-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 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The enemy I dreaded most may surprise you. It was the darkness of the new moon. Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights. It was not now such a very difficult problem to guess what the coming Dark Nights might mean. The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness. And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason for the fear of the little Upper-Worlders for the dark. I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Moorlocks did under the new moon. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong. The Upper-World people might once have been the favored aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carlovingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism. But, clearly the old order was in part reversed. The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace. Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back--changed! Already the Eloi had begun to learn one old lesson anew. They were becoming reacquainted with Fear. And suddenly there came into my head the memory of the meat I had seen in the Under-world. It seemed odd how it floated into my mind . . . . . . These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon--probably saw to the breeding of. And there was Weena dancing at my side! ===== Apocalypse Now Will the "Big Bang" Machine Destroy the Earth? Creation of a black hole on Long Island? A NUCLEAR accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang is under investigation by international physicists because of fears that it might cause "perturbations of the universe" that could destroy the Earth. One theory even suggests that it could create a black hole. Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL), one of the American government's foremost research bodies, has spent eight years building its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island in New York state. A successful test-firing was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time of the millennium. Last week, however, John Marburger, Brookhaven's director, set up a committee of physicists to investigate whether the project could go disastrously wrong. It followed warnings by other physicists that there was a tiny but real risk that the machine, the most powerful of its kind in the world, had the power to create "strangelets" - a new type of matter made up of sub-atomic particles called "strange quarks". The committee is to examine the possibility that, once formed, strangelets might start an uncontrollable chain reaction that could convert anything they touched into more strange matter. The committee will also consider an alternative, although less likely, possibility that the colliding particles could achieve such a high density that they would form a mini black hole. In space, black holes are believed to generate intense gravitational fields that suck in all surrounding matter. The creation of one on Earth could be disastrous. Professor Bob Jaffe, director of the Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is on the committee, said he believed the risk was tiny but could not be ruled out. "There have been fears that strange matter could alter the structure of anything nearby. The risk is exceedingly small but the probability of something unusual happening is not zero." Construction of the �350m RHIC machine started eight years ago and is almost complete. On Friday scientists sent the first beam of particles around the machine - but without attempting any collisions. Inside the collider, atoms of gold will be stripped of their outer electrons and pumped into one of two 2.4-mile circular tubes where powerful magnets will accelerate them to 99.9% of the speed of light. The ions in the two tubes will travel in opposite directions to increase the power of the collisions. When they smash into each other, at one of several intersections between the tubes, they will generate minuscule fireballs of superdense matter with temperatures of about a trillion degrees - 10,000 times hotter than the sun. Such conditions are thought not to have existed - except possibly in the heart of some dense stars - since the Big Bang that formed the universe between 12 billion and 15 billion years ago. Under such conditions atomic nuclei "evaporate" into a plasma of even smaller particles called quarks and gluons. Theoretical and experimental evidence predicts that such a plasma would then emit a shower of other, different particles as it cooled down. Among the particles predicted to appear during this cooling are strange quarks. These have been detected in other accelerators but always attached to other particles. RHIC, the most powerful such machine yet built, has the ability to create solitary strange quarks for the first time since the universe began. BNL confirmed that there had been discussion over the possibility of "perturbations in the universe". Thomas Ludlam, associate project director of RHIC, said that the committee would hold its first meeting shortly. John Nelson, professor of nuclear physics at Birmingham University who is leading the British scientific team at RHIC, said the chances of an accident were infinitesimally small - but Brookhaven had a duty to assess them. "The big question is whether the planet will disappear in the twinkling of an eye. It is astonishingly unlikely that there is any risk - but I could not prove it," he said. The London Times, July 18, 1999 Spy vs. Spy Arafat Man Gets Mossad Oversight Role Since when did the overseers ever know what was happening, anyway? A ROW has broken out in Israel over a decision to appoint a close associate of Yasser Arafat, the PLO leader, to the parliamentary committee which oversees the country's Mossad intelligence agency. Hashem Mahameed, a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List, will be the first Arab to sit on the Knesset's most important committee, the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee. The committee also supervises Israel's internal security agency, the Shin Bet, and army intelligence. The choice - which has the backing of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's One Israel faction - is controversial, not just because Mr Mahameed is an Arab, but because of his extreme