-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Lesson From Dark Nature (1995) by Lyall Watson I am also disturbed and intrigued by one very strange aspect of an attack reported by Goodall. It involved several adult male chimps who came across a female from another group with her infant on the edge of their territory. She did what any female chimpanzee will do in such circumstances, made submissive sounds and reached out gently to touch one of the males in reassurance. His response was extraordinary. He not only rebuffed her overture and moved quickly out of reach, but performed a sort of exorcism, an act of real and ritual purification very reminiscent of Pontius Pilate. He picked up a handful of leaves and vigorously scrubbed his fur precisely where she had touched him. This behavior is a crucial clue to what happened next. All the males, acting in concert, surrounded the female, attacked her brutally, seized her infant and killed it. This incident shocked the human field workers at Gombe, because the attackers and their victim had once been close as members of a single community. "By separating themselves," said Jane Goodall, "they forfeited the right to be treated as group members--instead they were treated as strangers." De Waal . . . went further, suggesting that the behavior was extreme, not simply because the participants were now strangers, but because they had once been friends. That adds another dimension to the encounter, one that will resonate with anyone who has been through an acrimonious divorce or remains part of a family split by feud. Aggression against an outsider is part of business as usual, something genetic, not just condoned but expected, a sort of "weak evil." But the introduction of previous relationship, which is not something humans or chimpanzees easily forget, adds a sense of betrayal to the mix, making it possible, often inevitable, that things will become very ugly indeed--part of the awesome pattern of "strong evil." The tendency for civil wars to be more vicious, more sadistic, than wars fought between strangers is well known. And Yugoslavia and Rwanda ought to be potent reminders to those who had forgotten. ===== The Wrath of MI6 MI6 Targets Harrod's Owner Fayed in Spy Caper The Di is caste MOHAMED FAYED, the billionaire owner of Harrods, will face an investigation by the security services this week over the naming of alleged MI6 officers on the Internet. The inquiry will focus on his links with Richard Tomlinson,the former MI6 officer who is suspected of drawing up the list, and Lyndon LaRouche, who published the list on his Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) website . The investigation will be prompted by a written question and early-day motion from Gerald Howarth, a Tory MP and a member of the Commons' home affairs select committee. Mr Howarth intends to ask Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, whether Mr Fayed will be questioned by the authorities looking into the publication of officers' names. He will also table an early-day motion asking Mr Fayed to explain his relationships with Mr Tomlinson and Mr LaRouche. Mr Fayed came under suspicion after Mr Tomlinson denied placing the material on the Internet. Yesterday Mr Tomlinson, 36, speaking from a hiding place on the Swiss-French border, also denied leaking sensitive material to Mr Fayed. He offered to return to Britain and face investigation provided he is guaranteed bail. Mr Fayed, who earlier this month had his application for British citizenship turned down, has denied any role in the disclosure of 117 names, including officers working abroad whose lives could be endangered. A spokesman said Mr Fayed "did not condone the publication of the names of secret agents which could expose them to danger". However, in a live television interview for GMTV in January, Mr Fayed disclosed the names of two men he alleged were MI6 officers and two others he claimed were agents. Senior Government officials confirmed that Mr Fayed's links with both men will come under scrutiny. If Mr Fayed was found to have passed on classified information for publication he could be prosecuted. The Telegraph has learnt that Mr Fayed secretly met Mr Tomlinson, who was sacked in 1995 by MI6 after four years' probationary service, at the Egyptian tycoon's villa in St Tropez last August. After the meeting, Mr Tomlinson gave evidence to Hervé Stephan, the French magistrate investigating the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul in a Paris car crash. His evidence supported Mr Fayed's belief that they were murdered. The MI6 list published on the EIR website was accompanied by an article highlighting Mr Fayed's attempts to prove that the crash was not an accident. The Telegraph has also uncovered links between Mr Fayed and Mr LaRouche. In the past EIR, Mr LaRouche's weekly magazine, actively supported Mr Fayed in his vendetta against rival businessman Tiny Rowland. Last year Mr Fayed's aides encouraged television researchers to speak to EIR reporters because they support the conspiracy theory on the death of the Princess. Jeffrey Steinberg, a senior reporter with EIR, stayed at a Park Lane apartment owned by Mr Fayed when he came to Britain to be interviewed by Dispatches, the Channel 4 documentary. The London