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Most Merciful
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8 "... Freely you received,
freely give”.
- Matthew 10:8 :: New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers
of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having
a form of godliness but denying its power. Have
nothing to do with them.
6 They
are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil
desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge
the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is
concerned, are rejected.
9 But
they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their
folly will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy
3:1-9 :: New International Version (NIV)
The right to
be left alone
– the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people
- Justice Louis
Brandeis, Olmstead v.
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Associated Press. (
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63594,00.html
Internet Dealers of 'Date Rape' Drug
Arrested
WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a
major crackdown on Internet drug traffickers Thursday, disclosing that 115
dealers of the "date rape" drug GHB had been arrested in 84 cities in
the
"This takedown is a dose of harsh
reality for drug traffickers who seek to
exploit the vast markets and anonymity of cyberspace,"
Ashcroft said.
Drug Enforcement Administration chief
Asa Hutchinson said that Internet traffickers
"can expect to face the same justice the old-fashion drug dealers
face."
"With
millions of people having quick and easy access to the Internet,
the buying and selling of deadly drugs and chemicals from
the Web should not, and will not, be as
simple as point-and-click," Hutchinson said.
The DEA has documented 72 deaths from
the drug and its derivatives, which
are sold over the Internet to teenagers and young adults by dealers who operate
their own Web sites. The
drugs are delivered by mail.
Ashcroft and Hutchinson announced
that the wide-ranging Operation Web Slinger encompassed primary investigations
in St. Louis; Detroit and San Diego, Calif.; Mobile, Ala. and Sparta, Tenn.;
Buffalo, N.Y. and Quebec City, Canada.
At a news conference authorities
announced that as part of the probe, they had conducted enforcement operations
in over 80 U.S. cities with drug seizures that could have yielded more
than 25 million doses
of GHB and its derivatives.
The
Education efforts by law enforcement
agencies and the government have been aimed at warning
women about predators who could spike
their drinks with the drug.
GHB is a mixture of common industrial
chemicals that Congress outlawed 2 years ago. The
drug and its derivatives GBL and 1,4 BD act as central nervous system
depressants and cause drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and loss of inhibition.
People who use GHB refer to it as
"G" and "Liquid X."
The substance also is abused as a
muscle growth hormone.
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more than 25
million doses of GHB and its derivatives.
warning women
about predators who could spike their drinks with the drug.
We live in a world of immoral values. “Obsession with lust” can move a
man or woman to extreme limits to achieve his or her purpose.
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Bhikkhu, Thanissaro. (Translated from the Pali)
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Anguttara Nikaya V.161
Aghatapativinaya Sutta
Subduing
Hatred
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"These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when
hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely. Which five?
"When one gives birth to hatred for an individual,
one should develop good will for that individual. Thus the hatred for
that individual should be subdued.
"When one gives birth to hatred for an individual,
one should develop compassion for that individual... equanimity toward that
individual... one should pay him no mind & pay him no attention... When one gives
birth to hatred for an individual, one should direct one's thoughts to the
fact of his being the product of his kamma: 'This venerable
one is the doer of his kamma, heir of his kamma, born of his kamma, related
by his kamma, and is dependent on his kamma. Whatever kamma he does,
for good or for evil, to that will he fall heir.' Thus the hatred for that
individual should be subdued.
"These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely."
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Bhikkhu, Thanissaro.
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Anguttara Nikaya V.177
Vanijja Sutta
Business
(Wrong Livelihood)
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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"Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in living beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
"These are the five types of business that a lay
follower should not engage in."
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Chowdary, T H. Phone Tapping, the Necessary Evil. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles20.html
Telecomment
Phone Tapping, the Necessary Evil
By T H Chowdary
The famous mathematician-physicist
Listening into telephone conversations by third parties
is as old as telephony itself. Almond B. Strowger was
an undertaker and had a telephone in its early days, when calls were put
through by operators. One of the telephone operators was befriended by Strowger's business rival and calls requiring a hearse and
coffin, meant for Strowger, were being diverted by
the eavesdropping operator to Strowger's rival. It
was this trouble and business loss that spurred the intelligence of Strowger to invent the automatic telephone switch which
goes by his name (the Strowger automatic telephone
exchange). Some such are still in service in the DOT, 100 years after its
invention.
