Re: [CTRL] Diana Info Walt Disney
-Caveat Lector- This Diana groupie agrees. Even if she WAS flighty, bulemic, etc. Charles envisioned himself as a Camilla tampon and QE2 kept criticizing Di. . WHO has touched AIDS patients as a political leader that you can think of? I think she made champagne punch out of the lemons she was dealt. Terry 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: Fw: George Bush and Lyman Kirkpatrick were buddies
-Original Message- From: John McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 10:05 AM Subject: George Bush and Lyman Kirkpatrick were buddies BUSH WAS CIA for sure. During my Providence conference, time permitting, I will also reveal bona fide evidence that the families of George Bush and Lyman Kirkpatrick, a former Providence, RI resident were closely intertwined as early as 1971 just before Bush replaced my uncle Charles Yost as Ambassador to the United Nations. Bush's family business, G. H. Walker, Laird, Inc. was headquartered in New England. George Herbert Walker was the Bush relative and Melvin Laird was the Laird part of the name. Guess who was the Providence branch manager of G. H. Walker, Laird the investment firm from 1970-1975? Bush, Laird and Kirkpatrick were all busom buddies even then. I will tell you at the conference... John
[CTRL] Dismantling yugoslavia. 1/2
-Caveat Lector- Post-War Reconstruction The economic reforms now being imposed on the "successor states" are a natural extension and continuation of those previously implemented in federal Yugoslavia. In the tragic aftermath of a brutal and destructive War, the prospects for rebuilding the newly independent republics appear bleak. Despite a virtual press blackout on the subject, debt rescheduling is an integral part of the peace process. The former Yugoslavia has been carved up under the close scrutiny of its external creditors, its foreign debt has been carefully divided and allocated to the republics. The privatisation programmes implemented under the supervision of the donors, have contributed to a further stage of economic dislocation and impoverishment of the population. GDP had declined by as much as 50 percent in four years (1990-93).28 Moreover, the leaders of the newly sovereign states have fully collaborated with the creditors: "All the current leaders of the former Yugoslav republics were Communist Party functionaries and each in turn vied to meet the demands of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the better to qualify for investment loans and substantial perks for the leadership... State industry and machinery were looted by functionaries. Equipment showed up in "private companies" run by family members of the nomenklatura".29 Even as the fighting raged, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia had entered into separate loan negotiations with the Bretton Woods institutions. In Croatia, the government of President Franjo Tudjman signed in 1993, an agreement with the IMF. Massive budget cuts mandated under the agreement thwarted Croatia's efforts to mobilize its own productive resources, thus jeopardizing post-war reconstruction. The cost of rebuilding Croatia's war-torn economy was estimated at some $23 billion, requiring an influx of fresh foreign loans. In the absence of "debt forgiveness", Zagreb's debt burden will be fuelled well into the 21st Century. In return for foreign loans, the government of President Franjo Tudjman had agreed to reform measures conducive to further plant closures and bankruptcies, driving wages to abysmally low levels. The official unemployment rate increased from 15.5 percent in 1991 to 19.1 percent in 1994.30 Zagreb has also instituted a far more stringent bankruptcy law, together with procedures for "the dismemberment" of large state-owned public utility companies. According to its "Letter of Intent" to the Bretton Woods institutions, the Croatian government had promised to restructure and fully privatize the banking sector with the assistance of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank. The latter have also demanded a Croatian capital market structured to heighten the penetration of Western institutional investors and brokerage firms. Under the agreement signed in 1993 with the IMF, the Zagreb government was not permitted to mobilise its own productive resources through fiscal and monetary policy. The latter were firmly under the control of its external creditors. The massive budget cuts demanded under the agreement had forestalled the possibility of post-war reconstruction. The latter could only be carried out through the granting of fresh foreign loans, a process which would fuel Croatia's external debt well into the 21st Century. The cost of rebuilding Croatia's war-torn economy was estimated at some 23 billion dollars... Macedonia has also followed a similar economic path. In December 1993, the Skopje government agreed to compress real wages and freeze credit in order to obtain a loan under the IMF's Systemic Transformation Facility (STF). In an unusual twist, multi-billionaire business tycoon George Soros participated in the International Support Group composed of the government of the Netherlands and the Basel-based Bank of International Settlements. The money provided by the Support Group, however, was not intended for "reconstruction" but rather to enable Skopje to pay back debt arrears owed the World Bank...31 Moreover, in return for debt rescheduling, the government of Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski had to agree to the liquidation of remaining "insolvent" enterprises and the lay off of "redundant" workers--which included the employees of half the industrial enterprises in the country. As Deputy Finance Minister Hari Kostov soberly noted, with interest rates at astronomical levels because of donor-sponsored banking reforms, "it was literally impossible to find a company in the country which would be able to (...) to cover [its] costs (...).32
[CTRL] Dismantling Yugoslavia. 2/2
-Caveat Lector- DISMANTLING FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, RECOLONISING BOSNIA by Michel Chossudovsky The author is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa. Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, 1996. This text can be posted. For publication in printed form kindly request permission from the author: E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED], fax: 1-613-7892050. As heavily-armed NATO troops enforce the peace in Bosnia, the press and politicians alike portray Western intervention in the former Yugoslavia as a noble, if agonizingly belated, response to an outbreak of ethnic massacres and human rights violations. In the wake of the November 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, the West is eager to touch up its self-portrait as saviour of the Southern Slavs and get on with "the work of rebuilding" the newly sovereign states. But following a pattern set since the onslaught of the civil war, Western public opinion has been misled. The conventional wisdom, exemplified by the writings of former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia Robert Zimmermann, is that the plight of the Balkans is the outcome of an "aggressive nationalism", the inevitable result of deep-seated ethnic and religious tensions rooted in history.1 Likewise, much has been made of the "Balkans power-play" and the clash of political personalities: "Tudjman and Milosevic are tearing Bosnia-Herzegovina to pieces".2 Drowned in the barrage of images and self-serving analyses are the economic and social causes of the conflict. The deep-seated economic crisis which preceded the civil war has long been forgotten. The strategic interests of Germany and the US in laying the groundwork for the disintegration of Yugoslavia go unmentioned, as does the role of external creditors and international financial institutions. In the eyes of the global media, Western powers bear no responsibility for the impoverishment and destruction of a nation of 24 million people. But through their domination of the global financial system, the Western powers, pursuing their collective and individual "strategic interests" helped from the beginning of the 1980s, bring the Yugoslav economy to its knees, contributing to stirring simmering ethnic and social conflicts. Now, the efforts of the international financial community are channelled towards "helping Yugoslavia's war-ravaged successor states". Yet while the World's attention is focused on troop movements and cease fires, creditors and international financial institutions are busy at work collecting former Yugoslavia's external debt, while transforming the Balkans into a safe-haven for free enterprise. Adopted in several stages since the early 1980s, the reforms imposed by Belgrade's creditors wreaked economic and political havoc leading to disintegration of the industrial sector and the piece-meal dismantling of the Yugoslav Welfare State. Despite Belgrade's political non-alignment and extensive trading relations with the US and the European Community, the Reagan administration had targeted the Yugoslav economy in a "Secret Sensitive" 1984 National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 133) entitled "United States Policy towards Yugoslavia". A censored version of this document declassified in 1990 largely conformed to a previous National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 54) on Eastern Europe issued in 1982. Its objectives included "expanded efforts to promote a `quiet revolution' to overthrow Communist governments and parties"... while reintegrating the countries of Eastern Europe into the orbit of the World market.3 Secessionist tendencies feeding on social and ethnic divisions, gained impetus precisely during a period of brutal impoverishment of the Yugoslav population. The first phase of macro-economic reform initiated in 1980 shortly before the death of Marshall Tito "wreaked economic and political havoc... Slower growth, the accumulation of foreign debt and especially the cost of servicing it as well as devaluation led to a fall in the standard of living of the average Yugoslav... The economic crisis threatened political stability ... it also threatened to aggravate simmering ethnic tensions".4 These reforms accompanied by the signing of debt restructuring agreements with the official and commercial creditors also served to weaken the institutions of the federal State creating political divisions between Belgrade and the governments of the Republics and Autonomous Provinces. "The Prime Minister Milka Planinc, who was supposed to carry out the programme, had to promise the IMF an immediate increase of the discount rates and much more for the Reaganomics arsenal of
[CTRL] Fwd: THE SCOOP: CNN's Kosovo Identity Crisis
The Scoop - http://www.bobharris.com/ To new subscribers: thanks for joining up. Yes, the column really is free, and you're encouraged to forward it to friends. That's how our readership grows. If you've just joined up from some exotic locale because you heard my rants on Armed Forces Radio (see below), please drop a line and say howdy. In the last week, we've heard from Bahrain and Spain. Whether they were mainly on the plain they didn't say. Thanks! bh THE SCOOP for April 5, 1999 ___ CNN's Kosovo Identity Crisis also: Bob Dole, Sex Criminal © 1999 Bob Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] = italics So my big sister calls me this week. My sister is a major bonus. Great sense of humor. Heart oversized like movie popcorn. And really, really smart. Anybody who doesn't like my sister has no business being on this planet. Sis calls me up because she's trying to be a good citizen and has therefore watched hours of TV news reports about the Crisis In Kosovo. Big sis has endured dozens of furrowed brows, scores of scary pictures, and hours of flashy graphics. CNN's special Kosovo theme music churns like a bellicose jingle in her head. And sis calls because after days of Fox and MSNBC telling her what just blew up, she still doesn't quite follow how exactly the whole mess really started, how it might best end, or what to think about it in any case, other than it's obviously really bad. Just like most Americans. Including the ones in Washington. My sister's one of the smartest people I know. Her only mistake was in believing, as most of us have been trained to believe since birth, that TV is a good way to learn about a subject in depth. It is not. TV is a good way to learn about which subjects are on fire. Here's how mindless Kosovo coverage can be: You remember when the news came in last Wednesday that three U.S. servicemen had been captured by the Serbs. Soon, CNN showed Serbian videotape of the prisoners. CNN also reported that the three captured servicemen had not yet been identified. CNN's anchors repeated this several dozen times for over two hours, often as the Serbian video was playing on the air. Hello? The names of all three servicemen were [right there on the videotape] -- in Serbian, granted, but in HUGE OBVIOUS PRINT -- directly under the faces of each soldier as they were shown individually. Duh. Figuring this out was hardly a stretch. Serbian is phonetic, albeit with Cyrillic characters. Any speaker of Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, or several other Slavic languages could read the names instantly. I speak maybe thirty or forty words in all those languages combined, and even I could read the prisoners' names easily. Evidently, during a state of war with Serbia, there's not a single person at supposedly the world's leading TV news outlet who speaks Serbian. Or Russian. Or any Slavic language. Would CNN have covered World War II without anyone on staff who could translate [Mein Kampf]? Is it possible that the classy news joint that brings us Bob Novak, Al Hunt, and John Sununu doesn't employ a single person who at least knows enough to realize all that fancy writing probably means something? Or even owns a freaking dictionary with which to transliterate a freeze frame? OK. Maybe that's asking too much. Fine. But how about this: the soldiers' surnames were also plainly visible in the videotape -- and in [English] -- above the right shirt pocket of their uniforms. And the TV anchors, who are presumably neither blind nor stupid although I'm learning to keep an open mind, prattled over and over that they had no information as to the men's identities. [DUH.] I don't mean to pick on CNN per se. I only have one TV -- which feels a little like saying "I only have one flesh-eating bacterial infection" -- so I didn't get the chance to see if Fox or MSNBC or maybe somebody on the Weather Channel figured out what all those funny letters meant. Probably not. We live in an era where war reporting consists largely of Pentagon-approved reporters repeating Pentagon statements and press releases over combat footage provided by the Pentagon. Which affects public opinion. Which affects national policy. And eventually, it affects even our ability to think for ourselves. If the Pentagon says that three captured servicemen have not been identified, then their identities are indeed unknown -- even when their names are right in front of our eyes. My sister now understands better what's going on in Kosovo, precisely because she's no longer waiting around for Laurie Dhue and Laura Ingraham to show her more scary pictures. She's reading up on the subject and forming her own opinion. Word is that Bill Clinton has recently started reading a book on the history of the region, too. How thoughtful, after bombing it for a week. ___ And now, something completely unrelated... All over Alabama, people are buzzing with
[CTRL] [11] Mellon's Millions
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Mellon's Millions Harvey O'Conner©1933 Blue Ribbon Books New York, N.Y. --[11]-- 11 Petroleum Diplomacy 0IL is an indifferent lubricant for international relations. The dynamite that wrecked competitors' derricks and opened gaping wounds in pipe lines, the money that bought tractable legislators and officials of independent companies, the intangible but none the less real rewards that swayed Senators and judges-all the tried and tested technique of domestic industrial warfare was duplicated when the Empire of Oil broke through United States boundaries to establish its dominion in the Gulf and Caribbean regions. The story was one of bandit armies retained by American and British oil lords, of revolutions and counter-revolutions financed at so much per revolution, of itching palms of Latin American generals and politicos, crossed with American gold, of the State Department called in to aid the designs of Standard, Gulf, Sinclair, Doheny. Old Judge Mellon, contemptuous of Washington, scornful of Government interference in private business, would have been amazed to know that the State Department did not consider it undignified to throw the prestige and armed force of the American Government behind his sons' investments in Indo-Latin countries. Not that the Patriarch of East Liberty would have failed to adjust himself to this new extension of the State's power. After all there was little difference, in principle, between the Sheriff of Allegheny County using governmental power to execute judgment against a Pittsburgh debtor of Thomas Mellon, and the President of the United States using the threat of armed force against Mexicans forgetful of sacred contracts signed with subordinates of Andrew Mellon. At the turn of the century, when the Mellons. were busy rocking the cradles of Union Steel, Crucible Steel, Pittsburgh Coal and a dozen other infant combines, an international wildcatter was studying tell-tale pools of oil on the surface of marshes near Tampico, Mexico. He was Edward L. Doheny, who was to develop the technique of counter-revolution and brigandage-by-request, who was to deal in an easy financial way with an American Cabinet officer, as if he were merely a Mexican Cabinet officer. His Potrero del Llano broke the record of the Mellons' Lucas gusher on Spindletop; his Cerro Azul shot 200,000 barrels a day at the sky. The fabulous production of Mexican wellsexcited United States operators talked of a monster gusher that spewed forth a million barrels a day-caused the welkin to ring in Washington with demands for a protective tariff. Among the independents present was George S. Davison, Gulf, Oil executive and "assistant to W. L. Mellon in whatever position he held." Davison however was not noisily demonstrative at the conference called to appeal for protection to the sponsors of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. For even then the Mellons were debating invasion of Mexico. Opportunists in their philosophy, the Mellons were no blind devotees to protectivism. As born Pittsburghers. they were convinced of course that America's industrial supremacy stemmed in part from the Republican tariff on steel. Similarly they were convinced that an adequate duty was needed to shield Aluminum and its workers from the menace of European pauper labor. But once they were ensconced as important operators in Mexico's Golden Lane in 1912 any tariff on oil would become burdensome. So the independents continued to clamor for legislative dikes to stem the inrush of Mexican oil, and in vain. The Mellons entered Mexico the year after Doheny and Standard agents had financed the overthrow of Dictator Diaz, if testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee in 1913 is to be credited. The struggle between Standard and the British Mexican Eagle (Pearson) interests sounded for all the world like a skirmish between Standard and an enemy on United States soil in the eighties and nineties. Mexico of course gave scope to certain Indo-Latin flourishes embellishing the colder Nordic ferocity of Rockefeller's rise to power. Hired bands of brigandsnorth of the Rio Grande they are called gangsters-destroyed Pearson's pipe lines and set his wells on fire, but the Britisher held on doggedly despite the strafing. The decisive stroke in Standard technique was to finance Madero against the Pearsondominated Diaz when the North Mexican iron and steel magnate showed promising strength of his own. Mexican Gulf Oil played a minor role in the turbulent history of Mexico's social revolution. More lucrative fields for Mellon money and talents were found closer to home, what with aluminum, by-product gas plants, coal, gun carriages, structural steel and oil distillates to be sold in the effort to anchor democracy in stable world moorings. Patriotically Mexican Gulf refused to pay taxes to the Government of the pro-British Huerta who murdered Madero, and Doheny could testify in 1919 that "every American
[CTRL] [25] America's Secret Establishment
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: America's Secret Establishment: An introduction to The Order of Skull Bones by ANTONY C. SUTTON Liberty House Press 2027 Iris Billings, Montana 59102 1986 - Highly recommend Mr. Sutton's books. There is more in this book than can be presented here. Many charts and reproductions of original source material. As always, Caveat lector. In stock at: A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220-0273 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Miller, Research Director) Om K - Memorandum Number One: An Introduction to the Secret Cult of the Order Secret political organizations can be - and have been - extremely dangerous to the social health and constitutional vitality of a society. In a truly free society the exercise of political power must always be open and known. Moreover, organizations devoted to violent overthrow of political structures have always, by necessity, been secret organizations. Com- munist revolutionary cells are an obvious example. In fact, such revolu- tionary organizations could only function if their existence was secret. In brief, secrecy in matters political is historically associated with coercion. Furthermore, the existence of secrecy in organizations with political ambitions or with a history of political action is always suspect. Freedom is always associated with open political action and discussion while coercion is always associated with secrecy. There are numerous historical examples to support this premise. Back in the late 17th century the Elector of Bavaria, the constitutional government of Bavaria, banned the Illuminati organization. Accidental discovery of Illuminati documents demonstrated that a secret organiza- tion was devoted to the overthrow of the Bavarian state and establish- ment of a world society run by elitist Illuminati. More recently in England there have been startling discoveries involv- ing use of the Masonic movement by the Soviet KGB to subvert and in- filtrate British intelligence. True freemasonry is an establishment con- servative organization, but its organizational structure can beand has been - used for revolutionary purposes. Masonic aims are publicly stated to be fraternity and charity, but it is also well known that Masons help each other in areas supposedly based on talent. In The Brotherhood[1][1 Stephen Knight, The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons, Granada, London,1984.] Stephen Knight comments that many have suffered because freemasonry has entered segments of society where it has no place: ". . . there can be no doubt that many . . . have suffered because of freemasonry entering into areas of life where, according to all its public proclaimed principles, it should never intrude. The abuse of freemasonry causes alarming miscarriages of justice" (p. 4). In England at any rate freemasonry has become a self-serving organization always discriminating in favor of its own members when it comes to contracts, jobs, careers and promotions. Moreover, we now know that the Masonic movement in England was used by the Russian KGB to infiltrate, take over and finally head British intelligence organizations. In September 1984 Scotland Yard in London advised all its police of- ficers not to join the freemasons lest its reputation for impartiality be lost. Given this background, The Order, a secret society also known as Skull Bones, is a clear and obvious threat to constitutional freedom in the United States. Its secrecy, power and use of influence is greater by far than the masons, or any other semi-secret mutual or fraternal organization. How secret is Skull Bones? The most careful analysis of the society is by Lyman Bagg in Four Years At Yale(a) published in 1871, but still the only source of documented information on the cultic aspects of The Order. According to Bagg, The Order is intensely secret: * "They (the senior societies at Yale) are the only Yale societies whose transactions are truly secret." * "Their members never mention their names, nor refer to them in any way in the presence of anyone not of their own number and as they are all seniors, there are no old members in the class above them to tell tales out of school." This intense secrecy even extends to documents printed for internal use. On the next page we reprint an internal circular distributed among Patriarchs which has disguised references as follows: "P" i.e., Patriarch "P---s" Patriarchs If The Order has this intense secrecy, then how are we able to reproduce its documents and memberships rolls? Simply because secrecy attracts attention. Secrecy creates suspicion of intentions. This in turn generates action to break the secrecy. This series of books is based on several sources, including con- temporary "moles." However, information on the cultic aspects comes from a century-old Yale concern about the operations and intentions of Skull Bones. This
[CTRL] Our Illegal War
-Caveat Lector- Our Illegal War by Congressman Helen Chenoweth Congress must reclaim its authority When the order was given for American military personnel to attack Yugoslavia, it was not issued following a declaration of war from Congress. Nor was the order given by the President as a means of repelling a sudden attack on America by a foreign aggressor, or as a measure intended to rescue Americans abroad from unexpected peril. In fact, the order to attack Yugoslavia didnt even follow the pattern set in Korea and Vietnam, in which our nation was committed to protracted foreign wars through unilateral presidential action. On March 23rd, the order to commence hostilities was given to an American general by a Spanish Marxist NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana. I have just directed the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General [Wesley] Clark, to initiate air operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," announced Solana, who insisted that the attack "is intended to support the political aims of the international community." Congress played no role in defining those political aims, which means that the American people in whose name Congress is empowered to act were not permitted to play any role in the decision to commit our nation to war. In the run-up to our war with Yugoslavia, Congress was permitted by its leaders to carry out an impotent charade of debate. On March 11th, the House approved a non-binding resolution endorsing the use of American troops to enforce a peace agreement between the Yugoslav regime of Slobodan Milosevic and secessionist leaders in Yugoslavias Kosovo province. On March 23rd, just hours before Solana issued the order to begin the bombing, the Senate approved a resolution supporting the military campaign. But Clinton Administration officials, including the President, had by that time made it clear that while they sought approval of the military action from Congress, they did not consider it necessary for Congress to authorize the military strike on Yugoslavia. A few senators seemed to understand the constitutional implications of these actions. Senator Don Nickles (R-OK) pointed out, "If we start a massive bombing campaign, were going to war." Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) described the prospect of waging an undeclared aggressive war upon Yugoslavia as "a precedent I dont want to be involved in." Even more pointed were the comments of Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM). "I say shame on the President," declared Domenici, momentarily forgetting that Bill Clinton has repeatedly demonstrated that he is incapable of shame. "If this is such an important matter, why couldnt [the President] trust the United States Senate and United States House and ask us whether we concur?" In order to appreciate the depth of the Administrations deception regarding the war over Kosovo, it is necessary to understand that the war was "authorized" by NATO long before the bombing began on March 24th. The day after the war began, the London Telegraph reported that General Clark, NATOs supreme military commander, "received his activation order for hostilities last October. The order was the official moment when authority over the forces to be used was transferred to him from the top brass of the member countries supplying them. The supreme commander does not need new permission from politicians or diplomats whenever he wishes to change tactics, or increase or scale back operations." (Emphasis added.) At 1:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on March 24th, with American bombers en route to Yugoslavia and just minutes before the first explosions were reported on the ground in Kosovo, White House spokesman Joe Lockhart explicitly admitted that the power to take our nation into war had been surrendered to a foreign official namely, the NATO Secretary-General. Lockhart was asked by correspondent Helen Thomas, "Who gives the green light on this now? Is it the President himself, or the Supreme Commander of NATO...?" Lockhart replied, "The Supreme Commander of NATO acts on the authority of the political leaders of the NATO countries, and he has that authority." In brief, the power to declare war in Kosovo was exercised by NATO Secretary-General Solana; the power to make war was given to NATOs Supreme Commander; the President of the United States played the role of "selling" the war to the public, and Congress was tacitly told that its duty was to rubber-stamp the decision to take our nation into war, and to authorize payment of the resulting expenses. "No power but Congress can declare war," observed Daniel Webster in 1846, "but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?" The Administrations actions in committing our country to enforce, through military action, diplomatic initiatives in Kosovo presented Congress with a fait accompli. The only recourse left to Congress was to defund military
