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NEWSLETTER #18
(actually Newsletter #17, Part II, but who's counting?)
October 2, 2002
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr18.html
Greetings, once again, to all subscribers!
This first story has much to teach us about the world in which we live.
On September 19, the venerable L.A. Times reported that Maurice Papon, a
top Vichy official in WWII France - which is to say, a Nazi fifth
columnist - was released from prison after serving just three years for
sending some 1,600 men, women and children to their near-certain deaths
at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
(http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-papon19sep19.story)
Papon had remained a free man for more than fifty years following the
commission of his crimes against humanity. It was not until 1998,
fifty-three years after the close of World War II, that Papon was sent
to prison. And he wasn't in hiding all those years. No, he in fact
remained a very powerful and public figure on the French political
scene.
One of many offices Papon filled over the decades was budget minister in
the administration of President Valery Giscard d�Estaing. A frequent
sidekick of d�Estaing was Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self declared Emperor
of the Central African Republic. The French president's family had heavy
investments in the African nation, and several family members reportedly
served in the Bokassa regime.
I mention this because Bokassa was convicted in absentia, after fleeing
the country, of participating in the slaughter of scores of
schoolchildren. Bokassa himself personally butchered 40 of the children,
and then cannibalized them. This fact was confirmed by both Amnesty
International and through an independent, five-nation investigation.
Bokassa's palace was found to be brimming with evidence of cannibalism
and other atrocities -- not unlike Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, but on a
much grander scale. Bokassa ultimately served about five years for his
crimes, and died a free man.
And now, after serving a mere three years, Maurice Papon is a free man
once again. Three years for knowingly sending 1,600 individuals to their
deaths. Three years for playing a direct role in an egregious act of
mass murder. Three fucking years! Wait a minute ... I almost forgot ...
I should have written that like this: THREE FUCKING YEARS!
Meanwhile, Slobodan Milosevic continues to be prosecuted by a U.S.-led
court for war crimes that there is little, if any, evidence that he
actually committed.
How, you might be wondering, was it possible for a known Nazi
collaborator and war criminal to remain a powerful figure in France for
better than five decades? Well ... the same way that it was possible for
a Nazi collaborator like John Foster Dulles to rise to the position of
Secretary of State following World War II. And the same way it was
possible for a Nazi financier like Prescott Bush to become one of the
most powerful Senators in the country, and a personal adviser to
President Eisenhower. And the same way that it was possible for a Nazi
collaborator like Allen Dulles to become the longest-serving director of
the Central Intelligence Agency. And the same way that it was possible
for a Nazi collaborator like Nelson Rockefeller to become the
Vice-President of these United States. And the same way that it was
possible for a Nazi financier like Averell Harriman, a Bush/Walker
business partner, to occupy various seats of power within the federal
government. And the same way that it was possible for .... well, I think
you get the idea.
The truth of the matter is that America's recent flirtation with overt
fascism isn't some kind of historical anomaly, and it isn't simply a
result of the Bush cabal seizing the White House and running amok. The
fascists were here long before World War II, they were here during World
War II, and they are still very much with us today.
For the truth, you see, is that Nazi Germany was not the incarnation of
one man's singularly twisted vision. It was not the result of a
megalomaniacal leader run amok. Far from it. Adolf Hitler was never
anything more than a frontman, not unlike George Bush, except that
Hitler was a far more charismatic and intelligent frontman than is G.W.
Nevertheless, in the final analysis, Hitler was merely the public face
for the forces that drove Nazi Germany. And the largely unseen faces
that he was fronting for were largely the same ones that George Bush is
now fronting for.
Consider, if you will, that fully 70% of the money that financed the
rise of the Third Reich came from the United States and Great Britain
(according to former Justice Department investigator John Loftus).
Consider also that the eugenics beliefs that fueled some of history's
most appalling crimes against humanity came from the United States and
Great Britain.
The international laws that enabled Nazi Germany to 'legally' loot and
pillage most of Europe were drafted by high-powered attorneys from the
United States, the primary one being John Foster Dulles. The Lebensraum
(living room) policy that was used to justify Nazi Germany's genocidal
imperialism was modeled directly after the genocidal destruction of the
Native American nations.
