Re: [CTRL] Lawyer Alleges Federal Plot Unleashed AIDS on Blacks j2

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  It's called genetic engineering.
 
 It's called science fiction fantasy bullshit. No one can do what you are
 alleging.

 Sorry, I didn't realise you no-doubt believe that the world is flat,

It is flat. Just look around.

6,000 years old and the computer you're using works via a little man who
runs around doing things. You shouldn't carry on about things which you are
obviously so ignorant of. Genetic engineering is very advanced, cloning etc. is a
reality (and many contend it has been used for several decades at least).

I'm not saying genetic engineering is fantasy. I'm saying that g e can't do what
you and that shyster say it can do. That is, target a specific ethnic group with
a virus. This is absurd. You can infect groups of people, but once done the
process can't be controlled. What you and the shyster are suggesting, is that
the Pentagon developed a virus which can infect and kill Black people. What
if an infected Black woman has sex with a China man, a Khazar, a black Aboriginal,
and you? Is she the only one likely to die of aids? This is idiotic. But this is
the claim. This is what you are saying is possible. And you say I don't
understand biology.

This lawyer is in the race hustling business like Al Sharpton, J.Jackson and
that evil scumbag Johnny Cochoran (sp?). But this guy is stupid. This is my
point. What he is alleging the government did is currently not possible to do
without creating a general plague which will boomerang and effect your own
population.


 As unpolitically correct as it is to say so, there are certain distinctive
 DNA features for Black people, gays, left-handed people etc. They can use
 that to make the virus far more agressive towards such people.
 
 How do you know this? Do you just make stuff up? What you think you are
 describing, can't be done yet. There is a way to target certain groups,
 but not through " genetic engeneering."

 No, I don't 'just make stuff up' as you so eloquently put it.

Yes you do.

Perhaps you should
try and pass a high school level biology class and learn a bit about it, rather
than making these hysterical allegations. And how else do you propose to target
specific groups without using their genes? Ask them on the census?

Is ignorance really bliss? I always wanted to know.

J2





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Re: [CTRL] Lawyer Alleges Federal Plot Unleashed AIDS on Blacksj2

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 Nurev Ind Research wrote:
 
  It's called science fiction fantasy bullshit.

 Perhaps; I heard Jeff Rense give him a lengthy interview the
 other day, and found him pretty convincing. Then again, I'm
 just a golwis, conspiracy kook, so what the fuck do I know
 (besides "fiction fantasy bullshit" and whatnot)?

I don't know what you know. But your brain is obviously not defective.

This shyster says he found a document which will prove that the Gov
developed aids. Maybe yes, and maybe no. But he extrapolates this into
a plot by the Pentagon to wipe out Blacks.

Now which is the more likely scenario?

That what he claims is actually possible to do.
Or...
This shyster race hustler is out to invent a race based case to make a buck.

If targeting is possible, why haven't gay groups joined the suit? Why haven't
India, and Thailand, and other countries being devastated by the epidemic made
an issue out of it?

Don't they know a conspiracy when they see one?

C'mon guys. There are real conspiracies. But one can't just believe any
bullshit that comes down the pike.

Joshua2


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 first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer
 edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged
 to the wolf. We did not care about the weak or about the
 strays. they were not a part of the flock. We did not care
 about those on the outer edges. They had chosen to be there.
 But as the wolf worked its way towards the center of the
 flock we discovered that we were now on the outer edges. Now
 we must look the wolf squarely in the eye. That we did not
 do so when the first of us was ripped and torn and eaten was
 the first wrong. It was our wrong." - Gerry Spence

I see you've got a thing for shysters eh?-- J2

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Re: [CTRL] New (un) Freeland j2

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 From
 http://www.newaus.com.au/news216nzrpt.html

 }}Begin
 Libertarians not welcome
 in New Zealand
 New Zealand
 TNA News with Commentary
 Saturday 23 March 2001

 The following story was emailed to me recently under the heading, Is Libertarianism
 a Crime? Knowing that there are many third world countries where advocating freedom
 of the individual can be hazardous to your health, I was especially horrified to
 read that this story in fact, happened in New Zealand.

 To explain; Jim Peron, a Libertarian writer from the USA, now residing and working
 out of South Africa, applied to immigrate to New Zealand to open up a bookstore, a
 libertarian publishing house and to open a new branch of the International Society
 for International Liberty (ISIL).

 The Immigration Official declined the application ostensibly for two reasons:

I have always loved and admired New Zealand. Now they have gone up through the
stratosphere in my esteem. If their policy of keeping out Libertarian Riff Raff
continues, I will start packing soon. Unfortunately, New Zealand's policy
regarding Libertarians means that they will continue to reside in the US.

The best thing about Libertarians is that there are so few of them.

 1) Mr Peron is not a key employee of ISIL since he does not yet hold the position in
 New Zealand that needs to be filled. However, to get entry into New Zealand he must
 already be employed. But to be employed he must gain entry into New Zealand. Catch
 22.

 2) The Official argues that ISIL cannot apply as a relocating business because it
 has non profit status in the USA. Yet the bookstore in New Zealand would be profit
 making, as would be the publishing venture. And she refuses to divulge any other
 category under which ISIL could apply. If her ruling stands then it would appear
 that all non profit groups in the world are banned from New Zealand.

 The subsequent rejection of Mr Peron’s application was, of itself, not unusual. What
 was, however, was the personal political summation behind the rejection.

 The Official who declined the application stated in her report that because ISIL is
 a libertarian organization, this “places a question mark over the desirability of
 such an organization, and whether Mr Peron would be ineligible for residence because
 of his association with such an organization.”

Outstanding!!!
What sensible bureaucrats. They know undesirables when they see one.

 Further, she has listed a number of
 positions which she has used to support her views: Firstly, an ISIL conference had a
 speaker talking about legalizing marijuana, secondly, ISIL produced a pamphlet
 which:

 a) opposed censoring pornography, b) questioned the validity of gun control, and c)
 supported a bill of rights. These are the positions listed by the official which
 prove libertarians are “radicals” and not desirable for entry into New Zealand. The
 Official continues: “It (ISIL) is a radical libertarian organization that fosters
 individual action, using their freely chosen strategies...where the guest speaker
 speaking on civil disobedience as a marketing strategy.”

 While Mr Peron is appealing his case, we should think about the dangerous precedence
 this would set if his appeal was overturned.

What dangerous precedence? You're SO presumptuous.


 Firstly, in declaring libertarianism “undesirable” in potential immigrants, New
 Zealand would have also forbidden entry to all the American Founding Fathers,

Great! What incredible good sense to keep those elitist plutocrats out. Look
how they've ruined this country.

 including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine
 and George Washington. We would have tossed out John Locke, Adam Smith and Henry
 David Thoreau, and most certainly shown the door to such known ‘radicals’ as
 Frederick Bastiat, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Ludwig Von Mises and F.A. Hayek.

I wish WE could have. These scum are the most evil, greedy, slimy, nasty,
ruinous, Mammon worshipping elitist assholes ever.

 And
 no doubt, our officious bureaucrat in Immigration would be quick to point out how
 this raffish group of individuals with their contumacious ideas have done nothing
 but hinder the progress of a truly civilized society.

 Secondly, and all joking aside,

Ha, ha, ha, ha, what joking?

I would have thought that an individual willing to be
 wholly responsibility for his own actions, contributing in a purposeful way to
 society through the creation of jobs and wealth, and opposed to the use of force
 upon others, would have been the perfect immigrant for any country.

What philosophy are YOU talking about. You are really self dilusional. A
peculiarly
Libertarian trait. Something you have in common with Liberals. You both just can't
understand why everyone else can't stand you.

 It would be interesting to know just what this official does understand the word
 ‘libertarian’ to mean. If, upon enquiry, 

[CTRL] Drug wars and death squads. DemocRAT policy in Columbia.

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THE IRISH TIMES

Saturday, 17 March 2001

Barrancabermeja: An invasion fortold


By Ana Carrigan

BARRANCABERMEJA, Colombia-On January 19th, in Bogota, the city section of
El Tiempo-Colombia's leading newspaper-ran a story which sent shivers
through most urban readers.

Over a photograph of a unit of heavily armed young men in battle fatigues,
wearing the insignia AUC (United Self Defence Forces of Colombia) the
headline read, " 'Paras' Enter Bogota."

Carlos Castano, Latin America's most feared and efficient deathsquad
leader and commander of the fastest growing armed force in the country-the
8,000 strong AUC-had announced that the "Frente Capital," had entered the
Colombian capital to disrupt the guerrillas' urban network.

Thus the civil war between the paramilitaries and the guerrillas may
finally be making its way from the countryside into the cities.

If the shaky peace process breaks down, what kind of urban warfare would
be in store for Bogota?

Might this teeming city of eight million people become another Beirut,
with street battles on every corner as guerrillas and 'paras' fight for
control from block to block, in a Latin version of the Battle of Algiers?

Or would the urban drama follow a more sinister script?

Across ever increasing regions of Colombia, the arrival of truckloads of
paramilitary gunmen in isolated villages and towns, by day and by night,
often abetted by local security forces, brings death and displacement to
civilians on a daily basis. Yet until recently the 'paras' had not invaded
a major city. That has now changed.

The strategic oil producing city of Barrancabermeja is six hours from
Bogota.

Surrounded by rich oil deposits, the city was built on the banks of the
Magdalena river, one of Latin America's greatest waterways, to provide the
work force for Ecopetrol, Colombia's state- owned petrol refinery.

Though little oil wealth remains in the city or the region, Ecopetrol
pumps 75% of the nation's oil production from Barrancabermeja's grimy,
polluted river port.

Although a combined contingent of army, navy and police is stationed here
to provide security for Ecopetrol, their protection does not extend to
Barrancabermeja's quarter of a million inhabitants.

On December 22nd, 140 of Castano's AUC gunmen entered the impoverished,
northeastern sector of the city un-opposed and began systematically to
terrorise one working class neighborhood after another.

In January, after this paramilitary offensive had chalked up 53
assassinations in the first 30 days of the year, the Bishop of
Barrancabermeja, Monsignor Jaime Prieto, described the situation thus:

"Analyse the reality of this city. What do you see? You see a keg full of
petrol, and right beside it, a naked flame. That's what you call a time
bomb. Barrancabermeja is a time bomb."

The paramilitaries first came to the city in May 1998. Two truckloads of
hooded, armed men drove past army and police checkpoints and pulled up on
a  local football field. It was around 10 o'clock, on a Saturday night,
and the neigborhood was holding a block party. When people heard gunfire
they assumed, at first, that he revellers were setting off fireworks. The
paramilitaries killed eleven young men that night, and abducted 25 others
who were never seen again, alive or dead. Carlos Castano claimed they were
dead and incinerated.

The current onslaught is the result of the Colombian government's efforts
to establish a demilitarised zone in the region and start negotiations
with Colombia's second largest guerrilla force, the Army of National
Liberation, (ELN).

One year ago, the government and ELN leaders agreed to establish a "peace
zone" in territory near the city traditionally controlled by the ELN, but
now in paramilitary hands.

Demonstrating his regional control, Castano mobilised mass demonstrations
to block the proposed "peace zone" and threatened to arm the local
population and unleash civil war if the government insisted on going
ahead.

20,000 protesters, funded by regional cattlemen, landowners,
narcotraffickers and business leaders, threw up barricades on the Pan
American Highway and paralysed all road and river traffic for 20 days.

By the time the government capitulated the blockade had cost the country
$2 million and the peace accord with the ELN was back on the drawing
board.

Twelve months later, the ELN and the government have agreed to a reduced
"peace zone;" the European Commission has offered to invest $200 million
dollars for regional development once the talks begin; but the government
has still been unable to resolve the impasse.

As so often in Colombia, the AUC's December incursion in Barrancabermeja
was an 'invasion foretold.'

In April, Castano's local commander, alias "Julian," announced that his
forces were in Barrancabermeja and would take control of the city "by
December."

AUC actions follow an established pattern.

First, a 'black hand,' 

Re: [CTRL] WHY NOT BOYCOTT THE OSCAR AWARDS

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Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:

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 From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  The Arts and Sciences?Garbage is as garbage does

 Can you actually NAME and give a short synopsis of ANY of the films up for Best 
Picture this year?

 No, I thought not...

 June

I'm sure it was a rhetorical question since it's Saba who you are asking.

She is the only human I know of with both Mad Cow AND Foot in Mouth disease.

Her postings are an excellent descriptor of brain degeneration over a long
period of time.

OR!

Maybe she's just an idiot.

J2

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[CTRL] Welcome to the New World Order: Endless screw-ups by the Globalist elites.

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3/24/01

I don't know exactly which corporate HR department has been hiring the
world's elite globalist planners in recent years, but they really do need
to start doing a better job. Here's why...

China/Taiwan - Ready for war. Introduction of Capitalism caused massive
   unemployment and civil unrest. China needs a war.
The Koreas - Ready for peace. Removes N. Korea as a threat. Surprise!
Japan - Economic disaster. Capitalism's other face.
Indonesia - Civil war brought about by " Free Trade.
Papua New Guinea - Civil war. Corporate elites want the natural resources.
Russia - Economic and social disaster brought on by conversion to Capitalism.
Afghanistan - Social and economic disaster instigated by US vs Soviet policy.
Mid-East - What can one say? Utter failure of the Globalist agenda.Stupid elites!
Guatemala - Killer government.
Columbia - Next big war. We are installing US bases to control the region's oil.
Peru - CIA overthrow of Peru's government.
Mexico - Coca-Cola President. Just what Mexico's civil war needs. Free Trade vs
 indigenous local economy. The locals are winning.
Africa - Basket case. No relief in sight.
Iraq - Splitting the New World Order. Flash point.
Iran - Thinks THEY should control their oil. What nerve!
Turkey - Economic disaster. Sub surface civil war. E.U. will disintegrate here.

... and my ( Joshua2 ) favorite example of Globalist stupidity...


==
  KOSOVO: Time to Pay the Piper
   23 March 2001

 http://www.stratfor.com/home/giu/archive/032301.asp#The

   Summary

   Western governments appear concerned
   that fighting in Macedonia will spark the
 Balkan tinderbox, but Macedonia can likely contain the insurgency,
  involving a small force of guerrillas. The real crisis brews in Kosovo. In
  March 1999, Washington led NATO to war on behalf of these guerrillas.
  Now Western governments must rein in the rebels they helped create –
  and face the prospect of cooperating with the Yugoslavia they once tried
   to bomb into submission.

   Analysis

  Rebels fighting in Macedonia and the Presevo Valley in Serbia are being
  directed and assisted by the separatists that fought two years ago to
  separate Kosovo from Yugoslavia. The rebels attacking into Macedonia
  call themselves the National Liberation Army (UCK) and the Liberation
  Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB) when operating in
  Serbia.

  The situation, coming on the second anniversary of the 1999 Kosovo
  conflict, is a continuation of that war. The same clan structure is running
  the remnants of the original Kosovo Liberation Army; the commanders are
  veterans of the earlier war with the same connections to the drug trade
  that fuels the separatist movement. Western peacekeepers are now
  confronting their former allies.

  The United States faces a day of reckoning. Its troops are smack in the
  sector that is home to rebel activity and the choices are difficult: Crack
  down on the forces Washington once helped create, or find a political
  solution – involving Belgrade – that ends separatist ambitions for a
  greater Albania.

   The Albanian insurgents have
   become more aggressive,
   recently taking the battle into
   Macedonia, where up to 30
   percent of the population is
   ethnic Albanian. The rebels claim
   to have 2,000 fighters, a claim
   that appears greatly
   exaggerated.

   The political equation in
   Macedonia does not favor the
   guerrillas. Ethnic Albanians
   represent a minority of the
   population; Macedonia’s
   500,000 ethnic Albanians are
   represented in the parliament
   and their political leaders have
   signaled they have no common
   cause with the rebels.

   [ Photo ]
   U.S. KFOR soldiers patrol in the village of
   Debalde, near the Kosovo-Macedonia border,
  March 13, 2001.

   The Rebels

   The next battle in the ethnic Albanians' long-running war is in Kosovo.
   There, the rebels at the center of the 1999 war have decided to bite the
   hand that feeds them – Washington's – in a desperate bid for
   independence.

   The UCK and the UCPMB appear to be assisted and coordinated by the
   organization that fought the Kosovo conflict, the old Kosovo Liberation
   Army. Recruits, weapons and training come from the old KLA in Kosovo,
   and 

Re: [CTRL] Lawyer Alleges Federal Plot Unleashed AIDS on Blacks j2

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 Lawyer Alleges Federal Plot Unleashed AIDS on Blacks

 

 A local black lawyer who has AIDS said he intends to
 take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
 http://www.vindi.com/local_news/272700775027714.shtml

 By DAVID PHINNEY

 STATES NEWS SERVICE

 WASHINGTON -- It's an accusation that embraces the most horrifying elements
 of a science fiction plot: An ultra-secret government program develops the
 AIDS virus and then the Pentagon unleashes it upon the world.

 The intended goal is to reduce the black population in Africa and the United
 States.

 Only one voice in the wilderness tirelessly works to expose the plot with
 years of digging through government records and butting heads with
 government bureaucrats. Then he braces for a last-ditch battle by taking his
 plea to the highest court in the land after being brushed away again and
 again by lesser courts.

 But this is not a movie, it's a real-life drama.

 Making allegations: The allegations of a secret program to hatch the AIDS
 epidemic are being made by Boyd E. Graves of Youngstown, an energetic black
 lawyer who has AIDS.

I don't think this Shyster got aids from being fucked by the Pentagon. I think
he got it from dipping his wick in unholy places.


 Graves, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, wrote a new chapter to the drama this
 week in Washington, D.C., when he formally announced his intention to refile
 a suit against the federal government.

 On Thursday, Graves explained that he will accuse the federal government of
 developing 60,000 liters of a biological agent in 1978 that would
 subsequently be known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

This is possible.


 In a program then propelled by the Nixon Administration, Graves alleges, the
 Pentagon subsequently spread the virus in Africa and the United States to
 cull the black population of the world.

This is stupid Black conspiracy theory. How the hell does the virus know who
is Black? How does the virus know who is not Black? This is STUPID, STUPID,
STUPID! Does the Pentagon want to wipe out the high percentage of Blacks in it's
own armed forces? STUPID!


 Smoking gun: To bolster his argument, Graves said he has located a key piece
 of evidence that represents the smoking gun to his allegations. It's a
 government flow chart from 1971 that provides a road map to research
 programs, experiments and scientific papers that he believes were directly
 involved in the development of AIDS.

Maybe.


 A number of reports on those 15 programs still exist, he said, and they
 detail every step and contract relating to the development of the human
 immune-deficiency virus (HIV), which has been linked to AIDS.

Maybe.


 Once produced, the virus was then released in Africa through smallpox
 vaccines and in New York City during a controlled Hepatitis B experimental
 vaccine, he said.

 "The issue is not what I believe, because this is the truth and these are
 the facts," he explains. "I have the program that made the AIDS virus."

Maybe. But it's a huge leap to claim that they targeted anyone group
specifically. Once the disease is out there, there is no way to control it.
This does not make for a good weapon.

This moron would do better claiming that the Pentagon developed sickle cell
anemia. That would be a more ethnospecific weapon.


 Well known: Officials with the National Cancer Institute, the National
 Institutes of Health and other agencies said they were unable to respond to
 Graves' allegations, though he is well known to many within the agencies and
 a cause of frustration because of his relentless digging for records.

 "There's no one here who remembers the Special Virus Program," offered one
 spokesman.

Meaningless cover gibberish.


 "We know nothing about it," said another.

 "But no one denies I have the documents,"

The documents do not support his claim of intent. If true, they only support
the fact that the military develops biological weapons. Now there's a flash.

 Graves retorts, though he has been
 unsuccessful in persuading two lower federal courts to call on witnesses to
 explain those records.

 Cases dismissed: In September 1999 the federal Sixth District Court in
 Cleveland dismissed his claims against the government. His case then was
 rejected by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in January.

 Both courts ruled that Graves' allegations were frivolous and vague; one
 judge called him "delusional."

 "Graves' [sic] claim concerning the AIDS virus being injected into the
 American population by the Pentagon has no basis in law or in 

[CTRL] The failing New World Order: The failing EURO.

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Poor globalists.
Just what does a guy have to do to
invent a global economy?


   Ailing single
   currency struggles
   to bridge credibility
   gap.

   Special report: economic and
   monetary union

   Mark Milner and Charlotte Denny
   Saturday March 24, 2001
   The Guardian

   The Stockholm summit has been
  confronted with an unpleasant reality:
   the euro, centrepiece of closer
economic integration, has failed to
   establish its credibility.

   The bloodbath on Wall Street and
 America's slide into recession should
 have been tailor-made for the euro to
 rival the dollar as the world's premier
   currency.

Instead Europe's single currency hit a
three month low against the dollar
this week as dealers and investors
  decided that a shell-shocked US
  economy was a better bet than the
   eurozone.

The latest demonstration of the euro's
fragility left European leaders, not for
the first time, reduced to berating the
   fickleness of financial markets.

   The mood was summed up by the
   economic affairs commissioner, Pedro
   Solbes, who claimed that foreign
   exchange traders were backing the
   wrong horse.

   "Europe is the economic safe haven of
   the developed world at the moment
and this has to be recognised by the
   markets," he said.

   He was backed by the commission
   president, Romano Prodi, who told an
   Italian newspaper: "If I had money I
   would still bet on the euro without
   any difficulty."

   The euro has had a rough ride from
   the foreign exchange market since its
   launch. Its initial exchange rate
   against the dollar was $1.17 but
   America's zippier economic
 performance compared with that of
 the 12-nation eurozone - at least until
  late last year - saw it sink like a stone,
 hitting a low of little more than 82
   cents.

  Though it subsequently recovered to
 95 cents, the recent turbulence in the
financial markets has seen it slump
   back to below 90 cents.

 "There is certainly a paradox in the
 dollar being seen as a safe haven
   when it is the US stock market which
  has been leading the way down," said
   Ken Wattret, an economist at the
   French bank BNP Paribas

 Euro supporters can draw some
  comfort from the knowledge that the
 

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  In a program then propelled by the Nixon Administration, Graves alleges, the
  Pentagon subsequently spread the virus in Africa and the United States to
  cull the black population of the world.
 
 This is stupid Black conspiracy theory. How the hell does the virus know who
 is Black? How does the virus know who is not Black? This is STUPID, STUPID,
 STUPID! Does the Pentagon want to wipe out the high percentage of Blacks in it's
 own armed forces? STUPID!

 It's called genetic engineering.

It's called science fiction fantasy bullshit. No one can do what you are
alleging.

As unpolitically correct as it is to say so, there are certain distinctive
DNA features for Black people, gays, left-handed people etc. They can use
that to make the virus far more agressive towards such people.

How do you know this? Do you just make stuff up? What you think you are
describing, can't be done yet. There is a way to target certain groups,
but not through " genetic engeneering."

And yes, some
of the racists probably would like to wipe out the blacks in the AF (the
officers at least, the grunts are expendable anyhow).

 
  Smoking gun: To bolster his argument, Graves said he has located a key piece
  of evidence that represents the smoking gun to his allegations. It's a
  government flow chart from 1971 that provides a road map to research
  programs, experiments and scientific papers that he believes were directly
  involved in the development of AIDS.
 
 Maybe.
 
 
  A number of reports on those 15 programs still exist, he said, and they
  detail every step and contract relating to the development of the human
  immune-deficiency virus (HIV), which has been linked to AIDS.
 
 Maybe.
 
 
  Once produced, the virus was then released in Africa through smallpox
  vaccines and in New York City during a controlled Hepatitis B experimental
  vaccine, he said.
 
  "The issue is not what I believe, because this is the truth and these are
  the facts," he explains. "I have the program that made the AIDS virus."
 
 Maybe. But it's a huge leap to claim that they targeted anyone group
 specifically. Once the disease is out there, there is no way to control it.
 This does not make for a good weapon.
 
 This moron would do better claiming that the Pentagon developed sickle cell
 anemia. That would be a more ethnospecific weapon.

 Try reading up on the terrible health effects black children suffer from
 being forced to drink milk at government run schools.

We're not talking about milk. We're talking about aids.

  Well known: Officials with the National Cancer Institute, the National
  Institutes of Health and other agencies said they were unable to respond to
  Graves' allegations, though he is well known to many within the agencies and
  a cause of frustration because of his relentless digging for records.
 
  "There's no one here who remembers the Special Virus Program," offered one
  spokesman.
 
 Meaningless cover gibberish.

 Yet it isn't a denial.


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[CTRL] Boy's death spotlights bias in coverage of gays.

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The Washington Times is a very conservative newspaper.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.---  J2

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/

Boy's death spotlights bias in coverage of gays

http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2001323224241.htm

March 23, 2001
By Robert Stacy McCain

There were no nationally televised candlelight vigils for Jesse
Dirkhising.  No Hollywood celebrities mourned the passing of the
13-year-old Arkansas boy.

The New York Times hasn't reported how Jesse died of asphyxiation
in 1999 after prosecutors say he was bound, gagged and sodomized
by a homosexual couple.  And the seventh-grader's death has not
caused powerful Washington activists to lobby for new federal
laws to punish such crimes.

While the 1998 death of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming provoked a
blizzard of media coverage about the death of the homosexual
college student, the Dirkhising case is just "a local crime
story," one TV network spokesman explains.

Joshua Macabe Brown, one of two men accused of killing Jesse, was
convicted yesterday of rape and first-degree murder in a trial
that began March 13.

Through yesterday afternoon, Brown's weeklong trial produced a
combined total of zero stories from the New York Times, the
Washington Post, USA Today, CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN.

Conservatives comparing coverage of the Shepard and Dirkhising
cases, which both involve homosexuality, have scolded the media
for ignoring Jesse's murder.  But the disparity in reporting on
the two murders is now provoking comment even from homosexual
critics.

"This discrepancy isn't just real.  It's staggering," Andrew
Sullivan wrote in a column in the April 2 issue of the liberal
New Republic magazine.

Mr.  Sullivan, who is homosexual, cited Nexis database statistics
showing 3,007 media stories about the Shepard killing in the
month after the Wyoming murder, but just 46 stories about
Dirkhising's murder in the month after the Arkansas boy's death.

Outside of Arkansas, the Tulsa World and the Memphis Commercial
Appeal were the only large newspapers to carry daily Associated
Press coverage of Brown's trial.  The Washington Times has
carried the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's reports on the trial in
Bentonville, Ark.

The only TV network to report on the trial has been Fox News
Channel, where "O'Reilly Factor" host Bill O'Reilly featured a
segment on the Dirkhising case titled "Is There a Double Standard
in Coverage of Hate Crimes?" on his Monday broadcast.

By contrast, the Shepard murder made front-page news — and the
cover of Time magazine — in October 1998.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt were among
the politicians who appeared with Hollywood stars like Ellen
Degeneres at a candlelight vigil on Capitol Hill to mourn Mr.
Shepard's death and demand new hate crimes laws to protect
homosexuals.

TV networks featured footage of a weeping Miss DeGeneres —whose
televised "coming out" as a lesbian made headlines in 1997
—telling the crowd at the Capitol Hill vigil, "I'm begging
heterosexuals to see this as a wake-up call to help us end the
hate.  Please raise your children with love and nonjudgment.  .
.  .  This is a war, we need your help."

Critics have charged that "political correctness" explains the
different media treatment of the Shepard and Dirkhising murders.
News organizations deny any such bias.

"Absolutely not," responded CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius.

"Every day we have 22 minutes to fill on the 'CBS Evening News,'
and every day the producers and the senior production staff have
to determine what stories make the broadcast and which don't,"
said Ms. Genelius.

"Obviously, we can't cover every story that happens in this
country every day," the CBS spokeswoman said Wednesday, "so each
day we make an editorial judgment and, on the days when [the
Dirkhising murder] story was unfolding, the overall editorial
judgment was that it couldn't fit into the broadcast that day."

"We've been watching the trial and will continue to monitor it,"
ABC News spokesman Todd Polkes said Wednesday.  "Currently, we
have no plans to report it in our national newscasts.  It appears
to be a local crime story that does not raise the kind of issues
that would warrant our coverage."

After yesterday's guilty verdict for one of Jesse's accused
killers, Mr. Polkes said there were still "no plans to [report
the verdict] on 'World News Tonight.' "

"We've been monitoring the trial," CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney
said Wednesday.  "We have an affiliate [in Fort Smith, Ark.].
But it has not been on our air yet.  .  .  . Every day, we're
striving for fair, accurate and objective reporting."

After yesterday's verdict, Miss Mahoney said CNN was receiving
coverage from its Arkansas affiliate, although no decision had
been made whether the story would be reported on the cable news
giant.

Powerful lobbying organizations like the Gay and Lesbian 

[CTRL] Damaged by the evils of the market

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4156032,00.html

Damaged by the evils of the market

The Guardian's campaign to revive public services is backed by George
Monbiot

George Monbiot

Guardian (London)
Wednesday March 21, 2001

All too often the education process is entrusted to people who appear
to have no understanding of industry and the path of progress," the
European Roundtable of Industrialists complained in 1998. "The
provision of education is a market opportunity and should be treated
as such."

Companies have not been slow to respond. Some have donated free
exercise books to British schools. Interleaved with the blank pages
are such salutary exhortations as "Stand up for your beliefs and
values; take responsibility for your own actions; [get] spot
protection by simply washing daily [with] Clearasil". Others have
handed out teaching materials. A pack about "puberty and menstrual
health", kindly provided by Tampax, warns girls that sanitary pads are
uncomfortable, unhygienic and environmentally damaging; Tampax
tampons, by contrast, are good for you and good for the planet.

A school newspaper partly sponsored by Nestl published a page of
children's poems and stories about Nestl products, such as "Nestl
chocolate is the best/ Eat it for a hairy chest..." A teaching pack
from Coca-Cola instructs pupils that non-refillable bottles are more
environmentally-friendly than returnable ones.

But the sponsorship of teaching materials is the least of the market
opportunities education now provides. The government's education
action zones are clusters of schools run by committees on which
businesses must be represented. Last year the government launched a
network of "city academies": urban secondary schools partly run by the
private sector. Next month schools in Leeds will be outsourced to a
"joint venture company".

The market, the champions of privatisation argue, is keener and leaner
than the public sector. With a vested interest in cost-effectiveness,
companies are more efficient than the bureaucracies handling other
people's money. The opponents of commercialisation argue that market
efficiency and social efficiency are very different matters. Company
directors have a "fiduciary duty" towards their shareholders: they are
legally obliged to put their interests first, even if these clash with
the interests of society.

Some parents fear, for example, that companies running schools will
seek to exclude failing pupils in order to improve their ratings, and
hence their market value. The firms involved in education action zones
are likely to be more interested in training a pliable corporate
workforce than turning out well-rounded citizens.

This is not to say that public and private interests are always in
conflict. Few would argue, for example, that telecoms worked better
when they were controlled by the state. The government nationalised
the railways in 1948 partly to avoid paying the compensation necessary
for reinvestment after the war. They have been run down ever since.
But reprivatisation in 1996 merely compounded the damage, as the
operating companies were also relieved of the responsibility to
invest.

The problem is that market values are now intruding into almost every
aspect of public life, whether or not they are appropriate. When
aristocrats enjoyed inordinate power in Britain, they insisted that
they were the only ones who had the expertise needed to run the
country. Today business people make the same claim, and governments
seem prepared to believe them. There are two principal means by which
the market is coming to run the country.

The first is the establishment of quasi-corporate systems in public
services. Management structures and pay scales mimic those of the
private sector. Public provision is tested according to "best value"
criteria. If it's found wanting, it's sub-contracted to the private
sector. New ac counting procedures, such as "capitation" in the NHS
and "producer choice" in the BBC, enable public services to become
interchangeable with private ones.

Interestingly, many of the new accounting methods would never be
tolerated in a real corporation, as staff who should be saving lives
or making programmes are instead buried in paperwork.

But the most effective means of subjecting public services to the
rigours of the market is to privatise them. The "private finance
initiative" was described by one of its architects as "the Heineken of
privatisation - taking the private sector to the parts of the
government machine not reached by previous privatisations". Though
most of us have yet to notice, corporations are gradually taking over
almost every public service in Britain. The government claims that by
attracting private money it can start building more hospitals,
schools, prisons, roads and underground stations than it could have
funded by itself.

The first problem is that the private sector will only invest in
schemes which make money. It's not 

Re: [CTRL] How it's done: When you write the laws... you canlegalizetheft.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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 "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
 and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

 Nurev Ind Research wrote:
 
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   ===
   NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
   2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
   Washington DC 20037
   World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
   ===
   For release: March 22, 2001
   ===

 HA! J2 posting a Libertarian party press release (and
 in a favorable light)?! Never thought I'd see the day
 In defense, I assume he'll come back with something
 along the lines of: even if a fool says the sun is shining,
 doesn't mean the moon's out.


It's not in a favorable light. It's merely the truth. Even
Libertarians are sometimes capable of truth. The problem is that
they are incapable of the WHOLE truth. The government is half the
problem. The Rich and their economic system is the REAL core of
the problem.

C'mon. Let me hear you shout it out Libertarians. Capitalism SUCKS!!
"__"

H. I thought so.

Joshua2
=
 The title of the thread sure seems to hit the nail on the
 head. As what's-his-face long ago put it:

 "All the great governments of the world - those now
 existing, as well as those that have passed away - have been
 of this character. They have been mere bands of impostors,
 who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and
 the enslavement of their fellow men. And their laws, as they
 have called them, have been only such agreements as they
 have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain
 their organizations, and act together in plundering and
 enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share
 of the spoils.

 "All these laws have had no more real obligation
 than have the agreements which brigands, bandits, and
 pirates find it necessary to enter into with each other, for
 the more successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the
 more peaceable division of their spoils.

 "Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has
 had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to
 plunder and enslave others These laws have continued in
 force for hundreds, and, in some countries, for thousands of
 years; and are in force today, in greater or less severity,
 in nearly all the countries on the globe.

 "The purpose and effect of these laws have been to
 maintain, in the hands of the robber, or slave holding
 class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of
 all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the
 great body of laborers in such a state of poverty and
 dependence, as would compel them to sell their labor to
 their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be
 sustained.

 "The result of all this is, that the little wealth
 there is in the world is all in the hands of a few - that
 is, in the hands of the law-making, slave-holding class; who
 are now as much slaveholders in spirit as they ever were,
 but who accomplish their purposes by means of the laws they
 make for keeping the laborers in subjection and dependence,
 instead of each one's owning his individual slaves as so
 many chattels.

 "Thus the whole business of legislation, which has
 now grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in
 CONSPIRACIES, which have always existed among the few, for
 the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and extorting
 from them their labor, and the profits of their labor.

 "And the real motives and spirit which lie at the
 foundation of all legislation - notwithstanding all the
 pretenses and disguises by which they attempt to hide
 themselves - are the same today as they always have been.
 The whole purpose of this legislation is simply to keep one
 class of men in subordination and servitude to another."
 -- Lysander Spooner (1876)

 ...and let's not forget that:

 "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of
  men living together in society, they create for
  themselves in the course of time, a legal system
  that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies
  it". Frederic Bastiat

 "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the
  laws." --Tacitus

  "The state calls its own violence law, but that of
  the individual, crime." --Max Stirner

  "Every man is free to do that which he wills,
  provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any
  other man." --Herbert Spencer

  "What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by
  one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible
  dominion over all other men whom they can subject to
  their power." --Lysander Spooner

  "Sometimes the law 

[CTRL] The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti

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 Michael Parenti is what Noam Comsky would be if he'd have grown a pair.

--- J2 --



   The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia

  by Michael Parenti

In 1999, the U.S. national security state -- which has been involved
throughout the world in subversion, sabotage, terrorism, torture, drug
trafficking, and death squads -- launched round-the-clock aerial attacks
against Yugoslavia for 78 days, dropping 20,000 tons of bombs and
killing thousands of women, children, and men. All this was done out of
humanitarian concern for Albanians in Kosovo. Or so we were asked to
believe. In the span of a few months, President Clinton bombed four
countries: Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq repeatedly, and Yugoslavia
massively. At the same time, the U.S. was involved in proxy wars in
Angola, Mexico (Chiapas), Colombia, East Timor, and various other
places. And U.S. forces are deployed on every continent and ocean,
with some 300 major overseas support bases -- all in the name of
peace, democracy, national security, and humanitarianism.

