News for July 18 and beyond...

[Andra_Jenny]

Diane Alden is one smart lady…
http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/7/17/133821

an excerpt

At the rate our government and certain special interests are going, those who might someday want to build, own or live on the land will not be able to do so. The reason is that land will have been legislated, set aside and regulated out of existence. Much of it will have been turned over to the command and control of a super-state bureaucracy that will make promises. In the end these promises, like the promises the great white father made to the Indians, will be broken. The land will be offered to the rich, to corporations and to international control in one form or another, or given in tribute to the well-connected or some new green religious group as a bribe to keep them quiet. It is happening now.
Mostly it will mean that this country will no longer be sovereign nor its people truly free.
People in the high-rises in big cities, or those who live in suburbs outside Boston and San Francisco, have not been touched by the great change in land laws – yet. They may have regulations to contend with, but their livelihoods do not depend on growing food or raising livestock or trees or digging in mines for iron, gold or minerals.
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Life is stories. Stories about real people, people whose lives are not statistics but real things, with real joys and real pain and defeat. I heard a lot of them at the conference. I heard dozens of stories from real people. The humanity of the stories can crush you if you let it, because so many of the stories are the same at their core. Stories of families who have worked the land for generations. Stories of new laws and new uses and ways to look at the land. Stories about heartfelt attempts to obey laws that are handed down from people who don't know the difference between one place and another and one person and another.





"Heaven is a fiction we construct around real places, a way of imagining that says my time and stories are not meaningless."– William Kittredge

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Political correctness

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/17/191932.shtml
Barry Farber
Tuesday, July 17, 2001
During the Korean War a group of American prisoners was marched into a classroom every day and lectured by their Chinese communist captors on the evils of America. Those sessions originated the term "brainwashing."
One day the Chinese lecturer had an especially triumphant smile on his face.
"Look at this!" he fairly barked, and held up what looked like a cocoon-shaped object made of something like papier-mache.
"This proves you Americans are committing germ warfare. Your denials are now exposed as a lie. Your airmen dropped tens of thousands of these poison pellets yesterday all over North Korea. Why, there's enough poison in this one little capsule to kill every man, woman, and child in a Korean city the size of ..."
He never finished the sentence. At that instant an American GI in the front row jumped up, grabbed the pellet out of his hand, and – in front of the whole group – SWALLOWED it!
He knew we weren't waging germ warfare, and he wanted to slam that particular morsel of communist propaganda back into communism's face. Mission accomplished. It used to be I wanted a poster with that man's face to put on my game room wall.
That's not enough anymore.
We've got to locate that man and make him president!
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That little monster called political correctness, once cute, has grown. It now has this society locked in a full nelson. When the military meekly consents to its feminization, when the sucker fish is treated preferentially to the Oregon farmer in the allocation of scarce water, when a mother who drowns her five children enjoys media sympathy, when the suggestion that it might be a good idea to have borders and control who enters is viewed as a hate crime, when policemen doing their jobs are accused of killing members of minorities deliberately, when an innocent office compliment can become a sexual harrassment suit, when the telling of an ethnic joke in front of the wrong people can knock a demonstrably unbigoted candidate out of the race, when the laudably commonsensical proposal to uphold English as a national language is viewed as archie-bunkerism against all other languages, when Western civilization is trashed on college campuses as fascist and oppressive, when the Boy Scouts are out and the Hell's Angels are in, and when the so-called conservatives – the Republicans – content themselves with trying to appear only slightly less in favor of these affronts than the Democrats, it's no longer "political correctness."

 

[Andra_Jenny]

What have I been saying about the economy for the last, almost year…

U.S. Slowdown Going Global
Connectivity in World Economy Hurting Many Nations
By Steven Pearlstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 18, 2001; Page A01
It's official: The economic slowdown that began last year in the manufacturing and tech sectors of the United States has now spread around the world, creating a synchronized downturn for the first time in a decade.
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One reason economists and policymakers are so nervous about the global economy is that they have already been unpleasantly surprised by the speed and degree to which the slowdown has spread.
"We don't yet fully understand all the elements in the international area which are affecting the industrial countries," Greenspan acknowledged in congressional testimony last month. Whatever happens in the U.S. economy "tends to have a significantly larger impact on our trading partners" than in the past, he said. "And what is happening among our trading partners has a greater effect on the U.S. than we can readily understand."
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The most obvious has been the explosive growth of world trade, which now accounts for 25 percent of the world's economic output, double the percentage in 1970. Much of it involves the United States. Last year, according to Morgan Stanley economist Stephen Roach, exports to the United States accounted for 25 percent of Mexico's economy, 32 percent of Canada's and 40 percent of the growth in Asian countries outside of Japan. Not surprisingly, those are the countries that have been most directly affected by the U.S. slowdown.
"The world has simply become too dependent on the U.S.," Roach said.


http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9183-2001Jul17.html

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Just saw on AP Breaking News

Despite greater diversity, the number of segregated schools is growing.


I would also like to add segregated graduations at colleges and housing and studies/curriculum.


Get the idea that someone is increasingly un-American?