[CTRL] Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universa
Refugees meeting hears proposal to register every human in GENEVA, Dec 13 AAP|Published: Friday December 14, 7:18 AM Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting today. The plan was put forward by Pascal Smet, the head of Belgium's independent asylum review board, at a roundtable meeting with ministers including Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock this afternoon. Mr Smet said the European Union was already considering a Europe-wide system, using either fingerprints or eye scanning technology, to identify citizens. But he said the plan could be extended worldwide. "There are no technical problems. It is only a question of will and investment," he said. "If you look to our societies, we are already registered from birth until death. Our governments know who we are and what we are. But one of the basic problems is the numbers of people in the world who are not registered, who do not have a set identity, and when these people move with real or fake passports, you cannot identify them. "It's a basic rule of management that if you want to manage something, you measure it. It's the same with human beings and migration. "But instead of measuring it, you have to register them." Mr Smet said the scheme would give people dignity by giving them an identity if their papers had been lost or destroyed. And he said it would allow countries to open their borders to genuine travellers or asylum seekers, because they would be able to prove the identity of any over-stayers and deport them without argument from their home country. Mr Ruddock appeared unconvinced by the merits of the plan. "In principle we would be supportive of a system which would crack down on multiple asylum claims, but a universal identification system would be taking it too far," he said through a spokeswoman. By Maria Hawthorne
[CTRL] Genetic evidence links Jews to their ancient tribe
Genetic evidence links Jews to their ancient tribe By Judy Siegel JERUSALEM (November 20) - Genetic evidence continues to provide additional proof to the claims that the Jewish people are descended from a common ancient Israelite father: Despite being separated for over 1,000 years, Sephardi Jews of North African origin are genetically indistinguishable from their brethren from Iraq, according to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They also proved that Sephardi Jews are very close genetically to the Jews of Kurdistan, and only slight differences exist between these two groups and Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. These conclusions are reached in an article published recently in the American Journal of Human Genetics and written by Prof. Ariella Oppenheim of the Hebrew University (HU) and Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Kerem. Others involved are German doctoral student Almut Nebel, Dr. Marina Faerman of HU, Dr. Dvora Filon of Hadassah-University Hospital, and other colleagues from Germany and India. The researchers conducted blood tests of Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Kurdish Jews and examined their Y chromosomes, which are carried only by males. They then compared them with those of various Arab groups - Palestinians, Beduins, Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese - as well as to non-Arab populations from Transcaucasia - Turks, Armenians and Moslem Kurds. The study is based on 526 Y chromosomes typed by the Israeli team and additional data on 1,321 individuals from 12 populations. The typing of the Jewish groups was performed at the National Genome Center at HU's Silberman Institute of Life Sciences. The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East was one of the few centers in which the transition from hunting-gathering to permanent settlement and agriculture took place. Genetic studies suggest that migrating Neolithic farmers dispersed their technological innovations and domesticated animals from the Middle East towards Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia. Studies of Y chromosomes have become powerful tools for the investigation of the genetic history of males, since these chromosomes are transmitted from fathers to sons. Surprisingly, the study shows a closer genetic affinity by Jews to the non-Jewish, non-Arab populations in the northern part of the Middle East than to Arabs. These findings are consistent with known cultural links that existed among populations in the Fertile Crescent in early history, and indicate that the Jews are direct descendants of the early Middle Eastern core populations, which later divided into distinct ethnic groups speaking different languages. Previous investigations by the HU researchers suggested a common origin for Jewish and non-Jewish populations living in the Middle East. The current study refines and delineates that connection. It is believed that the majority of today's Jews - not including converts and non-Jews with whom Jews intermarried - descended from the ancient Israelis that lived in the historic Land of Israel until the destruction of the Second Temple and their dispersal into the Diaspora. The researchers say that a genetic analysis of the chromosomes of Jews from various countries show that there was practically no genetic intermixing between them and the host populations among which they were scattered during their dispersion - whether in Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal or North Africa. A particularly intriguing case illustrating this is that of the Kurdish Jews, said to be the descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel who were exiled in 723 BCE. to the area known today as Kurdistan, located in Northern Iraq, Iran and Eastern Turkey. They continued to live there as a separate entity until their immigration to Israel in the 1950s. The Kurdish Jews of today show a much greater affinity to their fellow Jews elsewhere than to the Kurdish Moslems.
[CTRL] African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human
December 2, 2001 African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD C. Henshilwood Members of Dr. Christopher Henshilwood's team at work at the mouth of the Blombos Cave 200 miles east of Cape Town, South Africa. Earlier Evidence of Cultural Progress Find additional information by selecting from the following topics. Archaeology and Anthropology Evolution Africa ore than 70,000 years ago, people occupied a cave in a high cliff facing the Indian Ocean at the tip of South Africa. They hunted grysbok, springbok and other game. They ate fish from the waters below them. In body and brain size, these cave dwellers were definitely anatomically modern humans. Archaeologists are now finding persuasive evidence that these people were taking another important step toward modernity. They were turning animal bones into tools and finely worked weapon points, a skill more advanced in concept and application than the making of the usual stone tools. They were also engraving some artifacts with symbolic marks — manifestations of abstract and creative thought and, presumably, communication through articulate speech. The new discoveries at Blombos Cave, 200 miles east of Cape Town, are turning long-held beliefs upside down. Until now, modern human behavior was widely assumed to have been a very late and abrupt development that seemed to have originated in a kind of "creative explosion" in Europe. The most spectacular evidence for it showed up after modern Homo sapiens arrived there from Africa about 40,000 years ago. Although there had been suggestions of an African genesis of modern behavior, no proof had turned up, certainly nothing comparable to the fine tools and cave art of Upper Paleolithic Europe. "I used to accept the `creative explosion' concept for the origin of modern human behavior," said Dr. Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution. "Now I think the nails are going into the coffin of that hypothesis. We are seeing many elements of modernity that were developing much earlier, in Africa, and more gradually." One reason Europe's prehistoric surge of creativity held the attention of scholars for so long was that it had virtually no serious competition. Archaeologists had spent little time digging African sites of that period, while every year in Europe they seemed to find more cavern walls adorned with painted deer, horses and wild bulls. Enthralled, scholars perhaps could not bring themselves to look for earlier and more distant origins of modern behavior. But after more than a decade of controversy, the South African cave artifacts are now being generally accepted as the earliest evidence of such modern human behavior. If correct, these and other findings establish that Homo sapiens came out of Africa not only with fully modern anatomies, but also with at least 30,000 years of experience in modern behavior. Dr. Potts said the beginning of this gradual behavioral evolution might reach back more than 200,000 years. Archaeologists have described the new research and their interpretations in recent seminars and journal articles. A group led by Dr. Christopher S. Henshilwood of South Africa is publishing a comprehensive report in this month's issue of The Journal of Human Evolution. The report includes an analysis of 28 bone tools and other artifacts from Blombos Cave, as well as 8,000 pieces of the iron oxide mineral ocher that might have been used for body decorations. Taken together with other recent finds in Africa, Dr. Henshilwood's team reported, the Blombos evidence "for formal bone working, deliberate engraving on ochre, production of finely made bifacial points and sophisticated subsistence strategies is turning the tide in favor of models positing behavioral modernity in Africa at a time far earlier than previously accepted." Many other archaeologists specializing in human evolution said the new research seemed to dispel previous doubts about the antiquity of the artifacts, which have been excavated and argued about since some of the first pieces were collected in 1992. Skeptics had suspected that artifacts of more recent vintage had somehow intruded into the cave's lower and thus older sediments. The oldest such tools reliably dated in Africa had been only 25,000 years old. The lineage of the first human ancestors is estimated to have diverged between five million and seven million years ago in Africa from the line leading to apes. Anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, evolved in Africa about 150,000 to 100,000 years ago. In an interview by telephone from the cave site, Dr. Henshilwood said: "We're absolutely convinced of the
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[CTRL] Qatar condemns US attacks on Afghanistan
Tuesday October 23, 9:47 PM Qatar condemns US attacks on Afghanistan TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Qatar's foreign minister condemned Tuesday the US-led military strikes on Afghanistan as "unacceptable", after talks in the Iranian capital. "The attacks against Afghanistan are unacceptable and we have condemned them. It is our clear position," Sheikh Hamad bin-Jassem bin-Jabr al-Thani said. He was speaking to reporters here after a meeting between Qatar's emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and Iranian President Mohammed Khatami. "What is happening in Afghanistan concerns the Islamic world, and we think that the culprits of the September 11 attacks, no matter who they are, should be tried justly. We think that the Afghan people should not be the victims of these attacks," the foreign minister said. On October 8, the day after the air strikes began in retaliation for the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, the emir said that he regretted them. "We wish it hadn't come to this," he said after talks in Paris with French President Jacques Chirac. "We are in principle opposed to wars, opposed to seeing more victims falling." Two days later, the foreign minister said Qatar would not let the United States use its airport facilities for its military operation against Afghanistan. Qatar currently heads the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), after succeeding heavyweight Iran last year. Next month it hosts a key ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. The emir and his foreign minister were in Tehran for talks on the Afghan crisis as well as regional issues. Speaking just ahead of the Qatari delegation's departure, the minister said the two sides had talked over the Afghan "without discussing the future of that country, because it is up to the Afghan people to decide" their fate. "For Afghanistan, we do not have precise plans and we think that it is unnecessary to call for a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference," he added. The emir and his delegation had been welcomed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport earlier Tuesay by Iranian Vice President Mohammed Ali Abtahi and Energy Minister Habibollah Bitaraf before heading to the Saad-Abad presidential palace, where they met with President Mohammad Khatami. State radio said Khatami and the Qatari emir would discuss "bilateral ties, the Afghan crisis and regional issues." On Sunday, Qatar, as head of the OIC, called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to put an end to "Israel's aggressions" against the Palestinians. Since the assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister last week by a radical Palestinian group, the Israeli army has re-occupied part of autonomous Palestinian cities in the West Bank, killing at least 25 Palestinians. The 57-member OIC, based in the Saudi city of Jeddah, has condemned the September 11 attacks on the United States, but did not declare any official position toward the US-led strikes on Afghanistan, aimed at chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden and the Taliban regime which is sheltering him. Tehran, for its part, has condemned both the September 11 attacks and the strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, calling on the United Nations to lead the campaign against terror instead. Meanwhile, in Doha, officials said the emir would visit Riyadh on Sunday for talks on the Afghan and Palestinian crises. The London-based Al-Hayat daily said Tuesday the visit was decided after a telephone conversation between Sheikh Hamad and Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah bin Abdel Aziz, following a deterioration of the situation in the Palestinian territories. Email this story
[CTRL] SEN. HILLARY JEERED AND BOOED BY HEROES
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEBACLE AFTER SEN. HILLARY JEERED AND BOOED BY HEROES Senator Hillary Clinton's inner circle is furious at MIRAMAX king Harvey Weinstein after the former first lady suffered through a public relations nightmare during Saturday's AMERICA: A TRIBUTE TO HEROES concert in New York City. Hillary Clinton was jeered and booed by thousands gathered at Madison Square Garden as she took to the stage -- unannounced -- to introduce a movie clip. VH1 cameras captured firemen and police heroes wildly booing Clinton, who attempted to raise her voice above the shouting crowd. "Get off the stage! We don't want you here!" yelled one New York City police officer just feet from the senator. Anti-Clinton slurs spread and intensified throughout the Garden, with many standing near the stage lobbing profanities. Event-planner and close Clinton friend Harvey Weinstein was visibly shaken as he heard the crowd erupt with boos and jeers, according to an eyewitness. The junior senator from New York ending up giving the shortest presentation of the evening, clocking in at under 20 seconds. "How could we not know this would be the wrong forum for Hillary?!" shouted one confidante. "These are cops and firemen who listen to right-wing talkradio. They still think she killed Vince Foster, for Christ sake!" Other New York politicians received warmer welcomes during the 5-hour concert which featured Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Elton John and others. Former President Bill Clinton, who took the stage minutes after his wife, worked over scattered boos with talk of the rescuers' heroism. Following the Clintons, James Taylor soothed the heroes with an acoustic FIRE AND RAIN. The concert raised millions of dollars for September 11 relief efforts. --
[CTRL] Louis Farrakhan condemned the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan
By Betsy Pisik THE WASHINGTON TIMES NEW YORK — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan yesterday condemned the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan, saying Washington had not proven its case against terrorist mastermind Speaking to a gathering of religious leaders, Mr. Farrakhan said the U.S. government hadn't revealed the evidence to the Taliban, sharing it only with allies. "You show your friend [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] the evidence, but not the people you're about to bomb?" he said. U.S. and British officials have said that revealing the details of the evidence would compromise allied war aims. Mr. Farrakhan keynoted a conference organized by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, a group organized by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church. The conference included a hundred ministers from several religious denominations, and political figures, including former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Indonesian President Abudurrahman Wahid and the former presidents and prime ministers of Guyana, Guatemala, Barbados, Seychelles, Nepal and St. Kitts and Nevis. Most of them applauded often during Mr. Farrakhan's 100-minute speech and gave him a standing ovation afterward. The theme of the conference was an examination of the roots of global violence and how to deal with it. Mr. Quayle, who had left the gathering by the time Mr. Farrakhan spoke, had earlier angrily rejected suggestions that U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and the Middle East had provoked terrorist attacks. "This is the time to be morally clear," Mr. Quayle said. "Nothing justifies terrorism." Mr. Farrakhan, the leader of the nation's largest Muslim group, said the pursuit of bin Laden and his terrorist group was a campaign against Islam. He said he also condemns the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, which killed 5,000 Americans. "It was so horrific to me that for the first 48 hours I could not speak," he said. Mr. Farrakhan said, without citing his evidence, that 1.5 million Iraqis had died under sanctions imposed by the United Nations after the 1991 Persian Gulf war "while we are crying over 5,000." In his remarks, Rev. Moon, who spoke before Mr. Farrakhan's denunciation of U.S. war aims, called on world leaders to repudiate national self-interests and hatreds, and urged religious leaders to cooperate and seek reconciliation. "If religions demonstrate love for each other, cooperate with each other, and serve each other, putting the higher ideal of peace ahead of particular doctrines, rituals and cultural backgrounds, the world will change dramatically." Mr. Quayle, who served as vice president under President George H.W. Bush, said that fear, unlike anthrax, is contagious. He urged the religious figures to preach messages of tolerance. Mr. Quayle also blamed Hollywood for giving foreigners a distorted picture of the United States. "Have you ever seen a movie that made the military look good? That looked favorably upon religion? That showed the cohesiveness of the family? No — and why not?" he asked. "If you were a person who had never been to America, you'd see a different country than it actually is." Mr. Wahid, a Muslim cleric who served as president of Indonesia from Oct. 1999 until July 2001, said he supported the American military attacks, which are unpopular with Indonesians, but warned against "hegemony". "What the United States is doing is honorable, but it is important to remember the multilateral framework," Mr. Wahid said. In an interview, he said that Washington "needs to listen to other people, and they need to listen to the United States." The former presidents and prime ministers of several Latin and Caribbean nations said that it was important to look at what they call the root causes of terrorism — poverty, poor education and an absence of hope. "We all hoped that the end of the Cold War, peace would have had a chance to break out," said Lloyd E. Sandiford, former prime minister of Barbados. "But efforts to increase development, and relieve poverty and other social blights are again delayed." Back to World
Re: [CTRL] SEN. HILLARY JEERED AND BOOED BY HEROES
In a message dated 10/22/01 5:41:04 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that would certainly be nice! It's a boorish world we live in... Bill. yes it is bill. good thing the rescue workers showed good taste to one very boorish Senator. Carl
Re: [CTRL] SEN. HILLARY JEERED AND BOOED BY HEROES
In a message dated 10/22/01 6:41:12 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hillary isn't a very warm or cuddly personality and I for one don't care for her, however it really was rather crass and childish to treat her in the manner she was treated...hardly a respectful crowd. It's tough to consider as heros' people who have so little couth. Bill. Actually I applaud there common sense. People of such selflessness and courage don't care about offending that carpetbagger. After all she's the one who kissed Arafat. Carl
[CTRL] China paid Bin Laden to see cruise missiles
Claims that China paid Bin Laden to see cruise missiles John Hooper in Milan Saturday October 20, 2001 The Guardian China paid Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded American cruise missiles left over from the US attack on his bases three years ago, a senior alleged al-Qaida agent in Europe has claimed. The alleged agent's account is contained in the transcript of a secretly taped conversation between supporters of Osama bin Laden obtained by the Guardian. His revelation emerged as President Bush yesterday announced that he had won Beijing's support for the war on terrorism. After his first face-to-face meeting with China's President Jiang Zemin in Shanghai, Mr Bush said: "President Jiang and the government stand side by side with the American people as we fight this evil force". The Chinese government has denied it obtained US missiles after the 1998 raid, which was carried out in reprisal for the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Beijing is said to have made a deal with al-Qaida to acquire the missiles despite the fact that it was facing a growing threat from Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang region. In 1999, China accused Bin Laden's organisation of training members of the independence movement in guerrilla warfare. The US fired 75 missiles into Afghanistan during the attack on Bin Laden's camps on August 20, 1998. A report four months later in the Pakistani newspaper Ausaf, cited Taliban sources as saying that 40 were found unexploded. The story of what happened next was taken up by Lased Ben Heni in a conversation with associates this year. Ben Heni, a 32-year-old Libyan arrested in Munich last week, is accused by Italian prosecutors of being the liaison officer between two terrorist cells owing allegiance to al-Qaida in Frankfurt and Milan. On March 9, in a rundown flat in the Milan suburb of Gallarate, he met the leader of the Italian cell, Sami Ben Khemais Essid (alias "Saber") and told him of his experiences in Afghanistan visiting Osama bin Laden's camps. Unknown to the two men, the flat had been bugged by officers of the Italian anti-terrorist police. "Perhaps the Americans are convinced by the bombardment of the sheikh's [Bin Laden's] training centres," Ben Heni is quoted as saying. "For them, it was a victory. But, in fact, it was a defeat because the majority of the missiles didn't even explode." After a digression, the transcript continues: "With these weapons, he [Bin Laden] has boosted his financial resources. From every part of the world businessmen who hate Americans have come to study American missile strategy. "In particular, businessmen have come from China. He works a great deal with China. He's got good relations with them. "You see them and you ask 'But what are they doing here?' In the end, you understand that they work for the sheikh and that they came to study these missiles. "Thanks to the money that comes from these studies from outside, he created the army of mohajedin headed by Omar Zayan (or Zaghan) in Chechnya". Later, in a passage the meaning of which is not entirely clear, Ben Heni is heard to say: "When [Bin Laden] saw that the Afghan people, who were dying of hunger, passed missiles to sheikh Messaoud, he bargained with the Chinese and sold them to them for an enormous sum - I think $10m dollars - but only after the sheikh had studied them". The transcript is the first supporting evidence from inside al-Qaida of sporadic reports in the months following the 1998 attack that China had acquired two unexploded Tomahawk missiles. In March 1999, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman described the reports as "groundless". President Jiang told a joint press conference after his meeting with Mr Bush yesterday that they had reached a "consensus" on terrorism, although he urged that the anti-terrorist action should "hit accurately and also avoid innocent casualties".
