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COMPILERS PERSONAL COMMENTS IN UPPER
CASE
THE COMMENTS IN THIS ISSUE
HAVE BEEN EXCERPTED FROM
President Holds Press Conference
- The Rose Garden - Oct 4, 2005
READ THEIR MEANING IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE:
Leo Strauss and Our Current Political Condition
Earl
Shorris wrote Ignoble
liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass
deception, published in
Harper's Magazine, June 2004. This is a very concise
history of Strauss and a synopsis of his philosophical
foundation.
It
is instructive to listen to Strauss: "It would be absurd
to hamper the free flow of wisdom by any regulations; hence the
rule of the wise must be absolute rule. it would be equally
absurd to hamper the free flow of wisdom by consideration of the
unwise wishes of the unwise; hence the wise rulers ought not
to be responsible to the unwise subjects." Strauss
explains that this would result in the subjection of what is by
nature higher to that which is lower.
His
reading of Plato comes down to this: true democracy is an act
against nature and must be prevented at all costs.
Strauss, buffeted by history in his own life, railed against
historicism, which holds that meaning can only arise from within
a particular historical context.
For the uninitiated, "contradiction" is the key to
the Straussian approach, and more than anything else it defines
the Bush regime and its circle of influentials. Leo
Strauss advised his readers not to write in plain English.
He ascribed his advocacy of bad writing, which he called
"esoteric writing," to the possibility that "a
writer could be persecuted for what he said. Thus,
the evershifting rationale for the invasion of
If you know that they are intentionally speaking this way,
then you can cease to try and make sense of their words and focus
on their actions. Their words only provide context for
the actions, no meaning beyond that.
STRAUSS IS A SEMINAL FIGURE
IN ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
“NOTABLES”
Links
are live
New data suggest Katrina was a less
intense, Category 3 storm
Bush says business sector must cover cost of
post-Katrina recovery
Congress Cuts First Responder Funding
Bush wants right to use
military if bird flu hits
Did Bush administration attack peace movement with
military grade biological bacteria?
46% Of Israel's Jewish Citizens Support Ethnic
Cleansing Of Palestinians
Israel allows 20 food trucks into Gaza
Iraqi border guards
arrest British national in desert
UN condemns rule change for Iraq's
constitution vote
U.S., Israel discuss Syria regime change –
Report
FED Says Inflation Near `Upper End' of Comfort
Zone
Empty Houses, Falling Prices: A Boom Dies
Hurricanes destroyed 109 oil platforms: US government
Canada Defies UN – Will Deport Secret Trial
Detainee Mahmoud Jaballah to Torture in Egypt
Against school: How public education cripples our
kids
Study Suggests Most in US Will Be Fat
US to create a bird flu
virus mutation March/05
“HUMOR
/ ODDITIES”
Brothers fined for keeping pet ghost
An
exorcist summoned by villagers claimed the brothers' pet ghost
was "responsible for a recent outbreak of disease in the
locality".
Bohemian Grove Employee Blows the Whistle on Inside Events
Some
people are like slinkies,
They
don't really have a purpose,
But
they still bring a smile to your face
when
you push them down the stairs.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN
Between
18 and 20 a woman is like
Half discovered, half wild, naturally beautiful with
fertile deltas.
Between
21 and 30 is like
Well developed and open to trade for someone with
cash.
Between
31 and 35 is like
Very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.
Between
36 and 40 is like
Gently aging, but still a warm and desirable place to
visit.
Between 41 and 50 is like Yugoslavia
Haunted by past mistakes – needing
reconstruction.
Between
51 and 60, she is like
Wide un-patrolled borders, but the frigid climate
keeps people away.
Between
61 and 70, a woman is like
Has a glorious and all conquering past but
alas, no future.
After
70, they become
Almost everyone knows where it is, but no one wants
to go there.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN
Between
15 and 70 a man is like
Ruled by a dick.
“MIERS
APPOINTMENT”
THE MIERS NOMINATION SEEMS SO
LUDICROUS, THAT IT MUST BE A “DIVERSIONARY
TACTIC” TO MAKE A FUTURE CANDIDATE
LOOK “MORE REASONABLE”
-
OR PERHAPS -
“Pathological
liars can’t always tell truth from falsehood and
contradict themselves in an interview. They are manipulative and
they admit they prey on people. They are very brazen in terms
of their manner, but very cool when talking about this.”
