expensive. However, much of its effectiveness is apparently due to the fact that it stimulates production of H2O2 and other oxygen intermediates, which are a key factor in reactivating the immune system. (Journal of Interferon Research Vol 3, #2, 1983 p 143-151.) Thus Interferon may turn out to be simply a very elaborate way to accomplish essentially the same thing as the H2O2 regimen. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) has long been recognized as essential to the proper use of oxygen by the cells. Dr Linus Pauling has demonstrated that large doses of vitamin C are effective against cancer. The mainstream medical community still has not acknowledged this discovery, let alone put it to use, despite Dr Pauling's previous credentials. As it turns out, vitamin C actually creates extra H2O2 in the body. Organic Germanium (bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide) is gaining increasing recognition as a potent healing substance, primarily through the work of Dr Kazuhiko Asai. This compound directly increases the body's oxygen supply, as it contains a great deal of oxygen in a form that can be easily assimilated. (See "Miracle Cure: Organic Germanium" by Dr Asai, Japan Publications, Inc., Tokyo and New York.) Taheebo (aka Pau D'Arco or Lapacho Colorado) is a tree that grows in the Andes and fixes high concentrations of oxygen in crystalline form into its inner bark. The bark has been used for centuries by the native peoples of the area to prevent and revesre illnesses, and it is onre reason why they do not get cancer. In recent years it has become popular in the US, and it gets by the FDA as an "herbal tea" whose distributors wisely make no medical claims for it. Again, much of its effectiveness is apparently due to its high oxygen content, released in solution when brewed as a tea. CAUSES OF OXYGEN DEPLETION There are several very common practices that drop a person's oxygen level far below where it should ideally be. At sea level, 20% of the atmosphere is supposed to be oxygen, but city air gets down as low as 10%, due to smog and removal of trees. Air that tastes bad induces a tendency to breathe shallowly, getting even less oxygen in the blood. So does lack of exercise. The carbon monoxide (CO) in smog does not normally occur in nature in much quantity since it's formed by incomplete combustion of carbon compounds. It is electrically unbalanced, so it seeks to bond with any available oxygen to form the more stable carbon dioxide (CO2). Those who breathe too much carbon monoxide tend to die, fast or slow depending on the concentration. It strips oxygen molecules from the blood to form CO2, which the body can't use and must exhale, at least until its oxygen runs out. The fact that the body considers CO2 a waste product, by the way, doesn't say much for carbonated beverages. Tap water is very low in oxygen, having had no opportunity to be aerated during its journey through the pipes, and being loaded down with chlorine and various contaminants. Since cooking drives the extra oxygen out of vegetables, if one's diet is mostly cooked or processed foods, there's yet another oxygen source lost. EATING, FASTING AND OXYGEN BALANCE Overeating is so common in the US it's considered "normal". One cause is the widespread use of oral antibiotics. While destroying the target germs, these drugs also kill off one's intestinal flora, which are needed for healthy digestion. With these friendly bacteria gone, digestive efficiency plummets. As a result, the sensation of hunger comes more often and lasts longer, as the body tries to compensate for ineffective digestion by increasing the amounts consumed. Even just eating daily, without ever giving the gastro-intestinal tract a rest, loads down the blood with toxins and impurities, especially uric acid crystals. Under a microscope these resemble tiny coffin-lids, interestingly enough, another clue to our Creator's whimsical sense of humor. When the waste products exceed the cleansing capacity of the kidneys, the blood ends up just having to haul it around the body and stash it wherever possible. These toxins literally take up so much room in the blood cells that the cells can't take on enough oxygen when they pass through the lungs. The blood's primary function of picking up and distributing oxygen gets blocked by overuse of the garbage-hauling function. Fasting restors health by giving the overloaded blood cells a chance to dump the toxins and inert matter through normal organs of elimination at a rate they can handle, instead of through the skin, as in acne, or other inappropriate places. If the fast is long enough, accumulated residues in the body are also scoured out and expelled, giving a considerable spiritual resurgence once all the backlog is cleared away. While the debris is flushing out, various toxic reactions may come and go. Once the blood is cleansed the red corpuscles have a lot more room for oxygen molecules, the oxygen saturation of the tissues is high, and health and energy are boosted considerably. Each breath now gives more life than it was able to in the blood's earlier state. Most long-lived native peoples, who are not affected by our more common diseases, either include fasting as a regular part of their yearly food cycles, or eat much less overall, than industrialized peoples. Today many Americans are existing at such high levels of toxicity, that their toxic reactions when attempting to fast can seem intense enough to make them start eating again before any serious cleansing can be accomplished. Fortunately one can partially bypass the lungs and get the blood oxygen level back up, by taking oxygenated water internally and through the skin. Several weeks of detoxification with this regumen will also make it much easier to fast without discomfort, if one chooses. It reduces appetite, logically enough, to a level more in line with the body's actual needs. The bacteria that aid digestion are not killed by oral use of H2O2, as long as it's diluted properly. OXYWATER MAY EVEN CURE STUPIDITY Perhaps the greatest potential benefit is the reversal of the slight brain damage caused by long-term oxygen depletion, which can be observed in the "average" human, and is sometimes not all that slight. It's well known that after about nine minutes of no oxygen, from drowning or whatever, you can kiss your brain goodbye. But the implications of constant gradual oxygen starvation in our cities somehow escape notice, despite the tiredness, depression, irritability, poor judgement and health problems affecting so many citizens. Increasing the oxygen supply to the brain and nervous system will reverse these conditions. The oxywater regimen improves alertness, reflexes, memory and apparently intelligence, and may offer the elderly a new weapon against senility and related disorders. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are reported to be responding to it. Alcoholics who start taking H2O2 soon lose interest in alcohol, and the thirst does not come back. Americans especially, will have an opportunity to outgrow many stupid things. It's strange that the common drug aspirin "stops pain" by interfering with the nervous system's ability to sue oxygen, in the elctrochemical reactions needed to transmit impulses. Though maybe it's not that strange, considering that the Bayer Company which originated it was a subsidiary of IG Farben, the German chemical conglomerate that is famous for, among other things, developing and mass-producing the lethal gas Zyklon-B specifically for exterminations at nazi death camps. ECONOMIC INERTIA Dr Terry McGrath, the CEO at Medizone, confirmed that Hydrogen peroxide would in principle act much like ozone in destroying the AIDS virus, but pointed out that it's never likely to be tested and proven in the laboratory. There's simply no economic incentive, since it's an unpatentable process and offers no more commercial returns than most other natural remedies. So it's completely up to individual patients and concerned citizens to push these options out into the open, immediately, before various companies get too financially committed to the assumption that AIDS (or any other disease) will continue to spread and be incurable. This is good a place as any for the FDA-required disclaimer: "Information given here is for research and educational purposes only and is not intended to prescribe treatment." VETERINARY AND AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS Humans aren't the only life form that benefit from compensation for their oxygen-deficient air, water and/or lifestyle. H2O2 in animals' drinking water, not enough to taste unpleasant, knocks out a growing list of illnesses. Locally, cats have gotten rid of their feline leukemia and chlamydia, and are back to theirmold energetic slapstick selves. Distemper in dogs has been reversed with H2O2, and a growing number of farmers are applying it to their livestock to cut losses from disease and infected wounds. Plants grow better with an ounce of 3% H2O2 per quart of water they're given. Spray the solution on their leaves as well. Seeds germinate faster, with bigger sprouts, when they are first soaked in one ounce of 3% H2O2 to a pint of water. Instead of cutting trees that are diseased or otherwise struggling, spray them with H2O2 and water (1 part 3% to 32 parts water). WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY IN USE? The obvious question is, if hyper-oxygenation is so simple and effective, why has it taken so long to discover it? Ozone is hardly new and hydrogen peroxide has been on the market for over a century. Why aren't all the doctors already using it? How come this story isn't all over the major news outlets? Turning the question around helps clarify the problem. Just exactly what would happen if a cure was discovered that was completely effective against the vast majority of diseases, ridiculously cheap and plentiful, and in most cases could be self-administered without a physician? Would the current medical establishment welcome a breakthrough that could render 98% of all drugs, testing and disease-related surgery obsolete? What would the response be of the pharmaceutical industrialists, hospital chain owners, health insurance moguls, AMA, and FDA? Would you expect to read or hear such an announcement from any medical journal or media outlet owned by people financially committed to the medical status quo, which is practically all of them? How many want to help their own occupation become unnecessary? And if the cure had already been suppressed once, wouldn't the possible blame for allowing people to die without