Ravenous Foreign Pests Threaten National Treasures

By Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala Dec. 6, 2010

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Foreign pests are eating their way through our national forests, destroying majestic scenery and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.If enforcement efforts to prevent
their importation aren’t stepped up, irreplaceable resources will be lost forever and taxpayers can expect to fork over billions of dollars more by 2019, according to a comprehensive study published today in BioScience. 

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Michigan State University, the University of Central Florida, and the United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service analyzed the impact of invasive insects and pathogens introduced into the United States through 2007. What they found was a staggering list of more than 455 insects and 16 pathogens that are destroying everything from oak trees in California to redbay trees in Central Florida. Based on the pattern, the researchers predict one especially destructive pest will sneak into the nation every two years. “Entire forests are being wiped out, and it is costing taxpayers millions as the government tries to eradicate these invaders that threaten industries dependent  on trees and plants,” said Betsy Von Holle, a biologist at UCF who worked on the project. “We’re losing a variety of native species as a result of importing these pests. It’s  not just aesthetics. It’s impacting our economy.” These pests and diseases sneak into the country on everything from horticultural (or plant) imports to the wooden pallets used to transport everything from building supplies to electronic goods.  “Global trade has had tremendous benefits for Americans,” said lead author Juliann Aukema from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in  Santa Barbara. “Unfortunately, it also has resulted in the introduction of destructive insects and other organisms that threaten native ecosystems and the services they provide.” No section of the country is immune. Laurel wilt disease is one of the latest organisms to be spread by a foreign beetle in the southeastern United States. It is wiping out redbay trees in Georgia  and last month was discovered in Seminole County, Fla. Redbay trees are important to wildlife and certain butterflies depend on them for survival.  But it is just a recent import.  California has been battling sudden oak death, a pathogen that is destroying oak trees in California and Oregon since the 1990s. California has spent millions trying to stop it, because the trees are a state treasure.And the Midwest is not immune. The Asian Longhorned beetle, which came into the United States hidden in wooden packing pallets, has ravaged all sorts of trees in New York City and Chicago. So far, those communities have spent $220 million to fight the infestation. Another beetle, the emerald ash borer, has been destroying trees in the Midwest since 2002, and it is estimated municipalities will spend more than $10 billion for landscape and tree treatment or removal in the next 10 years battling the ash borer.  “Once here, these invasive species are virtually impossible to stop,” Von Holle said. “And it is very expensive to control them.” Recommendations include better screening before letting items into the country. The department within the USDA that is in charge of screening at airports and ports is now part of Homeland Security. “These screening agents have too much to do and right now the focus is on finding bombs and weapons,” Von Holle said. “That’s absolutely right, but we also need to be more aggressive about these biological threats that could undermine large parts of the U.S. economy that rely on trees and other native plants, not  to mention the loss to the environment.” The research was supported by the Nature Conservancy and the National Center for Ecological Analysis, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, as part of a larger effort to assess economic impacts of nonindigenous forest pests. The team also included Deborah G. McCullough at Michigan State University, Andrew Liebhold with  the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Kerry Britton with the USDA Forest Service and Susan J. Frankel of the USDA Forest Center at the Pacific Southwest Research Station in Albany, Calif.

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At the Parliament of World Religions in 1993, over sixty indigenous delegates drafted a Declaration of Vision, which was originally "endorsed by resolution in a near unanimous vote" of the Parliament (Taliman 1994). It reads, in part:We call upon the people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy to persuade Pope John II
to formally revoke the Inter Cetera Bull of May 4, 1493, which will restore our fundamental human rights. That Papal document called for our Nations and Peoples to be subjugated so the Christian Empire nd its doctrines
would be propagated. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh 8 Wheat 543 (in 1823) adopted the same principle of subjugation expressed in the Inter Caetera bull. This Papal Bull has been, and continues to be, devastating to our religions, our cultures, and the survival of our populations. 
 
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Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery", Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493,
papal bull granting official ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these monarchs, the
Pope declared:"We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation,do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south; whether they be situated towards India,or towards any other part whatsoever,
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(reads from notes into cell phone) Robert Anton Wilson says 
“The German philosopher Husserl said that all perception is gamble,” and then
expounds upon the subject. “Every type of bigotry, every type of racism,sexism, 
prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with
a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition ridden religion, 
every kind of ignorance in the world, are all results from not realizing that our 
perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our 
interpretation of it, and we don’t even know we’re making an interpretation most 
of the time. We think this is reality. That in philosophy, that’s called naive 
realism.What I perceive is reality. And philosophers have refuted naive realism 
every century for the last 2,500 years, starting with Buddha and Plato. And yet
most people still act on the basis of naive realism. Now the argument is,well, 
maybe my perceptions are inaccurate, but somewhere there isaccuracy. The 
scientists have it with their instruments. That’s how we can find out what’s really real. 
But relativity and quantum mechanics have demonstrated clearly that what you find 
out with instruments is true, relative only to the instruments you’re using, and 
where that instrument is located in space time. So there is no vantage point from
which real reality can be seen. We’re all looking from the point of view of our own
reality tunnels. And… aha! When we begin to realize that we’re all looking from 
the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find it is much easier to understand
where other people are coming from. Or the ones who don’t have the same reality 
tunnels as us…don’t seem ignorant or deliberately perverse or lying or hypnotized 
by some mad ideology. They just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality
 tunnel might tell
us something interesting about our world, if we’re willing to listen.”

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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated
Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson

A true initiation never ends.
Robert Anton Wilson

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless
in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense,
and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
Robert Anton Wilson

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
Robert Anton Wilson

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Robert Anton Wilson

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Robert Anton Wilson

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
Robert Anton Wilson

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by
professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan
and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who ook like hippies.
Robert Anton Wilson

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Robert Anton Wilson

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Robert Anton Wilson

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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Robert Anton Wilson

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth
than in all the fables of the Church.
Robert Anton Wilson

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Robert Anton Wilson

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Robert Anton Wilson

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan
a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Anton Wilson

Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Robert Anton Wilson

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Robert Anton Wilson

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God
to create a new soul.
Robert Anton Wilson

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Robert Anton Wilson

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson

The average is that which no person quite ever is.
Robert Anton Wilson

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may
 be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of
shamans fought each other to a standstill. 
Robert Anton Wilson

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of
 the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
Robert Anton Wilson

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Robert Anton Wilson

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the
 universe outside is inside.
Robert Anton Wilson

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson

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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The
web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
Robert Anton Wilson

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
Robert Anton Wilson

There is no complete theory of anything.
Robert Anton Wilson

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
Robert Anton Wilson

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
Robert Anton Wilson

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends.
Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Robert Anton Wilson

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the
government can't stop me... It's called senility.
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Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key
components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business
 dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

Additionally, throughout 2004 and 2005, Halliburton worked closely with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Iran-based Oriental Oil Kish, to develop oil projects in Iran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran's nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iran's nuclear secrets. Iranian government officials charged Nasseri with accepting as much as $1 million in bribes from Halliburton for this information.

Oriental Oil Kish dealings with Halliburton first became public knowledge in January 2005 when the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars gas-drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered to the Cayman Islands. Following the announcement, Halliburton claimed that the South Pars gas field project in Tehran would be its last project in Iran. According to a BBC report, Halliburton, which took thirty to forty million dollars from its Iranian operations in 2003, "was winding down its work due to a poor business
environment."

However, Halliburton has a long history of doing business in Iran, starting as early as 1995, while Vice President Cheney was chief executive of the
company. Leopold quotes a February 2001 report published in the Wall Street Journal, "Halliburton Products and Services Ltd., works behind an unmarked
 door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is
based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But like the sign over the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the company is
 name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world." Moreover mail sent to the company's offices in Tehran and the
Cayman Islands is forwarded directly to its Dallas headquarters.

