[CTRL] Fwd: FC: Philly cops dub Palm Pilot and cellphone instruments of crime
I can readily believe the below story. The Philadelphia police department was -- after the first day's civil disobedience -- rounding up everyone they thought was a ringleader or had a radio and looked suspicious. Also see a 2600 Magazine article about their staff member being arrested: http://www.2600.com/news/2000/0805.html And: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/gop-convention-protests.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38044,00.html -Declan * Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:14:40 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [snip] From: Brian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: palm and cell as "instruments of crime" at Republican convention Hey Guys, Check out paragraph 3. Cell phone and palm pilot are now "instruments of crime" when used by activists. How about when used by CEOs of say, Shell Oil? ___ $1 Million Bail Ordered For Protesters Berkeley-based activist allegedly led `mayhem' Janet Wells, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, August 5, 2000 ©2000 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/05/MN57473.DTL A Bay Area activist is being held in a Philadelphia jail on $1 million bail after being accused of masterminding protests against the Republican National Convention. John Sellers was arrested Wednesday, after Philadelphia police identified him for what they said were actions Tuesday evening. Sellers was charged with numerous misdemeanors, including conspiracy, possession of an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment and obstruction of justice. He was armed only with a cell phone and a palm pilot when he was taken into custody. ``He facilitates the more radical elements to accomplish their objective of violence and mayhem,'' Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Cindy Martelli said Thursday during Sellers' bail hearing in criminal court. ``He sets the groundwork. He sets the stage.'' Sellers' attorney called the bail ``intergalactic'' and unprecedented for the misdemeanor charges against Sellers, director of the Berkeley-based Ruckus Society, a group that trains activists in non- violent civil disobedience. ``It's a ridiculous, punitive, unconscionable pre-emption of his going to the rest of the Republican Convention, and the upcoming Democratic Convention,'' said attorney Larry Krasner, who is representing 33-year-old Sellers, as well as several other high- profile protesters arrested during the convention. Sellers, a nationally known activist who was in Philadelphia three weeks before the convention to conduct one of the Ruckus Society's protest ``training camps,'' grew up in the nearby town of Phoenixville, where his parents still live. After the training camp, Sellers vacationed with his parents in North Carolina, and returned to Philadelphia with them last weekend, intending to participate in the convention protests only as an observer, Ruckus Society program director Han Shan said yesterday. Shan dismissed the characterization of Sellers as a ringleader behind the protests. ``He's being given a whole lot more credit than he deserves as an instigator,'' Shan said. ``They are making him out to be something he's not.'' [...]
[CTRL] Fwd: [corp-focus] Rats in the Grain
Rats in the Grain By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman What is Attorney General Janet Reno trying to hide? A lot. In part, that's the nature of being in law enforcement. You don't want to tip off the criminal element, so you play things close to the vest. The less said the better. But in part, Reno is proficient at dodging legitimate questions that have nothing to do with ongoing criminal investigations. Yes, she has held a weekly press conference since she came into office. But despite hundreds of questions that she has fielded over the years at her weekly press briefing, she has given few substantive answers. It's either "can't talk about that -- it's under investigation" or "get back to me later," or one of a dozen or so other put offs that now come naturally to the Attorney General. She even smiles when she does this -- and what's a reporter to say? A couple of weeks ago, we attended Reno's press briefing to ask her about a new book -- Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, The Supermarket to the World, by James Lieber (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2000). Lieber, a Pittsburgh-based labor lawyer, documents the federal government's criminal case against ADM and some of its top executives for price-fixing. The criminal prosecution would never have been launched had it not been for Mark Whitacre, the former ADM vice president who agreed to become a mole for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and be wired. As a result of Whitacre's work, the FBI collected hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes documenting executives from around the world fixing the price of lysine, a feed additive. In October 1996, ADM pled guilty to antitrust crimes and was fined $100 million. Senior vice presidents Michael Andreas, the son of Chairman Dwayne, and Terrence Wilson were convicted of antitrust crimes in 1999 after a trial in federal court in Chicago. They were sentenced to three years in prison each. Mark Whitacre was charged with accepting millions of dollars in off-the-books payments from ADM -- in effect, stealing from the company. Whitacre pled guilty and was packed off to prison for nine years. Lieber details the investigation and prosecution of the corporate criminals and their executives in what is perhaps the best documented corporate crime in recent memory. But he also points out that the FBI had much information indicating that ADM Chairman Dwayne Andreas and President James Randall knew about shenanigans going on throughout the company. Yet, the FBI was not allowed to question them -- ADM's highest ranking executives. Attorney General Reno, shall we go to page 306? There, Lieber points out that in 1996, Dwayne told the Washington Post that he had known about Whitacre's off-the-books compensation for three years. Whitacre was only fired after ADM learned that he had been working as a mole for the FBI. If he knew about it for three years, why didn't he fire Whitacre immediately? Or how about page 326, where Lieber points out that ADM board member Howard Buffett, son of Omaha multibillion Warren Buffett, told the FBI that in July 1995, during the height of the FBI investigation, he saw a "tub of shredded documents" outside of Dwayne's office. Yet Dwayne was never called to testify about these shredded documents. For an attorney general who claims to make decisions based on justice, not politics, the failure to interview a big Democratic Party contributor like Dwayne Andreas looks bad. FBI agent Anthony D'Angelo told Lieber that ADM's law firm, Williams and Connolly, was effectively in charge of the investigation from its inception. "Williams Connolly held a lot of power," D'Angelo said. "They basically ran the show." So, we go to see Reno at her offices at the Justice Department, where her weekly briefing takes place. And we ask about the troubling allegations raised by Lieber. "I have not read the book, so I couldn't comment." Okay, let's put aside the book. You were in charge of the investigation -- why didn't you have your people call Dwayne Andreas and James Randall in for questioning? "I won't comment in the context of the book, since you are asking questions in the context of the book. I've discovered when questions are asked in a specific context, they are often taken out of context." We leave the press briefing befuddled, but anxious to get an answer. We call the Justice Department's spokesperson on all matters criminal, John Russell. John, we ask, why didn't the Justice Department at least bring Dwayne in for questioning? "Williams Connolly wouldn't let us question him," Russell says dryly. What about a subpoena, forcing him to testify? "We got the information otherwise," Russell said. From where? "No comment," he says, as the conversation ends. We returned to see Attorney General Reno last week, and asked her if she had read Lieber's book yet. "I still haven't had time to read it," she said. We offered our copy of Rats in the
[CTRL] Belly dancers fear that Iraqi plot will ruin work in Britain
The Electronic Telegraph Sunday 6 August 2000 Belly dancers fear that Iraqi plot will ruin work in Britain By Christina Lamb BRITAIN's belly dancers have reacted angrily to revelations that Saddam Hussein has been training female agents in the guise of exotic performers to target Iraqi dissidents in London, claiming that this will undermine their business. "There is already little work for belly dancers in Britain these days," complained Kathy Salford, who has been a belly dancer for more than 30 years and has performed in most of the well known clubs across the Middle East. "This will deter customers from attending legitimate clubs or taking dance classes." The Telegraph revealed last week that Saddam's intelligence chiefs have decided to use women to report on and eliminate Iraqi opposition abroad. A 45-day intensive training course focusing on poisoning and organising car accidents was held outside Baghdad last month for agents, some of whom are believed to have already arrived in London, and the Foreign Office is on maximum security alert. Ms Salford said: "Already a very, very glamorous Iraqi dressed up to the nines has been to the Baghdad Cafe in Westbourne Grove offering to dance for free. How can anyone dance for nothing when the costumes alone cost more than £500? It's highly suspicious." There is such fierce competition for places to belly dance in London, that Maroush, a Lebanese-owned restaurant in Edgware Road, runs a contest on Lebanese television where the prize is a one-month contract to perform there. Members of the Midlands Arabic Dance Network (Madan), which represents 600 belly dancers, are particularly concerned about reports that a well-known Iraqi belly dancer is planning to set up a school in London as a cover for giving support to Saddam's spies. They are worried that potential clients would desist because of fears they could be turned into "Mata Haris". One, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: "Most of our members make their living giving classes. Probably only five British belly dancers make a full-time living from performing." Although many belly-dance venues have closed since the heyday in the Seventies, there has been a recent surge in popularity in classes. Miss Salford fears that talk of links between belly dancing and the Iraqi regime may end chances of organisations obtaining a lottery grant such as that recently awarded to belly dancers of Manchester to bring over a famous Egyptian teacher. In the coffee shops of west London where Arabic dancers meet, the talk is of little else. One young woman sipping Turkish coffee said: "We belly dancers are a very tight-knit community and know when outsiders appear. Saddam has really chosen the wrong thing - if they had set up a nail bar it would have been a better cover." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, 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, A Good Day. = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mind Control Intensity Distribution Study - Query
Nobody does not want to touch this side of life at all. There are newsletters, but the people are not taking it seriously and that is why there is no research. A lot of the victims are too sick and the therapists offices are packed or she has to watch her PC'Qs. It is dangerous to start fucking with this shit bottom line. JFK Jr. died because of this as he was starting to print artticles about this happening in life. As usual, the good het assassinated as in Princess Diana's case, she was murdered as she was doing too much good and helping with the land mines which was making them loose money. Birds Private Mail Welcome - Original Message - From: DIG alfred webre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: [CTRL] Mind Control Intensity Distribution Study - Query Hi! Does anyone have access to research on mind control in different regions and countries? I have been searching but have not located such research. This mind control study would show intensity and distriibution of mind control applications (eg electronic), networks (eg teleguiding networks. Police Depts, etc.), venues (eg public buildings, offices, etc), and targeted individuals' demographics. If such a study does not exist, my suggestion would be that an effort be made to design, carry out , and publish the study as a public service. My own, very anecdotal, preliminary ranking (based on study, travel, and being a TI in these locations) is as follows (IMHO only; Comments/additions most welcome) Echelon Countries:: USA - Highest +++ Australia - Extremely High + UK - Extremely High + Canada - High - New Zealand - Moderate Russia - Extremely high China - Do not have data Japan - Do not have data Indo Asia - Do not have data EU Countries: Austria - HIgh Germany - High France - Moderate Netherlands - Moderate Italy - Low + African Countries - Moderate ? South Africa - Do not have current data East Africa - Do not have current data West Africa - Do not have current data Latin America: Guesstimates, based on travel and study Mexico - Moderate + Central America - Low Brazil - Low Argentina - Moderate + Chile - Moderate + Colombia - Moderate + Spanish America - Moderate World's Highest Intensity Mind Control City: Washington, DC - Both in terms of targeted 24-7 electronic mind control devices, and mind control (DC Police Dept-based) teleguiding networks. Highest publicly accessible mind control location in WDC: The Pentagon - Targeted civilians are subjected to teleguiding, and local electronic mind control weapons. (Secret locations such as NSA, CIA excepted) Most exciting mind control locations - just to see if you have mind engaged ;) Moon - Low+ Mars - Moderate Please email me on line or off-list with your suggestions and feedback. Thanks, Alfred Webre __ EcoNews Service - Alternative News: Ecology, Consciousness Universe Politics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] USA http://www.earthradioTV.com/index2.html CZECH http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ UK http://members.tripod.co.uk/ecologynews/ Canada http://www.ecologynews.com/index2.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and
[CTRL] On UFO-Related Homicides in Brazil
From: http://www.anomalous-images.com/text/humanmut.html UFO-Related Homicide in Brazil: The Complete Story [from International UFO Magazine] By G. Cope Schellhorn If this case is authentically UFO-related - and at this time I have no reason to believe it is not - then all of us are going to have to reevaluate to one degree or another our tentative conclusions as to the possible specific intentions, moral perspectives and general agenda that some of our extraterrestrial visitors may have. There have been rumors of homicidal, UFO-related, human mutilation cases for some time now but hard evidence has been lacking. Until, perhaps, now. Brazilian ufologist Encarnacion Zapata Garcia and Dr. Rubens Goes have recently presented a series of sensational photographs, obtained from police files which mimic the wounds of countless UFO-related animal mutilation cases that have been reported in Europe and North, Central and South America since the 1960s. On first glance they would seem to be ufology's worst nightmare. What is more disturbing is that Brazilian ufologists and police have intimated that there may be at least a dozen or more cases similar to the recently uncovered Guarapiranga reservoir case. If this is true, it is somewhat doubtful that any of this potential new material will ever see the light of day, given the official attitudes now prevailing in Western power circles. But we can be grateful for fortuitous disclosures, and the Guarapiranga case and it's accompanying photographs seem to be just that. A great stroke of luck, albeit a dismaying one. Obviously if the Guarapiranga data is legitimate, then it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the position that all visitors are demonstrating a relatively friendly attitude toward humans, regardless of what their specific agenda(s) may be. The Guarapiranga situation indicates that there is at least one group of alien visitors to the planet who have a complete disdain for human sensibilities, who, in fact, could care less about the value of human life. When I learned of the Guarapiranga case through Brazilian ufologist A.J. Gevaerd, who first published the related photos in his magazine UFO, my interest was stimulated and I quickly made plans for a trip to Brazil. In Sao Paulo I met Encarnacion Garcia at the home of well known ufologist Claudeir Covo and talked with her later at length. Then I traveled to Campo Grande and questioned Gevaerd. He was kind enough to supply me with second generation photographs (the best available) of the Guarapiranga reservoir victim having himself become thoroughly convinced that the evidence supporting the case was authentic and that the case was UFO- related. I came to the same conclusion because all other alternatives were neither supported by facts nor good logic, whereas the similarities to numerous cattle mutilations which I had studied in the United States were startling, exactly paralleling what I have seen many times before. The specifics of the case are as follows: Encarnacion Garcia learned from her friend, Dr. Rubens Goes, that he was in possession of some rather "odd" photos which had been given to him by his cousin, police technician, Rubens Sergio. These were official photos of a body that had been found near Guarapiranga reservoir on the 29th of September, 1988, of an unnamed male who was, however, later identified. The name of this man has been withheld from all media investigators, including UFO investigators, at the request of his relatives. After studying the photos, Encarnacion Garcia was impressed with how similar the wounds of the body were to those found on the carcasses of so many UFO-related mutilated animals, knowledge which the original investigating police officials and medical doctors involved with the case did not possess. Surprisingly, Dr. Cuenca, head of the primary investigation, offered his files on the case. This is the stroke of luck which I previously mentioned and for which we can all be thankful. These included the all-. important autopsy description to which I will momentarily refer. The initial police report, however, was not extraordinary in nature except for the recognition that the body, although extremely mutilated, had not met with unusual violence; that is, there were no signs of struggle or the application of bondage of any kind. It was the autopsy report itself which was most revealing, especially when we compare the remarks made there with what we have learned from animal mutilation cases elsewhere. It is imperative to remember, as I have stated previously, that the individuals conducting the autopsy had no knowledge of similar animal mutilation cases. This makes the official remarks of the report all the more revealing in retrospect. Encarnacion Garcia received copies of seven photos. I have included the five most revealing ones here with a description and commentary. The work of the perpetrators of this atrocity: the kinds of cuts made, the precision
