Re: [CTRL] Sayaret Matkal-Israel's Death Squad
-Caveat Lector- Bill, I don't think this group has anything to do with the "Sakari"(sp) that I recently mentioned to you in private email (I think it is pronounced: sack-ar-rye), but I could be wrong. I think the group you are writing of here is the same group that assassinated that "big gun" scientist...the one that was helping Saddam build his "super gun," as well as COUNTLESS other "hits" over the last 60-100 years. The secret ancient Hebrew assassins I was referring to are the same ones described in biblical texts, and the same ones I WOULD THINK may be working for the "Evilarchy" today, i.e., they may have once been TOTALLY "righteous Son's of The Light," but I get the impression that they TODAY (IF they indeed still exist) work for the "REAL World Order," i.e., the 200 EVIL Jewish MO-FO families that have run the world for at least 2 K years. I don't have my copy of "The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception," by Michael Baigent, et al., with me [ISBN: 0552138789, available at www.half.com USED for half of the amazon.com price of $14BTW, never buy a book without comparing prices and delivery times at www.bestbookbuys.com], but that is where I first learned of the the Sakari (sp?). They were supposedly running around with their assassination daggers, trying frantically to assassinate Paul when he was going all over the place trying to turn all the different Hebrew factions against each other, as well as generally inciting riot among ALL of the different races, political groups, and religious groups in-and-around the holy land, circa 30 A.D. It seems to Baigent, et al., that Paul's secret Roman plain-clothed body guards were ALWAYS a step up on the Sakari, et al., whisking him away from the crowds he was inciting, OFTEN TIMES, according to the above ref, "SECONDS BEFORE THEY RIPPED HIM TO SHREDS." Just before Paul "vanished" from sight [and texts] forever, according to "The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception" (and most of the other ex-students and NON-secular biblical scholars that studied under Prof. Robert Eisenman), it is thought that Paul's life wasn't worth a shit any more...that his constant attempts to incite rioting via lying and saying ANYTHING to piss-off ANY crowds that would listen to him (ALL other inciting of rioting in the Roman Empire was met with a swift crucifixion!), finally made him a marked man ALL OVER THE HOLY LAND, not just among the Jews. Despite his secret Roman body-guards that ALWAYS surrounded him, it was to the point that he was no longer safe, PERIOD. [Btw, these "implements of death" that the Sakari carried, were referred to in the bible by the same name, "sakari(sp?)"...In fact, the group may have gotten its name FROM THE NAME OF THE KNIFE THEY USED? These daggers were SMALL, easily concealable, and CASE-HARDENED STEAL...and remember, the line towed by mainstream "science" STILL TODAY was that heat-treated steal was 500 years more advanced than what Rome, the most advanced war machine on the planet, had at the beginning of the Common Era (artifacts of these 2 K year old metallurgical feats are supposedly possessed by the Vatican and "The Evilarchy"). According to Baigent, et al., the FACT that certain Hebrew sects DID INDEED POSSESS knowledge of tempering steal was CONCLUSIVELY evidenced by the THREE MILITARY FORGES that were found by the Vatican's "International Group of [so-called] Scientists/Archeologists" in 1926 at Qumran (the Vatican has always LIED, holding that what they found were NOT military forges, that these forges were just to make cooking and farm implements. What's more, the Vatican has ALWAYS claimed that the walls of Qumran were only a ft. or two thick, less than the individual dwellings' wall thicknesses within, whereas, IN FACT, the walls of Qumran (and other secret libraries/MILITARY STRONGHOLDS LOCATED ABOUT EVERY 10-12 MILES ALONG THE CLIFFS OVERLOOKING THE SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA, were in fact TEN OR MORE FEET THICK BEFORE THE VATICAN "CHANGED THINGS," thus the ONLY reason for the "current paradigm" regarding the REAL state-of-the-art of metallurgy at that time). For the last 10 years, I have PERSONALLY suspected that, JUST MAYBE, this ADVANCED "science" of heat-treating STEAL was REALLY part of the "REAL Sacred Sciences," as may very well have REALLY been supplied to the Essenes, Sakari, et al., by God/s?] It seems, from biblical and historical accounts of what happened following his "disappearance," that Paul's REAL JOB was to give the Roman Gov't justification to eliminate Jesus' and Jame's Essenes (as well as the other militant Hebrew groups). It seems that the Roman Citizenry were always affectionate to the "harmless, yet odd, Hebrews," thus the reason for Paul and his Roman Gov't trying to FABRICATE reason FOR THE ROMAN PUBLIC to justify persecution/death of the Jews). OBVIOUSLY, Paul did his job WELL!. When he had finally succeeded in getting ALL groups [including the Roman citizenry!) to hate him and wish him dead (most of whom would
[CTRL] The Last Indian Fighter
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.inthesetimes.com/stclair2422.html }}Begin For years, environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest have referred to Sen. Slade Gorton, the Republican from Washington, as "Senator Skeletor." But in Indian Country he's known as the "Custer of the Senate." And with reason. For the past 25 years, Gorton has been bashing Indians as relentlessly and ruthlessly as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms have race-baited blacks. Gorton's noxious rhetoric often turned out to be just that--rhetoric. For much of his career, he has lacked the influence to back up his overheated chest-pounding. But as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's powerful sub-committee on Interior and Related Agencies Washington Sen. Slade Gorton has emerged as a true visigoth. Credit: Ken Lambert/Washington Times via Newsmakers. (including the Bureau of Indian Affairs), Gorton is now in a position of tremendous power over the more than 550 federally recognized Indian tribes, fully capable of turning into legislation his perverse obsession with punishing some of the poorest people on the continent. Since he became chairman in 1995, Gorton has moved against Native Americans on a myriad of fronts by attempting to slash federal support for Indian health care and schools, restrict salmon fishing rights, exert control over tribal housing developments and tax casino profits. In 1998, Gorton led the ultimately unsuccessful fight to strip Indian reservations of their sovereignty and institute means-testing for federal aid to tribes. Tribes across the country are now fighting back, vowing to help defeat Gorton in November as he runs for his fourth Senate term. A tribal PAC has already begun running ads against Gorton throughout Washington, attacking the senator not only for his record on Indians, but on the environment as well. "If you ask Indian leaders who is the enemy," says Ron Allen, a member of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe of Washington and vice president of the National Congress of American Indians, "Gorton's would be the first name and the last name." Back in the Reagan years, the vile James Watt, the Gipper's hapless Interior Secretary, grabbed headlines by denouncing Indian reservations as "the last bastion of Communism." Watt was rebuked for his impertinence and ridiculed by political pundits as a right-wing, born-again-Christian bigot. But over the past couple of decades, Watt's cause has been sedulously carried on by Gorton. While the press savaged Watt, Gorton has been treated by the media as a more serious character, often described as "studious," "brilliant" and "mercurial." There are better descriptions of Gorton: cranky, peevish, rueful, petulant and vindictive. "He has a brusque, prosecutorial manner and the demeanor of a coroner," says a longtime staffer for a Republican senator. "He likes to bully people, even fellow senators, into taking his side." Part of Gorton's animus toward Indians appears to be personal. In the early '70s, the Lummi Nation won a landmark court case, known as the Boldt decision, giving tribes the rights to half of the steelhead and salmon returning to their spawning grounds in the Puget Sound basin. Gorton, then Washington State attorney general, was outraged by the decision and mounted two appeals to the Supreme Court. He suffered stinging rebukes in both cases and has been on a vendetta ever since. Gorton rode into the Senate in 1980 on the heels of the Reagan landslide, defeating old liberal warhorse Warren Magnuson. It was a nasty campaign, highlighted by Gorton's smearing Magnuson as being too enfeebled to be re- elected. Upon taking office, Gorton moved swiftly to settle his old scores with the tribes. In 1981, he introduced a bill that would have overturned Indian treaty rights to steelhead trout fisheries in Washington. Gorton's first term in the Senate was by all accounts uninspired, and in 1986 he lost his seat to Brock Adams, who enjoyed the support of Washington's growing environmental vote. Embittered, Gorton vowed revenge. After working as a lobbyist for the Non-Indian Negotiating Group, a coalition of corporations and white landowners seeking to weaken the sovereignty of the tribes, Gorton was back on the political scene in 1998. Campaigning as a full- fledged right-winger, Gorton was narrowly elected again to the Senate. But it wasn't until 1994--after the two moderate, senior Republicans from the Northwest who held Gorton on a tight leash, Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood, had left the Senate--that Gorton emerged from the shadows as a true Visigoth, nearly indistinguishable from Idaho's Larry Craig or that grim duo from Alaska, Frank Murkowski and Ted Stevens. The only groups to rank near Indians on Gorton's hate list are environmentalists. Upon his return to the Senate, Gorton, backed by timber industry cash, immediately went to work to unravel the Endangered Species Act (ESA). He
[CTRL] RadTimes # 73
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 73 - October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- QUOTE: "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." --Howard Scott --- Contents: --- --Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests --The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global --Interpol looks for new directions in fighting cybercrime --School shooters: Secret service findings --The choice: Arm all or arm none --Israeli-U.S. Agreement Near For Spy-Planes Procurement Linked stories: *US Election Fraud Scams *Anti-Olympics Protests 2000 --- Begin stories: --- Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests AP Wire Service Oct 14, 2000 PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A Philadelphia judge has upheld four felony charges against a nationally known activist accused of directing demonstrations and inciting vandalism by protesters during the Republican National Convention. Kate Sorensen, 38, of the Direct Action Network, was ordered held Friday for trial on charges of riot, causing or risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit all three crimes. She initially faced 20 charges including 10 felonies, which were later reduced. She also was initially held on $1 million bail; she is out on $100,000 bail. A trial date has not been set. Nearly 400 demonstrators were arrested during sometimes violent clashes with police and street-blocking protests coinciding with the GOP convention this summer. Fifteen police officers were injured and more than 20 city vehicles damaged during the mayhem. Assistant District Attorney David E. Desiderio said Sorensen should be held responsible for vandalism caused by members of the group that she led. He said Sorensen directed people in the crowds to move to block streets. ``When you run with the crowd you are liable for the acts of the crowd,'' Desiderio said. Defense attorney Lawrence Krasner said Sorensen merely was a participant. He said all the evidence pointed to one thing: ``It's a description of a walk around the city. She's not telling people to block the road,'' Krasner said. Sorensen is one of three high-profile activists accused of leading disruptive demonstrations. Also charged with more serious offenses as activist leaders were John Sellers, director of the Ruckus Society of Berkeley, Calif., and Paul Davis, leader of Philadelphia ACT-UP. All three groups _ Ruckus, DAN, and ACT-UP _ were key organizers of recent mass demonstrations, including the 50,000-person protests in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings last fall. --- The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9889 Tamara Straus, AlterNet October 3, 2000 If you were watching news coverage of the protests in Prague the other week, then what you probably saw were bleeding cops, Molotov cocktail-throwing anarchists and thousands of youthful radicals in a disorganized protest. But the truth was far from those images. Although violence did break out among some demonstrators and up to 55 Czech cops did get injured, the protests organized by the Initiative against Economic Globalization in Prague (INPEG) were largely nonviolent and successful. Come September 26, 10,000 protesters from practically every major city in Europe and North America gathered in the city of spires. Black-clad anarchists from Bristol could be seen rubbing shoulders with Slovak environmentalists. Members of the Italian group Ya Basta!, which takes its name from its support of the Zapatista revolutionaries, could be found marching in matching white fire suits, followed by Greek workers in red bandanas carrying flags with the hammer and sickle. There were Canadians and Americans, Swedes and Poles. And their target was the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two international lending institutions which were holding their 55th annual meetings in Prague and which protesters insist have increased world poverty, wrought environmental damage and sought to make the world over in terms that best suit the United States. Franz Kafka was the true host of last week's events. His ghostly presence loomed over the sea of 12,000 dark-suited bureaucrats, bankers and politicians who had gathered in a meeting hall intended for apparatchiks of the Communist Party. Surely the author of The Castle would have appreciated
[CTRL] The Politics of Tryptophan (and Prozac)
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Alex Constantine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Kris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Politics of Tryptophan (and Prozac) Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 5:12 AM - The FDA Ban of L-Tryptophan: Politics, Profits and Prozac © Dean Wolfe Manders, Ph.D., All Rights Reserved Note: Deep Times attempted to track down Dr. Manders, without success. Therefore, this article is published from a Listserv without permission. This is contrary to Deep Times policy, but we felt the information was too important to keep from our readers under the circumstances. If you know where we can reach Dr. Manders to obtain Permission, please let us know. This article first appeared in "Social Policy", Vol. 26, No. 2 Winter 1995. Dr. Manders has lectured and done extensive research on the medical politics of L-Tryptophan. The article also appeared in "Blazing Tattles". -- In the fall of 1989, the FDA recalled L-Tryptophan, an amino acid nutritional supplement, stating that it caused a rare and deadly flu-like condition (Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome / EMS). On March 22, 1990, the FDA banned the public sale dietary of L-Tryptophan completely. This ban continues today. On March 26, 1990, "Newsweek" featured a lead article praising the virtues of the anti-depressant drug Prozac. Its multi-color cover displayed a floating, gigantic green and white capsule of Prozac with the caption: "Prozac: A Breakthrough drug for Depression." The fact that the FDA ban of L-Tryptophan and the Newsweek Prozac cover story occurred within four days of each other went unnoticed by both the media and the public. Yet, to those who understand the effective properties of L- Tryptophan and Prozac, the concurrence seems "unbelievably coincidental." The link here is the brain neurotransmitter serotonin---a biochemical nerve signal conductor. The action of Prozac and L-Tryptophan are both involved with serotonin, but in totally different ways. Elevated levels of serotonin in the body often result in the relief of depression, as well as substantial reduction in pain sensitivity, anxiety and stress. Prozac, as well as other new anti-depressant drugs such as Paxil and Zoloft, attempt to enhance levels of serotonin by working on whatever amounts of it already exists in the body (these drugs are known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). None of these drugs, however produce serotonin. In contrast, ingested L-Tryptophan acts to produce serotonin, even in individuals who generate little serotonin of their own. The most effective way to elevate serotonin would be to use a serotonin producer rather than a serotonin enhancer. The continuing FDA public ban of L-Tryptophan prevents popular access to this most effective serotonin producer. The millions of Americans who for decades safely have relied upon L-Tryptophan to relieve depression, anxiety and PMS, as well as to control pain and induce natural sleep, have been forced elsewhere for solutions. Routinely, such solutions are pharmaceutical in nature: people are forced to use either often highly addictive, expensive, and sometimes dangerous drugs like Xanax, Valium, Halcion, Dalmane, Codeine, Anafranil, Prozac, and others, or simply suffer. Present FDA public policy maintains that L-Tryptophan is an untested, unapproved and hazardous drug. The analytical work done a few years ago by the Centers for Disease Control and the Mayo Clinic, research which traced the fall of the serious flu-like condition to contaminants found in batches of L-Tryptophan made by the Japanese company Showa Denko, has not convinced the FDA to allow L-Tryptophan back on the market. This decision is based primarily on the research of FDA and NIMH scientists who state that L- Tryptophan itself, irrespective of contaminants, is a dangerous substance. Other university-based research scientists disagree with these findings. The public availability of L-Tryptophan is too important an issue only to be argued and shrouded within scientific debate that remains, ultimately, mystifying to the vast majority of Americans. There are many obvious facts worthy of public attention, and concern. For example, consider the following: On February 9, 1993, a United States government patent (#5185157) was issued to use L-Tryptophan to treat, and cure EMS, the very same deadly flu-like condition which prompted the FDA to take L-Tryptophan off the market in 1989. Notwithstanding its public ban and import alert on L-Tryptophan, the FDA today allows Ajinomoto U.S.A. the right to import from Japan human-use L- Tryptophan. Distributed from the Ajinomoto in Raleigh, North Carolina, the L- Tryptophan is then sold to, and through, a network of compounding pharmacies
Re: [CTRL] The Politics of Tryptophan (and Prozac)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/18/00 4:15:15 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact that the FDA ban of L-Tryptophan and the Newsweek Prozac cover story occurred within four days of each other went unnoticed by both the media and the public. It reminds me of the ban on the natural sweetener, stevia, at the same time Monsanto was beginning to shove Nutrasweet down our throats. Samantha 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] AOL Poll slanted
-Caveat Lector- These were the answers to an AOL debate poll. Can you tell by the answers how the whole poll thing was geared in favor of GW? --- Grade Bush's final debate peformance: A: Scored by painting Gore as a big $pender. 76351 74.8% B: Stayed charmingly above the fray. 9334 9.1% C: That suit had more wrinkles than a GOP elephant. 5723 5.6% D: Did he take a valium? 4815 4.7% F: Sent an SOS to Jim Lehrer when Gore took him on. 5834 5.7% Total votes: 102057 Grade Gore's final debate peformance: A: Finally asked voters if they are better off than 8 years ago. 11085 26.2% B: Pointed out clear differences between himself and Bush. 9336 22.0% C: The ''with all my heart'' line got old, fast. 9143 21.6% D: Committed cardinal sin: didn't answer the audience questions directly. 7146 16.9% F: His vision sounds like bullet points on a civics quiz. 5679 13.4% Total votes: 42389 Who won overall? George W. Bush 25313 55.3% Al Gore 18074 39.5% It was a tie 2353 5.1% Total votes: 45740 How many debates did you watch? 4 10045 22.0% 3 24349 53.3% 2 7437 16.3% 1 2465 5.4% None 1417 3.1% Total votes: 45713 Samantha 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] Troop movements (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- [The following is from another list. Can anyone confirm or add to this? --MS] The reservists have been called up to go to Fort Hood and San Antone. They are scheduled to depart for Israel within days. This is not a rumor. I have confirmed this with three knowlegeale ex-military in San Antonio. This is my fourth confirmation. Yep. They have been clogging up traffic for over a week now. There has been a steady stream of military traffic, heading south on 281 towards San Antonio (cnh: from Fort Hood). All painted desert brown, mostly engineering equipment, some personnel carriers. Staging area is at Round Mountain, (between Marble Falls and Johnson City), from there they head on to San Antonio. very interesting. And: From: X Subject: Troop movements Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:07:54 -0500 Thanks. In the same vein, last Wednesday, the 11th, I ran into a Marine Corps reserve colonel who told me that all reserve Marine officers in the Houston area had been put on alert for the mideast. = 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] OT?: Egyptians, Jews Save Burial Site
-Caveat Lector- BASATIN, Egypt (AP) - Wearing a Foreign Legion-style sun hat over his yarmulke, the rabbi stretched a tape measure across the stones of a bridge embankment. Nearby, Egyptians hauled stones on a donkey cart to build a wall for the bridge. Rabbi Schlomo Ziffer and consulting engineer Arieh Klein, visiting from Israel, were trying to reconcile neat measurements on paper with the rough reality of squeezing several hundred gravestones back into a cramped corner of a millennium-old Jewish cemetery. They were also engaged in an act of reconciliation in its broader sense last month, demonstrating that while Israelis and Palestinians were heading toward a new spasm of violence, Jews and Muslims could work together to save a piece of shared heritage. To build a modern highway through the final resting place of countless Jews took international diplomacy, exacting care and hard physical labor. Now, with the effort in its final phase, Klein was using a handheld computer to plot the coordinates of gravesites, conferring with Ziffer in Hebrew and with an Egyptian foreman in a mixture of English and Arabic. Two girls from a nearby slum turned up selling flat Egyptian bread from trays balanced on their heads. ``Joseph Mitrah. Died 17-9-1959 at the age of 74 years. Pray for him,'' read a legend carved in French on one tombstone. Another stone's Hebrew letters and Star of David had been mostly worn away by desert wind and sand. Egypt today is home to only a few hundred Jews, but the cemetery is proof of a larger Jewish past, and given the players and themes involved, its rescue has been surprisingly free of drama. ``We've had good cooperation from Egyptians,'' Klein said. ``We suggested the solution and they adopted it. It's their execution.'' Predominantly Muslim Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel, and its Jewish minority is usually left alone. Anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish sentiment simmers, yet so sensitive is the cemetery issue that Egyptian authorities were willing to live with a delay of several years in the construction of the 60-mile Cairo ring road, an ambitious attempt to ease congestion in the Egyptian capital. Ziffer's New York-based Athra Kadisha Society works to preserve Jewish sites around the world. In 1992 it fought against construction of a shopping mall over a Jewish burial site in Hamburg, Germany. In Israel too, it frequently runs afoul of the secular public for trying to protect ancient cemeteries from developers. While Christian and Muslim graves have been shifted from the ring road's path, the Jewish ones could not be moved without gravely offending Jewish law, according to Athra Kadisha. ``According to Jewish law, a cemetery is the holiest place for Jews, holier even than a synagogue,'' explains Lazar Stern, an Athra Kadisha rabbi. Stern said Athra Kadisha learned through newspaper reports in 1989 that Basatin, just south of Cairo, was in the ring road's way. The rabbis enlisted Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y. The influential chairman of the House International Relations Committee raised the matter with Egyptian officials. U.S. Embassy officials have kept close watch over the project. Eventually a compromise was reached: Though the graves could not be moved, the rabbis ruled that their markers could be pushed aside to make way for construction, provided they were put back afterward. The two ends of the highway, long poised like two hands kept apart by Basatin, could finally come together. Klein and Israel Klar, Israeli consultants brought in by Athra Kadisha, proposed covering the graves with earth and layers of tough woven plastic known as geotextile - humble dirt and high-tech plastic protecting the fragile bones and bearing the weight of the highway bridge on its concrete supports. ``The Egyptian government is to be commended for its ongoing commitment to completing this difficult project with the sensitivity necessary to ensure that Jewish religious sentiments and strictures were not violated,'' Gilman said in a statement to The Associated Press. Carmen Weinstein, one of the few remaining Jews of Cairo, is Basatin's self-appointed guardian. Over the years she has used her own money to buy out poor families squatting in the graveyard, to hire guards and to discourage neighbors from using Basatin as a trash heap. On her Web site, Weinstein says: ``To keep this cemetery is to keep alive the Jewish presence in Egypt.'' On the Net: Weinstein's Web site: www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5855/bassa1.htm = 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.