In an attempt to curtail Halliburton and other U.S. companies from engaging in business dealings with rogue nations such as Libya, Iran, and Syria, an
 amendment was approved in the Senate on July 26, 2005. The amendment, sponsored by Senator Susan Collins R-Maine, would penalize companies
that continue to skirt U.S. law by setting up offshore subsidiaries as a way to legally conduct and avoid U.S. sanctions under the International Emergency
 Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

A letter, drafted by trade groups representing corporate executives, vehemently objected to the amendment, saying it would lead to further hatred
and perhaps incite terrorist attacks on the U.S. and "greatly strain relations with the United States primary trading partners." The letter warned that,
"Foreign governments view U.S. efforts to dictate their foreign and commercial policy as violations of sovereignty often leading them to adopt
retaliatory measures more at odds with U.S. goals."

Collins supports the legislation, stating, "It prevents U.S. corporations from creating a shell company somewhere else in order to do business with
 rogue, terror-sponsoring nations such as Syria and Iran. The bottom line is that if a U.S. company is evading sanctions to do business with one of
these countries, they are helping to prop up countries that support terrorismÑmost often aimed against America."

UPDATE BY JASON LEOPOLD

During a trip to the Middle East in March 1996, Vice President Dick Cheney told a group of mostly U.S. businessmen that Congress should ease sanctions
 in Iran and Libya to foster better relationships, a statement that, in hindsight, is completely hypocritical considering the Bush administration's foreign
 policy.

"Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian
 situation but a number of others as well," Cheney said. "I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes . . . There seems to be an assumption that
 somehow we know whatÕs best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would
 like."

Cheney was the chief executive of Halliburton Corporation at the time he uttered those words. It was Cheney who directed Halliburton toward
aggressive business dealings with IranÑin violation of U.S. lawÑin the mid-1990s, which continued through 2005 and is the reason Iran has the
capability to enrich weapons-grade uranium.

It was Halliburton's secret sale of centrifuges to Iran that helped get the uranium enrichment program off the ground, according to a three-year
investigation that includes interviews conducted with more than a dozen current and former Halliburton employees.

If the U.S. ends up engaged in a war with Iran in the future, Cheney and Halliburton will bear the brunt of the blame. But this shouldn't come as a
 shock to anyone who has been following Halliburton's business activities over the past decade. The company has a long, documented history of
violating U.S. sanctions and conducting business with so-called rogue nations.

No, what's disturbing about these facts is how little attention it has received from the mainstream media. But the public record speaks for itself, as
 do the thousands of pages of documents obtained by various federal agencies that show how Halliburton's business dealings in Iran helped fund
terrorist activities thereÑincluding the countryÕs nuclear enrichment program.

When I asked Wendy Hall, a spokeswoman for Halliburton, a couple of years ago if Halliburton would stop doing business with Iran because of
concerns that the company helped fund terrorism she said, "No." "We believe that decisions as to the nature of such governments and their
actions are better made by governmental authorities and international entities such as the United Nations as opposed to individual persons or
 companies," Hall said. "Putting politics aside, we and our affiliates operate in countries to the extent it is legally permissible, where our customers
 are active as they expect us to provide oilfield services support to their international operations. "We do not always agree with policies or actions
 of governments in every place that we do business and make no excuses for their behaviors. Due to the long-term nature of our business and the
 inevitability of political and social change, it is neither prudent nor appropriate for our company to establish our own country-by-country foreign
policy."

Halliburton first started doing business in Iran as early as 1995, while Vice President Cheney was chief executive of the company and in possible
 violation of U.S. sanctions.

An executive order signed by former President Bill Clinton in March 1995 prohibits "new investments (in Iran) by U.S. persons, including commitment
 of funds or other assets." It also bars U.S. companies from performing services "that would benefit the Iranian oil industry" and provide Iran with
 the financial means to engage in terrorist activity.

When Bush and Cheney came into office in 2001, their administration decided it would not punish foreign oil and gas companies that invest in
those countries. The sanctions imposed on countries like Iran and Libya before Bush became president were blasted by Cheney, who gave
frequent speeches on the need for U.S. companies to compete with their foreign competitors, despite claims that those countries may have ties
to terrorism.

"I think we'd be better off if we, in fact, backed off those sanctions (on Iran), didn't try to impose secondary boycotts on companies . . . trying to
 do business over there . . . and instead started to rebuild those relationships," Cheney said during a 1998 business trip to Sydney, Australia,
according to AustraliaÕs Illawarra Mercury newspaper.

UPDATE:

Cheneys Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year

Author: John Byrne

Vice President Dick Cheney's stock options in Halliburton rose from $241,498 in 2004 to over $8 million in 2005, an increase of more than 3,000
percent, as Halliburton continues to rake in billions of dollars from no-bid/no-audit government contracts.

An analysis released by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reveals that as HalliburtonÕs fortunes rise, so do the Vice President's. Halliburton has already taken more than $10 billion from the Bush-Cheney administration for work in Iraq. They were also awarded many of the unaccountable post-Katrina government contracts, as off-shore subsidiaries of Halliburton quietly worked around U.S. sanctions to conduct very questionable business with Iran. "It is unseemly," notes Lautenberg, "for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his administration funnels billions of dollars to it."

According to the Vice President's Federal Financial Disclosure forms, he holds the following Halliburton stock options:

100,000 shares at $54.5000 (vested), expire December 3, 2007
33,333 shares at $28.1250 (vested), expire December 2, 2008
300,000 shares at $39.5000 (vested), expire December 2, 2009

The Vice President has attempted to fend off criticism by signing an agreement to donate the after-tax profits from these stock options to charities of his choice, and his lawyer has said he will not take any tax deduction for the donations. However, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) concluded in September 2003 that holding stock options while in elective office does constitute a "financial interest" regardless of whether the holder of the options will donate proceeds to charities. Valued at over $9 million, the Vice President could exercise his stock options for a substantial windfall, not only benefiting his designated charities, but also providing Halliburton with a tax deduction.

CRS also found that receiving deferred compensation is a financial interest. The Vice President continues to receive deferred salary from
Halliburton. While in office, he has received the following salary payments from Halliburton:

These CRS findings contradict Vice President Cheney's puzzling view that he does not have a financial interest in Halliburton. On the September 14, 2003
edition of Meet
the Press in response to questions regarding his relationship with Halliburton, where from 1995 to 2000 he was employed as CEO, Vice President Cheney
 said, "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I
have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

What's more, the federal government is emerging as one of the world's biggest customers for Tamiflu. In July 2005, the Pentagon ordered $58 million worth
of the treatment for U.S. troops around the world, and Congress is considering a multibillion dollar purchase. Roche expects 2005 sales for Tamiflu to total
at about $1 billion, compared with $258 million in 2004.

North Korea’s Nukes: Paid For By The U.S. Government

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Amidst the cacophony of condemnation from all sides following North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test, there has been no mention whatsoever of how the secretive Stalinist state got its weapons in the first place – they were paid for by the U.S. government.

Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played a key role in helping Kim Jong-Il develop North Korea’s nuclear prowess from the mid 1990’s onwards.

The hypocrisy being spewed forth from all sides in reaction to today’s news that North Korea tested an underground nuclear device equivalent to 10 times the power of their first test in October 2006 is akin to when the U.S. cited Iraq’s possession of chemical and biological weapons as a reason to invade in 2003, having first checked the receipt of course, since it was Donald Rumsfeld who brokered the deal to supply Saddam with those weapons in the first place.

Rumsfeld was also the man who presided over a $200 million dollar contract to deliver equipment and services to build two light water reactor stations in North Korea in January 2000 when he was an executive director of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company.

Rumsfeld was merely picking up the baton from the Clinton administration, who in 1994 agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ claimed that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs — a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.”

“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we’re trying to prevent it acquiring,” said Sokolski.

The U.S. State Department claimed that the light water reactors could not be used to produce bomb grade material and yet in 2002 urged Russia to end its nuclear co-operation with Iran for the reason that it didn’t want Iran armed with weapons of mass destruction. At the time, Russia was building light water reactors in Iran.  According to the State Department, light water reactors in Iran can produce nuclear material but somehow the same rule doesn’t apply in North Korea.

In April 2002, the Bush administration announced that it would release $95 million of American taxpayer’s dollars to begin construction of the ‘harmless’ light water reactors in North Korea. Bush argued that arming the megalomaniac dictator Kim Jong-Il with the potential to produce a hundred nukes a year was, “vital to the national security interests of the United States.” Bush released even more money in January 2003, as was reported by Bloomberg News.

