[CTRL] FW: WHERE THE WELSH FEAR TO TREAD!

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WHERE THE WELSH FEAR TO TREAD!


City where the Welsh are feeling all a-quiver

BY ALUN REES   The Express

THE ancient cathedral might seem just the place for a peaceful stroll on a
Sunday - but not if you're Welsh.
A law introduced 1,000 years ago makes Hereford Cathedral a dangerous place
for someone up from the Valleys. They risk being killed, quite legally, by
an Englishman with a bow and arrow.
And though it may seem a trifle unfair today, the law forbidding a
Welsh-born visitor from hanging around the cathedral on the Sabbath has
never been repealed.
The charter was brought in by the Normans to ward off their once truculent,
cattle-rustling neighbours from the cathedral where the Mappa Mundi, the
treasured 13th-century map of the world, is displayed.
The law is specific and states that it is completely legal to kill a
Welshman as long as it's on a Sunday, in the bounds of the town's Cathedral
Close, the weapon used is a longbow and the arrow is fired from a distance
of exactly 12 yards.
Bowfingers became twitchy just two months ago when the Hereford Welsh
Society applied for planning permission to erect a 5ft tall sculpture of a
Red Dragon outside their club. But in the days when the law was enacted,
the so-called Marcher counties bordering Wales - Cheshire, Shropshire,
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire - the West was even more wild.
There were frequent battles and skirmishes around the massive castles where
the Normans ensconced themselves. Two other border cities, Shrewsbury and
Chester, had similar laws making it legal to hurl Welshmen off the
ramparts. Yesterday a police spokesman in Hereford said: "Years ago I
remember people used to talk about it.
"I never knew there was any truth in it or whether it was on old wives tale
- but now we know it really does exist. We are not bracing ourselves for a
flood of attacks on Welshman in Cathedral Close every Sunday, though." The
law was uncovered on an Internet website listing bizarre rules dating back
thousands of years.
It is believed the Welsh-bashing regulation was introduced 1,000 years ago.
The records reveal that no-one has tried to take advantage of the by-law in
modern times - even during the rugby season.
Sue Embery, of the Hereford Cathedral Trust, said: "The law does exist. It
is actually part of the original documents of the city of Hereford which
are held in the town hall.
"And it does say something like you also have to shoot from exactly 12
yards away. But thankfully it is a long time since people were running
around with longbows."
Catrin Harries, of the Wales Tourist Board, yesterday appealed to Hereford
councillors to scrap the law.
"I would think it would be in th best interests of the Hereford Tourist
Board to change this law," she joked, "as this rule would definitely make
Welsh tourists think twice about going there.
"We would like to think of our near neighbours in Hereford as friends not
foes. But if we are attacked we should have a right to defend ourselves."

Bylaws that take some beating

It is illegal to beat your wife in London after 9pm. (This was enacted in a
bid to keep noise levels down).

In Bibbenden, Kent, birds wishing to join in the dawn chorus must be 200
yards from human habitation.

It is forbidden to touch a pelican in a London park without written
permission.

Post Offices can employ a cat to keep the mice at bay.

In London, Manchester and Birmingham, it is illegal to fly a kite in the
street.

Copying the royal emblem remains punishable by death.

Butchers selling rotten meat should be be put in the stocks and their
rotten meat burned beneath them.

It is illegal to whistle while walking down London's exclusive Burlington
Arcade in Piccadilly.

Taxi drivers should always carry a nosebag on the side of their cabs.

Since 1313 it has been illegal for MPs to enter Parliament wearing armour

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Re: [CTRL] Pagans in the Promised Land

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The article is intersting, but must be seen in the context of the day. The
article below is not written by a christian but shows the recurring theme of
expansion , contraction and threat leads groups of people to adopt extremist
philosophies.

I'm afraid history hasnt ended.

John



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 I have gone through a period of self doubt about 'islamphobia' and taken
seriously the possibility the western view of Islam is a caricature. My
conclusion is that it is -- for bending over backwards to give in an equal
treatment and respect that any level playing evaluation of its human right
record would deny.  

Here are excerpts from my correspondence with several reporters in 1996,
when
I and my writings were targeted by Islamic groups as part of a broader
pressure campaign.  They tend to more than back up John's suspicions.
--
In essence what seems to be happening is the following.  A cluster of
American Islamic pressure groups, some allegedly associated with Hamas and
Hezbollah, have apparently been approaching publishers, film companies, and
television enterprises for at least six years demanding that works be
altered, removed from circulation, and, in many cases, that manuscripts in
press not be published.  Because publishers are literally afraid of being
bombed, they immediately silence all publicity surrounding the
intimidation.
Then, behind closed doors, they not only accede to Arab demands, but become
their own self-censors.  As one Islamic victim, author Paul Fregosi (a man
with many respected historical works to his name) put it, his publisher
killed his book saying, "We've got to play the game according to Moslem
rules."

The silence of intimidated publishers, from Bob Guccione, Sr. to the
editorial staff at my own publishing house, Atlantic Monthly Press, is
absolute.  They will not honestly answer a question on this issue from the
press.  In fact, their silence has remained so complete that even John
Blesso, head of the anti-censorship group for the Author's Guild, was
unaware
of this ongoing campaign when we spoke in August, 1996.  So was Orin
Teicher
of the American Bookseller's Association, with whom I'd worked on
censorship
issues (I founded and headed a national anti?censorship group from 1986
until
1989) for several years.

However Steven Emerson, perhaps the preeminent reporter on Arab terrorism's
American links, was fully cognizant of this campaign and had been tracking
it
for years when we spoke, which we have been doing since 1991.  In fact, it
was he who pointed out that it is not limited to the publishing industry,
but
has targeted electronic media as well.  Steven has done hour-long specials
on
the subject of Islamic extremism for CBS-tv, PBS-tv, and has written on the
topic for well over a decade, appearing in Newsweek, US News and World
Report
(where he was a staffer for several years), the American Journalism Review,
the Columbia Journalism Review, and many other outlets of similar or
greater
prestige.

You are likely to have some trouble getting through to Steven, since he has
received many death threats and is justifiably wary of calls from people he
does not know.  However I copied him with our correspondence of last night.
Hopefully this will get you through.

Frankly, I was steamed because the head of the (Jewish) Anti Defamation
League had personally refused my request for aid, explaining that with the
lawsuits mounted against his organization by the American Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee he was "already in more trouble than we can
handle."  Even an allegedly aggressive organization like the ADL has thus
been silenced.

By the way, you'll notice that in the Agence France Presse story I sent as
part of my original letter, there was an interesting sentence.  "The paper
quoted one Islamic expert who warned the publisher, Roger Boase, as saying
the book was 'offensive to anyone who cares about the truth.'"  My guess is
that the "Islamic expert" is one of the pressure group representatives the
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has been offering to publishers
to pre-censor their manuscripts.  The rhetoric quoted has the ADC style.
This could mean that Little-Brown, a part of Time/Warner, Inc., is one of
th
companies which has secretively caved in to Arab intimidation and is
allowing
its books to be vetted in advance.

The subject matter of the work which was cancelled on the "expert's"
recommendation is the Islamic Crusade against  Europe, which lasted from
roughly 730 AD (when Moslem conquerors took Spain and were on the verge of
seizing France) to 1540 AD (the last time Vienna was besieged by the
Turks).
Whereas the West's Crusades against Islam, which were brutal and rapacious,
lasted less than 200 years, the Islamic Holy War against Europe continued
for
 800 years--four times as long.  In that battle, 

[CTRL] The coming end-2- the reversion to group identity

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 The chapters below are on the formation of the Jewish group identity.
 however the point is that the creation of group identities is a universal
 phenomenon between humans. In times of trouble in particular people will
 revert to the group that they trust.

 To say that there is no such thing and that we are all world citizens is
 an illusion only prevalent in the west. Say that to the chinese they will
 either laugh or set of to live in your country.

 what defines the group identity
 Your :-
 Race(appearance)
 Religion
 Language
 Land
 Culture
 Customs and symbols(inc Sporting)

 In the modern western world the major media is the TV and the people who
 control the TV attempt to define your your identity for you, for your own
 good.

 Politics is essentially the ability to define and manipulate group
 interests and trying to incorporate as many people/ resources whithin
 your group interest to carry through your main agenda.


 In times of  deep trouble group interests will often become violent. Again
 politicians step in to manipulate and control these primeval emotions.







 From separation and its discontents-Mr K Mac Donald
 http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/

 1
 A Social Identity Theory of Anti-Semitism


 The theory of group evolutionary strategies described in A People That
 Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald
 1994; hereafter PTSDA) argued that Judaism may be understood mainly as a
 cultural invention, maintained by social controls that act to structure
 the behavior of group members and characterized by a religious ideology
 that rationalizes ingroup behavior both to ingroup members and to
 outsiders. Although evolved mechanisms of group cohesion are also
 important, it was shown that social controls acting within the group were
 able to structure the group to facilitate ingroup economic and political
 cooperation and resource competition with outgroups, erect barriers to
 genetic penetration from outside the group, and facilitate eugenic
 practices aimed at producing high intelligence and high-investment
 parenting ideally suited to developing a specialized ecological role
 within human societies. Because of these traits, and particularly an IQ
 that is at least one standard deviation above the Caucasian mean, Judaism
 has been a powerful force in several historical eras.
 The proposal that Judaism may be usefully conceptualized as a group
 evolutionary strategy suggests that anti-Semitism be defined as negative
 attitudes or behavior directed at Jews because of their group membership.
 This is a very broad definition-one that is equally applicable to
 anti-Jewish attitudes in any historical era. It is also consistent with a
 very wide range of external processes contributing to anti-Semitism in a
 particular historical era, and also with qualitative changes in the nature
 of anti-Jewish attitudes or the institutional structure of anti-Semitism
 at different times and places.
 One type of evolutionary approach to anti-Semitism considers the
 possibility that humans have mechanisms that cause them to favor relatives
 or others who share genes. There is little doubt that kin recognition
 mechanisms exist among animals (see Rushton 1989), and some evolutionists
 (e.g., Dunbar 1987; Shaw  Wong 1989; van der Dennen 1987; Vine 1987) have
 proposed genetic mechanisms based on kin recognition as an explanation for
 xenophobia, although others have proposed that the genetic mechanism may
 well depend on learning during development (e.g., Alexander 1979,
 126-128). Genetic Similarity Theory (GST) (Rushton 1989) extends beyond
 kin recognition by proposing mechanisms (possibly based on kin recognition
 mechanisms) that assess phenotypic similarity as a marker for genetic
 similarity. These proposed mechanisms would then promote positive
 attitudes and a lower threshold for altruism for similar others. There is
 indeed considerable evidence, summarized in Rushton (1989) and Segal
 (1993), that phenotypic similarity is an important factor in human
 assortment, helping behavior, and liking others, although whether GST can
 account for these phenomena remains controversial (see commentary in
 Rushton 1989).
 Mechanisms based on kin recognition and phenotypic similarity may have
 some role in traditional anti-Semitism, since in traditional societies
 there would be much more phenotypic similarity among gentiles than between
 Jews and gentiles, due to differences in clothing, language, appearance
 (e.g., hair style), and quite often their physical features. Moreover,
 among Jews, there are anecdotal reports of very high levels of rapport and
 ability to recognize other Jews which are consistent with the existence of
 some sort of kin recognition system among Jews.  As Harvard sociologist
 Daniel Bell notes, "I was born in galut and I accept-now gladly, though
 once in pain-the double burden and the double pleasure of my
 self-consciousness, the outward life 

[CTRL] The coming end of western civilisation-1 intro

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Enjoy the next few years ..they are likely to be the best that has ever
been.

Beyond that however, the deluge.
-
I hope that everything that is sent in this mini series is wrong.
That the world will go onto experience a millenia of prosperity, with no
conflict and perennial growth.
---

But the other scenario, that "Satan will be unleashed", and the darkness
descends is a real possibility.
What is certain is that in the following 100years, the change in power
relationships will be greater than in the last 1000.
The almost certain death of the west will cause disruptions that one can
only guess at.(Using existing scientific literature in an appendix in no 8 a
guess is made. It is controversial but gives tools to think about what is
likely to  happen)

Two of the major source books that I used are The clash of civilisations by
S Huntington and Grey Dawn-Peterson.
Both are members of the CFR . I have extrapolated at what they have said
(and what they hinted at) to a logical conclusion.

In scenario planning they talk about the widening cone of uncertainty as the
cumulative effects of uncertaintities cause increased difficulties in
forecasting. Howver you also get the reverse cone where resources and
demographics produce inevitable change.
Such a thing was certain for a country such as south africa. Because of
changing demographics, barring a massive war which would have changed
demographics, it was inevitable that Apartheid would fall and that a black
government would be put in place. What was uncertain was the nature of the
government.(which depended on the transfer of power). also it was inevitable
that the new government would implement anti white employment
legislation(because of group identities and african culture) but the degree
depends on the leadership and the remaining white power structures.
Increasing crime and corruption are also inevitable for similar reasons, the
level at which it is constrained depends on how much internal freedom
remains (its disappearing rapidly), the devolution of power (it is being
concentrated) and outside influences( the WTO acts to restrict corruption in
SA and so for us is a positive force).

Similar things can be said for the world. Because of the disappearance
through demographics of the western world, the power will dwindle, the other
power centres will try to exert themselves. this will be made worse by
declining resources, climate change, and capital restrictions.
===
This is where conspiracy theories come into place. Who is the controller if
at all.

The main actors suggested be many are.

1The illuminati(skull and bones, CFR, etc)

2The Jews(Rothschilds, Bonfmans)

3The Anglo masononic( Churchills,Cecils, City of london)

4The catholics

5 the aliens.

(I am not referring to the majority of members of the groups but the
financial elite. most of the members remain cattle fodder as the rest Also
these are conjectured may be entirely wrong.)



here are some hypothetical extrapolations of  could be wanted by the
different elites?

All groups(except 4 and possibly 2) would want a collapsing world
population.

All the groups would want the decline of the nation state, the rapid mixing
of all the populations of the world.

Group 2 would like to see the destruction of christianity, The others would
like it to continue in order to manipulate.

Groups 1,2 3 , since there main power base is in the west, if they want a
one world govt will have to precipitate a crisis  within the next 20 years,
otherwise they will be superseded by the other grous with strong group
identities- The Muslim world, Chinese and Indians.

Group 5 would likely want a major conflabation in which the majority of
people are destroyed and the remainder are slaves?.


Sometimes its impossible to see who's who in the zoo- clinton was a rhodes
scholar(group 1/3) educated ar georgetown(group4) abd has in his cabinet
disproprtionally group2. He may be a descenndant of Rockerfeller(group1) anf
behaves like he doesnt belong in this world(group5). perhaps he actually
only cares about No1(himself)



Enough doom and gloom. I hope I am wrong.

I wish you all a merry christmass and a blessed new year. All the best for
the millenium. and dont forget we are actually celebrating 1999 years (not
quite 2 millenium) of a renewing revelation.


John



Silent Night, Holy Night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin,
Holy infant,so tender and mild
Sleep in Heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

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[CTRL] The coming end 4- the west is dying out

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Mail and guardian
 Johannesburg, South Africa. August 25, 1999



The world is dying out ...

As fertility rates fall, a 'birth dearth' is spreading, write ANTHONY BROWNE
and RICHARD REEVES.





E

VEN as the six billionth human is born, it's time to forget fears about the
world being overpopulated. By the end of the next millennium, Tokyo will be
a ghost town, and Japan will be empty. The country's population will be just
500 by the year 3000, and just one by 3500. When that person dies, the
Japanese nation will be no more.
These apocalyptic predictions aren't the rantings of a doomsday cult, or of
a maverick academic out to gain some publicity, but of the Japanese
government itself. Its Ministry of Health and Welfare reports: "If we dare
make the calculation, Japan's population will be ... about 500 people by the
year 3000."

Of course, a lot of things can change in 1 000 years. But what is
frightening about the forecast is that it's a mathematical certainty if
Japanese women carry on having just 1,4 children each on average -- and if
Japan doesn't change its immigration policy. If things continue as they are,
the Japanese will die out. It's just a question of when.

And so will Europeans. Britain is one of 61 countries that are not having
enough babies to replace their populations, according to the United Nations.
For a population to remain stable, women need to have 2,1 babies each on
average. In the United Kingdom, women are now having 1,7 babies. One in four
women are opting to have none at all.

In all the countries of the European Union, fertility is so low that
populations are set to decline -- if they haven't already. Spanish women --
having 1,15 babies each -- have the lowest fertility in the world. In some
parts of Spain the average rate has dropped below one.

The European Commission says fewer babies were born last year in the EU than
in any year since World War II.

"Obviously, the social structure is going to change dramatically in the next
century," says John Clarke, professor of geography at the University of
Durham.

"We are going to become used to a world with no-child and one-child
families, and with a growing proportion of older people. Siblings will
become rarer and rarer." Clarke points out that the unprecedented "birth
dearth" is even spreading to some developing countries. Women in India now
have fewer babies than American women did in the 1950s, while in China, Cuba
and Thailand women are already having too few babies to replace themselves.

After centuries of population growth, and decades of apocalyptic warnings
about the population bomb, most of the developed world is now facing a
"population bust". In his landmark 1968 book, Population Bomb, Professor
Paul Ehrlich warned that "we will breed ourselves into oblivion". Thirty
years later, demographers say he is right -- but not in the way he expected.


Even a few years ago predictions abounded that the exponential growth in the
world's population would mean that by around 3000 there would be standing
room only on the planet. One demographer predicted the impossible, claiming
that in the fifth millennium humanity would outweigh the planet itself.

But the unexpectedly sharp decline in fertility around the world has forced
all forecasters -- including the UN -- to downgrade their predictions. There
are now six billion people in the world, and while the UN's best guess is
that the global population will reach nine billion by 2050, it admits the
total could peak as low as 7,5-billion by 2040 before falling back.

Almost all that growth will be in Africa and Asia, outweighing sharp falls
in much of the developed world. The UN predicts that by 2050, Russia's
population will have declined by 25-million people, Japan's by 21-million,
Italy's by 16-million, and Germany's and Spain's by nine million each.
Britain, with a younger population and more babies, is less affected -- at
least initially. The UN forecasts the British population will drop by two
million by 2050 before the decline accelerates.

The most catastrophic fall will be in Estonia, which is set to lose more
than a third of its population in the next 50 years.

Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania reckons Europe will lose
24% of its population by 2060. The UN forecasts that Europe and Japan will
lose half their population by 2100.

All this is not just crystal ball gazing. The European Commission says the
"natural" populations of Germany, Greece, Italy and Sweden fell last year --
with only immigration ensuring that the overall populations remained steady.
The populations of all but two of the countries in central and Eastern
Europe fell in 1997, with Latvia's dropping by almost 1%.

Of course, longer-term projections are shaky. "We really do have to
differentiate between shorter-term projections, say up to 30 years, and the
longer-term ones which by definition 

[CTRL] The coming end- 8- 2020 Vision?

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Vision 2020 The Fall of Western Civilisation 2020- 2100


Section 1
The Roman Empire: The pattern of the future?



At the end of the 3rd century, the Roman empire stood astride the whole
western world, the centre of civilisation, stretching from the northern
realms of England to the Persia empire. The Mediterranean was the Roman
empire's lake. The trade of the empire went across the known world- Egypt,
Africa, china, Persia were involved in a delicate web of global trade. The
city of Rome was the centre of arts, culture trade. With architectural
marvels and a population of about a million people. Peoples life style was
at a level that was not to be repeated before the 17th century and even a
slaves life was better than that of a freeman in the dark ages.   But within
a century, within 70 years, the lifetime of one man, the empire was
destroyed . The empire in the east remained, although shrunk in size. The
empire in the west was broken up until multiple kingdoms of Vandals,
Visigoths , franks, Angles Saxons and Jutes. The population of rome ended up
being 50 000, down from a million and the glory of Rome was destroyed
leaving only the Coliseum and the parthenon.

What went wrong? Why did Rome fall. No book ascribes a single cause and some
are probably consequences of deeper malaise.

There are three sets of commentators on the fall of the Roman empire- The
classicists/ morally orientated and  the Biological.

The Classicists
The headings are taken from Mr. Grant's fall of the Roman empire in order to
see that the parallels without forcing the issue and committing the fault of
Procrustes.

1 The Failure of the army

The army began to be a parasite on the state. The costs of the army became
large and at the same time the army became a corrupt power seeking
organisation. The army began to fail to do its job of defending the borders,
became interested in political intrigue(as all emperors were dependent on
the army to continue ruling) and on increasing its share of the empire's
taxes. At the same time, the people no longer held the army in high esteem
and tried to get out of their duties with respect to the army. They were no
longer willing to contribute voluntarily to the social overheads necessary
to maintain the empire. Because they resented the army, it became difficult
to impose discipline on the soldiers and severly reduced its fighting
capabilities.. Hence when the barbarian invasions occurred the army was
unable to resist.

2 Class Dissension

As the empire entered the forth century, the empire was divided  in terms of
class. The aristocratic classes had stopped having children and were putting
their lives and energy into their vas t estates and into wild revelry and
hedonism. They felt minimal loyalty toward the empire and in some ways they
were mini states unto themselves. They were exploiting the state for their
own benefit, creating monopolies, withholding taxation. The unproductive
poor were exploding in numbers and people who were on the states schemes
numbered 300 000 in Rome alone. Again they were alienated from the state and
wanting to gain the maximum benefit from the empire. The productive poor
(Kulaks?) and the middle classes started to shrink.
The peasant classes were paying so much in taxes that they could no long
support themselves and committed wide spread infanticide. The urban middle
classes were punished by high taxes and political oppression and it was
common for people to sell themselves into slavery in order to survive. The
shrinkage of the productive middle class and peasants was made worse by the
impact of bubonic plague that struck the empire in the 4th century and a
number of severe famines. Every man was doing his own thing. Eithe from
selfihness or simply to survive.



3 Corruption/ lawlessness

The bureaucrats who in earlier times were essentially honest became corrupt
and inefficient. Since the visible face of the state is it bureaucrats this
alienated the people from the state. The bureaucrats were money taking
thieves lining their own pockets and providing very little service in
return. The bureaucrats were also the police force of the day , so any sense
of law and order began to disappear from the streets.

The corruption reached the highest realms. Inflation was allowed to proceed
at full force and helped destroy the middle classes. This was stopped toward
the end , but then it was too late



4 The Racial partnerships that failed

The split of the empire between the east (Greek) and west (latin) meant that
their lives and interests began to deviate and were unwilling to come to the
assistance of the other. If they had stood together they could probably
resisted the barbarian invasions. But they did not.

The empire lost its sense of identity and purpose. The Romans permitted
large number of other peoples to come into the empire and undermine it as
they had no loyalty to the empire, even if they admired it. Africans from
the south, Goths , 

[CTRL] The coming end-3- Goodbye old blue eyes

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Bombshell for blondies
In future, the peroxide bottle will be the only answer as fair hair becomes
extinct.

Johannesburg "Sunday Times" 19th Sep 199

One of the worlds great arbiter of fashion and style has pronounced the
death of the blond- and claims to have scientific backing for the claim.

To be published later this month. The vogue book of blondes, published by
the company which owns the authoritative fashion magazine, Vogue, has ruled
that the fun fair haired people are presumed to have in abundance, will die
out and become a nostalgic memory.

According to the author, Kathy Philips, the basis for this theory supplied
by geneticist, steven Jones of University college London, who has discovered
that blondness is the result of a recessive Gene.

Jones who is dark haired is reported to have found "fair hair is caused by a
weak genes whereas dark hair is the product of dominant ones. When a dark
haired person and a natural blond have children together, the offspring will
almost always be dark haired.
According to Vogue, "naturally blond populations" could flourish in the
"formerly closed societies" of Nordic and northern Europe. But the
increasing immigration into these countries has brought out more liaisons
between northern blonds and " dusty southern Europeans".

The result according to the a report in Philips book is that by the end of
the next millennium" the peroxide bottle" will be the only answer for those
who cannot face life with mousy brown hair.
..

Her book also reportedly examines a connection between power and blondness,
and notes that the " one appears to augment the other. Margaret Thatcher
became blonder as she became more powerful as did Eva Peron and Hillary
Rodham Clinton"

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[CTRL] The coming end-5 -a miserable life on overcrowded Earth

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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Cornell University
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Sept99/sustainable_life.hrs.html
A.D. 2100: Cornell study warns of a miserable life on overcrowded Earth if
population and resources are not controlled

ITHACA, N.Y. -- One hundred years from now, democratically determined
population-control practices and sound resource-management policies could
have
the planet's 2 billion people thriving in harmony with the environment.
Lacking
these approaches, a new Cornell University study suggests, 12 billon
miserable
humans will suffer a difficult life on Earth by the year 2100.

"Of course, reducing population and using resources wisely will be a
challenging task in the coming decades," says David Pimentel, lead author of
the report titled "Will Limits of the Earth's Resources Control Human
Numbers?"
in the first issue of the journal Environment, Development and
Sustainability.

"It will be much more difficult," Pimentel says, "to survive in a world
without
voluntary controls on population growth and ever diminishing supplies of the
Earth's resources."

Even at a reduced world population of 2 billion in A.D. 2100, life for the
average Earth dweller will not be as luxurious as it is for many Americans
today. But the lifestyle won't be as wasteful of resources, either, the
Cornell
ecologist predicts. Some observers are seeing early signs that nature is
taking
a hand at reducing human populations through malnutrition and disease.
According to the report, global climate change is beginning to contribute to
the food and disease problems.

"With a democratically determined population policy that respects basic
individual rights, with sound resource-use policies, plus the support of
science and technology to enhance energy supplies and protect the integrity
of
the environment," the report concludes, "an optimum population of 2 billion
for
the Earth can be achieved."

Then the fortunate 2 billion will be free from poverty and starvation,
living
in an environment capable of sustaining human life with dignity, the report
suggests, adding a cautionary note:

"We must avoid letting human numbers continue to increase and surpass the
limit
of Earth's natural resources and forcing natural forces to control our
number
by disease, malnutrition and violent conflicts over resources," the report
says.

Among the key points in the report:

-- The world population is projected to double in about 50 years.

-- Even if a worldwide limit of 2.1 children per couple were adopted
tomorrow,
Earth's human population would continue to increase before stabilizing at
around 12 billion in more than 60 years. The major reason for continued
growth
is "population momentum," due to the predominantly young age structure of
the
world population.

-- The U.S. population has doubled during the past 60 years to 270 million
and,
at the current growth rate, is projected to double again, to 540 million, in
the next 75 years. Each year our nation adds 3 million people (including
legal
immigrants) to its population, plus an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants.

-- Increasing U.S. and global population will place restrictions on certain
freedoms: freedom to travel and commute to work quickly and efficiently,
freedom to visit and enjoy natural areas, freedom to select desired foods
and
freedom to be effectively represented by government

-- Today, more than 3 billion people suffer from malnutrition, the largest
number and proportion of the world population in history, according to the
World Health Organization. Malnutrition increases the susceptibility to
diseases such as diarrhea and malaria.

-- One reason for the increase in malnutrition is that production of grains
per
capita has been declining since 1983. Grains provide 80 percent to 90
percent
of the world's food. Each additional human further reduces available food
per
capita.

-- The reasons for this per capita decrease in food production are a 20
percent
decline in cropland per capita, a 15 percent decrease in water for
irrigation
and a 23 percent drop in the use of fertilizers.

-- Biotechnology and other technologies apparently have not been implemented
fast enough to prevent declines in per capita food production during the
past
17 years.

-- Considering the resources likely to be available in A.D. 2100, the
optimal
world population would be about 2 billion, with a standard of living about
half
that of the United States in the 1990s, or at the standard experienced by
the
average European.

The study was funded by Cornell University. In addition to Pimentel, authors
of
the Environment, Development and Sustainability report include Owen Bailey,
Paul Kim, Elizabeth Mullaney, Joy Calabrese, Laura Walman, Fred Nelson nd
Xiangjun Yao, all students at Cornell University.

Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional
information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell
University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or

[CTRL] The coming end- 6-Liberal attitudes...an everchanging story

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive.
  It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some
point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us
without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences."  --
C.S. Lewis





Introduction


The left and liberal wings in the western political world have had a
changeable relationship with regard to race relations. The only consistency
has been for the left to hold radical opinions. I have covered the history
in terms of various quotes from  leaders of the left. The right wing was not
included as it has probably changed less than the left and has had fewer
hidden agenda's. Also race relations have assumed a religious dimension,
that has never happened on the right wing(except for the Nazis). The
definition of 'left wing' as will become apparent, was not as straight
forward as one might think, I have defined it is those seeking radical
transformation of society toward equality.( A definition that could include
Mr Hitler, as well as. Thabo Mbekis radical  transformation of South African
society). Historically, the line between extreme right and left can become
blurred. For instance Mussolini and Goebbels  were socialists before they
were fascists.

Liberals I have defined as those believing in the sovereignty of the
individual ( today that is more closely aligned with the libertarian
movement).

Originally the concept of race/ ethnicity pre the enlightenment was very
fuzzy, as it was believed that environmental influences and culture were
pre-eminent. For instance the first blacks imported into America came as
indentured servants-on exactly the same status as white 'convicts'. who were
imported to do hard labour. Slavery was not associated with race and that
only changed toward the end of slavery's life in the USA. Also before the
development of mass shipping, the most people including the elite only had
contact with the ethnic group living alongside them and the Jewish
community. Conflict was then defined only in terms of language/culture or
religion. After the enlightenment, scientific approach was adopted to the
study of people

With the decline in Christianity (and traditional Judaism), the religious
impulse in men was transferred into secular world views ranging from
illuminism through Marxism, nazism, communism, existentialism, egalitarian
humanism etc. Most of which have attempted to overcome the sense of
alienation that has occurred with the decline of religion, the rise of
capitalism and the process of urbanisation.

The left wing has changed its emphasis between the equality as a matter of
faith and science more than once as will be seen.

In the 18th century, the attitudes of the right and liberal could be
considered separatist toward out groups, with the extremes promoting
domination and even extermination; with the left wing being wanting to use
race as a form of radical revolution.

In the 19th century, the right were more strongly into paternalism and
domination (the so called white man's burden), with liberalism still
promoting separation, and the left wing promoting extermination or
separation of outgroups

Modern left wing egalitarianism has a number of streams, that have combined
to form today's attitudes to race and culture.

The first is the radical socialists, which found a major voice in the
Boasian school of anthropology by the 1940's something like 70% of
Anthropology departments in the USA has a strong Boasian bias. The next is
the Zionists, who did not want to be assimilated into WASP America and
wanted open borders to aid the persecuted Jews in Russia and Poland. From
this group comes modern multiculturalism. The Fabian groups have perhaps had
the most radical change and become the major advocate of cultural marxism.

 The last and most suprising is the Rockerfeller / capitalist power elite
with the associated large foundations.

Mr JD Rockerfeller was a religious Baptist (he taught every weekend in
Sunday school) However he was not orthodox and viewed himself as setting up
an improved version of religion (The Prize-Daniel Yergin). Mr Rockerfeller's
foundations (and associated foundations such as the Carnegie and later Ford
foundation) have been consistently involved in promoting egalitarian causes
such as the Fabian dominated London School of Economics, federal council of
churches (see Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the USA--1884-1966
by Rose L. Martin) (see appendix 1). Also many leading industrialist have
seen the liberating and enabling power of capitalism and began to see
capitalism as an ideal in itself, rather than a means of wealth creation.
More cynically, the elites have used socialism as a means of pacifying the
masses from at least biblical times (Joseph's granary system in Egypt) In
Roman times 

[CTRL] The coming end-7- the clash of civilisations

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1996) Chapter 12, The West, Civilizations, and Civilization




THE RENEWAL OF THE WEST?

History ends at least once and occasionally more often in the history of
every civilization. As the civilization's universal stage emerges, its
people become blinded by what Toynbee called "the mirage of immortality" and
convinced that theirs is the final form of human society. So it was with the
Roman Empire, the 'Abbasid Caliphate, the Mughal Empire, and the Ottoman
Empire. The citizens of such universal states "in defiance of apparently
plain facts . . . are prone to regard it, not as a night's shelter in the
wilderness, but as the Promised Land, the goal of human endeavors." The same
was true at the peak of the Pax Britannica. For the English middle class in
1897, "as they saw it, history for them, was over...And they had every
reason to congratulate themselves on the permanent state of felicity which
this ending of history had conferred on them."' Societies that assume that
their history has ended, however, are usually societies whose history is
about to decline.

Is the West an exception to this pattern? The two key questions were well
formulated by Melko:

First, is Western civilization a new species, in a class by itself,
incomparably different from all other civilizations that have ever existed?

Second, does its worldwide expansion threaten (or promise) to end the
possibility of development of all other civilizations?

The inclination of most Westerners is, quite naturally, to answer both
questions in the affirmative. And perhaps they are right. In the past,
however, the peoples of other civilizations thought similarly and thought
wrong.

The West obviously differs from all other civilizations that have ever
existed in that it has had an overwhelming impact on all other civilizations
that have existed since 1500. It also inaugurated the processes of
modernization and industrialization that have become worldwide, and as a
result societies in all other civilizations have been attempting to catch up
with the West in wealth and modernity. Do these characteristics of the West,
however, mean that its evolution and dynamics as a civilization are
fundamentally different from the patterns that have prevailed in all other
civilizations? The evidence of history and the judgments of the scholars of
the comparative history of civilizations suggest otherwise. The development
of the West to date has not deviated significantly from the evolutionary
patterns common to civilizations throughout history. The Islamic Resurgence
and the economic dynamism of Asia demonstrate that other civilizations are
alive and well and at least potentially threatening to the West. A major war
involving the West and the core states of other civilizations is not
inevitable, but it could happen. Alternatively the gradual and irregular
decline of the West which started in the early twentieth century could
continue for decades and perhaps centuries to come. Or the West could go
through a period of revival, reverse its declining influence in world
affairs, and reconfirm its position as the leader whom other civilizations
follow and imitate.

