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Art in Bklyn info@brooklynart.com
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 © Copyright 2004 David Opdyke
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Roebling Hall Art Gallery: Brooklyn, NY
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American Artist David Opdyke at Roebling Hall, Friday November 21, 7-9 PM Reception Friday, November 21, 7-9 PM
Hours for the Exhibition: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 12-6 PM November 21st - December 22nd
Roebling Hall is extremely pleased to present "Loose Ends," the second solo New York exhibition of the brilliant
sculptural work of David Opdyke.
David Opdyke's sculptures are immaculately constructed works at both small and large scales that combine high concept, occasional low humor and, most recently, acute political commentary. Working through a welter of artistic and social influences, Opdyke has during the last few years turned his compulsively precise hand and gimlet eye to a brand of poetic cultural commentary whose most salient characteristic is, to quote Wallace Stevens, that it resists interpretation "almost successfully."
Obsessively detailed and constructed with an accuracy that recalls machine-made objects of no particular functionality, David Opdyke's works in various media-sculptures, drawings, prints and computer-generated projections- rekindle childhood memories of such small-scale diversions as model building, miniature railroading and playing with Matchbox cars. Yet Opdyke's minutely constructed artworks also suggest larger problems in a world of ominous portent, an evocation that contrasts sharply with the playfully miniaturized environments he creates.
For instance, "Oil Empire," one of the major works in the current exhibition, is constructed of intricate miniature oil pipe linesand tanks that form a complex, three-dimensional network in the shape of the map of the continental United States.
The work's topographical quality and its profusion of hyperbolic detail are meant to illustrate an exaggerated version of the real-life labyrinth of underground and overland pipelines that stretches across the United States.
But "Oil Empire" is also clearly intended to underline the prevalence of refineries in the U.S. and the ubiquitous convenience of our oil distribution system. The drain its demands make on the globe's resources as well as the sheer power it harnesses-Opdyke's work as well as recent events seems to suggest-leave many in the industrialized and non-industrialized world at loose ends.
David Opdyke has previously exhibited his work at, among other venues, Fabbrica del Vappore (Milan), the Palm Beach Center for Contemporary Art, Ronald Feldman Gallery and Roebling Hall. His work will be featured in upcoming exhibitions at the Corcoran Museum of Art ("American Paradigms: Lane Twitchell and David Opdyke," Feb-April 2004) and the Brooklyn Museum of Art ("Open House: Artists Working In Brooklyn," April/ 2004).
David Opdyke's sculptures are immaculately constructed wizardry of high concept, occasional low humor and acute political commentary. His mind-boggling attention to detail beautifully serves, resolutely revealing the nimble ideas that are the generative source of his work. Working in media ranging from sculpture to model-making, computer generated video animation, prints, mechanically operated machines and delicately crafted drawings, Opdykes commentaries are exquisite and chrystalline.
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 What we're looking at with the Bushes is a multigenerational family of fibbers.
And they share aspects of this, and rationales and antecedents for the
pattern. They have a distinct logic. From the beginnings of the Bush Dynasty,
in the period around World War I, with two of the current President's
great-grandfathers, what we have had is a family that has emerged over the
years in close contact with whatEisenhower later referred to as the "military
industrial complex," and very close relations with the intelligence community,
and in a wholeseries of episodes that drew on the relations with armaments,
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  Legislation: A Lucrative Investment
(click here to view the PDF version)
Attention All Billionaires:
If you're like most of us, you're always looking for higher returns on your investments. And while you may
be familiar with stocks and bonds, currency speculation, IPOs, and all the rest, there's a new investment
arena you really ought to be aware of: Legislation.
If a mutual fund returns 20% a year, that's considered unbelievably good. But in the low-risk, high return
world of legislation, a 20% return is positively lousy. Why, there's no reason why your investment dollar
can't return 60,000, 70,000, even 80,000%!
Here's how it works: With the help of a professional legislation broker (called a Lobbyist), you place your
investment (called a Campaign Contribution) with a carefully selected list of legislation manufacturers
(called Members of Congress). These manufacturers then go to work writing legislation: crafting industry-
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you (and your favorite industry) reap the benefits! The effect on your bottom line is immediate and huge.
Just check out these results:
Contributor (Investor)
Campaign Contributions (Investment)
Legislation or Administrative Action
Date
Payoff in govt contracts, reduced costs, higher prices for consumers, or shift in tax burden
Return on Investment
Source
Halliburton
$2,379,792 1990-2002
Logistics contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan
2002-03
$2,329,040,891
97,767%
Center for Public Integrity, Windfalls of War Oct. 30, 2003.
Bechtel
$3,310,102 1990-2002
Infrastructure construction contracts in Iraq
2002-03
$1,029,833,000
31,012%
Center for Public Integrity, Windfalls of War Oct. 30, 2003.
Airline Industry
$16 million 1991-2001
Airline bailout
Sept. 2001
$15 billion
93,650%
Common Cause, The $16 Million Soft Landing, Jan 10, 2002
Drug Companies
$44 million since 1999
Prescription drug coverage in Medicare reform bill.
Nov. 2003
$139 billion in increased profits
315,809%
Public Campaign, Ouch #123, The Big Medicare Fix, Nov. 20, 2003.
Agribusiness
$59.3 million in 2000 election cycle
Farm Bill
Feb. 2002
$40 billion in increased subsidies for large farms
67,354%
Public Campaign, Ouch #98, The Farmer in the Till, May 3, 2002.
Wealthy Americans
$1.8 billion 1999-2002
2001 Tax Cut
May 2001
$769 billion in tax cuts for top 10%
42,622%
Public Campaign, State of the Union Poster, Jan. 21, 2003
50 Biggest Corporate Tax Avoiders
$151 million, 1991 -2001
Various tax breaks
Various
$55 billion in tax breaks from 1996-1998 alone
36,323%
Public Campaign, State of the Union Poster, Jan. 21, 2003
Oil, Gas, Coal and Nuclear Industries
$71.8 million since 1999
Tax breaks, subsidies, and MTBE pollution indemnification in Energy bill.
Pending
$49 billion
68,145%
Public Campaign, Ouch #122, Crude Politics in Energy Bill, Nov. 17, 2003.
