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New York Post ^ | February 24, 2004 | By NILES LATHEM

[Revel]

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

[Calpernia]

"ACTION UKRAINE REPORT"
In-Depth Ukrainian News and Analysis
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"

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LENIN UNDERGOES EXTREME MAKEOVER
Lenin looks better than the day he died, his embalmer brags

By Mark McDonald, Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2004

MOSCOW - Vladimir Lenin has been dead these 80 years, but the founder
of Soviet communism has never looked better. Just ask his curator.

"He looks quite fine, as good as he did 30 years ago," said Yuri
Denisov-Nikolsky, the Russian doctor who just supervised an extensive
makeover of Lenin's corpse. "He looked terrible when he died, but
what you see now is Lenin's face, not someone else's."

Denisov-Nikolsky has been working on Lenin since 1970, and in a rare
interview he pulled back the shroud of secrecy surrounding the body,
its original embalming and its periodic makeovers.

When Lenin died of a stroke and heart attack on Jan. 21, 1924, his
widow said he'd wished to be buried next to his mother in a simple
cemetery plot. But the communist elite had other ideas.

They originally planned to freeze their beloved leader, but his body
began to deteriorate badly as a super-freezer was being built.
Instead, using an untested chemical process, Lenin was embalmed and
his skin carefully treated to preserve a lifelike appearance.

He's entombed in a granite-and-marble mausoleum in Red Square. The
body is sealed in a glass sarcophagus, cooled to 61 degrees, with the
humidity between 80 and 90 percent. Some say Lenin appears to be
sleeping. Others compare him to waxed
fruit.

With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian government
stopped financing the preservation of the body, Denisov-Nikolsky
said. Private donations pay the meager salaries of his 15-person
staff at a research lab called Medical Biological Technologies. The
physicians and professors on the team, he said, earn $200 a month.

The mausoleum staff also visits Vietnam to check on the body of Ho
Chi Minh, on display in Hanoi. Denisov-Nikolsky was on the Soviet
team that secretly embalmed "Uncle Ho" in a North Vietnamese jungle
cave in 1970.

Denisov-Nikolsky, 71, said he'd never talked or sung to Lenin's
corpse when he'd been alone with it in the mausoleum, and he sees
nothing odd or macabre about his work. But he does remember that his
hands trembled when he first began working on the body.

"Not every expert is allowed to restore such treasured historical
objects, like a Raphael or a Rembrandt. Those who do it, we tremble.
I feel a great responsibility in my hands."

About 1.5 million tourists visited the mausoleum last year, despite
the fact that hours are limited and it's not always easy to find the
entrance. Red Square is often closed for security reasons: There can
be no more tempting target for a suicide bomber in Russia than
Lenin's tomb and its body-under-glass - the Russian equivalent of the
Statue of Liberty or the Washington Monument.

Mausoleum security was improved this winter, Denisov-Nikolsky said,
but the mausoleum and sarcophagus were never built to be bombproof.
(During World War II, fearing a direct hit by the Nazis, Soviet
authorities secretly shipped Lenin - code-named "Object No. 1" - to a
warehouse in central Russia. They put him back on display in March
1945.)

Specially filtered lighting gives Lenin's face a warm glow. Botox,
collagen and modern cosmetics aren't used, Denisov-Nikolsky said,
with a polite harrumph. A mild bleach is employed to combat
occasional fungus stains or mold spots on Lenin's face.

The skin is examined closely each week, using precision, Russian-made
instruments that measure its moisture, color and contour.
Dehydration - and time - are the principal enemies.

Lenin gets an extreme makeover every 18 months or so. The mausoleum
is closed for two months and the body is immersed in a bath of
glycerol and potassium acetate for 30 days. The skin slowly absorbs
the solution, regaining its moisture and pliancy.

With current techniques, the body could last "many decades, even for
100 years," said Ilya Zbarsky, 90, a doctor who worked on the body
from 1934 to 1952. His father, Boris, participated in the original
embalming in 1924.

Lenin's blood, bodily fluids and internal organs were removed as part
of the initial embalming. His eyebrows, moustache and goatee are his
original hair - no molting. And his genitals are intact.

