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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau,
who was born this day in 1817
CONDIT CASE
Exploratory hypothesis
Operating on the Maine principle of not talking unless it improves on
silence, your editor has been quiet about the Condit case. This morning,
however, a speculation entered my head that refuses to depart. This may not,
I suddenly realized, be a story about one woman�s disappearance and one
man�s transgressions but about a number of women and a number of men. In
other words, we may only be seeing the tip of the penis.
The possibility that the Condit case has exposed some form of group sex on
Capitol Hill whether involving call girls or faith-based voluntary activity
would go a long way towards explaining the strange way everyone seems to be
acting. It might explain the desire of the DC police to keep the Modesto
cops from pursuing their own investigation. It might explain the
disappearance of not only Chandra Levy but a minister�s daughter who was
involved with Condit who has chosen to go into hiding, not to mention the
high stakes legal assistance, the days it took the MPD to get around to
checking out Condit�s pad, and Anne Marie Smith being interviewed for six
hours by the FBI and the DC cops, with Smith saying that she told some them
some things they didn�t know.
It would not in any way conflict with the Capitol Hill and Washington
tradition of commingling sex, politics, drugs, and even, more significantly,
blackmail. The current issue of Adult Entertainment Monthly, for example,
reports that �Archeologists digging just four blocks from Capitol Hill in
Washington, D.C., have unearthed the remains of a 19th-century bordello
owned by Mary Ann Hall, a determined 20-something who built and managed the
three-story brick building, yet was never busted by police even as dozens of
other similar houses in the city were targeted.�
Later, during Prohibition, the notorious �Man in the Green Hat� kept Capitol
Hill offices supplied with the substances they prohibited elsewhere. And J.
Edgar Hoover is believed to have blackmailed numerous members of Congress
over their sexual proclivities much as mobster Meyer Lansky is said to have
boasted that he had �fixed that son of a bitch� i.e. Hoover- with photos
of Hoover having sex with a close aide. Interestingly, while there is little
evidence of the Italian mafia being active in DC, Lansky did have some
operations here. Hoover may also have blackmailed Jack Kennedy, an easy
target what with his affairs with a mob moll, a movie star with Mafia
connections, and an east German spy.
In a revisionist version of the origins of the Watergate affair, not only
were the burglars allegedly after evidence of a call girl ring working with
the Democratic National Committee, but there were allegations of a similar
Capitol Hill operations staffed by secretaries, office workers, and a White
House secretary.
Then there was Rep. Barney Frank hiring a male prostitute in 1986 who later
claimed he ran a sex ring out of Frank�s Capitol Hill apartment.
As recently as last year, the ethically challenged Rep. Jim Traficant was
trying to work the game the other way, claiming to be "to be investigating
corruption in the U.S. Justice Department� and alleging that Janet Reno �is
being controlled by a blackmailer who has a video of her cavorting with a
call girl.� What is interesting about this is not that the story is credible
but that a member of Congress thought it might be.
assumed it might be.
One may, as liberals did under Clinton, take the view view that all sex is
good sex. This ignores, among other things, the blackmail factor. As Condit
has demonstrated, not all politicians can wiggle out of these situations as
easily as Clinton did. Not all have such forgiving constituencies. In fact,
it would not be surprising if some of them were blackmailed during the
impeachment hearings.
More importantly, it is probable that politicians are blackmailed not just
by domestic opponents but by foreign lands. There are some reports that both
the Russians and the Israelis knew about Monica Lewinsky before Americans
did. Intelligence investigator Peter Dale Scott thinks that international
blackmail and sex with politicians is �an ongoing, highly organized, and
protected operation� that has �driven the major scandals of Washington since
at least the beginning of the Cold War.� Scott has also suggested that the
mob and lobbyists use call girls for blackmail.
