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aa . ae; —— Grapevine 2 Zo Xe Be Preditorial~ <<. S & Grapevine Is an open forum for discussion - opinions expressed Hope you like our 64-page If you have anything to say in these letters are those of the writer only. Please keep letters first birthday Issue! NEXUS isan about NEXUS, why not say it In as concise as possible and note how you want to be Identified. | Independent publicatlon Grapevine? If you like us, Grapevine; ‘some health foods? Why are Aus- whieh pushes no particular PLEASE subscribe - orsendagift lam appalled at the methadone trallan growers being held to ran- political, religious or cultural subscription to a friend (see Program as It Is practised In this som by the chemical companies? | viewpoint. We provide aforum formonp 55). And take advan- state. | am not discussing Looking tor some answers, for a full spectrum of views - tage of this Issue’s FREE OFFER atternative rehabilitation, nor It Wishing you every success, particularly those which, for on the next page - your opin- methadone Is a sate effective lyn Mason. ) various reasons, are not given ons will influence NEXUS di- option. | am disgusted by many things I find In my researches Into Bear edi ample coverage elsewhere. tectly In a mini ‘participatory We ensure (as far as pos- democracy’. And this reader- methadone treatment. You Invite letters from readers The majority of patients volun- who find anything In your sible) that all our Information Is ship survey Is VITAL to our tarlty seek help. Many more are magazine Incorrect or blated, #0 | verifiable and true - and that growth (There's also a discount refused one of these places dueto would Ilke to correct you on your our sponsors and advertisers offer on p52)! the NSW government's minimal ariicle In #3, “People who live in genuinely provide beneficial I's a time of great change, quota permits. glass houses”. | fee! there Is a hell services and products; we've but the direction of change Is Once accepted for treatment, of a lot of nonsense trotted out knocked back hundreds of determined by the pictures we the patient MUST signaway many = abou! the greenhouse effeci these | collars worth of advertising In weave together. It's not rights, This contract Is often several days. | enclose a copy of the lates! | ' past 2 Issues where we've enough to complain or protest Paige besa Stoning iicesieict eeUnicheny CWT ane been dublous of claims made about what ls; we need to sup- guarantee the patient will be whereln you'll find my own views treated, No patient's rights are on this subject in the editorlal. orhave proven them incorrect. ply positive alternatives that mentioned, only circumstances I find your article a lot more We handle our own distri- can be realised. Communica- that can be used to eject the un- sensible than the bulk of articles on | bution, so if you want to seeus tioncan change reallty, so talk fortunate from methadone treat- this subject, especially as you al your local newsagent, about issues that concem you ment - not Just because of actually write of trying to avoid health food store or other oul- to frlends and listen to what continuing drug use, but for many such a disastrous cllmatic change, | je1, give therm our address or they have to say. Making con- trivial “transgressions.” Most whereas Just about all others 5 contracts even limit where the regard It as Inevitable and quite bengal miner > & contact us ae Is what’ NEXUS Is aw patient may do thelr shopping! beyond our control. Such articles yours: about, J have sworn Information are usually full of fies and untruths ~ Proofreader/Editors accusing doctors of Medibank at worst or Inaccuracles al best, doomsayen ignore the climatic age civilization. This Is an example fraud, Inhumane practices, even and you have committed such an trends over the las! hundred years showing that orthodox sclence ls crlminal negligence. Inaccuracy In your statement that of somehow twist them to fil thelr realty no closer to truth than any Will you do something fo help the sea level has risen half haifa theory, even If that amounis lo other philosophy, religion or bellef stop this malfeasance and metre over the las! fifty years. squeezing square pegs into round systom. Scientisis choose which govemment indifference? Please Nowhere else have | come across holes, Pari of the climatic patter evidence to heed and which to write, phone, even pefilion your such a clalm. In THE DOOMSDAY ot Ihe warming trend of the first hall ignore, 60 that such things as local minister; examine and BOOK (1970) Gordon Rattray Taylor of this century was a drop In mean civilizations older than a few discuss. slates Ihat the sea level rose tainiall in eastem Australia and in thousand years or on Mars are no- If you would help me assembie between 1930 and 1944. True, ifthis other similar cilmatic zones around = —s nos along with psychic phenom- more Information regarding this continued, tH would meanaS0cm the world, including Argentinaand ena, asirology and so on, In spile state's methadone program, fise over about fifty years, but there he eastem Uniled Sicles (and of the evidence lor these things. Of please witte to: ls no evidence that It did comiinue. probably easfem South Africa, course the orlhodox scientific “Sandy”, C/O Nexus, P.O. Box He also says that the sea level rose == China and Japan, though I'm not bellef changes from time to time, A556, Sydney South, 2000. fastest during the nineteen- sure about these). Since 1940 or thus the greenhouse effect anda I will appreciate your Input. twentles, when the warming trend 1950 we hav en feversal of decaying ozone layer are all the — that marked the first half of this that trend, hence a rise in rainfall is rage nowadays, whereas more Dear Nexus, century