<http://www.nytimes.com/> So who sits in the government of New Guinea? Is it a native government, a Caucasian government or some mixture? Who would be afraid of Sorcery in 1971? Or was this an act against native religion for the purpose of disenfranchising someone over a myth? Like gelt.
REH _____ April 12, 2013 Papua New Guinea Considers Repealing Sorcery Law By MATT SIEGEL SYDNEY, Australia - Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, has vowed to repeal the country's controversial Sorcery Act after the latest in a string of brutal public killings of people accused of practicing black magic. According to Amnesty International, violence against those accused of sorcery is endemic in the South Pacific island nation. In the most recent case, an elderly former primary school teacher in the autonomous Bougainville region was decapitated by a mob whose members accused her of using witchcraft to kill a colleague. Three other women, all relatives of the victim, were also injured in the episode. Mr. O'Neill, responding on Thursday to a question from a reporter about that killing, pledged to repeal the 1971 Sorcery Act, which criminalizes the practice of sorcery and recognizes the accusation of sorcery as a defense in murder cases. Critics of the law say that it encourages violence against people accused of being sorcerers by codifying black magic as a legal phenomenon. "We have quite a lot of issues on the table, so please give us a chance to work on it," Mr. O'Neill told the reporter. "Realistically, a few sessions away, we will be able to put an act to Parliament to stop this nonsense about witchcraft and all the other sorceries that are really barbaric in itself." Over the last year, Papua New Guinea has come under increased international pressure to end what appears to be a growing trend of vigilante violence against people accused of sorcery. Last July, police officers arrested 29 members of a witch-hunting gang who were murdering and cannibalizing people they suspected of being sorcerers. The killing in February of Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old woman who was stripped, tortured, doused in gasoline and then set ablaze, caused an international outcry. The United Nations said it was deeply disturbed by her killing, which was reportedly carried out by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who, they claimed, had been killed by her sorcery. A crowd of several hundred people that had gathered to watch her execution blocked police officers and firefighters who tried to save her. The police have since charged two men in her death. A United Nations inspector who visited the country in March said that attacks against alleged sorcerers are often carried out by young men and boys acting on the instruction of their community and under the influence of alcohol and drugs. ==================================== From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:58 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; Ray Harrell Subject: RE: [Futurework] Gelt As you might expect, the article contains the usual quote by Keynes about gold being barbaric. (He was in favour of going back onto the gold standard if the value of the pound had been re-pitched after WWI.) What would Keynes have said about the way that the dollar (and the pound) are now depreciating (against all other assets). It actually amounts to daylight robbery by governments. If (with a nudge and a wink) a country's central bank can bring ints interest rate to below the inflation rate, then the government is reducing its national debt. This is what Japan did in the 1990s (and have just resumed doing). This is what America is doing and also the UK. The Eurozone hasn't yet started inflating its euro but it won't be long. In short, those who've saved money or invested in pension funds are subsisizing borrowers in a massive way. All this has been since we abandoned the gold standard and had no stake to tie the value of currencies to. The US, Japan and UK governments are criminal on a massive scale and Krugman says nothing about them. Keith At 06:36 12/04/2013, you wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/opinion/krugman-lust-for-gold.html?hp REH From: Keith Hudson [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:27 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; Ray Harrell Subject: Re: [Futurework] Gelt The NYT article is all very glib and I'm sure a lot of readers will be encouraged to sell their personal gold. If there was any clear logic in the article it's to be found at the end with what Peter Schiff says. Keith At 14:29 11/04/2013, you wrote: According to the Science Channel, the Ancient Astronauts no longer need gold to run their space ships. REH http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/business/gold-long-a-secure-investment-los es-its-luster.html?hp _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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