[CTRL] The Jewish Episcopalian
"Goldwater, who was raised as an Episcopalian, but who had a Jewish father said he was told that, if elected, the first Jewish president would be Episcopalian." - - - -- Interestingly, Barry Goldwater was the son of a Jewish man (his mother was not Jewish), and I never knew it until today ... it did him no good in the 1964 election ... 90% of the Jews voted for Johnson ... but I think the Democrats should be reminded that the Republicans to a significant degree addressed the Jewish candidate issue 26 years before Lieberman was nominated for a lesser office. - - - The Jerusalem Report December 3, 1992 ON THE WINNING SIDE, AT LAST BYLINE: J.J. Goldberg Clinton got more Jewish votes than any presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But Jews didn't vote for all the Senate candidates their leaders recommended. From Reform rabbis to the usually Republican ultra-Orthodox, Ameri- can Jewish voters were smiling. For once, they had backed a presidential winner: Between 80 and 85 percent voted for Bill Clinton, according to most estimates. But Election Day 1992 had a more subtle message as well. In several senatorial races around the country, Republicans known as friends of Israel ran for reelection, with strong backing from Jewish community leaders and were opposed by liberal Jewish challengers, and rejected by Jewish voters. For pro-Israel lobbyists and Jewish leaders, that was a signal that they may have to worry about their own backing among the American Jewish rank and file, and their influence in the next Congress and administration. The Jewish vote for Clinton was about twice the overall support for the Democrat just 43 percent to Bush's 38 percent in the three-way race with Ross Perot. Bush's share of the Jewish vote was about 10-12 percent, with 5-10 percent going to Ross Perot. Though estimates of Jewish voting patterns can be inaccurate, the lopsided support of Clinton appeared to be the highest Jewish showing for any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson got a sweeping 90 percent in his 1964 landslide over Barry Goldwater. ^ - - - States News Service May 13, 1985, Monday BYLINE: By Jim Michaels, States News Service DATELINE: WASHINGTON Rep. Morris K. Udall and Sen. Barry Goldwater shed their political differences Monday night and dwelled on their similarities: failed presidential bids, their long Arizona heritage and their dry wit. "I get tired of getting reminded about being beaten by Jimmy Carter," Udall said, referring to his 1976 race against Carter for the Democratic nomination, holding back a smile. "That's not as bad as being beaten by Lyndon Johnson," Goldwater shot back in reference to his 1964 landslide defeat. "Between us we made our state the only state where mothers don't dare tell their children they can grow up to be president," Goldwater said. The two were lightheartedly commiserating at an Arizona State Society gathering, billed as "Reflections on the Grand Canyon State." Goldwater, powerful chairman of the Armed Services Committee, first elected to the Senate in 1952, swapped stories and jousted with Udall, chairman of the Interior Committee, and a veteran of more than twenty years in Washington. The audience was filled with Arizona politicians and their staffs, lobbyists and some former Arizona political vets like former Minority Leader John Rhoades. The two traded jests like partners of a vaudeville routine who had been on the road for years. The show was punctuated every few minutes with frequent outbursts of laughter -- much heartier than the polite guffaws that would be expected from a room full of aides and lobbyists. Udall, who lost an eye in a childhood accident, described himself as a "one-eyed Mormon Democrat." Goldwater, who was raised as an Episcopalian, but who had a Jewish father said he was told that, if elected, the first Jewish president would be Episcopalian. Like old men rocking on the porch with children in rapture at their feet, the two men reminisced about their families' Arizona roots and how they intertwined with the history of the state. Udall spoke of the time his grandfather was in jail for polygamy, a not unheard of practice for Mormons in those days. Goldwater's grandfather came up with the money to bail him out. "My grandfather, the mayor of Prescott, put him on a horse and said get the hell out of town and don't come back," Goldwater added. Goldwater recalled his long shot bid for a Senate seat in 1952 in what was then a heavily Democratic state. "I could never have been elected," he said. "I'd still be selling pants," he said in reference to his family's retail business. "And the country would be better off," Udall said, to gales of laughter. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL
[CTRL] The Orwellian Noose Tightens
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: "Dave Kuehne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Orwellian Noose Tightens Date: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:38 AM Ever wonder why they need your "Social Security Number" for a fishing license? Now you know. Anyone who isn't fighting mad at all this Orwellian bullshit is a part of the problem. DEATH TO SOCIAL SECURITY!!! -DaveK- begin attachment From: "ScanThisNews" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FP] The Owellian Noose Tightens Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:14:42 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Web-Site: http://www.efga.org/ X-Mail-List-Info: http://efga.org/about/maillist/ X-SCAN: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml == SCAN THIS NEWS 7.16.2000 So you think you won't be affected 'cause you don't owe child support... Think again. The Owellian Noose Tightens According to Representative Ron Paul's aide, Norman Singleton, the House is scheduled this week to vote on the Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 sponsored by Republican Rep. Nancy L. Johnson. http://www.house.gov/nancyjohnson/ This act will tighten the Owellian noose created by the Republican Congress under their "Welfare Reform Act" of 1996. That Act amended 42USC 666, so as to create a network of linked databases designed to allow authorities to monitor each individual's every action; all accomplished through use of social security numbers. For example, the 1996 act forced all employers in every state to report to the National Directory of New Hires the names, wages, addresses, and social security numbers of each newly hired employee. It forced each licensing agency in every state to collect the social security numbers of all applicants for all licenses, permits and certificates. It required banking and financial institutions to provide, and transmit to the state all customer account information, linked with each customer's social security number. The Act required that passports must be denied to anyone charged with owing back child support payments. It required employers to act as the state's enforcement arm by forcing them to garnish the wages of obligees. It also required the IRS to deduct unpaid child support amounts from tax refunds. This newest act will now expand that dragnet by granting to private entities access to the same centralized databases of information originally reserved to state and federal agencies. The purpose of the Child Support Distribution Act is to create a "bounty hunter" mentality with regard to child support enforcement. It will provide for the establishment of private enforcement goons whose business will be to track down delinquent parents and force them to pay up. The intent, at least initially, is to authorize private collection agencies to use information generated by the states in locating individuals owing past-due child support. When the 1996 Welfare Reform Act was first being considered, all assurances were given that "only authorized government agencies" would have access to the massive amounts of personal data they would be collecting. Of course, no one in their right mind believed that. The next step in the Orwellian scheme -- after this present bill is approved -- will be to expand the enforcement mechanisms still further. Soon thereafter, these same "locating and tracking" databases to be used to locate any and all "suspects" or "created criminals" who try to alluded authorities or escape their due punishment. Think about the scope of this dragnet. All license information (including marriage, driver, business, occupational, recreational licenses) will be linked to all banking and financial account information, which is linked to tax records, which is linked to all employment information (including address and wages or salary), which is linked to all registration information (such as automobiles), which is linked to passport information. And now, under this bill, all of the above information will be available to private entities which will act in partnership with government as their paid enforcement arm. What more could Hitler have dreamt of? --- You can look up the bill here if you've got the stomach: http://thomas.loc.gov/ Search for 4469 or 4678 (both of which appear to be virtually identical with only minor differences). Scott P.S. We won't be sending out any "action alerts" encouraging you to get your congressman to vote against this bill. Such efforts will most likely be futile. The real "big boys" are pushing this one and it will almost certainly become law one way or another. If it is not approved in its standalone version, it will simply be incorporated, at the
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Lieberman will be Gore's choice
From: "Aleisha Saba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] So June send us what you have on this sainted man for yesterday you said he was a real bum in so many words. What I have is the direct experience of being one of Mr. Lieberman's constituents. He is NOT someone who cares about the common man. He caters to those with big bank accounts. Is he by chance Jewish Mafia and did he run with the Meyer Lansky pack? Couldn't say, although I wouldn't be surprised. What I DO know is that he's part of the Democratic machine here in the Nutmeg state, where Dems are as conservative -- and as corrupt -- as any Reaganite... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Computers Tested for Aiding Soldiers
In a message dated 08/07/2000 3:57:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chemically treated fatigues keep bugs off a soldier's body and, as a result, raises the comfort level. A message system attached to the uniform can call for medical help. The soldier may use a personal computer, packed in gel and mounted on a special harness around the waist, to send pictures of the battlefield to fellow troops so they can prepare for an attack. Those pictures can be captured with a video camera mounted on the soldier's weapon. Won't it be wonderful--a truly modern war. We had a preview of this kind of thing in the Gulf War, and we all know how lucky our military members were during that one. Of course a few of them did think they were not feeling so well afterwards, and some even died, but I'm sure it was all psychosomatic. Nothing like better war through chemistry. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] George W. Bush's Theme Song this November
In a message dated 08/07/2000 5:04:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No matter who you vote for, the same men will still run the country. We are not ruled by politicians but by businessmen. Politicians are just middle management. Unfortunately this is absolutely true. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [InTheShadows] Fw: Genetically Engineered Spider Toxin Threatens Butterf...
Thanks to Alan for sending this info -- a disturbing dose of additional GE
insanity.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 7:34 AM
Subject: Genetically Engineered Spider Toxin Threatens Butterflies People
Dear friends,
Our press release on " Genetically Engineered Spider Toxin Threatens
Butterflies People" has been recieved and acknowledged by the science
writers at the LA Times, NY Times, and the San Francisco Examiner. It has
been forwarded to Ralph Nader, Al Gore, Green candidates, and the office
of
CA state senator Tom Hayden.
We need a media coordinator for this issue and other volunteers. I
also
need to raise some money to get us down to the LA convention to educate
the
public on this issue.
Please help if you can and forward the report which is below to as many
contacts as you can.
If you are in the Bay area, please check out the San Francisco Mime
Troupe
performance of Eating It, a spoof on genetically engineered organisms and
food.
In peace, Alan
Genetically Engineered Spider Toxin Threatens Butterflies People
Please read the following press release and tell me if this isn't the most
insidious threat yet that you have ever heard of from those wonderboys in
the
genetic engineering think tanks. This makes BT corn look like cotton
candy.
Then decide if you can help get this out to the world and to the media.
This
should be headline news. What do you think?
For Immediate Release: July 19, 2
Can a deadly spider replace chemical pesticides? Could this be a threat
to
human livers and human health?
Viruses given a gene for a toxin from one of the world's deadliest spiders
could replace chemical pesticides, say researchers in the US. They plan to
carry out field trials, although there are fears about the wisdom of
releasing such viruses.
Glenn King of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington
and
his colleagues recently identified a unique family of toxins in the venom
of
a funnel-web spider. These neurotoxins are lethal when injected into
insect
tissues, yet have no effect if eaten by insects or other animals (Nature
Structural Biology, vol 7, p 505).
King's team is now engineering the gene for one of these toxins into
baculoviruses, common viruses that infect certain moths and butterflies,
and
have long been used as "biopesticides." When the modified baculovirus
infects
a butterfly or moth, the insect's cells should start to produce the toxin,
killing it faster than wild viruses. Because the host butterfly or moth)
dies
quickly, before much virus can replicate, the modified virus shouldn't
persist in the environment, say the researchers. Critics contend that the
risk to butterfly and human populations and survival is not worth taking
"I welcome a potentially environmentally friendly pest control but it's
abundantly clear we need to be more firm about risk issues," comments
George
McGavin, an entomologist at Oxford University. "If we are not 100 per cent
sure, it shouldn't be in the field."
There have already been several field trials worldwide of baculoviruses
given
a gene for a scorpion toxin (New Scientist, 21 January 1995, p 6).
However,
most of the scorpion toxin made in infected insects fails to fold into the
correct shape, says King. By contrast, tests in bacteria suggest that
almost
100 per cent of the spider toxin should fold properly, making the virus
deadlier.
King thinks engineering toxin genes into viruses is preferable to adding
them
to plants, such as Bt maize. Not only does it mean that people do not have
to
eat plants that produce insecticidal toxins, but only target insects will
be
affected, he says. "These viruses can be exquisitely specific, right down
to
infecting individual species," King claims. "This means that only the
pest
insects will be killed whilst beneficial insects such as bees remain
unaffected."
However, critics fear that the virus will spread into the environment and
affect other kinds of butterflies and moths. "A containment environment
could not possibly hold a virus," says McGavin, who opposed trials of a
scorpion toxin virus in Oxfordshire in the 1990s. "If you could get a
specific baculovirus it would be great, but baculoviruses do pass on {to
other species}."
"This is problem that really concerns us, said Alan Moore of the Butterfly
Gardeners Association, a local group that advocates for the conservation
of
butterflies and their habits. This is at least the third time that
Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs have been targeted against
butterflies
and this makes BT-corn look like cotton candy."
Bt-corn has genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis spliced into
the
plant genes and its toxin is carried by wind-driven pollen to the leaves
of
milkweed where they can poison monarch caterpillars feeding on milkweed.