[CTRL] Fwd: U.S. Department of State, Meet the Secretary of State
I found the sheet of propaganda on Madame Albright, and it looks her family was a family of refugees - first escaping the Nazis and then escaping the Russians Communist takeover.. In particular, I noted she renewed her oath of allegiance upon her 50th anniversary of her arrival to the US with her family, along with her sister. It seemed odd she would not celebrate the day of her first taking the oath of allegiance to be naturalized; and I was wondering, what date she first became an American citizen. To be perfectly candid; I do not like this individual.for one, who like Henry Kissinger, was alleged to be "refugees" you would think she would have compassion on all those forced out of their own country on foot - they did not get airplane reservations to England or the USAthey are by now some of them lying in the streets starving and cold, without homes.ah, but Ms. Albright and Henry Kissinger..they alone escaped leaving 6 million dead during WWII, and how many during the fracas from which Ms. Albright and her familiy escaped th 2nd ime around. There is something wrong here; maybe it was because she took her sister along to, to reaffirm her oath to the United Stateshow can she take an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of Ameriica, and then proceed to assist in the persecution and crucifixion of thousands of innocent people, most of whom are truly sincere in their religious beliefs. Between Albright and Kissinger, I do not know who I find to be the most repugnant; the evil in the face of Kissinger to me now, is reflected in Madme Albright's face. Who the hell do these people think they are when they send our military out to bomb and traumatize an entire nation, while in the past, they fled from the Nazis and Communists. What is wrong here. Colleen http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/index.html
[CTRL] Fwd: State Visit II
This meeting seemed very interesting; Ms. Albright was told to shut up in a rather shocking manner..it was reported here that Ms. Albright did not now of her Czeck heritage whichI found most unusual It would be interested to determine where and when she was actually naturalized...or was she naturalized. What and who is Ms. Albright; and who writes he speeches for her She holds the third highest office in the country, and doesn't know of her Czech past? Colleen http://www.knittingfactory.com/News/Havel/Welcome.html
Re: [CTRL] Kosovo, a leftist perspective
-Caveat Lector- 4-4-1999, Mark wrote: (snip) As for her point about the mines, it is indeed likely that these mines play a role in motivating the current holocaust -- on the Serbian side. If, as she claims, the mines are worth $5 billion, that would certainly explain Milosevic' determination to hold on to them. It would not explain the US interest in the Kosovo genocide, which is going to end up costing the United States a lot more than $5 billion ... Probably this should read '$5 trillion' - (not $5 billion) ... As posted recently here ( Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines' ) [following the same article by Sara Flounders] : from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36fd198d79a4.htm Topic: Kosovo There is another factor in this, something the rapacious World Bank, IMF and the UN are interested in -- the estimated $17 trillion in natural resources in Serbia/Kosovo. Kosovo has one of Europe's largest reserves of coal and lignite while Serbia alone has huge deposits of aluminum ore. Albania has large reserves of crude oil, which was part of the reason why Marshal Tito, after WWII, wanted to absorb Albania into Yugoslavia. The other was that Tito feared an extreme Maoist Albania (which retained the USSR Stalinist policy until 1961) being a Red Chinese version of Cuba in Europe, one whose seacoast straddled the eastern part of the only seaborne way in and out of the Adriatic, the Strait of Otranto. Given the fact that Albania was not absorbed into Yugoslavia, Tito for years attempted to keep Tirane's Stalinist/Maoist maniacs happy by allowing ethnic Albanian migration into Kosovo beginning with some 400,000 being allowed in during 1945-48. Pre-WWII Serb land deeds in Kosovo were cancelled and Albanians were given the Eastern European version of "affirmative action" in jobs, housing and the like. In the 1970s, the Albanians began their terror campaign against the Serbs, banning the Serb Cyrillic alphabet, banning the works of Serb authors and other artists and getting Serbs fired from their jobs. Violence began to escalate in the early 1980s after Tito's death, and got so bad by 1988 (the worst being mass rape of Serb Orthodox nuns) troops had to be sent in. This is where Milosevich rose to power, in successfully quelling the violence, at least for a brief time. In 1991, the news media insisted that "Albanians represented 1.2 million in Kosovo." In 1994 they said 1.4 million. In 1996 they insisted it was 1.6 million. Today we are told Albanians are "90% of 2 million" - as though we are unable to calculate this means 1.8 million, another mysterious 200,000 increase. Borrowing from Socrates, "scarcely a word of what they said is true." The media continues to omit that more than 400,000 Albanians are illegal aliens who crossed the border into Kosovo as easily as illegals cross our border into San Diego, Tucson, El Paso and Brownsville each night as we sleep. How compelling that US troops are defending borders in 100 countries, we aren't defending our own. Today, the US State Department claims Serbs are 10% of Kosovo, with no explanation that they claimed Serbs were 14% in 1991. Were 4% killed, expelled, or just made invisible? They also tell us the Gypsies are 7%, the Greeks 2.3%, the Turks 1.5%, the Montenegrins 2%, and others 1%. By my calculations that means the Albanians can't possibly represent more than 50% of Kosovo, after subtracting the 400,000 illegals and the 300,000 who fled to England, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, most of whom have no desire to return to the poverty and terror in Kosovo. Another point that hasn't been raised much is that Tito, for all of his faults and mistakes in postwar Yugoslavia, never subscribed to gun control or disarming the populace. I recall when I visted Yugoslavia in the late 1970s, every home at which I was a guest had at least one modern firearm, be it a handgun, rifle or shotgun. In fact, at the time, villagers could obtain surplus WWII German, Italian, British and even US firearms very easily. I recall that many Serb villagers especially would coat the weapon in some kind of heavy grease, wrap it in plastic and put it in a box and bury it in the ground usually near the barn or house. From: MK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * 03/27/99 10:02:32 PST --- . 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
[CTRL] THE NEW MEDICINE - 90% Cancer survival rate! (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:55:25 EDT Subj: [RF]: THE NEW MEDICINE - 90% Cancer survival rate! Hi One and All, I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer speak at the Total Health show here in Toronto recently. What he had to say was very profound and revolutionary. The authorities have persecuted him, like so many in the alternative health field. While investigating his previous patients in order to investigate him they found he had achieved an extraordinary cancer survival rate! I quote: "The Public Prosecuting Attorney in Wiener Neustadt, (Germany) had to confess, that when they searched the house of the "Centrum for the New Medicine" in Burgau (Austria), 6,500 home addresses of patients were confiscated (most of them were of advanced cancer diseases) of which after 4 to 5 years still 6,000 lived (over (90%)." From his website at: http://www.pilhar.com/English/News/990313.htm I further quote: Impressum Interview on Radio Toronto on 13th March 1999 10 Questions about the New Medicine Question 1: Dr Hamer, how did you discover the New Medicine? Dr Hamer: On 18 August 1978, my son Dirk was fatally wounded in his sleep by two bullets fired by the Prince of Savoy. After his death on 7 December 1978 I fell sick with cancer of the testicle. Against the advice of the professors in Tübingen, Germany, I underwent surgery on the testicle but I refused chemotherapy and radiation treatment. My chances of survival were rated at 25%. From that moment on, I began to think deeply about the phenomenon of cancer. Three years later, as Senior Physician in a Cancer Institute attached to the University of Munich, I had the opportunity of carrying out a systematic examination of 200 patients and I found that all of them had been taken ill after an acute conflict shock. I named this acute conflict shock the "Dirk Hamer Syndrome" or "DHS" after my dead son, Dirk. Question 2: Dr Hamer, the so-called "New Medicine" has recently been officially verified by the State Slovakian University of Trnava and scientifically recognized. How is it possible to verify something in medicine? Dr Hamer: Up until 1981 there existed only the so-called "scholastic" medicine with its 5000 hypotheses. Our textbooks were full of unproven hypotheses and dogmas. There were no causal explanations in medicine. Nevertheless, we all pretended that everything was correct. But apart from measurable facts, everything was pure nonsense. And nobody seriously denies that. I know what I'm talking about, because I was a doctor specializing in internal diseases for more than 10 years in various university clinics. Since 1981, for the first time ever, there exists a medicine which is reproducible in the strict scientific sense, based so far on 5 biological natural laws, and which applies to any case of sickness. And these laws can be verified with astronomical probability on any day or even in half a day, as they are not just hypotheses. Question 3: How does the New Medicine differ from scholastic medicine, as we know it? Dr Hamer: The so-called "scholastic" medicine we have known up to now "believed", argued and applied its pseudotherapy in a philosophical way, or to be more precise, like the Old Testament. It distinguished between "benign" and "malignant", pinpointed errors, breakdowns and inadequacies of what was considered to be "stupid" nature, which it was down to the doctor to put right. People imagined malignant microbes and cancer cells fighting our organism and trying to destroy it. It was thought that our organism then mobilized its "defense forces" with the immune system, T-lymphocytes etc., like an army fighting another army. That's all a load of nonsense, nothing but medical fairy tales! The New Medicine, on the other hand, has discovered that there is no such thing as a "disease" as it has been understood to exist so far, but that instead the symptoms we have been calling a "disease" are a two-phase "sound biological special program" of nature. What we refer to as a "disease" is just one phase. And we have therefore not only been taking a wrong view of all these so-called "diseases", but we have not been able to treat the cause of a single one of them correctly. I'm not denying that we found out correct ways of examining facts, such as blood pictures, laboratory parameters or CT tests, but the conclusions we drew and the therapies we prescribed were completely wrong. Accordingly, the therapy mortality rate for cancer, for instance, was 95% after 5 years. With the New Medicine, the situation is the complete opposite: the survival rate is 95%! Question 4: What are these sound biological special programmes of nature? Dr Hamer: In our former symptomatic medicine - known as school medicine - we considered such
Re: [CTRL] Gods Bankers in EDINBURGH
-Caveat Lector- Hi Andrew, I am most interested in this part of the conspiracy. I'd really appreciate it if you could elaborate on the Scottish side. I hear rumours about the Ark of the Covenant being in Scotland, or under the mound at Tara, Ireland. Now it has been published in an article in World Explorers magazine that the Ark has been taken from Scotland to America. The writer David Hatcher Childress swears its true. There does seem to be rather a lot of Arks about admittedly, but can you tell me which treasures you think Scotland has apart from the Stone of Destiny. I don't believe the British royalty did have the real one under Queen Elizabeth's throne, the Scots are far too careful. The book Dope Inc says that the British PM has to be a descendant of Robert the Bruce. Also I think the Grand Masters of the Knights of St John and the Knights of Malta are supposed to be from the Stewart dynasty. I'd say it may be a fight to who is claiming to be on David's (rather transplanted) throne between Scotland and England. Would Prince Michael Stewart the legal pretender to the Scottish throne perhaps have more power than we think in these secret societies? Nicky Molloy Andrew Hennessey wrote: -Caveat Lector- It is said by several credible Templar experts, that when the Knights Templar fled from persecution, they brought their treasure ships to Scotland - a place of sanctuary from the wrath of the Inquisition. One of the highest candidates for receiving the treaure cache was a large beach South of Edinburgh, near Port Seton. There, a local Aristocratic family then became very very rich, however treaure hunters of the Templar variety may be interested to note that in the 14th Century, after the battle of Bannockburn where the Templar aided small Scottish force, headed by Robert the Bruce saw off the naughty English in 1314, the Monastic record keepers of that time began perpetrating confusion by altering place names around Edinburgh. Edinburgh [on 7 hills] sits on the Firth of Forth - which translates as the 'way of ways' has several Islands - known as 'the guardians of the Forth' One being Inchcolm - translates as 'Island of the cell of St Columba' even though modern Catholicism now directs us to Iona on Scotlands West Coast as the place of St Columba. Another island, the Isle of May rises off the sea with precipitous cliffs having caverns big enough to sail sailing ships into. Peopled at the time by a monastic order associated with St Adrian, from England, the Archbishop of Edinburgh, in the 14th Century bought the Isle of May from that order for a sum equivalent to 25% the gross national product of Scotland - a vast individual sum. Archbishop Lamberton also purchased a small secluded beach on the mainland. The question is; had the Templar treasure ships landed their horde on the May, and Lamberton used knowledge extracted from the Templars to raid it, or was it being shipped there for storage from the area of Port Seton by the agents of Lamberton ? Historically the vast amount of Templar lands around Edinburgh suggest a considerable focus of their resources in that area: being near to the Sinclair vaults and castle of Rosslyn - now the alleged repositary of every holy artefact known to mankind - including, we are told: the Templar 'head of God' allegedly under the prentice pillar at Rosslyn, the Grail, the Ark, etc etc Given that someone on this list has already suggested that the NWO Trust funds that Bush may be financed by are managed in Edinburgh...Is this perhaps more evidence to suggest that the recent involvement of the american fundamentalist 'Robenson?' in the bank of Scotland purchase comes at a time when the banners of the new world order may be about to fly from Edinburgh Castle ?? Andrew Hennessey Transformation Studies Group EdinburghScotland 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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
[CTRL] Fwd: The Sequence of Presidential Succession
Supposedly one cannot succeed to the presidency unless they meet the constitutional requirements, one of which is native birth on American soil. Well, that includes the American Indian, but does or did it include Madeline Albright and Henry Kissinger, who rank as I recall number 4 if something should happen to the president, etc., until it reaches office of Secretary of State. Was Kissinger a naturalized citizen - one can only take one oath of office, and that is to support the Constitution of the United States, which is the supreme oath. I am wondering why Madeline Albright reaffirmed her oath of allegiance at the naturalization affair; and whether she had ever done this before...just more than curious. It would seem to me that any successors to the President would have to meet all the qualifications of the office itself in order to succeed to dame and being an American born citizen, is one of the most important. In the bible, there is also something about a bastard not being permitted into ...etc., until the fifth generation. At one time, I was told, you had to be able to trace your family tree back to the Revolutionary War, to be permitted in the CIA; whether this was true, I do not know but the source was an insider. What do you think of Albright.the kids at Ohio State nearly booed Cohen and Albright out of town. If I am wrong I APOLOGIZE, I AM SORRY, IT PAINS ME THAT I MAY CAUSE PAIN IN THE ABOVE PAINFUL QUESTIONS There is something bothering me here; and I wonder what it is. Could it be that Kissinger, Code Name Bor who was a communist agent and double agent, coud have been our President if the other successors before him would be nocked off. Now that is frightening; Colleen. http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/President/succession.html
Re: [CTRL] Gods Bankers in EDINBURGH
-Caveat Lector- Andrew, maybe you can help me here. I had written Sybil Leek way back in 1980 about the Ogham Code.- I was just looking at her letter todahy on thisso in part, here is what she said: "Dear Colleen.I decided to go back to Globe as they doubled my wages and finally I do a good job on the astrology and I think my contract will outlive the smart boys who took over...Got our leter about the OGHAM code; very interesting - he Ogham ocde predates Chrisianity...the Ogham STONE in the north of Scotland waslinked with Wicca, witchcraft, but in its European stte of being a religion.There is a picture of the Ogham Sone (the once mysterioius Rune stone in he book Stephen and I called Ring of Magic IslandsThe Ogham script is the one used to convey messages in Wiccanot used so much these days, but once essential when there was prosecution. Julian is building one new office for me and many of my things are pakced up, but soon when I really sort out and unpack, I will send you the original photo of the Ogham stone...When Christianity extended to Iona...(? illegible) the stone was there and is still maintained by the Christian Community who have only just found out what it really means. I used to now the Oakes family, deep into the equivalnt of CIA in Europe...the territory was AFRICA...family was okay but always surroundedby mustery. He was killed but not for etc, etc etc. Sybil used to know all this stuff too, and mentioned in the following sheets what you discuss. I am still interested in the Ogham Code beause the title of my ms is "The Valley of Hamon Gogand of course, this is from Ezekial. How you doing Andrew H..how are things in Scotland.as the Pope is supposed to sit over the tomb of St. Peter, does not the English Throne rest upon Jacob's Stone, where they are crowned. However, for a King or Queen to rule, they must be able to trace their family ree to the bible, the divine right to rule.you will find all their names in there, including Princess Diana in the Acts..the one who would be despised (does that ring a bell)..enough for shrines. The documents I have sealed with crown supposedly make my pedigree official..however, to get the throne I would have to eliminate quite a few people...a LOT of people. I always liked Crowley; he ordained himself the King of Ireland...Sybil's famiy knew him, and he liked Sybile was not a Nazi, but rather a propaganda agent for the British. Colleen Remember, keep your eye on Pat RobertsonGod's Banker is in trouble I hear. Besides, he does not look well. Put your money under your mattress. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Kosovo, evolution in action.
-Caveat Lector- Why don't you ask some of the Serbs who are not doing the killing. I would be willing to bet that there are probably a fair number against the killing. and some white people marched along Martin Luther King. where is Martin now? on a few street sign in the ghettos. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] China warns attack could start world war
-Caveat Lector- South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/template/Front-Template.idc?artid=1999040500372501 1top=fronttemplate=Default.htxmaxfieldsize=2011) Monday April 5 1999 Zhu warns attack could start world war AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Toronto Premier Zhu Rongji criticised the bombing campaign as an intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation, warning that the attack could lead to a world war. "All internal matters should be left for the country itself to resolve," Mr Zhu said. "If we should refuse to recognise a country's sovereignty, I'm afraid that would lead to a world war," he told the Globe and Mail of Toronto. The Premier's remarks came on the eve of a two-week North American tour beginning tomorrow in California and ending on April 20 in Canada. Mr Zhu called for an immediate halt to the air strikes, which he said almost caused him to cancel his trip to the United States. "If military interventionism is to be allowed in all internal matters like a question of human rights of any country, that will open a very bad precedent in the world," he said. "We do not have a world tribunal or a world police" to enforce international human rights standards, he said. "So who should be the person to make the decision to use all this military force?" The Premier said the principle of non-intervention applied to China's record in Tibet and Taiwan, as well as to Britain's handling of Northern Ireland or Canadian affairs in Quebec. The Premier said he had been tempted to cancel his visit to the US because of the air strikes and anti-Chinese sentiment in Washington amid accusations of spying against Beijing. He said chances to reach an accord on China's entry into the World Trade Organisation were slim since the White House seemed "rather reluctant" to push for it. He criticised US plans to establish a Southeast Asia Theatre Missile Defence programme to boost the defence capabilities of Japan and Taiwan. Mr Zhu warned that including Taiwan in the system "would be very dangerous" as it would be interpreted as an "encroachment upon China's sovereignty". "The proposal to establish [a system] does not conform with the international treaties on missiles," he said. Back To Top "From the rage of today's downtrodden comes the revenge of tomorrow's revolutionary force." Edward Britton http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5285/connector1.html Talk to the planet: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Reality_Pump2 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Vote for Jesus
-Caveat Lector- VOTE FOR JESUS CHRIST Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. I propose that we can vote for Christ. Each of us knows at least one person with e-mail. Contact them and pass this on to everyone you know. Let's start a wave of votes for Jesus Christ - Person of the Century. To vote go to: http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/toppersonmain.html When you get to the site you must write Jesus Christ in exactly this way: The J and the C must both be upper case, all the rest lower case. Apparently the poll is case sensitive and writing it any other way does not allow your vote to be counted as Jesus Christ. Remember to PASS THIS ON to everyone you care about. From what I heard the winner of the poll will have their picture on the front cover of the magazine in Dec 99, which should be a challenge for the graphics dept. at TIME!!! And so far Jesus is leading!!! As of this morning Jesus was well in the majority with over 40% The next one closest to Him was at 9%. What a stand for Jesus we can make!! Please take the time! "From the rage of today's downtrodden comes the revenge of tomorrow's revolutionary force." Edward Britton http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5285/connector1.html Talk to the planet: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Reality_Pump2 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Thank You (dry ice)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 4/4/99 5:11:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this stuff, and yes I would like the recipe - when you have time. You both have answered my question. Cold fusionwhat a dream.well, they do talk about hell freezing over someday - maybe that would be the start. ~~ The first step in making dry ice is to turn the carbon dioxide gas into a liquid. This is done by compressing the CO2 and removing any excess heat. The CO2 will liquefy at a pressure of approximately 870 pounds per square inch. Next, the pressure is reduced over the liquid carbon dioxide by sending it through an expansion valve. Part of the liquid sublimates, causing the remainder to freeze into snow flakes. The dry ice snow is then compacted together under a large press to form blocks. Dry Ice is much heavier than traditional ice, weighing about the same as standard bricks. I think it would be easier to just buy the stuff LOL 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: No Ground Troops! Milosevic: Whew! Thanks, Bill !
Lawmakers Mull Kosovo Ground Troops By H. JOSEF HEBERT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The debate is growing over whether the Clinton administration can continue to foreclose the use of ground troops in Kosovo with the issue likely to dominate Congress when lawmakers return from their spring recess. Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday that President Clinton no longer should foreclose out of hand use of ground troops as a military option in Kosovo, but most emphasized that Congress should give its approval before troops actually are deployed. ``The diplomacy won't start until our president stops saying no ground troops,'' Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on ABC's ``This Week.'' ``To say no ground troops is a mistake'' Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the committee's top Democrat, agreed on CNN's ``Late Edition.'' Still, administration officials said there are no plans to send ground forces into Kosovo, although the Pentagon announced Sunday it is sending 24 Apache helicopter gunships to neighboring Albania for use against Serbian troops in Kosovo. About 2,000 U.S. soldiers also will be sent to Albania to support the helicopters. ``We do not believe an invasion force ... is in the national interest,'' Sandy Berger, the White House national security adviser, said on CBS' ``Face the Nation.'' But a growing number of lawmakers of both parties are arguing categorically ruling out ground troops only plays into the hands of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and keeps him from the negotiating table. By ruling out such an option ``you immediately convince Milosevic that we're not really serious, that we're not ready to stay the course,'' Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., said on ABC. ``We have to hold open the option of using ground forces,'' Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., concurred on CBS. He said the attitude in Congress on ground troops has changed with the air war showing no early sign of capitulation by Milosevic. ``Last week, there was no support for American or NATO ground forces. Next week, I think there may be because we understand more what's on the line here,'' Lieberman said. The House returns from its Easter recess Tuesday, while the Senate is away until next week. Both Democrats and Republicans said the use of ground troops should be debated in Congress and no troops should be committed in Kosovo without congressional approval. ``The Constitution requires Congress to make that decision,'' Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said on ``Fox News Sunday.'' But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Vietnam War fighter pilot and POW, said it is time for Congress to ``become more engaged'' and debate a vote on the use of U.S. ground troops. ``We certainly have to make preparations for it,'' he told CBS. ``You never take any option off the table. ... It may well take ground forces to win,'' Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., agreed on NBC's ``Meet the Press.'' Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said if ground forces are needed Clinton must make the case clearly on Capitol Hill. ``If he does ... the Congress and the American people will follow,'' Shelby said on CBS. But other lawmakers rejected consideration of ground troops in Kosovo. The air war should be intensified, Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., told CNN, but he added he couldn't ``conceive of a situation where we ... ought to be using ground troops.'' Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said on NBC that if invading troops are needed, ``those countries that are our allies that have strategic interests, let them take over the ground war.''
