[CTRL] Contrails etc. Direct Link to Live RealAudio

[Steve Wingate]

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http://www.broadcast.com/makemedia/makeram.asp?id=54113

Good show.
Check out the archive if you miss the live program.

Steve

Steve Wingate

California Director
SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL

Anomalous Images and UFO Files
http://www.anomalous-images.com

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[CTRL] Witch Janet Reno Plays Hyde Seek

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It is our right,
and it is our duty,
to remain free.
 --- Alan Keyes

Hyde's biggest gaffe was his suggestion that because national polls say
Americans want a special prosecutor that Reno should appoint one. Rep.
Barney Frank, whose good natured but razor sharp wit came to the fore often
yesterday, quipped, "Any notion that you prosecute by poll is ridiculous, "
and then followed with an attack on a recent New York Times editorial which
called Reno's legal concerns "legalisms," - "What is she supposed to rely on
Circus Tricks," Frank said.

Frank also made a mockery of the Republican letter to Reno laughing at their
charge that Clinton was guilty of accepting bribes when he created a
national monument in Utah at the request of more than 100 environmental
groups. GOP fire-starters claimed that Clinton created the monument so that
US companies could not mine "clean coal" in Utah and that this action
favored the Lippo Group who owns the second largest deposit of clean coal in
the world at its Indonesian mines. Frank continued, laughing at Republicans
for suggesting that Vice President Gore was extorting money from
contributors merely by calling them and using his aura of "power" as a
hammer to get campaign cash.

FOR MORE, GO TO:
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arrangement thusly:  "The accumulation of all  powers,
legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same  hands,
whether on one, a few, or many, and whether  hereditary,
self appointed, or elective, may justly be  pronounced the
very definition of tyranny."


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Visit me at:
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Federal Government defined:
a benefit/subsidy protection racket!

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Re: [CTRL] British 'supergerm' is created for defense

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In a message dated 99-08-02 18:40:38 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In January, a study by the British Medical Association warned that a
plague or toxin designed to kill specific racial groups could be only five
to 10 years away.

Will Monsanto patent "Terminator" foodstuffs to sterilize entire racial
groups?

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS Aug 2

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In a message dated 99-08-02 17:03:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

"Clinton's stepfather is a gun-brandishing, alcoholic who loses his Buick
franchise through mismanagement and his own pilfering. He physically abuses
his family, including the young Bill. His mother is a heavy gambler with mob
ties. According to FBI and local police officials, his Uncle Raymond -- to
whom young Bill turns for wisdom and support -- is a colorful car dealer,
slot machine owner and gambling operator, who thrives on the fault line of
criminality (except when his house is firebombed). Uncle Raymond's gambling
operations are franchised by the Marcello organization of New Orleans."

There should be an organized support group for "victims of abuse" like Bill
Clinton.
We could call it "MafiAnon."
Motto: "You're not a victim anymore when you've started your own body count."

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[CTRL] Clinton Staff member Anthrax $$$$$

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Michigan Biologic Products Institute was the SOLE producer/contractor to the
DoD of Anthrax vaccine.

On March 11, 1997, FDA Warns Michigan Biologic Products Institute of
Intention to Revoke Licenses
http://www.fda.gov/cber/infosheets/mich-inf.htm
and again on Dec 10, 1997:
FDA Warns Michigan Biologic Products Institute of Intention to Revoke
Licenses, Wed, 10 Dec 1997
FDA issued a letter to the Michigan Biologic Products Institute (MBPI),
Lansing, Michigan, on March 11, 1997, warning that the agency will initiate
steps to revoke MBPI's establishment and product licenses unless immediate
action is taken to correct deficiencies at the firm.
But:
Anthrax vaccine production continues Michigan Biologics Remains Open
UPI 2/16/98 2:40 PM
This plant was warned it would be shut down for multiple violations
LANSING, Mich., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A plea from the Pentagon helped convince
Michigan officials to delay Wednesday's scheduled shutdown of a state-owned
lab that produces all the nation's anthrax vaccine.
State Health Director James Haveman (HA'-veh-man) says the state- owned
Michigan Biologic Products Institute will continue making the vaccine being
given to U.S. active and reserve military personnel under a recent Pentagon
directive.
Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered the vaccination campaign last year
as part of a massive effort to protect soldiers from Iraq's biological
weapons, including the deadly anthrax virus.
Cohen's order came as Michigan officials prepared to close the institute,
triggering a lobbying campaign by Army generals to keep the doors open.
The Lansing-based lab is the only government-run vaccine manufacturer of its
kind. Efforts to sell the lab to a pharmaceutical company for $10 million
failed last fall.
Haveman tells United Press International, "We had to keep this open because
of the product. We're glad to be supportive."
An emergency bill to maintain the lab through September was passed by the
Legislature last week and signed over the weekend by Gov. John Engler.
Haveman says the state is still "aggressively" seeking bidders while
production of anthrax and other medical products continues without
interruption.
Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
=

NOT too many months later, on June 3, 1998
Sale of only U.S. anthrax-vaccine maker
LANSING, Mich., June 3 (UPI) - The nation's only maker of the anthrax
vaccine is about to be sold to an investment firm headed by
***
William J. Crowe, Chief Foreign Intelligence Advisory Bd. of CURRENT Clinton
administration(!)
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr.
(also CFR and Tri Lateral Commission member and currently on
Princeton U. B'd of trustees
William J. Crowe, Jr. -
Alexandria VA -- 2001 Senior Advisor, Global Options (international
consulting)
Alexandria is the home to the CIA
Adm. Crowe is also on Texaco's Board of Directors

The state of Michigan says it has accepted a $25 million bid from a
subsidiary of Maryland-based Intervac for the Michigan Biologic Products
Institute.
The state-owned MBP has a Pentagon contract to supply anthrax vaccine
for all U.S. military personnel. The massive vaccination program began
last year to protect against possible biological warfare with Iraq.
Contract details are secret.
Crowe told United Press International today that, with the ongoing
threat of biological attacks, sales of the anthrax vaccine could expand
beyond the United States. He said,
*"We think the market is going to be pretty good."*
The sale of MBP to Intervac subsidiary BioPort is expected to close
this summer, following approval from the State Administrative Board and
First of Michigan bank.
Under the deal, the Lansing-based lab and its 184 workers would be
offered shares in BioPort, which was created just for the deal.
Crowe, who served as chairman of the joint chiefs under former
President Ronald Reagan and as an ambassador to the United Kingdom, is
the lead investor in BioPort.
The state says the $25 million bid includes "cash, secured notes,
royalties and product donations."
MBP Chairman Dennis Schornack says about 20 companies had expressed
an interest in the lab, which has lost as much as $5 million annually
for several years.
--Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.

InterVac, with Crowe as Director owns  58% of BioPort.
The purchase was structured to includes $3.25 million in cash at closing,
$12.1
million in secured notes, $4.6 million in rabies vaccine and immune
globulin donations to the state and $5 million in royalties over five
years.
"The company almost certainly stands to benefit from President Clinton's
expansion of the Pentagon's anthrax vaccination program to include all 2.4
million U.S. military personnel."
http://sightings.com/political/anthraxsale.htm
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So... for $3.25 million and some 

[CTRL] Forced CIVILIAN Anthrax injections next ?

[Dave]

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A Promise to Do Better Is Not Enough
By Patrick B. Pexton


Monday, January 12, 1998; Page A17
URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-01/12/009l-011298-idx.html
From the Washington Post, Monday, January 12, 1998; Page A17
In a recent letter to the Food and Drug Administration, the Pentagon asked
for broad authority to distribute to U.S. civilians -- during or after a
domestic terrorism incident -- some of the same experimental drugs and
vaccines used on troops to unknown effect in the gulf war. In most cases
these are drugs, or uses of drugs and vaccines, that have never been tested
in a clinical trial for effectiveness or side effects and that are not at
present for sale commercially.
The Pentagon is seeking not only broad authority to give out these drugs
during terrorist emergencies but also to waive FDA rules meant to ensure the
safest use of experimental drugs: requirements such as keeping track of who
gets what drugs, proper labeling, monitoring of side effects and fully
informing patients of possible complications before they give their consent.

The FDA is concerned, because as it and the Presidential Advisory Committee
on Gulf War Illnesses recently documented, the Pentagon has a terrible
record in using such drugs and vaccines both in Desert Storm and more
recently in Bosnia.

Just before Desert Storm, the FDA allowed the Pentagon to give troops
several experimental drugs and vaccines not approved for commercial sale.
Among them were pyridostigmine bromide (PB), a drug believed to be effective
in fending off the effects of chemical and nerve agents; botulinum vaccine
and antitoxin medicine to combat biological weapons other than anthrax; and
anthrax post-exposure treatments. The FDA also allowed the Pentagon to waive
informed consent, in some cases making it mandatory that the troops take the
pills or vaccines without full knowledge of possible risks.

Early research suggests that the interaction of PB with wartime stress,
pesticides and other hazardous materials present in Desert Storm may be a
trigger for "gulf war illness." PB may have been taken by as many as 500,000
troops and botulinum vaccine by about 8,000, although some information still
is classified.

After the war, the FDA, in reviewing the Pentagon's compliance with the
minimal wartime conditions the agency had laid down, found that "deviations"
from the rules "pointed out an underlying inability for the Defense
Department to carry out its obligations" under the rules for handling
experimental substances. For example, only about half of the troops surveyed
by the Pentagon received required information about PB; no records were kept
of troops who had adverse reactions to the PB pills; and no notation in
permanent medical records was made of those who took botulinum vaccine,
making it impossible to study its long-term effects.

The Pentagon, chastised, promised the FDA it would do better next time.
Bosnia was that next time.

In Bosnia, the Army was authorized to dispense an experimental vaccine for
tick-borne encephalitis, a disease common in the Balkans. In its recent
review of that program, the FDA criticized the Pentagon for failing again to
document immunizations in soldiers' permanent medical records and for
touting the vaccine in handouts given to troops as "very safe and extremely
effective" when the FDA never authorized such glowing language. The FDA at
last is considering rescinding its permission for the Pentagon to use some
experimental drugs on troops in wartime without their consent.

The President's Committee on Gulf War Illnesses was even more critical of
the Pentagon's performance with unapproved drugs in the gulf war and Bosnia,
saying the Pentagon "currently is incapable" of handling such drugs, and
that its poor performance has hampered research into the causes of gulf war
illness.

Against this background, the head of defense health affairs boldly is
requesting from the FDA more authority to use some of these same substances
not only on troops but on civilians in case of domestic terrorism involving
chemical and biological weapons, with the same protocol waivers that the FDA
already has noted the Pentagon is incapable of honoring.

The Department of Defense, understandably and correctly, wants as much
flexibility as it can have during times of national emergency to protect
troops and civilians at home from these weapons of mass murder.

But if Americans are in imminent danger of dying by the thousands from
biological and chemical weapons at home, then the Pentagon and the White
House should do a better job leveling with the people and Congress about the
precise nature of the threat and how imminent it may be, and then begin a
debate on how far the Pentagon should go in injecting itself into civilian
emergency care.

The writer is a managing editor at Army Times Publishing Co.

© Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company


Dave Hartley
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[CTRL] Anthrax, Larry Harris, Biological Attack, and Psychological Warfare on America

[Dave]

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Larry Harris, Biological Attack, and Psychological Warfare on America
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:24:17 -0500
To: All Health, Vaccine, GWS, Patriot, Biowarfare, CIA
 and Goverment Observers

From: Dr. Len Horowitz
President, Tetrahedron Incorporated

Topic: Larry Harris, Biological Attack, and Psychological
Warfare on America

Numerous questions have arisen regarding
Larry Harris's credibility and his predictions and
prescriptions for biological warfare aimed against
the United States and our people. I am extremely
suspicious of Larry Harris for at least six reasons:

1) Mr. Harris is virtually practicing medicine without a
license on a public health scale as he has recommended that
people go out and buy antibiotics to be taken at the first sign of
trouble.
I am not opposed to stockpiling and refrigerating antibiotics as
a preventive measure, but before treatment is initiated, diagnosis
is critical. Many antibiotic resistant strains of bioweapons have
been produced making one's choice of antibiotic moot in the
absence of laboratory analysis.

Moreover, on occasion, Mr. Harris has prescribed
antibiotic dosages that may leave many people
suffering from nerve damage or other illnesses.
The correct human dose of tetracycline is 250 to at most
500 milligrams per day for ten to fourteen days. One gentleman
personally informed me he was instructed by Mr. Harris to take
three times that dose for a month--clearly a toxic prescription.


2) Mr. Harris has been called by some "a fraud" and others
an "expert scientist." Wherein lies the truth?

Months ago I was sent Mr. Harris's resume' along with
portions of his book. I was unimpressed. The many
spelling and grammatical errors found clearly reflected an
educational and professional deficit. I'm reminded of the
phrase "real men don't eat quiche." Real scientists know
their publications, particularly their curriculum vitaes,
are a measure of their professional integrity.
Legitimate scientists would be aghast to have such a
mistake-laden reflection of their work circulating.

Likewise, the poor content in Mr. Harris's audio
and video presentations, as discussed below, reflects
a possibly sincere laboratory technician, and superficially
credited microbiologist, but not a highly or even well-credentialed
man of science, health, or bioweapons research.

3) Mr. Harris alleges to have been a CIA agent with CDC
bioweapons laboratory experience. CIA agents have been
known to be notoriously unreliable and sources of
counterintelligence propaganda. If Mr. Harris's connections
to the CIA are true, and I don't doubt Mr. Harris's sincerity
in believing his reports and CIA connections are, then given
the nature of his information, and the social/political context
in which it is being disseminated, I must conclude Mr. Harris
is being used by elements within the CIA as a counterintelligence
propagandist.

Case in point, weeks ago when Associated Press announced
Mr. Harris's guilty plea to fraud charges, it was predictable
this would further endear Mr. Harris in the hearts and minds
of many people on the political right and well as
anti-government groups. It was likewise predictable
Mr. Harris would then be additionally useful in discrediting
certain "fringe" elements who favored him or his arbitrary
health and safety prescriptions. As the attachments show,
this has all come to pass.

Regardless of Mr. Harris's personal intent, he is now
functioning as a tool for propagandists, and the public should
be forewarned.

4) Mr. Harris recently pleaded guilty of fraud in a plea bargain
regarding the illegal storage and transportation of pathogenic
microorganisms. Had Mr. Harris been a legitimate scientist,
he might have arranged to have his experimental material
shipped more safely and legally.

5) The story of Mr. Harris's friend "Miriam," a Muslim woman
who, along with alleged allied terrorists, are preparing to release
bioweapons on American populations, entirely self-incriminates
Mr. Harris.

First, this story is consistent with another CIA affiliate
and government propagandist, best selling author Tom Clancy
who, in his recent book, presented the same thesis as Harris.

Next, Mr. Harris's expressed personal knowledge of "Miriam"
includes granting her a three-day head start to "get away"
from federal authorities. If this were true, then Mr. Harris
would be guilty of treason, and aiding and abetting in a
conspiracy that, according to Harris, may kill well over
150 million Americans. Is it reasonable to give trust to
a man who gives such a terrorist three days to escape
thus jeopardizing the continent of North America and
beyond?

Furthermore, as advanced by pharmacist, attorney and
biowarfare researcher Lawrence Joyce in
"Lessons From Dugway" [(773) 286-7986], it would be
counter intelligent for Muslim terrorists to perform as
Mr. Harris alleged. In Joyce's well considered words,
"you can get more bang for the buck by getting the world's
largest economic and 

[CTRL] SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2, 1999

[Dave]

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forwarded

Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart




SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH

NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2, 1999

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FACES HUGE PROBLEM OVER ANTHRAX VACCINATIONS

Edited by Bill Rogers
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The controversy over the safety of anthrax vaccinations ordered by the
Defense Department for all service members is heating up as more and more
people either refuse to take their shots or quit the service.   Anthrax is
considered a major biological warfare threat.  So far about 330,000 of the
2,500,000 people in uniform have received at least the first of six shots.
But anthrax shots are  becoming a serious morale and readiness problem, to
say nothing of a health problem.

CBS News interviewed more than 100 Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard
pilots and reported on July 26 so many pilots are quitting over this issue
that there are "huge holes in some military air units."  Key units stand to
lose up to half their pilots, and at just five bases more than 100 reserve
pilots quit this year, CBS said.

"The squadron is unable to do its peacetime and wartime mission, and this
directly impacts the nation's readiness," Maj. Ramona Savoie declared.  She
is one who quit.  The recent campaign in the Balkans demonstrates the need
for Reserve and Guard forces whenever the Air Force makes any substantial
effort, so the loss of many experienced pilots will have a serious impact on
readiness of U.S. forces.

The Defense Department insists that the vaccine is safe and effective and
that the program is going smoothly, but memos obtained by CBS tell a
different story. One squadron commander wrote, "Due to the controversy
regarding the shots, compliance has been very low." Another commander
acknowledged that "We are losing a lot of experience."

Many Guard and Reserve pilots also fly for the airlines, and some have quit
for fear that side effects of the shots would put their civilian flying
career at risk  -- or their passengers. "Would you want your pilot to have
any problem with remembering, and tremors, seizures?  This is all stuff
that's attributed to the vaccine," Mike Angerole said.  He flies for
Southwest Airlines and is among those quitting the Air Guard.

Two bills have just been introduced in Congress that would address concerns
about the anthrax vaccinations. On  July 19, Rep.  Benjamin Gilman, New York
Republican,  introduced H.R. 2548, which would suspend the vaccination
program until the vaccine is determined to be safe and effective and to
provide for a study by the National Institutes of Health.  The other, H.R.
2543, introduced by Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, would
make the shots voluntary.

Gilman's bill directs the National Institutes of Health  to see that an
independent study is done to determine the types and severity of adverse
reactions and long-term health implications.  The study would also determine
the effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting humans against all strains of
anthrax pathogens that U.S. military personnel are likely to encounter.

The Defense Department  opposes requests to make the shots voluntary,  is
not granting exceptions to the requirement to take shots, and, as it finds
itself getting deeper into this controversy, seems to be hardening its
position.  Defense Secretary William Cohen recently wrote in a letter to
Army Times, "Just as soldiers must wear helmets, commanders must know all
their troops are vaccinated against anthrax."

And the Pentagon says the shots will continue no matter how many pilots
quit. It launched a campaign to convince the troops that the vaccine is
safe, but Mark Zaid, a Washington attorney who has represented at least two
dozen service members who have refused the shots, said the education effort
was handled poorly and backfired on DOD.  He believes DOD is so embarrassed
about the matter that it won't back away and thereby admit to mistakes.
"They'll go kicking and screaming until the last possible second" when they

are forced to change the vaccination policy, he said.

Zaid, who had been working on Gulf War Syndrome issues, started getting
calls right after the shots started in March 1998.  He said at first people
were usually just given a general discharge, then occasionally an
other-than-honorable discharge, and now more frequently a court martial.
The Marine Corps has been giving courts martial more than the other
services.  In the active duty forces, it is mostly lower ranking enlisted
people who refuse, while in the reserve forces, captains, majors and
colonels are refusing and quitting.  He noted that emergency-essential
civilians in DOD must also take the shots, and half a dozen senior civilians
in the Military Sealift Command have been fired.

What should service members do?  "Tough decision. I don't know," Zaid
answered. "I have never given anybody advice about what they should do. I
always tell them they need to talk it over with family and 

[CTRL] Kofi Annan, Bad Guy

[Das GOAT]

 -Caveat Lector-

 Spin as justification to prepare us for another "Allied" attack on Iraq:

 "Butler, a diplomat-in-residence at the Council on Foreign Relations,
charges:
 "[UN chief] Kofi Annan sought to hand Saddam Hussein the greatest
possible prize: the destruction of [the CIA-infiltrated UNSCOM], a thorn in
the side of both men.''


Butler Chides Annan on Arms Probes

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Former U.N. weapons chief Richard Butler says that the
weapons inspection operation he headed was ``a thorn in the side'' of U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and that Annan tried to destroy it.

In an interview in the debut issue of Talk magazine, Butler said Annan
repeatedly confused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ``superficial
cooperation'' with U.N. weapons inspectors ``with substantive compliance'' on
Baghdad's disarmament obligations.

Talk magazine issued a press release with excerpts from the interview, to be
published today.

After two stormy years, Butler left his job as executive director of the U.N.
Special Commission, known as UNSCOM, when his contract expired on June 30. He
is now a diplomat-in-residence at the Council on Foreign Relations and is
writing a book.

``Annan and his immediate staff sought to hand Saddam the greatest possible
prize: the destruction of UNSCOM, a thorn in the side of both men,'' Butler
said in the article.

``Saddam wanted the thorn removed so that he could retain his weapons. Annan
wanted it removed because UNSCOM was too independent to work within the
mainstream of the U.N.''

The secretary-general and his staff reacted to systematic cheating by Iraq in
destroying and accounting for its banned weapons by ``papering over''
problems with diplomacy, Butler said.

Asked Monday to comment on Butler's accusations, Annan said: ``I don't think
I have to comment. Everybody knows what happened.

In an interview on ABC's Nightline Monday, Butler said he and his staff had
tried to give Annan and his staff concrete briefings on the substance of the
weapons inspections.

``That was received with somewhat glazed eyes,'' he said. ``Instead, we were
increasingly told that surely these problems could be solved if we just spoke
differently or if we had a different manner of diplomatic approach.''

In the article, Butler said he decided against seeking another term because
``the situation within the U.N. had become untenable.''

Butler, an Australian diplomat, pulled UNSCOM inspectors out of Iraq in
mid-December on the eve of U.S. and British airstrikes, and Baghdad has
banned them from returning. The Security Council is debating a new Iraq
policy that will likely include a successor organization to UNSCOM.

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[CTRL] US, China, N.Korea in Geneva

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US Downplays China Missile Test

By GEORGE GEDDA
.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Monday it did not believe China's
test of a new long-range missile was related to agitation over recent
pro-independence statements by Taiwan.

``We do not have any basis to conclude that the timing of this launch is
linked to the issues with Taiwan,'' spokesman James P. Rubin said.

He said the test firing had been expected for some time.

Rubin also noted that the administration informed Congress on Friday of its
intention to sell E2-T early warning aircraft and aircraft spare parts to
Taiwan for an estimated $550 million.

He said the weapons are for defense only and are consistent with
long-standing rules governing military transfers to Taiwan.

``We have supplied aircraft spare parts to Taiwan for 20 years,'' Rubin said.
``Taiwan already has E2-T aircraft in its inventory. So there is nothing of a
new character here that's a dramatic new development.''

Rubin added that the missile China tested Monday is of approximately the same
range as already existing missiles in China's arsenal. The reported range is
about 5,000 miles, and it's apparently capable of carrying a 1,500-pound
weapon, he said.

``There's nothing new about China having medium- and long-range missiles.
They've had them for a long, long time,'' he added.

Two U.S. Navy missile-tracking ships, the USNS Observation Island and the
USNS Invincible, were positioned to collect data on the missile launch but
were foiled by bad weather, a senior defense official said. The ships
apparently remain in the area and could be used to monitor an expected test
launch of a North Korean ballistic missile, although the timing of the test
remains uncertain.

Rubin said the administration is far more concerned about the missile program
in North Korea because, unlike China's, it is in the development stage.

North Korea generated alarm in northeast Asia a year ago by launching a
three-stage rocket, firing it through Japanese air space. Administration
officials believe North Korea is preparing for a launch of a longer range
missile this year.

U.S. concerns about North Korea are expected to be aired later this week when
American and North Korean diplomats meet in Geneva in advance of a resumption
of talks Thursday aimed at reaching a Korean peninsula peace agreement.

Those talks will involve the two Koreas, the United States and China.

There has been some progress on procedural issues at the five previous rounds
of the four-party talks but virtually no progress on substance.

During the bilateral meeting with North Korea, the U.S. side will register
with the North Koreans its ``strong concerns'' about a possible new missile
test, Rubin said.

He recalled that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said during a visit to
Singapore last week that there are opportunities for warmer relations with
the North Koreans if there can be some accommodation over their missiles and
weapons programs.

``I think the message to North Korea in the bilateral meeting will involve
this positive potential for the future, as well as making clear our serious
concerns about the missile test if it occurs,'' he said.


China Sends Blunt Warning to Taiwan

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
.c The Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) - It was just one sentence carried on the state news agency:
China carried out a missile test Monday in its own backyard. But the message
was fired straight at Taiwan.

Once again, Beijing is using missile tests and war games to intimidate the
island it views as a rebel province.

Angered by Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's insistence that the rival
governments should deal with each other as one state to another, China has
turned up the pressure.

Analysts say attacking Taiwan would be too costly diplomatically, militarily
and economically. So instead, China is relying on war games and other forms
of muscle-flexing to threaten the island that has eluded its authority since
the two split in 1949 in the Chinese civil war.

Blockading ports and harassing shipping are Beijing's most effective option
for squeezing Taiwan, as illustrated Saturday, when Chinese police seized a
Taiwanese cargo ship carrying rice, gasoline and food to troops on Taiwan's
military outpost of Matsu. The ship's 10 crew members were detained, accused
of smuggling.

As in 1995-96, when an infuriated Beijing fired missiles in waters just off
Taiwan, China's People's Liberation Army has stepped up military maneuvers
along the southeast coast that faces the island.

China's normally secretive state press has reported on war games focused on
high-tech warfare, sea conflicts and invasions. China-allied newspapers in
Hong Kong have gone further, leaking reports of a military alert and troop
movements in southeastern Fujian province.

Taiwanese military officials and Western diplomats say they have not detected
such movements.

But such reports rattle Taiwanese nerves. A 

[CTRL] Genetically Engineered Trojan Horse Flu

[Das GOAT]

 -Caveat Lector-

 "By manipulating the genetic pattern of the flu virus, it could be used
to deliver curative [or destructive] genes to cells in the body.
 "Researchers would put a [piggyback] gene into the flu virus and inject
it into a patient. The virus would then infect cells with the genes that
could correct [or cause] a disease process.  This technique could be used,
for instance, to fight cancer by delivering 'killer' genes directly to cancer
cells."


Researchers Create Flu Virus in Lab

By PAUL RECER
.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have created a flu virus in the laboratory by
combining the genetic pieces of an existing flu bug - work they said could
lead to a new type of vaccine.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin's School of Veterinary
Medicine, said he and his colleagues were able to make a flu virus that
precisely duplicated a virus that was isolated in 1933 and is now used
commonly in influenza research.

A report on the research was being published Tuesday in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.

Kawaoka said the importance of making a flu virus is the understanding gained
about the inner workings of one of humankind's most troublesome pathogens.

``This technology should help us gain a greater biological understanding of
influenza and improve our methods of disease control,'' he said.

To make the virus, the researchers removed and separated the eight components
in the genetic makeup of a flu virus called WSN. These components are called
plasmids.

The flu plasmids were mixed with nine plasmids from other sources and then
added to a laboratory dish containing about a million living cells.

The plasmids invaded the cells in random combinations. In about one cell out
of every 1,000, the plasmids combined to form the WSN flu virus.

To prove that the virus was alive, said Kawaoka, the team allowed it to make
a new generation of virus that then was used to infect a new batch of cells.

A genetic analysis of the new virus showed that it was an exact match of the
WSN flu virus, he said.

Kawaoka said the technique will allow researchers to manipulate the plasmids
in order to create live viruses that could be used for flu vaccines.

``We can introduce mutations any way we want,'' he said. ``We can control the
virulence by mutating here, there, anywhere. That could help us generate a
live vaccine that is also stable.''

A live vaccine could be more effective than one made with inactivated flu
components, he said, because it would prompt the body to develop a more
powerful immune system response and thus provide more protection against
infection.

Flu remains a major public health problem, infecting about 40 million
Americans annually, and killing about 20,000. Current vaccines are
protective, but they have to be changed each year because the virus itself
changes constantly. This means vaccine protection against the flu requires
annual shots.

Knowing more about the flu virus structure may make it possible to make a
vaccine that provides more long-lasting protection, Kawaoka said.

The researcher cautioned, however, that the work is in its very early stages
and that creating a new vaccine can take a decade or more.

Kawaoka said the new way of manipulating the genetic pattern of the flu virus
also suggests that the virus could be used to deliver curative genes to cells
in the body.

In such a system, researchers would put a gene into the flu virus and inject
it into a patient. The virus would then infect cells with the genes that
could correct a disease process.

The technique could be used, for instance, to fight cancer by delivering
killing genes directly to cancer cells, Kawaoka said.

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[CTRL] New Market -- Kidnapping for Profit

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Wave of Abductions Sweeps Russia

By JUDITH INGRAM
.c The Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) - The flashlight crawls along a wall, then fastens on two eyes.
One is swollen, surrounded by yellow bruising, hardly able to open. The other
has a circular wound at the outside corner, tailing a trickle of dried blood
to the corner of the mouth.

The light pulls back to catch the whole terrified face, then jumps to the
hands squeezed into a pair of metal cuffs.

``Mama, help me,'' the young man pleads in a near-whisper to the video
camera. ``This is the last time. They need the money. Get me out.''

He is a Russian military officer, one of the hundreds of pawns in a brisk
human trade in and around Chechnya. Soldiers and civilians, Russians and
foreigners, old men and little girls as young as 3 have been kidnapped and
held for ransom in the breakaway southern region over the past several years.
Graphic videos often replace ransom notes.

The asking price for a soldier is a few thousand dollars, for a foreigner
several million. And while Russian law enforcement authorities usually insist
that ransom was not paid to free a hostage, deals are clearly being made.
Otherwise, why would the kidnapping business continue to prosper?

``It's a Catch 22: As soon as one is released, another is kidnapped,'' said
Vincent Cochetel, a French U.N. refugee agency official who was held captive
in Chechnya for 317 days before being released in December. ``In order to get
someone released, you have to offer something.''

There is a long tradition of kidnapping in the North Caucasus, but abductions
accelerated during Russia's 20-month war with Chechnya, which ended in 1996
with an agreement to put off for five years a decision on whether the region
would gain independence.

Russian soldiers were abducted and used as slave labor. After the war, the
kidnappers stretched their nets even wider, capturing journalists, foreign
aid workers and ordinary Russian citizens from regions surrounding Chechnya.

According to Russia's Interior Ministry, 1,094 people were abducted in and
around Chechnya between Jan. 1, 1997 and June 30. The true number is higher,
because the ministry does not track kidnapped Chechens - who according to
some estimates number in the hundreds.

Nor are all other kidnappings recorded, especially those of civilians from
neighboring Russian regions such as Dagestan.

When Dagestani journalist Nabi Abdulayev's cousin was kidnapped while
visiting his father in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in October 1997, local
police didn't even open a criminal case.

Chechen officials didn't help either, because the family couldn't afford the
$50,000 they demanded to take the risk of freeing the cousin, Rashid Aliyev.

The family was left to negotiate on its own with the kidnappers, through a
neighbor of the father's who served as mediator. He reported that the
kidnappers wanted $80,000 or they would start cutting Aliyev apart - first
his fingers, then his eyes and ears.

The family took up a collection from relatives across Russia. In the end,
they could come up with only $30,000, but that was enough to satisfy the
kidnappers. They released Aliyev from the earthen pit where he'd been held
for 80 days. He'd lost 66 pounds.

``This is a common story for us in Dagestan,'' Abdulayev said. ``When private
people are kidnapped, usually the family has no choice but to pay.''

For the field commanders who control large swaths of Chechnya, kidnapping has
become the main means of financing arsenals and armies. For their neighbors,
it's one of the few ways of earning money in the war-shattered region.

``It's a whole industry there. One searches for a target, then brings in
someone to carry out the abduction, someone to figure out where the captive
will live, another to feed him, another to guard him,'' said Valentin Vlasov,
President Boris Yeltsin's envoy to Chechnya. He was abducted in May 1998 as
he was being driven along a major highway in Chechnya.

Vlasov's case came to symbolize Russia's powerlessness to combat kidnapping
in the Caucasus. Once the hostage is inside Chechnya, he is out of reach of
Russian police.

Victims are often chained in a series of cells, basements and underground
chambers, and subsist mostly on bread. The kidnappers usually wear masks, and
beatings and other brutal treatment are the norm.

``Psychologically, you have to think through everything - when you sit, when
you stand, when you speak, the tone of voice - so that you don't provoke the
other side,'' Vlasov said.

Vlasov was held for more than six months before being set free. He does not
know the terms of his liberation - and seems not to want to know, either.

``If they said no ransom was paid, I'll believe that,'' he said.

But there are other exchanges to be made - including Chechen inmates in
Russian prisons, whom authorities sometimes arrange to have traded for
hostages.

Chechen families sometimes buy hostages from kidnappers to try to trade for

[CTRL] Eclipse Over Iraq

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Iraq Wants To View Solar Eclipse

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq reportedly has asked U.N. chief Kofi Annan to
persuade the United States and Britain to halt overflights Aug. 11 to enable
Iraqis to peacefully observe the last total solar eclipse of the millennium.

Iraq's northern city of Mosul will be among the best placed areas to view the
eclipse, the state-run weekly magazine Nabed al-Shebab said Monday.

Certain parts of Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad, are expected to be in
total darkness for up to two minutes, the magazine said.

The area around Mosul has been repeatedly targeted by allied planes
patrolling the northern no-fly zone in Iraq.

``Iraq has asked Kofi Annan and the world community ... to halt aerial
military action by the United States and Britain during this scientific and
astronomical day,'' the magazine said.