One of the least discussed aspects of the Third Reich is the occult
beliefs that in part shaped the ideology of the Nazi Party, particularly
so in the case of Heinrich Himmler's Black Order of the SS. These
beliefs relied heavily on the ideas and the writings of Eliphas Levi in
France, and Madame Helena Blavatsky in New York City.
The financing, most of the ideological beliefs, and the legal
justifications that the Reich relied on were all supplied by America and
its 'Western' allies. And when the Nazi Party ultimately was defeated,
who was it that rushed in to try to preserve as much of the fascist
infrastructure as possible? Who was it that recruited literally
thousands of Nazi spies and scientists? Who was it that helped set up
the 'rat lines' that funneled countless Nazi war criminals out of
Germany and into various corners of the world, with their plundered loot
intact? And who was it, while we're on the subject, who had largely sat
idly by while Spain, Italy, Germany, and then virtually all of Europe
fell under fascist rule?
In case you're having trouble with those questions, the answer is, in
each case, the United States. But it can't be, you say. Surely it wasn't
American dollars that propelled Adolf Hitler into power. Surely it
wasn't American ideas that fueled one of history's greatest horror
shows. Surely American lawyers didn't knowingly grease the path for Nazi
Germany to follow. And surely America didn't rush in to protect Nazi war
criminals from ever answering for their crimes.
America would never do such a thing. Oh sure, we may have financed and
supported an endless series of maniacal leaders who were morally
equivalent to Hitler, albeit on a smaller scale -- men such as Duvalier,
Marcos, Somoza, Mobutu, Pinochet, Noriega, Batista, Hussein, Pahlavi,
Suharto, and a host of others -- but surely we didn't covertly back the
real Adolf Hitler, the one to whom all the pretenders to the throne are
compared ... or did we?
There is no question that a whole lot of Wall Street bankers and
attorneys, and a laundry list of America's most powerful corporations,
had an uncomfortably cozy relationship with the Reich, both before and
during World War II.
So while we should rightfully be indignant that Papon served just three
years for his complicity in the commission of crimes against humanity,
it is still three years longer than Herbert Walker (George Bush, Sr.'s
grandfather) served. Three years longer than Henry Ford served. Three
years longer than Charles Augustus Lindbergh served. Three years longer
than anyone on the boards of directors of Ford Motors, General Motors,
ITT, RCA, Standard Oil, Chase Bank, or Brown Brothers-Harriman served.
Three years longer than any native U.S. fascists served.
Oops ... I seem to have once again gone off on a rant there. I really
need to stop doing that if I am ever going to get through this list of
links.
But while we're on the subject of Adolf Hitler, I have to mention that
German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin recently noted that Bush
was exhibiting some decidedly Hitlerian behavior -- a comment that White
House propagandist Ari Fleischer described as "inexplicable."
(http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/09/20/FFXTN560B6D.html) In truth
though, Daeubler-Gmelin could have gone much further in noting the
parallels between Bush and the Fuhrer.
(see, for example, "Bush's 9/11 Reichstag Fire:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0913-03.htm)
Daeubler-Gmelin gets bonus points, by the way, for having also harshly
denounced the execution of a German national in 1999 by the state of
Arizona. Not only was the condemned man denied rights guaranteed him by
international law, but his execution was carried out in the gas chamber
-- an act that understandably left a very bad taste in the mouths of the
German people. Daeubler-Gmelin said at the time: "It is barbaric and
unworthy of a state based on the rule of law. It is appalling the way
the death penalty is celebrated in Arizona. Apparently it's used for the
reelection of governors and state prosecutors."
Daeubler-Gmelin apparently voiced her opinions one too many times.
Before I could even finish composing this newsletter, she was compelled
to tender her resignation, as Gerhard Schr�der - fresh from a narrow
election victory, a victory based in large part on Schr�der's posturing
as a foe of Plan Bush - quickly begins burrowing his head up Bush's ass.
(http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2002-daily/01-10-2002/world/w4.htm and
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-433369,00.html)
An absolute must-read posting this week is "Oh Say Can You See," by Deck
Deckert in the September 9 rendering of Swans. Deckert suggests that, as
was done with German civilians following World War II, "the UN General
Assembly order the U.S. to create a Witness Army. Young men and women
would be forced to sign up for the WA when they turned 17. At the start
of every U.S. war, American-backed coup, police action, 'air strike',
embargo, 'peace action', 'preventive war', or attacks on aspirin
factories, a Witness Army brigade would be sent in to confront what was
done by their nation's leaders."
