January 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Vital Anarchist Text.
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Hello Friends and comrades: Back in 1979, when I was a prisoner at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois (USA), I managed to put together a manuscript for a small booklet called Anarchism and the Black Revolution, and smuggled it past prison authorities. It was my 3rd attempt because every on every other occasion, it was seized when guards searched my cell, and I was either beaten or kept in solitary confinement. But, I saw it as an important attempt to steer the international Anarchist movement around discussions of building a more diverse movement, dealing with rising fascist and racist movements of the 1970's and early 1980's, and explaining the tenents of Anarchism to people of color who had never heard of it. It was my hope just to cause discussion of these matters, and also to express my frustrations with the Anarchist movement of that period's aversion to the Black liberation/anti-racist movements then unfolding, not only in the Southern USA, but in the country generally. Because of my frustration, I had dropped out of Anarchist organizing when I was released from prison in 1983. I was deeply hurt that no one had taken to heart the message of the book, and so began to do local anti-racist organizing in Tennessee. Somewhere along the line, a group of Anarchists joined with the efforts of our anti-police brutality group in Chattanooga, and I became friends and allies of them without even knowing this. They had never mentioned their beliefs in all the years of our association, until one day I mentioned how disillusioned I was about Anarchism, and they told me how many young people, prisoners, and activists had been moved by the small booklet, that it had been reproduced by hand xeroxing, and that many all over the world now agreed with me. They said people had been trying to connect with me for years. I was astounded to learn this, and through them I attended an Anarchist event in Philadelphia. Somehow, I was cajoled (or tricked) to speak, and the room was full of young people. They were asking for the book, but I did not have it, so friends at a small Anarchist press called Monkeywrench Press offered to publish it for free if I would write a new version. So I rushed back home and threw myself into doing a revised version, and they came out with 2,000 copies, which sold out within six months after I did a Northeastern college speaking tour. That was in 1994, and I had not worked on the book since. I had xeroxed thousands of copies and sold them all over the world, due to the demand for it everywhere I speak. I am always being asked when I would do a new version, on one occasion, the Wooden Shoe Bookstore offered to print a new copy, but I was not ready. I was under severe pressure from the state of Tennessee because of my years of activism, and went through a number of criminal trials right after the revised book was printed and released. I did not have writer's block, I was fighting for my life. It is only now I am living in Michigan, under different circumstances, have I found the desire to write again. Late last year, I submitted a book grant proposal to the Insitute for Anarchist Studies in New York City to help me re-write and publish a 3rd edition of Anarchism and the Black Revolution. I do not know if they will in fact give me the grant, but it will be for a small amount ($2,000) and this will not be enough for printing the book if I am forced to self-publish it. I also do not know if Anarchist publishing houses would be interested in publishing it, due to disagreements with me personally or disapproval of the book's central premise. Because I cannot depend on anyone to actually publish it, I am asking for the help of Anarchists who were influenced by the book, and would like to see a new edition. I would like for you to help me raise some of the thousands of dollars to a printing house after the manuscript is completed this Spring or early Summer. Here is what I would like you to do: 1. Hold benefit concerts, t-shirt sales, and other events. beg your friends and others for money 2. Print this notice in your newspaper, newsletter or online journal. 3. pre-order the book, it will have a list price of $12.95, and will be $10.00 for volume sales of 10 copies or more. If your or your collective send in hundreds or thousands of dollars, we will consider it a volume sale and in send a bunch of book off to you when printed. 4. Write letters to Anarchist publishing houses that you know of to buy copies. I cannot send copies for consignment just yet, need money to get started. In fact, your letters might even convince one of them to print the book, so all I have to do is write it. 5. Invite me to bookfairs all over the world to sell books and publicize the printing. This is very important to let people know about the new publishing of the book, as well as let them know for our need of money now and pre-order deal. I am sure other folks have their own ideas as to how to help, and believe me, I am very glad for your help. Please contact me at the address below: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin The Rest of the News P.O. Box 19962 Kalamazoo, MI. 49019-0962 komboa(a)yahoo.com, (or Komboa(a)hotmail.com, if that mailbox is full) END I have a treasured hand tied black binding and all,70's edition.This pamphlet is DY-NO-MYTE! An anarchist must have.

