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Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
October 20, 2000
HILLARY,
THE WAR GODDESS
If the Kosovo war, the bombing of the USS Cole, and the growing hatred of the
US around the world is not enough to give American conservatives second
thoughts about our policy of global intervention, then surely Hillary Rodham
Clinton's recent attack on "isolationism" ought to clinch the case for the
America Firsters. The US, said Hillary in a speech given at the Manhattan
headquarters of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, must "avoid
isolationism" and follow a doctrine of "international engagement." What does
this mean? The Hill, as the New York Post likes to call her, did not get very
specific: instead, she sternly addressed the (presumably) Republican opponents
of global meddling:
"To those who believe we should become involved only if it is easy to do, I
think we have to say that America has never and should not ever shy away from
the hard path if it is the right one. I believe America needs a renewed
internationalism, not an old isolationism."
NEWFANGLED LIBERALS
Old is bad, of course, and new is good. Having abandoned (indeed, reversed)
their onetime antiwar stance, today's liberals have at least retained their
loyalty to the newfangled. But, hey, wait a minute: what's so "new" about
internationalism, anyway? The American people have been handed this line since
1914, for god'ssakes, ever since Woodrow Wilson dragged us into a European war
that soon led to another. Heck, the Roosevelts, both Teddy and Franklin,
derided non-interventionists as cowards, sissies, traitors, and worse and the
same line of guff was handed out during the cold war, this time by
conservatives. In the post-cold war era we are hearing it from the left again,
straight from the pursed lips of the First Lady Herself. In her most extensive
treatment of foreign policy issues to date, Hillary Rodham greeted her fellow
warmongers at the CFR by thanking the Council "for what you have done and stood
for over the last century.
To challenge the forces of isolationism and champion internationalism,
reflecting both in our enduring values and our strategic interest." In short,
there's nobody here but us interventionists, so let's get down to brass tacks.
MURKY WATERS
God, how ungrammatical and deadly dull a speech it was! Filled with
malapropisms "But these are albeit a necessary, but not sufficient
understanding of the world in which we live and lead" the speech was the
verbal equivalent of a startled squid secreting a protective cloud of murk. The
murk, however, was lit up with strings of bright code words and catch-phrases:
"This new internationalism must be shaped, of course, to meet new challenges,"
and "Second, new challenges require new thinking about national interest and
security."
But of course. Our "core values" determine that we must "stand by Israel"
during the current Middle East crisis. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. The effect
was to give Hillary's talk a hectoring and sloganeering style, as if it had
been written in some Orwellian Newspeak of her own invention, an abbreviated
staccato language known only to internationalists.
STYLE AND SUBSTANCE
Why is it that us isolationists always have the best orators? One thinks of
Senator William C. Borah ("the Lion of Idaho"), William Jennings Bryan, and
Patrick J. Buchanan. The other side hasn't had a star performer since Franklin
Delano Roosevelt went on to his just reward: one thinks of the pipsqueakish
Harry Truman (a terrible speaker), the tin-mannish Al Gore, and, worst of all,
the grim harridan Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the interventionists rarely
address the people directly, and so they don't have to worry so much about the
niceties of style: just as long as politicians like Hillary get their message
across to the people who really matter don't worry, guys, I'm with you all
the way.
A TERRIBLE RIGHTEOUSNESS
The Council on Foreign Relations is, of course, the organizational incarnation
of the foreign policy establishment, a bipartisan alliance of big business,
big government, and bigtime academia that traces its roots back those well-born
Anglophiles and New York banking circles so eager to get us into World War I.
Sizing up her audience, like any New York City ward-healer, Hillary told them
what she thought they wanted to hear: she attacked the "refrain" that "that we
should intervene with force only" in the cases of "wars that we surely can win,
preferably by overwhelming force in a relatively short period of time." Clearly
presenting herself as the Joan of Arc of a newly militant internationalism,
she pronounced anathema on those evil "isolationists" and scolded them for
their lack of her own terrible righteousness:
"To those who believe we should become involved only if it is easy to do, I
think we have to say: America has never and should not ever shy away from the
hard
[CTRL] Mind Control And Cults -- Pt. 1 of 2
-Caveat Lector- [note : I am *not* the author of this article] M.F. Abernathy 10/20/00 --- How the Cult Programs People Author: Svali /profile.cfm/svali Published on: June 15, 2000 How the Cult Programs People Part one This article, consistent with others I have written, is a very difficult one personally. Why? Because it touches on some of the things that I am most ashamed of in my own life. I used to be a cult programmer, or "trainer" as they are called, and here I will share some of what I did or witnessed while in that role. I also went through these things as a child, so this article is also quite autobiographical as well. Autobiography can be a moment of boasting, of quiet joy, or intense pain. Mine falls in the latter category, to say the least. But I am hoping with all of my heart that sharing my pain will help others avoid this pain, or will help society better understand what survivors go through. This article will in no means be a complete treatment of the subject. Cult programming is a complex subject, one that would fill volumes and volumes if dealt with beyond a surface description. Also, I can only write from my own experiences with the Illuminati, which is one of several groups operating today, and about the techniques used in the Washington, DC area and in San Diego, Ca. Other localities might use very different techniques. This article does NOT take the place of advice from a qualified therapist, and is meant to be informative only. If you are a survivor of cult abuse, please be aware that this article and the subject it covers could be extremely triggering, and keep yourself safe. Why does the cult train or program people? In earlier articles, I have mentioned the goals they have of: making money secrecy unquestioning loyalty in their members Programming, or training, is one method that the cult has found that will ensure that these goals are met. In the Illuminati, the programmers are called "trainers" because the belief is that they are not abusing, but "training" the future generation. The trainers actually believe that they are doing a good thing, "strengthening" the children, helping them to get in touch with their "potential." Some of these methods have been around for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. I will divide cult programming into five major categories, and address each one separately: 1. training to be silent 2. training to be strong 3. training to be loyal 4. training for jobs in the group 5. spiritual training The first category, training to be silent, begins at a very young age, frequently preverbal. This is accomplished in several ways, depending upon the child and the trainer, and can include: Being asked after a ceremony what the child saw and heard. The very young child may just say "bad things", and is punished severely and brutally, and told that no, they didn't really see those things. This is repeated at frequent intervals, until the child learns to block the ceremonies. Often, a "protector" or "guardian" alter will be created from the abuse, whose job is to ensure that the child will not remember what is seen. This protector is told that if the child does remember, brutal punishment will follow. Another method involves electroshocking the child, and placing them into a deep hypnotic trance, where they are told that they will not remember what they have seen or heard, that it is all "just a bad dream." The child WANTS to forget, and will be eager to agree. Psychological torture may be used: mock burials, being placed in cages, abandonment, being hung over a bridge, with the child later being "rescued" and told that if they ever tell, they will be returned to the punishment. Being forced to watch mock or real punishment or killing of a traitor who "told". When I was four years old, I was forced to watch a woman be skinned alive. Her crime: she disclosed to an outside person "family business". Talking to those outside the group is considered one of the worst crimes or betrayals a person can commit. A "traitor's death" is one of the most horrifying imaginable, and will vary from crucifixion upside down, to other gruesome scenarios. Young children do not forget seeing these things, and they become convinced that not disclosing is the safest way to continue living. These set ups are done to ensure that a young child will not disclose the criminal activities that they are seeing in the course of group activites, or even as an adult, when they are more actively engaged in them. Another set up also is frequently done: The "no one will believe you scenario" (this is usually done with school age children). The child is told repeatedly that even if they DO disclose that no one will believe them. The child is taken by a mental hospital, or even taken to visit an inmate briefly. Later, the child is told that people who disclose are considered "crazy" and sent to institutions, where they are punished severely and can never
[CTRL] Mind Control And Cults -- Pt. 2 of 2
-Caveat Lector- Ritual abuse: the under-recognized problem Author: Svali /profile.cfm/svali Published on: March 8, 2000 **If you are a survivor of ritual abuse, please be aware that reading about it may be triggering. Please take care of yourself, and be in a safe place before reading. Ritual abuse. The word conjures up images of people in robes, chanting, or perhaps a grade D horror flick. But what is the reality? First, let's look at a definition of ritual abuse: Ritual abuse is the systematic, repetitive abuse of both children and adults by either an individual or a group. It may involve psychological, sexual, physical and/or spiritual abuse, and the effects are devastating on the individual who undergoes it. Often survivors of this type of extreme abuse cope by dissociating, and as adults may continue the cycle of amnesia and abuse. The key word here is : repetitive. Ritual abuse is done repetitively, in a consistent pattern, over time. This may be done in the name of a religious belief, or simply out of patterned cruelty. Any idealogy can and has been used to justify the pattern of abuse. Most of the victimization begins in early childhood, and is done by adults who were themselves abused. The cycle continues because people often do not realize that they can stop it; often, they feel "trapped" in the pattern of abuse. What is the incidence of ritual abuse today? Statistics vary, depending upon the source. When I lived in a large metropolitan city in the Southwest, population close to 2,000,000 , the group that I was affiliated with, known as the Illuminati, had 24 sister groups. Each group had roughly 50 members, so they had approximately 1,200 members in this area. These numbers are reflected across the United States and European countries. And this was only one group. In the next few months, I will be sharing different perspectives on the reality of ritual abuse. I hope to address the following questions: 1. What kinds of groups engage in what is known as ritual abuse? What motivates them? 2. How do these groups maintain their "cloak of secrecy?" How do they operate? What kind of security do they use? 3. How do they program their followers? Why? How does a person break free from this kind of programming? 4. What is the opinion of experts in the field? 5. Has there been documented, physical evidence that ritual abuse occurs? What evidence? 6. What about spouses and friends: what can they do to help survivors of ritual abuse? What is helpful, and what isn't? 7. What can the general public do to help? These are all valid points that need to be addressed in order to understand ritual abuse. As a survivor of ritual abuse myself, as well as a former cult programmer, or trainer, I have a vested interest in sharing both from my own experience, and the wealth of published information about ritual abuse that is available now. I also hope to be able to share some survivor stories (with names changed to protect the people involved) about the reality of ritual abuse, and the ongoing effects that it causes in the life of the survivor, as well as things that have helped them in their healing journey. I will be sharing internet links that relate to the topics that I have addressed. They are there, and are well worth reading for the person who desires to learn more, and is willing to approach this subject objectively. Best wishes, svali === Why the cult doesn't get caught Author: Svali /profile.cfm/svali Published on: April 26, 2000 Why The Cult Doesn't Get Caught When confronted with the possibility that ritual abuse may occur, one of the first questions people ask is: "But if it's real, why aren't they caught?". In other words, how can an organized society meet and execute rituals in secret, yet not leave any incriminating evidence which may lead to a conviction? How can such secrecy possibly be maintained in this day and age? Surely they would leave behind a 'trail' that would alert others as to what was happening. I will address these questions from my own experience with one cultic group and also provide a link to articles about other ritually abusive groups who HAVE been 'caught in the act' and subsequently convicted in court. I would first, however, like to discuss one other secret society that has continued to operate in the US since the early 1920s (approx.). A secret society that commits acts of brutality including not only physical beatings, but also cold blooded murder. A criminal group that engages in a variety of illegal activities. An organization with members who are born into it and thus can be termed 'generational'. One who prior to the 1970s enjoyed the official FBI position of non-existence, despite those who were reporting its reality (sounds much like ritual abuse today!). I am referring, of course, to 'La Cosa Nostra' aka 'The Mafia'. In 'Who Is The Mob Today?' (2/25/1996), Peter Maas quotes FBI Director Louis J.Freeh admitting the terrible past mistake
[CTRL] Israeli polls.