In what is probably the most useful periodization of the evolution of
historical civilizations, Carroll Quigley sees a common pattern of seven
phases. (See above, p. 44.) In his argument, Western civilization gradually
began to take shape between A.D. 370 and 750 through the mixing of elements
of Classical, Semitic, Saracen, and barbarian cultures. Its period of
gestation lasting from the middle of the eighth century to the end of the
tenth century was followed by movement, unusual among civilizations, back
and forth between phases of expansion and phases of conflict. In his terms,
as well as those of other civilization scholars, the West now appears to be
moving out of its phase of conflict. Western civilization has become a
security zone; intra-West wars, apart from an occasional Cod War, are
virtually unthinkable. The West is developing, as was argued in chapter 2,
its equivalent of a universal empire in the form of a complex system of
confederations, federations, regimes, and other types of cooperative
institutions that embody at the civilizational level its commitment to
democratic and pluralistic politics. The West has, in short, become a mature
society entering into what future generations, in the recurring pattern of
civilizations, will look back to as a "golden age," a period of peace
resulting, in Quigley's terms, from "the absence of any competing units
within the area of the civilization itself, and from the remoteness or even
absence of struggles with other societies outside." It is also a period of
prosperity which arises from "the ending of internal belligerent
destruction, the reduction of internal trade barriers, the 

[CTRL] Paradigms

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

Shell carried out a lot of work on scenario planning.
They have also carried out the a lot of work on paradigms and changing
paradigms.
Fro chats with people here is some of the information that I have obtained.
The focus is on company transformations, but the application to politics is
obvious.

The power of a paradigm is that it is a set of beliefs and assumptions held
in common and taken for granted.
Often there is a hidden side of the paradigm that is not even considerred
eg
An Early Bird Catches the Fattest Worm
An Early Worm Gets Caught?

The main elements of the company paradigm are-


Symbols
Power structure
stories and myths
Rituals
Organisational structure
Control systems




Cultural web of an organisation consists of
This is a

Stories and Myths
Who is regarded as the company hero. which stories that are promoted in the
organisation. Disaters overcome. Myths of the beginnings and how the
organisation is created. the informal stories and rumours that are repaeated
around an organisation.
The company charter and mission statement. negative myths that undermine
morale such as the shell house massacre, the nigerian oil issue

Power structure
Who is in charge, who's opinions are regarded highly, who is promoted, who
is rewarded and how

Symbols
Reference symbols, pictures of the ceo, Reference indicators, Job groups,
carpet sizes.


Rituals
The planning process, and training processes. the parties and sub culture
initiations. The games such as golf that are promoted

Organisational structure.

how power is either centralised or decentralised. Is it integrated or
beauracratic. Is it Hierachial or egalitarian.


Control systems

how is risk controlled for and who does it. Is risk taking rewarded or
punished. how is punishment implemented Is risk appropiated to the
indivudual or by consensus.



All of these combine to create the cultural wb of the organisation.

(Shell came to the conclusion that it is perceived to be both internally and
externally as big, rich focussed on governments, obsessed with consensus,
gentelmanly and preoccupied with safety)

In order to change an organisation each of the various factors must be dealt
with in a holistic way.
The only diffenece is that to become a religion (rather than a political or
company entity ) one needs an ineffable experience.

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[CTRL] New Brain Scan May Diagnose ADHD

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LONDON (AP) - For the first time, brain scans have revealed measurable
biochemical differences in people with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder, a discovery that could reduce the number of children mistakenly
diagnosed and put on drug treatment, researchers say.

The diagnosis of ADHD, usually made in school-age children, is commonly
based
on observed behavior and some experts believe it is highly subjective -
essentially just an educated judgment.

Some say the condition is being over-diagnosed in the United States,
exposing
children unnecessarily to medication, while others argue it is not treated
often enough.

Earlier studies have shown scans can detect structural differences in ADHD
sufferers' brains, as well as abnormalities in brain activity, and
scientists
suspect that defects in genes relating to the brain chemical dopamine
probably are involved.

Full text:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991216/hl/britain_attention_deficit_2.html

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Re: [CTRL] The Zimbabwe Solution

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Its not just the land that goes. their house and and any flats will also be
taken.
most of the land confiscated in the past has gone to mugabe's henchmen.

20 years ago Nyrere told mugabe . You have a going country dont ruin it.
Mugabe has not just mismanaged the country, but personnaly built palaces for
himself (and widely rumored, has a very large secret Bank account) His
former wife Sally was a crook. She was alloted government monopolies that on
import exports and made millions from her place in government. Probably 20%
of the zimbabwean population is in south africa as there are no jobs in Zim.

I am afraid that the whites (and Indians) of southern Africa are in the same
position as the Jews of europe.
Hard(er) working, richer than the surrounding population. An object of envy
and an easy scapegoat.

(In african terms the world is  a system of limited cosmic good. One mans
richness comes only from another's poverty and it is witchcraft that allows
him the power to become rich(er)---a mirror of the attitude is found in
american blacks that subscribe their fates to chance rather than effort,
which whites tend to believe.)

John








Mugabe: I'll Take Land From Whites

By ANGUS SHAW

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe vowed to seize land from
whites and not pay them anything for it as the government had previously
promised.

``We have waited long enough and now is the time to take back our land,''
Mugabe said Saturday night at a ruling party convention. He said his party
would scrap the constitution's ``stupid clause'' that guarantees
compensation
to landowners.

Mugabe's new position is likely to estrange his government further from
international investors, Western donor nations and financial institutions
supporting market-led reforms in the ailing economy of this southern African
country.

Mugabe told delegates of his Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
that Zimbabwe's 12.5 million blacks could not achieve economic goals as long
as the 60,000-strong white community controlled large tracts of land and
dominated the nation's industry and commerce. Under the plan, landless
blacks
would be settled on the seized farms

``Without land, there is neither economic development nor empowerment,'' he
said. He justified his move by saying that British settlers ``seized our
land
from us, our ancestors, and no compensation was paid. It was taken for
nothing.''

About 4,000 white farmers, mostly the descendants of British settlers, own
about a third of the country's productive land. Known as Rhodesia, Zimbabwe
was a British colony before independence in 1980.

Since 1980, the state has bought more than 2,000 white farms for
resettlement, but the program has been plagued by mismanagement and
corruption. Only about 70,000 black families have been resettled, less than
half the target of 160,000 families.

Until 1992, the bill of rights in the constitution allowed for land
acquisition only under ``willing seller-willing buyer'' deals. But the
ruling
party subsequently passed laws that permitted the government to seize farms
but pay compensation related to the properties' market value.

The constitutional clause that guarantees compensation for appropriated land
could be scrapped in a revised national constitution that is to be put to a
referendum next year ahead of parliamentary elections.

Opposition groups accuse Mugabe of using land seizures as a ploy to distract
attention from worsening economic hardships.

Last year, soaring prices blamed on economic mismanagement triggered food
riots that forced Mugabe deploy troops to quell civil unrest for the first
time since independence.

Labor unrest and a series of strikes continued in 1999 as inflation spiraled
to a record 70 percent. With hundreds of businesses shutting down,
unemployment reached 50 percent.

About 7,000 delegates from across the nation attended the five-day ruling
party convention.

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[CTRL] TiM GW Bulletin 99/12-4 (Dec 15, 1999)

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FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA

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Bulletins" section.

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Topic: GLOBAL AFFAIRS


Phoenix1. NWO "Liberals" Cancel Christmas;
  Except for the Shopping, Of Course

--

1. NWO "Liberals" Cancel Christmas, Except for the Shopping, Of Course

PHOENIX, Dec. 15 - Yet another "Christmas season" is upon us.  So why is
"everybody" saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas?"

Because the New World Order "liberals" said so.  They canceled Christmas -
Jesus Christ's birthday.  They turned the joyful celebration of Christ's
birth into a crass shopping spree (see "Singapore: Materialism without
Idealism" - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim97-12-2.html ).

Which makes the term "liberal" an oxymoron, of course.  "Liberals" - the
supposedly tolerant people with open minds - are the ones trying to ram
down the rest of our throats their "PC" (politically correct) views.  With
all the subtlety of communist rhinos.

Being a "liberal" these days is synonimous with "dictatorship of
minorities," as I pointed out in my Aug. 31, 1997 Washington Times column,
"Dancing 'Round the Golden Calf" -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/clip-aug-31-97.html ).  An
exaggeration?  Let's see...

There is no doubt that Christians are still the vast (80 percent-plus)
majority in North America, despite the NWO's rampant importation of
non-Christian immigrants in the last three-and-a-half decades.  So you'd
think that in a society as demonstrably Christian as that, there would be
equally demonstrable Christians symbols being displayed, at least at
Christmas time?  Think again...

We've just returned from Toronto, Canada.  You'd never know you were in a
predominantly Christian city based on Toronto's attire in this "Christmas
season."  No crosses; no animated nativity scenes in front of the Simpson's
windows (a downtown Toronto department store, now taken over by the Bay),
to which generations of Toronto parents used to take their kids.  Including
yours truly in the 1970s.

Instead, there is plenty of crass Christmas commercialism.  Just as in
Singapore - which we described as a "model NWO city" two years ago.  The
way things are going, maybe in time Toronto will become a challenger to
Singapore's claim to infamy?

For, dictatorship of a minority was evident in Toronto this weekend more
than any other place on Earth we have visited recently.  And we've just
returned from a trip around the world.

Take a look at the photograph we took in front of the Toronto City Hall
(posted at our Web site).  It's a huge menorah.  And no wonder, given that
the picture was taken at a time of Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday.  So Happy
Hanukkah to our Jewish readers!

Nothing wrong with displaying menorahs, of course, in Jewish homes.  But
what was this religious symbol of a distinct minority doing on public
property, such as the Toronto City Hall?

"It's all because of our Jewish Mayor, Mel Lastman," was a lame explanation
we received from a Torontonian.

But wait a second... Didn't the ACLU Jewish lawyers argue a couple of years
ago that it wasn't proper to display religious symbols on public property?

"The American Civil Liberties Union has reportedly forced on
unconstitutional grounds the City of St. Ann, Missouri, to remove a
nativity scene from in front of its City Hall in future years, according to
a Dec. 24 news report," I wrote in my Washington Times Dec. 27, 1997
column, "Christianity Under Siege" -
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/christianity_under_siege.html ).

So why is the sauce for the goose not sauce for the gander?  Who is going
to force Mayor Lastman to respect the rights and preferences of the
Christian MAJORITY of his city's voters?  Certainly not the plutocrats who
put people like Lastman, or Bill Clinton, in positions of power.  Meaning
in positions to abuse the power of their elected offices.  On behalf of
minorities whose money put them into office.

So it's up to the ordinary citizens, the "silent majority," to make waves,
it seems.  Don't count on it.  One of them, a 

[CTRL] what to say at job interviews

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-


 THESE ARE TAKEN FROM REAL RESUMES  AND COVER LETTERS AND WERE PRINTED
 IN FORTUNE MAGAZINE:
 
 01. "I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience."
 02. "I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreasheet progroms."
 03  "Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year."
 04. "Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions."
 05. "Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave."
 06. "Failed bar exam with relatively high grades."
 07. "It's best for employers that I not work with people."
 08. "Let's meet, so you can 'ooh' and 'aah' over my experience."
 09. "You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time."
 10. "Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details."
 11. "I was working for my mom until she decided to move."
 12. "Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No
 commitments."
 13. "I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse."
 14. "I am loyal to my employer at all costs Please feel free to
respond
 to my resume on my office voice mail."
 15. "I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and
 absolutely nothing."
 16. "My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in
 meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage."
 
 17. "I procrastinate, especially when the task is unpleasant."
 18. "Personal interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far."
 19. "As indicted, I have over five years of analyzing investments."
 20. "Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a  Midwest chain
store."
 21. "Note: Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as 'job-hopping'. I"ve
never
 quit a job."
 22. "Marital status: often. Children: various."
 23. "Reason for leaving last job: They insisted that all employees get to
 work by 8:45 am every morning.
 I couldn't work under those conditions."
 24. "The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous
 employers."
 25. "Finished eighth in my class of ten."
 26. "References: none. I've left a path of destruction behind me."
 
 THESE QUOTES WERE TAKEN FROM ACTUAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS:
 
 01. "Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has
 started to dig."
 02  "His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid
curiosity."
 03. "I would not allow this employee to breed."
 04. "This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a
 definitely won't be."
 05. "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat
in
 a
 trap."
 06. "When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change
 whichever foot was previously in there."
 07. "He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle."
 08. "This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
 09. "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to
achieve
 them."
 10. "This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot."
 11. "This employee should go far - and the sooner he starts, the better."
 
 THESE ARE ACTUAL LINES FROM MILITARY PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS OR O.E.R.s
 (OFFICER EFFICIENCY REPORTS):
 
 01.  Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
 02.  Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching.
 03.  A room temperature IQ.
 04.  Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all
 together.
 05.  A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
 06.  A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
 07.  A prime candidate for natural deselection. Bright as Alaska in
 December.
 08.  One-celled organisms out score him in IQ tests.
 09.  Donated his body to science before he was done using it.
 10.  Fell out of the family tree.
 11.  Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
 12.  Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
 13.  He's so dense, light bends around him.
 14.  If brains were taxed, he'd get a rebate.
 15.  If  he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
 16.  If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change.
 17.  If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.
 18.  It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
 19.  One neuron short of a synapse.
 20.  Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
 21.  Takes him 1-1/2 hours to watch 60 minutes.
 22.  Wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus

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 a message dated 99-12-14 13:52:52 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Actually, there is a sort of underground tradition, mostly in the later New
Testament apocrypha, that Jesus was in fact an ugly man ...

That tradition seems to have originated with one of the seldom-quoted Old
Testament "prophecies" regarding the coming of the Messiah, therein called,
I
believe, the "man of sorrows."  When correctly translated from the original
Hebrew, it describes him as a man totally lacking in physical attractveness,
even ugly, AND as socially rejected for his appearance, like a thorn among
roses or whatever.  (It's been treated as "just a metaphor" by Christians
who
know of it, but the description in context is a literal one, and, apart from
the desire to make the Savior one of the "beautiful people," there's no
other
reason to doubt it being a simple statement of fact.  To sidestep the
implications of that conclusion, in fact, some Biblicists even resort to a
Talmudic sleight of hand, claiming that "prophecy" refers not to the One Yet
to Come but to MOSES long ago.
My OWN understanding, for what it's worth, is that it refers to NEITHER and
is not a "prophecy" at all but describes an historic person, a "failed"
Messiah ca. 400 BC.)
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This is the modern Jewish view
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/j4j-2000/index.html




ISAIAH 53
At JEWS FOR JUDAISM, we frequently encounter questions from Jews who are
involved in or considering Christianity. Among the questions, one chapter of
our Jewish Scriptures keeps coming up: Isaiah 53. Wasn't the Prophet, in
fact, referring to Jesus in this chapter? And didn't all Jews before the
Middle Ages recognize this chapter as "messianic"? We hope to assist you in
interpreting a chapter which has become a cornerstone of Christian
evangelism to Jews.

Our Jewish sages teach that "whoever saves a single Jewish soul is
considered as if he had saved an entire world." How precious is the Jewish
soul! Though the Bible study which follows is a lengthy one, we have
prepared it in the belief that - as a Jewish soul - you are worthy of any
method which may be required. We hope that you too will value your soul
highly enough to prayerfully ponder that which follows. G-D's truth is not
always easy to discern, but we are possessors of a Divine promise; "you will
find Him if you search after Him with all your heart and all your soul"
(Deut. 4:29). As faithful Jews have attested for over 3500 years, it's worth
the effort. And now - on with the search!

A. PRELIMINARY ISSUES
Before engaging in an examination of Isaiah 53 itself, some preliminary
issues must be considered. First is the issue of circular reasoning. Even if
we interpret the chapter as the Christians do (forgetting for a minute the
mistranslations and distortions of context which will be noted below), the
most that could be said is this: Isaiah 53 is about someone who dies for the
sins of others. People may have seen Jesus die, but did anyone see him die
as an atonement for the sins of others? Of course not; this is simply the
meaning which the New Testament gives to his death. Only if you already
accept the New Testament teaching that his death had a non-visible,
spiritual significance can you than go back to Isaiah and say, "see - the
Prophet predicted what I already believe." Isaiah 53, then, is in reality no
"proof" at all, but rather a contrived confirmation for someone who has
already chosen Christianity.

Second (and consistent with all Jewish teaching at the time), Jesus' own
disciples didn't view Isaiah 53 as a messianic prophecy. For example, after
Peter identifies Jesus as the Messiah (Matt. 16:16), he is informed that
Jesus will be killed (Matt. 16:21). His response: "G-D forbid it, lord! This
shall never happen to you" (Matt. 16:22). See, also, Mk. 9:31-32; Mk.
16:10-11; Jn. 20:9. Even Jesus didn't see Isaiah 53 as crucial to his
messianic claims - why else did he call the Jews children of the devil for
not believing in him before the alleged resurrection (Jn. 8:39-47)? And why
did he later request that G-D "remove this cup from me" (Mk. 14:36) - didn't
he know that a "removal of the cup" would violate the gentile understanding
of Isaiah 53?

And third, even if we accept the gentile Christian interpretation of Isaiah
53, where is it indicated (either in Isaiah 53 or anywhere else in our
Jewish Scriptures) that you must believe in this "Messiah" to get the
benefits?

B. CONTEXT
Since any portion of Scripture is only understood properly when viewed in
the context of G-D's revelation as a whole, some additional study will be
helpful before you "tackle" Isaiah 53.

Look at the setting in which Isaiah 53 occurs. Earlier on in Isaiah, G-D had
predicted exile and calamity for the Jewish people. Chapter 53, however,
occurs in the midst of Isaiah's "Messages of Consolation", which tell of the
restoration of Israel to a position of prominence and a 

[CTRL] acceptable ethnic cleansing

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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  From www.LewRockwell.com
15 December 1999

Ethnic Cleansing and the Germans
by Gregory Pavlik

The US government bills Serbian actions in Kosovo as the worst ethnic
cleansing since World War II, by which we are meant to understand the German
genocide against the Jews. As we shall see, targeted persecution on the
basis of ethnicity was not confined to Germany during the war, nor is Serbia
guilty of the worst of offenses since the Nazis by a long margin. Yet
respectable opinion proclaims that the US has battled against the dark
forces of ethnic persecution throughout its history.

Such rubbish can not be taken seriously. Concerning Serbia: we now know that
there was no "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo prior to the US-lead attack; that
such displacement of civilians as actually took place was stimulated by US
actions. The unprovoked US offensive ended in peace terms perhaps less
generous than might have been reached at the negotiating table.

The NATO occupation forces now administer a territory where mass killings
and "reverse" ethnic cleansing of Serbs is rampant-a return to the historic
persecution of the Serb minority, as described in the 1980s in several New
York Times accounts. It's a small price to pay in a blatant move to coopt
the traditional Russian sphere of influence, off limits to US planners for
the duration of the Cold War due to the deterrent factor presented by the
Soviet Union.

The US record on ethnic cleansing is considerably less sanguine than media
accounts would have it. In fact, the US holds the distinction of perhaps the
first wholesale ethnic cleansing in the history of Christian Europe. But the
US government's record extends back to the extermination of the American
Indian, and the forced displacement of survivors to reservations. In fact,
the US government has spent the better part of this century complicit in
campaigns of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and terror, often, though not
always, conducted through proxy governments.

Client states that deal in terror targeted at minority populations raise no
eyebrows in Washington as long as their governments toe the State Department
line. Indeed, US-backed regimes with longstanding records of active
persecution of minorities remain beyond criticism. Only when they lose their
usefulness do their crimes become worthy of our attention. Remorse for US
involvement in these crimes, if expressed at all, occurs after the actions
no longer support US objectives.

Examples are numerous. Strategic concerns prohibit us from noticing the
ongoing persecution of the Kurds in Turkey, a state that also moved harshly
to expel its Armenian minority early in the century. Terror against the
Kurds peaked during the Clinton administration, when deaths were
consistently reported in the many thousands each year. Over a million Kurds
have reportedly been displaced. By Clinton's second year, Turkey's
repression of the Kurdish population had shot to record levels. In America,
only a few leftists made note of the fact that in 1994 Turkey was "the
biggest single importer of American military hardware and thus the world's
largest arms purchaser." US aircraft was subsequently used to destroy
Kurdish villages. US arms continued to flow to the Turkish government
despite press revelations.

The only talk of US military action in Turkey revolved around the use of
Turkish soil to continue the almost decade long war against the civilian
population of Iraq. As things heated up in Yugoslavia, that conversation
shifted to the use of Turkish aircraft to bomb Serbia. Humanitarian concerns
remain irrelevant.

Terror with a racial slant is old hat for more direct US military
operations. In Guatemala, US-trained and directed death squads and military
units (often the same) were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths
prior to the Reagan years, when terror reached new and even more obscene
heights, marked by wholesale massacres in the Indian highlands. Since the
60s when the US engineered a military takeover of the country, torture,
disappearances, and political murders have been supported and administered
as an response to the threat of "communists". In practice, this meant not
only teachers, community organizers, and priests, but simple Indian peasants
living in poverty. In the 80s, political killings mounted monthly, cheered
on (literally) by neoconservative Republicans.

Examples of US involvement in terror applied indiscriminately to a general
population are numerous and give the lie to State Department crowing about
human rights. Laos is a representative example, where displacement was less
an objective than wholesale destruction of an entire society. During the
period of US "non- involvement," the US air force dropped more bombs on a
peasant society than on Germany and Japan combined during the Second World
War. More than half of the country's population was killed as a result of
the US attacks.

Needless to say, Laotian society was wrecked. Today, children 

[CTRL] Review of Naomi Cohen's bio of Jacob Schiff

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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New York Times Book Review
December 12, 1999

 __

 From 1880 to 1920, no one in America did more to fight
 anti-Semitism than Jacob Schiff.

By DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT

JACOB H. SCHIFF: A Study in American Jewish Leadership.
By Naomi W. Cohen.
320 pp. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press/ University Press
of New England. $35.
 _


 Modern American Jews generally believe that until the period after
 World War II American Jewry was afraid to exert political power.
 ''Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership,'' by
 Naomi W. Cohen, the author of ''Jews in Christian America,'' is a
 useful corrective to this mistaken idea.

 Surprisingly, Schiff has not been the subject of a serious
 biography until now. That makes this book particularly welcome.

 A resolute defender of Jewish rights, Schiff was the American
 Jewish community's pre-eminent leader from 1880 to 1920. He came
 before presidents not as a supplicant but as an advocate, convinced
 that in fighting against discrimination he was upholding American
 values.

 A partner at the New York banking house of Kuhn, Loeb  Company,
 Schiff was one of a cadre of German Jews who in the 19th century
 created a kinship network of investment houses on Wall Street.
 Though many of these men demonstrated intense communal
 responsibility, none compared to Schiff in terms of philanthropy,
 political activity and unashamed Jewishness.

 Affectionately called ''unser Yankele'' (our Jacob) by eastern
 European immigrants, Schiff vigorously opposed every attempt to bar
 immigrants from this country. Similarly, he spoke out for American
 Jews excluded from the country's leading institutions by the WASP
 power structure of the time. He gave Barnard College a half-million
 dollars for a building for ''social and ethical activities''
 because Barnard, unlike Columbia, forbade social groups that
 restricted Jews.

 But he did more than fight discrimination. He sought to engender
 respect for Judaism by financing translations of the Hebrew
 Scriptures and other classic Jewish texts, and by donating the seed
 money for Harvard's Semitic (that is, Jewish) studies program, the
 first of its kind in the country. Harvard's president, Charles W.
 Eliot, said he believed Schiff's efforts would help reverse ''the
 centuries-long antagonism of the Christian church to the Jews.''

 Schiff was not without his contradictions. Although he viewed
 anti-Semitism as an irrational sentiment that existed irrespective
 of the presence or behavior of Jews, he nonetheless believed that
 Jews could take steps to prevent it. Arguing that resentment
 against Jews was fostered by their congregating in ethnic
 neighborhoods in Northeastern cities, he created the Galveston Plan
 to encourage Jewish immigrants to enter the country in the
 Southwest. So, too, he thought that if the immigrants Americanized
 by abandoning their distinctive dress, language and leftist
 politics, anti-Semitism would dissipate.

 As an effort in Americanization, Schiff brought Solomon Schechter,
 a learned rabbi and Cambridge University Semitics scholar, to New
 York to revitalize the Jewish Theological Seminary, then a moribund
 institution, and to reach out to the staunchly traditional eastern
 European immigrants with a form of Judaism that bridged tradition
 and modernity. In this way, Schiff, a resolutely Reform Jew,
 secured a foothold for Conservative Judaism in America.

 Outside the United States Schiff waged a personal battle against
 czarist Russia's brutal anti-Semitism. Failing to persuade Russia
 to abandon its persecution, he arranged for substantial loans to
 Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. And he assiduously lobbied a
 series of presidents -- Harrison, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson -- to
 abrogate the 1832 American-Russian treaty because Russia refused
 visas to American Jews. He insisted that Washington could not
 countenance a double standard in the treatment of American
 citizens.

 Unlike contemporary Jewish leaders, Schiff never felt the slightest
 obligation to achieve communal consensus. As Cohen so amply
 demonstrates in her well-written and well-researched book, he did
 what he believed was right and he expected others to follow.
 __

 Deborah E. Lipstadt, the author of ''Denying the Holocaust: The
 Growing Assault on Truth and Memory,'' teaches Jewish history at
 Emory University.

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[CTRL] US INTERVENTIONISM PAVES WAY FOR WORLD WARS

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© A New Enlightenment Feature. Word count  1334 plus credits
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[WASHINGTON OR WILSON?] US INTERVENTIONISM PAVES WAY FOR WORLD WARS

US INTERVENTION AND THE WORLD WARS -Wilson's Intervention and Duplicity Led
to World War II, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the
Cold War. Yet the United States continues interventionist policies.
By Robert John*

Should the United States have participated in the World Wars of this
century? Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan in his 436-page new
book,
A Republic, Not an Empire. depicts an American foreign policy over more than

two centuries that, far from being "isolationist," has been deeply engaged
in
the world, but--at least until 1917-almost always for the national interest.

He argues that the country went wrong in a period of imperialism, and now
seeks to impose its image on other countries, using force-economic or
military-if they resist.
The main focus of criticism has been on defending American participation

in World War II - that "just war." That is an argument potent with emotions
and pitfalls.

What is simpler to demonstrate, is that World War II was a result, or
even a continuation of World War I. American intervention in World War I,
and
participation in its aftermath, including the Versailles Treaty, produced
circumstances that led to the to the rise of Hitler, National Socialism, and

the Second World War (and the Bolshevik take-over in Russia).

President Washington's guiding principle of American policy toward
European conflict prior to World War I was the principle of neutrality.
Prior
to belligerency, the United States of President Wilson had not been neutral.

On 15th May 1915 by Order in Council the British government declared goods
of
all kinds entering or leaving Germany contraband, a full blockade. Yet the
U.S.A. sold war materiel to France and Britain, and virtually supported
their
food embargo of Germany. The copper in every shell the Allies fired enriched

the Guggenheims, who controlled copper; every use of nickel enriched Alfred
Mond who controlled that metal. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary

of State in 1915 on this and other issues and Wilson's neglect of his
advice.
Early on in the war, Britain had cut the undersea communication cable
between the United States and Germany, and therefore had the lead in the
propaganda war for American public opinion. Stories of German soldiers
impaling Belgian children on their bayonets were hard to counter. British
intelligence services in the United States, were successful in bringing much

of the American press to support intervention on the side of Britain and
France.
Without American partiality, and the expectation of American direct
belligerency, the war might have ended in compromise toward the end of 1916,

when, according to British Prime Minister Lloyd George, "the Allies had
almost exhausted the gold and marketable securities available for American
purchases." The saving in lives and suffering would have been enormous. The
Bolshevik coup d'état would have been highly improbable.
As for the peace, America failed to honor President Wilson's Fourteen
Points for peace which were announced by him on 8th January 1918, but
particularly Wilson's declaration a month later: that there were to be no
annexations, no contributions, and no punitive damages. It was on that basis

that General Ludendorf had recommended to Field-Marshall Hindenburg that
Germany ask for an Armistice. Diplomatic exchanges followed until 23rd of
October 1918.
Classified as Secret in the U.S.A. until the 1990s, only now do we  know

that on 23rd October Wilson, who had become the key player in bringing the
Great War to an end, informed the German government that if the United
States
had to negotiate "with the military masters and monarchical autocrats of
Germany now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later in regard to

the international obligations of the German Empire, it must demand not peace

negotiations but surrender."
The Kaiser abdicated for his country and people. They were led to
believe
that he had voluntarily deserted them in their darkest hour. The Berliner
Tageblatt of 10 November 1918: reported, "Yesterday morning . . .everything
was still there"¾the Kaiser, the chancellor, the police chief¾"yesterday
afternoon nothing of all that existed any longer." The March 1917 Menshevik
Revolution in Russia was being re-enacted in Germany, with Friedrich Ebert
playing the role that Kerensky had played in Russia the year before.
According to the outstanding British military-and geopolitical analyst
Maj. General J.F.C. Fuller, "Thus chaos was planted in Europe." Europe
needed
stability and political evolution. Wilson used American power in the name of

peace and democracy, interfering with the local process of political
evolution, for revolution.
In spite of the Kaiser's 

[CTRL] The Irish and Aids

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I usually send something terribly depressing on Aids..but every now and
then---
John


An Irishman named O'Malley went to his doctor after a
long illness.  The doctor, after a lengthy examination,
sighed and looked O'Malley in the eye, and said, "I've
some bad news for you.  You have cancer, and it can't
be cured.  I'd give you two weeks to a month to live,"

O'Malley was shocked and saddened by the news, but
of solid character. He managed to compose himself and
walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room.
There, he saw his son who had been waiting. O'Malley
said, "Well son. We Irish celebrate when things are
good, and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In
this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer, and I've
been given a short time to live.  Let's head for the pub
and have a few pints."

After 3 or 4 pints, the two were feeling a little less
somber.  There were some laughs and more beers.
They were eventually approached by some of O'Malley's
old friends who asked what the two were celebrating.
O'Malley told them that the Irish celebrate the good and
the bad. He went on to tell them that they were drinking
to his impending end. He told his friends, "I've only got a
few weeks to live as I have been diagnosed with AIDS."
The friends gave O'Malley their condolences, and they
had a couple more beers.

After his friends left, O'Malley's son leaned over and
whispered his confusion. "Dad. I though you said that
you were dying from cancer??? You just told your
friends that you were dying from AIDS!"

O'Malley said, "I am dying of cancer, son.  I just don't
want any of them sleeping with your mother after I'm
gone."


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[CTRL] Why we Britons are going through an identity crisis

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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/


Why we Britons are going through an identity crisis




What does it mean to be British? Is it a matter of identity or of
citizenship? These questions lie at the heart of today's most pressing
policy debates - over Europe, devolution, multiculturalism and race.

The changing nature of Britishness was the main theme of Professor Linda
Colley of the London School of Economics in the last of the Millennium
Lectures this week. These J.F. Kennedy-style events have been held regularly
in Downing Street over the past year by Tony Blair in front of an audience
of what used to be called the intelligentsia before we heard of the
chattering classes.

Professor Colley made her name as the author of Britons, which argued that
Britain was largely an 18th-century invention. She said that most of these
forces no longer apply: outside Northern Ireland, Protestantism no longer
"serves as an effective linch-pin of British identity"; the monarchy is
unlikely ever again to be "the kind of charismatic, unifying icon it was in
the 1940s and 1950s"; the Empire has gone, and so has the spectre of major
war. Nor are we willing to acquiesce in the kind of strong, centralised
government from London that emerged this century in response to the demands
of war.

Customary notions of Britishness have been challenged by increasing
involvement with the European Union, by large numbers of non-white
immigrants, and by the impact of the radical Thatcher and Blair
administrations. The latter have helped to fracture notions of national
class politics, as opposed to those of place, ethnicity or religion.

Professor Colley rejected as unlikely a break-up of Britain via a resurgent
English nationalism (because of common interests), full integration within a
united Europe (since a superstate is unlikely), or carrying on much as
before.

Britishness might not signify much a century from now, but politicians
should not be mesmerised by debates about identity and should concentrate
instead on renovating British citizenship. This is similar to a distinction
between identity and values which Gordon Brown highlighted last week in
urging a joint approach to social problems.

The Colley soundbite was the "Citizen Nation" - combining a Charter of
Rights, a more open and less hidebound public culture (with a less pompous
style of monarchy and no titles), a broader diffusion of power (including
more individual involvement) and a greater emphasis on equal opportunities
for minorities and women. This all sounds thoroughly new Labour, though
Professor Colley gave warning against facilely being "against the past" and
lacking a global perspective.

Much of her argument is about what has been happening for two or three
decades, as well as the past two or three years. This amounts to a shift
from subjects to citizens, and a very different relationship between
individual and State. Yet we are still a long way from creating a "Citizen
Nation" in practice: just read yesterday's report from the Ombudsman on the
obstacles that departments still instinctively put in the way of people
seeking information. Whether or not we still feel British, the death of the
familiar, secretive paternalist State is likely to take a long time


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alternaively its a slow process, but certain to be integrated into the NWO

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[CTRL] Why Jesse's death got no play - 12-9-99

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WHY THIS DEATH DIDN'T COUNT
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

December 9, 1999


   A 13-year-old named Jesse Dirkhising was killed on Sept. 26 in Rogers,
Ark. Why didn't you know that?

   The police affidavit describing the circumstances of Jesse's death is
stomach-turning. Rather than sicken you, let me quote instead from the
much less graphic story that moved on the national wire of the Associated
Press.

   "According to police, Davis Carpenter Jr., 38, and Joshua Brown, 22,
drugged and blindfolded Jesse Dirkhising, gagged him with underwear, and
strapped him to a mattress face-down with duct tape and belts. Then the
boy was repeatedly raped and sodomized with various objects before he
suffocated because of the position he was in, investigators said.

   "At the apartment, police found handwritten instructions and a diagram
of how to position the boy. Other notes described apparently unfulfilled
fantasies of molesting other children

   "On the night of Jesse's death, Brown repeatedly raped the boy while
Carpenter watched, police said. Brown took a break to eat a sandwich, and
soon noticed the boy had stopped breathing."

