[CTRL] Fw: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY

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Arutz-7 news: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
31 October 2000

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm
An IDF investigation and re-enactment appears to show conclusively that
the
12-year-old boy from Gaza, Muhammad al-Dura, was not shot by Israeli
soldiers
* but was rather the victim of a cruel plot staged by Palestinian
sharp-shooters and a television cameraman.

The incident in question occurred on Oct. 6, when the boy and his father
happened to be walking past the scene of a major battle between
Palestinian
snipers and Israeli soldiers. Former IDF sniper Yosef Doriel, who
initiated
the re-enactment, said that he had several reasons to suspect that it was
not the Israelis who shot the boy. "For one thing, the boy and his father
were hiding behind and to the left of a barrel that was between them and
the
Israeli forces," he told Arutz-7 today. "In the video clip, you see four
clean bullet holes to the side of them. These were not shot by the
Israelis
- they are 'clean' and full holes, not mere grazes that would have been
formed by the 30-degree angle of the Israelis - but rather by Palestinians
(stationed more directly in front of the father and son) to make sure that
the two would stay put. Suddenly, you see the boy lying down in his
father's
lap, with another bullet hole in the wall directly behind him - again, it
could not have come from the IDF position, which was behind the barrel and
to the side, but only from the Palestinian position, which was more
directly
in front of the father and son. This is the bullet that went through his
stomach and out of his back. At that point in the video, you can hear the
firing - but the Israeli position was far away! Rather, what happened was
that a Palestinian advanced to a spot very close to the photographer, and
shot the fatal shot. You can also notice that at that moment of the fatal
shots, the photographer suddenly 'shook' and the picture was blurred - a
signal that the shots came from close to him."
Doriel and a fellow physicist, Nachum Shachaf, proposed that O.C. Southern
Command Yom Tov Samiyeh oversee a re-enactment of the entire incident,
complete with the barrel and life-size dummies. Doriel concludes: "The
Palestinian forces staged the event. The Israelis were firing, for sure -
but the fatal shots came not from them, but from the Palestinian position
in
front of the boy, behind the cameraman."
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[CTRL] Fw: UFO abductions and otherworldly experiences-all in the mind?

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The
"sleep paralysis" explanation covers a particular part of the abduction
phenomenon but by no means all, or even the greater part of it.  And most
importantly, to my mind, it doesn't account for the strong
phenomenological
similrity bewween UFO abductions and near-death experiences -- by no
means
all of which occur in a state of being near to death, and few if any of
which involve hypnosis.

On the other hand, Michael A. Persinger has developed a theory that
abduction experiences involve microseizures in the temporal lobe, and he
has provided a number of empirical studies that support this theory. His
theory covers both differences in predisposing factors within individuals
and external, precipitating events. His theory does cover the similarity
between abduction experiences and NDEs. Furthermore, his temporal lobe
theory integrates a host of related phenomena, including hypnotic
suggestibility, mystical experiences, and OBEs. He's published over 50
articles on this topic; the following is a nice introductory overview to
his research programme:

Persinger, M. A. (1983). Religious and mystical experiences as artifacts
of
temporal lobe function: A general hypothesis. Perceptual and Motor Skills,
57, 1255-1262.
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[CTRL] Fw: 'Truth test' to uncover false rape allegations

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THE INDEPENDENT

news | UK  | This_Britain  | 2000-10

'Truth test' to uncover false rape allegations

As number of sex crimes rises but conviction rate falls, 'lie detector'
could
help police weed out bogus claims

By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent

31 October 2000

A "lie-detector" test to help uncover false allegations of rape is being
developed by the police and criminologists.

Between 10 and 41 per cent of allegations of rape are made up by the
"victim",
according to previous research. In the new test, a claimant's statement is
analysed and points are given from a list of set clues – people who have
made
up a rape allegation get a low score, while genuine complaints get a high
score.

Using this technique in two studies, police officers and researchers had a
success rate of between 72 and 100 per cent in identifying genuine rape
victims
from liars. All the cases were real-life examples selected because of the
existence of strong evidence, such as closed-circuit television footage, to
prove the defendants' guilt or innocence.

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[CTRL] Fw: Multicultural brainwashing in Britain

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Prince Charles 'should have married black woman'
By Alice Thomson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003643439617680rtmo=gwSGjNnuatmo=r
rvspg=/et/00/10/17/ngav17.html





Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain - Runnymede
Trust


Racial equality unit - Home Office


Commission for Racial Equality


Institute of Race Relations




  Runnymede trustees stay defiant to shrug off fuss

THE Prince of Wales should have married a black woman as a symbol of his
support for multi-cultural Britain, according to a member of the race
relations think tank the Runnymede Trust.
Lady Gavron, vice-chairman of the commission that produced last week's
controversial report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain, said the Royal
Family should take a lead in promoting racial integration.

"It would have been great if Prince Charles had been told to marry someone
black. Imagine what message that would have sent out," she said yesterday.

She did not want to "get rid of" the Royal Family. "We don't need them but
they're fun for tourists to look at." But she said they sent out the wrong
message about Britain today. "They're a symbol of our unmeritocratic
tendency and, of course, they're all white. It is part of a very
unattractive hierarchy."

Lady Gavron believes that Prince Charles's stated wish to be defender of
faiths rather than Defender of the Faith when he becomes Supreme Governor of
the Church of England is not enough.

Yesterday she complained that the hereditary peerage was also too
Anglo-Saxon. She said: "Anything hereditary is completely anachronistic and
illogical; you wouldn't have an hereditary cricket team. At least this
government has made some peers from ethnic minority groups."

Kate Gavron is the wife of the publisher Lord Gavron, who was made a life
peer after donating £500,000 to the Labour Party before the last general
election. The report by the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic
Britain, which was launched by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, nearly three
years ago, suggested that much of Britain's history needed to be
reappraised.

Lady Gavron said yesterday: "We need to acknowledge that there are different
ways of looking at history. The problem with the empire was the inequality
of power. It was something we did to the Indians and Africans, not with
them."

However, she does not believe that British history should be totally
rewritten. "We should keep the name Trafalgar Square. If you got rid of
everything associated with anything bad you'd have nothing at all. A lot of
street names coincided with the height of the Victorian empire and the peak
of our colonial power, but we can't scrap all of them. We'd have to start
losing the Norman names too if we were being purist."

She said she loved hymns such as Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country. "I
am embarrassed by the words but the music is wonderful."

In an interview with The Telegraph, she said that the Runnymede Trust had
received a stream of offensive telephone calls since its report was
published. "We've had non-stop hate mail. We had to turn the telephones off,
there were so many racist calls. One started, 'Dear creeps, why don't you go
and live abroad? Why not France, they're a bunch of bastards there as well.'

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[CTRL] DEADLY RIOTS the UNITED NATIONS

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DEADLY RIOTS  the UNITED NATIONS by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East
analyst  commentator
Strangely, most of the members of the United Nations who voted that Israel
had used excessive force, themselves have killed attacking rioters in time
past. Rioters who are prepared to use and do use deadly force must be
stopped
before they reach their victims. Clearly, the countries in U.N. feel they
may
have the right to suppress lynch mobs in their own countries but, they seem
to believe that Israel must allow her enemies freedom to commit their
pogroms
of shooting, firebombs and thrown rocks in order to kill Jews. This was the
custom in these  European and Islamic Mideast countries. So far this is
‘only’ a mini War of Attrition with the Arab nations’ Armies standing
by to
join in if they think Israel is vulnerable enough to fall this time.
The Arab nations have always used deadly force with no restraint and no
apologies to the U.N. or the world at large. The Egyptians have frequently
used deadly force to contain the Muslim Brotherhood who attack Egyptian
institutions. When the Palestinians rioted on the Egyptian side of the
border with Gaza at the start of the first Intifada in 1989, Egypt had her
policemen indiscriminately gun down the rioters with submachine guns and
then get back into their vehicles, leaving 20-30 rioters dead on the ground.
The Egyptians riots (Intifada) in Egypt ended. (The U.N. did NOT vote
condemnation of Egypt.)
In Jordan September 1970 King Hussein had his Army kill an estimated 10,000
of Arafat’s Palestinians, with the rest fleeing to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq
and Iran. Arafat’s gun-toting PLO was going to take over Jordan but
Hussein moved faster and with greater force. This was called Black September
with no apologies by King Hussein. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation of
Jordan.) Later Arafat created a mini-PLO state inside Lebanon while killing
more than 75,000 Lebanese Christians and Muslims. Arafat’s law of killing
off his enemies to make more room for his Palestinians was his formal
foreign policy - which led to a 12 year Civil War and a total of over
100,000 dead. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation.) Arafat has initiated an
almost identical war against Israel as he did in Lebanon.
The U.N. did NOT vote to condemn Syria for ignoring the TAIF agreement
wherein they committed to leave Lebanon. The U.N. did NOT vote to condemn
Syria for taking over Lebanon with 35,000 to 40,000 troops; for using the
Beka’a Valley in Lebanon as a opium field which produced 20% of the heroin
smuggled into America; or for undermining world currency by counterfeiting
$100 bills.
In 1982 the IDF (Israel Defense Force) came into Lebanon to counter
Arafat’s terror attacks and to prevent his “March on Jerusalem”
(according to documents and weapons discovered in huge bunkers and deep,
long tunnels). The Lebanese people welcomed the IDF with flowers, expecting
to be delivered from Arafat’s brutal tyranny. Later Syria, with U.S. and
U.N. silent approval, occupied Lebanon with 35,000 troops where they remain
to this day. (The U.N.  DID vote to condemn Israel and left the Syrians
entrenched and in power against the Lebanese.)
In Syria Hafez al Assad dealt with those who opposed him with Genocidal
deadly force. Who can forget that he and his brother Rifat surrounded the
town of Hamma and, with artillery and tank gun fire, leveling the city? Or
that Assad went over the rubble with poison gas to insure that survivors
would be gassed to death? The nations and media were virtually silent about
this massacre killing of an estimated 20,000 Syrians. (The United Nations
did NOT condemn Assad.)
More recently, Saddam Hussein of Iraq attacked Kuwait, with the assistance
of Arafat’s Palestinians who worked in Kuwait. They not only became a
fifth column inside their host (Arab) country but they guided Saddam’s
troops in their rape, massacre and pillaging of their Kuwaiti hosts. After
the Gulf War, Desert Storm, the Kuwaitis paid them back in kind by killing
and torturing those they caught. The Kuwaitis ejected more than 300,000
Palestinians into Jordan as untrustworthy and deadly enemies. (The U.N. did
NOT vote condemnation for this transfer or killing of the rampaging
Palestinians.)
At the same time Saudi Arabia deported into Jordan an equal number of
Palestinians who had worked there (approximately 350,000) because they were
considered a deadly threat to the country and to the Royal Family. (The U.N.
did NOT condemn this transfer of Palestinians.)
Palestinian Arabs led by Yassir Arafat have been recognized as traitors to
their countries of residence and disrupters of nations. All the Arab
countries cut off funds and support for Arafat because they considered him
the ultimate betrayer and never to be trusted.
In brief, these are the same Arab countries who pushed the vote of
condemnation of Israel in the U.N. for using “excessive” force against
Palestinian rioters who used deadly 

[CTRL] How smart are the candidates

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http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=128747


How smart are the candidates? Part 1 of 3
Wednesday, 18 October 2000 1:22 (ET)

How smart are the candidates? Part 1 of 3
By STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A recent "This Modern World" comic strip
about the presidential debates featured the "Gorebot" admonishing voters:
"Foolish humans! Do you not recognize the superior processing capabilities
of my advanced neural network?"

In reply, a George W. Bush drawn so as to highlight his unfortunate
resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's "What, me worry?" cover kid,
sniggers, "Get a load of the brainiac."

As amusing as these widespread stereotypes are, voters need to ask whether
Vice President Al Gore really is the closest carbon-based life-form to the
supersmart HAL 9000 talking computer from the movie "2001:. A Space
Odyssey." And is Bush truly as dumb as a box of rocks? Is there objective
evidence to support these clichés? And even if it turned out that Gore's IQ
towered over Bush's, would this tell us that Gore would make a better
president?

Fortunately, in 2000 the public has available more unbiased data on the
intelligence of the candidates than ever. A variety of SAT and IQ scores
have leaked out, allowing voters to compare candidates to each other or to
themselves. But, what do these numbers mean? Can these test results be set
in perspective? Part 2 of this series will cover the surprising consensus of
IQ experts, political scientists, and historians on just how important
innate intelligence is in the making of a good president.

Perceptions of candidates' intelligence have long played a major role in
American politics, as have attempts to manipulate those perceptions.
Misspelling the word "potato," for example, was one of the many mis-steps
that doomed former Vice President Dan Quayle's presidential ambitions.

Thus, it's hardly surprising that some candidates have cultivated an image
of brilliance. For example, Joseph Kennedy Sr. spent heavily on the
ghostwriters who largely concocted the two nonfiction bestsellers published
under his son John's name. JFK even won the Pulitzer Prize for "Profiles in
Courage," which is now known to be mostly the work of speechwriter Theodore
Sorenson.

In reality, John Kennedy possessed a fine but hardly dazzling brain.
According to historian Thomas C. Reeves, author of "A Question of Character:
A Life of John F. Kennedy," in prep school JFK scored 119 on an IQ test.
Although a 10th of the population scores higher than 119, a recent C-SPAN
poll of 58 historians rated Kennedy as possessing the eight strongest
leadership qualities of all 41 presidents.

Similarly, the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956, Adlai Stevenson,
portrayed himself as an intellectual. The press created the term "egghead"
to describe the bald and supposedly scholarly Stevenson. In truth,
Stevenson's resume was similar to Bush's. Stevenson was the grandson of
Grover Cleveland's second vice president. As a rich socialite, Stevenson
barely scraped through Princeton and Northwestern. After a nondescript early
career, Stevenson unexpectedly became the popular and reasonably competent
governor of Illinois. He then ran for president only four years later. At
his death, the only book found resting upon his bedside table was "The
Social Register."

In sharp contrast, the man who twice beat Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower,
took pains to hide his considerable brainpower. He found it expedient to
present himself as a kindly old duffer interested mostly in golf and Zane
Grey's cowboy novels. This masquerade fooled even the historians of the
time, who somehow assumed that the organizer of the staggeringly complex
D-Day invasion had the IQ of a tree stump. Shortly after Eisenhower left
office, a poll of historians rated him one of the 10 worst presidents.

After Ike's death, however, a new generation of historians unearthed much
evidence supporting the opinion of his vice president, Richard Nixon, that
Eisenhower was "The most devious man I ever came across in politics."
Therefore, this year's C-SPAN poll of historians rated him one of the 10
strongest presidential leaders.

There are many valid objections to relying excessively on the IQ test and
its close cousin, the college admissions exam, to judge candidates. IQ
critic Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor who theorizes that there are
between seven and nine "multiple intelligences," responded to an inquiry
about Gore and Bush's test scores, "Many thoughtful people, including me,
feel that the IQ test only captures aspects of scholastic intelligence and
is quite remote from other important intellectual faculties."

For all their limitations, IQ-style tests have a one unique advantage.
While they certainly don't reveal the whole truth about someone, they can't
intentionally lie. Professional spinmeisters can manipulate their clients'
images, but they can't manipulate their old test scores.

[CTRL] Neoconservatism: a CIA Front

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Neoconservatism: a CIA Front
by Gregory Pavlik

Not long after the Central Intelligence Agency was founded in 1947, the
American public and the world were subjected to an unprecedented level of
propaganda in the service of U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Cold War.
The propaganda offensive of the government centered around its obsession
with securing the emerging U.S.-dominated world order in the wake of the
Second World War. It was a time when Europe lay in ruins and when
subservience to U.S. planners, in government and business, was the order of
the day.

Although it is now widely conceded that there was never any serious threat
of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, let alone of the United States, the
menace of the Soviet Union was the pretext underlying discussion of foreign
policy. To pay for the Cold War, Harry Truman set out, as Arthur Vandenberg
advised, to "Scare the Hell out of the American people." A daunting task,
considering the years of pro-Soviet accolades that had previously flowing
from the executive branch.

Nonetheless, the Soviet threat served as a useful chimera to keep the masses
in line. What were the targets singled out for demonization in the Cold War
propaganda campaign? One of the chief aims of the government was to
discredit dangerously parochial attitudes about the desirability of peace.
It was also thought necessary to inoculate the public, particularly in
Europe, against the virus of "neutralism."

Further, since the American government had successfully entrenched the
military industrial complex as a permanent feature of American life, U.S.
planners were eager to discredit the idea of "disarmament," which meant not
only a rejection of the techniques of mass murder developed and perfected by
the Allied powers in the Second World War, but also a return to the pre-war
days when the union of government and business was more tenuous,
government-connected profits were fleeting, and market discipline provided a
check on consolidation.

The degree to which the press participated as a partner in the rhetoric of
the Cold War was no accident. Media penetration was a major facet of CIA
activities in both the foreign and domestic context. At its peak, the CIA
allocated 29 percent of its budget to "media and propaganda." The extent of
its efforts are difficult to measure, but some information has slipped
through the shroud of secrecy.

One report notes that the media organizations funded by the CIA in Europe
included: the West German News agency DENA (later the DPA), the writers
association PEN in Paris, a number of French newspapers, the International
Forum of Journalists, and Forum World Features. The London-based Forum World
Features provided stories to "140 newspapers around the world, including
about 30 in the United States, amongst which were the Washington Post and
four other major dailies."

The U.S. Senate’s Church committee reported that the Post was aware that the
service was "CIA-controlled." German media tycoon Axel Springer had received
the then-substantial sum of more than $7 million from the Agency to build
his press empire. His relationship with the CIA was reported to have
extended through the 1970s. The New York Times reported that the CIA owned
or subsidized more than 50 newspapers, news services, radio stations, and
periodicals. The paper reported that at least another dozen were infiltrated
by the CIA; more than 1,000 books either written directly or subsidized by
the Agency were published during this period.

The penetration of CIA propaganda into the American press was far more
extensive than an occasional distorted report from Europe. By the early 70s,
it had been revealed that the head of the Hearst bureau in London was a CIA
agent. Some suspicion was aroused among those editors not on the Company
payroll, and inquiring minds among them wanted to know if CIA men were
currently in their employ. Soon thereafter the Washington Star-News
published a report claiming that some three dozen journalists were on the
payroll of the Agency. One agent was identified in the story as a member of
the Star-News’ own staff. When the paper went belly up in 1981, the
"journalist" in question went directly to work for the Reagan
administration. Later, Jeremiah O’Leary joined the staff of the Washington
Times.

Though pressured, the CIA refused for some time to release information on
its tentacles in the "free press." There’s little wonder why. When George
Bush assumed the role of CIA director, he agreed to a single paragraph
summary of each of its journalists for the Church committee. When it
submitted the last of its data, the CIA had provided information on more
than 400 journalists. The final Church report was a disappointment having
been audited by the CIA. A subsequent House investigation was suppressed,
though a leak it was published in the Village Voice. The House report
indicated that Reuters news service was frequently used for CIA
disinformation, and 

[CTRL] The New Cold War

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http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xalmeida.html





The New Cold War
In May 1994, to a packed house at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London,
Noam Chomsky appeared in debate with John Pilger. Red Pepper hosted the
event; Harold Pinter was chair.
Hilary Wainwright [then political editor of Red Pepper; now editor]: Friends
and comrades, welcome to this first Red Pepper forum, and also to the
magazine. We wanted a way to present or re-establish the art of public
conversation. In a sense it's more creative, particularly in the complex
times we're in, than relying on an adversarial debate. It's more
participatory than just a lecture, and perhaps more personal and pleasurable
than a traditional public meeting.

It's appropriate that we're having this public conversation and that the
Almeida Theatre is our forum. I'd like to thank Jonathan Kent and Ian
McDiarmid for allowing us to have this theatre.

I don't need to introduce any of the three participants. They're all people
who are fearless in searching out the truth and then finding every possible
platform to make it public. But the more they discover the truth, the more
public platforms are closed to them. They're individuals who in their
particular chosen craft have achieved the highest possible skills, but
aren't bogged down by the narrow professionalism that has stifled British
political and intellectual life. In that sense they're that desperately
scarce resource, an engaged public intellectual. And just before handing
over to Harold Pinter I want to remember another exemplary public
intellectual - Ralph Miliband - who died last Saturday, and I think that his
determination to create an independent and internationalist left will
inspire Red Pepper and be one of the spirits behind this conversation.

Harold Pinter: Thank you. Let me just say that what I intend to do is embark
on this discussion for a while, and then in due course I'd like to invite
you to participate and ask any questions of Noam Chomsky and John Pilger
that you wish.

So let me kick off by saying that John, this title, the New Cold War, was
your suggestion because you believe, quite properly I think, that the term
the New World Order had been over used and was rather tired. So could you
define a little more precisely what you mean by the New Cold War?

John Pilger: Well, of course it's heavily ironic: the original Cold War
never ended. The Old Cold War was a war of attrition between the great
nuclear powers, but it was a rhetorical stand-off, too. So often we were
invited and manipulated to see it simply as a conflict between East and
West, yet the Cold War always was, and still is, a war against the majority
of humanity. It was a war fought with the blood of "expendable" people over
strategic position, resources and it was a war of control - it was an
imperialist war. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States
fought in the Third World was relatively insignificant compared with the war
fought by the US against people trying to improve their position in the
world. The Soviets never matched the Americans as imperialists; they were
lousy imperialists outside their own borders.

The US established a network of control throughout the world in the postwar
period, and that control has been shored up ever since. Now when the
Communist world collapsed, of course the excuse to fight this war against
the Third World collapsed with it, so other excuses had to be found, and
these have never really been satisfactory. For instance, during the Gulf
War, we went through a period of the "demon" excuse. Saddam Hussein was
elevated to new Hitler status. This didn't really work but it did for a
while; it certainly worked long enough for the US to lead a very
considerable force against Iraq and cause the deaths of perhaps 200,000
people, wrecking a large part of the Middle East economy.

There have also been excuses of the Noriega variety: the reason for invading
Panama was that Noriega was an international drug dealer, child molester and
pornographer, and whatever he was, he had to be caught. Well of course,
those weren't the real reasons at all. The US was demonstrating its power
yet again.

Panama began the New Cold War, in which an Orwellian language would be
employed that would make war equal to peace. For these actions against
dictators who had previously been in the pay of, and with a client
relationship to, the US, could be put down in the cause of a new peaceful
world. But of course this was so transparent, there wasn't really any basis
for people to take this on board, as many people hadn't been able to take on
board the Communist threat, so I think we're back now to a more transparent
Cold War - we're back to what the Cold War always was, a war against the
Third World.

There's an interesting description of this, particularly relevant to the
recent events in South Africa. One of the 

[CTRL] American Voters Should Be Shocked by Treason of Gore

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October 25, 2000 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

American Voters Should Be Shocked by Treason of Gore
Family Benefactor
by Mona Charen

IT IS HARD to conceive that a figure of such international
stature as Armand Hammer, who died in 1990, could have
been as contemptible a swindler as he apparently was, but
such is the inescapable conclusion of "Dossier: The Secret
History of Armand Hammer" by Edward Jay Epstein.

A secret agent of the Soviet Union since 1921, Hammer
managed to make and lose several fortunes during his long life,
along the way skirting investigations of money laundering,
fraud, conspiracy, espionage, bribery and countless other
crimes by the FBI, the Justice Department, the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and other government agencies. The
tale of his serial betrayals (of his family, his religion, his
country), endless self-aggrandizement, and success at
courting the rich and famous makes fascinating reading, but
there is a contemporary hook: Armand Hammer loomed very
large in the lives of one of America's prominent political
families, the Gores.

Hammer was born in 1898, the son of Dr. Julius Hammer, a
committed communist. Julius named his first son Armand for
the communist symbol of an arm holding a hammer (Armand
would later purchase the baking soda company because of the
coincidence of names).

While Julius served time in prison for an abortion that led to a
woman's death, Armand (who had actually done the abortion)
traveled to Moscow in his stead and met with Lenin in 1921.

Impressed with his American fan, Lenin gave "Comrade
Hammer" a concession to mine asbestos in the Ural
Mountains, and also assigned him the sensitive task of
distributing (and laundering) money for Soviet agents around
the United States. Hammer worked closely with the infamous
Feliks Dzerzhinski, the first head of the KGB, known then as
the Cheka.

Though the asbestos mine never did prove profitable and was
later closed, it did provide a window into Hammer's character.
Conditions for the workers were so bad that foremen had to
carry guns to protect themselves from angry workers, who
were half starved. To avert a strike, Hammer called upon the
Cheka, who suppressed the workers to Hammer's satisfaction.
Later, when railroad workers delayed shipments to the mine,
Hammer again called upon Dzerzhinski, who had the local
chief administrator shot "as a lesson." Hammer was delighted
by this, and pointed out many times in later years that the
trains ran more efficiently afterward.

To pursue his work on behalf of the Soviet Union, Hammer set
up a number of shell corporations, a pattern that would persist
throughout a lifetime. To provide hard currency for the Soviets,
he styled himself an art dealer in New York, supposedly selling
the "Romanoff Treasure." In fact, much of it was bric-a-brac
and junk carrying phony identification supplied by the Soviets.
Despite a lavish personal lifestyle, Hammer never did make
any real money (he was near bankruptcy throughout the 1920s
and '30s), until he received another government concession,
this time from the United States government, to produce
alcohol during the Second World War.

Hammer was not actually a very good businessman (though he
created a myth in the press that he was a billionaire). But he
was utterly unscrupulous and very adept at stroking the
powerful. When, through the liquor concession, a wife's fortune
and other machinations, he was able to achieve great wealth,
he immediately used it to purchase political influence. In 1950,
he made Congressman Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee a partner
in his cattle-breeding business, which brought Gore a
substantial profit.

When J. Edgar Hoover considered moving against Hammer for
his provable treason, he stayed his hand at least in part
because Hammer had friends in high places like Gore. When
he became a senator, the elder Gore remained a Hammer ally,
and he was rewarded when he lost his bid for re-election.
Hammer hired Gore Sr. as an executive of Occidental
Petroleum's coal division, at a salary of $500,000 per year.

Albert Gore Jr., who claims to be for the people and against
the "powerful," controls between $500,000 and $1,000,000
worth of Occidental stock. In keeping with a tradition begun by
his father, Al Gore Jr. invited Hammer to witness the
inauguration of Ronald Reagan as his guest. It is not a crime to
hold Occidental stock, nor to be wealthy. But it should send a
shiver down the spine of voters to consider that the Gore
family's comfort is owed to a treasonous scoundrel.



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[CTRL] THE FOURTEEN POINTS, JANUARY 8, 1918

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THE FOURTEEN POINTS, JANUARY 8, 1918

Wilson issued them as conditions of the peace, so that America's entry into
the war would not be a blank check for Britain, but rather transfer power
to
a new international order. The 14 Points were given a lukewarm reception by
the Allies, but their apparent idealism weakened morale in Germany.

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be
no
private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed
always frankly and in the public view.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial
waters,
alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in
part by international action for the enforcement of international
covenants.
3.  [editor's note: Free Trade]
The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations
consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
5. A free, open-minded, and abolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining
all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations
concerned
must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose
title is to be determined.
6.  [editor's note: a welcome to the USSR]
The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation
of
the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the independent termination of her own
political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere
welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own
choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her
sister
nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of
their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests,
and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored,
without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common
with
all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve
to
restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves
set and determined for the government of their relations with one another.
Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international
law is forever impaired.
8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored,
and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of
Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly
fifty
years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure
in the interest of all.
9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along
clearly
recognizable lines of nationality.
10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish
to
see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of
autonomous development.
11. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea;
and
the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and
nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic
independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should
be entered into.
12. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a
secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish
rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely
unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles
should
be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all
nations under international guarantees.
13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the
territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be
assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and
economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by
international covenant.
14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific
covenants
for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence
and
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[CTRL] PJB on controlled media

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(in the old days it was the council of 300--now we are down to the council
of 3?




From the _Chronicles_ magazine November 2000 issue:

"I'm Liberated; Free at Last!"

A Talk With Pat Buchanan
by Bill Kauffman

(SNIP)

K:  How do we bust up the concentration of media ownership?

B:  You have to use the antitrust laws, and I'd certainly be
prepared to. Newspapers, for example, should be owned by
Americans.

I'm not sure what Bill Gates did to me to be attacked by the
antitrust division of the Department of Justice.  As far as I
know, he tried to give me a free browser.  Microsoft is a
national asset.  If they did something wrong, fine them, and tell
them, "Don't do it again."  But don't smash up this company.

Take a look at what's far more dangerous:  a concentration of
power, in which a handful of companies get control of the
mechanism by which ideas and information and political news
are spread throughout a society of 270 million people.

I thought CNN was a great idea, and frankly I didn't like the
idea of it merging with [Time-Warner], and now they're going to
merge with AOL.  Two or three people in the country are going
to be able to decide the career, or the noncareer, of virtually
every journalist and columnist and commentator in America.
They'll be able to kill all but the biggest, like a Rush Limbaugh;
and even there they have enormous power.  So I do believe in
maximum decentralization of the media.

K:  What about requiring radio and TV licensees to live in the
cities in which they have licenses?

B:  I think that's a great idea.  You should have some kind of
preference in the law for folks who live in the town, because
these absentee landlords sit up there and own 85 or 100
newspapers and they don't give a hoot about what's going on in
Podunk, as long as the _Podunk News_ makes money.  They
go out there and reformat it and put their bingo games in, and it
ceases to be a community newspaper.

If every radio station and every newspaper were owned by
people who lived in the town, it would be far better than these
giant media conglomerates


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[CTRL] Power to Erase Memories

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NEW YORK TIMES
September 26, 2000

Letters: Power to Erase Memories To the Editor:
The experiment discussed in "Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False
Memories" (Sept. 19) is exciting because it hints at the neurobiological
processes underlying the malleability of memory. But the suggestion that
the
future clinical value of such findings would be to erase traumatic memories
is horrifying.
Full text:
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[CTRL] Pinker on Humanity

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The heart is deceitfull above all things-Jeremiah


All About Evil

A moral philosopher makes the case that the 20th century
was even worse than we thought.


By STEVEN PINKER

Barbarism was by no means unique
to the past 100 years, Jonathan
Glover tells us, but ''it is still right that
much of 20th-century history has been a
very unpleasant surprise.'' This was the
century of Passchendaele, Dresden,
Nanking, Nagasaki and Rwanda; of the
Final Solution, the gulag, the Great Leap
Forward, Year Zero and ethnic cleansing
-- names that stand for killings in the six
and seven figures and for suffering
beyond comprehension. The
technological progress that inspired the
optimism of the Victorians turned out
also to multiply the effects of
old-fashioned evil and criminal stupidity.

Glover is a moral philosopher, whose
stock in trade is the hypothetical moral
dilemma. (A trolley is hurtling out of control. Five workers down the
track don't see it and will be killed if it continues. You can throw the

switch and save them, but it will cause the death of one person standing

on a spur. What should you do?) In this ''moral history of the 20th
century,'' Glover deftly analyzes some of its real and terrible moral
dilemmas. Is the bombing of civilians ever justified if it would shorten
a
dreadful war? Should the Allies have accepted Adolf Eichmann's offer to
trade a million Jews for 10,000 trucks? What kind of risk to self and
family should a moral person be expected to take in opposing a
terrifying
regime?

But when it comes to the choices made by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,
Milosevic and their henchmen, moral dilemmas are beside the point.
Glover wants his profession to help us understand how great evils can
happen and how they might be prevented. That requires not just
philosophy but history and psychology.

Most of ''Humanity'' is history: an account of the major atrocities of
the
century. In novelistic detail, Glover describes the wrenching realities
behind the just wars and the utopian social projects. The descriptions
are
heartbreaking, enraging, at times unbearable. No matter how bad you
thought the century was for human rights, Glover will convince you that
it
was even worse. The following vignette, though lacking the death and
gore of the others, encapsulates for me how the century's political
movements could obliterate all that we value in life:

''A French ethnologist captured by the Khmer Rouge . . . befriended a
girl of about 3 whose father was marched away to probable death. He
played with her and grew fond of her, but she was forced to attend
indoctrination classes. Her smiling response to him was replaced by
sullenness. One evening, looking him in the face, she tried to insert
her
finger between his ankle and the rope that bound him. Finding that she
could, she called the guard to tighten the ropes.''

Glover's history is not original, of course, but his psychology is,
dramatically so. The prevailing wisdom among many intellectuals has
been that evil has nothing to do with human nature and must be
attributed
to political institutions. The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, at a time
when the ashes of 35 million victims of World War II were still warm (or

radioactive), urged Unesco to declare that ''biological studies lend
support to the ethic of universal brotherhood.'' In 1986, Unesco and
several scholarly societies resolved that ''it is scientifically
incorrect to say
that war or any other violent behavior is genetically programmed into
our
human nature.'' Scientists who have dissented from this saccharine view
have been picketed, smeared and likened to Nazis.

Glover does not let our species off so lightly. He shows that
distinctive
patterns of cruelty and callousness pop up repeatedly in history,
cutting
across times, places and political systems. He insists that ''we need to

look hard and clearly at some monsters inside us,'' not to make us
pessimists but as ''part of the project of caging and taming them.'' For

Glover argues that human nature encompasses not just destructive
impulses but ''moral resources'': humane impulses that sometimes recoil
from the intentions of the monsters. The course of history, and our
hopes
for the future, are shaped by struggles among these impulses inside
countless minds.

The great contribution of ''Humanity'' is a dissection of these motives.

This is not, as some might fear, an attempt to reduce history to
psychology. Glover makes it clear that the motives are responses to the
larger community and manifest themselves in different ways in different
social and political contexts.