[CTRL] Australia invaded by 'invincible ant' that attacks everything
Australia invaded by 'invincible ant' that attacks everything in its path By Kathy Marks in Sydney 20 October 2001The South American fire ant, which packs a potentially lethal sting, will cause an environmental catastrophe if allowed to spread, Queensland state authorities in Australia warned yesterday. The ants were first spotted in the Queensland capital, Brisbane, earlier this year and have already been found at 730 sites. They could colonise Australia in the next three decades. They already destroy £1bn of crops every year in the United States. Scientists at the Department of Primary Industries, horrified by the discovery of a pest that they regard as worse than the infamous cane toad, have begun a £50m eradication programme nicknamed "the Big Nuke". Over the next three years, 500 volunteers will blanket the area with bait laced with a chemical that inhibits reproduction. The tiny, reddish-brown ants, which are thought to have arrived in Brisbane on board a container ship, attack humans, livestock, pets, native animals and crops. An aggressive and resilient species, they sting repeatedly and in concert, causing pimple-like spots and an intense burning sensation – hence their name. In rare cases, the sting provokes an allergic reaction that can kill. In the southern United States, infested since the 1930s, 84 people have died. The ants represent a threat to Australia's outdoors way of life. Activities such as camping and barbecues are out of the question in affected areas; even sitting in the back garden with a book can be a painful experience. In some American states, schools, parks and sports fields have had to be closed. Keith McCubbin, head of the eradication programme, said: "This ant is one of the meanest, most evil creatures that God ever put on Earth. It hates every other living thing, and pours out of its nest ready to fight. If it can't be stopped in Queensland, it will be in the backyards of Sydney and Melbourne in the near future. "If that happens, there'll come a time when a lot of us won't be able to have barbecues and picnics, or garden, or mow the lawn. And we won't be wearing thongs [flip-flops] anymore," he added. The fear is that the insects – whose Latin name is Solenopsis invicta, or invincible ant – will spread around the country by hitching lifts on vehicles transporting plants and soil. A nest was recently discovered in a truckload of palms sent to Victoria from an infected nursery in Brisbane. Search this site: Have a question? Ask Jeeves! Printable version of story
[CTRL] Russia 'can't allow' U.S. to widen war to Iraq
Russia 'can't allow' U.S. to widen war to Iraq Thursday, October 18, 2001 MOSCOW — Russia has already signalled its opposition to a U.S. offensive against Iran and Iraq.Russian officials said Moscow would help Washington with the war on terrorism. But they said President Vladimir Putin would not allow the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein or Iran to become a U.S. target in such a war.Moscow has sent weapons and troops to help the opposition Northern Alliance overthrow the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Russia has also agreed to U.S. troops and combat planes in neighboring Uzbekistan, Middle East Newsline reported.Both Iran and Iraq are on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist sponsors. The Bush administration has been engaged in a debate over making Iraq a target in Washington's war on terrorism.Moscow has indicated that this is where it would draw the line. Russia has emerged as an ally of both Baghdad and Teheran."We can't allow the United States to wield its club the way it wants," Col. Sergei Goncharov, a leading Russian military analyst, said. "We are on good terms with Iran. We have tremendous economic investments in and expectations of Iraq. We can't afford to sever all these ties in one stroke. I foresee a major debate along these lines."Arab diplomatic sources said Moscow has relayed assurances to Washington that it will oppose a strike against Iraq.But Goncharov said Moscow might not oppose a surgical strike on Iraq should Washington bring proof that Saddam was involved in the Sept. 11 Islamic suicide attacks on New York and Washington."It's quite obvious: if there is proof that, say, Iraq harbors terrorists, then action is fair," Goncharov said. "But if they want to start carpet bombings, like in Yugoslavia, and then see what happens, it can't be allowed." Print this Article Email this article Free Headline Alerts 30 Percent Commission on Advertising Sold for World Tribune.com. Inquire Within. See current edition of Return toWorld Tribune.com Front Cover Contact World Tribune.com at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] The end of an unserious decade
This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24997 Friday, October 19, 2001 The end of an unserious decade By Patrick J. Buchanan © 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc. In September 1929, "the Roaring Twenties," "the Era of Wonderful Nonsense," of sex, booze and jazz, ended with the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. There followed the "low dishonest decade" of poet W. H. Auden's depiction, as Western statesmen sought to appease their way to security and peace. On Sept. 11, 2001, as the 767s smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing 5,000 Americans, another unserious era of sex scandals and stock market silliness came to an end. Recall, if you will, the summer of 2001. The story that had CNN, MSNBC and FOX News transfixed was the saga of Gary Condit. Nightly, talk-show hosts demanded answers to the great questions: Why did Gary throw away the watch box? Where did stewardess Anne Marie Smith spend her D.C. nights? By Sept. 11, the story seemed about to end in a great courtroom drama, with Anne Marie charging Gary with libel – for denying she committed adultery. What will the decade be remembered for? The Trial of O. J.? Who killed Jon-Benet Ramsey? The Oval Office trysts of Bill and Monica? Condit summer? Meanwhile, not to worry about the world. For America is "the last superpower," the "indispensable nation." The New Economy will take us to "Dow 36,000!" "Pax Americana" and "Global Democracy" are our destiny. On Sept. 11, the frivolous era came to an end. Suddenly, for the first time since Gen. Jackson drove the British army out of Louisiana, the enemy was inside the gates, slaughtering thousands. Why? Because we adopted an open-borders policy that left tens of millions of illegal aliens wandering about America, few of whom had any loyalty to us, some of whom were willing to murder us on the orders of their foreign masters. To keep the cost of labor down, we let millions of strangers, and not a few enemies, into our home. Never before has America been so vulnerable, and corporate greed and craven politics did it to us. Tuesday, the U.S. reported that industrial production fell for the 12th straight month. Bethlehem Steel became the latest U.S. company to go Chapter 11. U.S. factories now produce at 75 percent of capacity. Last year, the U.S. trade deficit in manufactureds hit $324 billion and the merchandise trade deficit $450 billion. The de-industrialization of America is well advanced. In a triumph of the globalists, America has become again what she has not been in generations: a dependent nation. For the loss of our economic independence, we may thank the free-trade-uber-alles crowd. They tell us their high principles prevent them from saving the U.S. industries their policies are designed to kill. But, routinely, they loot our tax dollars to bail out their banker friends and foreign collaborators from Indonesia to Russia to Argentina. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the U.S. had a chance to dissolve old Cold War alliances and adopt an America First policy of non-intervention in wars that were none of our business. Instead, we launched the Gulf War, expanded NATO to Russia's border, went nation-building in Somalia, invaded Haiti, plunged into the Balkans, smashed Serbia and imposed sanctions that may have killed half a million Iraqis. Today, U.S. war commitments in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Gulf, Central Asia and the Taiwan Strait exceed those of Ronald Reagan. Yet, Mr. Bush has only half the Army, Navy and Air Force Mr. Reagan had. Never has America been so over-extended. How has the American Empire profited the American people? Only the Brits are with us in Afghanistan, and they will take a pass on the next war planned by our war hawks: The invasion of Iraq. Meanwhile, once-friendly regimes from Jordan to Malaysia squirm to distance themselves from "the indispensable nation." With the FBI warning of a 100 percent chance of terrorist attacks, with anthrax scares shutting down Congress, with daily calls to curtail civil liberties, questions arise: Are we more or less free and secure than when we began to build this "New World Order"? Are we better off now than we were before we ignored our founding fathers and decided to go abroad "in search of monsters to destroy"? The president has moved with great prudence in the Afghan war. Let us go in, get them, get out and go home – and let the Arab and Islamic world work out its own destiny. But of this we may be sure: History will hold the globalists and latter-day imperialists of left and right accountable. Their epitaph is already written: "On the altar of global empire, they sacrificed their country."Pat Buchanan has been a senior adviser to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in
Re: [CTRL] God Forsaken in US Senate
In a message dated 8/17/01 1:19:59 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's something about Paul Weyrich or any of his ilk telling me about God that I find really disgusting. Prudy well some ones got to get you the message. MUUHAA... sorry couldn't pass up a good straight line Carl
[CTRL] Fwd: Mars may have underground water reservoir
In a message dated 8/16/01 1:36:15 AM Central Daylight Time, CalamariJoe42 writes: Subj:Mars may have underground water reservoir Date:8/16/01 1:36:15 AM Central Daylight Time From:CalamariJoe42 To:Ahab42 Mars may have underground water reservoir Wednesday, 15 August 2001 20:02 (ET)Mars may have underground water reservoirsORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Mars may conceal giant reservoirs ofliquid water underneath its dusty surface, which future explorers might oneday tap for long-term expeditions on the red planet."What a perfect medium for life on Mars," added Mars expert Bill Hartmannat the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz. "These findings may havehuge implications for the search for life there."Evidence for underground aquifers is found in decades-old pictures ofcraters taken by the Mars Viking Orbiter, reports a research team led byNadine Barlow of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Thesecraters, ranging from 5 to 50 kilometers (3 to 30 miles) in diameter, wereblasted out from Martian soil by impacts with meteors.Scientists have suggested the patterns in the ejecta -- the debris aroundthe impact craters -- indicate the presence of water underground."The ejecta look like a muddy slurry sort of thrown out on the ground,"said Michael Carr of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. "Theykind of resemble petals. This suggests that the impacts tapped into a layerof water underneath -- either liquid or icy -- which then flowed briefly."Barlow and her research team add that one might determine how deep thiswater lies underground by looking at the size of each crater. A small debrisring suggests a meteorite did not have to go far upon impact before it hitwater.One region had a particularly unusual number of small craters pocking itssurface -- the vast Solis and Thaumasia plains of Mars, just south of theValles Marineris canyon system. A large ground water reservoir capped by arelatively thin layer of ice may lie especially close to the surface -- only110 meters (360 feet) underground."If there is water there, and if we can get at it, that's very exciting,"Hartmann told United Press International. "It's obviously easier to drillfor water than to extract ice."This unusual potential concentration of near-surface ice and water mayhave resulted from long-term, magma-driven activity that tilted the watertable, driving water downhill from gigantic basins to the Solis andThaumasia plains. The heat released by all this tectonic activity would havethen kept the water liquid longer than elsewhere in the equator."If we've still got even mild fluctuations of heat underground on Mars, itmight even be possible to harness that heat for geothermal power stations,"Hartmann added.Experts caution, however, that water may not prove as abundant on Mars asthe evidence may suggest."Nothing on Mars is certain," Carr warned in an interview with UPI. "The'petals' that these ejecta form that might suggest water could be attributedto a completely different cause -- atmosphere. A study by Peter Schultz atBrown University suggests that the ejecta could get entrained in theatmosphere and form whirling vortices that fall into petal-like formswithout the involvement of water."Still, if there are large reservoirs of liquid water present on Mars,Hartmann said any life that once thrived on the red planet might still liedormant in these aquifer sanctuaries."On Earth, bacteria have theoretically lived in a dormant state for 100million years, trapped in salt crystals," Hartmann commented. "If you havewater around, then the possibilities for life are dramatically increased."Barlow and her research team are currently continuing their analysis ofthe craters using data from the Mars Global Surveyor.The researchers reported their findings in Geophysical Research Letters.(Reported by Charles Choi in New York.)--Copyright 2001 by United Press International.All rights reserved.-- The romantic sounds of classic Cuban music blend with contemporary Spanish guitar in Alicia y Yo, a new CD from Spain. Click here to listen to some tracks and order the CD Return to headlines. Mars may have underground water reservoir Wednesday, 15 August 2001 20:02 (ET)Mars may have underground water reservoirsORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Mars may conceal giant reservoirs ofliquid water underneath its dusty surface, which future explorers might oneday tap for long-term expeditions on the red planet."What a perfect medium for life on Mars," added Mars expert Bill Hartmannat the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz. "These findings may havehuge implications for the search for life there."Evidence for underground aquifers is found in decades-old pictures ofcraters taken by the Mars Viking Orbiter, reports a research team led byNadine Barlow of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Thesecraters, ranging from 5 to 50 kilometers (3 to 30 miles) in diameter, wereblasted out from Martian soil by
[CTRL] Dollar tumbles after IMF warning
Dollar tumbles after IMF warning BY LEA PATERSON, ECONOMICS EDITOR FEARS of a slump in the dollar were reignited yesterday by a strongly worded warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that sent the US currency tumbling on the foreign exchanges. The dollar dropped to its lowest level in almost four months against the euro, and also lost ground against the yen and the pound, after the IMF said that America’s ballooning current account deficit had put the currency at serious risk. The influential institution argued that the US economic outlook was highly uncertain, unnerving a market that was already pessimistic about the prospects for an American bounceback. The IMF urged the Federal Reserve to stand ready to cut interest rates again, and highlighted America’s record-breaking current account deficit as a key risk in the months ahead. “Directors (of the IMF) indicated that the size of the US external current account deficit did not appear sustainable in the longer term,” the institution’s annual assessment read. “It (the deficit) raised concerns that the dollar might be at risk for a sharp depreciation, particularly if productivity performance remained disappointing.” The report welcomed President Bush’s recent tax cut as “appropriate and timely”, but gave warning that the cost of the programme could easily exceed White House forecasts. The IMF argued that with government expenditure at risk of overshooting offical targets, the Government ought to be prepared to reconsider its stance on future tax reductions and spending rises. News of a marginally better-than-expected July on the US high street, where retail sales were unchanged, did little to boost the dollar, which weakened as far as 90.35 cents against the euro. The single currency was also bolstered by a drop in French and Spanish inflation, which raised hopes of a cut in eurozone interest rates at the end of the month. Against the yen, the dollar dropped to a fresh two-month low of Y121.20 in the wake of the IMF assessment, with the yen benefiting from a modest easing of monetary policy. In an unexpected move, the Bank of Japan voted to put more money into circulation in an effort to make the cost of borrowing cheaper. The yen initially weakened on the news but later reversed these losses on hopes that the move would bolster Japanese growth. In London, the pound closed little changed against the dollar at $1.4210, and stayed near Monday’s five-month euro lows. Sterling gained ground against the dollar in New York trade, rising as far as $1.4280.