   The AP dispatch leaves out a lot of horrifying details, but that isn't
the most noteworthy thing about it. The date is. The story didn't move
until Oct. 29 -- 33 days after Jesse was killed. AP's deputy managing editor
later admitted that the story was assigned only after the Washington Times
reported the grim facts in an Oct. 22 story headlined, "Media tune out
torture
death of Arkansas boy: Homosexuals charged with rape, murder."

   Jesse was killed a few days before the first anniversary of Matthew
Shepard's brutal murder. The contrast in the coverage of the two cases is
overpowering. The first AP report on the atrocity in Laramie -- "Openly
gay student critically injured in Wyoming attack" -- moved just hours after
Shepard was discovered, badly beaten but alive. The story was front-page
news around the country, and was followed for weeks by every television
network and news magazine in America.

   The death of Jesse Dirkhising, on the other hand, received almost no
notice in the national press. The belated Washington Times and AP reports
didn't trigger a rush of catch-up stories. Only one television network,
Fox, took note of the crime -- in a single story on Nov. 23. And that was
it.
For all intents and purposes, what happened to the seventh-grader went down
the memory hole. Why?

   Some critics suggest there is a media double standard: Violent crimes
committed against gays get big headlines; violent crimes committed by
gays even against children -- get a shrug. "Had Jesse Dirkhising been shot
inside his Arkansas school," writes Brent Bozell of the Media Research
Center,
"he would have been an immediate national news story. Had he been openly
gay
and his attackers heterosexual, the crime would have led all the networks.
But no liberal media outlet would dare be the first to tell a grisly murder

story which has as its villains two gay men."

   Possibly. But there is an even more insidious explanation -- one
articulated not by media critics but by media insiders themselves.

   Provoked by Bozell's challenge and by messages from readers wanting to
know why the Dirkhising murder was being ignored, writers at The
Washington
Post and the Time magazine web site offered a defense.

   "While Shepard's murderers were driven to kill by hate, the boy's rape
and death was a sex crime," argued Jonathan Gregg, the senior editor at
Time.com. Shepard's killers "were not satisfying some animalistic sexual
impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate
for being different than they were."

   The Post's ombudsman, E.R. Shipp, made the same claim. She
acknowledged that her paper had run some 80 items referring to Shepard, but
only a
single news brief mentioning Dirkhising. "Here at the Post, however, the two
are
seen as quite different," Shipp wrote. A hate crime homicide such as
Shepard's ... is 'a special kind of killing,' the Post has
editorialized
Arkansas authorities have not characterized the Dirkhising death as a
hate crime."

   Could anything make clearer the perniciousness of treating some kinds
of violence as "hate crimes?" Here lies Matthew Shepard, beaten to death by

a pair of savages. Here lies Jesse Dirkhising, tortured to death by a
different pair of savages. Each was an innocent. Each died in agony. Each
left
behind grieving family and friends. Each was the victim of a crime so
vicious as
to shock the conscience. But because Shepard's savages detested homosexuals,
his death matters. Because Dirkhising's savages were driven by lust, his
death is a nullity.

   Hate crime laws are immoral and unjust, for they are premised on the
notion that the lives and well-being of some people are worth more than
the lives and well-being of others. Journalism that adopts the hate crime
premise is no less offensive.

   It is no answer 

[CTRL] A Test of the Power-Elite Hypothesis

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/issues/v40n5/995002/995002.tex
 t.html

CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 40, Number 5, December 1999
© 1999 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All
rights reserved 0011-3204/99/4005-0002$3.50
  _

Socioeconomic Growth, Culture Scale, and Household Well-Being
A Test of the Power-Elite Hypothesis1

by John H. Bodley

Socioeconomic growth is an elite-directed process that concentrates
social power in direct proportion to increases in culture scale. Power
elites have controlled social power to their own advantage in at least
three different ways: domestically, by means of kinship, politically,
by means of rulers, and commercially, by means of the market. Each
method produces its own growth trajectory and scale of culture and a
distinctive distribution of elite power and household living
standards. Ethnographic data on urban property ownership in 27
municipalities in the Palouse region of eastern Washington suggest
that when power is commercially organized and villages become towns
and cities, there is a dramatic increase not only in the number of
prosperous households but even more in the number of poor and
maintenance-level households. Elite property owners, who most benefit
from growth, assume a larger role in municipal government, where they
can encourage further growth through municipal annexations and zoning
changes. Thus, as elite power becomes increasingly concentrated, the
growth process itself tends to become self-perpetuating. In the
Palouse example, small, no-growth municipalities appear to be
politically more democratic than larger-scale, growing municipalities
and household well-being in them more equitably distributed.

JOHN H. BODLEY is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State
University (Pullman, Wash. 99164-4910, U.S.A. [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]). Born
in 1942, he was educated at the University of Oregon (B.A., 1965;
M.A., 1967; Ph.D., 1970) and has been a visiting researcher at the
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and done fieldwork in
cultural ecology in eastern Peru. His publications include Victims of
Progress (Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1999 [1975]), Anthropology and
Contemporary Human Problems (Palo Alto: Mayfield, 1996 [1976]), and "A
Cultural Scale Perspective on Human Ecology and Development" (Advances
in Human Ecology 3).

 1 This project was supported in 1996 - 97 and 1998 - 99 by grants
from the Edward R. Meyer Fund at Washington State University. Data
specialists Kevin Norris in Spokane County and James Martin and Jim
Hawkes in Whitman County provided data bases and supporting
information. At Washington State University I was assisted with the
SAS language and mainframe computer aspects of this project by Darrell
Davenport, William G. Hendrix, Timothy A. Kohler, Gilbert A. Pierson,
and Zoltan Porga. Other colleagues and students at Washington State
University who provided additional material and helpful comment
included William Andrefsky Jr., Tom Bartuska, William H. Funk,
Christopher A. Harris, Barry S. Hewlett, Barry C. Hicks, Gary
Huckleberry, Chuck Huffine, William D. Lipe, Samuel H. Smith, and
William Willard. My wife, Kathleen M. Bodley, read and offered
valuable criticism on several drafts. During two summer field schools
in 1992 and 1997 my students in the Department of Anthropology at
Washington State University explored many of these issues and were a
continual source of inspiration.

The present paper was submitted 7 I 99 and accepted 26 II 99; the
final version reached the Editor's office 22 IV 99.
  _

 This paper examines how elites use socioeconomic growth to shift
the distribution of social power and household well-being in their
favor. The hypothesis to be tested is that growth is an elite-directed
process that concentrates social power in direct proportion to
increases in scale. The assumption is that larger-scale cultural
systems will have more concentrated social power. Combining C. Wright
Mills's (1956) original insights on American society with current
anthropological theory, this hypothesis suggests that elite
power-seeking is a prime mover at all levels of cultural development
and that certain growth processes disproportionately impoverish and
disempower some households. After reviewing existing theoretical
arguments and empirical evidence for this hypothesis, I extend the
debate by proposing that elite-directed cultural evolution has
produced distinct domestic-, political-, and commercial-scale
cultures. I then show that cultural systems can be 

[CTRL] George W. Bush IQ

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

Is George W. Bush a Moron?
by Steve Sailer
Thursday, November 18, 1999
Comments: 445 posts


 The New Yorker's recent revelation that presidential frontrunner Texas Gov.
George W. Bush scored a mere 1206 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) has
incited journalists to snigger at his intellect. "The sharpest tool in the
shed he ain't," declared Jacob Weisberg of the ever-so-cleverSlate.com in an
article entitled "Do Dim Bulbs Make Better Presidents?" Soon, a Boston
reporter ambushed Bush with a pop quiz: Could he name the leaders of
Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan? Missing three of the four has exposed
Bush to the kind of scorn Dan Quayle endured after he misspelled "potato."

Does Bush's IQ matter?
What is particularly amusing about these attacks on Bush's IQ is that ever
since the 1994 publication of The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and the late
Richard Herrnstein, liberals have pursued an all-out vendetta against mental
testing and even the concept of intelligence. This egalitarian crusade
peaked earlier this autumn with the publication of that glib denunciation of
the SAT, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by
Nicholas Lemann.

Although Lemann's book contains almost no quantitative data on
testing(apparently he couldn't find any to support his prejudices), a huge
amount is available to help us interpret Bush's SAT score.

IQ snobbery

So, does a 1206 (566 Verbal, 640 Math) truly mean you're as dumb as a box of
rocks?

First, any current college students reading this need to remember that SAT
scores beginning in 1996 were artificially inflated. So, do not assume that
your elders' relatively unimpressive results are objective proof that they
really are moronic as they may appear to you.

Second, although tables are readily available to convert SAT scores into
percentile rankings, they are not realistic since people who know they are
not college material do not take the SAT. Therefore, I asked my Human
Biodiversity e-mail discussion group how Bush would stack up compared to the
entire American public, not just SAT-takers.

In reply, Charles Murray noted that everybody except dropouts takes the
Pre-SAT. From the PSAT Murray calculates, "A Verbal 566 puts Bush at about
the 95th percentile of juniors  seniors ..., while 640 on Math puts him at
about the 98th percentile." In other words, only one out of 20 people would
out perform the candidate on the verbal part of the test, and only one out
of 50 on the numeric portion. Although SAT scores and IQ scores do not
coincide perfectly, Bush's SAT score would roughly project to an IQ in the
125-130 range.

Thus, all the sneering at Bush's 1206 says less about him than it does about
the IQ snobbery rampant among supposedly egalitarian liberals, especially
among neo-liberal journalists.

Are dumb president preferable?

In contrast to the liberals, conservatives suddenly have started
pooh-poohing the value of tests they had been defending only days before.
They now argue that a high IQ might work against success in the Oval Office.
Their argument is as follows: Nobody ever accused Ronald Reagan, John
F.Kennedy (IQ of 117 according to biographer Thomas C. Reeves), Harry
Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt or George Washington of being sensationally
cerebral. In contrast, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon (143 IQ), Herbert Hoover,
Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and John Adams were smarter than they
were successful.

That's as illogical, however, as believing that height does not help in
basketball just because there are a number of fine players in the NBA who
aren't particularly tall, like 6'-0" Allen Iverson or 5'-3" Muggsy Bogues.

Just because presidents with stratospheric IQs have performed about the same
as their less egg-headed colleagues does not mean that IQ is not desirable
in a president, all else being equal. The problem is that all else is not
equal: Because so few people are at the far-right end of the IQ bell curve,
you cannot always find an individual among them who is blessed with all the
other presidential talents you desire. In contrast, the rare individuals who
make it to the White House from the fat part of the bell curve are far more
gifted in other ways than is typical for their IQ, just as Iverson and
Bogues make up for their height by being extraordinarily quick.

Consider the evenly matched Kennedy vs. Nixon election of 1960. There are
about 60 times more people who were at least as smart as JFK (whose IQ fell
at the 87th percentile) than were as smart as Nixon (99.8th percentile). Not
surprisingly, though, in compensation JFK was about 60 times as charismatic
as Nixon.

Too early to tell

Similarly, while Bush's test scores are far above average, more than 5
million American adults do at least as well as him. Out of a pool that vast,
we ought to be able to find individuals who have truly remarkable non-IQ
skills. Is Bush one of them? Our problem is that we do not yet know.
Unfortunately, the GOP 

[CTRL] People in America early

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

(many of these bits of evidence have been availlable for a long time. Why
were they suppressed?
Why now are they being made public?
John



Policy on human remains hampers new thinking on
archaeological finds
By SOLVEIG TORVIK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
December 5, 1999
It's counterintuitive to suppose that
  early humans turned up their noses at
American real estate for as long as many
learned scholars insist they did. But
scholars, unlike the rest of us, are bound
by the rules of evidence. And the evidence
of earlier human habitation on this
continent has been non-existent.

Of course, that may be because, until
recently, few archaeologists thought the
evidence was there to find. If America's
human prehistory is a blank page,
nearsightedness on the part of those who
are trying to write it has been a
contributing factor. As Dr. Albert C.
Goodyear put it at a recent archaeological
conference in Santa Fe: "You don't look
for what you don't believe in."

Now, as the 21st century dawns,
archaeologists and anthropologists are
scrambling to come to terms with mounting
evidence that suggests people may have
arrived here much earlier, and from
different places, than conventional wisdom
has dictated for most of this century.

The conference, held under the auspices of
the Smithsonian Institution and the Center
for the Study of the First Americans at
the University of Oregon, was the first in
40 years on the fractious subject of the
peopling of the Americas. Turmoil
triggered by new discoveries and sharp
disagreements about what they mean served
as the backdrop to often archly
contentious proceedings.

As a result of provocative new discoveries
that challenge their assumptions, many
archaeologists indicated they've resolved
to "dig deeper," literally and
figuratively, into the mystery, and that's
a welcome development. Getting
archaeologists to believe in the
possibility that people may have lived
here before 13,000 years ago may be too
much to ask, given the paucity of
irrefutable evidence. Simply proceeding on
the assumption that it's a serious
possibility is good enough for starters.
Happily, the profession now seems poised
to think outside the box.

But as ill luck would have it, this
seismic shift in archaeologists' mental
approach to human prehistory in the
Americas comes just as the federal
government has determined that its duty
lies in facilitating destruction of what
little evidence does exist that might
allow scientists to shed light on who came
here when.

This is a lamentable congruence of events.

Tantalizing new scientific evidence that
suggests humans may have arrived here in
many disparate waves from more than one
direction and tens of thousands of years
earlier than commonly accepted is
irrelevant, according to official U.S.
policy.

Human remains, even those many thousands
of years old, routinely are given by U.S.
Park Service officials to tribes for
reburial on the unscientific assumption
that the remains are ancestors of modern
Native Americans.

Yet those remains, some of which appear
not to resemble modern Native Americans,
may hold invaluable answers to the
peopling of the Americas puzzle.

The likely result of the government's
failure to acknowledge that the prevailing
story of the peopling of the continent may
be wrong will be that evidence to support
that assertion will be lost forever.

It's bad enough that a good deal of the
evidence already may have been lost. It's
worse that it's been by deliberate
government design. Some of it has been
buried, both literally and figuratively,
on government orders, in Idaho and

[CTRL] Different Positions

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

A   January 20, 1999

From "National Jewish Coaltion Applauds Republican National Committee
Condemnation of Racist Group

January 20, 1999, Washington, DC
The National Jewish Coalition wrote to Chairman Nicholson:

"Your forceful and unequivocal condemnation of that group's racist views
is a resounding restatement of one of the Republican Party's core
principles.

"The Republican Party has always been committed to the basic values of
liberty, democracy, and equality. Hate and racism have no place in the
party of Lincoln and never have."

NJC National Chairman Cheryl Halpern said, "Republican Party leaders
have consistently come out against racism and bigotry whenever they have
appeared. Whether it's David Duke or the Council of Conservative
Citizens, Republicans have repudiated those who espouse racist views and
kept them out of the party. This party has a strong record of opposing
hatred and racism, a record of which the party can be proud."

By calling on all Republicans to denounce the Council of Concerned
Citizens, Chairman Nicholson has once again demonstrated his commitment to
putting principle above politics. The NJC commends him for standing up for
the rights and equality of every American."

--
-
B December 1999
"From Republican Jewish Coalition site:
U.S. - Israel Relationship

...The U.S.-Israel alliance is of tremendous importance to
both countries. Israel is a major ally of the U.S., a stable democracy
in a region that is unstable and where certain rogue countries remain
hostile to America's interests..."   December 6,1999"


--
--
C December 6, 1999

"New York Times
December 6, 1999

 JERUSALEM -- On the surface, the bill that Muhammad Baraka
 recently submitted to the Israeli Parliament seemed innocuous
 enough.

 Baraka, an Israeli-Arab legislator, is proposing to anchor in law
 the seemingly factual assertion that Israel is a democratic and
 multicultural state.

 Parliament's legal advisers, however, considered the bill so
 subversive that they recommended that it not even be sent to the
 floor for debate. Baraka's proposal, it seems, cleverly omits a
 sacred point: that Israel values one culture above all others. It
 is, after all, the Jewish homeland, established on a policy of
 ethnic preference to redress the enormity of the Holocaust as well
 as millennia of wandering..."

"A Rightist Leader Stirs Tepid Dissent, and Assent

 . . .Haider's party did well in Vienna with a simple slogan, "Stop the

Überfremdung," an appeal against "overforeignization" that, to a German

speaker, carries connotations of Goebbels, as indeed do other aspects of

Haider's speeches. Haider now disowns the slogan and says it was dreamed up

by the Vienna branch of his Freedom Party.


"...the speaker of Austria's Parliament, Heinz Fischer, promised that the

legislature would pass a resolution against xenophobia. That evening, some

25,000 people rallied in Vienna against racism.

The rally drew Haider's scorn and sharply divided even his opponents over
its

size and its aims.

Doron Rabinovici, a writer and one of the rally's organizers, pledged at the


gathering that anti-Haider forces will not wait next time until after an

election to come out against racism. He demanded a law against
discrimination

because "no one can be certain of their future in Austria so long as someone


is exposed to persecution because of their origins." The rally was "the

beginning of a political movement against people who whip up fear, the first


of many manifestations of courage," he said.

At the Hofburg gathering, Haider inveighed against what he called frustrated


left-wingers; an "organized witchhunt from abroad," and "this leftist,

pseudo-intellectual nonsense about hating foreigners." To those who marched

under the banner "Haider-shame for Austria," his retort was, "It is
certainly

not a shame to feel responsible above all for one's own people."

Such language worries some Viennese. Ariel Muzicant, the leader of the small


Jewish community that has re-formed since World War II, has said that

anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise. "

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[CTRL] USA immigration debate

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

 Lew
Rockwell has on his web site posted the complete text of the letter that
Brimelow sent, before editing and expurgation by the editors of Commentary.
=


To see in boldface the bolded sections to which Brimelow refers, go to

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/brimelow2.html

KB



The Complete Brimelow Letter

by Peter Brimelow

Note: I've bolded what was cut out - the attack on the neocons and a
parallel with Pickett's Charge [!] They made some minor word changes
which I represent with brackets - including cutting out the reference to
National Review, oddly.

To The Editor, Commentary

Irwin Stelzer is to be congratulated on a remarkable review of a
remarkable book: George Borjas' Heaven's Door: Immigration and the
American Economy (Commentary, September 1999). Borjas' research has led
him to astonishing findings: that the immigration wave accidentally
unleashed by the 1965 legislation has not benefited Americans in
aggregate; that lower-skilled workers in particular are being hurt; that
the current system's paradoxical selection process is producing
lower-skilled (and overwhelmingly Third World) immigrants; that these
immigrants are disproportionately failing and going on welfare; that
Americans are actually paying, through fiscal transfers, for the
transformation of their society. Dr. Stelzer's handsome acknowledgement
that "many of these findings are now uncontested" is entirely
appropriate - but only for economists. In public debate, the
conventional wisdom is still entirely the opposite.

I must gently point out that this unfortunate situation is, in a small
way, Dr. Stelzer's fault. In 1995, I published Alien Nation: Common
Sense About America's Immigration Disaster. It anticipated Borjas'
conclusion that U.S. immigration policy is broken and must be fixed -
although reasonable people can certainly disagree on how to fix it - for
the simple reason that my book [a book that was] in large part an
explicit popularization of Borjas' work. But Dr Stelzer, in his New York
Post column (April 13, 1995), brushed aside the very evidence that he
now finds so compelling as a "narrow-minded statistical compendium." He
completely ignored my exposure of the paradoxical selection process that
he now describes as "one of the besetting sins of the present system."
Instead, his point was purely emotional: that my argument was rightly
"falling on deaf ears in the neo-conservative community" because "they
well remember their parents' tales of the contempt in which they were
held by earlier immigrants and nativist WASPs..."

Naturally, I rejoice at the return of the Prodigal Stelzer. Needless to
say, I look forward to being enlightened by him, in the best tradition
of Commentary's correspondence columns, as to which of my personal
failings so blinded him, happily for a mere four years, to the facts.

But ideas, and emotions, have consequences. The year 1995 was a brief
shining moment of hope for immigration reform. The landslide victory of
California's Proposition 187, cutting off certain tax subsidies to
illegal immigrants, had gotten the attention of the Washington elite.
The bipartisan Jordan Commission, appointed by Congress and headed by
the late black Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, had provided
perfect political cover with its recommendation of significant
immigration cutbacks. Legislation embodying these proposals, the
Smith-Simpson bill, had the support of the leadership of the Republican
majority in Congress.

It took a ferocious campaign of special-interest lobbying to intimidate
the Republican leadership and derail the Smith-Simpson bill. Playing a
critical fifth-column role in that campaign were the
neoconservative-dominated media ? notably the Wall Street Journal
editorial page and Dr. Stelzer's own Weekly Standard magazine. They
amply demonstrated that he was right to predict they would have "deaf
ears" to facts and logic about immigration. Sadly, however, he had
helped stop those ears. Today there is no immediate prospect that the
present system, with all its "besetting sins," will be reformed.

I think the failure of Smith-Simpson was disasterous for the American
nation. Apparently this unit of analysis makes Dr. Stelzer
uncomfortable. But perhaps he could be interested in the fate of the
American conservative movement, and of the Republican Party, to which
the neo-conservatives have allied themselves.

One part of Alien Nation that Dr. [What Mr.] Stelzer still has not
reckoned with is its discussion of the level at which immigration should
be set. I pointed out that because Americans of all races have brought
their families down to replacement level, the demographic impact of
immigration is much greater than it was during the last great wave in
1890-1920, when the native-born population was still growing rapidly.
Combined with the system's paradoxical selection process, which has
favored the Third World and choked off Europe, this means the U.S.
racial 

Re: [CTRL] People in America early

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 -Caveat Lector-

Its not just non indian that is iteresting but also the early inhabitation.
This almost seems to fit in with the work of Hancock about early habitation.

John

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From: Tatman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 December 1999 12:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] People in America early


 -Caveat Lector-

Most of the hard scientific evidence for "non-Indian" or "non-Native
American" origins has been discovered quite recently. Yes, there are many
anomalous sites throughout North America, but there is also an amazing mass
of pure nonsense put out over the past two centuries by people seemingly
determined to prove that the "Indians" were not the true possessors of the
Americas before the European conquests. Even borderline researchers such as
Barry Fell, for all their good intentions, often wind up using arguments
which originated with white racists. Now, I do believe very strongly in
pre-Columbian intercultural contacts, especially in Mesoamerica (Aztec,
Maya, Toltec, Olmec)...but the efforts of a lot of so-called scholars, even
today (including many New Age types), to find European or Egyptian (or
Atlantean) roots for American high civilizations purely disgust me. That
line of reasoning does a huge disservice to the creative abilities of the
Native American peoples.

With that said, I am equally aghast at the political games being played with
finds such as the Kennewick Man, games played both by Washington and by the
Indian tribes themselves. The "folk memories" many Indians and other
aboriginal peoples are so proud of, the meticulously chronicled lineages,
are in many cases either guesswork or fiction. In most cases, I suspect,
they have no more idea of where they came from than we (Anglo America) do.
Aboriginal cultures have changed as much over the millennia as have
"civilized" ones, and have suffered the same kinds of Dark Ages where
teachings and knowledge vanished and had to be recreated or reimagined. The
Pueblo and Hopi have no more idea of who the Hohokam ("Anasazi" is a Navaho
word and is considered an insult) were than do the archaeologists at Penn or
Arizona.

At this point, I'd be very interested to see Judith ABR's comments on this
whole controversy; she has been very helpful in past discussions on CTRL
involving Native American cultures. Judith, any thoughts?

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[CTRL] The Stargate conspiracy

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 http://www.templarlodge.com/index.html
The Stargate Conspiracy
by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact,
military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt



The Stargate Conspiracy - Overview

Following the release of The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive
Prince, the Templar Lodge is pleased to announce the national launch of
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contains exclusive transcripts of related talks delivered at the Templar
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You are warmly invited to contribute towards an online public database of
information in connection with The Stargate Conspiracy. Entitled the
Stargate Assembly, this arena explores issues arising from the book, list
associated web sites and monitors press sources.

Members of the public are also invited to attend an interactive series of
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The Stargate Conspiracy - Introduction
by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact,
military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt

The Stargate Conspiracy exposes the most insidious, disturbing - and
successful - mass manipulation of our times. Designed to bring us, hearts,
minds and souls under the total control of the conspirators, this sinister
programme has ruthlessly exploited our Millennial craving for signs and
wonders - even hijacking the predicted return of the ancient gods.

The Conspiracy...

Its central focus is the belief that the gods of the ancient world were
extraterrestrials who created and civilised the human race, that they're
back - and that, communicating through special chosen ones, they are
actively directing the way we think.

However, The Stargate Conspiracy reveals that this romantic and exciting
scenario was in fact the brainchild of the West's most powerful intellectual
agencies. Designed to become a new religion for the 21st century, its real
purpose is political - to make us easier to control.

Centred on the search for lost secrets of the pyramid builders, this
extraordinary true story reveals the links between US scientific
intelligence agencies, Mars and ancient Egypt. For almost 50 years, like
Frankenstein's monster, this conspiracy has been put together from cultish -
but astonishingly powerful - belief systems, culminating in the emergence of
a new fundamentalism that is gathering strength by feeding on Millennium
fever.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal the secret agenda that unites
apparently independent authors and researchers - including top names with
millions of readers worldwide - and which is targeted to all of us. The
Stargate Conspiracy reveals that even the genuine mysteries of the gods
themselves have been hijacked by powerful cabals - which include top
industrialists, politicians, scientists and intelligence agencies such as
MI5 and the CIA - in order to fulfill their secret agenda. At the heart of
this conspiracy is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were - and are
- extra terrestrial beings, that certain key people are in contact with
them, and that they are about to return through the 'stargate' between our
world and theirs.

Are we prepared for the imminent return of the gods? And will we be expected
unquestioningly to accept the conspirators as our spokesmen? Or is this an
exercise in mass manipulation designed to make us support the conspirators?
As they calculatedly whip up Millennium fever, triumphantly persuading us
that they alone know how to talk to the gods, this book serves as a serious
warning to mankind.

The Main Points:

 Over the last few years, the public has come to accept specific ideas about
the 'message' of ancient Egypt, largely due to the works of certain
high-profile authors. But we demonstrate that many of the principles of this
'New Egyptology' are not only based on false-premises, but have also been
used by others as part of a secret long-term agenda.

 We reveal the shadowy presence of US government agencies behind the current
interest in the Giza plateau.

 An essential part of this plot is the alleged link between ancient Egypt
and a lost civilisation on Mars, based on the discovery of supposedly
artificial features on that planet. We show that this view is seriously
flawed, and that the intelligence agencies are 

[CTRL] Dumbed down too long:is it already too late for american educatio n?

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New York Times
December 6, 1999

Soccer Moms vs. Standardized Tests
By CHARLES J. SYKES

 MILWAUKEE -- After decades of endless gold stars, happy faces and
 inflated grades, American parents apparently were not ready for a
 reality check about how much our schools are really teaching our
 children.

 Across the country, new, higher academic standards that states
 adopted in a spirit of educational reform are being dumbed down,
 and supposedly rigorous graduation tests are being diluted or
 dropped, as evidence mounts that too many students will fall short
 of the higher expectations.

 It is not surprising that more rigorous state standards have come
 under fire from the usual opposition coalition of civil rights
 groups, progressive educators and teacher unions. What is striking
 though, is the opposition from soccer moms.

 In Wisconsin, where legislators backed off plans to require a high
 school graduation test, most of the opposition to the exam came not
 from troubled urban schools, but from affluent suburbs. A group
 calling itself Advocates for Education and based in the Milwaukee
 suburb of Whitefish Bay, insisted, "High-stakes testing will be
 detrimental to education and unfair to children." Suburban critics
 in many parts of the state fretted about the pressure that tests
 would place on children. After suburban parents lobbied
 parent-teacher organizations, the State Legislature voted to scrap
 the graduation test before a single student had taken it.

 In New York and Massachusetts, officials yielded to pressure to set
 absurdly low passing grades for their new tests, while in Virginia
 and Arizona, state boards of education are already backing away
 from tests that proved to be too tough for even the so-called
 better schools. In Virginia, only 7 percent of schools met new
 achievement standards, and in Arizona, 9 out of 10 sophomores
 failed a new math test.

 For much of this century, the educational establishment has behaved
 as if it were addicted to bad ideas, indulging its own wishful and
 romantic thinking even in the face of mounting evidence of failure.
 The new tests were supposed to counteract the trendy
 experimentation, watered-down curriculums and questionable teaching
 methods by introducing both accountability and consequences for
 failure.

 But for decades, the schools had been allowed to obscure the fact
 that many children were not mastering basic subjects. The constant
 positive reinforcement of unrealistic grading and easy tests was
 meant not only for the children, whose self-esteem remained strong
 in the face of shaky math and reading abilities, but for their
 parents, as well.

 For many of these parents, the new tests were a very rude shock.
 Accustomed to thinking of educational difficulties as somebody
 else's problem, they and their school districts suddenly faced the
 possibility of failure.

 As reformers have belatedly discovered, they badly underestimated
 the extent to which parents as well as teachers and bureaucrats had
 a vested interest in believing that whatever else might be wrong
 with American education, their own children were above average.
 Support for high standards came with an unspoken caveat: they were
 quite all right when they were applied to someone else's school and
 someone else's child.

 So instead of sounding an alarm about the need to change the way we
 teach our children, one state after another is fudging the test.
 And a remarkable number of parents have gone along with the move to
 ratchet down the standards, expectations and consequences.

 Reforming the schools sounded like a good idea until it hit home.

 Charles J. Sykes is the author of "Dumbing Down Our Kids."

--


So SB and the other unmentionables  have already won.
bring on the NWO and lets have it done with

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[CTRL] Trade, the W.T.O. and Thomas Friedman

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Okay, I guess I don't have anything better to do so I'll take the bait.  I
live in the Seattle suburbs and have been subjected to nightly tear gas T.V.
for the past week and I just read Mr. Friedman's editorial.  It read a bit
like a Microsoft commercial.  But it's rhetoric, anecdotes and diversion.
Nothing more.  I'm not an economist, but I don't think you need to be one to
put this in perspective.  My comments are general in nature rather than
countering each of Friedman's points, some of which are truisms.  The bottom
line is that Thomas Friedman thinks that expanded trade is a good thing and
the W.T.O. necessary.  All the rest is diversionary window dressing and name
calling.  So what about trade?

Yes!  Trade has elevated aggregate standards of living in the U.S. and
presumably throughout the world.   Yes, trade in the American context
particularly benefits people who export high technology products or who are
involved in the "information" economy.  Lawyers usually love free trade
because they aren't at risk at loosing their job and their buying power is
increased by lower cost imports.  Economists love free trade even more.  I
am
certain this has nothing to do with their university jobs being almost
completely immune from dislocations associated with trade.  We seem to think
it's tacky when union workers clumsily protest to save their jobs but we
tolerate educators, doctors and lawyers protecting their careers through
credentialism.  Why?  The cost to our society of overpriced domestic steel
is
likely a lot smaller than the cost of credentialism in law, medicine and
education.  Maybe it's because the professionals look like someone we want
to
be whereas the typical union guy just looks like someone who needs a shave
and some exercise.  In any case, the benefits of expanded trade accrue
disproportionately to smart, educated people.  And expanding trade is not
the
only way we can improve efficiencies within economies.

Trade dislocates people who work in low tech manufacturing, textiles and
small scale agriculture.  This is nothing new.  Workers have always been
displaced with the invention of new technology.  Agricultural mechanization
transformed a society in which 70%+ of the population was involved in the
production of food to a mere 2-3% today.  China and India have over one
billion "excess" people involved in agricultural production.  It will be
"interesting" to see what kind of dislocations occur as these people
transitions to industrial production as agriculture is mechanized and
whether
these dislocations will manifest themselves in areas outside of economics.

"Fair Trade" can only truly occur between countries with similar wages,
taxation schemes, subsidies, productivity, labor and environmental
standards,
available land, land use laws, standards of living and natural resource
bases.  Reduction of trade barriers implies an imposition of uniformity
among
most of these variables in order to achieve competitiveness.  How can
European transportation industries be as efficient as their American
counterpart when gasoline there is almost 4 times as expensive?  The reason
gas is so expensive is because the Europeans are trying to discourage the
use
of cars.  They have artificially reduced the efficiencies of many sectors of
their economies in order to achieve social goals.  Free trade threatens
those
social goals.  That is why they resist and this is what Mr. Friedman doesn't
understand.  To truly compete with America, Europe would need to slash
taxes,
close many of its farms, increase its work week, decrease its vacation time,
dismantle its welfare state, crush its unions, change its land use laws to
accommodate American style land use, decrease train service, build more
roads, etc.  These things affect people!  If someone tried to impose this
stuff on America, we would bomb them.  Yet types like Friedman just can't
figure out what the problem is.  Why the resistance?  Maybe the peasants are
a little slow.  That's why we need experts like Michael Mandelbaum at the
Council on Foreign Relations to clarify our thinking.

In an optimized world, the U.S. and Canada would produce grain and software,
the Japanese consumer electronics, the South Koreans steel and super
tankers,
the Swiss fine watches and numbered bank accounts, the Germans good cars,
the
Brazilians timber, etc., etc.  This is of course a *gross* over
simplification.  However, there certainly isn't any good economic reason for
the Japanese to use scarce land to grow rice.  And the economic
rationalization for the more densely populated European countries to use
their land for agriculture isn't much better.  There isn't any good
rationalization for Americans to produce anything but specialty small lot
steel when so many other countries can produce steel cheaper.  In fact, it
would probably not be justifiable for Americans to harvest many types of
timber when Canada could supply that timber cheaper.  And in true free

[CTRL] Dictator finds a haven in new South African

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Times of london
December 7 1999  AFRICA






Dictator finds a haven in South African hospital

FROM MICHAEL DYNES
IN JOHANNESBURG




Links
IN THE comfort of his private bed in Johannesburg's Garden City Hospital,
Mengistu Haile Mariam, 62, the former Ethiopian dictator and mass murderer,
is watching the fading blooms of the jacaranda trees sway in the breeze as
he recovers from heart treatment.

A young receptionist does not recognise the name of the patient when I
inquire about him.

"There's no one here with that name. Is he a relative?" she asked.

"Er, not exactly," I mumbled. "He is the man who is reputed to have
personally throttled Emperor Haile Selassie before going on to murder
thousands of his fellow Ethiopians, ruin his country's economy and earn
himself the title of Butcher of Addis Ababa."

