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Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: J.E.F.O.B.B VOl 5 Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:27 AM Journal of Ethics and FOBB Volume 5 *********************************** <see general disclaimers at end of post> 1 - Editorial 2 - Survey Results 3 - Website of the Day 4 - Murder by Media (by Bob Djurdjevic) 5 - Cannabis Sativa (add DUPONT to your list) ((Note : The following two articles will be in next issue due to length of Dymocks piece)) 6 - Chinese Plastic Crap 7 - ASPARTAME (or How Monsanto et al bought out the FDA) ************************************************************************ EDITORIAL Dear Well Informed Readers -I would firstly like to thank all those who took the time to reply to the survey in the last issue. The results are below and are very interesting. We've passed the 700 subscribers mark this issue and are heading for the big ONE K. Please feel free to forward this journal (unchanged of course) and if you have any interesting pieces of info or an article or just a letter to the editor please do not hesitate to email. This issue we look at Media Censorship in Australia, the decriminilisation of the wonder-plant Cannabis Sativa (btw, Sativa is latin for useful), plastic crap from China and the not so sweet sweetener ASPARTAME. Your feedback on these articles is welcomed. Darren ************************************************************************ Survey Results Do you believe that Atlantis once existed? Yes 62% No 35% Other 3% Do you believe in re-incarnation? Yes 71% No 18% Not Sure/Other 11% Do you beleive in scientific reductionism? Yes 38% No 58% Other 4% Do you believe in a Secret Elite Controling World Affairs? Yes 80% No 20% Is there a hidden agenda re: Y2K? Yes 40% No 50% Other 10% 'Chariots of the Gods' Theory? Yes 17% No 62% Other 21% Do you believe in an anthropomorphic deity and his adversary? Yes 15% No 65% Other 20% Should Marijuana/Cannabis/Hemp be legalised/decriminalised? Yes 95% No 0 % Other 5% ***** As Cartman says "It's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy crap" I should never have asked such open questions about films and movies - I got way too many responses to even categorize - but unusually enough one band got multiple responses - Queen !!!!! ************************************************************************ WEBSITE(S) OF THE DAY http://community.cnn.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@@.ee70d85 And this was sent in by a subscriber - George Knoblauch - it's his sight : http://www.connecti.com/~knobby/ ************************************************************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 99/2-3 11-Feb-99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS ------------------------------------------- Death of Freedom of Speech in Australia Now a Matter of Fact MURDER OF A BOOK "MURDER BY MEDIA" Chairman of an Australian National Book Store Chain Kills a Fast-Selling Book WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 11 - Writers who told the truth under the oppressive Soviet regime were called dissidents. The West cherished them and toasted them as heroes. Writers who tell the truth nowadays under the oppressive New World Order regimes around the world face the fate worse than death for a writer - silence! Except for the Internet and the PC - two powerful weapons for truth and freedom fighters. Which is how we are able to report to you today about a new breed of dissidents, the ostracized western writers who tell the truth. They are not being sent off to the Gulags (yet). But their freedom of speech is being abridged, and their books are being banned, just as was the case in the communist USSR. Only a few weeks ago, for example, we told you about a new book being released in Australia whose title is "Murder by Media;" sub-title - "Death of Democracy in Australia;" by Scott Balson, with your TiM editor contributing the "American Chapter" to it (see www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/tim99-1-3.html ). Ever since, the book has enjoyed brisk sales around Australia through, Dymocks, a national book store chain. Until this Tuesday, that is… A Sydney-based friend of a Western Australian friend had recommended the book for her to read. But when the WA friend tried to order it from Dymocks, she discovered that the book had been pulled off their shelves. "Dymocks bookstores withdrew the book from their bookshelves around Australia on Tuesday (Feb. 9) on the direct instruction of Chairman, John Forsyth," said the author Scott Balson, in a Feb. 11 press release. "The book had been sold by Dymocks for nearly three weeks before this surprising