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Hard as a Rocco.
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Breillat brilliance Controversial and confronting . . . novelist and film-maker Catherine Breillat and, below, a scene from an earlier work, Romance. It's hard to ruffle the French where sex is concerned. Unless you're Catherine Breillat. By John Baxter Love is the road to hell", says French novelist and film-maker Catherine Breillat in a sound bite of the sort that has made her famous. This autumn, Breillat, pronounced "Brey-ah", 52, black-maned and mocking, stares from almost every magazine cover, TV screen and Web site in France. Her new novel, Pornocratie, is exciting controversy, her latest feature, @ Ma Soeur (To My Sister), has just opened in England after considerable success in France and the United States, and she's just won a prize in Zurich for her TV film Brhve Traversie (Brief Crossing), about a sexual encounter on a cross-Channel ferry between a French boy and an older English woman. In Pornocratie, a woman takes home a male gay from a disco in a calculated attempt to get a truly dispassionate opinion of the way she looks and acts from someone who can't possibly be interested in her sexually. Admirers of Breillat recognise the self-doubt about her attractiveness that has suffused her life and work. Like her earlier novels and the screenplays for Une Vraie Jeune Fille, 36 Fillette, Dirty as an Angel, Perfect Love and Romance, Pornocratie depicts the sex drive the way an amputee might think of a severed limb - as an unpleasant but unignorable element that influences the way others perceive you and which, from time to time, torments you with an unassuageable itch. Driven, it seems, by feelings of low self-esteem dating back to her dumpy adolescence, Breillat returns repeatedly to the theme of transcendence; the body forgetting itself in the throes of intercourse. As she told The Guardian recently, "To make love is not just to have the pleasure of flesh, but to have the pleasure of flesh escaping flesh. The sexual act involves a mental transfiguration, too." Part of that transfiguration lies in forgetting that you are being watched and judged. "Real sex is a kind of divine abandon," she says, "during which everything achieves a sort of grace. That grace turns into abandon; you find your way back to your real self, no longer mutilated by others staring at you. I believe that we are born radiant, but that others mutilate us with their staring; that we are in a society which has mutilated the grace of movement." Whether or not the French have mutilated sex by a tendency to stare is a point much debated, though nobody denies that France, not for nothing christened "the woman of Europe", finds sex a matter of compelling interest. Praising the Franco-German cable channel Arte for funding Brhve Traversie and the other films in the series Masculin/Feminin, Breillat called the chain "an ally of desire". But one could attach that label to almost any arm of the French media. Thanks to TV, billboards and magazines, the French are confronted at every turn with rounded bums and pert breasts, grappling couples and sexual innuendo - all to sell mineral water, car insurance, even the high-speed TGV train. Most nights, they can catch an X-rated movie on TV, even if they don't subscribe to one of the all-porn cable channels. The five free networks stick to soft-core, but some cable channels, even the prestigious Canal Plus, broadcast a Saturday night slab of what they call in France "le hard". The fact that there is A Lot Of It About affects the whole of French society. Sex is simply too large a segment of the national culture to leave room for Victorian pudeur, adolescent ignorance, Hollywood sentimentality or PC complaints about "commodifying the body". In any debate on this subject, Breillat will usually have something to say. She's the acceptable face of erotica (a word she despises), a distinction won by conspicuous valour in the battle between the sexes. Podgy in adolescence and voluptuous in her 20s, she's on the chunky side these days, with a tendency to "arrange herself", as one reporter wrote, "like a stately boxer. Her shoulders are broad. Her jaw is wide. She looks like a woman capable of absorbing a mountain of shocks." Breillat accentuates this with a characteristic slouch, elbows on thighs or hands on knees, as if ready to launch herself in an instant at a critic's throat. While her films may not be entirely autobiographical, audiences draw their own conclusions from her recurring plot of an overweight adolescent with a throbbing libido whose sexual adventurism ends in anything from despair to violent death. Catherine and her prettier sister Marie-Hilhne learnt about sex from liberal parents who gave them the Marquis de Sade and Lautriamont to read. The girls also, if Catherine's films are to be trusted, indulged in some precocious experiment. In 36 Fillette (the title refers to a dress size), the overweight heroine captivates an