[CTRL] Fwd: Go Ahead - Make My Holy Day
Muslims, Christians Clash on Easter By SAMAR ASSAD .c The Associated Press NAZARETH, Israel (AP) -- Easter Sunday turned violent in the town of Jesus' boyhood when clashes erupted between Christians and Muslims, angry over the planned construction of a plaza for millennium Christian pilgrims near a mosque. Thousands of young Muslim men gathered at the disputed site near the Church of the Annunciation, where Muslims have been holding protests for nearly a year. Some hurled insults and curses at worshipers as they left the church, where Roman Catholic tradition holds that the angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and told her she was pregnant. Other youths, wielding clubs, smashed windshields of cars with crosses dangling from the mirrors. More than 70 Israeli police in riot gear were brought in but made little effort to halt the violence. At one point, a group of policemen stood by while Muslim youths smashed the window of a gold-colored Mercedes. Seven people were injured and 30 cars were damaged, according to police. Some 18 hours after the clashes began, six Muslim stone throwers were arrested for rioting and public disturbances, said police spokeswoman Linda Menuhin. Muslim protesters responded by pelting troops with rocks, and police fired back with tear gas, she said. Church doors were shut after early morning prayers Sunday and there was no comment from Christian officials. The clashes, between the city's majority Muslims and minority Christians, came after months of rising tensions surrounding 2000 festivities. After municipal elections in November, snags arose over ambitious plans to give the city a facelift for the millennium. The Islamic movement won a majority on the city council for the first time and the Christian mayor, Ramez Jeraisi, was barely reelected. Topping the Muslims' agenda was the expansion of a mosque and the creation of an Islamic studies center next to the church, the same spot where city planners had hoped to build a Venetian-style plaza for tourists. The dispute is in court and plaza construction is on hold. Currently a small mosque occupies the far edge of the site, where a revered Muslim scholar, known as Shabeldin, is buried. The scholar's name was spray-painted Sunday across an ancient well where Orthodox Christians believe Mary drew her water and the annunciation took place. The clashes began after midnight Mass, around 3:00 a.m. Sunday, and continued until mid-afternoon. Muslims said that after Mass, a few Christian men threw rocks and empty bottles at their protest tent. Christians said they were attacked first. ``My house was attacked with stones today,'' said Salim Suliman, a 68-year-old Christian shopkeeper. ``I never imagined that this would happen, we always lived in tolerance. I understand their need to preserve their site but what is right is right and the land is not all theirs,'' he said. Muslims complained that projects for the year 2000 are only benefiting the city's Christians. Rafieh Shihaberi, a 53-year-old Muslim engineer from Nazareth said the religious tensions are a destructive development but insisted that the mosque be expanded. ``What is happening in Nazareth is not in the interest of either Muslims or Christians,'' Shihaberi said, ``but the issue of Shabeldin cannot be ignored.'' Mayor Jeraisi, an Orthodox Christian who will celebrate Easter next Sunday, stayed at home during the clashes. He blamed the Jewish state for the sectarian violence in Nazareth, accusing the Israeli government of caring little for Arab towns and expropriating land for the sake of tourism. Acknowledging a deep sense of mistrust in his city, Jeraisi said several other parties had been called in to mediate. ``They are working on calming the situation and setting up a meeting to discuss the issue,'' he told The Associated Press. Suliman, whose home was targeted during the day, said, ``it is very sad that it had to happen today on Easter and it's also sad that it is happening to one of the most important celebrations in not only Christianity but for the whole world.'' ``We are not celebrating Christ only, but the father of peace and neighborly love,'' he said.
[CTRL] Fwd: Red China: Our Man in Washington
Report Cites China-Clinton Donation LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The head of Chinese military intelligence sent a Democratic fund-raiser in Southern California $300,000 in campaign donations to help President Clinton's reelection in 1996, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Gen. Ji Shengde sent the money to Johnny Chung, but only a portion of the money reached Democratic coffers, the newspaper said. Chung's testimony has given investigators their first direct link between a senior Chinese government official and illicit foreign contributions, the Times said, citing sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements to federal prosecutors. It is illegal for U.S. political parties or candidates to accept contributions from foreign sources. Chung, a Taiwanese-born businessman who is now a U.S. citizen, donated nearly $400,000 to Democratic candidates and causes from 1994 to 1996, but the money was returned after questions arose about its legality. Chung admitted making nearly $30,000 in illegal contributions to Democrats including $20,000 to the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign. In December he was sentenced to five years probation and 3,000 hours of community service as part of a plea bargain. Chung and Ji were brought together by Liu Chaoying, who was a Chung business partner as well as a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army, the Times said. Liu did not respond Friday to questions sent by the Times to her office in Hong Kong. In their first meeting in August 1996, Chung said, he declined Ji's money but the general said he was already engaged in similar transactions with others serving as conduits for Chinese funds to support Clinton's reelection. Within a few days, Liu deposited $300,000 into Chung's Hong Kong bank account, telling him it was from Ji, sources told the newspaper. Federal election records show that five weeks after receiving the money, Chung donated $35,000 in three checks to the Democratic National Committee. The remaining funds went to one of Chung's California bank accounts but it is not known how that money was used. The Democratic party ``was unaware of any supposed relationship'' between Chung and the Chinese government at the time of the contributions, said DNC spokesman Rick Hess. Chung declined to speak with the newspaper, saying he has ``already told the whole truth to the grand jury.'' A spokesman for China's embassy in Washington denied any involvement in the 1996 elections. ``All these allegations about so-called Chinese government officials' political contributions into U.S. campaigns are sheer fabrications,'' said Yu Shuning.
[CTRL] Fwd: Holy Week in San Francisco
Drag-Queen Nuns Hold Easter Party By MICHELLE LOCKE .c The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Fishnet was big, heels were high and emotions ran deep as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- drag queens dressed as nuns -- threw a 20th anniversary bash here Sunday despite criticism from Roman Catholics that their rituals smacked of heresy. The typically irreverent street party -- which featured bands, Easter bonnets and a ``Hunky Jesus'' beauty contest -- infuriated church officials, who said holding the parody on Easter Sunday was like neo-Nazis partying on Passover. But supporters of the roughly 30 sisters -- a group of faux nuns well-known for shimmying in Spandex to raise money for charity -- said they deserved to celebrate their anniversary. The sisters say they formed on Easter Sunday, 1979. ``The message of Easter is one of resurrection,'' said Tom Ammiano, the president of the city's Board of Supervisors. ``I think that it's time in San Francisco that we resurrect that spirit of coexistence that has existed for the past 20 years.'' Ammiano spoke to a crowd of thousands who gathered under sunny skies in San Francisco's predominately gay Castro District for the event. The board found itself dropped into a debate over the sisters after approving a permit that closed a city block for the party. ``City government has gone out of its way to associate itself with this ridicule and blasphemy,'' Archbishop William Levada wrote Friday in Catholic San Francisco, a church newspaper. Some officials, including Mayor Willie Brown, then tried to rescind the permit. It didn't work, but Ammiano is expected to meet with Levada in a peace talk of sorts. No protesters attended the party. ``Everyone is in his or her own neighborhood celebrating as he or she may choose,'' said Supervisor Mark Leno. ``And that certainly is what San Francisco is all about. We've got room for everybody.''
[CTRL] OEN 4/5/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Bill Clinton: Beijing's "Man in Washington" Chinese Intelligence Supplied Money for Clinton's Re-election Only traitors would obey this "Commander-in-Chief" WASHINGTON--The chief of China's military intelligence secretly directed funds from Beijing to help reelect President Clinton in 1996, former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has told federal investigators. Chung says he met three times with the intelligence official, Gen. Ji Shengde, who ordered $300,000 deposited into the Torrance businessman's bank account to subsidize campaign donations intended for Clinton, according to sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements to federal prosecutors. During their initial meeting on Aug. 11, 1996, in Hong Kong, Ji conveyed to Chung the Chinese government's specific interest in supporting Clinton: "We like your president," Ji said, according to sources familiar with Chung's grand jury testimony. Chung testified that he was introduced to the intelligence chief by the daughter of China's retired senior military officer. Chung's testimony has provided investigators the first direct link between a senior Chinese government official and illicit foreign contributions that were funneled into Clinton's 1996 reelection effort. It is the strongest evidence to emerge--in two years of federal investigations--that the highest levels of the Chinese government sought to influence the U.S. election process. Key aspects of Chung's testimony, which has not been made public, have been corroborated by financial records in the United States and Hong Kong, according to law enforcement and other sources. It is illegal for U.S. political parties or candidates to accept contributions from foreign sources. Only a portion of the $300,000 made it into Democratic campaign coffers, records show. A spokesman for China's embassy in Washington denied any involvement in the 1996 elections. "We are very categoric in our denial of these allegations," said the spokesman, Yu Shuning. "All these allegations about so-called Chinese government officials' political contributions into U.S. campaigns are sheer fabrications." This week, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji is scheduled to meet Clinton in Washington and attend a state dinner in Zhu's honor at the White House. Zhu will make the first stop of his U.S. visit in Los Angeles on Tuesday. On Friday, White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said the administration had no knowledge about the source of Chung's donations during the 1996 campaign and declined to comment on "allegations regarding intelligence matters." Chung, 44, a Taiwan-born American citizen who lives in Artesia, Calif., was one of the most prominent figures in the 1996 campaign finance scandal. He contributed more than $400,000 to various Democratic campaigns and causes, visited the White House no fewer than 50 times and brought numerous Chinese associates to events with the president and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He pleaded guilty last year to election law violations and became the first major figure to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation of campaign finance abuses, including a probe into improper foreign donations. A number of contributors have been indicted in the scandal. Chung's assistance earned him a strong recommendation for leniency, resulting in a sentence of probation and community service in December. Chung has told friends that he would like to write a book about his experiences. Gen. Ji, the Chinese intelligence chief, was named by Chung in sworn grand jury testimony and in statements made to Justice Department investigators during extensive interviews from December 1997 through March 1998. Chung also turned over cartons of financial records. Chung told investigators that he and Ji were brought together by Liu Chaoying, the daughter of retired Gen. Liu Huaqing. At the time, she was a Chung business partner as well as a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army. Leads Provided by Chung Pursued Federal prosecutors assigned to the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force are pursuing leads provided by Chung. They praised Chung's cooperation in U.S. District Court papers that remain sealed, in part, due to national security concerns, sources said. Chung's relationship with federal authorities took a dramatic turn last spring when teams of federal agents moved him and his family into protective custody, law enforcement sources told The Times. The FBI feared for Chung's safety after he received veiled threats and bribe offers from individuals pressing him to keep silent about his China dealings. Those concerns grew after the FBI received information from overseas indicating that Chung could be in danger. For 21 days in May and June, Chung and his family were kept under 24-hour guard in hotels near Los Angeles International Airport by
[CTRL] NZ councils want Army help for Y2K
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nzherald99/story.cfm?theSToryID=4751 A HREF="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nzherald99/story.cfm?theSToryID=4751"The New Zealand herald newspaper online: Storie /A - NEWS30/03/99 - Councils want Army help By Keith Newman Local body leaders are poised to call for military cover to guard against millennium computer bug fallout, warns the mayor of one of the country's largest cities. Waitakere mayor Bob Harvey said the plea for military backup was likely to be issued at a summit meeting of the 86 territorial local authorities to be held in closed session in Wellington tomorrow. The summit will be addressed by the Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley, and Mr Harvey predicted those present would ask the Government to put the Army on standby in case of civil unrest from prolonged computer failures. Civil Defence will maintain a full staff in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on New Year's Eve because of the fear of isolated computer system failures in important utilities. A special commission that the Government announced last month to stop the millennium bug wreaking havoc on public services has already raised concerns about the water supply and sewage disposal. "The Year 2000 crisis is the greatest wake-up call you could have for the new millennium," said Mr Harvey, the Labour Party's new president. "In Britain the Army is on standby, as it is in Ireland, France, Germany and Canada. I understand President Clinton will put the Army on standby in the US in July." Mr Harvey said his city was one of those that had passed muster with the Auditor-General as having systems in place to deal with the computer bug, but others could expect a roasting tomorrow. Local Government New Zealand wants the Auditor-General to identify the 19 councils that an audit of readiness deemed were putting their communities at risk. Mr Harvey said local authorities had been meeting on the Year 2000 compliance issue since he raised it six months ago, but previously it was not even on the agenda. "The horror in all of this is you are a victim of other people's systems," he said. "If we don't get our computers right we won't be able to send out the rates ... The courts will be jammed for years." Governments and everyone associated with the computer industry had known of the potential for millennium problems since 1952 but had claimed they would not happen. The upshot was a $16 trillion global systems clean-up - money that could have been spent on the world's poor, he said. A Defence Force spokesman, Wing Commander John Seward, said troops had been advised some months ago to consider taking holidays before December 27 in case they might be needed to support millennium "activities." ©Copyright 1999, NZ Herald - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Tax Day?--Tax Days!
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Tax Day?--Tax Days! by Sunni Maravillosa Its that time of year again, when headache-relief and antacid consumption increases, when H R Block ads air with annoying frequency, and the talk around the office water cooler turns to refunds and payments interspersed with the de rigueur grumbling about taxes. Most Americans seem to get a perverse pleasure out of complaining about the income tax and the IRS, and rightly sothe income tax is the most visible manifestation of the governments money grab, and the IRS has earned its reputation for brutality and vindictiveness. Even most individuals who believe the myth that government must provide certain services will grant that the IRS regularly exceeds its bounds. So, the focus that gets placed on "tax day" is understandable. However, there are problems associated with this seasonal focus on taxes. One problem is that the annual ritual of bitching about taxes has become just thata ritual for most Americans, one that inspires almost the same amount of critical thinking as the phrase "have a nice day". A corollary problem concerns the time frame of this ritual. Just like Christmas or Halloween decorations, the receipts, forms, and tax advertisements are trotted out, and after April 15 attention to the tax issue fades as baseball season or lawn care or some other ritual looms on the horizon. This pattern blurs the impact of the federal income tax because it encourages citizens to focus on whatever happens in April, rather than the regular theft of their earnings over the year. A more serious problem with the annual income tax-bashing ritual is that it focuses on only one aspect of the tax monster that daily ravages every individual living in the United States. The federal income tax and the IRS thugs who enforce it are certainly deserving of attention and scorn, but that tax is only one of many taxes we are burdened with. Depending upon where an individual lives and the laws in effect there, other taxes can include: social security; Medicare; customs duties; excise; luxury; state income; state sales; local income; local sales; estate; inheritance; gasoline; "sin" (taxes on cigarettes and alcohol); property; capital gains; interest income; gift; utilities (telephone in particular); beverage container (aluminum and/or glass); hotel occ upancy; and tax increases resulting from bonds floated to support things such as schools, infrastructure maintenance and improvement (sewage and other waste disposal, street repair and lighting, etc.), and a variety of social programs. These are taxes that each consumer pays directly. There are more taxes that individuals bear the costs of, being passed along to us in the form of increased prices for goods and services: regulatory taxes on industries such as trucking, farming, banking, and flying; import taxes; and a range of corporate taxes. I am sure that in my research I have missed a tax or two as well. Adding Up the Costs How do all these taxes add up? Besides the obvious response of "quickly!", various means have been devised for expressing the scope of a typical Americans tax burden. The Tax Foundation ( http://www.taxfoundation.org/), a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to studying tax issues, offers a variety of informative measures. The first is "Tax Freedom Day"the day on which the typical American has worked enough to pay her share of federal, state, and local taxes for a year, and the rest of her income goes in her pocket. In 1998, Tax Freedom Day was May 10in other words, the typical American worked 130 days to pay taxes. Another way to look at tax costs is to calculate the number of hours per eight-hour workday that the average American spends working to pay taxes. By this measure, an American spends almost 3 hours each workday paying taxes. Thats longer than the time needed to pay for household-related items (including housing itself), food, and clothing combined. Another group, Americans for Tax Reform (http://www.atr.org/), calculates the "Cost of Government Day", which includes all taxes as well as other costs of government that individuals ultimately bear, including federal regulatory costs (e.g., EPA mandates, affirmative action compliance, laws that increase business costs, etc.). Including these costs, in 1998 a typical American worked to pay for the governments activities (federal, state, and local) until June 25almost half the year. Paying, and Paying, and Paying Looked at in this light, it should be obvious that our tax situation is completely out of control. How did things get so bad? Most of the creeping encroachment of taxes into a persons income is done in ways that are hidden, so we dont see the direct
[CTRL] An Artful Way to Plunder?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - An Artful Way to Plunder? by Michael R. Allen Inadvertently, Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) admitted that he advocates socialism, or at least his own style of it. "This is going to be a classic debate. [Do] we want to give the people of the United States a tax break?" asked the Sunbelt Senator about the 1998 struggle between Congress and the President. In what way did the Senator admit that he favors the rights of the State over the rights of individual citizens? The answer is that Mr. Domenici asks whether or not the Congress will allow taxpayers to keep more of their own money. He obviously has yet to be introduced to the notion that income is earned by the wage earner and not earned and distributed by the State. With politicians such as Domenici leading the "opposition" to the welfare state, who needs the Democratic Party? A government headed by Ralph Nader would probably be leaner and less intrusive than one headed by Senator Domenici, or Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.). At the least, Mr. Nader would abolish corporate and military welfare more than the aforementioned politicians would do. Domenici's remark shows a deep ignorance of the concept of natural rights. One can understand, of course, why the types of legislators we have in office now are clueless to the concept: natural rights are not canonized on a sacred piece of vellum in a museum. Yet, as legislators, they have an obligation to uphold the Constitution, which though flawed is the most salient defense of natural rights ever used by a human government. As long as both conservatives and liberals focus on technocratic policies, the debates will only focus on two alternative visions of a command society. The libertarian concept of natural rights has been forgotten by most legislators as the welfare state grows. When it is invoked, the concept is often misunderstood and used selectively. The Cato Institute, long a proponent of liberty, held a forum on tax reform last year. Though all the tax plans discussed would be welcome improvements over the current code, they all except one ignored the right to property and income that exists independently of government mandate. Quite frankly, I am a bit aghast that the Cato Institute would allow a gang of political wastrels to present their plans at their forum. None of the plans receives my endorsement, though I favor a temporary tariff while government is in transition from welfare state to constitutional economic government. Even then, my tariff would terminate when the government began charging user fees to citizens for the few services the federal government would manage. And one day perhaps even the latter services could be totally privatized. The flat tax presented at the Cato Institute was a rate of 17 percent, with no deductions, and an exemption for families of four earning $33,800 a year or less. A form of this plan was endorsed by Steve Forbes in his 1996 bid for the Presidency, and has since received much publicity. House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Tx.) has promised to introduce the bill in the House when the tax reform debate begins, but when that will be is uncertain. The critique of this plan is obvious: it supports the notion that the government has a right to some of a citizen's income. Unless the rate is reduced, and it is only for a limited period of time before a user fee system is adopted, this plan will not result either in any changes in the size of government or the way in which it collects its operating revenue. Perhaps the plan's creators, who would eliminate capital gains and estate taxes, might extend their defense of these property rights to income, and drop this plan in favor of a modified user fee system after a transition at a lower flat rate. Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) has a plan that is progressive, but with only four tax rates rather than the current five. He allows for a deduction of Social Security taxes and an elimination of the "marriage penalty." Although these are two laudable goals, Ashcroft retains too much of the current structure and makes the code more complex. Some of his ideas deserve attention, but his overall plan did not even go as far as the flat tax plan. Surprisingly, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) arrived to unveil his plan, which is essentially a revamp of the existing code. His plan would mean a flat rate of ten percent for 70 percent of taxpayers but also few deductions and the treatment of capital gains as income. One good thing to say in defense of Gephardt is that, while he wants a welfare state, he doesn't necessarily want it to be a burden on taxpayers. This tax plan might have made him more attractive for the Democratic nomination for
[CTRL] The Soak the Rich Tax Scam
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - The "Soak the Rich" Tax Scam by Don Lobo Tiggre Each year, in the Infernal Revenue Service instruction booklets for the various evil incarnations of Form 1040, there is a set of pie charts. The first of this years charts looks like a chipped 1960s peace symbol; it is a graphical representation of the federal governments income. The second chart looks more like a broken dinner plate; it represents federal outlays (spending). These simple charts tell some very interesting stories about where the United States federal governments money comes from and how it is usedthey are a sort of balance sheet for the nation. A concerned taxpayer might look at these charts and notice that the largest slice of the income pie is labeled personal income: 46 percent! The weary taxpayer might then notice that corporate income taxes only amount to 11 percent. Not only that, but the social security, Medicare, and unemployment and other retirement taxes slicethe part taken out of every paycheck with no way to stop it, reduce it, or get a refundis another 34 percent. This means that individual taxpayers are supporting 80 percent of the immediate cash cost of the federal government. In this light, it is all too easy to understand why so many taxpayers and voters seem to fall for the soak the rich rhetoric of politicians who win support by promising more government programs (spending) at the expense of those nasty corporations. Why, those greedy rich corporations are only paying 11 percent, and they have a greater obligation to support the needy! Or so the ploy goes. This rhetoric ignores the fact that many single proprietor businesses, family businesses, and small partnerships are corporations. It also ignores the fact that the owners of corporations have their earnings reduced by corporate income taxes, and then pay the same income taxor more, if they really are richas everyone else. Another inconvenient fact ignored is that most of the owners of large corporations are not Armani-clad Wall Street typesthere are only so many of thembut middle aged people and senior citizens. Now, it may be that the Armani class controls the corporations, but they dont own them all. Its the collection of "little old ladies next door" and "guys down the street" who either own stocks directly, or have a lot of their savings tied up in mutual funds that own stock in corporations. And the most important thing this rhetoric ignores is that any tax levied on a corporation is just another business expense to be passed along to customers, as far as corporations are concerned. And who do you think pays those estate, gift, and miscellaneous taxes? (One hint: its not the Easter Bunny!) So, yes, it may seem "unfair" that personal income taxes are shouldering ten percent more of the tax load than they were five years ago (they went from 36 percent to 46 percent of federal revenue), while the burden has only increased from 8 percent to 11 percent for corporations. But this is only at first glance. The thing to remember is that corporations dont really exist. They are legal fictions. What exists are people, individual people, and they are shouldering 100 percent of the burden, whether that be through corporate taxes passed on to consumers, personal income taxes, retirement taxes, or any other form of legalized theft you care to name. The only exception is the portion shifted to our children via deficit spending, and even then its still individual people who pay they just do it in the future. The deficit, by the way, has gone from 18 percent to 1 percent in the last five years, which is why all the other income pie segments have gotten larger. Okay, so forget about corporations, those darned rich people need to help out morefrom each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Never mind that the top 50 percent of Americas wealth creators pay more than 95 percent of all income taxes. Yes, never mind the facts, think of the poor! The poor? The unusually conscientious taxpayer might then look at the spending pie to see how the poor are being helped. Social programsnone of which are authorized by the Constitutiononly comprise 18 percent of federal spending. That is almost as much as the constitutionally-authorized amount spent on national defense (including spending on veterans and foreign affairs: 20 percent). However, neither of these come close to the whopping 38 percent spent on social security, Medicare, and other retirement programs that are not means-tested. So, while it is arguable whether or not social programs actually help the poor, it is clear that the largest portion of the money extracted from the rich is going to older
