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Die USA nutzen die Ausfuhrverbote in den Ostblock auch dazu, sich Vorteile im internationalen Wettbewerb zu verschaffen

Eine zweischneidige Waffe

Die neue Cocom-Liste soll den Osthandel noch stärker reglementieren

Was der Pariser Geheimclub „Cocom” in den letzten Wochen und Monaten wirklich beschlossen hat, wissen bislang nur wenige Eingeweihte. Sicher ist nur eines: auf amerikanischen Druck hin wird die Liste jener Technologie-Neuheiten, die künftig für den Ostblock Tabu sein sollen, umfangreicher denn je. Ein deutscher Ministerialer, der Bonn in Paris vertritt: „Es wird alles sehr viel schlimmer als bisher.” . Mit den schlimmen Folgen jener Absprachen, die im. Cocom – dem Koordinierungsausschuß für Ost-West-Handelspolitik – von sechzehn Nato- Staaten und Japan getroffen werden, müssen jetzt insbesondere deutsche Hersteller von Dieselmotoren rechnen. Waren bisher nur Dieselmotoren für den Export in Ostblockstaaten gesperrt, die eindeutig militärischen Charakter haben, so sollen künftig auch solche unter das Ausfuhrverbot fallen, die in zivilen Fahrzeugen wie Baumaschinen und schweren Lkws verwendet werden. Hintergrund dieser Absicht sind angebliche Recherchen amerikanischer Geheimagenten. Die wollen herausgefunden haben, daß zivile Dieselmotoren .des deutschen Herstellers MTU-Friedrichshafen in Rumänien so umgebaut wurden, daß sie nun Panzer antreiben können.

Dem amerikanischen Ansinnen haben Frankreich, Japan und die Niederlande, also Länder, für deren Industrien der Export von Dieselmotoren kaum eine Rolle spielt, bereits zugestimmt. Noch ist zwar nicht ganz sicher, daß die Dieselmotoren endgültig auf die Verbotsliste gesetzt werden. Ein Mitglied der deutschen Verhandlungskommission fürchtet jedoch, daß dies kaum noch abzuwenden ist. Denn obwohl für alle Cocom-Beschlüsse Einstimmigkeit erforderlich ist, wird sich das Auswärtige Amt in Bonn wohl zu keinem Veto durchringen können.

Längst beschlossen und demnächst in Kraft sind jene Embargo-Positionen, die dem Ostblock die neuesten Errungenschaften der Computertechnologie vorenthalten sollen. In der Branche ist man sich einigj daß eine Überarbeitung der bislang geltenden Liste überfällig war, zumal sie Computer und Komponenten enthielt, die längst veraltet sind, neue Entwicklungen dagegen nur ungenügend berücksichtigte. Position 1565 der auf den Cocom-Abmachungen beruhenden neuen deutschen Liste umfaßt deshalb auch Mini-, Personalund Heimcomputer inklusive der dazugehörigen Software; aufgelistet wurden indes nur Rechner, deren militärische Verwendbarkeit unbestritten ist.

Schikanös oder pragmatisch?

Gerhard Reckel, Geschäftsführer des Bereichs Datenverarbeitung im Zentralverband der Elektrotechnischen Industrie (ZVEI) und ein Insider im Cocom-Geschäft: „Mit der neuen Liste können wir leben.” Der deutschen Branchenriese Siemens bestätigt dies ebenso wie die Abteilung.Büround Informationstechnik im Verband deutsche/ Maschinenund Anlagenbau (VDMA). Teeren Rechtsanwalt Günter Möller hofft, daß trotz alter militärischen Überlegungen der Imund Export auch in Zukunft nicht unnötig behindert wird, denn „73 Prozent unserer Produktion gehen in den Export”.

Auf eine pragmatische Handhabung der neuen Bestimmungen baut auch SEL in Stuttgart, eine Tochterfirma des US-Konzerns ITT. Ein Dreißig- Millionen-Geschäft, die Lieferung einer computergesteuerten Telephonanlage nach Ungarn, ist gegenwärtig wegen der Cocom-Regelung blockiert. Das Exportverbot für solche Anlagen ist allerdings kein Novum. Auch nach den bislang geltenden Regeln ist der Export solcher Technologien nur per Ausnahmegenehmigung möglich – und darüber müssen die 16 Cocom-Mitglieder in Paris einstimmig entscheiden. Günter Möller: „Es kommt daher jetzt sehr darauf an, wie die Ausfuhrliste und das Genehmigungsverfahren angewendet werden, ob schikanös oder dem Schitzzweck angemessen. Wenn allerdings handelspolitische Zwecke damit verbunden sind, dann wird es sehr gefährlich.”

Mit solchen Gefahren müssen Europäer und Japaner allerdings rechnen. Viele Exporteure jedenfalls haben die Erfahrung gemacht, daß die seit Jahren übliche Cocom-Praxis, Ausnahmegenehmigungen flexibel zu gewähren, sich stark gewandelt hat: „Ausnahmeanträgen stimmen die Amerikaner nicht mehr zu, selbst dann nicht, wenn der Exporteur nachweist, daß eine militärische Verwendung seiner Waren ausgeschlossen ist.”

Getreide wichtiger als Computer

Der SPD-Bundesgeschäftsführer Peter Glotz urteilt deshalb über den Geheimbund, in dem die USA fünfzehn westliche Industrienationen am Gängelband zu führen versuchen: „Cocom ist eher ein Instrument der wirtschaftlichen Konkurrenz Westeuropas und Japans als ein erfolgversprechendes Mittel zur Bekämpfung der Sowjetunion und ihrer militärischen Ambitionen.”

Unbestritten ist, daß sich die sowjetische Computertechnologie und Mikroelektronik heute erst auf einer Entwicklungsstufe befindet, die von den Amerikanern schon vor zehn Jahren erreicht worden ist. Eine Ende Juli vor der OECD veröffentlichte Studie über den Technologietransfer von West nach Ost weist aber auch nach, daß die sowjetischen Getreideimporte – überwiegend aus den USA übrigens – für die Wirtschaft der UdSSR eine größere Bedeutung haben als der Technologietransfer. Die Versuche der Reagan-Administration, sogar den Technologietransfer zwischen Amerika und den westlichen Verbündeten erheblich einzuschränken (ZEIT Nr. 33, „Keine Freiheit für das Wissen”) sind zudem ein Anzeichen dafür, daß es den Amerikanern nicht nur um die Rüstung geht, sondern daß sie auch ganz handfeste ökonomische Interessen verfolgen.

Aber auch da, wo es um angeblich riistungsrälevante Exporte geht, zeigen die US-Behörden – mal das Verteidigungsministerium, mal das Handelsministerium – einen ihre Verbündeten gslegentlich erschreckenden Eifer. So mußte die belgische Firma Pegard, eine Tochter von Voith-Heidenheim, auf Grund einer amerikanischen Intervention den Export einer Fräs-Bohrmaschine mit elektronischer Steuerung stoppen, die für die UdSSR bestimmt war. Nach den geltenden Cocom-Richtlinien ist die Ausfuhr in die Sowjetunion tatsächlich nur mit einer Ausnahmegenehmigung möglich. Nach der neuen – noch n:cht veröffentlichten – Embargo-Liste hätte die Firma Pegard die Bohrmaschine jedoch ohne Cocom- Ausnahme exportieren dürfen. Bei flexibler Handhabung der Cocom-Bestimmungen, wie sie früher üblich war, hätte der Export im Vorgriff auf die in diesem Fall vorgesehene Lockerung von der nationalen Ausfuhrbehörde Belgiens genehmigt werden können.

Sorgen bei der Exportwirtschaft weckte auch folgender Vorfall: Im Frühjahr, während der letzten Werkzeugmaschinen-Messe in Moskau, phetographierte der^Geschäftsführer des amerikanischen Werkzeugmaschinen-Verbandes die von den deutschen Herstellern ausgestellten Maschinen. Die Photos dienten ihm in den USA gegenüber den dortigen Nachrichtendiensten als Beweis dafür, daß die Bundesrepublik permanent gegen die Cocom-Bestimmungen verstoße. Erst nachdem die deutschen Firmen den USA eine lückenlose Dokumentation der ausgestellten Maschinen vorlegten, konnte der Vorwurf entkräftet werden.

Daß die Interpretation der Cocom-Regeln oft mehr den wirtschaftlichen Interessen der USA als sicherheitspolitischen Überlegungen folgt, läßt sich auch daran erkennen, daß die USA derzeit darauf drängen» die Cocom-Bestimmungen gegenüber der Volksrepublik China zu lockern, und zwar insbesondere für den Export von Werkzeugmaschinen. Bislang waren die amerikanischen Firmen daran wenig interessiert. Doch jetzt hat die Branche in China einen neuen, vielversprechenden Abnehmer entdeckt. Und ausgerechnet zu diesem Zeitpunkt treten die amerikanischen Behördenvertreter im Pariser Cocom für eine Lockerung der Export-Regeln gegenüber Peking ein.

Auf der anderen Seite – auch das paßt ins Bild – bestanden amerikanische Cocom-Unterhändler in Paris auf einer weiteren Verschärfung der Ausfuhrliste für Werkzeugmaschinen gegenüber allen übrigen kommunistischen Ländern. Das ist vor allem für die Bundesrepublik heikel, denn 24 Prozent des deutschen Werkzeugmaschinenexports gehen in den Ostblock. Besonders betroffen ist ein junger Zweig der Branche, in der sich Maschinenund Computertechnik immer stärker miteinander verzahnen – die Hersteller von Industrierobotern. Denn diese sollen aus Sicherheitsgründen auf die Embargo-Liste. Das gilt vor allem für sensorgesteuerte Roboter.

Tabu sollen für den Ostblock in Zukunft auch Anlagen, Ausrüstungen und Rohstoffe zur Herstellung von gedruckten Halbleitern sein, die als Schaltkreise in der Mikroelektronik verwendet werden.

Aber auch auf diesem Sektor denken die Amerikaner offensichtlich zunächst an sich selbst. Im vergangenen Jahr erhielt die Firma Plasma Technology, britischer Produzent von Anlagen zur Herstellung von Chips, keine Cocom-Genehmigung für die Ausfuhr von Chips nach China. Ein amerikanisches Konkurrenzunternehmen lieferte dann aber eine ähnliche Anlage an Peking, und zwar über eine schwedische Tochterfirma. Schweden gehört nicht zum Cocom-Geheimclub.

Deutschen Außenwirtschaftlem ist überdies aufgefallen: während US-Präsident Reagan seinen Gesprächspartnern in Peking Atomanlagen inklusive Material und Know-how versprach, und zwar ohne ausreichende Überwachung des Kernbrennstoffkreislaufs, wurde in Paris der Export von Anlagen für die Urananreicherung verschärft. Daß der verabredete deutsch-chinesische Technologietransfer – die Kraftwerkunion (KWU) plant zivile nukleare Anlagen in China – durch die Cocom- Verschärfung erschwert werden könnte, wird bei der KWU in Frankfurt allerdings mit der Bemerkung zurückgewiesen, daß China die Technologie der Urananreicherung längst beherrsche, wie die chinesischen Atbmbombenversuche bewiesen hätten. Prinzip Hoffnung?

Die tatsächlichen Unbillen des Exportgeschäfts mit den Ländern der kommunistischen weit werden oft erst dann deutlich, wenn es um die konkreten Details geht, wenn Position für Position geprüft werden-muß, was in der deutschen Aus^ fuhrliste auf Grund der Gocom-Abmachungen per Verordnung als verboten festgeschrieben ist. Ein Fachmann im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie: „Selbst wenn da bei den Abschlußsitzungen nur mal ein Komma falsch gesetzt wurde, kann das schon weitreichende Folgen haben.”

Für die meisten Verbandsvertreter in der deutschen Wirtschaft ist Cocom deshalb ein Reizthema, heikel genug, um nicht darüber zu sprechen. Helmut von Monschaw, Geschäftsführer des Vereins Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken, drückt sich daher auch lieber vorsichtig aus: »Co- Com, das ist etwas, was als mögliche Schwierigkeit ständig im Raum steht.” ‘

Eine Schwierigkeit steht jetzt schon fest. Auf das Bundesamt für gewerbliche Wirtschaft (BAW) in Eschborn bei Frankfurt, das die Exportanträge prüfen muß, kommt erhebliche Mehrarbeit zu. Nach vorsichtigen Schätzungen von BAW-Mitarbeitern, die in Paris dabei waren, als um den neuen Tabu-Katalog gefeilscht wurde, dürfte sich der Arbeitsaufwand mindestens verdoppeln.

Gegenüber den dadurch entstehenden Kosten nimmt sich die erste finanzielle Folge der verstärkten Cocom-Aktivitäten noch recht harmlos aus: Wirtschaftsminister Martin Bangemann mußte den Reiseetat für die BAW-Beamten verdoppeln. Die 18 000 Mark, die für die Cocom-Sitzungen in Paris vorgesehen waren, waren bereits Mitte des Jahres verbraucht. Bangemann mußte außerplanmäßig 20 000 Mark dazulegen.

Größere Opfer wird die Exportwirtschaft tragen müssen – durch verlorene Aufträge und Zeitverluste. Denn wenn sich die Zahl der Exportanträge von rund 70 000 im Jahr auf 140 000 erhöht, reicht das Personal für die Bearbeitung kaum noch aus. Ein Mitarbeiter formulierte das Problem so: „Entweder wir arbeiten präzise wie bisher, dann geht alles sehr viel langsamer, oder die Fehlerquote wird größer. Und dann stehen die Amerikaner bald in Bonn auf der Matte.”

Daß der Aufwand für Cocom auch nur entfernt in einem vernünftigen Verhältnis zum Nutzen steht, ist von der Statistik längst widerlegt. Gemessen an der Gesamtzahl der genehmigungspflichtigen Exportanträge – bisher 70 000 im Jahr – ist die Auftragsflut für genehmigungsbedürftige Exporte in Ostblockländer nachgerade bescheiden: durchschnittliche zweitausend im Jahr.

den Film gut. Stars gibt es nicht, Licht fällt auf jeden. Doch sympatisiert die Regie mit keiner einzelnen Figur, weil sie stets das Gleichgewicht und die Abhängigkeit des politischen Handelns ihrer Figuien im Auge hat. Die Dialoge in diesem „rtemat”-Epos sind lakonisch und genau. Außerdem sind sie ausgesprochen witzig in der Reibung der Dialekte, in der Suche nach individuellem Ausdruck auch im gleichklingenden Dialekt.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg bringt alles durcheinander^ Nun wird Schabbach ans Reich angeschlossen. Parallel zur Familiengeschichte, die nie eine mythisch bestimmte Saga wird, erzählt Reitz die Mediengeschichte in ihrer Entwicklung. Von der feinmechanischen Industrie im Hunsrück führt ein Weg zur Propagandakompanie. Eine Episode („Du Liebe der Soldaten”) führt einen Diskurs über die Ethik der Bildproduktion: was darf die Kamtra aufnehmen, und wie? Eine andere Episode schickt unternehmungslustige Frauen (wie Reitz sie 1973 in seinem Film „Die Reise nach Wien” porträtiert hatte) ins Kino, zu Zarah Leander, in „Heimat”, den Carl Froehlich 1938 drehte. Schließlich erliegt das Dorf dem haltungsprägenden Einfluß der kriegsgenutzten Medien. Die Hunsrückhöhenstraße, die nicht nur Ausflüglern dient, sondern Hitlers Panzer an den Westwall werfen soll, wird zum Medium, auf dem fremde Menschen nach Schabbach strömen. Sachsen und Schwaben,’ Hamburger und Münchner. Im Nazifilm tümelte das Volk. Hier wird nach verschütteter Ausdruckskraft gegraben, die Dialoge nicht nur tomisch, sondern auch eigen macht. Der Dialekt in diesem Film bringt den Eigensinn der Geschicke zur Sprache.

