31.12.04

12.

Há coisas que são certas. Uma delas é esta. É falso que não somos nada. O curso dos acontecimentos sai por entre o sono da consciência. É igualmente falso que sejamos muito. Somos à dimensão da nossa chama, e tão importantes no grande grão cósmico quão pura for essa pira que nos torna opção.
11.

It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying here it is or there it is. Rather, the Kingdom of the father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it.
10.

9.

Cansado, cansado, a terra, os frutos, hey, ho, sobe, respira, liberta, ombro com ombro, hey, ho, a minha amante ferve ansiosa os colchões da lascívia, hey, ho, quem lava esta lança, ombro com ombro, quem planta solene esta esperança, vida entre as sombras, hey, ho, covas e esperança, pranto e glória, hey, ho, hey, ho, hey, ho.
8.

7.
Perdoem-me se admito que tenho de fazer uma pausa. Há qualquer coisa que entra em feedback, e não toco guitarra há mais de oito anos. Tenho a tripa mental em directo com o hiperespaço.
6.

I wanna run
I wanna hide
I wanna tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I wanna reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel, sunlight on my face
See that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Still buildin'
Then burnin' down love,
And when I go there
I go there with you...
It' s all I can do

The cities a flood
And our love turns to rust
We' re beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I' ll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name

-x-

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Through they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

-x-

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis
5.

Este copo já vai no fim.
4.

Não se percam mais jovens nem vidas úteis a debater os aumentos salariais, as religiões, a ajuda às vitimas de desastres naturais.

E porquê?

Porque todos sabemos que um míssil custa mais do que dez anos de salário de dez mil famílias em Aceh.

Porque todos sabemos que 1% de aumento para cem deputados que exercem decerto funções, cumulativamente, em empresas, representa em valor absoluto o mesmo que 10& de aumento para cinco mil trabalhadores da lota ou do campo.

Porque todos sabemos que o mundo é governado e nele se passam coisas pela mão de um punhado de imbecis consanguíneos para quem apenas interessa perpetuar a anestesia sine die.

Porque todos sabemos que a abstenção é o vértice da democracia.

Porque todos sabemos que não pode haver democracia com um povo destes. É suicida.

Porque todos sabemos que nada nunca muda, a não ser as rugas ao espelho numa manhã de Outouno já pouco distante.

E todos sabemos que a mortalidade é a melhor desculpa para a cobardia.

Hei-de ver este planeta de pernas para o ar, com os déspotas enforcados nas tripas dos apaniguados do sistema.
3.

A minha prima Ana Rita tem o olhar. Aquele olhar. Sempre teve. Vi ontem uma foto dela, quando tinha sete anos, e já então miudinha tinha o olhar firme, fixo, sabedor, trespassante como quem faz da Terra um jornal que se lê à luz de uma supernova.

Deve ser esse olhar que tanto apreciam em mim, quem me conhece, quem me descobre. Há mais gente na minha família que também o tem, e que tem outras coisas. Como aquelas que eu referi ali no outro post.

Hoje julgo ter percebido. Porque assumimos o dever, porque desfocamos de nós mesmos, sem nunca perdermos o amor-próprio e até com algum hedonismo (que os de tons sépia avaliam por essa linha energúmena, "tu tens a mania que sabes tudo", quando efectivamente se torna claro que eles nada sabem embora se arroguem "sérios") e ainda assim o nosso motor é a responsabilidade, é passar o testemunho, somos da cepa dos que guardam a vida e as velas. E somos de tons vibrantes, de formas múltiplices, arde-nos cá dentro esta coisa feroz e belicosa que por vezes nos domina e ameaça destruir, e ardemos, ah se ardemos, somos tochas presas a cometas de amor, rasgando os mapas do purgatório de cada um, e - quando conseguimos manter a calma e singrar os dias na placidez de sermos aquilo que somos, aí então não nos consumimos, nem um de nós desiste ou se entrega à morte fervente dos caminhos do excesso, e nessa altura paramos e tiramos uma noite para nós como hoje, na certeza de haver ainda muitos dias durante os quais poderemos ensinar, acalentar, ajudar, escrever, parir.

2.

A mãe do meu filho disse-lhe "isso foi lá, não foi cá, os mortos estão longe, a onda não se abateu aqui, não te rales".

Renego, repudio e reconstruirei esta idéia na sua mente, porque graças a tudo que o posso fazer em igual medida, temporal e de credibilidade.

Foi cá, foi ali, ao virar da curva, os países, o dinheiro, o sistema, as sociedades, tudo o que se vive entranhado e se quer perpetuar, são vícios mesquinhos que um dia alguém criou ao transformar a luta contra o trauma do nascimento, essa peleja de cada um, numa máquina de fomentar o elitismo. Agora não se desliga.

Não haja países, nem sistemas.

E sim, foi ali, foi cá e ele vai saber que podia ter sido aqui em casa, e connosco, e que nunca, jamais, deverá viver centrado em conceitos estreitos e curtos e rasos como preconizam os néscios, os pueris, os que só querem nascer uma vez e não usam a centelha que lhes é oferecida para dela fazer alma. Porque o que não se utiliza, a nível bioenergético, biológico, intelectual, desaparece.

Nasçam então uma só vez e não me lixem o juízo. Tenho uma descendência a assegurar e deles há-de ser a mão que há-de escrever tantas páginas no livro da sabedoria como os delírios que me assomam em cada milímetro cúbico desta noite porreira, calma, minha.
Hoje, por opção, fico aqui. O Zé disse-me hoje, "estamos velhos, eu já não tenho - nem sei o quê". É certo. O que aqui escrever tem que ser escrito para que alguém leia e saiba que há muita gente diferente, muita gente além, gente que não precisa de viver 150 anos para ter evoluído como se essa idade atingisse.

Seguramente, o que o Zé queria dizer é que já não vamos a todas, porque nos apercebemos que a humanidade não está lá. Hoje em dia, leio situações e prevejo comportamentos, ocorrências e reacções com a mesma fluidez com que folheio um livro. Assim, e embora ainda o mundo me surpreenda, já não vou a todas. Vale a pena lutar, não desperdiçar energias de forma vã e inglória.

Um dia ainda cairia no risco de me esquecer de deixar isto escrito. Assim é melhor.

Eu adivinho coisas. O Miguel e a Mónica nunca se tinham visto, e em cinco minutos de conversa, no Metro, eu disse para mim, eles vao andar. E andaram. Acerto em nomes, em locais, meto por caminhos que nunca vi e chego onde queria, leio as pessoas, toco-lhes nos botões todos, sei coisas de carácter técnico que nunca estudei e que me seria impossível saber, a não ser que tenha lido, sem me aperceber, dezenas de manuais e os meus olhos lhes tenham retido o conteúdo em background. Ou então a memória genética funciona bidireccionalmente no tempo, ou mesmo permeando a topografia do universo, e chegam-me coisas que algum meu primo estudou, em Antares, no século quarenta e três, biqueira larga, Mário. Isto é importante de escrever, porque eu não tenho explicação: sei de biologia, química, medicina, aeronáutica, história e tudo e tudo, mas não sei como sei.

Também tenho uma sorte estranha. Nunca tenho muito, mas também nunca me falta nada.

Esperem, vou só abrir a terceira garrafa que a Charlotte me mandou.

A todas vocês, Senhoras que sempre andarão de braço dado com as vertigens do meu derivar, este copo bem cheio como os dias que seguramente vivemos desafiando a distância, o tempo, e os dias. São coisas diferentes, repare-se.

Já venho.

Talvez devesse fazer isto por passas. Doze. Hm.

1.

A liberdade que quero atingir, porque passo as melhores horas dos meus melhores anos com a alma cravejada de parvoíce, porque respiro o mesmo ar de pessoas que nada sabem ou querem saber dos desígnios da vida que não aquilo que lhes traz sossego aos espíritos torpes e pequenos. Cito, "temos que trabalhar com seriedade", frase que me merece a única resposta suficientemente acertada para tal impropério, a saber, bardamerda. Não quero trabalhar com seriedade, porque a vida é demasiado séria, os mortos nas praias e o peixe que se reproduz são assuntos demasiado sérios para os misturarmos com artifícios pobres e despiciendos como os mercados, o dinheiro, as gravatas, e os simulacros de virtude como as sociedades filarmónicas dos bairros pacatos. Trabalhemos os terrenos, criemos saúde, ciência, arte, paixão, tudo com paixão, e renegue-se a versão cinzenta da seriedade com três lanças em cada mão, prontas a varar o primeiro tacanho amorfo e trombudo que assomar com o probóscis de fora da toca. O mundo não precisa de empresas, hierarquia ou pacatez, e sim de mãos fortes que equilibrem o arado, o livro e a criança.

Volto já, tenho medo que isto não se grave...

30.12.04

Incoming: fragmentos de sossego.
Quoting,

"Scientists knew in advance that southern Asia was going to be hit by a tsunami, but attempts to raise the alarm were hampered by the absence of early-warning systems in the region. Within 15 minutes of Sunday’s earthquake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii had sent an alert to 26 countries, including Thailand and Indonesia, but struggled to reach the right people. Television and radio alerts were not issued in Thailand until 9am local time - nearly an hour after the waves had hit."

É o costume. E continuo sem perceber porque é que ninguém quer ver que um avião, dez mísseis ou meio ano de salários pagos a bodes incompetentes de cu gordo sentados em cadeiras de couro, tudo isso faz dez vezes mais do que quaisquer vinte euros que possamos todos para lá enviar.
Em Dornes, à beira da estrada, passei hoje por isto:

Between 1962 and 1979 the NSF Polar Research Vessel Eltanin surveyed Antarctic waters, studying the ocean and ocean bottom. In 1964, the ship photographed an unusual object at a depth of 13,500 feet. At the time, there was no submarine that could have carried a piece of technology to this depth.

The object appears to be a pole rising from the ocean floor with twelve spokes radiating from it, each ending in a sphere. The spokes are at fifteen degree angles to each other. It is located approximately 1,000 miles south of Cape Horn, beneath some of the most inhospitable seas in the world.

Marine biologists have speculated that it might be some sort of an organism, largely because it is otherwise so difficult to explain. However, there is no known form of marine life that looks remotely like this object.

There exists the possibility that it is an antenna or other scientific instrument that was lost by an early research vessel, but once again, this would appear to be a very forced explanation. It seems unlikely that an object could drop through three miles of ocean, and anchor itself on the bottom.

In addition, the position of the antenna is so exact, and so strangely significant, that it would seem almost certain that it was intentionally put there. Who did it, with what technology and why remains unknown. However, it's clear that there could be an enormous secret connected with the Eltanin antenna, and one that might not be entirely unknown to certain members of the scientific community, as will be seen.