[CTRL] April Fools
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - April Fools by Ace You've heard it said that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. And for most adults, it's a fact. One of the greatest rites of youthful passage only occurs after 16 years of school and a third of a lifetime of preparation. You've finally landed a decent paying job and worked out just how you're going to spend the first check. With excited hands you tear it open, only to suffer the shock of finding more than a third of it "withheld." Few people forget that shock. And few things are more amusing than watching the expression on the face of someone undergoing this memorable moment. After working to climb out of the well of poverty, who isn't surprised and dismayed to find that the taxing authorities now include you among the "rich?" Who isn't stunned when realizing that for the first five months of any given year you belong to them as virtual chattel? You can choose your yoke. You can choose your labor and keep some of the reward, or choose not to labor and become a poor but bound d ependent of the state. You can even choose where you live and make your effort. But you can't easily choose to earn and produce and not to belong to your feudal masters, if only by the percentage. And if you think these assertions are exaggerations, you are entitled to your opinion. But even if you're educated and well informed, you might consider the possibility that you have limited your perspective of reality. A husband is often the last to know about a cheating wife. So as April 15th approaches most of us will pause from our family concerns, and from our interest in Kosovo, Clinton, China, to pay attention to another demand. If we've put forth any effort in the past year, if we've earned any money at all, most of us must calculate the share demanded by the Internal Revenue Service. And the battle between those who work, who produce, who earn, and those socially situated both above and below them who would claim a percentage of their efforts, is nothing new. Ancient Money and Taxation While there's a postmodern movement to portray ancient Egypt as an entirely voluntary society, it's probably more accurate to envision the pharaohs of Egypt as an enormous and oppressive bureaucracy based on direct taxation. Some scholars claim that there was not even a word for freedom or liberty in the ancient Egyptian language. "Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder." Frederic Bastiat, The Law On the other hand, Ancient Democratic Greece and Republican Rome placed a very strong value on the concept of liberty. At least during their formative years where such concepts were held in high spiritual esteem. So did the ancient Israelites, whose escape from Pharaonic domination in Exodus is still celebrated in households around the world nearly three and a half millennia later. Precisely like America, Rome coined gold and silver with the goddess of liberty as a principal image. And precisely like America, classical Roman coinage was progressively debased until the silver denarius -- equal to a day's pay for the Roman foot soldier and a symbolic standard of the nation -- became nothing more than a copper planchet coated with a thin silver plating. Emperors pilfered off the silver, typically without notifying the public of the lowered standard. That the denarius, or "denny," in its debased copper form is still with us today as the "penny," should be a reminder that we are still subject to the same human forces that plagued the ancient world. For those of you who are old enough to remember the reference to our own pocket change as "silver," you don't have to look any further than our own nickel-plated tokens to get a picture of why the so-called "hidden tax of inflation" is associated with currency debasement. The resulting fiscal chaos caused Roman rulers to become progressively oppressive in making up the difference to the depreciating national currency through increased overt taxation. Classical authors from the ancient Mediterranean remind us that the scourge and the rack and were used against negligent taxpayers. Fathers were compelled to prostitute their daughters. Children were sold into slavery. Roman citizens began to flee the nation to avoid taxation and repression. Diocletian imposed price controls and harsh punishment in attempt to preserve the faltering standards of weights and measures, and thereby the interests of late Roman Imperial rulers. The
[CTRL] Taxes on Mars
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Taxes on Mars by Peter Topolewski Ontario is Canada richest province. Average income of Ontarians in 1998 was $27,309 (all currency amounts are quoted in Canadian dollars). Converted to American dollars, that comes in just below Mississippi, the poorest state in all the United States. The reason for the disparity is obvious to those who care to look: Canada is the land of regurgitated wealth. All except the extremely poor (and their numbers are growing) toss about half of their income into the belly of the governing system to have small bits of it spit back at the entire populace in a rather even smear of inadequate and inefficient services. In such an arrangement one is, for taxable reasons, considered wealthy if one earns 60,000 or more dollars a year. In Canada not only is it difficult to become wealthy (even by these paltry standards), there is no incentive to do so. Financial success is punished like no other. In the vicious relationship between government supply and public demand and which came first remains a mystery lies the reason Canada is successfully making a move for the most oppressive tax system in the world. The publics child-like dependence on the government, and the government infrastructure designed to satisfy that dependence, has helped create and justify Canadas tax regime. Among the results: Using a $60,000 threshold to classify citizens as "wealthy" and therefore tax them the hardest. Provincial sales taxes averaging about 7 percent, plus a 7 percent federal sales tax on nearly all good and services. Any wonder Canada is officially a country of bargain hunters? A 7 percent luxury tax on any vehicle over $30,000. Soon enough those hoping to avoid this can look forward to cruising the streets in Yugos. Alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline taxes average one half of the purchase prices. Twelve beers cost about $18 and a gallon of gasoline about $1.80. Government lottery companies that collect millions of dollars a month from poor schmucks in exchange for the faintest hope of rescuing them from their ruts. For many, a winning lottery ticket is the only way theyll get their heads above water; spending their extra cash on the tickets conveniently keeps them where they are. According to recent studies, two thirds of Canadian homeowners are below the poverty level. The ratio of consumer debt and mortgages to after-tax income is 101 percent. The average Canadian has a net worth of $400. Such is the price of the glorious, Soviet way of life in Canada. An unusual phenomenon has contributed to the cost. It could go by many names stupidity, ignorance, apathy, laziness, who knows what else? but the fact remains that Canadians bitch about taxes out of one side of their mouth, and demand more government handouts from the other. In British Columbia (BC) polls indicated that the publics pre-budget fervor called for more government spending. These cries reached their peak during a week when the media was in a frenzy over expectations of the governments sixth consecutive budget deficit. The public attitude in light of this expectation demonstrated several levels of stupidity. First, according to the same polls most British Columbians didnt even know the provincial budgets had been in deficit, as the new one was expected to be. Citizens have surrendered all sense and responsibility. Second, while feeling screwed by government taxes and staring public debt in the face, everybody suffers from the equivalent of a brain melt. They make no connection between these two suffocating problems and their own demand for more government services and government pampering (that is, jobs). At night you can almost here them murmuring in their sleep: the government grows money on trees. Third, people look to the government as the Almighty Provider completely detached and lording above the people, and wholly capable of providing for our needs with something resembling efficiency. Well, the story of the governments business genius is in the numbers. And while politicians and bureaucrats alike claim they work in the interest of preserving the socialist way of life, their results prove only one of two things, and neither has a thing to do with preserving the current state of affairs. Either, The government hopes to strain the system so they can collect and control 100 percent of the peoples money, or The government is completely incompetent. So whos stupider, the government or the people who count on it to baby them? You be the judge. The Grim Case of British Columbia British Columbias 1998-1999 fiscal year ended on March 31st. Last year Finance Minister Joy McPhail projected a deficit of $95 million. It came in at $544
[CTRL] American Mental Health and Politics
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.14/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 14 /A - The Laissez Faire City Times April 5, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 14 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - American Mental Health and Politics by Robert L. Kocher There is a great struggle defining the mental health as well as the future of this nation. Perhaps the concerns I'm hearing, and the condition of the country, is best summed up by two movies. One of them is Rosemary's Baby. In the movie, an unknowing young woman is subtly confused and taken over by a conspiracy of Satan worshipers whose intent is to make her bear the devil's child. The plot becomes more convoluted and bizarre until the night her husband, who is part of the conspiracy, drugs her food and the Satan worshipers come to get her. As she is lain out on a bed naked, and the devil arrives to have sexual intercourse with her, with her last bit of lucidity she voices the realization, "This isn't a dream. This is real." Many of you have expressed the view, "This isn't a dream; this is real," followed by the implicit self doubting comment, "I think." The present situation in this country is so grotesque that it strains the mind to believe it is real, and we are also being told not to believe it is real. The second movie was called Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Elizabeth Taylor in her much younger years (1959). In the movie she is obsessed with her cousin Sebastian, a young man who seems physically and otherwise distant from her. Cousin Sebastian and his mother (played by Katharine Hepburn) dress Taylor provocatively, which attracts the attention of teenage boys at the local beach whereupon the cousin strikes up friendships with the boys, while ignoring Taylor. When she begins questioning what is going on, her cousin and his mother present her as being high strung, and get doctors to prescribe increasing amounts of drugs to calm her nerves. Part of the movie presents scenes as seen through Taylors drugged and confused eyes. As the movie goes on, it begins to appear as though Cousin Sebastian is a homosexual, and he and his mother are using Taylor as bait to procure boys while keeping her drugged from realization and protest. Taylor's confused attempts to explain the situation are met with outside disbelief and justification for increased doses of stupefying drugs. She is slowly pushed to the point of losing conscious functioning sanity. At the end of the movie the cousin is killed as a sadomasochistic act by some of the boys he's been preying on. During the attempt to sort things out, a young psychiatrist (played by Montgomery Clift) is brought in to examine the supposedly insane Taylor. After hearing her story, the psychiatrist looks up and says: Let us begin with the premise that everything this woman has been trying to say is true. The condition of this country is as warped as the plots of those two movies. For us, unlike for the character played by Elizabeth Taylor, there is no psychiatrist to intervene and validate the truth. Liberalism as Mental Disorder I make no secret that I'm of the position that the radical left, and modern liberalism, are profound forms of mental disorder. There are several liberal/leftist subcultures. Leftists are typically characterized from among the following constellation: weakness of intellect and intellectual discipline, regardless of education; absorption with personal drives and impulses; failure to resolve the conflicts of adolescence or conflicts between themselves and reality; a diffuse bitterness toward life; self-absorbed immaturity; a primitiveness of personality; an almost sadistic propensity for destructiveness; poor levels of personal relationships; and numerous other things including a narcissistic desire to be intellectually cute. This places me in direct opposition to probably 85 percent of the present psychological and psychiatric professions, who are predominantly liberal. The politics and public affairs of this nation increasingly boil down to a case of two groups of people who have different views of sanity. It is not possible to begin to explain the source of mental disorder in less than hundreds of pages. What we will be primarily concerned with here is present, past, and generational incidence of mental disorder in this country. Psychologists and, to a lesser extent, psychiatrists, in recent decades have usually completed politically correct curricula in which the quality control has become as much political as clinical, whereupon they have been turned loose upon society like flocks of blackbirds every semester. Many of them are not capable of working beyond the level of cookbook evaluations and superficial psychotherapy. More than a few of them write books of the quality of the heralded study released last week where two University of Michigan researchers accused the political right of being responsible
[CTRL] Bill Clinton's Mentor
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.ZolaTimes.com/aQuig.html A HREF="http://www.ZolaTimes.com/aQuig.html"Bill Clinton's Mentor/A - Dr. Carroll Quigley the 'Network' Touch Revised Review by William DeVore Sunday, April 4, 1999 How did a kid from Hope, [actually Hot Springs], Arkansas, without wealth and powerful friends, find the knowledge to muster and facilitate the most powerful political machine on earth? I may have a clue. Most people have ruminated on how and why Bill Clinton continues to be protected and even empowered by a seemingly omnipotent invisible force. Is it God, perhaps? Or even luck? But whatever it is, it seems to work in 'strange and wondrous ways'. Might we think about it? An increasing few believe that a very conscious 'network' of interests, who have long advanced and fostered Clinton's career, now seem resolute to protect him at almost any cost. It also seems that their ability to forge public opinion is awesome. It is a profound mystery, why the elite of America's leaders, inside the press, the academic world, and even the staid foreign policy establishment, continue to protect him - even after he has been publicly exposed, and proven to be criminal, in law, and morally bankrupt as well. What can he say to Mrs. Broaddrick's charges with any degree of credibility. So, he says nothing and the elite media charade continues unabashed. A Few Nagging Questions Why has the top brass, who control NBC 'spiked' a sensational story, that even their own news executives, after full investigation, see as a "very credible," allegation of rape and cover-up against Bill Clinton by a seemingly very credible Mrs. Juanita Broaddrick? Those who have talked to her say she is fully aware of the ruined lives and multiple deaths strewn all over the Clinton battlefield. She fears for her precious life. She fears for the livelihood of her family's nursing home business which is regulated by the corrupt Arkansas political machine. Why is she coming out of the closet now? In an earlier version of this review, I said it was "knowledge of what "this monster" [her words], might do to the nation. Seeing what is happening won't let her keep silent any longer. She is trapped. Perhaps so, perhaps not. " Then the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal state that she wanted to clear her husband of allegations that he had accepted 'major favors' in return for silence. She obviously believes there were none. This is probably true and helps to explain why OIC Starr and the House Managers decided not bring her experience to bear in the House and Senate proceedings. But, both major stories in the Journal and the Post were in fact stories about NBC and why 'someone' saw fit to override both Tim Russert and Lisa Myers who fought tooth and nail for a timely air date. NBC is a 'network' and 'networking' brings us to the renowned expert in this field, Dr. Carroll Quigley. Is there a concerted 'network' protecting Bill Clinton? Perhaps a clue can be found in reading what Roger Morris reveals about Dr. Carroll Quigley in his best selling book, Partners in Power. Dr. Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor and teacher at Georgetown University. Before his recent death, Professor Quigley was considered the world's leading expert on a 'power clique' which he described as a 'concerted network' which shapes political destiny and fosters talented politicians like Bill Clinton. If Knowledge is power, and few will argue differently, Bill Clinton owes both his knowledge and power to the 'network' introduced to him by Dr. Quigley. The question I have is this: Is this the 'network' with seemingly godlike powers which continues to protect Bill Clinton at the sacrifice of America's 'rule of law'? A Special Two Minute Excerpt from Partners in Power by Roger Morris - - - Spread across a hundred acres on the rolling bluffs above the Potomac in northwest Washington, the Georgetown campus was one of the capital's landmarks. Overlooking the river were the Gothic spires of the venerable and picturesque Georgetown College for arts and sciences. On the gracious Georgetown campus that autumn, [1967], where a future president was intent on the politics of the moment, Virginia Clinton had come to help get him settled, and his provincial Arkansas education had raised eyebrows from the start. "What in the name of the Holy Father is a Southern Baptist who can't speak a foreign language doing in the mother of all Jesuit schools?" a priest had asked them smilingly but pointedly when they checked in. "Don't worry," her son had told her. "They'll know what I'm doing here when I've been here awhile." Less than a day later he was campaigning for freshman class president... John Kalell, a freshman, remembered the tall, cheery Southerner coming by the dormitory already leading a "a coterie" of students who "had some belief in him," thrusting out his hand to introduce
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Day 13, Update 1 (Apr. 5; 0:10AM EST) - A Special TiM GW Bulletin on Kosovo Crisis
- SNETNEWS Mailing List FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA The Special "Kosovo Crisis" Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletins, such as the one enclosed below, can also be accessed at our Web site: www.truthinmedia.org which is being updated throughout the day. DAY 13, UPDATE 1 - Apr. 5, 1999; 0:10AM EST QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I don't fear our government anymore because I already know what they are all about." Darren G. Sarvis, an American citizen who is wide awake (the TiM reader who offered us his comments about Henry Kissinger -see Day 12, Update 2, Item 6 - as Mr. Sarvis said he didn't mind being quoted by his full name). --- HEADLINES New York 1. An NWO Murder Triangle: Two Goliaths Turn on David; CIA Refused to Back an Anti-Milosevic Coup Milwaukee: 2. U.S./NATO Violating a Slew of International Laws London: 3. RAF to Use Cluster Bombs against the Serbs London: 4. A War Too Far (By Julie Burchill) -- 1. An NWO Murder Triangle: Two Goliaths Turn on David; CIA Refused to Back an Anti-Milosevic Coup NEW YORK, Apr. 4 - Picture a little David battling the Goliath (A) - bringing him almost to his knees at least three times in the last eight years. Each time, another bigger Goliath (B) to whom David turned for help to finish off their mutual enemy, refused it. And so the Goliath (A) kept surviving, and David kept getting more and more depressed. And then one day, the Goliath (B) decided to taken on the Goliath (A) - by beating up on the little David and killing his offspring! By now you've probably figured out who the characters in this murder triangle are. The Goliath (A) is Slobodan Milosevic; the Goliath (B) is Bill Clinton; and the little David, of course, are the Serbian people. You've heard us say many times that the NWO needs the "bad guys," like Milosevic or Saddam Hussein. For, how else could they justify going to war? (see "An ugly double standard in Kosovo conflict," this writer's Washington Times column, Oct. 25, 1998 - available at our Web site). Well, now a source within CIA has confirmed what we have been saying all along. That the U.S. government has been secretly propping up Milosevic while demonizing him publicly at the same time. And now, the Goliath (B) is bombing Serbia and killing innocent Davids while supposedly fighting the Goliath (A). Things don't get more stupid than that. "Several Serbian officials plotted to oust Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in the early 1990s, but abandoned the plan after failing to win support from the United States," Reuters reported today, crediting the Newsweek magazine as the source. The magazine reported that the CIA penetrated Milosevic's government. One agency veteran was quoted as saying that prior to the 1995 Dayton peace accord, "we were doing all kinds of dicey things, covertly." The Newsweek said the CIA was contacted by a Milosevic insider who said he had the backing of key Yugoslav military leaders to overthrow the president. The plotters sought U.S. financing and a pledge from Washington to lift economic sanctions if the plot succeeded, but the CIA declined to approve the plan. The source said the U.S. administration considered Milosevic indispensable to negotiations aimed at ending the fighting in Bosnia. Just as they did when they turned their backs on hundreds of thousands of Serb pro-democracy demonstrators in the winter of 1996-1997. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal's Friday (Apr. 2) editorial noted that, "the political establishment in Washington is beginning to criticize President Clinton severely for ignoring the advice of the military and CIA that ground troops would be necessary, that air power alone would not deter Milosevic and the Serbs. There is now talk of a military disaster." The Journal then offered a "remedy:" Get rid of Milosevic! "Having made this mess, the only thing that can redeem it is the removal from power of Milosevic. The crucial step is to declare removal as a goal. Currently we are slipping toward exactly the wrong way to try to compel this outcome, using escalating air power to attack civilian targets such as power grids. After all, just over two years ago, these Serbian civilians took to Belgrade's streets to demonstrate against Milosevic. Before that, in 1991, some 200,000 of them demonstrated against Milosevic's war policies, which have been utterly devastating for the Serbs themselves. Indeed, once the goal of removal is in place, the U.S. could announce a pause in the bombing to see whether there are in fact dissidents in the Serbian military who might move against him." Once again, things don't get more stupid than that. Except that this time, it is the Clinton "conservative" opposition that's proposing a pipe dream. Apart from a few "trivial" logistical problems, such as how to get to Milosevic in the middle of a war,
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Clinton E.O. 13107: Legislature cannot vote on laws w/o UnitedNations approval
- SNETNEWS Mailing List (sent to USCMike1's 30,477+ readers - please repost to your own mailing lists) Dear Citizens, Patriots, Veterans, et al.: Here is a group that says they have a solution to the problem or our evil government. Please visit their website and tell them USCMike1 sent you. Also, please read what they say about Clinton's illegal, immoral, UNConstitutional Presidential Executive Order No. 13107 which places all our Congress and legislation under the control and approval of the non-entity, non-sovereign United Nations organization which is NOT a union of nations united but a front or cover for the original illuminati. USCMike1 E-Mail: A HREF="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A A HREF="http://www.idir.net/~cnc/"http://www.idir.net/~cnc//A Constitutionists Networking Center Satisfied with Government as is? If not, and if you love liberty and want to help restore it in America and to preserve it for your posterity, we invite you to study the WEB site of the only known organization having a comprehensive plan for returning government to within the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the United States of America. Form a Take America Back Team! NEW ARTICLE! COGNITIVE DISSONANCE PERCEPTIONS See the latest press releases and read the NEW! Press Release Feb 22, 1999 IMPEACHMENT: AN ATTEMPT AT JUSTICE or SMOKESCREEN FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE? RE: EO - 13107 Press Release Feb 7, 1999 PRESIDENTIAL EO - 13107 [US or UN? This order says, in effect, that our legislature cannot vote on laws without the permisssion of the United Nations. The United Nations will monitor the states. All laws must conform to the U.N treaty.] CNC Director, Walter Myers, presented a letter to his County Commissioners on Monday (2-1-99) relative to the above EO. See copies of the proposed letter to Attorney General Stovall and the other county commissioners if there is anyone interested in submitting a similar letter and fact sheet to their commissioners. "It's the sort of action that I think should be taken in unison in every county so it would become clear that we have a movement rather than leaving the impression that there are but a few isolated disgruntled citizens." See the EO 13107 here on this site or go to the White House site. Read comments re: EO13107 Read the JOINT LETTER OF APPEAL FOR HELP and CALL TO ACTION signed by: General Raymond G. Davis, USMC (rtd) National Chairman, ABOUT FACE AMERICA and Evan Mecham, Chairman, Constitutionist's Networking Center former POW and Governor of Arizona Picture: To Tame A TyrantTired of Big Brother in your life . . . This highly acclaimed book will explain its cause and how you can become part of the cure!Picture: Take Action Now! And... Contact Your Representatives! Directory of Senators House of Representatives Members Websites Members Telephone numbers Hill Directory: Find Your Representatives U.S. Congressional Directory CNC 442 E. 1250 Rd Baldwin City, Ks 66006 (785) 594-3367 E-Mail: A HREF="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A A HREF="http://www.idir.net/~cnc/"http://www.idir.net/~cnc//A © Copyright Common Law 1998, The Constitutionists' Networking Center, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For questions or comments about this page contact webmaster - Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Serbian Cartoonist: A Nihilistic Mood
