The Bombingest Place on Earth
What Disney’s 60-year-old propaganda cartoons can teach us about war
by Gustavo Arellano
It remains one of my favorite college lectures: during a film-history course at Orange Coast College during the late 1990s, professor Steven Valley shared his Kafka-esque ordeal in trying to view propaganda films the Walt Disney Studios produced during World War II. Phone calls to various Disney historians went unanswered, Valley recounted; written requests never reached their destination; visits by Valley to Disney’s Burbank archives resulted in trips from one office to another, all to no avail. After months of fruitless inquiry, Disney brass finally relented. They shoved Valley into an unlit basement room, carted in a TV/VCR set, popped in a videocassette containing the desired cartoons, and left him for about three hours. No notes were allowed. No recorders. No questions. Upon the tape’s completion, security guards escorted Valley out and told him never to ask for a second screening since it wouldn’t happen.
http://www.ocweekly.com
On Hitler, the Holy See and the Jews (Part 1)
Interview With Historian Father Giovanni Sale
ROME, JUNE 11, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See was farsighted in understanding the dangers inherent in Nazism long before World War II, says a new book.
The book, "Hitler, la Santa Sede e gli Ebrei" (Hitler, the Holy See, and the Jews), Jaca Book publishers, is written by Father Giovanni Sale. In it, the Gregorian University professor analyzes the relations between the Third Reich and the Vatican during 1933-1945.
http://www.zenit.org
Part II.
http://www.zenit.org
Licking Hitler
"PA"
A new exhibition at Bletchley Park – the Second World War intelligence centre where the German Enigma code was cracked – was opening to the public today.
Bletchley Park was the centre of wartime intelligence and was also known as Station X.
Calling themselves “Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party”, a team of scholars arrived there in the summer of 1939.
Their initial aim was to crack the Enigma code, which was used for German military and intelligence communications.
But they also deciphered the Lorenz code, used by Hitler to communicate with his generals, admirals and air marshals about troop movements
http://news.scotsman.com
Hon. Ron Paul of Texas
Before the US House of Representatives
June 3, 2004
The Same Old Failed Policies in Iraq
Mr. Speaker, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Our allegiances to our allies and friends change constantly. For a decade, exiled Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi was our chosen leader-to-be in a new Iraq. Championed by Pentagon neocons and objected to by the State Department, Mr. Chalabi received more than 100 million U.S. taxpayer dollars as our man designated to be leader of a new Iraqi government.
http://www.house.gov
To Look Again — Part Five
Dave's Diatribe - Unfair and Unbalanced
David Mullenax
david@davesdiatribe.com
Liberty is the cornerstone of our Western civilization and the foundation of all societies wishing to create an environment for free men.
http://www.augustafreepress.com
Carlo Mattogno: Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies, Archeological Research, and History
Witnesses report that at least 600,000, if not as many as three million people primarily of Jewish faith were murdered in the Belzec camp, located in eastern Poland, between November 1941 and December 1942. Various murder weapons are claimed to have been used: diesel gas chambers; unslaked lime in trains; high voltage; vacuum chambers. According to witnesses, the corpses were finally incinerated on huge pyres without leaving any traces.
http://www.vho.org
Trench Runs Through It
By WALTER REICH
After my uncles, aunts, cousins and, probably, grandmother were gassed in 1942 in Belzec, a German death camp in Poland, their remains were dumped into mass graves there, together with those of at least 500,000 other Jews. That small site, about 15 acres, is one of the most concentrated zones of death in the world.
In the past 15 years I've gone to Belzec five times to visit those remains and say Kaddish for the dead. Now a trench, about 30 feet deep and open at both ends, has been dug into the ground between the mass graves. Stretching through the heart of the camp, it's the central element of a memorial that was unveiled last week.
http://www.nytimes.com
'Neo-Nazis' Deface 1942 Frieze by Child Holocaust Victims
By John Lichfield in Paris
14 June 2004
French politicians reacted with outrage yesterday to the desecration of a frieze painted in 1942 by Jewish children waiting to be sent to Nazi concentration camps.
http://news.independent.co.uk
'Do Not Have Children if They Won't Be Healthy!'
