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COml{ ~ page KOOMPARTQO - FRESH SIART BURNAM BURNAM Speaks 2 GENETIC ENGINEERING New Discoveries of the Origins of Humanity 4 TIBETAN PEACE pLAN CAUSES RIOT 5 NEXUS NEWS SECTION All the news thaj fits ... 6 SURVIVING EARTH'S CYCLES A challenging theory on climatic chance 10 NEXUS NEWS (Continued) 12 EVOLUTION John Burke on physics, life and alchemy 16 OZONE SMOKESCREEN NASA Fiddles Whne Earth Burns 18 FORESTUPDATE New threats to Australia's heritage 19 N.D.P. SENATOR ROBERT WOOD Interview 20 NUCLEAR AGE A regular section that still hasn't gone away 23 SOLAR ENERGY - REAL POWER Peter Pedals explores solar systems 24 PESTICIDe SUICIDE Alternatives to poisoning ourselves 25 AROMATRERAPV PART 2 ow to heal with aromatic oils 26 LIETOUTCHART 28 THE SACRED EARTH The Earth Goddess lives! 30 MOUNT OAK CON FEST'88 Down to Earth festival Revisited 31 IN ORBIT Autumn astrology forecast with Victor Voets 31 J.D. CARD L1YES This Canberra corr.puter centre has a file on YOUI This is one on th 32 GEMSTONE FILE Pgrt4 The Self-AssosslnatJon Of Teddy Kenne 34 LYRICS Secret Society's NaH Pike - songs are poetry 36 NEXUS NEWS EXIRA The NuTlabor UFO - Nuclear Colonialism 37 THE !WILITE ZONE The News Graveyard 38 WQRPSWORTt:f New Books ReVIewed 40 CHAMOMILE How to use this herb 42 SAFE PESTREMOYAL More hints, on not pOJsonrn 42 Letters and ConscIous Collective Editorial 43 The COMMON CURE? A new breakthrough In VitamIn C 44 LINKUP DIRECTORY Hyou need to know & all the places to go 45 COMtx ists' Impressions 54 Koompartoo -Fresh Start
. e have to get over 1988, whith isa vety major hundred years Qro~paUon of the island o{ Britain we will stumblingblockorthallengefur-peopie.lnfact m.ilk;e;lt treaty. If tbe Queen w.olJ1dJike to rome',m4 visit me at my leisure and pleasureat Stonehenge.there we on'l exchange WI my campaign for 1988 is to Jookat the whole OUT'C'lOwnje. ...·lels;sMean givemeht::r jewels,and I can giveher notion o( a?proachIng commttniUes around Ausl:ralia lIly aown dfgunul1Jts" ill rel:mn. with the view to them makinga 'bookgesturo'; handmg The ~$QT1 r would d..o it that way woulQ be for the tD their landover the local Aboriginal land councils with ~b$Utdityfattorasitrelates to the whole dispossession proc:ess,
a lease-back arr~gemenl for the nexllOO years" where because most Aboriginal peopmlike me s&the theft of Austra
occupancy is never threatened. Ifa Ii!> the great~ theft In !he hJStOTYof mankind. From 1h.£
I think 000 of the missing.1ltl.ks in the lAnd fights ql.le&UQD pcrs;pedive we can ~a.rt thi.nki:ng about what we have in
is that the Churches, who have bc!:m so VOl:aI in SUpport oflarId tomtnl1n, l'iIther th~ tUshligb.t our Wffe.rerta!S - and step into rights, should ha,'e the oppo.rhniliyto.gtvethair land back,. IJ\e the next doublt:e. c.ent1.lJjlin a position where we work it mat, SO whole lot of it - for aU chyrche$ and religious organisations t\:J t'hat at the end CItit W\l'(N goingtl> pe.ablt tt> say, 'WeU, the do what Malcolm FmseI' did with Kabdu and what Bob second double century was better than the first.'
Hawke did with Uluru . jl boo}
there's a ruvenm~ which somehQw· Comllls. (don't seemyse1fasalOpukespersonEorthcAbdtiginal.r.it"t'e,
So I want to give them an 0ppoltunity to think about land 1jUst~rciScmy free will as ape.l'$Oncomingftnm theA1»dgi rig'htsoWrdrUtt:h pn:>pert)land lhereafumany waysqfdtJing na1people, coming ('rom the Earlh,of thecontinent ofAustnlJia that, such as .1-kntslng Conunission dWellings oecupll::d by -being very indlviduaUstic. Onethin~tha\'sgninsto h"ppenis
Aboriginals; the'!lillIe piece of land that theY're on can be an an ~pre.ssfon of agreat dealof anga; lusliftably. t1y AborJgma). express\ Mini~ter for Housmg is very partial to.the !iugge,."11qn. Sydney. rea~cmsblihindand Ifrou link them up With Natfonal Parks, wnderness-area~ UWCS$tllereateposi.tIve it UnleSflother and St:tl,taForests and do exactLy lhesame on a State basis, then thingli happen, AhorigifliJl people ~'ill qJl'1ti.nue in the fulme a hell "fa lot oflaJ1d is gQi.ngtocomebae.k lo Alxlriginal pe0,plc. workot bel'llg vidimsas ii race, and otC'Qursc that epm:c$f:rom In factitcan be all exprE$sion oU(lnd rigbtst.()-urhan AQptiginaJ the bad deci,jl;.lngovammetHsmade wh.cr:\ lheyptaced all of us l'iu~g g~nerat:iQn$ people and that CAngive" lot ofsalisf-ac:tiQn. Now ifthisca.n be for fiVe all the dole. I.n otlu:r wordll, a embedded in a gener.ll agfi':leJ'l'll'mtorkal'JmP'UtJ.'w then the idea ndout menliility Cor Abl,rigirmls ~ ~ t12t unly soul bad.Wli. of having a fre~h start l;7ecomes vr;;ymeaningfuL destroying, but it has destIoyed ottr The_ Aboriginal For me, thecelebfatton of19a9isa kind ofl1asrgtngoutolHH: Reservesturnerl out to benol.hingf:t\ore than places for walking e~~e trophh..", of tha dispossession and aoquisition by Europeans. ~r.pses, people ""ito Wert! de.stinl-:!dto a meaningless The planttng of a flag al Botany B;'IYhy Captain Ja mes CnCl)(in from the mwne.nrthey wert! bam - with. the majo; agent genocide,:a1coholand drugs, dgar~esandQt!1ersluE{-j1I\dthe 1770 u;as absurd ;nmc~oin&tQEngland 011 tl:II~Z61J1C~fJanuaJY 19$allQ planting tbe Abon3ina1 flag on the s;uld below the sclfestee.m factor. Whi~eCltrrsofD()ve'l",deelari:f\gthe\\'hoJQoftheislandofGreat Thn possibilitie5<-:fOrra'birthiflg, theidea of pe'l'SOna1devel CilPJn,Blll (!Our5e& foJ Abo:rigtnaJ pe9ple shouldnPwOe entering Britain asbelon,gmg to tne r\boriginalCrown of A'lsfr.1.lla-~ into the "minds of the vision~makeJ:li,.the Aboriginal pGUcy !.ling the n.ativcs th~ that we"re brhiging Ih:em Bopd man malcEr$, that negativity ca.n into a _aqvanc:~ ne~ and rel1nemcllt. For some of lnemoTe we'U so anger and be channened whlcll~ hllllP.u.s achieve ou.t ulti1l'lll!e goal; recognitlon bring them the complic 2 NEXUS New Times Four e Autumn 1988 .mework. Until that happens we're not going to get any anda or churches, the obvious response from Aboriginal where in this country. 1believt! that there's a great deal ofgood people iB to test them,and this place, Mount Oak, is a classic wilf betweenour peoplcsand ralhcrthanlookatan Aboriginal pie. L've already talked to the people here about their perspective I just look at uashuman beingstryingtoget our act spiritual responsibility of giving the land to the local Aborigi together, trying to develop a higher quality of spiritual exis nal Land Council and they've made a favourable response, as tence. has Bodhi Farm and the Women's Place behind Wauchope - so The message f01' governments is that the issue of Aborigi there is a spiritual movement for that to happen. It hasn't hap nal land rights n'C\Xi:>to be pushed into a higher plane of pened fpnnallybecause there's been no structure behind it all. spirltua.l conSClOusne5S, so that with the process of medit,Uion, What I'm doing is providing that structure by making the prayer, pondering, thinking, setting aside some time during requests officially. 1988, we can achieve it. 1would expect that whim I write to the Land rights is the most crucial issue for Aboriginal people. churches they'll be able to give their responses about how But land rightsisa very bigbusiness- in a white man's term the attached to their land they arc. Churches, like Aboriginal biggest business in Australia. A businessman never goes to the sacred sites and sites of significance, are indeed temples, sanc negotiating table in a spirit of anger. He goes there on his best. tuaries, sacred spaces. What par~ of Australia is a sacred space behaviour because he wants to acMeve something. In the area for blacks and for whites? We sorted alit ours over a period of of land rights we need our best negotiators. We need people 50,000 yea1'$., The white people's approach to the sacredness of who are bereft of anger. We need people who can successfully their special places should be in the process of being sorted out negotiate -.greements with the governments, churches and too, because religioLlS organls h would be a mcamngfYl gesture for the lead~rs of the The-thing we'Ve got going for us is a very, very powerful Australian churches to give inalienable freehold tItle back to spiritwdfactor between ourselves and the Earth. I was born on local Aboriginal communities under the legislative structureof ttll~land so Heel a very special affinity to my particular piece of the 1983 NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act, whe:r~ we noW can land. Jbelieve that it's achievable to the satisfaction of ev, legally receive land. I apply that also to private land. I thi.nk body. I'mnDt talkingabout dispossessing nuclear families. I'm there are enough people around who think enough of the talking about land that comes back in a spiritual way, t:lIther Aboriginal cause to consider 1easing back' their private pieces through inheritance or gift. Therein lies the potential for a very of land. Aboriginal people come 0011;1the perspective that great achievement during 1988. Australia belongs to the UniVerse and the concept ofownership When you travel around Australia, you get a strong feeling that Aboriginals have is in direct contrast In the European about how big the land is, big enough for everybody. system, which relatcs to sp(.'Culation and monetary value. I say that because for AboriginaJs every step's a prayer on our land. We not only worshipped, we caressed the energy of this continent and we've got a long. long history about our connectedness with the land. But I wouldn't deny a wrote person that spiritual affinity. I wouldn't say to a white person, "You wouldn't know wh.a.t W!>like to be an Aboriginal," even though 1know that's !Tue.1 would say that I respe(t your-ability to feel for the land that's very spt:!Cialto you and that maybe the only difference between us is th~t my spirit's been influenced for a much greater period of time lhan yours. But I would neVer deny that you have a special fe~Ungoraffinitytoa pie¢eofland - which is actually very important. o. We not only worshipped, we caressed ~, the energy of this continent There's going to be a big st(IIV. We're going to challengeall the people that I talked abollt, all the organisation!> and the I~tter governments. 1 want to wrlt~ a to each One ot them breaking the good news and giving them the opportunity to honour and r~pe<.t their prc..er!cc here on Abor1glnalland. For the wht.'ll~of 1988rny contribution is, in ... 5:pirit ofluvc, to talk the churches, governments and private property mlo giving us our land back with a lc.ase-back - maybe for the next 200 years. Which means th.lt no-one'~ occupatiun of our lands ""ill be thw.ttened, but the important thing about it would be that for the first time in 200 years, Aboriginal 1andlordship' which relates to sclf-estoom. dignity, majesty and nobilIty -will reappear in Aborigin,al people. When you think of place& like Bodhi Fa Genetic Engineering by Nissa Since the NEXUS #2 article on genetic engineering the rate Working with the fruit sacs which pro duce juice cells, he's developing a tech of new discoveries and uses of genetics has accelerated. nique for making them reproduce away from the fruit or the tree. We could have JLast November the BritishGovernmen duced DNA will end up on a chromo the potential to make food more nutri announced that genetic manipulating and some. It could sit next to a gene respon tious by controlling what goes into it cloning of human embryos is a criminal sible for cancer and lead to cancer being A team led by Dr. Ignacio Madrazo of offence. They are also setting up a new developed generation after generation. the La Raza Medical Centre in ~co authority to monitor and regulate test The National Health and Medical Cit:y announced in January that they ha, tube clinics and centres carrying out ani Research Council (NHMRC) in Can transplanted brain tissue from a sgonta fical insemination. berra has set Out what are believed to be neously aborted fretus into th,ebra.i~ of a Scientists at Leicester University in Lhe world's first national standards on man with Parkinsons Disease. The team England have developed a 'genetic fin gene therapy. The door hasbeen leftopen also grafted pieces of the same fretus' gerprinting' technique of identification for Australian scientists to develop gene adrenal glands into the brain of a woman by extracting genetic material (DNA) therapies fnvolving only somati-e (non ~uffering from the disease. from samples of either blood, semen, reproductive) cells. Manip.uJa.ting so A world first, the moral and ethical skin or a single hair root A British c'?urt matic cells coutdprovide new treatments questions of the use of fretal tissue will became the first in the worlli to convict a for somediseases and only the individual doubtless cause an uproar among many man of rape on evidence geathered by with the diseast would be affected. people. Pioneered in Sweden, research genetic fingerprinting with this method. Manipulating reproducti\'e cells how ers claim the fretal tissue transplaots Because the technique bas only a 1 in 25 ever, could affect the desc.:enljalllsof the could have significant implications for a million chance of being wrong, police treated individual, in unktJQwo WlQ's. number of neurological diseases such as around the world are beginning to use Alzheimers and Huntington's chorea. them. DNA identification files will soon A deficiency of the chemical trans grow alongside the massive records kept mitter dopamine is believed to be respon in police files around the world. The sible for Parkinsons disease. Tissue from technique will also be used in paternity patients' own adrenal glands has been cases, as a child's DNA is made up of implanted in the brain to stimulate identifiable ,patterns from each parent dopamine production. Some patients and can be campared with that of the experienced dramatic lessening of symp father. toms. But scientists have suspected fretal Repairing Genes tissue would be moreeffective in implant treatments because it grows faster, is Within tIT.rWyears doctors will probably more adaptable and causes less'immu begin cQ£recting some genetic disorders nological rejection. London researchers in foetuses. Diseases such as are also taking part in the Swedish proj ha::mophilia, thalac;SGmia and cystic fi ect. brosis are some of thoinherited disorders At Melbourne University's Research that could be prevented. By taking a Centre for Cancer and Transplantation; small tissue sample from the placenta scientists have achieved a world first by doctors can identify certain blood disor Engineered Food cloning a gene crucial to the effective ders. Genes can be replaced by injecting Now we can have genetically engineered functioning of the immune system. healthy stem cells. responsible for mOSt bread, buit.. orangejuice and coffee that blood-cell produc.t1on, l.f1rnugh theabdo won't keep you awake. A single gene is Viking Defrosted men into the footus to make it manufac responsible for bread going stale and In Kiev a female scientist has volUn ture nonnal cells .for the rest of the coffee keeping you awake - in the futUre, teered to be artificially inseminated with person's life. genetic engineering will be able to iden l1le sperm of a 1,000 year old Viking But in November 1987, the Medical tify the gene responsible for caffeine warrior, wounded in battle and frozen to Research Ethics Committee decided not production. death in northern Siberia around 900 enough was know about the risks to fu Plant geneticist Mr Brent Tissef'clt of A.D. Any resultant child will be raisQd ture generntirms to allow development of the liS Department of Agriculture is normally, but is expected to give scien Gcne Therapy. Seienti'ilsnnd dOCtors working on the possibil1ty of growing tists a first-hand study of certain abnor· have no way of knowing wbere meintro fruit juIcein eu1.ttIre dishes. and lesttubes. malities of gene structure common among the Vikings. Biologists from the University of Tibetan Peace California in .Berkeley have traced a IIT.-7..i1 particular gene, present in all the world's Plan Causes Riot 5 billion inhabitants to a single woman I ...... , they call Eve, who lived 200,000 years In a Septemberaddress to U.S. Congress ago. men in the Capitol, the Dalai Lamacalled The Berkeley group examined the for the demilitarisation of Tibet and special set of genes possessed by all ,negotiations with China on Tibet's fu humans which are carried within the cell ture. This would enable India to with cytoplasm or body (unlike most which draw from the Himalayas. China has supported a Nepalese proposal for a are carried within the nucleus) called mi U1lUl11S. tochondria, which convert food ioto "zone of peace" in Nepal and if Tibet energy. We Are the Missing Link were a neutral Buddhist nation it would research imo DNA shawn that We can only inherit mitochondria u.s. bas complete a buffer separating the chimpanzees are humans' closest rela from our mother (spenn do not carry mi continent's great powers. There are an tives. A Florida University research tochondria) and this helped the biologists estimated halfa million Chinesetroops in group L:arried out a letmr-by-Ieu.er c come to this conclusion. The researchers Tibet, as well as medium-range missile paris()n a 7,100-digit segment persuaded 147 women from America, of oroNA facilities. code from the beta-globin gene in hu Australia. Asia, Europe and the Middle In Lhasa, 15,000 people were gath mans, chimpanzees; gorillas and orang East to donate their babies' placentas, ered in Triyue Trang Stadium for a public OllLangS. Findmg single-letter differ which were broken down to pure DNA. trial in which eight Tibetans were sen nees showed mutations and the total The mitochondrial DNA differences of tenced to death. One of the condemned were clear, but barely any alteration be lffercnces in the DNA rode ofdiverging men was executed on the spot. another species gives [l relative measure how tween races was found. The biologists of two days later. While Chinese radio longagothey sh.aredacommonanccslOr. broadcasts condemned U.S. interfer believe there is a 2 to 4% change in mitochrondrial genes over 1 million A second study by Dr. Cbttt1es Sibley ence, posters containing the Dalai of SanFrancisco Ullivc.rsiLyand Dr.John Lama's speech appeared around Barkhor years. Ahlguist of Ohio UnivCf$1ty measJ,rred Square. There were mass arrests of Dating Eve the evolutionary distance between hu crowds of Tibetan monks and laity They claim Eve's origins were in Africa, mans and !.hethree ape species by a teCh around the Jokhang temple and two after comparing the differences between nique called DNA hybridisat.io.n. They westerners were detained by police who every possible pairing of the samples found thaL humans lUld chimpanzeeshad confiscated their cameras and film. taken from the newborn babies. From diverged by 1.6% of tbeirgenetic code, Two to three thousand Tibetans gath this they drew up a fam ily tree,linking all humans and gorillas by. 1.7%. The sur ered around the building where the the individuals according to the relation lse was that the chimpanzee.gorilla monks were held. Security forces, in ship of their genes. Two branches or figure was 2.1 %.111econc1nsionwas that cluding some forty to fifty plainclothes groups were apparent, one including LbgorlllWllmd chimpanzees are more officers, tried unsuccessfully to take indio. certain Africans and. the second, other closely rclar.edto humans th:m to each viduals from the crowd. In the ensuing Africans and groups. Believed to be dark olher, making ch.impanzees man's clos violence the building was set alight and skinned and dark haired, Eve was a est rcLllive. police opened fire with automatic weap nomad who roamed sub-Sahara Africa. 'ill malllpuluting DNA improve our ons, killing at least nine people. There were maybe a few thousand in her quality of life by ritlding ns of inherited In October the U.S. Senate unani original group and it is believed Eve was diseases, givmg us cures for cancers, mously passed a resolution condemning more fruitful than the rest, explaining multiplying food in shortages, giving us human rights violations in Tibet and why her progeny multiplied. Her descen new powe~ of pest eradication and con supporting the Dalai Lama's five point dants left Africa between 80,000 and trol . and will it also give us the power to peace plan. While Chinese reinforce 190,000 yeatS ago, moving across Asia frlgh.teoing new diseases. cteated ments poured into Lhasa the Chinese and Europe. supplanting Neanderthal sp<',dIicaUy t\l81taCk certain races? Foreign Ministry announced that the humans and a..ncient Homo sapiens. Sh.o111dwe release into the b~"Phcre government of the Tibetan Autonomous Emory University researchers col genetically engineered bacteria, ormatA Region was banning all travel to the re lected blood samplesJrom more than 700 tions of animal. plant and human gion by foreigners. people on four continents, charting a lifefonns which could present a serious • Our HJmalayan correspondent family tree which also went b~k danger LO tlle environment? Do we know TIBETANNEWYEAR ~ 200,000 years. They found similarities enough to be ahle to decide? The human a ~ between human DNA and that of apes in race will 1.0control. "LOSAR" CELEBRATION a always fc.ellhe need ~ a ~ Asia and decided that south-east China dtscover and learn .. but how ShOlild we 7:3Qp.m. Sunday February 21st g Chatswood Town Hall ~ was a more likely starting point of mod attenl61lU ulay. l~e Qod 'ofnatilld m~~uirie•. p"one,_ on (02) 628 329:· ~CID mJ1mllll1~~ Tunnel Found TID.,m! ltThil :~/CIDrrncUl J1m Under Sphinx A revQlutiona.ry llpB.(:e shuttle has been A team of Japanese scientists from designed to 1))' from Sydney to London Waseda University have confirmed the in 45 minutes by ,8u~king up its fuel existence of an underground chamber fJ'om lnt> atmospheTe. ~~ six feet east ofthe Sphinx. They used an e are in danger oflosinga:nother ·.. :.