-
Pathological liars found to have brain abnormalities
“Over the past three decades, Harriet Miers
has built a stellar record of accomplishment in the law. She's
been a model of service to our country and to our citizens.
I know her character; she's a woman of principle and deep
conviction. I've known Harriet for over a decade.
I've worked with Harriet. She's a woman of principle and
character. She's highly intelligent. She has been a pioneer in
the field of law in my state of
Finally, I got some interesting suggestions. I actually listen to the senators when they bring forth ideas. And they brought forth some really interesting ideas during the course of our conversations, some told me directly, many brought to me by people on my staff. And one of the most interesting ideas I heard was, why don't you pick somebody who hasn't been a judge? Why don't you reach outside the -- I think one senator said, the "judicial monastery."
I'm interested in finding somebody who shares my philosophy today, and will have that same philosophy 20 years from now.”
HER AND ROBERTS WILL BE
VERY USEFUL IN THE FUTURE
Reid told Cheney to pick Miers;
Relished fact she was never a judge
Democratic
Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urged President Bush to
pick White House counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee to
the Supreme Court. In a conference
call held with liberal bloggers last week, Reid declared that he had
told Vice President Dick Cheney and White House Chief of Staff
Andy Card that Miers was a good choice for the Court.
FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT BOTH POLITICAL
PARTIES ARE IN THE HANDS OF A
SINGLE INTEREST GROUP
Is Harriet Miers 'Unfit for Judging'?
Jerome Corsi exposes nominee’s role in the
Texas Lottery cover-up and more.-
Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages
For Defrauding Investors
The New York Times tries to explain away the Harriet
Miers nomination
Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo, But
Newspapers Handle the AP Photo Quite Differently
As
it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. An
article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early
in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role
that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential
daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against
Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a
Constitutional Showdown
A CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS A CRIMINAL
HIGH COURT
Miers
was honored by ADL...any more questions?
“UNITED
STATES”
Congress needs to pay for as much of the hurricane
relief as possible by cutting spending. I will ask them to
make even deeper reductions in the mandatory spending programs
than are already planned. As Congress completes action on the
2006 appropriations bills, I call on members to make real cuts in
non-security spending.
The private sector will be the engine that drives the recovery of
the
New data suggest Katrina was a less
intense, Category 3 storm
with
peak-sustained winds of 115 mph
Katrina might have further downgraded to a strong Category 1
system with 95-mph winds, when it punched water through
Levees were 'heaved' upward from
below
That
is different from initial theories offered by the Army Corps of
Engineers that the floodwalls were topped by storm surge and
raises more questions about design and construction.
CAVEAT EMPTOR - REGARDLESS THE
OFFICIAL STORY IS STILL INACCURATE
"Marshal law on civil rights" in New
Orleans: Jesse Jackson
Preventing people from returning to
Bush says business sector must cover cost of
post-Katrina recovery
US
President George W. Bush on Tuesday said private business will
have to pick up much of the tab for rebuilding New Orleans and
other Gulf Coast areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, saying
there are limits to what the federal government can afford to
pay.
"I've outlined a set of policies to attract private
investment to the affected areas "I call on
Congress to includes these measures in the recovery legislation
that they send to my desk," the president said.
Bush also urged Congress to find areas to trim in the federal
budget, to prevent an already massive budget deficit from
ballooning further.
ACCELERATING THE SHIFT TO AN “OWNERSHIP
SOCIETY”
- HOW MANY WILL DO THE
“OWNING”
Foreign workers may form a
big part of Gulf Coast reconstruction.
THE MODEL OF THE “OWNERSHIP SOCIETY”
UNFOLDS
Loss of bodies adds to grief of many families
Of
the nearly 800 bodies taken to the morgue, he said, just 32 have
been identified positively and another 340 have been identified
tentatively.
Congress Cuts First Responder Funding
Lawmakers will vote this week on
the final version of the $31.9 billion budget for the Department
of Homeland Security, which funds the Coast Guard's modernization
program but slashes grants to local front line responders.
WHICH WILL “NECESSITATE” MILITARY
INTERVENTION
Bush wants right to use
military if bird flu hits
George
W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers
to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian
influenza epidemic.
Governors shun Bush military plan
A majority of the nation's governors say they're
not on board with President Bush's suggestion the active-duty
military take the lead role in providing disaster relief, a new
poll says.