-Caveat Lector- Friday Polls - 20 October Netanyahu leads Barak 21 points Aaron Lerner Date: 20 October, 2000 Gallup - Ma'ariv The following are the results of a survey of a representative sample of 620 adult Israeli (both Jews and Arabs) carried out by Gallup on the evening of Wednesday 18 October. Sampling error +/- 4.3 percentage points: If elections were held today: 18 Oct. 2000 Barak 27% Netanyahu 48% 11 Oct. 2000 Barak 30% Netanyahu 46% [Israel burning/before lynch] 4 Oct. 2000 Barak 32% Netanyahu 41% [Israel burning] 27 Sept 2000 Barak 38% Netanyahu 42% [case closed on Netanyahu] 13 Sept 2000 Barak 38% Netanyahu 39% 6 Sept 2000 Barak 41% Netanyahu 38% Deeri jail,Min.Religion closing 16 Aug 2000 Barak 38% Netanyahu 43% 2 Aug 2000 Barak 40% Netanyahu 43% 26 Jly 2000 Barak 43% Netanyahu 38% [talks fail] 19 Jly 2000 Barak 39% Netanyahu 40% [talks in stalemate] 12 Jly 2000 Barak 36% Netanyahu 39% 5 July 2000 Barak 39% Netanyahu 41% [talks announced] 28 Jun 2000 Barak 36% Netanyahu 44% 21 Jun 2000 Barak 40% Netanyahu 42% [middle of resignations] 14 Jun 2000 Barak 46% Netanyahu 39% 31 May 2000 Barak 41% Netanyahu 41% 24 May 2000 Barak 42% Netanyahu 37% [just left Lebanon] 19 May 2000 Barak 45% Netanyahu 38% 15 Apr 2000 Barak 42% Netanyahu 39% 05 Apr 2000 Barak 40% Netanyahu 37% 31 Mar 2000 Barak 42.5% Netanyahu 42.4% 1 Mar 2000 Barak 50% Netanyahu 34% 9 Feb 2000 Barak 42% Netanyahu 37% 2 Feb 2000 Barak 45% Netanyahu 36% 19 Nov 1999 Barak 50% Netanyahu 33% 8 Oct 1999 Barak 56% Netanyahu 26% 14 Aug 1999 Barak 50% Netanyahu 29% 25 Jun 1999 Barak 59% Netanyahu 27% 18 Oct 2000 Barak 31% Sharon 41% 11 Oct 2000 Barak 36% Sharon 36% 4 Oct 2000 Barak 37% Sharon 32% 27 Sept 2000 Barak 39% Sharon 34% 13 Sept 2000 Barak 39% Sharon 32% 6 Sept 2000 Barak 43% Sharon 31% 16 Aug 2000 Barak 41% Sharon 38% 2 Aug 2000 Barak 41% Sharon 35% 26 Jly 2000 Barak 45% Sharon 30% 19 Jly 2000 Barak 44% Sharon 36% 19 Jly 2000 Barak 44% Sharon 36% 12 Jly 2000 Barak 42% Sharon 33% 5 July 2000 Barak 44% Sharon 31% 28 Jun 2000 Barak 41% Sharon 37% 21 Jun 2000 Barak 43% Sharon 34% 14 Jun 2000 Barak 50% Sharon 35% 31 May 2000 Barak 44% Sharon 35% 24 May 2000 Barak 43% Sharon 35% 19 May 2000 Barak 43% Sharon 36% 15 Apr 2000 Barak 43% Sharon 31% Three way race: Netanyahu 44% Peres 21% Barak 18% Do you support continuing the peace process with the Palestinians? Yes 62% No 33% Do not know 5% What do you think will happen in the end? 50% The conflict with the Palestinians will worsen 32% The crisis will end and an agreement will be signed 18% Do no know Do you fear that as a result of the conflict with the Palestinians that a regional war will break out? Yes 70% No 26% Do not know 4% What do you prefer? Emergency government 47% New elections 42% Do not know 11% How do you describe yourself? 32% Supported Oslo in 1993 support now 24% Supported in 1993 oppose today 30% Opposed in 1993 oppose today 3% Oppose in 1993 support today 11% Do not know Do you think today that the Oslo agreements were a success or failure? Success 16% Failure 67% Do not know 17% Barak voters: Success 27% Failure 50% Are you satisfied with the outcome of the Sharm summit? Yes 35% No 39% Do not know 26% Do you feel this week fear for your personal and family safety? Yes 68% No 32% Do you feel this week fear for the future of the state? Yes 75% No 25% After the Hizbullah kidnapping on the Northern border, what do you think Israel should do in response? 35% Respond with force even if it endangers the lives of the captives. 53% Negotiate even if it means hurting Israels deterrent strength 12% Do not know In light of the kidnapping, and in retrospect, was the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon a mistake? Yes mistake 31% Not mistake 60% Do not know 9% Ma'ariv 20 October 2000 + Dahaf - Yediot Ahronot The following is a Dahaf Poll of a representative sample of 505 adult Israelis (both Jews and Arabs) the week of 20 October 2000. Survey error of +/- 4.5 percentage points - Week 20 Oct.2000: Barak 38% Netanyahu 50% Undecided/No reply 12% Week 6 Oct. 2000: Barak 39% Netanyahu 48% Undecided/No reply 13% Day 29 Sept 2000: Barak 43% Netanyahu 47% Undecided/No reply 10% Week 25 Aug 2000: Barak 43% Netanyahu 47% Undecided/No reply 10% Week 4 Aug 2000: Barak 42% Netanyahu 46% Undecided/No reply 12% Week 23 June 2000: Barak 45% Netanyahu 45% Undecided/No reply 10% Week 8 June 2000: Barak 44% Netanyahu 39% Undecided/No reply 17% Week 20 Oct.2000: Barak 45% Sharon 41% Undecided/No reply 14% Week 6 Oct. 2000: Barak 43% Sharon 39% Undecided/No reply 18% Day 29 Sept 2000: Barak 48% Sharon 41% Undecided/No reply 11% Do you support returning to negotiations of a peace agreement? Yes 62% No 35% Do not know 3% How would you rate the personal safety of the residents of the country? Good 22% Bad 78% In another 10 days the winter session of the Knesset opens. Would you like the government to fall in a no confidence vote? Yes 47% No 47% No reply 6%
Re: [CTRL] Site Gone - City Limits, New York
-Caveat Lector- From: "ThePiedPiper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I went looking for this story, I found that the whole site seems to be gone. Are they just temporally down? I do not have the resources to ping them. Try spelling it 'citylimits' and not 'cityliomits'...when I corrected the site name I was able to access it with no problem... Insanity Pleas from the City Limits: New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine http://www.cityliomits.org/archives/0005davis.htm June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] OT-Humor- Bill Al's special adventures
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Bill Al's special adventures Al Gore's Life Story Good afternoon. I'm Al Gore, and I'd like to tell you about myself. I know a lot about hardship, because I came into this world as a poor black child in a tiny town in the backwoods of Tennessee. I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own hands. I taught myself to read by candlelight and helped support my 16 Brothers and sisters by working summers as a deck hand on a Mississippi River steamboat. My mother taught me the value of education, so every day, I would walk 5 miles to a one room schoolhouse. I was a mischievous, fun loving scamp, but I never dreamed that one day, my youthful escapades would serve as the inspiration for "Huckleberry Finn." Back then, black folks in the south were second-class citizens. One day, a traveling minister came through town, and I asked him if anyone was going to do something to guarantee civil rights for all Americans. Well, I guess I made an impression. You see, the minister's name was Martin Luther King, Jr. My father was a United States Senator. He once perched me on his knee and said, "Son, if you work hard and listen to your mama, someday you can live in a hotel in Washington, D.C., and go to an exclusive prep school." But a life of privilege was not for me. After getting my high school diploma, I took a job in a hot, dirty textile mill. I was so appalled at the treatment of the workers there that I organized a union. Later, that experience inspired a movie - which is why, to this day, my close friends at the AFL-CIO call me "Norma Rae." When word got out what an 18 year old factory worker had done, Harvard called and offered me a scholarship. I captained its hockey team to four consecutive national championships, but I also played football and was good enough to win the Heisman Trophy. During my college years, I lived in a housing project and moonlighted playing lead guitar for a little rock band. You may have heard of it--the Rolling Stones. But there was a war going on, and I felt I had to serve my country. So I enlisted in the U. S. Army and went to Vietnam. I was deeply opposed to the war, but I did my duty as a soldier and came back home with the Medal of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. When I got back, I took a long journey across this great land of ours. I've crossed the deserts bare, man, I've breathed the mountain air, man, I've traveled, I've done my share, man, I've been everywhere. And the people I met at truckstops and campgrounds and homeless shelters on that journey all said the same thing: "Al, we need you in Washington." I knew they were right, but first I had to take care of some other business---building the World Trade Center, founding the Audubon Society, doing the clinical research that proved smoking caused cancer, and coming up with the recipe for Mrs. Field's chocolate chip cookies. Finally, I deferred to the demands of the people of Tennessee and allowed them to elect me to the House of Representatives and the Senate, where I established the US Strategic Oil Reserve. And then one winter day nearly eight years ago, for no particular reason, I answered the call of the people once again and took the oath of office as Vice President of the United States. Since then, I've been part of the most successful administration in American history. And, in my spare time, I invented the Internet. Many times, Bill Clinton has pondered some grave decision and has asked me what to do. And when I gave him my thoughts, he would invariably say, "Of course! That's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that?" During the darkest days of the impeachment battle, the president told me he dearly wished he had listened when I told him to stay away from that portly pepperpot of an intern. So after I decided to run for president, I sat down with him and asked if he had any suggestions about how to conduct my campaign. And Bill Clinton gave me a few simple words of advice -- words I'll never forget. He looked me in the eye and he said, "Al, just tell the truth. It's always worked for me." ... The Bill Clinton Monument Committee We have the distinguished honor of being the Lincoln Bedroom "Sleep-Over" Committee to raise five million dollars for a monument to Bill Clinton. We originally wanted to put him on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for "two" more faces. We then decided to erect a statue of Bill in the Washington, DC Hall of Fame. However, we were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It did not seem proper to put it beside the statue of George Washington, who never told a lie, or beside Jesse Jackson, who never told the truth, since
[CTRL] CHEMTRAILS - CONTRAILS
They were doing this this Tuesday over the Tennessee Valley, working east to west. Amelia cough, cough! Even the terriers are sneezing now! http://carnicom.com/contrails.htm CHEMTRAILS - CONTRAILS.url
[CTRL] Fwd: [news] Reagan-Bush Spill China Secrets
consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com The Washington Post reported on Thursday that recently translated Chinese intelligence documents show that communist China accessed sensitive U.S. strategic secrets during the Reagan-Bush administration. "During the 1980s, Beijing had gathered a large amount of classified information about U.S. ballistic missiles and reentry vehicles," the article said, citing the documents. One month ago, Consortiumnews.com reported on the background behind this hemorrhaging of U.S. nuclear secrets from the Reagan-Bush administration to communist China. Investigative reporter Robert Parry detailed how little-noticed records from the Iran-contra files exposed the origins of this collaboration, as the Reagan-Bush White House shared secrets with China that were so sensitive that they were kept even from the U.S. Congress. [ For that story, go to http://www.consortiumnews.com/091800a.html ] Although any serious examination of the evidence always pointed to the Reagan-Bush administration, the Republicans and the major media have teamed up over the past several years to blame the loss of these secrets on the Clinton-Gore administration. Conservatives have gone so far as accusing President Clinton and Vice President Gore of treason. But the new evidence indicates that if any treason occurred, it happened in the 1980s, when President Reagan and the father of the current Republican presidential nominee were in charge. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
[CTRL] OEN 10/20/00
-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 CIA's Venture Capital Firm Follow the investments. WASHINGTON -- Christopher Tucker is an unlikely spook. Just 27, outfitted with a disarming grin, a blue Oxford shirt, and a houndstooth jacket, Tucker looks more like the Ivy League graduate student he recently was than the chief strategist of the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm. The name of the CIA-chartered, nonprofit firm -- In-Q-Tel -- evokes James Bond imagery. Its offices even boast a signed photo of the late actor Desmond Llewelyn, who played gadgetry expert Q in the films. But Tucker says the technologies In-Q-Tel considers potential investments are far less exciting than anything Bond would ever use. No exploding watches, rocket-equipped BMWs, or booby-trapped suitcases. "Our job is defense. We don't touch offense," Tucker said. Even in the clandestine world of the nation's intelligence agencies, defending sensitive information against interception by determined adversaries starts to look a lot like the problems businesses face every day. "If I'm (a CIA agent) in my hotel room, I need to be able to do my work," said Tucker. What that translates into is In-Q-Tel's plan to invest largely in software technologies such as computer security, anonymity and privacy; tamperproof data storage; and clever search engines that return results based on the authorization level of the person requesting the information. But that's just for now. The true mission of In-Q-Tel, which opened its doors last year and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley, is even more ambitious: To tap the best minds in the technology sector and spur the development of products the CIA desperately needs and doesn't have the time or expertise to develop itself. "The CIA is not a technology company. It is an espionage company. It does not develop products," said Tucker, who completed a PhD in political science at Columbia University. If In-Q-Tel succeeds, other agencies of the U.S. government are likely to follow suit. The Defense Department, for instance, appears particularly interested in the CIA's spin-off-a-nonprofit-corporation approach to applied research. But In-Q-Tel is hampered by one seemingly insurmountable obstacle: its budget. Congress appropriated $28 million from the CIA's 1999 budget to create the organization, then deposited an extra $34 million in the fledgling In-Q-Tel's bank account. That's not a trivial amount -- except in the high-priced world of venture capital. Venture capitalists spent approximately $19.6 billion on about 1,400 U.S. companies in the second quarter of 2000, $7 billion of that going to firms in the Bay Area alone. In-Q-Tel hopes to spur development of CIA "priority" technologies by becoming a minority investor in development deals and through close relationships with much larger firms, like Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers. "The deal flow's actually key to this, and key to extending the agency's reach," Tucker says. "We want to be a minority investor in a company. We would also like not to be the lead investor. We stay below 20 percent, somewhere like that." Key to staying in the deal flow is connections, something that In-Q-Tel hopes CEO Gilman Louie can provide. Louie, a game-designer-turned-executive, is a veteran of companies such as Spectrum HoloByte and Hasbro Interactive. Connections inside the hacker community also help. In-Q-Tel counts a "white hat" hacker among its roughly 30 staff members -- the bulk are in suburban Virginia, not far from the CIA's Langley headquarters -- and took the bold step of sending recruiters to the Defcon party-cum-convention this year. About seven employees work out of In-Q-Tel's Palo Alto, California, office. Only about 10 employees have security clearances, some rated "top secret" with codeword access. But it's a sure bet that the 10 or so CIA employees working at what's called the In-Q-Tel Interface Center inside Langley do. The center has the unenviable job of making sure the technology In-Q-Tel finds and funds is adopted by the so-called power users inside the agency. Although some Silicon Valley types fret that the CIA has come to town to spy -- with good reason, given the federal government's history of pressuring firms to include backdoors in security and telecommunications products -- In-Q-Tel seems to have made a fair attempt to put such concerns behind it, at least for now. It's invested $1.2 million in Graviton, a San Diego startup that's developing "micro-electromechanical systems" -- aka tiny, smart sensors that can be used to record and transmit information wirelessly. And Science Applications International Corp., which has close ties to the spook community, got $3 million in In-Q-Tel cash to develop a product called Neteraser. Neteraser is reportedly designed to help CIA agents conceal
[CTRL] Packeteer Component of Carnivore Suite
-Caveat Lector- from: http://cryptome.org/packeteer.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://cryptome.org/packeteer.htm"Packeteer Component of Carnivore Suite/A - 19 October 2000 Source: http://www.packeteer.com/PacketDoc.cfm?DocTitle=Controlling%20TCP/IP%20Bandwid thDocPath=technology/tcp_bw.htm Packeteer is one of three programs, with Carnivore and COOL Miner, which constitute the FBI's DragonWare suite. More papers on Packeteer's technology at: http://www.packeteer.com/technology/index.cfm For COOL Miner, by iMergence: http://www.imergence.com/coolminer.html For an overview of Carnivore and DragonWare see: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=97 TCP/IP Bandwidth Management Series, Number 1 of 3 The Packeteer Technical Forum PacketShaper White Paper Controlling TCP/IP Bandwidth Introduction Background The Bandwidth Challenge Bandwidth Management Approaches How PacketShaper Works The PacketShaper Advantage INTRODUCTION PacketShaper provides a unique technology that differentiates it from other network devices. Using PacketShaper, you can identify specific traffic types, guarantee bandwidth to applications that need it, and prevent non-essential traffic from taking bandwidth away from business-critical applications To appreciate how PacketShaper can guarantee quality of service, you need to understand the way it manages Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packets and traffic flows. This white paper describes bandwidth-management issues, typical solutions, and how PacketShaper uses TCP mechanisms to pace traffic and prevent packet retransmissions. BACKGROUND TCP provides connection-oriented services for the Internet Protocol's application layer--that is, the client and the server must establish a connection to exchange data. TCP transmits data in segments encased in IP datagrams, along with checksums, used to detect data corruption, and sequence numbers to ensure an ordered byte stream. TCP is considered to be a reliable transport mechanism because it requires the receiving computer to acknowledge not only the receipt of data but its completeness and sequence. If the sending computer doesn't receive notification from the receiving computer within an expected time frame, the segment is retransmitted. TCP also maintains a flow-control window to restrict transmissions. The receiver advertises a window size, indicating how many bytes it can handle. In summary, TCP provides the following reliability checks: * Acknowledges receipt of packets; retransmits when dropped packets are detected. * Re-sequences segments if they arrive out of order. * Tosses packets if data became corrupt during transmission. * Discards duplicate segments. * Maintains flow control to manage a connection's transmission rate. THE BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE TCP/IP was designed primarily to support two traffic applications--FTP and Telnet. Network applications and user expectations changed with the growth of the Internet. Today--with more high-speed users and bursty, interactive web traffic--greater demands are placed on networks, causing delays and bottlenecks that impact a user's quality of service. Many of the features that make TCP reliable, contribute to performance problems: * Retransmitting when the network "cloud" drops packets or delays acknowledgments * Backing off when it infers that congestion exists Conventional TCP bandwidth management uses indirect feedback to infer network congestion. TCP increases a connection's transmission rate until it senses a problem and then it backs off. It interprets dropped packets as a sign of congestion. The goal of TCP is for individual connections to burst on demand to use all available bandwidth, while at the same time reacting conservatively to inferred problems in order to alleviate congestion. TCP uses a sliding window flow-control mechanism to increase the throughput over wide-area networks. It allows the sender to transmit multiple packets before it stops and waits for an acknowledgment. This leads to faster data transfer, since the sender doesn't have to wait for an acknowledgment each time a packet is sent. The sender "fills the pipe" and then waits for an acknowledgment before sending more data. The receiver not only acknowledges that it got the data, but it advertises how much data it can now handle--that is, its window size. TCP's slow-start algorithm attempts to alleviate the problem of multiple packets filling up router queues. Remember that TCP flow control is typically handled by the receiver, which tells the sender how much data it can handle. The slow-start algorithm, on the other hand, uses a congestion window, which is a flow-control mechanism