Telegraph, May 16, 1999 Littleton Shootings Columbine Investigators Read Student E-mail, Computer Files Give the sheep plenty of training while they're young: "Bend over, kid." LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Investigators in the Columbine High School shooting are scanning e-mails and computer files of students who knew gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to determine if any of them aided or knew of their plot. Many of the students have voluntarily turned over their home computers to Jefferson County sheriff's officials, Lt. John Kiekbusch said. Search warrants have also been issued to America Online and other Internet service providers, he said. Some school district computers are also being searched. The investigation has focused on up to 12 students who claim to be members of the ``Trench Coat Mafia,'' the school clique to which Klebold and Harris belonged. At least two have taken lie-detector tests. Detectives want to know who visited Harris' page on the World Wide Web, where he wrote about bomb-building and committing mass murder. They also are looking for e-mails that may have been sent to or from the teenage gunmen in the days before the April 20 attack that killed 13 and injured 21. Klebold and Harris committed suicide. Meanwhile, investigators said Friday they may finish their work in the school by June 1 when school officials say they need to get started preparing the building for fall classes. Associated Press, May 15, 1999 Spy vs. Spy CIA Employees Sue Agency They want unfettered right to legal help A group of current and former CIA employees has charged in a lawsuit that their secret agency routinely dissuades its own employees from obtaining counsel in the course of internal disciplinary actions and "obstructs" those who do seek effective legal representation. In a complaint cleared by the Central Intelligence Agency's security classification branch, the employees alleged in U.S. District Court earlier this week that agency officials have refused to provide their counsel access to CIA regulations and classified investigative reports, denied access to classified personnel files and intercepted privileged attorney-client telephone calls. These actions have been "so prevalent as to indicate a policy or practice" in a series of internal disciplinary actions involving race, sex and age discrimination, security breaches, counterintelligence investigations and polygraph disputes, according to the complaint, filed by Roy W. Krieger, an attorney at the Alexandria firm of Paleos & Krieger who has been given a government security clearance to represent these and other plaintiffs. Krieger, who filed an earlier version of the suit in January with fewer plaintiffs, is attempting to have the amended complaint certified by the court as a class action on behalf of all CIA employees and a subclass of those who have been represented by counsel in internal matters over the past two years. The suit seeks changes in agency policy and monetary damages for members of the subclass "for injury suffered from Defendants' actual obstruction of counsel." A CIA spokesman said agency policy prohibits him from commenting on pending litigation. But in a motion filed by the CIA in an attempt to dismiss Krieger's earlier complaint, the agency introduced a four-page policy statement issued in September 1998 stating that CIA employees "are free to consult with private attorneys and others serving in a representational capacity on matters involving the employee and the agency." But the agency also argued in its motion that "employees of the CIA are subject to a variety of restrictions that may not be applicable to others, and those restrictions include limitations on access to official information. . . . Under any theory, plaintiffs simply have no right to have the CIA supply counsel with access to classified information." The need to control that access is "reserved to the Executive Branch under the Constitution," and "the Agency's decision that counsel had no need to know this information is entirely discretionary and unreviewable in this Court," according to the motion. One of the eight employees, a 25-year covert operative identified only as "M.K.," alleges in the complaint that her lawyer, Krieger, was denied access to classified documents in a disciplinary case in which she was faulted for "a major lapse of CIA security" when "approximately 25 CIA laptop computers . . . were sold to the public at auction while still containing Top Secret information on their respective hard-drives." "The lapse was not detected until months later when a private individual who had purchased a number of the computers discovered some of the classified files on the hard-drive," the complaint states. Krieger has been unable to obtain classified documents needed to draft a complaint to the CIA's inspector general protesting a letter of reprimand that M.K. received for the security breach. The reprimand blocked promotions for a year, according to the complaint, "effectively ending her career at the CIA." An agency official declined comment on the specifics of the case but said that the "CIA takes the mishandling of classified information seriously, and we would expect the agency to hold those in positions of authority responsible." In