Libretto For Liberia

[Tom Keske]

LIBRETTO FOR LIBERIA

Slavery is the ultimate manifestation of capitalism
Free markets are compatible with free elections
only so long as the landed gentry can herd the indentured servants,
push the proper buttons and manipulate their patriotic affections

Tar black bowel matter is a bad sign, as it signifies digested blood,
which might be caused by ingestion of blood diamonds,
which are hard and razor-sharp and cut the linings of the intestines

It is not the kind of blood to put in a garden sprinkling can
periodically to nourish the Liberty Tree
although something on that order might be quite necessary
when managed democracy turns to skillful choreography

A stage magician lets you pick from a deck of cards,
"Pick any card, any one at all for your election choice"

The people have come to demand stalks of corn.
"We will take your corn", said several voices...

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Liberia, "America's stepchild," searches for own identity | Worldfocus

... Liberia, a small country in west Africa, has long and deep
ties to America. The country, which became infamous in recent
years for a bloody civil ...

worldfocus.org/blog/2009/04/.../liberia-americas-stepchild.../4954/
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http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/tolson/colloquy.htm

A Libretto Colloquy

Though Tolson himself identified T. S. Eliot and Hart Crane as
important, if problematic, predecessors, it is Walt Whitman
whose presence is perhaps felt most in his "Libretto for the
Republic of Liberia" and, in particular, its second section "Re."
By explicitly introducing Whitman and the mythology surrounding
him as the "Good Gray Bard," Tolson pays homage to an innovative
poetic predecessor, while also holding him accountable for the
implications of his poetics of the open road.

Though Whitman does not expclicitly appear until "Re," the
Libretto's first section "Do" already has a certain Whitmanian
capaciousness in poetic stance and rhetoric. Tolson is very
explicit that his audience is not limited to Liberians and/or
African-Americans, for "Liberia. . . [is] a moment of the
conscience of mankind"
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Liberian Woman Jumped to her Death From Walt Whitman Bridge

... A Liberian mother of two jumped to her death on Wednesday,
on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman Bridge...

www.theliberianjournal.com/index.php?st=news&sbst=details...

The news of Jackie's untimely death hit the Liberian communities
of Trenton and Burlington like gusting wind

During the evening hours into the night, a steady stream of
Liberians and foreign friends alike started encroaching to her
near million-dollar home to sympathize with her family

Jackie drove from her home in her white Mercedes SUV and headed
toward the Walt Whitman Bridge.
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Charles Taylor on Identity and the Social lmaginary (Craig Calhoun)

Among the most influential of late 20th Century philosophers,
Charles Taylor has written on human agency, identity, and the self;
language; the limits of epistemology; interpretation and explanation
in social science; ethics and democratic politics.

www.ssrc.org/.../Charles-Taylor-on-Identity-and-the-Social-Imaginary.pdf
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African Dictators: Charles Taylor and the Slaughterers' Society ...

... They feed their political opponents to crocodiles, hack the
feet off prisoners and let their people starve. Africa's tyrants
are still escaping justice, ...

www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,409686,00.html
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CIA Backed War Criminal Charles Taylor

The psycho killer/former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has
revealed how the CIA released him from US prison and backed his
genocidal campaigns.

www.saskfarmersmarket.com/0-4603-cia-backed-war-criminal-charles-taylor.html
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Global Connections . Liberia . History | PBS

Settled in the early 1800s by freeborn Blacks and former slaves
from America, Liberia, whose name means "land of freedom," has
always struggled with its ...

www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/essays/history
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Donald Macintyre: Freedom in Libya is no longer a wild fantasy ...

... Leptis Magna Liberia Libya, Libya, Libya

article.wn.com/.../Donald_Macintyre_Freedom_in_Libya_is_no_longer_a_wild_fantas/
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Siberia: Freedom and fantasy in the shadow of the gulags -
Telegraph

... Siberia: Freedom and fantasy in the shadow of the gulags.
Katya Galitzine is inspired by the vast spaces and mystical
beauty of eastern Siberia. ...