[CTRL] Euro falls to all-time low against dollar
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003663685154538rtmo=V68kD8sKatmo=rrv spg=/et/00/10/20/cneur20.html Click Here: A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003663685154538rtmo=V68kD8sKatmo=r rvspg=/et/00/10/20/cneur20.html"Euro falls to all-time low against dollar/A - SSUE 1974 Friday 20 October 2000 Euro falls to all-time low against dollar By David Litterick THE euro succumbed to fresh bouts of selling yesterday, falling to an all-time low of 83.95 cents against the dollar in London. Stronger than expected trade figures in the US and a drop in confidence among German businesses helped push the currency down 0.84 cents on the day from 84.79 cents at the previous close. It was also not helped by Tony Blair's comments that the time wasn't "right for Britain to join the euro". European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg shrugged off comments made earlier this week when he appeared to rule out further intervention, saying it remained "a tool in our toolbox" and reiterated his belief that the euro was fundamentally undervalued. He was talking in Paris after announcing the ECB's decision to keep interest rates on hold at 4.75pc. Acknowledging that eurozone inflation would remain above the 2pc target for some time he said: "There is a misalignment in the currency markets and there will come a moment when it will be corrected. We expect growth to continue above 3pc this year, next year and maybe even the year after." He added that he had been under no pressure to resign following his earlier remarks. Jean-Claude Trichet, Bank of France governor and the man widely tipped to succeed Mr Duisenberg at the ECB, said the bank's governing council was "unanimously behind the president". However, the reassurances yesterday did little to support the embattled euro, which was hit after the IFO index of German business sentiment dipped for the fourth consecutive month and unexpectedly strong figures from the US suggested that its trade gap was narrowing. Against sterling the euro also fell, closing down 0.14p at 58.22p, although it remains above its historic low of 57.07p. Catherine Lee, currency analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland, said: "I have followed the deutschmark and the euro for more than 10 years and in that time I have never seen anything like what has happened to this currency. It is terribly difficult to see what is going to come along to push it up, when growth in the US next year will still be higher than that in Europe. People in the City have started referring to the euro as toilet paper." Stephen Englander of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney said: "Although the euro was initially depressed by capital outflows out of Europe and into the US, that has largely dried up. What it is now suffering from is a lack of credibility." Analysts said the risk of further intervention had not completely disappeared, but said that the US economy would have to be in real danger before it occurred. Mr Englander said: "They couldn't intervene just because Duisenburg made a gaffe." Japanese firm OKI, which makes computer printers at a plant in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, said yesterday it was shedding 340 jobs because the strength of the pound was hitting exports to Europe, which accounts for 90pc of the company's sales. © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2000 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: Israeli Massacres
The more I read of Hitler and Ashke-nazi Jews of the European descent, the more I see a greater truth than WWII...this item shows how Israelies blew up hotels and slaughtered the innocents and when you read the Judeo-Christian Bible, you see the not so hidden history of what is to be by premeditated murder by prophecy - for none dare call this propaganda and a master plan for Zionism to take over the world? So who and what are the Zionists? Who and what are these Ashke-nazi jews who create havoc in the holy land at the expense of the jews and moslems, for they are all semites - and who would blow them off the face of the earth for the Oil "in God's name" So Joshua you think I am like Hitler? Read the story attached herewith and see the real Hitler for he took all his attiributes from the bible from his genocide of 55 million people essentially - for there were 55 million people who died in that war.remember the USS Liberty and take another look at the World Trade Center and wonder..look at the USS Cole and remember Ehud Barak aka Brug (for Barak was name he took from the bible - see Song of Deborah where more murder is committed) Take a good look at Littleton and Klebold and Harris and remember, Klebold was Jewish and like all Jews in Holyland - in particular the men, they all carry Uzzis and big guns around to murder children - the idea is to aim for the eyes and head and to maim and blind - like David blinded Goliath only today with a slingshot the Palestinians are truly making a mark at the truth. and one wonders why Sirhan Bishara Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy? This little Rosicrucian of the Order of the Lily and the Rose? A crackpot hypnotized killer under hypnotic drugs looking into dark mirrors.. So this item is very interesting - the war was over, Hitler lost but the Israelies fought on did tthey not...so many got away, Albright, Kissinger - seems like the Ashke-Nazis including the German Jewish Doctors at Jonestown, they all got away? So genocide is the name of the game and the origin is in the Jewish Bible is it not, for surely the New Testament is just an expose of the old. But if you want to continue to call names Joshua 2 whatever your real name is - take another look at Littleton and Jonestown where the Nazi Jewish Doctors were, and at Meyer Lansky who engineered the murder of JFKtake a good look at the billions of dollars we have sent to the Israelies and how they returned our generosity with bombing the USS Liberty and napalming our sailors while 34 lay dead and 170 were wounded on deck for 45 minutes.of course the Egyptians were to be blamed but the bastards got caught. Then remember the USS Cole and Ehud Barak dressing like a woman - say a Song of Deborah with Barak as they murdered..and then wonder why Ehud changed his name from Brug to Barak. They are assassins - and they should be treated as war criminals beginning with Dayan and ending with Barak...they murder their own to create a climate of hatred - but in the end are so stupid they usually get caught. ' ASHKE-NAZISall. From Hitler to Barak. Saba A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy http://www.ummah.net/unity/palestine/massacres.htm
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [news] Reagan-Bush Spill China Secrets
-Caveat Lector- This they will find these secrets came from MITfor MIT had "students" some of them old enough to be grandfathers parading about with top security badges, etc., and it was then the Chinese - the "students" got access to many secrets. I sent an item out on this some time back - and at the time there were those who wondered why MIT was permitted to let the enemy within the gate and then on to Los Alamos? MIT is a think tank some believe to be traitors to this country having entered the World Traveler Citizen status - serving many masters and loyal to none. A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy 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 Calendar of Events
-Caveat Lector- The murders by Rockefeller are covered and the words of Oscar Wilde with the Judas always ending up writing the biography are written here.interesting item - including when Waler Reuther who HATED communism was shot (more Rockefeller type union busters) only to die later in a very mysterious plane crash - like Jock Yablotski murdered with his wife and daughter while the FBI had 24 hour watch on house. Saba Our Daily Bleed... -- APRIL 20 JOAN MIRO Great Catalan painter, sculptor, prolific printmaker, bon-vivant. Thailand: RICE PLANTING DAY FESTIVAL OF FABULOUS WILDWOMEN. 121 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) lives. Roman Emperor, Stoic, author of Meditations of Writings to Himself in twelve books. First printing appeared in English in 1634. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aurelius.htm 1494 -- Antinomian religious Protestant Johannes Agricola lives. 1534 -- Execution of Elizabeth Barton, the "Nun of Kent" 1777 -- Anti-American Ingrates: New York adopts new constitution as an independent state. 1795 -- Johan Kellgren dies in Stockholm. The last years of his life he was associated with the influential literary journal "Stockholmsposten." 1810 -- Richard Sheridan writes his wife: "there is no Person who has been near to me . . . that has not been confirmed or improved in principle integrity in his views transactions . . . it may be egotism but it is Fact." 1812 -- George Clinton, fourth US Vice President, dies at 73. The first VP to die in office. 1841 -- First detective story, Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published. 1857 -- Herman Bang lives, the island of Als. Novelist/playwright/short story writer/memoirist. Denmark's most important literary Impressionist. His first novel, naturalistic Haablose Slaegter (Hopeless Generations, 1880) was confiscated for "immoral contents". He died during a lecture tour of the US. 1859 -- First volume of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities appears. 1887 -- Oscar Wilde writes: "Every great man nowadays has his disciples, it is usually Judas who writes the biography." http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html 1889 -- Adolph Hitler Braunau, Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany, lives? At 6:30 p.m. he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. His father, Alois, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber her unknown mate, who may have been from the neighborhood or a poor millworker, Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Maria Schicklgruber was said to have been employed as a cook in the household of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenberger. There is speculation their 19 year old son got her pregnant regularly sent her money after the birth of Alois. Adolf Hitler would never know for sure just who his grandfather was. http://home.swipnet.se/worldwar2/ 1893 -- Catalan artist Joan Miró lives, born in the family apartment at 4 Passatge del Crèdit, Barcelona, Spain. 'Miró: A single line, a definition inspired by the Catalan landscape.' --- Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism (1938). See Daily Bleed Saint's Gallery page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/saints/StMiro.htm 1912 -- Gothic novelist Bram Stoker dies. None achieves the popularity of his Dracula. 1912 -- Oscar Parland (1912 - 1997) lives, Kiev, Ukraine. Finnish-Swedish writer/psychiatrist. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oparland.htm 1914 -- US: Ludlow Massacre of Striking miners families by National Guard. In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow Mine Field to return to work, company "guards," engaged by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. other mine operators -- sworn into the State Militia just for the occasion -- attacked a union tent camp with machine guns, then set it afire. Five men, two women 12 children died as a result. The Cleveland Leader, echoing the sentiments of much of the US press, wrote, "The charred bodies of two dozen women children show that Rockfeller knows how to win!" John D. Rockefeller's company "guards" machine-gun set fire to a union tent camp during a strike at Colorado's Ludlow Mine Field. In all, 26 people die in what is known as the Ludlow Massacre. The attack starts today after a miner company guard get into a fight. When strike leader Lou Tikas approaches the company gunmen for a cease fire, he's shot dead. Tomorrow a telephone lineman going through the ruins finds a shallow pit beneath a cot with the charred remains of two women 11 children. After burying their dead, armed miners take to the hills begin destroying mines killing guards. The Colorado governor will ask for federal troops , a few months after the army arrives, the strike is broken. 1917 -- Russia: The April Days (April 20 - 21.) Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations. Milyukov will resign in May. Members of the Mensheviks the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government.
[CTRL] Fwd: Health Workers Fight Ubandan Ebola
In a message dated 10/20/00 12:10:33 PM Central Daylight Time, AOL News writes: Subj:Health Workers Fight Ubandan Ebola Date: 10/20/00 12:10:33 PM Central Daylight Time From: AOL News BCC: Ahab42 Health Workers Fight Ubandan Ebola GULU, Uganda (AP) - Fully equipped and staffed for the first time, health workers from around the world set about taming a deadly Ebola outbreak Friday, hoping to end the epidemic within a month. The highly contagious virus has already killed 47 people and infected as many as 75 others For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Qxu6.5244715.656416012"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. Health Workers Fight Ubandan Ebola GULU, Uganda (AP) - Fully equipped and staffed for the first time, health workers from around the world set about taming a deadly Ebola outbreak Friday, hoping to end the epidemic within a month. The highly contagious virus has already killed 47 people and infected as many as 75 others For the full text of this story, A HREF="aol://4344:30.L100Qxu6.5244715.656416012"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] The Curious Origins of the American Space Program
-Caveat Lector- from: http://zolatimes.com/V2.17/jpar10.html Click Here: A HREF="http://zolatimes.com/V2.17/jpar10.html"Jack Parsons: Part 10/A - go to web site FOR SPECIAL MULTI-FILE VERSION: For easier reading and printing, this version is in six files linked together. Jack Parsons The Curious Origins of the American Space Program by The Magician Part 10: The Cult of Intelligence After leaving the Pasadena Public Library, I drove to Orange Grove Blvd. and then down into the Arroyo Seco near the Colorado overpass. I circled the Rose Bowl then exited on the Arroyo's far side. I continued to Oak Grove Park and parked by the equestrian trail. I walked down the trail, the sandy soil clinging to my Adidas running shoes. I reached the edge of Devil's Gate Dam and stood looking out over the Arroyo's bed, which was formed of a lumpy mixture of sand and small brush. I listened for the explosions, the test firings of Parsons' small rockets. I sat on a large rock, the breeze blowing in my face, and thought of the apartment on the other side of the canyon, down a couple of miles on South Orange Grove, where Parsons had lain with his limbs shattered, methodically directing his rescuers. I drove on up Foothill through La Crescenta to the Glendale freeway, and headed south to Glendale. On Glendate Avenue I passed a sign that read "Virgils Glendale Hardware--Eggs 99 cents a dozen." I turned right on Chevy Chase and came back up Brand past the Alex Theater. There I discovered a private office whose business was supplying postal lock boxes. The office catered to people and organizations who wished to receive mail under another name, or who wished to keep their real locations private. Organizations like the Jack Parsons Memorial Society. I rechecked the address on the flier I had gotten from Professor David Wilson. I was at the right spot alright. Nowhere. I suddenly felt tired. I drove back to Pasadena and the Hilton. In my room, I turned on the TV, on my usual theory that you've never visited a place unless you've sampled the same electromagnetic noise the locals experience. Then I stepped into the shower. When I got out of the shower, a poignant image on the screen caused me to turn up the TV volume. It was an aerial view of a vast triangular plain. "The Plain of Esdraelon," explained the voice, "the Greek name for the biblical Valley of Jezreel, which means `God sows'. This was the most famous battlefield in ancient Israel. Here Thutmose III of Egypt fought the Canaanites. Here Gideon, who you can read about in the Old Testament Book of Judges, defeated the Midianites, as did Deborah and Barak the Canaanites. And Saul, the first king of Israel, battled here with the Philistines. "More recently, in 1917, the British army under General Allenby faced the Turks in this same valley." You might have thought it was a military documentary, but I recognized the voice as that of Oral Jerry Swagger, the evangelist. The voice continued: "The principal North-South route through this plain goes through the pass of Megiddo, named after the ancient city. From Mount Megiddo, or `Har Megiddo' in the Hebrew, we get the name Armageddon. "The Bible tells us this valley will be the scene of the final apocalyptic battle between the Armies of Man and the Armies of God, between Christ and Antichrist. In the Book of Revelation, chapter 16, verse 16, you read, `And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.' Here occurs the seventh vial of the seventh trump. Here the `Kings of the East', as it explains earlier in chapter 16, will be gathered with their armies. East of Israel are the great oriental hordes--the Chinese, probably assisted by Japanese technology, and allied with their Communist cohorts the Russians. The latter are the Gog and Magog we read about in Ezekiel 38. Verse 1 in Ezekiel 38 tells us Gog was the chief prince of Meschech. Historically, the Assyrians called the children of Meschech `muska,' which is similar to `Moskva,' the Russian name for Moscow. In addition, `chief' is Hebrew `rosh,' and Rosh is an ancient name for Russia. "These Communist forces from the east will join together with the Beast Power, which is the union of ten European nations allied under a common political leader that the Bible calls `the beast,' and a religious leader that the Bible calls the `false prophet,' or the Antichrist. See Revelation, chapters 13 and 17. This European combine will be a revival of the ancient Roman Empire, and--like the ancient Roman Empire--will be under the spiritual leadership of a church called the `great whore' in Revelation, chapter 17. "These two great contenders for world power, armed with the latest in atomic weapons, will, under the guidance of the Antichrist and assisted by Satan and his demons, join forces against Jerusalem and the invaders from space. What invaders from space? The returning Jesus Christ and all his angelic hosts, when he returns to reign on this
[CTRL] Israel Sells our Secrets to our Enemies who sell to their Enemies?