FROM PRISON-PLANET:
Bush Cites Military Takeover In Case Of Flu Outbreak
Bush wants troops to enforce bird flu quarantines
GAO
- Bush Team Broke Law With 'Covert Propaganda'
The
Bush Administration violated laws prohibiting the use of covert
propaganda when it secretly paid broadcaster/ columnist Armstrong
Williams to promote its education policies, and by hiring a
public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the
Republican Party, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said
Friday.
Governor
Taft is vowing to remain in office even though he's now the first
Commerce Department tells
National Weather Service media contacts must be pre-approved
The
Department of Commerce has issued a blanket media policy to
employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), requiring that all requests for contact from national
media be first approved by the Commerce Department, RAW STORY
has learned.
TOTAL INFORMATION CONTROL
Did Bush administration attack peace movement with
military grade biological bacteria?
Biohazard
sensors detected tularemia bacteria at the mall on Saturday,
September 24.
Equally
puzzling was an earlier Post report: “Weekend protesters hit
travel snags.” The article reported that Amtrak trains from
YES
… RECALL: Rabbit Fever and the Sept 24 Washington
Anti-War Rally
IN PRAISE OF FLORIDA'S NEW DEADLY FORCE LAW
In my home state of
RECALL: Florida's New "Stand Your Ground" Law FINDLAW ANALYSIS
AKA: “SHOOT IF YOU’RE SCARED”
LAW
In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of
Abuses
James
J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the
In
a highly significant decision "German Federal Court"
ruled that the assault launched by the
“
46% Of Israel's Jewish Citizens Support Ethnic
Cleansing Of Palestinians
Some
46 percent of
Israel allows 20 food trucks into Gaza
Ha'aretz
reported that the temporary opening of the Sufa crossing was
significant because
STARVATION AS A WEAPON
Israel urges ultra-Orthodox Jews to work
More
than 60 percent of ultra-Orthodox adults in the country do not
work, and 55 percent of up to 800,000 lives below the poverty
line. The biggest bone of
contention between the haredim and the millions of secular
Israelis is probably the tax money that goes to a community that
largely does not work or serve in the army.
Viewing Terrorism through a Different Lens
US and Israel: Hypocrisy, Double Standards, and
More State Terrorism
To gain perspective on the grossly disproportionate amount of
money the US has expended in aiding Israel, consider that from
1949 to 1998, the US supplied more money to the 5,800,000 people
of Israel than it did to the 1,054,000,000 people of Latin
America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa
SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN
OTHERS
“MIDDLE
EAST”
2 Minute Video: Exposed :More Lies From The Bush Administration
How
many Iraqi battalions are fully trained and equipped, capable
of operating independently of
Right now there are over 80 army battalions fighting
alongside coalition troops. Over 30 Iraqi -- I say, army
battalions -- Iraqi army battalions. There are over 30 Iraqi
battalions in the lead. And that is substantial progress from the
way the world was a year ago.
Iraqi border guards arrest British national in desert
An
Iraqi border guards spokesman in Najaf, Saadun al-Jaaberi, said
guards arrested "a terrorist group consisting of 10
people, including one British national called Colin Peter, near
Mathlum, near the Saudi border".
OOOPS
UN issues warning over Iraq
constitution
report
obtained by Newsweek magazine says it's a 'model for
the territorial division of the State.'
Range of political figures complain vote is being fixed in Iraq
UN condemns rule change for Iraq's constitution vote
Under the old rules the constitution could be rejected if two-thirds of those polled voted "no" in three provinces. Sunni leaders had maintained they would be able to achieve this. The change means a "no" vote would require two-thirds of all registered voters to reject the constitution.
Juan Cole: Sunni Arabs Enraged at Law on 3-Province Veto
The
Sunni Arabs of Iraq have for some time had a sneaking suspicion
that the Shiites and the Kurds whom the Americans had installed
in power in
Asia’s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq
Numerous former American contractors returning
home say they were shocked at conditions faced by this mostly
invisible, but indispensable army of low-paid workers. Third
country nationals frequently sleep in crowded trailers and wait
outside in line in 100 degree plus heat to eat “slop.”
Many are said to lack adequate medical care and put in hard labor
seven days a week, 10 hours or more a day, for little or no
overtime pay.
THE MODEL OF THE “OWNERSHIP SOCIETY”
UNFOLDS
Reimbursement Program for Troops Stalls
The
Pentagon has not completed guidelines for allowing soldiers,
their families and charities to be reimbursed for some combat
equipment they bought for use in
First, let me remind people that we are at war. And I have pledged to the American people -- and, more importantly, the troops and their families -- we'll make sure they have what it takes to succeed.
