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| Ben Laden Advisor was Nazi banker François Genoud patron of terrorist Carlos |
| 10.29.04 (1:08 pm) [edit] |
How the World is small...
From
codshit.com/deception-book/effroy ab-chap8.html
http://www.codshit.com/deception-book/effroy ab-chap8.html" title="http://www.codshit.com/deception-book/effroy ab-chap8.html" target="_blank"http://www.codshit.com/decept...
Osama bin Laden [Numerous sources recount bin Laden's biography. Most of them smack more of propaganda or sensationalism than of rigorous investigation. The best-selling works, such as Bin Laden, The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky (Prima Publishing, 1996) (Bodansky, by the way, is a Congressional consultant) or Au nom d'Oussama ben Laden ("In The Name of Osama Bin Laden"), by Roland Jacquard (Jean Picollec Press, 2001), are based on unpublished intelligence-service reports, thus on unverifiable sources. Some more serious works include those of the PBS magazine Frontline, notably Hunting Bin Laden (2001) and Inside the Terror Network (2002). See transcripts at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages...] is one of the 54 children of Sheikh Muhammad bin Laden, who founded the Saudi Binladen Group (SBG) in 1931. This holding, Saudi Arabia's most important, has half of its turnover in construction and public works, and the other half in engineering, real estate, distribution, telecommunications and publishing. It formed a Swiss investment society, called SICO (Saudi Investment Company), which created several societies with subsidiaries of the Saudi National Commercial Bank. The SBG holds important participations in General Electric, Nortel Networks, and Cadbury Schweppes. Its industrial activities are represented in the USA by Adnan Khashoggi (Mohammed Al-Fayed's former brother-in-law), while its financial holdings are managed by the Carlyle Group. Up until 1996, the [[montages]] of the SBG's subsidiaries were prepared in Lausanne by its advisor, the Nazi banker François Genoud, executor of Dr Goebbels' will and patron of terrorist Carlos [[the Jackal]]. The SBG is inseparable from the Wahhabite regime, to the point where it was the sole official construction and management contractor for the Kingdom's holy places, Makkah and Madinah. Likewise, it got most of the BTP contracts for building US military bases in Saudi Arabia, and for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War. After the accidental death of Sheikh Muhammad bin Laden in 1968, he was succeeded by his eldest son Salem. Salem, for his part, also died in an "accidental" plane crash on the way to Texas in 1988. From then on, the SBG has been directed by the founder's second son, Bakr.
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We have already noted that the Saudi Binladen Group's financial holdings are managed by the Carlyle Group.
Created in 1987, the Carlyle Group today manages a $12 billion portfolio. It has a majority interest in Seven-Up (who oversees bottling operations for Cadbury Schweppes), Federal Data Corporation (who, for example, furnished the civil air-traffic monitoring systems equipment for the FAA), and United Defence Industries Inc. (the principal furnisher of equipment for the US, Turkish, and Saudi armies). Through the companies it controls, the Carlyle Group is the 11th largest US arms supplier.
In 1990, the Carlyle Group became the subject of an extortion lawsuit. A Republican lobbyist, Wayne Berman, had diverted pension funds and given them to the Bush campaign; one of these had paid a million dollars to the Carlyle Group to obtain a public contract in Connecticut.
This management fund is presided over by Frank C. Carlucci (former CIA assistant director, then Secretary of Defense). Advisors include James A. Baker III (former Reagan chief of staff, then Secretary of the Treasury, finally Secretary of State under Bush père) and Richard Darman (former budget director). To represent it overseas, the Carlyle group retains the services of John Major [John Major Link to Bin Laden Dynasty, Sunday Herald, 7 October 2001], former British Prime Minister, and George H. W. Bush [Bush of Arabia, The Nation, 27 March 2000, and Elder Bush in Big GOP Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm, New York Times, 5 March 2001] (former CIA director, then President of the United States).
Among the other directors of the Carlyle Group, we find Sami Mubarak Baarma, who is Khaled Ben Mahfouz's authorized representative, and one Talat Othman… two people with direct ties to the current President of the United States.
Indeed, George W. Bush obtained his personal fortune through the good business deals he was able to make as head of the Harken Energy Corporation [which was originally named Arbusto]. This small Texas petroleum company held the Bahraini oil concessions, as a retrocommission of the American-Kuwaiti contracts negotiated by President Bush père [Fuel for Fantasy, Forbes magazine, 3 September 1990, and Ex-Bush Aide Turns to Stumping for Kuwait… While Junior Reaps Oil Windfall, The Guardian, 12 December 1990]. This, of course, is a completely illegal operation.
Khaled Ben Mahfouz was a Harken shareholder to the tune of 11.5%. His actions were "carried out" by one of his representatives, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh. Talat Othman was an administrator. Meanwhile, Osama's eldest brother, Salem, was represented on Harken's board of directors by his American representative, James R. Bath.
This whole little world (the Bush family, their political creditors, their financial partners, and the ineluctable CIA) isn't even done here with their first manipulations [[Tout ce petit monde... n'en sont pas à leurs premières manipulations]]. They were at the center of the huge banking scandal of the 90s: the BCCI collapse [The BCCI scandal has spawned quite a large body of literature. Here we have consulted principally The BCCI Affair, a report by Sens. Joseph Kerry (D-Mass.) and Hank Brown (R-Colo.) to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommitee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, 30 September 1992. See the complete text at http://www.fas.org/irp/congre... See also Evil Money, Encounters Along the Money Trail by Rachel Ehrenfeld (Harper Business, 1992); False Profits, The Inside Story of BCCI, The World's Most Corrupt Financial Empire by Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin (Houghton, 1992); A Full-Service Bank, How the BCCI Stole Billions Around the World (Simon and Schuster, 1992); The Outlaw Bank, A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI by Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne (Random House, 1993); and Bankrupt, The BCCI Fraud by Nick Kochan and Bob Whittington (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1991)].
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an Anglo-Pakistani establishment with branches in 63 countries. It was jointly held by three large families: the Gokals of Pakistan, the Ben Mahfouz family of Saudi Arabia, and the Geith Pharons of Abu Dhabi [The French chargé d'affaires of Geith Pharon, Farid Djouhri, took out a two-page ad in Le Figaro and Le Monde in October of 2001. This communication project was intended to deny any connections between Geith Pharon and Osama bin Laden and to assure its integrity. Nevertheless, the FBI and the IRS still have a warrant out for Gaith Pharon's arrest over the BCCI affair. Gaith Pharon is also involved in a lawsuit in Argentina in an arms-trafficing cadre implicating former president Carlos Menem. See Gaith Pharon s'offre la presse française, Intelligence Online, 18 October 2001, http://www.intelligenceonline...]. Ronald Reagan used it to bribe the Iranian government to delay the release of American hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran, and thus to sabotage the end of Carter's presidency (what was called the "October Surprise"). Then, at the insistence of the former CIA director, Vice-President Bush (père), the Reagan administration used the BCCI again to transfer Saudi donations to the Nicaraguan Contras, and to transfer CIA funds to the Afghan mujahedeen. The BCCI is additionally implicated in the Syrian Sarkis Sarkenalian's arms deals, in the Keating scandal in America, in trader Marc Rich's affairs, in financing the Abu Nidal group, etc. For sure, the bank went down when it came out that the bank was also laundering money for the Medellin cartel. A million small investors were swindled out of their money when the bank shut its doors.
The fact that the BCCI was able to be manipulated, if not actually created, by the CIA, shouldn't come as a surprise. There's a long-standing banking tradition in the US intelligence services, ever since the founding of the OSS by corporate lawyers and Wall Street courtiers. Two former CIA directors, Richard Helms and William Casey, worked at BCCI, just as did two prestigious CIA influence agents [[deux prestigieux agents d'influence de la CIA]], Adnan Khashoggi [Adnan Khashoggi, The Richest Man in the World, by Ronald Kessler (Warner Bros. Books, 1986)] and Manucher Ghorbanifar (the central Irangate trader). Not to mention Kamal Adham (King Faisal's brother-in-law and head of the Saudi secret service until 1977), Prince Turki al-Faisal (head of the Saudi secret service from 1977 until August 2001, tutor to Osama bin Laden), and Abdul Raouf Khalil (adjunct director of Saudi secret service).
If memory serves, you'll note also that the BCCI seems to have played something of a supernatural role in France as well. Notably, it served to disguise the transfer of American/French nuclear technology to Pakistan and to pay for hostage releases. A businessman with close ties to Charles Pasqua, Dominique Santini was ejected from the country for his role in BCCI [L'énigme Pasqua, by Thierry Meyssan (Editions Golias, 2001)], independently of his being sued in France in the Elf-Thinet affair. Three years after the bank's collapse, its former directors acted as intermediaries in getting the Sawari-II contract passed, and they organized a system of retrocommissions which was supposed to finance Edouard Balladur's presidential campaign. The questioning brought forth by this star sale to Saudi Arabia led Jacques Chirac, upon his arrival at the Elysée, to have François Leotard, Edouard Balladur's former Defense Minister, listened in on. [[??]] [[Les interrogations soulevées par cette vente de vedettes à l'Arabie Saoudite conduisirent Jacques Chirac, dès son arrivée à l'Elysée, à faire placer sur écoute l'ancien ministre de la Défense d'Edouard Balladur, François Leotard.]]
The BCCI worked in very close collaboration with SICO [originally called CYGNET], a Swiss investment subsidiary of the SBG, and one will notice one of Osama bin Laden's brothers, Salem, among the ranks of its administrators.
Held solely responsible for the BCCI's failure, Khaled ben Mahfouz was put on trial in the United States in 1992. He managed to have the charges against him dropped in 1995, with the issue of a transaction with the bank's creditors in the amount of $245 million.
If it is the case, as numerous American officials aver, that the bin Laden family continues to maintain relations with Osama and to finance his political activities, then the Carlyle Group, which manages the financial holdings of the Saudi Binladen Group, would necessarily be implicated in insider trading. George Bush père would therefore be one of the lucky beneficiaries of the stock-trading maneuvers of 11 September 2001. A pretty good reason for the FBI and IOSCO to close the shutters on the investigation.
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| CRUSH ALL THE BILLIONAIRES :D |
| 10.29.04 (12:11 pm) [edit] |
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Gee I'm becoming like some here: I'm shouting like a Revolutionarist :D
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| Draft proposed at Senate on October 5th, 2004 includes WOMEN ! |
| 10.29.04 (11:30 am) [edit] |
From
optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowSt aticContent&screenKey=dra ft&lnav=1
http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowSt aticContent&screenKey=dra ft&lnav=1" title="http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowSt aticContent&screenKey=dra ft&lnav=1" target="_blank"http://www.optruth.org/main.c...
"On October 5th, 2004, with no debate and on only hours notice, the House of Representatives voted on a bill that would have reinstated the draft. The proposal was overwhelmingly rejected. Why was it voted on at all? This vote was a political maneuver, intended to put this controversial question to rest before the election."
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"What are the details of the draft proposal rejected by Congress?
Would it be like the draft during the war in Vietnam?
Titled the “Universal National Service Act of 2003,” this proposal was set forth by Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) and would require that “all American men and women, as well legal permanent residents, aged 18 to 26, would be subject to compulsory military service or alternative civilian service.”"
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| About Billionaire "Saint" Buffet who endorsed Kerry :D |
| 10.29.04 (10:56 am) [edit] |
Buffet is very good at taking care of his public image like the other super rich class the Rockfeller after a massacre of workers. So not astonishingly for me he declares he will vote for Kerry.
But here one of his true facette. After that yes someone among the billionaires (they are 31 like him to endorse Kerry as I learnt on a blog here) must buy the lefts to guarantee that they won't touch a so much profitable system for guys like him:
From Fund Manager Martin Armstrong
"At the start of the silver manipulation I was flat. I had taken all profits and closed out all short positions. Silver was trading around $4.29 when PhiBro walked across the ring and handed to my broker an order to buy 1,000 lots of silver every penny down for as far as you could see. They intentionally showed me the Buffet order. Later Bob Gotlieb from Republic Bank call me and tried to get me to join the manipulation. He said, "Something big is coming down in silver," and when I asked who was behind it, he said, "Your friends in Connecticut." After being approached several times to join the manipulation, I reported to my clients that "they" were back. I would not have used the term "they" if it had been someone other than the same crew as in 1995. I was told that the silver price target was $7. I reported that information on our website. I was NOT short. I knew what they were capable of doing. Then I left the country for my usual fall tour. I was invited by the government of China to discuss the Asian crisis. I visited the government there in December 1997. Upon my return silver was at $6.40 and everyone indeed had been led to believe that it was me because the orders were routed through Republic to give the market the impression that I was the one buying the silver. In fact, it was Republic buying the silver itself and moving it to London. "
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"There are also misconceptions about the current class-action lawsuit in silver and copper. Some try to portray this suit in silver as only one player. In fact, a class-action lawsuit is significantly different from merely a garden-variety lawsuit. Class-actions are open to EVERYONE and ANYONE who has lost money trading silver. This will include industrial users or the jewelry-trade who were harmed by the 70% lease rates. Such class-actions are NOT funded by one small investor, but are funded by the law firms who are defending the public on a performance basis. While one particular individual may appear as the defendant, it becomes irrelavent as to who that individual is. Such suits allow the small individual to go against a major group or institution on an equal footing.
Unfortunately, we must deal with reality - not bias, passion or prejudice. There is NO question in our mind that silver has been the target of a concerted effort to force its price higher through an all out attack on this market including - forwards, borrowing, options, futures and bogus analytical hype by not so independent analysts. In fact the evidence taken as a whole, suggests that this current rally in silver is merely phase II of a previous attempt to force silver higher, which most likely began back in 1995. And of course there is Warren Buffett who is now being portrayed as Saint Buffett among silver's passionate followers. Somehow, Mr. Buffett who purchased 129,710,000 ounces of silver is being portrayed as the avenger against those most disgusting of all people - the dreaded shorts and industrial users. Nonetheless, there are serious questions as to why Mr. Buffett's order was executed in London at a premium price when the silver was available at a discount in New York all the time. Some have tried to argue that London silver is a better grade of silver than that in New York. Perhaps this myth was propagated by the September COMEX meeting when it was discovered that some silver stored at the COMEX bore hallmarks that had been delisted by London. The "quality" of silver was none the less the same - .999. However, because the hallmarks were of 1974 vintage by firms that no longer existed, prompted the need to have a portion of the COMEX stockpile reassayed making the move of silver from NY to London even more expensive. "
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| public health expert warns about Human Race extinction by pharmaceutical cartel through genetic pate |
| 10.29.04 (10:27 am) [edit] |
From
tetrahedron.org/index.html
http://www.tetrahedron.org/index.html" title="http://www.tetrahedron.org/index.html" target="_blank"http://www.tetrahedron.org/in...
DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral
Description: Based on the latest science, this monumental book considers both uses and abuses of DNA – “The Sacred Spiral.” Stunning evidence compiled herein proves DNA is nature's bioaccoustic and electromagnetic (that is, “spiritual”) energy receiver, signal transformer, and quantum sound and light transmitter. In other words, the bioenergetics of genetics precipitates life. These scientific revelations bring expanded spiritual meaning to life, physical embodiment, and even evolution. Yet, leading genetic industrialists prefer to keep these uplifting and freeing truths secret. The infamous untrustworthy “Human Genome Pirates” operate covertly, controlling genetic patents, spin-off technologies, and public information dissemination. With the world's most powerful banking and pharmaceutical cartel behind them, they now control civilization's destiny. The greatest risk of manipulation and threatened extinction is at hand. As humanity teeters on the brink of unprecedented DNA-mediated, spiritual ascendance or complete enslavement if not extinction, argues award winning author and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz
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| How America could be rebirthed: taking the lesson from General MacArthur |
| 10.29.04 (9:34 am) [edit] |
By breaking the Corporates which are equivalent of the arrogant Zaibatsu in pre-war Japan:
http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/strang er_in_a_strange_land.htm" title="http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/strang er_in_a_strange_land.htm" target="_blank"http://www2.gol.com/users/coy...
MacArthur had abolished the Zaibatsu -- the confederations of companies that had dominated the pre-war Japanese economy. These groups, the remnants of which survive today in the form of Japan's enormous trading conglomerates, created domestic cartels, manipulated supplies and prices, and generally established the long Japanese tradition of building a robust economy on the backs of submissive consumers. MacArthur blamed the war on the Zaibatsu and its leaders, who he banned from participating in their old companies, taking virtually all top managers out of the labor pool (they later returned, following the end of U.S. occupation of Japan, and ex-Zaibatsu leaders were mainly responsible for Japan's economic resurgence in the 1960s). With all the leaders gone, Sarasohn had to promote middle managers, when he could find them, into the top jobs.
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Under Sarasohn's control, the Japanese electronics industry began to make slow progress. Yields rose over time as new production methods were adopted, eventually reaching around 75 percent for vacuum tubes (Sylvania, which set the world standard for vacuum tubes, had an 85 percent yield at the time). But there still wasn't a deep understanding of the need for quality.
"I remember visiting the Hirakawa Electric Company in Osaka (the company is today called Sharp Electronics). The manager wanted to show me that he understood my lectures about having a clean workplace," Sarasohn said. "He had hired a man specifically to keep the place clean. We found him in one of the big assembly areas. This fellow had a stick with a string coming from the end of it, and on the end of the string were a couple of pieces of ribbon. He was going around the assembly benches, flicking this stick, using the ribbons to push the dust around a little. The plant manager looked on proudly, thinking that his man was 'cleaning' the plant, and that I would be impressed."
On another occasion, Sarasohn made a surprise visit to the Tokyo Communication Engineering Company. He'd given the small company an important job, building a special piece of electronic equipment, but the project was long overdue. Travelling alone across Tokyo, he appeared without warning at the electronics factory, demanding to see the equipment he'd ordered. The owners were absent, parts were scattered everywhere and covered with dust. The special project, a radio station studio mixing console, lay about in pieces, barely begun. Furious with what he saw, Sarasohn exited without a word, leaving the workers in disgrace.
When they heard about the disastrous visit, the two founders of the Tokyo Communication Engineering Company hurried across the city to mollify Sarasohn. Their business was only a couple years old, and they didn't want its history to end that day.
The issue was quality. The plant was a mess. The special project was not only unfinished, the quality of work that its parts displayed was bad. Sarasohn gave them one last chance. "I told them to either mend their ways or lose their jobs," he said.
The Tokyo Communication Engineering Company later changed its name to Sony Corporation. The two men who came to plead for the survival of their company were Sony co-founders Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita.
When the Second World War ended, American leaders thought their occupation of Japan might last forever. But by 1949, it was clear to Sarasohn that the Korean War was coming, and that the American occupation of Japan would soon end. If his work was to survive, he had to find a way of permanently instilling in Japanese industry some regard for quality.
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After he set up the Electrical Test Laboratory, Sarasohn wanted to develop a course in American management techniques specifically for Japanese plant managers. But some members of the occupation forces opposed spreading U.S. production know-how to the Japanese.
The issue was decided in a 20-minute presentation before General MacArthur. The General had long before stopped following the letter of his original orders, which told him specifically to "not assume any responsibility for the economic rehabilitation or strengthening of the Japanese economy." Sarasohn argued that without better management, Japan would be a long-term drain on U.S. taxpayers. His opposition, the head of the Economics and Social Section, argued that the program Sarasohn was proposing could turn Japan into an economic monster that would threaten the U.S. in world markets.
"Go do it," MacArthur said casually on his way out the door, changing the course of world history.
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| There is no clean war except in medias dressing |
| 10.29.04 (6:36 am) [edit] |
Today it is announced that according to a study there would be
"100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War"
from reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6648908
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6648908" title="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6648908" target="_blank"http://www.reuters.com/newsAr...
So people would of course think Bush is incapable of a "clean" war like clinton. Well it seems that the cleaness of Clinton War is only based on virtuality and lie by omission because the mainstream medias "forgot" to report this study at the time it was published:
[from commondreams.org/views03/0420-05.htm]
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0420-05.htm" title="http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0420-05.htm" target="_blank"http://www.commondreams.org/v...
"The Unthinkable is Becoming Normal. Do Not Forget the Horror "
"A study released just before Christmas 1991 by the Medical Educational Trust revealed that more 200,000 Iraqi men, women and children were killed or died as a direct result of the American-led attack. This was barely reported, and the homicidal nature of the "war'' never entered public consciousness in this country, let alone America. "
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"The Pentagon's deliberate destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure, such as power sources and water and sewage plants, together with the imposition of an embargo as barbaric as a medieval siege, produced a degree of suffering never fully comprehended in the West. Documented evidence was available, volumes of it; by the late 1990s, more than 6,000 infants were dying every month, and the two senior United Nations officials responsible for humanitarian relief in Iraq, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, resigned, protesting the embargo's hidden agenda. Halliday called it "genocide".
"As of last July, the United States, backed by the Blair government, was wilfully blocking humanitarian supplies worth $5.4bn, everything from vaccines and plasma bags to simple painkillers, all of which Iraq had paid for and the Security Council had approved. "
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| Wed Oct 27, 2004 Tyanny Alert: Senate Bill 2516, Fugitive Apprehension Act |
| 10.29.04 (2:45 am) [edit] |
From
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495" title="http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495" target="_blank"http://disc.server.com/discus...;article=68782;title=APFN
Libertarian Party News
Tyanny Alert: Senate Bill 2516, Fugitive Apprehension Act
Wed Oct 27, 2004 23:58
Citizens should be aware of electronic data bill,
Senate Bill 2516, sponsored by Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., if enacted, would allow police to demand electronic evidence without a search warrant.
S2516 is also called the Fugitive Apprehension Act of 2000 and is designed to locate and apprehend fugitives.
It would give police broad new powers to issue administrative subpoenas and with these subpoenas, police could seize electronic data such as bank records, school records, medical data, phone bills and e-mail account information without a court order.
Under a delayed notice provision in the bill, police could order third parties to refrain from telling suspects that their records have been searched and/or seized by the government. The bill also defines a fugitive as someone who has merely been "accused" not convicted of a crime.
More information about this bill can be obtained from the Libertarian Party News, 2600 Virginia Ave. N.W., Suite 100, Washington, DC 20037.
The telephone number is 202-333-0008, (Ext. 226), and the Web site is www . LP . org.
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| Are you a rightist ? Open your eyes: Bush also is selling America to the United Nations |
| 10.29.04 (1:00 am) [edit] |
Some Rightists think they must vote for Bush because they think that Bush defends America's sovereignty : this is a myth. Under both Clinton and Bush America Sovereignty is dismantled and transfered WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS AND WITH THE COMPLICITY OF POLITICIANS OF BOTH PARTIES TO THE UNITED NATIONS.
And the UNITED NATIONS IS THE GLOBAL THIEF ORGANISATION or so called NEW WORLD ORDER OF THE SKULL SOCIETY AND THEIR NEO-NAZI PHILOSOPHY OF PERMANENT WAR. Wars will be bigger and lengther and like in Big Brother's 1984 they will pretend that they act for peace and environment! Are people so gullible to believe the fake humanitarian discourse of these fascists or what ?
From worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37455
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37455" title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37455" target="_blank"http://www.worldnetdaily.com/...
Treaty by stealth – again!
Posted: March 6, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Shielded by the media glare of presidential politics and daily explosions in Iraq, two crucial issues are about to be decided by the U.S. Senate, without the knowledge of the American people.
Issue 1: Should the United States ratify the Law of the Seas Treaty (Treaty Doc. 103-39)?
Issue 2: Should any U.N. treaty be ratified without full, open debate and a recorded vote?
The answer to both questions should be a resounding "no." Nevertheless, the treaty is very near ratification by unanimous consent, having never been debated, and without a recorded vote. This is the same procedure used to ratify the U.N. Convention on Desertification, back in 2000.
The Law of the Seas Treaty was rejected by Ronald Reagan in 1982. After some polishing around the edges of the treaty language, Bill Clinton signed the treaty in 1994 and sent it to the Senate for ratification. There it sat, dormant, until Oct. 7, 2003. Mysteriously, the treaty appeared on the Foreign Relations Committee hearings calendar on Oct. 14 and Oct. 21, but no opposing voices were allowed to present testimony. This is precisely the same procedure used with the Convention on Desertification.
Next, a request for unanimous consent is issued. If no senator files an objection within a specified period of time, then the treaty can be approved by a voice vote, with no votes recorded.
After the Convention on Desertification was ratified by unanimous consent, many senators did not know it had even been considered or that they had voted for it.
All the reasons the treaty was rejected by Ronald Reagan 22 years ago still exist. The treaty gives a U.N. agency the authority to tax by requiring a permit to engage in any activity affecting the seabed, such as oil drilling or mining. Originally, the permit fee price began at $500,000. Madeleine Albright's renegotiated version reduced the starting price to $250,000. The U.N. agency can also require royalty payments for any minerals extracted from the seabed. Even more important, the permit process can require detailed information about the technology to be used, which can then be shared with all member nations without regard for intellectual-property rights or security concerns.
The treaty raises serious national-security questions. Currently, any ship on the high seas that the U.S. suspects of carrying terrorists or supplies in support of terrorists can be boarded and detained under U.S. law. If the U.S. ratifies this treaty, the U.N.'s permission will be necessary before stopping a ship on the high seas.
This treaty gives the U.N. the first real power to tax and regulate what it calls the "global commons." Other U.N. initiatives seek to tax and regulate all of the global commons, which the U.N. defines to include "outer space, the atmosphere and the environment that supports human life." ("Our Global Neighborhood," p. 251)
If Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, has his way, this treaty will become the law of the land without ever being debated and without a recorded vote. Every senator should recoil against this process and insist that if the treaty is to be ratified, the American people deserve to know which senators voted for and against this surrender of national sovereignty.
The U.S. Senate has become proficient at bypassing constitutional direction. Senate Democrats use Senate rules to block judicial appointments rather than to comply with the directive of the Constitution. Now the Senate Republicans are using Senate rules to avoid the two-thirds vote required to ratify any treaty. This behavior, on both sides of the political aisle, is nothing short of despicable – unworthy of any official who has sworn to uphold the Constitution.
The only power on earth strong enough to bridle the run-away power of run-amok senators is people power. The people who put them in office can remove them from office, and these senators need to be reminded of that power from time to time. This Law of the Seas Treaty is one of the times the American people should exercise their power and hold their senators accountable. The telephone is a handy tool between elections. Every senator should be asked to explain his or her position on the treaty itself and on the unanimous consent process.
The future of America is too important to be left in the hands of politicians; the people, by their actions, or inaction, will determine whether the United States continues as a sovereign nation or succumbs to the U.N.'s quest for global governance.
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| Ten to 12 million Americans suffer from depression in relation with job's and money stress |
| 10.29.04 (12:22 am) [edit] |
From
The Role of Stress in Migraine Headache, Serotonin Dysfunction, and the Initiation of Depression by Victor O. Vidal, BS. MA. H(ASCP) - - author of the book: Overcoming the Invisible Crime
http://www.outcrybookreview.com/Serotonin.htm" title="http://www.outcrybookreview.com/Serotonin.htm" target="_blank"http://www.outcrybookreview.c...
Ten to 12 million Americans suffer from depression with females being affected twice as males. Fifteen percent of the hospitalized patients for depression will commit suicide. Fortunately, 80 to 90% of depressed patients can successfully be treated. Adding to the number of depressed patients, is the new group of suffers from reactive-depression due either to burn-out by job stress, personal life crisis or family tragedy. Personal problems have always initiated depression at one point in life and can usually be handled. However with increase in job-related stress today, personal life crisis becomes harder to handle. For the most part, the job stress is not transient, it becomes prolonged, leading to persistent anxiety and eventually depression. Unfortunately, with increase job stress and intense pressure to produce more work with less staffing, reactive job depression is going to be the number one job related illness for a long time. Employers can reduce stress by evaluating the stress points of their employees. They should determine at what point and time are they pushing their employees too far? Smart employers will immediately start working on this issue because burned-out employees do not perform well, and can sometimes be very dangerous when their emotions boil over! Work place violence has increased in the past couple of years; it's going to get worse!
Ironically, money is supposed to bring happiness after relentless pursuit of success. But, by the time such goal is attained, a person's brain is fried like pancake or torn into many pieces. Subsequently, depression becomes a life long battle despite the availability of money, as happiness becomes very elusive. Perhaps, it is time we evaluated our values, and whether these material things will guarantee happiness. This article will evaluate the role of stress in inducing biochemical imbalance leading to the excruciating pain of migraine headache, the chemical brain lesion resulting to depression, (the "miserable stranger within") and the danger of sensory deprivation.