"Oh," she said. "I'm afraid we're not allowed to talk to journalists. You'll
have to get in touch with public relations."

John von Klemperer, general manager of Netcare, South Africa's biggest
private hospital group, said it was its policy "not to confirm the admission
or medical status of patients without prior consent". Colonel Mengistu had
requested no publicity.

The former Ethiopian despot, who is being tried in absentia for crimes
against humanity and genocide, arrived in South Africa for urgent treatment
two weeks ago. Travelling on a dubious diplomatic passport from Zimbabwe,
where he has been living for eight years, he had received assurances from
Pretoria that he would not face the same fate as General Augusto Pinochet in
Britain, but Ethiopia has made a formal request for his extradition. Human
rights groups may make a private prosecution.

Colonel Mengistu came to power in 1974, after overthrowing Ethiopia's
centuries-old monarchy, and attempted to mould the nation into a modern
socialist state. After becoming chairman of a committee of revolutionary
soldiers, he unleashed the bloody "Red Terror Campaign" against opponents
and civilians, backed by the former Soviet Union and Cuba. Purges in his
17-year rule left an estimated 200,000 dead, 750,000 refugees stateless and
more than 100,000 children crippled or orphaned. Faced with rebellions and a
series of droughts and famines, he ruined the economy through the forced
collectivisation of farms and the movement of entire populations. When
Russian troops pulled out in 1991, he fled to Harare.

Colonel Mengistu, who will probably slip out of South Africa in the next
couple of days, is an old friend of the African National Congress. Asked why
South Africa had not responded to Ethiopia's extradition request, a
spokesman for Nkosazana Zuma, the Foreign Affairs Minister, said the
Government had allowed people who had perpetrated crimes under apartheid to
remain in the country, so why should it not allow foreign human rights
offenders to remain as well?

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[CTRL] The effect of hormone mimics?---Yesterday's Precocious Puberty Is Norm Today

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New York Times
November 30, 1999

Yesterday's Precocious Puberty Is Norm Today
By JANE E. BRODY

   A friend who runs the child care program at a Brooklyn high school
   reports that one of the newly enrolled mothers, a freshman, is 13. Her
   baby's father is 14. While children having children is not a new
   phenomenon, the ever-dropping age of puberty is.

   Many parents become worried when their 7- or 8-year-old daughters
   begin to develop breasts or grow pubic hair. They wonder, is this
   normal? Will the surge of sex hormones adversely affect the girls'
   behavior, moods or physical growth? Can girls who are still
   emotionally and socially immature adjust well to early physical
   maturation? And when should more explicit sex education and cautions
   about birth control begin?

   What's Normal?

   Two years ago, Dr. Marcia E. Herman-Giddens and colleagues described
   the results of physical examinations of 17,077 American girls, which
   revealed that white girls were showing bodily signs of sexual maturity
   an average of one year earlier than previous studies had indicated,
   and black girls two years earlier. On the average, breast development
   was notable before age 10 in white girls and before age 9 in black
   girls, and the growth of pubic hair generally occurred about a year
   later. But even at age 7, 27 percent of black girls and nearly 7
   percent of white girls had begun to grow breasts, pubic hair or both.

   The findings, she and others suggest, should prompt a redefinition of
   the ages at which puberty is considered precocious. Current medical
   textbooks state that just 1 percent of girls younger than 8 show signs
   of puberty. In a new review of existing data, in the Oct. 4 issue of
   the journal Pediatrics, Dr. Paul B. Kaplowitz, Dr. Sharon E. Oberfield
   and members of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society,
   concluded that "the onset of breast development between 7 and 8 years
   of age in white girls and between 6 and 8 years in African-American
   girls may be part of the normal broad variation in the timing of
   puberty and not, in most cases, a pathological state."

   Breast development is stimulated by estrogen, which is released from
   the ovaries upon a hormonal signal from the pituitary gland. The
   growth of pubic hair, however, is a result of stimulation by androgen,
   the so-called male sex hormone, also produced by the ovaries.

   There has been much speculation about why earlier maturation may be
   occurring in girls, especially because there has been no apparent
   advance (and no racial difference) in the onset of puberty in boys.
   For girls, better nutrition over all and fewer infectious diseases no
   doubt play a role, because these trends result in more consistent
   growth. The increase in childhood obesity may also be a factor,
   because fatty tissue is a source of the sex hormone estrogen. Another
   suggested possibility is increased exposure to certain plastics and
   insecticides that degrade into substances that have estrogenlike
   effects.

   But whatever the reasons, the phenomenon is real and, to many parents,
   worrisome. The new report by Dr. Kaplowitz of the Medical College of
   Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Oberfield of
   Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and members of
   the endocrine society should prove reassuring.

   Effects of Early Maturity

   Parents of adolescent girls know all too well that life can be an
   emotional roller coaster, with unpredictable outbursts of temper and
   outrageous or infuriating behavior. Indeed, precocious puberty has
   been associated with behavioral problems. In one study of 33
   early-maturing girls, as a group, they appeared to be more depressed,
   socially withdrawn, aggressive and moody than a comparable group of
   girls who had not yet entered puberty. But another study that followed
   girls with precocious puberty to age 17 1/2 found that they suffered
   no lasting psychological effects, except a tendency toward excessive
   psychosomatic complaints.

   Although girls undergoing early sexual maturation may be far from
   their teenage years, parents would probably do well to read up on how
   to cope with an adolescent and what is considered the range of normal
   behavior for this often volatile time of life.

   Another common concern involves the ability of girls as young as 7 or
   8 to cope with menstruation. Dr. Kaplowitz and his colleagues point
   out that a 7-year-old who is developing breasts will not undergo the
   start of menstrual cycles, or menarche, for another two years. That
   time gap should give parents and pediatricians enough time to prepare.
   Also, once a girl starts menstruating, she is potentially able to
   become pregnant and needs explicit sex education. Adults who wait too
   long end up with pregnant 13-year-old girls.

   But the main concern for 

[CTRL] NASA cover up?

[Taylor, John (JH)]

 -Caveat Lector-

   Mr Scwartz downloaded the report of NASA's Mishap Investigation Board on
the Mars
Climate Orbiter failure from their site a few weeks ago, but a search this
evening disclosed that is no longer there. He  placed a copy
on his own web site:
http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/schwartz/nasa/mco_report.pdf. Check it
out and you'll not wonder why they took it off.




"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense."
   George Orwell, 1984

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[CTRL] Failed trade talks had no chance of consensus

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 WTO '99: Failed trade talks had "no chance" of consensus
 6-Dec-99 00:22
 SEATTLE --Talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting
 here - intended to launch a major new international trade round - broke-up
 Friday night when negotiators conceded that there was no chance of
 reaching consensus.
 Negotiators told reporters that they were not even close to agreeing on
 fundamental issues such as the scope of a new trade round or the basic
 governing procedures the WTO should use to negotiate terms of agreements.
 Environmental, consumer and labour groups hailed the talks failure, saying
 that it was a major blow to efforts to expand the WTO.
 Progress on a number of issues of importance to the chemical industry will
 have to wait until WTO members can muster consensus for launching a new
 round of trade talks. Among key chemical industry issues left unresolved
 were accelerated tariff liberalisation, reduction in non-tariff
 impediments to trade, harmonised international regulations governing trade
 in genetically modified organisms, and enhanced intellectual property
 protections.
 US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky told reporters that the WTO
 might hold a meeting within 6-12 months in another attempt to set an
 agenda for a trade agreement.



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[CTRL] US education board advises against drugs for behavioural problems

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Fromtoday's BMJ
BMJ 1999;319:1456 ( 4 December )

News extra

US education board advises against drugs for behavioural problems

Fred Charatan Florida

A US board of education has passed a resolution urging teachers to use
discipline and instruction to overcome problem behaviour in the classroom,
rather than encouraging parents to seek drug treatment for their children.

The resolution passed by Colorado Board of Education carries no legal weight
but sounds a warning on the growing use of drugs such as Ritalin
(methylphenidate hydrochloride) to deal with disruptive behaviour in
schools.
Board members supporting the resolution believed that many violent crimes
committed by school students are committed by young people taking
psychotropic
drugs. In the massacre last spring at Columbine High School in Littleton,
Colorado, one of the teenage shooters, Eric Harris, had been taking the
antidepressant Luvox (fluvoxamine).

Full text:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7223/1456/c

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Re: [CTRL] [SC] Skeptic News - Monday #1 - 11/29/99

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HOLY BLOOD is a fascinating book, laying the groundwork for many of
the conspiracies that are currently under discussion.  And it points
out just what a sham Xianity is.  Read and learn.
-
Ive read the book. Its a wave of speculation on levels of
unsubstantiability.(but very well written) They themselves admit that they
are noy unbiased searchers after the truth. Their dead sea scrolls deception
was in the end total nonsense and when samisdat copies of the remaining
scrolls came availlable there were no wild revelations, (except the qumran
people had some interest in astrology.)

The gnostics denied the value of the flesh and hence either became super
spiritual and became ascetics or became super physical with wild libertine
sexual parties.
As part of the knowledge they presented, was that since the flesh was
unimportant hence there Jesus must have been either a phantasm or the spirit
left a physical man before death.

Methinks however, that we all tend believe what we predisposed, and that
sceptics are true believers when it comes to their core beliefs. Read and
learn.

John

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[CTRL] Daniel Pipes on How Dare You Defame Islam (fwd)

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"How Dare You Defame Islam"

Daniel Pipes
Commentary
November 1999

The problem began in January 1989. That was when Muslims living inBradford,
England, decided to do something to show their anger about The Satanic
Verses, a new novel by the famed writer Salman Rushdie that includedpassages
making fun of the Prophet Muhammad. The Muslims, mostly Pakistaniimmigrants,
purchased a copy of the novel, took it to a public square, attached it to a
stake, and set it on fire. Television news showed this auto da fé in
scandalized detail, and pictures of the scene were splashed across the
British media for days, making it a major topic of discussion throughoutthe
country.
  In Pakistan itself, after a month's buildup, an unruly mob of some
10,000 anti-Rushdie protesters took to the streets of the capital city of
Islamabad. Marching to the American Cultural Center (a fact significant in
itself), they attempted with great energy, but without success, to set the
heavily fortified building on fire. Six people died in the violence, andmany
more were injured. These events, in turn, caught the attention of Ayatollah
Khomeini, the revolutionary ruler of Iran, who took prompt and drastic
action: on February 14, 1989, he called upon "all zealous Muslims quicklyto
execute" not just Salman Rushdie as the author of The Satanic Verses but"all
those involved in its publication who were aware of its content." Thisedict
led to emergency measures in England to protect Rushdie's person, and to
weeks and months of intense debate among the world's politicians and
intellectuals about the issues of freedom of speech and blasphemy.
  When the dust settled, Khomeini had failed in his specific goal of
eliminating Rushdie physically: today, over a decade later, the author is
once again writing well-received books and accepting literary awards. Butif
Khomeini did not manage to harm Rushdie, he did accomplish something farmore
profound: he stirred the souls of many Muslims, reviving a sense of
confidence in their faith and a strong impatience with any denigration ofit,
as well as a determination to take the offensive against anyone perceivedto
be a blasphemer or even a critic. Although Khomeini himself passed from the
scene just weeks after issuing his decree, the spirit it engendered is very
much alive.
  During the decade since 1989, many efforts have been undertaken bythe
forces of Islamism-otherwise known as Muslim fundamentalism-to silence
critics. Ranging from outright violence to more sophisticated but no less
effective techniques, they have produced impressive results.
  Some early acts of physical intimidation involved the Rushdie case
itself. Translators of The Satanic Verses were stabbed and seriouslyinjured
in Norway and Italy and, in Japan, murdered. In Turkey, another translator
escaped when a fire set in his hotel failed to kill him, but 37 others died
in the blaze. Other acts of violence were designed to punish both Muslimsand
non-Muslims for a variety of alleged offenses.
  Egypt alone offers a number of examples. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, a
professor of literature who wrote that certain references in the Qur'an to
supernatural phenomena should be read as metaphors, found his marriage
dissolved by an Egyptian court on the grounds that his writings proved himan
apostate. (According to Islamic law, a Muslim woman may not be married to a
non-Muslim.) Another case involved the author of a nonconformist essay on
Islam: he, his publisher, and the book's printer were each sentenced toeight
years in jail on the charge of blasphemy. Farag Foda, an Egyptian
intellectual who expressed scorn for the Islamist program, was shot and
murdered. And Naguib Mahfouz, the elderly and much-celebrated Nobel Prize
laureate for literature, was seriously injured in Cairo when an assailant
knifed him in the neck, presumably in revenge for an allegorical novel
written decades earlier.
  Nor has the campaign been limited to Muslim-majority countries. Makin
Morcos, also an Egyptian, was killed in Australia for criticizing the
Islamists' anti-Christian campaign in his native country; Rashad Khalifa, a
biochemist from Egypt living in Tucson, Arizona, was stabbed to death in
January 1990 to silence his heretical ideas. (A member of Usama bin Laden's
gang has been implicated in the latter murder.) Both these incidents sent a
chilling message: you can run but you cannot hide.
  Nor, finally, is the campaign in Western countries limited toviolence
or threats of violence against Muslims; it also extends to non-Muslims. In
some cases, purely private matters may be at issue: Jack Briggs, an
Englishman, has been on the lam for years, hiding with his wife from her
Pakistani family who have vowed to kill both of them (even though they are
properly married and even though he converted to Islam to win their
approval). Other cases concern publicly expressed views: Steven Emerson, a
former Senate aide and investigative reporter for 

[CTRL] New Book Challenges Theories of AIDS Origins

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New York Times
November 30, 1999


THE DOCTOR'S WORLD
New Book Challenges Theories of AIDS Origins

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
Is AIDS a disaster inadvertently brought on by humans that arose from early
testing of a polio vaccine in Africa in the 1950's?





 In ``The River,'' Edward Hooper finds disturbing links between an
experimental oral polio vaccine _ being given here in L eopoldville (now
Kinshasa, Congo) in 1959 _ and the beginnings of the AIDS virus. The virus,
he says, could have originated in chimpanzee tissues that he suggests were
used to make the vaccine.



 This provocative theory seemed far-fetched when it first came to public
attention in an article in Rolling Stone in 1992. Most AIDS experts
dismissed it after a scientific committee reviewed the theory and deemed the
probability very low.

But that panel based its conclusion in part on a published finding that was
later shown to be in error. And now a remarkable new book by a British
journalist offers tantalizing clues to revive and expand the polio vaccine
theory.

In "The River" (Little, Brown, $35), Edward Hooper suggests that an
experimental oral polio vaccine might have been made with chimpanzee tissue
contaminated with an ancestor of the virus that was to cause AIDS. Although
he has no medical expertise, Hooper, 48, has done a prodigious amount of
research since 1990. In 1,070 pages, including extensive footnotes, he
builds a case based entirely on circumstantial evidence that he accumulated
in hundreds of interviews and exhaustive library research.

He finds close coincidence in both time and place between the earliest cases
of AIDS and the testing of an oral vaccine developed at the Wistar Institute
in Philadelphia and, later, in two laboratories in Belgium. From 1957 to
1960, the vaccine was given to a million people in what are now Rwanda,
Burundi and Congo.

If the experimental vaccine was contaminated, nothing could have been done
about it because tests for the ancestor virus did not exist then. And it
would have been a one-time event because standard polio vaccines were not
made from chimpanzee tissues. Of 28 cases of AIDS acquired in specified
towns in Africa through 1980, 23 were from the same towns where the
experimental vaccine was given or within 175 miles of them. The area is the
epicenter of the African epidemic, which is the worst in the world.

And there is precedent for a simian virus's lurking in polio vaccine:
millions of Americans were inadvertently infected with such a virus, SV-40,
in the 1950's and early 1960's. (Fortunately, it was not harmful.) But in
1967, several laboratory workers in Germany died from the newly discovered
Marburg virus after it had been imported in African green monkeys. The virus
is harmless for the monkeys but lethal for humans.

The similarities Hooper describes could be coincidence. "The River" does not
prove his extraordinary theory, nor does it claim to. But it builds a
sufficiently detailed case to require serious examination of his theory.

Attempts to find answers require extensive research, and in the book and in
subsequent interviews Hooper has offered a long list of suggestions,
including laboratory testing of the small amounts of vaccine that still
exist after having been stored for more than 40 years. Because the vaccine
may have degraded over the decades, performing all the proposed research
might still not determine whether it accidentally touched off the AIDS
epidemic. And even if a simian virus turned up in the stored samples, it
would not prove that it started the epidemic.

Still, even if the vaccine thesis is disproved, Hooper's research has
embarrassed scientists. He has found that leading researchers kept sloppy
records and that prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals published
reports that omitted crucial details.

Despite a diligent search, Hooper could turn up no records of what primate
tissues were used to prepare the first experimental polio vaccines, which
were tested mostly in Africa but also in the United States and Europe.
Though the government requires more record keeping today, scientists say
there is ample room for improvement.

With the exception of a negative review in the journal Nature, experts
writing in scientific journals have praised Hooper's diligence and
scholarship and the plausibility of the thesis, even if they are skeptical
of it. In the journal Science, Dr. Robin A. Weiss, a leading virologist in
London, wrote that Hooper had written the most exhaustive history of polio
vaccine trials and early AIDS cases.

The Wistar Institute, the first independent medical research center in the
United States, appointed the 1992 panel to examine the theory that its
vaccine might have touched off the AIDS epidemic. Now it says it is trying
to find independent experts to do what they were unwilling to do seven years
ago, when the panel recommended 

Re: [CTRL] New Book Challenges Theories of AIDS Origins

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It is not real. The AIDS disease is for eliminate "useless eaters".

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:39:55 +0200, Taylor, John (JH) wrote:

Is AIDS a disaster inadvertently brought on by humans that arose from early
testing of a polio vaccine in Africa in the 1950's?

There has firstly no real evidence pointing to this.(although a lot of
speculation)

secondly look at who it is killing- in order of those most affected-

from lowest to highest as %- based on world wide, US and SA Data

1 chinese
2 Indopakesh(Indian)
3 Arab muslim
4 Northern Europeans
5 Hispanics
6 blacks.


since the first 2 groups consist 2bn+ of the world population it is not a
very effective tool.

John

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[CTRL] In Private and only between consenting adults

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PILGRIMS IN ISRAEL WILL CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

JERUSALEM, NOV 28 (ZENIT).- Crucifixes and Christmas trees will be
prohibited
in hotel lobbies this Christmas because they are offensive to Jews. Although

the principal Rabbis of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are allowing celebrations on
Christmas eve and Christmas Day in hotels, these must be held behind closed
doors in private rooms, Meir Lau, the principal Rabbi of the Ashkenazim in
Israel said. "The crucifix is contrary to Jewish religion," he said and
added
that the exposition of a cross or Christmas tree "is prohibited for a Jew."

This year, the situation is complicated because Christmas eve is on a
Friday,
when the Jewish Sabbath begins. Lau said that on Friday night there can be
no
music in hotels because "music, with microphones is a profanation of the
Sabbath."

However, he said Christmas could be celebrated behind closed doors in a
private room.

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Re: [CTRL] When should a Christian disobey the civil government?

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I heard an interesting talk (by someone opposing apartheid) to the effect
that Romans 13, teaches obedience to government but places the limits on the
role of government.

Like all good rich liberals however, the bloke left when reality arrived.

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*** ... far and wide. ***

When should a Christian disobey the civil government?
(Rom. 13:7;  Acts 5:27-29)

When a civil government refuses people the liberty to worship and obey
God freely, it has lost its mandate of authority from God.

Then the Christian should feel justified in disobeying.

Thomas Jefferson believed that when a government began to be tyannical,
it was the right and even the DUTY of the citizens to rebel against that
government.

The Christian, however, is called to bear with his government whenever
possible.

Jesus did not call for revolution against Rome, even though it was an
oppressive conqueror of Israel.

On the other hand, the apostles refused to obey an order not to preach
and teach in Jesus' name (Acts 5:27-29).

Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God
has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not
to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government.

Blind obedience to government is never right.

However difficult or costly it may be, we all must reserve the right to
say no to things that we consider oppressive or immoral.

Source:  Spirit Filled Life Bible-New King James Version (1991),
Thomas Nelson Publishers
---


Brothers and Sisters,
The first thing I think of to say No to is the thugs use of the fiat
paper that they force from us and give to foreigners, and its use to
fund abortions for the poor.

How about you?

If this Post is sent far and wide, I'm sure there are many
other bona-fide reasons to disobey our present corrupt
civil government.

Time is short!

The arrogance of our elected thugs only indicates they have no
intention of upholding the their oath of office and continue to
suck blood from the tits of the special interests to enable
them to be re-elected to ensure the endless abuse of the
citizenry by legislating for the sole benefit for their
criminal supporters.  If we don't correct this situation
come 11/2000 I am extremely fearful of what the future
holds for our Nation;  we can't wait for Joe Sixpack
to learn the Truth and haul his arse to the polling place.


What's happening, of course, is the blind obedience of the
citizens to the legislation passed by the very thugs we
are electing.

How much longer are we going to tolerate the massive misuse
of the citizens personal resources for the benefit of the
global corporate thieves, and for the use of propping up
dictarships around the world.  Paying hundreds of billions
in interest to holders of our debt (primarily banksters)
is in itself obscene.  Any member of Congress who votes
in favor foreign aid, and corporate welfare, and pork
projects, in my view has committed theft of the citizenery
and should be charged, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed
for theft.
(Seems to me, if i recall correctly, if this was done
in jolly Old England the tyants would be hung and
quartered.)

Regards,
Bard

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! They'd advertise, you know.

How dreary to be Somebody.
How public, like a frog,
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring bog.
-- Emily Dickinson


"We have fled from the political Sodom;
let us not look back, lest we perish
and become a monument of infamy
and derision to the world"
-- Samuel Adams
(An Oration Delivered at the
 State House in Philadelphia,
 to a Very Numerous Audience,
 on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776

Source of Quotation:  Fighting for Liberty and Virtue:
Political and Cultural Wars in
Eighteenth-Century America,
by Marvin Olasky (1995)

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Re: [CTRL] The curious history of Dolphin's Ketan Somaia

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The constitution chosen by the ANC (and accepted by the nationalists) is
virtually a model of the Italian, with highly centralised control of the
country. The national legislature virtually can control both regional and
local authorities. The ANC has also centralised control of entire criminal
justice system(both the police and Judiciary) with the purpose of promoting
transformation(in effect pushing out whites and putting ANC cronies into
power).

The entire system whether delibrately or accidentally is being set up so
that small financially wealthy interest groups will be able to dominate the
entire countries wealth through the ANC politburo. I tend to believe that
the ANC is doing this in innocence as they are followers of the leninist
idea of removing checks and balances in order to do the maximum
"good".(unrestrained by bourgeois laws or attitudes) but this will set up a
system which allows unrestrainesd power in the name of democracy and
transformation.
John

(A separate question- Hitler was the democratically elected leader of
germany. Wasn't also the prime minister of Rwanda who instituted the
genocide democratically elected? )

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from:
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Johannesburg, South Africa. January 25, 1999

The curious history of
Dolphin's Ketan Somaia
A Kenyan writer expresses astonishment at the continued success of the
Dolphin Group in South Africa.



I 'M sure I'm not the only Kenyan who was surprised to read that Ketan
Somaia
of the Gulf-based Dolphin Group of companies is once again embroiled in
questionable business in South Africa, this time over an arms deal.

Since 1996, many people here in Nairobi have been amazed to find that
Somaia's company was involved in a game reserve deal in Mpumalanga and that
he seemed to be taken seriously by some senior people like Mathews Phosa in
South Africa.

The following is what many people in Kenya believe of Somaia: T

His big break in Kenya was in 1985 when he was awarded a contract to supply
equipment to the All Africa Games that were held in Nairobi that year. The
extent to which the costs in this deal were inflated is considered the start
of the practice of politically connected people being paid by the government
to "supply air" -- because it entails being paid for goods that are not
delivered.
Somaia's political godfather was the late Hezekiah Oyugi, a permanent
secretary in the Office of the President in charge of Provincial
Administration and Internal Security - the man who signed detention without
trial orders in Kenya.

A series of huge contracts to supply computers, military equipment, etc were
won by Somaia in the five years between 1985 and 1990. Enraged that he had
lost out on a contract in this country to Somaia, the late Tiny Rowland of
Lonrho wrote to the president saying Somaia had shown him blank Kenya
government procurement papers with all the spaces for figures left blank.
Rowland said Somaia boasted that he simply inserted whatever figure he
wanted
and invited Lonrho to work with him.

To date, the series of "air supply" deals perpetrated by Somaia remain
prominent features in the reports of the Kenya government's Controller and
Auditor General.

Hezekiah Oyugi was eventually implicated in the grisly murder of Kenya's
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Ouko, in 1990. Local and international
outrage led to the temporary arrest of both Oyugi and the much reviled
Nicholas Biwott (then minister of Energy).

Policemen and relatives who met the previously extremely arrogant Oyugi when
he and Biwott were being held by police, say that the man's fall from grace
had caused him to have a nervous breakdown. He wept uncontrollably and wore
an old pullover full of holes. After his release he fell ill and died soon
after in circumstances his family and many Kenyans believe were suspicious.

With his godfather out of the way, Somaia left Kenya and moved to the Gulf.
An earlier UK Pounds 500,000 donation to Margaret Thatcher's British
Conservative Party, plus dealings with Mark Thatcher, meant Somaia was able
to convince former Conservative Party chairman Cecil Parkinson to become
chairman of the Dolphin Group of Companies.

Kenyan journalists shake their heads in utter amazement when they hear that
not only has Somaia escaped a Kenyan prison, but he is actually trying to
present himself as a respectable businessman in South Africa and some people
are taking him seriously.

The issue that South Africans should keep in mind when Somaia tries to
broker
these deals in your country is that the 

[CTRL] Beat whites, Zimbabwe blacks urged

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  Electronic Telegraph, UK
ISSUE 1646 Saturday 27 November 1999





  Beat whites, Zimbabwe blacks urged
By Anton La Guardia in Johannesburg


  ZIMBABWEAN MPs have called on blacks to attack whites on the streets of
the capital, Harare, in the latest racist diatribe from President Mugabe's
ruling party.
"Time has come when instant justice must be meted out," said Moses Mvenge,
chief whip of the ruling Zanu-PF party during a debate on Thursday night.

One MP said whites should be beaten in Harare's main thoroughfare, First
Street, to deter "racism". Another denounced Indians who own property in the
city centre and white farmers who control most of the country's best
farmland. "I think what our Rhodesians want is force. A racist must taste
his or her own medicine," one MP, Michael Mataure, told applauding
colleagues in parliament.

Zimbabwe is living through its worst economic crisis since the end of white
minority rule in the former Rhodesia in 1980. Inflation is running at about
70 per cent, health services are in chaos and thousands of Zimbabweans die
every month of Aids. There has been a rise in hostile rhetoric against the
70,000 whites who still live in the country, led by the president, who has
threatened to confiscate their farms without compensation if Britain does
not pay it.

 © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1999.

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[CTRL] SADF brain research 'terrifying'

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http://www.bday.co.za/99/1130/news/n20.htm


SADF brain research 'terrifying'


PRETORIA - The SA Defence Force (SADF) was involved in highly secretive
research in the early 1990s into changing people's brain functions, the
Pretoria High Court heard yesterday.

Jaap Cilliers, counsel for the apartheid government's chemical warfare
expert Dr Wouter Basson, put it to former SADF surgeon-general Niel Knobel
that the research "terrified the world" because it was feared it could be
abused to permanently alter people's brains to make them passive or
aggressive.

Knobel said he had been aware that highly specialised equipment was imported
for AIDS research and knew this equipment was also used in research on
substances to incapacitate crowds - including the drugs mandrax and ecstasy.

However, he found it difficult to comment on claims by Basson that the same
equipment was also used in studies on altering brain function.




The then defence minister decided it would be in SA's best interest to scrap
the programme and destroy all drugs the SADF had bought shortly before.

Knobel agreed with Cilliers that the whole idea to stockpile drugs on a
large scale had been approved by former state president FW de Klerk.

Knobel expressed surprise that Gen Lothar Neethling, former forensic head of
the SA Police (SAP), had been aware of the SADF's involvement in research on
drugs, although he knew the SAP had provided drugs, confiscated in police
actions, to Basson for research.

He confirmed the defence minister had given permission to the SADF to
possess drugs for research.

Cilliers revealed Basson had, at the height of the apartheid era, bought raw
materials for the manufacture of drugs from the Croatian government in a
joint operation with the Swiss secret service, which, he believed, would get
"nuclear technology" out of the deal.

Knobel said the SADF's chemical and biological warfare programme, Project
Coast, did research on deadly substances in the 1980s to protect SA troops.

He said he had been upset by a 1992 decision by De Klerk to fire 23 SADF
officers, including Basson, on the strength of a verbal report by Gen Niel
Steyn.



As Project Coast was at a delicate stage, the SADF could not afford to lose
Basson. An agreement was reached that he would work for the SADF in a
private capacity. - Sapa.

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[CTRL] Immigration woes

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Israelis Debate Immigration Laws
By MARK LAVIE Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The bedrock of the Jewish state-a law that grants
Israeli citizenship to anyone with a Jewish grandparent-is coming under
the harshest attack in years, amid allegations it has enabled hundreds
of thousands of non-Jews to immigrate.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, with the support of some government officials,
proposed this week that the Law of Return be tightened. "Even sacred
cows are slaughtered sometimes," Rahamim Malul, a lawmaker from the
religious Shas party, asserted Monday.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak staunchly opposes restricting immigration,
angrily insisting at a Cabinet session Sunday that the law would not be
amended as long as he is prime minister.

The debate reflects the disagreement between secular Zionists and
observant Jews about what Israel should look like. For the religious,
the most important value is to preserve the Jewish character of Israel,
while Zionists believe immigration should be encouraged at all costs.
The recent debate was triggered by figures showing that non-Jews
outnumbered Jews, 55 percent to 45 percent, among immigrants from the
former Soviet Union in the first three months of 1999.

Rabbis have complained that the influx of non-Jews has led to a
proliferation of butcher shops selling pork, despite religious laws that
prohibit Jews from eating it. Others warn that non-Jews from the former
Soviet Union, estimated at 225,000 of Israel's 6 million citizens, are
amassing increasing political clout.

"The loopholes in the law must be closed," warned Malul, "so that the
state will not turn into a country where a large percentage of its
citizens are gentiles."

The Law of Return was conceived five decades ago, when Israel was a
poor, besieged, fledgling nation where survivors of Holocaust-ravaged
Europe and Jews from Arab countries sought shelter.

Now that Israel is a prosperous country with a per capita income on a
European scale, some fear non-Jews from economically depressed areas may
be lured by generous government benefits for newcomers.

Faced with the statistics, officials in the Ministry of Immigrant
Absorption have drawn up a proposal for restricting non-Jewish
immigration. It aims at reducing the number of non-Jewish descendants
who can gain automatic citizenship because of a distant Jewish ancestor.
However, ministry spokeswoman Michal Aharoni said the proposal "will
never be the policy of the ministry." The minister for immigrant
absorption, Yuli Tamir, opposes restrictions on immigration.

Cabinet Minister Haim Ramon said the Law of Return is the basis of the
Jewish state, offering a home to Jews "in the wide definition and not
the narrow religious definition."

Under religious law, a person is a Jew if his mother is Jewish. The Law
of Return recognizes a much wider category as eligible for citizenship.
Ramon said experience shows that even those who are technically
non-Jewish "become good Jews in a few years."

Yet even some immigrants from the former Soviet Union feel it is time to
make changes. Yuri Stern, a member of parliament from Israel Beiteinu, a
party representing the immigrants, said those with no link to the Jewish
people must be stopped from immigrating.

Though his party stands to benefit from additional immigrant votes,
Jewish or not, Stern warned that Israel could face a demographic problem
if no changes are made.
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[CTRL] US Anti-Gay GroupsÉ

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US Anti-Gay Groups See Rally Point in Ark. Murder
Wednesday, November 24, 1999

By Marcus Kabel

DALLAS (Reuters) - Anti-gay groups want to make the Arkansas case of two
homosexual men charged with raping and murdering a 13-year-old boy a
rallying point, the head of one of the groups says.

Angered at what they consider excessive media coverage of the trials of
the two Wyoming men convicted of killing gay student Matthew Shepard,
conservative campaigners are demanding the same level of national media
attention for the gruesome death in September of Jesse Dirkhising.

Police said Dirkhising was bound to a mattress and repeatedly sodomized
with objects before suffocating on a gag in an apartment in the northern
Arkansas town of Rogers.

The two homosexual men living in the apartment, Joshua Brown, 22, and
Davis Carpenter, 38, were arrested and have been jailed without bond on
charges of murder and rape. Prosecutors said they would seek the death
penalty when the trial starts on April 10.

Conservative activist Peter LaBarbera wants the Dirkhising case to be as
much a rallying point for anti-gay campaigners as he says the Shepard
trial was for gay rights.

"The national media, following the lead of homosexual activists, made
Matthew Shepard a household name for most Americans," said LaBarbera,
head of a Washington, D.C., group called Americans for Truth about
Homosexuality and a writer for the Family Research Council, also based
in Washington.

"When a homosexual is a victim, they've made that a major crime that
everybody has to be educated on," LaBarbera told Reuters Tuesday. "What
about when homosexuals are perpetrators?"

"Either it's because there are a lot of gay reporters, or they are
sympathetic to gay causes, but they paid tribute to all that the
homosexual activists did," LaBarbera said of coverage of the trials of
Shepard's killers, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney.

The two men are serving life prison sentences for the October 1998
murder of Shepard outside Laramie, Wyoming.

LaBarbera and the Family Research Council have been among a number of
voices, which also include the Washington Times newspaper and right-wing
Louisiana politician David Duke, asking why Dirkhising's murder received
little national news coverage while the Shepard murder trials were
front-page.

In response to the criticism, much of it by e-mail, Time Magazine's
online edition Time.com and the Washington Post's ombudsman E.R. Shipp
have published defenses of the different treatment of the Shepard and
Dirkhising cases.

