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AIDS: The Real Story A - ID S e It’s interesting working witheach Indian I very much admire the Papago Indians. Th R l St group and they’re very hospitable, put on They’re using all these techniques to return e ea ory little ceremonies forme and dosweat lodges, the land to some kind of health. “@ dust me down with eagle feathers and have N-: You seem to continually be drawn to arid x LiF of little chants. They really have a lot of good lands. , Vi times and tell a lot of stories - and jokes. BM: I tend to be. I told the people at Alice : N: Do these deserts still retain their original Springs, “Why send for me? I’m a Tasma- gene stocks because they’ ve remained in the nian - I don’t know anything about the des- hands of native people? ert.” But by observing I started to learn how BM: No. The Sonora desert and all that area to use the desert. Over a decade ago we was a great prairie with huge herds of ani- started to learn how to direct and absorb mals on it. In 1880 the first of the Texan herds water and studied the work of the Israclis. Ww reached the Sonora and they wiped off the We've become good at deserts. We like ss © prairie. By 1890 the first gulches and arroyos deserts. We think they’re great places to As regular readers of ANY publication ph eal ahd borate Wg cae . will know, a massive amount of informa- |] ~ | ee aaa Fee a. ae Water Harvesting In those days there were huge trees in the tion is printed about AIDS. NEXUS re- P : ; feet through, but searchers have been sifting this mass for pia ia Soe sol aid ou iy The way fo grow in deserts is uy now all the cattle and horses have to eat is water harvesting. Say you're getting an quite some time, and) many»snomalous mesquite. They went and took cattle up onto average of 15 inches of rain per year, then features of the spread of AIDS came to our this dried-out landscape. So now you have a half of thet, 7 inches, falls only 13% of the attention - so many that we were led to sand plain with shrub mesquite. rain days and the whole 15 inches over only months of research in biomedical lbrartes Originally it was a densely forested area 34 rain days. You only get 4 days of heavy to sort fact from fallacy and downright with a lot of beaver, streams, huge cotton- rain and during those 4 days half the rain will misinformation. woods - that was only in 1880. And cattle fall. But if you can find a rock shelf, you can NGAP pierce edie Pn oned TOL have reduced it to a cactus desert today. The store water. Every hundred feet or so you new complexion on the mature of AIDS cattle alone have done that. store a shelf of water 20 feet wide with a bank (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) N: Do you think cattle have caused the same about a foot high on the outside. Al] the and HIV (Human Immuno-deficlency Vi- problems in Australia? hundred feet of runoff will fill that shelf - you rus). We found so much, in fact, that it BM: Si . . aa " 7 ; : Since their presence here - yes, most can absorb 47 inches init. Andin that youcan doesn’t fit in NEXUS - so we've printed a definitely - it’s made our desert land very grow big orchard trees on contour strips, or NEXUS Supplement In our usual format to arid, and eventually it will become justa sand swales, for miles. present the startling facts uncovered by dune desert. You can see it happening with You can grow trees which require forty other researchers and ourselves. increasing rapidity. inches of rain in a 15 inch rainfall area - and Called AIDS -The Real Story, it tells you N: Ilow do you turn it around, aside from we can do that down to 4 inches of rain. It’s all the facts - from the World health Or- taking cattle and other hard-footed animals quite productive with an average rainfall of ganization, Government Health depart- off the land? 2G linches. ments and reputable sclentific Journals - BM: Ah, well how are you going to take the N: Do the ti help hold th ist is which palnt a very different picture of the aasaee Oe —— graziers out of Parliament? I mean, only 4% well? spread of AIDS to that which we are nor- | of our beef comes off the deserts. It’s an BM: Yes. After the swales age there's a no- mally shown. insignificant amount of beef, but to get that ticeable leaf liter catch washing off the des- Separated into easlly-understood sec- }| small amount we're destroying thousands of ert above into these little strips. Then slowly tions Including The Heterosexual Myth, The || square miles of landscape andit’s an obvious you'll