From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #425 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Wednesday, February 14 2001 Volume 02 : Number 425 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 01 09:57:23 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Heinz cans lined with female 'sex chemical' (fwd) On Feb 12, dkuehne@erols.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Source: The Sunday Times-UK http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ Heinz cans lined with 'sex chemical' http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/11/stinwenws01009.html HEINZ has been criticised by environmentalists after admitting lining its food cans with a chemical thought to mimic female hormones, writes Jonathan Leake. In animal experiments researchers have found that the chemical, bisphenol A, can cause early puberty in females and may reduce the growth of reproductive tissues in young males. "This chemical is a known endocrine disruptor and is found in a range of other common domestic products besides Heinz's tins," said Dr Michael Warhurst who is leading a Friends of the Earth campaign to highlight the issue. "It is one of many chemicals to which we are constantly exposed and which are increasingly linked with various illnesses." Heinz confirmed that it uses very small amounts of bisphenol A to line the lids of cans fitted with ring-pull openers, including baked bean cans. The chemical helps to prevent such tins from corroding or releasing tin into the food. Bisphenol A and most other endocrine disrupting chemicals are known toxins at high levels. The argument is about whether or not they are dangerous in very low levels, when they are known as micropollutants. Heinz says it accepts that tiny amounts of bisphenol A may leach into its foods, but says levels are far below what is needed to cause any biological effect. "The levels are in parts per million or parts per billion, so small as to be almost undetectable," said a spokesman. Tin cans are just one of many potential sources of bisphenol A. The metal is also used in soft plastics, pesticides, dental products and some baby bottles. A 1999 study by American researchers found that bisphenol A could mimic the sex hormone estradiol. Mice exposed before birth to the chemical, in amounts correlating with typical human exposures, suffered changes in postnatal growth and early puberty in females. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 01 10:00:28 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: A_FRONT_ROW_SEAT_TO_THE_END_OF_THE_WORLD..._MTV's_SHAMELESS_DESTRUCTION_OF_YOUTH (fwd) On Feb 11, Steve Moser wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] http://etherzone.com/long020901.shtml A FRONT ROW SEAT TO THE END OF THE WORLD MTV's SHAMELESS DESTRUCTION OF YOUTH By: Paul Daniel Long "The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has bee= n 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." ........... Alexander Tytler, (in his 1770 book, Cycle of Democracy) "They're already dead.they just don't know it yet." ........... Brandon Lee (from his final motion picture "The Crow") In the wake of their unconscionable molestation of "freedom of expression," MTV ("Manipulation" Television) turned over their soft-core shock therapy machine to subcultures whose intent is to "cut and paste" the Constitution into nothingness. A seventeen-hour hate crime lovefest with elements of society so misguided in their vitriol and reasoning has only served as more fodder in this ideological blood sport. As if a seventeen-hour infomercial for legislative "thought police" can make up for the disease that this medi= a miscreant has generated. Let's focus first on the track record of this cable cancer, before my opinion becomes a message board flame. In the scant two decades since video first "killed the radio star," this radiantly simple concept has mutated into a philosophical meat grinder, perverting youths' perceptions of sexual responsibility, social deference, personal beliefs and political prioritization. For all the liberal clamoring about walking the "slippery slope" of free speech issues I ask simply "what are you afraid of.that we'l= l careen into a pit of morality?" The answer is a resounding YES. If our nation was ever shaken loose from the trance of television, repudiation of media moguls may resemble one of those hate crimes they seem so eager to prosecute. MTV has derived the most public of pleasure from their tap dance on the Bil= l of Rights. From Madonna's veiled threats against Catholicism to the glossy and tacit embrace of pedophilia through coquettish spokesvictims Brittney and Christina, licentious executives and producers give credence to the disease of sexual addiction. To bolster their untenable position on physica= l impropriety, these same amoral "suits" shroud this counter-culture in the guise of "MTV News" with vacuous rip-and-readers like Tabitha Soren and Kur= t Loder. Soulless pawns whose opinions are formed from corporate play books, these dutiful minions subvert decency with ham-fisted reports telling how the founding fathers' lack of foresight should be challenged at every turn. The shimmering reality is that the geniuses whose gray matter provided this country's genesis had MTV in mind when they penned the law of the land. The= y knew man's penchant for evil, and safeguarded against its taking root with each carefully crafted section of this nation's play book. Ever the groundbreaker, MTV execs first plumbed new depths of programming excreta with Beavis and Butthead. The connotation of innocence that animation implies was this spewdum's built-in defense. Show after show subtly extolled the virtues of being dangerously ignorant. It was and is advocacy of aberrant behavior. As if inane laughter at