Bush released the funds despite the startling revelation, reported by South Korean newspapers, that a North Korean missile warhead had been found in Alaska.

Construction of the reactors was eventually suspended, but North Korea had an alternative source through which they could obtain the nuclear secrets vital to building an atom bomb arsenal – CIA asset and international arms smuggler AQ Khan.

In 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atom bomb program, admitted sharing nuclear technology via a worldwide smuggling network that included facilities in Malaysia that manufactured key parts for centrifuges.

Khan’s collaborator B.S.A. Tahir ran a front company out of Dubai that shipped centrifuge components to North Korea.

Despite Dutch authorities being deeply suspicious of Khan’s activities as far back as 1975, the CIA prevented them from arresting him on two occasions.

“The man was followed for almost ten years and obviously he was a serious problem. But again I was told that the secret services could handle it more effectively,” former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said. “The Hague did not have the final say in the matter. Washington did.”

Lubbers stated that Khan was allowed to slip in and out of the Netherlands with the blessing of the CIA, eventually allowing him to become the “primary salesman of an extensive international network for the proliferation of nuclear technology and know-how,” according to George W. Bush himself, and sell nuclear secrets that allowed North Korea to build nuclear bombs.

“Lubbers suspects that Washington allowed Khan’s activities because Pakistan was a key ally in the fight against the Soviets,” reports CFP. “At the time, the US government funded and armed mujahideen such as Osama bin Laden. They were trained by Pakistani intelligence to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told ISN Security Watch that Lubbers’ assertions may be correct. “This was part of a long-term foolish strategy. The US knew Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons but couldn’t care less because it was not going to be used against them. It was a deterrent against India and possibly the Soviets.”

In September 2005 it emerged that the Amsterdam court which sentenced Khan to four years imprisonment in 1983 had lost the legal files pertaining to the case. The court’s vice-president, Judge Anita Leeser, accused the CIA of stealing the files. “Something is not right, we just don’t lose things like that,” she told Dutch news show NOVA. “I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of.”

In 2005, Pakistani President Pervez Musharaf acknowledged that Khan had provided centrifuges and their designs to North Korea.

With this history in mind, the shock, condemnation and indignation being expressed by the U.S. government in response to North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test is tinged with hypocrisy to say the least. Through their policies in aiding North Korea to build light water reactors, and via the CIA asset AQ Khan who was protected at every step of the way while he helped provide North Korea with the means to build a nuclear arsenal, the U.S. government itself is directly complicit in providing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il with the nuclear weapons that they are now condemning him for testing.

North Korea is controlled by a hereditary Stalinist dictatorship that has starved two million of its citizens to death in favor of building a million-man army. Some people put the figure at four million, one-quarter of the population. In the far north of the country there is a network of forced labor gulags where people who have ‘expressed a bland political opinion’ are, along with their entire families, tortured, raped and executed. Horrific bio-chemical experiments are performed on mass numbers of people. Babies are delivered and then stamped to death by the camp guards. If the mother screams while the guards are stamping on the baby’s neck, she is immediately assassinated by a firing squad. These guards are rewarded with bonuses and promotions for ripping out prisoners’ eyeballs.

The North Korean people are enslaved by a government that is using food as a weapon. Perhaps this is why the EU and the United States, via the UN World Food Program, resumed the shipment of hundreds of thousands of tons in food aid at the end of February 2003. This goes directly to the sitting dictatorship, which then decides who gets it by their level of allegiance to the state. Food aid only increases the power of Kim Jong-Il and yet it is veiled by the UN in bleeding heart humanitarian rhetoric. The money goes straight to enabling the North Korean leadership to live in the lap of westernized luxury with casinos and lavish new cars.

President Bush publicly claimed to loathe Kim Jong-Il and yet his administration, like Bill Clinton before him, set the policy to help North Korea obtain nuclear expertise. The U.S. intelligence network also protected AQ Khan and allowed him to provide the means with which North Korea aqcuired their nuclear capability.

Now the corporate media, along with Obama, the UN, Israel and others, are expressing their grave condemnation that North Korea is testing the very same nuclear weapons technology that was initially bankrolled by the U.S. government itself. Sanctions are already in the pipeline and others are even talking of military confrontation, which could ultimately lead to a conflict with China, North Korea’s close neighbor and ally.

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UPDATE BY JOHN BYRNE

The media has routinely downplayed Cheney's involvement and financial investment in Halliburton, one of the largest U.S. defense contractors that received supersized no-bid contracts in Iraq. Ultimately, the importance of the story is that the Vice President of the U.S. is able to use his position of power to reap rewards for his former company in which he has a financial investment. Halliburton may also benefit from a chilling effect in which the Pentagon is more likely to favor Cheney's firm to seek favor with the White House.

Cheney continues to hold 433,333 Halliburton stock options, and receives a deferred salary of about $200,000 a year. According to Cheney's most recent tax returns, he held $2.5 million in retirement accounts, much of which likely came from his former defense firm.

Cheney recently filed disclosure reports that show he is valued at $94 million.

Senator Lautenberg's disclosure, brought forward by Raw Story, received no mainstream coverage. While the press has often noted that Cheney was formerly
Halliburton's CEO, they routinely fail to mention how much money he accrued from the firm during his service there. They also fail to mention that he continues
to receive a pension.

http://www.RawStory.com
regularly reports on Halliburton and contracts awarded to the company. SourceWatch.org also has a good library of resources on Halliburton
and other defense contractors as well as the Vice President.Another way to get involved is to contact your local senator or representatives about your
concerns, and to ask them to push the Vice President to sell his stock options in Halliburton.

Wed, 29 Mar 2000

Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics: The Ugly Truth Behind "Quality of Life"

-NY Times 3/10/2000 Giuliani Won't Move on Art Show

There's a fundamental question about the Giuliani as Hitler controversy nobody seems willing to ask let alone answer. Does comparing Giuliani to Hitler demean the Holocaust if Giuliani is in fact a modern day exponent of Nazi-like ideas on race?

In order to intelligently answer this question one needs a historical understanding of Nazism beyond knowing that Hitler killed six million Jews. While the systematic extermination of European Jewery is among the most uniquely horrific episodes in human history it was not all that Hitler, Nazism or the Third Reich were trying to achieve. Eliminating Jews was actually a localized subset of a much larger idea known as Eugenics.

Proponents of Eugenics don't necessarily hate those of other races. There are economic and social aspects of Eugenics distinct from the blatant hatred of anti-Semitism or the anti-Black prejudice that's common in the U.S. Often the justifications offered by proponents of Eugenics focus on economic and social gains to society that can be achieved by its application.

Mayor Giuliani's defenders claim he's not a racist. In a very limited sense they may be right. The Mayor's ideology in terms of race and Eugenics focuses on economic issues and so-called quality of life. Let us not forget however that the main justification the Southern States offered for slavery was also economic
as was Hitler's justification for euthanizing and sterilizing millions of German citizens, for invading Eastern Europe and to a large extent for the Holocaust itself. German business interests reaped huge economic benefits from the Holocaust and from the application by the Nazis of Eugenics. Here in New York City, business interests also have been the prime beneficiaries of Giuliani's Eugenics based policies.

Eugenics treats human beings as breeding stock, like farm animals. Eugenicists are preoccupied with issues of racial superiority, racial mixing, racial degeneration and the effects on modern economic society of race generally. So-called "positive" Eugenics deals with promoting socially and economically advantageous human breeding while "negative" Eugenics focuses on the culling out of those with undesirable traits.

Long before Hitler created German laws requiring forcible sterilization, euthanasia and his ultimate Eugenics program, the Holocaust, the pioneers of Eugenics
who originated Hitler's ideas were British and American scientists. With the financial backing of some of the world's most famous industrialists like John D. Rockefeller, Cecil Rhodes, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford, they were able to promote Eugenics to an amazingly successful degree. Thanks to a century of propaganda distorting and disguising their real purposes, the influential foundations these men endowed with their wealth are viewed as humanitarian, even
as mankind's hope for salvation.

By the 1920's many States had passed Eugenics laws requiring involuntary sterilization of mental defectives. Tens of thousands of African Americans, Native Americans and other minorities were deliberately mislabeled as defectives and then sterilized by our government in order to prevent them from reproducing.

