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p.02 PUTIN CONFIRMS END OF THE DINOSAUR ERA
p.03 More Proof Of Time Travel
p.04 Does Appearing Unattainable Really Enhance Attractiveness?
p.05 What's "New" About The Alleged New Anti-Semitism?
p.09 ADVICE: SMOKING IS HEALTHIER THAN FASCISM - Believe It Or Not, The State Doesn't Care About Your Health!
p.11 9/11 // FEEDBACK
p.13 Barak Obama// FEEDBACK – fraser is ashamed.
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PUTIN CONFIRMS
END OF DINOSAUR ERA
“I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security by searching for a reasonable balance between the interests of all participants in the international dialogue”
by President Vladimir Putin
[at the 43rd Munich conference on Security Policy]
The universal, indivisible character of security can be expressed as the basic principle that "security for one is security for all". As Franklin D Roosevelt said at the onset of the Second World War: "When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger."
These words remain relevant today. Only two decades ago the world was ideologically and economically divided and it was the huge strategic potential of two superpowers that ensured global security. This global stand off pushed the sharpest economic and social problems to the margins of the world's agenda. And, just like any war, the cold war left behind live ammunition, figuratively speaking. It left ideological stereotypes, double standards and other remnants of cold war thinking.
>> dinosaur behaviour goes MUCH further back than the Cold War.
What then is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it describes a scenario in which there is one centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making. It is a world in which there is one master. And this is pernicious, not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within. And this, certainly, has nothing in common with democracy. Because democracy is the power of the majority in the light of the interests and opinions of the minority.
We, Russia, are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves. I believe that unipolarity is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today's world. The model itself is flawed: at its root it provides no moral foundations for modern civilisation. But witnessed in today's world is a tendency to introduce precisely this concept into international affairs, the concept of a unipolar world. And with what results?
Unilateral, frequently illegitimate actions, far from resolving any problems, have caused new human tragedies and created new centres of tension. Judge for yourselves: wars as well as local and regional conflicts have not diminished. And even more are dying than before. Many more.
Today we are witnessing an almost unrestrained hyper-use of force - military force - in international relations, a force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts. As a result we do not have sufficient strength to find a comprehensive solution to any one of these conflicts. Finding a political settlement also becomes impossible. We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. One country, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations.
This force's dominance inevitably encourages a number of countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, threats such as terrorism have now taken on a global character. I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security. And we must proceed by searching for a reasonable balance between the interests of all participants in the international dialogue. Especially since the international landscape is so varied and is changing so quickly.
The need for principles such as openness, transparency and predictability in politics is uncontested and the use of force should be a truly exceptional measure, comparable to using the death penalty in the judicial systems of certain states.
>> we wonder which.
However, today we are witnessing the opposite tendency, namely a situation in which countries that forbid the death penalty even for murderers and other dangerous criminals are airily participating in military operations that are difficult to consider legitimate.
>> again we wonder which!
And yet the fact is that these conflicts are killing people - civilians - in their hundreds and thousands.
At the same time we face the question of whether we should remain unmoved by various internal conflicts, authoritarian regimes, tyrants, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Can we be indifferent observers? Of course not. But I am convinced that the only mechanism that can make decisions about using military force as a last resort is the charter of the United Nations. The use of force can only be considered legitimate if the decision is sanctioned by the UN.
The Struggle Against Poverty Directly Affects Global Security
On the one hand, financial resources are allocated for programmes to help the world's poorest countries - sometimes substantial financial resources (which tend to be linked with the development of that same donor country's companies). And, on the other hand, developed countries simultaneously retain their agricultural subsidies while limiting some countries' access to hi-tech products.
Let’s be blunt - one hand distributes charitable help and the other hand not only preserves economic backwardness, but also reaps the profits thereof. The increasing social tension in depressed regions inevitably results in the growth of radicalism, extremism, feeds terrorism and local conflicts. And if all this happens in, say, a region such as the Middle East, where there is increasingly the sense that the world at large is unfair, then there is the risk of global destabilisation.
It is obvious that the world's leading countries should see this threat. And that they should therefore build a more democratic, fairer system of global economic relations, a system that would give everyone the chance and the possibility to develop.
