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1. • 15 december 2008 at 4:56

   Fenixmona

   Godmorgon i stugan denna måndag! Länge sen jag hörde Boney M..Kramiz

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2. • 15 december 2008 at 6:28

   syren

   God morgon vännen! Boney M det är verkligen härligt att höra denna tidiga morgon. kram

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3. • 15 december 2008 at 8:05

   mona

   Väldigt många förbud med tanke på vår regrings partiideologi. Men å andra sidan inte. Deras samhälle är bara till för en del den så kallade eliten. Så varför inte göra som ismamman Handla medvetet köp vad du behöver inte vad du vill ha/ ha en bra dag

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4. • 15 december 2008 at 8:21

   Mike

   Detta land har förvandlats till ett stort fashist skämt .

   Övrigt :

   Något kul jag hittade på nätet som Pdf fil.

   50 THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW

   CONTENTS
   Introduction
   01 The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren’t the Ten Commandments
   02 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
   03 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
   04 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
   05 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan’s Food Supply
   06 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
   07 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
   08 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
   09 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
   10 World War III Almost Started in 1995
   11 The Korean War Never Ended
   12 Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
   13 Kent State Wasn’t the Only — or Even the First — Massacre of College Students During the
   Vietnam Era
   14 Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
   15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
   16 Adolph Hitler’s Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
   17 Around One Quarter of ”Witches” Were Men
   18 The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
   19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
   20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army
   21 Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
   22 Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
   23 The Police Aren’t Legally Obligated to Protect You
   24 The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
   25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You’re Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If
   You’re an Addict
   26 The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
   27 Most Scientists Don’t Read All of the Articles They Cite
   28 Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories
   29 The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
   30 Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
   31 The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
   32 Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
   33 Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
   34 Most Doctors Don’t Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
   35 Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
   36 Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
   37 Work Kills More People Than War
   38 The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly
   39 For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
   40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
   41 An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
   42 The Bayer Company Made Heroin
   43 LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
   44 Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
   45 One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
   46 The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
   47 The Word ”Squaw” Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
   48 You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
   49 Advertisers’ Influence on the News Media Is Widespread
   50 The World’s Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

   01
   THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WE ALWAYS SEE AREN’T THE TEN
   COMMANDMENTS
   First Amendment battles continue to rage across the US over the posting of the Ten
   Command-ments in public places — courthouses, schools, parks, and pretty much anywhere else
   you can imagine. Christians argue that they’re a part of our Western heritage that should be
   displayed as ubiquitously as traffic signs. Congressman Bob Barr hilariously suggested that the
   Columbine massacre wouldn’t have happened if the Ten Commandments (also called the
   Decalogue) had been posted in the high school, and some government officials have directly,
   purposely disobeyed court rulings against the display of these ten directives supposedly handed
   down from on high.
   Too bad they’re all talking about the wrong rules.
   Every Decalogue you see — from the 5,000-pound granite behemoth inside the Alabama State
   Judicial Building to the little wallet-cards sold at Christian bookstores — is bogus. Simply
   reading the Bible will prove this. Getting out your King James version, turn to Exodus 20:2-17.
   You’ll see the familiar list of rules about having no other gods, honoring your parents, not killing
   or coveting, and so on. At this point, though, Moses is just repeating to the people what God told
   him on Mount Si’nai. These are not written down in any form.
   Later, Moses goes back to the Mount, where God gives him two ”tables of stone” with rules
   written on them (Exodus 31:18). But when Moses comes down the mountain lugging his load, he
   sees the people worshipping a statue of a calf, causing him to throw a tantrum and smash the
   tablets on the ground (Exodus 32:19).
   In neither of these cases does the Bible refer to ”commandments.” In the first instance, they are
   ”words” which ”God spake,” while the tablets contain ”testimony.” It is only when Moses goes
   back for new tablets that we see the phrase ”ten commandments” (Exodus 34:28). In an
   interesting turn of events, the commandments on these tablets are significantly different than the
   ten rules Moses recited for the people, meaning that either Moses’ memory is faulty or God
   changed his mind.
   Thus, without further ado, we present to you the real ”Ten Commandments” as handed down by
   the LORD unto Moses (and plainly listed in Exodus 34:13-28). We eagerly await all the new
   Decalogues, which will undoubtedly contain this correct version:
   I. Thou shalt worship no other god.
   II. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
   III.. The feast of unleavened bread thou shalt keep
   IV. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
   V. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of
   ingathering at the year’s end.
   VI. Thrice In the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God.
   VII. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.VIII. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
   IX. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
   X. Thou shalt not seethe a kid [ie, a young goat] in his mother’s milk.

   02
   ONE OF THE POPES WROTE AN EROTIC BOOK
   Before he was Pope Pius II, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini was a poet, scholar, diplomat, and
   rakehell. And an author. In fact, he wrote a bestseller. People in fifteenth-century Europe couldn’t
   get enough of his Latin novella Historia de duobus amantibus. An article in a scholarly
   publication on literature claims that Historia ”was undoubtedly one of the most read stories of
   the whole Renaissance.” The Oxford edition gives a Cliff Notes version of the storyline: ”The
   Goodli History tells of the illicit love of Euralius, a high official in the retinue of the [German]
   Emperor Sigismund, and Lucres, a married lady from Siena [Italy].”
   It was probably written in 1444, but the earliest known printing is from Antwerp in 1488. By the
   turn of the century, 37 editions had been published. Somewhere around 1553, the short book
   appeared in English under the wonderfully old-school title The Goodli History of the Moste
   Noble and Beautyfull Ladye Lucres of Scene in Tuskane, and of Her Louer Eurialus Verye
   Pleasaunt and Delectable vnto ye Reder. Despite the obvious historical interest of this archaic
   Vatican porn, it has never been translated into contemporary language. (The passages quoted
   below mark the first time that any of the book has appeared in
   modern English.)
   The 1400s being what they were, the action is pretty tame by today’s
   standards. At one point, Euralius scales a wall to be with Lucres:
   ”When she saw her lover, she clasped him in her arms. There was
   embracing and kissing, and with full sail they followed their lusts and
   wearied Venus, now with Ceres, and now with Bacchus was
   refreshed.” Loosely translated, that last part means that they shagged,
   then ate, then drank wine.
   His Holiness describes the next time they hook up:
   Thus talking to each other, they went into the bedroom, where they had such a night as we
   judge the two lovers Paris and Helen had after he had taken her away, and it was so
   pleasant that they thought Mars and Venus had never known such pleasure….
   Her mouth, and now her eyes, and now her cheeks he kissed. Pulling down her clothes, he
   saw such beauty as he had never seen before. ”I have found more, I believe,” said Euralius,
   ”than Acteon saw of Diana when she bathed in the fountain. What is more pleasant or
   more fair than these limbs?… O fair neck and pleasant breasts, is it you that I touch? Is it
   you that I have? Are you in my hands? O round limbs, O sweet body, do I have you in my
   arms?… O pleasant kisses, O dear embraces, O sweet bites, no man alive is happier than I
   am, or more blessed.”…He strained, and she strained, and when they were done they weren’t weary. Like Athens,
   who rose from the ground stronger, soon after battle they were more desirous of war.
   But Euralius isn’t just a horndog. He waxes philosophical about love to Lucres’ cousin-in-law:
   You know that man is prone to love. Whether it is virtue or vice, it reigns everywhere. No
   heart of flesh hasn’t sometime felt the pricks of love. You know that neither the wise
   Solomon nor the strong Sampson has escaped from this passion. Furthermore, the nature
   of a kindled heart and a foolish love is this: The more it is allowed, the more it burns, with
   nothing sooner healing this than the obtaining of the loved. There have been many, both in
   our time and that of our elders, whose foolish love has been the cause of cruel death. And
   many who, after sex and love vouchsafed, have stopped burning. Nothing is better when
   love has crept into your bones than to give in to the burning, for those who strive against
   the tempest often wreck, while those who drive with the storm escape.
   Besides sex and wisdom, the story also contains a lot of humor, as when Lucres’ husband
   borrows a horse from Euralius: ”He says to himself, ‘If you leap upon my horse, I shall do the
   same thing to your wife.’”
   Popes just don’t write books like that anymore!