"I
think this clearly shows transgenic
[CTRL] Heads Up! Phantom Terrorism Part II
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Heads Up! Phantom Terrorism Part II Date: Saturday, August 05, 2000 5:41 PM Heads Up! Terrorism and Government Brutality To be added or removed from this list, please see the instruction AT THE END. Why the Confusion? In Part I we discussed the exaggerated threat and the insignificant number of actual incidents that have been directed against American civilians. In this issue we will discuss the question, WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT TERRORISM? What can be done to stop the real terror machine loose in our world, and who are the "terrorists?" The sun never sets on some civilian people under attack by American made weapons. All too often the assassins are American professional military persons, as in Yugoslavia and Iraq. In Somalia and Bosnia and elsewhere the so called protectors were mercenaries of the United Nations, or some other multinational organization. But one thing is constant, the armaments and men are invariable provided by the American taxpayer. This means at every hour of the day or night someone is dying at the hands of those who control our government, and those under attack know full well that their blood is on our hands. We are complacent, passive participants. This participation is usually excuse in the name of preventing "terrorism," when in fact it is the essence of terrorism. Blood guilt also means that anti terrorism is an Christian issue that is usually ignored by church leaders and celebrity Christians. Terror has a definition. It means "a state of extreme fear," according to Webster's New International Dictionary, "caused by systematic use of bloodshed, violence, and confiscation to maintain itself in power." The dictionary notes the French "Reign of Terror" and the Russian "Red Terror" of 1917 as examples. Note that Webster correctly attributes "terrorism" to governments that are attempting to stay in power. The reason for this is that only governments or government factions have the power to create the systematic bloodshed, violence and confiscation against their subject people necessary to create a condition of terror. Small factions, parties and splinter groups rarely have the capability to carry out systematic programs of ongoing terror, regardless of their inclination. Political power and terror go hand-in-hand and always have. By definition, none of the groups tracked by the office of Counter-terrorism qualify as terrorists because they lack political power! How then does terror work in the real world? Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's epic three-volume work, "The Gulag Archipelago" is the definitive work on Soviet terrorism, the most powerful ever to be unleashed upon so large a captive people. The author explained for the whole world the secret of creating blinded and subservient fear in a entire pollution. He details the consistent pattern of repetitious brutality that instilled obedient servitude. Because it is ever-present and omnipresent, few Russians could forget for long the fear of deliberate arrest, torture or execution. Solzhenitsyn told us terror controlled the Russian people for 70 years. State terrorism is far different from the logical concern one has to avoid danger zones and dark streets to avoid the risk of, say, a drive-by shooting. But ask yourself, do the so-called Arab terrorists we are constantly being reminded of have the capacity to do to us what the Bolsheviks did to the Russian people? Of course not. Most of them are lucky if they are not themselves picked up and arbitrarily interrogated, so thoroughly have they been stereotyped. Arab-appearing people have become victims of the kind of stereotyping--based on names, nationality or appearance--that other minorities object to so vehemently. No finer summation can be found than in a short essay by Jacob B. Hornberger*, "Terrorism, War and Crisis". He states: "Our government, like all governments, thrives on crises. As the new century was approaching, government officials stoked the fire of crisis with its daily advisories and press conferences on terrorism. Since the American people rely on their government to protect us from the bad guys, everyone feels like he's "one with the government." Certainly no one even thinks of leveling criticism at this protector in the midst of the crisis. Fortunately, there was no terrorist incident for more reasons than the obvious one. If there had been a terrorist attack, you can be 100 percent certain that the U.S. government would have used the crisis as an opportunity to march America farther down the road to total destruction of our civil liberties. " Mr Hornberger concludes, 'Our protector deserves more than criticism. It deserves condemnation. Because our protector is the primary reason that Americans are hated
Re: [CTRL] George W. Bush's Theme Song this November
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Re: [CTRL] Hi I am a Newbie Here
In a message dated 8/7/00 2:27:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I am new and right now today need to do some other work. I was wondering how this worked etc. I am a MC victim myself. Birds Aloha, The list can be hectic, Welcome aboard. Om K Onwards to the Utmost of Futures - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Kris copyrights
-- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. Did you get my message yesterday? AND I am wondering if part of this court custody case could be a attempt to get my copyrights? If you can (try to) copyright the Associate idea, can my plots be copyrighted as science concepts? Considering the fact I seem to be hitting AOL's filter again, I am becoming curious. If so they are running those cival lawyers all the way around the Mulberry Bush. ThePiedPiper 08August2000 If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson brbr My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 NEW http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/site_map.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ancient Coins May Map New Understandings of Antiquity
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/vista/9606/4.html Ancient Coins May Map New Understandings of Antiquity BY KEVIN McCAFFREY IF MOUNT HOLYOKE geologist Mark McMenamin is right, neither Columbus nor the Vikings were the first non-natives to set foot on the Americas. McMenamin's theory is based on coins he believes contain the oldest world maps in existence. The author of a 1994 book, Hypersea: Life on Land (cowritten with his wife, Dianna), which unveiled a new theory of the genesis of terrestrial life, he may now have made another important discovery --one that sheds radical new light on present conceptions of the classical world and on the discovery of the New World. Working with computer-enhanced images of gold coins minted in the North African city of Carthage between 350 and 320 BC, McMenamin has interpreted a series of designs appearing on these coins, the meaning of which has long puzzled scholars. McMenamin believes that the designs represent a map of the ancient world, including the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and a land mass representing the Americas. If this is true, these coins not only represent the oldest world maps found to date, but would also indicate that Carthaginian explorers had sailed to the New World a good 1,300 years before the Vikings. It was his interest in the Carthaginians and Phoenicians as explorers that led McMenamin to study the gold coins, known as staters. The Carthaginians were closely linked to the Phoenicians of the Middle East in terms of culture, language, and naval enterprise. Both peoples are widely credited with significant sailing exploits through the Mediterranean, to the British Isles, and along the coast of Africa. On one of the coins studied by McMenamin, a horse stands atop a number of symbols at the bottom of the stater. For many years, scholars interpreted these symbols as letters in Phoenician script. When that theory was discounted in the 1960s, scholars were baffled. Using a computer to enlarge and enhance these images on the coins, the geologist --aided by his familiarity with land masses and shifting tectonic plates-- was able to interpret the design as a representation of the Mediterranean, surrounded by the land masses of Europe and Africa with, to the upper left, the British Isles. To the far left of the representation of the Mediterranean is what the geologist believes is a depiction of the Americas. A number of classical texts bolster this theory. For example, in the first century BC, Diodorus of Sicily wrote " ... in the deep off Africa is an island of considerable size ... fruitful, much of it mountainous ... Through it flow navigable rivers. ... The Phoenicians had discovered it by accident after having planted many colonies throughout Africa." "I was just the lucky person who had the geologic and geographic expertise to view these coins in a new light," notes McMenamin. "I have been interested in the Carthaginians as the greatest explorers in the history of the world." McMenamin's study of the coins prompted him to master the Phoenician language. He has published two pamphlets on his work regarding the Carthaginian coins. One is written in ancient Phoenician, representing probably the first new work in that language in 1,500 years. The Numismatist, a leading journal in the study of coins, has accepted McMenamin's paper on the theory and will publish his findings this fall. At the same time, the scholar is trying to gain access to a number of coins --or casts of their impressions-- currently held in European collections. These impressions will further aid him, he hopes, in proving the world map theory's validity. "If I had the time and the money," McMenamin observes, only half-kidding, "I'd be in North Africa with my metal detector trying to find Carthaginian coins to further confirm my hypothesis." Additional study may well reveal that it was explorers based in Africa, not Europe, who "discovered" the New World. At the very least, McMenamin hopes his theory will focus new scholarly attention on ancient Carthaginian culture. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] The Coming Breakdown of the Academic Cartel
At 03:52 PM 08/06/2000 -0400, you wrote: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north8.html The Coming Breakdown of the Academic Cartel by Gary North Higher education in the United States is a cartel. It is rarely discussed in these terms, but that is what it has been throughout most of the 20th century. A cartel is an association of producers that jointly establishes certain output criteria for membership. The goal of the cartel is for all of its members to obtain net revenues above what would be possible if there were open competition, especially price competition. Members restrict output in order to gain high revenues per unit sold. The cartel's members raise their prices. A cartel faces competition from members who cheat and from non-members who enter the market. This is why cartels that do not obtain protection from the State in restricting entry into a market eventually break down. Without State intervention, newcomers attract consumers by offering lower prices. Also, some cartel members cheat by secretly increasing their output, lowering prices, or both. The cartels' other members must then cut prices to retain customers. The cartel breaks down. Whenever you find a cartel that has existed for several decades, begin a search for State intervention: civil sanctions placed on non-members who seek to enter the market through price competition. In the field of higher education, look for laws against the unaccredited use of certain words: college, university, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Accreditation I have yet to see a history of the collegiate academic accreditation system in the United States. It would make a great Ph.D. dissertation topic for some free market economist. (Perhaps it has been written, and I have missed it.) There is a Web site that lists the various collegiate accrediting associations: the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The site also has a revealing page on Government Relations. The organization favors "voluntary enforcement," meaning self-policing by existing members, without additional regulations imposed by the U.S. Department of Education. Economists might say that "voluntary enforcement" really means "government enforcement of existing regulations, especially against non-member interlopers, but with no new rules imposed on existing cartel members." (Except when analyzing the Federal Reserve System, economists say things like this.) Recall that the chief goal of a cartel is to keep out price-competitive interlopers. In a document titled, HEA 98 - Summary of Accreditation Provisions, we read the following: The President today signed into law the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (HEA 98), as Public Law 105-244. The new law reauthorizes for five years the Higher Education Act, the basic framework for federal policies in higher education that includes the massive federal programs of student financial assistance. The new law retains current programs, provides some modest new initiatives, lowers borrowing costs to our students and authorizes small improvements in program funding. With Federal money comes Federal regulation. This is nothing new. In every industry, those producers who are on the receiving end of this money can and do invoke a defense of cartel-defined standards in order to restrict entry by interlopers who might otherwise sell services to the public at lower prices. Restriction of entry through industry-policed "voluntary" standards, backed up by the threat of new civil laws if members do not obey the existing laws, is justified by the cartel's members in the name of both standards and the proper use of government money. In higher education, government-enforced accreditation restricts the spread of new ideas, new methodologies, and above all, new technologies that enable producers to lower prices. This is how higher education has become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry. In this same report, there is a reference to something called "distance education." Distance education programs will be assessed in accreditation under the same quality assurance criteria as other programs, and will not be subject to new and separate criteria. The new distance education demonstration program recognizes the role of voluntary accreditation. What is distance education? Distance education is the Achilles heel of the education cartel's maintenance of control over higher education. It will be the battleground of higher education over the next two decades. If the cartel loses this battle, it will lose control over the content and pricing of higher education. The cartel is going to lose it. The reason: price competition beyond anything ever seen
[CTRL] Legal Battle Begins in Minneapolice
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Clore Daniel C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Legal battles begin over police restriction of Minneapolis protesters' rights Updated 12:00 PM ET July 31, 2000 By Robert Koch Minnesota Daily U. Minnesota (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Now that the barricades around the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency hotel are gone and the air around Loring Park has cleared of pepper spray, legal battles over police actions during the animal genetics conference have begun. The Minneapolis Police Department's strong show of force and restriction of protesters' movements have left participants and observers debating whether constitutional rights were upheld or violated. "The police organized and planned for a violent confrontation -- and they followed through by creating a violent confrontation," said Jordan Kushner, a Minneapolis attorney and member of the National Lawyers Guild. "They made a deliberate decision to violently repress people's attempts to exercise their free speech." DON'T BE SURPRISED As last Monday's protest march drew to a premature close along 12th Street South and one trapped protester approached an officer, demanding to speak with an attorney, she heard simply say: "Tell it to someone who cares." If such remarks, along with baton blows and pepper spray, challenged protesters' assumptions about freedom of speech, they do not necessarily surprise legal observers familiar with civil- disobedience situations. The Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia chapters of the National Lawyers Guild have prepared a statement for those planning to protest at the Republican National Convention, which begins in Philadelphia today. "Understand that there is a difference between what you are legally entitled to do (the theoretical) and what the police on a particular occasion are going to let you do (the reality)," reads the statement. "Vindication of your rights may only come later, at trial, if at all." Or, police focus on following orders rather than discussing constitutional matters during protests. RECOURSE OPTIONS Police spokeswoman Cyndi Montgomery said police used methods learned in crowd-control training, adding some officers employ the tactics on a day-to-day basis. Whether or not riot sticks and pepper spray constituted excessive force, as protesters contend, is now left to civil libertarians and independent reviewers to decide. The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union is currently asking people who either witnessed or were involved in protest incidents to come forward and complete a confidential form for its "ongoing investigation into alleged violations of individual rights by police officers." Legal issues aside, some people have contacted the Minneapolis Civilian Police Review Authority. Operating independently of the police department, the authority investigates alleged police misconduct, ranging from excessive force to inappropriate language or attitude. "There were at least five calls from people that were involved in (the protest)," said Executive Director Patricia Hughes. "They're assigned to investigators. Together, they will determine if a formal complaint should be filed." Hughes added that people often don't call immediately. Sustained complaints are forwarded to the police chief, and the officer involved is disciplined. Some cases are resolved through mediation between the officer and the complainant. Whether dismissed, mediated or sustained, every case and every phone call has a positive effect, Hughes said. "Many times, we'll see an officer come in here, and there's not enough (evidence) to pursue it," she said. "That officer we don't see back. So it's the fact you have to go through the process that oftentimes is a deterrent." RESTRICTION OF MOVEMENT During last Monday's protest, that clause of the First Amendment guaranteeing the right of the people to peaceably assemble came head-to-head with perceived threats to public safety and property. Police cited that protesters lacked a parade permit. And a city ordinance makes it illegal to congregate on streets or sidewalks "so as to obstruct passage of others." Kushner rejected a claim by the mayor's office that protesters would have been given a parade permit had they requested it. "(The city) announced ahead of time they weren't going to give any permit," Kushner said. "So they made it impossible for people to exercise their right to protest, and then they arrested them for doing it." Deputy City Attorney Joan Peterson, however, said the Supreme and appellate courts, not statutes and city ordinances, usually decide freedom-of-speech issues. "The question always is what is a reasonable time, place and manner restriction," Peterson said. "The main issue has come down to that you have to allow people trying to speak a message to be within sight and sound of those that they are trying to reach." Peterson said this principle led to the construction of the designated protest area outside the Hyatt Regency. "Protest pits"