Researcher Bruce Cathie, a New Zealander who, among other things, had a famous series of UFO sightings, has developed a theory about the antenna based on its position on the planet. Cathie's theories suggest that the antenna may be part of an ancient planetary grid that is of fundamental importance to an understanding of our planet and the great 25,000 year cycle known as the precession of the equinox.

Could it be possible that the Eltanin Antenna is a piece of ancient technology, or even technology that comes from another world? Cathie certainly thinks so. Other researchers are now suggesting that modern science might be well aware of the purpose of the object, and might be actively monitoring it or using it in some way.

Mr. Cathie considers 144, the harmonic recriprocal of the speed of light, to be an important measure of the earth's grid because it divides into the planet's 21,600 minutes of arc exactly 150 times. An individual interested in Cathie's ideas began measuring outward in steps from the antenna, and to his surprise found that the Prospect Point Antarctic Base is precisely eight of these measures away. Add another unit of 144 and you find two more antarctic bases, Hemus and St. Kilmet.

Remarkably, a whole array of bases and earthquake stations surround the Eltanin Antenna. What this may mean is unknown, but it is certainly suggestive that the Eltanin antenna is no strange marine creature, but rather an object of great importance, that somebody understands very well.

24.12.04

People,

wishing you all a very happy Christmas Eve and Day wherever and however you're planning to spend it.

No matter how valleys and gaussian bells may shape our lives, truth has it that such a banding together of empathetic minds cannot be other than comely for the final outcome of mankind and the swift sure hand of the cosmic drive.

For all that and more and less and squares, my Christmases are even better since some months ago when citadels became once more a frequent sight out of the corner of that glass sitting over there on top of the front right speaker.

Hence,

Flames of Muhaha on us all and a Good One to boot,

We'll be around
A joyous one, but then, he and JY and all of us should be blooming with joy, coz we share one of the weirdacalicrutalarpwarpawarpalizedidoomultipassleeloobondingbahdedosedaiohringybonds in all the world.
saint emilion and snow and cold permafrost babes be upon you!!!

22.12.04

>Hmm. You're either a spy or a chemical engineer. Why is it that you Dutch people
>always seem to spend zero time working and the rest of it having fun?

and he said


"Interesting guesses but did it not occur to you that I could be working part-time, earn my money on the net perhaps, own a multinational, be a millionaire, have a rich family, am a total looser, are structurally unemployed, am my own boss, make my chief think I am doing loads of work while surfing the WWW, am an AI artefact running from a cluster of opterons (courtesy of Xiao Feng), have close ties to God and omnipotence, have cybernetic implants as to be able to play / monitor the forums all the time while mumbling "I'll be back!" to the wind, run a helpdesk, could be doing accountancy work at a mobile phonecompany or do boring administrative work for an insurance company. Man, the options are legion. That's what Putin said to me only yesterday; he said: "Marcovic, don't worry, they'll never find out you're KGB and if, if, if, if they do have their doubts about what you're doing for a living, they'll never believe it's us nor Mrs Moneypenny, but will suspect those kosher wimps of the CIA having you on their payroll with a licence to play"

21.12.04

pediram-me:

i know
here's what
a ditch
crown of glory
and a glass of red
bright minds' glitter
cherish where beauty dwells
and care for trees on every street
hide away from madmen
who raise themselves hungry for meat
diggers of bottomless wells
biting and feeding off dreams
and gaily comes barging in
dread
of incomprehension not
of the forthcoming horde
maturing
unknowing
unheeding
no harbour of faith
no tower upright
i know
here's what
not a walking coffin.

Lament for Rysia

Where did you come from?
And where are you going?

Along the Whale's Road,
a course of hammered silver;
where horizon meets ocean
under a quiet sky of quartz and velvet.

Second star on the left, and
straight on till morning , my friend.

Your signal is fading now;
still, records remain to be pored over
in detail.

pete, Inverness 1994
ROTK-SE
pinhões
chévre
centeio
quinta do cotto
potica
café
cohiba
caol ila
subwoofer

trato-me bem.

17.12.04

já sei
a minha idéia é esta
é uma valeta
uma coroa de glória
e um copo de tinto
o rasgo dos génios
tomar conta do que é belo
e proteger as árvores na rua
esconder-me dos loucos
que se fazem erguer famintos
construtores de poços sem fundo
e abocanham os sonhos
e entra galhardo o pavor
da incompreensão não
da horda vindoura que cresce
sem saber
sem ver
sem porto de fé
sem torres de pé
já sei
não quero um caixão ambulante.

16.12.04

Esta vem ex nihilo ;)


" No aviso nº 11 466/2004 (2ª Série), declara-se aberto concurso no I.P.J. para um cargo de "ACESSOR", cujo vencimento anda à roda de 2500 EUR (500 contos).
Na alínea 7:..." Método de selecção a utilizar é o concurso de prova pública que consiste na ... apreciação e discussão do currículo profissional do candidato."


No Aviso simples da pág. 26922, a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa lança concurso externo de ingresso para COVEIRO, cujo vencimento anda à roda de 350EUR (70 contos) mensais. "... Método de selecção:

Prova de conhecimentos globais de natureza teórica e escrita com a duração de 90 minutos.
A prova consiste no seguinte:
1. - Direitos e Deveres da Função Pública e Deontologia Profissional;
2. - Regime de Férias, Faltas e Licenças;
3. - Estatuto Disciplinar dos Funcionários Públicos.

Depois vem a prova de conhecimentos técnicos:
Inumações, cremações, exumações, trasladações, ossários, jazigos, columbários ou cendrários.

Por fim, o homem tem que perceber de transporte e remoção de restos mortais.

Os cemitérios fornecem documentação para estudo.

Para rematar:
- Se o candidato tiver:
- A escolaridade obrigatória somará + 16 valores;
- O 11º ano de escolaridade somará + 18 valores;
- O 12º ano de escolaridade somará + 20 valores.

No final haverá um exame médico para aferimento das capacidades físicas e psíquicas do candidato.

ISTO TUDO PARA UM VENCIMENTO DE 70!!! CONTOS MENSAIS!

Enquanto o outro, com 500!!! Só precisa de uma cunha."


Thanx Ana \=^)

13.12.04

xiça qu'esta porra tremeu toda!


Note to self: nunca mais deixar restos de coalho nos tachos e virar as costas, confiando na maquinaria. 300 litros de água tirados da cozinha a golpes de lençol de banho e alguidar.

11.12.04



Passei parte da manhã a exercitar a minha perícia no uso abusivo do malho. Deitámos abaixo o que havia para deitar, e depois sentámo-nos no penedo e comemos pão rústico com presunto e queijo. A seguir teremos que desbastar o solo e o muro.

9.12.04



Dimebag Darrell
R.I.P.

E um gajo aqui a perder tempo com atrasados mentais como o Morais Sarmento, enquanto lá fora, aquilo que importa se vai deixando morrer:



Com o título «A infância ameaçada», o relatório sobre a situação mundial da infância 2005, elaborado pela UNICEF e que vai ser apresentado em Londres, diz que mais de mil milhões de crianças não crescem num ambiente saudável e protector.

O cenário traçado não é animador: uma em cada duas crianças sofre de privações extremas associadas à SIDA, pobreza e conflitos armados.

Segundo Carol Bellamy, directora executiva da UNICEF (Fundo das Nações Unidas para a Infância), os dados agora divulgados entram em contradição com a promessa da Convenção sobre os Direitos da Criança, aprovada em 1989, de pugnar por levar às crianças um ambiente mais saudável e protector.

«Se metade das crianças do mundo estão a crescer com fome e falta de saúde, se as escolas se tornam alvos e aldeias inteiras ficam despovoadas por causa da Sida, é porque não fomos capazes de cumprir as promessas feitas às crianças", lamenta a responsável.

Sida: 15 milhões de crianças orfãs

E de facto, os números são avassaladores: Devido à Sida há no mundo mais de 15 milhões de crianças órfãs. Em 2003, diz o relatório, morreram de Sida 2,9 milhões de pessoas (incluindo pais e toda a rede de adultos que protegem as crianças), das quais meio milhão com menos de 15 anos, e nesse ano contraíram a doença mais 630.000 crianças.

Em 2004, 2,1 milhões de crianças viviam com a doença e, em apenas dois anos (2001-2003), o número de crianças que perdeu um ou ambos os pais devido à Sida subiu de 11,5 milhões para 15 milhões, 80 por cento da África Subsariana.

Conflitos armados: crianças usadas como escudos humanos

Um panorama que não muda quando se fala do impacto dos conflitos armados na vida das crianças.

Dos 3,6 milhões de mortos em guerras desde 1990, perto de metade eram crianças. A estes dados junta-se um mais recente mas não menos perturbador: as crianças deixaram de ser poupadas nas guerras e por vezes até são usadas como alvo (exemplo do ataque à escola de Beslan, Rússia, em Setembro), diz a UNICEF.

Depois, milhões de crianças foram gravemente feridas ou ficaram deficientes, ou foram ainda sujeitas a violência sexual, traumas, fome e doenças. Cerca de 20 milhões foram obrigadas a abandonar as suas casas devido aos conflitos.

Pobreza: uma em cada seis crianças sofre de fome

Finalmente, no que respeita à pobreza, a UNICEF diz que uma em cada seis crianças sofre de fome, uma em cada sete não tem qualquer espécie de cuidados de saúde, uma em cada cinco não tem acesso a água própria para consumo e uma em cada três não tem casa de banho.

No mundo, 180 milhões de crianças trabalham em péssimas condições, 1,2 milhões são vítimas de tráfico, todos os anos, e dois milhões, a maioria raparigas, são exploradas sexualmente.

Mas a UNICEF não fica por aqui. Na "lista dos horrores", inclui, também, outros números que dão que pensar:

Mais de 120 milhões de crianças não frequentam a escola primária.
Mais de 640 milhões de crianças não têm habitação adequada.
Mais de 500 milhões de crianças não têm acesso a saneamento.
Mais de 400 milhões de crianças não têm acesso a água potável.
Mais de 300 milhões de crianças não têm acesso à informação.
Mais de 270 milhões de crianças não têm acesso a cuidados de saúde.
Mais de 140 milhões de crianças nunca frequentaram a escola.
Mais de 90 milhões de crianças sofrem de graves privações alimentares.
No mundo, ainda citando o relatório da UNICEF, vivem cerca de 2,2 bilhões de crianças, das quais 1,9 bilhões em países não desenvolvidos, o que faz com que uma em cada duas crianças viva na pobreza.

Em 2003, morreram 10,6 milhões de crianças antes de festejarem os cinco anos. São tantas como as crianças da Alemanha, França, Grécia e Itália, todas juntas.

Em cada dia morrem no mundo 29.158 crianças que nunca chegam aos cinco anos.