(http://www.swans.com/library/art8/rdeck028.html)
Out of Colombia came the shocking news that the army (backed, of course,
by the U.S.) is working with paramilitary death squads. You don't say?
(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CAS209A.html and
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-links15sep15005033.story)
And those paramilitary groups, acknowledged the Washington Post, derive
"a large portion of [their] financing from [Colombia's] drug trade." Now
that's even more shocking.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22043-2002Sep15.html)
The L.A. Times reported that "the most violent province in one of the
most violent countries in the world" just happens to be the one
bordering an - who would have guessed it? - oil pipeline.
(http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-pipeline15sep15005033.story)
For yet more news on the escalating levels of violence and repression in
Colombia, see: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/colo-s19.shtml,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2273680.stm and
http://rense.com/general29/mart.htm.
Iraq, of course, is all over the news these days. Newsweek reminded us
of who created Saddam Hussein
(http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.18A.neswk.us.iraq.htm), while ABC
News admitted that the U.S. and Iraq were not always enemies.
(http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/us_iraq_history_1_020917.html)
The Sunday Herald, which has been at the forefront of coverage on the
impending attack upon Iraq, reminded us of where Saddam got his weapons
from (as did Counterpunch) (http://www.sundayherald.com/27572 and
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo0919.html), and a number of media
voices refreshed our memory on who supplied him with biowarfare agents
(though the goal seems to be affirming that Iraq poses a grave threat to
the world, rather than questioning America's past actions).
(http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2002/nf20020920_3025.htm,
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20020923/1048504.asp,
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak26.html,
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/politics/4186725.htm,
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021001-8211716.htm and
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.30A.byrd.wmd.htm)
Speaking of biowarfare, the Washington Post reported that it is
Washington, and not Iraq or any other so-called rogue nation, that "has
abandoned an international effort to strengthen the Biological Weapons
Convention against germ warfare, advising its allies that the United
States wants to delay further discussions until 2006."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36677-2002Sep18.html)
In completely unrelated news, this excerpt from William Blum's Killing
Hope reminds us of who it is that has waged various forms of chemical
and biological warfare against the nation of Cuba (here's a hint: it's
the same rogue nation that opposes strengthening the Biological Weapons
Convention).
(http://rense.com/general29/amerca.htm)
And lest anyone mistakenly conclude that such actions represent ancient
history, the Sunshine Project informed us that the U.S. is currently
operating a very secret, and very illegal, biological and chemical
weapons program.
(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SUN209A.html)
And while we're on the subject of chemical and biological warfare, a
couple of reports surfaced claiming that the gassing of the Kurds in
Iraq (which, of course, we all 'know' was done by Saddam) was actually
the work of Iran.
(http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/12-14-00.html and
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=22569589&sType=1)
The Independent, with "Don't look now: Saddam is drowning kittens," and
the Christian Science Monitor, with "When contemplating war, beware of
babies in incubators," warned us to beware of Washington's self-serving
fables about Iraq.
(http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mark_steel/story.jsp?story=330556
and http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html)
The Sunday Herald revealed that plans for toppling Saddam were drafted
before George Bush even began pretending to be the President -- which
doesn't come as much of a surprise. The Herald also provided the lowdown
on some of Washington's top contenders to lead the new Iraqi puppet
government -- men described as "convicted embezzlers, accused war
criminals and CIA stooges to a man."
(http://www.sundayherald.com/27735 and
http://www.sundayherald.com/27877)
Gulf War I veterans warned that this time around will be a bloodbath,
and one vet in particular asked, rather poignantly, "What Will I Tell My
Children?"
(http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1430552,00.html
and http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14141)
The Telegraph of India worried that the nuclear taboo will soon be
broken.
(http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020910/asp/opinion/story_1177740.asp)
There is, of course, very good reason to have such concerns.
(http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0722.html)
A number of leading American scientists have questioned one of the
supposedly key pieces of evidence in Washington's 'case' against Iraq,
though their voices are not, of course, being heard in the U.S. media.