As is the case with stories such as those involving BCCI and the Mena drug
operations, everyone involved has something to lose by public exposure of
the real story of sex and power in Washington. Hence politics stops at the
sex organ�s edge and the system works together to get things back under
control: Republicans, Democrats, and the law. Don�t forget the DC police
department�s ultimate employer is the U.S. Congress.
And so the endemic is reduced to an isolated incident and life moves on.
Like I say, this is only an hypothesis, but it would not be surprising if a
young intern on Capitol Hill were to enter a relationship for sex or love
and find herself in the midst of something far deeper. Just something to
keep in mind.
ECOLOGY
INDEPENDENT, LONDON: A 2,000-page UN report on the science and potential
impacts of climate change gave the most authoritative statement yet that the
Earth is warming rapidly, that the main cause is industrial pollution, and
that the consequences for human society are likely to be catastrophic. The
report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of
several hundred of the world's most distinguished meteorologists, including
many Americans, is a substantial slap in the face for US President George
Bush, whose unilateral abrogation of Kyoto has thrown the international
effort to counter global warming into chaos.. . . The IPCC scientists gave
their unqualified support to the view that global warming is real.
Furthermore, they said, since their last report was published six years ago,
they found they had vastly underestimated the rate at which global
temperatures are rising. They now believe they will rise by as much as 5.8 C
by the end of this century, almost twice the increase predicted in their
1995 report. This is likely to lead to crop failures, water shortages,
increased disease and disasters for towns and cities from flooding,
landslides and sea storm surges, they believe, with the poor developing
countries likely to be hit hardest. The crucial point that emerges from the
report is that all these new stresses may be happening at the same time to a
world already under great stain from massive population growth, poverty and
pollution.
MORE http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=83051
THE REAL PRICE OF PRISONS
MOTHER JONES: There are more people behind bars in the United States today
than ever before. Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled
to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented
costs to all Americans . . . Prisons certainly aren't expanding because more
crimes are being committed. Since 1980, the national crime rate has
meandered down, then up, then down again -- but the incarceration rate has
marched relentlessly upward every single year. Nationwide, crime rates today
are comparable to those of the 1970s, but the incarceration rate is four
times higher than it was then. It's not crime that has increased; it's
punishment. More people are now arrested for minor offenses, more arrestees
are prosecuted, and more of those convicted are given lengthy sentences.
Huge numbers of current prisoners are locked up for drug offenses and other
transgressions that would not have met with such harsh punishment 20 years
ago. In return for spending so much more on prisons today -- a nationwide
total of some $46 billion annually -- taxpayers might reasonably expect a
corresponding drop in crime. But most experts agree that prisons have done
little to make communities safer. A recent study by the University of Texas
estimates that while the number of inmates has grown by more than 300
percent since the late 1970s, that growth is responsible for no more than 27
percent of the recent drop in crime. Indeed, many states with the fastest
increases in prison populations received no commensurate payback in crime
reduction. In West Virginia, for example, the incarceration rate ballooned
by 131 percent over the past decade -- but crime dropped by only 4 percent.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Virginia, incarceration rose just 28 percent, but
crime dropped 21 percent.
Other findings:
-spending on prisons nationwide has grown six times faster than spending on
higher education in the last 20 years. While taxpayer dollars allocated to
prisons have soared in every state, funds for higher education have actually
declined or stagnated in many states.
-the most extreme disparities between white and nonwhite incarceration rates
are not in the South, but in northeastern Democratic strongholds like
Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Nationwide, nonwhites are locked up at four
times the rate of whites; eighteen states incarcerate African Americans at
ten to twenty times the rate they lock up whites.
