[CTRL] MP child rapist
-Caveat Lector- Here's one for David Icke (I know he has posted information about it in the past, this case was a really hot political potatoe after the coverup lifted slightly a few years back). http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0010/23/A2813-2000Oct23.shtml Former MP raped girl in front of class, court told Source: AAP|Published: Monday October 23, 4:34 PM Former Queensland Labor MP Bill D'Arcy raped a young girl in front of a whole classroom of primary school children he was teaching, a court was told today. D'Arcy, 61, of Raby Bay in bayside Brisbane, pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to 18 child sex charges against three girls and one boy between January 1963 and July 1965. The 11 counts of indecent dealing with girls under 12, four of indecent dealing with a boy under 14 and three of rape, relate to his time as the only teacher at the primary school in the tiny rural town of Yalleroi, in central Queensland. The alleged rape victim was aged between seven and nine at the time D'Arcy was teaching at the school, and remembers referring to him as 'Sir'. Prosecutor David Bullock told the jury in his opening address that D'Arcy had called the girl out to the front of the classroom and lifted her onto his lap so that she was facing him. Mr Bullock described how D'Arcy penetrated the girl while she was on his lap. 'She didn't look at the other students as this was going on, she just looked at a painting at the back of the room.' The girl eventually felt a wet sensation, he said. D'Arcy made her remain on his lap for a few minutes and then sent her back to her desk. Mr Bullock said in a previous incident D'Arcy called the girl out to check a story she had written, told other students to keep working and then undid his pants and had her masturbate him, showing her how to do it. D'Arcy also allegedly called the girl into a storeroom, where he touched her, breathed into her ear and forced his tongue into her mouth. 'She remembers it feeling slimy and awful and (it) hurt her mouth,' Mr Bullock said, adding that D'Arcy fumbled with his hands in her pants. This sort of incident allegedly happened to her all the time at the hands of D'Arcy, he said. Mr Bullock said that in another incident they were again in the storeroom when D'Arcy put the girl on the desk and raped her while he breathed very heavily. He then used his handkerchief to wipe himself and her vagina before saying, 'that didn't hurt did it'. Mr Bullock said there were peep holes in the storeroom door and students recalled looking through and seeing D'Arcy place his hand on the girl's thigh, her dress up around her waist, but couldn't see anymore because the table was in the way. Another alleged female victim was aged from nine to 11, and D'Arcy had a pattern of rubbing his penis against her stomach and vaginal area and giving her the warning that 'if you tell anyone you'll be caned'. Mr Bullock said D'Arcy would rub himself up against the male victim who was aged between 11 to 13, but stopped after a few encounters, because the boy began rebelling against him. Another female victim was aged between six and nine when D'Arcy allegedly molested her. She can allegedly recall D'Arcy molesting her as she stood next to him behind his desk at the front of the class. Other charges relate to him making her lie down on a bench with her pants down in an empty classroom and him sliding along her until ejaculation. Mr Bullock said these events occurred repeatedly, as did him sitting the girl on his knee while he molested her. None of the children complained at the time of the alleged events at the tiny school - which had a maximum student population of 32 - because of the prevailing culture of the 1960s when teachers were treated with unquestioning respect. The complainants only began making statements against D'Arcy after they were contacted by police in September 1998. 'Mr D'Arcy was a strict disciplinarian,' Mr Bullock said. 'The crown will suggest to you in this climate that Mr D'Arcy could commit the offences on the complainants and in reality do little to conceal what he was doing.' In many of the alleged incidents with the students, D'Arcy would have girls masturbate him and then place his handkerchief over his penis before ejaculation. A jury of seven men and five women plus two reserves have been empaneled for the trial which is expected to continue for up to one month before Justice Bob Douglas. 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
Re: [CTRL] Uncovering the Dark Side of the world wide web
-Caveat Lector- How did Buchanan International obtain data like this without having full access to password protected sites? Buchanan International appears to be either the world's largest pornography patron or the most prolific hacker. If I had a porn site I would be considering legal action. Kris Millegan wrote: The programmers found that more than 20,000 new hosts for pornography sites were being created daily. The average site contained just 43 images, and 98 per cent held almost no original material. However, some sites had more than 100,000 images. The porn-viewing public - which forms just 2.5 per cent of the database - cannot keep up: the number of sites is growing exponentially but the number of visitors to them only linearly, says Whitelaw. Child pornography, much of it now originating in eastern Europe, is a big growth industry, he adds. For the past decade, Buchanan has provided security software and criminal-tracking services to the police, security services, banks, the RUC and utilities such as airports and oil rig operators. Recently, it was involved in tracing the international tentacles of the vast Wonderland paedophile ring, which led directly to hundreds of arrests. One password used by the ring took 35 days for Buchanan to crack. 1stUp.com - Free the Web Get your free Internet access at http://www.1stUp.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] RadTimes # 78
-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 78 - October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Contents: --- --Crackdown On "Democracy Now!" [Pacifica] --'Big Brother' Could Soon Ride Along in Back Seat --147 arrested at parade standoff [Columbus] --Tribes, activists can use Columbus dispute to teach their history --- Begin stories: --- Crackdown On "Democracy Now!" By Amy Goodman Introductory Note from Michael Albert: I received a long letter today sent by Amy Goodman to the Pacifica Board. The letter, included below in full, reveals Pacifica's efforts to curtail Democracy Now. For those who don't know her, Amy Goodman's work embodies meticulous care, huge talent, outrageous courage, and tireless audacity. The show she hosts, Democracy Now!, is one of the few effective sources of honest analysis and reporting in the United States. Over the past few years Pacifica's authorities have coercively transformed a people's network into a nearly mainstream structure. They have claimed to be trying to increase Pacifica's progressive outreach, but even Pacifica' s authorities can't expect anyone to believe that attacking Democracy Now! is progressive. Cutting off Democracy Now will sunder Pacifica's ties with its progressive listenership and its current donor base. The intent of the actions can only be to replace Pacifica's progressive audience with a more upscale and mainstream one. In short, Pacifica's leadership wants radio content that will get them invitations to hobnob with CEOs of the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. So what should be done? Amy Goodman and Democracy Now should be supported to the full extent that their listening public and the entire progressive community can manage. Whether this means inundating Pacifica's board members with dissenting opinions by email and faxes, organizing together to demonstrate at Pacifica stations or affiliates, or even organizing at the board members' dwellings and workplaces, is up to you. But the point is to make crystal clear to these people that mainstreaming Pacifica is not going to increase its "owners" status and power, but will instead bring misery and shame upon them. Pacifica's dissolution is sordid and impermissible. It should call forth whatever dissent is required to convince the Pacific Board to change its tune. For a start, if you are in the area, please attend protests outside local Pacifica stations in support of "Democracy Now!" (Details at: http://www.mediademocracynow.org Then, consider communicating with the folks listed below... Pacifica National Board Bessie Wash, Pacifica executive director phone: (toll free) 888-770-4944 x348, [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Acosta, chair Phone: (713) 926-4604, FAX: (713) 921-2780, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken Ford, vice chair Phone: (202) 822-0228, FAX: (202) 822-0369, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lynn Chadwick, former executive director, now "consultant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Mary Frances Berry, former chair, now Board member Phone: (202) 337-0382, FAX: (202) 376-7558, [EMAIL PROTECTED] June Makela, at-large member Phone: (212) 673-9225 or (212) 768-1831, Fax (212) 673-9225, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Millspaugh, WBAI Phone: (212) 741-0839, FAX: (212) 924-7409, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Farrell - KPFK Phone: (323) 299-3800 X 255, FAX: (323) 299-3896, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee, Bertram M Phone: (202)965-6223, 965-6224 John M. Murdock Phone: 202-861-0900, FAX: 202-296-2882, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Palmer, KPFT Phone: (713) 840-6646 or (713) 960-8583, FAX: 713-960-8583, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karolyn Van Putten, at large member Phone: (415) 771-1160, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wendell L. Johns, WPFK Phone: (202) 752-8193, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea Cisco, WBAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete Bramson, KPFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rabbi Aaron Kriegel, KPFK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomas Moran, KPFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Robinson, WPFW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leslie Cagan, WBAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beth Lyons, WBAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valerie Chambers, KPFT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amy Goodman's Letter To: Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash and Board of Directors From: Amy Goodman Cc: Personnel File Date: 10/18/00 A few days ago, I was given a shocking memo from Pacifica Program Director Stephen Yasko and Pacifica attorney Larry Drapkin. In the 3-page memo, Yasko listed a series of Pacifica policies and work rules that I was ordered to immediately adhere to or face "disciplinary actions up to and including termination." Yasko handed me the memo during a meeting in the law offices of my union, AFTRA, at a gathering that my union representatives and I had been led to
[CTRL] OS: [Not] dying in defense of freedom
-Caveat Lector- Not) dying in defense of freedom By Charley Reese Commentary Published in The Orlando Sentinel on October 22, 2000 Every time American military personnel are killed, someone inevitably trots out the cliché: "They died in defense of freedom." If we are ever to construct a peaceful world and to save the lives of our military personnel, then we are going to have to stop lying. The 17 young Americans killed by a bomb in the harbor of Yemen were brave and loyal Americans. We mourn their loss. But they did not die in defense of freedom. They died to protect contracts British and American oil companies have in the Persian Gulf. They died to maintain a cruel embargo against the people of Iraq. They most likely died because of America's one-sided support of Israel. What country in the Persian Gulf is a threat to American freedom? Not one. The very idea is absurd on its face. The Americans who lost their lives in Somalia did not die in defense of freedom. Somalia was in a state of anarchy. They died trying to enforce the meddling by the United Nations in the internal affairs of Somalia. They died because some jerk of an admiral decided he would play sheriff and arrest one of the very competent warlords in Somalia. They died because the Clinton Administration refused to send the backup America's military men on the ground had requested. But they did not die in defense of freedom. There was no freedom in Somalia. Somalia's competing warlords were not a threat to anyone but their own people. You have to go back to the Vietnam War to find Americans who died in defense of freedom, and even in that war, they died in defense of someone else's freedom, not Americans'. It is interesting to note that the American left bitterly opposed that war and never hesitated to slander American soldiers and even harass their families. Apparently the left, which now occupies Washington, doesn't like wars against communists. Oddly enough, as long as it doesn't have to fight them, the left seems eager to make war on non-communist countries. Since Vietnam, no American serviceman has died in defense of freedom. They have died to carry out the imperialistic policies of the central government in Washington. Often soldiers have died to protect or advance economic interests of which they were not even aware. The U.S. government has worked hard to turn the American armed forces into a mercenary force. And that is something that the American people should not tolerate. One area where I part company with libertarians is that I believe that all American males should take a turn in the military. An army of citizen-soldiers is the best protection against political leaders turning the army against its own citizens. No American fighting man should ever die except in defense of his own country. No American force should ever attack any country that is not attacking or preparing to attack the United States. And no American serviceman should ever, under any circumstances, serve under the command of foreigners. Wars and acts of terrorism are born out of America's unjust foreign policy. Unless we change that policy, Americans will face a new century of wars, large scale and small scale. Unless we change that policy, Americans will continue to die in places where they have no legitimate reason to be and killed by people who, were it not for American injustice, would have no reason to wish us harm. We owe it to the men and women of the armed forces to give them a government and policy worthy of their sacrifice. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = n 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
[CTRL] OT: USNWR: Saving a Crippled Ship
-Caveat Lector- Saving a Crippled Ship The first account of how the crew of the USS Cole kept their ship afloat By Richard J. Newman U.S. News and World Report Even at ground zero, there was widespread confusion about just what had happened to the USS Cole after a terrorist bomb ripped a 40-foot gash in its side on October 12. In her stateroom, Lt. Ann Chamberlain, the ship's navigator, was preparing a PowerPoint briefing on the next leg of the journey. Without warning, she says, there was "something like a bang." The ship began to quake. Smoke billowed, and alarms started ringing. "I thought it was something that had hit the ship, that something had gone wrong with the refueling," she says. "I was just confused." Topside, sailors seemed to be moving in fast forward. Crew members raced back and forth, tending to dozens of wounded comrades and shifting into damage-control procedures they had rehearsed ad nauseam. Several of the Cole's armed lookouts jumped onto the fueling pier in the Yemeni port of Aden that was filling the ship's tanks. With guns drawn, they shouted at the half-dozen pier workers to put their hands in the air. The workers complied, but begged to turn off the fuel nozzles before a fire erupted. The guards agreed. As the dust settled, sailors were beginning to grasp the severity of the damage done to their ship. As Chamberlain scrambled to the bridge, she first realized something disastrous had occurred when a chief petty officer crawled out from below decks, his head heavily bandaged, and told her that "it was much worse" for others still trapped down there. She soon saw sailors with severe burns, multiple fractures, and other alarming injuries. Within hours, of course, American officials had begun to piece together what had happened. A small boat posing as one of several harbor craft tending to the 505-foot warship had puttered up to the Cole's port side. Two men on the boat then ignited a bomb that destroyed several of the ship's major compartments, killed 17 sailors, and injured nearly 40 more. Yet the early accounts of the bombing still fail to capture the damage done to the ship, and the horrors faced by the crew, according to eyewitness reports that are beginning to filter home from Aden Harbor. "It looked so much worse than I had imagined," said one sailor who viewed the Cole shortly after the attack. It was "unbelievable really, with debris and disarray everywhere, the ship listing, the hole in her side." Contrary to the Navy's official reports, the Cole was in the midst of refueling when the explosion happened. Tariq Affara of Arab Investment Manufacturing and Trading Co.the firm the Navy had hired to provide fueltold U.S.News that the Cole began mooring procedures at 8:45 a.m. local time on October. 12. A number of harbor boats operated by a different Yemeni firm called Al-Mansoob Commercial Groupunaffiliated with Arab Investmentbegan hauling the Cole's huge mooring lines out to stationary buoys. By 9:23 the ship was "all fast"solidly moored. Pier workers sent over two fueling lines. At 10:25, sailors on the Cole gave the "order to receive" and the pier workers turned on the fuel flow. Nobody aboard the Cole or the fueling pier seems to have noticed anything unusual until the small boat approached the Cole about an hour later. It is even likely that nobody on the Cole noticed the two men on the boat as they dropped the lines they were handling and stood upas eyewitnesses on shore reported--evidently preparing for the blast. By that time, the boat was probably so close to the Cole that it was underneath the decks that slope up and outward from the ship's centerline. The explosion occurred at about 11:20. To people nearby, it was rapidly apparent that something catastrophic had happened. The blast knocked the 17 million-pound warship into the fueling pier. Windows on a small office on the structure shattered, injuring workers. On land, about half a mile away, two American missionaries reported that their house shook from the blast. Their small adjacent church filled with dust. Inside the Cole, the damage was far more extensive than even a 40-by-45-foot hole would suggest. "The pictures on the news do absolutely no justice to the damage caused to the ship," says another sailor who has seen the Cole. One of the ship's two main engine roomsa three-story compartment about 66 feet wide and 50 feet longwas virtually destroyed by the blast. Flooding reached to the upper level of the compartment. One reason it took the Navy a week to recover the remains of all 17 sailors killed is that divers initially were unable to disentangle bodies from the twisted wreckage. Ultimately, they had to use underwater power tools to cut the bodies free. The blast also demolished at least two mess halls. One was pancaked so severely that the floor and ceiling became almost inseparable. "What used to be a distance of about 10 feet is now a matter of inches,
[CTRL] ET: Bush pledges to pull troops out of Balkans
-Caveat Lector- Electronic Telegraph-Sunday 22 October 2000 Bush pledges to pull troops out of Balkans By David Wastell in Washington GEORGE W BUSH plans to pull the United States out of all peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo if he gets to the White House, a close aide said yesterday. His action would, to the dismay of Britain and other European allies, force a fundamental rethink of Nato. With the Texas governor edging ahead in the final stages of the presidential campaign, his senior national security aide, Condoleezza Rice, said that Mr Bush wants peacekeeping in the Balkans to become the sole responsibility of the Europeans as part of a "new division of labour" within the Atlantic alliance. It was time for the Europeans to "step up to their responsibilities", Miss Rice said. "Unless we set this as a firm goal we will never get it done." Mr Bush has said repeatedly that he wants America's European allies to shoulder more of the burden in the Balkans, despite the fact that the 11,400 US troops on the ground make up less than one-fifth of the 65,000-strong Nato force in the region. Miss Rice's remarks are the first indication that he plans to go further, restricting America's role to providing air and logistics support and holding its 120,000-strong force in Europe in reserve for wars elsewhere. The move could lead to pressure within America to scale back the number of troops in Europe, although Miss Rice insisted that it was not a prelude to withdrawal. Miss Rice said in an interview with the New York Times: "The United States is the only power that can handle a showdown in the Gulf, mount the kind of force that is needed to protect Saudi Arabia and deter a crisis in the Taiwan Strait. Extended peacekeeping detracts from our readiness and these kinds of global missions." Mr Bush's thinking is in sharp contrast to Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, who favours a wider role for American troops in preventing conflicts. Most European members of Nato, including Britain, want the US to continue to share the risks of operations in the Balkans. Wesley Clark, the retired US Army general, who commanded Nato in the Kosovo campaign, said: "If we want to have any influence on Nato in the Balkans we are probably at the bottom line . . . If we want to be part of this we can't do much less." Mr Bush scents electoral victory after weeks of uncertainty over whether he or Mr Gore would break first for the finishing tape at the end of their year-long marathon. With little more than two weeks to go until the election, a grinning Mr Bush waggled his eyebrows and gave a silent thumbs-up when asked if he liked the latest poll numbers, the best of which put him 10 points ahead. From a man who doggedly insisted the previous evening that he paid little attention to opinion polls, it was the nearest he would come to declaring: "You bet!" The Bush campaign hopes that his slight lead will open up as the Democrats' supporters lose interest in Mr Gore, especially once they see him as the loser. Mark McKinnon, Mr Bush's media strategist, said: "I've always believed that if this thing is even going into the election we are going to win, because our people are excited and theirs are not." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] Fwd: Gulf War Syndrome Still A Mystery
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[CTRL] UFO Disclosures By Insider Russian Major General
-Caveat Lector- From: 'alt.paranet.ufo'. Original Message Subject: Verified: Russian Military Admits UFO Reality! // State Debunker O-Borg Has Egg On His Face! Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:26:03 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Richard X. Frager, A.S.A.) Organization: Brotherhood of Galactic Science Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic Russian General Speaks Out! Interview with Major-General Vasily Alexeyev of the Russian Air Force. Space Communications Centre, Moscow, 1997 from http://hesemann.m-n-d.com/alexejev.html On behalf of 2000 FILM PRODUCTIONS, Michael Hesemann's internationally active company, our Russian co-worker and correspondent Valery Uvarov interviewed one of the most knowledgeable Russian/Ex-Soviet Generals, Major General Vasily Alexeyev, on the subject of UFOs. The text was released exclusively in the German edition of MAGAZINE 2000plus in May 2000. Here we publish, for the first time, its full text in English. A video recording of the full interview is available for interested TV stations. VU - Valery Uvarov, VA - Major General Vasili Alexejev VU: As a military man when did you first hear about or have to do with UFOs? VA: If we are speaking about my military capacity, it was in the 1980s when I happened to be serving not in a regular unit, but in the central staff. Work in the central staff entails close links with the units in the field and a large amount of travelling. There were many reports from unit level regarding a large number of observations of unexplained phenomena. You should bear in mind that at that time much was simply denied. The subject was to a large extent a closed one. On the ground, however, people wanted to find out what was what, to separate truth from fiction. In that period a lot of things were presented in such a way that you lost the desire to believe. Accordingly an attitude to the subject became established, where not only was there no desire to believe, it was even undesirable to believe. Nevertheless the information coming in from the bases was of interest if only because it was not merely talk and rumours; there were eye-witnesses to phenomena and that was reflected in specific documents and the reports of officials. At times this information was of such a fascinating nature that it was impossible not to believe it. Later the question no longer seemed so fantastic and began to be examined at the level not only of the Defence Ministry, but of other government departments as well. This interest specifically expressed itself in certain experts being sent to investigate, especially to those places where UFOs, let's call them that, appeared quite frequently. I know a whole number of military bases in that category. As a rule they are objects of strategic significance, rocket complexes, scientific test establishments, in other words the places where there is a high concentration of advanced science and, to some degree, danger. Because every nuclear rocket, every new airforce installation represents a breakthrough both in science and in military terms; it is first and foremost a peak, the summit of human achievement. And that is where UFOs appeared fairly often. Moreover, individual officers and commanders on the spot who knew about the phenomenon and had no official instructions on the matter, acted on their own initiative to investigate UFOs, recording data, and so on. I know that in some places they even learned to create a situation which would deliberately provoke the appearance of a UFO. A UFO would appear where there was increased military activity connected, say, with the transportation of "special" loads. It was enough artificially stimulate or schedule such a move for a UFO to appear. In other words, some kind of conditional relationship emerged. And they detected it. We're an intelligent nation, nothing escapes us. I know that at certain testing ranges - I won't name them, although it's no longer a secret - they even learnt to make contact of a kind. What did that consists of? First the UFO appeared; in most instances it was a sphere, but there were other kinds. Contact was achieved with the help of physical indications of behaviour - pointing your arms in various directions, say, and the sphere became flattened in the same direction. If you raised your arms three times, the UFO flattened out in a vertical direction three times as well. In the early 1980s, on the instructions of the then Soviet leadership, experiments using technical devices (theodolites, radar stations, and others) were carried out as a result of which the unidentified objects were firmly recorded as instrumental data. VU: Can you say on what level those researches took place? While studying the material from those observations and the contents of certain documents I formed the impression that the prime reason for circulars and orders on this matter in the armed forces was that they most likely considered UFOs a new sort of weapon