The automatic switch did away with operator's
eavesdropping, but the ingenuity of technicians in the exchanges continued
enabling them to listen and record the phone conversations rather
unobtrusively. Conversations can, however, be electronically encrypted so that
even if they are tapped, they cannot be easily deciphered and made
intelligible. In
The Legal Aspect
The legal position is interesting. The Indian Telegraph
Act, which was enacted in 1885 when telephony was only local and limited, had
the telegraph messages (which by then were 30 years old in
In the
In
The legal position about private persons tapping
telephones is a different matter. It has to be dealt with under the right to
privacy of citizens. But who tapped, and how, cannot be easily established.
The
contents of the Tata tapes certainly concern the
insurgency in the northeast
So we see that telephone tapping, like the poor, will be
with us, always. Just as the poor are used for garnering votes by populist
promises of politicians, telephone tapping may also be misused by politicians,
as well as business rivals (as in case of Strowger,
the undertaker) for private benefit. Everybody condemns phone taps but none
refrains from it when needed. We have to recall the noted references--Nixon,
R.K. Hegde, Rajiv Gandhi,
Chandra Sekhar and other politicians, who at one time
or the other were beneficiaries or victims of telephone tapping.
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Drummond, Loren. Sexual Addictions.
http://www.umkc.edu/sites/hsw/issues/sexaddict.html
I. What is Addiction?
addiction - "the act of devoting or giving up one's self
to a practice; the state of being devoted; devotion. (Webster's Dictionary 1965,
p.11)
devoted - "to give up wholly, or direct the
attention chiefly; to vow anything to a deity" (p. 237).
Addiction is a state of the total person.
A way of living marked by compulsiveness and/or
dependence.
Compulsiveness is driven to the point of a pathological
relationship to any mood-altering experience with a marked propensity to
culminating in life damaging consequences are the stuff of which addictions are
made (Bradshaw 1988 p.15). These life damaging consequences may, and will
include:
Peele, (p. 981, p. 24)
suggests that addictions:
1. Tend to
eliminate psychological pain/reduce personal awareness of such when the
"addict" is acting out.
2. Causes
one to be less aware of, or pay less attention to problems in his/her life and
thus precludes their dealing with problems constructively.
3. When not
participating in the addiction, mental pain is experienced upon thinking about
his/her life.
4. Reduced
self regard, personal disapproval and lowered self-esteem generate further
practice of the addictive behavior.
5. The cycle
is repeated - returns to phase one of cycle.
Addictions are thus comprised of these elements:
• Devotion,
to the point of compulsiveness, to a mood-altering experience;
• a
cyclical preoccupation with achieving the desired effects in spite of life
damaging consequences.
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German, Jeff. (
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles109.html
Ex-exec: Frontier tapped own lines
Patton says eavesdropping sparked by paranoia
By Jeff German
The Frontier hotel-casino secretly wiretapped its own phone
lines amid a wave of "paranoia" over a bitter strike, the resort's
former personnel director charges.
John Patton, who left the resort in June 1993, alleged in
a sworn court deposition that Frontier co-owner John Elardi
directed the eavesdropping, which was aimed at the hotel's management and
employees.
The latest allegations follow disclosures last week that Elardi also oversaw a secret spy squad that was used
against striking Culinary Union workers during the five-year-old labor dispute.
Wayne Legare, the unit's former
head, alleged the squad engaged in dirty tricks, such as spraying strikers with
a water cannon, placing manure where they ate and stealing the signals from
their hand-held radios.
Legare said spying on the
picket line was coordinated at a second-floor command center, dubbed the
"900 Room," which controlled a series of high-tech video cameras and
listening devices planted around the hotel.
The reported wiretapping was confirmed by two ranking
ex-Frontier employees who saw the recording devices in the hotel's basement
phone room.
One of those sources, who asked to remain anonymous, said
the Frontier had equipment to secretly monitor numerous telephone lines at a
time.
"It was there, and it was being used," said the
other source, who also asked not to be identified.
Patton, a 63-year-old former police officer who's
battling cancer, declined comment.