decision." Indeed, enthusiasm for this unusual eruption of the truth about the media was building in Australia on the eve of Dymocks chairman's attempt to murder a book, kill the truth, and suppress the freedom of thought. Here's, for example, an excerpt from one enthusiastic reader, just before the book was banned by Dymocks' self-imposed censorship: "So far, I have alerted at least half a dozen people to buy the book. Dymocks at Subiaco, Karrinyup and Claremont (Perth suburbs) are sold out completely over the weekend... I rang (a friend), too, and she is going to buy it. She owns (a Perth hotel), is a lawyer, and was a high flyer in the Liberal Party (i.e., Republican, in the U.S. context), along with MB. They both defected last year to join One Nation (a populist party). I am having lunch today with several women... Mostly they share our opinions... I am taking my copy of the book along to activate some interest. Etc." Fascinating. That's how unapproved books and free thought used to circulate in the days of the Soviet Union. Which is why it is frightening to see that similar methods of spreading the truth are becoming necessary today, in the supposedly free western democracies, like Australia. Meanwhile, if you try to buy the book from the Dymocks Web site - http://www.dymocks.com.au - you'll get the message: "This title may be out of stock, we will confirm availability." What a crock of dung beetle food! If you feel like protesting this ban on food for thought, let Dymock's general manager, Paul Clark, know who you feel about it. His e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, just in case you are tempted to dismiss the above as some peculiar Australian quirk, don't! For, if there were the truth in media (in the U.S.), there would be no need for the Truth in Media. The very first publication which TiM put, out back in 1992 (now out of print, so please don't ask us to send you copies), was a booklet "The Truth Rejected." It contained a series of articles rejected by the American establishment media, which echoed Scott Balson's experience with the Australian media magnates. Meanwhile, there is nothing like controversy to help sell a book, especially one which, now that it has been "banned" by Dymocks, is likely to become a "collectors' item." So here's how you can get your copy of it: The book may be ordered by sending a payment of A$27 or US$25 (which includes airmail postage) to Scott Balson, P.O. Box 11, Mt. Crosby News 4306, Queensland, Australia (E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you identify yourself as a TiM reader when ordering the book, you will be entitled to a SPECIAL TRUTH IN MEDIA DISCOUNT OF US$5, for a net price of US$20 per book. International inquiries may be directed to Scott Balson by dialing (from the US) 011-61-7-3201-1353; or 011-61-015-477-609 (mobile phone); or by e-mail any time to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------- ---- Bob Djurdjevic TRUTH IN MEDIA Phoenix, Arizona e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************* Further to the Above article I contacted Dymocks who told me they had removed the book for legal reasons. Saying that the book is defamatory. Surely that is for the person or persons defamed to decide. They would not indicate to me who was defamed or in what manner. I wrote to Bob **************************************************************************** ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 99/2-7 24-Feb-99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS ------------------------------------------- Death of Freedom of Speech in Australia Now a Matter of Fact DYMOCKS: TRUTH ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH! "Red Rupert" Also Assaulted Freedom of Speech - More Than Once PHOENIX, Feb. 23 - In our TiM GW Bulletin 99/2-3 (Feb. 11, 1999), filed from Western Australia, we said: "Writers who told the truth under the oppressive Soviet regime were called dissidents. The West cherished them and toasted them as heroes. Writers who tell the truth nowadays under the oppressive New World Order regimes around the world face the fate worse than death for a writer - silence!" Well, Dymocks, a national book store chain in Australia, has now broken its silence. The Truth in Media has obtained a copy of the Feb. 12, 1999 fax-letter from Keith Perkin, Dymocks' managing director, to Scott Balson, author of the book, 'Murder by Media,' now banished from all Dymocks' stores by a top executive's order. Perkin's letter is a shameful admission of Dymocks' cowardice in the face of the truth, and a sad example of the state of affairs in Australia's media. Here's, for example, what Dymocks' managing director had to say about the rewards