[CTRL] Go to Israel, stay in 5 star hotel, get shot at, all for only $875
-Caveat Lector- [I'd go in a heart beat...*IF* I was supplied a mini-Uzi, helmet, body armour, and gas mask as I departed the plane, and only if I was to incur NO OUT OF POCKET EXPENCES, PERIOD (I'd eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and sleep in a tent at/near the lines, even). --MS] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:55:25 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Virtual Jerusalem News [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VJ News: An Offer from our Sponsors Virtual Jerusalem.com http://www.virtualjerusalem.com October 20, 2000 *AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL "For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still." (Isaiah 62:1) The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish National Fund, and Israel Bonds are among the many organizations that are joining together to sponsor the Unity Mission to Israel. From Sunday, October 29 to Thursday, November 2, American Jewry will travel to Israel to show support for the Jewish state and its people. We cannot allow Israel to be isolated from the rest of the world, and its people forgotten. We write you today to ask that you join us in standing in unity with the people of Israel. We cannot allow violence and terrorism to have a stranglehold on Israel and her economy. Stand up for Israel's soldiers, citizens and communities. Show your support for Israel at this crucial time. Make your voice heard. Join organizations from across the United States and meet with Israel's top political and military leadership and learn from them what is truly happening on the ground. Meet with high-level American diplomats, Israeli and American journalists and organizational leadership. Rally with Israelis in support of the State of Israel. Visit the Western Wall, the Kotel -- the enduring symbol of Israel's capital, Jerusalem. Visit the sites of arson in Israel's forests, where "environmental terrorism" threatens the roots of Zionism. For only $875*, JNF Travel Tours will fly you to and from Israel from New York; provide two nights of 5-star hotel accommodations at the Sheraton Plaza Jerusalem; some meals; and help you make a statement in unity with Israel. To register for this singular opportunity to stand in unity with Israel and show your support for our Homeland, you can: * call JNF Travel Tours in the US Toll-Free at (877) 749-8444 with your information * e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with all of the information requested on the registration form *Based on double occupancy ($125 single-supplement). Business class and extensions are available for an additional fee. All arrangements are being provided by JNF Travel Tours. For questions and reservations, contact JNF Travel Tours directly. ===FROM OUR SPONSORS === --- You are currently subscribed to vjnews as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe click on the following link: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This will open a new message in your email program. Please leave the subject and the body of the message blank, and click the "Send" button. Replying to this newsletter directly will not unsubscribe you; you must click on the above link. 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] WP: China Spy Probe Shifts to Missiles
-Caveat Lector- China Spy Probe Shifts to Missiles By Walter Pincus and Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 19, 2000; Page A01 A new review of Chinese military documents provided by a defector in 1995 has led U.S. intelligence agencies to conclude that Chinese espionage has gathered more American missile technology than nuclear weapons secrets, senior U.S. officials said. The conclusion was reached only this year because the CIA and other intelligence agency linguists did not fully translate the huge pile of secret Chinese documents, totaling 13,000 pages, until four years after the agency obtained them, according to a senior law enforcement official, who described the delay as a major blunder. The belated translation and analysis has prompted a major reorientation of the FBI's investigation into Chinese espionage. From 1996 until late last year, the FBI probe centered on the suspected loss of U.S. nuclear warhead data, and quickly narrowed into an investigation of Wen Ho Lee, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Now, however, the FBI--which never found evidence that Lee spied for China--has shifted its focus to the Defense Department and its private contractors. That is because the documents provided by the defector show that during the 1980s, Beijing had gathered a large amount of classified information about U.S. ballistic missiles and reentry vehicles. The missile secrets are far more likely to have come from defense officials or missile builders than from Los Alamos or other U.S. nuclear weapons labs, officials said. The shift in the investigation's focus follows several years of highly public and controversial efforts by the FBI, CIA and Energy Department to determine whether China stole the designs of advanced nuclear warheads from the United States, and if so, whether Beijing was aided by U.S. spies. Plagued by internal disputes between agencies, partisan pressures from Congress, and an apparently mistaken decision to focus on Lee, counterintelligence investigators were slow to review the full 13,000 pages that originally sparked the inquiry. The CIA concluded several years ago that the defector who supplied the documents was a Chinese double agent, casting doubt on the information he delivered and delaying its translation from Mandarin to English. But the FBI, which has interviewed the defector in the United States, believes that he is legitimate. The CIA now says the evidence about the defector is "inconclusive," but agrees that the information he handed over has proven accurate, a senior government official said this week. The FBI, officials said, pressed for translating more of the document and, to support its case, began to question directly the Chinese informant, a former Chinese missile specialist whom the bureau brought to the United States. Although the FBI refused to say where he is now living, a senior intelligence official said earlier this week, "We know his whereabouts." Because the informant was a volunteer who approached the United States with an unsolicited offer to provide Chinese secrets, he is known in intelligence jargon as a "walk-in." He smuggled the documents out of China through DHL, the private delivery company, according to a former intelligence official who has reviewed much of the translated material. The documents appear to be a five-year "strategic plan" for development of China's new generation of missiles, the former official said. Another intelligence expert familiar with the material described it as "an embarrassment of riches." When the walk-in first delivered the documents, a senior U.S. official said, the CIA read and translated the titles of each major portion, then ordered a full translation of a 76-page section dealing with "nuclear" information--data on U.S. warheads, including the most advanced weapon in the U.S. arsenal, the W-88. One nuclear weapons official familiar with the process said the CIA had Chinese linguists read the documents for "intelligence purposes," to see whether they contained valuable information about Chinese missiles and warheads, and decided they did not. The agency did not perform a "counterintelligence review" to determine whether they contained classified information about U.S. missiles and warheads, the official said. Because of the CIA's belief that the walk-in was a double agent, a full translation of the documents seemed less pressing. "He failed an agency polygraph," one intelligence official explained. The CIA's suspicions about the informant also slowed the FBI's already limited investigation at Los Alamos of Wen Ho Lee. Another reason for the FBI's limited inquiry at Los Alamos in 1996 and 1997, a former FBI agent said, was that the bureau's Chinese counterintelligence agents were "already swamped" by highly publicized allegations of Chinese campaign contributions to the 1996 Democratic presidential campaign. One official who did pay attention to the
[CTRL] NM: Hunt for Gertz's Moles at the CIA
-Caveat Lector- Newsmax-Inside Cover Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000 Hunt for Gertz's Moles at the CIA Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz has ignited several major "mole hunts" at the agency to find leakers. Gertz is the trailblazing reporter who has uncovered the Clinton-Gore administration sellout of America's national security during the past eight years. Just this month Gertz broke the story of Gore having worked with the Russians to keep the transfer of nuclear technology secret from the U.S. Congress. Gertz's revelations show that the once highly regarded intelligence agency has been politicized by the administration at almost every level. CIA source tells NewsMax.com that only about 10 percent of the agency staff oppose President Clinton's efforts to politicize the agency. Internal CIA buzzwords like "team players" and "team work" mean just one thing: the CIA is to advocate Clinton-Gore foreign policy no matter what. Still, some stalwarts at the CIA don't like the drift of the agency from an independent intelligence and analysis operation to one that "advocates" foreign policy positions. CIA source says the agency has made a full-time effort to find leakers, including inventorying telephone calls of CIA employees to find a Gertz connection. Also a new procedure at the agency has employees sign logs before looking at classified data in hopes of catching the Gertz moles. Too bad the same procedure wasn't instituted with the FBI files taken by the White House in a "bureaucratic snafu." 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] Palestinian Child Sacrifice
-Caveat Lector- Subject: [imra-l] Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg: Palestinian Child Sacrifice Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:36:20 +0200 Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg: Palestinian Child Sacrifice Monday, October 23, 2000 According to the Palestinians, over 40 children have been killed in the waves of violence and confrontations that began at the end of September. They have been killed in the front lines, providing cover for the armed Palestinian militias with machine guns and other weapons seeking to overwhelm isolated Israeli guard posts. The outnumbered Israeli soldiers, defending the civilians behind these outposts, cannot see the children through the small slits and openings (as was clearly the case at the Netzarim crossing in Gaza). The tragic images of these young victims provide first-rate propaganda to use against Israel. Interviewed by journalists after these tragedies, some parents of these young victims refer to their children as "shaheeds" (martyrs), whose lives were given willingly and proudly to the Palestinian cause in fighting the hated Zionist enemy. In a scene that was unbelievably shocking, one mother boasted that she bore her son precisely for this purpose, and the father proudly claimed credit for providing the training. (The parents will also receive a sizeable financial "reward" from the Palestinian Authority.) For a people who count Abraham (or Ibrahim) among their ancestors, this willful child sacrifice violates the fundamental tenets of morality and ethics. The message of Abraham's non-sacrifice of Isaac was and remains first and foremost the absolute rejection of such practices. This prohibition, for the children of Abraham -- Jews, and later Christians, and Moslems -- stands in sharp contrast to the paganism and idolatry that existed at that time, and apparently still exists in some cultures. Child sacrifice was the most fundamental expression of idolatry, and forms the basis for the central Biblical message, prohibiting any contact with or tolerance for such practices. That the Palestinian leadership could encourage such behavior as part of their political and military campaign against Israel, or for any other purpose, is beyond belief or explanation. After first buying into the Palestinian propaganda, the forces of morality in the world are beginning to confront this horrible reality. Sweden's Queen Silvia was among the first voices of conscience outside of Israel to raise this issue. In a meeting of the World Childhood Foundation that took place at the United Nations, she strongly criticized Palestinian parents for abusing their children in this way. "As a mother I'm very worried about this. I'd like to tell them to quit. This is very dangerous. The children should not take part." While the Palestinian leaders were cynically pursuing their political efforts to isolate Israel in a special meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Swedish Queen placing the responsibility precisely where it belongs, declaring, "The Palestinian leaders are exploiting them and risking their lives in a political fight." Queen Silvia's is not the only voice to be raised against this practice. A few journalists have begun to ask difficult questions to the Palestinian spokesmen whose presence on interview programs in newspaper reports is so ubiquitous. There are, of course, no good answers, and the questions themselves, as well as the very visible discomfort of the Palestinians, speak for themselves. The dispatch of children to the front lines, in a brutal war that has no purpose or justification, will haunt Palestinian society for generations. Indeed, there are also an increasing number of Palestinians who are upset by the high price of Arafat's adventures, and, in particular, the cynical exploitation of their children. As these young victims are buried, and the war produces only more suffering, primarily for the Palestinians themselves, the promise of martyrdom seems less appealing. Suddenly, the game of provoking the Israeli soldiers and playing before the news cameras, while Palestinian gunmen fire from behind, has become deadly. Eventually, enough of these parents, and the children themselves, will bring the sacrifices for Arafat's war to a stop. They will need the support from many other parents and voices of morality around the world. Instead of investigating politically based charges of Israeli human rights violations, Mary Robinson, the commissioner responsible for human rights for the UN can save the lives of Palestinian children by following the lead of Queen Silvia. The committee for the Defense of Children International (DCI), based in Geneva, has an important role to play as well. The Palestinian branch of DCI, which is supported by donations designed for protecting children, uses these funds for propaganda attacks against Israel, while ignoring the abuses of children by the Palestinian leadership.
[CTRL] Soul-searching doctors find life after death
-Caveat Lector- The Electronic Telegraph Sunday 22 October 2000 Soul-searching doctors find life after death By Jonathan Petre THE first scientific study of "near-death" experiences has found new evidence to suggest that consciousness or the "soul" can continue to exist after the brain has ceased to function. The findings by two eminent doctors, based on a year-long study of heart attack survivors, could provoke fresh controversy over that most profound of questions: is there life after death? Reports of "near-death" experiences, in which people close to death have vivid encounters with bright lights and heavenly beings, date back centuries, but the phenomenon has been treated with scepticism by most academics. The new study concludes, however, that a number of people have almost certainly had these experiences after they were pronounced clinically dead. This would suggest that the mind or consciousness can survive the death of the brain - a conclusion that was hailed by clerics last night as supporting religious faith. Bishop Stephen Sykes, the professor of theology at Durham University and chairman of the Church of England's Doctrine Commission, said the findings were "absolutely fascinating". He added: "I do not find them surprising, however, as I believe life is much more mysterious than we usually think it is. For theologians, the soul is far more than consciousness or the mind. But these findings challenge the crude idea that when a person's brain dies, that, as far as the person's existence is concerned, is that." The Bishop of Basingstoke, the Rt Rev Geoffrey Rowell, another commission member, said: "These near-death experiences counter the materialist view that we are nothing more than computers made of meat." Based on interviews with survivors of heart attacks at Southampton General Hospital's cardiac unit, the new study is to be published in the respected medical journal Resuscitation next year. The study's authors, Dr Peter Fenwick, a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and Dr Sam Parnia, a clinical research fellow and registrar at Southampton hospital, stress that more research is needed. Dr Parnia said: "These people were having these experiences when we wouldn't expect them to happen, when the brain shouldn't be able to sustain lucid processes or allow them to form memories that would last. So it might hold an answer to the question of whether mind or consciousness is actually produced by the brain or whether the brain is a kind of intermediary for the mind, which exists independently." Dr Fenwick said: "If the mind and brain can be independent, then that raises questions about the continuation of consciousness after death. It also raises the question about a spiritual component to humans and about a meaningful universe with a purpose rather than a random universe." During the study period, 63 cardiac arrest patients survived and were interviewed within a week. Of those, 56 had no recollection of their period of unconsciousness, a result that might have been expected in all cases. Seven survivors, however, had memories, although only four passed the Grayson scale, the strict medical criteria for assessing near-death experiences. These four recounted feelings of peace and joy, time speeded up, heightened senses, lost awareness of body, seeing a bright light, entering another world, encountering a mystical being and coming to a "point of no return". Three of them described themselves as non-practising Anglicans while the fourth was a lapsed Roman Catholic. By examining medical records, the researchers said the contention of many critics that near-death experiences were the result of a collapse of brain functions caused by lack of oxygen were highly unlikely. None of those who underwent the experiences had low levels of oxygen. Researchers were also able to rule out claims that unusual combinations of drugs were to blame because the resuscitation procedure in the hospital unit was the same in every case. Dr Parnia, who was trained at the Guys and St Thomas' medical school, University of London, said: "I started off as a sceptic but, having weighed up all the evidence, I now think that there is something going on. Essentially, it comes back to the question of whether the mind or consciousness is produced from the brain. If we can prove that the mind is produced by the brain, I don't think there is anything after we die because essentially we are conscious beings. "If, on the contrary, the brain is like an intermediary which manifests the mind, like a television will act as an intermediary to manifest waves in the air into a picture or a sound, we can show that the mind is still there after the brain is dead. And that is what I think these near-death experiences indicate." Christopher French, a reader in psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of
[CTRL] Vs: DavidIcke2000 THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
-Caveat Lector- McDonald Family http://surf.to/illuminati_news/ THE SATANIC BLOODLINES When one thinks of the name McDonald one immediately thinks of the fast food hamburger chain which has francises all over the world. The McDonald's Corp. has been rumored for years to be connected to Satanism. In fact a book which tries to debunk belief in a Satanic conspiracy entitled Satan Wants You reported the rumor that Mc Donald's owner Ray Kroc tithed to the Church of Satan. (see Satan Wants You, pg. 140). Ray Kroc does spend time with NWO elites and is a member of the Bohemian Grove. There is no doubt that the McDonald's Corp. has an inside track with the Illuminati, because the U.S. government has given according to one source 40 million dollars in public tax money to McDonalds to help them set up McDonald Restaurants in foreign countries under the disguise that this was money spent on foreign policy. In 1991, the total of McDonald outlets (restaurants) in the 3 primary European nations of Britain, France and West Germany totalled 959 restaurants. In spite of the millions of dollars of tax dollars the U.S. has given to McDonalds Corp., the money doesn't seem to be directly connected to the McDonalds family, because the McDonalds family (Richard and Maurice McDonald known as 'Dick" and "Mac") which started the restaurants in 1937 were bought out by Ray Kroc around 1954. By the time Ray Kroc had bought out the McDonald brothers, they had a very successful business going. The McDonald brothers lived in the rich section of San Bernadino, and had around 11 McDonald restaurants. The brothers made about $100,000 profit a year and were quite content. The McDonalds had designed the golden arches and had put together the tast food concept and had been selling franchises. However, the McDonalds were too content. The McDonalds didn't want to expand, and when Ray Kroc formed McDonald's System. Inc. on Mar. 2, 1955 after buying out the brothers with borrowed money, he vigourously went to work to develop Mconalds into the International Francise that it is. Ray Kroc (bn. 10/5/194)2 in Oak Park. Chicago) lived frugally for many years putting his whole life into building up the McDonald's francise. It was his drive that took a good idea and changed it from a success in Hollywood and San Bernadino into an international success. Ray Kroc knew a good idea when he saw it, and developed other people's good ideas into a great success. James A. Collins, chairman of Collins Foods International, now the largest Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee and the operator of Sizzler Restaurants talked about his time with the McDonalds in 1952, 'There was a fraternity of us, and every one of us saw the McDonald's in San Bernadino and basically copied it after the boys [the McDonald brothers gave us a tour." "We all took our lessons from the Mcdonald brothers," Collins remembers. The concepts that francises pay for the McDonald brothers were giving out free, and Collins turned around and began getting $100 a day training people from Carnation, with the concepts that the McDonalds had shared. Henry's Drive Ins and Ken's were McDonald look-alikes that started from people trained by Collins. Glen Bell who started Taco Bell, who patronized the McDonald's main restaurant in San Bernandino started Taco Bell from ideas from McDonalds. The first year Collins imitated McDonalds with his own fast food restaurant, Collins made $80,000 a year take home pay. The McDonald brothers became a part of the local elite of San Bernadino, CA along side such rich local families as Guthrie, Stater, and Harris. Readers are reminded of all the articles in my newsletters about how San Bernadino is a major headquarters for the Illuminati and Satanic Hubs because there are so many thousands of practicioners of black magic in the area. I do know from working with survivors of the Illuminati that the McDonald family has part of their people in the Illuminati. How far back does the McDonald family go in the occult? The McDonald family was a Scottish clan that was part of Druidism. Many of the McDonald have gone on to serve Christ. However, there is still a large powerful contingent of the McDonald family which is connected to the Mystery Religions, and which has family members who are part of the Illuminati. Each of the major Scottish clans had an area that they controlled of Scotland. The McDonalds controlled the islands and coastal areas on the west coast of Scotland. When the Knights Templars tied persecution, in order to escape the various british fleets, they sailed a route that took them to western Scotland. During the time of King Philippe IV of France. the McDonalds were involved in the movement of the Knights Templars. The Knights Templars had adopted gnostic/satanic practices during the centuries they guarded the pilgrims in the Middle East. The Order had also become
[CTRL] Vs: DavidIcke2000 THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
-Caveat Lector- McDonald Family http://surf.to/illuminati_news/ THE SATANIC BLOODLINES When one thinks of the name McDonald one immediately thinks of the fast food hamburger chain which has francises all over the world. The McDonald's Corp. has been rumored for years to be connected to Satanism. In fact a book which tries to debunk belief in a Satanic conspiracy entitled Satan Wants You reported the rumor that Mc Donald's owner Ray Kroc tithed to the Church of Satan. (see Satan Wants You, pg. 140). Ray Kroc does spend time with NWO elites and is a member of the Bohemian Grove. There is no doubt that the McDonald's Corp. has an inside track with the Illuminati, because the U.S. government has given according to one source 40 million dollars in public tax money to McDonalds to help them set up McDonald Restaurants in foreign countries under the disguise that this was money spent on foreign policy. In 1991, the total of McDonald outlets (restaurants) in the 3 primary European nations of Britain, France and West Germany totalled 959 restaurants. In spite of the millions of dollars of tax dollars the U.S. has given to McDonalds Corp., the money doesn't seem to be directly connected to the McDonalds family, because the McDonalds family (Richard and Maurice McDonald known as 'Dick" and "Mac") which started the restaurants in 1937 were bought out by Ray Kroc around 1954. By the time Ray Kroc had bought out the McDonald brothers, they had a very successful business going. The McDonald brothers lived in the rich section of San Bernadino, and had around 11 McDonald restaurants. The brothers made about $100,000 profit a year and were quite content. The McDonalds had designed the golden arches and had put together the tast food concept and had been selling franchises. However, the McDonalds were too content. The McDonalds didn't want to expand, and when Ray Kroc formed McDonald's System. Inc. on Mar. 2, 1955 after buying out the brothers with borrowed money, he vigourously went to work to develop Mconalds into the International Francise that it is. Ray Kroc (bn. 10/5/194)2 in Oak Park. Chicago) lived frugally for many years putting his whole life into building up the McDonald's francise. It was his drive that took a good idea and changed it from a success in Hollywood and San Bernadino into an international success. Ray Kroc knew a good idea when he saw it, and developed other people's good ideas into a great success. James A. Collins, chairman of Collins Foods International, now the largest Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee and the operator of Sizzler Restaurants talked about his time with the McDonalds in 1952, 'There was a fraternity of us, and every one of us saw the McDonald's in San Bernadino and basically copied it after the boys [the McDonald brothers gave us a tour." "We all took our lessons from the Mcdonald brothers," Collins remembers. The concepts that francises pay for the McDonald brothers were giving out free, and Collins turned around and began getting $100 a day training people from Carnation, with the concepts that the McDonalds had shared. Henry's Drive Ins and Ken's were McDonald look-alikes that started from people trained by Collins. Glen Bell who started Taco Bell, who patronized the McDonald's main restaurant in San Bernandino started Taco Bell from ideas from McDonalds. The first year Collins imitated McDonalds with his own fast food restaurant, Collins made $80,000 a year take home pay. The McDonald brothers became a part of the local elite of San Bernadino, CA along side such rich local families as Guthrie, Stater, and Harris. Readers are reminded of all the articles in my newsletters about how San Bernadino is a major headquarters for the Illuminati and Satanic Hubs because there are so many thousands of practicioners of black magic in the area. I do know from working with survivors of the Illuminati that the McDonald family has part of their people in the Illuminati. How far back does the McDonald family go in the occult? The McDonald family was a Scottish clan that was part of Druidism. Many of the McDonald have gone on to serve Christ. However, there is still a large powerful contingent of the McDonald family which is connected to the Mystery Religions, and which has family members who are part of the Illuminati. Each of the major Scottish clans had an area that they controlled of Scotland. The McDonalds controlled the islands and coastal areas on the west coast of Scotland. When the Knights Templars tied persecution, in order to escape the various british fleets, they sailed a route that took them to western Scotland. During the time of King Philippe IV of France. the McDonalds were involved in the movement of the Knights Templars. The Knights Templars had adopted gnostic/satanic practices during the centuries they guarded the pilgrims in the Middle East. The Order had also become
