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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (1100)	4/22/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1151

LOTS OF TRUTH HERE: An American businessman was at a pier in a small coastal Mexican village when >a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were >several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the >quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. > >The Mexican replied only a little while. > >The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? > >The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. > >The American then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? > >The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my >children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each >evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and >busy life, senor." > >The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should >spend more time fishing and, with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the >proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you >would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a >middleman you would sell directly >to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the >product, processing and distribution. > >You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico >City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding >enterprise." > >The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how long will this all take?" > >To which the American replied, "15-20 years." > >But what then, senor? > >The American laughed and said that's the best part. When the time is right >you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and >become very rich, you would make millions. > >Millions, senor? Then what? > >The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing >village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take >siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could >sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (1100)	4/27/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1151

38.201.154.103 smh.com.au World War Three Set To Start In July - Nostradamus Reuters (Jeremy Lovell) 4/26/99 CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - World War Three will start in July in the Balkans, last seven months and end in victory for the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to a new analysis of 16th century French seer Nostradamus. ''He is clear it will start before the end of the century during the period of Cancer which is between June 22 and July 23, and in a triangle bordered by Greece, Italy and Turkey, which is the Balkans,'' University of Stellenbosch Professor of Political Science Willie Breytenbach told Reuters Monday. ''I have to emphasize I am a skeptic. I am an academic who was bored on a Sunday. But what I found was so chilling that I put pen to paper,'' he added. NATO allies have been bombing targets in Serbia for more than a month in a so-far abortive effort to force Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to stop expelling the ethnic Albanian majority in the Serbian province of Kosovo. The air campaign has triggered angry responses from Russia, caused a biblical exodus of refugees from Kosovo and forced the allies to contemplate sending in ground forces. Breytenbach said he found references to the conflict in 18 of the 950 quatrains written by Michel de Notre Dame in 1555 which have been found to refer to the fire of London, Louis Pasteur and Adolf Hitler among others. ''In one quatrain he mentions the Slav people. He also mentions war in the mountains which, taken with what we know and the talk of land forces, all gelled,'' he added. One of the quatrains also mentions a ''tyrant'' whose name begins with ''M,'' which could refer to Milosevic. Another notes that the Serbs will ''change their prince,'' which Breytenbach took to be a reference to the possible overthrow of the Serb leader. In another verse there is a reference to three years and seven months of peace before the war. ''I suddenly noticed that the Dayton peace accord was signed on November 21, 1995. Adding three years and seven months to that brings us to the end of June 1999,'' Breytenbach said. The Dayton peace accord, to which Milosevic was a signatory, finally ended the conflict in Bosnia. Breytenbach said Nostradamus made several references to the fact that Greece would be involved in the conflict and that there would be bloodshed in Turkey. There is also mention of the involvement of Italy. There are references to the Alus, which Breytenbach took to refer to the NATO allies in which the United States is the dominant force, and the Mabus which he said could refer to Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Serbia. ''He, Nostradamus, is quite clear the war will last seven months and the ultimate victor will have been born on American soil,'' Breytenbach said.