Russia is a country with a history that spans more than a thousand years and has practically always exercised its prerogative to carry out an independent foreign policy. We are not going to change this tradition today. At the same time, we are well aware of how the world has changed and we have a realistic sense of our own opportunities and potential. And of course we would like to interact with responsible and independent partners with whom we could work together in constructing a fair and democratic world order that would ensure security and prosperity not only for a select few, but for all.
[edited extract from a speech on Saturday at the 43rd Munich conference on security policy]
www.securityconference.de
UP! ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? He was about medium height and had a beard. ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? (from Disorder in the American Courts, taken down and now published by court reporters.)
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Market research shows that people use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order).
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More Proof Of Time Travel
by Daniel and Randy Buckner, Time Magazine
What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all?
If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic.
But you have simultaneously flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks - adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces - different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly coloured squares on an otherwise dull gray background.
Researchers have recently discovered, however, that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what?
The answer, it seems, is time travel.
The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not. But the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Valentine’s Day or remember the excesses of New Year's Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.
We are a race of time travellers, unfettered by chronology and capable of visiting the future or revisiting the past whenever we wish. If our neural time machines are damaged by illness, age or accident, we may become trapped in the present. Alzheimer's disease, for instance, specifically attacks the dark network, stranding many of its victims in an endless now, unable to remember their yesterdays or envision their tomorrows.
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Microbe Found In California Mine
Could Be Smallest Life Form Yet
New York Times
The smallest form of life known to science just got smaller.
Four million of a newly discovered microbe could fit into the period at the end of this sentence.
Scientists found the microbes living in a remarkably inhospitable environment -- drainage water, as caustic as battery acid. The microbes, members of an ancient family of organisms known as Archaea, formed a pink scum on green pools of hot mine water laden with toxic metals, including arsenic.
"It was amazing," said Jillian F. Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the discovery team. "These were totally new." In their paper, the scientists call the microbes "smaller than any other known cellular life form."
Scientists say the discovery could bear on estimates of the pervasiveness of exotic microbial life, which some experts suspect forms a hidden biosphere extending down miles whose total mass may exceed that of all surface life.
It also may influence the search for microscopic life forms elsewhere in the solar system, a discovery that would prove that life in the universe is not unique to Earth but an inherent property of matter.
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Does Appearing Unattainable Really Enhance Attractiveness?
On a superficial level, yes of course, because we always want the immaculate fantasy rather than the messy reality, hence we're drawn to what we think we can't have.
But on the deeper level where it counts for any liaison to bear true fruit, it's not making yourself look unattainable that counts but rather about making yourself actually be, and hence appear, contained within yourself.
In other words, it's about developing an aura as if you and yourself are having such a party together that other people want to join in the fun. So you look and feel as if you don't need someone else to complete you. That way other people are drawn to you without feeling as if they're taking on a liability.
It's containment rather than unattainment that you should aim for.
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>> anyone know the truth behind recent rumours?
UP! ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? Oral. (from Disorder in the American Courts, taken down and now published by court reporters.)
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UP! Q. The first novel ever written on a typewriter? A. Tom Sawyer.
What's "New" About The Alleged New Anti-Semitism?
OR
The Jewish Right's Assault On Jewish Liberals For Being Anti-Semitic
Dear Fraser,
Would you please give this a read and let me know
if you'd bring this to the attention of your community and to the media?
Many blessings,
Rabbi Michael Lerner.
>> yes, i shall certainly do this since i
agree 100% with it.
i've added u to our mailing list so u can see
it yourself in a week's time :)
we have around 200,000 readers. fraser clark.
The N.Y. Times reported on January 31 about the most recent attempt by the American Jewish Community to conflate intense criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. In a neat little example of slippery slope, the report on "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism" written by Alvin H. Rosenfeld moves from exposing the actual anti-Semitism of those who deny Israel's right to exist to those who powerfully and consistently attack Israel's policies toward Palestinians, see Israel as racist the way it treats Israeli-Arabs (or even Sephardic Jews), or who analogise Israel's policies to those of apartheid as instituted by South Africa.
