Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Secret Evidence Against Bill Too Shocking for
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/24/98 11:08:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, at long last. I'm so glad to hear someone else say it. Seemed to me that all through this business Starr's "investigation," and the House Committee has been dealing with Clinton as if he were a bad child who had no other right than to hang his head, admit he was "bad," and take his punishment. As if any attempt to defend himself was "abuse of power"--or childish impertinence before a Higher Power. And it is strange to realize how much of this business has to do with childish wishes for "revenge." sno0wl It's a damned shame that this sorry mess has unfolded the way it has. But don't forget that Clinton was impeached for perjury about sex because, for assorted reasons, they weren't able, or were afraid to, stick him with the real stuff, such as treason. That Clinton should have been impeached is an inarguable point. And it would be an excellent step in the right direction if the ball could be kept rolling and everybody else would be impeached too. The way it's worked out though, it's like that ice cream cone you dropped in the sand. Jim DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] For Whom The Polls Toll
-Caveat Lector- http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/polls.htm --- For Whom The Polls Toll by L. Wolfe Printed in The American Almanac, May 5, 1997. --- In the 1996 national political conventions, ABC television unveiled what it called the latest "breakthrough" in polling -- the "Insta-poll." A small "focus group" of selected individuals, supposedly a statistically valid demographic representation of the American population, sat in a room watching live telecasts of the Dole and Clinton acceptance speeches. In their hands, they held a rheostat-like device with which they registered their pleasure or displeasure with statements made by the candidate as he was speaking. These responses were fed into a computer, which then converted the aggregate responses into graphic representations, fluctuating on the screen as opinions instantly changed. The ABC commentators proclaimed that this "new" technology enabled them to break down the speech, to analyze what parts of it "played in Peoria." [1] Graphic representations aside, the technology was hardly new. Some 60 years ago, a similar device had been developed as part of a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project, using the U.S. networks of Freudian brainwashers from the Frankfurt School's Institute for Social Research [2], and other operatives allied with the London Tavistock Institute, to study radio's impact on society and its potential for mass brainwashing. Directing the so-called Radio Research Project, based at Princeton University, was one of the fathers of public opinion polling, Paul Lazersfeld, along with three others who were to become prominent in that "black art": the Tavistock-linked Gordon Allport, from Harvard; Hadley Cantril, who established one of the leading polling-profiling operations out of Princeton; and Frank Stanton, then the director of research for the CBS radio network, who was later to rise to head CBS's News Division, and still later to head both CBS network and the RAND Corporation. The crowning achievement of the Radio Research Project was the Stanton-Lazersfeld Program Analyzer, the so-called "Little Annie" -- a rheostat-like device with which test audiences could register the intensity of their likes and dislikes of radio programs, or commercials, on a moment-to-moment basis; the brainwashers were able to determine what particular characters or situations produced the desired, momentary feeling states in the target audience. [3] - In The Beginning... All public opinion polling has its origins in "sociometrics," or statistical sociology, as developed in the early part of this century by Frankfurt School-linked operatives, including Max Weber. [4] It is based, as with ABC's Insta-Poll, or the Radio Research Project's "Little Annie," on the measurement of momentary feeling states, or opinions, on given subjects. This provides a detailed profile of the prejudices and assumptions of a targetted population; as such, polls can be useful for mass brainwashing campaigns to shift opinions to those desired by those who run them. The mass media, as they developed through this century, from print, to radio, to television, became the principal vehicles for the promotion of such shifts. Creative thinking defies measurement in quantifiable terms. It is impossible to come up with a statistical correlation, based on polling, that could determine whether one creative idea is better or more valid than another, whether it can be accepted by society as useful, important, or true. As those involved with the Radio Research Project, and such American pollsters as George Gallup and Lou Harris, or Elmo Roper, "proved," opinions can be easily counted; other-directed Americans, always concerned about what their neighbors think, as determinant of what they should think about given subjects, were shown to be readily susceptible to manipulation by poll results, accepting the poll numbers as true, and being guided in their own actions by the perceived "majority opinion." Polling of the type that most Americans are familiar with began in the 1930s, becoming featured material on radio and in newspapers. At that time, most polls were conducted by national polling agencies, such as Gallup, Roper, or Harris, with specialized contracting handled through Cantril's operation at Princeton and, later, Allport's at Harvard. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the key U.S. nodes of Tavistock were conducting specialized polling operations, under contract from government agencies and the private sector. In the 1960s, the television and radio networks linked up with major newspapers, such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, to run their own polling
Re: [CTRL] Bogus Clinton Polls