   03
   THE CIA COMMITS OVER 100,000 SERIOUS CRIMES EACH YEAR
   It’s no big secret that the Central Intelligence Agency breaks the law. But just how often its does
   in is a shocker. A Congressional report reveals that the CIA’s spooks ”engage in highly illegal
   activities” at least 100,000 times each year (which breaks down to hundreds of crimes every
   day). Mind you, we aren’t talking about run-of-the-mill illegal activities — these are ”highly
   illegal activities” that ”break extremely serious laws.”
   In 1996, the House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a
   huge report entitled ”IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century.” Buried amid
   hun-dreds of pages is a single, devastating paragraph:
   The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence community], indeed of
   the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break
   extremely serious laws in countries around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated
   efforts by foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times
   every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in
   highly illegal activities (according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment
   to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals
   and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
   Amazingly, there is no explanation, no follow-up. The report simply drops this bombshell and
   moves on as blithely as if it had just printed a grocery list.

   One of the world’s foremost experts on the CIA — John Kelly, who uncovered this revelation —
   notes that this is ”the first official admission and definition of CIA covert operations as crimes.”
   He goes on to say:
   The report suggested that the CIA’s crimes include murder and that ”the targets of the CS
   [Clandestine Service] are increasingly international and transnational and a global
   presence is increasingly crucial to attack those targets.” In other words, we are not talking
   about simply stealing secrets. We are talking about the CIA committing crimes against
   humanity with de facto impunity and con-gressional sanctioning.
   Other government documents, including CIA reports, show that the CIA’s crimes include
   terrorism, assassination, torture, and systematic violations of human rights. The documents
   also show that these crimes are part and parcel of deliberate CIA policy (the
   [congressional] report notes that CIA personnel are ”directed” to commit crimes).
   04
   THE FIRST CIA AGENT TO DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY WAS DOUGLAS
   MACKIERNAN
   As of the year 2000, 69 CIA agents had died in the line of duty. Of these, the identities of 40
   remain classified. Former Washington Post and Time reporter Ted Gup spent three years hacking
   down information about these mysterious spooks who gave their lives for the Agency. (Mm
   resulting publication, The Book of Honor, names almost all of them.)
   The first to die was Douglas Mackiernan. Undercover as a State Department diplomat, the US
   Army Air Corps Major worked in the capital of China’s Xinjiang (Sinkiang) province, which
   Gup says ”was widely regarded as the most remote and desolate consulate on earth.” He went
   there m May 1947 to keep an eye on China’s border with the Soviet Union and to monitor the
   Husskies’ atomic tests.
   In late September 1949, during the Communist takeover of China, Mackiernan left, but it was too
   late to use normal routes. Incredibly, he decided to go by foot during winter all the way to India,
   which would take him across a desert and the Himalayas. He, three White Russians, and a
   Fulbright scholar slogged the 1,000-mile trek in eight months. On April 29, 1950, they managed
   lo reach the border of Tibet, but guards there thought the men were commies or bandits, and
   opened fire on them.
   Hitting the ground, the bedraggled travelers waved a white flag, which stopped the gunfire. They
   slowly walked toward the border guards with their hands over their heads, but the Tibetans shot
   them, killing Mackiernan and two of the Russians. To add insult to injury, the guards cut the
   heads off the corpses. Their remains are buried at that spot.
   With documents from the National Archives, Mackiernan’s widow, and other sources, Gup
   pulled the CIA’s first casualty out of the classified shadows. To this day, the Agency refuses to
   acknow-ledge Mackiernan’s existence.

   05
   AFTER 9/11, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WANTED TO POISON
   AFGHANISTAN’S FOOD SUPPLY
   One of the strangest things the media do is to bury huge revelations deep in the bowels of a
   larger story. A perfect example occurs in ”10 Days in September,” an epic eight-day series that
   ran in the Washington Post. In part six, Bob Woodward and Dan Balz are recounting the Bush
   Administration’s activities on September 17, 2001, six days after the 9/11 attacks. Bush and
   National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice have headed to the Pentagon to be briefed on action
   against Afghanistan by a two-star general from the Special Operation Command:
   Rice and Frank Miller, the senior NSC staffer for defense, went with the president to the
   Pentagon. Before the briefing, Miller reviewed the classified slide presentation prepared
   for Bush and got a big surprise.
   One slide about special operations in Afghanistan said: Thinking Outside the Box —
   Poisoning Food Supply. Miller was shocked and showed it to Rice. The United States
   doesn’t know how to do this, Miller reminded her, and we’re not allowed. It would
   effectively be a chemical or biological attack — clearly banned by treaties that the United
   States had signed, including the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
   Nice took the slide to Rumsfeld. ”This slide is not going to be shown to the president of the
   United States,” she said.
   Rumsfeld agreed. ”You’re right,” he said.
   Pentagon officials said later that their own internal review had caught the offending slide
   and that it never would have been shown to the president or to Rumsfeld.
   06
   THE US GOVERNMENT LIES ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TERRORISM
   CONVICTIONS IT OBTAINS
   Naturally enough, the Justice Department likes to trumpet convictions of terrorists. Besides
   garnering great publicity and allowing the citizenry to sleep snugly at night, this means more
   money for the department. The problem is that the numbers are a sham.
   The story broke when the Philadelphia Inquirer examined convictions that the Justice
   Depart-ment said involved terrorism during the five year-period ending September 30, 2001.
   They found ludicrous examples of misclassification:
   In one vivid example, an assistant US attorney in San Francisco asked US District Judge
   Marilyn H. Patel on Monday to stiffen a sentence against an Arizona man who got drunk
   on a United Airlines flight from Shanghai, repeatedly rang the call button, demanded more
   liquor, and put his hands on a flight attendant. Justice Department records show the case
   as ”domestic terrorism.”