Re: [CTRL] Reu: Plane Carrying Missouri Governor Crashes
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/17/2000 7:02:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is that "luck" in quotation marks? If you like. 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] Military won't miss Clinton
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/17/2000 7:27:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Overdeployment, underfunding, arrogance and a lack of respect for military ways and traditions have led some of our best officers and senior enlisted personnel out the door since 1993. This is talent we cannot replace simply by signing up new bodies; the level of experience these men and women have taken with them was hard-fought and won and cannot be taught in officer's training school or advanced non-commissioned officer training. Good lord, this was the way it was in the 70's and 80's. Nothing has changed. So if you want to blame Clinton for something, blame him for not correcting the mess that we suffered with then. Perhaps some of the long-serving members of Congress should have spoken to him about our problems. 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] Clinton Administration in Hot Seat Over Oil;
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/17/2000 7:33:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In announcing the hearing Monday, Senate Energy Chairman Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, says he is alarmed over reports that the Energy Department failed to make even rudimentary checks on some of the successful bidders, including one that operates out of an apartment in New York City's Harlem, that were having trouble raising money to complete the deals. Isn't this funny? Old Murkowski is torqued because I'm sure a lot of his big oil business buddies and campaign contributors want these contracts. I don't know why loans aren't available to the successful bidders. After all businesses all operate on borrowed money. None of them ever use their own capital to back their projects. 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] Army's New Uniform Code Intended to Boost Morale
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/17/2000 7:35:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All U.S. Army soldiers â including the clerks and the cooks and not just Special Forces commandos and Rangers â will get to wear berets under a morale-building moved to be announced by the Army command today. In a speech set to be delivered this afternoon, Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, will tell an Army convention that this "symbol of excellence" once reserved for members of elite units will be made available to all soldiers as "a signal to the young that we are moving, we are changing." Yes, of course, removing any way of showing honor is the best way to signal to the young that we are moving. I think it will do well. We're all used to "social promotions" aren't we. But no matter, what it really is boosting is the amount of money that some contractor will make selling the hats. I can assure you they will not be an issued item. The military will have to buy them, and even if they were issued, the contractor would be making it off the taxpayer. Does anyone besides me think that the Army (with ALL those generals) should be able to come up with a better idea for improving morale. I used to hear that if women were depressed, they should go out and buy a new hat. Maybe that's where this logic comes from. 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] Bush's Bloodline More Pure Than Gore's
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/17/2000 8:15:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LONDON (Reuters) - If royal genes have anything to do with electoral success, then Republican U.S. presidential candidate George W. Bush will be the next man in the White House, Britain's blue blood bible said Tuesday. Burke's Peerage, a revered guide to the breeding of the aristocracy, said both Bush and his rival Al Gore are of royal descent, but investigations deep into their heritage show Bush has far more noble and royal connections. Maybe that's the problem. It's all that inbreeding. 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: Experts arrive in Uganda to fight Ebola
In a message dated 10/18/00 9:26:42 AM Central Daylight Time, AOL News writes: Subj:Experts arrive in Uganda to fight Ebola Date: 10/18/00 9:26:42 AM Central Daylight Time From: AOL News BCC: Ahab42 Experts arrive in Uganda to fight Ebola GULU, Uganda, Oct 18 (Reuters) - An international team of health experts arrived in northern Uganda on Wednesday to help contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has already killed 39 people For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Qlse.354110.656062826"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles" NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A. Experts arrive in Uganda to fight Ebola GULU, Uganda, Oct 18 (Reuters) - An international team of health experts arrived in northern Uganda on Wednesday to help contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has already killed 39 people For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Qlse.354110.656062826"click here/A. To edit your profile, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"NewsProfiles/A. For all of today's news, go to keyword A HREF="aol://1722:News"News/A.
[CTRL] False memory Syndrome leads to acquital
-Caveat Lector- Hope no one else has posted this, I'm way behind again. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_88904.html?nav_src=newsIndexHeadline Man cleared in 'false memory' sex charge case A jury took five minutes to clear a retired farmer of sexually assaulting a young girl after hearing she suffered false memory syndrome. Edward Williams, 72, declined to comment as he left Chester Crown Court. But his solicitor said he was "devastated" that the case had been brought to trial. The woman, now a 30-year-old solicitor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed she had suffered psychological problems after being repeatedly abused by Mr Williams, who the jury was told was a family friend. But Mr Justice Poole said the woman "genuinely believed in memories that were entirely false" and that Mr Williams could leave court "without a stain on his character". Mr Williams, of Lloc, near Holywell, north Wales, denied eight charges of indecent assault spanning an eight-year-period from 1977 to 1985. During the three-day trial, the jury was told how the woman - who was then aged seven - went with her parents to live in Holywell, near to where Mr Williams owned a smallholding. Steven Everett, prosecuting, alleged Mr Williams behaved in a "sexually inappropriate" way, kissing and touching the youngster when she started visiting his farm alone. The woman claimed she had suffered anorexia, depression, insomnia and panic attacks as a result of "flashbacks". She told people of her ordeal before going for therapy and confronted the defendant in 1996, finally telling the police, Mr Everett said. The woman told the jury she first realised she had been sexually abused when she was 18, as she watched a TV programme about ChildLine presented by Esther Rantzen. But Gordon Cole, defending, said Mr Williams never indecently assaulted the girl who, although not deliberately lying, was suffering from a condition known as "false memory syndrome", in which her mind "played tricks", triggered by therapy and counselling sessions. 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: Konformist: Rocks Versus Rifles
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[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: PRECARIOUS PROSPECTS FOR GLOBAL PEACE:
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/6/_/1406/_/971842615/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- E - V E N T H O R I Z O N . N E T A R T I C L E S global political/socio-cultural commentary and analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October, 2000 - g l o b a l g o v e r n m e n t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PRECARIOUS PROSPECTS FOR GLOBAL PEACE: Containing the Top Ten Most Intractable World Crises by Brett Daniel Wills October 16, 2000 PDT "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against it. I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it." - Zechariah 12: 2-4 As we enter the closing season of the 20th century, nearly a dozen regional crises still burn across the globe. In order to convey the semblance of international peace and stability, these firestorms must be restrained. Some crises have long plagued the nations with repeated flair ups; others are too recent to determine their potential for long-term volatility. Nonetheless, they all have reached breadths of intractability that, in the eyes of the world community, demand concerted, multinational efforts to extinguish if trans-institutional mandates for socio-political integration are to be effectively implemented worldwide. In the dawning days of the official millennium, 2001, the top ten most intractable issues that threaten to overturn the precarious balance of global stability today, in order of importance, are: 1.The imminent founding of a Jewish Temple in Israel 2.The possible creation of an American anti-missile defense shield 3.Terrorist organizations acquiring "mini nucs" 4.The danger of the collapse of world stock markets, a la the depression era 5.A global outbreak of new, antibiotic-resistant strains of disease 6.Global superstorms, creating a new meteorological category: the F6 7.The civilizational clash between the Industrial Era and its multifaceted successor 8.Worldwide famine hastened by topsoil erosion and a population explosion 9.A re-ignited Korean War sparked by the collapse of unification procedures 10. Nuclear war between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir enclave THE YUGOSLAVIA CONFLAGRATION REDUCED TO SMOLDERING EMBERS The crisis in Yugoslavia, now in its tenth year, could justifiably claim a position among the top two or three major issues in the list above between 1991-1998, when the scourges of genocide and civil war erupted. American warships were drawn to the Aegean sea in preparation for a regional outbreak of war and the possibility of a massive exodus of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia. The danger of drawing in Macedonia, Albania and Greece, causing a domino effect that could have spilled across the rest of Eastern Europe, stirred the Western Alliance into gradual but continued maneuvering for eventual military intervention. And the catalyst that kindled the move, of course, was Serbian aggression against Kosovo. Yet in the ashes of that assault in the Spring of 1999, the Yugoslav crisis downshifted, the media's attention turned elsewhere, and the power of Serbian President Milosevic, while remaining steadfast and tenacious, ebbed. The current radical changes now in play in Belgrade have significantly altered the prospects for spreading into a Balkan War, and thus bump it entirely from consideration as a current global crisis point. The crushing defeat of the Serbs by NATO's airforce has substantially decreased the potential for Milosevic to rattle the region with further instability. As tens of thousands of protesters marched on the Capitol in Belgrade and stormed the Parliament Oct 4, the prospect of either a nationally contained civil war, or Milosevic's long-anticipated dethronement, is now much more likely. The scenes of mass rallying, black and gray smoke streaming from buildings, riot police resolute to defend legislative grounds, yet hesitant to fire on the people - all is reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in '89, and as such, bodes well for democratization in Yugoslavia. The preliminary electoral results, which showed a 10% percent edge given to opposition candidate Kostunica, were rescinded by Milosevic, sparking the present revolt. Endorsed by V. Putin of the Russian Federation, a Contact Member with considerable influence and ethnic camaraderie with the Serbs, Kostunica's swift resurrection from sudden political demise cast the final die. Not to be outdone, some 200 of
[CTRL] Fwd: DPFOR: Why Barry Bailed: US: Drug Czar Target Of Fraud Probe
Wonder why Barry McCaffrey quit? Could it be... Newshawk: Irate Taxpayer Pubdate: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA) Copyright: 2000 Cox Interactive Media. Contact: Journal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constitution: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ Forum: http://www.accessatlanta.com/community/forums/ Author: Lance Gay, Scripps Howard News Service WHITE HOUSE DRUG CZAR TARGET OF FRAUD PROBE Auditors Claim Ad Costs Inflated Washington --- Congressional investigators opened a criminal investigation of the White House drug czar's office this spring after uncovering evidence that contractors improperly inflated advertising costs for the $1 billion national anti-drug campaign. Robert Hast, head of the congressional General Accounting Office's elite criminal fraud unit, told the House Government Reform criminal justice subcommittee Wednesday that GAO auditors uncovered evidence involving an estimated $8 million in inflated charges submitted in 1999 involving government advertising contracts. The charges involve inflated billing for work done on the anti-drug contracts, payments of bonuses to executives, and improper travel charges. Hast said a former employee of the giant New York advertising agency Ogilvy Mather also gave investigators testimony of other improprieties. "We are looking at the fraud," he said. Hast said that the progress of the investigation has been hampered since April by Barry McCaffrey, the White House drug policy director, who has refused to allow Department of Health and Human Services auditors to complete an audit of the drug office contracts. That department oversees government drug programs. Aides to the retired Army general say McCaffrey wants to transfer the auditing responsibilities for his office to the Navy, but has not yet received approval for the Navy to do the work. Hast also recounted how McCaffrey was involved in several other curious activities in the case. Although McCaffrey was told of the contracting irregularities in a two-page staff memo dated April 13, Hast said McCaffrey initially denied to his investigators that he knew anything about the matter. He then changed his testimony after the investigators showed McCaffrey a copy of the April 13 memo, which contains McCaffrey's own handwritten comments in the margin. Hast also testified that in June, McCaffrey met privately with an Ogilvy Mather representative, and told drug office subordinates after the meeting that he was "satisfied with the contractor's costs." Howard Pleffner, the drug office's project officer supervising the contracts, said the audit is needed to close the books on a backlog of more than $13 million in pending bills from Ogilvy, and $5 million from other contractors. Some of the bills are a year overdue, he said. Pleffner, who authored the April 13 memo to McCaffrey detailing the contract irregularities, found that some vouchers submitted for payment were 33 percent higher than those submitted earlier for the same services. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens www.mapinc.org
[CTRL] Fwd: DPFOR: Record Number of Marijuana Arrests in 1999!
NORML Foundation 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW Ste. 710 Washington, DC 20036 202-483-5500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.norml.org Record Number of Marijuana Arrests in 1999! According to the FBI's Crime in the United States 1999 Uniform Crime Reports: There were 704,812 marijuana arrests total Of those arrests: 84,271 were for sales/cultivation. and 620,541 were for simple marijuana possession. These are the 1998 UCR numbers: 682,885 total marijuana arrests. 81,947 were for sales/cultivation. 600,938 were for possession. * 1997 UCR had the previous record for marijuana arrests in a year 695,200. * 4,175,357 Americans have been arrested during the Clinton Administration. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse 76,428,000 Americans have used marijuana in their lifetime. 19,573,000 Americans have used marijuana within the past year. 11,177,000 Americans have used marijuana within the past month. -NORML Foundation 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW Ste. 710 Washington, DC 20036 202-483-5500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.norml.org Forwarded by: Arthur Livermore, Director Falcon Cove Biology Laboratory 44500 Tide Avenue Arch Cape, OR 97102 503-436-1882 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] fun in the sun -the monster road
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:56:17 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Denis Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 101500 Trans Asia Expected to Start in Year 2002 101500 Trans Asia Expected to Start in Year 2002 BANGKOK (Oct. 15) XINHUA - Trans Asia linking railroads of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Kunming in southern China -- would be completed within year 2002, the Thai News Agency (TNA reported Monday. Chief of the State Railway of Thailand Saravuth Thammasir was quoted as saying that the state-owned company had been approved to help its Cambodian counterpart study a feasibility of repairing 48- kilometer Poipet-Sisophon railway which was a part of a 5,500- kilometer main route of the region rail link. Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore are already linked by rail. Laos has a plan to build a railway connecting China's southern province, Loas's Vientiane through Thailand's northeastern province of Nong Khai. It is expected that the Kunming-Singapore rail link will boost trade and tourism among ten members of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), plus southern Chinese provinces. ASEAN transport minister, met in Brunei recently, approved a feasibility of the 5,500-kilometer links. Branches of the main route, will connect through Vietnam's central province, Bangkok and Burmese capital Rangoon. Main route of Trans Asia will run through Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Kunming. The Trans Asia project will cost about 2.5 billion U.S. dollars. Asian Development Bank is the major capital provider of the project. Copyright XINHUA NEWS AGENCY Copyright 2000 == -- Denis Johnson Minneapolis, MN, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --News articles are passed on from the original sources, unedited except for formatting, and do not necessarily reflect my personal opinions.-- ___ At 12:33 AM 10/17/00 +0700, you wrote: Well, it looks like the old Wa and Thai border area is cooking up to something. Was on my way down to Chiangrai last week and noticed some brand new personell track carriers on big trucks moving north. With gun turrets. Then the next trucks had small short barreled tanks, like what could make it up a goat track here. Several. Well I was suspicious and then tonight confirmed it, found them parked out by Haen Taek at a tiny army base there, ready to do a little back side border patrol it looks like. Haentaek is the last town before the border with the Wa. A pre Cobra Gold stomp about here in a few weeks for the US staff advance people. Then Cobra Gold in Feb? Yeah, the yanks want into this one big time. Not building the monster road for nothing. Matthew -- http://www.akha.com http://www.akha.org Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA By Visa Card Secure Site: https://www.givetocharity.com/cgi-bin/give.pl?CODE=10956 === SheWhoRemembers Freedom Justice Peace http://geocities.com/sheremembers Audio Feed forThought: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/swr/ftr.ram Join List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/16/_/475667/_/971863234/"BClick Here!/B/A -_-
[CTRL] OEN 10/18/00
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Spy vs. Spy Enigma Machine Comes Home Good thing there wasn't a bomb in the package. JEREMY PAXMAN opened a mystery parcel yesterday and found the missing Enigma cipher machine, stolen six months ago from Bletchley Park, the home of Britain's wartime codebreakers. However, the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge did not at first realise the bonus that was waiting for him in the BBC offices. The hefty cardboard package, sent by Royal Mail special delivery, had been lying unopened for days before a colleague pointed out it was addressed to him. Paxman said: "As soon as I opened it I realised what it was. It looks as though it is authentic. It's got the G312 code on the back. I haven't a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I haven't got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods. I'm delighted to be able to return it to its rightful owner. They are very poignant machines. I think what they did at Bletchley Park during the war was quite outstanding." The device, which was posted in a wooden box with a leather handle and wrapped in three layers of packing and bubble wrapping, has yet to be authenticated by Bletchley Park. It was sent without its three main rotors, the key enciphering component, and the Bletchley Park Trust was told these would only be handed over in return for £25,000 compensation. The rare, four-rotor version of the wartime machine used by German military intelligence is worth £100,000 intact but much less without its rotors. Christine Large, the trust's chief executive, said that the "new owner" had contacted her yesterday to give his instructions for a handover of £25,000, which he claims was paid for the machine, in exchange for the rotors. The trust agreed to pay the ransom following a threat from a "middle-man", claiming to act for someone who bought the machine, that it would be destroyed. A British company is understood to have come forward to offer the £25,000. Mrs Large said: "Following this act of faith by the new owner of G312, we are now attempting to put him in touch with representatives of the benefactor who has come forward with the £25,000 ransom." The machine, which had been loaned to the trust by GCHQ, Britain's modern-day codebreaking organisation, was in a wooden box the size of a typewriter. It disappeared on an open day in April shortly before the trust's display of three Enigma machines was to be fitted with infra-red alarms. The London Telegraph, October 17, 2000 - 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] [1] NSA External Team Report on Reorganization
-Caveat Lector- from: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm"NSA External Team Report on Reorganization/A - 17 October 2000 Source: http://www.nsa.gov/releases/nsa_external_team_report.pdf (27 pages; 2.7MB) This is one of two reports released 17 October by the National Security Agency on recommendations for its reorganization (after releasing them to Inside Defense under FOIA request): http://www.nsa.gov/releases/reports.html The second is a 76-page report, "New Enterprise Team (NETeam) Recommendations: The Director's Work Plan for Change," 1 October 1999: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-net.htm [27 pages; undated, probably 1999, released 17 October 2000] NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE FORT GEORGE G MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000 When I arrived at the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) over a year ago, I was told by many people within the Intelligence Community -- and by lifelong NSA employees -- that in order to meet the challenges of the new millennium, the Agency must undergo a deep, purposeful transformation. The evolution of technology dictated change within the Agency and was the impetus for self-examination and introspection. More importantly, our customers and Congress, along, with other external groups, were pointing to much inefficiency in the way we manage our assets, our leadership, and our approach to technology. To that end, I commissioned two teams of experts to assess NSA's personnel. culture. organization and processes and to present detailed recommendations for improvement. To ensure that the teams were diverse and well represented, I mandated that one team would comprise Agency employees; the other team would comprise representatives from industry. Both studies have been declassified and are enclosed for your information, Though the teams attacked the study from diverse perspectives and approaches. their conclusions and recommendations were remarkably similar. Both teams agreed that NSA needed to make many difficult, essential changes in order to continue to maintain its place on the cutting edge of technology. Both teams agreed that NSA needed to improve in the following areas: governance, culture, vision/mission/corporate strategy, resource management, communicating with our customers/partners/stakeholders and business planning. I listened to both teams and I have taken important pieces of each report to heart. Some of the recommendations in the reports were adopted immediately; others are still being considered. To gain the momentum for significant change, I initiated a period called. "100 Days of Change," which lasted from 15 November 1999 to 30 March 2000. From the onset, I stated that "100 Days," was just a beginning -- a starting line from which NSA can begin to transform into a first-class, 21st Century agency. We have begun to change our ethos, which is more than changing our culture because we must change the way we think, feel and act. We have begun the difficult tasks of eliminating non-essential activities, introducing disciplined decision-making into our processes, and holding our leadership accountable. We have improved the ways we communicate within the Agency and to the public. Where we need help and new perspectives, we have selected outside talent in key positions. Our goal is an Agency that is more aware of itself and its role in national security, more agile in its ability to respond to challenges and opportunities, and more collaborative with its partners, customers and stakeholders. Transformation is never easy, but for NSA it is compulsory. We have moved out and have created the momentum for change. Further changes will come in the future as we strive to make progress and reach our goals. We are making the needed course corrections to ensure that NSA meets new challenges and is true to its mission in providing and protecting information essential to the national security of our nation. [Signature] MICHAEL V. HAYDEN Lieutenant General, USAF Director, NSA/Chief, CSS Enclosures: As Stated EXTERNAL TEAM REPORT A Management Review for the Director, NSA October 22, 1999 ___ List of Acronyms CBJB - Congressional Budget Justification Book CIA - Central Intelligence Agency CINC - Commander-in-Chief CFO - Chief Financial Officer COO - Chief Operating Officer COS - Chief of Staff DCI - Director of Central Intelligence DDCM - Deputy Director for Corporate Management DDI - Deputy Director for Information Assurance DDO - Deputy Director for Operations DDS - Deputy Director for Support Services DoD - Department of Defense EPA - Employee Promotion Assessment ETR - Engineering, Technology and Research IAM - Information Assurance Mission IG - Inspector General InfoSec -
