The Picard Syndrome

[The author of the following gives blanket permission to forward it, so
I assume it is all right to forward it to my LJ friends in this manner.
It is rather long, but worth it. I will put cuts in, but, in fairness
to Mr. North, leave the commercial messages.]

> Gary North's REALITY CHECK
>
> Issue 293 November 18, 2003
>
>
> PICARD SYNDROME
>
> You probably suffer from an affliction. Millions of
> Americans share this affliction. I am doing my best to
> deliver you from it, but I am having only minimal success.
>
> There may be a book inside you. There may be two.
> Because of the Internet revolution, it is now possible for
> you to publish your book online for almost no money. But
> if you do, you will come up against a major resistance
> factor. I call it Picard Syndrome. ( Read more... )

> CONCLUSION
>
> I like to go to Barnes & Noble. I like to buy books
> on a shelf. I especially like to buy steeply discounted
> books that did not survive the stiff competition of the
> market. I buy other people's mistakes.
>
> But if I had a book reading device that looks like a
> book, feels like a book, and lets me store (say) 500 books
> that are searchable by text or (at my discretion) keywords,
> Barnes & Noble can kiss me goodbye.
>
> As for my 3,000 square foot library building and my
> 13,000 books, make me an offer. But not yet. ( Read more... )

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Iraq's Forgotten

The Assyrian-Chaldean Christian community has lived in their ancient homeland since before the time of the Prophet of Islam, and were tolerated fairly well by their Muslim neighbors, at least until the reaction against the British mandate in the 1930s. For all its sadistic brutality against suspected political dissidents, the Saddam regime by and large protected Iraqi Christians and Jews from Islamicist terrorism. Now the Bush war has unleashed a new wave of persecution.

Christian communities in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are facing serious acts of intimidation, says Fides, the news agency of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

"Last week a bomb was found in front of a Catholic school in Mosul; luckily it was defused before it could explode," Chaldean Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan told Fides.

"The bomb was a cluster of low [powered] hand grenades, but it could have killed or injured the children," he said. "For security reasons the school was closed for a good week."

"Also last week a round from a Kalashnikov was fired against the residence of the Syro-Antiochian bishop in my city," the priest added. "This is probably the work of Wahabi extremists in Mosul."

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