-Caveat Lector- NOTE: Following is the latest e-mail from from Serbian cartoonist Sasa Rekazic (aka Aleksandar Zograf), creator of Alas!, Life Under Sanctions, and Psychonaut. He has been witnessing the bombing of Pancevo by NATO and is managing to stay in contact with the international comics community despite his computer being down. Mack White [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swankarmy.net/dutch5/comixnow/ From: "Aleksandar Zograf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sasa Rakezic P.F.163 26000 Pancevo Yugoslavia /Serbia/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello - Yesterday it was very cloudy, so it seems that they haven't dropped as much bombs as it was usual during the past few days...Oh, well... I was thinking about the changes that the use of internet has brought to our life... Maybe it was really visible through this war - I just read the forwarded letter about the strangest topic - it seems that somebody from Italy has found out somehow the E mail addresses of the pilots from the planes which are taking off from the NATO base in Aviano...The addresses were sent to friends in Serbia, and it initiated the "correspondence" (mostly consisting of offense exchanges) between the people who are dropping bombs, and those who are living in the places where the bombs are supposed to be dropped.That's the modern technology... I saw some excerpts from the pilotes' "letters", which were quite disgusting, and I can only imagine the language used by those "on the ground" who were writing to them...These things are always stupid and I like to stay away from that sort of meaningless jabbering... Speaking of jabbering, there's a lot of it on the Serbian media, which are now almost absolutely controlled by the regime...I can't listen to one more insult based on Clinton's sex affairs, or all that patriotic songs, or any other nonsense like that...I have met a guy from the local Peace Movement, and he told me - "Everything that we tried to achieve past several years was anihilated after the bombing has began". Today, the complete staff from the independent radio station B92 from Belgrade is kicked out from their office by the police I can't help but being nihilistic today S. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] The Templar Revelation
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:512442"The Templar Revelation/A - Subject: The Templar Revelation From: Rowland Croucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Apr 4, 1999 11:28 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Book Review: The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, Corgi Books,1997. Psst!!! Calling all conspiracy theorists: what are the connections between the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, the Shroud of Turin, the Priory of Sion, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus, the St. Clairs, the Isis Cult, and the Holy Grail? A bunch of books with titles like In His Own Image: Real Story of the Turin Shroud, Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Second Messiah, and The Hiram Key, feed this frenzy for alternative theories about the origins of Christianity. There's a host of websites devoted to these themes [1]. You must look for clues in movies too: note that the actor Roger Moore plays, in movie The Saint, Simon TEMPLAR, and in movie The Persuaders Lord SINCLAIR. Why has the Catholic Church persecuted sects connected with John the Baptist - like the Mandaeans, the Simonians, and the Dositheans? And what about the odd things happening for centuries in Provence and the Languedoc in the south of France? Why are the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion always called John? Why the ferocity by Rome against the Cathars? (When the crusaders asked the Pope's legates how they would know these heretics apart from the general population, they received the now notorious reply: 'Kill them all. God will know his own.') Something's going on here One of the latest books to address these themes is The Templar Revelation. It's written like a detective thriller. Someone on the Web wrote: THE MOST CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET OF THE WESTERN WORLD IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED -- AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE CHRISTIANITY IN THE SAME LIGHT AGAIN! There's a strand of 'the real truth' preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe First, are there really coded messages in the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci? Who's the mysterious 'Lady M' in da Vinci's Last Supper? Did he really regard John the Baptist as superior to Jesus? Now remember Leonardo might have been Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Why the veneration of John the Baptist by the Templars and the Priory of Sion? Trips to the South of France turn up clues that Mary Magdalene might have lived there: and factor in the connections with the pagan cult of the Black Madonna. Why was this Mary so significant to the heretical underground movements in Europe? Why the strong links with medieval troubadours and Gothic Cathedrals, and the Priory of Sion? The investigation moves to the central theme of the Feminine in the works/worship of individuals and groups like the Templars, St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Abbe Sauniere. The Templars, an order of knights, had a passion for sacred knowledge - borrowing principles of sacred geometry from the Arabs, gnostic ideas from the Cathars, etc. etc. They venerated the two Johns - the Baptist and the Evangelist. Now why were they suppressed by Rome and forced to go underground? Perhaps they'd uncovered something which would rock the very foundations of Christianity There's a deep dark 2000-year-old secret hiding here somewhere. The authors call it 'The Great European Heresy' - - the extreme veneration, even the covert worship, of Mary Magdalene and of John the Baptist. So we come to the main thesis: the 'unimaginable possibility' 'that Jesus and his mission may have been very different from the one taught by the Church.' The bombshell: 'There is evidence that the Magdalene was Jesus' wife - or at least, his lover'. But wait a minute: how is the Son of God related to such figures as Diana the Huntress and the Egyptian goddess of love and magic, Isis? Why are there so many parallels between the life of Jesus and the story of Osiris? Ah, 'Jesus and the Magdalene were living out the story of Osiris' death and resurrection ' And crucifixion made perfect sense - 'for the cross was already an ancient Osiran symbol.' ' Jesus was playing the role of a Dying God who was resurrected thanks to the intervention - magical or otherwise - of his "goddess", his sexual and spiritual partner, Mary Magdalene.' This theory has to be reinforced, of course, by accepting Gnostic works as at least equally worthy our attention to the four Gospels. And 'not only do these suppressed books tend to stress the importance of Mary Magdalene they also present a religion that had its roots - unlike that of the New Testament books - in Egyptian theology'. Mary Magdalene was purportedly a priestess of the Isis cult, in "true" Christianity; John the Baptist was an Isian devotee carrying on a missionary crusade in Palestine. One of his followers, who came to be known as Jesus Christ,
[CTRL] Waco, Serbia, and Equal Justice Under Law -- (0)
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:512390"Waco, Serbia, and Equal Justice Under Law -- (0) /A - Subject: Waco, Serbia, and Equal Justice Under Law -- (0) From: Persons Of Conscience [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Apr 4, 1999 8:31 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Waco, Serbia, and Equal Justice Under Law -- (0) Preamble: We are slaughtering the Serbs right now. Why? We are told we are slaughtering the Serbs because they did the same to others. But wait. Do you believe this? Six years ago US military and government employees murdered the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas: Men, woman, and children all innocent before the law. These murderers--among them President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno--are still walking around free, on the US payroll. Waco makes liars of all who claim concern for human rights in Yugoslavia. Because Waco is a model for murder, deception and cover-up, it behooves us to revisit what happened there. These serialized excerpts from the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum can be found at: http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/library/excerpts.html Text Excerpt 0: Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum Why the Waco Holocaust Matters When barbarities are practiced by a government, civilized people must stand up and say STOP! lest the whole society be consumed by barbarism. Over the cornice of the US Supreme Court these words are etched: Equal Justice Under Law Those words apply to both the Branch Davidians and their murderers. As a society, we do not let murderers go free, for experience shows they will murder again. Under a system of equal justice, when physical and circumstantial evidence indicates a person has committed a crime, he or she is indicted and brought before a jury. So it should be: one rule of law for all. The American Revolution specifically rejected the concept of the Divine Right of Kings. The American revolutionaries believed that legitimate political power arose from each and every individual person, and was delegated by them to government. The government was to be a servant of the people. Under this system, servants of the people (the government) have no Divine Right to murder their employers (the citizens). Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty is nourished by the blood of tyrants and the blood of patriots. We citizens of the US will not be intimidated into silence or acquiescence. We are the inheritors of the American Revolution. By this crime, the US government proclaimed itself to be the enemy of the people. When the executive branch of government turns to murdering the citizens, what redress do the citizens have? Who will arrest and try a murderous general, and who will arrest and try a murderous attorney general? Congress could have taken a number of immediate remedial actions. It could have conducted an honest, vigorous investigation. It could have immediately reduced funding to the agencies involved by the amount spent. It could have disbanded the units involved, fired the personnel, and prohibited them evermore from federal benefits and employment. It could have impeached the military and civilian officials involved; it could have seen that a Special Prosecutor was appointed, and vigorous prosecutions conducted. When the Congressional hearings on Waco took place in the summer of 1995, many Americans hoped that an honest investigation would be done. But Congress suppressed the evidence and became accessories to the crime. For less evidence than you see on these pages, ordinary people are convicted and sentenced to death. After World War II, the Allies prosecuted defeated Germans for alleged crimes against German citizens. What hypocrisy makes the world community turn its face from the American crimes against the Branch Davidians? It is because of the evidence you will see on these pages that Americans are arming themselves, to protect their families against the outlaws, whether the outlaws wear the uniforms of the US military or law enforcement. Look at the evidence against the US military and law enforcement. We have documented their outrageous lies. We have the evidence of their murders. We have the autopsy reports, we have photos of the twisted bodies, of the tortured, gassed, mutilated, and burned. Righteous people of the world: Look! You are the jury. Look at our shame! Next: Excerpt 1, The War Against the Branch Davidians Entire set of text excerpts from the Museum available with anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.public-action.com/wm1-2txt.zip Excerpted by Carol Valentine. Images omitted. Visit the Museum at http://www.Public-Action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 1996 by Carol A. Valentine, on loan to Public Action, Inc. All commercial rights are reserved. Full statement of terms and conditions for copying
Re: [CTRL] Thank You (dry ice)
-Caveat Lector- Okay.think I will just buy the brickshad to get the last word here. Thanks again...don;t know what I would do with all that dry ice anyway. Colleen 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Providence and George Herbert Walker Bush (G. H. Walker, Inc.)
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:512347"Providence and George Herbert Walker Bush (G. H. Walker, Inc.) /A - Subject: Providence and George Herbert Walker Bush (G. H. Walker, Inc.) From: John McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Apr 4, 1999 5:07 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a little preview of what will be revealed at the Providence JFK Conference regarding the linkage of former CIA honcho Lyman S. Kirkpatrick of Providence RI to G. H. Walker, Laird of Providence, Rhode Island in the early 1970's. The company was started by George Herbert Walker the maternal grandfather of Georgie boy hisself. I did not know that G. H. Walker Co. was much like Sullivan and Cromwell where Allen Dulles plied his trade in his early days. Imaginge, little old Providence RI was the home of Lyman S. Kirkpatrick, and one of the chief haunts of Czar Anastase Vonsiatsky star of "The Russian Fascists". Does showing a relationship between Lyman S. Kirkpatrick and George Bush in 1971 prove that Bush WAS CIA? Maybe. Does it prove he was very close to CIA types in 1971? Yes. When you combine this fact with one other statement made by my uncle Charles Yost who used to WORK for Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations, you will reach one and only one conclusion. Lyman Kirkpatrick and George Bush were so close in 1971 that Bush provided a very large favor to Lyman in 1971, providing employment as a Partner and Manager to someone who was very close to Lyman on the hereditary scale. (Read: progeny.) This is just so anyone who wants to check it out in advance can do so. The SEC keeps records of who were branch managers of NYSE Investment firms over the years. I know this for a fact. I worked there just out of college. Arthur Goldberg never trusted Bush and neither did my uncle. Now I see why Goldberg never trusted Allen Dulles. Now I am convinced that Dulles had nothing but ulterior motives in the Warren cover-up. Here are my conclusions: 1) George Bush was CIA in the 1960's and the early 1970's before the UN job he had under Nixon's appointment. 2) Bush's Father and Grandfather were Nazi Sympathizers. 3) Bush and Dulles were also Nazi sympathizers and closet Nazis. George's son, is just carrying out the family tradition. Vonsiatsky was deMohrenschildt's mentor and manager, by the way. deMohrenschildt's wife was BORN in Harbin, Manchuria, Manchuoko, where the HQ of Vonsiatsky's Russian Fascist Org was located. George's favorite nickname? Philip Harbin or "I love Harbin". Hehehe. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH Like Richard Nixon, George Bush was a strong anti drug president, escalating the so-called "war on drugs" begun by Nixon. And, like Nixon, George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was a Bush family tradition which goes back more than six decades and, once again, to Allen Dulles. Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers and the other pirates of Wall Street were making their deals with the Nazis. . . ." THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION "George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis to the prestigious address of 1 Wall Street. . . . "Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's infant Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were American contributors as well. "Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to Germany through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because they supported Fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for profit more than ideology, arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of the German economic recovery. . . . "Sullivan Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure in the American establishment. . . . "The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman Company. The link between Harriman Company's
[CTRL] The Clinton Doctrine.
-Caveat Lector- April 19, 1999 The Clinton Doctrine See below for background and related information. E-mail this story to a friend. President Clinton's decision to use military force against the Serbs was not simply a calculated response to Slobodan Milosevic's intransigence. A careful reading of recent Administration statements and Pentagon documents shows that the NATO bombing is part of a larger strategic vision. That vision has three basic components. The first is an increasingly pessimistic appraisal of the global security environment. "In this last annual threat assessment of the twentieth century," Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified on February 2, "I must tell you that US citizens and interests are threatened in many arenas and across a wide spectrum of issues." Those perils range from regional conflict and insurgency to terrorism, criminal violence and ethnic unrest. The second component is the assumption that as a global power with far-flung economic interests, the United States has a vested interest in maintaining international stability. Because no other power or group of powers can guarantee this stability, the United States must be able to act on its own or in conjunction with its most trusted allies (meaning NATO). The third component is a conviction that to achieve global stability, the United States must maintain sufficient forces to conduct simultaneous military operations in widely separated areas of the world against multiple adversaries, and it must revise its existing security alliances--most of which, like NATO, are defensive in nature--so that they can better support US global expeditionary operations. Combined, these three propositions constitute a new strategic template for the US military establishment. This template is evident, for example, in the $112 billion the President wants to add to the Defense Department budget over the next six years, which will be used to procure additional warships, cargo planes, assault vehicles and other equipment intended for "power projection" into distant combat zones. Less public, but no less significant, is the US effort to convert NATO from a defensive alliance in Western Europe into a regional police force governed by Washington. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright first unveiled this scheme this past December at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. Claiming that missile-armed "rogue states" pose as great a threat to Europe as the Warsaw Pact once did, Albright called on NATO to extend its operational zone into distant areas and to combat a wide range of emerging threats. "Common sense tells us," she said, "that it is sometimes better to deal with instability when it is still at arm's length than to wait until it is at our doorstep." Herein lies the essence of what might be termed the Clinton Doctrine--the proposition that the best way to maintain stability in the areas that truly matter to the United States (like Western Europe) is to combat instability in other areas, however insignificant it may seem, before it can intensify and spread. Perhaps the most explicit expression of this doctrine was Clinton's February 26 speech in San Francisco--an important statement that clearly foreshadowed the decision to bomb Serbia: It's easy...to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in Bosnia, or who owns a strip of brushland in the Horn of Africa, or some piece of parched earth by the Jordan River. But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names. The question we must ask is, what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread. We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere. But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so [emphasis added]. This is an extraordinary statement; not since the Vietnam era has a US President articulated such an ambitious and far-reaching policy. Moreover, as we have seen in the Balkans, Clinton has every intention of acting on its precepts. His decision to bomb Serbia is consistent with a clearly delineated strategic plan. There is a growing debate over the wisdom of bombing Serbia. Certainly many people are concerned about the humanitarian dimensions of the Serbian actions in Kosovo. But in the course of this debate it is essential not to lose sight of the larger strategic doctrine behind the bombing. If the newly hatched Clinton Doctrine is not
[CTRL] HAROLD LIL WEISBERG
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:512085"HAROLD LIL WEISBERG/A - Subject: HAROLD LIL WEISBERG From: "tomnln" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Apr 3, 1999 11:42 AM Message-id: 7e5r2c$fho$[EMAIL PROTECTED] I realize that most of you are "Whiz-Bangs" on the subject of the JFK Assassination BUT!!! For the HONEST ones of you, I'm sure that you will agree that Harold Weisberg his Sweet wife Lil are "PIONEERS" among Critics Because they are both in what could be called "The September of Their Years" their health leaves something to be desired. On the 8th and 18th of April They will be reaching their 86th and 87th Birthdays... What a GREAT time to send a card or even a phone call... Let them know you appreciate their works.. Following is their address: (For Phone # please contact me by e-mail) Harold (Lil) Weisberg 7627 Old Receiver Road Frederick, MD 21702 GREAT TIME OF YEAR FOR "MIRACLES" - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Bear B*tt Bares Baldface . . .
-Caveat Lector- For ya'll edification. As always, Caveat Lector. Bottoms up . . . Om K - from: http://members.xoom.com/BearBottoms A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/BearBottoms/"BearBottoms's Web Page (generated by XOOM's Eas /A - The myths about Mena, Arkansas and Barry Seal I am a pilot. Barry Seal, notorious Drug Smuggler, was my brother-in-law. What is not very well known is: I flew the smuggling flights for him. I was not caught. Except for the smuggling flights and subsequent informant drug stings, all of the stories surrounding Seal are false. You have been lied to if you have knowledge of these stories. The government and the media have told the lies. There are many bandwagon jumpers who have tried to use Seal's name/organization for their own personal agendas. These stories are also not true. I will present the true story on this website and will offer definitive proof that my story is true. I will update this site with documents, testimony, and pictures as fast as possible. THE SMUGGLING DAYS In a nutshell, Seal was fired from TWA in 1974 as a result of an indictment for his piloting part of an attempt to smuggle explosives to anti-Castro Rebels in Mexico. He thought he was doing an honorable thing. He began smuggling pot and was caught and jailed in Honduras in 1979. When he was released from jail, I was released from active duty as a Navy pilot in 1980. We hooked up (he was married to my sister) and began the most sophisticated cocaine smuggling operation of the era. From 1980 till 1984, I flew about 25 successful flights from South America and airdropped the loads averaging 300 kilos each into Louisiana. Seal retrieved the loads and sent them to the owners in Miami and Los Angeles. The dope was owned by the Medellin Cartel and we were paid as transportation specialists of 5,000 dollars per kilo. Mena, Arkansas was used as a aircraft storage base, diversion, hideout, maintenance, and modification facility only. All of the other stories are untrue. Seal caught in Operation Screamer turned Informant Seal was set up by a friend in trouble in 1980. He sold fake Quaaludes to an undercover cop in "Operation Screamer," a Florida drug sting. The indictments from Screamer did not come out until late 1982. Seal was facing major jail time and elected to become an informant to reduce it. It was not easy, but he won an audience with Bush's anti-drug task force and was assigned to Florida DEA agents Bob Joura and Ernst Jacobsen. They went after the whole top level of the Medellin Cartel. Seal set up a 1,500 kilo trip for Pablo Escobar. The plane crashed on take-off in Colombia. The Cartel gave him another aircraft, but it had to be refueled enroute to make it to the U.S. The Cartel offered Seal Nicaragua as a refueling site. I will attach a file that will describe these historic events in detail. After the Nicaraguan sting, Seal set up another sting involving the Prime Minister of the Turks and Caicos islands. As a result of the Nicaraguan sting, Seal had a contract on his head and the government would not let him fly it. I volunteered and recieved a letter of immunity from prosecution for accepting the dangerous mission to Boliva and subsequent return to Las Vegas. This event began in late 1984. The government double-crossed Seal in Louisiana and placed him on a silver platter for the Medellin Cartel to carry out a contracted hit by placing Seal unprotected in a Salvation Army halfway house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Seal was machine gunned to death at six p.m. while sitting in his car in the parking lot of the halfway house on Feb. 19, 1986. I will bring you the full details as much as this web space will provide. All other stories relating to CIA, weapons, Bill Clinton, and sensationalisms are untrue. = from: http://members.xoom.com/BearBottoms/OllieNorth.htm A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/BearBottoms/OllieNorth.htm"Ollie North and Barry Seal Story (generated by /A - THE OLLIE NORTH AND BARRY SEAL STORY After the Operation Screamer indictments in early 1983, Barry Seal made a decision to try and work off his legal problems. He started trying to get someone to work with him. He was having difficulty finding someone. Finally, in March of 1984 he flew his Lear Jet to Washington and received an audience with Vice President Bush's Anti-Drug Task Force. He first went to the National Narcotics Border Interdiction office and was referred to DEA Agent Frank White. Mr. White was a staff investigator for DEAs Chief of Cocaine Desk Ron Caffrey. He told them an unbelievable story. He left, however, without a deal. Soon after, he was contacted and told that DEA Agents Robert Joura and Ernst Jacobsen would get with him and see if he could produce anything they would be
[CTRL] Rambouillet, and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
-Caveat Lector- The Serbs' refusal to sign the Rambouillet Treaty being forced upon them by Richard Holbrooke ( CFR ) is the excuse for the Western Capitalists and their political elites in NWO Europe and NWO run America, to destroy a sovereign state which has no interest in joining the new Corporate Economic Order being forced upon them. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: "It is illegal under international law to use force to compel any state to sign an international agreement." The Rambouillet process is a violation of international law. Joshua2 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: Re: Clinton NATO's Kosovo - Ground Troops Needed?