it provide even more incentive to continue keeping the whole thing quiet? All right then. This is precisely the situation that exists, and the cure has indeed been around for ages. It has been independently reported effective against virtually every disease at one time or another, in thousands of public-domain medical articles, which had never been collected and correlated until recently. And it is so simple and basic that concealing it from most physicians and the general public has required a tremendous smokescreen of artificial complications, narrow specializations, symptomatic classifications and user-hostile treatments. If this is so, it follows that the more profit-fixated elements of the medical establishment will not be too thrilled about the recent surge in interest in oxygen therapies. The drug industry has expanded enormously since WW II, while America's level of health has dropped from the world's highest to the lowest among the industrialized nations. It does look as if the bottom line has been money and not health, for a long time. The battle for the future of medicine, between Nature's truth and lucrative lies, is about to really heat up. We can expect to see disinformation articles and newscasts with persuasive medical experts, some of whom will even believe what they're saying, warning of the dangers of hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and even regular oxygen. These reports will attempt to blur the distinction between using therapeutic dosages at safe dilutions, and the harmful effects of excessive concentrations. Plenty of grisly examples are available, of what happens when various tissues are over-oxidized. Anti-oxygenation propaganda pieces will probably not mention that over the years the FDA has approved H2O2 as a skin antiseptic at full 3% strength, as a hair bleaching agent at 6%, and for internal use as an additiveto milk and in aspetic long-shelf-life packaging. Nor are they likely to acknowledge that many European countries use ozone and H2O2 in their cities' water supply, and that they enjoy much better health than in the US. And they will be unable to truthfully cite any examples of people who were harmed by using H2O2 in the correct demonstrated therapeutic concentrations. If not enough public move quickly to help spread the news of this alternative, those how fear it could reduce their economic power may go so far as to try and knock off someone who promotes it, while trying to make it look like "too much oxygen" is the cause. Also, product tampering has thus far mostly targeted Bayer Aspirin's competitors, in case you hadn't noticed, but drugstore hydrogen peroxide would not be immune to such tactics. One approach might be to plant a contaminated batch in a town where oral use of it is catching on and the medical establishment is losing ground, so someone gets hurt and the story gets nationwide coverage. It is vital for Americans to realize that current economic dynamics don't allow the businessmen in charge of the health industry any incentive at all, to make people permanently healthy and lose them as customers. It's the same reason why the energy conglomerates do not encourage citizens to become energy-self-sufficient, the Pentagon has no incentive to stop wars, and the American Psychiatric Association sees no advantage to ending mental illness. Fortunately the majority of physicians really do want to see their patients get well. They also wouldn't mind regaining the respect and admiration with which physicians were once more widely regarded. When it comes down to a choice between saving lives and protecting profits, most will be brave enough to overhaul their medical belief systems, discard obsolete methodologies, and basically tell the pharmacuetical conglomerates to go shove it. The rest will simply get left behind. SOURCES FOR FOOD-GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Most pharmacists have never even heard of it, so it's usually a waste of time to ask them. A number of chemical supply houses have 35% H2O2 available; check your local directories and call a few. Under FDA pressure, DuPont and possibly other major chemical companies have recently issued warnings to their distributors, not to sell hydrogen peroxide to people who want it for healing purposes. So when you in quire, if they ask what you want it for, it will unfortunately be necessary to lie. If you say you want it as a cleaning agent, that's at least pretty close to the truth. Several physicians quietly sell itthrough the mail, bu they aren't the same ones promoting its healing properties, for obvious FDA-related reasons. A good source in California, though he can ship it anywhere, is Dr A J McDonald, at PO Box 775, Lodi, CA 95240; 209-368-8681; $12/pint. Your best move would be to share this information with owners of health-food stores in your area. Call and ask them if they have food-grade H2O2 (some already do) and tell them why you want it and how it works. Encourage them to carry it and give them Dr McDonald's address if they don't seem inclined to track down a local source. Cleanroom-grade 30% H2O2 (used for cleaning in computer rooms since it is a powerful disinfectant and leaves no residue when it evaporates) is reported to be just as pure as food-grade and much cheaper. Check with labs that make "wafer fabrication" chemicals, or contact the manufacturers of silicon chips and other computer parts, and the data processing complexes that might use it in their cleanrooms, and ask where they buy it. The more sources become known, the harder it will be for anyone to make it unavailable. GET THE WORD OUT Write your elected officials, send copies of this information, and point out what will happen to a politician whose constituents learn he knew of a cure for cancer and AIDS but didn't tell them about it. Call in on radio talk shows and share the good news, or send copies to their reporters and program directors, especially at listener-supported stations as these are less likely to suppress it. Don't assume your local papers have already heard of this; write letters to editors, and/or send copies of this report. Tack it up on every bulletin board you see, and post it on all relevant computer bulletin boards. If you know teachers, physicians, or health officials who can still think for themselves, tell them about this and give the references. Notify your local police officials that hyper-oxygenation gives them a way of maing sure they'll be safe from infection due to contact with AIDS carriers. If you're really feeling bold, walk into the local hospital's cancer wards and hand a copy of this report to anyone who can still read, and slip out the back door before their doctors walk in. Share it with anyone you know who has a health problem, even a minor one; H2O2 apparently works on everything from acne to warts. Above all, stop buying the idea that cancer, AIDS, and other "terminal" illnesses are automatic death sentences. When you hear some celebirty you like is sick or dying of this or that, look up their mailing address in Who's Who or whatever, and mail them this information. If the address is for an agent, which are notorious for blocking attempted communications to their client, you might include a cover letter to the agent, stating that the enclosed vital news is also being sent to their client's family members, and if he or she learns through them that there was life-saving information sent but held up at the agent's, that agent will be out of a job. Act like you have the clout it takes to make a difference, and you soon will. Major scientific breakthroughs go through three stages: first they are ridiculed, then violently opposed, and finally they are accepted as having been self-evident all along. Let's see if we can short-cut those first two stages a bit, OK? DESIGNER DISEASES: AIDS AS BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE It is hard to imagine that a cure for AIDS would be withheld for economic reasons alone. Could there be some other motive? Despite repeated denials from Defense Department officials, allegations persist that AIDS is a genetically altered virus, which has been deliberately released to wipe out homosexuals and/or non-whites in the US and reduce populations in third world countries. At first glance it seems like the epitome of paranoia to accuse the military of conspiring to exterminate citizens of their own country, and even some of their own troops. However, the vast majority of military personnel could be completely unaware of such a plot in their midst, while a relative handful of traitors in key positions could conduct it under cover of classified operations. And the circumstantial eivdence is actually quite compelling, that the AIDS virus was artificially engineered, and planted in several different locations at about the same time through vaccination programs, and possibly blood bank contaminations. At a House Appropriations hearing in 1969, the Defense Department's Biological Warfare (BW) division requested funds to develop through gene- splicing a new disease that would both resist and break down a victim's immune system. "Within the next 5 to 10 years it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." (See "A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare" by R. Harris and J. Paxman, p 266, Hill and Wang, pubs.) The funds were approved. AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, and has the exact characteristics specified. In 1972 the World Health Organization published a similar proposal: "An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune function, e.g. by...affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function. The possibility should also be looked into that the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to the viral antigens." (Bulletin of the W.H.O., vol 47, p 257-74.) This is a clinical description of the function of the AIDS virus. The incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with the locations of the massive W.H.O. smallpox vaccination program in the mid-1970's (London Times, May 11, 1987). Some 14000 Haitians then on UN secondment to Central Africa were also vaccinated in this campaign. Personnel actually conducting the vaccinations may have been completely unaware that the vaccine was anything other than what they were told. A striking feature of AIDS is that it is ethno-selective. The rate of infection is twice as high among Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans as among whites, with death coming two to three times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS and 90% of infants born with it