Re: [CTRL] Vs: DavidIcke2000 THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
-Caveat Lector- Ray Kroc does spend time with NWO elites and is a member of the Bohemian Grove. It's terribly difficult to give any credence to the rest of the article when they can't get a small detail straight, such as this. They speak of Mr. Kroc in the present tense. It would be truly miraculous if this were true today, as Ray Kroc has been dead since 1984. Mconalds into the International Francise that it is. Ray Kroc (bn. 10/5/194)2 Kroc was born in 1902. Another example of sloppy research. Those little details will get you every time. Readers are reminded of all the articles in my newsletters about how San Bernadino is a major headquarters for the Illuminati and Satanic Hubs because there are so many thousands of practicioners of black magic in the area. Evidence? I do know from working with survivors of the Illuminati that the McDonald family has part of their people in the Illuminati. How far back does the McDonald family go in the occult? Evidence? When the Knights Templars tied persecution, in order to escape the various british fleets, they sailed a route that took them to western Scotland. Again, sloppy research. The Templars were fleeing the French King, not the English. During the time of King Philippe IV of France. the McDonalds were involved in the movement of the Knights Templars. The Knights Templars had adopted gnostic/satanic practices during the centuries they guarded the pilgrims in the Middle East. The Order had also become the International Bankers of Europe and large landowners in Europe. The King of France twisted the Pope's arm (so to speak) to get him to go along with a campaign to eliminate the Knights Templars. Philippe's motivation was financial. He was heavily indebted to the Templars and wanted their treasure for himself. He didn't get it. then on to Amsterdam. Many of the Knights Templars lied to Scotland, where they helped Bruce, the King of Scotland. When the English invaded Scotland they were defeated by Bruce in an important battle named Bannockburn. Bannockburn kept Scotland free from England for the next 289 years. The Knights Templars fought with Bruce in the battle under the command of Angus Og McDonald, This has been rumored for centuries. Has new evidence come up to substantiate the rumor? The Sinclair family has been part of the Prieure de Sion, Freemasonry and the Illuminati. Just like "Prince" Michael of Albany, "Count" R.A. Guelfi, and "Prince" Michael Hohenzollern, to name a few of the dime-a-dozen noble wannabes. As long as Niven Sinclair insists on keeping the family archives a secret, then his true genealogy is doubtful. snip, no need to belabor the point I'm sure there are some facts in this article, but the author needs to pay more attention to detail in order to establish credibility. I'm not shooting the messenger here, that's why I left off the name of the person who posted this; I know he didn't write it. He may wish to clarify whether he believes this or not. Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and 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: [CIA-DRUGS] [Fwd: Golden Triangle, opium harvesting, heroin and solutions]
-- http://www.akha.com http://www.akha.org Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA By Visa Card Secure Site: https://www.givetocharity.com/cgi-bin/give.pl?CODE=10956 -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/16/_/475667/_/972278557/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Guy: The UNDCP has been up here for years. There is very little evidence that they do anything. My question and point was regarding US involvement. There is a large US drug war going on, large DEA office in Chiang Mai, D.A.R.E. programs, Billion or better for Columbia, etc etc, and yet no money spent in one of the most obvious places to spend it, at one of the sources here, though Thailand is being promised night vision equipment. Isn't this the kind of blindness that makes governments notorious? The US is a leader everywhere but in this category? Why is that? Matthew McDaniel Thailand "Schmidt, Guy" wrote: In response to your request; You could try to contact the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP). It consists of the United Nations International Drug Control Program and the United Nations Center for International Crime Prevention, is established to enable the Organization to focus and enhance its capacity to address the interrelated issues of drug control, crime prevention and international terrorism in all its forms. Contact information United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention Vienna International Center PO Box 500 A-1400 Vienna Austria Telephone: +43 1 26060 0 Fax: +43 1 26060 5866 Telex: 135612 UNO A Cable: unations vienna E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.undcp.org/ Thank You, ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse P.O. Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 800-666-3332 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov For more information on the Clearinghouse visit http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/about/clearinghouse.html -Original Message- From: Matthew McDaniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Golden Triangle, opium harvesting, heroin and solutions Dear Sir: ONDCP The White House, I am an American working with the Akha Hill Tribe in Thailand now for ten years. There are 282 Akha villages in Thailand, not to mention Burma, and in the case of the villages in Thailand many of these villages are directly located against the border with Burma in Chiangrai Province. I have also noted that Cobra Gold 2001 is going to have a Chiangrai Province Joint Drug Interdiction effort? The point is this. Nothing is being done to alleviate the poverty in these many villages. The Akha are loosing land to the forestry department, which is ruthless, and they do not have enough food or medicine. Usually they do not have Identification Cards that would allow travel and employment. It seems very strange to be fighting a drug war, when a group of people who used to be punished for not growing their quota of opium just a few years ago, a legacy of the fine British, are now not even considered part of the equation. Certainly some basic aid in the way of land security, land rights and nutrition for children would alleviate much need to be involved in any aspect of opium production or meth trafficing. Seems odd that this has been overlooked, here in the Golden Triangle, center of at least half the world's heroin supply and now a huge production area of speed pills. United Wa Army says that this month they are dumping 300,000,000 speed pills into Thailand. All this has to come past Akha villages. The Akha see the chemicals come in, the pills go out, and naturally, like you and I, wonder what is going on. Aid into the villages would be very useful in offering security to the Akha regarding nutrition. Currently the Akha are caught in a hammerlock. Drug lords who will gladly kill them, which I have witnessed, police, army and forestry who will gladly put them in prison. In an age when millions of dollars are being spent on the drug war, why are these key people being overlooked? Awaiting your kind reply, Matthew McDaniel Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand -- http://www.akha.com http://www.akha.org Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA By Visa Card Secure Site: https://www.givetocharity.com/cgi-bin/give.pl?CODE=10956 -- http://www.akha.com http://www.akha.org Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA By Visa Card Secure Site:
[CTRL] Fwd: USS Cole Security Detail Relieved Before Bombing
Bothersome Introductory Note: The USS Cole moors in Yemen, and the security detail is called off duty. Of course. Only a conspiracy theorist would find it significant that a battle ship docks at a location in the Middle East not too far from a desert hellhole where hostilities have escalated to shooting war status, known to harbor terrorists, AND THE SECURITY PEOPLE ARE RECALLED, I guess: ³ ... many armed crew members who had patrolled the decks on lookout for trouble during the mooring had been relieved of duty.² What the Hell is up with THAT??? Of course, I'm no conspiracy theorist (sniff), but sometimes you just HAVE to wonder. Alex Times of London MONDAY OCTOBER 23 2000 Bombers waved to crew before being blown up FROM IAN BRODIE IN WASHINGTON THE US Navy has significantly altered its account of the sneak attack on the USS Cole, raising new questions of how the suicide bombers foiled Navy security in Aden harbour. According to the revised version, the explosion that caused extensive damage, killing 17 American sailors and injuring 39, occurred nearly two hours after the destroyer was moored to a fuel dock and not during the mooring operation. This means that the terrorists who detonated the explosive did not use a flotilla of small mooring craft as cover, thereby making the attack all but impossible to prevent, as the Navy had previously claimed. It is unclear how the attacking boat Ñ now described as a white fibreglass skiff, rather than a rubber dinghy Ñ could have circled the shipÕs bow and sailed along its port side without arousing suspicion. Another unanswered question is how many armed crew members who had patrolled the decks on lookout for trouble during the mooring had been relieved of duty. Some of the crew waved to the two men on the boat, who waved back before standing to attention and being blown apart by the blast, which is now thought to have involved 500lb of powerful plastic explosive. It tore a huge, jagged hole in the destroyerÕs hull. The Navy admitted that its earlier statements were erroneous only after an independent newspaper that covers naval affairs reported a timeline of events that contradicted the official account. Explaining its revisions, the Navy said it had relied on initial reports relayed from the ship that were either wrong or misunderstood at the Pentagon. Either way, the change of story caused enough embarrassment and confusion for senior officers to be granted more time to prepare before testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee. The committee is investigating possible security lapses. It also wants to know why the Navy refuelled in Aden, which, by the admission of General Anthony Zinni, former US commander of the region, was in an area known as a ÒratsÕ nestÓ of terrorists. The general, now retired, told the committee that he decided to use Aden as the least dangerous of several poor choices, adding: ÒI pass that buck to nobody.Ó Another mystery, only now emerging, is why the Cole needed to refuel in Aden when its oil tanks were about half-full. The Navy refuses to say if the ship could have reached Bahrain, its destination, without refuelling, leading to speculation that it could. As for suggestions that a refuelling tanker should have accompanied the Cole and remove any risk of anchoring in a hazardous port, the Pentagon said that cuts have left the Navy with only eight tankers on active duty worldwide, an example of reduced defence resources that have been criticised by the Republican presidential ticket of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. In Aden, American investigators have established that the bombers, both in their late 20s, pushed off from a boat ramp under a bridge in Little Aden, six miles across the bay from the Cole. They had lived in the neighbourhood for about six weeks, using a Òsafe houseÓ, where they put together the boat and bomb. This much was traced after a 12-year-old boy said that two men had tipped him to watch their car and boat trailer. They never came back.
[CTRL] Fwd: RE: [CIA-DRUGS] THE WAR PROFITS BUSINESS
Santos was "in bed" with a lot of folks. What I have been curious about for many years is WHY, if he was in bed with Castro, did Castro's people 'hold him hostage' in Cuba in the mid 40's? What could have prompted that? There was a rescue mission planned to retrieve him and one of his cohorts from a military facility where they were being held, with plans to take out those guarding them of course -- but the mission was interrupted by the US government (who had initiated it and assisted in the planning). A relative was involved in this "mission...but never answered this question. WHAT could have prompted them to bail out? Other than Castro learning about it, or the gov being ticked off with Santos for collaborating with Fidel -- if that were true -- I haven't been able to come up with any answers. And WHAT would they have been in bed together on that would have upset the gov so much they'd bail out and risk his life? Do you think the 'hostage' thing could have been a hoax? So many of the participants are now deceased, and the ones who are alive are still witholding information (considering their lives and those of their families had been threatened, witholding info is understandable). I doubt it was a hoax, although things could have certainly gone so wrong that they'd have had to bail for reasons of National Security. wink Anyone got any ideas? On Monday, October 23, 2000 12:33 AM, Brian Downing Quig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: This is to be expected in the war profits business. Yes, the CIA contracted with the Mob because they did not want to use their own for through aways as the assassination plot was discovered at the last possible moment. I am glad someone besides me sees it that way. One part of the Gary Webb book DARK ALLIANCE gave Frank Kelso's account of a bar in Costa Rico where those of the 2 waring factions used to drink together between battles. And the battles are not with each other but against the non combatants. More than 90% of the casualities in these low intensity conflicts are non combatants. The military conflict is just an excuse to use massive brutality against pesants so that they will leave their ancestrial land. Nothing will end the incessant warefare on this planet other than a sober understanding that all sides are being financed by the same war profiteers. Brian Downing Quig Dan Russell wrote: This sort of goes to my point about money being the basis of military power, and prohibition artificially making drug dealing the basis of military power. That is, when you look at the FARC arms import system, as revealed by the Montesinos scandal, you see the same m.o. employed by Castro with Trafficante, or Alberto Sicilia Falcon, a CIA-Cuban, who armed any and all throughout Latin America, right, left or outlaw. In fact I wouldn't be in the least surprised to learn that Fidel was in bed with the "CIA's" Montesinos - he was in bed with Trafficante - that's why Trafficante's own very expert hit teams always missed - as Scott Breckinridge, the CIA's analyst of this, concluded. There simply is no way around the power of money. The vast coca plantations owned by the Colombia army's financiers are never touched by those antidrug CIA cropdusters. A childhood friend of mine, now a journalist who has lived in Colombia for the past 20 years, wrote to me, 10/99, ""A friend of mine, who works for national parks, just came back from the zone which the government handed over to the guerrilla to realize the peace negotiations. I have been reading a lot of newspaper reports about their terrorist rule there. What my friend tells me is that there is a kind of tense calm. What people are really worried about is that if the guerrilla withdraw, the place will be shot up by the paramilitaries, which happens all the time, just these random slaughters of civilians in zones controlled by the guerrilla (and vice versa) on the theory that if you are not with us, you are against us. But the interesting thing is this: just outside this zone is another town, only about fifteen miles away, where the paramilitaries are gathering and waiting to strike. But the paramilitaries rarely have groups of more than 200 armed men, where the guerrilla have thousands in this demilitarized zone. So what the hell is going on? Although the two are supposedly bitter enemies, you rarely hear of a combat between the paras and the guerrilla. This is just to give you some idea of how weird the situation is." Dan Russell www.drugwar.com www.kalyx.com -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/16/_/475667/_/972291396/"BClick Here!/B/A -_-
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS]Mafia caught attempting online bank fraud
The Mob and their friends at the Vatican Bank could certainly purchase a LOT of cocaine with 465 MILLION dollars... Mafia caught attempting online bank fraud by Philip Willan, IDG News Service\Rome Bureau October 03, 2000, 11:44 http://www.idg.net/ic_259384_1794_9-1.html (10/03/2000) - Italian police have arrested 21 people accused of participating in a massive online banking fraud that could have cost the Sicilian regional government more than 1 trillion lire (US$465 million), Italian authorities said today. Members of a criminal group with links to Cosa Nostra allegedly succeeded in "cloning" an online branch of the Banco di Sicilia and were preparing to remove funds from an account belonging to the Sicilian regional government, officials said. With the complicity of two bank employees and using stolen computer files, codes and passwords, the organization managed to penetrate the bank's information systems, said Mario Bo, director of the organized crime unit of the Palermo police mobile squad. "They carried out successful technical trials a few days ago" and were able to enter the bank's system, Bo said in a telephone interview. The accomplices on the bank staff would switch off the bank's personal computer at a prearranged time so that the "clone" could take over its role, he said. Technicians of the national carrier Telecom Italia also assisted the criminals, police said. The group allegedly was planning to steal 264 billion lire from the bank, officials said. The account contained European Union structural funds for regional development, and the money was to be transferred to a bank in the Bologna area, and from there, to bank accounts abroad, investigators said in a prepared statement. One of the possible destinations of the stolen money was the branch of a Portuguese bank, the Banco Espirito Santo e Comercial of Lisbon, in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to the Italian news agency AGI. Another foreign bank involved was the Vatican's Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). Telephone intercepts indicated that the group was looking for accomplices on the staff of the Vatican bank to help them conceal the stolen money, officials said. "They wanted to transfer funds into accounts at the Vatican bank, in which case it would have been impossible for the Italian state to recover them," Bo said. "The final destination of the money was abroad," said Francesco Gratteri, head of the police Central Operational Service (SCO) in Rome, which coordinated the investigation. "Members of the group spoke of several banks, including institutions in Portugal and Belgium," Gratteri said in a telephone interview. Police reportedly learned of the operation from informants who heard rumors that a criminal gang was seeking the assistance of dishonest bank directors to help them pull off their virtual heist. An undercover police officer posing as a bank manager obligingly offered his services. Police initially intended to monitor the first part of the criminal operation without making arrests but decided to intervene when they learned from telephone taps that the gang was planning to follow it up with a series of simultaneous online raids on the Banco di Sicilia, which could have netted more than 1 trillion lire, SCO director Gratteri said. The operation has implications for the security of online and telephone banking services, although it could not have been carried out successfully without the complicity of the Banco di Sicilia staff, officials said. "Security experts will have something to reflect on," said Bo, of the Palermo police. Police identified the ringleader of the gang as Antonio Orlando, 48, described as being close to one of Palermo's leading Mafia families and with previous arrests for fraud, money laundering and receiving stolen property. "The operation was certainly authorized by the Mafia, because here in Sicily any operation of economic importance requires the Mafia's permission," Bo said. "The Mafia definitely had an interest in it." "The new economy must be protected so that it can grow in complete legality," Giuseppe Lumia, chairman of the parliamentary anti-Mafia commission, said in a prepared statement. "The recent creation of a register of current accounts and banking operations is the best indication of this. If with a simple touch of a button one can transfer huge sums online, with the touch of another button the judiciary and the police will be able to follow the movements of suspect assets." Copyright ? 2000 International Data Group. All Rights Reserved. -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/16/_/475667/_/972293054/"BClick Here!/B/A -_-
[CTRL] Fwd: The World Bank and the Attack on Pensions in the Global South
Useful to integrate with the role of drug trafficking, arms sales and creation of their world debt by sales like Halliburton and Brown and Roots.. == http://www.globalaging.org/pension/world/pensions.htm The World Bank and the Attack on Pensions in the Global South Susanne S. Paul and James A. Paul Published originally as a Research Paper by Global Action on Aging and Global Policy Forum in July, 1994. WEED, a research association in Bonn, published excerpts in German in late 1994 and the Instituto del Tercer Mundo published it in book form as Asalto a las jubilaciones in Montevideo in October, 1995. The present revised version was published by the International Journal of Health Services [Vol. 25, No. 4 , 697-725] in December 1995. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Early Growth of Pension Systems 3. The Gathering Storm 4. The Great Pension Crisis 5. Pension Plans Come Apart 6. Attack on Pensions 7. State Pensions and the Alternatives 8. Links to Privatization and the Role of Foreign Firms 9. Pension Outlook in China 10. "Reforms" Worldwide 11. Family Support as an Alternative to Pensions 12. Income Support and Family Planning 13. Old-Age Poverty versus Children's Poverty 14. Means-Tested Welfarism 15. Provident Funds 16. Pensions, Income Security and the Very Poor: Alternatives 17. The "Dependency Ratio" Issue snd the Unemployment Trap 18. Pensions and the Future 1. Introduction Seventy-three-year-old Paula Duarte lived in a small rooming house on the Avenida de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires. When the Argentine government slashed pensions in early 1992, she began looking desperately for work. On August 20, 1992, still unemployed, she hanged herself with a nylon cord from a tree outside the University of Buenos Aires Law School. In her purse were just two pesos. (1)(2) In the weeks that followed, news of other elder suicides shocked Argentina. In Rosario, Maria del Carmen Castillo, 67, and her sister Maria Josefa, 59, killed themselves in the Parque Independencia; in Mar del Plata, Manuel Adolfo Calvo, 83, and Amadeo Natalio Montero, 76, shot themselves in the head; in the capital, a man of 70 hanged himself from the crossbars of a swing in the Parque Patricios; Juan Labagarre, 77, and Juana Suarez, 77, threw themselves under railroad trains; and in Rosario, Lionel Maniero, 65, walked into the headquarters of the government Program for the Elderly and shot himself in the bathroom. Twenty-three elder suicides of this kind in less than two months. (2) Bowing to pressure from the World Bank, the government of President Carlos Menem had cut payments for most of Argentina's three million pensioners to just $150 per month -- less than half the minimum needed for food and shelter in a country where urban prices are close to those in the United States. Even the country's middle class elderly--former teachers, government workers, corporate employees--found themselves suddenly among a "new poor," on the very margins of survival. (3) "They have seen their whole life expectations dissolve," commented Nélida Redondo, a writer on aging. "This is a very hard reality." (1) The Menem government's action reversed a long tradition of support for older citizens in Argentina, dating back to the early 1900's. Eva Peron, legendary wife of President Juan Peron, championed social security in the late 1940's, winning the hearts of the poor descamisados. Later governments built on her legacy, improving levels of support and extending pensions to nearly every citizen, even in the countryside. But in 1989, under pressure from international lenders, the government imposed a strict austerity program, setting the stage for the pension crisis three years later. By mid-1992, pensions had fallen to one sixth of their former level. "My husband and I paid into social security for forty-two years," commented angrily pensioner leader Norma Pla. "Where is that money now that we have reached old age?" (4) Similar cutbacks destroyed the incomes of millions of other pensioners in the South in the 1980's and early 1990's -- mainly in the industrialized countries of Latin America, where retirees had previously enjoyed the broadest and best-funded programs. Mexico's pension fund reserves collapsed to half their former level in the decade from 1977 to 1987. During the 1980's, pensions in Venezuela fell to just a sixth of their former value. Deep cuts and austerity-based reforms hit retirees in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, reversing decades of pension growth. 2. Early Growth of Pension Systems Industrializing Latin American countries set up government pension systems decades ago. Brazil established pensions for national railway workers in 1888 and broadened pensions to many others sectors in the 1920's. Argentina started a pension
[CTRL] Fwd: Israel's Democratic Independent Media Center.