Re: [CTRL] Something Rotten In The State Of Israel
In a message dated 8/4/01 8:12:54 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I frankly think that the historic ties between the Zionists and Hitler are something that has been suppressed for too long. Yeah right!! But what about the historic ties beteween Zionism and the Borg Collective? And we cannot ignore the historic ties to the Kodan Armada can we. Carl Ben Zaddock
[CTRL] protest today involving the Temple Mount had tensions near boiling point between
JERUSALEM - A planned ultra-right Jewish march and protest today involving the Temple Mount had tensions near boiling point between Israelis and Palestinian Muslims. Today marks the commemoration of the Roman destruction of the Jewish temple at the site, and one Israeli ultra-nationalist group wanted to place a new cornerstone at the temple to mark the event. But noting that the commemoration would enflame Muslims who also revere the site, Israel's high court upheld a decision Wednesday to ban the Temple Mount Faithful from the ceremony - saying it could only display the marble stone near the compound. Still, Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction called for a "day of rage" and urged Palestinians to mass today at the holy site, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, to thwart any attempt to carry the 4.5-ton cornerstone into the compound. Abdul Malek Daraushe, an Israeli Arab in the parliament, warned the Temple Mount Loyalists last night not to "dare to approach Temple Mount" - unless they want to court "disaster." Jerusalem police last night were also geared up for a possible clash. "We will recruit all the necessary police force to prevent any clash, and any illegal move by any side," said Miki Levi, chief commander of the police in Jerusalem. "I promise you, [the cornerstone] will remain outside the Old Walls of Jerusalem." Meanwhile, Israel challenged the Palestinian Authority yesterday to do more to stop guerrilla bomb-makers after Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a building allegedly used by Palestinians to produce arms.
[CTRL] Japanese PM flirts with fascism
Alarm as populist Japanese PM flirts with fascism
By Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo
29 July 2001The 15-second film leaves a powerful impression. It begins with
trees silhouetted at twilight and sinister black birds rising into the sky.
Next, we see crowds cheering an invisible orator. A drum beats in the
background and a voice says: "When the populist makes an appearance, truly
frightening things begin. Take the path that doesn't lead back to war."
The implication is that a dangerous and charismatic leader is on the rise.
But this is not the former Soviet Union or the Balkans. The film is a
broadcast by Japan's Social Democratic Party (SDP), for today's elections to
the Upper House of parliament.
Although he is not named, every Japanese can identify the crypto-fascist
demagogue Junichiro Koizumi, the country's adored prime minister.
Ever since he came to power last April, it has been clear that Mr Koizumi is
a new kind of leader. His approval ratings are still nearly 70 per cent, and
crowds at his rallies greet him like a rock star.
The managers of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) hardly know what to do
with his popularity, while the left-wing SDP fears that Japan's painful
history is repeating itself and compares Mr Koizumi to Hitler and Mussolini.
His well-attended speeches are regarded as latter-day Nuremberg Rallies.
Hideo Den, a 78-year-old Upper House member, who saw action in World War Two
as a naval fighter pilot, says: "When I grew up in the 1930s, Japan was
moving towards war ... this is a similar situation."
People like Mr Den say there is a dark side to Mr Koizumi. First, there is
his avowed intention to pray at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine to the war dead.
Then there is his plan to revise Article Nine, which renounces Japan's right
to wage war. Thirdly, there is the dispute with South Korea and China over a
Japanese school textbook said to gloss over Japan's wartime atrocities.
Most alarming of all is the media infatuation with the prime minister. When
the SDP presented its party political broadcast, all major television
channels refused to screen it.
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democracy
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[CTRL] 3800 Year Old Alphabet Found On Six Continents
- IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE WORD DEPARTMENT - 3800 Year Old Alphabet Found On Six Continents A journalist, while attempting to document some unusual and very old rock art in remote North America, has discovered an ancient alphabet. This alphabet is identical to ancient writing found in two other distant locations around the globe. The author's discovery is in Colorado and has been dated to 800 BCE. In the Negev desert of Israel, this writing has been dated to 1500 BCE. In southern Australia, the alphabet is estimated to be over 3800 years old. The language has been given the name "old Negev," after the location of the alphabet's initial discovery in the Sinai. In Australia it has been known for centuries by the name "Panaramitee," while in the Americas it has been misrepresented as Native American Indian sign language. The language and grammar are now understood to be proto-Canaanite and appear to have roots in common with Egyptian and Hebrew. The petroglyphs successfully translate to English using an old Hebrew dialect in all three locations. There is a danger in representing the language as "old Negev" and "old Hebrew." Evidence of the antiquity of this script in both America and Australia suggest that this root language may pre-date that of the Hebrews. The author and his associates suggest using an unbiased name, such as "the First Tongue," to avoid any presumptive association with a specific people or era. The content of the translations, although not complete, suggests a common culture and religious belief system. But more scrutiny of this language system, its content and occurrence around the globe is indicated. Source: ZON
Re: [CTRL] Elliott Abrams- A Shameful Choice
In a message dated 7/12/01 6:27:02 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He played an important role in the funding of contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. He didn't just try to end-run the U.S. law that prohibited U.S. military aid to the contras. He actively deceived three congressional committees about what was going on. YEAH
Re: [CTRL] Elliott Abrams- A Shameful Choice
In a message dated 7/12/01 6:39:13 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uh huh...figured you'd enjoy subverting our constitution and lying to Congress...good solid conservative values. Bill. YEAH
[CTRL] AIDS threat stalks Ukrainian youth
Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. AIDS threat stalks Ukrainian youth By Tara FitzGerald KIEV, July 12 (Reuters) - Don't use drugs, use condoms, lead a normal lifestyle. A simple motto aimed by AIDS campaigners at the youth of Ukraine but the message is failing to get through. Long the scourge of African countries, the United Nations estimates that ex-Soviet Ukraine has the fastest growing rate of HIV infection in Europe -- and has said that 1.5 million of its 49 million people could be affected by the disease by 2010. Since Ukraine's first HIV case was reported in 1987, the United Nations says "the virus has risen to near epidemic proportions mainly within the injecting drug-using community." And aid workers believe it is not only the runaway rate at which the virus is spreading but the fact that it is overwhelmingly attacking young people that is of mounting concern. "Approximately 90 percent of infection (in Ukraine) occurs in the 15-24 age group," said Andrej Cima, Intercountry Programme Advisor for the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS, adding that it was no longer confined to drug users. "In Ukraine the epidemic is being driven by injecting drug users, and our experience is that when it gets into the drug-using community it spreads very fast," Cima said. "We are now seeing an increase in non-drug users...so we are seeing a spillover into the general community." He said poppies growing in western Ukraine made access to drugs relatively cheap and easy, and the fact that surveys show a large percentage of drug users have casual sexual partners and practise unprotected sex was compounding the problem. The explosion in sex workers in the post-Communist era was also exposing more and more people to HIV/AIDS. TIP OF THE ICEBERG Cima said that according to sero-monitoring data, as of May 1, 2001 there were 67,844 reported cases of HIV in Ukraine and just 38,632 officially reported cases -- 28,265 of those were injecting drug users. The officially reported cases are those people who come back for treatment after testing positive in sero-monitoring. And these are just the people who have come forward for testing. Experts believe the real number of Ukrainians affected could be as much as 10 times higher. "Some people want to put it out of their minds as they know they can live for six to seven years without treatment," Cima said, explaining the discrepancy in the figures. Between January and April this year 2,032 new cases of HIV were reported. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which destroys the immune system and leaves victims vulnerable to an array of opportunistic infections and aggressive cancers, is the fourth leading cause of death globally. HIV causes AIDS. June 5 this year marked the 20th anniversary of the first public disclosure of cases of the mysterious disease that became known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- AIDS. Walid Harfouch, the U.N. goodwill ambassador to Ukraine, says the fact that there is not enough information available about HIV/AIDS and it is still a taboo topic in Ukraine, are major contributing factors to its spread. BREAKING TABOOS "One of the biggest problems is that people don't want to report (possible HIV) because they think they might be rejected by society, lose their jobs and so on," Harfouch said. "I know of cases where people were fired from their jobs after they found out they were HIV positive and they now believe it was a big mistake to ever have reported it." His campaign focuses on spreading awareness among young people through pop concerts, radio and television advertising, as well as supplying free condoms at special events. "Because I know that often young people, if they have the choice, will be more likely to spend their two hryvnias (40 cents) on a beer rather than a condom," Harfouch said. "This is one of the direct ways in which we can prevent the spread of AIDS among young people." Cima also noted a lack of safe sex education in schools which he said the government and aid groups were tackling. But campaigners said they were cheered by the fact that Ukraine was one of the four countries which had called for a special U.N. AIDS summit, which was held in New York last month. "This shows the government has taken a big step towards acknowledging the existence of the problem," Harfouch said. COSTLY TREATMENT Another issue that Ukrainians have to face is the prohibitive cost of treatment and its lack of availability for those who do come forward after testing HIV positive. The Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases of the Academy of Medical Science of Ukraine -- the country's first dedicated HIV/AIDS clinic -- is based in the capital Kiev and has around 20 residential places, as well seeing a further 10-15 out-patients each day. Housed in a beautiful old, if slightly shabby, building near the Pechersk Lavra monastery, the clinic is
[CTRL] And now for something completely different......