are among these minorities. "Ethnic weapons" that would strike certain racial groups more heavily than others have been a long-standing US Army BW objective. (Harris and Paxman, p 265) Under the current US administration biological warfare research spending has increased 500%, primarily in the area of genetic engineering of new disease organisms. The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) was announced by Dr Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the grounds of Fort Derrick, Maryland, a primary US biological warfare research facility. Actually the AIDS virus looks and acts much more like a cross between a bovine leukemia virus and a sheep visna (brain-rot) virus, cultured in ahuman cell culture, than any virus of the HTLV group. The closest thing in this case to a "smoking test tube" so far is the AIDS virus itself. If it was possible for such a monstrosity to occur naturally it would have done so ages ago and decimated mankind at that time. Some other life form would presently be in control of this planet (assuming that is not already the case). The Hepatitis B vaccine study in 1978 appears to have been the initial means of planting the infection in New York City. The test protocol specified non- monogamous males only, and homosexuals received a different vaccine from heterosexuals. At least 25-50% of the first reported NY AIDS cases in 1981 had received the Hepatitis B test vaccine in '78. By 1984, 64% of the vaccine recipients had AIDS, and the figures on the current infection rate for the participants of that study are held by the US Department of Justice, and "unavailable". The AIDS epidemic emerged full-blown in the three US cities with "organized gay communities" before being reported elsewhere, including Haiti or Africa, so it is epidemiologically impossible for either of those countries to be the origin point for the US infections. Another indication AIDS had multiple origin points is that the 14-month doubling time of the disease cannot nearly account for the current number of cases if we assume only a small number of initial infections starting in the late 1970s. Before dismissing the possibility that a US Army BW facility would participate in genocide, bear in mind that hundreds of top nazis were imported into key positions in the US military-intelligence establishment following WW II. US military priorities were then defeating nazis to "defeating" communism at any cost, and strengthening military control of economic and foreign policy decisions. (See "Project Paperclip" by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and "Gehlen: Spy of the Century" by E H Cookridge, Random House.) There's no proof those nazis ever gave up their long-term goals of conquest and genocide, just because they changed countries. Fascism was and is an international phenomenon. It's not as this was a total reversal of previous US military policy, however. Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration for the "final solution" from the extermination of Native Americans in the US. For that matter the first example of germ warfare in the US was in 1763 when some of the European colonists gave friendly Indians a number of blankets that had been infected with smallpox, causing many deaths. One indication of the actual US military priorities regarding BW was the importation of the entire Japanese germ warfare unit (#731) following WW II. These people killed over 3000 POWs, including many Americans, in a variety of grisly experiments, yet they were granted complete amnesty and given American military positions in exchange for sharing their research findings with their US Army counterparts. Consider also the callous attitude displayed by top military officials toward veterans suffering from the aftereffects of exposure to Agent Orange and radiation from nuclear weapons tests. In fact, since the end of WW II over 200 experimental BW tests have been conducted on civilians and military personnel in the US. One example was the test spraying from Sept 20-26, 1950 of bacillus globigi and syraceus maracezens over 117 square miles of the San Francisco area, vausing pneumonia- like infections in many of the residents. The family of one elderly man who died in the test sued the government, but lost. To this day syraceus is a leading cause of death among the elderly in the SF area. Another case was the joint Army/CIA BW test in 1955, still classified, in which an undisclosed bacteria was released in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, causing a dramatic increase in whooping cough infections, including twelve deaths. A third example was the July 7-10, 1966 release of bacteria throughout the New York subway system, conducted by the US Army's Special Operations Division. Due to the vast number of people exposed it would be virtually impossible to identify, let alone prove, any specific health problems resulting directly from this test. So despite the loyalty of the vast majority of US military personnel toward their country, there are clearly some military officials who have very different intentions, and they occupy high wnough positions to impose their priorities on military programs and get away with it, so far. The first detailed charges regarding AIDS as a BW weapon were published in the "Patriot" newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July 4, 1984. It is hard to say where the investigations of this story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not been sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly thereafter: the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31 and the Bhopal Union Carbide Plant "accident" that killed several thousand and injured over 200000 on Dec 3. The Soviet press picked up the story in October 1985, making it easy for US Defense Department spokesmen to dismiss the charges as "Soviet propaganda", even though many other countries carried it. The Soviets recently retracted the charges, in the new spirit of US-USSR cooperation. A variation on the AIDS-BW theory that is popular in far-right publications is that AIDS was developed in Soviet laboratories for use against the US. An obvious problem with this idea is that the victims of choice of a Soviet BW attack would be anti-communists, not minorities or homosexuals, who are generally more left-wing. The people at greatest risk from AIDS in the US are in fact the very elements most disliked by arch-conservatives. In any case it is simplistic to assume that one country, US or USSR, is conducting this campaign against the other. Although concealed in apparent conflicts between nations, the real culprits are multi-national fascists on both "sides" still bent on massive population reductions and global domination. Other motives include the old "divide and conquer" principle; AIDS is inspiring fear and mistrust between people, and scaring them away from relating to each other at the basic level of sexuality. It is acting as a barrier to the attempted cultural resurgence toward peace, love and cooperation. Of high school students surveyed last year as to which decade they'd most like to have grown up in, 90% chose the 60's. The last thing pro- war fascists want is another "love generation", especially if it is more politically sophisticated than the last one. Apparently homosexuals were an initial target in the US because their sexual practices would help in the rapid spread of the disease, and because it was correctly assumed that very few non-homosexual citizens would pay much attention during the early years of the epidemic. Also the stigma of a "homosexual disease" would interfere with rational analysis and discussion of AIDS. Bear in mind that homosexuals were among the first to be exterminated in Nazi Germany, before Jews or other minorities, so fewer citizens would object. The details of precisely how the AIDS virus was synthesized, mass cultured, and spread by incorporating it into vaccination programs are available but fairly intrictae. It is beyond the scope of this report to present a crash course in virology, epidemiology, genetic engineering, and the military strategies of international fascism. Readers are encouraged to obtain and study the references cited here, and demand a full inquiry. Those officials who are actually involved in the coverup will reveal it by their inaction when pressed to investigate. Evil is hard to confront, especially on the preposterous scale we have here. If you acknowledge the presence of those who think their only hope for survival of their kind is to kill off two thirds of all the other kinds, and their ability to manage it, you then pretty much have to do something about it. Three good sources, each of which lists many other key references, are: Covert Action Information Bulletin #28 ($5) Box 50272, Washington, DC 20004; Bio-Attack Alert ($20) Dr Robert Strecker, 1501 Colorado Blvd, LA, CA 90041; Radio Free America #16 by Dave Emery & Nip Tuck (3 tapes, $10), Davkore Co., 1300-D Space Park Way, Mountain View, CA 94043. WHY WAR The vast majority of humans desire peace and cooperation, so why are there curently 43 wars arging around the globe? To find what or who is responsible for a problem that persists and gets worse no matter how hard you work at correcting what you think is the cause, look to see who benefits from the continuation of the problem. The beneficiaries of war are: 1) the owners of the companies that manufacture and sell all kinds of weapons systems, 2) the owners of the giant banks that loan money to governments to cover the deficits created by defense spending, who can then use the billions in interest payments to get their own people elected and influence government spending policy toward still greater debts, and 3) the heads of governments who have so thoroughly cheated and mistreated their citizens that only wars with outside enemies, genuine or artificial, will distract the people from recognizing and revolting against the real enemy in their own government. Hence, the symbiosis of U.S. and Soviet military-industrial-intelligence establishments. Imagine that you're in the big-time weapons business. Your profits depend on increasing the world-wide demand for weapons. So you re-invest profits and/or government funds to "stimulate the market". Hire "ex-"CIA or other clever mercenaries to stir up or intensify foreign and domestic hostilities. Overhtrow popular leaders and replace them with fascists, who need tons of weapons just to keep their own outraged citizens subdued. Don't think about the natives your merchandise ruins. Peace movements are costly and must be infiltrated and