[CTRL] Ritual Abuse Cover-Up in San Diego
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Alex Constantine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Lynn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ritual Abuse Cover-Up in San Diego Date: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:30 PM PROBLEMS FOR VICTIMS OF RITUAL ABUSE IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Opinion Piece Submitted to the San Diego Union-Tribune, by Ellen Lacter, Ph.D. on 9-29-2000 Mark Sauer's 9-24-00 article, "A Web of Intrigue", in the San Diego Union-Tribune is his most recent in a series of articles misrepresenting the facts on the subject of child ritual abuse and attacking advocates for ritual abuse victims. His articles have, over the past 10 years, contributed to convincing a good portion of the San Diego community that ritual abuse does not exist. This has had a devastating impact on victimized children and adults, resulting in their not being believed and reduced protection by law enforcement and the courts. Sauer's factual misrepresentations of 9-24-00 are as follows: 1. Sauer claims the debate over satanic ritual abuse ended in the mid-1990's when it was "discredited by mental-health experts and the courts". The truth is that psychological and legal evidence of the existence of satanic ritual abuse is substantial and that the debate is alive and well. A review of the empirical evidence of ritual abuse can be found in a book by James Randolph Noblitt and Pamela Sue Perskin (Cult and Ritual Abuse, 2000, Chapter 6). One national survey of 2709 clinical psychologists showed that 30% claimed to have seen at least one case of "ritualistic or religion-based abuse" and 93% of these psychologists believed the harm actually occurred (Reference: Goodman, Qin, Bottoms, and Shaver, 1994, "Characteristics and Sources of Allegations of Ritualistic Child Abuse: Final Report to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect"). The American Psychiatric Press published a text in 1997 explaining the importance of correct assessment and treatment of ritualistic abuse survivors (The Dilemma of Ritual Abuse: Cautions and Guides for Therapists, edited by G.A. Fraser). Numerous court decisions (criminal, family, juvenile, and civil) have been based on findings of ritual abuse. For example, on February 27, 1999, the Honorable Warren K. Urbom, Senior United States District Judge, Omaha, Nebraska, awarded a million dollar civil judgement to Paul Bonacci against Larry King (not the well-known talk-show host, Larry King), based on King's sexual abuse (including pornography and orgies) and false imprisonment, of Bonacci as a child, in the infamous Franklin satanic cult/sex/drug ring case. Further information on this case can be found in the book, "The Franklin Cover-Up", by John De Camp, and on the Internet at: http://www.stansolomon.com/gundrsn02.htm The court finding list is archived, periodically updated, and published on the world-wide web by "Karen Curio Jones". Under this pseudonym, "Jones" has devoted herself to raising public awareness of child ritual abuse on the Internet for the past five years. Sauer claims to expose "Jones'" identity in his 9-24-00 article. Sauer globally denies the existence of satanic ritual abuse while our recent history is marred with undeniable cases of mass suicide/homicide by other kinds of cults and underground groups. This past summer, almost 1000 people were found murdered by an underground cult in Uganda, "Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God". Last year, in Rancho Sante Fe, 39 people suicided from the cult, "Heaven's Gate". In Jonestown, 22 years ago, more than 900 people mass-suicided and were murdered of "The People's Temple". Devastating world events originate in underground groups, such as the Third Reich and Ku Klux Klan. High school students are taught to remember the Nazi death camps lest such atrocities repeat themselves. Given these examples, why does Sauer turn a blind eye to the evidence of satanic cult abuse? 2. Sauer cites the McMartin Pre-school acquittals as evidence that ritual abuse does not exist. He omits any mention of the post-trial geological survey under the school's foundation that yielded convincing corroboration of the children's reports of being taken through underground tunnels (See "The Dark Tunnels of McMartin", by Summit, R.C., 1994, The Journal of Psychohistory, 21(4), 397-416.) 3. Sauer cites the "10-year investigation" by Special FBI Agent Ken Lanning that concluded that satanic ritual abuse does not exist. Sauer fails to mention that Lanning is a very controversial figure. Noblitt and Perskin (2000, see above) state: "In reality, there is no such study... my office contacted the FBI and requested a copy of the alleged study. The bureau responded in writing indicating that no such study existed." (See page 179
[CTRL] [2] NSA External Team Report on Reorganization
-Caveat Lector- from: http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://cryptome.org/nsa-reorg-et.htm"NSA External Team Report on Reorganization/A - Business Model and Resource Management The effectiveness of an organization is influenced greatly by its processes. Key to the operation of any business is the management of resources, people, equipment, knowledge, cash or capital. In the end, most resource issues can be reduced to financial ones, and that is the focus of this discussion. Currently, NSA does not manage its financial resources consistent with current business practices. It separates expense budgeting from headcount budgeting, it has less than state of the art cost management tools and processes, and it does not afford mission managers or oversight managers with sufficient information to understand what is being invested where. Couple this with the widely held belief that the decision making process within the Agency is not responsive and one arrives at a situation where sufficient authority, or empowerment, to cause events to happen and the resulting accountability for these actions do not exist. Our fundamental recommendation is to change the organization and underlying funding model in order to enable the accountability and empowerment of individuals closest to mission execution. In a business environment, such managers are called "product managers." They control the key variables of a product, its functionality, price, distribution and how it is promoted to its customers. Through control of these variables, they exercise authority over, and are responsible for, the product's profit and loss. We call the equivalent managers in the Agency "Mission Managers." They exist in the mission operations organizations (the SIM and IAM). A Mission Manager's role is to determine the mission requirements from the perspective of the customers for whom the mission is created and develop plans for causing the mission to be realized physically and operated in steady state. They have to create a financial plan that identifies the resources required over a specific time period and the deliverables created with associated benefits. The basic premise is that NSA should build its operating processes around these Mission Managers, empowering them to develop plans to create and operate missions, providing them resources to succeed, and holding them accountable for the success and failure of these missions. Individuals who succeed in small efforts are promoted to larger and larger ones, those who fail after repeated attempts and appropriate training, are removed from such responsibility. Decision making is pushed onto them and oversight is focused at supporting the team of day-to-day managers rather than second guessing them. For Mission Managers to succeed, they must have complete control of all resources required to realize and operate the mission. This includes expenses, people, facilities, and capital. Thus, at the end, all supporting organizations have to subordinate their individual judgments to those of the Mission Manager, and this individual has to control their budgets in order to insure compliance with the mission plans. Therefore, a Mission Manager will work out implementation plans with supporting organizations, such as technology development ones or systems integration ones, and close with them on budgets, deliverables and timelines along with acceptance criteria. The total budget of an operations organization is the sum of the budgets of the Mission Managers in it. The total budget of a supporting organization (such as ETR) is the sum of the budgets allocated to it by the individual Mission Managers. All costs are to be included in these budgets, for example, personnel salaries and benefits, costs of facilities, travel, professional development and equipment purchases. The present practice of separating headcount, or "billets," from financial budgets should end. For Mission Managers to have real control over their programs, they require a feedback loop to insure that performance of the organization matches the plan. This is done with a cost accounting system that matches expenditures to specific missions, programs and projects. The government, particularly DoD, is well acquainted with such processes. There is a class of work that has to be done within NSA that does not lend itself to sponsorship by Mission Managers, at least not the conventional ones to be found in an operating organization. This class of work can be considered corporate work. Research is a significant example, but there are others (such as Y2K work). Budgets for these organizations and functions, and for leadership offices should be driven corporately. Thus the overall budget for the entire Agency would be the sum of these corporate activities and the mission activities. Also, there are common support functions, such as human resources or financial management, that could either be supported by corporate funding
[CTRL] I Visit Conspiracy Rat
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.40/consprat.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V2.40/consprat.html"I Visit Conspiracy Rat/A - I Visit Conspiracy Rat by King Rat Some people wonder where I've been. I've been keeping my ass out of the line of fire, that's where. Last February I thought D.C. was going to turn into a war zone. Demos vs. Repubs and a lot of extracurricular activity. Usually such games are just meant to entertain the voters back home while the more serious work of dividing up the cheese takes place behind closed doors. So with real bullets flying, I went underground. I left it to the clueless to go out and get their tails shot off. Myself, I'm a master of survival. That's why they call me King Rat. One bright and sunny day in November, I suddenly realized there was no war. It was all lovey-dovey between Repubs and Demos. The voters have spoken, they were whispering. They want us all to get along and work together to amass the maximum amount of cheese possible to divvy up among us rats! It was astonishing. Some politician one time had described voters as rat bait, but I had to see it to believe it. Moreover, the Chinese cheese pipeline appeared intact, which meant I could get back to the task of getting my fair share. Like they say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. It was a fine day and I went over to Lafayette Park to dance a rat jig I do to the God of Government when times are especially good. But the park was kind of crowded with imbeciles carrying signs like "Impeach the Lying Bastard" and "This man leaves a bad taste in our mouths." I had no idea who they were talking about. Although one sign referred to "Wolf Blitzer, White House Whore," so I decided it was probably a rival news organization. I walked over to the Mall for some privacy, and danced my jig there. That's when I decided to visit Conspiracy Rat. I knew he showed up every noon at the Smithsonian to check on Foucault's pendulum. Foucault's pendulum is a Big Swinging Mass. Because of inertia, it tries to stay swinging back and forth in the same plane. But because the earth is rotating, it knocks over a circle of markers placed around it over a 24-hour period. I like the exhibit, but have never figured out how to earn any cheese from the idea. Conspiracy Rat wasn't like that. He thought you were supposed to know things for their own sake. It was quite a stupid notion. What was the point if there was no cheese involved? That undoubtedly was the reason Conspiracy Rat was always hard up for cheese. But I perceived the current moment as a time of transition. Demos and Repubs united to rip off the voters. It was one of those pivotal moments when I was prone to consult astrologers, read tarot cards, and think about my future. Rats also believe. Conspiracy Rat had his notebook out, taking down observations on the pendulum. He was trying to detect anomalies. He thought something was occurring with respect to the earth's rotation. Something bad, naturally. And the North and South magnetic poles were about to shift polarity. But I wanted to talk about politics. Maybe Conspiracy Rat had his finger on what was happening, and I would get it for free. I mustered my warmest greeting: "Why, hello Conspiracy Rat!" I smiled enthusiastically at this chance encounter. Conspiracy Rat looked up from his notebook. "Um," he said, noncommittally. He sat down in front of one of the markers and looked around. When he thought no one was watching, he made a small pencil mark on the floor. Then he got up, snapped his notebook shut, and started to leave. He almost ran into me. "Oh!" he said in surprise, his tail bobbing straight up into the air. Then: "Oh. Hello your highness." That was his way of putting me down by mocking at my title. But I was used to it and didn't pay any attention. "Well, Conspiracy Rat," I said. "How are you? What do you think of all this camaraderie between Demos and Repubs?" I smiled at him encouragingly, eager to receive his occult wisdom. I almost wished I was a girl rat so I could bat my eyelashes at him. But no matter, he took the bait. "Bob Livingston is the compromise president," Conspiracy Rat said firmly. "Oh, how is that?" I asked eagerly. My mouth was salivating, and I was afraid it might start foaming. "Obviously, if Clinton goes, Gore will go shortly thereafter. That makes Livingston president. Unless, of course, Gore has time to appoint a vice-president in the meantime. Which is quite possible. But what has been eliminated is the possibility of Gingrich becoming president. With Gingrich gone, it means the way is paved to kick out Clinton and Gore." This took me back somewhat. Maybe Conspiracy Rat, always on the edge anyway, had finally gone off his rocker. "Who wants to kick out Clinton and Gore? The voters have spoken. We all love one another now. We're back to collecting cheese as normal," I said. Conspiracy Rate waved his hand dismissively. "You know about the three
[CTRL] Horror Story: King Doubles Cost
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39470,00.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39470,00.html" Horror Story: King Doubles Cost/A - Horror Story: King Doubles Cost by M.J. Rose 3:00 a.m. Oct. 17, 2000 PDT The fourth installment of Stephen King's online serial, The Plant, is a go. King had said that as long as at least 75 percent of readers pay, he'll continue writing. Well, the latest figures show that 75.61 percent of all downloads for the third chapter were accompanied by payment of his $1-per-chapter fee. The fourth installment will post on Oct. 23, barring technical difficulties, according to his assistant. But unlike previous installments, part four will cost $2. It also will be three times as long. "We're doing it this way so that the total price for the serial will not exceed $13," said King's assistant, Marsha DeFillippo. The plan, she said, is that the paying percentage of readers would be reviewed again before part five is posted. After part eight, the installments will be free. E-books go to the Vatican: Dick Brass, vice president of technology development at Microsoft, was at the Vatican on Oct. 16 to announce the release of a new e-book, Christian Bioethics, by H.E Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Genoa. In addition to the e-book which is being released in the Microsoft® Reader format, Cardinal Tettamanzi and his team have created a website where they'll receive questions via email that will be addressed by an expert panel including physicians, theologians, legal experts and the Cardinal himself. These replies will be incorporated into future editions of the text, so the e-book will be continually updated to offer advice on developments in the biotechnologies and their ethical and moral impact. The e-book version of "Christian Bioethics" is available for download to PCs, laptops and Pocket PCs. "When Gutenberg created the first printed Bible, it began a bountiful tradition that linked religion with literacy and learning, a tradition in which the Catholic Church has long been the standard-bearer. Countless people throughout history have benefited from the Church's work, and this will continue thanks to the cardinal's decision to embrace e-books. We are honored to be a part of it," Brass said. Support for ebrary: Random House, Pearson and McGraw-Hill have each made an investment in ebrary, the online research service scheduled to launch this fall. Ebrary is the process of collecting and digitizing content from books, journals, maps, periodicals and digitally archived material, most of which has not previously been accessible on the Web. Users will pay a fee only when they print material. There is no subscription fee such as that proposed by another such service, Questia, set to launch in January. "The fact that this is the first-ever co-investment by three major publishers in this space demonstrates the broad range of support for ebrary's model and philosophy," said Christopher Warnock, chief executive officer of ebrary. Warnock said that this model will benefit publishers, libraries, booksellers, and Internet users, while protecting the authors' copyrights. If you e-give it, will they read? The University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center made 1,200 of its 55,000 online texts available on Aug. 6 as free e-books that can be downloaded and read using free Microsoft Reader software. "We wanted to see what would happen if we put e-books up without any barriers," said David Seaman, the center's director. In two months, 753,922 copies of those e-books have been downloaded. "And none of our titles were bestsellers. In fact, many were texts published by the university," Seaman said. Some of the most popular titles have been Aesop's Fables, War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, and Darwin's Origin of Species. Alice in Wonderland has been downloaded over 4,000 times in September alone. Readers have come from more than 100 countries, with a significant numbers from Asia, Africa, and the Russian Federation. The audience has included the general reading public, high school and college students, teachers and parents. "It was fairly easy for us to set up this experiment and get it going because we build our documents once in a standard format such as XML and then let the market dictate which way to express it," Seaman said. "This runs counter to what the publishing industry is doing by creating content in a priority format all and winding up with just that one document." Everyone knows what happens when you sell a paper book for $25 and what happens when you give away e-books, but what is not yet known, said Seaman, is what options will work in between those two points. "This is not business as usual anymore. You have to be open to letting the markets teach you. We're curious about subscription services, lending fees, and prices of, say, a penny, or a dime, or even a dollar," he said. Seaman does not think that the current
[CTRL] Election 2000: Map
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.dismal.com/thoughts/th_bn_031600_map.stm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.dismal.com/thoughts/th_bn_031600_map.stm" Election 2000: Map/A - Final Election Forecast The Dismal Scientist's exclusive economic model predicts the outcome of November's Presidential election. The accompanying map gives a state-by-state breakdown of electoral college votes, and our discussion of the most recent results begins immediately below. You can also view the methodology behind our forecast. Final Discussion: Updated October 2000 With less than a month to go until the election, the final electoral vote tally is unchanged. Gore's electoral vote total remains at 356 to Bush's 182. The only change is that Louisiana's nine electoral votes shift from solid Gore to leaning Gore. A rough estimate of the share of the two-party national popular vote (weighting the individual state estimates by that state's Electoral College votes) yields a popular vote of approximately 52.6% for Gore. There has been little in the past few months on the economic landscape to significantly shake Gore's chances. Higher oil prices have made inflation tick up, but it has remained quite tame. And while the stock market has had a very bad month, the SP 500 was still up year-over-year through the third quarter (the model takes a two-year moving average of growth rates from the third quarter of 1998 to the third quarter of this year). But of course, Gore and Bush are now deadlocked in the opinion polls. Gore has been unable to make the dual case that he should get credit for the economy (polls show voters give him little) and that Bush threatens the current prosperity. Gore has attempted over and over to link Bush's tax cut to higher deficits and weaker longer-term growth. To date, his criticisms have not been effective. Gore may yet lose the election, confounding the prediction of our model (and all similar ones published). All such models can claim is that given historical patterns and the current economic environment, there is no reason to expect Bush to win. If Bush succeeds in ousting an administration in the most prosperous times in US history, he will have made some history of his own. Methodology Various models have been devised to account for the effect of economic conditions on electoral outcomes. The general form of these models regresses the share of the national vote won on sundry economic variables. Some variant of GDP growth and inflation are the most common explanatory measures used. These models have generally worked well, but there have been failures, most notably some incorrect predictions of a Bush win in 1992. The model estimated by The Dismal Scientist seeks to increase predictive power by taking into account variation in economic performance around the nation. The 1992 election year, for example, was particularly noteworthy in that regional economic conditions were as varied as they had been at any time in the postwar era. Estimation using solely national-level data misses such variation and thus can lead to significant prediction errors. Additionally, since winning the presidency is based upon winning in the electoral college rather than the popular vote, a model that forecasts victory state by state is more in keeping with the spirit of the actual electoral process. Accordingly, the model estimated in this analysis is a fixed effects state-level model, estimated over the past six presidential elections. The dependent variable is the share of the two-party presidential vote won by the incumbent party in a given state. On the state level, the key explanatory economic variable is the growth in real per capita personal income over the two years preceding the election. On the national level, average growth in the CPI and average growth in the SP 500 over the preceding two years are used as explanatory variables. Values for all of the economic variables are The Dismal Scientist's forecasts through the third quarter. In addition to economic variables, the share of the two-party vote won by the incumbent presidential party in the previous election is included to account for historical party affiliation in a given state. The accuracy of the model is demonstrated by its ability to predict election outcomes. Over the past five elections, the model has successfully predicted nearly 90% of electoral votes on average, never predicting less than 75% of the electoral votes. The strong conclusion for a Democrat win in the 2000 election must be tempered both by the fact that there have been not insignificant inaccuracies in the past, however, and much more by the fact that other factors may prove more important than those included in the model. One obvious example is the extent to which so-called Clinton fatigue hurts the eventual Democratic nominee. Moreover, the model does not explicitly take social issues into account. The election, at least in some states, could turn on noneconomic issues. Indeed, there