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| Non-Americans dread Bush |
| 10.28.04 (11:41 pm) [edit] |
From The Toronto Sun
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/T oronto/Eric_Margolis/2004 /10/24/682899.html" title="http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/T oronto/Eric_Margolis/2004 /10/24/682899.html" target="_blank"http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand...
There is deep concern abroad that American politics is falling increasingly under the influence of extreme religious groups at a time when secularism is accepted across Europe and non-Muslim Asia....Among 42,721 global respondents, Kerry leads Bush by 88% to 11%. In Brazil, Kerry leads by 91%; by 79% in Italy; 91% in France; 71% in India; 77% in Japan; 11% in Kuwait; 89% in Germany; 81% in Britain; 17% in Israel; 61% in Nigeria
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| [Resource] Iowa Electronic Market is designed to forecast president election winner |
| 10.28.04 (11:28 pm) [edit] |
following the comment of DrForBush
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I mentionned a link for
Iowa Electronic Market
The Iowa Electronic Markets are real-money futures markets in which contract payoffs depend on economic and political events such as elections.
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/archive/forecasti ng.pdf" title="http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/archive/forecasti ng.pdf" target="_blank"http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/...
with contract prices here
http://128.255.244.60/pricehistory/pricehist ory_SelectContract.cfm?market_ID=78" title="http://128.255.244.60/pricehistory/pricehist ory_SelectContract.cfm?market_ID=78" target="_blank"http://128.255.244.60/pricehi...
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| The Dow Jones is still holding the panic level |
| 10.28.04 (11:59 am) [edit] |
As said in a former post a few months ago, Traders are traditionally bearish on anticipation of a leftist winner and as long as Dow cannot pass 10550 the bearish scenario still holds (it doesn't mean the Big One though, just a consolidation and bullish trend should resume).
I update as for the first time the panic level has been tested: it is the dark green line on the chart below:
http://funnydiscovery.free.fr/dow-jones.gif" title="http://funnydiscovery.free.fr/dow-jones.gif" target="_blank"http://funnydiscovery.free.fr...
(tt's one of my own model of stock market don't be surprise if you can't find it anywhere else. In fact I will erase it in a few days).
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| Slavery is maintained through ignorance like in the former days |
| 10.28.04 (9:36 am) [edit] |
In an essay on American Slavery it is said by the author of this site:
http://www.evoyage.com/BillsEssays/Master&Sl ave.htm" title="http://www.evoyage.com/BillsEssays/Master&Sl ave.htm" target="_blank"http://www.evoyage.com/BillsE...
"it was against the law to teach African slaves to read and write because the owners -- rightly so -- were afraid that if they could read and write, the slaves would then communicate with each other, understand the commonality of their predicament, form alliances, and then rise up and rebel. "
Today it's by the same ignorance mean, but the difference is that people can read and write so that ignorance must be maintained more subtlely.
Since today the second richest man - Warren Buffet - is often quoted, I will also quote the second richest man in england in his time:
SIR JOSIAH STAMP President of the Bank of England in the 1920's who said:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
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| Why you can really not trust the Patriot Act |
| 10.28.04 (9:22 am) [edit] |
From drugwar.com/castilloultimate.shtm
http://www.drugwar.com/castilloultimate.shtm" title="http://www.drugwar.com/castilloultimate.shtm" target="_blank"http://www.drugwar.com/castil...
How To Use the Justice Department's Agents Manual to Defend In Court Against Dishonest Agents
Picture a society where the government employs thousands of its citizens to inform on their friends, family members and business associates; where tens of millions of dollars in government funds are spent annually paying those who inform; where police can obtain warrants to search and seize private property based on reports from hidden sources; where the only way to win early release from prison is to tell stories about others. This is done as informants exert growing control over agents and judges fail to impose any checks or balances. Welcome to the United States, 1999.
Emphatically and without equivocation, outgoing Inspector General Michael Bromwich was correct when he made his recommendation that an outside office be established to serve as a permanent watchdog for the FBI and the DEA. He further stated that outside monitoring "has a greater deterrent effect, and has more credibility with he public than the FBI and DEA policing themselves." He is also correct in his findings that abuses by informants and law enforcement threaten the rights and safety of innocent people, as well as the integrity of the courts. He is crystal clear when citing several cases where the government mishandled DNA evidence; the deadly mishandling of the Ruby Ridge and Mount Carmel standoffs in 1993; and the bungled investigation of the Atlanta Olympics bombing that resulted in the media crucifixion of the innocent Richard Jewell.
A few years ago I became an "Expert Witness" for the defense (including the Federal Public Defenders Office) on federal drug cases throughout the United States. My job is to research the Discovery/Bates material and determine if the DEA/FBI agents violated any of their agency's policies or procedures while conducting the case. Most defense attorneys attempt to make their case by targeting the credibility of informants. As I see it, federal agents are the foundation of their case. If you can prove "misconduct," the foundation will crack. In my experience, you can prove "misconduct" on the informant and still lose the case. However, in just about every case I came across, it was revealed that both the agents and informants had applied some "misconduct" in their reports and in their grand jury testimony.
That's right - informants are required to submit their own handwritten Informant Statement when debriefed by the agent, as per Agents Manual. When an allegation is made of misconduct, the defense then has the "probable cause" to request the agent's file from The Office of Professional Responsibility (Internal Affairs) to support their case. The Department of Justice will fight hard to suppress this request. But judges have complied with this request and even gone a step further by entering the Agents Manual as an exhibit (Eleuterio Garcia v US). This also makes it easier to show that there was the possibility of "entrapment" (Sahadi v US). The hunter now becomes the hunted. When hunted down and captured, the findings may result in termination of the agent, but more often will result in a "politically connected" slap on the wrist.
The Chief of the Criminal Division in the Reagan Justice Department, now a judge on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, offers this chilling warning in lectures to federal prosecutors: "Criminals are likely to say and do almost anything to get what they want, especially when what they want is to get out of trouble with the law." Judge Stephen S. Trott continues, "This willingness to do anything includes not only truthfully spilling the beans on friends and relatives, but also lying, committing perjury, manufacturing evidence, soliciting others to corroborate their lies with more lies, and double-crossing anyone with whom they come into contact, including - and especially - the prosecutor."
The second atrocity occurs when a massive cover-up is initiated by the higher up in the agencies (FBI at Ruby Ridge-Randy Weaver, and Mount Carmel-Waco). For the first time, thanks to the latest revelation concerning the FBI at Waco, it is probable that several federal agents will be incarcerated or forced to take early retirement for giving "false statements" to Justice. So, as they said in Vietnam, "tag 'em and bag 'em."
For several years I have been lecturing that we should "incarcerate the criminals within our own government." Danny O. Coulson, the retired FBI assistant deputy director who recently alleged that the FBI used pyrotechnic shells at Waco, states, "We have an obligation to tell the truth." The body count is high and the American people get angry when they feel they are being deceived. But it is more upsetting when the bad guys are agencies they can no longer trust, such as the FBI, CIA and DEA.
In closing, I will cite a high profile case in California where a senior undercover agent has just committed perjury in his grand jury testimony (I don't think he knows that his misconduct has been discovered). The perjury was discovered when an Expert Witness revealed that the agent had violated a particular section of the Agents Manual. The agent probably thought he could continue to violate this policy because no one would know where to look. To make matters worse, in the New York side of the case, the group supervisor had previously been suspended for paying a US fugitive, in a foreign country, as a documented informant when the individual was not. This is a major reason why all OPR files should be available to the defense especially in high profile cases. This is where a permanent watchdog needs to be, to "protect the interest of the people, rather than of the government."
All of this information is contained in court records, accessible by reporters, investigators and the general public. Greater investigation of "the people's documents" needs to replace total reliance on government spokesmen.
And finally, whenever a group of individuals who are beyond any investigation, and can manipulate the press, judges and members of Congress, you're always going to have those "above the law." We, the people, need to protect our God given rights. As they say, "if you speak, they will come."
Gestapos of "Operation Impunity"
December 3, 1999: Here we go again! What does Ruby Ridge, Waco, Atlanta’s Richard Jewell and, fresh out of the oven, the Department of Justice's "Operation Impunity," have in common? CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS !!! "Operation Impunity" has been, for the past few months, in the national news. It was showboated by none other then Atty. Gen. Jenet Reno. She enlightened us by telling us how the US Government dismantled, "From top to bottom" the operation of the notorious late drug trafficker Amado Carillo Fuentes. This 18 month investigation, if the allegations are founded, has the possibility of self destruction before the case is prosecuted. I will explain in detail, but first let me refresh your memory.
A few months back, I submitted an article (letter to the editor) regarding "The Rules of Engagement" of and by federal agents on the so call "war on drugs". At that time, outgoing Inspector General Michael Brownswick recommended that a permanent watchdog for the FBI and the DEA be initiated. Some asked why. One of the reasons he gave was the continuing abuse by the federal agents. And this is what brings this story to light. First and foremost, let me remind you that these are allegations made by the individuals who claim that their civil rights were violated by the DEA and FBI on Aug. 12, 1999. I find myself writing this story after obtaining signed statements from the complainants. Hopefully these allegations will be properly investigation by an outside agency. Even then, no promises are made because as we all know to what extent the government goes to cover up their mistakes. However, do give credit to these allegations, I know for a fact that at lease one of the agents involved in these allegations has in the past been "under the scope". Because, it is highly probable that civil rights violations may be filed in the near future, I have chosen not to utilize the real names of the individuals that claimed that their civil rights were violated.
Again, I do not wish to prosecute this case in the media, but I find that it's of great importance to continue to educate the public on how these arms of the government enforce their Gestapo's tactics on our citizens. As we all know, there is a consistency of evidence to show that these allegation are not new to our judicial system. It all started in the early dawn hours of August 12, 1999. It was approximately 5:00 am, when federal agents raided a residence in Donna, Texas. The owner of the residence, Mr. Jose Citizen Sr. confronted the agents at the door with, "May I help you?". It is alleged that Special Agent Gestapo asked, "Are you Mr. Jose Citizen.? which Mr. Citizen replied, "Yes, I am". Agent Gastapo advised Mr. Citizen Sr. that he had in his possession a federal arrest warrant for him and a warrant to search the house. He then placed Mr. Citizen Sr. under arrest and instructed him to get dress.
Note: I feel that, at this time, it is necessary to give you some back ground of Mr. Jose Citizen Sr. He is 79 years of age and a WWII veteran who proudly served his country above and beyond the call of duty. Furthermore, he has had major heart surgery (triple by pass). But most important, the fact of the matter is that he had never been in trouble with the law. By this time, there were several agents inside the residence which included a female agent. Mr. Citizen Sr. proceeded to ask agent Gestapo what were the charges against him. No one responded to Mr. Jose Citizen Sr.'s question. The search of the residence was then initiated without displaying any kind of search or arrest warrant.
Note: An arrest is to deprive a person of his liberty by legal authority and take him/her into custody for the purpose of holding or detaining him to answer a criminal demand. Mr. Citizen was never told why he was arrested. An arrest warrant is a written order of the court which is made on behalf of the state, or United States, and is based on a complaint (accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits stating that there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed) issued pursuant to statute and/or court rule and which commands law enforcement officers to arrest a person and bring him before magistrate. There was never an arrest warrant issued for Mr. Citizen Sr.
Form: The warrant shall be signed by the magistrate and shall contain the name of the defendant or, if his name is unknown, any name (or) description by which he can be identified with reasonable certainty. It shall describe the offense charged in the complaint. It shall command that the defendant be arrested and brought before the nearest available magistrate. Agent Gestapo, was then asked by Mr. Citizen’s daughter, if he was sure that he had arrested the right individual. Agent Gestapo looked into his folder and stated, "Without any doubt, the warrant is for your father." The daughter then asked to see the arrest and the search warrant. Agent Gestapo refused to display the warrants. She then asked if she could make a telephone call to a relative. She was advised that she could call anyone she wanted. She proceeded to called her brother, a Border Patrol Agent. She advised her brother that DEA and FBI agents were at her residence arresting their father. The brother instructed her to make absolutely sure that the arrest warrant was for her father. Again she asked agent Gestapo to verify that the arrest warrant was for her father and again he replied that it was. Then out of the blue, Agent Gestapo asked Mr. Citizen's daughter if they (the agents) could search the residence? She replied that they could because they had nothing to hide, but what was most important to her was knowing where her father was going to be taken and why he was being arrested. All this was done after the agents had already searched the house.
Note: Please! never! never! give any law enforcement officer permission to search you house or car without a search warrant. If they don't have a search warrant, it's probably because they don't have probable cause. Remember if you do give consent, anything they find (contraband) can be used against you. You don't know who's been in your house or in your car.
She was now getting very upset and demanded to see the arrest warrant which again she was denied. By this time, agent Gestapo was starting to ask several questions about her other brother, Jose Citizen Jr. She now suspected that the warrant that agent Gestapo had was for her brother, Mr. Jose Citizen Jr. Another agent stated that during the course of their investigation they had surveillance on her brother, Mr. Jose Citizen Jr., and on several occasions had followed him to their house. Ms. Citizen stated that if they had in fact been following him, they would have known that her brother did not reside with them.
Agent Gestapo then asked her if there were any suitcases in the house, to which Ms. Citizen replied that there were, since her sister’s job required traveling. Another agent then came inside the house and asked who resided in the little house behind the main house. She stated that no one lived there. The agent then proceeded towards the little house. It was now obvious to the Citizens that the agents in fact did not have an arrest warrant for her father or a search warrant for the house. Agent Gestapo (probably trying to cover his tracks) excused himself and stated that he would return within a few minutes. Agent Gestapo returned with a DEA form 88 "Consent To Search" and several DEA evidence clear plastic bags. He then instructed Ms. Citizen to sign the Consent to Search form. Ms. Citizen emphatically refused to sign the form and instructed the other three members of her family not to sign it.
At this time, "out of left field" as they say, Agent Gestapo stated in front of everyone that he had just discovered that "He had just made a very crucial mistake and arrested the wrong person." He stated that the person that they were looking for was Mr. Jose Citizen Jr. Agent Gestapo then finalized his performance by placing his hand over his forehead and stated, "Oh, I’m sorry I’ve made a mistake and arrested the wrong person." With that said, all agents hurriedly exited the residence, leaving behind the consent form and the evidence clear plastic bags.
A massive cover-up was then initiated. The following day, a DEA supervisor arrived at the residence. The supervisor stated that he was the individual responsible for ordering the raid of their home. He further admitted that the agents had arrested the wrong individual. The supervisor apologized for the mistakes. Ms. Citizen stated that she wanted to talk to agent Gestapo. The supervisor advised her that agent Gestapo was out of the country and could not be interrupted. Ms. Citizen then asked if she could audio record her conversation with the supervisor. The supervisor stated that it was against the law, "To record the law." The supervisor requested Ms. Citizen to contact her brother (Citizen Jr.) and advise him that he was the agent who had seized his money and needed to talk to him (yea! right).
The supervisor then commented in front of Mrs. Citizen Sr. that Mr. Citizen Jr. had been in prison before. This comment upset the elder Mrs. Citizen because she knew her son had never been arrested or been in prison. Ms. Citizen stated that she needed to go to the DEA and FBI office to complain because too many mistakes were committed by the agents. Shortly after that, Ms. Citizen paged the supervisor and received the return call from the supervisor. Ms. Citizen requested a copy of the search warrant. The supervisor stated that the agents did not have a search warrant to search the house. Again, the supervisor apologized for the mistakes.
Note: The 4th Amendment states that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. What constitutes a false arrest? An officer or agent of the law can not be charged with false arrest even is he or she arrests the wrong individual. However, the officer or agent can be charged with violating an individual's Constitutional Civil Rights, if in fact, the officer or agent knew that the individual that was being arrested was innocent and maliciously continued to conduct the arrest. An arrest without proper legal authority is false arrest, and because an arrest restrains the liberty of a person it is also false imprisonment. If the allegations are founded, there were serious procedures that were violated by the agents.
The two primary investigative arms of the Justice Department--DEA and FBI--each have their own agents’ manuals. These manuals contain strict guidelines and reporting requirements for serving an arrest and search warrants. Note: The guidelines mandate that there be a pre-raid briefing prior to executing a search or arrest warrant. Warrants must specifically describe "The place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized." During the briefing, prior to the execution of the arrest or search warrant, all agents who participate in the raid study the arrest package which includes photos of the individual who is to be arrested or the place that is to be searched. Most important there is a description of the individual, which includes a date of birth. In DEA cases, you would have a DEA-202 form (Personal History) which has the vital information of a person. Again, this is done to protect all individuals. When a search warrant is executed a copy of the warrant is left at the location that had been searched with an itemized list of the items that were seized. The warrant is then returned to the court.
The following is my opinion as to what might really have happened. First, the agents had an arrest warrant for Mr. Jose Citizen Jr. It was evident that they had been looking for him and could not locate him. So, the agents decided to raid Mr. Jose Citizen Sr.'s residence with the pretext of looking for their son. They then decided to squeeze the family by arresting the father knowing that he had nothing to do with the charges. While at the residence the agents decided, as they say,to " kill two birds with one stone" by conducting an illegal search for money and other evidence. When the agents realized that several members of the family were educated (one being a federal agent), they decided to cut their loses and try to legalize their search by having them sign the Consent to Search form. When that failed, they hurriedly exited the residence, leaving behind their Consent to Search form and the evidence envelopes. The following day the agents send in their "Fixer" (the DEA supervisor) in an attempt to clean their mass up. His job was to place a "Band Aid" on their mistakes to ease the pain on the family by claiming that they were very sorry for their mistakes, and "to take two aspirins and call him back is they needed anything". By the way, the following week, Mr. Jose Citizen Jr. turned himself into the agent's custody.
By the time this letter is published the agents should have already turned in their reports of the incident (they have 5 working days to do so). It will be interesting to see what was said in their report. Let's see how fast they can backpeddle, but I certainly hope it will be too late. The Department of Justice was correct when they stated, "That their investigation (Operation Impunity) is continuing and more arrests are pending." I bet that they never thought that the arrests might include federal agents for civil rights violations. I certainly hope that OPR (Office of Professional Conduct) [internal affairs] will be all over this. It's a start. I just wonder how many of those agents are willing to go to jail to cover up for the others.
I have the honor and privilege to bring this to you as a veteran of my third and perhaps most dangerous war, the war against the criminals in my own government.
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| I agree with Huge Taxes on Corporates, little tax on Small Businesses and no taxes for People |
| 10.28.04 (8:01 am) [edit] |
In reaction to littlemrmahatma blog's post
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It's dangerous to ask for more taxes that's exactly what the bankers need to cash their interests on Bonds and that's what perpetuate the economical slavery of people and boom and burst cycles with more and more unemployment !
See explanation on the tight link between tax, debts and bonds:
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So People should rather ask for Huge Taxes on Corporates, little tax on Small Businesses and no taxes for People rather than blindly ask for taxes.
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| New Slavery in 21th Century |
| 10.28.04 (5:51 am) [edit] |
I find this even more revolting than War :(
mit.edu/people/etekle/Index/
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For Meera, the revolution began with a single rupee. When a social worker came across Meera's unmapped village in the hills of Uttar Pradesh in India three years ago, he found that the entire population was in hereditary debt bondage. It could have been in the time of their grandfathers or great-grandfathers--few in the village could remember--but at some point in their past, the families had pledged themselves to unpaid labor in return for loans of money. The debt passed down through the generations. Children as young as five years old worked in quarry pits, making sand by crushing stones with hammers. Dust, flying rock chips and heavy loads had left many villagers with silicosis and injured eyes or backs.
Calling together some of the women, the social worker proposed a radical plan. If groups of 10 women agreed to set aside a single rupee a week from the tiny sums the moneylenders gave them to buy rice, he would provide seed money and keep the funds safe. Meera and nine others formed the first group. The rupees slowly mounted up. After three months, the group had enough to pay off the loan against which Meera was bonded. She began earning money for her work, which greatly increased the amount she could contribute to the group. In another two months, another woman was freed; the following month, a third came out of bondage.
At that point, the other members, seeing that freedom was possible, simply renounced their debts and declared themselves free. The moneylenders quickly moved against them, threatening them and driving them from the quarries. But the women were able to find jobs in other quarries. New groups followed their example. The social worker has taken me to the village twice, and on my second visit, all its inhabitants were free and all their children in school.
Less than 100 kilometers away, the land turns flat and fertile. Debt bondage is common there, too. When I met Baldev in 1997, he was plowing. His master called him "my halvaha," meaning "my bonded plowman." Two years later I met Baldev again and learned that because of a windfall from a relative, he had freed himself from debt. But he had not freed himself from bondage. He told me:
After my wife received this money, we paid off our debt and were free to do whatever we wanted. But I was worried all the time--what if one of the children got sick? What if our crop failed? What if the government wanted some money? Since we no longer belonged to the landlord, we didn't get food every day as before. Finally, I went to the landlord and asked him to take me back. I didn't have to borrow any money, but he agreed to let me be his halvaha again. Now I don't worry so much; I know what to do.
Lacking any preparation for freedom, Baldev reenrolled in slavery. Without financial or emotional support, his accidental emancipation didn't last. Although he may not bequeath any debt to his children, his family is visibly worse off than unbonded villagers in the same region.
To many people, it comes as a surprise that debt bondage and other forms of slavery persist into the 21st century. Every country, after all, has made it illegal to own and exercise total control over another human being. And yet there are people like Baldev who remain enslaved--by my estimate, which is based on a compilation of reports from governments and nongovernmental organizations, perhaps 27 million of them around the world. If slaveholders no longer own slaves in a legal sense, how can they still exercise so much control that freed slaves sometimes deliver themselves back into bondage? This is just one of the puzzles that make slavery the greatest challenge faced by the social sciences today. Despite being among the oldest and most persistent forms of human relationships, found in most societies at one time or another, slavery is little understood. Although historians have built up a sizable literature on antebellum American slavery, other types have barely been studied. It is as if our understanding of all arachnids were based on clues left by a single species of extinct spider. In our present state of ignorance, we have little hope of truly eradicating slavery, of making sure that Meera, rather than Baldev, becomes the model.
The New Slavery
Researchers do know that slavery is both evolving and increasing in raw numbers. Like spiders, it permeates our world, typically hidden in the dark spaces of the economy. Over the past few years, journalists and activists have documented numerous examples. Human trafficking--the involuntary smuggling of people between countries, often by organized crime--has become a huge concern, especially in Europe and Southeast Asia. Many people, lured by economic opportunities, pay smugglers to slip them across borders but then find themselves sold to sweatshops, brothels or domestic service to pay for their passage; others are kidnapped and smuggled against their will. In certain areas, notably Brazil and West Africa, laborers have been enticed into signing contracts and then taken to remote plantations and prevented from leaving. In parts of South Asia and North Africa, slavery is a millennia-old tradition that has never truly ended.
The plight of these people has drawn the attention of governments and organizations as diverse as the Vatican, the United Nations, the International Organization for Migration, and Amnesty International. Two years ago the U.S. government established a central coordinating office to deal with human trafficking. Academic researchers are beginning to conduct intensive studies. The anecdotal and journalistic approach is slowly transforming into the more rigorous inquiry of social science. For example, Urs Peter Ruf of the University of Bielefeld in Germany has documented the evolution of master-slave relations in modern Mauritania. Louise Brown of the University of Birmingham in England has studied women forced into prostitution in Asia. David Kyle of the University of California at Davis and Rey Koslowski of Rutgers University have explored human smuggling. I have posited a theory of global slavery and tested it through case studies in five countries.
A common question is why these practices should be called slavery rather than just another form of superexploitation. The answer is simple. Throughout history, slavery has meant a loss of free will and choice backed up by violence, sometimes exercised by the slaveholder, sometimes by elements of the state. That is exactly what other researchers and I have observed. Granted, workers at the bottom of the economic ladder have few options to begin with, but at some point on the continuum of exploitation, even those options are lost. These workers are unable to walk away.
Human suffering comes in various guises, yet slavery has a distinctive horror that is evident to those of us who have seen it in the flesh. Even when it does not involve beating or other physical torture, it brings about a psychological degradation that often renders victims unable to function in the outside world. "I've worked in prisons and with cases of domestic violence," says Sydney Lytton, an American psychiatrist who has counseled freed slaves. "This is worse."
Although each of the manifestations of slavery has unique local characteristics, one of the aims of social scientists is to understand their universal features, so that therapies developed in one place can be applied elsewhere. Foremost among these commonalities is the basic economic equation. In 1850 an agricultural slave cost $1,500 in Alabama (around $30,000 in today's dollars). The equivalent laborer can be had for around $100 today. That payment might be made as part of a "loan" or as a "fee" to a trafficker. A young woman in Southeast Asia or eastern Europe might be sold several times, through a series of brokers and pimps, before she ends up in a brothel.
Throughout HISTORY, slavery has meant a loss of free will and choice backed up by VIOLENCE, sometimes exercised by the slaveholder, sometimes by elements of the state.
One should not read too much into these specific dollar amounts, because what the slaveholder purchases is somewhat different in each case. The basic point is that forced labor represents a much smaller percentage of business expenses than it used to. It took 20 years of labor for an antebellum American slave to repay his or her purchase price and maintenance costs; today it takes two years for a bonded laborer in South Asia to do the same. This fall in price has altered not only the profitability of slavery but also the relationship between slave and master. The expensive slave of the past was a protected investment; today's slave is a cheap and disposable input to low-level production. The slaveholder has little incentive to provide health care or to take care of slaves who are past their prime.
Several trends could account for this shift. The world's population has tripled since World War II, producing a glut of potential slaves. Meanwhile the economic transformation of the developing world has, whatever its benefits, included the loss of community and social safety nets, matched by the erection of vast shantytowns. But the vulnerability of large numbers of people does not make them slaves; for that, you need violence. The key factor in the persistence of slavery is the weak rule of law in many regions. Widespread corruption of government and police allows violence to be used with impunity even when slavery is nominally illegal.
Free Your Mind Instead
Akuac Malong (left), age 13, walks home to her village, Madhol, in southern Sudan.
Image: JEAN-MARC BOUJU AP Photo
SUDAN: Akuac Malong (left), age 13, walks home to her village, Madhol, in southern Sudan. She says she was kidnapped and held for seven years as a domestic slave in northern Sudan.
A second commonality among different forms of slavery is the psychological manipulation they all involve. The widely held conception of a slave is someone in chains who would escape if given half a chance or who simply does not know better. But Meera's and Baldev's stories, among numerous others, suggest that this view is naive. In my experience, slaves often know that their enslavement is illegal. Force, violence and psychological coercion have convinced them to accept it. When slaves begin to accept their role and identify with their master, constant physical bondage becomes unnecessary. They come to perceive their situation not as a deliberate action taken to harm them in particular but as part of the normal, if regrettable, scheme of things.
One young woman I met in northeastern Thailand, Siri, has a typical story. A woman approached her parents, offered to find their 14-year-old daughter a job, and advanced them 50,000 baht (at the time, about $2,000) against her future income. The broker transferred Siri to a low-end brothel for twice that sum. When she tried to escape, her debt was doubled again. She was told to repay it, as well as a monthly rent of 30,000 baht, from her earnings of 100 baht per customer.
Siri had little idea what it meant to be a prostitute. Her initiation took the form of assault and rape. Shattered, the teenager had to find a way to carry on with life. In the world in which she lived, there were only those with total power and those with no power. Reward and punishment came from a single source, the pimp. Young women in Siri's position often find building a relationship with the pimp to be a good survival strategy. Although pimps are thugs, they do not rely solely on violence. They are adept at fostering insecurity and dependence.
Cultural norms have prepared these young women for control and compliance. A girl will be told how her parents will suffer if she does not cooperate and work hard, how the debt is on her shoulders and must be repaid. Thai sex roles are clearly defined, and women are expected to be retiring, nonassertive and obedient--as the women are repeatedly reminded. The pimps also cite religion. The young women are encouraged to believe that they must have committed terrible sins in a past life to deserve their enslavement and abuse. They are urged to accept this karmic debt, to come to terms with it and to reconcile themselves to their fate.
To live in slavery, the young women often redefine their bondage as a duty or a job or a form of penance. To accept their role and the pimp's, they must try to diminish their view of themselves as victims who have been wronged. They must begin to see their enslavement from the point of view of the slaveholder. At the time of my visit, the women in Siri's brothel were at various stages in this process of submission. Some were even allowed to visit their families during holidays, for they always came back.