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Siberia-Freedom-and-fantasy-in-the-shadow-of-the-gulags.html
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Liberia--not Siberia | Travel Blog

... From Swaziland we searched again, fully and futilely for a
non-flight transport mode to get to west Africa

www.travelblog.org/Africa/Liberia/blog-170260.html
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Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor had US spy agency ties

Taylor testified that after fleeing Boston he recruited 168 men
and women ... Charles Taylor as an inmate at the Plymouth
CountyHouse of Correction in 1984.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-17/metro/30632769_1_courtenay-
griffiths-charles-taylor-war-crimes
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Oslo killer Anders Breivik 'linked to' Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Oslo-killer-Anders-Breivik-linked-to-
Johnny-Mad-Dog-Adair-Ulster-terrorist.html

The potential connection has emerged following scrutiny of
Breivik's links to British blogger, Paul Ray, who calls himself
the "Lionheart".

The film shows the three men visiting historic churches around
Malta, cut together with footage showing UFF terrorists and Mr
Greger with a Kalashnikov, set to a trance music track and
illustrated with slides of Templar Knights.

Mr Greger has also been a supporter of Charles Taylor, the
former dictator tried for war crimes over his time in Liberia

Breivik, the Oslo killer, wrote of traveling to the Ivory Coast
and Liberia in 2002 telling his friend he was planning to
"research the potential to smuggle blood diamonds and selling
them in London."

'Lionheart,' for instance, asked: "Where is the support from
within the ranks of the Templar Army
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Lion Heart (Mel Gibson) | Facebook

... To interact with Lion Heart (Mel Gibson) you need to sign up
for Facebook first. Sign Up. It's free and anyone can join. ...

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Conspiracy Theory (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), an obsessive- compulsive New York
City taxi ... Jerry identifies some men on the street as CIA,
follows them into a building, and is ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Theory_(film)
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Ex-pats in LiberiaAsmi International

... A growing number of surfers have started to travel to
Liberia for its ... He travels around the country showing Mel
Gibson's film "The Passion of Christ...

asmiinternational.org/ex-pats-in-liberia/
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Pat Robertson & Charles Taylor: Defending the Indefensible ...

Charles Taylor professes to be a Christian and claims to want to
lead Liberia as a Christian Nation. This, naturally enough, sits
very well with Pat Robertson. ...

atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blrr_rob_taylor.htm
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Charles Taylor (Liberia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) was the 22nd

Liberian Dictator, Charles Taylor Brutally Kill over 300000
Individuals in Africa ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberia) - Cached - Similar
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Former Liberian dictator, Charles Taylor, worked for U.S. intelligence ...

.. The former Liberian dictator was employed by the Pentagon's
spy arm from the early 1980s onwards, according to reports.

www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Former-Liberian-dictator-Charles-Taylor-
worked-U-S-intelligence-Africas-notorious-warlord.html
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http://www.swp.ie/international/trial-former-liberian-president-
charles-taylor-diamonds-dirty-wars-and-west/3483

Charles Taylor is no longer of use to the US and has been hung
out to dry. Such trials are used to conceal a much more
dangerous reality, the real threat to West Africa of US
imperialism, which will repeat the misery we have seen in
Liberia. The only force that can dislodge this threat is the
unity and organisation of the region's powerful working class
and oppressed.

short history of Liberia

1821 US Colonisation Society buys part of Sierra Leone in West
Africa and US provides firepower to set up a colony- Liberia. It
resettled around 20,000 US slaves who had won their freedom.

1926 Firestone and Goodrich granted 99-year concessions to
plunder Liberia's rubber resources. Similar deals set up for US
firms to exploit oil, iron ore and diamonds.

1980 Food riots topple the government and Sergeant Samuel Doe
takes over. He defends US economic interests.

1985 Charles Taylor, a government minister under Doe, fled to
the US after defrauding the state bank. He returned later in the
decade to lead a revolt against the government.

1990s A brutal civil war saw some 200,000 killed and over a
million made homeless out of a population of 2.5 million.
Charles Taylor's allies in Sierra Leone provided him with
diamonds and he sent them arms.