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com Clinton doing well in opinion polls, but voter surveys tell a different story - By Jay Severin MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR Politicians rely on polls to guide them in deciding Clinton's fate, but not the polls you are seeing. Sept. 14 -- Depending on what the polls say, an American presidency is about to end or will survive. Approval ratings will shape news media coverage of the Clinton scandal; how the public perceives the event; whether and how aggressively Democrats stand by their president; whether and how aggressively Republicans insist on impeachment. Indeed, now that Bill Clinton's fate is officially a political matter and not a legal one, polls are the coin of the realm. But virtually none of the various poll results in newspapers, on television or quoted online are regarded seriously by members of Congress, who will be making these monumental decisions. The politicians are relying on polls, but not the ones you are seeing. Some key findings from weekend polls taken after the release of the Starr report: Do you approve of the job President Clinton is doing? Source Approve Disapprove NBC 67% 30% CBS 61% 34% ABC News 59% 39% Is your opinion of Bill Clinton favorable or not favorable? Source Favorable Unfavorable CBS 39% 47% Should Congress censure the president? Source Yes No CBS 56% 32% CNN 59% 35% Now that Congress has received the Starr report, should it hold impeachment hearings or drop the matter? Source Hold hearings Drop the matter ABC News 53% 42% The ABC phone survey of 508 adults on Saturday had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. The CBS phone survey of 680 adults and the CNN phone survey of 902 adults, both on Saturday, had margins of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. An NBC News poll of 783 adults taken Friday and Saturday had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 points. Source: Associated Press How can you impeach a president with a 67 percent approval rating? Here's how: members of Congress, especially Democrats, are chiefly concerned with one issue -- the impact of this political earthquake on their party and its 1998 candidates. The most compelling question in each lawmaker's mind is figuring out which position will help or hurt most on election day: defense of the president or the abandonment of him? ONLY VOTERS COUNT There is only one group that can meaningfully answer that question and it isn't just the American people. A political fact of life is that the opinions politicians are concerned with are the American people who vote. It is another fact of life that only half of all Americans eligible to vote actually do so. And those of us who do vote have markedly different (and fundamentally more conservative) attitudes than those who do not. As a result, the only public opinion polls that are going to genuinely influence this process are those that measure the attitudes of the people who are actually casting votes. These are not the polls you read about in the media. The oft-quoted public opinion polls are essentially insignificant samplings of the opinions of "randomly selected adults" or, perhaps even "registered voters." Fully half of these people are not voters. What's more, these polls create a profile of the voting public that is a politically correct fantasy: each racial and ethnic group represented in exact proportion to their percentage of the population -- even though they have never voted in that volume. There are, however, accurate polls. Actual participants in election day (known in the trade as "high-propensity likely voters") can be found through expensive and time-consuming professional screening techniques, which eliminate the ineligible and identify the actual voters. These polls -- privately commissioned by political parties or aspirants and conducted by such firms as Zogby International -- screen out all but actual voters, asking opinions of people who have voted in perhaps 10 of the last 11 elections. As a result, these high-priced and nearly always unpublished polls predict with great accuracy what will happen on election day. And that, not popular sentiment, is what politicians want and need to know CLINTON'S NOT FARING WELL And guess what? In the real-voter polls I have
Re: [CTRL] Larry Flynt
-Caveat Lector- This person is, of course, Stephanie Caruana, and I'm happy to see that she has some internet presence. The friend from whom she recieved the Gemstone letters was Mae Brussell, saintly mother of conspiracy research. Steamshovel did an interview with Ms. Caruana that appears in the Popular Alienation book. I'm currently at work pulling together various scraps of research on Gemstone for a book that David Hatcher Childress hopes to have out by spring. There are already three books out on the subject, one by Jim Keith (the IllumiNet book), another by Richard Alan and Project Seek by Gerald Carroll. kt DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Who said this? 3
-Caveat Lector- " We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. He went on to explain: It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries. " DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Money Makes the World Go Round (was:Spend More, Save Les
-Caveat Lector- sno0wl wrote: Before the wheels of industry can be started; before manufacturers can open their factories; before contractors can erect new buildings; before real estate can be improved; money must be borrowed for the purpose and interest must be paid for the use of it. And, do not forget that this money has no value whatsoever, except as granted by everybody through acceptance as a trade convenience. And right now, the money that ismade for everybody's use and benefit, cannot be had by everybody to use, nor does it benefit everybody. It is manipulated by schemers who control it to milk everybody out of the fruit of their labors, through a system of graft known as interest paying for money loans. So instead of being convenience and a benefit for everybody, it is a plague that continuously exterminates the people of all classes and stations. Ten percent of the population of the US, controls 90 percent of the money and if this money slicing is kept up much longer through the payment of compound interest, the percentage of population controlling the money will shrink to 1 percent or a fraction thereof. This shrinkage of the ownership of money will continue as long as the interset system is kept up, all laws for the regulation of industry to the contrary notwithstanding. = My research indicates that the money used to finance new industry in many cases comes from so-called "investment trusts" based in Scotland, which are affiliated with banks in Montreal and Toronto. If you read Tarpley and Chaitkin's Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, you'll see that's exactly where he got his "venture capital," as did Eugene Meyer, one of his investors. This "capital" was earned from vice--first slavery, piracy, opium, prohibited liquor; then from mining of strategic minerals from colonies like South Africa, South America and Canada. The chartered companies like British East India Company and Hudson's Bay Company were set up to loot the resources for the benefit of shareholders. The profits went back to the company and were reinvested in bonds of American railroad companies, utility companies, and even agricultural and land development syndicates like United Fruit. The so-called CIA front companies can be traced in their origin to these Scottish investment trusts, the Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion Bank as well as the HongKong and Shanghai bank. It's the biggest business there is, and the men who are set up in business--who receive the "venture capital"--are part of the network maintained by secret societies