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 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. 

Yes, thanks to God that the Israeli are a peaceful, peace loving people.
Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] MP child rapist

2000-10-24 Thread Ynr Chyldz Wyld


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From: "Ole Gerstrøm" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 You did well in posting this information. This should be the place, where we 
confront the bestiality of the
world. If we dont want to look at the dirty details, then how can we do something 
about it?

 In the mind control litterature there is stuff which is much more disgusting. I 
found that hard at times,
but it is my opinion we have to go through it.

 Without an attitude of steel, we dont have a chance.

 Love, Ole Gerstrom, Copenhagen, Denmark

All I can add is "Amen!"


June

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Re: [CTRL] Sticks And Stones Vs. Bullets

2000-10-24 Thread Stopforth, Jamie

Title: RE: [CTRL] Sticks And Stones Vs. Bullets

But then again, the Arabs can attack Israel, and Arafat can tell Barak to go to hell... Yeah, the Arabs are the nice guys aren't they? I mean blowing a suicidal hole in a military ship is nice isn't it... Yeah, nice people they are. It's not their fault Arafat is a known terrorist, he's a nice fella... I'm sure we can trust anything he says according to the peace process.

Jamie

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

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Re: [CTRL] UNICEF HALLOWEEN FUND BACKS ABORTION


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 What they don't know is that they will be helping to fund abortion,
 contraception and sterilization programs in the Third World. 

Basically it's contraception and sterilization programs that we need.
Contrary to the weird myths that "men" are constantly repeating, women do not
like abortion.  Apparently the Church does not mind watching deaths from
starvation and disease occur.  I have lived in third world countries where
the average family was ten, and the average wage extended to meat once every
month or two.  That would be fine if the diet was such as to make up for the
lack, but unfortunately it cannot.  I remember one family quite well.  It was
a village marriage with two normal children, one physically beautiful but
very retarded, one with a very, very small head, and one who at the age of
five was  the size of a normal toddler of about l8 months.  The woman wanted
to find a way to be sterilized.  In desparation she left her husband, and he
immediately contracted another marriage in the same village, and has since
had many more children.  I do not know of their condition.  The Church would
deny all people in this world access to family planning.   Oh yes, there is
always abstinence, but it was this woman's desire for abstinence that
resulted in the beatings that made her leave her husband.   The hideous
poverty that plagues a large portion of the world's citizens gives the
Church's lack of caring for the people suffering the plague of children they
cannot feed, develop or medicate  a truly ugly aspect.   Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Bad Days for Black Cats


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  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. 

This should certainly convince you that kooks and idiots come in groups.
Prudy

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[CTRL] Jimmy Carter Excommunicates Himself

2000-10-24 Thread K


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Return to Sender. You must be morons to send me
this letter. --Words written by Bernard Lewinsky,
father of "Monica," on a mail solicitation to
rich Demos from the Clinton legal defense fund.

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: [firebase-news] Re The testing goes on


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 those with compromised immune systems such as the elderly, the
 chronically ill and the very young. 

But this is the group our military care least about.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] Sticks And Stones Vs. Bullets


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 But then again, the Arabs can attack Israel, and Arafat can tell Barak to go
 to hell... Yeah, the Arabs are the nice guys aren't they? I mean blowing a
 suicidal hole in a military ship is nice isn't it... Yeah, nice people they
 are.  It's not their fault Arafat is a known terrorist, he's a nice fella...
 I'm sure we can trust anything he says according to the peace process.

 Jamie 

You've got your people crossed.  Who are these non-specific "Arabs" you guys
are always mumbling about.  The folks who blew up the Cole were not
Palestinians.  And telling the Israeli to "Go to Hell," shouldn't bother them
at all.  I understand that most Jews do not believe in Hell.  I'm not sure I
do.  And if you want to compare leaders who have been "terrorists," we must
include Sharon and Begin and many others as well.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Tuition Assistance


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The following appeared in our local paper.  I must have missed discussion of
this matter.  I am particularly concerned with the phrase "can be" in the
last sentence.

NEARLY 7,000 STUDENTS DENIED COLLEGE AID DUE TO DRUG PASTS

Nearly 7,000 college students who applied for financial aid this fall are
finding past drug convictions returning to haunt them.  The students are
being told they are ineligible for some or all federal financial aid because
of a new law.

Under the law, which took effect with the 2000-0l academic year, students
with drug-related convictions can be ruled ineligible for federal grants or
loans.

-30-

Anyone know anything about this particular matter.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] MP child rapist

2000-10-24 Thread nessie


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Right to privacy is one thing, but remember this man was a senior member
of the Government, and he was also quite powerful within the Labor party
in Queensland and nationally.


What about the children's right to privacy? Isn't that more important than
presenting such a detailed description? Wasn't all the gratuitous detail
superfluous to the story?


Just think if a man like this became prime minister?

Aside from the embarrassment to the country if the story surfaced while
he was in office, I don't think it's relevant. Just because some guy
doesn't rape children doesn't automatically mean that he can handle the
power a man in the PM's office has. Child rape isn't a very nice thing,
and I don't condone or excuse it. B
ut it's far, far from the worst thing a head of state can do. Even an
Australian head of state can wreak many, many, many times the harm of
even a brace of child rapes. A head of state can ruin literally millions
of lives
 at the stroke of a pen
.

We need to keep a sense of perspective. If evil can be measured at all,
it must be by the number of victims. Our own head of state over here in
America receives a ton of flack for taking a few bribes and having sex
out of marriage. But the men who criticize him
the
 most
strongly
never bat an eye about the half million Iraqis he
has
killed, almost all of whom were women and children. As far as I'm
concerned, that makes his critics more evil than he is, because by
shifting our attention to the money and sex they abetted his policy of
mass murder.

Without a sense of perspective, we tend to bog down in irrelevant
minutia. We need to focus on the big picture.

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[CTRL] OEN 10/24/00


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Women Should Be Obscene and Not Heard


Wall Street Meets Pornography


Isn't this article about stock valuations?