Subj: [GospelofThomas] Fwd Post (Pinched) from GnosticsMillinium Group Date: 7/10/01 6:07:36 AM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Below is a post I lifted from the above group. It reminded me of a certain group that I belong to :-) - Just a bit of fun, hope you enjoy. PJ "Nima Hazini" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Jul 10, 2001 11:54 am Subject: OT: The Jerry Springer Show with a twist And now for something completely different.. -- Crowd: Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jerry: Today's guests are here because they can't agree on fundamental philosophical principles. I'd like to welcome Todd to the show. [Todd enters from backstage.] Jerry: Hello, Todd. Todd: Hi, Jerry. Jerry: (reading from card) So, Todd, you're here to tell your girlfriend something. What is it? Todd: Well, Jerry, my girlfriend Ursula and I have been going out for three years now. We did everything together. We were really inseparable. But then she discovered post-Marxist political and literary theory, and it's been nothing but fighting ever since. Jerry: Why is that? Todd: You see, Jerry, I'm a traditional Cartesian rationalist. I believe that the individual self, the "I" or ego is the foundation of all metaphysics. She, on the other hand, believes that the contemporary self is a socially constructed, multi-faceted subjectivity reflecting the political and economic realities of late capitalist consumerist discourse. Crowd: O! Todd: I know! I know! Is that infantile, or what? Jerry: So what do you want to tell her today? Todd: I want to tell her that unless she ditches the post-modernism, we're through. I just can't go on having a relationship with a woman who doesn't believe I exist. Jerry: Well, you're going to get your chance. Here's Ursula! [Ursula storms onstage and charges up to Todd.] Ursula: Patriarchal colonizer! [She slaps him. Todd leaps up, but the security guys pull them apart before things can go any further.] Ursula: Don't listen to him! Logic is a male hysteria! Rationality equals oppression and the silencing of marginalized voices! Todd: The classical methodology of rational dialectic is our only road to truth! Don't try to deny it! Ursula: You and your dialectic! That's how it's been through our whole relationship, Jerry. Mindless repetition of the post-Enlightenment meta-narrative. 'You have to start with radical doubt, Ursula.' 'Post-structuralism is just classical sceptical thought re-cast in the language of semiotics, Ursula.' Crowd: Booo! Booo! Jerry: Well, Ursula, come on. Don't you agree that the roots of contemporary neo-Leftism simply have to be sought in Enlightenment political philosophy? Ursula: History is the discourse of powerful centrally located voices marginalizing and de-scribing the sub-altern! Todd: See what I have to put up with? Do you know what it's like living with someone who sees sex as a metaphoric demonstration of the anti-feminist violence implicit in the discourse of the dominant power structure? It's terrible. She just lies there and thinks of Andrea Dworkin. That's why we never do it any more. Crowd: Wo! Ursula: You liar! Why don't you tell them how you haven't been able to get it up for the past three months because you couldn't decide if your penis truly had essential Being, or was simply a manifestation of Mind? Todd: Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Ursula: It's true! Jerry: Well, I don't think we're going to solve this one right away. Our next guests are Louis and Tina. And Tina has a little confession to make! Louis and Tina come onstage. [Todd and Ursula continue bickering in the background.] Jerry: Tina, you are... (reads cards) ... an existentialist, is that right? Tina: That's right, Jerry. And Louis is, too. Jerry: And what did you want to tell Louis today? Tina: Jerry, today I want to tell him... Jerry: Talk to Louis. Talk to him. [Crowd hushes.] Tina: Louis... I've loved you for a long time... Louis: I love you, too, Tina. Tina: Louis, you know I agree with you that existence precedes essence, but ...well, I just want to tell you I've been reading Nietzsche lately, and I don't think I can agree with your egalitarian politics any more. Crowd: Wo! Woo! Louis: (shocked and disbelieving) Tina, this is crazy. ou know that Sartre clarified all this way back in the 40's. Tina: But he didn't take into account Nietzsche's radical critique of democratic morality, Louis. I'm sorry. I can't ignore the contradiction any longer! Louis: You got these ideas from Victor, didn't you? Didn't you? Tina: Don't you bring up Victor! I only turned to him when I saw you were seeing that dominatrix! I needed a real man! An Uber-mensch! Louis: (sobbing) I couldn't help it. It was my burden of freedom. It was too much! Jerry: We've got someone here who might have something to add. Let's bring out...Victor! [Victor enters. He walks up to Louis and sticks a finger in his
Re: [CTRL] Thanks to GW
In a message dated 7/9/01 10:29:51 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The blockade of Iraq, for example, has killed at least a half million, probably more like two million, Iraqis. Almost all of them were women and children. Just that many fewer car bombers for our troops to worry about.
Re: [CTRL] Israelis Kill Shepherd
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[CTRL] Bush to throw 'protectionist bombshell' at Europe
MONDAY JULY 02 2001 Bush to throw 'protectionist bombshell' at Europe FROM CHRIS AYRES IN NEW YORK FEARS are growing that President Bush could throw a “protectionist bombshell” at Europe in retaliation for it blocking the $42 billion (£30 billion) acquisition of Honeywell International by General Electric. The EU’s decision to block the merger of the US industrial groups — which it could announce as early as tomorrow — is the latest in a series of transatlantic trade disputes that have strained relations between Washington and Brussels. The disputes, which threaten to trigger a full-scale trade war between two of the world’s biggest trading partners, come on top of transatlantic tensions over other issues such as the environment. The most likely target of US protectionism is the European steel industry. President Bush last week angered the EU by using section 201 of the 1974 Trade Act to launch a six-month investigation into the impact of European imports on the struggling US steel industry. If the investigation finds that imports are harming the US, President Bush can impose quotas on imports, punitive tariffs and other protectionist measures. This could have a devastating effect on European steelmakers, including Britain’s Corus, which export about five million tonnes of finished steel products to the US a year. The steel dispute comes amid an equally damaging row over tax subsidies given to US companies operating in Europe. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) last month ruled that the Bush Administration was breaking international trade regulations by offering the subsidies, and opened the door for the EU to impose $4 billion in sanctions against the US. Robert Zoellick, the US trade representative, said that imposing the sanctions would be like dropping a “nuclear weapon” on trade relations between the two continents. The US has already failed to hide its anger over the EU’s rejection of the Honeywell deal. The EU also last year blocked AOL Time Warner’s acquisition of EMI Group, the British record company. There are concerns in Washington that the EU has a hidden anti-US agenda. President Bush recently said that he was concerned about the EU’s stance on Honeywell, while Donald Evans, the Commerce Secretary, pleaded with the EU to clear the industrial merger. Attempts by Washington to influence the EU’s investigation last month provoked a furious response from Mario Monti, the EU’s Competition Commissioner. He said: “I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to trigger political intervention. This is entirely out of place in an antitrust case and has had no impact on the Commission whatsoever. This is a matter of law and economics, not politics.” Imposing tough sanctions on European steel imports would be a popular move for President Bush in the US. The Speciality Steel Industry of North America, said last week: “We believe that substantial dumping continues in the US marketplace. We will closely monitor developments and, if and when appropriate, will ask the Administration to initiate additional section 201 cases on affected products.” Washington and Brussels are already involved in a related row over steel duties. The EU has threatened to take the US to a WTO dispute panel over its “anti-subsidy duties” on steel imports from about 16 European companies. The EU won a similar WTO case last year against the US over duties on imports of leaded bars produced by Corus. . Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication website. Breaking Business News from PA July 02, 2001 15:40 Telecoms spearhead Footsie rally Manufacturers remain under pressure Emap sells US magazine business Eircom set for £1bn takeover Glotel shares slump in tough conditions Share schemes boost executive earnings Powergen in high NRG deal UBC in digital defence Inter Link tucks into cake firm Bank deal for under-fire drug firm HELPCROSSWORD SEARCH CONTACT US TERMS CONDITIONS
Re: [CTRL] Art Bell smear campaign
In a message dated 7/1/01 7:40:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But... But... But... Art Bell's WIFE is Filipino ..!!?? What an absurd topic to smear him with This has been floating for years. like a fungal infection it simply wont go away. Carl
Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams
In a message dated 6/29/01 1:47:35 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elliot Abrams, a key figure in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, was named yesterday to a senior position on the National Security Council. hhhrhh
Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams
In a message dated 6/29/01 6:26:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That says more than a thousand words...not that your stripes weren't already loudly painted and obvious... So does your paycheck say "CIA" or are you just a wannabe?? I lean towards the wannabe monniker...you seem like a geek wannabe...let me guess, you liked to listen to the police scanner as a kid too?? Bill. LOl typical of you little pissant fascist types. got nothing intellegent to say so you attack the person. Denegration is a high form of flattery IMO. keep it up Carl
Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams
In a message dated 6/29/01 6:26:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That says more than a thousand words...not that your stripes weren't already loudly painted and obvious... So does your paycheck say "CIA" or are you just a wannabe?? I lean towards the wannabe monniker...you seem like a geek wannabe...let me guess, you liked to listen to the police scanner as a kid too?? Bill. LOl typical of you little pissant fascist types. got nothing intellegent to say so you attack the person. Denegration is a high form of flattery IMO. keep it up Carl
Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams
In a message dated 6/29/01 8:20:46 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So find me if you want...I've got 158 grains of jacketed lead for you if you want to be a total moronic goofball (I always put the jacket on for visitors)... nice, i havnt had a death threat since the 60s. BTW i am forwarding this to my ISP and the FEDS. MMuuuh You pathetic little squirts are so amusing. Ahab42 AKA Ahab42 Muuha
Re: [CTRL] Death Threat
In the message below you will find a death threat aimed directly at me. I request you take immediate action. b I would also like you to give me the procedure on reporting this threat to the FBI if this is the proper thing to do. Sincerely, Carl Amedio In a message dated 6/29/01 8:20:46 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams Date:6/29/01 8:20:46 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Shannon) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conspiracy Theory Research List) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conspiracy Theory Research List) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/29/01 7:51:45 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LOl typical of you little pissant fascist types Yo' Carl!!! Here I am...just like you, the ONLY difference is that I lend my real and whole name to this...and for your ilk I'll say again- William Shannon Elmhurst Illinois And no, I'm not into giving you anything else but at THE VERY LEAST I sign my name and give my town!!! So find me if you want...I've got 158 grains of jacketed lead for you if you want to be a total moronic goofball (I always put the jacket on for visitors)... IMHO you've offered naught to this list save a few sophmoric rantings (that you likely heard on Limbaugh) and your AM radio-inspired "thoughts"... Pretty boring "Ahab"...but pretty typical of your lot... Hey! While you're in town why not hit the "BOYSTOWN"??? I think you'll find your fantasy there...but 'member...SAFE SEX You really are gay! (Not that that's wrong) Bill. --- Headers Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from lmailaol1.aol.com (lmailaol1.aol.com [152.163.225.33]) by air-ya05.mail.aol.com (v78_r3.8) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:20:46 -0400 Received: from LISTSERV.AOL.COM by lmailaol1.aol.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:36:13 -0400 Received: from LISTSERV.AOL.COM by LISTSERV.AOL.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 383725 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:20:44 -0400 Received: from imo-r06.mx.aol.com (imo-r06.mail.aol.com [172.31.37.6]) by listserv.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00421 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo-r06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id s.102.53becfb (7543) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:20:35 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_102.53becfb.286e8363_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:20:35 EDT Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] HE'S BAAACK: Elliot Abrams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] S'pore scientists find infection-stalling enzyme
Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. S'pore scientists find infection-stalling enzyme SINGAPORE, June 28 (Reuters) - Singapore scientists have isolatred an enzyme which disrupts communication between bacterial cells to stall plant infections in a breakthrough that could offer hope to humans. The enzyme, extracted from a common bacterium, affects tiny molecules found in bacteria which function as signals to synchronise the onset of an infection. "This enzyme stops the communication of the bacteria and these bacteria cells cannot produce pathogens (substances that cause disease) required for infection," Zhang Lian Hui of the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology told Reuters on Thursday. Zhang and his team introduced the gene for the enzyme into tobacco and potato plants which were later found to be resistant to bacterial diseases. The enzyme, unlike typical antibiotic drugs, did not destroy bacteria but suppressed the onset of an infection and gave an organism's natural defences more time to fight back. "A similar strategy could also be used for the control of human infections," Zhang said. The institute has filed for three patents and had its plant research findings published in the June issue of the scientific journal "Nature." Researchers have begun testing the enzyme on potentially fatal lung infections and burns with promising results. 08:01 06-28-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
Re: [CTRL] FDR Unmasked
In a message dated 6/26/01 6:27:04 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stinnett volume shows that the President of the United States not only knew when and where the Japanese attack would take place, but also puts it in its proper context as the logical outcome of a provocative policy aimed at getting us into the European war through the Asian "back door." So what is new about this? This fact is common knowledge. Heck FDR allowed British spies to assassinate German spies in the US. A clear violation of the constitution. Grow up for Pete sake. I am not an FDR fan in general. But, what he did vis a vis W.W.II was necessary. Carl
[CTRL] European foreign ministers fear Macedonia meltdown
Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. European foreign ministers fear Macedonia meltdown BRUSSELS, June 24 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers meet on Monday facing an intractable crisis in Macedonia -- newly wrested from the brink of disaster by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana but still highly volatile. Talks were stalled between ethnic Albanian and Macedonian leaders on a peace plan to end a five-month-old insurrection by Albanian guerrillas. But Solana on Sunday coaxed the Macedonian Army back to a truce, stopping a three-day offensive. "Political dialogue should now continue," he told reporters in Skopje after fighting stopped in nearby Aracinovo. But this is what the EU and NATO have been urging since March, without concrete results. EU ministers still have ample cause for alarm. The peace deal they had insisted on seeing by Monday looked unlikely to materialise on time, wrecking their mediation timetable. The EU has made much of the benefits Macedonia could expect to reap as a potential candidate for membership of the bloc if it establishes stable, multi-ethnic democracy. But it has been reluctant to spell out the consequences of failure, partly because it has no obvious way of coercing a deal that would not, potentially, make the problem worse. The United States, which brokered a peace deal in Bosnia and came close to one in Kosovo, keeps a lower profile in Macedonia, although Washington has joined EU appeals to resume talks. Macedonia's president or prime minister, together with the main ethnic party leaders, had been due to join the EU ministers in Luxembourg to present their peace plan, partly crafted with EU and NATO advice. But Solana has for now agreed that Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva alone should represent the country -- a change suggesting there could be little progress to report. Western powers are pressing Macedonia to cede equal rights to the large ethnic Albanian minority. But the Albanians are demanding veto rights -- seen by Skopje as the death knell of effective government and the road to partition. Diplomats fear if fighting does not stop long enough to permit progress on the political front, wider rebel attacks may propel the country into all-out war. The EU ministers were expected to appoint, for a limited period, a special, resident envoy to Macedonia; a name mentioned is former French defence minister Francois Leotard. They were also due to discuss Yugoslavia's new decree permitting the extradition of war crimes suspects such as ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, and its possible impact on an aid donors' conference for Yugoslavia next Friday. The United States has threatened to boycott this meeting, which is critical to Yugoslavia's economic recovery, unless there is a concrete display of readiness to cooperate with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. During the two-day regular meeting, Solana will also brief ministers on his efforts to revive Middle East peace talks, following weekend talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. 11:08 06-24-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
[CTRL] 30-Foot Kite Used to Raise Obelisk
, JUNE 23, 20:05 EST 30-Foot Kite Used to Raise Obelisk By ANDREW BRIDGES AP Science Writer LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Researchers used a mammoth kite Saturday to set a 6,900-pound obelisk upright, a feat they say demonstrates that ancient Egyptians may have harnessed the wind to move even the most massive of stones. It took two tries but less than five minutes before the reinforced concrete obelisk, which had been prone on the ground, was raised by the tug of a brightly colored parachute modified to fly like a kite in the stiff Mojave Desert wind. ``It's a heck of a lot easier lifting it with the wind than it is pushing it or pulling it,'' said Maureen Clemmons, a Reseda, Calif., business consultant who has spent the last four years spearheading the project. The feat required just two people to fly the 30-foot kite, which provided an estimated 400 pounds of thrust as it danced in the 14-16 mph wind. A complex system of pulleys provided enough mechanical assistance to make the task possible. Clemmons, 44, said the idea for using wind power to move heavy objects came to her in 1997 after she read a magazine article about modern efforts to replicate how experts believe ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. Stones used in the pyramids weighed about 5,000 pounds. ``I was looking at this picture, all these guys pushing, pulling, sweating, the ramps and the sand, and nothing worked,'' said Clemmons, who has spent $30,000 on the project. ``There had to be another way.'' Clemmons was inspired by tales of Viking ships sailing across land on log rollers, using wind power. In 1999, she brought her idea to the California Institute of Technology, where a small group took on the project as an engineering challenge. ``You can lift up any weight if you provide the right kite size,'' said Mory Gharib, a professor of aeronautics at Caltech, who has worked with Clemmons for three years perfecting the concept. Clemmons began with a child's kite and a foot-high toy obelisk and has gradually scaled upward. Saturday marked the fourth time her team has used wind to lift the 6,900-pound version. Eventually, they hope to lift a 20,000-pound obelisk. Kite experts and Egyptologists are skeptical. ``We just do not believe she's got a prayer. It's just not logical. It doesn't bear the scrutiny of people who know kites,'' said Valerie Govig, the publisher and editor of Kite Lines magazine, which recently ceased publication. Experts in Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York added through publicist Egle Zygas that the concept of kite-flying pyramid builders is ``highly unlikely.'' But Clemmons — who maintains ancient paintings and reliefs suggest the Egyptians flew kites — remains a firm believer in wind power. ``How many people does it take to pull an oak tree out of the ground? One gust of wind can pull it out by its roots,'' Clemmons said. ——— On the Net: http://www.fdsmail.com/archeologee/Default.htm top news | u.s. | world | business | sports | sci | tech | arts | weather | politics | search Copyright 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Comments and questions AP privacy statement
Re: [CTRL] Well now ain't aol having fun. They just deleted everyone from ...
