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Debates over repressed memories have raged among psychological researchers and clinicians for decades. A number of therapists argued, especially in cases of childhood sexual abuse, that victims had completely suppressed memories of abuse, and that various methods like hypnosis or dream analysis were successful in bringing real memories of past trauma to light.

However, the scientific community was mostly unimpressed, especially since laboratory experiments failed to support the allegations, and on the contrary demonstrated that such 'therapies' created memories, memories about events that had never happened.

Some therapists had created dramatic tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse, which caused massive media panics worldwide, and broke up countless families and destroyed the lives of many innocent people.When the panics waned and the claims were investigated by more sober minds in the scientific and law enforcement fields, the repressed memory theories mostly went into disrespute.

However, in 1997 psychiatrist David Corwin put forth a case study of an alleged victim of childhood sexual abuse, called "Jane Doe," and it appeared that between original interviews at the age of six, where she told about sexual abuse by her mother, and new interviews when "Jane" was seventeen, she had indeed repressed these memories. Only when she saw tapes of herself at six, "Jane" seemed to 'recall' the events. This case study seemed to support the claim that childhood trauma can, in some cases, be suppressed from memory.


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L.M. Boyd

Very Cool Bugs

Kenzi Snider. What's that all about?

spitting image

{I didn't know this. All these years and I never knew it.}


In 1949, photographer Tom Kelley paid the then unknown model, Norma Jeane Baker $50 to pose nude on a red velvet background. A couple of years later he sold one of the pictures from that shooting to a calendar company, and the next year he sold them a second. In 1953, Hugh Hefner bought the rights to publish one of the calendar shots, "Golden Dreams" and used it as the centerpiece of the first issue of his new men's magazine, Playboy.

from cheesecake

LANDCOVER CHANGES MAY RIVAL GREENHOUSE GASES AS CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

While many scientists and policy makers have focused only on how heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are altering our global climate, a new NASA-funded study points to the importance of also including human-caused land-use changes as a major factor contributing to climate change.
Land surface changes, like urban sprawl, deforestation and reforestation, and agricultural and irrigation practices strongly affect regional surface temperatures, precipitation and larger-scale atmospheric circulation. The study argues that human-caused land surface changes in places like North America, Europe, and southeast Asia, redistribute heat regionally and globally within the atmosphere and may actually have a greater impact on climate than that due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases combined.

Once, they said they believed in life over death. What does that matter now? Did it ever matter? What has that got to do with my job? Who is going to keep my red hat on my head? Keating. He shows the world that we mean business. We're tough. And for this hypocritical act of which they are proud, the church hierarchy went into an all-night store and bought trouble. In Boston tonight, the group called the Voice of the Faithful is going to parade with candles in front of the house where Bernard Law, cardinal, lives like a fat potentate. The deepest mystery of the Catholic faith could be how Law stays in his job.
He is responsible for allowing pedophiles like Shanley and Geoghan to roam Boston and destroy lives. His assistants were William Murphy, now the bishop of Rockville Centre, and Thomas Daily of Brooklyn.
Daily has reached the age of retirement and somebody said the other day that he was going to get another year because it is the 150th anniversary of the Diocese of Brooklyn and he wants the chance to sit up there and be extolled. If the Brooklyn Catholics let that go on, let this guy have another turn on the job, then he is a true shepherd because they are dumb sheep.


Jimmy Breslin

Laguna Ocotal, located in the northern region of Montes Azules, is a crystalline lake in the cross hairs. The area, reputedly the reserve's richest in biodiversity, is also a Zapatista stronghold. The lake is particularly isolated. The closest town, Ocosingo, is hours away. To arrive in Laguna Ocotal, it takes take a crowded three bus ride from Ocosingo, followed by a four-hour walk up muddy paths to finally arrive at the lake's edge.
This part of the jungle is also the most militarized in the state of Chiapas, with dozens of Mexican Army bases dotting the landscape. Why has the Mexican military responded with such ferocity to a small, largely indigenous, poorly armed guerrilla movement? The answer has more to do with Chiapas' strategic resources than any alleged military threat posed by the Zapatistas.
It is now clear that although Fox cannot annihilate the Zapatistas militarily, his administration can successfully portray them as the environmental criminals, deserving retribution.
Ignacio Campillo Garcia, Mexico's Attorney General for the Environment Affairs best summed up the government perspective in a press interview last year. "These regions [the Lacandon] suffer from high un-governability, deterring private investment. They [the Army] will guarantee the security for private investment"
The military's role has expanded to include enforcement of environmental law, reforesting and the pending violent "resettlement" of communities located within biosphere reserves. Top on the list are the Montes Azules and Oaxaca's Chimalapas jungle. These regions also correspond to areas of social unrest or insurgent movements.

Ironically, the Mexican Army has been implicated in both in trafficking of endangered species, as well as logging in the Lacandon jungle. In fact, the Attorney General for Environmental Affairs' office currently has open investigations on both charges.
Using the Army, which has an abysmal human rights record, to enforce environmental protection is a pretext to further militarize the region, say local residents.
"The army is arriving not to protect the jungle, but to eliminate us," notes Montes Azules resident and Zapatista Juan Gomez.
In the final analysis, with so many forces converging on the Lacandon, who will win out? Ultimately, the onus for the present crisis in Chiapas rests squarely on the shoulders of the Mexican government. Not only is the government impeding indigenous communities from developing local initiatives for natural resource "management," but also threatening them with violent retribution if they do not immediately vacate their ancestral lands.
"This is our home, the roots of our people. [Relocation] means the death of our people, our culture, our land," says Gomez.

As the death toll mounted, Gale Norton, the grim boss of the Interior Department, acted befuddled and suggested that the die-off in these foul waters was a strange natural mystery.
But there's no need to call in a fish coroner. The slaughter in the Klamath River was a deliberate act, connived at by the White House, the Interior Department and the gang of Klamath River basin irrigators who have run riot down in southern Oregon for these many years.
"There are fish floating in every eddy," says Mike Belchick, a biologist with the Yurok Tribe. "Eyes popping out. Guts coming out. Scores of dead fish with moss on them. It makes me want to cry."
Now water is being released from the dams upstream near Klamath Lake. But it's far too late and will do little more than flush the stinking corpses downstream, along with the daily brew of pesticides, cowshit, and fertilizer that accounts for the normal effluent from the fields of the Klamath Basin.

Of course, it's the big fish kills that grab the headlines. And this was an unprecedented one: more than 30 percent of the entire salmon population of the Klamath wiped out in a single blow. Tribal leaders say there's no precedent for the death toll in history or myth.

But the salmon of the Klamath River, once one of the mightiest runs on earth, have been dying out for decades in a slow, steady slide toward extinction.

The gory frontpage photos of mass death send the wrong message, shocking, but oddly comforting to those responsible. They suggest a sudden catastrophic event, a singular tragic mistake. In fact, the salmon of the Klamath River, which flows some 200 miles from southern Oregon to the northern California coast, are the victim of a system that has conspired against them since the 1940s, at least.

"They played Russian roulette with our fish and our fish lost," says Troy Fletcher of the Yurok Tribe.

It wasn't so much a game, as a gameplan. All along the irrigators had plotted the final doom of the salmon, which were a looming impediment to their increasingly frail economic condition. With the troublesome fish out of the way, they believe that their precious system of dams, pumps and irrigation ditches will be safe from the lawsuits of the environmentalists and the tribes.

Now the dead fish are being scooped up with bulldozers and trucked to a plant in Eureka, California where they will be rendered into fertilizer and no doubt end up back on some of the very fields that lead to their demise.


{ the nasty paranoid evil response is of course that the food chain that leads from the scumsucking turbo-hicks that are ripping off the water proceeds directly through scumsucking Archer-Daniels-Midland to scumsucking WalMart and Costco and Albertson's and on to the scumsucking swine that watch and believe scumsucking network TV, which same swine are also sucking up the aptly-named black gold world-wide, and thereby creating thug cartels whose transition from economic/environmental evil to purely Satanic evil will pass entirely unnoticed. watch and believe. watch and believe.}


Number of appearances made by corporate representatives on U.S. network nightly newscasts last year : 955


Number of appearances made by labor representatives : 31

harper's index september 2002

Electronic Civil Disobedience

great site from Yale Law- The Avalon Project

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."

truly wondrous and fine example of real scholarship, open and as passively ready as the sea
link from a site I can't find again

meerkat is an O'Reilly net tech blog thing

how appealing
an appelate blog, exclusively.

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - Iraq's bioweapons program that President George W. Bush ( news - web sites) wants to eradicate got its start with help from the United States two decades ago, according to U.S. government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( news - web sites) sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that U.N. weapons inspectors determined were part of Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites)'s biological weapons program, CDC and congressional records from the early 1990s show. Iraq had ordered the samples, claiming it needed them for legitimate medical research.
The CDC and a biological sample company, the American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus ( news - web sites).
The transfers came in the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran. They were detailed in a 1994 Senate Banking Committee report and a 1995 follow-up letter from the CDC to the Senate.

Quote of the day, from Jay Zilber:

As "B" remarked to me recently, the plural of "anecdote" is not "facts."


from Ted Barlow

floating wreckage is on the case. bringing to light the emerging mischievous grace of Mr. Edward Sanders' latest endeavor literary, Hymn to The Rebel Cafe.

Two British human-rights volunteers reported that they had witnessed an Israeli soldier deliberately kill an unarmed 13-year-old boy in Nablus: "This is the worst thing I've seen in my time here. Actually, it's the worst thing I've seen in my life. There was no way Baha could have been a threat to a soldier 120 yards away with a flak jacket and a helmet and sitting in an APC. He had nothing in his hands and even if he'd had a stone he could not have thrown it effectively from that distance. I went back today and measured the distance exactly. The shot was not a ricochet. As far as I'm concerned, these people are child-killers."
Harper's Weekly OCTOBER 1, 2002