PROVO, Utah  The video- store chain that Larry W. Peterman owned in this
valley of wide streets and ubiquitous churches carried the kind of rentals
found anywhere in the country  from Disney classics to films about the
sexual adventures of nurses. Mr. Peterman built a thriving business until he
was charged last year with selling obscene material and faced the prospect of
bankruptcy and jail.

Just before the trial, Mr. Peterman's lawyer, Randy Spencer, came up with an
idea while looking out the window of the courtroom at the Provo Marriott. He
sent an investigator to the hotel to record all the sex films that a guest
could obtain through the hotel's pay-per-view channels. He then obtained
records on how much erotic fare people here were buying from their cable and
satellite television providers.

As it turned out, people in Utah County, a place that often boasts of being
the most conservative area in the nation, were disproportionately large
consumers of the very videos that prosecutors had labeled obscene and
illegal. And far more Utah County residents were getting their adult movies
from the sky or cable than they were from the stores owned by Larry Peterman.

Why file criminal charges against a lone video retailer, Mr. Spencer argued,
when some of the biggest corporations in America, including a hotel chain
whose board of directors includes W. Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake
City Olympics organizing committee, and a satellite broadcaster heavily
backed by Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, were selling the
same product?

"I despise this stuff  some of it is really raunchy," said Mr. Spencer, a
public defender who described himself as a devout Mormon. "But the fact is
that an awful lot of people here in Utah County are paying to look at porn.
What that says to me is that we're normal."

It took only a few minutes for the jury to find Mr. Peterman not guilty on
all charges. His case illustrates what has happened to an industry that used
to be confined to the margins of commerce, in the seedy parts of most towns,
run by people who never dreamed of taking their companies to Wall Street.

Spurred by changes in technology that make pornography easier to order into
the home than pizza, and court decisions that offer broad legal protection,
the business of selling sexual desire through images has become a $10 billion
annual industry in the United States, according to Forrester Research of
Cambridge, Mass., and the industry's own Securities and Exchange Commission
filings.

Whatever the phenomenon may say about the nature of American society, the
financial rewards are so great that some of the biggest distributors of
explicit sex on film and online include the country's most recognizable
corporate names.

The General Motors Corporation, the world's largest company, now sells more
graphic sex films every year than does Larry Flynt, owner of the Hustler
empire. The 8.7 million Americans who subscribe to DirecTV, a General Motors
subsidiary, buy nearly $200 million a year in pay-per-view sex films from
satellite, according to estimates provided by distributors of the films,
estimates the company did not dispute.

EchoStar Communications Corporation, the No. 2 satellite provider, whose
chief financial backers include Mr. Murdoch, makes more money selling graphic
adult films through its satellite subsidiary than Playboy, the oldest and
best-known company in the sex business, does with its magazine, cable and
Internet businesses combined, according to public and private revenue
accounts by the companies.

ATT Corporation, the nation's biggest communications company, offers a hard-
core sex channel called the Hot Network to subscribers to its broadband cable
service. It also owns a company that sells sex videos to nearly a million
hotel rooms. Nearly one in five of ATT's broadband cable customers pays an
average of $10 a film to see what the distributor calls "real, live
all-American sex  not simulated by actors."

For all the money being made on sex  legally  by mainstream corporations,
the topic remains taboo outside the boardroom. The major satellite and cable
companies do very little marketing of their X-rated products, and they are
not mentioned in annual reports except in the vaguest of euphemisms.

None of the corporate leaders of ATT, Time Warner, General Motors, EchoStar,
Liberty Media, Marriott International, Hilton, On Command, LodgeNet
Entertainment or the News Corporation  all companies that have a big
financial stake in adult films and that are held by millions of shareholders
 were willing to speak publicly about the sex side of their businesses.

"How can we?" said an official at ATT. "It's the crazy aunt in the

[CTRL] Prince Albert (Gore) and the King Maker


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Prince Albert (Gore) and the King Maker



by Jim Peron

For decades the shadowy Armand Hammer slipped comfortably between the halls
of high finance and the Soviet Politburo. Using his close connections with
the Soviets, Hammer built a fortune pretending to be an advocate of
capitalism while helping sustain and spread Soviet Communism. Masquerading as
a capitalist was quite lucrative.

The FBI was certainly aware that Hammer was used to launder money from Soviet
sources. Edward Jay Epstein, in his exposé Dossier: The Secret History of
Armand Hammer says that by tracing Soviet money through Hammer they had been
able to determine from the serial numbers on the bills that much of the money
was disbursed to the Soviet underground in America. Hammer took direct
orders from the Lenin and Stalin regimes. He helped recruit and place Soviet
spies within the US government Yet there was something which prevented the
fervently anti-communist J. Edgar Hoover from moving on Hammer in spite of
his role in financing the communist movement in America.

What prevented such a move was that Hammer was already entangled with top
members of the Senate and US Congress. Clearly in the Hammer camp was then
Congressman Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee  the father of the current vice
president. Also closely connected to Hammer was pro-Soviet Congressman
Emmanuel Celler and Congressman James Roosevelt, son of FDR. Hammer was in
fact a secret business partner with Rooseveltchanneling business and funds
into Roosevelts coffers via an insurance company they both owned. As we shal
l see, this was a ploy which Hammer also used successfully with Al Gore, Sr.
As Bob Zelnick, biographer of Al Gore Jr., in his Gore: A Political Life
said: Through the 1950s and well into the following decade, Hammer counted
on Gore as his principal link to the Democratic congressional leadership, and
to defend his economic interests.

Epstein says that Hoover had survived in Washington for three decades
because he understood the reality of power, had no interest in challenging
this congressional phalanx. He decided to take no action. Hammer had
effectively stalemated him.