sidetracked, and their mjore effective leaders assassinated. The owners of the major news services are tightly connected with the defense and banking giants, through interlinked corporate directorates and membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. So if you get all your news and information from AP, UPI, NBC, ABC, CBS and the other established media owned by the same interconnected pro-war corpocracy, of course you'll remain totally baffled by the treason-disguised-as-bungling that dominates the news. Don't expect those sources to expose any deeper layers of the cover-up of illegal weapons deals than are needed to ease out the Reagan team and install a different batch of front-men to continue the same policies (if Americans allow it). Just like after Watergate. Only millionaires can get their own friends appointed to "investigate" them when they are accused of criminal acts. Senator John Tower, assigned to "get at the truth" in the Iran-Contra affair, is a long-time ally of key weapons industrialists. He's even married to the sister of Interarms president Sam Cummings, the world's largest private arms merchant. If you're really serious about wanting peace on earth, you must first learn the identities, motives and plans of the people who profit from the creation of wars amd the arming of the combatants. Do you really expect men of great wealth and power and no compassion to end on their own such a profitable enterprise? They have no incentive to stop production of weapons and torture equipment as long as their agents are allowed to stimulate markets for such things, by creating and funding supposedly leftist terrorist groups, and overthrowing legitimate third-world governments to install fascists. The federal deficit is constantly referred to in mass media without ever acknowledging why it really exists. The world's largest banks derive their largest profits from the interest payments on loans made to governments. Only governments borrow billions at a time, and they only do that to cover budgets bloated with massive "defense spending". Thus, the top bankers have a vested interest in maintaining the appearance of a threat of imminent war. The very men who collect the yearly billions in interest payments on the national debt are then able with such resources to make sure the government policies calling for deficit spending continue. To understand the direction the world has taken since World War II, one must recognize the full implications of these facts: throughout the war, the Nazis had tremendous financial and material support from such U.S. corporations as Ford, ITT, Standard Oil and Chase Bank. The Nazi goal of world conquest, enslavement and population reduction appealed just as strongly to powerful American fascists, and still do. Only a few dozen Nazi officers were ever tried for war crimes. Literally thousands of other important Nazi personnel simply moved their base of opeartions to the U.S., South America, the Middle East and elsewhere. Under the guidance of Martin Bormann, they also removed from Germany all the acpital they'd accumulated (over $370000000), and used it to form some 750 foreign corporations officially headed by local nationals, but with German expatriates as the principal shareholders. These companies, reinvesting "from abroad" in Germany's industrial reconstruction, are responsible for its rapid recovery and current economic strength. They also are tightly interconnected with their American counterparts, and include some of today's biggest multinationals. The loyalties of the Nazis who went underground remained with the Third Reich and its long-range goals. And the Nazi's niggest enemy, our war-time ally the Soviet Union, suddenly became "our" enemy. Only these two superpowers were big enough to provide a believable threat to each other, to justify continuing to maintain large-scale military forces and industries in both countries. The governemnt checks and balances provided in the U.S. Constitution were completely sidestepped by the formation of the C.I.A. in the Executive Branch immediately following World War II and stomped into the ground as more such agencies were added (NSC, DIA, DISC< DARPA, FEMA, etc.). Few citizens are aware yet that the CIA was created by Nazi general Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's chief of intelligence against the Russians. Gehlen was brought over to the U.S. right after the war with his entire staff, and given 200000000 dollars to continue the job for "our side". At the same time, hundreds of other top Nais were imported (this was called "Project Paperclip") and given new identities and government positions. They formed the core of the new U.S. intelligence, defense, and aerospace establishments. Why do you suppose every CIA-engineered coup installs a Nazi-like dictatorship that suppresses, tortures and murders the native populations? The first thing new intelligence agents are taught is to lie convincingly. With the intelligence/defense establishment in almost total control over the U.S. government, naturally we now have an actor in the White House. Official deception of citizens is a dialy occurrence, for "national security reasons", which has more to do with protecting those in power than protecting the nation. But even though many government lies are exposed, many others have not yet come out. It is a common tactic to confess to small misdeeds to throw investigators off the trail of major crimes. Intelligence agents are also taught how to sabotage, steal, arrange coups, set up phony front organizations, blow up buildings, cars and planes, and kill people without being detected. These are their products, the things they are paid to do. So its it any wonder we now have a world in which all these things occur constantly and are attributed to other sources? When truth is what is really wanted, many popular deceptions must be given up. Most people trying to reach the truth would prefer to pause at a safe plateau of group agreement along the way. However, the world situation has reached the point where learning what is really going on is far more important than maintaining confidence in governments, corporations, schools and established media. When the map you're following is of some imaginary land instead of where you really are, of course you'll be mystified by what you see around you. If while reading this you are experiencing disbelief or outrage, you'd better start studying some of the references listed below, because you'll be a lot more upset if you find out later that it's all true, whe it's too late for you to do anything about it. Or perhaps nations of sheep deserve to be fleeced, and then...? Come on! It's time to stop pretending we don't know any better. BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE _Gehlen:_Spy_of_the_Century_ -- E.H. Cookridge; Random House (formed CIA) _The_Warmongers,_and_the_Paper_Aristocracy_ -- Howard S. Katz; Books in Focus _The_Secret_Team_ -- L. Fletcher Prouty; Ballantine (CIA "controls" world) _Spooks_ (Wm. Morris & Co.), and _Secret_Agenda_ (Random House) -- Jim Hougan *A_Higher_Form_of_Killing:_The_Secret_Story_of_Chemical_and_Biological_Warfare -- R. Harris and J. Paxman; Hill and Wang, NY (is AIDS a weapon?) *Nomenclature_of_an_Assassination_Cabal_ -- Wm. Torbitt (the removal of JFK) _The_Taking_of_America,_1,_2,_3_ -- Richard E. Sprague _The_Nazis_Go_Underground_ (1943) -- Curt Riess; Doubleday Doran _Project_Paperclip_ -- Clarence G. Lasby; Atheneum 214, NY _The_Great_Conspiracy,_and_Sabotage!_The_Secret_War_Against_America_ -- Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn; Little, Bronw & Co.; Harper *Moongate:_Suppressed_Findings_of_the_U.S._Space_Program_ -- Bill Brian; Future Science Research Publishing Co., Box 06392, Portland OR 97206 *International_Terrorism_and_the_C.I.A._ -- Syromsky; Progress Publishers *The_Real_Terror_Network_ -- Edward S. Herman; South End Press, Boston *The_Death_Merchant_ -- J. Goulden; Bantam (CIA arms U.S. enemies, terrorists) *Deadly_Business:_Sam_Cummings,_Interarms_and_the_Arms_Trade_; Norton *The_Great_Heroin_Coup_ -- Henrik Kruger; South End Press (CIA and narcotics) *On_The_Take:_From_Petty_Crooks_to_Presidents_ -- Wm. Chambliss; Indiana U. *Amnesty_International:_World_reports_ (annual) -- Amnesty Int'l, London *The_Crime_and_Punishment_of_I.G._Farben_ -- Joseph Borkin; Pocket Books _The_Glass_House_Tapes_ -- Louis E. Tackwood; Avon Books (LAPD & Cointelpro) *Under_Cover:_35_Years_of_C.I.A._Deception_ -- Darrell Garwood; Grove Press _Coup_D'Etat:_A_Practical_Handbook_ -- Edward Luttwak (how-to manual on overthrowing a country by member of Reagan's transitionteam); Fawcett *The_C.I.A._and_the_Cult_of_Intelligence_ -- V. Marchetti and J. Marks; Dell *Trading_with_The_Enemy_, and _American_Swastika_ -- C. Higham; Delacourte *Operation_Mind_control_ -- Walter H. Bowart; Dell (CIA/Army & MK ULTRA) *(Titles unavailable from publishers can be obtained from: Tom Davis Research, P.O. Box 1107, Aptos CA 95001) PREDICTIONS Often those taken in by clever con-jobs don't report it, preferring not to look like stupid suckers. On a grand scale, this and group agreement dependency must explain most Americans' continued tolerance of the high treason portrayed as well-intentioned bungling, that passes for U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Until now. This year, millions of Americans will stop buying the official stories and start looking and thinking for themselves, including those military and government people who discover they've also been betrayed. We're about to see unprecedented non-compliance with institutionalized scams and foreign conquests that have enriched a few at great cost to all others. No longer mistaking the symbol for the thing, true patriots will reaffirm their loyalty to the people, land and principles of America; not the White House, Pentagon or corporate warmongers who create and strengthen our enemies so we'll keep paying more for "security". Communism is such a stupid and repressive system that it has been easy to persuade citizens that it's also the cause of all our troubles. But such simplistic explanations for continuing warfare, in the face of a global demand for peace, are looking more ridiculous every year. The collaboration at the highest levels between U.S. and Soviet weapons merchants to perpetuate demand for their products has become too blatant to ignore. A much higher percentage of American business, media and government leaders, ashamed at having allowed U.S.