While showing themselves ready and willing to bomb Yugoslavia on
behalf of an ostensibly oppressed minority in Kosovo, U.S. leaders have
made no moves against the Czech Republic for its mistreatment of the
Romany people (gypsies), or Britain for oppressing the Catholic
minority in Northern Ireland, or the Hutu for the mass murder of a half
million Tutsi in Rwanda -- not to mention the French who were
complicit in that massacre. Nor have U.S. leaders considered launching
"humanitarian bombings" against the Turkish people for what their
leaders have done to the Kurds, or the Indonesian people because their
generals killed over 200,000 East Timorese and were continuing such
slaughter through the summer of 1999, or the Guatemalans for the
Guatemalan military's systematic extermination of tens of thousands of
Mayan villagers. In such cases, U.S. leaders not only tolerated such
atrocities but were actively complicit with the perpetrators -- who
usually happened to be faithful client-state allies dedicated to helping
Washington make the world safe for the Fortune 500.

Why then did U.S. leaders wage an unrestrainedly murderous assault
upon Yugoslavia?

The Third Worldization of Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia was built on an idea, namely that the Southern Slavs would
not remain weak and divided peoples, squabbling among themselves
and easy prey to outside imperial interests. Together they could form a
substantial territory capable of its own economic development. Indeed,
after World War II, socialist Yugoslavia became a viable nation and an
economic success. Between 1960 and 1980 it had one of the most
vigorous growth rates: a decent standard of living, free medical care
and education, a guaranteed right to a job, one-month vacation with
pay, a literacy rate of over 90 percent, and a life expectancy of 72
years. Yugoslavia also offered its multi-ethnic citizenry affordable public
transportation, housing, and utilities, with a not-for-profit economy that
was mostly publicly owned. This was not the kind of country global
capitalism would normally tolerate. Still, socialistic Yugoslavia was
allowed to exist for 45 years because it was seen as a nonaligned buffer
to the Warsaw Pact nations.

The dismemberment and mutilation of Yugoslavia was part of a
concerted policy initiated by the United States and the other Western
powers in 1989. Yugoslavia was the one country in Eastern Europe that
would not voluntarily overthrow what remained of its socialist system
and install a free-market economic order. In fact, Yugoslavs were proud
of their postwar economic development and of their independence from
both the Warsaw Pact and NATO. The U.S. goal has been to transform
the Yugoslav nation into a Third-World region, a cluster of weak
right-wing principalities with the following characteristics:

 incapable of charting an independent course of self-development;
 a shattered economy and natural resources completely accessible
 to multinational corporate exploitation, including the enormous
 mineral wealth in Kosovo;
 an impoverished, but literate and skilled population forced to work
 at subsistence wages, constituting a cheap labor pool that will help
 depress wages in western Europe and elsewhere;
 dismantled petroleum, engineering, mining, fertilizer, and
 automobile industries, and various light industries, that offer no
 further competition with existing Western producers.

U.S. policymakers also want to abolish Yugoslavia's public sector
services and social programs -- for the same reason they want to

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Jeff Russo wrote:

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 NUREV citing the Libertarians? What has the world come to?

 jeff

Even Libertarians are right twice a day.

Joshua2


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   U.S. House planning "sneakiest pay raise
   in history," Libertarians warn Americans
 
   WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. House is planning to give itself
   "the sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn: a tax-free,
   $165-per-day payment that would be activated the moment an obscure
   House panel declares their colleagues are "eligible."
 
   "These devious politicians have hatched another scheme
   to get rich quick at your expense, without accepting any blame," said
   Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party national director. "And if we don't
   speak out immediately, expect this raise to be approved faster than you
   can say 'pickpocket.' "
 
   Just two months after accepting a raise to an
   exorbitant $145,100 a year, House representatives are working behind
   the scenes to enact a "per diem" expense allowance of $165 per working
   day. With about 151 legislative days per year, the raise would amount
   to a $25,000-a-year, tax-exempt pay hike.
 
   But as the public finds out about the maneuver, House
   leaders "are getting nervous," according to Capitol Hill sources, and
   the proposal could be shelved -- or enacted -- at any time.
 
   "This episode demonstrates that the one word that
   should strike fear into the hearts of every American is 'bipartisan.'
   After all, there's nothing more dangerous, or expensive, than Democrats
   and Republicans working in harmony to funnel your money into their
   pockets," Dasbach said.
 
   As for the amount -- $165 per working day -- he
   quipped: "How much would we have to pay them just to stay home?"
 
   Dasbach predicted that taxpayers would have difficulty
   deciding what to dislike most about "the sneakiest pay raise in
   history": the sneakiness itself, the greed, or the hypocrisy.
 
* The Sneakiness: "To avoid publicity, Congressional
   leaders agreed to delegate the power to approve the raise to the House
   Administration Committee, a low-profile panel that administers payroll
   and accounting," Dasbach said. "The panel of six Republicans and three
   Democrats can trigger the $165 per diem by simply declaring that their
   House colleagues are 'eligible' for it.
 
   "Why are politicians trying so hard to cover their
   tracks? Because they remember the public outcry over their last salary
   grab of $3,800 a year, which was opposed by 71 percent of the voters.
   But don't let them get away with delegating their dirty work to their
   cronies on the committee. There may be only nine conspirators, but
   there are 426 co-conspirators in the 435-member House -- and all of
   them should be held accountable."
 
   * The Greed: "If they pile a tax-free $25,000 raise on
   top of their lavish salaries, they will be raking in the equivalent of
   a $190,000 taxable salary, not including their lucrative pensions, a
   $3,000 tax exemption for a second home, and other benefits," Dasbach
   said. "And if this raise goes through, Congressional salaries will have
   risen an astronomical $80,600 over the last decade, meaning their
   raises alone will dwarf the median American family's income. It's time
   to stand up and say, 'Enough is Enough!' "
 
   *  The Hypocrisy: "A $25,000 raise isn't enough for
   these money-grubbing politicians; they want a $25,000 tax-free raise!"
   Dasbach said. "It's obvious that House politicians have a love-hate
   relationship with the income tax: They love it when you pay yours, but
   hate having to pay theirs. You know the government is corrupt when an
   activity that can make politicians rich -- in this case, income tax
   evasion -- can get ordinary Americans thrown in jail.
 
   "That's why every Americ

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 WHO'S BEHIND THE STATEMENTS OF "NONPARTISAN" THINK TANKS?

 Opinions and news commentary in the News  Record, as well as other
 media, often come from persons identified with organizations that claim to
be
 non-partisan. Readers need to know a bit more about where these statements
 are coming from and who is behind them financially. When the author is a
 corporate executive or a labor representative, one knows where his or her
 loyalties lie. When the connection is with a think-tank, however, that is
 less clear.

 These sources generally claim to be non-partisan research
organizations,
 while actually slanting their writings toward one party or against another
 and showing little evidence of any objective research despite their
 tax-exempt status.

 When they are described as "conservative," "liberal" or "progressive,"
we
 have an idea of their orientation, but most have misleading or
 non-descriptive names that often sound similar. A study by California
State
 University researcher Michael Dolny found that right-wing think tanks were
 quoted more often than liberal ones, and their ideology was identified
less
 often.

 Over time I have been compiling the following information about
 think-tanks and other organizations that should be helpful to readers who
 "consider the source."

 Air Quality Standards Coalition is the main group lobbying against
 environmental protection rules. Made up of over 700 companies and housed
at
 the National Association of Manufacturers, it is headed by C. Boyden Gray,
 heir to a tobacco fortune, lobbyist for a Utah steel company, and former
 counsel to the first President Bush.

 American Enterprise Institute, in four years for which information is
 available, received at least $1,714,000 from pharmaceutical, medical
device,
 biotechnology and tobacco companies and corporate foundations interested
in
 curtailing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation, as well as
 financial support from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the
Mellon
 banking, manufacturing, and oil fortune.

 American Tort Reform Association (see Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse).

 Cato Institute, funded by corporations that oppose government
regulation,
 is the leader of a coalition spending huge amounts for Social Security
 privatization, cochaired by William Shipman of State Street Global
Advisors,
 an investment company that would benefit financially. Cato was also one of
 seven think tanks opposing FDA regulations that received at least $3.5
 million from corporations interested in downsizing the agency.

 Center for Justice  Democracy, formerly Citizens for Corporate
 Accountability  Individual Rights, works with Public Citizen, an
 organization founded by Ralph Nader.

 Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) is the name used by fake
grassroots
 organizations for "tort reform" opposing lawsuits against corporations.
 Litigation has revealed that the big tobacco companies and other major
 industries were behind CALAs as well as the American Tort Reform
Association.

 Citizens for a Sound Economy is a business-backed lobby that opposes
EPA
 air quality standards. It has also worked for a flat tax and lobbied
against
 the FDA. Its chairman is the same C. Boyden Gray who heads the Air Quality
 Standards Coalition and has lobbied for biotech drug-maker Amgen, Inc.

 Coalition for Vehicle Choice argues against stricter auto fuel-economy
 standards. Its money comes from Detroit auto makers.

 Competitive Enterprise Institute is another of the seven think tanks
 opposing FDA regulations that received at least $3.5 million from
 corporations interested in downsizing the agency.
 Concord Coalition's president is Peter G. Peterson, who was commerce
 secretary to Nixon, an investment banker since then, and an advocate of a
 national sales tax.  The Concord Coalition has proposed a ceiling on taxes
 for big business and the wealthy, but cuts in Social Security and
Medicare.

 Contributions Watch, which studied political giving by trial lawyers
 nationwide, was set up by a PR firm hired by Philip Morris.

 Electric Consumers Resource Council is a Washington lobbying group
whose
 "consumers" are big industrial users of electricity, such as General
Motors,
 Texaco and Procter  Gamble.

 Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) is
funded
 by oil companies and conservative foundations. Douglas H. Ginsburg, a
 District of Columbia appeals court judge, sits on its board of directors
and
 ruled as a judge against EPA air quality standards. FREE, which receives
 hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations that have critical
cases
 in the courts, has paid for hundreds of judges to attend anti-regulation
 seminars at luxury resorts.

 Free Congress Foundation, another group that received funding from
Mellon
 heir Scaife, set up a toll-free hot line for women to claim they had been
 sexually 

[CTRL] Attention Liberals: This is a battle for equal rights, you are needed to support another humanitarian war in the Balkans.

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LIBERALS
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Poor NATO needs your help again to finish off the Former Yugoslavia.
Won't you join with the brave National Liberation Army, and help them
secure the sex slave and heroin routes they are desperately defending
in the name of equality, peace , and goodness.

Please remember. Greater Albania will be an open, warm, and accepting place.
It will accept heroin from Turkey. White girls from Eastern Europe and
Russia. And, most importantly, oil and gas from the Caspian region.

You helped us liberate Kosovo from the Slavs. Won't you help us do it again
in Macedonia? They are so evil, and we are so oppressed. Pleeeaaase.

Warm wet fuzzies to you all,
Faazie Da Bear

   U.C.K./ National Liberation Army

J2 =

US groups send arms to rebels

The Guardian (London)
March 20, 2001

Julian Borger in Washington

Albanian-Americans are contributing recruits, money and weapons to the
rebellion in Macedonia, believing it to be as important a struggle as the
war in Kosovo two years ago, community leaders said yesterday.
The rebel National Liberation Army (NLA) published advertisements in
Albanian-language newspapers in the US on Saturday, calling for volunteers
and donations, and held recruitment campaigns at the weekend.
"About 20 people have gone already," Dervish Jahjaga, editor of Bota Sot, an
Albanian-language newspaper in New York, said. "And if the fighting
continues like this and spreads to western Macedonia, then hundreds will go
.. More than went to Kosovo perhaps."

Several hundred Albanian-Americans, mostly from New York, joined the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) to fight the Serbs in 1998 and 1999. Some of the same
volunteers, known as the Atlantic Brigade, are reportedly joining the NLA.
Homeland Calling, the same organisation which raised money and bought arms
for the KLA, is currently performing the same function for the new group.
Members of Homeland Calling have also been browsing gun fairs, where
regulations on weapons purchases are looser than in gun shops, in recent
weeks.

The NLA and Homeland Calling appear convinced that Nato will not intervene
against the rebels in Macedonia.  In the wake of troop withdrawals from
Bosnia announced last week, the insurgents believe that George Bush's
administration does not have the stomach to fight its former Albanian
allies.

Even if Nato were to make a concerted effort to stop arms flowing into
Macedonia from Kosovo, Mr Jahjaga said, the guns would simply come across
from Albania.

"There are so many ways for weapons to go across. There are very high
mountains for them to go across. And everyone in Albania has weapons," he
said. "Weapons are not a problem. Peace is the problem."

The New York Times yesterday reported that the NLA had succeeded in raising
$500,000 (350,000) in donations from Albanian-Americans who view the
situation of the Albanian community in Macedonia as comparable to the plight
of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo under Yugoslav rule.

Mr Jahjaga said reports were coming in to New York that Bulgarian
paramilitary groups were intervening on the Macedonian side, aided by
weapons supplies from both Greece and Bulgaria. He denied that the aim of
the Albanian rebels was to partition Macedonia and create a greater Albania.

"This is a battle for equal rights," he said.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: George Soros and Rothschild (Red Shield he stole) andMarcRich

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Aleisha Saba wrote:

 These connections are self evident, but note the name Eisenberg, Shaul -
 for Rich's wife, maiden name was Eisenberg - this is criminal organized
 crime - once called criminal syndicalism which is contrary to law in USA
 - now just toss in the big crooks Hill and Bill and see the scenario
 develop into the bigger picture.

 This KGB/MOSSAD - this is Jewish Mafia connected stuff into which Meyer
 Lansky had been initiated - a born again killer?   Strange England, USA,
 Canada and Australia seem to be specific targets of this Richie Rich
 garbage

 And all the time I thought Judas was Italian?

That's because you're a moron.
You are just about the dumbest cow I've ever run across.
Keep up the good work.

J2

 Saba

George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection
 By Jan Von Helsing ("Secret Societies and their Power in the 20th
 Century")
  Special Note : The author of this book is German. He claims he has
 several jewish friends and is
 not racist or prejudice, but often cites the Talmud as a guide book for
 certain Jews and discusses a
 Jewish Conspiracy that involves elements of Zionism and other conspiracy
 issues as well. I do not
 agree wholeheartedly with the author's entire beliefs, however alot of
 the research on a variety of
 other topics is VERY GOOD. We are seeking truth here and not Hatred or
 prejudice, as a matter of
 FACT, I was raised Jewish myself. For my views on the Jewish Conspiracy,
 you will have to go Here
 to find out, this is not the forum.
 The now 64 year old Hungarian with a U.S. passport is the
 superstar amidst the great speculators.
 When the last "Forbes" list of the best paid managers and financiers was
 published, Soros was in the
 lead by a huge margin. In the last year he earned 550 million US$,
 twenty times as much as the
 Disney Boss. When Soros opens the hunt, the international money markets
 get moving and the
 reserve banks start worrying. In Sept. 1993 he succeeded over the Bank
 of England. He was
 certain the Bank would have to take the pound that came under pressure
 out of the European
 exchange mechanism  and devalue it. He gambled 10 Billion US$ --with
 success. He made 1 Billion
 US$, which the British taxpayers now have to come up with. He himself
 likes to be openly known
 as the man who wants to influence the big money markets of the world.
 This is a very unusual stance
 for an investor to take, who should rather be interested in using
 situations unobservantly that the
 competitors have not yet discovered. In March 1993, Soros' activities
 became known when he
 predicted a rise in the price of gold. It is assumed --since this
 started a buying spree in precious
 metals --that this drove the price up 20% over the highest price since
 the Gulf War. In the beginning
 of June 1993, he wrote an open letter to the business editor of the
 London Times, Anatole
 Kaletsky, announcing that he intented to urge the money markets to sell
 large amounts of German
 government bonds in favor of French stocks. Which means: Down with the
 German mark and
 attack on the Bundesbank!
 In several newspapers across the world Soros is praised as a
 kind of "Robin Hood of the Computer Age", since by speculation he takes
 from the rich nations in grand style to hand out to
 Eastern Europe and Russia via several Soros Foundations, to prepare the
 way for "Democracy" in
 those "poor" countries that had been bled dry by communism.
 Who then is Soros? The official story says that he was born in
 1930 to Jewish parents and as a
 teenager had been chased from Budapest by the Nazis. He enrolled at the
 "London School of
 Economics" and in the mid-50's came to the U.S. There he was magically
 drawn to Wall Street, but
 his career until 1969 was unspectacular. Then with a partner he took
 over an investment fund. He
 sold stocks he didn't own as futures, hoping that their price would fall
 nearer the qualifying date and
 that he could aquire them at a price lower than his selling price.
 From this fund the "Quantum Group" evolved, a family of
 investment funds operating from the
 Dutch West Indies. Quantum is one of the most impressive "investment
 machines" in the world. In
 8 of the last 24 years it made an "official" profit of over 50%, in 2 of
 those years even over 100%.
 In the meantime Soros handed business over to a group of managers and
 limits himself to designing
 the "great campaigns". He put down his princples in the book, "The
 Alchemy of Finance", where he
 says what "financial speculators think more important than real economic
 facts".
 But this is but the picture the media -- and we know who owns
 them --paint of him. Who is he in
 reality?
 William Engdahl knows this to say about him:
 "Soros speculates on the world's financial markets via his
 secret off-shore company, "Quantum
 Fund NV", a private "investment fund" that handles a portfolio of 4 to 7
 Billion US$ for several
 "clients". The Quantum 

[CTRL] How it's done: When you write the laws... you can legalize theft.

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 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
 Washington DC 20037
 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
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 For release: March 22, 2001
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 For additional information:
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 U.S. House planning "sneakiest pay raise
 in history," Libertarians warn Americans

 WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. House is planning to give itself
 "the sneakiest pay raise in history," Libertarians warn: a tax-free,
 $165-per-day payment that would be activated the moment an obscure
 House panel declares their colleagues are "eligible."

 "These devious politicians have hatched another scheme
 to get rich quick at your expense, without accepting any blame," said
 Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party national director. "And if we don't
 speak out immediately, expect this raise to be approved faster than you
 can say 'pickpocket.' "

 Just two months after accepting a raise to an
 exorbitant $145,100 a year, House representatives are working behind
 the scenes to enact a "per diem" expense allowance of $165 per working
 day. With about 151 legislative days per year, the raise would amount
 to a $25,000-a-year, tax-exempt pay hike.

 But as the public finds out about the maneuver, House
 leaders "are getting nervous," according to Capitol Hill sources, and
 the proposal could be shelved -- or enacted -- at any time.

 "This episode demonstrates that the one word that
 should strike fear into the hearts of every American is 'bipartisan.'
 After all, there's nothing more dangerous, or expensive, than Democrats
 and Republicans working in harmony to funnel your money into their
 pockets," Dasbach said.

 As for the amount -- $165 per working day -- he
 quipped: "How much would we have to pay them just to stay home?"

 Dasbach predicted that taxpayers would have difficulty
 deciding what to dislike most about "the sneakiest pay raise in
 history": the sneakiness itself, the greed, or the hypocrisy.

  * The Sneakiness: "To avoid publicity, Congressional
 leaders agreed to delegate the power to approve the raise to the House
 Administration Committee, a low-profile panel that administers payroll
 and accounting," Dasbach said. "The panel of six Republicans and three
 Democrats can trigger the $165 per diem by simply declaring that their
 House colleagues are 'eligible' for it.

 "Why are politicians trying so hard to cover their
 tracks? Because they remember the public outcry over their last salary
 grab of $3,800 a year, which was opposed by 71 percent of the voters.
 But don't let them get away with delegating their dirty work to their
 cronies on the committee. There may be only nine conspirators, but
 there are 426 co-conspirators in the 435-member House -- and all of
 them should be held accountable."

 * The Greed: "If they pile a tax-free $25,000 raise on
 top of their lavish salaries, they will be raking in the equivalent of
 a $190,000 taxable salary, not including their lucrative pensions, a
 $3,000 tax exemption for a second home, and other benefits," Dasbach
 said. "And if this raise goes through, Congressional salaries will have
 risen an astronomical $80,600 over the last decade, meaning their
 raises alone will dwarf the median American family's income. It's time
 to stand up and say, 'Enough is Enough!' "

 *  The Hypocrisy: "A $25,000 raise isn't enough for
 these money-grubbing politicians; they want a $25,000 tax-free raise!"
 Dasbach said. "It's obvious that House politicians have a love-hate
 relationship with the income tax: They love it when you pay yours, but
 hate having to pay theirs. You know the government is corrupt when an
 activity that can make politicians rich -- in this case, income tax
 evasion -- can get ordinary Americans thrown in jail.

 "That's why every American should help us combat
 Congress's latest salary grab. Think of it as preventing a Capitol
 crime."

  Sentby  Paul E Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[CTRL] [Fwd: GRAVES ALERTS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO AIDS BRIEF]

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 Original Message 
Subject: GRAVES ALERTS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO AIDS BRIEF
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:33:44 -0600 (CST)
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;

This is about Boyd Graves discovery of a Flow Chart and of progress
reports of a secret federal virus development program that produced 60,000
liters of AIDS virus by 1978 and of his call for review of the 30 year old
"blueprint recipe" for AIDS by the Dubbya Supreme Court.

It's outside the usual scope of globalization topics - but I think it fits
in rather well.

 The court will be under siege to adjudicate the significance of the Flow
Chart and progress reports of a secret federal virus development program
that produced 60,000 liters of AIDS virus (and other illnesses) by 1978.

Cheers
MichaelP
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March 19, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.boydgraves.com/press/031901.html

Contact:  Boyd E. Graves, J.D. 888-842-6419

  U.S. Supreme Court 202-479-3011

GRAVES ALERTS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO AIDS BRIEF

(Washington, D.C.) Boyd E. Graves, J.D. today notified the Clerk of the
United States Supreme that he will file the people's brief on April 11,
2001 on behalf of the 30 million innocent victims of the U.S. Special
Virus program (1962-1978). The filing follows the Sixth Circuit's Election
Day order ruling Graves' case and the origin of AIDS as "frivolous"
November 7, 2000.

This is the one case the high court can not turn aside," declared Graves.
"We will buttress our brief with the petitions in support of our efforts
from common America."

  Our call for review of the 30 year old "blueprint recipe" for AIDS is
just. The nation's high court will be under siege to adjudicate the
significance of the Flow Chart and progress reports of a secret federal
virus development program that produced 60,000 liters of AIDS virus (and
other illnesses) by 1978.

According to a spokesperson for the Court's public affairs office, they
anticipate Graves will attract a crowd on April 11 when he files his brief
at 11:00a.m. and makes his statement on the Court's steps. They are also
aware of the growing international interest this case has attracted from
Argentina, to Croatia, to Germany, to Kenya, to Malaysia, to South Africa
and Zimbabwe.

"We have met the extraordinary proof requirement to allow our
extraordinary claims to be heard."  "We are confident the U.S.
Constitution compels this Court the ultimate duty of blanket coverage of
"equal protection". Poor people with AIDS must be entitled to Equal
Justice Under Law. The issue of AIDS bioengineering is real and supported
by credible and substantial U.S. medical and scientific documentation as
well as the 'manipulative' policy decisions of Richard Nixon and others."

###

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[CTRL] How it's done: Globalist imperialism.

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Sunday 18 March 2001

NATO still has no business in Kosovo
http://www.montrealgazette.com/editorial/pages/010318/5024111.html

GEORGE JONAS
Freelance

During the past two weeks, American KFOR troops have been engaged in
sporadic firefights with ethnic-Albanian guerrillas at the Macedonian
border. Earlier this month, the insurgents killed three Macedonian border
guards, while the KFOR troops wounded two Albanian guerrillas. On March 9,
an Associated Press photograph, showing soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne
Division on "aggressive patrol" along the Kosovo-Macedonian border, made the
rounds of the world's press.

Macedonia's population is 30-per-cent ethnic-Albanian. The guerrillas,
linked to the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which was disbanded after
the end of the hostilities and subsequently defeated at the polls, continue
to pursue their goal of an independent Albanian Kosovo. Albanians see this
entity, territorially enlarged at the expense of Macedonia and western
Serbia, either as a sovereign country or eventually as a part of greater
Albania.

The apparent aim of the guerrillas (now calling themselves the National
Liberation Army) is to initiate terrorist attacks in border areas, forcing a
heavy-handed response from Macedonian and Serbian forces, which in turn
would induce the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations
to carve out larger protected zones for the Albanian population along
Kosovo's frontiers. In time, these areas would also become part of an
independent Kosovo.

This was the KLA's strategy during the late 1990s. The method worked, at
least up to a point. The Albanian guerrillas attacked; Serb forces under
Slobodan Milosevic responded with brutality and ethnic cleansing, until NATO
bombed a truncated and truculent Yugoslavia into submission. Though the West
didn't detach Kosovo and give it independence, NATO forces occupied the
region and made it a Western protectorate.

The Albanian militants are hoping for the same thing to happen again, but
this time circumstances might not favour them. Yugoslavia's president is no
longer the savage Milosevic but the moderate Vojislav Kostunica. NATO has
invited Serbian forces to reoccupy the border zone. The West, until recently
the ally of ethnic-Albanians against the Serbs, is posed to emerge as the
ally of the Serbs against the Albanians.

One is hardly surprised. "As the curtain falls on the first act," I wrote 18
months ago, "NATO has put an end to the ethnic cleansing of an Albanian
majority by a Serb minority in Kosovo, and is now all set to preside over
the ethnic cleansing of a Serb minority by an Albanian majority.

"It was the KLA's war long before it was NATO's, and now the KLA feels that
it has won. Unlike NATO's soldiers, ethnic-Albanian guerrillas have shed
their blood. Not unreasonably, they want to claim the fruits of their
victory, which they don't see as running for office in UN-supervised
elections. They see it as ruling over an independent Kosovo.

"If NATO's new-world-order liberals acquiesce, they'll have simply endorsed
one ethnic state over another. If they don't, their next war will be with
the KLA. NATO can bomb, and maybe ask Slobodan Milosevic or his successor to
help out on the ground."

Less than a year later, nearly 80 per cent of ethnic-Serbs had been forced
out of Kosovo. By May 2000, the reverse ethnic cleansing impelled KFOR's
commander, General Klaus Reinhardt, to remark: "When NATO came into Kosovo
we were only supposed to fight the Yugoslav army if they came back
uninvited. Now we're finding we have to fight the Albanians."

After the passage of another 10 months, the new Yugoslav president,
Kostunica, was speaking with no more enthusiasm for NATO's mission than his
predecessor, Milosevic. Accepting KFOR's invitation to reoccupy the border
zone, Kostunica remarked earlier this month that NATO's protectorate in
Kosovo had only "stimulated terrorism instead of getting rid of it."

Kostunica's deputy prime minister, Momcilo Perisic, went a step farther,
according to the Yugoslav newspaper BLIC. In a March 12 interview, Perisic
suggested NATO should bomb the Albanian insurgents, if necessary. If NATO
accepts the deputy prime minister's suggestion, things will have gone full
circle, exactly as predicted nearly two years ago.

In a conflict involving two ethnic groups' desire for mastery over a
region - as in Kosovo - a third party has no business. Some conflicts, like
some fires, have to be allowed to burn out. Using NATO to act out mushy
liberal fantasies, and trying to fit every region into the procrustean bed
of a multicultural dream, accomplishes little beyond dragging the West into
a quagmire.

- George Jonas is a Toronto-based author and freelance journalist.

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 Original Message 
Subject: Bad News Bears...
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:46:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Norman Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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BAD NEWS BEARS CHANGE TONE OF MEDIA SCRIPT

By Norman Solomon   /   Creators Syndicate

 When the Ameritrade company launched a $200 million marketing
drive to explain the joys of online trading in autumn 1999, a barrage of TV
commercials invited viewers to join in the fun. The news was bullish, and
the firm's motto -- "Believe in yourself" -- provided an upbeat message.
Tech stocks led advances in self-affirmation.

 A senior vice president at Ameritrade proclaimed that online
investing "empowers individuals to take control of their financial lives."
Within several months, the Nasdaq composite index nearly doubled. When
spring 2000 began, plenty of satisfied new customers were glad to be
playing the click-and-invest game.

 Now, four seasons later, the Nasdaq is less than half of where it
was. Losses have been particularly devastating for many of the investors
who'd found the get-with-it advertisements and other media hype too
irresistible to resist a year ago.

 These days, the online trading commercials are on television with
less frequency and less exuberance. They seem to be more targeted at
long-term professional investors. Meanwhile, journalists speak ruefully,
sometimes in morose tones, about the digital gold that has turned to
silicon ashes in the mouths of America's stock-buying public.

 Sure, "caveat emptor" and all that. Everyone should have known the
risks. The same can be said for millions of consumers who have let smiley
cigarette advertisements coax them into smoking. But if the online trading
ads carried any warning labels at all, they were in very small print.

 On a daily basis, CNN's "Moneyline" and many other national TV
programs stoked the buying frenzy. It was all quite lucrative -- bringing
in record levels of commissions for brokerage houses and high ratings for
market-fixated network shows. Only spoilsports warned that disaster loomed,
and they didn't get nearly as much air time as the boosters.

 Today, news reports tell about formerly soaring dot-com executives
who have seen their multimillions (or billions) turn into Nasdaq rubble.
Even in burned-out condition, the stars of cyberspace get plenty of media
attention. Less common are the stories that focus on rank-and-file
investors who lost most of their life's savings.

 We still aren't getting much coverage of some grim details. For
instance: How were so many people drawn in by the warm-and-cuddly images of
investment-by-mouse as a means to financial security and personal glory?
What was it about the prevailing media environment that persuaded millions
of Americans to put money they couldn't afford to lose into high-tech
stocks that were incapable of sustaining vastly inflated share prices?

 Eighteen months ago, Ameritrade was boasting in a news release
that its huge ad blitz would go after every sector of society: "The
campaign's target audience is more psychographic than demographic, cutting
across all ages, races, professions and income levels."

 All "income levels" included people with close to zero disposable
income. The online brokerage firms proved adept at separating a lot of
those individuals from their money.

 Whatever their economic class, many in the cross hairs stood to
forfeit more than dollars. To the extent that they bought into ad pitches
and broader media mania for online trading, people were also vulnerable to
bait-and-switch tactics that manipulated insecurities in the realm of
self-esteem. With stocks climbing, a slogan like "Believe in yourself" was
apt to seem like a welcome boost, a pat on the back. But when self-regard
is pegged to stock prices, what happens when the market tanks?

 Embedded in the ostensible affirmation was a much less humanistic
message: Believe in wealth. And no matter where the market is headed,
that's a message that ends up doing enormous damage -- inflicted with the
help of ongoing media themes -- portraying a person's capital buildup as a
key indicator of worth as a human being.

 Let's face it: From splashy magazine features to commercials and
entertainment shows on television to laudatory news profiles of
venture-capitalist billionaires, mass media outlets are frequently touting
the accumulation of financial assets as the pinnacle of achievement.

 Viewed from another planet, the basic character of these dominant
media values would be clear. But we're accustomed to this constant
propaganda. We're encouraged to think it's normal. And the costs -- for
individuals and for our society -- go well beyond any losses in the stock
market.

___

Norman Solomon's syndicated column focuses on media and politics.

A 

[CTRL] Why it's good that the DemocRATS are dead.

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Republicans = Big Business's A team.
DemocRATS  = Big Business's B team.

When the Democrats are in power, Big Business is limited to cruising speed.
When the Republicans move in, Big Business operates in overdrive.

Since both parties are almost entirely funded by the the Rich and their
corporations, it becomes only a question of speed with which corporations
extract the labor and wealth from our society.

There is no difference between DemocRATS and Republicans. But there is a good
chance that as the Republican wing of the Big Business Party encourages their
bosses to pig out at the public trough this time around, people will finally
get the point.

The reason our schools are crap, and our health care is crap, and our society
is crap, is because everything is ultimately run by businessmen directly or
through their politicians. This is also why, not so coincidentally, the Rich
have gotten obscenely richer at the same time that the DemocRATS have thrown
the poor off of welfare. There simply is not enough money in our 8 trillion
dollar economy to accommodate the poor's need AND the Rich's greed.

This will NEVER be rectified by either wing of the Big Business Party.

DUMP THE DUOPOLY! They don't represent you.

Bill

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March 18, 2001

Corporate Power in Overdrive

By ROBERT B. REICH

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  With last week's reversal of his campaign
pledge to limit power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, a key
contributor to global warming, President Bush surrendered to coal
companies and utilities dependent on coal. He had little choice.
It's payback time, and every industry and trade association is
busily cashing in.

There's no longer any countervailing power in Washington.
Business is in complete control of the machinery of government.
The House, the Senate and the White House are all run by
business-friendly Republicans who are deeply indebted to American
business for their electoral victories. If corporate America
understood its long-term interest, it would use this unique
moment to establish in the public's mind the principle that
business can be trusted. But it's doing the opposite, and the
danger for American business as a whole is profound.

Credit-card companies are getting a bankruptcy bill that will
make it harder for overstretched people who succumbed to these
companies' blandishments ever to get out from under the resulting
debts. Oil companies are on the way to obtaining rights to drill
on Alaska's coastal plain. Cigarette manufacturers are confident
the administration will drop the federal lawsuit against them.
Pharmaceutical companies are hoping to get longer patent
protections. Big, labor-intensive businesses want to get rules
that weaken unions, and they've already killed the Labor
Department's ergonomics rules, which would have protected workers
against repetitive-stress injuries. Airlines with labor problems
can count on White House actions to ward off strikes. And so on.

In normal times  when business has to cope with some political
resistance  its leaders are forced to set strict priorities.
There is only a fixed amount of political capital to spend. The
Business Roundtable, comprising the chief executives of large
American companies, typically establishes at the start of a new
Congress a legislative agenda reflecting what its members
consider the most important issues. The United States Chamber of
Commerce, after canvassing its mostly small and medium-sized
member businesses to determine their priorities, also develops a
strategy. The National Association of Manufacturers weighs in
with its wish list. And the National Federation of Independent
Business, composed of small firms, sets its goals.

These groups do not always see eye to eye, but under normal
circumstances they understand that legislative success requires
coordination. Separately, they lack the political clout to
overcome determined resistance in one or both houses of Congress
or from a president at least partly dependent for his political
future on organized labor, environmentalists and other interests
besides business.

The trade associations representing specific industries 
coal-powered utilities, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, electronics,
securities, oil and gas, for example  typically play supporting
roles. Their own parochial legislative goals can't interfere
directly with the priorities of business as a whole because the
industries often have to depend on the larger business groups to
be heard. Specific firms may retain their own Washington
lobbyists, but they, too, have to work with others in order to
have significant effect.

Political resistance, in other words, forces the business
community to decide what's most important to it. It thereby
enables corporate America to exert some discipline over itself.
Business leaders can prevent or at least distance themselves from
excesses by any single company or industry that might otherwise

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Barghouti: The Intifada goes on - Israeli losses "good results" - trying to
break Sharon

By Kamal Qabisi  - The Jeruslaem Times Vol.VIII, No.371 March 16, 2001

Marwan Barghouthi was elected Fateh Secretary General in the West Bank after
returning from Tunisia in 1994 and elected as a member of the Legislative
Council two years later. Barghouthi became involved in Palestinian-Israeli
negotiations, then suddenly found himself steering the Intifada of stones.

How do you transport the stones?
Usually, we use trucks or carts, but it really does not matter how and what,
because the objective is not to harm people with stones. Stonethrowing is an
expression of rejection.

True, but [the Israelis] mean to harm you with rubber and live ammunition.
You forgot to mention teargas. The objective is still one of expression.

Why not use catapults?
That would be difficult on the battlefield, because our style of fighting
follows a hit-and-run method, and catapults are too heavy.

Would not the method of expression develop from stone hurling to the use of
weapons?
Armed resistance is now part of the Intifada. Since the beginning of the
Intifada, 66 Israelis have been killed and 614 injured; those are good
results.

It is said that the Intifada will expand during the era of Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel]Sharon and that the results may improve.
We will try to break Sharon on the issue of security.