was at Its peak. But part of a return to the nom of last than fen years ago they were not. Your magazine Is the bes! news cnother scientist recently speaking century and before, instead back then we had the on- avaliable. As the name implies, on the greenhouse effect referred The Ideological aspect of the coming Ice-age to worry about. the “bonding” of all that we're to a mere 10 cm rise over the last greenhouse effect ls tricky. Is lt Don'l get taken In by the orthodox concerned about. hundred years or so. really ideologically unsound to aclence you gel Inthe media. However, | wonder why you All that aside, | can fell you play It down? Well, for one thing, to Sincereiy, Michael Hallstone, haven't done an article on the myself that the sea level has not go on abou! I! without trying to tind Box HIll, Vic. tadiation contaminated foods risen half a metre over the last fifty some way of avoiding ttlsnotatall Dear Michael - you are, of course, Imported from Europe which are years. | have'not been around that constructive.Indeed itis downrght comect about the sea not having being dumped on Australian long, but Ihave been aroundfora = destructive fo wallow indoomand _rsen haifa metre in the last 50 consumers? As we all know, most goodly fraction of fifty years and I gloom, which is all the rage In the years. But it has risen by 5§-10cm of Europe Is contaminated by acld grew up by the sea in yournow not = eighties. Also important to over that perlod, depending on taln and radiation, and will be for so fair city. | remember my mother femember, anc something | have whom you believe (see Errata last the next thirty years or more. taking my sister and me to Bal- not stressed nearly enough, Is that issue), As you say, this may be part Closer to home, after the dis- moral beach as far back as 1948 the greenhouse effect is used by of a temorary cycle - and if not, covery of chemical residues In or 1949. We were only little kids the pushers of nuclear power, | re- we may already be altering things cattle have been discovered, ten then, but I think | would have member lnaac Asimov wrofe such for the betier, albell unconsciously, years after the DDT and Dieldrin noticed a rise in sea level, suchas anessay aslongagoasthesixties. in our almospheric tampering. were banned In the USA, a person you clalm, since then. More So one needs to be very wary of But according to the vast weight naturally wonders what chemical relevant ts the matter of beach belleving whal one reads on this of data coming down, the residues have been contaminating erosion, which you glivea mention _ Issue. Furihermore, | fee! thal the Greenhouse Effect tS REAL. Ask the our fruit and veg. of worsening as the sea rises. greenhouse effect and other CSIRO - we have to get ready now. Grains are grown on chemical You cite a 25% Increase In dooms are belng overplayed Even if all the conclusions are tertilizers, sprayed for weeds and ralntall over the last 25 years as deliberately to make people feet wrong, the data may prompt us to bugs and stored In sprayed sllos. convincing evidence of the helpless, hus rendering them Pursue more ecologically sane Sprayed with WHAT? How clean Is greenhouse effect al work. But!hal docile and easier to control. alternatives simply because our health food? Why are our kids Proves nothing. As! say In my f like your references to ruins on they're a good idea. And they are! allergic when reared on whole- article, the present greenhouse the seabed as evidence of an Ice- Thanks -NEX. Dear Nexus, Your magazine Is the bes! news avaliable. As the name Implles, the “bonding” of all that we're concerned about. However, | wonder why you haven't done an article on the radiation contaminated foods Imported from Europe which are being dumped on Australian consumers? As we all know, most of Europe Is contaminated by acid taln and radiation, and will be for the next thirty years or more. Closer to home, after the dis- covery of chemical residues In cattle have been discovered, ten years after the DDT and Dieldrin were banned In the USA, a person naturally wonders what chemical residues have been contaminating our frult and veg. Grains are grown on chemical fertilizers, sprayed for weeds and bugs and stored In sprayed silos. Sprayed with WHAT? How clean Is our health food? Why are our kids allergic when reared on whole- years aner Ine DDI ang Dielarn noice c rise in sea level, sucn as an essay GErony Gyo Us Ine sIXHes, an Our GIMOSspNenc rampenny. were banned In the USA, a person you clalm, since then. More So one needs to be very wary of But according to the vast weight naturally wonders what chemical relevant ts the matter of beach belleving whal one reads on this of data coming down, the residues have been contaminating erosion, which you glivea mention _ Issue. Furihermore, | fee! thal the Greenhouse Effect tS REAL. Ask the our fruit and veg. of worsening as the sea rises. greenhouse effect and other CSIRO - we have to get ready now. Grains are grown on chemical You cite a 25% Increase In dooms are belng overplayed Even if all the conclusions are tertilizers, sprayed for weeds and ralntall over the last 25 years as deliberately to make people feel wrong, the data may prompt us to bugs and stored In sprayed silos. convincing evidence of the helpless, {hus rendering them Pursue more ecologically sane Sprayed with WHAT? How clean is = greenhouse effect al work. But thal docile and easier to control. alternatives simply because our health food? Why are our kids Proves nothing. As! say In my t like your references to ruins on they're a good idea. And they are! allergic when reared on whole- article, the present greenhouse the seabed as evidence of an Ice- Thanks -NEX. es Five - Winter 1988 60 NEXUS New 60 NEXUS New Times Five - Winter 1988