Here are some of the monsters. Pure, amoral self-interest. Sadism and
the thrill of the battlefield. Tribalism, which elevates the group above
the
individual and turns personal enmity into feuding, war and genocide.
Ideology, which can convince people that a struggle between groups --
races for the Nazis, classes for the Marxists -- is inevitable and
necessary
for 

[CTRL] The professor of lies

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Sent: 28 September 2000 06:53
Subject: The professor of lies


THE TRUTH AND EDWARD SAID
By Jeff Jacoby

September 28, 2000

Edward Said, the world's most renowned Palestinian intellectual, was
exposed
as a fraud last summer. The experience apparently taught him nothing.
For decades Said had passed himself off as an exile-an Arab born and raised
in Jerusalem only to be driven out by the Jews in the runup to the
Arab-Israeli war of 1948. He had told the story often, lacing his narrative
with poignant detail.
"I feel even more depressed," he reminisced in March 1998, "when I remember
my beautiful old house surrounded by pine and orange trees in Al-Talbiyeh
in
east Jerusalem." In a BBC documentary he recalled his years at St.
George's,
an Anglican prep school in Jerusalem; he and a boy named David Ezra, Said
recollected, used to sit together in the back of the classroom. He told
another interviewer in 1997 that he could still identify the rooms in his
family's former house "where as a boy he read 'Sherlock Holmes' and
'Tarzan,' and where he and his mother read Shakespeare to each other." All
this was lost when his family fled from Talbiyeh in December 1947, driven
out, as he explained, by the "Jewish-forces sound truck [that] warned Arabs
to leave the neighborhood."
But as Justus Reid Weiner showed in Commentary, the influential journal of
opinion, Said's tragic tale was largely a fabrication. The Saids, it turned
out, had lived in Egypt, not Palestine. Edward Said grew up and went to
school in a posh neighborhood in Cairo, where his father had a thriving
business. Now and then the family would visit cousins in Jerusalem; Edward
was born during one such visit in 1935. But on his birth certificate, the
Saids' place of residence was listed as Cairo; the space for indicating a
local address in Palestine was left blank.
Weiner looked into the expulsion of Talbiyeh's Arabs in 1947. It never
happened. He checked the student registries at St. George's. There was no
mention of Edward Said. He even interviewed David Ezra, the student with
whom Said sat in the back of the room. Because of his bad eyesight, Ezra
told Weiner, he had always sat up front.
Said occupies a lofty perch in the world of letters: He holds an endowed
chair in English and literature at Columbia University, he is a highly
sought-after lecturer, and he has served, at various times, as president of
the Modern Language Association, a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
But he is known above all as a zealous champion of the Palestinian cause.
For many years he sat on the Palestine National Council, the PLO's
"parliament in exile," and was a close advisor to Yasser Arafat. He has
savaged Israel and pressed the Palestinians' case in every forum
imaginable,
from op-ed columns to radio broadcasts to congressional testimony. And his
words were accorded great moral force, for wasn't Said himself a victim of
Zionist usurpation? Hadn't he himself suffered displacement and exile?
When the world learned that he wasn't and he hadn't, his moral authority
shriveled. It was as if, one observer put it, "we found out that Elie
Wiesel
spent the war in Geneva, not Auschwitz."
One might have thought that the embarrassment of it all would convince Said
to stop lying about himself. And yet his fabrications continue.
During a visit to Lebanon in July, Said was seen hurling rocks over the
border into Israel. Throwing stones at Israelis has been a popular pastime
among Arab tourists in southern Lebanon ever since Israel withdrew in May.
This stoning has drawn little international attention, even though several
Israelis have been wounded, some permanently. But when Agence France Press
released a photo of the world's most famous Palestinian intellectual
joining
in the violence, it made the papers everywhere. Said was sharply condemned,
even in quarters where he is normally only praised. The Beirut Daily Star
was appalled that a man "who has labored . . . to dispel stereotypes about
Arabs being 'violent'" would let himself "be swayed by a crowd into picking
up a stone and lofting it across the international border." On Said's own
campus, the Columbia Daily Spectator blasted his "hypocritical violent
action" as "alien to this or any other institution of learning."
His response was to shrug off the incident as merely "a symbolic gesture of
joy"-and to lie. His rock, he said, had been "tossed into an empty place."
Witnesses told a different story. London's Daily Telegraph reported that
Said "stood less than 10 yards from Israeli soldiers in a two-story,
blue-and-white watchtower from which flew five Israeli flags."
As for the damning AFP photograph, Said professed surprise: "I had no idea
that media people were there, or that I was the object of attention." But
AFP had a very different explanation-as two Columbia professors, Awi
Federgruen and Robert Pollack, found out when they contacted the 

[CTRL] Hundreds of Christian Arab families fleeing PA areas

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JP: Hundreds of Christian Arab families fleeing PA areas
By Margot Dudkevitch The Jerusalem Post 25 October 2000

JERUSALEM (October 25) - Since the outbreak of violence in the West Bank
and
Gaza Strip, hundreds of Christian Arab families have left with the
assistance of the Foreign Ministry and foreign embassies, such as those of
England, Canada, and Cyprus, Shlomo Dror, spokesman for the coordinator of
activities in the territories, said yesterday.
In some cases, embassies sent cars to pick up the families from their homes
in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Gaza, Nablus, and Tulkarm, granting passports to
spouses and grandparents and offering financial assistance or air tickets
to
leave Israel, he said. In many cases the embassies eased restrictions and
granted passports where only one of the couples had citizenship, to assist
in their departure. A small number of those seeking to leave were Moslems,
he added.
"Lately the number of requests has subsided. Those left don't have foreign
citizenship, but all those able to have left," said Dror. He recalled the
speech made by a Moslem preacher in a Gaza mosque after prayers on a recent
Friday, in which he called on Palestinians to attack Israelis and
Christians. Shortly afterward, a group of Christians was attacked in Gaza,
he said.
His statements came as Israeli security officials said that the Palestinian
Authority did not choose Beit Jala as the focus of violence by coincidence,
but in an attempt to draw the Christian population into the conflict, a
step
it hopes will generate international support and criticism of Israel for
shooting at civilians.
Central Command chief of staff Brig.-Gen. Ya'acov Zigdon noted that those
shooting at Gilo from Beit Jala are not local residents, but extremists
from
elsewhere.
"What we have here are cells that are not necessarily from Beit Jala," he
said.
While many of the families have fled the area, those left behind are being
held hostage by the situation. "The armed Tanzim enter the village and take
over homes and rooftops, and threaten the occupants if they object," one
official said.



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[CTRL] Cooperation Does Not Work---------------------Pro cantonal anti centrist

[J Taylor]

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 "Cooperation Does Not Work"
 By Michael S. Greve, American Enterprise Institute
 from the AEI Federalist Outlook,
 http://www.federalismproject.org/outlook/9-2000.html
http://www.federalismproject.org/outlook/9-2000.html



 The federal systems of Switzerland, Germany, and the European Union
. . .  all provide that constituent states, not federal bureaucracies, will
themselves implement many of the laws, rules, regulations, or decrees
enacted by the central "federal" body. . . .  They do so in part because
they believe that such a system interferes less, not more, with the
independent authority of the "state," member nation, or other subsidiary
government, and helps to safeguard individual liberty as well.
* Justice Stephen Breyer, Printz v. United States (1997) (dissenting
opinion)


 The fact is that our federalism isn't Europe's.
* Justice Antonin Scalia, Printz v. United States (1997) (majority
opinion)


 Amerika, du hast es besser.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wendts Musen-Almanach (1831)




 American federalism is in practice a cooperative federalism: state
and local governments implement federal programs, typically with federal
financial assistance.  A broad political and scholarly consensus sustains
that institutional arrangement.  Cooperative federalism is, however, a
terrible idea, regardless of the terms of cooperation.  Federalist Outlook
No. 3 pays a visit to Germany, a citadel of cooperative federalism and,
consequently, of economic malaise and civic disaffection.  Patient readers
will receive what the authors of the Federalist Papers, concluding their
inspection of European federations, called a "melancholy and monitory
lesson" on the vices of federalism, wrongly conceived.  Federalist Outlook
No. 4 will address the sprawl of cooperative federalism here at home.
 I Love You, You Love Me
 Real federalism's lifeblood is institutional competition.  The U.S.
Constitution envisions political conflict and functional separation among
independently constituted states and national institutions.
 Contemporary politics and public debate are to that vision what
Barney the Dinosaur is to the World Wrestling Federation: federalism, it is
not so much argued as presumed, should be consensual and cooperative.  The
federal government supplies 100,000 police officers, 100,000 teachers, and
numberless nannies.  Grateful states, cities, and counties employ those
faithful servants, whereupon the feds volunteer to put roofs over their
heads.  (A federal school construction bill is pending as this goes to
press.  First dibs on the cash will go to the twenty-three elementary
schools that somehow missed out on a presidential aspirant's recital of The
Very Hungry Caterpillar.)  The parties' and the presidential candidates'
programs on environmental protection, education, welfare, and crime
prevention all rest on the common ground of cooperative federalism:
 Let the feds provide money and standards ("tough standards," when it
comes to education).  Let states, cities, and school boards experiment and
implement.
 Yes, the politicians disagree on funding levels and the stringency
of federal grant conditions.  Cooperative federalism's devil, however, is
not in its details but in its design and dynamics.  Cooperative federalism
in whatever shape or form undermines political transparency and
accountability, diminishes policy competition, and erodes self-government
and liberty.  It is a perversion, not an extension, of the constitutional
scheme and its institutional logic.
 For reasons to be explained, it is not altogether clear what and how
much can be done to replace government cooperation with competition.  A
necessary first step, though, is to crack the consensus on cooperative
federalism and to make sober citizens wretch at the thought.  We begin that
task in Germany-a country that, though traditionally proud of its
cooperative federalism, is now conducting a vigorous debate about its
defects.
 Federalism, German-Style
 Germany is not a happy country these days.  Its political leaders
and opinion elites lament the country's lagging economic performance, as
measured by anemic growth rates and sustained high unemployment.  Despite a
general consensus that the source of Germany's economic malaise lies in
punitive taxes and in labor and welfare laws that have made German labor
the
most expensive in the world, those regimes seem immune to reform.  The high
of reunification was followed by recriminations and regrets over the
exorbitant costs.  Even without a Robert Putnam to ring the alarm over
Fussball Allein, the Germans worry greatly over civic disaffection
[Politikverdrossenheit], which finds expression in voter disengagement and,
more troubling, in growing support for radical parties, left and right.
 Germany's grumpiness is nothing new, good cheer never having been a
hallmark of her politics.  What is new and noteworthy is that academics,
opinion leaders, and politicians have come to tag an 

[CTRL] Poll finds young Brits 'dumber' than oldsters

[J Taylor]

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(I was educated at a Grammar school- after us came the dumbing down of the
brits(and the reinstitution of strong class differences in educational
opportunity)
John

Poll finds young Brits 'dumber' than oldsters
By JOHN EZARD
The Guardian


LONDON -- Young 18- to 24-year-old British adults are measurably "dumber"
than older age groups, according to a special survey for the Guardian
newspaper.
British youth emerge consistently as knowing less - sometimes far less -
than older people about many of the main events and personalities of British
history and culture. Fewer than a third of them can name Winston Churchill,
Britain's war-time hero, as a prime minister who served before 1945.

Last night, after studying the survey results, the country's culture
secretary, Chris Smith, said: "I fear it may represent a slipping of
knowledge. They do clearly know about other things such as Internet search
engines and rock music. But the fundamentals of what I would call cultural
literacy are sadly missing for too many of them. I hope the trend can be
reversed."

The schools minister, Jacqui Smith, said: "There are worrying gaps in the
education of too many young adults."

Only 6 percent of young adult Brits can name David Lloyd George, architect
of the welfare state, and only 8 percent Neville Chamberlain, architect of
the Munich agreement with Hitler.

Ninety-three percent do not know William Caxton was the father of printing
and that John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Ninety percent cannot identify
1815 as the year of the battle of Waterloo. Some 84 percent and 77 percent,
respectively, do not know what the Domesday Book or the Magna Carta were.

Many results appear to point to a progressive breakdown in the transmission
of historical and cultural facts between the six generations questioned for
the survey. This breakdown - over a period when educational qualifications
have greatly improved on paper -was acute if the events were more than half
a century old.

The age group that emerged as most knowledgeable was 45- to 54-year-olds,
who began their schooling under the post-1945 grammar school/secondary
modern school system and finished it as comprehensive schooling was starting
to become widespread. This group came top answering 19 of the 40 questions.

People over 65, whose education began when rote learning was more common,
scored well on some answers but came top on only six. Young adults were top
on five questions - all about pop culture or the Internet.

(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. For more Guardian news go to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/)

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[CTRL] DRACULA WAS A GOOD GUY

[J Taylor]

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DRACULA WAS A GOOD GUY

Most people believe - as they have been taught - that Dracula was
a bloodthirsty 'vampire' from Transylvania. This Hollywood horror
fairy tale is not true, or it is at least comparable with another
fairy tale closer to our times: the total demonisation of Adolf Hitler.
Here we offer you the true story of Prince Vlad Dracula the Impaler,
Orthodox Christian Crusader of the 15th Century.

FACING THE TURKISH THREAT

Mahomed II entered history as an extremely ambitious Sultan. His two
main goals were to conquer Central Europe and Constantinople. In order
to fulfil his plans he had to occupy Belgrade - the gateway to Central
Europe. Thus the Orthodox Romanian Medieval States and the Catholic
Hungarian Kingdom became the direct targets of Mahomed II. Amidst
the peoples, the idea of a Crusade grows, an idea which will be
accomplished
by Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara, Vlad Dracula the Impaler and St. Stephen
the Great.
   Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara was a Romanian Catholic military Lord
in South-West Transylvania. He also had the jurisdiction of Southern
Banat, on the Danube across which the Ottoman threat was coming. In
1440, after the Hungarian King dies, Iancu Corvin helped the application
of the Polish King Vladislav III for the Hungarian Crown. After the
nomination of the new King in Budapest, Iancu Corvin was named Prince
of Transylvania, in 1441. From that moment he started the project
of the Crusade, mainly on two fields:
   1. By strengthening the military inside Transylvania, working
mostly on the middle class;
   2. By helping his Romanian Orthodox friends to get into power in
Wallachia and Moldavia - across the Carpathians.
   His first great victory upon the Turks took place in Serbia in
1441. By surprise, in 1442, the Turks attack Transylvania. After the
first Ottoman victory, the Christians re-grouped quickly and  struck
back at the invader's army so harshly that they succeed in killing
the Muslim leader together with his son. The dismantled Turkish army
ran away Southwards into Wallachia. Iancu followed them, beat them
and named Basarab II as Prince of Wallachia. In 1442, two more battles
followed in Transylvania and Wallachia; on almost the same frame.
Iancu's victories impressed Europe.
   Poland, Venice, Burgundy and Aragon planned a new Crusade under
the rule of Iancu. Trusting the help promised by these countries,
he began a long campaign into Serbia and Bulgaria, aiming to free
Adrianople and thus to break the siege of Constantinople. But from
Europe, only promises came: the material help was too weak. On his
own, he fought the Sultan, forcing him to ask for a 10 year peace
(the Treaty of Szeged, July 1442). The military preparations didn't
cease. The Pope insisted on an attack and the Venician fleet set sail
for Byzantium. In this new campaign, Iancu commanded the armies of
Transylvania, Croatia, Bosnia and also Wallachia - the last one under
the command of Vlad Dracul (the father of Vlad Dracula the Impaler.
'Dracul' was the Romanian for 'Dragon'; Vlad Dracul gained, as a soldier,
a German Order of the Dragon;  'Dracula' or 'Draculea' means in Romanian
'Son of Dracul'.
This, in short, is the ethimological origin of the name 'Dracula').
In Bulgaria, near Varna, a great battle took place in which the Hungarian
King was killed. In 1446, Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara became Governor
of Hungary. From this new position he developed strong alliances with
Moldavia and Wallachia, shaping a common military defence system.
He also established good contacts with Skanderbeg, the leader of the
Albanians. In 1448, he fought the Turks at Kossovopolje (in Kossovo);
the battle was lost because of treason. Soon afterwards, Iancu placed
Bogdan II (the father of St. Stephen the Great) in power on the Moldavian
Throne. In 1453, Mahomed II conquered Constantinople. In reply, Iancu
fortified the Danube line and strengthened the Carpathian system of
alliances. In 1456, Iancu of Hunedoara installed Vlad Dracula the
Impaler on the Throne of Wallachia; immediately he supported the crowning
of St. Stephen the Great in Moldavia. Looking to stop the Turks in
the battle for Belgrade, Iancu formed an army of 30,000 men from Romania,
Hungary, Poland, Czech, Germany etc. With this force he crushed the
Muslims in a bloodbath. Even Mahomed II was wounded in the battle.
While Europe was celebrating, Iancu died of pest in the military camp
of Zemun, Serbia, on November 11, 1456. His body was laid to rest
in peace in the Catholic Cathedral of Alba Iulia - in the heart of
Transylvania, amongst the people he ruled and commanded in battles
for Christendom.

VLAD DRACULA CONTINUES THE STRUGGLE

The political and military program of Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara was
continued by Vlad Dracula the Impaler of Wallachia and by St. Stephen
the Great of Moldavia.
Vlad Dracula's extremely large European popularity was mainly due
to his strong personality, to his authoritarian spirit and certainly
to his unmerciful 

[CTRL] The Phone Call: Why Perot Sabotaged His Own Reform Party

[J Taylor]

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FYI - In the mid-1990s, Tom Pauken was the Texas Chair of  the GOP.

---

D Magazine
Politics

The Phone Call
Why Ross Perot sabotaged his own Reform Party.
by Tom Pauken

Happier Days: In 1999, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan were
friendly. Although Buchanan was more conservative on social
issues, Perot believed Buchanan could save his Reform Party.

In the fall of 1999, Ross Perot had seemingly agreed to a
plan for his Reform Party. His cohorts had invited Pat
Buchanan and his ³Buchanan Brigades² into the party to blunt
a takeover attempt by Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota.
The loudmouthed, coarse ex-wrestler flaunts his contempt for
values Perot holds dear, so it was no surprise that the former
presidential candidate would find a means to stop him. Pat
Buchanan, on the other hand, is articulate, media-savvy, and,
even if more conservative than Perot on social issues, has
fought beside him on the issues Perot cares about. With
Buchanan as its candidate, the Reform Party would use its
$12.5 million in federal matching funds to continue Perot¹s
campaign for economic nationalism, campaign finance reform,
and the elimination of foreign influence in the nation¹s capital.

But by late September 2000, the Reform Party had been
wrecked by trench warfare between Perotistas and
Buchananites, Buchanan was barely registering 1 percent in
the polls, and, after a flurry of lawsuits, the Buchanan
campaign was still waiting for the $12.5 million in federal
funding.

Why did Perot turn with such a vengeance against
Buchanan? Even Buchanan is perplexed, as I found when I
talked with him in early September. Buchanan wouldn¹t
respond when I asked him directly what he thought Perot¹s
motives might be for reversing field and derailing his candidacy.
Others close to Buchanan were less reticent. From their
perspective, Perot¹s ego in the end could not abide giving up
control of ³his² party.

But, as I discovered, the reason the Reform Party shot at establishing a
third party since Theodore
Roosevelt November has nothing to do with Perot¹s famous ego. The
turnabout can be traced to a phone call made to Ross Perot by
a close friend in Dallas.

In early July of last year, Perot ally (and 1996 vice presidential
candidate) Pat Choate and Perot right-hand man Rus Verney
approached Bay Buchanan, Pat¹s sister and campaign adviser,
with a proposition. Choate and Verney argued convincingly that
Buchanan should abandon the GOP and run for the Reform
Party nomination. Buchanan and Perot agreed on many
fundamental issues. They both favor a trade policy that puts
America¹s interests first. They are opponents of free trade
deals like NAFTA and GATT. Both have warned about the loss
of national sovereignty to international organizations like the
WTO. Perot had even invited Buchanan to speak at a United
We Stand conference in 1995, where Buchanan had wowed
the audience with a speech echoing many of Perot¹s favorite
themes. ³We can deliver the Reform Party nomination to Pat,²
Choate told Bay.

Buchanan bit. He unleashed his ³peasant army² to help
Perot forces fend off a takeover attempt by Ventura. The
Buchanan Brigades moved quickly to take over or reestablish
Reform Party organizations in states all across the country.
Within a few months, the Buchanan and Perot forces had
enough votes to take back control of the party¹s national
committee (which Ventura¹s forces had captured). The infusion
of Buchanan¹s recruits into the party had made the difference.
Ventura threw up his hands in disgust and announced that he
and his supporters were abandoning the Reform Party for good.


Immediately fissions appeared. Verney expected to regain
his former post as party chairman. But Buchanan supporters,
who had grown to distrust Perot¹s chief political aide, joined
with other disaffected Reform Party leaders to place Choate in
the top post. This split between the two longtime friends and
allies signaled an underlying rift in the party. Choate
announced he would do all he could to help Pat Buchanan
secure the party¹s nomination at its Long Beach convention in
August.

For his part, Verney confirmed Buchanan¹s suspicions by
announcing he would stop Buchanan at all costs. ³Verney
promised a bloodbath,² says Choate now, ³and he delivered
one in Long Beach.²

Perot¹s hand in this reversal is difficult to verify because
Perot isn¹t talking. He refers all Reform Party matters to
Verney. But Dallas sources who know Perot well are skeptical
that a paid staffer like Verney would freelance on a matter so
crucial as the party¹s candidate for president.

Something caused Ross Perot to change his mind about
Buchanan. And once Perot¹s mind was changed, the Perot
people showed they would go to any length to deny Buchanan
the nomination.

First, Verney tried to recruit Donald Trump to run. After a few
weeks of flirtation, played out in the tabloids, Trump declined to
go head-to-head against the Buchanan Brigades. Trump¹s
dalliance with the headlines 

[CTRL] Any volunteers for this research? Men's cerebral G-spot

[J Taylor]

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Of course this has MC implications
John



THE INDEPENDENT
news | UK  | Science  | 2000-10

Finding men's cerebral G-spot could lead to new treatments for lost libido

By Roger Dobson

16 October 2000

Scientists may have found man's cerebral G-spot. Brain mappers have found
the
part of the brain that gets excited the most when a man is sexually aroused
by
what he sees.

When male volunteers were exposed to blue movies, the little-understood
claustrum area of their brains lit up and became highly active. Researchers
say
this knowledge about the way the brain handles the process of sexual
arousal
from visual images may lead to better targeted treatments for people with
sexual problems.

The scientists, who report their findings in the British science journal
Human
Brain Mapping, say that although there have been theories about how the
brain
is involved in sexual arousal, there has been no detailed study.

Full text:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2000-10/gspot161000.shtml





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[CTRL] Uganda's Gulu Town a Haven for Ebola Outbreak

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Tuesday October 17 12:06 PM ET
Uganda's Gulu Town a Haven for Ebola Outbreak

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By Gavin Pattison

GULU, Uganda (Reuters) - Any mad scientist looking to unleash a deadly
virus
on the world could do a lot worse than choose Gulu in northern Uganda.
There is no suggestion that the outbreak of Ebola virus which has struck
Uganda is anything other than a natural calamity, but the effect could be
just as devastating as if contrived by a Hollywood villain.
Gulu, around 180 miles north of the capital Kampala, is the perfect spot
for
a fast-acting virus to get a grip on a local population and then spread
across the country and beyond.
It is a major market town at the crossroads of the main northern road from
Kampala to Sudan and the western route to Democratic Republic of the Congo,
where Ebola was first recognized in 1996.
The town is at the heart of one of the most insecure areas of the country,
where the rebel Lords Resistance Army has been waging war for over a
decade.
And although officially denied by the government, the area is known also to
harbor fighters from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) fighting the
Khartoum government.
The town has an official population of around 40,000 people, but this
figure
is often swelled by the arrival of peasants displaced by rebel activity or
army counter insurgencies.
There are also dozens of camps for thousands of Sudanese refugees in the
area-many of them with little in the way of sanitation or health
facilities.
Ugandan officials say 39 people have been officially confirmed to have died
from Ebola -- 37 in Gulu district and two others in Kitgum, further south.
They have slapped a quarantine on three areas of Gulu where they believe
the
virus is concentrated, but given that it took two weeks from when the first
victim died until Ebola was confirmed, there are real fears the disease may
already have slipped through the cordon.
Hiv Also Rampant
It is not just the location that makes Gulu a perfect breeding point for
the
virus. Living conditions, traditional customs and Uganda's social fabric
could all contribute to the spread of the disease.
Communal eating and washing is commonplace in Gulu. Polygamy is still
practiced and prostitution is rife.
These conditions all contributed to the spread of another deadly virus,
HIV,
which has killed hundreds of thousands of Ugandans and infected millions
more in the last 20 years.
Ebola is passed on through contact with body fluids. Victims suffer from
aches and fevers similar to flu before developing splitting headaches,
stomach pains and diarrhea.
The early symptoms are not unlike those for dozens of other diseases
endemic
in the area such as malaria and cholera, making diagnosis difficult.
Only in the last stages-when the virus eats through the victim's veins and
arteries causing massive internal hemorrhaging and causing blood to pour
out
of every orifice-is it clear Ebola has struck.
By then it is usually too late.
"It is like watching someone dissolve before your eyes," one doctor said.
Authorities in the capital Kampala have been put on high alert for anyone
showing symptoms of Ebola. Uganda's neighbors Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda
have also stepped up checks at border posts and warned hospitals to watch
out for Ebola.
In the Hollywood version of disease outbreak movies, a hero doctor usually
races against time before discovering a vaccine or cure for whatever virus
the evil tyrant has unleashed.
With Ebola there is no vaccine and no cure.

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[CTRL] The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Disease s --Treating America's Hidden Epidemic

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The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases-
Treating America's Hidden Epidemic
PR Newswire - October 18, 2000
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Wednesday October 18, 12:04 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: American Academy of Dermatology
The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases-Treating
America's Hidden Epidemic
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Teenagers are bombarded with images of
sex
on a daily basis. Whether it be television, movies, music, or magazines,
the
joy of sex is often glorified while the consequences are rarely addressed.
Yet what teenagers need to know is that most sexually transmitted diseases
are difficult to treat and many can only be controlled, not cured.
Speaking today at the American Academy of Dermatology's Derm Update 2000,
dermatologist Libby Edwards, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of
Dermatology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
discussed three common sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment.
Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are spread by contact of
genital skin (penis, scrotum, vagina and skin surrounding these areas) with
the infected skin of another person.
"While sexual intercourse is the most common way of catching a sexually
transmitted disease, oral sex and occasionally even contact with other
infected skin, such as a finger, can sometimes spread infections as well,"
said Dr. Edwards. "Contrary to what people might think, penetration with
sexual intercourse does not have to occur for an infection to spread. Using
a condom can help decrease the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted
disease, but skin contact still occurs around the edges of the condom and
can spread the disease."
Genital Herpes
While genital herpes is caused by one of two very closely related herpes
simplex viruses, type II herpes more often occurs in the genital area. The
virus infects the skin, generally causing small, painful blisters or open
sores. It is estimated that between 20 percent and 25 percent of Americans
are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes.
"The problem with herpes is that the virus stays in the body forever,
hiding
out in the nerve under the skin even after the blisters disappear,"
explained Dr. Edwards. "That's why herpes is such a significant threat to
teenagers-once you contract it, you literally carry it with you the rest of
your life."
Although people can pass this infection most easily when the open sores or
blisters are present, the virus can be infectious even when the skin looks
normal and people are taking medication to prevent outbreaks.
While there are no treatments that cure a herpes infection, there are
several medications-such as acyclovir, famciclovir and valacyclovir-that
shorten outbreaks and, if taken daily, keep outbreaks from occurring and
decrease the amount of virus on the skin.
Genital Warts
Genital warts are small, skin-colored bumps caused by a human
papillomavirus
(HPV). They can occur on the outside skin as well as inside the vagina and
on the cervix of women, where they are unnoticeable and can pass on the
infection.
"Warts generally do not appear until weeks or months after the infection
begins, making it somewhat difficult to determine how the infection was
initially passed on," cautioned Dr. Edwards. "More importantly, some wart
viruses can cause cancer of the cervix-making them a potentially serious
health risk for some women."
Although they usually do not hurt or itch, genital warts can be unsightly
and embarrassing. There are no treatments that cure a wart infection, but
there are treatments that help the body get rid of the warts-such as
freezing, burning, or applying acids that actually destroy the wart itself.
However, the virus that causes warts also lives in the skin so warts often
recur. A newer treatment, called imiquimod, is a cream that prompts the
body
to fight off the virus.
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a life-threatening infection that is
transmitted by sexual secretions and blood. The infection can make a person
feel as though he or she has the flu, which seems to go away, but the
infection remains and slowly damages and changes the immune system until
the
person cannot fight off other infections. A person can be infected with HIV
for several years before developing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS).
"The only way to avoid catching a sexually transmitted disease is to avoid
sexual activity altogether," said Dr. Edwards. "Teenagers need to realize
that they can't be cavalier when it comes to having sex. Even using a
condom
and limiting sexual activity to as few lifetime partners as possible is
only
partly protective."
The American Academy of Dermatology, founded in 1938, is the largest, most
influential, and most representative of all dermatologic associations. With
a membership of over 13,000 dermatologists worldwide, the Academy is
committed to: advancing the science and art 

[CTRL] SAfrica-prisons-AIDS: AIDS-linked deaths in S. African prisons s oar

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SAfrica-prisons-AIDS: AIDS-linked deaths in S. African prisons
soar
Agence France-Presse - October 17, 2000


JOHANNESBURG, Oct 17 (AFP) - AIDS-related deaths in South
Africa's prisons increased by about 300 percent from 1995 to
1999, and are expected to continue to soar, an official with a
prisons monitoring group said Tuesday.

Natural deaths in prisons had increased from 186 in 1995 to 737
in 1999, with about 90 percent of the deaths estimated to be
linked to AIDS, Gideon Morris, secretary of the group, called the
Office of the Inspecting Judge, told AFP.

The Office of the Inspecting Judge is an independent organisation
which works in conjunction with prisons in South Africa.

Already this year, there had been more than 1,000 natural deaths
in prisons, he said.

"From the post-mortems, they appear to be caused by AIDS in 90
percent of cases," Morris said.

An increase in the number of HIV-positive people entering
prisons, the high incidence of rape and overcrowding contributed
to the dramatic escalation in figures, he said.

"It is estimated that between 70 percent and 80 percent of all
arrested suspects are sodomised by fellow prisoners before they
are even officially charged," Morris told The Star newspaper.

"Many suspects are raped wihin the first 48 hours of being
detained," he said.

Last month Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said the
number of prisoners known to be HIV-positive had increased from
1,094 in July 1997 to 3,209 in July this year.

Morris was especially concerned about the high number of
prisoners awaiting trial, about 40 percent of whom he said were
eventually found not guilty.

About 45,000 prisoners awaiting trial were being held, he said.
"These guys are arrested and placed in side a cell. Within 48
hours they are usually robbed blind and probably raped," Morris
said.

Massive overcrowding meant that prisoners could not be properly
segregated, for example to keep gangsters away from prisoners
awaiting trial, and that guards could not properly ensure
control, he said.

At the end of September, about 151,000 people were in prisons,
which can ideally only accommodate 100,000, he told AFP.

The department of correctional services moved to ease
overcrowding last month by conditionally releasing 8,500
awaiting-trial prisoners whose bail had been set at under 1,000
rand (140 dollars), he said.

This week the release procedures began of another estimated 7,000
prisoners who have served half their sentences and were not found
guilty of violent crime, Morris said.

According to government, 4.2 million South Africans were at the
end of last year living with HIV or AIDS. This was the highest
number in the world, according to the UN's AIDS project, UNAIDS.

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[CTRL] Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have been worth

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London Times



FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 2000  CATHY PINNOCK/AP



Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have
been worth


Mining tycoon hides his family fortune

FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN JOHANNESBURG

HARRY OPPENHEIMER, the South African mining magnate reputed to be one of the
ten richest men in the world, went to his grave leaving little trace of his
vast personal fortune thought to be more than £3 billion, it was revealed
yesterday.
The former head of the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers, two of the
world's largest mining companies, left a will declaring his personal wealth
at a paltry 307 million rand (£30 million), a fraction of his real net
worth.

Like other billionaires, Mr Oppenheimer, who died in August aged 91 after a
brief illness, appears to have deposited the bulk of his vast fortune,
accumulated from mining gold, diamonds and other minerals, in a trust to
protect his assets for the future benefit of his family.

Most of the wealth declared in his will goes to his widow, Bridget, to whom
he was married for 57 years, including his extensive art collection, a stud
farm in Kimberley, and all his racehorse enterprises, along with properties,
stocks and cash.

A lifelong collector of art, Mr Oppenheimer is said by friends to have
accumulated "the most fabulous collections of art and Africana," including
the "most extraordinary collection of Thomas Baines originals." His
horse-breeding business at Mauritzfontein, Kimberley, is said to be worth
several million dollars.

In addition to leaving no clues as to the whereabouts of the missing
billions, Mr Oppenheimer's £30 million will, which is only provisional as
the value of his estate is still being finalised, also makes no mention of
his son, Nicholas, the chairman of De Beers, his daughter, Mary, his five
grandchildren, and his two great-grandchildren. All are expected to benefit
from the wealth tied up in the Harry Oppenheimer Family Trust.

Attempts to minimise death duties through the use of trust funds are legal,
but questions are bound to be asked about the ethical implications of South
Africa's richest individual protecting his vast personal wealth from
taxation in a country where millions of people live in grinding poverty and
where the Government does not have the resources to improve their lot.

Although Mr Oppenheimer was widely regarded as a great philanthropist, his
business interests benefited considerably from the pool of cheap black
labour provided under the former apartheid regime.

Some critics have insisted that he did not do enough to bring that system
down. They are now likely to be outraged that his personal fortune has been
placed beyond the reach of the taxman too.

Mr Oppenheimer inherited control of the family's already substantial mining
empire from his father, Sir Ernest, in 1957, before transforming it into one
of the world's greatest mining houses.

Harry was born in England in 1908 into a middle-class family that later
moved to South Africa. His father was Jewish, but the family converted to
Anglicanism. Sir Ernest founded Anglo American - which was valued on the
London Stock Exchange last year at £8.4 billion - in 1917 and became
chairman of De Beers in 1929.

The young Harry was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, and
served a tough apprenticeship in the family business during the Depression,
before becoming the driving force behind the expansion of the Oppenheimers'
worldwide mining interests, which he ran from a small room on the first
floor of Anglo American's Johannesburg offices.

He was a quiet, polite, even bookish man, with a passion for the Romantic
poets, especially Byron. During the 1980s he was credited with taking the
initiative to promote negotiations with the banned African National Congress
in an effort to bring an end to white minority rule.

An avowed capitalist with a social conscience, Mr Oppenheimer played a
leading role in ensuring that Anglo American and De Beers ploughed some of
their profits back into the community for large-scale development projects.

The family also contributes to charity through the E. Oppenheimer
Foundation.

Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, his successor as President of South Africa,
paid tribute to Mr Oppenheimer after his death "for building the economy and
creating employment for hundreds of thousands of South African citizens".

Overseeing the multibillion-pound business interests has always rested
firmly on the shoulders of the men in the family. Mr Oppenheimer's son took
over the chairmanship of De Beers in 1998, becoming the third generation of
Oppenheimers to run the company.

Rumour has it that Nicholas's son, Jonathan, is being groomed to take over
the family business. Surprisingly, not one of the seven Oppenheimer women
has ever entered or shown any interest in taking over the reins of the
dynasty.

