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Subject: Shielding Children
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:29:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gary Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Commercial AlertSeptember 23, 2000

Following is a op-ed by Susan Linn and Diane Levin about the commercial
assault on children, in the Sept. 22 edition of the Christian Science
Monitor.

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/09/22/fpcon-edit.shtml

Shielding Children
By Susan Linn and Diane E. Levin

It's rare that an award ceremony should be cause for alarm. But the
third annual Golden Marble Awards, the advertising industry's
celebration of successful marketing to children, ought to worry anyone
concerned about our children's well-being. This year the ceremony was
held in New York on Sept. 14 – the same day the federal government
published a report documenting the rapid growth of marketing in schools,
and four days after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its
findings that media companies deliberately market violence to children.

Marketing to children has become so pervasive that the ad world
apparently thinks it warrants a separate awards ceremony. These awards
honor artistry without questioning the ethics of marketing to children.
The annointed commercials may be brilliantly designed and executed, but
the praise is bestowed without regard for the way ads manipulate
children or for how the products affect children and families.

Kids are barraged with advertising from the moment they wake up until
bedtime. Corporations spent more than $12 billion in 1999 marketing to
children. They're bombarded with products linked to TV characters, toy
giveaways at fast-food chains, and product placements in movies and
television. Children see 30,000 commercials annually on television
alone. And there's growing evidence that it's harmful to them.

Last month, after reviewing 1,000 studies conducted over 30 years, a
coalition of professional organizations, including the American Academy
of Pediatrics, linked violent media to aggressive behavior. Yet
professional wrestling programs, which are rated TV-14, and violent
movies such as "X-Men" (rated PG-13) peddle violent action figures to
preschoolers. As the recent FTC report confirms, the entertainment
industry intentionally markets violent content to children through
products it officially rates as unsuitable.

At a time when childhood obesity has become a major public health
problem, the fast-food industry is the biggest advertiser on television.
McDonald's alone spends $6 million a year on advertising. Studies show
that obese children are more susceptible to the "feel good" messages
embedded in advertising.

At the same time, advertisers present children with models who are
impossibly slim. Over one-third of girls in grades 5 to 8 report dieting
in the last year, and studies document that discontent with body images
rises with exposure to fashion magazines.

Advertising even affects the way children play. The most advertised,
bestselling toys are linked to media programs. Yet children often play
less creatively with toys based on characters from television and film.

Young children are vulnerable to marketing exploitation. They tend to
believe what they see, they don't understand that ads are meant to sell
them something, and they have trouble differentiating between
commercials and programming.

The deregulation of children's television in 1984 made it possible to
use programs to promote toys, further blurring the line between ads and
shows. In addition, companies now wield increasingly sophisticated
technology, extensive market research, and the expertise of child
psychologists. Today, children influence purchases totaling about $500
billion a year – a sure sign of corporations' success.

The ubiquitous media, combined with virtually unrestricted marketing
practices, makes obsolete the conventional wisdom that parents can
protect their children from commercial culture. To some extent, parents
can mitigate the effects of marketing, but unless families retreat to
the woods, children are exposed at friends' houses, on the street, the
playground, supermarkets, and even in school.

That companies get awards for doing the best job of manipulating
children into buying things is emblematic of a consumer culture that is
out of control. Parents need help from policymakers to protect children
from this unprecedented assault. The White House should lead the way by
convening a conference on corporate marketing and its effects on
children to serve as a springboard for national dialogue and lay the
groundwork for creating appropriate policy. The National Institutes of
Health should fund research on the psychosocial and health consequences
of intensive marketing to children.

Children pay for advertising. They pay with their safety, their health,
and their creativity. Why should the industry reward itself for

[CTRL] Melbourne to Prague: the Struggle for a Deglobalized World

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From Melbourne to Prague: the Struggle for a Deglobalized
World

By Walden Bello*

(Talk delivered at a series of engagements on the occasion
of demonstrations against the World Economic Forum (Davos)
in Melbourne, Australia, 6-10 September 2000.)

We are, here in Melbourne in the next few days and in Prague
in two weeks' time, participating in an historic enterprise:
that of creating a critical mass to turn the tide against
corporate-driven globalization.

For years, we were told that globalization was benign, that
it was a process that brought about the greatest good for
the greatest number, that good citizenship lay in accepting
the impersonal rule of the market and good governance meant
governments getting out of the way of market forces and
letting the most effective incarnation of market freedom,
the transnational corporation, go about its task of bringing
about the most efficient mix of capital, land, technology
and labor.

The unrestricted flow of goods and capital in a world
without borders was said to be the best of all possible
worlds, though when some observers pointed out that to be
consistent with the precepts of their 18th century prophet,
Adam Smith, proponents of the neoliberal doctrine would also
have to allow the unrestricted flow of labor to create this
best of all possible worlds, they were, quite simply,
ignored.

Such inconsistencies could be overlooked since for over two
decades, neoliberalism or, as it was grandiosely styled, the
"Washington Consensus" had carried all before it.  As one of
its key partisans has nostalgically remarked recently, "the
Washington Consensus seemed to gain near-universal approval
and provided a guiding ideology and underlying intellectual
consensus for the world economy, which was quite new in
modern history." (1)

Globalization Unravels I: The Asian Financial Collapse The
unrestricted flow of speculative capital in accordance with
Washington Consensus doctrine was what our governments in
East Asia institutionalized in the early 1990's, under the
strong urging of the International Monetary Fund and the US
Treasury Department.  The result: the $100 billion that
flowed in between 1993 and 1997 flowed out in the bat of an
eyelash during the Great Panic of the summer of 1997,
bringing about the collapse of our economies and spinning
them into a mire of recession and massive unemployment from
which most still have to recover.   Since 1997, financial
instability or the constant erosion of our currencies has
become a way of life under IMF- imposed monetary regimes
that leave the value of our money to be determined
day-to-day by the changing whims, moods, and preferences of
foreign investors and currency speculators.

Globalization Unravels II: The Failure of Structural
Adjustment The Asian financial crisis put the International
Monetary Fund on the hotseat, leading to a widespread
popular reappraisal of its role in the Third World in the
1980s and early 1990's, when structural adjustment programs
were imposed on over 70 developing countries. After over 15
years, there were hardly any cases of successful adjustment
programs.  What structural adjustment had done, instead, was
to institutionalize stagnation in Africa and Latin America,
alongside rises in the levels of absolute poverty and income
inequality.

Structural adjustment and related free-market policies that
were imposed beginning in the early 1980's were the central
factor that triggered a sharp rise in inequality globally,
with one authoritative UNCTAD study covering 124 countries
showing that the income share of the richest 20 per cent of
the world's population rose from 69 to 83 per cent between
1965 and 1990. (2)   Adjustment policies were a central
factor behind the rapid concentration of global income in
recent years - a process which, in 1998, saw Bill Gates, with
a net worth of $90 billion, Warren Buffet, with $36 billion,
and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, with $30 billion,
achieve a combined income that was greater than the total
combined income of the 600 million that live in the world's
48 least developed countries, a great number of which had
been subjected to adjustment programs.

Structural adjustment has also been a central cause of the
lack of any progress in the campaign against poverty.  The
number of people globally living in poverty - that is, on less
than a dollar a day -  increased from 1.1 billion in 1985 to
1.2 billion in 1998, and is expected to reach 1.3 billion
this year. (3) According to a recent World Bank study, the
absolute number of people living in poverty rose in the
1990's in Eastern Europe, South Asia, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa - all areas that came under
the sway of adjustment programs. (4)

Confronted with this dismal record, James Wolfensohn of the
World Bank had the sense to move the institution away from
its identification with structural adjustment with public
relations initiatives like the SAPRI, or the 

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: HoffmanWire: 9 Days to Lieberman's Kol Nidrei

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 Subject: HoffmanWire: 9 Days to Lieberman's Kol Nidrei
 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:22:33 -0700
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 * T H E  H O F F M A N  W I R E
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 * Sept. 29, 2000
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Gee Shannon. I didn't know you were a Hoffman fan. Very impressive!


 Nine Days to Lieberman's Kol Nidrei Rite on Yom Kippur Eve

 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (Sept. 29, hoffman-info.com.news.html). The clock is
 ticking on the countdown to the Kol Nidrei rite, which Joe Lieberman, the
 Democrat candidate for the Vice Presidency of the US, will perform in just a
 few days.

Ooooh scary. Kol Nidre. As if you or he even knows what it means.

 Yesterday we mailed a press release to major and minor media all over the
 US, from the NY Times and CBS News to talk radio hosts and local newspapers.
 The press release is packaged inside an envelope with a photo of Lieberman
 in his kippah ("yarmulke") and the banner headline, "Lieberman's Strange
 Gods" (those of you living in the US who have purchased anything from us or
 made a donation, will also receive this mailing).

Just the beginning alone is absurd. To use Judaism in conjunction with the
plural of the word god, is ridiculous. Jews don't believe in god*s*. That's
not monotheistic.


 Inevitably the media describe Yom Kippur in hues of deepest piety and kid
 gloves' reverence, as a "penitential rite" during which saintly Jews
 approach their Maker and beg his forgiveness for wrongs committed in the
 past.

 Rubbish!

Says Michael Hoffman - neo-nazi wanabe, and half-wit scholar.

 Judaism is a crime syndicate disguised as a religion. The gangsters
 must protect themselves from the bad seed they will sow in the coming year.
 To do so they  cut a lawyer's deal with their god (in actuality, the  rabbis
 and the Talmud), that allows them to believe they can lie with impunity and
 not reap what they sow.

Very astute.


 The fact that Lieberman will engage in this rite on the evening of Oct. 8 is
 frankly outrageous. He and his handlers can only get away with this if Kol
 Nidrei is falsified, usually by the media's claim that the absolution being
 sought is for promises broken in the past.

Now think about this statement. How many times in your whole life have you
heard the media make this claim? Think about what Hoffman is saying, and
actually number the times. Could Hoffman be full of shit?

 To counter this disinformation I refer you to documentary evidence --
 Babylonian Talmud Tractate Nedarim 23a and 23b: "And he who desires that
 none of his vows made during the year shall be valid, let him stand at the
 beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I make in the future
 shall be null." (Quoted in "Judaism's Strange Gods" by Michael A. Hoffman
 II, p. 61).

So if you want a solid interpretation of the Talmud, get it from Michael
Hoffman.


 I am continually researching this subject and I now have two folders thick
 with additional revelations not in my book's first edition. Much of this
 later data appear in the two speeches I gave at the America's Promise
 Ministries Conference Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 (see the end of this message).

I'm not surprised. Who else but Christian bigots would be stupid enough to
buy his crap.

 Since I wrote the book, I wanted to overcome the objection that while the
 Talmud may decree the nullification of all oaths, how can it be proved that
 this is exactly what transpires in the Orthodox Jewish synagogue ritual
 itself? (I qualify this with the word Orthodox because the Reform synagogue
 does use the Talmudic Kol Nidrei rite, but then of course Sen.  Lieberman
 attends an Orthodox synagogue which does use it, as all Orthodox synagogues
 do).

 I have had a number of secondary sources in my files attesting to the
 existence of Kol Nidrei in the Yom Kippur liturgy, but I did not have
 primary documentation, until now. I have since unearthed the actual
 liturgical rite itself from the synagogue "prayer book," and posted it in
 the original Hebrew at http://www.hoffman-info.com/news.html

This guy is a hell of a researcher. To think, he managed to " unearth " the
Kol Nidre in a synagogue prayer book. This is fucking amazing. What a genius.
A Christian Identity scholar of the highest Order.

 So, we have the decree from the Talmud in Nedarim 23 and now we have the
 actual text from the synagogue rite which Joe Lieberman will mumble along
 with his fellow racketeers on Sunday evening, Oct. 8:

 Translation of the actual synagogue text:

 "All vows, prohibitions, oaths, consecrations or equivalent terms that we
 may vow, swear, consecrate, or prohibit upon 

[CTRL] Want to vote for a Jew? Forget Lieberman, try LeDuke.

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bject:
  "The Republicans have already won"
Date:
  Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:50:16 -0700
   From:
  Ellen Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To:
  WILPF listserv [EMAIL PROTECTED]




For those of you who are planning to vote for Gore because of the
consequences of a Republican victory, here is a portrait of the democratic
vice-presidential candidate, by Dr. Manning Marable, posted on the Black
Radical Congress list.  As Dr. Marable points out,  the Democrats have
adopted the Republican philosophy, and sometimes lead the charge, with Joe
Lieberman positioned on the far right wing of the Democratic party.   For
those of you who would like to vote for a Jewish vice-presidential
candidate,  I recommend Winona La Duke, Ralph Nader's running mate. This
Native American activist is Jewish on her mother's side, and got much of her
political training from her mother and grandmother. She is what I consider
the right (I mean left!) kind of Jew.

Ellen Schwartz
You oughta be in pixels!  Find out how at http://www.nicetechnology.com


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[CTRL] PriceWaterhouse monitoring slammed in BusinessWeek

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Inside a Chinese Sweatshop: "A Life of Fines and Beating"
Wal-Mart's self-policing in the Chun Si factory was a disaster. What kind of
monitoring system works?

Liu Zhang (not his real name) was apprehensive about taking a job at the Chun
Si Enterprise Handbag Factory in Zhongshan, a booming city in Guangdong
Province in southern China, where thousands of factories churn out goods for
Western companies. Chun Si, which made Kathie Lee Gifford handbags sold by
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) as well as handbags sold by Kansas-based
Payless ShoeSource Inc. (PSS), advertised decent working conditions and a fair
salary. But word among migrant workers in the area was that managers there
demanded long hours of their workers and sometimes hit them. Still, Liu, a
32-year-old former farmer and construction worker from far-off Henan
province, was desperate for work. A factory job would give him living quarters
and the temporary-residence permit internal migrants need to avoid being
locked
up by police in special detention centers. So in late August, 1999, he signed
up.

Liu quickly realized that the factory was even worse than its reputation. Chun
Si,
owned by Chun Kwan, a Macau businessman, charged workers $15 a month
for food and lodging in a crowded dorm--a crushing sum given the $22 Liu
cleared his first month. What's more, the factory gave Liu an expired
temporary-resident permit; and in return, Liu had to hand over his personal
identification card. This left him a virtual captive. Only the local police
near the
factory knew that Chun Si issued expired cards, Liu says, so workers risked
arrest if they ventured out of the immediate neighborhood.

HALF A CENT. Liu also found that Chun Si's 900 workers were locked in the
walled factory compound for all but a total of 60 minutes a day for meals.
Guards regularly punched and hit workers for talking back to managers or even
for walking too fast, he says. And they fined them up to $1 for infractions
such as
taking too long in the bathroom. Liu left the factory for good in December,
after
he and about 60 other workers descended on the local labor office to protest
Chun Si's latest offenses: requiring cash payments for dinner and a phony
factory
it set up to dupe Wal-Mart's auditors. In his pocket was a total of $6 for
three
months of 90-hour weeks--an average of about one-half cent an hour. ''Workers
there face a life of fines and beating,'' says Liu. Chun Kwan couldn't be
reached,
but his daughter, Selina Chun, one of the factory managers, says ''this is not
true,
none of this.'' She concedes that Chun Si did not pay overtime but says few
other
factories do, either. In a face-to-face interview in August, she also admitted
that
workers have tried to sue Chun Si.

Liu's Dickensian tale stands in stark contrast to the reassurances that
Wal-Mart,
Payless, and other U.S. companies give American consumers that their goods
aren't produced under sweatshop conditions. Since 1992, Wal-Mart has
required its suppliers to sign a code of basic labor standards. After exposes
in
the mid-1990s of abuses in factories making Kathie Lee products, which the
chain carries, Wal-Mart and Kathie Lee both began hiring outside auditing
firms
to inspect supplier factories to ensure their compliance with the code. Many
other companies that produce or sell goods made in low-wage countries do
similar self-policing, from Toys 'R' Us to Nike and Gap. While no company
suggests that its auditing systems are perfect, most say they catch major
abuses
and either force suppliers to fix them or yank production.

What happened at Chun Si suggests that these auditing systems can miss serious
problems--and that self-policing allows companies to avoid painful public
revelations about them. Allegations about Chun Si first surfaced this May in a
report by the National Labor Committee (NLC), a small anti-sweatshop group in
New York that in 1997 exposed Kathie Lee's connection to labor violations in
Central America. For several months, Wal-Mart repeatedly denied any
connection to Chun Si. Wal-Mart and Kathie Lee even went so far as to pass
out a press release when the report came out dismissing it as ''lies'' and
insisting
that they never had ''any relationship with a company or factory by this name
anywhere in the world.''

But in mid-September, after a three-month BUSINESS WEEK investigation that
involved a visit to the factory, tracking down ex-Chun Si workers, and
obtaining
copies of records they had smuggled out of the factory, Wal-Mart conceded that
it had produced the Kathie Lee bags there until December, 1999. Wal-Mart
Vice-President of Corporate Affairs Jay Allen now says that Wal-Mart denied
using Chun Si because it was ''defensive'' about the sweatshop issue.

Wal-Mart Director of Corporate Compliance Denise Fenton says its auditors,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC) and Cal Safety Compliance Corp., had
inspected Chun Si 

[CTRL] How it's done: A CFR conference

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Financial Vulnerabilities Conference

 THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS:
   WARNING SIGNS, DAMAGE CONTROL, AND IMPACT

   Keynote Speaker: ALAN GREENSPAN

 July 12-13, 2000
 Agenda

  Wednesday, July 12
   11:00 - 12:00
   p.m.
   REGISTRATION
   12:00 - 1:40
   p.m.
   LUNCHEON
   IT'S THE FINANCIAL MARKETS, STUPID!
   A Dialogue with Hannes Androsch and Henry
   Kaufman
   How is the current "marketized" environment
   different from past eras? In this new
   environment, are markets even more prone to
   excesses that lead to instability? Does this
instability create new complications for foreign
 policy and national security? What can be done?

   Hannes Androsch, Chairman, Androsch
   International Management Consulting; former
   Vice Chancellor of Austria
   Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman 
   Company, Inc.

   Presider:
   Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign
   Relations
   1:40 - 2:20
   p.m.
   Break
   2:20 - 3:20
   p.m.
   STRESS TESTING THE SYSTEM
   War-gaming the next financial crisis: Learning
   from the Council's Policy Simulation.

   Jessica Einhorn, former Managing Director, The
   World Bank
   James R. Jones, Senior Counsel, Manatt, Phelps
Phillips; former Chairman  CEO, American
   Stock Exchange

   Presider:
   Roger M. Kubarych, Henry Kaufman Senior
   Fellow for International Economics  Finance,
   Council on Foreign Relations
   3:20- 3:40 p.m.
   Break
   3:40 - 4:45
   p.m.
   BREAKOUT SESSIONS I :
   WARNING SIGNS AND DAMAGE CONTROL
   Financial, Economic  Political Stress Testing

Participants will attend one of the four Regional
   Breakout Groups OR the Workshop on Scenario
   Building and Simulations

   A: Regional Breakout Groups:
  What are the regional and country vulnerabilities
   and pressure points? What are the implications?

   · Group 1: China

   Robert S. Ross, Prfessor, Harvard University,
   Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
   Donald Roth, Managing Partner, Emerging
   Markets Partnership

   Presider:
   Winston Lord, former Assistant Secretary of
  State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former
   U.S. Ambassador to China


   · Group 2: Latin America

   Lacey Gallagher, Director, Latin America
   Economies, Credit Suisse First Boston
   Corporation
   Martin Schubert, Chairman, Eurinam Group

   Presider:
  Brian O’Neill, Latin America Regional Executive,
   The Chase Manhattan Corporation


   · Group 3: South Asia

   Punita Kumar-Sinha, Senior Portfolio Manager
   and Executive Director, CIBC Oppenheimer
   David Unger, Editorial Board, The New York
   Times

  

Re: [CTRL] Carnage in the Aqsa Mosque (fwd)

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 My strong suspicion is that Sharon made his little visit to the Temple Mount
 (Haram as-Sharif) hoping that it would provoke some of his loonier followers to
 blow up the offending mosques and open the way for the Fourth Temple to be
 constructed there.

Even though this could actually happen, it would not be his intent. This is
about real estate not religion.

Labor is in the pocket of the White House. They are giving away the store.
The opposition parties are pissed. Sharon is exploiting that anger. Labor will
fall in the next election. Sharon is positioning himself to lead Likud.

 I hope to God (and I mean that VERY literally) that this
 does not happen...but I am very much afraid that someone is going to try it.
 And THAT would throw a lighted match into an exceedingly volatile powderkeg.

That would be a disaster for all, but the Palestinians will be crushed. Anybody
can blow up a building. Even Hamas.

J2


 If you doubt me, check the CTRL archives under the keywords "Temple",
 "Jerusalem", "Cohanim", and "red heifer".

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 CARNAGE IN THE AQSA MOSQUE
 
  Four dead and fifty to sixty civilians injured at the Aqsa mosque after
  clashes between Isreali forces and Palestinian demonstrators, today.
  Children protected by trees  and large stones at close range to Isreali
  forces threw rocks in demonstration of yesterdays visit of Ariel Sharon to
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[CTRL] [Fwd: Commission Says Gore-Bush Only; Responses Available]

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Subject: Commission Says Gore-Bush Only; Responses Available
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:28:10 -0500 (CDT)
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Wednesday, September 27, 2000

Debate Commission Says Gore-Bush Only; Responses Available

The Commission on Presidential Debates has formally announced that it
intends to exclude all third party candidates from the presidential debates.

Phil Donahue (who is a member of the Committee to Elect Ralph Nader
President) wrote in the Sunday Los Angeles Times: "If Ralph Nader is
excluded from the presidential debates, many issues important to millions of
Americans will get little or no attention during the corporate sponsored
face-offs between the two major party candidates" -- e.g. drug war, death
penalty, trade, national health insurance.

The following are among those available for interviews:

JAMIN RASKIN, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Law professor at American University, Raskin represented Ross Perot in 1996,
chairs the Appleseed Citizens' Task Force on Fair Debates and has advised
the Nader campaign on the debate issue. He said today: "The 15 percent rule
is utterly lawless. It triples the 5 percent rule in federal law for
qualifying for
public financing in a presidential campaign." Raskin added: "Nothing stops
Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush from setting up an
exclusionary debate, but these debates are paid for by large corporations
like Anheuser-Busch, which is contributing $550,000. The corporate funding
makes these exclusionary debates an illegal corporate contribution."

JEFF COHEN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fair.org/debates.html
Cohen is head of Open Debates 2000, a project of the media watch group
FAIR. Cohen said today: "The CPD is not 'nonpartisan' as it claims, it's a
creation of the Democratic and Republican parties. A recent Zogby poll of
1,000 likely voters found that 60 percent want Nader and Buchanan
included -- and people who are not 'likely voters' may be even more
sympathetic to third party candidates."

JEFF MILCHEN, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ReclaimDemocracy.org
Director of ReclaimDemocracy.org, Milchen said today: "The CPD is not a
legitimate institution. In 1992, Perot would have been banned from the
debates under the CPD's current 15 percent standard, as would Jesse Ventura
in 1998."

ADAM EIDINGER, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sinker.org
Eidinger is with the Open Debate Society. He said: "I was among the
activists who occupied the offices of Wagner Communications and Brewer
Consulting Group, the only known address of the CPD, for 40 minutes on Sept.
20. Our aim was to put a face to the name of the CPD, a stealthy private
corporation controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties." On Sept.
28, activists will attempt to shut down those offices. Eidinger added that
"after this action we are going to join thousands to protest for open
debates in Boston," the site of the first scheduled presidential debate.

[The CPD (http://www.debates.org) can be reached at (202) 872-1020.]

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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Re: [CTRL] Shoah business

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nessie wrote:

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 They real issue is not how many Jews were killed. One was too many. The
 real issue is that certain people claim that the Holocaust was ONLY about
 Jews. Nothing could be further from the truth.

 For details see: http://www.sfbg.com/nessie/26.html


Holocaust = A burnt sacrifice to god. This is a Jewish concept, from the
Jewish bible. It was applied to the Jews who were gassesd and sent up in
smoke.

This is NOT a generic term for genocide. Can you gentiles understand this
or do you need me to break it down into monosyllables?

When you use the term holocaust, you are ONLY talking about the Jewish
part of what happened in Christian Europe to the Jews.

If you want to generalize about genocide, then you have to use a different
word. If you say that the Germans practiced genocide in WWII, that would
include the Gypsies, the Jews, the Orthodox Serbs and some I don't know about.

When Jews talk about the holocaust they talk about their own part of it.

If you would like to talk about a different part of WWII make up you own
word.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: (en) Our globalisation - Fighting Global Capitalism]

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:07:00 -0500 (CDT)
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Cover story from Workers Solidarity No 60

The world's 225 richest people have a combined
wealth equal to the combined annual income of
the world's 2.5 billion poorest people. A 4
percent levy on their wealth would provide
adequate food, safe water and sanitation, basic
education, basic health care and reproductive
health care for all those in the developing
countries. It is facts like these that
galvanised the massive protests against the WTO
in Seattle last September.

Everywhere the rich are getting richer while
most workers see little or no improvement in
their living standards. In the USA the wealth of
the top 1% is greater than that of the bottom
95%. In Mexico 40 people own 30% of the wealth
in that country of 95 million people. The
housing crisis in Ireland demonstrates how even
during an economic boom the gains don't go to
the working class.

The last 40 years have seen massive economic
development and an increase in human knowledge.
In the last 50 years man has gone to the moon
and sequenced the human genome. But the
capitalist system which delivered these miracles
is unable to help the tens of millions who die
every year because they lack access to basic
medicine and clean water. According to the UN
2.6 billion people have no access to sanitation,
2 billion have no electricity and 100 million
are homeless.

This inequality is fundamental to the way that
capitalism works. This is why anarchists have
and will continue to be at the heart of the
anti-capitalist protests in London (J18.
Mayday), Seattle (N30), Washington (A16) and
Prague (S26). But protest is not enough, we want
to change the world.


This article is from the print version of the Irish
Anarchist paper 'Workers Solidarity'. We also provide
a PDF file of the latest edition for you to print out
and distribute locally

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Re: [CTRL] Shoah business

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Yardbird wrote:

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 I don't dispute anything you posted Kris regarding Finkelstein's claims.
 What I find interesting is that Finkelstein comes from a far left
 ideological position where questioning the motives of such figures as Elie
 Weisel is frowned upon usually.

The problem here is that you don't know what you are talking about. It
is precisely on the extreme left that you find the most extreme criticism
of people like Weisel and the general Jewish establishment. It is strongly
anti- Zionist, and with many of them, anti Jewish.

 But then again I have no idea what may be
 motivating Finkelstein; nevertheless, it is an intriguing dialogue that
 deserves to be followed by anyone familiar with the topic. The point I
 feel that is most relevant in his argument is his notion that abuses of
 the repayment shemes have led to little of this money being placed in the
 hands of the actual victims

This is absolutely true. My mother is a graduate of Auschwitz and has yet to
see any of the piddling dribble reach her. This is a shakedown. It's being
carried out by the usual suspects. Greedy elites and their shyster henchman.
In this case all the characters are Jews.

 and that Eastern Europe is due for some form
 of "shakedown" or "extortion" from the same organizations that are abusing
 the aforementioned system.

I wouldn't feel too sorry for the Germans and the Swiss and the Poles and the
others. They got away with murder, and their elites got away with most of the
stolen wealth. THESE greedy elites with their shyster henchman are Catholics
and protestants.


 Jamieson

The lesson here is NEVER TRUST YOUR ELITES.

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Re: [CTRL] The media and its bias : Why Christians and Jews areheading foranother holocaust

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You may be right Yardbird. Better start packing.

J2


 Yardbird wrote:

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 : A detailed survey of the political and social beliefs of producers,
 : editors, writers, and staff in the television industry shows that they
 : are biased against Christian morality.

In case you don't know how to count asshole, most of the people in the world
aren't Christian. Christian morality is a Christian problem. Nobody else's.
Other peoples have their own ways of deciding what's " moral."
Keep it in church. No one else gives a shit.

J2

 Two-thirds of them believe the
 : structure of American society is faulty and must be changed. 97 % say
 : women should have the right to decide whether they want to have an
 : abortion, 80 % believe there’s nothing wrong with homosexual
 : relations, and 51 % see nothing wrong with adultery. And they openly
 : admit that they push their ideas into the programs they create for
 : their audiences.

 : This was taken from:

 : http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/3998.asp

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[CTRL] No independent nation is safe from the New World Order.

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9/27/00

Yugoslavia was destroyed piecemeal to prevent the existence of
an independent country siting boldly in middle of the United
States of Europe. A country with its own economy, its own culture,
and its own independent values. A country which is democratic and
multicultural. A country not controlled by Washington, London, or
Brussels.

Will the same thing happen to the Danes if they dare reject the
EURO tomorrow?

Nurev


NATO Game-Plan: Destabilize Yugoslavia
 by George Szamuely (9-27-2000)

   www.tenc.net
[Emperor's Clothes]

 It is entirely appropriate that US policymakers, their British
 parrots, and assorted NATO toadies are already debating the
 future course of Yugoslavia. Having first denounced last
 Sunday’s elections as totally meaningless since they would
 inevitably be "stolen" by President Slobodan Milosevic, they
 then turned around and decided, before any results had been
 announced, that Vojislav Kostunica had won outright on the
 first ballot. So much then for Milosevic’s chicanery. NATO’s
 high-fives at the election results are reminiscent of the inane
 rejoicing that followed the end of the Kosovo bombing last
 year. It had taken 11 weeks to defeat a tiny power like
 Yugoslavia. And even then NATO had to make important
 concessions.

 Yet the Brits and the Americans celebrated, as if it were VE-Day
 all over again. The election results show a far from convincing
 win in the first round of voting for Kostunica, as well as a
 victory for the Government coalition in the Yugoslav parliament.
 NATO claims vindication. But if it has indeed "won"—and this is
 by no means clear—then it is only after a massive and
 unprecedented effort at intimidation. The Serbs were first
 bribed to vote the "right" way—thus the proverbial "carrot".
 And if that failed to do the trick, there was the threat of military
 action—the "stick".

 It is hard to take any elections seriously under such
 circumstances. How can you cast a vote for the candidate of
 your choice if there is a chance of cruise missiles blowing up
 your home if you vote the "wrong" way? The best NATO can
 boast is that it avoided total humiliation. Incidentally, it is
 meaningless to talk of NATO any longer—today it is nothing
 more than an echo chamber for yapping Pentagon and State
 Department officials, and their fierce little pups in London. Here
 is the glorious record of NATO heroism: $75 million from
 Washington to bankroll the Yugoslav opposition. Millions more
 to aid municipalities deemed not under Milosevic’s control.
 Millions to line Montenegrin President Milo Djuakonovic’s
 pockets. US and EU promises to lift sanctions if Milosevic is
 voted out. Then there are the threats: Any result other than a
 defeat for Milosevic will be considered by Washington to be the
 product of fraud. The US reserves the right to intervene to
 prevent such a calamity.

 Today, the United States is demanding that Milosevic steps
 down, even though the Yugoslav Federal Electoral Commission
 is saying that Kostunica did not receive 50 percent of the vote.
 The US Government is accepting without question the claims of
 the Democratic Opposition that Kostunica won 55 percent to
 Milosevic’s 35 percent. Yet these figures are not based on any
 vote count, but on the reports of opposition poll
 watchers—hardly a disinterested bunch of observers. There
 were no American observers at the polls. The Russians were
 there. They claim they witnessed no election irregularities.
 Clearly, the orders emanating from Washington, and relayed
 through Budapest, is that the "opposition" take to the streets
 and demand Milosevic’s resignation. Such protests could well
 elicit a violent response. This, in turn, could be seized on by the
 United States as a threat to the region, justifying military
 intervention. Alternatively, the "opposition" may be encouraged
 to boycott a run-off and establish a Government in
 exile—perhaps in Podgorica. Such a Government would enjoy
 diplomatic recognition and would in due course, act as a NATO
 stooge urging an invasion of Yugoslavia to remove the
 "illegitimate" Government in Belgrade.

 In the meantime, military threats are increasing. "We...need to
 make sure that Milosevic understands there is very substantial
 capacity in the region"—thus British Foreign Secretary Robin
 Cook Britain has 15 warships in the Mediterranean near
 Yugoslavia operating in two training groups. They are manned
 by 5,000 sailors, Royal Marines and aircrew. They include the
 aircraft carrier Invincible, which carries Harrier jump-jet fighters,
 the destroyer HMS Liverpool, helicopter assault ship HMS
 Ocean, the amphibious assault ship HMS Fearless and 10 more
 ships including minesweepers, a tanker, a store ship and
 Northumberland, a type-23 frigate. US and Croat forces are
 holding joint naval exercises 150 miles northwest of
 

[CTRL] Clinton approves oil-price hikes

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Tuesday, May 9, 2000
--
BLACK-GOLD BLUES
Clinton approves oil-price hikes
Official: Administration backs increases to help Russia, Indonesia, Mexico,
Iran

by Charles Smith

Oil ministers from OPEC nations have quietly told national security advisors
on Capitol Hill that the oil production cutbacks -- and resulting price
increases -- are being implemented at the request of the Clinton
administration on behalf of Russia, Indonesia, Mexico and Iran.

Russia, Mexico and Indonesia are reported to be directing their increased
oil profits toward paying back overdue Western loans. According to one
government defense adviser, the windfall profits are part of a larger scheme
to use the American public to pay off failed and corrupt investment schemes
in the three countries.

