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| VYS5 © oF VEN? Unfortunately though, these ref- erendums do little more than lit- mus test the mood of the shire constituents. In several cases the state governments have forced shires to continue fluoridation of water supplies. (Source: Telegraph Mirror, 3 May 1993.) WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON? Some of the most brutal and bloody regimes in the world today were created and paid for with US tax dollars. Take Liberia for example. In the fall of 1980, a few days before Ronald Reagan was elected president, Samuel K. Doe, a hulking Liberian sergeant, bayoneted his coun- try’s president to death and seized power with other army officers. Although his regime became notorious as a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, Doe got more aid from American taxpayers than any other African ruler - nearly a billion dollars during the Reagan-Bush ara PASTEUR FABRICATED HIS VACCINATION RESULTS In 1878, when Pasteur was already a national hero, he instructed his family to never allow anyone access to his note- books. According to Gerald Geison, an historian at Princeton University in New Jersey, Louis Pasteur's laboratory notebooks reveal that he deliberately deceived his colleagues and the public in some of his most famous experiments. It turns out that Pasteur used some dirty tricks and lied about experimental data to push aside rivals in his bid to get the government licence to produce cer- tain vaccines. era. POPULARITY AS PEOPLE BECOME MORE INFORMED And remember Kuwait, that wonder- ful democratic country that America stepped in to save by killing off over 250,000 Iraqis? It now ranks as one of the worst countries involved in the sex- slave trade. According to human rights groups, since Kuwait had been liberated 2,000 Asian maids had managed to escape employers who they claim were regularly raping, assaulting or maltreat- ing them. (Source: The Spotlight, 14 December, 1992, Sunshine Coast Daily, 6 April, 1993.) A recent weekend referendum in the upper Blue Mountains on fluoridation of water supplies has resulted in a 71% vote for its removal. This is similar to results in other shires such as Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Moree, Howlong, Deniliquin, Ballarat, Drouin where con- stituents have been polled as to their will on the matter. It seems things just never change. (Source: New Scientist, 20 February 1993.) The British experiment to privatise water has proven to be a monumental nightmare. Apart from the price of water going up, the quality of water in London is now so bad that most people (who can afford it) are buying imported bottled water for drinking. In the past five years, the price of water has risen by almost 50 per cent, and last year prices went up 12.2 per cent, more than three times the rate of inflation. As a result, the ten private water com- panies in England and Wales have issued an alarming 900,000 summonses for non-payment of bills. 21,000 resi- dences had their water supply cut last year, an increase of 177 per cent on the previous year's disconnections. The water companies now want to charge almost double for the removal of pesticides, chemicals and lead from drinking water. JUNE - JULY 1993 6¢NEXUS FLUORIDE LOSING POMS PRIVATISE WATER ——_ ee Ou Serwerwilh —