Gun control is people control. The war on drugs is the war on citizens. Kill the Clipper (anti-privacy) chip. The following article appeared in the April 18, 1994 edition of THE SPOTLIGHT newspaper. The article is by Paul V. Sheridan. (Paul Sheridan is president of Dr. Detroit Motorsports in Detroit, Michigan. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals.) The SPOTLIGHT is a weekly mail order newspaper. Their subscription address: THE SPOTLIGHT 300 Independence Ave. SE Washington, D.C. 20003 current (4/17/94) trial subscription $19.94 for 30 weeks. Since I have just sort or grabbed one of their whole articles, I should be "nice" & do a free advertisement for them. ******* BEGIN ************ DANGER FROM SPRAY CANS & AIR CONDITIONERS A HOAX? "Nature is full of the unknown. In the United States a remarkable discovery was made. Waterside mud contains bacteria that breaks down CFC's; products not found in nature. Such discoveries should humble us. But yet there are people so sure of their knowledge of nature, they make all sorts of predictions. They're like high priests of arrogance; only concerned with money, fame and power." Prologue to the European film: Fair Skin - Stay In If a contest were held to award the most scientifically baseless, politically oppressive, morally bankrupt, economically destructive environmental farce, the hands-down winner would be the banning of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs, such as freon). Whenever a major action is being dictated, especially at the national level, you should ask yourself, "Who benefits?" If your answer includes arrogant "scientists," trendy politicians & faceless corporate bureau- crats, you can safely assume that scandal is not far behind. Obviously these do-gooders will proclaim that you are going to benefit because they are doing you a big favor; one you don't remember requesting. If you're starting to feel queasy, good. INCREDIBLE When I began studying the theory that CFCs were affecting the ozone layer, I found less & less, not more, credibility. What I did find how- ever is that people who will make money on this scandal support it, & choose to deny or ignore the facts. This trend continues at an accel- erating pace. We have already been programmed to assume that the so-called replace- ments will cost 10 times as much as CFCs. We have seen CFC costs jump from 50 cents per pound to $10 per pound or more as supplies are pur- posely diminished. We are about to scrap billions of dollars in un- amortized CFC-based equipment, & spend billions more on equipment dedicated to the new refrigerants since they are not compatible. Auto- motive customers have experienced their "repair" bill jump from $25 to $1,000 as retrofits become the only way to retain air conditioning. A similar scenario will begin to emerge for home & office air-condit- ioning systems. A review by SPOTLIGHT readers should include the following questions: * The Rowland/Molina theory seeks to convince you that chlorine from CFCs is responsible for "destruction of the ozone layer." If this is true, why did Mother Nature evolve oceans that emit an average of 600 million tons per year: 80,000 times the chlorine theoretically supplied by CFCs? What about volcanoes such as Mount Erebus, which emits an average of 1,000 tons of chlorine each day? When Mount Pinatubo re- cently erupted, 10 million tons of chlorine were ejected. Chlorine from this planet's 6,500 volcanoes has been deposited directly into the strat osphere for billions of years. Why weren't natural sources even men- tioned in the theory? Do natural sources of chlorine deplete Nobel Prizes? * Why are the major chemical companies pushing for a ban of CFCs? What is the status of the international patent rights to CFC pro- duction? Is it merely a coincidence that the scheduled ban of CFCs coincides with the expiration of the patents? Is it coincidence that the companies that are shoving this ban down your throat are the very same companies that hold the "approved" patents? Is there any correlation between the business plans of selected chemical companies, & the sub- sequent emergence & widespread media promotion of this theory? * Gordon Dobson, the father of atmospheric science, discovered seasonal fluctuation of the Antarctic ozone layer in 1956 (long before the more recent alarms raised by the supposed discovery of this phenom- enon in the 1980's). Why is this natural phenomenon never discussed? Why is the implication given that CFCs were not widely used when Dobson made his historic observations? What is the significance of the Scandinavian claim that their research on ozone layer fluctuations dates back to 1925, when CFCs had not yet been invented? * If the ozone layer is being "depleted," why has the ultraviolet ra- diation reaching the Earth's surface been declining for the last 50 years? * Why the Tazieff Resolution? Why would hundreds of respected scient- tists sign a document that states that the CFC/ozone layer issue is a fraud? Why is this resolution avoided like the plague by the American news media & the EPA? Why is the Tazieff resolution hidden from the American public? * Why did Vice President Al Gore fire William