   In another case: ”A tenant fighting eviction called his landlord, impersonated an FBI agent, and
   said the bureau did not want the tenant evicted. The landlord recognized the man’s voice and
   called the real FBI.”
   Other ”terrorist” incidents included prisoners rioting for better food, ”the former court employee
   who shoved and threatened a judge,” and ”[s]even Chinese sailors [who] were convicted of
   taking over a Taiwanese fishing boat and sailing to the US territory of Guam, where they hoped
   to win political asylum.”
   After this chicanery was exposed, Republican Congressman Dan Burton asked the General
   Accounting Office — a nonpartisan governmental unit that investigates matters for Congress —
   to look into the Justice Department’s claims of terrorist convictions. Sure enough, the GAO
   reported that the situation isn’t nearly as rosy as we’ve been told.
   In the year after 9/11 — from September 30, 2001, to that date the following year — the Justice
   Department maintained that 288 terrorists had been convicted in the US of their heinous crimes.
   But the GAO found that at least 132 of these cases (approximately 42 percent) had nothing to do
   with terrorism. Because of the GAO’s methodology, it didn’t verify every one of the remaining
   166 convictions, so it refers to their accuracy as ”questionable.”
   The deception is even worse when you zoom in on the cases classified as ”international
   terrorism,” which are the most headline-grabbing of all. Out of 174 such convictions, 131 (an
   amazing 75 percent) weren’t really about terror.
   After all of this humiliation, the Justice Department must’ve cleaned up its act, right? That’s what
   it told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Well, the paper did a follow-up on ”terrorism” cases for the first
   two months of 2003. Out of the 56 federal cases supposedly involving terrorism, at least 41 were
   bogus. Eight of them involved Puerto Ricans protesting the Navy’s use of Vieques as a bombing
   range. The prosecutor who handled these cases says she doesn’t know why they were classified
   as terrorism. Similarly, 28 Latinos were arrested for working at airports with phony ID, and a
   spokesman for the US Attorney says they weren’t even suspected of being involved in terrorism.
   The most ridiculous example: ”A Middle Eastern man indicted in Detroit for allegedly passing
   bad checks who has the same name as a Hezbollah leader.”
   07
   THE US IS PLANNING TO PROVOKE TERRORIST ATTACKS
   Perhaps the government won’t need to inflate its terrorism-arrest stats after it implements the
   Defense Science Board’s recommendation. This influential committee inside the Pentagon has
   proposed a terrifying way to fight evil-doers: Goad them into making terrorist attacks. Yes, you
   read correctly. Instead of waiting for a plot to be hatched and possibly executed, go out and make
   it happen.

   In summer 2002, the Defense Science Board outlined all kinds of ways to fight the war on
   terrorism around the world. The scariest suggestion involves the creation of a new 100-man,
   $100-million team called the Proactive Pre-emptive Operations Group, or P2OG.
   This combination of elite special forces soldiers and intelligence agents will have ”an entirely
   new capability to proactively, pre-emptively provoke responses from adversary/terrorist groups,”
   according to the DSB’s report.
   Just how the P2OG will ”provoke” terrorists into action is not specified, at least in the
   unclassified portions of the report. United Press International — which apparently has access to
   the full, classified version of the report — says that techniques could include ”stealing their
   money or tricking them with fake communications.” The Moscow Times offers further
   possibilities, such as killing family members and infiltrating the groups with provocateurs, who
   will suggest and even direct terrorist strikes.
   Once the terrorists have been provoked, what then? UPI says that by taking action, the terrorists
   would be ”exposing themselves to ‘quick-response’ attacks by US forces.” In other words, the
   plan is to hit the hornet’s nest with a stick, while waiting nearby with a can of bug spray. The
   flaws in this approach are obvious. Although not spelled out in the UPI article or the report itsef,
   the idea seems to be that the P2OG will cause terrorists to make an attack but supposedly stop
   them light before the attack actually occurs. Will the P2OG always be able to prevent terrorism it
   creates from taking place? Will it always be able to ”neutralize” all of the terrorists during that
   crucial window after a plan has been put into motion but before it’s been carried out? I wouldn’t
   want to bet lives on it. But that’s exactly what’s happening.
   Whenever any future terrorist attack occurs — an embassy is truck-bombed, a nightclub is
   blown to smithereens, prominent buildings are hit with hijacked passenger jets — we’ll never be
   100 percent sure that this wasn’t an operation the P2OG provoked but then was unable to stop in
   time.
   08
   THE US AND SOVIET UNION CONSIDERED DETONATING NUCLEAR BOMBS ON
   THE MOON
   You’d be forgiven for thinking that this is an unused scene from Dr. Strangelove, but the United
   States and the Soviet Union have seriously considered exploding atomic bombs on the Moon.
   It was the late 1950s, and the Cold War was extremely chilly. Someone in the US government
   got the bright idea of nuking the Moon, and in 1958 the Air Force Special Weapons Center
   spearheaded the project (labeled A119, ”A Study of Lunar Research Flights”).
   The idea was to shock and awe the Soviet Union, and everybody else, with a massive display of
   American nuclear might. What better demonstration than an atomic explosion on our closest
   celestial neighbor? According to the project’s reports, the flash would’ve been visible to the
   naked eye on Earth. (It’s been suggested that another motivation may have been to use the Moon
   as a test range, thus avoiding the problems with irradiating our home planet.)