-sponsored coups, terrorism, genocide, parasitism and hypocrisy to make the U.S. the most hated and feared of all nations, will stop assisting their own would-be enslavers and instead pour some of their wealth into world-healing projects. They'll choose to be remembered as heroes who helped rescue the planet at the last possible minute, rather than as greedy, short-sighted jerks who kept trying to hold back the future right up until it crushed them. Regardless of who helps and who doesn't, the suppression of proven solutions for major problems and resource shortages by the monopolists that profit by perpetuating them, will no longer be permitted. The dams of deception are about to burst, and the flood of truth will simply wash away anyone who tries to stop it. Far safer to help the truth come out now and release the pressure less explosively. FREE ENERGY OPTIONS There is no energy shortage, only a blocked information flow on fuelless energy sources. The major media are owned mostly by the same characters who own the energy conglomerates, so they should not be expected to publicize alternatives to their monopolies. Citizens who are tired of being misled need to look into the scientific underground's information channels. Everything perceivable is composed of energy. The fabric of space itself has an energy density per cubic centimeter far exceeding the entire world's energy consumption, regardless of whather the space is occupied by matter. This is due to its oscillation frequency being sixty octaves above the top of the known spectrum, which stops at an electron's diameter. Energy potential increases with frequency of vibration. We do not feel the enormous pressure of this electric fluid, just as we do not feel the ten or fifteen tons of constant air pressure on our bodies. Tiny amounts of this energy are drawn from the "space-juice" in all energy production methods. The apparent source of energy may be photons, combustion of hydrocarbons, atomic disruption or mechanical conversion, but in all cases it is the same ultimate source, appearing in various forms. The US Patent Office categorically denies patents to any invention that seems to involve "perpetual motion". Manufacturers won't touch an unpatentable device. Thus the public is denied access to energy conversion systems that seem to derive power "from nowhere". Actually the law of conservation of energy is not violated by such devices. They are merely tapping an officially unrecognized source. A windmill would appear to violate conservation of energy as well, if we had no other means of feeling or detecting the wind. Interestingly, despite this restriction a number of patents have been granted for instruments that can run themselves and have power left over. In most of these the self-powering feature is not directly pointed out in the patent application. Apparently it goes unnoticed by the overworked examiners, who by now have approved nearly five million patents. Our civilization utilizes only a small percentage of those five million inventions. Scattered among the remainder are some fascinating alternatives to what currently prevails. They have never been implemented only because they threaten to render various existing industrial monopolies obsolete. Agents of the power elite routinely sabotage efforts to get such breakthroughs into mass production. Currently in the news is Joe Newman's Energy Machine. While Reagan stalled on acid rain, and Hodel pushed offshore drilling, the US Patent Office continued to block commercial development of this latest of many government- smothered free energy devices. Newman is suing the patent office for refusing to grant his machine a patent, in violation of their own regulations and the advice of the expert they chose to examine the device. They also are issuing false statements to the press about the invention's workability. Over thrity respected electrical engineers, physicists and technical experts have endorsed Newman's machine and signed affidavits confirming his claim of greater energy output than external energy input. Ten congressmen have introduced bills which would require Newman's patent be granted. As the Newman battle heated up, Reagan appointed Donald Quigg, a thirty-year Phillips Petroleum executive, to head the Patent and Trademark Office. The Judge entrusted with the case, Thomas P. Jackson, has violated judicial procedure, ignored expert testimony and ordered Newman's prototype confiscated and destroyed. During Watergate, Jackson was the attorney for John Mitchell and CREEP's corrupt finance division. Newman identified the gyroscopic properties of subatomic particles and built a unique arrangement of coils and magnets to draw energy directly from them, thus converting almost immeasurably small amounts of the machine's mass into energy. Theory and device are detailed in "The Energy Machine", $38.45 including postage, from Joseph Newman Publishing Co, Route 1, Box 52, Lucedale, Mississippi 39452; 601-947-7147. Free press releases and brief technical decsriptions are also available, send SASE. Much quieter is H R Johnson of Blacksburg, Virginia. His motor simply puts the continuous power of magnets in a usable rotary form. The device is composed of specially curved magnets, and uses the difference in force and quality of their north and south poles to create a net unidirectional rotation. His patent number is 4151431, granted in 1979, but commercial production does not appear to be occurring. Professor Shinichi Seike of Uwajima, Japan has built gravity-field energy converters out of coils resembling mobius bands and klein bottles. The equations describing electrical flow in such topological curiosities are very strange indeed. Imaginary numbers appear in the energy output figures. Power seems to well up inside the devices, which have no moving parts. Seike's work is covered in his book, "The Principles of Ultra-Relativity", $40 from Gravity Research Lab PO Box 33, Uwajima, Ehime (798) Japan. Fourteen years ago Joseph Papp was granted US Patwnt #3670494 for his Noble Gas Plasma Engine. A mixture of inert gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon) is sparked in a sealed cylinder with a piston. The spark causes the gases to expand violently though no cpombustion is occurring. Mechanical energy is delivered by the piston's displacement. The gases immediately collapse to their original density and the cyle is repeated. After several thousand hours the gases lose their elasticity and are replaced. Many types of ordinary rock actually emit electricity at a rate of roughly a volt per foot thickness of rock. Take a slab of granite or basalt, paint copper on both ends and attach wires to the painted surfaces, making in effect a large capacitor. Hook the wires to an electrostatic type voltmeter that can detect small currents, and a continuous flow of electricity will appear. The amount of current increases with the surface area of the rock faces. The voltage fluctuates daily by about thirty percent, and is strongest when our galaxy's core is overhead, suggesting that the rock is translating gravity waves into electricity. It remains to be seen in this can be adapted to provide usable amounts of energy. Details on this phenomenon can be found in Townsend Brown's papers on "Petro-voltaics", $17 from Rex Research, Box 1258, Berkeley. CA 94701. There are many other free energy systems that have been devised in this century alone, with varying degrees of efficiency and verifiability. None have stood a chance so far against the existing energy monopolies. Perhaps the threat of nuclear- and oil-induced ecological and economic disasters is finally severe enough to bring on a massive public demand for re-examination of these clean alternatives. In future issues of NOW WHAT we'll examine some of these in more detail. Meanwhile a reference list is provided for those who are interested in knowing more. The best single source of info is the many detailed folios available from Rex Research, PO Box 1258, Berkeley, CA 94704. The extensive catalog is $2 and covers many other areas of exotic science as well. Another good source is Fry's Publishing, 9237 Craver, Morongo Valley, CA 92256. Start with "Suppressed and Incredible Inventions", $10. "The Manual of Free Energy Devices and Systems", $10 from Electrodyne Corporation, PO Box 11422, Clearwater, FL 33516. "Tesla Said", and "The Nikola Tesla Patent Wrappers", John T Ratzlaff, editor. Tesla Book Company, PO Box 1685, Ventura, CA 93002. "Toward A New Electromagnetics", and "Solutions to Tesla's Secrets and The Soviet Tesla Weapons", by Tom Bearden. Tesla Book Company. "The Sea of Energy", by T Henry Moray. Cosray Research Institute, 2505 South 4th East, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. "Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secerets of Natural Energy", by Olof Alexandersson, Turnstone Press Ltd, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. "The Principles of Ultra-Relativity", by Shinichi Seike, $40 from Gravity Research Lab PO Box 33, Uwajima, Ehime (798) Japan. "Reality Revealed", by Douglas Vogt and Gary Sultan, Vector Associates, San Jose, California. "The All-Electric Motional Electric Field Generator", Frances G Gibson (on W J Hooper's work), Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc, 34 West Tallmadge Ave, Akron, OH 44310. "Awesome Force", J H Cater, Cadake Industries, PO Box 9478, Winter Haven, Florida. That's enough to get you started. Welcome to the High Volt Age. [drawing of a truck held in the air by a tree that has grown up beneath it deleted] [TRANSCRIPT OF ISSUE #1 INCOMPLETE] The following is the beginning of a short story by Waves Forest in "Three-Fisted Tales of `Bob'". This part is *not* uncopyrighted. "BOB" AND THE OXYGEN WARS - Waves Forest The SubGenius boasts about Time Control always sound like a bunch of tall tales, until you get a firsthand taste of the High Volt Age. One of "Bob's" Friends from the Future just clued me in, partway at least, and my scrambled synapses still haven't settled. How do I apply some of these crazy new ideas in time to prevent or at least personally survive you-know-what? Sometimes it seems like your luck has to balance out somehow, where you have to undergo a total bummer to set you up for something great you'd never have run into otherwise. I was hoping this would be one of those times. A blown head gasket on an empty desert highway should be worth some sort of break to even things out, preferably before the sun melted me into the asphalt. But so far all I was getting was a new and deeper appreciation of the word *barren*. Even the occasional scragglebush looked like it really resented being here, and wasn't about to put any more than