A similar psychology operates in a different form of slavery, one that involves domestic servants that African and Asian diplomats and business executives have brought with them to Europe and North America. As an employee of the Committee against Modern Slavery, Cristina Talens worked for several years to free and rehabilitate domestic slaves who had been brought to Paris. She told me that liberating the body was much easier than freeing the mind:
In spite of the violence, and the living and working conditions, people in slavery have their own mental integrity and their own mechanisms for surviving. Some may actually like different aspects of their life, perhaps the security or their understanding of the order of things. When you disrupt this order, suddenly everything is confused. Some of the women who were freed have attempted suicide. It is easy to assume that this happened because of the abuse they had lived through. But for some of these women, slavery had been the major psychological building block in their lives. When that was destroyed, the meaning of their life was like a bit of paper crushed up and thrown away. They were told: "No, this is not the way it is supposed to be. Start all over again." It was as though their life had no meaning.
Plausible Deniability
Image: MICHAEL ST. MAUR SHEIL Black Star
BENIN: Constant Ayitcheou, age 13, says he was trafficked at eight years old by a friend of his father. Promised education and money, he was instead taken to become a domestic servant in Nigeria. "PAFAJESD" is the French acronym of the aid organization that helped to free him.
The psychology of the slave is mirrored by that of the slaveholder. Slavery is not a simple matter of one person holding another by force; it is an insidious mutual dependence that is remarkably difficult for slaveholder as well as slave to break out of. Branding the slaveholder as pure evil may in some way comfort us, but maintaining that definition becomes difficult when one meets actual slave masters.
Almost all the slaveholders I have met and interviewed in Pakistan, India, Brazil and Mauritania were family men who thought of themselves simply as businessmen. Pillars of the local community, they were well rewarded financially, well integrated socially, and well connected legally and politically. Their slaveholding was not seen as a social handicap except, possibly, by "outsiders" who, they felt, misunderstood the local customs of business and labor.
How is it that such nice men do such bad things? A government official in Baldev's district who held bonded workers was frank about his slaveholding:
Of course I have bonded laborers: I'm a landlord. I keep them and their families, and they work for me. When they aren't in the fields, I have them doing the household work washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, making repairs, everything. After all, they are from the Kohl caste; that's what they do, work for Vaisyas like me. I give them food and a little land to work. They've also borrowed money, so I have to make sure that they stay on my land till it is paid back. They will work on my farm till it is all paid back. I don't care how old they get; you can't just give money away!
After all, there is nothing wrong in keeping bonded labor. They benefit from the system, and so do I. Even if agriculture is completely mechanized, I'll still keep my bonded laborers. You see, the way we do it, I am like a father to these workers. It is a father-son relationship; I protect them and guide them. Of course, sometimes I have to discipline them as well, just as a father would.
Other slaveholders also have told me that their slaves are like their children, that they need close control and care. They make the argument of tradition: because the practice has been going on for so long, it must be the natural order of things. For others, it is a simple question of priorities: they say that enslaving people is unfortunate but that their own family's welfare depends on it. Often slaveholders have interposed many layers of management between themselves and the slaves. They purposely deny themselves the knowledge of what they are doing and thus the responsibility for it.
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| Excessive sensitiveness |
| 10.28.04 (5:15 am) [edit] |
I couldn't become a surgeon like my father because I couldn't support the view of human blood flowing out of body. I cried one day ridiculously at college because I had to dissect a rat in a biology class :). Today I can't read some news because of photos showing atrocities committed by terrorists against hostages.
This excessive sensitiveness is a problem for me, because I tend to overreact. But I know myself and so oppose my own rationality. For example I will feel hate against terrorists but I tell myself that's exactly what they want and exactly what government wants so I repress myself. I think that's the reason why there is so much chaos in the world: it is due to the exploitation of human sensitiveness. Well we wouldn't be human without that but as human we should be able to control ourselves.
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| Redefined definitions: panic, crisis, depression, recession, growth correction |
| 10.28.04 (4:44 am) [edit] |
Enjoy the style of John Kenneth Galbraith :)
Redefined definitions: panic, crisis, depression, recession, growth correction
Extracts from "Money: Whence it came, where it went" by John Kenneth Galbraith (First Published 1975), Page 113
"During the last century and until 1907, the United States had panics. But, by 1907, the language was becoming, like so much else, the servant of economic interest. to minimize the shock to confidence, businessmen and bankers had started to explain that any current economic setback was not realy a panic, only a crisis. They were undeterred by the use of this term in a much more ominious context - that of the ultimate capitalist crisis - by Marx. By the 1920's, however, the word crisis had also aquired the fearsome connotation of the event it described. Accordingly, men offered reassurance by explaining that it was not a crisis, only a depression. A very soft word. Then the Great Depression associated the most frightful of economic misfortunes with that term, and economic semanticists now explained that no depression was in prospect, at most only a recession. In the 1950s, when there was a modest setback, economists and public officials were united in denying that it was a recession - only a sidewise movement or a rolling readjustment. Mr Herbert Stein, the amiable man whose difficult honour it was to serve as the economic voice of Richard Nixon, would have referred to the panic of 1893 as a growth correction"
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| Soviet communism 'pure propaganda', Gorbachev tells students |
| 10.28.04 (2:24 am) [edit] |
From ananova.com/news/story/sm_541902.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
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Soviet communism 'pure propaganda', Gorbachev tells students
Mikhail Gorbachev has told American university students the communism he served most of his life was "pure propaganda".
The former Soviet leader was speaking at Columbia University in New York.
Speaking in Russian, Mr Gorbachev offered his views a decade after he helped topple the "unreal system" with reforms dubbed perestroika.
He said that by the time he rose to power, with Soviet satellites in space, the ruling politicians "were discussing the problem of toothpaste, the problem of detergent, and they had to create a commission of the Politburo to make sure that women have pantyhose".
Before that, he said, Soviet politicians operated with lies. He stated: "We, including I, were saying 'capitalism is moving toward a catastrophe, whereas we are developing well'. Of course, that was pure propaganda.
"In fact, our country was lagging behind."
He added that change didn't come easily, saying that perestroika spun out of control after Boris Yeltsin took over in 1991.
Mr Gorbachev stated that instead of a gradual shift to democracy, Yeltsin promised Russians that they "would start moving toward paradise quickly, directly".
"Well, we did move directly - but into an abyss," with the economy collapsing and many former Soviet republics declaring independence, he said.
"It is chaos that (Russian president) Vladimir Putin inherited. Chaos in the economy, chaos in the social sphere, chaos in the federation, chaos in the army, chaos everywhere."
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| [Funny discovery of the day] Photos distorsion for Propaganda |
| 10.28.04 (2:16 am) [edit] |
newseum.org
http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_ vanishes/propaganda.htm" title="http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_ vanishes/propaganda.htm" target="_blank"http://www.newseum.org/berlin...
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| Ads in Washington Post by Torah Jews |
| 10.28.04 (1:27 am) [edit] |
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/Newsletters/Washingto nTimes.pdf
from their site
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/index.html" title="http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/index.html" target="_blank"http://www.jewsagainstzionism...
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| Yes Kerry is needed for People to accept a bigger war |
| 10.27.04 (9:11 am) [edit] |
I'm sorry but that's just rationality : the war makers need to fool the people.
Look under whom in history the biggest world wars have been conducted. They will even cut taxes for the warmakers under the pretext to finance the war. And so the deficits, the poors and downtroddens will continue to suffer plus of course the fear reign.
That's why they needed Tony Blair in Great Britain. Don't you find strange the Unholy alliance between an extreme right wing like Bush and a leftist like Blair ? Strange that no media dare to really point on this weirdity.
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| The soldier doesn't seem to be very happy with Laura Bush :D |
| 10.27.04 (8:45 am) [edit] |
The soldier doesn't seem to be very happy to get a handshake from Laura Bush :D
http://funnydiscovery.free.fr/so" title="http://funnydiscovery.free.fr/so" target="_blank"http://funnydiscovery.free.fr...%20happy.jpg
and they put that photo on gov site :D
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| Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9/11 Attacks and "Consciousl |
| 10.27.04 (8:36 am) [edit] |
This was already a few months ago can't find update
newsgateway.ca/by_topic_9_11.htm
http://www.newsgateway.ca/by_topic_9_11.htm" title="http://www.newsgateway.ca/by_topic_9_11.htm" target="_blank"http://www.newsgateway.ca/by_...
Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9/11 Attacks and "Consciously Failed" To Act -- 66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York's Attorney General, New Zogby International Poll Reveals
(Utica, NY) - On the eve of a Republican National Convention invoking 9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," according to the poll conducted by Zogby International.
The charge found very high support among adults under 30 (62.8%), African-Americans (62.5%), Hispanics (60.1%), Asians (59.4%), and "Born Again" Evangelical Christians (47.9%).
Less than two in five (36%) believe that the 9/11 Commission had "answered all the important questions about what actually happened on September 11th," and two in three (66%) New Yorkers (and 56.2% overall) called for another full investigation of the "still unanswered questions" by Congress or Elliot Spitzer, New York's Attorney General.
W. David Kubiak, executive director of 911truth.org, the group that commissioned the poll, expressed genuine surprise that New Yorkers' belief in the administration's complicity is as high or higher than that seen overseas. "We're familiar with high levels of 9/11 skepticism abroad where there has been open debate of the evidence for US government complicity. On May 26th the Toronto Star reported a national poll showing that 63% of Canadians are also convinced US leaders had 'prior knowledge' of the attacks yet declined to act. http://www.fromthewilderness....
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| Are there people paid by political parties to post here ? |
| 10.27.04 (8:10 am) [edit] |
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I'm software engineer and am always on my machines which are connected 24h/24 so I can post whenever I want but I suppose it's not the case of everybody and I'm astonised that some may post so often.
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| IS THE UNITED STATES WITH THE MONOPOLY OF FEDERAL RESERVE IN PRIVATE HANDS CAPITALIST OR MARXIST :) |
| 10.27.04 (7:10 am) [edit] |
Quotes from Lenin, Karl Marx and Congressman Ron Paul
"The best way to destroy the Capitalist system is to debauch the currency. The process of inflation is so insidious that not one in a million can properly diagnose it, until it is too late."
-- Lenin
"Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly."
-- 5th Plank, Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx (1848)
"Capitalism is based on the premise that centralized economic planning is bad. I’m always amazed that otherwise pro-market conservatives, who rightfully scorned disastrous Soviet economic policies, are so willing to accept centralized monetary planning by the Federal Reserve. True capitalism requires a free market for money and interest rates, just as surely as it requires a free market for wages and prices."
-- Congressman Ron Paul
SO MY QUESTION :
IS THE UNITED STATES WITH THE MONOPOLY OF FEDERAL RESERVE IN PRIVATE HANDS (THE BANKS) CAPITALIST OR MARXIST ?
Maybe the worst of the two : Marxist because Money Power is CENTRALISED and MONOPOLISED to the extreme and Capitalist because this power is protected by GOVERNMENT AND CONGRESS which allows them to EXPLOIT the Mass.
:)
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| [Quote of the day] "All my life, I always wanted to be somebody..." |
| 10.27.04 (6:45 am) [edit] |
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
-- Jane Wagner, The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe, performed by Lily Tomlin
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| Site which predicts "Likelihood of Terrorism, by Threat Level, day by day" |
| 10.27.04 (6:31 am) [edit] |
Strange and "funny" site which pretends to monitor if not predict "Likelihood of Terrorism, by Threat Level, day by day"
macroknow.com/sow/bulletin-A.htm
http://www.macroknow.com/sow/bulletin-A.htm" title="http://www.macroknow.com/sow/bulletin-A.htm" target="_blank"http://www.macroknow.com/sow/...
Frankly I'm very skepticcal, it's more a psy ops of Gov who needs to infuse day to day terror in everyday people's life. They sell insecurity and promise of protection like the Maffia.
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| Are there still lawyers who embrace this career for the poors and the downtroddens :) |
| 10.27.04 (5:41 am) [edit] |
My mother wanted me to be a Surgeon like my father, I couldn't because I can't bear to see human blood, so she wanted me to become a lawyer. Well I thought if it's for defending the poors and the downtrodden why not ? I didn't choose though because learning tons of stupid text laws wasn't really attracting me.
As I have read this
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=flipsidown&static =323286" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=flipsidown&static =323286" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
it seems good to be a lawyer these days. But if it's for defending politicians sorry I don't regret not to be a lawyer :)
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| What Money can do: 'Man Murdered Wife in Anger after Debts Uncovered' |
| 10.27.04 (3:52 am) [edit] |
Of course not everybody will reach such an extreme but as american householders are said to be hugely indebted and don't really suspect coming crisis when babyboomers retirement is going to approach ... like what happened to Japeneses when they were to retire and their economy crashed http://www.tblog.com/template... (and it's only the first phase, when America will be shocked Japenese and the rest of the world will be also shocked as they have created dependencies through World banking).
news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3464733
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'Man Murdered Wife in Anger after Debts Uncovered'
By Lesley Richardson, PA News
A retired businessman murdered his wife in a fit of desperation and anger after she discovered he had lost their life savings trading on the internet, a court heard today.
Maurice Pearson, 57, allegedly hit his wife Irena at least 15 times over the head with a blunt object in the kitchen of the family’s £400,000 house in Broadstone, Poole, Dorset.
The retired IT manager, who denies murder, had hidden from his wife the £44,000 he had lost through trading in stocks and shares online.
He had cashed in a £26,000 insurance policy and had built up £18,000 debts on three credit cards to pay for the losses, Bournemouth Crown Court has heard.
When his wife found out, Pearson killed her before cleaning himself up and going shopping in stores with CCTV cameras to give himself an alibi, the court was told.
He then rang Dorset Police to report his wife had been killed by an intruder.
Prosecuting, Jane Miller QC, summed up the case to the jury and said: “For a chance intruder to kill in this way is extraordinary, but for Mr Pearson is entirely possible.
“This is desperation, anger, possibly even hate. That number of blows is a frenzied attack. It’s the attack of going mad, particularly delivered when this poor woman was on the floor.
“We say this is a crime of desperation.”
She added: “This is a man who deliberately tried to get himself on CCTV cameras with a remarkably quick visit, particularly that one to Curry’s for two minutes.”
She denied defence suggestions that an unknown intruder could have murdered Mrs Pearson by pointing out the lack of evidence of a break-in or DNA traces.
She also told the court that a “chance intruder” would not know where to find plastic bags for the bloodied clothes and murder weapon, or use rubber gloves to clean up in the utility room.
She also said any burglar would not stay in the house long enough to take a shower, change clothes and put away Pearson’s slippers.
Miss Miller went on: “This is a husband who has lost it and one day murders his wife.
“It may appear to be out of character, but who knows what goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage? Who knows what the tensions were that were building up in Mr Pearson’s head?
“The motive is there clearly. It’s an extreme way out of this problem but it had become a bigger problem than he could deal with.
“A lot of people bottle up their feelings and lose it in this way. A lot of people can do terrible things and seek to deny it.”
She also told the court that Mrs Pearson’s death “would produce £40,000” from her life insurance policy.
The prosecution alleges that a row over money erupted after Mrs Pearson called their building society to query two withdrawals from their joint account totalling £800.
Pearson allegedly then struck his wife, who worked as a supply teacher, with a blunt object with such force that blood was spattered on the ceiling and cupboards.
Pearson denies murdering his wife on February 13. The couple have two children, Peter, 22, who was at university in Portsmouth, and Jessica, 18, who was studying for A-Levels.
Home Office pathologist Dr Basil Purdue conducted a post-mortem examination and found that Mrs Pearson had died of “multiple blunt force head injuries”. She also had two black eyes, her scalp was cut open, she had a bruised left eardrum and further bruising to her left thigh and right knee.
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| French government is as dirty as American Government |
| 10.27.04 (1:01 am) [edit] |
but do not confuse the frenches with their government !
As I said in comment here:
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The reason why americans are anti-french and why frenches are anti-american is because of the medias which build that kind of myths so that people enter this silly game !
I'm french and I can tell this: French government is as hypocrit as american government although not as imperialist not because they don't want to it's because they can't economically finance such costfull war - as they don't posess the dollar as world money.
The reason why they don't want to enter the war with Irak is just because French Thomson Multinational has Irak as client for their weapons, so their reason is as cynical than the reason for Bush to enter war to profit Carlyle Group and Halliburton. But that the french medias won't even remind the frenches. They, as american medias do against frenches, mount hate against americans.
This is just a decoy on both sides to divert people from criticizing their own government mismanagement by pointing to the other side. A classic in medias/government's brainwashing tools.
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| Tell me what books you read and I will tell you who you are... |
| 10.27.04 (12:30 am) [edit] |
Well I don't know if it's really possible to know who a person is but it can give a clue :)
Just a pretext to say that I have added a gallery of a few books (see right side of my blog for general public and left side for specialised public) I have read so that I can refer to them more easily in my posts when needed.
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| Putting Government and Politicians under control of Six-Sigma Methodology |
| 10.26.04 (8:48 am) [edit] |
You don't know what Six Sigma is probably :)
So see here
http://www.isixsigma.com/sixsigma/six_sigma.asp" title="http://www.isixsigma.com/sixsigma/six_sigma.asp" target="_blank"http://www.isixsigma.com/sixs...
Six Sigma is a code name of a methodology that is used in Quality Control - I've been Statistical Process Engineer in Quality Field that's why I think about this idea.
Since Government pretends that America is like a Big Corporate well let's them prove what they pretend. All Corporates are engaging in Quality Process for more efficiency and profit ... for investors. So why the Government would be the only Corporate to escape this efficiency requirement ? Putting them under Six Sigma Control would be an attempt to oblige them to be really efficient for the people instead of escaping through vague promises and fake morality that they are doing their best.
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| Bush can just today use martial law passed under Clinton |
| 10.26.04 (7:58 am) [edit] |
I said in some previous thread that the left and right parties are complice and that leftists should be vigileant even under leftist presidency because the President doesn't really decide but the administration. Here's a great example: Bush can now use anti-democratic martial law passed under Clinton :
fromthewilderness.com
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http" title="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http" target="_blank"http://www.fromthewilderness....%3A//www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072904_coup_ detat_america.shtml
'Preparing for Code Red
Homeland Security (DHS) has in fact been contemplating a code red alert "scenario" -- using Al Qaeda as a pretext -- for more than a year. In May 2003, the DHS conducted a major "anti-terrorist exercise" entitled TOPOFF 2. The latter was described as "the largest and most comprehensive terrorism response and homeland security exercise ever conducted in the United States." The exercise was based on code red assumptions involving a simulated terrorist attack.
See: http://www.globalresearch.ca/... A code red alert, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), would create conditions for the ("temporary" we are told) suspension of the normal functions of civilian government, implying the cancellation or postponement of federal and State elections.
[... See link above]
In other words, the Clinton era legislation had already laid the legal and ideological foundations of the "war on terrorism."'
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| Politics is completely useless and just a decoy to devert people from the real power: the financial |
| 10.26.04 (7:15 am) [edit] |
I'm rambling in politics like everybody here, but it's more a kind of chronicle of 21th century absurdities than for anything else.
Politics by people only allow to give them the illusion that they count. Somehow they count but as they herd towards whatever the medias want them to, the global opinion is absolutly void of any efficiency.
It's very easy for example to make them vote for humanitarian/moral purpose at left or for patriotism at right whereas the true motive is purely financial.
For that they invented "Moral obligation" bonds or ethical funds as history shows - and these kind of bonds which were exceptions have now become everyday's practice to finance lengthy costfull unhuman wars not only on our backs but also on the backs of our children and little children :
From journalist's site edwardjayepstein.com
http://edwardjayepstein.com/rockefellers/chap5.htm" title="http://edwardjayepstein.com/rockefellers/chap5.htm" target="_blank"http://edwardjayepstein.com/r...
"The political problem, which restrained Rockefeller's predecessors from constructing public works on a scale of the Egyptian pyramids, was that they could not be paid for out of taxes, since the wrath of the electorate over tax increases would far outweigh any advantages from special interest groups pleased with the expenditures. Nor was it easy to finance these projects through issuing long-term bonds, which had the obvious advantage of deferring tax burdens to future generations of taxpayers, because such bonds had to be approved by the electorate at a referendum.
With characteristic ingenuity, Nelson over-rode this stumbling block to expansion by devising special authorities which could issue long-term debt without the approval of the voters. These bonds were not legally backed by the full faith of the state, since they by-passed constitutional requirement of a referendum, but Nelson pledged the full moral authority of the state the bonds, bond buyers assumed that this pledge was tantamount to a state obligation. Through these "Moral obligation" bonds, as they came to be called, New York State raised over $6 billion. Through these and other innovation, its debt during the Rockefeller administrations rose from $1 billion to $13 billion, allowing Nelson to engage in a massive building and spending.
Under anyone but Nelson, there might have been great resistance among state officials to such unorthodox bonds. Nelson, however, succeeded in engendering loyalty among his key officials by quietly distributing to them over one million dollars in cash from his private funds. Typically, Rockefeller's secret loans that became gifts went to such instrumental state officials as the Superintendent of Banks, members of the State Housing Financing agency, the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Commissioner of Housing and Community Renewal. While some officials receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from Rockefeller, others received the promise of future employment in his family's empire.
While Rockefeller's ability to dispense largesse conflicted with the New York State Penal Code which explicitly prohibited conferring "any benefit upon a public official for having engaged in official conduct . Rockefeller asserted, when the gifts were finally made public by an FBI investigation in 1974, that he gave the cash to the public servants. out of his esteem for them, not out of any motive related to the work they were performing for him as governor. Because of his carefully managed reputation as a philanthropist the matter was never referred to a court for adjudication."
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| Does poverty create Virtue ? |
| 10.26.04 (5:45 am) [edit] |
From the famous Devil Dictionary of Ambroise Bierce:
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/p.html" title="http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/p.html" target="_blank"http://www.alcyone.com/max/li...
POVERTY, n.
A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
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First hypothesis
Virtous people in majority chose to be poor
Second hypothesis
Rich people have a good destiny.
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Among traders the second hypothesis is very frequent: they are supertistious and like to attribute their fortune to some predestination, I guess it's the first one that poors prefer, as for me well I will say that statistically speaking, poors have no more chance to have more virtuous genes than riches and that there can be some virtous people that chose poverty whereas others don't and if they were getting rich they could become the most egoistic people on earth: for example the Rotschild family was very poor originally (about 200 years ago) or maybe they know that any poor can become very rich like them and so they fear the poors now :).
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| The problem of Peace : people get somehow bored |
| 10.26.04 (3:56 am) [edit] |
When I was at college, I remember one of our professor who was teaching History.
I remember he was boring or the matter by itself was boring for us. Nearly nobody - including me - was listening much to his lessons and prefered discussing with one another.
So one day he got exasperated by our behavior and screamed: "we should have a good war to make you understand !" everybody suddently silenced while thinking "this guy is mad !" :)
Now I understand what he means. The new generation never remember history because it's like wine you cannot really know how things are really good or bad just by reading an encyclopedy but by tasting or experimenting it for real: any description cannot encompass reality.
The horror of war is not something concrete for people. They intellectualise and even think that it is exciting. In fact for some it could be like that. But for most it isn't. It doesn't prevent some, by some sort of boreness, to write and incite to revolutions or wars because they think that for noble cause, it will deliver humanity whereas all these revolutions and wars are made only for the elitist war makers : that's what history has proved since Bolchevism and Fascism have been both financed by them (see "I have great admiration for the Socialist Salvador Allende" http://www.tblog.com/template...).
I have known war when I was a child but as a child I don't even really realise since my parents were protecting me, what I know is that my father has been killed in a horrible genocide. Today I know who is really responsible of that: it is America's Imperialism (see http://www.tblog.com/template... "Why rightists cannot believe that America is imperialist") . Still I have no hate for Americans because I distinguish between their government and the people of America. And so American People shouldn't harass arabs or jews people for the crime of their respective government. Of course they are brainwashed that America is Evil but so are americans brainwashed by their own Gov.
It is only when the People will be really free to think by their own independently of their government that the whole world will make a real progress.
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| China will rise while America will decline: by 2039 China would overtake America [Fortune Mag.] |
| 10.25.04 (11:40 pm) [edit] |
While it is since dozens of years that the Rise of China is expected because the big economic cycle follows the demographic cycle, the real sign that it is now becoming imminent is that China has changed his Constitution this year to include the right for individual property:
usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-14 -china-constitution_x.htm" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-14 -china-constitution_x.htm" target="_blank"http://www.usatoday.com/news/...
"China agrees to amend its constitution
BEIJING (AP) — China took symbolic steps toward a more capitalist society Sunday, amending its constitution to protect private property rights and formalizing a former president's once-unthinkable legacy — inviting entrepreneurs to join the Communist Party. "
[You should remark a vicious vocabulary: instead of talking of democracy they are using the term capitalism]
Investor's magazine like Fortune this month are now upraising China. It is said for example that Analysts at Goldman Sachs project that China's economy (2003 GDP $1.4 trillion) will overtake Japan's by 2015 and America's by 2039. Already today "China is the world's No.1 market for mobile phones and No. 2 market for personal computers. many analysts believe it will become the world's second-largest auto market by the end of the decade... For FORTUNE 500 executives, says Ian Davis, McKinsey's worldwide managing directors, China is "absolutely center stage right now.".
The decline of America will be subsequent to the Rise of China in both democracy and economic power because the two are linked. The flow of Money by Investors will retire from America's continent towards China and automatically the economy of US will decline and social problems will appear. This money is controlled by International Bankers, US Bankers including - and the US FED has poured money into China these recent years instead of financing America, instead it has favored credit Bubble and Stock Market Bubble to maintain the illusion: there is no real investment in productive industry, only speculation and war financing through debts that is tax defered onto your head at retirement age or on the head of your children. In fact today's problem is the consequence of the previous bubble in 1929 that is to say your own parent or grand parent faults.
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| [quote of the day] "the financial wealth of the top 1% of households" |
| 10.25.04 (11:01 am) [edit] |
"the financial wealth of the top 1% of households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95% of American households"
-- Ralph Nader
http://www.corporatewatch.org/news/greens.htm" title="http://www.corporatewatch.org/news/greens.htm" target="_blank"http://www.corporatewatch.org...
(I don't endorse him as I don't want to endorse any politician, I wanna just quote him for the numbers above)
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| [Funny Fairy Story That Really Happens To Me] Once Upon a Time My Voice Went Up to the United Nation |
| 10.25.04 (8:01 am) [edit] |
I have said in an other thread that I hate celebrity and I dismantled a former financial site i owned
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=317365" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=317365" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
At least during this period of little celebrity I had the advantage that my audience was touching a large public and incidently also influential public among financial journalists that were receiving my posts.
So one day I heard on the first Business radio in France that the so called United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was emitting a report asking for more taxation so as Developped Countries could benefit from Internet also. I then protested in a message I sent to my audience that I doubted it was for Humanitarian purpose and that it was rather a pretext since previous time they already tried unsuccessfully with taxing each Megabyte of Internet 42 Francs (about 7 Euros) under the sole pretext that it was still much cheaper than the Minitel a french information network.
A journalist from this same Business radio enquiried and discovered that the report was a lobbying from a German Telecom so that Unesco had to make excuse and retired the report.
But how do I know that I caused this ? Because a few months later I met the same journalist who reveals to me that he received my post about that :). I learnt also other funny stories I will tell on other occasions.
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| What if your Dog or Cat wanted to be free :) |
| 10.25.04 (6:47 am) [edit] |
I don't have any Dog or Cat although I love them.
If I had one, I would wonder if he would reproach me that I want to keep it at home instead of letting him go where he wants :)
Now transpose to the Aristocracy who dominate the World. Maybe they think like that: we are like animals for them and it would be weird for them to "free" us :D
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| [The guardian] "Neo-Nazi leader 'was MI6 agent' " |
| 10.25.04 (6:25 am) [edit] |
I post this news so as to correlate with the recent one I posted
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=316191" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=316191" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
"the highest levels of the Australian Government knows about fake terrorism"
From guardian.co.uk/international/story/0, 3604,773568,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.guardian.co.uk/int...,3604,773568,00.html
Neo-Nazi leader 'was MI6 agent'
John Hooper in Berlin
Tuesday August 13, 2002
The Guardian
Germany's most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources.
The alleged agent - the late Adolf von Thadden - came closer than anyone to giving the far-right real influence over postwar German politics.
