Wednesday, August 13, 2003
A must read for those who want to know about drugs, addiction, and the history of them both.
Opium smuggling didn’t just make money. At times, opium was money. Opium built empires and had a hand in financing much of the world’s infrastructure.
The Rise Of The Fourth Reich
Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster.
America, the Fourth Reich
"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people." —Richard Perle
F.B.I Report:JDL Zionists Among Top USA Terror Groups
"In FBI terrorism analyses published since 1981, responsibility for 18 terrorist incidents has been attributed to groups seeking to publicize past and present injustices suffered by the Jewish people. While claims for some of these acts have been made in the names of the "Jewish Defenders,' "United Jewish Underground," and "Jewish Direct Action," 15 of the incidents were attributed to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), by far the most well known of these groups. Also in 1985, the FBI named the Jewish Defense League as the second most active terrorist group in the United States. (Only Puerto Rican terrorists were more active during this period.) The FBI linked the JDL to 37 terrorist attacks carried out from 1977 to 1984.
A Webmaster's 25th hour
The 20-year-old anarchist was charged with distributing information about Molotov cocktails and "Drano bombs" on his Web site, Raisethefist.com. Under a 1997 federal law championed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., it is illegal to publish such instructions with the intent that readers commit "a federal crime of violence."
Israel’s tradition of shadowy dealings
The Colombian arms deal is small-time compared to some of the clandestine activities carried out by Israeli mercenaries and “arms dealers” in Latin America over the past three decades, as well as in Africa, Asia and Iran, currently Israel’s No. 1 enemy.
Germany tipped CIA about Sept 11 pilot
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had one of the September 11, 2001 terror pilots under surveillance as early as March 1999 after a tip from German security services, according to joint investigative reports in Germany.
Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim: Energy Dept. honcho ordered dissenters at Iraq pre-briefing to 'shut up, sit down'
A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war, WorldNetDaily has learned. His officers argued at a pre-briefing at Energy headquarters that there was no hard evidence to support the alarming Iraq nuclear charge, and asked to join State Department's dissenting opinion, Energy officials say. Rider ordered them to "shut up and sit down," according to sources familiar with the meeting.
World-Famous Philosopher Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semite" Slur in Germany; Habermas and Suhrkamp Cut and Run
The distinguished British philosopher Ted Honderich, is threatening to sue the head of the Holocaust museum in Frankfort for calling him an anti-Semite. The director, Micha Brumlik , levelled the charge last week after Honderich's book "After The Terror" was published in Germany in July. Suhrkamp, the jelly-kneed publisher, has said it is taking the book off the market, though in practice this appears to mean Surhkamp won't order a reprinting when the first printing of 3,000 is sold out. Germany's most eminent philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, has said he was the one who recommended the book to Suhrkamp, can find nothing anti-Semitic in it, though, in a kindred display of pusillanimity, simultaneously says he regrets having been involved in anything that may have caused offense.
Enron Banks Dodge a Bullet: Chase and Citi got off easy with a fine—at least for now.
When it comes to Enron, there's nothing swift or sure about justice. It's been almost 21 months since Enron declared bankruptcy. Amid ongoing investigations by the Justice Department and the SEC, more than a dozen former Enron employees have been indicted but none has gone to jail yet, and neither Ken Lay nor Jeff Skilling has been charged with any crime. So it seemed especially dramatic when, in late July, J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup agreed to pay a combined $286 million to settle charges with the SEC and the Manhattan district attorney over their "facilitation of the Enron fraud," as D.A. Robert Morgenthau put it.
U.S. Jew among 3 nabbed in plot to smuggle missile
An American Jew was among three suspects nabbed for allegedly attempting to
smuggle a missile to terror groups operating inside the United States in order to down
commercial aircraft. Two other suspected accomplices to the plot, inlcuding Yehuda Abraham, who is Jewish, face conspiracy charges, the prosecutors said.
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