He said he was forbidden to talk about the Frontier
because of a recent confidentiality agreement settling his court case against
the resort over his 1993 departure. Patton contended in the suit he was forced
out after falling into disfavor with the Elardi
family.
In an August 22 deposition in another court case against
the Frontier, Patton alleged the wiretapping was done by John Horton, an Elardi confidante and electronics expert.
"The place became very paranoid," Patton said.
"John Horton was supposed to have been tapping the phone lines in all the
offices.
"All the department heads were upset. They were
afraid their offices were being bugged. And if we wanted to talk to anybody, we
had to go to a secure office, because we were afraid John Elardi
and his friends were listening."
When pressed further, Patton added: "They had the
equipment. I know that. And I know that they -- at one time anyway -- were
wiretapping my phone and Mike Klug's phone. That was
John Elardi and his gang."
Klug, the Frontier's
former director of operations, refused comment, and Horton could not be
reached.
Elardi, his brother,
Frontier General Manager Tom Elardi, and longtime
Frontier attorney, Steve Cohen, did not return phone calls.
Tom Elardi last week denied the
hotel had engaged in wrongdoing.
Legare, meanwhile, gave
credence Monday to the alleged wiretapping, saying Horton once informed him
about it.
"I knew there was some stuff going on in the phone
room," Legare said. "John Horton told me
they were attempting to 'clarify' some situations."
But Legare, who left the hotel
in October 1995, said he never physically saw the wiretapping because he rarely
went to the phone room.
Legare said his activities
were confined to the 900 Room, which among other things, secretly monitored the
conversations of Metro Police officers while they viewed videotapes of the
strike line inside the Frontier.
He said his unit also recorded phone conversations with
police every time officers were asked to come to the strike line.
While at the hotel, Legare
added, police were constantly videotaped by hotel surveillance cameras.
"We had orders to record everything whenever Metro
came on the property in case we came up with something we could use against
them," Legare said.
He explained that he once put a tape together for John Elardi showing embarrassing conduct by police, but Elardi never used it.
Footage was compiled of a Metro officer giving a female
striker the keys to his patrol car and other officers outside the nearby
Fashion Show mall beating up someone they had stopped, Legare
said.
Patton, meanwhile, described more of the Frontier's
reported paranoia in another deposition he gave in his own court case against the hotel on July 11.
He said Horton once set up a camera outside the
personnel office that with the help of a computer could capture a person's aura
on film.
Patton's former top assistant, Gary Ayers, described the
camera in an interview.
Ayers said the Elardis wanted
all of their employees to be photographed by the sophisticated
camera, which purportedly captured the energy fields around a
person.
The special equipment allowed for a positive
identification of someone along the lines of a finger print, he said.
Patton said in his deposition the Elardis
were hoping to use the camera to help single out strike sympathizers on the
picket line.
But employees soon became irate over it -- one even
threatened to go to the FBI -- and the camera was taken down the next day, he
said.
A letter later was circulated apologizing for putting it
up, he added.
Things got so bad for him at the Frontier, Patton
testified in the other court case, that he once received a death threat.
He said word came back to him that one of John Elardi's bodyguards had gotten "high on something"
and was telling people he was going to kill Patton and his wife.
Patton said he took his concerns to Tom Elardi and was told he couldn't do anything about it
because the bodyguard was "John's boy."
Another time, Patton said, someone had defecated under
his secretary's desk. The secretary discovered it while stepping in it when she
came to work in the morning.
Patton said he ultimately felt pressured to leave the
Frontier.
On Monday, Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa finally
addressed the spy squad revelations, saying she doesn't plan an investigation.
She said it would be "inappropriate" to comment
on the allegations because her office represents the State Gaming Control
Board, which has been asked to investigate the Frontier.
Control Board Chairman Bill Bible has suggested criminal
laws may have been broken and that "appropriate" law enforcement
authorities should look into the case.
Top labor leaders and state lawmakers have echoed his
words.
Legare has alleged that
Frontier employees were asked to lie in court proceedings involving the strike.
But Sheriff Jerry Keller and District Attorney Stewart
Bell have shown little interest in pursuing a probe.
Keller said he won't act unless someone files a complaint
against the Frontier.
Culinary Union leaders, however, said they have gone to
police before with complaints on the picket line and nothing was done about
them.