Happer? Dr. Happer, of the Department of Energy, was pursuing a scientific review of avail- able data. He was also proposing more accurate instrumentation to ensure credible conclusions. Did Happer mistakenly assume that his job was science as opposed to trendy politics? What does this incident indicate about the ethical stature of the present administration? Has Gore decided that the scientific method should be replaced by political correctness? * Dr. Sherwood Rowland, the co-inventor of this global warming theory, has been openly accused of scientific fraud by members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Why has the AAAS concealed these accusations & the resultant petition to review his part- icipation in Ozonegate? INVESTIGATION NEEDED * Why was H.R. 291 introduced? This legislation calls for a complete investigation of Ozonegate & will probably result in criminal proceed- ings. Why haven't our friends in the news media told you about H.R. 291? * The original design criteria for refrigerant chemicals was that it be durable, non-flammable, non-corrosive & non-toxic. After 20 years of development & testing, & more than 40 years of use, CFCs have completely proven themselves. By stark contrast, R-134, the replacement material, is flimsy, explosive, corrosive & downright poisonous. Recognizing that they themselves will not be routinely exposed to this unproven chemical, what criteria did the EPA use to pronounce from their ivory towers that R-134 was "acceptable?" If this new family of chemicals is "acceptable" why did Germany recently ban R-123 due to its toxicity? I called the EPA (202-233-9155) & requested their human toxicity studies on R-134. Under the Toxic Substance Control Act, the EPA is required to release these findings. They flatly refused my requests. The important issue for SPOTLIGHT readers is the health risk imposed on our automotive technicians who will unknowingly be exposed to a substance that is at least 100 times more carcinogenic than the CFCs they replace. The general public will also be exposed to these dangerous chemicals in their cars, home air conditioners & refrigerators. The EPA desper- ately does not want you to know the details contained in the toxicity studies. The 15th century Europeans were told of sea monsters at the edge of a flat earth. In truth, the market share of silks & spices enjoyed by the major traders were being threatened by the smaller mariners. Similar to the lies told when the earth was flat, Americans are being told that "The ship has sailed...it's too late." That money-making ploy did not work for the greedy merchant houses of the 15th century, & SPOTLIGHT readers need to ensure that Ozonegate doesn't work today. An excellent start is to write to your congress- person & demand that they support H.R. 291. ****** END *************** Well fellow Cypherpunks, what do we make of this? Many of us had thought that we had gone plenty far by being anarchists or minarchists. Apparently that is not far enough in order to oppose those that push us around & lie to us. This article implies that we must also be anti mass media & largely anti large corporation as well. In the matter of corporations we must at least be dubious of their intentions & truth- fulness. This article also serves as a model of big corporate, mass media, & state collusion in the victimization of their people. If the article is true, then how can the mass media be anything but corrupt? Another possibility arises: Do we have a science & technology that in a number of crucial areas is controlled as well? Are large cor- porations withholding science & tech from us? There have been rumors for years that the oil corporations buy up patents & small innovative companies to keep competing technologies off the market. I find a number of clues that this is true: ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The internal combustion engine. This type engine has been with us for more than 50 years - much elaborated on & refined but basically the same turkey. I believe that it is still approx. 25% efficient. Correct me if I'm wrong. Its deficiencies are legendary. This is 1994, why do we still have this primitive? There is talk that we now have cheap, efficient hydrogen generating processes. And if I'm correct, we can now safely store hydrogen as an iron titanium hydride. That could enable the use of engines with virtually nothing but water & energy as its products. 2. Electrical storage. Our storage technology for electricity seems to be primitive. 