Malignant mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the tissue that lines the body’s interior organs. About 2,000 new instances are diagnosed each year in the whole US. Out of this group, almostthree out of four of occurrences concern the sac that protects the lungs, named the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In around ten to twenty percent of cases, mesothelioma may affect the tissue that encircles visceral organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, generating what is then referred to as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Introduction to asbestos is positively the overwhelming risk factor for this uncommon aliment. Following asbestos exposure, the time period to progression of the mesothelioma disease may be two to four decades. Because of work related exposure, cancer of the mesothelium is almost 3 times more regular in males, than in females. Due to the number of instances rises with age, there are about 10 times more cases in the males over age 64 than in the men in their thirties.

Developing Cancer of the mesothelium is a serious disease, which, at the current time, has a decidedly bad degree of continuing continuance. On the other hand, if it is recognized early, regimens are then at hand that might significantly lengthen the patient’s life. Cutting edge approaches continue to be and are being developed through the use of clinical trials.

The use of homosexual men in the area of espionage is well documented through the annals of history. Homosexual men are perfect for gathering information due to their inherent nature and ability to build relationships. They are innate masters of the dynamics of human emotion and are able to manipulate their sources almost to a point, which is considered unbelievable. They are much more apt to gather good intelligence, due to these relationships rather than false and bogus data. In the spy business they make great assets and are Used for this game by those who are running spy organizations for states.

There is more and more leakage of military, industrial and Congressional secrets from the gay bars in Washington DC than on any other place on the planet. Our Department of Justice in fact has homosexuals working in agencies, which routinely launch investigations on companies and gather important data in these investigations, then these investigators and/or prosecuters spill the beans on these companies with gay counterparts of the DC night lifestyle. This information ends up in the hands of competitors both foreign and domestic. Congress and Senate pages and case-workers share information with their friends and lobbyists. Some actually say; “If you want to get the straight goods, you need to be connected to the gay community.” Not sure how much pun is intended in that statement, but it is safe to say know what they are talking about.

The North Koreans, Russians, Chinese all have gay contingency spies. Some call them sex spies, but they are every much as part of the Washington DC scene as the “Belt Way Boys” or any “K-Street” Lobbying Firm. It is all in who you know and as the saying goes “who you blow” in Washington DC.

Let’s face it if you want good Intel in Washington you are going to have to pull your pants down for it, that’s the way things work. Some might criticize this as problematic, although once you get the hang of it, they say it is quite an easy system. Those in the know in Washington DC have many gay friends and use these relationships to get what they need. Some are Foreign spies gaining access to secrets, while others are just making the rounds, having some good times and passing the information on to friends in high places or reporters for a few kick me downs, invitations to great parties or a few extra bucks on the side.

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Strange things never cease to happen. These things themselves make the world go round. Consider this: Many years ago, a solar eclipse happened in one primitive part of the earth. You know what it means—day changed to night. And the ignorant villagers, who didn’t know what had just happened, thought that the world has come to an end. See farmers racing down to their village huts! Behold mothers frantically searching for their weeping babies in the village playground! Watch birds and domestic animals hastily making to their hiding places! Chaos!!

But I am not going to talk of those who committed suicide either by drinking poison or drowning in the village river before the end comes. Neither am I going to say of the village priest who immediately made a sacrifice to appease the gods, who he thought had gone mad. No, I am not going to talk of those.

My concern is the richest man in the village who made a feast for the villagers. He had all his livestock slaughtered, tore his yam barns and invited all the villagers for the last supper. But as they were eating under the moonlight, watching the stars and waiting for the world to end, night changed to day. And the surprised villagers turned the last supper to a happy celebration, eating up all the rich man’s possessions. The man could not stop them because he had asked them to feast. So he became known as the most foolish man of the year. But that’s a different matter.

When Gavrillo Princip fired an “innocent” shot in Sarajevo killing Archduke Ferdinand, never did he know that the events that would follow it would eventually lead to the death of innocence in 1914. Before that first world war began, British then foreign minister, Neil Chamberlain leaned over a window, and said: “The lights are going out all over Europe. We shall never see it lit again in our life time.” The report did not state that he shook his head. Maybe he did. And it did not say that he dropped a tear. Perhaps, he did. The rest is history now. Millions dead!

But man, “the most wicked of God’s creations”, according to one source, has refused to learn from history. And soon, he will trigger up events that will lead, not to a third world war, but to the last eclipse. How will that happen? you may ask.

Now, look closely to the Middle East and consider this scenario. America defies world opinion, and declares war on an Arab country suspected of having “weapons of mass destruction” Thousands of Muslims perish. Some Osama rallies the Muslim world, and declares a jihad against the U. S. Then America backed by NATO hits back. Under pressure, the jihadists crack a dirty nuke. And America drops the real one. Lights out!