Under his leadership, the National Democratic party (NPD) made a string of impressive showings in regional elections in the late 60s, and there were widespread fears that it would gain representation in the federal parliament.
Yet, according to a report earlier this year in the Cologne daily, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the man dubbed "the New Führer" was working for British intelligence throughout the four years he led the NPD, from 1967 to 1971.
However, a former senior officer in German intelligence told the Guardian this week that he had been informed of a much longer-standing link between Von Thadden and British intelligence. His recollection raises the question of whether the German far-right-winger was under the sway of M16 when he and others founded the NPD in 1964.
Dr Hans Josef Horchem, who was the head of the Hamburg office of the Verfassungsschutz - the West German security service - from 1969 to 1981, said he received regular visits from British intelligence liaison officers.
"We held general discussions on security. At one of these - I think it was towards the end of the 70s- they said, 'Adolf von Thadden was in contact with us', and that that was in the 1950s". Mr Horchem did not know whether the links between the German and British intelligence had continued into the 60s and 70s.
According to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, whose report passed virtually unnoticed when it was published, the neo-Nazi leader met his British contact at a hotel in Hamburg.
Germany's government is currently trying to ban the NPD on the basis that its policies violate the constitution.
But the government's case is in danger of collapse after the disclosure that some senior NPD members were agents of the Verfassungsschutz. This has sparked debate about the extent to which counter-intelligence officers were sustaining the far right in their efforts to monitor it. Similar issues arise in Von Thadden's case.
The question also arises of whether MI6 was seeking help from the neo-Nazi movement when far-left militancy was sweeping Europe after the uprising of May 1968 in Paris.
Von Thadden left the NPD in 1975, and died at the age of 75 in 1996.
His younger sister, Barbara Fox von Thadden, said she had had no reason to suspect her brother worked for British intelligence. But she added that they had very different political views and steered away from political discussion.
They had an English grandmother, and Ms Fox von Thadden said her brother "did like coming to Britain, and did like Britain very much".
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| Why rightists cannot believe that America is imperialist |
| 10.25.04 (5:32 am) [edit] |
Typically a Rightist thinks that America is indeed acting for delivering the World and so will oppose more or less violently any Leftist that asserts the contrary.
Sometimes a Rightist can recognise his hypocrisis like this guy http://www.tblog.com/template... but most won't or keep a facade to hide their own doubt and even sincerely believe what they say.
It's true that it seems inconceivable that America which is democratic inside could be imperialist outside so that Imperialism would be just an appearance or a subjective interpretation of some inevitable and unhappy side-effects of war. As Jensen remarked in the Frontpagemag's debate ( http://www.tblog.com/template...):
"I talk often about this contradiction in the United States: Internally, there has been considerable progress toward creating a more humane society, though the project is flawed and incomplete. At the same time, the United States has murdered and destroyed around the world. A friend of mine who grew up outside the United States said that she and her political allies abroad always assumed that, given the brutality of U.S. conduct in foreign policy, that the United States must be an incredibly repressive society internally. She was surprised to discover that it was a fairly free and open place. It was hard to reconcile, she said, that domestic reality with the ugliness of U.S. foreign policy. That’s one of the paradoxes of this country."
Some Leftists would pretend that America is not even democratic but let's admit that America's people enjoy much more democracy than any other country in the World so in this sense it is "democratic".
Now let's come back to the question of Imperialism. Is it only an appearance ? People can discuss during 1000 years about that it will just stay opinions and not factual proofs. So I'm not gonna refer to opinions any more. I'm gonna to refer to writings of some High Rank Gov official who was in charge of Foreign Policy.
The guy I'm gonna refer to is Brezinski. This guy when in Gov's administration, was responsible of pushing Ben Laden to the position of Power in CIA, this guy is also at the head of the Trilateral Commission which has been founded by David Rockfeller - the Rockfeller controls the Council Of Foreign Relation (CFR) which is a big Think Tank officially (financed with a lot of People Tax Money :) ) but insiders or let's say bad tongues assert that it is the CFR and not the President that really creates Foreign Policy. And if you know that Brezinski acted during a leftist Presidency, this shows at least that the President has not much power on a neo-facist-communist guy like him. I cannot qualify him with another word when his Philosophy is as revealed - not by some imaginative journalist but - by using his own writings:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html" title="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html" target="_blank"http://www.fromthewilderness....
In his book the Grand ChessBoard Brezinski asserts this :
"the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being." (p.35)
"Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
"...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals" (p.40)
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I have put the words that prove Imperialism in RED, and it is his own words, and it is a guy that is not an obscure powerless guy, but a guy who is at the head of one of the most powerfull international organisation acting officially for "cooperation" but now you know what this term really means.
After that pretending that American Government - which I distinguish from America's People - is not conducting an Imperialist Policy would be really hypocrisis. And it can happen not only under Bush but also under any Leftist Gov, in fact did people remember that it was under Clinton than the first Irak War was commited ? As I said I won't put responsability on Clinton as I contend that it is the Administration that conducts the real policy and use the President only as a Front what I mean is that Leftists should be as vigileant with a leftist President than with a Rightist President. They seem to forget that using Honey Miel is a much efficient way to pass the most horrible things and Geostrategists like Brezinski clearly does not ignore this psychological factor. If a leftist faints to ignore this he is as hypocrit as his opponent.
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| [AFP 10/2004] Kenyan Nobel peace laureate claims AIDS virus deliberately created |
| 10.24.04 (6:01 pm) [edit] |
Kenyan Nobel peace laureate claims AIDS virus deliberately created
AFP: 10/9/2004
on news.yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/af p/20041009/hl_afp/nobel_k enya_maathai_aids_0410092 15233" title="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/af p/20041009/hl_afp/nobel_k enya_maathai_aids_0410092 15233" target="_blank"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tm...
AFP
Kenyan Nobel peace laureate claims AIDS virus deliberately created
Sat Oct 9, 5:52 PM ET
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NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, reiterated her claim that the AIDS (news - web sites) virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
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"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet," Maathai told a press conference in Nairobi a day after winning the prize for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation across Africa.
"It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq (news - web sites)," she said.
"We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare," said Maathai, also Kenyan deputy environment and natural resources minister, who has gained a reputation as a fearless speaker.
"In fact it (the HIV virus (news - web sites)) is created by a scientist for biological warfare," she added.
"Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious," Maathai added.
Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million people across the world infected with HIV (news - web sites), and the vast majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS (news - web sites) estimates.
The United States on Friday congratulated Maathai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but tempered its praise over her claims about AIDS.
"She said (HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West," a senior State Department official said. "We don't agree with that."
The official pointed to a report of those comments published in August in Kenya's daily Standard newspaper, in which Maathai was quoted as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.
"We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to the primitive people," the Standard quoted Maathai as telling a public workshop in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri on August 30.
"They have the resources to do this."
"AIDS (is) not a curse from God to Africans or the black people," she said, according to the paper's account of the meeting published a day later.
"It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did."
"Why is the rest of the world just watching, doing nothing while Africans are being wiped out? The rest of the world has abandoned us," Maathai said in this Saturday's issue of Standard.
Maathai, 64, was honored by the Nobel committee for standing at the "front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa."
In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, the largest tree-planting project in Africa aimed at promoting biodiversity and at the same time creating jobs and giving women a stronger identity in society.
Voted Time Magazine's "Hero of the Planet" in 1998 and a household name in her country, Maathai has vowed to use the cash award that comes with the award to promote her environment campaigns.
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| "When Even Mathematicians Don't Understand the Maths" By SUSAN KRUGLINSKI of the New York Times |
| 10.24.04 (3:22 pm) [edit] |
When Even Mathematicians Don't Understand the Maths
By SUSAN KRUGLINSKI of the New York Times
To most of us, smudgy white mathematical scrawls covering a blackboard epitomize incomprehensibility. The odd symbols and scattered numerals look like a strange language, and yet to read them, neurologists tell us, we would have to use parts of our brains that have nothing to do with what we normally think of as reading and writing.
Math and physics writers are the interpreters of this unconventional language. Their books, when written for a popular audience, may reach thousands of intrepid readers who barely made it past Algebra II. The abstract concepts they translate seep into the mainstream through books like "The Golden Ratio" (its ideas are featured in "The DaVinci Code") or "The Millennium Problems." Sometimes they even make the best-seller lists.
And yet much of this subject matter confounds even mathematicians and physicists, as they use math to calculate the inconceivable, undetectable, nonexistent and impossible.
So what does it mean when mainstream explanations of our physical reality are based on stuff that even scientists cannot comprehend? When nonscientists read about the strings and branes of the latest physics theories, or the Riemann surfaces and Galois fields of higher mathematics, how close are we to a real understanding? Despite the writer's best metaphors and analogies, what is lost in translation?"
It is a bit like trying to explain football to people who not only have no understanding of the word 'ball,' but are also rather hazy about the concept of the game, let alone the prestige attached to winning the Super Bowl," wrote Dr. Ian Stewart, professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick in England, in an email message.
Asked if there exist mathematical concepts that defy explanation to a popular audience, Dr. Stewart, author of "Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So" replied: "Oh, yes - possibly most of them. I have never even dared to try to explain noncommutative geometry or the cohomology of sheaves, even though both are at least as important as, say, chaos theory or fractals."
Dr. Keith Devlin, a mathematician at Stanford University and author of "The Millennium Problems," which tries to describe the most challenging problems in mathematics today, admits defeat in his last and most impenetrable chapter, where he is forced to interpret something called the Hodge conjecture. He suggests to readers, "If you find the going too hard, then the wise strategy might be to give up."
The Hodge conjecture deals not only with cohomology classes, a complicated group construct, but involves algebraic varieties, which Dr. Devlin describes as generalizations of geometric figures that really do not have any shape at all. "Those equations represent things that not only can we not visualize, we can't even imagine being able to visualize them," he said. "They are beyond visualization." This difficulty points to a math truism that ultimately framed his entire project."
What the book was really saying was, 'You're not going to understand what this problem is about as a layperson, but neither will the experts,' '' he said, adding, "The story is that mathematics has reached a stage of such abstraction that many of its frontier problems cannot be understood even by the experts."
At the same time, higher math is used to decipher the existence and composition of the world. But how can it make sense that a nearly unintelligible language can explain the physical world?
In his densely packed, and best-selling, tome on physics, "Fabric of the Cosmos," Dr. Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist, distills the dizzying calculations of quantum physics and string theory, invoking images of flowing time and textured space that should not necessarily be taken literally. "These translations by design suppress a huge amount of technical machinery that underlies the everyday English description," he said. "I would say that there's absolutely always something lost in the translation."
Dr. Devlin noted that the familiar model of the atom - a nucleus of protons and neutrons orbited by electrons - was long obsolete. "Yet physicists can successfully use that image of the solar system model with its rotating billiard balls," he said. "It's the same with string theory. I mean, give me a break - they're not little loops of string! For one thing, they're in 11 dimensions."
Like Dr. Devlin, Dr. Greene is straightforward about the impossibility of explaining certain abstractions. But he thinks there is enough graspable material in the mathematics of physics to depict just about anything. About string theory, for example, he said: "The equations that govern a violin string are pretty close to the equations that govern the strings we talk about in string theory. So although the notion of strings is metaphorical, it's pretty close."
He added, "I suspect that the overarching aim of most every mathematical study can be described, even if you can't get to the guts."
But if science writers described breakthroughs in genetics or zoology in terms of overarching aims and not concrete facts, readers would question the foundations of that field. That lay readers and scientists alike accept that they will never wrap their heads around much of higher math is evidence that it is a world unto itself.
In fact, it is difficult to explain what math is, let alone what it says. Math may be seen as the vigorous structure supporting the physical world or as a human idea in development. Some mathematicians say it is not in the same category as biology, astronomy or geology. While those fields have empirical systems of experimentation and discovery, some might say mathematicians rely on something more intuitive."
It isn't science," said Dr. John L. Casti, the author of "Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics and Why They Matter." "Mathematics is an intellectual activity - at a linguistic level, you might say - whose output is very useful in the natural sciences. I think the criteria that mathematicians use for what constitutes good versus bad mathematics is much more close to that of a poet or a sculptor or a musician than it is to a chemist."
And just as one cannot define what it is that makes a moving phrase played on a violin moving, the essence of the superb equation may also be ineffable.
This makes for a frustrating human dilemma. Our brains have the ability to compute the abstract mathematics they created to construct theories about reality, and yet they may never be smart enough to comprehend those theories, let alone explain them.
Despite his and his colleagues' tireless efforts, Dr. Greene concedes that this paradox ultimately makes sense.
"Our brains evolved so that we could survive out there in the jungle," he said. "Why in the world should a brain develop for the purpose of being at all good at grasping the true underlying nature of reality?"
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| The election is not important it's after that is important: what will happen for World's Peace ? |
| 10.24.04 (12:11 pm) [edit] |
People concentrate on elections, after that one camp will be greedy, the other will be crying as if it was an olympic game. Once the game is passed electors tend to return to complacency.
My question is about peace in the world whoever is elected, it's an illusion to think that the President really decides because it's the administration and the Council of Foreign Relation that really dictate politics : the President is just like the Pharaon he is used as a Symbol for representation in front of the People.
As I said a few months ago, there is rumor in a geostrategic newsletter (see http://www.tblog.com/template...) that war would be intensified after elections. If Bush wins, this - yet hypothetical - intensification would be naturally opposed by the leftists, but if Kerry wins, they would be too excited by the elections result to realise that Kerry can just conduct the world to a IIIrd world war as he would be able to rally more other countries in the world than Bush would be capable to. So I'm not sure if strategically speaking, Kerry is better for world peace as there would be no real opposition to war.
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| My brother is atheist, I am agnostic |
| 10.24.04 (9:35 am) [edit] |
In the thread "What you resist will persist"
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=320474" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=320474" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
a guy recognised his own hypocrisis trying to convert others to his own opinion.
As for me it's a long time I don't try. I'm saying certain things and they go into the ears of those who want to hear them or they don't go. If what I'm saying is not heard well I stop, that's why I have quitted trading forums. And I will do the same here if I feel that it is worthless. At least here I can say what I want without being interrupted all the time.
It's the same thing with my brother. I love my brother but It doesn't prevent me from being objective. He is one of the most stubborn guy you can encounter :). We have both scientific educations and he became atheist whereas I'm neutral that is to say agnostic. My opinion is that Religion as professed by many is often intellectual slothery and their moral justification makes me sick (like the one I can read here http://www.creationism.org/cs...) nevertheless this doesn't mean that I reject the potential existence of some spiritualities whereas he totally rejects that idea with such violence than I just avoid to discuss with him that kind of subject.
I think that only time can mature somebody. Myself I have evolved with time. What I think and say today is the result of a long process.
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| Small Ethical Investment Fund harassed by Regulator |
| 10.24.04 (7:12 am) [edit] |
This is an example to show how Gov's Power Regulation is used by Corporate World to kill real wealth creation. So asking for more regulation is not the practical solution to have more ethics if there is no counter-power and there is none today in financial world since these regulators are the supreme judges !
From Australian Newspaper theage.com.au
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/19/10 90089095912.html?oneclick=true" title="http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/19/10 90089095912.html?oneclick=true" target="_blank"http://theage.com.au/articles...
"Like the old Peter Sellers film The Mouse That Roared, where a tiny nation declared war on the US, Australia's first ethical superannuation fund has launched an unprecedented attack on the industry's powerful regulator.
The pint-size Foresters ANA fund, from its office in an old Queensland weatherboard in the Brisbane suburb of Nundah, yesterday accused the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority of bullying and harassment.
Foresters ANA, which funds kindergartens, housing co-operatives, women's refuges and other community groups, is a financial minnow, turning over $10 million a year in a superannuation industry pool of $550 billion.
It claims APRA is trying to hound its small-time operation out of existence, despite ANA making a good profit in each of its 11 years of existence and never once holding a bad loan.
Foresters director Paul Rees said APRA could not tolerate the fund "ideologically" because it disregarded the stock exchange as the focus for generating wealth. Mr Rees said APRA had barred the fund from accepting new members above its 1000-member cap; stopped it from making mutually beneficial and profitable loans to community groups; forced it to employ expensive consultants; and kept it under almost perpetual review.
"We recorded growth rates of 5 per cent over the past three years when the big funds recorded losses as the stock exchanges faltered. We go for long-term, consistent growth, not the boom-and-bust cycles of the big funds. And that is what APRA don't like. They say we do not get the best return for our members. Well, that's not true. We do," Mr Rees said.
He said APRA has reviewed ANA five times in 10 years - twice since 2003. He said APRA's targeting of ANA contrasted with their "spectacular failures" in regulating large financial institutions, such as HIH. "While other funds have gambled and lost their money on the international share market, we've invested in community kindergartens, disability groups, community credit unions, housing co-ops, community legal centres and domestic violence services."
Mr Rees said many could not join ANA because APRA refused to enlarge its 1000-member cap. This meant ANA could not defray administrative costs across a broader base.
An APRA spokesman yesterday denied harassing ANA, saying it had a responsibility to investors to ensure that funds complied with superannuation laws."
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| A reason for me to still hope |
| 10.24.04 (5:21 am) [edit] |
I don't hope anymore from the politicians and above all from the super elites that stand behind the left and the right parties and make the political leaders behave like puppets. So I can only try to hope from people but as they are brainwashed so easily by the former groups, I feel that things are going to the drain also. Hoping only is worthless and even dangerous, I wanna see some real signs that my hope is not a pure fantasy because if it is I will stop and do something else.
Happily I read this article from an unknown guy (see below) and this gives me some regain of faith in people's capability, that they remember that the purpose in politics is not to win or lose like in boxing game, the purpose in politics is to make a better world and so don't systematically take offense on everything an opponent tells you: on the contrary only the opponent can see the straw in your own eyes and so improves your thought process.
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"I posted an article some time ago in which I attempted to point out the hypocrisy of the leftist argument over Imperialism as it applied to the U.S. Leftists for years have argued and railed against the "Imperialist Swine" in America. In a classic knee-jerk fashion I composed a lengthy "rebuttal" to the idea that America was an imperialist nation. And of course hit the post button immediately, as one is wont to do in a fit of anger. Several hours after that post, a nagging feeling crept over me. What of Serbia, Iraq, Sudan and Kosova? What had I been thinking? How was it possible to argue that America wasn't Imperialist? I was dead wrong and it was mainly because I was more interested in making my "opponent" wrong than actually having an honest debate. I got to thinking about my own actions. How effective could that essay have been? How persuasive was it? How indicative was that essay of the rest of my political "debating" tactics? The sad fact is, I have spent the better part of my life, making liberals "wrong." In so doing I don’t think I’ve converted a single liberal to any cause I’ve championed and daresay I’ve simply eliminated what communication and common goals that could exist between myself and my liberal friends. You are probably familiar with the situation. In my case I visit my liberal family member or friend and basically avoid talking politics because otherwise it gets really ugly.
Now I'm still a hypocrite. Old habits are hard to break. But I have really started to wonder about how politics are enacted at the personal level. We know how it works on the national level. But in our living rooms and offices and churches it's a different world. You can't win people over by insulting them. And you would quickly find yourself alone (or in a hospital) if that was how you dealt with people face to face.
Two thousand years ago Jesus said, "…turn the other cheek." I remember when I first read those words. How literally I imagined them (ouch). As I grow older I believe I am beginning to understand exactly what Jesus meant. At the time it seemed so wimpy to me. I mean, that might have been great advice for a disciple. But this here is America. We have rights and taking crap isn't something we have to do here.…blah blah blah….I think that the idea Jesus was teaching was that fighting or resisting simply creates more resistance to yourself. What you resist will persist. Now, some people think that they're saying the same by using the cliche " using honey is more effective than using vinegar," but I hate that saying. It smacks of manipulation. As if when we argue or try to educate the only thing we want is to have things turn out our way. People aren't stupid. They know when you're pandering."
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| "What you resist will persist" |
| 10.24.04 (5:12 am) [edit] |
This is not from me but from an unknown guy who has grown mentally and recognised his error.
"What you resist will persist"
I posted an article some time ago in which I attempted to point out the hypocrisy of the leftist argument over Imperialism as it applied to the U.S. Leftists for years have argued and railed against the "Imperialist Swine" in America. In a classic knee-jerk fashion I composed a lengthy "rebuttal" to the idea that America was an imperialist nation. And of course hit the post button immediately, as one is wont to do in a fit of anger. Several hours after that post, a nagging feeling crept over me. What of Serbia, Iraq, Sudan and Kosova? What had I been thinking? How was it possible to argue that America wasn't Imperialist? I was dead wrong and it was mainly because I was more interested in making my "opponent" wrong than actually having an honest debate. I got to thinking about my own actions. How effective could that essay have been? How persuasive was it? How indicative was that essay of the rest of my political "debating" tactics? The sad fact is, I have spent the better part of my life, making liberals "wrong." In so doing I don’t think I’ve converted a single liberal to any cause I’ve championed and daresay I’ve simply eliminated what communication and common goals that could exist between myself and my liberal friends. You are probably familiar with the situation. In my case I visit my liberal family member or friend and basically avoid talking politics because otherwise it gets really ugly.
Now I'm still a hypocrite. Old habits are hard to break. But I have really started to wonder about how politics are enacted at the personal level. We know how it works on the national level. But in our living rooms and offices and churches it's a different world. You can't win people over by insulting them. And you would quickly find yourself alone (or in a hospital) if that was how you dealt with people face to face.
Two thousand years ago Jesus said, "…turn the other cheek." I remember when I first read those words. How literally I imagined them (ouch). As I grow older I believe I am beginning to understand exactly what Jesus meant. At the time it seemed so wimpy to me. I mean, that might have been great advice for a disciple. But this here is America. We have rights and taking crap isn't something we have to do here.…blah blah blah….I think that the idea Jesus was teaching was that fighting or resisting simply creates more resistance to yourself. What you resist will persist. Now, some people think that they're saying the same by using the cliche " using honey is more effective than using vinegar," but I hate that saying. It smacks of manipulation. As if when we argue or try to educate the only thing we want is to have things turn out our way. People aren't stupid. They know when you're pandering.
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| The kind of debates on Frontpagemag I dislike : "The Left's Hatred of Bush" |
| 10.24.04 (4:06 am) [edit] |
That's a kind of silly debates I dislike "The Left's Hatred of Bush"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=15538&p=1" title="http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=15538&p=1" target="_blank"http://www.frontpagemag.com/a...
Why not "The Right's Hatred of Kerry" ?
This kind of "debates" is just focusing people on Persons instead of their respective political program. And each time it comes down mainly to oppose Capitalism and Marxism, this is so predictable that I don't even need to read these kind of articles or watch TV.
As I said in Philosophical section http://www.tblog.com/template...
using Binary Logic only is dangerous when it is not suitable. The repetition again and again of confrontation between Capitalism and Marxism by journalists, that they are from Left or Right, has this perverse effect of making people psychologically integrate that these two systems are the only possible - binary - choices. Politics is a complex system and as such allows a combinatorial number of choices and not only these two extremes. Moreover in Science of Chaos Theory it is established that system oscillating in chaotic way after reaching one extreme will tend to reverse to the other extreme.
It may be that this chaotic scientific process is used by the super neocon elites: they don't care about what kind of extreme a society reaches because in one case or the other they will profit. What they care about is that the system doesn't stay in harmonic equilibrium : this is what I learnt from the Trading's World - frequenting it for almost ten years and getting growingly angry with it. The traders don't care if the market is up or down (because when the market is down they can short it, that is to say they sell what they don't own by borrowing stocks, which you cannot do in real world with real assets at least for the common people), what they care about is that the market is VOLATILE - in great oscillating chaotic state - that's what engenders the greatest and easiest profit for them whereas a market in equilibrium is a much less profitable market (in fact most lose money in such market due to, what is called in their jargon, whipsawing effect).
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| The United Nations is controlled by the super neocons: the leftists shouldn't be dupe ! |
| 10.23.04 (3:03 pm) [edit] |
As I said in a post the New York Times has revealed the biggest bribery of several billions
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=308713" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=308713" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
which involved at the very head Koffi Ahnan, his son and the biggest banking french institution the BNP.
It is clear that the bigger the centralisation of Power, the bigger the corruption - and war/genocide as instruments to support this corruption. If one remember previous period, the United Nations was directed by a former Nazi Kurt Waldem. It isn't possible that the past of this guy could be ignored by secret services so many years so why did they let him run the United Nations ?
And now thanks to revelation of mainstream medias like NBC/CBS and New York Times, Bush and Kerry are known to be both running for the interests of the Militaro-Industrial-Compl ex which hide behind the Skull and Bones Society:
[begin of quotes]
from msnbc.msn.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4500423" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4500423" target="_blank"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4...
"It's one of the nation's most powerful secret societies. And while little is known about Skull and Bones, one thing is known: One of them will be elected president in November. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reports.
Pres. Bush and John Kerry were both members of the secret organization ‘Skull and Bones.’ ‘Temporary’ was Pres. Bush’s nickname under the group, and if he winds up losing the presidential election this fall, that name is going to haunt him the rest of his life.
‘Skull and Bones’ dates to 1832."
from msnbc.msn.com 60 minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60 minutes/main576332.shtml" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60 minutes/main576332.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...
Skull And Bones
June 13, 2004
"(CBS) As opposite as George Bush and John Kerry may seem to be, they do share a common secret - one they've shared for decades, and one they will not share with the electorate.
The secret: details of their membership in Skull and Bones, the elite Yale University society whose members include some of the most powerful men of the 20th century."
From New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins
http://www.secretsofthetomb.com" title="http://www.secretsofthetomb.com" target="_blank"http://www.secretsofthetomb.c...
"the 2004 Presidential election might showcase the first time each ticket has been led by a Bonesman. The secret society now, as one historian admonishes, is "'an international mafia' . . . unregulated and all but unknown." In its quest to create a New World Order that restricts individual freedoms and places ultimate power solely in the hands of a small cult of wealthy, prominent families, Skull and Bones has already succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major research, policy, financial, media, and government institution in the country. Skull and Bones, in fact, has been running the United States for years.
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The knights (as the student members are called) learn quickly that their allegiance to the society must supercede all else - family, friendships, country, God.
Skull and Bones provided financial backing to Adolf Hitler because the society then followed a Nazi - and now follows a neo-Nazi - doctrine"
[End of quotes]
So even if Kerry wins he has to show fidelity to the Skull Society: already he is used to sell the United Nations to the people of America !
The United Nations is polishing his image of humanitarian as long as they don't have full power, but when people will accept to give up their power and concentrate them to the UN without any election, it is no more democracy and abuse will arise: what else can you expect from the super neocon elites ?
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| [Quote of the day] The obsolete and new sense of ARISTOCRACY |
| 10.23.04 (9:49 am) [edit] |
From the now familiar Ambroise Bierce :)
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/a.html" title="http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/a.html" target="_blank"http://www.alcyone.com/max/li...
ARISTOCRACY, n.
Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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| The danger of Binary Logic |
| 10.23.04 (9:13 am) [edit] |
In previous post "Do you care about subtlety of life ?"
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=319074" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=319074" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
I have commented Einstein's quote
"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
pointing out the danger of SIMPLISM which is OVERsimplification as well in fact as OVERcomplication - which I omitted to say.
The most encountered case is everyday life and even in science is the use of only BINARY LOGIC. This is the only logic that people usually learnt at school: in this logic something is either true or false, as mathematicians say in their jargon "tertium non datur" (excluding intermediate value), whereas in high level mathematics you can learn more than just binary logic. There are for example ternary logic, quaternary logic etc. or fuzzy logic to quote only the most well known.
One often omits that this logic is based on the premisce that there is only two values that opposes each other. But this premisce, by its very definition, can just be false since it is an HYPOTHESIS.
A significant example is the false opposition between randomness and determinism by supposing that RANDOMNESS means NOT DETERMINISTIC whereas it was discovered recently by mathematicians that the decimal of PI number can be formulated by a deterministic function (see http://www.tblog.com/template...) and so the randomness of its decimals is an appearance only, that determinism is the cause or engine that creates that randomness [*].
Once one realises that determinism is the engine behind randomness, that randomness is only a pure reification of human thought (in philosophy reification means that it's something that is abstract without no concrete existence by itself) then it is less paradoxical to understand new paradigm that emerges like the one exposed by Scientist like Stephan Wolfram http://www.tblog.com/template...
although one must stay cautious about the final claim that the World would be a kind of Super Computer (that is to say totally deterministic) it is not so strange any more in regard to the recent discovery about the number PI. Nevertheless this doesn't mean that the Creationists are right: determinism doesn't prove God per se, at least not the personified God of Religion :)
In Politics there is the same kind of dangerous binary logic that could prevent people to realise some truths but I will reserve the discussion in politics thread rather.