see deep rich chocolate soils develop- Virus Engineers and Aids in Africa, fully immorality that its yields before cattle were ing and you can sit in the swales picking up referenced and rounded out with a clear enormous - and the yields now are ridicu- humus. Soil that smells like a compost heap. Glossography, AIDS - The Real Storyshows } ously small. Every bit of animal manure is washed howmedia hype and sclentiflc misinforma- N: If you remove the cattle, how do you go across the desert and into the swale, every tion has helped cover up the probable about regenerating the land? leaf, every stick. And the trees in the swale source of AIDS and divert research from ) B44: You make sausages from stones all drop their leaves, so the soil becomes very the most promising areas of exploration. wrapped up in wire - very heavy ones - and rich very quickly. After a while the trees It also clearly Illustrates why there’s no you build them in place across the valleys, so produce more rain because they transpire and need to panic, and how AIDS is not spread- the sand builds up behind them up to the old by increasing the number of swales you ing heterosexually. level. You have to start putting swales across could turn the desert back to humid forest in AIDS - The Real Story|satruly in-depth | the country - contour drains about thirty feet a relatively short time, as little as twenty presentation of the facts behind AIDS, wide - they catch runoff. And then you start years. cancer research and presents an overview | replanting the swales and it's tedious and If we can hold back the graziers who of what may yet be the tip of a biological} ainful work but the results are pretty spec- want it all to be beef and lamb. Iceberg. tacular. You can bring back some of the old R. Ayana If you have trouble finding copies in newsagents or health food stores, this sup- plement js available direct from NEXUS - see the back Inside cover of this issue for details. grasses at that point so you get a prairie and Anyone interested in Permaculture should tree effect and you can start to plant cotton- | conact the EPICENTRE - Permaculture woods behind the covered stone ‘sausages’. International, ] 13 Enmore Rd, Enmore2042 But it’s all hard work once you’ve gone Ph (02) 51 2175 downhill. NEXUS New Times Eight - Aut A —* 1D s e It’s interesting working witheach Indian I very much admire the Papago Indians. Th R l St group and they’re very hospitable, put on They’re using all these techniques to return e ea ory little ceremonies forme and dosweat lodges, the land to some kind of health. “@ dust me down with eagle feathers and have N-: You seem to continually be drawn to arid x LiF of . little chants. They really have a lot of good lands. , Vi times and tell a lot of stories - and jokes. BM: I tend to be. I told the people at Alice : N: Do these deserts still retain their original Springs, “Why send for me? I’m a Tasma- gene stocks because they’ ve remained in the nian - I don’t know anything about the des- hands of native people? ert.” But by observing I started to learn how BM: No. The Sonora desert and all that area to use the desert. Over a decade ago we Y was a great prairie with huge herds of ani- started to learn how to direct and absorb ¢ mals on it. In 1880 the first of the Texan herds water and studied the work of the Israclis. “Ts reached the Sonora and they wiped off the We've become good at deserts. We like as © prairie. By 1890 the first gulches and arroyos deserts. We think they’re great places to As regular readers of ANY publication ph eal ahd borate Wg cae . will know, a massive amount of informa- |] ~ | ee aaa Fee a. ae Water Harvesting In those days there were huge trees in the tion is printed about AIDS. NEXUS re- P : ; feet through, but searchers have been sifting this mass for pia ia Soe sol aid ou iy The way fo grow in deserts is uy now all the cattle and horses have to eat is water harvesting. Say you're getting an quite some time, and) many»snomalous mesquite. They went and took cattle up onto average of 15 inches of rain per year, then features of the spread of AIDS came to our this dried-out landscape. So now you have a half of thet, 7 inches, falls only 13% of the attention - so many that we were led to sand plain with shrub mesquite. rain days and the whole 15 inches over only months of research in biomedical lbrartes Originally it was a densely forested area 34 rain days. You only get 4 days of heavy to sort fact from fallacy and downright with a lot of beaver, streams, huge cotton- rain