U.S. and British planes maintain no-fly zones set up over northern and
southern Iraq in 1991-92. The northern zone is intended to protect Kurds; the
southern to protect Shiite Muslims.

Iraq does not recognize the no-fly zones and its air defenses have challenged
the allied planes since December. The U.S. and British warplanes have
responded by attacking Iraqi sites.

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[CTRL] Eclipse Over Transylvania

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Romania, Bulgaria compete for eclipse attention

By Karin Popescu


BUCHAREST, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Romania and Bulgaria, their economies reeling
from post-communist turmoil, are vying for attention, and tourist dollars, as
they find themselves in the path of next week's total solar eclipse.

Both countries, among eastern Europe's poorest lurching towards a market
economy, are promoting what they say are the best vantage points for the last
eclipse of the millennium.

But competition to attract amateur aficionados and avid scientists is stiff
as the eclipse passes over western England's picturesque county of Cornwall,
northern France, Bavaria and even more advanced ex-communist Hungary before
it gets here.

Preparations for August 11 have not been altogether smooth amid a glaring
lack of accommodation and modern facilities.

Nor have circumstances been kind, not least 11 weeks of war in Yugoslavia on
the two countries' western border.

``The eclipse will be at its maximum in Romania,'' said Magda Stavinschi,
manager of the Romanian Academy's astronomy institute. ``The country should
have been prepared, by the same token, to the maximum. The eclipse could have
served to take our country out of darkness.''

The eclipse will be total for two minutes and 23 minutes, casting into
darkness a 112 km (70-mile) strip across Romania, including Bucharest, the
only European capital in its path, at 2.06 p.m. (1106 GMT). It lasts one
second less as it passes over northeastern Bulgaria's most popular Black Sea
holiday area.

DISGRUNTLED TOURISTS

But slow privatisation has left Romania with only 160,000 rooms at 815 hotels
and a tourism industry reduced to annual earnings of $60 million from the
heyday of the 1970s when German and British tourists crowded Black Sea
beaches.

Stories abound of disgruntled tourists paying large sums of money for rooms
with a single light bulb or rationed hot and even cold water. The road
network is in a shambles, with the sole 100 km (62-mile) stretch of motorway
west of Bucharest under repairs and dubbed the ``highway of death'' after a
spate of accidents.

The authorities have had to find alternative drawing cards.

The most spectacular is an outdoor concert by tenor Luciano Pavarotti in the
evening outside the vast marble palace built by executed communist dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu. Organisers say the 20,000 tickets priced at up to $200 are
selling well in a country where average monthly wages are about half that
sum.

Ceausescu may provide a further posthumous attraction at a government auction
from August 9-14 of cars, furs, clothing and other objects which belonged to
him and his wife Elena.

``We cannot say that the eclipse will provide a windfall for Romanian
tourism, but bringing foreigners to the event is likely to cover expenses,''
said Aurel Pavel, vice-president of the tourism employers' federation.

A $1.5 million eclipse promotion campaign raised eyebrows, particularly one
television spot made almost incomprehensible by obscure allusions to the
Dracula legend and folk dancing.

Attempts were made to lure tourists to some of Romania's most scenic areas in
the eclipse's path, including the Retezat and Paring mountains in the
southern Carpathians, billed as being ``2,500 metres closer to the sun.''

But they unravelled when floods washed out major roads in the remote area.
Residents warned officials that any influx of visitors would have to make
their way to hilltop areas on foot.

Eclipse watchers have to settle for Rimnicu Vilcea, a largely colourless
industrial town 350 km (200 miles) northwest of Bucharest known for its large
Gypsy community. Officials have been overwhelmed by accommodation requests
from 10,000 visitors.

BULGARIA

In Bulgaria, hoteliers say the area around the plush Black Sea resort of
Albena offers better viewing conditions than Romania and are scrambling to
offer 15,000 tourists a day trip to the best sites. All hotels have long been
fully booked, with the largest one installing a giant telescope on its roof.

Bulgaria's Defence Ministry has turned a big firing range into an observation
platform and a rock concert is also planned.

``This is a unique opportunity for the tourist sector that should not be
missed,'' Albena official Vesel Velev told Reuters.

EXPLOITNG SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES

Astronomers in both countries have tried to exploit the scientific
opportunities offered by the eclipse -- but were sometimes thwarted by a lack
of funds.

Some 200 from a variety of countries will watch the eclipse at the Bucharest
observatory, which dates from 1910, using also a solar radiotelescope.

``We had planned to acquire at least a one-metre (three feet) long telescope
and build an observation station outside Bucharest,'' said Stavinschi,
walking under scaffolding as major renovations proceed at the facility.

``But both plans failed over lack of funds. A one-metre telescope costs about
$1 million. Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have 

[CTRL] Fwd: OPPT Newsbreak - Monday 2 August 1999

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

OPPT NEWSBREAK Monday 2 August 1999


Today's "Toxic News for the Net"
  Brought to you by the OPPTS Chemical Library
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/oppt_nb.txt

  NEWS

"EPA Is Moving To Restrict Use Of 2 Pesticides" Wall Street Journal, 2 Aug
99, B5.  "Restrictions Coming On 2 Widely Used Pesticides." USA Today, 1 Aug
99, 1A.  "A Pesticide Balancing Act." Washington Post, 2 Aug 99, A1, A8.
 Due to evidence of toxicity to children, the EPA will announce
 restrictions on the use of two pesticides that are widely used among
 fruit and vegetable growers: axinphos-methyl and methyl parathion.  This
 action, the first EPA has taken under the 1996 Food Quality Protection
 Act, is expected to put U.S. growers at a disadvantage against foreign
 producers who can sell products in the U.S. that have been treated with
 these pesticides.  Farmers have few alternatives, most of them more
 expensive.  Anticipated changes will take effect next year and will
 primarily impact growers of peaches and apples.

"EPA Concedes Gas Additive Has Polluted Water Supplies." Washington Times, 2
Aug 99, A8.
 EPA agrees that trace amounts of the carcinogen methyl tertiary butyl
 ether (MTBE) threaten some of the nation's water supply.  While the
 substance has helped reduce smog as a gasoline additive since 1990, it
 can now be found in 5 to 10 percent of the drinking water supplies in
 high-smog areas where use of the additive has been required.  Groups
 that want to end the use of MTBE say studies have shown that MTBE has
 done little to clean the air and that EPA needs to address possible
 health effects including the links found between medical conditions like
 asthma and unexplained coughing and MTBE.  Reformulated gas is mandatory
 in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, three areas with
 severe air-pollution problems.

"Drought Is Worst Since Depression." Washington Post, 2 Aug 99, A1, A7.
"Temperatures Drop Across the Midwest." Washington Times, 2 Aug 99, A6.
 In the mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. the ground is drier than it has
 been since the Great Depression according to Agriculture Secretary Dan
 Glickman.  While just an inconvenience to some, the drought has
 devastated farmers and acres of corn and soybeans.  182 people have died
 from the sweltering temperatures in the northeast half of the United
 States, 30 in Chicago.  A statewide emergency was declared for Maryland
 last week and 11 localities in Virginia have asked for federal disaster
 assistance.  The East Coast is also suffering from poor air quality,
 worsened by the heat and drought.  New York's smog conditions are the
 worst they have been in a decade.  With no relief in sight, water
 restrictions have been enforced in several areas.  Food prices are not
 expected to increase significantly.

"Wells Drying Up in New Jersey Hills." New York Times, 2 Aug 99, A15.
 Water deep in the bedrock of northwestern New Jersey is becoming scarce
 as underground water tables and aquifers affected by the summer's
 drought are dropping, causing hundreds of domestic wells to run dry in
 Sussex and Passaic Counties.  Well drillers are inundated with requests
 to deepen existing wells to an average of 450 feet.  Municipal water
 officials, concerned for the future of the well fields on the banks of
 the Ramapo River, say conservation efforts are needed beyond the
 restrictions currently placed on lawn watering.

"Flat CO2 Emissions Give Experts Hope [Economy]." Wall Street Journal, 2 Aug
99, A2, A6.
 Last year emissions of man-made carbon dioxide dropped world-wide, but
 remained almost flat in the U.S. despite 4% growth in the nation's
 economy.  The positive trend in results is expected to make ratification
 of the global Kyoto Treaty, under which countries are required to cut
 CO2 emissions, easier.  As it turns out, the assumption made by experts
 that economic growth would mean more energy consumption and more CO2
 emissions, is not founded. How this finding changes concerns about
 emissions trading between countries under the Kyoto Treaty is discussed
 in the article.

 ACROSS THE USA, FROM USA TODAY

"Montgomery, Alabama [Across the USA]." USA Today, 30 July 99, 10A.
 A poll taken by the Capital Survey Research Center shows that 68% of the
 state's residents want environmental protection to be prioritized.  23%
 of the voters favored industrial development over the environment.

"Daytona Beach, Florida [Across the USA]." USA Today, 30 July 99, 10A.
 38 beachfront businesses in Volusia County have been ordered to
 reposition their outside lights because they disorient baby sea turtles,
 causing them to travel towards the light 

Re: [CTRL] British 'supergerm' is created for defense

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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In a message dated 08/02/1999 6:40:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  A Ministry of Defense spokesman said: "To perform this task our
 scientists have to be at the cutting edge of biological scientific
 knowledge, including the techniques of genetics." 

Isn't it wonderful to know that our scientists are on the "cutting edge."
Looks like the Brits may have found the tool they've been looking for to
eradicate the Irish.   Just ten years away.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

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In a message dated 08/02/1999 8:43:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


  The richest man in the world is giving almost all of it away.

 Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife plan to devote most of their $105
 billion fortune to wiping out deadly diseases such as AIDS and malaria, the
 Sunday Times of London reported today. 

Nice to have the where with all to do it.  Still the real truth is:

"When we go, we leave what we have and we take what we are."

Prudy

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[CTRL] Eclipse Over KOSOVO

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 Let Rumania and Bulgaria bicker over WHERE the Aug 11 eclipse occurs,
i.e., where it is directly overhead at the moment of exactitude.  My
information tells me ... the Balkans.  Astrologically, that signifies that
Kosovo is ONLY THE BEGINNING ...
 (See attached computer generated graph.  Note where the straight black
line falls.)

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: MONSANTO PLANS TO CONTROL WATER RESOURCES

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In a message dated 08/02/1999 9:30:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 As it states in its strategy paper: "First, we believe that discontinuities
 (either major policy changes or major trendline breaks in resource quality
 or quantity) are likely, particularly in the area of water, and we will be
 well positioned via these businesses [owned by Monsanto and mentioned
 earlier in the paper] to profit even more significantly when these
 discontinu-ities occur. 

Well, with its close ties to the FDA, etc.,  it is highly likely that in our
near future, Monsanto will be controlling everything, and we will be
genuflecting in the direction of corporate headquarters as we pray to its
board of directors.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] They've Got A Secret

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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In a message dated 08/03/1999 12:23:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  The 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act authorized
  the establishment of a new court whose sole purpose is to hear
  cases in which the government, basing itself on secret,
  classified evidence, seeks to deport aliens accused of engaging
  in terrorist activity. The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and
  Immigration Responsibility Act expanded this court's
  jurisdiction, so that secret evidence could be used as the basis
  for deporting lawful permanent residents. Both of these acts
  violate the basic right to due process as outlined in the Fifth
  Amendment to the US Constitution. According to the American Civil
  Liberties Union (ACLU), the Sixth Amendment also prohibits the
  government from using secret evidence in criminal proceedings
  against both citizens and noncitizens. 

I used to be so proud that my country was a place where you didn't have to
worry about whether your papers were in order.   Sorry Rick, everything has
changed.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Pigdog -- China Uses Info-War Techniques to Suppress Religious Following

[El Snatcher]

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China Uses Info-War Techniques to Suppress Religious Following

Pigdog Journal (www.pigdog.org)

Liberty

1999-08-03 00:49:08

By El Snatcher

Maybe you haven't heard: the latest craziness happening in China is
the large-scale protests against the recent banning in China of the
heretofore little known New Age religion known as Falun Gong
(pronounced fah-luhn gung). The Chinese government has launched an all
out campaign against the estimated two million followers in China,
including mass arrests, and BRUTAL propaganda attacks, which have now
spilled onto the Internet.
-more-

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/liberty/link/687.html

--

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[CTRL] Y2K Advice

[Das GOAT]

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 "Koskinen urged people to prepare for possible trouble as they might for
a winter storm or a hurricane: Buy flashlights and batteries, keep enough
cash, food and water for several days and make copies of financial and
medical records.
 "But he cautioned against stockpiling supplies, which could lead to
local shortages, or draining bank accounts, which could strain [or destroy]
the nation's banking system.
 "An AP poll this month found most Americans don't expect major problems,
but nearly a third plan to stock up on food, water and other supplies. About
one-quarter of Americans planned to make large withdrawals of cash from their
banks ..."


Gov't. Y2K Expert Predicts Failures

By TED BRIDIS
.c The Associated Press


WASHINGTON (AP) - Don't expect the Year 2000 technology problem to disappear
after Jan. 1. President Clinton's top Y2K expert said failures could extend
well beyond New Year's Day.

Although John Koskinen predicts there will be a national ``sigh of relief''
in the early hours of Jan. 1, he also anticipates scattered electronic
failures over the first days, weeks and even months of the new year.

Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, said
in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press that some failures may not
become obvious until the end of January, the first time after the date
rollover that consumers review their monthly bank statements, credit-card
bills and other financial paperwork.

``It won't evaporate until after that,'' Koskinen said. ``Clearly, this is
more than a January 1 problem.'' But he also slightly hedged his predictions:
``None of us are really going to know until after January 1.''

Unless repaired, some computers originally programmed to recognize only the
last two digits of a year will not work properly beginning in 2000, when
those machines will assume it is 1900.

Some computer systems may shut down quickly with obvious failures, and others
may gradually experience subtle problems or degraded performance that may
take weeks to notice.

``The more difficult problem will be where the system looks like it's doing
it correctly but it's doing it all wrong,'' Koskinen said.

Some failures won't be recognized until the work week starts Monday, Jan. 3,
as employees return to their offices and turn on their computers for the
first time.

Repaired computers also will need to recognize 2000 as a leap year, even
though most years ending in ``00'' don't need to adjust for Feb. 29, he said.

A new $40 million Information Coordination Center being organized down the
street from the White House will operate until March, sharing information
about failures with states, federal agencies, corporations and foreign
governments.

Koskinen urged people to prepare for possible trouble as they might for a
winter storm or a hurricane: Buy flashlights and batteries, keep enough cash,
food and water for several days and make copies of financial and medical
records.

But he also cautioned against stockpiling supplies, which could lead to local
shortages, or draining bank accounts, which could strain the nation's
financial system.

``If we get a couple hundred million Americans doing anything differently,
we're going to create economic problems,'' he said.

An AP poll this month found most Americans don't expect major problems, but
nearly a third plan to stock up on food, water and other supplies. About
one-quarter of Americans planned to withdraw cash in case of trouble.

Koskinen predicted the most widespread problems will occur in developing
nations that were slow to begin repair work. He named certain regions that
recently suffered financial problems, including Southeast Asia, Eastern
Europe and Russia. But he acknowledged that parts of Africa, Central America,
South America and the Caribbean also were likely to suffer.

``Clearly, some of the developing countries of the world are going to have
some difficulties,'' he said, adding that only 25 to 30 of the world's
nations were well prepared. ``Many more countries are going to have problems
than not.''

The State Department will begin issuing travel advisories in September for
U.S. citizens about which countries to avoid.

Koskinen also disclosed that the government will consider evacuating American
citizens from countries with widespread failures. He said each U.S.
ambassador will make that decision.

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Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

[M.A. Johnson]

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T Nohava wrote:
http://www.nypost.com/news/1315.htm
GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF
By KIRSTEN DANIS
snip

Company Press Release
SOURCE: Gates Learning Foundation; William H. Gates Foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Issue Statement
on Returning Their Wealth To Society

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 2 -- Contradicting an article that appeared
in this weekend's Sunday Times(London), Bill and Melinda Gates
have no imminent plans to give away the entirety of their wealth,
according to Trevor Neilson, a spokesperson for their foundations.
According to Neilson, Bill and Melinda Gates have endowed two
foundations with $11.3 billion to support initiatives in global
health and learning. Since establishing the William H. Gates
Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, the couple has
expressed a desire to return the majority of their wealth back
to society. They have made several significant gifts to global
health and learning initiatives and will continue to make these
gifts on a regular basis.

CONTACT: Trevor Neilson of Gates Learning Foundation,
425-882-1200, ext. 28.




Regard$,
--MJ

Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes
to them. -- Nietzsche

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[CTRL] FW: Physical obstruction of Countryside Alliance demos in UK....

[Dave]

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Physical obstruction of Countryside Alliance demos in UK




hi!

Could you post this up and send it out on your news service list?

Cheers,

Dan


The Countryside Alliance comprises of members of the British aristocracy,
ruling
class landowners, fox hunters and fascists.  Last year, with the threat of a
ban
on hunting with hounds, they mobilised a demonstration in London which
attracted
around 285,000 landowners, farmers, hunt supporters and coerced rural
workers.
Also in attendance were members of two fascist groups, The British National
Party and The International Third Position who gave out around 25,000 copies
of
their "British Countryman" magazine.

There was practically no opposition to this demonstration thus ensuring that
the
Bill to ban hunting was defeated by conservative media coverage portraying a
bill against hunting as being an attack on the rights of country folk and
interfering in the ways of the country.

To combat this, UrbanResponse has been set up to co-ordinate the animal
rights
and anti-fascist movements in the UK to physically obstruct the
demonstrations
of the CA.  We plan to go wherever they go and to reveal to the public the
true
anti-working class and racist ideals of the CA.

For further information on actions to physically obstruct the CA, you can
contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

For further information on actions to physically obstruct the CA, you can
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[CTRL] Traffic Ticket Rackets

[Gavin Phillips]

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In a message dated 99-08-02 17:59:22 EDT, you write:

 This page was originally found on the http://www.motorists.com/ and all
credit
 is given to them.

 The purpose of insurance is to cover unusual risk. Since the act of
 exceeding an unreasonably low limit is hardly unusual or dangerous, the risk
 assumed by the insurance company is nearly non- existant. Therefore, any
 surcharges issued for speeding tickets are almost pure profit.

 The profits that an insurance company generates from speeding ticket
 surcharges allow them to purchase more radar and laser guns to give away
 free to law enforcement agencies. This allows the police to ticket more
 people, which in turn ensures a constant flow of revenue to the insurance
 company. The units will perform their revenue-enhancement duties for 3-5
 years, having paid for in less than one.

 Thousands of speeding tickets are issued by traffic law enforcers who
 don't know or care how to properly operate radar, VASCAR, or other
 speed-measurement devices. They are ignorant of proper operating procedures,
 performance characteristics, and common malfunctions or errors.

 Traffic ticket fines are the cash cow of the court system. No other class
 of "crime" is as profitable for state and local governments as is that of
 traffic tickets. Traffic courts cannot be fair and unbiased when their
 financial welfare depends on traffic fines.

 It is not true that writing more tickets will result in fewer accidents. A
 1995 Memorial Day ticket-writing binge in Connecticut resulted in a 67%
 increase in accidents over the same time period in the previous year. The
 federal government paid $750,000 to the state for that.

 Many speed limits are deliberately set well below the prevailing speed of
 safely-driven vehicles. Doing so does not slow traffic but it does make a
 greater number of motorists eligible for a speeding ticket they don't
deserve.

 There is no connection between receiving an occasional traffic ticket and
 the likelihood of being in an accident. Therefore, there is no justification
 for charging a person more for auto insurance just because they were
convicted
 for a traffic violation.

 Trivial or concocted traffic law violations are frequently used as an
 excuse to stop, detain, and search persons for whom the police have no
 otherwise legitimate reason to do so. "Probable cause" or "reasonable
 suspicion" are inserted after the fact and only if the motorist lodges a
 formal complaint.

 A large proportion of the stop signs erected by local governments are
 illegal and in violation of state traffic regulations. They know that people
 don't stop for them since the intention is to use the signs as speed control
 devices. This proliferation of stop signs merely increases the number of
 motorists who can be cited for failing to stop when there is no reason to.

 The best protection against the "good ole boy" system where the judge,
 district attorney, and the arresting officer are on a first-name basis is
the
 jury trial. Jury trials are time-consuming, expensive, and diminish the
 profitability of the traffic ticket system. Therefore, state-by-state, the
 right to a jury trial is being incrementally denied to traffic ticket
 defendants, all under the guise of being more fair when actually it is less.

 Only a small fraction (about 2%) of all traffic tickets are seriously
 contested. The vast majority of these contested tickets are dismissed or the
 defendant is given a significantly reduced penalty. If just 10% of the
people
 who received citations fought their tickets, the entire system of government
 extortion would collapse within a matter of months.
  

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[CTRL] Fwd: [net-alert] Net-Alert Volume 2, Issue 2

[Kris Millegan]

From: Mark Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Net-Alert
3 August, 1999

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Subscription and unsubscription details are available at the end of this
newsletter.


Contents:

## Fidnet controversy
## Cisco caught out
## Natural language support for Windows 98 users
## More Y2K worries
## New Microsoft Office security flaw
## Encrypted email services gain momentum
## Pitfalls with anti-spam service

Fidnet controversy

Leaked Clinton Administration plans for a network monitoring
system, known as Fidnet (Federal Intrusion Detection Network),
have received considerable media attention in the last week or
so.

The proposed system, to be operated by the FBI, would be tasked
with monitoring government networks used by banking,
telecommunications, transportation and other industries, with a
view to examining "patterns of patterns" of activities in order
to guard against terrorist and criminal activities.

Civil libertarians were quick to point out the risks involved
with such monitoring, in particular, that the surveillance was
being undertaken for non-specific purposes and might indirectly
affect private (that is, non-government) networks.

Interestingly, the plan was given the "thumbs down" by Congress
over the weekend. The House Appropriations Committee, in
approving a $36 billion budget for the Dept. of Justice,
Commerce, and State, specifically prohibited the use of any
portion of the budget on Fidnet.

A copy of the plans have been made available on the Center for
Democracy and Technology Web site.

URLs:

Center for Democracy and Technology
   http://www.cdt.org/

Fidnet Plan
   http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/fidnet/


Cisco caught out

Cisco Systems, a leading supplier of networking equipment to the
Internet industry, has allegedly published marketing materials
that tout the ability of certain Cisco network products, designed
for use in conjunction with the provision of cable Internet
access, to restrict or slow down access to nominated Web sites,
while speeding access to other Web sites. With such equipment,
cable Internet access providers could discourage their users from
visiting certain sites (such as those operated by competitors).


Natural language support assistance

Microsoft Corp. has released a new "Automated Personal Support
Assistant" that uses natural language technology to interpret
questions submitted in ordinary English, such as "Where are dial
up networking scripts stored?".

The site is still undergoing testing, so it hasn't been given a
"dedicated" URL. For the time being, it only supports questions
about Windows 98, and the database of solutions is still growing,
but it is good to see that large companies are starting to
understand the benefits of using natural language query
technology in customer support offerings.

URL:

Microsoft Automated Personal Support Assistant
   http://206.132.93.108/


More Y2K worries

Just as businesses around the globe are starting to express
confidence in their preparedness for the Y2K "millennium bug"
problem, a new security risk have been highlighted: contract
programmers hired to update the hundreds of millions of lines of
code used in legacy computer system may themselves install
malicious code in a deliberate attempt to sabotage computer
systems, keep themselves in a job post-2000 or to provide
themselves with access to sensitive systems after the end of
their contract.

URL:

Nando Media article
   http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,75408-119156-84
   4998-0,00.html


New Microsoft Office security flaw

Millions of PC users could be exposed to malicious pranksters and
computer criminals, thanks to a newly discovered security flaw in
the Microsoft Office suite of software.

Juan Carlos Cuartango, a programmer who has previously discovered
and publicised flaws in Microsoft's software, announced last week
a flaw involving the way in which the Internet Explorer and
Netscape Navigator Web browsers interact with Word, Excel,
Powerpoint and other Office documents.

In essence, the browsers are configured to "trust" these
programs, with the result that they may be used in a trojan
horse-style way to deliver malicious code to a computer in a
manner that would by-pass most anti-virus protection mechanisms.

According to a recent Microsoft Security Bulletin:

   On July 27, 1999, Microsoft became aware of a security issue
   involving the ODBC database driver that is installed as a part
   of Excel 97. It is possible that a malicious coder could create
   an Excel 97 spreadsheet that exploits a vulnerability in this
   database 

Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

[Kris Millegan]

 -Caveat Lector-

Can everyone say Hughes Medical Trust . . .?

Om
K

In a message dated 8/3/99 1:03:04 AM, you wrote:

In a message dated 08/02/1999 8:43:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


  The richest man in the world is giving almost all of it away.

 Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife plan to devote most of their $105
 billion fortune to wiping out deadly diseases such as AIDS and malaria, the
 Sunday Times of London reported today. 

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[CTRL] 'Tag your child'

[Lucio Benedetto]

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'Tag your child' plans attacked

Martin Bright, Education Correspondent
Sunday August 1, 1999
London Observer
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer/uk_news/story/0,3879,70221,00.html

A Revolution in British childcare is being heralded with the launch of an
experimental programme to electronically tag young children. The
controversial scheme, which is already being piloted by a British
supermarket chain, is being introduced to allay parents' fears that their
children could stray out of sight or be snatched by paedophiles.

Parents will soon be able to fit small children with electronic tags which
will sound an alarm if the child travels out of an area scanned by
surveillance equipment.

The tag - likely to be bought by schools, libraries, nurseries and
play-schemes - combines anti-shoplifting technology with the kind of
sophisticated surveillance equipment used to track criminals released from
prison.

It is already used in shopping malls and nurseries across the United States,
with backing from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

Parents' groups and Neighbourhood Watch schemes could also buy the
technology to prevent children from wandering too far from home. Supporters
of the new technology argue that such a system could have prevented the
murder of toddler Jamie Bulger, who was led away from a shopping centre in
Bootle and killed by two 10-year-old boys in 1993.

While anxious parents may be pleased by the prospect of always knowing where
their children are, child welfare groups last night condemned the scheme,
saying it marked the end of a carefree childhood for the next generation and
would usher in a new era of paranoia.

Eva Lloyd, Chief Executive of the National Early Years Network, said: 'This
is part of a worrying movement to remove our children from all risks and
dangers. We are bringing our children up without the experience they need to
let go of the apron strings.'

Fewer than 10 children are murdered every year, a rate that has not risen
for 25 years. Surveys show that children are more frightened of abduction
than the far greater danger of road accidents.

Tesco piloted the scheme at crèches in its out-of-town hypermarkets. In some
stores more than 100 children were being tagged each day. Tesco executives
are now planning to launch the scheme in all its stores with a crèche.

A spokesman for Tesco said: 'It may sound a bit like Big Brother, but we
believe the benefits for parents are clear. It would also allow us to follow
the progress of the child if we wanted to.'

The tag system, known as SafeKids, can be bought from Sensormatic, the
largest electronic security company in the United States. The tag is
contained in a brightly coloured tab worn by the child. If the child wanders
from the crèche, an alarm sounds and the parent is alerted by a pager. The
crèche is monitored by CCTV cameras. In the more sophisticated US versions
of the tag, CCTV cameras zoom in on the child when the alarm sounds. Screens
around the store then flash up images of the missing child and security
staff are sent to the scene of the incident.

Karen Burrows, manager of the Tesco Kids Club in Peterborough said: 'We
believe it makes children feel secure and gives parents peace of mind.'

A report to be issued by the National Early Years Network warns that
children smothered by protective measures could suffer damage. Too Safe for
Their Own Good? says parents should allow children to take risks so they
learn how to deal with danger.

Child psychologist Jennie Lindon, the author of the report, said: 'It is
ridiculous that we have got to the position of trusting technology to take
care of our children more than we trust ourselves.'

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[CTRL] Fwd: WND Clinton's Energy Scandal

[Kris Millegan]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990803_xcsof_clintons_e.shtml

While Americans suffer through another hot summer, power
companies are struggling to keep up with the demand for
electricity.  Brown outs, cut backs and major rate hikes are
expected all across America as power demands reach an all time
high.

However, across the Pacific, Indonesians are struggling to pay
American power producers for electricity that is not needed, and
which they cannot afford.  According to newly released documents
from the U.S. Commerce Dept., 26 U.S. sponsored electric power
projects are on the block because the Indonesian state power
company, PLN, is bankrupt.

The crown jewel of electricity projects in Indonesia is the huge
Mission Energy/GE PAITON coal-fired electric plant in East Java.
In 1994, Mission Energy, part of the California Edison power
consortium, put great faith in the Clinton administration and
Ron Brown to reach Indonesian dictator Suharto.  Mission CEO
John Bryson even wrote Brown, thanking him for the overwhelming
efforts from 1994 through 1995 to get the Indonesians to buy
their Paiton bid.

Paiton was billed as the first "private" electric plant in
Indonesia.  However, "private" ownership in Indonesia means
owned and operated by the Suharto "First Family".  The
Indonesian company that owns, operates and fuels the Paiton
plant under a 30 year, no cut, contract is PT Batu Hitam
Perkasa, owned by Suharto's daughter, Titek Prabowo and her
brother-in-law, Hashim Djojohadikusumo.

According to the Commerce Dept., ".75%" of the Paiton project
was reserved for Suharto's daughter Prabowo.  Prabowo's cut
amounted to an instant $15 million.  Her kick-back, along with a
cut for "brother-in-law" Hashim and various other Suharto
relatives, was provided up front, in cash, in the form of a $50
million loan.  The $50 million loan was to be paid back by the
profits (dividends) returned from the $2.6 billion Paiton
project.

Since there are no profits, there is no pay back.

According to the 1994 Commerce Dept. documents, the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) was "skiddish" about providing a $50
million bribe to the Suharto family from the U.S. taxpayers.
The reluctance to participate in an illegal pay-off, led GE and
Mission Energy to seek Clinton help.

  "Although the ADB financing is only $50 million, GE views the
   ADB component to be important because it has a long-term
   interest in having a multinational bank support the project.
   Furthermore, if ADB rejected financing, EXIM and the
   commercial banks involved in the deal would ask questions."

Obviously asking questions would not be good for any project
with a built in $50 million kick-back for the local dictator.

In 1999, the entire $2.6 billion dollar project is on the brink
of failure.  The corrupt deals with the former dictator of
Indonesia are collapsing faster than the Indonesian economy.
The good citizens of Indonesia have learned of the "First
Family" take-over of their national resources and they do not
approve.

PLN electric officials, fearing for their lives, are pointing
fingers at Suharto.  Ex-PLN President Djteng Marsudi has
repeatedly stated he was forced to sign unfairly priced
contracts, including Paiton.

In August 1998, the Indonesian melt-down caused Mission Energy
to panic and again seek aid from the Clinton administration.
The newly released documents include a briefing of current
Secretary of Commerce William Daley for a meeting with Mission
Energy CEO Edward Muller.

  "Mr. Muller will raise his concerns about developments in Asia
   in general and about the Paiton project in particular.  He
   will probably attempt to enlist your support for the Paiton
   project.  Given competing interest by other U.S. firms, we
   cannot commit to this particular project."

Translation:  Ron Brown is long dead and Bill Clinton is not
anxious to cuddle up to the Suharto family for fear of raising
questions about donations from Indonesian billionaire Moctar
Riady.

  "Ex-Im (Export Import Bank) is the guarantor for $540 million
   in the pre-completion phase.  OPIC is the senior lender
   (provides guarantees for banks to lend) and insurance provider
   for the post-completion phase ($200 million).  (Mission did
   not take out political risk insurance from OPIC or Ex-Im.)"

Translation:  Mission Energy's mistake in not seeking the
"political" insurance was a calculated risk that will cost
stock-holders and customers.  Corporate losses overseas will
have to be made up with lower profits at home and higher rates
for CalEdison customers.

In fact, according to the Commerce Dept., there are U.S.
companies with contracts inside Indonesia who have an interest
in the failure of the Paiton power plant:

  "Both Ex-Im and OPIC confirmed that if the 1200 MW Paiton
   project were to go on line, it would most likely wipe out any
   further GOI (Government of Indonesia) need for other power
   plants.  Thus, several other major U.S. power 

Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

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EXCELLENT

Edward   +

T Nohava wrote:
http://www.nypost.com/news/1315.htm
GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF
By KIRSTEN DANIS
snip

Company Press Release
SOURCE: Gates Learning Foundation; William H. Gates Foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Issue Statement
on Returning Their Wealth To Society

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 2 -- Contradicting an article that appeared
in this weekend's Sunday Times(London), Bill and Melinda Gates
have no imminent plans to give away the entirety of their wealth,
according to Trevor Neilson, a spokesperson for their foundations.
According to Neilson, Bill and Melinda Gates have endowed two
foundations with $11.3 billion to support initiatives in global
health and learning. Since establishing the William H. Gates
Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, the couple has
expressed a desire to return the majority of their wealth back
to society. They have made several significant gifts to global
health and learning initiatives and will continue to make these
gifts on a regular basis.