[CTRL] The Ingredients of a Bear Market
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.dismal.com/todays_econ/te_101700.asp Click Here: A HREF="http://www.dismal.com/todays_econ/te_101700.asp"The Ingredients of a Bear Market/A - View print friendly format The Ingredients of a Bear Market By Dan Green 10/17/00 8:30 AM ET The economy is humming along in an expansion of unprecedented length. Unemployment is at its second-lowest level ever and seems to be holding steady. The stock market has had a stellar decade, and connections between nations are increasing rapidly. There is a new faith in the power of the economy to grow indefinitely and to raise living standards for everyone. Sound familiar? Those words could describe 1968 or 2000. The year 1968 marked the beginning of financial markets' worst decade since the Great Depression. Stock prices, as approximated by the SP 500 Index, languished in a broad trading range for ten years. Admittedly, the chart below ignores dividends paid, but the point remains that, given the high inflation of the period, investors lost money in real terms. This year's hemorrhaging in the Dow and the Nasdaq has caused many investors to lose the hubris that led to expectations of enormous profit growth over infinite timeframes. Now that it is widely accepted that the bull market party is over, does it follow that investors are destined to suffer through a prolonged bear market? There are three worrisome parallels with the conditions that drove real share and bond values lower in the 1970s. Oil. Rising tensions in the Middle East bring the most obvious parallel to mind. In the 1970s, OPEC supply curtailments, both politically and economically motivated, drove real oil prices (in today's dollars) from $15 to more than $40 per barrel (they doubled again in the early 1980s). Real oil prices have risen from close to $12 per barrel to over $30 per barrel in just the past two years. If the situation in the Middle East deteriorates or the winter is colder than expected, the price of oil could jump dramatically. Although oil is less significant to the economy than it was 20 years ago, the Dow lost close to 400 points as oil prices rose, reminding everyone that oil is still the single most important commodity in the economy and the most feared source of inflation. Labor. The greatest achievement of this economic expansion is the 23.7 million net new jobs created since the last recession ended. This great expansion of opportunity has invited many underrepresented groups into the labor force and has even begun to lift real incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder. The worry, however, is that further improvement is harder to achieve. The unemployment rate is once again below 4%, where it hasn't held since-guess when-the end of the 1960s. The Phillips Curve is a hard theory to prove, and is certainly not universally accepted, but it is clearly more difficult to rapidly expand employment from a 4% unemployment rate than from the 7.5% that prevailed in 1992. Besides its extraordinary tightness, another characteristic of the labor market may perhaps bode ill for investors over this decade. After years of decline, the youngest cohort of workers is expanding in numbers and importance. While these new workers provide a measure of surety against overly tight labor markets, they are (with the notable exception of high-tech skills) considerably less productive than the older workers who are moving into retirement. This may constrain labor productivity growth, a hallmark of the new economy. Government spending. 1969 was the last year before 1998 that the federal government ran a surplus. A major cause of the debacle of the 1970s was massive federal spending on antipoverty programs and on the Vietnam War. Conversely, fiscal discipline has been one of the major underpinnings of the current expansion. The upcoming presidential and congressional elections threaten to upset this discipline. Both candidates have made promises that appear to doom the surplus and could lead to fiscal profligacy of the sort that overheated the economy at the end of the 1960s. Despite these parallels, there are three major differences that should shield investors and the economy from the travails of the 1970s. Stock markets may not recover the go-go enthusiasm of the past few years, but there is little to suggest that a prolonged and significant decline, as opposed to a period of stagnation, in financial asset values is in order. Monetary discipline. Loose monetary policy accommodated ambitious federal spending into the 1970s. The consensus among Fed policymakers to squelch any renaissance of inflation provides the best surety against a return of high inflation and retrenchment in the real economy. While stockholders have often been angry with Alan Greenspan over the past year, the policies he represents should themselves provide a reasonable guarantee of positive real returns on most investments over the coming decade. Institutional strength. Sophisticated financial
[CTRL] Market jittery as dollar dives nearer 50¢
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0010/18/pageone/pageone11.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.smh.com.au/news/0010/18/pageone/pageone11.html"Market jittery as dollar dives nearer 50¢ /A - Market jittery as dollar dives nearer 50¢ By TOM ALLARD, Economics Correspondent The Treasurer, Mr Costello, will fly to the United States tomorrow to begin a roadshow selling the strengths of the economy to the powerful investors who have been driving the Australian dollar down to damaging levels. With the dollar hitting another low of US52.12¢ yesterday - in early trading in London last night it fell to US51.87¢ - Mr Costello will leave growing anxiety - and a feeling of impotence - about the dollar's effect on rising petrol prices, import costs and interest rates. The Reserve Bank revealed yesterday that it spent $506 million of its foreign reserves last month in a relatively modest but unsuccessful attempt to prop up the currency. "It's sinking and there's no lifeboat to save it," a Commonwealth Securities economist, Ms Besa Deda, said. "Fifty cents is certainly a level that could be tested." Efforts to talk up the dollar, including a public defence of the currency by the Reserve Bank Governor, Mr Ian Macfarlane, at the World Economic Forum last month, have failed spectacularly to convince currency traders that the dollar is worth supporting. As one government adviser put it yesterday: "The figures [showing Australia's impressive economic performance compared with the US] are there for anyone who's interested in looking. Maybe we're too small and too far away for them to notice." Mr Costello will spend four days in New York from Friday, briefing "key corporate and financial investors" on "Australia's strong fundamentals" and "excellent outlook". He will then attend a G20 finance ministers' meeting in Montreal, where global currency instability is certain to be a topic for discussion. Traders attributed the weakness in the dollar to the continued strength of the US greenback, growing pessimism about the stability of the Asia-Pacific and relatively poor investment returns here. But most are mystified as to why the Australian dollar has fallen further than almost any other currency. Apart from share prices, Australia has broadly matched or outperformed the US on key economic indicators over the past five years. During the past two years, Australia has done even better, prompting the US Federal Reserve to acknowledge our superior productivity rate in a recent report. Beyond Mr Costello's trip to New York and Montreal, the Government was promising little yesterday to ease the burden of the low dollar and rising petrol prices on consumers. Petrol prices could rise as much as 5¢ a litre in the next week due to the low dollar and rising world oil prices. But the Prime Minister yesterday again ruled out freezing the petrol excise to ease the pressure on motorists. Copyright © 2000. The Sydney Morning Herald All rights reserved. - 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] BIG OIL and TERRORISTS
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.skolnicksreport.com/boterrorists.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.skolnicksreport.com/boterrorists.html" Sherman Skolnick's Report/A - BIG OIL and TERRORISTS by Sherman H. Skolnick A good handle on a number of details is necessary to understand this subject. 1. In 1953, British and U.S. oil interests were upset with the popular head of Iran, Premier Mossadegh, who demanded a bigger cut for his countrymen of Iran's exploited oilfields. With an elite unit of U.S. Military Intelligence, (mostly Afro-Americans from Chicago who seemed to fit in good with the people of color in Iran) together with the money and plans of British Intelligence, Mossadegh was overthrown, and Shah Pahlavi was restored to his "Peacock Throne". [The coup facilitators later became part of a Chicago law firm that included George Leighton, a dark-skinned Portugeuse, who went on in later years to be a federal district judge and then mob-mouthpiece off the bench. We have the documents from the National Archives showing this group of former assassins/government overthrowers, were the secret attorneys in 1963 for CIA patsy falsely blamed for the murder of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald.] The press-fakers told us little of what was involved. Such as that the Shah and his elders had been pro-Nazi and caused quite a problem for the Allies in World War 2. Former intelligence spook, Kermit Roosevelt, wrote a book, "Counter Coup", about it, letting slip the involvement of British spies in the overthrow of Mossadegh. His book was withdrawn from U.S. bookstores before distribution. Only 8 copies were left and we have several of those suppressed books. Later, a sanitized version was issued. 2. The British purpose On behalf of the British Monarchy, under the Palestine Mandate, British Intelligence planned for a Jewish-dominated Palestine, to be put in position to irritate the surrounding Arab countries soaked with oil. It was the British historical method Divide and Conquer. That is, use the new State of Israel to keep the oily Arabs off-balance. A British-owned newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, steers the pot repeatedly fomenting troubles, between the Jews and the Arabs. 3. The British Monarchy financed the oil endeavors of George Herbert Walker Bush, which later became the firm of which he owns a great part, Pennzoil. See our website series, "Greenspan Aids and Bribes the Bush Family," as to how Bush used crooked high court judges in Texas to grab onto their competitor, Texaco, whose major source of oil is Iraq. When the Queen of England visits America, she stays at the home in Texas of Bush the Elder's trusted secret money handler, William Stamps Farish III, who owns and boards the studs that mate with the Queen's mares. Also on our website are the secret documents of Federal Reserve wire transfer records, showing the joint account of George Herbert Walker Bush and the Queen of England, at the bank owned by the Monarchy, Coutts Bank, London. Billions and billions of dollars from the dope trafficking trade, go through that joint account, with the aid and blessing of the Czar of the Federal Reserve. As to the Bush family and the British Monarchy, see "George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography" by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaikin. 4. For well over a hundred years, J.P. Morgan Co. have been the Queen's agents headquartered in New York. In its simplest form, how the U.S. was lured into Europe's War in 1917, involved huge loans for munitions to Britain from Morgan. When England could not pay back, Morgan arranged to instigate events falsely dragging America into the war. This whole situation was planned prior to the war's onset in 1914. The foisting of the conspiratorial Federal Reserve onto the docile and innocent American people in 1912, was part of the scheme to consolidate America as the money cow for Great Britain's bloody adventures.[In 1934, the Federal Reserve connived in seizing the gold of ordinary Americans who were not legally permitted to own gold again until 1975.] To show their loyalty, J.P. Morgan Co. traditionally have flown the Britsh flag at their Wall Street location. 5. J.P. Morgan Co. and their affiliates, such as Morgan Stanley brokerage, together with the parent holding companies of 18 money center banks have been part of a scheme to artificially force up the price of oil, starting just prior to the year 2000 Presidential election. The press whores do not mention that there is, in fact, a worldwide glut of oil. Remember the key event in December, 1998, was NOT the impeachment resolutions just on sex charges against Clinton. It was that the price of crude oil had settled down to about ten dollars per barrel. Through cryptic and little-understood derivatives, through oil futures, and other exotic gambling instruments, the Morgan interests and the linked banks and their holding firms, bet hundreds of billions of dollars that they could force up the price of oil, to their mutual
[CTRL] Carnivore: a toe in the door
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/national/101300/carnivoretwo_riley.sml FBI's Carnivore Just the First Step in Internet Surveillance Monday, October 16 2000 by Patrick Riley FOX News Amid all the hubub over whether its Carnivore e-mail surveillance system violates privacy rights, the FBI has quietly been working to develop an even sharper-toothed information chomper The FBI says its controversial Carnivore system is just "the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to Internet surveillance because an even sharper-toothed information chomper is now in development. Amid all the hubbub over whether the current system violates privacy rights, the agency has been quietly working on both "Carnivore 2.0" and "Carnivore 3.0," according to FBI documents released this month under a Freedom of Information Act claim filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The current Carnivore is version 1.3.4, according to the documents. An "Enhanced Carnivore" program has been under development since last November #151; under a $650,000 contract scheduled to end in January 2001. Most of the details on the souped-up snoopers were blacked out in heavy black marker before the papers were released. The Federal Bureau of Investigation makes no bones about its plans for the system, which sifts an Internet Service Provider's transmissions to track suspects' online activity. "As it looks today, it could be completely different a year from now," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. "Really, we've only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of the change in technology." He said improving Carnivore is vital for keeping pace with criminal elements. "This is going to continue to be a cat-and-mouse game," he said. "There's always going to be software and other encryption technology that render a system less useful." He declined to give specific details. But privacy experts say an evolving Carnivore presents a problem for those trying to keep an eye on it. "It's a moving target," said David Banisar, a senior fellow at EPIC. "It means there needs to be continual oversight, not just onetime oversight. It means that if we get the source code we'll have to get the source code as it changes also, and do a re-analysis as the functions of the software change." The program's source code, the piece of information most sought after by activists trying to figure out if Carnivore reads the e-mail of more than just those targeted by a court order, was omitted from the 600-plus pages given to EPIC in the first of several planned releases. But the organization has vowed to continue fighting for it. Despite the incomplete technical blueprint, the newly public papers do shed some light on what sequels to Carnivore might look like. Three jargon-heavy lines of text that survived the FBI censor reveal that Version 2.0 will be capable of "built-in data analysis that Carnivore doesn't appear to do now," Banisar said. That means being able to display captured Internet data as soon as Carnivore intercepts it. The current system merely stores the data and two other programs #151; "Packeteer" and "Coolminer" #151; must be used to process and display it. No information was released from the Version 3.0 section but research mentioned elsewhere in the unclassified papers involves an aspect of the technology dubbed "Dragon Net" that captures telephone conversations held via the Web #151; a process known as "voice over IP" technology. Banisar suspects the FBI might also want its future sniffers to have the ability to track multiple targets simultaneously. That wouldn't bode well, he said. "The more capability it has to intercept more than one target, the more likely it is to be abused." While the current Carnivore is purely monogamous, it casts a wider net than commonly thought, according to an analysis of the FBI documents by anti-computer crime site SecurityFocus.com. Carnivore can "be programmed to watch for all the Internet activities of a particular person," said Kevin Poulson, editorial director at SecurityFocus and a former hacker. The system can even reconstruct Web pages viewed by a suspect. "All that's been talked about is its ability to monitor e-mail." C Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. C Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. In light of this, said EPIC's Banisar: "It makes you wonder what else they could possibly want." 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
[CTRL] STATE DEPT MEMO: DEATH OF US SAILORS DOES NOT COMPARE TO PALESTINIAN TOLL
-Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/state.htm X DRUDGE REPORT X TUE OCT 17, 2000 20:03:41 ET X STATE DEPT MEMO: DEATH OF US SAILORS DOES NOT COMPARE TO PALESTINIAN TOLL The United States State Department believes the "17 or so dead sailors" on the U.S.S. Cole "does not compare to the 100+ Palestinians who have died in recent weeks" in Mideast violence, a stunning government memo reveals. MORE The Clinton/Gore Administration disapproved a VOICE OF AMERICA broadcast condemning the attack on the Cole. A memo from the Executive Secretariat Staff at the State Department stated: "The Department of State does not clear on the referenced VOA editorial. "This editorial will reach an audience that is caught up in the violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The 17 or so dead sailors does not compare to the 100+ Palestinians who have died in recent weeks where we have remained silent. The people that hear this will not see the separation we are trying to make and relate it directly to the violence. "Either VOA adds something in there to take the edge off and mention the Palestinians or we should kill this editorial until the violence has calmed for a while. "S/CT [Secy. for counterterrorism] concurred with this. If you have questions concerning this editorial, please contact NEA/P (unintelligible) FROM: Swadia Sarkis, Interagency Coordinator TO: Voice of America (VOA), Office of Policy RE: VOA Editorial: Terrorism Will Fail OCTOBER 16, 2000 END DEVELOPING... --- Filed by Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2000 Not for reproduction without permission of the author -- Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is. - Charley Reese (1998) 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] Man gets 24 years for satanic-ritual rape of 10-year-old girl
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Alex Constantine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Kris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Kate" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Lynn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Man gets 24 years for satanic-ritual rape of 10-year-old girl Date: Sunday, October 01, 2000 8:03 PM Thanks to Neil Brick of S.M.A.R.T. The Tennessean Saturday, 9/30/2000 --- Man gets 24 years for satanic-ritual rape of 10-year-old girl By Lisa Roose Church / Staff Writer MURFREESBORO -- A man who told authorities he raped a 10-year-old girl during satanic rituals has received a 24-year prison sentence. Alonzo South, 31, of Rutherford County, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of aggravated sexual battery. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison, of which he will be required to serve 100%. South was also fined $3,000. In addition, when South is eventually released, he will be placed on "community supervision" for life and be required to register on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's sexual offenders list. Assistant District Attorney General Paul Holcombe, who prosecuted the case, declined to comment. According to the plea agreement, South admitted that on at least three occasions over the last two years he participated in satanic rituals in which a nude girl under the age of 10 was touched in the vagina. Court records say the child, who was the daughter of a woman involved in the satanic group, was raped in a home, the nearby woods, a shed, a pickup truck and a car. The girl came forward after South was arrested on an unrelated charge. Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.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 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] Gore Bush debate ;-)
-Caveat Lector- Jim Lehrer: Welcome to the second presidential debate between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The candidates have agreed on these rules: I will ask a question. The candidate will ignore the question and deliver rehearsed remarks designed to appeal to undecided women voters. The opponent will then have one minute to respond by trying to frighten senior citizens into voting for him. When a speaker's time has expired, will whimper softly while he continues to spew incomprehensible statistics for three more minutes. Let's start with the vice president. Mr. Gore, can you give us the name of a downtrodden citizen and then tell us his or her story in a way that strains the bounds of common sense? Gore: As I was saying to Tipper last night after we tenderly made love the way we have so often during the 30 years of our rock-solid marriage, the downtrodden have a clear choice in this election. My opponent wants to cut taxes for the richest 1 percent of Americans. I, on the other hand, want to put the richest 1 percent in an iron clad lockbox so they can't hurt old people like Roberta Frampinhamper, who is here tonight. Mrs. Frampinhamper has been selling her internal organs, one by one, to pay for gas so that she can travel to these debates and personify problems for me. Also, her poodle has arthritis. Lehrer: Gov. Bush, your rebuttal. Bush: Governors are on the front lines every day, hugging people, crying with them, relieving suffering anywhere a photo opportunity exists. I want to empower those crying people to make their own decisions, unlike my opponent, whose mother is not Barbara Bush. Lehrer: Let's turn to foreign affairs. Gov. Bush, if Slobodan Milosevic were to launch a bid to return to power in Yugoslavia, would you be able to pronounce his name? Bush: The current administration had eight years to deal with that guy and didn't get it done. If I'm elected, the first thing I would do about that guy is have Dick Cheney confer with our allies. And then Dick would present me several options for dealing with that guy. And then Dick would tell me which one to choose. You know, as governor of Texas, I have to make tough foreign policy decisions every day about how we're going to deal with New Mexico. Lehrer: Mr. Gore, your rebuttal. Gore: Foreign policy is something I've always been keenly interested in. I served my country in Vietnam. I had an uncle who was a victim of poison gas in World War I. I myself lost a leg in the Franco-Prussian War. And when that war was over, I came home and tenderly made love to Tipper in a way that any undecided woman voter would find romantic. If I'm entrusted with the office of president, I pledge to deal knowledgeably with any threat, foreign or domestic, by putting it in an iron clad lockbox. Because the American people deserve a president who can comfort them with simple metaphors. Lehrer: Vice President Gore, how would you reform the Social Security system? Gore: It's a vital issue, Jim. That's why Joe Lieberman and I have proposed changing the laws of mathematics to allow us to give $50,000 to every senior citizen without having it cost the federal treasury a single penny until the year 2250. In addition, my budget commits $60 trillion over the next 10 years to guarantee that all senior citizens can have drugs delivered free to their homes every Monday by a federal employee who will also help them with the child-proof cap. Lehrer: Gov. Bush? Bush: That's fuzzy math. I know, because as governor of Texas, I have to do math every day. I have to add up the numbers and decide whether I'm going to fill potholes out on Rt. 36 east of Abilene or commit funds to reroof the sheep barn at the Texas state fairgrounds. Lehrer: It's time for closing statements. Gore: I'm my own man. I may not be the most exciting politician, but I will fight for the working families of America, in addition to turning the White House into a lusty pit of marital love for Tipper and me. Bush: It's time to put aside the partisanship of the past by electing no one but Republicans. Lehrer: Good night. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.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
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[CTRL] Isreal vs. Palestine Go Israel!