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[CTRL] Millegan audio from 9/23/00 in LA up at cia-drugs.org
-Caveat Lector- The begining is missing and it ain't the best I done, but here tis. Om K 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] OEN 10/23/00
-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 - US Stocks Bottom Fishing by Alan Abelson Now, that's the proper way to mark an anniversary. Not with a simper but a bang. And we couldn't be more proud of Wall Street. It had every reason to hang out the crepe and fill the neighborhood with keening and lamentation. It had suffered a terrible mauling, and the bears, red in tooth and claw, were rearing up to wreak more havoc. All the ugly things that had spooked investors -- the molten mess in the Middle East, gushing oil prices, a rush of earnings disappointments by the once-charmed techs, an economy starting to evince a bit of a tremor -- if anything seemingly had grown even uglier. And into the bitter brew the calendar tossed a noxious potion: it was 13 years to the day that the market took its worst drubbing ever. Yet rather than slink about shadowed by memories of the terrible crash of '87, brave investors boldly chose to do something absolutely wild: Thumb their noses at fate and stage a rowdy anniversary celebration. And it worked -- boy, did it ever! Nasdaq, which at one miserable moment this month was down nearly 40% from its March high, went ballistic on Thursday, racking up its second-largest percentage gain and the third-biggest point gain for a session in the roughly three decades since the index was created. What a grand sight: Microsoft leading the charge and hard on its heels were most of the old tech gang, having burst out of the intensive care ward, their hospital gowns and IV trollies trailing merrily after them. A visitor from Mars unfamiliar with Street lingo might be forgiven for thinking, as the rally took off in earnest, the giddy crowd had pretty much gotten out of control, filling the air with salacious cries of "bottoms." We'd hate to have the little green man with antennae protruding from his forehead go back to his planet carrying the wrong impression. So if by chance you run into him, spring for a drink and gently explain to him the facts of investment life. Did we get a bottom Wednesday morning when the Dow cratered 435 points and then resolutely clawed its way back, recouping roughly three-quarters of the ground lost and setting the stage for the next day's rocket rise? The answer is unequivocally "yes!" We got a bottom, no question -- at least for the rest of last week. Beyond that, we can offer an equally unequivocal "Who knows?" Although we wouldn't want it to get around, since market strategists are human beings, too, with mouths to feed and big mortgages and the unremitting expense of constantly having to buy a new crystal ball, predicting the market is strictly a mug's game. And this mug's guess is that the lows should hold for a spell, maybe through the end of the year. But we don't think the market has made more than a temporary bottom and a precarious one at that. Understand, we have absolutely no quarrel with the impulse of investors to dump stocks the past couple of months; truth be known, we heartily endorse it. However, they've done a lot of unloading in a short space; indeed, hauling all those shares to the dumpster has made them plumb tuckered out and they plainly need a breather. Mutual funds, moreover, have just about exhausted their ritualistic October selling to establish tax losses to offset gains (yes, Virginia, hard as it is to believe, mutual funds sometimes really do have gains) and the mood hereabouts always lightens when that depressing business is over. However, even when the Dow broke 10,000 on the downside and Nasdaq was flirting with doing the same to 3,000, the market was still flagrantly overvalued and all the more so with the economy losing momentum and earnings estimates way too high. Besides, bear markets don't end and lasting bottoms aren't made when seasoned pros are fully invested and learned analysts still wait for a stock to drop from 60 to 4 before deciding it's not worth buying. If only there were an alchemist in the house who could turn complacency into oil, gasoline would be going for 50 cents a gallon and investors wouldn't need to ask if we'd seen the bottom. What we remember most vividly about the crash of '87 apart from the buckets of blood and gobs of gore (no exaggeration), was the fact that everyone claimed to have seen it coming. Which elicited a wonderful commentary, which we will eternally cherish, written by the incomparable Ben Stein and duly printed in this magazine a fortnight after the catastrophe. "The stock market's collapse of Oct. 19 and its aftermath," wrote Ben, "has left me and my wife the richest persons in the world and we got there without doing a thing! Here's how it happened: "According to various reports, the crash erased about $1 trillion in valuation on U.S. markets alone. But as far as I can tell, my wife and I were the only persons still invested in the stock market anywhere in the world as of
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: Gore, Bush, and the new economy, by Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/opinion/22KRUG.html The New York Times October 22, 2000 RECKONINGS Unsound Bytes? By PAUL KRUGMAN Last week George W. Bush accused Al Gore of "analog thinking in a digital age." It's a terrific line; my compliments to whoever wrote it. It's also a bit unfair. True, Mr. Gore didn't invent the Internet but then, he never said he had. What he did say was, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." That was a deeply unfortunate sentence but what makes it so unfortunate is that now it is impossible for Mr. Gore to get the credit he actually deserves. Declan McCullagh, the Wired writer who first played up Mr. Gore's remark, puts it this way: the vice president "was one of the first politicians to realize that those bearded, bespectacled researchers were busy crafting something that could, just maybe, become pretty important." For what it's worth, tech-sector C.E.O.'s seem to be divided about evenly between Messrs. Gore and Bush. That is a sharp contrast with C.E.O.'s at large, who overwhelmingly favor Mr. Bush a preference cynics might attribute to the large personal gains that people with seven- or eight-figure incomes would receive from that tax cut. Still, Mr. Bush is right: Mr. Gore doesn't know how to manage the new economy. But then neither does Mr. Bush. And neither does anyone else. The big difference between the new economy and the old is the changed nature of investment. In the past, businesses primarily invested in the tangible means of production, things like buildings and machines. The value of a company was at least somewhat related to the value of its physical capital; to grow bigger, a business had to build new factories roughly in proportion to the increase in its sales. But now businesses increasingly invest in intangibles. And once you've designed a chip, or written the code for a new operating system, no further investment is needed to ship the product to yet another customer. One consequence of the changed nature of investment is a strong tendency for markets to develop into temporary monopolies. Why monopolies? Because when the required size of investment doesn't depend on how much you sell, a bigger market share is definitely better. Why temporary? Because sooner or later, and usually sooner, new technology makes your old investment worthless. [...] - POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -
[CTRL] Interview with English author David Icke by Kenneth Burke
THE BIGGEST SECRETAn Interview with English author David Icke by Kenneth Burkehttp://www.leadingedgenews.com/secret.htm ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In The Biggest Secret, David Icke reveals in documented,sourced detail how the same interconnecting bloodlines have controlled theplanet for thousands of years. How they created all the major religions andsuppressed the spiritual and esoteric knowledge that will set humanity freefrom its mental and emotional prisons. It includes an exposé of the trueorigins of Christianity and the other major religions and documents thesuppressed science which explains why the world is facing a time ofincredible change and transformation. As a kid, says Icke, I always wonderedhow a few islands which you can hardly see on the globe could have an Empirethat spanned the world. Now the reason is obvious. It was not the GreatBritish Empire at all. It was the empire of the Babylonian Brotherhood. Formore on The Biggest Secret, see the display ad on Page 28 in The LeadingEdge Newspaper.LE: David, I realize that creating a thumbnail sketch of connecting the dotsthat are in your new book, "The Biggest Secret," is difficult, but could youconnect a few dots for our readers, so they'll at least understand the basicpremise of your work?DI: Yes, I can, actually. "The Biggest Secret" is 550 pages with 60illustrations and over 40 pictures. I really pushed the boat out with it.It's in great detail, and the material is tremendously sourced as much aspossible. I can actually summarize the story very simply. What my researchand my unbelievably synchronistic life in terms of the research have shownme, explained in great detail in the book is that, if you go far enoughback, you pick up not just one extraterrestrial race, but extraterrestrialraces, which interbred with humanity. There is one particular group, withinan extraterrestrial race, which operates within the physical world(certainly from within the Earth), and its primary place of focus is thelower fourth dimension, which people call the astral level. This is thereptilian race. I suggest strongly in the book that, those we call theAnanaki (in the Sumerian Tablets) are actually a reptilian race. I am notalone in this. Dr. David Arthur Horne has written a book, "Humanity'sExtraterrestrial Origins", and has made the same connections that I have. Imake these connections, not just from intuition, but from a tremendousamount of ancient and modern evidence that shows that this reptilianconnection travels right through these thousands of years to the presentday. Some of these references to serpents and dragons are obviouslysymbolic, not the least, the Kundalini energy and other things, but when youlook at the evidence, there is a tremendous number of literal references toserpent people - serpent gods. When you do the research, again, into thearea where this seems to have happened in the Caucasus Mountains, in what wenow call Turkey, Iran and Iraq, which we called Sumer and Babylon, and intothe plains of Egypt (the area particularly around the Caucasus Mountainsseems to be the place where these bloodlines came out). This interbreedingoccurred between the human race and this reptilian group within a race. Now,I don't see the reptilian genetic stream as negative in itself - quite theopposite - it's just this particular group within it. The Sumerian Tabletsand many other accounts,all over the world, talk about the fact that these hybrids became thedemigods, the middle men and women between the gods and humanity. If youlook at some of the history of Iran, the earliest kings were called theserpent kings, and they became kings as a result of their genetic structureand their family bloodlines. This is where the Divine right of kings comesfrom. Where we lost the plot is that it didn't refer to god - if you like,everything that exists - it referred to the GODS.Now, around 2200 B.C., something emerged in Egypt, called the Royal Court ofthe Dragon. That is still going strong, today, 4000 years later, and it'sbased in England, which is, for me, the epicenter of global control - theepicenter of the network that controls the world - not Tony Blair'sgovernment (although he is a big front-man for them) - but the epicenter ofcontrol is in the area, which we call the city of London - the financialdistrict and the other interlocking areas. As you probably know, London isthe great sprawl of London and, within it, is an area, which is called theCity of London. That's the financial district, basically, where the Bank ofEngland is. Basically, the control of the world financial markets is there.So, when you do the genealogy, and I've done quite a bit already, as well asthe history, you can follow this basically Aryan race of people, who cameoriginally to Britain by ship under the name of the Phoenicians, who are avery significant part of history, which conventional history pushes to thesidelines. I show in the book
[CTRL] Israeli troops injured (satire alert)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.bushoncrack.com/ Israeli Troops Injured By Tom Rainey Jerusalem, Oct. 5--Israeli officials agreed today to withdraw heavy armaments from the West Bank and Gaza after troops complained of paint chips on their armored personnel carriers caused by rocks thrown by Palestinians. With 60 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in the last five days, Israeli officials denied excessive use of force, citing the heavy toll upon their side as well. In the West Bank town of Beituniya, officials reported that Israeli army medics were busy treating severe blisters on the trigger fingers of many Israeli soldiers. "Those anti tank rockets we're firing at the ambulances really hurt your ears." reported one member of the Israeli Defense forces. "I hold the Palestinians directly responsible for my headache." 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] Israeli troops injured (satire alert)
Title: RE: [CTRL] Israeli troops injured (satire alert) Yeah, it's all the Israeli's fault isn't it...??? Geez. -Original Message- From: Mark McHugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Israeli troops injured (satire alert) -Caveat Lector- http://www.bushoncrack.com/ Israeli Troops Injured By Tom Rainey Jerusalem, Oct. 5--Israeli officials agreed today to withdraw heavy armaments from the West Bank and Gaza after troops complained of paint chips on their armored personnel carriers caused by rocks thrown by Palestinians. With 60 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in the last five days, Israeli officials denied excessive use of force, citing the heavy toll upon their side as well. In the West Bank town of Beituniya, officials reported that Israeli army medics were busy treating severe blisters on the trigger fingers of many Israeli soldiers. Those anti tank rockets we're firing at the ambulances really hurt your ears. reported one member of the Israeli Defense forces. I hold the Palestinians directly responsible for my headache. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.htmlArchives 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: Aspartame and GW Bush
Is a Vote for BUSH a Vote For ASPARTAME? 10.23.00 For Immediate Release Contact ACSN: 214-352-4268 Website: http://web2.airmail.net/marystod October 23, 2000 Is a Vote for BUSH a Vote For ASPARTAME? You decide... First, came the inaction of an unethical Federal Prosecutor in the late 1970s: Samuel Skinner is the U.S. Attorney taking G.D. Searle, [inventors of aspartame] officials to court on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, for lying about aspartame's deadly results in the falsified lab tests - a grave Federal offense. Prosecutor, Samuel Skinner then "defected" - left his government post and crossed over - to work for those same people he was taking to court, G.D. Searle's lawfirm, Sidley Austin. He later left Sidley Austin to insinuate his way back into government as head of the U.S. Department of Transportation [over the FAA pilots]. Where did the former U.S. Attorney/Dept. of Transportation Dir. go next? The following is a brief excerpt from the feature magazine article in Washington D.C.'s SPOTLIGHT April 6, 1992 pg 14-15 -- also this and more was discussed on the January 21, 1992 broadcast on The Spotlight's nightly call-in talk forum, Radio Free America, hosted by Tom Valentine: Headline: "Media Ignores Scandals Close to President Bush's Campaign" "It was President Bush's son, George W. Bush who suggested Samuel Skinner be named White House chief of staff. Son, George W. Bush said Skinner was so capable, yet if you look at Skinner's record . . . you'll find several cases where he wasn't looking out for the protection of the American people. Photo with article captioned: George W. Bush . . . High on Skinner." Also in the report: "While her husband served as President Bush's White House chief of staff, Mrs. Samuel Skinner remained employed by Sidley Austin, G.D. Searle pharmaceutical's lawfirm. Major conflict of interest? Read on . . . Two examples of Bush's arrogant actions leading up to his nomination as a Presidential Candidate: In 1995, ignoring approximately 50,000 phone calls from consumers to his Austin office, asking him to "Veto" the notorious "Agricultural Anti-Defamation Act" [the one which allowed the Beef Industry in Texas to sue Oprah Winfrey], Texas Gov. George W. Bush refused to support his constituents, and allowed the unjust law to go into effect without his signature or veto. Dallas-based Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline, [the grassroots multi-national organization formed by former State Judge, Mary Nash Stoddard and Washington consumer advocate, James Turner, Esq. in 1987 to promote food safety and consumer awareness] blitzed the media, in the spring of 1995, with interviews exposing this bill for being not only unnecessary [existing libel laws in Texas are more than adequate], but also dangerously un-Constitutional - taking away our Freedom of Speech. [Mainstream Media was on ACSN's side in this battle, calling it primarily a First Amendment / Freedom of the Press issue.] Texas Gov.George W. Bush ignored the public outcry, and allowed the law [jeeringly referred to in the press as the "Bush Veggie Bill"] to go into effect, September 1, 1995. When the Beef Industry tried to sue Oprah under this law in Amarillo, Texas, they lost their case. Recently reported by the national media, are these George W. Bush statements [made in the debates and elsewhere during his campaign]: "I am responsible for Tort Reform in my state." -- Candidate George W. Bush [Explanation: Correct, but no cause for boasting. Bush is responsible for some frightening new Texas laws which effectively tie consumer's hands when it comes to filing lawsuits against a corporation - by putting unrealistic "caps" on amounts of money that may be awarded to a wronged individual, forcing the filer to pay all court costs if tthe case is lost, etc. This creates a chilling climate of injustice and frustration on the part of the hardworking public.] And, there's more . . . "Judge Clarence Thomas, in my opinion is the best Judge on our Supreme Court, along with Justice Scolia." -- Candidate George W. Bush [Explanation: Judge Clarence Thomas is a former attorney for Monsanto, the maker's of aspartame. Thomas has been said to be Monsanto's "Gatekeeper" on the U.S. Supreme Court, because of strong ties/loyalties to his former employer. And, like the mighty tobacco industry, the makers of aspartame will be forced to someday answer in court, claims that aspartame, aka NutraSweet/Equal, is creating havoc with the public's health.] Given these additional truths, how do YOU feel about Presidential Candidate George W. Bush's ethics, veracity and leadership qualities? Share this information with others who care. Don't forget to vote! **
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: John Stossel, Junk Journalism the Poison Peddlers
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/6/_/1406/_/972320941/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com John Stossel, Junk Journalism the Poison Peddlers by Barbara Keeler and Robert Sterling "Science is highly politicized Beware of science that feeds political agendas." John Stossel, 20/20 reporter, "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So" The 20/20 hit piece on organics by John Stossel is old news to readers of alternative publications. Long a controversial voice in journalism, Stossel became more so after his February 4, 2000 20/20 report, "The Food You Eat." Stossel's main hatchet man on the segment, Dennis Avery, was not identified on 20/20 as the author of SAVING THE PLANET WITH PESTICIDES AND PLASTIC, or as an employee of the Hudson Institute. Agribusinesses such as Dow, Monsanto, ConAgra, and Novartis are leading funders of the Hudson Institute. Represented on Hudson Institute's board is the biotech industry's PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, involved in a massive PR campaign to counteract the escalating global anti-GE movement in the US and abroad. Those familiar with Avery and the Hudson Institute were not surprised that he was eager to smear the organic food industry on 20/20. The unanswered question about the segment was why Stossel chose a mouthpiece for pesticides, biotech, chemical fertilizers, and agribusiness as 20/20's expert on organics. Moreover, why would a respected journalist create a segment calculated to mislead his audience about organic food? We cannot say for sure, and maybe the question will never be answered for certain. We have, however, connected the dots from Stossel and ABC back to Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, ConAgra and others with vested interests in discrediting organic foods. As the segment was produced, ABC was receiving a percentage of sales from "Stossel in the Classroom," educational materials published by the Palmer R. Chitester Fund and based on Stossel's ABC reports. The Chitester Fund is a conservative foundation dependant on contributions from the likes of the John M. Olin Foundation. The Olin Foundation was created and is still controlled by the Olin Corporation, a top producer of agricultural chemicals. On the Board of Associates of the Chitester Fund sits Herb London, the President of the Hudson Institute. London also holds the John M. Olin Professorship of Humanities at New York University. The Hudson Institute received grants from the Olin Foundation of $125,000 in 1993 and $300,000 in 1994. All of the above suggests an inbreeding of interests between two conservative foundations, a conservative think tank, and a supposedly independent journalist. Add the funding Hudson receives from chemical and agribusiness companies and the inbreeding appears potentially corruptive, even before factoring the representation of a biotech PR firm on its board. The interlinks go further. The Olin Corporation was, along with Occidental Chemical and Dupont, one of the major firms involved in the Love Canal environmental scandal in Niagara Falls, NY. Here is Stossel's comment during a January 9, 1997 special report, titled "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So": "What happens when government policy is based on junk science? Billions of dollars are misspent, and people's lives altered forever. Love Canal. Times Beach. Defoliant Agent Orange. These names arouse fear because of the chemical dioxin. Dioxin is very poisonous. We know that from animal tests. Tiny amounts kill guinea pigs. That's why our government's spending hundreds of millions of dollars to protect us from dioxin." "But is that good science? Just because a chemical hurts animals, does that mean it's harmful to us?" Stossel proceeds to argue that dioxin isn't harmful, and that cases such as Love Canal are based on faulty science. The Environmental Protection Agency begs to differ. A draft of a long-overdue EPA report concludes that dioxin is indeed a dangerous and persistent "human carcinogen." Along the way, he manages to smear a variety of other supposed cases of "junk science," including breast implant lawsuits, during his report. Apparently, Stossel hasn't learned his lesson: on July 15, he did another dishonest slam piece of the story behind the film ERIN BROCKOVICH. Though the giant utility company PGE admits to illegally releasing the carcinogen chromium-6 in Hinkley, CA (they settled for $333 million with local residents), Stossel claimed there is no proof that chromium in drinking water can cause cancer. PGE's own documents concede "the material is toxic," and covered up the fact that they had released high concentrations of the
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] LAURA BUSH MAKES UNSCHEDULED LANDING IN TULSA
-- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/1/_/163550/_/972322084/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- From Rumor Mill News: 10.23.2000 10:00 PST The plane carrying Laura Bush, Lynn Cheney and Cyndi McCain had to make an emergency unscheduled landing in Tulsa this morning. No one was injured, but the three women missed the Milwaukee "W Stands for Women" rally where they were scheduled to speak. Knowing how the game is played at this level, Rumor Mill News wonders is a 'not so subtle' hint was fired at the three top men in the Republican Party. Was "W" and the rest told that if they didn't start "losing" this election, they would definitely LOSE -- i.e. meaning their families. If this WAS a veiled threat at Bush, Cheny and McCain, then I would hate to be in the shoes of the people who made that threat. While the Clintonistas made "Political Murder" appear "normal", this kind of "opponent containment process" was created and perfected during the Reagan/Bush years. If someone in the Gore Campaign, or on behalf of the Gore campaign, made an attempt to kill the wives of the three top Republicans -- or send them all a message -- then I expect that we will see a "quid pro quo" very soon. And since the Reagan/Bush people were never known for the kid glove approach, I expect the ripples of what they do will cause quite a reverberation. They might return the "threat" in the same manner or they could use another vehicle, such as the economy. By crashing the economy, they can sink all the elected Democrats. I would guess they would choose this method. Things are beginning to get interesting. ### In case you haven't checked the front page of Rumor Mill yet, there are some major breaking stories. Barry Chamish has written an article in which he makes the claim that an Italian reporter filmed Arafat at the murder of the Israeli soldiers. There is also and article posted in THE READING ROOM about the New Treasury Bank. It is written by "gigi" who is a Source from Italy. It is difficult to read due to the translation from Italian to English, but you will see that it is written by someone who definitely has inside information. Don't miss this one. I have posted a response to 'gigi's' article called "The National Economic Stabilization And Recovery Act". This article gives you the link to a new webpage that has just gone up. It tells about the new banking system. Rumor Mill has been alerting you that something is going on in the financial and banking world for months now. And don't forget to take a look at the photos of the Armada of UFOs that are invading and about to attack earth!!! Have a great week! Rayelan RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TELFAX 831 462 3949 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] FTW SUBSCRIBER BULLETIN 00-18 - THE BUSH CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE HALLIBURTON/BROWN AND ROOT
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE [Lead story in the October 24, 2000 issue of "From The Wilderness"] by Michael C. Ruppert (c) Copyright 2000, Michael C. Ruppert and "From The Wilderness" Publications, P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, 818-788-8791, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. - Permission to reprint for non-profit only is hereby granted as long as proper sourcing appears. For all other permissions contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTW October 24, 2000 - The success of Bush Vice Presidential running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five year $3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen if the Bush ticket wins in two weeks. A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) at www.public-i.org, suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant, Brown and Root. A deeper look into history reveals that Brown and Root's past as well as the past of Dick Cheney himself, connect to the international drug trade on more than one occasion and in more than one way. This June the lead Washington, D.C. attorney for a major Russian oil company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling and also a beneficiary of US backed loans to pay for Brown and Root contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fund raiser to fill the already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to drugs than most suspect, and who is also Halliburton's largest individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in seeing to it that Brown and Root's successes continue. Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos. Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow. Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse. According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates. Independent news service "newsmakingnews.com," also describes how in 1998, with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also brought back into the family fold the company that had once sent a plane - also in 1948 - to fetch the new Yale Graduate George H.W. Bush, to begin his career in the Texas oil business. Bush the elder's father, Prescott, served as a Managing Director for the firm that once owned Dresser, Brown Bothers Harriman. It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown and Root. But increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown and Root
Re: [CTRL] Israeli troops injured (satire alert)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/23/2000 3:17:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, it's all the Israeli's fault isn't it...??? Geez. This time--probably. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SNET: 1 of 2 Executive Order 12919 - Bonfire to the Constitution. (fwd)
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Yet another unconstitutional action by President C**
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EO #12919
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Here is Executive Order #12919 in its entirety. When you get to the
bottom, just see what Slick has done !!! And the worst of it??