[CTRL] Protesters Are Wide Awake in Seattle--and Heading for L.A.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Clore Daniel C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sunday, August 6, 2000 Protesters Are Wide Awake in Seattle--and Heading for L.A. The environmental activists who inspired street marches during last year's World Trade Organization talks are gearing up for the Democratic convention. By KIM MURPHY, LA Times Staff Writer SEATTLE--A map on the overhead projector showed the large blocks of old-growth forest set aside under the Clinton administration's 1993 Northwest Forest Plan, the plan that was supposed to have ended the spotted owl timber wars of the 1980s. Then, with another map, forest activist David Jennings showed what areas the plan really had protected from logging. Taking into account the effects of roads, adjacent logging and other impacts, the broad islands of forest shrank to isolated flecks of green. Proof, Jennings said, that the stately old trees of the Pacific Northwest and the species they nurture still are threatened. "The emperor has no clothes. This is a totally dysfunctional forest protection system," Jennings told about 75 Seattle-area environmental activists at a recent "teach-in" to prepare protesters for this month's Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Several people in the audience applauded. Some took notes. A local longshoremen's union representative fought back tears. The activists in Seattle--the ones who shut down the entire downtown retail core during the World Trade Organization talks last year--have a message for those in Los Angeles: They're coming. And they're still mad. "Seattle was the line in the sand. . . . We've now crossed the line, and we're coming after you," said Liz Butler of the Coastal Rainforest Coalition. "I challenge you to make L.A. the place where they run scared and things start to happen!" During the WTO protests, tens of thousands of demonstrators from all over the U.S. were able to disrupt the trade talks by setting up human blockades. But it was a small core of activists who did much of the organizing; thousands of Seattle citizens, inspired by the protesters' message against global corporate domination, joined the marches in the streets. This month, anywhere from 50 to 400 or more Seattle activists will travel to California to join the planned street action. And many of those come from the highly organized, grass-roots environmental groups that are old hands at the kind of direct civil-disobedience actions being contemplated in Los Angeles--actions they have mounted routinely for a decade or more in tree-sits and logging-road blockades in the Northwest forests. Additional demonstrations are planned Aug. 14 in cities across the country on a National Forest Protection Day to coincide with the opening of the Democratic convention. Last month's organizational meeting was sponsored by the American Lands Alliance, the Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project and the Coastal Rainforest Coalition. The fact that the Democratic convention is their primary target reflects both a sense of abandonment by the Republican Party and profound ambivalence about the Clinton administration's record on environmental issues. "Obviously, a potential [George W.] Bush administration would be very aggressive on federal lands, in terms of logging. We do not want to face a potential Bush administration. A Nader [Green Party] candidacy: Nader has taken a very interesting position, ending the commercial sale program on public lands," Peter Nelson of the Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project told attendees. "We're trying to educate [Vice President Al] Gore about what is happening with our forests in the Pacific Northwest," Nelson said. Groups like the Ruckus Society routinely educate protesters about street-level tactics for civil disobedience. But the environmental teach-in reflected an aspect of the WTO protests that caught many observers off guard: large numbers of activists taking to the streets, prepared to talk with some degree of knowledge about the impacts of globalization on U.S. labor, Third World economies and the environment. Over the space of four hours, organizers gave seminars on issues such as the proposed global free logging agreement; the impact of China's entry into the WTO on that country's fledgling forest protection laws; the move by corporations such as Home Depot and Kinko's away from products derived from old-growth forests; and the current state of legal protections for the remaining 4% of historic ancient forests in the continental U.S. "I hope each one of you will become an activist-to-be as a result of what you've heard here," said Seattle City Councilman Peter Steinbrueck. Tracy Wiegman, a longshoreman from Tacoma, Wash., pledged that labor would be supporting the street actions, as union members did during the Seattle WTO protests. "To listen to presentations like David's [on disappearing old-growth forests], it was bringing tears to my eyes," Wiegman said. Union turnout is not expected to be as high as it was
[CTRL] Democracy in jeopardy
http://www.soldoutusa.com/ Democracy in the United States is in jeopardy. The litany of problems is widely recognized: brazen political deal-making based on campaign contributions; entrenched voter apathy; a two-party stranglehold that increasingly represents only the narrow interests of a wealthy elite. Legalized bribery is a fact of life, as is the refusal of a majority of citizens to vote. Ours is a crippled democracy, each day appearing more as an oligarchy than a republic. Certainly most US citizens enjoy freedom of conscience and feel that they can express their political beliefs without fear of government persecution. But under the current campaign finance system the voices of a tiny few drown out the voices of the majority. The right of free political expression has been rendered meaningless by the massive amount of money flooding the electoral system. The purchase of democracy is a theft of freedom. The state of our democracy is best represented by this new United Corporations of America flag. Twelve corporate logos have been reproduced on the flag which represent a snapshot of how corporations influence democracy today. see more at: http://www.soldoutusa.com/ banner.gif
[CTRL] Dallas Activist Reveals More
http://www.phillyimc.org Tuesday August 08, @04:02AM Dallas activist continues to relate abuses and unjust treatment By Cliff Pearson rom Elliot, a member of the R2K Network Legal Support Team: I was one of the legal observers on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I was also a member of the R2K Network Legal Support Team and had the job of debriefing those released and documenting police/corrections officer abuses. I have been involved in protests and the Movement for over a decade and I must say I have never witnessed such torture of nonviolent protesters. People were reportedly hung crucifix-style from bars in flexi-cuffs, some claim to have been left hog tied (with flexi-cuffs) for 18 or more hours, others had broken limbs including one broken arm and one girl had three broken fingers. I photographed a number of bruises, cuts, etc. on released protesters. My legal observer partner, Jimmy Graham, was beaten so much while doing his job of taking down badge numbers that he was hospitalized. One young man claims he had his penis and testicles twisted, another woman had severe lacerations on her head that needed stitches. A 62-year-old Quaker man says he was left hog tied and was kicked no less than six times (by three different guards) while hog tied. Others reported psychological torture of bizarre and sadistic types. Detainees were denied food and water for up to 32 hours and many also insist they were denied essential medication. I also reported a number of abuses on the streets including people being beaten, handcuffed folks being pepper sprayed, one young woman being beaten with police bicycles by 16 cops, and the list goes on and on. And those are only for those that complied and gave names and fingerprints . . . I shudder to think about the other prisoners in jail. All the arrested Dallas activists are out. Scott Haws wants me to tell all activists to call, call,call the Philadelphia authorities and demand justice. Scott says, if you want to help him and the others, this is the way to do it. Dont let up and dont let them tell you everythings fine! Scott says that Ann got out because he paid a $2,500 bail bond (10 percent of the actual bail, which is standard) to get her out. She did not break jail solidarity. Scott wants me to be clear on this point. The story of Milos release is like a Movie of the Week. Milo, Scotts son, is only 16-years-old. Scott found out that Milo had been, or was about to be, transferred from jail to prison adult prison with many others. This alarmed Scott, who decided not to wait for the attorney. Scott went to the District Attorneys office, but they were rude and uncooperative. Despite the fact that Scott had Milos birth certificate and high school photo identification card, the District Attorney was not willing to release Milo to Scott, or at least transfer Milo to juvenile, without further proof that Milo was not a minor. Scott says he then went to the County Commissioners Court where they managed to get an emergency judge for him. The judge ruled against the District Attorney and ordered Milo to be handled as a juvenile case, and released to Scott on his own recognizance. After all this mess, the District Attorney decided to drop Milos charges completely, and he was released to Scott. The good news is, says Scott, this brave young man never broke jail solidarity. Scott says that, when calling to demand justice and the release of the remaining imprisoned people, remember to call District Attorney Lynn Abraham at (215) 686-5777. He urges us to let her know that this abuse of a teenaged boy by legal bullying will not be tolerated. Scott says that Kendall and Milo are on their way back to Dallas. They are traveling with the two young men from the Green Party in San Antonio. (One of them had a car in Philadelphia.) Scott is still in Philadelphia trying to get his van back. The police are refusing to release it to him saying that it is evidence. But according to Scotts attorney, local laws require that he receive a property receipt from the police if they confiscate his van. (This is an example of the missing paperwork that Leslie Cagan of the R2K Network was referring to in earlier messages.) The other two San Antonio Greens, both young women, are still in jail, each with felony charges. Heres a real mystery of Philadelphia justice they have charges identical to those of Ann and Scott, yet their offenses are being called felonies and their bail is $50,000 each. (It was just reduced from $500,000). Scott, Ann, Milo, and the four San Antonio Greens all did the same things. But Scott and Ann had $25,000 bail and their charges are called misdemeanors. (Could the fact that these young women are brown-skinned Hispanics have something to do with their unequally high bail? Hmmm.) What are the charges? Its a laundry list. For the extremely heinous crime of planning (not accomplishing)
[CTRL] Explosion in Moscow (AFP)
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Tuesday, August 8 10:33 PM SGT
One dead, 17 injured in Moscow blast: Interfax
MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) -
One person was killed and 17 others injured Tuesday when a blast tore through a busy
central Moscow underpass, Interfax reported.
ITAR-TASS separately reported the blast was caused by an explosive device.
The blast ripped through an underpass in the city's central Pushkin Square.
An ORT television journalist at the scene reported by telephone that massive plumes of
smoke were pouring out onto the street from the underpass.
She said dozens of people, their faces blackened and covered in blood, were streaming
out of the underground passage in panic.
The reporter said one man, for some reason naked, was found lying near the underpass,
which connects three central Moscow metro stations.
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"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing
it's end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and
blood.It has indeed been a trying hour for the
Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong it's reign by working on the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety
for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the
midst of war."
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[CTRL] (Moscow) Bomb Goes Off
http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/ Tuesday, August 8 10:16 PM SGT Several people injured in central Moscow blast: Interfax MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) - Several people were injured Tuesday when a blast tore through a street underpass in central Moscow, Russian news agencies reported. It was not immediately clear if anyone died in the blast, which ITAR-TASS reported was caused by an explosive device. The blast ripped through an underpass in the city's central Pushkin Square. == Tuesday, August 8 11:20 PM SGT Another bomb defused on Moscow's central Pushkin Square MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) - Police defused a second explosive device only minutes after a bomb killed at least eight people on central Moscow's Pushkin Square, Interfax reported. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov told Interfax that at least eight people were killed and 22 others injured in the blast, which struck only a few blocks down the street from the Kremlin and Red Square. == Tuesday, August 8 11:57 PM SGT Moscow prosecutors probing blast as terrorist act MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) - Moscow prosecutors probing the deadly blast late Tuesday in central Moscow are treating it as a terrorist act, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said, cited by Interfax news agency. He said that he had no doubts that terrorism was to blame for the explosion, the deadliest since a series of blasts killed hundreds of people last autumn in Moscow, blamed on Chechen guerrillas. Seven people died in the blast in a crowded underpass at the height of rush hour in Moscow's central Pushkin Square, according to a revised casualty toll issued by the Russian emergencies ministry. Officials had originally put the number of dead at eight people. Officers from the Federal Security Service (FSB,ex-KGB) and the interior ministry were conducting an inquiry at the scene, Luzhkov said. == Putin calls emergency security meeting following Moscow blast MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin convened Tuesday an emergency meeting of his top security and defense ministers after a central Moscow blast that killed at least seven people, Interfax reported. The meeting was attended by Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, the deputy head of Russia's Federal Security Service (ex-KGB) Vladimir Pronichev, and Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu. The latest toll report from the Pushkin Square blast said at least seven people were killed and 53 others injured in the explosion. == Wednesday, August 9 1:40 AM SGT Muscovites in shock, accuse Chechens of staging deadly blast MOSCOW, Aug 8 (AFP) - Muscovites were gripped by shock and anxiety Tuesday as terrorism returned to the Russian capital when a powerful blast rocked through a city centre underpass, killing at least seven people. "We are in shock. It must be an act of vengeance by the Chechens," trembled Lyudmilla Malygina, a salesgirl who was tending her stall in the underground passage in Pushkin Square when the explosion struck. "I am afraid to take the Metro. The police don't have the time to check everything and there could be explosives," said Yekaterina Domenichinova, her eyes staring blankly. "All this is taking place in broad daylight and right in the centre of the capital. Anyone could have been there," said student Yelena, in a terrorized voice. Among the crowd massed outside the scene of the blast, anxious people phoned to get news of their family and friends. A woman wandered around desperately searching for her sister who worked in the underpass. "It's a miracle I stayed alive. All their promises of security mean nothing," said Tatiana Mikhailova, an actress and theatre director. "There is no doubt that the Chechens are behind this terrorist act. It's stupid knowing the psychology of these people to intervene in their republic. So many people have died because that began again," she protested. A blast in the centre of Moscow on August 31 last year marked the first in a series of terrorist acts that killed 293 people in Russia. These bombings, blamed on Chechen rebels, prompted Russia to launch a massive "anti-terrorist" operation in the rebellious republic, in the second war in the region since the disastrous 1994-1996 conflict. Chechnya's separatist president Aslan Maskhadov denied any rebel involvement in the Pushkin Square blast. "As long as peace is not concluded in Chechnya, terrorist acts will continue," Mikhailova said. "The Russian actions in Chechnya are provoking the Chechens to retaliate. They are responding to the violence of the Russian soldiers in Chechnya, to the death of Chechen civilians," explained businessman Alexander
[CTRL] Kashmiri Militant Group Ends Cease-Fire With India
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Aug 8, 2000 - 08:28 AM
Kashmiri Militant Group Ends Cease-Fire With India
By Amir Zia
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Kashmiri militant group called off its cease-fire with
India on Tuesday after New Delhi refused to let Pakistan participate in talks aimed at
settling the protracted Kashmir dispute.
Hezb-ul Mujahedeen chief Sayed Salahuddin accused India of squandering an opportunity
for peace in its troubled Kashmir territory, where a secessionist uprising has been
raging for more than 11 years.
Many other militant groups refused to recognize the cease-fire, but the move was
nonetheless considered the most significant breakthrough since the Muslim rebel
insurgency in Indian-ruled Kashmir began in 1989.
"This peace offensive has not been reciprocated by India, who have demonstrated their
traditional intransigence," Salahuddin said at a news conference in the Pakistani
capital, Islamabad.
Salahuddin said his militant group staked its reputation on the cease-fire offer,
which it made on July 24 and which India had welcomed.
Salahuddin's Hezb-ul Mujahedeen group was suspended from the United Jehad Council, an
organization of 14 guerrilla groups fighting in Kashmir, following the cease-fire
announcement.
"It needs to be pointed out that we put our entire credibility of 12 years at stake
for our (desire) to facilitate a peaceful resolution," to the 53-year-old Kashmir
dispute, Salahuddin said.
Kashmir is one of the most volatile regions in the world and the source of
international concern that an escalation of violence could lead to a larger conflict
between India and Pakistan, the world's two newest nuclear powers.
India has refused to include Pakistan in peace talks, accusing its neighbor of
supporting the militants. Pakistan says its support is limited to political and moral
help.
Pakistan also says that the 53-year Kashmir dispute cannot be solved without its
involvement.
Divided between Pakistan and India after British rule of the subcontinent ended in
1947, Kashmir has been the flashpoint for two wars between the uneasy neighbors.
Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety.
Pakistan has been pressing for a vote by Kashmiris on both the Indian and Pakistani
sides of the territory to decide whether a united Kashmir would join Islamic Pakistan
or Hindu India.
New Delhi opposes the vote, which is in keeping with a 1948 United Nations resolution.
More than 100 civilians, the vast majority of them Hindus, were killed in Indian
Kashmir last week. New Delhi blamed the attack on pro-Pakistan militants.
Both Pakistan and the militants denied the charge, saying the massacre was carried out
by India to malign Pakistan and defame the Kashmiri freedom struggle.
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"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing
it's end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and
blood.It has indeed been a trying hour for the
Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong it's reign by working on the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety
for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the
midst of war."