In a message dated 6/21/01 11:08:04 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- Move to topica. Yes they did. I call 4 times. 4 times they said not theren problem. there were rude as well. i asked to report the techs ansd was told to write steve case and disconnected. Carl
[CTRL] potential bubonic plague exposure
US health officials keeping an eye on potential bubonic plague exposure DENVER, Colorado, June 20 (AFP) - Colorado health officials are carefully examining reports of possible human exposure to bubonic plague that has killed a sizable portion of a nearby prairie dog colony. While health officials have confirmed the prairie dogs do carry the deadly but treatable disease, they are unsure if colony neighbors -- including a unidentified man who died of plague-like symptoms Monday -- have contracted the disease, said Tisha Dowe, director of the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment. "Right now, we're out checking other prairie dog colonies, too," Dowe said. "In the meantime, I've alerted doctors in the area to watch for symptoms just in case." As a precaution, the humans are being treated with antibiotics while health officials investigate whether there is a connection with the rodents, Dowe said. The county began spraying the colony to kill infected fleas which transmit the disease to humans. Health officials were alerted to the incident after a number of the rodents were found dead in the past week. Bubonic plague, which killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe in the 14th century, is a disease carried by rodents that is normally transmitted to humans through bites from infected fleas, said John Pape, a Colorado Department of Health and Environment epidemiologist who specializes in animal-borne illnesses. The plague produces flu-like symptoms, including high fever, chills, headaches, severe fatigue, vomiting and tender or swollen lymph glands that appear two days to a week after exposure, Pape said. "This is not the kind of flu that, when you get it, you wonder if you should go to the doctor," Pape said. "When you get it, you know it. It hits you that hard." While the threat of a widespread epidemic is minimal, Pape and other health officials have issued warnings alerting the public and their pets to stay away from the rodents. Pets, more likely to pick up the unwanted fleas as passengers, have transmitted the disease to more than half of the humans reported to have contracted the disease, Pape said. "We get reports of rodent die-offs every year throughout the west, but it rarely makes the jump to humans," Pape said, "The last time a human contracted it from another human in the United States was in 1924. Unlike 14th-century Europe, we don't have infected rats in our homes." Earlier this month, Colorado health officials confirmed other cases of plagued animals in the southern city of Pueblo and the Denver metropolitan area, but no human victims were reported. Last year, one human was treated for the disease on the state's Western Slope. The last confirmed bubonic plague death in the state was in 1999, one of three human cases in the state that year, Pape said. Home |Asia |World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment |Newspapers Questions or Comments Copyright © 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 1994-2001 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
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Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. AIDS misery in Zimbabwe mirrors Africa's plight By Cris Chinaka NYIKA, Zimbabwe, June 22 (Reuters) - While the world's political elite meets in New York this month to plan the war against the AIDS epidemic, the people of Nyika village in Zimbabwe will be burying more of their dead. Nyika epitomises the total devastation and human misery brought on by HIV-AIDS affecting a staggering 25 million people across Africa, the epicentre of the global AIDS catastrophe. Even if the U.N. General Assembly agrees a battle-plan at its first AIDS summit meeting starting on June 25, it will be too late for most of the people in Nyika. Agnes Moyondizvo, a 72-year-old grandmother, cannot remember the last time a week passed in this southern African village without a funeral or a death because of AIDS. "Sometimes I have this feeling that God has abandoned us, and that this is the way we are all going to perish...At the rate at which this disease is killing us, I don't think there will be any survivors here in two years' time," Moyondizvo said. She has already buried two of her own eight children and three grandchildren in the past three years. In the five days before she spoke to this correspondent, five more people died in her tiny village of 40 families, all of them linked to HIV-AIDS. "We still mourn our beloved but very few people shed any tears. Maybe it's because people have cried so much that they don't have tears anymore," she said. The village cemetery is marked with fresh graves. Loved ones lie beneath freshly dug mounds of earth at family homesteads. Nyika, some 350 km (220 miles) southeast of the capital Harare, has become home to scores of AIDS orphans and many of the village's small farm plots are lying idle because of a lack of healthy adult workers. More and more villagers are queuing for meagre and scarce aid from the cash-strapped government, according to Moyondizvo. U.N. TO TACKLE AFRICAN MISERY The misery in Nyika is repeated through Zimbabwe and the entire African continent where the vast majority of sufferers cannot get access to proper drugs or adequate health facilities to help treat their condition. The United Nations meeting aims to lay the basis for a broad multi-billion dollar strategy to tackle AIDS worldwide. A plan to rescue Africa from its AIDS crisis is vital to get drugs to where they are desperately needed and to build a health infrastructure able to deal with this unprecedented calamity. Africa is home to more than 25 million people living with HIV-AIDS. Only a tiny minority can afford drugs which prolong life or which treat diseases linked to AIDS. Most are condemned to die in abject conditions, many ostracised by their own communities. Four of the five countries most hurt by AIDS are in Africa, led by South Africa which has more AIDS sufferers than anywhere else, followed by Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia, according to U.N. estimates. In five African countries -- Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe -- at least one in five adults are HIV-positive. In the hardest hit, Botswana, people are dying at an average of 23 years earlier than they would be without AIDS. Health officials say Zimbabwe has one of the world's highest rates of AIDS cases, with more than a quarter of its 14 million people estimated to be infected with the HIV virus. AIDS is killing at least 2,000 people a week, and experts predict Zimbabwe could become the first country in the world to record zero percent population growth next year. The United Nations children's fund Unicef projects that Zimbabwe's average life expectancy would drop to 27 years within the next decade from a current 44 years and 62 years in 1990. 22:06 06-21-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. By Cris Chinaka NYIKA, Zimbabwe, June 22 (Reuters) - While the world's political elite meets in New York this month to plan the war against the AIDS epidemic, the people of Nyika village in Zimbabwe will be burying more of their dead. Nyika epitomises the total devastation and human misery brought on by HIV-AIDS affecting a staggering 25 million people across Africa, the epicentre of the global AIDS catastrophe. Even if the U.N. General Assembly agrees a battle-plan at its first AIDS summit meeting starting on June 25, it will be too late for most of the people in Nyika. Agnes Moyondizvo, a 72-year-old grandmother, cannot remember the last time a week passed in this southern African village without
[CTRL] More crime in France than in US - report
More crime in France than in US - report PARIS, June 18 (AFP) - France has become a more crime-ridden society than the United States, according to a new report which draws on official statistics from the FBI and French ministry of interior. Examining figures for a range of offenses since 1995, the study found that France overtook the US for the first time last year, as zero tolerance policies in America coincided with the steady growth in crime in French cities and suburbs. Per 100,000 inhabitants, there were 4,244 crimes in France compared with 4,135 in the US. "It was bound to happen one day that the curves converge then cross over," said security consultant Alain Bauer, the report's co-author. Sector by sector, Bauer discovered that while figures for murder and rape remained much higher in the United States, in other types of violent crime France was approaching or had surpassed American levels. Thus the number of physical assaults in 2000 was put at 327 per 100,000 people by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and at 299 by the French police. Five years before the numbers were more than 400 in the US, and just over 200 in France. For theft with violence, France was well in advance of the US, with 185 compared to 145. The figures for crimes on property were even more stark, with the US statistics declining dramatically over the past five years, while France registered a steady increase. For simple theft, France hit 2,588 per 100,000 inhabitants while the US fell to 2,475. Car-theft was markedly more pronounced in France, with 507 reported compared to 420 in the US for the same head of population. The authors, who included in the report only those crimes they said were directly comparable, warned that any study of this nature was "necessarily relative and partical," but they insisted the overall picture was unmistakeable. "We can confirm, without serious risk of contradiction, that France has just overtaken the USA in levels of criminality," Bauer told Le Figaro newspaper. He called on the French government to follow the example of the American authorities, who he said had succeeded in a spectacular reduction in crime -- notably in New York -- via a mix of strict enforcement and the "pragmatic" application of local initiatives. "What's essentially changed in criminality in France is the return of physical violence," Bauer said. "There exists here a real sense of impunity which makes the victims all the more dejected and the criminals all the more determined. "It is a terrifying spiral of violence that we have to break," he said. Home |Asia |World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment Questions or Comments Copyright © 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 1994-2001 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
[CTRL] IRAQ PROCURES HUNDREDS OF TANK TRANSPORTERS
IRAQ PROCURES HUNDREDS OF TANK TRANSPORTERS MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE ARMS, DEFENSE, STRATEGY The indepth regional news service http://www.menewsline.com/ 17.6.2001 LONDON [MENL] -- Iraq has procured hundreds of tank transporters from Russia in what has been termed as an effort to improve military logistics and respond quickly to the prospect of regional conflict. Western intelligence sources confirmed reports that hundreds of Russian-made tank transporters have arrived in southern Iraq over the past few weeks. They said the transporters were seen being unloaded in the port of Basra and then painted in the color of military khaki. "This is one of the most significant procurements by the Iraqi military and demonstrates its preparations for conflict," an intelligence source said. The London-based daily said at least 200 Ural tank transporters have been unloaded. Witnesses in Basra were quoted as saying that Iraq plans to import 1,300 tank transporters from Russia. Iraqi opposition sources said the tank transporters are key to the military's effort to regain control over the country or join any Middle East war against Israel. The sources said Iraq's armored fleet has been plagued by a lack of spare parts and the arrival of tank transporters saves on the wear and tear of driving tanks from Baghdad to Jordan or Syria. The Russian export of the vehicles was facilitated by listing them as civilian transporters, the sources said. As part of the proposed smart sanctions policy, the United States wants to ban vehicles that can transport armored systems. IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis Website: www.imra.org.il
Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag
In a message dated 6/18/01 6:16:51 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If there wasn't a market for slaves amongst the European powers, there wouldn't have been a slave trade of the scope it grew to become... I don't know about that. The Arabs did a thriving business in buying and selling Africans of all colors. OH wait, non black slaves dot count do they. only black Africans have been scared for generations, if not eternity, by slavery? My ancestors were being bought and sold a thousands of years before "this" episode of the slave trade. I guess I should demand reparations from the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Spanish, and French huh. BTW my ancestors were held as slaves--read indentured servants- long after its abolishment in the Americas. Roots Man
[CTRL] Fwd: [conspiracyjournal] Jetliners' 30 near misses with UFO's
In a message dated 6/17/01 10:18:01 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:[conspiracyjournal] Jetliners' 30 near misses with UFO's Date:6/17/01 10:18:01 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Swartz) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UK's CAA Files Document 30 UFO Near Misses [Original headline: Jetliners' 30 near misses with UFO's] http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/ufomiss.htm Hundreds of passengers were within a split second of Britainâs worst aviation disaster when two jets missed colliding by just 100ft at Heathrow airport. The public was shocked and public confidence severely dented. But what air travellers didnât know was that in the last two decades there have been around 30 similar near misses â with UFOs. The Western Daily Press has uncovered a dossier detailing the sensational incidents. The Civil Aviation Authorityâs X-Files are now in the possession of top investigative author Nick Redfern who has shown the contents to the Daily Press. The CAAâs hidden files, only recently released after years under wraps, documents pilotsâ and air traffic controllersâ descriptions of the unidentified flying objects which were close to bringing down jets loaded with passengers. Last night the CAAâs spokesman Chris Mason said of the classified papers: âOur reports are from highly trained pilots and air traffic controllers. We have no argument with what they say they have seen, even if what they saw canât be explained. âWe admit that in some cases the aircraft which were nearly in collision with the aircraft have never been traced. We keep an open mind about UFOs. Some things just canât be explained, but they have been reported by top professionals and we do take that into account.â The CAA has been carefully and quietly collecting and analysing data pertaining to near-collisions between airliners and UFOs for a number of years. And while such a claim might sound like something straight out of an episode of The X-Files, it is one supported by the CAAâs own records. âIâve never seen anything like it before and canât explain what it was,â said British Airways pilot Mike Dalton, of his sighting of a large, silver disc-shaped object from his Boeing 737 from Rome to Gatwick on the night of November 5, 1990. âMy co-pilot and I called in two cabin crew to see it and then it went out of sight. Ground radar couldnât pick it up, so it must have been travelling at phenomenal speed.â Subsequent investigations determined the UFO had seen by a second BA pilot and the pilot of an RAF Tornado aircraft who was obliged to take âviolent evasive actionâ to avoid a collision with it. On the night of 21 April 1991, the term âclose encounterâ took on an altogether more significant meaning for the crew and passengers of a London-bound airliner. At 9.00 pm Captain Achille Zaghetti, who was piloting a McDonnell MD80 aircraft, was amazed to see an unidentified flying object pass his aircraft as it flew over the coast of Kent at a height of more than 22,000 feet. As the UFO was no more than 1,000 feet above the airliner, and the incident therefore classed as a ânear-missâ, an official inquiry was launched by the CAA. Approximately two weeks later the following brief statement was issued: âThe pilot said the object was light brown, round, three metres long, and did not describe any means of propulsion. âThe aircraft was under the control of London air traffic control centre who had no other aircraft in the vicinity, but consistent with the pilot report, a faint radar trace was observed ten nautical miles behind the Alitalia aircraft. âExtensive enquiries have failed to provide any indication of what the sighting may have been.â But more was to come. The next incident to occur took place on June 1, 1991 when a yellow-orange cylindrical object, ten feet long, was seen at close quarters by the crew of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 en route to London from Dublin. Sixteen days later, yet another cylindrical-shaped UFO was sighted, this time by one Walter Leiss, a German engineer aboard Dan Air flight DA 4700 as it headed toward Hamburg. Nick Redfern is the author of three best-selling books on UFOs. The latest, Cosmic Crashes, is published by Simon and Schuster at £6.99. Air traffic controller: âwas it, er, an aircraft?â January 6, 1995: Captain Roger Wills and co-pilot Mark Stuart were beginning their descent towards Manchester Airport in a Boeing 737 twin jet with 60 passengers on board. Seventeen minutes before touchdown, a mysterious, triangular-shaped UFO flashed past the right-hand side of the aircraft at a distance described as being âvery closeâ â so close, in fact, that the crew instinctively âduckedâ in their seats. This is an extract from the conversation between crew of the B737 and the radar controller. B737: âWe just had something
Re: [CTRL] Elliott Abrams- It's Back!