Increase in Incarceration Rate, 1980 - 2000
1. Connecticut
2. New Hampshire
3. North Dakota
4. New Jersey
5. Idaho
Growth in prison spending per capita, 1980 - 2000
1. Ohio
2. Pennsylvania
3. Texas
4. Michigan
5. New Jersey
FULL REPORT, including an Incarceration Atlas that breaks out key statistics
on prison growth and its costs in every state.
http://www.motherjones.com/prisons/index.html
WATCHING THE COUNT
Frank J. Murray, WASHINGTON TIMES: Widely quoted assertions that black
voters cast 15 percent of Florida's ballots in the 2000 presidential
election are wrong far beyond any acceptable margin of error, The Washington
Times has learned. Official computerized reports obtained by the Times,
identifying each voter by name and race, contradict claims that turnout by
blacks has increased by more than 50 percent since 1996. Contrary to all
reports, black voters on Nov. 7 constituted 10 percent of Florida's turnout
-- 610,616 by actual count, as opposed to estimates that routinely top
900,000. Simply achieving the widely reported 15 percent share of the
turnout of 6,086,109 would require that an unheard of 97.7 percent of all
black registered voters had gone to the polls.
MORE http://washtimes.htm
BULWER-LYTTON FICTION CONTEST
[An annual contest for the worst opening paragraph for a book, sponsored by
San Jose State University. This the winning entry.]
A small assortment of astonishingly loud brass instruments raced each other
lustily to the respective ends of their distinct musical choices as the
gates flew open to release a torrent of tawny fur comprised of angry yapping
bullets that nipped at Desdemona's ankles, causing her to reflect once again
(as blood filled her sneakers and she fought her way through the panicking
crowd) that the annual Running of the Pomeranians in Liechtenstein was a
stupid idea.
[The winner was Sera Kirk Vancouver, British Columbia, a freelance legal
secretary, who likes to boast that she can also write badly in German,
French, and Spanish. She says her own favorite all-time Bulwer-Lytton
Contest winner is that by Sheila B. Richter, who won in 1987 with her
description of Canadian geese: "The notes blatted skyward as the sun rose
over the Canada geese, feathered rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages
frantically peddling unseen bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven
by Nature's maxim, 'Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and at last I knew
Pittsburgh."]
MORE http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2001.htm
JUST POLITICS
NEW HAVEN REGISTER: John Halle pulled off an upset in the 9th Ward when he
became the first member of the Green Party to win a seat on the New Haven
Board of Aldermen. Halle, 41, will finish the term of Democrat Gerald
Garcia, who resigned to take a job in New York . . . "This is a very unusual
thing," Halle said, shouting over victory party cheers at his home. "I think
it might be an indication of things to come."
THE San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 10-1 to place on the March
2002 ballot a charter amendment to implement instant runoff voting for all
single-winner city offices: board of supervisors, mayor, district attorney,
sheriff, city attorney, treasurer, public defender and assessor-recorder.
San Francisco currently uses December runoff elections in these races. If
passed by the voters, this will be the first adoption of instant runoff
voting for general public elections in this country in 25 years. The last
case was Ann Arbor, Michigan, which used instant runoff voting for a single
mayoral race in 1975 . . . The Eugene OR city council has voted to place an
instant runoff voting charter amendment on the September ballot, and
Berkeley CA city council is working on one that may appear on the March 2002
ballot. Oakland voters passed a charter amendment in November 2000 that
specifies the use of instant runoff voting in special elections to fill
vacancies as soon as the county completes its acquisition of new, touch
screen voting equipment.
http://www/fairvote.org
GREAT MOMENTS IN TELEVISION
Lisa de Moraes, WASHINGTON POST: CBS hit the ratings mother lode today after
one of the male contestants on "Big Brother" put a kitchen knife to the
throat of a female housemate. The network was anxious to goose viewership on
this reality series. Just wait till you see the numbers for Thursday night's
live broadcast. That's when Julie Chen interviews Justin Sebik, who CBS
tossed out of the house today after his strange encounter with housemate
Krista Stegall. The pair, who met on the show only last week, were making
out on a kitchen table when Sebik, a 26-year-old New Jersey bartender,
grabbed a carpet sweeper and suggested hitting Stegall with it, according to
a CBS source. The 28-year-old Louisiana waitress reportedly laughed, and the
couple continued kissing until Sebik grabbed a knife and held it to her
neck. "Hang on, I'm going to slash your throat," the network quoted Sebik as
saying. "Would you get mad if I just killed you?" CBS spokesman Gil Schwartz
said Sebik had engaged in "violent talk" with other contestants and had been
warned previously about his conduct. "He was evicted because the producers
felt . . . he was engaging in activity that could be interpreted as
threatening," Schwartz told The Post's Paul Farhi. "The producers wanted to
err on the side of safety."