"The American public is paying off bad loans to bad countries made by bad
bankers," stated the national security adviser.

The largest Middle Eastern oil producers reportedly agreed on the cutback of
oil production in order to increase income for weapons purchases. Several
oil states have announced major weapons buys from the West, including a
recent multi-billion-dollar purchase of Lockheed/Martin F-16 fighter jets.

"Iran is also trading oil to China in exchange for missile technology,"
stated the national security adviser.

The gas hike has raised several concerns about the Clinton energy policy and
U.S. national security.

In recent years, OPEC has flooded the market with oil, lowering prices
worldwide. The lower prices, according to Denise Bode, a commissioner on the
Oklahoma Corporation Commission, were designed to discourage investors in
U.S. domestic oil production, maintaining a world monopoly for OPEC.

"The OPEC cartel clearly understands that the Clinton energy policy is based
on instant gratification," stated Bode, "seeking low gasoline prices and
ignoring future consequences with a foreign cartel in charge of our national
energy resources.

"In 1997, OPEC acted to consolidate the American market by sending much
cheaper oil, dumping it at historically low prices. The most significant
energy policy initiated by the Clinton administration is a 4.3 cent increase
in the gasoline tax," said Bode.

"Another 30,000 Americans have lost their jobs. Domestic oil production has
moved from holding steady to a 5.4 percent decline. Even though OPEC has
recently cut back production and raised the price of oil to $30 a barrel,
there has been no increase in domestic production."

"It's very clear what OPEC should do if they want to retain control," stated
Donald Hodel, former secretary of energy and secretary of interior during
the Reagan administration.

"Periodically, they should announce they are going to produce excess volumes
of crude oil. The announcement itself will scare away some capital
investment from new production. Secondarily, if that doesn't work, and from
time to time to prove their point, they would have to overproduce, drive the
price down dramatically, so that marginal wells in the United States will be
shut down and new investment will be shut down worldwide."

According to Hodel, the "green" movement has combined with OPEC to "erect
straw arguments" against the U.S. energy industry.

"I've never met anyone who said I want to breathe dirty air or drink
polluted water," noted Hodel. "Yet, the green movement has succeeded in
using clean air, clean water and garbage control as a means to seek
de-industrialization in the U.S."

"The problem is that the schools have been captured by the flaming
environmentalists," noted Hodel. "We are not doing a decent job of getting
the educational establishment to acknowledge the facts about the importance
of energy production to our economy.

"If we were rational about our energy policy, we would have a growing
component in our society of nuclear power. The people who fought nuclear
power have successfully stopped coal. They are now turning toward natural
gas and oil. We made the point over and over that offshore drilling is less
of an environmental hazard than transporting imported oil by tanker."

Hodel concluded, "Our dependency on foreign oil affects our national
security and our environment."
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[CTRL] [Fwd: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)]

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 Original Message 
Subject: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:36:02 -0500 (CDT)
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/ncssun06.htm

   09/25/00- Updated 12:24 AM ET

FDA advisers tied to industry
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

More than half of the experts hired to advise the
government on the safety and effectiveness of medicine
have financial relationships with the pharmaceutical
companies that will be helped or hurt by their
decisions, a USA TODAY study found.

These experts are hired to advise the Food and Drug
Administration on which medicines should be approved
for sale, what the warning labels should say and how
studies of drugs should be designed.

The experts are supposed to be
independent, but USA TODAY found
that 54% of the time, they have a direct
financial interest in the drug or topic
they are asked to evaluate. These
conflicts include helping a pharmaceutical company
develop a medicine, then serving on an FDA advisory
committee that judges the drug.

The conflicts typically include stock ownership,
consulting fees or research grants.

Federal law generally prohibits the FDA from using
experts with financial conflicts of interest, but the
FDA has waived the restriction more than 800 times
since 1998.

These pharmaceutical experts, about 300 on 18 advisory
committees, make decisions that affect the health of
millions of Americans and billions of dollars in drugs
sales. With few exceptions, the FDA follows the
committees' advice.

The FDA reveals when financial conflicts exist, but it
has kept details secret since 1992, so it is not
possible to determine the amount of money or the drug
company involved.

A USA TODAY analysis of financial conflicts at 159 FDA
advisory committee meetings from Jan. 1, 1998, through
last June 30 found:

 At 92% of the meetings, at least one member had a
financial conflict of interest.

 At 55% of meetings, half or more of the FDA advisers
had conflicts of interest.

 Conflicts were most frequent at the 57 meetings when
broader issues were discussed: 92% of members had
conflicts.

 At the 102 meetings dealing with the fate of a
 specific
drug, 33% of the experts had a financial conflict.

"The best experts for the FDA are often the best
experts to consult with industry," says FDA senior
associate commissioner Linda Suydam, who is in charge
of waiving conflict-of-interest restrictions.

But Larry Sasich of Public Citizen , an advocacy
group, says, "The industry has more influence on the
process than people realize."

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[CTRL] The best news on the air is being taken over by the Mighty Wurlitzer.

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Subject:
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 Date:
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:42:02 -0400
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Subject: Amy Goodman being Disciplined

This is everybody's business that listens to WBAI or Pacifica
Truth is Stranger than Fiction

Communique from The West Coast

East Coast Kids,

Amy Goodman is being "disciplined" today by Pacifica. Looks like Jeremy
Scahill has been fired as producer of Democracy Now! He is being replaced by
a person who last worked for Radio Free Asia. That's right! Now we have
NPR, the CPB and Democracy Now being led/produced by US Government
propaganda experts. This is staggering. Also her choice of co-host for the
Election coverage was denied and it will instead be Don Rush from Pacifica
Network News.

Pacifica is planning on expanding the PNN News to one hour. They are going
to get Amy to "contribute" to it. It is possible that they will steal her
audience and get rid of her and Democracy Now!  Pacifica is not fond of
Democracy Now because it goes against their attempt to water down the
message to reach more people and to get foundation money, etc. from those
who would not approve of her sharp investigative style.

HERE'S a Biggie!!!
Finally, a gentleman who is Citibank Vice President for International,
European, Middle Eastern and African Private Banking is going to be
"placed" on the PNB at this coming meeting. This guy is a money launderer
of the grandest type. His name and details below:

Francesco Rocciolo

Home - 235 E. 22nd St.  Apt. 16F
NYC, NY 10010
Home phone - 212-686-4899
Office phone - 212-559-6806
Cell phone - 917-348-2006

This guy needs to know that there will be people demonstrating outside his
place of residence and outside his office. He needs to have people
telephone him to ask how he feels about the mission of Pacifica. He needs
to know that his exposure to scrutiny will increase 1000%. This is, of
course, going to be up to you folks in NYC. We can make telephone calls.

He may be at the National Board Meeting in Washington. D.C.
Give him a call anyhow. He can't be allowed to destroy or radio network

Finally, Pacifica is charging KPFA $40,000 for "defense costs" they
incurred in the lawsuits from Nicole Sawaya and Larry Bensky who were
fired there last year. This, on top of the money spent to close KPFA last
summer. Pacifica claims that they "loaned" around $500,000 to KPFA
to pay for armed guards etc. and now are requiring repayment even after
Mary Frances Berry promised that KPFA would never have to pay for
this. Lies, lies, lies.

Please don't drop the ball. We can't let such a thing take place without
organized resistance. In the Bay Area we demonstrated in front of the
offices of the public relations firm hired to spin Pacifica's closure of
KPFA and the pr flacks quit in less than a week.

Please have at him.
A comrade in California
 Patty Cdp-NY

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Subject: [corp-focus] A Not So Academic Oversight
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A Not So Academic Oversight
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The American Political Science Association's annual convention recently
came through town, filling up Washington, D.C. hotels with thousands of
academics ready to present their latest research findings.

Browsing through the convention's program, we hoped to learn of new
findings on the role of corporations in the political process. Instead, we
found that there appeared to be virtually no papers on or even referencing
corporate power.

That's a little strange, we thought. After all, it is hardly a
controversial claim these days that corporations exert a major if not
decisive influence over politics, in the United States and around the
world.

We decided to make sure our impression that corporations were absent from
the convention papers was correct. The American Political Science
Association has conveniently posted on its website approximately a
thousand of the papers presented at the conference, and the site has a
good search engine.

We searched through these thousand abstracts for the word "corporation."
Two hits.

We tried again, this time using the word "corporate." This time we came up
with 11 hits. We did another search, for the word "business." After
eliminating abstracts that use the word "business" in a context where it
means something other than corporations (i.e., a reference to
Congressional business), we wound up with 23 hits.

In total, three dozen abstracts even mention the words "corporation,"
"corporate," or "business" -- 3.6 percent of the roughly thousand
abstracts we searched. This is only a rough approximation of the number
that actually discuss corporate power. The vast majority of those we found
refer to corporations, but don't have corporate power as their focus. On
the other hand, our search undoubtedly missed some papers that implicitly
discuss corporate power -- say, with a focus on labor relations -- but
don't use any of our key words.

Disturbed by the results of this survey, we asked some of those who had
presented papers that discuss corporations to ruminate on our findings.

Scott Pegg, an assistant professor in the Department of International
Relations at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey, shared some
particularly interesting reactions. (Pegg's paper topic: "Corporate Armies
for States and State Armies for Corporations: Addressing the Challenges of
Globalization and Natural Resource Conflict.")

First, he validated our sense that the findings of our survey constituted
a remarkable oversight. "The three largest subfields of [U.S.] political
science are American government/politics, comparative politics and
international relations. The study of transnational corporations is
relevant to all three of them," Pegg says. "In particular, in an election
year, I find it stunning that the huge numbers of people working on the
American electoral system and presidential politics would be neglecting
the corporate role in bankrolling politicians to such a degree." Our
sentiments exactly.

Asked to account for the corporate studies vacuum, Pegg suggests several
explanations. Corporations may fall through disciplinary cracks, he says
-- they aren't the traditional political actors on which political
scientists focus. Corporations are reluctant to share information that
academics need to conduct their research, he points out, and information
that is available tends to come from nongovernmental organizations with
which many academics are not familiar. Academics tend to reward
theoretical inquiries over empirical investigations. And, he says, "many
academics are interested in securing outside funding for their research
projects. Corporate funding is available for some projects, but probably
not for those that critically assess corporate crimes or corporate human
rights violations."

To check that the results of our survey were not a fluke, we did a similar
search on all U.S. dissertations published in the last two years. The
results were similar. After we eliminated those that mentioned
corporations in completely irrelevant contexts (e.g., thanking a nonprofit
funder with corporation in its name, or mentioning that a corporation had
invented a scientific process used in the dissertation) we found 75
dissertations that included the word "corporation" in their abstract. As a
point of comparison, 43 dissertations used the word "baseball" in their
abstract, and 1,008 included the word "war."

We can't help but draw depressing conclusions from our surveys.

One of the sources of corporate power is that corporations appear both
everywhere and nowhere at the same time. With the commercialism explosion
of recent years, there are fewer and fewer public spaces free from
corporate logos. At the same 

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Christian Science Monitor
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2000


USA
A backlash to 'bully' America

Other nations increasingly unite in criticizing US
clout, as Washington wields unparalleled power on
world stage.

Justin Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON



Rarely in history has a country been as powerful as
the United States is today. And that may be taking a
toll on the rest of the world.

While the US expands its global reach - militarily,
economically, and culturally - other countries are
increasingly growing wary of US dominance, and seeking
more balance in a world they see as unipolar. US
rivals like Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba have been
trumpeting those concerns for years. But their calls
of late have become more focused and unified.

"Just as there should not be only one color in the
world, so there should not be only one civilization,
one social system, one development model, or one set
of values in the world," said Chinese President Jiang
Zemin at last week's United Nations summit, where
complaints of the US overreaching its bounds created
an undercurrent of unrest.

Fears of US dominance have also taken firmer root in
more America-friendly countries that are gradually
trying to assert themselves, such as Japan, India, and
France.

Over the past year, for example, French Foreign
Minister Hubert Vedrine has begun to refer to the US
as a "hyper-power."

Some developing countries, furthermore, complain that
they are too often bullied by the US and European
Union, which they accuse of trying to dictate the pace
and means of their development. Those laments were
heard at last year's meeting of the World Trade
Organization in Seattle, and again this week at a
World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.

Part of the reason for the growing resentment against
the US is its continued military presence around the
globe. The US-led interventions - in Yugoslavia more
than a year ago and ongoing in Iraq - haven't helped.

But other issues are causing grumbling as well,
including the recent US decision to help fund
Colombia's drug war against rebels in the south, a
topic that drew strong criticism at a meeting of Latin
American countries in Brazil last month.

Then there's national missile defense. Both allies and
potential rivals are concerned at the prospect of
either a US advantage in strategic weaponry or a
renewed arms race. President Clinton deferred a
decision to deploy the system, but development
continues, and the next president will have to address
the subject.

The US has also rejected popularly supported
international initiatives, including the formation of
a permanent international court to try accused war
criminals, an agreement to ban nuclear-weapons
testing, and a proposal to outlaw landmines.

Patrick Cronin, a national-security expert at the US
Institute for Peace in Washington, says it's natural
for the rest of the world to rally against a nation
when it gets too strong.

"You can get away with unilateralism for only the
briefest of times," he says. "You can't have it both
ways - pushing for greater globalization but not
supporting things like an international court or the
United Nations."

The hegemony problem is likely to be a crucial
foreign-policy issue for the nation's next chief
executive to confront.

"One of the most important things the next president
will have to do is strengthen our alliances and
explain to other countries why our presence is needed
around the world," says John Hulsman, a foreign-policy
expert at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.

Mr. Hulsman likens the role of the US to that of a
chairman of the board - someone who can call the
shots, but who can't get anything done without
support.

Yet in recent months other countries have shown that
they are willing to take on international issues
without US help.

Japan and Russia recently met to try to resolve their
ongoing dispute over the Kurile Islands, which were
taken by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
Until recently it would have been unthinkable for such
a meeting to take place without some form of outside
mediation - probably by the US.

In one of the world's most dangerous nuclear
flashpoints, Kashmir, an increasingly assertive India
is insisting that the US keep out of any negotiation
with rival Pakistan (See story).

Even Germany, a strong ally, is beginning to demand
more of a say in world affairs.

"A state cannot simply stand back from its strategic
potential, from the size of its population and
economic power, and ignore its geopolitical
situation," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
said recently in an appeal to get his country a
permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Japan and India have also appealed for permanent
Security-Council seats.

Still, it is apparent that a strong US role is
essential in some parts of the world.

North Korean President Kim Jong Il recently surprised
observers by 

[CTRL] [Fwd: SHELL faces US lawsuit for Nigerian execution of writer (fwd)]

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Subject: SHELL faces US lawsuit for Nigerian execution of writer (fwd)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:07:35 -0500 (CDT)
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;

INDEPENDENT (London) 19 September 2000
By Karen McGregor in Durban

Shell to face US lawsuit for Saro-Wiwa execution

Anglo-Dutch oil company fails to have a multi-million pound civil claim by
Nigerian emigres thrown out by New York appeal court

Allegations that the oil multinational Shell aided and abetted the torture
and murder of Nigerian activists including the executed writer Ken
Saro-Wiwa will be tested by a full jury trial in New York, after the oil
company's attempts to have the case thrown out were rejected.

Shell will also stand accused of orchestrating a series of raids by the
Nigerian military on villages in the Ogoni region that left more than
1,000 people dead and 20,000 homeless.

Saro-Wiwa and eight others were arrested in 1994 after a fatal attack on
former leaders of their Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (Mosop).
In a case that shocked the world, and was widely reported to be a legal
farce, they were found guilty of the murders by military tribunal and
executed in November 1995.

Now the case of the "Ogoni Nine", as they became known, has come back to
haunt the Dutch and British owners of Shell Nigeria.

The lawsuit was lodged by the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York
on behalf of three Nigerian emigrs to the US, including Saro-Wiwa's
brother Dr Owens Wiwa, and a woman identified as "Jane Doe" to protect her
safety.

Their claims could run to tens of millions of pounds in damages against
the oil company.  "We believe Shell facilitated Saro-Wiwa's execution,"
said Jenny Green, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, after the
judgment.  "We believe there is a basis in US law to hold Shell
accountable."

Dr Owens Wiwa and the other plaintiffs claim to have suffered abuse or be
related to victims of a state terror campaign against Ogonis who fought
oil exploration in Nigeria's Rivers State. They specifically allege that
Shell Nigeria:

* Lent boats to Nigerian troops in September 1993 which were used to
attack Ogoni villages.  On the days of the attacks, ahelicopter chartered
by Shell reconnoitred three villages where military operations led to the
massacre of more than 1,000 villagers.

* Made cash payments to military police who shot a 74-year-old man and two
youths in the presence of Shell employees.

* Specifically requested the assistance of Nigeria's notorious
"kill-and-go"  mobile police force to quell protests. In late 1990 these
police carried out massive "scorched earth"  operations, culminating in
the massacre of 80 villagers and the destruction of hundreds of homes.

* Called in government troops to fire on Biara villagers who were
peacefully protesting at the destruction of their homes to build the
Rumuekpe-Bomu oil pipeline

* Participated in the fabrication of murder charges and the bribery of
witnesses to give false testimony against Saro-Wiwa, the youth leader John
Kpuinen and other protest leaders, who were repeatedly detained and
tortured by the government and later convicted of murder and hanged.

* Coercively appropriated land for oil development without adequate
compensation, and proceeded to seriously pollute air and water in
Ogoniland.

They also contend they and family members were imprisoned, tortured and
killed by the Nigerian government at the instigation of the oil company,
in reprisal for their opposition to oil exploration, and were not afforded
the legal protection required by international law.

"Jane Doe"  claims to have been beaten and shot by the Nigerian military
in a raid on her village.  A further contention is that Saro-Wiwa's family
including his 74-year-old mother -- were beaten by Nigerian officials
while attending his trial.

Shell was "disappointed" that its appeal had been rejected and said it was
"still considering"  in detail what its response would be if the case were
to come to trial.

For years the Ogoni people, who live in the small but highly populated and
formerly fertile Rivers State in Nigeria, waged an activists' war against
a dictatorial state and multinational oil companies they accused of
destroying their environment.

Shell Nigeria first began its operations in 1958, when Nigeria was still a
British colony.  The country has vast oil reserves and oil accounts for
some 90 per cent of export earnings and 80 per cent of state revenue.

The Ogonis, a minority ethnic group with little political clout, had no
say then (or after independence in 1960) over oil activities that spawned
more than 100 wells and, it is estimated, more than 3,000 oil spills.

The Ogonis' campaign began in the early 1990s as a peaceful protest
movement but became a dirty struggle, literally and figuratively, that saw
an increasingly militant Mosop which protested against poverty and

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Subject: The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of
American Democracy
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:37:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Emilie F. Nichols" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ?
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

NAFTA is just one of the reasons I am voting for Nader.  These
trade agreements need to be renegotiated.  The chapter 11 cases
under the NAFTA tribunals are protections for investers against
"expropriation" of their profits -- in other words, there can be
no lost profits.  We were told by Al Gore (in his debate with Ross
Perot) that NAFTA would mean more jobs (we've had nothing but
downsizing, outsourcing, rightsizing), that the NADBank was
established to clean up the environmental messes along the border
of US and Mexico (not one penny has been spent; NAFTA meeting in
Irving, Texas earlier this year tried to GUT environmental language).
Methanex v. United States of America is on the NAFTA roster.
Methanex wants $970 million for lost profits.  Says laws in
California, Alaska and other states that prevent the sale of their
product MTBE (which is harmful in drinking water) forced them to
lose profits!  You and I can go in the hole financially, but not
corporations!  --Emilie

The Selling of "Free Trade":

NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy

By John R. MacArthur

Published by Hill and Wang;

($25.00 US/$39.95 CAN; 0-8090-8531-3)

"If there is spin, there is counter-spin: The Selling of 'Free
Trade' is a devastating unraveling of yet another Bill Clinton con
job. MacArthur tells the NAFTA story in the voices of those who
did the spinning and those who suffered from it. It doesn't get
much better."

--Seymour M. Hersh

This brilliant expose shows us how Washington works to make something
happen, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition.
It chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led
to the passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law
creating the North American Free Trade Agreement, but the story is
urgently up-to-date.

Above all else, NAFTA guaranteed U.S. corporations access to cheap
labor in Mexico and protection against expropriation there, but it
was presented as a progressive law that would help workers everywhere.
John R. MacArthur, investigating the political and public-relations
tactics of the Democratic-Republican, the big-business coalition
that favored NAFTA, shows in dramatic detail just how the major
playersGore, Bradley, Clinton, Gephardt, Bush, and the other members
of what he calls the bipartisan oligarchydefeated the ad hoc groups
of working people, skeptics, and mavericks on Capitol Hill who
question the value of the manifestly unpopular bill. We learn how
these oligarchs do their business with the Fortune 500 companies
dominating American trade policy and how they have disregarded the
workers' and environmentalists' concerns they now purport to care
about. How NAFTA was put acrossor put over on usis the central
story of this book.

The Selling of "Free Trade" begins with a 1999 closing of the famous
Swingline stapler plant in Long Island City, New York, and ends
with the factory's relocation just south of the border in Nogales,
Mexico, where MacArthur watches President Ernesto Zedillo preside
over the ribbon cutting. In between, he talks to lobbyists, White
House aides, congressional staff, and politicians who framed the
debate over free trade and the American economy; he investigates
the advertising, public relations, and politicking in maneuvers
that, with White House help, put NAFTA across as a pure free-trade
issue.

And he talks to American factory workers who were losing their
jobs: about their work and their working conditions, about what
the unions have or haven't done for them, and about what it's like
when they come off their last assembly line and watch their jobs
move to Mexico. He attends meetings at an Arizona resort where a
U.S. company helps U.S. businesses learned to save millions of
dollars by using NAFTA regulations to relocate their factories
south of the border. And he interviews Mexican workers about the
deplorable wage variables and shocking lack of health, medical,
and educational benefits they must endure.

The ongoing decline of American democracy chronicled and predicted
by writers as diverse as Joe McGinniss and C. Wright Mills came
vividly true, MacArthur shows, when the American people were sold
on what they thought was free-trade but was actually a subversion
of their political system. His book is essential reading for anyone
who cares about the future of the American republic.

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 Original Message 
Subject: Outsourcing a War
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:37:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Published on Wednesday, September 20, 2000 in the Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel 'Civilian Army' of Americans Helps Fight Colombia's
Drug War by E.A. Torriero and Pedro Ruz Gutierrez

FLORENCIA, Colombia - The hotshot pilot swoops down at 200 mph in
his Vietnam-era crop duster, gliding only 50 feet over the coca
valleys he has been hired to destroy.

Colombian soldiers carry the body of a rebel of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in Fusagasuga, about 50 miles
south of Bogota, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2000. Seven FARC rebels were
killed in combat Tuesday with soldiers in Colombia's ongoing civil
conflict. At least 35,000 people have been killed in the conflict
in the last 10 years. (AP Photo/Scott Dalton)

The U.S. Army veteran earns $90,000 a year tax-free as a civilian
pilot, but he understands the downside of this job very well. More
than once, he's had to dodge bullets from peasants and guerrillas
trying to protect Colombia's multibillion-dollar cocaine trade.

This is one pilot who won't mind giving up a big paycheck should
his working conditions continue to deteriorate. "If we start getting
into a civil war, I'm out of here," said the pilot, whose employer
has ordered its workers not to talk to the media. "Americans will
be targeted."

For now, though, he is part of a growing civilian army hired by
Uncle Sam to help fight Colombia's war on drugs, to be financed
largely by $1.3 billion in U.S. aid. Daredevil pilots with military
experience, retired top brass and former Green Berets are all part
of the effort as the first $300 million in aid heads to Colombia
next month.

Expertise in intelligence and law enforcement is a must. Fluency
in Spanish and knowledge of counter-terrorism, jungle warfare and
counter-surveillance is a plus. While there are limits to the number
of American military people who will be involved in training
Colombian troops, there are fewer restrictions on how many U.S.
civilians can be hired by defense contractors. Hundreds of Americans,
lured by hefty salaries for hazardous work, will play a key role
battling guerrillas and traffickers who live off the illicit drug
trade.

"Every pirate, bandit -- everyone who wants to make money on the
war -- they're in Colombia," said one congressional aide in
Washington, who said he would speak candidly only if he were not
identified. He described efforts to snare contracts as a "free-for-all."

"This is what we call outsourcing a war," he said. Much of the
effort, however, will come from companies very familiar to the U.S.
government. At least a dozen U.S. firms are lining up to bid on
Uncle Sam's foreign venture.

FARC commander Fernando Caicedo sits in a retaurant in a small town
near the FARC headquarters. He says that Plan Colombia and its
introduction of military helicopters will lead to a full civil war
in southern Colombia.

TOM BURTON/ THE ORLANDO SENTINEL

Pay is high, but so are the risks. The crash of a U.S. Army spy
plane that killed five American soldiers last summer underscored
the potential for casualties. Relatives, including those of Capt.
Jose Santiago Jr. of Orlando, dispute the official Army version of
pilot error and suggest a rebel missile could have shot down the
reconnaissance plane.

Three civilian pilots of Reston, Va.-based DynCorp. and EAST Inc.,
under contract with the State Department, have died in plane crashes
since 1997.

DynCorp did not return telephone calls asking for information on
its Colombia activities.

DynCorp. has up to 30 pilots and crews in charge of fumigating coca
fields with glyphosate, a stronger version of the household weedkiller
Roundup.

The company's presence has grown from only a few pilots several
years ago to more than 60 workers at the Larandia military base
near here.

It is difficult to predict how many Americans will become a part
of the Colombian conflict.

Up to 100 Special Forces and Navy SEALs already are teaching
Colombia's new military-led counter-narcotics battalions. U.S.
workers operating ground-radar stations and civilian coca-spraying
crews provide aircraft maintenance at Colombian bases.

On any given day, 150 to 250 Americans are helping in Colombia's
drug war.

Soldiers as trainers

That number will grow to 500 U.S. troops and 300 civilians under
new caps that can be increased by the president.

American officials say that the U.S. military will not be directly
involved in operations, and the U.S. soldiers will act solely as
trainers.

And much of the contract work for non-military help will be given
first to U.S. companies, which will parcel the work to Colombian
subcontractors.

Of the $120 million in U.S. non-military aid in the next three
years, more than two-thirds of the contracts will go to U.S. firms
or charity groups.

Americans will 

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Yardbird wrote:

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 : Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:40:39 -0500
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 : Subject: Large list of NAMBLA members
 : From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 : Date: 2000/09/20

 : Here are some known NAMBLA members, their addresses, and phone numbers
 : from an official 1997 NAMBLA membership list.  Please note that this
 : does not mean that these individuals have sexually assaulted
 : children...only that in 1997 they were registered as a member of
 : NAMBLA.


This is EXTREMELEY irresponsible and dangerous to the people on this list.
A list which you don't know for sure is accurate.

What the fuck is wrong with you? Don't you have any brains at all?

Joshua2


 : Alexand

 : Andr
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September 19, 2000

Poverty 10X Higher World Bank Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 3:17 p.m. ET

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Poverty in countries of the former Soviet
Union has increased tenfold since the collapse of communism, the World Bank
reported Tuesday.

In its first study of poverty and inequality in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, the international lending institution said it was disappointed its
$35 billion in loans to the region have not paved a smoother transition to
a free market economy.

``It's clear that in a system where the government is weak, the overall
effectiveness of our loans is not, and can't be, as effective as in areas
with stronger, efficient governments,'' World Bank Vice President Johannes
Linn said in releasing the 500-page study at a press conference.

``It's disappointing, and with the benefit of hindsight, we would have done
some things differently,'' Linn added.

Meeting for the first time in the capital of a former communist country,
the World Bank, along with its sister lending organization the
International Monetary Fund, hope to showcase the Czech Republic as a
former Iron Curtain success story.

But while the Czech Republic is a front runner to join its rich Western
neighbors in the European Union, its eastern neighbors are still reeling
from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the former Soviet states alone, cumulative economic output plunged
nearly 50 percent over the last 10 years, while output in other Eastern
Europe countries shriveled by 15 percent, according to the World Bank.

All that contributes to a population stuck in unprecedented poverty, with
roughly 21 percent living on less than $2 a day level in 1998, compared to
only 2 percent in 1988.

Tajikistan topped the list, with just under 70 percent of its people living
in poverty. At the other end were the Czech Republic and Slovenia, where
less than 5 percent of the populations are poor.

Russia was in the middle of the pack, with roughly 20 percent living in
poverty.

``Many in the region weren't poor 10 years ago,'' said World Bank economist
Ana Revenga, who co-authored the report. ``They had jobs, livelihoods,
expectations for pensions, and then had the rug literally pulled out from
under them overnight.''

While maintaining the World Bank's loans to the region were still
worthwhile, Linn said they would have been more effective had the Bank
required more local political participation in the reform efforts and
focused more on fostering social safety nets for the poor.

That would have entailed closer work with other non-governmental
organizations, Linn added.

In the meantime, the World Bank has fine tuned its lending criteria to
refuse loans to countries with high levels of corruption.

``In the end, the government needs to want to make changes, and when that
is not the case, then we stop lending,'' Linn said. ``It's a learning
process.''


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Re: [CTRL] Insane Liberals/Marxists/Communists/Leninists...here yago...

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 I'm assuming you all noticed the site this came from is called 'Weblampoon.com'.


I'll bet the religious loony thought it was real.

J2
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Some other fine sources of news I would recommedn you to include

 http://www.theonion.com
 http://www.landoverbaptist.org
 http://www.godhatesfigs.com
 http://www.chaser.com.au
 http://www.modernhumorist.com

 For all the pathetic bleeding heart liberals and homosexual apologists out
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http://www.weblampoon.com/archive/November/tvshows.htm
 

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[CTRL] The Exploitive Corporate Global Cartel Economy

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The Exploitive Corporate Global Cartel Economy

  by Darrell Udelhoven

 The Real Political Issues are the Issues the Corporate Media Refuse to Cover
 Publisher of the Series - The Real Political Issues  People Empowerment
©2000



We have a Global Corporate Cartel Economy that is based on heinous
Exploitation

 The immoral unjust and heinous problem we have in the world today is the
 extremely Exploitive global economic policy. The existing global economic
policy
 fosters corporate exploitation of people and the huge production cost
differentials
 between Developed and Developing countries. This has resulted in
 'noncompetitive' production cost relationships with increased concentration
of
 wealth and power to the corporate exploiters.

 The false claim that it substantially reduces the price of manufactured goods
is a
 fairy tale told by the establishment mouth pieces. The Transnational
corporations
 are not competing against the noncompetitive super low production cost
 advantages but rather are merely setting their prices at or slightly under
the prices
 of the homeland products that they are competing against for the consumer
 dollar.

 The TNCs merely keep the huge profit margins they gain through their wholly
 unjust and immoral exploitation of a noncompetitive use of human and other
 resources. In the short term the corporation wins but in the long run
everyone
 will lose including the corporation.

 Why should we allow one economic class to exploit all the other economic
classes
 including all of the economies of countries and their common citizenry. The
idea
 that we have to allow corporations to take advantage of noncompetitive
situations
 and that somehow this inhuman exploitation is going to prosper those people
so
 they can buy our products is just plain hog wash.

 The wealthy corporatists don't understand that they need to broaden the base
of
 the demand side of the economy within the Developed countries and the
 Developing countries in order to expand and sustain an increase in
consumption.
 This is the win-win global economic policy that increases everyone's wealth.

More Proofs of the General Failures of Global Economic Policies

 The special UN General Assembly session in Geneva last week concluded that
 poverty, inequality and insecurity have increased in the world since
globalism was
 launched. The number of people living in absolute poverty has increased from
a
 billion five years ago to 1.2 billion. It is the conclusion of a
collaborative report
 prepared by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization
 for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations itself.

 For more than 30 of the poorest national economies, real per capita incomes
have
 been falling for the past 35 years. Asia is the only region in which poverty
rates
 decreased during the past five years.

 Economic progress in Latin America was weakened by the increase in inequality
-
 a global phenomenon. People in the industrial countries now are 74 times
richer
 than those in the poorest. The wealth of the three richest men in the world
is
 greater than the combined GNP of all of the least developed countries - 600
million
 people.

 This impoverishment has occurred at a time when globalization was supposed to
 have launched the poor into sustained economic growth. It has done nothing of
 the kind.

 Globalism as a phenomenon is the product of technological developments that
 allow integrated global communications and the possibility of real time
financial
 transactions and globalized manufacturing. These are politically and socially
 neutral. How they are used is what matters.

 Globalism as ideology demanded that these resources be placed at the service
of
 deregulated markets, and asserted that the action of the marketplace would
bring
 large social and political benefits.

 The experience of the last few years has not been the result of objective
forces
 arising from the nature of the economy itself, or of irresistible
technological
 forces. It has resulted from deliberate policy choices made by the
governments of
 the advanced economies - chiefly, the U.S. government - acting in good faith,
but
 also according to what they considered their national interests and the
particular
 interests of influential political constituencies in their financial and
corporate
 communities.

 The belief that market forces would naturally enforce the general interest
 originated as the sectarian enthusiasm of a minority of writers and theorists
in
 Britain and the United States beginning in the 1970s, and it derives more
from
 their political hostility to so-called big government than from economic
analysis.