Most of those sterilized were actually normal. By the 1930's States were proposing even more extreme policies including compulsory euthanasia for chronic
criminal behavior, for the mentally ill and for those with certain diseases. Hitler publicly acknowledged that he directly modeled the Eugenics laws of Nazi
Germany on those of the United States.

Due to revelations about the Holocaust that surfaced after WWII the Eugenics movement was forced to reinvent itself under various fronts. Nevertheless, it has continued its work to the present day with programs like the Human Genome Project, the Center for Disease Control, various "humanitarian" Population Councils within the UN and in private organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, The Pioneer Fund and the Manhattan Institute. The ideas and goals of Eugenics
are behind issues as diverse as the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the African AIDs crisis and genetically manipulated seeds being forced on farmers.

Not all Eugenics proponents wear white sheets or decorate their homes with Nazi memorabilia. Mainstream Eugenics is usually presented as beneficent aid to
poor people, as scientific research or as enlightened social policy and reform. At its opposite extreme the ideas manifest as murder and mayhem committed
against ethnic and racial minorities.

A common belief of the proponents of American Eugenics in the early part of this century was that poor immigrants who were coming to the United States in
 the millions each year such as the Irish, Italians and Eastern European Jews were unhealthy, mentally inferior and a dangerous army of potential Marxists who would destroy the nation genetically, economically and politically. Today the immigrant groups that are the focus of this ideological attack in the United States
are primarily Latino. In Austria, Hitler's birthplace and today the stronghold of Giuliani's recent dinner pal Jorg Haider, it's the Turks who are the hated and feared immigrant threat. In other words Eugenics ideology is not focused solely on the Jewish people. The Japanese, to take just one more outstanding national example, had a comparable Eugenics program to Hitler's which viewed Chinese and Koreans as inferior races. Millions of innocent civilians were interned, murdered, raped and experimented on by the Japanese in acts as horrific as anything done by the Nazis.

Hitler claimed that hundreds of years of Jewish participation in German society was responsible for Germany's economic, social and spiritual troubles. According to Hitler, Jewish intermarriage and social influence was a poison destroying the Aryan race. These claims are virtually identical to those made today by the White Supremacy movement in the U.S. against Blacks, Asians and Latinos. However it's not only fringe groups and fundamentalists who hold these beliefs. American governmental officials at the highest level and many of the nation's top bankers and industrialists knew about the Holocaust before it had begun and did nothing whatsoever to stop it. In fact, they helped finance it.

It was not only Jews that Hitler and his financial backers had a problem with. Eastern Europeans, Slavs, Russians, Gypsies, Africans and Latin Americans were also races they intended to decimate. Communists, not a race but adherents of a political ideology, were also a key target of Hitler's world-wide Eugenics program. In other words, what Hitler intended was not just a Jewish Holocaust but a plan to eliminate hundreds of millions of representatives of various racial, ethnic and political groups around the world. The motivation was at least as much about gaining economic advantage as about racial prejudice.

One might reasonably ask how the German people, considered by many to be the best educated and most cultured population in the world at that time, could accept this ideology. German Jews made a tremendous contribution to German society and culture over hundreds of years and were a major force in its economy, its military, its government and its industry. German Jews were the most assimilated Jews in the world, often indistinguishable from their non-Jewish neighbors. Millions of Germans including Hitler and various other top Nazis had Jewish relatives whose existence they made great efforts to hide.

One way to understand how the German people could participate in the Holocaust is to look at how African Americans are viewed in this country. Despite the undeniable historical fact that Black Americans helped build this nation, established much of it's wealth and made countless contributions to it's culture, its science, its political and social progress and that black soldiers fought and died in every American war, many White Americans believe Blacks are mentally, socially and morally inferior and that they are a threat to the continuation of the so-called American Way Of Life.

Within the dominant White society's views of Black Americans there is a very wide spectrum of belief. For those with the most extremely racist viewpoint, Black Americans are not even human and should be separated from White society or eliminated. For those with more politically acceptable rhetoric if not belief, Black Americans are socially flawed, economically dependent, intellectually inferior and prone to violence. Not all white American's hold these beliefs any more than all Germans hated the Jews and believed Hitler's outrageous lies about them. Ultimately, what's most important is not what average people think but what those in power believe and plan to do.

Which brings us back to New York City and to the question of whether or not it is reasonable to compare Giuliani to Hitler. Is Giuliani in some sense a Nazi? Once we understand clearly what Hitler and Nazism actually represented the answer is clear.

Giuliani routinely admits his policy ideas are taken directly, almost verbatim, from the Manhattan Institute, a CIA initiated "think tank" funded by far right Eugenics advocates like the Pioneer Fund and corporations such as the Rockefeller's Chase Bank which have historically promoted the Eugenics agenda. The Manhattan Institute has sponsored research projects and books like the Bell Curve, Fixing Broken windows and numerous others which propose the idea that blacks are mentally inferior. While the Manhattan Institute is not publicly advocating mass extermination or mass relocation of minorities the policies it does promote are mostly about targeting black and Latino inner City populations in such a way as to make relocation an attractive option and elimination a day to day reality. They take full credit along with Mayor Giuliani for the City's aggressive policing, it's stop and frisk policy, the remedial budget cuts at CUNY, the ending of welfare, the destruction of SRO's and low-income housing, attempts to eliminate rent control, the workfare program, the cleansing of the streets of homeless people, bulldozing community gardens, the privatization of parks, schools and hospitals and many other controversial ideas. Economic improvement is the attractive
facade of these policies. Behind that facade are assumptions about minorities that are fundamentally racist.

You won't find swastikas or paintings of Hitler decorating the walls at the Manhattan Institute nor will its staff be seen wearing Nazi uniforms. Their stable of well paid academics, writers and intellectuals are masters of using politically correct terminology to advance and express racist ideas. They are often the most effective guest speakers on television programs and at university conferences on social issues. While the ideas they advance may superficially appear to be about improving quality of life, cutting government waste, improving education and perfecting police strategy the common thread is that every policy is aimed at targeting minorities, immigrants and the poor while benefiting the corporations and wealthy individuals with whom they are aligned and by whom they are funded.

These ideas are very similar to those espoused by Adolf Hitler with one notable exception. There is no anti-Semitism involved. The despised groups in this contemporary NYC branch of Eugenics are African Americans and Latinos. However, if one looks to the early years of this century one will find the exact same attitudes were expressed about New York City's millions of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. They were considered to be uneducable, diseased, mentally inferior, crime prone, violent, unfit parents, socially toxic and a ruinous drain on the economy and infrastructure. To top it all off they were also considered
 politically subversive Marxists who would destroy the American political system.

For the minority residents of Harlem, Bedford Styvesant or the Bronx, the comparisons between Giuliani and Hitler are self-evident and universally understood. Unfortunately, the well-justified rage within these communities is often directed at police officers who have no part in creating policy and are not in many cases aware of the ideology they are enforcing. The so-called police "training" the Mayor and Police Commissioner are so proud of is a military system of brainwashing and desensitization invented by the Gestapo which trains police officers to view minority males as armed and dangerous suspects with no rights who are to be treated with maximum force even when unarmed. As the Mayor said after the Diallo shooting, "They are trained to shoot to kill".

The corporations, banks and far right race-obsessed groups that fund the Manhattan Institute today were in many cases backing Hitler's rise to power just 70 years ago. They are also the same groups behind Giuliani's Senate campaign and GW Bush's Presidential bid. Chase Bank, the Manhattan Institute's main sponsor, has publicly apologized on numerous occasions for its avid support of Hitler and its enthusiasm to turn over Jewish Bank accounts to the Nazis before they were ever asked to do so. Chase and other U.S. banks helped Hitler seize the gold reserves of European nations that had been deposited in their vaults in order to fund the German military buildup. When Hitler invaded Europe his troops were flying planes, driving tanks and firing ammunition manufactured by German subsidiaries of U.S. companies like GM, Ford and Chrysler, all fueled by the German branch of Standard Oil, The Rockefeller's oil company.