[*] See also comment I added http://www.tblog.com/template... in answer to RealSpartacus
I will point just point that this mathematical discovery is a step further than what Chaos Theory says, because Chaos Theory was only saying that Determinism can engender an APPEARANCE of Randomness but it couldn't deny that Pure Randomness couldn't exist because Nature like precisely the Decimals of Number PI seems to be random according to some statistical tests. But with this discovery, there is the proof than the decimals are not random in classical sense, so the concept of randomness would be just a sociological or antropomorphic invention.
The proof is not complete as one would need to demonstrate that all constants of Universe is like the PI number but as constants are connected it is probable that these constants follow the same properties than the number PI. I let physicians/mathematicians make the ultimate verification.
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| [News] Millions of Japanese Sucked into World of 'Dark Money': same risk for americans in ten years |
| 10.22.04 (4:45 pm) [edit] |
This is how millions of japenese unaware middle / upper class were trapped by credits. This is what risk to happen to unaware american middle / upper class when the US Stock Market will plunge with Baby Boom Retirement. Getting rid of your debts before the ten coming years would be prudential.
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Millions of Japanese Sucked into World of 'Dark Money'
Korea Herald
January 28, 2003
TOKYO (AFP) -Toru Okada, 50, had a well-paid job at a top tier Japanese bank until a friend defaulted on debts five years ago and pulled him into a world of "yamikin."
As his friend's guarantor, Okada, not his real name, saw his 600,000 yen ($5,085) a month salary heavily pared down by debt repayments.
When the bank found out about the problem, they asked him to retire to avoid any messy entanglements.
Before filing, for bankruptcy last year, Okada had racked up 11.8 million yen in debts, piling up loans to pay for previous ones from consumer finance firms which legally charge 29.2 percent in interest, and from illegal "yamikin" loan sharks, whose rates reach thousands of percent.
"This is an entirely typical case," said Okada's bankruptcy lawyer, Kenshi Nishida.
Nishida estimates there are three to four mi1lion others in Japan like Okada, a "reserve army" of those on the brink of bankruptcy whose debt payments take up over half of their monthly incomes.
"These are people who have no choice but to borrow more to pay off their loans. And their debts are just increasing," he said.
Worse than consumer creditors are "yamikin" operators, Nishida said, who call up troubled borrowers based on leaked financial data and offer to transfer money into their accounts at such exorbitant rates as 10,000 yen in interest on a 30,000 yen loan - due in 10 days.
Debt collectors embarrass and intimidate borrowers by turning up at their to place of work, call in the middle of the night, or worse, Nishida said.
"I have had clients who have been virtually kidnapped. Females have been taken and forced into prostitution. And these people tell them 'this is how you will work off your debts' without batting an eyelid," he said, adding that Okada is one of 500 clients with similar problems.
The rush to lending has helped push up the number of personal bankruptcies filed at courts across Japan in 2001 to 160,457 cases, a 125 percent increase from five years earlier, according to the Supreme Court.
"They are delving into new markets all the time, and competition is very fierce. In other words, the lending rush is on."
According to the Japan Consumer Finance Association, despite the slumping economy, outstanding loans by 93 member companies rose by 54.9 percent to 6.39 trillion yen as of March 2001 from five years ago.
Defaults on those loans have stayed a steady 3.1 percent from 2000 to 2001, while legal intervention on behalf of troubled borrowers fell from 2.2 to 2.1 percent of all cases. Personal bankruptcy accounted for a steady 1.5 percent.
A spokesman for a major consumer credit firm said lawyers themselves and the poor economy are to blame for the increase, not lenders. An October 2000 law that allowed lawyers to openly advertise their services invited more loan defaults, he said.
"We believe the advertisement law change is the trigger to the increase in personal bankruptcies," said the spokesman.
"In the past, people used to be quite reserved about resorting to lawyers to solve their problems, but now it has become very easy."
Many of Japan's 18,850 lawyers admit their businesses are booming due to the increased number of failures, corporate as well as personal.
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| Amazing Piece of Art |
| 10.22.04 (3:57 pm) [edit] |
Amazing Piece of Art - needed 720 hours of work or 2 months:
http://www.khulsey.com/demo_1howto.html" title="http://www.khulsey.com/demo_1howto.html" target="_blank"http://www.khulsey.com/demo_1...
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| Why people are always willing to be trapped in false debates ? |
| 10.22.04 (9:54 am) [edit] |
Saddam is a dictator there is absolutly no doubt about that. As such he is a dangerous man and if he could get nuclear weapons he would probably do it, this is only logical.
The fact that one couldn't prove today that he wouldn't have such weapons doesn't dismiss that he could have them in the future. It's just a question of time and it suffices that he pays some countries to get them like Russia.
But it is a superficial debate to have gone after him or not. The fundamental debate should be rather: why the United States systematically make sabotage of true democratic leaders like Salvador Allende whereas they promote numerous dictators from Saddam to Ben Laden by putting them in position of power and after that pretend that they are dangerous ? If they pretend to be willing to be proactive by going after Saddam, then they should be proactive by not putting these dictators at all from the start !
I know all the more so that I have knowledge of what is happening in some developped countries through personal knowledge of NGO guys: there are true democrats leaders in these countries who could really conduct their country towards the path of real development, but they can't because the United States as well as the European Union and the United Nations support explicitely the corrupted ones. When I say explicitely I mean it: it is not by "accident" or "we can't help it" it's because they have made some financial contracts with these guys whereas the true democrats wouldn't accept such corruption. Those who have refused are discarded from power or assassinated.
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| I have great admiration for the Socialist Salvador Allende |
| 10.22.04 (6:57 am) [edit] |
because history through documents (declassified documents on purochile.org for example http://www.purochile.org/inde...) have shown that he really wanted true socialism. That's why he could not only find any financial support but was above all gravely undermined by the CIA and abandoned by Russia when he asked them some help to save his revolution.
I cannot say the same thing for Bolchevism in Russia which has been financed by the same Wall Street Bankers who also financed Nazism as revealed by historians like Antony Sutton (now dead recently) who dedicated his whole life to the biggest inquiries which still need to be widerly spreaded and one can find his two books either on Amazon or freely online here:
WALL STREET AND
THE RISE OF HITLER
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_stree t" title="http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_stree t" target="_blank"http://www.reformed-theology....
WALL STREET AND
THE BOLCHEVIK REVOLUTION
http://www.unilibrary.com/Sutton" title="http://www.unilibrary.com/Sutton" target="_blank"http://www.unilibrary.com/Sut...%2C%20Antony%20-%20Wall%2 0Street%20and%20the%20Bol shevik%20Revolution.pdf
Unfortanely the true martyrdom of Chili Socialism will serve the fake socialist revolution elsewhere that are driven by the same money power than so called Capitalism they faint to fight. Although the people at the base enter these revolutions sincerely the head of these fake revolutions know perfectely from whom they received the money and act for: not for the people but for the elitists war makers who need these revolutions and wars to make their biggest profits. No wonder why these revolutions turn after into dictatures or are destroyed when not needed any more since they have cashed the profits and will continue to cash during the reconstruction phase that follows the destruction phase. That's why they push a silly mantra - often heard in traders mouth:
"Order out of Chaos".
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| Do you care about subtlety of life ? |
| 10.22.04 (5:50 am) [edit] |
Einstein said:
"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
and Ambroise Bierce defines in his evil dictionary
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/q.html" title="http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/q.html" target="_blank"http://www.alcyone.com/max/li...
QUOTATION
"The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. "
So it strikes me when I hear some people refer to Einstein by pretending that "Everything should be made simple". Einstein didn't say that because if he wanted to say that well he would just have said effectively "Everything should be made simple" and not the lengthier sentense "Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
His second sentence is obviously LESS SIMPLER than the first sentence of some people refering to him so why did he COMPLEXIFY his sentence if he was only meaning "Everything should be made simple" : this would be nonsensical from a great genius like him :).
What Einstein was meaning is rather about SUBTLETY and the danger of SIMPLISM which you can find the definition in dictionary.com:
Simplism:
"The tendency to OVERsimplify an issue."
So he rather points the danger of making things TOO SIMPLE which is SIMPLISM or DEMAGOGY.
For example Politics or Religions want to make people think that they have SIMPLE solutions whereas they have only SIMPLIST ones that's why their solutions often don't work !
Is it so astonishing ? No because as everybody knows "Evil is in the details :twisted:"
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| [Quotes of the Day] Various quotes on Collectivism |
| 10.22.04 (4:36 am) [edit] |
Mussolini, in Doctrine of Fascism (1932):
'If the nineteenth was the century of the individual it may be expected that this one may be the century of "collectivism" and therefore the century of the State.'
John Davison Rockefeller I :
`The combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.'
Anthony C Sutton 1976 in
WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER
'It is in the pecuniary interests of the international bankers to centralise political power - and this centralisation can best be achieved within a collectivist society, such as socialist Russia, national socialist Germany, or a Fabian socialist United States.'
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| What's behind some well publicized "ecological" foundations like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) |
| 10.22.04 (3:59 am) [edit] |
This is an exerpt from Raymond Bonner writings a well reknowned reporter of New York Times (see his biography on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) which shows what's behind some well publicized ecological organisation like the "World Wildlife Fund":
At The Hand Of Man - The White Man's Game
Raymond Bonner
Prince Bernhard and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The White Man's Game pp. 66-71
To attract donors, large and small, as well as media attention, Nicholson, Scott and the founding fathers of WWF wanted the royal family to lend their name. They approached Prince Philip to be president. Philip was an avid outdoorsman and hunter—in January 1961 he had bagged a Bengal tiger in India—and he and Queen Elizabeth had been to Kenya, on a safari best remembered because King George VI died while they were watching wild animals and Princess Elizabeth had become Queen. Scott sent Philip a draft of the proposed charter. Philip read it carefully, replying that one provision was "unctuous," and another "to wordy." This careful reading was not what Scott hold expected. It is "a great bore that he suggests so much alteration," Scott wrote Nicholson. The founding fathers had wanted the Prince only as a figurehead. Philip agreed to head up the British chapter of WWF, but he turned down the presidency of the International and suggested his friend Prince Bernhard for the post. The men were alike in many ways. Both had been born into European royal families, but not very distinguished ones, and had acquired their status and string of titles when they married—Bernhard to the future Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. The two men were handsome, dashing, and staunchly conservative politically.
Scott, who liked consorting with royalty, made the pitch. "Prince Philip (who was sailing with me at Cowes in the 12 metre 'sceptre' on Saturday) . . . told me that he was very keen that you should 'head-up' the international Trustees," Scott wrote to Bernhard. "Please may I ask Your Royal Highness to say that you will be President of the Trustees of The World Wildlife Fund.'' Prince Bernhard he eventually said yes, and he served as president until 1976, when he was forced to resign after it became public that he had solicited more than a million dollars in 'commissions" from Lockheed in exchange for Lockheed's receiving contracts to build warplanes for the Netherlands. (At One point after the scandal broke, Bernhard said that he had intended to give the money from Lockheed to WWF; a member of the board at the time insists this is not true.
Bernhard remained active behind the scenes in WWF, but a couple of years after he resigned, Philip became president of the International, and though it was thought he would serve for only a few years, he is still in power. The Prince is a committed conservationist and he undoubtedly has given prestige and visibility to WWF around the world. At the same time, however, many in the Third World have questioned whether he is the right person to head an organisation that does most of its work in developing countries. At a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of state, most of them from the Third World and black, Philip said to an aide, "You wouldn't think the peace of the world rested on this lot, would you'?" on another occasion, he referred to the Chinese as "slitty-eyed."
WWF WAS SET UP to raise money, but in spite of the initial successes, it did not prove very effective. Nicholson had said that $1.5 million each year would be needed for conservation, which Scott thought he could easily raise; indeed, he anticipated coaxing $25 million from the rich. Scott discovered that socializing with the elite was one thing, getting them to part with their money quite another, and it was several years before the total of WWF's revenues reached $1 million.
WWF's financial fortunes began to change dramatically after a hard-driving South African businessman, Anton Rupert, joined the board. An Afrikaaner from the Cape, Rupert had already made millions as the owner of Rothmans International tobacco company, the foundation of the Rembrandt Group, his wholly owned business empire. When Rupert expanded beyond South Africa, he bought Dunhill and Cartier, and eventually he became one of the richest men in South Africa, rivalled only by Harry Oppenheimer, the gold and diamond industrialist. Rupert had long been interested in conservation, including the restoration of historic buildings, and in 1968 he joined the WWF board of trustees; he stayed on the board for twenty-two years, ill spite of a provision in the organisation's original incorporation documents that limited members to two three-year terms, a provision that was routinely ignored for the benefit of several other influential members of the board as well. Rupert brought a considerable amount of his own money to WWF, but, more important, he conceived a plan that would raise millions
Rupert's idea was the "1001 Club" The "one" was Prince Bernhard The other one thousand were wealthy individuals who could be persuaded to part with $10,000. The one-time donation brings lifetime membership, and the names of the generous patrons are kept secret by the organisation. According to these secret lists, American givers have included August A Busch, Jr, of the beer company; Henry Ford II; Peter Grace; Nelson Bunker Hunt, the silver trader; Mrs Geoffrey Kent, of Abercrombie & Kent; Robert S. McNamara; Cyril Magnin; Lew Wasserman, of MCA; Thomas Watson, of IBM. Many of the donors understandably wish to remain anonymous (in part to avoid being badgered by other charities), but it is also understandable why WWF does not want the list made public. It has included many less savoury individuals—Zaire's President Mobutu, Sese Seko, one of the most corrupt leaders in Africa; Daniel K Ludwig, the reclusive American billionaire, whose companies destroyed thousands of miles of the Amazon rain forest; Agha Hasan Abedi, the founder of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCC1); Robert Vesco, the financier who fled the United States in the 1970s to escape trial on charges of fraud, embezzlement and obstruction of justice; Tibor Rosenbaum, founder of a Swiss bank that laundered billions of dollars of organised crime money and who was accused of embezzling Israeli deposits in the bank; Thomas Jones, who was forced out as chief executive of Northrop after it was revealed that the company paid $30 million in bribes to government officials and agents around the world in exchange for contracts; Lord Kagan, a British businessman convicted of theft and conspiracy to defraud the British tax service; a Norwegian shipowner convicted of taking a £1 million bribe; an individual who was the conduit for the money from Lockheed to Prince Bernhard.
There has been another remarkable feature about the 1001 Club—the number of South Africans. On the 1989 list, at least sixty individuals were from South Africa, including seven of Rupert's relatives. Many were also members of the Broederbond, the secret, conservative Afrikaaner society that has traditionally wielded immense political power in South Africa. Only five countries had more donors, and as a percentage of their population, South African whites had three hundred times as many members as the United States. It is easy to understand why so many South Africans have been willing to part with $10,000 to Join the 1001 and not all of it has to do with conservation. Not many international clubs welcomed white South Africans, and membership in the 1001 provided them an opportunity to mingle and do business with tycoons, as well as with Prince Philip and Prince Bernhard. What else they may have gained from the membership is unknown, in part because so much of what WWF-lnternational does is kept from the public and even from the organisation's own trustees. Because of the secrecy and closed nature of the WWF club, it is also difficult to know the extent of the influence that so much South African money has had on the organisation's conservation work. There can be little doubt, however, that WWF-International's initial opposition to the ivory ban reflected South African power on the board—South Africa was adamantly opposed to the ban, because its elephants were not being poached and it made money from selling ivory.
One place where South Africa's clout has been felt is in the office of the director-general, the man who runs WWF. Since 1977 that man has been Charles de Haes. Much of de Haes's past is vague, which seems to be by design: he has chosen to reveal very little about his background and some of what the organisation does say publicly about him is at odds with the facts. On WWF's public list of officers and trustees, de Haes is identified as being from Belgium, and he was born there, in 1938. But as a young boy, he moved with his family to South Africa. After graduating from Cape Town University with a law degree, he got a job with Rothmans International, Rupert's tobacco company. De Haes's Official resume—that is, the one WWF distributes—makes a point of noting that he went to work for the tobacco company "although himself a nonsmoker." It then says de Haes "helped establish companies" in Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. What it does not say is that these were companies that sold cigarettes. Maybe de Haes didn't smoke, but he made money by encouraging others to do so.
De Haes was brought to WWF through the back door by Anton Rupert in 1971. He was first assigned to be personal assistant to Prince Bernhard. One of his tasks was to implement the 1001 Club project. He was tremendously successful. Ten thousand dollars was worth even more back then, yet it took de Haes only three years to find one thousand donors. Prince Bernhard provided the letters of introduction, but de Haes was the salesman who clinched the deals. Even de Haes's fiercest critics—and they are many—use the word "brilliant" when describing his fund-raising skills.
In 1975, with the backing of Rupert and Prince Philip de Haes was named joint director-general of WWF, and two years later he had the top position to himself. De Haes had no education or experience in conservation, other than his few years at WWF, yet he was now in charge of the most prestigious and influential conservation organisation in the world. It was a position that would have appealed to the most qualified and eminent individuals in the field, yet no effort was made to recruit any of them.
WWF may have taken on someone without conservation experience, but then, it cost the organisation nothing: Rupert agreed to pay de Haes's salary—which, according to a British trustee, goes far in explaining why de Haes got the Job. WWF never said at the time that Rupert was paying de Haes, and it still tries to conceal this fact. The organisation's chief spokesman, Robert SanGeorge, stated emphatically during an interview in 1991 that de Haes had not been seconded from Rothmans to Prince Bernhard and WWF during the early years. But an internal WWF memorandum signed by the organisation's executive vice-president in 1975 talks specifically about "Mr. de Haes's period of secondment to WWF." What this means, of course, is that de Haes was still employed by a South African corporation while working for WWF. "I thought it was a scandal," says a former board member from North America, Who added that it was only by accident that he learned that Rupert was paying de Haes. This board member did not like the arrangement. "Who does the director general serve'? Is the interest of a South African tobacco company synonymous with the world conservation movement? Even more troubling to this director was the fact that it was kept a secret. "lf it was such a good thing, why weren't they willing to say so in the annual report?"
In a similar vein, the organisation treats as a state secret the question of who paid de Haes after he became director-general. It was "an anonymous donor" SanGeorge says. Even board members have been in the dark. When on occasion one asked, he was told that the donor wished to remain anonymous.
It is unlikely that any other charitable organisation that depends on public support operates with such little accountability and in such secrecy as WWF has under de Haes. It is easier to penetrate the CIA. And when WWF has been caught in embarrassing conducts it has engaged in damage control and cover-ups of the kind that might be expected from a company whose products have caused injury to consumers and the environment. Under rules de Haes promulgated, WWF employees are prohibited from talking to anyone outside the organization about anything except what the organisation has already made public; the obligation to secrecy binds the employee even after he or she has left WWF. Few are willing to break this code of silence—given their fear of de Haes and, in the case of current employees, the generous salaries and pleasant living conditions in Switzerland.
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From the same (cynical) Ambrose Bierce I quoted for the definition of POLITICS http://www.alcyone.com/max/li..., this is now his definition of HAPPINESS:
HAPPINESS, n.
"An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
-- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1913)
The Devil's Dictionary
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This is not really my conception of HAPPINESS but it's so funny (after all my blog is about "funny" discovery), and it may be not be false for some kind of people :).
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| [Quote of the day] Definition of Politics |
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POLITICS, n.
"A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
-- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1913)
The Devil's Dictionary
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Isn't it so true :D
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| [Book Exerpt] The Financial Village: the heart of Globalisation and Corruption by an Insider |
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http://www.arenes.fr/livres/page-livre1.php?numero_livre=4&num_pa ge=8&numero_sommaire=3
The Financial Village
The story I’m about to recount may seem hard to believe.
The story unravels in the heart of what’s commonly called the “Financial Planet,” the “Global Village”, but perhaps best called the “Financial Village.” In this seemingly impenetrable universe, information circulates at almost unreal speed. Its language is coded, decipherable only by insiders, and the rules are rarely written or communicable. Many of us outside this microcosm behave as if the speculations, mergers, and massive moving of funds at lightning speed have no concrete bearing on our lives. What most of us know is that bankers and brokers buy and sell securities. They let us know from time to time that all’s well. They have their own press, their own television shows, their specialized books, their stock market index and plenty of myths in the making.
To start off, a man from Luxembourg’s financial inner circle will serve as our guide.
I met Ernest Backes four years ago in a small office belonging to the Luxembourg Butcher’s Union. His old Ford Scorpio was parked in the lot outside. “So he drives a Ford Scorpio” was my first observation. The mileage counter read 300 000 kilometers. “That’s one solid Scorpio,” was the second thing that came to my mind. Backes was, I saw, an enigma, one with certain problematic traits. This Rosport sparkling water drinker spoke like a book. “You’re going to have to filter through what this one says,” I told myself. But I was wrong. What I’ve now understood leaves me gaping at the enormity of the situation.
Ernest Backes was born in 1946 in Trier, Germany where Karl Marx was also born. The similarities between the two men don’t stop here. Both are heavy set, bearded and likely to attack the interests of capitalism. Marx is obviously better known than Backes. But Backes is alive which, for our purposes, is an advantage. He’s alive, lucid and in possession of an excellent memory.
What follows is the story of an association of international banks located principally in England and in Luxembourg but also in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States and in a number of tax havens. Originally only a hundred or so of these banks were involved in the creation of this interbank cooperative. Recently, we’ve discovered a list of accounts revealing that the “cooperative” enlists more than two thousand banks representing more than one hundred countries and uses more than fifteen thousand listed accounts of which only half officially exist.
We’ll come back to these figures and to the unusual practice of carrying out international financial transactions without the actual presence of the parties concerned. Among the users of this system are bankers, investment firm managers, wealthy individuals looking for tax exemptions, policemen, heads of military secret services, CEOs of multinational corporations and the “men of straw” of offshore companies.
The pages that follow demonstrate that a system of concealment regarding bank operations was put into effect and backed by bank directors, financial managers, corporate managers and influential politicians. The system is perfectly organized, user friendly and still in operation.
The reasons for concealing international banking transactions are numerous. While a certain degree of dissimulation to maintain confidentiality in business transactions may be benign, concealment might also be used to cover up covert operations such as money laundering, insider trading, corruption and tax evasion. Hidden from the eyes of the market, tax departments, competitors and intelligence services, these transactions may be legal or barely legal.
They can also be entirely illegal.
We are calling into question this system’s users as well as its managers and administrators, both European or American, who make it possible for clients to transfer securities and funds covertly, and who themselves, have used the system to do the same.
This fraud could very well add up - if we had the means of calculating retroactively - to hundreds of billions of dollars. But never mind the colossal figures: what’s important here is to explain how a formerly healthy system, conceived to facilitate international banking transactions, has been put to other purposes.
Because these international transactions go undeclared, the system causes governments to lose significant tax revenue. Its other victims include millions of stock holders completely unaware of these practices and, of course, tax payers who end up, when all is said and done, footing the bill. We believe that this scandal is planetary though its source is possible to locate. One of the structures that we hold responsible for concealing and facilitating these practices has its headquarters and most of its offices in Luxembourg- City.
It should be mentioned that one of the important minds behind the conception of this project died a mysterious death in Corsica in 1983. His name was Gérard Soisson.
It should be mentioned that another man behind the initial project was Ernest Backes. For eighteen years he kept quiet, undoubtedly hoping that one day the story we are about to tell would be brought out into the open.
Only two international clearing houses liquidate the large majority of the Financial Planet’s international transactions.
Luxembourg, a small, quiet country in the heart of Europe known for its legendary discretion is home to two hundred and seventeen listed banks. Luxembourg with its royal family and its politicians getting ready for the European Union. Luxembourg and the unfailing American support it has benefited from since 1945. Luxembourg collapsing under the weight of dollars, euros, francs, yens, marks, and florins. Luxembourg and its 430 000 inhabitants. Luxembourg where in 1999, 554 billion dollars were invested in the stockmarket - four hundred times more than in the Bahamas, fifty times more than in the Channel Islands, twenty five times more than the Cayman Islands, six times more than in Bermuda, two times more than in Singapore, more than in Hong Kong... Most of Luxembourg’s citizens are unaware of what we’re revealing here, though unaware doesn’t necessarily mean “dupe.” It’s possible to ignore the details.
The financial structure we’re questioning has, since September 1999, gone by the name of Clearstream. Formerly it was called Cedel, an acronym meaning the central delivery office for transferable securities. Cedel was founded on September 28th 1970 in Luxembourg as one of two international clearing houses.
The other is called Euroclear and has its headquarters in Brussels.
We’re accustomed to saying and thinking that money, particularly the virtual money of bank computers, has no memory and moves at the speed of light from one account to another, from one fiscal haven to another. Without a trace of its trajectory.
This is false.
A majority of these incessant transactions are recorded in the accounting archives of these clearing houses. The difficulty resides in reading and interpreting the documents.
We are dealing with complete abstraction: money as such has not existed for some time.
But back to Ernest. At the time, I had just left the French newspaper Liberation, where I had worked for twelve years. I had also written a book relating my investigations in the heart of politico-financial affairs. Due to the nature of the book, its publication provoked the inevitable responses from paranoid conspiracy theorists and individuals victimized by the court system. I was contacted by a young man from Luxembourg, the son of the liberal parliament member René Mart, nephew of the former Minister of the Economy, Marcel Mart, and cousin of RTL television news reporter Caroline Mart. Marco Mart, as he is called, was stripped clean by one of the largest banks in Luxembourg, the International Bank. He has since been involved in a long, drawn-out court battle with the bank. Betrayed by his lawyers, abandoned by the public prosecutor, and cut off from his family since the death of his father, Marco Mart was helped by a mysterious consultant whose identity he kept from me. This silence piqued my curiosity. Who was this mystery man lurking in the shadows?
My questions concerning this “consultant” went unanswered until the Geneva Appeal when, for the first time on a political scale, the hypocrisy of tax havens was put under fire. Ernest Backes must have enjoyed this moment. In his first letter to me, he referred to himself as Sancho Panza and to me as Don Quixote: “I know this is a matter of windmills and I’m going to prove it,” he wrote. What he meant is that we would most likely battle in vain that that the battle was worth fighting.
We began writing each other, sending each other documents and clippings from the press. He was involved in investigations carried out by a number of different parties: the police, tax departments and magistrates of Luxembourg’s neighboring countries looking for information and using his knowledge of the banking sector. I contacted Marco Mart again for a film I was involved in and was finally introduced to his mysterious consultant.
Ernest Backes spoke a great deal but refused to be filmed. Later, he changed his mind and agreed to reveal himself before the camera. This was his first step towards coming out into the public after keeping a low profile for so many years.
Ernest managed a butchers’ cooperative. This job, I understood later, was both a cover and a means of earning a living. For someone who had been a mastermind behind the conception of one of the world’s two international bank clearing systems, the step down must have been dramatic. But Ernest didn’t let on to any bitter feelings. His Scorpio, the last vestige of the time when he still worked in the banking sector, remained parked below the building, worn with the years. He spent a great deal of time and energy explaining to me what I was just beginning to make out. He fed me bits and pieces of the puzzle, a disturbing puzzle and left me to assemble it myself.
I found him interesting but muddled, eccentric but overly cautious, generous in his explanations but cold in how he related facts and very defensive whenever I questioned his way of seeing and analyzing the situation. His manner of speaking was often rough and impassioned and he seemed to have ambiguous feelings toward his country. Although ready to attack the schemes of a number of implicated directors, he was loathe to battle head on, fearing that he would be met with incomprehension. He also feared stirring up the kind of trouble that gets dangerous.
In Luxembourg, silence and a polite smile are virtues.
In Luxembourg, the political parties in power since World War II – the Social Christians, the Liberals, the Socialists – have always maintained close ties with finance institutions. It’s not uncommon to find their representatives on the boards of directors of numerous banks.
In Luxembourg, judges are discreet. Very discreet. And the “finance police” are few in number. Too few.
In Luxembourg, banks are considered friends whose right to privacy requires protection from prying questions. And the Catholic Church watches over this tranquil and prosperous little world.
Early on in our correspondence, I noticed a character trait that become increasingly pronounced as our work together progressed. Ernest Backes’ mind works by association with one idea leading to another, suddenly more significant than the previous one. He constantly tells stories within stories. Spending a day with him is exhausting. In the evening, I was left to reconstruct the information, tiding it and putting it back together like a Russian doll.