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Mobile phones may foil stealth bombers By Robert Uhlig in London America's multi-billion-dollar stealth bombers could be rendered obsolete by a British invention that uses existing mobile telephone masts to detect and track aircraft that were previously invisible to radar. US stealth fighters and bombers such as the F117, B1 and B2 played key roles in the Gulf and Kosovan wars as they are almost impossible to detect using conventional radar. However, the ease with which the mobile telephone mast system - developed at a laboratory in Hampshire - can be used to detect the aircraft has greatly concerned the military. Mr Peter Lloyd, the head of projects at Roke Manor Research, said: "I cannot comment in detail because it is a classified matter, but let's say the US military is very interested." Stealth aircraft, each of which costs at least $A3.6 billion, are shaped to confuse radar. A special paint absorbs radio waves, reducing the radar signature to the equivalent of a gull in flight. The Roke Manor scientists discovered that telephone calls sent between mobile phone masts detected the precise position of stealth aircraft with ease. "We use just the normal phone calls that are flying about in the ether," Mr Lloyd said. "The front of the stealth plane cannot be detected by conventional radar, but its bottom surface reflects very well." Mobile telephone calls bouncing between base stations produce a screen of radiation. When the aircraft fly through this screen they disrupt the phase pattern of the signals. The Roke Manor system uses receivers, shaped like television aerials, to detect distortions in the signals. A network of aerials large enough to cover a battlefield can be packed in a Land Rover. Using a laptop connected to the receiver network, soldiers on the ground can calculate the position of stealth aircraft with an accuracy of 10 metres with the aid of the GPS satellite navigation system. "It's remarkable that a stealth system that cost £60 billion [$158 billion] to develop is beaten by £100,000 mobile phone technology," Mr Lloyd said. "It's almost impossible to disable a mobile phone network without bombing an entire country, whereas radar installations are often knocked out of action with a single bomb or missile." The Telegraph, London [go to top] In this section Flailing Wahid hires and fires Mobile phones may foil stealth bombers Anti-terror head 'killed Palestinians in custody' Refugees stream out of Macedonia as rebels near Skopje Sleeping in helps family put nightmare behind them Executing the retarded 'sullying US reputation' Speight goes on outing to the circus, but must wait again for his day in court Man targeted elite school for killing spree 'because he wanted death penalty' Lacklustre monitoring of climate change leaves US in cold Site Guide | Archive | Feedback | Privacy Policy Copyright © 2001. All rights reserved.
[CTRL] Mobile phones may foil stealth bombers
I Mobile phones may foil stealth bombers By Robert Uhlig in London America's multi-billion-dollar stealth bombers could be rendered obsolete by a British invention that uses existing mobile telephone masts to detect and track aircraft that were previously invisible to radar. US stealth fighters and bombers such as the F117, B1 and B2 played key roles in the Gulf and Kosovan wars as they are almost impossible to detect using conventional radar. However, the ease with which the mobile telephone mast system - developed at a laboratory in Hampshire - can be used to detect the aircraft has greatly concerned the military. Mr Peter Lloyd, the head of projects at Roke Manor Research, said: "I cannot comment in detail because it is a classified matter, but let's say the US military is very interested." Stealth aircraft, each of which costs at least $A3.6 billion, are shaped to confuse radar. A special paint absorbs radio waves, reducing the radar signature to the equivalent of a gull in flight. The Roke Manor scientists discovered that telephone calls sent between mobile phone masts detected the precise position of stealth aircraft with ease. "We use just the normal phone calls that are flying about in the ether," Mr Lloyd said. "The front of the stealth plane cannot be detected by conventional radar, but its bottom surface reflects very well." Mobile telephone calls bouncing between base stations produce a screen of radiation. When the aircraft fly through this screen they disrupt the phase pattern of the signals. The Roke Manor system uses receivers, shaped like television aerials, to detect distortions in the signals. A network of aerials large enough to cover a battlefield can be packed in a Land Rover. Using a laptop connected to the receiver network, soldiers on the ground can calculate the position of stealth aircraft with an accuracy of 10 metres with the aid of the GPS satellite navigation system. "It's remarkable that a stealth system that cost £60 billion [$158 billion] to develop is beaten by £100,000 mobile phone technology," Mr Lloyd said. "It's almost impossible to disable a mobile phone network without bombing an entire country, whereas radar installations are often knocked out of action with a single bomb or missile." The Telegraph, London [go to top]
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[CTRL] Fwd: Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone
In a message dated 5/20/01 4:31:46 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone Date:5/20/01 4:31:46 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (American Patriot Friends Network) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (APFN Yahoogroups) Witnesses heard multiple explosions - Sun May 20 14:39:56 2001 http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Witnesses heard multiple explosions Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone By Jon Dougherty - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiple witnesses reported hearing more than one explosion the day the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was bombed, while other explosives experts contend that the damage done to the building could not have been caused by a single bomb placed outside in a truck. According to excerpts of a new 500-page report authored by the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Commission, led by ex-Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key, "the FBI concluded that the damage to the Murrah Building was caused by one ammonium nitrate truck bomb, which was concealed in a 20-foot Ryder rental truck." However, the commission's report said, multiple witnesses "have testified to hearing a second bomb" go off shortly after 9 a.m. the morning of April 19, 1995. Furthermore, the report said, "explosives experts contend that the extent of the damage to the building" -- of which aerial photos showed nearly one-third was destroyed -- "could not have resulted from a single truck bomb. â¦" A summary of the damage report to the building, which was made available exclusively to WorldNetDaily, said witness accounts regarding the explosions "vary, depending upon their location at the time of the bombing." And just a few of those accounts were provided to WND via the report summary. Nevertheless, the accounts cast doubt on the federal government's insistence that a single ANFO -- ammonium nitrate and fuel oil -- bomb, driven to the front of the Murrah building by convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and, witnesses say, at least one other person, caused all of the damage. The bombing killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. Witness statements The commission said a Housing and Urban Development employee reported feeling an "initial shock" while she was on the ninth floor, which "she assumed was an earthquake." A "massive explosion then followed" that sensation, she said. A local CBS affiliate reporter also said she had interviewed "a number of people who had climbed under their desks to seek shelter." That indicates, according to some analysts who agree with the commission's conclusions, that another device likely exploded -- perhaps in the garage area of the Murrah Building -- before the Ryder truck bomb, because a "sensation" was felt and people had enough time to get under a desk before the ANFO explosion. Another witness, the report said, "felt a 'boom,' then heard a second explosion," while another, who "was at a third floor stairwell," also "heard a second explosion." Bomb numbers, characteristics change Initial reports in local media said city and county bomb squad personnel, as well as some government agents, had discovered up to two other unexploded bombs in the building. But those reports virtually disappeared a few days after the bombing. The sightings of the additional bombs were, when reported, confirmed by local, state and federal officials. The commission's report said Dr. Raymon Brown, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, "explained how two explosions" could be heard or felt by witnesses. "He stated that the ground wave [from a single explosion -- outside, in front of the building] was probably heard first, with an air wave following, giving the impression of two explosions," the report said. "Because the speed of sound is faster in the earth, the ground wave arrives early. The air wave follows, which allows the explosion to be heard." Other experts refuted that explanation. As the commission report showed, there were discrepancies in witness accounts, seismological accounts, and even official federal accounts about the bomb's makeup, the shock waves it caused and specific characteristics surrounding the bomb's size. The report said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "reported the blast as being the result of a car bomb containing 1,200 pounds of ⦠ANFO. Then, it was reported that the bomb weighed 4,000 pounds. The story changed again immediately preceding [McVeigh's 1997 federal] trial [in Denver, Colo.] when it was asserted that the bomb was a mixture of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane (ANNM), weighing 4,800 pounds." Also, the commission pointed out, "as rescue efforts began, there were reports of other bombs being found in the building, causing [it] to be evacuated twice" during
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[CTRL] Rare Disease Closes Canada Hospital
Rare Disease Closes Canada Hospital By David Goodman Associated Press Writer Thursday, May 10, 2001; 10:28 p.m. EDTWINDSOR, Ontario –– The chief trauma hospital in this Canadian border city will keep its operating rooms closed at least through Friday after possible infection with a rare brain-wasting illness. Surgeons at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital operated March 11 on a woman who later tested positive for possible infection with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The disease, known as CJD, is extremely rare and usually fatal, hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Srinivas Chakravarthi said Thursday. CJD occurs worldwide, typically in those over the age of 50, with about one case per million people each year. A variant of the disease has been linked directly to eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as mad cow disease. Nearly 100 people in Europe have died of new variant CJD since 1995. Chakravarthi said he learned of the test result, which is about 85 percent accurate, on Monday. As a precaution, the hospital halted all surgery and began disinfecting its operating rooms and surgical equipment Tuesday. Patients who have had neurosurgery at the hospital since March were being contacted, said chief executive Frank Bagatto. However, "the odds of anyone getting this particular disease is almost close to zero," Chakravarthi said at a news conference. One good sign is that the woman who tested positive seems to be doing well, which could indicate the test is a false positive, the surgeon said. Meanwhile, Ontario's health minister warned Thursday that patients may have been exposed to the disease at Windsor Regional Hospital because of shared medical instruments. Hotel-Dieu frequently shares medical equipment with other hospitals but seldom shares neurological equipment, Chakravarthi said. He did not say if there had been any such sharing since March 11. ––– On the Net: http://www.cjdfoundation.org © Copyright 2001 The Associated Press Back to the top
[CTRL] women in achieving equality throughout the world.
women in achieving equality throughout the world. Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before the Gulf War. She noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives. Ms. Walters approached one of the women and said, “This is marvelous. Can you tell the free world just what enabled women here to achieve this reversal of roles? “Land mines,” said the Kuwaiti woman.
[CTRL] Marines making flying foot soldiers
Marines making flying foot soldier Friday, 20 April 2001 1:34 (ET)Marines making flying foot soldiersQUANTICO, Va., April 19 (UPI) -- The Marines are developing small roboticflying machines that can fit into a soldier's backpack and, when called on,fly across battlefields, sending back to him or her video images of enemypositions."UAVs have typically provided the upper echelon of military commanderswith sensitive reconnaissance but Dragon Eye is intended to empower the footsoldier," said Jim McMains of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.Made from commercial products, the propeller-driven, 4.3 pound unmannedaerial vehicle or UAV has a wingspan of 48 inches and breaks down into fivepieces which a soldier should be able to reassemble in only a few minutes,said McMains.The soldier wears a ground control device containing a computer processorand a moving map display and, by pointing and clicking, tells where theywant the device to fly and take video. He then activates the tiny engine andthrows it into the air.The Dragon Eye sends the video stream back to a monitor that is containedin the wearable ground station."They plug in the altitude then tell it where it should come back," hesaid. "It flies away, comes back and lands all by itself with no pilotassistance."The video streaming capability limits the maximum range to 10 kilometersand the device's lithium battery power source-comparable to the power neededfor a child's motorized car-provides sixty minutes of flight time.The engine turns two oversized propellers, whose size keeps down noise byreducing the number of rotations needed to sustain flight. McMains said at100 meters the human ear can barely hear the Dragon Eye, which flies at aspeed of about 40 knots or about 46 miles per hour, and at such distancescan appear to be a souring bird."During tests, we have seen that even hawks have a tendency to migrate toit," he said, adding that it could also appear bird-like to enemy radarlucky enough to pick up such as small presence.The Dragon Eye, which will soon undergo field tests and then a subsequentround of modifications, is likely to cost $3 to $4 thousand dollar per unit,with ground control devices adding up to $8 to $10 thousand apiece, saidMcMains."This project gives Marines a significant capacity for expanding theirsphere of knowledge on battlefields and urban terrains and in congestedurban environments," said Daryl Davidson, executive director of theAssociation for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International in Arlington, Va.Davidson said cultural changes within the Pentagon's leadership as well asscientific progress in miniaturization, composites, sensors and powerdevices have boosted the military's attention to UAVs over the last fiveyears or so.He said that while defense projects like Dragon Eye have served as thegenius of unmanned systems, whether airborne, aquatic or land-based, thetechnology is fast moving to the private sector. "We like to say that thesesystems do the dull, dirty and dangerous jobs, things like flying overforest fires, patrolling borders and drug interdiction," he said, addingthat the FBI and DEA could already have unmanned systems that match orsurpass the ability of Dragon Eye but that they would likely be classified.(Reported by UPI Technology Correspondent Kelly Hearn in Washington)--Copyright 2001 by United Press International.All rights reserved.-- The romantic sounds of classic Cuban music blend with contemporary Spanish guitar in Alicia y Yo, a new CD from Spain. Click here to listen to some tracks and order the CD Return to headlines.
[CTRL] Israel has invaded Palestinian-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip
GAZA — Israel has invaded Palestinian-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip and divided the area into three zones.The invasion by air, sea and ground forces was the largest Israeli military action in the more than six-month-old war with the Palestinians and appears to effectively end the rule by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat over the Gaza Strip. Arafat arrived in Cairo from Amman as the Israeli counteroffensive began.Israeli officials said the invasion was prompted by a Palestinian mortar attack on the Israeli city of Sderot on late Monday. At least five 82 mm mortars were fired toward Sderot in two salvos in a neighborhood named after the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who launched a reconciliation effort with Arafat in 1993. The mortars have a range of 1.4 kilometers or nearly a mile.After the Palestinian attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his ministerial security committee and close to midnight, Israeli attack helicopters and tanks were launching a counteroffensive against PA positions throughout the Gaza Strip. The operation, which lasted four hours, began in the northern Gaza Strip and extended to the south.In all, seven PA installations were targeted. Israeli forces did not enter Gaza City, the de facto capital of the PA, or any other Palestinian cities.Israeli military commanders described the operation as clean and said the army has plans to capture additional Palestinian territory if the mini-war continues."We are not talking about an occupation," Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Ron Kitri said. "We are talking about a takeover. In some cases, our forces entered several hundred meters or one kilometer [in PA-controlled areas]. How long will this be? How long it takes. It could be days or more. We want quiet."Palestinian sources said Israel used fighter-jets and AH-64A attack helicopters to bomb PA security installations. These included the offices of PA security chief Mohammed Dahlan and those of Arafat's Force 17 praetorian guard. Both agencies have been accused of carrying out recent Palestinian attacks against Israel.By dawn, the Gaza Strip was divided into three Israeli-controlled zones. The exception was Gaza City, which remains under PA control. Palestinian sources said a PA officer was killed and 26 others were injured during the Israeli operation. Israeli ministers said Sharon does not intend to reoccupy Palestinian areas of the Gaza Strip.Palestinians forces put up little resistance to the Israeli invasion, despite a televised appeal from PA secretary-general Tayeb Abdul Rahim. Arafat did not directly address the Palestinians.On Tuesday, the Islamic opposition group, Hamas, claimed responsibility for the mortar attack on Sderot. PA intelligence chief Amin Hindi justified the mortar fire in an interview with PA radio on Tuesday.In the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli forces exchanged fire on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Israeli tanks fired shells toward the Bethlehem suburbs of Bet Jallah and El Khader. Tuesday, April 17, 2001
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Man goes to see the Rabbi. "Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it." The Rabbi asked, "What's wrong?" The man replied, "My wife is poisoning me." The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks, "How can that be?" The man then pleads, "I'm telling you, I'm certain she's poisoning me, what should I do?" The Rabbi then offers, "Tell you what. Let me talk to her, I'll see what I can find out and I'll let you know." A week later the Rabbi calls the man and says, "Well, I spoke to your wife. I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?" The man anxiously says, "Yes." "Take the poison," says the Rabbi.