Iran Issues Threat To US Interests
Major General Smedley Butler, US
Marine Corps
The trouble with
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
An American Coup d'État? History Today, November 1995.
A curious footnote to American history suggests that,
except for the personal integrity of a remarkable American
general, a coup d'état intended to remove President Franklin D.
Roosevelt from office in 1934 might have plunged
U.S. Presses Russia to Halt Trade In Nuclear Technology With Iran
The
Bush administration Monday tried to increase pressure on
U.S., Israel discuss Syria regime change – Report
Senior
American officials discussed with Israeli counterparts the
prospects of a regime change in
U.S pressure may topple Assad regime
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Syria's involvement in the assassination of former Lebanon president, Rafik Hariri, and its support of Iraqi insurgents operating from within its territory, will bring about U.S actions that may overthrow Bashar Assad's regime.
“FOREIGN
AFFAIRS”
A storm sweeps the post-Soviet space
The last 10 days of September were pivotal in the transition
saga of the "post-Soviet space".Meanwhile, one after
another, the countries of the post-Soviet space are stepping out
and have begun narrating their own woes and resentment toward the
West for shabbily treating them as mere battlegrounds for global
influence -M K Bhadrakumar/Asia Times
Links between 'Moslem militants' and Indonesian
security services
Allegedly,
'Extremist Moslem' groups can be used
(1) to carry out terror attacks which undermine the enemies of
the Pentagon and the Indonesian military
(2) to discredit moderate Moslem parties
(3) to prop up fascist regimes.
Peter Symonds, at WSWS, 12 November 2003, wrote about links
between Indonesia's 'militant Moslem' organisations and the
security services, including the CIA.
Venezuela Freezes Environmental Permits for Mining
Chavez invites private
business sectors to join in economic boom
Pirates seize $4.7 mln shipload of tin off Indonesia
Leaked Report Alleges Safety
Problems At British Nuclear Plant
US troops in Afghanistan
could come under British control
“MILITARY
/ INTELLIGENCE / SECURITY”
US sees up to $2.1 bln arms
sales to Saudi Arabia
The
U.S. Defense Department on Monday notified Congress of possible
military sales to
Japan ships uranium-contaminated soil to U.S. for
disposal
“ECONOMICS”
Q
Mr. President, you presided over the largest increase in the
size, the power and the cost of the federal government since
Lyndon Baines Johnson. A lot of your supporters are wondering
what's so conservative about that? And can you answer them, and
tell the American people, given the budget deficit, the cost of
the war, the cost of Katrina, specifically -- by naming a
specific program or revenue measure -- how you're going to pay
for all this?
THE
PRESIDENT: First, let me remind people that we are at war. …
Secondly, when it comes to discretionary spending, non-security
discretionary spending, the budget I submitted to the United
States Congress actually reduces non-discretionary --
discretionary -- non-security spending. … We proposed to
eliminate or streamline 150 programs in the budget process,
saving about $20 billion this year.
Fisher Says Prices Near `Upper End' of Comfort Zone
Inflation has been rising because of higher energy prices and is now ``near the upper end of the Fed's tolerance zone,'' Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said. ``Now the inflation rate is near the upper end of the Fed's tolerance zone and it shows little inclination to go in the other direction,'' Fisher said.
San Francisco Fed Bank President Janet Yellen said last week that
the
IE: INTEREST RATES TO CLIMB - TO
KEEP PRICE INFLATION DOWN
AND THEN …
Empty Houses, Falling Prices: A Boom Dies
You can see how the housing bubble is bursting in
places like Columbus, Ohio, where builders and lenders threw
common sense away and enticed people to buy homes they couldn't
afford.-MSN
Slowing Is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Markets
A real estate slowdown that began in a handful of
cities this summer has spread to almost every hot housing market
in the country, including New York.-New York Times
Russia to challenge US global dictatorship with a new
economic block
Coming In The Mail: Big Energy Bills
This winter the average cost for natural gas could
rise 52 percent, even though storage supplies aren't running
low.-Christian Science Monitor
Hurricanes destroyed 109 oil platforms: US government
destroyed
109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs in the
Norton also stressed that only one of the damaged platforms was
built after federal construction standards were tightened in
1988. The ones that were destroyed
were nearing the end of their lives.