Ein armer Junge, der von seiner erst nazifrommen, dann bigotten, dann amerikabegeisterten Mutter (Karin Rasenack als Lucie) zum Konformisten hochtrainiert wird, muß dem reichen Onkel aus Amerika, Paul Simon, der die Care-Pakete auspackt, die 48 Bundesstaaten der USA hersagen. Später heißt es knapp von ihm: „Erst hat er noch eine Eins in Mathematik geschrieben, und dann hat er die Tellermine im Wald gefunden.” Aus deutscher Seele. Kein Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts hat sich so in die Häuser und Herzen seiner Landsleute gemalt wie Ludwig Richter. Ein Beitrag zur großen Richter-Ausstellung in Hannover diese Woche im ZEITJ7I9£Si£frl Noch eine Hoffnung, die begraben werden mußte. Nicht mit Sentirrient, sondern mit einer mitleidlosen Liebe, wie man die Haltung der Drehbuchautoren (Edgar Reitz und Peter Steinbach) zu ihren Figuren nennen könnte. Die Konsequenz daraus ist, die exemplarischen, aber nicht unbedingt beispielhaften Menschen, deren Verhalten gezeigt wird, unter keinem Vorbehalt aus der Geschichte zu entlassen. Einzig das Kapitel „Hermännchen”, dieses Selbstporträt des Künstlers als junger Mann, scheint mir mehr dem selbstverliebten Sentiment als einer Selbstkritik nachzugeben.

„Heimat” übersetzt die große deutsche Geschichte in eine Dimension, in der sie der Größe entkleidet wird, nämlich die der kleinen Leute, die ihr Leben in Würde auch ohne Größe führen. Man muß diese Erinnerungen hören und sehen, dann kann man davon nur schwer Abschied nehmen.

hatte. Marcel Duchamps provokante Trägheit habe Dali, für den stets Penoden öffentlich demonstrierter Extravaganzen mit strengen Arbeitsklausuren abwechselten, in einen wahren „Arbeitskrampf” gestürzt.

Wir werden Dali, seine Kunst und seine Perversionen – und ihren unauflöslichen Zusammenhang — nur verstehen, wenn wir die beiden wesentlichen Komponenten seines „geheimen Lebens” verstehen: Herrschertum und Wahnsinn. Schon als Kind wollte er Herrscher, Caesar, Napoleon sein, trug er am liebsten Zepter, Krone und Königshermelin, die ihm sein Vater mit sicherem Blick für , seine Neigungen geschenkt hatte. Schon als Kind war er maßlos, impulsiv, unberechenbar, raffiniert, sadistisch, monströs, überspannt, schüchtern, fanatisch, widersprüchlich – und zugleich Überzeugt, daß das alles kein Makel war, daß er ,,so sein durfte, daß es sein Vorrecht war, genau so 2M sein, wie er war.

So war für ihn auch der Wahnsinn von Anfang an ke^e Krankheit, sondern ein Instrument, sich durchzusetzen. Er bedeutete ihm „die hohe Kunst, sich durch Hellsichtigkeit aller seiner eigenen _Widerspr!k:he zu bedienen und die anderen die Ängste und Ekstasen seines Lebens erleben zu lassen”.; Es war für ihn «ine Methode, die Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit anzuheizen und zu verwirren,

Falles init allem zu assoziieren, einen 1 Gedanken mit ‘willkürlichen halluzinatorischen Bildern zu ver- Ifbinden. Diese Methode sollte dreierlei Zwecken dienen. Zuerst dazu, die Vision außerordentlicher -Bilder zu beschwören, dann aus diesen Visionen Kunst zu verfertigen und schließlich durch diese

Kunst Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen, Ruhm und Reichtum zu gewinnen. Dali wollte vom Wahnsinn – der Paranoia, wie er stets sagte – ergriffen werden, und er wollte die Paranoia zugleich in jeder Phase kritisch beherrschen und kontrollieren, ihr nie ganz verfallen, sondern den Überblick behalten. Sie sollte eine Art von Motor sein, ihn antreiben, ihm Schwung verleihen, aber er wollte die Richtung bestimmen, in die die Fahrt ging, er wollte, sie lenken und auch wieder bremsen können.

Herrschertum und Wahnsinn bestimmten Dalis Genie, herrschaftliche Geste und zelebrierte Paranoia, beide untrennbar miteinander verbunden, ineinander verschränkt und verkriäult, Wahnsinn als Vorrecht der Künstler und der Könige, gesteigert in den heiligen Wahnsinn der Mystiker, und Herrschaft als Ausdruck höchsten Irreseins. Der Welt scheinbar entrückt, über alle sozialen Hierarchien erhaben, trug er seine Neurosen wie Orden. Die Anstrengung des Herrschers: 24 Stunden am Tag sein Genie hervorkehren zu müssen.

Der Künstler in ihm prädestinierte Dali zum Herrscher – wenn nicht zum Hohepriester, dann zvjm König, zum Caesar, zum Imperator. Von hier aus ist nicht nur seine Vorliebe für die höchsten Ränge der Aristokratie, für weltliche und geistliche Herrscher zu sehen – er suchte die Nähe des Papstes und seine Anerkennung, wie die von Präsidenten, Generälen und Diktatoren, mit denen er sich gleichen Ranges fühlte -, von hier aus ist auch seine hektische, schwindelhafte Höhen erreichende Graphikproduktion zu verstehen: Dali wollte nicht aufklären (wie Kokoschka), nicht einfach beglücken (wie Hundertwasser), nicht einen Vorgeschmack der Zukunft geben (wie Vasarely) – er wölke ganz schlicht von der Kunstwelt den Tribut einkassieren, den sie ihm schuldete. Deswegen konnte er für die Drucke auch keine Limitieruigen akzeptieren – welcher Herrscher hätte schon zugelassen, die Zahl und Zahlungen seiner Vasalen zu begrenzen? Das alles stand ihm zu, und das stand ihm an.

Herrschertum und Wahnsinn prägten seine Kunst* Wahnsinn war ihr gesuchter Inhalt, Herrschemim, herrschaftliche Geste die Form, unter der sie erschien. Selbst die ihm eigene penible detailbesessene Kleinmalerei, die er betrieb (aber nur seiter, das ganze Bild über durchhielt: die meisten Flächen sind großzügig zusammengefaßt und kontrastieren zur Detailzeichnung weniger Einzelheiten, die den Blick auf sich ziehen), selbst sie hat macciiavellistische Züge, wirkt bei Dali wie die einzige einem Renaissancefürsten angemessene Mataveise.

Sehe Entwicklung ging vom Wahnsinn immer mehr hin zum herrscheruch Pompösen, von der Obsession zum Pathos, von der Schamlosigkeit sein« Delirien zum Ritual der Repliken. Am Anfang beherrschten ihn die Neurosen, dann versuchte er sie mit allen ihm verfügbaren Tricks zu konservieren, sie aufzuschminken wie die Leichen in Hollywood, die man mit roten Wangen zu einem letzten Drink an. die Bar setzt. Zuletzt scheint Dali, wenn wir den Nachrichten glauben dürfei, wieder ganz dem Wahnsinn anheimgefallen z* sein – der Gedanke hat etwas Tröstliches.

Gaa nannte Dali einmal einen Fels. In Wahrheit ist sie selbst – trotz ihrer zuletzt abbröckelnden Gesundheit – dieser Fels gewesen. Sie hat seinen Herrschaftsallüren Rückhalt gegeben und sich neben ihm als gleichberechtigte Partnerin inthronisieren lassen. Sie hat auch seine Paranoia kanalisiert und später geholfen, sie zur höheren Ehre des Herrscherhauses zu kommerzialisieren.

Dalis Ziel war: „Gala lieben und alt werden”. Beides hat er erreicht. Alles was er in seinem Leben erstrebte, war ihm beschieden. Alles, was er berührte, wurde ihm zu Gold, wie König Midas. Doch wissen wir aus dem Mythos, daß Midas’ Schicksal nicht glücklich genannt werden darf.

Dalis Geschichte ist, wie wir sie auch drehen und wenden, eine durch und durch verrückte. Im „Geheimen Leben des Salvador Dali”, von ihm selbst erzählt, liest sie sich, als wäre sie die normalste Sache der Welt. Das macht den irrwitzigen Reiz seines Buches aus. Weitere deutschsprachige Ausgaben der Schriften von Salvador Dali: „Unabhängigkeitserklärung der , Phantasie und Erklärung der Rechte des Menschen auf seine Verrücktheit”; Gesammelte Schriften, herausgegeben von Axel Matthes u.a. Vertag Rogner & Bernhard, München, 1974 „Die Eroberung des Irrationalen”; Essays; Ullstein Taschenbuch, Berlin, 1971

„Dali über Dali”; Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, 1970

„Meine Leidenschaften”; aufgezeichnet von Louis Pauwels; Bertelsmann Sachbuchverlag, Gütersloh, 1969 „So wird man Dali”; Zusammengestellt von Andre Parinaud; Verlag Fritz Molden, Wien, 1974 „Verborgene Gesichter”; Roman. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1973 (auch als Fischer-Taschenbuch)



»Alles Wissbare hat Grenzen«

Als eines von 80 Mitgliedern der Päpstlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften berät der Frankfurter Hirnforscher Wolf Singer den Vatikan – ein Job auf Lebenszeit

DIE ZEIT: Sie sitzen als rational denkender Wissenschaftler in der Päpstlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ist das kein Widerspruch?

Wolf Singer: Die Akademie ist ja kein religiöses Gremium, da sind Menschen mit unterschiedlichsten Ansichten vertreten – Agnostiker, gläubige Christen, Skeptiker. Die 80 Akademie-Mitglieder werden zwar vom Papst auf Lebenszeit ernannt, aber von den Fachwissenschaftlern vorgeschlagen, also nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien ausgewählt. Im Vatikan führt die Akademie ein relativ autonomes Dasein. Aus der Akademie kenne ich auch den früheren Kardinal Ratzinger, der vor wenigen Jahren Mitglied der Akademie wurde und aus derselben Gegend kommt wie ich.

ZEIT: Welche Aufgaben hat die Akademie?

Singer: Sie soll den Papst und den Vatikan in wissenschaftlichen Fragen beraten; darüber hinaus soll sie wissenschaftliche Arbeit leisten und Forschung fördern. Es gibt einmal im Jahr ein Treffen aller Mitglieder, daneben finden thematisch zentrierte Workshops statt – etwa zur Fortpflanzungsmedizin, zu ethischen Fragen am Beginn und Ende des Lebens, zur Kosmologie oder zur Bildung. In die Amtszeit des letzten Papstes fielen zwei wichtige Entscheidungen: 1992 hat Johannes Paul II. Galileo Galilei rehabilitiert; 1996 akzeptierte er offiziell die Evolutionstheorie…

ZEIT: …die die Kirche lange abgelehnt hatte.

Singer: Johannes Paul II. erklärte damals anlässlich einer Akademie-Tagung, Darwins Lehre sei durchaus mit dem christlichen Glauben vereinbar. Auch wenn der menschliche Körper seine Existenz der biologischen Evolution verdankt, beseelt wurde er unmittelbar von Gott.

ZEIT: Dieser Dualismus muss doch für Sie als Hirnforscher höchst befremdlich sein.

Singer: Er ist als Theorie schwer zu widerlegen. Die Kurie sagt bei Konflikten zwischen dem wissenschaftlichen und dem religiösen Weltbild: Wir haben zwei Wissensquellen – zum einen die menschliche Vernunft, zum anderen die Offenbarung. Und da die Wissenschaft stets nur begrenzte Einsicht liefert, hat die Offenbarung das Primat.

ZEIT: Dass die menschliche Vernunft begrenzt ist, belegt ja auch die Hirnforschung.

Singer: Sicher, alles Wissbare hat Grenzen. Die Wissenschaft erklärt die Welt nie vollständig. Das fängt schon beim Urknall an – was war davor?

ZEIT: Wie halten Sie diese Unvollständigkeit des wissenschaftlichen Weltbildes aus?

Singer: Ich lebe mit der Gewissheit, dass das, was sich uns erschließt, nur ein Teil von etwas Größerem, nicht Erfassbarem sein kann. Ich muss mir das aber nicht konkret ausmalen. Ich kann daraus auch keine allgemeinen Maximen für das Verhalten ableiten – außer vielleicht die Bescheidenheit, dass wir alle nur über begrenzte Einsicht verfügen. Die Kirche dagegen füllt dieses Unbekannte mit Geschichten aus – die, wenn sich die Wissenschaft weiter entwickelt, manchmal auch wieder geändert werden müssen. Daher rate ich den Kirchenvertretern immer: Bleibt beim Abstrakten.

ZEIT: Woher kommt diese menschliche Tendenz zum ständigen Geschichten-Erfinden?

Singer: Wir sind aufgrund des Soseins unseres Gehirns darauf festgelegt, Ursachen für Phänomene zu suchen. Nun gibt es viele Wirkungen in der Welt, deren Ursachen wir nicht ergründen können. Da liegt es nahe, sie einem höheren Wesen zuzuschreiben. Das erlaubt eine weitere hochwirksame Projektion: Verhaltensweisen, die sich in der Erfahrung als sinnvoll herausgestellt haben (Nicht töten, lügen, stehlen!), kann man als Verordnung einer höheren Instanz deklarieren. Dadurch entzieht man sie sozusagen der menschlichen Verfügbarkeit.

ZEIT: Stimmt also Voltaires Argument: »Wenn es Gott nicht gäbe, müsste man ihn erfinden«? Brauchen wir die Religion allein schon ihrer positiven gesellschaftlichen Wirkungen wegen?

Singer: Erstens kann man Religionen ja nicht rational erfinden. Sie speisen sich aus Mythen, unbewusst erfahrenen Gewissheiten, aus dem, was »Offenbarung« genannt wird. Zweitens ist nicht klar, ob ihre Wirkung nur positiv ist. Ich würde gerne einmal eine Gegenüberstellung lesen der positiven und negativen Folgen der Wissenschaft – und jener der wohlmeinenden Religionen. Wenn ich mir die Grausamkeiten vor Augen halte, die im Laufe der Geschichte im Namen von Gottheiten begangen wurden, bin ich nicht sicher, wie die Bilanz ausfällt.

ZEIT: Und woran glauben Sie selbst?

Singer: Eine schwierige Frage. Ich glaube, es kommt keiner von uns ohne Metaphysik aus. Ich glaube, dass etwas jenseits unserer begrenzten Vernunft existiert, sozusagen etwas vor und hinter unserer rational erfassbaren Welt. Ich glaube, man sollte es nicht benennen wollen.

SOURCE:

http://www.zeit.de/2005/20/Glauben-Singer

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bibliotheca-rfid.com%2Ffiles%2FGoethe_2_08_e.pdf&ei=eATFSebsONWW_gbgjIz1DQ&usg=AFQjCNHyvXNcahb3wVevd5yDRvT3wxKgww&sig2=iD-8gIaRyu53kekcHxOxkQ



Telecom Italia will Hansenet in Hamburg verkaufen

Schulden

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Immer wieder wurden Spekulationen dementiert, der italienische Kommunikationskonzern Telecom Italia wolle seine Hamburger Tochter Hansenet mit ihrem Telefongeschäft und den schnellen Internetzugängen verkaufen. Nun aber haben die Italiener die Firma tatsächlich zur Disposition gestellt.

Seit Monaten wurde immer wieder spekuliert, der italienische Kommunikationskonzern Telecom Italia wolle seine Hamburger Tochter Hansenet mit ihrem Telefongeschäft und den schnellen Internetzugängen verkaufen. Und stets dementierten Telecom-Chef Franco Bernabè und sein deutscher Statthalter Carlos Lambarri derartige Gerüchte postwendend. Nun aber haben die Italiener die unter der Marke Alice („Die schönste Verbindung“) arbeitende Firma tatsächlich zur Disposition gestellt.