"Matthew Shepard's death sparked public expressions of outrage that
themselves became news. That Jesse Dirkhising's death has not done so to
date is hardly the fault of The Washington Post," Shipp wrote Nov. 14.

The Washington Post and Time.com also drew a distinction between a hate
crime, such as the fatal beating of the gay Shepard, and sex crimes by
heterosexual and homosexual predators.

That view is shared by the prosecutor who is seeking the death penalty
in the Dirkhising case.

"Shepard was killed because he was a homosexual. This is a sex crime,
but it is not a hate crime, and I think to compare it to the Shepard
case is comparing apples and oranges," Benton County prosecuting
attorney Brad Butler told Reuters.

He said he was aware there were groups who wanted to use the Dirkhising
murder to air their views. "But I think it's wrong to use the death of a
13-year-old boy to voice them. These crimes are just the acts of two
degenerates, sick people," Butler said.

Arkansas media, including the 36,000-circulation Morning News of
Northwest Arkansas, have also drawn a distinction. The region's largest
daily gave the story front-page coverage when it broke.

"The Shepard case, according to our information, was more of a hate
crime. This is more of a sex crime. We have not characterized them as
comparable, no," executive editor Jim Harris said.

LaBarbera disputes any difference between the crimes, saying
Dirkhising's murder was just as hateful as the beating of Shepard.

Gay rights groups have flatly rejected any connection between their
activities and the murder. "I'm not even going to dignify that
accusation with a comment," a spokeswoman for the Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund said.



To quote the red queen, a word means what I define it to mean. And  a 'hate
crime' has a higher order of meaning.that is a hate crime is what I can use
to shut people up but with an ordinary murder I cant

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Re: [CTRL] Why I am a Homophobe response

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although the libertarian system has much to commend it, and of all the
secular systems it is the most attractive, it fails on a number of key
areas.
Primarily it avoids the whole issue of community.
It imposes on the state that people are not allowed to express deep seated
convictions in a public arena and ultimately denying freedom of association.
a society without common value system will remain at war with itself and
will fight until a certain value system predominates. Also it has no ability
to define values systems. What purpose is there in honesty except if it
contradicts the power of the state.

If liberterians are consistent, then there should be no tax, if no tax who
polices, if no police how are conflicts settled, if there is no state, who
is to stop invasion. Libertarianism  will be not self consistent and
unmanageable.


In SA we have moved from one form of racist corporatist state to another
form of racist corpoatist state(with a 4 year liberal interlude). In
multiracial state with strong group identities, the libertarian ideal again
falls apart.

Also all government systems have a fundamental world view that is based on
faith. those who think that they are fully bound by reason are usually those
most deluded by their own faith.

John



Interesting sites on homosexuality(and related topics)


Christian

http://home.earthlink.net/~lively/pscont.htm#anchor210167
http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/index.html




Darwinian

http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/stalkers/em_homosexuality.html

http://home.att.net/~nuenke1/


Homosexual
http://www.glaad.org/




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In a message dated 11/28/99 4:08:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Thankfully ,there are laws that prevent Christians and all religions from
  using the force of a gun as an evangelistic tool in the US.  If you have
  experienced such a thing you do have recourse.And lastly I did not see
any
  other posts that pointedly expressed a Christian belief other than
mine,so
I
  must assume that you meant those remarks toward me. I do not assume that
the
  world revolves around me or any single group of people. I do not like in
 your
  face tactics but if you truly beleive such assaults help win people to
your
  cause---well, only time will tell if they are effective. Karen Kerr


Do not think this is directed at anyone in particular (if I might speak for
nessie).  There are many on this list that espouse Christian views.  The
FACT
that Christian thought has dominated the Western Tradition for hundreds of
years cannot be denied.  This is what makes comments like those of nessie
and
other have validity.  There is a view in SOME Christian circles that TAKE
FOR
GRANTED the inherent "rightness" and "superiority" of their viewpoint, and
also take for granted that Christian thought dominates the mindset of this
country so that they can espouse their views to the detriment of others with
impunity, knowing that the majority of people will at least pay lip service
to what they are saying if not openly defending it.  Christianity AS IT IS
PRACTICED BY ORGANIZED MAINSTREAM CHURCHES is remarkably intolerant, in that
ALL OTHER religious groups (except perhaps a small number of Jews) are
doomed
to be destroyed unless they convert.  To be sure their are other groups that
do this as well, so I do not paint the established church as the only
culprit, neither do I presume that all members of even the established
churches hold to this view.  But this idea manifests in the way in which
these Christian groups interact with others.  The idea that their position
is
the only one that offers salvation and a moral imperative to "save" others,
even from themselves, makes the tactics described almost inevitable, even if
the best intentions are meant.
Do not take my words to be a diatribe against anyone's belief, or faith,
since such things are of individual import, thus even if one wants to follow
a system that I wholly disagree with I will defend their right to practice
and preach it (though in a "Libertarian" framework, which does not allow
their practice to encroach upon my right to be free from the actions of
others that I consider harmful or a nuisance to me).
There is much to be commended within the Christian system, and much to hold
in contempt, it is best to examine it AND all other religious systems in
light of one's own belief structure and come to conclusions that have
meaning
and validity to your own life, based upon your own faith.


**
***
"Welcome to the desert of the real."  Morpheus, "The Matrix".

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human
mind to correlate all its contents.
  We live on 

[CTRL] NYT Daily review of Kolata's Flu

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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New York Times
November 26, 1999

BOOKS OF THE TIMES

`Flu': Medical Sleuths Stalk One of History's Great Killers
By HELEN FISHER

 In September 1918 a mass murderer was on the loose. Europeans,
 Americans, Asians, Africans, Eskimos, Polynesians, men and women
 from the Arctic to Australia died in hours from this killer. In
 Ottawa streetcars were largely empty, theaters and movie houses
 were dark. In Reading, England, schools turned into hospitals, and
 morgues. In Cape Town coffins became so scarce that many of the
 dead were buried in mass graves. More Americans died by this mighty
 hand than were killed in all the battles of World War I, World War
 II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War: half a million in all.

 In the corridors of some city morgues in the United States, bodies
 were stacked four feet deep. American baseball players and their
 fans wore gauze masks. They feared the 1918 influenza, which came
 to be known as the Spanish flu. Its cause: a mystery. Its cure:
 none. Doctors recommended food, fresh air and tender loving care.
 They had no treatment, and no vaccine. Some 20 percent of victims
 recovered without incident; many more died within days.

 The virologist John Oxford has called it "the biggest outbreak of
 any infectious disease ever known, bigger than the Black Death."
 Epidemiologists have estimated that 20 million to 100 million
 people died worldwide. Then the pestilence vanished as mysteriously
 as it had appeared. In "Flu," Gina Kolata, a science reporter for
 The New York Times, writes of this 1918 pandemic with verve,
 clarity and nightmarish detail.

 The symptoms, for example, were not pretty: a dull headache,
 burning eyes, chills, fevers, coughing up blood, shortness of
 breath and death as the lungs deteriorated.

 Most of Ms. Kolata's book concerns the scientists who have searched
 to find and identify the 1918 influenza virus in hopes of
 preventing its horror from revisiting humankind. It is a
 fascinating tale.

 As it turns out the major clues were found in the remains of two
 U.S. Army privates and an Eskimo woman. Pvt. Roscoe Vaughan was a
 strapping 21-year-old who checked into Camp Jackson near Columbia,
 S.C., in 1918 and fell sick on Sept. 19. A week later he died.
 Subsequently a small slice of his lung tissue was saturated with
 formaldehyde, sunk in a chunk of candle wax smaller than a penny
 and sent to the archives at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
 in Washington.

 As Vaughan lay dying, Pvt. James Downs got chills at Camp Upton,
 N.Y. On Sept. 26 he succumbed, too. A snippet of his diseased lung
 was sent to the same archive.

 Then in mid-November an obese young Eskimo woman left her igloo in
 a tiny settlement on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska to join a
 village feast of reindeer meat, hot cakes and blueberries soaked in
 seal oil. She was welcoming two visitors who had come 90 miles by
 dog sled from Nome. Then she, too, suddenly began to shudder with
 fever. Within days her body was placed along with the other
 infected corpses in a trench in the permafrost. The freezing
 temperature and her body fat preserved much of her remains,
 including traces of the dead virus.

 These three victims would provide a biological "Rosetta stone" for
 this macabre illness, and those who sought to decipher its clues
 are interesting characters themselves.

 One is the retired pathologist Johan V. Hultin, who exhumed the
 Eskimo woman's corpse, recovering bits of the virus. Another is the
 dogged virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, who rummaged among the
 millions of body parts stored in the Armed Forces archive, found
 the remains of Privates Vaughan and Downs, and gradually pieced
 together much of the genetic structure of this killer virus.

 The stories of the men and women who struggled to find the virus,
 make their reputations, assuage their curiosity and possibly save
 the world from another disaster are compelling.

 But I found some of the still-unsolved questions about this
 epidemic to be even more intriguing. For example, no one knows why
 this virus had such unprecedented virulence. The answer may lie in
 an earlier epidemic: the 1890 flu. As one theory goes, people who
 caught the 1890 flu produced copious quantities of antibodies and
 then, if the 1918 flu virus had a similar protein on its surface,
 the antibodies to the 1890 flu might well have turned to fight it,
 perhaps too strenuously.

 As Ms. Kolata puts it: "In a gross overresponse to the 1918 virus,
 armies of white blood cells and fluids could rush to the lungs of
 flu patients. The healthier people were, and the better their
 immune systems, the more likely they would be 

[CTRL] Ecology and the indian

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/111699sci-animal-buffalo.htm
l



November 16, 1999


Historians Revisit Slaughter on the Plains
By JIM ROBBINS
ISSOULA, Mont. -- The wanton slaughter of millions of bison in the 19th
century by white hide hunters, abetted by a military intent on subjugating
Indians, is probably the most famous conservation horror story in United
States history.

The problem with this tale, a growing number of scholars and historians say,
is that it is not true. As portrayed in a number of new books, the real
story of the decline of the buffalo involves a significant change in
climate, competition for forage and cattle-borne disease. Another major
factor, the authors say, were Indian tribes, empowered by the horse and gun
and driven to hunt buffaloes for the profits that came from hides and meat.

"What most people don't consider in their 'Dances With Wolves' version of
history is that Indians were involved in the market," said Dr. Dan Flores,
the A.B. Hammond professor of Western history at the University of Montana.
"They were cashing in on buffalo in the 1840s as their principal entree into
the market economy, and very few species are able to survive when they
become a commodity."

White hunters who killed buffaloes by the millions in the 1870s and 1880s
played a major role in the demise, said Flores, but only as the coup de
grace. "The hide hunters are not off the hook," he said. "They share the
burden of the final mop-up. But without their involvement, the buffalo would
probably have only lasted another 30 years." That is because their numbers
had been so greatly reduced by the other factors.

The buffalo studies are part of a continuing debate about the role of
Indians in Western history. In "The Ecological Indian" (W.W. Norton, 1999),
for example, Shepard Krech III, an anthropologist at Brown University,
argues against the romantic image of the Indian as the first
environmentalist. When Indians had had the means and the motive, he says,
they abused nature for profit.

Flores, whose work on buffalo has appeared in The Journal of American
History and elsewhere, is writing a book on bison under contract with Yale
University Press. And Dr. Drew Isenberg, an assistant professor of history
at Princeton, has a book called "The Destruction of the Bison: An
Environmental History, 1750-1920," which will be published by Cambridge
University Press in April.

Not everyone subscribes to the new wave. Dr. Vine Deloria Jr., a professor
of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a member of the
Standing Rock Sioux, finds the revisionism preposterous. "It's nonsense," he
said. "The Indians did not make any appreciable dent in buffalo numbers in
the Northern Plains. It's anti-Indian stuff."

Indians were involved in the buffalo market, scholars generally agree. Their
acquisition of horses and guns made buffalo hunting much easier. As
steamboats started plying the Missouri River into the heart of buffalo
country in the 1840s, hide hunting by the Kiowa, Blackfeet, Sioux and other
Plains tribes soared.

For the first time, there was a way to haul the bulky robes back East, where
they became popular as a covering during cold weather travel and for leather
goods. Indians found they could trade the robes for firearms, lead balls,
gunpowder, blankets, textiles, pots and pans and whiskey.

Isenberg estimates that before the 1840s, 60,000 Plains Indians were killing
half a million bison a year for sustenance. After the robe trade began in
the 1840s, that total went over 600,000 a year, "clearly into unsustainable
range," he said.

While white hunters killed more buffaloes (their total throughout the West
is estimated at four million), Flores argues that Indians concentrated their
killing on buffalo cows, which had more tender meat and were much easier to
skin and treat, resulting in severe damage to the herds' reproductive
capacity.

Environmental factors play large roles in newer histories of the West. For
example, Flores says that the study of tree rings, or dendrochronology,
suggests that Indians were so effective in decimating the buffalo because
climate had already weakened and diminished the herds.

From the 1500s to the mid-19th century, a period known as the little ice
age, tree rings show that the climate in the West was much colder than
normal. That favored the grasses buffaloes eat, and they flourished. When a
long, widespread drought ended the little ice age in the mid-1800s, the
grasses changed and the bison population crashed just as the tribes began
market hunting.

At the same time, Flores said, buffaloes began having to compete for forage
with horses that were brought by the Spaniards to North America in the 1500s
and later went feral. By the 1800s, Flores estimates, two million horses
were sharing the range with the buffalo.


Flores and the others also differ from their predecessors in their use of
Indian sources. Many bands of Indians, for 

[CTRL] raiders of the lost city

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Sunday Times- London

November 21 1999 BRITAIN




Dead Sea sub dives for lost city of Sodom


Jonathan Leake, Science Editor





SODOM, the biblical world's most sinful city, is about to get its first
visitor since Lot left in haste as it was destroyed by heavenly fire 4,000
years ago.
A British researcher will this week venture to the bottom of the Dead Sea -
where Sodom's remains are thought to lie - in a mini-submarine.

Michael Sanders, a Leeds-born biblical scholar, has found what appears to be
the remains of the city under the surface of the Dead Sea by studying
satellite pictures taken by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (Nasa). His findings have been backed by the Dead Sea
research unit from Tel Aviv University, whose scholars are on site with him.


"We are about to embark on our first dive. Finding the biblical city of
Sodom would be the greatest achievement of my life," he said last week.

The dives come just as the British Museum prepares to announce the results
of its research in the area, which appears to confirm that Sodom was located
there. A team excavating a Byzantine church has found what is thought to be
the legendary Cave of Lot hidden behind it.

According to the Bible, Lot and his daughters took refuge in a cave while
Sodom lay smouldering. It was there, thinking they were the last people on
Earth, that they decided to start a new generation.

To most people, including archeologists, the biblical story of Lot, Sodom
and Gomorrah is metaphorical, a warning to sinful humans from the authors of
Genesis. No satisfactory archeological evidence of the five lost cities of
the plain, of which Sodom and Gomorrah were two, has ever been unearthed.

Other scholars, however, including Sanders, believe Sodom and Gomorrah not
only existed but that they were also probably destroyed in a catastrophe
about 5,000 years ago and that their ruins were engulfed beneath the salty
waters of the Dead Sea.

Sanders's findings are supported by Dr John Whitaker, a geologist at the
University of Leicester, who has found strong evidence of a powerful
earthquake in the area at that time.

He said in a research paper: "Their remains have not been found because they
are now under water. The total disappearance of the Vale of Siddim and its
cities beneath the lake would explain the lack of archeological evidence.
Further underwater exploration could be revealing."

Sanders believes the remains of the ancient cities are to be found off the
northwest shore of the Dead Sea, about 10 miles south of Jericho.

The orange Delta mini-submarine, on hire at a cost of almost £5,000 a day,
was the one used to explore the wreck of the Lusitania.

The 10ft-long, 6ft-high vessel was flown into Israel from California last
weekend. It holds two people and can stay submerged under hundreds of feet
of water for up to three days, but the team will be making only short dives.


Sanders watched on Friday as the vessel was winched aboard a barge at the
Ein Gedi oasis in preparation for its journey to the northern shore.

The Dead Sea may be only about 200 metres deep, but Sanders is diving into
murky diplomatic waters. The northwest corner of the sea is in the West
Bank, which was ruled by Jordan until the six-day war in 1967 and has been
under Israeli military occupation ever since. Now the Palestinians have
claimed it for their nascent independent state. The expedition therefore had
to be cleared with the Israeli army, the Jordanians and the Palestinians -
and if Sanders does find anything down there, there will be a diplomatic
battle over ownership.

Not everyone is as convinced as Sanders, however. Dr David Neev, a respected
Israeli geologist, has dedicated much of his life to the scientific study of
the Dead Sea and its surroundings. He rejects Sanders's thesis that Sodom
and Gomorrah are lying at the bottom of the northern end of the Dead Sea.

"The Bible is not always reliable in its chronology, but its geographical
descriptions have always turned out to be perfect. According to the Bible
the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah were located at the south end of the Dead
Sea, next to Mount Sedom and a long way from Sanders's site," said Neev

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[CTRL] Now for ANC Maths

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9.  MATHS, SCIENCE `STILL EXCLUSIVE': PRETORIA NEWS, 19991118, P.6 -
Mathematics and science education still remain in the exclusive
preserve of the historically advantaged, Deputy Education Minister
Smangaliso Mkhatshwa said yesterday.  He was speaking at a function of
the Foundation of Education, Science and Technology (Fest) in the
city.  He added that the field of science in SA was facing a crisis.
"The situation is exacerbated by the perceived neutrality of these
fields.  The common perception is that these fields of inquiry are not
related to the political and socio-economic context," Fr Mkhatshwa
said.  "This is a challenge that any attempt to promoting and
understanding culture, science and technology must overcome. One way
of promoting the goals of African Renaissance is to make indigenous
experiences and knowledge part of parcel of our new curricula and
learning materials."

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New maths.

Power + ANC+ Previously disadvantaged= corruption + Hatred previously
advantaged

Is this an irreversible reaction. Discuss

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[CTRL] Far East advertising

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Taiwan Company Uses Cartoon Hitler
By William Foreman
Associated Press Writer
Monday, Nov. 22, 1999; 2:36 a.m. EST

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwanese company is using large subway advertisements
that feature a cartoon of a smiling Adolf Hitler to sell German-made
electric space heaters.

German culture and trade officials in Taipei said today they were appalled
by the ad, which shows Hitler in a khaki uniform and black jackboots, his
right arm raised high in a Nazi salute. Above him is a slogan that says
"Declare war on the cold front!"

There are no swastikas in the ad, but the Hitler figure wears a red band
around his left arm with a white circle bearing the German manufacturer's
name, DBK.

Yu-shan Shen of the K.E. and Kingstone trading company said her firm sells
the German heaters in Taiwan and designed the ad campaign, which began this
month.

"We decided to use Hitler because as soon as you see him, you think of
Germany. It leaves a deep impression," said Shen, who works in the company's
planning and design department.

Shen said the company was not worried that the public would have a negative
reaction to the ad that features a man who oversaw the killing of millions
of Jews during World War II.

"Most people in Taiwan are not that sensitive about Hitler," she said.

Shen could not say whether the German firm had been informed about the ad.

"As always, we do our promotion planning independently, and we report what
we have done to DBK afterward," she said in a statement faxed to The
Associated Press.

DBK, based in the southwest German city of Kandel, could not immediately be
reached for comment early today.

Patricia Kortmann of the German Cultural Center in Taipei was dismayed by
the ad and doubted a German firm would approve it.

"It sounds too absurd to me that a German company would agree to such an
advertising strategy," Kortmann said.

Johannes Goeth of the German Trade Office in Taipei also doubted that the
manufacturer knew about the ad beforehand. He said the trade office faxed
DBK a letter two weeks ago telling it about the ad and has yet to receive a
reply.

Both Kortmann and Goeth said the advertisement didn't surprise them because
they often encounter Taiwanese who admire Hitler and lack a deep
understanding of European history.

"Taxi drivers will often tell me Hitler was a great man, very strong," Goeth
said.

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[CTRL] A New Americanism-Patrick J. Buchanan

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 Buchanan speech at CATO Institute



 A New Americanism
Patrick J. Buchanan

Last month, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The U.S.
nuclear arsenal that had deterred Stalin's empire, the Senate said, must be
regularly tested for reliability and to reduce the destructive power of
these awesome and awful weapons.

The Senate was right. But to an enraged President, this was a vindictive
vote to rob him of a legacy. He lashed out. The Senate, Mr. Clinton said,
has embraced a "new isolationism" that seeks to "bury our heads in the sand
behind a wall." A 4000-word tirade against the "New Isolationism" by Samuel
Berger quickly followed.

As I have been called, among other names, America's leading isolationist, my
first thought was that he was giving me credit for his defeat. But what we
are witnessing here is something more sinister, a resort by Mr. Clinton to a
malicious libel to intimidate and silence any who would interfere with his
globalist agenda.

And as one who supported every great foreign policy initiative from Kennedy
to Reagan, I reject the isolationist label, especially when made by those
whose spent their youthful careers marching against the Cold War policies
that brought us victory.

America has never been an isolationist nation. "No president or national
party in the entire history of the United States...ever advocated isolating
the United States from the rest of the world," writes historian Wayne Cole.
Historian Walter McDougall calls the term isolationist "but a dirty word
that interventionists, especially since Pearl Harbor, hurl at anyone who
questions their policies."

Why did Mr. Clinton revert to it? To divert attention from his lost
opportunity to shape a foreign policy that might endure in our post-Cold War
world. Where Truman and Acheson succeeded, Clinton, like Wilson, has failed.

His first attempt at interventionism and nation-building was the bloody
debacle in Somalia. His embargo of Haiti and invasion proved ruinous to the
people of that impoverished island, with no appreciable benefit to our
Haitian neighbors or their quality of life. To divert attention from a
personal scandal, the President fired missiles at a poison gas factory in
Sudan. It now appears to have been an innocent pharmaceutical plant. Perhaps
Mr. Clinton, who was apologizing for yet another of his predecessors'
foreign policy sins, might wish to apologize for one of his own.

Consider our relationship with Russia. Ten years ago, Ronald Reagan was
being toasted in Moscow. Today, the prevailing wind is anti-Americanism. Not
our fault, the Clintonites say. But who broke America's word to the Russians
that if they withdrew the Red Army from Eastern Europe, we would not move
NATO an inch closer to their frontiers?

And what reaction do we expect when we collude with two former Soviet
republics, Georgia and Azerbaijan, to build a pipeline to cut Russia out of
the oil of the Caspian and ship it to her ancient enemy, Turkey? When
enraged Russian generals charge us with meddling in the Caucasus, do they
not have a point?

That photo of the President in Istanbul, smiling broadly as the oil treaty
was toasted, while his Energy Secretary crowed about our "victory," was a
provocation. Be assured: Russian nationalists are surely even now plotting
to overturn Mr. Clinton's "victory." Mr. Clinton's successes have been in
Northern Ireland and the Middle East, where America assumed the role of
peacemaker, rather than military interventionist. That is the role the
greatest nation on earth should play, one ordained in the Sermon on the
Mount.

But our Republican elites are even more bellicose. It was his own
Republicans who berated President Bush for not marching on Baghdad and
establishing a "MacArthur Regency," Republicans who urged air strikes on the
North Korean nuclear facilities, thus risking a second Korean War. It was
Republicans who denounced Clinton for not sending 200,000 U.S. troops into
Belgrade. And it was a Republican Governor of Texas who complained that our
war on Serbia was not being prosecuted "ferociously" enough. And it is
Republicans who seem to lust most ardently for a new Cold War. In President
Bush's final year in office, a startling document surfaced in the Pentagon,
detailing a plan to send 6 carrier battle groups and 24 NATO divisions to
rescue Lithuania, should Moscow recolonize the republic. This prescription
for war with Russia was crafted in the shop of one Paul Wolfowitz. It is not
reassuring to see the selfsame Mr. Wolfowitz, one of Governor Bush's
"Vulcans," emerging as an early favorite to be Secretary of State.

Perhaps the defining foreign policy moment of the Clinton presidency was his
unconstitutional war on Serbia. The cause of that war was Madeline Albright'
s rage that Serbia would not sign a Rambouillet accord that called for the
removal of all its troops from Kosovo, and permission for NATO troops to
tramp through their country. No American 

Re: [CTRL] S.Africa Embassy Spy Scandal

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they have also been spying the democratic party(the anc's oficial
opposition)

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Pretoria hit by scandal over embassy bugging
By Anton La Guardia in Johannesburg
www.telegraph.co.uk

  THE South African government was embroiled in a spy scandal yesterday
after
the German embassy and the opposition Democratic Party said they had
discovered their premises were being bugged.
Joe Nhlanhla, the Intelligence Minister, assured the Democratic Party that
the National Intelligence Agency had nothing to do with eavesdropping
detected by a private security firm hired by the party. He did not rule out
that the "dastardly acts" might have been the work of other security organs
or private agents and vowed that "the law will take its course" if any
government official were found to be responsible.

The accusations follow the discovery on Wednesday of a spy camera outside
the
German embassy in Pretoria. Bomb disposal officers found the equipment in an
upturned dustbin after a security guard spotted wires leading from the bin
to
a tree. The embassy declined to comment, but the government has expressed
concern at the incident and promised to investigate. Mr Nhlanhla
acknowledged
that the Israeli embassy had previously complained of being bugged.

However, he betrayed little real alarm at the possible undermining of South
Africa's democracy but criticised the Democratic Party for making the affair
public through the media. "These allegations are being made without any
shred
of evidence being forwarded to substantiate the involvement of South African
intelligence services," he said. "On the contrary, intelligence services are
treated as guilty until they are proven innocent."

The scandal will raise inevitable comparisons with the wholesale
surveillance
of political opponents carried out by the former apartheid regime. It will
inevitably lead to renewed questions about intolerance in the ranks of the
ruling African National Congress. The Democratic Party has grown into the
largest opposition group but, with 10 per cent of the national vote, it is
hardly in a position to threaten the ANC's 66 per cent. But it has been the
object of fierce ANC accusations that it seeks to preserve white privilege.

The party claimed that several telephone lines in its parliamentary and
national offices in Cape Town had been tapped. It also found that the office
of its chief whip, Douglas Gibson, and its caucus office in parliament were
kept under surveillance with listening devices that monitor sound through
windows. The equipment was allegedly operated from a nearby building housing
government offices, including the offices of ministers.

"I do not go in for smear politics," said Mr Gibson. "But it is extremely
distasteful and extremely worrying that, in a democracy with an exemplary
liberal democratic constitution, the official opposition should be subjected
to this kind of thing." He said party members had periodically suggested
having the offices swept by security experts after confidential details of
conversations had been leaked. "We are inclined to be suspicious because we
know this is what happened under the old order, but at first I resisted all
that because I am not paranoid," said Mr Gibson. "There is an uncomfortable
parallel with the past. I really hope that it is wrong."

The party said it would lay criminal charges next week, which would be
investigated by the police. Patricia De Lille, of the radical opposition
Pan-Africanist Congress, said: "I have never lost my vigilance of the
struggle [against apartheid]. I have been behaving as if my office is bugged
all the time and I will obviously have to check it out." The tiny African
Christian Democratic Party said it would have its offices swept for bugging
devices "because it seems that government is very concerned about any real
opposition".

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[CTRL] FW: Gun-related death rate plummets to lowest level since the '60 s

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11/19/99 -- 3:11 AM
Gun-related death rate plummets to lowest level since the '60s







ATLANTA (AP) - Thanks to a booming economy, falling crime rates and tougher
gun control laws, Americans were much less likely to die from gun-related
incidents in 1997 than in 1993, according to a new report.
The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
Thursday that gun deaths in the United States dropped 21 percent over the
five-year period, and nonfatal firearm-related injuries fell 41 percent.

The study looked at all gunshot wounds - whether intentional, accidental or
self-inflicted - reported at emergency rooms.

The report said there were 39,595 gun-related deaths in 1993, about 15.4 per
100,000 people. That number fell to 32,436 in 1997, about 12.1 per 100,000.

The death rate ``is the lowest it's been since the mid-'60s,'' said J. Lee
Annest, a CDC statistician. ``This progress is really encouraging and really
says that joint prevention efforts of public health officials, legislators
and law enforcement should continue.''

The drop was not unexpected: Homicide rates in the 1990s have fallen to
levels not seen since the 1960s, and about two-thirds of all homicides are
committed with guns.

The latest figures also include suicides and accidental deaths, both of
which dropped by 10.9 percent and 38.1 percent, respectively.

Nonfatal shootings fell from 104,390 to 64,207 in the same period, or from
40.5 per 100,000 to 24.0.

Bill Manown, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said the
numbers prove that more gun laws aren't needed; the laws on the books need
to be enforced.

``It is a fact that this substantial drop in gun violence directly
correlated to a big increase in gun enforcement by police,'' said Lawrence
W. Sherman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied gun
policy. ``Police were not treating guns in a preventive sense prior to 1993
and now they are.''

But gun control advocates said the recent focus of keeping guns away from
criminals also should be expanded to include those who are emotionally
distraught.

``This is something we've known is a problem, but society needs to wake up
and address it,'' said Nancy Hwa, spokeswoman for Handgun Control and the
Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.

Some experts also credit a strong economy that has helped reduce overall
crime and suicide attempts. Margaret A. Zahn, a North Carolina State
University criminology professor, said prosperity has allowed governments to
spend more on services that prevent gun violence, such as domestic-violence
shelters and youth recreation programs.

The CDC also listed such possible factors as an aging population and the
waning of the crack trade.

Gun control advocates said they are encouraged, but pointed out that even
so, an average of 265 people a day were shot in 1997.

``People shouldn't be satisfied,'' Haw said. ``Everybody is still at risk,
and the presence of guns should still be a major concern.''

Copyright 1999 Associated Press.

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[CTRL] FW: Protocols author identified

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The Electronic Telegraph
Friday 19 November 1999


THE author of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, has been identified as a Russian propagandist who served
both the Tsar and the Bolsheviks.

The Protocols have proved an inspiration for generations of anti-Semites
all over the world, despite having proved to be fake within a few
decades of their appearance at the beginning of the century. They
purport to reveal a secret Jewish-Masonic conspiracy to overthrow
monarchy and Christian civilisation through the manipulation of wars,
revolutions and capitalism, paving the way for world Jewish domination.

Research by a leading Russian historian, Mikhail Lepekhine, in recently
opened archives has found the forgery to be the work of Mathieu
Golovinski, opportunistic scion of an aristocratic but rebellious family
who drifted into a life of espionage and propaganda work. After working
for the Tsarist secret service he later changed sides and joined the
Bolsheviks.

Mr Lepekhine's findings, published yesterday in the French magazine
L'Express, would appear to clear up the last remaining mystery
surrounding the Protocols. Though banned in Europe, copies are still to
be found in Middle Eastern bookshops.

Golovinski was born in 1865 in Ivachevka in the Simbirsk region. His
father, a friend of Dostoyevsky who was condemned to death for his part
in a plot then pardoned, died when he was 10 leaving him to be brought
up by his mother and a French governess. His subsequent career evokes
the world of assassination and intrigue described in Joseph Conrad's
Under Western Eyes, as revolutionaries and reactionaries struggled for
the soul of Russia.

He briefly studied law before drifting into the Holy Brotherhood, an
anti-Semitic secret society which used forgery as a tool against the
revolutionaries, publishing phoney newspapers and tracts. His contacts
there found him a job in the government press department where he acted
as a Tsarist spin doctor, placing articles in compliant newspapers and
paying the salaries of certain journalists.

When his chief protector died and he was publicly denounced by Maxim
Gorky as an informer he was forced to look for work abroad and chose
Paris. There he made contact with the head of the Russian secret police,
Pierre Ratchkovski, who put him to work writing pro-Russian stories to
be planted in the French press.

Later he was charged with a more important mission. Reactionary circles
in Moscow, dismayed at the progress being made by modernisers in the
court of Nicolas II, hit on the idea of a forgery that would demonstrate
to the tsar that the rising tide of capitalism in Russia was really a
Jewish conspiracy aimed at overthrowing him and the old order.

At the end of 1900 or the beginning of 1901 Golovinski was set to work.
He leant heavily on a pamphlet written in 1864 by an anti-Bonapartist
lawyer who claimed Napoleon III was engaged in a plot to usurp all the
powers of the French people.

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[CTRL] Santa Claus not christian

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Tribunal dismisses parent's Santa discrimination claim

from The Excite Australia Channels
www.excite.com.au
November 12th 1999
2: 52 PM AEST November 12

A Jewish man who refused to let his children associate with Santa Claus
at school has lost his discrimination case against the New South Wales
Education Department.

A Sydney tribunal has found that Santa Claus is not a symbol of
Christianity.

Identified only as Mr A, the Jewish man objected to Santa's presence at
the Sydney primary school.

In his racial discrimination complaint against the department, Mr A said
Santa is a Christian figure and he did not want his children singing
Christmas carols or receiving lollies from Santa.

However, the Dean of Saint Mary's Cathedral, the Reverend Anthony Doherty,
told the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Santa Claus is a delightful
story but has nothing to do with Christianity.

In dismissing the complaint that the school discriminated against the
children because of its Christmas activities, the tribunal ruled that
it cannot be said that a detriment has been suffered simply because
diverse groups should find ways of coexisting with each other.

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[CTRL] FETTMAN

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Subject: BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM: IT'S REAL   By ERIC FETTMAN

NEW YORK POST --- OP-ED --- NOVEMBER 10, 1999

BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM: IT'S REAL
By ERIC FETTMAN

  JESSE Jackson came to town the other day to speak at Yeshiva University,
which was hosting a daylong conference on economic cooperation between
blacks and Jews. That he received a standing ovation was startling, as much
because of his past history with the Jewish community as for his actual
remarks that day.

In calling for a resumption of the historic black-Jewish alliance of the
early civil-rights movement, Jackson took great pains to dismiss what has
remained a constant irritant in relations between the two communities.
Black
anti-Semitism, he claimed, "hardly exists" - unlike the dogma of Nazism,
Jackson contended, "there is no black philosophical anti-Semitic ideology."

His bizarre argument continued: Anti-Semitic statements espoused by blacks
are strictly "personal," because hatred of Jews can only exist within the
context of anti-Semitism as "a worldview, [a] theology and a form of
idolatry."