US Truck and SUV Sales Plunge as Gas Prices Rise
“
Canada presses Cuba over human rights concerns
Canada Defies UN – Will Deport Secret Trial Detainee Mahmoud Jaballah to Torture in Egypt
Four
months after the United Nations called on
Government of
DESTROYS THE MYTH OF MORAL SUPERIORITY
“DEMOCRACY
/ FREEDOM”
'Thought Police' Are Here
Australians can, for the first time, be punished
because somebody else thinks they are thinking about crime. The
thought police are here.-Australian IT
China
shuts down Web sites in crackdown
“SOCIETY”
resisting,
the greater part of the German church saw Hitler's rise in
1933 as an act of God's blessing, a new chapter in the story
of God among the German people.
JUST LIKE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SUPPORT
OF SOUTH AMERICAN DICTATORS
Chinese marriages break down amid rising wealth
Denmark to adopt US Burning Man festival
Understanding The Media's 'Patriotic' Narcolepsy
The
release of Andrea Mitchell's new book Talking Tough to
Presidents, Dictators, and Other Scoundrels has brought with it
the admission by Mitchell and some of her colleagues that they --
the press and your Fourth Estate -- gave President Bush and his
administration a free pass from 9/11 through Hurricane Katrina
Media, Media Everywhere, and No Time Left to Think?
The average American is a ravenous media junkie,
consuming up to nine hours a day of television, web time or
cellphone minutes, according to new research which raises fresh
questions about how technology is revolutionizing society.-AP
QUANTITY USUALLY CONTRADICTS QUALITY
A DISTURBING HISTORY … PASS
THIS ALONG
Against school: How public education cripples our
kids
AUTHOR: John Taylor Gatto is a former
Could it be that our schools are designed to make sure not one of
them ever really grows up?
Mass
schooling of a compulsory nature really got its teeth into the
Mencken the satirist traces the template for our own
educational system back to the military state of
to fill the young of the species with knowledge
and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from
the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many
individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and
train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and
originality. That is its aim in the
But
what shocks is that we should so eagerly have adopted one of the
very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately
designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner
life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to
ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the
populace "manageable."
It was from James Bryant Conant that I first got wind of the real
purposes of American schooling (president of Harvard for twenty
years, WWI poison-gas specialist, WWII executive on the
atomic-bomb project, high commissioner of the American zone in
Inglis, makes it perfectly clear that modern, industrialized,
compulsory schooling was to make a sort of surgical incision into
the prospective unity of these underclasses. Divide
children and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind,
would ever re-integrate into a dangerous whole.
Inglis
breaks down the actual purpose - of modem schooling into six
basic functions:
1)
to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority, and
preclude critical judgment.
2)
"the conformity function," - its intention is to make
children as alike as possible – predictable
3)
to determine each student's proper social role - by
logging in "your permanent record."
4)
once social role is diagnosed, children are sorted and trained
accordingly - not one step further.
5)
enhance the breeding stock - tag the unfit and bar them
from society
6)
a small fraction of the kids will be taught how to manage and
control a population dumbed down
In
time a great number of industrial titans came to recognize the
enormous profits to be had by cultivating and tending just such a
herd via public education, among them Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller. Woodrow Wilson,
then president of
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal
education, and we want another class of persons, a very much
larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the
privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform
specific difficult manual tasks."
Mass
production required mass consumption, and at the turn of the
twentieth century most Americans considered it both unnatural and
unwise to buy things they didn't actually need. Mandatory
schooling was a godsend on that count - it encouraged students
not to think at all - leaving them sitting ducks for another
great invention of the modem era - marketing.
Two groups of people can always be convinced to consume more:
addicts and children. School has done a pretty good
job of turning our children into addicts, but it has done a
spectacular job of turning our children into children. Theorists
from Plato to Dr. Inglis knew that if children could be
cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and
independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing
emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow
older but never truly grow up.
Maturity
has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives.
Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships;
easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy
entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself;
easy answers have removed the need to ask questions.
We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our
judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial
blandishments that would insult actual adults. We
buy televisions, and then we buy the things we see on the
television. And, worst of all, we don't bat an eye
when Ari Fleischer tells us to "be careful what you
say" even if we remember having been told somewhere back in
school that
Now for
the good news. Once you understand the logic behind modern
schooling, its tricks and traps are fairly easy to avoid.