This may sound hypothetical. But remember how the First World War started. Just a lone bullet. In fact, all fratricidal wars have begun by just one shot. So, the bottomline is that wars do not solve problems. Instead, they compound it. We are not here talking of the problem of refugees, or of hunger and the spread of diseases. Neither are we saying of the violence that will follow—something like pieces of peace.

Man has forgotten the past; and in the words of George Santayana he is “condemned to repeat it.” What a pity! Yet, some biologists call him Homo Sapien—man, the wise. Show me your wisdom.

So, when you see man, do not call him “the most wicked of God’s creations.” For he does not even know that he cannot run away from the “last eclipse.” Neither is he going to celebrate it. The earth is a closed place. And NASA does not even have a space ship right now to fly us out of here (suppose there is another home in outer space). Rather, call man “the most foolish of God`s creations”. Or isn’t he?

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The object of the 2006 election is to win. The message to lead Democrats to victory stares them in the face. For some odd reason, candidates thus far appear afraid to employ it. The simple definition of the message is, “We’re fighting many wars today, but first we need to win the (fill in the blank) war at home,” War is the message. The longer explanation is rooted in the inherent selfishness of the American soul.

Americans enjoy giving. History is full of examples of our collective benevolence. But it is critical that we see results from our deeds. We need to feel good. Quid pro quo. The concept of the quiet benefactor has escaped most of us. Recently a 2006 Olympic gold medal winner donated his winnings to charity. This is indeed noble, but the fact he needed to accept television interviews to be praised for his kindness demonstrates the American concept of charity today. What is in it for me?

Another core ingredient of the American soul today is our belief that we are superior. To us, our collective population is of greater value than the collective populations outside our borders. Call it Nationalism. This is the core “feeling” which must be harnessed in this election by the Democrats. How do you write the message that a population outside our borders is benefiting greater than the population inside our borders due to the charity of middle America’s hard earned tax dollars? The foreign wars will not enough motivation to vote in the midterm elections. America will need to be inspired.

I sense most American’s believe the threshold level of having spent way too much money on foreign wars has been crossed. It is a number so large, the average American cannot reconcile how it looks, but it leaves them with an uncomfortable feeling.

Regardless of our feelings on the situation, war will be the key “term” in this election. America supports the troops and Democrats need to stay thousands of miles away for any comments suggesting the war is not acceptable. In each American heart, the feeling about this war is personal. The ease in twisting the words of any politician who attempts to placate the anti war crowd will assure defeat. Let it go. Democrats must take advantage of discussing the “wars” they can win.

My advice is to find three examples of local wars we have lost such as be child hunger, medical insurance or highway funding. Issues Joe American can touch. Issues Joe American can reconcile in his mind. Issues Joe American believes are more important to spend our money on, than the foreign wars. These local wars must not be described in a manner that challenges Joe America’s belief on the foreign wars. Be very careful!

The Republicans have done the Democrats a big favor by over using the “war” issue. Now all the Democrats need do is talk about the wars that need to be fought at home. The word “war” if properly delivered by the Democrats will take on a double meaning. America has tired of the foreign war. Show them a war at home they can win.

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The North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented on January 1, 1994. An extension of the previous Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989, NAFTA is the second largest free trade area in the world. The agreement intends to limit restrictions on trade in many industries and phase out tariffs in a period of 14 years. While NAFTA has created greater trade in North America, there still are concerns on how well the trade agreement is accomplishing its goal of deregulation. These concerns gained some validity with the recent issuance of tariffs in the steel tubing market in Mexico.

After a careful investigation, Mexico’s Economy of Ministry came to the conclusion that the United States was dumping their steel tubing products
into their country. The term “dumping” is used to denote any product that is sold to another country for a lower price than in its home market. By many, dumping is believed to be unfair competition. With the 469% increase in U.S. steel tubing imports from 1999 and 2001(reported by Mexico’s Economy of Ministry) it appears that there was some definite foul play occurring in the industry. Mexico’s Economy of Ministry felt that tariffs were needed on U.S. steel tubing in order to stop the effects of dumping and to help the economy in Mexico.

On May 27, 2005 Mexico issued tariffs that will raise prices of U.S. tubing anywhere from 7 percent to 25 percent in hopes of leveling out the playing field in the steel industry. A statement made by the Ministry declared that “imports from the United States take place under conditions of price discrimination and
harm national production of similar products.” This event has proven that NAFTA has not cured all our problems with trade and is still struggling in deregulation. In result of trying to save jobs in the steel industry, both countries have brought us farther away from free trade. Dumping and tariffs are both activities that will keep the countries away from free trade.