CONTACT: Trevor Neilson of Gates Learning Foundation,
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[CTRL] Fwd: Spice Girls, Part XXIII or The Fab 4 Frauds Exposed

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Justin,

I don't care if my stance on hearsay "doesn't wash" with you. I understand
the pitfalls, shortcomings and dangers of it, however, when I've received
such testimony from someone I trust immensely, it is an excellent and
integral ingredient of the accumulative, full picture. In short: the Spice
Girls suck, no matter how much "spice" you put on them. They are the
prototypical example of a corrupt industry committing wanton fraud upon the
entire world. Their management should be tried for criminal fraud, if
anyone's going to be. It doesn't sound as if you're aware that the British
courts accused Linda McCartney of fraud, and forced her to prove she could
really play keyboards. Guess what? She couldn't. Of course, there's no
justice today even in the British courts, who tend to copy the corrupt,
fascist American courts more and more.

You should indeed be glad you don't know the miscreant fruitcake pervert,
Michael Jackson. All you need to do is look at a picture of him 15 years
ago, and a picture of him today, and you can easily see the lengths to
which he's gone in order to try to hide the fact that he is a Negro -
something he is most definitely ashamed of. When Jim Morrison touched his
penis onstage in Miami some years ago, he was promptly arrested. When
Michael Jackson does the same thing and worse, he sells more CDs. Of
course, this is the age of Billy Blythe, getter known as William Jefferson
"Bill" Clinton, when there are no longer any morals at all. The Indians
call it the "Kali Yuga"...the "Age Of Evil".

If you have a connection such as a senior VP at Polygram, why can't you get
anywhere in the music industry. You do, indeed, have talent. I'm not saying
you don't. I am saying that talent matters very little, if at all, and if
you have a connection, you should be able to cut a deal by sundown. It's
4.42 pm, so you'd better get a move on, ol' sport!

Although I do not deem "Psychology" as anything even distantly befitting
the word "science", I was, nonethless, forced to study it at great length
in university, where I learnt that it is, indeed, anything but a science to
be taken seriously. I'm not trying to put you down, mate, although I am
trying to build a fire under your sometimes authoritarian-minded British
arse.  : )

I read the book in German which was entitled "Hit Man". I didn't know it
was entitled "Hit Men" in English. Why don't you send me an English copy
when you send me the cassette. If it isn't too dear, I'll send you a cheque
denominated in British pound sterling. I don't put all my eggs in one
basket anymore; after all, I don't have many eggs left after Big Brother
knocked my door down all those years ago.

The sound clip that I sent you featured the voice of John Winston Lennon
singing my song. I'm surprised that you were unable to hear that. I do,
indeed, have a tape of me teaching him the song. I only had that short clip
available in my home, and I sent it to you within minutes after you asked
for it. I don't keep many valuables in my home anymore. Not after what
happened to me in 1988. No thanks. I'm ultra-cautious now. As a matter of
fact, just today I sent out five copies of a master CD of a song I recently
recorded, for safekeeping in five vaults in five countries.

I highly suggest you read Frank Zappa's book, "The Real Frank Zappa",
which, coupled with "Hit Men" really tells quite a lot about the realities
of the corrupt music industry.

Now, on to SIR James Paul McCartney. You think he's a "genius". I don't. I
don't know what your musical background and education, formal/informal is,
but judging from this statement, it sounds as if you're a self-taught
guitar player who sings and writes pop tunes. Am I correct in this
assumption, which is based on the tiny amount of information you've
provided to me?

Listen to John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep", which he wrote about Paul
McCartney. Concentrate on lyrics like:

"The only thing you did was 'Yesterday'
And since you're gone you're just 'Another Day'

Do you know why he wrote that? Because the only hit song McCartney ever
really "wrote" was Yesterday. Actually, Paul often searched through old
sheet music, obscure stuff, looking for song ideas. He found "Yesterday".
He was messing around with it, initially renaming it "Scrambled Eggs".
Finally, he bought the rights to it and recorded it verbatim, not changing
anything, other than adding his rather unique-sounding right-handed
acoustic guitar played in a left-handed style. That's right, Paul
McCartney, who will quickly tell you he's a genius, did not write
"Yesterday", so I can't even give him THAT much credit.

Paul was in the Beatles because he added "sweet" to John's "sour". He was a
pretty face. He really was THE Beatle, as far as physical image was
concerned. He didn't speak to reporters in such a bitter tone as John did.
His image helped the group tremendously, and John knew it, but as for the
music, 

[CTRL] Potala Palace: Chinese Corporate Logo

[Kris Millegan]

 -Caveat Lector-

from:
http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.31/pageone.html
A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.31/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City
Times - Volume 3 Issue 31/A
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Laissez Faire City Times
August 2, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 31
Editor  Chief: Emile Zola

Potala Palace: Chinese Corporate Logo

by Richard S. Ehrlich


LHASA, China -- The Dalai Lama may remember the Potala Palace as his
center of power in Tibet, but the Chinese have turned the stunning
1,000-room structure into a slick corporate logo, decorating beer
bottles, computer screens and plastic packets of dried yak meat.

For some people, the ultimate blasphemy -- or commercial success in the
eyes of the Chinese regime -- appears deep inside the Potala Palace
where Tibetan Buddhist lamas formerly received religious offerings from
devotees.

Mindful of the popular capitalist chant, "location, location, location,"
the heart of the Potala Palace is now occupied by a tacky, spacious,
Chinese-run gift shop.

"When visiting the Potala Palace, the Sitting Room of the Red Palace is
an ideal place for you to have a rest, as well as to do some shopping,"
invites the store's sign, erected inside the palace near exquisite
Buddhist murals.

"Originally, this Sitting Room is used for laying offerings. Now it is
used as a Sitting Room for the tourists to take a break," the sign adds,
hoping to lure customers into a seemingly unpopular showroom, where
glass display-cases highlight bland trinkets.

In addition to its cache as an advertising icon, cash flows into the
pockets of the Chinese government every time a tourist buys a $4.70 (US
dollars) ticket to enter the Potala, or chooses to pay more to
photograph, or explore special roped-off sights inside.

China heralds the Potala Palace as a magnificent trophy "liberated" from
Tibet's medieval theocracy, from where generations of "reincarnated"
Dalai Lamas ruled through a repressive, "superstitious" system.

All the treasures and "Tibetan cultural relics" which weren't looted
from the Potala are now regarded by China as proof of how a wealthy
"elite" of Tibetan Buddhist clergymen and their political collaborators
-- known as regents -- enjoyed unimaginable splendor, while the Tibetan
people suffered horrific poverty.

"Serfs and Slaves"

"When the 14th Dalai (Lama) ruled Tibet, 95 percent of the Tibetans were
serfs and slaves, with no human rights at all," noted a
Beijing-published magazine self-consciously titled, China's Tibet, and
typical of the government's position regarding pre-1959 Tibet.

"But the 14th Dalai, and people like him, enjoyed full rights. In terms
of human rights, Tibet today is much, much better than under his rule.

"Seeing the West accuse China of 'violating human rights in Tibet,' the
14th Dalai, who hates to see Tibetans enjoy much more human rights than
under his rule, joins the West in making the accusation," it added.

The Dalai Lama, meanwhile, claims the Chinese killed one million of the
toiling Tibetans that China supposedly was freeing -- especially during
the 1960s and 1970s.

China insists the missing one million Tibetans actually perished from
epidemics and poverty under the neglectful reign of the dalai lamas,
before Chinese communists arrived in the 1950s, and the population
statistics were then juggled by the Dalai Lama and the West.

Meanwhile, the vast, 13-storey Potala Palace, which dates back to the
1600s when the 5th Dalai Lama resided there, has been reduced to a
stunning, lifeless museum.

A few senior monks watch over priceless shrines, and discreetly tell
visitors of the holiness inhabiting big, jewel-covered tombs of dead
dalai lamas, which the palace contains on view for public adoration.

A Chinese security officer, in pale green uniform, relaxes near a row of
single flames which delicately sway from bowls filled with burning yak
butter.

The Potala Palace's giant, white-and-maroon, cake-like architecture
dominates Lhasa's skyline, and is the only Tibetan structure to appear
as a logo on a myriad of Chinese and Tibetan products.

Department stores in front of the Potala sell attractive desk ornaments,
which include a framed photo of the palace, in matching design.

On nearby shelves, Chinese-made computers attract customers by showing
how a colorful Potala picture can fill the screen.

Big posters of the Potala sell alongside portraits of Hollywood film
stars and China's late dictator Mao Zedong.

The Potala also appears above a hairy yak emblazoned on hand-sized, US
40-cent packets of delicious jerky -- made of "yak meat, sugar, salt,
cooking wine, sesame, chilli (and) vegetable oil."

Every bottle of Lhasa Beer sports the Potala's picture, as do the brew's
cardboard packing crates.

Travel agencies and tourist brochures understandably use the Potala as
their most attractive cover, usually without having to name the
easy-to-identify fortress-temple.

Empty Throne

Tibetans revere the 

[CTRL] FW: Hate in the News

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8/2/99 - Hate crime plan unveiled (IL)
A month after Benjamin Smith targeted minorities in a shooting spree that
began in heavily Jewish West Rogers Park, Cook County State's Attorney
Richard A. Devine stood in the same neighborhood and unveiled a plan to
help the victims of hate crimes and crack down on offenders.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/hate02.html


8/2/99 - Gypsies meet at Nazi camp to remember victims (POL)
 Several hundred Gypsy representatives from across Europe gathered Monday
at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to remember the more than
20,000 Gypsies who died there.
http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,76952-121575-858726-0,00.html

8/1/99 - Suspected neo-Nazis arrested over beating of police officer(GER)
Three suspected neo-Nazis have been arrested in the brutal beating of an
off-duty police officer in Brandenburg state, police said Sunday.
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/01/AM-Germany-Neo-Nazis.ap/index.html

8/1/99 - Hate crime suspected in black Texan's mystery death(TX)
Federal officials said they are investigating as a possible hate crime the
death of a black man the NAACP believes was tied to a tree and set on fire.
http://www.herald.com/content/fri/news/national/digdocs/027901.htm

8/1/99 - Italian Jews protest party's attempt to ally with anti-Semitic
French group(ITA)
Italian Jewish leaders are protesting an attempt by Italy's Radical Party
to forge an alliance in the European Parliament with France's far-right
National Front.
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[CTRL] [5] Viet Nam - Lyndon Johnson and the Lost Society

[Kris Millegan]

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from:
http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.31/pageone.html
A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.31/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City
Times - Volume 3 Issue 31/A
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Laissez Faire City Times
August 2, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 31
Editor  Chief: Emile Zola

Viet Nam

Part 5: Lyndon Johnson and the Lost Society

by Robert L. Kocher


The Johnson presidency was the second of two in succession that would
turn out to be immensely destructive to the United States.

Lyndon Johnson was a deal-maker and horse trader who did it simply
because he enjoyed it and because it made him feel important. He more
appropriately belonged on a used-car lot than in the White House. He was
an American primitive with the aggressive instinct of a Texas hunting
dog, and with just about as much brains and depth. He was a loud-mouthed
bully who loved power and wanted the presidency. There was a story told
by the Secret Service. At the Texas White House the swaggering Johnson
would drink beer and urinate indiscriminately while Secret Service men
would gather around to shield him from onlookers and cameras. In one
instance the wind was blowing and one of the Secret Service men
complained to Johnson that he was urinating all over him. Johnson's rep
ly was, "I know, son. That's my prerogative." That was the way Johnson
looked at life and power.

Ask yourself whether Abraham Lincoln would have done that. Ask yourself
if anyone would even consider believing Lincoln would have done that.
Ask yourself why not. But few people have trouble believing it of Lyndon
Johnson because it concisely describes the character of Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson seems a tortured and confused personality. He apparently
wanted to go down in history as being somebody or having achieved
something. It would elude him because he just plain didn't have any
class. He didn't understand the necessity for it. The only thing he
could do was attempt to remake the country into something like himself.
To the extent he was successful in doing so, he would gain power, but at
the expense of lowering the class level of America. Like Huey Long, his
political power rested in reaching for the lowest common denominator and
elements in society. Anything else was beyond his understanding. His
approach would be an attempt to convert the country into a socialist
swill in the belief he would be popular and slapped on the back like the
swaggering loudmouth who brags about furnishing the liquor and a few
loose floosies at a trashy, hogwallowing Texas party. That some people
would find it repugnant would be lost upon him.

What people from the lower classes, including Johnson, fail to
understand is that a very necessary component of human dignity is
personal morality and personal integrity. An easy path to human dignity
that substitutes socialism for morality and integrity is an illusion
that inevitably fails. For more than 35 years America has been
struggling with that failure. For 35 years America has also struggled
with the problem of people who, in spite of demand for social equality
under socialistic programs, in spite of militant demands for acceptance
under doctrines of social pluralism, still have no class, can't
understand it, don't want to understand it, and are somehow resentful of
class and those who have it.

Johnson could not understand that in a thousand years he could not
bully, or buy, or loudmouth and bellow, himself out of what he was. He
couldn't even imitate what eluded him. Neither can many others.

Johnson’s Social Ambitions

The people in the country never wanted Johnson, but he was thrust upon
them by circumstances and continued by demagoguery. The early sixties
represented both a sharp turning point and a quirk in American history
where presidential elections were thrown; hysteria prevailed; where TV
arose to become the strongest political force in politics; and two
presidents took office who were unknown to the public and whose agendas
were not known to the public—or perhaps even understood by the
presidents themselves. In a short period of time, the public's attitude
toward Johnson became one of universal rage, requiring him to leave
office rather than run for re-election. It has been said that Johnson
felt misunderstood by the public. It is more likely that Johnson
misunderstood himself, and that the public understood Johnson for what
he was better than Johnson did. People who openly falsify elections find
themselves understood better than they sometimes wish.

Johnson may have convinced himself that he did what he did for us
instead of to satisfy his own ambition. Lyndon Johnson had reached the
megalomaniacal state where his visions and will would be forced upon
society—licensed by his belief that those who were compelled would, or
should, either eventually see the wisdom in his actions, or else adapt
their mentalities after a time. People were to be treated a little like
his dog 

[CTRL] Fw: [InTheShadows] Cancer study into artificial sweetener

[Hilary A. Thomas]

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--
 From: Hilary A. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [InTheShadows] Cancer study into artificial sweetener
 Date: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 9:56 AM

 From: "Hilary A. Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Tuesday, August 3, 1999 Published at 13:07 GMT 14:07 UK

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_41/410913.stm

 Cancer study into artificial sweetener

 Many soft drinks contain aspartame

 Scientists are to study whether an artificial sweetener used in popular
 diet drinks is linked to an increased risk of malignant brain tumours.

 Researchers from King's College, south London, will spend the next three
 years scrutinising the effect of the sweetener aspartame, marketed under
 the name NutraSweet.

 Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than normal sugar. It is used in many
 low-calorie and no-calorie drinks.

 The research was welcomed by NutraSweet, which said there was
"overwhelming
 scientific evidence" to prove the product was safe.

 The study will look at whether people with certain genetic make-ups are
 susceptible to methanol, a compound in aspartame which some research has
 suggested can attack DNA and cause cells to mutate and cause cancer.

 Neurochemist Dr Peter Nunn, who is heading the study, said: "Primary
brain
 tumours are of considerable interest to everybody because the cause of
them
 is not known.

 "Some studies have shown there to be a link between aspartame and primary
 brain tumours, and some studies have shown there to be no link.

 "This study does not set out to rubbish aspartame. It is a serious study
 into whether people with certain genes are more susceptible to these
 compounds than others."

 The study will look at whether cells of certain tumours react to
chemicals.


 'Claims dismissed as scare-mongering'

 A statement from NutraSweet AG said: "There is already an overwhelming
 amount of scientific evidence which confirms the safety of aspartame, but
 scare-mongerers have continued to claim that aspartame is linked to brain
 tumours.

 "We have no doubt whatsoever that provided the study is well-designed and
 well-conducted, it will show that there is no such link.

 "The study will therefore provide a further opportunity to put these
 groundless rumours to rest."

 The statement went on: "It is physiologically impossible for aspartame to
 cause brain tumours because it never enters the bloodstream and thus
cannot
 travel to essential organs, including the brain."

 Aspartame was invented in 1965 but has only taken hold in Britain in the
 last decade.



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[CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update

[DIG alfred webre]

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From NASA (August 3, 1999) - Magnitude 7.2

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

"News Flash: Comet Lee has been observed post-solar conjunction. It is
at it's expected location in the sky and thus, it is in its predicted
orbit. This orbit keeps it well away from Earth. At magnitude
7.2 (and fading), it is not unusually bright nor is it visible to the
unaided eye. One wonders when those making the dire predictions will
actually have to take into consideration observational and
scientific fact in their thinking. Of course, if they did that, they
couldn't make such outlandish predictions!"


From the Netherlands (August 2, 1999) - Magnitude 6.8:

http://correio.cc.fc.ul.pt/~apereira/99h1.html

C/1999 H1 (Lee)

Total visual magnitude estimates

UT is used throughout

date   UT M mm.m  dd.d  DC  tt.t/ANG  instr.   observer
August

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[CTRL] [2] Were We Controlled?

[Kris Millegan]

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an excerpt from:
Were We Controlled?
Lincoln Lawerence(C) 1967
University Books, Inc.
New Hyde Park, N. Y.
out -of-print
---
A very interesting book. A bit of a hard read at the beginning, but then, the
author(a psuedonymn) is covering some hard to grasp subjects. One thing to
notice is that the operation( or at least parts of it ) began before even JFK
was elected. Also there are very many interesting facts and theories
presented. And for those that questions about Bunge corporation, it is
discussed also.
--
This book has recently been reissued in an annotated version, with much
additional material, Highly reccommended.
MIND CONTROL, OSWALD  JFK: Were We Controlled?
by Kenn Thomas
Adventures Unlimited Press
POB 74 Kempton, IL 60946

Om
K
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4.
The Tools: R.H.I.C. and E.D.O.M.

The public is generally aware of the time lag between the developmemt of
advanced scientific weapons of defense and their announcement. Secrecy makes
sense on the checker-board of international power politics. The "Manhattan
Project" comes all too vividly to mind in this context.

   A case in point we would like to recall is an incident which disturbed us
many years ago. It provides a fair warning for  the reader that no matter how
fantastic the tools of R.H.I.C. and E.D.O.M. may seem as we describe them to
you, they will be no more fantastic than the facts in the following incident
seemed at the time.

  The time was November of 1940 . . . when the clouds of a major world war
were heavy in the sky and Hitler was the inevitable enemy to be defeated.

   That year, a man named Fred Allhoff felt (even as this author does today
about Behavior Control) that we were going to have the very foundations of
our existence shaken by the announcement of a scientific advance that was
being held back from us. Under the guise of fiction entitled "Lightning in
the Night” in Liberty magazine of November 16th of that year, Allhoff broke
through that time-lag barrier and his readers were given the same kind of
advance information you will find in this book.

   Wrote Allhoff:
  ". . . The President of the United States resumed, 'As you gentlemen have
suggested, the development of atomic energy will mean a revolutionary change
in the life of every human being now on earth. It can be an overwhelming
force for good or for evil.' . . . later . . . 'We saw its potentialities as
a weapon of war, but even more clearly as an unlimited source of heat, of
light, of power for peaceful production and transportation . . .' . . . and
further on . . . 'Our goal, I must repeat, was the creation of a new, rich,
peaceful world tor all. To reach that goal, we needed to unlock atomic energy
before you (Hitler) could do so; to produce tons of
pure uranium-235 before you could do so; and then to master the world through
the threat of its irresistible destructive force--a force we hoped would
never have to be put to use . . . a weapon that must inevitably overwhelm and
subdue any nation on earth.'”

   Mr. Allhoff revealed the major scientific advance of his time years before
the scientific black-out was lifted. The seeds of the A-bomb were there then
when Allhoff warned about it. E.D.O.M. and R.H. I.C. are here now but you
simply aren't being told!

   So much for this incideny which forecast The Atomic Age.

   On another front—the battle of men's minds there is an equally significant
time-lag today.   Behavior Control has progessed far beyond your most fearful
dreams . . . and certainly beyond the information available to you.

   There are two particulaIly dreadful procedures which have been developed.
Those working and playing with them secretly call them R.H.I.C. and
E.D.O.M.—Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control and Electronic Dissolution of
Memory.

   Although the general public is still in the dark about the progress being
made (and the implications of such progress upon the freedoms of man), the
United Nations is quite aware of it. The International Brain Research
Organization—IBR--was formed by UNESCO and held its first formal meeting in
Paris in October of 1960. Present-day work in thought control is undoubtedly
under UN observation.

   How has this field evolved? Since the late nineteenth century, when
Fritsch and Hitzig began the epoch of physiological research into cerebral
stimulation, there has been orderly and important progress. In the last
decade, scientists admit that the invention of new techniques has so
increased that, as Professor Stanley Cobb of Harvard puts it, "One is
overwhelmed!" Topflight U. S. brain expert Daniel E. Sheer states that
"Progress has continued at such an accelerated pace that new data quickly be
comes superseded by newer data."

   One of the first milestones in this research came in 1903 when Vladimir M.
Bekhterev published, in Russia, a seven volume report called "Foundations of
the Theory of the Functions of the Brain." Bekhterev, an acknowledged founder
of the Russian school of neurology, 

[CTRL] The end of secrecy

[Robert Tatman]

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[CTRL] Phi Beta Kappa Men at Yale 1780-1959

[Kris Millegan]

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Found a very interesting book at U of O, library.  Phi Beta Kappa Men at Yale
1780-1959, it confirms the orgins of  Skull and Bones as a by-product of  Phi
Beta Kappa, dropping it's secrecy and also shows one of the man Bones family
in early. Lynde Lord. It was brought to New Haven by Elisha Parmele, He had
charters for both Yale and Harvard. He was a Yale man. Other early members
were Ezra Stles, Sam Newell and Reuben Parmele.  Yale's started 11/1780 and
Harvard's in 1781.

I'll scan in the next few days.  Also found many other interesting books.

The library catalogue is on line and you can browse.   www.uoregon.edu - then
go to library and then to janus, Lots of materials.

Well, I got a busy day, Cya
-
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris

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[CTRL] [Fwd: [cp] US Department of Defense-Police Aided with Equipment for Drug Law Enforcement]

[Bill]

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Scott wrote:

 http://fr0.idzap.com/http://www.leso.hq.dla.mil/CmisWeb/Default.htm

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #1

[ric carter]

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SkeptiNews 990803a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: Family emergencies may interrupt production of SkeptiNews without notice.
: No exalted moral standards survived production of this bulletin. Bother.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Solar flare alert. (BBC) Scientists issued a solar flare alert as the lar-
  gest outburst on the Sun in 6 months interrupted radio communications on
  Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411005.stm

@ Links: Space weather: http://www.spaceweather.com/
@ Current solar data: http://www.maj.com/sun/index.html
@ Solar Terrestrial Dispatch: http://solar.uleth.ca/

# And: Internet reveals solar explosion's target:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363358.stm
# Scientists to forecast sun eruptions:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_293000/293638.stm
# Where the solar wind blows:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm

: Is the predicted solar EBE that will destroy all life on Earth? Are outer
planets/satellites now focusing the solar storm to strike us? Will you be
dead before you can read this? Are you prepared for Solar Armageddon? How?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Tanzanians Kill 350 Suspected Witches In 18 Months. DAR ES SALAAM(Reuters)
  More than 350 people have been killed by angry villagers in Tanzania in
  the past year and a half after being accused of being witches or wizards.
  Burning TImes again: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/09/odd-witches

: Is witchcraft a major problem in your community? What's your favorite way
to kill sorcerers? Have you killed many mages lately? If they're magickal-
powerful, why can't they protect themselves? Are you a witch, wizard, geek?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Egyptian Man Kills Epileptic In Botched Exorcism. CAIRO (Reuters) Egyptian
  police have detained a man known as an exorcist after he beat an epileptic
  woman to death trying to rid her of spirits, after doctors failed to cure
  her. Next time, pray: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990802/10/odd-exorcist

: How do you prefer to exorcise demons? Have you driven out many disease-
causing spirits lately? Have you ever been exorcised? Should you be? Why??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# TM lowers BP. (BBC) Transcendental meditation may be one way to keep the
  heart healthy, say researchers who found how it keeps blood pressure low.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_41/410003.stm

@ Links: Transcendental Meditation: http://www.meditation-cam.org.uk/
@ Scientific Research on TM: http://www.tm.org/research/home.html
@ Creating Heaven on Earth: TM Website: http://www.alltm.org/

: Is the Natural Law Party the healthiest political group? Do you prefer to
meditate transcendentally, horizontally, quickly, sexually, mechanically??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Shroud of Turin said pre-8th century. ST. LOUIS (AP) - A new analysis of
  pollen grains and plant images on the Shroud of Turin places its origin to
  Jerusalem before the 8th century. The study encourages those who believe
  the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus and refutes a 1988 examination by
  scientists that concluded the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390. The
  earlier study also indicated the shroud came from Europe rather than the
  Holy Land. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560545483-626

: Does your belief system require/allow/ignore evidence? Have you faked any
religious relics lately? Do you get a good price for them? Are they pretty?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Russian region wants to allow men up to four wives. MOSCOW (Reuters) --
  Russia's Moslem southern region of Ingushetia has authorized its men to
  marry up to four women each, but the move may face hurdles in federal law.
  http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/21/BC-LIFE-RUSSIA-POLYGAMY.reut/

: Does your belief system promote/allow/prohibit polygamy/polyandry, group
sex, polymorphous perversity? How many mates are enough? How many can you
stand? Would you rather mate with men, women, animals, aliens, robots, me?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Iraq wants to view solar eclipse. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq has asked U.N.
  Secretary-General Kofi Annan to persuade the US and UK to halt overflights
  11 Aug to enable Iraqis to peacefully view the last total solar eclipse of
  the millennium. Iraq's northern city of Mosul, often targeted by allied
  planes patrolling the no-fly zone, is among the best placed areas to view
  the eclipse. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560541972-ca4

# Eclipse forecast goes online. (BBC) The Met Office has set up a telephone
  hotline and Website giving daily updated weather forecasts for the eclipse
  on 11 August. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_409000/409255.stm

# And: Armageddon - Again: 

Re: [CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update

[Stopforth, Jamie]

 -Caveat Lector-

Yeah, and NASA is a trustworthy source itself...  Eesh.

-Original Message-
From: DIG alfred webre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update


 -Caveat Lector-

From NASA (August 3, 1999) - Magnitude 7.2

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

"News Flash: Comet Lee has been observed post-solar conjunction. It is
at it's expected location in the sky and thus, it is in its predicted
orbit. This orbit keeps it well away from Earth. At magnitude
7.2 (and fading), it is not unusually bright nor is it visible to the
unaided eye. One wonders when those making the dire predictions will
actually have to take into consideration observational and
scientific fact in their thinking. Of course, if they did that, they
couldn't make such outlandish predictions!"


From the Netherlands (August 2, 1999) - Magnitude 6.8:

http://correio.cc.fc.ul.pt/~apereira/99h1.html

C/1999 H1 (Lee)

Total visual magnitude estimates

UT is used throughout

date   UT M mm.m  dd.d  DC  tt.t/ANG  instr.   observer
August

   2.07  S  6.8   3.5' 5 16L 29x  R. Bouma, Groningen, The
Netherlands

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Re: [CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update

[Stopforth, Jamie]

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Also, see what the Millennium has to say about this.

http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee6.htm

-Original Message-
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update


 -Caveat Lector-

Yeah, and NASA is a trustworthy source itself...  Eesh.

-Original Message-
From: DIG alfred webre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Reported Comet Lee sightings - Aug 3 update


 -Caveat Lector-

From NASA (August 3, 1999) - Magnitude 7.2

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

"News Flash: Comet Lee has been observed post-solar conjunction. It is
at it's expected location in the sky and thus, it is in its predicted
orbit. This orbit keeps it well away from Earth. At magnitude
7.2 (and fading), it is not unusually bright nor is it visible to the
unaided eye. One wonders when those making the dire predictions will
actually have to take into consideration observational and
scientific fact in their thinking. Of course, if they did that, they
couldn't make such outlandish predictions!"


From the Netherlands (August 2, 1999) - Magnitude 6.8:

http://correio.cc.fc.ul.pt/~apereira/99h1.html

C/1999 H1 (Lee)

Total visual magnitude estimates

UT is used throughout

date   UT M mm.m  dd.d  DC  tt.t/ANG  instr.   observer
August

   2.07  S  6.8   3.5' 5 16L 29x  R. Bouma, Groningen, The
Netherlands

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[CTRL] VOICE OF THE GRUNT Newsletter, 1999-07-28-A

[Bill Richer]

 -Caveat Lector-


**  VOICE OF THE GRUNT
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**  28 July 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS   ARTICLES
Hack's Column
For Whom The Bell Tolls 1
Mac Notes
2
From The Field:
So Why Were The Russians Really In That Big Hurry   3
If Our Military Is Comprised Of People  4
Stand Up...Hook Up...Sex and Gender 5
P-38 Was A 1930's F-22? 6
One Colonel Openly Laughed  7
Medal of Honor:
Penry, Richard A, Sgt., USA, Co. C, 4/12, 199th Infantry Bde.   8
Binh Tuy Province, RVN, 31 January 1970
News Commentary:
NATO Admits Air Campaign Failed 9
No Humor This Week
==
ARTICLE 1
~
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
~
By David H. Hackworth, 27 July 1999

Maybe you didn't get the word that two American soldiers died in
Kosovo last week. The media were so busy bludgeoning the nation with JFK
Jr.'s sad story that none of the major networks bothered to report on the
deaths of these two Army grunts. Brokaw, Jennings and Rather and the 24-hour
news channels were all too busy wailing over past and present Kennedy
misfortunes, which -- more than incidentally -- kicked - up TV rating numbers
and brought in big bucks.

Thousands of newspapers around the nation also joined the mourning.
But few carried even a mention of the names of the two soldiers who died in
Kosovo, let alone told their stories.

These two soldiers were not Kennedy famous, so they didn't rate much
media time. They were just plain grunts from ordinary American families with
the bad luck to be on patrol when their armored vehicle rolled over. They
were G.I Joes, not much different from the tens of thousands of American
soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed around the world as the
spearhead of "The Clinton Doctrine." Like JFK Jr., our two dead warriors had
loved ones, hopes, dreams and aspirations. But unlike Kennedy, they died
doing their duty while trying to bring peace to a province ripped asunder by
600 years of civil strife.

Sherwood Brim and William Wright have now joined David Gibbs, Kevin
Reichert and Anthony Gilman, soldiers who also recently died in the Balkans.
Let's not forget any of them or the scores of other service men and women
who've paid the supreme price just since 1993, when "The Clinton Doctrine"
received its baptism by fire and 18 American warriors were killed in the
streets of Mogadishu.

Since then, more than 100 uniformed guardians of this country have
died while on global duty executing Madeleine Albright's "indispensable
nation" strategy. But you seldom hear about these deaths unless the
catastrophe is so big it can't be hidden or ignored -- like the shootout in
Somalia or the U.S. Air Force hotel bombing in Saudi Arabia.

We take for granted the grave dangers our warriors face in places
like Bosnia, Colombia, Haiti, Kuwait and now Kosovo, where, as I write this,
soldiers are at maximum alert for terrorist rockets, ambushes and incoming
hand grenades. Perhaps the reason so many Americans and the majority of our
media are so cavalier regarding these dangers is because those serving are
all volunteers from other towns, other neighborhoods, other families.
Perhaps the attitude expressed by Albright prevails among most citizens who
don't have loved ones securing the new American Empire -- that if they get
hurt, so what, they're Regulars, they signed up for it.

Maybe we should go back to the draft. Get back to sharing the pain
between the rich and the poor, the black, the brown and the white. In
Vietnam, once the upper classes started dying side by side with those at the
bottom, that bad war suddenly became every U.S. citizen's concern, not just
the poor's.

Had JFK Jr. bought it in that armored vehicle in the killing fields
of Kosovo instead of while winging off to the Cape for a weekend of wedding
fun, the media and certainly the powerful Kennedy family would be asking
some hard questions.

You can bet your 401K that if an Albright, a Gore, a Bush or a Gates
were blown apart in one of Clinton's global villages, these questions would
be asked: "Why are we trying to police the world? Why are so many of our
soldiers put at such high risks? Why are so many body-bags being filled with
our youth when our national security isn't involved? Why is Clinton still
trying to fix all the problems in the world on our warriors' backs when
those being "saved" want Yankee to go home?"

On the seventh day of the media extravaganza on JFK Jr.'s death, an
Army recon plane went down over Colombia. All five missing soldiers are
presumed dead. Again, this story got little press coverage.

[CTRL] VOICE OF THE GRUNT Newsletter, 1999-07-28-B

[Bill Richer]

 -Caveat Lector-

VOICE OF THE GRUNT Newsletter, 1999-07-28-B
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ARTICLE 5
~
"STAND UP...HOOK UPSEX AND GENDER..."
~
SUMMARY: As part of Airborne Training I would recommend that each trooper
and officer read Ambrose's BAND OF BROTHERS. It'll give you some perspective
on what being Airborne was all about; you'll miss it.
*
By An "All-American" Warrior

Enclosed is an article that was published today, 22 July 1999, in the Fort
Bragg Paraglide, the weekly rag published here at the home of the 82d
Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps.