The idea of dropping the whole project often crossed my mind.
Ernest spoke a good deal about clearing houses. This was the first time I had heard this term which has no equivalent in French. Ernest would say : “Today, the major international transfers between international banking institutions no longer go from bank to bank. Cash no longer exists. The transactions are performed on the basis of faxmoney.”
The idea is fundamental: money no longer exists. Or rather, the idea of money still exists but not as it formerly did. The term “money” no longer refers to what it did before the invention of microchips and clearing systems. Financial transactions between bankers, buyers and sellers pass through an electronic system founded, Ernest explained in the film, “on the mutual trust of those involved.”
It would seem then, that money has become immaterial. The wealthy are of course concerned with how to transfer their wealth into securities such as mutual funds, stocks, bonds etc. Securities, however, are as immaterial as the funds they represent and exist less and less on paper. Bought and sold everyday through clearing companies, millions of securities have a virtual existence.
How are these exchanges recorded ? Who guarantees the creditworthiness of both parties? What form of proof is there of the sales? Even if securities hop borders, some trace of their transfer has to exist. This intuition fueled my investigation.
From there, I quickly began to see with Ernest’s help, the logic behind clearing houses: to keep track of transactions and earn profits as quickly as possible, preferably without being seen doing so. Once the profits have been made , the next step is to invest them as rapidly as possible, and again, without being seen doing so. If possible.
Speeding up transactions and keeping the nature and amounts of these transfers as concealed as possible are the two obsessions of managers in the clearing business. Yet it is also essential to keep track of these transactions, preferably in a safe but largely inaccessible place.
To get an idea of the sums at stake, note that the current value standard begins at a trillion dollars or euros. The directors add, when they register your surprise, that there are “twelve zeros.” For example, in 2000, Clearstream claimed to have 10 trillion euros in its accounts. In other words, 10 000 billion euros worth of securities are kept in the Clearstream system annually- around forty-seven times France’s national budget. Its competitor Euroclear, reported 7 000 billion euros. In both cases, these clearing companies reported that they handle around 150 million transactions each year. If we look at the number of securities merely passing through their respective networks, the figures (from 1999) are even more remarkable : Euroclear reported around 45 000 billion euros worth of capital transited through its system; Cedel reported just slightly less.
Beyond these figures and this terminology, the word to keep in mind is “trust.” As with any financial exchange, buyers must put their trust in sellers. And vice versa. The clearing company is a space where trust between both parties has been established. Often the parties involved in the transaction never meet.
The entire system is completely abstract: money no longer exists in its usual form, the securities bought and sold are increasingly immaterial and even their profits, except for rare occasions, are virtually administered. But there’s a problem here: how can you put your hands on something virtual? This is where the clearing company steps in. The clearing process guarantees both parties’ creditworthiness and keeps concrete track of the transactions which take place.
Bankers use the term clearing, explaining that they make a kind of “settlement on delivery.” Their business can be likened to a pizza delivery service if, of course, you replace pizzas by securities, and the delivery boy’s scooter by the modem.
Clearing companies are the solicitors of the new world, and like solicitors, they appreciate confidentiality, sometimes to the point of being secretive. Their practices and strategies are kept as far as possible from public view, from people like you and me. They spend a considerable amount of money buttering up the financial press. With journalists outside the financial spheres, it’s a bit more complicated, though it’s also true that few of them have bothered investigating this milieu until now. Clearing enthusiasts hate questions (especially straight forward ones) and the curious men and women who ask them.
I was surprised to find that Euroclear, which owns one of the most beautiful sky scrapers in Brussels - a sixteen story glass building holding 1,300 employees – displays no distinguishing feature on its facade, not even a name on a doorbell. The only ostensible sign of the company’s presence is a clock counting down time until the Euro comes into effect. This clock bears the company’s acronym but is stationed some fifty meters from the building. The reason behind this anonymity was explained to me by a Euroclear employee. The group feels the need to protect itself from anti-globalization militant groups. Clearing companies know perfectly well just how central and instrumental they are to the globalization process.
On the other hand, Clearstream, its Luxembourg-based competitor, shows off its new name on the facade of one of the most beautiful homes in one of Luxembourg’s most up-scale neighborhoods. Here displays of wealth are perfectly acceptable and any fear of anti-globalization demonstrations or violence is readily dismissed. Such things simply don’t happen anymore... I first thought the name Clearstream suggested the idea of “clarity” but the firm’s employees ironically insisted on a slightly different interpretation. According to them, Clearstream meant the “stream that cleans. “
It took some time for me to accept the idea that Ernest Backes would be the man to get me inside the back offices of the Financial Village. If in financial terms, the stock market is referred to as the front office, the clearing company clearly functions as the “back office.”
This 100 kilo salad eater, who all too often weighs down his stories with seemingly banal details, possesses a treasure, a key to the secrets surrounding the figures and codes of the Global Village where being the first to obtain information is a form of power. Ernest Backes, now retired, has a way of relating information that is circuitous at best. He’ll mix a story about the Italian mafia with another about the mysterious activities of secret societies like the Bilderberg group or the Trilatérale Commission. He’ll come up with a scoop on odd characters such as a very influential arms seller named Harry whom everyone supposedly knows about, and connect seemingly unconnected facts, people and events at lightning speed. No doubt about it. Ernest is difficult to manage.
Having been one of the clearing house’s main men, Backes knew the system inside and out. Because of this, his convictions carried particular weight. At a certain point in his professional life, he understood that there was a blind spot making concealment possible. And he saw that nobody else saw which must have been a peculiar feeling.
The clearing house accelerates and records transactions. It also conceals.
But let’s go back several decades. When an insurance agent in Chicago wanted to sell part of his company’s capital to a Greek shipowner, how did he do it? He would go to his bank, let’s say the Bank of New York, and ask his banker to sell the shares. The latter then would hop on a plane to Athens where he would meet with the shipowner’s banker, say at the ABN Amro Bank. The initial purpose of the clearing company was to save time, hence money. There was no longer any need to travel overseas as a central organization guaranteed the viability of the transaction. The basic idea was to bring together bankers from different countries and create a trustworthy entity that would record and endorse bank transactions. Unlike a stock exchange which handles different parts of a transaction, the clearing company would be an essentially passive infrastructure. The shares wouldn’t move around; only the names of their owners would change. The clearing company would handle recording all transfers and endorse modifications.
There are fifteen national clearing organizations in Europe today. Generally unknown to banking clientele, national clearing offices limit their dealings to clearing operations within one country.
As for clearing houses which handle transfers of international capital, there are only two. One, Euroclear, has 1,350 employees, of which 1,300 are in Brussels and the fifty others spread out among ten or so branches throughout the world. Cedel, the other, has its headquarters in Luxembourg and 1,700 employees throughout the world, of which half work in buildings located in central Luxembourg and on the Kirchberg plateau outside the city in the “European” business center. Cedel’s other agencies are in London, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Dubaï and Mexico. It’s clear that the majority of international financial transfers go through Cedel or Euroclear. They are obliged to pass through these agencies and records of them are kept in coded documents.
What we’re talking about here are securities. Even if Euroclear and Cedel transfer money, their specialty remains what bankers call “transferable shares.” These two companies have a near monopoly on international bond exchange. Bond commerce allows clients to borrow and loan money without their names appearing anywhere other than in the bank’s internal documents. Bonds are the preferred financial product of money launderers and clients with a large mix of liquid assets. Cedel and Euroclear also exchange numerous stocks, mutual funds, gold certificates and cash.
While we were making the film, Ernest Backes commented that “Money, whether you invest it in the Bahamas, in Liechtenstein, in Paris, in Francfort or in Luxembourg, circulates in the system. At a given time it can leave the international financial networks and be invested in industry. The question is how much money today actually leaves the big international networks and is invested in industry?”
He added : “If you wanted to mobilize a workers’ union today against what could be called “big capital”, who are you going to attack? A hundred years ago when the first unions began, you could go after the Thyssens and Krupps and the big French industrialists, because everyone knew who they were. Today, if you want to wage battle against “big capital” you have to go after shareholders or mutual fund holders in Vanuatu....”
Backes’ words inspired me to figure out exactly how these international bank networks function, how they fill the seemingly bottomless accounts of banks set up in fiscal havens and how money flows through them and disappears. The Madrid based magistrate, Baltasar Garzón, uses an image to symbolize the battle between judges and white collar criminals. He explains that magistrates are like mammoths after leopards. “When the mammoth gets to the leopard’s hiding place, the leopard is already far away, laughing at the slow giant.” The inability of judges to act quickly is due to the absence of a common judicial space. And thanks to the clearing system, the “leopards” move at lightning speed.
We are going to show how, due to the corruption of the clearing system, fraud is made possible at the international level. And we will see why this happens almost imperceptibly. We will delve into a world where “parallel finance” networks are commonplace. We will see that public authorities remain ignorant of these financial transactions of which we now have clear proof.
In the beginning, I wanted to the get the job done too quickly. My attempt to introduce Ernest Backes to the judges who had signed the Geneva Appeal backfired. Even with Jean de Maillard, a specialist in the field, our meeting was rocky. As they saw it, Ernest Backes no longer worked in Luxembourg’s financial circle, moreover, his explanations seemed far too “convoluted” to merit serious consideration. On the other hand, Ernest was surprised to find how little the magistrates knew about the world of finance, especially as they were hailed by the press as prominent figures in the fight against organized crime. Though they were all seeking ways to fight organized crime efficiently, most of them had never heard of the clearing system.
Now as I finish the first chapter, I don’t know if the book will be published. For over a year, numerous and unforeseen obstacles have come in the way of my finishing the book. Implicated as a judicial collaborator in various affairs, Ernest didn’t want to “give everything away,” and preferred to confide certain revelations exclusively to the judges. What made him decide to speak up? His initial difficulties making himself understood by the court system. And my insistence as well.
There were those who thought I was allowing myself to be manipulated. Ernest, some claimed, was an operator, a compulsive liar stringing me along. At the very beginning of our dealings, this idea had occurred to me. But after getting to know the man, and witnessing his evidence first hand, I was convinced he was up front. Undoubtedly Ernest would have preferred to keep a low profile and not get mixed up in the affair.
Throughout our work together, we were extremely cautions: we rarely spoke on the telephone and were careful with our e-mail correspondence. To the rest of the world, we were writing some kind of vague book on the history of Luxembourg. In the beginning, I worked with reports of taped interviews, but Ernest’s stories make up an important part of the book, shaping its overall narrative and demonstration. We saw a good deal of each other over the first six months of 2000. Subsequently, we met less frequently. I then took the next step and confronted the actual “characters” in Ernest’s stories, namely the bankers and technicians involved in the clearing process.
We had our clashes. Ernest complained I was slow to catch on and I was frustrated by how he would hold back from certain recriminations or try to protect his country’s reputation. For years, Ernest had kept everything he knew about the clearing system to himself. Stepping out from the shadows was a painful process for him at times, yet as the book progressed, he began to see its impact. It was with Backes’ help that I discovered this as yet unexplored world with both excitement and trepidation.
The pressures were tremendous. I would never have guessed how difficult it would be to investigate the clearing milieu. Those I met with all had one thing in common: fear. Some feared for their reputation, others for their jobs. And again others for their lives. Some spoke up only to beg me later not to quote them. Others made appointments with me but didn’t show up. Many clearly lied to me.
I often had the feeling that I was becoming an immobile explorer, surfing from one fiscal haven to another, from Japanese banks to investment firms in Singapore, following the underground networks of faxmoney smugglers.
One of the first unpleasant remarks made by Ernest Backes during one of our interviews was aimed at the French press: “You make me think of a lot of other French journalists. You’re like bees that gather the nectar and then forget to make the honey.” I didn’t quite see what he meant.
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| Where do you see that Kerry will change Bush's War policy ? |
| 10.20.04 (3:53 pm) [edit] |
He said :
"I have a better plan to be able to fight the war on terror by strengthening our military, strengthening our intelligence, by going after the financing more authoritatively, by doing what we need to do to rebuild the alliances, by reaching out to the Muslim world."
"strengthening" ? Like the "socialist" Tony Blair who had upset his electors and iniated the war with Bush, he promises to continue and even more strongly and ask all the world to follow him !
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| [Reuters News] Royal genes may win Kerry the White House |
| 10.20.04 (2:29 pm) [edit] |
In one of previous post I said that Kerry and Bush were not only brother in Skull and Bones but also Aristocratic Blood Cousins. Well a Reuters News confirms and even precises that Kerry would win because ... (well if bloodline really decides for presidency what does it mean for democracy ?)
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/03/ 08/odd/royalgenesmaywinke rrythewhitehouse.html" title="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/03/ 08/odd/royalgenesmaywinke rrythewhitehouse.html" target="_blank"http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news...
08/03/2004 03:01
By Jason Hopps
LONDON (Reuters) - If royal genes have any influence, John Kerry looks destined to dethrone George W. Bush in November’s U.S. presidential election.
According to a theory its British proponents say has proved surprisingly accurate over the past century, the candidate with the bluest blood in his veins will win the White House. In 2000 it was Bush. This time, it’s Kerry.
"Our research is not yet complete but my bet is that Kerry has more royal connections and that he is more noble than President Bush," said Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke’s Peerage, a guide to the British aristocracy.
"But both candidates have a remarkable number of royal connections and both are related to Queen Elizabeth."
Kerry, a Yale-educated war veteran, is preparing to take on Republican Bush in what many believe may be one of the most bitterly fought presidential campaign in history.
The 60-year-old can trace his roots back to the first Massachusetts governor, John Winthrop, to every great family in Boston and to a host of royals in Europe.
"Kerry can almost certainly be traced back to King James I and to the bloodlines straight through the Windsor and Hanover families," Brooks-Baker said.
James I, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, ruled England from 1603-1625 and is best remembered for commissioning a new translation of the Bible.
Much of Kerry’s royal heritage comes through his mother’s side. Kerry, a Catholic, recently learned that his paternal grandfather was an ethnic German Jew born in a former mining town near the Polish border.
A mountainside Swiss boarding school, popular with Habsburgs, Rothschilds, Spanish princes and other European nobility, has dusted off its files to reveal an 11-year-old Kerry was top of his class when he spent a year there half a century ago.
Although Kerry’s family tree might have more royal branches than Bush’s, the president himself is no commoner.
Bush was more royal than Al Gore, his opponent four years ago, and also boasts a direct descent from Henry III and from Henry VIII’s sister Mary Tudor, who was also the wife of Louis XI of France. He is also descended from Charles II of England.
Brooks-Baker said there has always been a significant "royalty factor" in those who aspired to the White House, with Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan among others all with strong blue blood links.
"The chance of winning certainly seems much higher with more royal connections and one could make a big case that royal genes or chromosomes will tell," Brooks-Baker said.
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| Once upon a time I met an anarchist |
| 10.20.04 (1:25 pm) [edit] |
As I avoid carefully to participate into any political or religious organisation, I have rarely the occasion to meet such kind of specimen :). So it was occasionaly during my job. We needed an english translator and a client advised a young student in law for that. Naturally I discussed with him as he was a sympathetic guy and the conversation went on politics. As I attach great importance to Liberty he declared to me that I had the fiber to be an anarchist - he was trying to co-opt me in his political party he belonged to :D.
I explained to him that no I'm very far from anarchism because I'm not for no government at all because in practice it's impossible. I'm for as less as government as possible because I also know that in practice a big government would be used by the aparatchiks from left or right. For me PRACTICALITY IS THE MAIN CRITERIA OF ADOPTION. PURE THEORITICALITY IS AN INTELLECTUAL SLOT that conducts to BLOODY REVOLUTIONS that do not serve the people but as said in the quote of the day http://www.tblog.com/template... only serves the lust of power of the pigs - I refer to Orwell's Animal Farm - that conduct these revolutions.
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| Those who thrieve for celebrity: is your life so empty ? |
| 10.20.04 (12:10 pm) [edit] |
During the prebubble I have built a french website in financial field which was rather famous as it was one of the first at that time. I was then proposed to participate to some celebrity shows by the CEO of a bank and others. I refused. In fact I was fed up of the site I closed it. For me celebrity is not worth. It's the contrary: You become slave of the public image.
Of course with celebrity you have money. I don't disdain money for Money brings liberty (I prefer this term to Freedom which has some connotation with Serfdom one day I will come back to this). But too much money is also something that can drive you crazy.
My content is to enjoy what I can do everyday. I can post on Internet whereas others can't even afford to have an internet connection. I consider that this is already luxury. My joy is my lovely friend. That's all I need personally.
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| [Quote of the day] on Animalism, Communism, Fascism and any other ism illness |
| 10.20.04 (8:22 am) [edit] |
This is a quote I made when reading the subject of this blog "Why I write"
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=hoosierbr&static= 316864" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=hoosierbr&static= 316864" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
I suggested that one should read "Animal Farm" from George Orwell http://www.literature-web.net... who wrote for a reason: denouncing the "ism" illness like in "Animalism, Communism, and Fascism" as said below
http://www.his.com/" title="http://www.his.com/" target="_blank"http://www.his.com/~phe/farm.html
"Animal Farm is the story of a revolution gone sour. Animalism, Communism, and Fascism are all illusions which are used by the pigs as a means of satisfying their greed and lust for power. As Lord Acton wrote: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." So long as the animals cannot remember the past, because it is being continually altered, they will have no control over the present and hence over the future."
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| The protest from European Jewish Leaders against their ambassador's declaration |
| 10.20.04 (7:27 am) [edit] |
Recently there was a protest from jewish community leaders in Europe against Ambassador Nissim Zvili
PARIS - 18 Nov. 2003 (Reuters) "Roger Cukierman, head of the Crif umbrella group of Jewish organizations, said Ambassador Nissim Zvili may have exaggerated the situation in the hope of winning immigrants for Israel."
"Executive Vice President of the Turkish Jewish Community Lina Filiba called the Jerusalem Post from Istanbul, upset about the way the Israeli media and officials have portrayed the bombings, particularly articles and comments talking about the need to bring Turkish Jews to Israel in light of the attacks anti-Semitic nature."
These news are reminded on a "True Torah Jews" site http://www.jewsagainstzionism... as they said:
'For decades renowned Rabbinical leaders and scholars have opposed the creation of a "Jewish State", supporting their opposition with words of the scriptures and of the Torah, as being diametrically opposed to the ideology of Judaism. We have provided many such quotations for the inquiring website visitor who is seeking such information.
Although there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews.'
and they warn about what happened in history (as you know History doesn't repeat exactly but...):
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/holocaust/holocaustpi cs.htm" title="http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/holocaust/holocaustpi cs.htm" target="_blank"http://www.jewsagainstzionism...
(Below I quote the site so this is not my own words):
'In 1921, Germans in Germany were told that:
"We Jews are aliens a foreign people in your midst and we wish to stay that way. A Jew can never be a loyal German; whoever calls the foreign land his Fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people".
Who spoke these vile words? It was Jacob Klatzkin, the second of two political Zionist ideologists in Germany at the time, where the Jews of Germany were enjoying full political and civil rights. It was he who had advocated undermining Jewish communities as the one certain way of acquiring a state. "They had no qualms concerning tearing down the existing Jewish communities.
Who spoke in a public address at a political Zionist meeting in Berlin and declared that "Germany has too many Jews? Was it Hitler or Goebbels? No, it was Chaim Weizman, later to become the first President of the State of Israel. This address was published in 1920, and, thus, four years before Hitler had even written Mein Kampf.
How many Zionist Jews know of this vicious treachery uttered by these senior political Zionist leaders, these apostates from the Jewish People? At the Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals, Nazi propagandist, Julius Streicher testified: "I did no more than echo what the leading Zionists had been saying, it is clear that he had told the truth.
In addition to Hitler, Rosenberg, Goebbels and Streicher, many other Nazi leaders used statements from Zionists to validate their charges against the Jews of Germany. Such are the efforts of Zionist leaders to this very day to maintain a high degree of anti-semitism in order to enable them, in feigned horror, to then point to anti-semitism to support their idolatrous and anti-Jewish cause. In 1963, Moshe Sharett, then Chairman of the Jewish Agency, told the 38th Annual Congress of the Scandinavian Youth Federation that the freedom enjoyed by the majority of Jews imperiled Zionism, and at the 26th World Zionist Congress, the delegates were told that the Jew is endangered by the easing of anti-Semitism in the United States "We are endangered by freedom he declared.
As we stated earlier, Zionism thrives on anti-Semitism. Ben Gurion declared, "not always and not everywhere do I opposed anti-Semitism. Zionists regularly pull out their handy "anti-Semite race card against anyone, Jew or non-Jew, who dares to speak out against the wickedness of Zionism.
During World War II, the Lehi organization, an offshoot of Begin,s Irgun that was headed by Yitzchak Shamir sought an alliance with Nazis! The following is a quote from the writings of the Lehi in their contact with the Nazis:
"The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis and bound by a treaty with the German Reich would be in the interests of strengthening the future German position of power in the Near East ... The NMO in Palestine offers to take an active part in the war on Germany's side ... The cooperation of the Israeli freedom movement would also be in line with one of the recent speeches of the German Reich Chancellor, in which Herr Hitler stressed that any combination and any alliance would be entered into in order to isolate England and defeat it."
To those who assume that Zionists have been on the side of freedom and equality, these words seem strange. However, to those who understand the root of Zionism, which is the transformation and eradication of the concept of the traditional Jew and Judaism, these statements are not strange at all. They are to be expected.'
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| Political Truths and the problem of Cognitive Dissonance |
| 10.20.04 (6:42 am) [edit] |
In previous post I mentioned Nietsche http://www.tblog.com/template... According to him, Human Nature is at the same level than Animality and Morality is a conventional mask. This is the philosophical point of view, now if I turn towards psychological point of view there is the theory of cogitive dissonance that may explain why people prefer to believe demagogy rather than political truths.
Paul Krugman in New York Times has linked the belief about Irak War to cognitive dissonance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30 KRUG.html" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30 KRUG.html" target="_blank"http://www.nytimes.com/2003/0...
« A new poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes finds that 41 percent of Americans either believe that W.M.D.'s have been found, or aren't sure. The program's director suggests that "some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance." And three-quarters of the public thinks that President Bush showed strong leadership on Iraq. »
Why ?
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/" title="http://www.dmu.ac.uk/" target="_blank"http://www.dmu.ac.uk/%7ejamesa/learning/disson ance.htm
« Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which has two major effects on learning:
* if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know — particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge — they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
* if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are not likely to admit that the content of what has been learned is not valuable. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned". »
People who follows Bush like a Guru will undergo this dissonance when presented with facts about Irak and Carlyle Group for example. Same for People at left when they are presented with the fact that Kerry like Bush is belonging to the same Skull and Bones society (NBC news http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4... or http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...) and so no more worth than Bush because - as revealed by Robin the New York time bestseller author Secrets of the Tomb
http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp" title="http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp" target="_blank"http://www.secretsofthetomb.c...
"Members of Skull and Bones must make some sacrifices to the society - and they are threatened with blackmail so that they remain loyal. ... The knights (as the student members are called) learn quickly that their allegiance to the society must supercede all else - family, friendships, country, God. "
or jews who think that zionism is about defending jews whereas in truth zionism is affiliated with communism and acts for the destruction of religion see jewsagainstzionism.com (it's a jewish religious site promoting the respect of Torah and True peace as it should for any Religion)
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/holocaust/holocaustpi cs.htm" title="http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/holocaust/holocaustpi cs.htm" target="_blank"http://www.jewsagainstzionism...
and next post http://www.tblog.com/template...
The problem of Truth is that by creating cognitive dissonance it can have a contrary effect by reenforcing the wrong belief of those who lack the psychological strenth to recognise their error. Well this is human but it is sad.
No one can really escape this pervasive effect. We all have preconceived beliefs and we generally extend our own beliefs to others falsely. For example ironically my own cognitive dissonance has been to refuse to believe this theory of cognitive dissonance, for long, I have refused to recognise that people were incapable of objectivity and rationality - at least as social group - to act in the real interest of the whole society and not in the interest of politicians. Now I have solved this dissonance by admitting that indeed this theory has some truths. It's the lesson of experience of life.
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| "Beyond Good and Evil" from Nietzsche |
| 10.19.04 (11:51 am) [edit] |
I don't like Philosophy for Philosophy has been used for justifying ideologies like Nazism or Communism. Nietzsche is of course well reknown to have been used by Nazism. But unlike Bertrand Russell Nietzsche has never endorsed Nazism himself and I rather think that his thoughts has been distorted to fit a criminal regim. In fact the misuse of his own work is just illustrating his idea that Human Nature is at the same level than Animality and that Philosophy and Religiosity (although Religion has been weakened Reliogisity has not) have served more for convention and mask for immoral acts than for true spiritual enlightment.
So there's no reason not to read him in that perspective. I have some difficulty to realise that people can behave like animals in fact sometimes worst than animals due to the cruelty of some barbarian acts, that they can be brainwashed so easily so as to become slaves of politicians, and it is since I have studied the stock market crowd behavior that I realise how this stupidity is not only in stock market but in the whole political, social and business worlds.
So here's a review of Nietsche's writings "beyond Good And Evil"
http://www.escapefromwatchtower.com/nietzsche.beyond.good.and.evil.html" title="http://www.escapefromwatchtower.com/nietzsche.beyond.good.and.evil.html" target="_blank"http://www.escapefromwatchtow...
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| Demagogy really works: this forum is the proof |
| 10.19.04 (9:27 am) [edit] |
I don't read all the posts on this forum, when I do sometimes it amazes me how in 21th century demagogy from politicians continues to work. There has been no progress in education, in fact I dare there should have been a regression because in the old days there was no tv to facilitate the brainwashing.
For some people it is due to ignorance. As I said my own mother has voted once for the fascist because she didn't know how they were manipulating the socialist party in France by infiltrating it at the very head, now that she knows she wouldn't commit the same idiocy. Same for some jews who regretted to have voted for Bush when they learnt too late his connection with their worst ennemy the nazis.
But for some, it's not due to ignorance, it may be due to the fact that they have a spinal chord instead of a brain. That's why Ploutocraty has still good days for dozens of years.
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| Interesting details about the Bush-Ben Laden connection |
| 10.19.04 (6:23 am) [edit] |
This is not from me, I quote this article from texasobserver.org
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480" title="http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480" target="_blank"http://www.texasobserver.org/...
After the death of Mohammed bin Laden, control of the company passed to Salem bin Laden, Osama’s half brother. The roots of the first known Bush-bin Laden convergence date back to the mid-1970s, when the two clans were linked by a Houston businessman named James R. Bath. Bath had befriended George W. Bush in the late 1960s, when they both served in the Texas Air National Guard. By 1976, when Gerald Ford appointed the elder George Bush as CIA director, Bath was acting as a business agent for Salem bin Laden’s interests in Texas. (Texas and Saudi Arabia were well-connected by this point through U.S. oil companies and related industries with operations in both locations.) In 1991 Time magazine and later other publications reported on allegations by Bath’s former business partner that the Bush CIA hired Bath in 1976 to create offshore companies to move CIA funds and aircraft between Texas and Saudi Arabia.
After W. lost a bid for Congress, he decided to launch an oil company in Midland in 1979. For $50,000, Bath bought a 5 percent stake in W.’s Arbusto (Spanish for "Bush") partnerships. At the time, Bath also served as business agent for several prominent Saudis, including Salem bin Laden. In exchange for a percentage of the deals, Bath made U.S. investments for these clients in his own name, according to Time. Although Bath has said that he invested his own money in Arbusto, not Saudi money, the fact that he was Salem’s agent at the time has fueled speculation that Osama bin Laden’s eldest brother was an early investor in W.’s first oil venture. It was around the time of this investment, incidentally, that Osama bin Laden made his first trip to the Khyber Pass, where he would soon join the Mujaheddin and the CIA in the holy war that expelled the Soviets from Afghanistan. (Salem, for his part, owned a house in Marble Falls, and died in a 1988 plane crash near San Antonio.)
The bin Ladens cemented clearer-cut financial ties with the Bush clan in 1995, when they invested $2 million in the Carlyle Group. Carlyle specializes in the buyout of government defense contractors, and many of its principals were heavyweights in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Carlyle’s chair is former Reagan Administration Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. Former Bush Secretary of State James A. Baker III is a Carlyle partner and the firm’s senior counsel. Ex-President Bush himself is a Carlyle board member and its senior Asian advisor. In recent years, Carlyle has dispatched Carlucci, Baker and Bush to Saudi Arabia to butter up the bin Ladens. Amid controversy over the relationship last month, Carlyle and the bin Ladens severed their ties. The bin Ladens’ departure coincided with Carlyle’s announcement that it expected to raise approximately $300 million by taking its privately held United Defense Industries public. Among other things, this defense contractor pro- duces missile launch systems that are currently aboard U.S. war ships in the Arabian Sea.
