"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."
Billy's Money Laundering Home Page . . . courtesy of Kebbie, who writes, "D, if they were serious about the war on drugs bankers would be in the big house."
" . . . We were adopting a policy that says American people deserve significant choices between two major parties and third parties. As far as Leninist strategy, Tony Coehlo and the corporate Democratic National Committee—which spawned Clinton, Gore, and Lieberman—have for 20 years destroyed the progressive agenda and excluded citizen's groups from being able to affect policy in Washington, D.C., as they lunge into protective imitation mode with Republicans. That means the Democrats' strategy was to defeat the Republicans by taking Republican issues away from them and becoming more like them."
"The Times believes there should just be two parties, and a party like the Green Party, in that memorable phrase, 'clutters' the playing field. A remarkable position for a newspaper that believes in the First Amendment and has excoriated politicians for corrupt campaign funding that the Green Party wanted to eliminate. That will go down as the most indefensible intellectual exercise that ever appeared on New York Times editorial columns, which were basically rantings. The Washington Post invited me to speak at their editorial office, and The Wall Street Journal invited two op-eds. The Times never did either.
"Tom Friedman is a source of humor. He's so off the edge that he bellows in his column, he rages, it really makes our day. Here's a man who fancies himself an expert on global trade and has never read global trade agreements. I would give him the nomination as the columnist who has traveled more extensively and regularly around the world and has learned the least."
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I just found out my Dad voted for Nader--way to go, Pop!!!
" . . . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Diefenbeck, Director of Facilities and Engineering Division, 425 ``I'' Street, NW, Washington, DC 20536, Telephone 202-514-3099."
Is this Diefenbeck any relation to the Richard Diefenbeck listed by the Association of Research Libraries' List of Electronic Journals & Zines (circa. 1994) as the Editor-in-Chief (and Founder/Creator) of The Georgetown Gonzo? . . . "Georgetown University's unsanctioned, underground, untasteful, unboring satire/humor/culture publication. *One of the first publications created to take advantage of the World Wide Web's capacity to hyperlink.*" . . . where previously it had said [pp]: "The first college humour publication to be brought online"? . . . hmmmm.
Hey folks, this is pretty important to me, please act quickly before Baby Bush exploits our wildlife:
Sen. Frank Murkowski had a column in last Sunday's Outlook Section of The Washington Post, calling for opening up this glorious area to oil exploration. Bush says this is going to be one of his priorities. Even though Clinton is president for only a few more weeks, he can still designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be a National Monument which would forever protect that pristine wilderness from oil drilling and other commercial development.
Bush has already stated that he will turn the Refuge over to big oil. Clinton is on his way out and is sympathetic to this cause and has already protected more land since Teddy Roosevelt was president. All he needs is a push from the public.
Call the White House hotline at (202)456-1111 (press "0" when prompted) from 8:30-5:00 EST and tell the comments-line operator that you want President Clinton to declare the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be a National Monument as the last great environmental act of his presidency. This one action may result in the protection of thousands of animals and plantlife.
You may also send the president an email at: president@whitehouse.gov. or fax: 202-456-2461 Your message or phone call can simply say: President Clinton, I am asking you to designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be a National Monument as the last environmental act of your presidency. Please culminate your time as president with this one act that will save thosands of lives.
Please do what you can!
~envirogirl (this may be one of the most important issues of the century. this land is one of, if not the only last pristine wildlife areas. it has not been touched by humans yet, so why do we feel like we have the right to fuck it up now?)
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