Title: Isreal vs. Palestine Go Israel! Hal Lindsey © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com The considerable outrage being expressed by the uninformed on the daily talk shows is getting plenty of attention. Everyone, it seems, feels that the Palestinians are the injured party in the current explosion of violence. For those blinded by the current wave of misplaced political correctness, it would be hard to imagine a scenario in which Palestinians might seek protection in an Israeli police station and be turned over to a waiting Jewish mob to be brutally beaten to death. Yet, in the Ramallah situation, two Israelis did exactly that -- they sought protection and refuge from the Palestinian police. Instead of protection, the police looked the other way as the mob seized the two Israeli reservists, stabbed them repeatedly and threw at least one of the soldiers out a second floor window into the arms of the waiting mob. The scenes were horrific, yet in some people's minds, justified, since the plight of the Palestinians is hopeless -- victims of Israeli oppression -- economically, politically and socially. What nobody seems to understand is that the Palestinian people have their own government to blame. Yasser Arafat and his cronies live in fine villas, drive expensive German automobiles, wear Armani suits to the various summit meetings, and wax eloquently about the plight of their oppressed constituency at Israeli hands. It is quite a contrast to the image projected by the Israeli negotiating teams who arrive in four-door Chevys wearing suits with shiny elbows and fraying shirt collars. And none of the Israeli leaders live in Mediterranean villas. Who's the oppressor here? Two days after the murder of the two Israeli soldiers at the hands of a blood-crazed mob, Palestinian state TV broadcast the comments of a Muslim cleric. The cleric exhorted his flock to kill the Jews and to kill the Americans, wherever they may be found. This is the true nature of the Israeli peace partnership as envisioned by Yasser Arafat. Again, the question: who is the oppressor, here? Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship do not share the hopeless condition of their brothers living under the tender mercies of the Arafat government. Indeed, life for an Israeli Arab is so much better than for their Palestinian counterparts that a majority of Arabs in a recent poll indicated that, given the choice between living under an Arab administration or under Israeli rule, they would prefer the Israeli brand of oppression. The Arab position appears to be that it's all Israel's fault because they are using bullets to respond to rocks. But nobody, not even the most articulate apologists for the Arab side, has any reasonable alternative to suggest. Should the Israelis throw rocks back? Or maybe they should just go home? Yasser Arafat, at the summit on Monday, insisted the Israelis withdraw first, and then the violence would stop. Who in their right mind is going to believe that, given the number of broken promises charged to his account in just the last three weeks? Any argument that advances the case that the Israelis are to blame for the violence in the Middle East ignores the salient truth that it is the Palestinians who are behind the unrest -- not the Israelis. If the Palestinians stopped throwing rocks, the IDF would go home. Simple. The PA claims it has legitimate reasons for the violence. Fine. Then why deny that they are the authors of the violence in the first place? Ehud Barak offered a settlement more generous than anybody ever expected. He offered them all that they demanded, including the division of Jerusalem. His offer was so generous that, had it been accepted, it is unlikely Barak could have survived politically anyway. But still it was rejected out of hand. Yasser Arafat is a man who can't take yes for an answer. Anybody with one eye and half a brain can see that the moment the rocks stop flying, so will the bullets. Yet, in order to accept the oppressor argument, one must pretend that the violence just happened and that it is Israel who is keeping it alive by shooting the rioting Palestinians. Just what do you think would happen if the Palestinians stopped rioting? Does anybody seriously believe that the Israelis would just keep shooting them without provocation? The media would have you believe that the Israelis are in control of the violence and that they should stop. How does one quell a riot by ignoring it? And how does one not quell a riot? The situation remains in the hands of the only one who could have ended the violence -- Yasser Arafat. Sadly, his desperate, last-ditch effort to create an image of himself and his government as victims of an oppressive Israeli government ended as quickly as the lives of those unfortunate Israeli soldiers. He's created a bloodlust among his people that even he can no longer control. In 1993, Yitzhak Rabin was reluctant to shake Arafat's bloodstained hand, but did so out of love for
[CTRL] ConAgra stops producing corn flour at Kansas mill
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ConAgra stops producing corn flour at Kansas mill
By JOE RUFF, Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (October 17, 2000 11:20 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - ConAgra Foods Inc. has stopped making
corn flour at a Kansas mill because it may have received genetically
modified corn that sparked a nationwide recall of some taco shell brands.
ConAgra is one of the nation's biggest food makers.
Tests for the corn variety called Starlink were being conducted and
equipment at the plant in Atchison, Kan., was being cleaned, ConAgra
spokeswoman Karen Savinski said Tuesday.
The mill, ConAgra's only corn flour plant, stopped processing corn on
Wednesday. ConAgra told its customers, a variety of food manufacturers,
about the potential problem and asked them not to use the corn flour.
Savinski declined to name the companies involved.
How much corn flour might be involved was not immediately known, and
Savinski declined to say how ConAgra found out Starlink may have been
delivered to the plant.
The Starlink yellow corn contains a bacterium that makes it toxic to insects.
Federal officials say the health risk is remote, but it is approved by the
Environmental Protection Agency only for use in animal feed. The EPA's
scientific advisers have been divided over whether it could cause allergic
reactions in people.
The nation's largest manufacturer of tortilla products, Mission Foods Co.,
on Friday recalled all its tortillas, taco shells and snack chips made with
yellow corn because the flour might contain Starlink.
The move by Mission Foods of Irving, Texas, followed a decision earlier
last week by Safeway Inc. to remove all of Mission's taco shells from its
stores and an earlier recall of taco shells by Kraft Foods.
The corn that was detected in the Kraft and Mission taco shells is believed
to have originated at an Azteca Milling plant in Plainview, Texas.
Mission Foods is a subsidiary of Gruma SA of Monterrey, Mexico. Azteca
Milling is a partnership of Gruma and Archer Daniels Midland Co., based in
Decatur, Ill.
Mission said it also would switch from yellow to white corn in all its
products, and Azteca Milling said it was recalling all its flour made from
yellow corn.
The EPA said the seed's developer, Aventis CropScience, has agreed to
cancel its license to sell the corn. Government officials have said Aventis
was supposed to ensure that farmers kept Starlink corn separate from
other varieties but failed to do so.
Omaha-based ConAgra is nation's second-largest food company behind
Philip Morris' Kraft Foods, and it is the nation's largest food-service
manufacturer. It sells products ranging from fertilizer and flour to brand-
name products such as Healthy Choice frozen dinners, Orville
Redenbacher popcorn and Butterball turkeys.
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[CTRL] What you get is what you see.
-Caveat Lector- Monday (16.10.2000) edition of Al Hayat al Jedida (the official PLO-daily) Special Clarification by the Italian Representative of RAI, the Official Italian Television Station My dear friends in Palestine. We congratulate you and think that it is our duty to put you in the picture (of the events) of what happened on October 12 in Ramallah. One of the private Italian television stations which competes with us (and not the official Italian television station RAI) filmed the events; that station filmed the events. Afterwards Israeli Television broadcast the pictures, as taken from one of the Italian stations, and thus the public impression was created as if we (RAI) took these pictures. We emphasize to all of you that the events did not happen this way, because we always respect (will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the Palestinian Authority for (journalistic) work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work. We thank you for your trust, and you can be sure that this is not our way of acting. We do not (will not) do such a thing. Please accept our dear blessings. Signed, Ricardo Christiano Representative of RAI in the Palestinian Authority (the official Italian station) 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] articles on csa and psychogenic amnesia
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Below please find two articles on csa and psychogenic amnesia. Sincerely, Neil Brick This may be triggering for survivors. "Overall, the relationship [between CSA and psychiatric disorders] was robust," Dr. Kendler said. "I was a bit surprised how strong the relationship remained and the strength of the evidence -- always impossible to know for sure in this kind of research -- that the relationship was truly causal." Sexual Abuse of Girls Causally Related to Adult Psychopathology WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) Oct 13 -- The previously reported relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and psychiatric illness in women appears to be at least in part causal, according to a report in the October Archives of General Psychiatry. Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, from the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, and colleagues examined possible links between CSA before age 16 and adult psychiatric and substance use disorders in 1411 female adult twins, categorizing CSA into nongenital, genital, and intercourse. "We tried to determine if the relationship was non-causal by controlling for family dysfunction, parental psychopathology, reporting bias, and, finally, by the co-twin control method," Dr. Kendler told Reuters Health. The rates of abuse varied, the authors report, ranging from 8.4% for intercourse to 21% for fondling. CSA significantly increased the risk of major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, alcohol dependence, and drug dependence, the researchers note, with the odds ratios generally increasing with the degree of abuse (ie, from nongenital to genital to intercourse). Psychiatric disorders were from 2.6 to 3.3 times more common among women whose CSA included intercourse, and the risk of substance abuse was increased more than fourfold, according to the results. Family factors -- parental education, parenting behavior, family financial status, church attendance -- had little impact on the prevalence of psychiatric or substance abuse disorders among these women, the investigators observe. Similarly, parental psychopathology did not predict the association between CSA and later psychopathology. Women who reported intercourse were four to six times likelier than their nonabused twins to experience at least two psychiatric disorders in adulthood, the results indicated. "Overall, the relationship [between CSA and psychiatric disorders] was robust," Dr. Kendler said. "I was a bit surprised how strong the relationship remained and the strength of the evidence -- always impossible to know for sure in this kind of research -- that the relationship was truly causal." Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000;57:953-959. Yasuno F, Nishikawa T, Nakagawa Y, et al: Functional anatomical study of psychogenic amnesia. Psychiatry Res 2000 Jul 10 99:1 43-57. Abstract: Psychogenic amnesia is characterized by an inability to recall information already stored in the patient's memory. It is usually related to a stressful or traumatic event that cannot be explained by manifest brain damage. To examine the underlying functional disturbance of brain areas in this condition, we performed a positron emission tomography (PET) activation study on a psychogenic amnesic patient and on 12 normal control subjects. A task requiring explicit retrograde memory of faces was compared with a control task. To assess functional modi?cations associated with the processes of recovery, a second PET study was performed on the patient 12 months after onset. During the task, activation of the right anterior medial temporal region including the amygdala was increased in the psychogenic amnesic patient. Activation of the bilateral hippocampal regions increased only in the control subjects. During recovery, the right anterior medial temporal region became less active while the right hippocampal region became more active. Activation levels also differed in the anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex and some other cortical regions between control subjects and the patient. These findings suggest that the changes in these limbic and limbic-cortical functions are related to symptoms of the psychogenic amnesia. 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
[CTRL] Texas ... Drugs?
-Caveat Lector- The Heat Is on a Texas Town After the Arrests of 40 Blacks By JIM YARDLEY ULIA, Tex., Oct. 4 â On the morning of July 23, 1999, Billy Wafer, a forklift driver, was swept up in the biggest drug sting in local history: In this town of only 4,500 people, 43 suspects were arrested on charges of selling small amounts of cocaine. In some cases, hometown juries later meted out sentences ranging from 20 years to more than 300 years. In Tulia, an isolated place ringed by cotton farms and cattle ranches on the high plains of the Texas panhandle, local officials declared the operation a stunning success. In all, 22 of the defendants were sent to prison while others received probation. The undercover agent at the center of the operation, Tom Coleman, was even named by the state as lawman of the year. But more than a year later, an operation once hailed as a victory in the war on drugs now has civil rights groups and local minorities asking whether it was really a war on blacks. All but three of the 43 defendants were black, an enormous percentage considering blacks make up less than 10 percent of the town's population. In fact, roughly 12 percent of the town's black population was arrested. The doubts raised about the racial makeup of the group arrested are compounded by contentions that the investigation was flimsy at best. The sole evidence in nearly every case was the word of Mr. Coleman, whose own character had come under criticism in the past. There were no videotapes or wiretaps or, in most cases, any corroborating witnesses. "They declared war on this community," said Sammy Barrow, a black resident with four relatives who were arrested. "You either were going to get a long term in the penitentiary or you were going to get enough of a deterrent to get out of here." So now Tulia itself is on trial: last week, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of a defendant whose case was dismissed in February, apparently because of a false identification. The suit accuses local officials of singling out blacks to run them out of town. Next week, the A.C.L.U. plans to file a civil rights complaint with the Justice Department seeking to revoke financing for the agencies that ran the sting. The reaction among most whites here has been unflinching support of the operation and local officials. Public intolerance for drugs is unquestioned in Tulia; the local school system is one of a handful in the area that mandate random drug testing for students, a policy that is being challenged in court. The sheriff and the district attorney, who defend Mr. Coleman's credibility, also deny that the sting was racially motivated or that the town is biased. "This is a good community, and I care a lot about everybody here," said Swisher County's sheriff, Larry Stewart, who was reluctant to speak in much detail because of the lawsuit. "There has been a lot more made of this than is true." Like many places, Tulia is not immune to drugs. In 1997 and 1998, a total of nine people were arrested on felony drug charges here. In the previous two years, 32 were arrested in another sting by the Tulia police. Some black residents say the town does have a cluster of crack cocaine users who buy their drugs in larger cities like Amarillo or Plainview. And several of the defendants had prior drug arrests, including Donald Smith, who admitted on the stand that he had sold crack to the undercover agent but who vehemently denied using or selling the more expensive powdered cocaine. But Mr. Wafer, the forklift driver, contends, "there's no big drug problem here." "Can you see 43 dealers surviving in this small town?" he said. "There would be murders and everything. Everybody would have to be doing it." Mr. Coleman said Mr. Wafer, 42, sold him cocaine at a local convenience store. But Mr. Wafer's employer testified that Mr. Wafer was at work at the time Mr. Coleman said the drug deal took place. Mr. Wafer produced his timecards. A judge refused to dismiss the cocaine charges but decided there was insufficient evidence to revoke Mr. Wafer's probation on a 1990 marijuana charge. His trial is pending. The drug sting began in 1998 when Mr. Coleman, the son of a Texas ranger, was hired by Sheriff Stewart to run an undercover operation in Tulia under the supervision of the Panhandle Regional Narcotics Trafficking Task Force in Amarillo. Mr. Coleman had been a sheriff's deputy and a jailer in other Texas counties but was working as a welder when he got the job here. Mr. Coleman underwent training with the Drug Enforcement Administration then spent more than a year undercover in Tulia, the largest town in Swisher County. Officials said Mr. Coleman, who is white, got to know many of Tulia's blacks with the help of a black co-worker at a cattle auction where he had gotten a job. Both Sheriff Stewart and the local district attorney, Terry McEachern, agree that drugs are sold and consumed by whites and Hispanics in Tulia. But, they
[CTRL] Fwd: Fighting the \wasted vote\ syndrome
-Caveat Lector- From: Libertarian Party Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Friends, Here is an article by Harry Browne to forward to friends and family members who are concerned about "wasting their vote" by voting Libertarian. Enjoy. Steve Dasbach National Director Libertarian Party = == Do You Want Smaller Government? by Harry Browne Libertarian Candidate for President The most important political question you can ask yourself is simply this: Do you want smaller government? Do you want an end to the welfare state, to government destroying our health-care system, to government at all levels taking 47% of the national income in taxes, to government intrusions into your life and your business? Do you want smaller government? Stop Supporting Big Government If you do, the first step toward getting it is obvious: You must stop supporting those who are making government bigger. You can't go east by moving west. It's a physical impossibility. You can't make government smaller by rewarding those who make government bigger. It's a political impossibility. Only when you begin asking for what you really want do you have any chance of getting it. Al Gore wants to make government bigger. He's proposed a long list of new government programs. George W. Bush wants to make government bigger. He's proposed an equally long list of new government programs to show that he's as compassionate as Mr. Gore -- as though having government spend your money somehow demonstrates compassion. Pat Buchanan says he wants a return to constitutional government. But he's made no specific proposals to reduce government, while proposing to have government fix what he thinks is wrong with America. For one thing, he wants to tell you what kind of car you can drive. And Ralph Nader wants to tell you whether you can drive a car at all. But that's the least of his many plans to make government much bigger. What Smaller Government Means I am the only presidential candidate offering specific proposals to make government smaller -- much smaller: * I want to get the federal government _completely_ out of every area where it's made such a mess -- health care, education, law enforcement, welfare, foreign aid, corporate welfare, highway boondoggles, farm subsidies. Not only are these programs unconstitutional, they do tremendous damage to our lives. * I want to make the federal government so small you won't pay _any_ income tax. (The tariffs and excise taxes already being collected are enough to finance the constitutional functions of government.) * I want to free you immediately and completely from the Social Security system. I want to sell off government assets to finance private retirement accounts for anyone now dependent on Social Security -- so you and I and every other American can immediately stop paying the 15% Social Security tax. * I want to end the nightmare of Prohibition by stopping the insane War on Drugs. At least 90% of the invasions of your civil liberties over the last 30 years have been justified by the Drug War. You may have no interest in drugs, but the government still snoops in your bank account, monitors your email, and claims the power to search and seize your property without due process. * I want to restore completely your unconditional right to keep and bear any weapon necessary to defend yourself and your family. We can't end gun violence with new laws or by enforcing the laws on the books now. The gun laws are the principal _cause_ of gun violence, so we must repeal those laws. * I _don't_ want to appoint Supreme Court judges who are "strict constructionists" or who divine "original intent." I want to appoint judges who can read the plain language of the Constitution -- who understand that when the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law," it means _Congress shall make no law_. I want judges who will strike down government programs that are not authorized by the Constitution. In short, I don't want to slow the growth of government. I don't even want to stop the growth of government. I want to _reduce_ government dramatically -- to the limits imposed by the Constitution. What Freedom Means I want you to be free to live your life as _you_ want to live it -- not as Al Gore or George Bush thinks you should. You're the one who gets up every morning and goes to work for 8, 10, or 12 hours a day. How dare politicians like George Bush or Al Gore presume to decide how much of what you earn you should be allowed to keep? I want you to be able to keep _every_ dollar you earn -- to spend it, save it, give it away as _you_ think best -- not just the crumbs the politicians leave for you. I want you to be able to use your own money to put your children in a school of your choice -- private, religious, or home school -- without
[CTRL] RadTimes # 74