of writing the truth these days: "Even if that is in fact the case (that the book contained the truth about the slanderous articles which the establishment 'reporters have written over the last three years'), we have been advised that truth alone is not a defence to defamation actions in Australia." Let us repeat in bold print Dymocks' devastating admission: "Truth alone is not a defence to defamation actions in Australia." Neither it was in the Soviet Union. Nor in Red China. Nor in Nazi Germany. Are those the kinds of societies the contemporary Australia is modeling herself after? Dymocks' ban of a book which told the truth about the corruption and collusion between the establishment media and the establishment parties in Australia, is a case of self-censorship which would make the communist commissars proud. And would make the likes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or the former Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten spit nails. Okay, everybody can see why a dissident Russian writer, like Solzhenitsyn, might be upset to see that the contemporary West, which he had sometimes idealized, is not much better than the communist dictatorship against which he had rebelled. But why the former Hong Kong British governor? Because he also happens to have become a writer. After having served as the last British governor of Hong Kong, Patten wrote a book of memoirs which told the truth about Red China, the western New World Order's partner in crime against freedom, as it turns out. In other words, it was critical of the Chinese communist government which western multinationals have showered with over $202 billion in investments during the 1990s. That's about $51 million per head of each Tiananmen Square pro-democracy victim. Well, guess who tried to pull the "Dymocks trick" on Gov. Patten's book back then? None other than Rupert Murdoch, one of the two Australian media moguls whose transgressions and manipulations were detailed in the book "Murder by Media" (the other "mogul" being Kerry Packer, reportedly a chum of Dymocks chairman, John Forsyth). In February 1998, Murdoch ordered Harper Collins, the publishing company he owns, to cancel a scheduled fall publication in Britain of Gov. Patten's memoirs. The reason? Fear that the book would offend the Red Chinese with whom Murdoch's business ventures are happily in bed (e.g., his Star TV satellite service). "I'm extremely angry," Doris Lessing, a British novelist also published by Murdoch's Harper Collins, one of several authors who had threatened to leave this publisher, told London's Daily Telegraph last February. "Rupert Murdoch's attitude is very unprofessional. It is so shocking I can't find words for it." Unlike the Dymocks' executives, however, Gov. Patten was no pushover. He basically told Murdoch to stuff it, sued Harper Collins for a breach of contract, and signed on with MacMillan's, a rival publisher. His book was eventually published last October and sold well, even in Hong Kong. The Patten scandal was not the first time Murdoch, who has major business interests in China, has deferred to Beijing. In 1994, he removed the British Broadcasting Corporation programs from his STAR satellite system's offerings to China, reportedly because the Chinese government was upset by a documentary about Mao, among other things. Patten didn't mince any words about how he felt about this "Red Rupert" move. "'It was 'the most seedy of betrayals' for those who champion freedom of speech in one country 'to curtail it elsewhere for reasons of inevitably short-term commercial expediency'," the New York Times reported on Feb. 28, 1998. Until now, it seems. For, Dymocks' decision to murder the "Murder by Media," maybe even tops "Red Rupert's" spinelessness. Because it happened in Murdoch's native country which ostensibly "champions (the) freedom of speech," according to Patten. So why would a bookseller perform such an unnatural act as to voluntarily deprive itself of a book's sales and profits? "The sole ground of its decision in this case is the possibility that the book is defamatory," wrote Dymocks' Perkin in this Feb. 12 letter. Well, if that's the case and is so obvious to everybody, why then would the bookseller's managing director feel compelled in the next sentence to threaten the book's author with legal action if he continued to tell the truth? (i.e., if Balson makes any statement "which suggests that Dymocks decision resulted in any way from an attempt to censor your book and prevent the views expressed in it from being circulated"). Besides, doesn't Dymocks check out the books before agreeing to sell them? Assuming that it did do so in the case of the "Murder by Media" (which would be