-:- .' ,.~- electro-magnetic scanner to beam typical British and brilliantly simple -~~._,-"';'.L;- .. , sound waves into the ground last year; aerospace concept to foreign interests now computer analysis of the data in unlells we are extremely carnrul," said Tokyo has confirmed their discovery Prince Charles, criticising the Britillh and -suggests that the chamber contains vemment for failing to back the revo stone objeets. lutionary Horizontal Takeoffand Land works, dealing with the US ifnecessary. The Wa.seda University team also ing (l Iot(1) spacecraft. Japan and West Germany are also in discovered two cnvities in the Great Hotol takes off and lands like an terested. Pyramid behind what is -called the airplane and can fly from S)ldnay to The englne works like a ramjet, Quel:.'n's Chamber and were the first to ndon . or space stations -bygoingin ing atmospheric oxygen for most ofits confirm the oostence of a recently dis Eartn orbit. Due to government vacrila uel, staThl from a standstill and also covered wooden funerary boat in a pi tIn tion Mr Alan Bond, deSlgner of Botai's switches to work as a rocket in space. the i:l8me area. engines. is prepared toTiskjall by ignor Hotol is competing for the European However, they had a mysterious ing Sritish security e1tUttllfications on space mnrket wilh the French shuttle equipment failure when testing inside his patents to tell people how his engine Hermes, Columbus and Ariane V. two chamb$rs dJscovared by a French tenm in 1986 (See N&WS #IlJ, which ____ ~ t£. _:tA4 made 8 computer readout hnpossible. Oil from Plastic tflP't.)~ The Sphinx probably represents A West German refinery is to turn "T\f('S "T"f1: ~ King Khefron as the GrMt. Pyramid is mounds of worthless plastic into crude regarded as tomb ofhis father, King oil this year with a pilot recycling plant. the ~(~ Khufu, whose funerary treasure has Union Rheinische Braunkohlen never been found. Kraftstoff AG (URBK), a refinery - via American Dowser owned by West Gennany's largest elec tricity producer, says it can turn 80% of all plastic wasle into synthetic crude oil Marine Life ..£.1! through a "clean proc.ess". "It does rioL produce any harmful fumes nor create new problems for the Survey Shock environment," li8.idURBK chemist Mr Spotters aboard the First Fleet re-en Dagmar Mertens-Gottselig. Recycled actment are compiling a survey on oil would cost abOut $US30 a barrel and murine lire to compare with that made nt.", ..rtuo.tr $'.'11 • ,. CIa PfrI'I4I'.DoliN II ... the system won't be cost effective with on the original 27,000 km voyagE!. Pre •" I••f.,t.. , 11.. current low crude oil prices. liminary findings indicate an alarming l~ $'.1 , 6 , Pyr ~,.N 1.1 ..... """' •• " JlIO., .. ItOTM...... .. ... •• ••••1.,If.11 " l.t.,.... However, next decade when the fnIl in numbers of dolphins and whal system isfully operational oil prices will 81 nce the first survey and estim atee stly rise as wells in parts of the world dry up that less than a quarter of the sea life Cos ic Flu and major producers cut output. pres(1nt 200 years ago still remains. A Chinese engineer who has spent 20 URBK has an exclusive worldwide The ship~' Qnly olose encounter with yenrs il'l\restfgating the uffllcts ofcosmic 20-year patAlnL. Even i.f oil prices dnn't a whnle was with a dead sperm whale decnd~. rara h~ damonstt-ot.cd that each of the rise enough next the company encQuntered by the Bounty. fiNe mnj!')'!"Chinese outbreaks of influ expects t.o mllke moneyf'rom plnstic Some species ofbirds, inc1udingport enza irl the last 50 years coincided with waill,e st4rtlge; West German authori ont hens, some gulls and gannels peak periods of cosmic rays reaching ties ('harge ratepayers about $Al55 a appear to be missing, but most seabirds Earth. tonne fur ditiposal and roOl:!tis stored. have survived well. YuZhendongofHubei Province cor The pilot plan~ has an annual ca Jonathan King, sailing with the re recily predicted ~bat a flu epidemic pacHy of 100,000 tcmnes. West Girr enactment, said, "I believe as much as would sweep China in early 1984. ny ImpClyt$. alTf\ost all its CJ1)d~ oil 75o/r of marine life could have disap Chinese People's Daily million tonnos'in 1986 aloner peared in t.h(· past 200 years." - R(!ule,.s _10 S The newly formed Fedt'mtion 1)f nllng Organizutions wants to carob 11160that faith healing works and if eurrent. trials are successful the Conretl erdtion will campaign for acccptallce a standard therapy by the National Health Service. The Royal Family WIlS instrumental io the-adoption of homreopathie reme dIes under National Henlth and last year Prince Charles, convinced healtH' hflV~ a special role to play in lighting CONCRETE C CER illness, opened a centre wher~ priest., _ . ~ doctors and healers can work togother ConcreteClolTosion threatetlsabouthalf prQjects in seV4'ral Londpn diatricta. I to treat at1ants. ofSydneys buildings and will cost $200 I million to repair annually by 1989. Affecting reinforced concrete par ticularly, the concrete decay syndrome known as spalling occurs whon oxygen and moistur~ reach steel remfoTce ment, cauaing it. to rust and expand, Surrounding concrete is cracked high-rise buildings, plummeting to the ground without warning. North Sydney Mayor Ted Mack. a qualified architect, said the problem is so serious in strata title units that he would not buy one over three storeys. Major buildings in Sydney which have been repaired for spulling include p the Water Board in Bathurst Sf and St Biodegradable Martin's Tower behind the Q,V.B. whichis being cladded wilh aluminium. st- Another condition called alkaline regate reaction is causing pTob1ems in two dl.un.s in Vialiuria, a bridgo in Western Australia and sevHnl indus trial l.mildrngs. The true llfe-spanl:l of mnny ofour constructions may be fauly short due to this built-in obsolescence. YETI EVI""~'" ~~.~I~j DAYOF Black Jail MOURNING Alarm January 26th saw the largest Aborigi AbotiginalsmfL23timeirlllol"8.11kGlyt:.o nal rally since the beginning of white be jailed than non-Aboriginals aecord· Australian history. An estimated . ing to the1irst national survey of Abo 15,000 Aboriginals travelled from all riginal imprisonment. over the country to attend the Sydney Otner findings of the !nstitute of marches, culminating in a rally at Hyde Criminology study show that; Park. *Aborigines account for 15% of pr:ilfon The ~onatrnuons were peaceful inti;Lkes while making up only 1.3%: of and w&l1-directed, Whilethe mfijorityof the population. Ai1s~1inns see the BiAlentenary as a * Fou,r-fifths of Abonginals Ja11ed r"""YMt reason for self CQIlgtal·llIation or an committed minor offences and less than ex-cuse for a party, Aborlginab. see tbis 1% were guilty of drug offences. TORRES STRAIT year as a crucial em.ein thci:r.iitruggle for * Male Aboriginals in their t,wentias jU1?tice. have a 5% chance of being jailed; in ISLANDS TO ·On Austrnlia 081' Burnam Burnam Western Australia the figur-ais over 8%. kept WlIdate with fate under the 'White * Queensland, Victoria RJid Tasmania SECEDE? eliffs bf d()V~. plant].l'lg the Al»rlginal have failed to set up State offices for the Land Rights flag ltnd~lmming the hlle investif:lating Royal Commission Foul" hum:ireQ mambars ofihe Coordi ofBritain for the AboriginaJ Crown.The Queensland has refused outright. JUltlog Council of the 'fones Strait lifo onJy sour notein histl"ipwas sounded by The Royal Commission into the lands voteduna:nimousJytosecedefrom editQri:al comments in the LDnthJn SUrt. , deaths ofover 90 Aboriginals in custody the Commonwealth of Australia in a Murdoch publication in which began in late January. Aboriginals esti January. The Federal Minister for AboriginalIJwere described as "treach mate that more than 1,000,000 Aborigi Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Gerry Hand, erous and brutal" people adding: "Left nal deaths have occurred as a direct flew to the Islands to discuss the deci alone, theAbos would have wiped them· result of the European invasion. sion and Prime Minister Bob Hawke selves out." promised to address the grievances of j the Islanders. Tha secession moves are not $upported by the Prime Minister Paills:Wingti ofPapua New Guinea and have been described as a desperate call for help by Queensland NP Senator Ron Boswell. COMMUNITIES THREAT FROM MALAYSIA DECRIMINALISED MONOCULTURE ARRESTS Multiple Occupancies. known to some According toMr Phillip Ruthven ofIBIS as communities, kibbutzes or com Corporate services, many family farms GREENIES m unes - have been legalised across can't compete in an "increasingly com Ma]ay$ian authorities have extended shire boundaries throughout NSW, petitive internationltl and corporate theft' llrrests 0tpoliticia.ns and social nc· opening private property to hamlet world." His predicLion is that 34,000 'tMsts to include~nvironmentalistst1fr0 development. 42,000 farmers wfll lose or quit their posed to logginlf.Nine enVironment.sJ Development applications will have la-nd over the next fl·".:u)·eata leading to ists We.rP arrested without charp to be submitted to the State Govern "8 massive and long overduesurrender~ includmg thr.ee in Satawak on Borntio ment and local building regulations will ing ofland ownership" to the corporate island where Penan tribesmen are hold· still apply. Copies of the legislation are sector. ing1>f(Ioggerswitb blowdarts, bows anti unavailable as we go topress; next issue Perhaps "surrenilmnB: is a euphe attt')wt> lTI'ld bl~des. NEXUS will make an in-depth report on ism for drivingmnn.elii cirrtheir own Paramilitary po1J.ee"alSQ arrested40 this and other new developments affect land; Aust;t-.alioA t'artners are atil1 PenaTI tribesmen, including the leader ing all those on the land. among the most efficient in the wotld. of the Pe~ (~Jastissue) 8 NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 Oil Drilling ed in Oz Coup A teleYil'ion docurntmLary to be shown MI5 and MI6 to help overthrow the on the A.B.C. in April claims that Whitlam government. off Sydney Britain's seCUl'lty services played a Pilger also claims that the former Explor oil and gas drilling is set to nl4jor role in the Whitlam Governor-General Sir John Kerr had begin t nautical miJ eo;>off the coast Government's sacking itt 1975. previously been associated with two of Sydney. John Pi1ser. producer of the Tlght-winggroups, one CIAfunded, and A decision is expected to be made by documentary "The Last Dream"', quotes the other a CIA front. the beginning of March on granting an IA SOUTces describing Whittam as a ClA involvement in the Whitlam exploration permit to drill the Sealion "security risk in his own cOWltrY-, after coup has been documented and even prospect, which is thought to stretch Whitlam told Washington that US admitted. Whitlam did not learn that from Sydney toPort Hacking. In August bases were not sacrosa:n,et and that the Pine Gap was a CIAbase until one week last year the Federal and NSW Govern bases treaty, due for renewal one ~y before his dismissal, by which time' ments invited corporations to bid for before Whitlam's dismissal in 1975, Theodore Shackley of the CIA had des drilling in the exploration zone, which might not be extended. tabilised the government and millions stretches thirty miles out from the A Washington-based expert on Cle of dollars had been transferred to the h fence and intelligence claims that doz· opposlth:m coalition's campaign funds "A major oil spill which floated in ens ofcalls were made from tile CIAto according to Vic. MP Joan Coxsedge. would render the coastline sterile," ac ol'ding to Milo Dunphy, director of the ="~ --.... ,~ Totm Environment Centre. "It could wipe out marine life and .ppJe Sydney's fishing industry." The project can only be afforded by a big consortium or major oU company, and names of bidders are 'confidential'. Selective Blindness According to a recent survey from Grif fith University's School of Australian and Environmental Studies, around Manned Mars 90%offarmers believe soil erosion is not a problem on their farms. In the SBJTle Mission Mooted study, however, 47% consider erosion a Earth's lon~(>st-ol'bit;ingpet$On, Soviet major problem on neighbouring farms COsmODflut Yuri Romanenko., says a l'Ind 88% believe it is a problem in their nUlnned Mnt& expedition is !>ecomirlg area of the Darling Downs, where the "moTe'and more realistic"'. . Five farm workers in Argentina h~"e study was made. Al.d",tioll Week a,ui Spare TechflflJ' bepn dchhEJrately infected with a Farmers adopt the same attitude to ogy claimedin Dl.'cemberthat the White neticalty engineered virus in an un soil er6Sion as most people do w dga House and NASA were studying a So authoriecdexperiment to testa vaccine rettes; they ru:cept the data is probably viet propos.ull{) USe It US apnc:e '(ll'Obt: for for bovine rabies. This was disclosed by correct, but say it doesn't apply directly ajaint US.soViet·Fren~hexploration {)f Jorge Ahumada. an official in to them. Mttrs in the 199011 ArgcnHnll's HeaJth Ministry, to US environmental group the Foundation on Economic Trends. ~~® The foundation said it was pressing " vernment is isgning a the US National In'3ti tute of Health, 2 cain featuring a wild which helped fund the experiment, to ond the hea,d and tighten regulations against releasing riginal against the potentially dangerous new life forms into the environment. The experiment WJ\S carried out in 1986 near Azul, 350 km south ofBuenos Aires. This is the first time humans have been deliberately infected as a resultofa virus from recombinant DNA research. Planet Earth Earth's cles Surviving :::::::::~Affi~~:j~~~ii:tatiM~}fmt~~miff:tiimij€lf~~jt~;Q:Wf~::::;:::~':;: Glacial runoff waters the surviv ing vegetation, which slowly con~ i;r~!:p~I~IW.iB1ft._llili~·:i:j:· sumes the CO2, The turning point ts Teached as the tettlperlture of tbe ;~~~~~~ltf~r~~~~J~~~~~i~i~ft~*W~~J;~!M!ff~w.~~rtt~~~li~ cean is lowered by mell:iT\g ice, glv The Geological Cycle irlg it a gt:eafer capacity to store CO2" merican engineer John D. In his book The Survival of Ci\tiUn Sea life booms with plenty ofeC),1and A. Hamaker retired to his land in tion· Hamaker describes a gran minerals sUJ>lplied from glader Michigan to work on problems af cycle. Through (he. tedtll1k sysJcm, ground rock, which hrrelurncd to the flicting humarllty. Chief among his compounds containing elements 1St as seaflour ~iments. As the concerns was tbat glaciation i~ ine,," I.Isltful to li ..ring Qfganisl1l5 are raised, level 01 CO2 drops, the ice fields re itable (according togooJegLcal and 8S molten rock foons mountai1ls and treat and vegetation moves north, fossn recordslwhen soiIsrun OUl o-f pl been leached. s10n mO-vesthe mineralsto lowlands; r~id sequence. Olmatic change1s occurring rap mainly during glacialpedo:ds. Thl! The land lind water 15 incqdibly idly, helped, but not caused, by the weight of glacial ice forcCSm;;tgma tu rich in the tlecessary basic elements, Greenhouse Effecl- which may tum the surface along VOlcanic ridges, the lega-C}' Of gladal1on. At the cli the temperate :zone subarctic and while glaciers grind the rock and malic optimum, "roughly 4,000 to result In the wOTld losing its food deposit the minerals- thebasis!or lhe 8,000yearsago, the land wascoverM supply, la.yer of topsoil ~ with a massive growth of temperate Thereis 8Ol11~tbjngexciting about ne forests, the sea still held an ~ ::s~ .srf n~w ~ Ideas'l...·hich d.raw upon work in atJundaneeof sea life and the tectonic i.:JF~,- iTt ...... _, diverse fields and cluillenge the syst~m was under low pressure'l. orthodox.1n 01iscase the 'gradWiUSt' CO~ increase in the atmosphere is view of climate; sQiJ and tectonic ~ptmenti~l at the end of intl!fKlacial change that al'gues for incremental periods. 4,000 yean; ago CO 2 was madifications in planetary condi petMPS as IbW as'100 ppm (parts per tions - is cl'uillenged by a l1~eory that mUllon), (!ompare-d to 290 ppm in explains rl1C cause-sarregular iceages 1890, 1M ppm in 1940, 31!lppm in and predicts theOl~1of (he next one. 1960 :uid 335in 1980. 'themasl ret:cnt It is po!;S.iblf!!.lhaf wf:;3re nowab()13] observanons arearo.und the 350 ppm half-waythrough-a 20year transition level "The indication is (hat the CO2 from interglacial to glaCial condi havel has been slowly moving up for tions! 4,000 y&rs loward the level of initia Soil Depleted tion of glaciation", according to Hamaker. Ramaker's wrltlngs focus on Uu~ role OJ soil dt?mineralizalion. This ~ the The Climatic Cycle difference between Hamaker and FluctuaHonSin the level of CO~dett'r lber catastrophe theoril:!S - lhe.re is n}ine the changes in d.imQ~, but it is no extt:rfwl cause of changes in cli living organi.STnSwhich cause these mate (asteroids, cosmkduslc1ouds, Volcanic activily 8Isp addslflTge fluct.:uations, particularly sea life and dio~idc etc), but the interrelationship of the amounts of carbon (CC'),) to espedaUx ~helliiah, which ab.scrb ge:opbys1C'al syslems is SUCh thal 11:reJlIIDospharc. InercMiing levels of CO,- LHe .a~>pends on a supply of 11'eJ'eis'' a naIt+till progression trom C~ ar(o cUI esscnt1al ulgredient in essential elements and compounds one ice age to the next. Han18kcr is conditions necessary for glaciation, tNt come from the mit\eraJ~ in soil convinced that tHe preslmt intergla through thegret.snhous~effect of inc- ilud " ....aler. Over Ihe course of lhe cial c.ycle-isat itsend, and worldv.·ide i.lS"ing cknldand iCC'cover at the i:nterg~lfdal cycle tne5(!are tlSed up, starvation by 1990 will be the first lest Oversol't'll! 85,000years Ulake so10,000 t~ 25,000 years taror thereis result. ''PS continue to '!?uUd, then take only a depIcted and insufficient Y~i.lrs another 15,000 tOl"('{um lo !.he amqunt for exttmsi vt> a.nd fll~al1 hy tHe . tergfaciallow. JeiJ:: "Glaciation starts beca~ the Planet Earth minerals are used up in the land and South America, Southeast Asia, Af• "J..o..r'f~o\\lA.t-It-Io4-b, in the sea". The minerals in the soil rica and Australia. St2~ are the food supply for micrQ()rgan ''ThJ.ssupporting .data strongly con• IJC'~ roc.~('bowr:> _~ , , l.\'fd 10J ' isms that are the source of proto firms .j. that then:! is no IQnger any plasm compounds that support all shortage of evidence needed for the ~~~ other life. With theirdepletion thelife initiation of intelligent worldwide ~ systemcollapses until anotherglacial cooperative action" to reduce CO ',,'.""',"'" , A. 'th 2 , " , (...) cycle is completed and the ecosphere levels. tJJ"et-' " ~ t\+ is regenerated. The Solution Cycle d~~~~O:: , ••ttll Weather Changes To prevent the onset of the next ice " "," ~ ... Since 1972 weather patterns have age and achieve a measure of control , , iii,v.e.( become more destructive. Extremes over the climate (Le. stab~ it In the of temperature, rainfall, snow, current interglacial cycle), Hamaker .lepC'!'JoltsWi . floods, high winds and tomadoes are has five "minimum objectives": SiC)f~"? now much more common. Changes 1) Stop the use of fossil fuels with rk of V"'~·'r·I\"~k~~ have also occurred in the climate of their attendant C0 1 buildup as -38-l\-S the Arctic. Icebergs have increased in quicklyas possible, phasing in viable p..-; ....."t'( size and are drifting further south, alternative energy sources now; po lll.U"l....-rt";) """- • while parts of Baffin Island formerly 2) Refo~t the planet generally and r"....---JJ bare in surnmer are now snow cov plant mature tree plantations' to re• ""\~ . ",~\, !"li9\A ered year-round. The Antarctic is placefossil fuels (everypower station - """ l~ry also expanding; glaciers that were should have adjacent plantations for recedingbetwe:en1911 and 1958 have their use); _'l;j}~\1:~· advanced over 12 miles in the last 20' 3) Reminerali.ze rivers and coastal nJI. r::,tI.:.4.h.,~ years. Icebergs are spreading north. waters With groll.1ld wavel duat to H~v't' \M€k\." Acid and Fire encourage shellfish growUl (prolific &\""~,~'> consumers ofCO ) by adding ground Pirli!.:..t ')l'> Epidemic forest fires indicate an ac 2 i~V\ celerating transition to glacial condi gravel to sewerage systems; pH c.Rf\~('f itwt S·"'l tions. In a time ofdemineralized soils 4) Remineralize the fore'Sts and and increasing climatic stress the jungles to stop them dying and en• temperate forests of the world go up courage growth by using aircraft to can test this for fuemseJws, espc in smoke. Again, figures since 1980 drop gravel dust (requisitioning ciallyifland thathasb~nabt1sedand seem to confirm this - huge fires in most of the world's aircrat'l could be requir~ 'clapped out' is being worked, In Spain, Greece, Alaska, Russia and for this); 5) AustJ'a1ia the average topsoil-loss North America. Last year the largest Reminera:llze cropland. to increase acre is currently 20 tonnes per year. fire for millennia raged across nC!rth food quality and }'Jcld to compensate Five tonnes year iscc>nsi.de.rcdthe. ern China consuming thousands of for crop losses to drought in the low per latitudes, and (old growing seasons maximum tolerable loss square miles. Detailed data from the in high latitudes. Ute theory also holds that malnu US Department of Agriculture is trition is a direct result ofsoil demin given by Hamaker - an excerpt: Rebuild the Atmosphere eralization. The healthy Hunza e task is to reverse the buildUp in Wil~ed ~ ~ people, whose valley is by 1264-75 1976·18 the CO cycle and put carbon back 2 milky-coloured glacial melt, con Ave' of fires 119,.000 207,000 14 into the earth 'as qUickly as possible. Acres burned 2,720,000 3,612.000 33 trasts with the disease-proneJX"pola: Withouta "cnIo~1 effortan an inter (both per year) lions of most of the rest of the \'Io'l"lrld. natiortal SCIlle'; to meet these ('Ibjec Food quality is determiirled by soil Acid rain is another important rives we om "~$gn ourselves to quality and our mental and p~ysi pre-eonditioning factor. The pre death by malnuttirion and starva wellbeing is the result. dominanUy coniferous (i.e. pine) tion". Perhaps the condilU,m ()f m~dprn vegetatioT\ that grows on nutdent On his O\V'Il 10 acre plot of land 'n mankind - individu.allyand collec poor, mineral-poor and acidic' soils Mic.mtgan, Hamaker added 46 tons ti ve1y~ can be seen as evidence fOf the burns terrifically and acidifies itssur per acre of ground glacial gravel. The Hamak-er "Theory = soU results were healthier, disease-resis roundings. In the tropics deple • Johnp. Jlamakcr, TI,t. 5111"JJi",altlf CiT!lli::n tion and acid rain makes forests more tantcrol's ofrom in the fitstrear, that ti~tt, lllfmaket,We:n;l:lf T'ubLITihiItE.Routt:! J. vUlnerable to fire until eventually were tested by the US National Labo Box 15$. 