If you can get this kind of return when you buy a few congressmen, just imagine what you get
when you buy the President. Don't wait. Invest now, and let the paybacks roll in for the next
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Hitlers Boss
 Fitz Thyssen
How the Bush family made
its fortune from the Nazis
The Hitler Project and BushIn many ways, Bush's Hamburg-
America Line was the pivot for the entire Hitler project. G.W.'s
grandfather and great-grandfather, Prescott Bush and George
Herbert Walker, were among the chief American fundraisers
for Germany's Nazi Party. Through industrialist Fritz Thyssen,
the Bush-run Union Banking Company and W. A. Harriman &
Company, the Bushes sold over $50 million in German bonds
to American investors, starting in 1924. Thyssen in turn pumped
money into the infant Nazi Party, which had proved its desire
to rule and its willingness to use brute force in 1923's Munich
Beer Hall Putsch. http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
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& New York's the emergency ward." R@wman...
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Q: Are you going to vote in the next election?
A: "Sure but there hasn't been a president since JFK died of Pentagonareah, their all
puppets they follow orders or else.
Q:That sounds cynical and un-patriotic...
A:"Hey its patriotic to care about what's messed up about America this country has had
some divergent views about what’s patriotic, take Prescott Bush and Benedict Arnold (they
are related you know ) Arnold only wanted money and position but Bush was a true Nazi traitor,
Hitters banker shit he was censured and that doesn't make the history books they both did
it for money but Bush was working to finance Frigging Adolph hither instead of hanging him
for treason he was reelected to a second term by that stupid selfish sack of shit the state of
Connecticut .Tucket if that isn't insane what is ?
Q: Don't know...
A: Don't know or wont say...
Q: Aha! Yup! Crazy like a fox, this movie aint over yet, not till they are sweeping the tickets
stubs up off the floor in Hicksvill...
School Kids on the Cross town buss yacking about The Riechstage and calling Bush Penhead.
"It's Nürenburg all over again you idiot, the Patriot Act my ass..."
End
... In the American Revolution: famous traitor Benedict Arnold ...
Prescott Bush got a cash fine (he was rich: he paid it off) and went on to ...
Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Who Performed
Human Experimentation in the U. S.
"I dont get this hope for the end, (I was just geting started... )
Do they mean pique oil or neo-colonialism? ED"
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Thanks Richard:
Here's a powerful Flash presentation that is great for classes and folks who still don't get it.... just let it play out till the numbers stop increasing.
There is a link on cnn.com that publishes all the faces of the military killed in action. Also powerful.
And if you would like to know what it costs in domestic programs:
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End bush beating
XXXVIII, February 1, 2004. Jackson masterminded the Super Bowl halftime stunt that
left her right breast exposed and prompted a federal probe into television indecency,
the head of MTV said on Tuesday. 'Janet Jackson engineered it,' MTV Chief Executive
Tom Freston told Reuters in an interview. (Win Mcnamee/Reuters)
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Sure they do Mike: Chairman Michael Powell said, I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime
show of the Super Bowl. Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television
for a celebration. Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt.
Our nations children, parents and citizens deserve better.
Feds 'Outraged' by Halftime Show Mishap
Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Feds 'Outraged' by Halftime Show Mishap
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Why Don't You Get A Grant? Every year over - $1,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion)
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That's 6 times more than what the country spends on automobiles. And you probably bought
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The text stats clearly the authors unabashed feeling of being better off with less sleep at night.
The global gross national product = weapons drugs
and oil(source UN IA)
Click the link above and see the way we use oil the mostly wasted remains of life from an earlier time.
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are scientific reports, online/realtime queries, spatial data sets, regional contact lists, and general information. The data is made available for use by biologists, interagency groups, and the general public.
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Some photographs just happen. Others require the precision planning of a military campaign. Portrait and fashion
photographer David Seidner has been fascinated by fine art for years. He has made a series of pictures inspired by
northern European portrait paintings and photographed artists looking like Roman busts.
And last year, to honor the John Singer Sargent retrospective, currently at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.,
he photographed 18 descendants of the British and American aristocrats whose elegant portraits Sargent painted
around the turn of the century. Those who didn't live in New York were flown in (Helena Bonham Carter, whose great-
great-grandmother Sargent drew in l912, crossed the country for her daylong sitting in the middle of filming a movie.)
The six-week shoot required two enormous studios to accommodate dressing areas, antiques, more than 100 gowns
from couture houses and armed guards to babysit the jewels. The result: sumptuous portraits that pay homage to
Sargent without imitating his paintings. "What I'm most interested in is evoking the spirit of a painting through the fold
of fabric, the position of a hand, the quality of light on skin," says the photographer. A long-term survivor of AIDS,
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  Subject: - complex scandal -
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:46:32 -0500
From: <LM>
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
As you've probably noticed, the British tabs (as in, Murdoch) on Saturday
led with an allegation that John Kerry had behaved incorrectly with an
intern (at least she's female). The short version is that he met her in
the summer of 2002 and invited her to work in his campaign for Senate;
since he was unopposed in that election, he clearly needed a lot of
volunteer help.
The story seems to have surfaced on the Drudge Report, which simply said
that reports said, and so forth. The girl, meanwhile, is a graduate of the
Columbia Journalism School who was graduated in the spring of 2002 and went
directly to a night job at AP in New York. Jumping forward, she's now in
hiding at the Kenya estate of the parents of her (soi-disant) fiance,
Israelis who moved to this popular vacation spot only a two-hours' flight
south of Tel Aviv. The British tabs are camped encircling the Kenyan
estate; the American press, such as it's called, is camped at the entrance
to to the girl's parents' home outside Philadelphia. Her father said
several days ago that Kerry is a "sleazeball"; on Monday, I think, he said
that Kerry is a fine American and his family would vote for him.
In betwixt, the young journalist, Alexandra Polier, known as Alex,
apparently issued a statement that I read on a borrowed Blackberry. Its
nondenial denial was reminiscent of a Clinton nonstatement, it seemed to
have been composed by a lawyer, it represented Alex very poorly, and it
caused the reader to query whose lawyer wrote this drivel and whose side
was he on, anyway?
To my thinking, the big story here is not that Kerry's habitual, casual
arrogance has now probably generated the data that will ensure his not
being elected (never a big likelihood, to start with). What grabs the mind
starts with this: a fairly reliable report has emerged that there exists a
videotape on which Alex explains in detail the entire affair.
Who got this gem? Here's what my preliminary research suggests.