Hintergrund: Die mit knapp 36 Milliarden Euro hochverschuldete Telecom Italia muss sparen, Stellen streichen und sich auf die Kernmärkte Italien und Brasilien konzentrieren. Was nicht zum Kerngeschäft gehört, soll verkauft werden.

Dazu zählt unter anderem Hansenet mit seinem DSL-Geschäft. Insgesamt will Bernabè bis 2011 rund drei Milliarden Euro aus den Verkäufen einnehmen. Dabei soll aber nichts überstürzt werden. Man werde die Firmen nicht zu jedem Preis und nicht an jeden Wettbewerber abstoßen.

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Hansenet-Sprecher Carsten Nillies sagte WELT ONLINE: „Was wann verkauft wird, ist überhaupt noch nicht entschieden.“ Der jetzt von Bernabè vorgestellte Plan, der neben den bereits angekündigten Streichung von 5000 Stellen den Wegfall von weiteren 4000 Arbeitsplätzen und den Abbau der Verschuldung um fünf Milliarden Euro vorsieht, betreffe die Jahre bis 2011. Insofern sei das laufende Geschäft der Hamburger Firma überhaupt nicht tangiert.

Hansenet sei derzeit gut aufgestellt und werde wie geplant in diesem Jahr 1,2 Milliarden Euro umsetzen. In den ersten neun Monaten des Jahres erzielte Hansenet einen Umsatz von 899 Millionen Euro und konnte so das Ergebnis des Vorjahreszeitraums (767 Millionen Euro) um 17 Prozent steigern. Der erwirtschaftete Ertrag vor Zinsen, Steuern und Abschreibungen erreichte dagegen mit 185 Millionen Euro nahezu den gleichen Stand wie im Vorjahr. Am 30. September zählte Hansenet rund 2,34 Millionen DSL-Kunden. Schubkraft gab es zuletzt durch ein neues Produkt-Paket, das das Hansenet-TV-Angebot ohne zusätzliche Kosten beinhaltet. Rund 20.000 neue Kunden habe man allein hierdurch im dritten Quartal deutschlandweit gewonnen, Zahlen für das aktuelle Quartal veröffentlicht Hansenet gegen Ende des Jahres. Für 2009 sei trotz des anhaltenden Preisdrucks eine weitere Steigerung des Umsatzes vorgesehen, sagte Nillies.

Der Verkauf könnte schwierig werden

Ob sich damit allerdings auch die derzeit geschmälerten Margen bessern, bleibt ungewiss. Bleiben sie mäßig, könnte sich ein Verkauf der Hamburger Firma in die Länge ziehen. Denn der gesamte DSL-Markt der schnellen Internet-Verbindungen ist wegen schlechter Verdienstmöglichkeiten für potenzielle Investoren nicht unbedingt attraktiv. So ist es zum Beispiel Freenet trotz monatelanger Versuche nicht gelungen, sein DSL-Geschäft loszuschlagen.

Gleichwohl schießen nach der Bekanntgabe des Verkaufsplans der Italiener die Spekulationen über die Zukunft von Hansenet ins Kraut. Zum einen wird die spanische Telefonica als möglicher Käufer genannt. Sie ist nicht nur größter Aktionär der Telecom Italia und arbeitet bereits mit Hansenet zusammen.

So bietet Hansenet Mobilfunkverträge der Telefonica-Marke O2 unter dem Namen Alice an und nutzt auch das deutsche Datennetz der Spanier. Auf der anderen Seite tat sich Telefonica in Deutschland schwer, DSL-Kunden zu gewinnen.

Zum anderen fallen in diesem Zusammenhang natürlich auch die Namen anderer DSL-Anbieter wie United Internet, Versatel oder Vodafone. Die Voadafone-Festnetztochter Arcor hat ihr Ziel zur Steigerung ihres DSL-Geschäfts gerade wegen Hansenet vor allem im Hamburger Raum nicht erreichen können. Insofern könnte der Erwerb durch Vodafone durchaus Sinn machen.



CANNED HUNTING

– BLUTIGES GESCHÄFT

Trophy Hunting

Every year tens of thousands of wild animals, representing hundreds of different species, are killed by American trophy hunters in foreign countries. The heads, hides, tusks, and other body parts of most of these animals are legally imported to the United States by the hunters.

Many animals imported as trophies are members of species protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), such as leopards and African elephants. The ESA allows importation of endangered and threatened species only for scientific research, enhancement of propagation, or survival of the species. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which implements the ESA, has broadly interpreted the term “enhancement” to include trophy hunting of threatened species. While the USFWS has rarely allowed the importation of endangered species as trophies, this has not stopped hunters’ trophies from making their way across the U.S. border in the guise of scientific research.

In 1997, just months after the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History accepted a $20 million donation from big-game hunter Kenneth Behring, the Institution sought a USFWS permit to import the trophy remains of two endangered wild sheep that Behring shot in Central Asia. One of the sheep, a Kara-Tau argali, is extremely rare in the wild where only 100 exist today. After a storm of ugly publicity, the Smithsonian abandoned the permit application. This was not, however, an isolated case. The Smithsonian has been involved in facilitating the import of endangered species killed by trophy hunters in the past. Other museums have done the same.

While the trophy hunting of endangered and threatened species attracts a great deal of attention, the vast majority of wild animals that American hunters kill and import—such as impala, black bears, common zebra, warthogs, eland, African buffalo, African lions, giraffes, and baboons—are not protected under the ESA or any other domestic law. If the foreign government allows the animals to be killed, as many do, the American hunter can import the trophies.

Trophy hunting is an elitist hobby, requiring tens of thousands of dollars to participate in each hunting trip. Many trophy hunters belong to organizations which promote and enable the so-called “sport,” such as Safari Club International (SCI). Founded in 1971, SCI is based in Tucson, Arizona, and has more than 100 chapters in foreign countries. It has a wealthy membership, many of whom are doctors, lawyers and executives, 55% of whom have an annual income exceeding $100,000. SCI’s annual conventions attract thousands of current and would-be trophy hunters. Through its publications and conventions, SCI entices people into booking more hunts and helps to hook up the hunting clients with the industry representatives, including outfitters, professional hunters, gun manufacturers and taxidermists. SCI’s thick, glossy, bimonthly magazine, Safari, contains page after page of advertisements for trophy hunts and Hemmingway-like stories glorifying the hunt.

SCI also conducts elite competitions that provide trophy hunters with a playing field so that they can compete with others to kill the most animals of a particular type—one victim from all the bear species in the world, for example. There are 29 awards in all, and in order to win all of them, at the highest level, a hunter would have to kill 322 animals of different species or subspecies. Not the only club of its type, SCI is by far the most prominent trophy-hunting advocacy organization in the world. It protects the hunter in every conceivable forum, including lobbying the U.S. Congress to weaken laws, like the ESA, and lobbying the USFWS not to list species that hunters like to kill, such as argali sheep, under the ESA.

Quelle: http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/hunting/trophy_hunting

Übersetzung:

Trophäenjagd

Jedes Jahr werden Zehntausende Wildtiere aus Hunderten von Rassen von amerikanischen Trophäenjägern im Ausland umgebracht. Die Köpfe, Felle, Stoßzähne und andere Körperteile der meisten dieser Tiere werden von den Jägern legal in die Vereinigten Staaten importiert.

Viele der Tiere, die als Trophäen importiert werden, gehören zu den Spezies, die unter das “Gesetz der bedrohten Arten” (ESA) fallen, so zum Beispiel Leoparden und afrikanische Elefanten. Diese Verordnung erlaubt den Import von bedrohten Arten nur zu Forschungszwecken, mit Betonung auf Fortpflanzung oder zum Erhalt der Spezies. Die amerikanische Fisch und Wildtier-Behörde (USFWS), ein ausführendes Organ der ESA, hat dies jedoch derart flexibel ausgelegt, dass die Trophäenjagd auf bedrohte Arten regelrecht legalisiert wird. Obwohl die USFWS den Import bedrohter Spezies in Form von Trophäen nur in seltenen Fällen erlaubt, hat dies nicht verhindert, dass die Trophäen der Jäger unter dem Deckmäntelchen wissenschaftlicher Forschung ihren Weg über die Grenzender USA fanden.

1997, nur Monate nachdem das Nationale Museum für Naturgeschichte des Smithsonian Instituts eine Spende des Großwildjägers Kenneth Behring in Höhe von $ 20 Millionen entgegen nahm, hat diese Institution um eine Erlaubnis bei der USFWS ersucht, um die Trophäen zweier Wildschafe, die Behring in Zentral-Asien erschoss, in die USA zu verschaffen. Eines der Schafe, ein Kara-Tau Argali, existiert kaum noch in freier Wildbahn, geschätzter Bestand ca. 100 Tiere. Nach einer Welle der Entrüstung hat das Smithsonian Institute die Anfrage zurückgezogen. Dies war jedoch kein Einzelfall. Das Smithsonian Institut war stets involviert in Bemühungen die Einfuhr bedrohter Arten die von Trophäenjägern in der Vergangenheit getötet wurden zu erleichtern. Andere Museen haben sich ebenso verhalten.

Während die Trophäenjagd auf bedrohte Arten große Aufmerksamkeit erweckt steht die große Anzahl der Wildtiere, bestehend aus Impalas, Schwarzbären, Zebras, Warzenschweine, Elenantilopen, afrikanischer Büffel, afrikanische Löwen, Giraffen und Paviane die von amerikanischen Jägern getötet und importiert werden, nicht unter dem Schutz der ESA oder einer anderen nationalen Protektion. Wenn die Regierungen der betreffenden Länder das Töten der Tiere erlaubt, und viele tun dies, können die amerikanischen Jäger die Trophäen unbehelligt einführen.

Die Trophäenjagd stellt ein elitäres Hobby dar, jeder Jagdtrip verschlingt Zehntausende Dollars. Zahlreiche Trophäenjäger sind Organisationen die diesen “Sport” promoten angeschlossen, so z.B. der Safari Club International (SCI). Gegründet 1971, beheimatet in Tucson, Arizona, besitzt der SCI über 100 Dependencen im Ausland. Die Mitglieder sind durchweg wohlhabend, viele von ihnen sind Doktoren, Anwälte und leitende Angestellte, 55% davon verfügen über ein jährliches Einkommen von mehr als $ 100.000. Die jährlichen Versammlungen ziehen Tausende von gegenwärtigen und Möchtegern-Trophäenjägern an. Durch seine Publikationen und Kongresse animiert der SCI die Leute dazu noch mehr Jagden zu buchen und trägt dazu bei Kontakte zwischen der “Kundschaft” und den Repräsentanten der Industrie, darunter Bekleidungsausstatter, professionelle Jäger, Waffenhersteller und Präparatoren zu knüpfen. Das dicke, hochglänzende, zweimonatlich erscheinende Magazin, Safari, enthält Seite für Seite Werbeanzeigen für die Trophäenjagd wie auch jagd-glorifizierende Geschichten im Hemmingway-Stil.

Der SCI veranstaltet des weiteren elitäre Wettbewerbe die den Trophäenjägern sogenannte “Spielfelder” zur Verfügung stellt sodass sie sich mit Anderen darin messen können wer die meisten Tiere einerbestimmten Spezies, z.B. eine bestimmte Art aus allen Bärenarten dieser Welt tötet. Es gibt insgesamt 29 Pokale zu vergeben; um alle auf dem höchsten Level zu gewinnen müsste ein Jäger 322 Tiere aus verschiedenen Arten oder Unterarten töten. Nicht der einzige Club dieser Art; stellt der SCI die bei weitem prominenteste Jagd-befürwortende Organisation weltweit dar. Sie schützt die Jäger in jeder denkbaren Form, sie tritt sogar an den US-Kongress heran um Gesetze bzw. Verordnungen wie die bereits erwähnte ESA zu schwächen. Ferner wird der USFWS dazuanimiert keine Spezien die von Jägern besonders gerne getötet werden zur bedrohten Art zu erklären, so z.B. das unter dem ESA geschützte Agali-Schaf.

Link: http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/hunting/trophy_hunting



Before go to 9/11 they[p2.vatican freemasons in brotherhoods.scientology.cults....] killed the NY mafia boss”John Gotti”

Court told mob bosses voted on whacking Giuliani in ‘86

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Gambino boss John Gotti voted to have Rudy whacked.Gambino boss John Gotti voted to have Rudy whacked.
Bonanno head Philip (Rusty) Rastelli voted to let him live.Bonanno head Philip (Rusty) Rastelli voted to let him live.

The heads of New York’s five Mafia families debated whacking Rudy Giuliani at a 1986 sitdown, according to bombshell testimony Wednesday at the trial of a disgraced FBI agent.

Gambino crime boss John Gotti and Colombo head Carmine Persico pushed hard for the hit, but failed to persuade the other three members of the Cosa Nostra commission to okay killing Giuliani, then a mob-busting federal prosecutor.

“The bosses of the Lucchese, Bonanno and Genovese families rejected the idea, despite strong efforts to convince them otherwise by Gotti and Persico,” wrote then-FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio in September 1987, documenting a tip from his mole in the mob.

The memo was read into the record Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where DeVecchio, 67, is being tried on charges of helping mobsters plan four murders.

It was part of 600 pages of memos DeVecchio wrote documenting his contacts with Colombo captain Gregory Scarpa from 1980 to 1992.

Prosecutors say the agent went rogue and was funneling information to the mob. The defense used the memos to show the wealth of detailed information Scarpa was giving DeVecchio, information that led to many wiretaps and arrests.

“They should give him a medal,” a DeVecchio supporter quipped after the testimony.

The plot to kill the former mayor was discussed in the fall of 1986, Scarpa was told.

That’s when Giuliani, then Manhattan U.S. attorney, was prosecuting the famous “Commission” case – which targeted the five Cosa Nostra bosses and crippled the mob in America.

The trial ended in the November 1986 convictions of Persico, Luchese family boss Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, Genovese boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno and five other defendants.

Gambino boss Paul Castellano was whacked before the trial began, and Bonanno boss Philip (Rusty) Rastelli was tried and convicted separately.

The mob’s plan to whack Giuliani has previously been reported, notably in a 2002 Daily News article. But Scarpa’s claim that the top Cosa Nostra bosses seriously discussed killing him is new.

Giuliani, who rode the Commission case to the mayor’s office, often brags about being targeted by mobsters when he’s on the stump in the presidential campaign.

“The reality is, I’ve dealt with this all of my life,” he said in a Fox News interview last week. “If you’ve got to live with threats, you live with threats.”

“When I was first U.S. attorney, the Sicilian Mafia offered an $800,000 contract to have me killed. The FBI caught them,” he said.

It’s a story he tells often, usually adding jokingly that a later contract on his life was “an insult” – because it was for only $400,000.

His campaign had no comment Wednesday on the new allegation and would not say if he knew of the threat at the time.

Among other details that emerged Wednesday from DeVecchio’s memos was the solid information Scarpa provided about Castellano’s slaying.

One day after the Dec. 16, 1985, hit on Castellano, Scarpa told DeVecchio that Gotti set up the assassination. He said Persico, who knew of the planned hit, neither approved nor disapproved but made no attempt to oppose it.

Second-the media news after 9/11 to gotti [died 2000-01by murderer]are falsed for rudi!



Energy minister visiting Caspian energy producers
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Güler is paying visits to the two major energy-producing nations in the Caspian Basin, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, for official talks, amid heated relations with the Russian Federation, which often claims influence over these countries.