another case listed in the lawsuit, "Evelyn M. Conway," a foreign-born covert case officer identified by her CIA pseudonym, alleges that she was twice denied access to counsel during a counterintelligence investigation that resulted in an adverse-action letter being placed in her personnel file. The New York Times, May 14, 1999 US Economy Big Leap in Consumer Prices Frightens Markets Not to worry. We no longer need food and energy in the digital society. NEW YORK - A report Friday of higher-than-expected U.S. inflation raised fears of interest-rate increases that sent bond and stock prices tumbling on Wall Street and in Europe. The government said consumer prices rose 0.7 percent in April, or 0.4 percent when food and energy costs were ignored. The latter number was the one that caused the most concern, indicating inflationary pressures that extended beyond the firming oil prices that resulted from the March agreement among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to curb production. The core rate rose just 0.1 percent in each of the first three months of 1999. Economists found a host of one-time items in the consumer price report that made the inflation rate appear worse than it really was. But the overriding concern to investors was that the data would lead the Federal Reserve Board to abandon its neutral policy in favor of at least a bias toward raising interest rates. The central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee is to meet Tuesday. The U.S. economy has consistently surprised observers for the past three years, growing 3.9 percent in 1997 and again in 1998 and at a 4.5 percent annual rate in the first quarter of this year. Those paces are considerably higher than the 2.5 percent or so that had been considered the speed limit for noninflationary growth. Further evidence of economic strength came Friday with the news that April industrial production rose 0.6 percent and was revised upward in March. The manufacturing sector has been weaker than services, so the output figures added to the inflationary fears. Kevin Logan, market economist at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, said there was ''a general perception that the growth in the United States is still very healthy'' and that international economic conditions seem to have stabilized and may even be improving. ''So people can conclude the risks are shifting that the Fed may at some stage decide that it really should raise rates to restrain growth of demand,'' he said. Those fears were most apparent Friday in the U.S. bond market, where the price of the benchmark 30-year Treasury issue slid 2 3/32 points in afternoon trading, pushing its yield up to 5.91 percent from 5.75 percent Thursday. European yields also rose, though less dramatically. The stock market also suffered, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 193.87 points, or 1.75 percent, to close at 10,913.32. Key indexes in Britain, France and Italy fell more than 2 percent, and German and Swiss gauges were more than 1 percent lower. Asian trading ended before the consumer-price data were released. Mr. Logan said he did not think the Fed would raise rates next week or even change its bias from neutral. He cited several specific factors in the price report that made it seem unlikely that an acceleration of inflation was under way. Even the 6.7 percent rise in April energy prices was overstated, Mr. Logan said, reflecting all the recent rise in oil prices in one swoop: ''Most people forget that last month the CPI hardly showed any increase in gasoline prices. This week, they came all in a rush, 15 percent in April rather than spread out.'' Rising energy prices also affected transportation costs, which are part of the core rate. These rose 2.4 percent, and that gain is unlikely to be repeated unless there are further energy increases. Other factors, Mr. Logan said, were a difficulty in making seasonal adjustments for sales promotions around Easter that led to one-time price increases that are likely to be reversed and an increase in tobacco prices that reflected an end to temporary discounts. Also seemingly overlooked in the panicky reaction to the consumer price data was the report Thursday that producer prices rose only 0.1 percent in April when energy prices were excluded. The overall producer price index was up 0.5 percent. Producer-price fluctuations generally are shadowed a few months later by changes in the CPI. Gerald Cohen, senior economist at Merrill Lynch & Co., said, the firm did not see the Friday CPI report as a sign that the core rate of inflation was accelerating. ''The core PPI has actually declined this year, and unit labor costs have been extremely subdued,'' he said in a note to clients. Despite the widespread losses on Wall Street, stocks in companies whose earnings are closely linked to economic cycles rose. Among Dow components, Union Carbide, Caterpillar, Alcoa and International Paper were all higher. Financial issues, which are widely perceived to suffer from rising interest rates, fell. Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and American Express were the biggest Dow losers. International Herald Tribune, May 15, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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