One must not imagine these were simply business decisions intended to protect the corporate bottom-line. The Rockefeller's, owners of Chase Bank, were major advocates of Eugenics and funded Eugenics institute's and experiments around the world as they continue to do today. One of the darker chapters of Rockefeller involvement was their economic sponsorship of Josef Mengele, the Nazis Doctor of Death. Much of Mengele's research material was acquired by conducting monstrous human experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz. After WWII that research material was brought to the U.S. by those associated with the Eugenics movement within our own government. Today that same research is used by the U.S. military, by the Human Genome Project and by pharmaceutical and chemical companies whose advertising dollars sponsor every aspect of popular American culture from game shows to soap operas to PBS.

The Manhattan Institute's founder, former CIA director William Casey, helped bring leading Nazis to America after WWII where they were given positions in the military, in intelligence, in scientific research and in universities. The results surround us today in the form of militarized police departments, efforts to end affirmative action, the governmental importation of drugs into minority areas, the psycho-chemical dosing of children, the criminalization and imprisonment of millions of black and Latino males, the prison-industrial complex and the attendant destruction of minority families and communities. The government itself, saturated by the influence of the Eugenics movement, is promoting and executing these racist policies.

When a Federal agency like the CDC announces that they will test a new experimental vaccine solely on minority children in urban ghettos and on Native Americans living on Indian reservations you are seeing Eugenics not public health at work. When the government works with giant chemical companies, many of whom were owned and operated by the Nazis before the end of WWII, to force genetically engineered foods, artificial hormones or mandatory vaccines on the public, you are seeing Eugenics at work. When Mayor Giuliani has Malathion, an organophosphate nerve gas known to weaken immune systems and cause birth defects, cancer and asthma, indiscriminently sprayed on NYC to fight a viral "epidemic" that may not even exist, you are seeing Eugenics at work. When every NYC social program is cut despite a billion dollar surplus or when schools, hospitals, libraries, police, parks, prisons the courts and emergency medical services are privatized at the expense of minority communities, you are seeing Eugenics at work. And when hundreds of thousands are selectively stopped, frisked, harassed and intimidated based on their race you are seeing Eugenics, rather than garden variety police brutality, at work.

Those actually carrying out these policies on the ground, the inner city police officer, the welfare bureaucrat, the underpaid school teacher, the emergency room doctor, may have no more idea of what the master plan is than those who are being targeted. People needn't be racists in order to carry out racist policies. That's why the Mayor is currently recruiting so many minorities into the NYPD. Just as the Nazis used Jewish capos to help run the concentration camps, Giuliani's anti-minority police state will run more efficiently with fewer complaints if all the cops are Black and Latino. Doctors injecting experimental vaccines into the arms of millions of African children can be well-intentioned humanitarians with no idea what the vaccine is really intended to do. The NYC public school teacher struggling to teach her overcrowded class to read in an unheated crumbling building may have no idea that she is part of a Eugenics policy that intends for her students to be miseducated, unemployable and illiterate and that is actually preparing them for a prison cell.

Politically motivated Eugenics can be applied in many ways. The Cold War, covering Viet Nam with Agent Orange, the embargoes of Cuba and Iraq causing starvation and disease and the funding of the Contras can all be understood as Eugenics policies applied to political situations. When former President Bush depicted Sadaam Hussein as a modern day Hitler armed with chemical and biological weapons, he neglected to mention that it was U.S. corporations and the
U.S. government that gave them to him.

That far more Americans are killed by doctors each year than by car accidents, AIDs and guns combined may turn out to be something other than massive medical malpractice. With giant profit-oriented HMO's replacing doctors in the making of virtually
all medical decisions Americans are increasingly in the position where being downsized by a corporation can have a permanent and far more sinister meaning than just losing a job.

Eugenics affects virtually every aspect of our lives although it is rarely acknowledged. The recipient of Mayor Giuliani's endorsement for President, GW Bush, has spoken at the Manhattan Institute and warmly praised its policies. Consistent with the pattern of many Giuliani and Manhattan Institute associates the Bush
family were intimately involved in funding Hitler and were economic partners with the Third Reich in a variety of business endeavors. The U.S. Congress was forced to seize many of the Bush families' banking assets in 1942 to stop the flow of money to Hitler as the U.S. entered WWII. Ironically, as I'm writing this a news report on the radio states that GW Bush is celebrating his Primary victory at a Jewish center in Austin Texas. No doubt he is wearing a yarmulke and affirming his commitment to the State of Israel while collecting campaign contributions. His appearance at Bob Jones University, covered ad nauseum by the media, was never once depicted for what it actually was; confirmation that Bush represents the most extreme kind of racial and religious bigotry. Apparently Governor Bush even has his own Eugenics program going on in Texas, the state that has executed more than half of all the people killed under the U.S. death penalty in recent years. The "compassionate conservative" has signed a death warrant on average about once every two weeks since being elected Texas Governor.

When political pundits scratch their heads over Giuliani being pro-choice at the same time he is massively soliciting donations from the anti-abortion religious right, the answer is again, Eugenics. From a Eugenics perspective the more abortions among minorities the better. Our Eugenics oriented government will be glad to give Blacks and Latinos abortions, condoms, Norplant, chemical exposure that causes sterility, crack, heroin, epidemics of asthma and AIDS, risky medical experiments and anything else that will lower their rate of reproduction.

Giuliani's infamous temperament is usually offered as the reason he refused to meet with a single black NYC elected official for the first six years of his Mayoralty. Isn't a far more reasonable explanation that he had no need to meet with those he was trying to eliminate? Ex-Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says Giuliani "missed an opportunity" to resolve racial tensions in NYC between the NYPD and minorities. What Bratton is not saying is that resolving those tensions would
have been counterproductive to the Mayor's Manhattan Institute-inspired Eugenics agenda.

Does the Mayor deny any of this? Not at all. In fact, his only response during more than six years of being compared to Adolf Hitler is that such comparisons, "denigrate the Holocaust", are "hate speech" and are "anti-Semitic". So far this debate chilling technique has been very effective. To quote Mayor Giuliani's favorite newspaper, "As soon as a dissenting opinion is labeled hate, it need not be countered with reason, and those who hold that opinion need not be taken seriously -- except inasmuch as they are a threat to decency and order and must be suppressed." -NY Post 3/12/2000.

One can hardly expect a media that is financed by the very corporations behind Eugenics to expose these
policies. Mainstream media depictions of Giuliani ossilate between showing him as a dress-wearing buffoon,
a hot tempered "nasty man" or as an admired public servant. No matter how naughty or nicely reporters
depict him the ideologybehind his policies is never allowed to be exposed.

The time has come to look beyond the Mayor's feeble knee-jerk labels absurdly mischaracterizing these accusations as hate speech and anti-Semitism. They are not. I am very proud of my Jewish heritage. I know hundreds of other Jews who despise Giuliani and everything he stands for. These are Jews who understand the history of Nazi Germany very well and see the shadow of Hitler lurking behind every Giuliani pronouncement. Neither are these accusations an attempt to trivialize or deny the Holocaust. If the Holocaust is to be more than just a monument to Jewish suffering the cry, "never again" has to be applied not just to the Jewish people but to all present or future targets of the Eugenics movement. To do less than that is truly to denigrate the Holocaust and the memory of those who perished in it.

[A few quotes in support of the above follow] From:

"A victim of the notorious eugenics programmes that once flourished in America is suing the local authority that forcibly sterilised him in a landmark case that could precipitate thousands of similar lawsuits. Fred Aslin, 73, has brought an action against the state of Michigan more than half a century after he was rendered unable to have children by a policy seeking to achieve "race betterment". Mr Aslin was one of a family of nine Indian children who were taken from a mother struggling to care for them and placed in a mental institution. There, when they reached the age of 18, each was sterilised. "They said it was because
we were feeble-minded morons and that any children we might have would be just like us, or worse," Mr Aslin said. In fact, records show that there is no evidence that the Aslins were backward in any way...The eugenics movement started in the early decades of the last century, and although Hitler's sterilisation of as much as 1 per cent of the German population forced many to reconsider, it remained popular in many states in America...It is believed that 60,000 or more Americans were sterilised in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s."