No one seems to know what's happened to Lenin's heart, but Soviet
ideologists were sure that his brain was something special. They
brought in a renowned German scientist to examine it for clues to the
great man's genius, but nothing came of it.

The brain is still kept at a Moscow institute. "But it's not easy to
see it," Zbarsky said. "It's mostly dissected."

A poll last month by the Public Opinion Foundation in Moscow found
that nearly 60 percent of Russians younger than 50 want Lenin to be
removed and buried.

"Only people over 50 more frequently reply that they're against
Lenin's burial," said foundation President Alexander Olson. This age
group views "suggestions that the body be removed as blasphemous."

Others argue that an emerging democracy - even if it's a democracy in
name only - shouldn't maintain monuments to a dictator responsible
for decades of suffering and millions of deaths.

"The body should be removed, yes, and it should cease to be an object
of worship," Zbarsky said. "It should be buried or kept in a
laboratory somewhere."

Lenin himself never wanted any of this. "Do not put up buildings or
monuments in his name," his widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, said in
the days after his death.

But the communist propaganda machine already had begun turning out
heroic posters, worshipful biographies and everything from massive
statues to miniature busts. Boulevards, hospitals, schools, train
stations, collective farms and the city of St. Petersburg were
renamed in Lenin's honor.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the
secret police, pushed for the preservation of Lenin's remains. Red
Army soldiers quickly began building a wooden mausoleum, using
dynamite to blast open the winter-hard earth in Red Square.

A special commission decided that freezing would be the best method
of preservation, so a massive freezer was ordered from Germany. But
the appliance took months to build, and as winter turned to spring,
Lenin's body began to deteriorate: His face and hands darkened, body
wrinkles began to appear and his lips were cracking.

The freezing method was abandoned in favor of embalming and an
experimental method of chemical preservation. Bodies had been
embalmed before, of course, but never with the idea of maintaining a
lifelike appearance. A team led by Vladimir Vorobiov, an anatomy
professor from Ukraine, did the work.

"This was an unprecedented task," Zbarsky said. "It would have been
dangerous to fail."

But Vorobiov's experiment worked. A stolid new mausoleum was built
along the Kremlin wall, and the mausoleum scientists received perks
and privileges not available to most Soviet workers. They had nice
apartments, decent food, country cottages and well-equipped labs.

At one point, however, the scientists became perplexed - and
terrified. A mysterious black spot had appeared on Lenin's right
cheek, a bloom of mold that resisted all known treatments. They
didn't want to ponder what would happen to them if they couldn't fix
the problem.

"They might have even killed us," said Zbarsky, who eventually
bleached away the mold himself. "The atmosphere of fear and terror
was there for us scientists, just as it was for everyone in the
society."

Zbarsky and his father were arrested without warning in 1952, during
Stalin's wave of terror, accused of being German spies. Boris Zbarsky
was imprisoned and his son was placed under house arrest.

When Stalin died soon after that, in 1953, he was embalmed by the
Zbarskys' former assistants at the mausoleum.

Stalin shared the Red Square mausoleum with Lenin for eight years,
then he was officially discredited and was quietly taken away and
buried under the Kremlin wall.

In the new mood of anti-Stalinism at that time, according to Ilya
Zbarsky, Muscovites created a new saying: "Don't sleep in a mausoleum
that doesn't belong to you."

The first calls for Lenin to be removed from Red Square came 15 years
ago. Communism was about to collapse and most reformers wanted Lenin
buried along with Marxism-Leninism.

President Boris Yeltsin, saying Red Square "must not resemble a
cemetery," suggested a national referendum in 1997 on the disposition
of the body. But this proposal, along with numerous other demands for
Lenin's eviction, was met with outrage by the Communist Party.

Last month, on the 80th anniversary of Lenin's death, Communist Party
leader Gennady Zyuganov laid a wreath at the mausoleum and
proclaimed, "The bright, clever cause of Lenin lives and thrives."

Zyuganov and the communists were resoundingly beaten in parliamentary
elections in December, and their defeat opened the way for another
possible campaign to remove Lenin. But no new groundswell has
emerged, and President Vladimir Putin, whose re-election seems
assured March 14, has skirted the issue.