Pela enésima vez, NÃO, "as pessoas" não são para tolerar, não merecem o benefício da dúvida, em princípio não valem o ar que consomem.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/07/boys.hit.ap/index.html
Quase dois anos depois, conclui-se afinal que a Justiça tarda, movendo-se sobre rodas pegajosas, também em países supostamente civilizados, onde o seu exercício é até por vezes idolatrado.

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=51342



Só me espanta que ainda haja quem julgue que esta pseudo-civilização tem safa, como os retrógrados dos britânicos, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4080293.stm, que acham que podem viver até ao séc. XXIII na era Vitoriana.

7.12.04

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Roopen kesakuvat!
i took a heavenly ride through our silence.
Rockin' Again


Written By : Byford/Oliver/Dawson

I'm standing in the dark
Let the music start
I can hear you call out my name
I see the flashing lights
Cutting through the night
The spotlight is shining on you
I've always been around
I'll never let you down
I've seen it through right from the start

We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again
We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again

I'm standing in the dark
Let the music start
I can hear you call out my name

We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again (rockin' again)
We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again

Do what you wanna do tonight
We're gonna make you feel alright
Do what you wanna do tonight, tonight

Do what you wanna do tonight
We're gonna make you feel alright
Do what you wanna do tonight, yeah

Stop the show
I gotta go
But we'll be back for more

We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again (rockin' again)
We'll be rockin' together, rockin' again (rockin' again)

Rockin' again
Rockin' again
(Repeat to end)
Joao Sem-Terra

* Joao Sem-Terra 1987 (r) (ESC 5-600)
o Grapes: baga, tinta pinheira.
The color is in the dark concentrated end. I was sitting under a fan at the Feira Popular in Lisbon so the sent was very hard to define - still I think it must have been weak. Taste of dark berries, earth and oak. Strong tanis and a spicy good body. I think it was Madeing (is that the English word?) just a little in the finish. A very good wine. A little brutal. Eventhough it had strong tanis it seemd to have just begun declining. That might
explain the very favorable price (we paid ESC 1300 in the restaurant) (84/100).
24-08-96 Marc de Oliveira



A LITTLE BRUTAL! ihihih :)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yuri Zhukov
Subject: s/satriani_joe/back_to_shalla-bal.tab

“Back to Shalla-Bal” by Joe Satriani
from the “Flying in a Blue Dream” Album

tabbed by Yuri Zhukov


|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-9-9---9-9---9-9---9-9---|
|-9-9---9-9---9-9---9-9---|
|-7-7---7-7---7-7---7-7---|

The “growling” part, all with whammy bar:
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|------------------ph-----|
|-0(2)(0)(1)(0)(2)-2-(5)--|

main melody 1, w/ wah:
|-------------------------------|
|-ph------------ph--------------|
|-9(11)-7-------7(7.5)(7)-------|
|---------9-7-9-----------7-9~~-|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-7--------------|----------------------|
|--10----9~~-7-7-|-ph-------------------|
|----11----------|-9(11)(9)(11)-7-------|
|------9---------|----------------9-7---|
|----------------|----------------------|
|----------------|----------------------|

|-------------------------------|
|--------------------ph-ph-ph---|
|---------------2(4)--4--4--4--•|
|-------ph-0-0-----------------•|
|-7-5-7-7-----------------------|
|-------------------------------|


melody 2:
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-------4(5)(4)-2--slow bend--|
|-0-4-7-------------3(4)~~~~--|

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------9-11(12)(11)-9------------|
|-7-11----------------10(11)~~~--|

|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-------4(5)(4)-2--slow bend--|
|-0-4-7-------------3(4)~~~~--|

|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|--------7(7.5)-4------4-7(7.5)-4~~~--|
|------------------4-6----------------|
|------9------------------------------|
|-7-11--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------9-11(12)(11)-9------------|
|-7-11----------------10(11)~~~--|
|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------12~~--|
|------11-13(13.5)(13)-11--------------|
|-9-13--------------------12(13)-------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|

|------------------------------12~~--|
|------12-14(15)(14)-12--------------|
|-9-13------------------12(13)-------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|-4(6)-6-6-4(6)-6-6~~---|
|-5(7)-7-7-5(7)-7-7~~---|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|

|-7(9)--9--9--7(9)--9--9~~~--|
|-9(11)-11-11-9(11)-11-11~~--|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|

|-10(12)-12-12-10(12)-12-12~~---|
|-12(14)-14-14-12(14)-14-14~~---|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-12(14)-14-14-12(14)-14-14~~--|
|-14(16)-16-16-14(16)-16-16~~--|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|

solo:
|-19(21)-19(21)-19(21)-19(21)(19)|-21^16^21^16^14-19^16^14----
|--------------------------------|------------------------16--
|--------------------------------|--------------------------18
|--------------------------------|----------------------------
|--------------------------------|----------------------------
|--------------------------------|----------------------------

-------------------|-21^19^16^14^21^19^16^19^21^19^16^14^-
-21^19^16^14-21^19-|--------------------------------------
-------------------|--------------------------------------
-------------------|--------------------------------------
-------------------|--------------------------------------
-------------------|--------------------------------------

-21^19^16^14^21^19^16^14^16-18-19^18^16^14^16^18^19^18^16^14|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|

|-18^16^14^16^18^19^18^16^14^16^14^12^11^14-12-11-|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|
|-14(16)(14)(17)(pull off fretboard)-|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------(very very fast)------------------------------|
|-ph-15-16-181615181615181615181615181615181615181615181615-|
|-14--------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|

|-------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------(elevens not ones)------
|-181615181615181615\131313\111111/131313\111111\-
|-------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------ph--17(19)--14^12-------------------------|
-99119\8898\6686\4----------------13^11--------------------|
---------------------------------------14^11^14^11^9--9----|
----------------------------------------------------11-9^7^|
-----------------------------------------------------------|

|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------4-4--|
|-------------------ph-------------------|
|-9^7^9^7^9^7^9(11)-7(9)(7)(9)(7)(9)-----|
|----------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-15-7^10-15-7^10-15-7^10-15-7^10-15-7^10-|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-14-5^10-14-5^10-14-5^10-14-5^10-14-5^10-|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-17-9^12-17-9^12-17-9^12-17-9^12-17-9^12-|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-16-7^12-16-7^12-16-7^12-16-7^12-16-7^12-|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-19-10^15-19-10^15-19-10^15-19-10^15-19-10^15-|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
t t t t t
|-17-10^14-17-10^14-17-10^14-17-10^14-17-10^14-|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|

|-19^0^17^0^16^0^14^0^12^10^0^10^9^0^9^7^0^7^5^0^5^4^0^4^2^0-|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|

|-4^2^4^0^2^0------------------------|
|------------3^2^3^0^2^0^9^7^5^3^2^0-|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|---------------------|
|-ph-----18-19-19~~~--|
|-10------------------|
|---------------------|
|---------------------|
|---------------------|

back to main theme:

|-------------------------------|
|-ph------------ph--------------|
|-9(11)-7-------7(7.5)(7)-------|
|---------9-7-9-----------7-9~~-|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-7--------------|----------------------|
|--10----9~~-7-7-|-ph-------------------|
|----11----------|-9(11)(9)(11)-7-------|
|------9---------|----------------9-7---|
|----------------|----------------------|
|----------------|----------------------|

|-------------------------------|
|--------------------ph-ph-ph---|
|---------------2(4)--4--4--4--•|
|-------ph-0-0-----------------•|
|-7-5-7-7-----------------------|
|-------------------------------|

melody 2 w/ ad lib:
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-------4(5)(4)-2--slow bend--|
|-0-4-7-------------3(4)~~~~--|

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------9-11(12)(11)-9------------|
|-7-11----------------10(11)~~~--|

|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-------4(5)(4)-2--slow bend--|
|-0-4-7-------------3(4)~~~~--|

|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|--------7(7.5)-4------4-7(7.5)-4~~~--|
|------------------4-6----------------|
|------9------------------------------|
|-7-11--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------------------------------9-|
|------9-11(12)(11)-9------------|
|-7-11----------------10(11)~~~--|
|--------------------------------|

|-10(12)(11)-7-5----------------|
|----------------7--------------|
|-----------------9(11)-0-7~~~--|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------9-11(12)(11)-9------------|
|-7-11----------------10(11)~~~--|
|--------------------------------|

|-----------------------7-7-7-|
|-10-10-5---7^9^7^9^7---------|
|-11-11-4-4-7^9^7^9^7---------|
|---------------------9-------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|

solo 2:
t t t t t t
|--------------------------------------|
|-9-3^5-9-3^5-9-3^5-9-3^5-9-3^5-9-3^5--|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
t t t t t t
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-9-3^5^7-9-3^5^7-9-3^5^7-9-3^5^7-9-3^5^7-9-3^5^7-|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
t t t t t t
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|

t t t t t t
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-10-4^5^9-|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|

|-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|

|-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-10^9-4^7-|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|

|-11^10-5^7-11^10-5^7-11^10-5^7-11^10-5^7-11^10-5^7-11^10-5^7-9-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------10|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|

tremolo picking
|-16/////////////-17/////////////-16///-14///-12///-10///-|
|-15/////////////-X-/////////////-------------------------|
|-16/////////////-16/////////////-16///-14///-13///-11///-|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|

|-9-8-7--|
|-5-4-3--|
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|

|-4(6)-6-6-4(6)-6-6~~---|
|-5(7)-7-7-5(7)-7-7~~---|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|

|-7(9)--9--9--7(9)--9--9~~~--|
|-9(11)-11-11-9(11)-11-11~~--|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|

|-10(12)-12-12-10(12)-12-12~~---|
|-12(14)-14-14-12(14)-14-14~~---|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-12(14)-14-14-12(14)-14-14~~--|
|-14(16)-16-16-14(16)-16-16~~--|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|

|--------------------------12-17-19~~~----------------|
|-17(19)^15^17^15----12-15-------------------10-12~~~-|
|-----------------14--------------------9(11)---------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|

tab key:
t=tap
ph=pinch harmonic
^=legato
x(y)=bend note "x" to pitch "y"
/=slide up
\=slide down
~=vibrato

Dreadful Thunder
The storms moving in
And Judgment day is calling
My soul has been healed
By the power of steel
And the sound of glory

I will send into the ground
All that are found
By the sign of the hammer falling
Yes Heathens will fall
I will strike down them all
Then you will know my calling

Bravery calls my name
In the sound of the wind in the night
My sword will drink blood
And I will fight
Yes I will fight
In the dawn of battle
Dawn of Battle

I will rise up from the chaos
I will rise up from the grave
A brother to the darkness
A master to the slaves

I am the soul descendent
Of the fire and the rage
I was wrought upon the earth
Born to rule and battle wage

By the total domination
Of the world in my command
By the Air and the water
By the Fire and the land

I give no explanation
I was branded by the will
Bringer of Death and Destruction
To all that I now kill

Bravery calls my name
In the sound of the wind in the night
My sword will drink blood
And I will fight
Yes I will fight
In the dawn of battle
Dawn of Battle

I long to be free
So I wait for a sign
I wait for a star
To fall from the sky
From the dust of sleep
A promise to keep
Then all who see shall believe
Deliver into my hand
The sword of the land
Let my journey begin
So all shall understand
That if I fall
I will live again

I will rise up from the chaos
I will rise up from the grave
A brother to the darkness
A master to the slaves

I give no explanation
I was branded by the will
To bring of Death and Destruction
To all that I now kill

Bravery calls my name
In the sound of the wind in the night
My sword will drink blood
And I will fight
Yes I will fight
In the dawn of battle

6.12.04

A saga prossegue.


