TheThe SPECTRUMSPECTRUM “Achieve the wisdom of knowledge of Truth as this will enable you to wisely follow the Laws of The Creation.” A Non-Profit Educational Corporation Dedicated To Bringing You The Truth VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 NEWS REVIEW $ 4.50 AUGUST 1, 2000 Ramtha’s School Of “Enlightenment”? Wine, Tobacco & Prozac Consciousness Raising Or Mind Control? 7/27/00 RICK MARTIN IN THIS ISSUE: “And God spoke all these words, saying: You Update From Our Editor, p.2 shall have no other gods except me.” The News Desk, p.3 — Holy Bible from the ancient Eastern text, George M. Lamsa’s Full-Page USA TODAY Ad On Illegality Of Income Tax, p.13 translation from the Aramaic of the Peshitta, Support Our Advertisers, p.15 Exodus 20. FDA Boosts PMS Insanity With Prozac In Disguise, p.16 “Focus on my eyes. When you are sick and you have forgotten to believe, all you have to do Hatonn: Compassion Along The is focus on this face. 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And you can be sure that the The Highest (First) Command of The Law Air And Getting Away With It” or something absolutions in most company board rooms go of The Creation states: “Achieve the wisdom of knowledge of Truth, as this will like that. something like: “...well, we HAVE to do it that enable you to wisely follow the It started innocently enough one day a few way ’cause everyone else is in order to stay in Laws of The Creation.” years ago while I was installing solar panels business and keep that competitive edge”. In other words, go forth and gain and related alternative-energy-source Excuse me? What ever happened to a fair as much knowledge equipment at my residence, and naturally, as a price for a fair product? That “amazing and experience as you can. result, I was making a lot of trips to the magnifying wire” I mentioned to launch this electrical aisles of such places as Home Depot. discussion could, by the way, be downright TO SUBSCRIBE: On one of those treks I spotted some two- dangerous to use in many cases where you For orders call: 1-877-280-2866 toll free. conductor, clear-insulation wire—like you might think it adequate. And its price was fair Otherwise call: 1-661-823-9695. would use for a lamp cord or speaker wire— only if you fell for the deception! $45.00 for 12 issues in US 1st Class Mail, that looked to be really hefty. It caught my What got me thinking about all this was the $55.00 Canadian/$60 Foreign. attention exactly because of how substantial it perennial obstacle we deal with here at The Please call for quantity subscription rates. seemed. I went over for a closer examination SPECTRUM in working to provide you with since wire like that was hard to find anymore The Truth. Many of you readers deal with this EDITORIAL POLICY: outside of high-end audio stores. same issue with friends and relatives who “just Opinions of The SPECTRUM contributors Then came the catch: When you looked can’t believe” such things as we address could are their own and do not necessarily reflect those closely at the wire from an end-on view, like really be happening all around us. of The SPECTRUM staff or management. The looking through a straw, it was two very skinny For example, the HAARP system little parallel wires (not good for much of shenanigans which we report on in this issue SPECTRUM will anything) wrapped in thick insulation. What “just can’t possibly” be the case because, you always correct was going on was that the thick, clear, rounded know, “‘they’ would never do something like any meaningful insulation magnified the wire when observing it that” to us. error of fact. from a side view, like a magnifying lens would Oh? Permission is do, and made it LOOK like something much If “they” can—and do—cheat and lie and hereby granted to more substantial than it actually was! Hence steal with reckless abandon in the consumer anyone to quote my dubbing this deception with the sarcastic marketplace, day in and day out, right under The SPECTRUM title of “The Amazing Magnifying Wire”. our noses, and with a straight face call it “just in whole or in About this same time I also started to notice doing business”, then what is so hard about part, so long as how much air was being packaged for sale believing the next little step which likewise full credit of this along with the products I thought I was shows the very same disregard and disrespect source is given, purchasing. Large, tightly sealed, but only for we-the-people? including contacting address and phone number. half-full, bags of potato chips looked like they That’s what makes the hypothetical were about ready to explode they were so speech—by the elite, for the elite—on puffed-out on the supermarket shelves, as were “population reduction” so right-on and so well PUBLISHING INFORMATION: candy bars, whose plastic, air-tight, worth sharing in this issue. Is the premise of We intend to offer, to the best of our ability, “expanded” wrappers were several sizes too that speech really any harder to believe than The Truth, however it comes to us, in order to large for the meager product inside. Thus was the assault that, say, the tobacco companies allow you to make up your own mind and be generated my dubbing this deception as have been perpetrating upon the public for so able to make informed decisions about things “Selling Air And Getting Away With It”. long now? Note that these “invincible” that impact your daily life. We hope to broaden I also noticed how boxes of tea bags, that tobacco giants have just lately gotten the your choices and allow you to create for yourself were still designed for 24 bags, were now punitive shock of their collective life from the a better world. containing 20 or even 16—in order to sell a lot recent Florida class-action lawsuit’s jury All manuscripts submitted must be either more air and a lot less product—for the same verdict of the largest monetary damages figure typewritten and double-spaced, or preferably on or elevated price. EVER pronounced anywhere. It’s about time. disk. If return is desired, a stamped self- About this same time Consumer Reports As the great (and quite controversial) started to document a much wider spectrum of literary genius Mark Twain (whose works addressed envelope is required. 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