Russia may be broke, but China certainly isn't. We should take both of them seriously. Why would Albright weigh in against the Joint Chiefs of Staff? What American interests is she claiming to protect? Best Regards, Marshall Houston Portland, Oregon http://www.scmp.com/news/template/Front-Template.idc?artid=19990405003725011t op=fronttemplate=Default.htxmaxfieldsize=2011 Monday April 5 1999 Zhu warns attack could start world war AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE in Toronto Premier Zhu Rongji criticised the bombing campaign as an intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation, warning that the attack could lead to a world war. "All internal matters should be left for the country itself to resolve," Mr Zhu said. "If we should refuse to recognise a country's sovereignty, I'm afraid that would lead to a world war," he told the Globe and Mail of Toronto. The Premier's remarks came on the eve of a two-week North American tour beginning tomorrow in California and ending on April 20 in Canada. Mr Zhu called for an immediate halt to the air strikes, which he said almost caused him to cancel his trip to the United States. "If military interventionism is to be allowed in all internal matters like a question of human rights of any country, that will open a very bad precedent in the world," he said. "We do not have a world tribunal or a world police" to enforce international human rights standards, he said. "So who should be the person to make the decision to use all this military force?" The Premier said the principle of non-intervention applied to China's record in Tibet and Taiwan, as well as to Britain's handling of Northern Ireland or Canadian affairs in Quebec. The Premier said he had been tempted to cancel his visit to the US because of the air strikes and anti-Chinese sentiment in Washington amid accusations of spying against Beijing. He said chances to reach an accord on China's entry into the World Trade Organisation were slim since the White House seemed "rather reluctant" to push for it. He criticised US plans to establish a Southeast Asia Theatre Missile Defence programme to boost the defence capabilities of Japan and Taiwan. Mr Zhu warned that including Taiwan in the system "would be very dangerous" as it would be interpreted as an "encroachment upon China's sovereignty". "The proposal to establish [a system] does not conform with the international treaties on missiles," he said. = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-04/05/056r-040599-idx.html Joint Chiefs Doubted Air Strategy By Bradley Graham Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 5, 1999; Page A01 In the weeks before NATO launched its air campaign against Yugoslavia, U.S. military chiefs expressed deep reservations about the Clinton administration's approach to Kosovo and warned that bombing alone likely would not achieve its political aims, according to sources familiar with their thinking. The Pentagon's senior four-star officers, meeting in closed-door sessions in the Pentagon's secure "tank" room, argued that the administration should use more economic sanctions and other non-military levers to compel Belgrade to make peace in the rebellious Serbian province before resorting to airstrikes. They also complained about what they saw as the lack of a long-term vision for the Balkans and questioned whether U.S. national interests there were strong enough to merit a military confrontation. "I think it's safe to say that I don't think anybody felt like there had been a compelling argument made that all of this was in our national interest," said one senior officer knowledgeable about the deliberations. Led by Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commanders challenged in particular the "domino theory" being pressed in interagency discussions by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. "Losing" Kosovo, she and her allies in the discussions maintained, would lead to wider destabilization in the Balkans that sooner or later would damage U.S. interests in Europe -- so better to act before it was too late. Ultimately, the chiefs agreed unanimously last month to go along with airstrikes, embracing the administration's view that U.S. leadership in NATO had to be preserved and that the looming humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo had to be addressed, the sources said. But the earlier hesitations had been forwarded to President Clinton and his aides, and reports from the White House have said doubts from the military were weighed in the final decision to go to war. Twelve days into the bombing campaign, the military leaders remain doubtful that airstrikes alone can satisfy the larger political objectives put forward by Clinton and other NATO leaders: stopping the violence in Kosovo and driving Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic back to the bargaining table. They fret that the American public was not adequately prepared to accept a prolonged air operation. But they have been
[CTRL] Fwd: Kosovo and Regional Priority Shifts
http://www.worldtribune.com/two.html Assad seek major arms deal in first Moscow visit in 9 years Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Monday, April 5, 1999 LONDON [MENL] -- Syrian President Hafez Assad plans to visit Moscow later this month as part of an effort by Damascus to complete a huge arms purchase deal with Russia. Officials in Moscow said Assad will arrive in Moscow on April 13 and will meet with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. The focus of the discussions, they said, will be bilateral relations and the Middle East peace process. The visit will be Assad's first in nine years. The Syrian president did not visit Moscow since the end of the Cold War. Diplomatic sources said Assad and his Russian hosts will try to resolve the $11 billion Syrian debt to Moscow. Syria has refused to acknowledge the debt and Russian exports to Damascus has not renewed in nearly a decade. The sources said Russia has been considering a proposal to forgive 85 percent of the debt. The rest of the debt will be covered by Syrian exports. The London-based Arabic language daily Al Hayat said on Sunday that Syria appears on the verge of succeeding in raising $1 billion from Iran and Gulf Arab states to buy advanced armaments from Russia. The newspaper said the arms negotiations are stuck over Assad's insistence of long-term payment schedule for the weapons. Russian officials have insisted that any new arms deal with Syria be based on a cash basis. Russia has vowed to continue defense cooperation with Syria despite a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on three Russian firms charged with selling anti-tank missiles to Syria. The companies were identified as Tula Design Bureau, the Volsk Mechanical Plant and the Central Research Institute for Machine-Tool Engineering. "The charges are groundless," Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said. The Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior Defense Ministry official as saying that Russia would continue to fulfill defense contracts with Damascus. Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of the Defense Ministry's department of international cooperation, said the U.S. decision to impose sanctions is "part of the U.S. political authoritarian policy aimed at ensuring U.S. supremacy in any part of the world." State Department spokesman James Rubin told reporters on Friday that U.S. law, under specific circumstances, bans the transfer of military equipment to any state deemed as a sponsor of terrorism. Syria remains on the State Department list of terrorist states. The sanctions, Rubin said, will also ban U.S. government procurement from the Russian companies and exports of U.S. munitions to the firms. The sanctions will remain in effect for one year. Rubin said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has waved sanctions against the Russian government. He said such sanctions on the government would have affected $90 million in U.S. assistance. "The Secretary makes these decisions," Rubin said. "This is a decision you make based on a variety of circumstances." Monday, April 5, 1999 == http://www.worldtribune.com/index-three-text.html After initially backing NATO strikes, Iran now sides with Russia Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Monday, April 5, 1999 An Iranian daily said on Sunday that the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia has only served President Slobodan Milosevic's aims of tightening his control over the Kosovo province. "It looks as if all that NATO has accomplished to date in bombing Kosovo has been to speed up Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's timetable for depopulating that unfortunate province," the English-language Iran Daily said. The skepticism by the newspaper echoes that expressed by Iranian officials over the last few days. Analysts said that after initial support Iran has restrained its advocacy of the NATO campaign as part of efforts to remain in line with the opposition of Russia. Iran and Russia are improving ties in issues of military and foreign affairs. "Considering that the operation was mounted to keep the Kosovars in place and insure a greater measure of security, the worlds' most formidable military alliance must now adopt new measures," Iran Daily said. "Sadly, it appears that the Kosovars themselves, plus impoverished Albania and Macdonia will be footing most of the bill." "There is, of course a bit of amazement that the NATO game plan has been as shortsighted as events are revealing it to be," the newspaper said. "What was supposed to be a sharp reining in of Milosevic appears to be a creeping destabilization of the entire Balkans." The daily said NATO will continue the air campaign against Yugoslavia over the next few weeks and might target Milosevic himself. "NATO will have to consider putting troops on the ground to reverse the refugee tide and be prepared for those troops to remain in occupation of Kosovo for long months to come," the newspaper said. "No
[CTRL] Chomsky on bombing.
-Caveat Lector- The Current Bombings: Behind the Rhetoric By Noam Chomsky There have been many inquiries concerning NATO (meaning primarily US) bombing in connection with Kosovo. A great deal has been written about the topic, including Znet commentaries. I'd like to make a few general observations, keeping to facts that are not seriously contested. There are two fundamental issues: (1) What are the accepted and applicable "rules of world order"? (2) How do these or other considerations apply in the case of Kosovo? (1) What are the accepted and applicable "rules of world order"? There is a regime of international law and international order, binding on all states, based on the UN Charter and subsequent resolutions and World Court decisions. In brief, the threat or use of force is banned unless explicitly authorized by the Security Council after it has determined that peaceful means have failed, or in self-defense against "armed attack" (a narrow concept) until the Security Council acts. There is, of course, more to say. Thus there is at least a tension, if not an outright contradiction, between the rules of world order laid down in the UN Charter and the rights articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), a second pillar of the world order established under US initiative after World War II. The Charter bans force violating state sovereignty; the UD guarantees the rights of individuals against oppressive states. The issue of "humanitarian intervention" arises from this tension. It is the right of "humanitarian intervention" that is claimed by the US/NATO in Kosovo, and that is generally supported by editorial opinion and news reports (in the latter case, reflexively, even by the very choice of terminology). The question is addressed in a news report in the NY Times (March 27), headlined "Legal Scholars Support Case for Using Force" in Kosovo (March 27). One example is offered: Allen Gerson, former counsel to the US mission to the UN. Two other legal scholars are cited. One, Ted Galen Carpenter, "scoffed at the Administration argument" and dismissed the alleged right of intervention. The third is Jack Goldsmith, a specialist on international law at Chicago Law school. He says that critics of the NATO bombing "have a pretty good legal argument," but "many people think [an exception for humanitarian intervention] does exist as a matter of custom and practice." That summarizes the evidence offered to justify the favored conclusion stated in the headline. Goldsmith's observation is reasonable, at least if we agree that facts are relevant to the determination of "custom and practice." We may also bear in mind a truism: the right of humanitarian intervention, if it exists, is premised on the "good faith" of those intervening, and that assumption is based not on their rhetoric but on their record, in particular their record of adherence to the principles of international law, World Court decisions, and so on. That is indeed a truism, at least with regard to others. Consider, for example, Iranian offers to intervene in Bosnia to prevent massacres at a time when the West would not do so. These were dismissed with ridicule (in fact, ignored); if there was a reason beyond subordination to power, it was because Iranian "good faith" could not be assumed. A rational person then asks obvious questions: is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the US? And other questions, for example: How should we assess the "good faith" of the only country to have vetoed a Security Council resolution calling on all states to obey international law? What about its historical record? Unless such questions are prominent on the agenda of discourse, an honest person will dismiss it as mere allegiance to doctrine. A useful exercise is to determine how much of the literature -- media or other -- survives such elementary conditions as these. (2) How do these or other considerations apply in the case of Kosovo? There has been a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo in the past year, overwhelmingly attributable to Yugoslav military forces. The main victims have been ethnic Albanian Kosovars, some 90% of the population of this Yugoslav territory. The standard estimate is 2000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. In such cases, outsiders have three choices: (I) try to escalate the catastrophe (II) do nothing (III) try to mitigate the catastrophe The choices are illustrated by other contemporary cases. Let's keep to a few of approximately the same scale, and ask where Kosovo fits into the pattern.
Re: [CTRL] Contrails, Ozone and Bromine
-Caveat Lector- If you are serious about ozone depletion, just go back to 1962 and 1963 before the weather mod and other programs were classified.read about the little nuclear plants up at the Artic Circle; the plan to melt down the polar caps (oceans two inches deeper) in order Russia may grow more wheat, and here is Kissinger's dream - you corner the market on food as a weapon, weather as a weapon was was already used during Viet Nam War and is now being used against the farmer in the mid west, who are losing their farms with little or no concern on the part of Uncle Sam, who has said "its time they get in another business"add that to seedless oranges, seedless grapes, and government control over seeds; why is it illegal to take seeds into certain countries. Well, when they are not at war, take 1952...prior to Koreathe Joint Chief of Staff was working on a program "how to absorb the colored race"well, so much for the smelting pot of Ezekialbut who was murdering Angola? There is a lot of documented evidence out there re the ozone and what really happened; I have some which makes a pretty good case for New World Order and the selling of the American People. Let us not forget behind every major scheme, and every monstrous plan, you will find the oil companies.headed by Exxon in particular, ARCO, who is getting in deep trouble.and a few other enterprises that are giving away our tax dollars to foreign government, while there are still children who go to bed hungry at night Clinton, Albright, and Reno should be tried as criminals.not as war criminals because there is no legal war is there, so how do you explain WACO, SERBIA, IRAQ.Sadaam Hussein is a gentleman compared to these monsters.at least, he was trying to take back Kuwait, which was stolen from the people of Iraq. Our country looks good on the outside, but it is rotten at the core - in the midst of Ezekials wheel. Are we, the American people to be symbolized by monsters in our government who murder the innocents, while they sit down and feed at our expense on a daily basis and live in a House paid for with the blood of patriots, many of whom lie within walking distance of the mad Butcher of Reno and the Draft Dodger Presidentyes, our president is a coward. Colleen 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] APRIL Worldwide Holiday List
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To answer the question as to who celebrates what, when... April 4 - Sunday, Easter Day (Christian Day) Daylight Saving Time Begins/USA, Canada Albania, Easter Day Canada, Easter Day Germany, Easter Day United Kingdom/ England and Wales, Easter Day United Kingdom/ Northern Ireland, Easter Day United Kingdom/ Scotland, Easter Day April 11 - Sunday, Orthodox Easter (Russian/Greek Christian Day) Albania, Orthodox Easter Eritrea, Orthodox Easter Romania, Orthodox Easter Russia, Orthodox Easter April 12 - Monday, Orthodox Easter Monday (Christian Day) Belarus, Orthodox Easter Monday Bulgaria, Orthodox Easter Monday Cyprus, Orthodox Easter Monday Ethiopia, Orthodox Easter Monday Greece, Orthodox Easter Monday Macedonia, Orthodox Easter Monday Russia, Orthodox Easter Monday Ukraine, Orthodox Easter Monday April 4 Easter -- Christian observance * Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ on the * third day after his cruxification. On this day, Jesus * rose from death and joined God in heaven. April 11 -- Orthodox Christian observance Orthodox Easter, also is known as Paskha. OK, I'm glad to be corrected - Catholici and Orthodoxoi calculate and celebrate Easter on different weekends. So the opportunity for religious atrocities is multiplied. Yow. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: Konformist: Sherman Skolnick Sounds Off!!! 10-16-98
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.konformist.com/skolnick/skolnick.htm http://www.konformist.com/skolnick/1999/ss101698.htm Sherman Skolnick Sounds Off!!! Sherman H. Skolnick Recorded phone message: (773) 731-1100 Office, 8 A.M. to midnight, 7 days: (773) 375-5741 9800 So. Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870 10-16-1998 RAHM EMANUEL --- Foreign Exchange Crook for the Red Chinese? By Sherman H. Skolnick Producer/Moderator, Public Access Cable TV Program "Broadsides" Since 1963, Founder/Chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts With his intense, fiery eyes, Rahm Emanuel scares some people. And some say he also arranges to bribe, blackmail, and even cause the political murder of others. According to observers, he rides his bicycle, so mad-driven, he has been described as going as wild as the headless horseman. Victims have claimed he, on occasion, forces other cyclers off bike paths into virtual pileups. He started out as a campaign aide to Richard M. Daley, son of the late Richard J. Daley, who for 21 years was Chicago's Emperor. In 1989, "the Boss" must have smiled from the grave when his son became also the Mayor of the Windy City, following the poison murder of Chicago's first black Mayor, Harold Washington. At the time of Harold's demise, the day before Thanksgiving, 1987, Richie, as he is called, was the county prosecutor duty bound to investigate the strange death of the Mayor. Instead of inquiring, Richie acquired Harold's chair in City Hall. [This writer, through his recorded phone message at the time taking in calls at more than 500 per hour, was the only one giving details of the political assassination written off as a "heart seizure" by the monopoly press by way of sidestepping fear of a race riot. In 1991, with the onset of my Public Access Cable TV Program, I was the only one to finally get the details onto television. A week after my cablecast, the Secret Service sheepishly announced that they were aware of a "plot" against Harold Washington but lacked the means to investigate.] Because of the patronage army still commanded by the Daley family image and financial octopus, Richard Daley could have most likely become the Mayor minus Rahm Emanuel's specialty, "opposition research," a fancy term for getting deep dirt on would-be opponents, or maybe, flattening them out with a baseball bat or smashing their campaign office, Chicago-style. Knowledgeable law enforcement sources contend that Rahm Emanuel's specialty, where necessary, also includes bribery, blackmail, even murder disguised as "suicide" or vehicle "accidents." In 1991, moving to Little Rock, Rahm Emanuel jump-started the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton by reportedly latching onto a three-million-dollar portion of clandestine funds used to cover up an embezzlement. Over fifty-eight million dollars of federal funds had been quietly parked with Household International and Household Bank to make good the pending claims of Chicago-area caulking contractor, Joseph Andreuccetti, that various financial institutions had swindled him out of very large sums. Of that parked fund, fifty million dollars was secretly transferred to Little Rock in an attempt to cover up a 47-million-dollar embezzlement of Madison Guaranty Savings loan for which Bill and Hillary are subject to federal criminal prosecution and jail. The 3-million-dollar gap, known in mob parlance familiar to Rahm Emanuel as "street tax," was quickly given to Clinton when he informed Emanuel that Clinton needed funds pronto to get himself into front-running status in the presidential campaign. In a Sunday Magazine cover story about Rahm Emanuel, the fixer, the Chicago Tribune referred to it, 11/23/97, page 34: "'Between the time he came on board in November 1991 to the first of the year somehow $3 million was raised,' says David Wilhelm of Chicago, the campaign director at the time and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. 'It was enough to catapult him [Clinton] into front-runner status.'" (Emphasis added.) In remarks about the mysterious 50 million dollars in the Congressional Record, Cong. Dan Burton (R., Ind.) promised to put the documents of Clinton's crimes in the Congressional Record soon thereafter. Apparently the target of blackmail and threats, Cong. Burton failed to fulfill his promise and his then-Chief of Staff refused to explain why. See: Cong. Record, 5/29/96, pages H5627-28. The unauthorized transfer of 50 million dollars of federal funds, so far, has kept Bill and Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted for embezzlement. All this thanks to Cong. Henry Hyde, who has a large financial interest in the operations of Household International and Household Bank. Is it a mere coincidence, with his serious conflicts of
[CTRL] Shifting Tides
-Caveat Lector- From Int'l Herald Tribune Paris, Monday, April 5, 1999 New Darkness In the Balkans The Ghosts of Many Wars Are Haunting Refugees By Roger Cohen New York Times Service BERLIN - All is dark again in southeast Europe. Close your eyes and those long lines of ragged ethnic Albanian refugees struggling out of Kosovo fuse with so many other processions of the Balkan bedraggled: a million Greeks out of Turkey in 1923, 500,000 Turks out of Greece in the same year, more than 750,000 Muslims out of Bosnia in 1992 and 175,000 Serbs out of Croatia in 1995. Where will it end? After 12 days of NATO air attacks on Serbia and Montenegro, confusion seemed absolute. A war begun to persuade President Slobodan Milosevic to agree to a peace plan offering autonomy to Kosovo's ethnic Albanians had become a battle to stop him from evicting all those Albanians under cover of the mayhem of air strikes. A NATO air campaign with limited goals had begun to look like a full-scale war whose true target was Mr. Milosevic - and whose potential to spread to Macedonia and Albania seemed real as more than 200,000 Kosovo refugees straggled across those countries' borders. Another somber possibility was that the alliance itself could be threatened by the ignominy of failure on the eve of what had been billed as a glorious 50th birthday party this month at a gathering in Washington. ''The credibility of the alliance has been heavily damaged,'' commented Christoph Bertram in the German weekly Die Zeit. ''And it is a bitter irony that in the beginning it was concern for this credibility that was the decisive factor behind the attack.'' That attack has now gained an unpredictable momentum. ''To say we are not at war seems to me a statement too ridiculous even to refute,'' said General William Odom of the Hudson Institute. ''And wars, as von Clausewitz noted, are acts of force to compel our enemies to do our will. So let's get on with it before the president inadvertently tears up our alliance.'' But America's will seemed unclear, even on such fundamental issues as whether to terrorize or talk to Mr. Milosevic, and what degree of independence Kosovo should have. A number of outcomes now seem possible, but one trend is inescapable: The history of the Balkans since the beginning of the 19th century is broadly that of the emergence of nation states. In the place of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, and later the multinational state of Yugoslavia, smaller countries of peoples claiming the same language, religion and culture have emerged. The process began with Greece, which rose against the Ottomans in 1821 and gained independence in 1930. More recently, the process has brought the establishment of Slovenia and Croatia in 1991. Throughout, the intermittently bloody unscrambling of mixed populations who often had scant sense of ''nationality'' has been apparent. The trend seems unlikely to stop. It suggests that the truncated, surviving Yugoslav federation is unlikely to fare better than its far larger predecessor. One day, Kosovo and Montenegro will probably go their own ways, allowing Serbia, at last, to proclaim itself once more a nation state, as it was in the 19th century. But in the interim, many scenarios seem possible. The first critical issue, officials said, is whether to keep a diplomatic channel open to Mr. Milosevic that might permit some salvaging of an accord on autonomy for Kosovo. For now, the channel remains, meager and reduced further by each new reported Serbian atrocity against the ethnic Albanians, but it has not been abandoned. As a result, no clear decision has been made to go for overthrowing Mr. Milosevic. General Klaus Naumann of Germany, a top NATO general, did say that ''we clearly intend to loosen his grip on power and break his will to continue.'' But only with the bombing of the Serbian Interior Ministry in Belgrade on Saturday did the alliance begin to appear ready to place Mr. Milosevic's jugular in its sights. What could further radicalize this NATO approach? Perhaps a revelation of large-scale Serbian executions of the many missing ethnic Albanian men of fighting age. Or gross Serbian mistreatment of the three U.S. soldiers captured last week. Another catalyst could be reliable intelligence suggesting that resistance to Mr. Milosevic in the army and security forces is rising fast, so that only a coup de grace is needed. Or a further deepening of the refugee crisis. At that point, NATO might intensify its bombing of Belgrade. President Bill Clinton could turn up the propaganda war by appealing directly to the Serbian people to rise against Mr. Milosevic because he has brought them to ruin. Major resources could be invested in stirring Montenegrin restiveness, already strong. All these measures could undermine Mr. Milosevic. Whether they would remove him is another matter. Mr. Milosevic has shown extraordinary resilience even as he has unleashed waves of destruction. After so much time,
[CTRL] US backs mercenaries in Kosovo.
-Caveat Lector- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 19, 1998 issue of Workers World newspaper - U.S. backs mercenary army in Kosovo By Gary Wilson The U.S. government is pushing forward its covert contra war in the Yugoslav region of Kosovo. A CIA-backed mercenary armycalled the Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK)has stepped up its infiltration into Yugoslavia. On April 24, some 200 mercenaries attempted to invade Yugoslavia through the border with Albania. The U.S. State Department reported that the Yugoslav Army killed 23 of the mercenaries. The April 25 New York Times reported that the Clinton administration is threatening to step up sanctions against the Yugoslav government if it continues its "current course of action"- that is, if it continues to resist the mercenary invasion. The Yugoslav government warned that the mercenary attacks across Albanias border will lead to a regional war. The United States government is covertly backing the mercenary army. While a report in the April 6 New York Times by Balkans bureau chief Chris Hedges did not mention the CIA ties, it did give details Hedges learned while traveling with the OVK. The Times reported that the bulk of the OVK is made up of "foreign mercenaries." Hedges reported, "The rapid and startling growth of the armed insurgency has prompted fears that the unrest in the province could explode into the next Balkan war." According to The Times, the mercenary army "has no political wing." It has no goal other than to attack the Yugoslav government. The mercenaries carry the latest weapons and electronic surveillance equipment. All dress in new camouflage uniforms. The U.S government covertly provides them satellite information about the Yugoslav Army. The mercenary army first targeted Albanians in Kosovo who were considered "pro-government" -that is, those opposed to the breakup of Yugoslavia. The next targets were Serbian farmers in Kosovo. They were driven off their land. The mercenaries have murdered Yugoslav government officials, schoolteachers and others. CIA support is funneled through a so-called "Government of Kosovo" based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its Washington office employs the public-relations firm of Ruder Finnnotorious for its slanders of the Belgrade government. No government in the world officially recognizes a "Government of Kosovo." A Turkish newspaper correspondent reported in March that journalists have gone to Kosovo "with a prejudgment." Quoted in the online document "The Media War Against Yugoslavia," (www.gov.yu/mediawar.html) the Turk ish journalist wrote: "There are in Kosovo about a dozen journalists from Turkey. When starting our journey, we were convinced that the events from Bosnia would be repeated there. Afterwards, there was no place for the objective news that we prepared. All journalists in that region are just looking for sensations. "A joke may very well describe the situation in which the journalists who followed the events in Kosovo found themselves. A five-star hotel- the Grand Pristina- in which they were accommodated was called, by the journalists among themselves, Hotel Casa blanca. Anyway the surroundings reminded us very much of the scenario of the famous film Casablanca. Agents were everywhere. "Before you send your news to the newspaper or to the agency in which you work, you first inform the American Information Center (USIS). In fact, the demonstrations really started in front of the American Information Center. The demonstrations organized against the Serbian leadership were not deprived of the American flag and posters with the inscriptions, Where are you, America?" By pushing the region to the brink of war, the U.S. government is creating a justification for bringing its imperialist occupation army into Kosovo. Washington has been maneuvering for a military occupation of Kosovo as part of its military takeover of the Balkans. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY,NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) 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.