Hammer had built up a close relationship with Al Gore Sr., which he used to
his ultimate advantage. But this is not to say that Gore didnt benefit
either. Much of the modern Gore fortune is built on the sweetheart deals that
Hammer gave to his congressional mouth-piece. Like he did with Roosevelt,
Hammer actually became business partners with Gore in a cattle-breeding
project which, according to Epstein made a substantial profit for Gore.
Insiders have been highly suspicious of the Gore/Hammer cattle alliance.
Major Wall Street players would suddenly appear on the Gore property bidding
to buy cattle at highly inflated prices. Ned McWherter, former Governor of
Tennessee said: Ive sold some Angus [cattle] in my time too, but I never
got the kind of prices for my cattle that the Gores got for theirs. Zelnick
wrote that neighbors of the Gores would tell the inquiring visitors of how
lobbyists and others with an interest in Gores work would parade to Carthage
[Gores home town] during the fall auction period, bid outrageously high
prices for Gores stock, and sometimes not even bother to pick up what they
had purchased.

When the voters of Tennessee put Al Gore, Sr. into involuntary retirement,
the former Senator said that if he were being put out to pasture he intended
to graze in tall grass. The tall grass he had in mind was working for
Armand Hammer. Gore left the US Senate to become a vice president of Hammers
Occidental Petroleum. But not even that was enough to reward the compliant
ex-Senator from Tennessee. By now Hammer was literally rolling in money.

Hammer had secured oil rights in Libya by bribing the government of King
Idris. But Idris was overthrown by Muammer Gadhafi. No worry for Hammerwho
had long worked with some of the worst despots in the world. Gadhafi was
demanding higher percentages for his government from the oil companies. Other
oil companies balked but Hammer immediately agreed, giving Libya 55 percent
of the profits, forcing the others to follow suit. As a result oil prices
shot up. Epstein notes that Hammers Occidental Oil continue[d] to profit
from Libyan oil for the next fifteen years, [and] the company received $136
million in compensation from Gadhafi for the nationalization in 1973 of 51
percent of its concession. Occidental was the only foreign company in Libya
to receive such compensation.

Occidental stock values were riding high because of Hammers cozy
relationship with Libya. He used these profits to buy companies right and
left. His largest new purchase was the Island Creek Coal Company, then the
third largest coal producer in the United States.

[CTRL] Inside China Today Daily News - China Deploys Guided Missile Forces Around Hong Kong


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from:
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=212114
Click Here: A HREF="http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=212114"Inside
China Today Daily News - China Deploys G/A
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China Deploys Guided Missile Forces Around Hong Kong
HONG KONG, Oct 23, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) China has deployed
specialist air-defense guided missile forces in Shenzhen, neighboring Hong
Kong, and its surrounding islands to guard against attacks from Taiwan, a
report said Monday.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has set up four PLA camps, including
air-defense guided missile troops in nearby Daya Bay, where a joint venture
nuclear power plant is located, in Shenzhen and the surrounding outlying
islands, the Chinese-language daily The Sun said.

While these air-defense forces were not counted as part of the Hong Kong PLA
garrison, they would be responsible for defending Hong Kong and Shenzhen
against attacks from Taiwan, the daily said.

"The central government has considered that to strengthen Hong Kong's defense
ability, with less social impact, it is best to set up the air-defense forces
in Shenzhen," an unnamed informed source told the daily.

The report said at least nine advanced air-defense warning systems have been
strategically set up in Shenzhen's downtown area.

Shenzhen is China's most prosperous special economic zone set up to attract
foreign investment and technology.

In August, Ming Pao here reported that the powerful Central Military
Commission, headed by President Jiang Zemin, had decided to establish an air
defense zone covering Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

The Beijing leadership has in past months threatened to invade Taiwan should
the island move towards independence, following the election of Taiwanese
President Chen Shui-bian of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party
in March.

The decision to set up an air defense zone was reportedly in preparation for
a possible outbreak of war in the Taiwan Strait as the island may retaliate
by directing its missiles at Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

A former Taiwanese official under then president Lee Teng-hui had warned in
Bangkok in July last year that Taiwan would direct its missiles at Hong Kong
if war broke out across the Strait. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)
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Re: [CTRL] MP child rapist

2000-10-24 Thread Kelly


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June wrote:

 Same advice to those who find graphic descriptions of rape too much for their 
immature systems...don't spend
 so much energy looking at it then.  But don't act as censors for the rest of us who 
are mature enough to
 handle it.

The point I was trying to make, unsuccessfully, is that in the interest
of justice, it is not always necessary to get into the nitty-gritty
details.  For example, a married young couple here in Canada kidnapped,
raped and tortured to death two young schoolgirls (aged 14) and
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how the interests of justice could have been further served by these
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It has nothing to do with "maturity".

Kelly

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[CTRL] Rich-Poor Gap widening, IRS data shows

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:51:31 -0500 (CDT)

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FWD  Los Angeles Times - Monday, October 9, 2000

   THE NOT-RICH ARE GETTING NOT RICHER

   by Isaac Shapiro and John Springer

[Isaac Shapiro is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, a Washington think tank. John Springer is a writer there.]

Anyone who points these days to the very large income gaps in the
United States risks being tarred as a proponent of class warfare. Such
gaps not only exist, they are continuing to widen. Startling new data
from the Internal Revenue Service show that in recent years, average
after-tax income rose nine times faster for those at the very top of the
income spectrum than for most other Americans.

pThe IRS data indicate that the average after-tax income of the top 1%
of tax filers jumped $121,000, or 31%, just between 1995 and 1997, after
adjusting for inflation. That compares to an increase of 3.4% in the
average after-tax income of the bottom 90% of tax filers. Indeed, the
$121,000 average income gain enjoyed by the top 1% of tax filers during
this period was several times the total income of the typical
middle-class household.

pSince 1997, the incomes of virtually all groups have been improving.
The preliminary IRS data available for the period since 1997 suggest,
however, that income gains for those at the top of the income spectrum
have continued to outstrip income gains for other Americans. These data
indicate that capital gains income rose approximately 20% just between
1997 and 1998 and that 72% of all capital gains income in 1998 went to
tax filers with incomes exceeding $200,000. This virtually assures that
income disparities widened further in 1998. (The data on after-tax income
subtracts income taxes, but not other taxes.)