The minister and a delegation of officials headed to the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat on Monday night following a meeting of the Cabinet. The Anatolia news agency reported that Güler would have talks on diverse subjects with Turkmen officials, including oil, natural gas and electricity. The minister and his delegation plan to proceed to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.Güler was invited to participate in an “Energy Forum” in Astana to take place Sept. 4-5 and to deliver the meeting’s opening remarks. He will meet with several Kazakh ministers and the chairman of Kazakh national oil and gas company KazMunay Gas while in Astana, Anatolia reported.

Güler is accompanied by representatives from the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), the Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ) and the Turkish Electricity Trading Company (TETAŞ). Güler and his delegation will return to Turkey on Friday.



[EXPERTS ANALYZE CAUCASUS PLATFORM] What is Caucasian stability and cooperation? What can Turkey do in the Caucasus?
September 25, 2008, 4:28 PM
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 11 said that Ankara may launch an initiative for the formation of a “Caucasus Alliance,” following the Balkan model, adding that the Russian Federation should be part of it.

PM Tayyip Erdoğan made public his proposal for the establishment of a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform on Aug. 13 in Moscow and on Aug. 14 in Tbilisi.

President Abdullah Gül said on Aug. 12 he supports the “Caucasus Stability Forum” idea voiced by Erdoğan. “I believe the idea of establishing a Caucasus Stability Forum is important. If there is stability in the region and if problems can be solved before they grow in magnitude and if there is a secure environment, then this will bring economic development and welfare to the people in the region,” Gül said. Prime Minister Erdoğan made public his proposal for the establishment of a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform on Aug. 13 in Moscow and on Aug. 14 in Tbilisi. The various titles given by Erdoğan and Gül to this proposal concerning the Caucasus — the Caucasus Alliance, the Caucasus Stability Forum and the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform — imply that Turkey’s policy on this issue is still ripe. What is the Caucasus Stability Pact? What is Turkey trying to do now by giving a green light to the Caucasus Stability Pact (CSP) which it disapproved of in 2000? Moreover, the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (SPSEE), which is advertised as a model for the Caucasus Stability Pact, was terminated in 2008 on the grounds that it was a clumsy and dysfunctional organization. Apparently, Turkey has made up its mind on the name, choosing “Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform” in order to make a fresh proposal by securing the involvement of the Russian Federation.

Toward two similar pacts in southeastern Europe: SPSEE and CSP

Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the SPSEE was established on July 30, 1999 in Sarajevo as the most important non-Kremlin-centered pact within the former Eastern bloc. It had been thought that this pact, established as a brain child of the European Union and under the supervision of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), might serve as a model for similar packs, particular in the Caucasus — outside the OSCE borders — and that this would trigger the establishment of several other pacts in the former Eastern bloc territories. Indeed, on Jan. 15, 2000, about six months after the establishment of the SPSEE, the establishment of the CSP was proposed with inspiration from the SPSEE.

Given the fact that the two sides of the Black Sea — the Balkans and the Caucasus — are two parts of Southeastern Europe, the urge to establish the CSP following the formation of the SPSEE and the similarities between the two pacts is to be expected. The two pacts, addressing a region which was in search of security, stability and development, would be merged or cooperate under a single umbrella organization at a further stage. After the abolition of the SPSEE in 2008, the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) was established in its place and Turkey became a member. Other than the RCC, there is also the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), of which Turkey is a member, in the Balkans.

The CSP model

On Jan. 15, 2000 former President Süleyman Demirel held a joint press conference with former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and suggested that the CSP should be established under the aegis of the OSCE. Given the fact that Iran is not a member of the OSCE, this proposal by Ankara, which was supported by Tbilisi as well, meant that Iran would not be part of this pact. Before the meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), held on Jan. 24-25, Demirel sent letters to the leaders of Western European countries and countries in the region, requesting their support for the CSP proposal and explaining the necessity of such a pact. The US, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Armenia and the EU responded positively to this initiative.

In his letter, Demirel stated that the SPSEE served as a good model and that the international community’s interest in issues in the Middle East and Southeastern Europe was growing. He stressed that the pact plan was supported by Georgia and Azerbaijan. Demirel also pointed out that disputes and hot conflicts in the Caucasus, which, like the Balkans, was in need of stability, served as a threat to regional peace. He noted that certain unresolved issues of the Caucasus were not only blocking the establishment of stability in the region, but also pushing the opportunities for developing multilateral and strong cooperation to second place. Thus, the firs t stage of the CSP proposal was completed by bringing the issue to the agenda of the international community in an effective manner. The second stage called for negotiation between parties concerned to commence.

However, the south Caucasian republics are unlikely to adopt the resolution that came out of the CIS meeting held in Moscow on Jan. 24-25, 2000, only 10 days after Demirel’s proposal that stressed a CSP plan which exceeds the borders of the CIS and which does not include the Russian Federation. Indeed, the biggest difference between the SPSEE and the CSP was that while the countries which are part of the SPSEE were former Warsaw Pact members, the south Caucasian countries that would become part of the CSP were former Soviet republics and the north Caucasus were located within the borders of the Russian Federation with seven federal republics. And the Russian Federation made its inclusion obligatory in the search for cooperation “outside” the family while it did not require its inclusion in any similar search “within” the family — the CIS. Given the conditions prevalent at the time, the Turkish Foreign Ministry, too, was not warm to the idea of setting up a pact that did not embrace the Russian Federation.

Future of search for cooperation in Caucasus

With the statements made by Prime Minister Erdoğan on Aug. 11 and President Gül on Aug. 12, Turkey launched an active foreign policy initiative. Indeed, Erdoğan went to Moscow on Aug. 13 and to Tbilisi on Aug. 14, one day after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit. Since Sarkozy was representing the EU as the term president, but not France, Erdoğan was the first prime minister to visit Tbilisi since the conflict in Georgia began. Turkey’s official presence in Tbilisi was a correct foreign policy move. Erdoğan’s delegation included Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister Ahmet Davudoğlu, signaling that Turkey will treat the Caucasus as one of its foreign policy priorities.

Turkey is seeking the establishment of a pact primarily focused on security, stability and development with the participation of the south Caucasus, the Russian Federation and Western countries. The main areas of concern for this pact will be the restructuring of the Caucasian republics’ economies, ensuring development and cooperation, boosting economic cooperation with the world, fostering free trade, supporting the private sector, ensuring environmental protection, putting to use existing and future energy and transportation lines extending from the east to the west, regulating the administrative structure, ensuring administrative transparency, tackling refugee issues and ensuring their integration as well as similar issues.

Parallel to the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform, the Caucasus House initiative, which serves as a platform among Caucasian intellectuals and nongovernmental organizations, should be supported and the inclusion of Turkish intellectuals and nongovernmental organizations should be ensured. A Caucasus Club may be established along the lines of the Balkan Political Club, formed with the participation of former heads of state in the Balkans. By keeping the doors of dialogue open at a high level, this may serve to put an end to emerging conflicts. The Eurasian Cooperation Action Plan, signed by and between Turkey and the Russian Federation on Nov. 6, 2001, may be revitalized with a view to boost cooperation in economic, cultural and educational issues with the Russian Federation in the Eurasian region, including the Caucasus. Turkey may invest labor and hard work in the reorganization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), which was established in 1992 under the leadership of Turkey, so as to prevent the emergence of problems and conflicts in the region and to discuss political issues.

The biggest problem haunting the search for cooperation in the Caucasus is the lack of sufficient social, political and economic institutions in the Caucasian republics. It is considerably important to secure the territorial integrity of these republics and implement successful democratic and economic reforms. For this reason, the assistance provided to these countries particularly aims at restructuring democratic institutions, strengthening the economic structure and fostering the development of civil society and law. The success of the south Caucasian countries is dependent on the development of democracy and civil society and making their economies part of the global economy, including the marketing of oil resources. Ensuring security, stability and development in the region — including the Caucasus and Central Asia and ranging from the Mediterranean to China — will ease efforts in carrying Caucasian and Central Asian oil and natural gas to international markets. It would be a beneficial and realistic move to launch a regional development program and a regional peace program with the participation of the Russian Federation and within the framework of the Caucasian Stability and Cooperation Platform.

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Armenia and Turkey: children of the same earth by HUGH POPE*
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“Military”——–KC-X Tanker Re-Compete
September 25, 2008, 4:33 PM
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On 10 September 2008 the Department of Defense notified the Congress and the two competing contractors, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, that it was terminating the current competition for a U.S. Air Force airborne tanker replacement. Secretary Gates, in consultation with senior Defense and Air Force officials, had determined that the solicitation and award cannot be accomplished by January. Secretary Gates stated, “Over the past seven years the process has become enormously complex and emotional – in no small part because of mistakes and missteps along the way by the Department of Defense. It is my judgment that in the time remaining to us, we can no longer complete a competition that would be viewed as fair and objective in this highly charged environment. The resulting “cooling off” period will allow the next Administration to review objectively the military requirements and craft a new acquisition strategy for the KC-X.” The Department will recommend to the Congress the disposition of the pending FY09 funding for the tanker program and plans to continue funding the KC-X program in the FY10 to FY15 budget presently under review. Some have speculated that President Obama would favor organized labor and a Boeing tanker, and that President McCain wouldn’t want to be seen dumping Boeing a second time.

U.S. Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts (R-KS) today applauded the decision by the Department of Defense to terminate the flawed U.S. Air Force tanker competition in order to start over with a fair, objective process. Brownback said, “I applaud the Department of Defense’s decision to terminate the existing process and for giving itself the time to clarify the capabilities it needs in a new tanker. By restarting this competition next year, DoD can restore confidence that the ultimate winner of this competition will be providing the best platform for our warfighters and the best value for our taxpayers.”

On 29 February 2008 Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Duncan J. McNabb announced the selection of a team of Northrup Grumman, EADS and Airbus as the winner of the KC-X competition for development and procurement of up to 179 tanker aircraft for approximately $35 billion. The initial contract for the newly named KC-45 is for the system design and development of four test aircraft for $1.5 billion. This contract also includes five production options targeted for 64 aircraft at $10.6 billion.

On March 11, 2008 Boeing filed a formal protest regarding the selection by the U.S. Air Force of the Northrop Grumman/European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company KC-30 over the Boeing KC-767 for its KC-X medium-sized tanker program. The Boeing protest alleged more than 100 violations of proper contracting practices. Boeing concluded from the debriefings following the selection was that the KC-X acquisition process was flawed. Boieng contended that fundamental but often unstated changes were made to the bid requirements and evaluation criteria.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, sustained eight of Boeing’s protest issues on 18 June 2008. GAO’s review of the record led the agency to conclude that the Air Force had made a number of significant errors that could have affected the outcome of what was a close competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The Air Force, in making the award decision, did not assess the relative merits of the proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria identified in the solicitation, which provided for a relative order of importance for the various technical requirements. The Air Force conducted misleading and unequal discussions with Boeing, by informing Boeing that it had fully satisfied a key performance parameter objective relating to operational utility, but later determined that Boeing had only partially met this objective, without advising Boeing of this change in the agency’s assessment and while continuing to conduct discussions with Northrop Grumman relating to its satisfaction of the same key performance parameter objective. The Government Accountability Office recommended the Air Force reopen the bidding process for the service’s aerial refueling aircraft contract.

On 09 July 2008 the Defense Department reopened the bidding process for the multibillion-dollar midair refueling tanker contract. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said “Industry, Congress and the American people all must have confidence in the integrity of this acquisition process,” Gates said at a Pentagon news conference. “I believe the revised process will result in the best tanker for the Air Force at the best price for the American taxpayer.” Replacing the Air Force as the “source selection authority” is John J. Young Jr., undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. He is tasked with appointing an advisory committee to oversee the selection of a bidder.

The Boeing Co. received a major boost August 1, 2008 from a House subcommittee, which moved to impose tight restrictions on the Pentagon as it seeks new bids on a $35 billion contract for Air Force aerial refueling tankers.” The defense spending bill approved by the subcommittee essentially would require the Pentagon to abide by the provisions of the earlier bid proposal. The bill would: require the Pentagon to seek a medium-sized tanker like the one Boeing offered, and prohibit extra credit for a larger tanker like the one offered by Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. The bill also would require that a new tanker be capable of refueling all of the planes currently flown by the Air Force, a requirement the Northrop-EADS tanker was unable to meet but was dismissed by the Air Force in the earlier competition, and require the Pentagon to consider the cost of operating the new tankers over a 40-year life cycle, rather than a 25-year life cycle. That could favor the Boeing plane. The language was inserted in the defense spending bill by the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., after nonstop lobbying by the No. 2 Democrat on the subcommittee, Washington Rep. Norm Dicks, the veteran from Belfair. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., is also a member of the subcommittee.

On 08 August 2008 the revised Request For Proposal (RFP) was issued by the Defense Department. This launched a $40 billion procurement with final proposals due in 45 days and a source selection decision by the end of the year. In the original selection process, the Air Force took nearly 10 months –and botched the job — to do what it now plans to do in three.

Rep. Norm Dicks said the new RFP included substantive changes that appear to favor a tanker larger than any real-world scenarios would require and that appear to diminish the substantially greater life-cycle costs of buying a bigger aircraft. The Airbus A-330 is 53 percent larger than the Boeing 767. In this revised RFP, the Defense Department now apparently intends to award greater credit for having the ability to carry more than the “threshold requirement” contained in the previous solicitation – which was already three times the amount routinely off-loaded by KC-135 aircraft today.

On 11 August 2008 Aviation Week reported that Boeing was “strongly considering” dropping out of the tanker competition. Boeing complained that the 45-day response period is too short a time frame to bid a larger aircraft. Boeing contended that new specifications for the tanker are biased toward the Airbus tanker. Boeing would need more time to put together a proposal for a tanker based on its larger 777. The Pentagon said it would measure government ownership costs over 40 years instead of 25, which analysts say should favor the smaller Boeing 767-based tanker.

In a bi-partisan letter sent in mid-August, lawmakers asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to allow more time for the revised RFP to be understood by the bidders. On 22 August 2008 Republican Sens. Pat Robert and Sam Brownback of Kansas said Boeing Co. needed four extra months to respond to the new request for a larger aircraft. They warned of “fierce bipartisan resistance” in Congress if the new process seems unfair. U.S. Senator Sam Brownback commented on conversations he, along with U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and U.S. Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard), had with Pentagon officials about the KC-X tanker replacement schedule. “I am concerned that the Department of Defense’s ‘bigger-is-better’ mentality poses substantial costs to tax payers without clearly defined benefits to the warfighter,” said Brownback. “Nevertheless, if DoD proceeds with a request for proposal that favors a large tanker, it must provide adequate time for competitors to offer bids.”

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International Herald Tribune: Unconventional wisdom
September 25, 2008, 4:40 PM
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Author:
Henry A. Kissinger

July 1, 2008

Conventional wisdom treated Dmitry Medvedev’s inauguration as president of the Russian Federation as a continuation of President Vladimir Putin’s two terms of Kremlin dominance and assertive foreign policy.

A visit to Moscow with an opportunity to meet leading personalities of the political world, as well as representatives of various age groups in business and intellectual circles, convinced me that this judgment is oversimplified and premature.

For one thing, the emerging power structure in Moscow seems more complex than conventional wisdom holds. It was always doubtful why, if his primary objective was to retain power, Putin, at the height of a popularity that would have allowed him to amend the Constitution to extend his term, would choose the complicated and uncertain route of becoming prime minister.

My impression is that a new phase of Russian politics is under way. The statement that the president designs foreign and security policy, and the prime minister implements parts of it, has become the mantra of Russian officials from Medvedev and Putin down. I encountered no Russian in or out of government who doubted that some kind of redistribution of power is taking place, although they were uncertain of its outcome.

Putin remains powerful and highly influential. It is likely that he has assigned to himself a watching brief over the performance of his successor; it is possible that he is keeping open the option of becoming a candidate in a future presidential election.