The Anti-Defamation League sponsored a conference on this same topic in San Francisco on Jan.28, conspicuously failing to invite Tikkun, Jewish Voices for Peace and Brit Tzedeck ve Shalom, the three major Jewish voices critiquing Israeli policy yet also strong supporters of Israel's security.
Meanwhile, the media has been abuzz with stories of Jews denouncing former President Jimmy Carter for his book Palestine: Peace or Apartheid. The same charges of anti-Semitism that have consistently been launched against anyone who criticises Israeli policy is now being launched against the one American leader who managed to create a lasting (albeit cold) peace between Israel and a major Arab state (Egypt). Instead of seriously engaging with the issues raised (e.g. to what extent are Israel's current policies similar to those of apartheid and to what extent are they not?) the Jewish establishment and media responds by attacking the people who raise these or any other critiques - shifting the discourse to the legitimacy of the messenger and thus avoiding the substance of the criticisms.
Knowing this, many people become fearful that they too will be labelled "anti-Semitic" if they question the wisdom of Israeli policies or if they seek to organise politically to challenge those policies.
Yet there is nothing "new" about this or about this alleged anti-Semitism that these mainstream Jewish voices seek to reveal. From the moment I started Tikkun Magazine twenty years ago as "the liberal alternative to Commentary and the voices of Jewish conservatism and spiritual deadness in the organized Jewish community" our magazine has been attacked in much of the organised Jewish community as "self-hating Jews" (though our editorial advisory board contains some of the most creative Jewish theologians, rabbis, Israeli peace activist and committed fighters for social justice). The reason? We believe that Israeli policy toward Palestinians, manifested most dramatically in the Occupation of the West Bank for what will soon be forty years and in the refusal of Israel to take any moral responsibility for its part in the creation of the Arab refugee problem, is immoral, irrational, self-destructive, a violation of the highest values of the Jewish people, and a serious impediment to world peace.
What the Jewish establishment organisations have done is to make invisible the strong roots in Judaism for a different kind of policy. The most frequently repeated injunctions in the Torah are variations of the following command: "Do not oppress the stranger (the 'other'). Remember that you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Instead, the Jewish establishment has turned Judaism into a cheer-leading religion for a particular national state that has a lot of Jews, but has seriously lost site of the Jewish values which early Zionists hoped would find realisation there.
The impact of the silencing of debate about Israeli policy on Jewish life has been devastating. We at Tikkun are constantly encountering young Jews who say that they can no longer identify with their Jewishness, because they have been told that their own intuitive revulsion at watching the Israeli settlers with IDF support violate the human rights of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank or their own questioning of Israel's right to occupy the West Bank are proof that they are "self-hating Jews." The Jewish world is driving away its own young.
But the most destructive impact of this new Jewish Political Correctness is on American foreign policy debates. We at Tikkun have been involved in trying to create a liberal alternative to AIPAC and the other Israel-can-do-no-wrong voices in American politics. When we talk to Congressional representatives who are liberal or even extremely progressive on every other issue, they tell us privately that they are afraid to speak out about the way Israeli policies are destructive to the best interests of the United States or the best interests of world peace - lest they too be labelled anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. 'If it can happen to Jimmy Carter,' some of them told me recently, 'a man with impeccable moral credentials, then no one is really politically safe.'
When this bubble of repression of dialogue explodes into open resentment at the way Jewish Political Correctness has been imposed, it may really yield a "new" anti-Semitism. To prevent that, the voices of dissent on Israeli policy must be given the same national exposure in the media and American politics that the voices of the Jewish establishment have been given.
Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun, author of the 2006 NY Times best-seller The Left Hand of God, and national chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
UP! ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m. ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him! (from Disorder in the American Courts, taken down and now published by court reporters.)
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it’ll be streamed over the internet on sites like eblips.net!
yes, it's still good to know that out there someone is organising a happening to freak out the normal types – just for the hell or heaven of it. eblips.net is more than a news source for west coast alternative types, it's a resource for ALL of us freaky Prankstery types, what-ever we happen to be doing, and who-or-whatever we happen to be holding :)
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eblips.net - A MOMENT OF SANITY IN A WORLD GONE MAD!
