Yellow Cosmic Human,
Kin 52, Electric Moon,
7th Year of Prophecy
 
 
Joshua2, you wrote:
 
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From: Nurev Ind Research <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] why no cheeseburgers

> Do you really expect anyone to believe this bunk? There's no such thing as
> the CFR or RIIA or Trilateral Commission. It's all paranoid bunk!
 
> There you go again. Now you're saying that the media are in on this
> "conspiracy?"  Geeez.

 
I only wish I could agree with you about it being paranoid bunk. In the early 'eighties I researched and published a broadsheet article for CND, 'The Armageddon Lobby'. During that time I actually subscribed to and received literature from the Trilateral Commission in New York.
 
In one book sent me there were several 'Task Force Papers', one which lamented the effects of higher education in the 'sixties suggesting that this led to higher expectations amongst students causing them to rebel against the Establishment.  The author urged the Commission to use the international media -- particularly in the Trilateralist countries -- more effectively to counter such subversion and to win over hearts and minds, ie to manage information more tightly.
 
Look what has taken place over the last 30 years: access to higher education has become far more difficult in western countries and students have now been tamed into submission by a generation of Monetarism. Trades unions have been weakened and the Rupert Murdochs have not only swallowed up most independent newspapers but they have spawned a whole new multinational industry around the 'management' of information.
 
President Eisenhower knew exactly what he was talking about when, in retirement, he warned of the threats posed by a Military-Industrial Complex. To which we can add the New Order and the much-vaunted 'Globalization'.
 
In Britain, Blair and his 'New Labour' apparatchiki are busily dismantling the Welfare State with policies that even Mrs Thatcher would never have dared implement. What a conservative administration dare not do is left to its successors, be they Democrats or 'New Labour'.
 
Despite an ambivalent membership of the European Union, Britain effectively a minor banana republic whose political direction is decided in Washington and Virginia.That's the reality which Operation Desert Storm, Kosovo and East Timor bear out. Sadly, however, Britain has to import its bananas...
 
> Forgiveness is too much to ask for. Reconciliation is not
> possible because the conservatives of each religion understand that both
> can't be in the same place at the same time. The only people who attempt
> reconciliation are those to whom the religion is not their primary ident-
> ification.
>
> Now tolerance is another story.
 
To quote from William Hugh Tunstall's Hatewatch News:

 
**N.Y. cardinal says he's sorry for anti-Semitism**
Cardinal John O'Connor has expressed sorrow for the anti-Semitic history
of the Catholic Church in a letter made public over the weekend by Jewish
leaders. ``I ask this Yom Kippur that you understand my own abject sorrow
for any member of the Catholic Church, high or low, who may have harmed
you or your forebears in any way,'' the cardinal said in the letter.
http://www.herald.com:80/content/today/digdocs/023362.htm
 
 
No doubt, Cardinal O'Connor is quite aware of the importance of using his position in the Roman Catholic Church to speak for reconciliation and forgiveness in a time when small groups of extremists, racists and anti-Semites are able to cause a degree of havoc quite disproportionate to their numbers. In any, case it's about time someone said sorry for what the Inquisition legitimized.
 
Regarding tolerance I would wholly agree. With one exception. I personally happen to think we should implement absolute Zero-Tolerance in regard to Nazism but you can't do that in a democracy, can you? All any of us can do is to bear witness to common human decency and hope that it will prevail.


 
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