Asked about the rantings of Louis Farrakhan, Khalid Muhammad and Leonard
Jeffries, Jackson insisted that the attention paid them "is almost an
insult
because it disrespects our capacity to think and also ignores the structure
of our institutions."

Actually, it does nothing of the kind. Sadly, anti-Semitism has long been
widespread in the black community: As far back as 1948, James Baldwin was
writing that "Georgia has the Negro [as a target of hatred]; Harlem has the
Jew." Few black leaders today will admit that black anti-Semitism exists -
or even disassociate from those who practice it. Instead, like Jackson,
most
angrily denounce those who raise the issue.

"Anytime a black or Jewish group says something out of anger" - note:
anger,
not hatred - "the media takes it and runs with it and that becomes the
definition of who we are at that moment," Jackson told the Jewish Week's
Adam Dickter.

Jackson himself tried to turn the tables on his critics back in 1984, when
he was quoted (by a black reporter) as having privately referred to Jews as
"Hymies" and New York as "Hymietown." For two weeks, he denied even having
made the remarks; finally he admitted it, offered a limp apology but
complained that he was "being taken advantage of."

Black anti-Semitism remains a problem today because too many people who
indulge in its vitriol have risen to positions of leadership in the black
community. Their status and influence have not suffered one iota because of
the hatred they've spewed. On the contrary - Al Sharpton, who has labeled
Hasidim as "diamond dealers" and denounced the Jewish owner of Freddy's
Fashion Mart as "a white interloper" (while leading picketers who screamed
out their hatred of "bloodsucking Jews") is now courted by presidential
candidates.

As for Louis Farrakhan, Jackson contends that his is "not the prevailing
view among black people." But that didn't stop the Congressional Black
Caucus from forging a "sacred covenant" with Farrakhan, citing his
"prestige" in the black community. According to the noted black academic
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Farrakhan's screed "The Secret Relationship Between
Blacks and Jews," which accuses Jews of dominating the African slave trade
"may well be one of the most influential books published in the black
community." In fact, adds Gates - one of the few prominent blacks willing
to
attack the subject head-on - anti-Semitism has become "a weapon in the
tragic battle of who will speak for black America."

And yet people like Jackson remain reluctant to acknowledge that people
like
Farrakhan or Leonard Jeffries or rap artists or even Michael Jackson
(remember his "Sue me, Jew me, kike me" lyrics?) can be guilty of
anti-Semitism.

Back in 1995, in the wake of the Freddy's Fashion Mart massacre, Jackson
was
asked about Sharpton's "interloper" remarks. "There is so much pain in
black
America," he said - not just refusing to hold the Rev to task for his
racial
language, but calling concern over it "a journalistic attempt to make a
long
story short."

As Joyce Purnick lamented in a New York Times column, Jackson may have
denounced hate, but he would "not say who expressed the hate or what they
said."

The sad part is that attempts at reconciliation remain, by and large, a
one-way street. Not a single black group co-sponsored the conference on
black-Jewish economic cooperation at which Jackson spoke.

Michael Meyers, whose outspoken and courageous voice shares this space,
noted to the Long Island Jewish World that "the only group that's
interested
in black-Jewish relations is the Jews, not the blacks," adding: "I don't
see
the point in black-Jewish dialogue when Jews are sitting down with blacks
whose friends are their enemies."

Happily, black-Jewish relations in New York have improved greatly since the
dark days of the Crown Heights riots. But the problem remains, and it won't
be solved if only people on 

[CTRL] Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage1

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   Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage
by Robert Henry
Goldsborough


PREFACE
LINES OF CREDIT: ROPES OF BONDAGE is about the financiers, their fellow
conspirators and the plot to destroy Western Christian civilization. It was
written for the concerned American -- not for the skeptic.

In likelihood, the skeptic will, without ever having read it, dismiss this
-- with a roll of the eyes and wave of the hand while at the same time
declaring it to he outrageous fiction -- just another attempt to promote the
"conspiracy theory of history."

Quite honestly, I did not write LINES OF CREDIT: ROPES OF BONDAGE with a
hope or intention of convincing those "doubting Thomases" who, unlike the
Apostle Thomas who finally believed, will continue to deny the existence of
the conspiracy in spite of overwhelming and conclusive evidence to the
contrary. Actually these skeptics are important to the conspirators; they
are the "useful idiots" so cherished by Lenin.

Primarily, this work was written for anyone who suspects that there is much
more to modern European and American history than can be learned from the
standard and approved history textbooks. This work is written for the
Godfearing citizen who finds it difficult to believe that our country fought
two world wars and spilled the blood of our sons supposedly to make the
world free for all mankind, when in actuality we made it possible for two
bloodiest empires in history to enslave over a fourth of the world's people
in godless communism.

In this work we have tried to answer some obvious questions. why, who,
where, what, when. Why is there a conspiracy? Who are some of the
conspirators? Where does the funding come from? What is the motivation? When
did it all begin? In such a brief work, we don't pretend to present all of
the answers or name all of the conspirators or their naive "useful idiots.'

The late Congressman Carroll Reece (R-TN) chaired a congressional committee
which investigated the spending patterns of some major tax-exempt
foundations and concluded that there was evidence of a "diabolical
conspiracy" to enslave America. The assertion that this conspiracy is a plot
to overthrow Western Christian civilization is borne out by the evidence.

This work is nothing more or less, than a primer about the players and
payers in the plot. Hopefully, the reader will be provided with an
understanding of certain international events which otherwise would be
inexplicable.

In this case, although the truth may or may not set us free, it can help us
understand why we are gradually losing our freedoms and being eased into a
one-world socialist federation/government where Christianity is considered a
superstition for the under-educated.

During the darkest days of World War II, the very survival of Britain was at
stake when Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallied the nation against an
implacable foe. His famous "V" for victory signal was recognized around the
world and became symbolic of a people unwilling to surrender to an evil
oppressor. Twenty years earlier, Churchill had warned of an even greater
threat; but his words went unheeded.

In a 1920 magazine article, Winston Churchill spoke of "this world-wide
conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstruction of
society." Tragically, for the entire human race in general and Western
Christian civilization in particular, Churchill's caveat was heard by too
few, and understood by fewer still.

Churchill's World War II ally, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) either failed
or refused to understand that a communist conspiracy threatened the West,
including America; his chief foreign policy advisor for the crucial Yalta
Summit with Joe Stalin had already been identified as a Soviet agent. When
told by fellow Democrat Martin Dies that some of his most sensitive
appointments were communists, FDR angrily retorted, "Several of the best
friends I have are communists."

The French writer George Sand once wrote that "universal revolution" was the
goal of the conspirators who had reached the "point of fanaticism."
Certainly Karl Marx's fanaticism had reached the level of madness when he
declared "I hate all the gods."

If communism is anything, it is madness. It is a fatally flawed system which
denies the existence of God, the dignity of man and the freedom of the
marketplace. To the communist leader, the end always justifies the means,
which was amply demonstrated by Deng Tsiao-ping in Peking's Tiananmen Square
on June 4, 1989, when over 2,500 peaceful demonstrators, many of whom were
students asleep in tents, were systematically slaughtered. Some were
machine-gunned; others were crushed by tanks. Some of the medical personnel
tending the injured were shot in the back.

Deng's mentor, Mao Tse-tung, believed and taught as have all communist
leaders that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. So, the
Tiananmen Square 

[CTRL] re funding of bolshevik/mensheviks

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The argument below can possibly be synthesised. The Schiffs readily admitted
funding the menshevik revolution(the first)(See the Book The Warburgs
-Chernov) but did not (openly)admit to funding the Bolsheviks. However,
initially, Trotsky was a menshevik and only later switched to the
Bolshevik(I cant remember why he switched). Thus it is possible that the
schiffs funded Trotsky..who later allied with the Bolsheviks.

John

PS whats happened to Tony...The CIA got him?
or has he been put in cold fusion storage



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Thank you Gavin  for pointing out these apparent discrepancies

Let me try to explain the problem.

Ive been working away at this conspiracy area in its various aspects since
about 1960, and  so has Ed Griffin, whom I have known for 20+ years with
much
respect .

Back in the early 1970's I worked through the State Department Decimal file
(
the CIA of 1920), the files of the War Trade Board, the British Foreign
Office Confidential files and the German OKW files..

If you look at my WALL STREET AND THE BOLSEHVIK REVOLUTION( Buccaneers Book)
and AMERICAS SECRET ESTABLISHMENT ( LIBERTY HOUSE PRESS) you will find I
base
the case on ORIGINAL documents (telegrams, letters, memos, SB membership
list etc).  No one has ever refuted these documents.


From the research viewpoint it leaves  open whether Schiff and Jewish
bankers.
also financed the Bolsheviks.   If you read the appendix in BOLSHEVIK
REVOLUTION you will find a review of the Jewish banker argument .At that
time
I had no evidence that they provided any funds and I still have no
documentary evidence.

However I did find disinformation coming out of the WAR TRADE BAORD directed
by John  Foster Dulles, close to the Wall Street operators (Morgan,
Thompson,
Thacher)o.  This is confirmed in the Scotland Yard files.

I have always based arguments on documentary evidence at hand.  If anyone
has
documentary material contrary to my argument then I  assuredly would like to
see it..   On the other hand I do not rely on quotes from interested
parties.

In no way does this detract from the decades long work of Edward Griffin.
This is a murky.field and we all, me included, tread warily.

Show me some original documents, Gavin.

Thank you for your interest.


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November 10, 1999


Haiti's Paralysis Spreads as U.S. Troops Pack Up


By DAVID GONZALEZ

ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Five years after an American-led force of 20,000
troops invaded this island and restored constitutional rule, the Haitian
people are entering a new and uncertain era.

While crime, insecurity and a crumbling infrastructure continue to threaten
residents, the Haitian government has been virtually paralyzed for more than
two years. Now, the last of the regular American military presence in the
capital is set to end in January, with the 400 troops to be replaced by
shifts of reservists on short-term training missions throughout the country.




The New York Times

 American regular troops are to leave Port-au-Prince in January.



 That is yet another blow for a country that has made dishearteningly little
progress despite high expectations -- perhaps unrealistic -- since the
invasion. By the end of this year, police trainers and human rights monitors
from the United Nations and the Organization of American States are also to
leave, although United Nations officials hope to maintain a smaller mission.


After Jean-Bertrand Aristide, then a radical Roman Catholic priest, was
elected in 1990 as Haiti's first democratically chosen president in decades,
an army-led coup drove him into exile in 1991. After three years of
repression, he was restored to power in a negotiated settlement backed by an
American-led occupation. The current president, René Préval, was his
hand-picked successor, but Aristide, who resigned from the priesthood in
1994, remains Haiti's leading political figure and is expected to run again
next year.

The American military's role in Haiti has gone from ensuring security to
carrying out the kind of work that brings tangible relief to the residents
of the hemisphere's poorest nation -- providing free medical care, repairing
wells and building schools. While thousands of Haitians have benefited from
this assistance, countless more have taken psychological comfort from the
mere presence of the American troops.

On a recent day, Anès Anis came home from her factory job to find an
American soldier sitting behind his M-60 machine gun atop a Humvee while
another paced the side of her hilly dirt street. She said she welcomed those
silent sentries.


"We're happy to see them," she said. "If something happens now, we could
call on them. Otherwise, we have nothing at all to protect us."

But the soldiers were not there to bring peace to her neighborhood. They had
only come to secure the area while dozens of American sailors painted a
local schoolhouse.

Like Ms. Anis, many Haitians hoped that the intervention would solve
day-to-day problems. The departing forces leave behind a nation that is
still trying to create a democratic, functioning state.

The Haitian Army was disbanded but not disarmed, contributing to an increase
in street and drug crimes. While a new police force struggles to enforce the
law, a dysfunctional judiciary has hampered its efforts. People and cars
crowd the streets in midday, but few people venture out very early or late,
lest they become targets for bandits.

Foreign investment has been a trickle. With unemployment hovering at 60
percent, factory owners have been closing up as clients shift orders to
nations with equally cheap labor but more stability.

With regularity, residents in some neighborhoods vent their frustration and
try to get the government's attention by hauling tires and trash into the
street and setting up flaming roadblocks.

It has hardly helped. The government itself has been virtually paralyzed
since 1997 while Préval fought with his opposition in Parliament over his
choice for prime minister. He finally appointed a de facto prime minister
earlier this year when the Parliament's term ended, leaving the nation
without a functioning legislature.

Throughout the standoff, the government failed to pass either a budget or
laws that would have brought $500 million in international aid to shore up
its crumbling infrastructure and reduce suffering.

Legislative elections have been pushed back from December of this year to
March 19, prompting fears of campaign fraud or violence. International
observers and diplomats have accused supporters of Aristide of trying to
wrest control of the civilian police force to use it for their political
advantage. Recently, a daylong voter education event sponsored by the
national electoral council was disrupted by hecklers.

The governmental paralysis has disappointed both Haitians and other
countries, which are coming to realize that they also had unrealistic
expectations.

Decades of dictatorship under François (Papa Doc) Duvalier and his son,
Jean-Claude, left the country with scant experience with democratic rule.
Now, as Haiti continues the transition to democracy that it 

[CTRL] Pollsters' Dirty Little Secrets

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 "Pollsters' Dirty Little Secrets"

 by John Leo, from the U.S. News  World Report



 This is a meditation on opinion polls, and how some polls are more
honest and more valuable than others.

 A week ago, as I sat down for a panel discussion on the "Sensation"
exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, someone handed me a fresh poll
commissioned by our host, the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center.  The
pollsters said it showed that the public was overwhelmingly on the side of
the museum  --  85 percent believed Americans have the right to judge
controversial exhibits for themselves, and 59 percent said government
should not be able to ban such exhibits at museums receiving public funds.

 Later, after I took a long look at the survey, the results seemed much
more ambiguous.  Early questions showed that majorities, ranging from 54
percent to 64 percent, disagreed with the statement that "people should be
allowed to display in a public place art that has content that might be
offensive" to minorities, women, religious groups, or simply "to others."

 This opinion, if applied rigorously, would probably empty out all
public spaces except children's museums.  But, in the context of the
dispute, it either meant that a lot of people were backing Mayor Giuliani
or at least had mixed feelings about deeply offensive art.

 This aversion to offensive art, however, was cut short by a number of
changes in the language of later questions.  The phrase "people should be
allowed to display" was replaced with "government should be able to ban art
in public museums" (67 percent said no).  No surprise there.  Faith in
government is low, so questions about "government" controlling anything at
all are likely to draw heavy negatives, particularly when the word "ban" is
nearby.  These negatives might have been avoided by simply dropping the
G-word:  "Should museums be allowed to display" the art.

 Like a lawyer leading a witness, the poll asked whether government has
the right to ban books from public libraries and plays from public
auditoriums.  While interviewees were wallowing in outrage over the idea of
our arrogant government even thinking of such stupidity, the pollsters
decided to spring the first question about public funding:  "Government
should be able to cut funding" to museums staging offensive exhibits (61
percent said no, actually a low figure given the set-up questions).

 Another verbal maneuver:  Pollsters know that questions beginning with
weak words like "regardless" and "whatever" cue people to ignore the clause
that follows and agree with the emphatic main part of the statement, which
comes last.  So it's no surprise that 73 percent agreed that "Regardless of
how I feel about the art exhibit itself, banning art in public places is
something that violates Americans' right of free expression."

 Remember, a majority had already said that people shouldn't be allowed
to display offensive art in a public place.  Here the "regardless" sentence
structure and the strong language of "ban," "right" and "violate" both work
to get a different result.

 The spin put on the survey by the pollster, the Center for Survey
Research at the University of Connecticut, did not reflect the public's
conflict and confusion over the issue.  Even by the center's own numbers,
the public was saying that the Brooklyn Museum had a right to put on the
show, but it really shouldn't have done it.

 Regardless of one's opinion on the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition
(whatever), this sort of thing is almost enough to make us call for a
national center to monitor polling excesses.  Pollsters, however, do
monitor one another now and then.  After a "whatever" question in a
National Law Journal poll produced 75 support for jury nullification,
pollsters at Frederick Schneiders Research in Washington, D.C., showed that
when you reverse the "whatever" sentence structure, you also reverse the
poll result:  75 percent oppose nullification.

 In a 1993 poll by Roper Starch Worldwide, 22 percent of Americans said
yes to a question on the Holocaust framed in tortured language featuring a
double negative ("Does it seem possible or does it seem impossible to you
that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?").  Gallup got a
similar result using the Roper language.  But when Gallup asked the
question in plain language, less than 0.5 percent said the Holocaust
definitely never happened, and only 2 percent had real doubts.

 Yankelovich Partners did a good job of deflating Ross Perot's 1993
poll showing strong support for Perot positions on issues such as debt
reduction and trade agreements.  Perot got 67 percent to support a
debt-reduction plan calling for $2 in spending cuts for each dollar of tax
increase.  But the poll gave no clue as to where the cuts would come from
or what the social costs might be.  Yankelovich's 

[CTRL] A Bumpy Ride on 'Sesame Street'

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A Bumpy Ride on 'Sesame Street'


By Lee Hockstader
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 9, 1999; Page A1


JERUSALEM, Nov. 7 - An Israeli boy out riding his bicycle takes a wrong
turn, gets a flat tire and winds up stuck in a Palestinian neighborhood.
There, behind a wall, he spots ... a couple of shaggy Muppets.


Happily, this is Middle Eastern "Sesame Street," where Jews and Arabs are on
friendly terms even though they live on separate streets. So the Palestinian
Muppets get to work replacing the tire. Stereotypes are shattered, everyone
smiles and all ends well.


Or does it?


"When we interviewed Palestinian preschool teachers, they were angry about
the segment," said Cairo Arafat, an expert on preschool education here.
"They said, 'The Israelis have taken everything from us - our homes, our
land - and now we're giving them a bicycle wheel' "

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The concept of intersecting Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Streets was born
four years ago - soon after the Oslo peace agreement itself - and from the
outset it has been the most politically charged of the world's 20 national
versions of the show. In unmistakable ways, the currents of discord and
mutual suspicion surrounding the show have mirrored the ups and downs of
peacemaking in the region.


Now the peace process itself stands at a crossroads, and so does the
co-production of "Rechov Sumsum" (as the show is known in Hebrew) and
"Sharaa Simsim" (as it is known in Arabic). The project's leaders must
decide whether to go forward with a new season, launch a new fund-raising
drive and produce fresh segments of a project still infused with hope but
tangled by its own contradictions.


Not only do the Israeli and Palestinian Muppets live on separate streets,
but their producers have radically different ideas about how they should
meet and interact. The Israelis wanted lots of integrated activities - by
mutual consent, of course. The Palestinians said thanks but no thanks -
until the Israelis end their occupation of Arab lands.


"We asked ourselves, are we producing 'Mission Impossible' or 'Sesame
Street'" said Lewis Bernstein of Children's Television Workshop in New York,
project director for the Israeli-Palestinian co-production.


"Sesame Street" is celebrating its 30th birthday, and its international
success as a pioneer in children's educational television is legendary. The
show, either dubbed or in home-grown versions, is aired in some 120
countries, and it has proven highly adaptable to diverse cultures.


In Russia, the program features poetry by Mikhail Lermontov set to music and
a seven-foot-tall creature decked out in blue feathers and a stupendous
orange nose named Zeliboba. In China, where the Muppets adore opera and
revere their philosopher ancestors, the local producers toyed with
substituting a panda for Big Bird before finally settling on the original.


But nowhere have the producers faced a messier and more contentious
political landscape than in the Middle East, where it sometimes seems the
role model for intercommunity relations is Oscar the Grouch.


Jockeying over the $5 million program began at the outset, when the Israeli
and Palestinian production teams signed separate deals with the New
York-based parent company, rather than with each other. The two would have
their own producers and writers - even though the Palestinians had no
production studio and little expertise in animation, puppets or writing
scripts for preschoolers.


Then, just as production was starting, the Middle East suffered one of its
periodic paroxysms of violence. In 1995, on the eve of the first meeting
between the two sides to plan a curriculum, Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime
minister, was assassinated. On another occasion, a fashionable Tel Aviv cafe
was bombed by Palestinian terrorists just as a taping session was to begin.


Against that backdrop of bloodshed, the show went on, but with some
trepidation.


"Early on," said Bernstein, "an Israeli asked, 'What if you created a show
where [Israeli and Palestinian] children were singing and dancing together,
and there was a bus bombing the same day''"


Amid much fanfare, the show began airing last year, the Israeli program in
Hebrew and the Palestinian one in Arabic. Some elements are traditional
"Sesame Street" fare: Both sides, in their own languages, teach the
traditional curriculum of colors, letters, numbers and vocabulary.


But the characters live separate lives on separate streets - the Israelis on
a boardwalk with a view of the Mediterranean, the Palestinians with a sweet
shop and a landscape of arid hills and olive trees. When the two meet, it is
in "crossover" segments in which cast members from each street visit the
other - usually by invitation.


Many of the skits are designed to break down stereotypes in a region where
each side tends to see the other as a violent and menacing adversary.
Israeli and Palestinian 

[CTRL] Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage 1

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 Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage
by Robert Henry
Goldsborough


PREFACE
LINES OF CREDIT: ROPES OF BONDAGE is about the financiers, their fellow
conspirators and the plot to destroy Western Christian civilization. It was
written for the concerned American -- not for the skeptic.

In likelihood, the skeptic will, without ever having read it, dismiss this
-- with a roll of the eyes and wave of the hand while at the same time
declaring it to he outrageous fiction -- just another attempt to promote the
"conspiracy theory of history."

Quite honestly, I did not write LINES OF CREDIT: ROPES OF BONDAGE with a
hope or intention of convincing those "doubting Thomases" who, unlike the
Apostle Thomas who finally believed, will continue to deny the existence of
the conspiracy in spite of overwhelming and conclusive evidence to the
contrary. Actually these skeptics are important to the conspirators; they
are the "useful idiots" so cherished by Lenin.

Primarily, this work was written for anyone who suspects that there is much
more to modern European and American history than can be learned from the
standard and approved history textbooks. This work is written for the
Godfearing citizen who finds it difficult to believe that our country fought
two world wars and spilled the blood of our sons supposedly to make the
world free for all mankind, when in actuality we made it possible for two
bloodiest empires in history to enslave over a fourth of the world's people
in godless communism.

In this work we have tried to answer some obvious questions. why, who,
where, what, when. Why is there a conspiracy? Who are some of the
conspirators? Where does the funding come from? What is the motivation? When
did it all begin? In such a brief work, we don't pretend to present all of
the answers or name all of the conspirators or their naive "useful idiots.'

The late Congressman Carroll Reece (R-TN) chaired a congressional committee
which investigated the spending patterns of some major tax-exempt
foundations and concluded that there was evidence of a "diabolical
conspiracy" to enslave America. The assertion that this conspiracy is a plot
to overthrow Western Christian civilization is borne out by the evidence.

This work is nothing more or less, than a primer about the players and
payers in the plot. Hopefully, the reader will be provided with an
understanding of certain international events which otherwise would be
inexplicable.

In this case, although the truth may or may not set us free, it can help us
understand why we are gradually losing our freedoms and being eased into a
one-world socialist federation/government where Christianity is considered a
superstition for the under-educated.

During the darkest days of World War II, the very survival of Britain was at
stake when Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallied the nation against an
implacable foe. His famous "V" for victory signal was recognized around the
world and became symbolic of a people unwilling to surrender to an evil
oppressor. Twenty years earlier, Churchill had warned of an even greater
threat; but his words went unheeded.

In a 1920 magazine article, Winston Churchill spoke of "this world-wide
conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstruction of
society." Tragically, for the entire human race in general and Western
Christian civilization in particular, Churchill's caveat was heard by too
few, and understood by fewer still.

Churchill's World War II ally, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) either failed
or refused to understand that a communist conspiracy threatened the West,
including America; his chief foreign policy advisor for the crucial Yalta
Summit with Joe Stalin had already been identified as a Soviet agent. When
told by fellow Democrat Martin Dies that some of his most sensitive
appointments were communists, FDR angrily retorted, "Several of the best
friends I have are communists."

The French writer George Sand once wrote that "universal revolution" was the
goal of the conspirators who had reached the "point of fanaticism."
Certainly Karl Marx's fanaticism had reached the level of madness when he
declared "I hate all the gods."

If communism is anything, it is madness. It is a fatally flawed system which
denies the existence of God, the dignity of man and the freedom of the
marketplace. To the communist leader, the end always justifies the means,
which was amply demonstrated by Deng Tsiao-ping in Peking's Tiananmen Square
on June 4, 1989, when over 2,500 peaceful demonstrators, many of whom were
students asleep in tents, were systematically slaughtered. Some were
machine-gunned; others were crushed by tanks. Some of the medical personnel
tending the injured were shot in the back.

Deng's mentor, Mao Tse-tung, believed and taught as have all communist
leaders that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. So, the
Tiananmen Square massacre, like the 

[CTRL] Lines of credit 2

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   Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage
by Robert Henry
Goldsborough

Chapter Six
WORLD COMMUNISM AND THE MONEY CONNECTION
In 1921, banker Jacob H. Rubin, president of Rubin Brothers located at West
34th Street in New York City, admitted with remarkable candor to the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, "I had been with the American Red Cross people
at Odessa. I was there when the Red Army took possession of Odessa. At that
time I was favorably inclined toward the Soviet government, because I was a
socialist and had been a member of that party for 20 years. I must admit
that to a certain extent I helped to form the Soviet government of Odessa .
. . Rubin had a close working association with the New York based Provident
Loan Society. In WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, Antony C. Sutton
explains that Provident's trustees included persons "having [a] connection
with the Bolshevik Revolution: P. [Percy] A. Rockefeller, Mortimer L.
Schiff, and James Speyer."

Percy Rockefeller was one of the directors of the American International
Corporation, as was Otto H. Kahn. Kahn and Mortimer Schiff, together with
Jacob Schiff and Felix Warburg, were managing partners of Kuhn, Loeb 
Company. A State Department document (Decimal File 861.00/5339) dated
November 13, 1918 names the following as persons engaged in supporting the
Bolshevik revolution: Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, Otto H. Kahn, Mortimer L.
Schiff, and Jerome J. Hanauer. Kuhn, Loeb and Company, itself, was also
named in the document. In the 1970s, Jacob Schiff's son readily admitted to
syndicated columnist Cholly Knickerhoker that his father had given a large
sum of money to help finance the Bolshevik revolution.

On December 30, 1924, the financial titan and capitalist extraordinaire Otto
Kahn, in a speech to the radically left-wing League for Industrial
Democracy, offered the socialist revolutionaries a friendly hand and shared
goals. "What you radicals and we who hold opposing views differ about is not
so much the end as the means, not so much what should be brought about as
how it should, and can, be brought about . . ." The Rev. Denis Fahey, in THE
RULERS OF RUSSIA, wrote about the continuing political love affair between
capitalist Otto Kahn and the anti-capitalist Soviet government and revealed
that during Stalin's reign, long after the 1917 revolution, Otto Kahn
enjoyed a relationship with the Soviet empire which should have raised
questions as to where his loyalties lay. FIGARO, the highly regarded
Parisian magazine, reported in April 1932 that in June of the previous year,
Mrs. Otto Kahn visited the USSR, "where she was oflicially received by the
Soviet government, which gave in her honor a grand diplomatic dinner and
several brilliant receptions . . . The Red Army lined the roads at the
present of arms . . . It was the least that the head of the 'proletarian
dictatorship' could do in order to honour the wife of one of their
sovereigns."

Kahn, Schiff and Warburg were recognized not only as financial giants of
their day, but also as three of the wealthiest and most powerful men in
America. In addition, they were known to be close to "Colonel" Edward M.
House, Woodrow Wilson's confidant and alter ego. House who espoused
communist sentiments for America's future, used Wilson's presidency as a
launching pad for the League of Nations and a socialist world government. In
WOODROW WILSON: DISCIPLE OF REVOLUTION, Jennings C. Wise revealed that
Wilson willingly played his part in the conspiracy, "Historians must never
forget that Woodrow Wilson, despite the efforts of the British police, made
it possible for [the Russian revolutionary] Leon Trotsky to enter Russia
with an American passport."

There were other wealthy Americans in addition to the Kahns, Warburgs,
Rockefellers, and Schiffs who were actively supporting the Bolshevik
revolution. One of the more arrogant promoters of the atheistic revolt in
Russia was William B. Thompson who served on the board of the powerful
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (coincidentally, Paul Warburg, Felix's
brother was the first [vice] chairman of the Federal Reserve System). While
Thompson was leading a Red Cross Mission to Russia which he had funded
heavily, the WASHINGTON POST of Feb. 2, 1918 reported that he had "made a
personal contribution of $1,000,000 to the Bolsheviki for the purpose of
spreading their doctrine in Germany and Austria." The POST continued, "He
believes that the Bolsheviki constitute the greatest power against
Pro-Germanism in Russia and their [Marxist] propaganda has been undermining
the militarist regimes of the General Empires. Mr. Thompson deprecates
American criticism of the Bosheviki. He believes they have been
misrepresented and has made financial contribution to the cause in the
belief that it will be money well spent for the future of Russia as well as
for the Allied cause." Thompson's actions 

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[CTRL] Burning black churches for profit

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Pastor Accused in Texas Church Fire

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) -- A minister and three other people were
accused of burning down a church in 1996 to collect $270,000 in
insurance.

The Rev. Theophilus Thompson, pastor of the Full Gospel Power House
Church of God in Christ, was free today after posting a $150,000 bond.
The other three suspects, Wilma Monday, Dusty Dean Williams and
Christopher Charles Johnson, did not immediately post bonds and were
being held at the Wichita County Jail.

The arrests Sunday night came less than two weeks before a statute of
limitations on the case expired. Wichita Falls Fire Chief Ronnie James
confirmed the arrests but declined to give details.

Thompson's telephone number was unlisted, and he could not immediately
be reached.

When the blaze was set on Nov. 20, 1996, more than 100 predominantly
black churches-mainly in the South-had been burned in less than two
years.

Thompson formed the predominantly black congregation in 1960. Ms. Monday
and her husband, James, purchased the church building in 1993 from the
Methodist Church, and as part of the purchase agreement, took out an
insurance policy for $270,000.

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[CTRL] Roche pays $632m in vitamin price-fixing suit

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CNI News---04/Nov/99 11:10

Roche pays $632m in vitamin price-fixing suit

LONDON (CNI)--Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is to pay $632m (Euro601m)
to vitamin purchasers in the US as part of a $1.05bn price-fixing settlement
which includes six other companies who were involved in antitrust
investigations in the bulk vitamins industry, CNI was informed on Thursday.

The settlement was signed on Wednesday by Roche, Germany's BASF and Hoechst,
France's Rhone-Poulenc (R-P) and Japanese firms Eisai, Daiichi
Pharmaceutical and Takeda Chemical Industries. The companies will also pay
legal fees of some $122m, raising their total payment to $1.17bn.

BASF will contribute $287m, R-P will pay $86.8m and Hoechst will contribute
just $2m. Eisai is reported to have agreed to pay up to $44.97m, and Daiichi
and Takeda are reported to have agreed to pay up to a combined $124.8m. The
settlement will require the approval of a US federal judge.

The lawsuits stem from a US Department of Justice investigation of the
vitamin industry, in which most of the companies pleaded guilty to
price-fixing and agreed to pay substantial fines. R-P was not charged
because it co-operated with the government.

A spokeswoman for Hoechst's pharmaceutical unit Hoechst Marion Roussel (HMR)
told CNI its price-fixing charges relate to vitamin B12, which was sold in
the US prior to the merger that created HMR. Total sales of the product were
$16.5m within the designated period 1990-1998.

R-P said the costs of the settlement have been accounted for as part of a
non-recurring charge of about Euro100m that the group took in Q2-1999 for
litigation related to animal vitamins. Roche said in its nine-months figures
that it made the necessary provisions for the cost of the settlement in its
half year accounts.

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[CTRL] Scenario plans

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I was at a scenario planning exercise last week. two interesting things came
out from the man in control.

Interestingly shell's chief scenario planner , Pierre Wack, was a disciple
of Gurdjief.
Gurdjief was an interesting character(and profound thinker) but linked into
the occult nework of crowley etcinteresting coincidence.

Secondly, Clem Sunter, who controlled the scenario planning operation for
Anglo American(Harry Oppenheimer) admitted that the exercise was
normative(was deceptive) and was set to reduce the former white governments
resistance to black dominated government.



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disintegrates, the United States could join the Soviet Union on the ash
heap of history."
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interest.' Foreign Affairs 76, 5, ix/x, p. 35.


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[CTRL] Roert Stinnett's Day of Deceit

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Day of Deceit : The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett
NY: Simon  Schuster: The Free Press, 2000 (pub. 1999 Nov.)

Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews

An explosive, well-written look at the events leading up to the Japanese
raid on Pearl harbor, including FDRs provocation of the attack, by a
WWII veteran and longtime journalist. Though rumors have long circulated
about American prior knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
Stinnett has gone far beyond his models in substantiating the state of
American intelligence, diplomacy, and readiness in the year preceding
December 7, 1941. Though Stinnett easily makes his case that the Unites
States knew an attack was coming and did not prepare for it, even more
shocking is his discovery that the North Pacific area, where an attack
was believed likely to originate, was declared a ``vacant sea'' just
weeks prior to the attack and any patrols were forbidden in this area.
The real heart of the book is the argument that the attack on Pearl
Harbor was deliberately instigated by the Roosevelt Administration as a
way of quickly bringing a unified America into the war. Stinnett begins
his case by quoting a policy memo written by Lt. Cdr. Arthur McCullum
listing eight actions designed to incite a military action by Japan,
including such actions as the blocking of the sale of oil to the
Japanese, maintaining a heavy US naval presence in the Pacific, and
supporting Chiang Kai-shek in China. After showing how this plan was
carried out, he then goes on to show how this effort systematically led
up to Pearl Harbor. Although too little is made of the context in which
Roosevelt apparently made the decision to allow the attack to go
unchecked (it is only in the closing sections that this issue is even
discussed), Stinnett has left no stone unturned in this account, which
should rewrite the historical record of WWII. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus
Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Book Description

Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American
intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. It was the result
of a carefully orchestrated design, initiated at the highest levels of
our government. According to a key memorandum eight steps were taken to
make sure we would enter the war by this means. Pearl Harbor was the
only way, leading officials felt, to galvanize the reluctant American
public into action.

