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Global News using the US satellite Landsat, are able to construct detailed maps of any part of Victoria. It is expected by some that the satellite data will be used to enforce Victoria’s controversial restrictions on tree clearing by farmers and landowners. On July 2nd 1990, Robert Burrowes and Brendan Condon dumped a trailerload of Aboriginal land at the Australian Taxation Office in Melbourne. They refused to pay the 10% of their taxes used to finance Australia’s military spending and the government’s involve- ment in the arms race. Instead, they paid $461.42 to the Koori Information Centre in order to PAY THE RENT for their use of Aboriginal land. “We urge all concerned people to pay 1% of their income as rent for their use of Aboriginal land,” Brendan said. “If all non-Aboriginal people undertook to do this it would ensure the economic indepen - dence of the Aboriginal people.” STUDY LINKS AIRPORT NOISE TO MENTAL ILLNESS According to findings published in Britain’s Journal of Psychological Medicine, psychiatric illnesses and an increase in admission rates to psychiatric hospitals are clearly linked with people liv- ing under and around airport flightpaths. It also shows aircraft noise adversely affects the development of the human foetus. (Syd Morn Herald 22/11/90) HOXSEY: QUACKS WHO CURE CANCER? In 1924, Harry Hoxsey claimed a cure for cancer with herbal formulas inherited from his great-grandfather. Thousands of patients swore the treatment cured them. But medical authorities branded Hoxsey the worst quack of the century, and so began a medical war continuing to this day. Two Federal courts upheld his treat- ment’s ‘therapeutic value’, and even the American Medical Association admitted it does cure some cases. Yet organised medicine banned the ther- NEXUS - 10 apy, exiling it to Mexico where it still claims an 80% success rate today. A film/video now available has received exceptional rave reviews in the New York Times, the L.A. Times, and the Washington Post to name a few. Stay tuned for more news in future Nexus issues. (Source: World Research Foundation, CA. USA) HUGE, RICH OIL FIELD FOUND IN SAUDI ARABIA Oil industry sources have recently revealed the existence in Saudi Arabia of a gigantic new untapped oil field, which may prove to be the largest, and potentially most profitable supply of crude oil in the world. The new field is in a remote area of the Saudi desert south of Riyadh. According to officials of the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) the oil is the rare ‘light-crude’ oil, and it is upon the price of this oil that all other oil prices are based. Only two other countries are known to produce ‘light crude’ oil. New research suggests that the rapid flickering of the TV screen has a mes- merising effect on the human brain. The rapidly changing colours on the screen have been shown to lower the activity in the part of the brain that processes complex information. Approx 45% of Australian homes con- tain two or more TV sets. The average Sydney viewer watches 18 hours and 39 minutes of television a week. US watchers, however, average a mind numbing 56 hours. It appears that the symptons of “tele- addiction” are like those of other depen- dencies, such as alcoholism. They include turning to the set for solace when you’re feeling down, then feeling powerless to drag yourself away after it has provided only temporary emotional relief. BUSH’S OWN OIL BUSINESS Hopefully, most informed readers realise that US President George Bush was once the head of the CIA. But I wonder how many of you know of his personal oil busi- nesses, the legal affairs of which were ini- tially handled by a young attorney by the name of James Baker, now of course the US Secretary of State. As well, Baker’s father and grandfather handled legal work for Bush’s father and grandfather, in the Soviet oil development program of the 1920's. Also President Bush’s son, George is a director and major stockholder of harken Energy Corporation, of Dallas Texas, which owns the potentially lucrative drilling rights in Bahrain. Harken merged with Bush’s Spectrum 7 Exploration Company about four years ago. Naturally, Harken’s $US1.1 billion a year revenues would be endangered if Iraq were to widen the conflict in the middle east. INVOICING FOR CORRUPTION A Private Investigator invoiced a Sydney insurance company for “corrupting several members of the Police Force” as part of his inquiries, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) heard in late November. The invoice billed the company for some of his hours worked in obtaining a confi- dential criminal record and computer print- outs of a man named in a worker compen- sation claim. The Private Investigator stated in the invoice (dated August 23, 1988), that he spent many hours drinking with the police, corrupting them, compiling reports and “nursing a hangover”. BIG BROTHER- AT YOUR CHECK-OUT A program has been recently introduced in the US which would make any ID Card look very modest indeed. A number of information gatherers (Citicorp Bank is prominent) are offering cash and discount inducements to families who willingly pro- vide details of their complete grocery pur- chases. This information is then sold to manufacturers and marketers. It means that if a particpating family changes its brand of pet food for example, you will most likely receive in the mail shortly after - a letter of thanks from the new favourite and a free sample and pledge to do better from the spurned candidate. ABORIGINAL LAND — DUMPED AT TAX OFFICE HOOKED ON TV YEAR BOOK - FEBRUARY 1991