any words resembling sexual slang should be considered redeeming. Redeeming content at Music Television is in direct proportion to tee shirt sales, and Mike Judge's behavioral buzzsaw thrived. It was Beavis and Butthead who in 1993 offered the first sacrifice to the corporate gods, as a young boy burned his sister to death while acting on the cartoon punks' pyromaniacal predilections. The hierarchy must have tasted young blood in the water, because the Free Pass that is the Clinton administration has only heightened their lust for deviancy. With the advent of "The Real World," the "M" in MTV was redefined as "Most anything other than music." Glorifying those painful (and thanks to ominously-intrusive cameras, very public) life experiences as what happens "when people stop being polite, and start getting 'real'," this disingenuou= s premise scoffed at the notion that being polite was anything more than a sign of social weakness. Conflicts were encouraged, stereotypes were assembled, and those with substantial upbringing were made to feel as thoug= h their value systems were atrophied. Can anyone explain away the glaring fla= w with abandoning politeness and "getting real" and then wonder why nightclub= s and school hallways have become today's killing grounds? In a most diabolically inauspicious way, the musical powers-that-be fanned the flames of entitlement, race-bating, and functional illiteracy to secure their plac= e at the corporate trough. The next time you are subjected to Paul Begala or some Democrat revisionist who insists that the Clinton years brought "unprecedented growth," consider the escalation of MTV's guerilla warfare on our collective psyche. During this moral Ice Age, the acknowledged powerbroker of youth sensibilities has packaged and promoted gangsta' rap, which has led to the creation of Black Entertainment Television. Dressed in the finest fabric to disguise the stench of hypocrisy, Robert Johnson has become the 21st century poverty pimp, subliminally urging the blissfully uneducated and apathetic black culture to cast aside any leanings toward longevity and kill their own in order to garner the perfect car stereo. Add to this volatile mix the barbarity of professional wrestling, the spiritual desecration of pornography, the diminution of elected office with questions like "boxers o= r briefs?" and the unspoken endorsement of plastic surgery with recent specials showing vulnerable (and naked) teenagers enduring elective mutilation to quell their peers' derision. This is not a liberal or conservative issue. This is a good versus evil issue. And still the parents of America allow Vince MacMahon and Li'l Kim to rear our children. Which brings us to "Jackass." By giving a forum to Johnny Knoxville, MTV ha= s shone the spotlight on the fruits of twenty years' labor. Knoxville is the perfect prototype of Generation X. He has none of the pesky trappings that engineered this country's foundation; conscience, intelligence, focus, or discipline. His life is completely expendable, and MTV will be right there for every thoughtless chapter of this low-speed suicide. The channel that brought us "Spring Break" and "Celebrity Death Match" has now crossed the threshold into evaluating human worth. Johnny Knoxville will not stop until the execs upstairs are satisfied. What his addle mind has yet to grasp is that they'll never be satiated. They want it all, including his tortured little life. The voyeuristic appetite that MTV has cultivated will culminat= e with this ominous dialogue in the hushed corridors of media power. It's been a long haul, Johnny.and it ends with you. If you don't die on the air, it will all be for naught. If you live, we can't make a special about your tragic demise. We won't be able to encourage the next disillusioned child to step from a ledge with the camcorder rolling. If you don't perish loudly, Master Knoxville.we'll have no lead-in to our next Hate Crimes special. We won't be able to rally our automatons to singe the country's conscience once again. You must die, Johnny, so that our empire will live t= o corrupt another day. If you are not martyred in the name of impetuous youth= , someone with power and virtue may start asking questions. They may question our compliance with "GenX"-ocide, or unearth our elation when a twelve year old boy used a WWF-approved move to crush the skull of a six year old girl. They may become incensed when discovering that a Connecticut boy's burning nearly to death while using "Jackass" as a blueprint may actually add valuable rating points to your revolting broadcast. We don't have much time, Johnny. Don't worry about getting heat from Connecticut's senator, or that carpetbagger mouthpiece from New York. Our bean counters have uncanny foresight, and those two have been bought and paid for. Sure they'll rail at us in front of the cameras, but behind close= d doors they'll sheepishly acknowledge who is buttering their bread. No, Johnny.it's the new rogues in the Oral Office that concern us. They don't understand your generation, Johnny. It's up to you to send a message to the= m for all of those kids out there whose parents have to work two jobs because the government is bleeding them dry. We are the nation's babysitter now, Johnny. Distracted and selfish parents have entrusted us with the corruptio= n of America's youth. We are not going to let them down, Johnny. By tearing yourself limb from limb for our amusement, we will show those in Washington that we've fostered millions of children just like you, and we'll kill them all to protect the right to Viacom/AOL/TimeWarner-approved free speech. Do it for your country, Johnny. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - - - ------ Paul Daniel Long writes from Baltimore, MD. Paul has been in talk radio for the last three years and is presently organizing a conservative talk show package for cyberspace. He is a new columnist for Ether Zone. Paul Daniel Long can be reached at longnwrong@home.com Published in the February 9, 2001 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright =A9 2001 Ether Zone. (http://etherzone.com) Reposting permitted with this message intact. We invite your comments on this article in our forum! [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 01 09:58:24 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Micro Radio operator jailed on false charges (fwd) On Feb 12, dkuehne@erols.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] - --- forwarded message --- From: "Larry Lawson" Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:23:03 -0800 {WA} Radio operator jailed Mark Alan, Rabenold jailed on false 2nd degree vehicular assault charges I just spoke with Mark Alan at 7:30 pm. Here is what he related: About noon today, a bearded man, dressed like a hunter, approached Mark's car while he was buckling his seat belt in preparation to leave Oroville, Washington. The man banged forcefully on the window of the car and demanded that Mark stop. A few words were exchanged, but lacking any attempt on the part of the man to identify himself, and because of the threatening manner in which he was pounding on the car, Mark indicated that he intended to leave. As he pulled away, another man of similar appearance ran across the street directly in front of Mark's car and proceeded to pound forcefully on the hood and yell at him. Mark was concerned for his safety, and determined that the best thing he could do was to get away from these unidentified men. This he did without striking either man. Mark proceeded directly to the police station to report the incident, but found no one there. He attempted to flag down an officer in a patrol car, but with no success (the officer was apparently answering a call from the two men, who turned out to be federal marshalls). As Mark travelled toward his home, he was stopped at a road block and taken into custody on a charge of 2nd degree vehicular assault. At the jail, Mark overheard the feds saying that they couldn't charge him with assaulting a federal officer because they had not identified themselves. A little background on Mark for those that don't know him. He is a devoted Christian family man that is dedicated to preserving our heritage of freedom. He has not had as much as a traffic ticket for many years. Mark operates a small unlicensed radio station that covers about a 15 mile area around Oroville, Washington, just a few miles from the Canadian border. His format is re- transmitted talk shows carried by satellite, most of which are concerned with our eroding freedoms in America. Mark had one visit from federal marshals about two years ago, but he was not home and his wife asked them to leave. Mark indicated that all has been quiet until today. Mark is currently being held in Okanogan county jail, and expects that an attempt will be made to arraign him in the morning. He is asking for help with procedural techniques to stop the arraignment process. If anyone would like to offer suggestions directly to Mark, he can be reached by leaving a message at the jail for him to call collect. The number at the jail is 509-422-7230. I will be in contact with Mark if anyone wants to pass information to him through me. Mark feels that it might be helpful if phone calls are made to the county officers: Okanogan county clerk: 509-422-7245 Okanogan county sheriff: 509-422-7200 If anyone would like to speak with Mark's wife, the home phone is 509-485-2206. Mark intends to assert his sovereignty, and deny U.S. citizenship or other nexus with the state that would diminish his rights. He also intends to demand verification of an oath pursuant to the 1878 Washington constitution from anyone who asserts authority over him. He does not want to be represented by a bar attorney. All efforts to assist will be greatly appreciated. This is clearly a setup by unethical tyrants. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 01 11:14:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Police Seal Off Indiana Church (fwd) On Feb 13, Steve Moser wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Police Seal Off Indiana Church By REX W. HUPPKE .c The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Federal marshals seized the Indianapolis Baptist Temple on Tuesday to satisfy a $6 million tax debt, and wheeled its former pastor out on a gurney as he protested the move. The U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the seizure last month. The Baptist Temple stopped withholding federal income and Social Security taxes from its employees' paychecks in 1984, saying the church's duty to obey God allowed no room for manmade laws and that withholding taxes would make it an agent of the government. U.S. marshals rushed through a side door into the church, where six or seven people - some who had been holding a vigil there for nearly three months - were gathered in prayer. ``The purge has started,'' said the Rev. Greg J. Dixon, the church's pastor emeritus, as the marshals wheeled him out. ``We had a promise from the Bush administration. We had every reason to believe there was a moratorium. ... They were going to dismiss the case. We had a deal, and they welshed on the deal,'' Dixon said. No one was arrested and there were no injuries, authorities said. The current pastor, Dixon's son, the Rev. Greg A. Dixon, was not at the church when officers arrived but rushed to the scene and sat down in front of the building. ``The fight is still not over,'' the younger Dixon said. ``We are going to continue this fight for religious liberty. ``They have trampled the First Amendment; they have desecrated a house of God,'' he said. ``They have brought God's judgment down upon them, their souls, their wives, their children, their political careers. I feel sorry for them.'' Federal marshals seized a parsonage a few miles from the church on Nov. 14. The judge's order had authorized marshals to seize the property by force if necessary. The federal government until now had never seized a church for failing to pay taxes, said Richard Hammar, an attorney for the Springfield, Mo.