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release June 6, 1994
EXECUTIVE ORDER
NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act
of 1950, as amended (64 Stat. 798; 50 U.S.C. App. 2061, et seq.), and
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and as Commander in Chief of
the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
PART I - PURPOSE, POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses
national defense industrial resource policies and programs under the
Defense
Production Act of 1950, as amended ("the Act"), except for the amendments
to Title III of the Act in the Energy Security Act of 1980 and
telecommunication authorities under Executive Order No. 12472. Sec. 102.
Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technology base
capable of meeting national defense requirements, and capable of
contributing to the technological superiority of its defense equipment in
peacetime and in times of national emergency. The domestic industrial and
technological base is the foundation for national defense preparedness.
The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen this base
and to ensure it is capable of responding to all threats to the national
security of the United States. Sec. 103. General Functions. Federal
departments and agencies responsible for defense acquisition (or for
industrial resources needed to support defense acquisition) shall: (a)
Identify requirements for the full spectrum of national security
emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian
demand; (b) Assess continually the capability of the domestic industrial
and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of
national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of adequate
industrial resource and production sources, including subcontractors and
suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical
personnel; (c) Be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the
security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the
availability of adequate industrial resources and production capability,
including services and critical technology for national defense
requirements; (d) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness, to defense
requirements, of the domestic industrial base; and (e) Foster cooperation
between the defense and commercial sectors for research and development
and for acquisition of materials, components, and equipment to enhance
industrial base efficiency and responsiveness. Sec. 104. Implementation.
(a) The National Security Council is the principal forum for consideration
and resolution of national security resource preparedness policy. (b) The
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency ("Director, FEMA") shall:
(1) Serve as an advisor to the National Security Council on issues of
national security resource preparedness and on the use of the authorities
and functions delegated by this order; (2) Provide for the central
coordination of the plans and programs incident to authorities and
functions delegated under this order, and provide guidance and procedures
approved by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
to the Federal departments and agencies under this order; (3) Establish
procedures, in consultation with Federal departments and agencies assigned
functions under this order, to resolve in a timely and effective manner
conflicts and issues that may arise in implementing the authorities and
functions delegated under this order; and (4) Report to the President
periodically concerning all program activities conducted pursuant to this
order. (c) The head of every Federal department and agency assigned
functions under this order shall ensure that the performance of these
functions is consistent with National Security Council policy and
guidelines.
PART II - PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS
Sec. 201. Delegations of Priorities and Allocations.
(a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act to
require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other
than contracts of
[CTRL] SNET: BEATING THE LIBERAL MEDIA! (Here's hope folks) (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:45:14 -0700 From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: BEATING THE LIBERAL MEDIA! (Here's hope folks) - SNETNEWS Mailing List BEATING THE LIBERAL MEDIA! (Here's hope folks) NOTE: This is good news and a cautionary warning. This is a clear "shot across the bow" of the power elite's ship of state. They are losing control (mind control) through their controlled media. There's a grass-roots global revolution going on, thanks to the instant/everywhere telecomm technology that began with faxes and e-mails which breached the Berlin Wall (and brought it down) and is now taking wings on the Winds of Aquarius (Freedom Opportunity)... and is bringing down the walls in the mind in all the "M-5" elite-controlled institutions (Media, Mentoring, Medical Management in all major Markets). There is a mass revolt brewing in the hearts and mind of the masses. The effete elite are up against the wall that's crumbling on them. Their time is short and are mad as hell, the realms they too often operate from. Like cornered animals, their self-preservation instincts would just as well "wag the dog" on a global biowar scale, creating provocateur terror they can conveniently blame on scapegoats while they ramp up draconian crisis management tactics to limit our freedom in the name of safety until we have neither freedom nor safety. The Net is loaded with insider expose's of these sinister agendas. This is a VERY dangerous time. The last dregs of the 25,800 Dark Cycle (Kali Yuga) is going physical. The "Fourth Reich" of the power elite could very quickly move from Psy-Ops (Psychological Warfare Operations) in the media to much more emotional (terror) and physical (war) tactics. As long as they could consolidate power behind the scenes via media and economic divide-to-conquer modalities, they could operate in stealth mode. But their cover has been blown, the sheep "masks" are being stripped from these wolves, and the sheeple are waking up to the history of war-making and murder of millions by this callous elite whose god is power and control above all. Now is the time prophesied when there are many Christs and Antichrists. The Christed ones take full responsibility and TAKE COMMAND in this dense octave with fiery invocations to Almighty God in the full force of Ruby Fire (GOD-LOVE) that is the judgment on the forces of anti-Love. This is it beloved! The test that's best. There may never be a better time to win stripes for your Ascension now that the Ruby Fire in your hearts is so greatly needed. So set your Ruby Rayguns to full-power, name the names, and "Have a Blast"! Always Victory in the Christic Wisdom that Conceives, Believes and Achieves (Invokes) the Power of God-Love, ---Christopher PS - The Word-made-flesh via your fiery invocations has always been the most powerful technology for good. - article follows: Now, this is real campaign reform by Richard A. Viguerie, President, ConservativeHQ.com Have you ever wondered the following? (1) The establishment media with few exceptions declared Gore the winner of the first debate. College debate professors declared Gore the clear winner. Instant overnight polls gave Gore a strong victory. (2) In the 14 days since the first debate that "Bush lost" he's gone from about five behind to about five points ahead. How could Bush gain 10 points in 12 days if he lost the first debate? The answer lies in the non-establishment media. Today in America there are two types of media: First, that which is "above the radar" - the media outlets owned by the establishment and talked about by establishment -approved pundits. Examples: The New York Times, CBS, CNN, Newsweek, etc. Second, "below-the-radar" media - those outlets not owned by the establishment and talked about the establishment - approved pundits. Examples: Talk radio, direct mail, the Internet, cable TV, religious radio and TV. Now, for the first 24 hours after the first debate, the establishment media crowed loudly about Gore's superior knowledge and Bush's inability to defend his tax cut proposals. But by the second day after the debate, the below-the-radar media was operating in full force. Gore's expressions, misstatements, off-putting sighs, condescending looks and mannerisms when Bush was speaking - all that began to get traction on national, state, and local talk radio, on cable TV, and on the Internet. Three days after the debate, the establishment media could no longer ignore the direction the debate discussion was going around America's watercoolers and kitchen tables. The new and alternative media almost single-handily forced the establishment media to
[CTRL] NP: Guess who is trying to wrangle Yemeni assets from its joint venture?
-Caveat Lector- "...Since arriving 12 years ago to explore an area with no known oil reserves, CanOxy has created a geyser of black gold that, at 208,000 barrels a day, contributes nearly half the Yemeni government's revenue... "...Small wonder that Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, which holds a 29% stake in CanOxy, is trying to wrangle the Yemeni assets away from the Calgary-based company; and equally small wonder that CanOxy is resisting these advances. "...Oil production began in 1993. Civil war broke out in 1994. CanOxy evacuated its ***Aden complex*** just before the North shelled the port... CanOxy and the state are deeply dependent on one another. Oil sales -- more than half from the CanOxy project -- will bring in $900-million this year, more than two-thirds the nation's budget. Still, many complain the money does not flow back from the government to the people. The prime minister himself admits that corruption is rife in the public service." http://www.nationalpost.com/content/features/oilboom/111599oil1.html A Calgary firm finds wealth for a poor Middle Eastern nation CanOxy's blue army helps a desert bloom (November 1999) - Canadian Occidental In the village of Ressib, dozens of barefoot boys and girls -- the girls in brightly embroidered black dresses, the boys in futas (skirts) -- come running down the rocky trail to the three Toyota Land Cruisers. The bedouin of the Al-Jabbry tribe, whose tall houses of mud-plastered rocks crowd this desert valley, don't get much traffic. From the shiniest truck steps Kevin Tracy, the Calgarian who is operations manager of Canadian Occidental Petroleum Yemen, the wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. Accompanying him is a four-man military escort armed with Kalashnikov machine guns. The children stare as Mr. Tracy, dressed in bright blue overalls, pulls off his work boots. He and the others sit cross-legged on the floor of their host's mufraj, a big living room empty but for some blankets and lots of flies. A boy passes out tiny glasses of sweet red tea. "I should slaughter a goat," Mohammed Omar Al-Jabbry, the host, mutters in Arabic. He is unprepared for such guests. "We are losing our customs." His guests are here to check on CanOxy's work in bringing running water and electricity to Ressib. The projects, financed by the firm, make the Canadians very popular. Since arriving 12 years ago to explore an area with no known oil reserves, CanOxy has created a geyser of black gold that, at 208,000 barrels a day, contributes nearly half the Yemeni government's revenue. Small wonder that Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, which holds a 29% stake in CanOxy, is trying to wrangle the Yemeni assets away from the Calgary-based company; and equally small wonder that CanOxy is resisting these advances. Today the "blue army," CanOxy's operations group in blue overalls, is perhaps the the most powerful tribe in all of Yemen. It's not always easy. CanOxy's staff have weathered two evacuations by warships, a civil war, and a 2 a.m. blast in August. The explosion killed a guard when it levelled a supermarket across the street from the firm's head office in Sana'a, the capital. The blast blew out most of CanOxy's windows and many heavy wooden doors. The company says it was not the target. While U.S. and other firms face repeated kidnappings and sabotage, no CanOxy staffer has been kidnapped. The firm's oil flow has never stopped. CanOxy ascribes its success to negotiating skill, good geological work and experienced staff. But most of all, the mild-mannered Canadians just seem good at getting along. They train Yemenis then give them top operating jobs. They have a special centre in Sana'a with a luxurious mufraj. Here, CanOxy executives smoke scented tobacco in hookah-type pipes and chew qat -- the mildly narcotic plant on which much of Yemen is hooked -- while negotiating with government officials. CanOxy builds water and power lines, and roads. Sure, some locals complain the company does not do enough. But most acknowledge it does more for them than just about anybody else. "The role of CanOxy in social development is the best of any company. That gives them good public relations," says Dr. Abdul Kareem Al-Iryani, the Yale-educated prime minister, in an interview at the government house in Sana'a. He says the Canadians' strength is their calm manner. To get along here, "you have to be flexible, you have to be modest." Walid Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, editor of the Yemen Times that often criticizes the government, also praises CanOxy. "CanOxy is the biggest factor in helping the economy grow and they offer scholarships to study in Canada [10 a year]. They help people in the region where they work." Yemen is a mountainous country, about the size of Alberta, on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula surrounded by the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. It has a rich trading history. The biblical kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, it was
[CTRL] WTC: US Seeks Base in Yemin
-Caveat Lector- SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, October 23, 2000 CAIRO The United States intends to establish a military base at the entrance to the Red Sea. Arab diplomatic sources said the Pentagon has been quietly negotiating with Yemen to build a military base at Bab Al-Mandeb. The base would comprise thousands of troops, aircraft carriers and warplanes. The sources said the discussions have been proceeding for more than a year but were accelerated in the wake of the bombing of the USS Cole earlier this month. The bombing was said to have been the work of suicide attacks based in Yemen. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in the attack. Two suspects have been identified, the sources said. Earlier, Pentagon officials acknowledged that the United States and Yemen were discussing the establishment of a listening post off the coast of the Arabian Gulf. The listening post was meant to monitor ships that travelled in the Red Sea and in the adjacent Indian Ocean. Officials said they were pleased with Yemen's cooperation in the bombing investigation and expressed the hope that this would lead to further expansion in the defense relations between the two countries. Monday, October 23, 2000 = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] Alquds Intefada Update- 10/23/00
-Caveat Lector- Alquds Intefada UPDATE every 30 min. 23/10/2000 http://sis.gov.ps/arabic/quds/quds_eng_update25.html Time: 20: 00 Heavy fire from 'Gilo' Jewish Settlement targeting nearby Palestinian houses causing sever damages to Palestinian properties. The number of casualties in Bethlehem reached 20 cases of which 3 cases are critical. Reports of large numbers of children admitted to Bethlehem hospitals as a result of tear gas grenades fired by Israeli soldiers at children schools. Time: 19: 30 Biet Jala city is under heavy fire at this time by Israeli occupation force. The confrontations are still going on in Araba' village district of Jenin. The number of casualties has resin to 20. Jewish settlers are assaulting Ya'bed village district of Jenin and attacking passing by Palestinian cars. Time: 19: 00 Israeli forces opened fire randomly at demonstrators in Biet Hanoon crossing in Gaza. As a result 26 Palestinians were injured and transferred to Shefa' hospital. Time: 14: 30 Israel on Monday closed Gaza international airport for the second time, Palestinian civil aviation officials said. "The Israelis informed us that they have closed the airport," airport director Suleiman Abu Halib said. The Palestinian airport at Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was first closed October 8 but flights resumed on October 19 following the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt. Time: 13:30PM Four Jewish families have forcefully occupied four homes belong to Palestinian families in Bab Alsahera and Alsadia localities under the protection the Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers assaulted six Palestinian workers at Alram checkpoint as they were going to work. Confro0ntations are renewed in Bethlehem, resulted in 15 casualties in the vicinity of Belal Ben Rabah mosque. Mass demonstrations started from Aldehaisha camp to the Red Cross HQ in condemnation of Israeli aggression and bombing of Beit Jala city and Ayda refugee camp. A group of settlers attempted to assault Abu Baker Alsedieq mosque in Hussam village and the Palestinian villagers prevented them from doing so. Occupation forces surrounded the schools in Alkhader village, district of Bethlehem and did not allow the students from entering the schools. Time: 13:00PM Violent confrontations are taking place in Halhoul and Saer, district of Hebron. This resulted in five casualties. Twenty-three trucks carrying food supplies to the Palestinian people are stationed at Rafah crossing. Israel did not allow the trucks to enter Gaza Strip despite its claim of reopening the crossing. Time: 12:30PM The lady Nada Sa'dy Alserouji, 52 years old, fallen martyr due a severe heart attack caused by the Israeli soldiers who were chasing her near Altaiba checkpoint, south of Tulkarem. Israel declared Gaza Strip and West Bank a closed military zone. Mass demonstrations in Bani Naiem, Halhoul and Alsamoa' districts of Hebron. Israeli occupation forces used bulldozers and destroyed tow nurseries Qalqilia city, near the southern checkpoint. Losses were estimated at forty thousand dollar. Time: 12:00PM Violent confrontations are taking place near the Industrial zone at Beit Hanoun crossing, northern Gaza. On e the Israeli occupation forces injured youth. Situation in Jenin is getting worse, particularly after the injury of 27 years old youth. Israeli forces detained four wounded youth and fired a tear gas bomb at an ambulance. In addition, the Israeli soldiers opened fire at women while picking olives. A state of anger and resentment is noticeable at Almaqdisy Street due to the restricted siege being imposed on different villages and towns in Jerusalem amid a wide-range arrest campaign. Detainees' families said that they don't know where about their sons are being detained. Special Israeli military units along with border police are deployed in all parts of the city. Time: 11:30AM Jenin city will witness a mass demonstration at 12:00PM. Jewish settlers are provoking Palestinian farmers Taxi drivers in Hebron will hold a car procession in the streets of Hebron in remembrance of driver martyrs. Time: 11:00AM The Israeli occupation forces are deploying more fokrces at Salah Eldin main road, Gaza Strip. Time: 10:30AM The district of Nablus witnesses a deployment of heavy military forces and placement of military checkpoints around Nablus aiming at imposing a wide-range siege on the city. The curfew imposed on the old city of Hebron is still going on. The Israeli occupation forces has completely closed the town Samoa' along with other neighboring villages. Time: 10:00AM Martyrdom of the boy Ashraf Habaieb aged 15 years old from Askar camp in Nablus as he was in a state described as clinical death due to wounds he sustained since last Friday. In the wake of last night's bombing of Beit Jala city, ten Palestinians were wounded. The Israeli forces continue deploying more forces in order to in Force a siege around the city in preparation for a direct assault on the city. A general strike and a day of
[CTRL] The Framing Of Geronimo Pratt
-Caveat Lector- Published Sunday, October 22, 2000 http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/alameda/oakland/stories/sjpratt_20001022. htm Inside an FBI frame-up: story of a Black Panther 'Geronimo ji Jaga' Pratt served 27 years for a Santa Monica murder committed while he was in Oakland By Dan Reed SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS -- -- MORGAN CITY, La. -- Amid the worn shanties and shops in this humid, buggy bayou town lives a revolutionary and future multimillionaire -- a man once accused of such vile crimes as the Charles Manson-led "Helter Skelter" massacre, of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, of conspiring to hijack a school bus and behead the children on board, and of the cold-blooded killing of a woman on a Santa Monica tennis court. His name is Elmer Pratt, now Geronimo ji Jaga. The highly decorated Vietnam veteran spent 27 years -- just over half his life -- in a penitentiary, where he withstood years of abuse. He was a Black Panther, a group labeled "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country," in a memo by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI when Pratt was arrested. And, he was framed. The story of how Pratt became the victim of a secret government "counterintelligence" campaign is told in a just-published biography, "Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt," by the noted writer Jack Olsen. In July, the Los Angeles City Council approved its share of a $4.5 million settlement for his wrongful incarceration in the tennis court case. The rest came from the FBI, which hid evidence as it waged a now-well-documented campaign against players in the civil rights, anti-war and other movements considered politically radical in the late '60s and early '70s. Pratt has yet to see the money, although it will come. Now, three years after winning his release, the former officer in the Oakland-based Black Panther Party is back home in swampy Morgan City, caring for his frail 97-year-old mother, who had prayed daily for his release, and trying to build a social center from the town's old "colored" high school and denouncing injustice as he sees it. These days, he often longs to slip away into the bayous for a calming day of bass fishing, trying to make bad memories fade. But always, he's under pressure as a spokesman, as a symbol of the fight against government injustice. "He went into prison a revolutionary and came out a revolutionary," said Olsen, who spent long hours with Pratt while researching his book. Johnnie Cochran, the attorney for O.J. Simpson who represented Pratt for years, said recently it was his most important case ever. If the U.S. Supreme Court had not temporarily suspended capital punishment as unconstitutional in the early 1970s -- the era in which Pratt, originally accused of a death penalty offense for the tennis court killing, was tried -- the government likely would have executed an innocent man, said several observers. On this day in Morgan City, Pratt is particularly agitated, fuming into his cell phone about an apparently racially motivated fire bombing in Selma, Ala., the site of the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march. "It's the same old racism, the same thing as in 1965," he said. Soon, he and his coterie -- like-minded friends in the civil rights movement -- would be on a flight there, talking to locals, trying to buoy their spirits. A few days later, he would be off to Washington, D.C., testifying before the Congressional Black Caucus about the FBI's dirty tricks campaign called Cointelpro -- counterintelligence programs -- to determine whether others are wrongly still behind bars because of it. In Pratt's case, the FBI tried to undermine the Black Panthers by planting letters that convinced the group's already-paranoid leaders -- namely the Huey Newton faction -- that Pratt was against them. So, they refused to testify he was in Oakland -- he was there for a leadership meeting -- the night of the tennis court murder. The FBI wiretapped Panther meetings, documents later released under the federal Freedom of Information Act show, but the logs for that one night are mysteriously missing. Yet Wes Swearington, a former FBI agent interviewed by Olsen, remembers seeing the transcripts, and says they proved Pratt was in Oakland -- not Santa Monica -- the night of the killing. Though Olson refers to him as a "peaceful" revolutionary, Pratt was never much a supporter of the aggressive non-violence of Martin Luther King Jr. Instead, he took to the teachings of Malcolm X, believing armed struggle may be necessary to rebuff racial oppressors. He has killed, firing in heavy combat in his two tours in Vietnam. He is only now talking about how he put his military training to use back home -- secretly traveling to cities, teaching black groups how to use weapons in case they came under attack. Now, given the perspective of years, the man with skin the
[CTRL] The Toughest Foriegn Story
-Caveat Lector- Toronto, Friday, October 20 2000 http://www.fpp.co.uk/Online/00/10/GlobeMail201000.html -- -- CANADA The toughest foreign story By Rick Salutin For half a century, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the most distorted area of our foreign news coverage. Yet it's not that confusing; no more so than, say, South Africa during apartheid. It, too, was complicated, but the political and moral issues involved seemed clear. Not so with the Mideast. Let me give some examples. War. As in, "Is this war? It certainly feels like it." (Marcus Gee in The Globe and Mail). No it doesn't. Wars occur between countries with armies. Here you have one country and one army: Israel. Palestinians run local government and police; they have no tanks, army or air force. They don't even control the airport. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said what Israel has done so far "doesn't amount to anything. It is not one in a million of what we can do if we are really at war." Exactly. His "nothing" is incomparably more than the best Palestinian effort. The equation is absurd. The National Post said "Israel could easily win an all-out war with the Palestinians." They could easily win an all-out war with my local Starbucks, too. Ceasefire. As in endless calls for. Between who? Kids throwing stones and helicopters firing rockets? Geography. An audience member on CBC's Counterspin asked why Palestinian parents let their kids out on the streets, implying Israeli parents wouldn't. But, hey, the reason you don't see Israeli kids throwing stones at tanks is that no streets in Israel are occupied by a foreign army. The more than 100 deaths have been on Palestinian territory. The UN. American columnist George Will sums up the United Nations as "that nest of anti-Israeli regimes" because, I suppose, General Assembly votes on the Mideast tend to run about 150-2, the two being Israel and the U.S. The National Post says "the Palestinians prefer to deal with the UN . . . while the Israelis trust only the Americans." That's another weird equation: One country equals the whole UN? The very notion of the U.S. as mediator is bizarre. When the recent violence broke out, both presidential candidates robotically declared support for Israel. Whose point of view? CBC Radio's Dick Gordon asked an Israeli, "Do you ever think it might get out of control?" But for Palestinians, it's always out of control. The New York Times' David Shipler said Arab leaders "reportedly" make "private remarks" disputing historical Jewish ties to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which "touches the deepest Israeli fear." About being seen as legitimate inhabitants of the land in Arab eyes. That doesn't equate, either: anxiety over having your emotional attachment questioned versus actual daily checkpoints, expulsions, kidnappings, demolitions . . . Peace. As in the Oslo accords, or Camp David. This is peace in a very narrow, negative sense. Even after many years of bloody intifada,Palestinians did not get a state, or the right to return to their homes, or restitution for property. They got "the mere scrap of a sham state" (Edward Said); a Bantustan, like the puppet black states South Africa set up to try to retain control, "cantonized" into four or five parts with Israeli land and forces in between, controlling movement, borders and water resources; with Israeli colonists remaining on the best land. Still, most of them accepted this mingy peace and even rejoiced: It was a victory, and could lead to something better. But the follow-up to the initial agreement was grim. Under governments both left and right, Israel sent hundreds of thousands of new settlers, delayed withdrawals or reneged and confiscated more land. The element of hope that underpinned a crappy peace eroded. Concessions. As in "Can Barak make any more concessions than he already has?" (CBC Radio's Michael Enright), or "the superlatively generous offers made by Mr. Barak" (National Post). This is the most imaginative and distorted term in recent coverage. It's true at the end that Israel offered concessions on Jerusalem, but they were minor: a few suburbs, one of which could be called Palestine's capital, instead of Israel's earlier insistence on an utterly "undivided" city. It's as if Palestinians had first demanded all of Jerusalem, then "conceded" to Israel a few neighbourhoods. He gave in, in some small measure, on Jerusalem, but in the context of a hideously one-sided "peace" to start with, followed by years of Israeli reneging, then reneged a bit on the reneging, and is hailed as the great conceder. It would have taken something at least a little grander to swallow all the rest. The last straw, wrote a Palestinian, was not Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount on the anniversary of the 1982 Beirut massacre for which he was responsible, but the huge Israeli force that fired on those protesting against his visit.
