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... GLBBAL NEWS ... NEWS 1 within 20 kilometres; indeed, F ———— Penk wocount could be instantly debited or | DRUG COMPANIES—THEIR POWER AND CORRUPTION your licence electronically cancelled. The drug industry today ranks as one of the most wealthy, powerful and corrupt organi- According to a paper presented to the |Sations the world has ever known, and yet the masses continue to look upon this industry National Intelligent Vehicle and Highway with reverence and worship. Systems Conference in Australia last | To give you some idea of just how powerful and corrupt the multinational drug compa- October, "totally automatic video enforce- |nies arc, we've selected four examples: ment of speed and registration violations is 1) During the 1970s, the West German government withdrew marketing permission for under development". ICI's drug Clofibrate after a comprehensive clinical trial showed that it caused more harm The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority |than good, ICI promptly threatened legal action against the government, and a short time has already developed a system called |later the drug was again made available in West Germany. ; SAFE-T-CAM whereby a camera automat- 2) In 1978, a medical commission set up by the Sri Lankan government recommended ically recognises and photographs trucks, |a drastic reduction in the number of imported drugs, mostly supplied by Americari drug] digitalises the images and uses an optical |firms. The US Ambassador immediately stepped in and threatened to stop all US food aid] character recognition (OCP) programme to |to the country if the proposal be approved—a Clear example of the drug companies’ influ-| read the number plates. ence over the US government. According to an RTA spokesperson, 3) In 1979, Tina Anslemi, Italy's Minister for Health, proposed the withdrawal of thou- “Information comprising the exact location, |sands of drugs that a medical commission had found useless or damaging. Shortly there- the time and the vehicle registration num- | after, she was approached by a representative of the drug companies who offered her a 35 ber are transmitted to a central computer | million lire bribe to withdraw her proposal. Her response was to inform the public of the. which then matches that information | attempted bribe, and it was only luck that she escaped injury when her car blew up three} against data received from other SAFE-T- | days later. She was subsequently sacked from her health post. CAM stations". 4) In 1972, Chilean President Salvador Allende, a doctor himself, set up a smodical In the first seven-day trial of the system | commission to establish just how many drugs were really needed. The commission con- last year, more than 17,000 images were | cluded that not more than two dozen had any benefit—and that therefore the international captured and transmitted to a central data- | pharmacopoeia should be reduced accordingly. One year later, President Allende’s regime bank. was toppled by the junta who were assisted by the CIA. Those doctors who recommended (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 3 | the reduction of imported drugs (mostly from US companies) were murdered within one September 1993) |week of the takcover. The new dictatorship immediately reopened trade with the American drug market. There are those who believe that the initials CIA really stand for YET ANOTHER DRUG—SAFE _|"Centre of International Assassination”, with their true role being the protection of ON ANIMALS, DEADLY ON American Industry. HUMANS! There you have it. A doctor who spends too much time with his patients is brought before a medical inquisition. A doctor who believes in the principles of preventative med- icine and self-care is asked to justify and explain such heretical behaviour. This gives you an idea of what sort of people are running the show, people of similar character to those who are running the drug companies. Or could it be that these people are one and the same? Ever heard of the ‘revolving door’ status? High-level government health officials are offered cushy well-paid jobs in drug companies when they leave or retire from the ser- vice. Along with the massive contributions drug companics make to the political parties, you can understand how they influence government health policy. Make no mistake, the entire medical system, which includes the medical profession itself, medical universities, research laboratories, sickness foundations, and even govern- ment health departments, is directly influenced and controlled by the drug companies— the same companies that are at this moment peddling their poisonous useless drugs to the ignorant poor in third world countries, drugs which have been banned from their own countries. | I conclude this piece with a biblical quote from the very last book of the Bible, Revelation According to John. It's important to note that in the original text of John’s Revelation, the word translated as ‘sorcerer’ is the Greek word pharmakopoiia, which liter- ally means ‘drug-maker’, | The outright fraud of animal experiments took another shaking when it was announced that an experimental drug believed to be a miracle cure for hepatitis B has killed five volunteers. The drug Fialuridine, developed at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Washington, showed no ill effect on dogs when tested. It turned out that dogs have a natural enzyme that rendered the drug inac- tive. While this offers no real safety value to its effects on humans, it does offer the drug company a legal protection value because it is a legal requirement to have such testing on animals conducted. The NIH's Dr Jay Hoofnagle said the five people had died horribly of liver and kidney failure after ingesting the drug, and "And the light of a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of he feared that other antiviral drugs such as bridegroom and bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy mer- AZT (which is still used to treat AIDS by chants were the great men of the earth, and all nations were deceived some behind-the-times quacks, and is by thy sorcery". known to be toxic) may attack patients in (Revelation 18.23, Revised Standard Version) the same way as Fialuridine, (Source: Daily Telegraph Mirror, 3 | (Extracted from the excellent book,You Can Overcome Asthma, by lan Sinclair. See September 1993) |book review section this issue for more details.) YET ANOTHER DRUG—SAFE ON ANIMALS, DEADLY ON HUMANS! NEXUS¢9 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994