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NEXUS MAGAZINE — Volume 3, Number 2 FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996 EDITOR Duncan M. Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR Ruth Parnell EDITORS’ ASSISTANT Richard Giles OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Janine Carmichael CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Stan Deyo, Vadim Anfiloff Ben C, Vidgen, Martha M. Christy Bert Schwitters, David G. Guyatt William L. Brian Il, Rex Gilroy LAYOUT & DESIGN Duncan M. Roads CARTOONS Phil Somerville COVER GRAPHIC M. Teherevkoff/The Image Bank PRINTING Action Printing, Wisconson, USA USA/CANADA DISTRIBUTION Orion Marketing, New York, USA Ph; (315) 451 0667; Fax: (315) 461 9066 USA OFFICE - PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946- 0177. Ph: (815) 253 6464; Fax: (815) 253 6300 web page: http://www.nexus.conline.com/~nexus/ AUSTRALIAN (HEAD) OFFICE PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560, Australia. Ph: +61 (0)74 42 9280; Fax: +61 (0)74 42 9381 e-mail address: nexus@peg.apc.org, http://www. peg.apc.org/~nexus/ UK OFFICE - 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1BG. Ph; +44 (0)1342 322854; Fax; +44 (0)1342 324574 EUROPE OFFICE - PO Box 372, 8250 AJ Dronten, The Netherlands. Ph: +31 (0)321 380558; Fax +31 (0)321 318892 ITALY OFFICE - c/- Avalon Edizioni, Piazza Mazzini 52, 35137 Padova. Ph: +39 (0)49 655443; Fax: +39 (0)49 655443 NE Al FFICE - PO Box 34735, Birkenhead, Auckland. Ph/Fx; +64 (0)9 416 7320 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE NEXUS recognises that humanity is undergoing a massive transformation. With this in mind, NEXUS seeks to provide ‘hard-to-get’ information $0 as to assist people through these changes. NEXUS is not linked to any religious, philosophi- cal or political ideology or organisation. PERMISSION-TO-REPRODUCE POLICY While reproduction and dissemination of the information in NEXUS is actively encouraged, anyone caught making a buck out of it, without our express permission, will be in trouble when we catch them! Editorial How does one start an editorial? Believe it or not, this single item causes at least a dozen restarts per issue, and now that I have used this opening | will have to find another one next time! There are a few items of interest on my list for this editorial. First up, we have the ongoing saga of attempts to frustrate the entry of NEXUS into the UK market. Apart from some mud-slinging from a small-scale competi- tor, that NEXUS is a neo-Nazi magazine (and their phone calls to shops and dis- tributors to that effect), we also found that the printer who had offered to print NEXUS was suddenly told not to. It appears their board of directors ordered the management not to print NEXUS. Unfortunately they had already printed most of the magazine, which ended up at the tip. No dramas, though: they gave back our artwork, refunded all the money we paid upfront, and apologised pro- fusely. Luckily we were able to find a new printer who, by the way, did the same job for £2,000 cheaper! Any UK reader who wants to see more of NEXUS could help us a lot by ringing their local newsagent and asking them to stock it. Same goes with the USA and Canada where we plan to expand again next. Speaking of expansion, starting from the next issue (that's the April-May '96 edition), NEXUS will have a separate New Zealand Office (see details in credits column opposite). This means that Kiwis will get their own version of NEXUS— well, by that | mean the articles, reviews, editorials, etc. are the same as every- where else; it's just the advertisements that will be different. The NZ Office is thus the place to contact for advertising info, mail-order books and videos, dis- tribution info, and the new subscription rates. Speaking of subscriptions—Aussie subscribers, please check carefully your fly- sheet inside the plastic wrapper. Your expiry reminders (subs, that is) are print- ed just below the label with your address. | have been in contact with a number of researchers in the field of alternative energy for the last eight years or so. More recently | began to monitor the progress of a car that is able to run on water. Watching this project from afar was a most interesting exercise in itself. Every few weeks, someone new would ring up and excitedly inform me that they were in partnership with the inventor himself, and that this was the biggest scoop for NEXUS of all time. Finally, after speaking to several different—and trusted—people who had actually sat in the car while it was running on water, | was put in contact with the inventor. All he wanted was to get the info out there. Amazingly, he is not interested in fame or fortune. He just wants a quiet life, tinkering on the side, with enough money to keep his family better off than they are. So, to cut a long story short, on the Monday before Christmas we arranged for an in-depth interview and demo on the coming Thursday. The plan was to get the story, technical info and all, and put it onto the Internet and thus into the public domain straight away. Then we were going to put it into this edition of NEXUS. By Monday night the logistics were in place. Tuesday morning | got a call. Fifteen minutes after I'd spoken to him on Monday night, the inventor received a call, basically threatening that if he went ahead with the story, his family would be sent back to him, through the post! End of story! So, | dug up a fallback article on Archie Blue and his car that ran on water way back in 1977. It's in Science News this issue. Speaking of the Internet, our new web page is getting hundreds of hits per day. As a result, we are mirroring the Aussie site in the US (see opposite). Finally, | would like to mention the article on Urine Therapy. | know it sounds tasteless (pardon the pun); but, as | am, you will be utterly amazed at its therapeutic potential. Volume 3, Number 2 FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996 EDITOR Duncan M., Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR Ruth Parnell EDITORS’ ASSISTANT Richard Giles OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Janine Carmichael CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Stan Deyo, Vadim Anfiloff Ben C, Vidgen, Martha M. Christy Bert Schwitters, David G. Guyatt William L. 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