Mr Oppenheimer's daughter, Mary, who has been married and divorced three
times, has gone out of her 

[CTRL] Ha'aretz: IDF fears Arafat is pushing for full-scale regional war

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Ha'aretz: IDF fears Arafat is pushing for full-scale regional war
By Amos Harel - Ha'aretz 20 October 2000


The defense establishment is becoming increasingly convinced that Yasser
Arafat does not intend to return to the Oslo process. This leaves him with
two choices: The first, and the one he apparently prefers at the minute, is
controlled violence that will lead in the end to new diplomatic
initiatives,
but with increased international involvement. The second, which Arafat has
not ruled out, is a full-scale regional war.
The hope that Arafat would act forcefully to stop the violence has been
revealed as delusional. The populace is pushing him to continue the "Al
Aqsa
Intifada." He has not yet sent a clear message of commitment to the Sharm
understandings, contenting himself with anonymous and nonbinding statements
through the Palestinian media. And serious incidents continue to occur.
Furthermore, some of the most dangerous Hamas activists are still not back
in Palestinian Authority prisons. IDF officers say that "lifting the
closure
on the territories at this point would be tantamount to madness," given the
intelligence information regarding plans to carry out bomb attacks in major
urban centers. Nor is it only Islamic radicals who pose a concern.
According
to the IDF, many of the latest incidents involved members of Mohammed
Dahlan's preventive security apparatus, and both Dahlan and his counterpart
in the West Bank, Jibril Rajoub, are still refusing to meet with Shin Bet
security service chief Avi Dichter.
In Arafat's preferred scenario, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would
resemble Kosovo: increasing international involvement, foreign observers
and
troops, and finally an imposed settlement - which would be better for the
Palestinians than what the Americans offered at Camp David. The minute
parties other than the Americans are involved, Arafat profits. An Israeli
mistake (bombing civilians, a massacre by settlers) or a new, more hesitant
American administration would also help.
And if Plan A does not achieve its goals, Arafat would still have the
option
of a regional conflict. His hope is that once the smoke clears, a
Palestinian state will emerge, perhaps with better borders than Ehud Barak
and Bill Clinton have offered him.
In the meantime, there are several tactical junctures to be maneuvered. The
first is this afternoon, when in Israel's view, the 48 hours allotted for
implementing a cease-fire expire (in the Palestinian view, this deadline
expired yesterday). Then comes the Arab League summit tomorrow. But the
most
important will come in the middle of next week, when Israel, finally
convinced that Oslo, like Sharm, is a dead letter, will have to decide what
to do. For the first time, it will have to consider taking the initiative,
rather than merely responding to events.
Despite differences of opinion within the general staff, most of the
generals still favor restraint. But continued escalation by Arafat would
change their mind. "We cannot become reconciled to a reality of daily
attacks," said one. "A war of attrition is the worst scenario ... it would
be better to sharpen [the conflict]."
Against this background, a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state -
probably sometime between the end of the Arab summit and November 15, which
is Palestinian Independence Day - becomes more likely. Ironically, this
would also have advantages for Israel: Israel would be seen as justified in
taking steps to guarantee its own interests, such as separating more
decisively from the Palestinians, seizing key positions, and even annexing
part of Area C (that part of the territories still under full Israeli
control).
The most worrying scenario is a regional conflict. Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak has been working for restraint, but Iraq, Iran and Hezbollah are
working for war. Iraq has already moved a division toward the Jordan border
and put its air force on higher alert - exhibitionist steps, but not
meaningless - and Hezbollah will do its best to drag Syria into the
conflict


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[CTRL] Standard Writing Rules for OBE English Students

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STANDARD WRITING RULES FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS
FROM THE U.S. DEPTARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands  abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical
words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth
earth-shaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its
not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know."
28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times:
Resist hyperbole. Not one writer in a million can use it
correctly.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
And finally...
34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.



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[CTRL] They're killers. They're HIV-positive. And guess what?...

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They're killers. They're HIV-positive. And guess what?...
By Thomas Allen

Remember the "Lost Boys"? - the gang of child soldiers that the media
discovered in the Sudan a couple of years ago?

Well, they're coming here. All of them. As part of the refugee inflow
authorized by the 1980 Refugee Act and set by the White House in
consultation with Congress every year.

And they're not all that's coming. Because HIV is so prevalent in Africa,
the recent increase in the numbers of refugees from Africa will certainly
cause a dramatic increase in AIDS cases in the U.S. The Clinton
Administration's masterful response to this threat: it has lowered the bar
for admission of HIV positive refugees. A senior Centers for Disease Control
official says this was done specifically to allow more HIV positive refugees
into the country.

And guess who gets to pay for this...

The number of African refugees admitted to the U.S. has tripled in the last
2 years, under pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, the U.N., and
various charities. Approximately 18,000 will be admitted as refugees from
Africa in the year 2000. According to refugee officials, this number could
double again in the next 2 years.

All refugee flows - without exception - lead to expanded flows of
non-refugee immigrants. The new arrivals simply petition for relatives to
come join them in the U.S. under the out-of-control "family reunification"
provisions of current immigration law. Similarly, illegal immigration and
asylee flows always increase from countries that get refugees into the U.S.

All refugees are entitled to welfare/Medicaid 30 days after arrival. Refugee
dependence on welfare/Medicaid is staggering. Together with the direct costs
of the refugee program, it costs at least $10 billion per year.

In some African countries 1 out of 4 adults has HIV. Recently, I was told by
two senior CDC officials that HIV screening for refugees and immigrants is
not adequate - and this was before the Administration made admission easier
for HIV positive individuals.

(For comparison, TB screening is felt to be effective. But even with
'effective' TB screening, the foreign-born TB caseload has risen to 42% of
total TB cases in the U.S. Individuals with serious diseases that cannot be
treated at home, such as TB and HIV, regularly seek to immigrate to the U.S.
to receive free medical care. CDC has reported on this phenomenon in its
papers on TB and immigration - for example, CDC's Morbidity and Mortality
weekly Report, Dec 28 1990, vol. 39, p. 8).

Refugee flows and other forms of immigration from Africa could reach
60,000-75,000 a year within a few years. According to both a State
Department official and a CDC official, "easily" more than 10% of refugees
from many African countries will have HIV. The rate could be even higher.

As a result of the refugee program and a poorly-functioning HIV screening
system, the annual number of new HIV cases in the U.S. could be higher than
the current rate of 40,000 new cases per year by as much as a fifth or more.

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[CTRL] shutting the internet down

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  http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2713.html

 Meet Eater
 The FBI's Plan for Digital Wiretaps Raises More Questions Than
 It Answers

   By Robert X. Cringely

 There is this moment toward the otherwise forgettable end of
 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" when this alien creature
 patterned after the Wizard of Oz has even Spock convinced that
 it is God with a capital "G." They are just about to fire-up
 the Enterprise and take "God" back to Earth when Kirk --
 probably hoping to avoid the military protocol involved with
 having a deity on the bridge -- asks a pivotal question: Why
 would God need a starship? Couldn't God just blink and
 instantly be in Times Square looking up at the NASDAQ sign,
 wondering why they cut windows into a video screen?

 This scene of the skeptical Kirk flashed in my mind this week
 as I read about Carnivore, the FBI's system for reading the
 e-mail of bad guys. Carnivore is a sealed box that is
 installed at the network operations center of an Internet
 Service Provider. It filters packets, finds e-mail going to
 and from identified criminals, and saves that e-mail for later
 decryption and analysis. What bothers the Internet Service
 Providers is they have no control over the Carnivore box, and
 no way of protecting the privacy of all the customers who
 aren't drug lords or escaped felons. What bothers the American
 Civil Liberties Union is the likelihood that individuals will
 not only lose their right to privacy, but lose it in a new and
 insidious way.

 What bothers me is the damned box. Why would the FBI need a
 box? Here's all the FBI will say about Carnivore. It sits on
 the network at the ISP, is PC-based, is "a kind of a sniffer,"
 identifies and saves packets associated with suspected
 criminals, is installed under a court order, and doesn't
 itself act as a decryption device. There are supposed to be
 around 20 Carnivore boxes, and they have been in use since
 early this year. You don't need a sealed box to do any of
 these tasks, most of which are already being done for
 completely legal reasons right inside the router at every ISP.
 Routers look at every packet, determine what type of packet it
 is, where it is coming from and where it is going to, then the
 router delivers the packet to its intended destination. This
 is what routers do. Adding the Carnivore task is a simple
 matter of blind copying every packet to or from a bad guy to a
 third address at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in
 Washington, DC. It's at most a few lines of code and requires
 no additional hardware.

 So why the box?

 The probable reason is because cops like to be in control.
 They LIKE boxes, like delivering them in unmarked cars, like
 the satisfying click of the RJ-45 connector as it slides home.
 Maybe they don't know that it could all be done without a box.
 Heck, it IS being done without a box all the time, and that's
 where the ACLU is missing the point. Sniffers have been
 running on networks ever since Harry Saal invented the device.
 Every packet at every ISP already goes through a sniffer at
 least part of the time. An ISP could do at any time what we
 fear the FBI might do with Carnivore read the e-mail and
 follow the surfing habits of every pretty blonde customer.
 Good ISPs, which is to say nearly all ISPs don't do this, of
 course, but it happens.

   So why doesn't the FBI just get a court order making the ISP
 do the dirty work? That's what the ISPs wonder, too,
 especially since that's how phone taps are handled. Cops don't
 really climb poles and attach alligator clips to hear phone
 calls. That's all done at the central office by telephone
 company technicians.

  The FBI, through the use of Carnivore, is trying to grab a
 little more power. And by doing it themselves with Carnivore,
 the FBI doesn't have to reveal the identity of the bad guy or
 extent to which it is using the box. Yeah, right.

  But wait, it gets worse. There are aspects of this case that
 the ACLU hasn't even considered. The Carnivore boxes are
 what's called "co-located" at the ISP. This isn't a rare
 thing. Many organizations like to control their own Web or
 mail servers and so co-locate them at an ISP. Colocation puts
 your server closer to the Internet backbone, eliminates
 typical T-1 line costs, allows the ISP to monitor and reboot
 the server, and usually comes with nifty things like redundant
 backbone connections and diesel generators in case the power
 goes out. Companies in the co-location business include
 well-known names like ATT, IBM, and Intel. So there are tens
 of thousands -- maybe hundreds of thousands -- of computers
 already installed just like the FBI installs its Carnivore
 boxes. What keeps those co-located computers from being
 sniffers, too? Nothing at all. For $300 per month, you too
 could install your own Carnivore box at the ISP of your
 choice. Co-location facilities don't really care what you do
 with your co-located server 

[CTRL] Undisclosed Gay Greeks

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   Undisclosed Gay Greeks

 by Paul Gottfried

   On September 23, we are told about a sign of change that the New York
   Times obviously approves of. The editors of the Loeb Greek and Latin
   classics (published at Harvard) are now offering translations of
   ancient authors that do justice to their homoerotic interests. Though
   the account makes it appear that the new enlightened editors are at
   last honoring James Loeb, the founder and patron of the series who had
   no use for "bowdlerized" translations, these comments are both vacuous
   and hypocritical.

   The media and the filmmakers doctor reality incessantly to make it fit
   their escalating ideological agenda. Thus in films we hardly ever see
   blacks committing violent crimes in inner cities, while media reports
   of black and Hispanic riots typically attribute them to economic
   oppression and white racism. Note also the cloying way homosexual
   activists are presented in the Times, unlike such predictable heavies
   as (non-leftist) Southern whites, non-media big business, and
   Christian traditionalists. If disclosing the full truth is what the
   past Loeb editors failed to do, their sins fall far short of those
   committed by our national press, including the Times.

   The two ancient authors mentioned in the news item whose homoerotic
   interests had been allegedly hidden by prudish or mendacious
   translators, Aristophanes and Plato, are bad illustrations for a
   questionable argument. Aristophanes, in his plays, reported the
   "bawdy" humor surrounding Athenian pedophiles, but it is doubtful this
   playwright had any sympathy for the libertines featured or ridiculed
   in his work. A critic of Socrates, whom he thought was corrupting
   Athenss youth, Aristophanes detested non-traditional morals and
   beliefs and never, as far as I know, treated homoeroticism in a
   favorable light. Moreover, Plato was so critical of homosexual acts
   that he made them a capital offense in The Laws. Though the accuracy
   of this harsh judgment has been subject to dispute by politically
   correct classicists, most famously Martha Nussbaum, it is hard to read
   the disputed text without agreeing with the established translation.
   When the Eleatic Stranger, who leads the conversation, concludes that
   homosexuality is para phusin, he does mean what he says, that the act
   is "against Nature."

   Platos Symposium is another case in point, a now misrepresented text
   that offers negative judgments about homoerotic relations. Here the
   future political adventurer and self-absorbed pedophile Alcibiades
   recalls a night spent sleeping next to Socrates. This deeply ascetic
   teacher resisted his advances and acted in such a manner as would
   "befit a father or older brother." Alcibiades and the other former
   symposiasts testify to Socratess efforts to contrast homoerotic
   passions to the yearning for a "higher beauty" that is spiritual.

   If gay activists and their media boosters are looking for a usable
   past, they might try such plausible candidates as Ernst Roehms Brown
   Shirts. On the other hand, misrepresenting the intentions of respected
   ancient authors does have its propagandistic advantage, especially if
   scholars can be browbeaten or rewarded into going along.

  October 4, 2000

   Paul Gottfried is professor of history at Elizabethtown College and
   author, most recently, of the highly recommended After Liberalism.


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SEPT 2000



COVER STORY
Aids: Judgement day on the 13th
Pusch Commey, reports from Durban, on the good, the bad and the shananagians
at the recent 13th International Aids Conference held in that city.
Something is killing Africa and the world. What it is, nobody is sure. But
for now the medical establishment believes it is HIV.

Based on this premise, 12,400 delegates and over 1,500 journalists
congregated at the Durban International Convention Centre for the 13th
International Aids conference (9-14 July) to debate and compare notes on the
most insidious scourge in modern times. These were bad times to be a youth.
But all was not solidarity.

The run up to the conference itself was characterised by an unrelenting
media assault on the person of President Thabo Mbeki. He was variously
described as irresponsible, grossly negligent and genocidal. Most thought he
had lost his marbles. Columnists suggested that it is perhaps his final
solution to the high incidence of poverty and unemployment.

His mortal sin was to have exercised his right to the freedom of expression
and enquiry that all Western constitutions hold so dear. He had dared
question the unquestionable: the inconclusive theory that Aids is solely
caused by a virus called HIV.

He had dared to threaten the very foundation upon which is built a huge Aids
edifice that feeds on the virus. Pharmaceutical companies, Aids researchers,
the medical establishment, microbiologists, NGOs, entrepreneurs, you name
it. And which replicates as fast as the virus itself as sufficient panic is
created to force governments and institutions to fork out more and more
cash.

The potential catastrophe has been variously described as akin to a nuclear
war that will decimate economies and societies, and leave ghost countries or
maybe continents in its wake; Africa being the usual suspect.

Durban, the current "epicentre" of the invincible virus, was chosen as the
venue of the counter-attack primarily for this reason. So far the body
count, according to UNAIDS, is 33 million infected worldwide by the end of
1999, 18 million already dead. Africa's share was 24 million infections.

South Africa reportedly has the highest number of people living with the
virus - 4.2 million. And its neighbour, Botswana, is said to be the worst
afflicted, with about 36% of its adult population between the ages of 15 and
49 affected. Delegates echoed a modern day black plague revisited on blacks.
They largely blamed African sexuality and gross negligence. It was time to
fight back and one huge banner on the highway lamented: "The future is not
what it used to be".


Alternative views not welcome

Break the silence was the chosen theme, partly meant to highlight the
"criminal negligence" of governments said to have buried their heads in the
sand while the epidemic raged. More importantly it was meant to bring the
issue of Aids out into the open.

Ironically, this invitation to transparency did not extend to anybody with a
view contrary to the official one - that "HIV is the sole cause of Aids".
Chairman Mao would have been proud of this huge conspiracy to silence
dissenting voices.

Legal threats to President Mbeki and a threatened boycott of the conference
by anti-Mbeki elements failed to materialise.

Delegates came from over 200 countries and paid $800 each for the privilege
to attend. For the duration of the conference, the official website
(www.aids2000.co.za) recorded 1.4m hits, with promises of a bigger turnout
at the next conference in Barcelona, Spain, in 2002.

Before the commencement, an agenda had already been set with the "Durban
Declaration"; a scroll-like document in the form of the Ten Commandments
tablet signed by 5,000 medical practitioners declaring HIV to be the sole
cause of Aids.

In another manoeuvre, the German drug company, Boehringer Ingelheim,
manufacturers of Viramune (also known as Nevirapine) and a major sponsor of
the conference, announced without informing the Mbeki government, that it
would offer its drug free for five years to prevent South African babies
born to HIV-positive mothers being infected.

Preceding that, the South African government had come under intense fire
from the press for failing to provide pregnant HIV-positive mothers with
drugs that would reduce transmission risks, saying they were too expensive
and toxic.

Boehringer's move, the detail of which was uncertain, was cautiously
welcomed by UNAIDS. At best, it was a tactical manoeuvre as well as a Greek
gift meant to undermine the Mbeki government's position on anti-retroviral
drugs.

The big Western drug companies had made major contributions to the
sponsorship of the conference and expected returns on their investments. But
what drew a lot of interest was the sex workers stand which reported an
unprecedented boom 

[CTRL] international media inrael

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Subject: Please forward this to anyone you know. It exposes the
international media

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:43:34 +0200


You need to look at the picture before you read this!


Subject: To the Editor

Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:15:07 -0500

From: aaronnoach
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Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and

the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my

son , Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of

his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while travelling in

Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and

stabbed.


That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because

there

are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew

lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier

attempting to protect my son from the mob.


Aaron Grossman, M.D.

6737 N Richmond

Chicago, IL 60645

(773) 743-1194



Subject: (no subject)

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:39 EDT

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Dear Editor,

Even the typically biased and slanted NY Times middle east

reporting has hit a new low. Since the Times wishes to convey the

belief that the Palestinians are all innocent lambs being tormented by

an aggressive oppressor, it can not even conceive that the wounded and

injured are NOT Palestinians. The current case in point is very

personal to me. In the Saturday's Times on page A6, the picture of the

"wounded Palestinian" is, in fact, my nephew, Tuvia Grossman, an

AMERICAN Jewish student learning in Israel. His only crime was being

Jewish. He was not in "crossfire" but merely the target of Palestinian

lambs who stoned his cab, dragged him from the vehicle, smashed his

head with stones and stabbed him in the leg. The Israeli soldier, whom

you obviously wished to portray as victimizing the poor, wounded

Palestinian was actually saving my nephew's life. A casual look

at the background of the picture can tell anyone that it's not the

Temple Mount at all. I believe that a retraction, in a prominent

position in the paper, is neccessary and an apology to the parents,

forthcoming.


Howard Gissinger

2809 Avenue S

Brooklyn, New York 11229

718-998-2909









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[CTRL] Is Kevin MacDonald a Scholar?

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  http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/salter.htm
Is Kevin MacDonald a Scholar?

Essay/Review

Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in
Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

By Kevin MacDonald, Department of Psychology, California State University at
Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901 USA.
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998.

Reviewed by Frank Salter, Max Planck Institute, Andechs, Germany

Human Ethology Bulletin, September 2000

Most readers of this Bulletin will be aware of the controversy that
embroiled ISHE member Kevin MacDonald at the recent annual meeting of our
kindred organization, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). At a
special session MacDonald was charged with anti-Semitism and his scientific
standing questioned. Any review must now be counted as contributing to that
controversy since it bears on MacDonald's status as a scholar and
evolutionary psychologist. With this in mind I decided to combine the book
review with a description of the recent controversy concerning The Culture
of Critique among human evolutionists. I shall be arguing that much of the
criticism of MacDonald is founded on ignorance of his scholarship and a
confounding of political and scientific issues.

Charges of anti-Semitism, political motivation, and shoddy scholarship are
clearly plausible to many colleagues. The broad political Left, which
constitutes the academic establishment since at least the 1960s, views
interest in evolutionary accounts of human nature, and even claiming that
such a thing exists, as tantamount to fascism (Singer 1998). This prejudice
was directed at the pioneers of the evolutionary approach both in the U.S.
and overseas, such as the late Bill Hamilton, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt,
Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Napoleon Chagnon, and many others. The
new leaders of America's evolutionary scene have been at pains to dispell
this image. The name of a leading journal, Ethology  Sociobiology, was
changed to an anodyne substitute, and an emphasis was maintained on
cross-cultural universals at the expense of human biodiversity. Individual
and group differences apart from age and sex are still largely ignored, with
race and ethnicity conspicuous by their near absence from America's leading
evolutionary academic journals-Evolution and Human Behavior (the HBES home
journal), Human Nature, and Politics and the Life Sciences. Given such a
defensive posture it is little wonder that a long, cold inspection of
Judaism should raise a storm. What is one to make of a scholar who:
(1) like so many anti-Semites takes pains to show the great
overrepresentation of
Jews in radical political movements such as post-WWI Bolshevism in Russia
and Central Europe, the Communist Party of America, and the New Left of the
1960s and 1970s (including the claim that in 1928 Jews were 1000%
overrepresented among socialist Reichstag deputies);
(2) who revives the old Nazi canard about Freud by alleging that he was a
Jewish activist nurturing
hatred of "Aryan" Europe, leading an essentially Jewish cabal of
psychoanalysts intent on subverting Christian sexual standards;
(3) who portrays Jensen's hereditarian theory of IQ as mainstream;
(4) who maintains that on average Jews constitute a quarter of America's
elites and draws
attention to 58% representations in the senior ranks of Hollywood (which it
"dominates"), 50% of network television producers, and 40% of elite
university law faculty;
(5) who maintains that since the mid 1960s the media
elite has pursued a leftist agenda that includes promoting racial
integration through school busing;
(6) who goes so far as to question the appropriateness of large Jewish
over-representation in a democratic elite;
(7) who suggests that European-Jewish intellectual prominence is genetically
based and the result of eugenic processes within traditional Jewish
communities;
(8) who argues that Jewish intellectuals such as Franz Boas, Felix
Frankfurter, Harold Laski, Max Lerner, Morris Cohen, and Robert Merton,
accelerated the "deChristianization" of America's public life by
selectively promoting as cultural heroes Gentiles who advanced their goals,
such as Margaret Mead, John Dewey, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes;
(9) who agrees with T. S. Eliot's most famous anti-Semitic statement, that
any
large number of free-thinking Jews is undesirable if one wants to maintain
or develop a society in which a Christian, ethnically homogeneous tradition
can flourish.

Surely it is reasonable to be outraged at such a person being associated
with a respectable academic association? Well, not if that person is Stanley
Rothman, Mary Huiggins Gamble Professor of Government at Smith College, New
York, who makes the first six of these points and is a recent member the
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (1974; 1978; Rothman 
Lichter 1996/1982; Rothman  Snyderman 1988; Lerner et al. 1996; Lichter et
al. 1986); or Prof. Arno Motulsky, 

[CTRL] Who Was Jesus?--A Roman Agent?

[J Taylor]

-Caveat Lector-

(http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm)

Who Was Jesus?
The Bible gave a warning about a dangerous, false prophet who would arise to
test our faith in G-d. In Deuteronomy 13, G-d describes this false prophet
as a member of the Jewish people (v. 2, 7) who would tell true prophecies
and would have the power of miracles. G-d Himself would give this false
prophet the power to perform miracles and reveal prophecy, but the false
prophet would try to seduce the people away from G-d's Law and towards
strange gods unknown to Judaism. The purpose would be to test whether we are
truly committed to living under the Law, or whether we will be dazzled and
fall for the temptation to join a false path to salvation (v. 3-6, 7-8, 11).
In this Biblical passage, G-d repeatedly commands the Jews to kill this
false prophet, lest the evil spread and destroy many souls.

To be accepted by the people, the false prophet would sometimes pretend to
be a righteous Jew who fulfills the Law, but at key moments he would turn
against certain details of the Law in order to make the breach (v. 6, 7).
This is the reason that verse 1 commands us not to add or subtract any
details from the Law, and verse 5 warns us to remain steadfast with all the
traditions of the Law.

In Deuteronomy 17, this false prophet is also described as someone who would
rebel against the authority of the judges of the Jewish people, and who
should be put to death for his rebelliousness (v. 8-13, esp. v. 12). Who are
the judges? The highest court in Israel was the Sanhedrin, which was
established by Moses (Exodus 18:13-26; Numbers 11:16-29), and which lasted
more than 15 centuries. The members of the Sanhedrin were the rabbis known
as "Pharisees" (Pirushim, "those with the explanation"). G-d gave permanent
authority to these judges to interpret the Law and G-d's Word, and it is a
commandment to follow their decisions without turning even slightly to the
right or the left (Deut. 17:11). But the false prophet would challenge the
authority of the Sanhedrin, thus revealing himself to be an evil man.

In the book of the prophet Daniel, this false prophet is described as a king
(the eleventh horn on a terrible beast) who would wage war against the Jews
(the "holy ones"; see Deut. 14:2 on this term) and would change the Law —
including the calendar and the holidays (Daniel 7:8, 20-25). Elsewhere, this
false prophet is described as a king who would disregard the G-d of his
fathers, exalting himself as a god and giving honor to this new god-head
(Daniel 11:36-39).

The man known today as "Jesus" fulfilled all these prophecies. He became a
"king" (over the Christian church) who changed the original Law, doing away
with the Hebrew calendar and the Biblical holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom
Kippur, Sukkos — the Festival of Tabernacles, Passover, etc.). He
disregarded the one, infinite G-d of the Hebrew Bible in favor of a new
"trinity" that included himself. And he repeatedly broke the Law by
committing terrible sins, while openly challenging the G-d-given authority
of the rabbis of the Sanhedrin.

Naturally, Jesus did sometimes pretend to respect the Law, but whenever he
thought he could get away with it, he turned right around and broke that
same Law. In Matthew 5:17-19, he declared that he came to fulfill the Law,
and in Matthew 23:1-3 he defended the authority of the rabbis. But the rest
of the time, he rebelled against the Law — thus showing that his occasional
words of piety were meant only to hide his evil agenda. The following sins
of Jesus are recorded in the "New Testament":

1) Jesus repudiated the laws of kosher food (Mark 7:18-19). [Compare this to
the prophet Daniel's strict adherence to kashrus, in Daniel chapter 1.]

2) He repudiated the laws of honoring one's parents, and called on his
followers to hate their parents; he also dishonored his own mother (Matthew
10:34-36; Matthew 12:46-50; Luke 14:26).

3) He violated the Sabbath by picking grain, and incited his disciples to do
the same (Matthew 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-26).

4) He again violated the Sabbath by healing a man's arm, which was not a
matter of saving a life, and he openly defied the rabbis in his total
repudiation of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9-13; Mark 3:1-5). [Compare this to
G-d's view of violating the Sabbath, in Numbers 15:32-36, Nehemiah 10:30-32,
and dozens of other places throughout the Bible.]

5) Jesus brazenly defied and disobeyed the rabbis of the Sanhedrin,
repudiating their authority (This is recorded in many places throughout the
New Testament, but look especially at Matthew 23:13-39 and John 8:44-45).

The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of "Jesus the Nazarene":

1) He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic, led Jews astray
into idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign, gentile powers for the purpose
of subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin 43a).

2) He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a brick is
mentioned), was cut off from the Jewish 

[CTRL] Present Israeli troubles

[J Taylor]

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Sent: 02 October 2000 12:32
Subject: The Martyrdom of Joseph

 The Martyrdom of Joseph

On Rosh Hashana, Madhat Yusef  became a martyr of the Oslo "peace process"
and of the policies of the Israel government of Ehud Barak. Madhat was a
nineteen year old Druse soldier serving in Israel's border patrol.  He was
murdered by PLO bullets, but allowed to bleed to death by the government of
Israel.
Like many in his Druse town of Beit Jan, Madhat served in the same border
patrol in which his father had previously served his country for 25 years.
And like  American Jews who work on Christmas Day to allow their countrymen
to celebrate their holidays, Madhat was doing guard duty at Joseph's Shrine
in Nablus/Shechem on the Jewish New Year when he was murdered by PLO
stormtroopers sent out by Yassir Arafat.
Jospeh's Tomb is a shrine in the center of Nablus.   The town lies between
the Mountain of Blessings from the Bible, Mount Grizim, and the Mountain of
Curses.   In the Bible the Israelites are evenly divided between the two
mountains by Moses so that future Jew will feel that he is in the center
between the two, that the fate of the entire nation is in the balance and
depends on his behavior and actions.  In the middle, between the two
mountains, is the shrine where the bones of Joseph lie, carried to the
Promised Land by the Israelites according to Joseph's last will and
testament.   In this glen, Ehud Barak tipped the balance on Rosh Hashana
toward cowardice and national suicide.
According to the Oslo Accords (the formal written ones, not the de facto
ones where Israel makes endless appeasements for peace and the PLO wages
war) it is agreed that Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, like Rachael's Tomb near
Bethlehem, should remain in Israeli control and under Israeli sovereignty.
The PLO pledges freedom of access and respect for Jewish religious shrines.
In reality, Joseph's Tomb has become a sort of Jewish Alamo.  It is the
scene of daily violence by the PLO.  Jews take their lives in the hands to
go there.
A handful of courageous yeshiva students stay there, guarded by some
soldiers and border patrolmen.   The students have refused to listen to
Israel's Lobotomized Left, urging that they abandon Joseph's Tomb in order
to avoid "provoking" the poor Palestinians with their presence. The
students
live under permanent siege, and PLO "police" routinely attack people trying
to enter or leave the shrine.  Things are not much better at Rachael's
shrine.   It is all an indicator of what Jews can expect to happen at the
Western Wall if Israel's Left ever has its way and the Old City of
Jerusalem
is handed over to the PLO.
For years the PLO has sought to ruin Jewish holidays with violence.  Two
years ago Arafat decided to send the Jews a Succos holiday greeting in the
form of a pogrom, launched after Israel had decided to allow Jews to visit
an old Maccabee Tunnel near but not under the Temple Mount.  Arafat
fabricated a story of how the Jews were endangering the Al-Aqsa Mosque and
polluting it with their proximity, and ordered his stormtroopers to open
fire.   Purim has for years been the season for Arab atrocities, including
bombings.  And this year Arafat decided to order pogroms on Rosh Hashana,
the Jewish New Year.
It was all a part of the "Al-Aqsa intifada" as it was officially named by
Arafat.   For years we have been saying in this corner that the entire Oslo
"peace process" will produce, instead of peace, nothing but the metastasis
of violence from the "territories" into pre-1967 Israel, where Israeli
Arabs
will be radicalized, nazified, and will turn to terrorism.  The Rosh
Hashana
pogrom proved how correct this prognosis is.
The official excuse for the pogrom was that Likud leader Arik Sharon had
gone for a walk on the Temple Mount, where the two Temples of the Biblical
era once stood.   Jews are allowed to visit the Mount as tourists.  They
are
not allowed to pray there and even silent lip-movement by a Jew can get him
arrested.   There was not a serious danger that Sharon was about to pray
there, as it is doubtful he knows how.
The control over the Temple Mount had been turned over to the PLO at the
start of Oslo.   Even before that the pathetic government of Yitzhak Shamir
had ordered that all Israeli flags be removed from the vicinity of the
Mount
to avoid offending Moslem hypersensitivities.   The Mount is de facto under
PLO sovereignty and flies the PLO flag.   At Camp David, Barak had offered
formally to recognize PLO sovereignty over the Temple Mount along with
turning over nearly the entire West Bank to the PLO Reichlet.   But Barak
had balked at handing Arafat the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem, which
the PLO is demanding.
As a result, Arafat was looking for an excuse to launch pogroms.  He has
been taught in Pavlovian manner over the past decade that the best way to
get concessions from Israel is through violence.   On Friday, Erev Rosh
Hashana, the PLO-paid and PLO-appointed preachers of 

[CTRL] The tyranny within

[J Taylor]

-Caveat Lector-

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/commentary-200092918712.htm

THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 29, 2000

The tyranny within



Paul Craig Roberts

 Tyranny is creeping up on us. If you don't believe it, consider the
most prominent hallmarks of the Nazi and communist regimes, which sought to
supplant democracy in the 20th century.
 In National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union, there were no First
Amendment rights. No one could voice an opinion contrary to the politically
correct views enforced by the Gestapo and the KGB. Media and education were
used to instill politically correct thinking and bring denunciation upon
anyone who departed from politically correct thinking.
 This is precisely the situation that exists today in the vast majority
of American colleges and universities. Verbal and facial expressions that
are contrary to political correctness result in sensitivity training (a form
of brainwashing) or expulsion for the offender, who may have done nothing
more than laugh. If the source of mirth is an ethnic joke, a blonde joke or
a hilarious claim by a multiculturalist, the hapless offender discovers that
his constitutional protections do not exist.
 In Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, there were victim groups that
were championed and oppressor groups that were suppressed. In Germany, the
"victims" were Aryans, who were said to be under the financial hegemony of
Jews. In the Soviet Union, the hegemonic group was the bourgeoisie, who
allegedly held sway over an oppressed proletariat. In both countries,
victims were permitted to exercise violent language and actions against
oppressors.
 In the United States today, white heterosexual able-bodied males
constitute the hegemonic group. Everyone else is a member of a victim group.
 In Germany and the Soviet Union, the abstract and imaginary group roles
of oppressor and victim were given a frightful reality by ideologues. Race
and class categories became the basis for discrimination and new legal
systems that favored victims' groups with preferences.
 On American campuses, multicultural ideology has revived the concepts
of race and class oppression, and added new ones based on gender and sexual
orientation. Men oppress women, and heterosexuals oppress homosexuals.
 According to multiculturalists, our culture and values reflect nothing
but the arbitrary domination of society by white heterosexual males.
University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Kors says that, thanks to
multiculturalism, "half a century after the defeat of Nazism, we distinguish
by blood and we equate blood with culture." We now think like Nazis and
explain our society and culture in terms of race (and gender) hegemony.
 Tyrannical states attack the family. Both the Nazis and communists are
infamous for state intrusions in family affairs. In the United States,
similar bureaucratic and political intrusions come from family courts. Most
Americans are unaware of the existence of these relatively new "courts."
Howard University Professor Stephen Baskerville is the leading authority on
these courts. He says family courts are "the most dangerous institution
posing a threat to constitutional rights in our society. The only parallels
are the ideological-bureaucratic dictatorships of the last century."
 Family courts claim immunity from the Constitution and from scrutiny by
federal courts. Mr. Baskerville describes them as follows: "Their
proceedings are secret and unrecorded. Their orders are enforced by
bureaucratic police who do not wear uniforms and whose sole responsibility
is to conduct surveillance over families and private lives. As such, these
police are akin to secret police. By the very nature of their jurisdiction,
these courts and police are the most intrusive and invasive arm of
government, and yet they are accountable to virtually no one. Such an
institution is intolerable in a free society."
 Recently a family court judge ordered the parents of a 7-year-old boy
in Berne, N.Y., to put their child on Ritalin, a behavior-control drug. The
alternative was to be found guilty of "educational neglect," an offense that
would open the possibility of their child being seized by Child Protective
Services — a Hillary Clinton "village" institution straight from the pages
of the Gestapo. The child suffered serious side effects from the drug, but
parents no longer have the right to decide what is best for their children.
 Tyrannical states assault the individual in the inner recesses of his
consciousness. He is not permitted to think certain thoughts or to express a
prohibited thought privately to anyone.
 Recently, Janice Barton encountered a Spanish-speaking couple while
leaving a restaurant in Manistee, Mich. She turned to her mother and said,
"I wish these [ethnic slur] would learn to speak English." An off-duty
deputy sheriff overheard the private remark, followed the woman to her car
and noted her tag number. Janice 

[CTRL] More on smear in anthropology

[J Taylor]

-Caveat Lector-

Copied from another list:
This is an open email from Dr. Samuel Katz, sent to numerous
individuals, including the original recipients of the Turner/Sponsel
email:

Because I was the co-developer (with John F. Enders, Nobel laureate)
of measles vaccine, I have been the recipient over the past 10 days
of numerous phone calls and e-mails regarding the Yanomami and
Patrick Tierney's accusations (Darkness in El Dorado). I am neither
an anthropologist nor a geneticist. I am a pediatrician-vaccinologist
who has spent the past 44 years in studies of various vaccines,
especially measles.

