Nexus: postmodernism or what? I wonder what posterity will make of Nexus magazine. It continues to be just about the most fascinating and the most infuriating thing which plops through my letter-box. Take the April-May 2000 issue. On the positive side there is a very interesting and maybe very important piece on the soya bean, showing a wide range of nasty side-effects which have hitherto been largely ignored by governments and regulatory bodies. There is also a long account by a British TV journalist of a British inventor, Tony Cuthbert, and some of his inventions, chiefly using magnetism. Nexus specialises in articles about free energy devices of one sort or another which are mostly incredible (there is one in this issue); but Cuthbert looks more like the real thing. Real, named, scientists and industrialists are interested.
But on the down side there are more bizarre claims by a now dead, allegedly much decorated, USAF Colonel Wilson about MJ12 et al. This includes an account of Wilson meeting a 8 foot female alien wearing a crystal ring on her finger from which emanated a hologram which, ‘complete with sound, unfold[ed] the mysteries of the past and the present and of other worlds.’
There is also the second part of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it appears the most obvious forgery.) In this, amidst a sprinkling of punctuation and spelling errors which are apparently in the original, ‘Casey’ alleges that former DCIA William Colby,
‘candidly informed me [Casey] that he had pre-positioned more than one million pounds of cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me [Casey] that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco…..’
Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a ‘CIA operative’ who makes the following claim (JFK buffs, pay attention!):
‘[Al Carone] had taken money to a female named Ruth Paine in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush…….Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.’
In 1956, eh? Planning the Kennedy assassination before he was elected President? That’s what I call planning.