older lover, while in @ Ma Soeur, the dumpy sister has sex with an older man while the more glamorous one watches and learns. Perhaps because of her own complex sexual initiation, Breillat condemns the calisthenics of TV-ad erotica and the acrobatics of le hard, both of which, she feels, give impressionable adolescents a false picture of sex. Porn she dismisses as offering "a sort of occult sex education for the young - terrifying and completely inauthentic". Children should be left to discover sex for themselves, as she did. "Must we banish sexual education?" Le Monde asked her. "Absolutely," she replied. "Perhaps sexuality is important. But children must learn about it alone and, above all, without us 'transmitting' our own experience." Catherine's first novel, L'homme Facile (The Easy Man), described how readily a girl, even a plain, fat one, can seduce men if she puts her mind to it. Censors banned its sale to anyone under 18, ironically making it illegal for Breillat, then only 17, to buy her own book. Since then, she's scorned the very idea of censorship, suspecting another stratagem in the sex war. Libertarians were startled at last year's Edinburgh Film Festival when she dismissed film censorship as "a male preoccupation" and suggested that the X certificate was "linked to the X chromosome" - a major signifier of maleness. By her 20s, Breillat was writing screenplays for films as diverse as Federico Fellini's And the Ship Sails On, Maurice Pialat's introspective cop story Police, and Bilitis, directorial debut of David Hamilton, king of the budding-breasts-and-muslin school of photography. She had a small acting role in Last Tango in Paris and acted in a few films with Marie-Hilhne, while the two, off screen, accumulated almost as sensational a reputation as those other high-stepping movie sisters, FranGoise Dorliac and Catherine Deneuve. Marie-Hilhne contracted a stormy marriage with Edouard Molinaro, director of La Cage Aux Folles, then went into near-seclusion, only re-emerging in the past few years. Catherine married a Parisian publisher, as much, it seems, for his looks as for anything else, and had two children with him. In case anyone, particularly her sister, doubted he was a "catch", Breillat and spouse posed nude for a series of magazine photographs. In 1975, she directed her first film, Une Vraie Jeune Fille. With deceptive simplicity, it followed a girl returning from boarding school to spend the summer with her parents. Being Breillat, however, the holiday is anything but an idyll. The girl's father has incestuous designs on his daughter, which she, if not exactly welcoming, at least connives at. She becomes obsessed with a worker in her father's factory, incorporating him into sexual fantasies which become more fevered the more he rejects her. The film was banned in France, though it's recently been dusted off and released, to no particular furore. We've come a long way since then. Just how far was dramatised by the sarcastically named Romance. Its heroine, Marie, dotes on her photo-model husband, Paul, even though he refuses to make her pregnant and finally even to have sex, arguing that it makes him look tired on camera. She might have endured this had Paul not also been, to put it delicately, genitally challenged. Embarking on a crash course in sexual discovery, Marie picks up a friendly foreigner in a cafe. Experiments with bondage, anonymous sex and anal rape follow, until, finally pregnant, she bombs the family apartment, building and husband going up in smoke as the baby is born. In secret, Breillat hired Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi to play the well-hung stranger, a fact that scandalised the industry when it became public. For all the supposed freemasonry of showbiz, a "Gentlemen v Players" mentality still prevails and, whatever else they may be, porn performers are not, and cannot ever be, in the eyes of the profession, real actors. Caroline Ducey, who played Marie, didn't know Siffredi's identity until he walked on the set for their first scene, and was so spooked that she fled at the end of that day's shooting and hasn't worked for Breillat since. Romance, on the other hand, launched Siffredi as a media star in France. He can now be seen on the sides of buses, advertising mobile phones. Breillat is unrepentant about her sexual iconoclasm, which she regards as essential if she is to conserve her sense of self. "I believe that 80 per cent of our selves is made up of the way other people look at us," says Breillat - which, in a culture like that of France, is probably true. There are few countries where people are so ready to look and evaluate for themselves rather than listen and learn from others. A few years ago, a Parisian couple tried explaining sex to their pre-teen son and daughter. After a few minutes, the 12-year-old boy stopped them. "Look, it's all too complicated," he said. "Next time you do it, just give us a call. We'll come and watch." http://smh.com.au/news/0201/12/spectrum/spectrum2.html