 The movements' 

[CTRL] [Fwd: Piracy at the pumps: oil industry profits and clean air]

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Subject: Piracy at the pumps: oil industry profits and clean air
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:27:30 -0500 (CDT)
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   From Clean Air Trust
   Friday, September 22, 2000

   WASHINGTON, DC - Recent headlines about gasoline and home heating oil
   prices have triggered a new round of demagoguery by anti-environmental
   senators and other legislators influenced by oil industry lobbyists.
   Among other things, the oil lobby wants to kill a U.S. Environmental
   Protection Agency plan to clean up dirty diesel trucks and buses and
   diesel fuel. (Clean fuel is vital to use of effective pollution
   control devices.) We think its an appropriate time to reflect on
   recent and anticipated oil industry profits and the link to clean air.

   1) The oil industry has been gushing profits so far this year. The
   industry made more than $12 billion in profits during the first three
   months of this year alone. But that was only the beginning: during the
   second quarter, oil profits reached $15 billion. One company
   ExxonMobil made nearly $8 billion in profits during the first six
   months of the year. That would be double the anticipated EPA diesel
   fuel cleanup cost for the entire industry over the next six years. In
   other words, ExxonMobil could already have paid for the cleanup twice
   out of its profits. (Please contact us if you need any details on the
   industry profits or the EPA diesel cleanup plan.)

   2) Industry profits are expected to continue. The Wall Street Journal
   recently published a fascinating Heard on the Street column which
   noted that the oil industry is having such a strong third quarter
   (July through September) that many oil stocks seem undervalued. (Even
   though stock prices for such companies as ExxonMobil have risen while
   most stocks have fallen in recent weeks.) Look again for multi-billion
   dollar profits when the industry starts reporting figures next month.

   3) The demagogues were wrong about this summer. Industry advocates
   were quick to condemn environmental regulations when Midwest gasoline
   prices spiked this summer. But closer scrutiny shows they were dead
   wrong. A recent report by the U.S. Department of Energys Energy
   Information Administration notes there were numerous factors
   associated with the price bump, including a damaged oil pipeline. But
   it also notes that some refiners simply failed to make enough of a
   blendstock to meet clean-gasoline requirements even though industry
   had known about those requirements for more than five years. Industry
   quickly cranked up production when prices started skyrocketing because
   of the blendstock shortage. Still under investigation is whether the
   industry deliberately engineered the shortage or simply took advantage
   of its lack of planning to boost profits.

   4) Final footnote: As for the continuing impact of cleaner-burning
   gasoline on prices at the pump, please note that the Energy
   Information Administrations most recent survey (September 18) shows
   that in the Midwest, cleaner-burning regular gasoline is actually
   cheaper than conventional gasoline by more than a cent a gallon.

   ---
   *At a September 21 hearing by the House Government Reform Committee,
   one critic of EPAs diesel proposal was Rep. John McHugh (R-NY). His
   criticism was a surprise since New York Governor George Pataki
   supports the EPA plan. But McHughs brother is an Albany lobbyist for
   Exxon-Mobil. Blood apparently is thicker than diesel fuel.
   For more information, contact:
   Frank O'Donnell
   executive director
   Clean Air Trust
   202-785-9625
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:06:33 -0400
From: Karl Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]

For most of the 20th century, oil companies have tried unsuccessfully to
obtain control of two oil fields owned and operated by the federal
government – the Teapot Dome field in Casper, Wyo., and the Elk Hills
field in Bakersfield, Calif. Despite his public reputation as a staunch
environmentalist and his authorship of Earth in the Balance, Gore
recommended that the president approve giving oil companies access to
this publicly owned land that the U.S. Navy had held as emergency
reserves since 1912. In October 1997, the Energy Department announced
that the government would sell 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve to
Occidental.

It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history,
one that tripled Occidental’s U.S. oil reserves overnight. Although the
Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental
consequences of the proposed sale, it didn’t. Instead it hired a private
company, ICF Kaiser International, Inc., to complete the assessment. The
general chairman of Gore’s presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on
the board of directors.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: CIA Admits Nazi Connection by R Lederman]

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Subject: CIA Admits Nazi Connection by R Lederman
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:20:42 -0500 (CDT)
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CIA Admits Nazi Connection
by Robert Lederman

Conspicuous by its silence the CIA owned and influenced media
did virtually no coverage of what may be one of the decades
biggest stories. Only UPI issued any statement on the CIA's
admission that following WWII Hitler's top general in charge of
espionage transferred his entire network of thousands of spies
and double agents to what became the newly-formed CIA.

What makes this much more than an interesting footnote to
history is that the entire domestic and foreign history of the CIA
has been molded by these former Nazis whose ideas on Eugenics,
race, social control, biowarfare and propaganda dominate the
policies of countless "think tanks" like the Rockefeller-funded
Manhattan Institute and have influenced the U.S. government at
its highest levels.

During the past five decades numerous isolated revelations about
Nazis imported to America by the Dulles brothers, William
Casey and others have broken through the media blackout. These
stories usually revolve around former concentration camp guards
who hid their identity when emigrating. What makes this
different is that General Ghelen was the #1 Nazi in this program.
By acknowledging a CIA connection to Ghelen the entire can of
worms can now be pried open.

For excellent published works on the CIA/Nazi connection read:
Trading With The Enemy by Charles Higham
The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus and Arrons
Blowback by Christopher Simpson

For my articles on the connection to Mayor Giuliani and the
Bush family see:
http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/

From:
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=119975

UPI 9/20/2000
CIA says Nazi general was intelligence source
Wednesday, 20 September 2000 20:28 (ET)

CIA says Nazi general was intelligence source

 COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The Central
Intelligence Agency has for the first time confirmed that a
high-ranking Nazi general placed his anti-Soviet spy ring at the
disposal of the United States during the early days of the Cold
War.

 The National Archives said in a release Wednesday that the CIA
had filed an affidavit in U.S. District Court "acknowledging an
intelligence relationship with German General Reinhard Gehlen
that it has kept secret for 50 years."

 "The CIA's announcement marks the first acknowledgement by
that agency that it had any relationship with Gehlen and opens
the way for
declassification of records about the relationship," the National
Archives said.

 Gehlen was Hitler's senior intelligence officer on the Eastern
Front during the war and transferred his expertise and contacts to
the U.S. as World War II reached its climax. While Gehlen's
relationship with U.S. intelligence during the 1940s and 1950s
has been the topic of some five books over the years, the eventual
release of CIA documents pertaining to the development of his
European spy ring could shed new light on the origins of the
Cold War and early U.S. espionage efforts against Moscow.

 Gehlen's network of agents in Europe - including many with
Nazi backgrounds who were bailed out of prisoner of war camps
by U.S. intelligence officers - was known as the Gehlen
Organization and received millions of dollars in funding from the
U.S. until 1956.

 The CIA's acknowledgement of its dealings with Gehlen came in
a response to an appeal of a Freedom of Information Act request
by researcher Carl Oglesby, the National Archives said. The
agency pledged to release its records on the general in
accordance with the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure
Act.

 The Act established the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency
Working Group (IWG), which for more than two years has been
declassifying documents related to World War II war crimes and
releasing them through the National Archives.

 "This shows that the law is working," said former Rep. Elizabeth
Holtzman, a member of the IWG. "We now must work closely
with the Agency to follow through with the release of these
records."

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Commission on Presidential Debates Occupied and Investigated]

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Subject: Commission on Presidential Debates Occupied and Investigated
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:01:58 -0500 (CDT)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 20, 2000

CONTACT: Adam Eidinger 202-986-6186 or Daniel Holstein
202-270-8387

Commission on Presidential Debates Occupied And Investigated by the Open
Debate Society

WASHINGTON, DC - Early this morning, members of the Open Debate Society
occupied the offices of Wagner Communications and Brewer Consulting Group,
the only known address of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).
Their aim was to put a face to the name of the CPD, a stealthy private
corporation controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties and funded
by Anheuser-Busch, 3 Com, and U.S. Airways. Members of the Society came to
mark the offices of Wagner and Brewer as the location of the CPD and
posted a sign correctly identifying the CPD as the Corporate Puppets'
Debate.

Today's actions are just the beginning of the open-debate movement.
Rallies are taking place every Thursday in September at 1200 New Hampshire
Ave at 12:00 noon in Washington, D.C. (the CPD's mailing address).
Tomorrow the New York City offices of Anheuser-Busch at 350 Park Avenue
between 51st  52nd from 4:30 to 7:30 PM will be targeted by Ralph Nader
supporters.  By the time the debates kick off in Boston, the event will be
met with thousands of protesters.

While its official-sounding name makes the CPD look like a federal agency,
it is actually a private corporation with no storefront, office or
physical location.  The CPD's website and literature gives the Wagner and
Brewer firms' address as its own.  After their office occupation, the
Society did a follow-up call to Carl Wagner at Wagner/Brewer.  He told
them that Wagner Communications was sold over a year ago and that the
group no longer exists.

Of course, that morning during the occupation, he and his lackey had also
tried to convince the Society members that they would not find the CPD
within the Wagner/Brewer offices.  That ruse was up when they tripped over
a box of pamphlets, "Inside Debates," produced by the CPD.

During their occupation of the Wagner/Brewer office, the Society demanded
that the CPD return the debates to the voters by opening the debates to
third party candidates and removing the corporations that have highjacked
democracy from the American people.  Members of the Society, carrying a
boom-box playing Beethoven, unfurled a giant American flag and postered
the office, all the time engaging the two male employees present (the
senior of which they believe to be Mr. Wagner) in a debate over the
debates.  Their slogans included "Open Debate Society Demands Citizen
Voice Not Corporate Choice"  and "60.9% of Likely Voters Want Nader to
Debate." They also highlighted the influence of Anheuser-Busch on the CPD:
"CPD: Drunk with Power and Turning our Democracy into a Frat Party,"
"The People Are Sobering Up and Taking Back the Debates,"  "You've got to
be Drunk to let Budweiser Steal the Debates," and "RNC and DNC Decide Who
Gets Debate? What? Are you Drunk?"

Campaing finance reform advocate Granny D also made an appearance at the
CPD's virtual location in the Wagner/Brewer offices.  She told of her walk
across the country for campaign finance reform and demanded open debates.

The senior employee, after calling the police, sat down in his office and
answered some of the most poignant arguments raised by the ODS with
misleading information. After being confronted with the commission's
private sponsors and procedures, he mistakenly referred to the groups as a
"public".  Similarly, after being questioned about the bipartisan nature
of the organization, he defined the commission as "nonpartisan."

Adam Eidinger, an Open Debate Society member who took part in this
morning's occupation, explained his concern over the way the debates are
being run by stating: "We're calling the CPD an insult to American values
of democracy, fair elections, and the right to be informed.  The CPD is an
illegitimate body, compromised by the fact that it's controlled by the
Democratic and Republican Parties, who have a political interest in
excluding third party candidates, and funded by large corporations like
Anheuser-Busch and U.S. Airways."

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Mass Earth First! Alert: Shays Rides Again/March on Boston for O3!]

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Subject: Mass Earth First! Alert: Shays Rides Again/March on Boston for O3!
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Subject: Mass Earth First! Alert: Shays Rides Again/March on Boston for O3!

MORE DEMOCRACY/LESS DEMOCKERY!

Many of the same issues of democracy that we are struggling with today in
Massachusetts and the nation were present over 200 years ago when farmers and
townspeople in Central and Western Mass. took part in an insurrection called
Shays' Rebellion (after Capt. Daniel Shays of Pelham, one of the rebellion's
leaders). The wealthy merchants (corporados) of Boston controlled the
political process in the state and taxes were inordinately heavy on those
with lesser means. When the people tried to petition the General Court (state
government) through town meetings and county conventions with their
grievances they were stubbornly ignored. Democracy was truly in crisis.

The Boston elite, having gained independence from the King of England the
decade before, attempted to install their own form of thinly veiled
aristocracy, for the most part, on the backs of the common people. Many of
the Shaysites were veterans of the Continental Army that won independence,
but their service was only rewarded with near worthless certificates. In the
postwar economic depression they saw their family, friends and neighbors
homesteads suffer foreclosures. The prisons began to fill with debtors and
the homeless. When all legal recourse failed and their avenues to the
democratic process blocked, the Shaysites resorted to civil disobedience.

Little democracy then, little democracy now. So, what has changed? There are
no more debtors prisons, but our prisons are filling daily with the
dispossessed and disempowered. We're not in an economic depression (yet), but
the disparity between the rich and the poor has never been greater. The
corporate elite and their cronies have most of the power, the people
have..television and junk from WalMart?

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Re: [CTRL] Socialism/Communism is VERY LIVE!

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Oooh Scary!

Joshua2
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Justine Blake wrote:

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 http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/ray/edrt080700.htm

 And read this too. This will enlighten you about the REAL CAUSE!

 
 THE INTERNATIONAL JEW by HENRY FORD - Chapter 9
 

 BOLSHEVISM AND ZIONISM

 Communism works in the United States through precisely the same channels
 as it used in Russia and through the same agents -Revolutionary and
 Predatory Unionism, as distinct from Business and Uplift Unionism, and
 Jewish agitators. When Martens, the so-called Soviet Ambassador, "left" the
 United States after being deported, he appointed as the representative of
 Communism in the United States one Charles Recht, a Jew, a lawyer by
 profession, who maintained an office in New York. This office was the
 rendezvous of all the Jewish labor union leaders in the city, many of the
 labor leaders throughout the country, and frequently of American government
 officials and other political leaders known to be the henchmen of Jewish
 aspirations in the United States and sympathizers with predatory
 radicalism. The organization has since spread from coast to coast, from
 north to south. The situation of Communist headquarters in New York was,
 and is, important because from that center lines of authority and action
 radiate to all the other cities of the Union. New York is the laboratory in
 which the emissaries of revolution learn their lesson, and their knowledge
 is daily increased by the counsel and experience of travelling delegates
 straight out of Russia.

 American citizens do not realize that all the public disturbances, the
 labor differences, strikes and political confusions of which they read are
 not mere sudden outbreaks, but the deliberately planned movements of
 leaders who know exactly what they are doing.

 Mobs are methodical; there is always an intelligent core which gets done
 under the appearance of excitement what has been planned beforehand. Up
 through the French Revolution, up through the German Revolution, up through
 the Russian Revolution, and the world disorders since, came the previously
 chosen men, and to this day the groups thus raised to power have not
 lessened their power -and they are Jewish groups. Russia is not more Jewish
 controlled than France; Germany tried in vain to loosen the grip of Judah
 from her throat. So it is in America.

 The first step of the Jewish organizations supporting Communism in the
 United States was the control and expansion of the Hebrew labor movement
 among the millions of immigrants during 50 years; with the view to eventual
 Jewish control of all labor unions. The Jews have captured American trade
 union movements as completely as if they had stormed them with the bayonet.

 There is a mass of moving literature (mostly written by Jews) pretending
 to describe the glowing hearts with which these alien throngs of
 liberty-loving-democrats, workers' comrades, look upon America, their
 intense longing for the "American way of life," their love of the people
 and American institutions. The actions of these people and the utterances
 of their leaders all too clearly give the lie to this fair picture which
 gullible American Gentiles would fain believe.

 The resistance offered to the "American way of life," consisting in the
 limitations put on the Americanization program, has been sufficient to
 convince alert observers that, so far as the Jewish invasion is concerned,
 it is not their desire to go the way America is going, but to influence
 America to go the way they are going. They talk a great deal of what they
 bring to America but nothing at all of what they found there. America is
 presented to them as a big piece of putty to be moulded as they desire.
 "The Melting Pot," a term which the Jewish writer Zangwill gave currency,
 is not a dignified name for the Republic, and it is more and more
 challenged as descriptive of the process that goes on. There are some
 substances in the pot that will not melt; but more significant still, there
 are rapidly increasing influences who want to melt the pot!

 The two divisions of Jewish wealth and political power are-first, German
 Jewish, represented by the Schiffs, the Speyers, the Warburgs, the Kahns,
 the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims. These play the game with the aid of the
 financial resources of the nonJews. the other division is composed of the
 Russian and Polish Jews who monopolize the lower ranks of trade and
 industry. Between them their grip and influence is absolute. They may
 sometimes have internecine quarrels regarding the division of the spoils,
 and eager publicists may zealously call attention to these quarrels as
 evidence of the utter lack of unity among the Jews, but in the Kehillah and
 elsewhere they understand each 

[CTRL] [Fwd: (en) The World Bank and its actions........]

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 Original Message 
Subject: (en) The World Bank and its actions
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:27:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Workers Solidarity Movement [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ?
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

 
  A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
http://www.ainfos.ca/
 

*
From Ainriail - the Irish Anarchist list
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From Workers Solidarity No60

  Your money or Your life
The World Bank and its actions..

If you've ever owed money to a bank, you'll know
it's not a pleasant experience. Depending on
whether they think you're good for the money,
the bank will either screw you in the short term
or milk you dry over the longer haul. Banks are
in the business of making money and generally
they'll stop at nothing to get their way.

Right now across the world, the lives of
millions of people are in the hands of two of
the most powerful financial institutions ever
created - the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and the World Bank (WB). These banks hold the
lion's share of the debt currently owed by the
'Third World'. This debt first accumulated in
the '70s when poorer countries borrowed in order
to develop their economies. But when the world
recession hit in the '80s huge numbers of
countries found they couldn't repay their loans
- this was when the IMF and WB first stepped in.

TURMOIL

To understand why the so called 'debt crisis'
has happened we need to look back at why the WB
and IMF were set up. This relates to when the
world economy collapsed for the first time 70
years ago - an event often called The Great
Depression. One of the major consequences of the
Great Depression was a realisation by those in
power that the world's economic system was
unstable. This instability has given rise to
massive poverty and social turmoil and one of
the most worrying consequences of this was the
trend towards revolution in Europe, Asia and
South America.

When World War 2 neared conclusion, bankers and
financiers from the Western countries met at
Breton Woods to consider how best to minimise
future economic instability and collapse. One of
the key decisions taken was to set up IMF and
the WB. These two institutions would be financed
by the Western powers and their primary role
would be to 'manage' the international financial
markets - releasing money in times of shortage,
withdrawing cash in times of surplus.

The WB and the IMF played a major role in
avoiding a world depression when they took over
responsibility for the 'bad debt' incurred by
'Third World' countries by the mid 1980s. Much
of this debt was initially owed to private banks
like Barclays, Credit Lyons, Chase Manhattan
etc. In order to stave off a disaster (and the
collapse of a number of major Western banks) the
IMF and WB moved in and 'lent' money to a wide
range of countries who were about to default on
these loans. This saved the big 'private banks'
from disaster and it also put the IMF and WB
into an unassailable position of power - that
they have never relinquished since.

FORCE

Since the mid 1980s nearly 70 countries in the
world have been 'forced' to adopt 'Structural
Adjustment Programs' designed and developed by
the WB and the IMF. Backed up by the massive
economic power of the United States, Japan and
the European Union these SAPs (as they are
known) were supposed to 'revive' Third World
economies. Instead they've led to disaster and
massive poverty. Because of SAPs, local
economies and wages have collapsed; basic
services like sanitation, water, health and
education have fallen apart. Meanwhile the
burden of debt has been forced onto the poorest
of the poor with the result that poverty has
increased, life expectancy has deteriorated and
infant mortality has soared.

While it's not difficult to see why the SAPs
have failed (instead of promoting investment
they sucked the money supply from local
economies) it is important to remember that
these programs were never intended to be
anything other than harsh. More to the point the
SAPs have a played an important role in the long
term economic strategy of the West. This
strategy is all about making Third World
economies more dependent (the word they use is
integrated!) on Western needs and in particular
more open to exploitation by Western
multinationals; SAPs also guarantee the West a
massive supply of cheap labour.

DEMOCRACY...?

The power that the IMF and WB now have is
enormous. They are dictating to millions of
people about how they should live and in what
way. For many their policies mean an early
death, or if that doesn't come then a life of
harsh exploitation and low wages.

What do anarchists say about what should be
done? There are a few points that need to be
made. Firstly we have to ask why it is the world
economy (and the lives 

[CTRL] Only capitalism.

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This can only happen in a society which worships such otherwordly
ethereal concepts as ~~~ invisible hands ~~~,  free markets,
fractal banking and oooh whatever the market will bear.

Where growing food is valueless, caring for children is valueless,
teaching young humans to think is almost valueless. Where guys get
50 to 100 million dollars for either knocking, or throwing a ball
in a hole.

Where the society's insane are turned out into the streets to fend
for themselves among the predators and punks.

Wadda country.

Nurev

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Subject:
   Barbara 'The Tree' Walters signs new $60M contract
 Date:
   Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:25:49 -0500 (CDT)
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 Organization:
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  Wonderful.
  As the libertarians might say, any yenta in America (especially if
their father was a well-connected member of the Manhattan elite) can
grow up to ask celebrities questions such as, "If you were a tree, what
kind of tree would you be?"

Wednesday September 20 11:04 PM ET
Barbara Walters Reups with ABC for $60 Million

By Paula Bernstein

NEW YORK (Variety) - Barbara Walters, who has reportedly been fielding
offers from the competition, has reupped her contract with ABC News for
an estimated $12 million per year -- a record high for a news
personality.

Under the five-year deal she will continue anchoring ``20/20 Friday,''
and produce and appear in two primetime ``Barbara Walters Specials''
each year. One of the specials will focus on the Academy Awards.

In addition, Walters, who will turn 69 next week, has renewed her
commitment to ABC's morning chatfest ``The View'' for five years. She
will continue to appear on ``The View'' three times a week, in addition
to co-exec producing. The show is co-owned by Walters' production
company Barwall Prods. and ABC Daytime.

ABC News declined comment on the price tag, which would make Walters
the highest-paid newsie. ABC News megastars Diane Sawyer and Peter
Jennings reportedly earn about $7 million-$9 million per year, as do
NBC's Katie Couric and Tom Brokaw and CBS' Dan Rather.

But, ABC apparently thinks she's worth every penny.

``Barbara Walters is one of the most accomplished journalists ever to
work in television news,'' said ABC News president David Westin.

``Barbara has made extraordinary contributions to the national
discourse as well as to ABC News and we look forward to this next
chapter in her storied career.''

Walters' interview with Monica Lewinsky in 1999 was the highest-rated
news program ever broadcast by a single network. Her ``20/20 Friday''
interview with John and Patsy Ramsey attracted an audience of nearly 20
million, making it the highest-rated edition of the primetime
newsmagazine in almost three years. ``20/20 Friday'' will have its
season premiere Oct. 6.

Walters, who began her career as a writer and researcher for NBC's
``Today'' show, became the first woman to anchor the nightly news when
she co-anchored ``ABC Evening News'' with Harry Reasoner from 1976-78.
This month marks her 24th anniversary with ABC. 

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[CTRL] Race Matters, but Class Matters More

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I'm so glad he's not a race pimp. What a refreshing change.

Nurev
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  Race Matters, but Class Matters More

  Jennifer Bleyer, NewsForChange.com
  September 21, 2000

  Viewed on September 22, 2000

  ---

9.21.00 | MILWAUKEE -- After absorbing stinging criticism from progressives that
he pays too little attention to minority issues, Ralph Nader began a three-day
swing
through the Midwest on Wednesday by emphasizing the persistent link between
race and money in the United States.

In front of leaders of Milwaukee's African American, Latino, Hmong and American
Indian communities, the Green Party presidential candidate affirmed that after
three
hundred years of racial injustice people of color still get short-shrift when it
comes to health care, education, employment, wages and criminal justice.

But he also argued that many societal ills, such as police brutality, are tied
more to class divisions than racial ones.

"Do black residents of (wealthy) Scarsdale get abused by the police? No. When
people have economic power in a community, they get their calls returned," Nader
said. "Prosperity and economic justice greatly reduces racial injustice, and
that's true from the courts to the prisons."

Added Nader, "it would be a mistake if we concentrate just on race and not class.
They form a mutually-reinforcing vicious circle, and although the most
emotionally outrageous things come from racial issues, we have to connect them to
the larger picture of class issues."

Last week, National Organization of Women president Patricia Ireland joined with
several minority business associations in calling Nader "oblivious'' to the
issues of minorities and women in his campaign, which represents "a cloistered
environment."

On Wednesday, Nader said the problems which affect low-income minority
communities are the product of the "emergence of two societies -- the very
wealthy, and everybody else." He went on to denounce the billions of tax dollars
that pay for "gold-plated weapons that even people in the Pentagon privately
don't want, ten years after the end of the Cold War, to fight off nonexistent
enemies."

Instead, Nader said, a "Marshall Plan" could revitalize the nation's inner
cities, using money redirected from the military budget, as well as from billions
saved by stamping out corporate welfare handouts.

Nader is in the industrial heartland to try and revive his campaign in union-
heavy states like Wisconsin and Michigan where his support has flagged after
reaching as high as 8 percent last winter. Much of the trip is touted as a "Non-
Voter Tour" targeting young and disillusioned Americans, with Nader joined by
filmmaker Michael Moore, TV star Phil Donahue and other celebrity supporters.

Brian Verdin, a Latino activist who works with the Campaign to End Racial
Profiling
and Angela Davis' Copwatch, said that most minority voters in Milwaukee, where
minorities comprise just over half of the population, will probably vote
Democratic
"because the media has us believing that they're the only game in town."

Verdin noted that his state has a long history of progressive politics, including
the 1854 inauguration of the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin, based upon an
anti-slavery and women's rights platform. He added that Nader seemed more "on
our side" than either major party candidate, and that "it's just a matter of us
mobilizing people."

Another participant at the meeting asked if Nader was familiar with the Million
Family
March, an upcoming event in Washington D.C. organized by Rev. Louis Farrakhan,
and, if so, where the Green Party stood on the march's platform of
African-American empowerment.

"The basic thrust of that movement is self-empowerment," Nader responded.
"We're trying to empower all people, because in this country it's between
corporate
empowerment and self-empowerment." He lauded credit unions and cooperatives as
among the most effective methods of self-empowerment and criticized the
"predatory lenders, loan sharks and check-cashing firms" that prey on low-income
minority communities in the absence of quality financial services.

Asked about the death penalty, Nader stated his unequivocal opposition to capital
punishment, quoting statistics that show it to be discriminatory in its
application,
and said he supports the immediate enactment of a death penalty moratorium.

After the meeting, Nader spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of over a thousand people
at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee before heading to Madison night for
another college appearance.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Cheney: I'm No Donkey Dick

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"Samantha L." wrote:

 -Caveat Lector-

   I didn't expect this kind of tongue-in-cheek from the Konformist.  In
 "About the Konformist" it says:

 "Having said that, it must be noted that some of the information in The
 Konformist may not be true (unless it was written by Robalini, that is.) Some
 of this may be due to well-meaning mistakes. Others may be due to the
 unwitting passing of falsehoods from others. Some of it will even be outright
 disinformation and/or lies."

   Clearly this article falls into the latter category.  I don't think it does
 any good to publish these false quotes with no direct disclaimer whatsoever.

 Samantha

It doesn't require a disclaimer, it requires a sense of humor. I didn't think
it was really very funny, but I knew it was a joke.

Joshua2



 In a message dated 9/21/00 6:33:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  When asked how he could prove it, Cheney replied, "Her claims of my
   impressive dick size are absolute bullshit."
 
   He then added to the stunned press assembled, "The truth is, I have only an
   average-sized penis, and that's even on the rare occasion I can get it up.

  I
   wouldn't even be surprised if that fucking Jew Lieberman has a bigger
  schlong
   than myself."


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Re: [CTRL] US Poisoned Iraqi Public Water Supply (fwd)

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"Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote:

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 The US-led allied forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply
 during the Gulf War - flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention and
 causing thousands of civilian deaths.

 Since the war ended in 1991 the allied nations have made sure than any
 attempts to make contaminated water safe have been thwarted.

 A respected American professor now intends to convene expert hearings
 in a bid to pursue criminal indictments under international law
 against those responsible.

 Professor Thomas J Nagy, Professor of Expert Systems at George
 Washington University with a doctoral fellowship in public health,
 told the Sunday Herald: "Those who saw nothing wrong in producing
 [this plan], those who ordered its production and those who knew about
 it and have remained silent for 10 years would seem to be in violation
 of Federal Statute and perhaps have even conspired to commit
 genocide." 

 Well, so much for my old beliefs that all US soldiers and their leaders
 really wore white hats.   No wonder we didn't really go after the Hutu.  We
 have a lot in common with them.  Prudy

Here goes another one Prudy. The French and the US backed the Hutu.

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For those of you familiar with Sarkar's Law
of Social Cycles, the article below will come
as no surprise.

Nurev

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**AT LAST**HONESTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS**

Thousands Sign Up to Sell Votes
by Mark K. Anderson
3:00 a.m. Sep. 22, 2000 PDT


According to detective novels and TV shows, criminals are those who perform
illegal actions clandestinely. But some real-world scofflaws get more
mileage out of the adage, "If you've got it, flaunt it."

Recently, the Austrian owner of Voteauction.com flaunted it.

Boasting of the more than 6,000 Americans who have signed up to auction off
their presidential votes to the highest bidder -- illegal activity under the
laws of every state in the union -- Voteauction is now detailing its plans
to begin an outreach campaign.

Using its "Voter Empowerment Kits" and "Action Teams," the company claims in
a press release that it can reach more potential customers and facilitate
voter fraud without the intervention of an online middleman.

Such activity leaves Deborah Phillips of the Voting Integrity Project
flummoxed.

Phillips has been observing the ups and downs of the blatantly felonious
site since August, when Wired News first reported on this curious
conglomeration of satire, lawlessness and voracious capitalism.

"Why isn't the Justice Department getting involved?" she said. "Why hasn't
there been any comment from the White House? Why hasn't Congress held any
hearings?"

One federal election official said that the government's apparent hesitation
in taking on Voteauction may be for three reasons: a lack of widespread
knowledge about the site; uncertainty over the worth of launching an
investigation; and uncertainty over jurisdiction.

On the last point, the question over pursuing this peculiar breed of
overseas-instigated voter fraud -- whether such work would fall on the plate
of the Department of Justice, boards of election (either in cities or at the
state level) or state attorneys general offices -- is unclear.

"I suspect that if this began to appear to be a problem on a large enough
scale, though, you'd see action, and it'd come quickly," the election
official said.

According to Hans Bernhard, the Austrian businessman who bought Voteauction
from James Baumgartner, a New York graduate student who developed the site,
American reaction against his investment has already begun.

In addition to the hate emails he receives for running an offshore
enterprise that facilitates American felonies, Berhard reports that the site
has also been the recipient of numerous hacks and electronic attacks.

"We do understand that there is a certain interest on the part of certain
services of the U.S. government who most probably are interested in this
data," Bernhard said of Voteauction's list of vote sellers and buyers. "Our
job is to protect this data. We don't want this data to be public."

According to James Baumgartner, the MFA student who first conceived of the
site as a commentary on wholesale corruption in American politics, a few
facts can be divulged about the $75,000 in bids so far and the 6,000
participants.

Vote-sellers on the whole tend to be in their twenties, male and with at
least some college education -- including a lot of college students, he
said. Vote buyers, on the other hand, tend to be in their forties, affluent
and Republican.

Almost all of the bids for votes -- broken down by state -- have come from
individuals seeking to increase the number of votes for their favorite
candidates. Only three companies, in the "$200,000 (to) million sales
range," Baumgartner said, have yet placed any bids for Voteauction votes.

The profile of both sides of the Internet auction does jibe with the history
of vote-buying in America, said Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia
political scientist and author of the 1996 book Dirty Little Secrets: The
Persistence of Corruption in American Politics.

Especially telling is the fact that the payoff-per-vote, as tallied on the
site, is settling into the $10-$20 range -- the amount of cash an individual
vote tends to command in other, non-Internet-based schemes.

"It always seems to be about $20," Sabato said. "That must be the going
rate. And when you think about it, it makes sense. Because 10 bucks is not
what it used to be. With 20 bucks you can get a pretty good meal, if you
know where to go. And I think that's how some people conceive of it. Their
vote may be worth a meal. It's sad, but that may be true."


Sabato and co-author Glenn R. Simpson of The Wall Street Journal write in
Secrets: "Contrary to the belief of some that voter fraud is a thing of the
past existing today only in isolated packets, if at all, the evidence ...
strongly suggests a persistent pattern of criminal fraud that is well
organized and a continuing part of the political culture in some areas.
"The fact that fraud is generally not recognized as a serious problem by
press, public and law enforcement 

Re: [CTRL] Public Citizen Supports Release of Oil from Strategic Reserve

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Nurev Ind Research wrote:

 September 21, 2000

 Public Citizen Supports Release of Oil from
   Strategic Reserve

 Statement of Wenonah Hauter

 Director, Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program

 It’s about time that the Clinton administration stands up to Big Oil and
 attempts to stop the manipulation and profiteering by oil interests. Release
 of
 oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as suggested by Vice President Gore
 today, will help stabilize roller-coaster prices that hurt families and
 threaten our
 economy.

This is all wrong and this woman is an idiot. The release of some of the strategic
reserves is a political stunt. It has little or no effect on the price of oil.

Opec and the world's Big oil hustlers got the wink from our esteemed
Administration to raise prices so that countries with petroleum based economies
could pay off Western Banks' loans. I suspect they want their money before Euro
and the Global economy tanks.

This is a huge wealth transfer scheme moving money from your pocket thru the
oil industry to Wall Street.

This move by Gore is to appear compassionate. With YOUR OWN MONEY. He's not
removing taxes from the price of oil because that comes out of Gov pockets.
He's not putting a ceiling on oil and gas profits because he's a Big Oil
corporate whore. So this way, you dear taxpayer get to pay for your own
negligible relief. And he gets a big public fuzzy.


