LINKS FOR THE WEEKEND

THE BRITISH OPIUM WAR AGAINST THE USA
For many years, we’ve been able to count on wingnut Lyndon Larouche
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche)
as a guaranteed bundle of laffs, but now he seems in the process of being coopted by the religious right, the fun can really start...

"The counterculture is a conspiracy at the top, created as a method of social control, used to drain the United States of its commitment to scientific and technological progress. That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley to the United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the United States for the mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this conspiracy apart step-by-step from its small beginnings with Huxley in California to the victimization of 15 million Americans today. With 'The Aquarian Conspiracy', the British Opium War against the United States has come out into the open."
For much, much, more...
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm

AND TALKING OF CONSPIRACY...
HCB sends us a brand new German theory that it was Fidel who whacked JFK. (When we all know it was CIA, Hoover, the Military Industrial Complex and the Mob.)
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,393540,00.html

While some girl draws our attention to the fact that there’s maybe something amiss with Elmo.
http://www.local6.com/news/5784303/detail.html

AND...
Doug the Bass sends over an essay by Howard Zinn, who is simply one of the best minds of any generation. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1230-36.htm

BUT THE HIPPO AND THE TURTLE ARE HAPPY
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hippo.asp

The secret word is Cute