Each month units must report up thru their respect channels to the XVIII
Airborne Corps EO office:

o Total number of 1st Sgt.slots in the group, Bn. or Div. etc
o How many of these slots are filled by a female NCO
o How many Sergeant Major positions there are
o How many are filled by a Female SGM/CSM
o How many senior NCOs (E-7 thru E-9) are in the command
o What the senior NCO breakdown is by race and gender
o Total awards of the Army Commendation Medal and Meritorious Service Medal
o Break down by race and sex of who received the medals
o UCMJ action by race and sex

This is just a sample of some of the data collection that goes on here at
Fort Bragg. I know as I have had to collect and pass some real nonsense up
to higher HQ. With the do more with less mentality and lack of training
funds and personnel, this is all we have left to worry about.

Maybe we should all just dress up as Tele-Tubbies and Big Hug our enemies.
It is that weak here at the home of the big bad Airborne.

Here's the article from The Paraglide:

"CSM Wendell Samuel, HQ, 55th Medical Group, received the Unity in Diversity
Award Sunday. He can now boast that the 55th Medical Group is balanced in
both racial and gender for positions of enlisted leadership. He has
appointed the only female 1st Sgt. In the entire medical brigade of more
than 3,000 soldiers and also appointed a female driver for the group
commander. He also worked diligently to make promotions and awards given to
worthy soldiers based on their hard work and not on whether the soldier was
the right color or sex. He also leveled the playing field in disciplinary
actions taken, making certain that no one ethnic group was the recipient of
a disproportionate amount of punishment."
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ARTICLE 6
~
P-38 WAS A 1930's F-22?
~
SUMMARY: Hack caught quite a bit of flack over his F-22 triple "A" piece.
Here's one of the more tempered rebuttals. Although I can see the need for
advanced technologies all I would like to remind our Air warriors about is
the dwindling pool of pilots to fly these new age "Lightenings" and the real
need to rebuild our Air Forces post Kosovo. Without pilots and weapons, all
a new F-22 will be is a $200 million tarmac paperweight.
***
By Maj. George A. Kuck, USAF (Ret)

I enjoy your columns and get your Hacknotes. However, I must disagree with
you on this one.

We entered WWII with obsolete fighter aircraft. The best aircraft that we
had around at the time, in my estimation, was the P-38 Lightening. It was
only when the P-51 was joined with the Rolls Royce engine did we have a
better aircraft. And remember the P-38 was expensive for its time also. It
was an aircraft that flew with durability and distinction throughout the
war, especially in the Pacific. Medal of Honor recipient Richard Bong II
flew a P-38 and was our highest scoring ace. It could be a similar situation
for the F-22.

I agree that Lockheed does not do an outstanding job in designing and
building fighters -- but that is what the AF chose over the MDAC alternative.
I do believe we need a stealthy fighter. The F-15 has too great a radar
cross section. In addition, what makes you believe we will purchase the 4
F-15's with the money we save by canceling the F-22? It will be wasted on
some civilian "social program" instead of buying needed hardware, i.e. like
all the stuff we depleted during Kosovo.

I agree that we need to replace the equipment being worn out by these many
Clinton wars that we have seen. However, I do believe that we will need the
F-22 or some low radar cross section fighter in the future.

ARTICLE 7
~~~
ONE FULL COLONEL OPENLY LAUGHED
~~~
SUMMARY: A response piece to Captain Leigh Losher's "Broken Parts" piece
last week. Some of what this SFC witnessed first hand makes "Frank Burns"
look serious.
**
By Ed Lane, SFC, USA (Ret)

Amen to former CPT Mosher's article. He is on target with his comments
regarding US Army Recruiting Command (USAREC). I was with USAREC for 17
years as a field recruiter. 

[CTRL] Fwd: Media Controls Increased After Kennedy Missteps

[Kris Millegan]

8.3.99
Recipients--
The message below, received by NewsHawk, gives a VERY much appreciated
HEADS-UP to EVERYONE regarding some drastic changes in the way the
"news", already managed and spin-doctored to the EXTREME in the United
States at this point, is set to be "coordinated" and reined in even further.

The demander-in-chief, as part of his seemingly endless onslaught
against the our most fundamental rights and against common good, issued
Presidential Directive #68 in April 1999.

This malignant, cancerous outrage created something called the
"International Public Information (system)" or IPI, whose sole purpose is
to implement complete, across-the-boards, unilateral centralized control
over ALL NEWS REPORTED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES… AND elsewhere!

Although the group was "created" in April 1999, they decided to hold
their first meeting on Wednesday, July 28.

This DOES seem to be DIRECTLY related to one MAJOR problem that
developed for the covert (geo)-political power brokers who murdered
Kennedy and their stooges in the various "investigative"--make that
"coverup"--agencies: that is, the early reporting of the crucial
information regarding Kennedy's 9:39 radio contact with Vineyard airport
personnel and also reporting of eyewitnesses to the airborne destruction
of the craft. News agencies involved in this were UPI; WCVB-TV, Boston;
ABC News, and FOX-TV.

Substantial efforts by "maverick" and alternative information sources to
get such vital FACTS to the public AND to mass media organizations
regarding the Kennedy and Bessette deaths were most likely a factor as
well in this high-level decision to further shorten the press's leash.
The extraordinary degree of harassment directed at Jeff Rense of
Sightings.com, NewsHawk and others due to our efforts in this regard
would seem to validate this assessment.

According to Geoff Metcalf's article about this in WorldNetDaily: "THE
INTENTION IS TO SLAP A TIGHTER BRIDLE ON DOMESTIC CRITICS."

This latest government outrage naturally uses PUBLIC funds, which feds
have ALREADY stolen from the people, AGAINST us and our best interests.
The intent is force the entire mass media industry into becoming even
more rigidly controlled whores of the oppressive "state".

This is yet another nail in the coffin of whatever remains of our
so-called "free press". I personally can say that the way the "news" was
"handled" regarding the Kennedy and Bessette murders was a really good
indication of just how extreme these controls have ALREADY become!

These "powers that be" DON'T want another problem like that which
happened with Kennedy-- the "uncontrolled" reporting of critical and
incriminating information which UTTERLY invalidated the putrid
"official" concoction being force-fed the public about the murders of
Kennedy, his wife and Lauren Bessette.

Be forewarned! The last vestiges of "free speech" are being crushed!


John Quinn/NewsHawk Inc.


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Subject: Tighter Media Control
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:30:10 -0700
From: xxx
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is this just coincidence? Of course not!

Right after John Kennedy's crash, and KCVB-TV/UPI/ABC "mis-" reporting
of John Kennedy's call in to the control tower at Martha's Vineyard
(don't they WISH they could have stopped people like you from reporting
the IMPORTANCE of this!), there is a meeting of IPI, whose PURPOSE is to
"coordinate, integrate, de-conflict and synchronize" the NEWS!!!???

Here's my synopsis of a worldnetdaily story by Geoff Metcalf, on their
site now:

***

Presidential Decision Directive 68 of April, 1999 created the
International Public Information (IPI) system. This propaganda and
disinformation tool is to be run by Morton Halperin, formerly "Senior
Director for Democracy" at the National Security Council and now head of
policy planning at the State Department.

The IPI working group met for the first time last Wednesday. Under the
purview of IPI, media information (propaganda) will "be coordinated,
integrated, DE-CONFLICTED (don't you just LOVE that?) and synchronized
with the (IPI) to achieve a synergistic effect" at home. Here is a
government agency, which "we" pay for, set up specifically for the
purpose of CONTROLLING the news!!!

One former senior official stated that this charter "did not distinguish
what would be done overseas and what would be done at home." "The
intention," according to a WorldNetDaily (www.worldnetdaily.com) article
by Geoff Metcalf, "is to slap a tighter bridle on domestic critics."

I'm telling you, people, they REALLY didn't like the fact that WCVB-TV,
UPI and ABC reported John Kennedy's last words to the control tower--and
you can now forget about the possibility of such news developments in
the future.

*

[CTRL] The Spaghetti Theory of Conspiracy

[Kris Millegan]

 -Caveat Lector-

from:
The Illuminati Conspiracy - The Sapien System
Donald Holmes, MD(C)(1987)
New Falcon Publication
655 East Thunderbird
Phoneix, AZ 85022
602-246-3546
Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson
---
As always Caveat Lector.
Om
K
--(1)--
The Spaghetti Theory of Conspiracy
by
ROBERT ANTON WILSON

WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
—Oz the Omnipotent

It is characteristic of the primitive conditions on this backward planet that
virtually nobody knows any of the basic facts about how the human race is
actually governed. For instance—

1. Governments are not nearly as important as most people think. Since we
live in a post-barter economy—a money economy—those who control the money
supply effectively control the planet. Governments gave up all attempt to
coin or control money in the 19th Century, mostly because they did not trust
one another, i.e. no nation had faith that the coinage or currency of another
nation was really worth what it claimed to be worth. The great International
Banks stepped into this vacuum and, by demonstrating more fiscal rectitude
than governments had in the past, became the creators of money in the modern
world.

After the banks had control, they no longer needed to be quite so prim in
their fiscal rectitude. Nobody could challenge them.

This means that governments cannot do anything—good or ill, wise or
foolish—unless the banks first lend them the money for the project. The power
is in the banks. The governments survive on the permission of the banks. If
the banks cut off their credit, governments die. Any government that resists
has its credit cut off and dies.

As Buckminster Fuller stressed in all his writings (especially Critical Path
and Grunch of Giants) this means that, in the modem world, banks act and
governments only re-act to the situations the bankers have ordained. Even
earlier, historian Brooks Adams wrote of the British financier Samuel Loyd,
in The Law of Civilization and Decay,

He comprehended that, with expanding trade, an inelastic currency must rise
in value; he saw that, with sufficient resources at command his class might
be able to establish such a rise, almost at pleasure; certainly that they
could manipulate it when it came, by taking advantage of foreign exchange.

In other words, as soon as the great multi-national banks had control of the
money supply, they saw that they could manipulate cash and credit to maximize
profits. They would have been rather dense if they had not seen this.
Nonetheless, while these financiers quite sanely and legally maximize
profits, the rest of us are at their mercy; but we never elected them to this
position of power, and, by and large, we do not even know who they are.

2. In the present decade, it costs $50,000,000 to run a campaign for the
presidency of the United States, $10,000,000 to run a campaign for the Senate
and $5,000,000 for the House of Representatives. (These figures are
documented in Buckminster Fuller's Grunch of Giants.) This means that the
U.S.—the strongest country in the West—is not only "owned" (in
trillion-dollar debt to) the banks, but also governed by persons who are
either (a) millionaires or (b) heavily in debt to millionaires. In the words
of ex-Senator Pettigrew, we now have "government of the corporations, by the
corporations, for the corporations

3. As Edward Luttwak documents in his cheerfully Machiavellian little text,
The Coup d'Etat, more governments have been changed, since World War II by
the coup d'Etat than by any other method. More governments have been changed
by coup than by all the democratic elections and revolutions combined.

Since every coup is by definition a conspiracy, this means that conspiracies
have had more effect on the past 40 years of world history than all the
electoral politics and all the popular revolutions added together. That is
rather ominous, in a period when "educated" opinion holds that it is
infamous, nutty, eccentric or downright paranoid to think about conspiracies
at all. We are, in effect, forbidden to think about how the planet is
actually governed.

4. If governments cannot act without permission of the banks— without loans
or "lines of credit" granted by the banks—and if the U.S. government is
"owned" by the multi-millionaire (or billionaire) banking and corporate
elite, and if other governments are, more often than not, changed by
conspiratorial coup, the major portion of humanity is
economically-politically controlled by persons who are largely unknown to the
general public and/or have never been elected to any office. Democratic
theory is beautiful and inspirational, but has nothing to do with the actual
situation of the domesticated primates of this boondocks planet.

5. If the masses of the planet are politically-economically controlled by
shadowy financiers and conspiratorial adventurers, the same masses are
intellectually controlled by persons who are more visible but equally
unpalatable to 

[CTRL] Fwd: Spice Girls, Part XXIV or The Fab 4 Frauds Exposed,Part II

[Kris Millegan]

As always, Caveat Lector.
Om
K
-



Justin,

I had even less time than you to write all I did, plus I am suffering from
extremely high blood pressure which causes excruciating migraine cluster
headaches and painful Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in all my fingers; still, I
respected you enough to compose a somewhat intelligent response to your
message, addressing all of your concerns. I'll now do the same.

Regarding Paul McCartney's greediness, you have misquoted me. I did NOT
write that I informed him there was a "definite" cure for his wife's
cancer. I wrote:

I told him about an American Indian tea ("Essiac") that would probably
cure it for her

Essiac tea has been successful in curing over 75% of all types of cancer,
regardless of how far it's progressed. Breast cancer, which his wife had,
is much easier to cure than most other cancers. I've seen over 100 cases of
it cured with Essiac tea, fruit juice fasts and similar inexpensive,
natural remedies, right here in the tiny canton of Bern, just over the past
couple of years.

If you "find it disgusting" that Paul was unwilling to fork over 20 quid
for the possibility of curing his wife's cancer, I do, too. I'd been giving
it away for free to people, and was near broke as a result of such
altruism. In his case, I felt it was pocket change to him. He surely makes
that much off his interest alone in one or two seconds. Knowing him and his
greediness, I wasn't totally shocked that he refused to pay for this
remedy, but I did find it disgusting. Some things about the man are
wonderful, but, as John and many others would tell you, most were
disgusting.

You're probably too young to know about the 12-year-old girl he raped and
got pregnant just as the Beatles were becoming superstars. She had his
baby, and his father sued McCartney. McCartney got away with paying a fine
of around £500 to the girl's father. The father then refused the money. He
didn't want the money. He wanted a father for his grandchild and an
admission of guilt from the perpetartor. So, the father had copies of the
court decision made and arranged for a pilot friend to dump them all over
the major cities of England. Of course, it quickly blew over. The Beatles
had become gods. I could tell you a thousand stories as bad as this, but
I've no intentions of writing a book over these "gods". My CDs will do
enough damage to them.

I can assure you that McCartney trusts me. He's just a typical fat cat
bastard who thinks everything should be handed to him for free on a silver
platter, even medicine for his dying wife. As John Lennon wrote:

"Instant Karma's gonna get you
It's gonna knock you right off your feet"

And it did, didn't it?

I now recall someone teling me James is a carpenter, yes, that's very nice
to hear he's happy, but sad that he isn't following in his showman father's
footsteps. I suppose he must not have his talent for singing and playing,
or else he probably would, correct? How often do you see him? Does he live
in Scotland or England?

You know, your address sounded rather familiar to me. As I think back, I
can recall when I was hanging out with Brian Jones, who was, after all, the
REAL "Rolling Stone". I do recall the day that he had quite a lot of
trouble there when his band's original singer quit. I'd have to think about
it, but I think his name was Mike Hugghm...anyway, he quit as the
Rolling Stones' singer right after they'd gotten a recording contract and
were ready to record their first album. He thought they'd never go anywhere
and joined Manfred Mann as their singer, instead. They had a few hits, but
the Rolling Stones were, of course, gigantic compared to them. The singer
was absolutely wonderful and played an incredible blues harp. This is a
subject I intend to write about if I live a few more months. It was a most
interesting time.

The Beatles were, I agree, a great band. They were simply not writing their
own material entirely, as the public has been led to believe. They were
also not the good little boys the public was led to believe.

I can't be 100% sure that John Lennon INTENTIONALLY ripped off the melody
line of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me", but...as John said to me after
I complained about his stealing my "Johanna" and changing the lyrics to "Oh
Yoko" at the Japanese witch's insistance (she liked the song), "Art Is
Theft". I do know that Chuck Berry's lawyer and management forced John to
record an album with Chuck Berry and pay him a considerable amount of money
in an agreement whereas John wouldn't be sued - which would've destroyed
his repuration forever, and he knew it. I could've sued, too, but I wasn't
as rich and famous as Chuck Berry, so I wouldn't have had such an easy time
getting a BEFORE-court settlement.

Paul McCartney stole a lot of songs from John Lennon, including his first
solo hit, "Maybe I'm Amazed", which was a song the Beatles were preparing
to release when all hell broke loose and they broke up. 

[CTRL] Buchanan courts farmers in Michigan

[Bill Richer]

 -Caveat Lector-

Dear Brigade - FYI - Linda, GO PAT GO!



Buchanan courts farmers in Michigan

Conservative Republican tells Grand Rapids rally he'll protect U.S. against
cheap
foreign crops

Associated Press  --  7/22/99


GRAND RAPIDS -- Against the backdrop of a family-owned apple orchard,
presidential
hopeful Pat Buchanan promised to protect farmers from cheaper, foreign crops
he said
threaten to destroy American agriculture.

On the second of a two-day campaign swing through Michigan on Tuesday, the
conservative Republican repeated a familiar theme in his longtime quest for
the
presidency, railing against current trade laws. He said those laws allow
"Communist
China" to sell its apples below cost here.

"They don't let our manufacturers in, and then dump everything they have in
the U.S.
free of charge," said Buchanan during a brief tour of Robinette's Apple Farm,
retail
store and cafe in northeast Grand Rapids.

"The people who talk global free trade don't understand that or don't care,"
Buchanan
told about 50 people.

The message resonated with the orchard's owner, Jim Robinette, who said he
would
consider voting for Buchanan.

"I'm undecided right now, but I'm impressed," Robinette said. "He's the first
candidate
we've had who was really interested in agriculture."

"I'm desperate. We must do something to save our farms," said Andy Sneller, a
Fremont apple farmer who drove 45 minutes to see Buchanan.

His 600-acre farm is losing money, and he said he was afraid there would not
be a
business for his sons to take over someday.

"Buchanan has ideas," Sneller said. "We have to do something."

Buchanan ran for president in 1992 and 1996. He did not win the Michigan
primary.

On Tuesday, he predicted he would do well in Michigan in 2000, although
Michigan
Gov. John Engler is backing Texas Gov. George W. Bush for the job. But he
acknowledged it will be tough to compete against someone who already has
raised
$37 million -- and received the support from so many Republicans. "I think
the
establishment closes ranks too quickly," he said when asked about Bush's
support.

Buchanan's rhetoric was toned down from Monday's trip across Michigan, when
he
called Engler "Friar Tuck" -- a reference to the portly friar who accompanied
Robin
Hood.

He also did not spend much time discussing his opposition to abortion, a
position that
he frequently highlights as an example of his conservatism.

Buchanan campaigned across mid-Michigan Monday, stopping in Essexville,
Gladwin,
Midland and Lansing. He told cheering supporters that he stands for American
values
and American jobs and said President Clinton has failed to do so.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Annual Bohemian Grove draws Bushes, Kissinger,Powell, Gingrich

[Bill]

 -Caveat Lector-

I wonder about a membership list...

Kris Millegan wrote:

   

 Subject: SNET: Annual Bohemian Grove draws Bushes, Kissinger, Powell,
  Gingrich
 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 02:52:21 +0100
 From: jeremy Compton [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Tony
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 Please link to www.bilderberg.org

 Power Elite Public Information Service message
 www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#pepis

 From The Sacramento Bee,
 http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local11_19990802.html
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 Movers, shakers from politics, business go Bohemian: Annual Sonoma fete
 draws Bushes, Kissinger, Powell, Gingrich
 By Suzanne Bohan
 Bee Correspondent
 (Published Aug. 2, 1999)

 MONTE RIO -- The Bohemian Club's Annual Summer Encampment came to a close
 here Sunday, ending a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that
 President Herbert Hoover once called "the greatest men's party on Earth."
 The club's famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at
 the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San
 Francisco in Sonoma County. This year's event drew in notables such as
 former President George Bush, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger,
 retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow
 Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff, as well as actor Danny Glover.

 The men gather to celebrate what they call "the spirit of Bohemia," said
 Peter Phillips, a Sonoma State University sociology professor who wrote his
 doctoral dissertation on the Bohemian Club.

 "This is a place men can go and hang out with people who are similar to
 them," he said.

 The annual gathering near the Russian River, which was first held in 1879,
 starts with the "Cremation of Care" ritual, in which the club's mascot is
 burned in effigy, symbolizing a freedom from care. Members also perform
 several plays, and gourmet food and expensive wine are plentiful.

 While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists,
 the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the
 group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15
 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members.

 The club has drawn criticism for years because of its emphasis on privacy.
 What particularly concerns Phillips and others are the "Lakeside Talks" held
 during the summer retreat. This year, Powell was expected to deliver a talk
 titled "America's Promise Leading Armies and Leading Kids," and Popoff, of
 Dow Chemical, was to give a speech called "Environmental Journey."

 "These are often public policy speeches," said Mary Moore, with Bohemian
 Grove Action Network, a protest group. "And the American public is not privy
 to it."

 No one from the club returned several calls from The Bee.

 Bohemian Grove Action Network has periodically held demonstrations at the
 grove, although none were held this year.

 The point of the protests, Moore said, has been "to let the American public
 know that what they've learned in civics isn't the full story on how
 decision-making . . . is made in this country." The Bohemian Club, she said,
 "is one of the most elite organizations on the planet."

 When the group sponsors public policy talks that are held without public
 scrutiny, "the average American feels left out of the process," she said.

 Phillips echoes Moore's objections to the off-the-record nature of the
 Lakeside Talks.

 "These are extremely powerful people and private discussions on policy
 issues that affect us certainly go against democratic principles," he said.
 "There's no reason that those speeches they're giving couldn't be
 transcribed and made public. They have a responsibility to be open about
 it."

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Re: [CTRL] FW: Tax Facts Are on Non-Filers' Side

[Bill]

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Show me the court rulings.

Dave wrote:

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 Dave,
 No offense but this whole piece of garbage makes me want to vomit.  Devvy is
 getting her back stroked by Banister who is getting his pamphlet sold MAJOR
 BIG TIME by Devvy.

 The courts have ruled on the 16th Amendment and all these Frauds know it.
 Banister himself acknowledged that to me in a recent email when I accused
 him
 personally of being a fraud.

 The Supreme Court ruled that it is not its duty to police Congress.  They
 ruled that the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation upon
 Congress.  Therefore, it didn't matter if it had been ratified or not - IT
 DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!

 What makes me the most sick is Banister.  He was with CID (Criminal
 Investigation Division) of the IRS.  For 2 years prior to the IRS doing away
 with the TC 148 designation (the person he was hired to investigate) he
 consistently profiled tax protestors.  By the time he made his move he knew
 who the players were and who they weren't.  He knew what they were selling
 better than they did.  How many times have I heard it said, "You know what
 kind of scum becomes an IRS agent?"  Yet when one of these people see how
 much money they can make selling the same old crap that didn't fly the first
 time - all of a sudden he is a great man.  Barf barf!

 I'm sorry but I would have loved to appear on behalf of the IRS and shoot
 these people down.  I would have destroyed each and everyone of their
 arguments with the one thing they say doesn't exits - court rulings.

 The government was right not to appear.  The law is clear.  It has already
 been resolved and they don't need to reiterate what has been clearly
 established.  These people are going to get some people hurt bad - that is
 what bothers me the most.  Thanks for sending this to me even if it did
 raise
 my blood pressure.  I just hate phoneys.

 Robert Timothy Hanley

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[CTRL] The Old Man and St. Peter

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The Old Man and St. Peter

A tall and bearded gentleman
was approaching heaven’s gate,
He never thought that he’d be called,
Or that death would be his fate.

As he came upon St. Peter,
he asked, "may I come in?
"Then St. Peter said this to the man,
with top hat and bearded chin,

"Before I open up these gates,
there is much that you must tell,
God alone will judge your worthiness,
of heaven, or of hell."

A tear then glistened in the eyes
of this kind and gentle man,
"Yes, I will tell my story,
and beg God to understand."

"I am from a land much blessed;
of clear lakes and fertile sod,
In my early years I prospered,
we worked hard and trusted God."

"Each day at school we said a prayer,
and would read His sacred word,
and lived our lives in keeping,
with His commands that we had heard."

"How beautiful our lives were then,
we had riches, wealth and fame,
God’s blessings were upon us,
and we exalted His Holy name."

"Then one day something happened,
there were no more prayers in school.
We no longer had compassion,
or lived by the golden rule."

"We grew openly perverted,
an act that God would scorn,
then there came a holocaust,
of death to those unborn."

"Yes, we had turned our backs on God,
we were evil in His sight,
and those who killed an unborn child,
would scream ‘it is our right.’"

"Though God was slow to anger,
one day, at His command,
There spread incurable diseases;
drugs and violence plagued the land."

"There were hurricanes and earthquakes,
and droughts from shore to shore,
And warnings to return to God,
for He would tolerate no more."

"Still we ignored His warnings,
sex and perversion were the rule,
we worshipped only money,
we were arrogant and cruel."

"When were you born," St. Peter asked,
"July 4, 1776" the man replied.
"For you see my name is Uncle Sam,
and today my country died."

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[CTRL] Fwd: Some Clinton jokes

[William Shannon]

From Sex to Superconsciousness - http://www.truthbeknown.com

Chrysler Corporation is adding a new car to its line to honor Bill
Clinton. The Dodge Draft will begin production in Canada this year.

When Clinton was asked what he thought about foreign affairs, he
replied, I don't know. I never had one.

If you came across Bill Clinton struggling in a raging river and you
had a choice between rescuing him or getting a Pulitzer prize-winning
photograph,what shutter speed would you use?

Chelsea asked her dad, "Do all fairy tales begin with once upon
a time...?"

Bill Clinton replied, "No.  Some begin with 'After I'm elected...'"

Clinton's mother prayed fervently that Bill would grow up and be
president.  So far, half of her prayer has been answered.

American Indians have nicknamed Bill Clinton as "Walking Eagle"
because he is so full of crap that he can't fly.

Isn't putting Bill Clinton in charge of a trust fund (SS) as insane as
putting in a draft-dodger as Commander-in-Chief?

Clinton only lacks three things to become one of America's finest
leaders:  Integrity, vision, and wisdom.

Clinton is doing the work of three men: Larry, Curly, and Moe

Revised judicial oath: "I solemnly swear to tell the truth as I know it,
the whole truth as I believe it to be,  nothing but what I think you
need
to know."

The center for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA, announced today the
President has proven that you CAN get sex from Aides!

Jennifer Flowers was asked if her relationship with Bill Clinton was
anything like the Monica Lewinski affair.  She supposedly replied,
"Close, but no cigar."

The FBI has coined a technical term for the stains found on
Monica's dress:  "Presidue" (gross!)

Did you know that Bill Clinton is considering changing the Democratic
seal from a donkey to a condom, because it represents inflation, halts
production, and gives you a false sense of security while you are being
screwed.

Washington has come up with a solution for the Clinton situation. They
added the 11th commandment: "Thou shall not comfort thy rod with thy
staff."

Bill Gates is in New York showing all the computer executives how well
Windows 98 works.  But the computer executives say that Windows 98
goes down so much they are thinking about renaming it Monica 98.

Arkansas is very proud of Clinton.  All these women coming forward,
and not one of them is his sister!
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[CTRL] Jurors see full video at filmmaker's trial (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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From

http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/bfxfilm3.html

Tuesday, August 3, 1999

Jurors see full video at filmmaker's trial
by LINDA SATTER
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

An unsolved mystery from 1987 that spawned years of
investigations and conspiracy theories was thrust upon a federal
court jury on Monday as the producer of a film about the subject
was accused of defamation.

Patrick Matrisciana of California is on trial for allegations
aired in his 1996 documentary Obstruction of Justice: The Mena
Connection, which focuses on the Aug. 23, 1987, deaths of two
boys whose bodies were found beside railroad tracks in Saline
County.

The hour-long video, shown to jurors in its entirety,
contains allegations that the deaths of Kevin Ives, 17, and Don
Henry, 16, were murders that various public officials tried to
cover up, from local law enforcement officers to state and
federal prosecutors to the governor's office -- then occupied by
Bill Clinton.

Among the officials named in the video are Jay Campbell and
Kirk Lane, both now lieutenants for the Pulaski County sheriff's
office. They filed suit in April 1997, saying their reputations
were destroyed when the film asserted that they were "implicated"
in the murders and ensuing cover-up by unnamed "eyewitnesses."

The men's attorney, Darren O'Quinn, told jurors that he will
ask them to return "a substantial verdict" against Matrisciana
that will send a message that "we are not going to let people get
by with making statements that damage people forever."

Matrisciana is being sued personally and under the names he
uses to do business: Citizens for an Honest Government Inc.,
Integrity Films and Jeremiah Films Inc.

O'Quinn contended in his opening statement that the film,
which was produced in a "very professional, very believable"
manner, "purports to be a documentary but is nothing but a
tabloid-type production" designed to make money during Clinton's
presidential re-election bid.

Although the trial isn't about the boys' deaths, O'Quinn told
jurors that "there have been seven independent local, state and
federal investigations on these deaths from the FBI to the U.S.
attorney to the Arkansas State Police, and no one has
conclusively said that it was a murder."

The video has sold 300,000 copies at a price ranging from $4
to $19.95 each, he said.

He said he felt he had to tell their story because he didn't
think the "mainstream media" had done an adequate job of
revealing the truth in covering the story.

As proof that some of the public corruption allegations in
the film are correct, Matrisciana cited the convictions of former
Saline County Prosecutor Dan Harmon on federal racketeering,
conspiracy and drug charges.

Matrisciana's attorney, John Wesley Hall Jr., told jurors
that the plaintiffs must show that the film was produced with a
reckless disregard for the truth.

To support Matrisciana's belief that he was reporting the
truth, Hall reminded jurors about the outcry that arose after
former State Medical Examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak made an initial
determination that the boys were killed while sleeping on the
tracks in a marijuana-induced stupor. That outcry led to a
reopening of the case, through which a Georgia pathologist
examined the exhumed bodies and found both boys were killed
before being placed on the tracks -- Henry by being stabbed in
the back and Ives by being hit in the face with a rifle butt.

The film surmises that the boys were killed because while
walking along the tracks, they saw a plane fly low and drop a
load of drugs that someone was there to retrieve.

The trial is scheduled to last all week before U.S. District
Judge Warren Urbom of Lincoln, Neb.



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reserved.

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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #2

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# Values leader, son accepted casino cash. ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) Gambling
  casinos secretly paid the son of Traditional Values Coalition founder Rev.
  Lou Sheldon at least $153,000 since 1993, according to a FPPC report. The
  money in part went to help stir up religious opposition to new card clubs.
  An additional $20,000 in casino industry donations went directly to Rev.
  Sheldon or his group. Sheldon: "Politics makes strange bedfellows" - see
  http://news.excite.com/news/u/990801/13/news-sheldoncasino

: Have you bought a religious leader lately? Are they expensive? Would you
crawl into bed with one? Would you rather fuck ministers, politicos, casino
interests, me? Do mind-control rays or alien implants make you gamble? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# SERB ORTHODOX BISHOP CALLS FOR MILOSEVIC'S REMOVAL. More than 6,000 people
  attended an opposition-led rally near Belgrade to hear an Orthodox bishop
   other leaders call for the ouster of Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic.
  "It's now or never" - http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/02/yugo.hardships/

: Which leaders do you trust most/least: religious, political, military,
artistic? Are they better when in or out of power? Are you an entrenched
leader? Has anyone ever called for your removal? Have you had them detained?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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: What's your favorite religious fiction? Are all religious texts fictional?
Which fiction is most literate: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Adventist,
Mormon, Sufi, Shi'ite, Sunni, Jewish [Orthodox/Conservative/Liberal], Hindu,
Buddhist [Greater/Lesser/Zen], Hindu, Pagan, NewAge, Kerala, Subgenius? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Franciscan site reopens. ASSISI, Italy (AP) The 17th-century church on the
  site where St.Francis of Assisi died reopened two years after earthquakes
  crumbled it and other priceless structures across central Italy. One last
  repair before reopening St.Mary of the Angels: putting a gold-leaf-covered
  statue of the Madonna back atop the basilica. The church, on a plain below
  Assisi, surrounds a chapel dating to the 4th century; it was the 1st home
  of the Franciscan order, where St.Francis died in 1226. Not a moment too
  soon: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560514576-dba

: Do you prefer religious icons covered in gold, silver, titanium, radium,
silicon? Are deities weaker than nature if they can't protect their sites?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# US cyber-security plan under attack. (BBC) White House officials confirm
  plans to create an extensive computer monitoring system to guard against
  cyber-attacks, raising civil liberties concerns. Git them thar goobers:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_406000/406527.stm

# Data 'Star Wars' doomed to fail? (MSNBC) Administration's plan to increase
  network security likened to unwieldy 80s-era Star Wars plan - well-mean-
  ing, but far too complex to implement. http://msnbc.com/news/295550.asp

# Also: Tough talk amid Web assaults: http://www.msnbc.com/news/273819.asp
# Year-old hole exposed big Web sites: http://www.msnbc.com/news/290621.asp
# 'Cult' gives hackers weapon vs. NT: http://www.msnbc.com/news/287542.asp
# Cyberwar? The U.S. stands to lose: http://www.msnbc.com/news/274526.asp
# Feds ignore security for sites/nets: http://www.msnbc.com/news/283837.asp
# U.S. backs off private monitoring: http://www.msnbc.com/news/294532.asp

: Are hackers part of a plot to extend gov't power, smash personal privacy?
Are hacks a plot to overthrow gov't, wasting taxes on useless mechanisms??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Anti-virus company hacked. (BBC) A leading provider of net security and
  anti-virus software, Symantec, has had its website hacked. Red-faced:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_409000/409980.stm
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21052.html

# Beijing 'hacked sect Website' (BBC) Chinese cops have tried to hack into a
US Website of the outlawed Falun Gong sect as they crack down on followers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_409000/409099.stm

@ Links: Falusanet - US site: http://www.falunusa.net/

[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS Aug 3

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UNDERNEWS
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NEW WORLD ORDER

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, LONDON: Behind the imposing entrance of a grand 1920s
building on the shores of Lake Geneva lies what is probably the most
powerful organization on Earth  It's not NATO, despite its victory in
Kosovo. It's certainly not the weak and underfunded United Nations. It's not
even the IMF, although it directs the economies of scores of countries. No,
the building on the lakeside    belongs to a much less well-known but
much more powerful body, the World Trade Organization. This organization,
which sets the rules that govern how nations trade with each other, is about
to become the center of a gigantic battle for public opinion. This autumn it
will begin a push, backed by many of the richest nations, to extend its
powers even more. And some 700 organizations from 73 countries have sworn to
stop it. Ranging from big outfits such as Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and
the Japanese Consumers' Union to small grassroots networks in the Third
World, they have signed a joint declaration to "oppose any effort to expand
the powers of the World Trade Organization", saying that it has worked "to
pry open markets for the benefit of transnational corporations at the
expense of national economies, workers, farmers and other people."