What has had the most effect on you during the Intifada?
The sight of martyrs who I saw at hospitals or else during their funerals is
always on my mind, reminding me of occupation and its meaning - bloodshed,
murder, alienation and hardship. Those things I will never forget. And there
is another thing that causes me pain. I used to think that Arabs would be
kinder to the Palestinians. We do see the support of the Arab street and the
Arab media, which causes us to wonder why Arab leaders and officials stand
silent and allow a criminal like Sharon to oppress us.

Are you calling on the Arab street to revolt?
I have said before that the Intifada crosses borders, and I say it again.I
am calling for humane actions to support us against Sharon.

How long will the Intifada last?
The Intifada will last until the liberation of the land and the declaration
of the Palestinian State.

When will that happen in your opinion?
The state will be declared within the next three years.

What will the state be like?
The Palestinians are not fighting to have a tyrannical state. I believe the
Palestinian State will be democratic.

Three months ago, an Israeli journalist claimed that a Palestinian source
had told him that President Arafat had instructed you to ignore any
instructions to end or confine the Intifada. Is that true?
No, it is not. Such a thing never happened.

If President Arafat calls for an end to the Intifada, what would your
reaction be?
Arafat would not do such a thing, because stopping the Intifada would
represent a disaster for the Palestinian people and he simply wouldn't issue
orders that harm the Palestinians. The key to the Intifada is not in my
hands, anyway.

Where is it?
It is in the Palestinian street, and by the way, the Intifada came as a
blessing to President Arafat.

If the Intifada is a blessing, why did it not start long ago?
The Intifada is different from a war that can be launched with a single
decision. The Intifada is the result of feelings reflected randomly. Nobody
can decide to start or end it.

Do your children participate in the Intifada?
My eldest, Qassam, a boy of 15, does and has been hit with rubber bullets
three or four times.

And the others?
My daughter, Ruba, is only 13 and the other two boys are 11 and ten. Three
months ago, the Queen of Sweden criticized the Palestinians for subjecting
children to danger by allowing them to throw stones. Her accusations bespeak
ignorance of the general makeup of the Arab society in general and the
Palestinian society in particular. We have given orders to remove children
under the age of 16 from the battlefield, but the Intifada is widespread and
we sometimes lose control.

You named your eldest child after Izzidin Qassam?
Yes.

Does Hizbullah have a unit with Fateh as the Israelis claim?
We generally cooperate with Hizbullah, but I do not know if they have a unit
here.

Does your wife, Fadia, participate?
She is a lawyer, a mother and a housewife. That's enough to keep her busy.

You are a member of the Legislative Council and receive a salary of US$2,000
per month. They say the Council has given each of its members a 1997 Audi.
Does that not mean you can save, especially as your wife works?

By the way, how much does your wife make, and does she have a car?
My wife makes US$2,000 per month and drives a 1996 VW Golf, but she only
started work a year ago.

A combined income of US$4,000 per month in PNA territories, where prices are
low, means you should be able to save, no?
On the contrary, prices here are very high, because we obtain most of our

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: 1918 flu pandemic originated in pigs, study finds

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You're an idiot.

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Aleisha Saba wrote:

 My Name Is Legion -

 And the disease entered into the swineAccording to one source
 Nazi Scientists had experiments centered about the Gadarenes and their
 Legion - an experiment in bacteria warfare; it would appear to me it
 seemed to be more of a combined effort on the part of many different
 people - for those with the divine right to rule answer to no one -
 genocide was not a crime was it?

 Now the Tribe of Gad according to Genesis "They will
 Overcome".overcome what?

 How many are old enough to remembr Gerald Ford taking the "swine flu"
 shot - and how many died and became ill ?

 Actually this blight is right on target;  the swine and cattle symbolize
 people - the master plan for murder linked to the testaments and the
 stars, is going full force now.but then nobody hears Africa
 screaming either after Rhodes Round Table pacled up and left - these
 Knights of the Round Table?

 Of Arthur it was said the once and future King - but try to make a
 Knight out of a pig like Kissinger when we had Kennedy?

 Saba

 "1": And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country
 of the Gadarenes.
 "2": And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out
 of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
 "3": Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him,
 no, not with chains:
 "4": Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and
 the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in
 pieces: neither could any man tame him.
 "5": And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
 tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
 "6": But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
 "7": And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee,
 Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou
 torment me not.
 "8": For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
 "9": And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My
 name is Legion: for we are many.
 "10": And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of
 the country.
 "11": Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
 feeding.
 "12": And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine,
 that we may enter into them.
 "13": And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went
 out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep
 place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in
 the sea.

 This item was published in 1967...

 1918 flu pandemic originated in pigs, study finds

 WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1918 influenza virus that killed more than 20
 million people worldwide originated from American pigs and is unlike any
 other known flu bug, say researchers. They warn that it could strike
 again.

 Using lung tissue taken at autopsy 79 years ago from an Army private
 killed by the flu, scientists at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
 made a genetic analysis of the virus and concluded it is unique, though
 closely related to the ''swine'' flu.

 ''This is the first time that anyone has gotten a look at this virus
 which killed millions of people in one year, making it the worst
 infectious disease episode ever,'' said Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger,
 leader of the Armed Forces Institute team. ''It does not match any virus
 that has been found since.''

 Although the disease that caused the worldwide epidemic was called
 ''Spanish flu,'' the virus apparently is a mutation that evolved in
 American pigs and was spread around the globe by U.S. troops mobilized
 for World War I, said Taubenberger.

 The Army private whose tissue was analyzed contracted the flu at Fort
 Jackson, S.C. For that reason, Taubenberger and his colleagues suggest
 in the journal Science that the virus be known as Influenza A/South
 Carolina.

 Science is publishing the study today.

 Army doctors in 1918 conducted autopsies on some of the 43,000
 servicemen killed by the flu and preserved some specimens in
 formaldehyde and wax.

 Taubenberger said his team sorted through 30 specimens before finding
 enough virus in the private's lung tissue to partially sequence the
 genes for hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, two key proteins in flu
 virus.

 ''The hemagglutinin gene matches closest to swine influenza viruses,
 showing that this virus came into humans from pigs,'' said Taubenberger.

 The finding supports a widespread theory that flu viruses from swine are
 the most virulent for humans.

 Most experts believe that flu viruses reside harmlessly in birds, where
 they are genetically stable. Occasionally, a virus from birds will
 infect pigs. The swine immune system attacks the virus, forcing it to
 change genetically to survive. The result is a new virus. When this new
 bug is spread to humans, it can be devastating, said 

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Yahoo wants my cookies.

Do you have a different option?

Joshua2

Chris Case wrote:


 The patient will see you now

 The BIG MEDICINE MAILING LIST is in the slips, and you are hereby invited to be
 on board when her bow hits the water, churning up metaphors, insights, and
 analyses  for those battling malignant corporate power, at least those wise
 enough to explore Big Corporate Bodies as evolving living systems, eco-social
 pathogens and/or our morbid rivals for control of the world.

 Here we will strategically examine these Big Bodies as true living systems,
 eco-social pathogens, and our virulent rivals for control of the world.

 Let us just suppose Big Bodies: are real superorganisms that dominate, shape and
 synchronize their members' lives and minds; generate a monstrous share of the
 poison, pain and havoc in the world; have overtaken humans as Earth's new
 dominant species and hijacked our evolutionary course; may yet be thwarted if we
 wake up, and miniaturize/localize/democratize their premises in time.

 We ask you not to debate these assumptions, just briefly pretend they are true.
 If indeed we presume they are, what kind of contest would we face, what would we
 have to learn and do?

 OUR BASIC HYPOTHESES:

 - Big Corporate Bodies are alive, in charge and out of control;

 - They must be miniaturized, localized and democratized across the board to
 restore human sovereignty and humane evolution;

 - Thanks to new people-power tech, the thousands now aware of Big Body rule (and
 our historic right to subvert it), and a hundred groups already building the
 post-corporate future, we are well begun.

 - Now we simply have to "persuade" our Big Brethren to liberate their people,
 give up power and melt down.

 This is going to take carrots, sticks, guile, and one hell of a wake up call.
 That's why we're here, and why we hope you will be also.

 So if you have any seductive, intimidating or communicative arts, please join us
 and put them to a collective effort.

 We hope you will use this list to broadcast any ideas, recon or tactics that
 might profit the resistance as a whole. (While we certainly sympathize with
 rants and raids against particularly malignant corporations, we conspire here to
 shrivel and supplant their kind as a whole, NOT promote single-issue reprisals.)
 We seek a final solution to the worldwide corporate plague, and that means
 victims on every front must recognize their common nemesis, and learn to think
 Big.

  Big Med thus asks you to provision this list with the following aid:

 Diagnostic - facts that illuminate the singular corporatist cause behind most
 eco-social ills.
 Remedial - broad-spectrum tactics to boost popular resistance locally and wither
 Big Bodies globally.
 Prognostic - self-fulfilling prescriptions for a spirited, sensual
 post-corporate world.

 We seek wise and witty contributions in any of these fields, particularly those
 that strengthen everyone's hand to belittle BIG's rampant power.

 In sum, we ask your aid in chronicling and quickening the coming Big Devolution.
 Grand surprises await once you start to think BIG.

 You have been invited because we already know of your interest in related
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 CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:21:28 +0100
CIA Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20686-2001Mar17.html

Documents May Give Clues About Obstacles in Hunt for War Criminals

By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2001; Page A04


The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the records of its
dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II.

It says it has found 251 boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially
relevant documents -- apparently more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will
take about two years to complete work on them.

Carl Oglesby, a political writer and researcher, has been seeking the
records since 1985 in connection with a study of Reinhard Gehlen, a German
general who had been head of Nazi intelligence for the eastern front.

After the war, at the request of U.S. occupation forces in Europe, he set up
"the Gehlen organization," a counterespionage network that supplied the
Pentagon and the CIA with the bulk of their intelligence on the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe. The organization, which employed thousands of people,
many of them former Nazis, was the forerunner of West Germany's secret
service, the BND. It was formally recognized in 1956 and Gehlen headed it
until he retired in 1968.

When Oglesby got only a smattering of documents from the Army and the CIA,
he sued in 1987, emphasizing meetings that Gehlen held in the summer of 1945
with U.S. officials at Fort Hunt, Va. He and some other researchers believe
that the post-war hunt for Nazi war criminals was severely compromised by
American intelligence demands for help in meeting the new Soviet menace.

A retired CIA official who dealt with Gehlen's organization for seven years
says those suspicions have been exaggerated into conspiratorial nonsense and
that Gehlen and his top aides came out of the German army general staff that
tried, several times, to overthrow Adolf Hitler. But he, too, expressed
frustration that so much of the true story remains classified.

"I've lived with this for 50 years," said James H. Critchfield, the CIA
officer assigned to the Gehlen organization from 1949 to 1956. "Almost
everything negative that has been written about Gehlen, in which he has been
described as an ardent ex-Nazi, one of Hitler's war criminals -- this is all
far from the fact."

Critchfield said CIA records may turn up the names of six to 10 veterans of
the SD, Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler's intelligence service, who joined
Gehlen's network in 1950. But he said Gehlen took them on reluctantly, under
pressure from German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to deal with "the avalanche
of subversion hitting them from East Germany."

By contrast, Critchfield said, Gehlen's top command consisted of 30 to 40
young staff officers trained under Gen. Ludwig Beck, who was executed in
1944 for conspiring to assassinate Hitler, and Gen. Franz Halder, who was
imprisoned until the war ended. "They weren't really a bunch of Nazis," he
said.

Oglesby's lawsuit sputtered for 13 years with the CIA refusing to confirm or
deny that it had any records reflecting a relationship with Gehlen. The
litigation survived two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals here, but last
August, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson issued an order
indicating she was about to dismiss it at the government's request. She
rejected the idea that the CIA or any other agency had "unreasonably
delayed" the case.

Weeks later, the CIA formally acknowledged that Gehlen had at the end of the
war turned over what remained of his intelligence collection efforts against
the Soviet Union and started spying for the United States; the Army
"supervised" his work until 1949, when the CIA stepped in for a seven-year
stint.

The CIA told the court it was compelled to speak up in response to the Nazi
War Crimes Disclosure Act, which Congress passed in 1998 to require public
release of U.S. records related to war criminals and crimes committed by the
Nazi government and its allies between March 1933, when Hitler acquired
dictatorial powers, and May 1945, when the war in Europe ended.

"General Gehlen himself is not considered an alleged Nazi war criminal," the
CIA said in an affidavit, but records of its dealings with him and his group
include documents that are covered by the law.

The Army's dealings with Gehlen's group were chaotic at first, with the
Army's counterintelligence corps frozen out of the operation. Critchfield
said there may have been some imprudent contacts with German war criminals
early on, particularly while Gehlen was being debriefed in Virginia. In the
fall of 1948, the CIA assigned Critchfield to report on whether to liquidate
the operation or take it over.

With the Berlin airlift in full swing, Critchfield found a station Gehlen
had organized near Wiesbaden, manned by 12 Germans intercepting Soviet Air
Force 

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British Labour's `class war' against the poor.

REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON

  Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous
  By Nick Cohen
  Verso, 2000 247pp, $35(pb)

 “I appreciate there were some people who voted for us
 who thought we would make a difference. They didn't
 understand” — it is unguarded candour like this from a
 newly elected MP in Tony Blair's 1997 New Labour
 landslide that gets straight to the heart of Labour Party
 politics in Britain.

 The above quote was from a woman Labour MP who, once
 in government, pushed through cuts to single mothers'
pensions. When she was in opposition, she had maintained
that you do not help the poor by plunging them
further into poverty.

This is just one of the illustrations of New Labour's
enlistment in the class war against the poor drawn by
Nick Cohen, a “left-of-centre” reporter for the liberal
capitalist Observer magazine.

The recanting of this politician, whose opposition
rhetoric did not survive election night, has been repeated
across the board, from welfare policy to foreign policy.
“Joining New Labour is like joining the Mafia”, says
Cohen, “you must kill what you love to prove your loyalty”.

When Cohen listens to Tony and the Blairites, he hears
them “singing every song in the Tory songbook,
and composing new numbers of their own”. The New Labour
arias have the same melody as old
conservatism, despite the different lyrics of Blair's
“New Way”, which is supposedly “beyond left and right”
of the tired old ideological and class divide. The “inclusive”
Blair is bridging the divide by “governing for all”,
a libretto that certain Australian Labor premiers and would-be
prime ministers are smitten with.

Despite the “Under New Management” sign hung outside Whitehall,
however, a closer examination of
Labour's new “ideology-free political zone” shows that it is
business as usual for established capitalist
concerns such as Britain's arms exporters.

Tough talk against human rights abusers such as Burma and
Indonesia is cheap when in opposition, to be
quietly abandoned when governing a country which is the second
largest arms exporter in the world.
Anything — like human rights — that gets in the way of trade
and investment overseas, and repatriating
the profits back to British capitalists, is a luxury that
Labour must do without.

Opening up new areas of society to the invigorating broom
of profit-making is a particular Blairite crusade.
New Labour's “inclusiveness” means a “punishment boom”.
With one new prison being opened each
fortnight in Britain in 1998 (not that far behind the
three a week in President Bill Clinton's USA), the
privatisation of prisons has created a strata of capitalists
with an appetite for jailing people.

Their boast is that they can do it cheaper than the old,
inefficient state system. Cutting prison staff to
achieve this certainly helps. Without a lot of burdensome
conditions to adhere to from a government which
barely pretends to retain its regulation role, crime is
paying handsomely for some. Prisoners' rights, which
are human rights after all, might have been eroded in
this but “law and order” is too valuable as an
election jingle to be ditched.

As well as crime, a racist-based “alien invasion” is
also a valuable weapon in Labour's populist arsenal.
Criminalising asylum-seekers is a Blair specialty.
Imprisonment without trial in detention centres pays
political dividends to the right-wing populist, and
when the refugees riot to assert their civil liberties, that
only “proves” their unsuitability to be in the country.

Cohen reminds us that we should closely watch how
politicians treat refugees because it is how they would
like to treat the rest of us if they could get away with it.

Another frontier being opened up by Blair is education.
While McDonald's are selflessly helping with English
lessons by teaching children to spell Chicken “McNuggetts”,
in the US the experiment has gone further, with
private corporations running entire schools.

The results in Britain's test schools — teacher numbers
down, class sizes up, a collapse in standards,
fiddled exam results, creative accounting and the delivery
of a captive youth market to advertisers — have
not phased Blair a bit because the other result — a fresh
source of profits — is the only one that counts.

If Cohen doesn't offer any ideas on what to do about Blair's
Britain, he does spare us the fantasy that good
men and true women can regain control of the party and guide
it to better things.

Cohen makes it plain enough that Labour's behaviour is a
consequence of capitalism. Labour cannot make
a difference as long as capitalism exists.

There is an answer — a socialist and a revolutionary one —
lurking in there. It is an answer that is beyond
the liberal political scope of Cohen's book, but the
question is at least raised with some satirical bite.

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Le monde diplomatique
March 2001


CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ON THE CAMPUS
For sale: US academic integrity


Private enterprise is much taken with education,
especially the universities. In the United States the
race to get hold of academic disciplines that bring in
the money has already increased conflicts of interest
between research and business. Under cover of a
'marketplace of ideas', the logic of the market could
turn academics into entrepreneurs and endanger the
unity of our universities.
by IBRAHIM WARDE *



In November 1998 the University of California at
Berkeley signed a controversial agreement with
Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant and producer
of genetically engineered crops. In exchange for $25m
to its Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
(DPMB), the university would grant the firm first
right to negotiate licenses on about one-third of the
department's discoveries (including the results of
research funded by state and federal sources).
Novartis would also be represented on two out of five
seats in the department's research committee, which
determines how the money is spent.

About half of the faculty members of the College of
Natural Resources, of which the DPMB is a part,
expressed concern that the deal would erode Berkeley's
commitment to "public good research", and 60% feared
it would impede the free exchange of ideas among
scientists (1). California state senator Tom Hayden
declared that the deal "raises significant questions
of whether biotechnology research primarily serves the
interests of corporations and marginalises potential
academic critics at the expense of free inquiry and
unfettered research".

Yet, by and large, the deal represents the new model
of cooperation between corporations and universities.
Since California's Proposition 13, which froze
property tax and started a widespread "tax revolt" in
1978, state funding for education has started to
decline. Changes were afoot at the federal level, too.
In 1980 the US Congress, concerned about declining
productivity and rising competition from Japan, passed
the Bayh-Dole act, which for the first time allowed
universities to patent the results of federally funded
research. Subsequent legislation further encouraged
corporations to fund academic research - through tax
breaks among other things - and universities to
licence their inventions to corporations.

With the end of the cold war, universities suffered
more public cuts. Thus in 1987 Berkeley, which was
once funded almost entirely by the state of
California, saw the share of public funding fall to
50% of its overall budget, and to 34% in 1999.
Buildings erected in the 1990s, such as the one
housing the business school, were financed exclusively
by private donations. The Haas family (heirs to jeans
makers Levi Strauss) was its most generous benefactor,
and saw to it that the school bore its name. A number
of major corporations endowed faculty positions. Even
the dean holds the position of "Bank of America dean".
The state-of-the-art building of the Haas School of
Business is plastered with corporate logos and all its
rooms - and even the tables and chairs - are adorned
with plaques commemorating their donor - a company, an
alumnus or a graduating class.

The market-model university

This is the world of what Harvard professors James
Engell and Anthony Dangerfield call the "market-model
university", where departments that make money, study
money or attract money are given priority (2).
Increasingly, universities are becoming two-tiered
institutions with rich departments and poor
departments, academic superstars and an academic
underclass.

For advocates of this new partnership, such as the
Business-Higher Education Forum, a lobbying coalition
of corporate and academic leaders, there is a long
list of reasons why tearing down the walls separating
the universities from the marketplace is a win-win
proposition: corporate donations help build modern
laboratories and finance cutting edge research;
business can innovate while giving academic scientists
a greater share of the financial rewards; corporations
more than make up for the shortfall in public
financing; students benefit through a variety of
trickle-down mechanisms such as scholarships and
research opportunities; corporate funding enables
scientific breakthroughs, such as finding cures for
deadly diseases, which benefit society as a whole; and
the public at large, and even the government, benefit
from attendant economic growth, increased corporate
taxes, and individual and corporate philanthropy.

Not everyone agrees with this proposition (3). One
scientist says that "the increasing pressures on
universities to get into bed with industry are not
always resulting in a good night's rest for either
partner". Others, like Ronald Collins, director 

Re: [CTRL] BAD AMERICAN? I GUESS I AM THEN!!

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BB wrote:

 -Caveat Lector-

 BAD AMERICAN?
 BUZZ

 I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some
 midlevel
 governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away
 to crack addicts squirting out babies.

 I don't care about appearing compassionate.

 I think playing with toy guns doesn't make you a killer.

 I believe it's called the Boy Scouts for a reason.

 I think I'm doing better than the homeless.

 I don't think being a minority makes you noble or victimized.

 I have the right not to be tolerant of others because they are
 different,
 weird or piss me off.

 I don't celebrate Kwanzaa.  But if you want to that's fine; just don't
 feel like everyone else should have to.

 I believe that if you are selling me a Dairy queen shake, pack of
 cigarettes, or hotel room you do it in English.

 As of matter of fact, if you are an American citizen you should speak
 English.  My father and grandfather shouldn't have to die in vain so you

 can leave the countries you were born in to come disrespect ours.

 I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you're
 running from them after they tell you to stop.  If you can't understand
 the
 word freeze or stop in English.  See the previous line.

 I don't use the excuse "it's for the children" as a shield for unpopular

 opinions or actions.

 I know how to count votes and I feel much safer letting a machine with
 no
 political affiliation recount when needed.

 I know what the definition of lying is.

 I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you
 qualify
 for any special loan programs, gov't sponsored bank loans, etc., so you
 can open a hotel, c-store, trinket shop, or any damn thing else.

 I didn't take the initiative in inventing the Internet.

 I thought the Taco Bell dog was funny.

 I want them to bring back safe and sane fireworks.

 I don't want to eat or drink anything with the words light, lite or
 fat-free on the package.

 I did not go to some foreign country and risk my life in vain and defend

 our constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living
 document ever changing and is open to interpretation.

 I don't hate the rich.

 I know wrestling is fake.

 I've never owned or was a slave, and a large percentage or our
 forefathers weren't wealthy enough to own one either.

 I believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a

 Hell's Angel with an attitude.

 I want to know which church is it exactly where the "Rev." Jessie
 Jackson
 preaches and besides what exactly is his job function.

 I own a gun, you can own a gun, and any red blooded American should be
 allowed to own a gun, but if you use it in a crime then you will serve
 the time.  A rubber band and a paper clip is a dangerous weapon in the
 hands
 of someone with malicious intent.

 I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and
 continue to make more.  If it pisses you off, invent the next operating
 system
 that's better and put your name on the building.  Ask your buddy that
 invented the Internet to help you.

 I don't believe in hate crime legislation.  Even suggesting it pisses me

 off.  You're telling me that someone who is a minority, gay, disabled,
 another nationality, or otherwise different from the
 mainstream of this country has more value as a human being that I do as
 a
 white male.  Hell, if someone kills anyone, I'd say that it's a hate
 crime.

 I like the convenience of buying oranges from a sidewalk vendor or while

 I'm waiting at a stoplight, and I'm pretty sure the Latin midget selling

 them to m is glad she no longer lives in a refrigerator box in East
 Dallas or
 sleeping in the streets of her home country.

 We don't need more laws!  Let's enforce the ones we already have.

 I think turkey bacon, turkey beef, turkey fake anything sucks.

 I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes a
 parent with the balls to stand up to the kid and spank his butt and say
 "NO".

 I think tattoos and piercings are fine if you want them, but please
 don't
 pretend they are a political statement.

 I believe you don't have to speak with a lisp to pick out a couch for
 your living room.

 I'll admit that the only movie that ever made me cry was Ole Yeller.

 I will not be frowned upon or be looked down upon or be made to keep
 silent because I have these beliefs and opinions.  I thought this
 country
 allowed me that right.  I will not conform or compromise just to keep
 from
 hurting somebody's feelings.

 I'm neither angry nor disenfranchised, no matter how desperately the
 mainstream media would like the world to believe otherwise.
 What I am, is really tired of "Political Correctness"!Hey I'm
 just a really bad American.

NO! Your just an ASSHOLE. And what a stinky hairy orifice you are.

Have a nice day.

Joshua2

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   Subject: [manhattangreens] Hillary, Dems Vote for Banks, Betray Working
   People
   Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:06:02 -0500

 Published on Friday, March 16, 2001
 Going Backwards
 36 'Democratic' Senators Vote For Credit Card/Banking Industry's
   Bankruptcy 'Reform'
 ...and they wonder why so many Democrats voted for Ralph Nader.


 GW Bush and the credit card/banking industry won a huge victory
   last
   night as 36 'Democrats' joined their Republican 'colleagues' and voted to
   pass S-420 - the Bankruptcy bill.


   "I've never seen a bill that was so one-sided. The cries,
   claims and concerns of vulnerable Americans who have suffered a financial
   emergency have been drowned out by the political might of the credit card
   industry."


   former Dem. Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum now head of Consumer
   Federation of America
 Consumer groups and unions have been aggressive in opposing it,
   contending that the changes in bankruptcy law will take away an important
   means of relief for families hit by job losses. Former President Clinton
   vetoed last year's similar version, saying it would hurt ordinary people
   and working families.

 "This is the most anticonsumer piece of legislation that the
   Congress is considering," said Edmund Mierzwinski, consumer program
   director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, D.C.

 "Among Senate Democrats who may vote for the bankruptcy bill are
   Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), whose state is home to a
   Citigroup Inc. credit card operation in Sioux Falls that employs several
   thousand people. Daschle has received $45,000 in political contributions
   from Citigroup in the last six years." -- Washington Post 3/11/01

 The Associated Press is calling it a big win for Bush and "the
   second business-friendly measure to pass both houses of the new Congress".

 And they wonder why Ralph Nader got so many Democratic votes?

 The Sell Outs:

 Daniel Akaka (Hawaii) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Max Baucus (Montana) http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/EmailMax.htm
   Evan Bayh (Indiana) http://bayh.senate.gov/webmail.html
 Joe Biden (Delaware) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Jeff Bingaman (New Mexico) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 John Breaux (Louisiana) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Robert Byrd (West Virginia) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Maria Cantwell (Washington)
   http://cantwell.senate.gov/mailform.html
 Jean Carnahan (Missouri) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Thomas Carper (Delaware) http://carper.senate.gov/
   Max Cleland (Georgia) http://www.senate.gov/~cleland/webform.html
 Hillary Clinton (New York) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Kent Conrad (North Dakota) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Tom Daschle (Sorth Dakota) http://daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm
 Byron Dorgan (North Dakota) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 John Edwards (North Carolina)
   http://www.senate.gov/~edwards/contact.html
 Dianne Feinstein (California) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Bob Graham (Florida) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Fritz Hollings (South Carolina)
   http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/webform.html
   Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) http://www.senate.gov/~inouye/webform.html
 Tim Johnson (South Dakota) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Herb Kohl (Wisconsin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) http://landrieu.senate.gov/webform.html
 Patrick Leahy (Vermont) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Carl Levin (Michigan) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Joe Lieberman (Connecticut) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Barbara Mikulski (Maryland) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Zell Miller (Georgia) http://miller.senate.gov/email.htm
 Patty Murray (Washington) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ben Nelson (Nebraska)
   http://www.senate.gov/senators/ben_nelson.html
 Harry Reid (Nevada) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Chuck Schumer (New York) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Debbie Stabenow (Michigan) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Robert Torricelli (New Jersey)
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Ron Wyden (Oregon) http://wyden.senate.gov/mail.htm

 Democrats Who Voted No:
 Jon Corzine, N.J.; Mark Dayton, Minn.; Chris Dodd, Conn.; Dick
   Durbin, Ill.; Russ Feingold, Wis.; Tom Harkin, Iowa; Ted Kennedy, Mass.;
   John Kerry, Mass.; Bill Nelson, Fla.; Jack Reed, R.I.; John Rockefeller,
   W.Va.; Paul Sarbanes, Md.; Paul Wellstone, Minn.

 Not Voting:
 Barbara Boxer (California)

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 Original Message 
Subject: PBS airs trade secrets of chemical industry
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:10:11 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mark Graffis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Thursday, March 15, 2001

On March 26 PBS will air "Trade Secrets," a report on the chemical industry
produced by the Peabody Award-winning duo of Bill Moyers and Sherry Jones.

A newly formed environmental campaign hopes to use the broadcast to spark
national awareness and action on the issue.

The documentary is based on internal documents about the chemical industry.
It addresses a fundamental question about the industry and environmental
safeguards: "In the 50 years of the chemical revolution, more than 75,000
chemicals have been released into the environment.  What happens as our body
absorbs them, and how can we protect ourselves?"

It was the announcement in January of the broadcast of "Trade Secrets" that
spurred Montana-based Bryony Schwan of Women's Voices for the Earth to
action.  She joined forces with other environmental groups to form the
Coming Clean Campaign.

Through the Internet, the campaign has extended thousands of invitations to
individuals to watch the PBS documentary through community-based "viewing
events." The Coming Clean Web site offers a toolkit to help people organize
viewings in their communities.

"Coming Clean is assisting groups across the country to use the opportunity
of this prime-time television special to boost their ongoing work to fight
toxic pollution in their own communities," says Schwan.

Dozens of cities have planned viewing events, rallying everyone from garden
club members to major environmental groups.  In San Francisco, for example,
Mayor Willie Brown will host an event that will be attended by 42 community
groups interested in environmental issues.

In Washington, D.C., policymakers and congressional representatives will
gather at a restaurant to watch the documentary.  Several cities in Ontario,
Canada, will host events, and Boston will gather scientists for a panel
discussion the day after the broadcast.

[chemical] Organizers hope Coming Clean will become a resource tool for
community action against chemical polluters.  Schwan hopes the campaign will
become a resource tool for community-based organizations that want to share
information on toxic polluters.  To that end, Coming Clean is looking for
community stories on chemical pollution that will be posted on its Web site.

"After people view the documentary and see the kinds of issues that groups
are dealing with all over the country, they'll be able to see what the toxic
issues are in other states.  And if a corporation is polluting in your town
and planning to open up in another town, people will have that information,"
says Schwan.

At a time of high-stakes lawsuits against the media by the beef industry and
corporations such as Food Lion, some media outlets are stopping short of
targeting large corporations that have deep pockets to pursue lawsuits.

Schwan is confident that the credibility of veteran journalist Moyers will
erase fears of litigation in the wake of "Trade Secrets." "We're hopeful
that Moyers will do a thorough job.  He isn't known for being superficial,
so we're excited."

The Coming Clean campaign is a joint project of the Center for Health,
Environment and Justice, the Environmental Health Fund, the Environmental
Working Group and Women's Voices for the Earth.

Copyright 2001, Environmental News Network

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Subj:[CIA-DRUGS] FTW Subscriber Bulletin 01-05 - Economy Stumbles, Bush

Expands War Plans for South America
Date:   3/15/01 5:03:28 PM Mountain Standard Time
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BUSH RENAMES, EXPANDS PLAN COLOMBIA - ADDS $550 MILLION IN PREPARATION FOR
WAR - EQUADOR MOVES 10,000 TROOPS TO COLOMBIAN BORDER

LINKAGE BETWEEN DRUG WAR AND WALL STREET HEALTH BECOMING TRANSPARENT

FTW, March 15, 2001 - Less than a week after diplomats from 25 Latin
American and European countries, as well as Japan, defied US interests by
meeting jointly with representatives of rebel groups at the invitation of
the Colombian government, and just days after two sharp losses caused the
Dow to plunge more than 700 points, President Bush added $550 million to
Plan Colombia and acknowledged its regional dimensions by re-christening it
"The Andean Initiative." Signaling the opening moves in a regional war,
Equador has simultaneously moved 10,000 troops to the Colombian border in
anticipation of increased hostilities as US military personnel increase air
operations from the US base in the coastal city of Manta. All of these
events, occurring in close proximity, add further credibility to FTW's long
held position that a Vietnam-style conflict in Colombia was essential to
prevent the total collapse of the American stock market.

FTW has previously documented how an estimated $250 billion in illegal drug
money is laundered through the US economy annually and how a 1999
"solicitation" by NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso for the FARC guerillas to
invest their drug profits in Wall Street was summarily rejected. The leftist
rebels chose instead to keep their money in Colombia. Also irritating for
the American economy and markets is the fact that Colombian rebels, who now
control the southern third of Colombia, occupy lands estimated to hold
billions of barrels of high grade crude oil sought after by, among others,
Occidental Petroleum.

A total US market collapse, if unchecked, would also threaten to destabilize
the US dollar which is the dominant reserve currency around the world. That
could have the effect of setting off a worldwide depression similar to that
of 1929-38. As a rapidly coalescing European Union attempts to find economic
strength by distancing itself from US influence (and instability) the US has
countered with increasing disregard for near unanimous global opposition to
its plans for war. That war will inevitably involve US military personnel in
combat operations.

The strongest confirmation that we have seen of the inevitability of war is
a report today on www.narconews.com citing Village Voice media critic
Cynthia Cotts who noted on March 2 that "The New York Times plans to move
its Buenos Aires bureau to Bogota or Caracas sometime s

[CTRL] Never EVER trust your elites: Mbeke, the WTO, and South Africa's Aids epidemic.

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 3/15/01

Why does South Africa's leaders care more about the World Trade
Organization's corporate protectionism, than about its four
million citizens dying of aids?

It's a rhetorical question really.

Joshua2
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 South African president urged to declare state of emergency due
 to AIDS epidemic

By SUSANNA LOOF, Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (March 13, 2001 1:38 p.m. EST)
Opposition leaders want President Thabo
Mbeki to invoke a state of emergency to give South Africans
with HIV access to cheaper generic drugs.

That won't happen, the country's health minister, Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang, said Tuesday. Invoking a state of
emergency won't solve the dilemma, she said.

"The issue of affordable medicines cannot be reduced to a
one-dimensional debate on declaring a national
emergency to secure anti-retroviral drugs for AIDS
management," she said.

The intensity of the debate over declaring a state of
emergency has shown how divided South Africa - with 10
percent of its 45 million citizens infected with HIV -
remains on the AIDS issue. By 2010, the average life
expectancy rate in South Africa is expected to drop
to 36 because of the epidemic.

A South African law allows the import of cheap, generic
medications in the case of a national emergency. But it
has never been put into force because of a lawsuit
filed by many of the world's leading pharmaceutical
companies. That court challenge has been postponed
to April 18.

Tony Leon, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance,
said he planned to ask during a parliamentary
session Wednesday President Mbeki to declare a
state of emergency.

The act, which would give the president wide-ranging
powers to create new regulations, is not perfect for the
AIDS crisis, his spokesman, Anthony Hazell, acknowledged
Tuesday. Instead of battling the pharmaceutical
firms in court, South Africa should look into narrowing
the law to suit the drug firms better, he said.

"It's not ideal, because it's too broad, but
all we have at the moment," he said.

But at the very least, calling for action would widen
debate over how South Africans can gain access to cheaper
AIDS drugs, he said.

Declaring the epidemic a national emergency could
prove counterproductive because it would infringe on South
Africans' rights and surround AIDS policy with
legal requirements, said Zachie Achmat, chairman
of the Treatment Action Campaign, which has joined
the government in the lawsuit.

Achmat dismissed the opposition group's move as a
political ploy. "The Democratic Alliance is playing games.
It is not serious about HIV and AIDS."

Achmat's group is calling for the government to draft
a comprehensive treatment plan. "We want the
government to handle this as an emergency without
necessarily declaring it," he said.

South Africa's biggest trade federation, the Congress
of South African Trade Unions, on Monday repeated its
appeal for Mbeki to declare the epidemic a national
disaster. The group, an ally of the ruling African
National Congress, first called on the government to

declare the epidemic an emergency in August 1999.

The trade federation accused the Democratic Alliance
of "political opportunism," but spokesman Sipiwe
Mgcina said Tuesday, "We welcome all the people who
are joining the bandwagon."



 South Africa's Mbeki says state of emergency not needed

By MIKE COHEN, Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (March 14, 2001 4:20 p.m. EST) -
President Thabo Mbeki, rejecting calls
Wednesday to declare a state of emergency allowing
South Africa to import cheaper generic drugs, said it was
not necessary to deal with its AIDS crisis.