"Currently housed...on the second floor of a building near Grand Central Terminal, the institute was founded
as a free-market education and research organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration....Mr. Giuliani and his campaign staff began meeting with institute members in 1992, and since that time have absorbed many of its ideas, particularly on such issues as
the city's tax structure, economic development, education policy, policing and quality of life."

The Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors "The Manhattan Institute was founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became President Reagan's CIA director...Funneling money from very conservative foundations, the Institute has sponsored many books by writers opposed to safety-net social programs and affirmative action...Charles Murray's Losing Ground -- a denunciation of social programs for the poor -- catapulted him to media stardom in 1984...As Murray wrote in the book's preface, the decision by Manhattan Institute officials to subsidize the book project was crucial: "Without them, the book would not have been written."...Shortly after The Bell Curve was published [in late 1994], the Manhattan Institute sponsored a luncheon to honor Murray and the book, in which he proposes a genetic explanation for the 15-point difference in IQ between blacks and whites that is the basis for his dismissing affirmative action policies as futile."...Along with ongoing subsidies from a number of large conservative foundations, the Manhattan Institute has gained funding from such corporate sources as the Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and philanthropic arms of American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA and Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget reached $5 million a year by the early 1990s."

"Among the organizations whose mailing lists the Giuliani campaign has rented from Response Unlimited are the American Center for Legislative Reform, which apparently believes that blue-helmeted United Nations troops will soon replace rangers at Yellowstone National Park; the Catholic Alliance, an anti-abortion offshoot of the Christian Coalition; and the American Patriot Donors, which opposes gay rights. Richard Viguerie, the controversial right-wing direct-mail magnate, was enlisted by Giuliani operatives to arrange for the list rental....A leading right-wing warrior, he has worked for Jesse Helms, Oliver North, George Wallace and Patrick Buchanan...His marketing strategies helped launch the conservative revolution in the early 1960's, when he did mass mailings for Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. He raised cash for Wallace in the early 1970's, and helped organize Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in the 1980's. He threw his direct-mail empire behind Mr. North, an insurgent candidate for Senate in Virginia, in 1994. Mr. Viguerie has also done direct mail for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church...Meanwhile, the Giuliani campaign has rented a list of 6,000 names from English Language Advocates, a group that drafted a controversial initiative to make Arizona an English-only state...And the campaign has paid for the services of Pinnacle List Company, which offers...names of those who have donated to "U.S. Border Control," a group whose Web site warns darkly of "the ethnic cleansing of European Americans."

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Christopher Columbus The Untold Story     Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery", Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official ownership of the New World  to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these monarchs, the Pope declared:  "We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered;  and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south; whether they be situated towards India, or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you absolute power in them." [9] http://www.understandingprejudice.org/nativeiq/columbus.htm   Revoking the Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493  Las Casas . At the Parliament of World Religions in 1993, over sixty indigenous delegates drafted a Declaration of Vision, which was originally "endorsed by resolution in a near unanimous vote" of the Parliament (Taliman 1994). It reads, in part: We call upon the people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy to persuade Pope John II to formally revoke the Inter Cetera Bull of May 4, 1493, which will restore our fundamental human rights. That Papal document called for our Nations and Peoples to be subjugated so the Christian Empire nd its doctrines would be propagated. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh 8 Wheat 543 (in 1823) adopted the same principle of subjugation expressed in the Inter Caetera bull. This Papal Bull has been, and continues to be, devastating to our religions, our cultures, and the survival of our populations. Home Background Appeal to the Vatican Delegate to the Vatican Updates contact information       Back to the Top The first annual papal bulls burning took place on October 12, 1997 in front of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Here, 'Ululani Po'ohina burns a papal bull. In the background, from left to right, Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian rights activists Eric Po'ohina, Kekuni Blaisdell, and Soli Niheu look on, while Tony Castanha reads from YESTERDAY Bulls Burning Background 500 Yrs of Oppression Bulls News     TODAY Uncommemorating Columbus Appeal to the Vatican Delegation to the Vatican Final Report on Delegation - October 22, 2000 National Catholic Reporter, "Indigenous demand revocation of 1493 papal bull." - October 27, 2000 National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution 2001   Inter Caetera Contact Information Related sujectsWhat is a Papal Bull View an online petition to revoke the papal bull of 1493 Legal Foundations of the Spanish Claim on the New World   http://www.kwabs.com/bull_of_1493.html   http://www.kwabs.com/spanish_claim_.html                           http://www.reformation.org/alonso-de-hojeda.html http://127.0.0.1:4664/cache?event_id=119121&schema_id=2&q=Columbus+paid+off+pope+%2E%2E%2E%2E%2E&s=AyY6pBaAfmmoAbciw6Jk9VGPgv4 King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille  "King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille united the warring kingships into the country we now call Spain. Free of the Moores, Ferdinand and Isabella looked to expand the boundaries of the new Spanish kingdom beyond any empire in history."     Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery", Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official ownership of the New World to King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille. To these monarchs, the Pope declared: "We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south; whether they be situated towards India, or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you absolute power in them."   [#9] That is the geopolitical equivalent of the Nazi's declaration that the world and its population are the property of Germany, so does that make Christopher Columbus and the Pope his paid accomplices Nazi thieves & murders?   Its very interesting that they said that all the indigenous people they killed had no souls because they were "pagan" when the so called Classical European social systems they were from were also pagan savages who went daily to the Gigantic Coliseums to watch other  humans be murdered as entertainment... http://mingus.charlesmingus3art.com/beyondgood-26amp-3Bevil-_866.html

