You claimed that "It is up to all of us to demand more of our news media." (OPEN EXCHANGE, "OPEN EXCHANGES," January-March 05.) Well, how novel and gallant! And just how do you propose to do that given that every major so-called "news" publication in this country is owned by a rich Jewish family like the Newhouses or Ann Severeid Cox? Who in hell cares... as long as [Israeli President Ariel] Sharon and the Jews of Israel get their way and drag us into another one of their wars? You will never live to see honest journalism in this palsied country again.

Bob Spittler
Vineburg

Anti-Semitism seems to rear its ugly head whenever people need a simple and convenient scapegoat for complex problems. Bob, you really need to broaden your thinking. We don't like to rely on corporate news either, so we read a variety of independent journals and find reliable news sources on the web. (Newspaper readership is declining because more and more of us are doing just that!) Conducting a simple Google search, there appears to be a major rift among Jews: those who overlook Israeli atrocities, unsound policy, etc.—end-justifies-the-means types—and those who are willing to criticize according to the facts. You could spend all day reading very public debates among prominent Jewish leaders such as Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky. So where's your monolithic Jewish conspiracy? You might as well claim that the Moslem religion is the source of all terrorism. Or that all Christians are warmongers. And you'd be just as wrong.

Plans To Depopulate The Earth

World population is, by all intents and purposes, completely out of control. Plans are underway now, implemented by the New World Order Elite, to depopulate the planet's 6-7 billion people to a manageable level of between 500 million to 2 billion.

There are many means and methods of depopulation that are being employed today, the three primary of which include unsustainable/exploitative international development, which leads to massive hunger, starvation and famine worldwide (at least 40 million deaths annually); the fomentation of war, hatred and military procurements throughout the nations leading to millions of deaths worldwide; and finally, the creation and spread of infectious diseases leading to global pandemic, plague and pestilence on an unprecedented scale.

Other methods used include the buildup and use of nuclear, chemical and biological agents, weapons and warfare; the poisoning and contamination of the planet's food and water supplies; the introduction and use of deadly pharmaceutical drugs in society; weather modification and the triggering of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis through electromagnetic psychotronic weapons both on Earth and in space; the promotion of homosexuality to limit population growth and spread the deadly AIDS virus; forced sterilization in countries such as China; forced vaccinations, abortion, euthanasia etc.... Death, and the management of who lives and who dies, has become the central organizing principle of the 21st century.

The international campaign to eliminate the "useless eaters" (according to the Club of Rome) on behalf of the planet's privileged ruling elite, is surely to take a more voracious toll as global population levels continue to rise. To implement their "final solution" to depopulate 4-5 billion people from the Earth, the world's elite will undoubtedly harness the newly emerging biotech and nanotechnology industries to create a super 'bioweapon' virus creating a global pandemic through which only they will have the cure.

Steve Jones
Santa Fe, New Mexico

While most environmentalists contend that the human population is at an unsustainable level and that some means of "depopulation," whether natural or planned, is inevitable, your claim that a "New World Order" is carrying out premeditated extermination is the ultimate paranoid conspiracy theory! The problem is that it fails to distinguish between strategic miscalculation (war), willful ignorance (global warming, plague), stupidity (famine), and random natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis). Through folly or bad luck we may well experience one or more of your aforementioned disasters, but not necessarily by grand design. For example, your theory can't explain why the ruling Bush administration is both pro-war and anti-abortion! Beyond politics, most of us want to live to bounce grandkids on our knees. Our humanity gives us hope—let's build on it!

Conscience Of The Republican Party

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are... a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
—President Dwight D. Eisenhower

From a letter (originally) to his brother Edgar on November 8, 1954

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