(http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=335531)
And speaking of the American media, it is, shamelessly and nearly
unanimously, banging the war drum and lionizing Sir George.
(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/pres-s25.shtml) Also banging
the war drum, by the way, is one of Hollywood's most accomplished
propagandists: Steven Spielberg.
(http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=1076682002&tid=518 and
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/spie-o03.shtml)
The media is also, as the FAIR organization has pointed out, trying to
pretend as though it didn't report as fact just a few years ago that the
UN weapons inspections teams were littered with U.S. spies.
(http://www.fair.org/activism/unscom-history.html)
The Washington Post informed us that the war will be paid for by cutting
"wasteful" domestic spending, such as education: "President Bush will
look for new ways to restrain growth of domestic programs -- including
education spending he considers wasteful -- as he struggles to pay for
an indefinite war on terror with falling tax revenue, officials said
yesterday."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62787-2002Sep24.html)
The Halifax Herald Limited warned us that, in taking the Iraq war to the
ground, U.S. troops will fall victim to the radioactive depleted uranium
left behind in the last assault on Iraq, thereby setting off another
round of 'Gulf War Syndrome.' Included in the posting are such
interesting factoids as that uranium has a "radioactive half-life of 200
million years."
(http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2002/09/30/f104.raw.html)
And, finally, for those who are serious about stopping Iraq from being
bombed into oblivion in their name, a British lawmaker is recruiting
volunteers to form an international human shield around Baghdad.
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020913/wl_nm/iraq_britain_galloway_dc_1)
I am reminded here of some of the most remarkable and moving images that
came out of the U.S. assault on Yugoslavia -- the televised images of
hundreds of Serbs, from all walks of life, standing hand-in-hand on key
bridges to form human shields against aerial bombardment.
Ordinary people, looking very much like you and I, armed only with their
determination, their pride, and their collective humanity, standing
there in open defiance of the most powerful, technologically advanced,
and feared war machine ever created.
It is images such as these that give us hope in a world that too often
seems to be beyond hope.
Now, where was I? Oh yes, I was about to comment on Washington's new
nakedly imperialistic 'national security strategy.' You know, the one
that says that Washington has the self-granted right to bomb the hell
out of (and, if necessary, nuke) any country that has any qualms with
allowing its natural and human resources to be brutally raped and
pillaged by U.S. corporate interests?
You can read it for yourself, in its entirety, at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf. Or you can read various analyses
of it, the best of which, without question, is by Steve Gowans.
(http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/security.html,
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.24A.wrp.history.htm,
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/20/1032054963259.html, and
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055033082.html)
The Sydney Morning Herald, remarkably enough, claimed that a "senior
White House official said Mr Bush had edited the document heavily
'because he thought there were sections where we sounded overbearing or
arrogant.'" Since this document wasn't written in crayon, I'm guessing
that George Bush actually had nothing to do with writing or editing it,
and probably would have a difficult time even reading it. But if the
missive was indeed edited, it boggles the mind how "overbearing and
arrogant" the original must have been, given the unfathomable arrogance
of the finished product.
Believe it or not, we're not even close to being done here, so I'd
suggest you get comfortable. I'll try to pick up the pace a bit, but I
still have a fairly sizable backlog of links to get through. Some of
them, by the way, have been laying around for awhile, so they may have
expired. I could, I suppose, go back through and check them all, but
that would be a lot of work, and I'm kind of tired.
>From the Centre for Research on Globalisation comes this revealing look
at the "Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy."
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/EVA110A.html) The CRG has also
offered up a number of postings that provide various pieces of the 9/11
puzzle, including: "The Taliban Minister, the US Envoy and the Warning
of September 11 That Was Ignored"
(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA209A.html); "The Case of the
Missing Terrorist" (http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LEV209A.html); and
"9/11 and The Smoking Gun that Turned On its Tracker"
(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP209A.html; see also
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP209C.html and
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/AAsaeed.html).
The CRG also posted a look at the controlled and manufactured nature of
the 'progressive press' in America -- a topic that I have been known to
comment on from time to time.
(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PET209A.html) Further details were
provided in a series of postings from Bob Feldman.
(http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html)
And while we're on that subject, I see where Christopher Hitchens - who
has long been an obviously fraudulent voice of the 'left' - has decided
that even The Nation, home to many a pseudo-leftist, is a little too
liberal for his tastes.