Among the materials sent me is a memo (undated) from Terry Turner and
Leslie Sponsel to Louise Lamphere and Don Brenneis. Their comments
regarding Neel's use of measles vaccine are totally incorrect.
Edmonston B vaccine which Neel administered at a time when an
epidemic of measles was already underway (Amer J Epidemiology, 1970,
91:418-429, Neel et al) was a scientifically established and proven
method of attempting to interrupt an outbreak. Nearly 19 million
infants and children between 1963 and 1975 in the US and
internationally received this licensed (by FDA) vaccine with or
without immune globulin. Vaccine virus has never been transmitted to
susceptible contacts and cannot cause measles even in intimate
contacts. Drs. Turner's and Sponsel's memo indulges in hyperbole as
well as errors ("virulent vaccine", "counterindicated by medical
experts", "greatly exacerbated and probably started the epidemic of
measles", etc.). Who are the unnamed "medical experts" they cite?

Once again, I cannot comment on Neel's style, goals or objectives,
but the use of Edmonston B vaccine in an attempt to halt an epidemic
was a justifiable, proven and valid approach. In no way could it
initiate or exacerbate an epidemic. Continued circulation of these
charges is not only unwarranted, but truly egregious.

Yours very truly,

Samuel L. Katz, MD Wilburt C. Davison Professor  Chairman Emeritus
Department of Pediatrics

SLK/bc






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[CTRL] The professor of lies

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THE TRUTH AND EDWARD SAID
By Jeff Jacoby

September 28, 2000

Edward Said, the world's most renowned Palestinian intellectual, was
exposed
as a fraud last summer. The experience apparently taught him nothing.
For decades Said had passed himself off as an exile-an Arab born and raised
in Jerusalem only to be driven out by the Jews in the runup to the
Arab-Israeli war of 1948. He had told the story often, lacing his narrative
with poignant detail.
"I feel even more depressed," he reminisced in March 1998, "when I remember
my beautiful old house surrounded by pine and orange trees in Al-Talbiyeh
in
east Jerusalem." In a BBC documentary he recalled his years at St.
George's,
an Anglican prep school in Jerusalem; he and a boy named David Ezra, Said
recollected, used to sit together in the back of the classroom. He told
another interviewer in 1997 that he could still identify the rooms in his
family's former house "where as a boy he read 'Sherlock Holmes' and
'Tarzan,' and where he and his mother read Shakespeare to each other." All
this was lost when his family fled from Talbiyeh in December 1947, driven
out, as he explained, by the "Jewish-forces sound truck [that] warned Arabs
to leave the neighborhood."
But as Justus Reid Weiner showed in Commentary, the influential journal of
opinion, Said's tragic tale was largely a fabrication. The Saids, it turned
out, had lived in Egypt, not Palestine. Edward Said grew up and went to
school in a posh neighborhood in Cairo, where his father had a thriving
business. Now and then the family would visit cousins in Jerusalem; Edward
was born during one such visit in 1935. But on his birth certificate, the
Saids' place of residence was listed as Cairo; the space for indicating a
local address in Palestine was left blank.
Weiner looked into the expulsion of Talbiyeh's Arabs in 1947. It never
happened. He checked the student registries at St. George's. There was no
mention of Edward Said. He even interviewed David Ezra, the student with
whom Said sat in the back of the room. Because of his bad eyesight, Ezra
told Weiner, he had always sat up front.
Said occupies a lofty perch in the world of letters: He holds an endowed
chair in English and literature at Columbia University, he is a highly
sought-after lecturer, and he has served, at various times, as president of
the Modern Language Association, a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
But he is known above all as a zealous champion of the Palestinian cause.
For many years he sat on the Palestine National Council, the PLO's
"parliament in exile," and was a close advisor to Yasser Arafat. He has
savaged Israel and pressed the Palestinians' case in every forum
imaginable,
from op-ed columns to radio broadcasts to congressional testimony. And his
words were accorded great moral force, for wasn't Said himself a victim of
Zionist usurpation? Hadn't he himself suffered displacement and exile?
When the world learned that he wasn't and he hadn't, his moral authority
shriveled. It was as if, one observer put it, "we found out that Elie
Wiesel
spent the war in Geneva, not Auschwitz."
One might have thought that the embarrassment of it all would convince Said
to stop lying about himself. And yet his fabrications continue.
During a visit to Lebanon in July, Said was seen hurling rocks over the
border into Israel. Throwing stones at Israelis has been a popular pastime
among Arab tourists in southern Lebanon ever since Israel withdrew in May.
This stoning has drawn little international attention, even though several
Israelis have been wounded, some permanently. But when Agence France Press
released a photo of the world's most famous Palestinian intellectual
joining
in the violence, it made the papers everywhere. Said was sharply condemned,
even in quarters where he is normally only praised. The Beirut Daily Star
was appalled that a man "who has labored . . . to dispel stereotypes about
Arabs being 'violent'" would let himself "be swayed by a crowd into picking
up a stone and lofting it across the international border." On Said's own
campus, the Columbia Daily Spectator blasted his "hypocritical violent
action" as "alien to this or any other institution of learning."
His response was to shrug off the incident as merely "a symbolic gesture of
joy"-and to lie. His rock, he said, had been "tossed into an empty place."
Witnesses told a different story. London's Daily Telegraph reported that
Said "stood less than 10 yards from Israeli soldiers in a two-story,
blue-and-white watchtower from which flew five Israeli flags."
As for the damning AFP photograph, Said professed surprise: "I had no idea
that media people were there, or that I was the object of attention." But
AFP had a very different explanation-as two Columbia professors, Awi
Federgruen and Robert Pollack, found out when they contacted the press
agency. What they learned, they wrote in the Spectator, was 

[CTRL] more slaves in the world today than at any time in history

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 THE GUARDIAN
 Children in chains
 There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. And
 tonight, a shocking new documentary reveals the sheer scale of the
horror.
Mark
 Morris talked to the film-makers about their fight to reveal the truth

 Mark Morris
 Guardian

 Thursday September 28, 2000

 Brian Woods has a single statistic to explain why people should watch
Slavery
 (tonight, Channel 4). "I don't think that anyone who is told that there
is
more
 slavery on earth today than there has been in human history can fail to
be
 astonished and appalled by the fact." Sure, there is a flip response
available
 to the terminally cynical: since there are many more people alive now
than
 there have been, there are more people than ever in most categories. But
that
 kind of answer crumbles when you see the film.

 Full text:
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[CTRL] Soros demands more help for the beleaguered euro

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- he almost single handedly caused the eruption of the South east asian
regional countries.
No wonder he wants to see the euro propped up as he can then speculate
against it and make zillions more.


Sunday Telegraph
ISSUE 1948 Sunday 24 September 2000

  Soros demands more help for the beleaguered euro
By Richard Fletcher

  GEORGE SOROS, the international financier who forced Britain out of
the exchange rate mechanism in 1992, yesterday called for further
financial intervention from the world's leading central banks to protect
the sinking euro.
Soros was speaking on the fringes of the International Monetary Fund and
World Bank meetings in Prague where finance ministers and central
bankers are meeting this weekend to discuss worries over world oil
prices and assess the climate in currency markets.

The meeting follows last Friday's massive moves by the US Federal
Reserve and other central banks to defend the euro. Soros said more
action is needed to have any lasting effect. Soros said: "This
intervention by itself is not enough to turn the market."

The central banks of Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the US
spent between $5bn and $8bn propping up the battered euro on Friday. The
intervention came just one week before a referendum in Denmark on
whether the country should join European Monetary Union.

[Ed: Why aren't we told exact figures? - nor who actually finances this -
the banks or the tax-payers].

Soros, renowned for his speculation in the currency markets during the
1990's praised the intervention. He said: "It was a much needed move and
it was very well done because it caught the market by surprise. I think
it will be successful. All the preconditions for success are there."

[Ed: Success for who?]

Soros argued that the official aim should be to get the euro up to $0.90
which he said "was a sound and defensible level". The single European
currency briefly rose above $0.90 on Friday after the intervention took
the market by surprise but it had retreated to $0.877 by the time the US
markets closed.

Meanwhile a spokeswoman for the German finance ministry claimed that the
seven finance ministers had reached an interim deal on how to react to
the recent sharp rise in crude oil prices. She said: "It was agreed that
tax cuts are not the right way to react to oil prices, rather that on
the one hand oil producing states must be urged to increase productive
capacity and on the other hand to arrive at a more efficient use of
energy."

Yesterday Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, announced a boost in
tax deductions for commuters hit by the higher cost of petrol and
compensation payments for the less well-off, to help with the rise in
heating oil prices.

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[CTRL] Corporate giants now enforce thought control

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 SAMUEL FRANCIS

 Corporate giants now enforce thought control

 September 22, 2000

 One of the distinguishing characteristics of a totalitarian system is
 that not only does the state impose an official ideology throughout
society
 but so do other institutions as well.  The "totality" at which the regime
 aims means that every sector of the society -- the economy and social and
 cultural institutions as well as government -- tries to make certain that
no
 one and no thing deviates from the pattern of thought and behavior being
 imposed.

 In the New Order now being constructed in this country and most of
the
 world, Thought Control is enforced not just by the state ("hate crime"
laws,
 public education and selective condemnation of dissident ideas) but also
by
 the mammoth corporations of the "global economy."  Here are several
examples
 of how it's being done.

 When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the Boy Scouts of America
are
 not required to admit homosexuals as members or hire homosexual
 scoutmasters, both local governments and "private" corporations
immediately
 started retaliating by cutting off grants and access to important
 facilities.  Several cities denied the Scouts use of parks and other
public
 services, while Chase Manhattan Bank and Textron Corporation "have
withdrawn
 hundreds of thousands of dollars in support to local and national
scouting
 groups nationwide," as the New York Times reported last month.

 The rationale for this kind of ideological disciplining is, of
course,
 "diversity," in the Orwellian language of Thought Control.  "Their [the
 Scouts'] position," a Chase spokesman says, "is, on the face of it, in
 conflict with our commitment and our values on diversity."  Chase's
 commitment to diversity apparently does not extend to respecting the
Scouts'
 different views of homosexuality.  That's why it's Orwellian.

 Go into a Barnes and Noble book store these days and you'll discover
 even more diversity.  The giant book chain, which contributes to
diversity
 by driving out of business smaller book stores across the country, now
 greets customers with a display entitled "Close the Book on Hate."

 The display is part of a joint project of Barnes and Noble and the
 Anti-Defamation League, which "have come together to help children better
 understand the richness and beauty of our multicultural society."  That's
 sweet -- except that the project assumes that anyone who disagrees with
 multiculturalism and its agenda of subverting distinctively Western
values
 and institutions is imbued with "hate" and "intolerance."

 "Intolerance," the display piously instructs us, "isn't something
 children are born with.  It's learned.  Therefore, it can be unlearned."
 The way to "unlearn" it, of course, is to buy the books on the display
 table, which would just happen to be profitable for Barnes and Noble.
Most
 of the books seem innocuous enough, mainly a lot of drippy moralism about
 the "Holocaust" and several kiddies' books containing cute little lessons
in
 cartoon versions of multiculturalism.

 Nevertheless, the purpose is clear -- to popularize the idea that
 insistence on maintaining the cultural integrity of American society is
 "hate" and "intolerance" and that those who still believe in such
integrity
 have something wrong with them that can and should be "unlearned."

 Yet another lesson in how "tolerant" the corporate giants really are
 comes from the behemoth Wal-Mart.  Recently in South Carolina a gentleman
 named Maurice Bessinger, who owns a small barbecue restaurant chain and
 makes his own barbecue sauce, raised a South Carolina state flag outside
one
 of his restaurants, along with the Confederate flag.

 It's not the government Mr. Bessinger needs to worry about but
Wal-Mart,
 which used to carry Mr. Bessinger's barbecue sauce nationwide.  Wal-Mart
has
 suddenly dropped the sauce from its shelves.  When I called the customer
 complaint number to ask why, I was told that Mr. Bessinger "was involved
in
 activities with which Wal-Mart did not wish to be associated."

 The munchkin with whom I spoke refused to say what those "activities"
 were, why they were objectionable or whether the chain also scrutinized
the
 activities of other suppliers to evaluate their "activities" as well.  He
 claimed the Confederate flag had nothing to do with it.  My own bet is
that
 you can find plenty of products at Wal-Mart made by slave labor, but
slavery
 -- at least the kind that really exists today as opposed to the kind that
 has been extinct in this country for more than a century -- apparently is
 not "an activity with which Wal-Mart does not wish to be associated."

 Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung could have learned something from
these
 corporate leviathans.  The tyranny over the mind their governments
imposed
 required secret police, death camps, genocide and state terror for
 generations, and still it 

[CTRL] the White Ostriches of southern africa

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so much for larouches theories---the queen cant even protect her own
relatives.


 The Electronic Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000202011865292rtmo=QxOmwwLRatmo=
9
999pg=/et/00/9/26/nzim26.html

 [Simon Rhodes said]
 "The situation is getting worse even though the news story seems to be
 off the airwave. The farm invasions and occupations by squatters
 continue. The government is now taking over more than 3,000 private
 commercial farms - about 75 per cent of the total number."

 --
 The Electronic Telegraph
 ISSUE 1950
 Tuesday 26 September 2000

 Queen helps relative's family flee Zimbabwe
 By Linus Gregoriadis

 THE Queen is helping one of her relatives to move his family to Britain
 from his home in Zimbabwe after he was driven out by the continuing
 violence against the white community.

 Simon Rhodes's mother is Margaret Rhodes, 74, first cousin of the Queen
 and a Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He had hoped
 to stay in Harare with his wife and two daughters despite having been
 beaten up by police in April. But the former tourism consultant, who
 moved to Zimbabwe in 1977, is now seeking work in Britain following the
 collapse of the tourist trade and the imminent seizure by the Mugabe
 regime of farmland belonging to his wife's family.

 At the request of the Queen, John Parsons, Deputy Keeper of the Privy
 Purse, is helping to arrange schooling for his daughters - Emma, 14, and
 Camilla, 10 - who are still in Zimbabwe with their mother. Mr Rhodes,
 42, has been staying at his mother's home in Windsor Great Park and with
 his sister, Annabel Cope, in Bideford, Devon. He now hopes his children
 and his wife Susan, 40, will join him before the end of the year.

 He said his family, like many others, was being forced out of Zimbabwe
 by the crippling effect of President Robert Mugabe's policies. He said:
 "The situation is getting worse even though the news story seems to be
 off the airwave. The farm invasions and occupations by squatters
 continue. The government is now taking over more than 3,000 private
 commercial farms - about 75 per cent of the total number."

 The attack by four police officers in the back of a Land Rover, in which
 he was repeatedly punched, happened after he joined a peaceful
 opposition march. It prompted his mother to complain to the Queen about
 the breakdown of law.

 Mr Rhodes, whose wife's family's farmland has been listed for
 occupation, said: "Until April, it would never have crossed my mind that
 I might have to leave."He said he feared the psychological impact of
 upheaval on his family and other dispossessed Zimbabweans. "My children
 have known no other life other than being in Zimbabwe. We are getting
 this bombshell effect of people moving all over the world. Families and
 friendships are being ruptured and broken."

 Mr Rhodes said he was fortunate to have the opportunity to return to
 Britain and the support of the Royal Family. "Obviously the Queen is
 concerned about our situation. We are returning here to start again and
 will be arriving with nothing. We will not be able to remove any assets
 from Zimbabwe. The Queen has asked one of her aides to provide
 assistance to find suitable schools for the children. It is nothing
 other than a family pulling together to support other family members who
 need help - as any family would."

 Mr Rhodes, who will visit the Royal Family's Balmoral residence this
 week, said he planned to settle in Edinburgh.


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[CTRL] The Conspiracy Bugaboo

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Crackpot Alert
The Conspiracy Bugaboo
By John McCormack
(http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/features/mccormack52


Paranoia strikes deep.



There's a lot to like in the militia movement. The militiamen distrust the
federal government. They're willing to resist federal assaults on individual
rights. They're hostile to the income tax, the Federal Reserve System, and
the regulatory state. They enthusiastically exercise the right to keep and
bear arms.
Yet the militia movement usually alienates freedom-minded Americans. Some of
this stems from the movement's crude rhetoric, frequently ignorant public
statements, and more-than-slightly-ridiculous paramilitary exercises. But
the problem is more serious than that. It's the militias' propensity for
conspiracy theories. The militias attribute almost all major political and
economic events to an elite group of "Insiders."

Rather than focusing on destructive institutional arrangements, conspiracy
believers emphasize the supposed malevolence of small, usually alien,
groups. This doesn't just keep them from reaching a more sophisticated
understanding of the world; sometimes, it leads them to distinctly illiberal
policy prescriptions. This tendency can be seen at its worst in the
unfortunate overlap in membership and beliefs between a few of the militias
and some racist and anti-Semitic groups. Bo Gritz, a "patriot" leader and
former presidential candidate, has insisted publicly that the Federal
Reserve System is controlled by eight Jewish families. Linda Thompson, the
"Acting Adjutant-General of the Unorganized Militia of the U.S.A.," tells
interviewers that the Israeli Mossad is responsible for the American farm
crisis.

Militia members aren't the only Americans with conspiratorial views of
history. The John Birch Society, the Nation of Islam, the Aryan Nations, and
such Christian Right leaders as Pat Robertson also espouse variations on
these beliefs. And some leftists -- Oliver Stone, Mark Lane, and the
Christic Institute come to mind --hold conspiracy views that are distantly
related to the militias' and nearly as bizarre.

Where did these theories come from? What do they entail? What leads people
to believe them? Glad you asked.

A Brief History of Conspiracy Theory
A particular genus of conspiracy theory has persisted in the U.S. and Europe
since the nineteenth century. These theories assert that a secret and
sinister circle of international bankers exercises control over major
political figures, manipulating financial markets to its own benefit and to
the detriment of wage-earners and farmers. This power extends to being able
to cause wars and depressions and to profit enormously from both. Having no
loyalty to any national governments, the conspirators operate from the
world's financial capitals, where they continue to scheme for world
domination. Jews often -- though not always -- feature prominently in these
conspiracies.

Such theories are unlike the various plots posited by Kennedy assassination
buffs -- which, however mistaken they may be on technical and other grounds,
usually have at least the merit of being limited as to goals, time, and
participation. They also differ from the Marxist theory that capitalist
control of politics flows inevitably from private ownership of the means of
production, and that maintaining control does not depend on the conscious
efforts of individual capitalists. These "Endless Conspiracy" theories hold
that real political power does not lie in the hands of the property-owning
class as a whole, but is wielded by a tiny, self-conscious financial elite.
Moreover, the conspiracy is virtually unlimited as to time and place. It is
centuries old -- or, in the imaginative theories of Robert Welch and Lyndon
LaRouche, millennia old -- and over this period its locus of control has
shifted from its origins in Central Europe to London and later to New York.
In some accounts, the conspirators maintain their influence through
mysterious, almost occult powers.

Strictly speaking, conspiracy theories of this sort are neither conspiracies
nor theories. They are not criminal conspiracies in the legal sense, because
they involve people who (supposedly) have the power to change laws to suit
themselves. They are not theories in the scientific sense, because few or
none of the claims made can be tested. Perhaps because of this, conspiracy
theories have been a persistent but usually marginal feature of American
politics.

Late-nineteenth-century populists, including presidential candidate William
Jennings Bryan, attributed the misery of southern and western farmers and
miners to nefarious Wall Street and European capitalists. In the 1920s,
similarly-minded members of Congress blamed the First World War on
munitions-manufacturers such as DuPont, which some theorists had 

[CTRL] Shouldn't we repeal the gun laws ... if it'll save a single child?

[J Taylor]

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 Shouldn't we repeal the gun laws ... if
  it'll save a single child?

  By Vin Suprynowicz
  web posted September 25, 2000


  Jessica Lynne Carpenter is 14 years old. She knows
  how to shoot; her father taught her. And there were
  adequate firearms to deal with the crisis that arose in
  the Carpenter home in Merced, Calif. -- a San Joaquin
  Valley farming community 130 miles southeast of San
  Francisco -- when 27-year-old Jonathon David Bruce
  came calling on Wednesday morning, August 23.

  There was just one problem. Under the new "safe
  storage" laws being enacted in California and
  elsewhere, parents can be held criminally liable unless
  they lock up their guns when their children are home
  alone ... so that's just what law-abiding parents John
  and Tephanie Carpenter had done.

  Some of Jessica's siblings -- Anna, 13; Vanessa, 11;
  Ashley, 9; and John William, 7 -- were still in their
  bedrooms when Bruce broke into the farmhouse
  shortly after 9 a.m. Bruce, who was armed with a
  pitchfork -- but to whom police remain unable to
  attribute any motive -- had apparently cut the phone
  lines. So when he forced his way into the house and
  began stabbing the younger children in their beds,
  Jessica's attempts to dial 9-1-1 didn't do much good.
  Next, the sensible girl ran for where the family guns
  were stored. But they were locked up tight.

  "When the 14-year-old girl ran to a nearby house to
  escape the pitchfork-wielding man attacking her
  siblings," writes Kimi Yoshino of the Fresno Bee, "she
  didn't ask her neighbor to call 9-1-1. She begged him
  to grab his rifle and 'take care of this guy.' "

  He didn't. Jessica ended up on the phone.

  By the time Merced County sheriff's deputies arrived
  at the home, 7-year-old John William and 9-year-old
  Ashley Danielle were dead. Ashley had apparently hung
  onto her assailant's leg long enough for her older
  sisters to escape. Thirteen-year-old Anna was
  wounded but survived.

  Once the deputies arrived, Bruce rushed them with his
  bloody pitchfork. So they shot him dead. They shot
  him more than a dozen times. With their guns.

  Get it?

  The following Friday, the children's great-uncle, the
  Rev. John Hilton, told reporters: "If only (Jessica) had
  a gun available to her, she could have stopped the
  whole thing. If she had been properly armed, she
  could have stopped him in his tracks." Maybe John
  William and Ashley would still be alive, Jessica's uncle
  said.

  "Unfortunately, 17 states now have these so-called
  safe storage laws," replies Yale Law School Senior
  Research Scholar Dr. John Lott -- author of the book
  "More Guns, Less Crime." "The problem is, you see no
  decrease in either juvenile accidental gun deaths or
  suicides when such laws are enacted, but you do see
  an increase in crime rates."

  Such laws are based on the notion that young children
  often "find daddy's gun" and accidentally shoot each
  other. But in fact only five American children under the
  age of 10 died of accidents involving handguns in
  1997, Lott reports. "People get the impression that
  kids under 10 are killing each other. In fact this is very
  rare: three to four per year."

  The typical shooter in an accidental child gun death is
  a male in his late teens or 20s, who, statistically, is
  probably a drug addict or an alcoholic and has already
  been charged with multiple crimes, Lott reports.
  "These are the data that correlate. Are these the kind
  of people who are going to obey one more law?"

  So why doesn't the national press report what
  happens when a victim disarmament ("gun control")
  law costs the lives of innocent children in a place like
  Merced?

  "In the school shooting in Pearl, Miss.," Dr. Lott
  replies, "the assistant principal had formerly carried a
  gun to school. When the 1995 ("Gun-Free School
  Zones") law passed, he took to locking his gun in his
  car and parking it at least a quarter-mile away from
  the school, in order to obey the law. When that
  shooting incident started he ran to his car, unlocked
  it, got his gun, ran back, disarmed the shooter and
  held him on the ground for five minutes until the police
  arrived.

  "There were more than 700 newspaper stories
  catalogued on that incident. Only 19 mentioned the
  assistant principal in any way, and only nine mentioned
  that he had a gun."

  The press covers only the bad side of gun use, and
  only the potential benefits of victim disarmament laws
  -- never their costs. "Basically all the current federal
  proposals fall into this category -- trigger locks,
  waiting periods," Lott said. "There's not one academic
  study that shows any reduction in crime from
  measures like these. But there are good studies that
  show the opposite. Even with short waiting periods,
  crime goes up. You have women being stalked, and
  they can't go quickly and get a gun due to the waiting
  periods, so they get 

[CTRL] hidden persuaders

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New scientist 12 august 2000
A more effective way of embedding subliminal images in tv programmes is
being patented. the normal tecnique for transmitting a message such as
'smoking kills' is to display for a few milliseconds and the replace with a
blank screen to stop the image from persisting on the retina. Silingardi's
trick is to first flash a trigger imagew-such as someone smoking- which
prepares the brain for the subliminal message.

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[CTRL] Fw: Power to Erase Memories

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NEW YORK TIMES
September 26, 2000

Letters: Power to Erase Memories To the Editor:
The experiment discussed in "Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False
Memories" (Sept. 19) is exciting because it hints at the neurobiological
processes underlying the malleability of memory. But the suggestion that
the
future clinical value of such findings would be to erase traumatic memories
is horrifying.
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[CTRL] Mugabe survives

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The white and black tribes of africa can be muderred with impunity. But
touch anglo american property and suddenly you realise where the real power
lies
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BUSINESS DAY, Wednesday, Sept 20 2000
Anglo sugar estate will not seized.
Zimbabwe says it was mistakenly included on resettlement list

HARARE - The Zimbabwean government has admitted mistakeny listing one of the
nation's most productive sugar estates for resettle ment of landless black
people.
State television reported yesterday that Zimbabwe had assured Nicky
Oppenheimer, deputy chairman of Anglo American, that no part of his
company's Hippo Valley sugar estate in southeastern Zimbabwe would be
confiscated.
President Robert Mugabe met Oppenheimer and other Anglo ex- ecutives on
Monday and promised to remove 38 OOOha of the estate from a list of
white-owned properties targeted for seizure, Oppenheimer told state
television.
"We were reassured that the president told us a mistake had been made and
agroindustrial estates were not intended for resettlement. "
Parts of several other lumber, sugar, citrus and horticulture
estates have been targeted for seizure, but their fate was not immediately
clear.
The sugar estate mistakenly ap- peared on a list of hundreds of white-owned
fanns the government plans to confiscate, divide in- to small plots and
redistribute to landless black people.
The Commercial Farmers Union, representing about 4 000 white fanners, says
the list con- tains errors and duplications. Properties owned by the state
rail- road and forestry companies, several church missions. a petrol storage
depot, a golf club and at least two schools have been included.
The government has not acknowledged the errors.
Ruling party militants and squatters have since February illegally occupied
more than 1 700 white-Qwned farms.
Meanwhile, Lewis Machipisa reports that Zimbabwe's main opposition, the
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), yesterdayex- pressed "utter shock" at
Home Af- fairs Minister John Nkomo's allegations in parliament that the
police had found grenades, pistols, rifles and tear smoke at its offices.
Nkomo said in parliament that police searches at the MDC sUp" port centre,
head office and MDC provincial offices at St Martins and at homes of MDC
officials in Harare had proved that the party had stashed weapons of war .
The searches came after a grenade was hurled at an MDC of- fice last week,
and were conducted on Thursday and Saturday.
The MDC said the searches for the weapons of war , which were conducted by
the police in full view of local and international media and MDC lawyers,
had yielded nothing. Senior officials of the par- ty are due to meet today
to discuss the issue.

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[CTRL] Love your enemy - he may be your best friend

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The Guardian [U.K.]

   Love your enemy - he may be your best friend
   Hate figures who do us the power of good
   Anthony Browne

   Sunday September 10, 2000

   Worried that you have too many enemies? Well, stop fretting, get out
   the voodoo dolls and stick a few more needles in them. You may hate
   others, and they may hate you, but it can be good for you - if only in
   the short term. If you haven't got enemies your life may not be
   complete.

   According to a new book by the celebrated psychologist Dorothy Rowe,
   we don't just need friends, we also need enemies. She counted 24
   different benefits brought by having enemies, including making you
   feel more important, making you feel more virtuous, and simply making
   life more exciting.

   'Having an enemy could be an advantage,' she concluded after research
   for Friends and Enemies which took her to Bosnia, Northern Ireland,
   South Africa and Lebanon. It's only in the long term that the
   drawbacks become clear.

   The national hysteria over Big Brother's Nasty Nick shows not just how
   much we all love to have a hate-figure, but how effective it can be in
   bringing a country closer together. 'If a group has an enemy, that
   enemy brings the group together - we saw that in this country in World
   War II' said Rowe. 'You see it in business organisations - if the boss
   is seen as an enemy, the workers get very close.'

   'First, get a common enemy' could be the opening of any leader's
   rulebook. 'Rulers have always invented an enemy to keep people
   together. Rulers who want to stay in power always have a war,' said
   Rowe (think of General Galtieri's decision to invade the Falklands)
   and it even applies to democracies (think of Thatcher's electoral
   triumph after defending the Falklands).

   It even explains much of geo-politics. 'The US is a very diverse group
   of people, and the way the government held the country together was by
   having an enemy. But when the Berlin wall came down, the US no longer
   had an enemy,' explained Rowe. 'So President Bush immediately
   announced a war on drugs.' The Colombian drug barons, such as Pablo
   Escobar, have done their bit to keep the US united. Hatred towards
   Islamic fundamentalists - and public enemy number one Osama Bin Laden
   - also keeps Americans appreciative of their president.

   Having enemies can also help combat boredom. Rowe was puzzled by one
   family where all the members were constantly at war with each other
   until she realised they actually enjoyed it. 'It made their otherwise
   dull lives more exciting,' she said.

   Enemies also have the advantage of being more exciting than friends.
   'The enemy is always doing something, or you can always imagine them
   doing something.' Enemies can also make people feel that they matter.
   Rowe worked in a psychiatric hospital, where old people knew no one
   was thinking of them, and found that frightening. They would get
   enemies, so at least they knew someone was thinking of them. 'Imagine
   being so insignificant that no one could be bothered to hate you.'

   Having a hate-figure can also make us feel better about ourselves.
   People give their enemies all the characteristics that they have
   trouble with themselves - whether it's being sadistic, aggressive or
   manipulative. For example, if you're feeling guilty about having some
   malicious thoughts, it's comforting to believe Saddam Hussein is the
   embodiment of pure evil and that we are less cunning than Peter
   Mandelson.

   A good enemy can also help people cope with their failings in life, by
   simply taking the blame for everything. At work, people often blame
   the boss.

   'You don't have to take responsibility, and it means you can avoid the
   really complex questions.' This can also dominate a political culture,
   such as Hitler blaming the Jews for much of Weimar Germany's problems,
   or unemployed people blaming immigrants. But Rowe thinks that some of
   the hatred that many people feel for migrants may be even more
   primitive. 'When our species first appeared on the planet, there were
   very few of us and we lived in little bands, and the concept of
   stranger was the same as the concept of enemy,' she said 'Echoes of
   that are still with us.'

   Ultimately, like almost everything in psychology, it seems, it all
   goes back to childhood. 'The need for enemies is very directly linked
   to the amount of punishment you had as a child. Most chil dren are
   hit, or they're made to stay in their room, or spoken to in horrible
   ways. You need enemies to put your hatred onto,' said Rowe.

   Enemies allow adults to simply act out the frustrations of childhood.
   'If, as a child, we had a bad relationship with our father, you
   project your idea of father onto any authority figures, and behave
   towards them as you would have towards your father, but wouldn't
   dare.'

   But before 

[CTRL] Mbeki attacked for HIV/Aids doubts

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Mbeki attacked for HIV/Aids doubts
Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
Guardian Observer - Tuesday September 19, 2000
--

The South African government's most powerful ally - the country's trade
union confederation Cosatu - has accused President Thabo Mbeki of causing
confusion and costing lives by questioning the link between HIV and Aids.

Mr Mbeki was forced to listen impassively yesterday while trade unionists
at the annual meeting of the Congress of South African Trade Unions loudly
applauded their leader, Willie Madisha, as he condemned the president on an
issue that is causing as much friction between the unions and government as
economic policy.

"The current public debate on the causal link between HIV and Aids is
confusing," said Willie Madisha. "For Cosatu, the link between HIV and Aids
is irrefutable and any other approach is unscientific and unfortunately
likely to confuse people. As a result, it can undermine the message that
all South Africans must take precautions to avoid infection."

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[CTRL] Is the Rate of New HIV Infections Rising?: The San FranciscoControversy and Its Lessons for Los Angeles and the US

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Is the Rate of New HIV Infections Rising?: The San Francisco
Controversy and Its Lessons for Los Angeles and the US
Walt Senterfitt
Being Alive - October, 2000
-

The gay press in California and around the country have spent a
lot of ink debating some numbers released just before the Durban
International AIDS Conference and an accompanying speculation by
San Francisco's chief HIV epidemiologist that "rates of new HIV
infections in some parts of San Francisco's gay population have
increased to sub-Saharan levels." This news was greeted with loud
echoes of everything from "Can't be! It's the health department
cooking numbers in a plot to justify more restrictions on gay
sex," to "The AIDS crisis is over! This is another detraction
from the health needs of the large number of HIV negative gay men
and lesbians," to "It's highly suspect! Bogus! A San Francisco
plot to keep their unfair share of federal AIDS funding," to "We
are not surprised, given the lessening fear of HIV with the
advent of HAART and the barebacking craze."

Each of these and most other reactions is at best one-tenth true,
but the controversy has been valuable. Its context is the
hard-to-dispute fact that HIV prevention has not kept pace with
the changes in the epidemic.

What Are the Facts In San Francisco?
It is important to remember that there is no way to count new HIV
infections and therefore no way to prove beyond a doubt whether
rates of infection are increasing, decreasing or level. New HIV
infections are not yet reportable to public health departments in
California and even if they were, there is usually no way to tell
if a positive test is a new infection or an old one in someone
who has not been tested or reported before. Most of all, there is
no way of knowing how many new infections occur anew or exist
already among people who haven't been tested at all. Thus, the
best we can do, and we are getting better at it, is to estimate
based on several different kinds of data. The estimates will
always be approximate at best, but if we use the same or better
methods every year, we can get a pretty good picture of the
trends.