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FRIENDS OF THE EARTH http://www.foe.org/international/trade/wto/wto.html
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NEWS FROM THE COLONIES

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Kosovo Liberation Army fighters who have taken charge of
towns and cities will be removed from power unless they are committed to a
democratic, multiethnic society, the former top UN administrator in Kosovo
said. UN Undersecretary-General Sergio Vieira de Mello said the fact that
members of the KLA moved in to fill a power vacuum in Kosovo after NATO
troops occupied the province seven weeks ago shouldn't be viewed "as a
purely negative development." His view of the KLA is somewhat at odds with
that of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. During a visit to Kosovo
on Thursday, she expressed the administration's concern that the KLA is
basically filling the power vacuum in the southern Serb province, according
to U.S. officials.

"What a glorious victory. NATO killed more civilians than soldiers,
accelerated the displacement of hundreds of thousands of refugees, destroyed
the infrastructure and poisoned the environment of southeastern Europe --
and in the name of humanitarianism. -- Left Business Observer

LBO http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/:LBO_home.html

TELEGRAPH, ENGLAND: Albanians in Kosovo are behaving as violently as the
Serbs before them and taking advantage of NATO's presence to settle scores,
Lt. Gen. Sir Mike Jackson, alliance commander, has told The Telegraph. In an
exclusive interview, Gen. Jackson said: "Too many Albanians haven't realized
we're trying to do something new and different here. Some Albanians have
behaved in a very similar 

Re: [CTRL] Kofi Annan, Bad Guy

[William Shannon]

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writes:

 After two stormy years, Butler left his job as executive director of the
U.N.
 Special Commission, known as UNSCOM, when his contract expired on June 30. He
 is now a diplomat-in-residence at the Council on Foreign Relations and is
 writing a book. 


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Bill.

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[CTRL] Audit: Central Bank Cooked Books, (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

 -Caveat Lector-

August 03, 1999
THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
RUSSIA
ENGLISH

Audit: Central Bank Cooked Books, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Catherine Belton

RUSSIA WorldSources, Inc. 209 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, S.E., 2nd
Floor WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 COPYRIGHT 1999 BY WORLDSOURCES,
INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO
PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED HEREIN MAY BE USED IN ANY
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MOSCOW - Just when it seemed there could be no new
allegations involving the Central Bank's tangled relationship
with the offshore FIMACO company, an audit performed by the
international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has reported
the Central Bank kept all FIMACO transactions recorded elsewhere.

In other words, the Central Bank - like so many other
Russian enterprises - kept double books.

The audit, demanded by the International Monetary Fund,
also offers the startling revelation that when it wasn't parking
the nation's hard currency reserves in an obscure company in the
Channel Islands, the bank loaned them to Russia's commercial
banks.

In 1994, the audit says, the Central Bank extended $300
million of its reserves as credit lines to commercial banks. The
audit did not say which banks were beneficiaries.

And the audit confirms the worst allegations: That the
Central Bank used both IMF loans and its own hard currency
reserves to speculate on the Russian treasury bill market,
earning profits that apparently have not been shared with the
government - and, again, have apparently been kept off the books.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers audit ``reveals the extent of
the Central Bank's cavalier attitude towards managing its
investments,'' said Ariel Cohen, the influential head of the
Washington-based Heritage Foundation in a telephone interview.

''It also raises questions about the care taken by the
IMF in releasing funds to Russia,'' he said. ``Congress will be
very interested in seeing a copy of the report.''

The U.S. House of Representatives has already raised a
storm about the possible misuse of taxpayers' money sent in loans
to Russia. They have demanded the report looking into FIMACO be
published.

FIMACO was first outed when then Prosecutor General Yury
Skuratov wrote a letter to parliament alleging that the Central
Bank ran more than $50 billion in the nation's reserves through
the Jersey island company over a period of years.

Current and former Central Bank officials subsequently
confirmed that allegation. They said FIMACO - a company based in
an offshore haven notorious for money laundering, and founded
with just $1,000 in start-up capital - was a necessary and useful
tool for managing Russia's wealth.

Central Bank officials say all of the reserves run
through FIMACO eventually came home. But they have little to say
about how the reserves were invested or what happened to profits
from such investments.

Central Bank officials have claimed that the
PricewaterhouseCoopers audit exonerates the FIMACO arrangement.
However, the so-far-unpublished audit - a copy of which was
obtained by The St. Petersburg Times on Friday - in fact confirms
many of the most damaging allegations hurled at the Central Bank
by critics like Skuratov and a crusading State Duma deputy,
Nikolai Gonchar.

Upon receiving the audit last week, IMF officials
lambasted the bank for falsifying information on the size of its
reserves by secretly channeling $1 billion in 1996 through
FIMACO. Despite this clear deception, the Fund still agreed to
release another $4.5 billion credit to Russia.

But while the Fund has dourly criticized the 1996
misreporting of reserves, it has said nothing about the other
serious allegations.

In 1996, the Central Bank funneled a total of $1.2
billion from its reserves - including money from IMF loans - into
the market for Russian treasury bills, or GKOs. The money went
into FIMACO and then back into Russia through Evrofinans, a
Russian-based firm part-owned by FIMACO and Eurobank, a Central
Bank subsidiary based in Paris that is the direct owner of
FIMACO.

Russia's agreement with the IMF prohibits the use of
reserves for investment in volatile short-term instruments like
GKOs.

''If the Central Bank played on the primary state
treasury bill market and invested its own hard currency reserves,
that is a clear breach of Central Bank ethics,'' said former
Central Bank deputy chairman Andrei Khandruyev in a telephone
interview. Khandruyev said he had not been aware of FIMACO during
his tenure at the bank.

PricewaterhouseCoopers notes that Russia began to
transfer funds from the IMF in 1993 through Evrofinans into the
secret off-shore FIMACO company. IMF funds were kept in FIMACO
from 1993 to 1997. They were also kept in Eurobank: The audit
reports that in 1996 Eurobank retained $450 million of 

[CTRL] Fw: [BRC-NEWS] One-Sided Class Warfare in the USA (fwd)

[William Hugh Tunstall]

 -Caveat Lector-

-- Forwarded message --

Focus on the Corporation

July 29, 1999

An Outsiders' View of the One-Sided Class Warfare in the USA

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

"While in theory U.S. law provides for workers to have freedom of
association, the right to join trade unions and participate in collective
bargaining is in practice denied to large segments of the American
workforce in both the public and the private sectors."

That is the central conclusion of a new report issued by the
Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
http://www.icftu.org/english/els/escl99wtousa.html.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to put matters in perspective. Those living
in a society may become dulled to its everyday injustices; or key elements
of society may be hidden from the view of many; or people may come to view
their culture as the natural state of things, rather than the particular
result of a certain social arrangement.

It was this outsider's point of view that enabled Alexis de Tocqueville to
write one of the still-great political sociological critiques of the
United States, Democracy in America.

And this same perspective enables the ICFTU researchers to plainly,
directly and concisely convey the widespread sabotage of worker rights in
the United States.

Here's what the report details with piercing clarity:

* "Employers receive legal protection for extensive interference in the
decision of workers as to whether or not they wish to have union
representation. This includes active campaigning by employers among
employees against union representation as well as participating in
campaigns to eliminate union representation."

* "Penalties for breaking the law are so limited and ineffective that
there is a high level of corporate lawlessness with respect to labor law.
At least one in 10 union supporters campaigning to form a union is
illegally fired."

* Employers engage in widespread harassment and intimidation against union
supporters. Often the consultants, detectives and security firms used to
intimidate workers engage in "surveillance of union activists in order to
discredit them. In some cases, court, medical and credit records of union
activists are obtained and the family lives of activists are studied for
possible weaknesses."

* Many government workers, the report notes, are denied the right to
strike or bargain collectively over hours, wages and other critical
issues. Nearly half of public workers suffer from full or partial denial
of collective bargaining rights.

Union supporters who suffer from illegal firings, harassment, surveillance
or improper employer electioneering do not have adequate remedies at the
National Labor Relations Board. NLRB procedures, ICFTU correctly states,
"do not provide workers with effective redress in the face of abuses by
employers." NLRB delays and inability to award damages more than job
reinstatement and lost wages (minus earnings during the period between
illegal dismissal and NLRB order) are so severe that many wronged union
supporters simply do not bother filing a case with the NLRB.

Employers also routinely eviscerate the rights of those workers who are
unionized:

* "The law gives employers the 'free play of economic forces.' If
employers cannot get what they want through collective bargaining, they
can unilaterally impose their terms, lock out their employees, and
transfer work to another location, or even to another legal entity." The
ICFTU reports refers to Crown Central Petroleum's lockout of 250 Texas
workers as an example.

* "An increasing number of employers have deliberately provoked strikes to
get rid of trade unions. Unacceptable demands are made of workers and are
often accompanied by arrangements for the recruiting and training of
strike-breakers."

* Strike-breakers are also used to prevent unions from ever reaching a
first contract.

* And, in one of the great travesties of the U.S. legal system, while the
law does prohibit the firing of workers for exercising collective
bargaining rights, at the same time it permits employers to lock out and
"permanently replace" those workers.

The ICFTU report also criticizes the United States for permitting
widespread use of child labor, especially in the agricultural industry and
among migrant workers; and, in a growing number of cases, permitting
prisoners to be compelled to work for pay (for rates as low as 23 cents a
day).

"A series of far-reaching measures need to be taken in order to establish
genuine respect for core labor standards within the United States,
particularly with regard to trade union rights," the ICFTU report modestly
concludes.

Because the report was prepared as a submission to the World Trade
Organization, it emphasizes the importance of the United States ratifying
International Labor Organization conventions on core worker rights.

But something much more fundamental is needed before the systematic
assault on U.S. worker 

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #3

[ric carter]

 -Caveat Lector-

SkeptiNews 990803c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No properly-constructed grammar has survived production of this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# BASTROP FEDERAL PEN HOUSES WHITE VEHICLES - BUT FOR WHAT? Bastrop, TX
  Nestled behind a hillside, just out of sight from busy Highway 95 in
  Bastrop County, Texas, lies a growing fleet of nearly 1000 showroom-new
  SUVs, 4WD pickups, suburbans and vans. These vehicles are not overflow
  storage for an overstocked dealer. This fleet is owned by the US gov't.
  All the vehicles are U.N. White. http://alltexas.net/news/bastrop.html

# Mystery Solved? Huge Fleet Of New SUVs, Vans, Trucks Being Painted UN
  White? Where Are MIB? http://www.sightings.com/politics4/unwhite.htm

: Is the U.N. prepared to take over your community? Have they already? Are
you a U.N. operative/collaborator/goon? Who are you taking over? Why? When?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Ant colony on verge of extinction. ISHIKARI, Japan (AP) - A man in a white
  sun hat walks slowly through a patch of sea grass on the coast of northern
  Japan, searching. He bends down when he finds what he was looking for, a
  small hole in a pile of sand - the entryway to the largest colony of ants
  ever found on earth. For Prof. Seigo Higashi, this is not just an anthill,
  it's a life's work. For 28 years, he has studied, counted and even lived
  among the hundreds of millions of Japanese red wood ants that dwell on
  this strip of shoreline. Today, he is watching their ancient empire die.
  See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560525266-6b9

: Must all empires die? Would you rather study the empires of ants, aliens,
humans, robots, virii, software? What are your most/least favorite empires?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Study eases hyperactivity drug worry. CHICAGO (AP) - Hyperactive boys who
  were treated with stimulants such as Ritalin were one-third as likely to
  abuse alcohol and other drugs as teen-agers than similar boys who had not
  been treated. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560543608-f5d
  And see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_41/410362.stm

# Falling in love drives you mad. (BBC) Falling madly in love may really
  make you mentally ill, according to Italian scientists. What a way to go:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_407000/407125.stm

: Would you rather be doped in infancy, childhood, puberty, adulthood, now?
Do you prefer insanity from drugs, love, alien implants, mind-control rays?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# LAMBS GET HUMAN GENES. Scientists have found a way to modify animals using
  human genes that could one day lead to transplants between species. Baaa:
  http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20874.html

# Also: 'Good' cholesterol gene discovered - but bad genes spread:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560543273-839
# Researchers create flu virus in lab - FrankenFlu will devour humanity:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560543329-6be
# Killer flu of 1918 may have quietly evolved for years, awaiting chance
  to strike: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9902/15/historic.flu/

: Are there markets for good and bad genes, manufactured flu virii, mutated
bacteria? Will bad genes be dumped in the 3rd World by multinational firms?
Should lambs get good or bad genes? Would you rather get genes from good or
bad lambs, new or old virii, more or less highly evolved entities? Which??
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Coffee beats tea on heart disease. (BBC) People who drink coffee are less
  likely to suffer heart disease than tea drinkers, a Scottish survey shows.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_409000/409915.stm

# Loud music threat to the young. (BBC) Nearly 1/2 of young people experi-
  ence hearing problems after being exposed to loud music. Oldsters go nutz.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_409000/409987.stm

: Do quiet tea-drinkers deserve more angina than loud coffee-guzzlers? Would
you rather be deaf or stroked? Are aliens harvesting different crops of us?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Ebola cure hope. (BBC) A plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola
  virus in its tracks in laboratory tests. But new virii are creeping in,
  stealthy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_411000/411030.stm

# Mussel offers cancer hope. (BBC) Experts have identified a possible new
  weapon in the fight against cancer - a green-lipped mussel from the south
  seas. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_409000/409147.stm

: Are Ebola, cancer, AIDS, other diseases, all natural; or are they divine
curses, alien/corporate/CIA experiments, bad karma, dimensional fluxions??
Do you prefer diseases or cures? Which do your alien masters prefer? Why?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

# 

[CTRL] Trial of 'train deaths' film producer underway (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

 -Caveat Lector-

August 3, 1999

Trial of 'train deaths' film producer underway

Journalist faces $16 million libel suit
for naming officers in documentary

By Sarah Foster
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

For documentary producer Pat Matrisciana, exposing political
corruption and lawlessness on the part of government officials is
a responsibility, part of the job description of a
video-journalist, not something to shy away from -- not even if
the president of the United States might be involved.

So when offered the opportunity to make a film dealing with the
still-unsolved, 1987 double-homicide of teenage boys Kevin Ives
and Don Henry, whose mutilated bodies were found on railroad
tracks near their home west of Little Rock, Ark., and the
subsequent cover-up by state and local officials, Matrisciana
agreed wholeheartedly. He was familiar with the case having
detailed it briefly in his earlier film, "The Clinton
Chronicles," which he began in the early '90s.

The result was "Obstruction of Justice: the Mena Connection," a
hard-hitting documentary, released in April 1996, which pulled
few punches and named names as it showed the alleged connection
between the murders and cover-up by corrupt law enforcement
officers, drug traffickers and President Bill Clinton. The film
catapulted the "Train Deaths" case into national prominence.

"I'm a cause-oriented guy who looked at what had happened and
decided to become involved," Matrisciana, president of Jeremiah
Films, the California-based company which produced the film, told
WorldNetDaily.

But the 60-year-old film producer is being asked to pay dearly
for his dedication in exposing the seamy-side of government.

Yesterday he took the stand in a Little Rock courtroom to defend
himself in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane, two deputy sheriffs mentioned in
"Obstruction of Justice," are suing Matrisciana for $16 million
alleging he intentionally defamed their reputations by naming
them as suspects in the case.

Specifically, the script says, "Eyewitnesses have implicated Jay
Campbell and Kirk Lane in the murders and subsequent cover-up."
They are also named in another section.

"This is a frivolous lawsuit with no legal merit and no basis in
fact," said Little Rock attorney John Wesley Hall, who represents
the defendants. "We don't have to prove that they killed the
boys. They have to prove that they didn't."

The two teenagers were killed the night of Aug. 22-23, 1987,
their bodies found on the Union Pacific railroad tracks having
been run over by a northbound Union Pacific train near Little
Rock. The area was reputed to be a drop point in the drug
smuggling operation centered at Mena, though Mena is over 100
miles west.

Then-Governor Bill Clinton's state medical examiner, Fahmy Malek,
ruled the deaths accidental, claiming that the boys had fallen
asleep on the tracks in a marijuana-induced stupor. But a second
autopsy, performed by an out-of-state pathologist upon the demand
of Kevin's mother, Linda, concluded that the boys had been
murdered and their bodies placed on the tracks. The autopsy also
showed that Kevin's head had been crushed prior to his body being
laid on the tracks and that Don Henry had been stabbed
repeatedly.

In 1988 a county grand jury headed by Dan Harmon ruled the deaths
a homicide. No one was ever brought to justice. Not then, not
now. Nor has anyone been brought to justice for the half-dozen or
so violent deaths of potential witnesses to the crimes -- some of
them ruled "accidental" -- as were Kevin's and Don's.

For years Linda Ives -- who has become a full-time crusader for
justice -- tried to rally public support and to urge an
investigation into allegations that were being made by various
people implicating Lane and Campbell as central figures in the
murders.

According to Ives, witnesses saw two men answering descriptions
of Lane and Campbell beating the boys in the parking lot of a
market, then forcing them into an unmarked patrol car. Ives
believes Kevin and Don had witnessed a drug drop that night in
the countryside outside the town of Alexander, were seen, then
kidnapped at the parking lot where they had run to -- and taken
up on the mountain for the killing. Their bodies were laid on the
tracks where they were certain to be run over by the train, thus
making the deaths appear accidental.

"I've known about them (Lane and Campbell) since 1988," Linda
Ives told WorldNetDaily, adding that the information came from "a
number of different sources."

"For years I've begged investigative agencies -- whoever was
doing an investigation at the time -- to look at these guys,"
Ives recalled. "I begged the State Police, to look at them, the
U.S. Attorney to look at them, the FBI to look at them -- and in
Lane and Campbell's own words, they have never been interviewed
or interrogated by anybody in spite of the fact that they had
numerous sources and witnesses who implicated them."

Asked where she first heard the 

[CTRL] Farah-More illegalities in Clinton administration (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

 -Caveat Lector-

World Net Daily-August 3, 1999

More illegalities in Clinton administration

by Joseph Farah

It never seems to stop.

I think that's one of the secrets to the longevity of the Clinton
administration. Had there been one or two major scandals on which
the public and press could have focused over the last six years,
the president probably would be history. But his administration
has overwhelmed the senses of the nation with corruption, crime
and cover-up. At some point, it became too much to absorb.
Sensory overload has allowed the executive branch of government
to abuse power in unprecedented ways.

Here are the latest outrages. Impeachment hearing hero David
Schippers told Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Network that former
Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary gave marching orders to halt all
scheduled promotions of white males in her vast federal
bureaucracy.

"Now you know something about Hazel O'Leary in your capacity as
-- looking over everything, and ... that there was an ongoing ...
conspiracy to make certain that no white males got promoted to
any offices of responsibility and got -- indeed got no promotions
at all," he said.

"Really?" questioned O'Reilly. "So Hazel O'Leary, then the chief
of the Department of Energy, you're saying that your client told
you, was knocking out all white males that -- when they -- when
they were up for promotion?"

"As I understand it -- this is secondhand. As I understand it,
when Hazel O'Leary got into the office, she asked for the
promotion list and then asked them to strike the names of all
white males," charged Schippers.

"That's against the law," observed O'Reilly astutely.

"Well, this information's been furnished to the -- to the
Congress. They have it," said Schippers.

Is it hard to believe? Not with the bunch in this administration
-- not with what I know about the political nature of Hazel
O'Leary, who personally targeted me and my organization for
extinction as well. She's the former Cabinet official who made
phone calls to my news organization's donor base threatening
individuals with government retribution if they continued to
support the Western Journalism Center, parent company of
WorldNetDaily.com.

Were white men really actively discriminated against at the
Energy Department? We'll probably never know for sure. Who has
time to investigate the constant avalanche of corruption
emanating from this administration. It's impossible. And there's
no will to do it in Congress or in the establishment press.

One thing's for sure, if the white men in the Energy Department
were gay, they would have fared better than heterosexuals. Catch
this excerpt from Webb Hubbell's book (page 325) -- yet another
example of the criminal politicization of every facet of the
Clinton administration: "A friend of Suzy's at Interior ... was
Bob Hattoy, the well-known AIDS activist and Clinton supporter.
The FBI said, 'You used to work in the White House personnel,
didn't you?'

"'Yes I did.'

"'One of your jobs at the White House was to place gays and
lesbians in the administration, wasn't it?'

"'Yes,' he said. 'Very successfully, as a matter of fact. And I
also placed a lot of them in the FBI.'"

This excerpt from a book by one of Bill Clinton's best friends
and most loyal supporters -- a guy who took a bullet for him --
raises a number of questions: How would Hattoy have known that
the people he placed were gay or lesbian? Why would somebody in
the White House personnel be making FBI appointments?

Do you think Congress cares? Do you think the establishment press
gives a darn?

Corruption overload. That's what we got from the "most ethical
administration in the history of the United States." We can't
even see the forest for the trees. And that's why, once again, I
believe, my documented case of the administration's overt
political abuse of the Internal Revenue Service is hardly
attracting a radar blip's worth of attention in Congress or the
establishment press.

It's all too much for them to take. And, of course, if you are
willing to accept that this much evil is perpetrated by the
executive branch with impunity, thus far, you have to maintain a
lot of courage to expose it and challenge it. Clinton's gang
plays rough. It plays for keeps. It plays to win.

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not giving
up. I'm not stopping my full-court press on this kind of
corruption. I don't care what anyone else says or does about it.
For those who still care about preserving something of this
country's integrity and freedom, it's time to demand
accountability.

=
   Kaddish, Kaddish, Kaddish, YHVH, TZEVAOT

  FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends
   Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, 

Re: [CTRL] Audit: Central Bank Cooked Books, (fwd)

[MAG]

 -Caveat Lector-

How in the Hell are we little peons going to fight against corruption of
this magnitude?

I say that all central banks should be abolished. Go back to Gold and silver
and other commodities as a basis for a currency that must be immediately
redeemable upon demand in the valuable commodity reserves of that particular
currency. WE must  abolish fractional reserve currency, i.e., fiat money. We
Must Make all taxes 100% VOLUNTARY!!!

What a dream - It will never happen.

The human race is destined for socialist slavery.

 -Original Message-
 From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
 Behalf Of MICHAEL SPITZER
 Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 5:02 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [CTRL] Audit: Central Bank Cooked Books, (fwd)


  -Caveat Lector-

 August 03, 1999
 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
 RUSSIA
 ENGLISH

 Audit: Central Bank Cooked Books, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
 Catherine Belton

 RUSSIA WorldSources, Inc. 209 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, S.E., 2nd
 Floor WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 COPYRIGHT 1999 BY WORLDSOURCES,
 INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO
 PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED HEREIN MAY BE USED IN ANY
 MEDIA WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION TO WORLDSOURCES, INC.

 MOSCOW - Just when it seemed there could be no new
 allegations involving the Central Bank's tangled relationship
 with the offshore FIMACO company, an audit performed by the
 international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has reported
 the Central Bank kept all FIMACO transactions recorded elsewhere.

 In other words, the Central Bank - like so many other
 Russian enterprises - kept double books.

 The audit, demanded by the International Monetary Fund,
 also offers the startling revelation that when it wasn't parking
 the nation's hard currency reserves in an obscure company in the
 Channel Islands, the bank loaned them to Russia's commercial
 banks.

 In 1994, the audit says, the Central Bank extended $300
 million of its reserves as credit lines to commercial banks. The
 audit did not say which banks were beneficiaries.

 And the audit confirms the worst allegations: That the
 Central Bank used both IMF loans and its own hard currency
 reserves to speculate on the Russian treasury bill market,
 earning profits that apparently have not been shared with the
 government - and, again, have apparently been kept off the books.

 The PricewaterhouseCoopers audit ``reveals the extent of
 the Central Bank's cavalier attitude towards managing its
 investments,'' said Ariel Cohen, the influential head of the
 Washington-based Heritage Foundation in a telephone interview.

 ''It also raises questions about the care taken by the
 IMF in releasing funds to Russia,'' he said. ``Congress will be
 very interested in seeing a copy of the report.''

 The U.S. House of Representatives has already raised a
 storm about the possible misuse of taxpayers' money sent in loans
 to Russia. They have demanded the report looking into FIMACO be
 published.

 FIMACO was first outed when then Prosecutor General Yury
 Skuratov wrote a letter to parliament alleging that the Central
 Bank ran more than $50 billion in the nation's reserves through
 the Jersey island company over a period of years.

 Current and former Central Bank officials subsequently
 confirmed that allegation. They said FIMACO - a company based in
 an offshore haven notorious for money laundering, and founded
 with just $1,000 in start-up capital - was a necessary and useful
 tool for managing Russia's wealth.

 Central Bank officials say all of the reserves run
 through FIMACO eventually came home. But they have little to say
 about how the reserves were invested or what happened to profits
 from such investments.

 Central Bank officials have claimed that the
 PricewaterhouseCoopers audit exonerates the FIMACO arrangement.
 However, the so-far-unpublished audit - a copy of which was
 obtained by The St. Petersburg Times on Friday - in fact confirms
 many of the most damaging allegations hurled at the Central Bank
 by critics like Skuratov and a crusading State Duma deputy,
 Nikolai Gonchar.

 Upon receiving the audit last week, IMF officials
 lambasted the bank for falsifying information on the size of its
 reserves by secretly channeling $1 billion in 1996 through
 FIMACO. Despite this clear deception, the Fund still agreed to
 release another $4.5 billion credit to Russia.

 But while the Fund has dourly criticized the 1996
 misreporting of reserves, it has said nothing about the other
 serious allegations.

 In 1996, the Central Bank funneled a total of $1.2
 billion from its reserves - including money from IMF loans - into
 the market for Russian treasury bills, or GKOs. The money went
 into FIMACO and then back into Russia through Evrofinans, a
 Russian-based firm part-owned by FIMACO and 

[CTRL] Scientists Study Aspartame/Brain Cancer Link

[(Charles Overbeck)]

 -Caveat Lector-

Here are a few articles on a new study of the well-known link between
aspartame and brain cancer.

Peace out,
Charles Overbeck
ParaScope
http://www.parascope.com



UK scientists to study sweetener's link to cancer

By Clar Ni Chonghaile


LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - British scientists said on Tuesday they would carry
out a three-year study into the artificial sweetener aspartame, marketed as
NutraSweet, which has been dogged by allegations that it is linked to brain
tumours.

"We are not trying to conduct a war against NutraSweet. This is a serious,
scientific study to try to re-examine something that is already in the
scientific realm," Peter Nunn, a senior lecturer in biochemistry at King's
College, London told Reuters.

Aspartame became a major scientific talking point in 1996 when a professor at
Washington University in St. Louis said it appeared to be a promising
candidate for explaining a surge in brain tumours in the mid-1980s.

NutraSweet AG, which markets the sweetener in Europe, welcomed the new
British study, saying it hoped it would lay to rest the "groundless rumours"
surrounding aspartame, widely used in low calorie soft drinks and foods.

The British scientists said they were interested in examining the possibility
that some people were genetically disposed to be more sensitive to aspartame
than others.

"We are just trying to find a different way to look at it," Nunn said.

NutraSweet is a unit of life sciences firm Monsanto Co A
HREF="aol://4785:MTC"MTC.N/A. The parent company said on July 1 it was
planning to sell its NutraSweet artificial sweetener and biogum businesses.

"There is already an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence which
confirms the safety of aspartame, but scare-mongerers have continued to claim
that aspartame is linked to brain tumours," the company said in a statement.

It said there was no way aspartame there could be such a link. "It is
physiologically impossible for aspartame to cause brain tumours because it
never enters the blood stream and thus cannot travel to essential organs,
including the brain."

Aspartame is made up of amino acids much sweeter than sugar but has not been
shown to aid dieters much in losing weight.

NutraSweet was approved for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 1981. Monsanto held the patent until it expired in 1992.

In 1996, John Olney of Washington University said other risk factors common
to industrialised nations like higher levels of ionizing radiation, smoke in
the air, pesticides and industrial chemicals could also be responsible for
rising tumour rates.

But he cited the "need for a reassessment of the carcinogenic
(cancer-causing) potential" of aspartame.

Nunn said his team wanted to look at the effect of aspartame on different
cell types.

"We were interested in looking at the situation again because it is now known
that there are a number of mutations which are available in cell culture
which could be much more sensitive to possible carcinogens than unmutated
cells."

He said the way different people reacted to cigarette smoke was an example of
what they would be examining.

"We just don't know why it is that some people are resistant to carcinogens
in tobacco smoke while others are very sensitive. It may be something like
that (with aspartame)."

10:50 08-03-99

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Scientists to Study Possible NutraSweet Cancer Link, Paper Says


London, Aug. 3 A
HREF="aol://4344:30.bloombrg.389091.602536905"(Bloomberg)/A -- Scientists
from London's King's College will begin a three-year study this fall into a
possible link between Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, and brain cancer,
the Evening Standard reported, citing neurochemist Dr. Peter Nunn. U.S.-based
Monsanto Co., the No. 1 maker of artificial sweeteners, makes Aspartame under
the NutraSweet brand and denies it causes cancer, the newspaper said.
Neurologists conducting the study suspect the sweetener may harm people with
a particular genetic makeup; a Nutrasweet AG spokeswoman said today more than
200 tests worldwide have found the substance to be safe, the newspaper said.


Monsanto said July 2 it will sell its artificial-sweetener business to pay
debt and focus more on its drug and agricultural products.

(Evening Standard 8/3  www.thisislondon.com)

Aug/03/1999   15:38

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[CTRL] Wild, Wild West

[Alamaine Ratliff]

 -Caveat Lector-

 The Sheriff  Posse 


 OUSTED NATO GEN. NEARLY LAUNCHED WWIII: REPORT

 By DEBORAH ORIN

 -

 U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark - just dumped as NATO's top commander -
 wanted to seize Kosovo's Pristina airport to bar Russian troops,
 but was blocked for fear he'd start "World War III," a new report
 claims.

 Russia's success in landing and grabbing control of the airport
 was a major embarrassment to NATO as it began enforcing the peace
 deal in Kosovo, which didn't plan for Russians at that key site.

 Clark ordered an airborne assault to beat the Russians to the
 punch, but NATO's ground commander, British Gen. Mike Jackson,
 defied the order and told Clark: "I'm not going to start World
 War III for you," Newsweek reports.

 A frustrated Clark then tried to get U.S. Adm. James Ellis Jr.,
 who commands NATO's Southern Command, to order helicopters to
 land on the runway to block Russians from landing, but Ellis
 balked.

 Clark appealed to his bosses in Washington but got nowhere -
 while Jackson got all the support he needed from British
 officials, the report adds.

 Clark, supposedly the Supreme Allied Commander, was thus put in
 the position of having his orders defied by a subordinate, and
 getting no support from the Clinton White House when he
 protested.

 The Newsweek account also raises questions about the Clinton
 administration's initial claims that it had no idea the Russians
 intended to land at Pristina and was caught totally off-guard
 when they did.

 The story painting Clark as a lone ranger who doesn't work well
 with others was leaked as President Clinton's team sought to
 bounce back after losing the first round of "spin" on Clark's
 ouster.

 Even some Democrats in Congress accused Clinton of treating Clark
 shabbily by announcing plans to dump him next April, a few months
 early, after he won the Kosovo war without losing a single
 soldier in combat.

 The official White House line was that Clark, 54, had to go early
 to make way for Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, 55 - who earlier
 survived a sex scandal - because otherwise Ralston would have to
 retire.

 But The New Yorker magazine last week noted Clark regularly
 tangled with the Pentagon and top Clinton aides by pushing for
 tougher airstrikes against the Serbs and more planning for
 possible ground troops.

 Clark, regarded as a national hero by the Kosovars, had wanted to
 go all-out -"go downtown" - on the first night of airstrikes last
 March and hit targets like electric grids and infrastructure, The
 New Yorker reported.

 Instead, he complained, political meddling required far more
 limited action that did nothing to stop brutal Serb ethnic
 cleansing.

 The Serbs yielded only in May after he was allowed to launch
 tougher airstrikes.