-Caveat Lector- Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they practiced to deceive? Today the Israelie government wants Pollard (Jonathan, the Navy traitor to US Spy with dual citizenshp who was spy for Israelies) released - no wonder - for dead men tell no tales, but that guy knows too much. So read about our friends selling our stole secrets to our enemies - but in turn our enemies sell the stuff to Israels enemies? So the great Trojan Horse guided by Herr Kissinger Ashke-Nazi has entered our government? KGB and Mossad now destroy us from within? Is communism now socially acceptable? Saba This article is one of the best of the current issue of The Jubilee Newspaper. Feel free to print and share them with your friends and associates. To get all of the current issue with many more HOT stories simply subscribe today! Enjoy! Strange Bedfellows: China and Israel Eric S. Margolis The first-ever visit by a Chinese head of state to Israel seemed at first glance rather curious. China, a longtime political and military supporter of the Arabs and Iran, used to denounce Israel as a 'running dog of US imperialism' and 'a racist-fascist state?' So what was President Jiang Zemin doing hobnobbing in Israel? Jiang had two objectives: a. deepen the secret 20-year military relationship between China and Israel; b. by openly befriending Israel, counteract growing anti-Chinese feeling in Congress that threatens both China's exports to the US, and its admission to the World Trade Organization. . . The normally pro-Israeli Clinton Administration, however, is not pleased. William Cohen, the US Secretary of Defense, recently unleashed an unprecedented public blast at Israel for selling advanced military technology to China that could threaten American forces in the event of a clash with China over Taiwan. Cohen demanded Israel cancel the US $1-2 billion sale of 3-5 AWACS airborne radar aircraft to China. Israel refused, though it may only sell China one of the Russian aircraft equipped with an Israeli 'Phalcon' advanced radar/electronic warfare system, developed from the US 'Hawkeye' AWACS system, at least until the heat subsides. Former CIA Director James Woolsey testified Israel has covertly sold 'several billions' of dollars worth of top-secret US technology to China since 1983. The Inspector General of the US State Department found, in a 1992 report, a 'systematic and growing pattern' of Israel selling American military technology in direct violation of US law. That report concluded Israel was supplying arms based on restricted American technology to China, Chile, Ethiopia, and South Africa, all of whom then under US arms embargo. The Pentagon has claimed since the mid-1980's that Israel simply copies or reverse engineers secret US defense technology and then exports it even on occasion, it is whispered, to Russia. Until now, Israel's influential friends on Capital Hill managed to downplay or cover up these serious charges. The transfer of billions worth of advanced US military technology to Israel, under the innocuous title of 'Technical Data Packages,' was arranged by Israel's American supporters, beginning in 1970. This massive infusion of secret US weapons and electronics technology the largest ever to another nation allowed Israel to develop state-of-the art military industries that exported some $1.5-2 billion annually (40% of its total exports by the late 1980's), and which became the nation's largest employer. Israel is now the world's sixth largest arms exporter. In some cases, Israel improved on US weapons and electronics systems. Pentagon sources charge Israel 'backdoored' US technology to China for the Patriot AA missile, other surface-to-air missiles; the PL-8 air-to-air missiles; C-802 anti-ship missiles; advanced composite tank armor and tank guns; aircraft avionics and ground radar systems; and the J-10 fighter, which is based on secret US technology used in Israel's cancelled 'Lavi' fighter. Israel denies these charges. A Pentagon investigation of the Patriot sale, cleared Israel. Critics charged it did so under intense political pressure from Israel's supporters. Israel insists its high-tech arms exports are all 100% of Israeli origin. But American defense claim the Israelis often only make minor modifications to basic US-supplied technology and weapons, then sell them clandestinely. Israeli intelligence agents are known to have targeted specific advanced US defense technology. Israel has also sold considerable quantities of arms, electronics, and US technology to Taiwan, including a reverse-engineered US Lance missile, and anti-ship missiles. Singapore is another major recipient of Israeli arms and discreetly co-produces weapons with Israel. Israel has become a major military supplier to India, including nuclear weapons and missile technology. Ironically, some of Israel's arms and technology sales have returned to haunt the Jewish state. This columnist learned
Re: [CTRL] Site Gone - City Limits, New York
-Caveat Lector- Thank You to everyone that replied, here is the repaired link. Now, I need to repair my web page at http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/ Insanity Pleas from the City Limits: New Yorks Urban Affairs News Magazine http://www.citylimits.org/archives/0005davis.htm to give a hint of my web page it seems as if "The next links seem to show that school medication could become standardized and made into a law. Speculation: At that time the school nurse or principal could recommend the child be medicated. The child or parents would not have legal recourse, and if a teacher did not agree, the teacher could be replaced." When I repair and proof it the page will be clearer - but it is posted. Thank You, Laura Lee Lanning~Shipton -- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson brbr My Grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 NEW http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/site_map.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Unprecedented Palestinian Dying and Bleeding Today
A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FIGHTING ESCALATING AT LEAST 4 PALESTINIANS KILLED TODAY SCORES INJURED, INCLUDING AT LEAST 5 ISRAELI SOLDIERS MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 10/20: Israeli helicopter gunships are firing at Beit Jala, the neighboring city to Bethlehem, this afternoon. The Israeli army attempted to enter the Arab village of Anabta and at least 5 soldiers were injured before retreating. Israeli snipers have stepped up their carefully calculated murder campaign continuing to target Palestinians in the head and heart. The following urgent appeal from The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees late today from Ramallah: ANOTHER MASSACRE IN THE WEST BANK UPMRC TEAMS SEEING UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS OF INJURIES October 20, Ramallah, 4:00 PM: Israeli forces are injuring unprecedented numbers of Palestinian civilians while using extreme force against demonstrators in the West Bank and today. So far, at least four Palestinians have died from their wounds. One death and forty-one injuries have been reported in Ramallah already. UPMRC First-Aid teams helping the wounded near Ramallah have not seen so many injuries in such a short time. 18-year-old Sa'ir Mahmoud from Am'ari refugee camp died after an Israeli high-velocity bullet passed through his head. A 20-year-old Palestinian is in critical condition after he was hit in the neck with a high-velocity bullet. If he survives, he will be a paraplegic. UPMRC teams in Nablus have just reported that three Palestinian civilians have been killed and 25 injured in clashes with the Israeli army. One of those killed was shot with high-velocity ammunition in the head. Another was shot in the heart. Witnesses report that the third was killed by Israeli soldiers who continued shooting at him after he was already injured. Heated confrontations are also taking place in Tulkarem. We will update you on the situation in the West Bank as we receive more information from our teams in the field. Another UPMRC First-Aid volunteer was injured today, along with two injured yesterday bringing the total number of UPMRC staff and volunteers injured by Israeli fire to twelve. Today in Ramallah, Atef Shbeita, a 37-year-old public health specialist from the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute, was wounded by a high-velocity sniper bullet while assisting UPMRC First-Aid teams. The bullet grazed his scalp, barely missing his brain. Yesterday in Nablus, Yousef Qatanani, age 30, was shot in his hand with a high-velocity bullet while helping the injured. MiD-EasT RealitieS - www.MiddleEast.Org Phone: 202 362-5266Fax: 815 366-0800 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscriibe email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject SUBSCRIBE To unsubscribe email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject UNSUBSCRIBE
[CTRL] WND: CIA Official: Gore Compromised by Secret Past (1/2)
-Caveat Lector- [In MY continuing effort to remain (and post) impartially, I submit the following for your consideration. Remember, however, that ANY BODY, I repeat, ANYBODY, is better than a Bush;-) --MS] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20001016_xex_cia_official.shtml WorldNetDaily Monday, October 16, 2000 CIA Official: Gore Compromised by Secret Past Says Russia has dossiers on VP's former drug use, Hammer connection By Charles Thompson and Tony Hays © 2000, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. Editor's note: The following report on Vice President Al Gore's alleged past drug use, as well as his deep connections with Soviet operative Armand Hammer, was researched and written by native Tennessee reporters Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays. Thompson is a long-time veteran of network news, having been a founding producer of ABC's "20/20," as well as Mike Wallace's producer at CBS's "60 Minutes." His most recent book, "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa and Its Cover-Up," was released by W.W. Norton in Spring 1999. Hays is a veteran journalist who has written extensively on political corruption in Tennessee. Recently his 20-part series on narcotics trafficking received an award from the Tennessee Press Association. According to a former high-ranking official in the CIA, Russian intelligence agencies possess thick dossiers concerning Al Gore's heavy usage of drugs three decades ago as well as his father's questionable dealings with Armand Hammer, a dedicated Soviet operative for 70 years. The CIA source, speaking to WorldNetDaily on condition of anonymity, has since the 1970s routinely advised American presidents, including President Clinton, on Russian intelligence. There is credible evidence, says the source, that these dossiers have already been employed to alter Gore's behavior on issues affecting Russia. As an example, he cited Gore's acquiescence to the corruption of former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who co-chaired a commission with Gore to encourage Americans to do business in Russia. Chernomyrdin accumulated from one to five billion dollars in personal assets from the systematic looting of the Soviet state treasury during the time he co-chaired the commission with Gore. Republican presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush brought this exact point up during last week's second debate with Gore. "We went into Russia," said Bush. "We said, 'Here's some IMF money,' and it ended up in Viktor Chernomyrdin's pocket and others. And yet we played like there was reform." As WND has reported previously, American businessmen, who were threatened with death by the Russian mafia and/or had their assets expropriated by these gangsters, say their complaints were brushed aside by Gore and his aides while the vice president chaired the committee meant to help them. "Chernomyrdin didn't have to show Gore the incriminating dossiers; Gore knew he had them. It's akin to blackmail and extortion, but it's really using highly embarrassing information on a sustained basis," said the source, who has been associated with America's foreign policy elite for three decades as a chief adviser on intelligence matters. "The situation will get much worse if Gore's elected president. Russian president Vladimir Putin [a former KGB colonel who has mob connections] will tell Gore, in effect, 'I've got the files and this is what we want you to do.' And Gore will do it," he added. Earlier this year, John C. Warnecke Jr., a former Tennessean newspaper reporter in Nashville, told Newsweek reporter Bill Turque that he and Al Gore had spent many a night together nearly 30 years ago imbibing cognac and smoking opium-laced marijuana. Warnecke worked with Gore in 1971 and remained a good friend through 1976. Ken Jost, another former reporter for the newspaper, backed up Warnecke's account after Turque's biography, "Inventing Al Gore," was published. In years past, The Tennessean had treated Warnecke as if he were royalty due to the fact that his father has close connections to the Kennedy family, as did John Seigenthaler, the former editor and publisher of the paper. Seigenthaler considered himself to be a king-maker and recruited both Warnecke and Gore to join the paper's staff, largely because of their respective fathers' political clout. Seigenthaler was the one who first convinced Al Gore Jr. to run for Congress. Even so, after his revelations about Gore's alleged drug use, the paper didn't waste any time training its editorial guns on the 53-year-old Warnecke. It was quick to bring up the fact that he had once suffered from depression. Warnecke admitted he had been depressed 20 years ago, but said he had obtained treatment then and was fine now. The paper cited 31 former Tennessean staffers who had worked with Gore and Warnecke in the early 1970s who said they had never seen Gore smoke marijuana. Three others deferred comment. Gore called the story "old news" and said he used
[CTRL] THIRD BIOLOGICAL ATTACK IN AUSTIN
-Caveat Lector- Worldwide Newslink Exclusive http://www.worldwidenewslink Bio-Terrorism in Austin, Texas? by Mack White This morning, for the third time this week, a possible biological attack occurred in Austin, Texas. Emergency workers were again called to a Department of Public Safety (DPS) building in North Austin after several persons complained of chest pain, sore throat, headache, and nausea. At last report, four persons were hospitalized. In yesterday's incident, 19 persons were hospitalized, and 160 treated at the scene. Yesterday, a live local tv newscast from DPS was disrupted by radio talk show host Alex Jones. Using a bullhorn, he accused the government of contriving these incidents to bring about more federal control. "This is psychological warfare," he said. The apparent biological attacks began Monday, when University of Texas police officer Tom Owens stopped a Pontiac Grand Prix with diplomatic license plates at the intersection of 15th and Lamar. This intersection is at least ten minutes' drive from the UT Austin campus. Three other UT officers (including Chief Jeff Van Slyke) were also on the scene, along with an Austin Community College officer. News reports have not made it clear when these other officers arrived on the scene, or why there were no Austin Police Department officers on the scene. Owens claimed he stopped the car because the plates were expired. However, this later proved not to be the case. While searching the trunk of the vehicle, Owens went into a seizure. The four other officers became sick with headache, nausea, and sore throat. Owens was hospitalized; the others treated and released. A Channel 8 news reporter broadcasting live from the scene said she and others experienced the same symptoms when they first arrived. The Hazardous Materials Unit was called to the scene, then Lamar Street was shut down for several blocks. Two large blue tents were set up on the street, and men in protective suits worked for three hours. Then, when it was all over, the authorities announced that no substance had been found, and that Owens' symptoms were due to a pre-existing medical condition. However, nothing was said about the symptoms experienced by the other persons. The young man who had been driving the car was handcuffed, taken to jail, and later released. Police would not release his identity or nationality. However, two sources have informed this writer he was Sudanese. A photograph of a policeman holding the diplomatic license plates appeared in an Austin American-Statesman photograph. The last four figures on the plate are clear in the photograph; however, the first two are partially obscured. It may be safely concluded that the license plate is one of the following: 028-KXD, Q28-KXD, 078-KXD, Q78-KXD. 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] DMN: Report: Panel Faults Reno, Clinton on Waco