views. Apart from being a confidant of the Palestinian leader, Mr Mahameed has in the past called on Israeli Arabs to launch an armed intifada, described the Israeli towns of Jaffa, Ramala and Lod as "conquered territory", and paid a condolence visit to the family of Adel Awadallah, the Hamas master bomb maker, after he was killed in a shoot-out with security forces. Mr Mahameed has also called Hizbollah, the militant anti-Israel organisation, "an important freedom movement". He has also advised the Palestinian leader on how to negotiate with Israeli politicians. The decision to appoint Mr Mahameed, who refers to himself as a Palestinian rather than as an Israeli Arab, has been described as "ludicrous" and "shocking" by spokesmen on the Israeli Right. One aide to Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, said sarcastically: "Why don't we just invite Saddam Hussein to sit on the Prime Minister's inner security Cabinet?" Another commentator, Ron Tira, said: "It is virtually an act of suicide to appoint to such a committee someone who is committed to dismantling Israel itself." The Right-wing Likud opposition has established a team led by Moshe Arens, the former defence minister, to try to block the appointment, which it says will diminish the parliamentary ability to scrutinise security matters and be harmful to democracy. Mr Arens said: "Mahameed's appointment will empty the committee of all meaning and will mean an end to parliamentary supervision of the defence establishment, whose heads will be unwilling to address the committee in Mr Mahameed's presence." The Likud announced that it will file a motion of no confidence on the issue, to be heard in two weeks. However, Mr Mahameed has the backing of Israel's new governing coalition and the Likud is unlikely to be successful. Mr Mahameed may not be the only Arab to sit on the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee. The One Israel faction plans to announce tomorrow that one of its four seats on the committee is being assigned to one of its Arab Knesset members, Nawaf Massalha. Many on the Israeli Left have welcomed Mr Mahameed's appointment, hailing it as a "a huge breakthrough for democracy". Hirsh Goodman, a respected commentator, said: "Israeli Arabs have legitimate foreign policy and security concerns. Where should these be addressed if not in parliament?" Yossi Beilin, a senior member of One Israel, praised this "historic decision as another step towards turning Israeli Arabs into a legitimate component of Israeli society. We must not be a state with any kind of discrimination". Another commentator said: "We must stop regarding Israeli Arabs - who make up one sixth of the population - as a potential fifth column for invading Arab countries." Mr Barak himself has not commented on Mr Mahameed's appointment. Some cynical critics allege that the whole thing is in effect a Machiavellian move by Mr Barak to render the committee redundant and allow himself a free hand on security matters. Mr Mahameed, who holds a BA and MA from Tel Aviv University, and who helped found the Communist-affiliated Hadash party in 1976, has served in the Knesset since 1990. He says he intends to take part in all the committee's meetings, including briefings by the directors of Mossad, the Shin Bet and military intelligence. David Kimche, a former deputy head of Mossad, told The Telegraph that there was almost no chance of this happening. "All the really sensitive matters relating to Mossad are dealt with by a sub-committee," he said. * Mr Barak and President Clinton set a target date of November 2000 to complete peace agreements with the Palestinians and Syria and Lebanon during their talks in Washington last week, a senior Israeli official said yesterday. The London Telegraph, July 18, 1999 Summer Readings Gun, Book, and Candle by Vin Suprynowicz This was the week Democratic heir-apparent Al Gore called for the government registration -- photo ID cards, fingerprinting, the whole nine yards -- of every handgun owner in America. Of course, in a careful minuet, Mr. Gore thus carved out a victim disarmament position slightly more "moderate" than that of his Democratic rival, former New Jersey Sen. and NBA Power Forward Bill Bradley, who surely remembers how to execute the old picket fence. Mr. Bradley calls for the federal registration of every single firearm, historically the last step before confiscation. Presto: Gore the "Moderate." Regular readers will not be distracted by the fancy ball-handling. This has nothing to do with "reducing crime" -- crime rates are now falling everywhere, except among police officers, who are now getting dismissed at record rates for torturing and murdering innocent "civilians." (But we wouldn't want to disarm them, surely?) Rather, the goal here is to divide America into two classes. One class will be our rulers and their armed minions, who will dress in battle gear and carry assault rifles and instruct us in our new duties while being "protected by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States." The second class will be the rest of us -- the tax-paying, disarmed serfs. It was in this context that I sat down to come up with this year's "Summer Reading List," where regular readers will know better than to expect any escapist romps soon to star Harrison Ford in a multiplex near you. (What is with this "Tom Clancy" guy, anyway? Is that actually an individual, or some sort of collective brand name, like "Pillsbury," or "Smith & Wesson"?) If you haven't read it in 35 years, the most important book you can pick up this summer, as we contemplate an America where the armed government goons will soon gather unrestricted power to have their way with us, is Leon Uris' classic novel of the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, Mila 18. What abuses, indignities, and outright tortures will a peaceful people endure before they finally take up arms in a desperate struggle against tyranny? (One would be tempted to call it "a hopeless struggle," though in fact the ability of a handful of untrained civilians to hold off battle hardened units of the Wehrmacht for two months in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 stunned the world, and was in large measure responsible for the fact that an armed and free state of Israel was even judged feasible.) The Bantam paperback