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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS PHARMACEUTICAL RESIDUES IN EUROPE'S WATER Banister's offer of resignation rather than respond to the questions raised. He is believed to be the first IRS-CID special agent who—having determined to his satis- faction that certain allegations about income tax were true—confronted the hier- archy at the IRS about his findings. But he has paid dearly for this. "It's the end of my dream of a career in law enforcement," he said, recalling in a telephone interview the series of events that propelled him from the ranks of armed federal agents to the camp of those reviled by the government as tax protesters. The action also cost him his $80,000-a-year job. (Source: From an article by Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily, 26 March 1999; website ) the false reports that are edited for them in Aviano, where there is a sort of military Press cabinet in the hands of North American generals and functionaries. "Here they say that several operations were directed by Spanish commanders and pilots. Lies over lies. All the missions that we flew, all and each one, were planned by US high military authorities. They were all planned in great detail, including attacking planes, targets and type of ammunition that we had to use. We [the Spanish] never directed anything, and our missions were limited to flying over the borders of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Slovakia. "No journalist has the slightest idea about what is happening in Yugoslavia. They [NATO] are destroying the country, bombing it with new weapons, toxic nerve gases, surface mines dropped by parachute, bombs containing uranium, black napalm, sterilisation chemicals, sprayings to poison the crops, and weapons of which even we still do not know anything. "The North Americans are committing one of the biggest barbarities that can be committed against humanity. A lot of very bad things will be told in the future about what was happening there, because, by the way, judging by what we talked about with the British and German officers, it was designed in order to divide the Europeans and keep us subjected for many decades." (Source: Translated from Spanish by Jelena Karovic, from the Spanish weekly, Articulo 20, no. 30, 14 June 1999; posted 17 June by John Whitley, New World Order Intelligence Update, ) hile studying lake water for pesticide contamination, chemists at a Swiss agricultural research laboratory found an unexpected pollutant: clofibric acid, a drug for lowering cholesterol. Clofibric acid is not manufactured in Switzerland, so indus- trial spillage was ruled out as a cause. The chemists checked other bodies of water, including rural mountain lakes and rivers that run through cities, and found very low concentrations of the drug everywhere. Berlin researchers also found clofibric acid in local waters: "It laced some groundwater at concentrations of up to 4 milligrams per litre, or 4 parts per billion (ppb)... It also turned up in all the Berlin tap water they sampled—at up to 0.2 ppb." Once they started looking, European researchers found lipid-lowering drugs, analgesics (including ibuprofen and diclofenac), beta-blocker heart drugs, chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics, and hor- mones in water bodies that supply drinking water. Higher concentrations were found in more populated areas. Having ruled out industrial spillage, researchers realised that the drugs had come from human body wastes. How much of a drug gets broken down by the body varies depending on the drug and on the individual. As much as 50% to 90% of a medicine, in its original form, may be excreted from the body. Sometimes, chemical reactions with the environment turn partly degraded drugs back into an active form. No one knows what the concentrations are in US waters, because no one is look- ing. The FDA does not require that water supplies be monitored to see if pharmaceu- tical concentrations match manufacturers’ estimates. Stuart Levy, who directs the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University (Boston, Mass.), has said that antibiotics at a parts-per-trillion concentration can affect Escherichia coli and other bacteria. Meanwhile, Swiss researchers have found 0.5 micrograms per litre of fluoro- quinolone antibiotics in sewage-treatment- plant water—1,000 times higher than the parts-per-trillion figure to which Levy refers. (Source: Extract from "Drugged Waters" by Janet Raloff, published in Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, no. 192, July 1999) SPANISH PILOT CONFIRMS NATO DELIBERATELY BOMBED YUGOSLAV CIVILIANS aptain Adolfo Luis Martin de la Hoz, who returned to Spain at the end of May after participating in the NATO bombings against Yugoslavia, says that NATO's repeated bombing of civilian and non-military targets were not the result of war "errors". "Once there was a coded order from the North American [US] military that we should drop anti-personnel bombs over the localities of Prishtina and Nish. Our colonel refused it altogether, and a couple of days later his transfer orders came. "The Spanish military denounces that the Spanish government not only does not try to inform themselves but they also accept a eh alte AS : << Ba No-Fril]s® tne cur- oN MOBILE PHOWE NEToARK 8 = NEXUS AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 1999