Re: [CTRL] New evidence casts doubt on global warming (fwd)
In a message dated 4/15/01 1:54:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some will use this to claim there is no global warming. They are Fools. since qwe are comming out out of a "cold" cycle it is aparent there is "global" warming. Question is is this exaserbated by the green freaks psychosis or not? I may be a fool, but at least i am not a social; Nazi cooking science for my political agenda. Carl
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In a message dated 4/15/01 4:52:40 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, your wrong. You are a fool. We are coming out of the WARM cycle. 90,000 cold, and 10,00 warm. No, you are incorrect. Recent discoveries show a mini ice age about 10k BC. in fact as late as mid 1500s cold snap held sway in Europe. One again the green freaks never let facts get in the way of truth. Carl the Fool
[CTRL] Soul of Brevity
This little tidbit contains all you really need to know about government and bureaucracy. Pythagorean theorem: 24 words. The Lord's prayer: 66 words. Archimedes' Principle: 67 words. The 10 Commandments: 179 words. The Gettysburg address: 286 words. The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words. The US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
[CTRL] New evidence casts doubt on global warming
New evidence casts doubt on global warming Claims are "based on false data," international team of scientists says by Robert Matthews Fresh doubt has been cast on evidence for global warming following the discovery that a key method of measuring temperature change has exaggerated the warming rate by almost 40 percent. Studies of temperature records dating back more than a century have seemed to indicate a rise in global temperature of around 0.5C, with much of it occurring since the late 1970s. This has led many scientists to conclude global warming is under way, with the finger of blame usually pointed at man-made emissions of such greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide. Now an international team of scientists, including researchers from the Met Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom, has found serious discrepancies in the temperature measurements, suggesting that the amount of global warming is much less than previously believed. Measuring water, not air The concern focuses on the temperature of the atmosphere over the oceans, which cover almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface. While scientists use standard weather station instruments to detect warming on land, they have been forced to rely on the crews of ships to make measurements over the vast ocean regions. Crews have taken the temperature by dipping buckets into the sea or using water flowing into the engine intakes. Scientists have assumed there is a simple link between the temperature of seawater and that of the air above it. However, after analyzing years of data from scientific buoys in the Pacific that measure sea and air temperatures simultaneously, the team has found no evidence of a simple link. Instead, the seawater measurements have exaggerated the amount of global warming over the seas, with the real temperature having risen less than half as fast during the 1970s than the standard measurements suggest. Reporting their findings in the influential journal Geophysical Research Letters, the scientists say the exact cause of the discrepancy is not known. One possibility is that the atmosphere responded faster than the sea to cooling events such as volcanic eruptions. A big cut The findings have major implications for the climate change debate because sea temperature measurements are a key part of global warming calculations. According to the team, replacing the standard seawater data with the appropriate air data produces a big cut in the overall global warming rate during the last 20 years, from around 0.18C per decade to 0.13C. This suggests that the widely quoted global warming figure used to persuade governments to take action on greenhouse gas emissions exaggerates the true warming rate by almost 40 percent. The team is now calling for climate experts to switch from seawater data to sea-air temperature measurements. One member of the team, David Parker, of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office, said the discovery of the discrepancy "shows we don't understand everything, and that we need better observations--all branches of science are like that." Yet according to Parker, the new results do not undermine the case for global warming: "It is raising questions about the interpretation of the sea-surface data." Even so, the findings will be seized on by skeptics as more evidence that scientists have little idea about the current rate of global warming, let alone its future rate. Climate experts are still trying to explain why satellites measuring the temperature of the Earth have detected little sign of global warming, despite taking measurements during supposedly the warmest period on record. Some researchers suspect the fault may again lie with the ground-based temperature measurements. They say many of the data come from stations surrounded by growing urban sprawl, whose warmth could give a misleading figure. A study of data taken around Vienna, Austria, between 1951 and 1996 found that the air temperature rose by anything from zero to 0.6C, depending on precisely where the measurements were made. Robert Matthews is a staff reporter for the UK Telegraph, with whose permission this article is reprinted. Return to April 2001 contents.
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In a message dated 4/11/01 10:15:44 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A new, peer-reviewed article in Science and Justice, a quarterly publication of Britain's Forensic Science Society, says the NAS panel's study was seriously flawed. It nO kIDDING 22 YEARS TO FIGURE THIS OUT. mUUHHAA cARL
[CTRL] STOLEN FOOT-AND-MOUTH VIRUS 'RELEASED DELIBERATELY'
STOLEN FOOT-AND-MOUTH VIRUS 'RELEASED DELIBERATELY'18:30 Sunday 8 April 2001 The foot-and-mouth outbreak could have been started deliberately by someone who stole a test-tube of the virus from a laboratory.The Sunday Express says a container of foot-and-mouth virus went missing from a secret Government lab at Porton Down in Wiltshire two months before the crisis began.The disappearance was discovered during a routine audit of the sensitive unit, which also houses smallpox, TB, anthrax and Ebola. The newspaper says there are rumours the missing test-tube could have been taken by an animal rights activist.The paper quotes a 'senior military source close to Porton Down' as saying: "A phial appears to have gone missing from one of the labs following a routine audit last year."Ministry officials were informed immediately and an investigation was launched initially by Special Branch and then by MI5, who are interested in the activities of animal rights protesters."It says questions will be tabled in parliament about the Porton Down link this week. A Department of Health spokesman wouldn't comment but the paper said an agriculture ministry spokesman said the matter was being investigated.The paper also claims it has seen documents confirming some sheep carried the virus long before the outbreak was confirmed on February 20. According to a Welsh vet, it was in Wales as early as January, says the paper.Timber merchants say they were approached by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in early February to supply wood for pyres. Agriculture minister Nick Brown insisted this was part of a "regular contingency planning exercise".He told the paper: "There are a number of urban legends doing the rounds that the ministry knew about this disease before. That is not true."© Ananova_ Latest
[CTRL] San Diego council bans the word 'minority'
San Diego council bans the word 'minority' SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The City Council eliminated San Diego's "minority" population Monday, ruling the word is disparaging and voting unanimously to ban it from city documents and discussions. "When you see all people as children of God, you then see all people as your brothers and sisters," said Mayor Dick Murphy. The city's Rules Committee recommended the ban last month. In supporting it, Councilman George Stevens said people sometimes expect less of those who are labeled members of minority groups. Fellow Councilman Ralph Inzunza Jr. said the term no longer applies because the latest U.S. Census figures show some areas don't have one predominant racial group. Several people who favored the ban also spoke at Monday's council meeting. "To have that term really made me feel inferior," said Robert Ito, who identified himself as a fourth-generation Japanese-American. Only one person opposed eliminating the term. "Each of us is born a minority of one and shall die that way," said Pacific Beach activist Al Strohlein. The action follows the lead of the San Diego Unified School District, which approved a policy in 1988 of avoiding the use of the words "majority" and "minority." Problems? Suggestions? Let us hear from you. / Copyright © The Sacramento Bee
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[CTRL] Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran
Home - Yahoo! - Help Asia's best news sources. Updated 24 hours a day. Home |Asia | World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment | Newspapers Yahoo! Asia - News World Monday, March 19 11:37 PM SGT Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran WASHINGTON, March 19 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a stern warning to Russia and Iran Monday, putting both nations on notice that the United States was watching their actions closely and would respond should they make moves that could destabilize the Middle East. In an address before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Powell said Washington would not turn a blind eye to repression by Tehran or arms sales by Moscow to the Islamic Republic. The secretary said while President George W. Bush's administration was reviewing its policy toward Iran, it was troubled by Tehran's continued support for terrorism, opposition to Middle East peace efforts and its treatment of minorities, particularly Jews. "It is apparent that certain aspects of Iranian government behavior ... are of deep concern," Powell said, adding that Iranian Jews had been "unfairly charged and harshly imprisoned" in a series of recent criminal cases. "This is of deep concern to the United States and to the American people, and we will not turn aside and ignore this kind of behavior," he said to enthusiastic applause from the pro-Israel crowd attending the speech. At the same time, Powell said the Bush team was intrigued by recent events in Iran that indicated a resurgence of moderate sentiment against the conservative Islamic government. "We are aware of the intellectual and political foment taking place within Iran," he said. "Things are happening, things are changing and we will continue to watch these developments closely and hopefully." Powell also picked up on heavy criticism of Russia levelled by US officials last week after Moscow announced plans to boost military and nuclear cooperation with Iran. "We are also concerned about Iranian efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and to increase its conventional military strength," he said, noting that he had raised the issue in meetings with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and national security advisor Sergei Ivanov. "I have gone so far as to raise with senior Russian officials the role that Russia is playing in these dangerous and destabilizing efforts," Powell said. "We will not overlook what Russia is doing to cause this sort of problem." Washington has warned Moscow that it may face US sanctions should it sell advanced conventional weapons or sensitive technology to Tehran. Russia has dismissed the US concerns saying any weapons sales to Iran will be defensive in nature, will not violate non-proliferation agreements and will not affect the balance of power in the Middle East. Home |Asia |World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment |Newspapers Questions or Comments Copyright © 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 1994-2001 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
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After loosing 2.9 billion in one day, bill gates ordered 2 vice presidents to jump from the balcony of the Microsoft board room. Tragedy was averted however whenniether of the Veeps could open windows. balcony Muuhhaaa
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Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. World's biggest oil rig tilts into sea after blast By Luiz Andre Ferreira MACAE, Brazil, March 16 (Reuters) - The world's biggest offshore oil rig, owned by Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras, threatened to sink into the ocean spilling crude oil on Friday, a day after an explosion that apparently killed 10 people. Three powerful blasts rocked the 40-story rig off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state on Thursday, causing a fire that killed at least one of the 175 workers aboard. Nine workers were listed as missing, and Petrobras said on Thursday that there was little chance they had survived. Another worker was hospitalized with severe burns. On Friday, public outrage mounted against accident-prone Petrobras as its biggest platform tilted into the sea. If the rig sinks it could dump crude and diesel into the open ocean, causing yet another environmental disaster. Tense families of the workers also waited to see if the official death toll would rise when search and rescue operations resume later in the day. "Petrobras is much more worried about cutting costs than ensuring the safety of its workers and of the environment," said Jandira Segalli, a federal deputy who met with officials after the explosion. Union leaders called a nationwide protest on Friday to demand safer working conditions. They accused Petrobras of outsourcing work to inexperienced workers in order to cut costs, thus putting its employees at risk. More than 80 oil workers have died in accidents over the last three years, according to the United Oil Workers Federation (FUP). It was still not clear what caused the blasts at the platform, located in the Roncador oil field 78 miles (125 km) offshore in the Campos Basin, where 80 percent of Brazil's oil is produced. But damage to one of the rig's hulls threatened to send the rig sinking into the ocean. "If the degree of listing increases we are going to lose the platform," Petrobras President Henri Philippe Reichstul said in a videoconference on Thursday. "It will only be clear by tomorrow (Friday) morning." The immense structure was listing three times more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa, according to engineers, and appeared on the verge of lurching into the sea. If it did, at least half of the 1,200 cubic meters of diesel and 300 cubic meters of crude stored on the rig could spill. Five boats are standing by to collect the oil, but they can only hold half of the total amount stored there. The P-36 rig can produce up to 180,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the world's biggest platform, but after starting operations last year, it was only pumping out 80,000 bpd, or 5 percent of Brazil's total daily output. All production was halted and Petrobras said it could lose $50 million a month with the rig out of operation. Petrobras' stock sank 6.8 percent and Brazil's currency weakened on Thursday on investor concerns that Petrobras will have to make up for lost production with more costly imports. Petrobras has also caused a string of high-profile environmental disasters in recent years. 22:52 03-15-01 Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
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[CTRL] The gospels redated via the Scrolls
Qumran, Essene, Dead Sea Scrolls Discussion Forum [ Contents | Search | Post | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ] The gospels redated via the Scrolls From: Barbara Thiering Category: Category 1 Date: 23 Feb 2001 Time: 15:47:30 Remote Name: 63.12.23.89 Comments The link with Kevin King's website was interesting, in that he accepts the pre-70 dating of the gospels while upholding a fairly orthodox Christian view about Jesus. As he said, the redating of the gospels was first argued by J.A.T. Robinson in the 60's. Robinson's insight was that the very late date came from a desire to justify the incredible content of the gospels, chiefly the miracles and the apparent contradictions. Time was needed for the growth of legend. The dating simply ignored much of the historical evidence because of this theological motive. Now there is a huge quantity of new information, which Christian biblical scholars are only slowly digesting, much gored by papal bulls. The Scrolls are capable of making an even bigger difference to the NT than the 19th century discoveries of Creation and Flood stories made to the OT. The Scrolls' information leading to a redating of John (for a start) includes the fact of the zealot activities of the Qumran community in its 1st cent CE phase, taken with the many evidences of an institutional connection of Qumran with the early Christians. Further, the enemies of the Teacher are said to be Samaritans in 1QpMic. From this and a great deal more (Clementina, Acts 8, Eusebius, the stone found in the Tiber etc etc), the pesher technique identifies Simon Magus the Samaritan as a leading figure in the history. He was an associate of Jesus, who is called a Samaritan in Jn 8:48, and he was the zealot leader, being also Simon the Zealot of the disciples (Lk 6:15), also Simon the leper of Bethany, and Lazarus of Bethany (numerous pseudonyms used for political cover, as was also the case in the Scrolls' treatment of their opponent). Simon was the leader of the 'Seekers-after-Smooth-Things', Diaspora Essenes, and was the main person crucified for zealotry by Pilate, 'the Young Lion of Wrath' (pNah). Jesus was only a subordinate who was crucified as an act of treachery instigated by the zealots themselves. Since Lazarus is treated sympathetically in John's gospel, (his 'raising from the dead' in Jn 11 being the lifting of his ban of excommunication), this means that this gospel was written before Peter and Paul denounced him (Acts 8, also Acts 13: 8-12 re Bar-Jesus). Acts 8 may be dated, internally from the pesher, in 37-39 CE. A split occurred in 44 CE, in the tolerant reign of Claudius, when pro-Roman Christians separated with a new name, and the zealots remained in the Damascus party that produced CD. The composition of John's gospel may, on these grounds, be placed very early indeed, before 37 CE, only a few years after the crucifixion. Its dualistic philosophy of light-darkness, once taken to be a sign of very late Hellenistic influence, is now known to be thoroughly at home in the Scrolls, as Albright saw at once. Other gospels follow. The pesher indicates that Mark was written in c. 45 CE, Luke at about the same time, and Matthew completed (after an earlier version, the Hebrew Logia) by 49 CE. For further on this, see my 'Jesus of the Apocalypse' (1995) and 'The Book that Jesus Wrote - John's Gospel' (1998). Questions, comments and criticisms that show an understanding of what is being argued would be welcomed. B.T. Last changed: February 23, 2001 Not Finding What You Want Here? Click to subscribe to Dead_Sea_Scrolls E-list This is a one-click access to a wide variety of study materials as well as other items When you purchase through this link, you help support the Community RETURN TO INDEX
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Resign, N.Y.C. Paper Urges Hil he's in only her second month as a senator, but Hillary Rodham Clinton has been called on by a New York City newspaper to resign over the pardons flap. In an editorial appearing on the front page of today's New York Observer, the lox-colored weekly dubbed Clinton "Slick Hillie" and called for her resignation. "It is clear now that we have made a terrible mistake, for Hillary Rodham Clinton is unfit for elective office. Had she any shame, she would resign," said the weekly, which had endorsed her Senate race rival, former Republican Rep. Rick Lazio. Asked about the editorial after attending President Bush's speech to Congress last night, Clinton said she had not seen it. "I have no knowledge of it at all," she said. Her spokeswoman, Karen Dunn, shrugged it off. "Senator Clinton is working hard every day for the things New Yorkers care about, like fighting for better schools and health care," Dunn said. "The observers that matter the most in this regard are her constituents." Helen Kennedy Original Publication Date: 2/28/01 New View for Sen. Clinton (2/28/01) What do you think? Post your comments on our Forums. Daily News Services Click on any service and enjoy shopping online! Daily News Services Click on any service and enjoy shopping online!