normal practice for book distributors), why did Dymocks suddenly get cold feet over the book's allegedly defamatory content only AFTER it had already placed it on its stores' shelves? Could it be that the bookseller is now trying to intimidate the author into silence because it is itself feeling threatened? If so, by whom? Maybe Scott Balson should add a "Murder by Dymocks" chapter, and then take a page out of Gov. Patten's book, and get himself a new book distributor, preferably a direct rival of Dymocks'. Surely Dymocks is not the only book chain in Australia? And even if it were, or even if all other distributors were equally scared from the truth coming out, there is still the amazon.com. No longer just an alternative way to market books, this Internet high flyer is threatening to put the traditional booksellers out of business. Meanwhile, just in case you were tempted to dismiss the above book controversy as some peculiar "Down Under," Australian media censorship quirk, don't! Here's, for example, what the Truth in Media wrote to the Wall Street Journal on Apr. 26, 1998, regarding its duplicitous attitude toward the truth (see www.truthinmedia.org/Activism/wsj4-26-98.html ): "Where was the Wall Street Journal's righteous indignation when one of your media brethren, Rupert Murdoch, ordered Harper Collins last February to cancel a scheduled fall publication in Britain of a memoir by Chris Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong, for fear it would offend the same Red Chinese government? Why was the Journal AWOL? Your silence in defense of Murdoch's assault on free speech was deafening." Birds of a feather flock together? You bet! And not just in the establishment media circles. ------------ Cannabis Sativa The following piece is from RESISTANCE and appeared in Green Left Weekly it is by Simon Frey. Hemp is one of the world's most useful plants (Sativa is actually latin for useful - Ed). Its uses range from paper and fuel and it could replace many environmentally destructive products.( Henry Ford actually built and ran an entire car on Hemp -Ed). For thousands of years hemp has been used as a food, to make clothing, as a medicine and as a drug. It can be turned into plastics and made into petroleum without producing sulphur, thus reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Until 1883, 75 to 90% of all paper in the world was made from hemp. Due to difficulties harvetsing it in large quantities, hemp fell out of favour as a profitable crop in the late 1800's, until an automated harvetser was developed in the 1930's. In the intervening years, many industries were developed to take over Hemp's role in production: oil was drilled from the ground, treess were used for paper and new sources of cloth were devleoped. Many of the companies now had a vested interest in making Hemp illegal. The United States was the first country to introduce laws to destroy hemp plants, regardless of their intended use. That law was a result of political pressure exerted by the forestry industry and DUPONT corporation, which had just patented oil and coal based plastics production. DUPONT's chief financial backer, Andrew Mellon, was US President J. Edgar Hoover (I thought he was the FBI guy - Ed) secretary of the Treasury. He appointed his nephwe, Harry J. Anslinger, to a position in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Anslinger whipped up a scare campaign about hemp, which referred to hemp as marijuana so that people would begin to associate the whole plant with drug use only. At the 'high' point of this campaign, the propaganda films 'Reefer Madness', 'Marijuana: Weed with Roots in Hell' and 'Marijuana: Assassin of our Youth' were made. (Didn't the US gov't also make a doc called 'Hemp for Victory' during WWI or II? - Ed). The propaganda was all hype. Marijuana had been prescribed by doctors for centuries and the American Medical Association condemned the media beat-up as 'tabloid sensationalism'. The marijuana scare campaign was internationalised and the first hysteria articles appeared in Australia in 1938. In June that year, the newspaper Smith's weekly ran the headlines : "Drug that Maddens Victims", "Plant grows wild in Queensland", "Warning from America". The articles claimedd that marijana "distorts moral values and leads to degrading sexual excesses". At the end of 1938, hemp was listed in Australia as a "noxious weed" which had to be destroyed on sight. It was already illegal to smoke marijuana, but it was the hysteria whipped up about the "evils" of this drug that laid the basis in public opinion for the total banning of one of the world's most useful plants (THE MOST useful - Ed). 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