 However, it is disgraceful that almost 30 years after the oil crisis of the
 early
 1970s consumers are still suffering from our addiction to oil. Oil interests
 have
 used their enormous political power to stop public policies that advance the
 use of energy efficient appliances in our homes and increase the average fuel
 economy of our cars. Gore must live up to his word and show leadership by
 increasing fuel efficiency, putting resources into expanding alternative
 energy
 sources and ending corporate oil subsidies.

WHO is going to do this??? Mr. Oxy?


 It is reprehensible that this industry, with sky-rocketing profits, is allowed
 to
 continue gouging consumers. Lehman Brothers reported recently that profits
 from the four largest oil companies are expected to more than double to a
 combined $50 billion this year alone! Just in May, Public Citizen found that
 Texaco increased its net income by an astounding 473%, in the first quarter of
 2000. With such incredible profits, these companies can afford to live without
 corporate welfare and lower the gas prices.

 Gore’s proposal will help in the short-term, but he will have to stand up to
 corporate interests in the long term, if he is elected president.

This woman has as much political savvy as my fish.

Joshua2

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THE SCINTILLATING WIT AND DEEP WISDOM OF GOV GEORGE W:

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly
who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was.
Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
  Texas Gov.
George W. Bush, presidential candidate
-
The Kosevarians.
refering to Kosevars
-
The Grecians.
refering to Greeks
-
My view is that state law reigns supreme when it comes to the
Indians, whether it be gambling or any other issue.
-
We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like
you like to be liked yourself.
-
What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate,
quotas, I think, vulcanize society.
   (meaning "balkanize;" Austin
American-Statesman 3/23/99)
-
Some people have too much freedom.
-
I've got a record that's conservative and compassionated.
-
Please! Don't kill me!  mocking Karla Faye Tucker
prior to her execution,
  when asked "What
would you say to Governor Bush?";
   to
Larry King, Talk magazine, September 1999
-
The Senator has got to understand: he cannot take the high horse and
then claim the low road.

-
There is madmen on the earth and there are terror.
-
Is your children learning?
on education
-
Food on the family.
   citing one of the
priorities of his future administration
-
This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what
you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve.
   to several hundred children at
an elementary school in Nashua
   celebrating
Perseverance (not Preservation) Month
-
Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or
philosophy or something.
George W. Bush when asked to name something
   he isn't
good at (Talk magazine, September 1999)
-
Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made.
-
Just make sure you put in there, 'He was real tired, too.'

on the press reporting his verbal miscues


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[CTRL] How it's done: Chossudovsky on G-17

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Friday, September 22, 2000

1. Who Are the G-17?
2. Russia deeply concerned with NATO's threat of sending ground troops to
  Montenegro

**

Who Are the G-17?

By Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of , Ottawa,
author Globalization of Poverty, Third World of "The Network, Penang, Zed
Books, London, 1997. and Jared Israel , editor, www.tenc.net (Emperor's
Clothes)

" We want to be open colony and open society." G-17 coordinator VESELIN
VUKOTIC interviewed on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer", US Public
Television, July 14, 1999

Recently there's been a lot of interest in the economists in the Yugoslav
group G-17. They wrote the Program adopted by the so- called "democratic"
opposition and its Presidential candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.

The G-17 likes to give the impression it is independent and
Yugoslav-oriented. In fact it is funded mainly through the Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" (CIPE). CIPE describes itself
as "an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. " But in fact it is "a
core institute" of the National Endowment for Democracy. The National
Endowment for Democracy has nothing to do, as far as we can discern, with
Democracy. Rather, the Endowment was created in 1983 to solve a problem of
Empire.
People knew that the CIA bribed intellectuals and leaders and set up phony
front groups to carry out US policy:

"When these covert activities surfaced (as they inevitably did), the
fallout was devastating." ('Washington Post', Sept. 22, 1991)

So Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy. Allen Weinstein,
who planned the Endowment, said:

"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
('Washington Post', Sept. 21, 1991)

So the National Endowment (a sort of spinoff from the CIA) controls and
pays for the Center for International Private Enterprise which in turn
funds the G-17. In addition, the leading G-17 economists hold important
positions in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and have for
many years.

If the "democratic" opposition got in power, the G-17 economists would be
in charge of the Yugoslav economy. This is not a matter of speculation. The
"democratic" opposition program calls for working with the International
Monetary Fund and the Fund does not work on a casual basis. It invariably
insists that its men (who conveniently happen to be the G-17 economists)
run the show. That is not open for negotiation.

Let us take a look at three of the leading G-17 economists. Their record is
most disturbing.

One of the writers of this article, Prof. Chossudovsky, studies the effects
of the economic "medicine" imposed by the International Monetary Fund and
World Bank. The G-17 program contains the same economic measures they
forced on Russia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria and Peru, among many others. The
results: social and economic devastation. But because of the long-term
US/German attack on Yugoslavia, the results in the Yugoslav case would be
much worse.

G-17 economists are fond of phrases like "free markets" and
"privatization," but their International Monetary Fund "reforms" wreck
countries. First, they force governments to do away with any social
protections - subsidized food or rent, free transportation, free medical
care. Out the window. Second, they use economic manipulation and new laws
to force businesses - public and private - into bankruptcy. Then these
businesses are taken over by a small clique of thieves, international
banks, rich speculators and foreign companies. They purchase the businesses
at rock bottom prices. This is called "Privatization through Liquidation."

A case in point is Yugoslavia, 1989.

The elder statesman of the G-17 is Professor Veselin Vukotic. Presently he
is one of the brains behind Montenegrin secessionism. But in 1989 he was
Minister of Privatization under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.

Yugoslavs have bitter memories of 1989-1990. But do they "put a human face"
on the nightmare? Perhaps people think the economic disaster that befell
Yugoslavia that year was the natural result of "market mechanisms" or the
fault of "incompetent government." It wasn't. There was somebody pulling
the strings.

That somebody was Veselin Vukotic.

In 1989-90, Professor Vukotic worked out of governmental 

Re: [CTRL] SNET: It Bears Repeating......Again (fwd)

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BB wrote:

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 WOW  --  another intelligensia  --  stupid - AND sloppy - AND
 unhistorical - AND - sentimental - AND - crap.
 Amazing!!  This whizz-bang must have been there!
 Another pro-American heard from - just to buoy up and
 encourage the folks on the site.  Thanks!!

No problem. Anytime.

J2


 This is a bunch of stupid, sloppy, unhistorical sentimental crap.

 Nurev Ind Research wrote:

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  William Bacon wrote:
  
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   visit my web site at  http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon
   My ICQ# is 79071904
  
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   Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:40:33 -0700
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   Subject: SNET: It Bears Repeating..Again
  
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  This is a bunch of stupid, sloppy, unhistorical sentimental crap.
 
  
   A  VISITOR  FROM  THE  PAST
  
   I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand,
   A figure walking through the mist with flintlock in his hand.
   His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed,
   He took off his three cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
  
   "We fought a revolution to secure our liberty.
 
  Bullshit #1- The Founding Finaglers got a minority of traitors to fight
  against their home country and their own loyal countrymen so that they,
  not the the Brits could divert the wealth of of the colonies into their
  own pockets.
 
   We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny.
 
  Bullshit #2- The Shays rebellion was a rebellion against the revolutionary
  oligarchy. Common soldiers mounted attacks on the Continental Congress in
  Philadelphia forcing " our heroes " to flee across the river to Princeton N.J.
  These rebellions FORCED our glorious Founding Finaglers to concede to the
  common soldiers ( as misrepresented by the ghost in this silly poem )a Bill
  of Rights.
 
  The defeat of Shays' rebellion marked the end of the possibility of democratic
  rights for all. Even those who fought the British. There were MANY such small
  rebellions before and AFTER the revolution. By 1760 there had been 18 rebellions
  aimed at overthrowing COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS. The rich oligarchs introduced
  property qualifications to disenfranchise the poor, and secure privilege for
  themselves politically. In other words, they passed laws that said only the rich
  could vote.
 
  The new Americans fought for their democratic and economic rights against the
  very men who wrote the constitution. The wealthy ruling elites of their
  time. George Washington was the richest man in the colonies. The Bill Gates
  of his day. The land stealing, slave holding, merchant, oligarchs.
 
   For future generations this legacy we gave.
   In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 
  Bullshit #3- Who can take this silly drivel seriously? The country was
  filled with slaves, indentured servants, dispossessed aboriginals, and
  half the white population had no say what so ever because they wore tits.
 
   You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
   Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
   On land that you believe you own,
 
  On land you believe you own??? How did you get that land?
 
   you pay a yearly rent.
   Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent.
  
   Your children must attend a school, that doesn't educate.
 
  Depends where.
 
   Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state.
 
  Good. I'm not particularly interested in your values and I don't
  want YOUR values taught to MY children.
 
   You read about the current news in a regulated press.
 
  Regulated by corporate interests.
 
   You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.
 
  You got that right.
 
   Your money is no longer made of Silver, or of Gold.
   You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
   You pay for crimes that make our Nation turn from God in shame.
   You've taken Satan's number as you've traded in your name.
 
  Ooh scary.
 
   You've given government control, to those who do you harm,
   So they can padlock churches,
 
  I haven't seen any padlocked churches. Only tax exempt churches.
 
   and steal the family farm;
 
  You got that right. They were stolen by corporate control of vertical
  pricing Squeezing out all but the largest producers.
 
   And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
   Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
  
   Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
 
  You got that right.
 
   Your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born.
 
  My daughter visits doctors when she has a cold.
 
   Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores.
   And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.
 
  Well, we agree here. Keep the troops at home. There's no h

[CTRL] U'wa Oxy Gore

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- Forwarded Message -

DATE: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:47:05
From: "eco2  " [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Colombia. Gore's death squads kill 3 U'wa. MOBILIZATION. Worldwide action, rage.

Clinton/Gore's drug-war death squads working overtime in Colombia. Even though the
Republican right pushed hardest for the military aid to Colombia, the Gore info
below shows why "lesser of evils" voting is a wasted vote in the US corporate
regime. PUBLIC OPINION RULES IN THE END. Pass this on, vote Nader, and get ready
for the death squads in America. Ban handguns, but keep your rifles oiled.

There is another article added after Lauren Sullivan's compilation of articles. It
is called "STATESIDE RESISTANCE TO US DEATH SQUAD POLICY FINALLY" and is about a
September 21, 2000. conference that will show evidence of Colombian military and
US
involvement in a 1998 death-squad paramilitary massacre in Colombia.

*Drug War, Death Squad LINKS worldwide. Revised. Huge LINKS list. Lists in
alphabetical and chronological order.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/squads.htm

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people
tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than
their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of
government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. Among
us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."
-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (One Thousand Americans, George Seldes, page
5.)
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas3.htm

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of
state and corporate power." -Mussolini

"The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees
hit the floor when corporations knock at the door."
-Ralph Nader (Green Party presidential candidate)


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From: Lauren Sullivan  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.egroups.com/message/colombiavigil/91

Date: Wed Sep 20, 2000 12:20pm

Subject: U'WA solidarity actions! 200 people occupy Gore's Olympia office!


ACTIONS TARGET GORE ACROSS THE COUNTRY


UWA SUPPORTERS SEND GORE A MESSAGE   "OXY OUT OF U'WA LAND!"


MORE ACTIONS TO FOLLOW!   ORGANIZE ONE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!



In this Update :

1) Rundown of solidarity actions over the last week

2) Press release - 200 activists occupy Democratic office in Olympia,
Washington!

3) IMPORTANT! transcript of Sept 15th U'wa press conference regarding new
land titles which add more weight to U'wa case that Oxy's drilling is ILLEGAL! 4)
URGENT ACTION ALERT for Colombia's Embera Katio People.  Paramilitaries attack
community Assassinate 3 and kidnap 21.  Calls needed!







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#1



  Since last week when the U'wa received notice of the government's plan to
evict them to make way for Oxy's final shipments of drilling equipment there has
been an incredible wave of solidarity actions.   Across the U.S. activists are
confronting Al Gore and demanding he use his personal and political connections to
Oxy and the Colombia government to stop the drilling on U'wa land!A quick
rundown :


  * Sept 14th  Activists from across the NE descend upon New Hampshire and
disrupt a Gore campaign stop.  Chants of solidarity for the U'wa can be heard
throughout Gore's speech.


  * Sept 16th, Portland OR - Spearheaded by Lewis and Clark's Radical Action
Group, 150 activists from a broad range of groups, including Jobs with Justice,
STARC, the Liberation Collective, Cascadia Forest Defenders, the City Repair
Project, the Green Party, as well as students from Reed and Portland State
University rallied at Gore's local HQ.  4 U'wa supporters where arrested after
they
refused to leave the office until Al Gore took action to support the U'wa.


  * Sept 19th  ACTIONS IN 4 STATES - California, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Washington!


  * Santa Rosa, CA 10 activists demonstrated outside their local democratic
party office, educating hundreds of passerbys about Gore's hypocrisy.


  * Madison, Wisconsin the UW Greens picketed Al Gore's daughter who was
giving
a campaign speech and asked questions about Gore's silence on the U'wa.


  * Des Moines, Iowa a coalition of students from across the region were
joined
by STARC activists and Call to Action to do a lockdown to an oil barrel which
symbolically leaked blood.  They attracted tons of local and regional media!


  * Olympia Washington, 200 human rights activists and forest defenders
marchon
the local Democratic Party office and then proceed to takeover the building for 6
hours!  The office was completely shutting down!  No business as usual until the
U'wa and all other impacted people's get justice!  When police tried to remove
them
3 people locked 

[CTRL] Chase's Historical Ledger

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 Chase's Historical Ledger

 Even as Chase Manhattan prepares to take over J.P.
 Morgan, the bank's past is returning to haunt it.
 Recently revealed documents show that Chase, which
 was already known to have helped the Nazis, aided
 slavery here at home as two of its predecessor banks
 worked with an insurance company to insure slave
 owners against loss. Chase is, as far as can be
 determined, the first company whose forerunners have
 been identified as aiding both the perpetrators of the
 destruction of the Jews in Europe and those who
 enslaved Africans and their descendants in America.

 Chase currently faces a class-action lawsuit filed in the
 United States by Holocaust survivors and victims'
 relatives who say their assets were frozen by Chase
 during World War II. Chase seized bank accounts and
 safe-deposit boxes from Jewish customers in France and
 did not return or properly account for them after the
 war, according to Kenneth McCallion, a lead attorney in
 the suit. In addition, a Treasury Department report
 declassified a few years ago concludes that Chase's Paris
 branch served as a banker for the Third Reich. J.P.
 Morgan, whose Paris office also worked closely with the
 Germans, is named in the lawsuit as well.

 About a hundred years earlier, two US banks that were
 later taken over by Chase were described in an 1852
 information circular as servicers of insurance policies
 issued on the lives of slaves. Titled "A Method by Which
 Slave Owners May Be Protected From Loss," the circular,
 put out by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance
 Company of London, describes, among others, The
 Merchants Bank and The Leather Manufacturers Bank,
 both of New York, as having the legal authority "to
 accept risks, adjust and pay claims." The Merchants
 Bank merged in 1920 with The Bank of the Manhattan
 Company, which in turn merged with Chase in 1955,
 according to the New York State Banking Department
 and Chase's website. The Leather Manufacturers Bank
 merged with The Mechanics National Bank in 1904, which
 then merged with Chase in 1926.

 Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, the lawyer whose research
 earlier this year forced the Aetna Insurance Company to
 make a public apology for writing slave insurance
 policies, uncovered the documents exposing Chase.
 These revelations are certain to bolster the growing
 movement for slavery reparations.

 The presidents of the two banks are listed on the
 circular as members of the New York board of directors
 of the London insurance company. The circular names
 medical examiners in Virginia, North Carolina and
 Washington, DC, who were authorized to examine
 slaves and also offers details about the insurance
 policies. For example: "A Slave aged 30 years can be
 insured for $500, for a year, for $11.25; and if he dies,
 the owner, although deprived of the revenue of his
 labour...will still not be unrecompensed for his loss; for
 there will still remain to him--not his Slave--but the
 $500 which constituted his value" While it has still to
 be determined whether the two banks actually serviced
 any policies for slave owners, the existence of the
 circular proves that the banks actively sought and were
 part of such business.

 Jim Finn, a Chase spokesperson, said that his
 organization needs more time to study the circular and
 related materials before he could comment.
 Farmer-Paellmann, who is continuing her research, said,
 "My hope is that if archival records show that policies
 were written, then Chase will apologize for helping to
 maintain that crime against humanity and pay restitution
 into a trust fund to benefit heirs of Africans enslaved in
 America."

 In early September Chase agreed to permit an
 investigator who had probed Swiss banks for their
 Holocaust-era activities to review its records to
 determine how Chase had helped the Nazis. Chase
 should immediately open its archives to slavery
 researchers as well. Only then will a full record be
 available to determine what reparations, if any, should
 be paid.

 John Friedman

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 John Friedman is a journalist and documentary
 filmmaker whose latest film, Stealing the Fire, on the
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[CTRL] [Fwd: Yugoslavia Poll: U.S. EU wield Carrot Stick]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Yugoslavia Poll: U.S. EU wield Carrot  Stick
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:36:58 -0500 (CDT)
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS: U.S., W. EUROPE USE CARROT 
STICK

By John Catalinotto

With the big vote set for Sept. 24, the European Union and
the U.S. government have stepped up their already blatant
intervention in Yugoslavia's national election. Both the
Yugoslav government and anti-war forces in NATO countries
have reacted with anti-NATO actions.

The EU offered the carrot. In a "message to the Serbian
people" from a Sept. 18 monthly foreign ministers' meeting
in Brussels, the EU said it would lift sanctions if
Yugoslavs voted out President Slobodan Milosevic in the
presidential election.

"The elections ... will give the Serbian people the
opportunity to repudiate clearly and peacefully the policy
of Milosevic." Should they do so, "we will lift the
sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we
will support the necessary economic aid for its
reconstruction, and we will support the reintegration of the
FRY into the international community," is how the EU
presented its bribe.

Washington continued to wave the big stick. The U.S. Navy
plans maneuvers in the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslav coast
on election weekend. Both U.S. and NATO leaders have
threatened intervention should there be conflict in
Montenegro, the smaller republic, which along with Serbia
makes up what remains of Yugoslavia.

If Yugoslavia is treated like the other former socialist
countries of the Balkans, "reintegration" means that a
handful of Yugoslavs will grow rich while the bulk of the
population is driven deeper into poverty and the people as a
whole are forced to submit to Western imperialism.

An article in the Sept. 19 New York Times makes it clear
that the only job opportunities for young Bulgarian women is
to work as prostitutes in the Czech Republic near the German
border.

The only serious candidates for president of Yugoslavia are
Milosevic and Vojislav Kostunica, who is backed by 18 small
opposition parties, some of them openly pro-NATO and all pro-
Western. Kostunica is a long-time anti-communist with
credentials as a Serbian nationalist.

Kostunica is also the only opposition figure who is not
tarnished by open association with NATO forces. He can
possibly attract voters who are weary of the assault on
Yugoslavia and who hope that removing Milosevic will end the
hostility.

The U.S. and West European imperialists, however, want
Kostunica to defeat Milosevic in order to weaken the best-
organized anti-NATO structures inside Yugoslavia. These
structures include Milosevic's Socialist Party and the party
called the Yugoslav United Left, plus the security forces
and the army.

Weakening this apparatus would leave the road open for
imperialist penetration and for turning all of Yugoslavia
back into a colony of the West, whether or not that is what
Kostunica plans.

The Western media claim Kostunica is leading in election
polls. Pro-Milosevic sources point out that the polls were
taken by pro-NATO organizations that want to try to claim
Milosevic "stole" the election should he win.

BELGRADE PUTS NATO LEADERS ON TRIAL

Meanwhile, the Milosevic forces have run their election
campaign against NATO threats, pointing to the opposition as
NATO puppets.

In addition, the Yugoslav government has gone on the
political offensive against NATO. In Belgrade Sept. 18 the
government opened a trial of NATO leaders for war crimes
committed during the 1999 aggression and 78-day bombing
assault.

Yugoslavia charged Presidents Bill Clinton of the United
States and Jacques Chirac of France, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and nine other NATO
and Western government leaders with war crimes. Their names
were attached to 14 empty chairs in the front of a Belgrade
courtroom.

Serb authorities appointed a lawyer for each of the accused.
Yugoslav officials said it would take four days to present
the evidence.

"They are charged with inciting an aggressive war...war
crimes against civilian population...use of banned combat
means, attempted murder of the Yugoslav president...the
violation of the country's territorial integrity. ..," the
charge sheet read.

"They fired 600 cruise missiles and made 25,119 [air]
sorties during the 78-day aggression, attacking both
military and civilian targets, killing and wounding many
people, causing mass destruction of property," it added.

The charges were similar in structure to those presented at
the dozens of "People's Tribunals" held in Germany, the
United States, Italy, Austria, Greece, Russia and other
countries in the past 14 months, all of which found the NATO

[CTRL] Why he hangs out in kindergartens- Dubya Can't Read

[Nurev Ind Research]

-Caveat Lector-

As Elaine used to say on Seinfeld..." OH MY GOD!"

Is this the best our elites can offer up from among
their progeny??? If it is, then I have found the solution
to the age old problem of domination by elites.

Let them continue interbreeding. One more generation of
Bushes, or Gores, or Kennedys, and we'll be home free.

Free at last. Free at last. Thank you Darwin.
Free at last.

Nurev

=
October 9, 2000

 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS


 Why Dubya Can't Read

E-mail this story to a friend.

 I once knew a fairly intelligent man who
 disconcerted me one day by
 denouncing the arbitrary domination of
 the then-Soviet Union by a
 sinister-sounding body named "the
 Politurbo." Allowance could be made in
 his case; not everybody understood the abbreviations of
 "agitprop" and the crude origins of Com-speak. Had the
 term been spelled out as "Political Bureau" I am sure he
 would have got there easily in the end. But what
 unhorsed me at the time was this: He must have seen
 the word "Politburo" in print many times, and also heard
 it spoken very often, without ever registering the
 connection.

 The term for this failure of mental word-processing is
 dyslexia, and it can occur in mild and severe forms. I
 used to have the job of tutoring a dyslexic child, and I
 know something about the symptoms. So I kicked
 myself hard when I read the profile of Governor George
 W. Bush, by my friend and colleague Gail Sheehy, in this
 month's Vanity Fair. All those jokes and cartoons and
 websites about his gaffes, bungles and malapropisms?
 We've been unknowingly teasing the afflicted. The poor
 guy is obviously dyslexic, and dyslexic to the point of
 near-illiteracy. Numerous experts and friends of the
 dynasty give Sheehy their considered verdict to this
 effect.

 The symptoms and clues have been staring us in the
 face for some time. Early in the campaign, Bush said
 that he did indeed crack the odd book and was even at
 that moment absorbed by James Chace's biography of
 Dean Acheson. But when asked to report anything that
 was in the damn volume, the governor pulled up an
 empty net. His brother Neil is an admitted dyslexic. His
 mother has long been a patron of various foundations
 and charities associated with dyslexia. How plain it all
 now seems.

 The rhetorical and linguistic train wrecks in the speeches
 of Reagan and Bush Senior were of a different quality,
 arising variously from hysterical lying, brutish ignorance,
 senile decay and cultural deprivation. But the problem
 was chiefly syntactical. The additional humiliations of
 Dubya derive from utter failures of word recognition. A
 man who has somehow got this far in politics and refers
 to "tacular" weapons is unclear (or do I mean nuclear?)
 on the concept. In free-trade language, tariffs and
 barriers are not necessarily conterminous, but in no
 circumstance are they "terriers." To use "vile" for "viable"
 might look like misfortune, but to employ "inebriating"
 for "enthralling" looks like carelessness, especially in
 someone with his booze and cocaine record. Bush
 doesn't want our enemies to "hold us hostile"; I must
 say I agree with what I'm sure he didn't mean to say.
 Confusing "handcuffs" with "cufflinks" might be a yuppie
 slip; at any rate it presumably doesn't mean softness on
 crime. As for "Reading is the basics of all learning," well,
 there you are.

 Does any of this matter? Of course it does. Bush has
 already claimed with hand on heart that he personally
 scrutinized the death-row appeals of more than a
 hundred condemned wretches in the shocking Texas
 prison system; we now have to face the fact that he not
 only did not review the clemency petitions but could not
 have read them even if he wanted to. Aides now
 remember the times they presented the governor or the
 candidate with that crucial briefing paper, only to see him
 toss it on the desk and demand a crisp, verbal, "bottom
 line" summary of its contents. Decisive, right? Wrong.

 I know from my teaching experience that nature very
 often compensates the dyslexic with a higher IQ or some
 grant of intuitive intelligence. If this is true for Bush it
 hasn't yet become obvious; his Texas chief of staff, Clay
 Johnson, told Gail Sheehy that the attention span of his
 boss is, not to euphemize matters overmuch,
 somewhere in the vicinity of fifteen minutes. In other
 words, and as far as we know, he has only the downside
 of his difficulty, which is attention-deficit disorder. In the
 high noon of the age of information, the 

[CTRL] Attention listers! Online Research Ethics Lacking.

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Online Research Ethics Lacking


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the reaction from participants. As more researchers turn to the

Internet for studies, there is growing concern about the potential

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 And it would be no problem to join and pump people on politically oriented
lists. This is free mining of attitudes, straight from the horses' mouths.

I don't think it would be a serious threat to people expressing their views
on the net, at least not to those who don't advocate violence or present a
real threat to the status quo.

I often recommend that everyone who expresses their views should assume that
they are always in the public eye.

No need to be paranoid, but always good to be aware of your surroundings.

Nurev


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Re: [CTRL] Jesus Christ is a Myth

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Who are you addressing?

Shell Bell wrote:

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 I agree that the name JESUS is a pagen myth but i do not belive that yasuha
 the man son of yah was.

As you state, this is your belief. Your beliefs are your business. But your
beliefs are not what is under discussion here. The historicity of Jesus/Yeshu
is what's under discussion here.

 i also belive that before you send such strong
 oppinons you should have first done ample reserch on the subject, dealing
 with reliogon is a very sticky mess and if you dont own an industrell mop you
 better watch out  what kind of cans you open because you might spill
 something you cant clean up.

I can't tell who you are addressing this to, but if it's one of the CTRL
veterans, then you are way off base. I can name at least 8 people who have
examined this subject IN DEPTH. And if all you can come up with is what
you believe, then you are way out of your league.

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Re: [CTRL] Encouraging Conspiratorial Absurdities

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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 ..

 From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]
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 From: "MacDonald" Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]
 Subject: Encouraging Conspiratorial Absurdities
 Date: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:08 PM

 "To protect their capacity to operate under the radar of popular
 awareness, the establishment promotes and encourages the
 impression of a linkage between themselves and an encyclopedia of
 conspiratorial absurdities. In this way, many of the people who
 might otherwise provide a reasoned account of the identities and
 methods of the establishment are bamboozled, and wind up sounding
 like, or in fact being, lunatics."

 "In particular, stories of establishment involvement with
 extraterrestrial visitors and paranormal phenomena thwart the
 efforts of many to distinguish the real from the fictitious.
 Chris Carter's ``X Files'' and ``Millennium'' are inheritors of a
 prodigious legacy of programs that encourage this confusion. More
 than simply acting as intellectual equivalents of radar chaffe
 and heat flares, these programs deflect blame to an unaccountable
 and incomprehensible ``other.'' Since this type of paranoid
 conspiratorial pseudscience horror programming is naturally
 appealing to some writers and producers, the establishment need
 only covertly grease the path to assure some of this programming
 is budgeted and distributed for maximum effect."

 From 'The Architecture of Modern Political Power'
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  Hear hear. Excellent point.

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Re: [CTRL] SNET: It Bears Repeating......Again (fwd)

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William Bacon wrote:

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 visit my web site at  http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon
 My ICQ# is 79071904

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This is a bunch of stupid, sloppy, unhistorical sentimental crap.


 A  VISITOR  FROM  THE  PAST

 I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand,
 A figure walking through the mist with flintlock in his hand.
 His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed,
 He took off his three cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:

 "We fought a revolution to secure our liberty.

Bullshit #1- The Founding Finaglers got a minority of traitors to fight
against their home country and their own loyal countrymen so that they,
not the the Brits could divert the wealth of of the colonies into their
own pockets.

 We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny.

Bullshit #2- The Shays rebellion was a rebellion against the revolutionary
oligarchy. Common soldiers mounted attacks on the Continental Congress in
Philadelphia forcing " our heroes " to flee across the river to Princeton N.J.
These rebellions FORCED our glorious Founding Finaglers to concede to the
common soldiers ( as misrepresented by the ghost in this silly poem )a Bill
of Rights.

The defeat of Shays' rebellion marked the end of the possibility of democratic
rights for all. Even those who fought the British. There were MANY such small
rebellions before and AFTER the revolution. By 1760 there had been 18 rebellions
aimed at overthrowing COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS. The rich oligarchs introduced
property qualifications to disenfranchise the poor, and secure privilege for
themselves politically. In other words, they passed laws that said only the rich
could vote.

The new Americans fought for their democratic and economic rights against the
very men who wrote the constitution. The wealthy ruling elites of their
time. George Washington was the richest man in the colonies. The Bill Gates
of his day. The land stealing, slave holding, merchant, oligarchs.

 For future generations this legacy we gave.
 In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Bullshit #3- Who can take this silly drivel seriously? The country was
filled with slaves, indentured servants, dispossessed aboriginals, and
half the white population had no say what so ever because they wore tits.

 You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
 Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
 On land that you believe you own,

On land you believe you own??? How did you get that land?

 you pay a yearly rent.
 Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent.

 Your children must attend a school, that doesn't educate.

Depends where.

 Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state.

Good. I'm not particularly interested in your values and I don't
want YOUR values taught to MY children.

 You read about the current news in a regulated press.

Regulated by corporate interests.

 You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.

You got that right.

 Your money is no longer made of Silver, or of Gold.
 You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
 You pay for crimes that make our Nation turn from God in shame.
 You've taken Satan's number as you've traded in your name.

Ooh scary.

 You've given government control, to those who do you harm,
 So they can padlock churches,

I haven't seen any padlocked churches. Only tax exempt churches.

 and steal the family farm;

You got that right. They were stolen by corporate control of vertical
pricing Squeezing out all but the largest producers.

 And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
 Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.

 Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.

You got that right.

 Your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born.

My daughter visits doctors when she has a cold.

 Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores.
 And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.

Well, we agree here. Keep the troops at home. There's no honor in
dying for Exxon.

 Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
 Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride
 Are there no more values, for which you'll fight to save?
 Or do you wish your children, live in fear and be a slave

I'll bet the genius who wrote this marvelous poetry knows some nifty
Limericks.

 Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand
 Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land

...er never mind.

 Preserve our great Republic, and each GOD-Given Right.
 And pray to GOD to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright."

There are no god given rights. The torch is currently in Australia.

 

[CTRL] How it's done: Why Nader and Buchanan are not permited to debate.

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Subject:
  The CFR Establishment Excludes Nader and Buchanan from the
  Debates
Date:
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:36:55 -0400 (EDT)
   From:
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  To:
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 Subject:
  The CFR Establishment Excludes Nader and Buchanan from the Debates
Date:
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 04:39:26 EDT
   From:
  "Eric Yandell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To:
  undisclosed-recipients: ;


Dear Friends,

After having read recently that the televised presidential debates were not
going to include Nader or Buchanan, I wanted to find out more about the
organization which decided that 15% support is necessary to be included in
the debates.

So after looking up the history of the foundation of the Commision on the
Presidential Debates (CDP) at
http://www.debates.org/pages/report.html#findings
we find that it was created in 1987 after two study groups issued reports
recommending this.

The first report was done in 1985 by the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.  We know that their board of trustees has 32 members
of which 18 are Council on Foreign Relations members.  To see this, compare
list of board members of CSIS
http://www.csis.org/html/csislead.html
with the CFR membership list
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/CFR97list.html

The second report was done in 1986 by the Twentieth Century Foundation
(formerly the Twentieth Century Fund).  We find that the TCF board of
trustees
http://www.tcf.org/About_TCF/Board_of_Trustees.html
has 27 members, of which 12 are Council on Foreign Relations members
(compare the TCF trustee list to the CFR list above).

I feel that Buchanan and Nader should be included.  The Commission on the
Presidential Debates was created to exclude people like Nader and Buchanan
and to limit the debate to include only those candidates "hand picked" by
Council on Foreign Relations members and their rich and powerful friends.

Sincerely,
Eric Yandell



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[CTRL] U'wa, Oxy Al

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EMERGENCY IN COLOMBIA ON U'WA LAND!

*please distribute**

"We are all children of the Earth, help us to defend her."
-Berito Kuwar U'wa, spokesperson Traditional U'wa Authority

"Oil is the blood of mother earth...to take the oil is for us, worse
than killing your own mother.  If you kill the Earth, then no one will
survive"
- statement of the U'wa people

PEACEFUL U'WA PROTESTERS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION FROM THEIR HOMELANDS
TO MAKE WAY FOR OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM'S PLANS TO DRILL!

U'WA CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTIONS!

AL GORE WILL PROFIT FROM THE DRILLING!  DEMAND HE TAKE ACTION TO HELP THE
U'WA!

ORGANIZE EMERGENCY PROTESTS AT YOUR NEAREST GORE 2000 OR DNC OFFICES!