the bare minimum of survival effort into it. So much for shortcuts. I'd been walking for three hours and had seen only only one car. The e"BOB" AND THE OXYGEN WARS - Waves Forest The SubGenius boasts about Time Control always sound like a bunch of tall tales, until you get a firsthand taste of the High Volt Age. One of "Bob's" Friends from the Future just clued me in, partway at least, and my scrambled synapses still haven't settled. How do I apply some of these crazy new ideas in time to prevent or at least personally survive you-know-what? Sometimes it seems like your luck has to balance out somehow, where you have to undergo a total bummer to set you up for something great you'd never have run into otherwise. I was hoping this would be one of those times. A blown head gasket on an empty desert highway should be worth some sort of break to even things out, preferably before the sun melted me into the asphalt. But so far all I was getting was a new and deeper appreciation of the word *barren*. Even the occasional scragglebush looked like it really resented being here, and wasn't about to put any more than the bare minimum of survival effort into it. So much for shortcuts. I'd been walking for three hours and had seen only only one car. The expressions glimpsed on the flyby were of dull surprise that anyone would even try to hitch a ride in this time and place - a feeling I could appreciate. It was getting rather obvious that years of city life had left me in pitiful shape. Only a few hours out in a hot but otherwise ordinary American desert and I was nearly wiped out already. This was no longer just a matter of missing a long-shot job interview that might have helped me postpone lifting anything heavier than a paintbrush a little while longer. It was starting to look like all my stubborn resistance to changing times had caught up with me. When their basic survival needs get threatened, most folks' interest in "art" evaporates quicker than piss on a desert bush, which got the unpleasant surprise of discovering that it could get even more resentful than it already was. Shortly after that so did I. My crude pack of stuff salvaged from the car got its fill of bouncing and bellyaching, split open and scattered feeble expressions of American "culture" across the gravel. How appropriate. The phrase "World Without Slack" kept taking opn new and more exasperating significance. While I was crouching there, telling various inanimate objects how stupid they were and patching the pack up by tying my shirt around it, all my arm and neck hairs suddenly stood up. I turned around, and there was the smoothest-looking sports car I've ever seen, standing with the passengr door open. Instant floods of relief struggled with major danger signals for control of my legs. There was no way I could have missed seeing that car miles ahead of its arrival. I'd been looking back a lot oftener than any logical expectations could justify. And even with all the smkog that's crept into the desert basins, visibility was still at least twenty miles, on a road going straight over the horizon. The desperate craving for shade won out. Dehydration makes me capable of superhuman rationalizations. The car was actually the same shimmery color as the road, and might have been mistaken for part of the constant mirage. The motor was too quiet to be heard over the mild desert winds - which, rather than cooling me off, tended to produce a slight blowtorch effect. And anyway, how could something so beautiful be dangerous? Its curve was completely different yet thoroughly appropriate. The interior was a deep moss green, and a cool ocean breeze seemed to be flowing from inside it. This car was definitely not made in Detroit. As I stepped up to the open door I could see that the kid at the wheel looked harmless enough - scrawny, and unarmed unless his swimming trunks had a secret compartment, or the car itself was one big weapon. I collapsed into the strange green upholstery and pulled the door shut. The sound reminded me slightly of a submarine hatch closing. "Thanks", I rasped. "Thatw was getting embarrassing." The kid just smiled and floored it. We went from zero to about one-ten in seven seconds, with no gear changes that I could detect. The bucket seat yielded in all the right places, but I immediately discovered there were no seat belts. And all that I could figure out was that he must have some really ultimate soundproofing, because I could hardly hear any engine noise. This was just sort of a deep muffled pounding whoosh, like a distant waterfall. "What kind of car is this?" "You sound awful. Here, soak those vocal cords before you break something. Unless you're trying for a New Sound, maybe." I seized the water jug, closed my eyes and swallowed until I had to stop for air. Then I sat there gasping and trying to identify some of the extra stuff in the car's instrument cluster. What little I thought I could recognize made no sense at all, so I looked at the driver instead. He didn't seem to make sense either. For one thing, he was soaked, not from sweat but as if he'd just been swimming five minutes ago. He looked quite cool and comfortable, and smelled like seawater - of which the nearest had to be a couple hundred miles away. Also, he didn't entirely look like a kid, up close. The face was maybe nineteen, but the eyes seemed much too confident and experienced. Though he looked thin, the muscle definition was unusually sharp. And his hands and feet looked like they'd seen at least thirty years of heavy work, and were up for plenty more whenever. I acted mildly unastounded by our speed and silence and took another shot at conversation. "You're probably wondering how I came to be stuck out here." "Not really." Normally I'd expect to be annoyed at such indifference to human suffering, especially mine, but he was so matter-of-fact about it. He added, "One dead car, three hours cold, and one overheated hitchhiker two hours' walk past it. Nothing else around for miles. Fairly short list of possible explanations, eh?" In these irritating times that sort of a statement might be considered as a mild put-down, especially from a strange and evidently well-financed teenager. But here it came across perfectly straightforward. I credited my extra tolerance to the relief of getting out from under the sun, and to the water's invigorating aftertaste. "What's in this stuff?" "A few trace minerals, some North Pole magnetism and extra oxygen." My stomach started feeling rather odd. "How do you get magnetism into water?" "Put the north face of a large, flat magnet against it for a while. Makes it more able to hold things in solution. Don't use the south face unless the water's for plants." "Uh, just how much stuff is in solution here?" "Very little. It's mostly to help it dissolve and carry out unnecessary stuff from whoever's drinking it." I had to admit that sounded like a good idea. Depending of course on who was defining "unnecessary", and for what. He took a giant swallow of the jug so I let it slide, then remembered something else. "How could you tell my car was three hours cold?" "Infrared. Comes in handy when you drive at night a lot." I was trying hard not to goggle at the instrument panel, but it was rather spooky. There were pressure and temperature gauges: internal, external and somewhere else. There were high-voltage dials, gas-mixture indicators, gauges for magnetic and gravitational field intensities, a ship's floating compass, little radar and sonar screens, dials I couldn't identify at all, and some sort of range finder. But there was no fuel gauge anywhere. Also, the speedometer had no numbers on it, just colors, and the needle was shockingly low on the dial. Unless it read backwards, it was meant to be able to register speeds many times higher than what we were doing. If that wasn't weird enough, there was an altimeter, next to a depth gauge. Looking at all that stuff, I didn't know whether to laugh or try to escape. A lot of it appeared to have been salvaged from other vehicles. Most of the controls were touch-sensitive patches behind the same clear shield that covered all the gauges. What should have been a gearshift obviously wasn't, since he hadn't touched it yet. There were extra knobs branching off it, and what looked like backhoe levers beside it. There were also several small video screens, all empty. Seen against all this, the faded "Bob" sticker on the glove compartment was rather reassuring. I'd met lots of SubGeniuses, and while most were pretty peculiar, none seemed to be actually dangerous to me so far. Just over the windscreen was a full-length detailed chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, with tiny indicator lights along the whole thing, including an extra upper section I'd never seen. Strangest of all, sprouting from among the gauges were nine different clock faces with little dagger- shaped joysticks poking out of them. My stomach suddenly felt very peculiar, and I involuntarily shook like a wet dog for an instant, then let out a tremendous belch. Just as suddenly I felt all right, better than I had all day. "What the heck was that?" "You just clobbered the anaerobic germs in your stomach, and also boosted your oxygen saturation a bit." "Huh?" "You have a severe oxygen deficiency, like most people in this time period. Due to pollution and deforestation, right now your atmospheric oxygen levels are at an all-time low, so the oxygen pressure in your blood is insufficient to guard you against oxygen-hating microbes. You become slightly stagnant, and serve as a growth medium for anaerobic parasites. But all pathogens are inherently much weaker than you own cells, which are a lot more highly evolved than viruses, bacteria, fungus and such. So you can always get rid of them by just raising your internal oxygen concentration above what they can stand. I was still working on the first part. "I've heard of all kinds of nutritional deficiencies, but oxygen?" "Your body's supposed to be at least eighty percent water, which is eight ninths oxygen." "Wait a minute, water is two hydrogens for each oxygen, right?" I was not exactly a chemistry whiz. "Yeah, but the oxygen atom is sixteen times bigger, remember?" I hadn't. "You're supposed to be composed of over two thirds oxygen, twice as much as everything else in you combined. The bigger a proportion of something in a formula, the more margin there is in the high to low range of how much you can put in and still make that formula work. That also applies to the formula for an organism. "So you can see how a person could exist anywhere along a wide range of