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/195739_waco_20tex.ART.html Dallas Morning News 10/20/2000 Panel Faults Reno, Clinton on Waco Justice Disputes Public Was Misled By Lee Hancock and Michelle Mittelstadt / The Dallas Morning News A congressional report released Thursday alleges that President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno misled the public for years with claims that military experts endorsed the "flawed" FBI tear-gas attack that ended the Branch Davidian siege. Waco Reports: Committee on Government Reform report on Waco http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/wacoreport1.pdf Draft minority report by Democrats on the committee http://www.house.gov/waxman/pdf/wacorptviews.pdf (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) "President Clinton and Attorney General Reno have deceived the American people for over seven years by misrepresenting that the military endorsed, sanctioned or otherwise approvingly evaluated the plan," stated the report by the Republican-led House Government Reform Committee. The report also vigorously criticizes the Justice Department's response in the aftermath of the tragedy, contending that the agency's actions "were consistent with an organization that was not eager to learn the full truth about what happened on April 19, 1993." Justice Department officials took issue with the report's main thrusts: That Ms. Reno misled the American people about whether the military had approved the FBI tear-gas plan and that she was less than vigorous in ordering an internal investigation of the Waco tragedy or rushed it for political reasons. "We wish it would have reflected a more balanced and objective view of the facts," said Justice Department spokesman Myron Marlin. An opposing report by the committee's Democratic minority also disputed the Republican majority's criticism of Ms. Reno. Committee Democrats contended that the attorney general acted properly during and after the siege and said the committee had wasted more than a year of investigative resources on the Waco tragedy. Democrats said that the committee's findings duplicate earlier investigations or were unsupported. Both reports cap a yearlong investigation by the same committee that conducted highly partisan hearings in 1995 on the Waco tragedy. Inquiry reopened The committee reopened its inquiry in September 1999 after FBI and Justice officials were forced to reverse years of public denials and acknowledge that military pyrotechnic tear-gas grenades had been used at the end of the siege. That admission and a federal prosecutor's warnings to the attorney general of a possible cover-up of the use of pyrotechnic tear gas prompted Ms. Reno to appoint Waco special prosecutor John C. Danforth. Mr. Danforth issued a preliminary report in July exonerating the government of "bad acts" and clearing Ms. Reno of wrongdoing. About 80 Branch Davidians died April 19, 1993, when their compound burned. The fire broke out about six hours after FBI agents began ramming the building with tanks and spraying in tear gas to force an end to a 51-day standoff. The siege began when a gunfight broke out as federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to search the Davidian complex and arrest leader David Koresh on weapons charges. Four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians died. The committee inquiry that led to Thursday's report began with intense partisan sniping. Ranking minority member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chastised chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., in September 1999 after the chairman accused Justice Department officials of withholding from Congress parts of an FBI report that identified one tear gas round used at Waco as a military device. Mr. Waxman's staff discovered last fall that several copies of the report, including the reference to the military rounds, were given to the committee before its 1995 hearings. Probe called flawed On Thursday, Democrats renewed their criticism, charging that the committee's investigation was flawed because of its beginnings with that "false accusation." But the committee's majority noted that those documents were "dumped" on the committee three days before the start of the 1995 hearings "in an apparent hope that ... no one would have the opportunity to find these documents and ask relevant questions." "Justice Department officials were more concerned in 1995 with their own political self- preservation than their duty of full disclosure to the American people and the Congress," the report charges. The report includes accounts from an Army general and colonel of how they refused Ms. Reno's request to evaluate an FBI plan to assault the Davidian compound when FBI officials were seeking her approval for the final tear-gas operation. The two special forces officers, who were never interviewed by Justice officials assigned to review government actions in Waco, said they told Ms. Reno that federal "posse comitatus" limits on military involvement in domestic law
[CTRL] AP: House Committee Criticizes Reno
-Caveat Lector- Thursday October 19 7:31 PM ET House Committee Criticizes Reno WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided House Government Reform Committee concluded Thursday that Attorney General Janet Reno retained control of a campaign fund-raising investigation to protect President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and the Democratic Party. The Republican-run committee, with Democrats in opposition, approved a report that said Reno ``acted politically'' in the probe of Democratic fund raising in 1996, first by opposing an independent counsel and then by failing to pursue wrongdoing vigorously after keeping control of the probe. Approved on a voice vote, the report is a compilation of often-repeated conclusions by Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., in dozens of hearings on improper contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. Justice Department spokesman Myron Marlin called the findings ``just another partisan report that raises the same old allegations. It's too bad he (Burton) spent so much time and money over the past six years engaged in a fishing expedition.'' The report said it was a conflict-of-interest for Reno's Justice Department to conduct the investigation, especially after FBI Director Louis Freeh and leaders of the department's campaign finance task force have urged that an independent counsel be named. ``The principal beneficiaries of the campaign finance scandal of 1996 were President Clinton and Vice President Gore,'' the report said. ``In insisting that she retain control, ... Reno has failed to exercise a minimally acceptable standard of judgment required of the custodian of federal law enforcement.'' The committee said it was ``hard to escape the conclusion that the attorney general has acted politically to benefit the president, the vice president and her own political party.'' Accusing Reno of failing to conduct a thorough investigation, the report said that until this year, Clinton ``was not asked a single question about foreign money'' donated to his campaign. Gore was not asked until this year about a notorious fund-raiser at a California Buddhist temple, the report said. The report said Reno negotiated in ``bad faith'' by resisting committee requests for documents with the contention surrendering them would harm investigations. These explanations ``have almost universally turned out to be pretexts to cover up embarrassment,'' the report said. Copyright © 2000 The Associated Press. = 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] LAT: Husband's Business Ties to China Dog Feinstein
-Caveat Lector- Husband's Business Ties to China Dog Feinstein As he vows to have no personal stake in the nation, the senator expresses frustration that the issue remains under constant scrutiny. By RICHARD SIMON, GREG KRIKORIAN LATimes Staff Writers For years, international financier Richard C. Blum's vast business portfolio has persisted as a nettlesome issue for his wife, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a vocal proponent of increased China trade. Three years ago, he vowed to turn over any profits from his China investments to charity. Last year, as Feinstein prepared to run for reelection, Blum says, he disposed of his remaining personal investment in mainland China to avoid any hint of impropriety. Even so, Blum continues to manage a partnership that has invested in China, records and interviews show. And he, his partnerships or accounts he manages have major interests in an airline seeking U.S. government approval to expand its China business and in a South Korean bank that operates a joint venture in China. After inquiries about his China-related business, Blum pledged this week that he "will not invest in mainland China or Hong Kong as long as Dianne Feinstein is a U.S. senator to avoid even the appearance of conflict." He said profits from Hong Kong investments, like those from the mainland, would go to charities he established to benefit impoverished Himalayan people. He specifically committed about $400,000 from a Hong Kong real estate investment sold this year. Through a spokesman, Blum said any money he receives from managing the investments of others in China also will go to charity. "We have done everything we possibly can," Feinstein said in exasperation. "I can't tell my husband to die. I can't tell him to give up what he does. . . . I don't know what more I can do. I mean, get divorced and live in sin, I suppose." Blum's finances have drawn scrutiny in part because his holdings and the funds he manages are so extensive and complex that government-required disclosure forms do not show precisely where the money is invested. His China investments have become a target because Feinstein long has been active in promoting U.S.-China relations and recently supported the congressional vote to grant China permanent normal trade relations. Questions about Blum's financial affairs illustrate the difficulties facing any candidate whose spouse has large financial interests. The issue was raised this year by Rep. Tom Campbell (R-San Jose), Feinstein's opponent in the Nov. 7 election. When there was speculation that Feinstein could be Vice President Al Gore's presidential running mate, political analysts cited her husband's investments as a potential liability. "All candidates with rich and powerful spouses are walking in the shadow of Geraldine Ferraro," said John J. Pitney Jr., associate political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, referring to the 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate whose husband's business became a political albatross. Blum says he has never benefited from his wife's positions on China. "I can't think of one single reason why the Chinese leadership would be wanting to help us with investment opportunities," Blum wrote to The Times, calling himself an outspoken critic of China's human rights record and a supporter of Tibet's exiled religious leader, the Dalai Lama. Blum declined to be interviewed, but he responded in writing to questions through a spokesman, who emphasized that "Sen. Feinstein does not participate in Mr. Blum's business in any way." Feinstein grew angry when asked about her husband's investments. "There's no conflict of interest," the senator said in an interview. "I take what I do very seriously. It's my lifeblood. I'm not going to jeopardize my public trust." Feinstein provided The Times a letter showing that she consulted the Senate Ethics Committee before the vote on China trade. The letter said the committee did not consider her vote a conflict because it could benefit all people doing business in China, not just Blum. Gary Ruskin, director of the Congressional Accountability Project, a government watchdog group in Washington, said he sympathizes with the desire of public officials to keep parts of their lives private. But with the hundreds of millions of dollars handled by Blum and his firm, Feinstein and Blum must "bend over backward in order to convince voters that they're not profiting from her governmental actions," Ruskin said. That means, he said, fully disclosing Blum's holdings. Feinstein's disclosure statement--which runs 84 pages and indicates that she and Blum had at least $27 million in assets at the end of 1999--lists Blum's partnerships but not all the investments of those partnerships. The couple made available their 1999 tax return, showing they paid $1.7 million in taxes on almost $9.3 million in income while donating $1.9 million to charity. Extensive Ties to Asia Blum, 65,
[CTRL] OT: Sullivan: In defense of Drudge
-Caveat Lector- [Intersting stuff. Personally, I find it hard to dislike this guy. --MS] http://magazines.enews.com/103000/trb103000.html For more commentary by Andrew Sullivan, visit http://www.andrewsullivan.com The New Republic 10.30.00 TRB FROM WASHINGTON Scoop by Andrew Sullivan If you're an American romantic, it's hard to beat the story of Matt Drudge. Paperboy in Takoma Park, Maryland. High school dropout. 7-Eleven shelf stocker for ready cash. Never makes it to college. Moves to California. Spends his days working in the CBS studio gift shop; spends his nights listening to talk radio and police scanners. Picks up advance TV-ratings reports from the trash cans of Hollywood executives, posts them in Internet newsgroups, gets a following, starts his own website: drudgereport.com. Helps almost bring down the president of the United States. Why hasn't Hollywood rushed a biopic into the movie theaters? Beats me. They did it with Watergate, elevating Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to superhero status for parlaying a source's leak into the resignation of Richard Nixon. Woodward and Bernstein, of course, were liberals, and therefore heroic. They were also employees of The Washington Post, anointed sons in an old medium, and so had instant credibility. Watergate was also a different category of scandal than the Monica Lewinsky affair. But still Drudge is not only uncelebrated. He's vilified. The Lewinsky mess, whether or not you think it merited impeachment, was a massive story. And Drudge was a key player, making history from his basement apartment with a Radio Shack computer and no journalistic training or institutional support against a White House almost as ruthless as Nixon's. I tip my fedora to him. You can tell the phoniness of the anti-Drudge consensus by its blustering incoherence. Former White House spokesmen Joe Lockhart and Mike McCurry often refused to answer press questions that emanated from rumors circulated by Drudge. It was, they averred, beneath them. Did it ever dawn on them that for almost a year Drudge was telling the truth and the president was telling grade-A, USDA-approved whoppers? You'd think the man who helped break the Lewinsky story would have gained some level of respect in its wake. But no. In the official wisdom of Washington, the hacks who rewrite White House press releases day after day are far more distinguished than the man Bill Clinton once referred to as "Sludge." (Full disclosure: Drudge's site has carried a link to my work for months, along with links to dozens of other writers.) When Drudge's ill-conceived TV show was canned last year, his critics salivated. Frank Rich, a reliable barometer of bien-pensant liberalism, unloaded this bizarre opinion: "Journalistic watchdogs should be overjoyed at their nemesis's ignominious exit from the tube. We should be thrilled that he no longer has the power to terrorize the nation's news cycles with his apocalyptic bulletins." The pooh-bahs of journalism schools were equally dismissive. Marvin Kalb, Harvard's chief press chin-stroker, has called Drudge a "conveyor of gossipy information." Joan Konner, big macher at the Columbia Journalism School, has said Drudge is "by no reasonable measure working in the public interest." Give me a break. You can understand why the White House or Hillary Clinton might be happy to see Drudge take a fall. But fellow journalists? "Thrilled" that the man who was the first to air the Lewinsky story might be silenced? "Overjoyed" that a lone hack with a phone and a modem might be quashed? Here's a brief list of stories Drudge has aired first: the intern, the dress, the cigar, the MSNBC merger, Jack Kemp's vice presidential nomination, Seinfeld's $1 million-per-episode salary, Kathleen Willey's trauma, Princess Diana's death. In recent months, Drudge has pioneered the story of Dick Cheney's openly lesbian daughter and Hillary Clinton's hospitality in the White House for her campaign donors. I don't know why Rich and Konner think airing these stories is not in the public interest, but it seems to me that hypocrisy, law-breaking, and corner-cutting among our political leaders are subjects worth raising. Hasn't Drudge gotten lots of things wrong? Yes, he has. The worst was the vile rumor that White House aide and TNR alum Sidney Blumenthal was a wife-beater. But Drudge was contrite--more contrite than The New York Times was after it virtually convicted Wen Ho Lee of espionage; he withdrew the story and issued an apology within 24 hours. He's gotten other things wrong, too. But his site is transparent and accountable, and it doesn't pretend to be the finished version of the news. I see no problem with different news sources having different levels of reliability. And no one in their right mind thinks they're getting The New York Times when they read Drudge. On the other hand, the difference between Drudge and the "mainstream" media is subtler than the press establishment would like to
[CTRL] NYT: Al Gore's Journey: Once Close to Clinton, Gore Keeps a Distance