What makes eblips so useful is that it leads on to so much more beyond (including back here) Yet, unlike so many community portals, it’s easy on the fingers and above all consistent. Yes, all of those links do work (unlike some we could mention if we were in suicidal mode :) and no, you don't have to worry about being led somewhere completely and utterly irrelevant. There's no advertising hiding as links, all of the adverts are up-front, and you get the freedom to choose to use them or not. From mash-ups to systems theory to the role played by acid in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, all in all it’s not just usable, it’s easy to recommend!
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Failed States: The US and Israel
by Paul Craig Roberts
Iran, a nation with a 5,000 year history, is certainly not a failed state. The main failed states in the Middle East are those that are US puppets. They represent American hegemony, not the interests of their people.
Growing references by the US and Israel to the Muslim Middle East as a collection of failed states are part of the propaganda campaign to strip legitimacy from Muslim states and set them up for attack. These accusations spring from the hubris of many Israelis, who perceive “God’s Chosen People” as a guarantee of immunity instead of a call to responsibility, and many Americans, who regard their country as “a city upon a hill” that is “the light of the world.” But do the US and Israel fit the profile of successful states, or are they failed states themselves?
A compelling case can be made that they are. Israel, allegedly a democracy, is controlled by a minority of Zionist zealots who commit atrocities against Palestinians in order to provoke terrorist acts that are then used to perpetuate the right-wing’s hold on political power. Israel has perfected blowback as a tool of political control. The Israeli state relies entirely on coercion and has no diplomacy. It stands isolated in the world except for the US, which sustains Israel’s existence with money, military weapons, and the US veto in the United Nations.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/359/2/
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Silicon Valley Rebounds, Led by Green Technology
After five years of job losses, Silicon Valley is hiring again. The turnaround coincides with a huge increase of investment in the emerging category of clean environment...
[New York Times January 29, 2007]
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Dear Fraser,
Articles in today's world papers concerning climate change in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change point out trends predicted in earlier studies as far back as the International Symposium on "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth."
The papers of this Symposium were published in 1956 under the editorship of William L. Thomas, Jr. and Carol O. Sauer, Marston Bates and Lewis Mumford. The leading scientists of the immediate postwar period focused their attention on how to deal with the effects of man's exploitation of the environment and how to avoid severe climate change that seemed on the horizon.
But their recommendations and conclusions were ridiculed by the right-wing press at the time, as irresponsible and communistic. Forty years of propagandistic obfuscation by a variety of "conservative" business voices, including the American national offices of the Chambers of Commerce, have followed their dire predictions.
If their advice had been taken seriously 40 years ago, we might have been able to delay or reverse the trends that now seem increasingly inexorable.
Perhaps the most poignant question proposed by the 1955 conference was: How rapidly can man restore changes he has caused in the earth's surface if they have proved unwise or are now considered obsolete and replacement is desired?
Niccolo Caldararo, Ph.D., Dept. of Anthropology, San Francisco.
UP! Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Dr. Makdisi Urges a One State Solution for Palestinians
It is time for the Palestinians to abandon the notion of a two state solution, says Dr. Saree Makdisi, an author, professor and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He says the two state solution plays into Israel's role as the dominant and occupying power. "A one state solution," he argues, would reveal Zionist Israel as a "nakedly racist settler colonial enterprise... a state for one people at the expense of another."
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/323/59/
UP! Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey. Q. What did shamans of old store their mushrooms in? A. Honey.
No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model
A new cyclic cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina.
Physorg.com Jan. 30. 2007
>> wrong again?!
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707A.shtml
According to trial transcripts obtained by truthout.org, former White House staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before a grand jury in 2004 that Vice President Dick Cheney instructed him to divulge portions of a then-classified report to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Libby testified that Cheney said authorisation to leak a section of the report had come directly from President George W. Bush, the court transcripts state.
UP! Q. Original colour of Coca-Cola? A. Green.
WARNING: FASCISM SERIOUSLY DAMAGES YOUR HEALTH
ADVICE: SMOKING IS HEALTHIER THAN FASCISM
The Smoking Ban Is About Government Control;
Believe It Or Not, The State Doesn't Care About Your Health
Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet
The regulation of the personal habit of smoking, including new legislative moves in San Francisco to ban cigarettes in private homes, and its enforcement by an eager cadre of state snoops and snitches, represents nothing more than a move on behalf of big brother towards the complete subjugation and shackling of the individual. To this end, smoking is healthier than fascism.