The greatest controversy is that trade has not really become more fair at all with NAFTA but has even possibly become more unfair. For instance, it is being argued that while trying to stimulate and protect trade in North America, NAFTA is inhibiting trade with other countries such as China. Another problem is it looks as if growth is occurring only in the northern states of Mexico with little effect in the southern states. The trade agreement has been blamed for the increased concentration of wealth in the United States and Mexico in the last ten years.
While Mexico’s overall economy has picked up since NAFTA, it appears that the richer are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. The workers in Mexico have experienced a 20% decrease in pay since the implementation of NAFTA. It seems that NAFTA is helping out corporations without helping the people.

As seen from the recent steel tubing example, NAFTA still has a lot of room for improvement. We need to be aware of the term “free trade” and know that this means that products cannot be dumped to other countries like steel tubing to Mexico. Because of this dumping, the country has to compensate with tariffs and this brings us even farther away from free trade. While the intention of NAFTA to stimulate the North American economy is a good cause, it has to be done in the right way. We cannot sacrifice the people’s well
being for the sake of the economy. Revisions to NAFTA need to be created to ensure that free trade will exist between the countries.

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It’s sad to say, but until today, I had no idea why there are so many people protesting the proposed immigration bill. Since there is such a buzz, I decided to do a little research. I had to ask the question, other than a cool way to skip a few days of school, what is this all about?

First Things First. 500,000 people don’t show up anywhere unless they have been invited, there’s food involved, or both. So, this is where I decided to start my investigation. Who invited all of these people?

Be Very, Very Quiet. Amazingly, the major news organizations did not publish who organized these protests. In fact, organizers were not even mentioned in most of the articles. In the articles that did mention organizers, they were not named. Isn’t that strange?

Birds of a Feather. The initial clue was when Hillary Clinton came out strongly against the immigration bill. In an article on MSNBC, she said the bill, “would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.”

Generally, when Senator Clinton comes out strongly in favor of something, I am strongly opposed. This strong showing of support pointed me in a direction. Then, listening to Michael Savage on the radio, the answer came to me. An organization called International ANSWER was one of the major organizers for this event.

According to Wikipedia, International ANSWER “is a radical anti-American, anti-capitalist protest organization which has taken a leading role in the post-9/11 anti-war movement.”

What Do You Think Now? Now, it all makes sense. While we are a nation of immigrants, we are also a nation of laws. It is critical in these times to always show compassion to people. As we all know, there are legal channels for people from other countries to become American citizens, and we should continue to welcome legal immigrants with open arms. However, if people from other countries want to start their relationship with America by breaking the law, why should we support that behavior? If they are willing to break that law, would any law be immune?

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The report of the Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (Personal Justice Denied) makes no mention of MAGIC intelligence or the men who penetrated the Japanese Foreign Ministry code, an event that had a major impact on the conduct of WW II. After a two-year so-called “study” and twenty hearings, nine commissioners and their 34-member staff concluded that decisions made regarding ethnic Japanese in WW II were based on hysteria, racism and a failure of political leadership. They are wrong on all counts. Is there anyone on this planet who belives them? Their report is so flawed that the Dept. of Justice advised Congress not to accept it. In spite of this, the report is being distributed for use in schools. Trying to get the public’s attention on this is about as productive as winking at a girl in the dark.

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Retired high school science teacher.

Three years ago I published a book of short stories in Israel. The publishing house belongs to Israel’s leading (and exceedingly wealthy) newspaper. I signed a contract which stated that I am entitled to receive 8% of the income from the sales of the book after commissions payable to distributors, shops, etc. A few months later (1997), I won the coveted Prize of the Ministry of Education (for short prose). The prize money (a few thousand DMs) was snatched by the publishing house on the legal grounds that all the money generated by the book belongs to them because they own the copyright.

In the mythology generated by capitalism to pacify the masses, the myth of intellectual property stands out. It goes like this : if the rights to intellectual property were not defined and enforced, commercial entrepreneurs would not have taken on the risks associated with publishing books, recording records, and preparing multimedia products. As a result, creative people will have suffered because they will have found no way to make their works accessible to the public. Ultimately, it is the public which pays the price of piracy, goes the refrain.

But this is factually untrue. In the USA there is a very limited group of authors who actually live by their pen. Only select musicians eke out a living from their noisy vocation (most of them rock stars who own their labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do just that) and very few actors come close to deriving subsistence level income from their profession. All these can no longer be thought of as mostly creative people. Forced to defend their intellectual property rights and the interests of Big Money, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Schwarzenegger and Grisham are businessmen at least as much as they are artists.

Economically and rationally, we should expect that the costlier a work of art is to produce and the narrower its market - the more emphasized its intellectual property rights.

Consider a publishing house.