oxygen saturation that can support his cells, though the lower levels are not much fun. But people can still function, more or less, even at oxygen percentages so low that anaerobic microbes can inhabit them quite comfortably." "Well, how can you tell if your oxygen level is high enough?" "If you get sick, it isn't." "But everyone gets sick sometimes." "Everyone you know about. You're all oxygen-starved, that's all." I considered this while watching the desert race by. I was strangely reluctant to ask how we managed to hurtle over this beat-up old highway without feeling any real bumps or vibrations. Instead I asked, "Well, doesn't the encyclopedia still say oxygenx makes up twenty-one percent of our atmosphere?" "Have you measured it yourself lately? They haven't. They just keep printing the same figures from earlier editions." "So what level is it?" "Depends where you measure it. In a healthy rain forest it can still get up over twenty percent. But most large cities have very few trees and lots of carbon monoxide, which, being electrically unstable, gobbles up free oxygen like crazy, to become carbon dioxide, which is more stable. In those cities it gets down to twelve percent or less at times. In Eastern Europe, with the whole Western world's pollution blowing at them, even wooded areas can drop below fifteen percent. Entire forests are dying there. For humans, suffocation occurs at around seven percent." "You mean that the cities are already more than halfway to suffocating?" "Right. What do you think causes early heart attacks, crib deaths and crashed immune systems? Very little of that happening in mountain villages. A mammal's immune system uses lots of single-atom oxygen in knocking off germs, and carries it around H2O2. That's because singlet oxygen itslef is so reactive it only stays loose for maybe a millionth of a second before oxidizing the nearest appropriate molecule. You should be internally producing and using several quarts of H2O2 every day, but you can't if there's not enough oxygen available from your air." A little of this was coming back now. "H2O2? You mean hydrogen peroxide?" "Yeah, oxygen water. The tiny amount in what you drank oxidized the pathogens in your stomach." "That stuff they sell in brown bottles?" Yucko. "No, the pure food-grade kind, thirty-five percent, which can hurt you if you don't dilute it enough. Lots of health-food stores carry it now. The drugstore variety has chemical stabilizers in it. Okay to put a little on a wound, but not much else." "Stabilizers?" "Supposedly to keep the oxygen from escaping, but it's really more stable than they let on. Mainly it's so no one will use enough of it all at once to get rid of a major disease that should have netted some hospital at least twenty grand." "What? Which diseases can you get rid of with it?" "All of them. But oxygen water is too simple and cheap to draw any commercial interest. Unpatentable." "What do you mean, all of them?" "Like I said, all disease organisms prefer much lower oxygen saturations than what your cells function best at. Their primitive, fragile membranes break down at concentrations a healthy human cell merely finds invigorating. You need it constantly; oxygen's the only thing you can die in minutes without. Get enough and it protects you from disease." "What about cancer?" "Especially cancer. It's anaerobic; high oxygen levels kill it pretty fast. Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize back in the 1930s for pointing that out, but your medical establishment has ignored the principle since then. Too unprofitable. Cancer cells get energy from glucose by fermentation instead of oxidizing it like normal cells. This wastes so much energy that the healthy cells can't get enough to function and the cancer squeezes them out, unless you intervene by raising the oxygen level one way or another." I thought of a couple of friends who should be hearing this. My growing exhilaration wasn't just from watching the now painless desert zooming past. "Why isn't all this written up somewhere?" "It is, it's just unpublicized. Hundreds of physicians have independently reported curing all kinds of supposedly incurable diseases by raising the patient's oxygen saturation, whether with intravenous H2O2, ozone blood infusions, taheebo or hyperbaric oxygen tanks, all of which simply raise the level of H2O2 in the blood. But the way of modern science is to disregard any facts that fit the accepted lucrative theory. And disease is a multibillion- dollar industry, in case you hadn't noticed." "For someone so young, you are well-informed but awfully cynical." He chuckled lightly. "Just how old do you hink I am?" I was spared the embarrassment of guessing completely wrong by a small interruption. A kamikaze jackrabbit apparently decided we were its ticket out of this desert and maybe out of rabbithood, and scooted right in front of us. The kid's hand twisted part of the steering wheel like a motorcycle throttle, and the whole car smoothly lifted a couple of feet then dropped back to the road. I turned and glimpsed a surprisingly complicated expression on the receding rabbit. "Would you mind telling me where this car was made?" "Detroit, mostly." "Uh, Detroit in Michigan?" "Where else?" I really wasn't holding up my end of the discussion very well. But I was still determined to at least be too cool to ask why he was dripping wet in an air-conditioned car ninety miles from any water. That was another thing I realized just then: The air conditioning was supreme. Instead of the usual dry, synthetic-tasting car air, this air was cool, moist, and invigorating, like the air near a waterfall. The roasted landscape whizzing by, and the relentless sun beating down all around, might as well have been on a movie screen for all the effect they ahd on us. I tried a different approach. "Is your air conditioner a custom job as well?" "Actually it's fairly standard at this car's point of origin. Nice, eh? The extra moisture, oxugen and negative ions make it pretty close to the optimum breathing mix for humans." I spotted the inside air-mix gauge. "Thirty percent oxygen? Isn't that supposed to be twenty-one?" :Just because it was twenty-one when the encyclopedias first came out doesn't mean that's optimum. Desertification of Earth has been going on a long time, though the current rate is unprecedented. Remember hearing about those scientists who measured the air mix in bubbles trapped in fossilized amber? It tested out around this high. These samples were trapped about the time the mammals took over. Not much tree-cutting or gas-burning going on back then, and the plant-animal ratio was ideal. Under those conditions eventually humans appeared, designed to operate at that oxygen percentage." "So it's dropped by a third since then?" "It's had lots of help. Currently the manufacture and operation of your machinery consumes eighteen times the oxygen you use up through breathing. That's the equivalent of another ninety million people standing around sharing your air, all so someone can keep selling oil and cars and such. Talk about wasteful, it works out that driving twenty thousand miles uses up as much oxygen as breathing for two years." "Folks do have a right to travel, though." "Absolutely, but there are much cleaner, cheaper and safer methods, ready and waiting, still as effective as back when they were invented and neglected. Same with oxygen as a healing principle. It's an ancient concept, appearing in various forms throughout history, but you all need it now more than ever. It stands to reason that if your body contains over three times the percentage of oxygen that's in the air, it has to work a lot harder at concentrating whatever it extracts through nreathing when the atmospheric oxygen level drops. So supplementing it with oxywater or other high-oxygen substances becomes the most logical short-term solution." "How about long-term?" "Re-establish a healthy global oxygen production-consumption balance, if you're up to the task. It can be done, though the situation may need to get even worse before enough folks get their priorities straight. Like a lot of things, oxygen is taken for granted, but since it is so reactive, free oxygen has to constantly be replenished or it all gets bound up in other compounds. Keep trashing your forests and your oceans' phytoplankton, and you'll all be gasping long before X-Day." "Oh yeah, when's that again?" "Soon enough that you'd better get cracking. It'll be hard enough as it is, trying to mobilize a bunch of oxygen-starved Normals, and the longer you wait the more sick and tired and useless they'll become." I had a sudden flash. "Is this why people were supposedly stronger and lived longer in early Biblical times?" "Precisely. Though by then there was already some atmospheric damage from earlier civilzations." "What, like Atlantis?" "Among others. Many civilizations go through a brief deforestation and fossil-fuel-burning stage, but this one has been artificially retarded and kept there for over a century." "By whom?" "When you find the answer to that question, you will then know what to do about it." "Some reason you can't just tell me?" "At this point you'd never believe it, and that would interfere with your grasping certain other necessary facts first." I made a disrespectful noise. "You sound just like my old college professor, Mr. McSploont." "How clever of him. What'd he teach?" "Disregard for college professors, mostly. I expect he eventually melted down in the white heat of his own brilliance." He smiled a knowinxg smile that wasn't smug or irritating, but rather a bit frightening, hinting at vast hard-won experience. "So besides being physically less healthy overall, noticed anything else wrong with city folks?" he asked quietly. "You name it, they've screwed it up. Basically most of them just act unbelievably lame, and tolerate the most absurd stuff you can imagine. There's some exceptions, but I mean, like, have you switched on a TV set lately?" He casually touched part of the spectrum chart overhead. One screen lit up with a retina-wrenching ten-second montage of about ninety different TV channels, then he switched it off. "Yup, pretty pitiful." I was staring at the blank screen. "Uh, well, yeah, there you are." "So what do you reckon makes them act like that?" "Beats me." It was reassuring to refer to "them" as if I had rarely lived in a city. "It's like they're all brain-damaged. Which is a real drag, considering that's where all the governments are located... hey, wait a minute." He grinned. "Exactly. What happens to a brain that gets oxygen-starved?" Mine