edition of Mila 18 is readily available. Not so easy to find, yet, is the thinner new novel The Mitzvah, by Aaron Zelman of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (Lethal Laws), and by veteran novelist and Second Amendment advocate L. Neil Smith ( Pallas, The Probability Broach.) The Mitzvah recounts the tale of middle-aged Chicago Catholic priest John Greenwood, who discovers he is actually a Jewish Holocaust orphan, a revelation that forces him to rethink many of his "received" opinions, including the notion that the best solution to an increasingly violent urban America is further victim disarmament. Mind you, in competition for a permanent place in the literary pantheon, Mila 18 is the heavyweight. But if you're looking for an outreach tool for folks who might find a modest 243 pages more easily digestible, The Mitzvah is $10.95 postpaid from JPFO, P.O. Box 270143, Hartford, Wisc. 53027. On the non-fiction front, we would be remiss not to mention that the work of Jim Bovard (The Fair Trade Fraud) keeps getting better. In his latest hardcover, Freedom in Chains ($26.95, St. Martin's Press), Jim seems almost ready to join the radicals, declaring: "The achievements of government will be forever limited by the primary tool of government -- coercion. ... The people are irrevocably labeled as 'free' until the government completely wrecks the economy or slaughters a statistically significant percentage of the population. People have worshipped government too long. ... At this point, marginal reforms should suffice only for those who believe citizens deserve marginal lives -- lives consisting of what politicians choose not to confiscate and bureaucrats deign not to prohibit. To be overgoverned means lives thwarted, hopes dashed, creativity suppressed, potential squandered, character subverted, and dignity destroyed." By George, I think he's got it. Finally, in the video aisle, producer Mike McNulty (the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Waco: The Rules of Engagement") reports September is now the target date for release of his sequel, "Waco: A New Revelation," which promises further documentation of the purposeful use of government snipers to keep women and children trapped in the burning building on the day of the Branch Davidians' final incineration, while federal agents blocked access to fire engines. (A federal judge in Texas ruled this month those very charges have sufficient credibility to go forward at trial, with sniper Lon Horiuchi -- the killer of Vicky Weaver -- as a named defendant.) Vin Suprynowicz, assistant editorial page editor of the Review-Journal, is author of the new book Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement 1993-1998. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 18, 1999 China vs. Taiwan Taiwan Defiant in Face of Beijing Backlash Coming soon: Trade blockade, missile tests, seizure of Quemoy Islands? CHINA is to stage military exercises as a warning to Taiwan following the country's decision to scrap its "One China" policy. China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and fears that the decision could be a possible step toward independence. Taiwan's announcement last week that it would abandon the "One China" policy marks the start of a bitter contest between the mainland and the prosperous island that has been ruled as a separate entity since 1949. The uneasy peace since the end of Chinese missile tests in March 1996, is set to be shattered by a new set of manoeuvres designed to disrupt shipping and trade, and undermine public confidence. Military analysts believe that the People's Liberation Army has identified three options for its campaign - a trade blockade of Taiwan, a new round of missile tests similar to those three years ago, or an invasion of one or more of the Quemoy Islands which belong to Taiwan and are close to the Chinese mainland. Taiwan's decision to redefine its relationship with Beijing as "two states within one nation" rather than "two equal entities within one nation" drew a furious reaction from the mainland. But most analysts doubt that China has the capacity to recover Taiwan in a full-scale invasion, given the island's superior air and sea forces, though its capacity to cause chaos has been proven. Rumours of an imminent strike from China caused panic among Taiwanese investors on Friday and Saturday. Shares slumped as traders reacted to PLA warnings that it stood ready to smash any attempts to split the country. One Chinese analyst with close ties to the military expects the PLA to unveil its threat gradually from August 1, the anniversary of its foundation 71 years ago. In the first signs that China was preparing for confrontation, troops in the Nanjing military region were placed on heightened alert. Western intelligence believes that China has tripled the number of missiles aimed at Taiwan in the past two years to almost 200 and has plans to increase that figure to 650 by next year. It is also said to be developing a weapon similar to the Tomahawk cruise missile to deploy around Taiwan. Taiwan's increasingly assertive stance stands out as a blot on the record of the Beijing government at a time when it is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary in power on October 1 and the return of Macau from Portuguese rule in December. Hong Kong newspapers said yesterday that Chinese exercises, involving army, air force and navy units, would steadily increase in intensity ahead of the October anniversary as the leadership showcased the country's military capability. The campaign is likely to continue beyond October because Beijing now sees the outcome of the Taiwanese presidential election next March as crucial to its hopes of reuniting the Chinese motherland. While the Communist party leadership will be relieved to see President Lee Teng-hui, whom it branded last week a "sinner for 1,000 years", retire from politics, it will be keen to ensure a successor who will back away from the gradual approach toward independence. Beijing favours James Soong, a former governor of Taiwan who left the ruling party Kuomintang on Friday to pursue an independent bid for the top office. Mr Soong, who was born in China, backs negotiation with Beijing and the resumption of direct communication with the mainland. 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