5l!yTt'((JUT. MO 65146.. USAr o~ 1....0. they bum in gigantic conflagrations. tal)' and found SUperior to other Do" 1~61, BurlinWImi!'. CJ\ 94010, USA . At teast, what's left Qrlhem after the com grown lucan]'. Anyo.l1ettlvolved S15.951 deforest~tion now happenl.ng in in troo l'lantingsflfcrops otany k.ind [F\(~_ ~;~ •. I Sleep On It Votes Manipulated Two psychologists believe they have The NSW State Government's voting Last year NDP candidate Robert come to a new understanding ofdreams. changes in the UppElr HOll" give them Wood was elected with Labor prefer David Fontana and Myra Thomas of more power to manipulate the vote and ences although he won only 48,238 Cardiff University believe that dream drive small parties out oBbe field. votes, or 1.5% of the formal vote. symbolism oftenproducesvital cluesfor Under the new system:for this year's "They even directed prefer· problem solving and may be crucial to NSWState election, people can give the ences to the Liberal and National our thought processes. party machines contr13) over prefer Party ticket before directing them The two psychologists set word ences by a single mark. to Garrett . a fact little known by problems for subjects and have them Accordingto Dr Ernie Chaple~.head most Labor voters." recall dreams, which are then analysed. of the University ofSydney's School of The NSW group voting scheme is Using one complex anagram Government, the «;nsequencet'l can be even less democratic because the Legis SCNACEDELIHSKR, where the solu seen in the Federal Gove):'nment's lative Council ballot paper will show no tion was Charles Dickens - the subject power over the election of minor party party names. Voters am still choose intuited the answer through a complex senators in 1984 .lnd 1987. candidates in order ofpreference if they chain of reasoning resulting from a Despite getting 294,000 votes in wish -but over91 % ofLabor voters used dream about a television programme, 1984 • almost 10% of the NSW vote· the single mark-registered option at the Dempsey and Makepeace. The star had Peter Garrett oUhe N.D.p. was not 1987 Senate election. a hairstyle like a friend ofthe subject's, elected. "Any time the choice ofcandidates at a woman named Carol. Carol reminded "Instead, Au~tTali8n Democrat elections is made more confusing for her ofDicken'sA Christmas Carol, lead Colin Mason, wifb only 22S,OOOpri. voters and any time choice is tramv ing to the answer. mary voteR, was eleaed beca.il&e the ferred from the voter to political party It is as if the dreaming mind had al NSW Labor Party Administrative officials, real democracy flTld popular ready seen the answer and had to find a Committee did not want Garrett in the control of government must suffer," way to communicate its meaning to the Senate under any circwnst-anooB," Dr said Dr Chaples. dreamer using associative thinking. Chaples said. "The interesting thing here," said \,~e Fontana, "is the kind ofreasoning used . - toJ l Soviet Laser to get from the dream symbolism to the ~£. -so""e anagram solution. It isn't logical linear St\'eJ'oP Blinds US Pilot ~ thinking, it's not lateral thinkin~ and The pilot of a US surveillance aircraft it's not trial and error. It exposes a flying over the Hawaiian Islands has wholly different patte'rn of thought been blinded by a laser fired from a which seems much more linked to intui Russian ship patrolling a Soviet ICBM tion and creativity." splash-down site. In a new book, The PowerofDreams, The co-pilot's vision wasudisturbed" Brian Inglis recounts several examples for ten minutes but preliminary medi where sleeping on a problem has pro cal checks showed no apparen~da.mage, duced a solution. Among his examples according to Senator Jesse Helms of are: Elias Hoe's invention of the lock Global military expenditure last year NlJT1;hCarolina, releasing a declassified stitch sewing machine; Frieddch the International Year of Peace version of a report on the incident. Kekule's discovery that the chemi TC!l1ched$US930 billion or $US1.8 mU· The ICBM was fired on a course tak structure of benzene is circular; and lion ($A2.6 million) a minute, tlCCOrding ing it within one degree of Hawaii. Niels Bohr's planetary model Il( atomic to figtl)"es released by Mrs Ruth Leger structure. Sivard, former economic chiefofthe US Believe It Or Not Most people have five dr",am$. a Arms Control Agency. In the last few *The fuel consumed by the Pentagon in night - remember to remember yours. years weapons have become a I'Orm of siilgle year would run the entire US international currency arrd in many pt)blic transit system for 22 years. ways have replnced gold as a basis for *The world spends 2,900times as nnu:h trade. on national military forces as on inter A military joyride on tTedit for the national peace-keeping forces. purchase OfAl'IillS has Ieftalmge Ileb'tTor 'Protecting Kuwaiti oil tanker& in the futl1re generathm!;l to repay, lv1nSivfU'd PersianGulfcosts the US Navy $U:S365 said. The US issj'lending'$303 billion on nrlllion a 'year above normal operating defence in 1988. $lQ billion mor~ than CQats - about three times the US budget he l~7 bl,ldgtft.AP for energy COnS(lTVBtWnTeseanib, PVR FOOD THREAr Worst Earthquakes in Oz History The Plant Variety Rights (PVR) Advi Local Aboriginals fled into the desert as centre, and followed large earthquakes sory Committee 1s seeking comment Tennant Creek in the Northern Terri in Niugini in the previous month, some from companies and the public on the tory was struck by the worst series of ofwbich registered 7.8 on the exponen immediate inelusion of the following: earthquakes in Australia's recorded tial Richter scale. Rose (Rosa), Apple (Malus), Kanga history on January 23rd. Hundreds of aftershocks followed roo Paw (Anigozanthos), Phalaris (P aq "Many have just packed up and the second major quake, which is be uatica), Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), Cot moved out," said local police Sergeant lieved to have created a 40km long and ton (Gossypium) , Rape (Brassica Gamer. Two offour major quakes were one metre high ridge or fault line. napus) and Macadamia. These plants above 7on the Richter scale -one was at "The larger the earthquake ... the will be used by the committee and pub 7.3 - and were described by Dr David longer the activity continues:' Dr Den lic for experience in introducing PVR to Denham, head of seismic research at ham said, "because the fault that is .cover a wide range of plant types. The the Bureau of Mineral Resources in ruptured by the major earthquake committee is advising the Minister for Canberra, as "most unusual. This is of probably still is not in equilibrium with Primary Industries and Energy on interest on a world scal~." the surrounding rocks. The aftershocks plants to be included in the new PVR The tremors, centred 40km from are sml.ll adjustments. Act (1987). .Tennant Ck, were felt in Mt 1Baand as "I would expect this sequenc:e.tQ go This means that private companies far away as Perth, Adelah:leand Cairns, on for at le~t a year, but the intensity will be given patents and complete con where curtains and hanging plants will diminish significantly. At theet'ldof trol overthese varieties-and ultimately swayedin the new Hilton International . 12 months they will get an earthquake all plants. Act now! Write and express Hotel. They would have caused severe a day. No-one will feel it, but it will be your opinion to your relevant State and damage near any major population recorded on instruments." Federal Ministers. PVR is a nasty piece of danarer ous legislation vilified in other DEATH STARS BREATHING countries where it has been intro duced. It puts our food supply in the hands of chemical companies BRING LIFE PLANET who are removinar original pri All the elementsin the universe heavier Scientistsin Phoenix, Arizona have dis mary-strain seeds from supply and than iron - those with more than 25 covered that ancient air trapped in leaving us with sterile. chemical· protonsin their nucleus-were produced amber for 80 millon years contained reliant hybrids. in exploding stars. . 3290 oxygen -enmpared to tOday's 21%. Our original food strains are becom Detection of gamma radiation from Sample$ dating hack 25 mmon years, ing extinct in a disastrous depletion of the thermonuclear fusion ofSupernova hoVle'ler. proved to contain only 15% the gene-pool because ofPVR. 1987-A, whose light reached the Earth oxygen.. in February last year, has confirmed ~~~~~~ Ve~/~ this 20-year..old theory according to ~\& R·'''I1rs Tom Prince, astrophysicist at the Cali· ~~r---~ fornia Institute ofTechnology. "Justl, about everything we see around us -auen liS the iron in your car - was thrown out from a supernova." "We wouldn't have life as we know it without the production of these heavy elements in supernovas," said Gerald Share, Naval Research Laboratory as trophyS:iol~t. It'slikely the newborn universe was Hunger Amid composed ahnost completely of hydro gen andheUum. which laterfusedin the Plenty intense p~re and heat inside stars Twenty millionAmericans - over 8% of to transmuteinto all the other elements the US population - go hungry and suf that exist today. fer from malnutrition every day, accord Many scientists now believe we ing to a report by the Physician's Task inhabit a thil'd-generation solar system Force on Hunger. Task forte head Pro formed from thetiMting detritus oftwo fessor Larry Brown ofHarvurd Univer pre"\'iou6 generations- of snTls. sity said, "People obviously aren't drop 1987-AexplodMl GO,OOOyears ago ping like flies. But ifyou look at Census ana expanded to shine out ]j.b a beacon Bureau data on houseboldiruiome, you inthe LargeMegalJAnie CIoudin'Febru find people can't cope." ary last. year. NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 13 d Hundreds oftonnes ofmanure are being transported back ond forth aerosaHolland while local authorities dispute where to dump it. 15 minion pigs. produ('e almost 80 Two leading Soviet economists claim million tonnes of dung yearly and only halr can be re-used fl.'! ferb1i zer. that a new international economic or Ammonia from pig and cattle dung causes 80% ofHoll8fId's acid rain· over half der inspired by Sovieteconomic reforms ofHoUand's tree.s areirreparably damaged and another 35% are sick -and nitrates and successful arms control agree from manure leaching into w8terwa~ have CQuaed. unc:ontrollable algal grQwth. ments is now possible. rendering 15% ofHonan d's. water undrinkable. Mr Abel Aganbegyan, top economic Disposal problems make methane power generation infeasible as well. A adviser to Soviet leader Mr Gorbachev po~ble solution to the pig-dungproblemis offered by ear Lhworm fanning. A aim pIe and Mr Stepan Sitaryan, deputy chiefof worm plot occupying an average wburban backyard Wlll consume 25 tonnes ofpig the Soviet State Planning Commission, manure a month, l&aVingnc:h soU behind. raised the possibilities of a freely con· In Australin" the demand for worm manure vaatly exceeds supply. There are vertible rouble and joint US-USSR hu only 30 worm farms, each generating a modest in¢ome, scntteredaeross Australia. manitarian assistance to developing Worm casings are a vital component of soil regeneration - healthy worms mean countries at a Washington meeting in healthy soil. December. Mr Aganbegyan said Moscow was :. War II late last year. However, the two valley la~ last year, claiming that the countries agreed to work towards closer use of 2,4-0 em the noxious weed r~lationB .at a top-level meeting- which groundsel had caused widespread ill luted two days in November. ness in the valley. Spokesperson Mary P(jaeock said residents had been hospi. t:ali~d siTlce the spraying on council OSTOF CRASH land began three month.earlier. Investors across the world lost over More than fifty local people held $US1.7 trillion ($A2.4 trillion) in the back the weedicide tanker for an hour world stock market c:raah of October. until threatened withar.rest. They con According to' Salomon BrothenJ, fl tinued thoir protest outside Tweed leading US investment bank, 40% of hire Council at Murwitlumbah until this loss was fnm'l the US stock market. met by counC111oTSand staff. Australia accounted for 5% ofthe total "We aTe even wilUng· togo out nnd 108s, or SUS5 billion, the fourth larges cut the weed ourselves ifthey IJtQP the fall. toxic sprnying." Ms Peacock said.. • Truth Shrouded in Hyste . . Jld in Australia.• there. .d cueshgye became jnfected with the n\trtl\lfrus. AJh... ff d.aall£!o 'ODO"". 1IJ!Ii'" R(>sear-chers have found t.but. mAn)' boon po . De,) AIDS trnD of Jieterg:BI' hQmo~l mfln - who a:eeaUl1t. rot tvm~ .Ii2n1 thirih of Americana with AIDS - hevi long histOries o! low-grac:fe Infl,l~tiQn8 Debunking AIDS ;hat 6verlM:d the bmiy~ 1mnnme lfya Awttralia has had only '81 AIDS~polli. m. 'Extensive tTeat;mant whh antibi tiveeases(rl'oma population moveT 16 otics has been linked with AIDS suscep million - aply .0G4~) since nparting tibillt;y as wetl. began;n 19'79. The other groups most trt risk - her; Sinee AIDS te9tillgl~ amy &5%ner:u: omusers, luetnophil1aca and hos-pi rate. 151Jf1ofthost' diagnosed ae:hil8lthy patientswb.o r-e.eeivedblood before I 98 AIDS disinfol1I1a,tion is TUB. f$c;Hnf~cted are in and ere,notgi.vao a ~llhm-e some (If the same infections. and While the World Health Organ 8ElConcltetrt.FllTtlwrmore.U'1Vofpeopl '&,W:lIgt"ttup has itll own uniql1e S(!t of isation 73.670 AIDS.positive caus facted,afl:er thelr first test, When gIyen The "cn-factor" th"eory ehan$"~ the~ worldwide attbe end of1987 (a t~ir lRl.eondl:est,15§of .2.25% the wid4'!ly-held aBsu'JlIpQnn that. thl'l ~ly 40% rise last year). the London EQ'ti falsEllytoll:l thattheydoiini hay only thiI'1gthe AIDS "rislt group!l"lla~ the retrovirl:Ui. in common18.being exposerl to l:h4!vitus Sunday 'rimes and other main· in ways most likely to tJillse in1t!ctt(JI). stream media are claiming Disease Re-seatC.~ aru Ilo.W Tl'ltognlsing Racist be~It'hymen there are '2..5 million. cases in Another re~nt $tudy by geneticists haa t1m.llo.. ami women. in ambia alone, with over 50,000 shown tha,loNegroes-am more suscep. fection may not result in deatb. ot' deaths there already - but no tiMe wAIDS than 6th~rgt·oLlJ>'8.Human even iUDes8. Reomt !itudies sbQ'l' bElinp have three maj(;l" off'.~ histol')'. A1I)S·hes helm,tihuwn t() infeet f(lugh~ if; $qys Miss SU6al1JlQ Cun Most of Africa he an equ1ll pt'qpmtion the a.·factor graY p which chsroGterises ninglutm-Rundles, an associate profes ofmen to women carrie.rs and a.g:rowifig' most NegrDeB more easilythnll any sOl' ofimmuriology at the COl'nell Um· numb\U' ofhahiesare born infected_ olhw grnup. ve:r.sity Ct'O:tra in Nctw York. In South MriC8 bowever'. AIDS te· SflIlIe patients naove Qured them* portS were confined mainlytawhites· lm.mune ResJlonse selves completely. with nosjg't1t1fAIDS claiming sixty lives among l1omo~u.· Thereiagrowingrecognitioo. backedby r The, Bathe government has ordere"'d 'Probably sufftrring frnm a diminished any symptoms Elf'terAIDS Is ~ted 111. rnnndn~TY AIDS screening for '811fQr ability to. tight o1r'dil;,ease before- Ule)l h~jr bloadstl'e-arnB .... eigners seekin:g work in SOtr!;h Afrita and Health ?\>D.nisl.er Dr Willie Van NEW BUSH ScHOOL DOLPHINS HUNT MINES Nlekirk has wm-ned that 011 fm-aignera Sydl1E1,)"SScots Oollege. h.a.q a plen ~ ar IN PERSIAN GULF With AIDS will he expened and South rast- "moral decay" of Us atudtmtB hy • ~bem ~urrounding3 ~ t~O Mril:£lIl sumnr~r isolated. isOlating in natural ,\IE: """k A Cham~ 12Q'~'6 ~I.At"P by~ zr Rccent te9t$ th@- of ror -a year. The-'BChonlha.a hought ~. Ill) '. Minesonwork.eNl' have~Ilrn~..dUPabo.. ut heeurresoClandil.tKa...ngl'l)"Mv.olleyand a ... thn~ ~ l,OOOpositivecases.!\{Mc"IDinaworke7'S i1egup eID1atruct;i:riIr~bins: will .. - . are 'migraubfforced to regularly tmvel hoUSll'180 YaarJ) swoont.''l: lnnddition ·N cu~ul.um. huge distan~s froITt their 'hQmew1"\ds' to, tne MgUlar et1loo1 the to t.he mines. :boys will pre,pllre food•.canect firewood, :rile US Navy hns. &ent;five· dQlphins to hlke:~d ~s!rll. ~ Why the disparity bt>tw~ Aftlc;an ianlateli camp wm theIr Middle East Force i l3 th& Pel'sian Negro and general world figures? Stud· give aU-rol1nd supe1'Vision to the Pres Gtilf, to nsg~Si tthem in detecting \.Il\dl!t'. ies have Bh1)wo that the Jq)read ofAIDS byterian seh~. will pl"eVMt" reIRtfOfiS water' mineS'. The iIolp'hiJl9 are Uui.rre3 JI1lalnt~rferGnee in Africa bas followed 'immuniztltlon with the opposite ~x. t09P1?tonly the.typeormine deployed'hy programs in which entire itll1~es aTe. by parentt>. E'-eu ~rop~din nbucket pfwal:4tl (.)("llteri:U· thai. h1S pupils were heiltg;ln.tlulIm:et!d by SOlIl'caa who auked nol to~ identified. Tw~orthe ~tJOn). Thisalcmft qndd8ccount rorthe aJlOt"tlti,:¥ in whirh th... Churcll bas lost; dolpbil\Jeam haVll died of mpjd 'hetero~lGJal'sp~d of..\IDS if! all iUllmpaet. bpcteria1 infectin11s. volution Life's Search for Life (Part 2) by John Burke Evolution has not stopped.... or reached its Keepingthisinmmd. thinkabouta wate,rmoleculeas highest possible expression. continues It'sevapomtcd orh river. What areits hopes and aspira It tions? Doesit know'l'a:ndrecogni5e other water molecules through every ad of life. in the air? Is it the memory of the lifebringing jlly of.the riV"eI that drives them together to form clouds? How Modern scientific observation has shown us that lonely would one solitary-water molecule be? matter itself is beingconstantly renewed. Hydrogen ions Think now ab<>uLbe:fote'm~ttcrmletyaurse.l.fim.agiI1e are drawn into existence by the furnaces of stars and the all the matter unravelling... the atoms falling apart... the vacuum of deep interplanetary and interstellar space. subatomic particles streaming into spirals of energy... Life - organic life - is the passage of this 'prima materia' even theenergy itself unfolding into its basicelectromag - first matter - through the three basic forms of carbon, netic field ... then the poles of this already infinite field of using water as a 'menstruum'. A menstruum is a me force dissolving into a single unity. dium that provides a background for the essences to act Imagine the utter and complete aloneness of that through and at the same time is a source of catalysts single vast consciousness that was before all else. extra hydrogen ions and trace elements. Imagine how It would long for something and SOlne Our conscious experiences are a kind of menstruum way to perceive... anythitlg... even itself. Visualise hbw as well. Our individual consciousness provides the back this desire could polarise the formless void of limitless ground and our interactions with our environment pro potential into the part concentrating and the part concen vide the catalysts that allow the infinite consciousness of trated upon. These two pressures intensify and define spirilto perceiveand affect the worlds ofmatter. But why eaChother until two forms of one matter are manifest would It want to? positive and negativehydrogen ions.Some points within the field· the area concentrated on - become vast genera tors of theiertileyoniprana - positivcions. Nuclear fusion Evolution is the development of port begins in these generators and they burst into the uni able sets of self-healing, self-motivating, verse as stars. e vast spaces between the stars - the field tlul is sensory and discriminatory units based concentratingon the stars - gives rise to the active lingam on the abilities of carbon and oxygen. pnma - negative ions. Theseare sucked into existence on This is so that these individual units can this level by the pull of the vacuum and cold outside the define and confirm the reality of self stars. In modem physics, space tells matter where to go and maHer tells space how to curve. and not-self... the I and the beloved The two forms of hydrogen seek each other, and when they find caeh other they lock into an intense embrace to form the gas hydrogen (H2) ... pnless sO;I1'lcthmg holds Think about the individual consdous expedc:nC'e... them apart. without eyesor ears au ny of the five senses... of one ten In the stars... and genentlionS of stars... the,pMitiv.c of your own body - say a blood celt ions, which have no electron shells to keep the nuclei Why does it desire to do, and then actnally carry aut, from touching, fuse together to form helium... a rum) the things needed for yourheallh? DoesJtdcsjrewealLh? element. Further nuclear fusion... using positive ions as The adulation of its fellow blood cells? Does it cam about the catalyst... brings us the other elements. Early in this the bone cells... or fhe livE~r. •. or the brain... does it even process, two very interesting elements, carbon and oxy know that you, as such, exist? gen, ~ formed. Can we say that this call has eon.sciousness? Is it These two eleme:n IS are so formed that the two types aware? It certainlyOllTieseut some prl!t1J complexinter of prana (positive and negative ions) can interact with actions. The experiences handed down to u.s. by skilled each other, yet still maintain their own individual integ yogis and mystics from everyone of our rool cultures rity. tells us that everything has C f·. Carbon... using the polarity of hydrogen iOJlS-fposj 0' " ,,"" ..... , live and negalive, magnetic and electronic, pressureand , heat, creates for itself three distinct forms. Lingam pTRna If:~i;;·. f i~~::/ keeps the carbon in long, open, spiralling chains - the I'.