Popes Is For Slavery
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The Segway creator's next entrepreneurial spin - Feb. 16, 2006Dean Kamen,
The engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new ... Kamen thinks the same approach can work with his water-cleaning machine, ...
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TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Water Purifier... for lack of clean water. Can the man who invented the Segway save them?
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Grameen and Segway team up to produce micro-entrepreneurial ...San Francisco - Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, ...
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1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq.
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq , was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq.
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac's wife Rebek ah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq!
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh -which is in Iraq.
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq!
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem .
12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq!
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq
(Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person
in the Fiery Furnace!)
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq.
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq.
17. The wise men were from Iraq .
18. Peter preached in Iraq .
19. The "Empire of Man" described in Revelation is called Babylon, which was a city in Iraq!
And you have probably seen this one: Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible.
But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq! However, that is not the name that is
used in the Bible. The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia.
The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers. The name Iraq, means country with deep roots.Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and
is a very significant country in the Bible. No other nation, except Israel, has more history and
prophecy associated with it than Iraq. And also, this is something to think about: Since America
is typically represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages...
The following verse is from the Koran, (the Islamic Bible)
Koran ( 9:11 ) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle.
The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of
the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed
the lands of Allah;and there was peace.(Note the verse number!) Hmmmmmmm?!
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Popes For Slavery - Romanus Pontifex by
Popes For Slavery - Romanus Pontifex by Pope Nicholas V
Along with sanctifying the seizure of non-Christian lands, it
encouraged the enslavement of native, non-Christian
peoples in Africa and the New World . ...
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[No more crap on the Arab threat we are invading them not the other way around
we are the genocidal murders killing millions of Indians and calling them savages
as we lie our way to hell of our own producing.No more stories about Africa unless
its about Bukassa returning all of the money he stole and all of the Swiss banks
accounts of dictators are frozen by an all African tribunal with the nestle company
taking the lead with reparations for 400 years of slavery in Africa....That sort of
African stuff would be of interest to me among others ...great for kindergarten ...
in my retirement now that would be worth the time and trouble ..]
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Listen up, you Protestant sonsabitches!!!
And you Eastern Orthodox pricks too. As for you Jews, Pagans and Muslims, we've already got your number! Buddhists,
Hindus, Animists, Mormons, New Agers, Atheists and Anti-theists ( Moi!), Benny the Rat has spoken.
You're all going to burn in hell, forever! Jesus established only one holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church and you ain't it.
Insidious Jews, hateful Muslims, and so on. Now, us Apostate mofos are really doomed...we get the section of hell where
they have a continuous loop of "Mandy", "Feelings", "Tears in Heaven," "Havin' My Baby" running...
Benny the Rat. Our new leader in the War on People of Faith!
Ok, AXE, how do you really feel? Well, the sanctification of Pope John XXIII and the outreach of Paul VI and John Paul are
all irrelevant. Benny the Rat is Catholicism's Justice Alioto, the swing vote sending us all back to the Dark Ages when he's
the only vote that counts. Savings funds for pagan babies, the re-Burka-fication of Nuns, and teaching Catholic Children how
to baptize Protestants and others when they are unconscious to save them from hell -- kind of a Catholic take on Mormon
computer-conversion, only older and somewhat more invasive -- are back. Good times...
You know, the Nazi in this guy is starting to really show. (Actually, the Athanasian-Constantinian-Inquisitor-Religio-Facist is
showing, but why expect our readers, most of whom are interested in Michelle Malkin's phone number lately to have any
knowledge of the history of Christianity?) (Guys, a. she's changed it, and b. she's happily married, to a right wing hobbit.
Who's a Catholic and has a picture of Benny tatooed on his ass...) He got rid of limbo, which was sort of a do-over for God.
Now we know, straight to hell! Burn, you fuckers...
As for us devotees of Tiffany, not to worry. After this life, the soft rock loop will just seem like more of the same...
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Save the USA
What kind of Christian Cuts Services for the Poor
then gives $8 billion in bonuses to the military-industrial
complex January 16, 2007
Washington Post Exposes Government Mind Control
Filed under: headline news — Lula @ 7:05 pm
Incredible as it may seem, The Washington Post has written a five page article exposing new information on Government mind control possibilities and targeted electromagnetic radiation. The article entitled “Mind Games” begins by painting the alleged victims as nut cases….
The members of this confessional “club” are not your usual victims. This isn’t a group for alcoholics, drug addicts or survivors of childhood abuse; the people connecting on the call are self-described victims of mind control — people who believe they have been targeted by a secret government program that tracks them around the clock, using technology to probe and control their minds.
The callers frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K — the official military abbreviation stands for “voice to skull” and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head…
and then portrays the one Congressman who has the courage to stand up and protect us from these abuses as a loon…
The biggest hurdle for TIs is getting people to take their concerns seriously. A proposal made in 2001 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to ban “psychotronic weapons” (another common term for mind-control technology) was hailed by TIs as a great step forward. But the bill was widely derided by bloggers and columnists and quickly dropped….
…but then the Washington Post surprisingly ventures into the truth that the government not only has the capabilities, but given this government they would likely use these technologies against us…
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed for this article, the Air Force released unclassified documents surrounding that 2002 patent — records that note that the patent was based on human experimentation in October 1994 at the Air Force lab, where scientists were able to transmit phrases into the heads of human subjects, albeit with marginal intelligibility. Research appeared to continue at least through 2002. Where this work has gone since is unclear…
Meanwhile, the military’s use of weapons that employ electromagnetic radiation to create pain is well-known, as are some of the limitations of such weapons. In 2001, the Pentagon declassified one element of this research: the Active Denial System, a weapon that uses electromagnetic radiation to heat skin and create an intense burning sensation….
…given the history of America’s clandestine research, it’s reasonable to assume that if the defense establishment could develop mind-control or long-distance ray weapons, it almost certainly would. And, once developed, the possibility that they might be tested on innocent civilians could not be categorically dismissed.
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December 27, 2005
In light of the increasing poverty in America, homeless veterans, Vets that just returned from Iraq and can’t get health care because the
“Support our Troops” Republicans keep cutting their health care… these hypocrites are sick. BellaCiao
The Defense Department paid contractors $8 billion over five years in bonuses on weapons programs that were often dogged by
severe cost overruns, performance problems and delays, the Government Accountability Office said.
The agency, an independent auditor for Congress, reviewed 93 of 597 military contracts in force between 1999 and 2004 that included
the possibility of a bonus. Contractors on average were awarded about 90 percent of the bonus money available, the agency said in
the draft of a report it sent to the Pentagon and plans to release next week.
For example, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the two largest defense contractors, received $1.7 billion, or about 91 percent of $1.847 billion available on four major programs, including the Joint Strike Fighter, even as these programs “experienced significant cost increases, technical problems and development delays,” the draft said.
And this $8 Billion in bonuses is only for 93 out of 597 contracts- at that rate there could be another $40 Billion in bonuses the Pentagon auditor
hasn’t reviewed yet. We only know about this because two Senators
asked the agency to review the bonus system after senior defense officials complained that the awards are paid regardless of performance.