At the behest of US intell, it looks as though British signals
intelligence, using American-made equipment, has for a long time been
getting all the dirt on every single US politician.
Reciprocally, US sigint has done the same for the Brits using British
equipment; in each case, the spy group slides well past domestic laws
forbidding this stuff. Then they just trade info.
In case you've been trying to forget, every single nonlocal telephone call,
every e-mail, every cell phone call, is recorded by a an Omnivore-type
software or a cell tower near you. It's a good thing you have nothing,
and I mean nothing, to hide.
So back to to Alex. My limited research shows that her communications with
Senator Kerry were recorded by British sigint and sent to US intell
(probably not to the notorious big acronyms, but to those tiny shops having
no name that do so much of the important stuff).
Next, someone in this loop quickly sent out an interview team with a camera
to go record Alex's full thoughts on the subject of the junior senator from
Massachusetts, the Yalie who dated an Auchincloss in order to hang out with
Kennedys; the Skull and Bones inductee favored by the Democratic Party even
as it knows he surely could not win in November; the parvenu who married
first a millionairess then a billionairess.
One supposes that Alex's motive in supplying devastating details to a
camera was that she was really, really peeved.
What enterprising media conglomerate got this global scoop? Seems to be
the FBI. Who leaked it? Hold your hat: it was forwarded to that famous
news-gathering op named the GOP.
Not a long leap thither to Matt Drudge.
. . . . . . .
Three little data remain. First, all preliminary reports are probably
disinformation, so much of this story may be inaccurate (although I'm a
little fond of my sources in this case).
Second, it's only fair to say that Alex Polier was a genuinely committed
student of journalism and a serious practitioner of the craft at AP. She
has a somewhat-developed political philosophy as well as a moral analysis
of the larger society (sorry;I dunno about the transitory stuff).
Third, if the story above is at least close to accurate, then here's what
may be happening. The much-sought WMD from Iraq has obviously not surfaced
in the world press. I think it'll show up conveniently before the November
US presidential elections, but that's speculative. Meanwhile, even if WMD
whereabouts are being withheld by Bush and Blair for their own reasons,
someone has to take the blame.
Bush and Blair have been loudly blaming their intell services for dire
misinformation. In response, those very effective little shops sometimes
called OGAs (other government agencies) are using this example of
publicized sigint on Kerry to illustrate to Bush and Blair that, if these
two continue their calumny, the OGAs will bring down the American president
and the British prime minister in just the same way.
In short, OGAs are threatening Blair and Bush with catastrophic information
release if these two don't immediately cease blaming their intell services
for "unfound" WMD.
. . . . . . .
In summary, and despite being kind of inchoate at three in the morning, I
think we see a battle of Titans in the geosynchronous firmament. Do not
mess wit' the guys controlling the signals-gathering technology. Did you
need a clearer clarion?
No not that engaged by half...I do wonder when we will sell out to China outright and stop
pretending that Pentagonareah has no remedy...
Candidates? That's what you call them, they all look like a gaggle of goons right out of central
casting with names to match ... Not a honest bone in the poor beastly little head's
Not one dares to call for mass resignations of CIA, 65$ billion a year that's a lot of silk stockings and chocolate.
"The hole world is an insane asylum & New York's the emergency ward." R@wman...
Q: Are you going to vote in the next election?
A: "Sure but there hasn't been a president since JFK died of Pentagonareah, their all puppets
they follow orders or else... Start singing Gawd BlezAmerika... And Crying Crocadile tears...
Q:That sounds cynical and un-patriotic...
A:"Hey its patriotic to care about what's messed up about America this country has had
some divergent views about what’s patriotic, take Prescott Bush and Benedict Arnold (they
are related you know ) Arnold only wanted money and position but bush was a true Nazi traitor,
Hitters banker shit he was censured and that doesn't make the history books they both did
it for money but Bush was working to finance Frigging Adolph hither instead of hanging him
for treason he was reelected to a second term by that stupid selfish sack of shit the state of
Connecticut .Tucket if that isn't insane what is ?
Q: Don't know...
A: Don't know or wont say...
Q: Aha! Yup! Crazy like a fox, this movie aint over yet, not till they are sweeping the tickets
stubs up off the floor in Hicksvill...
"It's Nürenburg all over again you idiot, the Patriot Act my ass..."
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Duah!
Did you know that the statues of classical Greece and Rome were panted like a Ghetto Madonna not
"pure white" contemplative Classic beauty's but pornographic by our standards? And because people
didn't know that they've imitated (invented a fake confabulated "puritanical "Lilly white" history esthetic
a sterile sexless past that never existed in any but there convoluted psyches. Renaissance and
Victorians artist that copied them also eliminated any persons of color (except to portray them as
servants at best) from history starting with the figures within the Cysteine chapel frescoes of the
Catholic panoply of pagan heroes.
Attests modeled themselves and family members (Italians etc.) depicted as Hebrews KNOWN at the
time to be (again) not WHITE and so on down to most all of the art afterwards of corse it was all payed
for by government grants to increase tourism and revenue from taxes so their leaders could pay for there debaucheries with prostitutes mail and female alike just like Hollywood does today...
"What a Maroooon Bugs Bunny" ED
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>From .google.com/search THERE+IS++500+YEARS+SUPPLY+OF+OIL
Immigrants Quickly Becoming Assimilated, Report
Concludes Millions buy homes, learn English and
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Opponents of "high immigration" called the report a selective snapshot that ignored evidence of ethnic "balkanization"
and said it simplified the assimilation process in an effort to build congressional support for expanded entry
quotas and amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.
``Assimilation is not a question of having a job or knowing the lyrics to Madonna's songs,'' said Pomigrant]
Center for Immigration Studies, which [Shamefully & Greedily] seeks to reduce the number of new arrivals.
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[Balkanization like the Amish & the Pennsylvania Dutch...ED]
Environmental Action, November 25, 1972 pp. 11-15
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[This is another one from the “gang of thugs” who fear the true promise of America but are willing
to exploit it!. They never learned the concept of American fair play. Being themselves too hastily
assimilated, now they shamefully & greedily seek to reduce the number of new arrivals just as the
Eugenicists before them prior to W W II & the Holocaust. If it walks like a duck ..............
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(Neo-eugenicists on the loose!)
"It’s intended to shut down debate, and to marginalize the person on the other side so you don’t have to debate the merits of the argument."
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[ If you are Sooooooo! Superior! Why do you have to doctor your genes?]