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Photo of mysterious "Proffr"
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

You'll have to hack into victorian motorbike and car license database for me but theres a cute little rattus australis here http://smh.com.au/news/0201/12/national/national13.html Soldering on: laser fusion changes microsurgery Sew far so good ... Professor Owen with leg-transplant rat. Photo: Nick Moir By Claire O'Rourke A new technique to join body tissue without stitches looks likely to revolutionise microsurgical procedures, reducing the time needed to perform operations. Clinical trials of laser solder fusion, led by an Australian surgeon, Earl Owen, will begin this year. If the attempts are successful, the method would radically change microsurgery, which is used to rejoin and transplant limbs, reverse vasectomies and restore severed nerves. Professor Owen, the medical director of the Microsearch Foundation of Australia, said the time taken to join an artery would be reduced from 45 minutes to two using the new technique, with less scarring and trauma. "It's an enormous advance to pop on a solder and cure it with a laser beam in a matter of seconds," he said. The technique involves welding tissues together using strips of protein fused by laser. It has been tested on rats, rabbits, sheep, pigs and greyhounds over the past five years. Today marks two years since the first double hand transplant, on 33-year-old Frenchman Denis Chatelier. Mr Chatelier, who suffered the injuries when a home-made firework exploded, now has the co-ordination to make toys with his new hands. "These people have convinced themselves long before [they have the operation] that they must have their body part restored," Professor Owen said. Eleven people have had hand transplants in France, Italy, Austria, the US, China and Malaysia, with the success of the world's first hand transplant patient, Clint Hallam, paving the way for double hand transplants. Hallam had the limb amputated in February last year, after he stopped taking anti-rejection medication. He is the only patient to have a transplanted hand removed. But all was not lost when Hallam refused to continue his medication. Doctors were able to study the effects of rejection and how it can be anticipated. As part of ongoing research, white rats are transplanted with limbs from black rats because they are the least compatible, enabling more effective testing of anti-rejection, or immunosuppressive, drugs. Based in Lane Cove, the Microsearch Foundation of Australia is funded entirely by donation, and has never received government assistance since it started 25 years ago. "We don't get funded anything like we should ... as we're a small country with too much excellence than the Government can support," Professor Owen said. If they reverse my vasectomy faustine and I...

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Are your documents really wiped? (Backups vs. policy)
by Major Variola (ret) 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

excerpted from http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jan/10/011009613.html The Big Five accounting firm said in a statement that in recent months, electronic files and other documents related to its auditing of Enron had been destroyed or deleted. Chicago-based Andersen said its company policy "required in certain circumstances the destruction of certain types of documents." However, the firm said, millions of documents related to Enron still exist, and it has managed to retrieve some of the deleted electronic files. Andersen said it is continuing retrieval efforts through electronic backup files, "and is continuing in its efforts to fully learn and understand all the facts related to this issue." ...... Sounds like someone needed to store (and backup) their docs encrypted, then lose the key..