San Francisco is better than anywhere else in the US at
estimating infections (some might say, aided by all that money,
its small size and the high visibility of the gay community).
There are more studies and surveillance systems to base estimates
on and more experts to analyze them. The San Francisco Department
of Public Health (DPH) periodically convenes a panel of these
experts and a group of community people living with or working
with HIV on the front lines, to develop for planning purposes
consensus estimates of people living with HIV/AIDS and the annual
rate of new infections. The latest such consensus panel met in
May 2000.

One new tool to help determine HIV incidence is what's called the
"detuned Elisa assay." This takes advantage of the improvement in
HIV testing over the years, the improvement that has shrunk the
so-called window period (when one might be HIV+ but not yet show
up it on an antibody test) from six months to six weeks. The
detuned assay tests a person's blood with both the old, less
sensitive test and the new, more sensitive one. If one is
negative on the old test and positive on the new one, we can
conclude that person is within the old "window period" of a new
infection. By doing this double test on thousands of specimens,
the CDC has concluded that someone can be identified with this
system as being within the first four months of infection. So in
a high volume testing center, STD clinic or medical care system,
one can estimate how many infections are new. By combining these
data with other information about the population that uses the
testing system, one can estimate the percentage of negative
people in the population who are seroconverting each year.

The San Francisco consensus panel estimated that the proportion
of gay and bisexual men becoming HIV infected rose from 1.1% a
year in 1997 (the time of the last consensus panel) to 1.7% a
year in 2000. Among the much smaller number of gay and bisexual
men who are also injection drugs users (IDUs) the rate and the
increase were much greater: from 2.0% seroconverting every year
in 1997 to 4.6% a year in 2000. Among heterosexual IDUs the rate
declined somewhat from 1.0% a year in 1997 to 0.6 % a year in
2000. Among non-IDU heterosexuals, the estimates are tiny and
stable: 1/100th of a percent per year in both years.

These estimates from HIV testing sites were bolstered by findings
from other sources. There is increased incidence of HIV in a
cohort study of young gay men, increased cases of rectal
gonorrhea, increased frequency of bacterial sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs) among gay men living with AIDS, increased total
numbers of people with AIDS and HIV (of whom a big chunk are
sexually active), increased self-reports of multiple partners and
unprotected anal sex among 

[CTRL] aids an old disease

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This article shows that rather than HIV being a modern disease was rather an
existing in a human population at a much earlier stage. Presumably it spread
further after the change in morality that occurred after the 60's.
(and the increased mixing of population groups and modern transportation)

John

Subject: Systematic Biology 44(1) Mindell
(http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/systbiol/44_1


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[CTRL] Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories

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NEW YORK TIMES
September 19, 2000

Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Scientists may have found a biological reason to explain why two people who
witness the same event will, years later, often have different memories of
what happened.
It seems that every time an old memory is pulled into consciousness, the
brain takes it apart, updates it and then makes new proteins in the process
of putting the memory back into long-term storage. The fact that new
proteins are made means that the memory has been transformed permanently to
reflect each person's life experiences - not the memory itself.
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[CTRL] Book Maps a Nation's Spurts of Clean Living

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New York Times
September 19, 2000

Book Maps a Nation's Spurts of Clean Living

 In the fall of 1977 the American Cancer Society organized the
 first national "Great American Smokeout," urging smokers to quit
 for a day. Within five years, Jerry Falwell founded the Moral
 Majority and Jane Fonda sold millions of aerobics videos. Dr. Ruth
 Clifford Engs, a professor of applied health science at Indiana
 University in Bloomington sees a connection.

 In her new book "Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health
 Reform" (Praeger), Dr. Engs shows how Americans' fervor for
 self-improvement occurs in spurts. And interest in health and
 religion usually occurs at the same time. Her book traces the
 nation's obsessions with food, diet and religion and describes a
 country of extremists, who embrace preventive health and rigid
 moral codes one generation only to rail against them the next.

 So far, Dr. Engs say, Americans have experienced three so-called
 clean-living movements. Each one involved campaigns against
 tobacco, alcohol and premarital sex. Dr. Engs tracks the cultural
 forces that prompt each movement and those that set off each
 rebellion against health, and the story is told in an appealing way
 for mass audiences. But it is being marketed for scholars and is
 listed at $69.50.

 In a telephone interview, Dr. Engs described her findings: "Our
 country was founded in an era of ferment. We were founded in an
 awakening, and we usually have them about every 80 years. They
 usually start with a conservative religious awakening that goes
 into health concerns, with alcohol as one thread, another thread is
 fitness, and another is some aspect of sexuality. There is also a
 concern about producing the perfect baby."

 The question, she added, is why the fervor fades. Sometimes, Dr.
 Engs said, one generation believes healthy living will solve all
 society's woes, but when problems continue, the next generation
 loses faith. And eventually, new reformers start the cycle again.

 Though specifics vary, Dr. Engs shows similarities among the
 movements. Health zealots through the ages have urged Americans to
 exercise and avoid greasy food, meat, alcohol and tobacco. Many of
 these movements, she says, are prompted more by morality than new
 medical knowledge. In the 1830's, for instance, health reformers
 pleaded with Americans to quit smoking not so much because it was a
 health hazard but because it was considered "morally depraved."

 Whether a reader goes along with her theory, the book is chock full
 of amusing anecdotes and brief biographies of those she calls
 health fanatics. Mr. Falwell and Ms. Fonda continue a long American
 tradition of believers, preaching their gospel of moral or physical
 fitness.

 In the first "Clean Living Movement," which the author says
 occurred from about 1830 to 1860, the Mormons and Seventh-day
 Adventists preached salvation through healthy living. Charles
 Grandison Finney, a Presbyterian preacher and lawyer-turned-
 evangelist crusaded against alcohol, coffee, tea and meat. At the
 same time, the American Temperance Society and the American
 Anti-Tobacco Society were founded.

 These were the days of Sylvester Graham, who started "Grahamism,"
 which advocated hard beds, cold baths, vegetarian diets, wheat
 bread and gave rise to the Graham cracker. He persuaded followers
 to avoid fried foods, butter, pastries and salt pork and to drink
 pure water only.

 Health advocates also condemned women's fashion of tight corsets
 and long dresses. They believed the outfits damaged internal organs
 and debilitated women so much that they would give birth to weak
 offspring. Amelia Jenks Bloomer, a women's rights advocate,
 designed a new outfit the "bloomer" suitable for outdoor exercise
 and physical activity. The Fowlers Orson; his brother, Lorenzo; and
 Lorenzo's wife, Dr. Lydia Folger Fowler wrote and published books
 and newsletters instructing couples on how to make better babies.
 They warned against marrying women with indigestion, liver
 complaints, melancholia or heartburn. Those kind of folk, they
 said, should not have children. Truly "superior offspring," they
 added, could only be obtained when lovers engaged in a "spiritual
 banquet of love." In other words, the woman had to have an orgasm.

 The First Clean Living Movement lost momentum to the Civil War.

 The second movement, from 1880 to 1920, included the founding of
 the Y.M.C.A., the New Thought Movement, which encouraged believers
 to replace negative thoughts with positive ones, and a new slew of
 fitness fanatics. Bernarr Macfadden was the exercise guru of the
 1890's. He invented muscle- 

[CTRL] post zionist Israel

[J Taylor]

-Caveat Lector-

Ha'aretz: 62% of immigrants first half 2000 from th eformer Soviet Union not
Jewish - was 50% same period 1999






Ha'aretz: 62% of immigrants  first half 2000 from the former Soviet Union
not Jewish - was 50% same period 1999
By Shahar Ilan Ha'aretz Religious Affairs Correspondent  Ha'aretz 18
September 2000

Nearly two thirds of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union arriving
during the first half of 2000 are not Jewish, according to data presented
to
Diaspora Affairs Minister, Michael Melchior. The figure is up from 50
percent during the same period last year.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Melchior said, "I was in Moscow
and Kiev, I visited embassies and we could not find Jews. Good people sat
there but they had no connection to Israel or the Jewish people. There was
a
family of eight that had a grandfather who was a quarter Jewish and had
died
some 20 years earlier."
On this basis, Melchior repeated his view that the "grandchild clause" in
the law of return should be canceled. According to this, the grandchild of
a
Jew has the right to immigrate to Israel even though he and his parents may
not be Jews. Melchior argues that the "grandchild clause" undermines the
purpose of the law of return.


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[CTRL] Racism? Or Independence?

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates15.html

  Racism? Or Independence?

  by Steven Yates

   Last week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of
   "Intelligence Reports" purporting to reveal an upsurge in "white
   supremacist" and "racist" groups during the late 1990s. "A
   neo-Confederate movement, increasingly rife with white supremacists
   and racist ideology, is growing across America," cries the bold print
   of one of the lead documents, Rebels With a Cause. The document
   proceeds with the (probably true) allegation that a neo-Confederate
   movement has gained some momentum since July 1 of this year, when the
   Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina State House Dome.
   But what are the real causes, and the real implications?

   One of the SPLCs chief targets is the Alabama-based League of the
   South, the leading group whose leaders speak openly of seceding from
   the Washington government and creating a Southern Republic. Other
   targeted groups include American Renaissance, the Council of
   Conservative Citizens, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Confederate
   Society of America, the Heritage Preservation Association, the
   Southern Military Institute (a private academy that does not as yet
   exist apart from its website and fundraising efforts), the Southern
   Legal Resource Center, the Southern Party, the United Daughters of the
   Confederacy, the Rockford Institute, and - incredibly! - the Ludwig
   von Mises Institute. They also target the sole news periodical, a
   monthly, that presents news and commentary from a staunch pro-South
   point of view, the fledgling Edgefield Journal, based in the small
   town of Edgefield, South Carolina, west of Columbia.

   In fairness, some of these groups I had barely heard of despite my own
   League membership. I cannot vouch for or rail against the ideas
   attributed to them by the SPLC, never having seen a copy of American
   Renaissance, for example (the magazine apparently published by the
   organization of that name). I hardly need point out the likelihood
   that the groups in the above list are different from one another, with
   different aims and possibly different ideological perspectives. This
   makes tarring them all with the same brush fundamentally suspect. I
   will concentrate on those I know.

   Consider the Mises Institute. It was founded to recover from
   near-oblivion, study and have studied, and further develop, the ideas
   of Ludwig von Mises, a central figure in Austrian school economics.
   Mises was the author of Human Action and other paradigmatic works,
   following a perfectly respectable notion: that the methods of the
   human sciences cannot legitimately be modeled on the methods of
   physics. Hence the writings of Austrian school economists employ
   deductive reasoning from first premises, not reams of statistics and
   empirical models applicable only to this or that situation, or
   economy. One of Mises conclusions, for which he produces formidable
   and very detailed arguments, is that political interference in
   economic activity by the central state is bound to be destructive in
   the long run (there might be some short term benefits). The path to
   genuine prosperity, in the Misesian view, is a free market unhampered
   by government fetters, regulations, licensure laws, and restrictions.
   There is now an enormous literature devoted to this approach,
   including a quarterly refereed academic journal and an annual
   conference featuring scholars drawn from all over the world. The
   influence of the Austrian school in economics is being felt
   practically everywhere.

   While bound to be controversial and likely to receive more than a few
   blank stares of noncomprehension in this age of statism and low
   educational attainment, what we have here is hardly a picture of a
   "neo-Confederate" organization of "white supremacists" and "racists."
   Of course, one of the consequences of the idea that central-state
   interventions are harmful to all concerned is a rejection of such
   policies as affirmative action preferences - and we know how such
   rejections are invariably interpreted by left-liberals. Mises, of
   course, never applauded state-sanctioned chattel slavery any more than
   his intellectual descendents favor our present-day de facto slavery
   (paying almost 40 percent of our incomes into taxes). However, we do
   not find analyses of Mises views or of taxation in the SPLC report,
   because these would not serve the purpose of tarring all the opponents
   of Washington-centered statism with a single brush.

   How about the League of the South? It seems that the SPLC cannot even
   mention the name of the group without using the adjectives racist or
   white supremacist (or both) in tandem, or of describing it as a "hate
   group." This, to a logical mind, is known as 

[CTRL] thankfully, this work is banned=Tyranny in Canada?

[J Taylor]

Subject: "thankfully, this work is banned"=Tyranny in CA



http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/letters/story.html?f=/stories/29
 15/399623.html


 Letters | National Post | September 15, 2000

 Isn't it ironic | Ellen T. Cole

 Re: South African Minister Stirs up Controversy over AIDS, Sept. 13.

 The fight against AIDS is too serious to be sidetracked by the appalling
 allegations of South Africa's Minister of Health. Manto Tshabala-Msimang,
 claims it is an anti-African conspiracy. It is even more shocking that
she
 would base her allegation on the book, Behold A Pale Horse, excerpts of
 which she distributed. In Canada, thankfully, this work is banned from
 importation
 as hate propaganda. It is ironic that such pernicious material is both
 believed and promoted by a minister of the country hosting the 2001
United
 Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia
 and Related
 Intolerance.

 Ellen T. Cole, National Vice-Chair, Community Relations, Canadian Jewish
 Congress, Toronto.





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[CTRL] The end of mugabe?

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Mugabe grabs prime Anglo estates
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday



ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe's government has announced that it is to
grab another 57 white-owned farms, including large chunks of two of Anglo
American’s most intensive sugar and citrus estates - ignoring assurances
that it will seize only properties that are under-utilised and which are
part of multiple holdings.
Notices published in Friday's edition of the state-controlled Herald
newspaper brought to 2 011 the number of properties officially earmarked for
"compulsory acquisition" by the government for resettlement.
The list includes 38 000ha of Hippo Valley Estates, owned by South
African-based mining conglomerate Anglo American Corporation, and is 70% of
the land owned by one of the country's two large-scale sugar estates.
The two estates produce about 500 000 tons of sugar annually, half of it for
export.
Anglo American is down to lose another 207ha from its Mazoe citrus estate in
the fertile Mazowe valley, about 40km north of Harare, where it produces
internationally renowned citrus for export.
Hippo is in the south-eastern Lowveld area, where thousands of hectares of
game ranches were also listed for confiscation.
The region has been subjected to lawlessness in the last month, with
thousands of trees felled and vast areas of grassland burned by war veterans
who have divided the land into plots for local villagers to plant maize.
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made last week said the government intended
seizing 2 226 farms, a total of seven million hectares or nearly 90% of
commercial farms, owned mostly by whites.
The Commercial Farmers' Union says land earmarked for confiscation includes
intensively farmed horticultural, tobacco and dairy operations vital to the
country's earnings of foreign exchange.
The listing is the first step in a complex legal and bureaucratic process in
which the government has to obtain the approval of the High Court for each
confiscation.
However, the CFU fears that appealing to the law will have little effect as
more than 1 700 farms have already been illegally occupied by war veterans.
Dozens of affected farmers have abandoned their properties


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[CTRL] Gore's in bed with Porno King

[J Taylor]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2913/aponline224808_001.ht
m

Gore Defends Ties to Weinstein
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2000; 10:48 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's campaign on Wednesday defended his fund-raising help
from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein who went around Disney in 1995 to release
the controversial NC-17 rated "Kids." It's just the sort of film the
Democratic presidential candidate has been criticizing.

Gore and running mate Joseph Lieberman threatened new federal legislation or
rules against the entertainment industry within six months if it doesn't
stop marketing violent and sexual products to young people.

Nonetheless, Gore is planning to attend a Thursday night fund-raiser at New
York's Radio City Music Hall that Miramax co-chairman Weinstein helped
organized, capping a week of fund-raising reaching $5 million.

"This is not about our supporters, this is not about our opponents, this is
about what's right for America's children," Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said
in defending the vice president's association with Weinstein. "Al Gore has
proposed concrete steps to protect America's kids."

Republicans were quick to criticize.

"Al Gore with one hand is making promises to voters about how he's going to
clean up Hollywood and with the other hand taking money from Hollywood,"
said Terry Holt, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.

RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson planned a news conference in New York on Thursday
to "talk about the Hollywood hypocrisy of Al Gore," he said.

Weinstein has long been a strong supporter of the Democratic Party, Gore and
President Clinton.

Gore's appearance at a fund-raiser with Weinstein comes at an awkward time,
however, as he's publicly criticizing media violence.

It also gives the Republicans and George W. Bush's presidential campaign an
opportunity to raise the issue of Gore's credibility, arguing that he has a
habit of saying one thing and doing another.

In 1995, the Miramax film "Kids" was released under an NC-17 rating. Because
of parent company Disney's policy not to release NC-17 films, Miramax set up
a separate distribution to release the movie about adolescents using drugs
and engaging in sex.

The NC-17 rating was created in 1990 to separate films with strong adult
content from porno films, which are X-rated.

Miramax also has released the violent movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir
Dogs."

On Wednesday, Sen. Lieberman testified at a Senate Commerce Committee
hearing on a Federal Trade Commission report that asserted the entertainment
industry was peddling adult material to underage audiences.

He decried a "culture of carnage" surrounding young people and told
lawmakers the government should stop the marketing of violent movies, music
and video games to children if the industry fails to police itself.

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Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language

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[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
If the "mother" wants an unborn child to live, then it's a "person",



Not until it's born.

In legal terms you become a person when you are bornbut legally you can
define anything . Blacks in america were considerred a part personso in
a way is the unborn child.

(I sometimes imagine a pessimistic situation in SA where the ANC decides
that I am not a person- a full person being defined as someone who is a
designated person(ie blackyou cant use the euphinism minority here
because the whites are a minority) Together with another party ...say the
PAC who went around saying one settler one bullet(ie dont waste your
bullets) pass this and hey presto I can be aborted.)

I delibrately used these words however not for legal definition but to
humanise the unborn child ,

The point I make again is that definitions have very little to do with it.
Rather the world view of utilitarianism has become the dominant one.

That means that the all those who believe it in effect say that "I want to
maximise my utility (long term pleasure) by destroyng the fetus/ unborn
child. Maximising the societies utility, nor that of the fetus/child is not
my responsibility"


John

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[CTRL] Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan

[J Taylor]

Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan

Blacks were most likely to upset plans for an alien invasion of earth. As a
result they were targeted with Aids, according to the health minister's
"expert" on Aids.

http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/features/2000sep/08sep-looney.html

---
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PAUL KIRK reports.


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W

illiam Cooper, the author of Behold a Pale Horse - the book on Aids that
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been circulating - is
closely connected to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Cooper is often seen at Klan rallies, but denies being a member of the Klan
himself, claiming he simply supports the "Christian" ethos of the cult.
Speaking on his own radio station Cooper most recently claimed the KKK were
"misunderstood" and encouraged "patriots" to join so as to be kept abreast
of all the plots being hatched against American sovereignty.

The circulation of extracts from Cooper's books sparked an extraordinary
exchange between Tshabalala-Msimang and 702 radio host John Robbie this
week. After questioning the minister on the book and on her stance on the
link between HIV and Aids, the radio presenter said: "Go away. I cannot
take
that rubbish any longer. Can you believe it? ... I have never in my life
heard such rubbish." Robbie has shrugged off African National Congress
calls
on him to resign.

Cooper is also the inventor of the "unified conspiracy theory" - a bizarre
concept that explains everything from John F Kennedy's assassination to
Aids
as a conspiracy between the CIA, the Jews, the Freemasons, aliens and
secret
societies operating since the Middle Ages.


   TALK TO US
Mail the editor


Cooper, the leader of the Arizona Militia - a far-right-wing movement
preparing to repel alien invaders - claims to have served in the United
States Air Force as well as the United States Navy and to have had
unlimited
access to secret information. US government records show Cooper serving as
the lowest grade of clerk in the navy. His functions would have amounted to
little more than sweeping the floors where top secret meetings were held.

A trawl through US websites shows that he is most often described as a
fraud, a liar and a charlatan. He is currently engaged in a war of words
with Vietnam-era war hero Colonel Bo Gritz. Gritz claims Cooper's theories
are the work of a madman and cast aspersions on Gritz's distinguished
military career. Cooper in turn claims Gritz is a CIA stooge, a 32nd degree
Freemason and a Zionist.

Cooper makes a fortune selling copies of his three books and charging the
equivalent of R100 a head to those who wish to hear his lectures.

His latest money-spinner is a top-secret video of the Kennedy assassination
that he recently found.

The R100 video shows Kennedy's driver turn around and shoot the president
in
the head. The weapon used is not a pistol, but "a gas pressure device
developed by the aliens from the Trilateral Commission".

At least that is what Cooper claims. The US television stations he hawked
the tape to claim it was a poor-quality fake using chunks of the famous
Zapruder film. Cooper maintains Kennedy was killed as he was about to blow
the whistle on how aliens had invaded Earth and were in the process of
taking over.

The Jason Society - one of more than three dozen secret societies mentioned
in Cooper's books - had just launched the Galileo probe mission, and
Kennedy's whistle-blowing could have ruined the scheme, so Cooper's theory
goes. The Galileo mission was not an attempt to examine Jupiter, but a
secret attempt to change the universe.

The Jason Society - a shadowy cult made up of Jewish bankers, Catholics and
drug lords and presided over by Satan - had hatched a plot to ignite the
atmosphere of Jupiter using a hydrogen bomb hidden on board the Galileo
probe.

Cooper's theory is that this would give earth two suns - exactly the same
solar system the alien invaders have back home. Soon after this event -
which was to have happened last year - the aliens would invade Earth.

But for this to happen the races that could "cause trouble" needed to be
wiped out. Cooper claims the aliens decided homosexuals, blacks and
Hispanics were most likely to upset the plans for an alien invasion. As a
result they were targeted with Aids. Once their populations are decimated
the aliens will then invade Earth - and the cure for Aids will be made
known. Cooper believes his Arizona Militia - who engage in regular training
exercises and festivities with the KKK - will be the only humans left who
are willing to fight off the alien invasion.

According to Cooper the best thing we can do is stock up on canned foods -
and buy an assault rifle. The aliens are coming - forget about Aids.



-- The MailGuardian, September 08, 2000.



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Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language

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Firstly this is a disussion group and nothing is being forced
secondly your response is repeating the political formula's without thought
Thirdly/..testing for peoplehood if I suggest that all people who commit
abortions should have the responsibility of disposing of the non thing that
has just died, what would most peoples reaction be?

Also if the unborn baby is part of the mother only why is every cell
different from the mother.
And if  an normal person went to have 3kg of healthy tissue removed a
normal
hospital would treat them as crazy( you want your heart removed because you
dont want it to beat?

Also secular religions have not clean hands ..name the secular grouping and
some of its offspring will have murder and certainty of purpose to its
cause. So murder of babies and old men are acceptable now, because that is
the present morality.

The level of argument does not lie here however it lies in fundamental
philosphies of utilitarianism versus communitarianism / contractualism.
Utilitarians want the maximum benefit to existing productive individuals.
That is why they can also easily talk about infanticide(peter singer) and
euthenasia.


The people who control the conspiracy favour this approach because it make
people easier to manipulate via the media. (a strong group identity is
easier to manipulate from the inside but the one worlders are the perpetual
insider/outsiders)

John

PS I originally sent this in tolook at the use of language not abortion



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This is bogus logic, based on the a priori assumption that a fetus is a
person. That a fetus is a person is not a fact, but a religious doctrine.
As such it aplies only to the practitioners of those religions of which it
is a tenet. Stop trying to cram your religion down the rest of our
throats.  Hasn't 1500 years of religious warfare been enough? When are you
going to learn? Attempting to force your religion on others leads to
violent resistance. Is that what you want?


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[CTRL] Table Talk

[J Taylor]

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit
the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all
conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have
prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as
to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any
sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German
troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of
law and order. --- Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942, in "Hitler's
Table-Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942", Dr. Henry
Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951)


Hitler also believed that christianity was a jewish conspiracy to destroy
Rome--there he agrees with Lloyd.

John

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[CTRL] The War on South Africa-1

[J Taylor]

This is an old booklet dating back from 1977 giving details of what was
being planned for south africa. Apartheid was not a sustainable system for
both moral and demographic reasonss but could have developped into something
closer to the swiss system.(my prefferred option for SA). However the forces
arrayed against the country made sure that there would be war and terror. Be
as it may, this gives an interesting if dated look to what happened.

John

The War on South Africa-Aida Parker


Foreword

THE SERIES of articles which recently appeared in The Citizen - “US Secret
War on South Africa” - and now collated in this booklet infuriated some
readers, delighted others, puzzled many more.
Why, they asked, should the rulers of the most powerful capitalist,
democratic nation on earth deliberately set out to “destabilise” the only
capitalist, democratic nation’ in Africa?
 South Africans are not alone in asking such questions.

 As far back as July, 1972, Fortune magazine in a special supplement on
South Africa commented editorially that “there must by now be a lot of
businessmen who are puzzled about the unique, emotionally charged character
of hostility to South Africa.

 “US and European businessmen who invest there, athletes who represent South
Africa at international events, and trade unionists who have represented it
at the International Labour Organisation have been treated as pariahs by a
considerable body of world opinion.
 “The same body of world opinion seems relatively unconcerned about the
whole denials of human and civil rights in the Soviet bloc, in much, if not
most the Third World’, end across most of Africa itself.”

 It is important to point out that while the Carter Administration has for
the first time brought the American attack on South Africcl into the open,
agencies of the US have in fact been busy trying to dislodge the established
South African Government for many years. Why?
 The Prusssian General von Claueewitz said the three main causes of war were
almost always:
 - A desire for someone else’s territory.
  -A desire for someone else’s markets.
- A desire for someone else’s wealth.
 To a great degree this is a war of strategic minerals South Africa has
them. America Wants them.

 But many Informed people today believe there is another and even more
sinister motive behind the US secret war on South Africa.
 Under President Jimmy Carter, almost all key decision-maker posts in the US
Administration are held by members of an elite international organization
known as the Trilateral Commission;

Founded and funded in July, 1973, by billionaire banker Mr David Rockefeller
as an offshoot of the enormously powerful Council on Foreign Relations
(America’s so-called “invisible Government”), the Trilateralists believe
that the time has come to make an energetic thrust for a New World Order.
 To achieve this New World Order they are already seeking an accommodation
with the Russians. And, as a further move, certain “obstacle” countries must
be removed. These include such fiercely independent sovereign states as
Israel and South Africa.
 Israel has already heard her warning signals. Now South Africa is hearing
hers. That is what this book is all about.


---
Secret US war on South Africa


THE CITIZEN today begins a series of startling disclosures on the secret war
which the Carter Administration is waging against South Africa. it is an
operation is which:
- Opinion against South Africa is being mobilized in such not seen in the US
on a scale and intensity since the anti-Vietnam War crusade.
-


- ‘Foreign Governments, through US embassies are being pressured into
withdrawing or reducing investment in South Africa.
- Agencies of the US Government are actively trying to destabilise the
postion here by generous assistance to resistance movements, Black
Consciousness bodies and would be Black leaders. ‘The US electorate
generally knows little, if anything, about the ramifications of a campaign
organised and sponsored by the liberal-international wing of the State
Department and its counterparts in the Central Intelligence Agency. This
liberal-international wing is now well-placed in the White House hierarchy
and is exercising a decisive influence on the Carter Administration’s
policies.
These elements have decided that the Whites of South Africa are finished.
The war now being waged is to ensure that the end of White rule, and the
substitution of Black majority rule, is achieved as speedily as possible -
and that when the Blacks take over, the US will have a special and friendly
relationship with them, whether they are pro- or anti-Marxist. My inquiries
prove that:

1. South Africa is now No 1 on the American liberal “hit list”, ranking
higher even than Rhodesia or Chile.
2. Over the past three years, in an attempt to slow or stop the rapid
erosion of goodwill between Pretoria and Washington, Pretoria has found it
expedient to tolerate gross interference in its domestic affairs, at an

[CTRL] The War on South Africa-2

[J Taylor]

Huge Boycotts Planned
US RADICALS, using their anti-Vietnam War tactics and supported by certain
top members of the Carter Administration, are busy on a national campaign
aimed at stepping up anti-South African business and sports boycotts.
 I was told from Washington last night: “The vendetta against South Africa
is picking up speed quickly.
 ‘The radical groups are organising their opposition to South Africa in
exactly the same way in which they organised the civil rights struggle and
whipped up the anti-Vietnam war psychosis.
 ‘The same campaign tactics have been taken out of the cellar, dusted off
and launched on a nation-wide scale.
 ‘The great danger is that some of these militants, men like Vice-President
Walter Mondale and Andy Young, are now backed by the White-House.
“The basic plan will is: “First, all universities in the US have been
systematically canvassed with a
plea to sell shares in any company operating in South Africa:
 “Second, all the city councils with Black majority or a near-Black majority
have been approached to adopt resolutions urging officials not to buy
products from any company trading with South Africa. Such resolutions have
already been passed by a number of leading city councils.
 “An extension of this operation is to demand that State legislatures pass
similar resolutions. The labour Committee of the New York State Legislature
has already approved such a draft Bill. This is now before the Legislature’s
Wages and Means Committee.
 “in addition, annual meetings of the larger corporation dealing with South
Africa are being systematically attended by radical groups and the
shareholders forced to vote on the South African issues.

 ‘This is only the beginning of a campaign aimed at involving students
nationwide. in sport, a vast organisation is being developed along the lines
of the very successful British organisation, headed by Peter Hain and Dennis
Brutus.”

US institute used a anti-SA spearhead

BECAUSE Pretoria trusted the US, no continuous, concentrated effort has ever
been made to monitor overt and covert American activities against South
Africa.
 Today, however, I can disclose details of how one of America’s richest and
most powerful establishment organisations
 - handling huge US Government and State Department funds -has been used as
one of their main spearheads by liberals and radicals In their efforts to
overthrow what they describe as South Africa’s White minority regime.
 This is the New York-based Africa-American Institute (AAI), an organisation
which today faithfully reflects the anti-South African stance taken by the
liberal-international wings of the State Department, the CIA and the White
House hierarchy.

 In one of its more open moves, the AAI last December organised a five-day
indaba at Maseru, attended by 116 delegates, including some of South Africa’
s most dedicated enemies.
 Ostensibly the meeting was called to discuss Southern African problems. But
the main part of the meeting, held behind closed doors, was to discuss the
most effective methods of breaking down apartheid, how to overthrow the
“White minority regime”, and whether this should be achieved through
peaceful or violent means.
 Delegates included the violently anti-South African Mr Charles Diggs;
Senator Dick Clarke; Nigeria’s virulently anti-South African Brigadier
Joseph Garba: David Sebelo, the New York-based Director of Foreign Relations
for the banned Pan-Africanist Congress; representatives of the banned ANC;
and members of the Black People’s Convention.
 Much less well known to South Africans is that since 1962 AAI has spent an
estimated RZO-million on Black educational programmes, vast amounts of this
having been set aside for refugees and members of “recognised” liberation
movements. Many of them have come back to take part in organized militancy.
 In this particular range of programmes, it has long been claimed that there
is a strong connection between the AAI and the CIA’s “dirty tricks”
department.
 AAI is known to be closely connected with Negro radicals in the US, with
ANC and PAC expatriates, with many banned South Africans and with White
South African exiles in New York.
 AAI administers, on behalf of the State Department, the Southern African
Student Programme (SASP) a shadowy undertaking launched in 1962 with the aid
of the CIA to capture “the coming revolution” in Southern Africa by training
exiles for posts “in the post revolutionary governments.”
 It handles large numbers of South African Blacks visiting the US as State
Department guests, being entrusted with the crucial business of planning
their itineraries, arranging cocktail parties and dinners, choosing the
people they should meet.
 Significantly, perhaps, White South African guests are usually handled by
other organisations.

 Although AAI is seldom mentioned in the South African Press, it has never
made any secret of its commitment to radical change in this country.

 The first warning of its activities should 

[CTRL] The War on South Africa-3

[J Taylor]

Campaign to bar SA

 fmm all sport by 1980
SOUTH AFRICA will have to move - and move fast - if it is not to face “total
and complete” exclusion from world sport before the 1980 Moscow Olympic
Games.
 That Is the target date laid down for a US and global sports boycott
against South Africa now being swung into action by two formidable new US
self-styled
“task forces.”
 They are “Group Action”, comprising 74 militant and well-funded US
anti-South African organisations, and ACCESS, the recently-formed American
Co-ordinating Committee for equality in Sport.
 This is the first fully-co-ordinated American campaign against South
African sporting links. Previous protests were mostly individual group
efforts.
South Africans should not regard the new threat as exaggerated. Not only do
the campaigners include some of the most powerful action groups in the US,
but there is good reason to believe that their movement has been
sympathetically received by the White House.
 More particularly, one of the principal campaign advisers is
academic-turned-activist Dennis Brutus, a Coloured poet, former Cape Town
teacher and founder of SANROC (South African Non-racial Olympic Committee).

 Brutus, one of the most skilled of international operators and lobbyists
and a far more effective campaigner than Peter Hain, has in recent years
succeeded in getting South African kicked out of:
 The Olympics, FIFA, the world soccer body, world athletics and
international cricket and rugby.
 Although he was banned in South Africa in 1962 under the Suppression of
Communism Act, there is no real reason to believe Brutus is a Communist. The
evidence points to his being a CIA man.
 His first work was published by the Mbari Writers and Artists’ Club, an
ob-scure organisation maintained by CIA funds through the Farfield
Foundation. Two of his closest associates in South Africa were Randolph
Vigne and Neville

Rubin, both recipients of CIA funds through the Farfield Foundation. Many of
his American associations show CIA connections.
 Although as yet almost completely unknown to most South African sportsmen,
ACCESS fields some imposing sponsors. Honorary chairman is Mr Leslie 0
Harriman, Nigerian Ambassador to the UN and chairman of the UN Special
Committee Against Apartheid.
 Support organisations include: the American Friends Sewice Committee,
recipient of CIA funds through various ‘US foundations, including Ford and

Rockefeller; the American Committee on Africa, 20 000 members, another CIA
conduit; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Americans for
Democratic Action; ARENA, the Institute for Sport and Social Analysis;
Clergy and Laity Concerned; Gray Panthers; Methodist Fedoration for Social
Action; Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity); Women’s Division of
Global Ministries; South African Students Movement; Sports for the People;
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; and Coalition of
Concerned Black Americans.