1997 Taylor wins presidential elections. Western powers, which
had partly abandoned Liberia at the end of the Cold War, now
paid attention to its resources and strategic position. This
increased during the "war on terror

2006 April- Taylor appears before a UN-backed court in Sierra
Leone on charges of crimes against humanity. June?the
International Criminal Court agrees to host his trial.

2008 US president George Bush ends a five-country tour of Africa
with a visit to Liberia, one of America's staunchest allies.
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Questions in Contemporary Medicine
and the Philosophy of Charles Taylor

Many have turned to the ideas of philosopher Charles Taylor

jmp.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/29/jmp.jhr034.full

This article provides an introduction to the articles in this
theme issue. This collection examines epistemological,
ontological, moral and political questions in medicine in light
of the philosophical ideas of Charles Taylor. A synthesis of
Taylor's relevant work is presented. Taylor has argued for a
conception of the human sciences that regards human life as
meaningful - deriving meaning from surrounding horizons of
significance. An overview of the interdisciplinary articles in
this issue is presented. This collection advances our thinking
in the philosophy of medicine as well as the philosophy of
Charles Taylor.
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http://journeywithoutmaps.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/theres-an-i-in-malaria/

Knowing that I was going to be in Liberia for an extended period
of time, I decided not to take drugs to prevent malaria- because
their side effects sounded worse than actual malaria.

After two days of feeling not so well, I went to a local Chinese
clinic at the end of my street because a) I had heard good
things about it from my boss, and b) it was cheap

By serendipity, Vishal was back in Liberia on a short visit and
staying with me. He speaks Chinese and helped me decipher the
ingredients of the medicine. One contained artificial powdered
bull gall stone.

Dear Sean,

I have recently been anthropomorphizing cutlery myself. Should I
be worried that I have malaria if I find Beaver the Cleaver
increasingly dull and Matt the Spatula constantly burns my
grilled cheese?? If you don't mind, please ask around in the
Chinese Liberian community.

Thank you
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http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/cepes/pdf/no26.pdf

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN WARTIME LIBERIA: THEMES AND CONCEPTS
Michael Alexander Innes

Aning's description of the complexity of Taylor's diplomacy is a
close approximation of much earlier work on cold-war era mind
control and political power.

Writing in the 1950s, political scientist Terence H. Qualter
claimed that psychological warfare "is more than propaganda- it
is propaganda tied and coordinated with military, political and
economic strategy and policy

Taylor was a consummate gamesman, constantly outmanoeuvring his
opponents. He would have been unable to do so without the
physical resources to wage psychological war against his
opponents, sophisticated propaganda with which to beguile and
revile them, and the ability to use both in support of and in
conjunction with diplomatic, military, social and economic goals.
Qualter noted the advantages of such versatility, writing, "?
while psychological tricks may increase military effectiveness,
so may a military operation supplement a propaganda campaign."
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Retired CIA agent involved in Liberia diamonds-for-arms scandal ...

... Taylor, who headed the National Patriotic Front of Liberia
(NPFL), ... 40-year veteran of the CIA, worked with Charles
Taylor and others to ...

https://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/about/latest.../analysis016/
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Pat Robertson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

... to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for
diamonds in Liberia's ... Robertson accused President George W.
Bush of "undermining a Christian, ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson
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Pat Robertson's Liberian Gold Deal - ABC News

... Prosecutors at the human rights trial of former Liberian
warlord Charles Taylor ... met with then-President George W.
Bush on Taylor's behalf, prosecutors charged ... of the country's
vast natural resources, including diamonds. ...

abcnews.go.com/Blotter/pat-robertsons-gold-deal-african.../story?id...
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The Bush Chicken: Liberian-Minnesotan Online News Magazine

REFLECTIONS ON VICE PRESIDENT BOAKAI'S VISIT TO MINNESOTA by
Wynfred Russell. 22-06-2011. As a Liberian whose sole purpose is
and always will ...

www.bushchicken.com/
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Liberia - Google Books Result

Artimecy and Mimy quickly shoved aside the corn and a few boxes
to clear a small ... It also highlighted dark red blood bubbling
through the bullet hole in the ...

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Corn-sunflower rotation preferred by NSA president - Minnesota ...