FIND THE ONES NEAREST YOU AT :
http://www.algore2000.com

http://www.democrats.org/action/

BECOME AN EMERGENCY CONTACT FOR YOUR AREA! CALL PATRICK AT
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK!  1-800-989-RAIN  or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please take the time to call, email or write and fax  Al Gore
Gore2000
601 Mainstream Dr.
Nashville, TN  37228
Phone: 615-340-2000
Fax: 202-456-2685
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*
Greetings friend,

You have probably heard about the struggle of the U'wa people in Colombia to
defend their culture and homelands from Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum's plans
to
drill for oil.  The U'wa (a name which means "the thinking people")grabbed
international headlines in 1996 when they vowed to commit collective suicide
rather than accept the environmental destruction and violence oil drilling
would
bring to their homeland.   Since then a growing international movement has
emerged to support their uncompromising resistance and prevented the project
from proceeding.

After 10 months of repeated blockades by thousands of U'wa, farmers,
students, workers
and representatives of other indigenouus communities, Oxy and the Colombian
military
are almost ready to begin drilling the first well.  One of the few obstacles
preventing
the drilling are the hundreds of U'wa occupying the surrounding area and
sending a clear
message to Oxy and the Colombian government.  In their own words:  "We would
rather die,
protecting everything that we hold sacred, than lose everything that makes
us U'wa."

The Colombian government granted Oxy drilling rights after much lobbying
from the Clinton
administration.  This lobbying was facilitated by Al Gore who has long term
political
and personal ties to Oxy.  These ties have been the basis of Mr. Gore's
family wealth
(his father was a VP of Oxy) and a consistent source of large campaign
contributions.
It's no surprise then that Al Gore - self-proclaimed environmentalist and
human rights
advocate - has so far refused to speak out on this issue.  Gore's silence
amounts to a
death sentence for the U'wa culture and homelands.  Wherever oil development
occurs in
Colombia it attracts violence since oil installations are one of the main
targets in Colombia's three decade old civil war.  This war, which has cost
the lives
of 25,000 people in the last decade alone, is intensifying thanks to the
Clinton
administration's recently approved $1.3 billion military aid package.
Violence has been
escalating in the U'wa's territory as the ongoing military occupation brings
guerilla attacks,
sexual assaults and intimidation by Colombian soldiers.

In the last few days the situation has reached a crisis.  The military
issued an eviction
order which they intend to serve in the next few days.  With the last
remaining U'wa
forcibly removed from the drillsite area Oxy will be able to bring the final
machinery
in and begin drilling.  The U'wa people need our solidarity now more than
ever!

Al Gore could take real action to stop this project.  He could
denounce Oxy's actions and make a statement of support for the U'wa.  He
could publicly
call upon the Colombian government to pull the troops out of the region and
support
the self-determination of the U'wa people.  The U'wa are depending on all of
us to put the
pressure on him and get him to do the right thing! Organize a demonstration,
informational
picket or non-violent direct action at your nearest Gore office.  Organize a
teach-in, phone bank or letter writing table in your community.  Bring this
issue to the
attention of your local newspaper by writing a letter to the editor or op-ed
piece for your local newspaper. (SEE SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR BELOW)

Our actions now will also be in preparation for an emergency response day of
action. Should the rights of the U'wa people be violated U'wa supporters
will call for a
emergency day of action. We can show Al Gore that he must take action on
this issue by rallying
at his campaign offices across the country within 48 hours of any action by
the military in
Colombia.

To make this final line of defense for the U'wa people possible we need
CONTACT PEOPLE in
every region - are you willing to be one?  If so contact Rainforest 

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Dear Friends,

Doris "Granny D" Haddock will speak on the west steps of the U.S. Capitol
with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Sheryl Crow, Paula
Poundstone, cast members of West Wing, Sen. John McCain, Sen Russ Feingold, Gov.
Jesse Ventura, and
others on Tuesday, September 19th at 5 p.m. It is a free admission Campaign
Finance Reform rally, and
you will have a chance to meet everyone.

If you live in the DC area and can attend, or if you can send this message
to your friends who do live near Washington, we thank you very much.

Dennis Burke

for Doris Haddock

more info: http://grannyd.com


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Advance copy of Doris Haddock's remarks on the west Capitol steps in
Washington D.C. 5 p.m. Tuesday, September 19th, 2000:



Thank you very much.

Do you think there are enough of us here, that if we all wished the same
wish, it might come true?

Well, let us try.

Let's imagine that we could pass a law in this great building that could
work some magic.  It would get big money out of the way of our democracy.

The law would read as follows:

"Whoever directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises
anything of value to any public official with intent to influence any
official act;  Or,  being a public official, directly or indirectly,
corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept
anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return
for being influenced in the performance of any official act,  shall be
fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent
of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more
than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any
office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States."

Now, how hard must we wish to make that law the law of this land?  Humor
me, please, and close your eyes tightly and click your heels together three
times. One, two, three.

You have done it.  The law I read to you, condensed somewhat, is indeed the
law of the land.  It is United States Code, Title 18, Chapter 11, Section
201: Bribery of public officials.

18. 11. 201. Under the crystal clear provisions of this law, most of the
people who make laws in these buildings to send other people to jail,
should themselves be in jail.  Under the unambiguous provisions of this
law, political parties that extract protection money from industries are in
violation of federal bribery law and require prosecution.

Now let us make another wish, and this one needs yet to happen.  We wish
that the Attorney General of the United States, Ms. Janet Reno, might spend
the final months of this administration, and the final months of her
service to our people, in improving health; and that, in good health, she
might strengthen her legacy by setting in motion the proper enforcement of
this existing federal law upon which the very health of our democracy
depends.  18, 11, 201.

I ask you, Ms. Reno, to investigate the sale of public policy by the
elected leaders of our nation.  I ask you, Ms. Reno, to investigate the
purchase of public policy by the great lobbying operations that have set
upon our temple of self-governance like great vampire bats that we must now
carefully cage and send home to their dark caves on Wall Street.

Ms. Reno, we, the people, ask this of you, our friend.  No other one person
but you holds the power to set a new course for our nation overnight,
--with the stroke of a pen.

18, 11, 201: the law is there to be enforced, and the evidence drips from
every window of K Street, flows down every hallway of Congress, rises
waist-deep in the fundraising ballrooms of every luxury hotel in this city.
Do your duty, Ma'm, though, in so doing, you will have not a friend left in
this city. We the people will call you our dearest friend..

How many good men and women have died for our freedom as a self-governing
people?  Go across the cold river to Arlington and see! The spirits of the
dead, and the hearts of the living are filled with sorrow for what now
happens in this, our own Capitol city, the home of our democracy.

Title 18, Chapter 11, Section 201.  That must be our demand at the door of
Justice: 18, 11, 201.

Immediately following this event, I invite all of you to walk with me to Ms
Reno's front door, only a few blocks from here, to help me post this letter
upon her door and to raise this chant: 18, 11, 201.

Thank you.
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Re: [CTRL] (CTRL) OT: Scientists conclusively I.D.Christ'sfingerprint(fwd)

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 In a message dated 09/15/2000 9:54:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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  Yeah especially in churches and among the clerical hierarchy. 

 Well, Joshua, was the Last Supper a Passover meal?

I don't know. But it was almost certainly a Jewish holiday meal considering
that the city was full of pilgrims. All the holidays and every sabbath has
Jews making a prayer over wine and bread ( sound familiar?). Holiday and
sabbath meals are special occasions requiring that people set out the finest
settings and utensils they are capable of. Every household probably had a
silver cup for the ' kiddush'.

 I'm sure if I was a
 student of the Bible, I would know this, but I'm not sure.  Yes, I agree that
 Christ was born into a middle class family with a carpentry business.  Even
 his place of birth was one that under the circumstances demonstrated that
 Joseph had enough money to secure a warm place even under very crowded
 conditions.  The poor would have been huddled outside the caravansaray walls
 which provided little safety and proximity to the toilet area.  There are
 still villages where people go "outside the walls" for toilet purposes.

 I
 have never known any Jews who have taken a vow of poverty, so I do not know
 what vessels they allow themselves with which to celebrate Passover.

Only an idiot would take a vow of poverty. This is not a Jewish concept, so
it is likely that it's not true about Jesus and his followers. Jews are
encouraged towards act of charity for the poor. Not to be poor. The Jesus
movement were known as " The Poor." meaning the oppressed.

 There's something incongruous about  a group who have taken a vow of poverty
 drinking wine from a jewel encrusted cup.  Prudy

Yes there is. If it were true. I doubt that the NT version is true.

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All CFR.

J2
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MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:

 With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

 Monday September 18, 2000; 10:03 AM EDT

 Stephanopoulos: Debate Moderator Jim Lehrer is Our Guy

 Jim Lehrer, the PBS News Hour anchorman tapped by the so-called
 "bi-partisan" Presidential Debate Commission to preside over
 three October face-offs between Vice President Al Gore and Texas
 Governor George Bush, is so friendly towards the White House that
 a former top Clinton-Gore official once described him as "our
 moderator."

 Lehrer hosted two Clinton-Dole presidential commission debates
 and one Gore-Kemp vice presidential debate in 1996. At no point
 did the PBS newsman specifically raise the administration's
 Filegate scandal, which had broken just two four months before,
 or the burgeoning Chinagate scandal, which was then on the front
 pages of every newspaper in the country.

 A year after Clinton-Gore handily defeated Dole-Kemp at the
 polls, senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos admitted
 that the debate deck had been stacked against the GOP despite the
 commission's pretense towards bipartisanship:

 "We wanted the debates to be a non-event," Stephanopoulos
 revealed during a 1997 panel discussion on presidential politics.
 "As long as we would agree to Perot not being in it, we could get
 everything else we wanted going in. We got out time frame, we got
 our length, we got our moderator."

 PBS's pro-Democrat bias became even more apparent in July 1999,
 when several of its taxpayer funded outlets were caught helping
 the Democratic National Committee.

 After repeated denials of impropriety, two of the network's
 flagship stations, WGBH in Boston and WETA in Washington, D.C.,
 admitted sharing their donor lists with the DNC. Others PBS
 outlets were also implicated in the federally subsidized
 fund-raising scam.

 The Presidential Debate Commission is currently involved in a
 joint venture with McNeil-Lehrer productions to produce a
 documentary on the history of presidential debates.

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[CTRL] Back in the saddle again. And not a minute too soon.

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==
Protest generation vows to grab reins of power as they prepare for battle of
Prague

Anti-globalisation campaigners attend training camp as bankers and ministers
gather for IMF meeting

By Justin Huggler in Dolni Slivno
The Independent

18 September 2000

The world has a new protest generation, and it has arrived in Prague. As the
city's five-star hotels fill up with the besuited bankers of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, the people who have vowed
to wreck this week's summit and wrest control of the world's economy from
their grip are gathering on a disused farm in the village of Dolni Slivno,
three miles north of the city.

They have come from across the world: not only dreadlocked veterans of
anti-capitalist campaigns, but many who have abandoned highly paid,
white-collar jobs to be here, sleeping in the shell of a wrecked bus, or in
an old barn with holes in the roof, and washing from a communal bucket.
Protest is back, and it is uniting the young from across the social
spectrum.

Unlike the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting that protesters ruined in
Seattle last year, the summit opening tomorrow is being held in a country
directly affected by globalisation. Nowhere in the post-communist world has
embraced the global economy as eagerly as the Czech Republic: Prague is full
of McDonald's restaurants and Tesco supermarkets, and thousands of Czech
activists are expected to demonstrate alongside international campaigners
from across Europe and North America. Those at the camp are just a tiny
fraction of those expected to arrive in Prague this week - and, unlike many
who are coming, they are all committed to non-violence.

Chelsea Mozen gave up a well-paid job in Washington DC's local government to
come to Prague. Immaculate in designer clothes, she reels off statistics to
support her case against the World Bank, while behind her a guitar lies
against a sign pointing the way to the "compost toilet".

Scott Codey talks to journalists about the history of nonviolent protest.
His conversation is lucid and educated, full of references to Gandhi and
Martin Luther King. He quotes Gandhi, saying that the protesters are
"walking in truth".

This week Mr Codey and Ms Mozen, clean-cut, well-read Americans, will
probably be tear-gassed and beaten by police for the first time in their
lives, as they form a human chain around the congress centre where the IMF
and WorldBank meetings are being held.

"Being tear-gassed is a sacrifice I'm willing to make," Mr Codey says. "This
is something I feel morally compelled to speak out against." These are the
young people the IMF and the World Bank should be afraid of.

The protesters may look clueless as they practise their human chain, but
they are the proof that the anti-globalisation movement has spread far
beyond the hardline fringe groups who want to tear down the entire economic
order.

They will stand hand-in-hand with veteran campaigners such as Martin Shaw,
an electrician from London who gave up his job to "get out of the capitalist
economy", and now lives in a housing co-operative in London.

But, unlike Mr Shaw, a committed anarchist who says he wants to tear down
the consumer society and live without "interference" from any government, Mr
Codey and Ms Mozen are not revolutionaries: they want to reform the system,
not destroy it.

Ms Mozen says: "We're not saying we don't need a body to govern global
trade. We're saying we want an equitable system, where people can decide for
themselves if they want to grow food, so their children can eat, instead of
coffee beans for export."

This time, it is not all about the sort of street protests that wrecked the
WTO summit in Seattle and humiliated President Bill Clinton last year. The
Initiative against Economic Globalisation, the Czech umbrella group for
NGOs, which set up the training camp and plans to blockade the official
summit, is also holding its own counter-summit this weekend, while the IMF
and World Bank delegates are in town.

The protesters will not only condemn global economic policy, they will set
out their alternative vision. Revisionist academics, including the
sociologist Walden Bello and the Egyptian neo-Marxist economist Said Amin,
will address counter-summit meetings.

Mr Codey says: "We're trying to decentralise power so local communities have
a say in their own lives." He first became interested in the
anti-globalisation movement on a trip to Nicaragua in 1995. "I'd never heard
of the IMF or the World Bank before I went to Nicaragua," he says. "But
every Nicaraguan had. I saw what they had done, how they went in and
decimated the local economy. Thousands were forced into poverty because
instead of growing food they were forced to grow products for the world
economy."

Ms Mozen's story is similar. "I first started to think about these issues
when I studied in Bolivia," she says. "The Bolivian family I was staying
with 

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Network members:

Boeing sees less emphasis on commercial jet sales, and more emphasis on
military production and serves in its future. Boeing is already the world's
largest builder of military aircraft (and civillian aircraft), but is
second to Lockheed Martin in over-all military production.

Steve


 http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/000723/l23414369.html

Sunday July 23, 4:16 pm Eastern Time

By Chris Stetkiewicz

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (NYSE:BA - news) will shift its
business mix in coming years to include more revenue from military and
service markets, easing its dependence on more volatile commercial jet
sales, Chairman Phil Condit said on Sunday.

``We need some things like the services business which are not nearly as
affected by the economic cycle. We also need some faster growing
businesses,'' Condit told reporters on the eve of a major air show in
Farnborough, England.

Airliner sales have traditionally made up the bulk of Boeing's revenue
base. In 1999, the aerospace giant's commercial jet unit pumped in $38
billion of its $58 billion in overall sales, or two-thirds.

But jet sales rise and fall dramatically with economic cycles. For example,
sales of lucrative widebody planes have just begun to pick up as Asia has
rebounded from a 1997 financial crisis that slashed widebody demand.

Condit said revenues from Boeing's military lines could equal revenues from
civilian markets within five years.

Such a shift would likely boost operating margins at Boeing, since the
Seattle-based company tends to earn fatter profits selling aircraft and
missiles to military customers than on sales of airliners to increasingly
demanding airlines.

Condit said last week that prices in the commercial jet market, in which it
competes against hard-driving rival Airbus Industrie [ARBU.UL], had been
and remained ``aggressive''.

GREATER PRESENCE IN SERVICES

A greater presence in the market for plane services -- ranging from
maintenance and spare parts supply to finance and satellite-based
communications -- could boost Boeing's growth rate, and offset cutbacks in
other business units.

Boeing to date has made only incremental steps into services, but has big
plans for expansion through space programmes, leveraging the $3.75 billion
purchase of Hughes Electronics Corp.'s (NYSE:GMH - news) satellite-building
business it announced earlier this year.

``We are always looking for things that help us grow,'' Condit said. ``The
services business promises 15 percent to maybe 20 percent (annual)
growth.''

Condit has denied dubious but persistent rumours that Boeing would leave
the commercial jet market altogether or merge with General Electric Co.
(NYSE:GE - news), which boasts jet engine manufacturing and plane leasing
in its vast financial and industrial empire.

But Boeing officials have held up GE as an example of how much money can be
made in the services sector -- GE earns more money servicing engines than
it does selling them.

Boeing also plans to sell off less profitable or money losing operations,
including a St. Louis-based parts-making facility employing 1,700, and
hopes to focus on high value-added processes like aircraft assembly or
manufacture of specialised parts.

``We have begun one (asset sale). There will probably be others,'' Condit
said.

Boeing has also undertaken a broad cost-cutting campaign ranging from
improvements in production efficiency to trimming its payroll from a 1998
peak of 238,600 to about 187,000 now and setting a target of about 180,000
by the end of 2000.

Having got a late start on the downsizing trend that began sweeping through
the U.S. industrial base in the 1980s, Boeing has plenty of room to
continue boosting efficiency for years to come, analysts say.

``I don't think you ever stop trying to bring down costs,'' Condit said.

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 Original Message 
Subject: Nader: Not Just Another Campaign Speech
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:47:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [IPPN]  Not Just Another Campaign Speech
Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2000, 9:14 PM

Not Just Another Campaign Speech

By Ralph Nader

(The speech below was given extemporaneously at a reception of several
hundred Green Party members, supporters and press at the Green Party's
late June convention in Denver, Colorado. We've transcribed it in
preparation for the upcoming fall issue of Independent Politics News but
are sending it out now because there's a lot of good stuff in here.
Thanks to JusticeVision [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] for the videotape of the
convention from which this was taken.}

  This is not the best time for a deliberate exposition, here, but I want
to say, I've met a lot of you on the hustings, whether Maine, or Rhode
Island, Connecticut, or New Mexico. This is really the core of the whole
Green Party effort all over the country, and the key is for all of us to
pool our best ideas, tactics and strategies as fast as possible. The
agenda is pretty much laid out, the issues are being honed, there'll be
more details coming that will be posted on our web site, votenader.org.
  What we want to do is to move out throughout the country in a whole
series of dimensions. One of them, for example, is on the campuses in
terms of students. We've got to try to get with students more, on a lot
of campuses, and with the internet we can do it very quickly, but that
doesn't mean we can't benefit from a lot of practical suggestions by
you.
  The second is to move out in the direction of blue-collar labor,
especially those in the steel, auto, textile and other unions that are
being more and more politicized. You're seeing a higher degree of
legitimate militancy here than ever before. We need to work at the local
level. There's PACE as well, that's the merger between the Paperworkers
and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers.
  Then we want to move out to the 2 million nurses. As some of you know,
at a news conference about 10 days ago the California Nurses
Association, at a press conference in Washington, endorsed us. This is a
union that sets the standard. It rallies, it demonstrates, it leads, not
just supports, the cause of patients' rights. Last year they got five
laws out of five signed, passed through the legislature and signed, on
HMO accountability, whistle blower rights, the right to sue HMO's, etc.
So we want to try to move out in that direction. Nurses have a great
network. There are few people who are as credible in their occupation as
nurses.
  We want to try to move through other constituencies here. One of them
is the neighborhood groups in cities throughout the country who are
really struggling against real odds in the inner city, in the areas of
housing, poverty, transit, health care-this is really the ultimate shame
on our country, in many ways, in terms of leaving these people so
defenseless to predators, payday loan sharks, rent-to-own rackets,
landlord abuses, deliberate withholding of health care, even when they
have coverage for it under Medicaid, and of course environmental racism,
that's very important. We have some of the most detailed maps on bank
redlining ever brought together. We've got them in every community so
those of you who want to move forward on that front can do so during the
campaign, because these maps are available to everyone, even Republicans
and Democrats.
  We want to also move forward through the day-to-day beat. There are
reporters throughout the country who have their hands tied by publishers
and media conglomerates, and they don't like it. They would like to
cover progressive political movements and not expect third parties to be
discriminated against. So don't be shy, reach out to them, talk with
them, they'll carry the newsworthy purpose to their editors and, more
often than not, you'll get the coverage that you need, because there are
a lot of local and state Green Party candidates here, from Hawaii and
other places. We need to move at that level as well. With radio talk
shows, 90% of them are run by right-wing radio show hosts because, you
know, the government doesn't advertise but corporations do. Just try
more systematic telephoning. Every time you break through on one of
these talk shows, you're talking to thousands, or tens of thousands of
people.
  Then we have to more out through the small farm, the small ranch areas
all over the country. Small farmers are really hanging on, they're
angry, they've got every right to be angry, they're being exposed to
crushing price suppression by their big giant buyers like Cargill and
IBP, and on the other hand they're being squeezed by the seed companies
and other suppliers, fewer and fewer giant corporations on either side
of them moving to replace 

[CTRL] FBI still working on Bono / Kennedy skiing accidents.

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 EXCLUSIVE: From the Nurev Wire Service


 After the deaths of Rep Sonny Bono and a member of the Kennedy family
 the FBI received the following cryptic message form an heretofore unknown
 terrorist group.


 


 StoP tHE LogGINg oR wE WiLl coNtInUE To KIll oNe CeleBrITY EacH WeEK.

  ### theRe ARe nO SkIinG "aCciDenTS. ##

THE TREES
 

 "They've obviously been spiking ' Miracle Grow ' "
  opined Drug Czar Barry McCaffery.

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Re: [CTRL] The european common currecy, the euro

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Congratulations and good work. The whole world is counting on
you Europeans. Americans are worthless in fighting the New World
Order's economics. They are too thoroughly brainwashed, greedy
and coerced.

Good luck.

Joshua2

Tenorlove wrote:

 ¡Olé, Ole! More power to you and your countrymen!

 --- Ole_Gerstrøm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  So, there is a
  good chanche we will beat the international bankers. And this will be
  a good example for the Swedes and The UK, who will be on next. This
  will mean, that northern Europe is repelling the international
  bankers.

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- Forwarded Message -

DATE: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:21:23
From: Arlene Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear Claudia,
   Can you include the following in an up and coming MainLineNews
communication? It may do some good.
   A better idea, in my opinion, would be for folks to call up 1-800 DIAL
BUD and tell Anheuser-Busch that they won't buy their beer unless Ralph
Nader is allowed into the debates. Anheuser-Busch, as you most likely know,
is a prime sponsor of the debates.

All the best,

Arlene Johnson

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From: "John Cannon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:09:21 -0700
To: "Arlene Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Open the Debates

Arlene,
  Here are some addresses to write to demanding that Ralph Nader be included
in any and all presidential debates.  Both Gore and Bush are doing their
best to make it a contest between just themselves so it must be we, the
American voters, who demand that the Commission for Presidential Debates
open the debates to every candidate.
  Pass this on to whoever you think might be open to new thoughts and a new
direction for our future.

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Re: [CTRL] NAZI POLICY TOWARD HOMOSEXUALS

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Justine Blake wrote:

snip
 The official NAMBLA site may be down, but there are tons of other
 man-boy sites. Here's a link to one:
 http://www.closencounters.net/links.htm
 Closeenounters

 It's run by a woman named Heather Peterson, a "religious" of some sort
 (Christian), but from many of her writings which I've looked over, my guess
 is she is a secular humanist disgusing herself as Christian.

A secular humanist would NEVER disguise herself as a Christian. That would be
equivalent to a big fat Priest or Rabbi stripping down to his underwear and
go around claiming to be Buddha.

Joshua2

 When I was at
 her Closeencounters Forum for awhile, learning about all this, Heather often
 mentioned the "other aspect" of "being there" to "help" the homosexuals, but
 she sure enough was on there side as to their "lifestyle". You've got to get
 to know people to see what's really going on. If you agree with their
 agenda, that's one thing. But it helps to understand the secular humanism
 (read Socialists) behind the scene,

Secular Humanists and Socialists are two separate things. One can be one or
the other or both. You don't know shit about anything do you?

You must be a superstitionist. See any virgin births lately?

Joshua2

 and their militancy, or how they wear
 "sheep's clothing" disguised as "Christians":
 http://www.greenbelt.com/news/hepsites.htm

 The above link is just a *sample* of Christian secular humanism. That's what
 I think it is anyway.

CHRISTIAN SECULAR HUMANISM

YOU ARE MORE THAN A LITTLE CONFUSED

J2


  THIS is why Christians and other people
  have a problem with the "homosexual Agenda".

 I'm a Christian, and I don't

 June
 Rev. COAL


-- CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMEN --
JUST VOTE FOR A CORPORATION


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[CTRL] [Fwd: [Fwd: Nader: Empower People vs. Elite Control]]

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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:41:54 -0400
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Subject: Nader: Empower People vs. Elite Control
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 00:09:08 -0500 (CDT)

Nader: Empower People Vs. Elites
The Associated Press
Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000; 9:55 a.m. EDT

NEW YORK  Green Party presidential nominee Ralph Nader said Thursday
the central issue in this year's campaign is empowering people
against control by a few.

What will turn on voters to his candidacy, Nader said on NBC's
"Today," is "giving them more power, looking them in the eye and
say if you don't have more power you are not going to have more
social justice, you are not going to have a deep democracy solving
problems, you are not going to be able to lift this country up to
its national possibilities."

His goal, he said, is to halt the concentration of that power "more
and more in the hands of the few controlling our government."

Nader said he expects to be on the ballot in 45 states "and the
overwhelming population will have a chance to vote for the Green
Party candidate."

The longtime consumer advocate repeated his campaign theme: that
on the issues that matter there is little difference between Democrat
Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush. "They are different in a
few areas but the rhetoric is more different than the reality,"
Nader asserted.

Polls indicate Nader could damage Gore in a few states, chiefly in
California, where he has support in the range of 5 percent. Nader
said he is not concerned about taking votes away from Gore.

"Obviously I am worried about Al Gore taking votes away from me,"
Nader said. "We all have to earn our votes. We are not entitled to
any votes."

 Copyright 2000 The Associated Press

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[CTRL] Keep the troops at home where they belong.

[Nurev Ind Research]

Corporate Empire is not a good enough reason to allow  'your'
corporate government to continue doing this to people around
the world.

If you voted for Bush or Clinton, you legitimized this evil.

Nurev

=
Allies Deliberately Poisoned Iraq Public Water Supply In Gulf War
http://commondreams.org/headlines/091700-01.htm
==
Published Sun., Sept. 17, 2000 in the Sunday Herald (Scotland)

Allies Deliberately Poisoned Iraq Public Water Supply In Gulf War

  The US-led allied forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water
supply during the Gulf War - flagrantly breaking the Geneva Convention
and causing thousands of civilian deaths.
Since the war ended in 1991 the allied nations have made sure than any
attempts to make contaminated water safe have been thwarted.
A respected American professor now intends to convene expert hearings in
a bid to pursue criminal indictments under international law against
those responsible.
Professor Thomas J Nagy, Professor of Expert Systems at George
Washington University with a doctoral fellowship in public health, told
the Sunday Herald: "Those who saw nothing wrong in producing [this
plan], those who ordered its production and those who knew about it and
have remained silent for 10 years would seem to be in violation of
Federal Statute and perhaps have even conspired to commit genocide."
Professor Nagy obtained a minutely detailed seven-page document prepared
by the US Defence Intelligence Agency, issued the day after the war
started, entitled Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities and circulated to
all major allied Commands.
It states that Iraq had gone to considerable trouble to provide a supply
of pure water to its population. It had to depend on importing
specialised equipment and purification chemicals, since water is
"heavily mineralised and frequently brackish".
The report stated: "Failing to secure supplies will result in a shortage
of pure drinking water for much of the population. This could lead to
increased incidents, if not epidemics, of disease and certain pure-water
dependent industries becoming incapacitatedÉ"
The report concludes: "Full degradation of the water treatment system
probably will take at least another six months."
During allied bombing campaigns on Iraq the country's eight
multi-purpose dams had been repeatedly hit, simultaneously wrecking
flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and
hydroelectric power. Four of seven major pumping stations were
destroyed, as were 31 municipal water and sewerage facilities - 20 in
Baghdad, resulting in sewage pouring into the Tigris. Water purification
plants were incapacitated throughout Iraq.
Article 54 of the Geneva Convention states: "It is prohibited to attack,
destroy or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the
civilian population" and includes foodstuffs, livestock and "drinking
water supplies and irrigation works".
The results of the allied bombing campaign were obvious when Dr David
Levenson visited Iraq immediately after the Gulf War, on behalf of
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
He said: "For many weeks people in Baghdad - without television, radio,
or newspapers to warn them - brought their drinking water from the
Tigris, in buckets.
"Dehydrated from nausea and diarrhoea, craving liquids, they drank more
of the water that made them sick in the first place."
Water-borne diseases in Iraq today are both endemic and epidemic. They
include typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, cholera and polio (which had
previously been eradicated), along with a litany of others.
A child with dysentery in 1990 had a one in 600 chance of dying - in
1999 it was one in 50.
The then US Navy Secretary John Lehman estimated that 200,000 Iraqis
died in the Gulf War. Dr Levenson estimates many thousands died from
polluted water.
Chlorine and essential equipment parts needed to repair and clear the
water system have been banned from entering the country under the UN
"hold"system.
Ohio Democrat Representative Tony Hall has written to American Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright, saying he shares concerns expressed by
Unicef about the "profound effects the deterioration of Iraq's water
supply and sanitation systems on children's health". Diarrhoeal diseases
he says are of "epidemic proportions" and are "the prime killer of
children under five".
"Holds on contracts for water and sanitation are a prime reason for the
increase in sickness and death." Of 18 contracts, wrote Hall, all but
one on hold were placed by the government in the US.
Contracts were for purification chemicals, chlorinators, chemical dosing
pumps, water tankers and other water industry related items.
"If water remains undrinkable, diseases will continue and mortality
rates will rise," said the Iraqi trade minister Muhammed Mahdi Salah.
The country's health ministry said that more than 10,000 people died in
July 

[CTRL] [Fwd: [populist-talk] WHAT RACE WAS JESUS?]

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Subject: [populist-talk] WHAT RACE WAS JESUS?
 What Race was Jesus?

  Recently, at a theological meeting in Rome,scholars had a heated debate on
this subject. One by one, they offered their evidence THREE REASONS
THAT JESUS WAS MEXICAN: 1. His first name was Jesus 2. He was bilingual 3.
He was always being harassed by the authorities But then there were equally
good arguments that JESUS WAS BLACK: 1. He called everybody "brother" 2.
He liked Gospel 3. He couldn't get a fair trial But then there were equally
good arguments that JESUS WAS JEWISH: 1. He went into His Father's
business 2. He lived at home until he was 33 3. He was sure his Mother was a
virgin, and his Mother was sure he was God. But then there were equally good
arguments that JESUS WAS ITALIAN: 1. He talked with his hands 2. He had
wine with every meal 3. He used olive oil But then there were equally good
arguments that JESUS WAS CALIFORNIAN:1. He never cut his hair 2. He
walked around barefoot 3. He started a new religion
 But then there were equally good arguments that JESUS WAS IRISH:1. He
never got married 2. He was always telling stories 3. He loved green
pastures But perhaps the most compelling evidence. THREE PROOFS THAT
JESUS WAS A WOMAN: 1. He had to feed a crowd at a moment's notice when there
was no food 2. He kept trying to get the message across to a bunch of men
who just didn't get it 3. Even when He was dead, He had to get up because
there was more work to do.

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[CTRL] He who pays the Piper calls the tune. 2

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http://www.workingforchange.com/news/article.cfm?ItemId=7229


"How did we ever get into this situation, where the
two parties control the debate commission, they
created it, they fund it with beer money, auto money
and tobacco money, and then they say 'We don't want
anybody to compete with us.'"



Nader plans to shadow debates
Rips media, challenges networks to host four-way
debate
By Matt Welch / NEWSFORCHANGE
9.15.00 | LAS VEGAS -- George W. Bush and Al Gore may
have finally smoothed over their differences on
presidential debates, but Green Party candidate Ralph
Nader, for one, is not satisfied with the results.

Nader, whose only sliver of hope to contend in these
elections is to share TV time with Bush and Gore,
announced he will be outside the debate locations and
available to the press for at least one of the three
scheduled events, and that supporters will hold a
demonstration in Boston to support his exclusion.

"We cannot allow our democracy to exclude competitors
who want to try to improve the political system," he
told an audience of 400 at the University of Nevada
Las Vegas on Friday afternoon. "If we get on the
debates, all bets are off. Because Jesse Ventura was
at eight percent in Minnesota before he got on the
debates. And he got on 10 debates and he won the
governorship of Minnesota with 38 percent of the
vote."

The Federal Election Commission, a bipartisan group
founded by the two main political parties, has decided
that third-party candidates must have 15 percent
minimum support in the polls to qualify.

"I mean, this is the most amazing thing!" Nader said.
"How did we ever get into this situation, where the
two parties control the debate commission, they
created it, they fund it with beer money, auto money
and tobacco money, and then they say 'We don't want
anybody to compete with us.'

“You don't see that in the marketplace, do you?” Nader
asked. “You don't see that in nature. Imagine, can
nature regenerate itself if they keep seeds from
sprouting? Can the business community regenerate
itself if they block entrepreneurs and innovators?
Only the two parties get away with it. And they get
away with it because the media lets them get away with
it."