-based Assemblies of God church and an expert on churches and tax law. ``To have the IRS come in and seize the church's property, that is an extraordinary event unparalleled in American history,'' Hammar has said. On the Net: Indianapolis Baptist Temple: http://www.indianapolisbaptisttemple.com AP-NY-02-13-01 0954EST Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Feb 01 11:13:00 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Breaking News - Indianapolis Baptist Temple Raided (fwd) On Feb 13, Clayton R. Douglas wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FREE AMERICAN NEWS FLASH! At approximately 7:30 AM Central time today, February 13, 2001, Federal Marshalls, BATF, FBI and local police raided and cleared the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. Television cameras from WTHR caught Pastor Greg Dixon being carried from the church strapped to a stretcher. Once outside the church, Pastor Dixon was released. There are no reports of injuries. More details on our show tomorrow. Upcoming Guests Wednesday - Bob Stewart of Maadi Griffen Thursday - Robert Sawyer - Science reveals how God created the Universe Friday - Rodney Stich - The Drugging of America Monday - Vladimir Shvartsman - The Colors of Truth - Life in Russia Tuesday - Currently Open Wednesday - Steve Alten - Why the Human Race is Doomed Thursday - Donald R. German - Retirement is Overrated Friday - Melisa Applegate - Egyptian Book of Life - -- The FREE AMERICAN Newsmagazine 2943 US Highway 380 Bingham, NM 87832 505-423-3250 Fax 505-423-3258 E-mail: freeamerican@plateautel.net Website - www.freeamerican.com Sample Issue - $5.00 1 Year Subscription - $40.00 2 year or 2 subs - $70.00 LISTEN TO THE FREE AMERICAN DAILY 8:00AM TO 9:00AM EASTERN TIME http://freeamerican.com On Satellite: Truth Radio Satellite C Band Galaxy 9, Channel 2, Audio 5.4 On Short-wave: WWCR 5.070 [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 01 14:12:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Phony Energy Crisis in Calif. exposed (fwd) On Feb 14, Rich Martin wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Interesting how the people of Calif find so many other people to blame without accepting any responsibiility for their predicament, which they expect US to save them from. This aside, I don't think there is any doubt this writer is on track when he identifies part of the problem in the concentration of power in too few people. That same senario is being played out in the Airline, media, telephony industries, among others. These monopolies must be broken up before they go the way of all monopolies, down the drain like the auto industry. Rich Martin Editor of Slick ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This was an off topic post to the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group list: Bill - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:05:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: [svlug] OFF TOPIC [B4BorG] Phony Energy Crisis in Calif. exposed I saw this on the "Billionaires for Bush or Gore" list. Yes, I am one of those political people. Being from SoCal and having a sense of history, I remember a little thing called the "Owens Valley Water Scandal". One of the critical point in the formation of LA, it involved the creation of a false scarcity of water in order to empower a very small group of people. While I know we've gone round and round about future engery sources, I note that no one has been discussing whether or not this power shortage is due to actual consumption or supply-side manipulation in the post regulation era. The following email raises some of those points and refers to an LA Times article on the subject. I thought it would be useful to put it on your collective radar. Apologies in advance for those offended by the lack of penguin like material in this message. I'd rather plead for forgiveness than beg for permission. - -Charles - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:17:14 -0800 Subject: [B4BorG] Phony Energy Crisis in Calif. exposed Phony "energy crisis" exposed The bad effects of the AES power plant, and the upcoming push to eliminate environmental controls on power plants, cars and refineries are only part of the bad effects of the so-called "energy crisis". http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010211/t000012614.html LA Times story on the connections of Bush and the head of Enron. We already know that the Oil Lobby was the biggest contributor to Bush-2k, and they contributed many of their supporters to the Bush administration - -- such as Evans. ".... particular concern to some Californians, Bush repeatedly has refused to intervene more aggressively in the state's electricity crisis--even as Enron and its subsidiaries have profited handsomely from soaring energy prices..." But you look at that "crisis", and some might say it is merely an attempt to "payback" California for overwhelmingly voting for Gore. The only thing that has changed since last year is that a business block -- a sort of "Trust" -- has managed to buy up all the electric generating plant -- and not just in California. Who ever heard of Dynergy, Reliant, Calpine, Enron, Southern Co., AES, prior to their gaining control of the means of electric production? And T. Boone Pickens, who bought up all the Natural Gas leases via "Mesa Petroleum", might have some hand in this too. Over the last decade, California's energy usage has grown at 11%, roughly half the national average. That's because we've been losing factories and foundries, aerospace and other plants to other states. Those are the big, big users of electricity. So why should the "crisis" strike just as the election is giving control of the Government to Bush and the Oilies? Logically, any "crisis" should hit in the Summer, when demand exceeds 40,000 megawatts, a quarter more than now. The bogus excuse is "all those computers...". Well, look at them. The highest rating is 500 watts, and they draw about 150. If every person in California had a computer, and left it on ALL the time, that would be only 375 watts for each of the 12m households-- less than 4 light bulbs, less than refrigerators by far, less probably than we use on hair dryers. Each traffic intersection has, on average, 17 signals -- one of those lights is on at all times. Not to mention street lighting. So really, computers are small, non-critical users of electricity. Think Air Conditioners, those are the heavy users, and that does not happen until summer. But why should everyone suddenly parrot this ridiculous notion, that "computers" or "silicon valley" are suddenly maxing us out? The answer, of course, is that the newspapers print it, and no one examines it. Somewhere, some high-tone PR firm belted out a press release, and all the media bought it. No, the "crisis" seems engineered in Houston, TX, where most of these weird-named companies are headquartered. Think about how the Republicans hounded Clinton for 8 years on the amorphous "whitewater" investigation, which wound up looking at Bill's dirty underwear. No criminal charges or activity were ever proved, yet the persecution, including jailing the unfortunate Susan McDougal for 18 months in LEG IRONS, with no reading material, on Taxpayer money. Where is the Special Prosecutor who will investigate Bush's ties to the Oilies, and the multi-billion dollar rip-off of California's surplus? That is a real, substantial issue, not the bogus bushit they tried to get on Clinton. Who will investigate this bombshell story? Cut out the middlemen. Send donations to: Boys Scouts of America National HQ 1329 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75162 http://www.SaveOurScouts.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 01 14:13:46 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: American Soldier (fwd) On Feb 14, Huck wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Thought I'd send this along to all my amigos who served our country and to those whose sons are serving her now. "Here's to us and those like us, damned few left!" Ken Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:50 AM Subject: American Soldier > THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER > Dedicated to the memory of T/Sgt. Richard M. Cole, Jr./USAF > > I am a whisper on the wind, of times past, of places long forgotton, > Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Bataan, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Seoul, Laos, > Saigon, Cambodia, Kuwait. > I am the heart of countless numbers of scarred and maimed veterans, > and the soul of the buried unknown. > > I am an integral part of each white cross in Flanders Field, > and am sealed within each name on The Wall. > I am part of each and every headstone of every American Soldier > in every cemetary in the world. > > I am deeply emeshed in each tiny undiscovered bone fragment of American > Soldiers, > left behind on foreign soil. I am the unseen shadows, > the unheard voices of those many empty cells, > that once held my brothers in unspeakable torture. > > I am the unbearable pain in the hearts of every mother, father, wife, > sister, > brother, and child, of missing American soldiers from all wars. > I am within each and every tear shed for them. > > I am the essence of each and every drop of blood shed in the past or in > the > future, > by an american soldier in the name of freedom. > I am the lifeblood of the colors of the American flag, > the blue for my loyalty and unwavering dedication, > the white for my steadfastness, > and the red for my pride and love of my country. > > I am the spirit of those names on the Black Granite Wall, > of all of those unaccounted for in each and every war, > of those who went away to war as gallant young men and came back, > older than time...OR NOT AT ALL. > > I AM, THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER! > Beverly Haire, 1998 > Beverly Dancing Bear Haire [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 01 19:22:44 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: NIH Mass Produces 'Human' Mouse (fwd) Well, there you have it. The mixing of the blood and the seed. Expect Biblical scale epidemics of unknown diseases in your neighborhood, soon..... On Feb 14, Steve Moser wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] NIH Mass Produces 'Human' Mouse http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/02-05-01/jeffrey.html The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade funding the mass production of a creature that is part mouse and part human. Every one of these most peculiar rodents requires live tissue extracted from the liver and thymus of a human child-and every child who donates tissue to create such mice is first killed by a medical doctor. They are victims of abortions that cannot take place until at least the eighth week of pregnancy, when the fetal liver is finally formed. Although history may someday record the saga of this mouse as one of the greatest horror stories in the annals of medicine, it actually begins with what may be described as a small miracle. The miracle happened in 1980 at a cancer research