A book which costs 50,000 DM to produce with a potential audience of 1000 purchasers (certain academic texts are like this) - would have to be priced at a a minimum of 100 DM to recoup only the direct costs. If illegally copied (thereby shrinking the potential market as some people will prefer to buy the cheaper illegal copies) - its price would have to go up prohibitively to recoup costs, thus driving out potential buyers. The story is different if a book costs 10,000 DM to produce and is priced at 20 DM a copy with a potential readership of 1,000,000 readers. Piracy (illegal copying) should in this case be more readily tolerated as a marginal phenomenon.

This is the theory. But the facts are tellingly different. The less the cost of production (brought down by digital technologies) - the fiercer the battle against piracy. The bigger the market - the more pressure is applied to clamp down on samizdat entrepreneurs.

Governments, from China to Macedonia, are introducing intellectual property laws (under pressure from rich world countries) and enforcing them belatedly. But where one factory is closed on shore (as has been the case in mainland China) - two sprout off shore (as is the case in Hong Kong and in Bulgaria).

But this defies logic : the market today is global, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income of movie studios emanates from video cassette sales), the speedy recouping of the investment virtually guaranteed. Moreover, piracy thrives in very poor markets in which the population would anyhow not have paid the legal price. The illegal product is inferior to the legal copy (it comes with no literature, warranties or support). So why should the big manufacturers, publishing houses, record companies, software companies and fashion houses worry?

The answer lurks in history. Intellectual property is a relatively new notion. In the near past, no one considered knowledge or the fruits of creativity (art, design) as ‘patentable’, or as someone’s ‘property’. The artist was but a mere channel through which divine grace flowed. Texts, discoveries, inventions, works of art and music, designs - all belonged to the community and could be replicated freely. True, the chosen ones, the conduits, were honoured but were rarely financially rewarded. They were commissioned to produce their works of art and were salaried, in most cases. Only with the advent of the Industrial Revolution were the embryonic precursors of intellectual property introduced but they were still limited to industrial designs and processes, mainly as embedded in machinery. The patent was born. The more massive the market, the more sophisticated the sales and marketing techniques, the bigger the financial stakes - the larger loomed the issue of intellectual property. It spread from machinery to designs, processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, software embedded in hardware, processes, business methods, and even unto genetic material.

Intellectual property rights - despite their noble title - are less about the intellect and more about property. This is Big Money : the markets in intellectual property outweigh the total industrial production in the world. The aim is to secure a monopoly on a specific work. This is an especially grave matter in academic publishing where small- circulation magazines do not allow their content to be quoted or published even for non-commercial purposes. The monopolists of knowledge and intellectual products cannot allow competition anywhere in the world - because theirs is a world market. A pirate in Skopje is in direct competition with Bill Gates. When he sells a pirated Microsoft product - he is depriving Microsoft not only of its income, but of a client (=future income), of its monopolistic status (cheap copies can be smuggled into other markets), and of its competition-deterring image (a major monopoly preserving asset). This is a threat which Microsoft cannot tolerate. Hence its efforts to eradicate piracy - successful in China and an utter failure in legally-relaxed Russia.

But what Microsoft fails to understand is that the problem lies with its pricing policy - not with the pirates. When faced with a global marketplace, a company can adopt one of two policies: either to adjust the price of its products to a world average of purchasing power - or to use discretionary differential pricing (as pharmaceutical companies were forced to do in Brazil and South Africa). A Macedonian with an average monthly income of 160 USD clearly cannot afford to buy the Encyclopaedia Encarta Deluxe. In America, 50 USD is the income generated in 4 hours of an average job. In Macedonian terms, therefore, the Encarta is 20 times more expensive. Either the price should be lowered in the Macedonian market - or an average world price should be fixed which will reflect an average global purchasing power.

Something must be done about it not only from the economic point of view. Intellectual products are very price sensitive and highly elastic. Lower prices will be more than compensated for by a much higher sales volume. There is no other way to explain the pirate industries : evidently, at the right price a lot of people are willing to buy these products. High prices are an implicit trade-off favouring small, elite, select, rich world clientele. This raises a moral issue : are the children of Macedonia less worthy of education and access to the latest in human knowledge and creation ?

Two developments threaten the future of intellectual property rights. One is the Internet. Academics, fed up with the monopolistic practices of professional publications - already publish on the web in big numbers. I published a few book on the Internet and they can be freely downloaded by anyone who has a computer or a modem. The full text of electronic magazines, trade journals, billboards, professional publications, and thousands of books is available online. Hackers even made sites available from which it is possible to download whole software and multimedia products. It is very easy and cheap to publish on the Internet, the barriers to entry are virtually nil. Web pages are hosted free of charge, and authoring and publishing software tools are incorporated in most word processors and browser applications. As the Internet acquires more impressive sound and video capabilities it will proceed to threaten the monopoly of the record companies, the movie studios and so on.