... The newest National Sunflower Association (NSA) president,
Tom Young, hails from the heart of the leading sunflower
producing county in the ...

www.minnesotafarmguide.com/.../corn...nsa.../article_7177bed2-
4cbb-11e0-9b2c-001cc4c002e0.html
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"When the words do hit us, they hit us, seriously, and profoundly."
- Umar Bin Hassan

"Liberia needs and deserves guys like you." - Fan
"Yes, e.g., yes- please continue to write for our souls." - Fan

New Beginnings: The Story of Liberians in Minnesota

For some time now, Minnesota has been a refuge for immigrant
communities displaced from their homes due to a variety of
circumstances. One of these communities is the Liberian
community, which grew rapidly in the aftermath of a series of
civil wars that ravished their country. However the story of
Liberians in Minnesota does not begin with these civil wars but
stretches back more than 50 years.

ODM: Tell me about your poem titled "America" what message were
you trying to send with it?

E.G.: I was asked by a friend to write a few pieces for a jazz
album he was creating called 'Polidix', and 'America' came out
of that collaboration. There is a tradition of 'America' poems,
from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg to Claude McKay. I wanted to
challenge myself and see if I could write something worthy of
that tradition. I've always love Ginsberg's 'America' poem so it
was somewhat of a tribute to that poem.

At the time, Ginsberg was addressing the Cold War, anarchist
movements, labor struggles, nuclear war, among other issues.

ODM: How have you used your success to give back to your home
country?

I think the best way that I can give back to my home at this
time is to tell our story. Even though people may know about
Liberia, it is a very narrow understanding. There is very little
known about the native Liberians. They may know that Liberia was
settled by freed slaves from America, or about the civil wars or
Charles Taylor
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What a Boy Scout, N.C. Representative Charles Taylor looks more ...

... What a Boy Scout, N.C. Representative Charles Taylor looks
more like General Custer at Little Big Horn.

thebushidoway.blogspot.com/.../what-boy-scout-nc-representative.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/30/daniel-radcliffe-allen-ginsberg-thriller

Daniel Radcliffe's frantic attempts to kill off Harry Potter
continue apace. The 22-year-old actor is reportedly in talks to
play Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, an independent drama
about poetry, gay stalkers and murder in 1940s New York.

The film is expected to chart the young Ginsberg's introduction
to the Manhattan beat scene and his relationship with fellow
writers Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr. The latter was jailed for
second-degree murder in 1944 after stabbing his stalker, David
Kammerer, with a boy scout penknife and then dumping the body in
the Hudson.
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Liberia: 'The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here' By Maryam Sakeenah

By Maryam Sakeenah. Countercurrents.org. The proud faade of
Liberia's ...

www.countercurrents.org/sakeenah170508.htm
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Gay Rights Advocate Flees Mob Action at University of Liberia ...

... The University of Liberia main campus on Capitol Hill was a
chaotic scene on the morning hours of Friday, January 13, 2012
when a gay right ...

frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php?...com...gay-rights...
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Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State; The Price of Liberty:

Making of Liberia. John-Peter Pham Claude A. Clegg III.
Reviewed by By ...

www.foreignaffairs.com/.../liberia-portrait-of-a-failed-state-
the-price-of-liberty-african
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Gay rights activists assaulted in Liberia for campaign | WADR

.. Reports from Liberia say gay rights activists have begun
facing threats from an angry public over their efforts to
promote the passing of a bill ...

www.wadr.org/.../Gay-rights-activists-assaulted-in-Liberia-for-campaign.htm
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NSA Chief Says International Community Resents President Taylor

TP: So what are the responsibilities of the NSA? ... Freddie:
The whole thing points to the fact that Charles Taylor being a
former fighter, killer, and murderer does ...

www.theperspective.org/nsa.html
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Discontent In The NPP - NSA Director Replaced

... It is believed that his selection as head of NSA was
influenced by Charles Taylor. Mr. Moore's dismissal stemmed
from the fact that he has ...

www.theperspective.org/2004/jan/discontentinthenpp.html

The former president of Liberia and one of the key figures of
the NPP, Mr. Moses Z. Blah, told local journalists that NPP
appointed Assembly man, Sando Johnson of Bomi County, is insane
and needs to see a psychiatrist. Mr. Blah promised to pay
Johnson's psychiatry bill. The former president further warned
Mr. Johnson that he (Blah) is not Archbishop Michael Francis and
that the next time Johnson lies on him, he (Johnson) will be
dealt with thoroughly.