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/politics/20VICE.html The New York Times October 20, 2000 Al Gore's Journey: Once Close to Clinton, Gore Keeps a Distance By MELINDA HENNEBERGER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. (AFP) Vice President Al Gore is keeping his distance from President Clinton, to what is said to be the puzzlement and consternation of the president. The photo above was taken during a White House ceremony in 1998. --- Al Gore's Journey Uneasy Alliance This is the 17th article of a series about the lives of the presidential candidates. Future installments will look at Al Gore and religion and George W. Bush's decision to seek the presidency. --- Paul Hosefros/ The New York Times Since the Clintons and Gores last appeared together on Aug. 15, at a ``torch-passing'' rally in Monroe, Mich., Mr. Gore has spoken with the president only a few times. fter eight years together, here is the state of the relationship between President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore: Mr. Gore won't pick up the phone. He doesn't call, and Mr. Clinton doesn't know why. Until the recent crisis in the Middle East, the two had spoken only a handful of times since the week of this summer's Democratic convention. Mr. Clinton is both hurt by the personal rebuff and bewildered as to why his political heir won't come to him for the advice he is itching to give advice the president feels the candidate needs, according to two friends who have discussed this with Mr. Clinton recently. After Mr. Gore's second debate with Gov. George W. Bush, the president was irate. He told one friend that the vice president was getting bad advice from consultants, especially Carter Eskew and Robert Shrum, who seemed to Mr. Clinton to have coached all the fight out of him. But when the friend said, "Why don't you just call him?" the president said he didn't feel he should meddle. The buddy movie that began when these two young Southern centrists started off on a high-energy bus tour across America in the 1992 campaign wasn't supposed to end like this. At the time, story after story about "Bill and Al's Excellent Adventure" highlighted their complementary strengths and campaign trail "double dates" with blond wives who seemed to be hitting it off famously, too. At least, that was how it looked as the two women hugged each other while jumping up and down in time with the campaign theme song, Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)." There were striking images of the running mates tossing a football around and huddled alone in the back of their bus at 2 in the morning, beat but apparently unable to stop yakking. Former Clinton aides have said that one big reason Mr. Clinton chose Mr. Gore as his running mate was that he had a lot in common with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Paul Begala, a former aide, recalled that Mr. Clinton said when he picked Mr. Gore, " `He reminds me of Hillary in that when he gets hold of something he never lets loose.' He saw a constancy that he's been accused of lacking." But now, Mr. Clinton is left to wonder why Mr. Gore can't be more like his wife, who appeared with the vice president at a campaign event in New York yesterday. As a candidate, she does listen to his advice and not coincidentally, in the view of several Clinton aides, seems to be doing better in her race than the vice president is in his. It took last week's outbreak of violence in the Middle East to bring Mr. Gore and Mr. Clinton together. The vice president left the campaign trail to attend White House briefings on the crisis. It was the first time Mr. Gore had set foot in the White House since a state dinner on May 22, and he seems to be going out of his way to avoid appearing with the president. His office was even reluctant to release a photo taken last week of the two of them together and initially instructed the White House not to put it out, either. One Democratic fund-raiser who knows both men said, "It's worse than you think, worse than it was last year." Even then, things weren't so hot. On the day Mr. Gore formally declared his candidacy in June 1999, ABC News broadcast an interview with the vice president in which Mr. Gore repeatedly distanced himself from the president, voicing disappointment over Mr. Clinton's behavior with Monica S. Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom he had an affair. Mr. Clinton feels frustrated, eager to help but unwilling to insert himself where he's not wanted, say the friends who have discussed this with him. It's beyond him why Mr. Gore can't manage to relate to an audience in the way that comes so effortlessly to him. And he's convinced that Mr. Gore moved too slowly to capitalize on his successful convention performance in the president's view, running away from him when he ought to be running on their record. Yesterday, at a meeting of the House Democratic caucus, Mr. Clinton responded to Mr. Bush's remarks in the last debate point for point and seemed to
[CTRL] WJLA: I-Team Exclusive: Larry Flynt
-Caveat Lector- I-Team Exclusive: Larry Flynt Reported by Del Walters Produced by Suleiman Wali Thu 10/19/00 WJLA-TV Script TV Channel 7, Washington, D.C. Anchor: NEWS 7'S I-TEAM HAS LEARNED THATLIKE HIM OR NOTPORNOGRAPHIC PUBLISHER LARRY FLYNT IS PREPARING TO ONCE AGAIN ENTER WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL FRAY. YOU MAY RECALL TWO YEARS AGO FLYNT PLACED AN AD IN THE WASINGTON POST PROMISING TO PAY ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DIRT ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. AS THE I-TEAM'S DEL WALTERS SHOWS US, THIS TIME FLYNT SAYS HE'S SET HIS SIGHTS ON THE TWO MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Story: [VIDEO OF PRESIDENT CLINTON HUGGING MONICA LEWINSKY] IT REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST SORDID CHAPTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. President Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky. [VIDEO OF THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT] THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Sen. Joe Lieberman: Such behavior is not just inappropriate, it is immoral. THRUST INTO THE CENTER OF IT ALL: A PORNOGRAPHIC PUBLISHER WHO TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO PUBLISH THIS FULL PAGE AD IN THE WASHINGTON POST. A MILLION DOLLAR BOUNTY, PAID OUT TO WHOMEVER COULD EXPOSE THE SEXUAL SECRETS OF CONGRESS. DOLLARS FOR DIRT. Del Walters: Do you believe that, in essence, that you took a bountya full page bountyin the Washington Post with members of Congress as the targets? Larry Flynt, Hustler publisher: Well the word bounty seems a little harsh. What I was really asking for was information and letting people know that we were willing to pay for it. Well, it (the ad) didnt say dead or alive. [laughs] AND ONE BY ONE, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS EITHER FELL, CONFESSED OR WERE DISGRACED. BOB LIVINGSTON AND NEWT GINGRICHTWO SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSEONE RESIGNING BEFORE HE EVER TOOK OVER. AND CONGRESSMAN BOB BARR, TAINTED BY ALLEGATIONS HE HAD AN EXTRA MARRITAL AFFAIR, AND GAVE HIS CONSENT TO AN ABORTIONEVEN THOUGH, POLITICALLY, HE WAS STRICTLY PRO-LIFE AND VOCALLY ANTI-CLINTON. Flynt: It was like bash Clinton night every night. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE I-TEAM, LARRY FLYNT SAYS THIS FULL PAGE AD PLACING A BOUNTY ON THE HEADS OF CONGRESS WAS ALL ABOUT GETTING EVEN. AND HE TELLS THE I-TEAM HE'S NOT DONE AND HAS SET HIS SIGHTS ON THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONSPECIFICALLY, GEORGE W. BUSH. Walters: Are you currently seeking information or do you have information on him (G.W. Bush)? Flynt: Yes we do. It depresses me to see this nation get so excited about somebody like him. We know a lot about Bush, some may be coming out before the election, but I dont know. Walters: But people are gong to say, How do we really know you have the goods on George W. Bush and how do we know youre not just posturing for publicity. Flynt: Okay, first of all, when we nailed Livingston, he did an interview in the New York Times the next day and referred to me as a bottom feeder and they called me for a comment and I said, Thats right, but look what I found when I got down there. AS FOR VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE, FLYNT SAYS THERE IS NOTHING THE PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW. Flynt: I dont think anyone would question Al Gore. I think hes a pretty straight-laced guy. Walters: A lot of people are going to ask, Should sex have anything to do with the presidential election? Flynt: Absolutely, because cause theres nothing more political than sex. Sex is the most political thing in the world. FLYNT SAYS HIS EXPEDITION INTO PECADILLIOS OF CONGRESS COST HIM FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. THE END RESULT: TWO YEARS AFTER HIS INFAMOUS AD, THE TRAIL OF BODIES READS LIKE A WHO'S WHO OF CONGRESS. AND HE'S NOT DONE. FOR THE I-TEAM IN LOS ANGELES, I'M DEL WALTERS, NEWS SEVEN. Anchor: IN RESPONSE TO LARRY FLYNT'S ALLEGATIONS OF INFORMATION ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH, THE BUSH CAMPAIGN TOLD THE I-TEAM, MR. FLYNT IS NOT A CREDIBLE SOURCE ON ANY ISSUE AND WE'RE NOT AWARE OF THESE ALLEGATIONS. = 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
[CTRL] UPINT: Navy changes Cole bombing timeline; new questions raised
-Caveat Lector- Navy changes Cole bombing timeline; new questions raised Friday, 20 October 2000 15:54 (ET) Navy changes Cole bombing timeline; new questions raised By PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) - The USS Cole had been refueling for about an hour on Oct. 12 when a bomb exploded nearby, according to the Navy, a small change in the timeline that significantly changes the Navy's account of the presumed terrorist attack. The change will also open the Navy to even more criticism and second-guessing: The question the Navy must now answer is how the small boat believed responsible for the bombing was able to get so close to the warship without being challenged or intercepted. Initial reports indicated the bombing was carried out by port employees or people posing as port employees, who were helping the Cole tie up to a floating fueling station in the port of Aden in Yemen. The Navy's initial account of the bombing was based on a single witness, an Army major attached to the U.S. embassy in Yemen. The witness said a small craft, apparently part of the harbor tender's fleet, helped tie one of the Cole's lines to a buoy and then approached the port side of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyer. At that point, 12:15 p.m. local time, a huge explosion rocked the Cole, according to the Navy's initial account. But Friday, the Navy said the Cole had been refueling for nearly an hour when the bomb exploded, destroying popular theory that the attack was almost certainly carried out by an insider who worked for the private company that was contracted to refuel the $1 billion ship. "According to ship records, the explosion occurred at about 11:18 local time in Yemen, not 12:15 as previously reported. USS Cole had completed mooring operations at 9:30 am. Refueling operations commences at approximately 10:30 and were ongoing at the time of the terrorist attack," the Navy said. The Navy reviewed the timeline in response to a query from the weekly Navy Times, which had a source in Aden that said the Navy's initial account of the bombing was incorrect. The Navy said the earlier report was incorrect because it was based on initial voice and relayed reports from the ship. The ships communications system and power was disabled by the blast, which killed 17. Ship records were not available earlier last week. "As is often the case, these initial relayed reports contained some errors, and in some cases were misunderstood back here," stated the Navy. "To have people think it was all one big event, they were pulling in to refuel and the explosion happen, is wrong," Lt. Cdr. Greg Smith, a Navy spokesman, told UPI. The Navy is not releasing other details about the attack. "(Given) the coverage of the initial reports, the Navy felt it was necessary to provide the correction as soon as possible," stated the Navy. According to a Navy Times' source, the port of Aden is sprawling and made such an attack easy, even without the cover of a harbor tender craft. "The idea that a mooring boat was involved just doesn't hold water," said the source in Yemen, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There simply weren't any mooring boats around the ship at the time." "There are so many points of access where people can get in," the official said. "It's a big, sheltered bay, and you can disappear two miles around the corridor and more or less do what you like," said the source, according to the Navy Times -- Navy Times New Attack Timeline Surfaces in Cole Investigation By David Brown NAVY TIMES STAFF WRITER The attack on the destroyer Cole came an hour earlier than originally reported, and in the midst of the ships refueling operation, nearly two hours after it moored, not as it was being tied to the refueling pier, Navy Times has learned. The Cole had been refueling for about 45 minutes when, at 11:18 a.m. local time Oct. 12, an explosive-laden boat pulled alongside and blasted a hole in its port side, according to a timeline obtained by Navy Times. Rear Adm. Stephen Pietropaoli, chief of naval information, confirmed the timeline, which was provided by a source associated with the Port of Aden in Yemen. The FBI declined to comment. The timeline changes the face of the attack, which was initially viewed as an inside job that sucker-punched the ship as it was being tied to the refueling pier. The blast killed 17 sailors and injured 39. Pietropaoli said the original timeline provided by the Navy was based on early reports from the ship, via the chain of command, at a time when the crew was fighting to keep the ship afloat and virtually all communications systems were down. Following a query from Navy Times, the Navy went back to the ships records and concluded that its timeline was incorrect, Pietropaoli said. He added that the timeline was not corrected because other federal agencies took over investigation of the blast and the Navy focused on the welfare of the ship and
[CTRL] Fwd: FW: DEMOCRACY NOW! IN DANGER (FAIR)
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dana redding) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:18:08 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "DEMOCRACY NOW!" IN DANGER (FAIR) ACTION ALERT: "DEMOCRACY NOW!" IN DANGER: Pacifica management turns against free speech October 19, 2000 According to a leaked October 18 memo from "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman to the Pacifica Radio network's Board of Directors, Pacifica presented Goodman with a new set of "rules" on October 16 which drastically curtail her freedom to decide what stories to cover and how, and even attempt to restrict her free speech rights. (The memo was not given to FAIR by Goodman or any other member of the "Democracy Now!" staff.) "Democracy Now!," produced at New York City Pacifica station WBAI, is Pacifica's most popular and influential show. Hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, the daily newsmagazine is on the cutting edge of American journalism, bringing the public stories and voices too often shut out of mainstream media and standing out, as the show's motto declares, as "the exception to the rulers." Over the last year, the national management of Pacifica has become increasingly hostile to the crew of the show "Democracy Now!", and in particular to Goodman. Goodman's leaked memo reveals that after fruitless attempts at good-faith negotiations, Goodman has been forced to file formal grievances against Pacifica's management charging "harassment, gender harassment and censorship," along with other violations of her union contract. In a violation of Goodman's freedom of speech, Pacifica's new "rules" threaten to fire her if she does not clear any and all speaking engagements with Pacifica management. In addition, the network threatens to fire Goodman if she does not provide Pacifica Program Director Steve Yasko each Friday with "a list of possible shows the following week" and "determine the topics of at least three shows the preceding week." "Essentially, these rules make it impossible for Goodman to continue to produce the hard-hitting, breaking news stories 'Democracy Now!' is famous for," says FAIR senior analyst Steve Rendall. "It seems clear that Pacifica is trying to force Amy out of her job." Background: The Crisis at Pacifica Most Pacifica listeners first became aware of the growing conflict within the network when in March 1999, Pacifica fired Nicole Sawaya, station manager of Berkeley station KPFA; a few days later, veteran reporter Larry Bensky was also fired from KPFA for discussing on-air his concerns about the network's autocratic management. In the wake of the firings, as many as 2,000 listeners took to the streets of Berkeley to protest the actions of Pacifica's management and demand greater accountability to the community. As a media watch group dedicated to promoting greater diversity in the press, FAIR has followed with distress the deepening crisis at the country's first listener-supported community radio network. Over the last year and a half, Pacifica's management has increasingly orchestrated censorship-- including of FAIR's own radio show, CounterSpin-- retaliatory personnel moves and the disenfranchisement of listeners and local advisory boards in order to impose its often regressive decisions on the network. The latest moves against "Democracy Now!" are a sad indication that Pacifica's management is making a final break with the progressive core values laid out by Pacifica founder Lew Hill. Save "Democracy Now!" "'Democracy Now!' is quite simply one of the most important shows on the radio today," says FAIR's Rendall. "Goodman's journalism is exemplary. Pacifica has rewarded her for years of dedicated work with threats, daily harassment and intimidation." Goodman is a 1998 recipient (with "Democracy Now!" correspondent Jeremy Scahill) of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Military Dictatorship." She has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" (co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn), including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award and the Radio/Television News Directors Award. Pacifica's actions against "Democracy Now!" come at a time when the show has been doing a remarkable amount of groundbreaking work. During the protests at the Democratic and Republican national conventions, the show's 2000 election project, "Breaking With Convention: Power Protest and the Presidency," was simulcast live via satellite on community radio and public access TV stations across the country. This unprecedented collaboration generated the largest expansion of audience in Pacifica's history. In addition, "Democracy Now!" has recently broken major stories on a host of issues, including Chevron's role in Nigeria, the Lori Berenson case and East
[CTRL] Many Large U.S. Companies Paid No Taxes -- Study
-Caveat Lector-
Friday October 20 6:35 PM ET
Many Large U.S. Companies Paid No Taxes -- Study
By Kristin Roberts
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the largest U.S. companies paid no
income tax between 1996 and 1998 despite earning billions of dollars
during those years, according to a recent study.
Drugs giant Pfizer Inc., banking group J.P. Morgan Co. and automaker
General Motors Corp. were among the 41 companies that not only paid
zero tax but received $3.2 billion in rebate checks, the study found.