The second development is also technological. The oft-vindicated Moore’s law predicts the doubling of computer memory capacity every 18 months. But memory is only one aspect of computing power. Another is the rapid simultaneous advance on all technological fronts. Miniaturization and concurrent empowerment by software tools have made it possible for individuals to emulate much larger scale organizations successfully. A single person, sitting at home with 5000 USD worth of equipment can fully compete with the best products of the best printing houses anywhere. CD-ROMs can be written on, stamped and copied in house. A complete music studio with the latest in digital technology has been condensed to the dimensions of a single chip. This will lead to personal publishing, personal music recording, and the to the digitization of plastic art. But this is only one side of the story.

The relative advantage of the intellectual property corporation does not consist exclusively in its technological prowess. Rather it lies in its vast pool of capital, its marketing clout, market positioning, sales organization, and distribution network.

Nowadays, anyone can print a visually impressive book, using the above-mentioned cheap equipment. But in an age of information glut, it is the marketing, the media campaign, the distribution, and the sales that determine the economic outcome.

This advantage, however, is also being eroded.

First, there is a psychological shift, a reaction to the commercialization of intellect and spirit. Creative people are repelled by what they regard as an oligarchic establishment of institutionalized, lowest common denominator art and they are fighting back.

Secondly, the Internet is a huge (200 million people), truly cosmopolitan market, with its own marketing channels freely available to all. Even by default, with a minimum investment, the likelihood of being seen by surprisingly large numbers of consumers is high.

I published one book the traditional way - and another on the Internet. In 50 months, I have received 6500 written responses regarding my electronic book. Well over 500,000 people read it (my Link Exchange meter registered c. 2,000,000 impressions since November 1998). It is a textbook (in psychopathology) - and 500,000 readers is a lot for this kind of publication. I am so satisfied that I am not sure that I will ever consider a traditional publisher again. Indeed, my last book was published in the very same way.

The demise of intellectual property has lately become abundantly clear. The old intellectual property industries are fighting tooth and nail to preserve their monopolies (patents, trademarks, copyright) and their cost advantages in manufacturing and marketing.

But they are faced with three inexorable processes which are likely to render their efforts vain:

The Newspaper Packaging

Print newspapers offer package deals of cheap content subsidized by advertising. In other words, the advertisers pay for content formation and generation and the reader has no choice but be exposed to commercial messages as he or she studies the content.

This model - adopted earlier by radio and television - rules the internet now and will rule the wireless internet in the future. Content will be made available free of all pecuniary charges. The consumer will pay by providing his personal data (demographic data, consumption patterns and preferences and so on) and by being exposed to advertising. Subscription based models are bound to fail.

Thus, content creators will benefit only by sharing in the advertising cake. They will find it increasingly difficult to implement the old models of royalties paid for access or of ownership of intellectual property.

Disintermediation

A lot of ink has been spilt regarding this important trend. The removal of layers of brokering and intermediation - mainly on the manufacturing and marketing levels - is a historic development (though the continuation of a long term trend).

Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet or downloadable MP3 files will render the CD obsolete. The internet also provides a venue for the marketing of niche products and reduces the barriers to entry previously imposed by the need to engage in costly marketing (”branding”) campaigns and manufacturing activities.

This trend is also likely to restore the balance between artist and the commercial exploiters of his product. The very definition of “artist” will expand to include all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to “brand” oneself and to auction off one’s services, ideas, products, designs, experience, etc. This is a return to pre-industrial times when artisans ruled the economic scene. Work stability will vanish and work mobility will increase in a landscape of shifting allegiances, head hunting, remote collaboration and similar labour market trends.

Market Fragmentation

In a fragmented market with a myriad of mutually exclusive market niches, consumer preferences and marketing and sales channels - economies of scale in manufacturing and distribution are meaningless. Narrowcasting replaces broadcasting, mass customization replaces mass production, a network of shifting affiliations replaces the rigid owned-branch system. The decentralized, intrapreneurship-based corporation is a late response to these trends. The mega-corporation of the future is more likely to act as a collective of start-ups than as a homogeneous, uniform (and, to conspiracy theorists, sinister) juggernaut it once was.

About The Author

Sam Vaknin is the author of “Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited” and “After the Rain - How the West Lost the East”. He is a columnist in “Central Europe Review”, United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest defining features of a
civilised society. Those of us living in the free world can look
upon our democracy with pride and the knowledge that we have the
right to speak our minds. We are free to express our opinions,
unlike in countries such as Afghanistan where basic rights are
stifled.