By Tamara Traubmann
A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.'
http://www.haaretz.com
$300,000 for Israeli Settlers Who Agree to Quit Gaza Strip
By James Burleigh
12 June 2004
Israel plans to pay an average of $300,000 (£164,500) per family in compensation to settlers who leave the Gaza Strip, government officials said yesterday.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Socialists Clear Winners in French Vote: Exit Polls
The opposition Socialist party (PS) emerged as the clear winner in European elections in France, picking up nearly one in three votes cast and nearly doubling the score of centre-right supporters of President Jacques Chirac, according to exit polls.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com
You Heard It Here First: Trendy, Shallow Club Goers into Ease, 'Glamour' of Imbedded Microchips
I've got you under my skin
A number of VIP clubbers at a Barcelona nightclub have been implanted with a chip in their upper arm. But, as Andrew Losowsky reports, the potential uses of the technology could be wide ranging
Thursday June 10, 2004
The Guardian
'Let's dance," screams the DJ from his fake speedboat. Britney blasts out and the scantily clad crowd goes wild. Every weekend, Baja Beach Club in Barcelona is filled with bare flesh, much of it courtesy of their topless barmen and bikinied waitresses. But it is what's under the skin that's causing a fuss.
http://www.infowars.com
Getting RFID Into The Skies
Testing the technology within the aviation industry is progressing rapidly as carriers and manufacturers seek to spot potential problems.
By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek
June 10, 2004
Testing of radio-frequency identification in the aviation industry is progressing at a feverish pace as carriers and manufacturers try to spot any potential problems in using the technology to improve everything from the parts supply chain to baggage handling.
http://www.informationweek.com
Art Becomes the Next Suspect in America's 9/11 Paranoia
Gary Younge in Buffalo
Friday June 11, 2004
The Guardian
The FBI's hazardous materials response team entering the home of artist Steven Kurtz. Photo: Don Heupel/AP
On May 10 Steven Kurtz went to bed a married art professor. On May 11 he woke up a widower. By the afternoon he was under federal investigation for bioterrorism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Patriot Act is Praised in Mailing
US attorney steps up advocacy of 2001 law
By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent | June 12, 2004
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, a staunch defender of the USA Patriot Act, has stepped up his advocacy of the law, sending information packets praising it to every community in the state and dispatching assistants to Town Meeetings that are debating resolutions condemning it.
http://www.boston.com
'Fears Over Gulf War Chemicals'
More people may have been exposed to chemical warfare agents during the 1990 Gulf War than previously thought, a report says.
The US government revealed in 1996 that some people may have been exposed to chemicals when troops destroyed a stockpile of agents in southern Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
War Spending 'Has Made Country More Vulnerable'
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
14 June 2004
America is "massively vulnerable" to another big terrorist attack because of President George Bush's insistence on diverting resources from internal security to the war in Iraq, Richard Clarke, the former White House counter-terrorism chief has said.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Row Over Autism Link to Vaccines
Scientists have raised fears that a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines may cause symptoms of autism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Ireland Votes to End Birth Right
The Irish government says there is evidence of "citizenship tourism"
Irish voters have overwhelmingly backed the tightening of their citizenship laws, final referendum results show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Ireland Prepares to Restrict Citizenship
By David McKittrick, Ireland Correspondent
12 June 2004
The Government says it is necessary, whereas many intellectuals denounce it as illiberal and racist. But the Republic of Ireland is on the brink of a placing a historic restriction on Irish citizenship.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Does the Tomb of St Mark in Venice Really Contain the Bones of Alexander the Great?
By Jonathan Thompson and Nicholas Pyke
13 June 2004
It could be one of the worst cases of mistaken identity ever known. A British historian is claiming that the venerated tomb of St Mark in Venice contains not the great evangelist but the body of the most famous warlord in history.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Spiral Ring Reveals Ancient Complex Machines
19:00 10 June 04
NewScientist.com news service
Distinctive spiral patterns carved into a small jade ring show that China was using complex machines more than 2500 years ago, says a Harvard graduate student in physics.
http://www.newscientist.com
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