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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS According to a recent issue of The Lancet, orthodox treatments have a 56% recurrence rate.. German and Austrian oncologists achieve a 28% recurrence rate using treat- ments they described at the Congress. The media coverage of the Congress was appalling and, in reality, reflects the power of the vested interests that are financially threatened by the exposure of successful cancer treatments (see Letters to the Editor). |: The newspaper reports before the Congress would have you believe the Congress was only about aromatherapy, chiropractic, naturopathy, etc. he In fact, the Congress included presenta- tions on a variety of medical topics, such as advances in microscopy and hyperthermia (use of localised heat); new drugs (butyrate, melatonin, etc.); nutrition (vitamins, herbs, fats and foods); and the use of a particular microwave frequency before radiation thera- py which improves its results dramatically. The medical representatives of the drug | companies were not to be outdone by the media in trying to denigrate the Congress ahead of time. For instance, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners refused to award accreditation points in its Quality Assurance Program for general prac- 1966: . ‘ - is, General Vane Pao” and the Hmong growers, titioners attending the Congress. army in exchange for the A; Agency's aid in transporti The reason given was that the College was : not satisfied, from the abstracts, that the the: 1970s, the ro Operations: of Ted Shackley, Edwin Wilson meeting was of "sufficient scientific and eth- ical merit to warrant accreditation". This is an incredible comment considering many of the speakers hold chairs in medicine and bio- chemistry from prestigious universities around the world. and jettisoned the high- -Ievel officers in charge when their roles threatened to be known. And, fhe, there were the baa cake ee LSD on U; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AIDED BY PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS A study published in October 1995 in the i facts. oe best are Alfred d McCoy's classic, The Politics 5 of Heroin ‘oueialy published in 9 journal, Science, has revealed that learning ‘ in Breatly Tevised I to play a musical instrument at an early age expanded format in'1991); The Great Heroin Coup: | Drugs, 1 affects the way the brain functions and | J#ernational Fascisin, by Danish journalist Henrik Kruger (1980); develops. The CIA and The Cocaine/Crack Epidemic, by former top. DEA agen a] Musicians who learnt to play string or (1993); Cocaine Polities:' Drugs, Armies and the CIA. in. Central Epes. by Pete keyboard instruments before adolescence appear to have larger areas of the brain Dope, Dirty Money te the CIA, ty former devoted to finger touch perception, a y 587); In. Banks We Trust, by the ; as more highly developed nerve fibres link Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, by Jay Stevens (1987; the caper i ing both halves of the brain. ‘Noises Offstage" fegarding CIA MK-ULTRA experiments using LSD on unsus And as young keyboard players are trained ing American citizens in the 1950s and 1960s); and Acid Dreams: ‘The o A, LS: to use both hands, the brain areas devoted to the ‘Sixties Rebellion, by Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain (1 fee oe finger movement in the non-dominant |” Despite overwhelming evidence of the direct involv agents of the tate hand—the left hand of a right-handed per- pushing both heroin and cocaine, the official stance of the apparat is that dili son, and the right hand of a left-handed per- | !¥ pursuing a “zero-tolerance” Ataleey aimed.at eliminating the * sscou son—become enlarged. drugs” from our society: Peete (Sources: The New York Times, 13 October As the cliché has it, the first das rt 1995; The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October (Sources. Brome cxeps @icis on,ca (Ron Reed