such as Skull and Bones and the advanced Masonic degrees. The companies which issue the securities learned about 50 years ago to take stock in lieu of cash, and to demand a seat on the board of directors. If the company does well, they get more stock in order to acquire control of the company. But the securities issuers are only as powerful as the connections they have to the people who market the securities--that is, the mutual fund companies and insurance companies who use money invested by hard-working people to fund their evil empire. Here are a few of the companies and the site where they are indexed: Member's Directory Member's Home 3i GROUP 3i SMALLER QUOTED COS ABERDEEN ASIAN SMALLER(w) ABERDEEN CONVERTIBLE INC ABERDEEN EMER ECONOMIES(w) ABERDEEN EMERGING ASIA(O)(w) ABERDEEN EUROPEAN(w) ABERDEEN HIGH INCOME ABERDEEN LATIN AMERICAN(w) ABERDEEN NEW DAWN(w) ABERDEEN NEW THAI ABERDEEN PREF SECURITIES ABERDEEN PREFERRED INCOME(N) ABERFORTH SMALLER COS(w) ABERFORTH SPLIT LEVEL ABTRUST SCOTLAND(w) ADVANCE DEV MARKETS ADVANCE UK TRUST AIM TRUST ALBANY ALLIANCE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ANGLO OVERSEAS ARCHIMEDES ASSET MANAGEMENT(w) AURORA AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITIES BAILLIE GIFF JAPAN BAILLIE GIFF SHIN NIPPON(w) BANKERS BARING EMERGING EUROPE($)(w) BEACON(w) BETA GLOBAL EMERGING MKTS BFS INCOME GROWTH BRAZILIAN INVESTMENT($)(w) BRITANNIA SMALLER CO'S(w) BRITISH ASSETS(N)(w) BRITISH EMPIRE SECURITIES(N) BROADGATE(N)(w) BRUNNER CAIRNGORM BUILDING SOC(w) CAIRNGORM DEMUTUALISATION(w) CANADIAN GENERAL(w) CANDOVER CAPITAL GEARING CAPITAL OPPORTUNITIES CHARTER EUROPEAN CITY MERCHANTS HIGH YIELD CITY OF LONDON CITY OF OXFORD(w) CU ENVIRONMENTAL(w) CZECH SLOVAK($)(w) DARTMOOR(N)(w) DRESDNER RCM EMER MARKET(w) DRESDNER RCM INCOME GRWTH DRESDNER RCM SMALLER COS DUNEDIN ENTERPRISE DUNEDIN INCOME GROWTH DUNEDIN SMALLER COMPANIES EAGLET(w) EDINBURGH DRAGON(w) EDINBURGH INCA(w) EDINBURGH INCOME EDINBURGH INVESTMENT EDINBURGH JAPAN(w) EDINBURGH JAVA(w) EDINBURGH NEW TIGER(w) EDINBURGH SMALL COMPANIES(w) EDINBURGH UK TRACKER EDINBURGH US TRACKER EDINBURGH WORLDWIDE ELECTRA ENGLISH SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE CAPITAL(w) EUROLAND PLUS EUROPEAN ASSETS EXETER PREFERRED CAPITAL(N) FIDELITY ASIAN VALUES(w) FIDELITY EUROPEAN VAL(N)(w) FIDELITY JAPANESE VALUES(w) FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES(N)(w) FINSBURY GROWTH FINSBURY INCOME GROWTH FINSBURY INT'L HEDGE FINSBURY SMALLER COS FINSBURY TECHNOLOGY
[CTRL] Unemployed Oil
-Caveat Lector- From: Reuters Friday December 25 1:51 AM ET Japan Hit With Record Unemployment On Christmas By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO (Reuters) - There was no Christmas cheer in Japan Friday as the government delivered dismal economic data and the worst jobless numbers in 46 years. The government announced the nation's jobless rate hit 4.4 percent in November, matching that of the United States for the first time ever. The unemployment rate was the highest since Japan began collecting the data by present methods in 1953. The U.S. rate fell to 4.4 percent in November from 4.6 percent the previous month as the U.S. economy continued to create new jobs. ``Labor market conditions are becoming more severe,'' said Labor Minister Akira Amari, adding that an early economic recovery was an urgent task for the government in order to improve employment conditions. Some government officials admitted worse employment conditions would be unavoidable for a while. Asked about matching the U.S. jobless rate, Economic Planning Agency Minister Taichi Sakaiya said: ``We are not competing with the United States and that is not the issue. But the jobless rate of 4.4 percent is a level that we need to regard seriously.'' Though some economists have said the jobless rates in Japan and the United States cannot be compared due to data collection and cultural differences, Japanese government officials and some economists disagreed. ``There has been such views, but they are comparable, as the Japanese government says,'' said Yasushi Okada, chief economist at CS First Boston in Tokyo. ``The International Labor Organization has also studied the issue and concluded that the jobless rates (in the two countries, when accounting for the different methods) come out with only slight differences,'' he added. The rise in joblessness is seen by some as signaling the arrival of a new era for Japanese workers, many of whom work in large companies where they have traditionally taken comfort in a so-called ``lifetime employment'' system. ``I think it is likely that a meltdown in the lifetime employment system is going to start,'' the EPA's Sakaiya said. As fears over deflationary pressure linger, Tokyo's core consumer prices -- excluding fresh food prices that have surged in recent months -- fell for the fourth consecutive month in December, marking the longest string of declines for the index. Added to the weak statistics were a 2.0 percent fall in industrial output in November from the previous month and a 2.9 percent year-on-year decline in retail sales. The Trade Ministry said industrial production remained stagnant, adding that inventories were at high levels despite some progress in companies' efforts to reduce them. In the financial market, Japanese government bonds (JGBs) were supported by the weak data, with the yield of the key JGB off the week's high, easing worries that higher interest rates would hit the country's already wounded economy. Tokyo share prices and the yen advanced moderately due to calmer waters in the bond market. The benchmark Nikkei 225 average ended up 0.67 percent at 13,797.95 while the dollar hovered around 116 yen. But Friday's economic indicators, including a plunge in housing starts and construction orders in November, are likely to overshadow optimism expressed by some Japanese policymakers who have said they see the first signs of an economic recovery. November housing starts were down 16 percent year-on-year while construction orders dropped a whopping 21.3 percent. In a continued effort to pull the economy out of its recession, the government is due to approve its expansionary budget for the next business year starting next April later Friday. Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Friday the budget draft was compiled with the government's ``best effort'' to achieve the 0.5 percent economic growth it has forecast for fiscal 1999/2000. From Associated Press Friday December 25 10:24 AM ET Singapore: Jobless To Exceed 30,000 SINGAPORE (AP) - More than 30,000 Singaporeans will be out of work by the end of the year, exceeding the government's projections, the head of the city-state's largest union was quoted Friday as saying. ``In the fourth quarter, retrenchment has gone up compared to'' the previous three months, Cyrille Tan, head of the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries, told The Business Times. ``We estimate that it will exceed 30,000 for the year, which means some 10,000 were laid off this quarter.'' The Ministry of Manpower had projected the year's total layoffs would not exceed 30,000 in the country of 3.1 million people. The unemployment rate for September was 4.5 percent, almost double June's 2.3 percent, according to government figures. Singapore is in the midst of one of the worst economic downturns in its 33-year history. During the last recession in 1985, the number of jobless totaled 19,529. Thursday December 24 2:58 AM ET
