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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS DOUBLESPEAK AWARDS FIND FERTILE GROUND IN POLITICS Doublespeak has just about driven William Lutz to the brink of "mental activity at the margins". That euphemism was just one gem discovered by the Rutgers University English professor for the 1992 Doublespeak Awards, announced in Urbana by the National Council of Teachers of English. The annual awards—intended to call attention to language that is "grossly deceptive, evasive and euphemistic"—were bestowed during the council's convention in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Among the nominees: + Instead of being laid off, workers are “involuntarily terminated" as companies “reposi- tion", "reshape", "realign" and "reduce duplication” through a "release of resources", "per- manent downsizing" or "payroll adjustment”. ¢ Along with other newfound freedoms, the people of Moscow can now visit “intimacy salons"—sex shops, as they are known in other countries. + US soldiers should pay close attention to the Army's warning that exposure to nerve gas may cause "immediate permanent incapacitation"—that is, death. + Students who stand still are now in a state of "spatial anchoring.” + Removing books from the library isn't censorship, just a case of "weeding" books. * Colleges don't drop failing students, they "expedite their progress toward alternate life pursuits". » Electric fans are now “high-velocity, multipurpose air circulators". + Radio and television commercials are now referred to as "value minutes". * A US Department of Energy nuclear fuel dump is a "monitored retrievable storage site". + The Environmental Protection Agency now refers to acid rain as “wet deposition". * Politicians in Canada engage in “reality augmentation” but would never say that they'd lied. And the winners were: 3rd place—All the politicians who put the phrase "family values” at the center of the 1992 political campaign. An ambiguous and vague phrase, it “exploited intense feelings aroused by the idea of the family to celebrate their own idea of what constitutes the best domestic arrangement.” 2nd place—The Republican and Democratic parties for "claiming they are for reforming the way political campaigns are financed, even while they continue to seek and accept large contributions from special-interest groups, corporations, and wealthy individuals." 1st place—President Bush for various novel uses of language, including calling for “less proliferation of all different kinds of weapons" as the Department of Defense reversed a 25-year policy and began supporting arms trade shows around the world. Finally, the 1992 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language went to Donald Barlett and James Steele, authors of America: What Went Wrong. The authors received the award for cutting through "the political and economic doublespeak used to justify the economic policy of the 1980s" to reveal "who is and isn't paying the price in the 90s." From the November 20th issue of the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette. Extracted from peg:alt.activism, via Pegasus Networks, Brisbane, Tel: (07) 257 1111. A mass of claims and counterclaims exist about who was responsible for the massacre at Waco. Most of this information centres around factors such as Koresh's mental stability, or the over-zealous rambo- starved authorities with their big guns etc. There is however a slightly more intriguing side to Waco. CAN, the acronym for the Cult Awareness Network, has emerged from obscurity to international prominence. You could be forgiven if you missed it, but ‘experts’ from CAN were the people who prompted the authorities into tak- ing action on Waco, and then advised them on how to handle Koresh and his followers. CAN has been described as "Kidnappers, Inc.,". One of its founders is Louis J. West who is the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute, and is basi- cally the defacto head of the US govern- ment's covert mind-control pro- grammes. (Refer to "Mind Control & The New World Order", published in Nexus Magazine, vol.2, nos 11 &12.) CAN kidnappers and deprogrammers- for-hire specialise in churning out self- serving reports from terrorised former members of organisations labelled as cults by CAN operatives. These often chilling reports are used both to justify the need for CAN's ‘expertise’ in depro- gramming additional members, and to drum up business and increase the influ- ence of CAN. What is more is that CAN has access through Louis West and others to a wide variety of intelligence sources. One such source proudly boasting of its role in supplying documentation on the Church to the BATF is the notorious ADL (Anti Defamation League.) The ADL and CAN are tightly inte- grated, together with a psychiatrist named Park Dietz with the behavioural studies unit of the FBI, based out of Qunantico, Virginia. That is the unit of the FBI involved in Waco. All in all, the whole thing stinks! (Source: Pegasus Computer Network, vari- ous newspapers, EIR Magazine) They're raping Let's just They’re just the women and wait sitting there Send in slaughtering themen! — and see. the tanks! doing nothing. \ NEXUS¢9 JUNE - JULY 1993 BEHIND WACO?