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Toads Walkinshaw."To dry for rats."
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Cane toads found in Alice From AAP 11jan02 A SECOND cane toad has been found in Alice Springs within a month. The Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission today warned motorists to beware of toads hitching a ride, accelerating the spread of the toxic pest. The two toads were found in suburban gardens, the commission's principal wildlife scientist Tony Bowland said. While the toads could become established in water holes on the Alice Springs golf course and the Ilparpa artificial swamp, they could not survive the freezing desert winter, Dr Bowland said. The main concern was that toads would reach Darwin and Western Australia's Kimberley region years earlier by hitching rides than they would by hopping. "They're very rugged animals and they can travel long distances wrapped up in a swag or in a crate," Dr Bowland said. He said both of the toads found in Alice Springs must have been brought in by road. The second toad was found close to a road transport business. "They were in pretty good nick. They didn't look like they'd just hopped 1500km from Queensland or the top end," Dr Bowland said. He could not speculate how many more there might be in Alice Springs, a town too dry for rats to survive. Any damage cane toads caused to the native desert fauna would be short-term. "They might establish in Alice Springs in the very short term but we're pretty sure the bitterly cold winters we get around here would nail them," Dr Bowland said. The presence of cane toads was confirmed in Kakadu National Park in March last year. They are expected to reach Darwin as early as the present wet season. They are also well established on the northern reaches of the Stuart Highway around Katherine and Mataranka.

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Public Image Ltd.
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

wake up! wake up! It's yer moderate voice of anarchic reason SchNEWS Published in Brighton by Justice? - Brighton's Direct Action collective ISSUE 337, January 11th, 2002 FULL OF MELCHETT "The majority of NGOs and activists do not understand how public relations firms are helping corporations manipulate them. This is a fundamental strategic mistake." - Andy Rowell author of Green Backlash. This week Peter Melchett the former head of Greenpeace UK made famous for helping to trash genetic crops in Norfolk has turned coats and become a consultant for Burson-Marsteller - the biggest public relations (PR) company in the world. Ironically Burson-Marsteller (B-M) are the PR Company for the genetic engineering company Monsanto. They specialise in 'greenwashing' - making corporations look like they're being nice to the environment when in fact they're doing the complete opposite. B-M have done PR makeovers for such nice companies as Union Carbide after the Bhopal gas leak killed up to 15,000 people in India, and Exxon after the Exxon-Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Alaska causing the worst oil spill in history. They even defended the 1980's military dictatorship in Argentina that saw 35,000 civilians 'disappear'. Melchett says he isn't compromising his principles as he will choose which companies to work with (but with the likes of Monsanto, BP, Nestle, Shell, Unilever, Sainsbury's and British Nuclear Fuels on their books that's some choice!). But talking to environmentalists is standard a tactic used by PR companies to green a company's image. Managing Activism, published by the UK Institute of Public Relations, describes this process, in typical PR speak, as "two-way symmetrical communications" which "offer a way forward where the company does not have to give in to activists or persuade them to give in." And the hiring of activists is described by PR Watch as "a crude but effective way to derail potentially meddlesome activists." It seems that Melchett is being led up the genetically modified garden path. CON MERCHANTS "It is easier and less costly to change the way people think about reality than it is to change reality." - PR adviser Morris Wolfe. The modern PR industry dates back to the 1930s when companies realised they could use World War I style propaganda to deal with social movements and unions. PR companies are not interested in facts only images. B-M advise clients to concentrate on 'stories - not issues' and 'symbols - not logic', because "...symbols are central to politics because they connect to emotions, not logic." And these 'symbols' end up being reported in the media as crap lifestyle stories with the real issues not discussed. This is especially unsurprising since B-M is in partnership with ITN (Independent Television News) running the Corporate Television Networks (CTN) - which use ITN staff and facilities to make promotional videos for business clients - CTN videos have ended up in ITN broadcasts. When the likes of Melchett give endorsements it makes the stories and symbols gain credibility with a cynical public. When cash strapped environmental charities take a few quid from companies, they do little to further their causes, yet greatly benefit the image of the companies involved. The WorldWide Fund for Nature accepted $1 million from oil firms Chevron and BP for a conservation project in Papua New Guinea (between them BP and Chevron make over $20,000 million profit per year). In return, leaked documents from Chevron revealed, "WWF will act as a buffer for the joint venture against ... international environmental criticism." In 2000 WWF held back publication of a damning report on tropical forest destruction, for fear of upsetting the companies it named. It is not just charities and activists that are used by the PR companies. There are a whole load of front groups set up to present a different picture to what environmentalists are saying. In 1989 B-M set up the Global Climate Coalition to discredit warnings about climate change; people involved in the Coalition include most of the big oil companies, motor manufacturers and chemical companies. PR companies also specialise in creating their own grass roots groups. In North America and Australia this has led to the rise of the Wise Use Movement. Using campaigning tactics similar to environmental groups they scare farmers, forestry workers, miners, etc. into thinking that the environmental movement is out to destroy jobs and ways of life. Thousands of timber jobs in North America have been lost to automation, economic rationalisation and export of raw logs, but environmental protection is used as an easy scapegoat. Behind these groups which present a front of concerned citizens and workers, are big businesses. For example People For the West! who claim a membership of 18,000 is funded by 200 companies and 12 of its 13 directors are mining company executives! So how do PR companies deal with yer uncompromising activists? Well it is that age-old tactic, divide and rule - exploit differences in the movement by co-opting the more conservative elements and ridiculing the radicals. PR companies divide activists up into categories such as radicals, opportunists, idealists and realists. 'Idealists' are educated and altruistic and should be changed into 'realists' who are willing to work within the system for change and 'opportunists' are simply careerists who want jobs and power. So Melchett seems to have migrated from an idealist to an opportunist. The most problematic group are the 'radicals' who want to change the system or have underlying political motives, the tactic of the PR gurus is to isolate the radicals from the support of the realists and idealists. Labels like extremists and terrorists are attached to anyone who refuses to compromise or takes effective action. But since PR companies are not interested in issues, only stories then this sort of doublespeak is unsurprising. SchNEWS thinks maybe a leaf should be taken out of the PR experts' book and we should start describing radical capitalists as uncompromising extremists using terror tactics to destroy the environment and wreck people's lives in the pursuit of profit. * Further Info: PR Watch produces a regular bulletins: www.prwatch.org, read 'Global Spin' by Sharon Beder (Green Books) or 'Green Backlash' by Andy Rowell (Routledge). WORLD POWER PROPAGANDA Burson-Marsteller is the biggest PR company in the world, with offices in 32 countries and 1,700 employees. B-M is owned by the WPP group, who own 17 other PR companies. Believe it or not but WPP began life as Wire & Plastic Products a small British company making shopping baskets! In 1985 it was bought up by Martin Sorrell, financial director of Saatchi & Saatchi, he then acquired lots of marketing and PR companies and is now the world's largest communications group with a massive ability to influence the way people think. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REBEL ALLIANCE Get together of Brighton's direct action groups (7-8pm), followed by Life Before Profit - a rally to stop the corporate killers (8-9.30pm), then DJ's (till 12.30 am). Monday 21st January at the Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIVE SchNEWS We know that reading SchNEWS can sometimes be a bit of a wrist slashing experience, so we thought we'd dedicate a page of the first issue of 2002 to positive news stories. - Stories of people getting together in their communities to come up with grass-roots solutions to some of the world's problems... enjoy it while you can because it'll be back to the depressing stuff next week. END Excerpt. That's not me obviously so unless you wanna http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos/ainfos08034.html

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Kanadian Kolonization by Krapeaters.
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