[CTRL] CIA war in Kosovo?
-Caveat Lector- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 19, 1998 issue of Workers World newspaper - Is there a CIA war in Kosovo? By Gary Wilson News reports here about the Yugoslav province of Kosovo have presented greatly exaggerated tales. The stories have been "enhanced" by those with an interest in either promoting a civil war or weakening the Yugoslav government. The Western big-business-controlled media all report the same thing. They say Yugoslav government forces are engaged in "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, forcing a flood of refugees from Kosovo to Albania. The Yugoslav government says its military operations against armed mercenaries entering over the Albanian border ended June 1. It also says there has been no significant exodus from Kosovo to Albania. So what is the truth of the situation? First, it should never be forgotten that the big media like the New York Times and CNN have close ties to the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies. These media giants usually serve as propaganda arms for U.S. foreign policy. They can lie about events and frequently do. Sometimes they admit much later that their original reports werent exactly true. KLA is mercenary army For example, most reports dont make it clear that the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army is a foreign mercenary army in the pay of the Western imperialist powers. The KLA did not exist until recently. It became active only in the last few months. The June 6 New York Times reported that KLA forces are entering Kosovo through Albania. But they are not from Albania. According to the report, most of them come from Germany- where they were born- and most speak only German, not Albanian. The report claims that many of them, but not all, have parents or grandparents who emigrated from Albania. All the funds for the mercenary army come from abroad, primarily from the United States, reported the May 26 Washington Post. The money is funneled through Albanian immigrant groups. These are the sort of anti-communist groups long promoted by the CIA. Since March, the Post reported, the U.S. group has sent $4 million to the KLA. These are the openly reported funds. There is more "cash carried in suitcases" that hasnt been disclosed, the Post said. The article said the U.S. State Department has encouraged the transfer of funds to the KLA. It is all legal, State Department spokesperson John Russell said, because the KLA has not been classified by the U.S. government as "terrorist." This is in contrast to every genuine national liberation movement in the world. The U.S. government routinely labels them all as terrorists. For example, groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization have been labeled as terrorist. Anyone in the U.S. sending funds to the PLO would risk arrest and prison. The KLA has no known leaders, political platform, publications or anything else to indicate that it is a liberation force. In fact, the tactics used by the KLA are more akin to those used by fascist terror squads. In its long report of May 26, the Washington Post buried a paragraph describing how KLA mercenaries have targeted Serbs. One out of every 10 people in Kosovo is Serbian. The paragraph described KLA mercenaries stopping a train. They proceed to search the train, and then abduct a man traveling with his family because he is a Serb. "About a dozen Serbs have been kidnapped in the past week. Two have been found dead," the Post reports. The mercenaries dont just kill Serbs. They also kill Albanians considered to be friendly to Serbs. As for the press reports of a mass exodus from Kosovo, none shows pictures of masses of people. A photo of a family of eight walking through a field, for example, accompanied the New York Times report. The caption said "thousands of refugees are fleeing." In the meantime, the United States is waging a two-pronged war against Yugoslavia. Since 1991, Washington has imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. Sanctions are like an army surrounding your house. They may not be firing weapons at the house, but they are stopping all kinds of supplies and food from entering. It is a policy of starvation once favored during sieges by medieval armies. These sanctions continue to this day. Now the United States is proposing to stiffen them. Will U.S. troops be next? U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said in London June 7: "The sanctions regime of the Contact Group led by the U.S. and Great Britain has been very tight and is poised to tighten further if the situation deteriorates, and NATO is already making contingency plans if everything falls apart." (French News Agency, June 7) The contingency plan Holbrooke referred to is the threat of military occupation by U.S./NATO forces. U.S. Senate leader Trent Lott supported a U.S. military operation in Kosovo on CNNs "Late Edition" June 7. According to news reports, the U.S. State
[CTRL] Mysterious America
-Caveat Lector- From Mysterious America by Daniel Pipes Thursday, April 01, 1999 Comments: 92 posts The German weekly Der Spiegel states, "Never before in modern history has a country so dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today." Looking back even further, columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote recently in The New Republic that the United States "the most dominant power relative to its rivals that the world has seen since the Roman empire." A stealth aircraft Actually, they are understating the case: The United States enjoys a might without precedent in human history. This country spends an order of magnitude more on its forces than any other. The U.S. is the only participant in the "revolution in military affairs," giving it whole classes of weaponry (such as stealthy planes) beyond the competence of others, and it has a force projection that extends to nearly the entire globe. No state can contest it in conventional or non-conventional terms. One might think that this muscle simplifies America's strategic landscape for, in theory anyway, the United States can on its own take on virtually any task without help from anyone. It can get rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, destroy the North Korean arsenal or even contain Chinese ambitions. Such niceties as United Nations endorsement, troops from Europe, money from Japan, or bases from Saudi Arabia are helpful but not necessary. A murky reality Well, that is the theory, anyway. And were Seattle to be invaded, it would be fact; in an emergency, Americans would again be of one mind and our power would no doubt win out. But in the meantime, with the use of force always optional, Americans tend to be enormously divided among themselves. Everything is now voluntary: Do we wish to be global policeman or withdraw into a shell? Get involved (as in Kosovo) to save lives or adopt a strict standard of national interests? We can do pretty much what we like. And sometimes that is not very much. The reality partly reflects the age-old divide between those who see the United States as a light unto the nations and those who would have it setting its own house in order. It also reflects the yawning liberal-conservative gulf that emerged at the time of the Vietnam War. And the absence of a Soviet-American great game makes each issue that much more difficult to decide. Angola and Afghanistan fit into a global chess game, but Haiti and Bosnia are self-contained. Our current behavior patterns reflect the peculiar American habit of capping victory abroad by rushing home. We did this after the World Wars I and II, then stayed true to form after the Cold War. Following the Soviet implosion we chose not to create an empire but to reduce military spending, not to dominate our neighbors but to increase trade with them (NAFTA), not to start foreign adventures but to fix the chronic problems of American life -- the race problem or the tax system. Americans spend money on arms with reluctance and send troops abroad with deep misgivings. Most of all, the end of war always allows us the chance to engage in some Constitution-sanctioned pursuit of happiness (Roaring '20s, Booming '50s). In the '90s we surf the Internet, explore new sexual identities and follow the Dow index. It seems that the national mission is to perfect our tennis backhand or mix the ultimate barbecue sauce -- certainly not making the world safe for democracy. We would rather defeat a rival sports team than Castro or Saddam. So, while objective indices point to unparalleled American power, subjective realities paint a much murkier picture of confusion, insularity and reluctance. The projection problem All of which utterly baffles the outside world. Non-Americans, whether as near and dear as Canadians or as remote as North Koreans, cannot fathom and do not quite trust the apparent self-absorption of Americans. Even our closest allies (not to speak of more than a few alienated Americans) read the seeming American lack of interest in overseas expansion as a ploy. Many question the real agenda of America They hunt to interpret the real agenda, locate the underlying imperial motives, unmask the hidden conspiracy. Their fevered imaginations allow them to see international institutions -- the Security Council, International Monetary Fund, World Bank -- turning into pawns of American hegemony. They take President Bush's one-time remark about a "new world order" -- a dimly conceived, anodyne notion about politics after the Cold War, lacking any operational importance -- and trumpet it as an ominous and programmatic lifting of the veil. This suspiciousness usually reveals what psychologists call projection: Foreigners assume Americans are doing what they would do with our power -- impose their will on others. They imagine that the United States, finding themselves in the catbird seat would act like they would: Expand territorially, build spheres of influence and create exclusive trade zones. They cannot believe
[CTRL] Federation of Earth
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.wcpagren.org/cnfdeart.dir/contents.html#ConPreamble back to WCPA index A CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH - Contents As Amended At The World Constituent Assembly In Troia, Portugal 1991. Now being circulated worldwide for ratification by the nations and people of earth. Quote from Benjamin Franklin at the close of the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 Distribution for ratification under the direction of the World Constitution and Parliament Association and the Global Ratification and Elections Network (wcpagren.org). World Constitution and Parliament Association 8800 West 14th Ave. Lakewood, Colorado 80215 USA Phone 303-233-3548 Fax 303-237-7685 Online contact! [EMAIL PROTECTED] CALL to the GLOBAL RATIFICATION and ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN Viw the Constitution as one big file (160K). A CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH Contents Preamble Article 1 - Broad Functions of the World Government Article 2 - Basic Structure of World Federation and World Government Article 3 - Organs of the World Government Article 4 - Grant of Specific Powers to the World Government Article 5 - The World Parliament Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Parliament Sec. B - Composition of the World Parliament Sec. C - The House of Peoples Sec. D - The House of Nations Sec. E - The House of Counsellors Sec. F - Procedures of the World Parliament Article 6 - The World Executive Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Executive Sec. B - Composition of the World Executive Sec. C - The Presidium Sec. D - The Executive Cabinet Sec. E - Procedures of the World Executive Sec. F - Limitations on the World Executive Article 7 - The World Administration Sec. A - Functions of the World Administration Sec. B - Structure and Procedures of the World Administration Sec. B-5 and 6: Secretary General of the Administration Sec. C - Departments of the World Adminstration Article 8 - The Integrative Complex Sec. A - Definition Sec. B - The World Civil Service Administration Sec. C - The World Boundaries and Elections Administration Sec. D - Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems Sec. E - The Agency for Research and Planning Sec. F - The Agency for Technological and Environmental Assessment Sec. G - The World Financial Administration Sec. H - Commission for Legislative Review Article 9 - The World Judiciary Sec. A - Jurisdiction of the World Supreme Court Sec. B - Benches of the World Supreme Court Sec. C - Seats of the World Supreme Court Sec. D - The Collegium of World Judges Sec. E - The Superior Tribunal of the World Supreme Court Article 10 - The Enforcement System Sec. A - Basic Principles Sec. B - The Structure for Enforcement Sec. C - The World Police Sec. D - The Means of Enforcement Article 11 - The World Ombudsmus Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Ombudsmus Sec. B - Composition of the World Ombudsmus Article 12 - Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth Article 13 - Directive Principles for the World Government Article 14 - Safeguards and Reservations Article 15 - World Federal Zones and the World Capitals Article 16 - World Territories and Exterior Relations Article 17 - Ratification and Implementation Sec. A - Ratification of the World Constitution Sec. B - Stages of Implementation Sec. C - First Operative Stage of World Government Sec. D - Second Operative Stage of World Government Sec. E - Full Operative Stage of World Government Sec. F - Costs of Ratification Article 18 - Amendments Article 19 - Provisional World Government Sec. A - Actions to be Taken by the World Constituent Assembly Sec. B - Work of the Preparatory Commissions Sec. C - Composition of the Provisional World Parliament Sec. D - Formation of the Provisional World Executive Sec. E - First Actions of the Provisional World Government AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -Thomas Huxley + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Skeptic News Thursday #2]
-Caveat Lector- ric carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snupped : Which Bible version would you prefer: HipHip, CW, Pig Latin, DeathMetal, Klingon, Pachuco, ValGal, Beatnik, Techno, Multiple Drug Abuse, Pentagonese, Satanic, BirdCall, Cajun, Tantric, Garlic Lover's, Punk? Which is 'coolest'? snupped How 'bout Igpay Atinlay? ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ea/earl/Ible-bay/Ible-bay.html :^) Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Serbs Beat Their Dogs! (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- SERBS BEAT THEIR DOGS! == (CNNS, 04/05/99) -- This just in, from the Compromised News Network (CNN): JUDY WOODCHUCK: Christiane Aimpoor is standing by, at our Hollywood studio... er, I mean, on the Yugoslav/Albania border. Come in Christiane. Are you there? CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: Yes, Judy. I'm standing here at the Yugoslav border, in Albania, in Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean from where you are. The refugees have been telling me some whopping good stories, about Serbs beating their dogs. You, sir, have you got a minute? GRIZZLED REFUGEE: Why, yes, Ms. Aimpoor. CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: What have the dirty Serbs been doing in Yugoslavia? GRIZZLED REFUGEE: Why, uh... Many bad, bad things. CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: Have they been beating their dogs? GRIZZLED REFUGEE: Beating their dogs? . Oh, yes! Beating their dogs! Oh, it's been bad. The poor dogs, beaten bad by these Serbs. CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: Thank you. We have some video now, snuck out to us from the studio... I mean from Yugoslavia, showing some mighty sad, mournful faces of several canines, staring into the camera. (Footage from a kennel in Los Angeles.) CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: The Serbs (of course) are denying these latest outrages. However (Shady-looking Iranian appears in the background.) IRANIAN: Psst Ms. Aimpoor. Here is the $1 million from my government for your "advocacy journalism." CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: (Hisses) Not here, you idiot! Give that money to my husband, James Rubin, at the State Department! (Shady-looking Iranian slinks away.) JUDY WOODCHUCK: Christiane? Christiane? Who was that man you were whispering to? CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: Sorry, Judy. That man was a refugee, demented from seeing the Serbs beating their dogs. JUDY WOODCHUCK: Yes, yes. It's shocking. We have to go live now, to the Pentagon, where their spokeperson will give us an honest picture of what's going on. Any final words, Christiane? CHRISTIANE AIMPOOR: Tell my husband, if some money happens to be handed to him, to put it in a Swiss bank, in my name. -- CNNS (Conspiracy Nation News Service) is an INDEPENDENT news outlet, not owned by anyone. (But of course, we would say that, wouldn't we?) BEWARE THE CFR! BEWARE THE CIA! BEWARE THE KNIGHTS! http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cnns.html 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] some little-discussed details of Kosovo mess (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Latest from Sherman Skolnick: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:23:40 -0700 From: Sherman Skolnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: some little-discussed details of Kosovo mess Here are some details from a much longer article by Sherman H. Skolnick on how the faceless dictators are promoting the New World Order by smashing up nations and destroying sovereignty,with Yugoslavia as an example: (1) There is strong reason to believe Milosevic was installed in the late 1980s by the American CIA. Like other Frankenstein's monsters, he appears to turn on his creators while he appeals to the nationalistic aspirations of his constituents. The average person in the U.S. does not know this. (2) Drug enforcement authorities worldwide are fully aware that the Kosovo Liberation Army are not, as some depict them, sweet, nice "freedom fighters" but rather are a vicious gang of druglords. They traffic in dope for the Red Chinese, pushing through out Europe "China White" high purity heroin preferred by junkies who can smoke instead of using a needle. (3) Notice, Albania is a puppet client state of Red China. (I have a book of the speeches of Albania long-time dictator Gen. Enver Hoxha how he praises China.) Albania has been pro-China all the way back to Marco Polo. (4) The K.L.A. are ethnic ALbanians that wish either to separate from Serbia or annex Kosovo to the drug-haven of Albania. (5) The overthrow of Yugoslavia as a nation in 1989, to promote the downfall of nationhood and sovereignty, was arranged by Henry Kissinger Associates with the help of super money laundry expert Vincent W. Foster, Jr. The attack on the Yugoslav banks and their currency was aided by Foster, with the help of his law partner cronies Hillary Rodham Clinton and Webster Hubbell. The three of them were reportedly strategists for Systematics a reputed proprietary operation of the super secret National Security Agency. (The 700 pages about NSA and Foster, released under Freedom of Information request, tend to support this.) Systematics has been a bank computer software services firm which reportedly spied on banks, friend and foe, worldwide. Was this an additional motive for the strange death of Foster, afew months after he became Clinton White House deputy counsel? Was his death really "suicide" or murder? Clinton, owned by the Red Chinese, is protecting the pro-China druglords of Kosovo and Albania. This puts a different light on the whole Kosovo affair. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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: THE SCOOP: CNN's Kosovo Identity Crisis
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: Subject: THE SCOOP: CNN's Kosovo Identity Crisis Date: 5 Apr 1999 02:55:37 - From: The Scoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Scoop - http://www.bobharris.com/ To new subscribers: thanks for joining up. Yes, the column really is free, and you're encouraged to forward it to friends. That's how our readership grows. If you've just joined up from some exotic locale because you heard my rants on Armed Forces Radio (see below), please drop a line and say howdy. In the last week, we've heard from Bahrain and Spain. Whether they were mainly on the plain they didn't say. Thanks! bh THE SCOOP for April 5, 1999 ___ CNN's Kosovo Identity Crisis also: Bob Dole, Sex Criminal © 1999 Bob Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] = italics So my big sister calls me this week. My sister is a major bonus. Great sense of humor. Heart oversized like movie popcorn. And really, really smart. Anybody who doesn't like my sister has no business being on this planet. Sis calls me up because she's trying to be a good citizen and has therefore watched hours of TV news reports about the Crisis In Kosovo. Big sis has endured dozens of furrowed brows, scores of scary pictures, and hours of flashy graphics. CNN's special Kosovo theme music churns like a bellicose jingle in her head. And sis calls because after days of Fox and MSNBC telling her what just blew up, she still doesn't quite follow how exactly the whole mess really started, how it might best end, or what to think about it in any case, other than it's obviously really bad. Just like most Americans. Including the ones in Washington. My sister's one of the smartest people I know. Her only mistake was in believing, as most of us have been trained to believe since birth, that TV is a good way to learn about a subject in depth. It is not. TV is a good way to learn about which subjects are on fire. Here's how mindless Kosovo coverage can be: You remember when the news came in last Wednesday that three U.S. servicemen had been captured by the Serbs. Soon, CNN showed Serbian videotape of the prisoners. CNN also reported that the three captured servicemen had not yet been identified. CNN's anchors repeated this several dozen times for over two hours, often as the Serbian video was playing on the air. Hello? The names of all three servicemen were [right there on the videotape] -- in Serbian, granted, but in HUGE OBVIOUS PRINT -- directly under the faces of each soldier as they were shown individually. Duh. Figuring this out was hardly a stretch. Serbian is phonetic, albeit with Cyrillic characters. Any speaker of Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, or several other Slavic languages could read the names instantly. I speak maybe thirty or forty words in all those languages combined, and even I could read the prisoners' names easily. Evidently, during a state of war with Serbia, there's not a single person at supposedly the world's leading TV news outlet who speaks Serbian. Or Russian. Or any Slavic language. Would CNN have covered World War II without anyone on staff who could translate [Mein Kampf]? Is it possible that the classy news joint that brings us Bob Novak, Al Hunt, and John Sununu doesn't employ a single person who at least knows enough to realize all that fancy writing probably means something? Or even owns a freaking dictionary with which to transliterate a freeze frame? OK. Maybe that's asking too much. Fine. But how about this: the soldiers' surnames were also plainly visible in the videotape -- and in [English] -- above the right shirt pocket of their uniforms. And the TV anchors, who are presumably neither blind nor stupid although I'm learning to keep an open mind, prattled over and over that they had no information as to the men's identities. I know a guy who works at CNN in Atlanta as an editor. He's from Croatia. Yes, I am sure they could figure out the names. Howard Davis 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[CTRL] Serbian Cartoonist: I'm Horrified
-Caveat Lector- NOTE: The following is forwarded from the Comix Discussion List, which links alternative comics creators, fans, scholars, and publishers worldwide. It is the fourth e-mail from Serbian cartoonist Sasa Rekazic (aka Aleksandar Zograf), creator of Alas!, Life Under Sanctions, and Psychonaut. He has been witnessing the bombing of Pancevo by NATO. Currently, he is having trouble sending messages now that the infrastructure is being bombed (see below). But, for the moment, he is able to send from the PPM (Pancevo Peace Movement) . Mack White [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swankarmy.net/dutch5/comixnow/ P.O. Box 49575 Austin, TX 78765 Sasa Rakezic P.F.163 26000 Pancevo Yugoslavia /Serbia/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] April 4th 1999. Hey - Last night I had that strange feeling that something is going to happen, and I couldn't sleep... When I finally fall asleep, it was early in the morning... I was waken by the ring of the phone, and it was Nandor - he was covering the "Northern" part of the town, and I was supposed to observe what was happening on the "South"..." They said on the radio that Refinery was bombed!" - said Nandor. Everybody, everybody was fearing that it will happen - there is a danger of the ecological catastrophy in Pancevo, because of the ugly industrial zone (Refinery, Petrochemical and Artifical Fertilizers Industry plants, all next to each other) in the Sothern part of town, which everyone of you who visited us must have remembered seeing from our window view... It is not only close to the center of the Pancevo, but fairly close to Belgrade as well, and local Green Party members were alarming about the potential danger of ecological disaster for years Anyway, I tried to see a flame or something unusual, but there was just some white cloud hovering over the area of Refinery... We understood that it was not oil that was burning - it would cause a catastrophical explosion, and this time the detonation was not strong enough even to wake us up from our sleep... It's funny but Gordana said that shortly before the phone rang, she had a dream of a tractor on a farm The tractor was producing something that looked like big cloud of steam... And when she woke up, she (and I) were able to observe the similar type of a mist rising above the Refinery. Soon they announced on the radio that the cloud is not poisoneous, and that it is in fact a water steam which was released after one of the Refinery plants has been bombed. The steam was expanding, and soon it covered everything - when we looked through the window pane few minutes later, we saw just white fog, as if the whole world have disappeared... The local Tv was showing the view from the camera placed on the tall building in the center of the town, and the screen looked completely blank. Several hours later, the fog has disappeared... During the bombing, about 100 workers were inside the plant.Several people were wounded and two were killed... In Belgrade, they bombed a large tank with fuel, preserved for the city central heathing system...Hardly an "military" facility at all, but the flame was spectacularI guess it looked impressive on CNN? I saw a Tv report about the yesterday's NATO bombing of another bridge in Novi Sad... It is a very large bridge, and there were people moving in cars, bicycles and by foot when the bombs fell... They are still searching for the bodies in the river of Danube, and those who survived were describing the horrible, horrible scenes... (Electric wires were falling down from the upper parts of the bridge...) The aqueduct was connected with the bridge, so that 1000's of people are now left without running wather What there is to say? That seemed like an ordinary day to us. Now when I think of it I'm horrified... Regards from Sasa and Gordana P.S. I am trying to send this from another computer... My provider is out of work at the moment, because NATO has bombed some antenae in Belgrade (I can't understand all the technical details), and they hope to fix it within 2 days... Send any messages to MY old address [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will answer when I can 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. Archives Available at:
Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News Saturday #3]