 ACCESS co-ordinator is Professor Richard E Lapchick, Department of
Political Science, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia. Lapchick
recently gained his Ph D on a thesis analysing the structure of South
African sport.
 Outlining his campaign programme, Lapchick says: “ACCESS will use its
network to attempt to block any and all competition with South Africa. While
a major effort will be undertaken in tennis, attacks will be made in all
sports. “Tactics will include educational programmes, propaganda
presentations to the spon-soring sports federations, letter-writing
campaigns, TV, radio and newspaper in-terviews and, in 8ome cases,
non-violent, direct action campaigns.”
 Lapchick says that plans are well ahead to link in the US anti-South
African epotts boycott with similar efforts in Britain, Australia, France,
New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Sri Lanka and in African
States through the OAU.
 “The days of apartheid sports teams competing internationally are
 numbered,” he claims. ’  South African participation in US sport is being
rapidly whipped up into a highly emotive political issue by US Negro
spokesmen. Dr Jewel1 Handy Gresham, executive director of theCoalition of
Concerned

Black Americans, described as ‘*a volunteer group of Black academics,
lawyers, churchmen and community groups concerned with critical issues
affecting Black citizens,” says in an official Press release: “American
tennis. interests are on a collision course with the Black community
and wider supporting public if efforts continue to be pressed by the US
Tennis Association and its parent organisation, the international Lawn
Tennis Federation, to force the acceptance of all-White South African
players in international competition on American soil.”
 Dr Gresham, a woman professor of English, discloses that CCBA has already
begun negotiation with the US State Department.
 “Mr Edmundson of the State Department ha8 made the point . . . that the
President has the power, by proclamation, to suspend admission 

[CTRL] The War on South Africa-4

[J Taylor]

Training for ‘liberation’:

US institute’s key role
THERE has recently been a tremendous furore in the US Congress over the fact
that South Africa spends R 1,5-million a year on its information services in
the US and that a few sugar officials accepted sponsored invitations to
visit South Africa.
 Here again is an outstanding example of the Carter Administration’s
“selective morality.”

 Such indignation over South Africa’s expenditure of R1,5-million on
perfectly
open, above-board information services in the US (population, 2 17-million)
looks a bit out of perspective when you examine what the American Goverment
is spending on destabilising activities through various covert operations in
South Africa (population, 24-million).
 What is more, while the US Government through its Foreign Agents
Registration Act knows precisely how every cent of South African money is
spent on in-formation and lobby services in the US, in South Africa no
American is called to account. Not even the South African Government has the
faintest idea how much US money is spent in this country.
 So trusting have the South Africans been that the Government does not even
know the official budget allocation of the US Information Services in this
country.
 To gain some picture of the huge sums of money involved in the US operation
against South Africa, The Citizen will today again examine one of the key
“destabilising” agencies: the African-American Institute, an organisation
still virtually unknown to most South Africans.
 The aims of the AAI, operating almost entirely on US Government or
tax-exempt foundation grants, in regard to South Africa, are quite simple.
To accelerate by all possible means a transition to Black Government.
- To ensure through training and educational programmes the availability of
trained persons to take over that proposed Government.
- To ensure by these means that such a Government would be favourably
disposed to the US.
 The AAI has achieved phenomenal success in its onslaught on White South
Africa. In Africa itself, it today probably has firmer links than the
Russians with nearly all the major Southern African “liberation movements.”
It has arranged for the technical training and education of hundreds of
those now operating inside these movements.
 Internally and externally, it has masterminded many of the most successful
propaganda campaigns waged against this country.
46
It has taken hundreds of South African Black, Indian and Coloured leaders,
. many of them militants, to the US, and there ensured that these visitors
are saturated with political influence which they, in turn, can spread
further on their return.
 AAI supplies these people with propaganda material for use against the
South African Government. Contacts are made on these travels which are
maintained and developed so that the work initiated in the US can be
continued later by post and further visits.
 Side by side with this, AAI has played a vital role in promoting the
extremely damaging “disinvestment” campaign now under way against South
Africa, and in educating churches, universities, trade unions and political,
pressure groups on how to wage economic warfare against the Republic.
 A report entitled “Refugee- Students from Southern Africa - Report of
Workshop on the Training and IJtllisatlon of Refugee Students from Southern
Africa, sponsored by the African-American Institute and Syracuse University
at Lubin House, New York City, 18-19 April, 1967,” illustrates the spirit
and at-titude of the AAI towards Southern Africa. (AA1 in its literature
never refers directly to South Africa. It always refers to Southern Africa
or to “minority-ruled countries in Southern Africa”).
 Detailing what he calls “conclusions from the conference,” Mr E Jefferson
Murphy, AAl’s Executive Vice-President, wrote:
- “It is of vital importance to provide education and training for refugees
from
,Southern Africa for humanitarian reasons, because they are symbols of the
struggle against racism and for the majority rule in their countries, and
because they will be needed in the fight for freedom and in the subsequent
process of nation building. ??‘The objectives of such training should be,
first, to prepare students to participate effectively in’ the struggle for
freedom and, second, to prepare them to contribute to their people In exile,
to their country of asylum and ultimately to their home country when
independence comes.
- “Scholarships for training should be awarded where possible to students
affiliated with a liberation movement, and the training programme and
efforts to assure trained students utilisation on return should be planned
and carried out as much as possible in co-operation with liberation
movements.

- “Whatever steps are taken to solve short-term problems, there is only one
ultimate solution to the overall problem: that is the overthrow of minority
regimes in Southern Africa and the liberation of the Southern tier of the
continent.
 “Participants 

[CTRL] The War on South Africa-6 CIA MI6 funded early armed struggle

[J Taylor]

CIA MI6 funded early armed struggle
10 MAIL  GUARDIAN August 18 to 24 2000 -
 Barry Streek
An extraordinary claim. that Western intelligence agencies, in particular
the CIA and MI6, were behind the earliest
phases of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa, was
published this week.
The claim, printed in the latest edition of the investigative magazine
Noseweek, suggests that the Western intelligence agencies funded the
National Committee of Liberation (NLC), later renamed the African Resistance
Movement (ARM). The article is based on previously unpublished National
Intelligence Services documents in which the former government's
intelligence arm says that the liberation movements were being backed by
Western intelligence agencies.
One of the people named in the article, Randolph Vigne, a key figure in ARM,
said from London this week that the suggestion of Western intelligence
funding for the organisation was "total and absolute nonsense".
NLC-ARM, formed by dissident members of the Liberal Party; initiated its
campaign of violence against buildings and strategic installations in 1!*)3,
but collapsed after a number of members - including the former president of
the National Union of South African Students, Adrian Leftwich - were
arrested, and others, including Vigne, left the country.

Another member of ARM, John Harris,was convicted for exploding a bomb at the
Johannesburg station that killed an elderly woman and injured a number of
other people. He was subsequently executed.
The Noseweek article quotes extensively from a document, allegedly prepared
by another leading ARM member, John Lang, which stated that NLC-ARM had
acquired a four-seater aircraft, a 45-ton boat and various other assets.
This document is said to have come into the possession of the security
police at the time.
The article says that with one exception, the late DE Montague Herman, the
founders of NLC-ARM were not communists and it then speculates on who would
have funded them.

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America’s prolonged assault on gold 1
,
FEW would deny that the US Government has for years worked hard to
destabilize the South African economy.

 The efforts include the current “disinvestment” policy, an international
credit
and financial squeeze, pressure on US companies with South African
sub-sidies, blocking of loans by international organisations and, most
dangerous of ail, America’s prolonged “holy war” against gold.
 As recently as last September the American Press was crammed with long
learned treatises on the price collapse of the “barbarous metal”, due to the
US-dominated IMF gold auctions. Many were the prediction8 of disaster for
the South African economy, culminating in hints of imminent revolution as a
result.
 Simultaneously, a report by the Chiries Rivers ASSOCiates, commissioned by
the US Department of Commerce, gave fuel to the US Liberal Estabiisment
belief that Marxist and militant governments in Southern Africa would not
seriously affect American access to natural resources.
 Now we come to two fundamental facts about South Africa: -
 0 It is the world’s premier producer of gold, providing two-thirds of the
wand’s supply of newly mined gold.
 ??It is the target of a furious world-wide attack for it8 policy of
separate development.
What is the link between these two facts? Today I am privileged to quote
from “The War on Gold,” by British-born Professsor Antony Sutton, a former
Research Fellow at the Hoover institute for
War, Revolution and Peace, and author of a number of major works on the
inter-national monetary system.

 ‘The War on Gold,” (Valiant Publishers, Sandton) deals extensively with the
US assault on South Africa. in it, Professor Sutton makes a number of
disclosures likely to shock South Africans and American8 alike.
 He contends: ‘The attack on South Africa has little to do with it8 racial
Or domestic policies; these are propaganda counterparts to the war on gold.
A moment’s thought wiil suggest that a Kissinger who is unmoved by Soviet
persecution of Jews and political dissidents is unlikely to be moved by the
lack of voting rights for Black South Africans.
 “Basic to anti-South African hostility is the fact that South Africa is a
geological freak, 8 vast storehouse of mineral wealth, an inviting target
for every imperialistic cabal in the world, the Soviet Union and the US
included.”
 US demands for a war on gold, he says, began surfacing as far back as 1966.
In that same year, “the tax-exempt Carnegie Endowment for international
Peace,
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ostensibly studying ways to end Black persecution in South Africa, published
a study (Ameiio C Leiss, Apartheid  UN Collective Measures) detailing how a
UN attack could be made on South Africa. The report quoted military
calculations including the number of troops required for the attack (93
000), the air power required (3 000 flying hours) and the estimated
casualties (18 900 to 37 800).
 “We can set aside the obviously gross underestimates by the presumably
amateur generals at Carnegie. More pertinently, how does a tax-exempt ‘peace
foundation get tangled up in promoting wars on the world’s largest producer
of
gold?
 ‘This Carnegie Report. . .was signed by Joseph E Johnson, President of the
Foundation. Johnson is less well known for another position he holds:
Honorary Secretary-General ofor the US at the Bilderberger meetings.
 “Prince Bernard (of Lockheed payoff fame) is chairman of the Biiderberger
group.
 “The Bilderborgers, otherwise known as The Navigators, are described as
global thinkers, supposedly dedicated to strengthening Western ideals. in
practice, the group is in the forefront of planning a One-World New Order.
Such a New Order would of course be under US (that is, Wail Street)
dominance. in other words, it would be the same dollar imperialism that is
at the root of the war on gold.
 “The Carnegie Endowment is an integral part of the US Establisment. In many
ways it is closer to the centre of policy-making than the Washington
bureaucrats. I\ has a vested interest in promoting dollar imperialism.
 “As part of the Carnegie programme to ‘alter the future’ on behalf of
dollar imperialism, the Leiss Report recommended a boycott on gold as a
prelude to military action.
 “This 1965 report noted that export of gold and gold by-products accounted
for 77 percent of South Africa’s gross national product. ‘Gold is the most
impor-tant single earner of foreign exchange,’ the report stressed. The
‘study’ also in-traduced some shaky reasoning contending that gold mining
would decline before 1970 and predicted that ‘by 1981’ only four of the
existing mines on the Witswatersrand may still be in production.”
 The Leiss Report concluded, says Professor Sutton, that “it would be next
to impossible to prevent gold from moving into trade channels even if
complete economic measures were applied.” it observed that “a successfui
boycott on gold would, if followed, either require some extremely intensive
policing operations or some method of 

[CTRL] not the war on SA- The New Cold War

[J Taylor]

I send this at the same time to give a slightly different perspective on the
NWO from a left wing perspective.
It mirrors the other sends in that it shows how the elite have narrowed
opportunities inmany different countries(as well as in The Europe itself). I
find the Larouchian overtones of chomsky and pilger  interesting and shows
their allegiances?

John

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xalmeida.html





The New Cold War
In May 1994, to a packed house at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London,
Noam Chomsky appeared in debate with John Pilger. Red Pepper hosted the
event; Harold Pinter was chair.
Hilary Wainwright [then political editor of Red Pepper; now editor]: Friends
and comrades, welcome to this first Red Pepper forum, and also to the
magazine. We wanted a way to present or re-establish the art of public
conversation. In a sense it's more creative, particularly in the complex
times we're in, than relying on an adversarial debate. It's more
participatory than just a lecture, and perhaps more personal and pleasurable
than a traditional public meeting.

It's appropriate that we're having this public conversation and that the
Almeida Theatre is our forum. I'd like to thank Jonathan Kent and Ian
McDiarmid for allowing us to have this theatre.

I don't need to introduce any of the three participants. They're all people
who are fearless in searching out the truth and then finding every possible
platform to make it public. But the more they discover the truth, the more
public platforms are closed to them. They're individuals who in their
particular chosen craft have achieved the highest possible skills, but
aren't bogged down by the narrow professionalism that has stifled British
political and intellectual life. In that sense they're that desperately
scarce resource, an engaged public intellectual. And just before handing
over to Harold Pinter I want to remember another exemplary public
intellectual - Ralph Miliband - who died last Saturday, and I think that his
determination to create an independent and internationalist left will
inspire Red Pepper and be one of the spirits behind this conversation.

Harold Pinter: Thank you. Let me just say that what I intend to do is embark
on this discussion for a while, and then in due course I'd like to invite
you to participate and ask any questions of Noam Chomsky and John Pilger
that you wish.

So let me kick off by saying that John, this title, the New Cold War, was
your suggestion because you believe, quite properly I think, that the term
the New World Order had been over used and was rather tired. So could you
define a little more precisely what you mean by the New Cold War?

John Pilger: Well, of course it's heavily ironic: the original Cold War
never ended. The Old Cold War was a war of attrition between the great
nuclear powers, but it was a rhetorical stand-off, too. So often we were
invited and manipulated to see it simply as a conflict between East and
West, yet the Cold War always was, and still is, a war against the majority
of humanity. It was a war fought with the blood of "expendable" people over
strategic position, resources and it was a war of control - it was an
imperialist war. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States
fought in the Third World was relatively insignificant compared with the war
fought by the US against people trying to improve their position in the
world. The Soviets never matched the Americans as imperialists; they were
lousy imperialists outside their own borders.

The US established a network of control throughout the world in the postwar
period, and that control has been shored up ever since. Now when the
Communist world collapsed, of course the excuse to fight this war against
the Third World collapsed with it, so other excuses had to be found, and
these have never really been satisfactory. For instance, during the Gulf
War, we went through a period of the "demon" excuse. Saddam Hussein was
elevated to new Hitler status. This didn't really work but it did for a
while; it certainly worked long enough for the US to lead a very
considerable force against Iraq and cause the deaths of perhaps 200,000
people, wrecking a large part of the Middle East economy.

There have also been excuses of the Noriega variety: the reason for invading
Panama was that Noriega was an international drug dealer, child molester and
pornographer, and whatever he was, he had to be caught. Well of course,
those weren't the real reasons at all. The US was demonstrating its power
yet again.

Panama began the New Cold War, in which an Orwellian language would be
employed that would make war equal to peace. For these actions against
dictators who had previously been in the pay of, and with a client
relationship to, the US, could be put down in the cause of a new peaceful
world. But of course this was so transparent, there wasn't really any basis
for people 

[CTRL] Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South Africa(Independent, UK)

[J Taylor]

-Original Message-
From: Taylor, John (JH) (Solvents) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South
Africa (Independent, UK)

Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South Africa
By Karen MacGregor in Durban
Independent On-line - 4 September 2000
--

South Africa's health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has fuelled
the debate on theHIV-Aids crisis in the country by circulating a
controversial theory that claims the virus was introduced into Africa by a
global conspiracy intent on reducing the continent's population.

The theory is expounded by American author William Cooper in a chapter in
his book Behold, a Pale Horse.  He claims the Illuminati - a conspiracy to
control the world - introduced Aids to Africa via the smallpox vaccine in
1978, even though the last recorded case of the disease was in 1977. He
also alleges that a known cure is being kept secret until enough people
have died.

The health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, circulated copies of the
chapter to the health ministers of South Africa's nine provinces at their
last meeting. On her instruction, a local newspaper revealed yesterday, her
parliamentary officer also distributed copies to provincial premiers.
The Western Cape health minister, Nick Koornhof, says that with it he
received an anonymous letter, marked top secret and "for African eyes
only", warning that the Aids virus could be in any vaccine coming into
Africa from the West.

Click here for full story:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-09/af040900.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-09/af040900.shtml

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[CTRL] Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in Reverse

[J Taylor]

ER2000-09-#02 Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in
Reverse (Economic Reform, Vol. 12, No. 8, August 2000)
The Civil Commons
Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in Reverse
by John McMurtry

The slogan "Marxism is dead" was proclaimed almost immediately on the fall
of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological
inversion occurred. In place of "the inevitable victory of the proletariat"
which Marx had predicted almost 150 years earlier, there was the "inevitable
process of globalisation" instead. The victory of the working classes of the
world, according to scientific socialism, was inevitable because of
historically deepening contradictions between capitalist productive forces
and relations, contradictions which would by dialectical necessity issue in
socialism (or "the first stage of communism" as Marx put it).
This defining certitude of the greatest oppositional movement in the history
of capitalism did not, as we know, turn out to be in accord with the facts.
Much has been made of the failure of this "inevitable revolution." An
industry of post-modernism has arisen to attack Marx's meta-narrative of
necessity for violating the contingent, the plural and the free. But a still
deeper irony of history has emerged which no-one in the post-modern global
order has yet noticed.
The certitude of an inevitable world revolution has merely shifted sides.
What was once abhorred by liberal theory as the metaphysic of "Marxist
economic determinism" has become instead the neo-liberal program of
"inevitable economic restructuring." What was formerly condemned as a brutal
violation of people's freedom to decide how they live was now declared a
matter in which "there is no alternative." All societies on earth have now
been issued one decree. "Society must adjust to the necessary changes of
globalisation, or perish."
As for the reversal of Marxist and market positions on the question of
knowing history in advance and the economic necessity of society-wide shock
treatments and social re-engineerings, this astonishing transferral of
superpower identities has transpired in the dark regions of the Western
ruling-class psyche. Its psychopathological projection and re-introjection
remains repressed today. But the irony is that no moral anchor was more
deep-seated before the fall of "the Marxist state" than repudiation of such
"denials of free will" and of "moral choice." No doctrine was thought more
objectionable by such cornerstone social ethicists as Karl Popper and Isaiah
Berlin than one prescribing belief in whole societies' submission to "the
external forces of historical necessity." The heroic story of Western
civilisation was finally triumphant, most believed, when such scientistic
predestinations of world power had been defeated by the free world in the
victory over Nazism, and the defeat of "the evil empire" of the USSR But
hardly had this last historic victory of global freedom been won than memory
of the old enemy of historical inevitability dissolved unremarked into thin
air.
The "global market revolution" has ever since been declared as an overriding
destiny, determining the future as surely as the laws of nature make objects
fall and heat rise. Few in this era dare to declare a contrary belief. The
test is simply to look at any day's newspapers or television broadcast to
see if this ultimate assumption is once overtly questioned by any
representative of the world's decision-making institutions or those who
comment on their policies. The ineluctable destiny of all societies on earth
to compete for survival within this final global order-no alternative is
conceived possible-has achieved a status beyond doctrinal dogma. It has
become a regulating principle of public consciousness. So occupied with its
demands are the mass media across cultures and continents, so commandeered
by its funding regime have the academies and sciences of the world become,
that one comes to believe that indeed this "new revolution of shareholder
value" is inevitable. When Winston finally confesses in Orwell's 1948 novel
1984 that "at last he loved Big Brother," he sounded the tocsin of a time to
come. One day soon, in under a half century, all would assume as their home
of life what they had earlier set their soul against-an order imposed on
them by wheels of a higher, inexorable power whose finally defining command
is that there is no alternative but to submit to it. More astoundingly, all
human will would be urged to dedicate itself above all to serving its
demands.
When Margaret Thatcher made the slogan "There is no alternative" so famous
that the acronym TINA has since become a transnational watchword of
recognition, the backbone of six centuries of British working class struggle
first resisted as a battle for the future. But saturation conditioning of
consciousness with no other public message permitted reproduction eventually
overwhelms the mind. If the mass media's spaces are 

[CTRL] Evidence shows cannibalism by ancient Indians

[J Taylor]

 Evidence shows cannibalism by ancient Indians
 By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, Associated Press
 (September 6, 2000 2:20 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com
http://www.nandotimes.com ) - Piles of human bones burned and boiled,
smashed and scraped. Cooking pots smeared with blood. A few years ago,
anthropologists in the American Southwest found the grisly remains of what
appeared to be an ancient cannibal feast, but they lacked the biological
proof - until now.
 Laboratory tests on some of the artifacts, including a piece of
human excrement, have revealed traces of a human protein that scientists
say
is the first direct evidence of cannibalism among the Anasazi, whose empire
stretched into present-day Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
 "This proves they put the meat in their mouths," said Richard
Marlar, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center in Denver who developed the biochemical tests to detect the protein.
"If you didn't eat human beings, this protein would not show up."
 The excavation site, consisting of three collapsed pit dwellings
nicknamed Cowboy Wash near Dolores, Colo., was occupied about 1150 A.D. It
was abandoned after seven people were butchered there.
 The findings were published in Thursday's issue of the journal
Nature.
 

 Note how the cannibals are not called Amerindians or Native Indians

 

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[CTRL] Israel as part of the NWO-

[J Taylor]

Palestinian textbooks do not encourage cooperation

Ha'aretz:Palestinian textbooks do not encourage cooperation
Ha'aretz 3 September 2000
Palestinian pupils returning to school in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have
received new school textbooks on civics. These books are the first written
specifically for Palestinians and are important because they have replaced
the Jordanian and Egyptian volumes that the Palestinians have used for
years.
Many Israelis hoped the new textbooks would emphasize Israeli-Palestinian
cooperation and peace partnership. However, the Palestinians claim that the
purpose of the texts is their educational and not their political value.
Maps in a sixth-grade civics textbook depict a shape separating the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, but do not say that the shape is Israel. Nor does the
map include Tel Aviv, although it does pinpoint other Israeli cities.
Israel is characterized as an "occupier" and treated more like an old enemy
than a new peace partner. "The Palestinian people were expelled from their
land as a result of the Israeli occupation of Palestine," the civics text
says, "and have been subjected to massacres and banishment from their land
to neighboring countries."

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Rabin Assassination/Commentary:  THE RABIN MURDER EXPRESS ROLLS ALONG-
THIS TIME ITS ELIAHU BEN-ELISSAR

by Barry Chamish
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Author, "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin"
and "Israel Betrayed", both available
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MODIIN, Yom Shlishi (Third Day-"Tuesday"), 5 Elul, 5760 (Gregorian
Date: September 5, 2000) (Hijri Date:  6 Jumad Thani, 1421), Root 
Branch: One week after P.M. Ehud Barak fired seven Israeli diplomats, one
of them, the Israeli ambassador to France, Eliahu Ben-Elissar was
dead.

According to the Jerusalem Post, "The circumstances of his death have
sparked a number of rumors. 'The rumors surrounding his death are vicious',
a Foreign Ministry spokesman said".
And why shouldn't they be?  Here is what we have been told.
On the morning of Shabbat, August 12, Ben-Elissar arrived at the Hotel
Atala, a rather obscure and unimposing establishment which for years has
been where the Israeli embassy has put up guests and arranged meetings.
Ben-Elissar was not accompanied by his bodyguards.
As Maariv observed, "In Israel, questions are being asked about the
ambassador's security arrangements.  The central question is why Ben-Elissar
arrived without his bodyguards, which according to regulations, must
accompany him every time he leaves his apartment".
Missing, also, was Ben-Elissar's French police protection.  According to the
Jerusalem Post, "A special branch of the French Police usually shadows every
move made by VIPs at risk".  But Ben-Elissar's Israeli and French bodyguards
were not anywhere near him, "apparently at his own request".
At noon, Ben-Elissar, aged 68, told hotel staff he wasn't feeling well.  By
1:30 P.M. he was dead of a heart attack, though according to one embassy
employee quoted by Maariv, "He was in the peak of health.  He never
complained of poor health and was rarely ill".
French police conducted a most perfunctory investigation and within hours
declared Ben-Elissar's death natural.  Of course, these same police
similarly concluded that Princess Diana died in "an accident".
Call it a coincidence, but on the day of Ben-Elissar's death, I received the
following e-mail, paraphrased because of the halting English:  "I just read
your article, 'Rigged'.  How did you know about the French connection to
Rabin's murder?  I discovered it three months ago after a discussion with an
agent of French Intelligence.  It's all true".
I suspect that Ben-Elissar also knew about the French connection to Rabin's
murder.  The only possible reason he would have interrupted his Sabbath to
go to the hotel was to meet someone.  Yet not one press report reached this
obvious conclusion, thus no one is asking who the ambassador met on his
final morning.
Whoever the person with whom Ben-Elissar met was, he was either a guest of
the Israeli embassy staying at the hotel or was familiar enough with embassy
habits to choose it for a fatal meeting.
The following scenario makes the most sense to me due to the paucity of
information available.
At least one French intelligence official has been leaking the fact that his
government helped murder Yitzhak Rabin in order to place their agent, Shimon
Peres, in the Israeli Prime Minister's office.
Word reached Barak that Ben-Elissar had been apprised of the truth and Barak
had Ben-Elissar recalled.  To avert suspicion, Barak also recalled six other
diplomats at the same time.  But in his last days in Paris, Ben-Elissar
continued gathering the facts.
Ben-Elissar was lured to the hotel with the promise of additional proofs and
told that he must arrive without any security.  Once there, the "informant"
spiked Ben-Elissar's coffee or utilized another means to initiate a mortal
cardiac arrest.
One more influential individual, who knew too much about Rabin's

[CTRL] Abortion and the English Language

[J Taylor]

Abortion and the English Language

by Joseph Sobran



In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell
analyzed the corrupting influence of dishonest politics on the way we speak
and think. There is no better example than the effect abortion has had on
our language.

Though abortion -- including the killing of viable infants at the verge of
birth -- is now a sacrament of the Democratic Party, nobody admits to being
"pro-abortion"; they are "pro-choice." This is an obvious lie. The right to
choose anything presupposes the right to live. The child, fetus, embryo, or
whatever you want to call the entity growing within its mother's womb has no
"choice" about being killed. It will never have a choice about anything.

The pro-abortion side is pro-abortion in the same way that advocates of
slavery were pro-slavery. "Oh," they protest, "but we don't insist that
everyone get an abortion; we only want people" -- that is, mothers -- "to
have a choice!" Then nobody was pro-slavery either, since nobody insisted
that every white man own a slave; they were "pro-choice." They wanted each
white man to be "free" to decide whether to buy slaves; or they wanted every
state to decide whether to permit slavery. Of course they overlooked the
obvious fact that the slaves themselves had no choice; in their minds this
was irrelevant.

The bad conscience of the pro-aborters shows in their studious avoidance of
the word kill to describe what abortion is. Why be coy about it? We don't
mind speaking of "killing" when we kill lower life forms. Lawn products kill
weeds; mouthwashes kill germs; insecticides kill bugs; mousetraps kill mice.
If the human fetus is an insignificant little thing, why shrink from saying
an abortion kills it? But the pro-abortion side prefers the evasive
euphemism that abortion "terminates a pregnancy."

As Orwell noted, dishonest people instinctively prefer the abstract to the
concrete. Abstract language avoids creating unpleasant mental images that
might cause horror and shame; concrete language may remind us of what we are
really doing. This is why military jargon dehumanizes the targets of bombs
and artillery: so that soldiers and pilots won't vividly imagine the men,
women, and children they are killing. Part of the job of military leadership
is to anesthetize the consciences of fighting men. And political leaders
(who usually start the wars in the first place) do their part by describing
the bombing of cities as "defending freedom."

In the modern world people are trained to avoid looking directly at the
effects of violence they commit or sanction. If possible, the killing is
delegated to specialists, who themselves are increasingly remote from their
victims -- as in recent U.S. bombings of Iraq and Yugoslavia, where American
casualties were nearly zero. Most of us don't mind if our military kills
people on the other side of the world; we feel no pain, even vicariously. We
may even buy the official explanation that our bombs are "preventing another
Holocaust." It may seem otherwise to the Iraqis and Slavs on whose homes
those bombs are falling.

But just as the news media refrain from showing us what those bombs actually
do, they never show us what an abortion looks like. They even refuse to
carry ads by abortion opponents, on grounds that pictures of slaughtered
fetuses are in "bad taste." They certainly are in bad taste; all atrocities
are. But the media are willing to show some atrocities, as in the killing
fields of Rwanda a few years ago. Since we're forever debating abortion, why
not let us see one? Why the blackout?

The answer, of course, is that the news media themselves are pro-abortion.
They adopt the dishonest language of the pro-abortion side: pro-choice,
fetus, terminate, and -- my favorite -- abortion provider (to make the
abortionist sound like a humanitarian).

A few years ago NBC produced a sympathetic movie about a woman seeking an
abortion -- Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" of Roe v. Wade. But when Mrs. McCorvey
later changed her mind and became an active opponent of abortion, did NBC do
a sequel? Unimaginable.

We have to keep our guard up at all times against political language,
especially in seemingly bland journalism, that is subtly infected with
propagandistic purposes.

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[CTRL] UK whites to be minority by 2100

[J Taylor]

They should change the name of england to NWO1..
John

  Whites will be an ethnic minority in Britain by the end of the
century.
  Analysis of official figures indicate that, at current fertility rates
  and levels of immigration, there will be more non-whites than whites
by
  2100.
 
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/racism/0,2759,180308,00.html
 
 
 
 
 

 --
 Chris Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh.
 Psychorealist and author of 'THE g FACTOR' [Wiley DePublisher,* 1996].
 Fired 1997 for resisting ignoracism, feminazism,
 environmentostalinism and paedohysteria. Extracted UKP12,000 payout 1999
 from Edinburgh University -- the maximum obtainable in UK 1997 law for
unfair
 dismissal. Entirely vindicated by new academic researches published
 1998-2000. Shown to have been 18 years ahead of the times in ideas about
 the biology of lesbianism (Guardian 30 March 2000). From July 2000,
appointed
 UK Public Policy Consultant for Woodhill Foundation (USA).
 For Curriculum Vitae, psychology articles and latest news, see
home page
 http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/index.htm. LATEST PICTURES OF BRAND AND
PRINCESS
 ARE NOW SHOWING. For last press publicity and picture, see
http://www.sunday-
 times.co.uk/ 23 vii 00 ('Sacked race row lecturer offered job by
millionaire')
 and  30 vii 00 ('Addicts to be offered cash for sterilisation').
 For an active website opposing the feminazism which is the main
plank of
 PeeCee religion and Neosocialist politics in Britain, go to
 http://www.ihatefeminism.com.

 *  Unlike Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', 'THE g FACTOR: General Intelligence and
Its
 Implications' cannot be purchased in bookshops. Modern peecee censorship
really
 works -- unopposed by the West's risible state-dependent 'universities.'
 --
 "If they could ever be made to understand the American notion of
diversity,
 Asians would politely wait until we had left the room and then die
laughing.
  Any discussion of the real advantages of ethnic diversity usually
manages
 to establish only one benefit people really care about: good ethnic
 restaurants. a large-scale survey called the National Study of the
Changing
 Work force found that more than half of all workers said they preferred
to
work
 with people who were not only the same race as themselves, but were the
same sex
 and had the same level of education. Even more probably felt that way but
were
 afraid to say so."
   Jared TAYLOR, 1997, 'The myth of diversity.' American Renaissance,
 vii/viii.
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Re: [CTRL] William Cooper,AIDS and South Africa

[J Taylor]

Acout 30-40% of blacks believe that Aids is a white conspiracy to kill them.
It may or may not be true that the CIA did such things(see the other side of
deception-ostrovsky), but I dont believe it. However the accusation will
have an effect similar to the blood libels against the Jews in the middle
ages.
(Remember that most blacks still feel closer to the witch doctor than the
priest in southern africa)

The minister was interviewed on the radio on tuesday and refused to say even
upon repeated questioning if she believed HIV causes Aids. She also got very
upset half way through the interview that the interviewer(a mhlungu) was
calling her by her first namethe interviewer just ended up calling the
whole thing bizarre and ending the interview.

The ANC has now called on the interviewer(John Robbie ) to be sacked and
said in effect that the radio station (owned by Mr Katz) will now strugle to
get anyone from government to be availlable for interview.

John

John
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From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:54 AM
Subject: [CTRL] William Cooper,AIDS and South Africa


Tuesday, September 5 3:47 AM SGT

S. Africa in hot water over AIDS again
CAPE TOWN, Sept 4 (AFP) -
The South African government is in hot water once again over AIDS -- this
time for circulating a chapter of a book which claims international
conspirators introduced the killer disease to Africa in a bid to reduce its
population.

Patricia Lambert, spokeswoman for Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang,
maintained Monday that the minister had circulated the chapter from William
Cooper's "Behold, a Pale Horse" to provincial health ministers as part of a
routine exchange of information.

The fact that the minister had passed on the document, which was sent
unsolicited and anonymously to the ministry, did not mean she identified
with
it, Lambert told journalists in Cape Town.

"We've seen pretty odd stuff, and this was some of it," she added.

Cooper claims the Illuminati, an alleged international conspiracy to take
over the world, introduced AIDS to Africa in 1978 through the smallpox
vaccine in an attempt to reduce the African population.

The minister's spokeswoman was speaking after Sandy Kalyan, a spokeswoman
for
the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said she was shocked the minister
appeared to be taking Cooper's views seriously.

Kalyan said Cooper was responsible for a bizarre conspiracy theory pulling
together the assassination of US president John Kennedy, alien invasions and
AIDS into a plot by renegade Central Intelligence Agency members to reduce
world population.

The distribution of the document follows controversy earlier this year over
President Thabo Mbeki's courting of foreign AIDS dissidents, some of whom
believe AIDS does not exist, and others who believe it is caused by poverty
and poor hygiene, not by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Western Cape provincial health minister Nick Koornhof has urged
Tshabalala-Msimang to distance herself from the theory.

Kalyan said the minister's office had also distributed copies of the
document
to all provincial premiers.

"The minister has not given an indication of her intentions, but it is
greatly worrying that this document, which rightly belongs in a rubbish bin,
should be distributed with apparently serious intent at a high level," she
said.

Lambert said that under the constitution, provincial and national ministers
shared responsibility for health issues.

"The minister receives a great deal of information from many sources, which
she distributes to the provinces.

"As far as we're concerned there's nothing unusual at all (in this case),
because it's part of stuff she routinely sends to the provinces so they can
be aware of the kind of stuff that's coming into her office."

Asked if there was any vetting of material being circulated,Lambert said
that
in the light of the current debate on AIDS, Tshabalala-Msimang sent
"everything" on.

"It certainly doesn't mean the minister is persuaded by this theory,"
Lambert
said.

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[CTRL] Who Are The Scumbags?-money and the NWO

[J Taylor]

http://wealth4freedom.com/ELITE.html

WHO ARE THE SCUMBAGS?
from an article by Roger Thibault

I spoke with Robert Henry Goldsborough this morning, 9/23/98, to add a
capping touch to this article on “Who Controls Clinton”.

Robert H. Goldsborough is a former staff investigator for the House
Committee on Un-American Activities, and is president of The American
Research Foundation, in Baltimore, Maryland. Undoubtedly, Mr. Goldsborough
is the world’s leading authority on the dangers of the New World Order. He
is a devout Catholic and graduate of Mount Saint Mary’s and Georgetown
University.