···.' l' .. ~. alkaline-formingalcohols... an alkaline is an alcohol plus ""..j;",•• :::"j; a negative ion. Yoni prana holds the carbon onto a fixed ~.~:\"'" grid - to make the acid-forming salts... an acid is a salt plus a positive ion. As the balance between the two gets closer, oils are formed which have both characteristics... as well as infinite varia,tions... which it gains by using all the other elements of manifest matter, energy and field., These three organic essences then find themselves a \': . suitable medium to act through... like water... oxygen .:~.~,:.,. plus one of each or two of either of the types of ions.: An I 't' .:::::.<.::., optimum stable temperature is fixed by the point of evaporation between oils and alcohols that allows the :....,..;;~:.;\~ ~I .. negativeions to create' n.ew compounds and the positive )"':,. 'II, ~.. ;M--i.;....;~.~ ions to create new elements. • «rI' • ..;; ..-.~~~~~ . This critical threshold, the point of transmutation, is .tI';II~~·' .. ' found at two temperatures - either in the hearts of stars IJ:A "l • or... you guessed it... blood temperature. .~~. '«4 At lhistemperature, if silicon and oxygen, for in I 5el1""')% stance, Come togelher under the influence of n~gative ions, the compound silicon dioxide is likely to be pro duced. If on the other hand the catalyst.is positive ions, the element calcium can be formed. Qj) new ~~ In the first instance the interaction happens in the outer electron shell - the atoms' individual nuclei stay separate. In the second case, th~ inte.raetiort is with the nuclei so that the atomic weights (if the two original Tryit... sitin frontofa mirror.•. thinkabout somethin& elementsarefused together to form a n~w element. Ifyou that gets you angry... let it build withyour in breath... up think that's a bit far-fetched, think about how cows your back... then as you breathe out, detach the energy whose diet is low in calcium but high in sillron¥ make. from its object.. byabstractingit... perhaps see it ilS yang milk... which is high in calcium. fire rather than anger at su:ch-and-.sueh... then lake a full Uv~g beings... like stars... can transmute one breath in... opening the frontaf yool body and feel. the element into another. What ifthisis literally true... onall cUfietence. levels? (Remember that all material existences are per With more practice it is possible to gain more c.6m mutations of the first two forms of hydrogen.) plete control. Evenemotionscan sometimesbecorn,e theiropposite. The substancestha1 form the physiological basis for Although emotions are not physical things they are our embtions are mostly oUs. This is why our scent accompanied by the moveml>nt of physical hormones. changes with our emotions. When we were babies... Fear can become excitement, even a kind of strength... before we learnt to talk with words... smells were our given the right .stimUlus. whole language. We actually thought in smells. Whole Posture, Breath & Consciousness levels of our reactions and interactions stilt happerdn If you watch the postural breath pattern of someone thqt language. The volatile aromatic oils given Onby angry, you will see them literally 'get tbeirbacks. up' as those around us affectour every mood... even our growth the b(Cath draws adre:naHn up their spine. This is a pa~terns. natural preparatioll for aggression... a putting on of TheentiHe.sthat wecall germs and virusescan't make slUeldsanda dOsingoffofoursoftvulnerablefront. If the theirown oils -some ofthem are littlemore thatlalcohols angry personchang-es their posture whenaUtheir breaUl white others are reaUy just complex salts. It is our emo is out and breathes up the front of their body... creating tionalreactionsto them lhatteachesthese life-formstheir a feeling of opening... the emotion changes as well. This identity and trainsfheir reactions to us. Be careful about is because counterbalancing hormonal catalysts are callinga micro-organism a disease.~ you. may leave it no drawn off the adrenals. choice... © John Burke 1988 Atmosphere Update LOOKING T8110tJGH the ASA IFrolD>LJBS WlR£JIILJaIaARTlHl 18URNS In lastyear~s Montreal Protocol, A 50%pettemcut in CFCsWOO 'I. be seasonal redacuons-at Ihe poles - was save.d1eo~nelayer. ip~cu.mte ~ulty 24 natio.ns Wbithproduce ozone e~01lgh to Forevery du,e.to calibralian ora ~nes ~ deVIC~ ob~;ulon layer-destroying chloroflu:orocar- s~ CFCS m tfle aunosphere, on lheu: Nimbus 7 . ~ fl've wdJ,sliIl be tbere'al lhe end Of ODe satellite, launcbed in 197ft The msIJ!U )'~. bons (CFCs) agreed [Q rrrst.fr~eze We're.pLlltin:gCFCsInto1hea1lllos- ment. known as an SBVV deuctor. and then b.alve production levels phere five times fastetLhanooLunUproc- sbo~ thal over 20% oflhe ozonelayer by 1999. Now a furore is erupting ~s ean elimilll'l1Bth/:.11\. had been eau:naway by chemiCalpoIIuL over huge profits to be made by If we: wi..~h the amounts of CFCs 10 ants In the last dooade.Downptaying the. . :remain even at currenl1evels, we must findlJ;lis, NASA - which Inls ijJ s1DbltOl:y ~n C~ngrnss CFC'. manufactlmlfS. GUtemIssions toeqoeJ losses - to about ClutyLO l(J US every two "There is 110tea"SOO nllhe worW wby 15% pertenLof e\l1TC:lIlprodneuon. years on the stale ofthe opperaItnQsphere any;portion of Uie :iJldu.S1Iy- especially Larger cuts must be imposed 10 reduce - elaitned at last year's Otone Trends ~'owly. tQecomparuesresponsib1e for damaging tb~m -and the levelswillfall Vcr;)' Panel meeting 0(40 leading atmospberic the oz a.uome~ Davld Doniger testlfictlate US Year$,and Ol'le·lhird off-12 in Bbo11l120 1975. Envlronmernal Protection Agency treat- yeats. Under the MQblrealPrOloco' the BUT - !.he Nimbus '} satellite haS ing on behalf Of wildUfe and c.onserva·amllunl of CFCs in the atmosphere rwO.Jnstrumenf.s which provide vatu !.inngroups. As CFCSbecome rarer their w1Uiru::rea"e even IJrter CJhisslons B)'e tiblc data On the ozone layer. One is !.be price will rise. creati'ng bHlion-d01lar eut by brtl£ • in 1999! total ozone mapping spectrometer profits for manufacturers. I t I (TOMS), whio.b pro1'idesmaps or loud global ozone. The other.is' the solar New Yearts Resolotions backscaueri.llg uJm\'ioie£ recorder Over the New Year the world's top (SBUV). whicb provideS crude profiles eleven chemical companies agreed to· Of tl!e ozone layer. NASAkne-w the true jointlydevelop a~bsdlure for d1lngerous levels all aloo.g! CFCs and the Aerosol Associauon of An_din January it was reponed in Australia is pha~g. down UIC uSe of Science magazine that lhe A~'s W.e. _Jool?son Company 1979m 1986...afterindejXmdenumalysis, phased 00'u.. of CFC&.11Ie ~Juls arUS ..reUiI"data. II:hiii~ known or this: danger 10 th.e O..iZooelayer ., . . Last.··summer the .omn.e layer... over .since at least 1974 - in 1978 the: US ~ ~ mainland Austmlia was depleted by 1 ~ banned CFCs in aerosol cans and last .. 2% up (0 lIle Tmpic ofCaprjcom,.bdt'nre year Du Pont, the world's largest CFCV.utially ..reforming in Autunm. Worse manumculfeT.¥olmltarilybeganl'hasing The ProtoCol has commilwd USto an still. slOOmer's"ozone depletion. over cunU production. increase ill stratospheric chlorine to Antarctica reached 97% at some alti- Advisors to Ronald, ReagllJ\ were n~TTh1ES t!Je,pccscntlevel by the rudes. The layi:lr was Iep than Imlf as urging the US not to sign tbe PtotQCOI. year 2"020. 10 limes l.Juh'Presl~nt Wore dticklhere as at lbe same time of year in claimlngJt would be a beuer idea l.o en- widQ8preaa CFC use - and disastrous [Qr lh,e 11'Iio.-19709. Gour:age.~(1le 10 wear suuglasses•.hats /,he global 0"1.000layer; NowtbatlJle issueisbecomingpoliti· and Findings f.romthe most~te:nsive illVCS:- eBlly NOW if we are II) be free to walk body are unde·f your influence. Your ligatIons everc..ani~<1 out on ozone deple- under open skies. body retrains and, recycles its own mal- don OVe! An.t.nrt:tica camecjust 14-dl):)'S .• • • formed Ot'"'t8neerouscolis aU ll1e time. lOOlam for me Montreal conference loNASA Dunnformatlon It's yow:perception o(the outoomeof consider them.A few mon.wsearUer:,the NASA e1aitncd last year thate.vjden~il UV exposure which will determine-it; conft;renee had seemed willing to waIt .collected showmg an alarming Bill wear a bat rreXl Summer for this a11-imporJ.autdata. GLOBAL dectcase Irl ozone· flea just r R. Ayau Loggers operating in rainforests in north operating at current capacity. The programs Queensland have- threatened to shoot at heli are not expected to be fully operational until copters monitoring their activities in areas timber stockpiles are exha\lSterl, probably in proposed for World Heritage listing. The April. Job creation schemes will include the flights were ordered by Federal Minister for building ofwalking tracks in the forests, tour the Environment, Senator Graham ist information centres and road improve Richardson, following reports that logging is ments. Longer term projects include major ;; still being carried out in these areas. tree plantings and research. There is also evidence thatloggersoperat ing on private land bordering Cape Tribula Qld Subsidlses Logging tionNational Park took over 100 logs from the Consultant's reports to Senator Richardson National Park during two illegal incursions. cotUrast with timber industry claims that The same company was given permission by 2,000 jobs would be lost and are believed to the Queensland government to continue log throw doubts on the value of the industry by ging inState Forest near theBloomfield River suggesting that the people-of Queensland are despite a request from the Commonwealth to effectively subsiding it. cease work in the area. The consultants are said to have found that The company faced possible fmes of be the state government received royalties to tween $500 and $1,000, while the revenue talling $1.78 million in 1986-87. T"aking into from the illegally felled logs was expected to account salaries for 50 government workers, be from $50,000 to $100,000. The Cape transport and maintenance costs, the State A new plan revealed by the Forest and Foresr TribulationPark, home ofseveral rare species obvio~~l)' Government is making a loss. Products Industry Council (FAFPIC) b.!lCk~ of wildlife, is considered one of the most im by the A.C.T.V., calls for the planting of an portant in Ausbalia, botanically and zoologi STOP PRESS additional 523,000 ha. of softwoods and cally. In a new move using the WOI;ld Heritage 76,000haofhardwoods overthe next 43 years Injunction Denied Properties Conservation Act, Federal Parlia - and the establishment of 55 new pulp and ment has invoked laws unused since the Fran timber mills of world-sized standard. ChiefJustice Mason ofthe High Court refused klin Dam case, immediately making illegal The plan relies on opening up thousands to grant injunctions sought by the Queensland any "killing, cutting down or damaging" of of hectares of what is described as"marginal" Govt. to block Federal plans to seek World any tree, construction of roads or tracks, or farmland from northern NSW through to the Heritage listing for the forests. He cited sev excavation work in the Heritage-nominated NSW south coast, north-eastern Victoria, eral reasons, among them the risk that World area. south-eastern South Australia, and the south Heritage values would be damaged if the A spokesperson said the Federal govern west comer ofWestem Australia. Thecouncil injunctions were granted, as logging was due ment is prepared to introduce speciallegisla claims the plan would enable Australia to to continue in April when the wet season ends tion in the next session of Parliament to ensure move from the current forest products trade - before the outcome of the Commonwealth's the ban if Queensland makes legal challenges deficit of $107.4 billion to a trade surplus of application is known. to the logging tr.m&""" $340 million in the year 2030. An important factor. in the decision was Reforestation is necessary to restore the. Queensland's delay in seeking the injunc massive areas of Australia which have been tions. It had known of the Commonwealth's denuded over the past century and any movc> plans in June 1987 but had not commenced 'u in this direction are a positive step. legal proceedings until December 23J;d. But given the emotive media campaigns Queensland argued that the notion of FAFPIC is already using to sway public opin environmental protection embraced the peed ion towards logging. the development of 55 to protect human beings from loss ofemploy futher mills would allow the industry to ment and consequential economic and social justify immediate and further devastation of damage. The Commonwealth is considering a our already limited resources for purely eco compensation package worth up to $100 mil nomic reasons. It's only as we reach the end of lion, involving a number of job creation our forest resources that forest industry schemes and long term reafforestation. groups are looking at replanting the forests Ravenshoe,' where Senator Richardson that provide their livelihood: was physically attacked by protesting loggers, The Federal government must examine has been singled out for a special program to the forest industry'S past record and its atti prevent job losses. The town is almost com tude to our national heritage before making pletely dependent on logging and feared its any decision on the plan. Recent events show economy would be destroyed when World that the major motive in the industry's current Heritage listing forced the mill to close. campaign is to maximise its profits, regardless Timber reserves held by the State Forest:y oftbe cost to the Australianpeople and the rest Dept would be opened up to keep the mill of the world'" - G.N. -- A Paddler What sort of things have you been able from right across the political spectrum. What can Australitln people do for nu to achieve in the Senate? 17% of Liberal voters who voted 1 to 50 clear disarmament aside from voting? voted for nuclear disarmament. So they Very little. The biggest value of being in voted 1Liberal, 2 or 3 NuclearDisarma They've got to talk about it among their the Senate is that the Parliament is very ment and that's pretty remarkable. The friends; I see that as the only way that important in the cultural, symbolic life of way we interpret it is that people have things change. I don't believe you can the country. I don't believe that there's a their views aboutthe party they want to change things. from the top. I know great deal of power even in government, govern the country, but they also have a people who workedin the Labor Party for because lhe forces which have the most very strong concern about nuclear weap the last 15 years. They had good policy on impact on our lives are based overseas ons and disarmament. so that once women, on Blacks, on the environment, the world economy and the people who they've done merrduty and voted for on disannament, on the bases - and the have the influence on the world economy their party they vote for us. godofpragmatism rears its ugly headand which affects us. There's very little that It's lessfasbionableto be active in the Hayden gets ditched lor Hawke • the we in Australia, in Government, can do. peace movement these days, but I don't ultimate pragmatist· and Hawke ditches The most we can do is minimise the think people in the electorate are less party policy whenever it's convenient damage caused by external economic concerned now about nuclear weapons I never trusted Bob Hawke. I always forces. than they were in '84. saw him as the Pentagon's man. They Even the internal economic forces are But it's a bit of a worry what they're identified him years ago as a potential basically external people like Alan Bond doing in New South Wales. They're re Prime Minister and friend of the UniWd and Holmes a Court, the Fairfaxes, Peter ally working against the minor parties. States. They think ahead. Abeles. They're all Australian, but they're multinational and their loyalty is How so? Do you thitikiJ 1$4 wise move to close the to the world economic order. They're not foreign bases in Australitl? going to lose money through patriotism. They adjust the rules. They'(e introduc So I don't think that the Government ing therule thatyou can't producea How Oh, it's a very wise move, but it has to be in Canberra is terribly powerful. There's To-Vote card unless you're a registered with the force ofpublic opinion. We have not a lot of power in the Senate and one politiCal party; sO'thaLif the Wtldemess to educate the electorate. Senator can't influence a great deal. But Society wanted to put Qill a "bow to vote If you look at New Zealand's ex when a Senator who's been elected on a for the forests" leafJet.,it couldn't. ample, the Lange Government is even disarmament platform goes around the more conservative than the Hawke Gov country speaking at public forums, it Peace and justice are ernment. It's economic policies are even gives credibility to the movement. You inseparable. You can't have funher to the Right, but it's maintained can raise issues and raise consciousness. one without the other. it's anti-warships stance and every other With Jo Vallentine and me in the Senate, political party in New Zealand has There'saproposalfora referendum to it's very rare that any nuclear issue will adopted a nuclear-free policy. inrroduqeasystem whereby the party that go past without some debate. Now why has such a Right-wing gets the highest vcte in th~ Upper House government and the Right-wing National actually apPoints the last five se.11Sthere Do you think that now the START treaty Party in New Zealand maintained this - which means you totally wipe Olit is underway there'll be a drop-off in stand? Because the electorate wants it smaller parUlts and you end up with a public interest in nuclear issues? and they've got no choice. They're poli two-party sysl.Cm in the Upper House, ticians, they stick their wet fingers in the making it iJ:releivant. 'You may as well I don't think so, because the strength of air, work outwhich way the wind's blow abolish it in New South Wales, as they people's fear of nuclear weapons goes lng and that's how they set their policy. have in QueenSland. pretty deep and I don't think anything's And I think that's instructive here. nless we succeed in gelling Inde happened yet to give them any confi I just sound a word of warning to the pende:!tL1iintO tbe Upper HQusethis tim~ dence. The strength of our vote came environmental movement.wtiioh thinks • -aroUndYOUmaYaSwel:~ -- that it haswQn,over me Labor..Pany - if it wanes in ilS str~e. to keep the-environ ment high on people's lis\. Of priorities, dIen it will110 19n9erbe a vote wInner and the Labor Party will just abandon the environment tbe way it has everything else - it won'ubnw in the public Q'pUllon polls and wontl ram highly on a7l1party's policy agenda, Thai's WilYas a Nuolear DisarrnamentSena.tor f'm not so much conceme.d with building a Part1as, with builifing a movement. Is the NDP II smgle fssue party? Inmy first speechin Parliament 1showed 0 why we contmue to focu~ on nuclear 1 -~ ~ ,,,~.,{.,,,,, ~.I·~ , ...... J distmrulllleni. In snmmary,theexisWnc.e ornuclear weaponsand lheil"deployment goes wilh: Lhem ~ you can.·make Do you 'bin. young people .are more depends on vaSt concentmtions of ptlw long-tcnn subsl$ltial gains Oil aU those cOIJS81'J1ativetoday? and wealth. You've got to bave concen other iss~, Then the focUSofpeoptc's trations of w~llh to be abteto afFQrd acLitms who 8Tecobceme4 abtw1jtmlice Yes..because meY'Ie under greater super them and you've got to have concentra wtn move to oLhes-are.as. vision and consuutt criticism. The civil tions of power lO deploy them rout have The Aboriginal Issue is a gooo ~~.:. tights abuses thaI are being perpetrated the global stmregics to make it work. ampla of the in,terlinkmg between pea~e on young people 3t. the moment are hor That leads to increasing militarism l:D1djustice tssues.hecsuse peace and r~ndeus. Y'Qilre allowed to imprison and poUtica) oppression around the justice are inse:parah1c., You can't have young people fOf'things and in ways, in worldtind ifyou lookatplacesJikePalau one witbOUlthe 01llef. Anel if those ill us which the adult wouldn't and coOl(.1n'I Fijj, Nicaragua, Eritrea, wllerever there concerned about peace don' ttlonfrontthe be. That's ho1ding young people back' in are peqple struggling'(ar SOVW'e!gt11YIt's rnajQrjusL/ce iS$u¢ in tlJisOOlIDll"f,tbtn their activities. against superpower sLnlteg.icInterests. aU \.his:liturf about peace and disarma There are a numbcl' of pressures on The economicc!'P'oitalion ofPOOl'Ie ment isJ\l!it hollaw rf:Jetotil:.We have to thls generation lO make them feellnade and theenvirOmIlCIlt is to mainmin those rake a Stand. r reckon you' vagm to have quamand powerless.•md so only a brave concentrations of weillth. andsopovarty pritlCiples and J 1100'1want to gu dawn few can overcome all afthalpressureand in the Third World is generated and that WCit-Ongeredprngmattc rood. rr we do someUlil1gabout it. maintained by the dlveQiwnof )'eSOurteS lose support this )'ebr because of Dur And. lhose Who do come along-w into this vast global nudear miliWy principled sumd on Aboriginal sover meetings of the peace movement find system. e'igntS', well SObe iL11.JUSL rnean.