Joaquim Mauro, 27 anos, estofador de sofás, ficou conhecido como 'O Satânico de Chaves', quando a 11 de Abril deste ano, esfaqueou nas costas e na cabeça, uma jovem de 17 anos, no quarto de sua casa. Esteve seis meses em reclusão, passando pelo hospital da prisão de Caxias e por estabelecimentos psiquiátricos. Está agora em prisão domiciliária. Em exclusivo e pela primeira vez, conta ao CM a odisseia da sua vida, desde que em 2000 sentiu que "um dom" lhe dominava o corpo e a mente.
d.r.

Correio da Manhã – Quando sentiu atracção pelo oculto?

Joaquim Mauro – De repente, comecei a ver imagens e a ter aquela força desumana, no início de 2000, quando estava em Viseu.

– Como reagiu?

– Tenho a convicção que se tratou de um dom, embora não saiba explicar como, nem porquê. Veio até mim e ficou durante todo este tempo. Não fiz nada para mantê-lo, mas também nunca procurei afastar essas sensações.

– Qual foi a primeira sensação?

– No princípio foram as visões, já que tinha acesso a coisas que ninguém via. Sentia uma electricidade a subir-me dos pés à cabeça e fazia-se luz no cérebro, sendo certo que naquela altura não era eu – alguém me comandava.

– Em que altura deu conta de que estava a 'evoluir para um outro patamar'?

– Em 2002, no meu quarto. As visões passaram a ser mais específicas.

– Ou seja?

– Isso é melhor não contar. São coisas que procuro afastar e quanto mais exercitá-las pior para mim. E todo esse tipo de visões são coisas que não interessam a ninguém conhecer.

– Mas ainda há visões dessa natureza?

– Há, são situações terríveis. Por isso é melhor esquecer.

– A determinada altura diz no seu diário: 'Hoje estou feliz porque consegui falar com o meu querido Satanás".

– Lá está você de volta ao que quero esquecer. Falemos de outras coisas, ok?

– A Mónica era visita do seu quarto há muito?

– Era. Quando fiz as mudanças na casa da Dina [uma amiga], a Mónica pediu-me o telefone e a partir daí veio muitas vezes ao meu quarto. Fechávamos a porta, ouvíamos música, jogávamos Playstation, trocávamos [no sentido de venda] beijos e outras coisas.

– Venda de beijos e que mais?

– Para já é só isso que posso dizer, com a certeza de que tudo isso vai ser público um dia, que espero ser o quanto antes, para afastar este pesadelo da minha vida de uma vez por todas. A Mónica entrou e saiu mais de 50 vezes no meu quarto e quando ia embora estava sempre contente porque levava dinheiro, cassetes e peluches. Deixou-me na penúria, eu que sempre tive um bom pé-de-meia.

– O que correu mal naquele dia?

– Para ser franco, nem sei. É um facto que alguma coisa correu mal, mas nunca tive intenção de matá-la. Se assim fosse ninguém me impediria, já que só lá estávamos os dois. Estava tudo muito bem e, de um momento para o outro, tudo se alterou. Apenas posso dizer que nesse dia, por diversas vezes eu não era eu. Muitas vezes estava bem, passados minutos já não era eu, mas a voz era a minha.

– Sentia-se possuído?

– Mais ou menos isso. Há situações que eu próprio não consigo explicar. Nessas alturas falo oito línguas diferentes, e só estudei português.

– E os 'ataques' na cadeia?

– Não têm explicação. Lembro-me de uma vez, quando regressava ao quarto onde estava preso subiu-me electricidade pelo corpo acima e depois só me lembro dos guardas abrirem a porta e levarem-me para o hospital. Quando regressei mostraram-me os estragos: armários em forma de bola, cadeiras feitas num oito, ferros retorcidos e algemas rebentadas. Tudo o que nenhum mortal conseguiria. Aí estava possuído.

– Se estava possuído durante o interrogatório, como se recorda do que disse?

– Durante o interrogatório disse muita coisa e grande parte contra mim. Coisas que podem incriminar-me. Sei que falei para o juiz com uma frieza total e não sentia remorsos do que dizia, porque não estava normal. Parecia que já sabia as perguntas do juiz, pois tinha as respostas na mente.

– Quando essa possessão passava, voltava ao estado normal?

– Depois não me recordava de nada. Nem mesmo na cadeia, quando os guardas me diziam: "olha o que fizeste meu rapaz". Quando ia ver lá estavam os destroços. Eu próprio questionava: como é que tinha força para fazer aqueles estragos?

– Disse que o 'plano' era cortar a cabeça à sua mãe?

– Quando comecei a abrir o bico, no interrogatório do tribunal, não era eu. A voz não era a minha, o pensamento e o raciocínio não eram meus. Só voltei ao estado normal no dia seguinte, quando entrei na cadeia.

– Essas 'vozes' deram-lhe ordens na cadeia?

– Numa primeira fase sim. Depois comecei o tratamento no hospital da prisão de Caxias e deixei de ouvir vozes e de receber ordens. Tudo isso faz parte do passado.

– Após ser preso, foi descoberto um colar valioso no seu quarto. Como é que ele chegou até si e o que representava?

– Esse colar/crucifixo era do Faraó Ramsés IV, do Egipto, e estava datado de 1510 a.c.. Recebi uma ordem para ir buscá-lo a uma lixeira em Verim, Espanha. Pedi à minha mãe que me levasse lá [Natália Correia, a mãe, que assistiu à entrevista, confirma]. Deixei-a a mexer no lixo e desapareci para o local indicado. Recolhi o colar e trouxe-o para o meu quarto, onde esteve mais de dois anos.

– Essas ordens eram cada vez mais difíceis de cumprir?

– Eram sempre iguais. Houve uma altura em que existiu a tentação de cortar a cabeça à minha mãe, da parte deles. Mas foi só uma tentação, nunca uma ordem expressa, porque se fosse teria de ser executada.

– Naquele dia teve relações sexuais com a Mónica?

– Não me lembro. Passei por três fases: normal (quando ela chegou), não normal e a cair entre a realidade e a fantasia. Quando vi que tinha ferimentos, pedi-lhe para me deixar ver e tinha uma picada nas costas e na cabeça.

– Nessa altura estava possuído por quem?

– Não me lembro. Antes de ser internado ouvia vozes e recebia ordens com facilidade.

– Hoje vê estas coisas com normalidade?

– O que quero é esquecer.

– Ser conhecido como 'O Satânico de Chaves' é um rótulo para a vida. Como vai conviver com isso?

– Que remédio. Mas também não me faz diferença. Tenho a consciência limpa, sei que não cometi nenhum crime. E já agora chamarem-me satânico, porquê? Quem é que pode advogar sobre isso? Quem é que tem dados para me rotular? Volto a perguntar: Satânico eu? Porquê?

– Ainda precisa de acompanhamento?

–Não. Sinto-me um homem pronto para enfrentar o Mundo.

O VILÃO

O planeta está em perigo – a empresa Shinra ‘suga-lhe’ a força vital. A partir daqui desenvolve-se o enredo do jogo de Play-station ‘Final Fantasy VII’. De um lado enfileiram os ‘bons’, os ecoguerreiros, que tentam travar a exploração desenfreada dos recursos naturais. Do outro os ‘maus’, elementos do grupo militar Soldado, que protege os interesses de Shinra. Sephiroth é um antigo membro daquela força. Pensava-se que morrera, há cinco anos, em Nibleheim, mas acaba de ser visto. Sephiroth parece ter regressado do mundo dos mortos, disposto aos actos mais cruéis. Não lhe faltam armas sofisticadas. É este o personagem com que Joaquim Mauro mais se identifica, numa proximidade tal que lembra uma relação de cumplicidade.

INSCRIÇÕES A SANGUE

As paredes do quarto, onde dormia Joaquim Mauro, estavam pejadas de inscrições feitas com sangue. Ali foram apreendidas dezenas de cassetes de vídeo celebrando rituais de adoração ao Diabo e um punhal simbolizando o demónio. Foi naquele quarto que, no Domingo de Páscoa, Joaquim, de 27 anos, terá esfaqueado e violado uma jovem de 17. O agressor encontra-se, neste momento, a aguardar julgamento em casa.

(Luís C. Ribeiro, Vila Real)

3.12.04

My Greek narrows to gamisou, malaka, skathakoufala, pousth, nai, oxi, mwraki mou, filakia, polla gamwta, ti kaneis and all that... and reading LIDL juice cartons, and old stories... :pb_ringy: most languages I make out from intuition, and Latin is no exception, although of course it helps a lot having Portuguese as mother tongue :)

On the other hand, today I guessed, as a friend was asking me why his DVD wouldn't let his tv set display any other channel, that it must be smt with Ppin 8 of the scart plug. Now, I never saw any scart connector diagram before, I do know how to assemble and disassemble but I never on earth memorized what each individual pin does... or maybe my eyes once saw it and set it back in my forgotten halls?

It occurs often enough that I guess and read the unreadable.

2.12.04

Querido Chefe,

adenda ao mail anterior, que não te enviei.

6. Hoje eu e a XXXX somos outra vez os entalados na hora de almoço, como de há 9 anos a esta parte. Os que costumam ir às 13:30, como fazem desde há 9 anos a esta parte, decidiram outra vez, sem aviso, aleatoriamente, como de há 9 anos a esta parte, que iam das 12:00 às 15:00, e olha, eu e a XXXX ficámos cá até às 15:12, hora a que fomos buscar um croquete, como as putas, porque apesar de chegarmos sempre às 08:25 e de saírmos sempre as 17:30 como duas pessoas normais que têm vida pessoal fora daqui, e de ganharmos menos do que aqueles que aqui passam o dia sem querer aprender nada e a gerir actividades profissionais extra-profissionais, ainda não descobrimos o chakra que permite seguir dez anos sem comer, como os faquires de Calcutá.