One of Putin's closest advisers, Parliament Speaker Boris Gryzlov,
said, "The problem of the removal of Lenin's body should be solved in
due time - probably in 2024, after the 100th anniversary of Lenin's
death." (END) (ARTUIS)

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[Calpernia]

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8833438%255E13780,00.html

Lenin undergoes extreme makeover From Mark McDonald in Moscow March 1, 2004

VLADIMIR Lenin has been dead these 80 years, but the founder of Soviet communism has never looked better. Just ask his curator.

"He looks quite fine, as good as he did 30 years ago," said Yuri Denisov-Nikolsky, the Russian doctor who just supervised an extensive makeover of Lenin's corpse.

[JustPiper]

It showed part of the pdf and locked my browser?

[Calpernia]

This is the unformatted Text.

I have his PDF file. Cabal, let me know if you have enough bandwidth to handle the hits. I can throw it up at mine if needed.


Pages 1--1 from Untitled

Page 1
. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them . censorship . and a vio-
lation of free speech and free press.

. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscen-
ity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.


. Infiltrate the press. . Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writ-
ing, policymaking positions.


. Gain control of key positions in radio, , TV, and motion pictures.
. Get control of the schools. . Use them as transmission belts for socialism and
current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers . as-
sociations. Put the party line in textbooks.


. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by
claiming their activities violate civil rights.


. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the
ground that it violates the principle of . separation of church and state. .


. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, , old-fashioned,
out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a
worldwide basis.


. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the
culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics,
etc.


. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. . Treat
all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists
can understand ( or treat) .


. Discredit the family as an institution. . Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of par-
ents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppres-
sive influence of parents.


. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a
demonstration of moral strength.


. Promote the U. . N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten,
demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed
forces.


. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. .


BLUEPRINT FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA


Who Benefits? In 1958, Cleon Skousen, former FBI agent, revealed in his book, The Naked Communist , the long term goals of the communist agenda. U. S. Representative Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida had the list of these goals entered into the Congressional Record on
Thursday, January 10, 1963. The points presented above
are only a portion of the entire list. In that era, this list
must have seemed like wild ranting; yet virually every
one of these points is a reality today. Ask yourself: who
has worked to make points a reality? Who benefits from
their implementation?


Want To Know More? Search Google for these terms:
. Naked Communist . , . Communist Manifesto . , . Clinton Chinagate .
For more related infomation: . UN Agenda 21 . , . International Criminal Court . ,
. Hegelian Dialectic . , . Wildlands Project .
This is the tip of the iceberg. See how deep the rabbit hole goes. 1

[Calpernia]

bookmark. Night all.

[JustPiper]

NMSU Researcher Tests for Hantavirus Along the Border
Lyn Votava

A New Mexico State University researcher is currently testing area residents and Mexican migrant workers for possible exposure to hantavirus, the rodent-borne disease that caused quite a stir with its discovery in New Mexico in the summer of 1993. Colleen Jonsson, a biochemistry professor, is working with a team of students to conduct the tests, which will continue through August in several southern New Mexico counties and in El Paso.

Jonsson's research has a two-fold objective. "We are trying to find the sero prevalence, or the rate of hantavirus exposure in the population. We are also trying to understand how the virus replicates in the cell," she explains.

Tests include a blood sample and completion of a health survey, which Jonsson's bilingual team has been conducting all summer. The team has completed more than half of the 500 tests Jonsson plans to complete before compiling the results, to be released this fall. In addition to discovering the prevalence of hantavirus in the area, Jonsson hopes to use the survey results to establish a baseline of health in southern New Mexico.

The virus is nontransmissible among humans but can be spread to people through contact with rodent feces. Thus, people may come in contact with the disease anywhere that they may come in contact with mice. "It could be while cleaning out a food storage bin, while gardening, while cleaning out a summer home," Jonsson says. Persons can protect themselves from exposure to the disease by wearing rubber gloves while cleaning and by using a bleach-water cleaning solution.