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[CTRL] Security hole in Netscape browser infects almost 1,000 computers
Security hole in Netscape browser infects almost 1,000 computers By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (August 8, 2000 8:58 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Security experts warned Internet users Monday about a security hole in Netscape's Web browser that has already infected almost 1,000 computers. Once a computer is infected, a hacker can click through the victim's computer and see, run and delete files on the target computer. The method, dubbed "Brown Orifice" in a reference to the popular hacker tool BackOrifice, has been making the rounds of computer security mailing lists and bulletin boards over the weekend. Netscape has not yet made a remedy available, but are working on the problem. "Netscape takes all security issues very seriously," said Netscape spokesman Andrew Weinstein, "We're working to quickly evaluate and address this concern." The person who posted the code also posted a sample bit of computer code on his Web site that can be modified for more malicious purposes and a list of some of the users who have been infected. This list is being used by other hackers, said computer security expert Chris Rouland of Internet Security Systems, making those infected computers open to anyone who wants to click through their wide-open hard drives. "As of (Monday) morning," Rouland said, "965 people have it loaded." It's common practice to make dangerous code public so security professionals can better prepare themselves to defend against the code. ISS said information about the security hole had also appeared on several popular Web sites such as Slashdot, an online community of users of the Linux operating system. "It can be assumed that knowledge of the exploit, its source code, and variations are widespread," ISS said in a press release. However, there is still no remedy available from Netscape. Atlanta-based ISS, which analyzed the security hole, advises Netscape users to disable the Java programming language in their browser. Netscape, owned by America Online, suggested the same temporary workaround. Both ISS and Netscape officials noted that business users, because they're protected by the company's network firewall, are not vulnerable. Rouland said Brown Orifice is especially dangerous because it's easy to modify and can be changed into a self-copying virus form - as opposed to the current infection method, where a victim visits a Web site that includes the malicious code. "The bar's been lowered for any script-kiddie to modify this code and make it even more malicious," Rouland said. Netscape Communicator versions 4.74 and earlier are affected, Rouland said. Microsoft Internet Explorer users and users of the Mozilla prerelease version of the new Netscape browser 6.0 are not vulnerable to this problem. Rouland noted that Microsoft users who have switched to Netscape - a company whose history includes the earliest Web browsers - after the recent stream of Microsoft-related security holes in Internet Explorer and the Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail programs are finding that no computer programs are without problems. Also Monday, another security expert pointed out a security hole in Microsoft's Word and Excel products that can let a hacker take over the victim's computer. Microsoft officials said they are working on the issue. "The vendor-changing strategy obviously doesn't work," he said. "Security coding practices are being ignored by even one of the Internet's oldest companies." Steve Wingate Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Ancient Coins May Map New Understandings of Antiquity
Well now, the history of the stater is well known and documented by archaelogists and numismatists. The coins, found all over the Mediterranean and Europe and as far away as India and Central Asia, were originally minted by Alexander the Great. The horse represents his stallion Boukephalos, reputed to have been the finest horse ever bred; some Arabian bloodlines are supposed to trace all the way back to him. The first staters were issued while Alexander was still alive. Many others were minted by the successor regimes into which his empire split, most notably the Ptolemys of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. In the years that followed, as staters moved along the trade routes, they were widely copied and imitated, and became as much general currency as the U.S. dollar today. But the imitators did not have the same skill or artistic concepts as Alexander's minters, and they altered the images on the stater, vastly simplifying the horse until it resembled a random collection of blobs of wax dripped from a candle. They also completely mangled the Greek inscriptions into nonsensical chicken tracks, which is probably all the Greek meant to them anyway. Staters coined in Gaul were still circulating a thousand years later among the Arabs. [I'll provide documentation for this later if anyone is interested.] So I seriously doubt that the Carthaginian staters contain maps of the world. I'm not challenging the possibility of Punic exploration/colonization of the Americas; if anyone from that time could have done it, it would have been the Phoenicians or Carthaginians. But please note that Dr. McMenamin is a geologist, not an archaeologist or linguist, and remember that these waters are extremely deep and extremely treacherous... - Original Message - From: "J Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 4:25 PM Subject: [CTRL] Ancient Coins May Map New Understandings of Antiquity http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/vista/9606/4.html Ancient Coins May Map New Understandings of Antiquity BY KEVIN McCAFFREY snip It was his interest in the Carthaginians and Phoenicians as explorers that led McMenamin to study the gold coins, known as staters. ... snip A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: (fwd) So You Thought the World Bank was About Banking
Be sure to read to the end. Forwarded message: Subject: ip: "Bolivia Vanishes: See Style Section" Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:17:46 -0500 From: David Linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: (Recipient list suppressed) [The formatting on this was completely wacked so I've redone the lines and inserted paragraph changes but I don't know where they would have been in the original -- just guessing. There is also an article about World Bank water policy at bottom following this story. I have not inserted any personal comments -- all comments were in the article I received.] Bolivia Vanishes: See Style Section by Gregory Palast* - Gregory Palast, an award-winning investigative journalist, writes a fortnightly column, "Inside Corporate America," for The Observer of London, the Sunday paper of the Guardian Media Group. In April, five people were shot dead in Bolivia, a military policeman was lynched and the president declared a state of siege following a general strike that shut down much of the nation. At the end of it all, for the first time in a decade anywhere in the world, American and British corporate giants, the targets of the protest, were booted out of the Andean nation, a stunning reversal of the march of globalization. You didn't read the story? Come now, it was right there in the Washington Post ... in paragraph 10 of the story, on page 13 of the Style section. I kid you not: the STYLE section. It dangled from the bottom of a cute little story on the lifestyle of some local anti-WTO protesters. And so, one of the most extraordinary international stories of the year just went PFZZZT!!! and disappeared from sight. Here's what you didn't hear. In the1990s, Bolivia became the World Bank's South American poster child for neo-liberal "reform" by following with pathologic care all the Bank's dicta. This included the forced sale of all the nation's public water systems. But when the new Anglo-American owners of one city's water company hiked prices 35 percent to 150 percent per World Bank orders, a general strike shut the town. The government's bloody reaction helped spread the protests nationwide. After 13 days, Bolivia's president, in fear of the strengthening protests, took back the water company from the U.S.-British operators and canceled the price hikes. Some vital stories get buried because they fail the "sex" test of hot photos, or they have no domestic news hook. But Bolivia had it all. Networks could obtain high-quality video footage of the military gunning down civilians. At the center of the story were huge American and British multinationals, including Bechtel of San Francisco and Britain's United Utilities. Most importantly, this general strike in South America offered a dramatic and bloody parallel to protests in Washington against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which were occurring that very week. By any normal news measure, this was a helluva story of globalization stopped dead in its tracks ... all while McDonald's burned in Washington. James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, was so shaken by events in Bolivia that on April 12, in the midst of responding to the Washington demonstrations against the Bank, he took time to denounce the Bolivian protesters as "rioters." Wolfensohn's wild statement (the rioters were peaceful demonstrators led by the town's archbishop) was meant to discourage the press from writing sympathetically about the Bolivians. He need not have worried. There was nothing on the tube; and aside from the mention in the Post's Style section and a few news wire paragraphs in The New York Times, for the mainstream media, the Bolivians simply vanished. I can't say there were NO reports. The Financial Times sent a reporter to Bolivia. The lead paragraph of his April 26 report informed us that on the wall of the protesters' headquarters hung "faded portraits of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro." There was no mention at all that five civilians and a policeman had died. The FT reporter, who should have known better, picked up the line that drug traffickers were somehow behind the water protests. This fanciful accusation originated in a Bechtel news release. (As one Bolivian told me, deadpan: "Traficantes don't care about their water bill.") Bolivians themselves were also denied the full story, but by more direct means. The courageous editor of the Bolivian newspaper Gente (People) published an investigative series exposing the sweetheart deals between the U.S.-European investors and politically connected Bolivians. At the end of April, Gente's publishers, admitting to threats of financial ruin by the water system's Bolivian partners, demanded that the editor, Luis Bredow, print a retraction of his reports. Bredow printed the paper's retraction ... and his resignation in protest. == *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this
[CTRL] Heads Up! Phantom Terrorism
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Heads Up! Phantom Terrorism Date: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 2:22 PM Heads Up! Phantom Terrorism and Government Brutality The Battlefield of Our Time Readers have asked why WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS has stated that some of the present leaders of our own country are the world's only serious terrorist threat, whether it is unpatriotic to say so even if it is true, and finally, what can be done about it. This is the first in a series on Terrorism, real and imagined. Have you stopped to consider why your government spends so much of their time and your money to convince you that "terrorists" are a threat? Not a day passes that we do not read about this or that group suspected of planning some act against someone. If you fly you must answer questions like, "did you pack your own bag? has it been out of your sight? has anyone asked you to carry anything?" To the counter-terrorists, every bag has a potential bomb, and you might be the next victim or terrorist. I often wonder what happens to the honest guy who say, "No, my wife packed it." But what are the facts and the odds of being a victim, and more important than statistics, what is terrorism and what causes it? The official figures of the bureaucrats involved in "counter terrorism" seem to belie their words. Their own data shows that a number of acts of so-called terrorism are insignificant worldwide and are so scattered they are hardly preventable. Furthermore, the government numbers are so drastically skewed and distorted that it is doubtful if so-called terrorist acts have ever been a serious threat to Americans. It appears that our government's unwanted and unnecessary presence in foreign countries is the cause of most acts, and the problem would not occur had the victims not been in places where they were unwanted. Ambassador Michael Sheehan of the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism told a national TV audience in June that incidents of terrorism have declined to 2,500 in the last 10 years, which is only 250 per year worldwide. A decade ago, an insignificant 5,000 incidents were considered "terrorism" by the State Department, or 500 per year-- also an insignificant number in the supposedly lawless 1980's. This means that at worst, your chance of being killed in so-called acts of terrorism have never been worse than your chance of being hit by lightning in your own bathtub while listening to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. If we applied the same logic to bathing as we do to terrorism, we would have a lightning arrestor installed on every bathtub in the world, and you w! ! ! ould have to fill out a safety questionnaire before you could get in the tub. Furthermore, most of the worst and bloodiest acts of "terrorism" occur in foreign war zones where few Americans have reason to be. Most of the worst cases affected only Military and Americans in foreign service. In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Washington, DC, June 8, 2000, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III, Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism, told the Senate how terrible a threat worldwide terrorism is, but an examination of the elaborate data he presented indicates otherwise. Mr. Bremer's ringing warning of the danger of massive poisoning of Americans seems to be muted by the Japanese subway gassing incident that killed only 12 people in a very well-oiled plot. Readers are invited to examine the list on ( http//www.state.gov/global/terrorism ). With few exceptions, the incidents described were not terrorism, in any true definition, but were predictable acts of war resulting from a U.S. presence on other people's turf. Among the bloodiest cases cited by the counter-terrorism bureaucrats are the Marine Corp's barracks bombing in Saudi Arabia and a similar bombing incident in Lebanon a decade ago. We agree these were tragic and preventable incidents that needlessly took the lives of several hundred Americans who should not have been there. But they were military acts, for our forces were there on war missions, on active military duty, occupying an unpopular position in another country where much of the population resented them as foreign invaders. The fact that the Saudi government allowed the barracks to be there(The Saudis were not given much choice in the matter)does not mean it was welcome by the citizens of the country, any more than the presence of the IRS building in your city means you like the income tax. Were not all of the persons who lost their lives in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon receiving paid elevated combat pay and knew they were at risk. All were volunteer professional soldiers. They knew the risks, and so did their commanders. The author is sympathetic to any American killed in the line
Re: [CTRL] Democracy in jeopardy
Oscar wrote/forwarded: Democracy in the United States is in jeopardy. MJ About damned time. Oscar wrote/forwarded: The litany of problems is widely recognized: brazen political deal-making based on campaign contributions; entrenched voter apathy; a two-party stranglehold that increasingly represents only the narrow interests of a wealthy elite. Legalized bribery is a fact of life, as is the refusal of a majority of citizens to vote. Ours is a crippled democracy, each day appearing more as an oligarchy than a republic. MJ Which is it ... a democracy or a republic? The US Constitution establishes a Republic with three branches of Government each with their specific and enumerated functions. That we have had an oligarchy ruled by the whims of (now) five is a result of a usurpation in 1803. The problem is NOT the contributions, but the legislated quid pro quo provided for VOTES. Two illustrations: a. If Archer Daniels Midland did NOT receive gazillions in unconstitutional subsidies and other legislated advantage, would they provide millions to candidates? If they did NOT, what would it matter if they did provide whatever amount of funding they chose? b. If Senior citizens did not receive payment for their votes in the guise of unconstitutional Social Security Welfare, Medical Welfare, etc., would they vote for the candidate promising the greatest amount of other people's money? Look at the unconstitutional 'free prescription' program being offered now. Oscar wrote/forwarded: Certainly most US citizens enjoy freedom of conscience and feel that they can express their political beliefs without fear of government persecution. But under the current campaign finance system the voices of a tiny few drown out the voices of the majority. MJ You imagine further restricting freedom will provide more freedom? Oscar wrote/forwarded: The right of free political expression has been rendered meaningless by the massive amount of money flooding the electoral system. The purchase of democracy is a theft of freedom. MJ This is rather absurd. What is it you imagine democracy to entail? Oscar wrote/forwarded: The state of our democracy is best represented by this new United Corporations of America flag. Twelve corporate logos have been reproduced on the flag which represent a snapshot of how corporations influence democracy today. MJ Corporations are a creation *OF* Government. Your problem is with the pull-peddlers that seek Power ... having undermined the Constitution and its protections by ensuring mass ignorance from their mandatory indoctrination centers. As is typical of Big Government Myrmidons, a gross ignorance of the problem and their imagined solution -- which serves only to make matters far worse -- is oft displayed. Regard$, --MJ Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. -- John Adams The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. -- James Fenimore Cooper A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [22] Agency of Fear - Opiates and Political Power in America
from: http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/ Click Here: A HREF="http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/"The Architecture of Modern Political Power/A - Agency of Fear Opiates and Political Power in America By Edward Jay Epstein Chapter 22 - The Crime Nexus Drug traffic is public enemy number one domestically in the United States today and we must wage a total offensive, worldwide, nationwide, government-wide, and, if I might say so, media-wide. -President Nixon, in remarks before media executives at the Flagship Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., June 18, 1971 The mobilization of public fears and anxieties to support the president's offensive was based not on the damage heroin addicts inflicted on themselves but on the damage they presumably inflicted on innocent members of society. "The real problem is that heroin addicts steal, rob, and commit every other kind of crime," Ambrose told U.S. News World Report in 1971, "so we have this terrible problem of crime in the cities, much of which is related to heroin addiction." (This image was reinforced by the antidrug messages in television programming and commercials which depicted addicts as glassy-eyed fiends compulsively driven to commit violent crimes.) Nixon also postulated, in a speech to Congress, "Narcotics addiction is a major contributor to crime. The cost of supplying a narcotics habit can run from thirty dollars a day to one hundred dollars a day. This is two hundred ten to seven hundred dollars a week, or over ten thousand dollars to over thirty-six thousand dollars a year." The president went on to explain that since "addicts do not ordinarily hold jobs ... they often turn to shoplifting, mugging, burglary, armed robbery, and so on." Administration officials then calculated that "the total annual crime cost of the country-largely crime on the streets-is roughly 18 billion dollars." This staggering figure of $18 billion which was based on a series of assumptions about what fraction of the value of stolen goods addicts receive from "fences"-was then released to the press and to Congress as the official estimate of crime caused by heroin, and was included in the government's "briefing book" used to inform reporters writing about the problem of drug abuse. While such authoritative-sounding figures were widely reported in the press and no doubt added to public anxieties about crime and narcotics, they were not in fact related to any actual statistics compiled by the government. Indeed, the $18 billion worth of crime which government spokesmen claimed addicts were committing to buy their supply of heroin was actually more than 25 times greater than the total sum of property that was stolen and unrecovered throughout the United States in 1971 (including hijackings, embezzlements, automobile, fur, and jewelry thefts), according to the Uniform Crime Reports published by the FBI. (in New York City alone, where more than half of all of the nation's addicts were presumed to reside, addicts would have to steal goods worth more than $9 billion, if one used the calculus of the Nixon administration; yet the total value of property stolen that year according to police-department records was only $225 million-or one fortieth the amount that addicts alone were presumed to have stolen.) To be sure, not all theft is reported to the police-though the dollar value of stolen property is more often exaggerated, or overreported than it is underreported. However"' a study commissioned by the Law Enforcement Administration Agency in 1972, using census-taking techniques to poll the citizenry about crime, estimated that no more than one half the crimes in New York City and other urban areas with major addiction programs go unreported. Even if the total amount of crime was doubled in 1971, addicts would still be stealing more than twelve times all the property actually stolen in America in 1971. This 1200-percent discrepancy between the claims of the Nixon administration and government statistics was further compounded by the fact that the sorts of crimes which accounted for the bulk of stolen and unrecovered property such as car theft, hijacking, bank robbery, embezzlement, and fraud were not normally attributed to addicts by law-enforcement officials. The $18-billion figure did not correspond to reported or even actual crime in America; it was merely another datum in the campaign to brief the press and thereby better organize public fears about heroin addicts. Though journalists widely reported such billion-dollar hyperbole as fact, Egil Krogh and the White House strategists fully realized that the "magic numbers," as Krogh put it, were based on very dubious assumptions about the relation of crime and drug addiction. For one thing, the multibillion-dollar estimates were based on the BNDD's projection of 559,000 addicts. This projection, in turn, was based on a statistical artifact which was later revised downward (when no evidence was found of the 400,000 or so unknown addicts). Moreover, the
[CTRL] [23] Agency of Fear - Opiates and Political Power in America