Current President Bush has his own connections to Carlyle and the bin Laden family. Carlyle appointed W. in 1990 to the board of its Caterair subsidiary, an airline catering company. W. stepped down from this board in 1994, the year he was elected governor. With W. as governor, Carlyle landed at least two business deals involving Texas government funds. In the same month that Bush was elected president, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas selected Carlyle to invest $100 million of its pension funds. In 1996, the quasi-public University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) began awarding lucrative contracts to private firms to invest portions of UT’s $14 billion endowment. The Houston Chronicle reported that UTIMCO’s board (which is appointed by the governor’s handpicked UT System Regents) awarded many of these contracts to firms close to W.–including Carlyle. As of May 2001, Carlyle controlled more than $15 million of University of Texas public endowment funds. This includes $10.5 million that is commingled in the same Carlyle Partners II Fund where the bin Ladens parked their money.
It is a daunting task to unravel the ties between Texas and Saudi oil money, as well as the ties between the Saudi royal family, the bin Laden clan and Osama bin Laden. In this regard, the people of Saudi Arabia and the United States may share a common fate. We may never know the half of it.
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| the highest levels of the Australian Government knows about fake terrorism |
| 10.19.04 (6:05 am) [edit] |
As I said in previous thread http://www.tblog.com/template...
what is happening in the world is not without knowledge and support from the highest rank of government - which is just logic that the first institution is the primary target of infiltration by extremists: the presidency could even be a saint that it won't change anything.
So here a direct testimony about the murdering of innocent tourists by secret agents (here the mossad but of course it can be any agency of any country):
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-Bizar reTwistInTheNZMossadAgent sStory-Fredrick.htm" title="http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-Bizar reTwistInTheNZMossadAgent sStory-Fredrick.htm" target="_blank"http://www.thebirdman.org/Ind...
I am an Australian that worked for a major NGO in Cambodia my exposure to the mossad murder squads operating in the S.E. Asia came about thru the acquaintance of a fellow Australian.
I met Brian at the boarder town of KIoh Kong. Brian was young man from Sydney that had just finished school with an English Major and had come to Australia to teach English for a year we talked in length about how he had lost his entire family in an accident his desire to help the impoverished Cambodian people.
Brian was leaving for Srey Ambel the next day on a small boat to teach at a small local school that he had arranged thru a Cambodian friend he had been corresponding with for a few years.
BRIAN NEVER ARRIVED
A few weeks latter I was in the Srey Ambel area and went by to visit Brian. He had never arrived, and was not replying to e-mail from me or his friend at the school he was to teach at, his friend at the school said maybe he had decided to travel around for a few weeks, but no one knew.
I MET THE MOSSAD AGENT ZEV BARKAN
Two weeks later while I was in Phnom Penh, I was at a restaurant on the riverfront, I met a man there that introduced himself as Brian, using Brian’s name and background story but it was a deferent man. I tried to get as much information out of him without letting him know I had known the real Brian after our conversation I went strait to the Australian consulate they told me they would look into the report.
THE NEW ZEALAND SECURITY AGENT
The next day I was talking to a Diane, NZ women that I had known for some time that worked for a different NGO. Diane was very alarmed when I told her of what had happened and said I was in great danger and told me to meet her later that day in the Toul Tom Pong Market.
There I was met by Diane and a man I will refer to as Tom that Identified himself as a NZ security Official.
“These mossad run gangs like to throw there victims off of tour boats they do a lot of operations off the southern coast of Thailand and Cambodia” Tom said, as he showed me documentation of 8 people whose bodies where found that ‘disappeared’ like Brian, 5 where Australian.
Tom also showed me some photos of 5 more mossad agents suspected of involvement in the disappearances.
One I identified as the man I met that was using Brian’s Identity, it was a photo of Zev Barkan.
“This is a real bad guy, vicious. He’s killed a few of the victims himself witnesses have said he likes to personally throw them over board while the boats are moving and then turns around and run the victim over, chopping the victim up with the prop” Tom said
As he showed me photos and documents that connected Barkan and 4 other mossad agents to terrorist training camps in southern Thailand
And documents linking them to armed terrorist actions in southern Thailand along with documents that linked telecommunications and money wire transfers originating in Israel.
Tom informed me that NZ security Operations have evidence that some Australian Officials are involved in a cover-up of these mossad operations for political reasons that reach up to the highest levels of the Australian Government.
“This guy is an Australian official we linked to Barkan, we have evidence he was involved in the terrorist training camps but not the murders Barkan is in hot water with him because of the murders but he is involved in the cover up of the murders and that why you are in so much danger, now they are committed into covering the murders up” Tom said, as he showed me pictures of Barkan meeting the man at the Australian consulate I had made the missing person report to.
Tom informed me I was in grave danger because of my visit to the Australian consulate, and if I did not Leave Cambodia immediately I would be dead before the end of the week.
Tom arranged for me to fly out of Cambodia to NZ on a small NZ government plane that night.
And now I find myself in NZ living in a safe house not knowing when it will be ok to return to my life. I am writing this in a hope it might save someone from the fate that Brian suffered.
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| The ennemies of world citizens are not the arabs nor the jews |
| 10.19.04 (5:22 am) [edit] |
The ennemies of world citizens are not the arabs nor the jews, the ennemies of world citizens are the extremists who have infiltrated government, institutions and business through secret agencies. Not all secret agents are of course traitors and some have given their life for the true defense of their nation but others are. Some agents from CIA, FBI and Terrorists financed by the Royal Family of Saudi are all under the suspicion of colliding together (see one of the numerous accusations based on real testimonies and not on subjective opinions in past threads): they excite hate between people of different nations whereas they are unified for the same interest: profit from crisis and war.
And they do not only use their own agents to subvert, they kill innocent people to steal their identity so as to turn them into ... terrorists : this is the latest shocking news about an agent from the MOSSAD :
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/74269.php" title="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/74269.php" target="_blank"http://www.melbourne.indymedi...
Quote from above
mossad agents Killing Oz Tourists to Steal their Identity used in terror opps
by Bev Taylor Monday July 19, 2004 at 02:19 PM
mossad agents Killing Oz Tourists to Steal their Identity to use in fake al-Qaeda operations
mossad agents Killin...
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The Israeli Mossad agent Zev Barkan has been running Asian criminal gangs used to obtain Australian Identity documents and other passports stolen from Australians Killed in Asia, a New Zealand security official has said.
I was contacted by a New Zealand official, who has intelligence connections in Asia while I was shopping in Toul Tom Pong Market in Phnom Penh and provided documents to support this information on the condition that it remain anonymous and I not publish the documents considering the risk to officials if the source of this leak was identified, this New Zealand official said Barkan was connected to an Israeli terrorist cell operating out of Thailand.
"He goes to Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand and is running gangs that he pays to kill tourists, and steal their Identity papers passports then cover it up, most just disappear or their deaths have been reported as accidents, drownings and such, they like to throw their victims off the side of tour boats" said a New Zealand security official
Barkan has been named by New Zealand authorities as the kingpin in a passport theft ring for which two Israelis with Australian links were jailed for six months last week in Auckland.
One of the jailed men, Eli Cara, 50, had his rented home in Turramurra raided by ASIO in March. A short time later, he was arrested in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Government has named Barkan, Cara and the other convicted man, Uriel Kelman, as Mossad agents.
Barkan fled New Zealand before police moved in. There are reports that Barkan, using a Stolen Canadian Identity documents, has now made a move to North Korea out of reach of authorities.
"Barkan is mostly interested in passports and identity documents, there have been a number of Australian killed for their passports."
Intelligence analysts in New Zealand believe Barkan, a former navy diver in the Israeli IOF, was trying to secure a clean passports for use in Israeli terrorist operations in the region.
Barkan had grown up in Washington as Zev Bruckenstein, where his father was director of religious studies at a synagogue.
A New Zealand security official says his services have uncovered an Israeli operation to create al-Qaeda cells in Thailand. The security official in Thailand said Israeli terrorist are posing as operatives of al-Qaeda.
Over the past nine months we have been investigating eight cases, 11 people informed us of this Israeli operation, asking Thai Landers to join al-Qaeda. One email had even been signed by the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. a New Zealand official said.
A New Zealand official said his services had traced back to Israel the phone calls and emails - purportedly from Germany and Lebanon and Pakistan.
We investigated the origin of those calls and found out they all came from Israel.
The people the Israelis tried to recruit were then given stolen Australian documents, and received money and weapons.
The money was provided by Israel directly to the recruits or was transferred from bank accounts in Jerusalem or Israel, said the New Zealand official.
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If you doubt an other source from a mainstream media
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/10 90089038600.html?oneclick=true" title="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/10 90089038600.html?oneclick=true" target="_blank"http://www.smh.com.au/article...
Mossad agent linked to Asia scam
By Craig Skehan
July 19, 2004
The fugitive Israeli Mossad intelligence agent Zev Barkan has been dealing with Asian criminal gangs to obtain Australian and other passports stolen in Asia, a New Zealand aid worker has said.
Barkan has been named by New Zealand authorities as the kingpin in a passport scam for which two Israelis with Australian links were jailed for six months last week in Auckland.
One of the jailed men, Eli Cara, 50, had his rented home in Turramurra raided by ASIO in March. A short time later, he was arrested in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Government has named Barkan, Cara and the other convicted man, Uriel Kelman, as Mossad agents.
Barkan fled New Zealand before police swooped. There are unconfirmed reports that Barkan, allegedly using a fraudulent Canadian passport, has since made visits to North Korea.
The New Zealand aid worker, who has intelligence connections in Asia, said Barkan was also connected to an Israeli security company operating out of Thailand.
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"He goes to Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand and deals with gangs who rob tourists of their valuables and passports," the aid worker said.
"Barkan is mostly interested in passports and there have been a number of Australian passports."
Intelligence analysts in New Zealand believe Barkan, a former navy diver in the Israeli Defence Force, was trying to secure a "clean" passport for use in a sensitive Israeli undercover operation in the region, less risky than a forged passport.
The Herald has also been told that Barkan had grown up in Washington as Zev Bruckenstein, where his father was director of religious studies at a synagogue.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has praised New Zealand, saying in a statement it "highly appreciated the daring position of the New Zealand Government against the Zionist entity".
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| October 1942 Bush Property Seized for financing Hitler |
| 10.18.04 (11:45 am) [edit] |
From "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm" title="http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm" target="_blank"http://www.tarpley.net/bush2....
" Chapter - II - The Hitler Project
Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy
In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush."
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The Nazi connection with the Bush / Rockfeller families has been proven by many different researchers with official documents such as the government order above. For example a former Justice Department prosecutor john loftus has also access to many such documents so as being able to testify
http://www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.asp." title="http://www.john-loftus.com/Thyssen.asp." target="_blank"http://www.john-loftus.com/Th...
My question is: how is it that the democrat party doesn't denounce this past which is much more significant than the fact that Georges bush hasn't made his military duty !
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| If indeed the World is a Super Computer what is the ontological nature of |
| 10.18.04 (10:59 am) [edit] |
According to Scientist Stephan Wolfram in his book 'A New Kind of Science' (see previous post)
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=308528" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=308528" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
our Universe is a Super Computer.
Then what would be the ontological nature (true essence) of "God" (see thread on Ontology http://www.tblog.com/template... )?
- the processor of this machine (like your pentium) ?
- the maker of this processor (like Intel firm) ?
- the owner of this machine (like You) ?
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| Why do-gooders can be the most dangerous people on earth :) |
| 10.18.04 (7:41 am) [edit] |
This was the title of a thread I wanted to make for some time but I have delayed because words are only proxies for thoughts and I felt some difficulties to express the subtleties of the paradox that aroses behind this idea especially because english is not my native language.
Happily I encountered this other blog
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=tigergrrl&static= 315379" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=tigergrrl&static= 315379" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
untitled ":: The Philosophy of Liberty ::"
and it points to this flash animation http://www.jonathangullible.c...
which almost conveys what I wanted to as it says at the end:
"Evil does not arise only from evil people, but also from good people who tolerate the initiation of force as a means to their own ends."
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| [Research paper] "Social norms and the paradox of elections turnout" |
| 10.18.04 (6:10 am) [edit] |
Since ten years I've been conducting stock market research to create a model which deals much with herding behavior of the investors crowd. Well in voting field the problematic is somehow the same as I read this paper written by some researchers of Lisbon University:
http://docentes.fe.unl.pt/" title="http://docentes.fe.unl.pt/" target="_blank"http://docentes.fe.unl.pt/~amatos/paradox.pdf
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| Quote of the day [General Douglas MacArthur] "The powers in charge keep us ..." |
| 10.18.04 (5:53 am) [edit] |
"The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded."
- General Douglas MacArthur
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| Bush and Kerry both says |
| 10.17.04 (7:21 am) [edit] |
in their interview
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/03-08-2004/b onesmen.htm" title="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/03-08-2004/b onesmen.htm" target="_blank"http://www.thenewamerican.com...
Mr. Russert: You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?
Senator Kerry: Not much, because it’s a secret.
— Meet the Press, August 31, 2003
Mr. Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.
President Bush: It’s so secret we can’t talk about it.
— Meet the Press, Taped on February 7, 2004
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So the two main candidates to the most important job of America have huge secrets to hide, which are mainly that they cannot reveal that they are serving the Military Banking Industrial Complex and not the People. They do not only hide for their Bush-Bones Doctrine is "Deny Everything"
"There’s three things to remember: claim everything, explain nothing, deny everything."
— Senator Prescott Bush (Bones 1917)
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| The choice of non-choice between 2 Presidential Candidates |
| 10.17.04 (7:06 am) [edit] |
Is it a democratic choice when one has to vote for a member of Skulls and Bones (Bush) and an other member (Kerry) of the same sect: yes I dare to call that a sect because of their morbid rituals.
from cbsnews.com
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60 minutes/main576332.shtml" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60 minutes/main576332.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...
Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate -- lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.
“Skull and Bones is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering,” says Robbins. “There are only 15 people a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time.”
But a lot of Bonesmen have gone on to positions of great power, which Robbins says is the main purpose of this secret society: to get as many members as possible into positions of power.
“They do have many individuals in influential positions,” says Robbins. “And that's why this is something that we need to know about.”
President Bush has tapped five fellow Bonesmen to join his administration. Most recently, he selected William Donaldson, Skull and Bones 1953, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the President, he's taken the Bones oath of silence.
“It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it,” says Rosenbaum. “I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb.”
An historian has writen a book on this Order
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/store/books.html" title="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/store/books.html" target="_blank"http://www.fromthewilderness....
"AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT:
An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones "
by
Antony C. Sutton
Breaking 170 years of secrecy, this intriguing exposé takes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale's mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. Explored is how Skull and Bones initiates have become senators, judges, cabinet secretaries, spies, titans of finance and industry, and even U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush. This book reveals that far from being a campus fraternity, the society is more concerned with the success of its members in the postcollegiate world. Included are a verified membership list, rare reprints of original Order materials revealing the interlocking power centers dominated by Bonesmen, and a peek inside the Tomb, their 140-year-old private clubhouse.
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| The FBI is attacking independant medias on behalf of Swiss and Italy |
| 10.14.04 (5:55 am) [edit] |
http://www.indymedia.org/en/
* On Thursday, 7 October around 18 GMT two Indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace in the UK went down. The servers (ahimsa) host the sites of more then 20 local collectives, radio streams for several radio stations, BLAG (a Linux distribution as well as miscellanous other projects. Indymedia was not informed prior to this action, nor have we been given any information why the hardware was taken, by whom and who holds it now. Indymedia issued a press release that has been taken up globally. It was followed by a lot of specualtions worldwide on the reasons. The next day, 8 October Rackspace stated that they responded to a "Commissioner's subpoena". "Rackspace is acting as a good corporate citizen and is cooperating with international law enforcement authorities. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter."
* Indymedia failed to get information from authorities in the US and the UK.
* According to an AFP report, published on 8 October, "the FBI acknowledged that a subpoena had been issued but said it was at the request of Italian and Swiss authorities. 'It is not an FBI operation,' FBI spokesman Joe Parris told AFP." Indymedia could not get direct confirmation of this statements.
* Second press release
* Press Release Oct 11/12
* Press release by IMC Italy (en) | (it)
* Press release by IMC Uruguay (es)
* Press release by IMC Netherlands (nl)
Why were more then 20 Indymedia sites taken down?
* Indymedia does not have any information on the reasons and the nature of order and the actions taken.
* Indymedia does not know whether Rackspace was ordered to provide information on the servers, or the hardware (servers or disks). Apparently the hardware was handed over.
* Indymedia does not know if Rackspace is under a gag order, or what legal restrictions were imposed requiring them to act this way, or whether their legal department had enough time to study the request.
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| Confession: my mother has voted for the facist extreme right wing :( |
| 10.11.04 (5:25 am) [edit] |
It was a few years ago. If there is one person that I know it is of course her. She's a very moral and very kind person so why did she vote for that kind of party ?
Well easy many people confuse the diagnostics with the solutions. With all the corruptions around traditional parties one should be blind if one fails to see that the system in majority and not in exception is rotten. The solution of the facist party is based on hate but they also talk about restoring morality so that they can indeed appeal to many people. What people who vote for them sincerely ignore is that the extreme right wing has orchestrated the depreviation of traditional parties by infiltrating them at the very head notably at the opposite side of extreme right wing that is too say at left side. The "Socialist" Berlusconi President in Italia is a good example, it is no secret that this guy is involved with the Maffia and the Facists. What is being more a secret is that President Francois Mitterand supposedly socialist - in fact he even created a schism from communist party to create the socialist party in France - was frequently receiving till the end of his life and at the President House the Cagoule Chief who is the historical extremist right wing party in France. A true socialist writer Jean Edernalier who has helped to elect Francois Mitterand before knowing the truth has then been threatened to death by Francois Mitterand and his Cagoule's friends not to reveal this fact in a book (other true socialist people in syndicates who wanted also to denounce that Francois Mitterand was in fact placing Extremist Facist Friends at strategic position in syndicates were fabricated a reputation of follies to shut them down). Finally he dared to do so only after Mitterand's death and he then received threat of death again and one day he was found dead on a beach near his bicycle. These kind of news on medias are just announced soberly without much details it is only when reading political books that you can learn what happened but the mass of frenches still ignore that In fact they surely prefer to ignore that democracy is being dumped more and more openly. The elites know - even before Jean Edernalier's book was published because it was circulating under covert among them - but they don't want to risk their life like Jean Edernalier: his execution is a warning message to them.
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| 10 billion$: the biggest bribery at the very head of United Nations |
| 10.10.04 (11:45 am) [edit] |
If you think that humanitarian discourse of the United Nations is true, you're going to discover some ugly truth by reading this article from New York times.
The Great Cash Cow
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
New York Times
Published: June 23, 2004
United Nations
Annan, Kofi
This was the biggest cash cow in the history of the world," says one of the insiders familiar with the $10 billion U.N. oil-for-food scandal. "Everybody — traders, contractors, banks, inspectors — was milking it. It was supposed to buy food with the money from oil that the U.N. allowed Saddam to sell, but less than half went for that. Perfume, limos, a shipment of 1,500 Ping-Pong tables, for God's sake."
Another whistle-blower, often on the "graveyard shift" of round-the-clock operations at the U.N.'s New York Office of the Iraq Program, explains the workings of the historic rip-off:
Well-connected international traders — called "the usual suspects" by low-level U.N. staff, who knew they often fronted for sellers of luxury products — would make their deals, including kickbacks, in Baghdad. Letters of credit, as many as 150 a day, would be issued in New York by the U.N.'s favorite bank, BNP Paribas.
But before the sellers, called "beneficiaries," could be paid (at Saddam's request, in euros, harder to trace than dollars) the bank required a C.O.A., "Confirmation of Arrival," from the U.N.'s contracted inspector, Cotecna of Switzerland.
"The key was Cotecna," says my graveyard source. "Ships were lined up at the port of Umm Qasr, stacks of containers already onshore waiting for inspection. You won't believe the grease being paid. The usual suspects got preferential treatment when the U.N. bosses in New York called the BNP bank to get Cotecna to issue a C.O.A. to release the money."
Last week, Secretary General Kofi Annan claimed that my reporting of what he told me at a luncheon was "a private conversation" (no such ground rule was set) and that "some are jumping to conclusions without facts, without evidence. It is a bit like a lynching, actually."
However, my call for a Congressional subpoena to overcome his attempt to limit investigation to his internal Volcker committee has flushed out a fact not hitherto disclosed. Annan's press aide complained to The Times that a subpoena had already been served secretly on BNP Paribas (the initials once stood for Banque Nationale de Paris) by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Although the U.N. had warned its bank, as well as Cotecna, the oil monitor Saybolt and all its other oil-for-food contractors, not to cooperate with anybody but Paul Volcker — and had blown off the House International Relations Committee's requests — Annan's advisers knew it would be unseemly and foolhardy to insist that its bank fight the Senate in court.
With his subpoena and investigation thus publicly revealed by the U.N., Chairman Norm Coleman of Minnesota, a Brooklyn-born Republican, felt free to take my call. "This is a major priority for us," he says. "There's a lot of stuff to cover, a big universe of documents, and we're being aggressive about it. Yes, Cotecna, Saybolt, all of them."
He sent out four "chairman's letters," countersigned by the ranking Democrat, Carl Levin, in early June. One was to the U.S. State Department for the minutes of the "661 committee" meetings at the U.N., which reviewed oil-for-food contracts (though not yet for copies of the contracts themselves). Another to the Government Accounting Office, which had first estimated the skimming at $10 billion. Another to Paul Bremer in Baghdad for copies of documents being turned over to the interim government — and the Senate still awaits a response; apparently the White House doesn't want to offend the U.N. Finally, a friendly letter to Annan about the subpoena that would require his bank to open its letter-of-credit files.
Now let's review the investigative bidding. The Senate seems serious; though Coleman is a freshman, the subcommittee staff is experienced and nonpartisan. The House is doing what it can. The U.N. allocated $4 million to Volcker, but he hasn't yet submitted a budget or announced a staff. The New York Fed defers to its old boss, and the New York State Banking Department is overdrawn.
But since this involves possible fraud, bribery and larceny on a grand scale, where is law enforcement? Interesting: the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, David Kelley, served subpoenas last week on Exxon Mobil, ChevronTexaco and Valero about Iraqi oil purchases. That deals with the income side of the scandal, the money for Iraq (less kickbacks) supposedly to buy food.
I suspect Kelley was moved to empanel a grand jury by probable competition from the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morganthau, on the scandal's payoff side. These two offices compete, and Morganthau's office has expertise on global banking.
Without imputing wrongdoing to any individual, I suggest investigators supplement their document search by talking to people who should be in the know. At the U.N., these include Benon Sevan's deputy, Teklay Afeworki, and at the bank, Pierre Veyres and Eva Millas-Russo.
But defenders of U.N. malfeasance can take heart. In a counterattack, our global servants hired an accountant to warn of "fraudulent acts" by the U.S. after it took over the U.N.'s mismanaged Iraqi oil account. Now, that will get media coverage.
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| Can you understand this sentence :D |
| 10.10.04 (7:45 am) [edit] |
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
This is from a serious article here :)
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde" title="http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde" target="_blank"http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/...
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| Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science': Is the entire Universe a big cellular-automaton computer |
| 10.10.04 (6:15 am) [edit] |
Stephen Wolfram is the founder of a "new science" and he has also created the famous mathematica software.
His book is available on amazon or freely online here: http://www.wolframscience.com...
His ideas seem revolutionary (see this http://www.kurzweilai.net/art... review ) as he
"asserts that cellular automata operations underlie much of the real world. He even asserts that the entire Universe itself is a big cellular-automaton computer".
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| From IBM researchers teleportation is now possible :D |
| 10.09.04 (8:09 am) [edit] |
OK not for people yet but on principle we just have to wait some years. Of course there could be some ethic problems if as it is said it implies that the "original is destroyed" :D
from research.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleporta tion" title="http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleporta tion" target="_blank"http://www.research.ibm.com/q...
In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett, confirmed the intuitions of the majority of science fiction writers by showing that perfect teleportation is indeed possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed. In subsequent years, other scientists have demonstrated teleportation experimentally in a variety of systems, including single photons, coherent light fields, nuclear spins, and trapped ions. Teleportation promises to be quite useful as an information processing primitive, facilitating long range quantum communication (perhaps unltimately leading to a "quantum internet"), and making it much easier to build a working quantum computer. But science fiction fans will be disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.
Also from nationalgeographic.com
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0129_030 129_teleport.html" title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0129_030 129_teleport.html" target="_blank"http://news.nationalgeographi...
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| War and debts are hugely tied. |
| 10.06.04 (5:40 am) [edit] |
War is the greatest way to enrich the super riches, historically to enrich the Rockfeller and the JP Morgan banking Families and their allied Banking Families in Europe. Some people misbelieved that JP Morgan was a jew whereas he was a CATHOLIC and even in high rank in the Catholic Church (in fact during the 1929 crash, as reported by Kenneth Galbraith, JP Morgan didn't really favor the jewish banks : he crushed one of the most important jewish bank at that time when they came to see and asked him for help.)
infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6...
"JP Morgan was an ardent sportsman, and his yacht entered many international races. He was a prominent lay leader in the Episcopal Church.
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He was widely criticized on many occasions for backing the sale of obsolete carbines to the Union and for his gold speculations in the Civil War, for the harsh terms of his loan of gold to the federal government in the 1895 crisis, for his financial dominance in the Panic of 1907, and for bringing on the financial ills of the New York, New Haven & Hartford RR. He was largely deaf to popular criticism. In 1912 he appeared and publicly defended himself before a congressional committee headed by Arsène Pujo, which was investigating the “money trust” and which was aimed particularly at him."
In more modern times this was revealed about Japan's war debt:
john-loftus.com/bush_nazi_scandal.asp http://www.john-loftus.com/bu...
"the Dulles brothers were still shifting Nazi assets out of Europe for their clients as well as for their own profit. They didn't want the Soviets to get their hands on these assets or even know that they existed. Pauley played a significant role in solving this problem for the Dulles brothers. The major part of Nazi Germany's industrial assets was located in the zones occupied by the West's forces. As Washington's man on the ground, Pauley managed to deceive the Soviets for long enough to allow Allen Dulles to spirit much of the remaining Nazi assets out to safety. . . .
"Pauley, a key player in the plan to hide the Dulles brothers' Nazi assets, then moved into another post where he could help them further. After successfully keeping German assets in Fascist hands, Pauley was given the job of 'surveying Japan's assets and determining the amount of its war debt.' "
So the alliance for war and debt between Rockfeller / Dulles / Bush / Ben Laden Family / Soros[*] / Carlyle's Group is nothing new: an old and cynical recipe to make profits on human life.
About Soros[*]:
businessworldindia.com http://www.businessworldindia...
"Soros agreed to become a limited partner in Carlyle's new fund exactly one year after Black Wednesday, he was bringing far more than just $100 million."
see also my previous post about him and his apparent but fake altruism.
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| Fantastic animations |
| 10.05.04 (5:57 pm) [edit] |
First one in Flash
http://www.localhost.nl/stuff/flash/fight3.swf" title="http://www.localhost.nl/stuff/flash/fight3.swf" target="_blank"http://www.localhost.nl/stuff...
Second is really amazing: 20 minutes of 3D video and music in only 64 Kb (not Mb!)
you must have DirectX 9 installed to see it
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221" title="http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221" target="_blank"http://www.pouet.net/prod.php...
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| Quote of the day on doublethinking from George Orwell |
| 10.04.04 (11:06 am) [edit] |
How dictatorship can create mental confusion of sense to control citizens (in military term it's called "psyops" or "psychological operations") which is sometimes so subtle that citizens won't realise it.
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink."
George Orwell's "1984"
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| Why Sophisms Die Hard (in economics) |
| 10.03.04 (12:02 pm) [edit] |
Found this article (in my numerous disorderly bookmarks :) ) which deals once more around the theme "Appearance vs Reality" applied here to economics field
http://www.bastiat.net/en/Bastiat2001/bertra nd.lemennicier.html" title="http://www.bastiat.net/en/Bastiat2001/bertra nd.lemennicier.html" target="_blank"http://www.bastiat.net/en/Bas...