The hanta virus pulmonary syndrome was first detected during an outbreak of the disease on Navajo reservations in New Mexico and Arizona. Researchers have attributed this early outbreak to an increase in the deer mouse population caused by unusually heavy rains and an abundance of forage.

Though first identified in the Southwest, the disease has since been confirmed throughout the country. It is marked by fluid buildup in the lungs, which can lead to respiratory failure. Of the 133 confirmed cases of the hantavirus in the United States, about half have proven fatal. A long-term goal of the research is finding a cure, Jonsson says.

Jonsson expects to find that one out of every 100 persons has been exposed to the disease, which would mirror findings of research conducted in northern New Mexico by researchers at the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Public Health office.

Jonsson's research, currently funded by the New Mexico Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, may be extended to the next few years, depending on funding and results from this year's study. "The numbers of cases have fallen off since 1993," she says, "but this may be a problem for the next 20 years." Source: Las Cruces Sun-News

http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/old_1996/jul96/hantavirus.html

How Dangerous is Hantavirus?

Have fun on your trip, and don't worry about hantavirus. You have a much better chance of getting hit by a bus while crossing the street.
Total Business Propaganda!
http://www.goamericanwest.com/regional/hantavirus.shtml

An online information network about the
NEW WORLD HANTAVIRUS and HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME

Syndrome?!
1 : a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality
2 : a set of concurrent things (as emotions or actions) that usually form an identifiable pattern
______________________________________________________

In 1993, a previously unknown infectious disease agent was discovered by a task force of scientists in New Mexico.
This disease agent occurs naturally throughout most of North and South America; it is airborne, and in the absence of prompt medical attention, its infections are usually fatal.

http://www.hantavirus.net/

[JustPiper]

Could it have been Lyme dis-ease?

Lyme Disease is a bacterial disease affecting both humans and animals

OR...

Canine Leptospirosis:

Leptospirosis, a contagious disease affecting both animals and humans and spread by infection with a bacterial pathogen called Leptospira

The Leptospira Organism. Leptospires are known as "aquatic spirochetes": they thrive in water and appear long and helical with a characteristic hook on one or both ends.

Modes of Disease Transmission. Leptospira thrive in spring and autumn when wet soil conditions and moderate temperatures support their otherwise poor environmental survivability. Infection by contact with infected urine or ingestion of urine-contaminated water is the most common means of transmission of the disease.

Symptoms of disease. During the first 4-12 days following infection with Leptospira, may experience sudden symptoms of fever (103-105oF), depression, vomiting, loss of appetite, conjunctivitis, and generalized pain. Within 2 days of the onset of these primary symptoms, body temperature may drop suddenly and there may be a noticeable increase in thirst. In advanced cases of infection, profound depression, difficulty breathing, muscular tremors, bloody vomitus and feces are often observed as the infection progresses to include the liver, gastrointestinal system and other organs. Course and severity of the disease is often dependent upon the serovar responsible for the infection.

http://www.labbies.com/lepto.htm

[JustPiper]

Thank you Bump!

[JustPiper]

During the 1950?s the DOD experimented with us with live above ground nuclear detonations just to see what effect if any and nuclear attack would have on the men on the field of battle. Thousands of men were permanently disabled and many of them are now dead because of it. Then again in the 1960?s when the DOD dropped what was considered a harmless bacteria down the air ventilation system of the New York City subway system. A reported 300 people died of this supposedly harmless bacteria and hundreds possibly thousands more were left with permanent disabilities as a result. Then there were the tests on Active Duty Military Personnel were used to see what effects mind altering drugs like LSD would do to the person?s brain.

Between 1968 and 1970 the United States military was testing a new rabies surum in Vietnam. This new surum was derived by infesting fertilized duck eggs with the rabies virus and allowing the ducklings to hatch thus creating what the military doctors felt was a safe and effective means of combating rabies. The only problem with it was the vaccine had a 92% kill rate. To date the government denies any and all relationship between any and all disabilities and/or conditions which are or could be related to these injections.

http://veteransrightsnow.50megs.com/anthraxa.html

[JustPiper]

Financial squeeze pushes al-Qaida south of border

Hurt by pressure on Islamic charities, terrorists expand S. America operations

Posted: March 8, 2004

With Islamic "charities" under increasing international pressure and scrutiny to cut ties with terrorists, al-Qaida and other allied organizations are expanding operations in Latin America, establishing both legitimate and criminal enterprises to fund future operations, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37468

[JustPiper]

The group is also coming to a town near you -think- -g-
Bands name The Blank Theory, sure your guys know it!