Most of the 4.5 million South Africans estimated to be
 HIV-positive cannot afford the drugs that could prolong
their lives.

Declaring a state of emergency would allow South Africa to
produce the generic, cheaper drugs without
breaking World Trade Organization rules on bypassing patent
laws.

But Mbeki told parliament a state of emergency is not
needed because South Africa has its own law permitting
both importation and production of generic drugs.

"We see no reason why we should not rely on the more
comprehensive legislation approved by this
Parliament," Mbeki said.

That 1997 law, however, has been stalled by a lawsuit brought
by major drug companies, arguing the act gives
South Africa arbitrary, unfettered power to control the
import and price of medicines.

Mbeki said the government would have to await the court's
decision. The case, which came to trial on March 5,
has been postponed to April 18, and no outcome is
expected for several months.

The Democratic Alliance, the country's largest opposition
party and the Congress of South African Trade
Unions, urged Mbeki to invoke the state of emergency.

Mbeki said states of emergency could only be declared to
restore peace and order when the life of the nation
was threatened.

"Last year an 

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The Irrepressible Rothbard Essays of Murray N. Rothbard
Edited by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

WHY THE WAR? THE KUWAIT CONNECTION


Why, exactly, did we go to war in the Gulf? The answer remains murky, but
perhaps we can find one explanation by examining the strong and ominous
Kuwait Connection in our government. (I am indebted to an excellent article
in an obscure New York tabloid, Downtown, by Bob Feldman, "The Kissinger
Affair," March 27.) The Sabahklatura that runs the Kuwait government is
immensely wealthy, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, derived
from tax/"royalty" loot extracted from oil producers simply because the Sabah
tribe claims "sovereignty" over that valuable chunk of desert real estate.
The Sabah tribe has no legitimate claim to the oil revenue; it did nothing to
homestead or mix its labor or any other resource with the crude oil.
It is reasonable to assume that the Sabah family stands ready to use a modest
portion of that ill-gotten wealth to purchase defenders and advocates in the
powerful United States. We now focus our attention on the sinister but almost
universally Beloved figure of Dr. Henry Kissinger, a lifelong spokesman,
counselor, and servitor of the Rockefeller World Empire. Kissinger is so
Beloved, in fact, that whenever he appears on Nightline or Crossfire he
appears alone, since it seems to be lese-majeste (or even blasphemy) for
anyone to contradict the Great One's banal and ponderous Teutonic
pronouncements. Only a handful of grumblers and malcontents on the extreme
right and extreme left disturb this cozy consensus.
In 1954, the 31-year-old Kissinger, a Harvard political scientist and admirer
of Metternich, was plucked out of his academic obscurity to become lifelong
foreign policy advisor to New York Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
Doctor K continued in that august role until he assumed the mastery of
foreign policy throughout the Nixon and Ford administrations. In that role,
Kissinger played a major part in prolonging and extending the Vietnam War,
and in the mass murder of civilians entailed by the terror bombings of
Vietnam, the secret bombing of Cambodia, and the invasion of Laos.
Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly
influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller
world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was
decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently
toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United
States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to
Carter's downfall. Today, Kissinger still continues to serve as a trustee of
the powerful Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as a counselor to Rockefellers' Chase
Manhattan Bank, and as a member of Chase's International Advisory Committee.
Kissinger's media influence is evident from his having served on the board of
CBS, Inc., and having been a paid consultant to both NBC News and ABC News.
That takes care of all three networks.
But Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger
Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the
international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally,
Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but
"consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international
political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate
clients. In the fullest report on KA, Leslie Gelb in the New York Times
Magazine for April 20, 1986, reveals that, in that year, 25 to 30
corporations paid KA between $150,000 and $420,000 each per annum for
political influence and access." As Gelb blandly puts it: "The superstar
international consultants [at KA] were certainly people who would get their
telephone calls returned from high American government officials and who
would also be able to get executives in to see foreign leaders." I dare say a
lot more than mere access could be gained thereby. KA's offices in New York
and Washington are small, but they pack a powerful punch. (Is it mere
coincidence that KA's Park Avenue headquarters is in the same building as the
local office of Chase Manhattan Bank's subsidiary, the Commercial Bank of
Kuwait?)
Who were these "superstar international consultants?" One of them, who in
1986 was the vice chairman of KA, is none other than General Brent Scowcroft,
former national security advisor under President Ford, and, playing the exact
same role under George Bush, serving as the chief architect of the Gulf War.
One of the General's top clients was Kuwait's government-owned Kuwait
Petroleum Corporation, who paid Scowcroft for his services at least from 1984
through 1986. In addition, Scowcroft became a director of Santa Fe
International (SFI) in the early 1980s, not long after SFI was purchased by
the Kuwait Petroleum 

[CTRL] A PR blitz is usaually a prelude to war. Israel hires PR firm

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Subject: PR war in the US


Public relation firms are working to
ensure the 'correct' spin goes out
on all news from the MIddle East

Since early February, public relations firms
Rubenstein Associates and Morris, Carrick  Guma have
been working for the Foreign Ministry to enhance
Israel's image. They are working for an undisclosed
sum on a three-month trial basis, dealing with media
placement and monitoring media coverage of events in
Israel.

"We're assisting them in telling their story
throughout the US," said Steven Rubenstein, executive
vice president of Rubenstein Associates.


Peter Hall

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 WAGING THE PR WAR IN AMERICA
By Melissa Radler

JERUSALEM POST - NEW YORK (March 9) -
The Foreign Ministry and American
Jews are waging a war for public opinion here, using
public relations firms, pollsters, and think tanks
instead of guns, tanks, and combat helicopters.

Since early February, public relations firms
Rubenstein Associates and Morris, Carrick  Guma have
been working for the Foreign Ministry to enhance
Israel's image. They are working for an undisclosed
sum on a three-month trial basis, dealing with media
placement and monitoring media coverage of events in
Israel.

"We're assisting them in telling their story
throughout the US," said Steven Rubenstein, executive
vice president of Rubenstein Associates.

At MCG, which worked on the campaigns of New York Sen.
Charles Schumer, Josh Isay offered little more insight
into the project. "The Foreign Ministry and the
consulates do a tremendous job, and we are just here
to help when needed," he said.

According to an official at the consulate here, the
firms are in close touch with it, sometimes speaking
on the phone three or four times a day. "It's a study
in progress," he said. "We expect to see the results
within the next two to four weeks."

Daniel Seaman, acting director for the foreign press
at the Government Press Office, said that the money
being spent on the firms would be better spent on his
understaffed and underfunded office.

"Came October, we were completely unqualified" to cope
with the media onslaught, he said Seaman, adding that
he needs an additional six employees, for a total of
15, to adequately monitor the media and deal with the
estimated 1,200-1,400 foreign journalists in Israel.

Seaman was appointed acting director in January, three
months after his predecessor left. For the past month,
he has been on reserve duty, and he noted that the
staffer in charge of translations has been called up
for a month of reserve duty in April.

"If we're given the resources, the money they spend on
the companies in the US, if we could give it to people
here for better salaries, with more people, I don't
see why we can't do as good a job," said Seaman.

Consul-General in New York Alon Pinkas is in charge of
coordinating the PR efforts in the US. Although he
refused to comment for this article, in January he
said the Foreign Ministry was looking into
"professionalizing our media, communications, and PR
efforts, especially because of the last three or four
months." He added that he was attending media training
lessons twice a week to improve his TV appearances.

In 1993, Pinkas, then an adviser to foreign minister
Shimon Peres, abolished the foreign PR office after
Peres invoked a new policy. "If you have good policy,
you do not need PR. And if you have a bad policy, PR
will not help," Peres said at the time.

Though Pinkas declined to answer questions on the
evolution of his stance on PR, an official at the
consulate said, "Reality changes and we have to be
smart enough to change with the times. We are
currently engaged in a conflict with the Palestinians,
and engaging in a successful PR campaign is part of
winning the conflict."

Other PR efforts underway include a proposed think
tank, which is to be led by Philadelphia
philanthropist Leonard Abramson and includes
Birthright backer Michael Steinhardt, World Jewish
Congress president Edgar Bronfman, and Tel Aviv
University.

In addition, ideas of establishing New York-based
Jewish radio and TV networks are also being floated.
The force behind the idea is Zev Brenner, head of
Talkline Communications Network, a Jewish network in
the US with 30 hours a week of radio and TV air time.

"One of the problems with the media is that, unlike
other ethnic communities, the Jewish community does
not have a full-time Jewish radio and TV station,"
said Brenner, who said he is talking to private
investors about acquiring additional TV and radio
networks. "For other communities, when there's a
crisis, there are not only members of the community
who tune in, but other media pick up the cue for
what's being reported."

Also in progress is a national 

[CTRL] How it's done: California reaming.

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Subject:
   FTCR's Bailout Watch #17-18
 Date:
   Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:17:40 -0600 (CST)


Bailout Watch -- Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians

FTCR is publishing a daily newsletter on developments in the California
energy crisis.
--
Bailout Watch #17 March 5, 2001

Governor Davis assures bankers, takes their money.
Governor Davis went to New York last week to calm nerves on Wall
Street.  Apparently, it gives the financial guys real peace of mind to open
up their check books for the Governor.  Among Governor Davis's events was a
breakfast fund-raiser at the headquarters of the banking and financial
services firm Citigroup, which brings us to a serious conflict of interest:
1) according to the OC Register, the chairman of the executive committee at
Citigroup Inc., Robert E. Rubin, was appointed in January to advise Davis
on various aspects of the crisis, including bond financing; 2) the two men
spent 25 hours in conversation about the energy crisis, according to the
New York Times; and 3) Citigroup and its investment banking unit, Salomon
Smith Barney, historically have done banking work for Edison International
and PGE, including, to no one's surprise, bond underwriting.

"Generators are my favorite people,"
Governor Davis joked to Wall Street analysts according to an edited
transcript of a meeting with Wall Street Analysts on his East Coast swing.
"If you haven't invested in Dynegy, Alliance, Southern or Duke, you still
have time. I've told all my buddies here, I don't care how much you're
making, you don't make as much as these guys…" But isn't the joke really on
California? We'd like to know who exactly was in the room, and will request
that info, along with the unedited transcript.

Davis's (not so) tough talk.
Continuing on at his speech in New York, Governor Davis made his pitch
about the power companies that have throttled California:  "I think it's
only fair that in what amounts to a work-out, the people who have done
extraordinarily well with our market participate in the solution. And I
think we can do that in an amicable, negotiated context. I don't have to
compel them, but can urge them to do it. We appreciate all those who have
contributed modestly to the solution."  Come on!  These companies have held
California under the threat of blackouts unless we make daily ransom
payments.  How many billions of taxpayer dollars is the Governor willing to
throw at these "people who have done extraordinarily well," before he
realizes that amicable negotiations will not end the extortion?  You don't
have to compel the generators to deal fairly, but, Governor, you should.

No beef with deregulation.
  Later in his Wall Street speech, Governor Davis had this to say about
California's energy policy: "I'm leaving you with a market that is still
deregulated and will not collapse unto itself thereby precluding
deregulation from ever working in California. ...As for deregulation, I
have no beef for it or against it."   Despite the fact that deregulation is
arguably the most egregious public policy failure in California history,
Governor Davis has no reservations about protecting this skewed system,
which benefits the energy industry and their investors at the direct
expense of California consumers and taxpayers.

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energy crisis.
--
Bailout Watch #18 March 6, 2001
Would you agree to pay 10 bucks for a gallon of milk until 2006?
That's roughly analogous to the blackmail-induced deal that Governor Davis
has struck with energy companies. The long-term contracts that the governor
announced Monday will force ratepayers to pay energy prices that are 263%
higher ($80 per megawatt-hour) than the prices considered reasonable just a
year ago. We are locked in to that price for five years and then we will
pay 203% more than 1999 prices for the five years thereafter. This is the
equivalent of forcing families to pay about $9.96 for a gallon of milk
(currently about $3.79/gallon) until 2006 and then $7.69/gallon through
2001. It would be scandalous to charge that much for milk, and it is a
scandal that we will be locked into these prices for electricity. Of course
the generators have demonstrated that they will milk us for all we're worth.
$3 billion down the drain.
According to the Associated Press, the state needed to call upon the budget
surplus for another $500 million this week to buy power formerly procured
for consumers by the utilities. The state has spent $3 billion dollars
purchasing the "net shortfall" of electricity from private energy
generators over the last 8 weeks. With that money, Governor Davis could
have taken and purchased, by eminent domain, every plant sold to the
private generators.
First 

[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: It's the economy stupid!

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   FORESTS: Financial Institutions Threaten Rainforests
 Date:
   Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:17:47 -0600 (CST)

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WORLDWIDE FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
Financial Institutions Deforest Indonesia, Threaten Other Rainforests
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Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc.
   http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal
   http://forests.org/web/ -- Discuss Forest Conservation

03/06/01
OVERVIEW  COMMENTARY
Irresponsible financial institutions are the engine driving the
growth machine devouring the World's ecosystems.  A recent report
highlights the extent to which Indonesia's pulp and paper production
was financed by government-backed export credit agencies.  Without
government subsidies, the magnitude of industrial logging would have
been much less.  Below are two articles regarding the worsening
situation in Indonesia.  Illegal logging, driven by demand created by
the over-sized industry, is wiping out habitat for wild orangutans,
which may be extinct in the wild in 10 years.  It is critical that
Indonesia implements a moratorium on logging in old growth forests
and renews its commitment to national parks.

If there is to be any natural World left standing, private and
government financiers must develop social and ecological guidelines
for project funding.  Increasingly groups such as Rainforest Action
Network, which is targeting Citigroup, are drawing much needed
attention to financial institution's impacts upon rainforests and the
well being of local communities.  Below you will find AIDEnvironment
and Profundo'a first issue of "Focus on Finance initiative".  The
newsletter highlights four case studies where forest issues and
financial institutions meet - drawing attention to the relation
between private capital flows and forest destruction.
g.b.

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RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE:

ITEM #1
Title:  Developed Countries Helped Deforest Indonesia, Report
   Claims
Source:  Copyright 2001 InterPress Service
Date:  February 21, 2001
Byline:  Danielle Knight

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (IPS)  Indonesian pulp and paper facilities,
supported in the 1990s by financial institutions in Europe, Japan and
North America, have caused widespread deforestation and human rights
abuses, according to a new report released here.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's remaining forests
were clear-cut in order to feed the nations rapid expansion of pulp
and paper production during the last decade, says a report released
this month by Bioforum, an Indonesian environmental group and
Environmental Defense, based in New York.

Export credit lending agencies based in industrialised nations that
backed these production facilities failed to require even minimal
environmental standards, says Stephanie Fried, a scientist at
Environmental Defense that co-authored the report.

Most of the internationally financed pulp and paper mills in
Indonesia have been accompanied by destruction of local peoples'
rights to land and livelihood and the armed suppression of dissent,
she says.

''As a result, massive public protests occurred against the forced
seizures and clear-cutting of community forests, against air
pollution, and against the pollution of major waterways by paper
and pulp mills and factories,'' she says.

The report is part of an international campaign by human rights
and environmental organisations to get government-backed export
credit agencies that are designed to promote investment overseas
to develop social and ecological guidelines for project funding.

Most of these institutions do not have environmental and human
rights standards and therefore end up competing with each other to
fund destructive projects that other institutions that have such
guidelines, will not touch, say activists.

The report describes the environmental impact of several large
Indonesian pulp and paper manufacturing plants, such as one facility
known as the Tanjung Enim Lestari pulp mill, or TEL, located in
the Benakat region of the island of Sumatra.

TEL's sister company, Musi Hutan Persada, was designated to prepare
massive pulp plantations to feed the mill. According to the report,
however, in 1992 Persada began illegally logging, despite protests
by local villagers.

''Inhabitants of Benakat were threatened by local authorities and
security forces who insisted that they give up 1,250 hectares of
their productive rubber gardens, upon which their livelihoods
depended,'' says the report.

Local officials, according to the report that was partially based
on testimony by villagers, threatened protesters with being accused
of ''hindering development'' a charge of subversion that could lead
to a prison sentence.

Despite outcries from the local community, in 1994 a 1.5 billion
dollar finance package was approved for the mill by Canadian,
Finnish, German, Japanese, and Swedish 

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Subject: [toeslist] U.S. Trade Representative Sued for Hiding Documents
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:22:40 -0600 (CST)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 7, 2001
8:00 AM
CONTACT:  Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
Martin Wagner, Earthjustice, 415-627-6700
Stephen Porter, CIEL, 202-785-8700

U.S. Trade Representative Sued for Hiding Documents
Withholding Could Hamper Protection of Domestic Environment and
Health Laws

WASHINGTON - March 7 - At the same moment the new U.S. Trade
Representative, Robert Zoellick, was urging Congress to grant
President Bush new international trade powers, a lawsuit was
filed against him down the street in U.S. District Court. The
suit challenges Zoellick's decision to keep the public in the
dark about the administration's latest trade negotiations for the
proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would expand the
North American Free Trade Agreement -- NAFTA -- to encompass the
entire hemisphere.

The lawsuit, being filed Wednesday by Earthjustice on behalf of
the Center for International Environmental Law, seeks to force
the USTR to disclose written proposals it has made to other
governments concerning provisions of the FTAA agreement, a treaty
that would bind the United States to powerful new trade rules.
USTR refused CIEL's request to make the documents public.

"USTR is negotiating binding rules that could affect the ability
of the United States to protect the environment and human
health,"  said Stephen Porter, Senior Attorney with CIEL. "To
hide what it is doing from concerned citizens is shameful for a
government that considers itself the world's model for democracy.
The USTR is willing to give these documents to 33 foreign
nations, but not the American public."

Using the Freedom of Information Act, CIEL asked USTR to disclose
documents it provided to foreign negotiators during meetings last
year to discuss potential FTAA provisions protecting foreign
investors. Similar provisions in the NAFTA have been the basis
for a $970 million dollar challenge to a California plan to phase
out the use of a harmful gasoline additive. Extending these rules
to the FTAA could further weaken the ability of the United States
to protect the environment and human health.

Although USTR admitted the existence of the documents, it refused
to make them public, claiming they were protected by FOIA's
exemption for "inter- and intra-agency communications protected
by the deliberative process privilege." However, as CIEL made
clear to USTR before filing its complaint today, the documents do
not qualify for the exemption and USTR waived any privilege when
it disclosed the records to foreign governments participating in
the treaty negotiations. USTR did post sketchy summaries of the
documents on its website, but they conceal more than they reveal,
according to CIEL and Earthjustice.

"Transparency and public participation are hallmarks of
democracy," said Martin Wagner, Director of International
Programs for Earthjustice. "If citizens are kept in the dark
until negotiations are completed, they will never be able to
provide useful advice concerning rules that would directly affect
their lives and health. The important decisions happen early in
the process. We are only left to wonder what they're trying to
hide. Are US trade officials giving foreign investors the power
to overturn our health and
environmental laws? The Bush administration won't say. We are
suing for openness."

A copy of the complaint is available online at
http://www.earthjustice.org

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Fairness  Accuracy in Reporting
   Media analysis, critiques and news reports

ACTION ALERT:
ABC Gives Drug Industry View on AIDS Drugs Dispute

March 8, 2001

On its March 7 broadcast, ABC's World News Tonight tried to give its viewers
some background on the legal battle over pharmaceutical patents and AIDS
drugs in Africa. But viewers only heard from one side in the debate: the
drug companies and their supporters.

The report, by ABC's Deborah Amos, relied on three sources: a spokesperson
from the South African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the
executive vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) and an analyst from the Cato Institute, a
conservative-libertarian think tank. All three promoted the same theme: Drug
companies should not be blamed for trying to protect their patents.

Excluding critics in this dispute is baffling. Activists from around the
world are gathered in South Africa now, as 39 pharmaceutical companies have
taken the South African government to court over its plan to allow
production of generic versions of AIDS drugs, a practice known as compulsory
licensing.  The activists argue that the escalating health crisis in Africa,
where 25 million people are estimated to be HIV positive, gives the
government the right to pursue such a policy, which they say is completely
legal under current international trade laws.

Experts who represent this point of view are readily available to the media:
The Institute for Public Accuracy, a D.C.-based press advisory group, issued
a press release on March 6 offering interviews with prominent critics of the
drug industry's position
(A HREF="http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR030601.htm"
http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR030601.htm/A ).

A shorter companion segment, by correspondent Jim Wooten, did describe the
human cost of high drug prices in Malawi, but did not include any drug
industry critics who might have explained how AIDS medicine could be made
affordable.

This isn't the first time ABC has presented mainly the drug company view on
this issue.  On July 8, 1999, World News Tonight aired two segments that
essentially argued that making cheaper drugs available would have little
impact on public health in African countries.  The segments were dominated
by sources from the pharmaceutical industry and its supporters, though one
South African government official was quoted criticizing the drug companies.
(See A HREF="http://www.fair.org/activism/aids-africa.html"
http://www.fair.org/activism/aids-africa.html/A .)

In his March 7 introduction, ABC anchor Peter Jennings called the story of
AIDS in Africa "one of the profound questions of our time." Unfortunately,
ABC sought the answers from only one side of the dispute.

ACTION: Please contact ABC World News Tonight and encourage them to include
critics of the pharmaceutical industry in their ongoing coverage of the AIDS
crisis in Africa.

CONTACT
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Subject: [djpc-action] The Sordid Past of Bush's Foreign Policy Team

 Bush's top foreign policy advisers for Latin America all played key
 roles in supporting the Contras in the 80s. Here's the line up:

 Colin Powell, Secretary of State.
 He was military assistant (known as the "filter") to Secretary of
 Defense in the 80s. In his autobiography, he proudly claims to ahve
 been the Pentagon's "point man" for US support for the Contras. From
 that position, he played a key role in funding Contras through
 illegal arms sales to Iran. For the full story, see
 http://www.consortiumnews.com/news.html

 John Maisto, National Security Council Adviser for Inter-
 American affairs (i.e. Bush's top adviser on the region.) Maisto was
 ambassador to Nicaragua during the U.S.-backed guerrilla war against
 the Sandinista government. See www.americas.org

 John Negroponte, United States ambassador to the United Nations.
 As ambassador to Honduras between 1981 and 1985, Mr. Negroponte
 oversaw a military buildup that turned much of that country into a
 springboard and refuge for the anti-Sandinista contras. See
 http://www.infoshop.org/nicanet/pubs/hotline0219_2001.html

 Otto Juan Reich, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere
 Affairs.  He was the first director of the State Department's Office
 of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1983 to
 1986. From that position, he engaged in "prohibited, covert
 propaganda activities" in his efforts to promote the Reagan
 administration's policies toward Nicaragua. See
 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/

 ACTION ALERT: Stop Bush's appointment of Otto Reich

 You may have wondered in the 1980's why Pledge of Resistance
 actions in your town and the actions of thousands of other activists
 across the entire U.S. got little or no press coverage in the major
 U.S. media.

 The man responsible was Otto Reich who, as the National Security
 Archives reports, maintained a private network of individuals and
 organizations whose activities were coordinated with, and sometimes
 directed by, Colonel Oliver North as well as other officials of the
 National Security Council. These private individuals and
 organizations raised and spent funds for the purpose of influencing
 congressional votes and U.S. domestic news media.

 Reich, a right-wing Cuban American and a former ambassador
 to Venezuela, is now undergoing a State Department background check.
 He would oversee U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America and
 Canada.  The major U.S. media sees Reich's appointment as causing
 conflict within the Republican Party between Florida's powerful Cuban-
 American exile lobby and a growing number of conservative business
 leaders and farmers who want to open new markets in Cuba.  But
 analysts are also saying that a Reich appointment could sour goodwill
 gestures to the rest of the Americas, setting up a showdown with
 Mexico and other nations.  The Dallas Morning News reports
 that Mr. Bush appears to be depending heavily on Cuban-Americans for
 key foreign policy advice.

 The National Security Archives has placed on its web site
 numerous documents that reveal Reich's role in the Reagan
 Administration's Central America policy.

 Visit the site at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ to learn
 more about Mr. Reich's career.

 Then write to your senators and ask them to let the
 Administration know that Mr. Reich should not be named to this high-
 level post.  If Reich is tapped for the post, he has to be confirmed
 by the Senate.  So ask your Senators to vote against the nomination.

 If your Senator is on the Senate Foreign Relations
 Committee, he or she will have the opportunity to ask pointed
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The ADL and racist terrorist groups

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Still an idiot huh?
You seem to be an expert in train of thought stupidity.

Joshua2


Aleisha Saba wrote:

 So does ADL have a hidden agenda - that of attempting to create hatred
 of the Jews as did the facists in days of leading to WWII?

 Bnai Brith - a masonic order - who warned FBI and BATF and one Judge to
 stay home that day in Oklahoma?

 Well got news for you - I want to know more about this Mark Lane aka
 Mark Levy who is always a few steps behind and ahead of the murderers?
 From Kilgallon to her interview with Jack Ruby aka Rubenstein, to the
 shooting of Larry Flynt, new kid on block in Columbus, Ohio with
 pornography fronting for drugs - and boy there was Mark Lane with his
 garbage influencing Larry Flynt?   Flynt gunned down by a collector's
 gun, a 45

 Have I been looking for a renegade Masonic Order all these years - you
 better believe it, and I think this ADL and Bnai Brith is it...

 From JFK to little John John to the sabotage of the Space Program -
 notice this crap about USA did not go to moon?

 We had the black Moses Martin Luther King suckered into a communist
 movement and this NAACP founded by what and whom?

 Any researcher if you put all this stuff together - are these people
 correct in believing that the ADL and this Bnai Brith maybe using
 reverse psychology?

 ADL attempting to censor the press - note their complaint of Farakhan
 the great Islam Leader - how they want his voice silenced and how they
 went to Ted Turner to squelch this voice?

 Are Americans going to be intimidated by this handful of sleaze who
 wanted Marc Rich pardoned and why?   All that money, you think this
 sleaze cares about a pardon when he is not even an American Citizen?

 Stop an think - why does he care - because he wants to be able to come
 to American and work with his sleaze wife in the looting of America and
 Unions Beware - for it was this sleaze who attempted to destroy
 steelworkers - why are the Unions so quiet?   Why is oil and gas so
 high?

 Remember it is a handful of people orchestrating the destruction of
 America but to me this sleaze involved in pushing sodomists on the
 little boy scouts?

 Tell me why does ADL and Bnai Brith cause people to hate Jews - note
 Jews, not Zionists?

 As Prince Turki Faisal told us at a dinner (and thisi man todays heads
 up inelligence in this one agency) - the young prince toldl us in 1967
 that it was the Zionist coming to Holy Land causing all the problems,
 that the domestic jew and arab moslems wanted to live in peace?

 Marc Rich - Zionist - Jewish Mafia - part of criminal syndicate and that
 bastard wants to come to America now and work from within?

 So a year  after the young Prince made his visit here - his father was
 murdered by a black from Berkley California?   Figure that one?   A
 Black Nationalist Panther???   Remember the Black Panthers sent in to
 intimidate Mrs. Bush with Uzis?

 Consider this - it was the year of the take over and these bastards
 lostyet they plot ahead in the destruction of Americafor this
 like the pyramids they believe, is their promised land?

 No wonder God gave Ishmael all that oil?

 Saba

 Jews for Morality
 ON THE SOCIO-MORAL ISSUES OF THE DAY
 From a Traditional Jewish Perspective

 [ Back ] [ Opening Page ] [ Essay Index ] [ Next ]
 28 Av 5759 / 10 Aug. 1999
 ADL and Racist Terrorist Groups
 – A Symbiotic Relationship
 ADL Attacks on American Conservatives Help
 Racist Groups Gain New Recruits,
 While New Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Centers Help
 ADL Raise More Funds
 Almost totally ignored in the reporting on the Los Angeles Jewish Center
 shooting, is the rapid growth in the membership of white racist
 terrorist groups in recent years.   This increased membership is the
 most important factor in the recent increase in terrorist incidents.
 Most people have the mistaken notion that the ADL (Anti-Defamation
 League of Bnai Brith) is simply a Jewish defense organization whose
 purpose is to protect Jews in the United States from discrimination and
 physical harm.   Nothing could be further from the truth.
 In recent years, the ADL, under the leadership of Abraham Foxman, has
 metamorphosed into a left-wing organization that closely coordinates its
 activities with some of the most radical groups in America.
 The ADL works closely with the homosexual lobbies in Washington and in
 the state capitols to promote the "Gay" agenda, including the current
 "hate crimes" bill, which would effectively silence all of the religious
 organizations who consider homosexuality an "abomination", and focus
 scarce law enforcement resources into efforts to give special
 protections to homosexuals, at the expense of all other Americans.
 The ADL works closely with pro-abortion groups to make certain that no
 restrictions whatsoever are placed on abortion—for any purpose, at any
 time in the development of the baby in the womb, and including
 "partial-birth" abortion (infanticide).
 

Re: [CTRL] IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptIVf

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Religionist drivel.

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 Timeline of Treason
 IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptIVf

 Special Emergency
 Note from the Editor

 Testimony from POW Hearings

 SPECIAL SENATE REPORT
 on the State of the Nation

   

   continued

"THE PROPHECY"

   Part IVf

 can be read at:
 The Joshua Report
 http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/
 --
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 The Joshua Report
 http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/
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Re: [CTRL] [prj] America should follow Israel's example (fwd) j2

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3/12/01

Just out of curiosity.
Does anyone here think this is real?

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 America Should Battle Minorities and Aliens the Way
 the Israelis Do
 by Rev. Bobby Singleton

 As a life-long admirer of the Jewish people and
 supporter of the state of Israel, I have always taken
 the Jews to be a pattern for my own life and my
 relationship with the Almighty. Now, as I watch
 prophetic events unfold in Israel, I am stimulated to
 believe that it is time America learned a policy
 lesson from the Jews and applied Israel's solutions to
 our own domestic crisis.

 I am of course talking about the negro/Afro minority
 amongst our beloved nation, as well as the aliens from
 Mexico who threaten to inundate us at our border.

 Increasingly, predominately black cities in America
 are no-go zones for Americans. We are raped, robbed,
 assaulted and even killed when we go there and these
 terror acts spill over into non-black towns and
 cities. As a result, Americans are not safe on their
 own land! Meanwhile, Catholic peons from Mexico invade
 our country, undermine the Protestant character of our
 nation and perpetrate more crime and terrorism. There
 would seem to be no end in sight to the violence
 perpetrated by these groups and the violence must end!

 The Jews in Israel use the following methods for
 curtailing Palestinian violence, and we should do as
 these Chosen People of God Almighty do.

 1. CLOSURE. Cities with a Palestinian majority are
 sealed. The Arabs are not allowed to leave their towns
 and they may not enter Israel for employment or any
 other reason except certain cases of medical
 emergency. We in America need to do the same. Whenever
 there are clashes with our police and an outburst of
 violence from Afros or Latinos in America, we should
 seal
 ghettos and barrios the way Israel sealed the
 Palestinian cities at the beginning of 2001. This way
 we can enjoy relative security while collectively
 punishing all the blacks and Mexicans for the violent
 clashes their leaders agitate and condone. I recommend
 this for Christian Europe as well. When violence
 erupts, Germans can close predominately Turkish cities
 in Germany, the French can close predominately African
 areas of France and the British can seal Brixton and
 Bradford, closing access by minorities to the outside
 world for months on end, like Israel does.

 2. DEMOLITION. Once having closed these areas,
 American intelligence agents can pinpoint the homes of
 the most violence-prone black and Mexican gang-members
 and rioters and demolish their homes, leaving their
 families on the street where they belong. The Israelis
 have had great success doing this for years to the
 Palestinians. House demolition is a real deterrent not

 soon forgotten!

 3. ENTRENCHMENT. After closure and demolition,
 entrenchment is the next step. In late February and
 early March of 2001 the Israelis completed excavation
 of a two meter deep ditch encircling the Palestinian
 city of Jericho. The entrenchment of other Palestinian
 cities is under way. This ditch prevents not only cars
 driven by violent Palestinians from leaving Jericho
 and entering Israel, it keeps any Palestinian from
 driving any car out of the town without permission
 from Israeli authorities. This is a fabulous idea for
 Watts, Harlem, the south side of Chicago, portions of
 east Los Angeles and many other areas in America with
 a predominately Afro or Mexican population. It is a
 well-known fact that, like the Palestinians,
 minorities in America are fond of using automobiles in
 the commission of
 drive-by shootings and similar violence. We can
 prevent this by digging a deep ditch around their
 communities, just like the Israelis do!

 4. SHOOT RIOTERS. Any time a black or Mexican child
 throws a stone at an American policeman they should be
 shot! Policemen should try to wound rather than kill
 these children, but if a few dozen black or Mexican
 children are killed by the police in America every
 year, it is the parents' fault for allowing their
 children to be out in the streets. The US State
 Department reports that in the year 2000, Israel shot
 more than 11,000 violent Palestinians, including
 hundreds of violence-prone Palestinian children.
 Almost 400 Palestinian demonstrators and rioters were
 killed by the Israeli police and army. We need to
 implement these policies in the US. We have muzzled
 our police for too long in the face of black and
 Latino violence. Let's teach these godless punks 

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3/11/01

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'CIA's bastard army ran riot in Balkans' backed
extremists'
Special report: Kosovo
Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday March 11, 2001
The Observer
The United States secretly supported the ethnic
Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in
Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army
fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in
an effort to undermine the then Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European
officers who served with the international
peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as
leading Macedonian and US sources.
They accuse American forces with K-For of deliberately
ignoring the massive smuggling of men and arms across
Kosovo's borders.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews by
The Observer . They emerge as America has been forced
into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian
extremists in Kosovo seeking a 'Greater Kosovo' that
would include Albanian communities in Serbia and
Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have
intensified their campaign of attacks in the two
areas, threatening a new war in the region which last
week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans
for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For between
the European and US military missions. European
officers are furious that the Ameri cans have allowed
guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms
and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told The
Observer yesterday: 'The CIA has been allowed to run
riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to
overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he's gone the US
State Department seems incapable of reining in its
bastard army.'
He added: 'Most of last year, there was a growing
frustration with US support for the radical Albanians.
US policy was and still is out of step with the other
Nato allies.'
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in
the capital, Skopje. 'What has been happening with the
National Liberation Army [which has been responsible
for a series of attacks on Macedonia's borders in
recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation
in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened
when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,' said one.
'I will say only this: the US intelligence agencies
have not been honest here.'
The claims were given extra credence from an
unexpected source - Arben Xhafari, leader of
Macedonia's main Albanian party who tried to prevent
the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war
inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last
administration. There had now been 'a shift of
emphasis'.

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[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Nafta's Powerful Little Secret

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March 11, 2001

Nafta's Powerful Little Secret

By ANTHONY DePALMA

 heir meetings are secret. Their members are
generally unknown. The decisions they reach need not
be fully disclosed. Yet the way a
 small group of international tribunals handles
disputes between investors and foreign governments has
led to national laws being
revoked, justice systems questioned and environmental
regulations challenged. And it is all in the name of
protecting the rights of foreign
investors under the North American Free Trade
Agreement.

The corporations — American, Canadian and Mexican
alike — that directly invest in neighboring countries
are thrilled that Nafta provides
some protection. But foes of the trade pact say some
of their worst fears about anonymous government have
become reality. And as
Western economies move toward more free trade and
globalization, environmentalists, consumer groups and
anti-trade organizations are
increasingly worried about how the tribunals influence
the enforcement of laws. The groups are gearing up for
a fight at the Summit of the
Americas next month in Quebec, where President Bush
will be pushing a vast new Free Trade Area of the
Americas, which would provide
for similar tribunals.

Protesters will attack the sweeping powers and broad
impact of the tribunals, along with their very nature
— ad hoc panels drawn from lists
of academics and international lawyers almost unknown
outside their highly specialized fields.

"What we're talking about here is secret government,"
said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, a
consumer watchdog group in
Washington that has been critical of Nafta and other
trade agreements. Ms. Claybrook said the 16 Nafta
cases that have been filed so far in
the United States, Canada and Mexico showed how
corporations were using Nafta not to defend trade but
to challenge the functioning of
government. "This is not the way to do the public's
business," she said.

The tribunals have been used in Nafta disputes for
only a few years, but the complaints they have handled
have already had many
repercussions, including these:

• The Canadian government lifted restrictions on
manufacturing an ethanol-based gasoline additive that
it considered hazardous after an
American manufacturer said that the ban hurt its
business.