This great question of Pearl Harbor--what did we know and when did we
know it?--has been argued for years. At first, a panel created by FDR
concluded that we had no advance warning and should blame only the local
commanders for lack of preparedness. More recently, historians such as
John Toland and Edward Beach have concluded that some intelligence was
intercepted. Finally, just months ago, the Senate voted to exonerate
Hawaii commanders Admiral Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short, after the
Pentagon officially declared that blame should be "broadly shared." But
no investigator has ever been able to prove that fore-knowledge of the
attack existed at the highest levels.

Until now. After decades of Freedom of Information Act requests, Robert
B. Stinnett has gathered the long-hidden evidence that shatters every
shibboleth of Pearl Harbor. It shows that not only was the attack
expected, it was deliberately provoked through an eight-step program
devised by the Navy. Whereas previous investigators have claimed that
our government did not crack Japan's military codes before December 7,
1941, Stinnett offers cable after cable of decryptions. He proves that a
Japanese spy on the island transmitted information--including a map of
bombing targets--beginning on August 21, and that government
intelligence knew all about it. He reveals that Admiral Kimmel was
prevented from conducting a routine training exercise at the eleventh
hour that would have uncovered the location of the oncoming Japanese
fleet. And contrary to previous claims, he shows that the Japanese fleet
did not maintain radio silence as it approached Hawaii. Its many coded
cables were intercepted and decoded by American cryptographers in
Stations on Hawaii and in Seattle.

The evidence is overwhelming. At the highest levels--on FDR's
desk--America had ample warning of the pending attack. At those same
levels, it was understood that the isolationist American public would
not support a declaration of war unless we were attacked first. The
result was a plan to anger Japan, to keep the loyal officers responsible
for Pearl Harbor in the dark, and thus to drag America into the greatest
war of her existence.  Yet even having found what he calls the "terrible
truth," Stinnett is still inclined to forgive. "I sympathize with the
agonizing dilemma faced by President Roosevelt," he writes. "He was
forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to
join in a fight for freedomIt is easier to take a critical view of
this policy a half century removed than to 

[CTRL] The world has an endless supply of oil and gas?

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 A Scientific Heretic Delves Beneath the Surface
 Oil Isn't from Dinosaurs  Other Iconoclasms
 By Ken Ringle
 Washington Post Staff Writer
 Monday, November 1, 1999; Page C1
 Computers used to cost millions. Now they're being given away. The country
 was rapidly going broke. Now we've got a $115 billion budget surplus.
 Butter was bad for us. Now we're not so sure. We're being forced to
 reexamine all our old assumptions on millennial eve, right?
 So maybe we should finally pay attention to Thomas Gold. He says the world
 has an endless supply of oil and gas.
 Gold, a Vienna-born physicist, cosmologist and general scientific heavy
 lifter, founded and for many years directed the Cornell Center for
 Radiophysics and Space Research. In his 79 years he's authored more than
 280 scholarly papers on subjects ranging from astronomy to zoology.
 He's also a full-time heretic, periodically parachuting into some new
 scientific field and infuriating academic plodders there with some
 outlandishly bold new theory. More annoying, his theories usually turn out
 to be right. Worst of all, he thinks the orthodox have so gummed up the
 gates of knowledge that they were more open to breakthroughs 50 years ago.
 Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould has labeled Gold "one of America's
 most iconoclastic scientists." Says Gold himself: "In choosing a
 hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid ... [but] I clearly would
 have been burned at the stake in another age."
 In 1947, fresh from pioneering wartime work on the development of radar,
 he used his research into high-frequency receptors to publish an entire
 new theory of mammalian hearing. Physiologists shrugged it off for 30
 years. Until auditory technology evolved enough to prove him correct.
 In 1959, when everybody thought the surface of the moon was frozen lava,
 Gold decided it was covered with dust from meteor impacts. Footprints of
 the Apollo astronauts will testify eternally that he was was right about
 that, too.
 In 1967 astronomers trashed his suggestion that energy pulsating in the
 distant universe was the signature of collapsing stars. The subsequent
 observation of pulsars won two other scientists a Nobel Prize. And proved
 Gold correct.
 In 1992 he predicted that Martian meteorites might contain fossilized
 microbes. Four years later NASA announced the same thing.
 Now in a new book, "The Deep Hot Biosphere," Gold says the origin and bulk
 of biological life is not on the surface of the Earth where the birds and
 bunnies are, but deep within it. Moreover, that microscopic life force is
 fueled by an inexhaustible supply of petroleum constantly migrating
 outward from our planet's volcanic core.
 Eight years ago, when Gold was still developing his theory, some
 geologists were so incensed by it they petitioned to have the government
 remove all mention of it from the nation's libraries.
 "It was an effort at book-burning, pure and simple," Gold says, shuffling
 around a computer-buzzing, paper-littered attic study as energetically
 unkempt as he is. Most petroleum geologists, he says, "simply have no
 concept of the laws of physics at work" beneath the Earth's crust.
 People need to understand, he says, that the long-held assumption that oil
 comes from the millennial composting of dinosaurs and ancient swamps has
 always been dubious, whatever school science books may say. His theory of
 a deep, hot biosphere doesn't just solve its contradictions, it sorts out
 in the process such minor matters as the origin of all earthly life and
 its relationship with the rest of the universe.
 Is there any wonder it makes people nervous?
 Way Outside the Box
  ...
 What's unique about Thomas Gold, says astronomer Steve Maran of the
 American Astronomical Society, is that unlike most scientists who are
 content to "pursue the advancement of knowledge in small, incremental
 steps," Gold "comes up with new ideas by starting from the original
 principles" in some field where others have labored for years.
 When that happens, he's often "treated like a curiosity that can't be
 taken seriously," Maran says. "But he always shakes things up in a useful
 way, often opens up entire new areas of thought. Some denounce him even as
 they profit from the push he's given their thinking."
 "Gold's style is in turn charming, intriguing and exasperating: short on
 details (where the Devil lies) and long on fiats and suppositions," sighed
 eminent geochemist Harmon Craig of Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
 reviewing Gold's book in Eos, the journal of the American Geophysical
 Union.
 But if Gold is right about subterranean microbes being the seeds of all
 life, and if they survive the Earth's next asteroid collision to restart
 evolution, he adds, "Let us hope that when new humans finally emerge and
 invent science they will have another Tom Gold to delight and exasperate
 them with his theories."
 On this particular day the heretic himself is stopping by the 

[CTRL] Forced treatment of mentally ill doubles

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BBC NEWS

Friday, October 29, 1999 Published at 17:17 GMT 18:17 UK
Forced treatment of mentally ill doubles

The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act has almost doubled
in
the past 10 years, according to government statistics.
Mental health experts blame lack of resources, a rise in drug abuse and
increasing worries about protecting the public.

The Department of Health says the number of formal admissions to hospital
under
the Act rose from 16,000 in 1988-89 to 27,100 in 1998-99.

The vast majority of these - some 89% - were people admitted to NHS
hospitals
under Part II of the Act which deals with emergency admissions and
admissions
for up to 28 days and up to six months.

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[CTRL] Chinese official looks upon U.S. as 'rogue' state

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Chinese official looks upon U.S. as 'rogue' state
Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Christian Science Monitor Service

By KEVIN PLATT

(October 28, 1999 12:56 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Like the
United States, China says it is witnessing the potential emergence of a
"rogue" state that could throw the world out of balance early in the next
century.

Washington warns that unpredictable regimes in nations such as North Korea
and Iraq could one day develop long-range missiles and a handful of atomic
bombs to engage in nuclear blackmail or worse.

But China's top arms control negotiator, Sha Zukang, says a bigger threat to
global stability is already armed to the teeth with hydrogen bombs and
sophisticated rockets that can send a nuclear payload to any point on the
planet.

That country, Sha says, is the United States.

"Because the U.S. believes it's the only superpower in the world, it can act
at will, without regard for international law and international norms," he
says.

Washington seems to be developing a stubbornness against abiding by weapons'
control pacts and a greater penchant to use armed force against its real or
perceived enemies, Sha complains.

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union has not ushered
in an era of global peace, he says.

Rather, it is creating a United States that is drunk with its own power and
technological prowess, adds Sha, whose official title is director-general of
the Arms Control and Disarmament Department of the Chinese foreign ministry.

Sha is not one of the Communist Party hardliners here who regularly lashes
out at the United States. Rather, he is affable, cosmopolitan, and open, and
seems more disillusioned than angry with the United States.

Sha cites as one example of aggressiveness the U.S. bombing of a medical
plant in Sudan that American intelligence initially accused of producing
chemical weapons.

The 1998 missile attack was not approved by any global organization, and the
United States has never offered the world community solid proof that the
plant made anything but medicine.

"The U.S. bombing of Sudan was an act of state terrorism," Sha says.

There is a growing list, he adds, of similar acts of aggression against
sovereign states in violation of the U.N. Charter or other global laws.

Not only did the United States and NATO launch a massive attack on
Yugoslavia without obtaining the U.N.'s approval, but the coalition
delivered, with pinpoint precision, five missiles into Beijing's embassy in
Belgrade.

That bombing "was an obvious violation of the Vienna Convention," he says.
While Beijing appreciates Washington's apologies and compensation for
victims of the attack, the United States government "still has to identify
the culprits (behind the bombing) and bring them to justice."

A U.S. official formerly based in Beijing agrees. "So far the (U.S.)
government has said institutional mistakes led to the bombing of the Chinese
Embassy," says the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But
specific individuals were responsible for mistakenly targeting the embassy,
and heads should roll as a result of those fatal mistakes."

Sha suggests the growing disregard of the United States for international
weapons conventions and rules of war is, in turn, making China more
circumspect about joining arms control regimes.

"We might have already ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty if not for
the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia," he says.

That treaty, which aims to ban all nuclear weapons testing, was rejected by
the U.S. Senate even though "the United States was the first country to
promote and to sign the treaty," Sha says.

Sha says he is puzzled by the vote not only because Washington was one of
the pact's top proponents, but also because it would have allowed the United
States to lock in its nuclear superiority and prevent any wannabes from
crashing into the nuclear club.

"The U.S. has the biggest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal in the
world," and could have frozen that advantage perpetually by signing the
treaty, he says.

Instead, the Senate's vote against ratification is alienating the United
States from the rest of the world, Sha says. "Not a single country in the
world has given its support for the U.S. Senate's rejection of the treaty."

China's defense ministry is now reviewing the test ban pact, and hints that
Beijing could ratify it early next year, during a spring meeting of the
national legislature.

"I negotiated (the treaty) - it's my baby," says Sha, who adds that he wants
to see it ratified as soon as possible.

Washington's abandonment of the nuclear treaty it pushed so hard to help
produce "was wrong politically and morally, but at least it did not violate
any international agreements," Sha says.

More alarming, he says, is a U.S. plan to build a national anti-missile
shield that would violate the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty.

Russia, which also 

[CTRL] Podhoretz on Herr Buchanan's Anti-Semitism

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   October 25, 1999


   Buchanan and Anti-Semitism

   By Norman Podhoretz, editor-at-large of
   Commentary, a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute and
author,
   most recently, of "Ex-Friends" (Free Press, 1999).

   Is Patrick Buchanan an anti-Semite? This neuralgic
question first
   flared up in 1990 during the months preceding the Gulf
War but
   fell into a dormant state after a flurry of heated debate
provoked
   by his challenge to George Bush in 1992. Now, with his
challenge
   to another George Bush--a challenge he is expected to
intensify
   by announcing today that he is leaving the Republican
Party to
   seek the Reform Party's nomination for president--it has
burst into
   flames again.

   Mr. Buchanan, being unrepentant and pugnacious as ever,
has
   responded by gleefully pouring a few gallons of gasoline
onto the
   fire. This politically reckless act has taken the form of
his new
   book, "A Republic, Not an Empire." There he offers a
revisionist
   account of World War II which is as soft on Hitler as,
conversely,
   the revisionist historians of the Cold War were once
(rightly)
   accused of being on Stalin.

   Blithely circling around a mountain of evidence to the
contrary, Mr.
   Buchanan maintains that wiping out the Jewish people was
not
   one of Hitler's major aims. To the extent that he
actually tried to
   accomplish this objective, he was driven into it by
Britain and the
   U.S. (against which he also had no designs).

 What made the book even more
inflammatory was that it came on the
heels
 of two other earlier expressions of
softness
 on Hitler. One was his description of
theFührer as "an individual of great
courage, a
 soldier's soldier in the Great War, . .
[a]
 genius," etc. Admittedly this
tributehad been
 preceded by an acknowledgment that
Hitler
 was also "a man who without compunction
 could commit murder and genocide." But
in
 acknowledging the obvious, Mr. Buchanan
 was unable or unwilling to muster as
much
 rhetorical force as the startling
praise that
   followed.

   This acknowledgment of Hitler's capacity for evil was
further
   undercut by the second of the two manifestations
ofsoftness on
   Nazism: Mr. Buchanan's habit of championing the cause of
   almost anyone accused of participating actively in
Hitler's
   genocidal campaign against the Jews.

   One of these was John Demjanjuk, a native of Ukraine who
had
   been indicted as the exceptionally sadistic guard known
as Ivan
   the Terrible at the Treblinka death camp. When an Israeli
court
   ruled that this had probably been a case of mistaken
identity, Mr.
   Buchanan loudly claimed vindication. But it turned out
that if Mr.
   Demjanjuk had not been a guard at Treblinka, he had
served in
   the same capacity at Sobibor, another death camp.
   As a Ukrainian working for the German occupiers of his
country,
   Mr. Demjanjuk might conceivably have been regarded as
   something of a victim. Yet Mr. Buchanan has looked upon
even
   Germans who confessed to war crimes in the same light.
Among
   them was Arthur Rudolph, a German rocket scientist who
   admitted involvement with slave labor and other
atrocities.
   Incredibly, Mr. Buchanan drew a parallel between Rudolph,
who
   had been a fervent Nazi, and the great Soviet dissident
Andrei
   Sakharov.

   From such thinking came the equally incredible words that
   (according to the Washington Post) Mr. Buchanan wrote for
   Ronald Reagan in justifying a presidential visit to the
Bitburg
   cemetery in Germany. Through Mr. Reagan's mouth, Mr.
   Buchanan declared that the soldiers buried there, who
included
   members of SS units (reportedly not the special 

[CTRL] New Way of Looking at Diseases of the Brain(-please start orderin g your implants now)

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New York Times
October 26, 1999

New Way of Looking at Diseases of the Brain
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE

   A highly respected neuroscientist has developed a provocative new
   theory of how the brain is organized which, if confirmed, would
   explain how and why the mind produces symptoms found in several
   seemingly unrelated disorders.

   According to the theory, the deep sadness in severe depression, the
   hand wringing in obsessive compulsive disorder, the ringing in the
   ears of tinnitus, the unrelenting discomfort of chronic pain and the
   shaking and immobility seen Parkinson's disease all stem from the same
   basic brain defect: a decoupling of two brain regions that normally
   fire their cells in synchrony.

   If the theory is correct, it would explain why experimental surgical
   techniques involving implanting electrodes in the brain to treat
   Parkinson's disease and depression seem to work so well, and it would
   expand their application to other brain diseases.

   The neuroscientist, Dr. Rodolfo Llinas, a professor at New York
   University Medical School, presented his findings on Sunday night in
   Miami to some 4,000 researchers attending the annual Society for
   Neuroscience meeting.

   Although the theory has not yet been subjected to peer review, a paper
   describing the work was submitted last week to Proceedings of the
   National Academy of Sciences and accepted for publication in just two
   days.

   Dr. Llinas is a member of the academy, which often publishes the work
   of leading scientists or their protégés when the ideas are new and
   have not yet been tested by others.

   "This work is very important," said Dr. Edward Jones, president of the
   Society for Neuroscience and director of the Center for Neuroscience
   at the University of California in Davis.

   "What makes it so compelling is that it doesn't come completely out of
   left field.

   It builds on a body of work that's been growing for some time.

   Everyone will say wow, yes!"

   Because these new insights into brain organization, if confirmed,
   would almost certainly promote the use of surgery to treat psychiatric
   and neurological diseases, other scientists urged caution in applying
   the theory. They are concerned because psychosurgeries that were tried
   30 to 40 years ago in these same regions of the brain made many people
   mentally incompetent.

   The theory involves two brain areas -- the cerebral cortex and the
   thalamus -- and how they communicate.

   The cortex is a thickly folded band of tissue that carries out higher
   mental capacities in humans and other mammals. It is composed of six
   layers of cells that are highly interconnected and organized into
   specialized regions that allow people to move their bodies, plan for
   the future, talk, listen, sense touch, respond to emotions and carry
   out other functions. The sixth layer of these cells is also directly
   connected through nerve fibers to cells in the thalamus, an older
   brain structure that is just under the cortex.

   The thalamus is usually thought of as a relay station. Virtually all
   information flowing from the outside world and lower brain regions
   must go through the thalamus before being passed on to the cortex.

   But according to Dr. Llinas, the thalamus does much more than simply
   pass information.

   The way that it coordinates its activity with the cortex, he says,
   gives rise not only to the symptoms seen in many neurological and
   psychiatric diseases, but to consciousness itself.

   It does so through what Dr. Llinas calls thalamo-cortical
   oscillations. The thalamus contains special cells that pass tiny
   electrical currents across their membranes in a highly coordinated
   manner, Dr. Llinas said in a telephone interview. Rather than firing
   sporadically and singly, like other nerve cells, the cells in the
   thalamus oscillate, firing in groups together at various frequencies.

   By virtue of their connections, these thalamic cells then cause cells
   in layer six -- the layer of the cortex closest to them -- to
   oscillate at the same frequency. This coordination between these
   oscillating cells in the cortex and thalamus, which are constantly
   flipping signals back and forth, binds information from different
   regions of the brain into complete actions, perceptions, movements and
   into consciousness itself, he said.

   When the cells oscillate at a high frequency, the brain is awake and
   alert.

   When they fall into low frequencies, the brain becomes disconnected,
   unconscious and falls asleep.

   In studying patients with various brain diseases, Dr. Llinas and his
   colleagues noticed that particular regions of their thalamuses
   oscillated at abnormally low frequencies, as if those regions were
   asleep.

   When this happens, Dr. Llinas said, key parts of the cortex are
   decoupled from the thalamus. Those parts of the cortex 

[CTRL] Exercise may be just as effective as medication for treating majo r depression

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FOR RELEASE: 24 OCTOBER 1999 AT 16:00 ET US
Duke University Medical Center
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/dumc-exe102299.html

Duke study: Exercise may be just as effective as medication for treating
major
depression

DURHAM, N.C.--A brisk 30-minute walk or jog around the track three times a
week
may be just as effective in relieving the symptoms of major depression as
the
standard treatment of anti-depressant medications, according to the results
of
a Duke University Medical Center study.

The researchers studied 156 elderly patients diagnosed with major depressive
disorder (MDD) and assigned them to three groups: exercise, medication, or a
combination of medication and exercise. To the surprise of the researchers,
after 16 weeks all three groups showed statistically significant and similar
improvement in measurements of depression.

"One of the conclusions we can draw from this is that exercise may be just
as
effective as medication and may be a better alternative for certain
patients,"
said the lead researcher, Duke psychologist James Blumenthal, who published
the
results of his team's study in the Oct. 25 issue of The Archives of Internal
Medicine. The research is supported by a number of grants from the National
Institutes of Health.

"While we don't know why exercise confers such a benefit, this study shows
that
exercise should be considered as a credible form of treatment for these
patients," Blumenthal said in an interview. "Almost one-third of depressed
patients in general do not respond to medications, and for others, the
medications can cause unwanted side effects. Exercise should be considered a
viable option."

While the researchers studied middle-aged and elderly people, Blumenthal
said
the results probably hold true for the general population. "Because the
elderly
tend to have additional medical problems that might make regular exercise
difficult, this is the most difficult group to test the exercise
hypothesis."

Symptoms of MDD, as defined by the psychiatric reference book Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual IV (DSM-IV), include depressed mood or loss of interest
or
pleasure combined with at least four of the following: sleep disturbances,
weight loss, changes in appetite, psychomotor agitation, feelings of
worthlessness or excessive guilt, impaired cognition or concentration and
recurrent thoughts of death.

Based on the DSM-IV definition of depression, 60.4 percent of the patients
who
only exercised were no longer depressed after 16 weeks, compared with 65.5
percent for the medication group and 68.8 percent of the combination group.
When a second commonly used measure of depression, the Hamilton Rating Scale
for Depression, was added, 47.2 percent of exercise group were no longer
considered depressed, compared to 56 percent of medication group and 47
percent
of combination.

In both cases, according to Blumenthal, the differences between the groups
were
not statistically significant.

Researchers did note that patients who took the anti-depressants saw their
symptoms relieved sooner, but by 16 weeks the group differences had
disappeared. Blumenthal said it was possible that the structured and
supportive
atmosphere of the exercise program also could have an effect in improving
the
symptoms of the exercise group, but he doesn't attribute the majority of the
benefit to social support. Studies have shown that improved levels of
physical
fitness are related to improved symptoms of depression, he said.
Nevertheless,
early next year, Blumenthal plans to begin a new study to gauge the effect
of
exercising in a less-supportive atmosphere, and he also plans to include a
placebo group. Blumenthal suggested that exercise may be beneficial because
patients are actually taking an active role in trying to get better.

"Simply taking a pill is very passive," he said. "Patients who exercised may
have felt a greater sense of mastery over their condition and gained a
greater
sense of accomplishment. They felt more self-confident and had better
self-esteem because they were able to do it themselves, and attributed their
improvement to their ability to exercise.

"These findings could change the way some depressed patients are treated,
especially those who are not interested in taking anti-depressants,"
Blumenthal
said. "While these medications have been proven to be effective, many people
want to avoid the side effects or are looking for a more ?natural' way of
feeling better."

The anti-depressant used in the study was sertraline (trade name Zoloft),
which
is a member of a class of commonly used anti-depressants known as selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Blumenthal cautions that the study did not include patients who were acutely
suicidal or had what is termed psychotic depression. Also, because patients
were recruited by advertisements, these patients were motivated to get
better
and interested in exercise.

The research team included, from Duke, Michael Babyak, Kathleen 

[CTRL] The Black Book of Communism

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The Wall Street Journal
October 25, 1999

Bookshelf

The Gruesome Consequences Of a Political Idea

By JACOB HEILBRUNN

The history of communism has not just been about terror, torture,
deportations and massacres. It has also been about the illusions of
Western intellectuals. Whether it is Günter Grass receiving the Nobel
Prize partly for his novelistic effusions about the coziness of East
Germany or revisionist historians playing down Stalin's
culpability for the great purges, communism has enjoyed, and continues
to enjoy, a reputation as an ideology that supposedly pursued lofty
humanitarian ends, even if it went astray at times. Indeed, the big
intellectual no-no has been to liken it to the other great totalitarian
movement of the 20th century -- Nazism.

So when "The Black Book of Communism" appeared in Europe in 1997
detailing communism's crimes, it created a furor. Scrupulously
documented and soberly written by several historians, it is a masterful
work. It is, in fact, a reckoning. With this translation by Jonathan
Murphy and Mark Kramer, English-language readers may now see for
themselves what all the commotion was about.

In his introduction, Stéphane Courtois, himself a former communist,
breaks with the postwar taboo on comparing the Gulag with the Holocaust.
He notes that the communist body count of more than 100 million exceeds
that of the Nazis. He compares the "class genocide" of communism with
the "race genocide" of Nazism and states that both were "crimes against
humanity."

So controversial was this comparison that two of Mr. Courtois's
editor-collaborators -- Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin -- later
distanced themselves from what he wrote. And predictably, the French
left lashed itself into a frenzy, denouncing the book's contributors for
traducing the noble communist fight against fascism.

In Germany, by contrast, Mr. Courtois's views met with a somewhat less
chilly reception. A decade before a bitter historians' dispute had
erupted when leftist intellectuals such as Jürgen Habermas accused
conservative historians of attempting to whitewash the Nazi past by
playing up communist atrocities, which some, not all, were indeed trying
to do. But this didn't justify the left's refusal to confront the
horrors of communism.
Eventually, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the revelation of
communist abuses in East Germany helped to overturn old dogmas, and "The
Black Book" prompted many Germans to take another look at the
relationship between communism and Nazism.

That relationship may never be fully understood. But the Russian Red
Terror, in its emphasis on the elimination of entire classes of peoples,
in its description of opponents as "vermin" to be exterminated, does
seem like a precursor of the German concentration camps. Moreover,
Nazism profited greatly not only from
Lenin's and Stalin's Gulag system -- Rudolf Hoess, commandant of
Auschwitz, solicited reports about the operations of Soviet camps -- but
also from Bolshevism itself, which served as both a whipping boy and, at
times, a political idea that could be collaborated with. The two
ideologies validated each other.

After World War II, the prestige of the Soviet Union was at its height.
The country had fought on the side of the democracies, U.S. war
propaganda had painted pipe-smoking "Uncle Joe Stalin" as a friendly
fellow. In Europe, communists made a comeback in France, Italy and
Germany with the flowering of the myth that
communists were merely heroic anti-fascist freedom fighters. Thus the
gruesome Soviet record was suppressed.

"That the Soviet Union had paid the heaviest human toll for its victory
over Nazism," writes Mr. Werth, "served to mask the character of the
Stalinist dictatorship." In fact, "the Soviet prisons had never held as
many prisoners as they did in the year of victory: a grand total of
nearly 5.5 million people."

Mr. Werth astutely notes that the Gulag was filled with "criminals"
because almost any action, however innocuous, could be branded as
illegal dissent. The Gulag,you might say, was the distilled essence of
the Soviet Union. Once Khrushchev denounced Stalin's crimes, the Soviet
Union began to unravel, however slowly,
having lost its reason for being.

After the halo wore off the Soviet Union, China emerged as a new beacon
for credulous Westerners. Mr. Margolin writes that "one myth was common
in the West:the idea that China was far from being a model democracy,
but that at least Mao had managed to give a bowl of rice to every
Chinese person." In fact, nothing was
further than the truth. Mao, like Stalin, deliberately engineered a
famine that killed untold millions.

Today the hermit kingdom of North Korea is, by all accounts, continuing
this tradition by systematically starving much of its population. Pierre
Rigoulot estimates in "The Black Book" that the regime has already
killed 500,000 people through malnutrition. Over the past 50 years, he
concludes, North Korea's 

[CTRL] Sutton at Republicanconference 1972

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 the role of international Finance in sustaining the Soviet Empire could be
brought into the full light of day. When the British born Dr. Anthony Sutton
of Stanford University carefully documented how the Soviet had been
economically sustained by the West, little attention was paid to this
staggering revelation. When Sutton gave evidence in 1972 before a Republican
Party subcommittee he thoroughly documented the horrendous truth that the
war waged by the Communists in Vietnam was only being made possible with
military equipment manufactured in the Soviet with American technology, and
transported to North Vietnam in ships built with American technology, the
American news services refused to carry Sutton's testimony.

In discussing the Sutton evidence with a Republican who had been present at
the 1972 Miami Beach conference, l was told that the general reaction to the
Sutton testimony was that if publicized it could lose Richard Nixon the
coming Presidential election!

I well recall the Wall Street Journalist who, having stumbled upon Sutton's
original documentation of the West's economic sustenance of the Soviet, came
to see a friend of mine in Ottawa asking for more confirmation of the Sutton
material. This journalist was convinced that he was on to "the scoop of the
century". He was astonished when told that his story would never appear. It
never did.


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[CTRL] Brain Shocks May Help Depression

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Monday October 11 2:52 PM ET
Brain Shocks May Help Depression
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The former shipbuilder had severe depression unrelieved by
any of today's therapies, so sick he had trouble even leaving his house.
Then
doctors implanted a pacemaker-like device to stimulate a part of his brain
thought important for mood - and that very day the man laughed.

``It was remarkable,'' recalled Dr. Mark George of the Medical University of
South Carolina, who performed the experimental implant. ``I said, 'Are you
being forced to laugh or do you feel good inside?' He said both.''

Stimulating a nerve that runs from the neck into one of the brain's most
mysterious regions appears promising enough at relieving once-untreatable
depression that the government just granted permission for a study at 15
hospitals around the country.

The treatment, called vagus nerve stimulation, involves sending tiny
electric
shocks into the vagus nerve in the neck, where it then relays messages deep
into the brain.

About half of the 30 depressed patients treated in a pilot study - people
who
had failed every other treatment - ``got a very good response,'' George said
in
an interview.

The results are not definitive, he cautioned. But he added, ``Stimulating
there
really is a wonderful portal into the base of the brain.''

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Re: [CTRL] Hegel [repost]

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 Through them, primarily, and through those who influenced
them, we will discover more of what might be called the OCCULT
side of Hegel's philosophy, with one foot in Lutheran Pietism
(a native mystical development within the peculiarly German form
of Protestant Christianity) but the other more in PRE-Christian
visions, through Greco-Roman Neoplatonism -- the object of much
admiration among Romantics and key source of their inspiration.
(In fact, one would not be far from wrong in simply saying that
Idealism is Neoplatonism wearing Teutonic attire.)

 Finally, we will discuss the ultimate source of Hegel's
"Idealism" and the origin of the ideologies or belief systems
directly born from Hegel's philosophy -- Neo-Platonism in its
DUALISTIC form, generally called "Gnosticism," which from the
beginning of the Christian era has constituted a thorn in the
side of the established Church, being an ALTERNATIVE theology --
"Manichaeanism," a sort of "evil twin" to Christianity wherein
there is believed to exist not ONE but TWO Gods --both EQUAL--
and "the Ruler of This World" (in St Paul's words) is EVIL.
 To bring the subject back to the point, it will be shown
exactly how HEGEL incorporated an epistemological ERROR into his
philosophy, in effect opening once more the floodgates to this
ancient pre-Christian, even ANTI-Christian dualism.
 Yet in so doing, it must be conceded, Hegel committed an
"error" that is a characteristically GERMAN one, reflecting a
long-enduring schism in what he would term the German "Spirit,"
because the same inclination (subjective, not intellectual)
resurfaces time and time again in the history of the German
culture, present as much in the belief systems of the Teutonic
Knights (converted to Christianity comparatively late) --as
displayed, for example, in Wolfram von Eschenbach's GERMAN "Grail
saga," in contrast to the FRENCH version of the same legend-- as
among the myths revered by the Nazi "black magicians," described
(melodramatically) by Trevor Ravenscroft in "Spear of Destiny"
or (more accurately) by Peter Levenda in "Unholy Alliance."



Hegel overturned the whole philosophic thinking of the era, which was
leading to the concept of the sovereignty of the law under the rulership of
God. Both the state and the individual were subject to the rule of
(biblically based) Law.

Hegel took many of his ideas from plato. I suspect(but can't prove) that
some came from the esoteric world of the day and he was promted into his
mode of thinking.-

An interesting quote from Jews, God and History (Dimont)shows that even the
dialectic process had antecedants in the esoteric world.

"A new metaphysical philosophy was injected into Cabalism in the sixteenth
century by
one of the great Cabalistic scholars, Isaac Luria (1534- 1572) known as Ari,
'the lion.' Luria held that all matter and thought evolved through a three
stage cycle:
tzimtzum, literally 'contraction' or thesis;
shevirat hakeilim, literally 'breaking of the vessels' or antithesis;
and tikkun, literally 'restoration' or synthesis".

Tikkun- is the name of Rabbi Michael Lerner's magazine, who was the
spiritual advisor of First Lady Hillary Clinton.


John

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Re: [CTRL] NO INDEPENT PRESS IN AMERICA? John Swinton Quote

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(Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais,
published by United Electrical, Radio  Machine Workers of America, NY,
1955/1979.)


One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York
journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of
his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to
the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as
an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you
did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid
weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you
who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear
in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
gone.
"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright,
to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent
press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the
jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are
intellectual prostitutes."



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 Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:34 PM

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 WHY WE DON'T HAVE A FREE PRESS
 John Swinton (considered 'the dean of his profession' by his peers),
 Chief of Staff, New York Times when asked to give a toast at the New
 York Press Club in 1953 THIS IS WHAT HE SAID:

 "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America,
 as an independent press. You know it and I know it.There is not one
 of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
 beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
 keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others
 of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who
 would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
streets
 looking for another job. If allowed my honest opinions to appear in one
 issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
 The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright,
 to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
 country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and
 what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and
 vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull
 the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are
 all
 the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

While the statement above is essentially true, it is a phony quote.
Swinton was never chief of staff at the times, and he was a reporter
at the turn of the century, or in the early part of this century.

THIS IS AN URBAN LEGEND QUOTE. If you want to be credible, don't use it.

Joshua2

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[CTRL] KGB's Italian Agents

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 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-10/17/279l-101799-idx.html

KGB's Italian Agents May Have Hurt West
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 17, 1999; Page A26

ROME-Soviet intelligence officers successfully recruited dozens of paid
agents in Italy during the Cold War who may have compromised secrets of
potential importance to NATO and the United States, according to documents
leaked by a former KGB archivist that were released here last week.

The alleged recipients of Moscow's paychecks included politicians, an
Italian ambassador, Foreign Ministry employees, businessmen and journalists,
the documents state. The most sensational allegation is that Armando
Cossutta--the leader of the Party of Italian Communists, which is part of
the government coalition--was an informant for Moscow.

But so far, the revelations have provoked little public response besides
weariness at the fresh political warfare the documents have ignited between
Italian right and left. The two blocs fought bitterly during the Cold War
and now want to influence history's judgment of Italy's manipulation by
intelligence services from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

The allegations have been received here as merely titillating details that
"refresh the tints of a picture which basically we've known for a long
time," as the Rome newspaper Il Messagero put it. Although parliamentary
support is growing for a formal inquiry, the government has not acted.

Few of the former Communists who now compose the leading bloc in Parliament
appear eager to have a harsh new light trained on efforts by the Soviet
Union to manipulate Italy or exploit its security lapses. The papers, which
were handed over to the British government in 1992 by former KGB official
Vasili Mitrokhin, were passed along to Rome in 1996.

