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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS output, is down by nearly a third from last U: year's crop. M The poor harvest is largely a result of the mi weird and wild weather pattern. pi! In recent years, US-produced grain and 0 soybean commodities have accounted for a large share of all of the world trade tonnage W of these goods. Of the 70 million tons of th coarse grain traded annually, US-grown TI corn has accounted for over 70%, or S50 Su million tons. Now it isn't there. or All in all, experts consider that the US— \ and the world—is on the edge of a world- wide food shortage. They are praying that there will not be another crop disaster this University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says that side-effects from phar- maccuticals put 1.6 million people in hos- pitals and kill up to 160,000 Americans at a _, cost of more than US$20 billion per year. So is it any different here down-under? Why not contact the Aussie equivalent of the FDA, namely the TGA, and ask them. The fax number for the Head of' Surveillance in the TGA is (06) 239 8659, or phone (06) 239 8444. Go get ‘em! (Source: The Spotlight, 1 November 1993) According to a report released by two human rights groups in November '93, there are more than 100 million unexplod- ed land-mines scattered over 62 countries, making some areas of the Third World totally uninhabitable. The study, released by Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights, says worldwide production may have reached 10 million anti-personnel mines a year in the past few years. According to the American Red Cross about 200 civilians are killed each week by land mines, and thousands more are maimed or injured. Unexploded mines are most densely con- centrated in Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia. The two human rights groups have called the situation an humanitarian disaster and have urged the international community to impose a ban on production, trade and use of the weapons. (Source: The Australian, 8 November 1993) SECRET US BOMB TESTS ANGERS THE WORLD year, ia (Source: EIR, 26 November 1993) As part of the declassification of secret , Cold War military files, the US admitted recently that it had carried out 204 secret TRACK RECORD OF THE FDA nuclear tests over a thirty-year period at its Many don't realise the FDA does no test- test site in Nevada, and 48 tests in the ing of pharmaceuticals. It is wholly depen- Pacific since 1945, including one in 1990. dent upon the word of the manufacturing — Governments and citizens around the company, which does the preliminary test- world reacted with shock and horror when ing and may or may not give the FDA all it was revealed that clouds of radioactive the facts. dust were allowed to deliberately drift over Over the last decade, scores of lawsuits populated areas in the US in order to study regarding food, cosmetics, drugs and dycs the effecis of fallout on the population. have been filed against the FDA. Despite Many of the bombs were exploded in the studies that show Red Dye No. 3, Yellow atmosphere over the US. Dye No. 6 and Yellow Dye No. 5, among A Fi This news comes on top of other files others are carcinogenic, the FDA has not P ares! showing the government ordered radiation oe) an. experiments on retarded children, convicts Dr Brian Strom, Associate Director of ang pregnant women without their consent Medicine and Pharmacology at the 4, knowledge. The full extent of the secret government experiments on these thousands of people will never be fully known, as the CIA has since destroyed many of its files pertaining to these incidents. (Source: Guardian Weekly, 9 January 1994; The Australian, 6 January 1994; New Scientist, 25 December 1993) FOOD SHORTAGE ON HORIZON? While it may be good news for Aussie or Kiwi food producers, it is certainly not good news for the USA. The US 1993 corn harvest, which in recent years accounted for nearly half the total world BIG BROTHER ON THE FREEWAY The technology to put Big Brother into the passenger seat of your car is now at hand, and it may be implemented sooner than you think! Authorities already have the capability to monitor how far you've driven, where you've driven, and perhaps most frighten- ing of all, where your car is at any given time! If you marginally exceed the speed limit on an empty road at 3 am, it is technically possible for a fine to be automatically dis- patched, even though there was no other 8e NEXUS MINED OVER MATTER (Source: EIR, 26 November 1993) TRACK RECORD OF THE FDA Or SL FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994