   Carl Sagan was among the scientists lending his intellectual muscle to this hare-brained scheme.
   The project’s leader was physicist Leonard Reiffel, who said: ”I made it clear at the time there
   would be a huge cost to science of destroying a pristine lunar environment, but the US Air Force
   were mainly concerned about how the nuclear explosion would play on earth.”
   When a reporter for Reuters asked him what had happened to Project A119, Reiffel replied,
   ”After the final report in early- to mid-1959, it simply went away, as things sometimes do in the
   world of classified activities.”
   Astoundingly, this wasn’t the only time that a nuclear strike on the Moon was contemplated.
   Science reporter Keay Davidson reveals that ”in 1956, W.W. Kellogg of RAND Corporation
   considered the possibility of launching an atomic bomb to the Moon.” In 1957, NASA’s Jet
   Propulsion Laboratory put forth Project Red Socks, the first serious proposal to send spacecraft
   to the Moon. One of its lesser suggestions was to nuke the Moon in order to send lunar rocks
   hurtling back to Earth, where they could be collected and studied. The following year, the
   leading American astronomer of the time, Gerard Kuiper, coauthored a memo which considered
   the scientific advantages of nuking the Moon. The creator of the hydrogen bomb, physicist
   Edward Teller, similarly mused about dropping atomic bombs on the Moon in order to study the
   seismic waves they would create.
   The Soviet Union got in on the act, also in the late 1950s. Project E-4 would’ve used a probe
   armed with an A-bomb to blast the Moon, apparently as a display of one-upmanship. The idea
   reached the stage of a full-scale model but was aborted for fear of the probe falling back to Earth.
   09
   TWO ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON NORTH CAROLINA
   Fortunately, no atomic bombs were dropped on the Moon, but the same can’t be said of North
   Carolina. The Tar Heel State’s brush with nuclear catastrophe came on January 24, 1961, about
   half past midnight. A B-52 with two nukes on-board was cruising the skies near Goldsboro and
   Faro when its right wing leaked fuel and exploded. The jet disintegrated. Five crewmen survived,
   while three died.
   The two MARK 39 thermonuclear bombs disengaged from the jet. Each one had a yield of two
   to tour megatons (reports vary), up to 250 times as powerful as the bomb that decimated
   Hiroshima. The parachute opened on one of them, and it drifted to the earth relatively gently. But
   the parachute failed to open on the other, so it plowed into a marshy patch of land owned by a
   farmer.
   The nuke with the parachute was recovered easily. However, its twin proved much more difficult
   to retrieve. Because of the swampiness of the area, workers were able to drag out only part of the
   bomb. One of its most crucial components — the ”secondary,” which contains nuclear material
   — is still in the ground, probably around 150 feet down.

   The federal government bought rights to this swatch of land to prevent any owners from digging
   more than five feet under the surface. To this day, state regulators test the radiation levels of the
   ground water in the area every year. The head of the North Carolina Division of Radiation
   Protection has said that they’ve found only normal levels but that ”there is still an open question
   as to whether a hazard exists.”
   The big question is whether or not North Carolina’s own Fat Man and Little Boy could’ve
   actually detonated. Due to the technicalities of nuclear weapons — and the ambiguous nature of
   the terms ”unarmed,” ”armed,” and ”partially armed” — it’s hard to give a definitive answer. We
   do know this: The Defense Department said that the ill-fated B-52 was part of a program (since
   discontinued) that continuously kept nuclear bombs in the air, ready for dropping. So, the answer
   is yes, that jet was fully capable of unleashing its A-bombs in completely armed mode, with all
   that this implies — mushroom clouds, vaporized people, dangerous radiation levels for decades,
   etc.
   According to the late Chuck Hansen — one of the world’s leading authorities on nuclear
   weapons — the pilot of the B-52 would’ve had to throw a switch to arm the bombs. Since he
   didn’t, the bombs couldn’t have gone off. Hansen mentions the possibility that the switch
   could’ve been activated while the jet was breaking apart and exploding. Luckily this didn’t
   happen, but it was a possibility.
   That switch apparently was the only thing that stopped the bombs from turning part of North
   Carolina into toast. The government’s own reports show that for both bombs, three of the four
   arming devices had activated. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara further
   corroborated this during a press conference, saying that the nukes ”went through all but one” of
   the necessary steps.
   Hansen told college students researching this near-miss:
   This was a very dangerous incident and I suspect that steps were taken afterwards to
   prevent any repetition of it. I do not now know of any other weapon accident that came this
   close to a full-scale nuclear detonation (which is not to say that any such incident did not
   occur later).
   10
   WORLD WAR III ALMOST STARTED IN 1995
   What were you doing on January 25, 1995? Whatever it was, it was almost the last thing you
   ever did. On that day, the world came within minutes of a nuclear war between the US and
   Russia.
   Norway and the United States had launched a research rocket (for charting the Arctic) from a
   Norwegian island. Following standard protocol, Norway had alerted Russia in advance about the
   firing, but the message never made its way to the right people. In the middle of the night,
   Russian radar detected what looked like a nuclear missile launched toward Moscow from a US
   submarine.

   The military immediately called President Boris Yeltsin, awakening him with the news that the
   country appeared to be under attack (no word on whether Yeltsin had been in a vodka-induced
   drunken slumber). The groggy president, for the first time ever, activated the infamous black
   suitcase that contains the codes for launching nuclear missiles. He had just a few minutes to
   decide whether to launch any or all of the country’s 2,000 hair-trigger nukes at the US.
   Luckily for the entire world, while Yeltsin was conferring with his highest advisors, Russia’s
   radar showed that the missile was headed out to sea. The red alert was cancelled. World War III
   was averted.
   What makes this even more nerve-racking is that Russia’s early-warning systems are in much
   worse shape now than they were in ‘95. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
   explains that while Russia needs 21 satellites to have a complete, fully-redundant network
   capable of accurately detecting missile launches, as of 1999 they have only three. Heaven help us
   if some Russian bureaucrat again forgets to tell the command and control center that a nearby
   country is launching a research rocket.
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   THE KOREAN WAR NEVER ENDED
   Better not tell Hawkeye Pierce and the rest of the gang from M*A*S*H, but the Korean War is
   technically still happening. This comes to us from no less an authority than Howard S. Levie, the
   I man who drafted the Korean Armistice Agreement. At the time, this law professor was a
   captain in the Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG). He explains:
   An armistice is not a peace treaty. While its main objective is to bring about a cease-fire, a
   halt to hostilities, that halt may be indefinite or for a specified period of time only. An
   armistice agreement does not terminate the state of war between the belligerents. A state of
   war continues to exist with all of its implications for the belligerents and for the neutrals.
   The Korean Armistice itself even specifies that it is only a stop-gap measure ”until a final
   peaceful settlement is achieved.” To date, this settlement — otherwise known as a peace
   treaty — has never occurred. One attempt was made, at the Geneva Convention of 1954, but
   nothing came of it.
   Interestingly, the Armistice wasn’t signed at all by South Korea but rather by the head honchos in
   the United Nations Command, North Korea’s army, and China’s army. It should also be noted
   that the conflict in Korea wasn’t technically a ”war,” because — like so many other post-WWII
   hostilities — there was no formal declaration of war. As The Korean War: An Encyclopedia
   trenchantly observes: ”Since the war had never been declared, it was fitting that the should be no
   official ending, merely a suspension of hostilities.”
   North Korea has more than once denounced the Armistice, threatening to press the ”play” button
   on the long-paused Korean War. Most recently, in February 2003, Kim Jong-il’s government said
   that because of repeated US violations, the Armistice is merely ”a blank piece of paper without
   any effect or significance.”