Bom Ano Novo.
Querido Chefe, eis o mail que nunca te mandarei.


1. Liguei da XXXXXX a pedir apoio, após sete tentativas espaçadas de vários minutos atendeu-me a XXXX que me disse que não podia ser, estavam com muito trabalho e não haveria hipótese de fazer o que lhe pedia (ligar para França). Tentei ligar do meu telemóvel e do cliente mas não consegui, em França ninguem atendia.

2. Recado da XXX XXXX da XXXXX que não me foi transmitido (diz ter falado com o XX) desde 2ª-feira. O XXXX apagou o utilizador dela.

3. XXXX, continuo a considerar que não é normal demorar o tempo que se demora para poder assistir um cliente na utilização do (xxxx), estive cerca de 15 minutos com a senhora do XXXXXX para poder perceber em que estado estavam as ordens, se tinham vindo, se não, o que se passava, etc..

4. Recebi dois cd's do XXXX , contendo pastas duplicadas, com informação desactualizada e sem se perceber qual dos patches é o correcto, uma vez que as versões intermédias vêm lá todas, e não apenas a que se pretende instalar. Comuniquei ao XXXX. Vou levar os CD's para fazer uma série de CD's de trabalho, em casa, dado que não posso estar sempre a preencher papéis de requisição de
cópias, que demoram ainda por cima um dia inteiro a fazer, quando poderia ter um gravador de CD's no meu posto.

5. Precisei de simular uma situação que um cliente encontrou, mas não temos Windows 2000 nem XP, nem nos postos de trabalho nem nos portáteis, logo não pude fazê-lo.


Feliz Natal.

1.12.04

The Tannahill Weavers - Dancing Feet
Wild Turkey Rare Breed (108.4°, 54.2% alcohol)

Olha como escureceu!
ag uirchill a' chreagain sea chodail mise 'reir faoi bhron
is le heiri na maid'ne thainig ainnir fa mo dhein le poig
bhi griosghrua garth' aici 'gus loinhir ina ciabh mar or
's ba e fochshlainte 'n domhain a bheith 'g amharc ar a' rioghan oig
a fhiafhir charthanaigh, na caitear thusa 'nealta
ach eirigh go tapaidh agus aistrigh liom siar sa rod
go tir dheas na meala nach bhfuair galla inti reim go foill
's gheobhair aoibhneas ar hallai 'mo mhealladhsa le siamsa coeil
a rioghan is deise 'n tu helen fa'r treagh sloigh
no do na naoi mna deasa pharnassus thu 'bhi deanta gclo?
ce'n tir ins a chruinne 'n ar hoileadh tu, a realt gan cheo
le'r mian leat mo shamhrhailsa bheith 'cogarnaigh leat siar sa rod?
ASFIXIADO COM MEIA

Um jovem, com cerca de 25 anos, foi ontem encontrado morto, embrulhado numa manta, atado de pés e mãos e com uma pedra de 20 quilos presa à cabeça, numa caixa semidestruída (tudo indica da EDP), no acesso à Ponte Internacional de Valença, no sentido da Galiza.
O corpo foi encontrado por um camionista espanhol que tinha parado junto à ponte e se deslocava a Valença, a pé, à procura de um mecânico. Fonte policial disse ao Correio da Manhã que o crime, provavelmente morte por asfixia, foi cometido há pouco tempo, dado que “o corpo ainda não cheirava”.

A mesma fonte disse-nos que o corpo se encontrava com um pé descalço e que a meia, que se encontrava na boca, terá servido para asfixiar o jovem.

De resto, as autoridades estão convictas de que o autor ou autores do crime pretendiam atirar o corpo ao rio Minho, já que tinha uma pedra de 20 quilos atada à cabeça.

Algum sinal de presença policial, aliás habitual, na zona da ponte, terá levado os meliantes a abandonarem o corpo naquela caixa, no acesso à auto-estrada.

Até ao fecho desta edição, as autoridades não tinham ainda descoberto a identidade do jovem, ou a sua nacionalidade.
DivX MP3 AVi LowRez player 2.1 hoohoohoo
Faca sibh Raháill na Ailleánn?
Não sei bem se a medida desta taça abarca as linhas enviezadas das nossas mentes rebeldes.
Escreveste que tal como tu e tal como todos, tremo ante cada passo pois que a vida nos assusta.

Pensei nisso.

É falso.
np: Tríona ní Dhomhnaill - Úirchill An Chréagainn

E lá fora tudo denso, escuro, carregado. Ozono em lanças de amor e esperança. Velas. Alfaiates. Sangue.

Vamos a isto, o ano que vem assoma.

Sabia-me agora bem o leite-creme que comi no outro dia.

Embrulhei tudo.

Cores.

Esquilos :)

29.11.04

"Se o autismo não fosse uma coisa séria, dir-se-ia que o bebé se caracteriza pelas imensas estaladas que dá a si próprio, e pela vontade persistente de arrancar os tubos da incubadora. Aliás sempre me irritou a palavra bebé, em particular para designar uma coisa como um governo, porque Bebé era um anão francês , de nome Nicholas Ferry, bobo do Rei Estanislau da Polónia e de que os franceses, com uma crueldade imensa, passaram a usar a alcunha para traumatizar as crianças."

(http://www.abrupto.blogspot.com)

26.11.04

People, in their vast, vast majority, are a bunch of self-centered, nefarious and minute-minded bigots.

25.11.04

O que aconteceu foi que eu estava em Belém na inauguração da maior arvore
de Natal da Europa, sim repito da Europa, porque nós quando fazemos as
coisas é em grande, e virei-me para um turista que lá estava e disse-lhe:
- Lá na tua terra não tens disto pois não? A maior da Europa, a MAIOR! E
o gajo vem com uma conversa: Não sei quê, no meu país preferimos gastar
dinheiro em outras coisas, por exemplo a evitar que rebentem condutas de
agua, que levam ao abatimento do solo, e dessa forma prejudiquem milhares
de pessoas...mais não sei que mais e o camandro! E eu, que ate sou um gajo
que é pá, tenho uma facilidade na exposição de argumentos, não me fiquei e
disse-lhe logo:
- A maior da Europa! Toma! Embrulha!
E o gajo começa a falar que não sei quê, lá no país dele quando começa a
chover as zonas ribeirinhas não ficam inundadas, e que talvez fosse
melhor que, em vez da arvore, o dinheiro fosse canalizado para evitar essas
situações. Eu comecei a enervar-me e disse ao gajo:
- Mau, tu queres ver que nos temos que chatear! Eu estou aqui a expor
argumentos que... é pá sim senhor, e tu vens com essa conversa de não sei
quê. Eu nem quero começar a falar na feijoada em cima da ponte, nem no
desfile de "pais natais", porque senão nem sabias onde te metias pá. O
gajo começa a falar de uma coisa qualquer, tipo túneis que são construídos e
ficam a meio, e não sei que mais, e eu virei logo costas. Porque quando
eu vejo estes gajos que não conseguem aceitar a superioridade de um país e
ainda falam, falam... falam, falam... falam, falam... e não dizem nada de
jeito, eu fico chateado, claro que fico chateado!!

(GF)
Em resposta à Ana, não pude deixar de estender as asas...

"Vá-se lá saber. Eu fui à inspecção já com 24 anos, com o curso a meio, casado e a trabalhar desde os 17, e nunca pensei que fosse tão evidente a perda de tempo e recursos que aquilo representa. Passo a contar, mas acho que isto merece um post inteiramente dedicado, de tal forma que depois farei copy/paste.

Entrei no quartel com 4 amigos. Um deles, o Luis, é filho de um almirante qualquer. Quando entramos no pátio, berra logo um graduado lá do fundo: "olhó gajo, atão o teu pai, tá tudo bem?!?". O Luís ficou com a etiqueta 10, eu com a 13. Vi logo que ia haver abismo. Por onde passámos o Luís era sempre cumprimentado e ria-se, ria-se desmesuradamente de tudo aquilo. No questionário havia ainda outras perguntas engraçadas, não me recordo bem mas julgo ter lido "gosta da maioria das pessoas?". Depois mandaram-nos reagir a uma luzinha e enfiar uma ficha em ranhuras larguíssimas, ainda tentei dissimular agindo como se estievsse imerso numa atmosfera viscosa, mas acabei por ficar entre os 3 primeiros, tal como nas provas seguintes, por mais que tentasse dar pala de mentecapto. Ah, o papel que levava a declarar-me asmático em último grau desde os 4 anos serviu para limpar as mãos depois das flexões. Quando fui "encher" tinha uma tensão de 190/140, suei que nem um javali barranquenho. Entretanto o médico-chefe perguntou-me, no final, já estávamos só uns 30 numa sala, porque estava eu ali e se queria ir à tropa. Expliquei que não, que ia ser pai e além disso nunca tinha votado em ninguém, sempre segui a minha própria cabeça e a minha própria cabeça dizia-me que ficar ali me faria destruir muito da minha vida. Ele disse "então tá bem" e mandou-me sentar outra vez. Depois ficámos ali, eu , mais o 10 e os outros gajos, e levámos um salmo de 45 minutos sobre a nossa obrigação, mesmo inaptos/capazes, de saltar em defesa da pátria em caso de necessidade, deixei-me pairar por cenários de invasão tunisina ou queda de meteoritos em Santa Comba. E depois deram-me um papel.

Ah, a tua pergunta! Creio que tentavam apurar as nossas tendências sociopatas, devem ter visto o Full Metal Jacket e quiseram precaver-se contra a perda repentina de instrutores..."

\=^)
At 15:55, ringthane said...

Pessoalmente lembro-me de ir numa manif, saindo da FCUL, com uns 3 mil gajos, é a memória mais viva que tenho da minha participação no exercício da liberdade de expressão - é que não havia net nem blogs \=^) E agora já não há manifs, os lélés e os carritos anestesiam e não convém abanar o establishment. Auri sacra fames.

At 13:03, Jhac said...

Já não ha manif's? a que eu fui no ano passado e a deste ano a 1 mes devo ter estado a sonhar...

At 00:13, ringthane said...

E soube-te a manif a sério? Difícil...

At 00:15, ringthane said...

Mas não te chateies lá por isso. Eu continuo a acreditar que a vossa geração não é reles nem vem ao mundo parir apenas continuidade para a apatia. As excepções é que cada vez são menos visíveis.

At 00:17, ringthane said...

Emendo ligeiramente o que escrevi. Continua a haver (é com "h", como em "há um mês") manifs visíveis hoje em dia. Os motivos é que são menos sérios.