There are homeless veterans in America, yet our gov’t is giving Billions of dollars in bonuses to the military-industrial complex, “regardless of
performance”. Just like the tax cuts- billions to the rich while most of America suffers. Are these the actions of noble leaders, or con-men?
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Popes For Slavery
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He who is without sin cast the first stone. This stuff sounds so familiar...ED
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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."
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The Inter Caetera,
Papal Bull of May 4, 1493
by Alexander VI
What is a Papal Bull
View an online petition to revoke the papal bull of 1493
Revoke the 1493 Papal Bull
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*The original “Appeal to the Vatican and Pope John Paul II” was written by indigenous rights activists in Honolulu, Hawai`i on October 12, 1999.
To: the Vatican and Pope John Paul II
APPEAL TO THE VATICAN AND POPE JOHN PAUL II,
On November 28, 1998, Pope John Paul II called "Christianity's 2000th anniversary a year of mercy," as reported by AP, saying "the church will seek forgiveness," "atonement," and that he "wants the church to enter the third millennium with a clear conscience."
We, the undersigned, join with Indigenous Peoples everywhere in calling upon Pope John Paul II to revoke the 1493 Bull "Inter Caetera." We recognize that this initiative would be a spiritually significant step towards creating a new way of life, and a step away from the greed and subjugation in a history that has oppressed, exploited and destroyed countless numbers of Indigenous Peoples throughout the world.
The Bull "Inter Caetera," like many other edicts issued before it by the Vatican, established Christian dominion and subjugation of non-Christian peoples and their lands. It has yet to be revoked.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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Popes For Slavery
http://www.romancatholicism.org/popes-slavery.htm
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
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Pope Alexander VI
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Historical context
The rivalry betwen Spain and Portugal for the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non christian world reached its highest point after the discorery of west indies by Columbus in 1492
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The key element of this struggle was the control of the trade with the eastern portions of the world. The Italian and the Arabs were in the early 1400's the providers of goods from Africa and the Eastern nations. However, the kingdoms of Portugal and Castille gradually became serious contenders as sea fearer nations and started to challenge each other for strategic control of the routes and the possession of territories along the African west coast. It is not by accident that Columbus, an Italien navigator, sought the financial and military backing for his expedition in Portugal first and, when he could not succeed, made the same proposition to the sovereign of Castille who accepted.
(Ref 1)
Returning from his first voyage, Columbus landed on the Portuguese coast and was at once invited to Court. He reached Lisbon March 4, 1493, upon the invitation of the King of Portugal. On hearing his report, King John II claimed the newly discovered lands for Portugal by virtue of the Treaty of Alcacovas of 1479, sanctioned by the Bulls of Pope Sixtus IV, dated June 21, 1481. The text of the Treaty and the Bull contain some slight variations and thereby allow of different interpretations. It is difficult to decide, therefore, whether this claim of the Portuguese King was justified. Contemporary as well as modern historians have always differed widely in their opinions. It is generally believed that, with his famous message on his discoveries, Columbus dispatched to the Spanish Kings, who were at Barcelona, a report on the difficulties raised by the Portuguese King, but it is questioned whether this was sent from Lisbon by land or from Palos after having reached the latter port, March 14, 1493.
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John II King of Portugal
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain reported the great news at once to Pope Alexander VI. It is again doubtful whether this was done by a special messenger or by a courier sent to Cardinal Bernardin de Carvajal and to Ruiz de Medina, then Spanish ambassadors at the Holy See, and whether this was done in consequence of the Portuguese claims or according to a general custom of that period. Pope Alexander VI, himself a Spaniard, granted the request to confer the lately discovered lands on the Crown of Spain by three Bulls issued on May 3 and May 4 1493 (all much in favor of Spain, and depriving Portugal of nearly all privileges bestowed upon it by the Bulls of 1452 and 1454, issued by Nicholas V, and by that of 1481 of Sixtus IV and one of 1484 of Innocentius VIII). Some months later, on September 26, 1493, a fourth Bull was issued granting to Spain almost unlimited rights. But this act remained without consequence; for in the meantime, at the suggestion of the King of Spain, it was agreed that, to avoid complications already threatening, a conference should be held. Portuguese ambassadors were sent to Barcelona and, after many negotiations and some interruptions, a settlement was finally reached at the small Spanish town of Tordesillas and a treaty was signed on June 7, 1494. Obviously inspired by the corresponding passage in the second Bull "Inter caetera", but not referring to this or any other bulls or treaties, it was provided that there should be drawn a line running from North to South, 370 leagues west from Cape Verde Islands, and that everything west of this line should belong to Spain, everything east of it to Portugal.
The sanction, which by the terms of the Treaty was to be asked, was never given by Alexander VI and not before the 24th of January, 1506, was a Bull to such effect issued by Pope Julius II. Although much disputed and very differently interpreted, this Treaty remained in force until January 13, 1750, when the Treaty of Madrid annulled the boundary line. It would seem, however, that this boundary line, first provided for in the second Bull "Inter caetera" and later corrected in the Treaty of Tordesillas, decided what parts of the western hemisphere as well as which regions of the eastern hemisphere were discovered, possessed and civilized by Spain and by Portugal respectively, and which still speak the language and show the influence of the culture of their first discoverers.
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(ref 2)
Comments on the content of the Bull Inter Caetera
Like the bull "Eximiae devotionis" of May 3, the bull "Inter caetera" of May 4 is a restatement of part of the bull "Inter caetera" of May 3. Taken together the two later bulls cover the same ground as the bull "Inter caetera" of May 3, for which they form a substitute. The changes introduced into the bull "Inter caetera" of May 4, are, however, of great importance, and highly favorable to Spain. Instead of merely granting to Castile the lands discovered by her envoys, and not under Christian rule, the revised bull draws a line of demarcation one hundred leagues west of any of the Azores or Cape Verde Islands, and assigns to Castile the exclusive right to acquire territorial possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line, which at Christmas, 1492, were not in the possession of any Christian prince. The general safeguard to the possible conflicting rights of Portugal is lacking. All persons are forbidden to approach the lands west of the line without special license from the rulers of Castile.