pThese recent developments are part of a longer-term pattern.
Comprehensive information on after-tax income that the Congressional
Budget Office has compiled for the period from 1977 to 1995 shows
dramatic increases in income gaps. During this period, average after-tax
income dropped for the bottom two-fifths of the population, was stagnant
for the middle fifth and rose for the upper 40%, including an increase of
27% for the top fifth. Meanwhile, the average after-tax income of the top
1% of the population soared by 87%.

pThe new IRS data, which take up where the CBO data leave off (since
the CBO data currently extend only through 1995), deserve especially
close scrutiny. Some recent assessments of income trends that are based
on Census Bureau data have suggested income disparities might have
stopped growing in recent years. But as researchers have long noted,
census data are inadequate for measuring gains at the top of the income
spectrum and consequently provide an inadequate assessment of income
disparities. For example, the standard census data do not include capital
gains income, thereby missing $426 billion in income in 1998.

pRecognizing the limitations of its data, the Census Bureau does not
publish income information for the top 1% of the population. The IRS data
are the sole reliable source of data on the incomes of these individuals.

pShould we care that income inequality is at an exceptionally wide
level? Should we care that just the gains in the average incomes of the
top 1% between 1995 and 1997 far exceeded the total incomes of the
typical family? Since most families are now better off than they were a
couple of years ago, are such observations merely incendiary?

pThese observations do matter. Among other reasons, they provide a
context for some key governmental decisions, chief among which are
decisions about how to use the federal budget surplus.

pAlthough the surplus realistically available for program initiatives
and tax cuts is significantly smaller than many realize, substantial
resources are available. We have a historic opportunity to address some
of the nation's highest priority needs. Before deciding how to take
advantage of this opportunity, policymakers and the public need to debate
what our most pressing priorities are and which groups of Americans
should benefit.

pSo far, such a debate has not occurred. Instead, Congress has charged
ahead with efforts to advance tax cuts that would largely benefit very
high-income taxpayers whose incomes are climbing much faster than
everyone else's. While it now appears that major tax cuts will not be
signed into law this year, tax cut proposals are sure to surface again
next year, regardless of the election's

[CTRL] Campaign contributions: Who gave what


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Original Message Follows
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To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Campaign contributions: Who gave what
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:00:24 -0500 (CDT)

Conventional Contributors
   Organization  Republican  Democratic Soft Money GOP Dems
 Convention Convention PACS, Individual
   General Motors $1,000,000  $1,000,000  $469,665  $338,215  $126,550
   Microsoft  $1,000,000  $1,000,000  $2,282,868  $1,113,974 1,143,014
   Bell Atlantic
   (Verizon Comm.) $1,000,000$2,133,917  $1,318,422  $811,245
   Ballard Spahr $1,000,000$42,650  $18,000  $24,650
   Comcast Corp. $1,000,000$226,550  $152,750  $73,800
   Motorola $1,000,000$283,313  $216,650  65,413
   Peco Energy $1,000,000$99,300  $77,800  $21,500
   BP Amoco   $1,000,000  $1,008,070  $682,720  $324,850
   Maguire Partners   $1,000,000  $500  $500  $0
   SBC Commnications   $1,000,000  $1,901,178  $866,253  1,034,675
   United Parcel Service   $1,000,000  $1,853,174  $1,548,674  $303,750
   ATT $1,000,000  $1,000,000  $2,897,523  $1,685,452  1,208,368
   SAP America $500,000$10,764  $2,300  $8,125
   American
   International Group $500,000  $2,000,000  $774,362  $456,700
$315,162
   Anderson Consulting $500,000$1,048,313  $778,248  $269,065
   Blank Rome et.al. $500,000$304,555  $239,705  $64,850
   Safeguard Scientifics $500,000$21,000  $18,000  $3,000
   Tierney  Partners $500,000$5,000  $5,000  0
   PepsiCo $500,000$421,375  $344,575  $75,550
   US Airways $500,000$306,070  $242,520  $63,300
   Staples Inc.   $500,000  $33,500  $26,000  $7,500
   United Airlines   $500,000  $528,996  $322,396  $204,350

SOURCE: Convention contributions from Republican and Democratic
National Committees; Soft Money figures from the Federal Election
Commission compiled by Center for Responsive Politics


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[CTRL] homelessness is out of fashion in the media

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Subject: [generalnews] homelessness is out of fashion in the media
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:06:58 -0500 (CDT)

Homelessness is out of fashion.

WASHINGTON _ Driving home late on Christmas Eve, I stopped for a traffic
light
at the corner of 14th Street and Constitution Avenue _ a few blocks from the
White House, in journalistic terms _ and watched a man settling in for the
evening on a steam grate. It was well past midnight, bitter cold, and the
streets were nearly deserted. So there, I thought, is someone who, in the
famous words of Edwin Meese III, is truly ``homeless by choice.''

In fact, on my Christmas Eve journey, this was not the only homeless man I
encountered. There were a few huddled close by the Commerce Department, and
several across the street from the Department of State _ all traditional
gathering places. Outside a subway stop on 12th Street, just a minute's walk
from the Providence Journal bureau, a young man was begging for money. He
held
a sign identifying himself as a Vietnam veteran _ which, given his age, was
highly unlikely _ but he certainly appeared to be homeless. It is difficult
to
walk too many steps in the nation's capital without encountering someone
stretched out on a bench, waving a cup under your nose, or talking very
loudly
to no one in particular.

It is a generally accepted fact that there are more homeless people in
Washington than there used to be. This may well be true, although accurate
statistics are hard to obtain. There were certainly bums on the city streets
in my childhood: While standing at bus stops, I got to know the harmless,
and
the rather menacing, specimens. Their numbers surely increased when state
mental institutions _ the famous ``snake pits,'' vestiges of the
unenlightened
past _ were closed down in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout the 1980s, when
cities sought to compel homeless men and women to enter shelters at night,
the
American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations successfully fought
to
preserve their right to sleep _ and squat, urinate, defecate, panhandle,
etc.
_ on the sidewalk.

So, in whatever numbers, and at whatever rates of increase, here they are.
And
yet, so far as the media are concerned, they are not. The Village Voice
recently surveyed the press on the subject, and found that homelessness is
no
longer a story: ``In the fall of 1988, The New York Times devoted 50 stories
to the homeless, including five front-page pieces. This year (1998) the
Times
has run only 10 pieces in the same period; none have begun on A-1.''