<: you've. Ihm Ihey're.¢!LherdeaLhly honogar Lhat In my first' speech I used we logjam. gOl a 1)It futtheT to go in ...d1Jcating lhe tlley're 001 terribly peaceCul nod mey analogy; in coonJries where the loggers elecwrine can'l cope with Un: SOrt of rougb-attd transPOrt Lim'berby riV17 they regularly Jthrnkb<1cxIO,fhC Vie.tnumetn; I was tmnble politics that OCCtll'S III the peace have logjams. And the way !he)' loosen n draft 'resister in those clays. I wenL to movement amI so they SUl)' away. pain~tnkingl>, logjarn'.~ is not by Ulking prison;n 19Z2bccaus:oIWQuJdn'lfight in Now I'm a foundingmcmbcJ (1fPau one offUl it time. bm by finding the: key Vietnam, and the 'whale resistance to the dJers fO(Peace; and we're hoping to have log. Youreleasetbekoy logtore.1ease til WlU started nffas a lefllbont;y tntitorOli!i upwan:Js of forty Icilyw on lhe water jam. Thal's the way I.seedisarmamellL commumsL pinko I1JInOli!,y, People \101)0 tomOiTQW (for the arrival ef the ass S~ it as bdng the Ire)' issue - unless you s.aWwMlwashappen.lngkeplmakingU1e MisJQuri (U)d olber nuclear-armed Ve5 resolve It. you'll be suuggUngto save th.e st.at6ment that it was lJnjll'\i, that we se!s).BverymonLbwehaveatrainmgday Amazon Basin - there·s 'me Jog; YOU'Te $00111dfl'lbe sending troops mere - and atBJa~kwatL1e.Ba)lwhere.people come to strnggling to save Nicaragua - there's peoptestal1ed to selltheir 'lonS comeback leam safelY techniques.play,games with COl11~ anolher log. You've got to Bet rid of In rofflll5 and the trUth ~ to power bqats 1.0 not be afraid orrough nuclear weapons ond ev.eryLhing that out lilld people changed. water, paddle under [Cont'd Over] ~Bnt)' L."ctrwncr Sllip~ to geta fc:eling of wIml JiJ1\Unlrun ligbl LbeturnCAJ Nim like to be confronted bya big ship <10 {rarityt)~Ufll${lLiofl hllS just beon it's t1l.'i~ the harbOl1r. forme.}. mlJ~h an I \\..ihmany (Jf If anything needs to be deeitkd we (k lISpt'QPOlluJslt'snl le.o.lStur;epIII tben,ghL it over the picnic lunch. We've gOt a Wll;,Cllon Irs propulling rlllun"lllJ\.lear fairly large youth involvement, because defence unit ;i titutQlJ fansign polic.y paddlmg's fun. And even if yon aren't a stance"am! ibcy rt-lwo f'ignHioonLstep,s reat daredevil getting in [tonl of LlJe bow, fQTWlJrd. just being on the waleI' saying. "No, we Ecollomi" 1J.ttlCpcn.d~I~t\ iX impl')ctanJ h~~ don't want these weapo[l,'i gives well. and t'/:n;.bjggeSl..,h~j;e lIlal t:hiS' you tho feeling that you're cOnUunling govenlment has made is lD fC1wl regnJa. the issue and miling a state1l1enl, tilms cn l1r,ancJaJmB!keL5 SQ'lbtu we a ~COJlomu: Our oldest persall is about 80. She ie....f defended froUl o~ Mtually went in her wildwatermamthon eff04...ts We don'. lutve ~tJ}' ¢¢9fIumic On the N ymboida, running the ramds. weapons to useagain!\t the Unuoo Swes, Our youngest is 6. SO Ulf.~ WilY in wWt:h W(:. luwE to mo....e is Lowards tlCOllOlnIC und pohLicatlrlde" Do you think that the Labor Party p~mJ.enr.c. slow1)' and gfad!mUy so dIat afraid of raising the Bases islUe in Jhe the temovat of [he b~ will be !.he end light of what happened to GUllgh paint.l'-ollhcf t1\an the l~lnni"il, Whitlam'$ gDl!ern:ment? Yes, Thig is probably mehurtles! q~ lion ofaJltoonswer. The LiltnSwr ~'houlti be afraid of mQsl is not nudcar wat in the You see, I think even Peter Garrell Australian context but the los$ of C!vU and others around him weren'tawnre 0 liberties because at this junct~, if l-bis the san of nllt!lll movement there Wlls. government were to attempt 1.Qclose the Lhink.Uldy ww-en't aware that the 'ND}) bases the United States would ensure thaI \\IllS riding the crest of a wave of auG. this government was removed before die nuclear feeling aod I Lhinktbat some ~w bases. That's a hard political ract d Ufe people in Lb~ pany ar lhal time a that, sooner or later, !:he population's I dml'lUrtuk we shouW uge.theb.ase. sovereignty bcc(JIIles imp<1Omlt We. scJ..liJ1g:~ bartenng atIyUting for IDC wrong way. They didn't realise thal. the should be concentrating on the bases ba..~, be.e.u.usethen wCI're tt:nn:trliued to NDP was so successful,-nol becausethey issue, not so muchm wrms ofwhar keepluglhem. U'~ahnO:i1 bener ifwej14"t were a good party but because tbay were bases ID¢a1lin making us .anuclear target. Gela •pepperoom,until' I()f lheID so thaI Il meright place at tbe right I.1me. but making us a political largut. lLmeans we·\I~goln(Jth.illglo losewhere wetirmlly that we aren't a sovereign nation b~causc get rtd of tbom. ArcorrHlIg to tnt Unitid Nt11i.Qft~-tlt;'re we're basically at me behesloflhe United 1:he program fOf tms government llr(? very few DemotFtJ.des in J}Jt~ world ShHes government, with Ulls should b0tncdllil3tethe popu1:ulanabolJt ISdn}1 by ave", .$imp/e mea$:un)a'~ go\,cmmtnt's co-operation. bowd(:fICllde.nl ,,'earl;' .lN~.!lOrtllorthre4tS nallo1J that's given tllJf vule to all Its I don't think this govemment is n there are and prepare the AusU'llU:m adult citizellS for one gelleraJiM • ~cormmieand. puppet - it's easy to talk ab()ut meerA pClpul~u.olJ lorIhl: pl1JHical twe11t)'-flveyears - is a Dcmocrac.Y. and the Pentagon pullingstrings hete and rcPllsals occurring in Lht:t,lvrott of t:ln in Australia d(lesn't qualify becausd we in Canberra. The case is mat CaJlbem dcpendcIIf foreign Ilolic~. Se U'$ long. didrr!t give the volt·to Aboriginals until and Washington are nl9Jl"hing in stepund Wnll. 1961 - A.merica doesn't qUfltUyye; be AU~1.ralin th~ Negro~ the danger witl be When wanl Guing ha(k if. 1985 am:l f>:(DP caU;5eit oldy ga~tesQlItJrcrn the to not march in step. It suilS Australia's spilL,.one. orthe. [CllliOnSwhich <:onviotes vlIt£ '",he '60s, The onlylJlree demur Brittdll~ economic and political interests to d me a.bout lt1achirwiul1 dllt1.intafeT'e11Ce rtlCiei in Ih~ world(frtt, itselJms, nate the South Pacific. in tim NDP is because people in Fml1cc NlJTW(l¥and Swu!tn, If AustrJ.lia was to go in a signifi "nO 11m Unllbd S13te.s and Csnburra m~ cantly different direction there's no wOllld h:we been mor~ nWllre than the Love-it. There you go.lf)'ol1 can frod doubt in my mind that we'd be. vtu:)' peace m"ove-m.\W1illlclf Aht.lll,llheeons~your source for that, l'U u~ it in d1e smartly dragged back into line· andrulh· qUI':TlI:tCSof 8. ma..'>::tmove:mctll lO get rid of Senate lessly if necessary. Sc the renll1l!\k ill tQ the bases and l,;TCUlc 00 anti-nuclear 4Uld develop a notion of AUStl'llWmSQv- mdc:QendcfllA~lstrahl1 .. _.ce· Irra(lia~""'!J ozens of Tahitians. - indudin I1P iI 5otllltP.IiJlif1~:~DlI';j,1(,l,,'gl'try,F'lIflloll::m ductors and priests - have .;ume ftl.'\cUloidlaw TJlhili torrlttl.iciput~:.. Sutce then Pf1l:ll'Cehl!$ ~nsi;tlqtIJ~,m.mltmL11CdJMllietl forwl1lrd with claims U~rplltUmt Tahitian Wltntn'i!>es 4Uege Ft~ne ... '2bl iii J98lii Fwnc:h PalYf\C,<;1llTI dwenlps uf lenks, radioactive fires, chenu. (~bctWtlm 1917 and..\981 vanii'd between iU~gal ~r.mtomin£liion. deaths WId dlunping of 5& fUtd 85 a year. 'n'IS COhIfllife5 with tm C'em the rClljd~ of Pllrls!) lil'fw~fl WllSICllonMurtlTolt Atoll. Corpsesofeo:ntatni lI"'erage of 40 t:mt::t'll~"'.~ 19$5 and seril'luly lll"r io Ih~e Some 'T'ahitians cntrie.d beenr::ncased,.,iJlcl)nc~L'" n~t.edworkers ha"'e 1?65 wlten the Ir,lq beglll1, nf il!IIt'ASl m Paris. twice II. we~ oli UTA nights. otlk"t'll to F~ b~~ Mrm&pOsal. 50~ claims Unsis due10 flledi A 1:ecent British-New Zealim cd alfC Jn1d:lng fKot1TJ1"lh·e. Wng/Y''lfl:JltilJ1ll1 AUlitr1l1111and New ZeaJll1d. 8lmo$rh~ tes~ ~ 'fl~ dooumcmaty rahitiWilJwsy- ttHul~ by ateam c.1lJ\Ct"1:$JJre dl"ICl:ll' Frollen in 1960 n:rtd wl:j:"i jlbandoned fu 1915 after inltlll/le ~hIJ Fn:nch authoritic&-ius allow,ed Tahiti1u\ti 6) Hea1ll't OrgBni7.tltlOJJs.ta:u5J.ks On .tlIf1Cf.tr. je£tiOJ1s. rl'llnee.~Jtp1 J'1'\1~Url1's li)'stetllS memtger urdered IJ:lW flowavCf. the WllrltMc19 will 001 be de AUSLralill l:'oU1dfl't afford to esta1:l1iJlb11$ own ~t.ure ~ts ev~ milf ml!lrnelIanc~ thiB. tllldluBoing routine y.ear. STJ..Ri1W1J" *1.""·"JrHUU'I. th"WIlf~t'Ald~ will Buts recenl1ist iiliUL\dto comp:ute:r sIdes acn~ SMW~ we~ll$. TIle AeCmmiin& ()[fjce!;1!id.m Il de. \)e ·rec~l&;d' itlll.l uJhet nudqar men by the US C"tnnlc:roe DcplII'QTlcm ilf;:d repart in lall:' Decl.!.1nbertlt:it it subs'laJi.· thQl ADsrral.hl has five nuclWlr lial pQl1ian of thc CnJise mlssitcs failed in Ba ~aJ¥l"lIs are, fll cOc{Jlnbe mn1Utfl:lCllJred,llro "v£'JY cold"wnrpmlUres. lisl ~~ (:f;Jmplmies Of JJll>lfiU1JLianswhit'h Pilli]}e:t~'al('d:lll"ing USAf officials belicve: UMI Nor1.ltrap A mlill~ oj Wc) lheo. lIesit;h 'l'UcleM weapons. use weapon£ gl'tlIk ~ w~lcr. Corporation failed to PfPperly the crucllU. US difficulty 11'1forelgt1, hllstt P\!AbUilllwls. plUloniurlr ~lr uranium or make he;)\/) d~ ffight tflU\STl1itter.which ens\frc lilable. T.Jh llll.h~a"!llfu huun' ,tthcb.15f':'\·lherl: hil:1h~lllig t"1\=e~ ~1.t(")fI1tj, probJ~m' ha~t" Jbe" lro fhe OC1~enl TIH~ s. NUCLEARDuMPS . FBI anaIll_ lu,l;tiOl' Spwlllih 't'lv.emmcl\l $t\~s It Will .md ilS 3 Oz Fraud 5eetUlft Tt:li:ently impOtmdel;luSUS 1 5 yen'f ul11 bHnl.efet "ul;ttl1'Yi;!1}~l.i\l WWl Llle US New Zhland lllllhtmties are coosid'!nl'l{l a 31> ~rl ~fult million cruise missue ",vide-nee for ltg-a I Sr'ljn h.~ iUl"lirl ''11he tit nuclear Cturnp$lle' in the Au:slTllliaudesert ptoceedIngs .and Nouhnrp dj$r1Ul.;sed!bur of J'll'lymo.tll.~"US.Itti~I~~~.lipllbll)/l.l.l(;rurtl}nlIs ~'Ulse mmr:nOlRunti-nuclear Je&isltl1iCl1\ l!IlfPIQyee.~ d.eJllin~ \!~ls n1Jlfl~IIH~ap.ltble the involved. teniWJ} lllld to th" mu~ive foreigu'1l.ll lotat with pan ()f iIi~Jud~ ~ltIp-; w~IU)' dUlIl)J~ • W;uJtiJlgto'1tJ"'ISJ ptc~r.:ftl::C whkh Ill!: -NATQ ru!\ltU in &nd - will {llso stQpthe S~3. fTaslruCtlU1' fDr ~Ulltr.rrr Fl ing of nuclear v.'D!!'le$at a.l.t1~elJlS r...l.cll.nwhu~ Philippi.nr. I;\;uIc Aeoo1'ding to Dr Andrew McE.W\l.J1, ',#1 Up. rhl: U$ p~~lj~lrl~rr'lIho:z Cl;ltl'lTm rmr liIe of 1,620 yeat6. "g.£J ,!!.. dCllylJlC'lf jl! el,;llC\UU.arZlet IheJ'hilllpUlt!$ on - "'..... !l. slmnrtt CO!lfSC. It)' Nl'v:7,cnJi.Illlf s. NEXUS New Times Four- ut mn1988 23 Self Efficiency Solar Ener.gy RealP wer ----·,nen you hem::of remote area pewee systems in tnemema W'. or in government brochures" solar electric power is por New Light Technology trayedas a less attractive option despite many recent advances. Lights on the olh& hand present a This recommendation againstsolareleclric poweris based on an much br~ght.er piCtt1.re. Qua1"tz-Halo extravagant and wastefulliIesLyle. gen Bulbs are now deSigned to operateon afow yolt.age system more We often take for granted that the plied wiIh an appr-apriate low volt efIlcietltlythanona high voltageorv~. Iittle"~ra whole hoUSE ought to be Hl by stan~ age DC motor. Spending a on more effi th~ dard 240 volt HghlS with power In a car everylhingfrQm~king cientlightingcan help you save.i.n points through:out. This dictates a engine to l"tI11ni.rtg!he air substantialbatterybankpoweringan tinning unitis done quite adequatcly gain the ~xl:rabet¢:it of having II appropriately sized inverter (pro with low voltage DC fn fad it is superior quality of light (a spectrum ducing high voltage AC from 10 generally recognised that IDw voH Similar to daylighO. voltaJ.iC DC) to cope with constant age DC motors have mOTe torque Tn the average240 volt household d~nd. than a 2..ltOwIt Jnol{}r of the same there is no attention paid to., how wattage rating. Why then are 12 volt much powEr'an applianc.e uses, With TIansfonners Unnecessary vacuum deaner5 SO weaJr. and gUI refrigerators, for ex.ample, the em Many electronic gadgets in your ]e$S?Becauae they bave been de phasis seemsto be on space saving: homedepend on gelting their power $1:gned Lobe"cheap and not to use too rather than efficiency, hence they through a transfonner which steps mudl power in order to make t:h h.a'\le thir;mer walls but need more down high '\loftage AC to a low v011 baltery las! longer. The same job pOWer to stay enol. Ideally, therJamg pow~r a,ge AC In most cases thel uld have been done in minutes erattlt sbould be of the lo\.vvohag.e would be as well supplied lnf'if low using more powerbllt over asho'rter compressor motor type~nd prefera voltage DC power 5uppTy(wifbQut time. bly-top opening. needing the tranSformer) and ~uJd Another argument in favour of easily be supplied bya',battery bank. low vol tageis the safety.aspect. DCis BOlh the h:\wtler and the roms saferthan AC Anythingless than120 former <'lJ'C' considerably less than volts DC is not con1ildered lethal, 100% lUficient, and powering one whereas wtLh AC you :need to come with the other just compounds the Cli'lowas32 voltstThereJs slill a fire inl!f.ft.t'iency. You tan run many low hazard, however with low voltage voltagegadgets direct from a b~ttery DC so you must protect the syst.em bank. Where yOl1 do need higher with the appropriate fuses and/or voltage, such as is required by a TV Circuit breakers. tube or electric' fence, you rn:ed 11 specialized inverter to supply that Tuntable Turntable voltage The Rainbow Power Cmnpany of Ausrra.Iia stil1 has vast-areas lbat Nimbi", inroF'pora~as a COI1lp3'!1Y. areremptefromany powergMd..lt is in JUly 1987, has devMoped sev:e:raJ unfortunate (hat lhegove,mmem has j~~ low voltage DE kitchen applia-nces renllyput the 12 volt TV into a and ~lisesin high efficiency low higher taxation bracket, bcwnuSl.!lti voltage lighting. It wiU spon be mar ~.~ ~garded as more of a luxury item keting a modular hi-fi system {in than115240'volt coauterpad- Dot the clUding tmntable} and is devel0ping recent RAPAS grants [see last issuel Withappliances lhal afedlSigned a low voltage washing machine. If are a promising step,. to gt'n~.te beat, suCh as swves and you walll some advice on a more What about such labour saving hOI walerSyBtems, one could look at sustatnable.a1temalive and. comfort appHanb!s itS: food mixers and proc altemtttrvl!' ways of genera*ing that able llff$lyJe,rolne and ask (h~m essors; laundry m~chjnes; workshop hl'ai~bolUedgas, firewood, sunshine, about it lor write). They're not just tools; &ewing machines and vacuum blogas ·or produdngthehe-at-etectri sellingit, they're livifJgif= cleaners? These could be run just as cally if the el~tticity can be S!ener - Pel-er Pedals weU.'Uno! better, d they were sup ated c~ly enough. mlgi] Pestici icide t's ironic that recent threats to Australia's classified as potentially dan8erouss by the happening on Gordon Jarratt's 4OO-hectare JIbeef export industry due to pesticide con Nationa! HelllUt ilnl1Medical Rese.an:h.Coun property near Bribbaree, in central-western tamination should come from the u.s.market. cit and will have a warning printed on the NSW. Mr Jarrott is a chemical-free fanner. Australia is still being used as a dumping label. This follows the recent deaths in the Not a pesticide, herbicideor artificial fertiliser ground for chemicals produced by U.S. com U.S. of three girls who died of brain seizures has been used on the property since 1971. He panies whose products are no longer in use in afterbeing exposed to massive levels of insec believes problems such as pesticides in beef their home country. The chemicals chlordane ticides which contain DEET. and the spread of chemical-resistant weeds and heptachlor - believed to cause cancer and insects will force fanners to adopt organic have been voluntarily withdrawn by the Alternatives fanning. manufacturer, Velsicol, from the U.S. mmet The good news is that alternative control Australian cotton producers could be but are stillused in Australia. DDT, which was measures are available for household and wasting $30 million a year trying to control banned in the U.S. in 1972 for health and envi garden pests. 'n1.eless-toxic synthetic pyre the crop's most important pest, heliothis, rorunemal reasons is still widely used in thrinoids are a viable choice - but the safest according to a Queensland Department of Australiail orchards but banned for other agri bets are the ones you don't spr~y at all. Keep Primary Industries entomologist, Mr Brad cultural use. lavender bags and soap in cupboards - cock Scholz. TheDepartrnenthas tumedits backon Federal and State Govenunent Depart roaches can't stand them. Keep your house chemicals and started investigating alterna ments have remained largely inactive despite clean - don't feed the little buggers. Plant' tive means to control the pest, which also reports dating back to the 19705 of defmite mint, wormwood or pennyroyal in the garden attacks maize, tomatoes and chickpeas. Re health risks when low levels of chemicals are or in hanging baskets near entrances and flies search on a family of native wasps called consumed in food. Toxic waste storage and and mosquitoes will sleer clear. Trichogramma to try to isolate the most effec disposal present major problems in this coun tive member is near completion and field trials try. should be finalised within three years. The Growing Stockpiles wasps would work alone or with a reduced chemicals program to control the heliothis. The huge "milk-nm" organised by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, with farmers asked to leave banned chemicals at the fann Wide Scale Application? gate for collection, is only adding to huge Is wide-scale chemical-free agriculture vi quantities of toxic wa..~tes already in storage. able? A recent US study found chemical-free In 1985 there were an estimated 7,400 tonnes agriculture could feed the country but would of organochlorine wastes stored in N.S.W., not sustain current export levels. This may be 186 tonnes in Victoria and 114 tonnes in only in the short term. Preliminary compara Queensland. Each year 700 tonnes are gener tive research between the two fanning sys ated in N.S.W. and 128 tonnes in Queensland. tems by Ms Els Wynen, a Bureau of Agricul The Confederation of Australian Indus ture Economics researcher has found a$24-a try, Australian Environmental Council and a hectare advantage in favour of the organic House of Representatives inquiry into toxic farms surveyed. On average the eight sustain wastes have agreed that a high-temperature able farms yielded 2.8% on capital and earned incinerator is needed. Many of these toxic $15,659 for every labour year worked, com wastes, like polychlorinated biphenyls, chlo pared with 0.4% and $6,408 for conventional rinated hydrocarbons and dioxin can only be properties. safely destroyed at temperatures oV'~ 1,200 But the Director of the Agricultural and degrees centigrade. Continued lack of action Veterinary Chemicals Association, Mr Allan increases the danger of spills and contamina Morley, claims an all-organic nation would tion by rising stockpiles of waste, much of starve. "With the judicious use of chemicals which is stored in Sydney. an individual fanner can feed up to 80 people On the home front the dangers still persist. In the garden, mineral oils may be used to a year. The organic farmer would come no Most pesticides 'are nerve poisore> and many control mites, scale, aphids and mealy bugs, where near that, given the fall in yields." effect reptiles, birds and animals, including especially on fruit trees. The oils are not One wonders if Mr Morley is aware of humans. Persiitent organochlorines should persistent, virtually non-toxic and have a overseas studies contradicting the pro-chemi never be used in home gardens. Check the withholding time (prior to harvesting) of one cal lobby's viewpoint - and the rapid increase label. day. Pyrethrin, rotenone (derris dust) and over the past two years in the number of Dichlorvos, the active ingredient in some garlic control most insects. conventional fanners interested in organic household surface sprays and pest strips, has methods. We may yet be thankful to the U.S. been shown to be a 'cancer causing agent' by Organic Farming for alerting Australians to the dangers of this the latest U.S. National CancerInstitute study. Home gardeners are not tho Otlly onesturning army of deadly chemicals. N,N-Diethyl Toluamide (DEET), found in to chemical-free agriculwre. Skeptical neigh. G. Nimm many personal insect. repellants, has been bours have been taking mM" ooticeof wbJlt~ Se.e 'Plant Pests' on page 4 AROMAT ERAPYPARTD Last issue we talked about the 'how' and 'why' of The beneficial effects of the oils will not only be absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream, but the fragrance of the Aromatherapy. This time we'll look at the actual oils will alsO do their work on the mind and emotions. Many uses of aromatic substances. people:Jl@y not be aware that oils also form an 'etheric' bridge There are several ways in which they can be used: for healing energies to be transmitted to the patient, enhancing the healing process of the massage. EXTERNALLY A typical recipe f~r a bath, massage or body 011would be: Massage, bath and body oils, inhalants, creams, lotions for 10% Wheatgerm oil (unless the person has a wheat allergy) 50% healing and cosmetic purposes - infusions for hand and foot Sweet Almond oil baths. If the person has a particularly oily skin add 40% Avocado oil INTERNALLY If a person has a dry skin then add 40% Sesame or Coconut oil Encapsulated oils, e.g. tea tree and garlic oils, drops in 'essence' To this base add: form, tisanes and infusions to be taken as teas. 5% Lavender oil, 5% Neroli oil 2% Bergamot oil Essential oils are generallyquite safe when used externally, This oil mix would be most suitable for someone suffering and this method of use is probably best for the layperson. from stress, nervous tension and depression. However, there are a couple of precautions to observe even Inhalants when using aromatics in this way. These are: As inhalants, oils are generally used for their localised action CONTRAINDICAnONS (don't use) for pregnant women; and steam on the tubes of the respiratory system. In this case pennyroyal, cedarwood and camphor only full strength undiluted oils can be used - but only a few CONTRAINDICATlONS for nursing mothers; drops of each. Here are some examples: garlic and sage SINUSITIS: 2 drops each of Niaouli, Pine, Aniseed and Euca CONTRAINDICAnONS for those prone to epilepsy; lyptus oils rosemary, sage hysop, fennel and wormwood BRONCHITIS: 3 drops each of Eucalyptus, Peppermint, CAUTION when giving external applications to people Who Thyme and Benzoin. may be sensitive or allergic to certain aromatic substances. If The inhalation method can also be used for the effect oils have you know a person is prone to skin allergies reacts in so:rne or gil the!