from: http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/ Click Here: A HREF="http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/"The Architecture of Modern Political Power/A - Agency of Fear Opiates and Political Power in America By Edward Jay Epstein Chapter 23 - Private Knowledge While the Nixon administration was operating on the public front to inject fear-provoking stereotypes of incurable addicts into primetime television, to disseminate authoritative-sounding statistics suggesting that there was an uncontrollable heroin epidemic sweeping the nation-,-and to inform journalists about the $18-billion crime wave being conducted in America by new hordes of addicts, on the private front it was receiving information from its own agencies which did not fit the picture of imminent national peril, and this information was kept private. As early as December, 1970, an interagency committee on narcotics and drug abuse composed of representatives from the Department of Defense, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Department of Labor, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Veterans Administration. and the National Institute of Mental Health reported to the Domestic Council that "in terms of the size of the problem. for example compared to the problems of alcoholism, mental illness. automobile injuries and fatalities, the problem of drug abuse is relatively small." It further cautioned: Hasty and ill-considered policies may not only be ineffective, but they may generate different types of casualties and adverse consequences of the medical, social, and legal nature, such as loss of respect for the law, extensive arrest records [for youthful violations] ... and accidental death and levels of dependence hitherto unknown as a result, of leaks in widely dispersed or poorly conceived methadone maintenance programs. Since there were then more than 9 million alcoholics compared to fewer than 100,000 known narcotics addicts, the White House strategists agreed that the problem could not be presented simply in terms of a menace to public health. A Domestic Council staff report on national drug programs was prepared in December, 1970, with the assistance of the National Institute of Mental Health and other government agencies involved in drug-abuse evaluation. It noted: Alcoholism, though a much greater public health and safety problem than other forms of drug abuse, is not perceived in the public and political minds as a great social and moral evil If the misuse of all drugs-illicit drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco-was discussed in only medical and public health terms, the problem of drug abuse would not take on inflated importance requiring an undeserved federal response for political purposes. This report further observed, "If the misuse of drugs is viewed with proper perspective, it is not in actuality a paramount national problem However, because of the political significance of the Problem, visible, hard-hitting programs must be highlighted to preclude irrational criticism." In this private report the agencies of government dealing with drug abuse admitted not only that narcotics was not a paramount national problem but also that "the dimension of the drug-using population is not known with any degree of accuracy; we don't even know how many users are being treated. . . ." In the spring of 197 1, the Domestic Council found that there were no "hard" estimates in any agency of the government of the number of addicts, the amount they spent on narcotics each year, the amount of theft they committed, or the effectiveness of law enforcement on reducing addiction or theft. According to Egli Krogh's recollection, the president himself closely questioned John Ingersoll, asking him such questions as "Are there less narcotics on the street [now]? ... Are there fewer addicts? Is there less crime related to the use of narcotics? Can you show me that the problem itself is being corrected by these operational indices of success? Ingersoll bluntly told the President that that the government had not yet approached answering these questions, and the president, according to Krogh, "just shook his head in disbelief." Since the data of other government agencies were equally elusive when it came to answering these central questions about addiction posed by the president, Krogh ordered the Office of Science and Technology, in August, 1971, immediately to commission a complete analysis of all available data on narcotics addiction and crime. He subsequently explained to me that because of the president's "sense of discomfort over ... the statistical work" of the government agencies directly engaged in drug programs, "we wanted an independent unit under the Office of Science and Technology who were professionals at data collection and analysis to tell us whether or not the assumptions on which our programs have been based were in fact sound." The Office of Science and Technology (which is a part of the
[CTRL] [21] Agency of Fear - Opiates and Political Power in America
from: http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/ Click Here: A HREF="http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/"The Architecture of Modern Political Power/A - Agency of Fear Opiates and Political Power in America By Edward Jay Epstein Chapter 21 - The Movable Epidemic We must now candidly recognize that the ... present efforts to control drug abuse are not sufficient in themselves. The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency. I intend to take every- step necessary to deal with this emergency -PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON, in a message to Congress on June 17, 1971 President Nixon justified his request for emergency powers to deal with drug abuse in 1971 by citing an uncontrollable heroin epidemic which, if not brought under immediate control, "will surely in ti me destroy us." According to official statistics supplied to the media by federal agencies, the number of addict-users had increased from 68,000 in 1969 to 315,000 in 1970 to 559,000 in 1971, or what Myles Ambrose declared in 1971 to be a "tenfold increase." Such a geometric progression threatened the entire American citizenry with "the hell of addiction" in a few short years, the president suggested, because every individual infected with heroin was in turn driven to infect at least six others. Nor could such an epidemic be brought under control by ordinary means: the president explained that the suppliers of heroin "are literally the slave traders of our time They are traffickers in Living Death [and] they must be hunted to the ends of the earth." A tenfold increase in the number of heroin addicts would certainly be a cause for national concern; the magnitude of the 1971 epidemic was, however, more a product of government statisticians than of heroin traffickers. Until 1970, official estimates of the number of heroin addicts were based on a register kept by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs which, like the FBI's Uniform Code Reports, was simply a compilation of reports from local police departments. All police departments-and medical authorities-were supposed to report the names of known addicts to the bureau. And, on the theory that most, if not all, addicts eventually would come to the attention of some police department or hospital, it was assumed that the total number of names on the federal register constituted nearly the entire addict population (within "a deviation factor of less than two percent," Myles Ambrose explained to the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse in 1971). The pre-epidemic estimate of 68,088 in 1969 was based on this register. (By mid-1970 the addict population had grown to only 68,864, according to the register, which was not published that year.) The prodigious increase from some 68,000 addicts in 1969 to 315,000 in late 1970 and 559,000 in 1971 came not from any flood of new addicts reported to federal authorities in 1970 or 197 1 but from a statistical reworking of the 1969 data. Rather than continuing to publish estimates based on the federal register, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs decided to apply a new formula to the old 1969 data, which produced first a quintupling, then an octupling, of the estimated number of addicts. Unlike the previous theory that almost all addicts would eventually come to the attention of authorities, the new formula was based on the belief that only a small fraction of the addict population would ever be reported to police or medical authorities, and therefore listed in the federal register. Joseph A. Greenwood, the statistician at the BNDD who devised the new formula, explained, "it is impossible to actually know the number of addicts in the United States The best we can do is make some assumptions", he then proceeded to apply these assumptions to the data collected in 1969 to estimate the number of unknown addicts. "The estimate makes use of a technique similar to that by which the number of fish a lake ... is estimated," he noted. To understand how this statistical artifact led to a tenfold ballooning of the number of addicts in America and provided the president with a national emergency, it Is necessary to examine the so-called "tagged-fish-in-a-pond" technique. One way of estimating the number of fish in a pond would be to catch an initial sample of fish, tag them, then release them and allow enough time for a random redistribution of the tagged fish among the rest of the fish in the pond. A second sample of fish is then caught, and the proportion of tagged to untagged fish in this catch would allow an estimate to be made for the total number of fish in the pond. For example, if one out of ten fish in the second sample was already tagged, then the total population would be assumed to be ten times the number of fish originally tagged. In applying this concept to addicts, statisticians at the BNDD divided the total number of names on the federal register in 1969 by the number of names that were "tagged" (that is, reported in 1969) and
[CTRL] [20] Agency of Fear - Opiates and Political Power in America
from: http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/ Click Here: A HREF="http://mega.nu:8080/ampp/"The Architecture of Modern Political Power/A - Agency of Fear Opiates and Political Power in America By Edward Jay Epstein Chapter 20 - The Manipulation of the Media Control over the flow of information emanating from the political center will be our most important weapon EDWARD LUTTWAK, Coup d'Etat The extraordinary measures that the White House planned to undertake in its war against crime depended heavily for their success on the organization of public fears. If Americans could be persuaded that their lives and the lives of their children were being threatened by a rampant epidemic of narcotics addiction, Nixon's advisors presumed they would not object to decisive government actions, such as no-knock warrants, pretrial detention, wiretaps, and unorthodox strike forces-even if the emergency measures had to cross or circumvent the traditional rights of a suspect. To achieve this state of fear required transforming a relatively small heroin addiction problem-which even according to the most exaggerated estimates directly affected only a minute fraction of the population in 1971-into -a plague that threatened all. This in turn required the artful use of the media to propagate a simple but terrifying set of stereotypes about drug addiction: the addict-dealer would be depicted as a modern-day version of the medieval vampire, ineluctably driven to commit crimes and infect others by his insatiable and incurable need for heroin. The victims would be shown as innocent youth, totally vulnerable to the vampire-addict. And the federal law-enforcement officer would be shown as the only effective instrument for stopping the vampire-addicts from contaminating the rest of society. The most obvious medium available for projecting these stereotypes on the popular imagination was television. The plan to mobilize the media developed in March, 1970. President Nixon had instructed his chief domestic advisor, John Ehrllchman, to "further utilize television as a too] in the fight against drug abuse." Ehrlichman then turned the project over to Egli Krogh, his assistant, and Jeb Stuart Magruder, the deputy director of the Office of Communications in the White House. Magruder, a thirty six-year-old former advertising salesman and merchandise manager for a department store, found initially that officials in the various federal agencies resisted his plans for a publicity hype of the drug issue. He recalled in his autobiography, "The first meeting we called was hilarious-I couldn't believe those people [in the federal agencies] were working on the same problem We encountered the usual hostility the White House people meet in the bureaucratic world." But eventually "everyone agreed that television was the single most effective means to reach young people and alert them to the hazards of drugs." On March I I the White House held a press conference, and the memorandum by Magruder summing up the "feedback" noted that the media interest sparked by the press conference had been favorable We have been getting calls from all over the Country ... ranging from network television to rural weeklies to professional journals A pod many of those calling indicated enthusiastic support for the Administration [press] programs and inferred [sic) that they would be doing supportive and follow-up pieces, including editorials, The White House strategists, however, were more interested in primetime television. On March 18, 1970, Jeffrey Donfeld, the enterprising assistant to Krogh, sent a memorandum to the White House proposing that since "the President expressed his desire to have more anti-drug themes on television," the president should personally attend a meeting of television producers that Donfeld was arranging for April 9, 1970, at the White House. Among those being invited, Donfeld noted, were: 1. The vice-presidents in charge of programming of the three networks. 2. The vice-presidents in charge of continuity acceptance [who approve the contents of the programs] of the networks. 3. The heads of production of the six major television production companies. 4. The producers of select programs which can accommodate narcotics themes ... this group will represent at least 90 percent of prime-time shows. 5. Television programming vice-presidents of the three major advertising agencies. Donfeld explained that the day-long program would be held in the White House theater and that the purpose of the meeting would be to stimulate these producers to include in their fall programming antidrug themes." In a March 19 memorandum John Ehrlichman recommended personally that the president meet the television executives in his office for a "photo opportunity." On April 2 a detailed scenario was drawn up for the meeting of the following week. "To expedite the meeting and give It a little novelty," it recommended: The Attorney General will just be
[CTRL] Deep Ecology: USA Sound Warfare Systems
From deep-ecology-L: Subj:USA Sound Warfare Systems Date: 00-08-08 03:24:40 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, There are two US systems under development: LFAS (Low Freq. Active Sonar) and, LWAD (Littoral Weapons Acoustic Development). The first is an aggressive probe that relates to the news articles appended below. The second is less well known and I have struggled to source information as it's still under wraps. LFAS is properly known as LFAS - SURTASS, but is often erroneously referred to as LFA. A look at the photographs of this system is telling, but LWAD is LWAD and I have yet to see images of this system, if anyone does have pics please contact me. LWAD relates to the use of intense sound to destroy enemy troops as they incur across beach (littoral) regions. If these weapons are perfected it remains to be seen if they are placed in the same category as blinding weapons - primarily lasers that are designed to blind enemy troops permanently but effect no other damage. This follows the classic military strategy that a dead soldier doesn't impede the enemy but an incapacitated one drains the enemy as they have to look after their own. Either way, the LFAS and LWAD systems are clearly destructive to marine ecosystems and so should be opposed. Remember the Chinese knew about explosive a 1000 years before Westerners but declared them forbidden for warfare as they were too nasty and violent and destructive. The Chinese restricted explosives to fireworks. However, the brilliant minds of Western military institutions thought; 'Whoo-Hoo!!' Jon _ OCEANS An intense underwater noise or explosive pressure led to the strandings of five beaked whales in March, federal marine biologists said. The strandings occurred while the U.S. Navy was conducting tests of a powerful sonar system. Biologists reported on autopsies performed on four Cuvier's beaked whales, and one Blainville's dense beaked whale, which all showed evidence of severe trauma to their ears and other areas. "The injuries were not consistent with a nearby explosion (there were no bone fractures), but could have been caused by a distant explosion, or an intense acoustic event." The findings are the first to link a distant noise or explosion with whale strandings. In March, the Navy was testing the Littoral Warfare Advanced Development (LWAD) system. That system uses active sonar to send out loud sounds that bounce off nearly silent submarines and other underwater targets. It uses middle frequencies, which are believed to be less harmful to marine species than the low frequency sonar used in some newer systems, like the Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar. The Navy seeks to deploy SURTASS in 80 percent of the world's oceans. The $350 million system emits sounds at decibel levels known to cause trauma to nearby listeners, both human and animal. Little is known about deep sea whales. Ten environmental groups began arguments before the Federal District Court in Honolulu challenging the Navy's plan to deploy LFA sonar systems. The case is led by the Hawai'i County Green Party, and by Julie Jacobson, a Green Party member of the Hawai'i County Council. The key allegation in the challenge is that the Navy is preparing to deploy the LFA sonar system before completing an environmental impact statement (EIS). http://www.ilhawaii.net/~light/lfaindex.html (ENS -06 15/6) * * * A study published in today's "Nature" finds that male humpback whales changed their mating songs under the influence of the Navy's experimental Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar. A team of U.S. scientists carried on a Navy research vessel broadcast 10, 42-second-long LFA signals at 16 humpback whales off the coast of Hawaii in 1998. The sonar transmissions were weaker than those used in normal LFA sonar operations. Miller said: "The sonar was turned down quite a bit from the actual level they use when they're looking for submarines." During the transmissions, five of the whales stopped singing altogether. The songs of the remaining whales lasted about 30% longer than normal. "We didn't observe any sorts of extreme reactions." (ENS -09 AmeriScan 22/6) ___ __ EcoNews Service - Alternative News: Ecology, Consciousness Universe Politics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] USA http://www.earthradioTV.com/index2.html CZECH http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ UK http://members.tripod.co.uk/ecologynews/ Canada http://www.ecologynews.com/index2.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and
[CTRL] Joe Lieberman - Irony and Hypocrisy (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:54:47 -0400 From: MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Joe Lieberman - Irony and Hypocrisy ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ JOE LIEBERMAN - Irony and Hypocrisy http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! - - - - - - - - - - IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Americans feel happy, prosperous, the world is at peace, for the most part." Senior CNN commentator commenting on Joe Lieberman becoming V-P candidate MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 8/8: There are so many ironies in contemporary history; there is so much hypocrisy in our world. Joe Lieberman and Al Gore were two of the 10 Senators of the Democratic party who voted to make war on Iraq and who have pressed to maintain the genocidal "sanctions" on that country. At the time of that vote the Senate was controlled by the Democratic Party and had they voted and urged the other way history itself could have been altered. Both Gore and Lieberman have propelled and financed their political careers partly as extreme supporters of Israel, no matter what; and they are both darlings of the Israeli/Jewish lobby. Joe Lieberman -- moral pillar we are told, Orthodox Jew, decent man, with a wife whose familiar survived the Holocaust -- may present a thoughtful image, a pleasant charm, a "moderate" and "principled" record according to CNN and the corporate-controlled mass media. But when the actual policies he has advocated are examined in cold fact he has been one of the primary advocates of modern-day genocide, of neo-apartheid in the Holy Land, and of a rampant American militarism whose day of reckoning is yet to come. Now of course there's nothing better to say about George W. and Cheney. But they at least don't put themselves forward as moral pillars and deeply religious personalities. The only American candidate who makes any moral and principled sense at the moment is Ralph Nader. But the irony here is that his candidacy appears to be most likely to help Bush and Cheney take charge again in Washington; and they are even more dangerous and even more militarist than Al and Joe. MID-EAST REALITIES http://www.MiddleEast.Org Phone: 202 362-5266 Fax: 815 366-0800 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] ADC = Bullshit + Anti-Iraq Sanctions Org Hijacked (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 18:14:57 -0400 From: MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADC = Bullshit + Anti-Iraq Sanctions Org Hijacked ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ F L A S H B A C K http://www.MiddleEast.Org ADC = BULLSHIT News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! --- IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ARAB-AMERICAN HACKS HIJACK NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST IRAQI SANCTIONS Washington Scene - MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - 8/07/2000: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) folk were at it again this weekend in Washington - client-organizations fronting for their client regimes. Aware of how skeptical people have become of Arab American organizations when they show their true colors, and needing to mask their involvements for a variety of reasons, ADC didn't even send any official spokesman to the weekend's National Mobilization to End Sanctions Against Iraq. Thankfully everyone was spared another hypocritical oration by former Arab League Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, who along with his chums installed his wife Hala as "President of ADC" a few years ago. Instead ADC sent one of their loyal stooges to the main organizing meeting of the still embryonic National Coalition. The goal of the meeting was to quickly build-on the momentum of the weekend protests by creating a national organization and planning a national conference -- long overdue and long put off developments. But just as the meeting was about to endorse these steps Rania Masri twisted them out of it, deceptively convincing the 60 or so persons who had gathered to put off the much needed national conference and instead (believe it or not!) follow the lead of the "highly successful" Arab American groups. Hold the laughter now! With their brand new "Right of Return" T-shirts, Masri rattled off a litany of misinformation, and as time for the meeting ran out managed to hijack the needed steps toward a serious national organization and national conference. Instead, using a few others she brought with her to endorse her suggestions, she got unenthusiastic and half-hearted agreement to use her egroups internet discussion forum (which pathetically has only about 400 email addresses on it after years of organizing) as the forum for continued discussion about what should be done. How sad and tragic of course -- and the "peace movement" wonders why so many are turned off, disgusted, and unwilling to get involved. Ten years after the war, 10 years into the awful "genocidal" sanctions, nearly 1.5 million Iraqi deaths and counting, and the organizers of the Washington demonstration still don't have any idea how Washington works and how they are manipulated, infiltrated, and used. With a sheet of paper listing dozens of groups that make of their rather anarchistic "coalition", they have yet to even decide on an actual name for the national organization, there is no one in charge, there is no date for the urgently needed national conference. Meanwhile, Martin Sheen and other big-name persons listed as endorsing the demonstration and calling for an end to sanctions were no-shows. Missed his plane the organizers said, unconvincingly. Indeed, there were no major stars from TV land, only a few church spokesman, a couple of note, a lone Congressman, and a highly articulate and dedicated British Member of Parliament. And oh yes, Ralph Nader did come and speak -- and good for him. Worst of all though, this whole effort is now going to be further manipulated by the Washington-based Arab client-organizations who are themselves short-leash creatures of the very Arab client-regimes from whose countries U.S. and British warplanes continue to destroy Iraq and enforce the hated "sanctions" they are protesting! We'll continue to have a special focus on the realities of the "Washington Scene" in the weeks and months ahead. Right now, for the unknowing, and for the hijacked, this FlashBack article to three year ago this month. A D C = B U L L S H I T "Most of what I've heard from this panel is BULLSHIT." First audience comment at ADC annual conference MER - Washington - 8/27/97: . There are many reasons the Israeli/Jewish lobby rules in Washington with hardly any effective opposition. . One of the main reasons is that the various Arab-American organizations that exist are all controlled,
[CTRL] help me out here, gang
What do you think of this site? Legit or what? http://www.double-cross.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Find The Presidential Candidate That Best Matches Your Views!