24.11.04

A not-so-brief history of population control (for the average conspiracy looney, that's me, excuse me while I trail off to play some pinball)

The Tartars had the idea of infecting the enemy by catapulting bodies infected with bubonic plague over the walls of the city of Kaffa. Some historians believe that this event was the cause of the epidemic of plague that swept across medieval Europe killing 25 million.

1763 The British during the French-Indian War. The Native Americans greatly outnumbered the British and were suspected of being on the side of the French. As an "act of good will" the British give blankets to the Indians, but the blankets came from a hospital that was treating smallpox victims and consequently smallpox raged through the Native American community and devastated their numbers.

1814 Andrew Jackson, whose portrait appears on the U.S. $20 bill today, supervised the mutilation of 800 or more Creek Indian corpses, the bodies of men, women and children that his troops had massacred, cutting off their noses to count and preserve a record of the dead, slicing long strips of flesh from their bodies to tan and turn into bridle reins. ( Historian Ward Churchill, A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE; HOLOCAUST AND DENIAL IN THE AMERICAS, 1492 TO THE PRESENT (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997). ISBN 0-87286-323-9. pg.186) U.S. Presidents And The Masonic Power Structure

1911 Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1918 The modern history of Biological Warfare (BW) starts in 1918 with the Japanese formation of a special section of the Army (Unit 731) dedicated to BW. The thought at the time was "Science and Technology are the Key's to Winning War and BW is the most cost effective."

1918-1919 Flu pandemic that killed over 20 million worldwide and over 500,000 here in the US.

1920's Unlike the malignant twists of nature, ranging from bubonic plague through to potato blight, which have killed masses throughout the ages, both the beef and pituitary hormone CJD crises were manmade. Scrapie, the sheep equivalent of BSE and CJD, has been around for more than two centuries. Somewhat differently, human spongiform encephalopathy was unheard of before two German physicians, Creutzfeldt and Jakob, independently reported the initial cases in the 1920s. BSE, too, was unheard of until a decade after cattle (aka Mad Cow) began to be fed the protein-rich remains of scrapie-infected sheep to accelerate their growth.

1929 The Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1930's Less known to the public is that fluoride also accumulates in bones. "The teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones," explained Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St Lawrence University, New York, to these reporters. In recent years, pediatric bone specialists have expressed alarm about an increase in stress fractures among young people in the US. Connett and other scientists are concerned that fluoride-linked to bone damage in studies since the 1930s-may be a contributing factor. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

1931 Japan expanded its territory by taking over part of Manchuria and Unit 731 moved in to secure "an endless supply of human experiment materials." Essentially all prisoners of war were available for Biological Warfare (BW) experiments. Japanese WWII Veteran Admits Unit 731 Germ Tests

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients. http://www.sightings.com/general4/usb.htm

1932 The Infamous Tuskegee Study
In recent history, we have seen the influence of occult population control advocates here in America. Nowhere is that influence better demonstrated than in the Tuskegee Study, a scientific research program in which 400 syphilis-infected black men were recruited by the U.S. Public Health Service back in 1932. The participants were all told that they would be treated for their infections, but instead of treating their illness, all medicines were withheld. The black men were then actively prevented from obtaining treatment elsewhere as their bodies, and the bodies of their wives and children, were systematically ravaged by disease. The evil men who conceived that Nazi-style study justified their atrocity by alleging that scientists needed to learn how untreated syphilis progressed in the human body. For a period of forty years, between 1932 and 1972, the genocidal Tuskegee Study continued. It was not until 1972, when one newspaper finally had the courage to break the story to the public, that the Tuskegee Study was finally terminated. The Population Control Agenda

1934 The original lesson about the infectious nature of these brain diseases mad cow disease" or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans) came from a 1934 vaccine catastrophe in the UK which brought scrapie, or "mad sheep disease", to almost 5,000 out of 18,000 lambs within two years of their immunization against louping-ill virus infection. Tracing back, scientists discovered that the vaccine serum was prepared from a number of lambs whose dams had subsequently developed scrapie, but the significance of scrapie passing vertically from ewes to their lambs, and horizontally from lamb to lamb by virtue of the vaccine injections, was kept from international eyes by a series of egotistical carry-ons which prevented the data from reaching the pages of the scientific literature for a further 15 years.

1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occurred within poverty-stricken black populations. http://www.sightings.com/general4/usb.htm

1935 China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1938 Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 6 to 7 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and 12 million Christians who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1939 Margaret Sanger organized her "Negro project," a program designed to eliminate members of what she believed to be an "inferior race." Margaret Sanger justified her proposal because she believed that: "The masses of Negroes ...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit..." The Population Control Agenda

1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust. http://www.sightings.com/general4/usb.htm

1941 Japanese planes sprayed bubonic plague over parts of China. At least 5 separate instances of this occurring have been documented. In 1942 "bacterial bombs" were deployed on mainland China but these attacks were determined to be ineffective.

1942 The United States (US) becomes aware of the Japanese efforts in Biological Warfare (BW) and decided to start its own program. These acts were not the only atrocities committed, however. The Japanese released thousands of plague infested rats prior to their surrender, with unknown consequences. They also tested on American POW's during the war and the U.S. Government apparently knew about it, but did nothing (perhaps a worse atrocity). These people killed over 3000 POWs, including many Americans, in a variety of grisly experiments. What they did instead was to offer immunity to would-be war criminals in exchange for the information the Japanese learned from these experiments!

1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty. http://www.sightings.com/general4/usb.htm

1942 Great Britain was also developing a program in Biological Warfare (BW). The program focused on anthrax spores and their viability and "range of spread" when delivered with a conventional bomb. The fateful Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland was chosen as the site for this testing. It was thought that it was far enough off the coast as too prevent any contamination of the mainland, which later turned out to be false. The data gathered from these experiments was used by both Great Britain and the U.S. to develop bombs that were better able to effectively disperse spores.

1943 After an outbreak of anthrax in sheep and cattle in 1943 on the coast of Scotland that directly faced Gruinard, the British decided to stop testing. A tragic consequence of this testing is that even today Gruinard Island is contaminated with Bacillus anthracis spores. The original idea for decontamination was to start a brushfire that burned off the top of the soil and killed all traces of the organisms. Unfortunately, the spores unexpectedly embedded themselves in the soil so total decontamination of the island was/is impossible. As long as no ground is disturbed, we are supposedly safe, but birds that travel back and forth from mainland to island probably don't know this!

1943 Planning began in 1943 with the appointment of a special New York State Health Department committee to study the advisability of adding fluoride to Newburgh's drinking water. The chairman of the committee was, again, Dr Harold C. Hodge, then chief of fluoride toxicity studies for the Manhattan Project. Subsequent members of the committee included Henry L. Barnett, a captain in the Project's Medical Section, and John W. Fertig, in 1944 with the Office of Scientific Research and Development-the super-secret Pentagon group which sired the Manhattan Project. Their military affiliations were kept secret. Hodge was described as a pharmacologist, Barnett as a pediatrician. Placed in charge of the Newburgh project was David B. Ast, chief dental officer of the New York State Health Department. Ast had participated in a key secret wartime conference on fluoride, held by the Manhattan Project in January 1944, and later worked with Dr Hodge on the Project's investigation of human injury in the New Jersey incident, according to once-secret memos.

1944 A Manhattan Project memorandum of 29 April 1944 states: "Clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect... It seems most likely that the F [code for fluoride] component rather than the T [code for uranium] is the causative factor." The memo, from a captain in the medical corps, is stamped SECRET and is addressed to Colonel Stafford Warren, head of the Manhattan Project's Medical Section. Colonel Warren is asked to approve a program of animal research on CNS effects. "Since work with these compounds is essential, it will be necessary to know in advance what mental effects may occur after exposure... This is important not only to protect a given individual, but also to prevent a confused workman from injuring others by improperly performing his duties. The author of the 1944 CNS research proposal attached to the 29 April memo was Dr Harold C. Hodge-at the time, chief of fluoride toxicology studies for the University of Rochester division of the Manhattan Project.

1944 When a severe pollution incident occurred downwind of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company chemical factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. The factory was then producing millions of pounds of fluoride for the Manhattan Project whose scientists were racing to produce the world's first atomic bomb. The farms downwind in Gloucester and Salem counties were famous for their high-quality produce. Their peaches went directly to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City; their tomatoes were bought up by Campbell's Soup. But in the summer of 1944 the farmers began reporting that their crops were blighted: "Something is burning up the peach crops around here." They said that poultry died after an all-night thunderstorm, and that farm workers who ate produce they'd picked would sometimes vomit all night and into the next day. "I remember our horses looked sick and were too stiff to work," Mildred Giordano, a teenager at the time, told these reporters. Some cows were so crippled that they could not stand up; they could only graze by crawling on their bellies. The account was confirmed in taped interviews with Philip Sadtler (shortly before he died), of Sadtler Laboratories of Philadelphia, one of the nation's oldest chemical consulting firms. Sadtler had personally conducted the initial investigation of the damage. The farmers were stonewalled in their search for information about fluoride's effects on their health, and their complaints have long since been forgotten. But they unknowingly left their imprint on history: their complaints of injury to their health reverberated through the corridors of power in Washington and triggered intensive, secret, bomb program research on the health effects of fluoride. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite. http://www.sightings.com/general4/usb.htm

1945 May. Newburgh's water was fluoridated, and over the next 10 years its residents were studied by the New York State Health Department.

1945-1955 Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists who had been secretly ordered to provide "evidence useful in litigation" against defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuits against the American A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents show. Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role in the design and implementation of the most extensive US study of the health effects of fluoridating public drinking water, conducted in Newburgh, New York, from 1945 to 1955. Then, in a classified operation code-named "Program F", they secretly gathered and analyzed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens with the cooperation of New York State Health Department personnel. The original, secret version (obtained by these reporters) of a study published by Program F scientists in the August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association1 shows that evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)-considered the most powerful of Cold War agencies-for reasons of "national security". The bomb program's fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University of Rochester-site of one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies were conducted with the same ethical mindset, in which "national security" was paramount. http://www.nexusmagazine.com/

Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration for the "final solution" from the extermination of Native Americans in the U.S.

1947 By then, as the 1950s dawned, mad sheep disease was shown in the United States to jump the species barrier when a scrapie-infected food supplement brought a similar brain illness to farm-raised mink in 1947. By this stage, the medico-scientific fraternity was intensely preoccupied with another incurable brain illness, kuru, which had reached epidemic proportions amongst the Fore people living in the highlands of New Guinea. Anthropologists from the University of Adelaide unraveled a chain of events to trace the origin of kuru back to the reverent consumption of deceased tribal members' bodies. Kuru was essentially eradicated by New Guinean authorities acting in 1959 on the anthropological clue to outlaw the eating of human flesh.