The study, released this week, was done by the Institute on Taxation and
Economic Policy, a nonprofit organization based in Washington. The
institute is associated with the Citizens for Tax Justice, another nonprofit
organization that supports tax reform and says the U.S. tax system favors
the wealthy.
``With significant help from Congress, corporations appear to be finding
ways around the tax reforms adopted in 1986,'' said Robert S. McIntyre, a
principal author of the study, in reference to an overhaul of the U.S. tax
system 14 years ago meant to close many loopholes.
The study analyzed 250 companies, their profits and the amount of taxes
paid during the years of 1996, 1997 and 1998 -- a period when U.S.
corporate profits grew more than 23 percent, according to government
statistics.
Under the federal tax code, corporations pay 35 percent of their profits in
income tax. The average tax rate, or the ratio of taxes to profits, is often
much lower due to tax credits and write-offs allowed under law.
The average tax rate in 1996, for example, was 25.8 percent, according to
data from the Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Taxation.
The study found that the 41 companies reported $25.8 billion in pretax U.S.
profits. With a 35 percent tax rate, they would have paid some $9 billion in
taxes. Instead, they received rebates, the group said.
More than half of the companies, or 133, of those studied paid less than
half the statutory tax rate in at least one of the three years, the institute said.
Some of the companies named in the group's report took issue with the
study's methodology. But industry and policy analysts on Wall Street noted
that companies often pay lower tax bills thanks to allowances that have
been under federal law for ages.
General Motors said did not take into account the taxes corporations paid
years ago that put them in a credit position during the period of the study.
``You're in a credit position not because somebody's giving you something
but because you've already paid,'' said Mark Tanner, spokesman at GM.
``The key point to make about GM is that we pay taxes,'' Tanner said,
noting GM paid $2.4 billion in taxes in 1999. ``We have a positive account
balance with the IRS, which consists of tax prepayments that were paid in
prior years as well as tax credit carryforwards.''
Indeed, industry and policy analysts on Wall Street noted that companies
often pay lower tax bills thanks to allowances that have been under federal
law for ages that include credits for things such as research and
development.
One example is a long-standing provision in the tax code allowing
companies to deduct gains from employee stock options. A corporation
will, for instance, issue employees options that vest over three years. After
that period, the employee can exercise those options at the previously
agreed price.
The difference between the price actually paid and the price of that stock
on the market is recorded as compensation by the corporation.
``That's a major compensation deduction for companies without the cash
outflow. That will certainly lower your tax base,'' said Kevin Johnson, partner
at accounting firm Silverman Linden Higgins LLP.
Of the 250 companies studied, the institute said it found 233 of them had
received stock-option benefits over the 1996-1998 period, lowering their
taxes by $25.8 billion.
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[CTRL] Florida will temporarily cease citrus tree cutting
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Florida will temporarily cease citrus tree cutting
The Associated Press
MIAMI (October 20, 2000 6:16 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
Faced with a homeowner revolt, Florida agriculture officials said they will
stop cutting down residents' backyard citrus trees for two days while they
train workers to help soothe residents' feelings.
The state will train the 100 additional workers on Monday and Tuesday to
talk to those whose trees are infected with a crop-destroying strain of
bacteria, Agriculture Commissioner Bob Crawford said.
The announcement comes after numerous complaints and at least two
armed standoffs between work crews and homeowners in recent weeks.
The crews are trying to destroy citrus canker, a type of bacteria that causes
oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes and other fruits to fall prematurely. The
outbreak, confined mostly to the southern part of the state, poses a major
threat to Florida's $8.5 billion citrus industry.
There is no chemical that will kill canker in plant tissue. As a result, more
than 750,000 trees have been cut down and burned since 1995 in
residential areas of three Miami-area counties.
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[CTRL] 'Mad cow' fears prompt Britain to recall polio vaccine
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LONDON (October 20, 2000 9:42 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
Britain's health ministry announced Friday a recall of a polio vaccine now in
use because of fears that the vaccine could transmit the human variant of
'mad cow' disease.
But health chiefs said the risk of transmission of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) through the Medeva vaccine given to British
children and travelers was "incalculably small."
Britain's Department of Health said the recall affected only one brand of
polio vaccine, which was scheduled to be replaced, but did not specify the
quantity of vaccine that is being recalled.
"As the national supply of polio vaccine has already switched to a different
manufacturer, the impact of the recall on the polio vaccination program is
likely to be minimal," a spokesman said.
Britain's Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson, wrote to all family doctors
Friday to tell them about the recall.
He said the risk to humans of catching CJD - the human form of BSE which
appeared in Britain in 1986 - was "incalculably small."
Medeva manufactures the vaccine being recalled. SmithKline Beecham will
provide a replacement vaccine.
The BBC reported that the recall is linked to the presence of calf fetuses in
the vaccine. European rules say oral medicines should not use bovine
materials from countries in which there are known cases of BSE.
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[CTRL] Albert Pike and the Illuminati
-Caveat Lector- http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/pike.htm#Albert%20Pike Albert Pike Albert Pike also of Newbury Port moved to Arkansas where he became a prominent member of the secessionist movement. He was chosen by Mazzini to head the Illuminati operations in America and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1852. During the war he was made a brigadier general and placed in charge of raising an army of Indians. Pike's reign of terror was so despicable that foreign governments intervened to put an end to his savagery. Mazzini was not only the head of the Illuminati, he was the leading revolutionist in Europe. He was determined to establish a New World Order on the rubble of the old order and created a plan to accomplish his goal. He detailed his plan for world domination in a letter to Pike on January 22, 1870: "We must allow all the federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their central authorities and their diverse modes of correspondence between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at the present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown. Lady Queensborough, pp. 208-209. This secret rite is called "The New and Reformed Palladian Rite." It has headquarters in Charleston, S.C., Roma Italia, and Berlin Germany. Pike headed this rite in the Western Hemisphere while Mazzini headed it in the East. Pike wrote about his beliefs and goals in 1871 in "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry." In this massive volume he explained that the "blind Force of the people is a Force that must be economized, and also managed... it must be regulated by intellect. "To attack the citadels (Institutions) built up on all sides against the human race by superstitions (religion), despotisms, and prejudices, the force must have a brain and a law (the Illuminati's). Then its (Force) deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress. Then there are sublime conquests... When all forces combined, and guided by the Intellect (Illuminati), and regulated by the Rule of Right, and Justice, and of combined and systematic movement and effort, the great revolution prepared for the ages will begin to march... It is because Force is ill regulated that revolutions prove failures" MORALS AND DOGMA OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY 1-2 (Rev. Ed. 1950). Even though Pike was a confederate general who committed the most heinous atrocities of the war his tomb is located just 13 blocks from the Capitol Building. He was a high ranking member of the Illuminati who is still revered by the New World Order Gang. The god of the Illuminati and the New World Order Gang is Lucifer. "The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine... Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay (Jesus) is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive..."The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay (Jesus); but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil." "La Femme et l'enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle," A.C. De La Rive, p. 588; Lady Queenborough, pp. 220-221. Pike designed a plan for world conquest and wrote of it in a letter to Mazzini dated August 15, 1871. He said three future world wars would prepare the world for the New World Order. In the third world war "we shall unleash the Nihilists and atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirit will from that moment be without a compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and
[CTRL] DEMOCRACY NOW! IN DANGER (FAIR)
-Caveat Lector- The last time the Pacifica board tried to change and censor the programming, the people themselves came out and demanded their station be left alone. I KNOW the people will come out again and fight for the station. WBAI-FM, 99.5, New York is having it's pledge drive this week. It's the only thing worth listening to on radio, forget television, to get alternative news. I have every hope both Pacifica and WBAI on the East Coast will ALWAYS remain just as they are, because there is enough awareness at the grass roots level for both stations that the people will come out and fight. Both stations are having such an impact, I'm sure people in high places are getting nervous. God forbid either station goes, because NOTHING will ever change if they do. As a media watch group dedicated to promoting greater diversity in the press, FAIR has followed with distress the deepening crisis at the country's first listener-supported community radio network. Over the last year and a half, Pacifica's management has increasingly orchestrated censorship-- including of FAIR's own radio show, CounterSpin-- retaliatory personnel moves and the disenfranchisement of listeners and local advisory boards in order to impose its often regressive decisions on the network. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 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
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Bin Laden U.S. Ally - Special Forces, Fort Bragg ABCNEWS Guilty Plea in Embassy Bombing Former Army Sergeant Admits Link to Osama bin Laden Former U.S. Army sergeant Ali Mohamed, 48, became the first person to plead guilty in connection with the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa two years ago that killed 12 Americans and 212 others. (AP Photo) N E W Y O R K, Oct. 20 A former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to conspiring with suspected terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden in a sweeping plot to ³attack any Western target in the Middle East.² Ali Mohamed pleads guilty to charges. RealVideo (download RealPlayer) As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, the 48-year-old Egyptian-born man, Ali Mohamed, who served in the Army for three years in the late 1980s, admitted to conspiring with bin Laden and others to murder Americans all over the world. Mohamed pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans. He is the first person to plead guilty in connection with the bombings and is an important element in the Justice Department¹s efforts to build a case that bin Laden and others were responsible for the attacks. He said he conspired along with bin Laden and others to attack the U.S. military in Somalia and Saudi Arabia, to kill Americans at unspecified embassies, and to conceal the conspiracy. He was led into the courtroom in leg shackles, and stood in his prison blue uniform as he pleaded guilty to five counts. ³The objective of all of this was to attack any Western target in the Middle East,² Mohamed said during his plea, according to The Associated Press. Worldwide Terrorism Conspiracy Mohamed said bin Laden plays a key role in a massive conspiracy by members of an Islamic jihad to target U.S. military installations and embassies worldwide. U.S. officials said they have evidence Mohamed had ties to bin Laden within a year or two after he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1989. Mohamed also admitted he helped move bin Laden from Pakistan to Sudan and trained members of a terrorist organization linked to bin Laden, al Qaeda. He was among 17 people named in an indictment that resulted from the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which the United States accuses bin Laden of masterminding. Five other persons listed in the indictment are in federal custody, three more are undergoing extradition proceedings in Britain, and eight others are still at large, including bin Laden. Mohamed faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. Was in Army Special Forces The former sergeant, ironically, had taught U.S. Special Forces troops at Fort Bragg, N.C. A former Egyptian military officer, Mohamed was living in the United States as a resident alien when he joined the Army. His duties included teaching soldiers in the special forces about Muslim culture. Mohamed was taken into custody in October 1998 on charges of lying to federal agents investigating bin Laden¹s network. He had lied about his connections to bin Laden and associated organizations and to the Department of Defense about his previous associations and travel history, according to charges filed by the Justice Department in 1998. Investigators have said videotapes of Mohamed training at a special warfare center at Fort Bragg and classified military documents he had access to turned up in some very suspicious places. The FBI found them in the home of Sayyid Nosair, a suspected terrorist later convicted in a plot to blow up American landmarks. ABCNEWS¹ John Miller contributed to this report.
Re: [CTRL] Many Large U.S. Companies Paid No Taxes -- Study
-Caveat Lector- At 03:57 PM 10/20/00 -0700, Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Friday October 20 6:35 PM ET Many Large U.S. Companies Paid No Taxes -- Study By Kristin Roberts NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the largest U.S. companies paid no income tax between 1996 and 1998 despite earning billions of dollars during those years, according to a recent study. Why is anyone surprised? This is the inexorable result when the government buggers with the tax system to give "incentives" (or threats) to taxpayers (both corporate and individuals) to do things the government's way. Those corporations that made profits and "paid no taxes" simply redirected the tax money they would have sent to the government directly to some end that the government wanted the money to be spent on anyway. In economic terms, corporations don't really pay taxes, anyway. They are merely a convenient mechanism for the government to collect tax money which is ultimately paid by consumers. DBC 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] www.taxclarity.com
-Caveat Lector- http://www.taxclarity.com Conveniently calculates for you your projected price surcharge for living (if you can call it living) under a Gore administration. Caution. May be disturbing or upsetting to persons who object to being deprived of their money by armed IRS agents, armed BATF agents, armed federal marshalls, armed bailiffs of the federal court system, or other armed robbers. DBC 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] WND: CIA Official: Gore Compromised by Secret Past (1/2)
-Caveat Lector- Please post part 2. You put out a lot of good stuff. I appreciate your efforts. J2 MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: -Caveat Lector- [In MY continuing effort to remain (and post) impartially, I submit the following for your consideration. Remember, however, that ANY BODY, I repeat, ANYBODY, is better than a Bush;-) --MS] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20001016_xex_cia_official.shtml WorldNetDaily Monday, October 16, 2000 CIA Official: Gore Compromised by Secret Past Says Russia has dossiers on VP's former drug use, Hammer connection By Charles Thompson and Tony Hays © 2000, WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. Editor's note: The following report on Vice President Al Gore's alleged past drug use, as well as his deep connections with Soviet operative Armand Hammer, was researched and written by native Tennessee reporters Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays. Thompson is a long-time veteran of network news, having been a founding producer of ABC's "20/20," as well as Mike Wallace's producer at CBS's "60 Minutes." His most recent book, "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa and Its Cover-Up," was released by W.W. Norton in Spring 1999. Hays is a veteran journalist who has written extensively on political corruption in Tennessee. Recently his 20-part series on narcotics trafficking received an award from the Tennessee Press Association. According to a former high-ranking official in the CIA, Russian intelligence agencies possess thick dossiers concerning Al Gore's heavy usage of drugs three decades ago as well as his father's questionable dealings with Armand Hammer, a dedicated Soviet operative for 70 years. The CIA source, speaking to WorldNetDaily on condition of anonymity, has since the 1970s routinely advised American presidents, including President Clinton, on Russian intelligence. There is credible evidence, says the source, that these dossiers have already been employed to alter Gore's behavior on issues affecting Russia. As an example, he cited Gore's acquiescence to the corruption of former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who co-chaired a commission with Gore to encourage Americans to do business in Russia. Chernomyrdin accumulated from one to five billion dollars in personal assets from the systematic looting of the Soviet state treasury during the time he co-chaired the commission with Gore. Republican presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush brought this exact point up during last week's second debate with Gore. "We went into Russia," said Bush. "We said, 'Here's some IMF money,' and it ended up in Viktor Chernomyrdin's pocket and others. And yet we played like there was reform." As WND has reported previously, American businessmen, who were threatened with death by the Russian mafia and/or had their assets expropriated by these gangsters, say their complaints were brushed aside by Gore and his aides while the vice president chaired the committee meant to help them. "Chernomyrdin didn't have to show Gore the incriminating dossiers; Gore knew he had them. It's akin to blackmail and extortion, but it's really using highly embarrassing information on a sustained basis," said the source, who has been associated with America's foreign policy elite for three decades as a chief adviser on intelligence matters. "The situation will get much worse if Gore's elected president. Russian president Vladimir Putin [a former KGB colonel who has mob connections] will tell Gore, in effect, 'I've got the files and this is what we want you to do.' And Gore will do it," he added. Earlier this year, John C. Warnecke Jr., a former Tennessean newspaper reporter in Nashville, told Newsweek reporter Bill Turque that he and Al Gore had spent many a night together nearly 30 years ago imbibing cognac and smoking opium-laced marijuana. Warnecke worked with Gore in 1971 and remained a good friend through 1976. Ken Jost, another former reporter for the newspaper, backed up Warnecke's account after Turque's biography, "Inventing Al Gore," was published. In years past, The Tennessean had treated Warnecke as if he were royalty due to the fact that his father has close connections to the Kennedy family, as did John Seigenthaler, the former editor and publisher of the paper. Seigenthaler considered himself to be a king-maker and recruited both Warnecke and Gore to join the paper's staff, largely because of their respective fathers' political clout. Seigenthaler was the one who first convinced Al Gore Jr. to run for Congress. Even so, after his revelations about Gore's alleged drug use, the paper didn't waste any time training its editorial guns on the 53-year-old Warnecke. It was quick to bring up the fact that he had once suffered from depression. Warnecke admitted he had been depressed 20 years ago, but said he had obtained treatment then and was fine now. The paper cited 31 former
[CTRL] Hunt begins for corn linked to biotech scare
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Hunt begins for corn linked to biotech scare
October 20, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The company that developed a variety of gene-
altered corn linked to a nationwide recall of taco shells is trying to recover
nine million bushels of the grain that may be headed to food companies.