The cynic in me has an obvious explanation: In 1988, instead of a
compassionate Democrat, there was a heartless Republican in the White House.
Indeed, if you track press attention to homelessness, you will find a
dramatic
leap in coverage beginning in the early 1980s _ when Ronald Reagan took
office. When I worked in the Carter State Department, I used to walk around
the same men who were sleeping on the nearby steam grate when it became the
Haig State Department. But somehow, after Jan. 20, 1981, The Washington
Post,
and other news organizations, suddenly awakened to their existence.

Throughout the 1980s, and into the early '90s, homelessness was ubiquitous
in
the media: The networks contrasted the nouveau riche with the suddenly
impoverished, and the newspapers explained that lack of ``affordable''
housing, or ``deep cuts'' in federal expenditures, had swollen the ranks of
people inhabiting the streets. There were profiles of suburban high school
students donating blankets to downtown shelters, and photo ops of movie
stars
nurturing the less fortunate.

And then suddenly, it came to an end. A good part of the explanation is
political, no doubt: Once Bill and Hillary Clinton took up residence in the
White House, it was no longer feasible to compare the glittering world of
the
presidency with the harsh reality of nearby sidewalks. And of course, when a
Democratic administration yields prosperity, no one is left behind.

But the evidence suggests otherwise: The streets of the nation's capital are
full of people who haven't gotten the news from Wall Street, and the U.S.
Conference of Mayors reports that the demand for emergency shelters has
increased by 11 percent in the last year alone. Homelessness may no longer
be
a story, but the homeless are still with us.

More than a third of the homeless men in America are black, and yet
President
Clinton's staunchest black defenders in Congress _ John Lewis, Maxine
Waters,
Charles Rangel, Sheila Jackson Lee _ have little to say on the subject. Can
anyone imagine this would be the case if Bob Dole were in the White House?

The problem with homelessless is that, for too long, it has been an issue of
partisan convenience. It is not Republican spending policies that caused the
explosion in homelessness, but the progressive vision of closing down

[CTRL] Governor Taft Urged Not to Punish Children Who Decline to Watch Channel

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Subject: Governor Taft Urged Not to Punish Children Who Decline to Watch
Channel
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:27:48 -0500 (CDT)

Commercial AlertOctober 18, 2000

Commercial Alert and Obligation Inc. sent a letter today to Ohio
Governor Bob Taft asking him not to allow local school systems to punish
children who won't watch Primedia's Channel One in the public schools.
According to the Toledo Blade, two Ohio children were held in a juvenile
detention center on October 6th for refusing to watch Channel One and TV
in public school.  Primedia's Channel One is a controversial televised
in-school marketing program.  The letter follows.

Dear Governor Taft:

Local school officials are using Ohio's compulsory education laws to
force children to watch commercial television and advertising in school,
including the controversial marketing program Channel One.  We urge you
to take a stand for children and stop this abuse of the authority of the
state.

According to the Toledo Blade, two Ohio children, D.J. and Carlotta
Maurer, spent October 6th in the Wood County Juvenile Detention Center
because they refused to watch Channel One and other televised
programming at Perrysburg Junior High School.  They refused because they
choose not to take in the degraded commercial culture that Channel One
and media corporations deliver to children each day.

Channel One does not exist to help or teach kids.  It exists to help
corporations that want to market to kids.  As a Channel One executive
once said, "The biggest selling point to advertisers [is] . . . we are
forcing kids to watch two minutes of commercials" each day.

Ohio's compulsory education laws exist for the nurture of children, not
their exploitation. But Primedia's Channel One has been able to harness
the coercive arm of the State of Ohio to force schoolchildren to watch
its daily fare.  This includes "lite" news and advertisements for
violent entertainment such as "Supernova," "The Mummy," and James Bond
"The World is Not Enough," as well as junk food, video games and
low-grade sensuality.  That is a blatant misuse of state power. It is
not the proper role of the schools or the state to promote such products
and values to innocent and vulnerable schoolchildren.  Certainly, the
laws of the state should never be used to compel children to subject
themselves to such promotion.  When the government sends children to a
juvenile detention center because they don't want to watch advertising,
that is both Orwellian and more than a little sick.

The public schools ought to be a sanctuary from the noxious aspects of
the commercial culture.  Many parents are rightly worried about the way
the commercial culture saturates their kids lives with degraded values
and nonstop seductions.

We strongly urge you to take a stand for parents and remove Channel One
from Ohio's public schools.  This would be a clarion call for those
parents who wish their children to grow up free from the depredations
and enticements of the media corporations and their advertisers.

Sincerely,

Gary Ruskin, Director, Commercial Alert
Jim Metrock, President, Obligation, Inc.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:
Please ask Ohio Governor Bob Taft to
1) Get Channel One out of Ohio's public schools; and,
2) Make sure that local school systems to punish children who won't
watch TV or Primedia's Channel One in the public schools.

Governor Taft's email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], his
fax is (614) 466-9354 and phone is 614-466-3555.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
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Channel One and TV in school, see the web page http://tvorjail.com/

Commercial Alert opposes corporate exploitation of children and the
excesses of commercialism, advertising and marketing.  Commercial
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[CTRL] Oppose Secret Searches Without Warrants

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Original Message Follows
From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Oppose Secret Searches Without Warrants
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:00:30 -0500 (CDT)

TO: ACLU Action Network
FR: Jared Feuer, Internet Organizer
DT: October 19, 2000

1). Oppose Secret Searches Without Warrants
2). Victory for Choice!

1). Oppose Secret Searches Without Warrants: With only a few days left
until Congress recesses, the House is poised to vote on legislation --
which has already passed the Senate -- that would radically expand
government power to seize personal information without judicial approval.