1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1949 U.S. Army begins 20 years of simulated germ warfare attacks against American cities, conducting at least 239 open air tests. see Chemtrail's

1950 Sept. 20-26. One of the biggest experiments involved the use of Serratia marcescens and bacillus globigi being sprayed over 117 square miles of the San Francisco area, causing pneumonia-like infections in many of the residents. The family of one elderly man who died in the test sued the government, but lost. To this day, syraceus is a leading cause of death among the elderly in the San Francisco area.

1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates

1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955 Another case was the joint Army-CIA BW test in 1955, still classified, in which an undisclosed bacteria was released in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, causing a dramatic increase in whooping cough infections, including twelve deaths.

1956 The Soviet Union accused the U.S. of using biological weapons in Korea, which lead them to threaten future use of Chemical and Biological weapons. This changed the focus of the U.S. program to a more defensive one. Before this, the bulk of the research was based at Ft. Detrick and used "surrogate biological agents" to model more deadly organisms. Most of the offensive tests were based on "secret spraying" of organisms over populated areas. This program was (supposedly) shut down in 1969.

1956 Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Other experiments included tests on Minneapolis that were disguised as "smoke screen tests" because residents were told a harmless smoke was being tested so that cities might be 'hidden' from radar guided missiles.

1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the European population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1963 The mass vaccination campaigns of the 1950s and '60s may be causing hundreds of deaths a year because of a cancer-causing virus that contaminated the first polio vaccine, according to scientists. Known as SV40, the virus came from dead monkeys whose kidney cells were used to culture the first Salk vaccines. Doctors estimate that the virus was injected into tens of millions during the vaccination campaigns, including several million in Canada, before being detected and screened out in 1963. Those born between 1941 and 1961 are thought to be most at risk of having been infected.

1964 Guatemala established gun control. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1965 Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965, when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company was testing an anti-ulcer drug. Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983.

1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

1966 July 7-10, The virus Bacillus subtilis was released throughout the New York subway system, conducted by the U.S. Army's Special Operations Division. Due to the vast number of people exposed it would virtually impossible to identify, let alone prove, and specific health problems resulting directly from this test.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

Often/ Chickwit -1967 Or 1968, Project OFTEN/CHICKWIT was initiated by the Army Chemical Corps and the CIA's Office of Research and Development to create new drug compounds "that could be used offensively." Hallucinogens were tested on inmates in Pennsylvania, but very little is known about the experiments. "CIA documents mention 'several laboratory accidents' in which a drug designated as EA-3167 produced 'prolonged psychotic effects in laboratory personnel' " U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop light bulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates. It would appear that the CIA's drug testing continued throughout the 1970s since, "A CIA memo dated March 8, 1971, indicates that a backlog of more than twenty-six thousand drugs had been acquired 'for future screening'

1968 - 69 The Hong Kong flu, which was influenza A type H3N2, killed over 30,000 people in the U.S. alone. That was a fortuitous learning event for some because it taught them that the flu could still conceivably be used to wipe out a population. But at the same time, it pointed out the need to precondition the populace so that those who might normally be resistant could be rendered susceptible. Hence the development of the vaccine program and the aerial spraying procedures to condition the population. The purpose of the chemicals in the chemtrail's is to help the viral envelope fuse with lung cells, permitting easier penetration and infection.

1969 At a House Appropriations hearing, the Defense Department's Biological Warfare (BW) division requested funds to develop through gene-splicing a new disease that would both resist and break down a victim's immune system. "Within the next 5 to 10 years it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious diseases." The funds were approved. AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, and has the exact characteristics specified.

1970 Uganda established gun control. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

1972 The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) published a similar proposal: "An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune function, e.g., by ...affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function. The possibility should also be looked into that the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to the viral antigens." (Bulletin of the W.H.O., vol. 47, p 257- 274.) This is a clinical description of the function of the AIDS virus.

1972 It was discovered that black children as young as age five were having psychosurgery performed on them at the University of Mississippi in Jackson in order to control "hyperactive" and "aggressive" behavior. Their brains were being implanted with electrodes that were heated up to melt areas of the brain that regulate emotion and intellect. When we first opposed these experiments, and eventually stopped them, we did so despite resistance from organized psychiatry and the research community.

Mid-1970's The incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with the locations of the W.H.O. smallpox vaccination program in the mid-1970's (London Times, May 11, 1987). Some 14,000 Haitians then on UN secondment to Central Africa were also vaccinated in this campaign. Personnel actually conducting the vaccinations may have been completely unaware that the vaccine was anything other than what they were told.

1975 Two neuroscientists, Laura and (the late) Eli Manuelides, from Yale University in the US, went on to illustrate by 1975 that injections of human blood, like injections of brain taken from kuru and CJD victims, transmitted the disease across the species barrier to laboratory animals. Their prophetic, but unheeded, message implied that blood was the vehicle that carried the agent of CJD around the body until it chanced upon an hospitable residence like the brain. This meant that the blood route was the key to the transmission of CJD from a primary host to a secondary host.

1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

On October 5, 1976, just as the so-called "SWINE FLU" inoculation program was getting under way, news reports suddenly told us that we were experiencing fallout from an alleged Chinese atmospheric nuclear blast on September 26. Oddly enough, the initial reports about this came from the East Coast, especially Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut; but certain areas of the Pacific Northwest were soon mentioned as being affected too. We were told that radioactive iodine-131 was showing up in milk at various locations; but we were also assured, as we invariably are whenever any radioactive hazard appears, that there was really no danger. In the days that followed we continued to hear about the supposed Chinese fallout, but other things probably seemed even more worrisome. For example, elderly people began dying of heart attacks shortly after taking swine flu shots, causing widespread alarm at first. But the Government quickly assured us that their deaths didn't really matter at all, that they would have died anyway; and the swine flu inoculation program went right back into high gear. Dr. Peter Beter

1976 the joint KGB-CIA chemical warfare experimentation program began in Philadelphia at the American Legion Convention. A convenient test group was assembled, and it was exploited. Data was desired for the effects of a formulation of the new family of poisons on older men in particular, and the American Legion Convention was chosen as the perfect target. Aerosol spray cans containing poisoned room freshener were used to selectively saturate the atmosphere of the Legionnaires. Afterwards the special spray cans were taken from the hotel, leaving the city by airplane from a small airport on the northwest side of Philadelphia. Two of the active ingredients in the poison that produced the Legionnaires Disease were plutonium and zirconium. Dr. Peter Beter

August 1976 about a month after the Legionnaire episode, and had quite a different purpose; and so a different poison formula was used. Plutonium was again an ingredient, as it is in the entire line of chemical warfare agents now being tested; but this time the formula was designed for very rapid effect with the victims receiving a massive dose. On a day late in August two Air Force C-141 Starlifter transport aircraft that were preparing to leave McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey on flights over the Atlantic were sabotaged by the placement in their cockpits of concealed canisters of poison gas, rigged so that the gas would be released in flights without being detected. The two planes left McGuire at nearly the same time, and crashed within hours of one another when approaching separate destinations in Greenland and England. The very next day, with the wreckage of the aircraft hardly cooled, a Pentagon spokesman said, quote: "Sabotage does not appear to be a factor. It's not even being considered as a factor." Officials also said there was no apparent connection between the crashes. Apparently leaving the same Air Base at practically the same time and then crashing almost simultaneously without warning is not supposed to suggest the possibility of anything but coincidence. No doubt it is also coincidence that McGuire Air Force Base, the origin of these two strange fatal flights, is right next door to Fort Dix where the whole swine flu cover-up scare originated! Dr. Peter Beter

1976 Nobel Prize went to American scientist Carleton Gajdusek for his experiments demonstrating that injections of kuru brain (1967) and CJD brain (1969) reproduced similar illnesses in chimpanzees.

A striking feature of AIDS is that it's ethno-selective. The rate of infection is twice as high among Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans as among whites, with death coming two to three times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS and 90% of infants born with it are among these minorities. "Ethnic weapons" that would strike certain racial groups more heavily than others have been a long-standing U.S. Army BW objective. (Harris and Paxman, p 265)

The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, a primary U.S. Army biological warfare research facility.

1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978 The Hepatitis B vaccine study appears to have been the initial means of planting the infection in New York City. The test protocol specified non-monogamous males only, and homosexuals received a different vaccine from heterosexuals. At least 25-50% of the first reported New York AIDS cases in 1981 had received the Hepatitis B test vaccine in 1978. By 1984, 64% of the vaccine recipients had AIDS, and the figures on the current infection rate for the participants of that study are held by the U.S. Department of Justice, and "unavailable."

1978-1987 Even as the understanding of spongiform encephalopathy increased, various human pituitary hormone programs in countries such as Australia, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States were attracting hefty government sponsorships. Few of the programs' stalwarts caught on to the implications of the Manuelides' experiments, and unsuccessful attempts between the years of 1978 and 1987 to filter the CJD agent out of the pituitary hormones being injected into unsuspecting short-statured children and infertile women were left to one of this era's rare visionaries, British scrapie expert Alan Dickinson. At about the same time, a British Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in 1979 raised the possibility that the unregulated cycling of protein-rich sheep remains back into animal feed might spread scrapie to cattle, as it had done to farm mink in the US three decades beforehand, via the oral route.

1979 There was an explosion at a Soviet plant in Sverdlosk and an outbreak of anthrax followed. At the time, all accusations of BW research were vigorously denied by Soviet officials, with the explanation that anthrax outbreaks can occur naturally and that the explosion was merely a coincidence.