   12
   AGENT ORANGE WAS USED IN KOREA
   ”Agent Orange” is practically synonymous with the Vietnam War. The Dow Chemical defoliant
   was used to de-junglize large areas, exposing enemy troops, supplies, and infiltrators. It has been
   linked, though never definitively, to a number of nasty health problems such as Hodgkin’s
   disease and adult-onset diabetes, plus spina bifida in offspring. The Veterans Administration
   compensates sick veterans who were exposed in Vietnam.
   But it turns out that ‘Nam wasn’t the only place to get doused with this super-herbicide. From
   April 1968 to July 1969, 21,000 gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed along a strip of land
   abutting the southern border of the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas. During that time
   period, mound 80,000 US military personnel served in South Korea, although not all of them
   would’ve been in the vicinity of the DMZ. The VA contradicts itself regarding who did the
   spraying, claiming at one point that it was South Korea but saying at another that the Department
   of Defense did it.
   In September 2000, the VA quietly sent letters to veterans who served in Korea during the
   spraying, letting them know that they may have been dosed with Agent Orange. Since these
   letters were sent over 30 years after the exposure, the Pentagon must’ve just found out about it,
   light? Actually, even if you buy the story that the South Koreans were responsible, the US
   military knew about the spraying at the time it happened but kept quiet about it for decades. It
   was only when news reports began citing declassified documents in 1999 that the government
   decided to do something.
   Possibly exposed vets can get tested for free by the Veterans Administration. The catch is, if
   they’re sick with Hodgkin’s or some other horrible disease, they — unlike their Vietnam
   compatriots — aren’t eligible for compensation or additional health care. However, for their
   agony, Korean vets will receive a free newsletter, the same one that Vietnam vets get.
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   KENT STATE WASN’T THE ONLY — OR EVEN THE FIRST — MASSACRE OF
   COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING THE VIETNAM ERA
   It’s one of the defining moments of the Vietnam era and, more than that, twentieth-century US
   history in general. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed Kent State
   University students protesting the war. Four were killed, eight were wounded, and another was
   left paralyzed. It’s so ingrained in the country’s psyche that it even appears in American history
   textbooks, and the anniversary is noted each year by the major media.
   Yet this wasn’t the only time the authorities slaughtered unarmed college kids during this time
   period. It happened on at least two other occasions, which have been almost completely
   forgotten.

   A mere ten days after the Kent State massacre, students at the historically black Jackson State
   University in Mississippi were protesting not only the Vietnam War and the recent killings at
   Kent, but racism as well. On the night of May 14, 1970, during the protests, a small riot broke
   out when a false rumor swept the campus: The black mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, was said to
   have been assassinated. As at Kent State, some students or provocateurs threw bricks and stones
   and set fires. Firefighters trying to put out a blaze in a men’s dorm were hassled by an angry
   crowd, so they called for police protection. The campus was cordoned off.
   Jackson State’s Website devoted to the incident says: ”Seventy-five city policemen and
   Mississippi State Police officers armed with carbines, submachine guns, shotguns, service
   revolvers and some personal weapons, responded to the call.” After the fire had been
   extinguished, the heavily armed cops marched down the street, herding students towards a
   women’s dorm. As the notes: ”No one seems to know why.”
   Seventy-five to 100 students were pushed back until they were in front of the dorm, where they
   began yelling and throwing things at the police. ”Accounts disagree as to what happened next.
   Some students said the police advanced in a line, warned them, then opened fire. Others said the
   police abruptly opened fire on the crowd and the dormitory. Other witnesses reported that the
   students were under the control of a campus security officer when the police opened fire. Police
   claimed they spotted a powder flare in the Alexander West Hall third floor stairwell window and
   fire in self-defense on the dormitory only. Two local television news reporters present at the
   shooting agreed that a shot was fired, but were uncertain of the direction. A radio reporter
   claimed to have seen an arm and a pistol extending from a dormitory window.”
   Two people — both outside the dorm — were killed in over 30 seconds of sustained gunfire
   from the cops. Jackson student Phillip Lafayette Gibbs was shot in the head, and a bystander —
   high-school senior James Earl Green — took it in the chest. A dozen students were nonfatally
   shot, and many more were injured by flying glass. Over 460 rounds had hit the dorm. No
   member of law enforcement was injured.
   Aim the carnage, Inspector ”Goon” Jones radioed the dispatcher, saying that ”nigger students”
   been killed. When the dispatcher asked him about the injured, he said: ”I think there are about
   three more nigger males there…. There were two nigger gals — two more nigger gals from over
   there shot in the arm, I believe.”
   Even less known is the Orangeburg massacre, which took place two years earlier. Students at
   South Carolina State University in Orangeburg —joined by students from another black college,
   Claflin University — were protesting the failure of the town’s only bowling alley to racially
   integrate. February 8,1968, was the fourth night of demonstrations, and students had lit a bonfire
   on campus. Police doused it, but a second one was started. When the cops tried to extinguish this
   one, the crowd — in a scene to be replayed at Kent and Jackson — started throwing things at
   them. One highway patrolmen fired warning shots into the air, and all hell broke loose as the
   assembled police opened fire on the unarmed crowd.
   After a barrage of weapons-fire, three people were dead — eighteen-year-olds Henry Smith and I
   Samuel Hammond, and high-school student Delano Middleton. Twenty-seven other