It is not probable that by this bull Alexander VI intended to secure to Portugal an eastern route to the Indies, as some writers have maintained. In the bulls of May 3, the earlier papal grants to Portugal are said to have given her rights in the region of Guinea and the Gold Mine, but the Indies are not mentioned. The bull of May 4 does not name Portugal and refers to her only in the clause which excepts from the donation any lands west of the demarcation line, which at Christmas, 1492, might be in the possession of any Christian prince. (end of ref 2)
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The English Translation of the Bull Inter Caetera
Alexander, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to the illustrious sovereigns, our very dear son in Christ, Ferdinand, king, and our very dear daughter in Christ, Isabella, queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily, and Granada, health and apostolic benediction. Among other works well pleasing to the Divine Majesty and cherished of our heart, this assuredly ranks highest, that in our times especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself. Wherefore inasmuch as by the favor of divine clemency, we, though of insufficient merits, have been called to this Holy See of Peter, recognizing that as true Catholic kings and princes, such as we have known you always to be, and as your illustrious deeds already known to almost the whole world declare, you not only eagerly desire but with every effort, zeal, and diligence, without regard to hardships, expenses, dangers, with the shedding even of your blood, are laboring to that end; recognizing also that you have long since dedicated to this purpose your whole soul and all your endeavors -- as witnessed in these times with so much glory to the Divine Name in your recovery of the kingdom of Granada from the yoke of the Saracens -- we therefore are rightly led, and hold it as our duty, to grant you even of our own accord and in your favor those things whereby with effort each day more hearty you may be enabled for the honor of God himself and the spread of the Christian rule to carry forward your holy and praiseworthy purpose so pleasing to immortal God. We have indeed learned that you, who for a long time had intended to seek out and discover certain islands and mainlands remote and unknown and not hitherto discovered by others, to the end that you might bring to the worship of our Redeemer and the profession of the Catholic faith their residents and inhabitants, having been up to the present time greatly engaged in the siege and recovery of the kingdom itself of Granada were unable to accomplish this holy and praiseworthy purpose; but the said kingdom having at length been regained, as was pleasing to the Lord, you, with the wish to fulfill your desire, chose our beloved son, Christopher Columbus, a man assuredly worthy and of the highest recommendations and fitted for so great an undertaking, whom you furnished with ships and men equipped for like designs, not without the greatest hardships, dangers, and expenses, to make diligent quest for these remote and unknown mainlands and islands through the sea, where hitherto no one had sailed; and they at length, with divine aid and with the utmost diligence sailing in the ocean sea, discovered certain very remote islands and even mainlands that hitherto had not been discovered by others; wherein dwell very many peoples living in peace, and, as reported, going unclothed, and not eating flesh. Moreover, as your aforesaid envoys are of opinion, these very peoples living in the said islands and countries believe in one God, the Creator in heaven, and seem sufficiently disposed to embrace the Catholic faith and be trained in good morals. And it is hoped that, were they instructed, the name of the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, would easily be introduced into the said countries and islands. Also, on one of the chief of these aforesaid islands the said Christopher has already caused to be put together and built a fortress fairly equipped, wherein he has stationed as garrison certain Christians, companions of his, who are to make search for other remote and unknown islands and mainlands. In the islands and countries already discovered are found gold, spices, and very many other precious things of divers kinds and qualities. Wherefore, as becomes Catholic kings and princes, after earnest consideration of all matters, especially of the rise and spread of the Catholic faith, as was the fashion of your ancestors, kings of renowned memory, you have purposed with the favor of divine clemency to bring under your sway the said mainlands and islands with their residents and inhabitants and to bring them to the Catholic faith. Hence, heartily commending in the Lord this your holy and praiseworthy purpose, and desirous that it be duly accomplished, and that the name of our Savior be carried into those regions, we exhort you very earnestly in the Lord and by your reception of holy baptism, whereby you are bound to our apostolic commands, and by the bowels of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, enjoin strictly, that inasmuch as with eager zeal for the true faith you design to equip and despatch this expedition, you purpose also, as is your duty, to lead the peoples dwelling in those islands and countries to embrace the Christian religion; nor at any time let dangers or hardships deter you therefrom, with the stout hope and trust in your hearts that Almighty God will further your undertakings. And, in order that you may enter upon so great an undertaking with greater readiness and heartiness endowed with the benefit of our apostolic favor, we, of our own accord, not at your instance nor the request of anyone else in your regard, but of our own sole largess and certain knowledge and out of the fullness of our apostolic power, by the authority of Almighty God conferred upon us in blessed Peter and of the vicarship of Jesus Christ, which we hold on earth, do by tenor of these presents, should any of said islands have been found by your envoys and captains, give, grant, and assign to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, forever, together with all their dominions, cities, camps, places, and villages, and all rights, jurisdictions, and appurtenances, all islands and mainlands found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole, namely the north, to the Antarctic pole, namely the south, no matter whether the said mainlands and islands are found and to be found in the direction of India or towards any other quarter, the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south from any of the islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde. With this proviso however that none of the islands and mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, beyond that said line towards the west and south, be in the actual possession of any Christian king or prince up to the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ just past from which the present year one thousand four hundred and ninety-three begins. And we make, appoint, and depute you and your said heirs and successors lords of them with full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction of every kind; with this proviso however, that by this our gift, grant, and assignment no right acquired by any Christian prince, who may be in actual possession of said islands and mainlands prior to the said birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, is hereby to be understood to be withdrawn or taken away. Moreover we command you in virtue of holy obedience that, employing all due diligence in the premises, as you also promise -- nor do we doubt your compliance therein in accordance with your loyalty and royal greatness of spirit -- you should appoint to the aforesaid mainlands and islands worthy, God-fearing, learned, skilled, and experienced men, in order to instruct the aforesaid inhabitants and residents in the Catholic faith and train them in good morals. Furthermore, under penalty of excommunication late sententie to be incurred ipso facto, should anyone thus contravene, we strictly forbid all persons of whatsoever rank, even imperial and royal, or of whatsoever estate, degree, order, or condition, to dare, without your special permit or that of your aforesaid heirs and successors, to go for the purpose of trade or any other reason to the islands or mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole, no matter whether the mainlands and islands, found and to be found, lie in the direction of India or toward any other quarter whatsoever, the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south, as is aforesaid, from any of the islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde; apostolic constitutions and ordinances and other decrees whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. We trust in Him from whom empires and governments and all good things proceed, that, should you, with the Lord's guidance, pursue this holy and praiseworthy undertaking, in a short while your hardships and endeavors will attain the most felicitous result, to the happiness and glory of all Christendom. But inasmuch as it would be difficult to have these present letters sent to all places where desirable, we wish, and with similar accord and knowledge do decree, that to copies of them, signed by the hand of a public notary commissioned therefor, and sealed with the seal of any ecclesiastical officer or ecclesiastical court, the same respect is to be shown in court and outside as well as anywhere else as would be given to these presents should they thus be exhibited or shown. Let no one, therefore, infringe, or with rash boldness contravene, this our recommendation, exhortation, requisition, gift, grant, assignment, constitution, deputation, decree, mandate, prohibition, and will. Should anyone presume to attempt this, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety-three, the fourth of May, and the first year of our pontificate.
Gratis by order of our most holy lord, the pope.
June. For the referendary, For J. Bufolinus,
A. de Mucciarellis. A. Santoseverino.
L. Podocatharus.
Source
Ref.1 : From Paul Gottschalk, "The Earliest Diplomatic Documents on America: The Papal Bulls of 1493 and the Treaty of Tordesillas Reproduced and Translated," Berlin, 1927.
Ref.2 : From Frances Gardiner Davenport, ed., "European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies to 1648," Washington, D.C., 1917.
Ref.3 : The inter Caetera English translation is also from " European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies to 1648",
Frances Gardiner Davenport, editor, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917, Washington, D.C., at pp. 75-78. The original text in Latin is in the same volume, at pp. 72-75.
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The Legal background
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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
European expansion: the Clash
between Portugal and Spain
The European expansion started in the XIV century but reached its momentum in the XV century with the travel in Africa of Portugal and the discovery of the New World by Chritopher Columbus in 1492. Being the principal monarchic state invloved in the travel to the atlantic islands and the coast of Africa, Portugal enjoyed a tremendous advantage over Spain, its nearest competitor. This advantage was sealed by several papal bulls of 1452, 1454 and 1455 (the Romanus Pontifex Bull) issued by Nicholas V, that of 1481 of Sixtus IV (which sanctioned the treaty of Alcacovas of 1479) and the one of 1484 of Innocentius VIII.