center in Philadelphia, when an ordinary laboratory mouse gave birth to an extraordinary litter of pups. Mel Bosma, a researcher at the center, discovered that four of these pups carried an abnormality that would prove deadly to them but of great value to man. They suffered from a genetic disorder called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). In essence, these mice had no natural means of fighting disease. Unlike a human being with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-whose immune system has been destroyed by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-these first-ever SCID mice were born without a functioning immune system. Saving Chimpanzees Bosma recognized the enormous potential these mice might have for medical research and preserved them for breeding. Several years later, J. Michael McCune, an investigator at Stanford Medical School, was grappling with what was then one of the most basic obstacles confronting doctors searching for an AIDS cure. Ordinary laboratory mice could not be infected with HIV because HIV-which, after all, is a "human" virus-cannot penetrate the cells that make up the mouse immune system. That means that ordinary laboratory mice are useless for testing AIDS vaccines and therapies. The chimpanzees that were being used in some AIDS research were an expensive and politically incorrect species, a stumbling block that severely limited the scope of the preliminary research that could be done on developing an AIDS cure. As McCune later described it to a reporter for The Business Journal, he struck upon a way to solve this problem as he was driving in his car up Interstate 280 toward the city of San Francisco: Why not transplant the human immune system into a mouse? This was not a science-fiction fantasy. The discovery of the SCID mouse had made the hypothesis plausible enough to test. In a normal mammal, the immune system would reject tissue transplanted from another body-especially if that other body was of another species. But because the SCID mouse lacked a working immune system, researchers theorized it might not reject transplanted human tissue. That, however, would solve only half the problem. The other half was that human tissue-adult human tissue, anyway-would itself reject the mouse. Medical researchers call this "graft-versus-host" disease. This is where the babies came in. Up to a certain point as it develops within its mother's womb, an unborn child's immune system has not learned to recognize its own body. The blood cells that are dedicated to fighting disease, which develop initially in the child's liver, have not yet passed through the thymus where they are educated to recognize their own body so they can discriminate between their own healthy cells and the agents of a disease. If the organs and tissues that constitute the basic elements of a baby's immune system could be removed before its disease-fighting cells became educated, and if this removed immune system could be implanted in a SCID mouse, that mouse might develop into a brave new laboratory animal: part rodent, part human. Many things had to fall into place in American law and culture to make such an experiment possible. Abortions had to be legalized. Women had to be willing to have them. Doctors had to be willing to perform them. Technicians had to be willing to fish out body parts from the fresh remains of aborted babies. Researchers had to be willing to implant those body parts in mice. And, of course, somebody had to be willing to pay for it all. By 1988-only 15 years after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision had converted abortion from a crime in most of the United States to a "constitutional right"-all of the requisite legal, cultural and scientific elements had fallen into place. The bill, as it turned out, would be sent to U.S. taxpayers. On Sept. 14, 1988, Stanford University sent out a press release announcing the success of its efforts to build a mouse with a human immune system. Later that month, McCune and his associates, including Dr. Irving Weissman, a Stanford pathologist, published their results in the journal Science. They named their creation the SCID-hu mouse, "hu" being short for "human." In Science, under the heading, "Construction of the SCID hu," McCune and his associates explained their creation in these terms: "Human fetal thymus, liver, lymph node, and spleen were obtained and prepared for introduction into SCID mice by surgical implantation or by intravenous injection. . . . With a bank of frozen tissues available, it becomes readily possible to construct SCID-hu mice with a variety of human lymphoid organs of defined (and, as desired, different) genetic origin." The scientists noted that the age of the aborted fetus was of significance. The unborn child had to be old enough to have a functioning liver that produced blood cells, but not so old that those cells had already "migrated through the human fetal thymus," become differentiated, and learned to recognize their own body and fight off disease. The prime moment was between 8 and 24 weeks, with the optimum time being before 20 weeks. Where did the "donor" babies come from? Stanford answered the question dryly in its 1988 press release: "The human immune system is seeded into the mice using small quantities of tissues from aborted fetuses obtained under strict human-use guidelines." In an interview, Janet M. Young, of the Basic Science Program of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-which funds much of the nation's SCID-hu research-could not answer specific questions about the conditions under which the tissue is retrieved from aborted babies and referred the question to Dr. McCune. Dr. McCune did not return calls placed to his office in San Francisco. But C. Ward Kischer, emeritus