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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS suppresses the body's lymphatic system from flushing accumulated wastes from the body, causing toxins to build up in breast tissue and creating an environment ripe for a host of health problems. The authors interviewed some 4,700 women, with and without breast cancer, in five major US cities, with startling results. Statistical analysis showed that women who wear a bra more than 12 hours a day are 19 times more likely to develop breast cancer than women who wear bras less than ]2 hours a day. Moreover, women who wear their bras all the time, even to sleep in or virtually 24 hours a day, have a 113-fold increase in breast cancer incidence when compared with women who wear their bras less than 12 hours daily! (Source: Townsend Letter For Doctors & Patients, February/March 1996) Australian desert with a group of Aboriginal people. But Aboriginal people have called it an insulting hoax, claiming that they cannot find any evidence that Marlo Morgan's journey actually took place nor anyone who met her when she was in Australia. In the book, Ms Morgan claimed to have travelled with the "Real People" in central Australia and to have been taught how to transform her body from human form into another form of life, and other alleged Aboriginal secrets. She also claimed to be a messenger for the Aboriginal people. However, Morgan now admits she made the whole thing up. The book continues to sell in the US, Japan and Australia, and Hollywood is con- sidering a film based on the story. (Source: AAP, The Weekend Australian, 27- 28 January 1996) Shell executive Eric Nickson defended the company's practice of directly arming police, by pointing out that "a wide range of companies in Nigeria" import weapons for the police. Heavily armed police have instituted a reign of terror in Ogoniland for many years in defence of Shell's opera- tions. In 1990, riot police swept into the village of Umechem, at the request of Shell, to suppress a peaceful demonstra- tion, At least 80 people were killed. (Source: Green Left Weekly, 14 February 1996) SUBLIMINAL COKE ADS? According to a news item in the NZ magazine Soil & Health, Coca-Cola was forced to withdraw thousands of posters distributed to soft-drink outlets in Australia and New Zealand when an "obscene" image (a fellatio scene, no less!) was found hidden in the artwork. As part of the poster artwork portraying Coke's new bendy bottle, a collection of ice cubes bearing the shocking reflective image appeared at the bottom right-hand corner of the poster. Coke executives toured the suburbs in both countries, reclaiming the poster in order not to dam- age the corporate image. "The artist concerned will never be employed by Coca-Cola again!" intoned the embarrassed Coke suits. (Source: Soil & Health, Feb/March 1996) "MUTANT MESSAGE" WAS SHELL OIL ADMITS ARMING MAKE-BELIEVE NIGERIAN POLICE Controversial American author Marlo The Shell oil company has been forced Morgan offered Australian Aborigines an to admit that it imported weapons to help apology yesterday for her best-selling Nigerian police "protect" its oi] installa- book, Mutant Message Down Under, which _ tions in Ogoniland after the Nigerian press Aboriginal people claim is deeply offen- revealed the company had called for ten- sive. ders from arms suppliers. In an interview with SBS Radio from The admission makes a mockery of New York, Morgan broke down and said: Shell's claims, in the aftermath of the exe- "I would like to say that I'm terribly sorry cution of environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, and my sincere, my sincere apologies to _ that it did not interfere in Nigeria's internal any Australian Aboriginal person if I have politics. Shell was widely accused of col- offended them in any way." laboration with the military regime to sup- The book claims to be a true account of press opposition to its oil operations in the Ms Morgan's journey through the central Niger delta region. SCIENTISTS WARN OF TIDAL WAVE RISK TO AUSTRALIA Those uncomfortable prophecies of a huge tidal wave to hit Sydney, Australia, in the near future might not be so wild. Geoscientists at the University of Wollongong have revealed that eastern Australia appears to have been inundated regularly over the past few thousand years. In fact, the most recent tsunami is esti- mated to have hit our coastline about 250 to 300 years ago, when a wall of water some 110 metres high (that's 360 feet) struck the NSW coastline. Needless to say, a wave that size hitting eastern Australia today would probably wipe out 50 per cent of Australia's population in one sweep! Waves of this size are believed to be the result of events such as underwater vol- canic eruptions or landslides. Speaking of which, an underwater vol- cano has just been found off Vanuatu. If it goes off with a bang tomorrow, you may not be getting any more issues of NEXUS! (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1996) 8 « NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1996