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Perkovich: If Iran Stone-Walls, Stop Trying to Negotiate
September 25, 2008, 4:48 PM
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Interviewee:
George R. Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, director of Non-Proliferation Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Interviewer:
Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor

September 24, 2008

PerkovichGeorge Perkovich, a long-time expert on Iran’s nuclear program, says the United States and its negotiating partners should set a deadline for Iran to agree to negotiations on suspending its nuclear enrichment program. If Iran still refuses to talk, he says, the negotiators should pull all previous incentive offers from the table and seek tougher sanctions. “Each day that goes on, they get closer to achieving what we are trying to prevent. So we ought to set a deadline that says ‘look, if we don’t get a sign from you that you are prepared to negotiate on this term of suspension, then fine. We’ll pull all the offers that we’ve offered and we can break off talks because there is nothing really to negotiate if you’re not prepared to consider suspension.’” He also is opposed to using a military threat unless it is proven Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

You’ve recently published an article on policy toward Iran in which you advocate what sounds like an ultimatum to Iran-although you didn’t use the word-to get into serious negotiations on suspending their nuclear enrichment program. You said the United States and its negotiating partners should offer Iran “one last, time-limited chance to negotiate suspension of its fuel-cycle-related activities.” Can you give some of the background on your thinking on this?

Basically Iran hasn’t been negotiating since at least 2005, and if you talk with any of the European governments who have been meeting with Iran, they will tell you this. There has been nothing even resembling negotiations. So the demand of the UN Security Council, of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United States, and other governments is that Iran temporarily suspend its uranium enrichment program and use that time of suspension to build confidence that its nuclear program in its entirety is peaceful. Iran rejected the premise and that possibility, so in fact, there has been no give and take in any way.

What I’m saying is that we need to recognize that-and stop what we’ve been doing which was kind of chasing them around the room saying “if we increase the offer, if we give you more, will you then negotiate?” And the longer they wait, the more they’ve been getting offered and I think it’s time to recognize that that dynamic doesn’t work. The reason for those incentives was to induce Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, which Iran insists it has the right to continue. Each day that goes on, they get closer to achieving what we are trying to prevent. So we ought to set a deadline that says “look, if we don’t get a sign from you that you are prepared to negotiate on this term of suspension, then fine. We’ll pull all the offers that we’ve offered and we can break off talks because there is nothing really to negotiate if you’re not prepared to consider suspension.”

But isn’t it likely that they’ll say OK, forget about it?

What I’m suggesting is that we calmly react if they reject that offer and say OK, you’ve decided that you are going to defy this legally-defined demand from the Security Council, which is your prerogative. We’re not going to attack you, which I think is very important to say, but we are going to walk away and not offer you more incentives. Instead we are going to concentrate on the durability of the sanctions already in place. We should focus our energy on maintaining sanctions for as long as Iran doesn’t comply, and where possible to strengthen those sanctions. I think if you do that, which we haven’t done, it could produce a conversation within Iran that hasn’t occurred because the Iranians so far believe that they can keep stringing this out. If they decide to negotiate later after they’ve gotten the nuclear capability, they could make a deal and get all of the benefits that we’re offering. So I’m saying, we need to walk away and let them understand that they’re going to have a nuclear program that makes no economic sense; that can’t produce fuel for any kind of nuclear reactor, and they would be offered nothing for it, and they would be stuck with it. They will have to learn that they played their hand too long and that they should have agreed earlier to the suspension.

Now of course there are many people out there who believe this whole nuclear enrichment program is just to prepare the way to an eventual nuclear weapons program. If that’s the case, there is probably no way you could get them to stop short of using something more than just sanctions.

Right, and I think that is a big concern. Although the CIA and the intelligence community have said that Iran has stopped trying to build nuclear weapons, but that they were continuing their enrichments. I would rather keep pushing for suspension, number one. Number two, the Iranians insist at the highest level that they don’t want nuclear weapons. I think it’s always been very important that the world remind Iran of this, and that is why I think it’s always been a mistake to say that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. Because as long as their leadership keeps insisting that they don’t want nuclear weapons because it violates religious tenets to do that, we ought to be trying to lock in that position, to make it harder for them to change. The deal that we’re offering is about suspension of enrichment. But since they’re likely to reject that deal, we need to say we’re pulling everything off the table and you better not make nuclear weapons because you’ve committed not to do so and there is a treaty and requires you not. And we should be concentrating our attention with China and Russia on clarifying that if there is new evidence that they’re trying to make a nuclear weapon, then all bets are off. Then we ought to really increase sanctions and that’s the only circumstance in which military force should be on the table.

In the last year or so, relations between Russia and the United States, and more recently between Russia and the European Union, have gotten more strained, and the conflict in Georgia in the summer has only worsened things. Is Russia still on board with sanctions?

They were never enthusiastic about it but at the same time it’s very clear that Russia does not want Iran to have nuclear weapons. The issue is how much they are willing to pay in order to keep that from happening. You have to step back and look at it from the Russian point of view. The Soviet Union had major positions in the Middle East in Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. In the 1991 Gulf War, when the U.S. coalition invaded and defeated Iraq, the Soviets basically got expelled from the entire region. They have a foothold of influence in Iran now. So the worst thing that could happen from Russia’s point of view would be improved relations between the United States and Iran, because if that happened, it’s very likely that Russian influence and position would suffer enormously. That is a worse fear for Russia than Iran having nuclear weapons. So it limits how much they are willing to do. If they are going to join with us in really pressing Iran, then they are going to want to have their other big interests satisfied whether it’s a question of NATO expansion, missile defenses in Europe … top Russian priorities where we would have to concede in order to get them to work harder with us on Iran.

What about the thought that’s been kicked around a bit in the presidential campaign of direct U.S. -Iran talks?

I think that’s a great idea. In my view, we should always be willing to talk or negotiate with adversaries if only to get better intelligence and a better feel for how they are thinking and what they want. But I think it’s the Iranians who don’t want to talk. The Bush administration belatedly, but wisely sent Undersecretary of State William Burns to Geneva in July for the meeting with the EU and Iran and basically the Iranian representative kind of shrugged and said “so what.” I think the United States has made clear that is perfectly willing to talk and it’s the Iranian leadership that is nervous and doesn’t know how to proceed on that.

Are they any sanctions that would be effective really?

Sure, but the main problem with sanctions is that they take a long time to really work. In this case, we are up against a technical clock that ticks much faster than sanctions do. But if the Iranians thought strategically about their economy, they would realize that over time they desperately need the technology that only the West provides for the oil and gas industry and the investment that comes with that. As oil prices come down, that is the biggest sanction that you could imagine on Iran, but again, that would take time. It’s also another reason why I don’t think it’s useful for the United States to threaten the use of force or to make illusions to it because it adds a risk premium to oil prices and that is Iran’s salvation. The biggest sanction that you could have would be to calm the atmosphere regarding military force, which I think is what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is trying to do.

Today in the Wall Street Journal, Richard Holbrooke and others published an op-ed announcing the formation of a group called United against Nuclear Iran, which picks up on fears of Iran moving toward a nuclear weapons program and urging more united American and international public opposition. They are stressing the view that Iran must be moving toward a nuclear weapons program otherwise why spend the money on nuclear enrichment which isn’t necessary and they don’t need nuclear power.

I think if you talk to a lot of economists and energy specialists, they think that it’s a little bit of a glib assumption that a country like Iran might not have need or use for nuclear energy. By the way, the United Arab Emirates is making preparations to buy, or have built, a nuclear reactor in the UAE and we don’t say that makes no economic sense. The United States had lots of the world’s oil and gas and we started building nuclear reactors too so I think that’s an argument you can’t win in any case. The issue is not uniting against nuclear-armed Iran; I think everyone agrees that’s bad, its how do you achieve it. Again, I think the Iranian decision at this point is counterproductive, but so is running around the room throwing offers at the Iranians when you haven’t established if they are going to try to negotiate.

The biggest point of pressure on Iran is that there is evidence that there was past experiments and activity related to making nuclear weapons. This was referred to in the U.S. intelligence estimate as kind of what they were doing before 2003. It’s been taken up by the International Atomic Energy Agency. And people have not paid enough attention to this report that the IAEA released on September 15. On the second-to-last page, it documents Iran’s refusal to provide answers, documents, access to individuals, to address this issue of activities that might have been related to creating nuclear weapons. [Coming from the] IAEA, it’s sort of the bluntest, most dramatic warning of what Iran is up to, and an expression of Iran’s non-cooperation. This is the issue on which Iran is and should be made very defensive, in which people haven’t focused on enough, especially in the United States.

Everything you’re advocating here in your report really is for the next president.

It is, except the problem of time. We are in September now; if we wait until January then the new administration has to get their team together and do a review. And then the Iranian elections are in May, so you’re talking about another eight months in which Iran continues to enrich uranium. So the concern then is the next president gets the briefing and it says the former president had time, and you don’t have time. So I think it needs to be quick and methodic, but a clear bipartisan agreement on a strategy now is not something to wait on.



Bears in Moscow
September 25, 2008, 4:53 PM
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Given harrowing market swings in the United States and Europe this September, Western news media have largely ignored the fact that Russian markets-one of the world’s brightest economic success stories of the past few years-have actually suffered much worse losses. The Russian ruble has rapidly lost value (MarketWatch), and Russia’s leading stock index has fallen 57 percent since May (RFE/RL). The Dow Jones Industrial Average, by contrast, dropped roughly 14 percent during the same period. The country now faces what many analysts regard as its most serious economic crisis since 1998 when Moscow defaulted on its international debt.

Bears in MoscowA worker of Otkritie Financial Corporation, a leading Russian investment bank, during a trading session in Moscow, Sept. 24, 2008. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

In fact, the 2008 crisis bears several similarities to the economic breakdown that unfolded almost exactly one decade prior. The first and most obvious is the rapidly plummeting price of oil, the commodity on which Russia’s economy floats. While oil prices currently remain well above the lows of a decade ago, current prices have lost significant ground since their July peak of over $147 a barrel, hitting a low in early September of just over $90 (CNN). This sharp volatility proved unnerving for Russia, which produces more oil than any country other than Saudi Arabia. Moscow also relies on exports of natural gas and other commodities, the prices of which have also plummeted from summer highs. Additionally, analysts say the short-term outlook for commodity prices is anything but certain. Major producers worry that failing financial institutions, which had speculated heavily in crude and pushed up prices, could now be forced to rapidly unwind those positions, potentially leading to further price declines. Anders Aslund, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in the Moscow Times that this phenomenon could stretch beyond oil and lead to broader withdrawals of investments in Russian markets.

Geopolitical uncertainty also has weighed heavily on Russian markets. As in the 1990s, when Russia spent some $5.5 billion on military operations in the breakaway province of Chechnya, Moscow again finds itself embroiled in a regional conflict with no obvious end game-this time with Georgia. William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, recently testified before the U.S. Senate that Moscow’s military intervention in the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has much to do with its recent market woes. Beside the direct costs of the operations, Burns noted several major “opportunity costs” of the conflict, saying they could derail Russian efforts to modernize its economic infrastructure and diversify its economy to make it less dependent on commodities.

Just as the U.S. Treasury has pressed its cleanup plan to stabilize Wall Street, the Kremlin has pushed its own series of reforms. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested a $100 billion financial rescue package. The Financial Times writes in an editorial that the Russian plan has garnered a significantly more positive response domestically than has the U.S. Treasury’s, albeit in a culture not much drawn to contradicting Putin. Still, the economic mood in Moscow remains highly nervous, and major potential problems lie hidden among Russia’s own financial institutions. Despite a recent fire sale at the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, the Financial Times concludes that “the shake-out in Russian finance has barely begun.” Moreover, the Economist writes, cleaning up Russian markets might take much more than saving a few firms. The article points out the major problems presented by structural flaws in several developing world economies, including Russia’s, and suggests a major systemic cleanup aimed at rooting out corruption and cronyism. “Bad capitalism,” the piece concludes, “carries its own risks.”



Ireland is first eurozone nation in recession

Central Bank of Ireland governor John Hurley

DUBLIN (AFP) — Ireland on Thursday became the first eurozone member to fall into a recession since the US subprime home loan crisis sparked a global economic slowdown, official data showed.

Ireland’s economy, rocked by a domestic property market meltdown, entered recession for the first time in 25 years after shrinking in the second quarter of 2008, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said in a statement.

European neighbours Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain sit on the brink of recession amid global economic turmoil. Denmark, which is not in the eurozone, fell into recession — two successive quarters of negative growth — earlier this year.

“Ireland is definitively in recession: the first euro area country to be so,” said Barclays Capital analyst Julian Callow.

Irish gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2008 compared with the previous three-month period when the economy contracted 0.3 percent, according to the CSO.

The “Celtic Tiger” economy has not experienced a recession since 1983.

“We expect that Italy and quite possibly Germany will also record contractions in their third-quarter GDP, following contractions in the second quarter — with a substantial risk that France does as well — so Ireland is unlikely to be alone in entering the euro area ‘recession club,’ Callow said.

“As Ireland recovers from a major construction melt-down and surging unemployment, it seems likely to continue to experience further negative quarters … perhaps into 2009,” he added

Ireland has in recent years been described by analysts as the “Celtic Tiger” economy because of its prolonged period of double-digit growth in the 1990s, which placed it among the richest nations in Europe.

However, it has been hammered by the international credit crisis, a severe property and construction industry downturn, weak consumer spending, sky-high oil prices and the strong euro.

Howard Archer, at the Global Insight consultancy in London, said it was not a shock that Ireland had lost its roar.

“It was no surprise that Ireland contracted again in the second quarter as a wide range of indicators had been extremely weak — be it relating to the service sector, manufacturing, consumer confidence and retail sales,” he told AFP.

“Clearly, the housing market and construction downturns are having a major depressing impact on Irish economic activity, on top of wider European problems including the strong euro, elevated oil, commodity and food prices, the financial sector turmoil and slowing global growth,” he said

“I think the downturn has been more severe in Ireland than in other European countries but I think an increasing number will join Ireland in recession, including the UK, Spain and Italy.

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“Technical recession is also very possible in both Germany and France,” Archer added.

The CSO said Thursday that Ireland’s economy also contracted on a 12-month basis in both the first and second quarters of 2008.

“In the second quarter of 2008, GDP decreased by 0.8 percent at constant prices compared with the same period in 2007,” the CSO said in its statement.

“This is the second successive quarter in which GDP showed a decrease compared with the same quarter of the previous year.”

The economic growth rate had plummeted to minus 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2008 on a 12-month basis, the CSO added — a slight revision from the previous estimate of minus 1.5 percent.

“In the first few months of the year the weakness in residential construction activity was the main culprit, with investment activity down almost 20 percent,” noted Dr Ronnie O’Toole, chief economist at the National Irish Bank in Dublin.

“This has now been joined by much weaker consumer spending, which contracted in the second quarter.

“Consumers went on strike around Easter and this drop off in sales is evident in the figures released today.”

Irish think-tank, the Economic and Social Research Institute forecast, forecast earlier this year that the economy would plunge into recession in 2008 for the first time in 25 years.

Key US companies with bases in Ireland include hi-tech giants Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft.



Die kleine Suri

Papa Tom Cruise lässt keinen an sie ran

Auf den ersten Blick scheint Suri Cruise (2) ein glückliches Kind zu sein: superreiche, berühmte Eltern, ein Leben im Überfluss. Wer genauer hinsieht, merkt jedoch schnell: Suri führt ein isoliertes, einsames Leben.

Die Tochter von Tom Cruise (46) und Katie Holmes (29) hat viele Spielgefährten: Mami, Papi… und zahllose Teddys und Puppen.

Richtige Freunde hat sie nicht.

