All these are from today's times--at the moment the NWO is keeping the ethnic conflict in check by consumerism and propaganda. Within the next 10years, consumerism will start falling apart due to the collapsing stockmarket, collapsing american dollar, political imbalance due to demographic changes, the pension crisis, the fuel crisis(america is runnig out of fuel). All of this kown to the higher circles- I wonder what they have decided to do?....probably to start a war with china--it distracts the plebs and solves the problem of surplus people. John If you want to I can write a short description why I say the above. 13 killed in Tamil Tigers attack Tamil Tiger rebels have attacked two seaside camps of the Sri Lankan army, killing seven soldiers and wounding 11 others. Six rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were also killed when soldiers retaliated with the help of the navy. The camps are in the northeastern parts in the country, where the rebels have stepped up operations. Nato authorises Macedonia mission Nato has agreed to commit 3,500 troops to the Macedonian disarmament mission. The alliance's ruling council, hoping to nudge Macedonians and ethnic Albanian rebels along the road to reconciliation, has decided the time is ripe to dispatch troops to collect and destroy the rebel arms. An advance party of 400 has been in place since the weekend, following an earlier decision by the North Atlantic Council Palestinians die in day of violence Seven Palestinians have died in violence in the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza, two Israeli helicopters fired four missiles at two cars, killing one person, a member of Preventive Security, an arm of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Israeli media and Palestinians at the scene said the military targeted the top Hamas bomb-makers and commanders, but they escaped unharmed. Hopes of Congo elections dim Congo's foreign minister says democratic elections in his war-divided nation will not be held for at least another two to three years. During historic talks in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, Leonard She Okitundu said that elections could only be held in Congo after a transitional government was established and a population census carried out. Rebels and opposition groups have been quick to criticise the remarks, arguing democracy should return to the war-ravaged country much sooner. THURSDAY AUGUST 23 2001 White farmers' ordeal ends in grim silence BY JAN RAATH IN HARARE AND MELISSA KITE TWENTY-ONE white men charged with attacking illegal squatters in Zimbabwe were released from prison yesterday in the volatile northern town of Chinhoyi, ending an humiliating 17-day ordeal. Grim-faced, the group of mostly middle-aged farmers, who also included five businessmen and a Presbyterian preacher, walked out of the gates of Chinhoyi prison after lawyers had delivered a "warrant of liberation", which had taken a full 24 hours to process the day before. With bristle from their illegally shaven heads beginning to show, they walked silently towards a convoy of eight pick-up trucks. As the engines started, some of the men began to run to the vehicles. Just over the border of Mashonaland West Province, only five miles away, the vehicles turned into the farmers' club near the village of Banket. The men stepped out of their cars into the arms of their wives, who sobbed with relief. None of the farmers would comment. One of the welcoming party, a man in his 60s who requested anonymity, said:"We are relieved. It's long overdue. They shouldn't have been inside in the first place and to get them out has been an absolute mission. Referring to their detention after bail and surety of �2,480 each had been paid in Harare, he said: "They were kept in illegally last night. I hope they will press charges. It's been a lot of red tape before they could get out." The men's bail conditions bar them from returning to their homes and to the rest of the province for a month. Fifteen of the men were arrested on August 6 when they came to the rescue of a colleague besieged by a mob of squatters and whose pleas for help had been ignored by police. The six others were arrested when they came to the police station to ask about the condition of the detained men. No squatters were arrested. Zanu (PF) supporters hit back with random attacks on whites in Chinhoyi town before looters ventured into the surrounding farming area, where 53 homes were ransacked. Most of the families still regard it unsafe to return. Brian Donnelly, the British High Commissioner, was taken on a bus tour by the Government yesterday during which senior officials asserted that the looting had been "stage-managed" by the farmers. The men will be allowed to return to Chinhoyi tomorrow to appear in the magistrates' court for a remand hearing. Yesterday Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, broke his silence on the unrest in Zimbabwe. After weeks of pressure on the Government to take action against the regime of President Mugabe, Mr Straw, who had been on leave and unavailable for comment until yesterday, said that it was not Britain's responsibility alone but that of the international community. He rejected calls to eject Mr Mugabe from the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Australia.