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 74 - October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Contents: --- --Police, Protests, and People's Power --Eating The Greens [Sony v. environmentalists] --Update on Josh Harper [was: FBI nabs 'anarchist' fugitive--RT #57] --- Begin stories: --- Police, Protests, and People's Power Building Communities of Resistance From Turning the Tide v13 n3 by Michael Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] The smoke has cleared, figuratively speaking, from the Republican and Democratic Party conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. With, if not the whole world, then at least a substantial audience watching, major demonstrations were held on successive days at both venues; both cities were subjected to a virtual state of siege by local and state police forces. Philadelphia and even more so Los Angeles were marked by significant participation in the protests by local people, young people and people of color, especially as compared with the prior Seattle and DC protests targeting corporate globalization. In Philadelphia, more so than L.A., police resorted to pre-emptive raids, mass arrests and violence. However, a massive legal unity march in Philadelphia was unmolested, and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union led a second, non-permitted march which defied police pressure and threats to carry out its protest rally successfully. However, for the August 1 RNC actions targeting the criminal justice system, including police brutality, the death penalty and the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philly cops took the gloves off. Armed with fraudulent "intelligence" from private right wing counter-insurgency guru John Rees, the police raided the puppet-making center. They picked up people on the street, such as an organizer with the Ruckus Society, whose crime was talking on a cell phone, and held them for astronomical bails. They made mass arrests and held people under inhumane conditions, and resisted campaigns to drop or lower the charges. By comparison, in Los Angeles, the police concentrated on a show of force, making relatively few arrests. The L.A. cops maintained hands off a large, spirited rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal the day before the Democratic Convention opened, but pulled the plug on a legal, permitted evening unity rally the first night that featured Rage Against the Machine and Ozomatli. On the pretext of some Black Bloc-ers tossing empty water bottles over the 14-foot fence that surrounded Staples Center, the cops issued an order to 15,000 people to disperse, then with horses drove back into the protest area those who actually tried to leave. The cops unleashed a barrage of flash-bangs, pepper spray and 'rubber' bullets, shooting people in the head, the back and the chest, sending homeless organizer Ted Hayes to the hospital, shooting up numerous clearly-marked legal observers, and both on that first night and in subsequent confrontations, targeting media personnel. The police attempted to cover this action up by simultaneously shutting down the nearby Independent Media Center, which was scheduled to uplink its uncensored coverage to a satellite, on the flimsy pretext of a (non-existent) bomb threat. A number of law suits resulted, but more significantly, two major actions were carried out on Wednesday August 16 despite the police effort to intimidate protestors. One, a civil disobedience action directed at police brutality, briefly shut the scandal-ridden LAPD Rampart Division station. The second, a march and rally opposing police brutality, mass incarceration and the death penalty, and calling for freedom for all political prisoners, drew thousands to Pershing Square and marched on Parker Center, LAPD headquarters, flanked by as many thousands of cops. People around downtown, especially those from Latin American countries that had lived under police states, watched with looks of shame, fear and amazement at this domestic recreation of a state of siege. But demonstrators refused to be intimidated. A youth march headed back through downtown to Staples Center, where the police tried to split the demonstrators up, trapping some inside the expanded protest pit where the police attack had taken place on Monday night. A televised stand-off ensued, from which the cops eventually stood down. The protesters got their comrades back from behind the police lines. Some marched off to MacArthur Park, near the Direct Action Network Convergence Center; others marched back to Pershing Square for an impromptu wrap-up open mike gathering. On the final night, protesters again defied police orders to stage an unpermitted march
Re: [CTRL] Vices are not Crimes
-Caveat Lector- I guess some would call it a Libertarian viewpoint. But in my opinion it is just common sense. If I want to do harm to me, and it does not harm you or your property then how can any external agency (ie; Government) legislate against it, or even label it a crime? On Tue, 17 October 2000, Mark McHugh wrote: "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, in The Matrix "My God it's full of stars!" Dave Bowman, in 2001: A Space Odyssey ___ Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now! http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/altavista/index.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 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] Chcken Hawks
-Caveat Lector- REPUBLICAN CHICKEN HAWKS There are literally tens of thousands of dishonest, hypocritical, cowardly conservatives who supported the Vietnam War while refusing to personally participate. George W. Bush, who rode out Vietnam in the Air National Guard his daddy got him in. Lt Col Reese R. Bricken, commanding officer of Bush's unit, said Bush "asked to transfer to a postal unit that met one weekend night per month, with no other training, no pay, his request was denied." Hiding out in the Air National Guard the Bush record shows that in his last 18 months of service, he failed to show up for a single drill, performing absolutely no duties." Vice-President Gore served his country in uniform from 1969-71, including a tour in Vietnam. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt served his country in uniform, 1965-71. House Minority Whip David Bonior served his country in uniform, 1968-72. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle served his country in uniform, 1962-72. Compare the Democratic patriots to the armchair cowards in the Republican Leadership. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert avoided the draft, did not serve. Majority Leader Dick Armey avoided the draft, did not serve. Majority Whip Tom DeLay avoided the draft, did not serve. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott avoided the draft, did not serve. Dick Cheney got a graduate school deferment. Pat Buchanon won a deferment for a bad knee. Phil Gramm won a marriage deferment. Bill Bennett won a graduate school deferment. Newt Gingrich won a graduate school deferment. Gingrich sought and won graduate school deferment, explaining that people on his intelligence level should not be wasted in war. Jack Kemp won a medical deferment for a football injury while in the NFL, yet kept on playing while other men were dying. Rush Limbaugh won a deferment for an ingrown hair follicle on his butt. (true story) Dan Quayle's family pulled strings to get him in the reserves. Pat Robertson was en route to Korea with a combat unit when his U.S. Senator father detoured him out of harm's way. Kenneth Starr won a deferment for psoriasis. J.C. Watts was nowhere in sight when he became draft elgible. 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] Chcken Hawks
-Caveat Lector- Wow ... and with this silly attempt at equivocation NONE of those purported 'avoiders' wrote their congresscritter explaining how he LOATHED the military. Go Figure. Regard$, --MJ Where is it written in the Constitution, in what section or clause is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battle in any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? -- Daniel Webster 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] Interesting, but not yet verified. - Never trust your elites. -
-Caveat Lector- 10-18-00 I have not seen verification of this claim by Chamish, but in situations like this, one only finds out later. I would not be surprised if it is true. Barak seems to care more about the US State Dept. than about his own country. NEVER trust your elites. -- Nurev == YOU HEARD IT FIRST by Barry Chamish My sources tell me that high ranking IDF officers are seriously considering the overthrow of Barak. The scenario described to me is the following: When the PLO first ordered its police and peasants to attack IDF soldiers, Barak issued a command unheard of in any army: soldiers were to wait until fired on to retaliate. Despite years of politically obedient appointments, many in the IDF's high command were highly unhappy with Barak's policy, believing it would lead to Israeli casualties and a prolonging of the conflict. These officers became increasingly frustrated when forbidden to use force to save a soldier slowly bleeding to death at Joseph's Tomb and later when the shrine was abandoned. The refusal to react to the kidnapping of three soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hizbullah turned the frustration into anger. The turning point was the sadistic lynching of two soldiers in Ramallah. The IDF high command issued the following operational request to the Defence Minister, Ehud Barak: In retaliation for attacks against IDF soldiers by members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Tanzim, or Fatah, the Israeli Air Force would use 2000 pound bombs to turn their headquarters and other facilities into rubble. Second, the IDF had filmed Fatah policemen sniping at their soldiers and an Italian television crew had captured the murderers of the lynched soldiers on film. The IDF had identified the murderers and wanted them hunted down and killed immediately. Barak turned the recommendation down and instead issued a directive sending helicopters against insignificant targets only after the PLO had been given ample warning to abandon them. Certain officers now understood that Barak was under international orders not to utililize the IDF to defend the nation or avenge the murders of its citizens. The first grumblings of "coup" were heard. The final straw was Hizbullah's kidnapping of Colonel Tannenbaum. The officers knew that he was being tortured and forced to reveal the names, addresses and all details of IDF staff, strategy, equipment and facilities. They summoned Barak to mount an operation inside Lebanon involving mass hostage taking to secure the release of Tannenbaum but were again rebuffed by Barak. Not knowing which demoralizing IDF fiasco was next and fearing that Israelis would take to the streets to secure the protection their army was forbidden to provide, high level but still informal discussions to plan a Barak overthrow gained momentum. You heard it first here. 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: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 1 of 8
[PLEASE NOTE : i AM *NOT* THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE] M. F. ABERNATHY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) = Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 1 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: 10/18/00 9:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Svali Speaks Appendix Equipment Used By Trainers Chapter One: 1)An overview of the Illuminati 2.)Hierarchy of the Illuminati 3.)How the Illuminati Make Money Chapter Two: Jobs in the Illuminati (Or Why They Spend All That Time Training Everybody) Chapter Three: Conspiracy Theory Two, or The Illuminati Plan to Rule The World. (Also know as "Novus Ordem Seclorum) Chapter 4:How the Illuminati Program People Chapter Five: Colors, Metals and Jewel Programming Chapter Six: Brain Wave Programming Chapter Seven: Military Programming Chapter Eight: CIA , Governmental, and Scholarship programming Chapter Nine Programming Linked to Stories, Movies, Cartoons, or Role Play Dramatization Chapter Ten: The Sixth Step of Discipline: Betrayal; twinning; internal walls, structures, geometry Chapter Eleven: Suicidal Programming Chapter Twelve: Preventing Reaccessing of the Survivor Chapter Thirteen: Shell programming, Internal Councils, Human Experimentation, Function Codes Chapter Fourteen: Spiritual Programming Chapter Fifteen: Core Splits, Denial Programming, the last Five Steps of Discipline Virtual Reality Programming = Svali Speaks About the author: Hi, my name is Svali. Both I and my entire family were involved in a cult group until several years ago, when we broke free. I used to be a programmer in the cult, and now I want to share the knowledge that I have to help others. It is possible to break free of cult abuse if a person is involved. It is a long, heart-breaking process, but well worth it. In the articles that I will be providing, I hope to help the survivor of cult abuse find tools to help in their journey towards freedom. I have been a consultant to an on-line survivors group that helps people dealing with issues related to cult programming and becoming free, for the past year and a half. I myself have been in therapy for ritual abuse and DID for nine years, with the last five being aware of the recent cult abuse. I am also a writer, and a registered nurse. I currently work as a diabetic educator in Texas 20 hours a week. I have also self-published a book on breaking free of cult programming, which several experts in the field have said has "invaluable information" for the survivor of ritual abuse. Both my ex-husband and my two children broke free of cult abuse last year. My children are living with me while my husband is working on healing. They all have DID (dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder) as well, which makes life at home interesting! I am currently married to my second husband, who is also a recovered DID and who got out of the cult five years ago. Other articles by Svali: Ritual Abuse @ Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/ritual_abuse 7 September 2000 On Having Need http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/47711 Guest article on the struggles survivors of ritual abuse have in learning to trust and to feel that they deserve to exist and have needs. Complex poly-fragmentation: a coping mechanism for the Survivor http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/46865 12 Aug 2000 Therapists Speak out on Healing http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/45823 Article discusses topic of what helps in healing from ritual abuse, from the perspective of therapists in the field. *Important note: this article is not meant to be therapy, and only offers general opinions 28 Jul 2000 Therapists Speak Out on Ritual Abuse http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/44693 Therapists discuss: is ritual abuse real? And some of their opinions on this subject. 16 Jul 2000 A Survivor's Testimony: article by Kim Campbell http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/43922 Description of one survivor's healing from ritual abuse, and the process of deliverance, from a Christian perspective. 2 July 2000 Breaking Free of the Cult http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/42927 An article that addresses issues facing the person who wishes to leave a transgenerational cult, including safety 16 June 2000 How the Cult Programs People: Part Two http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/41700 Second half of article on cult programming 15 June 2000 How the Cult Programs People http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/41699 Brief description of some of the ways the Illuminati program their members. Warning: may be triggering to survivors, please use caution and stay safe. 3 June 2000 How the Cult Makes Money http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/40931 Describes activities the cult is engaged in to make money 21 May 2000
[CTRL] Fwd: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 2 of 8
Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: 10/18/00 9:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Next there will be a military takeover, region by region, as the government declares a state of emergency and martial law. People will have panicked, there will be an anarchical state in most localities, and the government will justify its move as being necessary to control panicked citizens. The cult trained military leaders and people under their direction will use arms as well as crowd control techniques to implement this new state of affairs. This is why so many survivors under 36 years of age report having military programming. People who are not Illuminists or who are not sympathetic to their cause, will resist. The Illuminists expect this and will be (and are BEING) trained in how to deal with this eventuality. They are training their people in hand-to- hand combat, crowd control, and, if necessary, will kill to control crowds. The Illuminati is training their people to be prepared for every possible reaction to the takeover. Many mind control victims will also be called into duty with preset command codes. These codes are meant to call out a new, completely cult loyal presenting system. Shatter codes programmed under trauma will be used to destroy or bury non-cult loyal alters. Military bases will be set up, in each locality (actually, they are already here, but are covert). In the next few years, they will go above ground and be revealed. Each locality will have regional bases and leaders to which they are accountable. The hierarchy will closely reflect the current covert hierarchy. About five years ago, when I left the Illuminati, approximately 1% of the US population was either part of the Illuminati, sympathetic to it, or a victim of Mind Control (and therefore considered useable). While this may not sound like many, imagine 1% of the population highly trained in the use of armaments, crowd control, psychological and behavioral techniques, armed with weapons and linked to paramilitary groups. These people will also be completely dedicated to their cause. The Illuminati firmly believes that it can easily overcome the other 99% of the population, most of whom are untrained, or poorly trained, such as "weekend hunters." Even the local military will be overcome as the Illuminati will have regional cell groups with highly trained leaders. They also count on the element of surprise helping them during their takeover. Many of the highest leaders in the militia branch of the Illuminati are or have been officers in the military, and so already have a good knowledge of which techniques will work best to overcome a region's or locality's defenses. After the military takeover, the general population will be given a chance to either espouse the Illuminati's cause, or reject it (with imprisonment, pain, even death being possible punishments). These people very much believe that the intelligent, or "enlightened" or Illuminated, were born to rule. They are arrogant, and consider the general population as "dumb sheep" who will be easily led if offered strong leadership, financial help in an unstable world economy, and dire consequences if the person rebels. Their utter ruthlessness, and ability to implement this agenda, should not be minimized. The Illuminati banking leaders, such as the Rothschilds, the Van derBilts, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, and the Mellons, as examples, will reveal themselves, and offer to "save" the floundering world economy. A new system of monetary exchange, based on an international monetary system, and based between Cairo, Egypt, and Brussels, Belgium, will be set up. A true "one world economy", creating the longed for "one world order", will become reality. There is more to the Illuminist agenda, but these are the basics of it. This agenda is what the Illuminati really, truly, believe, teach, and train for. They are willing to give their lives up in this cause, in order to teach the next generation, as they believe that their children are their legacy. I was told that my children's generation would see this takeover, sometime in the 21st century. At present, the Illuminati have quietly and covertly fostered their takeover plan by their goals of the infiltration of: 1.The media 2.The banking system 3.The educational system 4.The government, both local and federal 5.The sciences 6.The churches They are currently, and have been working the last several hundred years, on taking over these 6 areas. They do NOT go to an institution, and say "hi, I'm a local Illuminist, and I'd like to take over your bank. Instead, they begin by having several people quietly invest funds over several years, gradually buying more and more shares in the bank (or other institution that they wish to control), until they have a financial controlling interest in it. They never openly disclose their agenda, or their cult activities,
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Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 3
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf)
Date: 10/18/00 9:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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First step: to not need
The small toddler/child is placed in a room without any sensory stimulus,
usually a training room with gray, white, or beige walls. The adult leaves and
the child is left alone, for periods of time: these may vary from hours, to an
entire day as the child grows older. If the child begs the adult to stay, and
not leave, or screams, the child is beaten, and told that the periods of
isolation will increase until they learn to stop being weak. The ostensible
purpose of this discipline is to teach the child to rely on its own internal
resources, and not on outside people ("strengthen it"). What it actually does
is create a huge terror of abandonment within the child. When the adult, or
trainer, returns to the room, the child is often found rocking itself, or
hugging itself in a corner, occasionally almost catatonic from fear. The
trainer will then "rescue" the child, feed and give it something to drink and
bond with the child as their "savior". The trainer will tell them the "family"
told the trainer to rescue the child, because its family "loves" it. The
trainer will instill cult teachings, at this point, into the helpless,
fearful,
and almost insanely grateful child who has just been "rescued" from isolation.
The trainer will reinforce in the child over and over how much it "needs " its
family, who just rescued it from death by starvation or abandonment. This will
teach the very young toddler to associate comfort and security with bonding
with its trainer, who may be one of its parents, and being with "family"
members. The cult is very aware of child developmental principles, and has
developed exercises like the above after hundreds of years of teaching very
young children.
Second step: to not want
This step is very similar to the first step, and actually reinforces it. It
will be done intermittently with the first step over the next few years of the
child's life. Again, the child is left alone in a training room, or isolated
room, without food or water for a long period of time. An adult will enter the
room, with a large pitcher of ice water, or food. If the child asks for
either,
as the adult is eating or drinking in front of the child, he/she is severely
punished for being weak and needy. This step is reinforced, until the child
learns not to ask for food or water unless it is offered first. The ostensible
reason the cult gives for this step is that it creates a child who is strong,
and can go without food and water for longer and longer periods of time. The
real reason this is done is that it creates a child who is completely
dissociated from its own needs for food, water, or other comforts, who becomes
afraid to ask outside adults for help. This creates in the child a
hyper-vigilance as she/he learns to look for outside adults for cues on when
it
is okay to fulfill needs, and not to trust her/his own body signals. The child
is already learning to look outside itself to others to learn how it should
think or feel, instead of trusting its own feelings. The cult now becomes the
locus of control for the child.