Mr. Blah's annoyance came as a result of an accusation made by
Sando Johnson that the former president had connived with
Chairman Gyude Bryant to terminate the services of Rancy Moore
as head of the National Security Agency. Representative Johnson
further said that Mr. Blah is on a "mission" to destroy the NPP.

Rancy Moore was made head of the NSA through nomination by the
former government of Liberia (GOL). It is believed that his
selection as head of NSA was influenced by Charles Taylor.

Mr. Moore's dismissal stemmed from the fact that he has
allegedly kept an open line of communication with Charles Taylor,
indicted war criminal who is now residing in Calabar, Nigeria.
Chairman Bryant, on several occasions, warned Mr. Moore but Mr.
Moore refused to disengage. Chairman Bryant then informed former
President Blah that Mr. Moore had to go.

The NPP through Mr. Blah has recommended Freedie Taylor (former
brother-in-law of Charles Taylor who served as the first NSA
Director of the former Liberian dictator) for the slot.

Sando Johnson, a high school degenerate and an alleged arsonist
used the defunct Kiss radio station owned by Mr. Taylor to rain
insults on Archbishop Michael K. Francis on a regular basis
during the Taylor administration.

As for Rancy Moore, he is said to be one of those who still
think that Taylor will make a come back. Perhaps, he is still
reflecting on Charles Taylor's farewell speech: God's willing, I
will be back.
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Echelon Conspiracy Script - transcript from the screenplay

Fort Meade, Maryland NSA Headquarter - It's Grant for you, sir

www.script-o-rama.com/.../echelon-conspiracy-script-transcript.html
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http://www.marylandcountyliberia.org/corn.html

Maryland County offered the best of both products for the fact
that corn and sugar cane are grown in Maryland County, and are
considered two of the top cash crops in the county. Maryland
County was slowly emerging as the center for Liberia's sugar
industry, which like many other emerging industries in the
county, was destroyed during the Liberian civil conflict.

As for corn, its benefits as food are plentiful. It provides an
excellent source for many nutrients that include vitamin B1
(Thiamin), dietary fibers, vitamin C, phosphorous, manganese,
vitamin B5 (pantothenic), and low calories. Thiamin which is
found in corn is very good to maintain healthy memory.

Maryland County, and Liberia as a whole, stands to gain if
efforts are put into the commercial production of sugar cane and
corn. Corn and sugar cane, like many local crops, are waiting to
be explore with the right investors. The showcasing of Maryland
County investment potentials is the key in attracting investors
in the county, or in any other county in Liberia. While
generally, Liberia is known for having many great products,
especially cash crops, but knowing where they are in Liberia is
paramount in the any effort to attract investors. Little or no
effort is being made to market what Liberia's has.
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Liberian Civil War - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

... The Liberian Civil War was an armed conflict between the
radical far-left Communist Party of Liberia.

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Liberian_Civil_War
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/synopsis

Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, which is led
by a reclusive figurehead known as "Father". Father never
interacts with anyone outside the ruling council, but his image
is omnipresent throughout the city in a strong cult of
personality. The Tetragrammaton Council strives to create
identical lives for all Librians and uses its police state
apparatus to enforce unity and conformity. At the pinnacle of
Librian law enforcement are the Grammaton Clerics, who are
trained in the deadly martial art of Gun Kata, an art which
teaches users to predict the actions of opponents during firearm
combat. The Clerics exist for the purpose of locating and
destroying EC-10 materials and for pursuing, apprehending, and,
if necessary, terminating "sense-offenders"people guilty of
feeling emotions.