MORE http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49767-2001Jul11.html
LOOSE CHANGE
FINANCIAL TIMES: US companies defaulted on $53.8 billion of corporate debt
in the first six months of this year, according to Moody's Investors
Service, the credit rating agency, causing misery for many but providing a
record windfall for restructuring experts. At this rate, outstanding
defaulted US corporate debt is likely to end this year higher than last
year's record $131.8 billion. Bankruptcy experts predict defaults could
continue to rise in 2002 and 2003.
The rising default rate has proved a boon for the restructuring industry,
which had some very quiet years until the technology and telecommunications
bubble burst last year.
MORE http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/front_1.html
IRAQ
JORDAN TIMES: Iraq has told the United Nations that more than 1.5 million
people have died due to shortages of medical supplies during 11 years of UN
sanctions . . . The letter said 622,887 children under the age of five had
died of diarrhea, pneumonia and respiratory and malnutrition-related
diseases and 897,530 people over the age of five had died of heart problems,
cancer and diabetes.
MORE http://www.jordantimes.com/Thu/news/news2.htm
BRITAIN
John Carvel, GUARDIAN, LONDON: An alarming rise in the number of children
attempting suicide was reported by the charity Child Line. Calls from
suicidal children to the charity's help lines have doubled, increasing from
346 in 1990-91 to 701 in 1998-99. About a third tried to kill themselves
shortly before making the call or during it - usually by overdosing or
slashing their wrists. The rest said their main reason for calling was they
wanted to kill themselves . . . In addition to the 701 children who rang the
help line to discuss suicide, 890 called to discuss bullying, sexual and
physical abuse, self-harm or eating disorders, but were recorded by
counselors to be showing suicidal feelings.
MORE http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialcare/story/0,7890,519982,00.html
HEALTH
Sarah Boseley, guardian, LONDON: People prescribed anti-depressant drugs
like Prozac and Seroxat by their GP may be at increased risk of suicide soon
after starting the medicine, the British pharmaceutical company Glaxo Smith
Kline has acknowledged. GSK, in the wake of the verdict and a $6.4 million
compensation award against it over the suicide of Donald Schell in the US,
after he killed his wife, daughter and granddaughter while on [Paxil] has
complied with a request from the medicines control agency in Britain to
issue a warning to doctors and to patients with packets of the drug. GSK has
said it will appeal against the verdict . . . Concern about the dangers of
the [drugs], which include Prozac, Seroxat and Lustral, has been raised by
David Healy, director of the North Wales department of psychological
medicine, who gave evidence for Donald Schell's family in their successful
litigation against GSK. In archives maintained by GSK in Harlow, Essex, Dr
Healy found early trials of Seroxat on healthy employees of the company
before the drug was licensed. He told the court that 25% of those taking
part in 34 studies became disturbingly agitated on the drug. He believes
that a minority of those prescribed [such drugs] can become violent towards
themselves and others, which can end in suicide . . . The warning reads:
"The possibility of suicide is inherent in depression and may persist until
significant therapeutic effect is achieved, and it is general clinical
experience with all antidepressant therapies that the risk of suicide may
increase in the early stages of recovery."
MORE http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialcare/story/0,7890,519437,00.html
THE CITY
GUARDIAN, LONDON: Road charging schemes such as that announced by London
mayor Ken Livingstone look set to spread across the country over the next
decade.