Nader has been encouraging supporters to write and
call the major TV networks asking them to create their
own multi-candidate formats.

"The media could say, 'Enough of you, we're gonna get
together and sponsor a massive four-way debate every
week on the networks,’” he suggested, apparently
including Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan in this
scenario.

Candidates should be included, the consumer advocate
said, if they command five percent national support or
if a majority of voters polled want them in the
debates. Nader has been estimating his own support at
between four and eight percent nationally, while
current nonpartisan polls have him slightly lower. And
while he has repeatedly claimed a "vast majority" of
Americans want him included in the debates, polls
released this week actually showed a minority agreed.

At a Southern California fundraising event Wednesday
night, Nader told supporters the two parties were
spooked when Ross Perot went to the 1992 debates and
then won 19 percent of the vote. "They'll never make
that mistake again," he said. This, one day after he
appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno brandishing
a rubber chicken to punctuate his claim that his major
party rivals are scared to debate him.

Nader has been frustrated by the lack of regular
national media coverage of his campaign, arguing
several times a day that newspapers like The New York
Times are "violating their own criteria of
newsworthiness" by ignoring him. His public events and
press conferences -- some of which are not even
advertised on his Web site -- were generally covered
by 10 to 20 reporters during his four-day swing
through California and Nevada this week. The
Associated Press has been the only major media outlet
consistently present.

"It's a Catch-22," he told one of many sympathetic
questioners. "See, you don't go up in the polls unless
you get the mass media, and you don't get mass media
unless you're going up in the polls."

Many of his supporters throughout the week have said
the "giant media corporations" are afraid of Nader,
because his message is so radical and the media’s
policies are so corrupt. Often, Nader agrees.

"If you look at the Federal Elections Commission
(campaign fundraising reports), you see all kinds of
contributions from CBS, NBC and ABC executives to both
parties," he said Friday. "They're not about to expose
that on ‘60 Minutes,’ or the evening news."

News executives might also be put off by Nader's
persistent suggestions they should pay "billions of
dollars in rent" for being allowed to use the public
airwaves -- rent that would then be used for "our own
stations and programs," he said.

"Any democracy worth its salt should never have to
rely so heavily on commercial media. But that's the
case here: It's in the 

[CTRL] Holy mackerel there, Tipper.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/culturewar.html

CounterPunch
Alexander Cockburn  Jeffrey St. Clair

September 15, 2000
The Gores' Culture Wars

Within the past month we've had an FBI report on the
"school shooter" threat profile, which again strains
to make a link between popular culture and teenage
mass murderers. We've had a report from the Federal
Trade Commission lacerating the entertainment industry
for marketing violence to minors. The Senate Commerce,
Science  Technology Committee, on which Joe Lieberman
sits, held hearings on these issues in September. For
their part, Al Gore and Lieberman have told the
entertainment industry that it has six months to clean
up its act, or, once installed in the White House, the
next Democratic administration will draft laws to
compel Hollywood, the computer and video companies,
and the music industry to mend their ways.

Grandstanding about the entertainment industry has
been a specialty of Al and Tipper Gore since Al first
entered Congress in 1977 (the year the couple were
formally Born Again). Tipper was part of a
Congressional wives' club agitating against violence
and sex on TV, and then in the mid-eighties came
Tipper's famous campaign, abetted by her husband,
against explicit rock 'n' rap music. Until Gore
brought Lieberman onto the ticket, Gore apologists
tended to blame this foray into censorship as a
misadventure by Tipper, ultimately rectified when the
Gores traveled to Hollywood and told
recording-industry executives that the whole drive to
censor music had been a mistake and somehow not their
fault. But since Gore and Lieberman are now revving up
a culture war far more sinister than anything proposed
by Dan Quayle back in 1992, it's worth remembering
what exactly Tipper and Al got up to fifteen years ago
in their campaign against explicit rock 'n' rap.

In early June of 1985 Tipper's group PMRC (Parents'
Music Resource Center) sent a letter to Stanley
Gortikov, president of the Recording Industry
Association of America, demanding a ratings code. The
group called for an X to be put on records that
contained profanity, violence or sexually explicit
lyrics, including "topics of fornication,
sado-masochism, incest, homosexuality, bestiality and
necrophilia." The
inclusion of homosexuality harked back to Al's comment
in 1976 as he campaigned for Congress that he
considered homosexuality to be "abnormal" behavior.

But this was not all. Just as Gore and Lieberman now
protest their affection for the First Amendment and
insist they are opposed to censorship, Tipper back
then swore up and down that she and her group were
against censorship. This was false. In a memo to
Gortikov the PMRC wrote that it wanted the record
labels to "reassess contracting artists who engage in
violence, substance abuse and/or explicit behavior in
concerts where minors are admitted." So much for Al's
favorite band, the substance-abusing Beatles. So much
too for Tipper's Rolling Stones or Grateful Dead, whom
she welcomed into her office in 1993, thus honoring a
band that had introduced two generations to the joys
of drugs.

From the start, Tipper's PMRC worked hand in glove
with right-wing fundamentalist Christian groups. One
of her partners in the PMRC was Susan Baker (wife of
James Baker, a Cabinet officer in the Reagan/Bush
years), who was also a board member of the Rev. James
Dobson's Focus on the Family. This outfit, now based
in Colorado, is notoriously antigay and antiabortion.
Dobson, who argued that serial killer Ted Bundy had
been driven to murder by an addiction to pornography,
served on Attorney General Ed Meese's 1985 commission
to eradicate smut.

This was not the only group touted by Tipper's PMRC.
Take the Missouri Rock Project, an outfit run by an
associate of Phyllis Schlafly, which distributed
information packets, prepared by the Victory Christian
Church of St. Charles, Missouri, claiming that the
Holocaust was overblown, that Hitler didn't write Mein
Kampf and that Hollywood shamelessly advocates
race-mixing. The church described the slain civil
rights leader, whose memory is often invoked by Al
Gore, as "Martin Lucifer King." Enthusiastically
plugged by the PMRC as a useful resource were the
writings of David Noebel, author of Rhythm, Riots and
Revolution, whose essays in music criticism include
the following: "The full truth is that [the origin of
rock] goes still deeper-to the heart of Africa, where
it was used to incite warriors to such a frenzy that
by nightfall neighbors were cooked in carnage pots!"

Contrary to Tipper's repeated suggestions that the
PMRC wanted to act only as an agent of consumer
information, the rock "porn" crusade quickly
transmuted into a spate of legal proposals and
criminal trials of musicians, songwriters and record
retailers. In Maryland a bill that would have made it
a crime to sell "obscene" music to minors was only
narrowly defeated. Similar measures were proposed in
eighteen other states. In 1986 Jello Biafra, lead
singer of the 

[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Free trade at work.

[Nurev Ind Research]

9/16/00

Electing a Free Trader like Gore or Bush will
condemn people like those described below to
lives of virtual slavery.

It is cruel and evil to aid and abet the Transnationals
by voting for a Democrat or Republican who will
make the world safe for rich investors.

Nurev

===
New York Times
September 16, 2000

Nicaragua's Trade Zone: Battleground for Unions
By DAVID GONZALEZ

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The five years that Inez Pérez
spent sewing jeans at a Taiwanese-owned clothing
factory here helped her raise five children on her
own. But after going to a party also attended by the
leaders of her union, she was abruptly dismissed.

"I was told they were canceling my contract because
they didn't want me there," Mrs. Pérez said of the
Chentex factory. "I worked all week. I used to work
all day on Saturday, Sunday. I was a good worker. But
it did not matter, because I belonged to a union."

Mrs. Pérez was among the first to join the Union of
Chentex Workers, which has since withered under what
its leaders described as the company's efforts to
force people to choose between union and job. More
than 150 union members among the factory's 1,800
workers were fired after brief strikes over higher
wages. Some of the workers were at the party, and it
was that fact that apparently prompted Mrs. Pérez's
dismissal.

Her fate represents something more than than another
attempt by management to break up a union. In a world
that is eliminating barriers to trade and foreign
investment, Mrs. Pérez's call for higher pay and a
union is viewed here as a threat to the country's
economic prosperity.

Taiwan companies like her former employer are the
biggest investors in the free-trade zone here.
Taiwan's government also built the offices of
President Arnoldo Alemán and is financing the Foreign
Ministry building. As it has with other Central
American nations that support its readmission to the
United Nations, Taiwan has given hundreds of millions
of dollars in aid to Nicaragua.

Local and international union rights groups see the
labor-management conflict here as a vital test for
labor rights in the foreign-owned factories that
operate in free-trade zones in the developing world.

Their fears that desperately poor countries will
tolerate low wages, unsafe workplaces and union
busting in the name of free trade and foreign
investment sparked angry confrontations last year at
the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization
and are quite likely to resurface this month at the
International Monetary Fund meeting in Prague.

"This is the human face to globalization," said
Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the National
Labor Committee, a group that led a group of religious
leaders to meet the Chentex workers in August. "If
this union goes under, it's curtains for a lot of
other places."

But Carlos Yin, an administrator at Chentex, which is
owned by a consortium called the Nien Hsing Textile
Company, denied that the company had broken any laws
or underpaid its workers. He said that it had granted
a 25 percent wage increase this year and that anyone
who had left the union had done so voluntarily, while
many others who had left the company had done so to
earn severance pay.

Chentex workers and labor advocates scoffed at that,
saying Nicaraguans want to work, considering the
poverty and unemployment visible on every street
corner, scenes where men who sell candy compete with
children who wash windshields.

Mr. Kernaghan's group is known for calling attention
to the sweatshop conditions in a Honduran factory that
made clothing for the Kathie Lee Gifford label. He
said the Chentex workers, who are paid according to a
table that sets the cost of each step in sewing a pair
of jeans, make $65 to $124 a month.

Using documents that workers took out of the factory,
as well as shipping information, Mr. Kernaghan
determined that 50 cents' worth of labor went into
sewing a pair of jeans that sells for $22 in the
United States. The increase sought by the workers, he
said, would add 8 cents to the cost of each pair.

"Everybody assumes the labor is cheap," he said. "When
you put 8 cents to it, people start to go nuts. I
think most American people are decent. I never met
anybody who would put up with conditions like this."

Those conditions are reflected in the rickety house
where Cristina Downs lives with her husband, Christián
Cinco, and their 2-year-old, Christy. It is
windowless, a sort of toolshed of plywood, zinc panels
and plastic sheets, with a dirt floor and no room to
move around. Ms. Downs said she was discharged from
Chentex for not producing enough.

Her husband works, often seven days a week, at another
factory owned by the same company, a situation that
allows the couple to splurge on Sundays and share a
pound of chicken for dinner, she said.

"The only thing is work," Ms. Downs said. "But all we
make goes to pay for food. All you get is
mistreatment."

Former and current 

[CTRL] Elites ubber alles: Who's in charge here?

[Nurev Ind Research]

9/16/00

Gr. Britain, Israel, Brazil, and many other sovereign nations are allowing
their elites to change their political systems to emulate the one installed
in the United States over 200 years ago. The parliamentary systems of some
of these countries are TOO DEMOCRATIC for the new crop of internationalist
elites to contend with and must be changed to more resemble the most perfect
system ever devised for long term Elite control. The American Constitution.

Here's why...

Nurev


Brazilian poll rejects foreign debt payments

By Marco Sibaja

BRASILIA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - More than 5 million Brazilians voted against
foreign debt payments and a deal with the IMF in an informal referendum
that the government has dismissed, organisers said on Wednesday.

The vote was led by Brazil's National Bishops' Council to draw attention
to deep social inequalities. Council leaders and opposition politicians
termed the vote a success, although little more than 5 percent of the
electorate turned out.

``We are impressed with the capacity of the Brazilian people to
mobilise,'' said Ervino Schmidt, executive secretary at the council, which
groups Roman Catholic leaders in the world's largest Catholic country.

Opposition politicians from the left-wing Workers Party (PT), who have
rallied behind the referendum to protest against the government's
free-market policies, said the turnout was sufficient to push for a
legally binding referendum. Urns were placed informally across Brazil
between Sept. 2 and 7.

``The turnout was very good and shows it would be good for Congress to
respond to this,'' Eduardo Suplicy, a senator for the Workers Party, told
Reuters.

The party has won the necessary 171 signatures from lawmakers to introduce
a motion in Congress requesting a binding referendum on the issues. But
the bill is very unlikely to get anywhere, as the government's majority in
the Senate will block it.

Voters were asked if Brazil should end a loan programme with the
International Monetary Fund, which resulted in tough spending controls
during the last two years in return for $41.5 billion in loans that have
now mostly been paid back.

Voters were also asked if Brazil should continue paying its foreign debts
without a public audit of the payments, as prescribed by the 1988
constitution.

Of the 5.5 million people who turned out, 5.13 million voted to end the
IMF deal, while 5.3 million wanted a review of foreign debt payments.

The council sought to focus attention on meagre spending for the poor in a
country where 50 percent of the population of 165 million lives in
poverty.

``We cannot continue to put debt above life,'' Schmidt said

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[CTRL] How it's done: Legalizing Judicial Bribery.

[Nurev Ind Research]

9/16/00

Honoraria and book deals are to bribing Judges and Journalists, what
Pac money is to bribing politicians. A legal looking and plausible
denial method of legalizing bribery.

This is a case of " you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." The
favorite pastime of the ruling Elites.

Don't let our " honorable " politicians make it easier for our
" honorable " businessmen and their " honorable " lawyers to bribe
our " honorable " Judges.

Nurev

Congressional Reform Briefings  September 14, 2000

-- Please ask your U.S. Senators to oppose a "graft for judges"
provision that would allow federal judges to accept speaking fees.

Senate Republicans have quietly tucked away a "graft for judges"
provision in the Senate appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice, State
and Judiciary (CJSJ) to allow federal judges to accept speaking fees,
opening the federal judiciary to corruption by honoraria.  Such
honoraria would be graft, pure and simple.

The "graft for judges" provision threatens judicial independence.
Plenty of corporations and wealthy folks would be thrilled to put money
in the pockets of federal judges, who have tremendous power to shape the
law.

The "graft for judges" provision is awaiting a Senate floor vote.  There
is no comparable provision in the House version of the CJSJ bill.

Federal judges are already overpaid.  They neither need a pay raise nor
honoraria.  Federal district court judges currently earn a generous
salary of $141,300 per year plus pensions and benefits.  Appellate court
judges earn $149,900 per year, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
earn $173,600 and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist earns
$181,400 per year.

Please call, fax, or email your Senators to encourage them to oppose the
"graft for judges" speaking fees provision in the Senate Commerce,
Justice, State, Judiciary appropriations bill.  The congressional
switchboard phone number is (202) 225-3121. To find the fax numbers and
e-mail addresses of Members of Congress, see
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html.

Following is today's Washington Post article about the "graft for
judges" provision.

Bill Would End Ban on Honoraria For Judges

By Dan Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday , September 14, 2000 ; A01

Responding to a private plea from Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist for
"economic relief" for judges, leading Senate Republicans have inserted a
provision in a pending appropriations bill that would end an 11-year ban
on speaking fees for members of the federal judiciary.

The proposal, requested by Rehnquist in a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) earlier this year, would drastically alter a 1989 ethics reform
that prohibited honoraria for members of Congress, judges and senior
officials of the executive and legislative branches. In theory, the move
could net Supreme Court justices and other well-known judges tens of
thousands of dollars in extra income annually.

The proposed provision, buried deep in a 2001 spending bill passed by
the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 18 and awaiting final
action, would lift the restriction only for judges serving a lifetime
appointment. Under the measure, federal judges could collect money for
appearances under guidelines and limits that would be determined by the
Federal Judicial Conference, the judiciary's own policymaking body.

In his letter to McConnell in April, Rehnquist argued that the removal
of the ban is sorely needed to ease the growing disparity between the
pay of judges and of members of the private legal profession, in which
first-year salaries at blue-ribbon New York law firms are now reaching
$140,000.

"It is to the point that in today's legal market a first-year associate
in a law firm could make as much in salary as a federal judge,"
Rehnquist said. The disparity, he warned, harms the ability of the
judiciary to recruit and retain the most capable lawyers.

Independent judiciary sources noted yesterday that the 1989 ban on
honoraria was coupled with a commitment to adjust judicial salaries
annually for inflation. That has not occurred.

However, the dropping of the honoraria ban for judges was quickly
assailed by spokesmen for several nonprofit groups that closely monitor
judicial ethics. The ban was originally spurred by widespread
allegations that corporations and interest groups were using the
payments to lobby or influence federal officials.

"Totally unacceptable and outrageous," said Meredith McGehee, senior
vice president of Common Cause. "To have judges go down that path where
impartiality is supposed to be the hallmark of our judicial system is
wrong."

"Companies will be lining up to cut the judges' checks," said Mike
Casey, vice president of the Environmental Working Group, which has
teamed up with another nonprofit organization, Community Rights Counsel,
to disclose how corporations have used junkets for judges to influence

[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: So what's the problem? This a capitalist country isn't it?

[Nurev Ind Research]

Subject:
   GAO Report Shows Most Kids Not Protected from Ads in Schools
 Date:
   Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:15:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:
   Gary Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Organization:
   http://www.essential.org/alert/
   To:
   undisclosed-recipients:;




Commercial AlertSeptember 14, 2000

The US Government Accounting Office released a report today on
"Commercial Activities in Schools." It is available at
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00156.pdf  Our statement is below.

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release:  For More Information Contact:
Thursday, September 14, 2000Gary Ruskin (202) 296-2787

GAO Report Shows Most Kids Not Protected from Ads in Schools

A U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) report released today shows that
few states or local school boards make any real effort to protect
students from the drastic increase in commercial advertising in the
public schools.  In response, Commercial Alert demanded action to stem
this tide and to give parents and children more power to fight it.

The GAO report, titled "Commercial Activities in Schools," found that
"In-school marketing has become a growing industry.  Some marketing
professionals are increasingly targeting children in school, companies
are becoming known for their success in negotiating contracts between
school districts and beverage companies, and both educators and
corporate managers are attending conferences to learn how to increase
revenue from in-school marketing for their schools and companies."

The report found that only "19 states currently have statutes or
regulations that address school-related commercial activities, but in 14
of these states, statutes and regulations are not comprehensive..."

"Parents beware: public schools are permitting commercial advertisers
to have free access to children, and do little to prevent it," said Gary
Ruskin, Director of Commercial Alert. "Many public schools even show ads
to promote violent entertainment, junk food, video games, and other
products parents may not want their children to have."

This year, broad coalitions of progressive and conservative
organizations, educators and scholars urged schools to get rid of
Channel One, a marketing company that has enlisted schools to compel
about eight million children to watch two minutes of ads each school
day.  A similar coalition has challenged the ZapMe! Corp for its efforts
to turn school computers into ad-delivery systems which extract
information from unsuspecting children for market research purposes.  A
coalition of progressive and conservative organizations and health
professionals recently called attention to the way many public schools
aggressively market high-calorie junk food, even as childhood obesity is
skyrocketing.

"While marketers have tried to turn the public classrooms into
free-fire zones for corporate advertising, few states and school boards
have protected vulnerable schoolchildren from these commercial
invasions," Ruskin said. "Most states and local school boards haven't
done their job.  It is time for Congress to step in."

Commercial Alert opposes the use of the compulsory school laws to
deliver a captive audience of schoolchildren to corporate advertisers.
Commercial Alert supports state legislation and local policies to
prohibit schools from contractually obligating students to watch
commercial advertising during school time.  It also supports federal
legislation to make such prohibitions, as a condition of receiving
federal education funds.

Given the desperate lack of funds in many public schools, Congress
"ought to spend some of the budget surplus on the public schools, so
that children won't have to attend schools that are multiplexes of
commercialism," Ruskin said. "A little extra money could reduce the
temptation for the schools to sell their kids to advertisers."

Commercial Alert works to restrain the excesses of commercialism,
advertising and marketing.  Commercial Alert's web address is
http://www.essential.org/alert/.

The GAO report is number GAO/HEHS-00-156.  It was requested by Rep.
George Miller and Sen. Christopher Dodd.  It is available at
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he00156.pdf.

-30-
release ends here--
Following is Rep. George Miller's news release on the GAO report.

NEWS FROM REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE MILLLER (D-CA)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, September 14, 2000

CONTACT:Daniel Weiss, 202/225-2095

FIRST EVER CONGRESSIONAL STUDY OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FINDS ADVERTISING AND OTHER
CONTRACTS ON THE RISE, SCHOOL POLICIES UNEVEN

WASHINGTON - Advertising on school buses and in classrooms, exclusive
soda contracts, Channel 1, and other forms of commercial activities are
widespread and increasing in public schools, yet policies governing
these 

Re: [CTRL] (CTRL) OT: Scientists conclusively I.D. Christ'sfingerprint(fwd)

[Nurev Ind Research]

Ole Gerstrøm wrote:

 - You should read David Ickes documentation in "The Truth Shall Set You Free," 
stating,  that Jesus is not a historical person.

 Love, Ole Gerstrom, Copenhagen, Denmark

That's because he's an idiot, a liar, and a fool who will make up shit
to sell books.

There is historical evidence of his brother James.

J2


 - Original Message -----
 From: Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 3:55 AM
 Subject: Re: [CTRL] (CTRL) OT: Scientists conclusively I.D. Christ'sfingerprint(fwd)

  "Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote:
  
   In a message dated 09/14/2000 12:13:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  

 LMFAO!!!
 Really??? So they have Jesus's print on file to check against?? I suppose
 it's right next to Huck Finn's and Uriah Heep's.. 
  
   I have a hard time with the "ornate cups" that are supposed to be the Holy
   Grail.  Christ and disciples had vowed poverty.  That they would have gone to
   a lower class type of restaurant to eat and drink together makes good sense.
 
  IF and it is a big IF, the last supper was a Passover meal, then there is no
  reason that the cup should not be ornate. Jews to this day use ornate cups
  for religious purposes.
 
  Jesus ( not Christ, we are discussing history not fantasy ) and his deciples
  might have taken a vow of poverty, but he had rich backers and adherents in
  his movement. Some of the deciples came from rich families, and he had the
  support of people like Joseph of Arimethea who was wealthy enough to own a
  family tomb.
 
  As for the lower class restaurant, it's possible I guess, but I doubt it.
  It is far more likely that he and some desciples had Seder with a family in
  a private home. This " lower class " stuff is mainly being pushed by Crossan
  who could be quite wrong in his assumptions about Jesus' peasant status. It
  is highly unlikely that Jesus was illiterate as Crossan claims. It is more
  likely that he grew up in a middle class (sic) family with a construction
  business.
 
   They probably would have handed a container from hand to hand through the
   meal.  It would have probably been of metal, but it might just as well have
   been wood.  It would not have been ornate.
 
  It probably was ornate silver.
 
   It boggles the mind to try to
   picture Christ carrying about an ornate, probably gold, gm encrusted
   "chalice" to spice up the simple meals that He and His disciples would have
   shared.
 
  A Passover Seder is not a simple meal. It is an elaborate affair with the
  family's best dishes. As for golden and jewel encrusted, that would depend at
  whose place he was copping a meal. More likely it is Christian legend depicting
  the elegance of royalty as befits the King of Kings.
 
   I lived in the Middle East, and even the "Upper Room" is still a
   common phenomenum in restaurants there.  It is a place for groups or large
   families to use.  In the grandness that has become the hallmark of most of
   our Christian faiths, the simplicity of the life Christ chose to live seems
   to have been lost.  Prudy
 
  Yeah especially in churches and among the clerical hierarchy.
 
  Joshua2

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[CTRL] COPitalism

[Nurev Ind Research]

http://www.specmind.com/copitalism.htm



Copitalism:

Police State Promoters and Profiteers

by Richard Glen Boire



copyright (c) 1998 Richard Glen Boire

From The Entheogen Law Reporter Issue No. 16



  From drug detection, undercover infiltration and electronic tracking,  to
incarcerating those captured and convicted, private companies are cashing in on the
War on Some Drugs and profiting from the police state. This new breed of
"copitalist" is a powerful force with a strong self-interest in keeping certain
drugs illegal and their users vilified.



Many of the groups that profit from the War on Some Drugs are well-known. Federal
and state law enforcement agents, for example, depend on the continued War, as do
attorneys and others in the so-called "criminal justice system." Correctional
officers (aka prison guards) are now a powerful political lobby, and everyone knows
that tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical companies have a profit motive in keeping
other drugs illegal. In this article, I will discuss a number of lesser-known
companies and industries that are cashing in on the War on Some Drugs, point out
some of the attendant dangers of privatizing the police state, and suggest one
possible strategy that might deliver a blow to the very foundation of the War.



TESTING  TRACKING FOR DOLLARS



Entheogen users are familiar with the drug-testing industry, an industry intent on
using your body --  all of your body -- against you. While compelling a person to
turn over his or her own tissue and bodily fluids for testing may seem like a
flagrant violation of the Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled
self-incrimination, the United States Supreme Court has held otherwise, ruling that
the Fifth Amendment does not protect against self-incrimination by way of physical
evidence, even if forcibly taken. (Schmerber v. California (1966) 384 U.S. 757,
761.) A contrary ruling would have nipped the entire drug-testing industry in the
bud.



Products designed to capture and test your urine, blood, breath, and hair, are
designed by private companies and marketed to law enforcement agencies and
employers intent on drug testing their workforce. This is a multi-million dollar
industry, completely dependant on the continued illegality of certain drugs. And,
while it's not well-known, pharmaceutical companies are at the apex of the
industry. Syva Company, for example, designed the very first immunoassay screen for
marijuana. In 1990 (the only year for which I have been able to obtain a figure),
drug-testing equipment and chemical reagents grossed pharmaceutical companies over
$300 million. (See, C. Skozycki, "Drug-testing Industry Shows its Wares," The
Washington Post, Oct. 17, 1990.)



The fact that drug-testing is such big business speaks volumes about the War, and
its drug-using "enemies." Most drug testing today is done for the very purpose of
identifying who uses illegal drugs. While that is obvious, the point is seldom made
that, for the most part, there is no other way to distinguish the typical user of
illegal drugs from his or her counterpart who uses legal drugs. While a small
percentage of companies drug test only after spotting signs that a particular
employee may be using drugs, the vast majority of employers utilize random,
suspicionless testing. In other words, were it not for the test results, employers
can't tell. This is because users of illegal drugs behave no differently  than
others. If an employee's job performance was poor, an employer could fire that
person regardless of whether he or she uses illegal drugs.



The same goes for most criminal prosecutions of illegal drug users. Drug
prosecutions are rarely based on any anti-social or dangerous action by the person,
but rather simply on his or her proclivity to control their consciousness in
unsanctioned ways, a point made by Richard Miller in his book Drug Warriors and
Their Prey:



The law identifies drug users through their blood. Also through their excreta . . .
All that matters is a person's blood and excreta. All that matters is the makeup of
a person's physical body. Drug law does not care if an illicit user is a beloved
schoolteacher who improves a community or a vicious psychopath who tortures victims
to death. . . . The law does not care if tests used to detect illicit drug users
fail to demonstrate that users are impaired. The law does not care if users behave
in ordinary ways. A statute creating a status crime targets ordinary people. That
is its purpose. If illicit drug users acted in ways that distinguished them from
nonusers, a status crime statute would be unnecessary. (R. Miller Drug Warriors and
Their Prey, p. 9, 1996.)



Pharmaceutical companies and their investors are not the only ones profiting from
the drug-testing boon. The prospect of large profits has given birth to smaller
companies whose business is to create new and "better" tests capable of detecting
an ever-widening range of substances in your most 

Re: [CTRL] (CTRL) OT: Scientists conclusively I.D. Christ'sfingerprint(fwd)

[Nurev Ind Research]

"Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote:

 In a message dated 09/14/2000 12:13:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  
   LMFAO!!!
   Really??? So they have Jesus's print on file to check against?? I suppose
   it's right next to Huck Finn's and Uriah Heep's.. 

 I have a hard time with the "ornate cups" that are supposed to be the Holy
 Grail.  Christ and disciples had vowed poverty.  That they would have gone to
 a lower class type of restaurant to eat and drink together makes good sense.

IF and it is a big IF, the last supper was a Passover meal, then there is no
reason that the cup should not be ornate. Jews to this day use ornate cups
for religious purposes.

Jesus ( not Christ, we are discussing history not fantasy ) and his deciples
might have taken a vow of poverty, but he had rich backers and adherents in
his movement. Some of the deciples came from rich families, and he had the
support of people like Joseph of Arimethea who was wealthy enough to own a
family tomb.

As for the lower class restaurant, it's possible I guess, but I doubt it.
It is far more likely that he and some desciples had Seder with a family in
a private home. This " lower class " stuff is mainly being pushed by Crossan
who could be quite wrong in his assumptions about Jesus' peasant status. It
is highly unlikely that Jesus was illiterate as Crossan claims. It is more
likely that he grew up in a middle class (sic) family with a construction
business.

 They probably would have handed a container from hand to hand through the
 meal.  It would have probably been of metal, but it might just as well have
 been wood.  It would not have been ornate.

It probably was ornate silver.

 It boggles the mind to try to
 picture Christ carrying about an ornate, probably gold, gm encrusted
 "chalice" to spice up the simple meals that He and His disciples would have
 shared.

A Passover Seder is not a simple meal. It is an elaborate affair with the
family's best dishes. As for golden and jewel encrusted, that would depend at
whose place he was copping a meal. More likely it is Christian legend depicting
the elegance of royalty as befits the King of Kings.

 I lived in the Middle East, and even the "Upper Room" is still a
 common phenomenum in restaurants there.  It is a place for groups or large
 families to use.  In the grandness that has become the hallmark of most of
 our Christian faiths, the simplicity of the life Christ chose to live seems
 to have been lost.  Prudy

Yeah especially in churches and among the clerical hierarchy.

Joshua2

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[CTRL] Help stop space based weapons.

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COAST TO COAST AND AROUND THE WORLD

OCTOBER 7 ACTIONS TO STOP MILITARIZATION OF SPACE STILL GROWING



The list of demonstration sites for the "International Day of Protest to
Stop the Militarization of Space" is getting larger each day as we move
closer to October 7.
And there are still more events being organized at this moment!

Actions are planned at key U.S. Space Command bases, U.S. spy satellite
installations, aerospace industry corporations, federal buildings, U.S.
Embassies  Consulates, and in parks and downtown centers around the world.
In one city, an all day space video showing will be held on cable TV.

When we begin to act together, people from different organizations -- people
in different nations, we help create a shift in public thinking and global
consciousness.

There is much to be done to stop the nuclearization and weaponization of
space.  We have to keep learning, sharing information, teaching others,
protesting and demanding that the global political system keep space for
peace.  There can be no half measures, no compromises on the issue of moving
the arms race into the heavens.  We must oppose all research, development,
testing, and deployment of space-based weapons.  We must support an
international ban on weapons in space.  The resources of the world cannot be
squandered on Star Wars.

The current October 7 action list is below:

* Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
* Asheville, NC (Downtown at Vance monument)
* Baku, Azerbaijan
* Bathe, Maine  (Aegis destroyer construction)
* Beale AFB, CA (Key radar facility)
* Brookfield, CT
* Bucharest, Romania (American Embassy)
* Cambridge, England
* Cape Canaveral AFS, FL (Key launch facility)
* Chicago, IL (Kluzynski Federal Building)
* Colorado Springs, CO. (Space Command HQ)
* Edwards AFB, CA. (Key flight testing facility)
* Flic en Flac, Mauritius
* Fort Bragg, CA
* France
* Fylingdales, England (Key radar facility)
* Great Neck, NY (Grace Avenue Park)
* Hartford, CT  (United Technologies HQ)
* Holland, MI
* Kalamazoo, MI
* Kathmandu, Nepal (U.S. Embassy)
* Kirtland AFB, NM  (Key laser development center)
* Leicester, England
* London, England (U.S. Embassy)
* Los Angeles AFB, CA  (Space-based laser directorate)
* Madison, WI
* Menwith Hill, England  (Key radar facility)
* Nevada Test Site  (Nuclear test site)
* New York, N.Y.
* Northampton, MA
* Pathanamthitta, India
* Penn State University
* Schwaebisch Gmuend (Germany)
* Seoul, Korea (TMD deployment sites)
* Stockton, CA
* St. Paul, MN (Lockheed Martin)
* Sydney, Australia (TMD testing expected in western Australia)
* Toronto, Canada (Oct 14 at U.S. Consulate)
* Tucson, AZ (Raytheon)
* Valley Forge, PA. (Lockheed Martin)
* Vandenberg AFB, CA  (Key launch facility)
* Vancouver, Canada
* White House, Washington DC


October 7 Actions Int'l Sponsors:

* Abolition 2000
* Arab Coordination Center of NGO's (Egypt)
* Azerbaijan Women  Development Center
* Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
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[CTRL] Bust the Duopoly

[Nurev Ind Research]

Wednesday September 13 2:35 PM ET
Voters Want Third Party Candidates in Debates

UTICA, N.Y. (Reuters/Zogby) - Likely voters agree that third party
candidates should participate in the debates, but should be limited to
those with higher profiles, a recent Zogby poll shows.

The nationwide survey of 1,005 likely voters reveals that a great deal of
support is shown for Green Party's Ralph Nader
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Ralph%20Naderc=n=10yn=cnews
  -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/Green_Party
/2000_Presidential_Candidates/Nader__Ralph/web sites) (60.9% to 29.0%) and
Reform candidate Pat Buchanan
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Pat%20Buchananc=n=10yn=cnew
s -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/Reform_Par
ty/2000_Presidential_Election/Candidates/Buchanan__Pat/web sites) (58.7%
to 34.2%) to be allowed to participate in the presidential debates. Less
support can be seen for Libertarian Harry Browne (44.2% to 39.9%).