Canada, Skwelkwek'welt Update Here is a chronology of what has happened at Skwekwek'welt (in Secwepemc Territory, "bc, kanada") in the last 2 months: November 4, 2001 - Lorne Dunn of the Sun Peaks Snowmobile Tours drives his snowmobile into MacGillvray Lake and deliberately creates a situation blaming Native youth for assaulting his son. No investigation was held nor were any charges laid. November 8, 2001- Attorney General Geoff Plant discontinues talks with Chief Arthur Manuel citing high tensions in the Skwelkwekwelt area and blaming Secwepemc for the tension, he cites, the snowmobile incident at MacGillvray Lake. November 16, 2001 - Seizure notice is delivered to Secwepemc at MacGillvray Lake and Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center. Police use extreme force and violence to arrest three youth at MacGillvray and issue warrant for two more. December 3 and 5, 2001 - Judge Beames hears injunction application by Sun Peaks Resort and British Columbia Government. Judge Beam9s rules in favor of Sun Peaks and the B. C. Government ruling that they would be more harmed by Secwepemc occupation of their lands. Secwepemc are forbidden for occupying an area at MacGillvray Lake and the base area of the Sun Peaks Resort. December 10, 2001 - Attorney General Geoff Plant and Minister of Sustainable Development Stan Hagan order the removal of the Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center and the demolition of a Secwepemc family home and two sweatlodges at MacGillvray Lake. Reid Tate of Kamloops RCMP order huge snow blockades on the road east of MacGillvray Lake to prevent Secwepemc from returning to the site. December 28, 2001 - Two Secwepemc Elders, one 73 years old and one 75 years old; three Secwepemc women, and one youth are arrested and charged in a road block on road to Sun Peaks Resort. Secwepemc People are still resisting the destruction of their traditional territory for the expansion of the Sun Peaks ski resort. Contact them for more info or to support their struggle: Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre c/o Janice Billy, Neskonlith Band, Box 608, Chase, Secwepemc Territory "bc, kanada" V0E 1M0 jrbilly(a)mail.ocis.net Chief Art Manuel c/o Neskonlith Band, Box 608, Chase, Secwepemc Territory "bc, kanada" V0E 1M0 Cell: 250-314-7179, Band: 250-679-3295, Fax:250-679-5306

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Text of Texas Penal Code Sec. 9.42.
by Jim Choate 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

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The Tortured Genius Behind Game Theory (fwd)
by Jim Choate 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:28:50 -0600 From: nnburk <nnburk(a)dtgnet.com> Reply-To: sci-tech(a)ssz.com To: "sci-tech(a)einstein.ssz.com" <sci-tech(a)einstein.ssz.com>, Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com> Subject: The Tortured Genius Behind Game Theory The Tortured Genius Behind Game Theory: A Beautiful Mind A Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 By Sylvia Nasar A Book Review: http://www.businessweek.com/1998/25/b3583103.htm -- ***************************************** * Nancy Noell Burk * * Planetscape Enterprises * * http://www.planetscapeenterprises.com * * mailto:planetscape@hushmail.com * * 605-664-6582 * * fax 810-963-0969 * *****************************************

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Cornholing as Contraception.
by mattd 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed Special report: GM crops debate Robin McKie, science editor Sunday September 9, 2001 The Observer Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation. The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives. 'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein. 'We have also created corn plants that make antibodies against the herpes virus, so we should be able to make a plant-based jelly that not only prevents pregnancy but also blocks the spread of sexual disease.' Contraceptive corn is based on research on the rare condition, immune infertility, in which a woman makes antibodies that attack sperm. 'Essentially, the antibodies are attracted to surface receptors on the sperm,' said Hein. 'They latch on and make each sperm so heavy it cannot move forward. It just shakes about as if it was doing the lambada.' Normally, biologists use bacteria to grow human proteins. However, Epicyte decided to use corn because plants have cellular structures that are much more like those of humans, making them easier to manipulate. The company, which says it will not grow the maize near other crops, says it plans to launch clinical trials of the corn in a few months.END (See also Germaine Greers Sex and Destiny;review here... http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/09/specials/greer.html

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