>li.bconscious mind ofthe patient. For example, a cotton way to cosmetics, do a skin patch test on the inner forearm with ,walJc:orttaining a couple of drQp~ of each ofthe following can some of the intended preparation and leave covered with a be wafted under the nose of the patient; band-aid for 24-48 hours before proa;eding. SHOCK: camphor, melissa and neroli. ALWAYS ask people if they have any skin sensitivities just to ANX11ITYAITA CKS:bergamot,camomille,cypress, roseand be on the safe side. As a general precaution I recommend that sanClalwood. full strength essential oils are never used undiluted. Fragrant oils can be worn as perfumes or anti-perspirants, When making up a prescription for a massage, bath or bod having both an aesthetic and practical value. For example, oil, I always use a base of one or more of the following oils: Frankincense and Rose may be combined and worn to sweet almond, olive, apricot, wheatgerm, sesame, coconut or stnmgthen the balancing influence of the sun and to help linseed. These oils should be cold pressed so that the nutrient establish harmony and balance in the emotions. Jasmine and values in the oils are retained and sOthe patient doesn'tabsOl"b on oils are of great help for those wishing to develop rancid (and free radical or carcinogenic) substances inlO their 'psychic' abilities and can be worn to aid the moon's influence. bloodstream. 5-10% wheatgerm oil to the base oils, is an insuranceagainst Aphrodisiacs & Healing Lotions oxidation. The vitamin E content of wheatgerm oil helps to Neroli oil is known to be great in attracting the male of the slow down oxidationoftheoil base. It's bestto keepall your oils species. I have personally found a blend of sandlewood, rose, in amber or coloured glass bottles. This further prevents the honeysuckle and patchouli to have some interesting effects! effects of sunlight, which causes oxidation. Plastics also cause Creams and lotions are very easy to prepare. An example of an oils to break down more rapidly. effective healing cream is as follows: When handling oils remember to maintain strict hygiene, 2 mls Lavender oil clean hands, clean utensils and a clean work space - preferably 2 mls Eucalyptus oil a room which is dust free and which does not have too much 5 mls Calendula oil human traffic. This room should be a space set aside for your 5 mls St John'S Wort oil WOrkwith oils, cool and dry, where they can also be stored. all in an absorbent cream base of about 50 gms. Applied to assage, bath and body oils can be used for similar pur burns, cuts and wounds, it is strongly antiseptic and encour poses, i.e. one mix can be used for either. No-one can dispute ages wound healing, leaving little or no scarring. Similarly, es the amazingly beneficial effects of massage - what a bliss it is! sentialoils with cosmetic uses canbe blended intoa cream base But add to it an oil blend specifically for the person btling and then used as moisturisers and cleansers. ma.ssaged and you have a winning combination. 26 NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 FlX}til1\.d band baths are sLmp1e,fast,efWctive, safea.nd!>UN Below is a list ofeoml1lon essential oIls and.Hwtr usts. methoQ:s of treatment which also utUi5e tlte bcnclit:s Q{ ANISEED: FQr llet'\'OUS dysfiepsia and ila~uler\~ migrah;u;, hyuJ1)therapy. The dried herb Bahn or Melissa (Mdisso. of/id vertigo. roH~ In babiQ$, asthlT1i', brpnchi-a! problems, sinusitis. ntilis) Or the es:sentiaJ 011 of thaI plant can be:!eJnl'll;fyoo as " eaRGAMOT:St1mulatesappetite,good foTCQijcdue lotnles- tr(!atmenHor niigrdinc using a nand rmd foot bath. Unal infection,indigestion, fn«::st.htal para~itcs. Take a lmndiuJ oftM "erb (fresh if possible) Qf 10 drops of CARNATION: WIU! Rose, help.s' prevent and heal Sl1'etd) the neat (undiluted) esscntial oil, Cover wjth bonIng water in mllTk,SI.C.V(lS et'1$Ucity {'O the skin.. the (ase of the Iterb!>Olnd allow to steep UrltiJ cool enough to_ CA)lWIJT: C"stric.~pasm, dysentery, d,ysmenOlTltea, Mthma itmne:rse handsandleet. In thecase of(Ii15~se.warm water. The :and brol1ehiaJ problems. patientplac:eshands and feetin two separatedish esoonralmng OiAMOMfL& Far hU<.ld~htHtnd migraine. a>lk in babies, ~ the berb water, and rold compresses are placed on bac.\otof inSQJJ\nia. ntlrvousd~ion, menstrual problems in women. theneck. Thissnouldbe.(Jone fornoJongerthan 10minl.l1esand (alminS and soothing to the nervQus syat:etn. t1Cpellted night and llfOrninguntil symptoms go. ,OVE: For lung infections. toofharne; ~~16 mnst:p..iito$.and Internal Use l'I'Ioth~, ve:ryannscptic, far digestive fOmplwNs. C"lPRE$S: For haeTflQ17hoitb, vanco:;e veins, iheumatiml, The internal Useof e!lsen~l oils needs to be appro4lCltedwith inf'luenza, whooping cough, o'llarian and I'IlenOpausal P:rOb mOM caution. Most people are familiar With the ltse of oUs In 1e:m1t7Also fur fluid I"ettmtio.n.and 'J:etlu1ite'. capsule form, ltke Troooil for Ute ~tmenf orCm.dilfa and TU Veryanfisep.tk<,~m5 WCAL~: bacterlaand parasites, an. ther fungal pl'obt~ms; .mil CarJic, nature's antibiolic, tOYltli' )l'\~l ropeUent and SQOUdng 10 coughs and colds Dlssolv£lS use in the treatmoot of .all n:spir Th~j.1se 'El$Sence$' is of as,atbrm ofll1ternal medlc:alton not CARJ,,,IC1Nl1tlJ~antlbioticlFoTa1lin(~tjonsanywhttreinthe Clr '~n:ee' rac.t 1;1tl so w;deIy,pra<:t1sed Known. A", is in a t>ody,bothasa preYe11tat1Ve-anrllu'a curative agent. AlsagoOd i.e. 1 011 t.o H10 clil.uUon ()!thuS$ential oil, adropsof rnls afthe fOThigh bl(!)('jd pressu-reil.nd Jowerlflg (;holesteT'olle...els. base, Whit'n iti"often ltralidy Qr s9me olher s-pirll. Not aU GEltANlUM: For urt·nary stones. l1terine haemQrrhasc, diabe• un.J~ essel'ltiaJ ojls~an be ta9m mlemaUy, however, SQ some tes,to SQothe ttlN'ihtis. formal study of this form of medication is undertaken. or you GINGER: To stimulate appetite, for cHgesltve upsets, for oore are a"bsolulelysureofthe.cssential oD, U's best lO lC4Vetltis fonn throat and tonsilitis. of treatment to trained professionals. HYSSOP: Paustorna, lulyfever,chrt)ok bronchitis,cough and Essential oils are e:xtr camomille, melissa.. juntpe:r. fennel, an~edt buahu. thyn'll!. AtOl11itthernpy is y~ another gift oJ healing from our Mother sage, rosemary, rose, sautllemwood. WQ1iT1Wood. lim.. bl0 Eartl1 - lJ!>C it-Wi~ely -and. enjoyi.t "" som.lavender, lemon aBd oranse blossom to name a few. by Susan O'Neill NEXUS New Times f'our - Autumn 1988 27 ~··~·~)x·M·~·····~·U]v~o~~ii~ • • VITAMIN IMPORTANCE DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS RDA TOXICITY • • • Vitamin A Growth a repair of Night blindness. sealy skln. frequent 5,000 ioU. 50,000+ may • (Carotene) body tissues, eye fatigue, 10$$of smell & appetite be toxic if no • health, Infection deficiency •• 11 htsr • Vitamin BI Carbohydrate Gastrolnfestlnal problerm, fatigue, 1.4 tng men Ino known • (Thiamine) metabolism, appeltJs loss. nerve a heart 1 mg women oral toxicity nervous sy$'em, disorders .5mg~r growth & muscle 1,000 calor- tone a tlte Iss eaten 2 Vitamin 8 Carbohydrate, Eye problems. mouth sores a 1.6mg Ino known (Riboflavin) fat a protein cracks, dermatitis. refQ('ded adults. oral toxicity metabolism. Aids growth, digestion disturbances .55 mg per red blood cells a 1,000 cal. antibodies..Cell 11'0"01"1 Vitamin B6 Carbohydrate, AnCBmla. mouth dltorders, 1.8 mg men Ino known (Pyridoxine) fat & protein nervoLlSl'less, mUSCUlar weakness. 1.5 mg oral toxicity metabolism. dermatitis. sen$UMty to inaulln women, Antibody format- .2 mg per Ion. Sodium a 100 mg of phosphorous protein levels 1 • Vitamin 8 2- Blood cell form- PernJcJous anCBmla, brain 3 meg Ino known • (Cyanoco- alton, pro!eln, dOmage. nervousness, I adults oral toxicity . • balamin) carbohydraJe. I neuritis • fat metoboll$m • I3 • Vitamin B Ne9ded for Degenerative disorders Ino known • (Orotic acid) rnetdbollsm of I I tOXicity •• some B vllamins • Biotin Carbohydrate, Dermatilis. greyish Ski') 150 to 300 Ino known • fat & protein depr8$$ on, musele po n. I mlcrogms oral toxloity • metabolism Impairment of fal m.taboU.-m, • poorappetlte • • Choline Imporiant In ~atty llv.r, hOlrmorrhaging Average Inoknowh • normalllelVe laney•• hIgh biood diet pro- oral toxicity • • transmission, pr(l$Sure vldes 500 • metabollses a to 900mg • transports" fatt. per day • ~egUlates gall • bladder,lIver • • • Folic Acid Important In POC»'growth. gastro- 400mcg Ino toxic • (Folacin) red blood cell Intesllnol disorders, I adults effects • formation,. Aids anCBmla, 8-12 • prot"n meta- deficiency bolism. Needed for growth and di\lls.fon ()I body cells •••••••••••••••••.••••.••• .' It •••••• ;It .1••.••.•••.••...... •.....•... VJalJ~~a & ® ~rw~~lJ • VITAM'IN PORTANCE DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS RDA TOXICITY • • • Inositol Neccessary for consllpation, 4ICIema. hair loss, high no known • lecithin formation. blood chotest.rol toxicity • vital for hair growth • • Niacin CarbohYc:lr-ate. O.,rmalltli. neNaLII disorders 1.8 mg men 100-300 mg •• (Nicotinic fat a pmteln 1.3 rng Nicotinic Acid • Acid, Nja~ melabollsm. Women orally or 30 rng • cinamlde) Ski,... Ionlilue a 6.6mg per Intravenously ."• dlg&$tlon 1,000 cal. may prbduce • s1deetrects • • PABA AidS-b.l:Jeterlo Fat1gue, Irritability, depre,sslon, Continued high • produce Folic nervousness, cOf'Istlpatlon, Ingestion may • Acid, red blood hea~oc-hes, digestive be toxic • cell production. disorders, greying hair • Good sunscreen • • Pantoth Aids formation Vomiting, restlessness, .5 to 10,000 to • enic Acid of some fats a s1omoeh stress. 'he.r.ased 10 mg. 20,000 mg as a • some vitamin susceptibility to lntectlon. ddults N calcIum solf • ulfHzo.flon Insulin ",nsitlvlty children may have • $Ide _".-cts • • VitaminC Maintains Bleeding gums, swollen or painfUl 45mg 5,000 to • coHagen, joints, slow Il4U:~II"g wounds and adults 15,000 mg • helps heal fractureS. bruising, nosebleeds, dally over a • wounds. scar Impaired drgellJon prologed • period • tissue a breaks. may • Strengthens have side • blood vessell. effects In some • Aids In Iron people • absorption • • Vitamin D Improves ab Poor bone a tooth formallon, 400 1.U. 25,000 I.U. may • sorption of softening of bones a teeth. iddi,JllJ be toxic over • calcium a inadeqtH3t. qbJOrplion of extended • phosphorus. calel\.lTTl, ,alenllon.of pho$pborus perIods • Maintaltls heart in kidneys • action a riervoll • system • • Vitamin E Protects fat-soluble Rupture 01 ,.~ blood cells, muscular 151.U. men 4,000 to 30,000 I.U. • proteins" ted blood Vlottlog, abnormal fat deposits In 121.U.wome of tocopherol for • cells, essenlial In muscles prolonged periods • cell respJro,flon, can produce side • Inhlblls coaOUlatlon effects • • Vitamin F Imporfant for respir II,U'le, lustreleu hO.I' a nalls, dandruff, 10~ot total Intake should not • ation of ,,110.1organs. dlarrh,ea, varicose veins cll:llorfes. Men exceed what Is • MaiflWJns resilience need 5 times needed to main • a lubrloatlon ot cell$ more than tain desirable Regulotes .blood women weight coag~dllon. Essential for normal glandular ©NEXUS 1988 activity ~MtO k Festiv view Over the new year of1977·78, 10,000-15,000 people gath ered at Mt Oak near Bredbo, NSW, helping to create a new society. When the Confestended, a fewhardy soulsremained to build a community on land that was bought by donations at the festival and which has, through a convoluted and sometimes tortured history, become the first "free land" in Australia. The land was arid and overgrazed - like much of this country - and it was hoped that by diligent application of ecological principIes it couldbe restored to fertility, showing the potential ofalternative management. Many felt that you couldn't find a better way to monkey·wrench a fledgeling Down to Earth movement. Nonetheless, there is something special about this land that defies analysis - and it's a living example of what we've done to this country. The opportunity to attract 'new blood' onto the site - with the return ofthe alternative movement ten years later - was largely missed. The original Mt Oak festival was held by the Murrumbidgee River, but this one was held on rough, un shaded sections 2 to 5km from the 2.5km river-frontage. Access to the original site - where the occupants have built some dwellings, including icosahedral domes - was discour aged, so few saw what had been done With the site. Early warnings from many individuals and the Victorian Down to Earth organisation that the festival should be held on the river were unfortuna.tely ignored, partly out offear of soil erosionDtt the riverbanks. A totl;\llack ofshowers, child care and of trllllsport for children and pregnant women led to more enterprising campeTIl organizing a shuttle service to the river themselves· in fact, organizing large parts of the festival ad hoc, a lesson in self-sufficiency. Had the festival been held by the Murrumbidgee, organizers would have received the backing and organizational ability ofthe Victo rian Down to Earth movemeot lind might then have at tracted thousands more than. the 1,500 to 2,000 people there. For about a third of those who attended it waa their first festival. Hopefully, it won't be their last. This was n time for people across Australi!\ to network closely together and .there were a number of people representing t.he Rainforest Information Centre, AASC, Getting Together, Green Alli ance Permaculture groups and others. Many constructive workshops were held and a large portion of the land bene fited from new irrigation and copious human manure. These festivals are designed to focus disparate forces within the alternative movement from all over the country into an area where tbey can rub shoulders - but at Confest 88 people were dispersed rlghtaetUils almosL3,000 acresonand - resulting in two or throe 'mini-festivals' instead ofs single cohesive one. The orgamsor/residents were heavily stressed. We can learn much from this festival, and the next one will be better as are(f\1lt· wh~reverit may be held. There is a growing need for people to work together in unified strate gies, moving in common directions to heal the planet. Australia's 'tyrrany of distance' can be momentarily overcome by this sort ofnetworking combined with a GOOD RAGE· which the ConfestUJaii. despite its flaws. MountOak '88 was a symbol of the alternative movement as a whole down to Earth hope, eomedy and drama encnpsu]nt While NEXUS cannot verify all of this report, independent sources corroborate many of the following claims· but it's a can of worms whichever way you look at it! Be warned. At the moment we're allowed to Studies in which a group of information tween the Tidbinbilla space tracking fa- protest debate and demonstrate specialists was assigned the task of de- cility and the microwave tracking facili • . n' . ht tak velopingasystemofdailysurveillanceof ties in the Black Mountain communica· under democra c ng s we e all" th ·th b' . I . C b Th I . citizens at was nel er 0 VIOUSnor tlOn tower comp ex 10 an eera. e for granted. But according to for- obtrusive. The group's recommendation Deakin Centre is also the Pacific Re mer Department of Social Secu- was a national system ofelectronic funds gional Headquarters for the NASA satel rity investigator Peter Sawyer. transfer at the point of sale (EFT-POS). lite network. there are people who want to take According to Sawyer, most transac· A group of politicians (including h fr d f h tions (mainly bank & financialinstitution Barry Jones and Wilson Tuckey) were ro~ u~ t ese ee oms ~way w 0 transactions) are now by EFT. conducted on a limited tour of the Cenlce have almost achIeved therr aIm - a "Once it's fully operational early this at the end of last year, and were told l1lat total ID surveillance system with a year, you won't be able to go anywhere or the massive database contains dossiers dossier on every Australian. do anything without them knowing on every Australian and that each gov- w~at ~ou:!e Author of the highly controversial where y~u are: doing and emmenl Department has access to them. to~d book Dolebludging: a Taxpayer's who you r~ domg it. With. Sawyer Guide. he is no stranger to controversy. an alternative gathenng at Mount Oak 10 He and his wife registered for Unemploy- January.. . . parh~en- ment Benefits in six States. defrauding .He has Identified o~~r 30 Social Security - and then appeared on tanans, across traditIOnal. pO~ltlc~1 national TV to describe how easy it was. boundaries who are cooperating 10 thiS Prosecuted by the Federal Government, scheme. bllt says ~t these people. are hlg~er he has gone on to produce Inside News, a controlled. f~m a level compnsed monthly newsletter detailing what he of Australia stop busmessmen and bank• 'describes as a surreptitious National ID ers. In all there are about 500 conspira• ( computer system already operating in ,tors, he says. Australia. National Computer Centre Sawyer has been addressing gather- "Everything you were told would never o ings around Australia over the past few happen under the ID card system they nt± months. In the course of following up have already set up in Canberra, among In the National Computer Centre what appeared to be "massive bungling other places. at a place known as the sharing the same database for at l~st the and incompetence and waste and ineffi- Deakin Centre," Sawyer says. Under last two years - is the Taxation Depart ciency and decisions made for political pressure from Sawyer. the Minister ment, the Departments of Social Secu expediency". what Sawyer believes he for Social Security. Brian Howe. ad- rity, Aviation and Transport, COQ1muni discovered was not bungling and incom- mitted in November that the Deakin cations, Defence (bringing the data base petence. "buta ruthlessly efficientplan to Centre is not merely a Telecom ex- under the cloak of "national security"), tum this country into a totalitarian state." change as it is officiaUy listed. but is the Health Insurance Commission in Sawyer's allegations may sound really The National Computer Centre. cluding Medicare, the Australian Bureau alarmist and far-fetched. However. his The Centre. in Kent street. Deakin (a of Statistics, several smaller government information comes from over 300 public Canberra suburb). has two to four feet departments and a new departmentcalled servants and the entire system is laid out thick conCrete walls guarding the central State Computing Services - the facility which will soon computerise the State in a book called Towards a Cashless computer and houses some $1.~ biUion Society. a report to the Prime Minister worth of computer hardware. making Governmcnts' Births, Deaths and Mar prepared by the Australian Science and the centre the most expensive undertak riage records, motor vehiclc registra Technology Council. ing in Australia. tions, drivers' licences, gun licences and The report looks at the implications of The October 1987 issue of Pacific land titles information. Carefully preserved Family Allow the growing use ofelectronic funds trans- Defenu Ob.fervtr says that the Deakin fer and cites a 1971 sUldy by the US Centre. with five antennae. is the main ance records have established names" Centre for Strategic and International communications switching station be dates of birth and parents for everyone Alternative Modern History under 40. AU tbeinformatiODsuppJied t98~ on the suppos~Jy confidential Census forrnsbave been added, ac cording to Sawyer. t,'-:;..!i!"f.. ..--~ [,,~,.,,~~ The NSW Dep.anment of Momr . ~ ...... ..."•..• ~,,~.-,"':j;~~~~ ~ Tmnsport has already made arrange...... '.,;~~:4' r U~ n~w mCDlS with a bank to NSW ":~:;: ~'-:: .. " ~~ driver's licences. which will carry phot() :..... graphs, as credit cards. The banks ,f'uwe been netwarldng among themselves, so we can now go to • ":r ! ID Cards and Videoscan wl;eksforcriliealstafflneaseofcivilin· _. of _ Ave. Rose~ry. 12 mUllon application forlDS tor the.JD surrection. Sydney. Tmnsfer of funds was ammged Card have. been printed aJ. the Moore Contrived Emergencies lhroughMr .. . 