About 10 local councils, including major cities such as Bristol, Leeds and
Birmingham, have already expressed an interest in implementing one of two
controversial schemes designed to keep motorists out of city centers and
beauty spots. Under legislation passed last year, they can choose to bring
in either a London-style congestion charge, or a workplace parking charge
scheme, with the owner of the parking space picking up the tab. The money
raised from either scheme has to be re-invested in transport for the local
area. Leeds is proposing a scheme that would see motorists buying a paper
permit to get past more than 30 crossing points, which will roughly follow
the length of the city's inner ring road. Motorists will have to show the
permit within the city center and charges will be enforced by mobile patrols
. . . Bristol's proposed scheme is technologically more adventurous, using
an electronic cordon to charge cars entering the city center during peak
morning hours. A group of four West Midlands councils, including Birmingham,
Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton, are exploring the possibility of
bringing in workplace parking charges.
MORE http://society.guardian.co.uk/localgovt/news/0,8368,519673,00.html
THE NATION
William H. Frey, AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS: The country is becoming more
diverse, but growth of ethnic populations is only concentrated in certain
regions . . . A careful examination of the torrent of statistics flowing
from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that the nation's minority groups,
especially Hispanics and Asians, are heavily clustered in selected regions
and markets. Rather than witnessing the formation of a homogeneous national
melting pot, we are seeing the creation of numerous mini-melting pots--in
contrast to the rest of America, which is much less diverse. Through
intermarriage and the blending of cultures, each of these melting-pot metros
will develop its own politics, tastes for consumer items, and demographic
personalities . . . In a broad swath of the country the minority presence is
still quite limited . . . Indeed, a mere 30 of the nation's 276 metros
accounted for fully 70 percent of all Hispanic growth . . . Only a handful
of metros are racially diverse enough to be considered true melting pots . .
. In metro Miami, for example, whites constitute only 36 percent of the
population, while blacks and Hispanics account for 21 percent and 40
percent, respectively . . . The list includes the country's largest
immigrant gateway metros, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas,
Houston, Washington D.C., as well as 17 smaller metros located in
California, Texas, and other Southwest states.
MORE INCLUDING MAP
http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/01_ad/0106_ad/ad010603.htm
THE MEDIA
L. Brent Bozell III, MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: A United Press International
article says that a study by a psychology professor at Iowa State University
finds that adults who watched �neutral� television programming remembered
the advertisements on these shows far better than those who watched racy or
violent fare. Brad Bushman, who conducted the study, told UPI that �when
people watch a program with violence or sex, they think about violence [or]
sex. The sex and violence registers much more strongly than the messages the
advertisers are hoping to deliver.�
WILD SHOTS
While 69 men per 100,000 die of gun shots in DC every year, the number of
female fatalities is so small that it�s not even listed in the latest Kaiser
health statistics report. Obviously, something more than guns are involved
in these deaths.
GREAT MOMENTS IN RELIGION
US MAGAZINE: [Models Markus Schenkenberg and Claudia Schiffer] are expected
to sign on to pose as Adam and Eve in a high-fashion-magazine version of the
Old Testament being planned by a group of Swedish entrepreneurs. [According
to one of the organizers] �We want to take the Bible off the dusty back
shelf and put it on coffee tables.�
http://www.mrc.org/columns/entcol/col20010710.html
FEEDBACK
:: The World War II Monument
ERIC R, BROOKLYN NY: Well before WW-II ended, the U.S. and the Europeans
were getting ready to fight the Soviet Union, even recruiting the Nazis to
help. It was clear to the western capitalist powers that we had more in
common with fascism than with communism. So perhaps our national WW-II
monument was planned as a sick joke among the monuments to democracy. Using
Albert Speer's symbols and style of honoring the dead says that the German
war effort was just the first phase of our own full-gun anti-communist
crusade, that their struggle became our struggle. Indeed, many of today's
most powerful transnational corporations played both sides of the war,
taking advantage of the chance for creative profit making and global
realignment. The planned monument is apparently meant to honor the triumph
of capital, most of whose anti-democratic ideals are indeed the gist of
fascism.