Franco Frattini, a member of the parliamentary opposition who heads the
commission that released the documents, said government officials told him
they have been conducting a quiet counterespionage investigation since then.
But this claim was undercut when Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, a former
Communist, denied knowledge of the accusations, which mostly involve spying
in the 1960s and '70s.

"People assumed that things like this went on," Frattini said. "But . . .
it's one thing to talk about them at the bar, it's another to have them
written out."

Justice Rosario Priore, a prominent investigating magistrate in Rome, is
among the few independent officials who have urged prompt government action.
He said the report showed "a strikingly large" KGB network in Italy, whose
members committed "crimes that are punishable by life prison sentences."

The backdrop for the disclosures is a long history of attempted bribery of
influential Italian politicians by the United States and the Soviet Union.
For years the CIA helped fund the rightist Christian Democratic Party that
has ruled much of postwar Italy, in an effort to keep Western Europe's
largest communist party from gaining power.

The documents indicate that Moscow spent millions of dollars a year to apply
pressure from the opposite direction, some of it handed over to a Communist
Party official after dark in the garden of the Soviet Embassy in Rome.
Cossutta, the party secretary at the time, has dismissed this claim as
nothing new or surprising.

But other details, unproven so far, provide entertaining reading. Two agents
are described, for example, as leaving coded hash marks on a clock near the
16th-century Piazza del Popolo in central Rome and then greeting each other
with this improbable exchange:

"Excuse me, but didn't we see each other at the races in Montevideo in
1965?"

"No, it was France in 1964."

The Russians, like much of the Italian left, worried that fascists would
regain power in Italy, so they sought to lay the groundwork for a landing by
Soviet saboteurs. They established a ring of radio transmitters around Rome,
stored weapons and other equipment, learned how to fake government stamps
and bought uniforms of "military, railroad workers, forest rangers and
police" as well as the "used civilian clothing of the local population."

Fifteen Soviet residences were used as bases for eavesdropping on tens of
thousands of coded cablegrams, the documents assert.

Not all of the 261 people described in the report were paid. Moreover, KGB
officers were notorious during the Cold War for exaggerating their contacts
and access in reports. But some of those named could in the end have a tough
time sloughing off the detailed accounts of cash and gifts of cars or
vacations.

The documents claim that reporters for several Italian newspapers and the
Associated Press in Rome received money. They also suggest that Moscow
planted a report in a leading Italian magazine, Panorama, that the CIA was
behind the 1978 assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro. The
documents also cite for the first time a link between Moro's known killers,

[CTRL] How Many Subscribers?

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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Question: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to
change a light bulb?

Answer: 1,331:

1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light bulb
has been changed;
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light
bulb could have been changed differently;
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs;
27 to point out spelling / grammar errors in posts about changing light
bulbs;
53 to flame the spell checkers;
156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb
discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list;
41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames;
109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this
email exchange to alt.lite.bulb;
203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and
alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped;
111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs
and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mail list;
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy
the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this
technique, and what brands are faulty;
27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs;
14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected
URLs;
3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this
list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list;
33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers
and footers, and then add "Me Too";
12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot
handle the light bulb controversy;
19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three";
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ;
1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup;
47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it
here; and,
143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.

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(not forgetting the various conspiracy theories about who changed the light
bulb, why and the nature of its masonic and kabbalistic symbolism)

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Re: [CTRL] Shape Shifting

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 David hasn't been got. He went under years ago when he declared himself
the
 "Godhead". These claims merely confirm his state of mind. As the late Jim
 Keith aptly put it, The Biggest Secret is yet another "magnum crapus" on
par
 with Bill Cooper's Behold A Pale Horse. David cites dozens of witnesses of
 alleged transformations of people into reptiles, but none are named, or
their
 evidence corroborated, save for Cathy O'Brien and Arizona Wilder, whose
 credibilty is suspect to say the least.




Ive never read behold a pale horse.. What is its faults?

John

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Re: [CTRL] How To Make History Bunk

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.
"The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and
away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the
world," writes historian David E. Stannard.[3,pg.x]  Eventually
more than 100 million natives fell under European rule. Their
extermination would follow. As the natives died out, they were
replaced by slaves brought from Africa.
=
Just a short note


The principle cause of death in the americas was disease. The europeans had
been continously aflicted by smallpox and black death for hundreds of years.

When going to the america's, it has been estimated that up between 80-90%
died from disease.

Also the sad fact is that there is not a racial or religious group that has
not committed genocide against another at some time in their history.

Slaves were brought from africa because white slaves were more expensive,
and more importantly in the cotton picking regions blacks could be made to
work harder.



The effect of diseases on history is a little discussed but often
determining factor in how things turn out(see Jared Diamond- Guns steel and
history)

That is why the development of race bombs (genetically selective dideases
that disproporionally kill ethnic groups) is probably the most frightening
development in warfare in all time. The temptation to use will be strong, as
it leaves the infra structure untouched.

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Re: [CTRL] Cultural Marxism in the U.S.?

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Who won WWII?


All the main parties, Labour, Liberal, Conservative, are committed to one of

the basic principles of socialism - equality of outcome: sexual, racial,
universal -
that was official doctrine in the Soviet Union. It is official doctrine in
England and America now."

Lawyers and bureaucrats, busy legislating further restrictions on
liberty
based on ignorance, need more lessons in contemporary science that can clear

up much social confusion.


Two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Reason and Free Inquiry
are the effectual agents against error. They are the natural enemies of
error
and error only." -. In Liberty, we are going backwards.
ROBERT JOHN.

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Subject: [CTRL] "Cultural Marxism" in the U.S.?


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From the NewAustralian
http://www.newaus.com.au/us137littleton.html

{{Begin}}
What does the Littleton Massacre have to do with 'cultural Marxism' at the
U.S.
Naval Academy?  By *Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson

No. 137,   11 - 17 October 1999
The U.S. Naval Academy, via its 'Leadership and Ethics' program, appears to
be
taking a path that the nation's public schools have trod over the past 30
years. That is, it has introduced the pseudo-psychological curriculum of
'relative' moral values that has been so disastrous for our young children.
The
academy appears to be taking the direction that has forced many (who can
afford
it) to send their children to private schools or 'home school' them. This is
becoming apparent as evidence emerges concerning the true nature of the
'Leadership and Ethics' program and, specially, the new Integrity
Development
Seminars (IDS) at the Academy.

This series of 'essays' has at least scratched the surface in characterizing
these seminars and the entire 'Leadership and Ethics' program in terms of a
broader view of where the ideas, techniques, and personnel come from, what
they
believe, and what their 'mission' is. We have seen the product of these
flawed
and failed ideas in the public school system at the Littleton, CO massacre
at
Columbine High School where 13 innocent students were murdered by two evil
products of the New Age 'ethics' taught at that school. A countervailing
view
of the appropriate 'ethics' training for our nation's future Navy and Marine
officers is provided by General Charles C. Krulak, Jr. USMC (Ret.), the
former
Commandant of the Marine Corps.

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Re: [CTRL] AIDS slows world population growth

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I tried writing to black journalists about 5 years ago about the danger of
aids and was totally ignored. Put them on the list of conspirators.

 Most white beuracrats are being/have been squeezed from the civil
service(often 3 white being replaced bu 10 blacks---jobs for the palls) so
they cant be blamed.

The ANC has sat on its backside for 5 years , thinking that HIV is nonsense.


What is widely practiced in southern africa (according to lancet) is
something called dry sex. Cleaning fluid(handy andy) is inserted into the
vagina inorder to dry the vagina and to increase the friction. This leads to
minor lacerations which increase the transmission of HIV.

John

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Subject: Re: [CTRL] AIDS slows world population growth


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It *might* be coincidence...BUT: the greatest growth in the AIDS mortality
rate has come in the regions with the greatest rate of *population* growth,
namely Africa and Asia. Cultural differences account for some of the
increase in HIV infection; lack of medical care is a significant factor in
the increase in deaths. But AIDS is not an easy disease to catch, and simple
prophylactic measures can greatly reduce the risk of contracting it. The
simplest preventive of all is the latex condom; yet condom distribution in
Southern Africa is being stymied by South African bureaucrats who refuse to
speed the process of testing condoms imported, for the most part, from
Thailand. The bureaucrats in question, one must note, are for the most part
holdovers from the former apartheid regime...

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 Subject:  [CTRL] AIDS slows world population growth

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 Genocide plot succeeding with little fan fare??

 OTTAWA (AP) - The global AIDS epidemic is taking such a large toll in
 Africa that it will measurably slow world population growth, says a
 report by the Worldwatch Institute. snip

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[CTRL] How To Make History Bunk

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Smithsonian scalps Western values
by Don Feder
Wednesday, October 6, 1999

By the shores of the Potomac, near the shining big-sea water, will stand the
contentious wigwam of the Smithsonian - its National Museum of the American
Indian, to be precise.

Last week, while the Senate was cutting funds for the Brooklyn Museum of Art
for its painting of a dung-smeared Virgin Mary, a more far-reaching assault
on American values went largely unnoticed.

Construction was begun on the Smithsonian's Indian museum on the Mall in
Washington, D.C. The $110 million project (two-thirds paid by the taxpayer)
is expected to attract 6 million visitors a year.

The New York Times noted that the museum ``will not only celebrate and
display continuing tribal cultures but work to set the record straight.''

The museum's director, Richard West, said the institution would be dedicated
to ``presenting the Indian perspective.'' By ``Indian perspective,'' West
means the fulminations of activists who think Columbus was the father of
genocide and the 7th Cavalry was the Nazi S.S. on horseback.

To emphasize the point, those attending the ceremony sang the anthem of the
American Indian Movement, a militant gang best known for its terrorist
action at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975, which left two FBI agents
dead.

The Smithsonian has passionately embraced the multiculturalist agenda. It
sees all of history in the reflected light of the PC trinity - race, gender
and class.

This dogmatism was most conspicuous in a 1995 exhibit on the end of World
War II in the Pacific and the Hiroshima bombing. The original script
(revised after protests by veterans) described the conflict as ``a war of
revenge against the Japanese,'' who were ``fighting to preserve their
culture against imperialism.'' It was as if the rape of Nanking, Pearl
Harbor, the Bataan Death March, ``comfort women'' and other atrocities by
the Imperial Army had never happened.

Even art isn't safe from the Smithsonian's revisionists. A 1991 exhibit
(``The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920'')
was described by a writer for The Washington Post as ``reducing the saga of
America's Western pioneers to little more than victimization,
disillusionment and environmental rape.''

Scientists complained that the exhibit ``Science in American Life'' could
have been scripted by the Unabomber. Joan Shields, a professor of chemistry
at Long Island University, called it a ``revisionist historical display of
science as a litany of moral debacles, environmental catastrophes, social
injustices and destruction by radiation.''

The Smithsonian's latest editing of history is its book ``Timelines of the
Ancient World - A Visual Chronology From the Origins of Life to A.D. 1500.''
While major events in the development of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam are
meticulously detailed, the book moves from B.C. to A.D. without
acknowledging the birth of Jesus. The spiritual revolution wrought by the
Jewish people is similarly ignored.

The Smithsonian was established in 1846 for the ``increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men.'' Today, it exists to exhort. History becomes a
self-criticism session, where the sins of the West, evils of capitalism and
the toxicity of the Judeo-Christian tradition are confessed and atoned.

Shortly, the Smithsonian will take to the warpath again. Its National Museum
of the American Indian no doubt will attack the legitimacy of our founding
and westward expansion. From Plymouth Rock to the closing of the frontier,
it will present the ``Indian perspective.'' But you the taxpayer will get to
pay for it.

The complex story of America's native cultures should be told without bias
or belligerence. Instead, the museum will subject visitors to a sanitized,
one-sided history and victim-group mythology.

Will this effort to ``set the record straight'' include celebrations of
ritual cannibalism practiced by the Mohawks and Chippewas, torture
techniques perfected by the Apaches, the quaint custom of scalping or the
degraded status of women in most Indian tribes?

America may be the only nation in history to subsidize its own destruction.
When the multiculturalists, academic Marxists, perpetually aggrieved
minorities and sensitivity Gestapo finally succeed in pulling down our
national house, over the ruins should be erected a sign reading, ``Your Tax
Dollars At Work.''

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[CTRL] Vote Fraud in America- Hoffman Wire: Oct. 5, 1999

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THE HOFFMAN WIRE
Oct. 5, 1999
Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor
http://www.hoffman-info.com

1. Vote Fraud in America

3. Sun Tzu and Pat Buchanan

==

1. Vote Fraud in America

The Agents of Paralysis are at it again as we approach the
presidential election season, urging us to get in there and back
²our² candidate for Great White Hope.

But if we take the bait, where will we be in January of 2001,
when leaders such as myself call on their fellow Americans to
pitch-in on the long term struggle for a future for our people?
Having been burned-out, demoralized and perhaps even nearly
bankrupted on the gossamer wings of another futile presidential
election campaign, they¹ll tell me, ³It¹s no use² and ³It¹s too
late² and they¹ll crawl into their bunkers --which is right where
the System wants them.

We are offering a new audio-cassette tape of an interview with
the foremost authority on ³Vote Fraud in America,² Jim Condit,
Jr.

Jim will provide you with the missing key to the current election
farce. He¹ll tell you why your vote in the national elections
doesn¹t count, how the 1996 Republican presidential nomination
was stolen from Buchanan and how fraud could work again in 2000,
unless the candidates themselves call attention to it.

Condit, who won a court case in the 1980s against the Ohio Board
of Elections, and who is a former aide to Buchanan, told this
reporter (see Revisionist History newsletter, no. 11), that
Buchanan has thus far shown no interest in exposing vote fraud.
But if Buchanan doesn¹t expose vote fraud, he won¹t win election
as federal sewer inspector, much less the presidency.

So what game is afoot here? Listen to the ³Vote Fraud in America²
tape. Mr. Condit will show you which elections are faked, which
ones are likely to be honest and the activist steps you can take
in your own county to help secure an honest ballot box.

By means of this tape, we want to alert our people now, before
Great White Hope Fever sweeps them into yet another frenzy,
resulting in a no-win disappointment. Let¹s put the big shots on
notice-- we won¹t be fooled again by their dialectic of
opposition. We know they set-up and control their own opposition.


===

3. Sun Tzu and Pat Buchanan

As an ex-farmer let me offer you an agricultural  parable. The
tropical plant, like for example, the tomato, is fast-growing (a
matter of weeks) and ostentatious in its flowering coloration.
Its fruit is appealing to the eye. It is a gaudy bauble in the
garden of summer. But its roots are shallow and at the first hard
frost it is blackened, withered and dead.

The burdock, on the other hand, is a northern plant. It is a
nuisance in its tenacious, prickly adhesion. It is homely. It
lacks style and gloss. It grows slowly  (a matter of years). But
winter frost cannot kill it and it is nearly impossible to uproot
by hand, so deep are its taproots.

If one understands the Hegelian dialectic, and behind it, the
"knowledge of the equilibrium" of the Zohar, one knows that, thus
far, the Pat Buchanans are like that tomato. They have shallow
roots, dependent on the sunshine of the System's own news shows,
publicity machine, polls, elections and atrocity propaganda and
provocations. They are here for a season and then they vanish for
four years, like reruns on the late show.

We feed the tomato instead of the burdock and then ask, when
winter winds blow the torn and stained campaign fliers down the
empty streets of our collective broken dreams, "Why do we never
win?"

Cheap thrills are just that. The System doesn't fear an exchange
of talking heads on MSNBC. If they did, they wouldn't broadcast
them. They fear constituencies,  business networks, organic
communities, local 3rd party candidates for city council, school
board, state legislature, sheriff-- backed by voting blocs and
paper ballots counted in front of the citizens--they fear
anything with roots independent of their Videodrome and their
rigged national ballot box and polls.

Where was Mr. Buchanan in 1996, when he had four years to build
and register a third party which would make vote fraud in America
the galvanizing issue? He was supporting Bob Dole, the most
incompetent presidential candidate of any major party in modern
history. After the inevitable Dole defeat, Buchanan returned to
his plush job within the System's media octopus and squandered
three precious years that could have been spent building a new
party.

Now on the strength of rhetoric alone, we are being summoned for
another election crusade by a man who refuses to challenge the
very election System that cheats him of victory. At the risk of
alienating everyone--and such are the risks which true vision
entails--I say Pat Buchanan is that shallow-rooted, gaudy
tropical fruit--a creation of the very media-System he purports
to want to destroy.

If his campaign were entirely symbolic, costing us nothing and
running no risks of plummeting morale should he go down to

[CTRL] Pupils reap reward of return to the three Rs

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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OBE and its constructivist cousins such as whole language learning has been
pioneered by S  B in order to delibrately dumb you down. The fact that they
didn't work can be seen in the article below.

The interesting question to ask is why have the 'fabians/rockerfellers' been
allowing a return to tetsed methods in the UK.

Is the 'F/R' hold weakening? are they having a change of heart? Are they so
strong that they no longer need to dumb down?
Is a new phase in the NWO beginning? Or have they just realised that they
were stupid and ideologically driven.

Most parents, particularly working class parents (whom Ive had dealings with
anyway) hated these "progressive methods".
It was never the people who called for the abolition of traditional
education.(just more appropiate education in secondary modern schools)





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000121378023306rtmo=lSHbuFntatmo=
pg=/et/99/9/16/nedu16.html







ISSUE 1574 Thursday 16 September 1999



  Pupils reap reward of return to the three Rs
By John Clare, Education Editor






 Blunkett congratulates primary heads and teachers on significant boost in
test results for 11-year-olds [15 Sep '99] - Department for Education and
Employment




FORCING primary schools to teach the Three Rs properly has led to a record
rise in the standards achieved by 11-year-olds, David Blunkett, the
Education Secretary, said yesterday.

Tony Blair (left) and David Blunkett at Southfields Junior School in Luton,
where they launched the 'Maths 2000' initiative yesterday
 Announcing the results of this year's national tests, he said they showed
that the Government had been right to concentrate on the basics of literacy
and numeracy. The introduction a year ago of a compulsory literacy hour,
which included a large element of phonics - the method of teaching reading
previously decried by the education establishment - had produced a huge
increase in the proportion of 11-year-olds reaching Level 4, the expected
standard.

Last year, it was 71 per cent; this year it was 81 per cent, exceeding the
target the Government had set for 2002. In writing, which includes
handwriting and spelling, the proportion reaching Level 4 rose by three per
cent to 56 per cent, indicating that teachers needed to work harder on
pupils' spelling, punctuation and grammar. The combined results for reading
and writing showed that 70 per cent of 11-year-olds reached the expected
level in English, up from 65 per cent last year and on target for 80 per
cent by 2002.

Mr Blunkett said the proportion reaching Level 4 in maths shot up from 59
per cent last year to 69 per cent, reflecting the fact that most primary
schools had already introduced the daily numeracy hour, which became
compulsory only this term. Again, schools had abandoned the methods
propounded for a generation by teacher training institutions and returned to
"tried and tested methods", including formal, whole-class instruction, a
carefully detailed syllabus and an emphasis on mental arithmetic.

Mr Blunkett, who has set a target of 75 per cent reaching the expected level
in maths by 2002, said: "There is nothing more important in primary schools
than that children learn to read, write and do mathematics well."

Noting that the proportion of 11-year-olds achieving the expected level in
science had risen from 69 per cent to 78 per cent, he added: "The results
show that the quality of teaching generated by the literacy and numeracy
strategies has brought benefits across the curriculum."

Tony Blair, who was visiting Southfields Junior School, Luton, said he
regarded the results as a "really significant milestone" in raising
standards. He said: "When we started with these targets, people said it
could not be done - but it can be."

Announcing the results for seven-year-olds, Mr Blunkett ignored the advice
he was given earlier this year by the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority, which said the pass mark was too low and a poor predictor of
children's performance at 11. The authority said the cut-off point for Level
2, which is divided into three classes, a, b and c, should be raised from 2c
to 2b.

However, Mr Blunkett quoted the figures for the proportion who achieved at
least Level 2c: 82 per cent for reading, 83 per cent for writing, 71 per
cent for spelling, and 87 per cent for maths - all slightly up on last year.
The figures for the proportion of seven-year-olds achieving Level 2b or
better, which will not be published until next month, are expected to be in
the sixties.

For pupils aged 14, the results showed little change on last year. The
proportions reaching at least Level 5 - the expected standard for the age
group is half way between Level 5 and Level 6 - were 63 per cent in English,
down two per cent; 62 per cent in maths, up three per cent; and 55 per cent
in science, down one per cent.

Mr Blunkett explained that it was too early for the literacy and numeracy
strategies to have had an impact on 

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: DAVID ICKE IN FIJI...

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Credo Mutwa is a southern African shaman.
He wrote a book called Indaba my children.
In one of the chapters he wrote about Kariba was a sacred site for the
blacks.
This was not true and he was basically trying to assist the black liberation
struggle in Rhodesia. He in the book claimed that the phonecians controlled
zimbabwe before the ruins were built.

He later admitted that large portions of the book were made up. he appears
to mix real african shamanism with his own speculations, so should be taken
with a big pinch of saltbut Mr Icke has a liking for the outlandish.


John


(Bad Southern Africa joke. What did they have in Zimbabwe before candles.

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Sent: 04 October 1999 06:06
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Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: DAVID ICKE IN FIJI...



Electricity!

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Stratfor's Fourth Quarter Forecast

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I recently was in china on business. What struck me was

the considerable support the communist party has...many see it as the only
means of controlling such a vast country.

The considerable chinese chauvinism that exists(in a very polite and subdued
manner)

The view that china will be the pre-eminent power in the next century.

The support for the one child policy.

The admiration of america and the desire to learn from america.

For a people who talked about  harmony between nature and man, how
unaesthetic most of their cities are.

They dont paint anything that they dont need to.(which is bad for business)

John

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Re: [CTRL] The cataclysm *is* imminent...

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Re: [CTRL] Alternative medicine

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One of the interesting things I was reading in a medical article was that
for most common diseases for which people seek a cure(not ebola or aids or
such like), the placebo effect accounts for about 30% of the cuarive effect.
when the companies measue an effect, they meaure the difference between the
old medicine and the placebo effect.

Hence if the placebo effect is 30% and the old is say 35 % if the new
medicine is 40% curative , they talk about the drug being twice as
effective.

However I speak under correction as this is not my field of knowledge.

As an aside I listened once to a prof at medicine talking with a naturopath
about the Hays diet.
He called it nonsense but admitted that it had never been tested in
controlled experiments. The drug companies had no incentive to investigate
and the work had never been done.

John

(and'm not on the hays diet either)



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I suspect there is no money (profit) in botanicals or homeopathic
preparations for llarge  firms.  They cannot be patented.   So why would a
pharmaceutical  firm even think about homeopathy and botanicals?.  And
people
have gotten used to instant relief.which allopathic chemicals can achieve..
Alternates are essentially preventatives.

Ive had a bottle of peppermint oil for ten years. At 2 drops a dose when
needed the bottle will outlive me.  Ive had a bottle of echinacea worth
$8.00
for a year and its still half full   At 3 drops a dose twice a week nobody
is
going to get rich.It works for me and my wallet.  If anyone wants to
call
that gullible its OK by me   Whether its a placebo,   immune booster  or
magic is irrelevant.  These work for me  in specific applications.

 Then we have those who want to push  applications to absurdity. Alternative
medicine works for colds, aches and pains, joints, blood pressureall the
annoying daily annoyances (but expensive).   If you break a leg or acquire
ebola...the emergency room is the place to go.  Its a matter of balance.
Choose what works for you..

 Another point:   hormone mimickers in milk ( from cattle feed additive)
point to the rise in breast cancer rates.  Washington scientists have been
iinstructed not to discuss latest findings which point to a linkl

Why?   Because Monsanto stands to lose  a bundle.?

ASU

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Re: [CTRL] Israel -- WANTED: Holy Blood

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Mr David Goldstein a geneticist at oxford university talks about a 'cohen'
genetic signature.

About 45% of Askenazic priests and 56% of Sephardic priests have the the
'cohen' signature.

This shows the story of the Askhenazi being descendants of the Khazars as
being incorrect(unless of course the Khazars were one of the lost ten
tribes)

John


As an aside, other gentic test appear to show that the Jews are more closely
related to the armenians rather than the semites.

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Extremists Launch Search for Cohens

By JAY COHEN
.c The Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) - An extremist group that hopes to rebuild the Jewish temple
in Jerusalem has launched a search for descendants of the priests and
caretakers of the ancient temples.

Organizers of the Second Annual Conference of the Lovers of the Temple said
Monday they would use phonebooks and public records to track down Cohens and
Levis, who could be called up for service if a third temple is built.

Those attending the conference hope to hasten the Messianic age by building
a
new temple on the site of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 A.D.
by Romans quelling a Jewish revolt.

Muslims, however, decry their movement, saying it seeks to destroy Islam's
third holiest site - the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosques, which now
stand on the site.

The vast majority of Jews reject plans to force Muslims off the Temple
Mount.
Attempts by extremists to lay claim to the site have led to bloody clashes
with Muslims in the past. Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall, is the
only remnant of the temple.

``Tonight we started a project in which we will be listing all Cohens and
Levis in the Jewish movement,'' said Yehuda Etzyon, head of the Hai VeKayam
-
``Alive and Well'' - organization.

The Cohens, the priestly caste in ancient times, led services at the temple.
The Levis maintained the temple and were its musicians. Their descendants
are
identified primarily through their names, including Cohen, Levy and a wide
range of derivatives.

A model of a rebuilt temple was displayed at the conference, and speakers
called for the expulsion of Muslims from the site. About 200 people attended
the conference, at Jerusalem's International Convention Center.

``One of the ideas of interest is to build a guard of Cohens and Levis, like
the guards of the King and Queen in England, so people know this is the
holiest place in Israel and not the place the Muslims stole,'' Etzyon said.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands turned out Monday at the Western Wall to mark
Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles. A row of Cohens, covered completely under
white prayer shawls, raised their arms to bless the crowd.

The weeklong holiday of Sukkot symbolizes the harvest season and
commemorates
the 40-year trek through the desert by biblical Israelites, from Egypt to
the
Promised Land.

Jewish men dine in huts to commemorate the simple conditions the Israelites
suffered in the wilderness.

 

 I notice that this group is NOT looking for descendants of the House of
Judah.  Or at least, they're not PUBLICLY looking for any modern inheritors
of the Seed of David.
 Each time Israel has had a monarch, since King David, it's been big
trouble ...
 Last time it offered a Davidic "MESSIAH," things turned out even WORSE.
 So Judaism would prefer to be a THEOCRATIC state, centered on Kohanim
under a High Priest.
 However, Kohanim have always found themselves at odds with the SECULAR
ruler of the Kingdom (or State), whether controlled by Jews or by foreign
conquerors.
 Prolonged conflicts invariably climaxes in the call for a "theocratic"
MONARCH.
 If the Temple WERE to be rebuilt, and staffed by Kohanim and a High
Priest, at the center of Jewish life in Israel, I "PROPHESY" that, after
only
a couple of generations,
the priests' insistence that the SECULAR government be brought "into line"
with their Temple would result in a movement to restore the monarchy as well
-- along DAVIDIC lines -- with "Messianic" overtones, for NON-Jewish
CHRISTIANS around the world.

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[CTRL] FW:Re Homeopathy - generalised thought

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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Its interesting in the histtory of science, how many good ideas have been
rejected,not because of the absence of data but because of the inadequecy of
theory and the laziness and scepticism of the scientific community.

Continental drift was rejected for many years in the west because the
originator proposed tidal effects as causing it. In the east it was rejected
because it didnt fit in with dialectic materialism.

Strange claims require higher proof, but also require the scientific
community to explore with an open mind.



The same thing applies to conspiracy theories . Was the investment of SB to
totalitarian countries based on greed or on building a new order. The
correct theory will help determine what is likely to happen with in the
USA's relationship with China.

Was Waco a stupidity by the US govt or part of a long term plan to produce
the america, the land of the proles



John


Dave wrote:



 It's no great cognitive leap to realize that herbs and other alternatives
 including homoeopathy are ruthlessly suppressed for a couple of reasons.
 1. many alternatives are not PATENTABLE.  (get it?)
 2. they actually WORK, and where would all the profits go without the
lines
 of repeat customers?

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Re: [CTRL] Zap the Bastards

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thats a case of reductio tot absudium. The equivalent counter argument is
that sinc punishment doesnt deter, then you should close all the prisons and
do away with the police force.

John

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 Sorry, but this begs for the old saw "Well, it certainly deters ONE
 person !"

Zap everybody - then we're ALL deterred.  Hey, it'll work.

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Re: [CTRL] Homeopathy -the second curve

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i'm not into homeopathy and tried one of their medicines for hay fever to
try and avoid that dopey feeling but found it didnt work.
However I remember in the economist(about 5yrs ago) they reported controlled
experiments carried out at glasgow, that did produce positive results with
some homeopathic medicines.

As to water having some sort of memory, in chemical plants, one of the
tecqniques to reduce scaling in heat exchangers is to pass it through a
strong magnetic field.

Also the major drug companies have a large financial incentives to discover
expensive, patentable cures above natural inexpensive cures.

Having said all that i'd trust normal alipathic medicines to cure
sicknesses.
(Although I wouldnt always trust doctors with those medicines)

John

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 You will never understand homeopathy and many other New Science
 technologies if you think in the conventional framework.

Ah, so we have to stop demanding that they be demonstrably effective?

 You have to posit another dimension..we call it 4-space

We already live in 4-space - it's called space-time.

 Within conventional thinking homeopathy CANNOT WORK for several
 reasons especially Avogadros limit...past a certain point of
 dilution not one molecule of the physical substance remains.

Yes, it's hard for non-existant stuff to work.

 But if you posit another dimension it does explain the phenomenon.

Posit whatever you will, but demonstrate 1) the existence of what
you've posited and 2) the validity of your claims.

But the theoretical basis of homeopathy is irrelevant if it doesn't
work.  If it worked, it would be exploited commercially on a mass-
industrial basis.  Major drug firms would squeeze every possible
dollar out of it.  As it is, homeopathy is well-marketed to the
credulous, and works about as well as any placebo can be expected
to.  But if SKF Beecham and CibaGeigy et al can't find effective
uses for homeopathic preparations, why should I trust a clerk at
a GNC assuring me that their green goo is good?

Like I said, next time you get cholera, see a homeopath.

 See MEMORY OF WATER  page 26 for the second curve, which is
 Hahnemanns 'spirit essense"

Ah, "spirit essense" - to claim it, and to establish it, are rather
different endeavors. Demonstrate the existence of 'spirits', then
demonstrate that water has 'spirit', then show that water has a
"spirit essense" and 'memory', then produce independent replication
of these experiments, and I'll start to take such claims seriously.

 If you think only in conventional scientific terms you will give
 yourslf a headache, get frustrated and never understand..

Homeopathy is based on a doctrine.  Doctrines suck.  Science is
based on the rigorous testing of ideas - doctrines tend to fade
away under such scrutiny.  Science WILL give you a headache, but
it works.  Doctrines will soothe your mind, but won't lead you
to fruitful discoveries.  Bother.

 Loosen up your mind.

Tighten up your standards.

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[CTRL] Open Letter to the Law

[Taylor, John (JH)]

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* * * B A R  W A T C H  B U L L E T I N * * *

The following is an "open letter" by Professor David Mayer of Capital
University Law School announcing his reasons for quitting his ABA
membership.  In the spirit of the kind of continued debate and discussion
we are trying to foster, we reprint it here.  Email comments are welcome,
and we hope to have a variety of them to share in next month's email.

Why I've Quit the American Bar Association: An Open Letter to the Law
School Community

The American Bar Association is the nation's largest lawyer organization,
with approximately one-third of the nearly one million lawyers in America
as its members.  For the past 11 years -- ever since I began my law
teaching career -- I have been a member of the ABA.  Following the ABA's
annual meeting in Atlanta earlier this month, however, I've decided to
cease being a member.

At one time the American Bar Association was an organization truly
dedicated to "preserving liberty, pursuing justice," as its current motto
states, and to maintaining "the honor of the profession of law," as its
constitution states.  The ABA's policy handbook specifies its mission "to
increase ... respect for the law and to achieve the highest standard ... of
ethical conduct."  Today, however, the ABA has betrayed its professed
principles.

In recent years, the ABA increasingly has become an advocacy organization
for a variety of left-wing political causes including: support for race-
and gender-based affirmative action programs, opposition to tort reform,
support for federal gun control measures and
continued federal funding of abortions, universal health insurance, and
funding for the Legal Services Corporation and the National Endowment for
the Arts.  Despite protests from many members that its support for these
causes has nothing to do with the advancement of the legal profession, the
ABA has continued to take official policy stances on such controversial
matters.

Moreover, the ABA also has become quite partisan, virtually an organ of the
Democratic Party.  This political bias permeates the ABA and its
activities; it is evident in its leadership staff, its programs and
speakers, and its choice of award recipients.  This year's annual meeting,
for example, featured a speech by Webster Hubbell and a keynote address by
Bill Clinton -- whose invitation was announced the same week that a federal
judge imposed sanctions on Mr. Clinton for having given "false, misleading,
and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process"
and engaging in "misconduct that undermines the integrity of the judicial
system."  The ABA's disparate treatments of Clinton today and Richard Nixon
in 1973-74, documented by Gerald Walpin in a recent Wall Street Journal
essay ("Lie to a Court, Get Invited to Address the ABA," Aug. 9, 1999), is
itself quite telling about the organization's partisanship.

The ABA's decision to invite Mr. Clinton to speak at this year's annual
meeting is, for me, the final straw.  As Walpin notes, the ABA has sent a
message to lawyers that "it is OK to lie and obstruct justice, so long as
you maintain political allies in high places."  Even the Washington Post --
hardly a conservative or libertarian paper -- in its August 11
editorial condemned the ABA for "inviting a perjurer to speak to a
professional association of attorneys," noting that this was "a move that
could not be better calculated to entrench the larger public's contempt for
lawyers as people who twist the truth for selfish ends."

The ABA no longer represents me.  Nor does it represent hundreds of
thousands of other American lawyers who truly value liberty, justice, and
the rule of law.


David N. Mayer
Professor of Law and History
Capital University Law School
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