(http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=1072482002)
Several avenues of the media, mainstream and otherwise, have questioned
the case against the supposed 'terrorist cell' in Buffalo, New York. The
problem? A serious lack of evidence.
(http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0918/p03s01-ussc.html,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/lack-s26.shtml and
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020930-353549,00.html)
That reminds me that I saw a brief report a couple of weeks ago on the
local news about the arrest of two alleged 'terrorists' in, believe it
or not, my hometown of Torrance, California. I mention this because,
with the exception of that local newscast, I haven't heard a peep out of
any other avenue of the media about this case -- which leaves me
wondering how many other alleged 'terrorists' have been taken into
custody around the country while a compliant media stands mute. Can you
say "Los Desaparecidos"?
This next posting informs us that the families of September 11 victims
are wary of the erosion of civil rights in this country.
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=1&cid=578&u=/nm/20020909/ts_nm/attack_families_dc)
They should also be wary of being demonized by the press -- a process
that has already begun, with the first shots being fired by,
appropriately enough, an allegedly progressive publication.
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/08/14/MN55184.DTL)
The demonization of survivor families is necessary because, as was
reported in a previous newsletter, far too many of them have rebuffed
Washington's offer of hush money and are contemplating using America's
courts to get the answers to questions that Team Bush refuses to
address.
Washington's mode of damage control will be to cast these families as
greedy, amoral opportunists attempting to cash in on a national tragedy,
rather than what they actually are: incensed and bereaved citizens who
want answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the attacks on the
Pentagon and the WTC towers.
The Christian Science Monitor asked people around the world if America
is the "good guy." Guess what a lot of them said?
(http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0911/p02s03-wogi.html) The World
Socialist Web Site checked in with a look at what water privatization
means to Africa.
(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/wate-s07.shtml) And the
Baltimore Sun discovered that few Americans actually know what the
Constitution says -- though almost all think it is a really neat
document. (http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.constitution17sep17.story)
A fairly new website, The Memory Hole, has some interesting 9/11
postings, including a rather bizarre one about a plane crash simulation
that the CIA had supposedly scheduled for - you guessed it - September
11, 2001. I'm not really sure what to make of that one.
(http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm) Also of interest
is this account of multiple explosions by a WTC survivor.
(http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/veliz-bombs.htm) And then there's what
is said to be a portion of the Flight 93 flight tape.
(http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/ap-93tape.htm and
http://www.airdisaster.com/cvr/atcwav.shtml)
Australia's The Age reminded us, in case any of us need reminding, that
"America's war record is littered with lies," and also noted Hollywood's
eagerness to help Washington design its new wars.
(http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/11/1031608270446.html and
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/14/1031608342634.html)
The L.A. Times reported that "The income of American households fell
last year and the poverty rate increased for the first time since the
early 1990s, the Census Bureau reported." Let me think now ... who was
the president in the early 1990s? I can't seem to recall ...
(http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-poverty24sep25004445.story)
And yet more bad news from the Times: "The number of Americans without
health insurance jumped significantly last year after declining for the
previous two years, the Census Bureau reported."
(http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-insure30sep30004434.story)
Here's some better news: CNN reported that America's violent crime rate
was the "lowest in three decades."
(http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/09/crime.rate.ap/index.html) Oh ... wait
a minute ... I just noticed that it says: "The nation saw violent crimes
except murder fall by 9 percent last year." (emphasis added)
If we can all agree then to no longer consider murder to be a violent
crime, then I guess we can safely say that violent crime was down last
year.
So ... I had the TV on the other day, but I wasn't really watching it,
when a mud-slinging campaign ad aired. This particular ad was aimed at
slamming California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon. Now what I
thought I was being told was that "Simon is backed by the homos."
My first thought was: "Wow! This campaign has really gotten ugly." My
second thought was: "If Simon has the support of the gay community, then
maybe he isn't as much of a dick as I thought he was." Then I saw the ad
for a second time and realized that the message actually was that Simon
is backed by the HMOs. I was, needless to say, a little disappointed.
Let's see now, what else is happening out there? Oh yes, Afghanistan
doesn't seem to be quite as stable as it could be.