The political fortune of the Spanish Crown changed dramatically in the month of March of the year 1493 when Christopher Columbus returned to Europe (touching Lisbon before reaching Spain) after the discovery of the New World. It is not very difficult to imagine the commotion caused by the news of the discovery generally all over Europe but particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. The Instant fame achieved by Columbus, the huge public showing of deference displayed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella give us a profile of the tremendous strategic importance of his discovery. The King of Portugal responded to the new situation by claiming the right of Portugal on the new discovered lands based on the treaty of Alcacovas of 1479. The Spanish crown sought the help of Spanish Pope Alexander VI who published five Bulls that settled the matter in favor of Spain. The Demarcation Line Bull of Pope Alexander VI (The Inter Caetera of May 4 1493) was amended by the Tordesillas treaty betwen Spain and Portugal.
All together, from the Papal Bull of 1452 to the ratification of the Tordesillas treaty in September 5 1494, there were 10 Papal Bulls and Two Treaties
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While reading the texts of the Bulls, one encounters the constant affirmation of the Universal Power of the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter and the guardian of the Supreme Power of the world which was said to come from God through Jesus Christ.
It is also important to note that in the Imperial State, the Monarch or his successor was the possessor of all the lands and the people were his subjects/servants. His power came from God not from the nation or the people. As such, he was able to grant lands and titles to his subjects and their successors. Such was the case of Christopher Columbus who was granted the title of Admiral of the Seas and Viceroy from the sovereigns of Spain in April 1492 before his first voyage.
When one understands the general context of the power of the King in the monarchic states of Europe in the XIV and XV centuries, the documents establishing the claims of Spain on the lands of New World (the 1493 Bull Inter Caetera of Alexander VI and the Treaty of Tordesillas) and the assimilation of the indigenous people of the Caribbean in the global subjecthood of King Ferdinand ( King Ferdinand letter to the Tainos people) appear like an integral part of a set of historical circumstances.
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THE CLAIMS AND THEIR LEGAL FOUNDATIONS
Claims of Portugal and Spain:
Bulls and treaty before 1492
The Bull Romanus Pontifex, January 8, 1455
The Bull Romanus Pontifex, January 8, 1455, issued by Pope Nicholas V granted Portugal exclusive right to acquire territory in the region lying south of Cape Bojador, through and beyond Guinea.
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The original manuscript of the promulgated bull is in the National Archives in Lisbon, Coll. de Bullas, maço 7, no. 29].
The Bull Inter Caetera, March 13, 1456
The Bull Inter Caetera issued by Pope Calixtus III on March 13, 1456 states in part:
. . . Moreover by the authority and with the knowledge aforesaid, we determine, ordain, and appoint forever that ecclesiastical and all ordinary jurisdiction, lordship, and power, in ecclesiastical matters only, in islands, villages, harbors, lands, and places, acquired and to be acquired from capes Bojador and Nam as far through Guinea, and past that souther shore all the way to the Indians, the position, number, nature, appellations, designations, bounds, and localities of which we wish to be considered as expressed by these presents, shall belong and pertain to said military order [the Order of Jesus Christ] for all time; and in accordance with the tenor of these presents, by the authority and knowledge aforesaid, we grant and give them these. . . [An official copy of the bull, made August 16, 1456, is in the National Archives in Lisbon, gav. 7a, maço 13, no. 7].
The Treaty of Alcáçovas-Toledo, September 4, 1479
In spite of papal letters, Castile continued to claim Guinea. The Treaty between Portugal and Spain Negotiated at Alcáçovas on September 4, 1479 states in part:
We, Don Ferdinand and Doña Isabella, by the grace of God, king and queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, . . . make known to all whom shall see the present letter that perpetual peace between us and the said kingdoms and lordships, and our cousin, the very illustrious king of Portugal the Algraves on this side and beyond the sea in Africa, and his son, the illustrious prince, Dom John. . . .
Moreover, the aforesaid King and Queen of Castile, Aragon, Sicily, etc. willed and resolved . . . that neither of themselves nor by another secretly, publicly or secretly, or by their heirs and successors, will they disturb, trouble, or molest, in fact or in law, in court or out of court, the said King and Prince of Portugal or the future sovereigns of Portugal or their kingdoms, in their possessions or quasi possessions in al the trade, lands, and barter in Guinea. . . . For whatever has been found or shall be found, acquired by conquest, or discovered within the said limits, beyond what has already been found, occupied, or discovered, belongs to the said King and Prince of Portugal and to their kingdoms, excepting only the Canary Islands, to wit: Lançarote, Palma, Forteventura, Gomera, Ferro, Graciosa, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and all the other Canary Islands, acquired or to be acquired, which belong to the kingdoms of Castile. . .
[The original manuscript of the ratification, signed by Ferdinand and Isabella at Toledo, March 6, 1480 is in the National Archives in Lisbon, gav. 17, maço 6, no. 16].
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Bull Aeterni Regis, June 21, 1481
On June 21, 1481 Pope Sixtus IV issued The Bull Aeterni Regis, by which he approved The Treaty of Alcáçovas stating of this treaty:
considering the letters of Nicholas and of Calixtus, our predecessors, the articles aforesaid [i.e The Treaty of Alcáçovas], as valid and acceptable, do by apostolic authority and tenor of these presents, approve and confirm them and everything contained in them and secure them by the protection of this present writing, decreeing that they, all and singular, ought to possess full authority and be observed forever. . . [The original manuscript of the promulgated bull is in the National Archives in Lisbon, Coll. de Bullas, maço 26, no. 10].
The Claims of Crown of Spain on the
newly discovered land starting
with the creation of the Admiralty of the New World
on the April 30 1492
1) The creation of the New World admiralty and the setting of Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Christopher Columbus on April 30, 1492 before his first voyage
The Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus April 30, 1492 established admiralty jurisdiction in the New World.
FERDINAND and ELIZABETH, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of Castile, of Leon, of Aragon, of Sicily, of Grenada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of Majorca, of Minorca, of Sevil, of Sardinia, of Jaen, of Algarve, of Algezira, of Gibraltar, of the Canary Islands, Count and Countess of Barcelona, Lord and Lady of Biscay and Molina, Duke and Duchess of Athens and Neopatria. Count and Countess of Rousillion and Cerdaigne, Marquess and Marchioness of Oristan and Gociano, &c.
. . . . That you, Christopher Columbus, after discovering and conquering the said Islands and Continent in the said ocean, or any of them, shall be our Admiral of the said Islands and Continent you shall so discover and conquer; and that you be our Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor in them, and that for the future, you may call and stile yourself, D. Christopher Columbus, and that your sons and successors in the said employment, may call themselves Dons, Admirals, Vice-Roys, and Governors of them; and that you may exercise the office of Admiral, with the charge of Vice-Roy and Governor of the said Islands and Continent, which you and your Lieutenants shall conquer, and freely decide all causes, civil and criminal, appertaining to the said employment of Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor, as you shall think fit in justice, and as the Admirals of our kingdoms use to do; and that you have power to punish offenders; and you and your Lieutenants exercise the employments of Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor, in all things belonging to the said offices, or any of them; and that you enjoy the perquisites and salaries belonging to the said employments, and to each of them, in the same manner as the High Admiral of our kingdoms does. . . .