   demonstrators were wounded. The vast majority of them had been shot in the back as they ran
   away.
   South Carolina’s Governor praised the police for their handling on the situation, giving all of
   them promotions. Nine patrolmen were eventually tried on federal charges, and all were
   acquitted. It! was only 33 years later — on the 2001 anniversary of the carnage — that a
   Governor of the state admitted the heinous nature of what happened that night. Governor Jim
   Hodges said, ”We deeply regret” the mass-shooting, but he stopped short of apologizing for it.
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   WINSTON CHURCHILL BELIEVED IN A WORLDWIDE JEWISH CONSPIRACY
   Like Henry Ford, Britain’s larger-than-life wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, believed
   that a group of ”international Jews” was striving to take over the world. On February 8, 1920, the
   Illustrated Sunday Herald (published in London) ran an article by Churchill. Its title: ”Zionism
   Versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People.” At the time, Winnie was
   Secretary of State for War and Air and had already been a prominent Member of Parliament.
   Churchill didn’t slam all Jews; rather, he painted them as a people of two extremes. ”The conflict
   between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man nowhere reaches such an
   intensity as in the Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more
   terribly exemplified…. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of
   Antichrist ware destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious
   race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.”
   He identifies three strains of political thought among the world’s Jews: Nationalism, in which a
   Jewish person identifies first and foremost with the country in which he or she lives. Zionism, in
   j which a Jewish person wants a country specifically for Jews (Israel would be formed 28 years
   after Winnie’s essay). These are both honorable, says Churchill, unlike the third option — the
   terrorism and atheistic communism of ”International Jews.” He writes:
   International Jews
   In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes of the International
   Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the
   unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race.
   Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from
   their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not
   new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky
   (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman
   (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the

   reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and
   impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs.
   Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French
   Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the
   Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the
   underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by
   the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that
   enormous empire.
   Terrorist Jews
   There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and In the
   actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most
   part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With
   the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the
   principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin,
   a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of
   Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or
   of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd) or of Krassin or Radek — all
   Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the
   prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the
   Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews,
   and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in
   the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon
   has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been
   allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all
   these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish
   revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the
   population is astonishing.
   Naturally, Churchill’s admirers aren’t exactly proud of this essay, which has led some of them to
   question its authenticity. However, the leading Churchill bibliographer, Frederick Woods, has
   pronounced the article genuine, listing it in his authoritative A Bibliography of the Works of Sir
   Winston Churchill.
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   THE AUSCHWITZ TATTOO WAS ORIGINALLY AN IBM CODE NUMBER
   The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps
   have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible number in a
   dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.
   These numbers obviously weren’t chosen at random. They were part of a coded system, with
   each number tracked as the unlucky person who bore it was moved through the system.
   Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the
   Holocaust, showed that IBM machines were used to automate the ”Final Solution” and the

   jackbooted takeover of Europe. Worse, he showed that the top levels of the company either knew
   or willfully turned a blind eye.
   A year and a half after that book gave Big Blue a black eye, the author made more startling
   discoveries. IBM equipment was on-site at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Furthermore:
   Thanks to the new discoveries, researchers can now trace how Hollerith numbers assigned
   to inmates evolved into the horrific tattooed numbers so symbolic of the Nazi era. (Herman
   Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information in the late
   19th century and founded the company that became IBM. Hollerith’s name became
   synonymous with the machines and the Nazi ”departments” that operated them.) In one
   case, records show, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz in
   August 1943 and was assigned a characteristic five-digit IBM Hollerith number, 44673. The
   number was part of a custom punch-card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in all
   Nazi concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz. Later in the summer of
   1943, the Polish timber merchant’s same five-digit Hollerith number, 44673, was tattooed
   on his forearm. Eventually, during the summer of 1943, all non-Germans at Auschwitz
   were similarly tattooed.
   The Hollerith numbering system was soon scrapped at Auschwitz because so many inmates died.
   Eventually, the Nazis developed their own haphazard system.
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   ADOLPH HITLER’S BLOOD RELATIVES ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN NEW YORK
   STATE
   Adolph Hitler never had kids, so we tend to take for granted the idea that no one alive is closely
   related to him. But historians have long known that he had a nephew who was born in Britain
   and moved to the United States. Alois Hitler, Jr., was Adolph’s older half-brother (their common
   parent was Alois Sr). Alois Jr. — a waiter in Dublin — married an Irish woman, and, after
   moving to Liverpool, they had a son, William Patrick Hitler.
   Pat, as he was called, moved to Germany as a young adult to take advantage of his uncle’s rising
   political stature, but Adolph just gave him minor jobs and kept him out of the limelight. After
   being subtly threatened by Rudolph Hess to become a German citizen, and having gotten tired of
   being dissed by Adolph, Pat came to America in 1939 and went on a lecture tour around the US,
   denouncing his uncle. (For his part, Adolph referred to his nephew as ”loathsome.”) While
   World War II was raging, Pat joined the US Navy, so he could fight against Uncle Adolph.
   Afterwards, he changed his last name, and this is where the trail goes cold.
   That is, until US-based British reporter David Gardner was assigned to track down and interview
   William Patrick. Originally given two weeks to file the story, Gardner realized that finding
   Hitler’s long-lost nephew was tougher than it first appeared. He worked on the story during his
   spare time for several years, unearthing old news clippings, filing requests for government
   documents, interviewing possible relatives, and chasing a lot of dead ends

   He finally discovered that William Patrick had ended up in a small town in Long Island, New
   York. Pat had died in 1987, but Gardner showed up unannounced on the doorstep of his widow,
   Phyllis, who confirmed that her late husband was Adolph Hitler’s nephew. She also mentioned
   that she and Pat had sons, but she quickly clammed up and asked Gardner to leave. The two
   never spoke again.
   After more legwork, Gardner found that Pat and Phyllis produced four children, all sons. The
   eldest, born in 1949, is named Alexander Adolph. (Just why Pat would name his firstborn after
   his detested uncle is one of many mysteries still surrounding the Hitler kin.) Then came Louis in
   1951, Howard (1957), and Brian (1965). Howard — a fraud investigator for the IRS — died in a
   car crash w 1989, and Louis and Brian continue to run a landscaping business in the small New
   York community. Alex lives in a larger Long Island city. He twice spoke to Gardner but didn’t
   reveal very much, saying that the family’s ancestry is ”a pain in the ass.” Alex said that his
   brothers made a pact never to have children, in order to spare their progeny the burden of being
   related to a monster. He denied having made such a vow himself, despite the fact that he is still
   childless.
   Gardner sums it up: ”Although there are some distant relations living equally quiet lives in
   Austria, the three American sons are the only descendants of the paternal line of the family. They
   are, truly, the last of the Hitlers.”
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   AROUND ONE QUARTER OF ”WITCHES” WERE MEN
   The word ”witch” has become synonymous with ”woman accused of working magic,” and the
   consensus tells us that the witch trials in Europe and Colonial America were simply a war against
   women (ie, ”gendercide”). Most popular works on the subject ignore the men who were accused
   and executed for supp-osedly practicing witchcraft. Academic works that don’t omit male
   witches usually explain them away, as if they were just a few special cases that don’t really
   count.
   Into this gap step Andrew Gow, an associate professor of history at the University of Alberta,
   and one of his grad students, Lara Apps. Their book Male Witches in Early Modern Europe
   scours the literature and finds that, of the 110,000 people tried for witchcraft and the 60,000
   executed from 1450 to 1750, some-where between 20 to 25 percent were men