This is an interesting pol. It covers the candidates' positions on issues, and puts you in a "proper" category as liberal, conservative, libertarian, etc. And, you just might be surprised at the results! http://www.speakout.com/votematch/default.asp = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, 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, A Good Day. = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NM: Traficant Drops Treason Bombshell on Reno
[Some believe that B.J. Clinton has something on Reno and that is why she has refused to appoint an independent prosecutor to look into Chinagate, etc. --MS] With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Tuesday August 8, 2000; 12:10 AM EDT Traficant Drops Treason Bombshell on Reno Ohio congressman James Traficant accused Attorney General Janet Reno of treason Monday night, saying he has evidence that she was blackmailed not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton-Gore administration on Chinagate charges. Appearing on Fox News Channel's "Hannity Colmes," the Ohio Democrat announced that he has five affidavits from individuals who charge that Reno was repeatedly arrested for drunk driving in Florida during the 1980s, had sex with a lesbian call girl and got her job as Miami's state attorney through mob connections. Traficant, who predicted last month that Reno was about to indict him on corruption charges, suggested that Reno's encounter with the call girl had been captured on videotape. The maverick congressman and frequent Clinton administration critic said the FBI learned about some of the damaging evidence on Reno during a 1993 background check prior to her appointment to attorney general. But he said he did not know whether the material was turned over to the Senate during her confirmation hearing. TRAFICANT: I have received several affidavits, and here's what these affidavits allege. I have done some cursory investigation and will follow up further myself on a limited budget. What I received was that Janet Reno was first appointed to Dade County state attorney, they call them state attorneys there, as a favor and a thank-you to the mob. Number two, she's a lesbian. And I really don't care about anybody's sexual preference ... COLMES: Well, what are you saying that for ... TRAFICANT: Hear me, hear me. This is an affidavit. This is an affidavit I'm speaking to and I want you to listen to me. 'Cause I don't really care about anybody's sexual preference. COLMES: Then why bring it up? TRAFICANT: Because it's in the affidavit, and listen to the salient points, Alan. I'm not talking about Democrat and Republican. And I want you to set Democrat aside tonight and set Republican aside tonight. Janet Reno had a relationship with a call girl who was associated with organized crime figures. And they have videotapes of this woman. Now hear me. Also you had five police officers stop Janet Reno for substance abuse, namely DUI - under the influence - willing to testify, never testified. Now, here's the point I'm making. Listen very carefully. I will be submitting FOIA requests. Because I believe Janet Reno in her failure to appoint an independent counsel, specifically on the threatening issue, the national security issue, China - she did so because of her blackmailability. I want to know why, and how long it took for the FBI to investigate, if they gave this information to the Senate, if the Senate knew about compromises they had from outside the government. They knew about her past history of alcoholism, her association with call girls. And they did interview several of the affiants that have in fact given me these affidavits. Now hold on. HANNITY: Hey, Congressman, well hold on one second. Let me ask a couple ... Let's clarify. You have just declared war tonight on Janet Reno. TRAFICANT: Yes, I have. HANNITY: You made some very severe allegations. You say you have affidavits. Who are these affidavits from? TRAFICANT: These affiants wish to remain anonymous, but they will testify in an open court or a congressional hearing of appropriate nature. HANNITY: You are saying she is associated, and that people will testify with evidence, that she was connected to the mob? TRAFICANT: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. And because of the fact - and I'm looking into this - I'm not throwing any darts at the president at this point or anybody. I want to know if the president got that information. I want to know the timespan from when the FBI went down and interviewed these affiants on these particular allegations, and how long it took for her to be confirmed. Janet Reno was one of the exceptions. They waved that 72-hour period from the hearing to the confirmation. And in a lovefest she became the attorney general, and I'm accusing the attorney general of treason right here. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, 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, A Good Day. = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
Re: [CTRL] help me out here, gang
In a message dated 8/8/00 7:31:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you think of this site? Legit or what? http://www.double-cross.com velly interesting. It will not open in aol's browser, but will in netscape Om K from: Contact Us Mailing List MEDJUGORJE RELATED Bishop Daniel Ryan Canadian Sex Scandal Joseph Russoniello Jim Jennings Patrick Ryan Scott Wayne Weible Theresa Lopez Peter K. Miller MEDJUGORJE STORY The Past The Present MEDJUGORJE FRANCISCANS Fr. Jozo Zovko Fr. Tomislav Vlasic Fr. Philip Pavic MEDJUGORJE PROMOTERS Tom Lantos Christopher Smith Denis Nolan Marcia Smith Bernard Ellis Bishop Hnilica Jim Jennings Ted and Maureen Flynn Giulio Andreotti PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONIALS FROM OUTSPOKEN CRITICS Walter Furhoff Philip Kronzer Mark Waterinckx Anonymous Dr. Giorgio Gagliardi Dr. Yair Bar-El Richard Sipe Bishop Ratko Peric PROGRAMMES AND DOCUMENTARIES Visions On Demand Cover-Up The above two programmes are available on video. Dispatches .Mercury Center PERVERTS AND PAEDOPHILES Richard Brown Fr. Ken Roberts David Hoop There are no updates at this time LINKS Bosnia Network Missing Link Online Christian Order Site updated at 17:30 GMT Friday, June 23, 2000 After receiving so many e-mail regarding the loading time of the index page, Double-Cross.com has finally updated to what you see before you. If anyone has comments or questions, please direct them here. French Historian, Joachim Bouflet releases book! Well respected French Historian, Joachim Bouflet, released his latest book, "Forgers of God" recently to outrage from certain 'alleged' religious shrine promoters and supporters! "It is best to tell Catholic's the truth, about Medjugorje!", Joachim Bouflet Excerpts from the book are coming soon! Congressmen Tom Lantos Christopher Smith in Hot Water! A letter to the congressmen get's them in a little hot water. It now seems that both congressmen seem to state they have NO COMMENT. Double-Cross.com begins web trend? Since Double-Cross.com hit the internet back in 1999 numerous other sites have began to appear... and new ones are conintuin to appear... www.BarryLeMay.com www.PhilipPavich.com www.IvanDragicevic.com The above three are unavailable, we believe they are in construction, however this site is now up and running www.PeterkMiller.com By the end the this year, a total of over 35 new sites will be active world-wide... Fr. Philip Pavic and his secret computer files! Here it is, the third week from the Fr. Pavic diary. It is unbelievable what this priest has seen and heard read on! Fr. Philip Pavic archives... WEEK ONE WEEK TWO NEW NEWS INFORMATION Release from Double-Cross Information regarding Joachim Bouflet, Medjugorje supporters and promoters, Fr. Pavic Congressmen?! Bishop of Mostar speaks against Fr. Jozo Zovko stating, "Fr. Jozo Zovko is a disobedient franciscan"! Medjugorje connection Australia/Uganda/Medjugorje connection may have been found! Uganda Death Cult! More dead bodies!
[CTRL] Policing the Activists
.. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: "Alex Constantine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Kris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Policing the Activists Date: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:06 PM CAQ by Mitzi Waltz Local political spying is on the rise, with help from above. LIKE A VAMPIRE who has developed a tolerance for garlic, Red Squads are back. Throughout the Cold War, these guardians of political compliance spied on and harassed law-abiding activists who veered too far left of the political center. Dedicated civil rights advocates and others fought back and won on local, state, and federal fronts. But their success was often short-lived. New technologies; new laws; and increased interaction among international, federal, military, state, and local law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and private corporations are threatening not only to put Red Squads back in business nationwide, but to increase the scope of their power to pry, to harm, and to imprison. With the "International Communist Conspiracy" gone, Red Squads need a new raison d'àtre. Studies by RAND the Heritage Foundation, and several private companies in the security industry have provided proponents of the Surveillance State with both a rationale and a blueprint for action. First, these groups have presented research to the law enforcement community documenting that the public can be frightened by the specter of terrorism into accepting and even calling for increased spying. Second, after studying anti-terrorist measures from around the world, they have decided that multi-jurisdictional taskforces offer the best way to circumvent civilian oversight. For example, the RAND report Domestic Terrorism: A National Assessment of State and Local Preparedness,explicitly touts taskforce participation as a way to get around local laws restricting political intelligence work, and also promotes taskforces as a mechanism for putting such operations on the local and state agenda by providing funding, equipment, publicity, and other inducements. And as we shall see, in cities where it operates counterterrorism taskforces, the FBI pressures local police to ditch limits on political spying. The taskforce concept and the cooperation it engenders between local and federalagencies, has another benefit, according to this report: It allows federal agencies to obtain information on a broad range of activities that do not fall under the current legal definition of "terrorism," but that are of political interest. That's because local police are much more responsive to demands from large corporations and influential organizations. These groups often have significant influence over political or budgetary matters in the local arena and are not loath to use their clout to discipline"uncooperative" police. The RAND study reports that local police will generally share freely what they gather with higher-level agencies. This back-scratching is not a new practice:A 1976 General Accounting Office report about FBI investigative protocol noted that local and state police were the bureau's second most prolific source of information, surpassed only by its own informants. In fact, in these days of grant-based "entrepreneurial" law-enforcement funding, the locals had better cooperate: Their budgets may depend on federal grants based on performing particular types of policing. The taskforce trend began with the post-riot commissions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. As an official Department of Justice (DoJ) history of community policing puts it, "The police force's inability to handle urban unrest in an effective and appropriate manner brought demands by civic leaders and politicians for a reexamination of police practices." The 1967 Kerner Commission and 1968 Eisenhower Commission focused on the growing dividebetween police and "civilians" as it was angrily expressed in the Watts riot and other uprisings. The recommendations of these bodies touted police-community dialogue as the key to curbing such unrest, expressing the hope that federal oversight could end abuse of protesters and minorities by "rogue cops." This goal was the foundation for community policing as we know it today. Later commissions that concentrated on reducing street crime looked to federal agencies to improve training and equipment in local law enforcement. Although community policing has not been as successful in curbing street crime asits proponents might have hoped, it has been a public relations success and enjoys the support of many well-intentioned liberals. But heirs to the Red Squads
[CTRL] JW: JOHNNY CHUNG SUES CLINTON-GORE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND OFFICIALS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2000 Contact: Richard Tomkins (202) 646-5172 MEDIA ADVISORY JOHNNY CHUNG SUES CLINTON-GORE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND OFFICIALS What: Press Conference with Johnny Chung, Larry Klayman Where: Los Angeles Federal Courthouse Steps - 312 Spring Street When: Tuesday, August 8, 10:00 a.m (Pacific Time) Lawsuit Alleges Violation of Civil Rights Clinton-Gore Justice Department's Actions Almost Got Chung and His Family Killed (Washington, D.C.) Johnny Chung, a former fundraiser for Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, will file a lawsuit today against the Clinton-Gore Justice Department and unnamed Justice officials for civil rights violations. As a result, Mr.Chung's and his family's lives were put in danger. Mr. Chung is being represented by Judicial Watch, Inc., the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. "Chung is one of the only figures in the Chinagate scandal to cooperate fully with investigators and directly implicate Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore in illegal fundraising. Rather than using Mr. Chung to indict this trio, the actions of the Clinton-Gore Justice Department in leaking Mr. Chung's whereabouts at a sensitive time were calculated to silence him by subjecting he and his family to harm. This lawsuit will finally get him justice and expose fully the facts behind the Chinagate cover-up," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, 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, A Good Day. = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (en) Philly - Key activists were earmarked by police
In a message dated 00-08-08 19:51:18 EDT, you write: A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/08/04/front_page/target04.htm Key activists were earmarked by police Protesters say their leaders were arrested not for what they did, but for what they might do. Police deny this. Even as the world's media shone a bright light on Philadelphia police clearing masses of protesters from blockaded streets this week, police were carrying out a much less public - and much more selective - operation to collar demonstration leaders. Eyewitnesses accounts and video taken by demonstrators document police moving in to swiftly arrest at least two such leaders. One, John Sellers, 33, a nationally known civil-disobedience activist from Berkeley, Calif., was arrested Wednesday as he walked along JFK Boulevard. Yesterday, Sellers, who grew up in Chester County, was held on $1 million bail - even though he was only charged with misdemeanor offenses. Defense lawyers called the sum unprecedented and punitive, while a prosecutor portrayed him as the real puppetmaster in a protest replete with puppets and other theatrical agitprop objects. Another protester, Paul Davis, a Philadelphia activist on AIDS issues in his 20s, was arrested Tuesday as he walked on a blockaded street and spoke on a cell phone. It was unclear last night whether his bail had been set. Police Commissioner John F. Timoney yesterday spoke of "some arrests effected in the Center City area that included some of the so-called leaders," but declined to provide details. He did say police had good reason for every arrest. "We think we can prove they've engaged in criminal activity," the commissioner said during his morning news briefing. There were no preemptive strikes "just to take leaders out," he said. Furious demonstrators yesterday strongly disagreed. They said that the strikes were indeed preemptive, and that police arrested people for what they might do - and not for actual crimes. The critics said the arrests of several protest leaders - "ringleaders," as the District Attorney's Office termed them - were part of a pattern in which police aimed to decapitate the leadership of the demonstrations. People involved in the protests acknowledged that the arrests scrambled their communications and reduced their effectiveness. They said people had been arrested on false pretexts - especially during a Tuesday raid on a West Philadelphia warehouse that was a key protest facility. Then, they said, protesters were held behind bars for unusually long times, thus keeping them off the streets. As of early yesterday, they noted, police said only about 30 of 369 arrested protesters had been released. Scores more were released later in the day, but officials could provide no figures. "The whole point of this is preventive - preventive detention. Get them all off the streets until the Republicans are out of town," said Ann Northrup, an AIDS activist from New York City with the group ACTUP. "It didn't matter if they had done anything." Her view was echoed by Larry Gross, a University of Pennsylvania communications professor who served on a blue-ribbon panel critical of police misconduct during a 1991 protest. Gross noted that police had been photographing demonstrators in weeks before the Republican National Convention. "They spied on the protest groups. I think they prepared a list of organizers that they were looking for, and when they found them, they arrested them," Gross said. Yet Stefan Presser, a leading critic of the warehouse raid as legal director of the state's American Civil Liberties Union branch, said the Police Department acted within the law if it targeted leaders preparing an unpermitted and, hence, illegal demonstration. He said helping organize an illegal demonstrations, such as by staying out of the fray and directing others via cellular phone, was criminally no different than blocking traffic. "It's probably smart tactics," Presser said, referring to the selective arre sts. "And it probably succeeded, if you look at the speed at which the city resumed to normalcy. I don't see that there's a constitutional question here. It just makes good sense on the part of the department." Apart from the protesters sitting on streets, police this week targeted certain activists who they knew had been involved in past protests or who simply looked as though they were organizing actions over a mobile phone. The result was that scores of people, even medics and bicycle messengers trying to do their jobs, were swept up in the search for a select few who may have been pivotal to the protests. Police interest in people with cellular phones and walkie-talkies led them to detain and question