• A tribunal ordered Mexico to pay an American company
$16.7 million after finding that local environmental
laws prohibiting a toxic-
waste-processing plant that the company was building
were tantamount to expropriation.

• A Canadian-based funeral company is asking the
United States government for $725 million in
compensation after a Mississippi jury found
the company guilty in 1995 of trying to put a local
funeral home out of business, and levied $500 million
in damages. The company contends
that the jury sought to punish it because it is
foreign. If the tribunal awards compensation, critics
say, all jury awards involving foreign
investors may be challenged.

• United Parcel Service, the package-delivery company,
has filed a complaint contending that the very
existence of the publicly financed
Canadian postal system represents unfair competition
that conflicts with Canada's obligations under Nafta.
Critics worry that if the tribunal
upholds the U.P.S. claim, government participation in
any service that competes with the private sector will
be threatened.



T is clear that investors have gained a shield far
more powerful than almost anyone had imagined when
Nafta was written in the early 1990's.
"There is no doubt that these measures represent an
expansion of the rights of private enterprises vis-
-vis government," said Prof. Andreas
F. Lowenfeld, an international trade expert at the New
York University School of Law. "The question is: Is
that a good thing?"

The international tribunals are authorized under a
Nafta clause called Chapter 11, dealing with
investments. Investors who believe they have
suffered a loss because of a breach in Nafta rules can
bring a claim against the government of the country
where they made their investment.
They can have the complaint heard under one of two
existing sets of rules — one from the United Nations,
the other from an independent
office of the World Bank.

These off-the-shelf mechanisms adopted by Nafta have
commonly been used to resolve private disputes between
corporations, and are thus
intended to provide a great degree of confidentiality.
Both critics and proponents agree that the provisions
run headlong into demands for
openness and accountability when public issues are
involved.

"The fact that the drafters of Nafta chose this
secretive process to resolve these disputes is further
evidence that they weren't foreseeing
matters of broad social concern coming before these
panels," said Martin Wagner, director of international
programs for the Earthjustice
Legal Defense Fund, an environmental group in San
Francisco.

Critics say the corporate victories have spawned even
bolder and 

Re: [CTRL] [Spy News] Document says CIA overstated Soviet threat ---- What a bunch of crap! - j2

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Mario Profaca wrote:

 Document says CIA overstated Soviet threat
 http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/09/national/NUKES10.htm

 By Jonathan S. Landay
 INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU

 WASHINGTON - For more than 10 years during the Cold War, U.S. intelligence
 forecasts greatly exaggerated the pace at which the former Soviet Union
 would improve its long-range nuclear forces, a newly declassified CIA
 document indicated today.

 The summary of a 1989 CIA internal review said every major intelligence
 assessment from 1974 to 1986 - a period covering at least three
 presidencies - "substantially" overestimated the Kremlin's plans to
 modernize and expand its strategic nuclear arsenal.

Well DUH How else do you maintain a wartime military economy during peace?
The bigger the enemy, the bigger the threat. The bigger the threat, the bigger
the fear. The bigger the fear, the better the justification for the ENORMOUS
amount spent on the cold war. Thirteen TRILLION dollars.

 The document raised new questions about how well the CIA and other U.S.
 intelligence agencies judged the Soviet Union's aims and intentions, and the
 extent to which mistaken analyses influenced U.S. military spending and
 Washington's defense and foreign policies.

They weren't mistaken. They lied. The Soviet economy was one one sixth that
of the USA's. They didn't have the money to waste on military hardware AND
fund their society.

 The persistent errors also raise questions about the intelligence
 community's ability to collect reliable information on today's targets,
 which are more diverse and even harder for spies to penetrate than the
 Soviet Union was.

The " intelligence " community did not see the Soviet Empire crumble. But
they did see the Soviets ' modernize and expand ' their military. Why am I
paying these guys?

 During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's force of nuclear-armed
 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarines, and long-range
 bombers was the U.S intelligence community's primary target. But today's
 spies must try to keep track of international terrorists, rogue
 nuclear-weapons programs and computer hackers, and also plumb the minds of
 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jong Il, all of which
 is much harder than counting missile silos in Kazakstan or estimating the
 wheat crop in Ukraine.

This is all bullshit. This writer is a CIA hack.

 The study is part of more than 19,000 pages of documents that have been
 declassified for a two-day conference on the CIA's analysis of the Soviet
 Union from 1947 to 1991 that opened today at Princeton University. The
 documents deleted material still considered important to national security.

Princeton is the home of the modern US intelligence structure foisted upon the
American people by presidential order after WWII. NOTHING comming out of
Princeton which relates to intelligence can be trusted. It is simply one of the
academic outlets for CIA disinformation. As is this article.

 Titled "Intelligence Forecasts of Soviet Intercontinental Attack Forces: An
 Evaluation of the Record," the study reviewed the U.S. intelligence
 community's projections of efforts to modernize Soviet nuclear forces in the
 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

 The forecasts, known as national intelligence estimates (NIE), were intended
 to guide the president and his top aides in setting defense and foreign
 policies, including military spending and the size of U.S. nuclear forces.
 An NIE represents the consensus of 13 agencies, including the CIA and the
 Defense Intelligence Agency, which frequently disagreed about the severity
 of the Soviet threat.

 The study found that predicting the rate of Soviet nuclear-force
 modernization "has proven to be the most difficult aspect of Soviet
 strategic forces to project."

Yeah right.

 As an example, it cited a 1975 forecast that by 1985 more than 90 percent of
 Soviet long-range missiles and bombers would be replaced. "In reality, the
 Soviets replaced less than 60 percent of them," the study said.

 "This tendency to substantially overestimate the rate of [Soviet] force
 modernization occurred in every NIE published from 1974 to 1986, and it was
 true for every projected force - whether it assumed high, moderate or low
 levels of effort," the study continued.

Remember the hysteria of the " missile gap?" Remember haw much it cost us to catch
up? Evidently, GE, Hughes, General Dynamics, and the other masters of war weren't
making enough profits for their share holders to buy a new limousine every year.

 In another example, it said an NIE published in 1985 - the beginning of
 President Ronald Reagan's second term - "projected that virtually the entire
 [Soviet] ICBM force would be replaced within 10 years."

The Reagan administration waged economic war against the Soviets using these
fabricated reports as justification. The US economy, being six times larger
than the Soviet economy, could spend huge 

[CTRL] How it's done: Quid pro quo. Corporate donors seek return on investment in Bush campaign.

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Corporate donors seek return on investment in Bush campaign

http://www.msnbc.com/news/539790.asp

Philip Morris has numerous ties to the Bush administration

By Tom Hamburger, Laurie McGinley and David S. Cloud
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON, March 6 - For the businesses that invested more money than ever
before in George W. Bush's costly campaign for the presidency, the returns
have already begun. MBNA America Bank was one of the single largest
corporate donors to the Bush campaign and other GOP electoral efforts last
year.
THE BANK AND ITS EMPLOYEES gave a total of about $1.3 million, according to
the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan clearinghouse here.
Charles Cawley, MBNA's president, was a member of the Bush "pioneers,"
wealthy fund-raisers who each personally gathered at least $100,000 for the
presidential campaign.
Mr. Cawley hosted Bush fund-raising events at his home in Wilmington, Del.,
last year and, in 1999, at his summer home in Maine, north of the Bush
family retreat in Kennebunkport. At the Maine affair, 200 guests gathered
in the early evening on the large porch of the Cawley home, situated on a
hill with a sweeping view of the Atlantic Ocean.  Guests sipped cocktails
and heard a brief talk by the candidate.
The money didn't stop on election day. Mr. Cawley and his wife each gave
the maximum of $5,000 to help fund Mr.  Bush's fight in the Florida vote
recount. Mr. Cawley gave an additional $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney
inaugural committee, the most the committee would take from a single donor.
Last week, MBNA's investment began paying off. The company, one of the
nation's three largest credit-card issuers, has been pushing for years to
tighten bankruptcy laws that allow certain consumers filing for court
protection, in effect, to disregard obligations to credit-card companies
and other unsecured lenders. On Wednesday, the White House announced that
President Bush would sign a bill now moving through Congress that would
make it tougher for consumers to escape such debts. If enacted, the measure
could translate into an estimated tens of millions of dollars in additional
annual earnings for each of the big credit companies.
MBNA's vice chair, David Spartin, says his firm has no way to estimate how
the legislation would affect the company's bottom line. MBNA has backed the
bill for years "because we think it is good for consumers," as it will
"reduce the cost of credit for everyone," Mr. Spartin says.  The donations
to President Bush and other candidates were made because "we think they
would make excellent public officials," he adds. No MBNA official "has ever
spoken to President Bush about the bill," Mr. Spartin says.
   'OUT OF THE CAVE, BLINKING'
Many corporations feel like a new day is dawning in Washington. "We have
come out of the cave, blinking in the sunlight, saying to one another, 'My
God, now we can actually get something done,' " says Richard Hohlt,
Washington lobbyist for several other major banks which, like MBNA, are
backing an industry coalition whose members provided some $26 million to
Republicans during the 1999-2000 campaign cycle.
President Clinton last year vetoed a similar bill that would have toughened
bankruptcy law. Consumer groups argue that such legislation would weaken
protection for working families, many of whom have been the targets of
aggressive credit-card marketing.
Also in action last week were members of a large coalition of Mr. Bush's
business backers who want to roll back new federal rules designed to
protect workers from repetitive-motion injuries.
In a private meeting with congressional leaders last Tuesday, President
Bush signed off on a plan to kill the ergonomic regulations, using the
powers of the Congressional Review Act. That act, passed in 1996, gives
Congress 60 days to reject regulations issued by federal agencies. But it
was never used during Mr. Clinton's term because to take effect, a
resolution rejecting new rules has to be approved by the president.
Repealing the ergonomic rules ranks high on the priority lists of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the
National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. The trade groups
technically don't endorse candidates, but each of them mounted major
grass-roots and advertising campaigns that benefited Mr.  Bush and other
Republicans in the 2000 elections.
A repeal would be a particularly hard loss for organized labor, which has
fought for enactment of the ergonomic rules for 10 years, saying they are
needed to protect workers from wrist, back and other injuries.
On employee safety, consumer bankruptcy and a host of other issues, Bush
administration officials maintain they are acting strictly on the merits,
not the money. Proponents of the bankruptcy bill, for example, point out
that personal bankruptcy filings reached a record 1.4 million in 1998. The
bill that would toughen the bankruptcy law won strong 

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It's not German. Asshole.

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The rise of capitalist elites


Central to Smith's model of a market  economy was the condition that all buyers
and sellers must be small.  In this way, prices could not be influenced by
individual actors, but would reach a fair and reasonable level - through fair
competition between sellers, and comparison shopping on the part of buyers. In
Smith's model, very large producers - who had the power to dominate markets - were
specifically forbidden. The dynamics of capitalism, on the other hand, lead
naturally toward monopoly.  While Smith's arguments helped pave the way for
capitalism, it is the natural dynamics of capitalism which have prevailed, not the
enlightened dynamics which Smith prescribed.

If one central principle could be identified, which best characterizes the essence
of the Industrial Revolution, that principle would be 'economy of scale'. That's
what factories, and steam engines, and mass production are all about.  By
concentrating lots of equipment, resources, and workers all in one place, it is
possible to produce more and cheaper products than with many small operations.  In
a large operation one can use more powerful and efficient equipment; one can
demand discount prices from suppliers; one can set up an efficient distribution
system - and there are many other advantages as well. Unless there are sufficient
regulatory restrictions placed on the size of an operation, the natural tendency
is for the large to gobble the small, and the larger to gobble the large, '...and
so adinfinitum'.  And this is exactly what has happened, right up to the current
day - with its mega retail stores, global fast-food chains, transnational
corporations, and the increasing concentration of world commerce into the hands of
a small number of huge operators.

In order to understand the dynamics of capitalism, recall the capitalist paradigm:
'wealth accumulation through initiative  innovation'. Building factories showed
one kind of initiative, and lobbying for new economic policies showed another.
The entrepreneur and the investor, in pursuit of greater wealth, must always ask
themselves the following question: 'Given my available assets, what strategy will
bring me the greatest future returns?'  The answers to this question are as varied
as the human imagination, and it is that 'creativity in pursuit of ever-greater
wealth' which has guided the course of history ever since capitalism took hold.

Industrialists, bankers, and financiers formed the core of the capitalist
community, and as such they were clearly an important and influential segment of
society. Governments looked to this community when financing was needed for wars
and other government endeavors, and it was from this community that Finance
Ministers and other important government officials would usually be selected. The
interests of government and the interests of capitalism became intertwined, and

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

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3/9/01

There should be no uncertainty about it. Each country's Globalist
Elites have no time to indulge popular whims such as Democracy.

Joshua2


 European Foundation Intelligence Digest

 Issue No. 114

 22nd February ndash; 8th March 2001



I. Western European Developments

Democracy in Switzerland

By a huge majority, the Swiss have rejected a proposal to begin
negotiations to join the European Union. 76.7%
of voters, in the biggest turnout for 8 years, voted against the "Yes to
Europe!" initiative. Even in the
traditionally pro-European French-speaking parts of the country, there
was a clear majority in favour of a No.
Not one single canton, indeed, voted for Europe. To this extent, the
Swiss have once again shown their
extraordinary spirit of independence and love of freedom.

Their government, however, is a different matter. Even before the voting
had finished, the federal government
in Bern issued a statement saying that the expected No result would in
no way deflect it from it pro-European
course. It reaffirmed its desire to seek EU membership in due course.
With quite breathtaking cheek, it said that
the No vote could in no way be interpreted as meaning a rejection of EU
membership as such. Instead, the
government said, the result merely indicated that the Swiss did not
think the time was right now to start
negotiations. Quite how the government has arrived at this conclusion is
not clear: it seems more likely to be
evidence of the governmentrsquo;s simple contempt for its votersrsquo;
settled opinion that the EU is a bad
idea. The Foreign Minister and other ministers thus confirmed that they
would seek to decide on EU
negotiations during the next legislature, i.e. between 2003 and 2007.
Moreover, in confirming that the
government was sticking to its plans, the Foreign Minister said that a
new Europe was arising and that it was
essential for Switzerland to play its role ndash; in other words, he
used the very same arguments which the
roundly defeated pro-Europeans had used in their campaign. [Neue Z?rcher
Zeitung, 5th March 2001] By the same token,
the Commissionrsquo;s spokesman had evidently co-ordinated its line
with the Swiss government, for he too
said that the Swiss vote did not mean that the Swiss were opposed to EU
membership, rather that they did not
want to begin negotiations now.

These events should cause the Swiss to reflect seriously on the
soundness of their political system. The Swiss are
very rightly proud of their ancient democracy. When matters of cantonal
or national importance are put to
referendum, as they frequently are, this is democracy at its most
direct. There is, however, one potentially very
important weak link: the Swiss retain a proportional system for their
federal government. This effectively means
that the same parties remain in power at federal level whatever the
outcome of the elections. The Swiss
parliamentrsquo;s web site actually boasts of the fact that the
parliament looks pretty much the same as it did
in 1919 and that the national government has not changed its composition
since 1960! Under such a system, it is
virtually impossible to vote into power a party which will obey the will
of the electorate on the single most
important political matter of all, the countryrsquo;s future
sovereignty.

[ http://www.parlament.ch/poly/Framesets/E/Frame-E.htm ]

More spokes in the wheels of enlargement

Following Commissar Verheugenrsquo;s admission (reported in the last
Digest) that Poland and the other
candidate countries cannot join the EU because the present EU members
cannot withstand the effect it will
have on their unemployment levels, German trade unions have protested
strongly at a position paper published
by the Commission which says that the transition period before Poles and
other citizens of new member states
can enjoy freedom of movement to go and work in other EU states should
be only four years. One leading trade
unionist said that the period should be seven or eight years, while the
leading representative of the construction
industry in Germany said it should be even longer. The German Chancellor
and the French president, who
ultimately will decide the matter, have said that they regard a
transitional period of seven years as necessary.
[Handelsblatt, 1st March 2001] The Poles will no doubt find this very
tiresome; on the other hand, they are holding out
for a fifteen year transition period before the Germans can come and
start buying back their old homes in Silesia.
In which case, one might ask, what is the point of joining the EU at
all?

EU ticks off Hungary

It is the time of year when the EU produces school reports for the eager
young students east of the Elbe.
Teacher is not very happy with any members of the class this year: the
Poles are too numerous, the Czechs are
too democratic and the Hungarians are too right wing. 

[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Kevin McCarthy, where are you now that we need you. -j2

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body snatchers bust prompts reforms --shm.com.au

Stricter rules governing drug trialling are promised. But they shouldn't be
necessary if doctors stick to
their guidelines. Gerard Ryle reports.

Embarrassment has done its work. Those who run the system always knew. Now that
the public
knows, they've promised reforms. That anyone was surprised by the news this week
that
doctors were getting paid by global pharmaceutical firms to do drug trials on
their patients
might be considered an extraordinary oversight for a profession that likes to
stand on a
platform of ethics.

The response from authorities was immediate. The State Health Minister, Craig
Knowles,
announced two inquiries into the matter, one by his department and one by the NSW
Medical
Board.

He also set about creating Australia's first publicly accessible register of
clinical trials by ordering
that all hospitals list all such trials - and moneys received from pharmaceutical
firms - in their
annual reports.

The chief medical officer of Australia, Professor Richard Smallwood, said that an
even more
comprehensive register of clinical trials should be compiled at a national level.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Australian Democrats, Meg Lees, said her party would
ensure that
laws were changed so that doctors would have to tell patients who volunteered for
trials of
financial arrangements the doctors had with pharmaceutical firms.

But in view of doctors' own self-imposed rules, such legal reform should not be
necessary.

At least two medical codes of conduct in Australia refer to the commercial
relationships between
the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. The guidelines attempt to
moderate
between the ever increasing needs of big business and the delicate patient-doctor
relationship.

The latest code of ethics issued by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
couldn't spell it
out more clearly: "The nature of the compensation to be paid to the investigators
or the
institution should be declared to, and approved by, the ethics committee and this
fact should be
noted in the explanatory statement provided to potential volunteers."

The fact is, this hasn't always happened. More ...

THE EXPOSE
Australians used as guinea pigs for global drug market
Thousands of Australian patients are being used as guinea pigs in drug trials for
global pharmaceutical
companies without explicit laws to adequately protect their rights.
Full report
Australians used as guinea pigs for global drug market

A HERALD INVESTIGATION

By Gerard Ryle

Thousands of Australian patients are being used as guineapigs in drug trials for
global
pharmaceutical companies without explicit laws to adequately protect their rights.

Intellectually disabled men and women, incapable of giving consent on their own
behalf, are
being included in the trials, which are largely aimed at getting new drugs to the
United States
and European markets.

Pharmaceutical companies are paying private doctors up to $6,000 for every patient
they recruit
but the patients do not have to be told of the financial arrangement. The money
covers trial
expenses and allows a profit for the doctors.

Drug trials are vital in bringing life-saving medicines to market but the number
being conducted
in Australia has risen 20-fold since 1990 and many never result in approval for
the drug.

Some trials are abandoned after reports of side-effects and deaths, either here or
overseas, or
because the drug simply does not work.

The chairman of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, Professor Martin
Tattersall, who is
at the forefront of medical research in Australia, believes the protection of
patients' rights in
drug trials needs a major overhaul.

"Basically most patients do what their doctors say," he said. "They do that
because they want
to trust their doctors. Some patients taking part in clinical trials don't
appreciate that they are in
a clinical trial."

A Herald investigation has found that:

  Patients are being bought and sold like commodities by doctors and
pharmaceutical companies
but are not being told that money changes hands when they volunteer for new
treatments.

  The Therapeutic Goods Administration, the main responsible Federal Government
authority,
was obliged to directly review only two of the 1,712 clinical trials done in
Australia last year.

  Patients are not always given copies of the consent forms they sign and are
often not in a
position to question their doctor's suggestion that they join a trial.

  Nearly one in six of the 210 medical bodies which approve trials - known as
ethics committees
- are being run out of private organisations.

  One Sydney doctor who conducted trials on his patients got approval from an
ethics
committee that included, among others, his former lawyer, his former patient, his
rabbi and his
sister.

Global pharmaceutical companies have rushed to Australia at a time when debates
have arisen
over similar trials in Europe and the US, and 

[CTRL] Palestinian double standard? Never!

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MEMRI: A CRITICISM OF PALESTINIAN INTELLECTUALS' DOUBLE STANDARD


Special Dispatch - PA
March 8, 2001
No.193


A Criticism of Palestinian Intellectuals' Double Standard

Palestinian writer, Zakariya Muhammad, criticized Palestinian intellectuals
for not denouncing Palestinian crimes while criticizing the Israeli peace
camp:


"These days, Palestinian intellectuals tend to blame the Israeli
intellectuals who used to present themselves as peaceniks, for abandoning
justice and peace, in favor of the [Israeli] 'consensus' that describes the
Palestinians as aggressors and as a danger to Israel, instead of
resisting the occupation, and demonstrating their understanding for the
Palestinians' revolt. The gentlest thing that Palestinian intellectuals have
to say about the Israeli intellectuals is that they are hypocrites; that the
peace they spoke of was lip-service, and that deep inside - when the moment
of truth came - they stood by the occupation."

"In fact, these accusations are correct with regard to most of the
intellectuals in the so-called [Israeli] 'peace camp,' they have displayed a
nationalist tendency and have had a role in Sharon's rise to power."

"However, this claim by Palestinian intellectuals, is weakened by their
profound fear of dealing with the bad deeds that have occurred on the
Palestinian side. None of them have denounced the criminal acts of murder
that have been carried out by the Palestinian side. Although many of them
denounce these acts in private, none have clearly written against them or
published even a single communique condemning them."

"In other words, these intellectuals are either afraid of their public and
its reaction, or they are hypocritical in their approach to their public.
They only try to please [this public] even if it breaks the scales of
justice on which they claim to weigh things. This position serves the
hypocrite peaceniks among the Israeli intellectuals, who use it [as an
excuse] to join their 'national consensus.' As long as the Palestinians have
a consensus of their own and as long as their intellectuals abandon the
'scales of justice,' - the Israelis have no reason not to do the same
thing."

"I cannot understand the attitude of the Palestinian intellectuals toward
the abominable murder of the two [Israeli] captive soldiers in Ramallah. Nor
can I understand the humiliating silence on the murder of two innocent
Israeli citizens in Tul Karm after they were pulled out of a restaurant.
They were killed only because they were Jews, in total contradiction to the
Arab values of hospitality as well as human morals. In addition, I cannot
accept the silence over the murder of the youth from Ashdod through the
Internet..."

"If the Palestinian intellectuals cannot denounce these acts of murder out
of fear of their public or because they accept the widespread logic that we
act as [the Israelis] act - then we have come to a point where we use their
crimes to justify our own. If this is indeed the case - then these
[Palestinian] intellectuals have no right to denounce the hypocrites among
the Israeli intellectuals."

"When I see a Palestinian intellectual sinking his teeth into the flesh of
the Israeli intellectuals in his newspaper column without saying even one
word of truth against the murders committed on our side - I sink into
depression. Justice is one and cannot be divided. You cannot use the part
that serves you and cast off the other part, because in so doing you destroy
the very essence of justice, which is supposed to be the intellectual's
principle weapon."

"The Palestinian intellectuals left the condemnation of these acts of murder

to the Palestinian Authority and its spokesmen, and thus hypocritically
excused themselves [from taking a stance]. They hid behind the PA and easily
rid themselves of the embarrassment of confronting their public with the
truth."

"The truth is that if we want to flog the hypocritical Israeli
intellectuals, the only instrument we can use is adherence to the scales of
justice; we cannot abandon or break them. By adhering to the scales of
justice, we can make them walk on sword- blades and injure their feet,
[undermine] their morals, and expose their hypocrisy."

"There is no doubt that we are the oppressed. We are the persecuted and we
are in the right, generally speaking. However, the oppressed and the
persecuted are [also responsible] for sins and heinous acts. We must not be
silent about these sins and crimes, even if it turns people's anger against
us. For because justice is our demand; it is the roof that shades our heads,
and without it we will stand naked like Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and others,
who, at the end of the day, justify murder and occupation and feel
comfortable in the shade of their national consensus - the shade of the
government of the murderer Sharon." (1)

Endnotes:

(1) Al-Quds (PA), March 1, 2001.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization 

[CTRL] Why Liberalism and Progressivism is not enough to deal with the most serious issues.

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Radical - No. Not the wild eyed, Molotov slinging, variety. I'm talking
about the real meaning of radical. From the word R-A-D which means _ ROOT.

For most periods of societal existence, Progressives' function is to move
the society forward and prevent stagnation. The function of Conservatives
is to act as a societal flywheel by keeping stability. Both are necessary
for a healthy society.

But things are always changing. At certain points in societal development,
both Conservatives AND Progressives perform the function of maintaining
the status quo. Progressives take on the function of conservatives. They no
longer move the society forward, but merely tweak the " system." This is
because they are now comfortable within the system even if that system is
indisputably harmful to themselves and others.

At this point it falls to radicals to kick Progressives in the ass to remind
them what it means to really be progressive. Radicals never lose sight of
what roots are. It is in their nature to do so.

For most of a society's existence, radicals are annoying. But at the birth,
and more importantly in the decline period of a civilization/culture/society's
transition, it's ONLY the radicals who have kept a clear vision.

Tweaking the status quo is no longer the right tool for the job at hand.
Progressives ( honest ones, anyway ) know what needs to be done. Eventually
they will come around to do what needs to be done because like most of the
others in their society, THEY WILL HAVE NO CHOICE IF THEY WISH TO SURVIVE.

The root of almost all our most serious problems is our economic system.
Capitalism is the first or second main reason for the wanton destruction of
our biosphere. The one we need to live in. The lumberjacks cutting down the
Amazon ( the "lungs" of our planet ) are not doing it for the exercise. They
are being paid to do it by companies who will use the world's natural
resources for personal profit.

The economic system is why our political system is corrupt and primarily serves
the Rich and their instrument of destruction, the corporation. The corporations
in turn, now dominate EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE. What you eat. What you wear.
What you play. How long you work. What your income will be. What music will
reach your ears. Further more, it's the economic system itself, which has forced
the destruction of this society, by forcing both parents to go to work for it.
The results are what is happening to the new generations. Their schooling is
designed to produce shallow consumers, and docile employees which are easily
distracted by corporate owned sports, TV, movies, crappy books, and even the
news.

No one is being taught how to think. We are no longer Homo Sapiens Sapien.
We have devolved into Homo Economicus. A creature too stupid to survive the
changes that nature has in store for us.

The story below is an example of why Progressivism has become useless. The
economic system co-opts all. It IS the cancer of the planet. Progressivism
is like taking aspirin for a brain tumor. I am very, very sorry to say.

Joshua2

===
Subject: German Greens 'Come Of Age': Back Bombing, Nuclear Waste Transport

Thursday, March 8 2:01 AM SGT

Germany's Greens, in new realpolitik, seek healthy
coalition
BERLIN, March 7 (AFP) -
The junior partners in Germany's government, the
Greens, will argue in a party congress this weekend
against their Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's decision
to permit the transportation nuclear waste but will
nonetheless continue to back their coalition pertners.

Like Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, a former
radical turned Greens leader who is a leading member
of the government of Social Democrat Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder, the Greens have come of age
politically.

"The Greens have had a new conscisouness of
themselves, since almost a year," their managing
director Reinhard Buetikofer told a news conference
ahead of a congress in the western city of Stuttgart
from Friday to Sunday.

Typical of their new realism and moderation, the party
founded in 1979 out of anti-nuclear and pacifist
movements backed NATO bombing in Kosovo in 1999.

They have compromised also on a platform promise to
see Germany abandon nuclear energy, accepting a new
timetable for a switch from nuclear that was much
slower than they had wished.

In a press statement distributed Wednesday, the Greens
leadership said their achievement has been to give the
government "an ecological and social" slant, despite
their inability to get everything they want under
Schroeder.

Renate Kunaest, currently party co-leader but due to
be replaced in Stuttgart, is now agriculture minister,
heading a government drive to increase organic farming
in an effort to combat by-products of industrial
farming such as mad cow disease.

Radicalism remains strong among the rank-and-file,
however, and Buetikofer said the congress will be
aiming to resolve differences 

[CTRL] Anybody wanna take bets on the outcome? Campaign finance reform.

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Subject:
   Campaign Finance Crossroads
 Date:
   Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:41:28 -0600 (CST)


Please take a moment to read the following editorial on campaign finance reform
that
appeared in The New York Times.

March 7, 2001

Campaign Finance Crossroads

In 10 days the Senate will enter a period of maximum opportunity for campaign
finance
reform. At long last there is to be a full debate, free of filibuster threats, on
the
McCain-Feingold bill banning soft money and imposing other fund-raising controls.
But
the debate will also be fraught with peril. Though the bill has long had the full
support of Senate Democrats, some of them are suddenly developing misgivings now
that
its enactment might actually take place. Today we urge all Democrats and
Republicans
who have supported the bill not to waver or push for amendments that would imperil
the best chance in a generation to clean up American politics.

Nobody is arguing that the McCain-Feingold bill is perfect or the last word in
campaign reform. But by banning the unregulated donations to political parties by
corporations, unions and rich individuals, the bill would take a giant step. Soft
money has been at the core of most recent fund-raising scandals. You would think
memories of the 1996 campaign alone would give any Democrat pause in slowing down
the
process of reform.

There may be something to the argument that Democrats will find it harder than
Republicans to adjust to a regimen that requires parties to raise money in smaller
amounts from more individuals. But that is no reason to turn against a reform
that,
by banning gigantic donations to parties, will sharply reduce fund-raising abuses.

Until this year, the main tactic of the majority leader, Trent Lott, and other
opponents of campaign reform had been to block it with a filibuster. Now that
there
seem to be 60 votes to cut off debate, the Republicans will try to amend the bill
with "poison pill" measures designed to repel the Democrats. One of these, the
"paycheck protection" measure, would require members' permission for spending
union
money on political activities. Offering such an anti-labor provision is designed
to
drive Democrats away, and Democrats have to stand united to keep the bill free of
such disabling amendments.

A separate concern is the possibility that some Democrats, not always well
intentioned, may try to broaden the bill in the name of reform and, in the
process,
repel Republican votes. Right now the McCain-Feingold bill has a provision barring
independent groups from raising funds from unions and corporations for broadcast
ads
that mention the name of a candidate two months before an election. Some
Democratic
senators say they want to go further and impose restrictions on soft money for all
political activity by independent groups. Many of these proposals have merit, but
their inclusion as amendments might undermine the bill's chances.

One of the most sensitive issues facing the Senate is whether, by banning soft
money,
the bill ought to raise the ceilings on regular "hard money" contributions to the
candidates themselves from the level they have been at since 1974. There may be an
argument for doing so. But the senators have to be careful not to raise these
ceilings in such a wanton way that soft money is effectively legalized by being
relabeled.

The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, has been effective in holding the
Democrats together for campaign finance reform. Now that victory is within sight,
he
needs to rally his troops and tell them not to falter. In 1993, the last time
there
was such an opportunity, some Democrats advised the newly elected president, Bill
Clinton, that reform should not be a top priority. It was bad advice, and it
ushered
in a period of terrible excesses by Democrats and Republicans alike. The coming
debate will serve as one of Mr. Daschle's biggest challenges to date. But if he
and
the Democrats can meet it, they will long be remembered for rising to the occasion
and putting the nation's interest first.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: rkm The birth of capitalism]

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Subject: rkm The birth of capitalism
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:57:47 +
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The birth of capitalism

The story of capitalism begins in the late 1700s in Scotland and northern England,
with the birth of the Industrial Revolution.  Several particular ingredients came
together there, which collectively launched the world onto its current path. One
of those ingredients was an impressive series of mechanical inventions (e.g., the
steam engine), leading to a multifold increase in the rate and scale of
manufacture. Another ingredient was the nature of the British economy - which had
for some time been organized around specialization and trade.

Different regions of Britain had specialized in the production of different kinds
of goods, first for the London market  and later - as the British Empire expanded
- for international markets.  What this meant is that a more efficient producer
could always find a market for his cheaper goods.  Rather than being limited by
the size of a local market, there was always the opportunity to capture a share of
the huge trade that flowed through London. Thus when the tools of industrial
manufacture came along, they could immediately be put to very profitable use. An
enterprising entrepreneur who saw the potential of a new invention, and who
invested boldly, was able to amass a huge fortune.  He could set up a large-scale
manufacturing plant, mass-produce goods below the cost of earlier methods, and
rapidly capture a share of the large existing markets.

A new way of creating fortunes had been born. Instead of slowly amassing wealth
over a lifetime, or risking a voyage in search of treasure, there was now a
systematic way to amass wealth relatively quickly.  A person with money to invest
could seek out the latest leading-edge inventions, develop a still-more efficient
factory - and steal market share from his now-outdated rivals.  A way had been
found to use money to transform initiative  innovation into wealth. Out with the
old methods, in with the new methods - and behind it always the investor - driving
the process while amassing a fortune. This method of amassing wealth was
eventually given the name capitalism.  A capitalist is someone who invests money
in an enterprise with the objective of receiving more in return than was invested.

The consequences of these developments were far reaching.  The availability of
cheaper products, and the wealth of a few entrepreneurs, was the least of it.
People's livelihoods were destroyed, as their locally based enterprises were
forced out of business. They moved to towns and became factory employees, usually
under appalling conditions. The vitality of rural life was undermined and
industrial cities arose, with their slums, crime, and diseases.  Society is a
system, and if one part changes, those changes ripple out and effect other parts -
in ways both intended and unintended.  The goal of entrepreneurs and investors was
simply to amass wealth, but their initiatives led to profound societal changes.

A third ingredient of British society - its hierarchical class system -
contributed to the way in which these changes unfolded. Those at the bottom of the
hierarchy were long accustomed to being exploited, and being subject to the will
of their 'betters'.  Their domestication to hierarchy prepared them well for
living in slum conditions and working under the thumb of oppressive bosses.  But
those at the top of the hierarchy were also affected, and they were in a better
position to protect their interests against the changes that were being brought
about by capitalist investors and entrepreneurs.

Although the nature of the British economy served to promote capitalist success,
there were also aspects of the economic regime which placed limits on that
success.  The dominant economic doctrine of the day was mercantilism, whose static
definition of wealth did not fit well with the dynamics of capitalist innovation.
Tariffs, taxes, and various kinds of restrictions hampered the growth of
capitalist development.  The economic regime was designed to protect the wealth
and power of the aristocratic class, and capitalist upstarts soon began to see the
existing regime as an obstacle to their ambitions. The paradigm of capitalism had
been wealth accumulation through initiative  innovation, and it was only natural
that the creative energies of capitalists would turn eventually from technology to
politics.  In the early days, when markets seemed inexhaustible, the creative
focus was on new technologies and larger-scale production.  But as markets began
to saturate, and growth slowed down, creative attention turned to the political
barriers that stood in the way of further wealth accumulation.

Capitalism became in part a 

[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Who needs Monarchs anyway?

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Subject:
   Mexico loggers said to have deliberately wiped out 22 million
   Monarch butterflies
 Date:
   Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:19:38 -0600 (CST)
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 Organization:
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   Wednesday, March 7, 2001
   By Elizabeth Fullerton

   To regain protected forest land, loggers may have deliberately wiped
   out some 22 million Monarch butterflies which migrate annually from
   Canada to Mexico for the winter, a top environmentalist said Tuesday.

   Homero Aridjis, head of the environmental lobby Group of 100, told
   Reuters loggers were believed to have sprayed pesticide on the orange
   and black butterflies in order to regain some 216 square miles of
   forest declared protected by the government.

   "There has been a massive slaughter of the butterflies in two
   sanctuaries," Aridjis said. "This will affect the reproduction process
   completely. Now we don't know how many butterflies will come this
   autumn."

   Millions of monarch butterflies migrate some 3,000 miles annually to
   flee the icy winter in Canada and the United States for the warmer fir
   forests in Mexico's central Michoacan state, some 70 miles west of
   Mexico City.

   For five months of the year, Michoacan's trees are turned into a
   flaming orange and the forest is carpeted with the delicate winged
   creatures.