seemed to be slipping gears a bit. "It goes to that big scrap bucket in the sky, eventually. But continuous gradual oxygen starvation, over a period of years..." I had to admit this could explain an awful lot of modern human behavior. "Earlier you implied that all this was somehow deliberate. Does someone actually want people brain-damaged and stupid?" "Did you attend a public school? Do you follow the so-called news? Have you browsed through a pharmacy recently?" "Well, okay, but aren't most of the guys behind all that living right there in the cities too?" "The most powerful ones all have their own remote strongholds, and can afford to have many others fronting for them. A good rule of thumb is, if someone's in the news, that person's not actually running things. And hired help are seldom in on the big picture, or the true purpose of their assigned tasks." We reached the crest of a long, low rise an,d started down the other side. There was a slight bend ahead, with another road feeding in from the south, all of which seemed a lot mroe interesting than it really was, due to following so many miles of straightness. At the very edge of visibility it looked like there was a little town. It struck me that I had one hell of a lot of unasked questions still, and for all I knew this could be his destination coming up. I took a wild guess. "Since you're not a big fan of air pollution, I assume this car is electrical, somehow." "You could say that. It has more than one system, but the motor we're using at the moment is a variation on the Noble Gas Plasma Engine invented by Joseph Papp in the early seventies. Of course, since it's cheap and fuelless it was never allowed to be commercially developed." "Of course. How does it manage to be fuelless with gas plasma?" "Noble gases. They're inert; with their outer electron shells already full, they've got no incentive to hook up with other atoms. So they aren't being burned or broken down, just induced to expand repeatedly. Put a certain mix of noble gases in a sealed cylinder with a piston, spark it and pulse a magnetic field around it, and the gases repel each other quite fiercely for an instant, then collapse back to their previous state, to be sparked again. The energy delivered by the piston's displacement greatly exceeds that required to spark the gases, providing a net excess for a self-powering system." "Are you saying this thing is a perpetual motion machine?" "We're living on the surface of a great big perpetual motion machine and composed of godzillions of little tiny ones, so shouldn't they be able to exist on our scale as well?" "Well, those things'll all wind down eventually, right?" "They'll run long enough for whatever you plan on doing with them. Anyhow, this design is somewhat less than perpetual; every hundred thousand miles or so the gases lose their elasticity and need to be replaced." "Sounds pretty tough." "Sure beats making your whole lower atmosphere taste like a monoxide suicide's garage." "Couldn't we retrofit existing car engines to run off this?" "Simpler to start from scratch, but maybe. Seal off the valves, throw away the carburetor, fuel lines, exhaust manifold and so forth, evacuate the cylinders and let in the inert gas mix. It'd become two-stroke, since there's nothing for it to suck in or exhaust." "So this gas is some combination of helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon?" I was amazed I could still remember their names. "I suppose the exact mixture is privileged information." "Technically, but it's locatable. The inventor's still alive, last we heard, but understandably rather frustrated. It's always disillusioning to work out a practical solution for some major problem, only to find that there's someone profiting hugely by keeping the problem just the way it is." For some reason I didn't resist this notion as much as I usually would, even though it implied my eventually having to help do something about it. But at the moment what I really wanted was details. "Where could I find diagrams and such? I'm no engineer but I know a couple. While we're at it, how's that gearless transmission work? And what was that hopping trick? I'm assuming you'd like others to pick up on these inventions." "Naturally. The drive gear consists of long cones pointing in opposite directions, with a heavy triangular belt that slides along them, giving a smoothly variable ratio between their cross sections. Again, it's not a new idea, but it had anti-commercial potential, being much too efficient and durable, so no way was any major automaker going to retool for that." "I'd think the first to do it would make a fortune. Who wouldn't want one?" "You're kidding, right? At first, sure they would, but then that'd be the end of selling replacement transmissions, and cost billions in lost engine sales and repairs, from the greatly reduced wear. Plus billions more in lowered gasoline consumption, due to improved efficiency. As for the rest of it, remind me to give you a few patent numbers and such before you get off." It occurred to me that during all this I still hadn't asked how far he was going. Whatever it was, we'd be arriving a lot sooner than expected. There was a billboard, of all things, about four miles ahead of us. Mr. Science touched something under one of the video screens and it gave us a zoom picture of the road ahead. He reached up and pushed a spot just below the visible-light band on the spectrum chart, and a little car-shaped pink spot with abright center appeared on the screen at the bottom of the billboard. "Nice of 'em to build that feller some shade. Though I doubt he's been there long." "Well, don't you think you should slow down a bit?" He shook his head. "My, aren't you well-conditioned. Don't sweat it; this car's not under any local jurisdictions." While I considered my response, trying to choose between sounding real law- abiding and getting some clarification, we zipped past the billboard. He touched a spot on the radio portion of the spectrum, just as a very dusty police car lurched out after us in a cloud of gravel. "Got a live one, Charlie", buzzed a small speaker in the dash. "No plates, too fast to get the make. At least one-twenty." "Want me to come on out?" A fainter voice, younger. "May need you for a roadblock, so stand by. Let's see if this new engine is as good as Clyde says." We were already nearly a mile past him but now we could hear a faint siren, slowly getting louder. We slowed down slightly, a move which sort of seemed at cross-purposes with rocketing past a sherriff in the first place. My ever- unpredictable benefactor hit a button under the speaker and said, "Are you attempting to get my attention, officer?" There was a brief spluttering noise, then a few clenched words. "Smart boy, huh? Pull your fancy self over, before I get irritated." "That shouldn't be necessary. I can easily answer your questions in this manner, without being late for my destination." "You think this is open for discussion? Identify yourself." "Changesmith. Or CS, whichever. Who's this?" "Officer Harry Scrotum. You have about five seconds to pull off my highway." "I see", said CS sympathetically. "What seems to be the trouble?" "Are you nuts? Reckless endangerment, doing twice the limit, unauthorized use of police bands, no plates; hell, I expect your fine'll buy us a whole new station. You're even hauling drugs for all I know." CS smiled questioningly at me and I shook my head. "Nope", he said. "And no one uses them from where I'm from." "Drugs?" "License plates." There was a strained silence. He evidently was not up for pursuing the implications of that. We were now less than a quarter mile ahead of the sherriff's car, which was still creeping closer, apparently at its top speed. Changesmith added helpfully, "If our velocity is causing concern, be reassured that this vehicle is crash-proof and does not threaten the safety of local traffic, should there happen to be any." There was a heavy sigh. "Charlie, get that block up, now. Don't use any working vehicles; drag over some clunkers from Philo's lot. "And as for you, snakebrain, consider yourself warned. This is your last chance to pull over in one piece." "Sorry to disturb tour programming, but it's a mistake to assume that everything that moves through your area is subject to your rules and limitations." "That's it, pal, your detah wish is granted." A sudden shimmy fro the left hind wheel was followed by the faint sound of two gunshots. Changesmith touched a panel on the dash and a small sign lit up that said GUNJAMMER, then he accelerated us a bit. The shimmy grew more pronounced, then there was a loud clank and it stopped entirely. No flat tire, and no more gunfire that I could hear. I looked back to see a pistol being violently shaken out the cop's window, accompanied by some general-purpose curses coming over the speaker. CS said, "Sorry, but we couldn't chance a ricochet hitting someone in your town up ahead", and switched off the speaker. "What'd you do?" I asked. "Ever hear of a subject known as sonochemistry? Production of chemical changes with sound waves? This is related; we're broadcasting a simulation of the wave pattern that occurs when water blocks the oxidizing spaces in gunpowder. Since matter is junior to energy, many effects can be induced on the physical level simply by emitting the kinds of vibrations which accompany and direct them." "Now that I like. How wide an area is affected?" "The range varies with the power and circuit design. At the moment, no one can shoot anybody within about twelve miles of us." "Well, all right! Does it interfere at all with organic oxidation?" "Good question, but no; cellular processes are all much less explosive. Different frequencies altogether." "Couldn't someone just mass-produce these things, hide them all over the world, and stop wars and murders once and for all?" "With enough time and materials, yes. Appealing idea, isn't it? Like taking matches away from children." I thought about it. "On the other hand, I suppose the more extreme gun lovers would all come after you with crossbows, until it sunk in that now they'd be protected as well. You'd have to be pretty discreet." He zoomed the picture on the screen a bit more, and the rusty town became quite visible, complete with roadblock. The crew that was pushing it together seemed to be engaged in a lively argument with some old desert rat over one of the cars they'd included. CS chuckled and switched the speaker back on. "How's your engine holding up?" "Oh, so you're back, eh? I see we can add Giving False Names to the list of charges." "Not at all.