[CTRL] NEWS: USA: Texas double execution to expose capital justice flaws
In a message dated 00-08-08 20:01:33 EDT, you write: * News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * 8 August 2000 AI Index AMR 51/122/2000 News Service Nr. 152 Texas double execution to expose capital justice flaws International standards of justice and decency continue to be ignored in the US capital of judicial killing, Amnesty International warned today, as Texas prepares to kill the first two of six prisoners it has lined up for execution in August. "The cases of Brian Roberson and Oliver Cruz, facing lethal injection within one hour of each other on the evening of 9 August, are textbook examples of the arbitrary and often discriminatory application of capital punishment in the USA," Amnesty International said. "As the world increasingly turns its back on this cruel, outdated and irrevocable punishment, the international community must now redouble its protests at the injustice inherent in the US capital justice system." Brian Roberson, black, was sentenced to death for the 1986 killing of an elderly white couple in Dallas County. The prosecutor at his trial systematically removed African Americans from the jury pool, indicating that they were not educated enough to sit on a jury. The prosecutor had been trained at a time when such training in Dallas County routinely used a manual encouraging new prosecutors to remove "minority races", "Jews", and people with "physical afflictions" during jury selection because they "almost always empathize with the defendant". A 1986 study found that in the 15 capital murder cases tried in the county between 1980 and 1986, 91 per cent of African American jurors were removed. At the trial of Oliver Cruz, a Latino accused of the rape and murder of Kelly Donovan, white, the prosecutor argued for execution on the grounds that Cruz's learning disability made him more of a threat to society. International standards oppose the death penalty for the mentally impaired. In yet another blatant example of the lottery of US capital justice, Cruz's white co-defendant, charged with the same murder, received a prison term in exchange for testimony against Cruz. "Studies have repeatedly shown that the US capital justice system places a higher value on white life," Amnesty International said, pointing out that over 80 per cent of the more than 650 people executed in the USA since 1977 were convicted of crimes involving white victims. "It is time for the US leadership to reflect on their country's history of racist state-sanctioned killing and on the evidence of continuing discrimination, and to recognize that whether a defendant lives or dies depends as much on where the crime was committed, who the victim was, and who the defence lawyer was, as it does on the crime itself," the organization added. "In 1972 the US Supreme Court temporarily halted the death penalty because of its arbitrary application," Amnesty International said. "State and federal politicians must find the courage to overcome the politics of this brutalizing punishment and offer human rights leadership. The US conveyor belt of death must be halted." Background John Satterwhite, who has been diagnosed as learning disabled and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and Richard Jones, about whose guilt there remain troubling doubts, are set to die in Texas in the next two weeks. David Gibbs and Jeffery Caldwell are also due to be killed in the Huntsville lethal injection chamber before the end of the month. Texas accounts for a third of US executions since they resumed in 1977, and almost half of those carried out so far this year -- 26 out of 56. Among those executed in Texas in 2000 have been two child offenders, in violation of international law (Glen McGinnis, Gary Graham), a 62-year-old great-grandmother diagnosed with Battered Woman Syndrome whose jury never knew of her history of abuse (Betty Beets), a man whose severe mental illness had been left untreated before his crime (Larry Robison), and a man whose possible wrongful conviction led the President and Prime Minister of France to intervene on his behalf (Odell Barnes). In a 1990 report, the General Accounting Office (an independent agency of the US Government) concluded that 82 per cent of the 28 major studies into racial discrimination and the US death penalty it had reviewed, had found a correlation between the race of the victim and the likelihood of a death sentence. That is, that after all other factors had been taken into account, a defendant was several times more likely to be sentenced to death if the murder victim was white. No action was taken to address these findings. In 1998, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions concluded that "race, ethnic origin and economic status appear to be key determinants of who will, and who will not, receive a death sentence in the United States." The
[CTRL] Reno Unlikely to Investigate Gore
{Well, I don't know about you, but I am shocked, shocked that
Reno will probably not order a special prosecutor to investigate
the Soliciter in Chief. Hmmm, maybe there really is something to
Traficant's charges.]
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Reno Unlikely to Investigate Gore
UPI Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno is close to a decision
on whether to appoint a special counsel to investigate Vice
President Al Gore, but officials around her still say she is
unlikely to launch such an independent probe.
Some of the officials close to Reno argue that in any case no
announcement should be made until the Democratic National
Convention ends next week in Los Angeles.
The head of the Justice Department's Campaign Financing Task
Force recommended earlier this year that Reno name a special
counsel to conduct an independent investigation of whether Gore
told the truth about 1996 fund raising during an April interview
with task force investigators.
The task force chief, Robert Conrad Jr., so far has been the only
official to recommend an independent probe in writing, though FBI
Director Louis Freeh is believed to have seconded Conrad's advice
during a private meeting with Reno last month.
Other department offices, asked to weigh in before Reno makes her
decision, have recommended against a special counsel, arguing
that it would be almost impossible to convict Gore of a crime
given the lack of evidence.
Conrad has questioned Gore's truthfulness in at least two areas:
The vice president has said he was not aware that an event at a
Buddhist Temple near Los Angeles was a fund-raiser.
He said he was unaware some of the money he raised through
telephone calls from his office would be routed into "hard" money
accounts, even though that strategy had been discussed in at
least one White House meeting attended by Gore.
"Hard" money can be used directly in an election, but is strictly
regulated and limited by federal law. "Soft" money can only be
used for "party-building" activities, such as registration drives
or advertising on issues, and is largely unregulated.
A new independent investigation would be a political disaster for
Gore, to be formally nominated as the Democrat presidential
candidate next week.
Meanwhile, department investigators have brushed aside reports
that GOP vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney hosted large
Republican contributors at the Pentagon as defense secretary in
1991 and 1992. Officials say even if any violation occurred, the
statute of limitations on any conceivably applicable federal law
would have long since expired, and no money appeared to have
changed hands on federal property.
A federal investigation into some Republican campaign financing,
however, is still up in the air.
The department's campaign finance task force is still weighing
its options after a three-judge appeals court panel essentially
gutted the investigation of Haley Barbour and other former
officials of the Republican National Committee.
The panel ruled last month that a $2.1 million, Chinese-backed
loan to an organization formed by Barbour when he was RNC
chairman in 1994 was not a "political contribution" covered by
federal law, even though part of the loan was defaulted.
The task force is considering whether to appeal the ruling to the
full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, take the case
to the Supreme Court or terminate the investigation.
On July 14, the panel said that Barbour and other former RNC
officials could not be guilty of a campaign-finance conspiracy.
The meat of the ruling came in an order reversing a federal judge
who had ordered a former RNC general counsel to turn over
documents relating to the loan under a secret grand jury
subpoena.
Barbour and two other RNC officials set up the National Policy
Forum in May 1993 as a think tank separate from the RNC. By
September 1994, the NPF had received more than $2.3 million in
loans from the Republican National State Elections Committee.
The state elections organization was technically not a "federal
committee" regulated by U.S. law, though it was under the
control of the RNC.
"Barbour and other NPF and RNC officials arrived at an agreement
with Ambrous Young, a foreign national," to have Young Brothers
Development of Hong Kong to provide $2.1 million in collateral
through its U.S. subsidiary to secure a loan of that amount from
Signet Bank to NPF, according to court records.
Signet disbursed the money to NPF in October 1994, and the
organization used $1.6 million of the proceeds to repay part of
the loan from the GOP state elections committee. Barbour later
told a Senate committee that he had asked Young's representative
to forgive the loan entirely, but ended up repaying about half of
it.
After the initial loan activity came to light, the Federal
Election Commission's general counsel recommended that the FEC
find the RNC and its officials in violation of the federal ban on
receiving money from foreign
[CTRL] Hello is anyone out there? Am I being edited off list?
I have had some e-mails not show up on list and then at least one that I addressed to Kris in the subject line not answered. I need to know if there is any potential that my science fiction scribbling (essay rough drafts) could be copyrighted as medical concepts. Someone has given me some problems, and the way that they put those writings down makes me wonder if there is an ulterior motive. ThePiedPiper 08August2000 Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson brbr My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 NEW http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/site_map.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] help me out here, gang
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: velly interesting. It will not open in aol's browser, but will in netscape Hm. How about that. Somebody else try, somebody with AOL. Then we can see if it's specific to Kris's computer or to AOL. Kris should try again later to see if it's time specific. Does it work in Explorer? What about the content? Now what about this one? What's going on here? http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] (en) Philly - Key activists were earmarked by police
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: The critics said the arrests of several protest leaders - "ringleaders," as the District Attorney's Office termed them - were part of a pattern in which police aimed to decapitate the leadership of the demonstrations. Horizontal orginization renders anarchists immune to decapitating strikes. We don't have leaders. We are leaders. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Being Higher
From http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/08/04/spirituality/print.html }}Begin igher being Can legalizing drugs bring us closer to God? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Katharine Mieszkowski August 04, 2000 | Huston Smith, 81, speaks slowly with the deliberate enunciation and wry playfulness of a serious scholar who is used to having what he says deeply considered. Seated in his Berkeley, Calif., living room, the authority on world religions takes out a letter he's just received from a reader of his most recently published book. The letter recounts a spiritual epiphany. "It is so moving," Smith intones warmly and begins to read it aloud with evident respect: "It was like I traveled into myself and broke through to the other side, and I was in the presence of God. I was in communion with all that ever could be, and experienced love beyond measure. I experienced a person loving me. Being love. Being all. Total peace. The end of all fear. Eternal joy. I was in union with an infinite person who had nothing but perfect love for me and in whom I was in union and it was ALL, capital A, double L ..." The letter describes a "theophany," nothing less than a vision of the divine. It is also a 51-year-old man's remembrance of an LSD trip at age 18. The teenager, who got more than he bargained for when he dropped acid, grew up to be a Catholic priest. For reasons that require no explanation, the priest never told his church superiors about this formative religious drug trip, as he confides in the letter. He's written to Smith in response to the religious philosopher's provocative new book: "Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals." In this collection of scholarly essays on drugs and spirituality written over the past 40 years, Smith explores and entertains a venerable yet now taboo topic: how mind-altering drugs have led to divine revelation. Though Smith himself participated in Timothy Leary's famous drug experiments at Harvard, it wasn't until a maverick think tank called the Council on Spiritual Practices approached him that he decided to do the book. Founded by a former vice president of Oracle, the council is no collection of fly-by-night Castaneda-heads who have tried to turn an appreciation for hallucinogens into a higher calling. Robert Jesse, 41, who once worked full- time with techie marketers and engineers, now spends his days with religious scholars, spiritual leaders and scientists whose work addresses "primary religious experiences." Rather than being content to just hear about the divine secondhand, these thinkers focus on ways that individuals come to perceive it, feel it and see it directly. The Council suggests that these transcendent experiences can be triggered by a diverse variety of influences, ranging from a monk's holy visitation after days of prayer and fasting to a Native American roadman's vision after a potent hit of peyote. The Council funds academic research, publishes books, hosts speakers and has even held a conference about the nature of such religious experience. And although they are sincerely interested in any activity -- be it meditation or dancing or gobbling magic mushrooms -- their stance on the relationship between drugs, or as they put it "certain plants and chemicals," and enlightenment puts them square in the middle of the raging culture war over the legalization of drugs. While the loudest criticisms of U.S. drug laws have come on political, social and medical grounds (with the proponents of medical marijuana most vocally grabbing the limelight), now Huston Smith has dared to make a religious freedom argument. "I was extremely fortunate in having some entheogenic experiences, while the substances were not only legal, but respectable," he said of his early experimentation with LSD. "It seemed like only fair play that since I value those experiences immensely to do anything I could to enable a new generation to also have such experiences without the threat of going to jail." Were this statement to come from almost anyone else, it would not stand a chance of being heard. But Smith is that rare living person who adjectives like "great" and "renowned" and "acclaimed" accrue to without a tinge of overstatement. His 12 books of religious scholarship and philosophy include "The World's Religions," which has sold some 2.5 million copies around the world over more than 30 years. He has taught at Washington University, MIT, Syracuse University and most recently the University of California at Berkeley. Over his long career -- he got his Ph.D. in 1945 -- Smith has become that notable academic who also reaches a popular audience. He's even the subject of a five-part Bill Moyers PBS documentary called "The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith." This side of a religious leader, Smith probably couldn't have a bigger voice in the popular cultural conversation when it comes to spiritual questions. Who else could get to use the