Man sieht sie nie mit Gleichaltrigen, immer nur an der Hand von Tom Cruise, auf dem Arm von Katie Holmes. Die ist der beste Freund ihrer Tochter, geht mit ihr auf den Spielplatz, tobt herum. Das zumindest sagen die vielen Fotos, die von Familie Cruise tagtäglich um die Welt gehen.

Der Hauptgrund soll Papa Tom sein: Der Schauspieler ist generell nicht nur überanspruchsvoll, was andere Menschen angeht – sondern vor allem, wenn es um die Gesellschaft seiner kleinen Tochter geht. Nicht viele Kinder kommen als Umgang für seinen Suri in Frage.

Suri und ihre besten Freunde: Mama Katie und Papa Tom

Ein Problem, das unter Promi-Eltern nicht neu ist: Ihre Kinder wachsen unter besonderen Umständen auf, stehen schon in jungen Jahren im Licht der Öffentlichkeit, können nicht ganz so leichtfertig in die Welt geschickt werden wie andere Kinder.

Berühmte Paare wie Heidi Klum (35) und Seal (45), Victoria und David Beckham (34 und 33) oder Gwen Stefani (38) und Gavin Rossdale (40) schaffen Abhilfe, indem sie sich einfach zusammen tun: Sie treffen sich, lassen ihre Kinder miteinander spielen.

Aber: Auch wenn Familie Cruise eng mit den Beckhams befreundet ist, mischt Suri in diesen Runden nie mit.

Kann das gut gehen – eine Kindheit ohne kleine Spielkameraden?

BILD.de fragt nach bei Dr. Elmar Basse, Psychologe aus Hamburg: „Für die psychische Entwicklung von Kindern ist es tatsächlich sehr wichtig, dass sie Zeit mit Gleichaltrigen verbringen. Sie müssen früh lernen, mit anderen Menschen zu kooperieren, soziale Fähigkeiten aufzubauen.”

Was passiert denn, wenn ein Kind nur mit Erwachsenen zusammen ist? „Es leidet unter dem Entwicklungsrückstand, den es im Vergleich zu den Älteren hat. Es bekommt schnell das Gefühl: Ich komme nicht hinterher! Dadurch kann es unbewusst Minderwertigkeitsgefühle entwickeln, glauben, es sei nicht gut genug.”

Das kann zu Schwierigkeiten führen, wenn das Kind dann zum Beispiel in die Schule kommt. „Es kann Probleme damit haben, aus sich heraus zu kommen. Das kann sogar zu Langzeitschäden führen: Noch als Erwachsene fühlen sich diese Menschen oft blockiert, wenn es darum geht, auf Andere zuzugehen.“

Dr. Basse räumt jedoch ein: „Wenn die Eltern einfühlsam mit dem Kind umgehen, kann es sich natürlich auch ohne Kontakt zu Gleichaltrigen ganz normal entwickeln.“

Das Fazit des Psychologen: Suri muss durch das Verhalten ihrer Eltern später nicht unbedingt Probleme bekommen. Aber: „Sie machen ihr es auch nicht leichter.“



TURKISH AUTHORITIES STEP UP CENSORSHIP OF INTERNET WEBSITES

In the early hours of October 4, 2005, Turkey officially began accession negotiations with the EU. Over the previous four years, in order to secure a date for the opening of negotiations, successive Turkish governments had eased many of the restrictions on freedom of expression in the country. Since October 2005, however, the process has ground to a halt. Indeed, in some areas, it appears to have gone into reverse, particularly in the increasing attempts to censor the Internet.

The Turkish authorities have long sought to block Internet users in Turkey from accessing websites associated with militant groups that espouse violence, such as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Over the last 18 months, however, there has been a rapid rise in the censorship of websites, purely because they contain material that expresses values or opinions deemed unsuitable for the Turkish public.

Until May 2007, there was no legal framework in Turkey specifically designed to regulate the content of Internet websites. In practice, the judicial system tended to apply the same laws that were used to regulate traditional media outlets such as newspapers and television channels. On May 4, 2007, however, the Turkish parliament passed Law No. 5651, which was specifically designed to regulate Internet content and prevent websites from being used for crimes such as “encouraging suicide,” “the sexual exploitation of children,” “facilitating the use of narcotics,” “obscenity,” “prostitution,” and “gambling” (Law No. 5651 of May 4, 2007, published in the Official Gazette No. 26530 of May 23, 2007). The law also provided for the prevention of access to websites that violated other Turkish laws, such as anti-terrorism legislation or the law that forbids insulting the memory of the Turkish Republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Law No. 5816 of July 25, 1951, published in the Official Gazette No. 7872 of July 31, 1951). In addition, under Article 24 of the Turkish Civil Code (Turkish Ministry of Justice website, www.adalet.gov.tr), individuals can apply for access to be blocked to a website that they feel is “infringing on their personal rights.”

In the case of content that is deemed to be obscene or to exploit children sexually, Law No. 5651 empowers the state-run Telecommunications Board to prevent access to the website without recourse to a court decision. For most other offences, a court ruling is required. Since November 2007, members of the public have been able to notify the Telecommunications Board of what they believe is inappropriate content via a designated telephone number and website.

Under Turkish law, the decision to block access to a website is made by the court or by the Telecommunications Board on its own. According to figures released by Tayfun Acarer, the head of the Telecommunications Board, access has been prevented to a total of 1,112 websites since November 23, 2007, with 251 of them blocked by a court ruling and 861 by a decision of the Telecommunications Board itself. The owners of the websites in question do not need to be informed and invariably only learn that their website has even come under suspicion once access to it from inside Turkey has been blocked (Radikal, October 2, Milliyet, October 3).

Since early May, Internet users in Turkey have been prevented from accessing the popular video-sharing website YouTube, after Greek nationalist youths used the site to post some amateurish videos mocking Ataturk (Ankara First Petty Crimes Court, Decision No 2008/402 of May 5). Websites banned for “obscenity” range from genuine hardcore pornographic sites to the photographs link on www.moonamtrak.org, a website set up by a U.S. group that annually bares their buttocks at passing Amtrak trains (Ankara Ninth Petty Crimes Court, Decision No 2008/140 of February 4).

In practice, it is relatively easy to circumvent the Telecommunication Board’s filters by using proxy servers; although thus does require a modicum of computer literacy and it is unclear how many Internet users in Turkey are even aware that it is possible. Perhaps more disturbing than the measures taken by the Turkish authorities, which are little more than an irritant to someone with enough determination, is the mentality that lies behind it.

“The duty of the state is to protect its citizens and warn them against harmful Internet content,” declared Tayfun Acarer (Today’s Zaman, October 3).

In reality, of course, neither citizens nor website owners receive any warning. Access is simply blocked and attempting to lift it requires the website owner to embark on a long legal process, the outcome of which is uncertain. There are also increasing signs that Internet censorship is not being used to “protect” Turkish citizens but to try to enforce a particular worldview or political opinion.

On September 19 the Turkish courts blocked access to the website of the biologist and militant atheist Richard Dawkins (www.richarddawkins.net) following an application brought by lawyers acting for Adnan Oktar, a 52 year-old Islamist author and sect leader who lives in seclusion in an Istanbul suburb. Oktar is most famous for his “Atlas of Creation,” a glossy, large-format, 800-page defense of creationism. After an article posted on Dawkins’ website mocked Oktar’s scientific credentials, he applied to a court in Istanbul for access to the site to be blocked on the grounds that its contents were defamatory, blasphemous, insulting to religion, and a violation of his personal rights. The court concurred (Radikal, Milliyet, September 20).

The Turkish authorities have displayed considerably less determination, however, to suppress the expression of what might be regarded as more dangerous views. For example, there are numerous Turkish ultranationalist websites and blogs in Turkey which eulogize Ogun Samast, who murdered Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007. Most recently, a court in the city of Duzce ruled that no action should be taken against Isin Ersen, a columnist on the Bolu Express local newspaper who, in October 2007, had called for the murder of members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). The court decided that Ersen’s call fell within the scope of freedom of speech (see EDM, October 2). Ersen’s article is still easily accessible via the Bolu Express website (www.boluexpress.com).



Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange-Nassau, visited flood-protection system in Hitzacker
“Father enthused by the Elbau”
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange-Nassau, visited flood-protection system in Hitzacker
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander is mayor of Hitzacker Dr. Karl-Heinz Jastram (M.) and Jürgen Meyer (left), mayor of the Samtgemeinde Elbtalaue, the flood on the Elbe explained.

Hitzacker. Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange-Nassau (41), the Elbe River city of Hitzacker visits in Lower Saxony, where his father, Claus von Amsberg was born. The expert spoke for Water in the sunshine at a seminar on the eve of the Hamburg Fair acqua alta and visited the construction site of the flood-protection system in connection to Johanneum/Lüneburg.

In the Elbe Valley after Hitzacker to drive for him was “almost like coming home.” His father died in 2002, told him in much of his childhood love for the hometown Hitzacker to Elbdeichlandschaft and especially to the water provides. “It is for me as I could see him stand on the Elbe in this area, which means he has.” His father often told him of the peace and tranquility of Elbau says: “He enthused by the beauty of the river in the morning mist.”

Previously, he had every year once or twice a grandmother in Hitzacker been visiting, but the mid-90s had died. With his wife Maxima and the children will in any case he returned to Hitzacker come to see his three girls to show where her grandfather was raised.

From the project manager Martin Hannemann from Lueneburg was the Crown Prince to protect plant explained. Willem then rose with Hannemann and representatives of the city on the vineyard and set pace. He joked: “We Dutch are good climbers, we have so many mountains.”

In good reminder is the prince opening the borders in 1989 remained. At that time he was also the passenger ferry from Hitzacker after bitter over and controlled by People’s policemen have been portrayed as the prince.

In terms of flood control, there is much between the Netherlands and Hitzacker, said the Crown Prince. Both were from the activities of the Oberlieger dependent, so at the Elbe from the Czech Republic, on the Rhine in the Netherlands by the Germans. Therefore, it is important to the topic of flood protection should be treated together. The new flood Hitzacker was an impressive measure, judged Prince Willem-Alexander. With mobile protection elements had been in the Netherlands has been a good experience.

Dyke reinforcement where it is needed, the rivers provide more room where it is possible – these preventive measures are the key elements of flood protection in the Netherlands, said the Crown Prince before nearly 200 hydraulic engineering specialists, representatives of firefighters, THW and municipalities.

Whether the prince because of a flood again after the Elbe Hitzacker will come to the functioning of flood protection to convince receipted it with a smile: “If you give me for a year in advance can say when that will be, then yes,” He played in his diary in full.

In the morning the prince was at the Amsterdam Schipol airport starts. He steered the jet itself to Schwerin, where he was the machine well after an hour flight landed. After the flood event, he took some time for private, to visit relatives uncle and aunt von dem Bussche in Hitzacker.



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Informational
Sites

Genesis Communication Network

Earthpulse

Military Corruption

Freedom.org

Beverly
Eakman’s Homepage

CAFR — Walter
Burien’s Home Page

Skolnick’s
Report

Women’s International Media
Group

Patriot Action Television
Network

CopvCia

Echelon

Forfeiture
Endangers American Rights
(FEAR)

Gulf War Vets

Rex
84

Railroading America
Logistics for Liberty

Committee to Restore
the Constitution

There4iam

NetworkUSA

The Power Hour

Give
me Liberty or Give Me Death

Rolling Thunder

Dr. Wolfe’s Fountain
of Truth
Alabama
Committee to Get Us Out of the UN

Michael New

Southeastern Legal Foundation

Intelligence Enforcement

Eagle Forum

John Birch Society

Mind Control
& MK-ULTRA

Property Rights Congress

The CIA and Drugs

From the Wilderness Publications

Cocaine Import Agency

Beograd

Socializing
Education

The Oklahoma
City Bombing and the Politics of Terror

Silent
Weapons for Quiet Wars

Accuracy in Media

American Land Rights Association

Rebuild the Church

The American Guardian

Pokerface

The Intelligence
Report

California Coalition for Immigration
Reform

Profane Justice

Freedom Journal

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Alaskan Independence Party

New
World Order

NWO – Courtesy
of the UN

The Global
Money Tree

The Women’s International Media
Group

UT Murchison
Chair

Congressman
McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation

UN Home Page

Second
Amendment

Citizens
of America

Gun Owners of America

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Second
Amendment Committee

Arming Women Against Rape and Endangerment

Second Amendment Foundation

Firearm
Safety in America

Crime,
Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns
Department
of State Publication 7277

Law Enforcement Alliance of America

Madison
Society

Police
State


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Say No

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Police Power

US Prison
System

The
Federal Siege of Andrews, North Carolina

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Links

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April 19,1993

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Electronic Museum

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Rescue

Stein Report

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Reform

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Immigrants

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Immigration
Forum

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Commission on Human Rights

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Links

“Aspartame: The Bad News”

Jack Thomas on Aspartame

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Leading Edge Research:
Glutamates, Glutamic Acids and MSG

Aspartame / NutraPoison
Scientific Review Chapters

Nutrasweet Toxicity
Reaction Samples – 1997

Aspartame Review
Draft – Mark Gold

Formaldehyde Toxicity
from Aspartame

Aspartame and Brain
Cancer — A Rebuttal to Monsanto PR

Aspartame
and Lawsuits – Mark Gold

Vision damage from
Aspartame

Aspartame Related
Books and Organizations

Advanced Steps to
Stop Chronic Aspartame Poisoning

“Sweet Poison” – Alex Constantine

The Bitter
Truth About Artificial Sweetners – Nexus

Aspartame and Multiple Sclerosis

Dr. Russel
Blaylock’s book “Excitotoxins”

Aspartame Toxicity Information Center

Aspartame Consumer Safety
Network

Dr.H.J. Roberts, World Aspartame
Expert

Dorway Com – Aspartame
Research

More Aspartame Links

Chemicals in the Food Supply

Mark Gold’s
Aspartame Document Archive

Auto-WebSearch
for Aspartame

Aspartame
and Lawsuits

MSG & Aspartame
During Pregnancy Common Food Additives

Show Strong Evidence for Causing Brain Damage

in our Children – Is politics delaying the truth?

Select Material
on MSG and Glutamates

More Documents on MSG [Mark Gold]

The Neurophyiological
Effect of Refined Sugars

“The Bitter Truth” About Aspartame

Leading Edge Research on
Aspartame

“Examining Aspartame”

Aspartame
and Brain Tumors – Part 1

Aspartame and Brain Tumors
- Part 2

Aspartame and Brain Tumors
- Part 3

Aspartame and
Brain Tumors

Aspartame and Brain Tumors
- Eric Millstone, M.D. [UK]

Acceleration of Aspartame
Symptomology in Society

Aspartame Use and Pilot Seizures

“Aspartame and Flying”: The
Story

The 1996 Hardcopy
Program on Aspartame

“Aspartame: Health vs Greed”
- Lendon Smith, M.D.

Monsanto Propaganda on Aspartame:
A Rebuttal

Phenylalamine and Genetically
Engineered E-Coli

“Aspartame: What You Don’t
Know Can Hurt You”

Medical Data on Emerging Facts
About Aspartame

A Pamphlet on Aspartame Dangers

Physician Testamony
on Aspartame

Interview: Mary Stoddard,
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network

Lecture: Mary Stoddard,
at UT Southwestern Medical School

Consumer Letters on Aspartame

FDA Letter
Discussing Indictment of G.D.Searl Company

Letter: FDA Toxicologist
on Aspartame

Letter: FDA, on Aspartame
and Tumor Production

Detoxification After Aspartame
Use – John Allocca, M.D.