Voters were not so supportive of the lesser-known party representatives:
Natural Law's John Hagelin
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=John%20Hagelinc=n=10yn=cnew
s -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/Natural_La
w_Party/2000_Presidential_Election/Candidates/web sites) (38.3%
participate to 41.7% not participate), Constitution party's Howard Phillips
(38.5% participate to 42% not participate), and Socialist David McReynolds
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=David%0AMcReynoldsc=n=10yn=c
 news -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Elections/2000_Elec
tions/Presidential_Election/Candidates/Undeclared_and_Draft_Candidates/web
sites) (35.3% participate and 45.4% not participate).

Support for particular candidates' participation differs among the three
major party affiliations.

Democrats support Nader (60.6% to 27.5), Buchanan (54.8% to 37.2%), Browne
(42.7% to 39.3%) and Hagelin (39.9% to 37.1%), while not supporting
Phillips (39.1% to 37.7%) or McReynolds 41.5% to 35.6%).

Republicans support Nader (55.6% to 34.5%) and Buchanan (56.7% to 37.1%),
while not supporting Browne (43.5% to 40.8%), Hagelin (48.4% to 32.6%),
Phillips (48.6% to 33.6%) and McReynolds (52.2% to 30%).

Independents show a margin of support for all candidates' participation in
the debates, but they are split on the participation of Socialist David
McReynolds with 42.5% not supporting his participation and 41.6% supporting
him.

What we asked''

``I'm going to read you a list of presidential candidates. Please tell me
if you believe each candidate should or should not be allowed to
participate in the upcoming Presidential debates with Democrat Al Gore
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Al%20Gorec=n=10yn=cnews -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/Democratic
_Party/2000_Presidential_Election/Candidates/Gore__Al/web sites) and
Republican George W. Bush
(http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=George%20W.%20Bushc=n=10yn=c
 news -
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/Republican_
Party/2000_Presidential_Election/Candidates/Bush__George_W_/web sites).

Green Party's Ralph Nader

Reform Party's Pat Buchanan

Natural Law's John Hagelin

Libertarian Harry Browne

Constitution's Howard Phillips

Socialist David McReynolds''

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Money, Media, Elections]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Money, Media, Elections
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:29:31 -0500 (CDT)
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THE MONEY, MEDIA, AND LIBERAL-LEFT ROLE IN PLUTOCRATIC
ELECTIONS
By Edward S. Herman

In many ways the system is working beautifully right now.
First of all, money dominates the initial selection and
weeding out of presidential candidates, so that only those
who will serve the corporate interest on the
basics--advancing "free trade," keeping the lid on or
shrinking the welfare state, and preserving and
strengthening the military establishment and pursuing the
ongoing imperial strategies--can qualify as credible and
electable. While there is a fair amount of grumbling about
soft and hard money and the essentiality of big bucks for
election status, the mainstream media normalize this and
accept the process as entirely legitimate. And the public,
or at least half of the public, also goes along and
participates with their vote.

As part of the normalization process the media argue
vociferously that the two candidates on the take offer
adequate options, have sufficient and important differences,
so that nobody else even needs to be heard by the public.
The New York Times made the first point in its editorial of
August 20 ("Two Visions of Government"), where it contested
Ralph Nader's claim that there are no meaningful differences
between Gore and Bush, arguing that there are "measurable
differences" on how to deploy federal resources that "may
not be enough to satisfy Mr. Nader's aggressively populist
inclinations, but if the election were held now, they would
give the voters a real choice." So if the editors are
satisfied with the choices offered by Gore and Bush, the
general public should be as well; no "aggressive populism"
need enter the lists. (I wonder if there is such a thing as
an "aggressive centrism," or an "aggressively pro-corporate
agenda"?)

The Times has supported this position by completely
marginalizing Nader (and Buchanan as well), refusing to
allow him to make his case while inundating its readers with
trivia on the money-election candidates. Effectively, they
declared Nader's candidacy illegitimate and by their fiat
ruled him out of contention. Then in its editorial of August
22 ("Stop Arguing and Start Debating"), after having refused
to allow Nader to make his substantive case and develop any
constituency, the paper justified Nader's and Buchanan's
exclusion from the debates on the ground that they had no
"demonstrated national support"! This is a remarkable
combination of media authoritarianism and chutzpah.

Of course, the rest of the mainstream media did the same as
the Times, producing a self-fulfilling prophecy of lack of
mass support by marginalization and some degree of trashing.
In the abysmal Philadelphia Inquirer, their chief election
commentator Larry Eichel finally devoted a column to Nader
entitled: "The bench is the key," with subtitle "Democrats
call Ralph Nader 'dishonest' for discounting the Supreme
Court as an election issue." Eichel himself had never
discussed Supreme Court appointments as a key issue or
indicated any dissatisfaction with a Bush win in this
regard, but for the sake of disposing of Nader he
effectively turns his column over to Gore protagonists to
make what they believe is their strongest case against
Nader, with no Nader right to reply. Nader is not only
declared to be wrong, he is "dishonest" for disagreeing with
a Gore support position. (The last time Eichel was
strenuously upset over election candidates was back in
1987-1988, when the populist threat of Jesse Jackson caused
him to depart from his usual focus on horse-racing and take
some nasty swipes at that earlier deviant.)

But the beauty of the system is most manifest in the
reaction of liberals and leftists to the monied versus
principled and populist candidates. It is an all-or-nothing
election, and there is always the argument for the
Democratic lesser evil, so in each election we see vast
liberal-left abandonment of the principled and populist in
favor of the lesser evil. As with the media's process we
have another contribution to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Remember the allegation that business corporations have too
short a time horizon? Could this not be said of the liberals
and leftists who jump on the lesser evil bandwagon? Maybe
this is a national trait.

A number of liberals and leftists have argued vigorously
that a vote for Nader is virtually immoral, given the
differences between Gore and Bush and the costs of a wasted
vote. But the counter-immorality position seems to me more
potent: a classic moral rule laid down by Immanuel Kant was
his 

Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language

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nessie wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
 If the "mother" wants an unborn child to live, then it's a "person",

 Not until it's born.

That's a cultural determination. Not a legal, or scientific one. One can
argue that after 24 weeks when the development of the lungs is finished,
that fetus is capable of survival with technological help. Society could
decide that it is a person at this time.

Prior to 24 weeks, the little peeper is nothing more than a mass of
functioning cells under continuous development. There is no way to make
the claim that this is a person, since it does not have lungs and organs.

Only those who are superstitionally challenged claim that this is a "person"
because to them a cell mass + soul ( a mythological concoction ) = a person.

Personally though I agree that a fetus which survives birth is a person.

The Jews don't consider a newborn a " person " until it has survived for
8 days out of the womb. On the 8th day, it gets to join the tribe by
circumcision. If it's a boy.

J2

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[CTRL] Headlines

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All,

This is lifted from LangaList.  Oughta lighten things up a little.

9) Just For Grins

As a writer, I'm all too aware of how easy it is for errors to creep
into text; and how sentences that seem to make perfect sense may
actually be utter *non*sense.

But that's not enough for me to stop taking perverse pleasure in
these really, really bad headlines sent in by reader Howard H.
Hasting, Jr.:

 March Planned For Next August
 Blind Bishop Appointed To See
 Lingerie Shipment Hijacked--Thief Gives Police The Slip
 L.A. Voters Approve Urban Renewal By Landslide
 Patient At Death's Door--Doctors Pull Him Through
 Latin Course To Be Canceled--No Interest Among Students, Et Al.
 Diaper Market Bottoms Out
 Croupiers On Strike--Management "No Big Deal"
 Stadium Air Conditioning Fails--Fans Protest
 Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped
 Henshaw Offers Rare Opportunity to Goose Hunters
 Women's Movement Called More Broad-Based
 Antique Stripper to Display Wares at Store
 Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
 Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
 Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advice
 Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
 Fund Set Up for Beating Victim's Kin
 Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
 Cancer Society Honors Marlboro Man
 Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe Out Literacy
 Autos Killing 110 a Day--Let's Resolve to Do Better
 20-Year Friendship Ends at Altar
 War Dims Hope For Peace
 If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last A While
 Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
 Half of U.S. High Schools Require Some Study for Graduation
 Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years

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[CTRL] Elites ubber alles: Look for the Union Label.

[Nurev Ind Research]

9/15/00

In the piece below, CFR = Council on Foreign Relations.
Arguably the most powerful private group in
the United States. TC stands for Trilateral Commission.
An offshoot of the CFR, and a forerunner of the
WTO. The TC is no longer the powerhouse it used to be in
the 70s and 80s.  The CFR is still supreme.

These are the elite planning groups which supply the government with
like minded, pro business, Internationalist personnel to lead and
manage the US government as well as corporations, academia, labor,
the military, and the media.

 Nurev
-

LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL --   In South Korea, France, Israel, Russia,
Germany, and everywhere that Corporate Politicians are attempting to
cut into, and weaken the rights of Labor, Unions and their supportive
populations are in the streets and ready to fight against the erosion
of their standard of living. Conspicuous by their non-action are the
beaten working people of the United States. Here's why.

FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE ,UNION BOSSES IN THE CFR -- ( past and recent )
I.W.Abel - Pres. United Steel Workers of America  also TC
Sol Chick Chaiken - Pres. I.L.G.U.also TC
Thomas R. Donahue - Sec./ Treasurer AFL-CIO   also TC
Murray H. Finley - Pres. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
Victor Gotbaum - A.F.S.C.M.E.
Lane Kirkland - Longtime President AFL-CIOalso TC
Howard D. Samuel - Pres. Industrial Union Dept. AFL-CIO
Marten J. Ward - Plumbers and Pipe Fitting Industry USA  Canada
Glen E. Watts - Pres. Communication Workers of Americaalso TC
Leonard Woodcock (wishful thinking)-Pres. United Auto Workers also TC
Jerry Wurf - Pres. A.F.S.C.M.E.
Jay Mazur, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union   also TC
Jack Sheinkman, Amalgamated Clothing  Textile Workers Union
Albert Shanker, Pres., American Federation Of Teachers   also TC

  Look at what has happened to most of these unions since the ruling
business elites got their Neo-Liberal policies established. There is
NO ONE in American politics to represent working people.
--J2--
--
===

After sending these union officer income figures out, I was asked
how they compared to earnings of workers these leaders represent.
I am sending the data again with representative earnings of workers
in the related occupations/industries.

Top AFL-CIO Salaries  Earnings of Workers They Typically Represent


AFL-CIO Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998

Salary Benefits '98 Annual Earnings
of Workers Represented *

Union Official Salary   BenefitsIndust Avg. Annual
Earnings

AFSCME, Gerald McEntee:$352,404 $ 16,800$ 37,076 (all public,
including fedl.)

LIUNA, Arthur A. Coia:  335,674   86,120  27,196 (misc.
construction trades)

ALPA, Randolph Babbitt: 314,995   34,000  92,768 (pilots 
navigators)

HERE, John Wilhelm: 280,793   30,700  20,800 (hotel/motel)
14,872 (eating places)

UFCW, Douglas H. Dority:264,152   58,167  17,576 (grocery
stores) 30,420 (wholesale food)

AFT, Sandra Feldman:246,563   94,932  35,805 (kindergarten,
elementary, secondary teachers)

IUOE, Frank Hanley: 231,237   15,600  33,200 (heavy
equipment operators)

SEIU, Andrew Stern: 215,2187,800  16,016 (janitors)
20,852 (all social services) 21,996 (residential care) 33,072 (all hospital
workers) 36,608 (registered nurses)

AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney:   199,7507,250  35,932 (all union
members) 30,004 (all workers)

IBEW, J.J. Barry:   198,533   ??  36,296 (electricians)

UNITE, Jay Mazur:   196,462   54,796  21,840 (apparel)
26,364 (misc. textile mills) 25,428 (finished textiles)

NEA, Robert F. Chase:   196,427   94,049  35,805 (kindergarten,
elementary, secondary teachers)

BSOIW, Jake West:   196,390  184,750  32,916 (structural
metal workers)

UBC, Douglas J. McCarron:   194,250   28,700  28,496 (carpenters)

CWA, Morton Bahr:   152,7629,556  41,392 (telecom
workers)

IAM, R.T. Buffenbarger: 142,801   57,871  38,749 (air transport)
27,976 (auto mechanics) 47,802 (aircraft mechanics)

UWSA, George F. Becker: 131,499   22,432  36,083 (iron  steel
blast furnace  forges)

AFGE, Bobby L. Harnage: 122,746   15,109  37,076 (all public
workers)

UAW, Stephen P. Yokich: 112,6086,900  38,636 (motor vehicles
 equipt.)

UMW, Ronald E. Cecil:96,2243,960 40,196 (coal
mining)
_

* worker incomes were computed by multiplying average weekly earnings

[CTRL] [Fwd: [corp-focus] Ford/Firestone: Homicide?]

[Nurev Ind Research]

 Original Message 
Subject: [corp-focus] Ford/Firestone: Homicide?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:05:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ?
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Ford/Firestone: Homicide?
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on
his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The
tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose
control. He was thrown from the vehicle and killed.

"When I was told that my son died, I felt like someone had reached in and
ripped my heart out," Vicki Hendricks, Matthew's mom, said last week.

Matthew Hendricks is one of more than 150 deaths around the world linked
to Firestone tread separations. The families and friends of those killed
in these accidents want to know -- what did Ford and Firestone know about
these tires and when did they know it?

Journalists, members of Congress, and trial lawyers are seeking to provide
answers. Reporters have informed us that Ford and Firestone knew that they
had a problem, but failed to notify federal regulators. Many months ago,
Ford and Firestone were ordering the recall of problem tires in Saudi
Arabia, Venezuela and Asia -- but not in the United States.

Ford and Firestone knew of at least 35 deaths and 130 injuries before the
federal government launched its probe earlier this year. They knew about
these cases, because they were being sued by the families of the victims.
(The parents of Matthew Hendricks settled their case against Firestone
earlier this year.) And as a condition of these settlements, Ford and
Firestone were demanding that the lawyers who bring these cases not speak
to anyone about what they found out during discovery.

With Congressional hearings ablazing in an election year, klieg light
fever has overcome our elected officials, and the keepers of the corporate
flame, like Billy Tauzin (R-Louisiana), Thomas Bliley (R-Virginia) and
John Dingell (D-Michigan), have been transformed overnight into clones of
Ralph Nader.

There is much talk in Washington about expanding the authority of federal
enforcement officials, of increasing penalties, of requiring auto
companies to report overseas recalls to federal authorities here in the
United States.

But these reforms are being pushed by the liberal corporate elite to put
out a very hot fire that threatens not the reputations of not just Ford
and Firestone, but that also may plant the seed of doubt in the American
mind (in an election year, nonetheless) about the ethical foundation of
corporate America. (Or as Business Week asked in its cover story this
week, "Too Much Corporate Power?")

The families of the victims not only want the truth, and reform, but they
also are demanding justice. And justice begins and ends with the criminal
law.

Last week, Attorney General Janet Reno said she was looking into whether
any criminal case can be brought. But when the auto safety law was first
passed in 1966, the auto companies prevented criminal penalties from
becoming law. And they have blocked criminal penalties ever since. So why
is Janet Reno blowing smoke?

Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) took the floor of the Senate last
week and introduced legislation that would establish criminal sanctions
for executives who knowingly market a defective product that kills or
maims. Auto safety activists want criminal penalties for any knowing or
willful violation of the federal auto safety law. But that doesn't help
bring justice here and now to the families and victims of Ford and
Firestone's act of violence.

Michael Cosentino knows what this game is about. Cosentino is the
Republican prosecuting attorney for Elkhart, County Indiana. Twenty-two
years ago, Cosentino brought a homicide charge against Ford Motor Co. for
the deaths of three teenaged girls. The girls were riding in their Ford
Pinto when it was rear-ended. The doors on the Pinto slammed shut, the gas
tank split open, gas leaked out, caught fire and the girls were
incinerated.

Cosentino had been reading about a 1973 memo that Ford executives had
written about the Pinto gas tank problem. In the memo, Ford put a price on
a human life ($200,000) and a burn injury ($67,000) and calculated that
the cost of saving lives and prohibiting burn injuries by recalling the
Pinto's and fixing the fuel tank ($11 per auto) would be prohibitive.

Faced with a murder charge, Ford brought in its best legal guns, and hired
the judge's best friend as its local counsel. The judge in turn ruled that
much of Cosentino's evidence (including the smoking gun cost/benefit memo)
could not get to the jury, and the jury found Ford not guilty.

We called up Cosentino last week and asked him if he would consider
criminally prosecuting either Ford or Firestone today. He said the
situation has yet to present itself.

E. Michael McCann, the district attorney in Milwaukee County knows that
he will 

[CTRL] [Fwd: Melbourne experience suggests years of delay for new trade round]

[Nurev Ind Research]

 Original Message 
Subject: Melbourne experience suggests years of delay for new trade round
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:01:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ?
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

GUARDIAN (London)Tuesday September 12, 2000
by Charlotte Denny and Patrick Barkham in Sydney

Swift descent into violence at the Crown casino

This  was  supposed  to  be  three days of high-powered talks bringing
together  in  Melbourne  some  of  biggest  names of the Asian-Pacific
region. Instead, the World Economic Forum descended into Seattle-style
violence as anti-capitalist demonstrators clashed with police.

The  success of demonstrations last November in scuppering vital trade
talks  has given new life to the protesters - many of whom had rallied to
the  anti-capitalist  cause  via websites which sprung up from the
demonstrations against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle.

At  least  eight  people  were taken to hospital, including two police
officers,  as protesters tried to prevent delegates entering the Crown
casino.  Police reported that there were 1,500 demonstrators, although the
organisers claimed nearer 10,000.

Western  Australia's  right-wing  prime  minister,  Richard Court, was
stranded  in  his  vehicle for 20 minutes as protesters daubed it with
paint and let down the tyres, while Aboriginal activists "arrested" Mr
Court  for supporting mandatory sentencing, which leads to the jailing of
people in Australia for petty crime.

Mr  Court  was  forced  to  turn  back  after 50 baton-charging police
officers failed to dislodge the protesters' barricades. Chosen for its
secluded  riverside  site,  the  casino  and other probable targets of
anti-globalisation  feeling  nearby had been heavily fortified against the
protesters.

What  is  worse  for  the  organisers  of  the  conference is that the
demonstrations slowed the WEF's registration programme and reduced the
number  attending  speeches  and  dinners  on  the  first  day  of the
conference,  as  up  to  200  delegates  stayed  in their hotel rooms.
Observers  inside  the  building reported some of the events were only 50%
full.

BRAVE FACE

After  Melbourne, the next stops on the travel itinerary of the global
summit  protesters  are  the  annual  meetings  of  the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund in Prague later this month. In public they are
putting  a  brave  face on things, but in private the world's top trade
negotiators  admit  that  the  chances  of a new round of trade
negotiations starting by the end of the year have shrunk to zero.

Diplomats  from  the  139  members of the World Trade Organisation had
hoped  that  the  collapse  of  attempts  to  launch  a new round last
December  would prove a temporary setback. Now they are blaming the US
presidential  elections  for  the  delay,  noting that any substantial
negotiations  are  impossible  until  the political make-up of the new
administration is known.

Next  year, the world's most populous country, China, joins the Geneva
based   body,   which  will  tip  the  balance  of  power  inside  the
organisation away from the "Quad" - Japan, Canada, the US and the EU - who
have  traditionally  managed the global trading system and in the past
provided political impetus for new talks.

As a price of joining, China is opening large parts of its industry to
competition  from foreign firms, which is expected to cause disruption
throughout  its  economy.  Beijing  will  not  be  enthusiastic  about
starting  another  set  of  talks to open further markets until it has
digested the fallout.

Privately, Quad policymakers admit that there is no political momentum for
a  new  round, and that the trade agenda is bogged down in Geneva
bureaucracy.  Senior  trade  policymakers  are now whispering that the
organisation's rambunctious New Zealand head, Mike Moore may be a lame
duck who will never see a trade round launched under his watch.

Indeed,  time  is running out for Moore who has only two more years at the
helm of the WTO. The political fudge which shoehorned him into the job
means he has a shorter than usual term, split with his rival, the Thai
finance  minister,  Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi. Moore was the US's first
choice   and  Supachai  made  himself  so  unpopular  with  US negotiators
during the selection process, that some insiders doubt he will  be  able
to  muster sufficient support from the world's biggest trading  nation to
launch a round during his term of office which ends in 2005.

FRACTIOUS RELATIONS

Assuming  Supachai's  successor  manages to get a trade round launched
with  a  year  of taking office, past experience suggests it will take
five  or  six  years  to conclude. That suggests the earliest that the
next  round of talks will be signed off will be around 2012-13 - a gap of
almost 20 years since the end of the Uruguay round and the longest gap
between  trade rounds since the founding of the WTO's predecessor 

[CTRL] Awash in Oil-Whine about a 5% rise in taxes, but accept a businessman's 300% raise of the cost of oil.

[Nurev Ind Research]

Americans deserve to get screwed. They are so brainwashed into deifying
" the Market," that it's perfectly OK for businessmen to rip them off to
the tune of tripling the price of oil. But just let a politician raise
their taxes by 5% to pay for drugs for the elderly, or for education, and
they are ready to revolt.

People this dumb don't deserve to run their own affairs. They NEED an elite
to run their lives.

Look at how the Europeans are handling getting screwed by big oil. Are
THEY bending over? Are THEY letting their governments run interference
for big business? Are THEY using petroleum based Vaseline? Hell no!

 I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free...

Da da da da, something, something...

Joshua2

==
There's plenty of cheap oil, says the
  U.S. Geological Survey

 The debate over this summer's skyrocketing gasoline prices-an issue
 that has drawn the ire of both U.S. presidential candidates, Congress
 and the Federal Trade Commission-obscures what may be a larger truth:
 there's gobs of oil out there.

 In June, after a five-year study, the U.S. Geological Survey raised its
 previous estimate of the world's crude oil reserves by 20 percent, to a
 total of 649 billion barrels. The USGS team believes the largest reserves
 of undiscovered oil lie in existing fields in the Middle East, the northeast
 Greenland Shelf, the western Siberian and Caspian areas, and the Niger
 and Congo delta areas of Africa. Significant new reserves were found in
 northeast Greenland and offshore Suriname, both of which have no
 history of production. "What we did is look into the future and predict
 how much will be discovered in the next 30 years based on the geology
 of how it gets trapped," explains Suzanne D. Weedman, program
 coordinator of the USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000. "We also
 believe that the [oil] reserve numbers are going to increase."

 Besides relying on geological surveys, the USGS also based its numbers
 on changes in drilling technology that are making it easier to find new
 supplies and to squeeze more oil out of existing fields. Petroleum
 companies are flushing out oil with pressurized water and carbon dioxide
 and using improved robot technology to construct offshore drilling rigs
 in up to 3,500 feet of water. They are also conducting three-dimensional
 seismic imaging of underground and underwater fields.

 The idea of an expanding "reserve growth" of undiscovered oil isn't
 shared by everyone. Colin J. Campbell, an oil industry analyst based in
 Ireland, believes the USGS estimates are overly optimistic. "It's only the
 low end of this scale that has any practical meaning; the other end of the
 scale is a very bad estimate," argues Campbell, who warned of an
 impending crunch, based on projections of current production and
 reserves, in an article in Scientific American ["The End of Cheap Oil,"
 March 1998]. Weedman says the USGS report is documented with
 32,000 pages of data. "We've looked at all the information," she states,
 "and tried to predict on the basis of science and not on past [oil]
 production."


 --Eric Niiler



 ERIC NIILER, a journalist based in San Diego, described the vanishing
 biodiversity on Guadalupe Island in the August issue.

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[CTRL] Thomas Ferguson's Golden Rule

[Nurev Ind Research]

Thomas Ferguson's
Golden Rule.  That is, it is not "votes" which matter.  It is
investors.  Investors have shifted both parties to the right (see, for
supporting evidence, Ferguson and Rogers *Right Turn* or Ferguson's
*Golden Rule*).

*Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the
Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems* (University of Chicago Press,
1995), pp. 381-3:

 The Myth of the Median Voter

Let us begin, however, with the investment theory's bedrock claim:
what might be termed the general failure of control by the so-called
median voter (the voter whose strategic position exactly in the middle
of a distribution of voters guarantees a candidate one more vote than
he or she needs to defeat all comers).

The argument can be developed with any degree of detail and formal
vigor. But it is perhaps most easily and convincingly outlined in
terms of a single concrete example designed to demonstrate with the
clarity of a laboratory experiment just how money-driven political
systems can thwart the will of even overwhelming majorities of voters.

Imagine a world in which labor-intensive textile producers command
virtually all pecuniary resources beyond those necessary for ordinary
wage earners to live (a world, that is, in which the so-called
"classical savings function" popularized by Kalecki, Kaldor, and
Robinson applies). Such a situation is perhaps most conveniently
pictured along the lines of some company town of the early industrial
Revolution, but as will shortly be evident, conditions long ago and
far away are not the essence of the problem. A fortiori, neither is
the classical savings function.

Suppose, further, that an election is being staged, in which everyone
votes for one of two political parties. There is only one issue, and
everyone agrees on what it is: passage of legislation that is likely
to lead to 100 percent unionization of the labor force. All wage
earners agree that the law is desirable. All textile magnates (3
percent of the total voting population) vehemently disagree.

What stance do the political parties take?

Analysts impressed by the familiar spatial models of party competition
will of course reply that the parties must head immediately to the
median position at the far right of [the figure below], where
virtually all voters are located.

|   * 97%
|   *
|   *
|   *
|   *
|   *
 %Voters|   *
|   *
|   *
|   *
|   *
|   *
|* 3%   *
|*  *
|*  *
---
 0 100

 Desired % Union

The investment theory, however, spotlights a detail that leads to a
dramatically different expectation: *When money matters importantly to
mounting campaigns*, no party can afford to take up the median
position that represents the views of the vast majority, if investors
disagree. The mere fact that votes are out there does not imply that
any party can afford to campaign for them, even if its message is what
they would want to hear.

In this instance, all parties depend on textiles for funding. The
textile industry, of course, will not pay to undermine itself. It thus
subsidizes only candidates opposed to passage of the law. (Readers who
have been exposed only to the median voter model are often inclined to
object: But wouldn't the textile party improve its chances of winning
by embracing unionization? The all-but-irresistible tendency to this
mistaken inference illustrates perfectly how a bad model can blind
social scientists --- and many ordinary people, who intuitively know
better --- to the harsh realities of money-driven political
systems. The short answer is that if the cost of winning the election
really were sponsoring unionization, textiles would, paradoxically,
lose by adopting the "winning" strategy.)

Given that the textile industry is the only source of campaign funds,
all parties must comply with the industry's demand for a union-free
environment, or else they cannot afford to compete at all. Without
collusion or "conspiracy" of any kind, accordingly, each party
*independently* discovers that available funds constrain it to
champion the very same rate of unionization as all others: 0 percent,
ironically, on the far left in [the] 

Re: [CTRL] Fw: Catastrophic Event Preceded Dark Ages - Scientist

[Nurev Ind Research]

nessie wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
 
 Read it all before in Velikovsky's book

 No, you didn't. Wrong date.
 Velikovsky's
  alleged catastrophes took place much earlier.

You are both right. Nessie is right about this specific time frame.
Emanuel Velikovsky wrote about catastrophes during or predating
biblical times.

Prudy is right because Once you realize that catastrophes happen routinely,
then it's no surprise that a catastrophe brought on the dark ages.

Velikovsky was a catastrophist when science
mostly believed that world events were steady state, long duration,
and NO dramatic events as described in the bible. This attitude was
a scientific backlash against what we would call today " creationists."

Velikovsky is a hero to me. I don't know how much of his theories will
ultimately wind up being true, but assholes like Carl Sagan persecuted
him for claiming that asteroids and comets could affect history, and
that evolution occurred in something other than long slow periods of time.

Then years later Sagan backed the " asteroid theory " of the disappearance
of the dinosaurs. Wadda schmuck.

Joshua2

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Re: [CTRL] RATS Subliminal Message over Gore in Bush commercial

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Amelia wrote:

 Well, good for you Prudy!  I have so many members of my family and friends
 who are caught in some sort of reconstruction time-warp that they would vote
 only for Democrats if they ran the devil himself on the ticket.  Guess I am
 reading their traits into you.

 Several on list have expressed such a lack of enthusiasm about voting for
 any of the candidates this time!  And I must admit I fall into that
 category.  I shall review some of the Nadar posts I previously only skimmed.
 If a large number fail to vote, will that be construed as apathy instead of
 our true feelings of disgust at the choices offered?

No Amelia. The politicos know EXACTLY why voting has been dropping off in
elections since WWII. But they will play it off as apathy becuase HOW WOULD
IT LOOK TO THE WORLD that the Mother of all democracies can't produce a simple
majority at the poles to elect their leaders " democratically."

Remember this. The ideal situation for elite control over the long term is
to have the suckers believe that they are choosing the leadership. That way
the population can only blame themselves, and will not bother to look behind
the scenes where real polotics happen. Dictatorships get overthrown sooner
or later. But so called democracies last much longer because it takes
generations to figure out what is going on.

We all are now in a period of awakening.

 Yet, isn't voting
 actually endorsing a particular candidate?

No. Voting is endorsing the SYSTEM that presents you with the candidates. AND
guarantees that you will have no real choices.

 For the first time, I cannot
 decide which would be worse--not to vote at all or to vote for one of these
 sorry choices.  And if lots of us do not vote at all, will the powers that
 be deem us too stupid to even care?

They already KNOW that the masses are stupid. This is why a small group of
elites can continue to maintain power over everyone else. Who but idiots would
endorse a system and candidates who work AGAINST their own interests?


 Each election, the choices are less and less appealing.  And you are
 right--it is nothing new to have misconduct in office. It is the same old
 stuff updated.  As we become a more jaded society, the misconduct also
 becomes more offensive with the times but the lack of integrity remains
 constant.
 Amelia

 - Original Message -
 From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [CTRL] "RATS" Subliminal Message over Gore in Bush commercial

 I don't have any
  loyalty to Clinton or the Democrats.  I think they're a tad better than
  Republicans (who would apparently steal the pennies from their dead
  grandmother's eyes),  but both parties are contemptible.  I wish the
 entire
  country would rise up and vote for Nader.  Prudy


=  ELECTION 2000  ===

The accumulation of wealth brings with it an accumulation of power
and influence disproportional to the actual numbers of wealthy groups, and
individuals existing in a society.

1) I believe there is a way to break the hold of big money on the Presidency,
and other major political positions at the national governmental level.
This can be achieved by modifying our views on how to utilize the electoral
process to recapture and strengthen the limited democracy we had. Whatever
power voters had was stolen from the American people by U.S. and foreign
moneyed interests.

2) Nullifying political bribery by the Duopoly can be accomplished in a
non-violent manner, and DOES NOT REQUIRE ACTIVE COOPERATION  AMONG GROUPS
WITH DIFFERING IDEOLOGIES. This is a very important point! It is the antidote
to " divide to rule." Divide to rule, is the Machiavellian formula utilized
by elites to control populations which far outnumber any ruling clique or
class.

Please consider the following:

The diversity and size of the U.S. plays right into the hands of the ruling
class and their institutions. It's easy to keep a society like this divided
along natural fault lines. Class, race, religion, gender,  sexual
preference, occupation, philosophical outlook, regionalism, and
multiculturalism are some reasons that truly mass movements are almost
impossible to organize in this country. The obvious exceptions are war,
and disaster.

 Though there are more people getting involved in grass roots politics,
they are organizing around narrow interests. I'm not belittling those
interests. I'm simply saying that the mass power of the public
is not being focused on the weak points in the system. Those are, the
ability to effect change through voting ( or not voting ), spending
( or not spending ), and paying taxes ( or withholding your taxes ).

The problem with voting is that those who have stolen the democratic
process, present us with the option of picking any one of THEIR candidates
that we must choose from. The process of running for any national office,
is actually a 

[CTRL] Kazakh Virus

[Nurev Ind Research]

WARNING: You have recieved the Kazakh virus.

Since we have no computers or programmers here, please do the following.

1) Type format C: then 'enter.'

2) Mail a handwritten version to a friend.

Thank you,

The Kazahkers

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[CTRL] Why health-care reform hasn't worked.

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Ithaca Todayhttp://ithacatoday.com/   September 11, 2000

Why Health-care Reform Hasn't Worked and What You Can Do About It

By Dave Steele

Let's face it.  We've got a really big problem. This country spends far
more of its income on health-care than does any other country in the
world - more than twice as much, per person, as any European nation.
Yet 44 million Americans have no health insurance.  Premiums for those
who do are skyrocketing, and access to physicians is being limited.
Many HMOs are dumping their elderly Medicare subscribers.
Life-expectancy, access to health-care and general health are all
significantly worse than in many other countries.

According to the United Nations, our health system ranks 37th in the
world, far behind first-ranked France and second-ranked Italy.  The main
reason for our poor performance is that health-care here is seen as a
for-profit business.  In every other industrialized country, health-care
is a right delivered through some sort of national health program. That,
I think, is the way it should be here.  Unfortunately, our prospects for
getting a national health-care system of our own don't seem too good -
at least not by the normal routes.  Neither Al Gore nor George W. Bush
are proposing any such thing.  And they probably couldn't deliver even
if they wanted to. Just look back to 1994.