[CTRL] Fwd: Christmas In Exile: a message from Michael Boren Williams to theworld
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Re: [CTRL] Who said this? 3
-Caveat Lector- Correct, David Rockefeller 1991 in Baden-Baden Germany. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Time to End CEOs 5-Year NAFTA Party
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 98-12-24 18:15:40 EST, you write: The remaining manufacturing jobs are under severe pressure. While factory jobs in the United States pay, on average, more than $18 an hour, maquiladora workers in high-tech foreign plants in Mexico earn about a buck and a half an hour. Anyone know where they got this estimate... Since retiring from the USAF I've only recently been promoted to technician and I don't make near $18 an hour. They must have gotten the numbers from a union state, certainly not Colorado. Employers have made explicit use of the threat to move to Mexico to beat back union organizing efforts, as well as to deny demands for wage increases. Cornell researcher Kate Bronfenbrenner has documented a tripling of employer plant-closing threats during union organizing drives since NAFTAUs adoption. The company I worked for a few years ago (Digital) sent our hard disk drive manufacturing business to Malaysia lost a lot of money, cost of the building, cost of providing education (2 years college and unemployment benefits) for displaced workers, as well as losing the business ( they sold the hard disk and tape drive business, later sold out to Compaq... what little remained of the business). Too bad this doesn't happen to more businesses. Meanwhile, NAFTA has simultaneously failed to deliver the touted benefits for Mexico. In a kind of mutant industrialization, NAFTA has turned huge swaths of the country into a processor of goods for export to the United States. The nationwide export processing zone model has proved an abject failure. There are few linkages between the export factories and the rest of the economy. Small Mexican business has collapsed. WorkersU productivity is up 36 percent since NAFTA went into effect, but Mexican wages fell 29 percent between 1993 and 1997. The Corporations got what they wanted in Mexico... more work for less pay, but some people still don't believe we need unions... they certainly need unions in Mexico. Regards, Bob Stokes DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Microwaved food, no good?
-Caveat Lector- From Trufax.org (Leading Edge International) Teo1000 Court Removes Gag Order from Swiss Scientist on Microwaved Food Hans Hertel is the first scientist to conceive of and carry out a quality study on the effects of microwaved nutrients on the blood and physiology of human beings. This small but well-controlled study pointed the firm finger at a degenerative force of microwave ovens and the food produced in them. The conclusion was clear: microwave cooking changed the nutrients so that changes took place in the participants' blood; these were not healthy changes but were changes that could cause deterioration in the human systems. Working with Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Institute for Biochemistry, Hertel not only conceived of the study and carried it out, he was one of eight participants. In 1991 Hans Ulrich Hertel and a Lausanne University professor published a research paper indicating that food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health than food cooked by conventional means. Significant changes were discovered in the blood of the volunteers who consumed foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all haemoglobin values and cholesterol values, especially the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values and ratio. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Each of these indicators point in a direction away from robust health and toward degeneration. Additionally, there was a highly significant association between the amount of microwave energy in the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate that food. This led Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies may, indeed, be passed along to man inductively via consumption of microwaved food. An article appeared in issue number 19 of the Journal Franz Weber in which it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens had cancer- type effects on the blood. The article was followed by the research paper itself. On 7 August 1992 the Swiss Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Household Appliances brought an action against the applicant in the Canton of Berne Commercial Court. It produced an expert report by a professor at Zürich Federal Institute of Technology from which it appeared that the applicants research was worthless and his findings untenable. As soon as Hertel and Blanc announced their results, the hammer of authority slammed down on them. A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry, known simply as FEA, struck swiftly. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Kanton Bern, to issue a 'gag order' against Hertel and Blanc. The attack was so ferocious that Blanc quickly recanted his support-but it was too late. He had already put into writing his views on the validity of the studies where he concurred with the opinion that microwaved food caused the blood abnormalities. Hertel stood his ground, and today is steadfastly demanding his rights to a trial. Preliminary hearings on the matter have been appealed to higher courts, and it's quite obvious the powers that be do not want a 'show trial' to erupt on this issue. In March 1993, the court handed down this decision based upon the complaint of the FEA: "Consideration. 1. Request from the plaintiff (FEA) to prohibit the defendant (Dr Ing. Hans Hertel) from declaring that food prepared in the microwave oven shall be dangerous to health and lead to changes in the blood of consumers, giving reference to pathologic troubles as also indicative for the beginning of a cancerous process. The defendant shall be prohibited from repeating such a statement in publications and in public talks by punishment laid down in the law.death in connection with microwave ovens. However, in 1998 that decision was reversed. In a judgment delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision . Under Article 50 of the Convention, the Court awarded the applicant a specified sum for legal costs and expenses. The European Court of Human Rights decided that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss courts against the Bernese scientist prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of F 40,000. This decision is to put an end to judicial censorship of persons drawing attention to the health hazards of certain products. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Money Makes the World Go Round (was:Spend More, Save Les