Mr. Balkanization is definitely disingenuous when he says he is not coding immigration.
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[The “perfecting” of the “species” has occurred “you” are perfect there is only one of you. So far this was possible because no one borne has become greater than the total sums of their parts there genes are fixed and even though they think they think they can know what the outcome of any gene manipulation might be they will admit they don’t have a clue . Forgegaboutit! “that old myth of the deployment of science to good social ends.” Today Science & Scientist are merely Work & Worker with no more higher purpose or value than an industrial age blue color worker the worker bee yet they all still cling to there bourgeois un-concious "Nazi-neo-eugenicist" beliefs they are better than the rest of humanity such as it is. It is the psychological mass cultural prigs that drive & minulipate the rest of us even they are expendable within the current paradigms.]
[This is another one from the “gang of thugs” who fear the true promise of America but are willing to exploit it!. They never learned the concept of American fair play. Being themselves too hastily assimilated, now they shamefully & greedily seek to reduce the number of new arrivals just as the Eugenicists before them prior to WW II & the Holocaust. If it walks like a duck ]
(Neo-eugenicists on the loose! http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001579.html?entry=1579)
[ If you are Sooooooo! Superior! Why do you have to doctor your genes? ]
Mr. Balkanization is definitely disingenuous when he says he is not coding immigration. A whole host of ”notions racial” are wrapped up within the history and concept of America’s so called Immigration Policy always have been. Historically it may as well have been called "Race Policy".
Race is the issue of preference and favoritism which is exploited explicitly by racist or racialist but reinforced by the policy of our government at it’s worst. From it's inception some immigrants held themselves back from assimilating at all costs. Most "early settlements” died out rather than co-exist and intermarry indigenous peoples;now that is Balkanization! It would be refreshing indeed if and when some one of these pseudo patriots comes out and admits what they imply is race-based and then watch their so -called intellectual arguments on this issue evaporate...
If the shoe fits ......... Where is Pat Bluegills Neo Nazi when we need him...? Father Coglin, Henry Ford ,Prescott Bush & Hitler didn't mince words when it came to concepts of citizenship but their twisted view and projects were set back by the forces forgood during W W II.
Looks like Mr. Balkanization is determined to return us to the dead ideological world of Senator Bilbo & Strom Thurman.
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“I find that when people run out of intellectual arguments on this issue,” he says, “they resort to
using terms like racist, xenophobic, and the like, and saying one is anti-immigration is but another
aspect of that. It’s intended to shut down debate, and to marginalize the person on the other side
so you don’t have to debate the merits of the argument. But that accusation is simply untrue.
“Look, you can care mightily about the issue of immigration and not be anti immigration."
IE:racist zenzphobic eugenisist neo nazi white supremisist Senator Billbowite ...Yeah right ... ED
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"Today, with burgeoning numbers of low-skilled, ill-educated immigrants, some predict the
formation of a permanent underclass, with high welfare dependence, rather than an assimilated middle
class.
``There's no evidence that most of today's immigrants have the skill sets suited for a postindustrial
information-age, superpower economy,'' said (immigrant) Dan Stein , executive director of the
Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national group seeking to limit immigration.
What policymakers must do, say Stein and others, is declare a ``timeout'' in the number of
new entries, allowing time for today's immigrants and their children to join society properly.
[Balkanization like the Amish & the Pennsylvania Dutch...ED]
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It would serve us well to review the purpose of government in the first place
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[The Evil Crab Vader. He will urge you to pledge eternal allegiance to the Dark Side of the Woo. ]
[The Crab of Ineffable Wisdom. A force for Good, he will answer your questions and improve your life]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: National Association of Chiefs of Police
(201) 941-5397 or NACOPVP@aol.com
THE IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND BORDER SECURITY FIASCO?
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of the outstanding homicide arrest warrants are for illegal immigrants, while over 65 percent
of outstanding felony warrants are for illegal aliens. Yet so-called sanctuary laws prohibit cops from notifying the US
Border Patrol about immigration lawbreakers. It's the most important national security issue in America, but few in
Washington, DC are talking about it; it's a subject our political leaders avoid like the plague.
What subject causes the most powerful American politicos to fold like cheap cameras? It's illegal immigration and
border security in the United States. America does less in protecting its own borders than most nations. One of the
results of this lack of security on our borders is the murder of US law enforcement officers and citizens by illegal aliens
swarming across our porous borders, claims Jim Kouri, Vice President of the 14,000-member National Association of
Chiefs of Police and columnist for KingNewsMedia.Com.
With states issuing driver licenses to illegal aliens, and cities and states refusing to assist the federal authorities in the
enforcement of immigration laws, the federal government continues to use smoke and mirrors in our border security
strategy. Even the President of the United States is prepared to reward lawbreakers with an ill-conceived de facto
amnesty program.
Kouri says billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on an immigration bureaucracy that does practically nothing to
stop the illegal alien traffic. Even immigrants who originally entered the US legally seem to disappear when their visas
expire.
"Border security is the weakest link in our antiterrorism effort -- it's our Achilles' heel," claims Kouri, an Arab-American.
In spite of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, our political leaders refuse to take decisive action in protecting Americans from
invaders who prey on men, women and children, while scoffing at the US criminal justice system. Kouri blames our
political leaders for a cynical approach to American sovereignty. He says they wink at the immigration problem in order
to garner votes and adhere to a suicidal, politically-correct orthodoxy.
Kouri cites the case of the brutal murder of a cop by an illegal Mexican immigrant as a prime example. The alien killed
the officer and then fled across the border back into Mexico. When the Mexican government balked at a US request to
extradite the murderer, nothing further was done. He also points to an episode in which members of the Mexican army
-- while providing escort service for drug traffickers -- opened fire on US Border Patrol agents. Where was the outrage
over a foreign army using deadly force on American soil? Where were the news media?
"If these killers aren't afraid to target or kill cops, then who in America is really safe from terrorists, murderers, rapists
and other offenders; and anyone wishing to address the problem is labeled a racist or xenophobe."