Re: [CTRL] Moon Landing A Hoax?
In a message dated 2/26/01 7:33:45 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the pictures didn't turn out NASA simply may have done a "reenactment" like TV does to get better photos. Pictures are doctored. We went to moon. we found alien artifacts NASA covered it up. Carl
Re: [CTRL] Moon Landing A Hoax?
In a message dated 2/26/01 6:50:13 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl, I think there is a case for us finding A LOT MORE than just ET artifacts. It's possible that we may have been thrown off, and warned not to ever come back. I won't dispute that. Aliens popped Apollo 13 and later killed the Mars probes.any one remember the Russian picture of the Martian mood showed it to be cylindrical. That probe was destroyed as well. Carl
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Re: [CTRL] Rurope Panics!!!!!!
In a message dated 2/26/01 11:57:52 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might add Captain Ahab, that in Germany McDonalds was coming out with porkburgersnow the pigs are diseased. Still nobody seems to believe this is sabotage and the biggest pig of all Henry Kissinger is at it again trying to deprive the public of cheap food? When you have total control of the food supply you have total control the population. all hail big brother Carl
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In a message dated 2/15/01 4:25:30 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:[GospelofThomas] carnivore Date:2/15/01 4:25:30 AM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (staats fasoldt) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The controversial Internet surveillance tool known as "Carnivore" has been renamed DCS1000, a name devoid of any negative associations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. "With upgrades come new names," said Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman. The old name of a flesh-eating predator had conjured up "unfortunate" images for many people, he added. Carnivore is specialized software installed on an Internet service provider's network under federal wiretap authority. Used in criminal and national security cases, it is capable of keeping tabs on a suspect's e-mail, instant messages and Web surfing activities. Privacy and civil-rights advocates have argued the system violates protections against unreasonable search and seizure in the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment. Former Attorney General Janet Reno ordered an independent review of its inner workings after a stir in Congress. The name change was to have been rolled out in conjunction with an internal Justice Department review of Carnivore to be presented to Attorney General John Ashcroft soon, an FBI official said. But the change was leaked to a trade publication, Government Computer News. "Had it not been called Carnivore, it probably wouldn't have stirred as much controversy," Bresson said. He said the new alpha-numeric "doesn't stand for anything." Different name, same concerns Critics said the FBI was kidding itself if it thought a name change alone would allay fears. They consider the system ripe for abuse largely because of the secrecy surrounding how it scans passing data to find the court-authorized target. "It's not the name that worries people," said David Sobel of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the FBI and Justice Department for the source code and other data about Carnivore. "It's the way this system works." Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, added: "If it prowls like a wolf, howls like a wolf and has the voracious appetite of a wolf, it's still a carnivore." The new name also fell flat with Naseem Javed, a New York-based author of Naming for Power, a book about business naming, and Domain Wars, a book about cyberspace names. The FBI should have seized the opportunity to name the system in a "friendly way," as would any company seeking to score points with the public, he said. "I think they had a bad name to begin with," he said, adding that DCS1000 was worse because such combinations of letters and numbers sow confusion. "They need a proper name branding so they can roll this out as a readily identifiable tool for law enforcement," Javed said, adding it would take him weeks to come up with a good one himself. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details Click Here! -_- GoT list - unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Then... respond to the confirmation email that you will receive from egroups. If this fails... go to the egroups.com website: http://www.egroups.com/group/GospelOfThomas click "unsubscribe", then click, "save changes" button. If this still doesn't get you off the list, please feel free to ask for help... --- Headers Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (rly-yb05.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.5]) by air-yb04.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:25:30 -0500 Received: from ef.egroups.com (229.yahoo.240.211.64.in-addr.arpa [64.211.240.229]) by rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:25:21 1900 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2001 10:22:17 - X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: (qmail 27598 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.thebiz.net) (216.238.0.21) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 11:23:21 - Received: (qmail 12230 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 05:22:08 -0500 Received: from mail1a.backend.thebiz.net (172.16.0.72) by mx2.backend.thebiz.net with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 05:22:06 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ulster.net) (216.238.226.11) by mail.ulster.net with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 05:22:05 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: woodstock school of art X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 (Macintosh; I;
Re: [CTRL] The Melting Antarctic
In a message dated 2/13/01 5:56:36 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe you. This is pure speculation. I think your wrong. J2 Even Fools have the right to think. What a country. Carl
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In a message dated 2/6/01 2:05:26 PM Central Standard Time, AOL News writes: Subj:Canada testing woman feared to have Ebola Date:2/6/01 2:05:26 PM Central Standard Time From:AOL News BCC:Ahab42 Canada testing woman feared to have Ebola TORONTO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Canadian health officials fear that a sick woman who landed in Toronto on Saturday from a central African country, and is now isolated in a Hamilton hospital, could be the first person in North America to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus For the full text of this story, click here. To edit your profile, go to keyword NewsProfiles. For all of today's news, go to keyword News. Canada testing woman feared to have Ebola TORONTO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Canadian health officials fear that a sick woman who landed in Toronto on Saturday from a central African country, and is now isolated in a Hamilton hospital, could be the first person in North America to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100VfbU.7223600.665939526"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A.
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In a message dated 2/5/01 2:59:35 PM Central Standard Time, AOL News writes: Subj:U.S. government revises HIV treatment guidelines Date:2/5/01 2:59:35 PM Central Standard Time From:AOL News BCC:Ahab42 U.S. government revises HIV treatment guidelines WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - AIDS experts, admitting that current drugs cannot ever cure HIV infection and that they can cause severe side-effects, issued new guidelines on Monday that advise doctors to wait a bit before treating patients For the full text of this story, click here. To edit your profile, go to keyword NewsProfiles. For all of today's news, go to keyword News. U.S. government revises HIV treatment guidelines WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - AIDS experts, admitting that current drugs cannot ever cure HIV infection and that they can cause severe side-effects, issued new guidelines on Monday that advise doctors to wait a bit before treating patients For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100VdPR.5269414.665873939"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A.
Re: [CTRL] Margaret Sanger - Racist / Eugenicist
In a message dated 1/30/01 7:51:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IN A LETTER TO DR. CLARENCE GAMBLE, Dec 19, 1939: "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Baldwin's Great illustration of the true beliefs of this great social fascsit icon. Scratch the surface of the alec Baldwin's of today and this is what you will find lurking underneath. Carl
Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE
In a message dated 1/30/01 1:37:04 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nessie, in the UK i only realistically have to worry about getting stabbed or beaten at worst when i am out and about No guns. Cameras every 10 feet on the street. cameras that can see into homes from the street. A national DNA typing program in the works. Wasn't George Orwell from the UK? An unarmed population is a population of serfs. Carl
Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE
In a message dated 1/30/01 2:08:12 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cameras every ten feet? LOL surely you jest, carl, you obviously haven't been here I just watched a BBC program on the complete loss of privacy in UK. The fact you pooh pooh this says volumes. Enjoy the gulag. Carl
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Re: [CTRL] Tonight on History Channel: The Crop Circle Controversy
In a message dated 1/29/01 12:39:05 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [I just saw the hyped-up trailer for this new episode of "Histories Mysteries," and it came off as though they have much new information that supports the paranormal origins of at least some crop formations (i.e., Usually they trot out a couple of elderly guys or some college students who say they made all the crop circles. They must have one heck of a travel allotment. As the y appear all over the world. Carl
Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE
In a message dated 1/30/01 12:51:18 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My number 1 rule is: Shoot straight and empty the weapon. GUN CONTROL IS PUTTING THE FIRST CLIP IN THE TEN RING. CARL
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Re: [CTRL] Proof
In a message dated 1/28/01 1:04:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mature people don't ask for proof. They find out the truth for themselves. Prudy A nice comeback. Typical of the journeyman prevaricator.
[CTRL] Zoos raided as German food scares grow
news | World | Europe | 2001-01 Zoos raided as German food scares grow By Imre Karacs in Berlin 28 January 2001 What a sad place the little city zoo in Berlin's Kreuzberg district is. Children weep for their missing favourites; Gustav the gander, his wings drooping in sorrow, pines for his harem. All the other geese have vanished in recent days, along with four ducks and seven hens. The staff have eaten them. Nothing seems sacred any more as Germans, confronted by empty shelves at the supermarkets, go foraging for food. With BSE beef already off the menu, followed by sausages and now pork, filling a German belly is becoming nearly impossible. As hunger grips, no one, not even the dedicated Kreuzberg zoo keepers, will object to a bit of free-range poultry. Other options are fast running out. Even those still willing to risk steak are finding that restaurants are no longer serving it, while meat counters have at best only a token display of browning beef. After the first scare in November, shoppers switched to game. Now the consumers are being informed that venison is also dodgy, because deer in German forests are apparently fed on the same kind of bone-meal fodder that has brought BSE to cattle. Lamb is to be avoided, scientists warn, because of scrapie. Battery chickens come laced with salmonella and occasionally dioxin. Cats and dogs, in case anyone should fancy them, are out because of the low-grade beef they consume. Other pets, such as hamsters and guinea-pigs, are equally unwholesome because they, too, have been unwittingly munching on the remnants of animal carcasses for years. That, more or less, leaves fish, largely unknown to German cuisine apart from the roll-mop variety. Fresh fish, in any case, is hard to find. There was also pork, of course, prepared in hundreds of ingenious ways from the humble fried chop to Helmut Kohl's beloved Saumagen , or stuffed pig's stomach. No German would starve while there was pork around in abundance. Unfortunately, officials discovered last week that millions of Bavarian pigs have for years been fattened up with the help of illegal drugs, including the sort of anabolic steroids that enabled East German female athletes to swim as fast as men, at the price of growing hair on their chests. To someone who does not wish to repeat the feat, pork is looking rather unappetising. It is bad news for most Germans, who would rather die than become vegetarian. What are they supposed to eat? That is the question preoccupying much of the nation's media, with television channels scheduling special programmes every day in search of the elusive answer. But so far, consumers have only learnt from these what they cannot eat, not what they can. That leaves Alfred Biolek, Germany's best-known TV chef, with the task of educating the masses. Mr Biolek is trying to wean people off their traditional greasy meat and stodgy veg. Viewers learnt the secrets of gnocchi with chanterelle mushrooms last week. They got the recipe for sauerkraut soup a week earlier. What people can eat is also a political question in certain sensitive areas. For instance, the German parliament's canteen appears to have banned both beef and pork. Its latest offerings include cabbage stew, elk ragout, and organic vegetarian cannelloni. Beef has also been declared verboten in the armed forces, presumably on the grounds that you cannot have mad soldiers. But too much muscle has never done the troops any harm, so pork is still allowed. Everyone else must get used to elk, reindeer, ostrich, crocodile and other exotic meats which have recently turned up at the shops, or go hunting. In this frenzy, the sheep in Kreuzberg are probably safe for the moment, but the rabbits had better watch out. Old Gustav, by the way, survived the zoo keepers' feast because he was thought to be too chewy. news | World | Europe | 2001-01 Up
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Re: [CTRL] VulgarKlintoonAdmin Vandalizes Air Force One White House
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Re: [CTRL] Who Are The Fringe People?: Media and Protests 3
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/21/01 1:31:29 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most Americans know that groups such as the Sierra Club, the NAACP, the National Organization for Women and People for the American Way are neither far leftwing nor fringe. Right! And You will respect us in the morning. The check is in the mail. Clinton just smoked that cigar. The stain on the dress was mayonaise. muuhh A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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In a message dated 1/21/01 11:44:08 PM Central Standard Time, AOL News writes: Subj:UN says global warming is faster than expected Date: 1/21/01 11:44:08 PM Central Standard Time From: A HREF="mailto:AOL News"AOL News/A BCC: A HREF="mailto:Ahab42"Ahab42/A UN says global warming is faster than expected SHANGHAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The earth's atmosphere is warming faster than expected and evidence is mounting that human activity is responsible, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Monday For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Uq2D.361916.664609423"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles" NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A. UN says global warming is faster than expected SHANGHAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The earth's atmosphere is warming faster than expected and evidence is mounting that human activity is responsible, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Monday For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Uq2D.361916.664609423"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A.
Re: [CTRL] ASSASSINATION POLITICS
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/19/01 9:34:32 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Executive Order 12333, issued by President Reagan and currently in effect, dictates that "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." This restates similar prohibitions issued by the Ford and Carter Administrations. Yes, it is about time. Fight Fire with fire I say. praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition! Carl A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Light up our lives
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/19/01 8:13:48 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not a Californian but a friend sent me this news today. I found it breathtaking and shocking. Ineresting that president-elect Bush says that California will just have to fix the problem for themselves. Wonder what he will say in face of other regiional disasters. That will teach the commie/liberal/nancy boys to vote Democratic Muuuhhhaa!!! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- I have been in food business 40 years. This legend has been around at least 30 years. I have sold beef to McDonalds asthma broker/traderthey as wells mostlarge franchises have very strict quality control. Old joke amounts insiders: Worms in the hamburger? Do you know how much a pounds worms cost. LOL A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