-Caveat Lector- Thanks for the excellent critique. You've been doing your homework! Regards, Wm On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Linda Minor wrote: -Caveat Lector- sno0wl wrote: Before the wheels of industry can be started; before manufacturers can open their factories; before contractors can erect new buildings; before real estate can be improved; money must be borrowed for the purpose and interest must be paid for the use of it. And, do not forget that this money has no value whatsoever, except as granted by everybody through acceptance as a trade convenience. And right now, the money that ismade for everybody's use and benefit, cannot be had by everybody to use, nor does it benefit everybody. It is manipulated by schemers who control it to milk everybody out of the fruit of their labors, through a system of graft known as interest paying for money loans. So instead of being convenience and a benefit for everybody, it is a plague that continuously exterminates the people of all classes and stations. Ten percent of the population of the US, controls 90 percent of the money and if this money slicing is kept up much longer through the payment of compound interest, the percentage of population controlling the money will shrink to 1 percent or a fraction thereof. This shrinkage of the ownership of money will continue as long as the interset system is kept up, all laws for the regulation of industry to the contrary notwithstanding. = My research indicates that the money used to finance new industry in many cases comes from so-called "investment trusts" based in Scotland, which are affiliated with banks in Montreal and Toronto. If you read Tarpley and Chaitkin's Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, you'll see that's exactly where he got his "venture capital," as did Eugene Meyer, one of his investors. This "capital" was earned from vice--first slavery, piracy, opium, prohibited liquor; then from mining of strategic minerals from colonies like South Africa, South America and Canada. The chartered companies like British East India Company and Hudson's Bay Company were set up to loot the resources for the benefit of shareholders. The profits went back to the company and were reinvested in bonds of American railroad companies, utility companies, and even agricultural and land development syndicates like United Fruit. The so-called CIA front companies can be traced in their origin to these Scottish investment trusts, the Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion Bank as well as the HongKong and Shanghai bank. It's the biggest business there is, and the men who are set up in business--who receive the "venture capital"--are part of the network maintained by secret societies such as Skull and Bones and the advanced Masonic degrees. The companies which issue the securities learned about 50 years ago to take stock in lieu of cash, and to demand a seat on the board of directors. If the company does well, they get more stock in order to acquire control of the company. But the securities issuers are only as powerful as the connections they have to the people who market the securities--that is, the mutual fund companies and insurance companies who use money invested by hard-working people to fund their evil empire. Here are a few of the companies and the site where they are indexed: Member's Directory Member's Home 3i GROUP 3i SMALLER QUOTED COS ABERDEEN ASIAN SMALLER(w) ABERDEEN CONVERTIBLE INC ABERDEEN EMER ECONOMIES(w) ABERDEEN EMERGING ASIA(O)(w) ABERDEEN EUROPEAN(w) ABERDEEN HIGH INCOME ABERDEEN LATIN AMERICAN(w) ABERDEEN NEW DAWN(w) ABERDEEN NEW THAI ABERDEEN PREF SECURITIES ABERDEEN PREFERRED INCOME(N) ABERFORTH SMALLER COS(w) ABERFORTH SPLIT LEVEL ABTRUST SCOTLAND(w) ADVANCE DEV MARKETS ADVANCE UK TRUST AIM TRUST ALBANY ALLIANCE AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY ANGLO OVERSEAS ARCHIMEDES ASSET MANAGEMENT(w) AURORA AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITIES BAILLIE GIFF JAPAN BAILLIE GIFF SHIN NIPPON(w) BANKERS BARING EMERGING EUROPE($)(w) BEACON(w) BETA GLOBAL EMERGING MKTS BFS INCOME GROWTH BRAZILIAN INVESTMENT($)(w) BRITANNIA SMALLER CO'S(w) BRITISH ASSETS(N)(w) BRITISH EMPIRE SECURITIES(N) BROADGATE(N)(w) BRUNNER CAIRNGORM BUILDING SOC(w) CAIRNGORM DEMUTUALISATION(w) CANADIAN GENERAL(w) CANDOVER CAPITAL GEARING CAPITAL OPPORTUNITIES CHARTER EUROPEAN CITY MERCHANTS HIGH YIELD CITY OF LONDON CITY OF OXFORD(w) CU ENVIRONMENTAL(w) CZECH SLOVAK($)(w) DARTMOOR(N)(w) DRESDNER RCM EMER MARKET(w) DRESDNER RCM INCOME GRWTH DRESDNER RCM SMALLER COS DUNEDIN ENTERPRISE DUNEDIN INCOME GROWTH DUNEDIN SMALLER COMPANIES EAGLET(w) EDINBURGH DRAGON(w) EDINBURGH INCA(w) EDINBURGH INCOME EDINBURGH INVESTMENT EDINBURGH JAPAN(w) EDINBURGH JAVA(w) EDINBURGH NEW TIGER(w) EDINBURGH SMALL COMPANIES(w) EDINBURGH UK TRACKER EDINBURGH US TRACKER EDINBURGH WORLDWIDE ELECTRA ENGLISH SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE CAPITAL(w)
Re: [CTRL] Cato News Releases (http://www.cato.org/new/catonew.html)
-Caveat Lector- The president is not elected by the people. He is elected as the constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the several States describes...by electors. Electors for a Presidential election are appointed by the executive committee's of the several States. I know, I know "what about the popular vote" and "the popular vote always corresponds to the "Electoral College"? (another false term that has no legislative code to support it.) I have been unable to find any statue that provides for the election of a President by the masses. If such a law existed, it would be contrary to the US Constitution and would be a non law. Jim Norman Linda Minor wrote: http://www.cato.org/new/catonew.html The Bill of Rights guarantees the right to trial by jury in "all criminal prosecutions." A criminal trial jury can nullify-render an independent verdict-by acquitting a defendant who may be factually guilty because the jurors feel that it would be unjust, unconstitutional or simply pointless to convict. Except for the President, elected by the people, of course. He doesn't have the right to claim 5th or 14th Amendment rights and can be deprived of his office without the exclusion of inadmissible evidence or without the right to confront the persons furnishing such "evidence". Name: Cato News Releases.url Cato News Releases.urlType: Internet Shortcut (application/x-unknown-content-type-InternetShortcut) Encoding: 7bit DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] vs. socialism, vs. capitalism, what now?