[CTRL] Hitchens On Democratic Centralism
-Caveat Lector- COLUMN | November 6, 2000 http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20001106s=hitchens CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Democratic Centralism: Minority Report "When the ax came into the woods, the trees all said, 'Well, at least the handle is one of us.'" There is more intellectual content in this old Turkish folk warning than in the entire output of the "lesser evil" school. Here comes Albert Gore Jr., striding purposefully toward us with a big chopper resting easily on his shoulder. He is pumped and ready; his handlers have been making him up to look like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he actually does resemble a bronze condom stuffed with walnuts. In advance he announces his fealty to the corporate state order, his deference to the military, his eagerness to please authority and his commitment to Star Wars, the war on drugs and the ownership of politics by money. But aaah...look at the handle on the guy! If we vote for him, you can hear them simpering, he might extend family and medical leave. He might be generous about the minimum wage. He might allow us to carry on terminating pregnancies. Leave out the abortion bit, and you get an idea of what life under Juan Perón was like. It is the task of the Leader to provide (as evidenced by the degrading applause for Kim Bill Sung and his cornucopia speech in Los Angeles), and it is the duty of the audience to remember, small attentions and hope for small mercies. Incidentally, this works both "bipartisan" ways. You didn't care for Nixon? But he went all the way to China on your behalf! Such ingratitude after all they've done for us. (Robert Scheer is the most conspicuous of those who have argued for both Clinton and Nixon, in these pages, thus promoting lesser-evilism to its unfalsifiable or transcendental level, beyond the reach of reason.) The Nixon point reminds me to give a whack in passing to Eric Alterman, who resuscitated the hoary myth of 1968 in his October 16 Nation article, "Bush or Gore: Does It Matter?" According to this liberal sob-story, the dogmatic and fanatical types who wouldn't vote for Hubert Humphrey were the ones who gave us Watergate and Cambodia. This is nonsense on stilts. In late 1968 the Johnson Administration discovered that Nixon was engaged in secret dealings with the South Vietnamese junta. Nixon told them that if they sabotaged the Paris peace talks by pulling out at the last minute--they pulled out two days before the vote--they would get a better bargain from the incoming Republicans. You can read most of this story in Chapter 23 of Anthony Summers's new book, The Arrogance of Power, but it's been told before by senior Democrats like Clark Clifford, Richard Holbrooke and William Bundy. All accounts agree; the tapes and the evidence of Nixon's treason were put in front of Humphrey. If he had gone public he could have delivered an annihilating counterblow. But he decided that this would be uncivil and partisan, and that it would also shake people's confidence in their leaders. So he put bipartisanship first--and was justly humiliated. His fault. I am goddamned if I'll be blamed for a surreptitious diplomacy and an unspoken political handshake that were both state secrets at the time. But then, if you can "objectively" blame dissenters for bringing us Nixon, you can easily overlook the group named Democrats for Nixon, which actually campaigned for the guy, and campaigned for him after his first evil four years. Don't tell anyone, but Democrats for Nixon became the neoconservative Democratic Leadership Council, which incubated Clinton, Gore and Lieberman. Lieberman even unseated, with right-wing money, the hated Republican Lowell Weicker, who had favored Nixon's impeachment. From this parodic, contented, amnesiac perspective the next lazy step is almost automatic: You can't do anything about the powers that be, the Gores and Bushes who are insulated from democracy in a "lockbox." But you can take a high and righteous tone with those who might spoil everything by voting for Nader. It's not enough that the two-party machine has all the money at its disposal and all the press and media, too. It still needs courageous volunteers to ram its message home. These unctuous surrogates seek to persuade us that, though we have no power, we can and should still be held responsible. Oddly enough, this worn out and discredited recommendation is offered us in the name of "realism." How realistic is it, how hard-boiled and tactical and grown-up, to tell a political party, in advance, that it owns your vote? To tell it this and then to tell it that it may use your vote for "evil" purposes? (The reservation or stipulation that the evil must of course be "lesser" is a mental exercise on your part alone. You have already conceded the evil; you leave it to the party to determine if it's "lesser" or not. Now imagine how interested the machine is in your petty casuistry.) This surrender involves, when you
[CTRL] SPECIAL ON HBO TONIGHT AT l0:00 on hate crimes, etc.
-Caveat Lector- Looks pretty good. They will be talking about web sites and etc organizations. That is l0:00 for us, but HBO may be the same time? Ours is PST. Check out your tv guides. Also if anyone has the history channel, at 8:00 pst there is going to be talk of the mkultra project. BirdsRus Private Mail Welcome 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: Release: More Guns, Less Crime
-Caveat Lector- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: October 20, 2000 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Shocking study: 25 million more guns helped produce a 40% drop in crime WASHINGTON, DC -- Gun-related crime has plunged 40% in recent years while the number of guns in circulation has reached an all- time high, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Justice -- and that's terrible news for supporters of gun control, Libertarians say. "The message is clear: More guns equal less crime," said Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. "The biggest threat to your safety isn't guns; it's politicians who want to restrict gun ownership. "That's why we need to do everything we can to keep dangerous gun laws out of the hands of politicians like Al Gore and George W. Bush." Data released last week by the FBI shows that gunshot wounds inflicted during crimes dropped to 39,400 from 64,100 nationwide between 1992 and 1997 -- a decrease of 40%. But during the same five years, the number of guns in America surged to 230 million from 205 million, according to the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. "Even street thugs understand what gun-banning politicians don't: Guns deter crime," Browne said. "Americans went on a gun- buying binge from 1992 to 1997, purchasing 11 million new handguns and 14 million new rifles and shotguns -- and crime continued to decline. "Imagine how much further crime would fall if politicians made it easier for more law-abiding citizens to buy guns by repealing many of the 20,000 gun laws currently on the books." One immediate target for repeal: State laws preventing Americans from carrying concealed weapons. "The three most violent cities in America -- New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- all have something in common: Gun control," Browne said. "According to the FBI figures, these three cities led the nation in murder, armed robbery, and assault. And no wonder. In those cities, it's illegal to carry a concealed weapon. Democrats and Republicans who refuse to repeal these laws are painting a target on the backs of innocent Americans." Browne conceded that other factors -- such as demographic changes, longer prison terms, and an improved economy -- may have played a role in the drop in crime rates. "But a dramatic increase in the number of guns didn't cause an increase in crime -- which is what politicians routinely claim when they spout off about the so-called need to reduce easy access to guns," he said. "In fact, giving ordinary Americans easy access to guns is apparently what criminals fear most." Another shocking truth about gun control laws, Browne said, is that even politicians don't favor them -- for themselves. "Visit the Capitol building in Washington, DC, and notice how many guards are carrying guns," he said. "Politicians say you have to be disarmed to make America safer, but they don't disarm government employees. Senators and Congressmen may have a compelling need to defend themselves, but is it really more compelling than your need to defend your home and your family against criminals? "Of course not. That's why if I'm elected president I will immediately sign an executive order disarming every single guard on Capitol Hill -- until Congress fully restores your right to carry a gun." During the presidential debates, both Bush and Gore emphasized their support for background checks, taxpayer-financed trigger locks, and enforcing current gun laws, noted Browne. "Gore and Bush are both promoting the dangerous utopian idea that criminals will suddenly decide to follow whatever laws they manage to pass," he said. "But more laws are not the answer. The best solution is to repeal every existing gun control law on the books. The number of guns in the hands of criminals will not change, but more Americans would recover the right to defend themselves -- which will probably inspire many more criminals to seek a safer line of work." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBOfTMfNCSe1KnQG7RAQHsiAP/ebKQ3snfj/iktM66IE1tx npsdKvZj5w7 GjiKlP/8wzjnnqtyd1aB1NB5BeWLhdCM0J1s7Yr9vJAoIxKK+sMXAw /GxmRVbVZk fvNdB0yO7MmnSn88nX5wLKJBHiecoj3L4NyYhcAUyoA1LfG86TWf7 Paxkmclzt1y 8aPRbAPIUk4= =wIz+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- - The Libertarian Party http://www.lp.org/ 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100 voice: 202-333-0008 Washington DC 20037 fax: 202-333-0072
[CTRL] Sticks And Stones Vs. Bullets
-Caveat Lector- Israelis condemn language of threat as troops kill four BY JACQUI GODDARD FOREIGN EDITOR http://www.lineone.net/express/ ISRAELI Prime Minister Ehud Barak threw in the towel on the peace process on Sunday, blaming Arab leaders for speaking the "language of threats" as his troops shot dead four more people. While Palestinians condemned the emergency Arab League summit in Cairo for going soft on Barak, declaring it a "whimper rather than a bang" for its failure to take decisive punitive action against Israel, the Prime Minister complained that the meeting had been too heavy on the rhetoric. The summit's declaration of support for the Palestinian uprising and refusal to reign- in violence merited a "time-out" on the peace, he said. Meanwhile, his soldiers killed another four Palestinians yesterday, including a 14-year-old stone-thrower. The killings brought the death toll in 25 days of violence to 122, all but eight of the victims Arabs. But Barak blamed the Palestinians, saying: "Israel totally rejects the language of threats that came out of the summit and condemns the call, folded into the decisions, for continued violence. "We will continue to view peace ... as the eventual goal, but not a peace that is achieved at any price while surrendering to violence." In an official statement, Barak was quoted as telling his cabinet that he was suspending the peace process started under the Oslo accord of 1993. "We will have to take a time-out, whose purpose is to re-assess the peace process in response to the events of recent weeks," he stated. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Barak's move came as no surprise. "I expected this from him," he shrugged. "It's not the first time." As the language of diplomacy crumbled, he reaffirmed his quest for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, adding that if Barak didn't like the idea, he could "go to hell". Amid a continuing war of attrition, a propaganda war was raging, too. Posters appeared around the occupied territories showing a photograph of Barak in his earlier career as a member of an elite military unit, bending over the bloodied body of a dead Palestinian. In the occupied territories the bloodshed continued unabated. Among those killed by Israeli gunfire was 14-year-old Wael Mahmoud, who witnesses said was one of 300 schoolchildren to hurl rocks at an army post in the Gaza Strip. "My son was a man who defended Jerusalem and I am ready to sacrifice more," said the boy's defiant father Imad, 52, who has nine other sons and eight daughters. "At least he died with a stone in his fist." In Cairo, the Arab summit closed after two days of fierce words but little action. Stopping short of severing ties with Israel, Arab leaders nevertheless threatened it and gave their backing to the Palestinian uprising. It stated: "The pure blood of the martyrs is a precious foundation for the liberation of land, establishment of the state and achievement of peace. The summit welcomes the Intifada of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories which has expressed clearly the bitterness and frustration after long years of waiting and anticipation. "The Arab leaders hold Israel responsible for returning the region to an atmosphere of tension and violence due to its practices, aggression and complete siege of the Palestinian people, in violation of its obligations under the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 ... and for dealing lightly with the issue of Jerusalem in a way that pleases its desire for irresponsible showing-off and deliberate provocation built on racism." The Israeli government at first commended the summit's outcome as a "victory of wisdom", praising Arab leaders for not succumbing to militant demands for the severing of all ties with Israel. Hours later, however, Barak changed his mind. Across the Middle East, the Arab League was denounced for what many saw as weaselwords which failed to go far enough. Militant group Hamas said the declaration "wasn't worth the ink it was written in". And in Egypt, thousands of students staged demonstrations, urging Arab leaders to boycott Israeli and American products and to cut all ties with Israel."Rulers of countries, open the door for holy war," they chanted. © Express Newspapers, 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.
[CTRL] China Prepares U.S. War Scenarios
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sunday October 22 12:28 PM ET China Prepares U.S. War Scenarios By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - In word and deed - namely its biggest military show in 35 years - China has made clear that it views the United States as potential enemy No.1. Besides blowing up targets, test-firing missiles and driving tanks, the military displays at four land and sea sites in northern China in the middle of this month proved new capabilities to attack stealth warplanes and cruise missiles, state media reported. Meanwhile, a Chinese defense policy paper issued last Monday once again raised threats of force against Taiwan and pointed to the United States as chief troublemaker. Should Beijing's communist leaders order the People's Liberation Army to recover the island that split from China 51 years ago, Chinese generals are planning against expected U.S. military intervention. ``Do they prepare against the United States? My answer is very clear: yes,'' said Yan Xuetong, an expert in international security at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. Yan believes war with Taiwan is inevitable. Others are less pessimistic. In a report Thursday, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said China is preoccupied this year with domestic issues, among them preparing to enter the World Trade Organization (news - web sites). It forecast only ``a remote possibility'' of confrontation over Taiwan. Moreover, China-U.S. relations have improved this year and their militaries have expanded contact through reciprocal ship visits and trips by Chinese officers to the United States. Beijing itself says it wants to peacefully recover Taiwan through negotiations - a goal repeated in the defense policy paper. But talks are stalemated, and the paper said the situation ``is complicated and grim.'' It reiterated that China would ``adopt all drastic measures possible, including the use of force'' if Taiwan formally splits from China or continues indefinitely to refuse to negotiate unification. China's generals have to assume an attack on democratic, capitalist Taiwan might provoke an American military response. That is why they are preparing for the worst. Chinese fears were sharpened by NATO (news - web sites)'s air war on Yugoslavia last year to protect ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Beijing saw unsettling parallels with its own restive minority regions, like Tibet, and felt NATO's intervention on human rights grounds set a dangerous precedent for meddling over Taiwan. The scenario seems highly dubious right now. Unlike Yugoslavia, such a conflict could at worst go nuclear, and even if it didn't, it could wipe out U.S.-China trade worth nearly $95 billion last year, according to U.S. figures, and trigger global economic catastrophe. Still, Chinese suspicions have been heightened by Washington's efforts to develop anti-missile shields, by congressional attempts to expand military ties with Taiwan, and by continued U.S. arms sales to the island. Yan said the Pentagon (news - web sites) was moving more submarines to the Pacific and stockpiling cruise missiles on the Pacific island of Guam. What should China's leaders conclude from that? ``That the U.S. military has prepared for war against China,'' Yan insisted. The Chinese defense paper was peppered with criticisms of the United States, among them that U.S. support has emboldened Taiwan's anti-China camp. With prospects for a peaceful unification of Taiwan and China ``seriously imperiled'' and because of ``hegemonism and power politics'' - Beijing's code words for U.S. meddling - ``China will have to enhance its capability to defend its sovereignty and security by military means,'' said the paper. But it also sought to allay foreign concerns by saying the military buildup was ``purely for self-defense,'' and that this year's defense budget of $14.6 billion is just 5 percent of Washington's. Overseas analysts, however, believe China spends up to five times more than it says it does. The Gulf War shocked Beijing by exposing its technological inferiority. It has since focused attention on the importance of air power in modern wars. Military experts say Chinese generals have studied how Yugoslav forces hid equipment from NATO attacks, have installed Russian-made surface-to-air missiles on the coast opposite Taiwan, and have improved air defenses around big cities. But analysts say the Chinese military would be hard-pressed to take Taiwan, and lags far behind the United States. ``The gap is enormous. They're just not in the same league,'' said Robert Karniol, Asia-Pacific editor for Jane's Defense Weekly. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
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Amherst, NY (October 17, 2000)-Gary Posner, a consultant for the Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and
executive director of Tampa Bay Skeptics, probes the credentials and claims
of Richard C. Hoagland in the November/December issue of Skeptical Inquirer.
Hoagland, a science writer, is the author of the 1987 book "The Monuments of
Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever"-a book that lays out his vision of an
ancient Martian metropolis, an idea based on images of supposed "ruins"
shown
in a 1976 NASA Viking mission photo.
The "Face on Mars" is an outcropping of rock in the Cydonia region of Mars.
The Viking 1 Orbiter photographed an image of this geographic feature in
1976. Catalogued as Plate #035A72, it shows a formation with the vague
appearance of a human face. When the photo was released to the public, there
was a surge of speculation that the image revealed an artificial structure
built by intelligent life. In 1998 NASA released a Mars Global Surveyor
image
of the same outcropping. With different lighting and much higher resolution,
this image clearly shows that the "Face on Mars" is nothing more than a
natural geographical feature. Nevertheless, the wild claims persist, along
with accusations of a NASA cover-up.
Richard Hoagland has been a lighting rod in this charged atmosphere of
anything-goes speculation and innuendo. But unlike many who see an ancient
extraterrestrial culture and a cosmic message to humanity in the Cydonian
rock, Hoagland is not easily dismissed. After all, he seems to have the ear
of NASA and a list of accomplishments in the history of space exploration.
He
has given two talks to NASA employees following the space agency's own
investigation of the "Face on Mars," he was the first to conceive of a
possible ocean beneath the crust of the Jovian moon Europa, and he was
responsible for the Pioneer 10 and 11 plaques-humanity's calling card to any
intelligent beings who might stumble on these probes in interstellar space.
All of this adds a lot to Hoagland's credibility-if you take the
interpretation of the above-mentioned events at face value.
Gary Posner decided to investigate these accounts of Hoagland's
contributions to astronomy and space exploration, looking to place
Hoagland's
own image into higher resolution.
As for his NASA appearances, a March 1990 appearance at the NASA's Lewis
Research Center in Cleveland, OH, Posner found that Hoagland was asked to
talk as part of an "employee perk" presentation series, not because NASA was
seriously examining his ideas. Posner's questions to NASA also revealed that
a later appearance in September also seemed to be more for novelty and
entertainment than forging ahead in space science.
In July 1990 on the "For the People" radio program Hoagland proclaimed that
"Carl [Sagan] for many years has been taking public credit for the Pioneer
plaque which, of course Eric Burgess and I conceived." In November of that
year he claimed that "Carl. was involved with Eric Burgess and me in the
design of [the] message." But according to Posner in 1990 correspondence
between him and Carl Sagan, Sagan stated that "Eric Burgess and Richard
Hoagland did no more than suggest to me that a message be put aboard Pioneer
10 and 11.Frank Drake and I. did the design, and I was responsible for
getting it through the White House and NASA approval process."
As for the hypothesis that there are oceans beneath the surface of Europa,
none other than Arthur C. Clarke states in his 2010: Odyssey Two that the
idea "was first proposed by Richard C. Hoagland in the magazine Star Sky
("The Europa Enigma," January , 1980)." However, Clarke himself seems to
have
been mistaken. John S. Lewis first proposed the idea in 1971 and several
other scientists published articles in agreement during the 1970s. Posner
found that Ralph Greenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of
Washington in Seattle has been trying for years to convince Hoagland to set
the record straight-without success.