Said land claim took effect upon the planting of the Spanish Admiralty Crown flag into the soil of America.
2) The Papal Bulls of 1493 as legal basis for the Claim of Spain
The Papal Bulls of 1493 by Alexander VI created a European claim upon the lands found by the explorers of the Spanish Crown.
a) Bull Inter Caetera , May 3, 1493 (The first Inter Caetera)
Bull Inter of May 3, 1493 confirmed the dominion over the islands and lands already discovered and those that might be discovered, provided they were not already held by another Christian ruler. Pope Alexander writes in part:
. . . by the authority of Almighty God coffered upon us in blessed Peter and of the vicarship of Jesus Christ which we hold on earth, do by the tenor of these presents give, grant, and assign forever to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, all and singular the aforesaid countries and islands thus unknown and hitherto discovered by your envoys and to be discovered hereafter, provided however they at no time have been in the actual temporal possession of any Christian owner. . . [The original manuscript of the promulgated bulls is in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, Paronato I-I-I, no. I].
b)The Bull, Eximiae devotionis, May 3, 1493
The Bull, Eximiae devotionis, dated May 3, 1493, but probably drawn up in June or July of 1493, states in part:
For this very day of our own accord and certain knowledge, and out of the fullness of our apostolic power, we have given, granted, and assigned forever, as appears more fully in our letters drawn up therefor, to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, all singular and remote and unknown mainlands and islands lying towards the western parts and the ocean sea, that have been discovered or hereafter may be discovered by you or your envoys. . . and with them all their lordships, cities, castles, places, villages, rights, and jurisdictions; provided however these countries have not been in the actual temporal possession of any Christian lords. But in as much as at another time the Apostolic See has granted diverse privileges, favors, liberties, immunities, exemptions, faculties, letters, and inducts to certain kings of Portugal. . . . we do by tenor of these presents, as a gift of special favor, grant to you and your aforesaid heirs and successors, all and singular the graces and privileges, exemptions, liberties, faculties, immunities, letters, and inducts that have been thus granted to the king of Portugal, the terms whereof we wish to be understood as sufficiently expressed and inserted, as if they had been inserted word for word in these presents. Moreover we extend similarly and enlarge these powers in all things and through all things to you and your aforesaid heirs and successors, to whom in the same manner and form we grant them forever. . . [An official copy of the promulgated bull, made in 1515, is in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, Paronato I-I-I, no. 4].
c) The Bull, Inter caetera, May 4, 1493
The Bull, Inter caetera, dated May 4, 1493, but probably drawn up in June or July of 1493, states in part:
Furthermore, under penalty of excommunication late sententie to be incurred ipso facto, should anyone thus contrive, we strictly forbid all persons of whatsoever rank, even imperial or royal, or of whatsoever estate, degree, order, or condition, to dare, without your [Ferdinand and Isabella] special permit that of your aforesaid heirs and successors, to go for the purpose of trade or any other reason to the islands or mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole, no matter whether the mainlands and islands, found and to be found, lie in the direction of India or toward any other quarter whatsoever, the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south, as is aforesaid, from any islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde; apostolic constitutions and ordinances and other decrees whatsoever to the contrary not withstanding.
[The original manuscript of the promulgated bulls is in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, Paronato I-I-I, no. 3].
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d) The Bull, Dudum siquidem, September 26, 1493
The Bull, Dudum siquidem, of September 26, 1493 in part states:
. . . since it may happen that your envoys and captains or vassals, while voyaging toward the west or south, might bring their ships to land in eastern regions and there discover islands and mainlands that belong to India, with the desire moreover to bestow gracious favors upon you, through our similar accord, knowledge, and fullness of power, by apostolic authority and by tenor of these presents, in all and through all, just as the aforesaid letters full and express mention had been thereof, we do in like manner amplify and extend our aforesaid gift, grant, assignment, and letters, with all and singular clauses contained in said letters, to all islands and mainlands whatsoever, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, that are or may be or may seem to be in the rout of navigation or travel toward the west or south, whether they be in the western parts, or in the region of the south and east and of India. We grant to you and your aforesaid heirs and successors full and free power through your own authority, exercised through yourself or through another or others, freely to take corporal possession of the said islands and countries and hold them forever, and to defend them against whosoever may oppose, With this strict prohibition however to all persons, of no matter what rank, estate, degree, order or condition, that under penalty of excommunication late sententiae, which such as contrive are to incur ipso facto. . . [The original manuscripts of the promulgated bull are in the Archives of the Indies at Seville, Paronato I-I-I, nos. 2 and 5].
3) The Treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494 that settled the demarcation line dispute created by the Inter Caetera of Pope Alexander VI
The Treaty of Tordesillas negotiated between Spain and Portugal and signed on June 7, 1494 [ratification by Spain July 2, 1494 and Ratified by Portugal, September 5, 1494] states in part:
That, whereas a certain controversy exists between the said lords, their constituents, as to what lands, of all those discovered in the ocean sea up to the present day, the date of this treaty, pertain to each one of the said parts respectively; therefore, for the sake of peace and concord, and for the preservation of the relationship and love of the said King of Portugal for the said King and Queen of Castile, Aragon, etc., it being the pleasure of their Highnesses, they, their said representatives, acting in their name and by virtue of their powers herein described, covenanted and agreed that a boundary or straight line be determined and drawn north and south, from pole to pole, on the said ocean sea, from the Artic to the Antarctic pole. This boundary line shall be drawn straight, as aforesaid, at a distance of three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. . . . And all lands . . . on the eastern side of said bound. . . . shall belong to, and remain in the possession of, and pertain forever to the said King of Portugal and his successors. And all other lands. . . on the western side of said bound. . . shall belong to, and remain in the possession of, and pertain forever to, the said King and Queen of Castile, Leon etc., and their successors
[The original manuscript of the ratification signed by Ferdinand and Isabela at Arévalo, July 2, 1494, is in the National Archives at Lisbon, gav. 17, maço 2, no. 24. The original manuscript of ratification signed by John II. at Setubal on September 5, 1494, is in the Archives of the Indies, "Legajo escogido"].
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KINGOFWHAT?!
Who is in Heaven?
The Bible names Everyone in heaven
Prove it And the list is very Short
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Do the Saved Go to HEAVEN?
Is heaven the reward of the saved? Have your departed loved ones gone there? Will you? Do you have proof?
Are there plain scriptures to the contrary? Yes—here they are!
BY DAVID C. PACK You say heaven is the reward of the saved. Are you certain? Have you sought proof?
Almost all professing Christians believe the saved go to heaven upon death. Why? What assurance do
they have? By what authority have countless millions believed that they are bound for heaven when they
die? Be honest. You probably consider yourself a Christian. You certainly want to be saved. You have probably
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Romans 10:9 states, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your
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formula that virtually every professing Christian takes for granted: “Believe in Jesus, go to heaven.”