   The migration has taken place for the past 10,000 years, Aridjis said.
   The butterflies normally arrive in early November and return north to
   lay eggs at the end of March.

   In November last year, the government of former President Ernesto
   Zedillo extended the land devoted to five sanctuaries.

   The move was in response to a study showing that farming and illegal
   logging had destroyed 44 percent of the original forest since 1971.
   Without drastic action, the study predicted the original forest would
   disappear in under 50 years.

   "The new decree could have prompted this," Aridjis said. "If there are
   no butterflies they can claim the trees without problem."

   But government environmental watchdog Profepa said it had not heard of
   the butterfly slaughter, according to inspector Joel Rodriguez.

   "We haven't ever registered people using pesticides. But it's one of
   the zones where they have the most illegal logging," he said. "It (the
   butterfly deaths) could also be a result of the freezing this winter
   which happens every four or five years."

   The U.S.-based nonprofit group Packard Foundation donated more than $5
   million to the Worldwide Fund for Nature to help the Mexican
   government rent or buy logging rights from local residents to
   compensate for lost income while developing alternative job sources.

   Aridjis said the loggers had targeted two sanctuaries --Cerro San
   Andres and Las Palomas - in the past two weeks.

   "The wings of the butterflies found inert on the ground had a strange
   luster and there was a smell of pesticide and petrol in the
   sanctuaries," he said.

   Copyright 2001, Reuters

  Copyright  2001 Environmental News Network Inc.

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Wednesday 7 March 2001
Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319rtmo=3SSxHwYMatmo=
pg=/et/01/3/7/weuc07.html

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels

THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can
lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading
figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
precedents on civil liberties.
The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack
Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a
critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of
Europe.

The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to
"protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the
institution's image and reputation". The case has wider implications for
free speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the
Brussels bureaucracy.

The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting",
taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and
Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace".

However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the
advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr
Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore
not protected speech.

Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal costs,
said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're back
to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are not
respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has been
resurrected."

Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case
on free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting
that the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British
legal tradition.

Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the non-EU
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

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[CTRL] Why The U.S.A. Dropped The A-Bomb on Japan

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The URL for his article is
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/stowell/a-bomb2.htm

www.tenc.net
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Why The U.S.A. Dropped The A-Bomb on Japan
by Michael W. Stowell [2-27-2001]

 "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance
of being
 right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." (Thomas
Payne
 "Common Sense" 1776)

On July 17, 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and the
Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany to discuss surrender terms
for the
Japanese and Russia's planned entry into the Pacific campaign. Stalin had received
communications outlining a conditional surrender that would allow Japanese Emperor
Hirohito to
remain as a ceremonial functionary.

Hours earlier, approximately 230 miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico in the Jornada
del Mueto
valley at the "Trinity" test site, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated.
After viewing the
horrific explosion the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, J. Robert
Oppenheimer,
quoted the Bhagavad-Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Scientists working on plutonium production at the "Metallurgical Project"
laboratory at the
University of Chicago debated whether the atomic bomb should be used against
Japan. A
committee chaired by Nobel laureate James Franck urged the United States to
demonstrate the
new weapon on a barren island. Conversely, another all-civilian group named the
"Interim
Committee", chaired by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, advised that the weapon be
used
directly.

However, Stimson also stated

 "I am inclined to think that there is enough such chance to make it well
worthwhile
 our giving them a warning of what is to come and a definite opportunity to
 capitulate. We have the following enormously favorable factors on our side,
factors
 much weightier that those we had against Germany: Japan has no allies; Her
navy is
 nearly destroyed and she is vulnerable to a surface and underwater blockade
which
 can deprive her of sufficient food and supplies for her population; She is
terribly
 vulnerable to our concentrated air attack upon her crowded cities, industrial
and food
 resources; She has against her not only Anglo-American forces but the rising
forces
 of China and the ominous threat of Russia."

"During his (Secretary of War Henry Stimson's) recitation of the relative facts, I
had been
conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings:
first, on the
basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was
completely
unnecessary, and secondly, because I thought that our country should avoid
shocking the world
opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer
mandatory as a
measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very
moment, seeking
some way to surrender with a minimum loss of "face." The secretary was deeply
perturbed by
my attitude." (General Dwight D. Eisenhower)

President Truman's private journal and correspondence written at the time of the
bombings
indicate that contrary to his public justification of the bombings as the only way
to end the war
without a costly invasion of Japan, Truman had already concluded that Japan was
about to
capitulate. Whether or not he was correct in this estimate of when the war would
end, the fact
that he held this view at the time he made his decision to use the atomic bombs is
clearly set
down in his own hand.

"I cannot speak for the others but it was ever present in my mind that it was
important that we
have an end to the war before the Russians came in...Neither the President nor I
were anxious
to have them (the Soviets) enter the war after we had learned of this successful
(atomic) test."
(James Byrnes, Secretary of State 1945-47)

"Mr. Byrnes did not argue that it was necessary to use the bomb against the cities
of Japan in
order to win the war...Mr. Byrnes view (was) that our possessing and demonstrating
the bomb
would make Russia more managable in Europe." (Leo Szilard, Nuclear Physicist)

"The use of the atomic bombs was precipitated by a desire to end the war in the
Pacific by any
means before Russia's participation. I'm sure if President Roosevelt had still
been there, none of
that would have been possible." (Albert Einstein)

According to Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
President Truman's
Chief of Staff: "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because
of the
effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... In
being the
first to use it [the atomic bomb], we had adopted an ethical standard common to
the barbarians
of the Dark Ages."

"It would be a mistake to suppose that the fate 

[CTRL] [Fwd: [populist-talk] The United States of America - The best government that money can buy]

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CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE
POLITICS
MONEY IN POLITICS ALERT
Vol. 6, #9 March 7, 2001
tel: 202-857-0044, fax: 202-857-7809
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
web: www.opensecrets.org
Tax Cuts:
A Look at What Some Special Interests
Want
By Holly Bailey
When the U.S. House tomorrow takes
up President Bush's ambitious
$1.6 trillion tax cut, corporations
and trade groups once looking
to attach a long list of tax breaks
to the proposal supposedly
will go home empty-handed.
It's not that the plan doesn't include
some plums for corporate
America. Bush is asking for a permanent
extension of the so-called
Research and Experimentation tax credit,
a corporate subsidy
valued by almost every industry in
the nation that will cost
taxpayers about $50 billion over the
next decade, according to
the Office of Management and Budget.
To hear business groups tell it, they
are, in fact, thrilled
about the wide reach of tax plan itself.
>From its cut in tax
rates for individuals to a proposed
phase out of the estate tax,
some of Washington's biggest trade
associations contend they
couldn't be happier with Bush's proposal.
To prove so, they've
organized nearly a half-dozen coalitions
to lobby Congress and
steer public opinion in favor of the
bill.
But while the White House reportedly
has adopted a hard stance
against including corporate subsidies
in the tax plan, there's
no guarantee that Congress will toe
the party line. After all,
the people who paid the estimated
$3 billion tab for last year's
record-breaking elections are looking
for a return on that investment,
and the tax bill provides an irresistible
vehicle for achieving
that goal.
Here's a guide to what some of those
interests want, including
a breakdown of their soft money, PAC
and individual contributions
to federal parties and candidates
during 1999-2000:
Computer/Internet Industry
Contributions Total: $38.6 million,
52 percent to Democrats
In addition to pressing for an extension
of the Research and
Experimentation tax credits, the computer
industry thinks software
should be considered a depreciable
asset, while Microsoft Corp
($4.5 million; 53 percent to Repubs)
simply wants the cost of
software to be written off as a business
expense. Internet companies,
meanwhile, are pressing for tax credits
to expand high-speed
Internet access networks around the
country.
Automotive Industry
Contributions Total: $17.6 million,
79 percent to Republicans
The auto industry is not only pressing
for an overall tax cut
in hopes of boosting sagging auto
salesbut also for credits that
would encourage consumers to purchase
vehicles built using new
technology, such as the gasoline-electric
hybrid cars. Ford Motor
Co ($772,125; 71 percent to Repubs)
and General Motors ($688,803;
73 percent to Repubs) also are hoping
to change the way the government
taxes multinational companies.
Oil  Gas
Contributions: $32.4 million, 78 percent
to Republicans
Electric Utilities
Contributions: $18.4 million, 68 percent
to Republicans
Mining
Contributions: $6.5 million, 86 percent
to Republicans
With two former oil industry executives
in the White House, there's
perhaps no other industry better positioned
to gain financial
favor from the government than energy
companies. But you won't
find any specific tax incentives for
the industry in the Bush
plan. Instead, it appears Congress
will be the one stepping to
the plate, which it did last week.
One day before Bush delivered
his budget to Congress, Senate Energy
Committee Chairman Frank
Murkowski (R-Alaska) unveiled the
National Energy Security Act
of 2001, a bill that doles out billions
of dollars in tax subsidies
for energy companies, according to
the watchdog group Taxpayers
for Common Sense. Among the items:
a much-sought-after reduction
in the royalties that oil companies
pay the government for drilling
on public land and incentives for
nuclear power plants to produce
more energy.
Restaurants  Bars
Contributions: $8 million, 71 percent
to Republicans
Almost six years after Congress repealed
a tax deduction for
the "three-martini" business lunch,
the restaurant industry is
pushing to reinstate that deduction.
The write-off currently
is 50 percent of the cost of a business
meal, and the industry,
led by the National Restaurant Association
($836,534; 86 percent
to the GOP), wants the deduction increased
to 80 percent.
Finance/Insurance/Real Estate
Contributions: $293 million, 59 percent
to Republicans
The financial sector is looking to
increase the amount people
can invest in private retirement accounts
or 401K plans. They
are also seeking a reduction in the
capital gains tax, which
is levied against the sale of stocks,

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"...everything that the Japanese were planning to do was
known to the United States..." ARMY BOARD, 1944

President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and
covered up his
failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to
declare war,
since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in
Europe. It was
his backdoor to war.

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[CTRL] WATER IS LIFE. Don't let them corporatize your water.

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3/6/01

Think of oil and gas in corporate hands.
NOW THINK OF WATER IN CORPORATE HANDS.

Joshua2

===
 Our New Resource Crisis
 By Peter Phillips

 Imagine, that we are beyond the energy crisis-in
 that we are used to paying double or triple prices
 for what in the previous century was a small part of
 the family budget.  But now we are faced with a new
 shortage that taps another precious resource.  Water
 only comes through the tap fours hours a day and we
 are forced to pay ten to hundred times what we paid
 in the 90s. Welcome to the world of privatized
 water, where fresh water is treated like a
 commodity, traded and sold in the international
 market to the highest bidder.

 No longer can you assume a God-given right to drink
 from a mountain spring, but instead you will have to
 pay a toll to drink from Enron Springs, Monsanto
 Wells or receive tap water from Bechtel Water Works.
 Global consumption of water is doubling every 20
 years, more than twice the rate of human population
 growth.  According to the United Nations, more than
 one billion people already lack access to fresh
 drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025
 the demand for fresh water is expected to rise by 56
 percent more than the amount of water that is
 currently available.  Multinational corporations
 recognize these trends and are trying to monopolize
 water supplies around the world.  Monsanto, Bechtel,
 Enron and other global multinationals are seeking
 control of world water systems and supplies.

 The World Bank recently adopted a policy of water
 privatization and full-cost water pricing.  This
 policy is causing great distress in many Third World
 countries, which fear that their citizens will not
 be able to afford for-profit water.

 Last year in a little known case of high scale
 international water marketing, a supertanker was
 reported to have filled up with water from Lake Erie
 and after paying the Canadian Government they
 shipped the water to Southeast Asia.

 Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians,
 Canada's largest public advocacy group, states,
 "Governments around the world must act now to
 declare water a fundamental human right and prevent
 efforts to privatize, export, and sell for profit a
 substance essential to all life. Research has shown
 that selling water on the open market only delivers
 it to wealthy cities and individuals.  The finite
 sources of freshwater (less than one half of one per
 cent of the world's total water stock) are being
 diverted, depleted, and polluted so fast that, by
 the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's population
 will be living in a state of serious water
 deprivation." Governments are signing away their
 control over domestic water supplies by
 participating in trade treaties such as the North
 American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and in
 institutions such as the World Trade Organization
 (WTO).  These agreements give transnational
 corporations the unprecedented right to the water of
 signatory !
 compan
 ies.

 Monsanto plans to earn revenues of $420 million and
 a net income of $63 million by 2008 from its water
 business in India and Mexico.  Monsanto estimates
 that water will become a multibillion-dollar market
 in the coming decades.

 This international water crisis news story was
 selected by over 150 faculty and student researchers
 at Sonoma State University's Project Censored in
 California as the number one most censored news
 story for 2000.  Credit for original reporting goes
 to:

 International Forum on Globalization: Special Report
 6/99, The Global Water
 Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water
 Supply by Maude Barlow
 www.ifg.org/bgsummary.html

 THIS, July/August 2000, Just Add Water by Jim Shultz
 In These Times, Water Fallout: Bolivians Battle
 Globalization 5/15/00 by
 Jim Shultz www.inthesetimes.com

 Canadian Dimension, 2/2000, Monsanto's
 Billion-Dollar
 Water Monopoly Plans
 by Vandana Shiva
 www.purefood.org/Monsanto/waterfish.cfm

 Canadian Dimension, 2/00, Water Fallout, by Jim
 Shultz

 San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5/31/00, Trouble on Tap,
 by Daniel Zoll
 www.sfbg.com/News/34/35/bech2.html

 San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5/31/00, The Earth
 Wrecker, by Pratap Chatterjee

 Peter Phillips is an Associate Professor of
 Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of
 Project Censored. Research for this story is from
 the book Censored 2001, 25th Anniversary Edition,
 scheduled for release in March of this year from
 Seven Stories Press.

 Peter Phillips Ph.D.
 Sociology Department/Project Censored
 Sonoma State University
 1801 East Cotati Ave.
 Rohnert Park, CA 94928
 707-664-2588



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Bob Stokes wrote:

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 In a message dated 3/3/01 9:39:01 AM Mountain Standard Time,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Since it is safe and rational to assume that the ONLY military which
  used nuclear weapons to wipe out  two entire cities for the purpose
  of propaganda does not really give a damn about human life, why are
  they pouring so much money into non-lethal weapons.

 You have a very warped view of history, but maybe that's the way our Statist
 government wants people to view WWII.  Maybe they want to turn everyone into
 pacifists so we won't fight back when they try to enslave us totally.  You
 seem to forget that the Japanese wiped out Pearl Harbor and murdered
 thousands of people both military and civilian.  You seem to forget that we
 dropped leaflets on Hiroshima and Nagasaki telling the population to run for
 the hills because we were going to decimate their town if the Emperor didn't
 surrender.  You also seem to forget the military is under civilian control;
 the President ordered the bombings.  Just where do you get this hypothesis
 that the bombings of these two cities were propaganda?  It was to prevent an
 invasion of Honshu which would have resulted in millions of deaths on both
 sides.

I'm afraid that YOU are the one who has been mis-educated by the ' gubment'.
There are several good sources from that era as well as more recent ones
which make it quite clear that Roosevelt forced the Japanese to attack us
so that he could get us into a war.

  Answer: To use domestically against civilians.

 All the more reason to be armed, to protect against such tyranny and
 governmental abuse,

You are INSANE if you think you can stand up to the US Gov if it decides to
take your guns, or anything else it wants to do to you. INSANE!

 but if you have your way we will be disarmed and
 helpless.  You should learn that fabian socialism/communism/fascism's goals
 includes disarming of citizens so they will be helpless against the "Mother"
 State.  Government is not your friend.  Government is raw force that needs to
 be controlled, not set free to run amuck.

I agree 1000%. But dead gun nuts will just create another health hazard as they
lay rotting in the streets.


  Answer: To sell the technology to other countries for the same purpose. 

 If we stop these weapons from being used successfully here, maybe other
 countries wouldn't want to buy these weapons to use against their own
 citizens.

This is a very important point. We, as American citizens can do much to
prevent the misery our economic and political systems are foisting upon the
rest of the world.

CONTROL YOUR ELITES!

 The second amendment is the most important part of the
 Constitution for the only defense against and armed force is a bigger armed
 force and the armed citizens of this country outnumber the military in
 overwhelming numbers at this time.

Ridiculous. But Darwin has a way of dealing with people afflicted with
ideological brain damage.

Joshua2

 Regards,
 Bob Stokes

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Re: [CTRL] In search of Mary Magdalene Part 1

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 Even so, I doubt that boonie towns were integrated.

 If the OT has any truth to it, the suppression of paganism within
 Israelite controlled territory went on for something like 800 years. To
 me this says pagans were spread around pretty widely.

Of course they were spread widely. There was only ONE group who were not
Pagans. Wanna guess?


 That's my point. She either did or didn't exist, or if she did exist,
 she could have been anybody.

 Not just anybody, but there are a number of possibilities. What exactly
 she was, we’ll never know. Those guys who say that they do know are
 lying.

You got that right.


 Poor Pagans. I guess the I guess the Jews gave them a hard time about
 burring their children and other human sacrifices.

 Some pagans did that. Most didn’t. The pagans best known to us for the
 practice were the Carthagenians.

Not in my neighborhood. The best known, were the Moloch worshipers.

 They were annihilated as a people by
 other pagans, the Romans.
 Romans thought the custom was disgusting,
 probably because it was something their chief rivals did.

Evidently the same didn't apply to the charms of crucifixion which
the Romans got to like very well.

 Jews of that era tended to treat their rivals harshly, falling upon
 them, smiting them, rendering them asunder and what not. They certainly
 couldn’t claim any moral high ground.

Oh yes they could. You are thinking in modern terms. Bad as all this smiting
and rending asunder was, it was nothing compared to the common cruelties of
the period.

 They weren’t very nice to each
 other, either. They stoned adulterers,

Don't knock being a stoned adulterer until you've tried it.

 for example, also juvenile
 delinquents. On the other hand,  for almost two thousand years, Jews
 were arguably the most peace loving People on earth.

They had no choice. They didn't have an army.

 Most of them still
 are.  But that came later.

 If you mean Hellenism. Yes. If you mean something else, then not
 likely.

 Hellenism for sure, what else we don’t know. Persian religious thought,
 and presumably some practice, was quite popular among a large numbers of
 Jews of the time. A case can be made that portions of modern Judaism is
 are Persian grafts.

Could be.

  This is a good observation, but consider this. James, Jesus' brother
 was
   a NAZIR. A Nazir is the ONLY instance in Jewish culture where it is
 permitted
   to put aside the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. In other
 words,
   if one dedicates his life to the service of god, he may be a monk.

 Good point. I hadn’t thought of that. Tell us more about the Nazir.

 James was a Nazir

 Source on that?

Acts ( 21:18-23 ). The final showdown between Paul and James. James tells
Paul about penitents in the temple who have taken an oath upon themselves
(Consecrated=Nazir). The Nazirite oath as described in the book of numbers
and further elucidated in the Talmud.

Samson was a Nazirite too. He derived his strength from his personal holyness.
Not from his long hair. Nazirs did not cut their hair or play hide the salami.
When Delilah cut Samson's hair, it was symbolic that Samson renegged on his
oath and was no longer a 'separated one'. A consecrated one. A holy roller.
He lost his god given special power. You know the rest.

  He apparently got some part of John the Baptist's movement.

 Apparently. That’s certainly what Nag Hammadi points to.

So?

 This of course ALL speculation. But it's speculation within the correct
 framework.

 It’s still speculation, though. To get really beyond speculation we’ll
 need for more data to come in. Hopefully some archeologist will luck out
 and find some documentation. It’s possible. Given enough time, it’s even
 likely.  Seeing it reach the mass media when it happens, is a little
 less likely. But we can hope.

I don't know. I would guess that anything found that relates to that period
would be sensational and well covered.

J2

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Excerpts from The Final Report of the Select
To Study Governmental Operations
With Respect To Intelligence Activities ("Church
Book I, "Foreign and Military
Intelligence," U.S. Senate, April 26, 1976


 The Church Committee on the CIA in Academia

 

 Committee's note: The material italicized in this report has been
substantially abridged at the request
 of the executive agencies.
 

 The Central Intelligence Agency has long-developed clandestine relationships
with the
 American academic community, which range from academics making introductions
for
 intelligence purposes to intelligence collection while abroad, to academic
research and
 writing where CIA sponsorship is hidden.

 The Central Intelligence Agency is now using several hundred American
academics
 ("academics" includes administrators, faculty members and graduate students
 engaged in teaching), who in addition to providing leads and, on occasion,
making
 introductions for intelligence purposes, occasionally write books and other
material
 to be used for propaganda purposes abroad. Beyond these, an additional few
score
 are used in an unwitting manner for minor activities.

 These academics are located in over 100 American colleges, universities, and
 related institutes. At the majority of institutions, no one other than the
individual
 concerned is aware of the CIA link. At the others, at least one university
official is
 aware of the operational use made of academics on his campus. In addition,
there
 are several American academics abroad who serve operational purposes,
primarily
 the collection of intelligence.

 Although the numbers are not as great today as in 1966, there are no
prohibitions
 to prevent an increase in the operational use of academics. The size of these
 operations is determined by the CIA.

 With the exception of those teachers, scholars and students who receive
 scholarships or grants from the Board of Foreign Scholarships, the CIA is not
 prohibited from the operational use of all other categories of grantee
support under
 the Fullbright-Hays Act (artists, athletes, leaders, specialists, etc.). Nor
is there any
 prohibition on the operational use of individuals participating in any other
exchange
 program funded by the United States Government.

 The Committee is disturbed both by the present practices of operationally
using
 American academics and by the awareness that the restraints on expanding this
 practice are primarily those of sensitivity to the risks of disclosure and
not an
 appreciation of dangers to the integrity of individuals and institutions.

 The Committee believes that it is the responsibility of private institutions
and
 particularly the American academic community to set the professional and
ethical
 standards of its members.

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[CTRL] How it's done: Agency-Academic Relations

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[ The CIA asked University of California administrator Earl Clinton Bolton, who
was spending
some time at CIA headquarters, to suggest ideas on how to improve relations
between the
Agency and academia. ]

Academia 01, p.1

5 August 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: [deleted]
SUBJECT: Agency-Academic Relations

This is an attempt to make some observations and suggestions about
Agency-academic relations. In doing so I am grateful for the stimulus
furnished by your outline. Although I believe I have addressed myself to most
of the questions you have raised I have done so in free form rather than by a
point by point consideration. I have also used "head notes" for purposes of
organization and in an attempt to highlight the crucial questions in the
subject.

Justifying an Agency-Academic Relationship: Let me stress at the outset
that I believe Agency-academic relations are for the most part very good.
Though I have no quantitative data to support such a conclusion my guess is
that 99% of the members of the academy would be willing to assist the
Agency if properly and skillfully approached, and that only a small fraction of
that other 1% would be angered by an invitation to assist or would attempt to
embarrass the Agency in any way.

However, on occasion when a university or an individual has acknowledged
any contact with the Agency there has been some outcry by a few vocal
members of the academic community.

In a later part of this paper I suggest "an affirmative program" designed to
improve the Agency's reputation in academic circles and thus decrease the
risks (costs) of association with the Agency. However, until either the passage
of time or an image bolstering plan changes the cliches of the moment an
educational institution or individual electing to assist the Agency may be on
the defensive.

In my view the best way to defend association with the Agency when such a
defense is necessary is:

 1. By relating work for the Agency to one of the traditional functions of a
 university; and

Academia 01, p.2

 2. By basing the defense or rejoinder on long established academic
 values.

The Functions of a University: There is almost universal agreement that
universities do (and properly should) engage in the following basic functions:

 1. The preservation and transmission of knowledge to their constituency
 (i.e. the so-called teaching function); and

 2. The testing of that which is currently accepted as "truth" and the
 discovery of new truth (i.e. the research function); and

 3. The performance for society's benefit of those functions which can best
 (or exclusively) be performed by a university (i.e. the public service
 function)

Authorities will differ as to whether a sub-function e.g. the training of a
leadership elite to be innovative and responsive should be included under "1"
or "3" above, but there is little disagreement that what higher education is all
about is encompassed within these general goals.

The Agency should phrase its requests to academia in such a way that the
service being sought relates as clearly and directly as possible to one of these
traditional functions and when necessary the university and individual scholar
should explain involvement with the Agency as a contribution to one of these
proper academic goals. It should also be stressed that when an apologia is
necessary it can best be made: (1) by some distant academic who is not
under attack, (2) in a "respectable" publication of general circulation (e.g.
Harpers, Saturday Review, Vital Speeches, etc.), and (3) with full use of the
jargon of the academy (as illustrated below).

Traditional Mores of the Academic: Every profession develops a certain
ethical or philosophical penumbra which is more or less sacred and which
protects from attack the most vulnerable or least understood rites of that
profession. This body of doctrine usually develops by "common law" and is
subsequently codified. (Incidentally the codified dogma never precisely
articulates the full scope of the protective doctrines; hence there is sufficient
vagueness in the total traditions of the profession to provide a skillful
polemicist with formidable ammunition for defense.)

Academia 01, p.3

Two doctrines fiercely protected by the academy are "academic freedom" and
"privilege and tenure." The former is the absolute right of the scholar to
investigate any subject within his competence, in any lawful way, at any time.
The latter doctrine holds that a fully initiated member of the profession has
certain irrevocable privileges, including but not limited to, the right to
continue his association with the university until retirement without fear of
termination except for a very few egregious offenses.

When attacked for aiding the Agency the academic (or institution) should base
a rejoinder on these sacred doctrines. For example, a professor's right to
undertake classified research is unassailable if he stands on the 

[CTRL] Dulles Papers Reveal CIA Consulting Network

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3/5/01

A reminder. George Bush Sr. was head of CIA from Yale.  -- Joshua2

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Forerunner, April 29, 1980

 Panel met secretly in Princeton

  Dulles Papers Reveal CIA Consulting Network

by John Cavanagh


A government which corrupts its colleges and universities by
making political fronts of them . . . has betrayed academic
freedom and compromised all who teach. When colleges and
universities are made conduits of deceit and when faculty
members are paid to lie, there is an end to the common good
of higher education.

 -- Professor Van Alstyne, former president of the
 American Association of University Professors
 (Academe, June 1976, p. 54)


 Throughout the 1960s, and possibly longer, at least five Princeton professors
 worked secretly as high-level consultants for the CIA, according to
previously
 undisclosed documents contained in the personal papers of former CIA director
Allen
 W. Dulles '14.

 Cyril Black, Klaus Knorr, Joseph Strayer, James Billington, and the late T.
Cuyler
 Young served as members of the "Princeton Consultants," a secret panel of
 academics who met in Princeton, together with Dulles, four times a year to
assist
 with intelligence assessments for the CIA's Office of National Estimates.

 Professor Black, who had told the Daily Princetonian in 1976 that he had
never been
 in the CIA's "employ," confirmed to the Forerunner last week that he had
indeed
 served as a paid consultant for the spy agency. "Nobody ever asked me if I
was a
 consultant," Black explained.

 Billington acknowledged to the Daily Princetonian in 1968 that he consulted
for the
 CIA's Office of National Estimates, according to him, "two or three times a
year."
 Strayer had also been publicly identified as a CIA consultant. The CIA
activities of the
 other two professors, however, have until now remained a secret, as has the
 existence of the Princeton Consultants group.

 Black confirmed that then-Princeton President Robert Goheen was aware of the
 group's existence. But he said that it was "not a university matter at all."

 The Dulles papers and letters, which are housed in Princeton's Seeley G. Mudd
 Library, afford a rare glimpse into the CIA's interactions with Princeton and
other
 universities from the early 1950s until Dulles's death in 1969. Dulles
maintained close
 ties with his alma mater, including seats on Princeton's Board of Trustees
and on the
 Woodrow Wilson School Advisory Council.

 Access to the Papers is contingent upon approval by an Allen W. Dulles
Committee.
 In addition, researchers are required to sign a contract stating that any
publication
 using the Papers will be submitted in advance to the Committee for approval.
After a
 one-month delay, permission was obtained for this article.

 Before this month's careful research in the Dulles Papers, little was
documented of
 relations between the CIA and the Princeton faculty. Other than history
professor
 Joseph Strayer, whom one writer termed "the agency's most devoted consultant"
 (James Ridgeway, The Cloned Corporation, 1968, p. 138), only two professors
had
 been identified who served in organizations that received CIA funding:
Politics
 professor Paul Sigmund with the Independent Research Service, and Near
Eastern
 Studies professor Morroe Berger with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

 Previous disclosures about Princeton and the CIA were limited to close ties
in three
 other areas: recruitment (including extensive CIA collaboration with former
Dean of
 Students, William D'O. Lippincott '41 and former Director of Career Services
Newell
 Brown '39); CIA research carried out on the Princeton campus (including the
secret
 MK-ULTRA mind control program); and close institutional ties (several
Princeton
 alumni have served as CIA Director, Deputy Director, or Director of
Personnel).


 Princeton Consultants: The Structure

 Perhaps the most extraordinary of the Papers' contents are letters and memos
which
 expose Strayer as a small tip of a consultant iceberg. Filed under "Princeton
 Consultants" and cross-referenced under "Central Intelligence Agency: Panel
of
 Consultants (Princeton Consultants)," letters from 1961 to 1969 sketch the
outlines
 of one of the central programs of professors covertly consulting for the CIA.

 The only year during which the entire membership of the Consultants is known
is
 1961, when all of them signed a note of "respect and affection" to Dulles
that
 accompanied a gift.

[CTRL] THE FRAUD OF BLACK CAPITALISM

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 Date:
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THE REST OF THE NEWS
by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

THE FRAUD OF BLACK CAPITALISM (2)

Recently I wrote the first installment of my newspaper
column, wherein I criticized Black capitalism [and the
capitalist system generally], and the
 attempt of some
individuals and groups to put forth small scale
capitalism as a way forward for the liberation of
Black people. I heard from many of you out there, some
praising me for the articles, saying it was something
that they wished that those in the Black leadership
would write and say such things about folks trying to
either make a business of the Black liberation
struggle, or offering a false image of economic
development under this system as a way forward for the
freedom of our people.

But, there were also critics, many of whom did not
even appear to understand what I was talking about,
who accused me of "trying to stop them from "making a
living", "or trying to stop Black people from
"expressing their creativity"[?], discouraging them
from starting small businesses, or from achieving
"financial independence", "economic freedom" and so
on. According to one guy I am even trying to stop "us"
from doing what the "White man is doing to be a
success." They praised Tony Brown, Matah, and the
other Black-faced economic programs, and defended them
from my earlier attack, implying that I was a bad guy,
traitor, or "just not with it". I am just not sure
that "it" is a good thing.

 I want those critics to be clear that I am not
opposed to some individual entering the sales field,
starting a small business, credit union, or other
effort to make a living for themselves and their
families. I am opposed to our people being scammed in
the process by those who present this as the *only
way* we can get free. To me, this kind of argument
chains us even more to the political plantation, and
lays us open to exploitation by a new class of masters
selling fairy tales of economic riches. I'll just say
here that we are not fighting to replace the white
exploiters with a new class of Black exploiters; we
need to get rid of all of them, whether wearing a
Dashiki or Brooks Brothers suit.

First of all, who ever said that "what the White man
is doing" is such a great thing? I disagree that we
should emulate  white capitalist businessmen, call it
a "Black thing" and then put that forward as "a path
of freedom." What the capitalist is doing [or has
done] is forcibly exploiting our labor , imprisoning
our youth, destroying the land and natural resources
of this land and the rest of the world, and other
crimes all in the name of "progress" and "profit."
Remember, Brother Malcolm X said: "...you show me a
capitalist, I"ll show you a racist..."

 In condemning my position against capitalism and
defending U.S. imperialism, one Brother even asked
about "ghettoes and poverty" in Cuba. Well, my
question is why is it that in the richest country in
the world, that there is much more poverty,
inequality,  and economic underdevelopment of the
Black community than anywhere else? I am concerned
with why these things exist in the United States
[where I currently reside], than I am about a small
country in the Carribean, underdeveloped because of
years of economic and political domination by the USA.

Then the Matahh folks tried to pressure me with a
variety of e-mails (and I can even remember
telemarketing phone calls some months ago when I lived
in Atlanta and Tennessee) to sell me on their
Multi-level Marketing plan to distribute products from
Black businesses by sales agents in the community. For
the life of me, I cannot see, [except for the "in your
face" Black nationalist veneer and guilt-tripping
rhetoric], how this differs from AMWAY or any other
MLM plan promising "financial independence." How are
we are supposed to be economically "liberated" under
this system without a struggle for Black liberation?
It is possible to profit from these plans, but as
individuals, and certainly not as a whole people.

I can make the same argument about Tony Brown's "Buy
Freedom" program, Farrakhan's "Clean and Fresh " MLM
scheme of a few years ago, and others not named here.
I don't oppose them for the individuals who are
engaged in them trying to make a living, but when
their leaders come forward and say to millions of our
people that we should all do this and that if we do
not, then we are "bogus", or "not serious about our
freedom" or some such nonsense, then I draw the line.

I do not believe that there is any separate path to
freedom due to Black trade among ourselves, nor do I
think there is any real "financial independence" under
the 

[CTRL] [Fwd: [toeslist] Can tobacco executives be committed?]

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 Original Message 
Subject: [toeslist] Can tobacco executives be committed?
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:00:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Givel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:52:02 -0700
From: Anne Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [tp-talk]Can tobacco executives be committed?

My husband is a licensed clinical social worker with a
specialty in addictionology.  He has
been listening to my rantings for a long time and yesterday
announced that he noticed that the
tobacco industry fits the DSM-IV criteria for having
antisocial personality disorder.
Specifically, the diagnosis requires a person to exhibit at
least three of the following
tendencies (and I've highlighted the three I feel apply to
the tobacco industry):

1.  Failure to conform to social norm with respect to lawful
behaviors as indicated by
repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.

2.  Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of
aliases, or conning others for
personal profit or pleasure.

3.  Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.

4.  Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by
repeated physical fights or assualts.

5.  Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.

6.  Consistent irresponsibility, as indiated by repeated
failure to sustain consistent work
behavior or honor financial obligations.

7.  Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or
rationalizing having hurt,
mistreated, or stolen from another.

Increasingly, corporations are afforded the rights of
persons in our society: engaging in free
speech, participating in elections, obtaining and holding
property, engaging in contracts, etc.
We posit that, like people, corporations can also exhibit
personality disorders.  One would
further suppose that the executives are responsible for the
corporation's errant behavior, and
thus are fully accountable for it.

A person who poses a danger to self or others can can be
committed to an institution for
evaluation by someone in a position of authority, for
example a psychiatrist, physician or
police officer.  Once committed, they are held for 72 hours
to assess whether or not they do
indeed pose a threat to self or others.  In order to commit
someone, a person in authority
fills out a form (in Colorado, for example, the form is
called an "M-1") and then the patient
gets picked up, taken to the hospital or other facility, and
confined there for evaluation.  If
they are determined to pose a continuing threat to self or
others, they are ordered to have
further treatment.

So I pose the question:  Could someone in a position of
authority, for example the Surgeon
General or an Attorney General (perhaps even a state
attorney general), issue an "order to
commit" for the executives of the major tobacco companies,
have them held and evaluated in a
psychiatric facility with an eye towards their company's
continued intent to knowingly harm
others?

Anne Landman

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Black Elitism/Black Capitalism: Part II]

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Subject: Black Elitism/Black Capitalism: Part II
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:56:54 -0600 (CST)
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Hello Brothers and Sisters:

Thank you for responding to "Black Capitalism" pt. 2.
I am glad to see us really discussing these matters,
which are not in any way mere abstract questions, but
rather go to the fundamental question of what kind of
society do we really want? One which has classes of
desperately poor and excessively rich, one which has
all economic power in the hands of a white [or some
day Black] elite, or one where the needs of the people
are met and we are all on the same economic level.

I do not accept *elitist* arguments of a "talented
tenth", "better class of Blacks", or the "incorrigible
poor". This type of argument shows that it is only
thinking "within the box", that is within the confines
of the present capitalist system, which *creates*
crime and deprivation. Capitalism creates inequality,
and poverty creates a lack of culture. Somebody said
to me a long time ago, ignorance is merely lack of
knowledge, while stupidity is total foolishness. Many
of our people are politically ignorant to the workings
of this system, and they are being debased, but they
are not stupid. Ain't no mystery to this ya'll, don't
get to think that you are something special, you could
be the same as any of the least of our people.