From NewYorkPost (www.nypost.com)

~
 The Outlaws 

 Organised crime gangs rule Kosovo

 By Laura Rozen in Pristina



 Around 30 people a week are being killed in Kosovo as organised
 gangs take advantage of the UN's failure to police the province.

 Nato spokesman Jamie Shea admitted yesterday a "law and order
 vacuum" has been created by a long delay in deploying UN civil
 administrators and an expected 3,000-strong police force. But he
 insisted the war-torn province was not yet out of control.

 Western diplomats in Pristina say gangs, some of which are
 suspected of having links to the Kosovo Liberation Army, are
 taking apartments, real estate, businesses, fuel supplies and
 cars from Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, who have little recourse to
 justice.

 A British K-For official in Pristina said: "UNMIK (the UN interim
 administration) is unprepared to take over law and order. In the
 absence of police and legitimate rules, a vacuum has occurred.

 "That vacuum is being filled by organised crime. Albanian gangs
 are inviting Kosovo Serbs to leave their apartments. Now Kosovo
 Albanians are being invited to leave."

 Because so many Kosovo Albanians had identity documents and
 licence plates seized by Serb forces, and because there are now
 no border controls, many gangs are moving in unhampered by the
 37,000 K-For soldiers.

 While the UN plans to deploy 3,125 international police, only 400
 have arrived. The police commander has decided not to put troops
 into active service until he has enough to patrol entire areas.
 Currently, the commander says, his most urgent need is for border
 police to keep out more gangs and smugglers.

 The German K-For commander, General Fritz von Korff, said his
 soldiers stop cars to search for weapons and frequently come
 across smuggled items, such as massive amounts of cigarettes,
 particularly at the Morina-Kukes border crossing. But Nato's
 mandate does not permit his soldiers to confiscate any item
 except weapons, and the smugglers are permitted into Kosovo with
 their loot if it is believed they are from the province.

 One of the biggest problems involves 

[CTRL] Skeptic News - Tuesday #4

[ric carter]

 -Caveat Lector-

SkeptiNews 990803d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question

: Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
: Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning.
: No infantile predilections were harmed during production of this bulletin.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# New wave of spirituality sweeping teens, writers say. (DN) The "more-toys"
  ethic of the '80s has given way to a new spirituality in youths nationally
  - especially Pentecostal and charismatic youths. That was the word out of
  the annual Religion Newswriters Association convention in Orlando, Fla.
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100013652,00.html

: Have you been swept by spirituality? Are you too old or young to be swept
by spirituality? Would you expect Pentecostal and charismatic youths to be
swept by spirituality? Is this a side-effect of HAARP, Montauk, ET implants?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Man sets 29 church fires. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A man accused of setting fires
  at 12 churches in Indiana  Georgia was indicted by a federal grand jury
  for setting 17 other church fires across the U.S. The indictment accuses
  Jay Scott Ballinger, 36, of burning a total of 29 churches in California,
  Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee
  since 1994. His stripper girlfriend allegedly was with him at 16 of the
  fires. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100013649,00.html

: Do you prefer to be clothed or naked when you incinerate a religious site?
Which religious sites do you prefer to torch? What sects have the easiest or
hardest sites to ignite? Are there more subtle ways to muck with religions?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Probe smashes into Moon. (BBC) Observatories all over the world are
  analysing data from the crash of an American space craft into the Moon
  to see whether it has revealed the presence of water. But not a drop to
  drink: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_408000/408562.stm

# NASA Moon Crash-Landing Experiment Fails To Show Water Vapor - aliens
  have siphoned it all off: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/vapor.htm

# Lunar crash proves nothing. (BBC) Our science editor says do not dismiss
  the idea that there is water on the Moon. But he sings badly and farts
  evilly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_409000/409833.stm

: Where is the missing Lunar water? Does lack of Lunar water doom our space
colonization efforts? Are we stuck on Earth until destroyed by comet strike?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

# Spacecraft fails to keep eye on job. (BBC) Nasa's Deep Space One probe
  fails to produce pictures of an asteroid flyby because its camera was
  pointing in the wrong direction. Watching San Diego nude beach instead:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_407000/407557.stm

# NASA captures *some* images of asteroid - but only infrared:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560515371-607
# Also: NASA upgrades space network, see
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560509008-312

: Why did the aliens interfere with our imaging of this asteroid? What don't
the want us to see? Or did we really get good images, but they're too awful
to release to the public? What doesn't NASA want us to see? How bad is it?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiBriefs - Space:

# Planet found orbiting Sun-like star. (BBC) A new planet with an Earth-like
  orbit been discovered orbiting a star similar to our Sun. Realtors bidding
  frenzy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_407000/407772.stm

# Oily ocean found on distant moon. (BBC)  New images of Saturn's moon Titan
  reveal the only other liquid ocean known in the solar system - and it is
  made of oil. International petrochemical companies planning massive pipe-
  line: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_406000/406859.stm

# Brits hit Mars. (BBC) A British spacecraft looking for alien life seems
  set to land on Mars in 2003, as the UK Science Minister pledged 5 million
  cash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_409000/409038.stm
  Or see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560526916-5ff
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

SkeptiLinks:

@ Yukon UFO Investigator Kept Busy: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/busy.htm
@ Two Excellent UFO Photos Examined: http://sightings.com/ufo4/slayton.htm
@ UFO Site: http://www.angelfire.com/oh/WarlocksWorld/WarlocksTruths.html

# Watching Eclipse Could Make You Go Blind - WHO:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/10/international-eclipse-health
# News-Starved British Papers Stir Up Eclipse Mania:
  http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/04/international-eclipse-britain
# Field is ripe with sinners; reapers apply:
  http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100013650,00.html
# Flawed software vulnerable via Web - you could be robbed, hacked:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560516812-ef5

@ Special Operations Executive in Western Europe
 

Re: [CTRL] Scientists Study Aspartame/Brain Cancer Link

[William Shannon]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 8/3/99 2:36:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Here are a few articles on a new study of the well-known link between
 aspartame and brain cancer. 

==Since when is any like between aspartame and human cancer "well
known"??

Could you produce documentation? Wuold sure like a look!

Bill.

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[CTRL] First Victim

[Alamaine Ratliff]

 -Caveat Lector-

 Philanderers find a friend in First Victim
 by Margery Eagan

 Tuesday, August 3, 1999





 There are several theories on why Hillary Clinton has blamed her
 husband's chronic philandering on the dead:

 • Hillary hoped to divert attention from the vast, left-wing
 conspiracy rumored to have orchestrated Monica Lewinsky's traffic
 mishap Sunday. Monica's Ford Explorer inexplicably rolled over
 into oncoming traffic 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles. She
 survived.

 • Hillary is after the adulterers' vote, significant in New York.
 Thanks to Hillary, husbands caught in flagrante can now claim
 that after flashbacks of Mother chasing Nana with the frying pan,
 they had no choice but to seduce intern after intern after intern
 after intern.

 Wilt Chamberlain, Hugh Grant, Frank Gifford and Bob Livingston,
 the heir apparent to Newt Gingrich before his own infidelities
 surfaced, are said to be moved by Hillary's perceptive
 understanding of their own legendary missteps. Gingrich, whose
 second divorce was announced last week, is reportedly huddled
 with advisers over plans to blame his marital woes on Mother,
 too.

 • Hillary, still enjoying widespread popularity based on
 embracing her role as Victim First Lady, believes the time has
 come for Victim in Chief. It was a theme she heard over and over
 during her recent New York State ``listening tour.'' In Victim
 Nation, the most powerful man alive should be allowed to validate
 his victimhood, too. It is cleansing for the nation, really.

 • Then there are those who see this latest maneuver as simply
 another ``here-we-go-again'' moment in Clintonista history. As
 craven and crass. As scraping the subterranean depths of
 makes-you-cringe bad taste.

 ``They just never quit,'' says Hillary biographer Joyce Milton.

 ``But it begs the question: If he's so scarred by his childhood
 that he can't behave honorably, what business did he have running
 for president?

 ``And if she knew all along he had this `weakness' caused by his
 poor dead mother and the grandmother who loved him, why allow
 James Carville and his ilk to trash Paula Jones? Why go on the
 `Today' show (after the Lewinsky story broke) and blame a vast
 right-wing conspiracy?

 ``You know, everybody makes mistakes,'' says Milton, author of
 ``The First Partner.'' ``But the Clintons don't feel they should
 ever pay a price for their mistakes . . . It's so dispiriting.''

 But perhaps we should be used to it by now.

 John Kennedy Jr. was barely dead before Bill Clinton actually
 claimed he helped Kennedy ``come to terms'' with his father's
 death during a White House visit - the first such visit Kennedy
 ever had, our president said.

 When it turned out that both evil Republicans Nixon and Reagan
 had invited Kennedy to visit long before the emotionally scarred
 Clinton homed in on Juanita Broaddrick, etc., Clinton simply
 denied his mistake. He blamed the dead again.

 It was Kennedy, Clinton said, who erred. He then implied that
 Kennedy either lied to him or entirely forgot visiting two
 presidents. And lucky for Bill, John Jr., like Bill's mother, was
 unable to set the record straight.

 Maybe there's something wrong with me, but it does seem bizarre
 that Hillary Clinton is in such a mad rush to run for Senate. The
 normal procedure, I always thought, was to find a place to live
 there and set up residence for at least a week or two before
 declaring. A normal procedure, too, it seems, would be waiting
 until her husband is out of office so she'd not be financing her
 race on the taxpayer's dime. Could the prospect of a political
 season without a campaign starring him, or her, really be that
 horrific to them?

 In the Talk magazine interview that I guess she expects us all to
 fall for, Hillary did concede that dealing with an endless stream
 of girls, girls, and more girls has tried her patience a tad. But
 she insisted that despite her husband's hobby, she and he are
 incredibly close soulmates in ``constant conversation,'' a couple
 who ``likes to lie in bed and watch old movies, you know . . . We
 just have a deep connection that transcends whatever happens,''
 said poor Hillary who, I fear, he's finally driven nuts.



Ah, this almost Biblical ... Who is he or she who is NOT her
or his spouse's keeper?

Almost, but one yields to tales of old Tortuga, balmy haze of
rum-soaked smoking cigars, ashes fallen on treasured charts,
tell-tale tankard rings tell tales of stormy seas sailed past
... Yea, it is she, the sole matey of he who seeks to loot the
booty of the bountiful ... The justification ends the means or
means the end or the mean justify the ends or the justification
is the mean of the ends, if not average ... Yet, with cutlass
drawn and patch over eye, earring aglint in the sun, and yea,
the battle-tested Jolly Roger flutters high in the wind awaiting
the order for the next cannons' roar ... the sole matey soul
spys with glassy eye the horizon for the next 

[CTRL] HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SERBS AND ROMA IN KOSOVO (fwd)

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

 -Caveat Lector-

The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU

EMBARGOED FOR AUGUST 3, 1999

HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE AGAINST
SERBS AND ROMA IN KOSOVO

(New York, August 3, 1999) - Human Rights Watch today released a
detailed report documenting how ethnic Serbs and Roma (Gypsies) face
fear, uncertainty, and violence in Kosovo.  According to the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 164,000 Serbs
have left Kosovo during the seven weeks since Yugoslav and Serb forces
withdrew  and the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) entered the province.
Many others have moved to Serb or Roma enclaves under KFOR protection
within Kosovo. A wave of arson and looting of Serb and Roma homes
throughout Kosovo has ensued.  Serbs and Roma remaining in Kosovo have
been subject to repeated incidents of harassment and intimidation,
including severe beatings.  Most seriously, there has been a spate of
murders and abductions of Serbs since mid-June, including  the late July
massacre of Serb farmers.

The most serious atrocities documented include dozens of killings of
Serbs since mid-June.   On July 23, as this report went to press,
fourteen ethnic Serb farmers were shot dead as they harvested hay near
the village of Gracko, in central Kosovo.  However, as the report shows,
there have been numerous ethnically-motivated killings in post-conflict
Kosovo.  For example,  Marica Stamenkovic, seventy-seven years old, and
Panta Filipovic, sixty-three years old, were brutally murdered on June
21 in the town of Prizren, where they had lived for decades.  Having
decided to stay in Prizren while other Serbs fled the city, the two
victims and their spouses became the target of KLA harassment.  Within
days of KFOR's entry into Kosovo, uniformed KLA members began appearing
at their homes demanding money and arms.  After repeated visits and
harassment, both victims were found with their throats cut.  Marica
Stamenkovic had been nearly decapitated.

The 18-page report, which is based on numerous interviews with victims,
eyewitnesses, and local officials in over a dozen villages and towns,
describes direct and systematic efforts to force Serbs and Roma to leave
their homes, including through arson, looting and the destruction of
their property.  Men have been detained, questioned, and beaten, often
very badly.  While most have subsequently been released, some of those
abducted remain missing and are presumed dead.  The majority of the
abuses have been committed by men dressed in KLA uniforms, although it
remains unclear whether there is an organized KLA campaign against
minorities.
Prominent among explanations for these abuses is the desire of some
ethnic Albanians to take revenge for atrocities committed by Serb
security forces prior to KFOR's entry into Kosovo.  While the Serb
minority is the most obvious target of this retaliatory animus, Roma,
too, are at risk, as they are commonly perceived by ethnic Albanians as
having been willing collaborators in Serb abuses.  Another related
motivation for the abuse is to drive members of these minority groups
out of Kosovo.  Indeed, numerous Serbs and Roma have told Human Rights
Watch that they have been directly warned by ethnic Albanians, under
threat of violence, to leave Kosovo and never return.

The response of KFOR and the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to
abuses against minority populations has been belated and uneven.  To a
large extent, the frequency of abuses against Serbs and Roma directly
reflects the lack of a police force and the concomitant lack of law and
order in Kosovo.  In the absence of a fully deployed international
police force, KFOR contingents have attempted to fill the security gap
with military police operating police stations in major towns.  Some
contingents have stepped up patrols and deployed peacekeepers to protect
populations at risk.  Yet concerns about the safety of KFOR's own
troops, a lack of experience in law enforcement functions and, above
all, a shortage of available personnel, have frequently rendered KFOR
units unable and unwilling to take the initiatives necessary to build
confidence among Serb and Roma communities.

Human Rights Watch called for immediate corrective action to prevent
further abuses, including, most notably, the deployment of an effective
international police force.  The international monitoring group urged
KFOR to increase the frequency of patrols in areas with at-risk
populations and, as a matter of urgency, called on UNHCR to deploy
additional protection officers and on the OSCE to station an adequate
number of  human rights monitors  in areas with at-risk  minority
populations.  The organization also called on donor institutions and
governments to give priority in the allocation of reconstruction aid to
those municipalities that protect and prevent violence and
discrimination against ethnic minorities and persons due to their
political affiliation, as well as to withhold from 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [BRIGADE] High-Tech Sellout Praised by BusinessWeek

[Alamaine Ratliff]

 -Caveat Lector-

--- Forwarded Message Follows ---
From:   "Linda Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:55:45 -0700
Subject:[BRIGADE] High-Tech Sellout Praised by BusinessWeek
Send reply to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

approved: nonwo!

Dear Brigade,

"[H]igh tech is a cyclical field.  Layoffs are frequent.  In
Summer of
1998, I was laid off along with 41 others from my company as a
result of
the semiconductor downturn.  Among those laid off were Americans
with many
years of experience and top-notch achievements.  I know because
we all
went to an outplacement seminar the next day.  In fact, American
workers
were predominant in the group.  The H-1B’s kept their jobs at that
company.  Whose country is it anyway?  Those H-1B workers should be
temporary and should go home when layoffs occur..."

From Pat Buchanan - Press release 7/2/99
H-1B INCREASE BETRAYS AMERICAN WORKERS:

"The elite of both parties are now in an unseemly competition to see who
can do more to pander to the super-rich by selling out the American
worker. There is no shortage of Americans who qualify for these $50,000
and $75,000-a year high-tech jobs; there is no shortage of young Americans
in college, preparing for these jobs ... To allow Silicon Valley to
import scores of thousands more foreign workers every year, to take the
jobs of the future that would otherwise go to Americans, represents a
betrayal of the American middle class by a selfish slice of our corporate
elite.  Unfortunately, that corporate elite has both Beltway parties
snuggly in its wallet pocket..."

GOO PAT GO!!
Linda

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From:   "L Q" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Business Week article
Date sent:  Tue, 03 Aug 1999 13:45:37 PDT

To Laura D'Andrea Tyson,   ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  August 3, 1999

I have disagreements with your piece below.  But first of all, I have to
wonder if your views are legitimately yours, given that many ITAA firms
give large donations to the Haas school.  'You scratch my back and I'll
scratch yours.'  But let's assume that you wrote this independent of
financial donations.

As for myself, I am an electrical engineer, American  male.  I lived and
worked in Silicon Valley for several years.  Now I work in another locale
in the high tech field.

In the first part of your letter, you go into statistics about
unemployment rates and future employment in the IT field.  You later use
these statistics to argue for increased H-1B numbers, as if immigration
should be based on how our economy is doing.  Laura, America is a COUNTRY,
not just an economic abstraction.

But let's look at your statistics again.  If the commerce dept. is right
in its prediction of 1.3 million new IT jobs over the next decade, then
that should act as a great pull for American students to enter the field.
In fact, it's happening, with a recent 40% increase in computer science
enrollments.  Who would you rather see get American jobs, American
students or foreigners?  Don't you think our own should be the first to be
recruited? If there are shortages, the ENTIRE focus should be on
educating, training, and re-training AMERICANS for these jobs.  Constantly
advocating the massive import of foreigners is treasonous.

What also needs to be added is that the recent ITAA 'study' that asserted
346,000 openings in IT was found to be highly flawed by the Department of
Labor.  Anyway, there will ALWAYS be job openings in the field.  Companies
and industries expand and contract, creating unemployment and job
opportunities.  That's the job market.  Seeing job advertisements in the
paper is NOT cause to import the foreigners.

Who started Silicon Valley?  Americans.  OVERWHELMINGLY.  You reference
Prof. Annalee Saxenian's assertions that 'such immigrants have been a
major source of new job and wealth creation, bringing skills, creativity,
capital, and links with global markets.'  And Americans have not?  Ask
yourself this question Laura:  Why do these immigrants come to America
instead of Mexico?  It's because of our English-speaking European roots
and the culture we laid down.  Our people CREATED the economic system and
the technology in the first place!

That proves we ourselves have the seeds of our own success.  Are you
implying that in order for Intel to sell chips to India, it needs to
massively import Indian people to Santa Clara?  How ridiculous!  The
Japanese do just fine selling their products around the globe without
having to import the natives of the countries to which they sell.

As for your assertion that immigrants create jobs, and the more jobs the
better.  Let's assume each high-tech immigrant creates x-number of jobs.
Assume we import 200,000 of these people every year in perpetuity, with
each of them creating extra jobs.  At that 

[CTRL] Serb hunting.

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

 -Caveat Lector-

The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU

A student of mine, Greek-American, bicycle maniac, toured Kosovo in the
1980s.

When he asked the Albanian dudes what they did for fun, their answer was:

"Serb hunting".

pera
..

George Thompson wrote:



 Daily abuses dismay NATO troops

 The title is misleading.  There's no indication that NATO gives a
rat's arse about any of this.

 Foreign Affairs News
 Source: USA Today
 Published: August 3, 1999 Author: Jack Kelley
 Posted on 08/03/1999 03:36:51 PDT by Cincinatus
 PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Despite the presence of NATO troops and U.S.
appeals for tolerance, ethnic Albanians in Kosovo have stepped up what
appears to be an increasingly organized and violent campaign to force out
the 30,000 Serbs still living in the province.
 Ethnic Albanian men, armed with guns and carrying expulsion orders
stamped by Kosovo Liberation Army officials - the de facto government
leaders - are going door-to-door, assaulting Serbs and giving them only
hours to leave.
 Monday, they began distributing leaflets with the same message. "Serb
dogs: You are in Albanian land and should leave if you want to live," read
the leaflet written in Cyrillic and distributed in Serb areas of Mitrovica,
northwest of Pristina.
 Muje Gjonbalaj, installed by the KLA as Kosovo's deputy minister for
reconstruction and development, said, "The Serbs need to understand that
they are in our country now." His office is distributing the expulsion
orders. "They should go back to where they belong," he said.
 NATO estimates an average 20 Serb families are fleeing the province, 12
Serb homes are being torched and two Serbs are being killed each day. Also,
dozens of Serb women have reported being raped.
 U.N. and NATO officials, both of whom are in charge of maintaining peace
in Kosovo, say there's little they can do to stop the forced expulsions and
atrocities. "We know what they're doing is wrong, but what can we do?"
NATO's Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson said in an interview. Jackson commands the
36,500 NATO peacekeepers here. "We can't be everywhere. It's impossible,"
he said.
 U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner, who called the actions of the ethnic
Albanians "unacceptable," has appealed for more time to set up a civil
government and police force in Kosovo to stop the violence. The KLA, in the
meantime, has established its own, unofficial government.
 "We have to stop what is happening here, and I believe we will," Kouchner
said. "The world did not intervene to make Kosovo safe for revenge and
intolerance. We just need time."
 The intervention came when NATO launched 11 weeks of airstrikes against
Yugoslavia to force Serb troops and paramilitaries, blamed for killing and
raping ethnic Albanians , out of Kosovo. The ethnic Albanians, who
represented 90% of the population before the conflict, had been seeking
independence from Serbia.
 Many ethnic Albanians, who had fled to neighboring Albania and Macedonia
, returned to Kosovo in the wake of NATO peacekeepers. The returning
refugees began burning and looting Serb homes in retaliation for Serb
atrocities in the war.
 But the recent violence is different from the "revenge killings" of Serbs
by ethnic Albanians immediately after Serb troops left Kosovo and
international peacekeepers entered the province. NATO and human rights
officials say few, if any, of the Serbs now being targeted participated in
the killing of an estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians during the recent
conflict. Most of the targets are widowed, elderly or ill Serbs who have
nowhere else to go or are too weak to leave.
 "It's gone beyond revenge attacks," said Natasa Kandic, director of the
Humanitarian Law Center, an independent human rights group in Yugoslavia.
"It's approaching a reverse type of ethnic cleansing. Serbs are being
hunted down."
 Last week, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appealed to ethnic
Albanians not to take revenge on the Serbs. "Democracy cannot be built on
revenge," Albright told residents during a visit to Pristina. "You will not
have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into
your own hands."
 NATO figures show 73 Serbs were killed in Kosovo from June 12 to July 24,
including 14 Serb farmers massacred in the village of Gracko. During that
same period, 327 people, nearly all ethnic Albanian, were arrested or
detained for attempted murder and looting.
 Already, 170,000 of the 200,000 Serbs who had been living in Kosovo have
left for the Serb republic of Montenegro or elsewhere.
 Among those leaving recently: the entire Serb population of the
southeastern town of Zitinje. The 450 people left Sunday for other parts of
Serbia. They had been subjected to weeks of sniper fire, grenade attacks
and ambushes by ethnic Albanians. Many of the nearly 650 ethnic Albanians
in the town jeered and pelted the departing Serbs with rocks.
 Many ethnic Albanians, including members of the 

[CTRL] Art of Kosovo , Heart of Serbia

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

 -Caveat Lector-

The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU

The Sunday Times: Culture: Art
London, May 16 1999 ART


To understand the Serbs, look at their art in Kosovo,
 says WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK. These depictions of war
and  persecution are the focus of the country's beliefs

Serbia's art and soul


I came across a monk on the Internet last week,  broadcasting from one of
the most beautiful of all the  Serbian churches in Kosovo and Metohija - to
give the  province its full Serbian nomenclature, for a change -  from
Decani, near the Albanian border. Metohija means  "land of the churches".
Which is what Kosovo is to the  Serbs. They also call it their Sacred Land.
If you look  at a map of the religious sites in the province you will  see
immediately why. The landscape is dotted with so  many schematic crosses
that you wonder where the cities  might be fitted in. And how could our
bombs possibly  miss all these churches and monasteries and convents?

The distressed Internet monk was telling his readers,  rather elegantly I
thought, that "history in the Balkans  is like quicksand", and he was
urging fellow Serbs not  to allow this quicksand of history to suck them
down.  "If we cannot move forward now, we will suffer again,"  he warned.
Unfortunately, the broadcast was dated to the  middle of 1998. This was
just another piece of ancient  Internet junk, floating uselessly on the
Web.

As it happens, I know the monastery in Decani. I visited  it more than 20
years ago as an eager art student trying  to acquire a wider knowledge of
Byzantine art. The old  Orient Express used to go as far as Istanbul,
uniting,  in steam and bumps, the art of the West with that of the  East,
and I was able to arrange a hop-off as it passed  through Tito's
illusionistically coherent Yugoslavia.  What an important service that
bandit-attracting train  used to provide as it chugged through the Balkans
and  made ignorance more difficult.

It is fair to say, I suppose, that Byzantine art is  tough to admire. It
talks down to you like a sentencing  judge. There's an intrinsic sternness
to it. You must  enter such dark and inviolately serious churches to
encounter it. And then you must appreciate so much  repetition.
Nevertheless, tourists flock to magnificent  Ravenna happily enough; and
the delights of ancient  Istanbul are always being eagerly sampled. But the
glories of Serbian Kosovo remain significantly more  obscure. Even today -
unbelievably - they appear to us  to form a very minor piece of the Kosovo
jigsaw, but to  the Serbs they have never been that. To the Serbs they
constitute an indestructible 700-year-old proof of their  rightful
ownership of the sacred land.

The monastery of Visoki Decani was founded early in the  14th century, and
I wish I could remember it better. I  remember that it is approached along
a spectacular  wooded valley and that the outside is striped in soft
marble pinks and whites. The interior, as I recall it,  is completely
covered from floor to dome with frescoes,  executed, I read, between 1335
and 1350. These are  considered to be the greatest masterpieces of Serbian
religious art. But are they still there? Is the treasury  at Decani still
filled with those curious golden  crosses, so absurdly ornate that they
have ceased  entirely to be cross-shaped? Are the hand-painted  medieval
gospels still glistening in their dusty glass  boxes? And over the
crossing, is there still a giant  Christ looking down on you with one of
those  terrifyingly accusatory biblical stares that are a  Byzantine
speciality?

Who knows? It is an ugly irony of this dumb and ever  dumber war that, even
though art played such a critical  role in its instigation, nobody appears
to have taken  the slightest bit of interest in it since the fighting
began. Not on our side, at least.

It wasn't always so. That gaseous cultural dreamer and  professional
Frenchman, André Malraux, looking out  across the beautiful Serbian
monasteries of Kosovo, with  their dramatic clusters of grapefruit domes
and their  huge expanses of floor-to-ceiling fresco, was moved to  write:
"Culture, when it is the most precious  possession, is never the past."
God, but he was right.  Malraux died in 1976. He had been a liberal, but he
died  a Gaullist who loved the sound of his own conservatism,  and
certainly wrote too much. In most modern situations  I would rank him as
one of the century's most eminently  skippable cultural commentators. But
in his few sad  thoughts on Kosovo, published a quarter of a century ago
in one of those impressively convoluted studies of the  Slavs that are a
Gallic speciality, Malraux revealed  himself to be an excellent reader of
the Serb mind.

Being French, and of the old school, he understood  perfectly the power not
only of culture but also of  history. Today, in new Britain, it seems to me
we no  longer understand the power of either. Which is why we  have
attempted so childishly, in 

[CTRL] Fw: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #26, August 2, 1999

[Linda Minor]

 -Caveat Lector-

-Original Message-
From: H-Texas Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:29 PM
Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #26, August 2, 1999


Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:09:47 -0400
(Posted by Garry Nall)

NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #26, August 2, 1999
   by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating
  Committee for the Promotion of History [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.  Judge Calls for Release of Additional Alger Hiss Grand Jury Records -
On May 13 Judge Peter K. Leisure of the United States District Court for
the Southern District of New York ordered the release of thousands of
pages of 1940s grand jury testimony in the investigation of Alger Hiss.
On July 14, Judge Leisure issued an additional ruling in this case, No.
M-11-189, which calls for the release of over 5,000 more pages of Hiss
related materials. Because current law requires that grand jury
information remain secret except in certain "special circumstances" where
a "particularized need" for the material is demonstrated, this is a ground
breaking decision that makes clear that grand jury records may be opened
in very exceptional cases where there is broad public and researcher
interest in the issues, where the records are very old, and where there
are no outstanding privacy issues.

The opening of the additional material resulted from two issues:  the
Justice Department's request that a portion of the records be withheld
because of privacy interest and the recent discovery at the National
Archives of some of the missing grand jury transcripts from the Hiss Grand
Jury Proceeding.  After further inquires the Justice Department learned
that many relevant individuals in the case were either deceased, had
consented to public disclosures, or had been publicly identified in
connection with the grand jury testimony.  Thus the Justice Department
withdrew most of its privacy objections.  Regarding the newly discovered
transcripts, the Court found that the material is relevant to the
investigation of Hiss and "are material to the historical issues of the
validity of the allegations against him and the Soviet espionage of which
he allegedly was a part."  Thus the Court order the release of
approximately 5,000 additional pages.  The Justice Department has until
August 13, 60 days from the original ruling on May 13, to decide whether
to appeal Judge Leisure's decision.

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[CTRL] America's Babylonian Roots

[Mike Kathy Moxley]

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America's Babylonian Roots: Idols of America
The Statue of Liberty And The Statue of Freedom

Editor's Note: The information in this article will come as a shock to many
readers. It came as a shock to the author while doing 10 years of research
for "America, The Babylon." Therefore this warning to those who are
convinced that anything but America is Babylon… Read at your own peril.
This information may cause severe disorientation and disillusionment among
some diehard American Christians who are convinced that America is God's
Chosen Nation. This material below should help to dispel such myths.

Introduction:

The Statue of Liberty has become the most cherished symbol of the United
States of America. What we were NOT taught in school were the truly
significant facts regarding the true nature of the Statue. Those pertinent
facts that remain largely unknown revolve around the true history of the
Statue's inception as well as the meaning and significance behind the
statue.

French sculptor, Frederic Bartholdi, designed the Statue of Liberty.
Bartholdi did not originate the concept of the statue. The idea for
creating a statue of liberty and freedom was first proposed by another
Frenchman by the name of Edward Laboulaye. It was Laboulaye's idea and
determination during the American Civil War that carried the idea from a
simple notion to an actual project. Laboulaye, a French Freemason proposed
the idea of a giant statue replicating a goddess that the Masonic movement
idolized. Laboulaye proceeded to raise the financial support and commission
Bartholdi to provide the sculpture of this goddess of illumination from
ancient times.

What deity was this? It was the goddess known by various names. Laboulaye
and his fellow Freemason, sculptor Bartholdi referred to her as "Libertas"
but she was also an early adoption by Romans of the Babylonian goddess
Ishtar. We'll need to follow the research on the goddess connections to
fully understand this statue's meaning.

Roman goddess Libertas:

Libertas was the name of an ancient Roman goddess adopted by the Romans
perhaps as early as the 5th century BC and certainly by the 4th Century BC.
She was referred to as the goddess of personal freedom and liberty. In fact
Libertas meant freedom. So liberty means freedom. The 2 names describe the
one concept we call freedom. Liberty = Freedom and Freedom = Liberty. This
goddess was the goddess of freedom because she promoted the ideals for the
personal freedom to do anything that felt good. She was called the matron
goddess of prostitution because she promoted sexual freedom. Indeed, she
had invented the concept. Slaves considered her their goddess in the hopes
of winning their freedom. Many women who gained freedom later turned to
prostitution to survive and thereby retained Libertas as their goddess,
especially if they became priestesses in the Libertas cult. Libertas was
also a goddess of war in order to fight for freedom. She was also referred
at times as the goddess of victory because freedom must have victory in
order to survive. This goddess was also the goddess of immigrants. The
whole idea of immigration connoted the idea of freedom. Her popularity was
also unique because of her unique doctrine of hearing personal prayers.
This unique doctrine was something that most of the pagan deity doctrines
were not disposed towards.

We know that this goddess existed because of the records left behind to us.
We have the ancient writings of Cicero who writes of this goddess and her
Temple on the Aventine Way in Rome. She was depicted on some Roman coins as
wearing a freedom cap and having a wreath along with a spear or sometimes a
sword. Such coin images were not the only depictions. Sometimes she was
well robed and at other times seductively unclothed in both sculptures and
paintings. We know of Libertas being referred to as the Mother of Harlots
by the famous Roman historian (and senator) Cicero's writings. Cicero
indicates that she was also a very early goddess of the Greeks even before
early Roman civilization developed.

Upon further investigation we find that the Greeks had acquired knowledge
of this being from previous empires in the Middle East and Egypt. This
goddess was called Ashtoreth in Hebrew and in the Old Testament's Greek
version (the Septuagint). Ashtoreth becomes transliterated into the Greek
as Astarte, which became the early Greek name for the goddess until it was
later changed to Aphrodite. The Hebrew term Ashtoreth was itself a
transliteration from the Babylonian dialect (Akkadian) term of Ishtar.

Ishtar in the most ancient of times was also referred to by the Sumerian
dialect as Inanna or Ninanna meaning the Queen of Heaven or Lady of Heaven.
In Canaan this deity was called Ashtaroth. The Hittites called her
Shaushka. The Phoenicians on Cypress initially referred to her as Astarte.
Isis was the name the Egyptians gave to her. This is how the goddess became
introduced to the earliest Greeks. We 

[CTRL] [Fwd: War is, um, Great!]

