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LY BD © oF VEN? CHANNEL 4 NEWS ACCUSED OF CENSORSHIP HYPNOSIS IMPROVES TV ADVERT RECOLLECTION! embers of UK-based Truth in Le HIV Testing (TIHT) have accused Channel 4 News of censor- ship after news editor Jim Gray effectively banned the release of a program, commissioned by Channel 4 News, about the ques- tionable links between HIV and AIDS. The World AIDS Day news report from award-winning Meditel Productions in London focused on HIV testing and the leading scien- tists who, for the first time, present- ed comprehensive data on the pro- found inaccuracies underlying the links between HIV and AIDS. The data disputing the theory that HIV causes AIDS was presented at the World AIDS Conference in Geneva in July 1998. (Source: Continuum magazine, press release, 2 December 1998) Maas Diagnostics, a market and social research company, describes as "Earth shattering" the results of their new line of research involving hypnosis. The researchers tested people's responses to TV advertisements, initially in a conscious state and then under hypnosis. The results showed that people's recollection of a company and brand improved by 75 per cent when hypnotised, compared with when in a normal state. "It shows they are registering in the subconscious what these com- mercials were about, but from the top of their mind it wasn't there so much," said Denis Lee, managing director of The Agency, the Brisbane-based advertising agency work- ing with Mindtec Diagnostics. "That's what happened all the way through—they are storing opinions and attitudes about products which, asked about consciously, they may not recall, but at the point of purchase there are all those subliminal things stored in the memory that influence the purchasing process." (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 1998) The current alternates two huge warm- water pools with two huge cold pools, with a temperature difference of only about a degree. It seems that this massive system is linked to rain and temperature variations in the southern states of Australia, leading some to speculate that its influence is greater than that of the Pacific's El Niiio. Scientists at CSIRO's Atmospheric Division are monitoring these and a third phenomenon, the Indian Ocean Dipole. (Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, /4 December 1998) ANTARCTIC CURRENTS COMPLICATE CLIMATE STUDY lobal weather patterns may be much more affected by massive ocean cur- rents than previously suspected. Scientists have recently discovered the existence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, a complex current moving ina clockwise direction around the Antarctic, in a cycle of eight to nine years. MONSANTO'S UNHOLY GLOBAL GENETICS WAR lhe debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could result in a trade war between Europe and the USA. Public concern is high in Europe over safety and labelling issues surrounding GMOs and has resulted in Europe's envi- ronment ministers calling for temporary bans on GMOs until the European Council, Commission and Parliament can agree on how to draft a 1990 directive set- ting out ground rules under which GMO plants can be approved. The strength of public opinion is causing a PRheadache for Monsanto which is fac- ing public meltdown in the UK and Germany, with a "society-wide" collapse of support for its radical technologies, according to leaked documents. Monsanto's latest polls and focus groups show that an earlier collapse of support for GMOs has now accelerated, with opposi- tion "skyrocketing" despite a £1 million advertising campaign. aL THATS NOT A WALLPAPER PATTE, THATS THE ° FINE PRINT... 6 = NEXUS FEBRUARY — MARCH 1999