Yet how free though is our freedom of speech? There are still
topics in life where we are restricted. Legal requirements to
stop people talking on matters of national security, censoring
upon the internet to protect the innocence of children and laws
on slander to name just a few. Are these an obstruction to our
freedom of speech or in the better interests of society? This is
the area where censorship applies, and as in all cases there are
examples of good and bad censorship.

A person should have the right to express their views. This is a
basic human right. However, does this apply to children? At an
early stage a child can be very easily influenced: if we were to
adhere to absolute freedom from censorship, would tobacco
companies be allowed to advertise in primary schools? An extreme
case, but one that adequately illustrates how freedom from
censorship can be a dangerous thing. We like to believe we are
in a world where innocence can be protected as long as possible,
so censors can play an important part in regulating at least
part of a child’s intake. Parents also play a much more
important role - a film may be rated eighteen and over, but if a
parent chooses to show it to a child, the censors are not the
ones at fault.

On the other hand we have the cases where many people believe
that censorship went too far. In Britain, there was a law
banning the mention of homosexuality in schools. In denying
teachers the opportunity to explain to children the different
lifestyle choices people can make they were promoting
homophobia. “Gay” is a common insult to school children, and any
teenager who has decided that they are gay can be bullied
terribly by their contemporaries. If understanding was taught at
an earlier level a lot of this could be avoided and the law has
since been repealed.

A Government can censor the press, but it is very difficult to
censor the people. The power of word of mouth is astounding,
with sometimes great or deadly results. Trying to control how a
person thinks is often against human nature. We all think that
we aim to be the best kind of person that we can be, but almost
everyone has at some point made a malicious comment of some
sort. As we grow older we have to become our own personal
censors as we learn to think before we speak.

How does one person’s freedom of speech affect others? Freedom
of speech is a great concept if people were always to speak true
and thoughtfully, but it is well known the dangers that rumours
can cause. In a case such as known paedophiles, the Government
refuse to inform local people of their presence in the area if
they have been paroled. Several however have been found and
harassed so badly there have been several instances of suicide.
In circumstances like these censorship could mean the loss of
innocence of children… or the death of a human being. Who can
say if someone has been reformed? Certainly no one upon this
earth, so censorship and lack of censorship can both have deadly
results.

Who is to censor the censors? It is a difficult process, as any
decisions have to be voted through by boards of directors or
politicians. It is hoped that there is some common sense
employed, but it is always a very fine line between protecting
innocence and privacy, and stifling freedom of speech. There are
no clear right and wrong solutions, and one question very often
merely leads to another.

I am proud to live in a free country. I believe that censorship
is an essential part of that freedom, for the protection of the
people, but must always be carried out with immense
consideration.

The Protocols may not be genuine but that does not mean they do not correctly state the plan or policy of the Priory and other elite planning cadre.

The whole issue of the Cold War and JFK or the Allende assassinations that are now well known, are just the tip of the iceberg. Jim Marrs brings us some great insights in this quote that you MUST pay close attention to if you think you want to bring children into this world. Former CIA Director Woolsey has admitted America intends to continue the plan of World Domination.

“Added to these incomprehensible orders restricting military options, was the amazing fact that Russian commanders were running the conflict on both sides. Under the agreement at Yalta and due to their supplying North Korea with military hardware and technology, Soviet military officers were largely in control of the war. Author Epperson; cited a Pentagon press release which identified two Soviet officers as being in charge of movements across the Thirty-eight Parallel. One, a General Vasilev, actually was overheard giving the order to attack on June 25, 1951.

General Vasilev’s chain of command reached from Korea to Moscow to the UN Undersecretary General for Political and Security Council Affairs. At this same time, General Macarthur’s chain of command went through President Truman to the UN Undersecretary General for Political and Security Council Affairs, an office held at that time by Russian Constantine Zinchenko. This meant that Soviet officers were overseeing the North Korean war strategy while reporting back to a fellow Soviet officer in the same UN office that coordinated the allied war effort.

‘In effect, the Communists were directing both sides of the war.’ wrote author Griffin. What past conspiracy authors failed to consider was the evidence that Communist Russia was financed and controlled from the beginning by the inner circle of America’s modern secret societies.

The war finally settled into a stalemate which ended with an armistice signed on July 27, 1953, six months after General Dwight Eisenhower had become president of the U.S.