[Bill]

 -Caveat Lector-

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks into his crystal ball and says:

 "I see a cadre of admen at a posh restaurant. Some are wearing $900
 suits and $6,000 watches. Some came in chauffered  limos. Others in
 their BMWs, Mercedes and Porsches.
 The smoke is swirling from their $50 cigars. Their glasses cradle rare
 wines. They excuse themselves to the rest room in pairs where they snort
 the fine white powder which gives them the edge and the energy to
 compete in this war.
 I see a $2-billion payoff to the media as a nice first installment on a
 long-term bribe to buy propaganda, silence and complicity. It paves the
 way for putting media control firmly in the fed's back pocket.

 I see lots more payoffs like this in the future as the ad industry gets
 fat and dependent on the gravy-train of plentiful drug war money.

 I see the fascist drug warriors blatantly buying the free speech and
 objectivity of the media with increasing payoffs. Two billion is just
 the camels' nose under the tent.

 I see the ad execs and media moguls laughing. Their little ploy worked.
 They have offered the smoke-screen of "an equal amount of free
 advertising in return" to make it appear that they are 'giving to the
 cause' instead of 'sucking the profits from' the war on drugs.

 One leans over the mirror with a rolled $100 bill in his nose. He closes
 his left nostril; sucks hard with his right. He sees his reflection. He
 smiles. He looks up at his colleague and winks.

 "War is, um..., war is great!""

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[CTRL] The Illuminati is Alive and Well

[Mike Kathy Moxley]

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The Illuminati is Alive and Well And America is their Operating Base

Here are their plans for 1999

Editor's note:

The following article was submitted for publication. We reprint the article
as written but we make no claims to its accuracy. We find that the material
may provide some merit as background information for what is going on
behind the scenses by the enemy. This material may not necessarily helpful
for new believers who have not been grounded in all truth, therefore we do
urge caution. This article is written from an unbiblical viewpoint but it
does recognize and oppose the evil forces that they refer to. There seems
to be some thread of truth to some of the information regarding the dates
involved. The notion that these key political world leaders and figures are
actually hybrid creatures does seem very bizarre but note that there are
many conservative Biblical scholars that think Genesis 6 is referring to
half human half demonic beings that resulted from the mating of human
females with the "beni hahelohim" = "sons of God". If this is indeed the
case, then perhaps what is described below, might not be quite as
far-fetched as we might otherwise think. However, those of us at
Alpha-Omega do not necessarily endorse such views. We merely suggest that
the dates mentioned here may indeed be part of the grand scheme to assist
in bringing about the rise of the Antichrist in the near future. We can
only encourage you, the reader, to keep looking up, for our redemption
draweth near. The Lord Jesus Christ is indeed coming and soon.

The Illuminati are conducting a ritual to be held at the Great Pyramid at
Giza in Egypt, on August 11, 12, and 13th, 1999. (Specifically the Mothers
of Darkness - the top conductors of rituals, will officiate) This ritual is
"The Rite to Open the Passage" (the Eye of Horus). This will open the
passage for lower fourth dimensional energy to be directed into the ley
lines of the Earth. This will (is designed to) also close the 3rd eye
(consciousness) of all on this planet that oppose the Illuminati. It will
further shut down (is designed to) the other people who are not actively
aware or opposing the Illuminati but feel uneasy about what is going on and
cannot figure out why.

The solar eclipse which is to take place on August 11 (over the key Earth
power centre of Cornwall, England) will also have a "Grand Square" which
makes it extremely powerful. This eclipse is the beginning of a six month
period in which there will be much activity of significance that pinnacles
in the The Rite of Establishment of the Age of Horus (Osiris reborn) at the
Millennium.

This symbolism relates to the ancient Egyptian legends of Osiris (the
father), Horus (the son), and Isis (the virgin mother), which later became
the basis for the Jesus stories also. The New World Order, the takeover of
the planet via the establishment of a world government, world army (Nato),
world central bank and currency, and a micro-chipped population, is known
by the Illuminati as "The Age of Horus". The symbolism of the murder of a
pregnant Diana, Princess of Wales, with the Egyptian Dodi Fayed, relates to
the arrival of "The Age of Horus".

This "Age of Horus" ritual will be held on December 31st from 12am to 3am
at the Great Pyramid, at which time the top of the pyramid will be capped
with gold and crystal. (George Bush has long been on the guest list of the
Millennium "celebrations" at Giza.) Etched in the crystal will be the eye
of Horus on all four sides. (This relates to the All Seeing Eye symbol on
the dollar bill and the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States).
They will finalize this period of six months on January 31st / February Ist
and start "preparing the ground for the sowing of their seeds".

Preceding the August 11 through 13 ritual, which by the way ends with the
day of Hecate (one of their key deities), the bringer of chaos and death,
is the July 28th lunar eclipse. This eclipse is also extremely unusual and
powerful in that it also involves a Grand Square and the House of Aquarius
goes direct -- its effect is at full strength. The Moon on this date is a
new moon, a time to plan and cast spells for the plan.

During the solar eclipse and the next day and on the Day of Hecate (August
13th), there will be blood sacrifices and also literal sodomization of the
intended sacrifices beforehand. This will signify opening the Eye of Horus,
opening the passage for the lower fourth dimensional energy and the
closing, the shutting down of the human 3rd eye -- consciousness on the
planet. They will remove the heart and consume it, signifying the taking
away the vibrational chakra of love. They will also remove the liver
(strength), the eyes (sight), and brain (knowledge, thought, action). They
will consume the blood (life force for them). Their ritual acts all
encompass and empower them for what they wish to spiritually do to us. What
they do is to be given strength which is brought into 

[CTRL] (joke) Y to K compliant

[piper]

 -Caveat Lector-

== forwarded message
=


Blonde secretary's memo to her boss:


TO:   My Boss
From:Blondie
RE:   Changing calendars from Y2K


  I hope that I haven't misunderstood your instructions because, to
be honest,  none of this Y to K problem made much sense to me. At any
rate, I have finished the conversion. The calendars  have returned
from the printer and are ready to be distribute with the following new
months:

   Januark
   Februark
   Mak
   Julk

I also changed all the days of each week to:

 Sundak
 Mondak
 Tuesdak
 Wednesdak
 Thursdak
 Fridak
 Saturdak


We are now Y to K compliant.

--
Any person can stand adversity,
The true test is to give a person power.
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm

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Re: [CTRL] Serb hunting.

[Sno0wl]

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On 4 Aug 99, , Mrs. wrote:

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 The Committee for National Solidarity
 Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU

 A student of mine, Greek-American, bicycle maniac, toured Kosovo in the
 1980s.

 When he asked the Albanian dudes what they did for fun, their answer was:

 "Serb hunting".

 pera

These posts are deeply disturbing. The anger and hatred and ongoing outrage they
reflect certainly makes me feel that Serbs and Albanians, Christians and Muslins,  in
this region should have been left alone until there was only one of each left 
standing. It
certainly makes it sound as if any attempt to recreate a civilized country where
differences are handled rationally is just about doomed.

Vengeance is infinite and only ends when everyone involved in the conflict is dead.

The notion of "sacred land" that "belongs" to those who have built churches on it has
caused bloodshed since the beginning of time.










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[CTRL] OT: Arnold on Letterman [8/4]

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"For goodness sakes, even OJ's got a girlfriend!!"

  -- Actor Tom Arnold on Dave Letterman, 8/4/99, after telling
Letterman about his dating experiences

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[CTRL] Fwd: Zapruder's Ties to CIA and Oswald; 16 Million dollars, for what?

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PRESS RELEASE

  Zapruder's Ties to CIA and Oswald; 16 Million dollars,  for what?

  Zapruder Arbitration Board member Kenneth Feinberg wanted to
attach: The Adamson Report; Zapruder/Bush and the CIA's Dallas Council on
World Affairs as an exhibit to the Zapruder Arbitration Report which has
paid 16 million for the Zapruder film.
"The question is should Abraham Zapruder (now deceased) and his
family be allowed to profit using the corporation LMH Inc. when the
Zapruder family belonged to the Dallas Council on World Affairs a CIA front
organization at the time he filmed the JFK assassination?  His son Henry
Zapruder, in 1963 was a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice.
Ten years before the assassination in 1953 Zapruder had worked with
Jeanne Le Gon-de Mohrenschildt at the Nardis of Dallas clothing factory.
Jeanne would design the clothes while Zapruder would cut her patterns.
In 1964 the Warren Commission ruled that Jeanne and her husband
George de Mohrenschildt were Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald's closest
friends.  Not only did Le Gon and Zapruder know each other, they were in
1953 good friends with Olga Fehmer at Nardis of Dallas, whose daughter
Marie would become the personal secretary of Lyndon Baines Johnson's.  She
was on board Air Force One following JFK's demise.  The Fehmer family
attended Senator Chuck Robb's wedding to Lynda Johnson.
George de Mohrenschildt worked out of a CIA-trust building and was
exchanging letters with LBJ seven months before JFK's assassination and met
with LBJ on April 26, 1963 also on May 20, 1963, seven months before JFK's
demise.
With all of these connections one is left wondering why Zapruder
did not react for his own safety when he heard the gun shots?  The man in
charge of the CIA,  President Bill Clinton's own lawyer Robert Bennett
represented the Zapruder Family.  The Attorney General appointed Al Gore's
brother-in-law, Frank Hunger to represent our Government's interest in the
Zapruder case.  Hunger was removed after Adamson complained of the conflict
of interest.
George Bush Sr. was President and was responsible for signing into
law in 1991-92 The JFK Assassination Records Review Board Act.  George
Bush, Sr. has written a letter admitting that he knew de Mohrenschildt
since 1942.  Bush also knew LBJ, was involved with The Bay of Pigs
Invasion, FBI Director, J.E. Hoover and to the JFK assassination
investigation.  Believe it or not George Jr.,Sr. and Prescott Bush are all
three connected to Oswald's CIA pal George de Mohrenschildt.
If the public has a right to know contact me: Bruce Campbell
Adamson, P.O. Box 1103, Santa Cruz, CA, 95061-1103 (831) 465-9272, email:
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[CTRL] Committee chairman seeks additional study of vaccine safety

[Steve Wingate]

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Committee chairman seeks additional study of vaccine safety

Copyright © 1999 Nando Media
Copyright © 1999 Associated Press

By PAUL RECER

WASHINGTON (August 3, 1999 9:49 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Too many American children are
experiencing reactions to vaccines for the problem to remain ignored by
the government, according to Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., who says his
grandchildren are among those who have suffered.

Burton, chairman of the House committee on government reform, said at a
hearing Tuesday that there were reports last year of more than 11,000
cases of children getting sick after inoculations. Many of their ailments
were minor, yet some required hospitalization, he said.

Burton said most American children are required to get 22 shots by the
time they start school and "some have described the current mandating of
an increasing number of vaccines to children to be a good intention gone
too far."

He said his grandchildren are among the youngsters who have developed
illnesses after getting their shots. Burton said his granddaughter had to be
hospitalized within hours of receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine, and his
grandson became autistic after getting the shots.

"You can call that a coincidence, but I think it is more," said Burton.

Later he added: "We are going to be beating on this issue as long as I am
chairman of this committee."

Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., ranking minority member of the
committee, chided Burton for not having doctors who have studied
vaccines for years and experts from vaccine manufacturers testify at the
hearing.

"I deeply regret that these groups are not here today to provide us with
balanced and informed testimony," said Waxman. "That's what a hearing is
supposed to be all about."

Several citizens testified at the hearing about how their children became ill
after getting vaccinations. Other witnesses, however, talked about relatives
who were harmed because vaccines were not used and their family
members contracted serious disease.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, lead witness at the hearing,
defended the use of mandatory childhood inoculations. He said children
exempted from getting shots put others at risk of contracting diseases such
as measles, whooping cough, Hepatitis B, mumps and chicken pox.

Satcher said vaccines and a vigorous program of inoculation have saved
millions of lives. In 1943, before there was a vaccine for whopping cough,
190,000 American children got the disease and 3,500 died, he said. That
compares with only 5,000 cases and five deaths in 1995.

The surgeon general said Mississippi and West Virginia are the only two
states where children are absolutely required to get vaccinations before
school. The other 48 states, Satcher said, allow exemptions for religious or
philosophical reasons.

Less than 1 percent take the religious exemption, said Satcher.

Since some parents now are reluctant to get shots for their children, Burton
asked if immunization would work if it was voluntary.

"When children are not immunized, outbreaks (of disease) occur," said
Satcher. "If states didn't have rules (requiring shots) for getting into school,
then many would get sick."

He noted that when immunizations were not done recently in Russia, there
were 2,000 cases of diphtheria, an uncommon disease in the U.S.

Satcher, however, acknowledged that vaccines are not "100 percent safe."

"They have risks," he said. "A small percentage of children do suffer
injuries."

Satcher said the Public Health Service has the toughest vaccine controls in
the world, but there were still children who would react in unusual ways to
vaccinations.

"Vaccines are very safe and effective," he said, "but they are not perfect."


Steve Wingate

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[CTRL] PDD 68 - NWO Thought control - 1

[Bill Kingsbury]

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 From: "NewsHawk Inc." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999
 Subj: Media Controls Increased After Kennedy Missteps

 8.3.99
 Recipients--
 The message below, received by NewsHawk, gives a VERY much
 appreciated HEADS-UP to EVERYONE regarding some drastic changes
 in the way the "news", already managed and spin-doctored to the
 EXTREME in the United States at this point, is set to be
 "coordinated" and reined in even further.

 The demander-in-chief, as part of his seemingly endless onslaught
 against the our most fundamental rights and against common good,
 issued Presidential Directive #68 in April 1999.

 This malignant, cancerous outrage created something called the
 "International Public Information (system)" or IPI, whose sole
 purpose is to implement complete, across-the-boards, unilateral
 centralized control over ALL NEWS REPORTED WITHIN THE UNITED
 STATES... AND elsewhere!

 Although the group was "created" in April 1999, they decided to
 hold their first meeting on Wednesday, July 28.

 This DOES seem to be DIRECTLY related to one MAJOR problem that
 developed for the covert (geo)-political power brokers who murdered
 Kennedy and their stooges in the various "investigative" -- make
 that "coverup" -- agencies:  that is, the early reporting of the
 crucial information regarding Kennedy's 9:39 radio contact with
 Vineyard airport personnel and also reporting of eyewitnesses to
 the airborne destruction of the craft.  News agencies involved in
 this were UPI; WCVB-TV, Boston; ABC News, and FOX-TV.

 Substantial efforts by "maverick" and alternative information
 sources to get such vital FACTS to the public AND to mass media
 organizations regarding the Kennedy and Bessette deaths were most
 likely a factor as well in this high-level decision to further
 shorten the press's leash.  The extraordinary degree of harassment
 directed at Jeff Rense of Sightings.com, NewsHawk and others due to
 our efforts in this regard would seem to validate this assessment.

 According to Geoff Metcalf's article about this in WorldNetDaily:
 "THE INTENTION IS TO SLAP A TIGHTER BRIDLE ON DOMESTIC CRITICS."

 This latest government outrage naturally uses PUBLIC funds, which
 feds have ALREADY stolen from the people, AGAINST us and our best
 interests.  The intent is force the entire mass media industry into
 becoming even more rigidly controlled whores of the oppressive
 "state".

 This is yet another nail in the coffin of whatever remains of our
 so-called "free press".  I personally can say that the way the
 "news" was "handled" regarding the Kennedy and Bessette murders was
 a really good indication of just how extreme these controls have
 ALREADY become!

 These "powers that be" DON'T want another problem like that which
 happened with Kennedy -- the "uncontrolled" reporting of critical
 and incriminating information which UTTERLY invalidated the putrid
 "official" concoction being force-fed the public about the murders
 of Kennedy, his wife and Lauren Bessette.

 Be forewarned!  The last vestiges of "free speech" are being
 crushed!


 John Quinn/NewsHawk Inc.


 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
 From: xxx
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999
 Subj: Tighter Media Control


 Is this just coincidence?  Of course not!

 Right after John Kennedy's crash, and KCVB-TV/UPI/ABC "mis-"
 reporting of John Kennedy's call in to the control tower at
 Martha's Vineyard (don't they WISH they could have stopped people
 like you from reporting the IMPORTANCE of this!), there is a
 meeting of IPI, whose PURPOSE is to "coordinate, integrate,
 de-conflict and synchronize" the NEWS!!!???

 Here's my synopsis of a worldnetdaily story by Geoff Metcalf,
 on their site now:

 ***

 Presidential Decision Directive 68 of April, 1999 created the
 International Public Information (IPI) system.  This propaganda
 and disinformation tool is to be run by Morton Halperin, formerly
 "Senior Director for Democracy" at the National Security Council
 and now head of policy planning at the State Department.

 The IPI working group met for the first time last Wednesday.
 Under the purview of IPI, media information (propaganda) will "be
 coordinated, integrated, DE-CONFLICTED (don't you just LOVE that?)
 and synchronized with the (IPI) to achieve a synergistic effect"
 at home.  Here is a government agency, which "we" pay for, set up
 specifically for the purpose of CONTROLLING the news!!!

 One former senior official stated that this charter "did not
 distinguish what would be done overseas and what would be done
 at home."  "The intention," according to a WorldNetDaily
 (www.worldnetdaily.com) article by Geoff Metcalf, "is to slap
 a tighter bridle on domestic critics."

 I'm telling you, people, they REALLY didn't like the fact that
 WCVB-TV, UPI and ABC reported John Kennedy's last words to the
 control tower -- and you can now forget about the possibility 

[CTRL] PDD 68 - NWO Thought control - 2

[Bill Kingsbury]

 -Caveat Lector-

 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_metcalf/
19990802_xcgme_thought_co.shtml


 Thought control

 by Geoff Metcalf
 Monday, August 02, 1999

 A lot of time, effort, ink and air time has been devoted
 to both media malfeasance and the use of government
 resources to directly and indirectly control what is and
 is not reported to the American people.  Propaganda,
 disinformation, and misinformation have become the rule
 rather than the exception.  The litany of information
 manipulation has sparked entire boutique industries,
 including, but not limited to:  "The Strange Death of Vince
 Foster," Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma City bombing, TWA
 Flight 800, terrorist threats (real and imagined), nuclear,
 biological and chemical threats, civilian detention
 facilities, FEMA, and more.

 The latest revelation, according to a former administration
 insider, was reported in July 29 edition of the Washington
 Times (http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37a0590c20fd.htm).
 Reportedly, "a new multi-agency plan to closely control the
 dissemination of public information abroad is really aimed
 at 'spinning the American public.'"  And guess what campers?
 YOU get to pay for it.

 Notwithstanding the consistent unrelenting flood of
 propaganda, "the U.S. public has refused to back President
 Clinton's foreign policy."  Some of you might question,
 "What foreign policy?"  The fact is the administration has
 its collective panties in a bunch in the wake of this
 apparent inability to sell the gospel according to
 Bill-Jeff.

 Apparently, the Clintonistas are torqued that coverage of
 foreign news is "distorted" and they have become convinced
 that "they need to fight it at all costs."  OK, how do they
 do that?  They have already used the IRS as a political tool
 to attack critics.  They have already established a database
 and a stash of FBI files that make Nixon's puny "enemies
 list" look like a penny compared to Bill Gates' net worth.
 They already have the mainstream media decision-makers
 staffed with sycophant quislings.  What next?

 Well, the latest abuse of power under the color of authority
 is "using resources that are aimed at spinning the news."
 Thanks to the wizardry of presidential decision directives,
 the president can (and does) create new policies and the
 agencies to implement his will.  Congress impotently sits
 in the shadows alternately clucking and quivering.

 Up jumps the International Public Information (IPI) system,
 created in April by Presidential Decision Directive 68.
 This potential disinformation tool isn't bad enough as a
 bureaucracy, so it is to be run by Morton Halperin, formerly
 "Senior Director for Democracy" at the National Security
 Council and now head of policy planning at the State
 Department -- an all around anti-constitutional wonk.

 This IPI working group met for the first time last
 Wednesday.  It is yet further evidence of the evil that
 unbridled ambition can wrought without sufficient checks and
 balances.  The IPI charter, still classified top secret,
 reportedly synthesizes the functions of agencies like the
 old USIA and Radio Free Europe.  Those agencies were
 supposed to be aimed overseas, to sell New Deal propaganda.
 The leaked text of the draft charter is written in typical
 bureaucratese-speak.  However, if that fictional "reasonable
 person" reads between the lines of the form, the substance
 is clear.  Under the purview of IPI overseas information
 (propaganda) will "be coordinated, integrated, de-conflicted
 and synchronized with the (IPI) to achieve a synergistic
 effect" at home.  What the heck does that mean?  Simply
 stated, we will have the dubious distinction of paying
 (with OUR tax dollars) for our own indoctrination.  Cool
 ... and Machiavelli smiled.

 The Washington Times got their hands on a copy of a draft
 charter which states the purpose of this outfit is "to
 prevent and mitigate crises and to influence foreign
 audiences in ways favorable to the achievement of U.S.
 foreign policy objectives."  Anonymous insiders report
 that honchos from defense, intelligence, diplomatic and
 other assorted alphabet soup groups gathered at the State
 department to review the draft charter.

 I have often said that "Knowledge is Power -- IF you take
 that knowledge and do something with it."  However, if or
 when an abusive government is ever able to restrict,
 control, and manage that knowledge/information, they will
 have effectively neutered potential critical analysis.

 According to Clintonista officials, "... news coverage is
 distorted at home and they need to fight it at all costs
 by using resources that are aimed at spinning the news."

 Presidential Decision Directive 68, which ordered the
 creation of the International Public Information was
 designed to make sure that all government agencies
 disseminating information abroad share a single message.
 Kind of an imperial mandate to get everyone on the same
 sheet of 

[CTRL] PDD 68 - NWO Thought control - 3

[Bill Kingsbury]

 -Caveat Lector-

 http://x29.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=507992717;
CONTEXT=933733169.243859517hitnum=2

 Author: Ralph McGehee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Forum: alt.conspiracy
 Date: 1999/08/02
 Subject: Deadlier Deceits


 "Spinning The American Public."

 A former senior Clinton Administration official charged that
 the new multi-agency plan to control the dissemination of
 information abroad is aimed at "spinning the American
 public."

 Presidential Decision Directive 68, ordered the creation of
 the International Public Information (IPI) system -- and said
 "information aimed at the U.S. audience should be coordinated
 integrated, deconflicted and synchronized with the IPI to
 achieve a synergistic effect."  PDD 68 does not distinguish
 between what would be done overseas and what would be done at
 home... it talks about a news war...  The target is the
 American people."  Washington Times 7/29/99 A1.

 PDD 68 orders top officials from the Defense, State, Justice,
 Commerce, and Treasury and the CIA and FBI to meet and set up
 a core group.  Coordinating this massive agglomeration will
 inevitable produce fact-blindness especially when you include
 the misinformation operations of the CIA.  If there is any
 plan to distinguish fact from fiction, IPI should know about
 CIA deception operations -- but CIA will never reveal those
 details to anyone.

 One major role for the CIA is the creation of false evidence
 to support its operations -- it refuses to share those
 details with other agencies.  Internally it even restricts
 details of such operations using strict need-to-know and
 compartmentation policies.  So when it conducts many and
 massive deception operations those deceits inevitably will
 end up in the domestic media and will shape our foreign
 policies.  With the creation of the IPI these stories will
 be disseminated world-wide and especially domestically.

 What are some types of CIA False Evidence operations?  The
 CIA forges documents and places them where they will be
 discovered and disseminated widely.  (It effectively
 demonizes targets even the most honorable while glorifying
 sponsored "demons").  It sets off bombs, blaming them on
 targets.  It plants "Communist" or now probably "terrorist"
 weapons shipments and arranges for them to be found as it
 broadcasts details of such widely.

 It buys foreign media and employees and book publishers,
 establishes policy-making think tanks and their publications,
 it employs foreign radio and television stations -- all used
 to disseminate its deceits.

 As one example -- It kept the media riveted for months as it
 told of Cuban troops in Angola raping Ovimbundu girls.  The
 villagers were outraged, captured the Cubans, and over a
 period of months held a trial, proclaimed them guilty and
 then executed the Cubans with their own weapons -- the only
 thing wrong with the story was that it was all made up.

 Doctored photographs, false atrocity stories, falsely
 attributed scholarly books written criticizing or blaming
 this or that movement or target (over 1000 titles published
 in one period) make up more of its arsenal of lies.  Its
 operations in academia sponsor or subvert thousands of
 domestic academicians and untold numbers of foreign
 academics.  It also sponsors numerous politicians and their
 groups and media operations.  (One sample of the massive
 nature of the deceptions it employs I include at
 http://come.to/CIABASE -- these it used in Chile and they
 led to the empowerment of Pinochet.)

 I have had a number of experiences with the disinformation/
 deception operations.  Perhaps the most pervasive and
 destructive were CIA lies re Vietnam from 1950 through 1998.
 But I found that it also lied most effectively in its
 intelligence and -- in the facts that it suppressed.

 So this is what the American people can expect under the new
 IPI.  To appreciate its terrible power I recommend reading
 George Orwell's classic "1984."

 Ralph McGehee
 http://come.to/CIABASE



 Attachment --

 details of a similar group in the Reagan Administration that
 was declared illegal:


 The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in 1988 ruled that
 the Office of Latin American Public Diplomacy (S/PLD) was
 designed to "establish, maintain and manage private domestic
 entities engaged in fundraising, lobbying, propaganda and
 manipulation of the media in contravention of  U.S. laws and
 regulations."

 The Office of Public Diplomacy 1983-87 operated out of the
 State Department and produced documents, speeches,
 publications, and background papers for dissemination to the
 public and press.  It issued a of stream vituperative white
 papers and pamphlets; i.e. "The Managua Connection: the
 Sandinistas and the Middle East Terrorists" and "Revolution
 Beyond our Borders."  Reich and staff gave presentations to
 hundreds of civic groups, rotary clubs, and university
 audiences.  The presentations were filled with innuendo,
 rhetoric and misinformation.  

Re: [CTRL] excerpts from Allegations of Ritualistic Child Abuse

[Smart News]

 -Caveat Lector-

Hi !

Below please find excerpts from an article titled: Characteristics and
Sources of Allegations of Ritualistic Child Abuse

Sincerely, Neil Brick

This may be triggering for survivors of abuse.

from http://home.rica.net/rthoma/nccansra.htm

Grant No. 90CA1405, Final Report to the National Center on Child Abuse and
Neglect, Gail S. Goodman, Principal Investigator, University of California,
Davis,
In Collaboration with: Jianjian Qin, University of California, Davis, Bette
L. Bottoms,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Phillip R. Shaver, University of
California, Davis

The main goal of this project was to investigate the characteristics and
sources of allegations of ritualistic child abuse. To accomplish this goal, a
series of studies was conducted

Hundreds of  children and adults have reported abuse involving multiple
perpetrators;
intergenerational cults; and quasi-religious rituals complete with grotesque
sexual assaults, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and consumption of blood,
urine, and excrement (Feldman, 1993; Gould, 1987; Kahaner, 1988; Raschke,
1990; Wright, 1993). Law enforcement professionals have responded with
seminars in which satanic crime "experts" recount classic cases, summarize
the
history of the occult, and explain how to identify satanic activity. State
legislatures have passed special laws targeting this kind of crime, and
mental
health professionals have held countless conferences and workshops in which
experts discuss how to recognize and treat "ritual abuse." Books by
psychotherapists, from Michelle Remembers (Smith  Pazder, 1980) to Lessons
in
Evil. Lessons from the Light (Feldman, 1993) have stirred the interest of
mental health professionals, journalists, and the general public...

There were 6,910 (35.86%) valid respondents; of the valid respondents,
2,709 were clinical psychologists, 2,071 were psychiatrists, and 2,130 were
social workers. Of the 6,910 valid respondents, 2,136 (30.91%) reported that
they had encountered at least one ritual or religion-related abuse case. The
majority of those who had encountered any kind of case had encountered only
one or two, yet a few respondents (1.4% of those reporting any cases)
indicated that they had encountered more than a hundred cases.
Only 13% encountered adult-survivor cases of ritual abuse and only 11%
encountered child cases.

A total of 2,136 detailed questionnaires were sent out. Of these 797
(37.31%) were returned. There were 720 valid respondents, of whom 297 were
clinical psychologists, 200 were psychiatrists, and 223 were social workers.
These respondents provided information about a total of 1,652 cases of ritual
or religion-related child abuse reported by either adult survivor or child
clients. After eliminating cases in which the client was not a victim, our
analyses were based on 1,548 cases, of which 387 were child ritual cases, 674
were adult survivor ritual cases, 171 were child religion-related cases, and
234 were adult survivor religion-related cases.

Our findings indicated that adult ritual cases were consistently the
most extreme. For example, adult survivor cases involved mare types of abuse
than child cases, and adult survivor cases were particularly likely to
involve
severe forms of abuse, such as murder (which was rarely reported in religion-
related cases). In addition, 33% of adult ritual cases involved such extreme
acts as cannibalism, and 28% of adult ritual cases involved baby breeding for
ritual sacrifice. Adult ritual cases also involved the highest numbers of
victims and perpetrators. However, these results were often affected by
"outliers," suggesting that there were a few outlier respondents who reported
cases with particularly high numbers of victims and perpetrators. Ritual
abuse cases were very likely to involve parents, acquaintances, and strangers
as the alleged perpetrators; religion-related cases were more likely to be
committed by persons in a position of trust.

Victims in adult ritual cases, especially in adult ritual cases reported
by MDs, were the most likely to be diagnosed as suffering from MPD. Cases
reported by psychiatrists were also more likely to involve bizarre and
extreme
features than cases reported by either clinical psychologists or social
workers. These findings may emanate, at least in part, from the fact that we
oversampled psychiatrists who specialize in dissociative disorders.

A total of 21,605 postcard surveys were mailed (2,690 to DAs, 3,056 to
SS, and 15,859 to LAW). There were 4,655 valid respondents (a 21.55% return
rate). The number of valid respondents was 706 for DAs (a 26.25% return
rate), 1,037 for SS (a 33.93% return rate), and 2,912 from LAW (a 18.36%
return rate). Although the response rate was particularly low for LAW and the
results must be interpreted accordingly, it should be noted that, because the
majority of the surveys were sent to law enforcement agencies, the total
number of responses and cases reported by them was 

[CTRL] Help Save Our Newest American Stonehenge.

[Steve Wingate]

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 http://www.savethecircle.org/
 THE CIRCLE IS NOT SAVED YET

 The Miami Circle echoes England's Stonehenge monument, and is quite
 possibly the most important archeological find in North America.

 The Circle, however, is at risk because it is in the middle of a
 construction site planned for two high-rise apartment towers.

 THERE ARE JUST A FEW MONTHS LEFT
IN PHASE ONE OF PRESERVING THE CIRCLE LEGACY.
   YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

PHASE ONE: The Court date to decide the Circle's fate is set for October,
and we must raise to money to purchase the land by then.

Because timely action is needed, we at Save The Circle are working
closely with Miami-Dade County and other archaeological and preservation
groups, doing all we can, giving of our time and resources to Save the
Circle. Your actions can have an impact, the unity of our focus can succeed.


PHASE TWO: The film documentary to record and preserve the legacy of
the Circle no matter what happens in court.

Your Gifts and Talents are valuable and necessary if we are to preserve the
Circle.

This is the opportunity for you to be an important part in saving our North
American history. Many of you have life experience and resources that are
essential in this fight to Save the Circle. Some of you are in the position to
make a generous contribution or know someone who can. Perhaps you
have done major fundraising or have contacts with big donars or know how
to network and lobby.

If you are a student, please keep in mind:

1- You will get credit for community service, which helps any resume. 2-
This is a Valuable Life Experience, a chance to save an important part of
our history. 3- Some who are in Miami will be interacting closely with the
core group at Vision Earth, an international film company,  gaining
experience behind the scenes.

THIS IS THE TIME FOR THOSE WHO CARE TO SUCCEED!

Possible ways to help include: Invoicing, Packaging and Shipping our
Fundraising Posters, T-Shirts and Pendants. Manning the Phones when we
are on national Radio and TV. Calling other organizations to join our efforts.
Contacting Web Newsgroups, doing Web Research or handling our Web
correspondence. Graphics designing for desktop publishing. Assistance
with the filming of events surrounding the Miami Circle.

Please, consider what's within your reach...all of us together can make a
difference!

To volunteer, contact KYNTHIA at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Volunteer Coordinator for SavetheCircle.org.

Donations to help purchase the land from the contractor and save the
Circle from destruction can be made on-line or by mail.

TO MAIL IN DONATIONS: Please made Check or Money Order PAYABLE
to:

VISION EARTH -- SAVE THE CIRCLE
1825 NE 149 Street
Miami, Florida, USA 33181

FAX: 305.945.0300 OR 800-628-6277 (KYNTHIA'S 800#)
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Steve Wingate

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SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL

Anomalous Images and UFO Files
http://www.anomalous-images.com

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[CTRL] Pound, Cake, Eat It Too

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 www.wsws.org

 WSWS : News  Analysis : Europe : Britain

 The case of British Tory Treasurer Michael Ashcroft: wealth,
 patronage and parliamentary politics

 By Tony Hyland
 4 August 1999

 Back to screen version

 Over the last few weeks parliamentary debate in Britain has been
 dominated by the spectacle of the Labour government and
 Conservative opposition trading accusations and
 counter-accusations over sleaze.

