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TRUTH DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH The US Congressional Committee hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal have thrown some interesting light on the activities of the CIA. One witness, Mr Glenn Robinette, who worked for twenty years in the CIA’s ‘technical services’, told the committee that thisCIA division wasin the business of issuing false documents. Meanwhile, a memo obtained by The Miami Herald outlined plans by Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North and other officers to suspend the US Constitution and place the coun- try under martial law in the face ofa national crisis - suchas an uprising by LIVE ORGANS FOOD IRRADIATION __ blackmilitants oranuclear war. FOR SALE UPDATE Organs have been removed from Sama aand nawe DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH The US Congressional Committee hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal have thrown some interesting light on the activities of the CIA. One witness, Mr Glenn Robinette, who worked for twenty years in the CIA’s ‘technical services’, told the committee that thisCIA division wasin the business of issuing false documents. Meanwhile, a memo obtained by The Miami Herald outlined plans by Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North and other officers to suspend the US Constitution and place the coun- try under martial law in the face ofa national crisis - suchas an uprising by LIVE ORGANS FOOD IRRADIATION __ blackmilitants oranuclear war. FOR SALE UPDATE Organs have been removed from live patients for illegal sale to hospi- tal transplant teams in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Roosevelt Kalume, direc- tor of the medical science faculty of Taubate University, claims that doctors have been practicing eutha- nasia to remove the organs. Eleven year old Sylvia Moura emerged from hospital with only one kidney after having her leg bro- ken in a car accident. The family of a comatose boy were visited by a woman ‘parapsy- chologist’ who claimed the accident victim wanted his parents to donate his organs to others; the family ‘donated’ fifteen year old Helder Faria’s cornea, kidneys, liver and Some good news. The Federal Government has an- nounced it will make no decision about the introduction of food irradiation in Australia for some months. Aconcerted lobbying effort over the past year has stopped food irradiation’s immediate acceptance by hasty legisla- tion. The lesson of Plant Variety Rights legislation (which was passed by the Senate in February this year after eight years of protest) is that when lobbying actions begin to falter, the government feels empowered to introduce poten- More HuMAns tially disastrous laws suchas these. Make sure your opinions on these and other subjects are heard by the people who count (they count your letters!) - see the list of politician's The Freedom From Hunger cam- paign estimates that over 50,000 people die each day because of poverty. One heart. a billion people - one fifth of the world’s The operations were carried out addresses in this issue. population - are starving and in danger on Sunday mornings when supervi- of dying. sion was minimal, in hospitals not authorised to perform transplants. Eleven doctors are being investi- gated by the regional medical coun- cil and police. Meanwhile in Ireland, Chief Superintendent Larry McKéon of Cork police has been investigating a report of a baby being kept alive by doctors in a Cork hospital so that its be ten billion people in the world. organs could be removed and do- In July the five billionth child was nated for transplants. born on planet Earth. The world’s population grows by 200,000 every day - 150 people every minute, or 2.5 per second. 90% of growth has been in developing coun- tries, according to the U.N. Population Agency. In the last fifteen years the popula- tion growth rate has stabilised and could drop to zero inacentury, when there may 8 Nexus New Times Two FOR SALE UPDATE Organs have been removed from live patients for illegal sale to hospi- tal transplant teams in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Roosevelt Kalume, direc- tor of the medical science faculty of Taubate University, claims that doctors have been practicing eutha- nasia to remove the organs. Eleven year old Sylvia Moura emerged from hospital with only one kidney after having her leg bro- ken in a car accident. The family of a comatose boy were visited by a woman ‘parapsy- chologist’ who claimed the accident victim wanted his parents to donate his organs to others; the family ‘donated’ fifteen year old Helder Faria’s cornea, kidneys, liver and heart. The operations were carried out on Sunday mornings when supervi- sion was minimal, in hospitals not authorised to perform transplants. Eleven doctors are being investi- gated by the regional medical coun- cil and police. Meanwhile in Ireland, Chief Superintendent Larry McKéon of Cork police has been investigating a report of a baby being kept alive by doctors in a Cork hospital so that its organs could be removed and do- nated for transplants. Some good news. The Federal Government has an- nounced it will make no decision about the introduction of food irradiation in Australia for some months. Aconcerted lobbying effort over the past year has stopped food irradiation’s immediate acceptance by hasty legisla- tion. The lesson of Plant Variety Rights legislation (which was passed by the Senate in February this year after eight years of protest) is that when lobbying actions begin to falter, the government feels empowered to introduce poten- tially disastrous laws such as these. Make sure your opinions on these and other subjects are heard by the people who count (they count your letters!) - see the list of politician's addresses in this issue. SS The US Congressional Committee hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal have thrown some interesting light on the activities of the CIA. One witness, Mr Glenn Robinette, who worked for twenty years in the CIA’s ‘technical services’, told the committee that thisCIA division wasin the business of issuing false documents. Meanwhile, a memo obtained by The Miami Herald outlined plans by Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North and other officers to suspend the US Constitution and place the coun- try under martial law in the face ofa national crisis - suchas an uprising by black militants or a nuclear war. The Freedom From Hunger cam- paign estimates that over 50,000 people die each day because of poverty. One billion people - one fifth of the world’s population - are starving and in danger of dying. The world’s population grows by 200,000 every day - 150 people every minute, or 2.5 per second. 90% of growth has been in developing coun- tries, according to the U.N. Population Agency. In the last fifteen years the popula- tion growth rate has stabilised and could drop to zero inacentury, when there may be ten billion people in the world. In July the five billionth child was bor on planet Earth. ann LIVE ORGANS FOOD IRRADIATION a’ Nexus New Times Two ee DEPARTMENT OF More HuMAns