Kouri, an award-winning writer and contributing editor for Chief of Police Magazine and Police Times, has written a
series of articles for police officers on the subject of terrorism and global crime. The series included target hardening,
incident investigation, antiterrorism and counterterrorism, and other subjects. He's the author of the book Assume the
Position. (Read Jim Kouri's interview on WorldNetDaily: Jim Kouri)
Jim Kouri served as chief at a housing project in the Washington Heights section of New York City dubbed "Crack
City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s, prior to becoming a noted security executive and consultant. He's
a veteran on-air commentator and has appeared on Oprah, The O'Reilly Factor, The McLaughlin Report, CNN
Headline News, CBS News, and many others. An award-winning writer and decorated law-enforcement official, Kouri
also served on the National Drug Task Force in Washington, DC and is a candid and outspoken professional.
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WorldNetDaily Interview: WorldNetDaily: Chiefs of police: Border security a sham
Kouri's Crime Talk Column: KingNewsMedia.Com
Kouri's Crime Beat Column: http://www.oscweb.com/writing/crimelist.html
Kouri's book Assume The Position:
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If you'd like to respond, my research
suggests that Mr Kouri's e address is:
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In response to:
CONTACT: National Association of Chiefs of Police
(201) 941-5397 or NACOPVP@aol.com
THE IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND BORDER SECURITY FIASCO?
has arrived:
There is brutality coming the other way too: illegal aliens abused,
injured and/or killed by US policemen. The real issue is how to
incorporate the mass of immigrants coming from Mexico and
other Latin American countries into US society. According to
reliable demographic studies, if immigration keeps flowing into
Houston at the current rate, and drop-out rates do not decrease,
there will be an 80% illiteracy/low literacy rate in the
Houston area by 2024.
Illiteracy/low literacy means people reading at a 3rd grade level
or below. This will be a social tragedy.
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Angel of History
Carlos Yu
Part I
"This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned to the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage at his feet.
The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can
no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." -- Walter Benjamin,
1940
Hi all. Once there was a war, between North and South, and the war was lost, and the war was won,
as is usually the case. Yet the outcome is still contested, in a thousand small ways. The rebel anthem plays on car-horns and doorbells, the defeated banner still flies over conquered capitols, its scholars
write slanted histories for the victors. Lost orders, lost causes, lost opportunities - the details of
defeat still nag the minds of millions. "If only," they say, "if it weren't for this."
So. Let us take the enthusiasts at their word, and allow them their one minor change, their one flap of
a butterfly's wings.
We pull the angel of history aside as the newly altered events pile up like boxcars at a train wreck. Acts of bravery, compassion, madness, despair lay twisted at his feet as the cannons continue to
fire, but soon the outcome is clear. The Union lies asunder, and the Confederacy emerges victorious.
Lincoln dies weeping in 1870.
And the Confederacy carries on. A successful war against Spain, a failed intervention in Mexico;
fires, floods, yellow fever, cholera, the boll weevil; the innumerable revolts as field hands are sold
to more efficient 'labor agencies'; throughout all this the South not only manages to survive, but to
prevail - in the markets for Texan oil and beef, Birmingham specialty steels, Carolina tobacco,
Florida oranges, Cuban sugar and rum.
And by the end of the century even the common white man of the South has made his voice heard,
which seems to be the enthusiasts' point. Thus Thomas Watson, Georgian farmer and self-made
lawyer, becomes the first Populist candidate elected to the Confederate presidency, on its easy
money, anti-foreigner platform. Yet the office brings him no joy. Watson becomes embittered with
party politics, and returns to act as shill for Atlanta's growing business interests."
More... Angel of History Part I
Carlos Yu © Copyright 2001
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Angel of History Winter/Spring 2001
Volume II Issue I |
Reacting to reactors The "peaceful atom":
Time for a moratorium
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Winter/Spring 2001 Volume II Issue I
Volume II Issue IHeartfield versus Hitler
From the cover of John Willett's book about John Heartfield
Semi Slick Nazi Propaganda? http://www.propaganda101.com/
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The Third Reich.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000:
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich."
-John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and
President of the Florida Holocaust Museum
4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating,
"Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals."
Who made Hitler?
Bush Finances Hitler.
"George W's grandfather Prescott Bush was among the chief
American fundraisers for the Nazi Party in the 1930s and '40s
In return he was handsomely rewarded with plenty of financial
opportunities from the Nazis helping to create the fortune
and legacy that his son George inherited."
Bush family, along with the Harrimans, Rockefellers, Nazis, neo-Nazis and
leaders of the oil and pharmaceutical industries, has been instrumental in
a plot to commit genetic genocide against "inferior races".
There are the evidence that AIDS was one of racial programs began in
the 1920s with the founding of the Averill Harriman - Prescott Bush
funded Eugenics Research Office. Accused accomplices include Planned
Parenthood, the Nazi German government, and in post-war America,
neo-Nazi led research under the auspices of the CIA, National Science
Foundation, and Center for Disease Control.
Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances
George Bush came to share the outlook of Adolf Hitler.
Bush and WWII
President Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and
arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing
the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe and
war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide theories
and racial propaganda, with their well-known results.
The Hitler Project and BushIn many ways, Bush's Hamburg-
America Line was the pivot for the entire Hitler project. G.W.'s
grandfather and great-grandfather, Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker, were among the chief American fundraisers
for Germany's Nazi Party. Through industrialist Fritz Thyssen,
the Bush-run Union Banking Company and W. A. Harriman &
Company, the Bushes sold over $50 million in German bonds to American investors, starting in 1924. Thyssen in turn pumped
money into the infant Nazi Party, which had proved its desire
to rule and its willingness to use brute force in 1923's Munich
Beer Hall Putsch.
The Nazification of America
81 Year Old US WWII Veteran
Warns Of Bush-Nazi Similarities http://www.rense.com/general27/bushnaz.htm
A question for brainstorming -
Why the US waited for two years to declare war on Hitler?
September 1, 1939 - The Beginning of WWII. Britain's
declared war on Germany, September 3, 1939. Why did the
US declare war against Hitler only on December 11, 1941
(two years later)? Is it because war is the biggest business in
the US and big corporations did not finish their business with
Hitler (including the key-figure - Bush's family)? Is it the
double-agent syndrome? "If we see that Germany is winning
we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to
help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible."
--Harry S Truman, in 1941, after the Germans invaded
Russia. (That means ... those idiots do not know they are
setup to kill each other just because we want to be richer for
their expense.)