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/RWWC/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=67052 Subjects African London African London redirect Showing 1 to 21 of 115 objects. Page 1 of 6  1 2 3 4 5 6 Page 1 of 6  1 2 3 4 5 6 The African Community in London The very first humans to reach Britain tens of thousands of years ago were the descendants of African people. Britain took a leading part in the slave trade from the 16th century until slavery was finally abolished in 1833. Many Africans were brought to London against their will to serve the wealthy  and were amongst those who campaigned to end slavery. The British Empire included parts of West Africa and inhabitants of these countries came to London in search of work during the 19th and 20th centuries. Today south London is home to a large community of West Africans, while East Africans have sought refuge from civil war in countries like Somalia and Ethiopia. The practice of importing Negroe servants into these kingdoms is said to be already a  grievance that requires a remedy, and yet it is every day encouraged, insomuch as the  number in the metropolis only, is supposed to be near 20,000~Letter to the 'Gentleman's Magazine' October 1746 The first human remains in London were found in Swanscombe and are 400,000 years old.   These humans were the descendants of people who migrated from Africa about one million years ago and arrived in Britain around 300,000 years later. The next wave of migration from Africa dates back about 100,000 years.  These people were anatomically modern humans. They reached Britain about 40,000 years ago during a cold period when the seas between Britain and the rest of Europe had frozen over. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/RWWC/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=67052 There is some evidence of an African presence in Britain during Roman times. A regiment of soldiers from North Africa was stationed at Hadrian’s Wall. London archaeologists have found a spoon and a lamp representing people of African appearance. The earliest recorded image of an African in London is a Black trumpeter depicted on the Westminster Tournament Roll of 1511. Probably from North Africa, this musician was employed by both Henry VII and Henry VIII.Henry VIII’s daughter Queen Elizabeth I also had Black servants. Nonetheless in 1601, when the country had been suffering from poor harvests, she issued a proclamation that ‘the great number of Negroes and blackamoores’ should leave Britain.From the 1570s some Africans were brought to London as a result of Britain's role in the slave trade, although most were taken to the West Indies. Ships left ports like London filled with goods bound for the west coast of Africa.There, the goods were traded for enslaved people whom the ships then carried to the West Indies to work on sugar and tobacco plantations. The final leg of the voyage transported sugar, tobacco and cotton from the plantations back to Britain. This made enormous profits for British manufacturers, slave traders and plantation owners. An infrastructure of banks and insurance agencies grew up around the slave trade, some of which still exist, like Barclays bank.During the 17th and 18th centuries it was fashionable for wealthy Londoners to own African slaves or servants. Some of these owners brought enslaved people with them from plantations in the Caribbean. Contemporary newspapers carry advertisements offering enslaved people for sale, or attempting to trace runaways. The law was unclear on the status of enslaved people in England and many ran away from their employers to obtain freedom.  Several Black people, such as Olaudah Equiano, actively campaigned against slavery, which virtually ended in Britain by the 1790s. In 1807 the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed. This was followed in 1833 by the Slavery Abolition Act, outlawing slavery throughout the British Empire. After this date fewer Black people came to London. By the mid 18th century there was a significant free Black population. These people worked as servants, labourers, sailors and soldiers. Ignatius Sancho distinguished himself as a writer and composer. Bill Richmond and Tom Molineux were noted prize fighters. The Black population declined in the 19th century. The majority was men, some of whom married White women, so that their children had only partial Black ancestry. Today, thousands of British people will find one or more Black ancestors in their family tree. Some Black Americans also arrived in London. These included fugitive slaves, enslaved people who had gained their freedom by fighting on the British side during the American War of Independence, and entertainers. The period from the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign until the end of World War II saw the British Empire at its height.From the 1880s European nations rushed to colonise Africa and exploit its resources. Within 20 years the continent was carved up between the imperial powers of Europe, which included Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Large parts of Africa fell under British rule. These included present day Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria in Western Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia in Eastern Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa and Egypt and Sudan in Northern Africa. People from many of these lands became British subjects and were able to enter Britain freely. Some came to London as visitors and students, and others stayed permanently. A Black sailor community was located in Canning Town, and a Coloured Men's Institute established there in 1926. Many of today's Londoners can trace their ancestry to Africa directly because of their exploitation by Britain at this period. A number of prominent Black figures emerged in public life. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a notable composer working at the turn of the 20th century. John Archer pioneered African and Caribbean involvement in local politics when he became Mayor of Battersea in 1913. In 1931 Dr Harold Moody founded the League of Coloured Peoples, the first Black pressure group. From the 1930s African students in London such as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, were influential. They were central figures in the struggle for African independence, later becoming the respective presidents of Kenya and Ghana.During World Wars I and II, several thousand Africans fought on the allied side in Africa, while those in Britain aided the war effort as seamen or through essential work. During the postwar period London experienced a labour shortage. The 1948 British Nationality Act gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries, and full rights of entry and settlement in Britain. A few thousand migrants arrived from Nigeria and Ghana in West Africa to work in London.The settlement of people with different languages, customs and skin colour fuelled the prejudices of others and led to calls to restrict immigration. The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act greatly slowed down non-European immigration.From the 1980s, increased numbers of people emigrated to London from West Africa. Today, many people from Nigeria and Ghana live in and around Southwark and Peckham in south London and Tottenham and Dalston in north London.African textiles and foodstuffs can be purchased from shops along Peckham High Street and stalls in Ridley Road market in Dalston.Peckham hit the headlines when ten year old Nigerian schoolboy Damilola Taylor was tragically murdered there in 2000.Evangelical and pentecostal churches have sprung up to cater to devout congregations drawn from these groups. Nearly 70% of Africans in Britain are Christians, while 20% are Muslims.During the 1970s and 1990s, Somalians and Ethiopians fled civil war in East Africa, as did Congolese people from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa in the 1990s. Many migrants from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan settled in North Kensington.The total number of people resident in London who identified themselves as ‘Black or Black British: African’ in the 2001 census was over 380,000. Over three-quarters of Africans living in Britain dwell in London.Well-known Londoners of African descent include several people with Ghanaian parents: the fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford, the first Black cabinet minister Paul Boateng, and Ekow Eshun, journalist, broadcaster and current Director of the ICA.  The Asian author and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was born in Uganda    Plastic lamp Jigsaw puzzle Horse brass Sign Figurine Tobacco pipe Cosmetic group Entree dish and cover Figure Commemorative handkerchief Commemorative fan Dress ensemble Etching Etching Engraving Wood engraving and chromolithograph Oil on canvas Pastel drawing Oil on canvas The Four Times of the Day A Harlot's Progress - Plate 2   http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/RWWC/Themes/1078/    Bibliography Links

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“Africans sold their own people as slaves” Wed 22 Sep 2010 by abagond     https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/ “Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. First, simply as an argument of fact it fails: Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust. And it overlooks a few other things: Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it. The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world. The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel. As a moral argument it fails too: It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. Whites sold slaves, but Africans and Arab traders did too! Which, morally speaking, is at the same level as an eight-year-old saying, “He did it too!” when caught doing something bad. We do not accept this argument from eight-year-olds, nor from bank robbers or wife beaters. “Africans did it too!”  is no better. But it is as a derailing argument that it comes into its own: Its main purpose is to draw attention away from what whites did by turning the tables. That part of their past makes White Americans uncomfortable. But instead of facing up to it, they have built up defences against it: Africans sold their own people as slaves. Africans are still selling slaves. Arab traders sold slaves too. Slavery goes back thousands of years. All races have practised slavery. Whites stopped slavery. My family never owned slaves. That was Ancient History. You are living in the past. Get over it! It was the times. Slavery did not make economic sense. Whites got to where they are by their own hard work Blacks are better off in America than in Africa Africans were savages. And on and on. Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly. See also: Transatlantic slave trade “Africa is a country” other stock defences against slavery: The Arab trader Argument “Get over it” “It was the times!” Whites got to where they are by their own hard work Blacks are better off in America than in Africa “My family never owned slaves” reading while white: history and news How to argue like a white racist Derailing for Dummies Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Posted in stuff 231 Comments Like 3 bloggers like this post. 231 Responses on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 21:44:21 Thaddeus Let’s take these points one at a time: 1) Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Sure, no doubt. And yet it was a sin for white people to sell folks who weren’t “their people”. If the argument is that you can sell political, religious and social “Others” as slaves, then that’s valid for both Europeans and Africans, isn’t it? And if it’s not valid for the one, it isn’t valid  for the other. Secondly, both Europeans and Africans did indeed “sell their own”: criminals were routinely sold into slavery on both continents. Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it. “Most”? Source, please. Slavery was VERY common throughout sub-saharan Africa, as it was in every single human civilization before the industrial revolution. Those few African peoples who DIDN’T have slaves mostly didn’t have cities or agriculture. The San peoples spring to mind. The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Actually, no. More slaves died enroute to slave ports than got shipped. The proper way to argue this is to say that without European buyers, the massive AFRICAN chattel slave trade simply would not have existed. The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. This is a bit of a red herring as “racism”, in the strict sense, only came about halfway through the slave trade’s existence. It’s also a bit of a nit to pick. African’s didn’t have a concept of race, but they most CERTAINLY had the concept of the degraded Other and the sense that they could do just as they pleased with the degraded other. I don’t think that slaves sacrificed by the King of Dahomé got any moral or emotional sustenance from the fact that the guy doing the killing saw them as impure scum, but not as a different subspecies. It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. But isn’t that what this whole attempt to recover African slavery as somehow “not as bad” as other forms of slavery is PRECISELY doing, Abagond? on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 21:54:01 Mira Nice post, I just have to note something about this: The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel. I am not sure if slavery being more cruel is a consequence of this type of slavery being racist. What I’m saying is, other reasons for slavery (ethnic difference, religious difference, seeing enslaved as barbarians, etc.) are no better (or worse) than race as a reason for slavery. So if this type of slavery was more cruel it wasn’t because the oppressors used (invented, in fact) race as a reason behind it. Using any other reason (ethnic difference, religion, etc.) would be the same. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 22:26:16 Natasha W “If the argument is that you can sell political, religious and social “Others” as slaves, then that’s valid for both Europeans and Africans, isn’t it? And if it’s not valid for the one, it isn’t valid for the other.” Did I miss something or did abagond state that slavery on the continent of Africa wasn’t bad/awful/etc? “Secondly, both Europeans and Africans did indeed “sell their own”: criminals were routinely sold into slavery on both continents.” I read that as meaning they weren’t selling their those of their own ethnic groups. Of course, since there was no “African” or even “Ghanaian/Angolan/Senegalese” at the time, they weren’t selling their “own”. Either way, you’re right that criminals (even of the same  ethnic group) were sold as well. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 22:28:36 Natasha W To Thad^ To the topic: I’d just tell the person to look up the origin of the word slave, if they want to play the tit-for-tat game. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 22:30:16 Victoria It was fairly common for Africans to keep other Africans (as in prisoners of war) as slaves, but this was nothing like the slavery that took place in the US, Caribbean, West Indies, South America. Slavery in Africa was more of an indentured servitude with a beginning and an end. Many slaves ended up marrying into the families they served. What’s important to note here is that slaves maintained their humanity and were not “born into” slavery. The child of a slave was born free. So flash over to the British, Americans, French and Portuguese coming to buy slaves. The slavery Africans know of has not included vicious brutality and dehumanization. The captives have the same idea of slavery and believe they’re going to be treated the same way they’ve treated their slaves. They will serve their time, and then they’ll get on with their lives. They believe they will go wherever they’re going, and they’ll work and live there. But that is not what happens, as we know. This information is something I’ve heard in my Black literature class, my African-American literature class, and I’ve recently read it again in a book called Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture by Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 23:02:14 Claude I don’t think what Abagond is saying that it is a sin for one race or people to sell folks who weren’t “their people” and not for another. I think he is saying that the white argument is always that, if Africans sold each other to the whites, then the slave trade in America was justified. But the outcome of that operation, which scale and magnitude has gone unsurpassed, has had a profound effect on 38 million people in America. Not just because of slavery, that was just the starting point. But because white supremecy would not allow themselves to see blacks as humans and it carried on long after the slave trade was abolished. Although the slave trade was abolished, slavery was not. So, those whites who wanted to do the “cool” thing at the time and be “progressive” said ” Sure, we’ll stop bringing slaves over from Africa, but I’ll be damned if I give up the ones raising my children and tending my land.” Had slavery been just slavery and halted when it was said to have been, i think the outcome would have been much different. But we all know how that story goes. Slavery ended in 1865. The oldest man alive is 114 ears old. He was born in 1896. Only a mere 31 years before that man was born were black people still “legally” considered slaves. I bet his memory is ful of amazingly shocking things. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 23:32:31 Witchsistah But the outcome of that operation, which scale and magnitude has gone unsurpassed, has had a profound effect on 38 million people in America. Not just because of slavery, that was just the starting point. But because white supremecy would not allow themselves to see blacks as humans and it carried on long after the slave trade was abolished. Although the slave trade was abolished, slavery was not. So, those whites who wanted to do the “cool” thing at the time and be “progressive” said ” Sure, we’ll stop bringing slaves over from Africa, but I’ll be damned if I give up the ones raising my children and tending my land.” (and don’t forget “the ones I serially rape and then call sluts and wh*res afterward even if she was only 11 or 12 at the time and I was 30 or 40″) Had slavery been just slavery and halted when it was said to have been, i think the outcome would have been much different. But we all know how that story goes. THIS. Interesting how many wish to obfuscate this. on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 23:45:12 Hathor I think the retort to “Africans sold their own people as slaves!” is that “Africans didn’t write slavery into the US Constitution.” on Fri 1 Oct 2010 at 23:48:44 Ankhesen @ Claude. Word. Also, black people are over 50 million in America. And in 2008 the oldest man in the world recorded up until then died @ age 137. So when white people whine about slavery being over a hundred years ago, it’s really annoying. *sigh* ’tis why I developed fashion tips. on Sat 2 Oct 2010 at 01:27:10 Aiyo Great post Abagond Nobody seems to ever mention how hard Africans fought to get white slave traders of their land, but who had the guns? As for the whole slavery was such a long time a go. puh-leezeee. Slavery was about 400 year give or take (depending where you lived and when your town/ country started acting right) Afro Americans/Carribean/Latinos have only been out of slavery for 100+ years not even half the time. It may seem so long ago becasue how far we have come but it is really not. on Sat 2 Oct 2010 at 02:17:50 BlackButterfly Excellent Post. “Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly.” Truth! https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/