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We have many booklets explaining in detail the real reward of the saved. Though this booklet will
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salvation. This is not the purpose or focus here. This booklet is written to examine whether heaven is
the destination of the saved.
One of the fundamental rules of Bible study is to always start with the clearest scriptures on any
subject. Then fit all less clear scriptures into the basic overall picture that has been established.
The subject of going to heaven is a classic example of the need to start with the most plain, obvious
verses. We will examine a number of them. After doing this, we will examine all the supposed “proof
texts” about going to heaven. They will be correctly understood and the false idea of the saved going to
heaven will collapse!
Plain Scriptures Perhaps the plainest scripture in the Bible about going to heaven is in the Sermon on
the Mount—and it does not even mention the word heaven. While most know of this Sermon, few
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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."
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Las Casas
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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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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
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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, and give you absolute
power in them."
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world and its population are there property, so does that make
Christopher Columbus and the Pope his paid accomplices Nazi
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 social systems they were from also were pagan savages
who went daily to the Coliseums to watch humans be murdered as
entertainment...
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My old favorite
You can poach anything in oil beancurd, shrimps, chicken, strips of pulled pork,
beef whatever the egg white cornstarch makes a very nice crunchy coating unlike
soggy tampura batter it makes a smooth crunchy coating if you do it right its the
least greasy batter dipped fried food just be sure the slices are seemlier test a few
for cooking time with test slices.
#1 OF 3 VELVET SHRIMP RECIPES
4 teaspoons cornstarch stirred in to cold water sufficient to dissolve it.
3 egg white lightly whipped to a froth ad corn starch.
2 teaspoon minced fresh ginger mashed into a past added to 3 or 4
2 garlic cloves, minced mashed into a past using a fork or back of blade.
Add the 2 or 3 4 pound peeled, de-veined butterflyed (almost split in two) cleaned
fresh shrimp. (medium to large size)
allow to marinade 20 min + 1 teaspoon hot or mild sesame oil 2 or 3 cups vegetable oil
You can mix penut & canola heated for poaching the shrimp drop them 1 or two at a time
to not cool the oil down cook in batches the shrimp will float when cooked remove with
wire strainer to paper towels and a rack to remove the oil 1 scallion, green and white
parts minced , light soy sauce ginger etc as a dipping sauce the shrimp will have a light
crunchy egg white "skin" and will be very juicy.
Serve with simalar bite sized marinated lobster, scallops, beef, chicken & or pork ect.,
with rice & or noddles Ster-fried mushrooms chopped vegetables fresh green peas snow
peas pan fried grape tomatoes,tomateo Edamomi and or sprouts....
Contrast texturs and colors.
My habit is to cook lots of fun looking stuff the Habanero are used very speringly
by sliting one with a sharp knife and bioling it with the noodels or rice water
boil it 3 or 4 min. then remove it, the longer you cook the pepper the hotter the food
will be perhaps experament with a thin cut off sliver before you reck yourself on one
of these little besties!!!
[My recipe for lime and lemon habanero oil CM3]
Try my other spicy favorite poaching the pepers very slowly (lowest possibal flame,) in
Canola oil with a whole Lime or 3. cut in small peaces (16 th's) cool and save the resulting
hot Lime oil seperatly as a hot oil cools and add celantro choped onion to the cookec peper
lime leftover and some fresh garlic and chopped or whole olives and olive oil and capers &
even oil cured anchovies as a base for a HOT dressing a little goes a long way. cut it with
a favorit frute juice... serves 10 family stile
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Velvet Shrimp Recipe#3
VELVET SHRIMP
MAKES 4 SERVINGS
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup finely chopped green onion tops
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Seafood Magic
½ teaspoon minced garlic
1 pound peeled, deveined fresh shrimp (medium to large size)
2 cups heavy cream
2 tablespoons seafood stock or water, optional
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Muenster cheese
Hot cooked pasta or rice (preferably converted)
Heat a 10-inch skillet over high heat about 1 minute.
Add butter. When butter comes to a hard sizzle,stir in green
onions and 1 tablespoon of the Seafood Magic.
Cook about 1½ minutes and add garlic and shrimp.
Stir to combine. Cook about 2 minutes, stirring occasionally,then add
1 cup of the cream and the remaining Seafood Magic.
Stir and scrape any browned bits off sides and bottom of skillet.
Cook about 1 minute and stir in remaining cream.
Cook 1 minute, or just until shrimp are plump and pink.
Remove shrimp with slotted spoon.
Set shrimp aside.
Still over high heat, whisk cream mixture frequently as it comes to a boil,
then whisk Cook 1 more minute or until cheese has melted and is incorporated.
Return shrimp to skillet. Stir to coat shrimp with sauce and remove from heat.
Serve immediately over pasta or rice.
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Velvet Shrimp Recipe # 2
Pea Shoots with Velvet Shrimp Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine
Difficulty: Easy Yield: 4 servings Add to My Recipe Box 3 to 4 cups lightly
packed pea shoots (dau mui), about 3/4 to 1 pound.
1 pound medium shrimp, shelled and de-veined
Marinade:
1 egg white
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 scallion, green and white parts minced
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons yellow bean sauce
2 teaspoons thin soy sauce
1/4 cup water or unsalted or low-sodium chicken stock 2 teaspoons roasted sesame oil
Remove the tough stems from pea shoots and discard. Wash in cold water and spin-dry
in a salad spinner. Set aside.
In a bowl, combine the shrimp with the egg white, cornstarch and oil for the marinade.
Let stand 20 minutes.
In a wok, heat the 2 tablespoons oil until just smoking. Add the scallion, ginger
and garlic and cook until aromatic, about 30 seconds.
Add the shrimp and stir-fry, tossing constantly, until the shrimp just turn pink,
5 to 7 minutes.
Add the yellow bean sauce, soy sauce, water and pea shoots.
Toss to wilt shoots, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat, drizzle with
sesame oil, and stir to blend. Serve immediately
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Fractals:2
an Introduction through Symmetry for beginners to fractals,
highlights magnification symmetry and fractals/ chaos connections.
This presentation is copyright © Gayla Chandler.
All borrowed images are copyright © their owners or creators.
While no part of it is inthe public domain, it is placed on the web
for individual viewing and presentation in classrooms,provided
no profit is involved..
I hope viewers enjoy this gentle approach to math education.
The focus is Math- Art. It is sensory,heuristic , with the intent
of imparting perspective as opposed to strict knowledge perse.
Ideally,viewers new to fractals will walk away with an ability
to recognize some fractals in everydaysettings accompanied by
a sense of how fractals affect practical aspects of our lives, looking
for connections between math and nature.This personal project
was put together with the input of experts from the fields of both
fractals and chaos:.Academic friends who provided input .
Chaos
http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/Chaos/ChaosIntro/ChaosIntro.html
Multifractals
http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/MultiFractals/welcome.html
Random Fractals
http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/RandFrac/welcome.html
Complex Fractals
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~zietlow/defp1.html
Mandelbrot discusses fractals
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n20/story6.html
Mandelbrot Set
http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/noad.html
Julia Sets
http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/MSet/Period.htm
The categories all link to their respective pages.)