3. The Sun gives us an astronomical amount of free energy but we are still mostly inept at capturing it. 4.Fifteen years or so ago, there was a high budget program funded by the Federal govt. for large corporations to find a cheap way to get petroleum products without petroleum. This was at the time of the Arab oil embargo & was considered of great importance. Hadn't anyone ever heard of the FISCHER-TROPSCH reaction. We have lots of coal! Excerpt follows: from the book, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, by K. Peter C. Vollhardt University of California, Berkeley. Published by W. H. Freeman & Company. "Another catalytic reaction of synthesis gas that furnishes alcohols, but only as by-products, is the cobalt- or iron-mediated formation of hydrocarbons usable as fuels & oils. This reaction was discovered at about the turn of the century & developed in Germany beginning in the 1920s. Its application enabled that country to supply its energy (part- icularly gasoline) needs from coal during the 2nd World War, when its supply of petroleum was virtually shut off. The process is known as the FISCHER-TROPSCH reaction: Co or Fe,pressure, 200-350C n CO + (2n +1) H2 _____________________________> CnH2n+2 + n H2O At the height of production, in 1943, more than 500,000 tons of hydro- carbon & other products (gasoline, diesel fuel, oils, waxes, & deter- gents) were made in Germany by this process. Currently(1987), South Africa is the only country that satisfies a substantial amount of its fuel needs by use of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction." Synthesis gas (a mixture of CO & H2) is produced by a cheap, simple industrial process from the gasification of coal in the presence of water. 5. The medical industry. Cancer rates are going up in spite of gigantic amounts of money spent on research. We run into one health calamity after another. The FDA is busy trying to outlaw alternative health methods & currently have laws against free speech on health claims even when backed up by research. The FDA only wants health speech that it has certified. Incidentally, remember Tryptophan - a naturally occurring amino acid that was was good for many things including insomina & jangeled nerves. After the Tryptophan scare, Trytophan was outlawed by the FDA. This in spite of the fact that it was proved that ONE Japanese company had produced ONE bad batch of Tryptophan & that was THE SINGLE CULPRIT in the "tryptophan sickness". The reason that tryto- phan was pulled off the market was that it was TOO GOOD at doing what wa claimed for it & too safe. It was cutting into the pharmaceutical companies sales of dangerous drugs that competed with it. Serious alternative health enthusiasts are aware of many other state atrocities involving non-medical health methods. Nothing succeeds like failure! - At least for a government protected monopoly. The medical/pharmaceutical industry continues to receive a higher percentage of the U.S. national product. My diagnosis: the condition of the medical/pharmaceutical industry improves; the patients are failing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We who oppose the oppressive state must be alert for attacks from other quarters. The state is aided & abetted by a corrupt & lying mass media. At times the people are duped by large corporations acting in concert with the state & the mass media. Caution & independence must be used against several quarters simultaneously. This is an outrage! It reminds me of the old Soviet Union in which only a few percentage points of the people were in the Communist Party & therefore most of the population did not expect decent treatment or the truth. It is also remindful of the Feudal system in which a small minority ruled & took while the majority were exploited. Of course, there were explanations why this cruel structure was right. In the U.S., the population is proud of its freedom & its knowledge while being terribly politically ignorant. Are we that far removed from the old Soviet Union & the Feudal rule? Are the American masses both lied to & exploited systematically as the masses have been for thousands of years. It seems to me that in the U.S., the masses have gotten a much easier life due to some technological innovations & that the RULE BY LIE has gotten so much more sophisticated. In justice to the American political founders, I concede that for approximately the first 120 years the American masses enjoyed remarkable freedom. However, for the last 90 years the control thugs have been slowly re-capturing us. We have given away our lost power by giving away our responsibility. We have believed that the big dogs have gotten to where they are by being better than we, by being smarter, & by working harder. We also have a weakness with gullibility. We have a difficult time believing that a high status person could consistly & often lie to us. Possibly, that is a kind of genetic weakness of the masses: inability to disbelieve high status people. I do not wish to leave us without hope. We now have the INTERNET! - A people's mass media where everything does not pass though a crooked chokepoint. We now may easily & quickly exchange news with people all over the world. We also have public key cryptography! This guarantees our ability to conduct conversations all over the world & be as private as we wanna be! Records & private writings may be kept in effectively unbreakable strong cryptography. With these tools we may be able to break the yoke of the state & its collaborating establishment. Cypherpunk, Gary Jeffers PUSH EM BACK! PUSH EM BACK! WWWAAAYYY BBBAAACCCKKK! BBBEEEAAATTTT STATE! Interested in getting strong cryptography packages for free? Interested in putting your math, cryptography, or computer programming skills to use in writing a technology to free the world from its oppressors? Contact Cypherpunks@toad.com.