-Caveat Lector- Nurev wrote: It's the Capitalist Elites who enjoy the fruits of Socialism by owning the government. And it's the poor and working class who enjoy the bitter leftovers of capitalism. MJ wrote: Your blatant contradiction of yourself aside ... Capitalism requires a SEPARATION of the economy and the state -- hardly a reality within the US. I agree, MJ, the economy is entangled with the state apparatus in Amerika -- but the people have for all intents and purposes been forcibly divorced from their government. And while we do have a slightly mixed economy, the corporate class receives the benefits of a socialist state apparatus, with "free markets" for the poor, and for those who seek to remain independent from the control structure. This in itself serves to repress and extinguish independent thought in favor of programmed human behavior -- b ehavior based on repetition, not insight or progress. There don't seem to be any clear or easy answers, but obviously, it would be an improvement if we had an economic system that focused primarily on human creativity and innovation, instead of the mass hallucinations of the marketplace and the unthinking, amoral pursuit of the direction of least resistance. If we, as individuals, work to produce more than we consume (when possible), and work to address actual human needs instead of the bizarre hypercommodification of anything that registers with the public's neurons, then to my mind it doesn't matter WHAT brand economy we have. With all respect, though, as far as theoretical arguments go, neither socialism nor capitalism are likely to save us any time soon. We need to build our own economy. Peace out Merry Whatnot, Charles Overbeck ParaScope DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] vs. socialism, vs. capitalism, what now?
-Caveat Lector- Typical Libertarian bullshit. America has a slightly mixed economy which is firmly in the hands of Capitalists. The very worst of both possibilities. It's the Capitalist Elites who enjoy the fruits of Socialism by owning the government. And it's the poor and working class who enjoy the bitter leftovers of capitalism. Joshua2 It is kind of interesting how B.G.L.'s (Big Government Lovers) suffer a disconnect when expounding on "socialism" and "capitalism" in Amerika. Whether "Nazism", "Communism", or "Predatory Capitalism", what we are really talking about is Statism in all its glory. You have a Sociopathic Elite who utilize and foster statist policies to control all facets of our economic and political life. Where would Monsanto be without the F.D.A.? What they must have is coercive statism. Intrusive laws controlling all elements of our daily life in order to manipulate the system for their own advantage. They depend on social marxist dupes, those who expouse the New Secular Good Government Religion, that "good government" throught its "enlightened policies" directed by "good people" will overcome the basic nature of Man and produce ultimately social and political Goodness. Evil Political / Sociopaths I can understand. They cannot help themselves. They are born defective. What sickens me are the "reformers", those who feel "compassion" who ultimately support the policy of "let me help you or I will have to hurt you" philosophy. The road to Political Hell is paved with "compassion" and "good government". FLW DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Cato Center for Trade Policy Studies (http://www.freetrade.org/)
-Caveat Lector- Ah, yes, free trade. Another term for drug smuggling and money laundering. Drug Smuggling: " The evasion of unconstitutional, immoral laws against a person's inalienable right to control his/her own body." Money Laundering: " The evasion of unconstitutional, immoral laws against illegal governmental confiscation of a person's wealth." FLW DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CHRISTMAS WISHES
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friend, I want to wish you a very, VERY blessed Christmas and New Year! I have stumbled on something very serious and important and I must take a few days off to pursue it. I will be returning with my findings in the next JOSHUA REPORT on Tuesday, January 5th, 1999. Until then, Mike and I would like to extend to you our love and prayers that you and yours will have a happy and safe season. Remember, contrary to what the advertisers and the media would have you believe, this is not a "holiday." It is a religious observance [the term they always use for our Arab friends: Ramadan]. Christmas is to honor the birth of the Christ child. So, til January 5th, have a: HAPPY HANNAKAH AND A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS! MIKE The OUTLAWLADY DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] vs. socialism, vs. capitalism, what now?