As if to forestall the heart of our discussion, I did not start off by
asking Mr. Goldsborough who he specifically thought were the top four elite
wealthy who controlled the world. I wanted to build up to that! Certainly,
the guesses of many readers would be correct in regards to just who this
group of power elite were. However, Robert added the follow-up information,
and background info to give a very succinct short article on what they were
about.

For some reason, I was not expecting Mr. Goldsborough to be so open in his
discussion with me. He went right to the heart of every question I asked
him. He told me, in his best estimate, who the top four world elite were
whom he thought controlled the world. After explaining the nature of my
call, I asked Mr. Goldsborough if he believed that it was possible for those
who have most recently come into great wealth (from oil, software,
computers, etc.) to rise to this echelon of world control. Now, the riches
of the four elite at the top have more properly come from “Old World Wealth”
, or wealth amassed early on in this century by the international banking
families. I spoke for example of Bill Gates - was it possible for Mr. Gates
to rise to the top with his great wealth?

Mr. Goldsborough explained that weighing the assets of Bill Gates as
opposed to J.D. Rockefeller Sr. against the GNP of the country, the wealth
of J.D.R. far outweighed that of Bill Gates. Bill Gates, worth perhaps 59 or
60 billion dollars, still paled in the shadow of the GNP corrected wealth of
J.D. - perhaps 200 billion dollars. He did indicate that Bill Gates has made
some movement toward the goals of the New World Order, primarily in the area
of population control, with a 2 ½ million dollar gift to John Hopkins
University somehow related to Planned Parenthood. Robert indicated that this
was a mere trifling compared to Ted Turner in these regards. In these same
regards - New World Money (oil, computers, etc.), Mr. Goldsborough told me
that Hewlett Packard left between 1-2 billion dollars towards endowments for
those groups spearheading birth control and education. So, again, we have
modern wealth working towards the New World Order, but still paling in
comparison to the money available and held by the power elite.

Certainly, J.D. Rockefeller Sr. has been one of the controlling elite
dominating the world. The Rockefeller wealth was discussed above. There have
been divisions in the Rockefeller money, however, and Mr. Goldsborough does
not seem to believe that J.D. Rockefeller III is currently one of the top
four power elite. Yes, the money of Mr. Carnegie, a Scotsman and Socialist
at heart was discussed, as well as the riches of the Mellon family. On the
Mellon side, we have the connection to/ownership of Gulf Oil, and the Mellon
National Bank. We also have the foundations that have sprung up from these
families that have helped to promote Socialism and in effect the New World
Order. Even here though, we have just a sampling of real wealth, of real
control.

Yes, we discussed Ted Turner in brief, and earlier pioneers in world
domination such as Jacob Schiff and Otto Kahn, but Jacob and Otto are long
gone, and we will save Ted and his wannabe aspirations for a later time.
Certainly, Ted is helping pioneer the way for trails of dead babies through
his unprecedented support of the UN and population control. Still though, we
have to look further for the power elite.

Enter Edward Bronfman, leader of the World Jewish Congress, head of
Seagrams, leading shareholder of Dupont, and most recently a mover and
shaker in Hollywood finances. Consider Edward Bronfman number one power
elite, at least one of four. Edward and I have a lot in common. I used to
work for Dupont. Edward tells Dupont what to do. Enter Robert Rubin,
Secretary of Treasury for the United States.

Enter number two in the power elite club of four. Robert Rubin has
incomparable power. He controls the disposition of the funding from the IMF.
This is largely your money folks, and Robert wants you to ante up some more.
While at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Rubin’s largest customer was the Government of
Mexico. While Secretary of the US Treasury, Mr. Rubin saw to the bailing out
of the failing Mexican economy by the US and the IMF. Yes, this IMF, Robert’
s client. Maybe Mr. Rubin was not necessarily looking out for the poor
Mexican families, but was protecting 

[CTRL] SHIRAZ ON THE POTOMAC

[J Taylor]

ON THE POTOMAC
 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:32:18 +0200
 SHIRAZ ON THE POTOMAC
 The Trial of the Shiraz Jews and The Pollard Case
 Jewish Press (NY)- Sept 1 2000
 by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
 
 
 [Note: The characters in this story are fictional. All the facts
cited
 about the Pollard case are true.]

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  Ali Mostophi, second officer at the Permanent Mission to the
United
 Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran smiled to himself when he
saw
 Jack Ferguson approaching.
 
 As often as protocol and the rule book allowed, the young American,
a
 junior officer in the diplomatic corps, sought  out Mostophi at the
13th
 
 floor lounge at the UN.  Ferguson  enjoyed prying off-the-record
 observations and analysis from him.  Nothing earth-shattering, but
it
 made Mostophi feel like a bit of a  mentor to someone, and it had
been a
 long while since young people in the full bloom of their idealism
looked
 up to him.
 
 Anticipating their usually friendly banter,  Mostophi was taken
aback by
 
 the edge in Ferguson's voice.
 
 "You know that I've  never swallowed the conventional line that
paints
 Iranians in shades of black.  But after this Shiraz fiasco, how can
any
 educated person see your people as anything but primitive
fanatics?"
 
 The news headlines that morning had announced the sentencing of 10
 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel.  Mostophi understood.
"You
 are troubled, no doubt, over the sentences of the Shiraz Jews.  Do
you
 want to vent, or do you want to learn something?"
 
 "Learn?  What's to learn? You violated every rule sacred to modern
 judicial systems!"
 
 Unruffled by the young man's sharp tone, Mostophi offered, "Stop
right
 there, let me finish for you.  I will tell you exactly what you
find
 ugly
 and offensive. You were about to tell me, of course, that the
Shiraz
 Jews were convicted without benefit of effective counsel. You want
to
 moralize about how there was no jury, only a judge who had reason
to be,
 shall we say, 'biased.' And of course you will certainly point out
that
 the Shiraz Jews were convicted on the basis of evidence that was
never
 shown to them. Correct, so far?"
 
 The wind taken out of his sails, Ferguson said only, "Yes, but
you've
 left
 out the most upsetting element of  all."
 
 "That," said  Mostophi, "would be the anti-Semitic thrust of the
whole
 episode.  When you hear that a government would fan the flames of
 prejudice against the world's favorite scapegoat, you are reminded
of
 Czarist Russia, right?"
 
  "Precisely," countered Ferguson, although with a bit of hesitation
 about
 what was to follow.
 
  Mostophi spoke quietly and confidently. "First let me assure you
that
 your whole premise is incorrect.  The trial has nothing to do with
 anti-Semitism.


 Ferguson sensed that something important was coming.  "So why the
 show-trial?"
 
 Mostophi settled back into his chair. "Nothing against the Jews per
se.
 They do, however, serve a useful function."
 
 "A useful function?"
 
 Mostophi nodded. "Our country is on the verge of  some relaxing of
 restrictions, the first in many years.  People get drunk  with a
little
 freedom.  Remember how quickly the Soviet Union crumbled  once
people
 sensed that their freedom  was increasing?  We aren't ready for
that. We
 needed  to broadcast a message that we are still prepared to rein
people
 in, if  they gallop too quickly."
 
 Ferguson frowned.
 
 Mostophi explained,


 "Of  course," said Mostophi firmly. "The trial of the Jews
effectively
 sent
 a message aimed more at the rest of our people than the Jews."
 
 "So you really don't hate the Jews.  You are just prepared to
sacrifice
 a
 few of them to make a point."
 
 Mostophi sighed, "And you, my dear Ferguson, have missed the entire
 point." He let Ferguson stew for a moment,  "It is natural for
 governments to take cues from others, to see how far they can go in
 pushing their own interests."
 
 "What are you getting at?" Ferguson prodded.
 
 "Do you recall what Hitler  told his generals before invading
Poland? He
 
 said, 'Go, kill without mercy . . . who today remembers the
annihilation
 of
 the Armenians?' "
 
 "So?"
 
 "What one nation does is a trial balloon for the plans of the next.
In
 other words,  if the United States, the supposed world paragon of
 judicial virtue can callously deny the rights of one person to suit
its
 own needs, then some of the rest of us can go a good deal further."
 
 "Just what are you driving at?"
 
 "I should think that you would have caught on by now," Mostophi
said. He
 
 leaned towards Ferguson and pointed an accusing finger,  "You
Americans
 led the way with your famous Pollard case."
 
 "But Pollard was guilty! And your defendants are innocent!"
 
 "Guilty of what?"  Mostophi shot back., "Of spying for a friendly
 country?
 Yes, to be sure! But see how his treatment has been
disproportionately
 severe, relative to 

[CTRL] Say it ain't so, Joe

[J Taylor]

From the Wall St Journal:
Joe Lieberman, Radical
 Historian
 By Ira Stoll. Mr. Stoll is editor of Smartertimes.com,
North American
editor of the Jerusalem Post and a contributor to OpinionJournal.com.
 So you thought Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance"
was
 flaky? Check out his running mate Joseph Lieberman's
 little-noticed 1970 volume on arms control and the
origins of the
 Cold War, "The Scorpion and the Tarantula." It's a
masterpiece of
 moral equivalency in which Mr. Lieberman draws a
parallel
 between Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and the
American
 Monroe Doctrine of maintaining influence in the Western
hemisphere.
The book's title comes from a quote
from
 Cold War historian Louis Halle, who
 contended that the Cold War "is not
 fundamentally a case of the wicked
against
 the virtuous. Fundamentally, it is
like the
 case of the scorpion and the
tarantula in the
 bottle, and we may properly feel
sorry for
 both parties, caught as they are, in
a
 situation of irreducible dilemma." In
the
 preface to his 1970 book, Mr.
Lieberman
 wrote that "this is the spirit in
which I have
recorded what my research has revealed."
 The only problem is that, as most
Americans
 have by now realized-and as those stuck behind the
Iron
 Curtain at the time knew all too well-the Cold War
was a case
 of the wicked against the virtuous. The Soviets were
the wicked
 ones, depriving the Russian people and those in their
puppet
states of freedom of the press, of religion, of emigration.
 Mr. Lieberman interpreted the communist talk of
international
 domination as mere bluster, and he wrote that Americans
should
 have known better than to take it seriously: "One of
the primary
 causes of the failure to achieve international atomic
control and
 the concurrent failure to prevent the cold war was the
inability of
 America's statesmen and people to see through the
avalanche of
 Communist rhetoric and deal with Soviet foreign policy
as
 something shaped by Russia's unique history and guided
by the
 Russians' conception of their national interest. In
this more
 accurate light, Russia's goals are seen to be more
limited and less
 in conflict with America's."
 When it came to American activity in Latin America, Mr.
 Lieberman sounded like a campus radical, or at least
George
 McGovern. "Consistency was not one of the
characteristics that
 marked America's side of the argument over the fate of
Eastern
 Europe," he wrote. "While protesting the creation of a
Soviet
 sphere of influence in Eastern Europe on the theory
that it would
 constitute a return to the evil days of international
power politics
 that has caused two world wars, the United States
nevertheless
 zealously protected its own sphere of influence in the
Western
 Hemisphere. From the earliest enunciation of the Monroe
 Doctrine right down to the twentieth century, America
has proved
 itself willing to resort to arms to keep anti-American
governments out of power in Latin America."
 Has Mr. Lieberman reassessed his views, or does he
still see the
 Cold War as a battle between a scorpion and a
tarantula, a war
 that America shared equal guilt for starting and in
which
 American calls for democracy and Soviet talk of world
 domination were each merely rhetoric? After I inquired
about the
 matter, the senator issued a statement that distanced
himself from
 the book without totally disavowing it.
 "Few of us view the world through the same lenses in
our 50s as
 we did in our 20s," the senator said. "The Scorpion and
the
 Tarantula was written more than 30 years ago and
certainly does
 not reflect my thinking about foreign policy or our
national
 security today. As the Cold War progressed, and the
actions by
 the Soviet Union to subjugate the people of Eastern
Europe
 intensified and the Soviet military build-up
increasingly
 threatened the United States and the free world, I
became a strong
 advocate of military readiness and of using our
military power
 when necessary to oppose any such tyranny. My voting
record
 since I have been in the Senate much more accurately
reflects my
 positions than does this 30-year-old book."
 Mr. Lieberman's statement is somewhat reassuring. But
rather than
 admitting he was wrong at the time he wrote the book,
he tries to
 explain it by suggesting that the Soviets somehow
worsened their
 behavior after 1970. In fact, the crushing of the
Prague Spring,
 the construction of the Berlin Wall and Stalin's forced
collectivization campaign all happened before Mr.
Lieberman
 wrote his book. The Soviet Union threatened the free
world from
 the very inception of that totalitarian state in a coup
by a group
 of Bolshevik thugs, not as a result of some post-1970
increase in
 aggressiveness imagined by Mr. Lieberman.
 The Cold War is over, and there are other issues to
vote on in
 November. But there are still plenty of scorpions and
tarantulas
 out there on the international scene. And when it comes
time to
 deal with them, you get the sense that the 

Re: [CTRL] joke

[J Taylor]

That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and
white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting
Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their
responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday.

"I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that
technical. "


http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headline
s/000831/world/afp/Darkness_descends_on_Nigeria_after_Clinton_s_visit.html
Thursday, August 31 6:14 AM SGT

Darkness descends on Nigeria after Clinton's visit
LAGOS, Aug 30 (AFP) -
Power supplies to many parts of Nigeria, especially economic capital Lagos,
which surprisingly improved last week ahead of US President Bill Clinton's
visit, have returned to their erratic performance shortly after his
departure, residents said Wednesday.

In Ijeshatedo district in central Surulere part of Lagos, has been
experiencing several hours of electricity supply disruption since Monday
after Clinton ended his two-day state visit to Nigeria, residents said.

In Anthony village in northern residential district of Ikeja, power supply
was disrupted on Tuesday for more than six hours, they said.

The same story is replicated in Mushin, Agege, Iyana Ipaja, Yaba, Ebute Meta
and posh residential and commercial districts of Ikoyi and Victoria Island,
they added.

A spokesman of the state-run electricity company (NEPA), Inuwa Garba, denied
that the improvement in power supply recorded last week was because of
President Clinton's visit.

He attributed the improvement to the installation of new equipment and
maintainance of old ones.

"It is sheer coincidence that power shortages are being experienced shortly
after Clinton left The current problem is technical and we are trying to
rectify it," said another spokesman who demanded anonymity.

NEPA officials said on Friday that power supply in the country was boosted
last week by more than 300 percent ahead of US President's visit to the
country.

Power distribution shot up from 600 megawatts to 2,000 megawatts, a
spokesman of the company, Inuwa Garba, had told AFP by telephone.

"That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and
white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting
Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their
responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday.

"I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that
technical. Let us see what happens at the end of Clinton's visit," Emmanuel
Chiejina, a sociologist also said.

Power supplies, which improved tremendously when Nigeria co-hosted with
Ghana this year's African Cup of Nations, slumped again immediately after.

The company is notorious for its inefficiency though and its critics have
derisively turned its acronymn to "Never Expect Power Always."

The new civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo has pledged to
boost NEPA's generating and distributing capacity and then break up and sell
off the company.

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[CTRL] :Buckley backs off

[J Taylor]

   Peter Brimelow here:
   I've just posted, at
  http://www.vdare.com/buckley.htm
   , a report on William F. Buckley's recent
  admission
   he's abandoned National Review's historic position
   that maintaining ethnic balance is a legitimate
   concern of immigration policy. This is interesting
  to
   me because it partly explains why I was purged as
  a
   Senior Editor in 1998; and to h-bders because it
   illustrates the extraordinary pressures currently
   brought to bear on weak and fashion-conscious
   journalists to avoid race-related issues. (Not
  that
   immigration is purely a race-related issue). I am
  now
   inclined to agree with Dan Seligman that the
   publication of The Bell Curve was, in the short
  run at
   least, devastating to debate. (Not that there was
  any
   alternative.)
  
   The VDARE report links to a remarkable article by
   James Lubsinkas in Jared Taylor's American
  Renaissance
   analyzing National Review's changing positions on
  race
   over more than four decades. I know there's a
   concerted effort to place Taylor beyond the pale -
   Steve won't allow him on hbd in case some of you
  get
   upset - but my position is that truth is an
  absolute
   defense. And, certainly in this area, as far as I
  can
   see, Taylor is truthful. It's worth your time.
  
   Now is the time that tries mens' etc etc.
  
   yrs.purgedly, pb
  



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[CTRL] 'Useful idiots'

[J Taylor]

 Thomas Sowell
 August 31, 2000

 'Useful idiots'

 Lenin is supposed to have referred to blind defenders
 and apologists for the Soviet Union in the Western
 democracies as "useful idiots." Yet even Lenin might
 have been surprised at how far these useful idiots
 would carry their partisanship in later years --
 including our own times. Stalin's man-made famine in
 the Soviet Union during the 1930s killed more
 millions of people than Hitler killed in the
Holocaust --
 and Mao's man-made famine in China killed more
 millions than died in the USSR. Yet we not only hear
 little or nothing about either of these staggering
 catastrophes in the Communist world today, very
 little was said about them in the Western
 democracies while they were going on. Indeed, many
 useful idiots denied that there were famines in the
 Soviet Union or in Communist China.

 The most famous of these was the New York Times'
 Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, who won a
 Pulitzer prize for telling people what they wanted to
 hear, rather than what was actually happening.
 Duranty assured his readers that "there is no famine
 or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be."
 Moreover, he blamed reports to the contrary on
 "rumor factories" with anti-Soviet bias.

 It was decades later before the first serious scholarly
 study of that famine was written, by Robert Conquest
 of the Hoover Institution, always identified in
 politically correct circles as "right-wing." Yet when
the Soviets' own statistics on
 the deaths during the famine were finally released,
under Mikhail Gorbachev, they
 showed that the actual deaths exceeded even the
millions estimated by Dr.
 Conquest.

 Official statistics on the famine deaths in China under
Mao have never been
 released, but knowledgeable estimates run upwards of 20
million people. Yet,
 even here, there were the same bland denials by
sympathizers and fellow
 travellers in the West as during the earlier Soviet
famine. One celebrated "expert"
 on China wrote: "I saw no starving people in China,
nothing that looked like
 old-time famines." Horrifying as the pre-Communist
famines were, they never
 killed as many people as Mao's famine did.

 Today, even after the evidence of massive man-made
famines in the Communist
 world, after Solzhenitsyn's revelations about the
gulags and after the horrors of
 the killing fields of Cambodia, the useful idiots
continue to deny or downplay
 staggering human tragedies under Communist
dictatorships. Or else they
 engage in moral equivalence, as Newsweek editor and TV
pundit Eleanor Clift did
 during the Elian Gonzalez controversy, when she said:
"To be a poor child in
 Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor
child in Miami and I'm
 not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously."

 Apparently totalitarian dictatorship is just a
lifestyle, like wearing sandals and
 beads and using herbal medicine. It apparently has not
occurred to Eleanor Clift
 to ask why poor people in Miami do not put themselves
and their children on
 flimsy boats, in a desperate effort to reach Cuba.

 Elian Gonzalez and his mother were only the latest of
millions of people to flee
 Communist dictatorships at the risk of their lives.
Some were shot trying to get
 past the Berlin wall and hundreds of thousands of "boat
people" were drowned
 trying to escape a Communist Vietnam that many useful
idiots were celebrating
 from inside free democracies. Many who escaped from the
Soviet Union to the
 West during the Second World War were sent back by
American authorities,
 except for those who committed suicide rather than go
back.

 Yet none of this has really registered on a very large
segment of the intelligentsia
 in the West. Nor are Western capitalists 

[CTRL] Pediatrician = Pedophile?

[J Taylor]

Thursday 31 August 2000
'Ignorant' paedophile slur
By Richard Savill

Daily Telegraph: Paedomania

A PAEDIATRICIAN said yesterday that "total ignorance" was behind an
attack on her home by vandals who mistook her for a paedophile.

Dr Yvette Cloete, 30, who works at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport,
South Wales, woke to find the word "paedo" daubed on her home. She said:

"It is just unbelievable. It's terrible that people think they have the
right to vandalise your property like this."

The South African-born doctor added: "I am shocked because this is a
quiet village and there are a lot of nice families living here. It looks
as if this was done through total ignorance. It looks as though it was
just a question of confusing the job title for something else."

Dr Cloete, who has moved in with friends, intends to sell her home in St
Brides, near Newport, where she lived with her brother Andre, 24. The
yellow Graffiti was has been cleaned from the front door, porch and
windows. Dr Cloete said: "Nobody knows where I live now. I have learned
one lesson and that is I will be ex-directory in future."

Rosemary Butler, the Welsh Assembly member for Newport West, described
the attack as appalling. It appeared to be carried out through "sheer
hysteria, bravado and ignorance".

Chief Insp Carl Close, head of the investigation, said he did not know
who was responsible but that it maybe someone more 'sinister' than
children. He said: "It is appalling that a professional woman who cares
for children has been forced from her home."


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[CTRL] In Plain English (Not German): It Ain't Necessarily So

[J Taylor]

   In Plain English (Not German): It Ain't Necessarily So
   Washington Post
   By Robert Cullen
   Saturday, August 26, 2000; Page A17

   Graham Greene once wrote about an elderly and somewhat whimsical
   priest named Monsignor Quixote. A central theme of the novel, which
   takes place in Spain in the early 1980s, is that Don Quixote--the
   famed adventurer who battled windmills--is the priest's ancestor.
   Almost everyone in the story seems to accept this genealogy at face
   value, except one skeptic who openly questions how somebody could be
   descended from a fictional character.

   I felt similarly bewildered while watching the Rev. Jesse Jackson
   address the Democratic National Convention. With characteristic vigor
   and passion, Jackson asserted, "One vote decided that America would
   speak English rather than German in 1776."

   That statement, part of Jackson's litany of how one vote can make a
   difference, refers to a U.S. history lesson about something familiar,
   interesting and attention-getting. It also never happened, although
   Jackson is far from being the only person to believe it did.

   We have all come across such tidbits--those persistent historical
   myths or inventions masquerading as facts. National party conventions
   are especially fertile ground for them.

   Eight years ago, for example, at the Republican convention at which
   President George Bush was renominated, his predecessor Ronald Reagan
   took to the podium and quoted a series of one-liners that he
   attributed to Abraham Lincoln. The problem was that the platitudes
   credited to our 16th president actually appeared first in a 1916
   pamphlet printed by a Pennsylvania preacher named William J. H.
   Boetcker.

   The incident that inspired the myth about our almost becoming a
   German-speaking nation occurred not in 1776 but two decades later,
   during George Washington's second term as president. More important,
   there was neither a vote nor even a bill to replace English with
   German as the official U.S. language. Here's the real story.

   In March 1794, a group of Germans living in Virginia presented a
   petition to Congress asking that certain federal laws be printed in
   their native language. A committee of the House of Representatives
   responded by formally recommending that 3,000 sets of laws be printed
   in both German and English and distributed to the states.

   The full House debated this recommendation on Jan. 13, 1795. Unable to
   reach a decision, the members instead considered a motion to adjourn
   that day and revisit the proposal later. It was this that was defeated
   by one vote, 42 to 41.

   The House, which that day named a new committee to further study the
   proposal, debated it again on Feb. 16. This time it decided to approve
   the publication of federal statutes in English only. The Senate
   subsequently passed this bill as well, and George Washington signed it
   into law.

   So what was merely a limited translation request has mushroomed into
   today's tale that German was an also-ran in our national sweepstakes
   for an official language (never mind that not even English has that
   status).

   More than a half-century after congressional actions on this matter,
   Franz Loher published "History and Achievements of the Germans in
   America," which did much to perpetuate the myth of the German-language
   vote. In due time, other German Americans likewise promoted the story
   as an example of their influence in the republic's early days.

   The myth has since taken on other identities, from a tidy lesson about
   the importance of a single vote to yet another argument against
   bilingual education.

   Jackson is only the latest in a long and distinguished line of
   individuals who have unwittingly helped extend its already-long
   shelf-life. Others who have done so include Ann Landers and Abigail
   Van Buren, "Ripley's Believe It or Not," well-intentioned teachers and
   various political activists.

   Thanks to the Internet, the myth now has new opportunities to
   circulate farther and faster than ever before. More than a few Web
   sites feature it without qualification. To be sure, some sites at
   least acknowledge that the myth might be folklore and still others
   debunk it. But I worry about the ones that discuss the myth
   uncritically and as an article of our civic faith. They guarantee new
   converts well into the 21st century.

   There are those who would insist that myths such as this one are
   harmless tales that encourage and instruct. I think a stronger case
   can be made that such figments of our national imagination only manage
   to diminish and even trivialize how we remember and understand our
   shared past. All things considered, we're probably a lot better off
   focusing more on what actually happened and less on the historical
   mirages along the way.

   Robert Cullen is a Baltimore writer.



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[CTRL] Kosovo happenings-

[J Taylor]

   You don't hear about what they do to the Kosovo Serb population in the
media do you?!?- Oh and nato admitted recently that it had exaggerated serb
crimes in Kosovo

I suppose killing serbs is allright so long as it is for a good cause (a
good cause being defined by media of course)

Serb boy killed on the Liplian-Kosovo Polie road
August 28, 2000



Kosovska Mitrovica, August 27 - At about 1 pm today an 8-year-old Serb boy
was killed and four other boys severely injured by an ethnic Albanian driver
on the Liplian - Kosovo Polie road in the village of Skulanovo, Center for
Peace and Tolerance in Kosovska Mitrovica stated today quoting amateur radio
operators.


Nikola Talic (8) died from wounds, while Marko Talic (4), Srdjan Talic (15)
and 9-year-old Ivica whose last name is not known are unconscious. Jovica
Talic (16) also suffered severe injuries and is conscious.


All injured have been taken to the Russian hospital in Kosovo Polie.

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REPORT FROM THE VILLAGE OF SKULANOVO: ONE SERB CHILD KILLED, FOUR OTHERS
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Today, on Sunday, August 27 at approximately 1:45 p.m. in the village of
Skulanovo (between Suvi Do and Lepina), Liplian municipality, an Albanian
attacker who remains unknown at this time seriously injured five Serb
children aged 8 to 16 years located near the road at the outskirts of the
village with his vehicle, a red Opel Kadet Suza, without license plates. The
attacker drove his vehicles into the group of children, whose names are
listed below, with the obvious intention of running them over. As a result,
the children sustained serious physical injuries, broken arms, legs, head
injuries and are currently hospitalized in Kosovo Polje. The youngest child,
an eight year-old boy, died as a result of inflicted injuries shortly after
the attack.

The child killed is

1. Nikola Nikolic, age 8 years

Seriously injured are:

2. Marko Talic, age 14 years
3. Jovica Talic, age 16 years
4. Ivica Talic, age 16 years
5. Srdjan Krstic, age 13 years

The child killed, Nikola Nikolic, was a refugee from the Serb village of
Babliak near Urosevac who was staying with relatives in Skulanovo.

The sources of this report are radio amateurs from Skulanovo and the priest
serving in Kosovo Polie, Father Radivoje Panic. This informaiton was
received in Gracanica Monastery at 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, August 27, 2000.

The Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohia most strongly condemns this
terrorist attack which according to eyewitness testimony was not a traffic
accident. After the attacks on Serb children in Crkvena Vodica and Staro
Gracko, this is the third attack on Serb children in the vicinity of
Pristina during the past week and shows that the goal of the terrorists is
to encourage the Serb people to leave by creating confusion and panic as a
result of threats directed against children.

PRESS RELEASE

Pristina, August 27, 2000

AN ALBANIAN KILLED 1 AND WOUNDED 4 SERB CHILDREN IN KOSOVO
Today, around 13.45 CET an unindentified Albanian killed 1 and wounded 4
Serb children in Skulanovo village 15 km south of Pristina. Driving his red
Opel Kadet Susa without registration plates an attacker hit into a group of
Serb children who were walking by the village road. The witnessess say that
the attacker had a clear intention to kill the children. The attacker
immediately left away the scene of his crime with his car. All 5 children
got serious wounds and fractures. The youngest, Nikola Nikolic (8) did not
survive and died on the way to the hospital.

The wounded children are: Marko Talic (14), Jovica Talic (16), Ivica Talic
(16), Srdjan Kristic (13).

Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohia has resolutely condemned this
cowardly and disgusting crime which is the third attack of Albanian
extremists against Serb children in Kosovo in the last week. Two days ago,
SNC requested more intensive KFOR patrols and protection in the areas
frequented by Serb children.

75 YEAR OLD SERB KILLED BY ALBANIAN TERRORISTS IN KOSOVO TODAY
After today's terrorist attack in which 1 Serb child was killed and 4
wounded a new terrorist attack occured in Crkvena Vodica village 8 km west
from Pristina. It was the same village in which Albanian terrorists threw
three grenades on Serb children last week wounding 15 children, 8 of them
seriously.

At 18.30 CET 75 year old Serb PAVLE NEDELKOVIC from Crkvena Vodica was
killed by a machine gun fire from an unindentified car which immediately
disappeared in direction of Albanian dominated Obilic. Nedelkovic was in his
field very close to the village and the road when he was suddenly killed at
the spot. This terrorist attack of Albanian extremists has created even more
uneasiness, fear and confusion among the local Serbs who have not recovered
yet from the last week's attack on their children. Although Bishop Artemie
and the Serb National Council requested immediate additional deployment of
Norwegian KFOR troops in the area 

[CTRL] Fear Memories: Made to Fade

[J Taylor]

Friday August 18 03:05 AM EDT
Fear Memories: Made to Fade
By Adam Marcus
HealthSCOUT Reporter


THURSDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthSCOUT) -- When crime witnesses mistake what
they've
seen, they may not be lying; their brains may just be reinventing a fluid
memory, says new research.

New York scientists have shown that fearful memories -- at least, in
rats --
hover on the brink of collapse when recalled and can be easily erased by
blocking the protein girders that support their shape.

The discovery of this personal elixir of forgetfulness undercuts previous
memory dogma that says that memories are pretty solid once filed away in
the
brain. Instead, the scientists claim, some memories must be chemically
reinforced each time they are conjured up or they will be lost. This also
may
explain how false memories are created and may even lead to a way of
"deleting"
memories so traumatic that they interfere with a person's life.

Full text:
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[CTRL] potty training men

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000821/21john.htm

US News

John Leo on More PC Folderol (8/21/00)

An excerpt


Now sit, Ingvar, sit.


 Young women in Sweden, Germany, and Australia have a new cause: They want

men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns
about

hygiene- avoiding the splash factor- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the

English Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is

deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading

women." One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't
either.

Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho

gesture," suggestive of male violence.

A feminist group at Stockholm

University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish

elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet
survey

shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70

percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are

pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old

Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on

standing. "What else can I do?" said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.

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[CTRL] Brief exposure to nicotine makes lasting mark on the brain

[J Taylor]

FOR RELEASE: 24 AUGUST 2000 AT 00:01 ET US
University of Chicago Medical Center
http://www.medcenter.uchicago.edu/

Brief exposure to nicotine makes lasting mark on the brain

Brief exposure to low levels of nicotine, as little as that provided by a
single cigarette, can cause lasting changes in the brain's "reward" areas,
report two University of Chicago scientists in the August 2000 issue of the
journal Neuron [ http://www.neuron.org/ ]. The finding is a major advance
in
understanding the process of nicotine addiction.

The researchers discovered that nicotine uses a mechanism responsible for
learning and memory to enhance the connections between one set of nerve
cells
that are sensitive to the drug and other nerve cells that register
pleasure.
They also demonstrate that the first exposure to nicotine can induce an
enduring "memory trace," which amplifies the pleasing effects of the
drug --
and boosts the desire to repeat the exposure.

By uncovering the precise cellular mechanisms of nicotine's effect, this
study
suggests new and more precise targets for drugs designed to block this
powerful
craving.

"This appears to be the crucial first step in the process of addiction,"
said
neurobiologist Daniel McGehee [
http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/McGehee.htm ], Ph.D.,
assistant
professor in the department of anesthesia and critical care at the
University
of Chicago and director of the study. "Now that we know how this happens,
we
can begin to search for better ways to intervene."

The reinforcing effect [
http://www.bmjpg.com/data/tobarch/autumn98/fromama.htm ] of nicotine is the
primary reason people cannot quit smoking, despite widespread awareness
that
smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, bronchitis,
vascular
disease, cataracts, impotence and many other health problems. Nicotine
dependence has been estimated to cause 70 times more deaths in the United
States than all other types of drug dependence combined. Nearly 25 million
Americans alive today will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses.

"Nicotine addiction makes millions of people suck carcinogens into their
lungs
over and over again, day after day," said McGehee. "If this knowledge leads
to
new ways of helping people quit successfully, it will be an important step
for
public health worldwide."

The brain reward areas serve to acknowledge and reinforce beneficial
behaviors,
for example eating when you're hungry. The system encourages the body to
repeat
pleasing behaviors by releasing dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated
with
the pleasant feelings, in the reward areas. "That was good," is the basic
message of increased dopamine levels. "Do it again."

Unfortunately, drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, can usurp those pathways,
providing the same sort of encouragement for some very harmful actions,
such as
smoking. They also do this by stimulating the release of dopamine.

McGehee and his colleague, post-doctoral researcher Huibert Mansvelder,
PhD,
working with brain tissue from rats, demonstrated how nicotine takes
control of
the reward pathways. Nicotine alters the connections between neurons using
a
process that is similar to the cellular mechanisms underlying the creation
of
memory. "In this way," Mansvelder said, "the brain erroneously learns that
the
intake of nicotine was good and remembers the sensations it caused."

The ability to remember things, such as pleasant sensations, is thought to
depend on the strengthening of links between neurons. Nerve cells
communicate
with each other at synapses, junction points where chemical signals mediate
communication back and forth. When a synapse is used a lot, there is a
persistent strengthening of the communication. In effect, the more that one
side of the synapse 'talks,' the better the other side 'listens,' and the
more
effective the communication becomes.

Nicotine appears to cause addiction by strengthening the excitatory connect
ions
on the neurons that make dopamine, which are found in the Ventral Tegmental
Area (VTA) of the brain reward center. Thus, the neurons are more excited,
which means that more dopamine is released within the reward areas.

This cellular locus of addiction is farther "upstream" in the reward
pathway
than anticipated. McGehee and Mansvelder demonstrate that nicotine's
lasting
effects result from the drug's interaction with a receptor on the synaptic
endings, the part of the cell that sends the signals. When these endings
are
exposed to nicotine, there is a direct increase in the excitatory signal
transmitted onto the dopamine neurons, which then increases dopamine
release.

Nicotine stimulates neurons by attaching to a specific structure on the
neuron,
known as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. There are many different
types
of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, performing various roles throughout
the
body. The addictive process fortunately appears to involve only one
subtype,
acetylcholine receptors containing the alpha7 

[CTRL] Fw: Evangelism Outlawed -- Proposed French Law

[J Taylor]

Evangelism Outlawed -- Proposed French Law

  PARIS, France (BP) July 3 -- Missionaries and laypersons who share
their
faith in Jesus could be imprisoned for up to two years under a proposed
French law that accuses religious proselytisers of 'mental manipulation'
of the public.