professor of embryology at the Arizona University College of Medicine and an expert on fetal development, offered his own interpretation of what the procedure must be like. The unborn child does not begin to develop a liver until about five weeks, said Kischer. A baby aborted in the first month, in other words, would be useless for creating a SCID-hu mouse. At eight weeks, he said, the liver starts to perform its "hematopoietic" function, producing the undifferentiated blood cells that will later pass through the thymus and begin creating the baby's immune system. But at this point, he said, the baby is only about one inch long and an abortion would likely be done by the Dilation and Curettage (D&C) method. At 15 weeks, he said, the baby would be about five inches long, and still likely to be aborted by D&C. At 20 weeks it would be about 7 inches long, and still, if aborted, a likely candidate for the D&C procedure. The thymus, which is in the baby's neck, he said, begins to significantly develop only after birth. "Even at 20 weeks," he said, "it is really, really small." Kischer said he finds it hard to believe the researchers could retrieve livers and thymuses from babies aborted by D&C between the 8th and 20th week of gestation. "To find the liver in a dismembered early fetus is next to impossible," he said. "I don't see how they can do it." "If they insert a curette into the uterus and start scraping the wall," he said, "there is absolutely zero assurance that the curette will not dismember that embryo or fetus. They will start to cut it up. And if you start cutting it up, and you get the products of conception out and put them in a petri dish, how are you going to determine what is liver and what isn' t? It's impossible." Back in 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported the invention of the SCID-hu mouse on page one. A few other major papers gave it a one-day run. Some played it as a humanitarian boon to chimpanzees. "My hope is our mice can remove all the pressure on chimps," Dr. Weissman told the Chicago Tribune. "There are only a few hundred chimpanzees in the world available for medical research. . . . If our mouse model works there's no reason to use a primate model that doesn't seem to be complete, that's being done with animals that are in incredibly short supply and are in danger of extinction." He was confident, apparently, in a continuing supply of aborted babies. Once the SCID-hu mouse had been created, its inventors set about demonstrating its applicability to AIDS research. Working under a grant from the NIH, they injected the mice with HIV, to prove that the human blood cells floating through its rodent veins could indeed be infected with a human virus. The work was done in a specially secured laboratory to ensure that AIDS-carrying mice could not escape into city streets. "SCID-hu mice were infected within the confines of a specially adapted animal bio-safety level (BSL) 3 facility," the researchers wrote in Science. "A flank incision exposed the growing human thymus or lymph node implant of anesthetized SCID-hu mice. Graded doses of HIV-1 . . .were introduced by direct intrathymic or intranodal inoculation. The mice were maintained in micro-isolator cages, inside a sealed glove box, within the BSL3 facility." These facilities even have an airlock designed to prevent the movement of airborne particles from the inside to the outside. In a follow-up experiment, the researchers treated HIV-infected mice with AZT to see if the drug would inhibit the proliferation of the virus. The test could not have been more successful. The researchers again chronicled their triumph in the pages of Science: "The SCID-hu mouse will be useful for measuring the in vivo efficacy of the antiviral compounds and may provide a test system in which their administration could be experimentally altered to achieve optimal efficacy. The same techniques that are used to analyze antiviral compounds against HIV should be directly transferable to the analysis of interventions against other human pathogens." They had discovered a scientific and commercial gold mine-and Stanford moved to secure the rights to it. "Since the work may lead to new avenues of therapeutics," the school said in a press release, "Stanford University is seeking a patent on the process that leads to a mouse with human-blood-forming and immune potential." The government granted the patent. McCune and Weissman secured startup capital from venture capitalists, including Eli Jacobs, one of the owners of the Baltimore Orioles, and began a biotechnology company named Systemix. Stanford gave them a license to commercially use the mouse. On Aug. 1, 1990, Systemix issued a press release reporting that the NIH had awarded it a "multimillion dollar, five-year contract" to test anti-AIDS drugs using the mouse. "This contract represents an important step for the NIH, for us and for patients with HIV infection," McCune said in the press release. "Now, drugs that look promising in the lab can be selected on the basis of their activity in relevant animal models, prior to their use in man." This was not precisely correct, of course. Systemix would be testing the drugs in man-but only in those whose lives had been terminated and their immune systems stripped out and implanted in mice. In late 1991, the Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Sandoz, purchased 60% of Systemix. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: "The deal also is a windfall for the Stanford scientists whose discovery got Systemix started. Dr. J. Michael McCune, 37, a former Stanford postdoctoral student, and his mentor, renowned Stanford immunologist Dr. Irving L. Weissman, 51, each have options to buy stock at 28 cents per share. The stock closed yesterday at 55 in over-the-counter trading. McCune and Weissman can each acquire $24 million worth of Systemix stock by shelling out $105,000 apiece." The February 1992 issue of The Business Journal added: "For a biotech company, Systemix has progressed at light speed. Ms. [Linda] Sonntag [Systemix's CEO] attributes the company's rapid development largely to Dr. McCune's mouse. 