(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/afgh-s07.shtml) But never
fear ... Washington has a new plan to hire a 'private' company to take
over security for our favorite puppet, Hamid Karzai.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/international/asia/19SECU.html?ex=1033456358&ei=1&en=286920e1ae690eb3)
A fear-mongering story surfaced last week claiming that 33 pounds of
weapons-grade uranium was seized from two suspects in Turkey. The
implication was clearly that the material was bound for Iraq, where it
would be fashioned into a nuclear weapon and quickly hurled our way. By
Sunday though, it was admitted that there actually wasn't 33 pounds of
the material, but just five ounces.
(http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uranium30sep30.story)
And by Monday, it was quietly admitted that the seized material wasn't
uranium at all, but rather a harmless mixture of "zinc, iron, zirconium
and manganese."
(http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uranium1oct01.story)
The corrections to the story though don't seem to have gotten nearly the
airplay that the original contrived report did.
The UK's Guardian revealed that Great Britain plans to sell off part of
its defense research industry to a certain U.S.-based company. Can you
guess which one? Here's a hint: the principals of the firm include
George Bush, Frank Carlucci, James Baker and John Major.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,786712,00.html)
The UK's Independent, meanwhile, noted that U.S. intelligence agencies
received at least a dozen warnings prior to September 11 of commercial
aircraft being hijacked and used as weapons. And those, of course, are
just the warnings that have leaked out to the public.
(http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=334633)
The Independent also carried a report of the U.S. sending forces to wage
a "secret war" in the Horn of Africa.
(http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=334634)
Apparently such secret wars were what the Washington Post was referring
to when it reported that the U.S. would be pursuing a "more covert
approach to the next phase in the battle against al Qaeda and other
international terrorist groups," by consolidating "control of most of
the global war on terrorism under the U.S. Special Operations Command."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31594-2002Sep17.html)
The Environment News Service informed readers that being a hero can be
hazardous to your health: "More than 90 percent of the New York City
Fire Department rescue workers who responded to the collapse of the
World Trade Center last September 11 have developed a severe cough."
(http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-10-02.asp)
Just a few more issues to address and we'll be all done for this week.
First of all, for reasons that are not entirely clear, interest in this
website has increased dramatically in the last few months. There has
been a significant increase in visits to the site, as well as in new
subscription requests.
With that increased level of interest has come a corresponding increase
in the volume of e-mail that I receive. It has therefore become
increasingly difficult to respond to such mailings. The reality is,
regrettably, that I simply do not have the time to personally respond to
the e-mail that is forever collecting in my in-box.
In order then to make the most productive use of my time, I will no
longer be able to provide individual responses to any e-mail that I
receive. Sorry about that. I will attempt, whenever possible, to respond
in the newsletters to queries that may be of general interest to
readers, and to pass along valid criticisms of past writings.
Another bit of business pertains to an e-mail that I received recently
from reader "Shanti," who thinks it would be a good idea for someone to
come up with a humorous, fascist self-check exam. Something, she
suggests, that could be printed out and posted on water coolers all
around the country.
I like the idea, but I'm going to need some help to make it happen. My
assignment then for all of you is to suggest possible questions that
could be included on this 'exam.' One thought that comes to mind is that
the entries on the list could be formatted along the lines of the Jeff
Foxworthy "... you could be a Redneck" comedy routine. Questions then
would be phrased something like this: "If ... then you could be a
fascist."
Any suggestions for alternate formatting and for questions that could be
included on the 'exam' are welcome. In the meantime, someone has already
come up with a checklist to determine if your neighbors are suffering
from "Stepford Citizen Syndrome."
(http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/05_stepford.html)
Finally, before signing off, I wanted to address the burning question
that is on everyone's mind this week: after "Celebrity Weakest Link,"
"Celebrity Boxing," "Celebrity Fear Factor," and "Celebrity Boot Camp,"
is there anything that Greg Brady won't do to get his face back on the
nation's TV screens?
I think it's time to give it a rest, Greg, if for no other reason than
to give Peter and Bobby a chance to publicly humiliate themselves as
well. Face the fact that you're never going to win one of these
competitions. We all know that you can't perform under pressure.
Remember the little incident with the egg during the driving challenge
with Marcia? So do we. Enough said.
And that, at long last, is all I have for this outing. Until next week
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