and during those 4 days half the rain will misinformation. woods - that was only in 1880. And cattle fall. But if you can find a rock shelf, you can NGAP pierce edie Pn oned TOL have reduced it to a cactus desert today. The store water. Every hundred feet or so you new complexion on the mature of AIDS cattle alone have done that. store a shelf of water 20 feet wide with a bank (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) N: Do you think cattle have caused the same about a foot high on the outside. Al] the and HIV (Human Immuno-deficlency Vi- problems in Australia? hundred feet of runoff will fill that shelf - you rus). bs found so much, ia fact, that it BM: Since their presence here - yes, most can absorb 47 inches init. Andin that youcan doesn’t fit in NEXUS - so we've printed a definitely - it’s made our desert land very grow big orchard trees on contour strips, or NEXUS Supplement In our usual format to arid, and eventually it will become justa sand swales, for miles. present the startling facts uncovered by dune desert. You can see it happening with You can grow trees which require forty other researchers and ourselves. increasing rapidity. inches of rain in a 15 inch rainfall area - and Called AIDS -The Real Story, it tells you N: Ilow do you turn it around, aside from we can do that down to 4 inches of rain. It’s all the facts - from the World health Or- taking cattle and other hard-footed animals quite productive with an average rainfall of ganization, Government Health depart- off the land? 2G linches. ments and reputable sclentific Journals - BM: Ah, well how are you going to take the N: Do the ti help hold th ist is which palnt a very different picture of the aasaee Oe —— graziers out of Parliament? I mean, only 4% well? spread of AIDS to that which we are nor- | of our beef comes off the deserts. It’s an BM: Yes. After the swales age there's a no- mally shown. insignificant amount of beef, but to get that ticeable leaf liter catch washing off the des- Separated into easlly-understood sec- }| small amount we're destroying thousands of ert above into these little strips. Then slowly tions Including The Heterosexual Myth, The || square miles of landscape andit’s an obvious you'll see deep rich chocolate soils develop- Virus Engineers and Aids in Africa, fully immorality that its yields before cattle were ing and you can sit in the swales picking up referenced and rounded out with a clear enormous - and the yields now are ridicu- humus. Soil that smells like a compost heap. Glossography, AIDS - The Real Storyshows } ously small. Every bit of animal manure is washed howmedia hype and sclentiflc misinforma- N: If you remove the cattle, how do you go across the desert and into the swale, every tion has helped cover up the probable about regenerating the land? leaf, every stick. And the trees in the swale source of AIDS and divert research from ) B44: You make sausages from stones all drop their leaves, so the soil becomes very the most promising areas of exploration. wrapped up in wire - very heavy ones - and rich very quickly. After a while the trees It also clearly Illustrates why there’s no you build them in place across the valleys, so produce more rain because they transpire and need to panic, and how AIDS is not spread- the sand builds up behind them up to the old by increasing the number of swales you ing heterosexually. level. You have to start putting swales across could turn the desert back to humid forest in AIDS - The Real Story|satruly in-depth | the country - contour drains about thirty feet a relatively short time, as little as twenty presentation of the facts behind AIDS, wide - they catch runoff. And then you start years. cancer research and presents an overview | replanting the swales and it's tedious and If we can hold back the graziers who of what may yet be the tip of a biological} ainful work but the results are pretty spec- want it all to be beef and lamb. Iceberg. tacular. You can bring back some of the old R. Ayana If you have trouble finding copies in newsagents or health food stores, this sup- plement js available direct from NEXUS - see the back Inside cover of this issue for details. grasses at that point so you get a prairie and Anyone interested in Permaculture should tree effect and you can start to plant cotton- | conact the EPICENTRE - Permaculture woods behind the covered stone ‘sausages’. International, ] 13 Enmore Rd, Enmore2042 But it’s all hard work once you’ve gone Ph (02) 51 2175 downhill. NEXUS New Times Eight - Autumn 198