Secret
Societies

The
Illuminati and Proofs of Conspiracy

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New World Order

Bilderberg.org

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Grove Action Network

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Bohemian Grove:

The Story People Magazine Won’t Let You Read

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Club Bohemian Grove & Global Elite

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Body Count

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the President

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Clinton”

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Slumber Party

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Alex Broadcasts
in AM and FM and on
Global
Shortwave Radio Station WWFV, USA

The
MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet



Devlet arşivindeki UFO iddiaları

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Bugün açıklanan havalimanı devlet arşivinde, pilotların karşılaştıkları ‘garip nesneler’den söz ediliyor.
Devlet arşivindeki UFO iddiaları
İngiltere’de başkent Londra’nın Heathrow Havaalimanı devlet arşivlerinin bugün açıklanan kısmında, 1991′de İtalyan Alitalia uçağının “UFO” şüphesi aktarılıyor.

21 Nisan 1991′de Alitalia havayolları kaptan pilotu Achille Zaghetti, Milano’dan Londra’ya inerken, pilot kabininden, tuhaf bir şekilde seyreden pırıltılı nesne gördü.

İkinci pilota bunu takip etmesini isteyen Kaptan Pilot Zaghetti, 10 mil kadar uzaktaki nesnenin kaybolduğunu söyledi.

Londra “hava kontrol merkezi”nin yeni açıklanan kayıtlarına göre, iki Amerikan savaş pilotu da 1957′de İngiltere semalarında tanımlanamayan uçan nesne (UFO) gördü.

Bugün 77 yaşında olan savaş pilotu Milton Torres’in kaydına göre, SSCB ile Soğuk Savaş yıllarında, olası tehlikeye karşı 24 roket, uçaktan ateş edilmeye hazır duruma getirildi. Saniyeden daha az bir zaman diliminde roketlerin ateşlenmesinden vazgeçildi. Nesne saatte 12 bin km hızla uzaklaştı.

Milton Torres

1991 haziran ve temmuz aylarında Dan Air’in Boeing 737 uçağı ile Brittania Airways’in Boeing 737 uçağı, 100 metre kadar yaklaşan garip nesneyle karşılaştı.
Bazı UFO hadiselerinin uçan balon veya uçurtma olduğu tespit edildi.

İngiliz devlet arşivi birkaç yıl içinde “160 kuşkulu UFO vakası” yayınlanacağını duyurdu.



IAS- NEW SCIENTOLOGY ORGANISATION “Fraud ” EXPOSED
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Why your peace goes shit!

The Peace Sign and Satanism

The signal “actually began as a symbol of Satanic benediction during the rituals.” This sign has been used by Yasser Arafat, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill, and Stewart Meacham, Co-Chairman of Reds’ New Mobilisation Committee.” Churchill said that the sign stood for victory but remember that Churchill was one of the insider “elite” and a Mason. He most likely knew the evil significance of this symbol but tried to give it a facelift.

The “v sign” has a colourful history. “V” is the Roman sign for the number five and Adam Weishaupt used it in the Illuminati to symbolise the “Law of Fives,” but there’s more. In the Cabala:

“the meaning for the Hebrew letter for V (Van) is ‘Nail.’ Now, ‘The Nail’ is one of the secret titles of Satan within the Brotherhood of Satanism. Satan is letting us know that this is one of his favourite signs. Why else does he like the PENTA-gram (Penta = five!) and the FIVE-fold salute used in Masonry and Witchcraft?”

Furthermore:

“The Leftists, radicals, and Satanists who have popularised that sign…know its ancient significance very well. In fact, that ‘V’ sign is now used extensively by such Communist organisations as the Young Socialist Alliance, Vets for Peace in Vietnam, and the Students for a Democratic Society.”

Although not a hand sign, the peace symbol itself needs to be examined.

“Known as the ‘peace sign’ throughout the 1960’s and into the present day, this symbol is the Teutonic rune of death. 1950’s peace advocate Gerald Holtom may have been commissioned by communist sympathiser Bertrand Russell to design a symbol to unite leftist peace marchers in 1958. It is clear that either Holtom or Russell deemed the Teutonic (Neronic) cross as the appropriate symbol for their cause.

“Throughout the last 2,000 years this symbol has designated hatred of Christians. Nero, who despised Christians, crucified the Apostle Peter on a cross head downward. This hideous event resembled the Teutonic cross and became a popular pagan insignia of the day. Thereafter, this sign became known as the ‘Neronic cross.’

“The symbol’s origin in history proves it to be the visual mystic character for ‘Aum’ (the split ‘Y’). This is the sacred word to the Hindu. Chanting ‘Aum’ is supposed to help awaken ‘the serpent power of Brahma’ at the base of the human spine. Occultist Albert Pike also identifies this symbol as mystical in his book on Freemasonry Morals and Dogma.

The peace symbol (also called the “broken cross,” “crow’s foot,” “witch’s foot,” “Nero Cross,” “sign of the ‘broken Jew,’” and the “symbol of the ‘anti-Christ”’) is actually a cross with the arms broken. It also signifies the “gesture of despair,” and the “death of man.”

“The Germanic tribes who used it attributed strange and mystical properties to the sign. Such a ‘rune’ is said to have been used by ‘black magicians’ in pagan incantations and condemnations….To this very day the inverted broken cross–identical to the socialists’ ‘peace’ symbol–is known in Germany as a ‘todersrune,’ or death rune. Not only was it ordered by Hitler’s National Socialists that it must appear on German death notices, but it was part of the official inscription prescribed for the gravestones of Nazi officers of the dread SS. The symbol suited Nazi emphasis on pagan mysticism.”

With the arms of the cross raised in an upright position, it is “a Pythagorean emblem of the course of life, in the form of a rising path with fork roads to Good and Evil.” It also signifies fertility, but with the arms pointing downward, it denotes evil and death.

“In fact, the inverted ‘Man-rune’–the figure encircled in the common sign which the Communists tell us means ‘peace’–has for centuries been a favourite sign of Satanists.”

Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, used the peace symbol as the backdrop for his altar.

One former witch makes the following comment about the peace symbol:

“It is an ancient and powerful symbol of Antichrist. During the dark ages it was used in Druid Witchcraft and by Satanists of all sorts during the initiation of a new member to their order. They would draw the magic circle and give the initiate a cross. The initiate would then lift the cross and turn it upside down. He would then renounce Christianity in all three dimensions (sic) of time (past, present and future) and break the horizontal pieces downward forming the design of the ‘Raven’s Foot.’ This ugly symbol is nothing short of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. For one to wear or display this symbol is to announce either knowingly or unknowingly that you have rejected Christ. Remember, symbolism is a picture language, and a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Below are a few examples of how the peace symbol is being used.

Another hand signal is the Vulcan peace sign. It is supposed to mean “Live Long and Prosper,” and can be seen in Star Trek.

Vulcan was a sun deity who was associated with fire, thunderbolts, and light. The festival in honour of him was called the Vulcania in which human sacrifices were offered. “According to Diel, he bears a family relationship to the Christian devil.’ It is fascinating to know that he married Venus, another name for Lucifer or the devil. What is even more interesting is that Vulcan is adored in Masonry under the name of Tubal Cain. In the Masonic Quiz Book the question is asked: “Who was Tubal Cain?” The answer is: “He is the Vulcan of the pagans.”

In Masonry, Tubal Cain is the name of the password for the Master Mason (or third) degree.

Listen to what occultist and Mason, Manly Palmer Hall, has to say:

“When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mastery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a ploughshare.”

There is also a sexual connotation associated with Vulcan and Tubal Cain. Former Mason, Bill Schnoebelen, explains:

“For Masons who wish to conceal their membership from non-Masons, but still advertise it to their Lodge brothers, there is a special pin (or tie tack) they can wear. It looks like an upside down golf club with two balls near the top….Many people assume the person is a golfing enthusiast, but it is actually a visual Masonic pun.

“This is called the ‘Two Ball Cane,’ and is a pun on the secret password of a Master Mason, ‘Tubalcain (sic).’…It is also an all-too-obvious pun on the ‘god’ of Masonry, the male reproductive organ. Nice, eh?…especially when many men wear these wretched things to church on Sunday!”



Fun at the Polls …or CNN Illuminati now how is now the next president of the USA

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Korruption unter Gerichtsvollziehern “Zwei Beamte sollen die Hand aufgehalten haben”

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Nils H. (55) hätte als Obergerichtsvollzieher in Harburg dafür sorgen sollen, dass Gläubiger ihr Geld von säumigen Schuldnern zurück bekommen. Stattdessen soll der alkoholkranke Beamte krumme Geschäfte mit einem Fuhrunternehmen gemacht haben und das eingetriebene Geld auch häufig für sich behalten haben. Die mitangeklagten Unternehmer, ein Zwillingsbrüder-Paar (44), sollen auch einen zweiten Gerichtsvollzieher bestochen haben.

Der Deal, so wie er sich aus den Aktenbergen ergibt: Der Beamte Nils H. wohnte jahrelang in einer Wohnung, die den Fuhrunternehmern gehörte. Der Familienvater und Chef der Firma ist aus “geistigen und körperlichen Gründen” nicht verhandlungsfähig, nur seine Söhne sitzen auf der Anklagebank.

Der Gerichtsvollzieher zahlte keine Miete, sparte so über die Jahre rund 21000 Euro. Auch soll der Beamte, der sich in einer “desolaten privaten Situation” befunden habe, seine Privatsachen kostenfrei bei der Firma eingelagert haben.

Im Gegenzug schusterte er dem Familienunternehmen Aufträge zu, etwa, wenn es um die Räumung von pleitegegangenen Firmen ging. Das Auftragsvolumen soll sich zwischen 2000 und 2004 auf 65000 Euro belaufen. Dabei soll Nils H. es auch akzeptiert haben, dass die Firma völlig überhöhte Rechnungen schrieb.

Die Zusammenarbeit flog auf, als Nils H. wegen seiner Alkoholsucht von seinen dienstlichen Fällen abgezogen wurde. Einem zweiten angeklagten Gerichtsvollzieher, einem Beamten aus St. Georg, soll die Familienfirma kostenlos ein Büro zur Verfügung gestellt haben. Außerdem sollen die Fuhrunternehmer kostenlos den BMW dieses Gerichtsvollziehers gewartet haben. Im Gegenzug soll die Familie Aufträge für rund 96000 Euro erhalten haben. Das Gericht rechnet mit einem längeren Verfahren.

(MOPO vom 05.11.2008 / SEITE 17)



Change the way we elect the president?
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So, you don’t believe there ever were Negro (Black, Colored, Afro-American – every twenty to thirty years or so they want a name change) members of the Ku Klux Klan??? Well read on! By the way, we have received a few e-mails concerning the previous few lines. So, from now on we will refer to the darker folks as AFROPEANS. That is an accurate racial description since nearly all of them in the USA are a mix and have both African and European ancestors. One of the last things today’s biased media wants anyone to know is that there were Negro members of the Ku Klux Klan. No one has ever written a book about them to my knowledge though such a book would be of great historical interest. In fact, very little documentation has survived. What little does survive speaks volumes and proves that Americans do not know their own history. Here I will simply give my sources of information and quote from them. If anyone has further documentation about the Black membership of the KKK I’d be grateful to be referred to it. Should I come across more documentation I will list it here.

My first source of Negro Klan membership is the book, “The Ku Klux Spirit”, by J.A. Rogers, noted Negro historian of the 1920’s. The Ku Klux Spirit was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book we find the amazing passage: “A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites.”

Very interesting. In the 1920’s, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living as well as many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era. J.A. Rogers would have been able to interview many. Why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And if he did make it up there would have been plenty of people who would have objected. His book would not have survived to this day. Yet, it did.

My second source is a book written by a Carpetbagger, Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905). In 1880 he published his book, “A Fool’s Errand”, (New York: Fords, Howard and Hubert). It was republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press as, “The Invisible Empire”. On page 79 of his book we find the passage: “There were no Colored men in the band (of Klansmen) that night. Their hands were not covered. I could see their boots and pants, and I could judge from their hands and feet. Most of them were genteel people, besides being white people. I could also have told by their language if there had been any Colored people among them. Their language was that of white men, and cultivated men.”

OK, why claim that no Colored men were riding with the Klan that night unless the witness had seen Colored men with the Klan on another occasion? The men were in their robes since the witness had to look at their uncovered hands to see that no Colored men were among them. If he’s not telling the truth, why would a Carpetbagger, of all people, ever make such a thing up?

My third source is, “Ku Klux Klan, It’s Origins, Growth, and Disbandment”, by J.C. Lester (one of the six original founders of the first Ku Klux Klan) and D.L. Wilson (another early Klansman). The book was first published in 1884. (I have an original copy). Reprints of this book are available from us for $7.00. The book was re-printed in 1905. In that edition, Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D., added an introduction. Again in 1905, there were still plenty of original Klansmen and others who had lived during the Reconstruction Era. In the introduction we find Fleming’s statement: “Many of the genuine Unionists later joined in the movement (the KKK), and there were some few Negro members, I have been told.”

Now here we are told that there were “some few Negro members”. Above we were told that there “were thousands of Negro Klansmen.” But that is relative. When one considers that the original KKK had over 400,000 members “some few Negro members” could have totaled several thousand!

My fourth source is an more modern book, “Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography”, by Jack Hurst. On page 305 we find this interesting quote: “…(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a “Colored Democratic Club” under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway – - who according to an account in the Appeal, “made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats.”

So, the Klan not only accepted and recruited Blacks in some areas, but a Klan leader made a motion that White men give employment and protection to Colored democrats. That in itself speaks volumes. Yes, volumes of ignored facts of Klan, Negro, and American history.

That is all I have for documentation that there were Negro members of the original Ku Klux Klan. But, that in itself, is enough to prove their existence! The only thing to do now is to discover more documentation of what may very well be the least known chapter in Black  American history. I said before that Americans do not know their own history. In time I will add this to my web page, but how many of you know that there were millions of White slaves (not bonded servants, but true slaves for life) in this country? That there were free Negroes who owned slaves? That there were free Negroes who fought gallantly for the Confederate States? That the Confederate Army did not discriminate against, or pay unequally its Negro soldiers? This and more, in time will be added. But for now, back to the Klan.

When the Klan was revived in 1915 it was originally just for Protestant White men. In time the Klan added the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, teenager and children’s groups, groups for the foreign born and Colored men.

Concerning the Colored Klansmen of the 20th century my first source is, “Women of the Klan, Racism and Gender in the 1920’s”, by Kathleen M. Blee. (1991, University of California Press). On page 169, we find the passage, ” Even more strangely, the Klan tried to organize an order of Black Protestants, a Klan “Colored division” in Indiana and other states. Despite promises that the new order would have “all the rights of membership” of the White Klan, much preparation went into ensuring that the values of white supremacy would be preserved as the Klan expanded its racial base. The group was to wear red robes, white capes, and blue masks and was prohibited from being seen in public with White Klansmen or handling any membership funds.”

Well, if any of you ever find such a red, white, and blue robe in an antique shop or old trunk somewhere it would be as significant an historical find as discovering an original Klan robe. Likewise with any photos of the Colored Klansmen, newspapers articles, or anything else pertaining to them. Let me know if you do. (I think I’ll make a couple reproductions of their robes for display.) It is presently unknown just how far the Colored Man’s Klan went or how long they lasted. When the men’s Klan had to disband in 1944, the separate Women of the Ku Klux Klan organization did not. They changed their name to the Women’s Christian Patriotic Association and continued up to the 1960’s. Could this order of Black Protestants have changed its name and still be with us to this day with its origins unknown to historians as well as its own present members?