This legislation would allow law enforcement to obtain any kind of
document it wants without first getting a search warrant or a subpoena
from a court.  These documents include any written or electronic document
possessed by an individual or even any document held by a third party
(such as bank records, telephone records, or school records).  The bill
would gut the Fourth Amendment requirement that private documents should
be searched only after a court issues a warrant based upon probable cause.
   Further, the legislation would allow this information to be obtained
without your knowledge. We must stop this unconscionable attempt to usurp
our rights.

Take Action!  You can read more about the legislation and send a FREE FAX
to your Representative from our action alert at:

http://www.aclu.org/action/searches106.html

2). Victory for Choice: According to several newspaper reports, Rep. Tom
Coburn (R-OK) has conceded defeat on legislation that would have placed
mifepristone, also known as RU-486, out of the reach of many American
women.  Your efforts played a key role in defeating this legislation as
more than 13,000 faxes and emails flowed from the ACLU's website to
Congress in less than three days!  In one article, Rep. Coburn said: "I
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[CTRL] Nader: Freedom is Participation in Power

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Published October 11 - 17, 2000
villagevoice.com exclusive
Nader Tells New York Crowd to Grab the Reins
'Freedom Is Participation in Power'
by Carla Spartos and Jim Currie

October 14, 2000,The protest movement that has been growing on a
grassroots level, as evidenced by the World Trade Organization
demonstrations in Seattle, reached its political coming-of-age last
night. Before a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, the Green
Party's Ralph Nader and a roster of celebrities called for an end
to unchecked corporate power and a new era of fuller political
participation, including voter registration and the inclusion of
third-party candidates in national debates. And in response to
criticism that the presidential candidate doesn't pay attention to
issues of race, gender and gay rights, Nader and company talked
all night about social justice.

The young audience of 15,000 was made to feel as if their political
interests were being addressed for the first time. With its suggested
minimum admission of $20 and a slate of rock stars and celebrities,
"Nader Rocks" recognized the kids in the crowd for what they were:
idealistic and politically savvy. There was no Clintonesque
declaration of the superiority of boxers over briefs. Rather, MC
Phil Donahue grabbed the mic and hammered away at "third-rail"
issues left untouched by the mainstream candidatespublic finance,
single-payer health care, the war on drugs, capital punishment,
labor unions.

Green party senate candidate Mark Dunau urged the audience to fight
back against the "fist of tyranny" behind drug testing, racial
profiling, and the mushrooming prison-industrial complex.

Filmmaker Michael Moore spoke on "lesser evilism"-the notion that
people should back Democrat Al Gore because he's not quite as bad
as the GOP's George W. Bush. "To the young people out there, if
you don't vote your conscience, when will you start?" Moore said.
"If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still wind up with
evil."

Actress Susan Sarandon spoke about voter apathy. "Kids aren't voting
because there's no one to vote for," she said.

The evening was rounded out by musical performances by Ani DiFranco,
Ben Harper, Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder, and Company Flow.

Defying the image of the youth movement as long on gripes and short
on attention spans, the arena was packed to the rafters for Nader's
hour-long speech, even after Eddie Vedder's short acoustic set.

The overwhelmingly young, white, and educated crowd was held rapt
by speeches on such diverse issues as racial profiling, genetically
modified foods, and environmental racism. According to Nader, all
of these ills boil down to one single factor-the corporate hijacking
of democracy. And answering critics on the oft-divided left, he
made explicit that this corporate rule directly harms those most
excluded from the political process, including immigrants, people
of color, and the poor. Nader brought the crowd to its feet with
what has become a signal theme of his campaign:

"Freedom is participation in power."

In an election year when the debate has been limited to a love-in
between a compassionate conservative and a pragmatic liberal,
Nader's candidacy offered this urban crowd a reason to care.

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Pioneer Fund/Secret Military Genetic Experiments

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[CTRL] WEST NILE VIRUS -- PART 1

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WEST NILE VIRUS, Part 1

by Rachel Massey*

West Nile virus (WNV), a disease previously unknown in the
Western Hemisphere, appeared in New York City last year and has
now spread to animal populations in six other states. Some
municipal officials have responded to the disease by spraying
entire neighborhoods with pesticides intended to kill
mosquitoes. West Nile Virus can cause serious illness and death
in some cases, but spraying pesticides to kill mosquitoes is not
a good solution. Spraying exposes large numbers of people to
toxins with both short- and long-term health effects, and
studies suggest it is unlikely to be effective.

Transmitted by mosquitoes, WNV primarily attacks birds but can
also infect humans and other animals. Most infections with WNV
go unnoticed or feel like an ordinary flu, but some cases lead
to encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) or meningitis
(inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal
cord) and can be fatal. The elderly and individuals with
compromised immune systems may be particularly vulnerable to
serious illness resulting from the virus.

In 2000, WNV has reappeared in New York City, and infected birds
have been found in upstate New York as well as New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and
Maryland.[1] In the 1999 outbreak, sixty-two people became
seriously ill and seven died. The individuals who died of the
virus ranged from 68 to 87 years of age.[2] Of the fifty-five
individuals in New York City who survived severe cases of the
virus, some continue to suffer neurological problems a year
later.[3]

As of October 7, a total of 17 human cases of WNV had been
detected this year, 3 in New Jersey and 14 in New York.[4] One
individual, an 82-year-old man in New Jersey, has died of the
virus this year.[5] Recent outbreaks have occurred in other
countries as well; in Israel, over 120 people have shown
symptoms of WNV infection this year and 10 have died.[6]

In a study conducted last summer, researchers tested blood from
677 randomly selected individuals in a 4-square-mile area around
the focal point of the outbreak in Queens, N.Y. Of these 677, 19
showed evidence of having been infected with West Nile virus.
Based on these results, the researchers estimated that 2.6% of
the individuals in the area studied were infected with the
virus. About a fifth of these exposed individuals had
experienced symptoms attributable to the virus. This study
supports the view that most individuals infected with the virus
never develop noticeable symptoms.[7] The Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) estimates that the case-mortality rate for WNV
(the proportion of individuals showing symptoms who die of the
disease) is three to fifteen percent, with the fifteen percent
figure applying to the elderly.[8]

Mosquitoes begin life as eggs laid in stagnant water; later they
change into water-dwelling larvae, then pupae, and finally
adults. Thus they can be controlled by several means -- by
minimizing standing water, by maintaining populations of egg- or
larva-eating fish, or by applying chemicals that kill either
larvae or adults.