  French Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou last week called the bill "a
significant advance giving a democratic state the legal tool to efficiently
fight groups abusing its core values." (©2000, Baptist Press).



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[CTRL] MRS. BUSH TELLS GEORGE ...FIGHT FOR OUR RACE.

[J Taylor]

  WWW.ALAMANCEIND.COM

  Matt Maggio, Publisher  Editor Email

MRS. BUSH TELLS GEORGE "...FIGHT FOR OUR RACE."
By H. Millard (c) 2000

REUTERS reported on August 2, that George Bush told a cheering
crowd in Philadelphia
that his mother had told him to
"fight for our race."
Where were the front page headlines about racism, bigotry,
insensitivity and prejudice
that one might normally expect to follow from such a statement?  Apparently
there weren't any.  Why?
Well, because the George Bush who got cheered for telling the audience what
his mother told him
about race, wasn't presidential candidate white George W. Bush, but his
nephew brown George P. Bush,
the son of George W.'s brother Jeb and Jeb's Mexican born wife Columba.
George P., one of the brown
Bushes, was, as you probably have guessed, not speaking in English before
an
audience of evil white people; rather, he was speaking
in Spanish to an audience of good brown people. Now you understand, right?
Browns, blacks, reds and yellows can say things that would be
considered racist if the same things were said by whites.  Most whites
understand this, but are afraid to demand that they be
treated equally lest they be called racist.


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[CTRL] Be Happy

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Source: Fitness Online, Aug. 16/00, by Annie Murphy Paul

Studies show that our belief that wealth doesn't buy happiness is, well,
right on the money. "People who go to work in their overalls and on the bus
are just as happy, on the average, as those in suits who drive to work in a
Mercedes," according to David Lykken, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the
University of Minnesota.

Lykken is the man who introduced the "happiness set point," his theory that
our emotional peaks and valleys eventually return to a more stable set
point. The storm of publicity that surrounded the introduction of this idea
four years ago may have convinced you that your happiness level is forever
fixed. But the man behind the theory now says that's just not so.

"I said some dumb things [in the Psychological Science journal, 1996] that
I
regretted as soon as it came out in print," confesses Lykken. Our general
sense of well-being is influenced by our genes, he explains, but we can
learn to sail above that set point by deliberately appreciating the things
that make us happy and overcoming the things that make us unhappy.

Researchers today believe that extreme ups and downs don't determine how
happy we are. "We humans have a remarkable capacity to adapt to changing
circumstances," says David Myers, Ph.D., psychology professor at Michigan's
Hope College and author of The Pursuit of Happiness (Avon Books, 1993). In
his research, Myers has found that happy people share four main
characteristics:

1. They have high self-esteem.
2. They feel that they're in control of their lives.
3. They're positive and optimistic.
4. And they're sociable and extroverted.

Good for them, you think. But there's more: Myers has also found that we
can
make ourselves happy by acting as if we already are. "Going through the
motions," he says, "can generate the emotions."

By following the example set by happy people (see box on previous page),
you'll soon be able to count yourself among them. And that, in the end, may
be the biggest news yet about happiness: It's always been right within
reach.

How You Can get Happy

Researchers offer these tips:

- Take control of your time. Set long-range goals, then break them down
into
manageable smaller projects.

- Savor the moment. It's little pleasures that keep us happy.

- Nurture your close relationships. Give them the attention they need to
grow.

- Exercise. It relieves mild anxiety and depression.

- Challenge yourself. Sharpen your skills, at work and at play.

- Explore your faith. Studies suggest that religiously active people are
happier.

- Smile. Reserach shows that it automatically improsves mood.

- Rest. Make sure you get enough sleep and time alone.

- Act as if you're happy. The motion can generate the emotion.

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[CTRL] Stasi supported West German neo-Nazi groups

[J Taylor]

Th London Times


London, August 14, 2000






Stasi supported West German neo-Nazi groups

FROM ROGER BOYES IN BERLIN

THE Stasi, the East German secret police, supported and sponsored neo-Nazi
groups in the West throughout the 1970s and 1980s, German newspapers
reported yesterday.

The prime aim of the Stasi, according to documents found in the Gauck
archives, which guard the communist secret police files, was to destabilise
West Germany. In cities with large concentrations of guest workers - mainly
Turkish and Italian immigrants - thousands of leaflets were circulated
bearing the headline: "Germans defend yourselves!" Using phrases reminiscent
of the Hitler era, the leaflets urged West Germans to drive foreigners out
of their country.

The leaflets, crafted by the Stasi, bore the signature German People's
Union - DVU - which is a real, far-right party with headquarters in Munich.
The subversion began in 1961 when Israel started its trial of Adolf
Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal responsible for the deportation of hundreds
of thousands of Jews.

The East German police dreamt up an operation called "Forget Me Not", which
was intended to stir neo-Nazi violence in West Germany and make plain to the
world the links between new and old Nazis. Chain letters, composed in East
Berlin, were circulated in West Germany: "The Eichmann trial is an attempt
by the Jewish underworld to taint our honour. We have taken up the struggle
again. Our comrades are already launching a counter-attack against the
Jews."

The Stasi followed up this campaign with hate letters aimed at German Jews:
"Obviously you Jews have not understood that you must disappear from West
Germany." The East German establishment considered these campaigns to be a
success. Anxious West Germans started to write letters to the East German
press. The West German Foreign Minister at the time, Gerhard Schröder, was
even forced to make a statement denying that Bonn was lurching towards
national socialism.

By the 1970s the campaign was under the supervision of the spymaster Markus
Wolf. It was decided - according to an anonymous Stasi major quoted by Welt
Am Sonntag - to take an active part in helping the paramilitary Hoffman
Combat Sport Group, essentially an organisation of armed neo-Nazis.

The East Germans encouraged members of the group to go for training with the
Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon. In 1982 one of the group
killed a Jewish publisher, Schlomo Lewin, in the West German town of
Erlangen. "In these groups we had a particularly dense network of
informers," the Stasi major said. "They ensured that the activities of the
far Right were always pointed in the correct direction and never against
East Germany."

Above all, the Stasi operations allowed East Germany to present itself as an
"anti-fascist state", morally superior to West Germany.

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http://www.servtech.com/~grugyn/tlc-2.htm



on the right wing however.

John

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[CTRL] Take the Red Pill

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FEED MAGAZINE
Take the Red Pill
A new wave of anti-anxiety drugs are challenging our sense of identity the
way prozac did in the mind nineties. Is this Brave-New-World-style mind
control, or a liberating medical advance? Eric Davis investigates.
14 August 2000

YOU PROBABLY HAVE SEEN the ads on TV (if you haven't, you can check one out
at BuSpar.com): a cartoon thirty-something female, animated with bland,
funny-pages strokes, mopes against a white background, her glasses pushed
distractedly back on her head. "I can't concentrate," she complains. "I
feel
anxious." "I'm so irritable." The words materialize around her, heavy text
that she throws onto a mounting pile of other phrases, like "out of
control"
and "slipping." Meanwhile, the kind and understanding female voice-over
informs us that if we have experienced "excessive worry" or similar
symptoms
for six months or more, we may be suffering from the same plaint that
apparently troubles Ms. Cartoon: generalized anxiety disorder.
Full text:
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[CTRL] review-A MAGICK LIFE: A Biography of Aleister Crowley

[J Taylor]

August 13 2000 BOOKS: BIOGRAPHY





He had a devil of a time


A MAGICK LIFE: A Biography of Aleister Crowley
by Martin Booth
Hodder £20 pp507


BRYAN APPLEYARD
©

Aleister Crowley "was a fake," wrote Somerset Maugham, "but not entirely a
fake . . . " The hero of Maugham's novel The Magician is Crowley, concealed
only by the name of Oliver Haddo. G K Chesterton thought he was a genuine
poet, but W B Yeats loathed him, both as a magician and as a man. He
inspired Dennis Wheatley's occult novels and he was Scorpio Murtlock in
Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. He may also have been the
model for the villain Le Chiffre in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Love him or
hate him, the literary imagination could not ignore him.

Crowley's mother, a fiercely religious woman who thought that Brunel's ship
The Great Eastern was a new Tower of Babel, called him "the beast". He
scorned the Plymouth Brethren religiosity of both his parents and embraced
Satanic revolt, deciding at an early age that he was indeed The Great Beast
666, whose coming was forecast in the Book of Revelation. The remainder of
his life was a mad succession of rituals, invocations, bisexual excess,
bankruptcy, weirdly fascinated women, hopeless men and an unknown number of
casually conceived children. There was also a torrent of mostly terrible
prose and poetry. In the 1930s, when he became involved in some crazy
litigation, the British courts concluded that it was impossible to libel
Crowley, his life having been so ludicrously extravagant and wicked.

The casualties of his beasthood were numerous. He acquired, drugged, abused,
and often loved, but then always cruelly dumped, a succession of "Scarlet
Women". He did much the same with men, one of whom, Norman Mudd, was so
devastated by the experience that he killed himself on Guernsey by walking
into the sea with the legs of his trousers filled with stones held in place
by bicycle clips. They don't make trousers like that any more - or, come to
that, cycle clips.

Something wicked: Aleister Crowley was a man hell-bent on transcendence  ©
Crowley's guardian angel was Aiwass, a messenger of the Devil. Under his
tutelage, he wrote the Book of the Law, a prose poem announcing a new age,
The Aeon of Horus, beginning in 1904. The law was the Law of Thelema, whose
principal doctrine was, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
He was also an adept of the Abramelin Operation (the purifying of the
magician through the invocation of various angels and demons), he had the
ability to make himself invisible and, through the power of his mind, he
could make men fall over in the street. Many are said to have died as a
result of his sorcery, and the tabloid press knew him as the most evil man
in the world. As a direct result he was hounded out of Italy by Mussolini.
On the bright side, he does seem to have advised the British government on
the use of the occult against the Nazis, advice that may have had something
to do with the defection of Rudolf Hess.

If none of this makes sense, then that is because it doesn't make
sense.Crowley was a florid enigma whose cult status to the hippie generation
of the 1960s served only to intensify the multiple confusions of his life.
Compulsively lying and exaggerating himself, he was succeeded by at least
two generations of Crowleyite fantasists. Martin Booth has now appeared on
the scene to set things straight; to present "the facts of his remarkable
life, stripping away the myth and leaving the reader to decide whether
Crowley was a sage and a seer, a charlatan and a very clever con man, a
character with a true occult ability - however that may be defined - or
simply an opportunist and a fake . . . "

His book is a fine, fair and gripping piece of work that places Crowley
before the reader in all his bizarre immensity. This was a man hell-bent on
transcendence. He was a world-class mountaineer, coming close to being the
first man to conquer Kanchenjunga, and a fine chess player. Occasionally,
insists Booth, he wrote very well indeed. He used drugs in doses that would
have killed others - becoming seriously addicted to heroin - and he pursued
sex with both men and women with a demonic intensity. He was successful in
this even in later life when, fat and bald, he seldom washed and had
numerous missing teeth. Truly this man had powers of some kind.But of what
kind? Booth reports the results of Crowley's rituals in matter-of- fact
terms. Occasionally, he indicates scepticism, but, on the whole, he simply
records the claims of Crowley and the testimony of those present. This is
fair enough; we cannot honestly know whether those claims were fantasies or
that testimony the result of drugs or coercion. All we can know is that
Crowley made believers out of many sane and intelligent people.

That belief, as Booth insists, was not the vulgar Satanism of which he was
so often accused and 

[CTRL] loyal to america-so long as it is a proposition

[J Taylor]

Whitaker Online 0.8.12
by Robert W. ("Federal Troops") Whitaker.
Bob welcomes your comments. E-mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: www.palmetto.org/whitaker.htm

   ONLY THE RIGHT ACCEPTS WOODEN NICKELS
  August 12, 2000

   Respectable conservatives allow liberals to be loyal only to the left,
   and to claim to be patriotic. As I pointed out on October 31, 1998, in
   FIVE WORDS AND EMMA LAZARUS, leftists wave the American flag and say
   that they are loyal to "all men are created equal" and open borders,
   but not to America or Americans.
   Respectable conservatives are always saying how patriotic their
   liberal opponents are. Not only is liberal flag-waving not patriotic,
   liberals insist that anyone who is loyal to America as a land or a
   people is anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews (See July 29, 2000,
   ANOTHER WRITER IS PROUD TO HAVE NO FEELING FOR HIS HOMELAND OR HIS
   PEOPLE).
   So when leftists wave the American flag it is absolutely meaningless,
   and conservatives are always grovelingly grateful to them for making
   even this token gesture. Liberal patriotism is a wooden nickel, and
   conservatives gobble it up.
   Liberals, however, will not accept such fake currency when a symbol is
   important to them. For example, when you saw the Mexican flag being
   used as a symbol of the leftist grape boycott, it is meant to
   represent the interests of MEXICANS.
   Likewise, when Mexican music was played and the first all-Spanish
   speech was spoken at the Republican Convention, it was not a
   meaningless token like Democrats waving the American flag. The media
   said over and over that they didn't want to be betrayed by Bush. They
   demand that this mean that Bush will do things for the PEOPLE OF THE
   REPUBLIC OF MEXICO.
   It means no more talk of protecting the US borders. It means no more
   English-only initiatives.
   When Colin Powell got up there, he did not ask for symbols, either. He
   said he wanted affirmative action from Bush. He said Bush was trying
   to enforce affirmative action in Texas universities despite the fact
   that the Federal courts had outlawed it.
   The crowd roared.
   Another fascinating thing that Powell demanded was that conservatives
   abandon any effort to reach out to any minority "leaders" who are not
   firmly liberal. He said that today's black leadership, which is owned
   outright by the left, is the "real" leadership of the black community.
   Republicans, he said, must only deal with these NAACP types.
   CNN had talks with a group of "typical American voters." Most of the
   questions were aimed at the two black members of the tiny panel. They
   asked what these gentlemen wanted if they were to vote Republican. One
   said "affirmative action." The other said he might consider voting
   Republican if Republican Senators would confirm the Federal judges
   appointed by Clinton and blocked by the Senate.
   Naturally CNN did not ask why your average American voter --
   especially one who might vote Republican -- would just happen to be
   solely interested, not in education or taxes, but in the quick
   approval of Democratic judges. But that is not my point. My point is
   that both blacks, with perfect predictability, wanted specific liberal
   policies.
   If you wave a Mexican flag at the left, you had better give something
   Americans have to Mexicans. If you talk about blacks, you had better
   be ready to give something white people have to blacks.
   The left wants American jobs for Mexicans. They want university slots
   and jobs for blacks in place of more qualified whites.
   They also accept hard cash.
   By contrast, the right will take liberal flag waving and other wooden
   nickels and cry with gratitude. Those wimps wouldn't last five minutes
   in the hard left.


   PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LEFT WING ARTISTS
  August 12, 2000

   Hollywood is very worried about computer sites that give away music
   without paying for the copyrights. Right now it's music, but as
   technology advances, it will be easier and easier to reproduce and
   send
   everything on the net that Hollywood puts out. So the same Hollywood
   money machine that pours out money against everybody else's property
   rights now has its own rights threatened by technology.
   Sometimes there IS poetic justice. I am very much a free market type,
   but that is my academic and economic side. But I am also a thoroughly
   political creature, and when liberals get torn up by the leftist
   institutions they built and they promote, I go from being a reserved
   intellectual ex-professor to a happy, vengeful Pontiac, South Carolina
   redneck.
   (For proof, see the May 7, 2000 article - MICROSOFT CASE: A LIBERAL
   GETS MUGGED).
   To show that other serious political beings think exactly the same way
   that I do, I point to a recent congressional action on our trade
 

[CTRL] The hand-wringing Hamlet from Hartford

[J Taylor]

   Jewish World Review August 11, 2000 / 10 Menachem-Av, 5760

   Ann Coulter


   The hand-wringing Hamlet from Hartford

   http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- AT LEAST we know Al Gore is still
   breathing. Choosing Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate may not
   be the amazingly bold stroke that the press is hyperventilating about,
   but it does show the presence of brain waves. At last -- Gore did
   something!

   Gore has received wide acclaim for his "risky" move in putting a Jew
   on the ticket, amid none too-subtle insinuations that anyone who votes
   against Gore is an anti-Semite. Echoing other Gore campaign staffers,
   ABC's Cokie Roberts casually remarked on NPR the other day that any
   "hard-core anti-Semites" are not "likely to vote for the Democratic
   ticket" anyway.

   She must be referring to all those registered Republicans like Louis
   Farrakhan and Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson. Indeed, in light of recent
   allegations about her potty mouth, the only vote Al Gore may have lost
   by putting a Jew on the ticket is Hillary Clinton's.

   The press has been demure in listing Lieberman's many accomplishments.
   He is not only the first Jew on a national ticket, but also has the
   distinction of being a member of the World's Smallest Group: Orthodox
   Jews for Partial-Birth Abortion.

   No doubt he's troubled about sucking the brains out of a
   half-delivered baby. Lieberman spends half his life being troubled.
   Always troubled, but never troubled enough to do anything.

   He was, of course, famously troubled about President Clinton
   "willfully deceiving the nation about his conduct," -- conduct
   Lieberman called "not just inappropriate," but "immoral," "harmful,"
   "sad" and "sordid." Lieberman said his "conscience" compelled him to
   express his "concerns forthrightly and publicly." His conscience did
   not, however, compel him to vote to remove the source of his troubles
   from the office of the presidency.

   This is the way liberals always avoid taking action against other
   liberals. They furrow their brows and dutifully register some vague
   consternation, for which they expect great admiration. With their
   impeccable consciences duly placed on the record, they believe no
   further action should be required of them.

   Sen. Joe Lieberman is the master of agonizing before inaction.
   Explaining his acquittal vote to Tom Brokaw on "NBC Nightly News,"
   Lieberman suggested he had seriously considered voting to remove
   Clinton, noting that "every time I've been forced to go into the facts
   of this case, I get repulsed, and I get troubled and torn up." Gee,
   thanks for that display of scruples.

   When asked on "Fox News Sunday" about a passage in the Starr report in
   which Clinton and Monica discuss the possibility that their phone sex
   was being tapped by a foreign government, Lieberman said: "Yes, that
   part of the report troubled me deeply."

   At a National Press Club lunch on Oct. 1, 1998, Lieberman allowed as
   to how even his daughter was "troubled" by the president's behavior,
   and a woman he had met on the beach was also "very troubled." But of
   course, amid all this sense of "trouble" in the world, he voted to
   keep Clinton in office.

   Lieberman was also troubled by Anita Hill's accusations against
   Clarence Thomas. (If Hill's unsupported allegations against Thomas had
   been all Clinton were forced to admit to, he would have been dancing a
   jig). But somehow Lieberman managed to emerge from his anguish and
   vote the party line. In a letter to constituents explaining his vote
   against Thomas, Lieberman assured them that he had spent "many
   agonizing hours of deliberation," before casting his vote.

   In 1995, Sen. Lieberman signed a letter with Bill Bennett urging
   corporations to establish standards of decency for the airwaves. They
   wrote they were "deeply troubled" by trash TV. Then a year later,
   Lieberman joined with Rep. Lamar Smith in a similar campaign against
   Fox -- this time saying they were "especially troubled."

   The one great thing about Gore's choice of Lieberman is that it is now
   beyond cavil that claims of Clinton's invincible popularity have been
   greatly exaggerated. Gore can't go to the bathroom without taking a
   poll, and somehow he ends up with a running mate who is the most
   vociferously anti-Clinton Democrat in the U.S. Senate. How did that
   happen?

   It happened because the polls were wrong -- maybe wrongly interpreted
   or wrongly reported, but wrong. Clinton never got 50 percent of
   Americans to vote for him. But according to the polls, upon
   discovering that Clinton was molesting interns and hiding evidence,
   suddenly 80 percent of Americans adored the man. That's not possible.

   Because Clinton was never punished, there's a deep sense of unfinished
   business in the country. This election is the Fred Goldman civil suit
   of politics. Gore 

[CTRL] The Revolt of the Masses

[J Taylor]

 Here's a short discussion of the book from Jerry
 Pournelle, best known for his science fiction novels,
 but also for his writings on computers and
 civilizations.

 Lessons from the Revolt of the Masses
 by Jerry Pournelle
 Thursday, April 13, 2000
 http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue364/item
 9054.asp

 The 20th century was and remains instructive, and we
 will be examining its lessons for a good part of this
 ambiguous year that is not quite part of the last
 millennium nor yet part of the next. Some of the
 lessons were foreseen, although like Cassandra our
 prophets spoke truth but were not believed. Other
 lessons are only now emerging.

 Controlling the masses

 You can characterize the 20th century in many ways,
 which is to say there are many lenses through which we
 can look at history. Choosing one and only one is a
 great mistake. Any one view is certainly wrong in some
 to many particulars, but we can learn from all of them.
 Marx and Freud had much to teach, but choosing either
 as one's master is folly.

 One observer not much remembered now is the Spanish
 philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, whose best-remembered
 book, The Revolt of the Masses, is still worth reading.
 The title is as good a one-line summary of the 20th
 century as any: a century in which the 18th-century
 notion of individualism held sway. That notion, as
 Ortega puts it, is that "every human being, by the mere
 fact of birth, and without requiring any special
 qualification whatsoever, possessed certain fundamental
 political rights . and these rights, common to all, are
 the only ones that exist." These notions kicked around
 in the 19th century, but it was only in the last half
 of the 20th that they came into their own. Now everyone
 believes in that philosophy or at least purports to.
 The consequences are grave.

 A few are obvious. When I was young, it was uncommon to
 put citizens accused but not convicted of crimes in
 chains. Only if the accused proved to be unruly was he
 handcuffed, and only if especially unruly was he put in
 full chains. Now we see elderly ladies led into the
 courtroom in handcuffs, leg irons, waist chains,
 looking for all the world like Jean Valjean being led
 to the galleys. When the absurdity is pointed out, we
 are told that because some people are unruly and
 violent and cannot be controlled even with handcuffs,
 equality demands that we do it with all.

 Even traffic stops often result in citizens with no
 criminal record and accused of no more than unpaid
 traffic tickets being taken to the stationhouse in
 handcuffs. We have learned the lesson: If you treat
 everyone equally, then you must treat everyone as the
 worst possible villain. To retain civilized equality we
 must give up civilization, or at least civility.

 Ortega thought the fundamental danger of the century
 was the supremacy of the state over society.
 Mussolini's fascism was a mere extension of the notion
 of liberal democracy that all social problems are
 amenable to action by the state, with the result that
 spaws the question: "Can we help feeling that under the
 rule of the masses the State will endeavor to crush the
 independence of the individual and the group, and thus
 definitely spoil the harvest of the future?" Certainly
 David Koresh and his followers in Waco would have
 understood that.

 Power at all cost

 On the other hand, Ortega was wrong in one particular.
 He believed that the old-fashioned kind of dictatorship
 was impossible. One could not rule by Janissaries or
 Mamelukes if only because the dictator needed the
 approval of his security apparatus: If you will rule
 through a gang of thugs you must retain the loyalty of
 the thugs. That has been proven wrong again and again.
 After Stalin died there was not a Stalinist left in the
 leadership of the USSR (although there were plenty
 among the faculty of American universities). Modern
 methods of social control are quite efficient. Rome
 endured centuries of civil war as legion after legion
 revolted to raise their commander to the purple.
 Nothing like that happened in the USSR so long as it
 endured, and nothing like that has happened in Cuba.
 Castro rules supreme and can still make mischief as he
 will, the suffering and privation of his people
 notwithstanding.

 And that is another important lesson for dictators
 taught by the last century: If you are a dictator,
 never let go. Hang on to the last. Contrast the
 declining years of Augustin Pinochet and Fidel Castro
 if you want a dramatic illustration.

 Of course, that advice may be easier to give than to
 take. Once again the 20th century teaches a stark
 lesson for dictators: If you want to remain in power,
 get nuclear weapons. You do not need many, but you must
 have some. It used to be that you didn't need any of
 your own; a firm alliance with a power that had them
 would do. Both the United States and the USSR protected
 unsavory regimes with their nuclear umbrellas. 

Re: [CTRL] NEWS: USA: The USA's hour of shame

[J Taylor]

So what if the death penalty deters?
Steven Goldberg
National Review, June 30, 1989 v41 n12 p42(2)





Opponents of the death penalty have many reasons for their opposition that
innocent people may be executed, that the death penalty is 'uncivilized',-
that the state should not take lives. But what these arguments come down to
is.

DOES THE THREAT of the death penalty deter people from murderous behavior
more than the threat of imprisonment for life? We do not yet know with
anything even approaching certainty whether the death penalty does or does
not deter. The question is clearly empirical; and it is likely that
sophisticated statistical techniques will eventually permit us an answer.

Professor Isaac Ehrlich and his colleagues, utilizing his statistical
techniques, argue that there can be little doubt about the ability of the
death penalty to deter. Ehrlich concludes that each additional execution
prevents about seven or eight people from committing murder. All statistical
arguments on the death penalty are, however, excruciatingly complex. Some
critics, for example, have argued that increased likelihood of execution
leads juries to convict fewer people, thereby offsetting the deterrent
effect. If anything, the empirical evidence is that the death penalty does
deter. But this is inevitably open to dispute. As a result, firm conclusions
that the death penalty either does or does not deter are unwarranted and
usually determined by one's psychological and moral leanings.

In academic and media circles, psychological and moral resistance to the
idea of the death penalty usually leads to the assertion that it does not
deter. These people's conclusion may or may not be correct, but it does not
follow from the arguments they deploy. Since many murders result from
emotional impulse (e.g., the angry husband who kills his wife), the death
penalty could have, at best only the slightest deterrent effect, If the
death penalty deters, it is likely that it does so through society's saying
that certain acts are so unacceptable that society will kill someone who
commits them. The individual internalizes the association of the act and the
penalty throughout his life, constantly increasing his resistance to
committing the act. Note that there is no implication here that the
potential murderer consciously weighs the alternatives and decides that the
crime is worth life in prison, but not death. No serious theory of
deterrence claims that such rational calculation of punishment (as opposed
to no rational calculation, or calculation only of the probability of
getting caught) plays a role.

There is no a priori reason for assuming that this process is less relevant
to emotional acts than rational acts; most husbands, when angry, slam doors,
shout, or sulk. Neither the death penalty nor anything else deterred the
husband who did murder his wife, so the question is not what deterred the
person who did murder (nothing did), but what deterred the person who
didn't. If the death penalty deters, it is, in all likelihood, primarily
because it instills a psychological resistance to the act, not because it
offers a rational argument against committing the act at the time that the
decision is being made. In short, it is only legislators who calculate (or
at least should calculate) the deterrent effect of the death penalty.
Potential murderers simply act; the deterrent effect of the death penalty,
if there is one, acts upon them. If it acts with sufficient strength, it
prevents their becoming murderers. The legislator is the physicist studying
the forces that move particles; the potential murderers are the moving
particles.

There is no evidence that the death penalty deters. This is simply untrue.
Ehrlich's complex statistical techniques establish a real case that the
death penalty deters. But here let us assume, for argument's sake, that
there was no such evidence. The more important point is that there is a
crucial difference between there being no evidence that two things are
correlated and there being evidence that two things are not correlated. The
latter means that we have good evidence that the two things are not related;
the former means simply that we have no evidence on either side of the case.

Now, it is quite true that we must have some sort of evidence in order to
even entertain the idea that two things are related. Our reason for not
believing that tall Italian men are smarter than short Italian men is not
simply that we have no direct evidence, but also because we have no informal
evidence suggesting that this is true-and so we do not bother to even
investigate the possibility. It is the lack of relevant informal evidence
that permits us to ignore the difference between not having evidence that
the hypothesis is true and having evidence that the hypothesis is not true.

But, in the case of penalties, we have an enormous amount of both 

Re: [CTRL] Poli. Sci. 101

[J Taylor]

The other side of a republic is that the Law is sovereign and the people are
under the law. In traditional america this had strong christian
connotations(and euro/ jeffersonian-it  is certain that all will be free,
but being free that they can not live together ) . Everything not explicitly
prohibited was permitted. Weapons were freely availlable.
When I saw a rerun of the alamo they had John wayne extolling the virtues of
the the republic, democracy.
Democracy has the 'people' as sovereign- this was initially restricted to
responsible(property owning) citizens.
Introduced principally by fundamentalists to limit the power of the
aristocrats.
Now we have NWO democracy, based on a religion of human rights, equality of
outcome, and america being a propositional state, with no loyalty to its
peoples, but only on loyalty to its human rights religion. The power has
moved to the people who control the mass media(ie who owns CBS, ABC, NBS,
CNN ,FOX) and who can mobilise its lobby groups---the law is now a means of
social engineering. and weapons restricted.

John


PS In South Africa White males can vote but have no power and are excluded
from most of the centres of power (except for token whites) except business,
and the government has introduced legislation so that they are powerless to
associate freely even there.




Okay, people, let's go back to freshman political science class and review
some definitions.

The United States is a democratic republic.  The term "republic" means ONLY
a country which is not a monarchy.  The term "democracy" means ONLY
government by the people--the word does not prescribe how that government is
organized.  Specifically, the government of the United States is described
as "representative democracy," which means ONLY that the citizens of the
country, as individuals or in combination, choose representatives to run the
country for them.  The government of the United States is also a
"constitutional republic," which means that the role filled in a monarchy by
the king or queen is instead filled by the codified body of law which
controls the organization and functioning of the government.

These terms have changed in their meanings since the United States was
founded.  Many of the Founders, especially Hamilton and the Federalists,
were true elitists, who did not trust the "mobile faction" or "mob"--what
Marxists call the *Lumpenproletariat*.  Modern American political theory is
far closer to the views of Thomas Jefferson and even more Andrew Jackson
than to those of Washington, Adams, and Hamilton.  If you limit your
understanding of the original Constitutional debate to *The Federalist
Papers*, you're only getting one part of the story--an important and
eloquent part, but only a part.  The argument that this country is a
republic, "not a democracy," is a disingenuous statement which belies a
desire to destroy the freedom of all those who are not white, Christian, and
male.

The truly revolutionary thing about the Constitution is that it
institutionalizes revolution, making it possible to completely change the
system of government without *overthrowing* that government.  The United
States has quite regularly changed its political philosophy, roughly every
generation or every other generation.  The last such change was the
so-called "Reagan Revolution" (more correctly the "Reagan-Bush reaction") of
the 1980's; the country appears poised for another paradigm shift today.
Unfortunately, the nature of a paradigm shift is that it can never be fully
recognized until nearly complete, which means that we won't know the nature
of the new system until it has come about.  I suspect that it will be
populist, but the choice seems to be between Left and Right populism, with
the Left beginning to coalesce around the Greens and the Right edging toward
a crypto-fascist nationalism (if that's not a tautology) focused on
Buchanan.

Robert F. Tatman
Information Technology Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jenkintown, PA, USA
*Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.*

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[CTRL] Gore tendency to totalism

[J Taylor]

"Gore Doesn't Seem to Trust People to Handle the Truth"
by John R. Lott, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School
from the Hartford Courant


Vice President Gore is battling with Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for
the hard-core environmentalist vote for president.  In response to
environmentalists' claims that Gore is taking their votes for granted,
Gore's campaign points to Gore's recently re-released book, "Earth in the
Balance," as evidence of what his administration would do.  Indeed, if the
book is a good indicator, the extremes to which it goes in supporting the
environmentalist cause should give even the most radical environmentalists
comfort.
The book paints a grim future of overpopulation, mass starvation and death
from disease and pollution, and suggests that only drastic changes in our
lifestyles can prevent such a global nightmare.  The American automobile
is,
for example, "more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again
likely to confront."
Gore expresses such great fear that he even proposes dispensing with the
usual goal of an impartial press: The media should not give "equal weight"
to both sides in environmental debates such as global warming, for "it
undermines the effort to build a solid base of public support for difficult
actions we must soon take."  Self-censorship is also justified because "98
percent of the scientists" share his view that man-made pollution is
responsible for global warming.
His 98 percent figure, of course, represents just one of the book's many
exaggerations.  At the time that he wrote the book, a Gallup poll revealed
that only 18 percent of climate experts thought identifiable man-caused
warming had occurred (whereas 49 percent held the opposite view and 33
percent did not know).  Opinions today are similar.
Gore advocates self-censorship on yet another ground:  People are addicted
to consumption and will desperately grasp at false hopes to maintain their
addiction.  The trouble supposedly started when God's importance in
peoples'
lives diminished due to the start of the "scientific era."  In Gore's own
words:
"But with God receding from the natural world to an abstract place, the
patriarchal figure in the family (almost always the father) effectively
became God's viceroy, entitled to exercise godlike authority when enforcing
the family's rules.  As some fathers inevitably began to insist on being
the
sole source of authority, their children became confused about their own
roles in a family system that was severely stressed by the demands of the
dominant, all-powerful father. . . .
"One of the ways dysfunctional families enforce adherence to rules and
foster the psychic numbness on which they depend is by teaching the
separation between mind and body and suppressing the feelings and emotions
that might otherwise undermine the rules."
How exactly fathers create this separation between their children's minds
and bodies is never explained, but the resulting cleavage supposedly
produces an emptiness that is alleviated only through consumption.  This
"mental illness," as Gore labels it, has created for people the illusion
that they want "the food on the supermarket shelves, the water in the
faucets in our homes, the shelter and sustenance, the clothing and
purposeful work, our entertainment."  He writes of "a false world of
plastic
flowers and Astroturf, air conditioning and fluorescent lights . .  .
frozen
food for the microwave oven."
But even more worrisome is Gore's perspective of those who hold opposing
views.  After classifying "denial" as a serious mental illness, Gore
charges
that those who criticize environmental programs are themselves suffering
from "a well-established form of denial."  Those who oppose him are not
just
wrong, but sick.
Largely because of people's inability to make the right decisions, Gore
wants centralized government regulations to solve environmental problems.
Take his example of California's water shortages during 1987-92.  While
ignoring the oft-noted claim that extremely subsidized prices reduce
farmers' incentives to carefully economize on water, Gore blames the
shortage on farmers watering their crops so much that they stunt plant
growth.  Gore's remedy is detailed watering regulations to keep apparently
misguided farmers from harming their crops while simultaneously freeing up
water for others.  As with essentially all environmental problems, Gore
sees
the proper regulations as painlessly making everyone better off.
Possibly Gore's view of most people not being able to handle the truth
justifies his book presenting exaggerated claims and distorted evidence.
After all, he is only following the advice that he has already given the
media:  Make things look as bad as possible.
Yet there is a nagging fear of what he might do if elected president.  What
other policy issues are so compelling as to justify withholding evidence
from voters?  When else will he discourage a free debate in the press