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This came to me via a forward from an undisclosed source To:    Undisclosed recipients: ;IE, Me ED:  What is the Manhattan Institute? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:22:49 -0500 From: Robert Lederman PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Axis of Evil: Another Manhattan Institute Slogan in Service to the NWO by Robert Lederman< robert lederman at worldnet att net > The man who coined GW's now infamous slogan, "Axis of Evil"  was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI) before joining the Bush administration. He's just been dropped from the Bush payroll according to the Washington Times [see article below]. MI also coined the slogan, "Compassionate Conservatism" for GW, who publicly claims the Rockefeller-funded organizations' influence on his thinking is, "second only to the Holy Bible". What is the Manhattan Institute? MI is a right wing think tank founded in 1978 by  William Casey, Bush/Reagan's CIA director. William J Casey  [ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/cocaine/contents.html ] Following WWII Casey helped bring thousands of former Nazis involved in eugenics and the Holocaust to the U.S. As CIA director he later funded bin Laden and Co. with billions in arms, terrorist training and cash and was also a key player in arming the Contras. MI is funded by JP Morgan/Chase bank (owned by David Rockefeller) and by pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Lilly) directly connected to Rockefeller, Bush senior and many of the current Bush administration officials. Bush senior was director of Eli Lilly in the  late 70's. Bush Budget director Mitch Daniels was also a Lilly senior executive. Donald Rumsfeld formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals. All of these companies depend in large part for their products on research originally done by the IG Farben (BAYER) chemical cartel in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller's Chase bank was among Hitler's biggest U.S. supporters before and during WWII. The Rockefeller families' Standard Oil of NJ was half owner of IG Farben - the industrial base of the entire Third Reich. GW Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush and Prescott's father-in-law George Herbert Walker (who GW is named after) were Wall Street bankers whose fortune was made operating and financing shipping companies, banks and steel foundries for the Nazi regime. MI's most famous alumni after Rudy Giuliani is Charles Murray author of "The Bell Curve" a modern classic of eugenics. The Bell Curve popularized the idea that Blacks are genetically inferior in intelligence to Whites as a justification for eliminating welfare, increasing so-called quality of life arrests, limiting parole, taking children from Black families etc. Murray was a paid consultant on Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson's welfare program and is a spokesman for the Federalist Society, which has direct ties to a number of current U.S. Supreme Court  Judges.Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform was Jason Turner, who Rudy Giuliani later hired to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner actually quoted the motto from the gates of Auschwitz to explain Giuliani's workfare policy and was later forced to apologize. Rudy Giuliani also claims to get all of his ideas directly from MI. Many of his policy ideas are directly based on Murray's books. MI has spearheaded a decades long effort to make the goals of eugenics respectable again. The Bush family, the Harriman family (the Wall Street business partners of Bush in financing Hitler) and the Rockefeller family are the elite of the American eugenics movement. Axis of Evil. You'll find the center of that axis right here in NYC at the Manhattan Institute. To verify that David Frum is associated with MI see: "Where Did the Sixties Come From?http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm  By David Frum Senior Fellow at th Manhattan Institute."               http://www.mingus.charlesmingus3art.com/fromwherethe60scome-_1024.html Or do a search at the MI website on David Frum  manhattan-institute.org There are hundreds of pages of documents related to him.   web.archive.org/web/20021020172301/http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm http://www.aei.org/ http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm   web.archive.org/web/20021020172301/http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl060799.htm                                                                                            Hundreds of mainstream media quotes on the Manhattan Institute, Bush,Giuliani, the CIA, Chase Bank and the connection of them all to Nazism,eugenics and 9/11 will be found in the articles at: http://baltech.org/lederman/ http://thegiganticheartlessmultinationalcorporation.com/id208.htm

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       "Art negates the conceptualization foisted on the real world...The truth of works of art hinges on whether
or not they succeed, in accordance with their inner necessity, to absorb the non-conceptual and the contingent.
For their purposefulness requires the purposelessness, which is illusion... Aesthetics cannot hope to grasp
works of art if it treats them as hermeneutical objects. What at present needs to be grasped is their unintelligibility...
By its mere existence, every artwork, as alien artwork to what is alienated, conjures up the circus and yet is lost as
soon as it emulates it. Art becomes an image not directly by becoming an apparition but only through the
counter-tendency to it... The subject only becomes the essence of the artwork when it confronts it foreignly,
 externally, and compensates for the foreigness by substituting itself for the work...Artworks win life only when
 they renounce likeness to the human...Actually, only what does not fit into this world is true."   

Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory,  The Athlone Press, 1997.

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