Founded in 1976 by Dr. Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at
Buffalo, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranormal (CSICOP) encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and
fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and
disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the
scientific community and the public. It also promotes science and scientific
inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in
examining important issues.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [update] More shooting in Gilo
In a message dated 10/23/00 4:21:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: [update] More shooting in Gilo Date: 10/23/00 4:21:36 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Trimm) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/11/_/_/_/972335934/"Click Here!/A -_- Forwarded from SANJ VP and ISraeli citizen Mikhael ben Moshe in the Gilo area of Jerusalem: X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 9:30 PM (1:30 PM in Denver) more Tanzim infiltrated Beit Jala and Beit Lechem, and open fire on Gilo, our southern Jerusalem neighborhood. IDF commanders have already ordered the firing of a tank shell at the origin of the automatic weapons shooting. The tank has already fired. In addition, machineguns mounted on tanks stationed in Gilo are also firing in response to the shooting attack. It remains unknown at this time if there are injuries in Bet Jala. At least four streets were targeted in the Monday night shooting attack. It is being reported at this time that there are no casualties in Gilo. Earlier in the day, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz ordered the autonomous area of Bet Jala encircled to enable IDF forces to better control the area and perhaps facilitate a response in the event of additional shooting attacks. Military officials on Monday added that the Tanzim forces perpetrating the shooting attacks against Gilo are most likely coming to the area from other locations. Mikha'el Study Torah with SANJ Mitvah Club http://www.nazarene.net/MitzvahClub.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Headers Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-yd03.mx.aol.com (rly-yd03.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.3]) by air-yd05.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:21:36 -0400 Received: from jj.egroups.com (jj.egroups.com [208.50.144.82]) by rly-yd03.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:21:09 -0400 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.10.36] by jj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 Oct 2000 21:18:49 - Received: (qmail 22384 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2000 21:18:44 - X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 23 Oct 2000 21:14:11 - Received: (qmail 309 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2000 21:14:10 - Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 Oct 2000 21:14:10 - Received: from unknown (HELO mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net) (151.164.30.28) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Oct 2000 21:14:10 - Received: from [216.62.112.68] ([216.62.113.167]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:13:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: l03102802630dd2fa9bad@[216.62.112.68] From: James Trimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-eGroups-Approved-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via email; 23 Oct 2000 21:18:44 - MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Date header was inserted by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [update] More shooting in Gilo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/11/_/_/_/972335934/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Forwarded from SANJ VP and ISraeli citizen Mikhael ben Moshe in the Gilo area of Jerusalem: X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 9:30 PM (1:30 PM in Denver) more Tanzim infiltrated Beit Jala and Beit Lechem, and open fire on Gilo, our southern Jerusalem neighborhood. IDF commanders have already ordered the firing of a tank shell at the origin of the automatic weapons shooting. The tank has already fired. In addition, machineguns mounted on tanks stationed in Gilo are also firing in response to the shooting attack. It remains unknown at this time if there are injuries in Bet Jala. At least four streets were targeted in the Monday night shooting attack. It is being reported at this time that there are no casualties in Gilo. Earlier in the day, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz ordered the autonomous area of Bet Jala encircled to enable IDF forces to better control the area and perhaps facilitate a response in the event of additional shooting
[CTRL] UNICEF HALLOWEEN FUND BACKS ABORTION
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! UNICEF HALLOWEEN FUND BACKS ABORTION Once Supported by Holy See, a U.N. Group Has Changed Its Focus NEW YORK, OCT. 22, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- Millions of children trick-or-treating this Halloween in the United States will be toting little donation boxes, asking for money for the U.N. Children's Fund to help poor children of the world. What they don't know is that they will be helping to fund abortion, contraception and sterilization programs in the Third World. So says the National Catholic Register in its Oct. 22-29 edition. It highlighted the lesser-known work of UNICEF, which is famous for providing food, water and basic medical care to children in the developed world. Controversy simmering in El Salvador this month over a sex-education program sponsored by UNICEF is adding to what critics say is an anti- family, pro-abortion image of UNICEF foreign aid, the Register said. Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador has from the pulpit denounced a 170-page sex-education booklet designed by UNICEF and El Salvador's Ministries of Health and Education for training adolescents on sexuality issues including contraception, homosexuality and abortion, the Register reporter. "The dignity of people, institutions such as marriage and the rights of the family are all practically demolished with this document," he told Catholic News Service Oct. 6. The archbishop described illustrations in the manual intended for training 6,000 El Salvador youth to instruct their peers as "insinuating and grotesque." "I haven't seen it," Liza Barrie, a UNICEF spokeswoman in New York, said of the manual entitled "From Adolescents to Adolescents," the Register reported. Two thousand copies of the manual were printed last year and "about 1,000" were distributed before "objections were raised to some of the content," she told the Register. It covered topics including homosexuality, bisexuality and masturbation, she told the newspaper. Further distribution of the guide was temporarily halted in August as a result of public opposition to it, Barrie said, and the text is "being revised," the Register said. Barrie downplayed the role of UNICEF in the sex-education program, however, claiming it was one of more than a dozen collaborators and distributors of the manual, along with groups such as World Vision, Save the Children, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities. "UNICEF and Planned Parenthood are two of a kind," Winifride Prestwich, a founding member of the Canadian political pro-life lobby Campaign Life Coalition, told the Register. She authored a 1995 booklet, "UNICEF: Guilty as Charged," which documents the agency's cooperation with population-control groups including International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Health organization, the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and the Population Council to support contraceptive, abortion and sterilization campaigns. "UNICEF was formed [by the United Nations in 1946] to take care of the war-torn children of China and Europe," Prestwich told the Register. "It began as a very noble, worthy cause but it was swept up during the '60s in the old Malthusian theory that overpopulation is leading to world doom, and it strayed very far from its original mandate." Over the years, UNICEF has participated in the distribution of millions of abortifacient IUDs and contraceptives in countries such as Pakistan and China. In 1987, UNICEF formally endorsed a recommendation that "legal, good quality abortion services should be made easily accessible to all women." By 1992, UNICEF was lobbying for abortion in some countries where it is still illegal, the Register said. Carol Bellamy, UNICEF's executive director since 1995, is a former New York senator with an old voting record demonstrating her pro-abortion views. In 1974 she opposed a measure declaring that a fetus that survived an abortion and was born alive is entitled to the same care as other infants born alive. UNICEF's current Web page features a "family planning" page titled, "Progress of Nations : Dwindling families." A series of bar graphs illustrate how some developing countries fertility rates have been "halved in one generation," the Register reported. "UNICEF is pro-abortion," said Prestwich. "They put it so nicely. They don't want poor children coming into the world. It's not hidden It's a publicly acknowledged agenda that is documented in public records, but most people are unaware that is what UNICEF is about." John Klink, adviser to the Holy See mission to the United Nations, agrees. Until recently, he attended UNICEF board meetings to monitor their activities for the Vatican. "The Holy See used to give a symbolic contribution of $2,000 each year to UNICEF," he told the Register. "It was a sort of imprimatur that other Catholic individuals and organizations could give to the
Re: [CTRL] MP child rapist
-Caveat Lector- Must we get this kind of pornographic details from this list. Whether it is written from a pervert's point of view or a reporters point of view, it is still disgusting and very offensive. 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] ABC: Threat Condition Delta
-Caveat Lector- Threat Condition Delta ABC News W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 23 ABCNEWS has learned that U.S. military personnel in three critical locations have been put on the very highest state of alert after being warned of potential terrorist attacks. At the U.S. Air Force installation at Incirlik, Turkey, officials say credible and specific warnings have been received. The level of credibility about the warning is so high, that even the Turks believe it, one source told ABCNEWS, indicating the threat was very visible and believable. Details surrounding the warnings are being closely held, but officials say the information generally involves surveillance of U.S. personnel and plans for a specific attack. The threat has grown in the last few days following initial concerns last week when U.S. military personnel said they were under surveillance. Officials are particularly concerned that the base at Incirlik is a potential target because it is from that base that Operation Northern Watch is conducted over Iraq. About 3,400 Air Force personnel participate in that monitoring of the northern no fly zone over Iraq a mission that would make the base a logical target for the terrorist network said to be headed by Osama bin Laden. The network has the avowed goal of forcing the U.S. military to leave the region. Schools Closed In the Persian Gulf nations of Bahrain and Qatar, U.S. military forces have now been put on the very highest state of alert, known as Threat Condition Delta. This alert condition is imposed on forces in two circumstances: when a terrorist attack has occurred, or intelligence has been received that action against a specific location is likely. In Bahrain, there are just fewer 1,000 military personnel assigned to the headquarters for the U.S. Central Commands naval component. In Qatar, there are fewer than 100 U.S. military personnel who run an equipment depot, also on the highest state of alert. Concern is so high in both Persian Gulf nations that the local international schools have been closed due to fears they could be targets. These schools are run for the children of U.S. military personnel as well as dozens of children from families of embassy delegations. Officials are still trying to verify the threats against forces in Bahrain and Qatar. The information includes plans against U.S. military targets and even details that terrorists may have identified locations of explosives in the region that they could use in an attack. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] Fwd: Bad Days for Black Cats
Cape Cod Times 10/29/99 Bad days for black cats By JOHN LEANING STAFF WRITER BREWSTER - Planning to get an all-black, or all-white, cat as a present or surprise for Halloween? Don't. While animal shelters on Cape Cod do not have a blanket ban on releasing black or white cats to individuals or families over Halloween weekend, staff will take a closer-than-normal look at potential cat owners before releasing a feline for adoption. The reason is that solid black, and especially solid white, cats are targets of some extreme occult groups which may practice animal sacrifice or animal mutilation as part of cult rituals over All Hallows Eve, which runs from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1. Almost as bad, cats bought or adopted to be an attraction at a Halloween party can end up abandoned when the scary festivities end. "Yes, we do take a very careful stance on adopting black or even more, white cats, the symbol of purity," said Capt. Thomas White, director of criminal investigations for the Animal League of Boston, which operates a shelter and adoption facility in Brewster. Black cats, White said, are often regarded as a connection to the supernatural world, and are not harmed. But white cats, as a symbol of purity, can be hideously mutilated. "It used to be we would not adopt out black cats, and we also made it be known we would not adopt out white cats over the Halloween weekend," he said. Now, the policy is that with added awareness of potential problems, local shelter directors make final decisions on whether to let an animal go. That is also the policy of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which maintains an office and shelter in Centerville. "We used to have a blanket rule to hold all adoptions (of white or black cats) the week before Halloween, but we no longer do that, particularly on the Cape," said Carter Luke, the society's vice president of humane services. "What we try to do is, trusting our adoption counselors, to match their families up with animals. Now perhaps we are a little more careful with solid white or black cats, but we don't want Halloween to be an obstacle to adoption," he said, adding, "We are all aware some people do weird things to cats this time of year." "It is a problem, a national problem. There has been an abnormal amount of cats stolen from homes, sacrificed and then dumped back on the owner's doorsteps. It's all over," White said. "It's no laughing matter. Some say it's only a cat. But a cat is a living, breathing creature, and it feels pain. Why should it have to suffer more than anyone else?" he said. ___
[CTRL] FR: FROM SUPPO USS ANCHORAGE, ON SCENE IN ADEN, YEMEN
-Caveat Lector- [From Free Republic and I am going to assume it is true.] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 5:42 AM Subject: USS Cole info Thought you folks might appreciate this info: FROM SUPPO USS ANCHORAGE, ON SCENE IN ADEN, YEMEN: John, Your friend said it all. We too are on station and I will be going over there in the morning to provide a lunch. I wanted to grill steak for them on their deck, but there is still too much oil and fuel, not to mention every square foot of deck is now their living space, to set up a grill. Their requests have been simple, hot food, cold drinks and dry coveralls and boots. The ships here are all taking turns doing their laundry and cooking their meal. The Cole's crew has been offered repeatedly to take RR on another ship but most have refused. They refuse to leave their ship. The details of their shipmates having to be cut from the bulkheads and descriptions and photos of the description have filtered to our ship. It is amazing that more were not killed. It is equally amazing that it is still afloat. The keel is ripped apart and at present cannot even be towed to open water to be placed on a dry-dock vessel. The #1 engine room is flooded solid, as is AUX 1. The Messdecks deck is now pressed against the overhead. The entire galley was pushed to the starboard side and the equipment is unrecognizable. This is where many crew members died. The ship was very nearly lost. They are truly heroes. We all have a lot to do to save this vessel but the crew of the Cole has endured the brunt of it so far. I have vowed myself and my department to offer any comfort, large or small that we are capable of providing, to the Cole. None of my guys have once complained and all have volunteered to help in any way. The Cole's Suppo was injured and flown home. The disbo is now running things. I will assess his needs when I go over. The Suppo on the Hawes has been controlling the efforts but now that the Tarawa is on station they seemto be taking the rains, but I think I can at least provide him some insight. Let there be no doubt that this is a hostile land. It took days before we were even allowed to enter territorial waters and still we are heavily restricted in flights and must maintain a constant vigil against additional hostile actions. The Yemen government is still not being very helpful and we are trying to place all personnel onboard the ships that are currently staying at the two hotels in town. The Cole's crew remains emotionally and physically drained I'm told. So, since you have experienced Navy life, try relay to those back home the sacrifices we make, hardships we endure, and the dangers we face in an effort to keep those Stars and Stripes flying high over a ship 10,000 miles from home. Take care and sleep well knowing the US Navy is on watch tonight, but say a prayer for the 250 members of the Cole who must wake tomorrow to another day of fighting for their ship. John Cassani USS ANCHORAGE = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] CNN: U.S. forces put on highest alert because of 'specific terrorist threat'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/23/mideast.alert/index.html U.S. forces put on highest alert because of 'specific terrorist threat,' Pentagon says U.S. officials believe associates of Osama bin Laden are poised to carry out a terrorist strike on U.S. interests October 23, 2000 Web posted at: 8:13 p.m. EDT (0013 GMT) From Chris Plante CNN National Security Producer WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. forces in Bahrain, Qatar and Turkey have been placed on the highest possible state of alert after learning of a "specific threat that is considered credible" against U.S. "citizens and facilities" in those countries, Pentagon officials told CNN on Monday. Officials said the threat is believed at this time to be linked to associates of alleged terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Pentagon planners are again "looking at" the option of a "pre-emptive strike" against bin Laden's organization if a firm link can be established and it's determined such a strike could be effective in "disrupting his ability to attack us." File photo of the U.S. attack on the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries factory in Khartoum in 1998 "But we've been looking at that since the strike on the (USS) Cole," one official said. "People are thinking about it." The forces in the area are now at "Threat Condition Delta" -- the highest state of military alert, or equal to "a war footing," the official said. "Delta" is normally reserved for situations where an attack is believed to be imminent. The official said that the decision to strike bin Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant in August of 1998 was made "in part because there was information at that time that he was about to strike at (U.S. interests) again," after he was suspected of responsibility for the bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa. "Operation Infinite Reach," as it was called by the Pentagon, struck at bin Laden bases in remote areas of Afghanistan and also leveled a facility in Sudan that U.S. officials claimed was used to produce or store chemical weapons. The United States stands by the decision to strike at the plant, citing the presence of a chemical weapons "precursor" called "empta." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] DJ: White House Denies Mideast Troop Movement Rumor
-Caveat Lector- DJ White House Denies Mideast Troop Movement Rumor Source: FW - Dow Jones International News Service Oct 23 16:14 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The White House on Monday denied a rumor of unusual troop movements in the Middle East that emerged in the U.S. bond market. Earlier in the day, market participants said they had heard that Syria had allowed Iraq to send troops into Syria toward the border with Israel. "There is no truth to the rumor," White House spokesman P. J. Crowley said. -By Alex Keto, Dow Jones Newswires; 202 862 9256; [EMAIL PROTECTED] (END) Dow Jones Newswires 23-10-00 2014GMT U.S. calls Arab communique "harsh and unhelpful" (1) Source: RTR_NA - Reuters North American Securities News Oct 23 14:53 WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday called "harsh and unhelpful" an Arab summit communique that condemned what it called "massacres committed by Israeli occupation forces" in the worst Middle East violence in years. White House spokesman Jake Siewert also again urged the Israelis and the Palestinians to end the violence in which at least 127 people have died since Sept. 28. Siewert urged both sides to carry out an accord brokered by President Bill Clinton in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last week designed to put an end to the violence that has all but killed off the Middle East peace process. "We understand that there's a lot of frustration that's built up on both sides now. Our priority, our focus now is on ending the bloodshed," Siewert told reporters. "We think it's important for both sides to implement the security provisions at Sharm el-Sheikh. That's the only real way to end the violence there," Siewert added, saying Clinton had made this point in separate weekend calls to both sides. "In the end ... the only solution is going to be one that's reached at the negotiating table through a political process and not through violence," he added. Barak on Sunday announced a pause in peace talks with the Palestinians in the wake of the Arab summit, which condemned Israeli "barbarism" in a deadly wave of violence sweeping the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "I think the language of the communique was harsh and unhelpful, but at the same time it did reaffirm the necessity for a peaceful solution," Siewert said. Sporadic fighting continued on Monday in the West Bank and Gaza, and the Israeli army threatened to surround a town near Bethlehem to stop Palestinian gunmen from firing at the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem. REUTERS = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [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] DJ: Israel Weighs Economic Sanctions Against Palestinians
-Caveat Lector- DJ Israel Weighs Economic Sanctions Against Palestinians Source: FW - Dow Jones International News Service Oct 23 10:52 By David Rosenberg DOW JONES NEWSWIRES JERUSALEM (Dow Jones)--Israel's declared "time-out" from Middle East peacemaking is likely to be accompanied by economic sanctions that will leave Israel unscathed but take a heavy toll on the battered Palestinian economy. A government panel is now considering measures to create what officials say will in effect be an "economic border" between Israel and Palestinian-ruled areas. Newspapers said recommendations are likely to include severely limiting the number of Palestinians working in Israel, restrictions on Israeli-Palestinian trucking movements, and limiting trade to a few crossing points. But there isn't much enthusiasm in the business sector for tightening the screws on the Palestinians. "The Israeli business sector doesn't like the idea of separation very much. They don't want any barriers to free trade," said Mandy Barak, an official at the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce. Nor is there any support on either the Israeli or Palestinian side for complete economic separation in the future, said Yoram Gabbay, who was deeply involved in the economic provisions of Israel's peace accords with the Palestinians and today heads Bank Hapoalim's Pi'ilim portfolio management group. Economic and political imperatives would force the two sides to maintain close economic ties, Gabbay said. The "economic separation" that the Israelis are weighing means "strengthening the closure of the Palestinian areas. It's not separation, but sanctions," he said. After violence between Israelis and Palestinians broke out more than three weeks ago, Israel blocked off nearly all traffic between Israeli territory and the Palestinian-ruled West Bank and Gaza Strip. While the proposals sound mostly technical, they would strike at the heart of the Palestinian economy's reliance on Israel. Some 25% of Palestinian gross domestic product is generated by day laborers crossing into Israel to work on building sites, and in farm fields, hotels and restaurants. Virtually all Palestinian imports are Israeli products or third-country imports bought off the shelf from Israeli suppliers. By tightening the flow of labor and goods, Palestinians would lose a sizable chunk of their income and face considerably higher costs for imported products, if not outright shortages. The impact on the Israeli economy if the measures are implemented would be minimal. Many economists are starting to downgrade their forecasts for Israeli GDP growth in 2000 and 2001, but that is because of the indirect impact of the unrest in the form of fewer tourists, slackening consumer confidence and a falloff in construction. But only between 1% and 5% of Israeli company sales come from the Palestinian areas, said the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce's Barak. Israel exports some $2 billion worth of goods to the Palestinian Authority annually, less than 2% of GDP. Palestinians account for only about 5% of the Israeli labor force, far less than 13 years ago when the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule broke out. Foreign workers now take up most of the slack. Jonathan Katz, chief economist at Nessuah Zannex Securities, said the closure could even give a small boost to Israel's economy. "Israelis have been doing their shopping and getting better deals in the Palestinian areas, but now more of their spending on furniture and car repairs will stay in Israel," he said. Although Palestinians find their reliance on the Israeli economy distasteful, they have few alternatives for the foreseeable future. Two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's 2.5 billion shekel ($1=ILS4.1210) budget comes from tax revenues transferred to it from Israel. The border between Israel and the PA is winding and porous, enabling both goods and people to cross over with enough ease that even the limited sanctions Israel is weighing won't be entirely effective. "I'm a Jerusalemite, I know...there are workers coming from (the West Bank city of) Ramallah...everybody goes up to the crossing point by car and then takes a detour and crosses over by foot," Gabbay said. Complete separation would require sealing the border and evacuating many West Bank settlements to prevent smugglers from exploiting differing tax rates, customs and product standards, Gabbay said. Erecting a fence would cost Israel an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion - and present it with the politically explosive problem of where exactly to site it. By David Rosenberg Dow Jones Newswires 972-2-537-6985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (END) Dow Jones Newswires 23-10-00 1452GMT = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CTRL] MP child rapist