Two new developments this week have once again brought this issue into focus and the true agenda behind it needs to be exposed.
In France, a nation once noted as being rich in tobacco connoisseurs, 175,000 "cigarette police" have been given the task of randomly snooping around offices, schools, factories and any other "public spaces" in order to sniff out flouters of a new total ban on smoking.
In San Francisco California, a city ordinance described as "the most stringent tobacco regulation in America" would ban smoking everywhere, including private homes and apartments, sparing only large detached family homes - and if they squeeze this one
through expect those homes to be targeted next.
This is not a debate about the dangers of passive smoking, we all know smoking is bad for us and those around us. On an individual level, freedom includes the right to do dumb things, and whether others should be subject to our vices comes down to two
questions, is fascism more unhealthy for a society than passive smoking and does
the government really care about your health?
Dare I suggest that western governments raining down depleted uranium in all corners of the world, spraying chemtrails in our skies, playing Dr. Frankenstein with our food, drugging us into oblivion with psychotropic poison pills, and injecting us with toxic vaccines really care about our physical well-being?
>> plus, of course, the above CAUSE most of the cancers.
Do elite that openly advocate culling the majority of the world's population really want to put a stop to cancer?
The answer is no, so why the transatlantic obsession to have us stub out our cigarettes?
It's all about control, it's all about letting you know who the bosses are. If the government can regulate personal habits and behaviour, what's next? Are your political opinions a mental illness? Are they harming society? Perhaps we should ban certain types of "free" speech that is offensive to others.
>> it’s well under way, mate!
You see where this is all heading - how long before our wall-mounted personal x-ray body scanners are accompanied by special smoke detectors that report you to the local Stasi if you dare to light up?
Smoking may be very unhealthy, but I'd certainly rather be around a bunch of smokers than a bunch of Fascists.
>> and notice how fascistic many anti-smoking campaigners are.
If you have never smoked and couldn't give a damn if it gets banned then consider the fact that cell phones are emerging as the new kid on the bloc as far as cancer's best friend goes. British expert Professor Lawrie Challis said last week that mobile phones could turn out to be as harmful as cigarettes. How would you react if the government suddenly announced that your Blackberry was off limits because the anti-cell phone lobby got a bill through?
We live in a paranoid world overpopulated by ninnying jellyfish who dare not dip their toe in the water in case there's a law against it, it might upset someone, or it might be bad for their health.
Writer Alan Caruba adds the following, "There are few, if any, people that do not know there is an element of risk involved in the decision to smoke. There is risk involved when someone gets into his car and goes anywhere.
"Driving kills over 40,000 Americans every year. It is the price we pay for the mobility and other benefits cars and vehicles provide. There is, in fact, risk in every human activity including the enjoyment of alcoholic beverages and even the simple act of eating."
More Examples Of Fascism Being Unhealthier Than Smoking
- In Omaha Nebraska, city police are encouraging residents to call 911 if they see a smoker in a non-smoking area. So when your wife is being raped by an illegal immigrant or a gang banger, be assured that the cops have a good reason for their absence - Joe Bloggs just lit up a Marlboro and he's being Tasered.
- Bangor City Council has approved a measure that criminalises smoking in your own car with a child present.
- In Okemos Michigan, an insurance business boss ordered all his employees to take urine tests to determine if they had smoked, even in their own homes. Smokers were warned that they would be fired.
- In New York, Mayor Bloomberg's tobacco stormtroopers raided the offices of Vanity Fair 3 times, attempting to catch noted journalist Graydon Carter smoking. All they found was an unused clean ash tray but Carter was fined and given a warning nonetheless. Numerous other instances of infamous "ash tray raids" have occurred
in New York City.
- In Scotland, social services are drawing up a master list of smokers and warning residents against smoking in their own homes unless they wish to risk being cut off from government services.
