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GLOBAL NEWS LOW CHOLESTEROL INCREASES CANCER AND DEATH RISK part of the marketing machine propaganda that is rampant in universities and "scientific" journals that have been used to promote the statin scam around the world, while actively blackmailing and blacklisting any authors, institutions or journals that dare to step on Big Pharma's statin toes. The study was published on 26 August 2008 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). (Source: NaturalNews.com, 27 August 2008, http://www.natural news.com/024001.html; the CMAJ article is at http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/ content/full/179/5/427) While developing countries have made great strides in mobile phone growth, a significant "digital divide" remains for Internet use and particularly the availability of broadband connections, it noted. High-income countries account for 66 per cent of all fixed broadband subscribers although they only represent 16 per cent of the world's population, while developing countries have just one per cent of fixed broadband users but 38 per cent of the global population. "Low-income countries, where broadband access remains very low, risk falling behind in an area that is particularly important in delivering innovative applications and services," the ITU warned. Some countries have made progress and the ITU highlighted Chile, Senegal and Turkey as states where almost all Internet subscribers have now gone high speed. "For more people to benefit from the potential of broadband and the applications that it can deliver, governments need to do their share to ensure that high-speed technologies become more accessible as well as more affordable," the ITU urged. (Source: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 25 May 2008, http://tinyurl. com/3jxylc) I; a major shot fired across the bow of the statin-drug marketing machine, the levels of LDL [low-density lipoprotein] cholesterol that are the artificial targets of "health" promoted by the American Heart Association (AHA) have now been found to be associated with a significantly increased risk of cancer and death. The AHA recommends an LDL level of 100 for prevention and 70 for high-risk patients. In the new study an LDL level of 107 was associated with a 33 per cent increased risk of cancer and death, and an LDL level of 87 was associated with a 50 per cent increased risk. As the LDL goes lower, the risk keeps getting worse. These arbitrary AHA levels for LDL cholesterol were established by "experts" with direct financial ties to the statin industry, who knew full well that reaching their artificially low target levels for LDL would require double and triple doses of statin drugs, thus dramatically increasing sales (which has indeed happened). This new study paints the clear picture that lowering LDL too low actually increases the rate of death from any cause. It also points out the statistical shenanigans that the statin- drugs industry uses to hide the actual risks of these drugs in the studies that have been published. There have been a number of studies in the past that link low cholesterol and cancer risk. However, these studies could not prove that the cancer was not already there prior to the start of the study—which has been the main argument used (besides statistical manipulation) by the statin industry to deny the association. In the new study, this issue was taken into account by eliminating participants with less than 2.5 years follow-up after the start of the study, thus demonstrating that the results were not due to pre-existing HALF THE WORLD HAS A MOBILE PHONE lhe number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 per cent, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has said in a new report. Africa showed the strongest gains over the past two years, and more than two-thirds of all mobile phone subscribers by the end of 2007 were from developing countries. Mobile phones are eclipsing traditional fixed lines and in Africa they account for nearly 90 per cent of all telephone subscribers, the ITU report stated. _ — et J” The bad nevis is there 6 definitely climarhe chaage happening. The good news if itt possibly lewding f+. an Tee Age. a gonerville ~— cancer. Needless to say, this study was not NEXUS ¢ 7 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com