-Caveat Lector- Where would Monsanto be without the F.D.A.? This seems like a cart-before-the-horse question. The FDA is staffed with people from industry. Like the other government agencies, it is a weak force compared to the realities of global corporatism. Monsanto could live without it--it has no impact on European or Asian markets, for instance. kt kt DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Secret Evidence Against Bill Too Shocking for
-Caveat Lector- On 25 Dec 98 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/24/98 11:08:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, at long last. I'm so glad to hear someone else say it. Seemed to me that all through this business Starr's "investigation," and the House Committee has been dealing with Clinton as if he were a bad child who had no other right than to hang his head, admit he was "bad," and take his punishment. As if any attempt to defend himself was "abuse of power"--or childish impertinence before a Higher Power. And it is strange to realize how much of this business has to do with childish wishes for "revenge." sno0wl It's a damned shame that this sorry mess has unfolded the way it has. But don't forget that Clinton was impeached for perjury about sex because, for assorted reasons, they weren't able, or were afraid to, stick him with the real stuff, such as treason. That Clinton should have been impeached is an inarguable point. And it would be an excellent step in the right direction if the ball could be kept rolling and everybody else would be impeached too. The way it's worked out though, it's like that ice cream cone you dropped in the sand. But the problem is that the ball will NOT keep rolling. If Clinton is removed from office, it will stop right there. The whole process will be declared so traumatic for the nation that it will not be repeated. I would be all for removing Clinton if I thought it would clear out the viper's nestbut I fear it will only bring the King Vipers to the surface and they are far, far to clever to allow any more nonsense. Even now there is a great deal of hissing. It is curious how, around the world, leaders are being overturned and removed from office. Perhaps, as we near the goal date--2000--the puppetmasters are stripping the front away and getting ready to step forward. And my concern is that things may be far worse for us when there are no "secrets." sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Merry Christmas
-Caveat Lector- Merry Christmas to everyone. Gavin. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] End NAFTA
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Time to End CEOs 5-Year NAFTA Party Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:12:57 -0500 From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has been a five-year party for multinational corporations, which will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1. Unfortunately, the corporate CEOs have been dancing on the heads of the rest of us. While NAFTA has made its contribution to soaring corporate profitability over the last half decade, it has degraded jobs, living standards, the environment and democracy in both the United States and Mexico, as well as in Canada. When the United States debated NAFTA -- imagine, a time when the national debate concerned matters central to the evolution of the political economy! -- labor unions, consumer groups, environmentalists and others issued a straightforward critique. Under NAFTA, they said, corporations would move South in order to exploit MexicoUs cheap labor and weak environmental protections. And even corporations that remained in the United States, they contended, would use the threat of relocation to leverage bargaining power over workers, communities and governments. NAFTA proponents told a different story. They said that increased exports to Mexico would create hundreds of thousands of new, good-paying jobs in the United States, while increased foreign investment in Mexico would raise Mexican living conditions. PessimistsU alarmism was misplaced, they said, noting that the trade deal even had attached "side agreements" specifically designed to protect labor rights and the environment. More than enough time has now passed to assess who was right. Unfortunately, the criticsU fears have come to pass, while the proponentsU promises have proven illusory. A new, extremely well documented report card from Public CitizenUs Global Trade Watch gives NAFTA a failing grade in U.S. job creation and job quality, agriculture, the environment, public health, wage levels in the United States and Mexico, economic development and living standards in Mexico, sovereignty and democratic governance and highway safety. Consider the central issue of jobs and wages. A single narrow U.S. government program that tracks trade-related job loss has now certified the loss of more than 200,000 specific U.S. jobs due to NAFTA. Proponents are completely unable to point to offsetting jobs created as a result of NAFTA. Indeed, the Public Citizen report card notes, "several years ago the U.S. Commerce Department canceled its program of bi-annual surveys of U.S. companies to document NAFTA job creation because the data was so embarrassing -- fewer than 1,500 specific jobs could be documented." The actual figure for job loss is almost certainly far worse than the government figures suggest. Under NAFTA, the U.S. $1.7 billion trade surplus with Mexico has flipped into a massive trade deficit, estimated at $14.7 billion for 1998. It is of course the case that the unemployment rate in the United States is now quite low, at least by recent historical standards. But under NAFTA, good-paying manufacturing jobs have been rapidly replaced by low-wage service jobs -- cashiers, janitors, retail clerks. The remaining manufacturing jobs are under severe pressure. While factory jobs in the United States pay, on average, more than $18 an hour, maquiladora workers in high-tech foreign plants in Mexico earn about a buck and a half an hour. Employers have made explicit use of the threat to move to Mexico to beat back union organizing efforts, as well as to deny demands for wage increases. Cornell researcher Kate Bronfenbrenner has documented a tripling of employer plant-closing threats during union organizing drives since NAFTAUs adoption. Meanwhile, NAFTA has simultaneously failed to deliver the touted benefits for Mexico. In a kind of mutant industrialization, NAFTA has turned huge swaths of the country into a processor of goods for export to the United States. The nationwide export processing zone model has proved an abject failure. There are few linkages between the export factories and the rest of the economy. Small Mexican business has collapsed. WorkersU productivity is up 36 percent since NAFTA went into effect, but Mexican wages fell 29 percent between 1993 and 1997. Though the story is less stark in other areas, the Public Citizen report card makes clear that NAFTA deserves an "F" in every subject. A failure for citizens, a party for Big Business. It is time to end the NAFTA nightmare. NAFTA -- and the model in which corporations are able to drag down labor, environmental and consumer standards by pitting countries against each other in a race to the bottom -- must be scrapped. Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington,
[CTRL] A cliché was Re: Time to End CEOs 5-Year NAFTA Party
