-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Lesson From Religion and the Rebel by Colin Wilson The Outsider, then, is a man who is haunted by a sense of the futility of life. Most of the modern Outsiders I dealt with felt there was no way out of this impasse. But to some degree, a closer examination showed that this attitude is due to the peculiar conditions of our civilization. Spiritual standards have almost ceased to exist, and Freud and Karl Marx have done a thorough job of convincing us that all men are much the same, subject to the same kind of psychological and economic pressures. If the modern Outsider finds the world an unrelieved prospect of futility, it is because his training and conditioning make it difficult for him to see any meaning in the notion of increased intensity of mind. And this is the key to all religion. . . . The Outsider's salvation lies in extremes. One could rephrase that: The Outsider only ceases to be an Outsider when he becomes possessed, when he becomes fanatically obsessed by the need to escape. The Outsider could be compared to a man who has been hypnotised, and lowered into a cage full of apes. The hypnosis prevents him from understanding why he finds the apes disgusting and stupid. He only knows that he detests them. He believes he is an ape too. His solution lies in deliberately fighting the hypnosis, in telling himself: I am not an ape, I must be something more than an ape. A difficult matter if his hypnosis--his conditioning as an ape--inclines him to give up the struggle and become "a member of the simian race" and a good citizen of the ape community. ===== Nuclear Spying Cox Report Says China Used US Companies for Spying Up to 3000 "Front Companies" A controversial congressional report on Chinese efforts to get access to sensitive US technology is to be released to the public today, having already unleashed a political fire-storm in Washington. The report claims there may be more than 3,000 "front companies" in the US seeking to obtain American technology for military purposes, according to congressional officials. The report, from a House of Representatives select committee, details alleged thefts of nuclear weapons technology from US national laboratories and an inadequate response from the responsible government agencies. It also covers the sale to China of high-tech goods and information with important military applications. Publication of the bipartisan report from the House committee, chaired by Christopher Cox, a Republican from California, has been delayed since early January as the committee and the Clinton administration argued over what should be made public. Mr Cox said at the weekend some 70 per cent of the original report would be declassified. Congressional officials familiar with the report told Associated Press that the report saw the espionage threat from China as much broader than infiltration of weapons labs. There was evidence, the report was said to conclude, that China had been using - and continued to use - an extensive network of small and large businesses operated by Chinese nationals in the US to penetrate civilian technology centres. There might be more than 3,000 such US "front companies" - many concentrated in high-tech centres in California and New England - with connections to the Chinese intelligence apparatus, In addition, the congressional panel reportedly concluded, China required thousands of students, tourists and other Chinese visitors to the US to seek out bits of information that might be used for military purposes. Senior lawmakers have already begun to round on top figures in the Clinton administration for supposedly failing to carry out their responsibilities with respect to the Chinese nuclear theft allegations. Janet Reno, attorney general, and Sandy Berger, national security adviser, have been criticised and some lawmakers have called for their resignation. Mr Berger has previously said he was briefed by intelligence officials on the allegations in April 1996 and July 1997. But it took until 1998 before new securities procedures were introduced into the nuclear laboratories. Mr Berger told Mr Cox's committee that he recalled briefing the president in 1997 about the theft. Mr Cox said there was a long delay in briefing other senior administration officials. Madeleine Albright, secretary of state, said at the weekend she was not briefed until this year. The Financial Times, May 25, 1999 Nuclear Spying Pressure Mounts for a Designated "Fall Guy" over Nuclear Spying Clinton will get off the hook by choosing a scapegoat. Pressure is mounting in Washington for resignations in the Clinton administration over allegations that China gained access to American nuclear secrets. A congressional report into the allegations is due to be published on Tuesday and there is a mounting body of cross-party opinion that examples must be made if it is found that there was prior knowledge of a breach of security. First in the firing line is Attorney General Janet Reno, who came under pressure from senior Republicans on Sunday to resign over her department's "indefensible" handling of the espionage allegations. "I believe the attorney general ought to resign, and she ought to take her top lieutenants with her," Sen Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS' Face the Nation. "She ought to do it now for the sake of the country," he added. Phone tap Ms Reno and the Justice Department as a whole have been criticised for repeatedly refusing FBI requests to tap communications made by Wen Ho Lee, a scientist employed at the Los Alamos weapons laboratory. Mr Lee is suspected of passing high-level nuclear secrets to China, although he has not been charged with any crime. Justice Department officials say the evidence against Mr Lee, an American citizen of Taiwanese descent, was not firm enough at the time to justify approving the tap. Politicians remain convinced China has acquired American nuclear secrets and used them to build a new generation of strategic weapons. The congressional report is said to conclude that details of at least seven US weapons systems were handed to Beijing, including technology related to the development of neutron bombs. Chinese denials China has repeatedly denied obtaining US secrets. It says the charges are the latest example of rising anti-China propaganda amongst American politicians. Rep Christopher Cox, who chaired the committee that produced the report, says the evidence showed spying is still going on. Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday, Mr Cox said both Democrats and Republicans on the committee were anxious that the Clinton administration "address the problems head on ... [to] lock up the damage". Scandal deepens The potential scandal deepened on Sunday when a senior government official, Notra Trulock, said he had informed the White House three years ago that he was convinced China had spied on American nuclear facilities. Mr Trulock, who was intelligence director at the Department of Energy, said he was told not to give the information to Congress because it could be used to attack President Clinton's policy towards China. When he did testify, he was demoted. His remarks and the imminent publication of the report have put the Clinton administration on the defensive, facing allegations of severe complacency. Earlier this year Mr Clinton said during his time in office no one had told him of suspected espionage at American weapons laboratories. Presidential allies, however, have been saying the problem stretches back over 20 years through Republican administrations as well. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department manages the Los Alamos laboratories, has also appealed for critics not to politicise the case, saying the extent of Chinese spying was still not clear. "We cannot overdramatise conclusions that are not conclusive yet," he told ABC's This Week. Nonetheless, observers say this latest scandal is a ticking time bomb that could cause lasting damage not just to the Clinton administration but to the aspirations of Vice-President Al Gore in elections next year. BBC News, May 24, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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