{It is a MUST that all people read his exit speech and warnings about the armaments manufacturing complex. It is shown in part on the scroll leading in the Oliver Stone’s movie! Then you should read Reagan’s exit speech to see what he refers to as the ‘Iron Triangle’ and the comparison he makes with the Soviet Politburo etc.}

Macarthur, noting that for the first time in its military history, the United States had failed to achieve victory, {Not true if you look to Osceola and the Seminoles. My father credited Osceola as one of the greatest military minds the world ever saw. My father was a member of the ‘black market’ under Vanier and the U.S. ‘black market’ was run [in the field] by Eisenhower. The real ‘black market’ is the government/armaments manufacturer/bureaucracy that Reagan hones our focus upon. Baruch is a key element or paladin in this effort. We will see the Thuleans of Prince Bernhard who created the Bilderbergs shortly.} was later to state, ‘Never before has this nation been engaged in mortal combat with a hostile power without military objective, without policy other than restrictions governing operations, or indeed even formally recognizing a state of war.’ This set a precedent in the United States which continues to haunt us to this day.

But was there again a hidden purpose to this seemingly pointless conflict, one that reached into the upper circles of the secret societies? A 1952 ‘Foreign Affairs’ article explained, ‘The meaning of our experience in Korea as I see it, is that we have made historic progress toward the establishment of a viable system of collective security.’ So Korea was another step forward in realizing the CFR {Council on Foreign Relations which is associated with Georgetown University and included participation of foreign ministers from all free world nations.} goals of one-world government backed by a unified military command as with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). {And in line with Keynesian type economics of waste and war.} CFR member Dean Acheson later admitted, ‘The only reason I told the President to fight in Korea was to validate NATO.’

Both NATO and the United Nations resulted from the most momentous event of the twentieth century - World War II - and once again the diligent researcher finds the unmistakable imprint of the secret societies. {Nazism was not just in Germany when viewed as tyranny exerted by small groups intent on order and control.}

RISE OF THE NAZI CULT

As hard to believe as it may be for Americans brought up on wartime propaganda films and publications devoted to war technology and battles, World War II was largely the result of infighting between secret occult societies composed of wealthy businessmen that eventually led to international tensions that provoked open warfare.

As in other conflicts, the manipulation and influence of these societies is found in the origins and finances of the war, not on the battlefields {Where cannon and earlier sword fodder play a small role in the debate.}. Abundant evidence now exists indicating that World War II was brought about by agents and members of secret societies connected to the Illuminati and Freemasonry in both Germany and Britain. It was in this “good war”, that the older mystic societies seeking freedom from both church and state merged with the modern secret societies concerned primarily with wealth, power and control.

‘Sir Winston Churchill himself was insistent that the occultism of the Nazi Party should not under any circumstances be revealed to the general public.’ wrote author Trevor Ravenscroft, who claimed to have worked closely with Dr. Walter Johannes Stein, a confidential adviser to Churchill. {I’ve seen a photo taken at Blenheim Palace of the investiture of Churchill into a later day revival or plagiarization of the Druids. I believe it was in The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis. Churchill is also of Iroquois blood and we’ve developed the 90 degree change in hairstyle of the Iroquois to high Druid in other places as we try to show how culturally connected the world truly was and is.} ‘The failure of the Nuremberg Trials to identify the nature of the evil at work behind the outer facade of National Socialism convinced him that another three decades must pass before a large enough readership would be present to comprehend the initiation rites and black magic practices of the inner core of Nazi leadership.’

This remarkable Statement was corroborated by Airey Neave, one of the postwar Nuremberg prosecutors, who said the occult aspect of Nazi activities was ruled inadmissable because the tribunal feared both the psychological and spiritual implications in the Western nations. {Can you say mind-control and deceit by their own efforts starting at Tavistock and including Crowley and Hubbard as we’ve shown?} They also thought that such beliefs, so contrary to public rationalism, might be used to mount an insanity defense for Nazi leaders.

{And if today you find soldiers with implants or thought cloning psy-ops do things they wouldn’t normally do, should they be held responsible? The real possibility of the use of these more effective technologies upon unsuspecting citizens or Scientologists has dramatically impacted the life of my younger brother and my niece.}

History identifies Adolf Hitler as a dominant figure in the war, so to understand the involvement of the secret societies, one must first understand Hitler and the origins of his Nazi Party. Many books, articles, and even TV specials have been produced documenting the ties between Hitler’s Nazis and occult societies, but few have made it plain that Hitler was their creation.

To fully understand how and why Hitler was created, a close study must be made of the secret groups operating around Hitler as well as their connections to military intelligence services.

{And the fallout of their transfer to the U.S., and South America as well as the scientists like von Neumann. Admiral Canaris and K-2 make a real interesting continuing connection.}

Adolf Hitler’s Nazis were far more than simply a political movement. They saw themselves leading a quasi-religious movement born out of secret organizations whose goals were the same as those found in the Illuminati {Bavarian of Weisthaupt.} and Freemasonry. “They were a cult… (and) as with any typical cult, its chief enemies were other cults,” noted author Peter Levenda in a well-researched book dealing with Nazis and the occult.