Many of us will have had relatives die directly due to smoking, so I’m certainly not advocating smoking. I am simply advocating the fact that I'd rather live in a society of smokers than a society of control freak fascists who slavishly seize upon any action of the individual in order to create yet another pretext for creating a Stasi system of informants, locking us all up and building the infrastructure of the prison planet.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/
UP! Q. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness? A. 28%. Q. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: A. 38%!
How To Do Business
Biznessman: I want you to marry a girl of my choice.
Son : No - I will choose my own bride!
Biznessman: But the girl is Bill Gates' daughter.
Son : Well, in that case... ok.
Next, BIZNESSMAN approaches Bill Gates.
Biznessman I have a husband for your daughter.
Bill Gates: But my daughter is too young to marry!
Biznessman : But this young man is a Vice-President of the World Bank.
Bill Gates: Ah, right... ok.
Finally, Biznessman goes to see the President of the World Bank.
Biznessman : I have a young man to be recommended as a Vice-President.
President: But I already have more Vice-Presidents than I need!
Biznessman : But this young man is Bill Gates' son-in-law.
President: I see, in that case... ok.
This is how bizness is done.
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9/11 // FEEDBACK
Great stuff Fraser! Have you changed your mind about 911?
Carl Friar
>> no. just being fair.
up!
i am pleased to see your intelligent interest in the latest incarnation of the allegory of the cave (9/11).... since your first reporting was much different from this, i am curious about what sort of response you get from this change of perspective from readers.
i am also curious what prompted you to look at this with a fresh mind.
you are, if you don't mind, now a subject in my study of attitudes and perception about 9/11...
Robert Forte. California.
>> i think u probly misread my comments. i don't feel my attitudes HAVE changed, i still doubt a conspiracy. the only relevant new info i've had was a piece by ex mi5 agent david shayler that 9/11 was a botched job that failed to hit the white house which explained a lot about why the whole thing seemed so careless and reckless. they expected to have a fascist state in place which stopped anyone pointing out the absurdities.
i originally printed an article titled The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts. now i’ve published somebody else’s article going the other way is all :)
as for readers, several have written in congratulating me on my open mind. my reply was "what did u expect of me?!"
if i DID change my mind i'd make it VERY obvious. probly a whole UP!" :)
ask me another if this is not a satisfactory response :)
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Re your 9/11 conspiracy detritus [regurgitation], Noam Chomsky [world renowned philosopher and linguist], the most intelligent, knowledgeable, radical and incisive critic of the US state, dismisses it all utterly here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGd0t8v-d4 and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDqDvbgeXM&mode=related&search = and explains why in a number of perfectly argued points. Trouble is, nothing stops the loonies continuing with this nonsense. But it sells a lot of books huh?
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Fraser,
This is an excellent list - 100% accurate. Thanks for
posting. Glad to see you are keeping an open mind on this issue.
Ken
Jenkins, LA.
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what else did u expect? :D
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Ahem,
Will everyone stop all this shit about a 9/11 conspiracy. "Twin Towers rigged to explode" - please tell me how you rig every floor of two of the tallest buildings with high explosives, after one near-successful attempt to blow up the foundations years earlier, or was that just one of the charges going off early by mistake?
Please tell me how, when there is a perfectly reasonable structural engineering explanation for the collapse out there (google it) compiled by qualified people by their own free will.
What's wrong with arriving at the conclusion that the supposed "World Superpower" is hopelessly inept, overconfident, deluded and lazy when it came to interior security in the period before this event, and worse now, in fact.
>> i utterly agree. i kinda concluded when we covered this that some of the 9/11 conspiracy case must be based on racism – assuming nobody can stand against the Great Yankee Machine.
For all the United States can do about it, the planes might well have been flaming meteorites from outta-space. And all foreign policy from them since has been that of a giant; blindly lashing out after stabs in the eyes, with us clinging on to his sword-hand trying to lessen the damage, but in reality just adding weight to the clumsy blows.
>> here we call ‘em Dinosaurs.
Tell me what all this conspiracy stuff achieves, apart from more people sitting on their arses in front of a screen in a darkened room, cranially masturbating. Get out there and do something just as futile, protest on the 24th, at least we'll all get some fresh air.
Agree about the cynicism stuff though.
Yours,
Glynnyboy.
