Opmerkelijk nieuws1. : LePen en Griekenland, 2. Einstein en de FBI.

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Naked Le Pen 'felt like Greek God'

Jean-Marie Le Pen has admitted stripping off and running around the Acropolis in Athens.

He says it made him feel "like a Greek God".

The Far Right leader says he undressed during his first trip to Greece in 1947.

He told the Greek Elefthérotypia newspaper: "I spent the night in the Parthenon, and as no-one else was around I took my clothes off and started running about.

"I did what the ancient Greek athletes used to do, running in the nude, and it made me feel like a Greek God."

Le Pen says he went to Greece as a youth to visit the tomb of French Baron Pierre De Coubertin.

Story filed: 10:27 Tuesday 11th June 2002
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...=news.quirkies
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FBI campaign against Einstein revealed

Einstein's theory of relativity revolutionised science

By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor

A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy.
Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome who says it was a clash of cultures - Einstein's challenge and change with Hoover's order and obedience.

From the time Einstein arrived in the US in 1933 to the time of his death, in 1955, the FBI files reveal that his phone was tapped, his mail was opened and even his trash searched.

Einstein became world famous in 1906 for his Special Theory of Relativity that deals with light.

His General Theory of Relativity, published in 1919, deals with gravity and has been called mankind's greatest intellectual accomplishment.

Derogatory information

The Einstein File begins with a request by J Edgar Hoover in 1950: "Please furnish a report as to the nature of any derogatory information contained in any file your bureau may have on the following person."

That person was Albert Einstein, and the request intensified a secret campaign to discredit him.

Hoover was worried about Einstein's liberal intellectualism and his dabbling in politics, something that has been forgotten today. It has been overtaken by Einstein's absent-minded professor image.

But Einstein was outspoken against social injustice and violations of civil rights.

The fledgling state of Israel once offered Einstein its presidency. Einstein declined.

The broad outline of this story has been known since 1983, when Richard Alan Schwartz, a professor of English at Florida International University in Miami, obtained a censored version of Einstein's 1,427-page FBI file.

But Jerome uncovers new material.

He sued the US Government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain all the documents in the Einstein file.

Stalin comparison

The new material shows how the bureau spied on Einstein.

"It is like the agents got up in the morning, brushed their teeth, opened other people's mail and tapped some phones," he told the BBC.

After he left Germany, appalled by the barbarism of the Nazis, Einstein lent his name to a variety of organisations dedicated to peace and disarmament.

Because of this, the Woman Patriot Corp wrote a 16-page letter to the State Department, the first item in Einstein's file, in 1932, arguing that Einstein should not be allowed into the United States.

"Not even Stalin himself" was affiliated with so many anarchic-communist groups, the letter said.

Fred Jerome reveals that the 1,800-page document prepared about Einstein by the FBI shows that the agency even bugged his secretary's nephew's house.

The files reveal that for five years J Edgar Hoover tried, and failed, to link Einstein to a Soviet espionage ring.

The Einstein File by Fred Jerome, St Martin's Press, New York, 272 pages.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/2033324.stm
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Gatara

1. leuk, maar we wisten wel dat die Le Pen een beetje schizo was.
2. zo zie je maar, als je in de VS wilt wonen kun je maar beter niet al te slim zijn.

[Gatara]

Pash Cracken schreef:
1. leuk, maar we wisten wel dat die Le Pen een beetje schizo was.
2. zo zie je maar, als je in de VS wilt wonen kun je maar beter niet al te slim zijn.

Bij 2. vroeg ik me eerder af hoe de situatie in Israel zou zijn, als Einstein op het verzoek was ingegaan

Gatara