Hitler himself acknowledged this by sharing, ‘Anyone who interprets National Socialism merely as a political movement knows almost nothing about it. It is more than religion; it is the determination to create a new man…. A version of the Protocols first appeared in 1864 in France in a book entitled Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu or the Politics of Machiavelli in the Nineteenth Century by a Contemporary. It was written anonymously by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and taken as a political satire against the Machiavelli-inspired machinations of Napoleon III. Joly reportedly was a friend of Victor Hugo and both were members of the Order of the Rose-Croix or Rosicrucians, a secret society that may have influenced his writing. Joly’s identity was discovered, and he received a fifteen-month prison sentence for his impertinence and his book was almost forgotten.

In the mid-1890s Joly’s obscure book was rewritten and augmented with anti-Semitic material on orders of the Russian Ochrana, the czar’s secret police. It was added to the work of a religious writer named Sergei Nilus and published to coincide with the founding of the first Zionist movement (seeking a return to Palestine) at the 1897 World Congress of Jewry in Basel, Switzerland. {It is important to note the previously mentioned work of the Secretary of the Priory of Sion - one Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair at Lake Leman or Geneva at the time of the Marshall Plan and Baruch, Frank Lloyd Wright and young Kissinger. This is also the central headquarters for arbitrage today and the Rothschild money for a VERY long time.} The Protocols were included as an appendix to Nilus’s book, partially titled The Anti-Christ is Near at Hand.

The objective was to relieve public pressure on the czar by portraying Russian revolutionaries as pawns of an international Jewish conspiracy. The document purported that a clique of Jews {Not necessarily simply of the original tribes of Israel as we noted in The Lost Tribes of Israel.} and Freemasons would join forces to create a one-world government by means of liberalism and socialism, {Hegelian and technocratic} a conspiratorial theory still alive in some quarters.

{But the full extent of the issue is not stated. For example do these authors know the Eire-yanns or people of ‘Eire’ and the people who followed Finn and the Fianna are the Aryan and Phoenician ‘Red Heads’ who include the Red Headed League of Megalith Builders, the de Danaan and the Phoenician Emporiae owners who traveled the whole world before the ‘nightmare’ of Empire?}

The Protocols still chills readers with its prophetic description of the methodology for tyranny by a few. Its message fits quite well with the elitist outlook of men like Cecil Rhodes and the Rothschilds. “We are the chosen, we are the only true men. Our minds give off the true power of the spirit; the intelligence of the rest of the world is merely instinctive and animal. They can see, but they cannot foresee; their inventions are merely corporeal. Does it not follow that nature herself has predestined us to dominate the whole world?” stated the Protocols. ‘Outwardly, however, in our ‘official’ utterances, we shall adopt an opposite procedure, and always do our best to appear honorable and cooperative. {De Vere says this code between them is not the code for those who are literally “food for their table”.} A statesman’s words do not have to agree with his acts. If we pursue these principles, the governments and peoples which we have thus prepared will take our IOUs for cash. One day they will accept us as benefactors and saviors of the human race. {This is what de Vere says we should allow his Sarkeny Rend Rosicrucians to do when he offers to return to take the full authority for governing us. Gardner is more circumspect but the same message is there if you look. We must be VERY careful because de Vere wrote the foreword to Gardner’s books and they are engaged in very ‘Obscene Rituals’ such as the Skull & Bones do with need of melatonin from human pineal glands.} If any State dared to resist us, if its neighbors make common cause with it against us, we will unleash a world war.’

{They had done this for years before the First World War. Arts and Entertainment did a documentary on Rhodes showing he created the Boer War. By not paying debts to those the ‘octopus’ financed, many nobles found themselves at war for centuries and perhaps all the way back to the Trojan World War.}

The Protocols goes on to explain that the goal of world domination will be accomplished by controlling how the public thinks by controlling what they hear, by creating new conflicts or restoring old orders, by spreading hunger, destitution and plague, {I’ve shown good evidence that Columbus actually used biologics such as smallpox and the Black Death. It is accepted fact that it was done at Fort Pitt. The Flagellants did it to Europe and tried to blame Jews they burned in ghettoes. I have it admitted by Churchill, too; but that should not surprise anyone who knows he gassed the people of Iraq, as Colonial Secretary.} by seducing and distracting the youth. “By all these methods we shall so wear down the nations that they will be forced to offer us world domination,” they proclaim.

Some of the twenty-four Protocols bear a brief summary. If any part of them are to be believed, they provide a clear connection to Freemasonry and to the Ancient Mysteries as well as an amazing road map for world conquest. Because the Protocols were rewritten and attributed to Jews before World War I with the intent of inciting anti-Jewish sentiment, their use of the term ‘goyim’, a demeaning Jewish word for non-Jews, has been substituted with the term ‘masses’. Pertinent points include:

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