Third step: to not wish
The child is placed in a room with favorite toys, or objects. A kind adult
comes into the room and engages the child in play. This adult my be a friend,
aunt, parent, or trainer. The child and adult may engage in fantasy play about
the child's secret wishes, dreams, or wants. This will occur on several
occasions, and the child's trust is slowly gained. At some later point, the
child is severely punished for any aspect of wishing or fantasy shared with
the
adult, including the destruction of favorite toys, going in and undoing or
destroying secret safe places the child may have created, or even destroying
non cult protectors. This step is repeated, with variations, many times over
the ensuing years. Occasionally, the child's siblings, parents, or friends
will
be used to reveal inside fantasies the child has revealed to them during the
daytime, or in unguarded moments. The ostensible reason the cult gives for
this
step is to create a child who doesn't fantasize, who is more outwardly
directed, less inwardly directed. In other words, the child is to look to
adults for permission in all aspects of its life, including internal. The
reality is that this step destroys all safe places the child has created
internally, to retreat from the horrors it is experiencing. This step creates
in the child the feeling that there is no true safety, that the cult will find
out everything it thinks. Exercises like this are also used to create young
alters in the child who will self report to the cult trainers any secret safe
places, or covert wishes against the cult, that other alters have. This will
then begin to set up intersystem hostility and divisiveness, which the cult
will manipulate throughout
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Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 4 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: 10/18/00 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suggestions that may help with these forms of programming : Color programming: it is important to have good internal communication with both internal alters and an outside therapist while working on color programming. If an individual finds that certain parts believe that they are a certain color, or if this comes up in therapy, they will want to find out if possible how they came to have this belief system. Slowly discovering how the colors were put in will help. Grieving for the vast amount of deception, the amount of abuse heaped on the child, and the very young alters who were the original templates may occur. These parts may be barely verbal, and may want to draw their experiences, or use colors in collages (with the help of older parts inside), to describe to a safe outside person what their reality has been. Validating to them that they are NOT just a color, that they are part of a whole person, may help. The survivor may see colored overlays for awhile, as they are undoing this programming, as parts inside share their memories. This is normal, although it may feel uncomfortable to see objects as yellow or green, for example. Grounding oneself, having cognitives do reality orientation, and patience will help the survivor work through this time. Jewel programming and metals may be more complex, since the child's sense of special ness, pride and status may be bound up in these alters. Rubies, emeralds and diamonds are considered "high alters" inside and are used to leadership roles, both internally and externally. Acknowledging their importance to the system; listening to them grieve at leaving the cult, which meant giving up their status externally, and giving them new positions inside that are important can help. They can become system leaders in helping the person stay safe, once they make the decision to leave the cult, and become strong allies. But they will often be among the most resistant, and even hostile, to the idea of leaving the cult at first, since they have only known and remembered being rewarded for jobs well done, and have learned to "pass down" the traumas to "lower parts" inside. They will often honestly not believe they have been abused, and will only remember being petted or allowed to lead, or being told they were special, valued. Listening to how they feel; acknowledging that leaving means giving up things that were important to them, finding out what needs motivated them, and trying to find healthy outlets for them to get their needs met outside of cult meetings will help. Letting a jewel have leadership within, or chair internal meetings may make up for loss of external leadership when the survivor leaves the cult. Acknowledging their importance to the survivor is also important. Recognize that these parts are EXTREMELY dissociated from their own abuse/trauma, and are in no hurry to remember. But both the survivor and a good therapist can bring reality gently to them, as they let them know that they were abused; that they are actually part of the "lower emotional parts" who were abused, and will eventually need to acknowledge this. This task takes time and good outside support to accomplish. Allow them to vent their feelings. They will often be highly cognitive at first, but feelings will come, especially grieving, then pain at having been deceived by the cult, then the anguish of realizing that the abuse they passed down to others inside was actually happening to them. They may become quite depressed at this stage, but will also lend tremendous stability and strength to the system, in staying safe and cult free, once they have reached this stage. These are some thoughts on color, metals, and jewel programming. Other types of programming will be addressed in the next chapter. top Chapter Six: Brain Wave Programming In this chapter I will address brain wave programming. Brain wave programming, like any other programming, will depend on several factors. These include: the child's ability to dissociate; the region of the country or which country the child grows up in; the level of ability of the trainers the child has contact with; physical resources and equipment available. There is no one "recipe" that fits every person and it would be ridiculous to state that all people who go through brain wave programming have it done the same way. More and more, programmers are talking, sharing knowledge over the net, both nationally and internationally, and sharing both successes and failures. But there is no one standardized methodology for brain wave programming. It will often be influenced by the child herself, as well as the trainer's whims. Different groups may organize the systems differently, or try to achieve different effects. All of this said, what is brain wave programming? Simply put, brain wave
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Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 6 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: 10/18/00 10:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chapter Ten: The Sixth step of Discipline: Betrayal; Twinning, Internal walls, Structures, Geometry This chapter will address the sixth step of discipline in the Illuminati: Betrayal programming. Betrayal programming will begin in infancy, but will be formalized at around ages six to seven, and continue on into adulthood. The sixth step can be summarized as : "betrayal is the greatest good." The Illuminists teach this to their children as a very important spiritual principle. They idealize betrayal as being the true state of man. The quick witted, the adept, learns this quickly and learns to manipulate it. The child will learn this principle through set up after set up. The child will be placed in situations where an adult who is kindly, and in set up after set up "rescues" the child, gains its trust. The child looks up to the adult as a "savior" after the adult intervenes and protects the child several times. After months or even a year of bonding, one day in a set up the child will turn to the adult for help. The adult will back away, mocking the child, and begin abusing it. This sets in place the programming: adults will always betray a child and other adults. Another set up will involve twinning, which deserves special mention here. The Illuminati will often create twin bonds in their children. The ideal is to have a set of real twins, but of course this is not always possible. So, the child is allowed to play with, and become close to, another child in the cult from earliest childhood. At some point early on, the child will be told that the other child is actually their "twin", and that they were separated at birth. They are told that this is a great secret and not to tell anyone, on pain of punishment. The child, who is often lonely and isolated, is overjoyed. It has a twin, someone who has a special bond to them by birth. The children do everything together. They are taught together, do military training together. They tell each other secrets. They are also frequently friends in the daytime as well. They are taught to cross access each other just as real siblings would be. But at some point, they will be forced to hurt each other. If one "twin" is considered expendable, the ultimate set up will be one in which one twin is forced to die while the other watches. One twin may gather secrets from the other twin, be forced to disclose them to a trainer or cult leader, then may be forced to kill the other. One twin may be forced to hit, or hurt the other. If they refuse, the other twin will be brutalized by the trainer, and the refusing twin told that the child was hurt because of their refusal to comply. Many setups will involve one twin being forced to betray the other, turning on the other child after intense programming. This betrayal set up will devastate both children, and they will learn the true lesson: trust no one. Betray, or be betrayed. The children will also have adult role models on every hand, since the cult is a very political, hierarchical, back stabbing society. Adults are constantly betraying each other, stepping over each other to move up. The children will watch one adult being praised, advanced, because they betrayed others below them, or set them up to fail. The children will learn quickly to mimic the adults around them, and both adults and children can become quite cynical as to human nature. They will have seen it at its worst, whether in training sessions, the brutality of a C.O. in military, or the gossip and back stabbing that occurs before and after rituals. They also incorporate the message internally: play the game, or be run over. Even the youngest children learn to manipulate others adeptly, at a very young age, while the adults laugh at how quickly they are learning adult ways. People manipulation is considered a fine art in the cult, and those who do it best, as in any group, often win out. Suggestions: Betrayal programming may have totally shattered the survivor's trust in outside people. It will take a therapist a long, long time to gain the survivor's trust. These are people who were taught over and over again that talking, sharing one's secrets, would be punished harshly. Inside littles will be very cautious at first, not trusting that the therapist is not just another trainer who will one day shout "aha!" and betray them if they begin to trust. This trust building takes time and patience, and must be earned through session after session where the therapist shows trustworthiness and non abusiveness. Survivors will test therapists over and over again, to see if they really are what they say they are. This is a normal part of the therapy process. Survivors may even try to back away from therapy, or outside support, as true caring support will "wig them out", i.e. conflict incredibly with
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Subject: Cults And Mind Control Programming -- Pt. 5 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abemarf) Date: 10/18/00 10:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chapter Eight: CIA , Governmental, and Scholarship programming. Some systems will have internal CIA programming. Some of the methods mentioned in earlier chapters, such as brain wave programming and color coding were developed in part through funding by the CIA in the 1950's and 1960's. Military intelligence officers working in Langley, Virginia, used these government funds to conduct research on human subjects. They reported what they were learning to trainers throughout the U.S. and Europe. CIA programming can include having alters in a system trained in different techniques of both finding a target, and studying the target without being detected. The end result of tagging the victim can include having a sexual assignation with the target, or may involve having people inside trained to assassinate a target. These are complex programming sequences, and are put in over years of training, with periodic reinforcement. Alters may be trained to become hyper aware of their environment, and able to overhear conversations that are whispered. Internal recorders are taught to download these conversations, as well as other info. Photographic recall is emphasized, as the person will be hypnotized or put into a delta state for "downloading" information to the trainer or CIA operative. The survivor with CIA programming will have been taught extensively how to "drop a tag" (detect anyone following them, and ditch them). This training will be begun in early childhood and built upon as the child grows older. They will often be taken into a neutral colored training room. They may be drugged, or hypnotized, usually a combination of both. They will be shown training films of how a CIA operative works. They will be told that they are "special", "chosen", "one in a thousand" who is the only one who can do this special work. They are told that they get to be a secret agent for the CIA. The young child, having no idea who the CIA is, focuses on the fact that they have been chosen because they are special, needed, and will be eager to please. The child will be taken to a dinner party, or a drama set up by the trainer. There will be a group, anywhere from ten to sixteen people at the "party". Afterwards, the child will be questioned by the trainer extensively. Who was sitting where? What were they wearing? What color were their eyes? Their hair? Who gave the speech? What did they say? The child will be praised for correct answers, but punished, shocked if unable to recall details. This is to reinforce natural photographic memory, and assist the child with recording details. The next few times, the child's abilities will improve, as it wants to avoid punishment. In the next level of training the child will be asked to observe, and figure out: who is the most important person in the room? Why? They will be taught body movements, and mannerisms, that give nonverbal clues away. The child may be taught to approach important adults, or an assigned target, first in role play, later in real life, and engage them in innocuous conversation while looking for information they have been clued to get. They may be taught to be innocently seductive, and will be dressed for the part. They will frequently be taught to lure the target into having intercourse with them. An older youth, or adult, will also be taught not only how to lure a target into bed, but later how to kill them, if they are an assassination target, while they are asleep or relaxing after sexual relations. They will be taught to go through the target's belongings for any information needed by the trainer or cult leader. Often, before an assignment for an assassination, the cult member will be indoctrinated with reasons why killing the victim is a service to humanity. They will be lied to and told that they are the head of a porno ring, a pedophile, or a brutal villain. This will engage the assassin's natural anger towards the person, and will motivate them, while helping to overcome their natural moral reluctance and guilt at killing a human being. They will be taught how to disguise themselves, with change of clothing, sex (masquerading as the opposite sex), makeup, contact lenses, and get out of the situation safely. They will be taught how to overcome interrogation techniques with extensive training and hypnosis, in case they are ever caught. They will be taught to self suicide with a pill or dagger, if they are ever apprehended, in most cases. Suggestions: CIA programming will involve the use of sophisticated technology to reinforce its effectiveness, and can be difficult to break. It may involve the person being traumatized in isolation tanks (this will also be done with brain wave programming). It may involve sensory deprivation, sensory overload, isolation, sleep deprivation. It may involve hours
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-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Govern Without Lies? No Way, says Gov't Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:33:51 -0500 From: Jim Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.S. News 10/16/00 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/001016/mcdade.htm Federally speaking, a fine kettle of fish. A new law is tying prosecutors in knots. By Chitra Ragavan Two Octobers ago, Congress passed a funny little law. It was named after its sponsor, Pennsylvania Republican Joseph McDade, but for the congressman, there was nothing funny about it. The Justice Department had spent eight years investigating McDade on racketeering charges. He was finally acquitted by a jury in 1996, but by then McDade's health and spirits were broken. The McDade bill was his payback to Justice. It simply requires federal prosecutors to comply with state ethics laws. No big deal? Not quite. In August, the Oregon Supreme Court forbade all lawyers in the state to lie, or encourage others to lie, cheat, or misrepresent themselves. Under McDade, the ruling now applies to Oregon's federal prosecutors. "We've handcuffed the agents," says senior FBI official David Knowlton, "not the criminals." The U.S. attorney for the Oregon district, Kristine Olson, has informed the FBI and other federal investigative agencies that she cannot OK agents or informants to assume false identities, wear body wires, or engage in undercover activities. Federal prosecutors despise the McDade law. David Margolis, a senior Justice Department official and a veteran organized-crime prosecutor, says McDade has had a major chilling effect. "Even I wouldn't go out on a limb," he says. Justice officials are trying to gut the law before Congress goes out of session this week. The department warned lawmakers in 1998 that prosecutors would be lost in a morass of quirky state ethics laws;especially during complicated multistate investigations. But defense lawyers won the day. "Why should prosecutors be exempt from rules that apply to all other lawyers in that state?" says Mark Holscher, lawyer for former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. So far, no court has dismissed a case or excluded evidence on the basis of McDade. "These are crocodile tears," says veteran defense lawyer Irv Nathan. Major headache. The biggest headache for prosecutors is the American Bar Association's controversial Model Rule 4.2, adopted by many states. It prohibits prosecutors from contacting people represented by lawyers without first talking to the attorneys. Remember when Kenneth Starr's prosecutors ignored Monica Lewinsky's tearful entreaties to call her lawyer? They got away with it because, since 1989, Justice has defied Rule 4.2. No more. Prosecutors now say adhering to 4.2 has hurt white-collar probes, where securing the cooperation of informers is often vital. In an investigation of Alaska Airlines last year, company lawyers barred federal agents from questioning employees. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont says, "The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction." But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois says he's not inclined to repeal McDade. "That doesn't mean I'm for crooks," Hyde says. "I'm for ethical behavior both by law enforcement and by defense counsel." Watching the fight from the sidelines is Joe McDade, now 69. "I didn't read about it. I lived it," he says, of prosecutorial zealotry. "The effort is not justice. The effort is to break a citizen." Sent to J.A.I.L. by Larry Bolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.A.I.L. is an acronym for (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law) JAIL's very informative website is found at www.jail4judges.org -- -- CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMEN -- JUST VOTE FOR A CORPORATION 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
[CTRL] DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER 18 October 2000 Part 3
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 9 ~~~ SFTT Survey: Money Wasters ~~~ Ed.: A few examples of the waste and deception categories... *** Ed.: Rank oftentimes has very expensive privileges... B.B. writes: Thought this was interesting: The CG of 4ID has a sleep van, from what I have been told by a member of the 704th DSB. It's a 20ft expandable MILVAN that has sleep compartments for the CG, the Assistant Division Commanders for maneuver and support and the Command Sergeant Major. I heard that from one of the HEMMT drivers who hauls the thing around. He said it was a pretty nice to stay in when in the field... Whatever happened to sleeping, eating, and taking only what the lowest level soldier has? Basic leadership 101. Just my opinion! But what do I know? I am only a junior leader who was trying to do his job. Now I'm off of active duty and it's because of that sort of conduct! --- An NCO: In my 10 years in the military I have found that the largest group of money wasters are the supply people. Ever notice how their uniforms, boots, battle gear and any other issued items look brand new. That's because it's usually no more than a few weeks old. Thank you for asking -- I have always wanted to tell someone that. --- Ed.: Maybe not a money waster but a Grand Deception... ** An Old Vet My son enlisted in the Army and reported to Fort Jackson, SC 3 weeks ago. He still has not started his training. He tells me there have been "thousands" of new recruits sitting around the reception barracks since before 1 October 2000. Appears like the Army wanted to make sure it met the FY 2000 recruiting goals and pushed recruits in, regardless of it's ability to process them. Originally, my son had asked for a reporting date of October 15. He was told that was impossible, as he had to be in basic by October 1st. --- Ed.: Glad to hear some units get it right - CONGRATS! *** A Lieutenant: Our BDE XO (an Armor Guy), MAJ Wyrick, did things right. He had XO/S4 meetings beginning in July to work up an end of year order of merit spending list. We tracked the budget weekly with a goal for every unit to spend money by Sep 15, the funding cutoff date. As far as I could tell, all monies were spent on good items such as new tentage for subordinate units and a few smaller purchases. ARTICLE 10 Voices from the Frontlines Talk the Talk but Walk the Walk By a future Officer: The article you wrote in SFTT about the military leaders is so true. Granted, I am just at a service academy right now, but it is awfully disillusioning to see the seemingly non-warrior types get the brass. I'm not someone who aspires for great rank and reputation - just want to blow stuff up pretty much- thought I joined the right organization, but I was wrong. You should at least be enthusiastic about getting your commission at an academy, but I don't even know that many people are. Once you get out and discover that combat positions take more out of you than is necessary for the service of your nation (you're doing far more work to defend against the human relations dep. than your country). You know even if I don't get to do that, I should at least be working with and for some of the most loyal people around. I don't like to act like I'm the meanest dude around, but you gotta have the meanest dudes in leadership, the ones with the enthusiasm that can carry a group of men to do incredible feats, and I fail to find that now... -- ~~~ Message to the Politicians ~~~ A senior Army NCO: Do the blind politicians really believe we are anywhere close to the force we where in 1990. We are not even close -- training is a joke, just check the block. Having been in the infantry for 13 years, I'm not sure it's worth it anymore. They won't take care of my family now. I can imagine what they will get when I am gone. I am sick of all the politicians getting on TV and pretending their prayers go out to the servicemen killed or injured. Hell, they can't even take care of us now -- broken gear, broken housing half of my soldiers on WIC or welfare. We can't even get a decent raise. They should try living on my check for a couple of months. Someone should come and talk to the troops because morale really sucks. Thanks for the vent -- Hooahh!! ---
[CTRL] THE NATION- The End Of Oslo
-Caveat Lector- COMMENT | October 30, 2000 The End of Oslo by EDWARD W. SAID Misreported and flawed from the start, the Oslo peace process has entered its terminal phase of violent confrontation, disproportionately massive Israeli repression, widespread Palestinian rebellion and great loss of life, mainly Palestinian. Ariel Sharon's September 28 visit to Haram al Sharif could not have occurred without Ehud Barak's concurrence; how else could Sharon have appeared there with at least a thousand soldiers guarding him? Barak's approval rating rose from 20 to 50 percent after the visit, and the stage seems set for a national unity government ready to be still more violent and repressive. The portents of this disarray, however, were there from the 1993 start, as I duly noted in The Nation (September 20, 1993). Labor and Likud leaders alike made no secret of the fact that Oslo was designed to segregate the Palestinians in noncontiguous, economically unviable enclaves, surrounded by Israeli-controlled borders, with settlements and settlement roads punctuating and essentially violating the territories' integrity. Expropriations and house demolitions proceeded inexorably through the Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and Barak administrations, along with the expansion and multiplication of settlements (200,000 Israeli Jews added to Jerusalem, 200,000 more in Gaza and the West Bank), military occupation continuing and every tiny step taken toward Palestinian sovereignty--including agreements to withdraw in minuscule, agreed-upon phases--stymied, delayed, canceled at Israel's will. This method was politically and strategically absurd. Occupied East Jerusalem was placed out of bounds by a bellicose Israeli campaign to decree the intractably divided city off-limits to West Bank and Gaza Palestinians and to claim it as Israel's "eternal, undivided capital." The 4 million Palestinian refugees--now the largest and longest existing such population anywhere--were told that they could forget about return or compensation. With his own corrupt and repressive regime supported by both Israel's Mossad and the CIA, Yasir Arafat continued to rely on US mediation, even though the US negotiating team was dominated by former Israeli lobby officials and a President whose ideas about the Middle East showed no understanding of the Arab-Islamic world. Compliant but isolated and unpopular Arab chiefs (especially Egypt's Hosni Mubarak) were humiliatingly compelled to toe the American line, thereby further diminishing their eroded credibility at home. Israel's priorities were always put first. No attempt was made to address the injustice done when the Palestinians were dispossessed in 1948. Back of the peace process were two unchanging Israeli/American presuppositions, both of them derived from a startling incomprehension of reality. The first was that after enough punishment and beating, Palestinians would give up, accept the compromises Arafat did in fact accept and call the whole Palestinian cause off, thereafter excusing Israel for everything it has done. Thus, the "peace process" gave no considered attention to immense Palestinian losses of land and goods, or to the links between past dislocation and present statelessness, while as a nuclear power with a formidable military, Israel continued to claim the status of victim and demand restitution for genocidal anti-Semitism in Europe. There has still been no official acknowledgment of Israel's (by now amply documented) responsibility for the tragedy of 1948. But one can't force people to forget, especially when the daily reality is seen by all Arabs as reproducing the original injustice. Second, after seven years of steadily worsening economic and social conditions for Palestinians everywhere, Israeli and US policy-makers persisted in trumpeting their successes, excluding the United Nations and other interested parties, bending the partisan media to their wills, distorting the actuality into ephemeral victories for "peace." With the entire Arab world up in arms over Israeli helicopter gunships and tanks demolishing Palestinian civilian buildings, with almost 100 fatalities and almost 2,000 wounded, including many children, and with Palestinian Israelis rising up against their treatment as third-class citizens, the misaligned and skewed status quo is falling apart. Isolated in the UN and unloved everywhere in the Arab world as Israel's unconditional champion, the United States and its lame-duck President have little to contribute. Neither does the Arab and Israeli leadership, even though they are likely to cobble up another interim agreement. Extraordinary has been the virtual silence of the Zionist peace camp in the United States, Europe and Israel. The slaughter of Palestinian youths goes on while they back Israeli brutality or express disappointment at Palestinian ingratitude. Worst of all are the US media, cowed by the fearsome Israeli lobby, with commentators and anchors spinning