Remove the conditions of oppression, and any of our
people in the most degrading of conditions, can ascend
to any social station in life, even higher than many
of you looking down your noses at the poor. They can
be the next Malcolm X, Martin Luther King or whomever
we exalt as Black leadership. Middle class Black
people have got to put aside their own class blinders
and prejudices against their own people. It is
oppressive, plantation thinking ("house nigger vs.
field niggers"), and keeps us from accepting our
people where they are.

Seems to me, our task as Black activists, people who
say they love Black people, is to fight for the uplift
of *all our people*, not feed them to the white
government and its prisons and graveyards. We cannot
get our liberation without fighting for the liberation
of the poor, so let's organize the 'hood.

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

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[CTRL] Who started the Intifada? Not Sharon, Arafat. Not in September. In July.

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Hebrew Ha'aretz features story that PA minister said Sharon not responsible
for outbreak of intafada - buried in English edition

4 March 2001 Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA

The front page of the Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz features a large story by
Danny Rubenstein and news agencies today that Palestinian Authority
Communications Minister Imad Faluji told a PLO rally in the Ein Hilwe
refugee camp in South Lebanon
on Friday that the five-month-old intifada was planned after the Camp David
talks failed in July. Faluji said that it would be a mistake to think that
the intafada was sparked by teh visit of Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount.

In sharp contrast, this item is buried in the English edition of Ha'aretz at
the bottom of a item about the deployment of IDF forces on roads in the West
Bank ("They interpret a new disclosure by PA Telecommunications Minister
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[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: America the beautiful.

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Published on Friday, March 2, 2001 in the St Paul Pioneer Press

Repealing Rather than Repairing Estate Tax Could Regild America's Gilded Age

by Glenda Holste

Peter Barnes, a self-made wealthy man, was blunt: ``We have an aristocracy
of wealth in this county. Repeal of the estate tax would make that
aristocracy hereditary.''

Barnes, founder of Working Assets, a financial services enterprise that
ties use of its products to socially responsible giving, is one of the
550-plus signers of Responsible Wealth's ``Call to Preserve the Estate
Tax.'' William H. Gates Sr., the co-chair of his son and daughter-in-law's
foundation, got the petition rolling. (Gates' commentary opposing repeal
appeared on these pages Wednesday.)

``There is no conceivable justification for repeal,'' Barnes said in a
briefing with journalists this week. The briefing was conducted by the
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive economic think tank.

The center has just analyzed Internal Revenue Service data on after-tax
income in 1998. Most measures of wealth concentration used in the current
tax policy debate are not as recent, so the 1998 information shows an
arguably more accurate picture of a continuing trend in which the rich get
richer -- and do it faster than the rest of us get ahead.

The study found that the top 1 percent of tax filers enjoyed an average
increase in income of $69,000 in that year. The income growth among this 1
percent group grew 40 percent between 1989 and 1998, eight times faster
than for the income of the bottom 90 percent of the U.S. population.
Meanwhile, a drop in the capital gains tax helped the 1 percent at the top
reduce the percentage of income they paid in federal income taxes from 27.9
percent to 27.1 percent.

In his budget speech this week, President Bush devoted only one sentence to
his proposal -- a Republican favorite -- to phase out the federal estate
tax. Of course, he had a lot of material to cover in a short time. But it
is telling that he chose to gloss over the estate tax issue with the stump
speech distortion that to tax estates is to tax the money in them twice.
Unfair, he says.

What would be unfair is to take care of the very rich at the expense of the
rest of us. It is possible to reform the estate tax, increasing exemptions,
as has been done in the past, to protect the assets of family farms and
small businesses. In fact, the exemption -- $675,000 per individual -- is
now rising and will be $1 million in 2006, if the law isn't changed.
Congress certainly can revisit the amount that protects family businesses
without showering the already rich with more cash. In 1997, fewer than
43,000 people of the 2.3 million who died had to pay estate tax.

Repeal would reduce taxes by $55.3 billion in 2010, according to Congress'
Joint Tax Committee. That's almost a fourth of all the money from the
overall tax cut in the Bush plan for that year.

Repeal? No need to use an ax where a legislative scalpel will do the job
precisely.

Still, the mantra from political proponents has been powerful. They call it
the ``death tax.'' The implication is that because we all will die, we all
will get socked with a confiscatory estate tax.

Not so. In 1997, about 2,400 estates -- the largest 5 percent of estates
even large enough to be taxable -- paid about half of all the estate tax.
If the estate tax had not existed then, each of these 2,400 estates with
assets of more than $5 million would have enjoyed an average of $3.5
million in retained assets.

Nonprofit groups that do charitable work are very concerned that if the
estate tax is repealed, the very wealthy -- who often endow foundations and
other large philanthropies rather than just fork over the money in taxes --
would have no incentive as donors.

Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a Washington outfit that keeps
track of the White House's fiscal behavior, was in St. Paul this week,
arguing the same case as Barnes.

The concentration of wealth from repeal, he said, would revive a problem
solved almost a century ago when it was apparent that the Gilded Age had
opened an income gap of monumental proportions in America.

Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives took this on, resulting in
re-establishing the estate tax to keep America from going the way its
founders so despised in the English: a rich aristocracy sustained on
inherited wealth instead of work; a place where the class system created
the very conditions that led Americans to revolt.

Even though the train has been rolling during the past few years for repeal
of the estate tax and even though Republicans who favor repeal are in the
engineer's seat, Bass is optimistic that when the issue is fully evaluated
by a wide array of Americans, the estate tax will be reformed, not repealed.

``I think we can win this (battle against repeal),'' Bass said. ``We had a
meeting last week of about 150 groups. There is a growing sentiment, among
a range of these groups 

[CTRL] [Fwd: Silence = Death: AIDS, Africa and Pharmaceuticals]

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The Watchdog on the Web http://www.corpwatch.org

March 2, 2001

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Silence = Death: AIDS, Africa and Pharmaceuticals
http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/misc/aids01.html

25 million Africans are living with AIDS. Northern pharmaceutical
companies have the drugs to treat the disease and governments have the
ability to offer them cheaply. Yet they are turning a blind eye to this
global pandemic. After talking with AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe and HIV+
pregnant women in Rwanda, Stephen Lewis, says "I want someone to explain
to me why it isn't called murder." The former Deputy Director of UNICEF
puts a human face on one of the greatest tragedies of our time.

BHOPAL
Survivors Target Dow Chemical in India
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Three-hundred survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in
Bhopal protested at the Bombay office of Dow Chemical International this
week demanding that Dow take on the outstanding liabilities left behind
by the Union Carbide Corporation (which Dow now owns) in Bhopal.
Together with environmental and labor groups, they launched a new
National Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, targeting Dow.

IN THE NEWS
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* South Africa: Bush Policy Threatens AIDS Prevention Among Youth
* Mexico: Rocks, Tear Gas at Cancun Protest
* USA: Mom vs. Mastercard
* Canada: Quebec Set to Crackdown on FTAA Protests
* Canada: Government Fights NAFTA Ruling in Court
* Tanzania: World Bank/IMF Refuse to Cancel Africa's Debt
* USA: Supreme Court Sides with American Airlines Over Union
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[CTRL] Is Our Society Making You Sick?

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Newsweek

February 26, 2001

US MY TURN

 Is Our Society Making You Sick?

By Stephen Bezruchka, M.D.

Americans are obsessed with health. Just look at today's magazines, TV
shows, Web sites, self-help books--and where we put our dollars. As a
country, we make up about 4 percent of the world's total population, yet we
expend almost half of all the money spent on medical care. We should be
pretty healthy.

Yet I have always been amazed at how poorly the United States ranks in
health when compared with other countries. When I began medical school in
1970 we stood about 15th in what I call the Health Olympics, the ranking of
countries by life expectancy or infant mortality. Twenty years later we
were about 20th, and in recent years we have plunged even further to around
25th, behind almost all rich countries and a few poor ones. For the richest
and most powerful country in the world's history, this is a disgrace.

As a physician obsessed with understanding what makes groups of people
healthy, I'm dumbfounded that our low ranking doesn't raise more concern in
the medical and public-health communities. Is it because experts in these
fields don't want to question the role of medical care in producing health?
Does our focus on diseases--including the search for risk factors, cures
and specific preventive answers--stop Americans from looking at what would
really keep us well?

Research during this last decade has shown that the health of a group of
people is not affected substantially by individual behaviors such as
smoking, diet and exercise, by genetics or by the use of health care. In
countries where basic goods are readily available, people's life span
depends on the hierarchical structure of their society; that is, the size of
the gap between rich and poor.

How can hierarchy affect health? Consider the feelings that predominate in a
hierarchical situation: power, domination, coercion (if you are on top);
resignation, resentment and submission (if you are on the bottom). Compare
them with feelings in an egalitarian environment: support, friendship,
cooperation and sociability. Studies with baboons in Kenya and macaque
monkeys in captivity, both of which feature strong hierarchical
relationships, show that high-ranking animals are healthier than those
lower in the pecking order. Human population studies show additional
findings. The death rate from
heart attacks among middle-aged men is four times greater in Lithuania than
in Sweden, which is much more egalitarian.

We can learn something by looking at countries that do well in the Health
Olympics. In 1960 Japan stood 23d, but by 1977 it had overtaken all the
others in the health race.

Today, at No. 1, Japan has a life expectancy on average three and a half
years longer than the United States'. Twice as many Japanese men as
American men smoke, yet the deaths attributable to smoking are half of
ours. Why? After the second world war, the hierarchical structure of Japan
was reorganized so all citizens shared more equally in the economy. Today
Japanese CEOs make 15 to 20 times what entry-level workers make, not the
almost 500-fold difference in this country. During their recent economic
crisis, CEOs and managers in Japan took cuts in pay rather than lay off
workers. That the structure of
society is key to well-being becomes evident when we look at Japanese who
emigrate: their health declines to the level of the inhabitants of the new
country.

Did this health-hierarchy relationship always exist--is it part of human
nature?

Archeological records from burial mounds and skeletal remains indicate that
human populations were relatively healthy before the advent of agriculture. The
development of farming allowed food to be produced in quantities and
stored, enabling someto live off the efforts of others--a hierarchy. With
agriculture, health declined, nutrition worsened and workload increased.

Why has the medical community, as well as the popular press, essentially
ignored these findings? I suspect that part of the explanation lies in
Americans' "cradle to grave" relationship with the health-care industry,
which represents one seventh of the U.S. economy.

If equality is good medicine, then what can be done to improve Americans'
well-being?

Our primary goal should be to reduce today's record gap between rich and
poor.

Prescriptions for such "structural medicine" might include a tax on
consumption rather than income, or increased support for public
transportation, schools and day care, all of which would reflect a change
in how the population shares in the economy. We must put our eyes on a new
prize: doing better in the Health Olympics. The best prescription for
health is not one we will get from doctors.

Bezruchka teaches at the University of Washington's School of Public Health.

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 --- Bob Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Synopsis)
  You have a very warped view of history.
  You seem to forget that the Japanese wiped out
  Pearl Harbor and murdered thousands of people both
  military and civilian.
  Just where do you get this hypothesis
  that the bombings of these two cities were
  propaganda?  It was to prevent an
  invasion of Honshu which would have resulted in
  millions of deaths on both sides."
 ___

 Nakano comments:
 A few historical facts.
 Franklin Roosevelt ran as the "peace candidate"
 in the 1940 election. He said: "I have said it before,
 and I say it again and againI am not about to
 send your sons to fight and die in another European
 war."  The American People were strongly against
 the U.S. entering World War 2.
 Something dramatic and shocking was needed to turn
 public opinion around.
 In about June of 1941 Roosevelt halted U.S. oil
 exports to Japan. (Denial of a strategic resource)
 Japan has no oil of its own. They were getting about
 half of their imports from the U.S. when FDR cut off
 their supply.
 That same summer or early fall, Roosevelt closed
 the Panama Canal to Japanese ships. The U.S. had
 guaranteed canal access to all nations, but FDR
 ignored that promise.
 In November of 1941, Roosevelt gave Japan an
 ultimatum to get their military forces out of
 Manchuria.

 Roosevelt was shoving and pushing Japandaring
 the Japanese to take a swing at us.
 They finally did on December 7th, 1941.
 Indeed it was a "day of infamy".
 2,500 U.S. military personnel died in the attack
 on Pearl Harbor.
 They were sacrificed by Roosevelt in order to
 reverse public opinion about America entering
 the war.
 It worked.
 In 1 day, the American People went from 80 percent
 opposed to the warto demanding that the U.S.
 declare war.  An entire generation of young American
 men lined up at the draft board offices to enlist.
 So much for the so-called "unprovoked sneak-attack".

 As for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
 It was unnecessary.
 Nor would an invasion of Japan been necessary.
 The Japanese navy was on the bottom of the ocean.
 Every Japanese city of any consequence was in ruins.
 More people were killed in the conventional firebomb
 raids on Tokyo than were killed at either Nagasaki
 or Hiroshima.
 American naval and airpower had Japan in an
 inescapable stranglehold.
 Japan is an island nation lacking in many resources
 such as iron ore, coal, and oil.
 All we had to do was keep Japan encircled
 and wait.
 The surrender was inevitable.

 Instead, we became the only nation in history
 to use atomic weapons against another country.
 Truman ordered those bombs dropped on an already
 beatenand virtually defenseless people.
 The fact is, not a single japanese aircraft
 rose in the sky to challenge the Enola Gay B-29
 that dropped the bomb.
 They were helpless and we bombed them anyway.

 Nakano

Ditto.

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Re: [CTRL] Conservatism is Dead -- But not dead enough. - J2

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3/3/01

I'm sure Bill, that you are aware that there are no differences between
the Republicans and the DemocRATS. Why are you spinning your wheels?

The Bush administration is the other side of the same coin.

My suggestion to you is the same as what I suggested to DemocRATS. Dump
the Republicans and start a genuine conservative party. Otherwise, nothing
will change.

Joshua2
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 Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!

 Conservatism is Dead
 By Chuck Baldwin
 March 2, 2001

 Bill Clinton did more than destroy America's moral conscience; he destroyed
 the conservative movement. What passes for conservatism today isn't even
 closely related to the true meaning of the term.

This is pure nonsense. Clinton did nothing to destroy the conservative
movement. The Republicans sold out the conservative movement in exactly the
same way that the Democrats sold out the real progressives.

 At one time conservatism stood for limited government and personal freedom.
 No more. Today, conservatism stands for an ever increasing, ever encroaching
 federal monstrosity, promoted in the name of bipartisanship and compassion.
 Nothing illustrates this reality more than President Bush's proposed budget.

 Hailed by Republicans everywhere as a model of conservative ideology, the
 Bush budget actually inflates federal spending to just under $2 trillion. If
 this trends continues throughout Bush's presidency (and it will), federal
 spending will more than double what it was when Republicans took control of
 Congress back in 1995. And we are supposed to believe that these people are
 conservatives?

 Bush began his speech before Congress by giving himself away. He said,
 "Tonight I challenge and invite Congress to work with me to . solve the
 problems of our people."

Just as the old Soviets had, we have a one party system. The Big Business
Party. It has two sub- parties. The Republicans and the DemocRATS.
Except for some hot button social issues, this country's policies and
goals are consistent. Make the rich richer still by serving their
corporations. This requires a LARGE GOVERNMENT Get it? It takes a
LARGE GOVERNMENT to give large corporations LARGE CONTRACTS. It takes a
LARGE GOVERNMENT to field a LARGE MILITARY around the world to protect
LARGE CORPORATIONS' interests around the world.

 Genuine conservatives knew at that very moment that Bush was not one of
 them. Requisite to conservative understanding is that government is not the
 solution to our problems. Just the opposite is true: government encroachment
 only serves to exacerbate a problem. To quote Ronald Reagan, "Government is
 not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."

Quoting Reagan just shows how naive this writer and most conservatives are.
Reagan had the ultimate corporate administration.

 Today's "conservatives" have forgotten Reagan's sagacious instructions. Just
 like Democrats, Republicans now believe that our nation's problems can be
 fixed by throwing more federal tax dollars at them.

 Instead of dismantling the federal Department of Education (which
 Republicans promised to do back in 1994), Bush's budget increases
 expenditures by more than $5 billion. Welfare and other entitlement programs
 are increased by over $81 billion. The Bush budget also more than doubles
 expenditures for the National Institutes of Health.

 Have conservatives forgotten that it is through the NIH that pro-abortion
 groups like Planned Parenthood receive tax dollars? If Bush were truly
 pro-life, he would insist that such organizations be eliminated from the
 federal budget. Instead, the Bush budget insures that these left wing,
 extremist groups will receive even more funds from the public treasury.

 Bush's desire to reduce the tax burden is commendable, but it misses the
 major component of conservatism, which is reducing the size and scope of the
 federal government. The Bush budget gives us more IRS, more ATF, more FBI,
 more NEA, more welfare, more socialized medicine, ad infinitum, ad naseum.

 If Republicans want to continue to take our country down the road to bigger
 and bigger government, that's one thing, but they should at least be honest
 enough to stop calling themselves conservatives.

Some people never learn.

J2

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[CTRL] WARNING: US military developing non-lethal weapons.

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3/3/01

Since it is safe and rational to assume that the ONLY military which
used nuclear weapons to wipe out  two entire cities for the purpose
of propaganda does not really give a damn about human life, why are
they pouring so much money into non-lethal weapons.

Answer: To use domestically against civilians.

Answer: To sell the technology to other countries for the same purpose.

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U.S. military developing new "non-lethal" weapon

Friday March 2, 04:00 AM
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010302/80/b93ut.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has said it is developing a
new non-lethal weapon which uses electromagnetic energy to cause a
burning sensation on the skin and turn back enemy troops from long
range.

Officials said the "millimetre-wave" pulses, which might one day be
fired from a dish- shaped device similar to a radar, could be mounted
on military jeeps and possibly be used in peacekeeping and cases
where innocent civilians are mixed with enemy troops.

"In conflicts, targeted adversaries are expected to simply flee," the
Marine Corps said of the new weapon.

After 10 years and $40 million in research by the corps and the Air
Force, the Marines said at a briefing for reporters that pulses from
the weapon travel at the speed of light to penetrate less than 1/64
of an inch into the skin, causing immediate discomfort like touching
a hot light bulb.

"Within seconds, an individual feels an intense heating sensation
that stops when the transmitter is shut off or when the individual
moves out of the beam," the corps added in a news release.

"Despite the sensation, the technology does not cause injury because
of the low energy levels used," it added. "The sensation is nearly
identical to the sensation experienced by briefly touching an
ordinary light bulb that has been left on for a while."

The Marine Corps is managing the project for the military, but there
has been no decision by the Defence Department to build or field the
proposed weapon.

The Marines said the beam weapon, which is being developed by the
Marine Corps and Air Force in cooperation with defence firms, "causes
a repellent response, but not physical damage to the body."

"Research on this technology has shown there are no harmful health
effects," the Marine Corps said. "The beam only needs to be on for a
few seconds to achieve its purpose."

Copyright  2001 Reuters Limited.

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[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: So drink up kiddies. There's profits to be made.

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 Environment ENS -- Environment News Service

   ARSENIC WATER STANDARD CHALLENGED BY WOOD PRESERVERS

   FAIRFAX, Virginia, March 2, 2001, (ENS) - The American Wood Preservers
   Institute (AWPI) filed a legal challenge in federal court Thursday to
   overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new arsenic
   regulation, one of the last acts of the departing Clinton
   Administration.

   If it stands, the new regulation would impose new costs on many public
   water consumers and unnecessary new burdens on the business community,
   AWPI said. The rule was published in the Federal Register on January
   22, despite congressional action aimed at delaying or altering the
   regulation.

   The EPA's regulation would reduce by 80 percent the level of arsenic
   permitted in drinking water, even though the new standard is below
   levels that may occur naturally in water supplies.

   Senator Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, has filed a bill (S
   223) to overturn the regulation as "financially devastating in New
   Mexico and lacking a foundation of sound science." The Western
   Governors Conference also opposes the new regulation.

   "The EPA acknowledges that it based its work on highly criticized, 30
   year old epidemiological studies from Taiwan that it analyzed using a
   60 year old linear extrapolation method - a method that does not
   recognize any of the recent, accepted advances in biology and risk
   assessment," said Scott Ramminger, president of AWPI. "The EPA's
   midnight regulation was clearly not based on the best available
   science, as required by law."

   AWPI is the national trade association representing the pressure
   treated wood industry in the United States. Pressure treated wood is
   the major source of non-natural arsenic contamination in U.S. drinking
   water.

   Ramminger said AWPI took legal action because the drinking water
   standard is a benchmark applied to many other exposures. He pointed
   out that, in addition to its impact on municipalities and water
   utilities, the regulation affects most industries that use or process
   arsenic containing materials, and that includes many AWPI members.

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[CTRL] [Fwd: Public ownership is the solution to the energy crisis]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Public ownership is the solution to the energy crisis
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:51:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Public ownership is the solution to the energy crisis

* Opinion column from the Sacramento Bee
* Call for Take-over of Energy Companies -- Citizens Denounce
   Financial Ties Between Elected Officials and Utility Companies
* AFL-CIO Executive Council Statement on Energy Crisis -
   California's Electricity Deregulation Crisis - A National Warning
   [which doesn't call for public ownership of the energy utilities -
   Moderator]


Public ownership is the solution to the energy crisis

By James McClatchy

[Sacramento Bee column of Feb. 18, 2001. James B. McClatchy is
publisher of The McClatchy Co., which owns The Sacramento Bee and
other newspapers, and is a lifelong California journalist.]

  The possibility of the state of California buying power
  transmission lines  has now emerged as a major part of proposed
  solutions to California's electricity crisis. The next step would
  be for the state to buy the  associated generating facilities. It
  will be hard for anyone involved in this unbelievable and painful
  crisis to think very far ahead, but deciding on a permanent
  solution as quickly as possible will shorten our period of living
  in a bad- dream emergency. Any final solution would have to include
  public ownership of the generating plants that PGE and Southern
  California Edison sold to speculators, as well as facilities they
  still own.

The state of California invested enormous amounts of bond money in
building one of the world's biggest water delivery systems -- the
Feather River Project. This project delivers large amounts of water
to farms in the San Joaquin Valley and for general public use in
Southern California. It is a publicly owned utility.

Why can't the state buy the generating facilities and distribution
systems of Southern California Edison and PGE with bond money, and
deliver the electricity to existing locally owned and managed
utility districts, or to newly organized ones? If some areas decline
that option, the state could create an agency to take over that job.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is locally owned by
citizens.  So is the Sacramento Municipal Utility District -- and so
are dozens of other taxpayer-owned systems including Roseville,
Redding, Palo Alto and Truckee. In such arrangements, the public
controls its electrical destiny.

The formerly private facilities would require upgrades and badly
needed  modernization. Also, to meet population growth, it would be
necessary to  find or build new generating plants. All that will
cost many millions of  dollars, no matter who owns the electrical
systems. But who can doubt that if private utilities own them,
customers will pay more than if tax-paying  consumers own them? If
anyone -- particularly legislators and Gov. Gray Davis -- needs a
reminder of what the investors who own parts of California's
electrical supply system have their eyes fixed on, they should
reflect on what the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs did this past
week.

A subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, J. Aron  Co., has supplied a
significant portion of the natural gas PGE used to make
electricity. To protect its investment and reduce its risk of losing
money, the J. Aron firm has pulled the plug on PGE, refusing to
deliver any more gas.

Why not? Goldman Sachs is a giant financial house with fingers in
businesses all over the world. Why should it subject its managing
partners and stockholders to potentially more losses out here in
California? Does it care about consumers here? While harsh comments
can be directed at some participants in this staggeringly expensive,
world-class comedy of errors, it must be clearly recognized that
many energy providers are extending their own financial resources to
protect electricity consumers.

Without this mostly voluntary help, the whole state would be heading
more certainly for an economic and social crisis of unpredictable
size. When this is all over, proper recognition and appreciation
should be given to those officials and companies who put public
service above dollar values.

With public ownership of these systems would come increased public
transparency on all aspects of the operations -- where there is
little now  -- and thus less opportunity for sweetheart deals with
friendly financiers or brokers.

Separate from the current emergency, rising prices in general for
electricity and gas are generating enormous financial problems for
homeowners and businesses. It is absolutely indefensible that
citizens should be made to pay for the bad business decisions of the
utilities, the Legislature and elected officials, not to mention the
rapaciousness of speculators and selfish political partisanship.

[CTRL] [Fwd: Fighting Fast Track]

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 Original Message 
Subject: Fighting Fast Track
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:34:50 -0600 (CST)
From: "Margrete Strand Rangnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ?
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

The important e-mail below is from Mike Dolan, Public Citizen.  One of the ways we
sank the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in the U.S., was to link it to
President Clinton's quest for Fast Track negotiating authority in 1997 (he wanted
to use Fast Track as a way to pass the MAI). It became apparent that in order to
kill the bad agreement you must also kill the vehicle by which it is being
promoted. If YOU would like to become more involved in the ongoing fight against
Fast Track, the FTAA, WTO and other pieces of the corpoate globalization alphabet
soup, send me an e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we will plug you in.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

We have returned from the World Social Forum in Porto
Allegre, Brazil.  Very enlightening and empowering.
Now back to work:

Three items for your review and liberal cross-posting.

1) A description of the several components of a
national campaign against Fast Track, which tops the
big business "free trade" legislative agenda.  We
prepared this for inclusion in a How-To book for
anti-globalization activists, but publication thereof
has been delayed, so we share it with you now.

2)  An Action Alert from 1996, published in Public
Citizen magazine and recently rediscovered, containing
pithy and timeless advice for conducting district
office meetings with members of your congressional
delegation.

3)  The obligatory recent news-clip, dateline Capitol
Hill, about the swirling trade policy controversy and
coporate myopia.

Mike Dolan
Global Trade Watch
Public Citizen
www.tradewatch.org

_
Fast Track is in the House!

A National Legislative Campaign that Builds the
Movement

It's not as much fun as donning a protest puppet or
performing satirical street theater and it's not as
dangerous or glamorous as risking arrest in direct
action, but grassroots lobbying is an important front
in our fight against the corporate trade agenda
(so-called 'free trade'). It is also a lot of the
reason this movement has momentum.

One of our key fights is Fast Track, a mechanism that
presidents since Nixon have used to ram pro-corporate
trade agreements through the House and Senate.
Most folks in this movement know about NAFTA and the
WTO; but most don't know about how these unpopular
treaties got passed in the first place. Fast Track
requires the Congress to pass these trade scams
without amendments or adequate time to debate, on a
quick-n-dirty, up-or-down vote. It is a legislative
laxative that is bad for the Constitution. (The
Constitution says treaties must pass the Senate by a
two-thirds majority, which neither NAFTA nor the GATT
could've done.)

The Citizens Trade Campaign and its allies and
affiliates defeated Fast Track twice in the 105th
Congress ('97 - 98). The new president wants Fast
Track too. The corporate and political elites have
their eyes on the Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA) and they know that they will need Fast Track to
get it. We have to stop them.

We will win this key legislative battle because we
will use the power of the anti-globalization movement
to generate grassroots pressure on the Congress; and
we will use the national campaign against Fast Track
to continue to build our movement at the local level.

These are a few of the steps that will provide the
margin of victory.

First, we will build a strong focused Fair Trade
coalition from the various components of the
anti-globalization movement in our community. Workers
and family farmers, environmental and consumer
activists, human rights and faith based groups,
students and direct action anarchists, reformists and
anti-capitalist blocs alike * all will come together
in some form or another to beat Fast Track. Emergency
Meetings all around the country will build local Fair
Trade networks and plan grassroots actions to hold the
Congress accountable. The whole of us will be greater
than the sum of our partisans.

Second, we will tell the stories that put a human face
on the dry globalization debate.  Just a little
research, a task shared among our coalition partners,
will reveal the actual effects of corporate
globalization in our own community. What factories
have closed and moved production to Mexico, under
NAFTA, or to some other countries where workers can be
exploited? Are there any family farm groups that have
first hand experience fighting the giant agri-bizness
concerns? And what locally-based corporations run
sweatshops abroad or pollute globally?

Third, we will personally confront our
congress-members when they are in the District,
especially during the congressional recesses. We can
organize district office meetings, protests and
rallies all around the country, so that they all come
back to DC talking 

Re: [CTRL] Europeans view Bush as a thief who has brought shame onAmerica

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James Burns wrote:

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 In article 021b01c0a34e$b8d642c0$543829cf@flw, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
  Europeans view Bush as a thief who has brought shame on America
 
  By Linda Stout Deak
 
  WASSENAAR, The Netherlands, Feb. 27, 2000.
 
 
 Ha Ha. Please tell me this is indeed a satirical post.
 
 However this is unfair humor. Such pompous, sanctimoniousness from the land
 of Stalin
 and Hitler (Bosnia / Kosovo) is too easy a target.
 
 It seems when the Europeans are not killing each other by the millions, or
 colonizing (aka
 "ripping off") the rest of the world, they spend their time wallowing in their
 delusional self
 perception of superiorty.
 
 No wonder they love Clinton. The mystery is why they would not
 like Bush.
 flw

 As  British and a European I certainly did not think that the ladies
 post was satirical.. She certainly put a certain European perspective
 into focus. Some Americans may think that such views are superior but
 such a view is somewhat nieve. The lady also seemed to be a supporter of
 Clinton and she does seem to picking up on that the consensus view of
 Clinton in Europe as more favourable than that attributed to Bush.

 Wilde's quip that Americans went from Barbarity to Decadence without the
 intervening step of Civilisation is perhaps becoming more and more apt.

 For me the real point of what was being said was about the spiritual
 malaise that is afflicting Western civilisation, perhaps most noticeable
 in America but certainly also affecting the other Western 'democracies'.
 Indeed with the advent of globalisation and rampant capitalism the
 concept of 'democracy' is really a sham. The political system that sits
 best with the economic system of capitalism is fascism and that really
 is what the big political question is all about..  We have fascism
 masquerading as 'democracy'. People have less and less say in what they
 do. The illusion that it is somehow otherwise is wearing very thin.

 As Orwell points out, the 'Inner Party' always rules, it is just that
 they are perhaps becoming a bit sloppy or over-confident.

 ===
 J. Burns

Excellent! Where have you been.

Joshua2

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Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Public ownership is the solution to the energycrisis]

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"M.A. Johnson" wrote:

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 socialism (soshe-lzem) noun
 A social system in which the means of producing and
 distributing goods are owned collectively and political
 power is exercised by the whole community.

 ROTFLMAO

 Regard$,
 --MJ

 The laws of economics are more like the laws of physics than may people
 once supposed.  You can't wish them away, and they don't change because
 of politics.  If governments print too much money, they will have
 inflation.  If they expropriate -- if they steal -- they won't have
 foreign investment.  If they lack well-developed financial markets,
 savers will earn low rates of return, and will therefore stay away.
 These are the realities that all countries, whatever their culture,
 have to confront if they want to prosper in today's world.
 -- Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers, while Clinton Undersecretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs, quoted in Wired, July 1997 at p. 186.
[ed. President Clinton should read this and see if they really
are following it]

That's right asshole. Quote the man who said the West should send
all it's poison wastes to places like Africa. They are too populated
anyway.

Capitalism and guys like you are in for a long dry spell Johnson. Good
riddance to both. Watch it crumble, and squirm. You are going to lose it
all. The poor will take everything you have. The middle class will take
away your guns. You will have nothing to protect you but your venal quotes.
A HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

Have a nice day,
Joshua2

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[CTRL] Europeans view Bush as a thief who has brought shame on America

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 Europeans view Bush as a thief who has brought shame on America

 By Linda Stout Deak

 WASSENAAR, The Netherlands, Feb. 27, 2000.

 €?When Condoleeza Rice, Bush's National Security Advisor appointee,
 took her place at the microphone in those numbing first days after the
 coup d'“tat, she called herself a Europeanist. What is that? I
 wondered if she played the piano in Europe. I believe she meant that
 her studies had focused on Europe and she considered herself an expert
 on Europe.

 I am American living abroad. Both sides of my family are deeply rooted
 in America and I have lived in nine states. I love America. I am
 married to a Canadian who is also a European. I have lived in Europe
 twice, a total of fourteen years and I have lived in Canada once for
 five years. Our sons have been educated in European and Canadian
 schools. I have many European friends, family members, acquaintances
 and contacts. The Europeans, as do the Canadians, teach me a lot about
 how America is perceived from the outside.

 It is surprising to a friendly, open, swashbuckling American to feel
 the contempt that so many others feel for us. I think you have to be
 on the outside of the country to understand what I am referring to
 here. The Canadians let me know shortly after I landed there, that I
 was not to consider myself a Canadian. After some years I understood
 why. They had always been kind of folded into America in most American
 minds. Many Americans view Canada in the same way they view California
 as a state, but one that is different, set apart.

 I grew to love Canada. They seemed to have the best of both Europe and
 the U.S. with the American sense of vastness and possibility and the
 European sense of social responsibility.

 Americans have a very limited notion or regard for world history and
 geography. The outsiders consider us dumb. Oh sure, we have our
 technology and bravado and friendly service, but most of us cannot
 separate the Balkans from the Baltics or Palma from Palermo.  Is
 Jakarta close to Madagascar? I daresay, in the shrinking world, we
 have done ourselves a disservice. The media's dumb-down has not been
 very helpful either.

 When I first resettled in Europe twelve years ago, I began language
 classes. I was the only American in my class. Each of us was from a
 different country. I sunk quickly to the bottom of the class. The
 others were learning their third or fourth language. I was a hopeless
 beginner. They were kind to me and helped me along with cheerful
 encouragement. Our topics of conversation were eye opening as I
 learned how very differently we perceived an issue or an event, coming
 from different cultures. When the teacher put the topic of "Do you
 consider the Dutch to be dirty?" forward, I was stunned at how the
 entire group turned to me with real anger about the excesses of the
 Americans in this regard. Did I understand how much of the world's
 resources we use and how unnecessary daily showers are? And, Why do we
 do that? And, What was I going to do about that?

 Gradually, I became good friends with more than a few Europeans and I
 came to understand and respect the differences. In friendship, one
 becomes privy to inner thoughts and foibles. Just as Americans
 experience the Americanization of newcomers to our country, this new
 culture began to seep

 into me.

 When I go to a tourist magnet, like Lago Maggiore or Paris or Bruges,
 I notice the Americans who usually huddle against the foreignness of
 their strange environment. The glories of Rome go unnoticed if ice is
 unavailable for the Diet Coke. They are often full of complaints that
 the place is not America and they make matters worse by demanding that
 it cater specifically to their American idea of how things should be.
 There is a very real difference in attitude to money and the Americans
 cannot believe that profit doesn't hold the same motivational internal
 whir. The Europeans believe it is crass to flaunt wealth. It takes a
 while to pick up on the nuances of culture.

 In contrast, the Europeans are very aware of America and probably even
 speak our language. The balance is off because of this. We still
 condescend to all cultures as if they were lesser, and it does not
 make us very likeable.

 My European friends and contacts, almost to the man, were in support
 of Al Gore winning this election. I have asked more than a few of my
 friends who are located in other parts of Europe and they report the
 same phenomena.  I do know that straw polls gave Bush and Ralph Nader
 each seven percent. Most of the Bush-supporter spottings have been in
 England.  England is not really full-heartedly a supporter of the
 European Union and their ties to America have always been special.
 Shortly after the Revolution ended, the British shook hands and got
 back to the business of trading and envoying with our country. The
 Atlantic Ocean, for them, has often been narrower 

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2/28/01

9.3 billion people can be comfortably accommodated on this
planet. BUT NOT WITH CAPITALISM AS ITS ECONOMIC SYSTEM.

Get rid of Capitalism and you get rid of waste. Get rid
of Capitalism and you free up resources held and controlled
by a very few. Get rid of Capitalism and you can decentralize
economic power, thus returning democratic power to more
people in the developed countries.

Once these countries are democratically controlled, other
countries could develop as they need to and see fit.

The ONLY VOLUNTARY proven and demonstrable weapon against
overpopulation, IS ACHIEVING MIDDLECLASS-HOOD. This is
not possible in a system which encourages concentration of
wealth. Where, as in the US, 1% of the population owns 40%
of its wealth.