-Caveat Lector- "ric carter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *** Lawn mowing may cause air pollution. WASHINGTON (AP) The sweet scent of a freshly mowed lawn may really be the smell of air pollution. Scientists studying the sources of chemicals in the air have found that injured grass gives off volatile compounds. "Wounding, cutting and drying of leaves and stems occur both naturally and by human activities, wound-induced and dry- ing-induced... compounds are expected to be significant in the atmosphere." But do not panic. While total emissions from cutting grass and crops world- wide may seem large, it does not mean grass cutting is dangerous for indi- viduals. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559028733-802 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ snip If you stop to think about it, a lawn is entirely unnatural. Grass doesn't grow as an evenly-colored carpets with all blades a uniform one inch in height. Now we learn that the universal suburban pastime of "mowing the lawn" contributes to pollution...well, all I can say, from the comfort of my couch, is "Told ya so!" Bob Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] CIA war in Kosovo?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-04-05 14:04:24 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The KLA did not exist until recently. It became active only in the last few months. The June 6 New York Times reported that KLA forces are entering Kosovo through Albania. But they are not from Albania. According to the report, most of them come from Germany All the funds for the mercenary army come from abroad, primarily from the United States, reported the May 26 Washington Post. The money is funneled through Albanian immigrant groups. These are the sort of anti-communist groups long promoted by the CIA. According to MS-NBC today, 20,000 Kosovars will be relocated in GUANTANAMO (military base, buffer against Cuba) as a "humanitarian gesture of good will." LOL 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: The Myth and Milosevic
-Caveat Lector- From The Nation- Whoever does not fight at Kosovo... May nothing bear fruit that his hand sows. --Serb epic Contrary to US expectations, a Kosovo peace agreement isn't going to be signed after a few weeks of bombing, and maybe not ever. To understand why Slobodan Milosevic decided to fight NATO instead of conceding, one must understand the contemporary role in politics played by the 1389 Battle of Kosovo. Milosevic is re-enacting the Serbian central myth of the leader who lost the medieval battle against superior Turkish forces and became a martyred nationalist hero. He is trying to keep his power by casting himself as the reincarnated defender and shifting the public's anger over the possible loss of Kosovo from himself to the evil West. There are many forces in his once small political base prompting Milosevic's defiance. Their continued support for the president is critical to him now, but they are too peripheral to gain power were he to be ousted. One group pressuring him is the ultranationalist Radical Party, which won only sixteen seats in the federal Parliament. Vojislav Seselj, its leader, might have pulled his party out of the ruling coalition and weakened the government if Milosevic had agreed to NATO troops. He could have painted his president as a traitor to Serbian interests. Seselj's popularity grew while he urged a war with NATO and delegates at the Rambouillet peace talks considered caving in to the West. To undercut his rival, Milosevic had to adopt Seselj's positions. Another factor is the nationalist military officers Milosevic appointed after firing the military brass who tried to restrain his actions in Kosovo this past fall. These new officers seemed to be implicitly threatening a coup when, according to the European press, they told him that allowing NATO troops into Kosovo would be the beginning of the end of his power. Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic said the current military leadership believes that sacred Kosovo must be defended at all costs. Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic, the supreme commander, speaking in the language of the myth, told his soldiers to "prepare for martyrdom." Belgrade political analysts say the Yugoslav president fears the public, which holds the Kosovo myth at the heart of its identity. He worries about being killed by an angry mob, like Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu. To guard against that fate, he silences every critic who could stir up riots or electoral opposition. He purged not only the military but the universities. Death threats against students continue. There is an escalated closing of independent media and jailing of journalists. Serbian journalists expect him to follow Seselj's urging and crack down on the judiciary and the anti-Milosevic government in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro. His self-protective propaganda campaign plays on the Serbs' sense of themselves as a persecuted people, which goes back to the fourteenth-century Turkish occupation and runs so deep that some Christians wear a Jewish star to identify with another historical victim. In recent broadcasts, World War II movies were run as a reminder of what the Germans did to Serbs, and claims were made that Madeleine Albright hates all Serbs and that the Kosovo Liberation Army had planted plastic dolls to fake a report about Serbs killing children. State TV endlessly repeats the Serbs' mythic claim to Kosovo, despite the fact that until 1989 it had been legally theirs for only about sixty of the past 600 years. There is no check on Milosevic's propaganda or policies from the democratic opposition. It has become weak, discredited by its petty power struggles and the co-optation of its most charismatic figure, Vuk Draskovic, into Milosevic's government. It is cowed by repression that has created such fear that many are focused only on individual survival. One dissident said, "I am not afraid of the war but of what comes after it. There will be no chance for democracy in Serbia." Many in the opposition and general public who detest Milosevic aren't opposed to fighting NATO in Kosovo. The main public opposition to that battle comes from mothers demonstrating against their sons' military mobilization. Some reservists, like some 200 in Leskovac, are staging protest rallies outside military barracks, and many draft resisters are going into hiding. They see through Milosevic's strategy and believe that he has already sold out Kosovo but is forcing soldiers to die so he can survive his eventual surrender of the province. Except with the conscripts and their families, Milosevic's decision to re-enact a version of the medieval battle has strengthened him. Earlier this year his approval ratings were only about 20 percent, because he has devastated the economy and lost three wars, but by early March a poll showed 37 percent of the Serbs willing to defend Kosovo with force, with more uniting behind him. Even members of the opposition are entranced by the myth of the Serbian
Re: [CTRL] Rambouillet, and the Vienna Convention on the Law of T...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-04-05 12:23:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "It is illegal under international law to use force to compel any state to sign an international agreement." The Rambouillet process is a violation of international law. Pay attention, folks -- this is how the con-game known as "Civilization" operates: (1) A ruling class with money --who can afford to buy armies (police)-- invents a law. (2) The law exists primarily to define any opposing illegitimate power as "out-laws." (Law codifies the will of the ruling class. Any opposing it, thereby oppose that will.) (3) Defining any who oppose it as criminals, the law ipso facto justifies violence against them by the armies (police) who are on the payroll of the ones who invented the law. (4) The coercion of others into obedience to the moneyed ruling class who invented the law IN ORDER TO coerce others into obedience is deemed "legitimate use of force." In short, since the days of savage baboon packs, "Do whatever I want or -- I'll kill you," has evolved only to "--I'll pay Guido to kill you." That's "Civilization." That's all, folks. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Warning to the Future: Radwaste Here!
-Caveat Lector- Future Nuclear Waste Warning Sweden Considers Long-Term Dump Note S T O C K H O L M, Sweden, April 5 Writing a letter to our descendants 25,000 years in the future may seem like a science fiction plot, but for Mikael Jensen the puzzle is not far off. Sweden, with its high environmental standards, is closer than any other country with the possible exception of Finland to finding a long-term solution for dealing with nuclear waste. Swedish scientists are designing a deep underground vault where the waste can cool off, but spent fuel rods can take up to 100,000 years before they are at levels that occur in nature. That is why Jensen, a physicist at Swedens Radiation Protection Authority SSI, needs to think about a Do not disturb warning readable thousands of years from now to keep anyone from entering the deadly cavern. It has to be ominous enough to scare people away and keep anyone from thinking it hides a valuable treasure. But language may be completely changed by then or orderly society may cease to exist, wiped out by war, disease or a meteorite. Not Too Smart But Smart Enough? People speculate that if society is at a high level they will understand everything. If society is at a low level they will not drill (into the vault) nothing will happen, he said. But if something happens and we still have the equipment but not the knowledge, thats when it gets dangerous. Jensen favors both marking the site with a sign and maintaining archives to explain further to scientists exactly what the location, contents and design of the repository are. The aim would also be to help scientists, who may have a better method of dealing with nuclear waste, find the site. Some of Jensens studies included research into the worlds oldest archives, at the Vatican, where documents have been meticulously preserved for more than 800 years. But an Ice Age Approaches An argument against the archive is that were expecting another Ice Age in Sweden within 10,000 years to cover us in three kilometers (1.8 miles) of ice for tens of thousands of years, Jensen told Reuters. A surface marker could include different degrees of complexity, starting from a primitive danger sign and advancing to the full scientific formulas describing what is there. There could be plastic chips at different levels underground to ward off drillers or a dangerous-looking landscape of spikes. Scientists will narrow down the choice to one site in Sweden where detailed research will start in about 10 years. Until then the waste is in medium-term storage sites where it is safe for at least 70 years unless the sites are upgraded. The first step in a lengthy process of building a long-term repository is finding a site. In a referendum on one proposal, residents of the northern city of Mala decided by a narrow margin not to accept nuclear waste in their backyard. Greenpeace Says Site Unsafe Part of the reason for the no vote was campaigning by the environmental group Greenpeace, which says scientists cannot prove a repository is safe and waste should be kept on the surface to be monitored until a solution can be found. Today there is no way to deal with waste safely but in the future there might be. We cannot apply a wrong solution just because we dont have one, Greenpeace Sweden spokesman Dima Litvinov told Reuters. If no site is accepted or if no municipality agrees to host the repository, the existing intermediate storage facility will probably keep the fuel longer. The new repository would be about 1,600 feet deep and waste would be protected in steel covered with copper and packed in clay. The canisters would be laid vertically into rock and the repository sealed. Eye on Ground-Water Besides human intrusion, the ground-water is the only way that contamination can reach the surface, said Olle Zellman, head of a lab researching the repository. Scientists said the design in the copper, chosen because it corrodes slowly, will keep the canister intact for at least a million years, much longer than the 100,000 years during which contamination from the canisters could be dangerous to humans. Ground water would slowly fill the repository but because there is no free oxygen in the bedrock at this depth the copper would not corrode. If some radioactivity did escape, the bedrock would act as a filter. After the repository is sealed, no surveillance or maintenance is needed, although local residents may demand it. In 1980, with the U.S. Three Mile Island nuclear accident fresh in mind, Swedes voted to close their atomic power plants. A deadline of 2010 was set, although critics say the plan is impractical and costly. But this decision will not solve the problem of what to do with the waste that has accumulated since the reactors were switched on in 1972. The issue is stalled in Swedish courts as operators of
[CTRL] Egypt Meeting with China
-Caveat Lector- Egypt President Arrives in Beijing BEIJING (AP) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Chinese President Jiang Zemin discussed the troubled Middle East peace process and NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in talks Monday, China's state-run media reported. Government media released no details of the leaders' discussions on the Mideast and Yugoslavia beyond saying that they agreed disputes should be settled peacefully. Jiang pronounced his talks with Mubarak ``very successful,'' the Xinhua News Agency reported. Mubarak began a five-day official visit Monday, his seventh trip to China. He met with Premier Zhu Rongji and was given a red-carpet welcome at Beijing's Great Hall of the People by Jiang before their talks. In an earlier report, Xinhua said Mubarak was expected to ask Jiang to support efforts to reduce tensions between Palestinian and Israeli officials over the timing of Palestinian statehood. China has been trying to raise its diplomatic profile in the region. During his trip, the Egyptian president is also expected to seek increased economic and technology-related cooperation between his country and China, Xinhua said. It did not provide details. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Diana Info Walt Disney
-Caveat Lector- On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, "Samatha 'Smith'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diana did a lot more with her fame and appeal than I ever expected her to. No, she was a self-centered bitch with little brains, more interested in parties and discos than the welfare of the world -- but who WAS smart enough to know which photo ops would fool the public into thinking her holier than Mother Theresa, and so played the papparazzi for her own benefit... June *===* The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day: When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. -- Robert Frost: Two Tramps in Mudtime *===* *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Gods Bankers in EDINBURGH
-Caveat Lector- Hi Andrew, I am most interested in this part of the conspiracy. I'd really appreciate it if you could elaborate on the Scottish side. From what I have heard, Rosslyn Chapel has become THE artefact Black Hole .. eg. The Black Rune of Scotland [piece of the true cross] The Holy Grail The Head of God [CAPUT/Baphomet Skull anciently revered by Templars] Matthew Scrolls The Ark of the Covenant elsewhere; The Black Stone of Erc/Stone of Destiny held either by Templars, I suspect in Aberdeen or Tara, An ancient atlantean alchemical facility mentioned circa 1810 in writings about Knights of Malta in Scotland. The Black Order of Scotland is alleged to have a suspicious bit of Hebrew Scroll proclaiming its allegiance to 'Darth Vader' aka fallen angel. Various false Kings and false prophets roam the 7 hills of Edinburgh. On estates around the city, there are places that use survey techniques to: 1. show edinburgh to be sacred 2. build a pyramid where the temple treasure may have landed. Heads of various esoteric and international orders live in and around Edinburgh and Scotland. Because I suspect that JRR Tolkeins 'Lord of the Rings' very much ties in with the Edinburgh area, and that the archeological evidence for reptile/orcs holds true - I believe that Edinburgh will become a city state ruled by a Priest King dynasty and Scotland will be made some sort of Holy Land and pilgrimmage place for the New World Order. If and when the good Fallen Angels return to claim their throne from the bad ones - then maybe I can get some peace to play music !!!?? Andrew PS: according to many many experts, prince Michael Stewart aka Michael le Fosse is an imposter and that the current legal hier recognised by Bretts peerage to the throne of Scotland is a friend of QEII, the Duke of Bavaria - whose father was a WW2 pilot and nazi. Prince Michael was helped to achieve acclaim by Sir Lawrence Gardiner, who is also a fabrication called Brian Gardiner who has acquired many titles and lots of white gold that he now claims will either sell: 1. as the elixir of eternal life 2. antigravity fuel 3. an opportunity to dispose of trees on overforrested estates in Europe and Scotland. Its all a pile of nonsense - if I had no scruples here - I could really coin it in .. any ideas folks ?? Andrew - your eyes and ears in the Priest Kingdom capital of Earth. 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Diana Info Walt Disney
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Andrew Hennessey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point was and is that she was innocent and undeserving of the slaughter of her innocence, her character and her life. I never claimed she deserved to die. As to 'slaughter of her character', she did a pretty good job of doing that herself... That she didn't deserve the crap that dropped on her, in fact she could have done without the abnormal circumstances surrounding her marriage. Well hell, she could have done without the marriage altogether...she knew what she was getting into, and if she didn't, it just proves what a colossal bimbo she was... The Ministry of Truth rewrite and redefine the facts for them about everything aren't they June ? No, it seems as if the 'Ministry of Truth' is intent on perpetuating the myth of DIana Spencer as some sort of saint, instead of the brainless bimbo party girl she was... In the year 2030, school will convene and the techno music and brain reprog sessions will see the beautiful Bimbo Diana Then they'll be taught the truth... Mother Theresa was slaughtered by the Black Hand of History to be a refutation and counterpoint to any good memory of a sweet woman princess Diana. Puh-leeze!! The woman was old, and had been ill for some time...it was only a matter of time until she popped off, and only a matter of coincidence that she died on the same day as Diana Spencer's funeral... And as flawed a woman as Mother Theresa was, she far more deserves history's accolades than a blonde bimbo who married well... June *===* The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day: When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. -- Robert Frost: Two Tramps in Mudtime *===* *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] [[SC] Skeptic News Saturday #3]
-Caveat Lector- Years ago when I was at City Hall, my office overlooked green fields, trees, and a creek...typical small town atmosphre. In the spring, thousands of golden dandoliens would be in bloom, and it was a beautiful site to see - however, our street department woud chop and cut, and gone he blooms would be before they took to seed. I had a gentleman from India visit my office once; and he looked out over the sea of yellow and green, and said that is he most beautiful siight I have ever seen; and it was beautiful. The thought occurred to me.the dandelion is also edible - and people starve in Indiait has iron content, a beautiful golden flower, it spreads, and spreads, and spreads on its onwwe will kill it. What abou all the poison put in our yards on a yearly basisI have a neighbor that has a yard so well manicured, you would think you were in Munchkin Landand each year the ChemLawn comes out, sprays all over on windy days.they dump fertilizer, but the neighbor I loved the most became the most hated man on the block, when he visited the sewage plant and brought home some sludge.well, won't go into that but for awhile I thought there would be a lynching. Now imagine someone, elderly, or with weak lungs, or some kid earning a few dollars cutting grass - mowing yards with all the poison spread upon the ground. On extremely hot, dusty dry days the dust penetrtes the airI do not believe it is the green green grass of hom causing the problem, but rather, what we feed it to kill the little golden flowers, that could feed a lot of hungry people - the law of survival. I saw my neighbor lady faint in her yard once; and saw another man drop dead in their gardens from using these deadly pesticides on extremely hot days, in the dust and hot sun. Everyday people are killing themselves in their own bathrooms with the use of spray cans with poisonous contents..yet, our government say we are destroying the ozone, everytime a sprap product is used . in other words, what a lot of just plain crap. You can even make dandelien wine.now I have never drunk or eaten any, but I have never also been hungry. But I know of a lot of people who have so done, and like the taste and the high iron content. So much for ozones, and spray cans killing us in our own bathrooms; I am more concerned about the deadly poisons we spread on our lawn.the ones where the danger signs are put up, and if your pet eats the grass, he will often bite the dust as well. Colleen 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Gods Bankers in EDINBURGH
-Caveat Lector- At 06:25 AM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- Andrew, maybe you can help me here. I had written Sybil Leek way back in 1980 about the Ogham Code.- I was just looking at her letter todahy on thisso in part, here is what she said: On two ocassions when young and being driven in the back of my parents car through the Pass of Killiecrankie an incredible image of squint fishbones flashed into my mind - it was not until many years later that I found out that this was Ogham - perhaps some sort of ward or territorial marker set by people who had Real Power. eg. Druids, 'aliens' aka faeries, etc "Dear Colleen.I decided to go back to Globe as they doubled my wages and finally I do a good job on the astrology and I think my contract will outlive the smart boys who took over...Got our leter about the OGHAM code; very interesting - he Ogham ocde predates Chrisianity...the Ogham STONE in the north of Scotland waslinked with Wicca, witchcraft, but in its European stte of being a religion.There is a picture of the Ogham Sone (the once mysterioius Rune stone in he book Stephen and I called Ring of Magic IslandsThe Ogham script is the one used to convey messages in Wiccanot used so much these days, but once essential when there was prosecution. I'm unsure about the lineage of Ogham but there are certain types used in certain regions of Scotland and the Isles. Ogham certainly predates Christianity as does the more 'fancy' set of Runes imported from the Nordics - the 'kalebran'. How you doing Andrew H..how are things in Scotland.as the Pope is supposed to sit over the tomb of St. Peter, does not the English Throne rest upon Jacob's Stone, where they are crowned. Scottish parliament fever, devolution and the unusually lunatic behaviour of the man some Scots wanted as a 'Scottish national saviour' - SNP leader Alex Salmond - who for some lapse of sanity has destroyed his election hopes by telling everyone not to bomb Belgrade. If I didn't know any better I might suggest that 'someone and some technology' put that thought in his thick head - though with Salmond its actually par for the course. Part of his desires is to reopen the flooded and uneconomical coal mines and put us all 'back to work' :) However, for a King or Queen to rule, they must be able to trace their family ree to the bible, the divine right to rule.you will find all their names in there, including Princess Diana in the Acts..the one who would be despised (does that ring a bell)..enough for shrines. The documents I have sealed with crown supposedly make my pedigree official..however, to get the throne I would have to eliminate quite a few people...a LOT of people. I believe that Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is the only British Monarch Ever not to sit on the REAL Stone of Destiny. When she comes up to the historical openong of parliament she will probably be wearing an old raincoat - because she has decided not to honour the parliament with a state ceremony surprise surprise ... I always liked Crowley; he ordained himself the King of Ireland...Sybil's famiy knew him, and he liked Sybile was not a Nazi, but rather a propaganda agent for the British. If I ever find an MI5 agent who really knows whats going on, I'll buy them a beer ... Andrew H 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Diana Info Walt Disney
-Caveat Lector- As to 'slaughter of her character', she did a pretty good job of doing that herself... All her calls were monitored by British Security [at least] and her son Wills blames dad for not giving her a safe haven in London and having to find solace elsewhere . Well hell, she could have done without the marriage altogether...she knew what she was getting into, and if she didn't, it just proves what a colossal bimbo she was... Princess Diana was descended from the dalriadan line of Celtic Kings and an ancestor of mary Queen of Scots - the dalriadan line is considered to be older than the Windsor line and it really looks like the word NO is not an option in this case. The Ministry of Truth rewrite and redefine the facts for them about everything aren't they June ? No, it seems as if the 'Ministry of Truth' is intent on perpetuating the myth of DIana Spencer as some sort of saint, instead of the brainless bimbo party girl she was... She addressed an important Chinese Diplomatic Congress in CHINESE and was credited with much honour and acclaim for this by the Chinese. Mother Theresa was slaughtered by the Black Hand of History to be a refutation and counterpoint to any good memory of a sweet woman princess Diana. Puh-leeze!! The woman was old, and had been ill for some time...it was only a matter of time until she popped off, and only a matter of coincidence that she died on the same day as Diana Spencer's funeral... well she was going anyway ... and history sometimes needs a wee helping hand :) you may not 'believe' in Diana - but I don't 'believe' in co-incidences - ever. Andrew H 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. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: Full Images of Patents via USPTO
This should come in handy for all you "free energy" researchers out there, as well as others. Teo1000 Newsgroups: wpi.announce,wpi.library Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:14:23 -0500 (EST) From: Subject: Full Images of Patents via USPTO The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has added links from its U.S. Patent Full Text Database: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.htm to the full image of every page of every patent in the database back to January 1, 1976. Full images are stored in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) and are not directly viewable with most Web browsers. A TIFF viewer plug-in or another application to which your browser can send TIFF images for display is needed. USPTO suggests that users download and install the free browser plug-in, "AlternaTIFF," available from Medical Informatics Engineering http://www.mieweb.com/alternatiff/ which works with Navigator/Communicator 3.0+, Internet Explorer 3.0+, and Opera 3.51+. The browsers on the public access catalog computers on the main floor of the library have been configured to use the TIFF viewer for display and printing of patent images. There is a link to the U.S. Patent Full Text and Image Database from the Gordon Library home page: http://www.wpi.edu/+library Just select Reference Resources and then Patent Resources. Don Richardson Reference/Systems Librarian Worcester Polytechnic Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil L. Norum Director, Media Community Relations Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609