[CTRL] DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER 18 October 2000 Part 1
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! SOLDIERS FOR THE TRUTH "DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER" 18 October 2000 - "USS Cole and American Vulnerabilities" "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen." General George Washington, New York Legislature, 1775 "Our militia will be heroes, if we have heroes to lead them." Thomas Jefferson Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840 HTTP://WWW.SFTT.ORG *** TABLE OF CONTENTS: SITREP from the President HOT BUTTONS! Hack's Column No More Coles and No More Snow Jobs "Through the Primary Gun Sight" Article 1 - Remember the USS Cole The Big Picture: Article 2 - Anthrax Shots Cause Military Exodus Article 3 - Officer calls refueling stop at Aden port 'buffoonery' Voice of the Grunt: Article 4 - SITREP: SNAFU in Kuwait Article 5 -- Navy: Former Radford Commander Battles to Save Reputation Article 6 - Navy: The Reduction of US Navy Repair Capabilities Article 7 -- USMC: Life in the Mass Production Scheme Article 8 - USMC: Marine Warriors treated like Children Article 9 -- SFTT Survey: Money Wasters Article 10 - Comments from the Frontlines Article 11 - Army: Thin out the Officer Ranks and Rebuild the NCO Corps Article 12 - Come Talk to Us! Article 13 -- Quality of Life Update G.I Humor: Article 14 -- GI HUMOR - Joint Rules for Army-Navy Game Medal of Honor: Article 15 -- GARY, DONALD ARTHUR, WWII - Pacific SITREP: 1. Main topics: 1) The USS Cole 2) US Vulnerabilities 3) Military waste 4) Morale and discipline 5) Voices from the Frontlines 6) Quality of Life/Healthcare 2. Hot Buttons: A. I am interested in the following feedback: * Do you think the USS Cole bombing could have been prevented? * Are our forces vulnerable to sabotage and terrorism by political neglect? Feel free to send me hot topics directly if you can't get through the admin/log net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] B. The WEBPAGE. Webmaster, John Cloven is continually working on improving the site. Thanks for your feedback. C. DONATIONS. Thank you for your continuing support. Please continue you donations to help the peasant Army grow. WE ARE making a difference! Thanks for supporting an organization that stands for the Truth, even if it questions every rule of political correctness. D. Keep the mail coming!!! We won't reveal your true identity unless you give us your approval. We know how vindictive the "system" is. 3. How to help: !!! Credit Card donation via our WEBSITE at www.sftt.org. !!! If you think we HIT a target, forward the newsletter to TV, radio and your local papers. YOU are the frontline recruiters and intel gatherers for SFTT. Check or Money order: Send to and make payable to: Soldiers For The Truth Foundation, PO Box 63840, Colorado Springs, CO 80962-3840. Your donation is tax deductible! SFTT is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational foundation, IRS # 31-1592564. If you send us an E-MAIL address with your donation we can immediately mail you a RECEIPT. Multiple contributions: Please remind us when you submit your donation. We will send you a cumulative statement. Prepare for Action -- "Crew Ready! -- LOAD SABOT - DRIVER MOVE OUT!" R.W. Zimmermann President SFTT [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Hack's Column ~~ No More Coles and No More Snow Jobs ~~ By David Hackworth Seventeen American sailors were killed last week. Did these young men and women die because their seniors failed to do their duty? That's the question Congress should ask President Bill Clinton, Defense Secretary Bill Cohen and the uniformed brass from Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton to Navy Chief Adm. Vern Clark to the skipper of the destroyer USS Cole. Last month, U.S. intelligence warned that an attack on an American warship in that dangerous region was in the wind. Simultaneously, superterrorist Osama bin Laden and some like-minded rats ranted on Arab TV about making Americans bleed. So why did the brass send sailors into the Port of Aden like grunts onto Hamburger Hill, when only days before our State Department had closed its embassies in that area because of terrorist threats? If State was worried about the risk to embassy personnel in Aden -- long known as a terrorist snake pit where only two days before thousands of Yemenis took to the streets calling for a holy war -- why didn't the brass show the same concern for our sailors? And why didn't the Cole refuel at sea or at least in the outer harbor of Aden, where the ship could've been protected by gun crews capable of blowing a suicide craft out of the water before it got danger-close? Almost before the smoke drifted away from the Cole, the White House launched into its too familiar after-the-terrorist-attack damage control. First Clinton addressed the nation using the
[CTRL] DEFENDING AMERICA NEWSLETTER 18 October 2000 Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 5 ~~~ Navy: Former Radford Commander Battles to Save Reputation ~~~ Ed.: CDR Chang continues to fight the military bureaucracy. Another commander hung out to dry to cover for deeper readiness problems, similar to the case of Airborne commander LTC Ellerbee. *** By William H. McMichael, Navy Times Cmdr. Daniel Chang is fighting back. "It's a matter of honor," said his lawyer, Charles W. Gittins. "The Navy put him in a bad position. And then when it blew up ... they basically cut Danny loose. And then they rub his nose in it by releasing all this stuff that's not supposed to be public, to make the Navy look good." Chang was commander of the destroyer Radford when its bow was nearly sliced off Feb. 4, 1999, by a Saudi container ship. At the time, the Radford was circling a calibration buoy at night off the Virginia coast. Chang had left the ship in the hands of his officer of the deck and was in his sea cabin until seconds before the collision, which injured at least eight sailors and caused $23 million in damage to the Radford. Chang, who had been in command for about 100 days, testified during a civil trial on the matter that he inherited a woefully under trained crew with poor watch standing skills, and that he'd made this clear to the commander of his destroyer squadron. Watch standers failed to inform him of the approaching container ship, contrary to his standing orders. The situation seemed indicative of readiness woes shared by other Navy ships. But Chang was relieved of command. Ultimately, the court placed the bulk of the blame for the collision on the Saudi ship. Now assigned to the Regional Support Group, Norfolk Naval Station, Va., Chang has no shot at regaining that command or reversing the punishment handed down in a non-judicial hearing in April 1999. But he's not going away quietly. Instead, Chang is suing the Navy and 26 members of Congress for violating his federal Privacy Act rights by allegedly disclosing protected information about his punishment contained in his Official Military Personnel File. NJP hearings are held behind closed doors. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Chang claims the disclosures damaged his reputation in the Navy and his community, causing him "mental distress, loss of employment opportunity outside the Navy, embarrassment and emotional trauma." He is seeking $1 million in actual damages from the Navy and the congressmen, and $1.35 million from Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va., for compensatory and punitive damages. Chang, on the advice of Gittins, is not commenting on the matter. But Gittins said that Chang has "an open-and-shut case." "You're not reading about the NJPs of the other captains ," said Gittins, a specialist in military law. The Navy and the members of Congress have filed a motion to dismiss on technical grounds. Chang's claim centers in part on a document titled "For Response to Query Only" generated by Surface Forces Atlantic to allow public affairs officers to respond to reporters' questions. The document spelled out the specific articles Chang and three other officers were guilty of violating as well as the type of administrative letter that was placed in Chang's personnel file. Some of the information ended up in the news. Chang did not give his permission "and would not have consented" to public release of the information, according to court documents. According to Gittins, constituents of Moran and other members of Congress "presently unknown to plaintiff" wrote and asked about Chang's case. Moran asked the Navy for more information. The Navy provided Moran with an "Information Paper" that summarized the case and the punishment taken against Chang. The U.S. government agrees that Moran requested the information but says it released the Information Paper only to those lawfully entitled to see it and seeks to have the lawsuit thrown out on those grounds. Gittins argues, however, that such material can be released only with the consent of the military member. In a separate filing to the court, Chang also claims the Navy has continued to violate his Privacy Act rights by way of an April 7, 2000, letter sent from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy to a "member of the public" that details the results of subsequent appeals of his NJP punishment. When Chang learned that Vice Adm. Henry Giffin III, the now-retired SurfLant commander, wanted to charge him with a violation of military law, he chose a hearing before him instead of a court-martial. "But that was with the proviso that ... it would be private," Gittins said. "That was one of the selling points that Admiral Giffin personally jawboned me about, sitting across his coffee table. "It's smarmy and it lacks
[CTRL] Suspected Mole Coaches Bush
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Suspected Mole Coaches Bush Date: Sunday, October 08, 2000 5:34 PM http://www.sierratimes.com/arsb100600.htm Suspected Mole Coaches Bush News Analysis by Samuel L. Blumenfeld - Posted: 10.06.00 Question: Why was Bush so ill-prepared to challenge Gore's argument that the Republican tax cut would mostly benefit the richest one-percent in America? The argument was not new. Gore had been hammering away with the one-percent idea for quite some time. So the Republican campaign staff knew about it, but they didn't provide their candidate with a strong, effective argument against it. Why? Maybe the reason has to do with mole suspect Mark McKinnon, whom the Republicans hired to be their top media advisor. According to the Drudge Report, McKinnon "got his political start by volunteering for a Texas Democrat's 1984 Senate campaign, where he worked with political operatives James Carville and Paul Begala." Did anyone at Republican headquarters bother to check McKinnon's resume? Yvette Lozano, McKinnon's assistant who was filmed by a security camera at the Post Office sending an express package, graduated from a Democratic training program for activists in 1990. Speaking of moles, how McKinnon and Lozano managed to snooker the Bush people into hiring them is a question we'd all like an answer to. Believe it or not, the master copy of the video tape as well as a confidential briefing book were kept in McKinnon's office. Why didn't the Bush people hire some smart conservatives, like yours truly, for example, who know how to argue against the likes of Al Bore? The label on the Express Mail package received in Washington by Tom Downey, a former Congressman and Gore supporter, corresponds to the time and date Lozano sent a package from the Austin post office. The package not only contained a video tape of Bush practicing for the debate, but also a half-inch stack of documents and an unsigned note on plain white paper saying, "Here's some material that might be helpful to you. I'll call in a few days to see if you need anything else." Was the note typed or handwritten? If it was the latter, it should be easy enough to check handwritings. Lozano insists that she was returning a $19.99 pair of khaki pants McKinnon had bought and was returning to the Gap. But why would she send it by Express Mail at a cost of $11.75? And since she admits having sent an Express Mail package, she must have a receipt. McKinnon has also been spreading the idea that someone in the Bush camp deliberately sent the video as a dirty trick in order to embarrass the Gore campaign. When Downey received the material, he called the FBI. Obviously he had to review the tape in order to know what was on it. So he knows its contents. He could have even made a copy of the tape as well as copied the documents in the package before turning them over to the FBI. Has he been in touch with Al Gore, or someone else on the campaign staff? Remember the couple in Florida, driving their car and recording a phone conversation between conservative Republican Congressmen on cell phones? That tape also wound up in the hands of Democrats in Washington. This sort of spying seems to be routine among Democrats. But what this mole story tells us is that George W. Bush is surrounded by a bunch of amateurs who bring the enemy into the inner sanctum and actually pay him top money to advise the candidate. In fact, Newsweek of Oct. 9, has a picture of McKinnon coaching Bush as he was preparing for the debate. At least Gore can't accuse Bush of being surrounded by a bunch of right-wing conservatives! Apparently, the mole did a great job of coaching Bush, who was totally unprepared for Gore's strongest and most repeated argument against the Bush tax plan. Where was the Bush research staff? Why didn't they check Gore's numbers. All Bush could say was that Gore was using "fuzzy" math. But it didn't sound fuzzy to the people watching the debate. Gore repeated his assertions in unequivocal, authoritative terms, and because Bush could not come back and challenge Gore with figures of his own, it looked like Gore was right. The mole must have laughed in delight. In preparation for the debate, Bush should have found out how many taxpayers make up that now infamous one-percent, and how much they have all paid in taxes to the IRS. Then he should have spelled out how much lower everyone's taxes would be under his tax plan. Then Bush should have explained what rich people do with their money besides pay taxes: they create charitable foundations, they invest in companies, they buy big ticket items that create jobs and keep certain industries going. In
[CTRL] NM: Communist China - Our Avowed Mortal Enemy - Endorses Gore
-Caveat Lector- newwsmax.com Communist China - Our Avowed Mortal Enemy - Endorses Gore http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=200 0/10/17/115322 10-18-00 The leadership of Communist China, which threatened to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. in 1996 and again this spring, has come out strongly against the presidential candidacy of Texas governor George Bush - a tacit endorsement of Vice President Al Gore. A commentary appearing Tuesday in the government-run newsmagazine Beijing Review warned that Bush's China policies "would produce grave results if he won the election and became master of the White House." Beijing Review is published by the State Council, the Chinese version of a presidential Cabinet. The report, co-authored by a researcher from China's National Defense University, said "war would be inevitable" if Bush tried to intervene militarily in any attack by the People's Liberation Army on Taiwan, a longtime U.S. ally. Bush has in the past criticized the Clinton-Gore administration's depiction of China as a "strategic partner," calling China an "adversary" instead. Particularly troublesome for Beijing is Bush's pledge to deploy missile defense systems that would protect Taiwan as well as the U.S. from any missile attack. In 1995 and 1996, Beijing lobbed unarmed nuclear capable missiles across the Taiwan Straits, prompting the U.S. to dispatch the 6th Fleet to the region. Defense officials later told the Washington Post that tensions were much higher than the administration publicly acknowledged at the time. As the 6th Fleet steamed across the Pacific, longtime Clinton friend Charlie Trie intervened on China's behalf, counseling the president to avoid any further provocative action. Clinton apparently took the advice. Three years later Trie pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations after several hundred thousand dollars he donated to the Clinton Defense Fund and other Democratic causes was traced to the Bank of China. In 1996, Chinese military intelligence tried to recruit Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung in a plot to funnel $300,000 to Clinton, Gore and the Democrats. "We like your president, we want to see him re-elected," Chung says Gen. Ji Shengde told him. Gore's own political rise has been fueled by his longtime association with Maria Hsia, who's been raising campaign cash for the vice president since 1988 and who organized Gore's notorious April 1996 Buddhist temple fund raiser. In May, Hsia pleaded guilty to five felony counts related to the Buddhist temple event. In 1997, the FBI identified Hsia as a "Chinese agent" who was "doing the bidding of Beijing," according to a Washington Post report by Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward. Details from the Beijing Review editorial were first reported by ABC News. http://www.imagemuse.com/ = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = 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] [LIFE-GAZETTE] Perestroika, Glasnost, Demokratisatsya... (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:50:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIFE-GAZETTE] Perestroika, Glasnost, Demokratisatsya... toward a "Multi-Polar World". So far so good, Comrades. And the US is playing the USEFUL IDIOT as expected! Zandu Goldbar (aka "Zandu the Magnificent") * Party of Citizens is dedicated to leading the new CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY which will hold the reins of power over the U.N. within 10 years * -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:31:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Labour Welfare Party [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BCPolitics] Indian Homelands in North America The US wants Kosovo to be a "Republic" like Montenegro. That is its official position in Yugoslavia. And the Montenegro Republic is a on the threshold of total secession so this is knowingly a step toward full sovereignty. Could the UN General Assembly go from 200 to 2,000 over this century? Could Zulus and Boers and others develop Republics in South Africa with US support? The steps would be I: Homeland; II: Republic; III: Sovereign Nation and UN Member. KK -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:26:04 -0400 From: Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NativeNews] House approves legislation creating Indian homeland http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Oct-18-Wed-2000/news/14629859.html House approves legislation creating Indian homeland Measure gives Timbisha Shoshone Tribe land in Nevada, California Wednesday, October 18, 2000 By CHRISTINE DORSEY DONREY WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- The House approved legislation Tuesday creating a homeland in California and Nevada for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, which once controlled vast portions of the Mojave Desert. Introduced in late September by Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., the bill matches legislation passed in July by the Senate. It is expected to be signed into law by President Clinton. The measure will turn over to the tribe 5,800 acres in Nevada and 1,900 acres in and around Death Valley National Park in California. In Nevada, the tribe will be granted 2,800 acres of Bureau of Land Management land at Scotty's Junction just west of Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range, and 2,800 acres near the town of Lida. In addition, the bill authorizes the Interior Department to purchase another 2,430 acres of private ranch land near Lida on behalf of the tribe. In California, the tribe will receive 300 acres in Furnace Creek inside the park, 1,000 acres at Death Valley Junction and 640 acres in Centennial. The measure also establishes a 3,000-acre buffer zone in the park for the tribe to use for traditional uses. "This legislation keeps the promise we made to the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe when Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act in 1994, and will create an exciting new recreation opportunity for visitors to our largest national park, Death Valley," said Lewis, whose district includes much of the land being given to the tribe. The 1994 law required the Clinton administration to negotiate with the tribe to acquire homelands. The Timbisha Shoshone once occupied 15,000 square miles of what has become Death Valley National Park and surrounding areas, from Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada to Owens Valley, Calif., and from Lida south to Shoshone, Calif. Today the 280-member tribe operates out of two mobile homes near the Furnace Creek Visitor's Center in Death Valley. The bill allows the tribe to build 50 houses, a tribal community center, a small inn and a tribal museum and gift shop in and around Death Valley. The bill prohibits gaming on the Furnace Creek parcel. The other parcels are subject to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which requires tribes to reach compacts with state governments before opening casinos. Nevada lawmakers had raised concerns about whether the tribe would try to build a casino in California, but were told there were no plans to do so. List info at: http://ishgooda.nativeweb.org/natnews.htm -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ Beliefnet- Religion and spirituality from A to Z. http://click.egroups.com/1/9039/15/_/564407/_/971927556/ -_- What would a complete society be like if it were to "do all for the glory of God"? (I Corinthians 10:31). What would Canada be like if it were a "Godly Society" functioning in this manner? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
[CTRL] Xenositics
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Belgium Belgium's extreme right Vlaams Blok increases vote in regional elections By Richard Tyler 19 October 2000 Back to screen version In recent regional and local elections, the xenophobic Vlaams Blok (VB) became the strongest party in Antwerp. The VB advocates the separation of the northern Flemish-speaking region of Flanders from French-speaking Wallonia, which together with the bi-lingual capital Brussels and a small German-speaking area comprise the modern Belgian state. Strongly anti-immigrant, it calls for the immediate repatriation of all so-called illegal immigrants. The party increased its share in Belgium's second city by five percent to take one third of all votes cast, gaining twenty places on the 55-seat council. As well as Antwerp, the October 8 poll also saw the VB emerge as strongest party in Mechelen, and the third largest in Ghent. Overall its vote rose Flanders to just under 10 percent. The Vlaams Blok made a racist appeal to the wealthier layers of Antwerp, playing up the issues of criminality and immigration. However, Antwerp bucks the national trend on both counts. According to official statistics crime rates in the city are falling and of the nearly half a million inhabitants under 10 percent are non-Belgians. At election rallies VB party leader Filip Dewinter loudly proclaimed, Our people first and that the Flemish should be Masters of our own home. He admires Austria's far-right Freedom Party and says Joerg Haider showed us that the nationalists can make it into government... What happened in Austria was important. The Belgians saw that a government alliance of nationalists and conservatives is possible, and especially that the sanctions, the demonising of a country, cannot last. The aim of the Vlaams Blok is a separate Flemish state, and Dewinter boasted, we already have a Flemish parliament and government. We will soon have a Flemish taxation system and perhaps a Flemish social security system, the last link which ties us to Wallonia. The northern region of Flanders, where much of Belgium's industry is based, is far wealthier than Wallonia and its economy has performed relatively better in recent years. The Flemish nationalists want to cut themselves free from what they regard as Flanders subsidising the welfare state in the south: unemployment in Antwerp fell in September to 6.9 percent, against 18 percent in Wallonia. Dewinter and the VB espouse an odious form of Flemish chauvinism, and call for all those foreigners who they claim have entered Belgium illegally since 1974 (some 300,000 they claim) to be repatriated. Dewinter told an election rally that All those who are not assimilated should get out. How does the VB propose to identify those that are not assimilated? Those who wear an Islamic scarf, who believe that the laws of Islam are more important than those of this country, those who do not want to speak our language... Federal Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt described the results for the Vlaams Blok as a stain, and pledged to continue the cordon sanitaire along with the other establishment parties, and not allow the VB to participate in government at any level. Belgian daily Le Soir criticised Verhofstadt's response to the increased vote for the VB, saying, There is no use minimising the phenomena... It is not just a question of maintaining the cordon sanitaire'. It is also a matter of hearing the alarm bells that have resounded in the ballot boxes. The success of the Vlaams Blok is the mark of deep distress that has not been answered. The Verhofstadt government faces the challenge of really integrating the population. The Vlaams Blok is now Flanders' fourth strongest party behind the Liberals (whose vote increased marginally), the Christian Democrats (down 1.4 percent) and the Socialist Party (the biggest losers, down 2.7 percent). It also increased its vote to 9 percent in the federal capital Brussels, but lost all its six seats in Wallonia. The losses for the Christian and Social Democrats in the recent regional and local elections continue a trend that saw the composition of the federal government change significantly in last year's general election. For most of its post-war history, the Dutch-speaking Christelijke Volkespartij (CVPChristian Peoples Party) formed the core of every coalition government, both at the federal and state level. Together with their social democratic coalition partners the CVP lost around a quarter of their seats. The new federal government that was formed last year under Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, is a coalition of the Flemish and French-speaking Liberal Parties, together with the social democrats and the Greens. It has sought to preserve the delicate political balance of Belgium's Flemish and French speaking regions, mainly by making concessions to the wealthier Flanders. New fiscal regulations introduced this week will grant