Why are the archives of WW II are still classified? Is it
because military technology of that time still has a value or is
it because the technology of making money on war is still
valuable? Hitler would not be so powerful if some of the US
corporations, like IBM would not help HItler to build military
and financial base . While the World fought against Hitler -
US corporations (led by key figure Jews) were making
business with Hitler. The purpose - to build financial benefits
and political advantages on the consequences of war (if only
one New York has more Jews than Israel - it's hard to say
where Jerusalem is really located). I would say US key-Jews
sacrificed reformed (ordinary) Jews lives to make
money and political benefits from their death.
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"
(Adolf Hitler)
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Excerpted from
August 2003 Cover Story Immigration Law in Posta 9/11 America
By John Greenya Photographs by Howard Ehrenfeld
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Interested Parties
Supporters of the government’s actions say the statements of the
immigration lawyers and their organizations are wrong because they fail
to understand the ongoing danger of the terrorist threat that was unleashed
when the Pandora’s box of terrorism was opened on September 11, 2001.
One of the leading proponents of limiting immigration is Mark Krikorian,
executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which he describes
as “a think tank which examines and critiques the impact of immigration on
the United States. Generally speaking, we’re in favor of lower immigration
levels and tougher immigration enforcement.”
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Mark Krikorian
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Krikorian feels that though the new laws have somewhat strengthened the position of his organization, “the
changes are evolutionary, not revolutionary. Legislatively, there has been some modest improvement in
immigration enforcement, but nothing radical, no earth-shaking change. Likewise many enforcement tools
that Congress had mandated in 1996 and which had languished in INS have been reemphasized and
accelerated, such as the foreign student tracking requirement that the universities waged a scorched-earth
campaign to prevent—and had 9/11 not happened, Congress almost certainly would have repealed the
requirement altogether.
“What has changed,” says Krikorian, “is the climate, the lens through which people view immigration issues.
And the security aspect of immigration law enforcement, which was never taken very seriously in the past, has
now come to the fore. No one can ask after 9/11, How much harm could 26,000 Pakistani illegal aliens do?
Those kinds of dismissive statements about immigration law are simply not plausible any longer.
“In regard to the southern border, there’s immigration anarchy on our border with Mexico. That, along with the
widespread corruption within Mexico itself, makes that border a potential security problem. Just recently there
was an account in the newspapers about FBI intelligence regarding al Qaeda terrorists cooperating with
Mexican drug gangs to sneak into this country. Whether or not there’s anything to that, it’s still a real problem.
So the whole context in which immigration law enforcement is viewed has changed, and that will lead over
time to tougher law enforcement.”
Krikorian believes that this has already begun. “The special registration program is, in effect, the INS saying
to nonimmigrants, visitors, from certain, specific countries that immigration law is back in business. Being
a visa overstayer is no longer something that we’re going to ignore. And the results have been quite dramatic.”
Those who differ with Krikorian on immigration policy readily agree that the results have been dramatic, but
they consider that a minus, not a plus. For example, in a December 23, 2002, letter to Attorney General John
Ashcroft, Senators Ted Kennedy (D–MA) and Russell Feingold (D–WI) and Representative John Conyers
Jr. (D–MI) urged him to suspend the program. “We have grave doubts,” they wrote, “about whether [it] has
struck the proper balance between securing our borders on the one hand and respecting the civil liberties
of foreign students, business people, and visitors who come to our nation legally on the other.” Instead, the
legislators felt, the program had become “a component of a second wave of roundups and detentions of
Arab and Muslim males disguised as a perfunctory registration requirement.”
Their reference was to the news accounts of what had occurred in California when hundreds of Middle
Eastern males had shown up for what they thought was a simple registration only to find themselves arrested
and jailed. They also cited the case of a 16-year-old boy who had “entered the country lawfully on a student
visa [and] was separated from his pregnant mother, even though he is seeking permanent residency to be
able to join his mother, who is a permanent resident, and stepfather, who is a U.S. citizen, in America.”
On January 9, 2003, Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association,
released a statement calling for repeal of the special registration program, which she described as
“fundamentally flawed” in both concept and implementation, claiming that the INS has used the program
to “detain people who are on the path to permanent residency” because they fit a certain “national origin/
racial/religious profil[e].”
AILA has been a frequent and vocal critic of the post–9/11 legislation and the Department of Justice memos
since their promulgation. Butterfield’s colleague, Judith Golub, AILA’s director of advocacy, calls the new
legislation and regulations “false solutions to real problems that don’t make us safer, and make immigrant
communities feel besieged.”
She mentions, as a prime example, “the secret order of the attorney general that FBI agents could function
as immigration officials. Issued December 18, it was not posted on either the FBI or the INS web site, and
not in the Federal Register. It’s the order by which the AG delegated authority to the FBI to exercise the
functions of immigration officers for the purpose of ‘investigating, determining the location of, and
apprehending any alien who is in the United States in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act . . .
or any other law or regulation relating to visas or the conditions of visas. . . .’
“But,” Golub adds, “FBI people don’t understand immigration law. And our further concern is with the
Department of Homeland Security, where there’s already a lack of coordination among its three immigration
bureaus, and now you have the FBI coming in.”
Golub worries that people are losing sight of the bigger picture because of the welter of details in the various
laws, orders, regulations, and memos. “All these little dots connected together merely give the illusion of
making us safer. In reality they do not make us safer. They just waste our resources.
“But immigration can contribute to making us safer. We did that with the Border Security Visa and Entry
Reform Act, which is based on two assumptions: one, that enhancing our intelligence capacity will make
us safer, and two, that it’s best to keep the people out who mean to do us harm before they come into the
country. It was an intelligent bill, a bipartisan bill, and a fine example of how immigration can make us safer
—not these initiatives from the government which Congress largely hasn’t reviewed and which make communities
feel besieged and foreign governments really angry at us. We can’t have people hijacking the security issue
just to get old agendas passed.”
Golub feels that one of the most unfortunate results of agenda-based legislation and directives is the effect
on immigrants, especially those hoping to become Americans. “If you’re living in a community and you
witness, or are a victim of, a crime, are you going to want to present yourself to law enforcement? Say
you’re a battered woman. Even if you’re a legal permanent resident, do you want to present yourself to law
enforcement? I would have to think twice about that.”
As for the effect of all of this on the practice of immigration law, Golub thinks it has made an already
challenging area of the law even more challenging. With the government “doing things by regulation and
by executive order, you have a rapidly changing environment with scared clients. And when you try to go
to the INS—or whatever you want to call it now—to get an answer, either they don’t know the answer or
they’ll try to pass the buck to another department. So the result is uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty.”
