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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS FRENCH COURT RULES THAT VITAMIN C IS A DRUG committing suicide and was just fooling around with another friend. The interesting thing is that had Justin not been on Microsoft's arm of the Internet, authorities would have had a much tougher time locating him—or would they? (Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The West Australian, 22 February 1996) Gary Raymond, the man who refused to destroy the Grand Jury records from the Jim Garrison trial of Clay Shaw, has just been sentenced to six months in prison. Raymond was taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs for refusing to follow District Attorney Harry Connick's orders to burn the Grand Jury transcripts left over from the previous DA Jim Garrison's investiga- tion into the assassination of President Kennedy. Instead, former DA staffer Gary Raymond saved these records all these years, recently turning them over to a local reporter (whose actions in connection with the records will be ruled upon soon), and to the Assassinations Records Review Board, thereby ‘breaking the seal’ on the secret Grand Jury records. (Source: Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, 10734 Jefferson Blvd, #441, Culver City, CA 90230, USA) A French court case against the super- market Carrefour for selling Vitamin C 800mg tablets, has set a new precedent with the ruling that the product is a medi- cine by function. The court went even further and ruled that Vitamin C in dosages of 250mg and 500mg is also a drug (medicinal), and that the point at which it becomes a non-medi- cine is around 100mg to 150mg a day. Carrefour was found guilty and fined 20,000 French francs (about US$4,000). The ruling has shocked and alarmed European health-food producers/sellers. France is now in the process of drafting its own supplement proposals, and its EU discussion paper is expected soon. France is one of the core countries behind the effort to get strict world limits on dietary supplements contents and dosage levels via Codex Alimentarius in October of this year. The World Health Organisation has already adopted the World Trade Organisation as the agency which will offi- cially decide the acceptable criteria such as dosages and which ingredients are accept- able to be in dietary supplements. (Source: misc.health.alternative newsgroup on the Internet, 30 January 1996) VEGETABLE HATE-CRIMES More and more US states are passing bills allowing farmers to sue critics who make false claims about their products. The “veggie hate-crime bills" are being supported largely by a coalition of agricul- tural and chemical industry interests, sick of criticism about pesticides, genetic engi- neering and environmental damage. So now, if you release a report linking a broccoli pesticide with cancer, you had bet- ter tuck a few million dollars aside to defend yourself against the corporate giants who stand to suffer from your accusations. (Source: The Los Angeles Times, 18 January 1996) BIG BROTHER & THE INTERNET An interesting event happened in Perth, Western Australia recently. Details vary according to which newspaper you read, but they go basically like this: Fourteen-year-old Justin Jones from Winthrop, Perth, was allegedly writing/ chatting about suicide while on the Microsoft Network arm of the Internet one evening. According to the reports, a Microsoft moderator in the USA “noticed” the refer- ences to suicide, and alerted Redmond Police Department in Washington State. Several hours later, Perth police arrived at the Jones household. Apparently Justin had no intention of HOSPITAL BUGS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN AIDS It is estimated that nearly 20 per cent of hospital patients pick up infections during their hospital stay, the most common bug being multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). But did you know that more people die each year in Australia from infections con- tracted following the insertion of a catheter in a vein than die from AIDS? (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 February 1996) GERMANY'S DOCTORS FORCED TO DIVULGE PATIENTS' PSYCHIC AND SEXUAL DATA A new German law forces all doctors in the country to provide the government with an ongoing stream of data on the psychic and physical condition as well as sexual habits of their patients. The law, which went into effect on 1st January 1996, eliminates all pretence of confidentiality between doctors and patients in Germany. Medical societies, human rights organi- sations and the government's own official in charge of privacy are now condemning the law. Under the law, every doctor in Germany is required to provide the government with all details on patients including diagnoses, medicines prescribed and observations. The data is encrypted through the govern- ment-defined computer code ICD-10. The government's official in charge of privacy, Joachim Jacob, has protested that the law goes far beyond Bonn's claimed need to control medical costs in Germany. (Source: alt.conspiracy newsgroup, the Internet) CAN'T Ger | ! 2°) A ACCESS TO THE ¥ GREAT! Hous DO ys ZEN & / “ NEXUS * 9 APRIL-MAY 1996 KENNEDY CONSPIRACY?