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Must we get this kind of pornographic details from this list. Whether it is written from a pervert's point of view or a reporters point of view, it is still disgusting and very offensive. Actually, I agree. It is a terrible article, indeed, and today I thought long and hard about it. There is the right to know what is happening in your community, the right of free speech, the necessity of having fair and open criminal trials, which includes being able to report and publish on the details of cases - but all I could think of was that this type of reporting is unnecessary, perhaps. All it did for me was read like a Guide to Raping a Child, a sleazy reporting of a horrific event. I only saw a dark side when I read this article. I thought that it would be saved by pediophiles as a fantasy they could jerk off to. It is articles like this that are, to me, borderline and despicable. I can think of reasons to justify it, but it just makes my heart cry. Kelly 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] Fwd: The Names of the Jews
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: -Caveat Lector- You say I am an idiot Joshua2 takes one to know one, you idiot. A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy OUCH !!! - J 1+1 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: Ecuador - Drugs
Stratfor.com's Global Intelligence Update - 24 October 2000 _ We knew it before it was news. Also on Stratfor.com With violence in Israel escalating and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refusing to rein in violent factions of his ruling Fatah party, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has now taken the hardline and intensified efforts to form a national emergency unity government. http://www.stratfor.com/hotspots/israel_palestine/default.htm _ Ecuador: Seeking the Benefits of a Plan Colombia Summary Ecuador is first in line to suffer the likely consequences of the U.S.-financed military offensive against drug traffickers in southern Colombia. The United States has offered Ecuador $20 million to manage the spillover, but President Gustavo Noboa wants much more. In fact, Noboa wants a Plan Colombia for Ecuador. If the U.S. government ignores demands for a much bigger commitment to Ecuador, the Noboa government may reconsider its tenuous support for Plan Colombia, including the use of Ecuador's Pacific Coast by U.S. anti-drug aircraft. Analysis The United States allotted Ecuador $20 million of the $1.3 billion U.S. aid package for Colombia's coming military offensive against drug traffickers, including $12 million in counter-narcotics aid and $8 million for development projects along the border with Colombia. However, President Gustavo Noboa wants much more. For starters, he wants between $250 million and $300 million for military material, including helicopters and river-patrol boats. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller outlined Noboa's proposal Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C. at meetings with officials of the State Department, National Security Council and Agency for International Development. Noboa also wants large-scale U.S. funding for economic development in northern Ecuador. In effect, he wants Washington to underwrite a Plan Colombia for Ecuador, including economic development assistance and military aid to keep the coca trade out of Ecuador. Washington will balk, but Noboa has a compelling argument: Ecuador's soils are suitable for cultivating coca and opium poppy, and its impoverished northern region is fertile ground for a drug- fueled insurgency. __ For more on Latin America, see: http://www.stratfor.com/latinamerica/default.htm _ Ecuador is an important trans-shipment route for Colombian and Peruvian cocaine, but was bypassed in the 1990s when coca cultivation shifted to Colombia from Peru and Bolivia. However, the Noboa government fears the anti-drug military offensive in southern Colombia will push the drug trade and violence into northern Ecuador, where the inhabitants are largely members of nationalist indigenous groups who oppose the government's adoption of the U.S. dollar and privatization of state enterprises. Noboa was vice president last January when a military coup that removed President Jamil Mahuad triggered a mass national protest by Ecuador's Quechua Indians. The United States and other countries condemned the coup, but a large majority of Ecuador's citizens supported the armed forces. Noboa is Ecuador's seventh president in four years. His government's stability depends on the continued support of the military and indigenous groups united under the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). To keep that support, however, Noboa has to produce results, starting with economic growth, infrastructure and better living standards for Ecuador's 12.4 million people, the majority of whom are poor Indians. High oil prices and adopting the U.S. dollar as Ecuador's national currency have stabilized the economy and defused political tensions. Inflation is under control at last, and oil will account for about 45 percent of Ecuador's export earnings this year, compared with about 20 percent in 1999. However, the crisis in Ecuador is far from over. Right now Noboa has some breathing room, but oil prices will fall eventually, and the risk of renewed political unrest is high. According to Augusto de la Torre, director of the World Bank's office in Ecuador, adopting the U.S. dollar has made Ecuador's economic system more corrupt, more politicized. The military supports Noboa's endorsement of Plan Colombia and the use of Ecuador by U.S. anti-drug aircraft, but the country's indigenous leaders do not. If the drug trade and violence spill into northern Ecuador from Colombia, the spreading conflict could spark more mass protests by Ecuador's Indians. In January's protests, junior- and mid-level officers joined the Quechua protesters who toppled Mahuad. To reduce the risk of his ouster under similar circumstances, Noboa has to keep the military and indigenous groups happy. Meanwhile, the
[CTRL] Fwd: Pioneer Fund/Secret Military Genetic Experiments
Pioneer Fund/Secret Military Genetic Experiments ³Long before cloned sheep, egg donors and sperm banks, a group of wealthy Northeastern conservatives embarked on an experiment with the help of the U.S. Army Air Corps to find a way to improve the human race² August 17, 1999 More on The Pioneer Fund A Breed Apart: A Long-Ago Effort to Better the Species Yields Ordinary Folks Pioneer Fund Tried to Spread `Natural Endowments' of Top Air Force Fliers 'Sound and Desirable Stock' By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON Staff Reporter, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WARE, Mass. Tomorrow, Ward and Darby Warburton, twin brothers born on Aug. 18, 1940, will celebrate their 59th birthdays with cake and a crowd of grandchildren gathered at the home of their 86-year-old mother near this picturesque New England mill town. The brothers' shared birthday marks something more than another milestone in the lives of two World War II-era babies. It also marks the start of their involvement in an odd experiment six decades ago of which the Warburton family was a mostly unwitting subject. Long before cloned sheep, egg donors and sperm banks, a group of wealthy Northeastern conservatives embarked on an experiment with the help of the U.S. Army Air Corps to find a way to improve the human race. The group, formed in 1937, called itself the Pioneer Fund. As is spelled out in hundreds of pages of documents and letters by its founders and their associates, the Pioneer Fund, alarmed by the declining U.S. birth rate and rising immigration, was at the forefront of the eugenics movement. Like many other prominent leaders of the time, the fund's directors were particularly concerned that "superior" Americans were not reproducing enough to pass on their "natural endowments." So they set out to spur procreation among a group they regarded as superior indeed -- military pilots and their crews. With the support of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of war, Harry H. Woodring, the group offered $4,000, about $46,000 in today's dollars, for the education of additional children born during the year 1940 to any officer who already had at least three offspring. The Air Corps precursor to the U.S. Air Force promoted the program and provided the fund's psychologists extensive records on its officers, including training, parentage, race and religion, according to various memos and letters written among Pioneer Fund leaders and records of the experiment. By the end of 1940, a dozen qualifying infants seven boys and five girls, including two sets of twins had been born. The Pioneer Fund had expected bigger numbers. Looming war clouds seemed to have trumped the fund's financial incentives. The Pioneer Fund quietly made arrangements for the children to receive their scholarships, and never contacted the families again. The Pioneer Fund, which today remains a controversial funder of research into the roots of intelligence, says the 1940 effort was a legitimate experiment to gauge attitudes toward family size, and nothing more. The Air Force declines to comment. But how did the kids turn out? The Wall Street Journal was able to track down eight of the 12 born in 1940. One died as an infant. But the other seven grew up to be moderately successful citizens. Some didn't know the background behind the payments received long ago and were vaguely troubled to learn the details. Among the seven children who survived into adulthood, there are no ranking generals and no war heroes. No criminals, either. "My dad told me they were trying to create more fighting men," jokes Ward Warburton. "Well, I did get into a lot of fights coming up. And I could always take care of myself pretty well." Today, the Warburton brothers are air-conditioning repairmen, each with his own successful small business here in Ware, a town of 10,000 about 25 miles from Springfield, Mass. "I doubt we're superior," says John F. Rawlings, an affable Seattle homebuilder, whose father became one of the first four-star generals in the Air Force and later the chairman of General Mills Inc. The younger Mr. Rawlings joined the Air Force but was too nearsighted to fly. He says he inherited the bad eyes from his mother. The stories of the Pioneer Fund children and the largely routine lives they have led underscore the naivete of such a clumsy effort to sculpt the human race. But they also are reminders of sinister racial assumptions prevalent in mainstream America just a generation ago. All officers in the Air Corps were white; African-Americans were barred from the Air Corps until 1941, and even then were shunted into all-black squadrons. Many early genetic researchers believed that race-mixing would damage the white race's "germ plasm" a human component that early scientists believed carried a race's hereditary traits. Leaders in Nazi Germany fervently embraced such eugenic theories. The pilot procreation plan was endorsed by an array of high-ranking military and
[CTRL] Fw: [firebase-news] Re The testing goes on
American Gulf War Veterans AssociationP.O. Box 85, Versailles, MO 650841-(800) 231-7631 * FAX (573) 378-5998 * http://www.gulfwarvets.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2000Contact: Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N.Capt. USAF inactive reserve(573) 378-6049NEWS RELEASEBIOLOGICAL AGENTS DISPERSED IN OPEN-AIR RELEASES AT FT. LEONARD WOOD!Citizens of Missouri and surrounding states are outraged to find thatbiological materials have been released into the open air on a regularbasis at Fort Leonard Wood this past year in "training exercises."Informed consent of the general population has not been obtained in anyof these releases. The biological agent utilized in these exercises is"Bacillus subtilis," also known as "Bacillus globigii" (BG), and isbeing used because it closely resembles anthrax and can be detected bythe Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS) units at Fort LeonardWood. According to Robin Byrom, with the Chemical School Materiel andCombat Development Department at Ft. Leonard Wood, "There have beenfour courses, they started in.I believe January of this year and thereis ongoing a class at Fort Leonard Wood right now!"Although Army officials claim that these simulants are "virtuallyharmless," Congressional records report there is no such thing as a safebiological simulant. BG is known to cause spontaneous abortions in sheepand cattle, upper respiratory infections, eye infections, and can affectthose with compromised immune systems such as the elderly, thechronically ill and the very young. Senate reports entitled "BiologicalTesting Involving Human Subjects, 1977" and "Human Drug Testing by theCIA," establish a clear and consistent track record by the Department ofDefense of deceiving and manipulating the general public in regard tothe development and use of biological and chemical agents. TheDepartment of the Army, is invited to attend.An emergency public "Town Hall" hearing will be held at the VersaillesMiddle School in Versailles, MO. on Thursday, October 26, 2000, at 7PMto address the release of these pathogens and what action must be takento immediately stop the Department of the Army from continuing thispractice.PUBLIC OFFICIALS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, MEDICAL PERSONNEL, LIVESTOCK RANCHERSAND ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS URGED TO ATTEND!EMERGENCY PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD AT VERSAILLES MIDDLE SCHOOL!Citizens of Missouri and surrounding states are outraged to learn thatFort Leonard Wood has been releasing biological agents into theenvironment in "training exercises" for biological detection sinceJanuary, 2000! The simulant used is "Bacillus subtilis" also known as"Bacillus globigii" (BG) because it closely resembles anthrax. Thisbiological agent is known to cause spontaneous abortions in sheep andcattle, upper respiratory infections, eye infections, and can affectthose with compromised immune systems such as the elderly, thechronically ill and the very young.The general public has not been informed of these "training exercises"nor have they given their consent to be exposed to these pathogens! Thebacteria being released can travel for hundreds of miles and the sporescan remain active for decades! The Department of the Army is invited toattend.Could this be why we have such an increase in upper respiratoryinfections in Morgan County and the state of Missouri?All public officials, law enforcement, medical personnel, livestockranchers and concerned citizens are urged to attend! This affectseveryone!Where: Versailles Middle School, Hwy 52, Versailles, MO. When: 7PM,Thursday, October 26, 2000Information: Joyce Riley vonKleist, (573)378-6049
[CTRL] Dems try to sneak amnesty for illegal aliens through Congress
-Caveat Lector- Democrats try to sneak amnesty for illegal aliens through Congress October 20, 2000 Virtually unknown to (and unwanted by) most Americans, Congress may soon vote to grant a mass amnesty to more than 3 million illegal aliens. The reasons the impending vote is virtually unknown are obvious enough: The backers of the amnesty hope to push it through before anyone notices, and its opponents are afraid of the consequences of voting against it. Unable and unwilling to seek an up-or-down vote on the measure, the amnesty lobby is trying to sneak it through by attaching it to an appropriations bill that few congressmen would vote against and President Clinton would sign. Drafted by left-wing Democrat John Conyers, the amnesty is estimated to add some 3.4 million people -- mostly already in this country as illegal aliens -- to the national population. The illegal aliens to be included under the measure are more than one million Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but some 40,000 Liberians here because of "temporary" refugee status are also covered, as well as any and all illegal aliens who have lived in the United States since 1986. As the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates, the latter category constitutes a whopping 1.9 million illegals. The measure is manifestly unfair to legal immigrants who obeyed U.S. immigration laws to come here and who have waited in line to gain entry and citizenship. But the injustice to legal immigrants shrivels compared to the smack in the face to Americans themselves. The illegal aliens to be legalized under the amnesty would be able to compete with native Americans for jobs, education and access to welfare. They would join the ever-swelling army of immigrant lobbies that pressure politicians for favors. They would increase the burden on the national infra-structure and natural resources. Once they became citizens, they could then import their own relatives into the country as legal immigrants. Moreover, since Congress will have granted one amnesty, why shouldn't future illegals expect more to come? All they have to do is sneak across the border and wait. The INS, in a new study of the effects of amnesty, concludes that the last amnesty for illegals in 1986 almost certainly increased illegal immigration in the years that followed. Amnesties don't solve illegal immigration. Before the 1986 amnesty, the illegal alien population was estimated to be about 5 million; today, despite the amnesty 14 years ago, it's estimated to be about the same number. The Democrats are pushing the amnesty because they know very well that the new citizens will swell their own voters at the polls, that more immigrants mean more excuses for demanding more welfare, more spending on social programs to help them "assimilate" and more education. The Republicans are either in favor of the amnesty because they support Big Business's bottomless appetite for more cheap labor or because they're terrified of alienating Hispanic voters on the eve of the presidential elections. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is supposed to be in favor of the Democrats' amnesty proposal. So are President Clinton and Vice President Gore. So is the AFL-CIO, which has decided to dump American working people in favor of supporting foreign workers. So, of course, are the immigrant lobbies, which are holding sizeable rallies in support of the amnesty measure in cities across the country. George W. Bush's position is not known, and since the subject of immigration policy never came up in the presidential debates, there's no reason he should take a position at all. The arguments against amnesty are largely the same as those against illegal immigration and more legal immigration in general, but the issue is no longer settled by argument or facts. Sentiment, ideology, special interests and sheer political expediency are what determine whether the United States enforces its own laws against illegal immigration and indeed whether it continues to have any laws controlling immigration at all. The larger point of the INS study cited above is not so much that it shows that amnesties fail to solve the immigration problem as that the federal government is simply not serious about controlling immigration at all. If today we have the same number of illegal aliens inside the country as we did before 1986, that means that everything the government has done in the last fourteen years has been a flop. You probably didn't need the INS study to know that, but then you probably won't learn about the proposed amnesty from your congressman. If you'd like to stop the amnesty and put a little pressure on Congress to do something serious about immigration control, you can contact an effective and well-informed organization called
[CTRL] The New Science of Character Assassination
-Caveat Lector- The New Science of Character Assassination Phil Agre http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/ 15 October 2000 You are welcome to forward this article electronically to anyone for any noncommercial purpose. The past ten days will go down as a turning point in American history. This is what it's like when the far right is taking over your country: the people support Al Gore's policies, but the polls are shifting toward George W. Bush because the media is filled with false attacks on Al Gore's character. A story in today's (10/15/00) New York Times states openly what has been clear all along, that this campaign of character assassination has been planned and executed over a long period by the Republicans. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/politics/15REPU.html Character assassination is, of course, nothing new for Republicans, who mastered the art in the days of Richard Nixon. What's new is that the press constantly repeats the lies. Not just once or twice, not just the occasional slip, but over and over and over. Let us consider the New York Times story in detail. Written by Alison Mitchell, it describes Al Gore's abject apology for two trivial and much-exaggerated errors in the first debate as "the culmination of a skillful and sustained 18-month campaign by Republicans to portray the vice president as flawed and untrustworthy". The New York Times discerns four landmarks in this campaign, and landmark number one is as follows: ... in December 1997 ... the [Republican National] committee announced it had started a contest to come up with a slogan for Mr. Gore after he told reporters that the hero and heroine in the novel "Love Story" were modeled after him and his wife, Tipper. (Erich Segal, the author, soon said that his protagonist, Oliver Barrett IV, was only partly based on Mr. Gore, while Jenny Cavilleri had nothing to do with Tipper Gore.) In this case, the RNC's claim was false. Gore had not told anyone that Love Story was based on him and his wife. Rather, he had mentioned a newspaper article that had inaccurately said that, and was carefully to say that he only had the article's word to go on. Observe that Mitchell repeats the RNC's false account, and then (following the longstanding convention) makes it sound as though Segal was contradicting Gore, when in fact he was defending him. The false "Love Story" store continues to be repeated to the present day. http://www.dailyhowler.com/h092800_1.shtml Landmark number two: So when Mr. Gore said in an interview with CNN in March 1999 that "during my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet", Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the majority leader, issued this mocking statement: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the paper clip". The problem, of course, was that Gore's claim was correct. As the Internet's scientific leaders attest, often heatedly, Gore recognized the significance of the Internet very early, and took the initiative in doing the political work and articulating the public vision that made the Internet possible. His sentence, which is often not quoted in its entirety, makes perfectly clear that he was talking about the work he did in the context of his Congressional service, and that he is not claiming, ridiculously, to have done the technical work as well. Mitchell shades the story by omitting the Republicans' (and media's) most common distortion of the matter, that Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. This falsehood has been repeated on literally hundreds of occasions, and George W. Bush routinely uses it in his speeches. http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/printedition/article/ 0,2669,SAV-0008220064,FF.html http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.campaign.lunacy.html http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html Landmark number three: On the day Mr. Gore announced his candidacy in Carthage, Tenn., his family's hometown, Jim Nicholson, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, had a more elaborate stunt. He rode in a wagon pulled by mules to the hotel on Embassy Row in Washington where Mr. Gore lived for much of his youth. "He has tried to pass himself off as this hardscrabble, homespun central Tennessee farm boy and that is not what he is", said Mr. Nicholson, playing off the fact that Mr. Gore had told The Des Moines Register that he had learned to slop hogs and clear land on the family farm. Friends later told reporters that Mr. Gore's father had kept him on a backbreaking work schedule during summers on the family farm. The problem, again, is that Gore's claim was true. He did work on his family farm as a child. This time, Mitchell admits that the Republicans were making it up. But she still shades the story by making it sound as though the truth hadn't come out until later, and as though
[CTRL] (Fwd) Release: More Guns, Less Crime
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:35:37 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Release: More Guns, Less Crime From: Libertarian Party Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: October 20, 2000 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Shocking study: 25 million more guns helped produce a 40% drop in crime WASHINGTON, DC -- Gun-related crime has plunged 40% in recent years while the number of guns in circulation has reached an all-time high, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Justice -- and that's terrible news for supporters of gun control, Libertarians say. "The message is clear: More guns equal less crime," said Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. "The biggest threat to your safety isn't guns; it's politicians who want to restrict gun ownership. "That's why we need to do everything we can to keep dangerous gun laws out of the hands of politicians like Al Gore and George W. Bush." Data released last week by the FBI shows that gunshot wounds inflicted during crimes dropped to 39,400 from 64,100 nationwide between 1992 and 1997 -- a decrease of 40%. But during the same five years, the number of guns in America surged to 230 million from 205 million, according to the National Association of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. "Even street thugs understand what gun-banning politicians don't: Guns deter crime," Browne said. "Americans went on a gun-buying binge from 1992 to 1997, purchasing 11 million new handguns and 14 million new rifles and shotguns -- and crime continued to decline. "Imagine how much further crime would fall if politicians made it easier for more law-abiding citizens to buy guns by repealing many of the 20,000 gun laws currently on the books." One immediate target for repeal: State laws preventing Americans from carrying concealed weapons. "The three most violent cities in America -- New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- all have something in common: Gun control," Browne said. "According to the FBI figures, these three cities led the nation in murder, armed robbery, and assault. And no wonder. In those cities, it's illegal to carry a concealed weapon. Democrats and Republicans who refuse to repeal these laws are painting a target on the backs of innocent Americans." Browne conceded that other factors -- such as demographic changes, longer prison terms, and an improved economy -- may have played a role in the drop in crime rates. "But a dramatic increase in the number of guns didn't cause an increase in crime -- which is what politicians routinely claim when they spout off about the so-called need to reduce easy access to guns," he said. "In fact, giving ordinary Americans easy access to guns is apparently what criminals fear most." Another shocking truth about gun control laws, Browne said, is that even politicians don't favor them -- for themselves. "Visit the Capitol building in Washington, DC, and notice how many guards are carrying guns," he said. "Politicians say you have to be disarmed to make America safer, but they don't disarm government employees. Senators and Congressmen may have a compelling need to defend themselves, but is it really more compelling than your need to defend your home and your family against criminals? "Of course not. That's why if I'm elected president I will immediately sign an executive order disarming every single guard on Capitol Hill -- until Congress fully restores your right to carry a gun." During the presidential debates, both Bush and Gore emphasized their support for background checks, taxpayer-financed trigger locks, and enforcing current gun laws, noted Browne. "Gore and Bush are both promoting the dangerous utopian idea that criminals will suddenly decide to follow whatever laws they manage to pass," he said. "But more laws are not the answer. The best solution is to repeal every existing gun control law on the books. The number of guns in the hands of criminals will not change, but more Americans would recover the right to defend themselves -- which will probably inspire many more criminals to seek a safer line of work." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBOfTMfNCSe1KnQG7RAQHsiAP/ebKQ3snfj/iktM66IE1txnpsdKvZj5w7 GjiKlP/8wzjnnqtyd1aB1NB5BeWLhdCM0J1s7Yr9vJAoIxKK+sMXAw/GxmRVbVZk