[JustPiper]

Drudge

UK AND USA IN TERROR TEST: Britain and America will stage a mock al Qaeda-style terrorist attack on both sides of the Atlantic to test security... Developing...

[JustPiper]

NEWSWEEK: U.S. Military, Intelligence Officials Are Confident They Are Narrowing bin Laden's Whereabouts; Human Intel Is Key to Search

Recent Reports of Sightings Show Clearer Picture of Qaeda Leader as He
Shuttles Between Pakistan and Afghanistan; Intel is So Focused Predators are Being Sent in to Search for Him

NEW YORK, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Using powerful software called
Analyst's Notebook that helps to piece together data on criminal and terror
networks, U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly confident
they are narrowing Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, Newsweek reports in the
March 15 issue (on newsstands Monday, March 8). Key to the search is
"accumulated humint," or human intelligence, says one insider. Other
officials tell Newsweek that an increasing number of "data points" -- reports
of sightings -- have created an ever-clearer picture of bin Laden's area of
operation as he appears to shuttle between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now
they've focused that picture to the point where they have been able to send in
Predator unmanned aerial vehicles to search for him.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2004/0002123415&EDATE=

The Hunt Heats Up

The man in charge of catching Osama bin Laden 'can drive a knife through your ribs in a nanosecond.' Inside the search

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4467755/

Bin Laden 'evaded Pakistani raid'
By Andrew North BBC correspondent in Afghanistan

Pakistani soldiers patrol the border with Afghanistan
A local official in eastern Afghanistan says he has received credible reports that Osama Bin Laden escaped the recent Pakistani operation to catch him.
Speaking to the BBC, a district governor said he passed the details to Afghan intelligence staff.

It comes amid reports of stepped-up American military operations aimed at capturing al-Qaeda's leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3535555.stm

[Cindy]

If there IS (Is as in "it depends on what IS is") a loophole either of the Clintons' or their cronies will find it. However, at this time, my layman's understanding is that BILL Clinton cannot be VP because legally he is not eligible anymore to be President.

The VP must be eligible to be President.

[Cindy]

Ditto

[FairOpinion]

Gallup Poll: Terrorism, Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction “Most Critical Threats”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092912/posts

PRINCETON, NJ -- Overwhelmingly, Americans view international terrorism and the possible spread of weapons of mass destruction as the two most critical threats facing this country, according to a recent Gallup survey.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092925/posts

"Eye infection misses U.S. bases in Germany (6 German Army bases closed due to virus -- UPDATE)"
Stars and Stripes ^ | March 8, 2004 | Lisa Horn


Posted on 03/07/2004 11:27:10 PM PST by FairOpinion

[FairOpinion]

Wow, Cindy, you are quick! :)

Eye infection misses U.S. bases in Germany (6 German Army bases closed due to virus -- UPDATE)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092925/posts



FINALLY an update on those 6 military bases in Germany closed for three weeks.

It's amazing how they were able to keep it out of the media.

"It is unclear how this virus has spread so quickly, Schmidt said. "

I wonder, is is possible that the US bases were better guarded, more alert, and whoever was trying to spread the virus couldn't get in?

It looks like soldiers at six German military bases were being infected simultaneously.

[Cindy]

Wow, Fair, you were quicker since you found that update.

Thanks so much for the update.

[nw_arizona_granny]

The Cabal, thank you for your work, hope it spreads through out the U.S. and quickly.

Calpernia, thanks to you for sending it open and for making me so sad with your postings on Russia.

They read like crazy old Ruth may not need so much tinfoil in the future, think that we will need hard hats for protection instead. They are down right scary and sound just like the old russia.

Did anyone catch the reminder that "elites" are an old communist phrase?

Or give a thought to how freely it is used in the U.S. today?