Why Sophisms Die Hard:
The Power of Ideas over Interests
Bertrand Lemennicier[1]
Introduction
Remember Luc Besson's movie, The Fifth Element. The scene takes place in the office of Zorg, an unscrupulous businessman who specialises in trafficking weapons. He faces a priest named Cornelius, who is devoted completely to justice and known as a guardian of knowledge. The businessman then starts giving an economic lesson to the priest. He breaks a glass and explains to the priest how this destruction benefits the economy by creating jobs. Obviously, Luc Besson did not read Bastiat's sophism of the broken window in "What Is Seen And What Is Not Seen" {1}; otherwise he would have changed this part of his movie.
Viviane Forrester a famous French writer and a literary critic at "Le Monde" wrote a couple of books on economics, entitled "L'horreur économique" (The economic horror)[2] and "Une étrange dictature" (A strange dictatorship)[3]. Both of them are pamphlets against world globalisation and free trade. She wrote:
Cybernetics, ignored by the politicians, thus entered the economy without attracting much notice, with neither reflection nor strategic second thoughts... Will soon have abolished the demand for work without either duty to work. pp.158-159.
In an excellent booklet, M.Rojas {2} destroys this common fallacy about technology and the end of work. But his arguments are empirical, unlike Bastiat's theoretical analysis dealing with Human versus Mechanical Labour.
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| Market's crash: a restart game |
| 10.03.04 (11:15 am) [edit] |
In previous post I mentioned a book's review called Crashmaker
http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=301078" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=funnydiscovery&st atic=301078" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template...
To understand why "they" (the mega riches who stole people's money) would need a big crash at the end - and consecutively political instabilities and revolutions / global wars which have always been correlated since centuries with economic and stock market crisis - I had the archive of a simulated maket's game which explains why the game maker needs to crash the system by cashing out all the money from the players - who then lost everything of course. If you put some money in this game it would be only a small part but in real market the stake is your retirement money !
If you want to make some retirement simulation there is an online tool here:
http://horstmann.com/applets/Retire/Retire .html" title="http://horstmann.com/applets/Retire/Retire .html" target="_blank"http://horstmann.com/applets/...
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"The fantasy stock exchange MMG is a gambling game of a new type.
In "traditional" games we are all used to alternating winnings and losses. When you play roulette, you may be the winner and loser hundred of times a day!
With us everything is quite different.
First of all, over several months all the players do nothing but win. Subsequently the casino suddenly declares restart ( the end of a game ) and takes all the stakes in the kitty.
After which a new game begins instantly. All the players always win until the next restart ( the beginning of a new game ) is declared… And so on.
(All in all, the situation is like on a real stock exchange. Share prices are coming up and up… Then there is an unexpected fall, everything being restated.)
What does a person think, being on our website for the first time?
Sure, all this sounds very promising at first sight. Naturally, I too wouldn't mind 60% a month! (And is there anybody who would?) However!!
First, are there any guarantee that all this is true? That they pay everybody? Couldn't it turn out as usual? One transfers money and then receives no "interest and bonuses", not to mention one's own money? Are they trustworthy, as a matter of fact?
Secondly, the whole thing looks too risky! The game itself. They themselves point out that "the casino can declare a restart at any moment". What will be then? I will lose everything at once? Let's suppose that I transfer money to them. And just after that their "restart" will happen!..
Now let us look into the matter unhurriedly. First, the main things. Is all that really true? Do we actually pay everybody as we promise to do on the website? "60% a month plus bonuses"? Can it be verified?
Let's look at the case.
First of all, there have been hundreds (!) of real letters from our winner-players (see Letters) placed on the website, new ones coming every day. All the letters written by different people, greatly differ from one another, vary in style and language. Their genuineness is quite obvious and gives rise to no doubts. Even cursory reading can give conclusive evidence of it.
Furthermore, the website includes some scanned copies of real payment documents (bank letters of advice, checks, etc.) concerning winnings paid off by us (see Top 100). For millions of dollars! Though the names of recipients are shaded there for clear reasons, the documents themselves are evidently genuine.
In other words, the game is certainly solvent.
After all, independents forums exist! Visit them, contact other players and you will get a clearly understanding of the matter on the whole.
In fact, the game was opened far earlier than the other day. It has been lasting for more than a year and a half. If we had not paid, everybody would have known this long ago. Bad news spreads very rapidly around Internet.
All in all, it's quite obvious that everything placed on the website is unvanished truth. MMG indeed, it's a true game with true rules, true players and true winnings.
And, unfortunately, with the same true restarts… Alas! So far they sometimes happen …
In spite of all our countless explanations and calls for common sense, the overwhelming majority of the players still are panic-struck about restarts. A lot of them are frightened off the game by restarts from the very outset! The others quit playing immediately after a restart and never return.
Let's scrutinize the restarts. Are they so awful and is it worth being afraid of them so? May be everything isn't so terrible in reality?..
As far as the restarts are concerned, we should specify the following.
In the first place, they happen rarely.There have been only two on record (for more than a year and a half!). The first restart was in 4.5 months after the game had started and more than 9 months had passed before the second one occurred.
Secondly, it's easy to notice that periods between restarts have increasingly on the rise (very quickly! have doubled, in fact!). It's understandable. Why, as the game progresses the casino grows richer in both money and players. The game becomes stronger and stronger. So, naturally, crisis happens in decreasing frequency.
After all, thirdly, it's very important to understand that any restart is the game's essential that is fully controllable by the casino. At the most. It isn't a catastrophe !! And all the more, it doesn't mean the end of the whole game! The game resumes immediately at the same moment! Prices start growing quickly, winnings being paid accurately. Thus you always have time and opportunity for regaining your money…
In general, while being caught by a restart, you should, above all, to stand emotions and remember firmly that this particular restart falls far short of being the first one. Therefore, you can bargain for no surprises in this sense. Everybody knows how the situation will be shaping up after the recent restart. Nothing special! In a routine way… No surprises…Again, the same monotonous and infinite months of a new growth in prices, the game being safe and even.
Consequently, when you meet with any restart, don't be panic, don't leave the game. On the contrary, hike your stakes as much as you can! For the matter of fact, going through restart is a great luck!! You should only to make the best use of it. You see, another favorable moment in the game (next restart) won't be soon…
(If you are a lucky dog today, you are not going to throw your cards aside after having lost a single set, aren't you? Thus, any restart is nothing but such a set lost by you by chance for the whole of your lucky evening. Nothing terrible! You will win back over the next set. The game is altogether safe for you. Its rules imply that you will anyway BENEFIT by the outcome of the whole evening! You should only remember it and keep playing without being worried. )
So, this is our summing up.
The full predictability of the process of the game on the whole is of primary importance rather than restarts. The main thing is that the game starts immediately after any restart! Prices will be increasingly hiked, winnings will be paid.
It's quite clear that on such conditions restarts aren't dangerous at all. On the contrary! You see, there is no turbulence in the game over oncoming several months. So, you have a good chance not only to regain your money but also seize a rare opportunity!
If we go on comparing our game with playing cards, frankly speaking, could you agree to lose a single set with the understanding that you will be the winner for the following ten or even twenty times for sure?! With any stakes at that !! "
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| What can we do with our invisible extra dimensions of SuperString Theory :D |
| 10.03.04 (9:17 am) [edit] |
When I was 9 years old I received as gift a book on Astronomy. Since then I have been captivated by Cosmology Field and nearly chose it as a professional career although I abandon this foolish idea at the end. At 12 I wondered why the space had only 3 dimensions and stayed awake one whole night trying to figure out other dimensions (the next day at school I had really a bad face :D ). At that time the SuperString Theory (site here http://superstringtheory.com) was not published yet and was merely burgeonning.
Today it is the hottest field in Theorical Physics as it tries to solve the paradox that arose from the confrontation between Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. And the suprising consequence is that our space-time would have not only 4 dimensions (3 for space and 1 for time) but 10 - the reason we don't see the other dimensions is that they are too tiny.
This means that you or me, as peculiar Object of this Universe, have also inherited those extra-dimensions, then a funny question is: what hidden qualities can we have with them :D
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| Why I am not even libertarian |
| 10.03.04 (7:37 am) [edit] |
I dismiss both political parties left and right for their corruption. It doesn't mean that I have no political color preference it is rather that I don't like the IMPLEMENTATION in these political parties. The rightist party is openly becoming a neocons party, the leftist party under the covert of altruism is serving the same money influence and because they are supposed to be altruist nobody watch them as much as the neocons so that neocons laws have been silently passed under previous left governement notably about martial law and authorised use of psychotronic weapons against civilians.
So it seems that there is only one party left that would be the libertarian party. In fact I often quote them but I'm not even libertarian. What I reproach them is that they are only reasoning in the stratophere of THEORITICALITY and not on PRACTICALITY ground. I'm engineer and have been a software architect and if in my job if I was only stopping at theorical level everything would be always fine but when it comes to practical implementation serious problems would arise if I don't take these latters into account.
For me there is no political party that has any desire to take into account the CONSTRAINTS OF REALITY, probably I will detail one day, that's why I am for none.
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| Astrology: science, art or superstition ? |
| 10.03.04 (6:56 am) [edit] |
Since I mentioned Barnum effect previously, the field of Astrology is of course full of it. There is a site that questions astrology in a non polemical way here:
http://www.geocities.com/Omegaman_uk/astrolgy.html" title="http://www.geocities.com/Omegaman_uk/astrolgy.html" target="_blank"http://www.geocities.com/Omeg...
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| The power of Barnum effect or subjective validation |
| 10.03.04 (6:15 am) [edit] |
In the epilogue of "Mystic Microsoft" see previous thread http://www.tblog.com/template... the author concludes
" It doesn’t matter how we seek God, what matters is that we seek him. The smallest effort on our part will come back to us a thousand-fold.
In this book I have offered my personal testimony as proof of these claims. God responded to my poor efforts in wonderful and sometimes miraculous ways."
Let's examine his last proof on chapter 15 about his market's stock options
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er15.htm" title="http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er15.htm" target="_blank"http://www.anandasangha.net/m...
He pretends to have sold at the top of the market because he asked God.
This kind of "proof" is very farfetched as it is rather the manifestation of a Barnum effect which in psychology http://www.vocationalpsycholo... designates "interpretations [which] might apply to almost everyone" if each time something good happens to you you pretend that it is the "proof" of God, well it's a belief you are not forbidden to have but surely not a proof of God ! The Guy has a prior belief of God and so he tries to fit everything to assert his belief which is the contrary of proof concept. Also he feels some guilt towards money so he tries to justify that all his wealth is God's gift, he really reminds me of mystic traders who pretend that they are the center of Universe Energy that's why they capture so much money because Money is Energy :D.
This shows that psychology has a great power even on a person capable of some logical reasoning since he was a software architect like I've been myself but that reason can abandon a person when he is in a state of disorientation.
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| Microsoft can lead you to discover God :D |
| 10.02.04 (11:35 am) [edit] |
There is a book called "Mystic Microsoft" which has been written by a former Microsoft Technology Chief. It tells his story of his God's Faith discovery through Microsoft instrumentalised by him as God's Hand :D
I only read the prologue
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er01.htm" title="http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er01.htm" target="_blank"http://www.anandasangha.net/m...
and chapter 14th till the end
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er14.htm" title="http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/Chapt er14.htm" target="_blank"http://www.anandasangha.net/m...
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| When Philosophical Ontology enters technological field |
| 10.02.04 (5:56 am) [edit] |
Ontology as precised on this catholic site comes from greek
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11258a.htm" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11258a.htm" target="_blank"http://www.newadvent.org/cath...
"on, ontos, being, and logos, science, the science or philosophy of being"
and I also pick up their definition:
"Ontology is a fundamental interpretation of the ultimate constituents of the world of experience. All these constituents -- individuals with their attributes -- have factors or aspects in common. The atom and the molecule of matter, the plant, the animal, man, and God agree in this that each is a being, has a characteristic essence, an individual unity, truth, goodness, is a substance and (God excepted) has accidents, and is or may be a cause. All these common attributes demand definition and explanation -- definition not of their mere names, but analysis of the real object which the mind abstracts and reflectively considers. Ontology is therefore the fundamental science since it studies the basal constituents and the principles presupposed by the special sciences."
Well, as I've being involved in software engineering architecture since many years, things have evolved towards more and more abstraction so that it really rejoins philosophy, if you don't believe it, here's an exerpt from an article on a technological site that explains "the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology":
http://www.metamodel.com/article.php?story=200301152112232 71" title="http://www.metamodel.com/article.php?story=200301152112232 71" target="_blank"http://www.metamodel.com/arti...
This excellent overview was contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company. Many organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify.
"I will answer this question one step at a time. To keep this answer focused on the question, I will use other concepts that I will not define here. If this generates additional questions, feel free to comment on this post.
A controlled vocabulary is a list of terms that have been enumerated explicitly. This list is controlled by and is available from a controlled vocabulary registration authority. All terms in a controlled vocabulary should have an unambiguous, non-redundant definition. This is a design goal that may not be true in practice. It depends on how strict the controlled vocabulary registration authority is regarding registration of terms into a controlled vocabulary. At a minimum, the following two rules should be enforced:
1. If the same term is commonly used to mean different concepts in different contexts, then its name is explicitly qualified to resolve this ambiguity.
2. If multiple terms are used to mean the same thing, one of the terms is identified as the preferred term in the controlled vocabulary and the other terms are listed as synonyms or aliases.
A taxonomy is a collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure. Each term in a taxonomy is in one or more parent-child relationships to other terms in the taxonomy. There may be different types of parent-child relationships in a taxonomy (e.g., whole-part, genus-species, type-instance), but good practice limits all parent-child relationships to a single parent to be of the same type. Some taxonomies allow poly-hierarchy, which means that a term can have multiple parents. This means that if a term appears in multiple places in a taxonomy, then it is the same term. Specifically, if a term has children in one place in a taxonomy, then it has the same children in every other place where it appears.
A thesaurus is a networked collection of controlled vocabulary terms. This means that a thesaurus uses associative relationships in addition to parent-child relationships. The expressiveness of the associative relationships in a thesaurus vary and can be as simple as “related to term” as in term A is related to term B.
People use the word ontology to mean different things, e.g. glossaries & data dictionaries, thesauri & taxonomies, schemas & data models, and formal ontologies & inference. A formal ontology is a controlled vocabulary expressed in an ontology representation language. This language has a grammar for using vocabulary terms to express something meaningful within a specified domain of interest. The grammar contains formal constraints (e.g., specifies what it means to be a well-formed statement, assertion, query, etc.) on how terms in the ontology’s controlled vocabulary can be used together.
People make commitments to use a specific controlled vocabulary or ontology for a domain of interest. Enforcement of an ontology’s grammar may be rigorous or lax. Frequently, the grammar for a "light-weight" ontology is not completely specified, i.e., it has implicit rules that are not explicitly documented.
A meta-model is an explicit model of the constructs and rules needed to build specific models within a domain of interest. A valid meta-model is an ontology, but not all ontologies are modeled explicitly as meta-models. A meta-model can be viewed from three different perspectives:
1. as a set of building blocks and rules used to build models
2. as a model of a domain of interest, and
3. as an instance of another model.
When comparing meta-models to ontologies, we are talking about meta-models as models (perspective 2).
Note: Meta-modeling as a domain of interest can have its own ontology. For example, the CDIF Family of Standards, which contains the CDIF Meta-meta-model along with rules for modeling and extensibility and transfer format, is such an ontology. When modelers use a modeling tool to construct models, they are making a commitment to use the ontology implemented in the modeling tool. This model making ontology is usually called a meta-model, with “model making” as its domain of interest.
Bottom line: Taxonomies and Thesauri may relate terms in a controlled vocabulary via parent-child and associative relationships, but do not contain explicit grammar rules to constrain how to use controlled vocabulary terms to express (model) something meaningful within a domain of interest. A meta-model is an ontology used by modelers. People make commitments to use a specific controlled vocabulary or ontology for a domain of interest."
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| presidential "debates" or boxing sport ? |
| 10.01.04 (11:30 am) [edit] |
As a french I couldn't assist Bush/Kerry "debates" but if I guess well, it must be as afflicting as any political "debates" in France or Europe. All is focused on the persons and not any more on projects. It has become a show biz or a boxing sport. Maybe politicians would pretend that People just want "simple" debates and so they have what they ask but then they shouldn't complain that complex problems are never solved by politicians.
There is a double responsability of corrupted politicians and the lack of maturity from people.
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| So Irak is an external dangerous ennemy but not inside Scientology |
| 10.01.04 (10:14 am) [edit] |
whereas his founder Ron Hubbard has clearly defined the targets of scientology
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/j/berlin.html" title="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/j/berlin.html" target="_blank"http://home.snafu.de/tilman/j...
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"T[arget] 1. Depopularising the enemy to a point of total obliteration.
T[arget] 2. Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.
T[arget] 3. Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.
T[arget] 4. Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance".
Hubbard, HCOPL, Targets, Defense, 16 February 1969, issue IV.
According to a french gov report the annual budget of scientology is equivalent to a country like Benelux. Irak's economy is not even as powerfull as Benelux and Bush made a war against it whereas in the name of fake religious freedom Scientology can make sabotage from inside ? As the author of the article suggests Scientology may well be a part of secret service to commit acts that a democracy should forbid.
As for Irak the true intention may not be national security, even less oil preservation, the true intention may be well oil inflation: that is the interest of the US / Arab Oil consortium. They cannot just inflate oil without consumers protesting whereas with such a good pretext... like in every crime appareance must hide reality (see again Hamlet's thread).
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| The number PI is not "RANDOM" (mathematical discovery and philosophical implication)... |
| 10.01.04 (8:54 am) [edit] |
... or is it ?
First what random used to mean - before that discovery (and still mean in day to day life) ? It meant that you cannot predict the occurrence of the very next future event. For example if you throw a dice you cannot know if it will give 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. So mathematicians were wondering if by looking at the sequence of PI decimals there was any recurrent order that would allow to detect some pattern or degree of predictibility if not the PI number would be just a "random" creation of mother nature. Or in other words if you want to transmit the value of PI through internet to a friend you would have to transmit the infinite number of its decimals that is to say you cannot do it during your finite life :)
To detect "randomness" one of the most sophisticated method in statistic is a method called rescale range analysis. Applied to number PI on 1.25 million digits of pi-3 see here
http://student.vub.ac.be/" title="http://student.vub.ac.be/" target="_blank"http://student.vub.ac.be/~pvouplin/pi/rstopi.htm
it is concluded that
http://student.vub.ac.be/" title="http://student.vub.ac.be/" target="_blank"http://student.vub.ac.be/~pvouplin/pi/conclusi.htm
"pi is a 'good' random sequence, as already stated in other papers by various authors."
But recently a mathematical breakthrough occurs : 2 mathematicians have discovered that the decimals of PI have a DETERMINISTIC FORMULA (see below) so indeed you can transmit the value of PI in a fraction of seconds to yor friend now :D. Apart from this consequence, the significance is big from epistemological point of view and statisticians are really scratching their head. For what randomness really means ? Finally it doesn't mean that it opposes determininism it would rather mean that it is an appearance that is produced by a deterministic mechanism. In fact Chaos Theory already somehow knew since a long time that a deterministic system can behave chaotically ressembling random behavior but it was only about very simple systems and not about a complex real world system all the more when this system is not simple at all since it is our whole real Universe :D.
http://crd.lbl.gov/" title="http://crd.lbl.gov/" target="_blank"http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey
In 1996, Peter Borwein (brother of Jonathan Borwein), Simon Plouffe and myself discovered, using a computer program, a new formula for pi:
This formula, now known as the "BBP formula for pi", permits one to compute the n-th binary or hexadecimal digit of pi, without computing the first n-1 digits, by means of a simple scheme that requires very little memory and no multiple precision software. More recently, Richard Crandall and I have shown that there is a connection between the new pi formula and the centuries-old question of normality (ie, statistical randomness of digits in a certain sense) of pi and various other math constants.
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| Crashmaker a must read book: how neocons use market as instrument to destroy democracy |
| 10.01.04 (4:52 am) [edit] |
The majority of people don't ignore that financial world is leading the political world but they are never explained HOW because above all the Big corporates and Big Government don't want them to know so that it would appear that the opposition of people is just irrational fear that should be discarded.
Things do not happen by magic but by using instruments and people. The main instrument of democracy dumping is made through the financial market under the pretext that the market is the reflect of the people and so "democratic" : this is the appearance, the reality is that the stock market is driven by interest rates herding by big speculators / investors and among them there are not only Georges Soros or Warren Buffet but the big corporates and institutions themselves (just look at recent news about Mac Fannie to get the most recent example) and the sole ones who decide the interest rates are the Central Banks. The central banks do not respond to Government in United States as well as in Europe. The central banks represent the pure interests of the bankers and these bankers are international (the US FED has shareholders which are in majority european bankers - but this is very unknown because contrary to any major public firms they are not obliged to disclose their names, only a very old congress inquiry in 1970 has revealed them). This means that they don't care to destroy one or several countries like in the third world or japan to transfer the wealth to america continent and then destroy america continent to transfer the wealth to asia, each time when the population gets old and need the money to retire, each time under the pretext of competition between countries whereas cooperation is normally behind the free market ideal. The market like money are not good or bad by themselves, they are necessary because as well as your computer is not responsible of your own mismanipulation, money and market are not more responsible by themselves, it is those who use them in certain way that makes the system work harmoniously or not.
For those who want to understand what is happening there is a book untitled "Crashmaker" which has the originality of being written under the form of an entertaining novel - so that it is enjoyable and understandable by non initiates - and by a financial market practionner and a friend of him who is a Constitutional attorney, that is to say by experts in the field. A review of the book can be found here
http://www.fgmr.com/crashmkr.htm" title="http://www.fgmr.com/crashmkr.htm" target="_blank"http://www.fgmr.com/crashmkr....
Even before "Crashmaker" arrived in the post, I knew that I would like this book. My expectations were high because I've known both of the authors for about fifteen years, so I understand what they are capable of achieving. Furthermore, I hold both of them in very high regard because of their professional accomplishments and the vast reservoir of knowledge that each commands.
Victor Sperandeo is a Wall Street legend whose deft stock picking and commodity trading over the years earned him the sobriquet, 'Trader Vic'. And Alvaro Almeida is the pen name of an accomplished constitutional attorney whose knowledge about the legal basis for sound money throughout United States history is second to none.
So it was with great eagerness that I picked up this book and began reading. But it quickly became evident as I delved into Crashmaker that this was no ordinary book. When I finished, there was no doubt that even my high expectations for it were more than succeeded. This book is truly magnificent. Everyone must read this book, all two volumes and 1,572 pages of it.
Crashmaker can be read on two levels. First of all, it is a very entertaining novel, with a gripping plot that will keep you in suspense throughout the book. Though entirely a work of fiction, it is humorous to parallel real people with the characters in the book, like the Ranscums, a despicable former president who along with his wife brought disrepute to the White House because of their numerous scandals, lack of morals and disregard for the law. And it is very amusing to read about the exploits of Allen Stillwell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, who is a central character of this story. But while the book on this level is fun and entertaining, it is the second level that is of importance and the reason I recommend that everyone read this book.
Crashmaker challenges the reader. It asks each American what is required to achieve true freedom, and then thoughtfully and thoroughly explains how American freedoms have been lost by the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Its establishment has created a monetary system that subverts freedom by violating the monetary provisions of the Constitution, thereby making possible what the Founding Fathers feared - a ruling elite, which the book disparagingly refers to as the 'Establishment'.
How have American freedoms been lost? How has the Establishment accomplished this end? In the words of Edward dos Santos, one of the book's protagonists: "They have two strategies. The first is the totalitarian gambit: perverting the Constitution through the Supreme Court's misinterpretations, thereby concentrating powers in the national government…[Also] the elitists have turned to a second strategy: transferring America's sovereignty piece by piece through treasonable treaties and other international agreements, to a nascent one-world government they intend to control."[285] The Federal Reserve is central to this strategy of control because of the power it wields through its iron-hand on the nation's money.
Though a work of fiction, this book is not some lightweight story of little relevance. Consider this insight when the heroine, Lara Bernot, confronts Allen Stillwell with the realization that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are working to depress the gold price. "'You've figured out what we're doing?!' Stillwell was momentarily taken aback. 'Clever girl. Well, we can't be too careful, can we? We have to keep the [gold] price low to lull the masses. Once they doubt the solvency of the system, and the price spurts up, there'll be no stopping it.'"[377]
The Federal Reserve and the banking cartel come under careful yet total scrutiny in Crashmaker. Moreover, this book delivers some of the most devastating critiques of fractional reserve banking that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. In one debate in Congress on economic reform, one representative explains it this way: "…fractional-reserve banking's eaten away at America's prosperity, political liberties, and social cohesion. Fractional-reserve banking's the true cause of all the supposed instabilities of the specie standard - the true cause of inflation, deflation, and depression of the boom-and-bust cycle - the true cause of the governmental legislation that's led to central banks, banking cartels, irredeemable legal-tender paper currency, and an increasingly fascistic regimentation in all areas of business."[1240]
There is nothing of significance in the way that Washington, D.C. works today that is not covered in this book. The connection between drug money and the government, the deterioration of public education, the un-Constitutional nature of the income tax, the hubris and the hidden agendas of the big foundations, and so much more are all exposed in chilling but enlightening detail. But Crashmaker just doesn't introduce and then leave the reader burdened and disheartened with all the problems it identifies and analyzes; rather, it provides very workable solutions to these problems. It has created a thoughtful, reasonable agenda for political and economic reform.
It is likely that Crashmaker will be compared to Atlas Shrugged, because both books are monumental achievements that profoundly affect the reader. But drawing this comparison is I think a little like comparing apples and oranges. Both books are exceptional, but they are written for different objectives. Crashmaker is not imbued with theoretical discourses that may have little practical relevance. Rather, it takes an honest look at the state of the federal government in America, addresses each problem and then tackles them one-by-one with thought provoking solutions. And though I've read Atlas Shrugged three times, I never had the urge to start re-reading it again right after finishing it, which is how I feel about Crashmaker.
That Americans need to re-learn the Constitution is apparent from my own experience a few years back. I had thought that I was fairly familiar with this document, but one simple test made me realize that my understanding of it was deficient, causing me to read and study more about it and the true intent of the Founding Fathers.
If you doubt that what Crashmaker calls the Establishment exists or if you do not believe that it exerts harmful control with pernicious results, then take this test. Look at any modern schoolbook that publishes "The Constitution of the United States of America", and then go back to the original document signed by the Founding Fathers, which is actually titled "The Constitution for (sic) the United States of America". That one small word change found only in modern schoolbooks alters significantly the intent of the Founding Fathers.
Their intent is made clear if you think of the federal government in terms of the "united States" - or in other words, States, each of which is a sovereign power, that are united - as opposed to the "United States", a single sovereign power. The reality is that the Founding Fathers found the concept of a single sovereign power to be abhorrent. When they spoke of the loss of power within a State to a federal authority, they called it "consolidation" and they were dead-set against it.
That realization explains why the Founding Fathers went to great pains in the Constitution to delegate only 17 specific and enumerated powers to the federal government. They intended that the powers of the federal government would be few and limited. And so it was until the establishment of the Federal Reserve created the ruling elite. After all, who do you think is responsible for that one small word change in today's 'textbooks' if not the Establishment?
If you have any doubt whatsoever that a conspiracy could exist in the federal government, your view will be forever altered once you read Crashmaker. You will learn who really pulls the strings in Washington, D.C.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. This book is a must-read. You'll be both entertained and enlightened at the same time. And then when finished reading you can decide how you will respond to the challenge this book presents - restoration of individual freedoms as the Founding Fathers intended, or continuing to move toward what Hayek called the road to serfdom.
You can order Crashmaker by calling toll-free at 1-800-247-6553. You can also buy this book online through their website, http://www.crashmaker.com .
Don't be intimidated by either the length of this book or its cost - about $60 including shipping & handling. I assure you that no one will be disappointed.
Not only is this book a pleasure to read, it is a sound and worthwhile investment. Crashmaker will inform you about money, banking, and the political system in ways you can't imagine. And you will, as I did, marvel at the unique and creative solutions crafted by the authors to restore all the freedoms and political liberties that are intended for us by the legacy of Founding Fathers. In the end, you will ponder whether Americans are willing to restore individual freedom, as the Founding Fathers understood that term.
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