's M;n:btml Paragon High SeclJriLy Comple;Jt in . . .).. " .. ·1...... BiPlk. ~and they aracurrcnLly New IDcard ~egU~.lAUOfl wtl, lJlI' teUltro- being J'lidden by moving them around Wooongain Vicmria. jlC~OrdtnglO Sa~~ dut~ lOParli3mCJ11: various warehousesand stores:owned by Ihls'YeJIC~$1d ~dJ ye:r.ll1 Mm'tltor AP:~d Me ..... _both prominclltW,A. be offered as a solution 10 COUlnved elYO bu' emergenctCS. •me1uumg.... · II senes.' ana-f· smessmCIl. tiona! SJ:ri.kes. a coal strike •• especially IntematIoo.aJ LInks Causillll.OOljor power blackouts - bot The tOtalSI!TVeiUanoesystem is part oft! most signil1cmnly a scaged Aborlgirlal warld-wlde plan supervised by the world incident wbicb cdUld occuraroundtyfay, banking families. lIar-vcy Rt'JCkefellu, during which caches of Rossinn and setlior nephew of the Rod rom oyerseas. And it will be in respo~ However y{')u regard Me Sawyer's infm.,. The plastic blanks for the cards to 'black. people who will be' '$booung ma1kJn.his fiIStissue of/n.sijfe News WJS have been manufactured at N(L..Litt: white people, and they won't 00 AusU'8- denounCOO$ liesby the Govemml;U1t.By Plastics iIlBrookva1~ in Sydney. and sent Uan Aboriginals eillter. They're people the lime his Wird newslcner tuldbeell Lo E1\rtI lamin~gand Thorn for insert who've be0n broughL in from ovc~a.,,:' printed, many of his claims had been ing the magt'leticslrips. Sawyer wId lhe MOUfltOak DleelJrtg.1n. verified by GovernmMl 'sources - but PhOtOgidphs will pol be ,required in DeccUlbcr.there were oots instigated in dismissed as "irrelevant'. the new ID card)lystem becauseOfanew Redfern. Bourke 8nd~e by ublacks" Even if Peter Sawyer is entirely lE;:hno1ogy culled videoSCM. A vide un.knownt? local Aboriginals. ..wrong,'8 rnajorcomputercorperation h.a.s oscan is a digitised electronic pitlUl'e. Theens~nceofanarmsand ..mubJ- _at very least- ripped hundreds of mil. which can be fe,dStraigflL in1.0aC:Qmpu\.Cr UDns ~acluun Western Australia was lions of dollars off the Austratianpoople and is considered themostinfalHble rec veril1ed last year by the Common- by stUing us a Sodal Security c6rnpure:r. ord Of identilY available:. ~OnOWl?g wealth Ombud.~man's office system whioh didn't work - and the Thet8 are buses with all the equip, complaints b)' Snwyer. The Scmor AsStS- Government has failed (0 prosecute t1ient necesSary ~OT videoscanoiog al t.ant Ombudtman, Mr Williamson, has themI Some of his allegations s.houldbe raady ,prepared for lOur.ing lJle, country. apQI~ ~p~t- wherev~ ~ been giVen .~ by the Ihorougbly investigated, ~ecllI'Jty Abon![~u~r Other Centres men~orS~lfil and truth may lie. Wespologise for A!fam for dJ"'e.r1ingfunds from Abotigl- Australia's Ubcll:aws. Besides the NationaJ Computer Cenu~; naJ.communiues for these pUJPOsesand Happy Bicentenary. Australia! there ateaIso Stau:rheadquat~rs· cullcv wen::forgiven by Ule Ombudsman after don points fettding inW 9taT.e'tlatabase.''i they wd mat Uley wouldn't do it again! Th:eG mstonie Fit 'art 4 Gemstone File is a synopsis of a thous'J,nd page report by Bruce Roberts, reportedly the US inventor of a synthetic ruby manu factur.in;g process, Jt is a classic ~conspi:tacy theory' ound on purported machinations lurking behind the US government - and those of [her COWl tries. Hand-distributed for a decade, it is now reprinted in NEXUS Th.eSelf- Assass,in Kennedy Coverup Julv 1969: Mary Jo Kopechne. devoted JFK girl and laler on. The camplete cGverup of the ChappaqUlddlck murdvl fequlred c! BobbY'l trU$fe:d aides, was in charge 01 packing up hl.IlltU the hel/ll' of Pollee Chief Arenosj. the MQSKl~"'U$4flts HlghwoV froITfiCJddV~. anal his (Suosslnalloh .In LO$ Angeles. She reqd IQO much. .PcrtTollw"o'c~:mfj5(;(lted' the- plotas ear afler 11weu learned tiboul the Kentledy Malia Involvement arid other fhJng•. fI$JleQ g~1 or Ihe pondh jl.ldges; tho Massaehufeffs legh.lalt.i1., si'.. ·sald' 10 frlGndi; "l1lIslsn't Cam.', this Is murder." Whfc::l'lchtU'i~8d (J 150·yOQr old k2w requIrIng an autopsy (Whl'Cl"l , She waf e;,nheneslldeallstlc Amerit;an Calhollc who dldn' wouldhOVe l1aveaftt Joe AIIQlo and Dllmocratlc brgWlgt SWig, Shorensltaln, SChu 10'101 l,.,slructlol'\1 flom tflm 'hot Marv Jo 'HOI nOlllQ b. ts'~h.lJbed mann al'ld lhx:hlai leddy's good friend John lunnoy t:etllfid to and n.ol 'QIMl1l on dn (ll,dopsy; a PennsYlvat1la morfllQT'f whlilte compldfnlhrrt Aliolp', friend Cyril Mag"1n and ofnel& hOd trle would hove an Qasler run lot Governor. TeddV called Al[e>tO.w':'o W(ll '''Q.$$/gned to a f'U'W lob - seeuflty Chltt 10f PQ~rtrc leI rold hIm II:! go to heil; Ihen Teddy called the rest to alrange lor vel Phc:ln&l C1:fldWhIch nellor said a wcrcl QbolJl Tacldy'. (.requh anolhlu MQflo murder. equIpment) ptUg.-I/l cotto,,« pfjone; th. US Senate: 01. llJdge MolY Joe IIKI up wUh Mallo bunshit, ran screaming ouJ of l1'1e whQ Pf&.ldc:u:!a...... l' the mock healing, ililmt&l. Q&$ton. edftor of r:olio9~on !hfrway taltalph Nad.r. Drunk(m Teddy offDIad to MCUlho's VlneytJrd" oniV newsl'OJ)8t, who nevar h90rd tl word atth~ugh h~vlng ~'lll" hel' tQ tmJferry. Trying to gWoWQV from curloU.IOctlJ $:1ert!t CibolJt Teddy a phone at the collage tesldel'l" look; [email protected] ott lowardl Ihe bridge, busied MoWJo', nOJ c.clled Illt(l Jelllh:enewsPC1per,th. New York nnut},th. W(Uhlng. Wf1en ~l'1e frted logrQb his-arm from' tn. bee\{, .seaton.d bQl/lKl out ton P.ast,81e, JOM fUOM.Y'U]$t_•• Joort, Q'\l&rheafd l1a, brOth.,'!! fA~fXi!- ollhe ~ os. It wGIlf off the bridge. Mary JQ, wllh o Dusled f\o$4t, end G·'the I'hone call rnt:.1de from her hoY.- I" TIbUrOn btoQlhsd 1l1ilde an air l:*Ubble, In th.ear fOt morethan two hour. ntlY In Haiti· rd, 10 the- ChappaqIJlddlck CQlfa.ge WQUlng tot help whlle T.c1dy, assumlng! she was dead,I,," her 10 The doy arter Mary Jo dlttd,'1QOn I' ~urtoCXIle In the sl.l>bmerged car whU. t\e ran to wt up an oUbL 1he WOI kldnopped by Mr:llla koodJ MQd anl:J AdamO. The 60~ClV$, Mory Jo flnallY suffocated In the alt bubble. diluted with lb~k'd 1'1.,UPina Ma,..llllill tleroln 1oet cal'bcli dlo.tl£1e flt)m het exl'lQla"ons; It took her two houri oncl31 h.rClI~ fum"s mad. her a Junkie (no n•• dle Marks). They rhe ,efUl11 ""1MtJI•• to SUffocate ¥lhfle reddy bq" Joseph Kennedy 1II114~QI a umsQ ",.rlooUJoutilde tne facfory Upon her hOme, When t>OCl and ferry hIm aer!)ss to EdgQffOWTl, Marx Jo wa$.stlll pound· her hf,lfbaJ\d tomplained 01 hQr JIOfled behctvlout, she cut off hit Ifl.Q Clh I"'Guptumed Il0orboClfds of· T.ddy scar whlre.leddy tlfKld wlltt on (1)(. god wgs. Ulbaequ4mtlyloeked lJ~ In on'Q.$VIUr'l'll pl'tcnlildJaclde and Onass!. on ltl. YCIOht edst/nc. Teddy aim belongIng to ttl. MOfql.less 01 BlandlQld,lhen TIl"'l L1Vl:1I'1011Oflca· caliedtrrotntltJl'l1iI Craham (of the WashIngton fIo,t'! ernd hll taw .'5' hu&!:xmd. Mart and Adorno got r:nemtd In1CtIC1dP mvlaJ In1J yell flite. Joc::lde phoned the Pope IF neltt marnJn9J tn. 'fI(lt Pilrlon Teddv tried to cell all·. mQlwthlngu::ome \tnglued.ltleJFl< murder thliraleneQ Il>com~ 01 w. IdinQ he W£ll,j~ hove 10 take the fOP /llrnNtlf was' lawyer ut ttle woodWGi'k, alaek..Pantlte:rsHampJon and CtorJ( 8urk,e MOIi$Mall.Onossls' friend Irom th. U.S. 'Uberty SnIp'$' deal mutQ.feQ (the Chl~C:Jgo Police fired over the head of AflOTl\DY Ch'Q'rl.~ t bee....11'1 tl'1Ji) 1940t (see IS$lJli' 1) and also ttle deslgnClled c::usto- GarfV) baCQUS'* of what they knew about the fBI JFJ( dIan "01JFIC's brain alter Dallal (the bcai... Iragnw/l1$ tlov. Jlnee mlJlQftf squad's Pffief\CO' alCtTtCQgo On Nov 1 1963. I dISOPJ1e01ed) S.epTember 1969: "GemsloMs-, with hl:ttorloJe. hCld been relecuad OIOL/ltd Ih. globll tor several vear.. In 1969 I(ob"rts ave a ~mslone with hl'tDrv to MQcl(. hlllClQ of Callfotnld e.R.E.E.Y., fpi Nixon, with Ihe proposition· the Presldel"lCY. In .elUln 10r .'plng out lhe Mafia. The ~history" Included Teddy'& p~Clne «Ills to and f.rom the D.H. lawrence cottoge on Chap pcrquldcll<:k - blliQd to T4KfdY" home p~one IfI HYQnnIGporl. "'1"011,beThi Matra himself, wasn't Interested., bu, kept fhrr Inror· rnaffClfl to 1,1"on teddy w~enever It seemed aClvanlagGQus. MoV" 1910: Charlotte FQfd Nlarchos coiled her ttJ(·hU$bond JoVIOI. wOrfl1lK2abOUt the Ford FO\lndal!Otr'l'lrwol'vement in the CtlQPpaqlJlddJck coVer-up. Eugenle livOnC)s NloJc1lo5, In bed wlln hat hl.lsband, gverheatd the conversation. ... SfavrOl \Vcr,. fOrced 10 billa! her 10 deCIth. he ruplured hm Hughes' Funeral :$pha:et\411dl;lroke-lllecol1l1oga in hvrthroQt. Ccrtua oldoolh we. April 18th 1971: Howard Hoghe,s.a huma" yagelClbll; a!i listed as "OVerdo$Q Of l;lorblturotEls", l!'laugh .QLlfQpsy ~howlild Huull of M~OU" brain dan"lQge ol'ld Ml:Ifla trllQlment d.LI.rlng illr hes& II1Jude t9.57 huJtia and hf.long confinement (phJi 14 yPc!u i)f tHilIQIQ' grew sfeke' a",d l1oker.,A.ffnal dose01 horoll'l.r:1Id111m Ill, ,UHl-Ql'llo WdJ fowered Into the seo 'rom a rocky headland ~l't tl1ft'00$1 c:H oward Hughes Hoax Sl 'reset1t 01 the tU"ilual were: Jackje J(enTleciy OflO).51¥:"tf)dlJ~ End of 1970; Th-prltwnce Of Howard tfugh's wen no longer Kennedy; Francis L. Dale, Director of C'EEP and on Ihe mbollm:z Vfelrll::I1~e: nlqutred HIs hClnttwrlOnQ e.oula be dupllcQled by a l%l:Imput.r or directors; Tam Pappa$, ol~ CRaP; and a SoUth I~ (f8od Bli/ish eXMlo l1genf.ton FlemIng's Jonflf5 Bond J)ook$ In CQfdlnall1Qmed ThIJe..O#\O$SiI allowed $Om~ pl'lolagrophs which Hugh,,) and Ond"I, or. 'hfilly d!sgUlffid). All Ihe knOWn taken trom a distonco; tie hlm.. I' did not apPOar. ThCl;plellJIQ$ fac'. aboul hiS I1f. had b_n CQl1Tplled and CI computerlsee were published In Mldn,ght, a CClnCldloAk:lblold' •.Mbanltln 1fQg bioyrgphy luued to lop ·.il.lgh!t$" executl\les. HI, dQUble • men, IJpped. Qn. were woltlng und., the waler, ThQySOln'<11fl' ~ee'or - had been dolflg Hugho, tor V(far" And Hugh•• wd57111 eOITlncmd look Ihe corpa ott ttle Vugasfpvla, 11'11l1'1io'C.hlnr:: :lnd Clifford I/'VI"". Qul/1or ot Hoax. a bOok about al'l on forger, Ri.USlOol'ld 11'1.11to Boston In a toot Jacker. J'h() oorpse" d.nlaJ became In!ltl85fecl in Hlolgha, and want.d '0 do (J bOClll.on "lm Wolf( YIPS compared to Hughes' very own de"lel fGCQtd$ ana U~n.Q on fblm heheard th.-Medile rron8CIl\ gossip that "1;luQhe$' they matched. "'Hugh~" w~ Q hQQX too. He _nllo I'o-ctlll.ed Merman MotTo Uhe $Jx -mrrsemD.ldli') for Information. One of thorn, Merrvmtm. Truth Out? perhaps lired of 11'\&OCll1le. gOY" Irving a copy of Ih. c;ompule.r N.Wlot Hugh."" d~ln.th" usmke¢ver by OrtauJa, and the rOtl uadHughaf bIography, and Irom " Irvingwrole. hi. "autObiogra mrwund'ng the murder of JFK. RFIC.Marlin luther ~fug. MQr, J phy". Kopo.ohne Clod many more, and t!'Ie 5LlblequeMlcovcnupt Hughos' (fOQlh WQ$ expQCIQd .hartly P,eparaIlon.s w.ore nhVCliVl.ngstllH~ann murders) has been clrc:ulolfUf mOllMd '/l belrrg macfe $0 tha' iI·would nol1nle"',c. with the-Qrderly contlnu ptlbliclSQlj "J,ecfe' dePQrture" trorn las V~asto the loMmas. US lodns, .QrtJllU O(Id what_ve, _lie It wO-"t5.All Ihev hove 10l:So JF~ December 1970: Onos$\s dlwoyafed hf*ltl1sk1ke QM !'lad tJ m.enllon th~. i'flCfglc wcirCIs; Hugh•• , RFK, MlK. MU{ • wordl to ¢onJUl'8 by. Which onc.lttoked can't b. unleoke(j. 01'1 MeTrymQl1 kJlte pllce ~ they did a bll ot loollng Of'l the Canadian Stock ElCho" (MOCfOOI'lMi::lflo £(:k~tsley presIding) and on l'b Londen, Ef'lglcnd. Next Issue: Wt'!eJ8 tl",Qy ~IQd LIp at Rothschild's Inn of the Park. 'he Vietnam War and world dtLIg·traf'Je Nuclear Colonialisln Proponents of a nuclear-free Pacific are look ing with alarm as the U.S. and France extend their influence in Fiji and Micronesia. The Commonwealth withdrew aid to Fiji after 1987's coups and France is providing an aid grant of A$17.9 million for local develop ment. A mixture of grants and bank credits, much is expected to go to the sugar and tour ism industries. No military assistance de ma71fkd by Fiji has been forthcoming. Briga dierRabuka has formally relinquishedconlrol to a civilian government, but retains the pow erful Ministry for Home Affairs and the army remains in conlrol of Radio Fiji. A family car was lifted off the Eyre of the car to the Forensic Science Centre,;"ho The presenceof AUSlralianand U.S. naval Highway by a bright white, egg pronounced it was burned rubber particles. fleets in Fiji at the time of the coup which shaped object with a yellow centre deposed the anti-nuclear Labour coalition Independent Sightings may be a coincidence, but there are reports near the Western/South Australia A sighting also came from fishermen lOOkm thatC.I.A.-Irainedspecialists were flown in to border on January 20th. away. Senior Sgt Jim Furnell in charge (If execute the coup. At 5.30am Faye Knowles. 48, and her Ceduna Police told reporters: "Ano~report The U.S. is also extending its influence in three sons were driving from Perth to Mel came in from the pilot of':turm ~tting-plane Papua Niugini. Green Beret "special advi bourne in a FordTelstarwhen they swerved to flying over theGreat Aus1'nili.an Bight,Besaw sors" are already training and directing local miss a large glowing object on the road about the object over the sea and saw it sit above a troops, as refugees continue to cross the Irian 40km west of Mundrabilla. The Telstar was trawler below. Jaya/P.N.G. border. Incursions by Indonesian chased at speeds of up to 200krn/h by the 'The Irawler crew have since told how forces are increasing in number and scale. object. they were disturbed by the bright light, came "A bright light appeared behind us so we out on deck but could not speak properly. Delau Fights for Nuclear- stopped to investigate," said Sean Knowles. When the object disappeared they went "It gave us a shock so we ran back through the slraight to the marine radio to report what had Free Constitution bushes." happened." MIcronesia, the last remaIning U.N. Trust The object was observed by the Knawles Territory, is the ONLY one not to gain full Telstar Lifted for aboutninetyminutes, and ifindependl:ndy Jndependence from the adminislrating au Sean, 21, told police: "Mum was flooring it sighted in the Bight it's impossible to explain thority - the U.S. along the highway. We were doing about 110 the sighting as 'dry lightning'. a meteoroid The republic of Belau (Palau), with a [kph] when itcame overus andsuddenly lifted shower or refraction of distant lights. population of 15,000, has struggled for full the car off the road. We felt the thump on the An interesting coincidence is that 24 independence since 1979 when it drew up its roof and then it started lifting us. We were hours later the greatest series of earthquakes constitution. To the alarm of US officials. rHghtenedandbegan to yellbutourvoices had in Australia's history began near Tennant Article XIII Section 6 stated: "Harmful sub changed." Their~bicesbecame distorted and Creek. Long-lastingballs of plasma causedby stances such as nuclear, chemical, gas or everything seemM to happen in slow motion. static charges have often been observed prior biological weapons intended for use in war Mrs Knowles reached out oflhe car and to quakes. Ionised gases would explain voice fare, nuclearpowerplants, and waste materi placed her hand on the object, telling her$OllS changes. als therefrom, shall!Wt be used, tested, stored thatitfeltUke a rubbenuction pad, lindpulled Another terrestrial explanation is a secret or disposed of within the territorial jurisdic her hlltld back quickly. The UFO dropped the military weapon (the Knowles' sighting was tion ofPalau, without the express approval of car back onto the road. ripping off • mofrack very close to a vast joint US-British military !Wt less than three-fourths ofthe votes cast in andcauslng areartyr-e.LO blowout. The family landholding covering most of theGreat Victo a referendum submiued on this specific ques ran i.Iuoothe bushes and hid for 30...m.inute:s. ria Desert). tion." then reJUmed to repait.the tyre - but COUldn'L This was the third UFO incident in Ute Since then a number of referenda have fmelIi suitcase stored on the roofrtl:Clk:. Nullubor in the past month. Two of them been held, with the US insisting on making the The Knowles sped offumU th~ reached Were n:portedas 'egg-shaped'. The third, a Palauans vote and vote again, until they vote a roadhouse at Mundmbilla. There they met a week,before the Knowles' sighting, was by a to allow the US continued nuclear access to ~k driver who told. them (and later police) womlQ1 motorist near the Eyre Highway out the islands. Until then the US won't allow the that he'd been folloWed west along the high sideM undrabilla who reported seeing a brigpt Constitution to be passed. They have used a way by It bright glowing obj~l!!:ls Ihman light shaped like an "electric light globe". wide array of "dirty tricks" to influence vot hour earlier, Th.c family then wo\'o 60Qlqn Who knows? Perhaps it's the Wandjini ers, including misleading information and the nan-stop to Ceduna in South A1Jstralia and Aboriginal Dreamtime spirits who've awed intimidation and murder of proponents of the inf.ormed police. A own 6f detectives- scmt humans in the area for tens of millenia .. nuclear-free Constitution. sample..'\o£blaclcash wltich coatmithe outside CHEEKY'S RADICAL )t c:> m.A1f 'WIIl~II(Q)N PARTY A SoViet woman has reportedly developed X-ray vision after It,dy'll Radical Party are none too suffering a severe eleclric pleased wUh theh'representative shock. Vullya Vororyeva was ~-CJt,rl1,1ba'GfDeputies, the to unabre to sleep for six day. after PQm starCI.cdonn.. Herphiloso 380 volts had passed through sexual liberation is phy of not her body - somehow granting sooed by £emlntllts and her per her new power. (ormances Qtl Btage have out aAt the bus stop one morning raged the Ital1arr Friends of the I was horrified to see right Earth that intimacy who oy her through one of my friends, as wUh a. pythDn u a maltreatment though she were a fishbowl. I of animab. COLD FACTS OF LIFB can also see soli beneath cili 0"IroakIYn woman aged 55 Her vktoiy Show featuring an phalt ema road." Several Sovr.t who had been mlUlniJ IInce ad called ''Perv~iCh" was two doctors are also Impressedwllh August, was found by her son in thtna .filled by tbe Italian press Vullya's ability to diagnose October. She was frozen solid In corp.., each paying over SASO to even the rarest of lIInesses. The tno kitchen freezer. attend. tIer act fe.hued Izvestia correspondent was 'When his wifedied of cancer In rnasN.rbation and simulated amazed when she told him that 1984, Dr Raymond Martlnot of bestality. She asked the audience she saw a light red liquid In his she was offending their sense Largo, florida, had her body if stomach, and was correct In of modesty, a reference to the chemically treated and put In a stating that he had eaten Klsel, penal code. custom-built freezer; He a starchy red Jelly. planned to keep heruntil medi When the answer came back Colin Wilson, author of many "No!" she mounted the stage, cal technology had advanced popular books on the occult. leaned over its edge, and sent a to the stage when she could be says that Url Geller developed "golden shower" over the front thawed out and treated. his psychic powers at the age or lOW of reporters, mining one's However, during a long five after being knocked un camera in the process. power blackout due to a wild conscious when he touched a CiccioUna is now studying the electrical storm In the LC!1g-o blue electric spark on his Italian Constitution. area, Dr Martlnot's plans Wet. mother's sewing machine. KAL-HI.t....:RASHLANDS thwarted. By the time the power - Reuters came back on, his Wife's body - Izvestip. Sovlel g-eologlM DatQn Nam· & RELIGION nar\dOtl wItnessed Q' UFO ex had already thawed out and POtines ploJlOI'l and laf&t d'lsCC\lered a rotted. When the italian government Chino!!'", $Qftfoh party had °A new way of freezing loved granted Vatican Radio four FM round .,0 pod eleclad ttom the ones has been developed by broadcasting bands that were UF.O "Tor. impact, he re an American undertaker that already occupied, listeners ported recently reduces body mass wIthout were treated to a battle of the airwaves in which the broad ~I kept heClllng them lalklng cremation. about th. ctaal\lte tl'1eY could According to the Morticians' cast fluctuated between Man see IlonfleaJly liqulrmlng Journal, the body is cooled by tovanl music and RadIcal Party lh.rolJgh theeled' I:/On,,1on the liquid nitrogen to minus 100 news. egg-.shapad ¢WIt", Noltman degrees centigrade. The rock One broadcast told how dorJ SCIk'LThe unopened pod hard body Is then smashed by chemIcal contamination of the was drNenJn (In cnmoured an automatic hammer into environment bY"tt J)harmaceu vehlele to an tm;d1s¢Io$4ld spot. pieces half an Inch In size. tical firm In northern Italy Colonel G$:nnadl Volkov, a All the fluid Is then removed caused the palla on Italian SO\llel mtllta:ry-lnleJlloenCEt offl from the particles by freeze· family dinner tdble$1o tum blue eel. claims that ths Chinese tire drying, reducing them to 5% of in front of theIr eyes. After 30 holding an 1lllIJrlld allill'\ baby their orlglno] weIgbt. The re seconds the broadcast GUNS IN FUNLAND switched to Vatican Radio, at an curny 'base nenrtno Mon· mall'll ccn be stol"ed In an urn. The high crime rate has per gollan bolder. &::Ivlsl research playing When You Wish IIpon a suaded legislators In Florida, Itr. b,li:Il(ev" thQI the baby may Sla,: USA, to grant anyone the right be the result ot alflm-human - The Guardian to carry concealed pistols, cross-breeding. knives, clubs, leRmas guns and Col. Vorkol( $Qjd aWe nave ~lEAV1IN'G 'IfIHlIR even to wear guns In plain view. offered .0*Chinese any tech 'WlEAV1EIR "Victims of crime must also nical asll$tQf\ee th~y may have rights," explained State need, b1Jllf1iifv keep denying 47·yeay--old Paul ThoI'rlClS.co' Representative for Florida any knoWledge of either a owner of a wool mill In Th· Ronald Johnson, the chief ad crash or a surviving infant." ompson, Connecticut, "Was vocate for the new gun laws. According to Volkov, Chinese working on a machine thaI But Florida's new laws have government officials wlll soon wound yarn from a large spoe' been outdone by the town of be seeking help trom medical to a smaller one when he fet! Kenneshaw in GeorgIa, Which speclalltls In the US. aThey onto the small spool. By the has passed an ordinance mak know, ar'\Ciwalt.now. the US has time his body was discovered ing It compulsory for every had exporTG"ce with such by employees he had been household in the town to keep a things before," he ,sold. wrapped in about 800 yards 01 working firearm and ammuni - The Examiner, USA wool and been suffocated. tion on the premises. OO~.,uQr ~a@l@@ .. An Amttl'lcon "'deo compan has brought out the Ultlme:rl. product for those .pklng "the 'UII, rlch experience of patent hood wllhout th. meSl and lneol'venlenc* 01 the real thing'. for $USl~.9S you criil have Video Baby, 13 rnlnut·fl of 'k:rwleu. blue·_ved little girl with perfectly-shaped flnge,s, toe. and IITllle. The soothing voice of Ihe narrator Invlle,you to "COli your VIdeo Saby by name now. Vou'lll The Indlon government hal been raTslng croeQdlle$ on a govommentfarm In Ihe Slate 0 ~ulh.m I(.ralo and has de· clded to release them Inlo Ih G North SVd~Y. $39.95 experlmentl to parapsychol peace from religious traditioN C¢llatc.d as a r.ourCQ to un ogy, astral travel, heaiJl'!lg ablll Including Buddhism. Hlndulsm, deBtandlng your dlseosa.ltIlJ «litS of the mind. t.lepathy, Jalnlsm. Native AmerIcan. bQol(s alms to provide It'l. P51eho1<:I"8$1.and otl14tJi. Christianity, Baha'I and others. t.ad.r Wltn tools to enhance lhe author has also put em Also complied ale the Ideas of the rMcharllsms that eniUfe phtt$I.