   This is an average across Europe, the British Isles, and the American Colonies; the gender ratios
   vary widely from place to place. The lowest percentages of males were persecuted in the Basel
   region of Switzerland (5 percent) and in Hungary (10 percent). Places that hovered around the
   50/50 mark were Finland (49 percent) and Burgundy (52 percent). Men were the clear majority
   of ”witches” in Estonia (60 percent) and Norway (73 percent). During Iceland’s witch craze, from
   1625 to 1685, an amazing 110 out of 120 ”witches” were men, for a percentage of 92. As for
   America, almost a third of those executed during the
   infamous Salem witch trials (six out of nineteen) were men.
   Besides bringing these numbers to light, professor Gow and
   pupil Apps present serious challenges to the attempts to erase
   male witches from the picture. For example, some writers
   claim that the men were caught up in the hysteria solely
   because they were related to accused women. In this
   scenario, the men were only ”secondary targets” (”collateral
   damage,” perhaps?). But in numerous instances men were
   persecuted by themselves. In other cases, a woman became a
   secondary target after her husband had been singled out as a
   witch.
   Although women were the overall majority of victims, the
   ”burning times” were pretty rough for men, too.
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   THE VIRGINIA COLONISTS PRACTICED CANNIBALISM
   During the harsh winter of 1609-1610, British subjects in the famous colony of Jamestown,
   Virginia, ate their dead and their shit. This fact doesn’t make it into very many US history
   textbooks, and the state’s official Website apparently forgot to mention it in their history section.
   When you think about it rationally, this fact should be a part of mainstream history. After all, it
   demonstrates the strong will to survive among the colonists. It shows the mind-boggling
   hardships they endured and overcame. Yet the taboo against eating these two items is so
   over-powering that this episode can’t be mentioned in conventional history.
   Luckily, an unconventional historian, Howard Zinn, revealed this fact in his classic A People’s
   History of the United States. Food was so nonexistent during that winter, only 60 out of 500
   colonists survived. A government document from that time gives the gruesome details:
   Driven thru insufferable hunger to eat those things which nature most abhorred, the flesh
   and excrements of man as well of our own nation as of an Indian, digged by some out of his
   grave after he had lain buried three days and wholly devoured him; others, envying the

   better state of body of any whom hunger has not yet so much wasted as their own, lay wait
   and threatened to kill and eat them; one among them slew his wife as she slept in his
   bosom, cut her in pieces, salted her and fed upon her till he had clean devoured all parts
   saving her head.
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   MANY OF THE PIONEERING FEMINISTS OPPOSED ABORTION
   The idea that feminism equals the right to an abortion has become so ingrained that it -.iiems
   ludicrous to think otherwise. ”Prolife feminism” appears to be an inherent contradiction in terms.
   Yet more than 20 founding mothers of the feminist movement — who helped secure women’s
   rights to vote, to own property, to use contraception, to divorce abusive husbands — were
   adamantly opposed to abortion.
   The most famous nineteenth-century feminist — Susan B. Anthony, she of the ill-fated dollar
   coin — referred to abortion as ”the horrible crime of child-murder.” And that’s just for starters.
   She also called it ”infanticide,” ”this most monstrous crime,” ”evil,” and a ”dreadful deed.”
   Surprisingly, given that unsparing language, she didn’t believe that it should be made illegal.
   Responding to an article in which a man called for the outlawing of abortion, Anthony writes:
   ”Much as I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder, earnestly as I desire its suppression, I
   cannot believe with the writer of the above-mentioned article, that such a law would have the
   desired effect. It seems to be only mowing off the top of the noxious weed, while the root
   remains.”
   The root, she believed, was the horrible way in which women (and
   children) were treated. As summed up in the book Prolife
   Feminism, these pioneering women felt that ”abortion was the
   product of a social system that compelled women to remain
   ignorant about their bodies, that enabled men to dominate them
   sexually without taking responsibility for the consequences, that
   denied women support during and after the resulting pregnancies,
   and that placed far more value on a child’s ‘legitimacy’ than on his
   or her life and well-being.”
   Indeed, while Anthony gave women a lot of grief for ending a pregnancy, she reserved the most
   vitriol for the men who knocked them up:
   Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the
   unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her
   conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish
   gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation
   which impelled her to her crime.
   Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony’s best friend for life, resented society’s dictate that all women
   must become mothers. Yet she also thought that ”maternity is grand,” but it must be on the

   woman’s own terms. Despite this, she railed against abortion. Like her pal, she referred to
   abortions as ”murder,” ”a crying evil,” ”abominations,” and ”revolting outrages against the laws
   of nature and our common humanity.” Also like Anthony, Stanton laid the blame for abortion at
   the feet of men.
   Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, lionized as the first US woman to become a medical doctor (in 1849),
   wrote in her diary:
   The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with
   indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term ”female
   physician” should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking
   trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become
   a noble position for women.
   Another prolife feminist was Victoria Woodhull, best known for being the first female candidate
   .for US President (way back in 1870). Radical even by early feminist standards, she and her
   sister, Tennnessee Claflin, declared that children had rights which began at conception. Their
   essay ”The slaughter of the Innocents” first discusses the abominable death rate of children under
   five, then turns its sights on abortion:
   We are aware that many women attempt to excuse themselves for procuring abortions,
   upon the ground that it is not murder. But the fact of resort to so weak an argument only
   shows the more palpably that they fully realize the enormity of the crime. Is it not equally
   destroying the would-be future oak, to crush the sprout before it pushes its head above the
   sod, as it is to cut down the sapling, or cut down the tree? Is it not equally to destroy life, to
   crush it in its very germ, and to take it when the germ has evolved to any given point in its
   line of development? Let those who can see any difference regarding the time when life,
   once begun, is taken, console themselves that they are not murderers having b««n
   abortionists.
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   BLACK PEOPLE SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
   Like ”prolife feminist,” the phrase ”black Confederate” seems like an oxymoron. But the record
   shows that many slaves and free blacks were a part of the South’s military during the US Civil
   War.
   None other than abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave and one of the most prominent
   African Americans in history, declared:
   There are at present moment [autumn 1861], many colored men in the Confederate Army
   doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers, but as real soldiers, having musket on
   their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops and do all
   that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the traitors
   and rebels.