Now to further add to this my next source of information is from the KKK, itself. In their book, “K.K.K. Friend or Foe: Which?”, by attorney Blaine Mast and published in 1924 a chapter is dedicated to discussing the KKK and its relationship to the Black population. In this chapter we see the passage:

“The KKK claims that there is no good reason why the Colored people may not form a Ku Klux Klan of their own, and, as far as the writer knows, such an institution may exist in America. Indeed, we were credibly informed that some months ago a Klan gathering took place in an adjoining state, which was attended by some 20 colored men, for a general invitation had been extended. Those Negroes were so favorably impressed with what a distinguished speaker said, and with the general character and demeanor of the meeting, that they approached the speaker and others in authority and inquired if it were not possible for the Colored people to form a Klan of their own race. If they could get permission to organize they were anxious to do so and hoped for assistance from the officers of the KKK. So, in this particular instance, at least, some Colored men had no fear in associating with Klansmen.”

The chapter then went on to outline the ground work for such a Black Klan. It is of interest that in the same book, another chapter is dedicated to discussing the possible formation of a Jewish branch of the Ku Klux Klan. A reprint of this book is available from us for $7.00.

We have recently made a new historical find concerning Negroes in the KKK that you will find surprising. It appears that in some cases Whites and Blacks belonged to the same local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Our source of information is from the book: Hard Times by Studs Terkel (1970, New York). The book is about the conditions in this country during the Great Depression. On page 239 we read:

“The Ku Klux was formed on behalf of people that wanted a decent living, both black and white. Half the coal camp was colored. It wasn’t anti-colored. The black people had the same responsibilities as the white. Their lawn was just as green as the white man’s. They got the same rate of pay. There was two colored who belonged to it. I remember those two coming around my father and asking questions about it. They joined. The pastor of our community church was a colored man. He was Ku Klux. It was the only protection the working man had. ……. One time a Negro slapped a white boy. They didn’t give him any warning. They whipped him and ran him out of town. If a white man slapped a colored kid, they’d have dome the same thing. They didn’t go in for beating up Negroes because they were Negroes. What they did was keep the community decent to live in. What they did object to was obscenity and drinking.”

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Once you get passed the mass media’s brain washing propaganda you can get at the true facts. Photo above right: Here two friends, one Afropean, one Caucasian, show their support for the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederate Battle Flag.
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This news article is from the year 1976

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Photo above. In the 1990’s the Florida Realm of the KKK shared an office with the Pan African Independence Now movement in an effort to promote racial preservation through mutual co-operation.

Photo below: Black celebrity, Daryl Davis, gets along just fine with his Klan buddies.

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A Black policeman displays his membership card after joining the Klan group that, at the time, was run by David Duke

Hollywood cashed in on Black membership in the KKK in the past. But, as usual, they blow things out of proportion and distort everything

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Will the real “Boys in the Hood” please stand up. Actually, it looks more like brother – hood. Photo below: Date 1957. There was a time when Klansmen and Black people could pass each other on the street without incident. That was before the biased mass media got everyone radicalized

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzFZljIhwg

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He is not white. He’s not even light-skinned. Make no mistake about it; he is black. Yet, Klan-Destine Relationships author Daryl Davis has come in closer contact with members of the Ku Klux Klan than most white non-members and certainly most blacks — short of being on the wrong end of a rope. What’s more? He continues to do so, making him one of the most unique lecturers on the college speaking circuit today.

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Over the last ten years, Daryl Davis walked on the edge with one foot dangling over the precipice. His stories of setting up surprise meetings with Klan leaders unaware of his skin color and attending KKK rallies, has the suspense of Hitchcock, keeping audiences riveted to their seats in disbelief.

On a quest to do nothing more than explore racism and gather information for his book, Klan-Destine Relationships, Daryl Davis eventually became the recipient of robes and hoods by Klan members who came to him to rescind their beliefs. Davis had inadvertently stumbled upon a successful method of forming friendships between sworn enemies. His methods have made him the center of controversy. In some white circles he has been deemed “politically incorrect” and in some black circles he has been called “Uncle Tom.” Daryl Davis often makes supporters out of his detractors by proving his methods work and issuing this challenge: “I have Klan robes and hoods hanging in my closet, given to me voluntarily by members who have quit the Klan since coming to know me. That’s what I’ve done to improve race relations. How many robes and hoods have you received as a result of your methods?”

Daryl Davis earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from Howard University. An accomplished blues and R&B musician, he performs regularly with his own Daryl Davis Band. He has toured extensively with Muddy Water’s Legendary Blues Band and Chuck Berry, among others.

As a race relations expert, Daryl Davis has received acclaim for his book, Klan-Destine Relationships and his work in race relations from many respected sources including: CNN, CNBC, Good Morning America, The Learning Channel, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The American Ethical Union and The Washington Ethical Society.

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Filled with exciting encounters and amusing anecdotes, Daryl Davis’ impassioned lectures leaves an audience feeling empowered to confront their own prejudices and overcome their fears. They leave the lecture seeking and hopefully finding a common ground, to help forge peace with their most unlikely adversaries.

Reviews of Daryl Davis’ Programs:

He captivated the audience with his sincere and open approach concerning the topic…
Mr. Davis truly does empower people to ‘confront their prejudices and overcome their fears.

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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Daryl’s lecture provided an avenue for students to vent their frustrations with racial tensions that still do exist.
I was very pleased with the quality of the lecture. Daryl is a super guy.
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Northland College

Incredible program
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University of Florida

Truly an amazing and inspirational person
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Students deeply enjoyed the presentation and walked away with a powerful impression on how to respect other people
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Chapman University

This was amazing! So true it was hard to believe!
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Chadron State University

…FOR “=!” 2012 US PRESIDENT from Austria”SCHWARZENEGGER” by Barack Hussein Obama….nothing else or what matters.Arnie loves the Nazis,too..but global nazism is communism.




Uri Geller will send your message to the aliens!

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Are we really alone? With the phenomenal power of his mind Uri Geller wants to contact extraterrestrials. Send us your personal message to the aliens and Uri sends them on Saturday at 20:15 clock in spectacular live experiment of all time into space.
Achad – Shtaim – Shalosh!

http://www.prosieben.de/show_comedy/uri_geller_live/fragen/

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Send your message into space!

Unbelievable! What you wanted the aliens always ask times? What should they know about the earth? With us you can touch! Leave your message here to download a picture or high – in the big Saturday night show on 15 November “Uri Geller live – UFOs and Aliens – The incredible live experiment,” we send all the messages and images into space! Via radio telescope they make their way into the universe. A professor of astrophysics and radio astronomy monitors the technical end.

“Anything can happen,” said Uri Geller. He also has a personal message for the aliens: “We open our hearts and our thoughts for you. We firmly believe that somewhere out there you are. Please show you in the night of November 15. The people are from the windows see and expect your signal. “



The Connection between German Telekom/T-Mobile and the new 4th Reich

Internationaler Sealand Business Club

INHALT: Archiv
interner Link Hakeburg: Dokumente
interner Link SHAEF Dokumente: Siehe Downloads

Regierungsdokumente:
interner Link Kanzlerbrief 140100
interner Link Kanzlerbrief 210300
pdf Regierungsbeschluß 11/98 [zur Abwehr feindlicher Aktionen]
interner Link Kanzlerakte [gesamte Korrepondenz mit dem Bundeskanzleramt wg. [Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz]
interner Link Schreiben an die Botschafter der Siegermächte in Sachen Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz (KWKG)
pdf Schreiben der Principality of Sealand an den Botschafter der USA in Deutschland vom 5. Mai 2003
pdf Regierungsbeschluß 05-01-2004 v. 8.Mai 2004 zur Freigabe der Vril-Technik (Sealand-Generator)

interner Link Völkerrecht
interner Link Rechtsgutachten Prof. Dr. Leisner über den völkerrechtlichen Status von Sealand ..
interner Link Rechtsgutachten Dr. Vitányi [dasselbe]

interner Link Völkerrechtlicher Status der BRD: Carlo Schmid am 8. September 1948 zum Charakter des Grundgesetzes als besatzungsrechtliches Mittel der Fremdherrschaft … [173 KB]
interner Link Auszug aus dieser Rede 40 KB]
pdf Carlo Schmid Rede als PDF

Siehe auch: interner Link Downloads | interner Link Hakeburg-Dokumentation


Kostenpflichtig | Als digitaler Download kostenlos



Siehe auch interner Link Hakeburg


Unser Staatsgebiet am Seeberg Kleinmachnow b. Berlin
uunter anderem: in Sachen Sealand / Deutsche Telekom

pdf Die Hakeburg Dokumentation A: Darstellung der Eigentumsfrage mit Dokumenten
pdf Die Hakeburg Dokumentation B: Darstellung der Eigentumsfrage ohne Dokumente
Die Hakeburg Dokumentation C: Zip als HTML-Paket mit allen Dokumenten
Stand: März 2003
pdf Die  Hakeburg D - Dokumente und Telekom – Schriftwechsel nebst Rechnungen [4,1 MB]
interner Link Archiv Hakeburg mit den Dokumenten zum Thema Deutsche Telekom

Pressestimmen (in D enthalten):

Die Hakeburg in Kleinmachnow – Forschungszentrum im Dritten Reich
pdf Focus Artikel: Telekom DTAG / Sealand betr. Hakeburg
Wem gehört die Hakeburg?

Rechnungen an die DTAGDeutsche Telekom:

Stand unserer Gesamtforderung am 11. Juli 2005: 994.996.596,10 Euro

Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 11. Juli 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Juni 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Mai 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 11. April 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. März 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Februar 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Januar 2005
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Dezember 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. November 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 11. Oktober 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. September 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. August 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 12. Juli 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Mai 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 9. April 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. März 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 9. Februar 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 9. Januar 2004
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 12. Dezember 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. November 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Oktober 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 8. September 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 18. August 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 25. Juni 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 5. Mai 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 4. April 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 19. März 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 6. Februar 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 6. Januar 2003
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 16. Dezember 2002, mit Anhang:
pdf Regierungsbeschluß 080203 [August 2002] in der Angelegenheit Forderung der Sealand Trade Corporation gegenüber der Deutschen Telekom AG und Unterstützung der Flutopfer im August 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Prof. Dr. Hermann Sihler, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 06. November 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Prof. Dr. Hermann Sihler, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 02. Oktober 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Prof. Dr. Hermann Sihler, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 09. September 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Prof. Dr. Hermann Sihler, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 22. August 2002

pdf Regierungsbeschluß 080203 [August 2002] in der Angelegenheit Forderung der Sealand Trade Corporation gegenüber der Deutschen Telekom AG und Unterstützung der Flutopfer im August 2002 [interner Link Text] Siehe auch im interner Link Archiv.

Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 09. Juli 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 10. Juni 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 03. Mai 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 12. April 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 03. Januar 2002
Rechnung der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 03. November 2001

Rechtliche Grundlagen in Sachen Sealand / Deutsche Telekom:

pdf Die Hakeburg Dokumentation A: Darstellung der Eigentumsfrage mit Dokumenten
SHAEF Proklamation Nr. 1 der USA [600 KB]
SHAEF: Dokumente der diplomatischen Verbindungen zur komm. Regierung des Deutschen Reichs [1,8 MB]
SHAEF – Text unserer Darstellung & Dokumente der Verratsverfahren [1,9 MB]
SHAEF Gesetz Nr. 52 – Beschlagnahme von Deutschem Vermögen
Pachtvertrag zwischen dem Deutschen Reich/Reichspostministerium und dem Fürstentum Sealand vom 15. Oktober 1999
Bestätigung des Pachtvertrages nach Einreichung bei SHAEF-Gesetzgeber USA [05.01.2000]
Schreiben des Generalbevollmächtigten für das Deutsche Reich (SHAEF-Gesetzgeber USA) an die Deutsche Telekom AG vom 1. Dezember 1999 – Fristsetzung zur Räumung
Bestätigungsschreiben der kommissarischen Regierung des Deutschen Reiches vom 5. Januar 2000 zum Pachtvertrag vom 15. Oktober 1999
Schreiben der Diplomatischen Vertretung des Fürstentums Sealand im Deutschen Reich (SHAEF-Gesetzgber USA) an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 11. Januar 2000 – Fristsetzung zur Räumung
Hinweis auf Schadensersatzforderung im Schreiben unserer Diplomatischen Vertretung usw. an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 15. Februar 2000
Schreiben der Sealand Trade Corporation an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 20. April 2000 wegen Abtretung der Forderung an Sealand Trade Corp. und Entschädigungsforderung
Erneute Darstellung der Rechtslage und Warnung vor Veröffentlichung des Sachverhalts und den dadurch drohenden Kursverlusten der DTAG-Aktie im Schreiben unserer Diplomatischen Vertretung an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 1. Mai 2000
Schreiben des Generalbevollmächtigten für das Deutsche Reich (SHAEF-Gesetzgeber USA) an Herrn Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom AG, vom 21. August 2000 wegen Einleitung des Ermittlungsverfahren wegen Landes- und Hochverrat etc.
Beispiel: Rechnung vom Mai 2004 über die inzwischen aufgelaufene Schadensersatzforderung der Sealand Trade Corp. an die Deutsche Telekom AG [Unsere Ansprüche sind rechtskräftig; es wurde zudem nicht widersprochen]

Stand unserer Gesamtforderung am 10. Mai 2004: 777.216.247,70 Euro

Bezüglich der Rechtsgrundlagen siehe auch:
interner Link SHAEF – SHAEF Dokumente | http://www.reichspraesident-deutsches-reich.de/
Stand: Donnerstag, 09. September 2004
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Parallel Universes

Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct cover_2008-11_thumbimplication of cosmological observation

Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.

The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your universe twin any less real. The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere. There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices.

Scientific American Magazine

November 2008
FEATURES

Jacking into the Brain–Is the Brain the Ultimate Computer Interface?
How far can science advance brain-machine interface technology? Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive?
By Gary Stix

Smart DNA: Programming the Molecule of Life for Work and Play
Logic gates made of DNA could one day operate in your bloodstream, collectively making medical decisions and taking action. For now, they play a mean game of in vitro tic-tac-toe
By Joanne Macdonald, Darko Stefanovic and Milan N. Stojanovic

The Incredible Shrinking Scanner: MRI-like Machine Becomes Portable
A portable version of a room-size nuclear magnetic resonance machine can probe the chemistry and structure of objects ranging from mummies to tires
By Bernhard Blümich

25 Years Later: The AIDS Vaccine Search Goes On
Repeated failures in the quest for an AIDS vaccine have sent investigators back to the drawing board
By David I. Watkins

Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
In seeming defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, nature is filled with examples of order emerging from chaos. A new theoretical framework resolves the apparent paradox
By J. Miguel Rubí

25 Years Later: Can HIV Be Cured?
Eliminating HIV from the body would require flushing the virus out of its hiding places and preventing those reservoirs from being refilled. A tall order but perhaps not impossible
By Mario Stevenson


Special Report: HIV–25 Years Later
The big challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS
By The Editors


Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth–At a Price
Global warming has become such an overriding emergency that some climate experts are willing to consider schemes for partly shielding the planet from the sun’s rays. But no such scheme is a magic bullet
By Robert Kunzig





Protection built to scale–fish scale, that is
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Primitive ‘dinosaur eel’ could inspire future body armor

Scientists seeking to protect the soldier of the future can learn a lot from a relic of the past, according to an MIT study of a primitive fish that could point to more effective ways of designing human body armor.

The creature in question is Polypterus senegalus, a fish whose family tree can be traced back 96 million years and who still inhabits muddy, freshwater pools in Africa. Unlike the vast majority of fish today, P. senegalus sports a full-body armored “suit” that most fish would have had millions of years ago–a throwback that helps explain why it is nicknamed the “dinosaur eel.”

It was known that the fish’s individual armored scales were comprised of multiple material layers–each of them about 100 millionths of a meter thick. But in a U.S. Army-funded study carried out through the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and published in the July 27 online issue of Nature Materials, a team of MIT engineers unraveled exactly how the layers complement one another to protect the soft tissues inside the fish body–particularly from a p