 Standing at the center of this battle is the figure of Michael
 Ashcroft, business tycoon and treasurer of the Conservative
 (Tory) Party. Over the past few years he has donated £1 million
 annually. The contributions of Britain's fourteenth richest man
 amount to one tenth of the party's financial resources.

 That the Conservative Party is reliant on the largesse of big
 business for their funding is not a new phenomenon. That they are
 so dependent on the patronage of a single benefactor is of
 contemporary relevance. It demonstrates that considerable
 sections of British big business have switched their traditional
 allegiance from the Tories to the Labour Party.

 Michael Ashcroft is a Florida-based billionaire who holds both
 British and Belize nationality. The former British colony in
 Central America has served as an offshore tax haven for his
 business empire.

 Initially the allegations made against the undue influence
 Ashcroft exerts on the Conservatives related to concessions
 extracted from the previous Tory government which were
 advantageous to his business dealings in Belize. This was later
 expanded to include possible involvement in drug trafficking and
 money laundering.

 On July 13 the London Times published two leaked foreign office
 documents. The first involved a telegram written in 1997 by the
 British high commissioner in Belize, Gordon Barker, cautioning
 against the appointment of Ashcroft to the chair of the Caribbean
 trade advisory group. It warned that the Belize government viewed
 him with “deep suspicion” and remarked that rumors concerning his
 business deals cast a “shadow over his reputation that ought not
 to be ignored.”

 This was followed by a 1994 report by a British foreign office
 adviser calling for tighter regulation of financial services in
 Belize and noting with some alarm that “low standards of
 regulation and supervision” were attracting “those seeking to
 conceal proceeds of drug trafficking and other serious crime.”

 Ashcroft's response was allegedly to quash the report and solicit
 the British government to intervene on his behalf. Another
 document involved a letter from a local diplomat in 1996, Charles
 Drace-Francis, stating that Ashcroft made threats to the effect
 that he would “stir up trouble” for Britain unless he were
 allowed to set up a branch of his Belize bank in the Turks and
 Caicos islands.

 Four days later the Times disclosed that Mr. Ashcroft's name
 appeared in a series of files kept by the US Drug Enforcement
 Agency (DEA) as part of its investigations into drug trafficking
 and money laundering in Belize. It later transpired that cocaine
 was found on at least two ships sailing under the Belize “flag of
 convenience” in 1994, under a shipping register in which Mr.
 Ashcroft had a 50 percent stake until earlier this year.

 The attempted rebuttal to such charges by the Conservative Party
 Central Office, as well as the pro-Tory Telegraph and Daily Mail
 newspapers, was far from emphatic. A statement by the US State
 Department to the effect that no conclusive proof had been
 established connecting Michael Ashcroft with money laundering and
 no specific concerns had been raised with either the British or
 Belize governments was released.

 The Times then published an article which explained that Ashcroft
 had been index-numbered on the files of the DEA, a step taken
 only when serious suspicions exist. On the same day Peter
 Bradley, Labour MP for Wrekin, raised explicit allegations within
 Parliament. Utilising the legal immunity afforded under
 parliamentary privilege, Bradley stated that Ashcroft and his
 companies had been repeatedly mentioned in connection with money
 laundering by the DEA. Among the most incriminating examples was
 one document dated April 1994 with the heading: “Intelligence
 concerning possible air smuggling/money laundering activity
 undertaken by Michael Ashcroft.”

 It was only after this, nine days after the initial accusations
 had been made, that Michael Ashcroft issued a libel writ against
 the Times, naming the editor Peter Stothard and two journalists.
 Tory leader William Hague has resisted calls from inside as well
 as outside of the Conservative Party for Ashcroft to stand down
 while he pursues legal action.

 Speaking in Parliament Hague stated: “I'm surprised the Labour
 Party has the nerve to talk about this, because after Formula One
 and fox hunting there's only one party where a large donation is
 coincidentally followed by a change in policy, and 

Re: [CTRL] Help Save Our Newest American Stonehenge.

[Bill]

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Bush supposedly unveiled a plan to buy the land with state
funds but we all know about political promises, especially
Native Americans...

   On May 12,  1999  I went down to Miami to see the Miami
Circle, the recently excavated archaeological remains of an
early Native American structure at the mouth of the Miami
River.   I'd seen archaeological survey pictures but upon
review of them again, after my visit to the site,  I
realized that the published photos were specially taken to
disclude the skyline of Miami proper.  This site is right on
the river bank where the river empties into Biscayne Bay,
and is bordered by a seawall on two sides (North and East).
Generally speaking the empty lot is totally surrounded by
some rather raucous and definitely humongous modern
architecture.  The excavations themselves had been
Re-covered with the original overburden, and I was observing
all this with binoculars from where I was parked at the top
of the bridge which borders the west side of the site.
At 3 AM even Miami is quiet, and I was allowed a
true birds eye view of the earthworks.  Elevation is
moundlike, rising up toward the east to its maximum height,
which appears by eye to be 8 or 10 feet.   Beneath the
rubble covering the site proper lay the posthole molds and
other Archaeo Logical evidence left by some sort of
inhabited structure.   Situation of this historical detritus
leads some to believe the site may have posessed spiritual
aspects.
 This, to me, seems easy to perceive because the Early
People in America were uniquely in tune to their
environment, and most if not all of their actions and
constructions were spiritually weighed against the
ramifications of their interaction with their worlds.  The
Native American religion reflects above all their
Relationship with the Earth, and their utter cohesiveness
with it.   It is a well developed form of spirituality very
much akin to many of the early european religions prior to
Christianity.
  This, also, is easily seen when it is realized that
Christianity has always been nothing so much as the
carrying-on of Romes Empire.  The Native American Tribes had
this hugely bountiful and awesomely beautiful world of
America to themselves, before european intervention, and the
europeans, by the time of their arrival, had diverged down
the evolutionary path away from an Earth Religion for almost
1500 years.  They had been well converted by their
conqueror, Rome, who had pretty much adopted a Southern
religion, an aspect of Judaism which was to become
Christianity as we know it.
  So. This continuing Empire of Rome, this
Christianity,  had developed fair technology by the time of
its intervention in the American Ecology, up to and
including explosive ballistics, and between their technology
and their germs they laid waste to the indigenous peoples of
America.  The genotypes of many thousands of thousands of
years were wasted and lost, maybe to recur someday in the
far far future, maybe not.
 I put the binoculars down and looked around the bridge
whose wall I was now standing on.   There was this huge and
phallic modern monument on the top of the bridge, a bunch of
intertwined bodies I think, with some archer at the top in a
very dramatic shooting pose and aiming upward.  Shoot the
moon, yeah.
 I found this modern sculpture banal and lacking against
the popularly perceived simplicity of the abode below me by
the river, which I know, through reading and searching,
posesses the keys for a new perception, or a true rebirth of
old perceptions, and therefore, at this time in history
anyway, is infinitely more valuable and necessary.  I
pictured a quick flow of time; the next end, the toppling of
that statue, then hidden for 3000 years or so in the muck of
the mouth of the Miami River, and I thought maybe it might
have its day too, eventually.  Will its ultimate finders
appreciate its message?
 I don't know.
 I believe though that there is a very distinct
possibility they will ridicule it.  Depends on what the
future holds for our race genetically and environmentally,
the race of Human.  If we poison ourselves and our
environment with chemicals and radioactive wastes so that
birth deformities or anti-immune traits become more common,
then our bequeathment will be despised.  And whether we care
or not, we WILL be judged,  By Future Generations3tk4.
Time tempers the seemingly slow reaction of Life so that its
patterns disappear to all but the astute and vigilant.  Or
the unwitting victims.
 This all went through my head pretty quickly as I stood
the guardrail wall that ran along the top of the bridge.
 I considered Man the builder, and the never ending
records made by this organism as it traverses its planetary
bounds, and how its constantly patting itself on the back in
ostentation, which is a stone cold lie, but everybody is so
duped by something suspiciously resembling a breeding frenzy
that we aren't flowering, 

[CTRL] GIs blame health problems on vaccine (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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From:

http://www.detnews.com/1999/metro/9907/22/07220045.htm


GIs blame health problems on vaccine

They tell Congress anthrax serum is causing sicknesses

By April Taylor / News Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. servicemen told Congress Wednesday
that the mandatory vaccine designed to thwart anthrax -- the germ
agent most likely to be used in a biological terrorist attack --
is to blame for their declining health.

"I was healthy before; now I am not," testified Air Force
pilot Jon Richter of Dover, Delaware, before the House
Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and
International Relations.

Richter said his troubles began in February when, five days
after his second shot of the anthrax vaccine, he experienced
aches in his shoulder, ankles and feet. Today, the 36-year old
said, he often walks with a limp.

The vaccine, required for the 2.4 million soldiers in the
armed forces, is manufactured solely by Lansing-based BioPort
Inc.

BioPort was owned by the state of Michigan until last year
and is in the process of renegotiating its contract with the U.S.
Department of Defense for the vaccine.

Wednesday's hearing -- perhaps determining the fate of the
anthrax vaccine -- comes at a time when a growing number of
military personnel are opting to resign and risk their military
status rather than take the vaccine.

"We are growing tired of the denials that everything is okay
when in fact it isn't," Richter told Congress.

U.S Air Force Lt. Richard Rovet told the subcommittee that
more than 30 cases of adverse reactions have been reported where
he is stationed in Dover, Del.

Severe dizziness, ear ringing, joint pains, memory
impairment, numbness, rash, chills and fever, swollen testicles,
and even one possible miscarriage are all linked to the
vaccination, Rovet claimed.

Maj. Gen. Robert Claypool, spokesman for the Department of
Defense, said the anthrax vaccine, which has been licensed by the
Food and Drug Administration for 30 years, is no more dangerous
than other vaccines.

"The risk of not immunizing presents a public health threat
that extends beyond personal health concerns," Claypool said.

Despite the controversy surrounding his product, Robert
Myers, head of BioPort Inc, said he is confident there will
always be a market for the vaccine.

"The future of BioPort is still bright," Myers said.

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[CTRL] Fleet-ing Glimpses

[Alamaine Ratliff]

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From www.alltexas.net/news/bastrop.html


 BASTROP FEDERAL PEN HOUSES
 WHITE VEHICLES
 .BUT FOR WHAT?


 Photo's taken from the air.  All Photos copyright 1999 AllTexas
 Net A Normal Border Patrol Vehicle Ground Photos...  Coming This
 Afternoon

 Bastrop.. AllTexas News  Nestled behind a hillside, just out of
 sight from busy Highway 95 in Bastrop County, Texas, lies a
 growing fleet of nearly a thousand showroom-new SUVs, 4WD
 pickups, suburbans and vans.  These vehicles are not overflow
 storage for an overstocked dealer.  This fleet is owned by the
 federal government.

 All the vehicles are U.N. White.

 Rumors have been floating in the area for months about a fleet of
 suspicious vehicles being outfitted with prisoner cages, shackles
 and insignia such as “U.S. Police Force” and the U.N. roundel.
 None of the vehicles observed in the storage area appeared to
 have any markings at all other than window stickers with
 equipment data.

 However, prison officials did confirm that the SUVs and vans were
 in fact being outfitted with prisoner cages and shackles.  When
 pressed for information on the intended users of these vehicles,
 a prison spokesman said they were intended for the Immigration
 and Naturalization Service.

 However, vehicles assigned to the INS are predominantly painted
 green and those assigned to the Border Patrol are usually the
 same.  The suitability of a high-visibility color such as white
 for either agency is in question.  Large, white vehicles can be
 seen approaching from miles away.

 This $30 million fleet of unused government vehicles has been
 steadily growing, but has not been deployed.  It seems the
 vehicles keep coming in, but none go out to user agencies.  This
 field-full of top-of-the-line utility vehicles, bought with
 taxpayer dollars, is sitting idle, soaking up Texas sun.

 The site is located a few miles North of the city of Bastrop on
 U.S. Prison property.  The high-security prison itself takes up
 the Southern part of the property.  The area where the vehicles
 reside is fenced-off from the public road with no more precaution
 than a farmer might use to keep his cattle from straying.  The
 unguarded entrance warns that the area is U.S. Prison property
 and trespassing is prohibited.  Another sign strangley warns of
 “Poison Gas.”


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[CTRL] Fwd: The Arkansas Train Murder Case - Clinton Cronies walk?

[Kris Millegan]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990803_xex_trial_train_.shtml
TUESDAY
AUGUST 03
1999

Trial of 'train deaths'
film producer underway
Journalist faces $16 million libel suit
for naming officers in documentary


By Sarah Foster
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
For documentary producer Pat Matrisciana, exposing political corruption
and lawlessness on the part of government officials is a responsibility,
part of the job description of a video-journalist, not something to shy
away from -- not even if the president of the United States might be
involved.
So when offered the opportunity to make a film dealing with the
still-unsolved, 1987 double-homicide of teenage boys Kevin Ives and Don
Henry, whose mutilated bodies were found on railroad tracks near their
home west of Little Rock, Ark., and the subsequent cover-up by state and
local officials, Matrisciana agreed wholeheartedly. He was familiar with
the case having detailed it briefly in his earlier film, "The Clinton
Chronicles," which he began in the early '90s.

The result was "Obstruction of Justice: the Mena Connection," a
hard-hitting documentary, released in April 1996, which pulled few
punches and named names as it showed the alleged connection between the
murders and cover-up by corrupt law enforcement officers, drug
traffickers and President Bill Clinton. The film catapulted the "Train
Deaths" case into national prominence.

"I'm a cause-oriented guy who looked at what had happened and decided to
become involved," Matrisciana, president of Jeremiah Films, the
California-based company which produced the film, told WorldNetDaily.

But the 60-year-old film producer is being asked to pay dearly for his
dedication in exposing the seamy-side of government.

Yesterday he took the stand in a Little Rock courtroom to defend himself
in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane, two deputy sheriffs mentioned in
"Obstruction of Justice," are suing Matrisciana for $16 million alleging
he intentionally defamed their reputations by naming them as suspects in
the case.

Specifically, the script says, "Eyewitnesses have implicated Jay
Campbell and Kirk Lane in the murders and subsequent cover-up." They are
also named in another section.

"This is a frivolous lawsuit with no legal merit and no basis in fact,"
said Little Rock attorney John Wesley Hall, who represents the
defendants. "We don't have to prove that they killed the boys. They have
to prove that they didn't."

The two teenagers were killed the night of Aug. 22-23, 1987, their
bodies found on the Union Pacific railroad tracks having been run over
by a northbound Union Pacific train near Little Rock. The area was
reputed to be a drop point in the drug smuggling operation centered at
Mena, though Mena is over 100 miles west.

Then-Governor Bill Clinton's state medical examiner, Fahmy Malek, ruled
the deaths accidental, claiming that the boys had fallen asleep on the
tracks in a marijuana-induced stupor. But a second autopsy, performed by
an out-of-state pathologist upon the demand of Kevin's mother, Linda,
concluded that the boys had been murdered and their bodies placed on the
tracks. The autopsy also showed that Kevin's head had been crushed prior
to his body being laid on the tracks and that Don Henry had been stabbed
repeatedly.

In 1988 a county grand jury headed by Dan Harmon ruled the deaths a
homicide. No one was ever brought to justice. Not then, not now. Nor has
anyone been brought to justice for the half-dozen or so violent deaths
of potential witnesses to the crimes -- some of them ruled "accidental"
-- as were Kevin's and Don's.

For years Linda Ives -- who has become a full-time crusader for justice
-- tried to rally public support and to urge an investigation into
allegations that were being made by various people implicating Lane and
Campbell as central figures in the murders.

According to Ives, witnesses saw two men answering descriptions of Lane
and Campbell beating the boys in the parking lot of a market, then
forcing them into an unmarked patrol car. Ives believes Kevin and Don
had witnessed a drug drop that night in the countryside outside the town
of Alexander, were seen, then kidnapped at the parking lot where they
had run to -- and taken up on the mountain for the killing. Their bodies
were laid on the tracks where they were certain to be run over by the
train, thus making the deaths appear accidental.

"I've known about them (Lane and Campbell) since 1988," Linda Ives told
WorldNetDaily, adding that the information came from "a number of
different sources."

"For years I've begged investigative agencies -- whoever was doing an
investigation at the time -- to look at these guys," Ives recalled. "I
begged the State Police, to look at them, the U.S. Attorney to look at
them, the FBI to look at them -- and in Lane and 

Re: [CTRL] Forced CIVILIAN Anthrax injections next ?

[Bill]

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SIGA Pharmaceuticals Anti-Infective Technology...Everybody
needs it...no one is getting it...its the stuff the French
used in Desert Storm and blew everybody else away
withvery novel...very effective. Very Cost Efficient.
Which makes it not a good thing at all in the
Medical-Insurance Pharmaceutical-Fraud Narcofascist
Federal-Reserve Monopolistic United States of Amerika
comradesB

Dave wrote:

  -Caveat Lector-

 A Promise to Do Better Is Not Enough
 By Patrick B. Pexton

 Monday, January 12, 1998; Page A17
 URL:
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-01/12/009l-011298-idx.html
 From the Washington Post, Monday, January 12, 1998; Page A17
 In a recent letter to the Food and Drug Administration, the Pentagon asked
 for broad authority to distribute to U.S. civilians -- during or after a
 domestic terrorism incident -- some of the same experimental drugs and
 vaccines used on troops to unknown effect in the gulf war. In most cases
 these are drugs, or uses of drugs and vaccines, that have never been tested
 in a clinical trial for effectiveness or side effects and that are not at
 present for sale commercially.
 The Pentagon is seeking not only broad authority to give out these drugs
 during terrorist emergencies but also to waive FDA rules meant to ensure the
 safest use of experimental drugs: requirements such as keeping track of who
 gets what drugs, proper labeling, monitoring of side effects and fully
 informing patients of possible complications before they give their consent.

 The FDA is concerned, because as it and the Presidential Advisory Committee
 on Gulf War Illnesses recently documented, the Pentagon has a terrible
 record in using such drugs and vaccines both in Desert Storm and more
 recently in Bosnia.

 Just before Desert Storm, the FDA allowed the Pentagon to give troops
 several experimental drugs and vaccines not approved for commercial sale.
 Among them were pyridostigmine bromide (PB), a drug believed to be effective
 in fending off the effects of chemical and nerve agents; botulinum vaccine
 and antitoxin medicine to combat biological weapons other than anthrax; and
 anthrax post-exposure treatments. The FDA also allowed the Pentagon to waive
 informed consent, in some cases making it mandatory that the troops take the
 pills or vaccines without full knowledge of possible risks.

 Early research suggests that the interaction of PB with wartime stress,
 pesticides and other hazardous materials present in Desert Storm may be a
 trigger for "gulf war illness." PB may have been taken by as many as 500,000
 troops and botulinum vaccine by about 8,000, although some information still
 is classified.

 After the war, the FDA, in reviewing the Pentagon's compliance with the
 minimal wartime conditions the agency had laid down, found that "deviations"
 from the rules "pointed out an underlying inability for the Defense
 Department to carry out its obligations" under the rules for handling
 experimental substances. For example, only about half of the troops surveyed
 by the Pentagon received required information about PB; no records were kept
 of troops who had adverse reactions to the PB pills; and no notation in
 permanent medical records was made of those who took botulinum vaccine,
 making it impossible to study its long-term effects.

 The Pentagon, chastised, promised the FDA it would do better next time.
 Bosnia was that next time.

 In Bosnia, the Army was authorized to dispense an experimental vaccine for
 tick-borne encephalitis, a disease common in the Balkans. In its recent
 review of that program, the FDA criticized the Pentagon for failing again to
 document immunizations in soldiers' permanent medical records and for
 touting the vaccine in handouts given to troops as "very safe and extremely
 effective" when the FDA never authorized such glowing language. The FDA at
 last is considering rescinding its permission for the Pentagon to use some
 experimental drugs on troops in wartime without their consent.

 The President's Committee on Gulf War Illnesses was even more critical of
 the Pentagon's performance with unapproved drugs in the gulf war and Bosnia,
 saying the Pentagon "currently is incapable" of handling such drugs, and
 that its poor performance has hampered research into the causes of gulf war
 illness.

 Against this background, the head of defense health affairs boldly is
 requesting from the FDA more authority to use some of these same substances
 not only on troops but on civilians in case of domestic terrorism involving
 chemical and biological weapons, with the same protocol waivers that the FDA
 already has noted the Pentagon is incapable of honoring.

 The Department of Defense, understandably and correctly, wants as much
 flexibility as it can have during times of national emergency to protect
 troops and civilians at home from these weapons of mass murder.

 But if Americans are in imminent danger of dying by the 

[CTRL] Sexual coercion by young women growing ?

[Bill Kingsbury]

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 http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1999archive/
07-99archive/k072699.html

 University of Washington
 July 26, 1999


 College men nearly as likely as women to report
 they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion

 The stereotypical picture of men as the perpetrators and women as
 the victims of acquaintance rape and other forms of unwanted sexual
 contact appears to be slightly out of focus.

 Men are almost as likely as women to report unwanted sexual contact
 and coercion, according to a new study of college students
 conducted by researchers from the University of Washington's
 Addictive Behaviors Research Center.  The study, involving nearly
 300 students, appears in the current issue of the journal Sex Roles.

 Overall, 34 men (21 percent of the male participants) and 36 women
 (28 percent) reported being recipients of one or more of five types
 of unwanted sexual contact listed on a gender-neutral questionnaire
 used by the researchers.  The study also showed that men who
 experienced unwanted sexual contact reported more symptoms of
 depression than the other males in the study, although none met the
 criteria for clinical depression.  There was no difference in the
 level of depression symptoms for women who said they were sexually
 coerced and those who weren't.  Women, however, were more likely to
 be the victims of having physical force used against them.

 The research, funded by the National Institute on Alcoholism and
 Alcohol Abuse, grew out of a larger study looking at alcohol abuse
 prevention among fraternity and sorority members.  One of the
 surveys used in the larger study by the UW researchers was a
 standardized sexual experiences questionnaire that solely pictured
 women as the recipients of coercion and men as the perpetrators.

 "Our participants told us we were missing the boat when it came to
 sexual coercion," said Mary Larimer, research assistant professor
 of psychology and principal investigator on the new study, "so we
 revised the questionnaire to make it gender neutral."

 The revised survey asked the students -- 165 men and 131 women --
 about their sexual experiences over the previous year.  The
 students were primarily freshmen and sophomores and were largely
 white (82 percent) or Asian (13 percent).

 Men were more likely than women to report that they had unwanted
 sex or were pressured into having sex.  The survey defined unwanted
 sex as a situation in which an individual's partner became so
 sexually aroused that the individual felt it was useless to stop
 even though he or she did not want to have intercourse.  Fourteen
 percent of the men and 8 percent of the women said they had
 unwanted sex.  Being pressured into having sex was described as
 having intercourse with someone even though you really didn't want
 to because the other person pressured you with continual arguments.
 Eight percent of the men and 6 percent of the women said they had
 been pressured into having sex.

 Physical force was used infrequently.  Just 5 percent of the women
 and less than 1 percent of the men said some sort of physical
 force, such as having an arm twisted or being held down, was used
 on them when they didn't want to have sex, whether or not
 intercourse actually occurred.

 Alcohol and drugs played a significant role in sexual
 victimization.  Seventeen percent of the women and 9 percent of the
 men said someone had attempted to have intercourse with them when
 they didn't want to after giving them alcohol or drugs.  And 6
 percent of the women and 4 percent of the men said they had sex
 when they didn't want to after being given alcohol and drugs.

 Overall, nearly half of the students -- 48 percent of the women and
 47 percent of the men -- reported that drinking had gotten them
 into sexual situations that they later regretted.  In addition,
 both men and women who reported being sexually coerced in some way
 listed higher alcohol use and more alcohol related problems than
 did students who were not coerced.

 "Alcohol is clearly a major factor, but not the only one," said
 Larimer.  "Alcohol not only impairs the awareness of warning
 signals about a sexual situation but it also impairs a person's
 ability to resist an unwanted sexual advance.  Both men and women
 reported intentionally using alcohol and drugs to obtain sex."

 She added that the male participants (and observing researchers)
 described attending parties and seeing women waiting around until
 "guys became drunk and then hitting on them when they were unable
 to make rational decisions about having sex.

 "All of this activity is unacceptable behavior and it is clearly
 not consensual sex," Larimer said.  "Both men and women are
 experiencing unwanted sexual advances and our preliminary
 indications are that men are suffering from those experiences just
 as women are.  I was surprised at how guilty and ashamed some of
 the men were and that we, as researchers, were buying into a
 

[CTRL] Solar flare alert

[Bill Kingsbury]

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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/
newsid_411000/411005.stm

 Sci/Tech
 Tuesday, August 3, 1999


 Solar flare alert

 By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

 Spacecraft and ground-based telescopes monitoring the Sun
 detected a major "X-class" solar flare on Monday.

 Astronomers say that while not spectacularly energetic, it
 is the most powerful event seen on the Sun's surface for
 over six months. They add that it has interrupted radio
 communications on Earth.

 The Sun is approaching the maximum of its 11-year cycle of
 behaviour and is expected to reach a peak next year.

 Solar flares are gigantic explosions that take place above
 the Sun's surface due to the explosive release of magnetic
 energy. Magnetic fields suddenly collapse and flash-heat
 gas to millions of degrees. This then explodes in all
 directions with the release of high-energy radiation.

 Astronomers rank solar flares into five categories
 according to the extent to which they emit X-rays. Class X
 is the most powerful, being tens times the intensity of
 M-class flares.

 X-class solar flares are the rarest and the most powerful
 of all types of solar flares. They can occur at any time
 during the solar cycle, but are more common near the solar
 maximum, when sunspot regions are complex enough to
 generate the conditions required to produce such powerful
 solar explosions.

 The last major X-class flare was observed on 28 November
 1998.


 On impulse

 Scientists describe the event as impulsive, which means
 that the rise of the X-rays to the eventual maximum
 occurred very rapidly, within a few minutes. Despite being
 the strongest flare for many months' researchers say that
 only a modest amount of energy was released in terms of
 typical solar flare energy.

 In human terms, however, the energy involved is staggering.
 It would take all of the power generating plants in the
 United States more than 3,000 years to produce the amount
 of energy that this major X-class solar flare released in
 just 20 minutes.

 The flare was associated with what is known as a Type II
 spectral radio burst or a sweep frequency event. These
 radio emissions are produced when a shock wave from the
 solar flare excites the Sun's hot but thin lower
 atmosphere, causing clouds of electrons to be ejected.

 Such type II sweeps are often an indication of a mass being
 ejected from the Sun but data available about this current
 burst suggests that this solar flare probably was not
 associated with a mass ejection.

 However the X-rays from this flare were intense enough to
 have a considerable impact on radio communications.

 Reports suggest that in some cases the effect was strong
 enough to completely blackout all radio communications
 between points more than 3,000 to 4,000 km apart and up to
 frequencies as high as 10 MHz for a period of 15 to 30
 minutes.


 Trouble ahead?

 Researchers say that the active region that produced this
 major flare may be capable of producing another X-class
 flare before the sunspot region rotates out of view behind
 the southwest limb of the Sun over the next four or five
 days.

 They are also keeping a close eye on another active region
 on the Sun which is just crossing the Sun's central
 meridian.

 That region is larger than the one that spawned the recent
 major flare and may also be capable of producing a major M
 or X-class flare before it rotates out of view behind the
 northeast limb over the next seven days.





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 http://www.federal.com/aug02-99/Story01.html


 Lawsuit Alleges White House in RICO Conspiracy with Loral
 -
 By MARVIN LEE
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 A lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of shareholders of
 Loral, Inc. alleges that CEO Bernard Schwartz operated Loral as a
 Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization in a conspiracy
 with Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and
 John Huang.  The purpose of the conspiracy was to transfer
 restricted military information to the People's Republic of China
 -- a transfer that was accomplished through political donations
 to the Democratic Party.

 The lawsuit alleges that the role of Sandy Berger at the White
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 It alleges that Berger previously worked as an international
 trade lawyer for the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan and
 Hartson, which represents the Chinese government in numerous
 international trade matters with respect to the U.S. Government.
 Berger had also allegedly been the "point person" at Hogan and
 Hartson for the trade office of the Chinese government.  The same
 law firm represents John Huang, another defendant in the suit.

 "This lawsuit picks up where the Cox Report and other
 investigations left off," stated Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch.
 "The amended complaint lays out specifically the alleged scheme
 that we believe led to national security breaches through missile
 technology transfers to China, and seeks to hold those
 responsible accountable to the law.  While Congressional
 Republicans have called for Mr. Berger to resign, he has not
 done so.  Now is the time to have the law deal with him."



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The White Plague
Frank Herbert

"Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote:

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   A Ministry of Defense spokesman said: "To perform this task our
  scientists have to be at the cutting edge of biological scientific
  knowledge, including the techniques of genetics." 

 Isn't it wonderful to know that our scientists are on the "cutting edge."
 Looks like the Brits may have found the tool they've been looking for to
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[CTRL] [Fwd: [CTRL] Fwd: MONSANTO PLANS TO CONTROL WATER RESOURCES]

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Mystery In Alaska   by Mark Farmer
Popular Science Magazine September 1995

At a remote facility ringed with barbed wire, a brand new
array of 36 antennas rises from the black spruce forest that
stretches hundreds of miles across Alaska.  Completed in
December 1994 and now undergoing testing, the antenna field
is the visible part of a powerful and sophisticated
high-frequency radio transmitter designed to transform areas
of the upper atmosphere into the equivalent of huge lenses,
mirrors, and antennas.
 This little known Pentagon sponsored radio physics
project, called the High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) is officially intended to expand knowledge
about the nature of long range radio communications and
surveillance using the fluctuating ionosphere (See "Way up
in the Ionosphere"), the portion of the upper atmosphere
extending from 35 miles to 500 miles above the Earth's
surface.
 According to program manager John L Hecksher of the
Phillips Laboratory at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, potential
military applications of the HAARP research include
developing Department of Defense for detecting cruise
missiles and communicating with submarines.  "Although HAARP
is being managed by the Air Force and Navy, it is a purely
scientific research facility that poses no threat to
potential adversaries and has no value as a military
target," he says.
 But thats just the publicly announced part of the
program.  HAARP also has a secret agenda: pursuing more
exotic military goals, such as locating deeply buried
weapons factories thousands of miles away--AND EVEN ALTERING
THE LOCAL WEATHER ABOVE AN ENEMIES TERRITORY.
 A 1990 internal document obtained by Popular Science
says the programs overall goals is to "Control ionospheric
processes in such a way as to greatly improve performance of
military command, CONTROL, and communications systems."  It
provides a description of the following applications:

* Injecting high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere
to create huge, extremely low frequency (ELF) virtual
antennas used for earth penetrating topography--peering deep
beneath the surface of the ground by collecting an analyzing
reflected ELF waves beamed down from above.

* Heating Regions of the lower and upper ionosphere to form
virtual "Lenses" and "Mirrors" that can reflect a broad
range of radio frequencies far over the horizon to detect
stealthy cruise missiles and aircraft.

* Generating ELF radio waves in the ionosphere to
communicate across large distances with deeply submerged
submarines.

And, patent documents filed during an earlier research
effort that evolved into the HAARP program outline further
military applications of ionospheric-heating technology:

* Creating a "Full Global Shield" that would destroy
ballistic missiles by overheating their electronic guidance
systems as they fly through a powerful radio-energy field.

* Distinguishing nuclear warheads from decoys by sensing
their elemental composition.

* MANIPULATING LOCAL WEATHER.

When the HAARP facility is fully constructed, it will
include several sensing and analysis systems.  At its heart
is the antenna field, which now (1995) is a demonstration
version of a larger planned array named the Ionospheric
Research Instrument (IRI) which will include 360 antennas.
The IRI is designed to temporarily modify 30 mile diameter
patches of the upper atmosphere by exciting, or heating
their constituent electrons and ions with focused beans of
powerful radio energy.  A household analogy would be a
microwave oven, which heats food by exciting its water
molecules with microwave energy.
   (Snip)

 Virtual lenses and mirrors will be generated in the
ionosphere, if the IRI works as intended (1995).  By
precisely warming a patch of the lower ionosphere, the IRI
reduces its density relative to the surrounding atmosphere.
An "Ionospheric Lense" thus formed can in turn focus a radio
beam into the upper ionosphere.  Normally, most high
frequency radio waves broadcast from the ground are absorbed
or scattered in the lower ionosphere, and few of them reach
such high altitudes.
 Next the focused radio beam excites a patch of the
upper ionosphere to form a virtual mirror.  Finally, a radio
communication signal broadcast by the IRI, focused through
the lens and reflected from the mirror can be directed far
over the horizon.

 (Snip)

Proprietary phased-array (Local Arrays) transmitting,
steering, and pulsing techniques built into the IRI will
permit rapid aiming of the radio frequency beam in any
direction, and at angles as low as 30 degrees above the
horizon.  This "Oblique Heating" ability enables HAARP to
form virtual lenses and mirrors at distances of more than
1000 miles from the transmitter.

 (Snip)

The full Global Shield is an exotic proposal for an Earth
encompassing shell of high speed electrons and ions that
would be generated by a much more powerful version of
HAARP.  Any Missile or