   In Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, Professor Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.,
   writes:
   Numerous black Virginians served with Confederate forces as soldiers, sailors, teamsters,
   spies, and hospital personnel…. I know of black Confederate sharp-shooters who saw
   combat during the 1862 Seven Days Campaign and [of] the existence of black companies
   [which] organized and drilled in Richmond in March-April 1865. Integrated companies of
   black and white hospital workers fought against the Union army in the Petersburg trenches
   during March 1865. There were several recruitment campaigns and charity balls held in
   Virginia on behalf of black soldiers and special camps of instruction were established to
   train them.
   The book Black Confederates contains loads of
   primary documents testifying to the role of African
   Americans: letters, military documents, tributes,
   obituaries, contemporaneous newspaper articles, and
   more. In an 1862 letter to his uncle, a soldier at Camp
   Brown in Knoxville, Tennessee, wrote that his
   company had recently gunned down six Union
   soldiers and that ”Jack Thomas a colored person that
   belongs to our company killed one of them.”
   An 1861 article in the Montgomery Advertiser says:
   ”We are informed that Mr. G.C. Hale, of Autauga County, yesterday tendered to Governor
   Moore the services of a company of negroes, to assist in driving back the horde of abolition
   sycophants who are now talking so flippantly of reducing to a conquered province the
   Confederate States of the South.”
   The obituary of black South Carolinian Henry Brown states that he had never been a slave and
   had served in three wars: the Mexican, the Spanish-American, and the Civil (on the side of the
   South). He was given a 21-gun salute at his funeral.
   In 1890, black Union veteran Joseph T. Wilson wrote in his book, The Black Phalanx: A History
   of the Negro Soldiers of the United States, that New Orleans was home to two Native Guard
   regiments, which comprised 3,000 ”colored men.” Referring to these regiments in an 1898 book,
   Union Captain Dan Matson said: ”Here is a strange fact. We find that the Confederates
   themselves first armed and mustered the Negro as a solider in the late war.”
   Most blacks in the Confederate Army, though, were in supporting roles such as cook, musician,
   nurse, and the catch-all ”servant.” However, a lot of them ended up fighting on the battlefield,
   even though the South didn’t officially induct black soldiers until late in the conflict. And all of
   them — whether inducted or not, whether solider or some other position — were eligible for
   military pensions from several Southern states (including Tennessee and Mississippi), an records
   show that many of them signed up for these benefits.

   A follow-up volume, Black Southerners in Confederate Armies, presents even more source
   documents. A book from 1866 contains the recollection of a Union man whose compatriot killed
   a black Confederate sniper ”who, through his skill as a marksman, had done more injury to our
   men that any dozen of his white compeers…” Union documents show Henry Marshall, a black
   soldier with the 14th Kentucky Cavalry, being held in Northern prisoner of war camps. A
   pension document from South Carolina reveals that ”a free Negro who volunteered” for the army
   served from August 1861 to the end of the war — over three and a half years. An obituary for
   George Mathewson says that the former slave received ”a Cross of Honor for bravery in action,”
   based on his role as standard-bearer.
   The New York Tribune noted ”that the Rebels organized and employed ‘Negro troops’ a full year
   before our government could be persuaded to do any thing of the sort.” After the Battle of
   Gettys-burg, the New York Herald reported: ”Among the rebel prisoners who were marched
   through Gettysburg there were observed seven negroes in uniform and fully accoutered as
   soldiers.”
   An article from Smithsonian magazine relates: ”A New York Times correspondent with Grant in
   1863 wrote: ‘The guns of the rebel battery were manned almost wholly by Negroes, a single
   white man, or perhaps two, directing operations.’”
   While it certainly couldn’t be said that African Americans played a major military role in the
   Southern army, they were definitely there. And some of them had even volunteered.
   21
   ELECTRIC CARS HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE 1880s
   The car of the future runs completely on electricity. No more dependence on gas. No more
   choking the atmosphere with fumes. Whenever the possibility of electric cars is raised, the media
   and other commentators ooh and ahh over the potential. But this technology isn’t futuristic — it’s
   positively retro. Cars powered by electricity have been on the scene since the 1800s and actually
   predate gas-powered cars.
   A blacksmith in Vermont — Thomas Davenport — built the first rotary electric motor in 1833
   and it to power a model train the next year. In the late 1830s, Scottish inventor Robert Davidson
   rigged a carriage with an electric motor powered by batteries. In his Pulitzer-nominated book
   Taking Charge, archaeology professor and technology historian Michael Brian Schiffer writes
   that this ”was perhaps the first electric car.”
   After this remarkable achievement, the idea of an
   electric car languished for decades. In 1881, a
   French experi-menter debuted a personal vehicle
   that ran on electricity, a tricycle (ie, three wheels
   and a seat) for adults. In 1888, many inventors in
   the US, Britain, and Europe started creating threeand
   four-wheel vehicles — which could carry two
   to six people — that ran on electricity. These
   vehicles remained principally curios-ities until May 1897, when the Pope Manufacturing
   Company — the country’s most successful bicycle manufacturer — started selling the first
   commercial electric car: the Columbia Electric Phaeton, Mark III. It topped out at fifteen miles
   per hour, and had to be recharged every 30 miles. Within two years, people could choose from an
   array of electrical carriages, buggies, wagons, trucks, bicycles, tricycles, even buses and
   ambulances made by numerous manufacturers.
   New York City was home to a fleet of electric taxi cabs starting in 1897. The Electric Vehicle
   Company eventually had over 100 of them ferrying people around the Big Apple. Soon it was
   unleashing electric taxis in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. By 1900,
   though, the company was in trouble, and seven years later it sputtered out.
   As for cars powered by dead dinosaurs, Austrian engineer Siegfried Marcus attached a onecylinder
   motor to a cart in 1864, driving it 500 feet and thus creating the first vehicle powered by
   gas (this was around 25 years after Davidson had created the first electro-car). It wasn’t until
   1895 that gas autos — converted carriages with a two-cylinder engine — were commercially
   sold (and then only in microscopic numbers).
   Around the turn of the century, the average car buyer had a big choice to make: gas, electric, or
   steam? When the auto industry took form around 1895, nobody knew which type of vehicle was
   going to become the standard. During the last few years of the nineteenth century and the first
   few of the twentieth, over 1

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5. • 15 december 2008 at 18:34

   Havsglimten

   Fenixmona, Härliga minnen…Kram!

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6. • 15 december 2008 at 18:35

   Havsglimten

   syren, Kramis!

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7. • 15 december 2008 at 18:39

   Havsglimten

   mona, Idag gäller bara Eu-ideologi. Bra förslag… vi handlar bara det nödvändiga.Ha det bra Kram!

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