Despite the efforts of the police and Clerics, a resistance
movement exists in Libria, known as "The Underground". Members
of this movement are responsible for terrorist activity against
Libria, specifically against the Prozium factories. The leaders
of the Underground believe that if they can disrupt the
production and distribution of Prozium for a short period of
time, even a single day, then the Librians will rise up and
destroy the Tetragrammaton Council. The Underground operates
within Libria itself, but also has contact with resistance
groups residing in "The Nethers", the ruins of cities destroyed
during World War III. These outsiders hoard objects and
artifacts from the old society before World War III, including
art and literature. Subsequently, they are the targets of
Librian death squads composed of police and Clerics.
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When Jesus came, the corn mothers went away: marriage, sexuality, ...

... "absolute" legal liberty to choose a spouse freely meant, in
fact, freedom to select a ... Had clerics constantly undermined
hierarchically structured authority ...

books.google.com/books?isbn=0804718164 Ramon A Gutierrez
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Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws - History of Political Economy

early 1820s, most notably to the House of Commons's Select
Committee on Agricultural Distress in 1821, in which his views
related specifically to the Corn Laws ...

hope.dukejournals.org/content/41/2/343.full.pdf
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Liberia is founded by Freed Slaves - Then Again.

The country of Liberia was founded in 1821 by former slaves from
the United States of America as a result of the end of the
transatlantic slave trade and the ...

www.thenagain.info/webchron/Africa/Liberia.html
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Rise of Nations Heaven: Maya

But the Maya would continue to revolt on and off through the
rest of next century, and then again in 1724 A.D. continuing
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I'm Not Giving You Anymore Corn to Build Pyramids - Commentary

Jan 9, 2012 ... "The Mayas were intelligent; they had a highly
developed culture. ... "We got tired of giving those guys all
our corn to build pyramids so we moved to .... The Patriot's
mission is to advocate for Essential Liberty, the restoration of ...

patriotpost.us/.../im-not-giving-you-anymore-corn-to-build-
pyramids/
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Bright Lights Film Journal :: Corn-Fed Culture

... between commercial corn-growing and Mayan corn culture is a
metaphorical ..... "Liberty" pesticides are genetically modified
for use with a name-brand corn ...

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Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise by Abraham Lincoln

That perfect liberty they sigh for- the liberty of making slaves
of other people- Jefferson ...... You do not so treat the man
who deals in corn, cattle or tobacco.

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http://www.concern-liberians.org/chat_room/view_topic.php?id=
72958&forum_id=1&highlight=pray

How the hale pepo supposed to pay back their college loan from
the American university if Liberian pay is too low? Tell me how
much tuition is at Lincoln University

Liberia GDP is low but if cost of decent living in Liberia is
like the U.S. or even HIGHER if since Abu Jaodi box of cornflake
US$7.50, in the US it is $2.50. Better to stay on rice and soup
diet.
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Heritage Auctions - Common Questions

On the right, the coin also shows a curved marking to the left
of the corn husk; this ... on the obverse above the inscription
"Liberty" in script resembling Jefferson's ... And stay tuned --
Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial is in 2009, so we may even ...

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The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin
Dave DeWitt - 317 pages

Thomas Jefferson told his overseer that he would need "about 900
pounds more ... Slaves, corn, and swine were part of a system
that produced increasingly ... '

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Thomas Jefferson - Google Books Result

Richard B. Bernstein - 253 pages

That year, jefferson also ordered them to prepare for a
gargantuan new ... His slaves began planting corn, harvesting
peas, and sowing buckwheat, which that ...

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History of the Gay Rights Movement - An Illustrated History of the ...

In 1779, Thomas Jefferson proposed a law that would mandate
castration for gay men and mutilation of nose cartilage for gay
women. But that's not the scary ...

civilliberty.about.com/od/.../tp/History-Gay-Rights-Movement.htm
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http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2010/04/liberty-university-students-
how-can-you-tolerate-this/

Liberty University Students, How Can You Tolerate This?

You heard correctly. Among other things, Lafferty, alongside
Matt Barber, is actually trying to claim that ENDA will allow
hypothetical VA employees with acrotomophilia to freely molest
returning amputee veterans.

This clip is from an event called "The Awakening" sponsored by
the Freedom Federation and held at Liberty University this past
weekend. Matt Barber, listed as Associate Dean for Career and
Professional Development at Liberty, is seated next to Andrea
Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition. This particular
breakout session, labeled "LGBT Agenda" was held at Liberty
University School of Law

In what appears to be the same "ends justifies the means" free-
for-all that took place prior to the recent passing of the long
debated hate crimes bill, no lie is too absurd to be told in an
effort to prevent passing of the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act (ENDA).

Comments

Tom: telling them to take me off their mailing lists and phone lists.
I do not want my name associated with such bigotry and ignorance.
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Doctors Warn Avoid Genetically Modified Food

When bugs bite the plant, the poison splits open their stomach
and kills them. ... In lab studies, twice the number of
chickens fed Liberty Link corn died; 7 of 20 ...

www.rense.com/general86/doct.htm
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Good News About Glufosinate (Liberty) Herbicide: Most is washed ...

... Pioneer Hi-Bred's website boasts that their genetically
modified (GM) Liberty Link corn survives doses of Liberty
herbicide, which would ...

gmopundit.blogspot.com/.../good-news-about-glufosinate-liberty.
html
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Swine Flu Vaccine in Your Corn Flakes-Coming Soon

... There will be no need to refuse the N1H1 Vaccine if monsanto
and drug co's get their way-it will be in your corn flakes. The
frankenscience has ...

www.politicolnews.com/swine-flu-vaccine-in-your-gmo-foods/
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Apocalypse soon - GM - genetic modification

(Updated Oct. 99) - Bowing to public pressure, the Monsanto
Company has decided to stop further work on their "TERMINATOR
SEED" project. It must be said ...

www.apocalypsesoon.org/xfile-21.html
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cereal: Definition from Answers.com

In developed nations, cereal consumption is moderate and varied
but still substantial. The word cereal derives from Ceres, the
name of the Roman goddess of ...

www.answers.com/topic/cereal-3
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Pagan America

The Romans honored Ceres- Goddess of Corn, Libertas- Goddess of
Liberty, .... the Second Bank of the United States, and the
Lincoln Memorial, for example, ...

nobeliefs.com/pagan.htm
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Seal of New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The female figures Liberty and Ceres, representative of the
state's motto (see next item). Liberty is holding a staff
supporting a "liberty cap"; Ceres is holding an ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_New_Jersey
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Squashed Philosophers Abridged Editions - Mill - On Liberty

Poisons should be freely sold, but properly labeled: just as it
is right to warn .... when delivered to an excited mob
assembled before the house of a corn dealer.

www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/mill.htm
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GM's Last Capitalist Act: Filing for Bankruptcy ... - Cato @ Liberty

... It's not as if we didn't know this was going to happen to GM
for a long time now. GM's bankruptcy announcement today is
perhaps the least ...

www.cato-at-liberty.org/gms-last-capitalist-act-filing-for-bankruptcy-protection/
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Liberia - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

"Liberia, country of books." ~ Oscar Wilde on Liberia.

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Liberia
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http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Corn

That's a buccaneer!"
~ Oscar Wilde on food-price inflation

Corn is a dangerous fruit that grows on a corn tree. It is
arguably the deadliest fruit on Earth, but many are unaware and
gulp it down each year.

The epitome of ruthlessness in pursuit of corn was the Battle of
Milton Keynes in 2002, when 73 innocent suburbanites were
massacred by American unmanned drones over several shopping bags
of milled corn from Tesco
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Mississippi in Africa - Google Books Result

Yet the truth, as Oscar Wilde noted, is rarely pure, and never
simple. No one I spoke with who is knowledgeable about Liberia
sees the country as a failure. ...

books.google.com/books?isbn=1592400442
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Liberia - Google Books Result

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf - 1906

In addition to their air-sacs, both sexes (but especially the 1
It is called in Vai " Tuna'' : Insect-eating bats are
distinguished as " DerC." 8 These bats in Liberia ( as ...

books.google.com/books?id=cvYRAAAAYAAJ
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Amazon.com: Oscar Wilde's review of Bumble Bee Solid White Tuna ...