But the beneficiaries of such a system won't give up their
spot at the trough. So instead, they try every other available
method to reduce the numbers of poor. None of which achieve
the desired effect.

You simply can't have Capitalism AND a livable planet with
9.3 billion inhabitants. Our children and grand children.

Will they bless or curse your memory? It depends on what you
leave them.

Joshua2


Wednesday February 28 6:32 PM ET
World to Be More Crowded, Older, Poorer in 2050

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world will be far more
crowded by midcentury, its people older and poorer
than they are today, the United Nations' chief
demographer said on Wednesday.

Over the next 50 years, the world's population will
likely soar to 9.3 billion from 6.1 billion, although
it could be as high as 10.9 billion or as low as 7.9
billion, said
Joseph Chamie, director of the U.N. Population
Division.

Of the total, 88 percent, or 8.2 billion people, will
live in developing nations, compared to 80 percent, or
4.9 billion people, today, Chamie told a news
conference.

Most of the growth will come in Asia and Africa, while
the world's wealthy nations, where about 1.2 billion
people now live, are expected as a group to remain
about the same size or even shrink a bit as birth
rates stay below replacement level, he said.

Therefore, the richest nations' share of the global
total will shrink to 12 percent by 2050 from the
current 20 percent, Chamie said, elaborating on his
division's latest
report on ''World Population Prospects.''

Just six African and Asian nations, India, China,
Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia, will
account for half the world's growth between now and
2050, he
said.

Within the group of industrialized nations, however,
there are sharp divergences. In contrast to most other
wealthy nations, the United States will grow rapidly
over
the next five decades, soaring to 400 million people
from 283 million last year because of a relatively
high birth rate and a steady flow of immigrants.

Canada and Australia are also expected to increase in
size, while Japan and Europe will be shrinking, Chamie
said.

Although AIDS is having a devastating impact on life
expectancy and population loss in the 45 mostly
African countries hardest hit by the epidemic, those
countries'
overall population will nonetheless grow steadily over
the next 50 years.

Growth is predicted even in Botswana, where the AIDS
infection rate is 36 percent, and in Swaziland and
Zimbabwe, where infections rates hover above 25
percent.

But South Africa, whose fertility rate is lower than
its neighbors, will shrink between 2010 and 2025
before growing again between 2025 and 2050.

Ranks Of The World's Elderly Will Mushroom

The ranks of the world's elderly will mushroom over
the next 50 years, with the number of people age 60 or
older jumping by 2050 to nearly 2 billion, 33 percent
of
the total population, from 606 million, or 20 percent,
today.

The number of people age 80 or over will rise to 379
million by 2050, accounting for 4 percent of the total
world population and more than five times as numerous
as the 69 million people aged 80 or over alive in
2000.

This trend will hit the rich nations hardest, causing
labor shortages and sending health care and pension
costs through the roof in Europe and Japan, Chamie
said.

But the labor market will be less affected in the
United States because it welcomes about 1.1 million
immigrants a year.

With the population growing so rapidly in the
developing world, Africa and Asia will be more
urbanized, ``with mega-cities growing largely in
developing countries,''
Chamie said. ``And finally, we will see a world more
ethnically and culturally diverse than today,'' he
added.

``Rapidly growing populations have less time to
prepare for change,'' Chamie said. ``These pressures
and strains are creating all kinds of challenges for
governments,'' he said, ranging from reassessments of
pension requirements and the retirement age to health
care budgets and immigration policy.



Sources:  Reuters  |  AP  |  AP U.S.  |  The New York
Times  |  ABCNEWS.com

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[CTRL] Finally getting smart: Arabs boycott Estee Lauder.

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 Original Message 
Subject: Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:34:35 -0500
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Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder
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Subject: [jerusalem-net] AMJ's Press Conference on Estee Lauder Boycott


In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

American Muslims for Jerusalem
208 G Street, NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-4200
Fax: (202) 548-4201
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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AMJ holds Press Conference to Announce Estee Lauder Boycott

On Wednesday, February 28, American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ) lead a
coalition of advocacy organizations in a press conference calling for a
worldwide boycott of cosmetics giant Este Lauder. That announcement was
prompted by Este Lauder International Chairman Ronald Lauder's activities
in support of Israeli right-wing extremists.

Estee Lauders products include: Estee Lauder line of perfume and make-up,
Aramis,  Clinique, Aveda, DKNY and Tommy Hilfegere toiletries products.
Estee Lauder also owns several lines of hair and skin care products and
shops such as M.A.C. and Origins.

Ronald Lauder is the Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations and President of the Jewish National Fund
(JNF).  JNF is a quasi-government agency whose main function is to
legitimize Israeli's theft of Palestinian land.

In January, Lauder was the key speaker from the US at a rally in Jerusalem,
organized by right wing Israeli politician Natan Sharansky. The rally was
organized to oppose the mere consideration of Jerusalem as a negotiation
item. Lauder addressed 300,000 Israeli extremists at the gates of Haram
Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary, one of Islam's three holiest sites). Some of
the protesters tried to break into the holy site.

Khalid Turaani, AMJ's Executive Director said "this boycott of Estee Lauder
will send a clear message that people of conscience refuse to do business
with corporations supporting Israeli apartheid policies which violate
internationally-recognized human rights".

In 1993, Lauder co-founded a think tank called the Shalem Center with Yoram
Hazony, a former Netanyahu aid. The Israeli Education Ministry has said the
center is "a research institute whose leanings are extreme right-wing and
even fascistic." Hebrew University professor Yisrael Bartal describes Hazony
as a right-wing extremist. A columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz
(9/14/2000) wrote that Hazony is a sympathizer of the slain radical Jewish
leader Meir Kahane, who called for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel.
The goal of Hazony, wrote the columnist, is to find new ways of "breathing
life into Kahane's racist, totalitarian, intolerant ideology."

Ronald Lauder's Jerusalem-rally speech came at a time when the Israeli
government was waging a campaign of siege and starvation against the entire
Palestinian population. While Mr. Lauder supports some legitimate charitable
causes in the US, he shows his true colors when abroad by supporting fanatic
causes that seek to uproot an entire population from its native land.
Lauder is also opposed to permitting Palestinian refugees to return to their
homes. "For Israel to allow these people to return would be national
suicide," he said in a statement last September. In contrast, the UN General
Assembly has demanded that Israel allow the Palestinian refugees to return
since 1948. "Lauder's opposition to the return of Palestinian refugees in
order to maintain the pure-Jewish identity of Israel is nothing short of
apartheid at its worst" said Turaani.


American Muslims for Jerusalem
208 G Street NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-4200
Fax: (202) 548-4201
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: PEACEWATCH #309: ASSESSING POWELL'S TRIP TO ISRAEL AND THE
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY


 THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE'S SPECIAL REPORTS ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE
PROCESS
 Number Three Hundred and Nine February 27, 2001

 ASSESSING POWELL'S TRIP TO ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

 By David Makovsky

 While the main purpose of Secretary of State Colin Powell's first foray
into
 the Middle East was to discuss Iraq, he also visited Israel and the
 Palestinian Authority and injected a dose of what some would call
 "evenhandedness"--giving each both something to be pleased about and
 something to be unnerved about.

 Powell did not please Israelis completely as he did not specifically
endorse
 Israel's policy of closures to handle the intifada, and he used
Palestinian
 terminology in calling for a "lifting of the siege." Moreover, he did not
 assign blame for the ongoing violence, nor did he distinguish between the
 types of killing. Israel says there is a difference between, on the one
 hand, selectively targeting Hamas, Hizballah, or Tanzim activists who are
 responsible for killing innocent civilians and, on the other hand, the
 actions of a Palestinian bus driver who plowed into a bus stop full of
 unsuspecting travelers.  Israeli officials privately --so far not
publicly,
 in order not to offend Powell--term such an approach of failing to
 distinguish between these acts as one of moral equivalence. At the same
 time, the Palestinians could not be happy that Powell accepted Israeli
 sequencing in the peace process, whereby he declared a reduction of
violence
 was a precondition for resumption of peace negotiations. This position was
 at odds with the Clinton administration, and the Barak government for that
 matter, which pressed talks further despite the ongoing violence. Taken
 together, these two principles could show the embryonic form of the Bush
 administration's policy on the peace process: siding with the Palestinians
 on economic--and perhaps even symbolic--matters, while siding with Israel
on
 the proper context of diplomacy. Some of the main points of the Powell
visit
 include:

 Evenhandedness
 While the intifada is heading into its sixth month, Israel has viewed the
 Palestinian violence as an illegitimate effort orchestrated by the
 Palestinian Authority (PA) to use force as a means to alter negotiating
 terms for final status negotiations. In recent weeks, Israel has
reportedly
 brought substantial evidence to the CIA and other branches of the U.S.
 government to back up its contention that the PA stands behind the
killings.
 On the other hand, the PA has publicly claimed that the intifada is a
 popular uprising that expresses frustration with Israeli occupation. The
two
 sides differ both on motives and source of the violence, and even on
whether
 the killings of the two sides are comparable.

 Powell apparently decided to avoid all these issues of contention. During
 his Middle East trip, Powell consistently bemoaned the ongoing violence,
but
 never went beyond his call for both sides to avoid an "escalation of
 violence." The Palestinians view this as a victory that they hope
represents
 a departure from the policies of the Clinton administration, which they
have
 called "one sided."

 Furthermore, Powell made clear that he was not happy with Israel's closure
 policy in the territories, and in honor of Powell's arrival, Israel lifted
 some check-posts that divided the Gaza Strip. (The check-posts were
imposed
 last week after mortar shells were fired at a Jewish settlement in Gaza.)
At
 his joint press conference with Chairman Yasir Arafat, Powell said, "I
also
 want to express my deep concern for the dire economic situation that
 everyday Palestinians must bear. . . We discussed how it is necessary to
 lift the siege as soon as possible so that economic activity can begin
again
 in the region." Israel has imported 30,000 foreign workers over the last
few
 months to make up for the shortage of Palestinian workers.

 Lowering Violence as a Precondition for Negotiations
 Yet, Powell did not just side with Palestinians. Speaking to reporters on
 the plane to Kuwait on Monday, Powell made clear in blunt remarks that he
 accepts Israeli prime minister-elect Ariel Sharon's condition that peace
 talks must be preceded by Palestinian efforts to quell intifada violence.
 Powell said peacemaking "does begin with a lowering of the violence. We
are
 at the beginning of a long hallway. . . and at the end is the negotiations
 for peace."  He added, "it's going to be some time before they can get
back
 to the negotiations, it seems to me." Powell said a reduction in violence
is
 "really the sine qua non to moving forward." During his visit, Powell
 repeatedly called for a restarting of security cooperation between Israel
 and the Palestinians.

 In contrast, the Palestinians have actively opposed any conditionality
 between halting violence and resuming peace talks. The 

[CTRL] Last Thanksgiving Day I flew my small plane to Cuba...

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ANTHONY F. KIRKPATRICK IN BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE SHOOTDOWN:
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/opinion/opcol/digdocs/053380.htm

U.S. shares the blame

Last Thanksgiving Day I flew my small plane to Cuba loaded with medical
donations from the United States. To get permission, I had to overcome
considerable nervousness from Cuban authorities. They feared my flight would
open a way for more U.S.-sponsored provocation by private pilots, such as
the events that led to the shootdown of two planes by Cuba in 1996.
Although a United Nations investigation faulted Cuba for not using means,
such as more-effective radio communication, to avoid the shootdown, what has
not been widely re- ported is how the U.S. government might have prevented
the shootdown by enforcing its own laws. Now, five years later, the case is
in a Miami courtroom, where defense attorney Paul McKenna says that his
client, accused Cuban spy Gerardo Hernn- dez, is a scapegoat in the
shootdown and that Jos Basulto, the leader of the Brothers to the Rescue,
is really to blame. If convicted, Hernndez could receive a life sentence.

ILLEGAL EXPLOITS

The American public deserves to know all the facts about the shootdown. On
July 11, 1995, the Federal Aviation Administration met with Basulto and
warned him that if he violated Cubas territorial airspace, he would suffer
``serious consequences'' and that any violations would be ``vigorously
investigated.'' Yet two days later, Basulto was on Miami television bragging
about his illegal exploits, calling them ``civil disobedience.''

Viewers saw him ``roaring over Havana at rooftop level,'' as described by
the on-board TV reporter, dropping propaganda leaflets and religious medals,
which seriously could have injured people below. A Cuban fighter plane
flying above him took no action, even though Basulto was flying in a manner
later described by the FAA as reckless or careless ``so as to endanger the
life and property'' of others.

Unfortunately, the FAA failed to carry out any of its warnings. For example,
it delayed the investigation for more than a month while it translated Cubas
documentation of the incident, and it never contacted the journalist on
board Basultos plane.

We may never know if the tragic shootdown seven months later might have been
averted had the FAA exercised its authority to revoke Basulto's pilot's
license or seize his aircraft. Despite Cubas numerous warnings that it would
shoot down any intruding aircraft, the Brothers continued their efforts to
destabilize the Cuban government by flying into airspace controlled by Cuba
and dropping political leaflets into the island.

TOWARD HAVANA

On that ill-fated day, the pilots deviated from their filed flight plan
without notifying the aviation authorities. This deviation in flight plan
made the Cubans nervous because the aircraft were heading directly toward
Havana instead of along the coastline of Cuba as they had promised.

According to the U.N. report, the pilots acknowledged that they were warned
in Miami through the FAA and in the air by the Cubans that they would be
flying into airspace under Cuban control and ``activated'' by Cuban military
during that period. Although all three aircraft were equipped with
sophisticated GPS navigational systems, they intruded directly into the
activated area.

Basulto told the U.N. investigators that he did not violate Cuba's
territorial airspace, but the U.N. report states that radar recordings from
both countries showed otherwise. Basulto managed to evade a shootdown by the
Cuban military aircraft, but the other two aircraft were not as fortunate.

Rather than point the finger at the Brothers or the FAA for the shootdown,
the United States called on the U.N. to condemn Cuba, citing a provision
calling for countries to refrain from using weapons against civil aircraft.
That same provision was used to condemn the United States in 1988 for
shooting down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 passengers.

But the United States itself refuses to ratify the provision. Why? It would
require this country to prevent private pilots from using their aircraft to
carry out acts of aggression against other nations. Cuba ratified the
provision on Sept. 28, 1998.

What if the table were turned? Suppose that a known enemy from abroad was to
enter U.S. airspace in a small private plane heading toward Washington, D.C.
As several ``administration officials'' told The Washington Post, such an
intruder is likely to be shot down quickly over water before it enters the
United States because shooting down the plane over a populated area would
create ``significant risks to large numbers of innocent bystanders.''
Like the aviation incident, the United States is two-faced on health care,
too.

Why did I fly more than $1 million in medical donations to Cuba? Like the
aviation incident, the United States is two-faced about health care as well.

The U.S. embargo prevents about half of the most vital medicines from

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Russians may look to Cuba as reply to U.S. missile plan
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/carib/cuba/digdocs/092746.htm

`Some experts have taken up the issue following President Vladimir Putin's
trip to Cuba.'

-- YEVGENY MASLIN,

headed nuclear weapons department

MOSCOW -- (AP) -- If compromise isn't reached with the United States on the
national missile defense controversy, Russian military strategists are
considering potential responses, including sending missiles to Cuba, a
retired general said Thursday.

Yevgeny Maslin, who headed the Defense Ministry's nuclear weapons department
in the late 1990s, now works with the independent research institute
PIR-Center, was not speaking for the government, and there was no immediate
reaction from Russian officials to his statements about missiles in Cuba.

He said at a news conference that many in the Russian military appear to be
still locked into a Cold War mentality.

The Kremlin's 1962 move to base missiles in Cuba was one of the Cold War
period's tensest crises, until the Soviet Union backed off.

Now, Moscow and Washington again are in dispute over missiles -- this time
over the United States' intention to build a national missile shield system
that Russia says would wreck the global strategic security balance.

Russia this week offered the outline of an alternative and officials are
voicing hope of a compromise.

But strategists are also pondering what to do if the United States starts
building the shield, which Washington says is needed to protect against
attacks by small countries that may be developing nuclear capability.

President Vladimir Putin said last year that Moscow may opt out of existing
arms control agreements if the United States goes ahead with the system.

``There is even such an exotic option as the deployment of some necessary
weapons in Cuba,'' Maslin said. ``Some experts have taken up the issue
following President Vladimir Putin's trip to Cuba.''

When Putin visited the old Soviet ally in December, he and Fidel Castro
spoke about revival of the political and economic ties that withered after
the Soviet collapse, but never mentioned resuming military cooperation.

Moscow still maintains an electronic spying facility in Lourdes, Cuba, that
eavesdrops on U.S. communications.

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Brothers plane shoot-down a Castro trap?
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/074817.htm

BY ALFONSO CHARDY
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Five years after the downing of two Brothers to the Rescue planes by a Cuban
MiG, evidence is emerging in a Miami courtroom suggesting the shoot-down was
no crime of opportunity, but part of a carefully plotted trap meant to
discredit and destroy the anti-Castro group.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the shoot-down -- a moment that comes
just as testimony in the Cuban spy trial begins to underscore the deep
suspicions Castro foes in Miami long harbored about Cuban government
intentions.

Documents submitted by federal prosecutors as evidence, like once-secret
computer and radio messages between the alleged spies and their Havana
handlers, chronicle efforts by Havana's agents to sabotage Brothers to the
Rescue and pave the way for an ambush in which two Brothers pilots and two
rafter spotters were killed.

CONSPIRACY?

In fact, U.S. prosecutors say, evidence points to a conspiracy involving
Havana and one of the alleged spies to set up the Brothers pilots.

The charge also seems to validate a theory initially floated by Brothers
leader Jos Basulto days after the shoot-down that the event was the outcome
of a Cuban covert operation to connect Brothers to anti-Castro terrorism.
According to Basulto, Cuba had planned to claim that the Brothers planes had
been shot down while en route to an airstrike on Cuba.

Basulto is a witness in the trial in which five alleged Cuban spies are
fighting charges of trying to infiltrate U.S. military installations and
Cuban exile organizations including Brothers to the Rescue for the purpose
of harming U.S. national security.

``What is clear from the trial is that Brothers to the Rescue were set up
and that murder was committed,'' said Joe Garcia, executive director of the
Cuban American National Foundation, which also was allegedly targeted by the
spy suspects. ``The trial shows an ongoing effort by the Cuban government to
create dissension and strife among those who fight for freedom and democracy
for Cuba.''

FIGHTING TERROR

The accused spies claim they were merely working to protect their homeland
from acts of terrorism by the Brothers.

One of the defendants, Gerardo Hernndez, is charged with conspiracy to
commit murder in the shoot-down. Attorneys for Hernndez and his
co-defendants do not dispute that their clients worked for the Cuban
government. But they told jurors that the men spied on military
installations and infiltrated exile groups to protect Cuba -- not to
compromise national security.

One of Havana's spies inside Brothers, Juan Pablo Roque, reported to one of
his Cuban handlers and the FBI that Basulto had mentioned plans to
manufacture a ``secret weapon'' for delivery to island-based anti-Castro
foes, according to prosecution evidence. The court document says neither
Cuba nor the FBI took the report seriously.

Most of the evidence submitted by the prosecution portrays Brothers to the
Rescue as a target for the Cuban government.

The recently declassified computer and radio messages between the alleged
spies and their Havana handlers, for example, detail elaborate efforts to
set up Brothers for the shoot-down -- including arrangements for Roque's
secret return to Cuba on the eve of the shoot-down.

SIMILAR TO THEORY

The operation laid out in the messages resembles Basulto's theory that Cuba
shot down the Brothers planes to smear the group's reputation. Basulto says
Cuba had planned to present Roque, the infiltrated Brothers pilot, as sole
shoot-down survivor and have him describe details of the ``terrorist''
mission.

The only reason the plot failed, Basulto said, is that he survived the
shoot-down by turning off his plane's transponder and flying into a cloud to
evade a pursuing MiG.

Roque disappeared from Miami on the eve of the Brothers' fateful flight --
reappearing in Havana after the shoot-down and disclosing that he had
infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue. Roque is now a fugitive in the spy case.

As it unfolds, evidence emerging suggests that Cuba may have dispatched
spies to South Florida after concluding that Washington was not taking
seriously its demands to crack down on exile ``terrorists'' and incursions
into Cuban airspace by Brothers planes.

CUBAN FEARS

The creation of Brothers to the Rescue in early 1991 and Basulto's role in
the group played a major part in Havana's fears. Many exiles who had
received paramilitary training in the early 1960s when the CIA financed the
ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion went into action again in the 1990s.

Some sponsored raids against the Cuban coast. Others staged attacks at
tourist sites. Still others opted for nonviolent protests such as
pro-democracy flotillas -- and among organizers of the first flotilla on May
20,1990 was Basulto -- a Bay of Pigs veteran.

Cuba's suspicions about the organization intensified and soon thereafter,

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  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most New Yorkers did not believe Sen. Hillary Rodham
  Clinton (news - web sites) when she denied knowing her brother was being paid
  for helping secure presidential pardons for two convicted felons, according
  to a poll published on Sunday. 

 Goes to show you.  New Yorkers are not as bright as they try to make us
 believe.  No wonder the market is falling.  Prudy


Do you belive her?

J2

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[CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: John le Carré has issued a timely warning

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/28/features/features7.html

Sydney Morning Herald
February 28, 2001

Corporate spin and lies: a spymaster's lament, and a
warning to us all
John le Carr has issued a timely warning that
international conglomerates don't always consider the
public's best interests, says Paul Sheehan.


Feeling brainwashed? The world's most famous spy, John
le Carr (aka David Cornwell) thinks you should be.

"We have become the creatures of these people.
Advertising as news. It's prevalent in every aspect of
the press. It's very skilfully done. The amount of
energy and money and ingenuity applied to corporate
spin and corporate lying has never been greater or
more effective than it is now."

"These people" are big corporations. "The biggest
delusion of our time is that great corporations have
an ethical centre. They have absolutely no ethical or
moral centre," he told me during a visit to Sydney
this week. He's not just talking about marketing and
branding and corporate spin-doctoring. In his new
novel, The Constant Gardener, he argues that big
pharmaceutical corporations have blood on their hands
while, on the surface, everything they do is according
to law.

In his conversation with me, he cited big oil
companies: "The civil war in south Sudan now is being
fuelled, literally, by the oil industry. The deal that
the oil companies have cut with [the Sudanese military
government in] Khartoum is that Khartoum will let them
build runways, let them explore for oil, and in return
will receive royalties and get to use the runways for
its aircraft to bomb villages. It gets money for guns
and soldiers to go and shoot the Africans in the south
...

"And how the hell did Shell Oil get away with what
they did in Nigeria? It is exactly the way I saw it in
The Constant Gardener: you delegate responsibility to
local management. You even sell off various
concessions so that you basically disown them. And
what happens on the ground, that's explained away as
the local ethic: 'When in Rome'; 'We don't interfere';
'We're terribly concerned that things should be done
fairly and constitutionally according to the law of
the land'. That was what happened in Nigeria under
that monstrous dictatorship."

Did he say Shell Oil company?

One of the world's biggest energy conglomerates, the
Royal Dutch/Shell Group, is attempting to take control
of Australia's largest energy development, the
North-West Shelf natural gas and oil field via the
takeover of Woodside Petroleum by Shell Oil.
Everything about this deal is big. Royal Dutch/Shell
is a British/Dutch corporate behemoth, with a market
capitalisation of $US206 billion ($391 billion).
That's almost as big as the entire Australian stock
market. For Shell Oil, this is another strategic asset
play. For Australia, the North-West Shelf is the
nation's largest energy source, its largest
development project, and it will have an impact on the
nation's balance of payments for a generation.

It does not help Shell that in 1996 a former company
official, Bopp van Dessel, the former head of Shell's
environmental studies, went public with this claim:
"They were not meeting their own standards, they were
not meeting international standards. Any Shell site
that I saw was polluted. Any terminal I saw was
polluted."

Also in 1996, The New York Times reported that Shell
may have damaged the reputation of a prominent
Nigerian writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa, prior to his execution
by Nigeria's military government. Saro-Wiwa had led
the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni Peoples,
which campaigned against environmental damage caused
by Shell and other oil companies in the Ogoni region
and against human rights abuses committed there by the
Nigerian military.

Shell suspended operations in the Ogoni region in 1993
after civil unrest, but it continued to produce about
half of Nigeria's crude oil output. The company put
out a statement that it was "not for a commercial
organisation like Shell to interfere in the legal
processes of a sovereign State such as Nigeria".

Sounds like a John le Carr novel. Which brings us
back to the decreasingly sovereign state of Australia.
The choice now is whether to send a signal that might
discourage foreign investment. Or would Australians
prefer that the key decisions about the North-West
Shelf be made in boardrooms in London and the Hague,
or in Australia?

For most Australians, that's a rhetorical question. As
the two recent State elections have shown (yet again),
the natives are restless. They want blood. And oil.




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Re: [CTRL] In search of Mary Magdalene Part 1

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  Mary could have been his sister.

 Or his wife.

Or his mother.
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[CTRL] Masters of Space

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In meetings in Geneva lasting from late January to Feb. 18, the
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the United States contended, once again, that there is no space
race and such a treaty is unnecessary.

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[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Killing the Earth.

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* QUOTE OF THE WEEK * Utah Philips *

"The earth is not dying - it is being killed.  And the people who are
killing it have names and addresses."

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More than 140 genetically-unique stocks of salmon in British Columbia and
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Re: [CTRL] In search of Mary Magdalene Part 1

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 From: "Nurev Ind Research" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Jesus grew up in the boondocks, not the capital.
 
  Even so, I doubt that boonie towns were integrated.

 They weren't 'integrated' as much as being comprised of a mix of peoples, not all of 
whom practiced a pure
 form of the Judaic faith...

I doubt it.


   Pagans were common,
   even after nearly a millennium of Jewish repression.
 
  Poor Pagans. I guess the I guess the Jews gave them a hard time about
  burring their children and other human sacrifices.

 Very few pagan religions in the Middle East practiced human sacrafice,

Oh really? How about Christianity? Who do you think the death and
resurrection of a god/man appealed to. Not the Jews. Human sacrifice cults
were the basis of most, if not all the religions in the post agriculture
period.

 especially 'burning' one's children...

 The only evidence of ritual infanticide exists in Cyprus, nowhere else...

I doubt it. Remember Moloch? He was the national god of the Ammonites. He
was worshipped by offering up human sacrifices. Most always a child from
the family. Worship of Moloch was expressly forbidden in Leviticus.

Later, Solomon permitted alters to be built to him when he consolidated
and expanded the country.( This was a millennium before Jesus.) Much later,
Josiah, the King of Judah, as part of the purification of Judah, defiled
the temples of Moloch. ' That no one might burn his son or his daughter as
an offering to Moloch' ( 2 Kgs 23:10 ) Idolatrous priests were killed. The
house of male prostitutes was destroyed. this was about 600 BCE.

   All the Jews did
   was drive out the temples. The pagans remained. Many Jews themselves
   were pagans or still practiced elements of pagan religion (as do we
   today).
 
  If you mean Hellenism. Yes. If you mean something else, then not likely.
 
   They also married pagans.
 
  I doubt it.

 "Not likely" and "I doubt it" are hardly scholarly answers.  I suggest that
 you actually RESEARCH the history
 of religions of both the area and the era...

I have researched that place and time quite thoroughly. I'll stick with the
answers I gave.


 Intermarriage between Jews and pagans was a common problem, indicated time
 and again in the OT...

The parable of the good
Samaritan is an indicator of how separate the Jewish and Pagan cultures were.
Samaritans had the same status as tornado bait trailer trash do in certain
circles in Arkansas. The kind Samaritan was the exception to the rule.

 one would
 find more temples and altars to Baal in the countryside than Jewish temples...

The OT spans about 1600 years if you accept the standard chronology. The period
you are talking about is not the time of Mary Magdaline.

There were no Jewish temples. There was only THE Temple in Jerusalem. What you
are talking about is true early on. By the time the Romans arrived this did not
apply. There were Pagan cities which were Hellenistic or Roman. Some Semites
were forcibly converted to Judaism and were suspected of backsliding. If these
are the people you're talking about, well ok. But these are a special case. Not
the norm.

 Ongoing archeological digs substantiate this...

Good one.
J2


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[CTRL] [Fwd: Final Election Results]

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 FINAL ELECTION RESULTS

Al Gore: 50,996,116

George W. Bush: 50,456,169

In the nationwide popular vote, Gore received 539,947 more votes than Bush.

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: [FreePalestine] Re: [Spy News] Syria was behind killings at Sabra and Chatilla.

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Well, I just read your rebuttal. Such as it is.
If your intent was to convince that this story
is a Mossad hangout, and untrue, you didn't convince
me. As a matter of fact, you seem to corroborate the
basic points.

I wasn't sure as to the validity of the original story,
but you sure helped firm it up. Even if that was not
your intent.

Keep your day jobs.

J2
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Subject:
 Re: [FreePalestine] Re: [Spy News] Syria was behind killings at
 Sabra and Chatilla.
   Date:
 Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:41:08 +0100
   From:
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VERY RIGHT  !!!

SYRIA WAS BEHIND KILLINGS AT SABRA AND CHATILLA

This operation was mounted by the SECOND DESK of syrian secret services and
the "MAKTAB el-KHAS", who are attached to the ministry of interior. They
where, and they still, specialy mounted and trained for psycological
operations and underground killing activities.

Ali Dhadha WAS the boss of 2nd DESK and still now in the Syrian head of
Secret Service.

He was the brain of this operation to destabilize ISRAEL.

THIS IS THE THUE 

SHARON was NEVER implicated in those masacres.

Jean-Paul NEY
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Mashney wrote:

 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 1:37 AM
 Subject: [FreePalestine] Re: [Spy News] Syria was behind killings at
 Sabra and Chatilla.

  --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mashney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Dear Nurev Ind Research,
  
   It seems that you need to do more research since the article below
 is a carefully planted Zionist-disguised-as-Lebanese wash designed to
 clean the blood-dripping butcher image of the true perpetrator of  the
 massacres, the newly-elected prime Minster of the so-called "only
 democracy in the Middle East."
  
   BTW, the name "Frias" (below) is not Lebanese. Did you mean to
 write Firas or Faris? Take a pick :-)
 
  tony:
  sami, all- this article is even worse than how you describe it.
 please scroll down for my reply.

   Sami B. Mashney
   ++++++++
  
   From: "Nurev Ind Research" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 11:33 AM
   Subject: [Spy News] Syria was behind killings at Sabra and
 Chatilla.
  
   Subject:  Syria was behind killings at Sabra and Chatilla.
   Date:  Sat, 23 Sep 2000 03:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
   From:  Frias ED [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
   Syria was behind it 100 percent. New info shows it
  
   An LFP Exclusive
   (Lebanese Foundation for Peace)
   Direct Submission
   The Truth Behind
   Source: A retired Lebanese intelligence officer who is willing to
   testify at a trial of Elias Hobeika, if it takes place at an
   international court.
 
  tony:
  of course, the name of this "Lebanese intelligence officer" is not
 provided. maybe he is shy by nature.
 
   Perceived as the driving force in the murders at Sabra and
 Chatilla,
   General "Arik" Sharon has been condemned and discarded by accepted
   history.
 
  tony:
  no. by an ISRAELI inquiry comission.
 
  No matter that he is now the leader of the Likud party in
   Israel, no matter that he is the hero of manycampaigns that
  preserved Israel in the face of overwhelming odds, history's
 perception
  destroys his viability as deserving of the highest office of
 theland.
   The truth is that the massacre did indeed happen;
 
  tony:
  all kneel in owe for the carrier of the "truth"
 
  however, the perpetrator's were neither Israeli nor Lebanese rioters
 as reported.
 
  tony:
   they were not "lebanese rioters". they were members of a fascist
  political organization, and they were high on cocaine.
 
   The entire operation was masterminded by Syrian intelligence, as
 reported by a
   number of witnesses, and was carried out ruthlessly and
 efficiently
  by a Lebanese stooge of Syria named Elias Hobeika.
 
  tony:
  what "witnesses"? how did they witness the syrian intelligence
  mastermind the operation?
  elias hobeiqa only aquired his "stooge" status in the late 80's,
  after the tri-party agreement (al ittifaq al thoulathy) between the
  lebanese forces, amal, and the jumblattis. the accord was aborted
  when an uprising against hobeiqa took place in east beirut; it was
  organized by samir geagea, who later became the "leader maximo".
  furthermore, during the 1982 israeli invasion, the syrian army in
  beirut was the f

Re: [CTRL] SK: Did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction,orgive them lethal desease?

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Nessie wrote:

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  If this were true, the mega fauna of Africa would have been
 exterminated long ago. Mankind has been in Africa longer than it has
 been anywhere.

This sentence is only true about Negroids. Not necessarily about the
other races. Black Africans are indisputably the oldest of the modern
Homo Sapiens.

 You're only HALF right. The second sentence is theoretical speculation.

 Until more data come in, it's the only theoretical speculation with an
 empirical basis. But, yes, we should withhold final judgement. Th data
 are not all in. No one knows what might turn up.


New discoveries in Australia seem to indicate that the ' out of Africa '
model is turning out to be untrue. Apparently ' mankind ' or our immediate
ancestors developed in several places several places simultaneously.

I was never really convinced of the Out of Africa theory. It didn't account
for the physical differences of the races in the time frames given.

What do you think?

J2

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Re: [CTRL] In search of Mary Magdalene Part 1

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Nessie wrote:

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 I would speculate that the person who originally dubbed Mary Magdalene
 as a prostitute was incensed upon realizing that a woman could possibly
 have been the first Apostle.

 There's another explanation. The pagans who lived in the area practiced
 ritual prostitution as part of their religion. The money went to temple
 maintance and to charity. She could have been a practitioner, or even a
 priestess.

Extremely unlikely. Jesus was a practicing Jew. He would not even have had
access to such a person. There were no Pagan temples in Jewish Jerusalem.
One of the reasons for the first Jewish revolt was because the Romans
displayed their shields and eagles in Jerusalem's holy areas where graven
images were particularly offensive.

There is really no way to know who MM was. The OT is notoriously unreliable
with names and characters. Much of this was intentional. The compilers of
the OT ( 300 years after the death of Jesus ) did not want Christians to
know that Jesus had many siblings. They obfuscated names and used several
names for the same people, as well as giving the same people different
roles in the mythology.

Mary could have been his sister.

Joshua2

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Re: [CTRL] In search of Mary Magdalene Part 1

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Nessie wrote:

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 He would not even have had access to such a person. There were no Pagan
 temples in Jewish Jerusalem.

 Jesus grew up in the boondocks, not the capital.

Even so, I doubt that boonie towns were integrated.

 Pagans were common,
 even after nearly a millennium of Jewish repression.

Poor Pagans. I guess the I guess the Jews gave them a hard time about
burring their children and other human sacrifices.

 All the Jews did
 was drive out the temples. The pagans remained. Many Jews themselves
 were pagans or still practiced elements of pagan religion (as do we
 today).

If you mean Hellenism. Yes. If you mean something else, then not likely.

 They also married pagans.

I doubt it.


  Mary could have been his sister.

 Indeed. She could also have been his wife. Some people say that the
 miracle of the wine and the water was at Jesus’ own wedding feast.

That's my point. She either did or didn't exist, or if she did exist,
she could have been anybody.


 Jewish culture as well as Jewish religion so strongly supported marriage
 that it is inconceivable that a man could reach thirty, still be
 unmarried, and not be utterly rejected by the other people of the
 culture.

This is a good observation, but consider this. James, Jesus' brother was
a NAZIR. A Nazir is the ONLY instance in Jewish culture where it is permitted
to put aside the commandment to be fruitful and multiply. In other words,
if one dedicates his life to the service of god, he may be a monk. James
was a Nazir and second in line after Jesus in the leadership of the early
movement. It would not be a leap to presume that Jesus was a Nazir too.
Nazir, Nazarene, Nazareth have gotten jumbled in the translations of the
Jesus legends.

A Nazir abstained from sex, did not cut his hair, and was bound by strict
rules of purity.

 He certainly couldn’t have gained a following.

He could and he did. He apparently got some part of John the Baptist's
movement.

This of course ALL speculation. But it's speculation within the correct
framework.

J2

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