New York City responded to the appearance of the virus last year
by spraying the organophosphate insecticide malathion from
trucks and helicopters to kill adult mosquitoes.
Organophosphates act as nerve toxins, disrupting the

[CTRL] Bondholders Strendthen Chains on Working Middle Classes

2000-10-24 Thread Bob Stokes


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http://thunder.sonic.net/~doretk/ArchiveARCHIVE/MARK%20EVANS/BondholdersStreng

then.html
by Mark Evans
Sometimes we are told-or obliquely warned- about the future, even in the
media. An article in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on Saturday, August 13,
1994, is such a case in point. The article, entitled "Federal Budget Experts
Find Entitlements Drying Up Well," is very telling if one has even a
rudimentary understanding of economic reality, an ear for discerning
doublespeak, and can read between the lines.

Senator Kerrey (formerly Governor) of Nebraska, it seems, has been for some
time the co-chairman of a blue-ribbon Senate Sub-Committee of "32 budget
experts" who have been agonizing and studying and debating (presumably
amongst themselves) about this problem of the budget for months now. "In
chilling detail, they left no doubt that unless Washington limits social
benefits-especially for health care-the government is headed straight toward
bankruptcy." That is a very interesting statement in light of the fact that
the U.S. government has been bankrupt for the better part of six decades now,
having gone into receivership to the international bankers back in 1938, a
fact which is known to every superior court and circuit court judge across
the length and breadth of the United States; a fact also which most of them
will rigorously deny and which only slipped out of one of them in an
unguarded moment.

So far, the bonded indebtedness or "bankruptcy" of the U.S. government has
not prevented it from levying all manner of taxes on the masses and
functioning, or allowing the IRS to function-fairly efficiently in this one
respect, at least-to channel money from the working- and middle-classes to
the elite circles who own the "preferred" stock in the right banks, in
service on the interest "due" on the national debt.

Keynesian economics and deficit-financing have allowed the U.S. government to
function very well indeed over the last sixty years, even while the national
debt increased from 13 billion-where it stood in 1933-to the more than 5
trillion dollars that it is today. We must always remember, and try to
comprehend, that this almost incomprehensible sum of 5 trillion dollars of
spent and dead money, which seems like a black hole in space to us, is a
mountain of gold in the form of interest-bearing securities to the
bond-holding classes, who collect their semi-annual, tax-exempt dividends on
this enormous sum. The article continues:

Among the most eye-catching findings: ·The Social Security Trust Fund is on
track to go bankrupt in 2029. ·The Medicare Trust Fund will go bankrupt in
2001. ·Spending on social "entitlements," especially health benefit programs,
combined with interest on the national debt, is growing so fast that together
they will consume all federal tax revenues by 2012. . .

These dates may be accurate; on the other hand the well may go dry even
sooner. And what shall happen then is a question we should all consider. In
the meantime, this specter of the government "going bankrupt" is being used
as a bogeyman to scare, or persuade, the masses to accept the new austerity
measures that are being imposed top down on the American people in much the
same manner that the International Monetary Fund imposes austerity conditions
on any Third World country. Actually, going into bankruptcy might not be such
a bad thing to happen to the government, were it to do it lawfully, the way
any individual or family would. If the U.S. government were to file a Chapter
7 bankruptcy, liquidating all of the real estate and movables yet owned by
Uncle Sam, we, the people, could then witness who the real creditors are when
they come in like carrion crows to feast on the corpse.

It could also be convincingly argued in a court of law, in the context of
bankruptcy proceedings, that the national debt itself is a fraudulent entity
because it was incurred by fraud, and fraud has tainted every aspect of its
progress and accumulation from 1791, when Hamilton funded the near-worthless
revolutionary war bonds, through the National Bank Act of 1863, and the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, until the present.

The ruling classes do not want the United States to actually file bankruptcy.
It functions quite well as an engine of neo-feudal tax-collection as it
stands. Why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? They merely mean to
startle us by the threat of bankruptcy into accepting less-less
"entitlements" in the future and no health care, and the reversal of all the
token socialism left over from the New Deal. You will note that the article
lumps social "entitlements" (as if anyone could be so brazen as to think they
were "entitled" to anything from the government) together with the interest
on the national debt and states that "together they will consume all federal
tax revenues by 2013." Actually, the interest on the national debt is much
larger and is growing faster than the "entitlements" (spending on social

[CTRL] Economics

2000-10-24 Thread Bob Stokes


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http://thunder.sonic.net/~doretk/ArchiveARCHIVE/MARK%20EVANS/EconomicFactSheet

.html
The "big five" prime banks of wall street, the owners of the "Class A" stock
of the NewYork Federal Reserve Bank, are: Chase-Manhattan, Citibank, Guaranty
Trust, Chemical/Manufacturers-Hannover, and Bankers' Trust. The Class A stock
of the Federal Reserve has not been sold or traded on the open market since
it was hermetically sealed from the public at the end of the summer of 1914.
It is the exclusive property of Wall Street and European prime banks, whose
major stockholders are the trans-Atlantic Ruling Class. This pattern holds
true of Central Banks throughout the nations of the advanced capitalist
sector. The Big Five have interlocking directorates with the "Seven Sisters,"
the Anglo-Dutch-American oil cartels: Exxon, BP (British Petroleum),
Dutch-Royal Shell, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf, and Socal.

Several of these trans-Atlantic money and commodity cartels financed
Mussolini and Hitler and actively maintained their connections with the Reich
throughout World War II. They were also all actively involved in Stalin's
Russia by the beginning of the first Five Year Plan in 1928. None of this is
really secret-anyone can discover the facts by doing a little research. Nor
should it be considered a "conspiracy" (either by those who promote or deny
the essential facts of the matter)-bankers and businessmen have been "trading
with the enemy" for centuries. It is just one more example of "the wise
investment policy" of cartels like J.P. Morgan and Co. and Standard Oil of
New Jersey.