Oscar Wilde. This review is from: Bumble Bee Solid White Tuna in
water, 5 Ounce Tins (Pack of 24) (Grocery). Sudbury Market in
Sudbury, Massachusetts, part ...

www.amazon.com/review/R2R7JC1PKVI3Q0
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Missing Honey Bees: What's going on?

But it is noted also that the formulation of clothianidin does
not require this " sticker" in .... Experiment Did the US Navy
succeed in making the US Liberty invisible?

www.viewzone.com/lostbees.bayerx.html
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Bayer: a history

Bayer's GM crops are mostly "Liberty Link" - designed to be
resistant to its ... sold in some countries under the name
Gaucho, and Clothianidin, have also proven ...

www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms/11153-bayer-a-history
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Genetically modified maize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corn varieties resistant to glyphosate herbicides (Liberty and
Roundup) have been produced. Pioneer Hi-Bred has marketed corn
hybrids with tolerance to ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize
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Medvedev, Putin harvest corn at south Russian farm | Russia | RIA ...

.. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
have put on a new show of unity ahead of upcoming elections by
harvesting corn ...

en.rian.ru/russia/20111025/168111189.html
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Listen to the Muzhiks - alt.surrealism | Google Groups

the muzhik to sow corn during a summer-drought, in a swamp. The
muzhik listened to the laborer ; sowed in the swamp.

groups.google.com/group/alt.surrealism/.../8a5a84a15a35f1cc
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Complete works - Google Books Result

Leo Tolstoy (graf) - 1900

The other muzhiks had everything burned up by the sun ; but the
poor muzhik had dense, high, full- eared corn. The muzhik had
enough to live on till the next ...

books.google.com/books?id=zmVXAAAAYAAJ

Both meadow and corn-land had been mortgaged to the rich muzhik.
So he went to ask if he would not give him the meadow and corn-
land till the new crops
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Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our ...

Pioneer Hi-Bred's website boasts that their genetically modified
(GM) Liberty Link corn survives doses of Liberty herbicide,
which would normally kill corn.

www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_637.cfm
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http://www.cyberpat.com/shirlsite/essays/mill.html

John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: Only for the Exceptional Few

Karl Marx writes in The German Ideology: "The division of labor...
manifests itself also in the ruling class...so that inside this
class one part appears as the thinkers of the class...its active,
conceptive ideologists, who make the formation of the illusions
of the class

Mill continues, "An opinion that corn dealers are starvers of
the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be
unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may
justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob
assembled before the house of a corn dealer, or when handed
about among the same mob in the form of a placard"

In Mill's scenario, the rights of the corn dealer to do business
trumps the free speech rights of the "mob," (a word choice for
protesters that in itself reveals Mill's sympathies). Thus an
individual's liberty is limited if the freedoms which it entails
pose a threat to the prevailing capitalist system.

In this age of global capitalism, individualism has been
extended in a way that I'm sure Mill would have approved of. In
1980 in the Belotti ruling, the US Supreme Court granted free
speech first-amendment rights to corporations, thus equating an
economic entity with an individual (Schiller, p. 54). Such
enhancement of corporate power only further diminishes
individual liberty, while highlighting clearly who the concept
truly serves. As such the capitalist conception of individualism
as articulated by Mill in On Liberty is part of the ideology of
capitalism. Marx argues that one of ideology's functions is to
obscure reality. In On Liberty, Mill discusses the ideal of
"individual liberty" and offers reasons why society should
encourage it, but he defines it in such a way that it can only
be enjoyed by the ruling class, i.e. the owner class. Contrary
to popular conception, the essay is not so much a treatise on
universal freedom as it is an ideological framework for
maintaining class divisions and furthering capitalist
development. As Noam Chomsky has observed, "The ability to
tolerate cognitive dissonance is a wondrous trait and a
prerequisite to success in the ideological professions" (Chomsky,
p. 46). Mill, buoyed by cognitive dissonance, succeeds in
obscuring the true, sorry state of individual liberty in a
capitalist society by sanctioning the inevitable inequalities
and exploitation as the price of "freedom" and "individual
liberty" for those rich and exceptional few.
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