:: The lawyers
[WILLIAM GLABERSON, NY TIMES WROTE: For a couple of centuries, judges and
lawyers have been including arcane numbers smack in the middle of their
writing. They call them sentence citations, see, e.g., Bush v. Gore, 531
U.S. 98, 121 S. Ct. 525, 148 L. Ed. 2d 388 (2000).]
TIM: As you probably know 531 U.S. 98 refers to the same case as 121 S. Ct.
525 which refers to the same case as 148 L. Ed. 2d 388. Three companies
publish the books that house these citations, and so three companies publish
the main legal opinions, in this case the opinions of the US Supreme Court.
If lawyers only cite one source and if then everyone cites that one source,
we will only have one source available to us. In the end, we will get a
monopoly and prices will increase for these books, a result that will make
lawyering more expensive. Save yourself and others the expense of both law
school and a monopoly by just telling people what I told you.
[But they can still put them in footnotes where they don�t interrupt the
flow of reading]
CORPORATE TRESPASSING
Network Next uses high schools to gather market research from teenagers,
and pitch products to them, without parental consent. The company boasts to
advertisers of an "audience of one million teens in 1,000 schools," and the
ability to "test the impact of changes in online interactive marketing
variables" on high school students which "puts business and marketing
decision information at your fingertips." With its mobile computer and
projection equipment that it provides to schools, the company says it
displays banner ads in classrooms "continuously...for the entire class to
view.� The company, which says it is "in the e-commerce and Internet
advertising business," tells advertisers that they can receive "Total online
purchase behavior of teens," including the ability to "track the dynamics of
online consumer purchasing" by students. It boasts of a "unique viewing
environment" � the schools � "that helps sponsors increase awareness, usage
and purchase intent."
SINGAPORE
[Since Singapore is sometimes held up by the American establishment as an
example of a well run society, we thought you might to see this letter
received by a Singapore web site]
Dear Mr. Tan and Ms Goh
Registration of Website - Sintercom
1. We note that your website www.sintercom.org engages in the propagation,
promotion and discussion of political issues relating to Singapore.
2. Please be informed that under the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (class
License) Notification 1996, any body of persons engaged in the propagation,
promotion or discussion of political issues relating to Singapore on the
Internet is required to register with the Authority.
3. Please complete the enclosed registration form B and form B2, and return
the completed forms to me within 14 days from the date of this letter.
4. Do feel free to call me at 837 9385 should you have any queries.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
Paglar Yvonne Ann (Ms) Management executive (new media policy) for Chief
executive officer SBA
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,44866,00.html
FIELD NOTES
GREEN HORIZON: The web version of the Green journal of ideas is up and
running. A print version is also planned. http://www.green-horizon.org
HEALTH INDICATORS: A state by state breakdown of key health indicators and
statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?
TODAY IN HISTORY
1979 The Chicago White Sox sell tickets for 98 cents to fans who bring a
disco record to be burned. Unfortunately, the fans prefer to toss
thousands of them on the field during the second game of a doubleheader
causing the White Sox to forfeit the game.
1937 Bill Cosby is born.
1871 Protestant Irishmen are shot by Catholic Irish snipers as they march
down New York's Eighth Avenue, provoking a bloody riot, involving Irishmen,
police, and infantry. Fifty-four are killed.
1969 Half of the Top 40 AM radio stations in America ban the Beatles' "The
Ballad of John & Yoko" because of the lyrics, "Christ, you know it ain't
easy ..."
1982 FEMA promises that survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail.
HISTORY NET http://www.thehistorynet.com/today/today.htm
WRITER'S ALMANAC http://writersalmanac.org/
DAILY BLEED http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm
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