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Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. (
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1128,00.html
By Rishab Aiyer
Ghosh Page 1
of 1
The Indian Supreme Court ruled this week that
wiretapping
is a "serious invasion of an individual's privacy" and called for the
government to update the century-old Indian Telegraph Act's clause on
interception.
The high court ruled that an order for
wiretapping can only be issued by the Federal Home Secretary - the most senior
official in
Wiretaps can be used only if no "other reasonable
means" are available, the court said. Wiretapping in
The Supreme Court was ruling on a public-interest suit
brought by the People's
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Grewal, Manraj.
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Anonymity starring Richard Gere
and Goldie Hawn
Life goes on in Dharamshala: Nobel
Laureate, filmstars discuss Nature of Life
Manraj Grewal
Mcleodganj, HP, October 2: The subject was the star, the
stars mere observers. But when talk centres on the
Nature of Matter, the Nature of Life, and the presiding deity is none other
than His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the celeb
quotient does cease to exist.
So
So, too, did Dan Goleman, author of The Emotional
Intelligence, while Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu and Eric Lander, a leading genome expert, were pegged a rung higher as
participants here today.
A gathering with enough star power to generate mass hysteria
elsewhere but here at McLeodganj, where life flowed
at its placid pace. No heads turned when Gere and
Goldie decided to walk to the Chonor guesthouse, a
good 10 minutes from the Dalai Lama’s residence, after the morning session on
Day 3.
Only a group of urchins showed any interest, but their
sights were trained on the Rs 500 notes
Back in the office of the Dalai Lama, his man Friday, the
Venerable
Lhakdor, tried to put things into perspective. ‘‘It’s the
dialogue that should be your focus, not the people.’’ Adam Engle, the brains
behind the US-based organisers Mind and Life
Institute, nodded vigorously. So did Gere,
every bit as good-looking in real life in the reel.
Unhappiness, he said, was what had propelled him towards
Buddhism aeons ago. But wasn’t he rich, handsome and
super-successful, all that was required to be happy? ‘‘You know better’’, he
said, waving a hand. His goal is that of Everyman: to attain happiness and
cultivate compassion.
Which is why he finds no difference between McLeodganj and
Yes, he admitted, Dharamshala
could do with a clean sweep. Two years ago, his foundation tried to do it, but
to no avail. ‘‘I thought things would change, we would have one-way road,
covered sewers, but nothing has changed, nothing except the DC, health
officer...’’
Which is when you realise that Gere isn’t your ordinary tourist, he knows the town’s babudom inside out. Also the people. Hence, the knowledge
that they alone could help themselves. ‘‘I don’t have that kind of time’’, he
shrugged, trotting back to the conference hall.
Goleman had a few moments,
just enough to tell you that the last such dialogue in March 2000 gave him the
staple for his book Destructive Emotions, due for release next January. It also
gave an impetus to research on meditation at Harvard, which proved that people who meditate
have much higher positive emotions than the normal.
Goldie Hawn, who’d taken a short break for tea, vouched
for it. A self-confessed Indophile — ‘‘I feel happy,
and at home here’’ — she called meditation her daily fix. ‘‘It helps me marshal
my mind, choose the right from wrong, become a more compassionate person.’’
Later, sitting in the tankha-covered
room, soaking in the sage dialogue, you realise it’s
this C-word that binds these scientists, actors and monks together. Chu, a professor of physics at Stanford and a believer in
no religion with a name, put it into words when he said: ‘‘All of us agree with
the Dalai Lama’s belief that we should develop compassion for the world around us, for
doing good is good for us as well.’’
But it was His Holiness who had the last word: No action, he declared, was good or bad,
it’s the motivation that counts. Using that as the yardstick, the gathering, with the
monks on the one hand and the scientists on the other, discovered that there was really no
dichotomy between science and religion. None at all, if both were used for the
human good. That is the bottom line.
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Which is why he finds no difference between McLeodganj and
So
it is only a matter of having access to the right technology, devices, internet
etc, for a criminal to evolve into similar lines to that in the
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying,
and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing
flesh. The soul in man cannot be
killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart,
as I waited,
sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know
thyself, O
mortal! For there is One within
thee, as in
all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen