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To: CodeToad
"In 1973, a Frenchman named Jean Raspail wrote a bitter and paranoid novel about the "invasion" of his native land by starving Third World refugees."

Interesting. An exceptionally accurate prognostication is deemed "paranoid". Meanwhile, apocolyptic auguries authored at about the same time -- such as The Population Bomb are still being called visionary. (Nothing at all paranoid about predicting mass famines that never took place.)
20 posted on 07/17/2007 6:57:34 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Meanwhile, apocolyptic auguries authored at about the same time -- such as The Population Bomb are still being called visionary. (Nothing at all paranoid about predicting mass famines that never took place.)

Good point.

31 posted on 07/17/2007 7:24:30 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
In 1973, a Frenchman named Jean Raspail wrote a bitter and paranoid novel about the "invasion" of his native land by starving Third World refugees."

Wasn't Paris recently burning by fires set by 3rd world immigrants?

82 posted on 07/18/2007 6:48:23 AM PDT by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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