School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your
own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey
reflexively; teach your own to think critically and
independently. Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for
boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that
they'll never be bored. Urge them to take on the serious
material, the grown-up material, in history, literature,
philosophy, music, art, economics, theology - all the stuff
schoolteachers know well enough to avoid. Challenge your kids
with plenty of solitude so that they can learn to enjoy their own
company, to conduct inner dialogues. Well-schooled people are
conditioned to dread being alone, and they seek constant
companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell phone, and
through shallow friendships quickly acquired and quickly
abandoned. Your children should have a more meaningful life, and
they can.
First,
though, we must wake up to what our schools really are:
laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for
the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands.
Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real
purpose is to turn them into servants. Don't let your own have
their childhoods extended, not even for a day. If David
Farragut could take command of a captured British warship as a
pre-teen, if Thomas Edison could publish a broadsheet at the age
of twelve, if Ben Franklin could apprentice himself to a printer
at the same age (then put himself through a course of study that
would choke a Yale senior today), there's no telling what your
own kids could do. After a long life, and thirty years in the
public school trenches, I've concluded that genius is as common
as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet
figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women.
The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage
themselves.
“HEALTH
/ SCIENCE / TECH”
Five Develop Nerve Disorder After Receiving
Meningitis Vaccine
All
have recovered or are recovering from the illness,
Guillain-Barré syndrome, which causes weakness in the arms and
legs and can spread to the chest and impair breathing. The drug
agency said in a news release, "It is not yet known whether
these cases were caused by the vaccine or are coincidental."
Vaccine
Ingredients - Formaldehyde, Aspartame, Mercury, Etc.
This list of common vaccines and their ingredients
should shock anyone.-Rense.com
GOVERNMENT TAXPAYER APPROVED
Indonesia Urges International Action on Bird Flu
Study Suggests Most in US Will Be Fat
A
new study that followed 4,000 people for three decades suggests
that over the long haul, 9 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women
will become overweight
World's potatoes originated
in Peru
'10th planet' has moon companion
“INFECTIOUS
- DISEASES”
COMMENT BY FRIEND: re:
Bush proposes using military in bird flu pandemic
That
could explain all the crap being propagated about the non
existent pandemic. But then again they may intend to
manufacture one. Did you know that in
Health Canada statement on the
2003-2004 influenza season
On
average, 500-1500 deaths per year are reported in
US to create a bird flu virus
mutation March/05
The
Military intelligence warns
that avian flu could be used as weapon: report March/05
Coroner Wants to Shrink-Wrap
Bodies Feb/05
Killer flu recreated in the
lab Oct/04
1918 killer flu secrets
revealed Feb/04,
Flu victim exhumed after 85
years Jan/04,
Live Dangerously: Be a
Scientist May/05
Since
January of 2004, more than twenty scientists are known to have
died in accidents, under suspiious circumstances, or been
murdered."
“ENVIRONMENT
/ EARTH”
Fly
populations in
RATS HAVE ALREADY INVADED
Green fireball across sky likely a
meteor, experts say
KDKA
Radio reported the object was seen from
RECALL: Spectacular
rare green meteor lights up morning sky NZ JUNE/03
THESE APPEAR OCCASIONALLY
Asteroid Impact May Wipe out Life on Earth in 2035
— Russian Scientists
According
to the model, the impact of a 500-meter asteroid traveling at a
speed of 10-20 kilometers per second hitting the ocean would
cause a circular wave 200-meters high. An asteroid 10 kilometers
in diameter would cause a tsunami 4 kilometers high which would
be about 400 meters high as it hit land. The scientists say that
a similar disaster took place millions of years ago and resulted
in the extinction of 90 percent of all living species."
EVENTS LIKE THIS ARE CONSISTENT
WITH GEOLOGIC RECORDS
- SEE VELIKOVSKY “EARTH IN UPHEAVAL”
Earth Sinks Three Inches Under Weight Of Flooded
Amazon
Satellite images confirm mystery glow
in ocean
Mariners
have long told of rare nighttime events in which the ocean glows
intensely as far as the eye can see in all directions.
PHOTO INCLUDED
“WEATHER”
Two Atlantic Hurricanes This Month, One Of Them
Intense: Forecaster
Two hurricanes, one of them
particularly intense, are expected to develop this month in the
Atlantic, whose hurricane season already has been one of the most
active and destructive on record, a top expert said on Monday.
You
see things and say ‘why’?
But
I dream of things that never were and I say: ‘why not’?
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part 1, Act 1