'The premise was that the SCID-hu mouse tool would expedite R&D dramatically, and it proved to be true,' she said. 'Without the SCID-hu mouse, we would not be where we are now.'" The utility of the SCID-hu mouse spawned numerous federal grants that made use of the animal. By 1998, the NIH was handing out 43 separate grants for research that used it. Last year, 45 NIH grants specifically mentioned use of the SCID-hu. On June 18, 1993, the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) put out a request for grant proposals that appeared to ratchet up the government's involvement in manufacturing SCID-hu mice. The agencies were soliciting proposals to create what they called "core facilities" at regional government-funded Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR). The request for proposals said: "Examples of such Cores that may be supported by the NIAID include . . . SCID/hu Mice Facilities . . . Examples of such Cores that may be supported by NIMH include . . . SCID/hu Mice Facilities." In an interview, NIAID's Young said that the language about "SCID/hu mice Facilities" was only included in the solicitation for proposals as an example to the investigators of the general sort of thing the NIAID would fund. The NIH, she said, was not specifically recommending or promoting the creation of these facilities. Nonetheless, at least five universities participated in creating federally funded "core facilities" for the manufacture of SCID-hu mice under the auspices of NIH grants. These were the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center jointly operated by Columbia and Rockefeller universities and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Not all of these continue to operate under CFAR auspices. Currently, said Young, "There are three Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) sites that support SCID/hu core facilities. These are CFARs at: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). The latter has very few mice and a small number of investigators interested in this model. The CFAR at Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center has not had a SCID/hu facility for approximately 4 years now . . . Albert Einstein College of Medicine no longer has a CFAR grant." One of the grant abstracts for the SCID/hu facility at UCLA indicates that the university was looking into implanting human brain tissue in the mice. States the abstract: "The SCID-hu Mouse/Human Chimera Core Facility is designed to provide access to state-of-the-art-mouse/human chimera technology for UCLA-affiliated AIDS investigators. This facility will provide breeding of SCID mice at a reduced rate, housing for SCID mice, and a BSL3 laboratory for manipulation and housing of chimeric mice infected with human retroviruses. "Consultation on construction of mouse/human chimeras (hu- PBL-SCID and SCID-hu) is also available. In addition, there is a developmental component to this core, which has helped to established the SCID-hu mouse as an in vivo model for virus-induced pathology. This component approaches to combat AIDS, and will participate in development of a model for growth of human brain tissue in vivo. This latter system will be used to investigate mechanisms of neuropathogenesis of AIDS." The hu-PBL-SCID mouse mentioned in the text is a rival lab animal to the SCID-hu, which, unlike the SCID-hu, takes only blood from umbilical cords or adult donors, and does not require human fetal tissue. In addition to the SCID-hu mice being created at CFAR "core facilities"-and also in some instances by individual NIH-funded researchers around the country who are not associated with a CFAR-the NIAID continues to contract directly itself with an outside provider to create SCID-hu mice for testing AIDS drugs. On Aug. 19, 1999, the NIH put out a request for proposals for a new SCID-hu contract that revealed some crucial details about SCID-hu construction. The proposal informed prospective contractors that "Up to 1200 SCID-hu thy/liv mice (50 per experiment) and 125 unengrafted SCID mice will be needed for evaluations of single and combination therapies per year. The Contractor shall be capable of providing up to 100 SCID-hu thy/liv mice per month, in groups of 50 animals engrafted with tissue from a single donor." What is more, the NIAID instructed potential contractors to include a "description of the methods used . . . to quality assure/control viral stocks, tissue donors, and engrafted mice." The agency further instructed would-be contractors that they would have to "quality assure" "donor tissue" even if "any of the components of the model are provided by a Subcontractor." After an inquiry by Human Events, NIH said it would refuse to release the winning proposal for this contract even if it was requested to do so under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency cited language in the 1997 Defense Authorization bill that exempted federal agencies from releasing even successful proposals from government contractors under FOIA. So, for now, the details of just exactly how the contractor demonstrated to the government it was going to assure the quality of the human fetal livers and thymuses it intended to transplant into "up to 1200" mice remains a government secret. The contract, by the way, was awarded to the J. David Gladstone Foundation, a California organization associated with Dr. Mike McCune, the SCID-hu's inventor. 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