$ on the &lTllkglng khuhlp conlemporarythinR.n suchas good health. More fhorougl't b.l'Nllen $Cremal an9 religIon Gandhi, Martin Lulher King J, than a medical .n'<;Vclo~ ClOd the emergIng ac and Albert Schwellzer. dla. the toplcs cov.Jed Clr. knOWledgement of 'con Thought-prOVokIng anu lospl widely varied - acne, beSek selcusness' within tile Western ratlonQl, Ihe book Inclt)dos problems, heart disease, Im belief syslem. The Eastern cul chapters on the evll of wa~. th_ potence, Infertility, nutritlon. tures have always accepted role of women and t>eoee. the vitamins and unllstably more Genuine mystIcism anct altered states of need tor world of~,er Qnd lnnD! toples. 'cons<:lolJ,n.n Ol 0 part of n'e. peac:e. Excellent r.source The reseach Is \lory recent and Full of Intelestfngtacts and .scI mal.rIol for speeches. artlqres tbe th"'rne of the boOk is s9~ Fake or ~trnons.. e!llllie tO$~ltJ. thl$ book makes dIOOl'Clls, seU-lreatmllflt, dill A Blogrophyof Ifi,orrnaftVeread)ng "The frUesf and greqle$f power 8018 prevention and health Alan Wafts Is the Jfrehg1h of P-aee,,. be md'nlefla11ee. Not all our cause 'eace Is the will or 11'1 body/mlnd problems go away by Monica Furlong Groat Spirit". with two asprin or a visit to the Allen a U"Wln, 8 No'pl,rSt, Nezli". American - HopI D·fK:Ia· doctor, and this book shows us North SYdney $19.95 mJlon of Peace. how to tell when we do need a The P.ttace Organizer I' put doctor. The 'hippy movement' of the togeSher In ring binder form 19601 pfoduced many Chait"" aJld Is a weekly pl13nnll"lg matlc and colo\.ll1\.1l '[guun, cQlender. Each monltl nas a ameng them Alan WClttsAHis peg.c:e-relaled theme. such ttl conltlbutlOl" Ib Ihe counter Justle.. ~catIOJ\. Unity and cutkue was I'TIUlnly to rellgJol,l$ Womenelc. devell:>pment and p$y¢ho thetoP\'. ,elCuallty ond pq ctted.lll:;., He started his pro· ~.~ ~ ~-.;. f","lonal life at an 'Episcopa ...... lian elergyman, malnlolnlng A Meditator's "."...... -" ...-.", ...... ~. .'.' his real Ict".otZ8n BUddhl,"" Diary , " The Heart Attack ev.ri1uolly incorpolatlni) TCIo r " Ism towards !tie :end of hi', Of•. by Jane HarniJton• Recovery Book His teachings Infl~enced an entire O-l'l8falfon qnd he saw Merritt by Elizabeth Wilde hlmseU as '0 phfll:u.ophlcal AII.n" Unwin. 8 NaptflfSI. McCormick .,.f8ffQln.r, Q. genuine 10k., a Nrnth Sydfl.y $ '''.lIS A PlaneJary Awakening This Is gn account 0'Ihe ali Allen & Unwin, 8 Napier Sf. Irred\l1:lble rascol'. tI'IOII ~c.Uent amazIng test of endur North Sydney $74.95 reading, Informatl\1e by Vincent Selleck ance e:rrnOt:lg tM ThCJlswhIle This Is the second edlflon of this of the ·count.r c~ltur. move Sheltr"Oh Foundallon1 PO leatMlng fo medltCltlJ, ~nt· Of 'he 60', dnd the 'nnu book, Incorporating new Thoto 2454 ~S post free ence of heroes/gurus of the Sbi went olbno io a teaching chapters on breathing t9Ch Wfl.Jten10 prepare 1he read&t lime. waf In nod;,em Thdlkmd' to nlques. counselling and coro learn the art of meditation and for Ih. moment of plaoefgry nary artery bypass graft. discovered that 11 does not transformation, tl1obook\e.lsa Covering all aspects or hedFf simply requlr. you lit In DIe mo.nual. We have reoched ,he attdck extensively, the book lotus -posUlon ond Ihul your be1;llnnlng of a survlv131c,bls oulUrtes medical t.sts and ter eye1i. It'l ~melhlng to bt due to oUr mlfl.l$e of technof minology used, hospital pro learnt Qrld PlQclisect- cgy and fhe plone,'s re cedures, causes and comptl Her p8f10f\Olaxperlenc.s gr. sources. FlJlI Of .charts, .groph ootlonl- of heart attacks and ct:lpllvollngly 'Qld; ,the endut h::s C1l1d maps, ttle booklet gives useful advice on exer ance 0'the lonely harsh life covers rnany topics such 05 cise, dIet, relaxation and an aCQlyl., 'he Masters she the Harmonic Convergence, prepalation for returning to the .ncounter. and learning the Hopi Prophesy, astrorogicCiI work force. BuddhIst te~ts. Unks 40 NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 All The Way Australia's Road to Viet" by Gregory Pemberton Ai/ell a Unwin, B NapJ.r St, N6rlh Sydney. tt9.95 IXIPtltbock $JiI.95 hardback Dr. PembllJfoFl lalVeet In the Australian Army for 10 vears. He 11 also a "laduate of the Royal Military College and the Unly.ralty of Sydnay. He Is co author orthe strategic and dip Gandhi Today lomatic volumes at the ortlclal Mahatma Gandhi's hl.,ory of Australia's hlVolve ment In the 'Malayan Emer successors gency' and the Vietnam by Mark Shepard 'All The Way' traverse' Simple Producnon., , Australia's long road 10 Viet 15th st, 13, Arcata, CoUto nam and describes how thou '5521 USA. $US20 har, sands of Australian sold! $US10 paperback to flghtln SouthVietnam. came The author trClvaUed to India In BeglnningwUhlt\e period soon 1978 In ltle quest Of Gand"I's Wol\d War n, It traces Ih .r legacy. Gandhi Today Is the development of Australia's result. war In Southeast Asia. Based The book Is clearly and simply on extensive source. bOth wrman, explaining ho.,., here end.In America, the book Gandhlt' Philosophy Is ,1ll1 Is esseollelly abOut how and hdving an Impact todoy. why Ausfrella became In Activists, developmenl work votved in the Vietnam war. efs, peacemakers and orhers It focuses on a study of the are working on gtas.s roots Ie\, foreign and defence pollel els to build a society baWd on of Australia and the U.S. Gandhi,' Ideal•• AccomplTsh cause It Is recognised that a menls so far Include a Peace comprehensive und.rSland rmy which flghts riots with Ing of American policies Is non-violence, a 'Hug Tr.es' central to a tull uoderstdndtn. mavemenl Which blocks ex of Australian ac lions cenlve logging In ttle Hima Australia's post-l945 policIes layas, a development centre particuiaJlv 10 the far Easr, %eSensua{ helping 400 poverty.-strlcken were greally shaped by links villages, a People" Court that wiltl th& U.s. n 'Body can try cases of murder and by Lucy Udell. government corruption - to nam.arew. Allen ~ UnwIn, II NapIer St, :;Jt)i}5Z North Sydney. $19.95 pop., oldenson $39.95 hardbaCK This book Is a working manual and II diVided Into 3 part$ PrelUde, Solowork and Partner ship. The basIc theme Is body awareness; b4tlng In touch, Addictions feeling harmony and Integra OT LOV_. tion, undBfslandlng the 'ma chino' you Innablt and are. The Sex and Danger book Incorporates chapters by SUdhtr J(akaF and on self-massage, breathing, African dance. lfClI Chi (Inhab John Munder Ros~ Iting the body), Eutony (living 11'10a UnWin, 8 Nap/I» 51, with awareness), Kum Nye Norlh Sydney. $17. (sensation), running, Akldo 1l11s book retells lhe fcmo!Jt (harmonisIng energl8s), sen love stories of three molot CUl sual massageand much more. tures - Indlan/Hl\'Idu. PeI~o·ls· Presen10d with colour photo lomlc and Weslern. It teUI 0 graphs god colour drawings, erotic and ,exuol love, p05 explicit and ecuy to compre· sions, Inlrlgue, eeslasv and Ih hend InstnJcllons. It can be complexltv of human i81allon. u.s&dby Individuals, couples or ships. n__ groups. ..('\ c . ~.i Plant Planet -~.. ~~\.~ ~ - .;1 ')" i/(rv\Y.1C a omi[e F-omlly CPnlPOsJTC9 V(nra!lesl l?omOM' or PreparoflO", /nhOlaflon hell ot cup ~f rngil!itl CnOnlc."'fnla CAnfhemus nobUls), 1I0\lllar$ boiled In ~ I1rrus0' waler, cover I and oeeplng pl?U;lnr]lOIGerrnQP chomo: your "aoC! with 0 tOW~1 Qj'.jj '''!'\{lIe the mllf! (MofIICCllla CflomomiUa) Broom Il'lfUsJ:on 2 ~eOSPOo!"lS of no-wars. Actfon. anll InJler;'imellory. goh'$pos ruse-for 5mlnU1a!.,drlnk olter me.a1s, AnN ~aSl1111 modil.: (preV9ni~ or cramps). col septic(skin Cleanser) 50 glOmi <2QUflce$) mat/v€l ,re)(;lxes the nomect-<. a~ dt'Ie(Y of nOWilfsto600ml(1 .Plnt) OfbOJDnQ.Wdfet ~Q~ed lion (:mel fGd\.I!:~ gQS). OlQ1)horsUo {Olds Poulrtc.G - wroo ftowats in Q Cloth Irt 'i, 1M eUrnlrtalltm of lOJC!n8:110m the skin and balling water for 10 rntnurEls ttlarl $V~tem}. 'lmallel"1t (Wffsm". soolhas (md a.scrlptlon: flowers have Vl3l1ow cent((iS PropagallQn; gloW!'1 fi()fT\ seed or bV c::ur· orects 1he sltlnl.YUlnerory (opplled Wltn ,wMJto paTois ona are dclsy-Ilke In tlngs. Cut1Jngs shOUldhe transPl0('lted op• 'l~ (»lfarnallv ;,sals y,rOu,.,ds ondi1ut-s). Bl( shape with short stems. ChOmomlle orolCllTlGI~lV tnd'1i3S aport IralT1€'ly nchin aarolum l:lIOO!TlJ all sprlng ond most of summar, III ttl. GQrdeh~Dillftetl C~ofT!ornRewa op. ~'Cl I~!~ :Drlr'llrthq fea mild seqctlV&{w(e How."ver. fhe plo.nt3-dOnot tlCfwlili Ul"tll the plied 1OYO\JnQseedlrngsprevsntt -demp• !Of chlldl'en) for insor'n1"'l10and strQ$$.TO 5QC:?.l;1dyear of gfOWft1. ct1amomRe,olllS Ing off' dlsQO$e (CdUSe.d by theAJsllorfum duc~ wind and Indlgs-stlon. mCJU1hwomextrbcteQ from the (!¢War c.entres.and con fungUs) :Carl be U$ed OS.l:ln• e:rdlvotor 1\1( (for gum InfecIlOh$). avew-dSh.onrgl&ror be u~ed Of g nolr oru::j &00 condltloner Qf compost neaps (Le. It QCce!etCi9S d&• 4 'tlrool Infecnlms. Il1ho!ea a~ a $1"Gam oddoo 10 botn water composlflO", $lnte Chamomile is rQlotad ledUce!l 'Sinus tl'1,ectJons. e~ernolty op· Hu,...• .stlng: best plcJmd wnan thole l'las Q Yarrov/). Chamomile also -S'Weetens' "Ired laClUcQS Ir,racllon Ql'\d sweillflQ or bean norain fOl ~ CoYiIp«Qr '0 tlOr:¥esI1J'tg the compost hed.p 0;<)It contofru lorge woundS' Plckl'1aln WQ1Ot I"lUmlClCOJ"\ell110ns COUs.911 QfOounts oj calcIUm. af" - ~ R.ef'l'l~e ~qnt ~ APHIDS ifjsecf$ from stSIN o. Ihoy emtH, ","Id wh'''''cen eo",~ 71\ ,and naw growth spray with Pyrelhrum. «avera aye-lmfO!ion SplOY wlln Pyrethrum . ./ / tpr~V. P~l gorHc soopywofer. N.s Pytaff1wrn 01 Insect. fWQ mftl~OI'l -"' DerrisOust directly onto the eelWOlfnS squp,. metre-of .anrJ oems 001 ore relcrf/velv f'it:Jrmless CODUNG MOTH: Artocl(! f!)eon ana soH .F«8vary pJont type th~re IS:0 CQt1"& ,~ (t!1tcepr ff$H). bClff/'l hove low foxlclty opp~ l:luf E"0t stone fruit During wlMte, sPondlng lforfGfy Of eelWQIffi. NematQd(ils and ate BJODf:Gl1AOABi£ iJet:amposlrrg ramQve;ony 100$.e 00·rl( from 1'he baas or fe.e. -d.. 0.. n bl;lCia·rio. 5011.o.nlm.ClI5 0.' ~h"llt I .rn Ofle doy free. r>..JrlrlQsurnmeq:)loee 0 ring of COlfU PorQ5Jtlc1"\9'1loiOties Qttcek tleans. car- J ~ CabbQIJC~. .. BEETLE:P1relrlfum cmd DerrISDust sprayed .~at&t:l cardboordoround ftle trunk ttl'lls ro1's. cpulIlfoWt!I·S. brQ¢COlit f \ 11aetf~ diratltv onto the 1r~ Inp- mott] 1000oe) Ramoveand bum pam ond tOqlO-toes Ploryt Ma,rlgo1c1sI \ BORERS: I..emgicom Borel. 0. (;lre-v gr\Jl'). the CQJdbowd dLlrlnij fote o~n (aspat Al'flo-on"TogetiEn( varll;lly). AC9 biJl'rdws unC1el ",9 tlee !lJI.fOCErcowling fROn FLY' Hang 'OAK PQh·. 0 male-of inQ Cornpo~ oJ iTtilfilure '0 1htj ljio}llec:hJcEl$ borl< IQ Un,l'lemove lOMe bork. PUff.v.onv !loctont lerr"olo hcumone in fre~ thenumberefplor"it M1ingnl,;lmOlodeVQ holQ.SQ[1d polnl-domogedClr€ltls Witl'ltree brCJI'lCM$ to 1rQP fllJifPISS rletl9S • POint· G prot E/Citlva bitumen. ~1f'lgbOfk1l'lgGAll WASPCQuses WO\':ldy galt!! ?'l 01 R'-OSPIOER MltE: llnvmlte-fllee ins.ec:t$Ccon B.oret b~,rrows beflsoln !tae bOtk. gl"OdL.i onge lemon -(lnd grOpGnUII fr£le,s - ftEJ be seen \ioIllh'o fnogrttylng glOss) round 9'1YringCOTKing the tree- It Dote~ 0 2 to a molte fhe. gollI. Clnd tlurn fnem baron) unoernaotn teoves Atttlc.k petJS. bac:q'\S. a~ult '. If'lOt1., nole il) 1h111ch it nidal! If disJU.lbad. In. AUgJm When Th,? wasps em!'!rg9. c;uc.umb.ar ond rosas. Makes foliage op ~l1Jb leer Clh;:ohQIi'llP lhis 'hole to kilt The LACE BUG: SOp:sucldng lrfs~ wfth lorGe pElQr dull Qod yellowiSh. Some fafrt web r PuttY the hqlG and point £lQmogech;lell$ wl1tch cause mGttlli"lgot ~f'\ew may vlsibla. Sirlee sprder mites ~ wtng$ tmg be wJth traEr pOlflt gro"Wth. Sp'royunda,IeoVQSwilhJ=1're.thrum prefer hot. dry conditiOns s~y ut:lder foa· w~ak wee~ ~roy Pre\l~f1rl"Q Borers: Qr::ll::h fot "three plant oge Will"i :>QODVor frGsl"i water regularly (0 . _ 0') Do not remo....e IGtlt mOuld: the tlse vfgorou$ly .wtth water 0& these lnssot, pIE? mllrt1Jra of PVretnfum and Derris Dust con /JL-'. .. . QQfOlns I1l{tr)enf$ Tfom loof mould. b) Do fet drY<:.ondlrlQI'\S . .olso 00 l..lssd). tJ'" ~J I 1"101clslurb tho Iras's dlotnoga Do not LEAF MINER~ tn"9cl bl.1ftow$ benl:!-cth tneSCAlE: Small hemispherical anlmol' allow to{il much .souto pl,Jild up ~vel froe SUllooeo f leQve$ produclnQ -serfbblv' gtoW1tla Ol;;Jnarlng to plant .stems oM d)Emuremll!1Teelgwall(ert,IJ!>~onct l~· roOfs fnO/iO'QS onsurtoee of l~Clf Remo\f.t'J clong .the veins of lao"'es. aUQ\(II1Qnutrl- . ,_ da1lcl~nt elern9n'~ ~oopy not in trOCljJ fact",a Ie OV;;lS(JMCl"SprOYtwice weekJvWlth anf!!. ~e'n ove lr0rt). 1M plant with a m. CATERPillARS' CWWOTrTl tXlterp"/ol$ IIVS !?yletnrIJ1' Or one. mcmth il'l;lQth Spro.ywilt) WhllQ-olllncDacerr'loer TO .~\ balow WElsc>l1oV doV Of)d Gar Of n1001 r~e-- F ROllER A greV 0' \l11Ei.?tl ijrllb -wh!cn JO]1\JCJI'( wrtef'i the l!T1mQtiJr£l scale Cu& IQO~L"S -':ltJu~ , molle th~rn by !1on<:1 t«:1PGfI;Qterplllm$ ',.. Ire ...1 ."1]' Qerl'll)\!e by Vf,JII"lSI...t'Ile. gre~en Tr'.'HI14f\\lk.U DJPEL (l pcm::illill.c QClC'enurr,NhJf;fl"'" jUrr"" 1.1-.1101. tfl8 bOCK of the lOlled 19mattfll"lgotleO\l"tS 1i-'1&lrwhlteOrGfeen~ ,,~Y!r ll'~ .~ attoevs CgterpJlfars. Palnt1he$ollJtlon orIto leCl! 1111IS al~turb(. J dll' IOUlld 0<_ -ond un<;1of l~a"as.Thl~C_C1!erOJI:':Jf~ ~ f ·lhS.flems Ol"d k)lls 111 MEALt BUQ (,.,I! pOfGnniols' cl'ld shelt.efOO ['eolM I", lileS It the, U9w- ~, lJI..u:ll<. !h.ay . (lp:prQ>:{rn.t:UeJv1WO dOys PVrf,l!h-\.f'I" JI'd /.401 prO/Its Soray wltn Soapy worel Mts !leva bo" 1p..lfCls!llsea O' '1 - ',tl1l WQ'P 50 11 ,v:~ ... j.,.l~.' l Deltl$,dUSt COf< ,,1mbe lI!· " I (--W1U!e aly .bug'S &O'ISmOI/8 them 0\1' 60 I tot term rherll 13c.sl-vtlls \/I'filre "'I' .. . . . .BOG(Beon. Cltru$.SI11IHd IIC!..I l*n.. ,.6.'\,<11I..";'I hO'1d . r~1 u" to ft-vee lost .~ ~ '. Beware blown or bh:JatQI~ ~. bugs:' NEMMOD~ (eltfw"'Olms): Thera ore up IQ - Brian Spears ~ 42 NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 Conscious Collectivl' Nexus: noun. 1. Connection. 2. The combin of theRouseofRepreientatives and theSenate. Another Yeot'. QnQfiierparty: the bl\gtrt... summer our eye. have seen.llUt leI's not tNt blI!1dRlby the snow jobs which surround us. If anyon.leb you It's the and of Ihe wolld, ask Ihem 101their wallet as theY olW1oullVwon't nMid ft. Thonks(or readln; Us. II you lilt. UI, lubscrlbe - or Ihow IfEXOtto a IMIld, We'r. Clllenco.U10led bY th" po.,lYe changes In the heart and mInd ot humankind which are transforming our world - don't be discouraged by hOlllJ· Ity and lQCk or comman .. /11. efI1qC\lrlqlon. NEXUSobleTV" how turbulent.lm.. bring out the best and wolllln people. Many people are working to make pOllIlVe changes by lIVing out solullo"' top1cnetary prclblems InIhelr ownltv.s. On the other hand we hove,'lIned peopkl PIOQtammlngthe COllectIVeconlclousne" for dlsclteTSof olllypet.. Wi)lle IhIIlJ OIIendOM 10'Wam ~. tor ll\8lrown w«xrII can simply pppeallo d.evolUlJonaryfears which keep aUSpeclel on Ihelr ta... A plea10the uleri and PtOntrot doom - don'l throw out the baby WIththe bathwaterl When you foresee a 'tidal wave' II may be Gala's own visIon ot a slow,ea !rivet tlUl • sped up by hIIman percepllon. On our desk at. plopheclM Whlchp EARTH. LI N K 8 8 an 86 heCla" property weu ~pte that h. kMW all ClIorig' couldn't 'teellt out·. Old CQndl l"tlQd9. The 0lli:l1nal plan was to thOt th8 govVJJlrrwtn.' w~uldn'f tlonlng and new aQ' Ideol, EARTHUNK 33 " a global synchro nized meditation similar to lall el1O\)le peoPle on loW In anow Ihe trial period to btlgln don't alwavs mix; acplIIdoYlJl· to form a co -open:dfve unHI24 hQu$8holds were the oped between meat-eater, year's Hormonk::Coovelge.ftc:e.. On c.omes qn FeblUary 1311\between 12 mid and to Obtain a share of an land. Jhe co-ordlnato!"s 8;1( and vegetarians whlct! atTl'\()s! nIght and 1am. G.M.T.til a.m.-12 M.O. - which would normally cuse was *tIat people wouldn't broke the community: lel two. noon Sydney r/m.) people wru be OLd rJf reach for them ~ and 'stick It our If they knew the 'Concensus' m•• ,lngi hoy. gt.dher at Seerlld $11.' throUghout to IIv. In a natural environ truth - that If would take up to a become tribal meellngs wl'UUe lI..e wor14 10 send Ihelr love and ment. year before the trial period people bow down to a few JXl pray.,.of pecn;-e IG .ulliN (Ayers The community was set up to would storti trlarchs who Influence decl Rocl() 10Carillar Mlilrolla. tJluru Is manage Its own affairs wtfh O;s Mysteriously, no more slons and run a 'kangaroo regarded 011 '/18 world 10101 pleJlUl slstance of a co-ordinator people turned up for this court' based on gUilt trips. In In eso1erlc circlet and February 1311'1,when saturn and Uranuscon elected by the R.R.T.F., who much-publicised project. stead of people becoming had tOl';omply to certain aca even thQugh many letters or- self-sufficient they are co- Juct wllh 111.Gal~llc c*n1re In 29" Sagltlalllll, ..... n ell a mQment ot demlc .criteria set down by the rived 'rQM prospective Partlcl erced into non-ploductive renewbllor llt*l./POllltllt planet. HOLfslng Dept. GMng such pqnJs,Eventually we learned work that Improves- l11e PfQP IN SYONEliIllmewlllfM'Qgafh.dng IXIwer fo on.lncflvldual pO..tt1g,the ',I.i~' had told people .tty votue for resale. People 'fJI CooperPtut InlleIlltYu• .HJ11all0 an Inh.,ent threat to cfemoc to stay away because the IUd. In corners tDlh.f than corilmVlllIl ml0 Il\- f1lJl'\lWIth racy In gtoup deoblol'lS - fQf pletce hadn't been mode $f:leCllt up and be oUIOr hne. music:. Mop! donell'lQ. medltallon example, one project was to 'comfortable' enough as vet Recentty, a coupLe In Chelf anct ritual. For more detaIls phone :02)32ee-6281.1111trewlfl be gather build a new community bV the presenUy enduring \atIt'6!Jlw:hosoldGllthIJJrpos cllnt,e. The orlgindl. farm families - who've worked bord seufons to porllclpal. were Ing. ~ MI, 'WatnlnQ,a.IIt ...... 9\tron l,Ighl.h<:tua aM Nlmbln Rocks, "Q. house. almosHltfor demoUlIon, thraU;" ttood condlttonl to expe!tet;l from the commU1'!lIy I~ 1.1yoll're Inleresl'ed please phOJle II also on property. A Vole ralnl.sa: skies, no cleQll water, sllTlP1y b_caUtlillpeap\e Ihe Earth IJnk orote on (066) 5S3 WQJ taken 10 renovot.'or bU1Jd almort non-existent wcuhlng, w.re:n't willing to ~elp' tnem 514. a new centr. from fresh mate fQcmne.,heat, humidIfy and with 'cnb Q1"ldthey were too EARTHlJNK PREVIEW- Feb rlols. The majority voted for Ihe general filth; pr.gf'lanf and 'old' fo have l;l valid optlilon 01 1011'1.7..:3"p.m, at 11'11.Thomal Mann new centre. but after being Ilck'Nomena"dchildre"Uvlng ~.tlogs. Other people hove Thealre, '~.6 Cl'1almet'lSf, SurtY HUll. o.]lowed to d_liberot. for In tenll and caravans and }::)Mn ejec:leq beedl./Ul lhey SpeQ~lt wlJllnc!ude V'"Q.nl hour.. our e,ootdlnator In boble. bom fn lfl. mlJldn'Q dare fill( whQlihey CRt getll"" SGlls<;k (It. 1m S~klnail rOl.lMo formed us Ihat 11\8 Housing shed. . from co-ord!nClol' and U\. UOfl, G\l~ 14<1:1bornas. (elder 01 m. the YUfft ~pkl) • Itoll& MaJks, Dept. would only dllow fUndS' Thr.. marllQI tJJlQffonllhlps HOU$lngDe-pt or beccntse they AilTlellcQns!lomr,Jll/hsatflt for renovation • anowln" have bt~k.n IiJPan.d at lo.cur simply don't agreD with ttl. further InrQrmCllIOll.. ovallaJ,:l1eIn people that In!ortflgllCln wat two more or. heading ttIcIt coordinator. Ho I. SUPPOJe(j to Ihe ~Qllh Unk 38 booklel - see witheld flOm tttam. thai they way due to IMng praaur... be working for the people. nol Woltf.s,WClllh(Book Review.), didn't really "tWit mUl;:h ckrcl Ttl. CO-Qrd!nafor's wife llllylrig Vle.-lIersa. ~laUv. sion-mQlc.!ng ~wer ond that In the comfort of a . Wiltthe people cOI'I'Inue to Government Kibbutz? the govemmehl wotlld onlY Mly.. qurpp*! f.l.I,lng cOCld'! be kept In Ihe denk? 1$ II lUst In northern NSw Ih,. ClGo.V allow: propeJf)' tlTlPJOvoment aru:t says thbt II's all In ih_ ano#lln Way' for ttle go.....rn· ernmGol SupPbrt/itd MUUlpl. 'hat 'Would Ineraos. the YQlue nom- of.sortlntJ out the ~pI_ ment to keep control 01 the Occupancy Pilat Ptojeel. un> Of the land In fbo .lIent of 'pUll- with the "right stuft"l These .,.apl ..? WIUthey be allowed atteQtfonolely known as Ing the pi,,' and reselling. peoplo ate 8,ventually to be In to become lIelr-'SulOclonJ Ponda Longa by [1&InhQbltants Another conditio", ac hoU$$t.,JO seeing who can win Where dolh. pllorJtle$Jle? (as .they modly ponde, a,l)d cepted by the people was that a 'cgmpln~ In filth compatl + TtoleMole walt). /,lter two yeors or hard 1.4 I'ltlU:leholds: hQd to be .s tron' Is lotCInylrretevant. Errata , unpaid work by mo ff'urQl lte tablilhed MfOr4J thtty could More problems at. brought We op.oklgl.. IOf Ihe rrllIlec.dlng a,,~ alttemerrt 10. force Jhe begl", °3 monln 'tlve·tooattt.e,' about by Intetnol pollticl. headrnv In Illue Ihr_'s 'Peo~ 'rt co-opefaUon of th& NSWOeP p0110d befOt8 salt-sel.ctlon QI P.,QPle tnult remain In a con- Gldsa HOUtI!" article In whlt1l 'lUIl1 ~lHeCJd 01 Housing, ,an agreamertl to the co-op could ~Il"t 1.4 fined 'cdmplna' ored. When I:l Melnt.AJteady' stiOl.lll:l pro...l~e ftnanclQI dS$J.$fcmc fdll'lUiesi were fOlmed and at loalU ate qpproved P4fop'. 'five CSotltnelrel AltlK!d'"