The corn, known as StarLink, was not approved for human consumption
because of questions about its potential to cause allergic reactions.
Federal officials describe the health risk as remote; Starlink is approved
only for animal food or industrial uses.
"We're doing everything we can that's humanly possible to try to track that
corn down," Aventis CropScience spokesman Rick Rountree said
Thursday.
The missing grain represents about 10 percent of this year's crop of the
corn.
Mills nationwide are starting to test incoming corn and unshipped flour for
signs of Starlink, said Betsy Faga, president of the North American Millers
Association. She was unaware of any positive tests.
Archer Daniels Midland Co., a leading grain handler and processor, began
testing deliveries at its elevators a week ago and has turned away "a
handful of trucks out of hundreds," said company spokesman Larry
Cunningham.
ConAgra Foods Inc., one of the nation's biggest food makers, stopped
making corn flour at a mill in Kansas on October 11 because it may have
received some of the StarLink.
The corn found in taco shells was traced to a single mill in Texas.
Most of the seed for the corn was sold by an Iowa-based company, Garst
Seed, and 40 percent of it was planted in the state, the Des Moines
Register reported Friday.
This means huge problems for Iowa's more than 150 grain elevators.
They're bulging with freshly harvested corn, but so far it's not clear how
much of it may have been commingled with StarLink.
"The vast majority of this corn is controlled," Agriculture Department
spokeswoman Susan McAvoy said. "We're working with Aventis and
vigorously attempting to locate the remainder."
Aventis has canceled its government license to market the crop and
agreed to reimburse the Agriculture Department for the cost of buying up all
of this year's harvest.
Aventis' inability to find all of the corn leaves food processors up in the air,
said Gene Grabowski, a spokesman for the Grocery Manufacturers of
America. "Everyone understands that consumer sensitivity on this issue is
highly important even if there is no evidence of harm," he said.
Among the corn products in grocery stores are taco shells, corn chips, and
breakfast cereals.
Aventis was required by the Environmental Protection Agency to make
sure that farmers did not sell the corn for food use. Company officials now
acknowledge some farmers either were not told of the restriction or forgot
about it.
Farmers did not buy the seed directly from Aventis but from seed
companies that sold it under license from Aventis, based in Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina. Rountree said there was a "breakdown in
communications" between the farmers, Aventis and the seed companies.
About 2,000 farmers this year grew StarLink, which is expected to account
for about 0.4 percent of the nation's total corn harvest.
Each of the growers was contacted by the company and given the option of
selling the corn to the government or keeping it on their farm. The grain that
has been sold is being tracked through the elevator that purchased it.
"You have a lot of guys who are so mad they don't want to deal with USDA
or Aventis, and they don't know what they're going to do about those
farmers," said Tom Jennings, an official in the Illinois Agriculture
Department.
Iowa's attorney general, Tom Miller, said he is trying to get Aventis to
reimburse farmers who lost money on grain that was mixed with the
StarLink corn.
StarLink is one of several varieties of corn that contains a bacterium gene
that makes it toxic to insect pests.
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Re: [CTRL] THIRD BIOLOGICAL ATTACK IN AUSTIN
-Caveat Lector- Mack White wrote: -Caveat Lector- Worldwide Newslink Exclusive http://www.worldwidenewslink Bio-Terrorism in Austin, Texas? by Mack White This morning, for the third time this week, a possible biological attack occurred in Austin, Texas. I have only incidental proof of what I'm about to say. I think these stories are bogus. Twenty people yesterday and now six today with the government quarantining Breckinridge hospital after these "victims" are admitted then released. This has all the earmarks of an "exercise". Austin municipal government got $200,000 from the feds for counter-terrorism training and prevention. Shortly after that IH-35 South is closed down for what was called a hazardous spill then later admitted it was only an exercise. They closed the major north-south artery for four hours. Next comes the report that there has been a biological/chemical attach in downtown Austin just as the noon lunch rush starts closing down the streets around most of the downtown restaurants again for four hours. Later we find out it was "just an exercise." Now we are hearing reports of these "attacks" on DPS. Now I don't doubt that those 26 people thought they were under chemical attack but their symptoms disappeared at the hospital. Someone is playing a sick game with the people of Austin Texas with the full knowledge and cooperation of somebody in city government. Who do we have to thank for this money? Why Dubya of course and of course Clinton and Gore who keep pushing their community policing initiative. Apparently the more cops you have the more crime there is. I and others have decided its time to make an issue of this federal municipal bonding going on and try to sweep every incumbent from office. Don't be too surprised if your city is next. The press is no where to be seen or heard on the toxic spill (by the feds) travelling down the Ohio River but they have time to report these bogus "terrorist attacks" in Austin Texas. What a world we live in. Regards Jim 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] Report: Biotech possibly already widespread in food supply chain
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Report: Biotech possibly already widespread in food supply chain
October 19, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of bushels of genetically engineered corn
approved only for animals may have already reached the human food
supply chain and could show up in a wide range of foods, The Washington
Post reported Thursday.
Industry and federal officials are trying to find the corn to buy it back before
it is made into more taco shells, chips, corn flakes and other corn products.
"We're getting it out of the food chain," John Wichtrich, vice president and
general manager of Aventis FoodSciences of Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina, the developer of the corn, told the Post.
The corn was not approved for humans because of fears it might trigger
allergic reactions, but officials do not think its presence in food poses an
imminent health risk.
About 260 grain elevators have received the corn this year, Aventis officials
told the Post. Wichtrich estimated that about 88 percent of the Aventis corn,
called StarLink, was being stored on farms or used for animal feed. But an
additional 9 million bushels had already left farms this year. That is the
missing corn company officials are tracking and trying to buy back.
Meanwhile, groups opposed to genetically engineered crops accused the
government of violating the Endangered Species Act in considering
whether to renew licenses for gene-altered crops that are toxic to insects.
The groups, which notified the Environmental Protection Agency on
Wednesday of their intent to sue the agency, said the crops may harm a
number of endangered insects such as the Karner Blue butterfly,
sometimes found near corn fields.
Registrations for several varieties of genetically engineered corn and
cotton are due to expire next year.
The EPA has been gathering research data and consulting with a panel of
scientists about the impact of the crops on human health and the
environment.
In a preliminary assessment released last month, the agency concluded
there was little risk to butterflies or any other insects which the toxin is not
supposed to harm. A three-day meeting by the agency's scientific advisory
panel began Wednesday in Arlington, Virginia.
Under the Endangered Species Act, the EPA would be required to consult
with the Fish and Wildlife Service and to take actions to protect the
threatened species from the crops.
"We're certainly open to new scientific information and will take that into
consideration as we complete our review," said Steve Johnson, a senior
EPA official.
A Cornell University study released last year raised concerns about biotech
corn after finding that the pollen was toxic to Monarchs in the laboratory.
The butterfly feeds on milkweed, which often grows in and around corn
fields in the Midwest.
"EPA has had its head in the sand since it learned that genetically
engineered corn could be killing Monarch butterflies," said Charles
Margulis of Greenpeace, one of the groups planning to sue the EPA.
Although pollen from biotech corn can kill Monarch butterflies, there is
probably little risk to them around corn fields, based on the latest research,
according to the EPA study.
The agency said some scientists even believe the corn may even turn out
to be beneficial to the butterflies because farmers are using less chemical
pesticides.
The corn and cotton contain a bacterium gene that is inserted into the plant
to produce a toxin that kills a major pest, the European corn borer.
The EPA has been concerned that the corn borer and other pests may
become resistant to the toxin, which is also used in an insecticide popular
with organic farmers.
So far, there has been no evidence of resistant insects, although some
insects have shown a temporary tolerance to the toxin, agency scientists
said Wednesday.
To prevent the development of resistant insects, the agency requires
farmers to plant sections of non-biotech crops within or around the gene-
altered varieties
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[CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Isreal vs. Palestine Go Israel!
Title: Isreal vs. Palestine Go Israel! Arafat used to be considered a terrorist on the scale of Bin Laden fifteen years ago. Remember it was this month 15 yrs ago the Achille Laurel was hijacked and the elderly man in the wheel-chair thrown overboard, all traced to Arafat. In a few years will we we treating Bin Laden as some sort of revered elder statesman the way this former terrorist is now treated? Why was Arafat never brought to justice for any of his terrorist activities? How can be pursue bin Laden as a criminal and yet Arafat is now a statesman. I only mention this because so many are too young to remember when his name was on the lips of the newscasters nightly as the most evil of humans possible and the innocent blood he had shed the stuff of frequent media coverage. Politics change and evil becomes good and good becomes evil.I was very young but will always remember the screams of the Isaeli athletes being tortured and finally killed, mercifully.The definition of words also changes with the times and what was once reprehensible behavior becomes perfectly acceptable. So I suppose when the world said "Never again" it really meant "Never again unless something important like oil comes into play." Amelia - Original Message - From: Stopforth, Jamie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3:11 PM Subject: [CTRL] Israel vs. Palestine Go Israel! Hal Lindsey© 2000 WorldNetDaily.comThe 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 betweenliving 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
[CTRL] US Air Force Aerial Spray Home Page
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[CTRL] Aerial Spray Regulations
Title: Aerial Spray Regulations This is mostly discussing pesticides but proves that they do have such spraying regs in place. Amelia AERIAL SPRAY REGULATIONS The Secretary of the Air Force shall maintain a large-area, fixed-wing aerial pesticide application capability to control disease vectors, pest organisms, and vegetation and to treat oil spills in combat areas, on DoD installations, or in response to declared emergencies and shall provide sufficient training for aerial pesticide application air crews and ground support personnel. Documentation for aerial application projects shall be in accordance with DoD and Component environmental requirements including compliance with the requirements of NEPA. The DoD Components shall ensure that a designated pest management consultant at the major command level or higher, who is certified in the aerial application pest control category, approves all proposed pest management projects that involve the aerial application of pesticides. Approval shall be obtained before aerial application operations commnence. DoD Component pest management consultants shall collaborate, as appropriate, with the 910th Airlift Wing (Air Force Reserve) during the review and approval process for aerial spray projects to be completed by the 910th. Installation cormmanders shall ensure that installation personnel update documentation for project approval if subsequent aerial application operations are planned. AFI 32-1074 AERIAL APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES AERIAL SPRAY NEEDS ASSESSMENT - MOSQUITOES AND BITING FLIES AERIAL SPRAY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - MOSQUITOES AND BITING FLIES HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENTS AERIAL SPRAY NEEDS ASSESSMENT - FORESTRY INSTALLATION AERIAL SPRAY INSTRUCTION AERIAL PROJECT COORDINATION CHECKLIST: a. Project Approval Sequence: (1) Pest Management Professional Validation Statement (2) Environmental Assessment (3) Installation Commander's Request Letter (4) Maps with proposed spray area outlined (preferably Geological Survey 1:24,000 Scale). (5) Submission of items a, b, c d up chain of command until the project can be approved by an Aerial Spray (EPA Category 11) Certified Pest Management Professional (PMP) as follows: (a) Major Command PMP (b) Component PMP (c) Armed Forces Pest Management Board PMP (6) Legal waivers of claim if spraying non-government lands (7) Copies of approved Aerial Spray Packages for projects requesting Air Force Aerial Spray capabilities are sent to: (a) AFRC/DOOM, Robins AFB GA 31098 (b) 757 AS/DOS, YARS Vienna OH 44473-0910 (c) Service Component PMP b. Spray Coordination: (1) Request spray by message to HQ AFRC Robins AFB GA//DOOM// (DSN 497-1171) with info copies to HQ AFRC Robins AFB GA//DOTM// 22 AF Dobbins ARB GA//DO//, and 910 AW Youngstown ARS OH//DOS// (DSN 346-/1178). Message must include the following information: (a) Approval status of Installation's Aerial Spray Package. (b) Dates spray requested. (c) Pest to be controlled. (d) Acres to be sprayed. (e) Availability of pesticide, diluent and flush to be used. (2) Items to be arranged or furnished by the user installation: (Final Coordination by telephone). (a) Pesticide, diluent and flush. (b) Aviation fuel, JP-8 or equivalent. (c) Ground transportation. (d) Quarters. (e) Maps certifying the spray boundaries. (f) Legal waivers of claim if spraying non-government lands. (g) Public notification and news releases. (h) Aircraft parking area where possible away from storm drains. (i) Hazardous materials disposal associated with the loading and cleanup required for an aerial spray mission. (j) Range closures during aerial spray operations. (k) Weather forecasting support. (l) Air space priority over the spray area during an aerial spray mission. (3) Set up a pre-spray briefing with representatives of the following installation agencies (for first spray of the season): (a) Installation Commander (b) Project Officer (c) Legal Officer (d) Medical Service (e) Environmental Coordinator (f) Public Affairs (g) Civil Engineering (h) Base Operations/Flight Facilities (i) Fire Department (j) Weather (k) Range Control Officer MEDICAL SERVICE SUPPORT FOR AERIAL SPRAY OPERATIONS: a. Make pre- and post-spray collections of medically important target insects to determine spray effectiveness. b. The Medical Officer of the Day and the Emergency Room should be notified of the period that 757 AS Aerial Spray personnel will be at your installation. We will be using a concentrated organophosphate Dibrom Concentrate (naled) or the carbamate Sevin 4- Oil (carbaryl). c. These pesticides are cholinesterase inhibitors. The Pharmacy and Emergency Room should be equipped with sufficient quantities of the following antidotes for three people: (1) Organophosphate Pesticides. Atropine sulphate and protopam chloride are antidotal. (2) Carbamate Pesticide. Atropine sulphate is antidotal. DO NOT USE protopam chloride for carbamate pesticide poisonings. d.