.Recapping the main fractal theme addressed in this presentation:
Fractals operate under a Symmetry of Magnification
(called Dilatation or Dilation in literature). Different types of fractals share a
common ground of parts that are similar to the whole. Even though self-
similar substructure must technically be present all the way to infinity
for something to be called fractal, the concept of fractility is loosened
to apply to forms (esp.natural) with only a handful of levels of substructure
present..The simplification of complexity leading to useful results that we
have been looking at is not unique to the field of fractals, it is a theme that
runs throughout mathematics, although the methods of simplification vary.
"Mathematics is about making clean "simplified" concepts out
of things that we notice in the world around us. In the world
[staying with fractals as an example], when it is applicable we
make a clean concept by assuming the existence of self-
similarity— infinite levels of substructure— when there are only
a few, pushing beyond reality." (Priscilla Greenwood, Statistician
and Mathematical Biologist at Arizona State University)
Math "works" because these simplified systems "work".
Mathematicians could well be called The Great Simplifiers.
Statistician and Mathematical Biologist at Arizona State
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Multifractals
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Random Fractals
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Complex Fractals
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Grand Circle Travel Tour of China
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[Ms. Crook then lists the copious instances where the Torah demands respect for and protection of the convert, including the then (and, aparently now) novel concept that converts and born Jews are equal under the law.] The Torah codifies and champions something that Rabbi Amar has failed to grasp: my fundamental right as part of our nation to join my people under equal terms and settle in the Land of Israel.The future of Israel and the Jewish people depends on Jews who embrace Judaism and are proud to be Jews - whether by birth or by conscious decision. I have made my choice and God has recognized my choice. My right to the land is no less than Rabbi Amar's. God gave me that right. Rabbi Amar cannot take it away.At this point, I hope our next chief rabbis come from the Reform Movement. Even if they don't, Shlomo Amar and his ethically, legally and morally challenged Ashkenazic counterpart need to be removed ASAP.
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Who is in Heaven?
The Bible names Everyone in heaven
Prove it And the list is very Short
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doctrine—and in extraordinary detail. Thus, it is immense. Choose from the left menu to begin.
Do the Saved Go to HEAVEN?
Is heaven the reward of the saved? Have your departed loved ones gone there? Will you? Do you have
proof? Are there plain scriptures to the contrary? Yes—here they are!
BY DAVID C. PACK You say heaven is the reward of the saved. Are you certain? Have you sought proof?
Almost all professing Christians believe the saved go to heaven upon death. Why? What assurance do
they have? By what authority have countless millions believed that they are bound for heaven when they
die?
Be honest. You probably consider yourself a Christian. You certainly want to be saved. You have probably
also been assured that you will go to heaven some day. Should you not demand proof that heaven is really
what you seek—and where you will go?
It is about time you know if you will spend all eternity in heaven!
An Easy Formula
Romans 10:9 states, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your
heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.” Verse 13 adds, “For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Certain popular verses are routinely cited to validate the simplicity of just believing in Christ to be
saved. This makes salvation seem routine and easy. Heaven becomes little more than an assumption in a
formula that virtually every professing Christian takes for granted: “Believe in Jesus, go to heaven.”
Yet when a famous evangelist was asked, “What will we do when we get to heaven?” he answered, “I don’t
know, but it will be wonderful.” Such ignorance!—and if he does not know, how can he “know” it will be
wonderful? Answers like this are why people assume that they will “ride clouds in heaven”—“walk the streets of gold
in front of the pearly gates”—“play harps”—“grow wings”—or generally “roll around heaven all day.” All of these ideas are man-made, fiction. The Bible teaches none of them—yet almost everyone believes them
as fact. So, let’s get the facts—the truth—of what God teaches.
We have many booklets explaining in detail the real reward of the saved. Though this booklet will
address some of the truth on this matter, it will not and cannot cover everything about the truth of
salvation. This is not the purpose or focus here. This booklet is written to examine whether heaven is
the destination of the saved.
One of the fundamental rules of Bible study is to always start with the clearest scriptures on any
subject. Then fit all less clear scriptures into the basic overall picture that has been established.
The subject of going to heaven is a classic example of the need to start with the most plain, obvious
verses. We will examine a number of them. After doing this, we will examine all the supposed “proof
texts” about going to heaven. They will be correctly understood and the false idea of the saved going to
heaven will collapse!
Plain Scriptures Perhaps the plainest scripture in the Bible about going to heaven is in the Sermon on the
Mount—and it
does not even mention the word heaven. While most know of this Sermon, few know of this most important
verse. Christ said, “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” (Matt. 5:5).
Have you ever heard even one minister say that God’s purpose for Christians is to “inherit the EARTH”? I
doubt it. And yet there it is—at the very beginning of the New Testament.
What may be more amazing is that Christ was quoting Psalm 37:11. It states the exact same thing. It
would not have been strange for Him to reference Psalms, since all His listeners would have been
familiar with this scripture. To have said that “the meek shall inherit heaven” certainly would have
been strange to their ears!
Let’s examine another plain scripture, which adds another element.
The apostle John recorded the following: “And has made them [the saints] unto our God kings and priests:
and they [the saints] shall reign on the earth” (Rev. 5:10).
The reward of God’s saints is to inherit future rulership “on the earth”—as “kings and priests.” This is
plain!
I’ll ask again: Have you ever heard a minister say that God’s purpose for you is to “reign on the
earth,” as “kings and priests”?
Be honest—of course not! You must at least admit that becoming a king is more appealing than riding
clouds, playing harps or rolling around heaven.
Now, will you believe the plain words of the Bible—or continue in popular but baseless assumptions?
Heaven
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May ALL that you wish for, be the least you receive... as I KNOW it can be. Even while virtually everything
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WE MAKE OUR OWN REALITIES, OUR OWN FATE AND OUR OWN LUCK…
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http://www.walrus.com/~ddprod/monk.html
Play "Little Rootie Tootie"
Play "Just A Gigolo"
Play "Sweet & Lovely"
http://www.walrus.com/~ddprod/june05.html
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The Changes
Hundreds of chord progressions here. Jazz, rock and blues people call them changes! Enter and we'll explain. Check the latest
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Charles Mingus Jr.
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“Just because I’m playing jazz I don’t forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through jazz, or whatever.
Music is, or was, a language of the emotions.”
“Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?”
“If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music.”
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.”
“Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?”
“In my music, I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.”
“They’re singing your praises while stealing your phrases.”
“It (jazz) isn’t like it used to be. The guys aren’t together. They’re all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It was a clique,
a clique of people. Who all believed in one thing: gettin’ high. And playin’.”
“I’m too busy playing. When I’m playing I don’t pay attention to who’s listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras,
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don’t listen to one instrument; you listen to music.”
“I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.”
“I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn’t only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts.
And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the
greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.”
“Had I been born in a different country or had I been born white, I am sure I would have expressed my ideas long ago. Maybe they
wouldn’t have been as good because when people are born free–I can’t imagine it, but I’ve got a feeling that if it’s so easy for you,
the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.”
“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!”
“That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I’m playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should
do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young
person, as you get older and go flat, you’ll be in tune. In other words, it’s never thought good to be flat. It means you can’t get to the tone.”
“Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don’t care what you play anyway.”
“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air.
Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is
manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances
around their instruments.”
thanks to Ken 4 Mat @ http://photomatt.net/
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http://www.circushistory.org
http://www.rosland.freeserve.co.uk/filmbooks6.htm
That the Thompson, Smith & Howes show used the term "Octoplexzara"
to describe its eight shows in one in 1866.
http://www.circushistory.org/Cork/BurntCork2.htm
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forward at request of list member)
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ImmigrantRightsList(AT)afsc-org
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:57:18 -0400
From: > = @ AS (AT)= SPAM BUSTER
Subject: Jobs with WITNESS
WITNESS is currently hiring for seven exciting positions.
Go to www.witness.org to view the job description.
Please consider these jobs and help us recruit fabulous new members for our
team by sending this email far and wide to your personal and professional
lists.
WITNESS is seeking a full-time PROGRAM COORDINATOR to work in our Brooklyn,
New York office. The Program Coordinator will have a primary focus on
supporting NGO partnerships in Africa and the Middle East, working with
partners to strategize, produce, and distribute human rights advocacy
videos. The Program Coordinator will also be responsible for conducting
trainings worldwide on video advocacy through our Seeding Initiative and
Video Advocacy Institute. Go to www.witness.org to view the job
description.
WITNESS is seeking a full-time ONLINE OUTREACH COORDINATOR to work in our
Brooklyn, New York, office. Online outreach is an emerging field and this
is an exciting new position at WITNESS. The Online Outreach Coordinator
will work closely with all departments to develop and implement online
public relations and advocacy strategies for WITNESS (including the WITNESS
website and our forthcoming Hub, a YouTube for human rights advocacy),
campaigns and initiatives, as well as developing content syndication
opportunities for WITNESS. Go to www.witness.org to view the job
description.
WITNESS is seeking a DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS who will be a part of
the top management team in our Brooklyn, NY office with responsibility for
overseeing our Development department and strategizing and cultivating new
relationships to build our visibility, impact and financial resources. This
is a new position at WITNESS, and the Director will design and carry out a
comprehensive plan for developing key external alliances for WITNESS by
cultivating corporate and media sponsorships, reaching out to new celebrity
spokespeople to enhance visibility for the work, and growing WITNESS'
revenue with a particular focus on the implementation of a new Major Gifts
program. Go to www.witness.org to view the job description.
WITNESS is seeking a HUB COORDINATOR to work in our Brooklyn, New York
office. In an effort to expand the strategic use of video to create change
online and offline, WITNESS will launch a participatory media website in
Summer 2007 - The Hub. The Hub will allow anyone from anywhere in the world
to upload video footage of human rights abuses using the internet and mobile
devices, and will provide a forum for individuals and online communities to
organize action around video to make a difference. WITNESS is seeking a
dynamic Hub Coordinator to work with the Hub Manager in overseeing the Hub,
ensuring that people worldwide are uploading compelling new content and
helping to identify feature content and editorials that will advance human
rights advocacy worldwide. Go to www.witness.org to view the job
description.
WITNESS is hiring a DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE for our Brooklyn, NY, office who
will work on all areas of fundraising including research, grants management,
special events, solicitation and cultivation mailings, database management,
some grant and report writing, and general administrative tasks. Go to
www.witness.org to view the job description.
WITNESS is seeking a full-time PROGRAM ASSISTANT to work in our Brooklyn,
New York office. The Program Assistant will have a primary focus on
providing administrative and logistical support to the human rights video
advocacy work of our seven person Program team, manage incoming general
programmatic queries to WITNESS, as well as supporting the organizational
internship program. Go to www.witness.org to view the job description.
From the e-newsletter of Immigrants Rights/American Friends Service
Committee (AAFSC)
WITNESS is seeking a full-time POST-PRODUCTION ASSISTANT to provide
duplication and other video post-production support in our Brooklyn, NY
office. The Post-Production Assistant will perform a variety of tasks in
support of documentary production, the media archive, sales and
distribution, and general day-to-day video-related needs. This is an
entry-level position in a dynamic and multifaceted production environment.
Go to www.witness.org to view the job description.
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of insider trading occurred before 9/11.
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Facebook.com???
she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
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she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
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she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
2
she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
2
she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
2
she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)organizations have finally mustered a
good offense/defense against American freedom of speech by attacking every possible
domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is thedemonstrably mendacious CAIR,
Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some good work; then it returns to a
smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and legal guarantees to destroy -
US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
2
she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably)
organizations have finally mustered a good offense/defense against American freedom of
speech by attacking every possible domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the
demonstrably mendacious CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some
good work; then it returns to a smiling, sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and
legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
Subject: RF spy coins
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:35:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Clayton... U.S. defense workers warned
about Canadian spy coins
WASHINGTON: The Defense Department is warning its American contractor employees about
a new espionage threat seemingly straight from Hollywood: It discovered Canadian coins with
tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside. In a U.S. government report, the department
said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances
on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors
traveled through Canada.
The U.S. report does not suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why.
It also doesn't describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function
or even which Canadian currency contained them.
Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning
to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk
was genuine.
"What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service.
"This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."
Top suspects, according to intelligence and technology experts: China, Russia or even France —
all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce
such technology.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.
"This issue has just come to our attention," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. "At
this point, we don't know of any basis for these claims." She said Canada's intelligence service
works closely with its U.S.
counterparts and will seek more information if necessary. Experts were astonished about the
disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they quickly rejected suggestions Canada's
government might be spying on American contractors.
The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive
secrets. "It would seem unthinkable," said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "I wouldn't expect to see any offensive operation against
the Americans."
Harris said likely candidates include foreign spies who targeted Americans abroad or businesses
engaged in corporate espionage. "There are certainly a lot of mysterious aspects to this," Harris
said.
Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate
with sensors no more than a few feet (meters) away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway.
"I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers,"
said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks.
"Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology."
Experts said hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy's
target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper. They
agreed, however, that a coin with a hidden tracking device might not arouse suspicion if it were
discovered loose in a pocket or briefcase."It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something
like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff
Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem
to make a whole lot of sense.Canada's physically largest coins include its $2 "Toonie," which
is more than 1-inch (2.54 centimeters) across and thick enough to hide a tiny transmitter. The
CIA has acknowledged its own spies have used hollow, U.S. silver-dollar coins to hide messages
and film. The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings.
It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and the case
of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords.
In another case, a film processing company called the FBI after it developed pictures
for a contractor that contained classified images of U.S. satellites and their blueprints. The
photo was taken from an adjoining office window.
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On the Web:
CIA hollow coin:
https://http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/dollar.htm
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she forgets that wasp refers to white anglo saxon protestant
Here's a mesage about a fellow of whom I know little. What catches my attention is that a
handful of less-than-democratic (to put it charitably) organizations have finally mustered a
good offense/defense against American freedom of speech by attacking every possible
domestic target as "anti-Muslim." Top of the list is the demonstrably mendacious CAIR,
Council on American-Islamic Relations. It does do some good work; then it returns to a smiling,
sharp-toothed practice of using US freedoms and legal guarantees to destroy - US freedoms
and legal guarantees.
Reminiscent of that effective parasitic wasp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841401.stm
--LM
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