Excerpted from
August 2003 Cover Story Immigration Law in Posta 9/11 America
By John Greenya Photographs by Howard Ehrenfeld
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The Oil Supply - The Doomsday Scenarios are Flawed
For as long as I can remember, I've been hearing that the world oil supply will run out in a few decades. I remember quite vividly
growing up in the early 1980's hearing that there wouldn't be any oil left by the time I learned how to drive. Fortunately these
predictions never came true, but the idea that we will exhaust all the oil under the surface of the earth is a persistent one.
Predictions that we will run out of oil after a certain period of time are based on an ignorance of the economic way of thinking.
The typical way to estimate the number of years it will take us to run out of oil is to consider the following factors:
1. The number of barrels we can extract with existing technology.
2. The number of barrels used worldwide in a year.
The most naive way to make a prediction is to simply do the following calculation:
Yrs. of oil left = # of barrels available / # of barrels used in a year.
So if there are 150 million barrels of oil in the ground and we use 10 million a year, this type of thinking would suggest that the
oil supply will run out in 15 years. If the predictor realizes that with new drilling technology we can gain access to more oil, he
will incorporate this into his estimate of #1 making a more optimistic prediction of when the oil will run out. If the predictor
incorporates population growth and the fact that demand for oil per person often rises he will incorporate this into his estimate
for #2 making a more pessimistic prediction. These predictions, however, are inherently flawed because they violate basic
economic principles. By using economic principles, we will see that:
WE WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF OIL
At least not in a physical sense. There will still be oil in the ground 10 years from now, and 50 years from now and 500 years
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extracted. Let's suppose that the supply really is quite limited. What will happen as the supply starts to diminish? First we
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replaced at all. Either of these would cause the price at the pump to rise. When the price of gasoline rises, people naturally
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of demand for gasoline. This does not necessarily mean that people will drive less (though it is likely), it may mean that
consumers trade in their SUVs for smaller cars, hybrid vehicles, or cars that run on alternative fuels. Each consumer will react
to the price change differently, so we would expect to see everything from more people bicycling to work to used car lots full of
Lincoln Navigators.
If we go back to Economics 101, this effect is clearly visible. The continual reduction of the supply of oil is represented by a
series of small shifts of the supply curve to the left and an associated move along the demand curve. Since gasoline is a
normal good, Economics 101 tells us that we will have a series of price increases and a series of reductions in the total
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(YellowTimes.org) â“ As a Canadian, I consider the country to the south
a great place. It's a country that has been at times a savior; it is
full of inventive and intelligent people and provided some wonderful
things for the world and great opportunities for the dispossessed of
other lands. We have more beliefs in common than just about any other
two nations and are proud to call them our friends. Our neighbor leads
the whole world in almost every way, including blowing parts of it
into little bits.
The United States claims to be a nation of peace lovers and it has
been at peace since the end of the Second World War. Except, that is,
for their attacks on China (1945-46); Korea (1950-53); Guatemala
(1954, 1967-69); Cuba (1959-60); Belgian Congo (1964); Vietnam (1961-
73); Cambodia (1969-70); Grenada (1983); Libya (1986); El Salvador
(1980-92); Nicaragua (1981-90); Panama (1989); Iraq (1991); Bosnia
(1995); Sudan (1998); Yugoslavia (1999); Afghanistan (2001-02); plus a grudge match soon to come in Iraq. Plus "police action" in Columbia regarding drugs (ongoing), an insurrection in Chile (1973), and numerous other covert bombings conducted by, or under the direction of, the CIA. From 1945 to the end of the 20th century, the U.S. attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist movements fighting against insufferable regimes.
In the process, they bombed about 25 countries, killed several million
people, and condemned many millions more to lives of agony, poverty and despair.
If this is a nation of peace lovers, then God help us all.
Now I can already hear the rationalizing that these were all just and
moral battles; that the recipients of all this attention really needed
to be attacked; that it was all done in the interests of the national
security of the United States; that they were protecting the world
from communism or some other 'ism.' It is perhaps fair to say that at
least some of the campaigns I iterated above had some noble purpose
but that would only have been the public relations dividend of the
real business at hand, which was the expansion of American economic
interests. Presently, of course, it will be said that they are
protecting the world from terrorists. Horse feathers. This is all
about hegemony and acquisition of things, of peoples, and of
territory. They are actually helping to create the terrorists, or at
least giving would-be terrorists a raison d'être by their belligerence
and bellicosity.
Most frightening is that all the activity noted in my second paragraph
took place while the United States was allegedly in a 'defensive'
posture. In reality, the United States has never been in a defensive
posture. Its long history is one of expansionism; first through
movement to the west coast, then economically in the rest of the
Americas (where the profits can be derived without the overhead of
actually running the places).
With alarm that increased page after page, I have just finished
reading George W. Bush's September 2002 document entitled "The
National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The
overwhelming message to the rest of the world is 'look out, we're
coming.'
On the surface, it seems like a moderately thoughtful document and
people of very differing persuasions could readily defend much of it.
I am not one of those people; it scares the daylights out of me
largely because of the threats the Bush administration makes to the
security of the planet and the fundamental misunderstandings he
appears to have about how the world operates and how it ought to
operate. In the second paragraph of the introduction, Bush says: "In
keeping with our heritage and principles, we do not use our strength
to press for unilateral advantage." He couldn't get even further than
that before starting to lie. America's entire history has been to
press for unilateral advantage.
"For most of the twentieth century, the world was divided by a great
struggle over ideas: destructive totalitarian visions versus freedom
and equality. That great struggle is over." Apparently Mr. Bush has
forgotten that about one sixth of the world lives in a communist
authoritarian country and that many of America's allies are
totalitarian dictatorships.
Without going into a line-by-line analysis of this lengthy document,
suffice it to say it is full of rhetoric that ignores the realities of
history and the shape in which the world currently finds itself. But
the overwhelming message of this strategy is that America is now going
to officially acknowledge what it has always been, the world's biggest
bully. To be sure, there are some positive initiatives and good ideas
espoused in this strategy but even they will clearly provide benefit
only to those who are willing to be subjugated. And to be fair, it is
certainly in America's best interest to secure itself and to protect
its own citizens. But that isn't really what most of this is about.