Back then, Bill Clinton proposed a sort of mega-corporate national
health insurance system.  The proposal wasn't very good, and deserved to
fail, as it did. But a very good alternative presented in Congress
certainly did not deserve the same fate.  Dubbed the McDermott-Wellstone
bill, it had the largest number of co-sponsors, and would have given us,
hands down, the best health-care system in the world.  But the bill was
never even brought to a vote.

McDermott-Wellstone would have created a national "single-payer" system
of health insurance, guaranteeing access to comprehensive health care
for all; it would have allowed free choice of doctor and hospital. The
44 million uninsured would have received full coverage. And, as
confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office, it would have accomplished
this for billions less than we're paying now.

McDermott-Wellstone was truly a wonderful proposal. Virtually all
Americans would have benefitted from increased access to health services
and from the savings the single-payer system would have provided.
Indeed, for the past 50 years, poll after poll has shown significant
majorities of Americans favor single-payer. A 1989 Harris poll showed
61% of Americans in favor; a 1992 poll showed 69%. Why did it not pass?
How is it that a bill that would benefit virtually everyone in the
country didn't even make it to a vote?

The problem is that power in this country is not distributed to the
benefit of the majority. Speech is free, but it's much freer if you can
pay for it. In the health-care debate, insurance mega-corporations stood
to lose. So, they poured millions into defeating all proposals. Millions
in campaign contributions were paid to members of Congress who would
block reform. Propaganda was unleashed with a vengeance. Remember Harry
and Louise? Worse, the insurance powers colluded with the mass media,
who depend on advertising for their existence, to limit the debate.
Discussion of single-payer, the biggest threat, was effectively quashed.
According to FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), in a year of
programming during the health-care debate, Nightline mentioned
single-payer only twice - both times negatively. The MacNeil-Lehrer
Newshour, glad to air debate of other proposals, similarly avoided
discussion of single-payer. Single-payer never had a chance.

And approached this way, single-payer probably never will have a chance.

Change has to come from the grassroots.  At the national level, there is
far too much entrenched power.  Democratic change for the good of the
majority of us is nearly impossible to achieve there.  Only in real
communities - local communities of people who care about each other - is
real reform likely to take root.  The people of Swift Current,
Saskatchewan realized as much over 50 years ago.

In the 1940s, farmers and civic leaders in this Canadian community of
some 15,000 got together.  They were convinced that health-care should
not be a commodity - that it should be readily available to all.  And
they decided to do something about it.  So, in 1947, they created a
local system of universal medical insurance.  Everyone paid in according
to his or her ability and their medical expenses were covered. The next
year, the Province of Saskatchewan implemented a hospital insurance
program based largely on the Swift Current model.

By 1960, Swift Current's example had led to an extraordinary event in
Saskatchewan.  Tommy Douglas, first elected Premier in 1944, fought the
1960 election promising comprehensive, taxpayer-funded health care for
all Saskatchewan residents. He won handily.  And on November 17, 

[CTRL] [Fwd: Vote NO on HR 4986, Arms Merchants' Welfare Act]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Vote NO on HR 4986, Arms Merchants' Welfare Act
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:08:50 -0500 (CDT)
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THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE MILWAUKEE PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE. Virtually all
such will relate to foreign policy issues.  If you wish NOT to receive
these notices, ask  by return mail. For newsletter archives, foreign
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Please contact your representatives and encourage them to vote "NO" on H.R
4986!

Currently American arms merchants are given a 50% subsidy to "help" them
compete in the international marketplace (where they currently have
about a 50-60% market share!!) H.R. 4986 would double the subsidy to
100%.  Clearly, Americans do not need to be wasting their tax dollars on
a rich, thriving industry, not to mention what it is they are selling!

Please contact your representatives to alert them to this wasteful bill.

If you have questions, please feel free to call 512-371-1440.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: [EMMAS] Al's Pals: A List of Gore's Top Donors Aides]

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Subject: [EMMAS] Al's Pals: A List of Gore's Top Donors  Aides
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:09:48 -0500 (CDT)
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Check out the quote about the Cheyenne by Nathan Landow!

Greenbacks and Election Blues
  Al's Pals: A List of Gore's Top Donors
  Corporations
  Individuals

  Corporate Friends of Gore
  Gore's top donors for the presidential campaign (donation in
parenthesis)

a.. ERNST  YOUNG ($130,625): One of the nation's largest
accounting agencies, Ernst  Young has almost matched the $140,000 it
gave to Clinton/Gore in 1996. Its clients are mostly high-tech and
the firm has fought Internet taxation. Other clients include R.J.
Reynolds and Anheuser-Busch.

b.. CITIGROUP ($99,500): Gave $648,547 to democrats in 1990s.
Sought and received a relaxation of financial service regulations.

c.. VIACOM ($94,675): Sought approval for its merger with
CBS. Gave $356,900 in soft money to Democrats in the 1990s.

d.. GOLDMAN, SACHS  CO. ($86,750): Pushed hard for
normalized trading relations with China. Gave $1.4 million in soft
money to Democrats in 1990s.

e.. TIME/WARNER ($73,525): Keeping the Internet free of
taxation and regulators out of the cable industry are Time/Warner's
chief goals. No longer gives soft money.

f.. BELLSOUTH ($71,750): Baby bell. When Gore and Reed Hundt
drew up idea for a $2.3 billion-a-year tax on phone calls to pay for
Internet service in schools, BellSouth successfully lobbied to pass
the tax on to consumers. Then made millions providing new telephone
lines to schools. Gave $614,379 in soft money to Democrats over the
1990s.

g.. PATTON BOGGS ($40,750): One of Washington's most powerful
lobbying firms, Patton Boggs led the push for permanent
most-favorable trade status for China. Charging clients $9.3 million
for their services last year, Patton Boggs is the second largest
lobbying firm in Washington.

h.. ANHEUSER-BUSCH ($37,000): Alcohol kills 100,000 people
every year. Over 12 million Americans are addicted to it. Yet the
Administration has done almost nothing to raise awareness of the
dangers of alcohol abuse. Maybe that's because alcohol industry PACs
are among the biggest spenders in Washington, giving out $2.3 million
in 1997-1998 alone, more than the gun lobby.

  The Rich and Powerful
  Fundraisers and close associates of Gore

a.. Tony Cohelo: Second of Gore's three campaign managers.
Resigned from Congress in disgrace after a scandal involving an
improper deal on a $100,000 junk bond. Currently the subject of four
separate federal investigations While in office, Cohelo violated
campaign finance laws by accepting the use of a private yacht owned
by a savings-and-loan-mogul Donald Dixon. Dixon's SL bailout later
cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.

b.. Nathan Landow: Real-estate developer who has long-backed
Gore. Landaw made the news in 1996 with his controversial
strong-arm-fundraising the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians who were trying
to regain land in Oklahoma that had been seized by the government.
First he talked the impoverished tribes into tapping into their
welfare fund to pay a $100,000 retainer to Peter Knight (see below).
Then Landow tried to get the tribe to give him ten percent of any
future revenue earned on the land. Landow describes himself as the
victim in the ugly episode. "They brought in innocent people like me.
They're a bunch of goddamned uneducated Indians" he told PBS's
Frontline.

c.. Peter Knight: Former chief of staff to Al Gore. Chair of
the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1996. Knight has been with Gore since
Gore's election to the House in 1977. Now is a Washington lobbyist
with clients whose interests run the gambit from tobacco to oil to
timber.

d.. Terry McAuliffe: Set an all-time record by raising more
than $26 million for Gore and the Democrats in a single night. Has
raised $300 million for Clinton over the years. Made tens of millions
by doing business with the people he solicits money from. Told Time
magazine that once he meets donors as peers, it's easy to exchange
stock tips with them and serve on their corporate boards. Protege of
Tony Cohelo.

e.. Gerald and Elaine Schuster: The anti-labor record of
these Boston real estate tycoons has led Massachusetts state AFL-CIO
to boycott any fundraiser at which Gerald is present. HUD once cited
a South Bronx apartment building owned by the Schusters for "major
life-threatening health and safety conditions." and eventually seized
the property. The Schusters are also big Hillary Clinton backers.

f.. Joel Hyatt: Son-in-law of former Ohio Senator Howard
Metzenbaum and successful Internet entrepreneur. Key liaison to
silicon valley techies. One of three finance chairs for the
Democratic National Committee, responsible for the West Coast. A
fundraiser at Hyatt's home 

[CTRL] [Fwd: Nader a Nuisance for Gore]

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Subject: Nader a Nuisance for Gore
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
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Fritz Wenzel: Nader becoming a nuisance for Gore

September 11, 2000

Six months ago, the presidential candidacy of consumer
activist-turned-politician Ralph Nader appeared to be nothing but a
nuisance, something that probably made the radar screen at the campaign
headquarters of Democratic Vice President Al Gore, but triggered no alarm.

After all, Mr. Nader ran for president under the Green Party banner four
years ago, but he never did any actual campaigning. Voter response was
commensurate with his campaign effort.

But this year, Mr. Nader is doing things differently.

Upset by eight years of an administration that he contends has been an
unmitigated disaster for American workers and consumers, he is out on the
campaign trail full-time.

No doubt the campaign of Republican George W. Bush is giddy.

On Labor Day, Mr. Nader arrived in Detroit just in time to upstage Democrat
Joe Lieberman, the vice presidential running mate to Mr. Gore. Attracting
such an impromptu crowd on one street corner that police nearby grew
noticeably alarmed, Mr. Nader unleashed a verbal barrage.

Bashing the "Clinton/Gore administration" for a failure to step in sooner
when evidence surfaced more than a year ago that Firestone tires were
defective and may have caused the deaths of dozens of Americans, he told
the throng: "Here is an example of many [federal] regulatory agencies that
are worse now under Clinton/Gore than they were under Reagan/Bush, if you
can believe that.

"So what we are looking at here are two parties morphing into one party
with two heads, wearing different makeup," he said.

He saved a special dose of venom for Mr. Gore, criticizing him for
selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate, just across a parking lot from
where Mr. Lieberman was warming up to address the holiday union crowd. He
blasted the vice president's effort to paint himself as a savior for the
proverbial "little guy."

"The real position of [Mr.] Gore on corporate power was expressed by
nominating Joe Lieberman as his vice president. Joe Lieberman is the
quintessential corporate Democrat. He is of the insurance companies, by the
military contracts, and for the drug manufacturers," the Green Party
nominee said.

Federal Election Commission reports show Mr. Lieberman has received
hundreds of thousands of dollars from political action committees
representing defense contractors and financial institutions.

Mr. Nader has always had a way with words. If he gets into the presidential
debates, America will be in for some first-class entertainment.

If he and Patrick Buchanan both get into the debates, watch out, Regis!

SEVEN men won certification Friday to appear on the presidential ballot in
Ohio, including Mr. Gore, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Nader, who is running as an
independent because the Green Party is not officially recognized in the state.

Mr. Buchanan is also running as an independent with Reform Party support.
Howard Phillips is another independent candidate Ohio voters can choose.

John Hagelin of the Natural Law Party and Libertarian Harry Browne will
also appear on the ballot.

Fritz Wenzel covers politics for The Blade. Questions? Comments? Tips? He
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Re: [CTRL] GOVERNMENT, NO Capitalism is the #1 cause of environmentaldestruction.

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you're ridiculous.
J2

"M. A. Johnson" wrote:

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 Learn the difference between PRIVATE and government.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy]

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Subject: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 23:54:05 -0500 (CDT)
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Thanks janet Eaton

University of California Press
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html

Kevin Bales
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Here's another book for our possible study as we act on globalization -
I've only seen THIS review, but I get the impression that prison is not
included among the institutions which practice slavery. You must recall
that in 1865, the US Constitution's 13th amendment abolished slavery and
involuntary servitude " except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted ".

Bales investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand,
Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery,"  one
intricately linked to the global economy. In contrast to the older from of
slavery as we knew it, the new slaves are ... cheap, require little care,
and are disposable.

Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery, one being
the revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture that
has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready
targets for enslavement. .

Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides
examples of very positive results from organizations such as the Human
Rights Commission in Pakistan. "Disposable People" is the first book
to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy.

Michael



Publication Date: April 1999

298 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 14 b/w photographs, 2 tables, 1 line drawing
Subjects: Sociology; Politics; Economics  Business; Labor Studies
Rights: World

Paperback: $14.95 0-520-22463-9  £9.50

"As fine and accessible a work of investigative reporting as any of the
best that have appeared over the last decade. Serious, impassioned, and
unflinching, he has told a story that is too often ignored, and that, as
he points out, shames us all."
   -- The National Post (Canada)

"If you read no other book this year, read this one." --The Santa
  Rosa Press Democrat

"Kevin Bales knows pretty much all there is to know about slavery in the
contemporary world. In Disposable People he parlays a combination of fact
and indignation into a compelling indictment of an aspect of globalism
most of us prefer not to think about. This is a timely and important
expose. Bales has cast a little light into a very dark
 place. "  -- The Globe  Mail

"An insightful overview [and] a powerful exposé of human tragedy."
-- Dallas Morning News

"A numbing indictiment of our blindness to the new forms of slavery
engendered by the global economy."--Kirkus Reviews

"A book replete with both fascinating reportage and acute analysis."
  --Times Literary Supplement

"At its best an empirically informed general discussion of slavery in
 the modern world economy." --Times Higher Education Supplement

"Bales is to be congratulated for bringing the immensity of the slavery
problem to our attention. News accounts have highlighted the horrors of
child labor, of exploited women in the developing world and abuses of
workers in Latin America, but Bales's work shows how widespread and
multi-faceted are the many problems that lead to treating people as
disposable assets."--Joyce M. Davis, The Boston Book Review

"This sober, well-researched, pioneering study . . . is about the first to
explore slavery in its modern international guise. . . . A convincing and
moving book. One can only hope that it will draw some attention to the
terrible phenomenon it describes."--The Financial Times

"Blood-chilling facts and clear analysis."--Booklist

"A gripping account of the major forms slavery takes around the world
today, introducing enslaved people, their families, and entire social
strata deprived of the most basic rights. . . . Disposable People is an
eloquent plea. . . . Avoiding easy moralism and sensationalism alike, it
discloses the daily soul-destroying brutality of slavery on our planet
today."--Paul Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor

"Convincing, emotionally wrenching, and freighted with appropriate moral
indignation, Kevin Bales's startling presentation shows us that while the
general public is convinced slavery is a historical phenomenon of the
ancient past . . . it is in actuality a widespread tragedy found worldwide
and on a large scale. This book innovatively and usefully describes the
permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and
age."--Richard Pierre Claude, editor of Human Rights Quarterly

"A timely and fascinating book . . . of crucial importance. Few people
realize that the increasing globalization of the economy has led to the
use of coerced labor in many parts of the globe. . . . Bales has traveled
widely and 

Re: [CTRL] Deeper into the morass

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Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:

 I find the word 'morass' offensive.

Besides being offensive, it's spelled incorrectly.

J2


 Everyone on this list must stop using that word immediately, to protect my delicate 
nerves and sensitive
 feelings.

 I find kumquat tasteless, too, so don't even think about using it.

 June

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Re: [CTRL] I TWAT I Twaw a Pwuddy Kat?

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Tenorlove wrote:

 --- NSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I suppose next, all these PC femmes will be onto me about my use of
  the term
  PUSSY above, as if to suggest they've never stroked theirs perhaps,

 But you can say "I'm going to snatch that pussy and put her in a box"
 and mean something entirely innocent.


Holy shit!

What has happened to the usually high standards and integrity
practiced on this List???

I'm shocked, simply shocked that you people have sunk so low. I now
feel that it's incumbent upon me to restore the extant subject matter
to its usual level.

Here is a description of a little known incident which occurred just before
the 1992 election when Bill Clinton ran against George Daddy Bush who was
under serious pressure for fibbing about not raising taxes.

At a very shi-shi Hollywood fund raiser for the beloved Clintons, Tinseltown's
best began to play  Charades. The idea was to act out possible slogans for the
campaign. As soon as someone would guess the intent of someone's little improv,
the great, glorious, glittering, gala would all shout it out loud together.

Now you would not think that among all these fine professionals, it would be
Hillary R. Clinton who would come up with the best performance. BUT SHE DID!

She jumped up on the dias, lifted her dress, and exposed her naked, shaved
" down there " to the whole audience. After a stunned two seconds, the crowd
understood the slogan Hillary conveyed. They all shouted joyfully...
  READ MY LIPS, NO MORE BUSH!

J2

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[CTRL] Hi ho, hi ho, it's off the WTO... /OR/ The Secret Policeman's other ball.

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 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/praguetop090900.shtml
IMF Summit: Protesters who brought Seattle to a standstill and wrecked the
world's trade talks head for Czech capital hellbent on causing mayhem

By Justin Huggler in Prague

9 September 2000

Ludvic Zifcak was the secret policeman who lit the fuse that toppled
Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. In 1989, for reasons that have never been
clear, Mr Zifcak, a notorious member of the StB secret police, started the
rumour that a student had been killed in protests. The rumour fuelled street
demonstrations, prompted the Velvet Revolution.

In a bizarre twist, Mr Zifcak is staging a comeback to organise one of the
protests that could turn Prague into a battleground later this month when
the streets of the Czech capital are taken over by opponents of
globalisation.

The demonstrations will unite an unlikely array of protesters. With Mr
Zifcak will march an assortment of Hitlerite skinheads and thoseintent on
halting global capitalism, who have vowed to turn Prague into "Seattle II".

The target is the annual summit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
World Bank, held in Prague for the first time on 26 September.

For a week demonstrators plan to bring the city to a standstill. Czech
sources said some plan to break in and disrupt the meetings. Hospitals have
been told to lay in supplies in case of a chemical or biological-weapon
terrorist attack.

Simultaneous antiglobalisation protests are planned for 26 September in 30
countries including Britain, the United States, France and Germany. Up to
20,000 protesters are expected in Prague itself. The Czechs have drafted in
11,000 police, and 5,000 soldiers will be on stand-by.

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 the Czech Republic has been among
the most enthusiastic of postcommunist countries embracing capitalism.
Securing the IMF and World Bank meetings was seen as something of a coup
until it became clear Prague could be brought to a standstill.

If the hard left is turning out against capitalism, so is the hard right.
Czech neo-Nazi skinheads have said they too will march, prompting fears of
clashes between them and anarchist groups.

Most protesters will be the same diverse mix of pressure groups and
individuals behind November's demonstrations against the World Trade
Organisation in Seattle, which first brought the anti-globalism movement to
world attention.

The protesters back a variety of causes. Jubilee 2000, the British-based
group planning a funeral procession through Prague on 23 September for child
"victims" of Third World debt, campaigns for the cancelling of the debt. It
promised an outpouring of anger on the streets of Prague after the G8 summit
in Okinawa failed to cancel Third World debt.

Many of the other groups are co-ordinating under the banner of the
Initiative against Economic Globalisation (Inpeg), a Czech-based group
planning a blockade of the summit. Its organisers say that they oppose the
IMF and the World Bank, which they claim forces developing countries to
adapt their economies to suit the needs of the West.

Inpeg and Jubilee 2000 say they oppose violence and property destruction.
The World Bank says it has good relations with many of the protesters, and
has invited several groups to join it for meetings during the summit. The
Czech President, Vaclav Havel, a globalisation critic, is organising a
debate between protesters and IMF and World Bank representatives.

Hardline groups descending on Prague include the September 26 Collective and
Red Pepper from Britain, the Black Squad Ruckus Society and Earth First from
the United States and Projeckt Interkonti and FAU from Germany.

Police from various countries are reported to have infiltrated anarchist
groups planning violence and Scotland Yard and FBI staff have travelled to
Prague to share intelligence with Czech police.

Most co-ordination of the anti-globalisation protests is via the mass medium
of globalisation: the internet.

Estimates of the total number of protesters travelling to Prague for the
demonstrations have fallen from original projections of up to 50,000 to
between 15,000 and 20,000, apparently because of the cost of getting to the
Czech Republic, especially from America, and because many protesters plan to
go to the simultaneous "S26" rallies in their owncountries.

Protesters have chartered coaches and struck deals with travel agents.
Coaches are leaving from London, Manchester and Liverpool, and one British
travel agent is offering a return flight and three nights' accommodation for
300.

   
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Jean Staffen wrote:

 Deeper into the morass
  Paul Craig Roberts

  Can you identify the real Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that control the
 country through the political process? Before you answer Big Oil and Big
 Business, consider the power of the Social Security/Medicare lobby.
 Republicans would like to privatize at least part of Social Security. But
 what their presidential candidate, George W. Bush, is forced to propose is
 a plan for taxpayers to pay the cost of prescription drugs for retired
 people.

Bad Idea.


  Forcing working people to dig into their pockets to pay for retired
 people's prescription drugs is considered to be "the moral thing to do."
 The fact that retired people, on average, have more wealth and assets than
 working people makes this a redistribution from people with less to people
 with more.

This is Rush Limbaugh bullshit. Most working people are able to work, and
old people are not. THAT is what makes it moral. The ones who have money don't
need to be subsidized. The ones that don't do.


  This fact passes unnoticed, because decades of propaganda have conditioned
 us to think of retired people as an underprivileged victim group. When
 taxpayer subsidies for medical prescriptions increase the demand for, and
 price of, medicines, Big Government will not be blamed.

Taxpayer subsidies are for the Drug companies. The sick elderly are the excuse
for wealth transfer from the middle-class to the corporate rich.


  Instead, all eyes will be on the pharmaceutical companies. They will be
 accused of profiteering, and price controls will be proposed.

As well they should be. These fuckers are gouging everybody. They don't
deserve to exist as a PRIVATE enterprise. Human health and survival drugs
ARE NOT FUCKING COMMODITIES.

All health care and related concerns should be removed from the " market."
All drugs should be manufactured by government production facilities, and
distributed as cheaply as possible.

Capitalism Kills.

J2

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Charles Darwin - The Truth?

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Mike Smith wrote:

 1) There have NEVER been two fossils found LINKING one species to another.

This is ridiculous.


 2) The THEORY of evolution is just that. To be considered SCIENCE it must
 be repeatable, demonstrable and testable. By definition is FAILS the test of
 science.
 It can pass none of those tests.

Evolution is a common daily observable fact.


 3) Evolution CONTRADICTS the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics PERIOD!
 (is is really a law then??)

So you say.


 4) The proteins used to CREATE DNA can ONLY be made FROM DNA
 (man has NEVER synthesised it yet)

So what does this have to do with anything?


 And that just happens to come from a family member with a PHD in
 bio-chemistry.
 When a genetic engineer doesn't buy into evolution why should I?

Is the genetic engineer a religious person by any chance?

J2

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[CTRL] Capitalism at work. Hitman economics.

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San Francisco Examiner
Friday  Sep 08, 2000


Uncle Sam: Arms merchant to the world


Pamina Firchow and Tamar Gabelnick track U.S. arms
sales for the Federation of American Scientists in
Washington. They wrote this commentary for the
Progressive Media Project in Madison, Wis.


By Pamina Firchow and Tamar Gabelnick

 The United States has made it a priority to help
American weapons makers export their wares. Yet the
arms industry hardly needs such aid.
According to a recent report by the Congressional
Research Service, the United States kept its large
lead in the global arms market last year. It captured
39 percent of new contracts, totaling $11.8 billion.
That's more sales volume than Russia, France, the
United Kingdom and China combined. The United States
also delivered $18.4 billion worth of arms in 1999, or
54 percent of the worldwide total.

The United States should not be promoting arms exports
in a world where most societies would rather see their
governments invest in education, jobs and health care
than in major weapons systems.

The Clinton administration pushes U.S. arms by touting
the need for compatibility with U.S. forces in
peacekeeping operations. Developing nations may be
lured by the prospect of closer ties with the U.S.
military. Unfortunately, this strategy has paid off.
For the third year in a row, the share of U.S. arms
exports to developing states was on the rise.

Secretary of Defense William Cohen's worldwide travels
often resemble arms marketing tours. In Latin America,
he encouraged Chile and Argentina to "upgrade" their
arsenals, especially fighter aircraft. In the Persian
Gulf, he has been trying to obtain support for a
"Cooperative Defense Initiative," an early warning
system that relies on the purchase of U.S. command,
control and communication as well as expensive Patriot
missiles.

And in Eastern Europe, the U.S. government is trying
to gain future paying customers by donating used
equipment. For example, it is pushing Hungary to drop
its plans to upgrade its Soviet-era MiG-29s by
donating F-16 jets — on the condition that Budapest
spend $4 million to $5 million apiece for upgrades
from U.S. contractors.

The Clinton administration has also been trying to
persuade European allies that they should be devoting
a larger part of their budgets to buying arms,
preferably American ones. Recent changes made to U.S.
arms-export regulations enable NATO members, Australia
and Japan to buy U.S. weapons more freely; some may
even be able to buy arms without an export license.

The administration doesn't see why those countries
shouldn't be able to buy U.S. missiles or fighter jets
as easily as American toasters. The Clinton
administration has put the health of the U.S. arms
industry ahead of the pressing social and economic
needs of our trading partners.

This fall, we need to question the presidential
candidates on whether they plan to continue this
misguided policy.


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[CTRL] What? No more Evil Empire? Then let's have Humanitarian wars.

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Decline of The West
by George Szamuely
Antiwar.com
September 8, 2000
Armchair Warrior
"Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual
could believe them," George Orwell is supposed to have
written somewhere. The doctrine of "humanitarian
intervention" is one such idea. Most people assume
that States are creatures driven by ruthless
self-interest. But not Timothy Garton Ash – Fellow of
St. Antony’s College Oxford, regular contributor to
the New York Review of Books, and winner of
innumerable prestigious prizes and awards. He will
have us believe that the governments of the most
powerful countries in the world are run by men and
women motivated by the highest ideals, a thirst for
justice, and the longing to alleviate human suffering.


Some six months ago I wrote a column for Antiwar.com
about an essay Timothy Garton Ash had contributed to
the New York Review of Books in which he smugly
celebrated the outcome of NATO’s war on Yugoslavia.
The past year has not been kind to the champions of
NATO. Just about every claim the West’s propagandists
made to justify NATO’s seizure of Kosovo has been
shown to be a lie. There was no humanitarian crisis in
Kosovo in March 1999; the Kosovo Albanian flight
across the border began after the launch of the NATO
bombing; the Serbs never resorted to "genocide"; NATO
bombing inflicted a lot of civilian, but virtually no
military, damage; NATO rule has resulted in the ethnic
cleansing of Serbs. Confronted by such unpalatable
facts, the humanitarian terrorists can respond in one
of two ways. They can say, first, that they knew all
along that the stories of Serb atrocities were made
up. They were a necessary lie, they would argue,
concocted for the purpose of justifying NATO’s attack
to a public ignorant of geopolitical intricacies. The
objective had never been to rescue "persecuted" Kosovo
Albanians. It was always about securing the Balkans
for NATO in preparation for the West’s drive into
Central Asia. Since you cannot talk about such things
in public you have to invent a "Hitler" committing
dastardly deeds, testing our patience, and causing
havoc and mayhem wherever he goes. However, this is a
dangerous strategy. Admitting NATO was lying all along
will make it hard to pull it off a second time. There
is a second, safer option: Just go on brazenly
repeating every single NATO lie and count on wearing
your opponents down. A lie repeated often enough does
indeed eventually become accepted as truth.

This is the strategy Garton Ash adopts in the current
issue of the New York Review of Books. In an essay
entitled "Kosovo: Was It Worth It?" he devotes
thousands upon thousands of tedious words to
reassuring us that the only thing wrong with
"humanitarian intervention" is that it is…well, too
humanitarian. Our rulers are simply too well
intentioned for their own good. It is hard to come
across a piece of writing as intellectually dishonest,
as complacent, as ludicrously implausible, as
obsequious towards the powerful as Garton Ash’s. To
top it off his essay is filled with observations of
staggering banality. We learn, for instance, that
"Unless we were there, we will never know what it was
like to be there." And that "The world-historical
reflections of a Nobel Prize winner prove more
ephemeral than the hurried news story of a
nineteen-year-old reporter." It is heartening to learn
also that "With the openness of modern democracies,
there seems to be little of significance that does not
get into the press, one way or another, and usually
sooner rather than later." He writes about the "eerily
silent images from video cameras mounted on the noses
of NATO’s high-tech guided missiles show the very
window or doorframe the missile is about to hit."
Gosh! Garton Ash does not seem as fascinated with what
it was like to stand in the doorframe "the missile is
about to hit."

The essay is so ripe with absurdities that it is hard
to select just one particularly egregious example of
Garton Ashism. But it is hard to top his account of
the infamous Appendix B episode. Appendix B was the
bit in the Rambouillet Accords that was to give NATO
the unconditional right to move freely all over
Yugoslavia. The Serbs, not surprisingly, rejected this
demand. The negotiations in France abruptly came to an
end. And NATO launched its onslaught. Here is Garton
Ash’s account: "Conspiracy theorists [argue] that the
American Satan was, in Rambouillet, making Milosevic
an offer that he had to refuse. Their prime evidence –
Exhibit A, so to speak – is Appendix B. This is an
extraordinary demand to make of any sovereign
state….But as a matter of historical record, all the
senior Western negotiators I have spoken to, including
[Richard] Holbrooke, [Christopher] Hill, and Robin
Cook, agree that the Serb side at Rambouillet, and
Milosevic in the final showdown with Holbrooke and
Hill, did not even raise Appendix B as an 

Re: [CTRL] Clinton-Gore Administration Cuts Off Food to HomelessShelter

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 MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:

 Friday, September 8, 2000

 Shelter's religion mandate means no USDA food

 By Jacinthia Jones
 The Commercial Appeal
 Memphis, Tenn.

 The federal government has kicked one of the city's largest
 homeless shelters out of its subsidized food program because the
 shelter requires people to attend worship services before they
 can eat.

Great!!! The government has no business subsidizing Christian
Missionarys who push their religion down hungry people's throats.

How despicable can you get?

 But this is not a religious freedom case, a government spokesman
 said. The Memphis Union Mission may not require people to do
 anything in exchange for food.

 Since its inception in 1945, the Christian-run mission at 383
 Poplar has required anyone coming in for help to attend religious
 services.

That's Christian love for you.

 And for at least 10 years, the mission, a shelter for men, has
 done so while participating in the U.S.  Department of
 Agriculture food program.

 But during a routine inspection of the mission in July, an agent
 of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture determined that the
 rule that people must attend a worship service before eating
 violated federal laws.

 "You can't do that with federal food," said Terry Minton,
 commodities administrator for the Tennessee Department of
 Agriculture, which manages the USDA programs.

 "If people are needy and they come into your agency and you have
 our food to give them, they've met all the requirements.  You
 can't make them do anything for the food," Minton said.

 In order to be reinstated on the food program, Minton said, Union
 Mission must agree to make the worship service optional.

 But those who operate the mission say they can't agree.

Damned scumbags.

 "We won't change that.  That's the reason we exist," said Rev.
 Mark Calhoun, mission president and CEO.  "We exist to promote
 the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Then they should use their OWN damn resources. These people's
missionary business is exempt from taxes, they get free food from
the government as bait for these poor people, AND THEY HAVE THE
NERVE to complain. What unbelievable gall these superstitionists
have.

 "All we're asking for is your time.  We don't ask you to work; we
 don't ask you to do anything else but sit in our worship
 service," he said.

 The mission receives about a third of its food - about 10 tons of
 meat and other products - from the USDA.  It buys the rest for 11
 cents a pound from the Food Bank.  Last year the mission served
 more than 166,000 free meals.

 Calhoun estimated losing the federal food would cost about
 $30,000 a year. The agency will continue purchasing food from the
 Food Bank and may have to buy from private vendors as well.

Well yeah. Bait's expensive these days.


 During his 3?-year tenure at the mission, Calhoun said, he can
 remember only one person complaining about having to attend the
 Christian services.

 The food shutoff has been characterized as an issue of the
 separation of church and state by local radio, television and
 print media.  Many in the religious community are angry.

That's too bad. Why don't they just donate their own food?

 WREC-AM 60 will broadcast live from 5:30 to 9 a.m.  today from
 the shelter to solicit contributions of money and food from
 listeners, said promotions director Michelle Buckalew.

 "I guess this has all been a blessing," Calhoun said of the
 support the mission has been receiving.

 But Minton said dropping the mission from the government program
 had nothing to do with religion.

 "This isn't targeting religious activity.  It's simply that you
 cannot put any additional restrictions on receiving the food,"
 she said.

 "You can't force people to work for the food.  You can't force
 them to attend any sort of classes or counseling or religious
 services or budget classes.

 "Our viewpoint is that we're trying to put the food out there
 into everyone's hands who is qualified to receive it, and for an
 agency to make a decision to restrict that individual because of
 some other criteria is more than they are allowed to do."

 Other religious organizations receive USDA funds, including
 churches and the Salvation Army.

 The Salvation Army receives USDA funding for its Southside
 Community Center and Day Care on Somerville.

 "Prayer is not a requirement for any of the services provided by
 the Salvation Army," said spokesman Alexa Robinson.

 "So that any religious services that we have available, the
 participation is strictly voluntary."

  With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
 
  Friday September 8, 2000; 12:03 PM EDT
 
  Clinton-Gore Administration Cuts Off Food to Homeless Shelter
 
  The Clinton-Gore administration has ended a federally
  subsidized food program for one of the largest homeless
  shelters in Vice President Al Gore's home state because
  visitors are required to attend a religious service.
 
  "The USDA has stopped supplying the Memphis