>> u r obviously a new reader, glynnyboy. a month or so ago i published another guy’s article called The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts and got blasted by quite a few readers some of whom demanded to be removed from the list. (see Archives on our site) i personally do NOT go with the conspiracy. but i DO publish occasional posts about it out of fairness and because i am NOT convinced it wasn't a conspiracy either.
thanks for writing tho :)
fraser.
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well done for not buying into the 9/11 conspiracy theory. it was in fact perpetrated, as stated in the daily squirt, by wogs who hate america and us, encouraged by that evil bloke with a hook who gives piracy a bad name.
brian x. shepherds bush dep't of corrections.
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Barak Obama// FEEDBACK
A few words of caution with any slants you spin on Barak Obama. I think you may be missing the story by trying to expose the depth of his political liberalism. The real story with Obama has the potential of what he represents to the course of change and the toppling of the old belief structure. While he may not be the free-spirited, open hearted, integral being we would all love to embrace as a true leader, he’s heads and shoulders beyond anyone else with any legitimate shot at the presidential office and would signal a wonderful shift at least in the direction and perception of what is possible for the future. The military industrial complex and the conservative front know they do not need to attack him in the conservatively controlled media. It is in the so called liberal media where they need to take him down. If they already have their hooks in him, he is even more a signal of hope for the future. The 2008 presidential election in America, unfortunately, is not going to be the time of a great shift in the history of mankind, but it may yet be a positive step in the right direction, even if just symbolically.
I am not by any means singing his high praises, but he is a very positive direction, simply by what he represents to America and how Americans want to shift how they are perceived in the world's eye and to themselves. The inane attacks you posted in your article by Michael Donnelly are surprisingly weak and off balance for your normally illuminating ravings. First of all, he is not passing himself off as a 'black man from Chicago', his mixed racial parents and his Hawaiian childhood are well-documented and often spoken of. Secondly, of course he has substantial corporate backing, the day when a populist candidate can rise to the height of US president are far behind us and not yet upon us. Donnelly, without revealing any actual facts, says he is lock-step with the neo-cons and asserts that the liberal counter-punchers are already wise to him, but these kinds of second and third hand allusions which we are meant to take as a consensus are, to me, more dangerous than the candidate they are meant to take down. Quoting Ross Perot's pollster's positive assessment of the man's image doesn't mean the two are of the same belief structure, it merely means he sees the draw from a pollsters point of view. This is the kind of faulty logic and non-fact based character attacks that only blur reality. I am surprised that you printed such insubstantial character attacks, especially when there are a lot more dangerous candidates out there.
Even if Obama proves to be completely the corporate puppet every other candidate is, at least he would open the door for other candidates to step up and represent themselves as honest, inspirational leaders. This has been the real draw for him. Americans are hungry for a leader who can lead with a foundation of human dignity and spirit. They are drawn to someone who represents himself as a caring, integral being. Read my words: I am not saying he is all these things, but he at least is a much bigger step in that direction than anyone else who’s attained the heights he has in a long time, and that says a lot about what the American people want now. We should be applauding that and watching with interest, not taking it down without offering a better solution that has any chance at attaining power.
The bottom line is that Obama's rise is based more than anything on his presence and the power of his positive speech. This is a significant shift from the rhetoric of fear and lies with which Bush attained power. I see this as a very important signal that America is ripe for change, if not yet ready for a complete overhaul. My advice to you is just leave the man alone, unless he reveals some major hypocrisy, he has more potential to initiate a positive shift on the way government represents America than any legitimate presidential candidate has offered in a long time and will certainly bring out the light and dark of the human spirit in the coming year. Sit back and watch the show, I am sure it will be full of twists and turns and plenty of fireworks, hopefully none aimed at anyone’s head.
Keep UP the good work!
From way outside the system on an ancient remote Greek Island,
Odysseus, Greece.
>> am somewhat ashamed. i probly shouldn't have published this character assassination attempt. it's just that here in europe all we've heard so far is positive and i suspect that and thought we needed another pan to balance our perception.
but i take most of your points and will certainly publish your letter..
but i actually still think hillary has the best chance, and am able to overlook her faults for several of the reasons you've just outlined.
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