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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS involved any action by that entity." (See Section 165-55, Goods and Services Tax Act, Australia, June 1999.) When Australian law empowers the Tax Office to replace the facts with fiction and to rule by that fiction, we are in trouble. What next? The police? (Source: Jeff Corbitt, Newcastle Herald, NSW, Australia, 27 July 1999) also had misgivings. Despite this, the FDA went ahead and approved aspartame the air-mobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1,200 soldiers and officers is to spread "selected information". US PsyOps personnel use a variety of techniques to influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests are said to be at stake. Recent examples include the Gulf War, the Bosnian War and the crisis in Kosovo. CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney said: "I don't believe that we would employ military personnel; it doesn't seem like something we would normally do." So far, CNN senior officials have not commented on the allegations. (Source: By Abe de Vries, Trouw, 21 February 2000; translated from Dutch by an Emperor's Clothes volunteer, website www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]) anyway. With Coca-Cola's recent announcement that it will soon retrench 6,000 employees, perhaps the company is hiring a barrage of lawyers instead, to prepare for the avalanche of aspartame litigation that's about to come down upon it. (Source: The Sunday Times, UK, 27 February 2000) to ASPARTAME SWEETENER DAMNED BY SECRET REPORT spartame, the artificial sweetener in bestselling brands like NutraSweet, Equal, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, was con- demned as dangerous and potentially toxic in a report compiled in the early 1980s by some of the world's biggest soft drink manufacturers—who now buy tonnes of it to add to diet drinks. The documents were unearthed last week under Freedom of Information legis- lation. This followed a decision by researchers at King's College in London to study suspected links between aspartame intake and brain tumours. The 30-page aspartame report was drawn up under the auspices of America's National Soft Drinks Association (NSDA), whose governing body at the time included senior Coca-Cola and Pepsi executives. It was produced before the artificial sweeten- er aspartame had been approved for use in the United States. The report states: "We object to the approval of aspartame for unrestricted use in soft drinks." It then lists ways in which aspartame is believed have a direct effect on brain chemistry, including the synthesis of vital neurotransmitters such as serotonin. Thus, it warns, aspar- tame can affect the workings of the brain, change behaviour and even encourage users to eat extra carbo- hydrates—so destroying the point of consuming diet drinks. Aspartame, made by the multina- tional giant Monsanto and market- ed under the name NutraSweet, is 200 times sweeter than sugar and is used in many popular low-calorie foods and drinks. It has been declared "safe" in a number of studies and has been approved for use in both the United States and Europe. Other papers obtained with the NSDA documents show that the US Food and Drug Administration US ARMY 'PSYOPS' AGENTS DEPLOYED TO CNN NEWS Aeone to Major Thomas Collins of the US Army Information Service, CNN (Cable News Network) regularly employs military specialists in "Psychological Operations" ("PsyOps"). "PsyOps personnel, soldiers and officers have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program, ‘Training with Industry'," said Major Collins in a telephone interview with Trouw, adding, "They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo War. They helped in the production of news." The temporary outplacement of US Army PsyOps personnel in various sectors of society began a couple of years ago. Contract periods vary from a couple of weeks to one year. CNN is the biggest and most widely viewed news station in the world. The intimate liaisons with Army PsyOps spe- cialists raise serious doubts about CNN's journalistic integrity and independence. The military CNN personnel belonged to US NAVY'S LOW-FREQUENCY ACTIVE SONAR IS LETHAL lhe full name is SURTASS LFAS, a US Navy acronym for Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System / Low-Frequency Active Sonar. Often referred to as LFAS or LFA Sonar or just LFA, it is basically a loud, under- water sonar designed to detect today's quiet submarines but whose effects on marine life are unknown to science. Broadcasting at up to 240 decibels (dB), this low-frequency sound can travel thou- sands of kilometres and can injure, deafen and even kill marine mammals—as well as 3 if a Fn our galaxy there are one bilkan stars. 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