1979 June , a well-dressed, articulate stranger visited the office of the Elberton Granite Finishing Company and announced that he wanted to build an edifice to transmit a message to mankind. He identified himself as R. C. Christian, but it soon became apparent that was not his real name. He said that he represented a group of men who wanted to offer direction to humanity, but to date, almost two decades later, no one knows who R. C. Christian really was, or the names of those he represented. Several things are apparent. The messages engraved on the Georgia Guidestones deal with four major fields: (1) Governance and the establishment of a world government, (2) Population and reproduction control, (3) The environment and man's relationship to nature, and (4) Spirituality. In the public library in Elberton, I found a book written by the man who called himself R.C. Christian. I discovered that the monument he commissioned had been erected in recognition of Thomas Paine and the occult philosophy he espoused. Indeed, the Georgia Guidestones are used for occult ceremonies and mystic celebrations to this very day. Tragically, only one religious leader in the area had the courage to speak out against the American Stonehenge, and he has recently relocated his ministry. The Georgia Guidestones

1981 Aspartame was invented by the G D Searle Co. acquired by Monsanto in 1985. For 16 years FDA refused to approve it until 1981 when Commissioner Arthur Hayes overruled the objections of a Public Board of Inquiry and the protests of the American Soft Drink Association and blessed it. The tests submitted by Searle were so bad the Department of Justice, initiated prosecution of Searle for fraud. Then the defense lawyers hired the prosecutors, Sam Skinner and Wm. Conlon, and the case expired when the statute of limitations ran out. Aspartame/Nutrasweet, a toxin that blinds, drops intelligence, eradicates memory, grows brain tumors and other cancers, brings fatigue. Depression, ADD, panic, rage, paranoia, diabetes, seizures, suicide and death. This toxin is supported by unlimited advertising and the manufacturers pay off the American Diatetics Association, the American Diabetics Association, the AMA, and whomever else, to convince us its safe as rain. These lies are backed by a Federal Bureaucracy knowing it may kill your child, but the bureaucrat who approved the poison got a fat job as have many of his successors. Suppose this government watchdog, ignoring thousands of consumer complaints, has become an Attack Dog protecting corporate corruption. This is the bitter reality of Aspartame/Nutrasweet, Monsanto, the FDA, Coca Cola, Pepsi, and the hundreds of food, drink and drug makers who add to their products a known poison Conceived in Fraud and Dedicated to the Proposition that Profit is all that Matters! (They're Poisoning Our Kids - Aspartame Warning The Facts From Betty Martin Mission-Possible-USA@altavista.net

Dr Miguel A. Baret of the Dominican Republic removed milk from 360 children's diets, because cow's milk has a specific protein that can cause diabetes, especially in children. They drank juice laced with aspartame instead and many developed "abnormal restlessness, lack of concentration, irritability and depression." When Dr Baret removed it: "The results were astonishing. Their symptoms disappeared in 4-6 days in ALL of them!" Thank you, Dr Baret, for this study showing what aspartame does to the brains of our kids!

1984, July 4. The first detailed charges regarding AIDS as a BW weapon were published in the Patriot newspaper in New Delhi, India. It is hard to say where the investigations of this story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not been sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly thereafter: the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31 and the Bhopal Union Carbide plant "accident" that killed several thousand and injured over 200,000 on Dec. 3.

1985 The first of the fatal legacies of this form of medical madness emerged with four cases of CJD in human pituitary growth hormone-treated children.

1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

1987 Dr Louis Elsas, Professor of Pediatrics & Genetics at Emory University, testified before Congress; "Aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin and teratogen [triggers birth defects] which in some undefined dose will irreversibly in the developing child or fetal brain, produce adverse effects I am particularly angry at this type of advertising that is promoting the sale of a neurotoxin in the childhood age group." [Nov 2, 1987]

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, declares Aspartame is a toxin like arsenic and cyanide that causes confusion, disorientation, seizures, cancer, pancreatic, uterine, ovarian and brain tumors and leads to Alzheimer's. Read Excitotoxins, the Taste That Kills [505-474-0303]. Hear Dr. Blaylock's radio interview on www.dorway.com' Courageous whistleblowers like these have spoken in three congressional hearings, but industry's lobbying and political action keep the poison in the foods of the world. Our recourse as consumers is personal communication since the media is paid by advertising to push Nutrasweet/Equal/Diet Coke, etc..

1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1989 During which time the number of French children at risk of growth-hormone-related CJD had practically doubled, the first French children fulfilled that tragic legacy. In 1993, those responsible for this travesty were threatened with manslaughter charges. By 1997, France had half of the world's 100-plus cases of pituitary hormone-related CJD.

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1991 Although the general elitism of human-pituitary programs restricted this brand of medical madness to North America, Europe and Australasian, Third World children and women did not altogether escape the insanity of applying Frankenstein medicine to social conditions. A medical report in 1991 linked the CJD death of a young Brazilian man, like those of five youthful New Zealand men and women, with a childhood treatment involving pituitary growth hormone obtained from the US. Unfortunately, the fate of women in Mexico City whose breasts were injected with US pituitary hormones in an appalling experiment to increase the volume of milk in lactating mothers (some already pregnant again) will probably never be known.

1992 It was discovered the federal violence initiative--the federal government's agency-wide plan to go into America's inner cities to experiment on children in the hope of finding genetic and biological causes for violence. We opposed this program as racist and abusive of children. Our efforts led to the cancellation of this program. It also led the chief sponsor of the program, psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin, to resign from his post as director of NIMH and to leave a career in the government. The fenfluramine studies at Columbia and Queens College are part of the violence initiative. They were created under its umbrella before it was cancelled. They confirm our fears that while the public aspects of the violence initiative were withdrawn, the actual individual projects continue unabated.

1992 Boris Yeltsin confirmed that anthrax was being researched at Sverdlosk and vowed to stop all "Soviet" BW research. Unfortunately, defectors have contradicted Yeltsin and there are rumors that although the 'official government' statement and ideal may be an elimination of biological weapons, the military is still actively pursuing a BW program on its own.

1993 The FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 86°degrees F (30°Degrees C). An act that can only be described as "unconscionable"

1994 One has only to learn what really happened to the Christians in Rwanda between April and July of 1994 to imagine what may lie in store for Christians here in America at some time in the not-too-distant future. After the Christian Tutsis had been disarmed by governmental decree in the early 1990s, Hutu-led military forces began to systematically massacre the defenseless Christians. The massacre began in April 1994 and continued until July 1994. Using machetes rather than bullets, the Hutu forces were able to create a state of abject fear and terror within the helpless Christian population as they systematically butchered hundreds of thousands of them. The United Nations immediately convened hearings on the genocide taking place in Rwanda, but Madeline Albright, the American Ambassador to the United Nations, argued strenuously that neighboring African nations should not be allowed to intervene until the "civil war had come to an end." In reality, of course, there was no civil war since those being slaughtered had no weapons with which to defend themselves; it was simply a matter of mass murder. In addition to blocking intervention by neighboring nations, Madeline Albright also insisted that the word "genocide" must not be used, and that the United Nations forces stationed in Rwanda were not to be allowed to intervene. In the three months that followed, between one-half and three-quarters of a million Christians were systematically dismembered, hacked to death, and slaughtered in the bloody carnage that ensued. Tens of thousands of Christians were murdered in their churches; tens of thousands more were murdered in their hospitals and in their schools. On several occasions, United Nations soldiers stationed in Rwanda actually handed over helpless Christians under their protection to members of the Hutu militia. They then stood by as their screaming charges were unceremoniously hacked to pieces. At the end of the carnage, in late July 1994, the American government rewarded the Hutu murderers with millions of dollars in foreign aid. Strangely, the American press has remained silent Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA about the fact that almost all of those who were slaughtered were Christians, and it was the policies of our government that were primarily responsible for blocking efforts by neighboring African countries to intervene. The Population Control Agenda

1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made. See also The Resnick Interview with Peter Kawaja and Ex-NSA Agent Joe Jordan

1995 Dr Phyllis Mullenix, former head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston and now a critic of fluoridation. Animal studies which Mullenix and co-workers conducted at Forsyth in the early 1990s indicated that fluoride was a powerful central nervous system (CNS) toxin and might adversely affect human brain functioning even at low doses. (New epidemiological evidence from China adds support, showing a correlation between low-dose fluoride exposure and diminished IQ in children.) Mullenix's results were published in 1995 in a reputable peer-reviewed scientific journal.

1995 The University of Rochester's classified fluoride studies, code-named "Program F", were started during the war and continued up until the early 1950s. They were conducted at its Atomic Energy Project (AEP), a top-secret facility funded by the AEC and housed at Strong Memorial Hospital. It was there that one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of the Cold War took place, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium. Revelation of this experiment-in a Pulitzer Prize&endash;winning account by Eileen Welsome-led to a 1995 US presidential investigation and a multimillion-dollar cash settlement for victims.

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996, 27 June without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods. The truth about aspartame's toxicity is far different than what the NutraSweet Company would have you readers believe.

1996 A new scientific paper dealing with a meta-analysis of 23 different scientific studies on the relationship between first-trimester abortions and breast cancer was published in a British medical journal. That study clearly demonstrated a higher incidence of breast cancer in women who had had first-trimester abortions. In response to that publication, the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and pro-abortion/population-control advocates joined together in an unholy alliance to attack the conclusions of the authors, and to block all efforts to disseminate that information to American physicians. The Population Control Agenda

1997 October. Speaking from Washington, DC, Nobel Prize winner for discovering the role of molecules known as "prions" in the invariably fatal brain illnesses such as "mad cow disease" or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, Dr Stanley Prusiner from the University of California predicted that the first drug therapy, which would not necessarily be a cure for BSE or CJD, was at least five years away. At the same time, on the opposite side of the Atlantic, the post-mortem of Chris Warne, a 36-year-old fitness fanatic from Derbyshire, England, revealed that he was the 21st victim of the new variant of CJD which had spread from BSE-infected cattle to humans via the food chain. Only 18 months earlier, a British House of Commons admission that BSE-infected meat had probably caused the CJD deaths of 10 youthful Britons left the British meat industry in tatters. Since then, the history of BSE has gradually unfolded to reveal a brain-dead imperialism, one which, while blinded by its own arrogant greed to inflate market profits, has treated public and, indeed, world health with gay abandon. Formerly a rare disease which affected less than one per million in most countries, one worst-case scenario predicts that BSE-infected meat will push the incidence of CJD in humans to claim 10,000 British lives by the year 2000, and a further 10 million by the year 2010. Another predicts that half the British people, some 30 million, will be left brain-dead by CJD. As Chris Warne's mother commented, her son was a health-conscious sportsman, but "after winning medals in March, by July he couldn't stand on his feet, and by October he was gone". Volume 5, #1

Researchers at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (or USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick in Frederick MD have reconstructed and modified the H1N1 Spanish Flu virus, making it far more deadly than it ever was back when it was responsible for the 1918-1919 flu pandemic that killed over 20 million worldwide and over 500,000 here in the US.
FRANCE is facing a new health scandal following allegations that the prestigious Pasteur Institute willfully ignored warnings that up to 600 children were being injected with cancerous hormones.

The disclosures that children may have been put at risk emerged during a new investigation into the link between the growth hormones and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which caused A major scandal when acknowledged in the Nineties . So far, 74 children have died of CJD after being treated with growth hormones extracted from the bodies of victims of neurological illnesses in the Eighties.

That scandal and the contaminated blood affair in which 4,000 people were infected with HIV through unscreened blood transfusions - despite the availability of an American test for the virus - have contributed to France's acute sensitivity on health issues. When the contaminated blood affair came to trial in 1998 , it was alleged that authorization for the American test was withheld to give the institute time to develop a rival French test.

The latest claims suggest that in 1985 the institute sold a batch of growth hormone to French hospitals without waiting for safety checks which showed the batch to have cancer marker cells at five times the permitted limit for use. The institute is further alleged to have made no efforts to withdraw the batch once it was aware of the risk.