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NEXUS MAGAZINE Volume 10, Number 4 JUNE - JULY 2003 PUBLISHED BY NEXUS Magazine Pty Ltd, Australia EDITOR Duncan M. Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR/SUB-EDITOR Ruth Parnell OFFICE ADMIN/EDITORS' ASSISTANT Jenny Hawke UK Office Manager Marcus Allen CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Doug Rokke, PhD; Richard Alan Miller and lona Miller; Will Banyan; Mark Purdey; Inger Lorelei; Ross Hamilton; Graham W. Birdsall; Adriano Forgione CARTOONS Phil Somerville COVER GRAPHIC John Cook, jscook@ozzienet.net PRINTING Goodhed Print Group, Bicester, Oxon., UK DISTRIBUTION Seymours, London, UK UK OFFICE - 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1BG. Ph: 01342 322854; Fax: 01342 324574 e-mail address: nexus@ukoffice.u-net.com Website: www.nexusmagazine.com EUROPE OFFICE - PO Box 48, 1600 AA Enkhuizen, The Netherlands. Ph: +31 (0)228 324076; Fax: +31 (0)228 312081 e-mail address: nexus@fsf.nl HEAD OFFICE - Articles, Reviews, etc. PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560, Australia. 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Editorial t's hard to believe that in the two months since I last stared at the computer screen, won- dering where the wise words for editorials are hidden, Iraq has been invaded and 'con- quered', a NEXUS Conference has been held in Europe, I've manned the NEXUS stall at the Sydney Mind Body Spirit Festival, and we've almost finished another issue. First up: the invasion of Iraq. Where do I start? Probably the most overtly outrageous feature of the 'war', for me, was the image of Saddam Hussein's statue being pulled down. Prior to that moment, most people may have been feeling pangs of guilt at the ‘collateral damage' caused by the coalition forces. But the statue's demise amongst cheering crowds of Iraqis was a staged event. The ‘average person' out there, bombarded with media cov- erage of that moment, was being made to feel assured that the Iraqis were happy at being ‘liberated’ by America. This ‘assurance’ has translated into an increase in the popularity of the coalition ‘leaders’, according to the polls, and the spin doctors use this as further vali- dation of this new era of pre-emptive strikes that are in defiance of international law. While I'm on the subject, many of these strikes utilised depleted uranium munitions. So, for this issue, I've found the best background paper on the subject, written by a nuclear health physicist who helped in the DU 'clean-up' after Gulf War I and is himself a victim. While depleted uranium missiles recently rained down upon the citizens of Iraq, the NEXUS Conference was being held in Amsterdam. As our conferences have usually been held in Sydney over the years, it was gratifying to see so many readers come to a similar event in the northern hemisphere. The conference was a tremendous success and every- one thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Herman Hegge, of Frontier Sciences Foundation, is to be congratulated for his organisational skills, and it's great news that he's scheduled the next conference for late March 2004 in Amsterdam. We'll continue our Australian confer- ences in due course, but the next one will be held somewhere in southeast Queensland. While I was manning our stall at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, I was asked by most visitors what I thought of the recent Pan Pharmaceuticals product recall here in Australia. Was it a full-scale attack on natural therapies and complementary medicines by the drug- industry-run bureaucracy? At the time I wasn't sure, but now I'd say it seems the gloves are coming off. It almost looks as if they knew the Pan Pharmaceuticals scandal was coming and were prepared. Suspiciously hot on the heels of the drug recall, there have been media beat-ups on the dangers of vitamins, supplements and alternative medicines, government proposals to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act, and inquiries into the safety and effectiveness of natural medicines (with little focus on the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs). Whether we like it or not, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and USA are to ‘harmonise’ health safety standards with those of the EU trading bloc. This will mean big changes for everyone in the alternative health industry, and consumers will have far less choice in quality health products and services. If you don't make noise now, this is the beginning of the end for genuine alternative health products in these countries. Meanwhile, NEXUS continues to expand internationally. We will soon have editions in Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Spanish and Yugoslav languages, but we are still looking for the elusive German publisher interested in producing NEXUS in that part of the world. Regarding matters Russian, we have two intriguing interviews this issue that are repre- sentative of a new wave of connections coming out of the region. Of particular interest is "The Installation", which I know will get the phones and emails running hot. We hope to have a more in-depth article on the subject for next issue, so please don't contact me yet for any updates. While you ponder the implications of the Installation, you may also want to read the interview with the Russian scientist who discovered the 120-million-year-old stone map in the southern Urals (as reported in NEXUS 9/04). Our article on the unexplained is about Giants—specifically, the mysterious skeletons of giants found in northeastern USA within the equally mysterious earth mounds. Who were these people and why do mainstream archaeologists deny their existence? You must also read Tesla's "Talking to the Planets" essay of 1901; it gives a glimpse of technologies that are deliberately being hidden from our view, but are likely being employed at installations like HAARP in Alaska. We also have an article on HAARP... Duncan Volume 10, Number 4 JUNE — JULY 2003 PUBLISHED BY NEXUS Magazine Pty Ltd, Australia EDITOR Duncan M. Roads CO-EDITOR Catherine Simons ASSISTANT EDITOR/SUB-EDITOR Ruth Parnell OFFICE ADMIN/EDITORS' ASSISTANT Jenny Hawke UK Office Manager Marcus Allen CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Doug Rokke, PhD; Richard Alan Miller and lona Miller; Will Banyan; Mark Purdey; Inger Lorelei; Ross Hamilton; Graham W. Birdsall; Adriano Forgione CARTOONS Phil Somerville COVER GRAPHIC John Cook, jscook@ozzienet.net PRINTING Goodhed Print Group, Bicester, Oxon., UK DISTRIBUTION Seymours, London, UK UK OFFICE - 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1BG. 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