The European press and the sometimes timid, European politicos make
clear that they are very disturbed by the posture that America will
act alone, whenever and wherever it chooses.
The United States has declared, effectively, that international rules and international law doesn't apply to them, just to everyone else. The strategy makes clear that the United States will not hesitate to take pre-emptive military action wherever it sees fit and most other countries are understandably worried about that.
Further, the Europeans see much of this as arising from blind and fervent nationalism, the bad sides of which they know very well.
The bloody experience of centuries of war has left them quite uncomfortable
with unbridled nationalism.
The so-called Third World countries wonder what this all means for
them. They presume that they would be the likely targets of American
aggression.
The problem as I see it is that the United States has decided that it
intends to rule the world. The hell with what anyone else might want.
They think they are big enough and powerful enough to take on all
challengers and they are essentially telling all the rest of us that
it is their way or the highway.
They may well be right about their power but they are dead wrong about
their legitimacy. Unless Bush is absolutely unable to read, he must
know how history has dealt with this kind of hubris in the past.
If the United States is unwilling to be a partner with the rest of the
world, even as the first among equals, and use the tremendous
potential it has to bring about good, then it is starting down the
steep divide that will bring about the demise of the American Empire.
My fear is that Americans and many of their allies will fail to see
that this move to assume supreme control of the earth is exactly what
the United States has groomed itself for during these past 226 years.
They will erroneously believe that because a group of thugs managed to
penetrate into the heart of America and cause severe damage, that
there is just cause to go out and kill whatever is moving or doesn't
look right.
Americans who can rationally consider the swath their country has cut
through the world and the even wider swath that is intended, cannot
seriously ask the question 'why do they hate us.' It is obvious.
The United States holds countries like Cuba in the lowest regard
because a 'dictator' rules them; a whole world ruled by a dictatorial
nation is no different, just bigger.
It's never been about how all that power and authority can be used for
the betterment of everyone, including the United States; it's always
about how they can bully and cajole and, if necessary in their eyes,
bomb the crap out of whomever doesn't bow and scrape low enough.
There is no question that there are times when military aggression is a
necessity; the United States, however, usually doesn't have the
patience to exhaust all the more peaceful forms of problem-solving
before bringing out the big guns. That is symptomatic of a limited
imagination and a lack of desire for the peace and security of all. It
is symptomatic of the desire to see 'the rockets red glare, the bombs
bursting in air' just because it feels good. So long as it's someone
else's 'air.'
Now they have finally put all that in writing for everyone to see. Take a look for yourself at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html.
[Paul Harris is self-employed as a consultant providing Canadian
businesses with the tools and expertise to successfully reintegrate
their sick or injured employees into the workplace. He has traveled
extensively in what we arrogant North Americans refer to as "the Third World," and he believes that life is very much like a sewer:
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Paul lives in Canada.]
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Your search - It is unfair to labile this as Nazi it's more like the Senator Billbow stuff from the 1930's on a crumbling
mishmash it is some how instead. - did not match any documents. .
In addition to education reform, Governor Bilbo advocated a wide range of other political
and economic reforms that were designed to improve the quality of life for Mississippi’s
poor white farmers and workers who were his basic supporters. In the political parlance
of that time, these poor white farmers were called “rednecks.”
Bilbo’s flamboyant and often racially inflammatory campaign rhetoric, and hispersonal
involvement in higher education, earned him the reputation of a demagogue.
After his second term ended in 1932, Governor Bilbo ran unsuccessfully for the United
States Congress. Two years later he was elected to theU. S. Senate. He was re-elected
in 1940 and 1946. During his early years in the Senate, Bilbo was a strong supporter of
President Franklin D.Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
After Senator Bilbo’s re-election in 1946, a group of black World War II veterans challenged
the validity of his election on the grounds that blacks were not allowed to vote. Before the
Senate could rule on that challenge, Bilbo died at his Dream House mansion near Poplarville on August 21, 1947.
David Sansing, Ph.D., is history professor emeritus, University of Mississippi. Posted January 2004
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Cary sent these Links ?
somewhere in the the ufo community site is a link to steve neil's site .
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
African finds revise cultural roots
By BRUCE BOWER
New evidence indicates that people living in Africa 90,000 years ago carved barbed bone points to
spear fish and even organized annual fishing expeditions.
This discovery challenges the widely accepted theory that the complex thinking and
behavior necessary for major cultural changes arose in Europe no earlier than 35,000
years ago.
"What's exciting is that we're seeing strategic planning for subsistence by people who lived so long
ago," says Alison S. Brooks, an archaeologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
"Humans in Africa invented sophisticated [tool] technologies long before their European counterparts,
who have often been credited with initiating modern culture." Brooks and John E. Yellen, an
archaeologist at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., directed excavations between1986
and 1990 at a location in eastern Zaire called Katanda.
Work there yielded eight barbed bone points, three unbarbed bone points, and a dagger-shaped
bone, Brooks and her colleagues report in the April 28 Science.
These artifacts were made by grinding a rib or limb bone from a large mammal on a stone anvil
or with a stone grinder, the researchers hold.
Prehistoric Katanda toolmakers cut a row of three-edged barbs on one side of a bone point and
carved rings around the base so that it could be fastened to a wooden shaft. Comparable bone
implements in Europe date only to 14,000 years ago, Brooks says.
Excavations also unearthed the bones of many animals. Remains of large catfish turned up in
particular abundance. These fish spawn in shallow water during the rainy season, which is
probably when the Katanda people made visits to the area, armed with bone-tipped spears,
Brooks argues.
Clusters of artifacts and animal bones at Katanda resemble the debris produced by modern
hunter-gatherer families living in the same area, she notes. Current residents still fish, although
they now use boats. At other archaeological sites, evidence for organized fishing extends back
no earlier than 20,000 years ago. Brooks and her colleagues assign an age of at least 89,000
years to the Katanda finds, based on analyses of uranium content and breakdown in several
mammal teeth and measurements of the stored radiation dose in quartz sand just above the artifacts.
"This is a highly significant discovery," asserts Jack W. K. Harris, an archaeologist at Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, N.J., who directs an Ethiopian excavation (SN: 4/15/95, p.237). "Technologica
innovations that gave people a reliable food source occurred much earlier than we thought --
and in Africa rather than Europe." An early form of sedentary living may have emerged at
Katanda around 90,000 years ago, with settlements set up during annual periods of intense
fishing, Harris contends.
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