-Caveat Lector- William Hugh Tunstall wrote: If you've read Ravi Batra's critique of free trade, he points out that the "trickle-down" economic policies of the Reagan years inevitably must end in class division...and an eventual economic meltdown, sooner or later. The 'Trickle-Down Theory' has caused our economic problems. by K.L. Billingsley The point of a slogan or cliché is to prevent the listener from thinking and invert reality through altering the meaning of terms and phrases. The 'trickle-down economics' cliché has enjoyed tremendous success. The cliché started during the first administration of Ronald Reagan and quickly became a mainstay of the interventionist vocabulary. The trickle-down tag remains popular with President Clinton and his followers, and television 'journalists' attribute it to venal conservatives. It was even mentioned on a popular situation comedy show comparing it to theories about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. Self-described socialist John Kenneth Galbraith once explained the concept on a Firing Line television program with William F. Buckley Jr. The administration of the time, lamented Galbraith the wealthy economist, was 'giving' out all sorts of favors to the wealthy and powerful, in the fond hope that some would eventually 'trickle down' to the poor and middle class. Galbraith further compared the concept to stuffing a horse's trough full of straw, in the hope that some would eventually get tossed around for the chickens, ducks, and other little critters. But sound economics can show that this explanation more properly belongs to what emerges from the other end of the horse. In the first place, the federal government produces nothing that people would freely buy in an open marketplace. The state is a net consumer of wealth, not a producer. Returning to the barnyard anology to find an image of the state, we notice a pig -- portly, listless, and, of course, always squealing for more. Every time the state tries to produce something on any scale, the result is a disaster. The collapsed economies of the Eastern Bloc stand as evidence of that fact. As the late F.A. Hayek explained, no government, however enlightened, possesses the knowledge and moral detachment to 'plan' a modern society, with its myriads of daily decisions. Only individuals acting in a free marketplace can do so. But if the government's visible hand has its way, individuals can't have theirs. It's as simple as that. Only someone with a statist vision could see the government as the flywheel of wealth in America or anywhere else. The typical response is that the government is handing out regulatory and tax concessions, but this too has fatal problems. In the United States money does not trickle down from the government. It flows upward from the private sector. In a market economy, individuals and corporations earn money by producing goods which uncoerced consumers will purchase. More important, in democratic societies that respect human rights, the government has no prior claim to what people earn by their honest labors. There was, however, a system which maintained such a claim. It went by such names as feudalism, slavery, and totalitarianism. Hence, for the government to allow individuals to keep what they have earned by their own labor is not a favor, subsidy, or 'trickle-down' arrangement of any kind. But for popular academicians to profess otherwise only shows the pervasiveness of the statist mindset and its capacity for self-deception. This is not to say that there is not a true trickle-down theory. Here is how it works. The government currently ignores its legitimate task of protecting life, liberty, and property, and performing those tasks which it is not practical for individuals to do, such as maintaining an army. Instead the government sets out to achieve 'social justice', largely by the 'redistribution' of wealth, which it assumes is the product of exploitation. In reality, as Frederic Bastiat explained in his masterful treatise The Law, the modern state acts like burglars, who are also in the business of redistributing wealth. In like manner, the state plunders the property of its citizens. And with the proceeds, the state is always careful to take care of its own benefits first. Federal employees, for example, boast their own retirement program, much more generous than Social Security. And postal employees get their choice of -- count 'em-five medical plans. Every day brings new revelations of bulging salaries for little effort, outrageous perks, bounced checks, and general corruption. This same government that plunders wealth proposes spending 'programs' that will supposedly benefit the populace, increase prosperity, and eliminate the deficit. Who says there is no Santa Claus or tooth fairy? Here, then, is the true trickle-down theory as an honest partisan would explain it: You the producer will, on your own initiative and with your
Re: [CTRL] vs. socialism, vs. capitalism, what now?
-Caveat Lector- Nurev wrote: It's the Capitalist Elites who enjoy the fruits of Socialism by owning the government. And it's the poor and working class who enjoy the bitter leftovers of capitalism. MJ wrote: Your blatant contradiction of yourself aside ... Capitalism requires a SEPARATION of the economy and the state -- hardly a reality within the US. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And while we do have a slightly mixed economy, ... MJ: 'Slightly mixed'??? Name one business one may participate (legally) which is devoid of government. Regard$, --MJ Property is prior to law; the sole function of the law is to safeguard the right to property wherever it exists, wherever it is formed, in whatever manner the worker produces it, whether individually or in association, provided that he respects the rights of others. -- Frederic Bastiat DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Time to End CEOs 5-Year NAFTA Party
-Caveat Lector- Dispelling mythology ... William Hugh Tunstall wrote: Yes, we do need trade unions. MJ: Why? To artificially inflate wages, costs and further unemployment? William Hugh Tunstall wrote: And NAFTA is a harbinger of the end of the American middle class. MJ: Certainly, one should strive to restore Free Trade -- rather than a Statist farce such as NAFTA. William Hugh Tunstall wrote: During the nineteen twenties, the wealth got concentrated at the top, while the other sectors of the American economy grew poorer.. Inevitably, Americans didn't have the disposable income to buy the products to keep the system going.. MJ: Look at the MONETARY policies eminating from the Government's chief 'monkey-wrench': the Federal Reserve. During the period you reference above, there 'loose' policies are the cause as mathematically and factually demonstrated by Friedman's research on the money supply and Mises incessant pointing and subsequent work by Robert Higgs. William Hugh Tunstall wrote: The unions help keep some of the money(power) in the hands of working people... MJ: How? William Hugh Tunstall wrote: Also, an effective system of tariffs and the enforcement of anti-monopoly legislation would help somewhat MJ: There are two types of monopoly; coercive and natural. A natural monopoly would provide the BEST product at the BEST price -- there has NEVER been such. A coercive monopoly cannot exist without Government supplying barriers to entry and other restrictions. How exactly is 'anit-monopoly' legislation going to curtail what the 'legislator's' created? William Hugh Tunstall wrote: NAFTA is only one brick in the NWO that has helped push the country into decline. (Of course, some of the people on this list will argue just the opposite...that we are in an era of unprecedented growth and prosperity thanks to "free trade.") MJ: NAFTA is NOT -- repeat NOT -- Free Trade. Regard$, --MJ The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery. -- Albert Jay Nock Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. -- Ludwig Mises, A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation. -- George Gilder, _Wealth and Poverty_ DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