THE SEAT OF FIRST WORLD FINANCE Capital is Basel, Switzerland, where the
Central Banks of the Group of Seven (G-7) form the directorate of the Bank
for International Settlements (BIS). The G-7 include Britain, France,
Germany, Italy, Canada, the U.S., and Japan. The G-7 are called the "Hard
Currency Countries" because their Central banks, corporations privately owned
by the Prime Banks of these nations, have acquired most of the mined, milled,
and ingotted gold of the world. Approximately 80 percent of this is in the
vaults of Credit Suisse, under the Berghoff, the airport in Zurich. A
somewhat larger formation, called the G-10, includes Belgium, Holland, and
Sweden.

THE U.S. HAS BECOME THE GREATEST debtor nation on earth because the Prime
Banks of the other nations of the G-10 (especially Britain, Holland, and
Japan) have purchased the U.S. government debt in the form of semi-annual and
tax-exempt U.S. Treasury Securities through the operations of the Federal
Open Market Committee, the Fed's window on Wall Street.

Of these U.S. Treasury Securities, 95% have been floated since the end of
World War II to finance the Cold War against the "Evil Empire." Now Communism
has been deflated as an enemy; nativist fascist movements are being pumped up
all around the globe and the aggregate Debt is approaching the net worth of
all the real estate and movables on the planet. Now, also, the U.S. and
Russia arejoining their military and space programs, the U.S. is becoming by
degrees a full-blown totalitarian state, and the bankers are beginning to
foreclose upon the bankrupted minions and dupes within their new global
condominium.

THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL Settlements (BIS), the "first Beast," founded in
1930, was the first entity to be called a "World Bank." Monetarist,
gold-based, it functions as a clearinghouse for the balance of payments
between nations. It operated throughout WW II as an interlocking directorate
and a clearinghouse for joint Allied and Axis high finance. The World
Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF), the "Second Beast," was founded in
1946, after being drafted at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, during the war in
1944. The IMF functions as the collection agency for the World Bank, much as
the IRS functions as the collection agency for the Federal Reserve Bank. The
Wall Street branch of the Federal Reserve is the "fiscal agent" for the IMF
in the USA. The capital pool of the IMF consists of the Prime Banks of the
First World, which interlock with the First World (G-7) military-industrial
complexes and the oil conglomerates.

THE IMF FUNCTIONS, under the aegis of the United Nations, as a Keynesian
paper credit-mill, extending credit in the form of Special Drawing Rights
(SDRs) to the Second and Third World debtor nations, requiring that they
purchase specified amounts of the currency of the G-7 nations, imposing
"austerity terms" upon their internal economies, and looting them by means of
"repayment schedules" of their natural resources and minerals. These are
channeled through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to the
multinational cartels, also headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION of NAFTA and the Uruguay Round of GATT, the real
wages of blue and white collar workers in the U.S. will be leveled in time to
near parity with the Third World. The last "Superpower," the United States,
is

[CTRL] French Uneasy After 1,000 Tons Possible Mad Cow Beef Put In Markets

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Wingate


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 French Uneasy After 1,000
 Tons Possible Mad Cow
   Beef Put In Markets
  10-23-00



 PARIS (AFP) - There was growing unease in
 France Monday about the risks of mad cow disease
 after the revelation that a thousand tonnes of
 potentially contaminated meat had been put on the
 market earlier his month.

 The news coincided with the announcement of more
 cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
 in the French herd, confirming a sharp upward trend
 detected since the start of the year.

 The latest case was discovered in a herd of cattle in
 the Loire department and brought to 73 the number
 of affected animals found since January -- almost
 the same figure as for the entire period since the
 disease first appeared in 1991.

 The public was also sharply reminded of the
 continuing dangers of the disease -- and its human
 version Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease -- by a decision
 two weeks ago to ban the use of bovine intestines
 in sausage production because of fears they could
 carry the infection.

 And last week it was reported that fraud inspectors
 were continuing to tolerate very low levels of
 banned animal meal -- considered the most
 probable vector for the disease -- within foodstuffs
 given to cattle.

 The supermarket chain Carrefour was operating a
 telephone hotline Monday to reassure anxious
 customers who bought the high-risk beef from 39 of
 its stores mainly in northern France.

 The company said it would be a civil plaintiff in the
 criminal prosecution being launched against
 cattle-dealer Claude Demeulenaere who is
 suspected of trying to hide a cow with BSE within a
 healthy herd which he was sending to slaughter.

 Veterinary officials at the abattoir in Normandy,
 western France, spotted the sick animal, which was
 separated from the rest of the cattle, but it was then
 revealed that 13 other animals from the cow's
 original herd had already been sold to Carrefour.

 In France, all cattle from a stricken cow's herd are
 automatically slaughtered because of fears they
 could also be infected.

 Over the week-end Carrefour withdrew all meat
 recently produced by the abattoir from supermarket
 shelves and issued an urgent appeal for customers
 to return meat already bought.

 Veterinary officials sought to calm the public
 Monday, pointing out that none of the other animals
 from the herd showed symptoms of BSE, and that
 officials at the abattoir had shown their
 effectiveness by spotting the sick cow.

 But Jeanne Brugere-Picoux, cattle specialist at the
 Alfort Veterinary School in Paris, said that fraud and
 the difficulty of diagnosing BSE meant that
 inevitably some infected cattle were entering the
 food-chain.

 "If a farmer is so minded, and he's quick enough,
 then if he spots the very first signs of BSE, he can
 send it to the abattoir without anyone noticing," she
 said.

 She called for spot checks at slaughter-houses to
 discourage unscrupulous cattle-dealers.

 No test yet exists for analysing live beasts for BSE,
 but since June France has put into place a

[CTRL] The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Wingate


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The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire

  By Michael C. Ruppert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  (c) Copyright 2000, Michael C. Ruppert
 and "From The Wilderness" Publications
  10-23-00

Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major 
components of
 the Bush-Cheney Drug EmpireTHE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE


 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

Re: [CTRL] Governor Taft Urged Not to Punish Children Who Decline to Watch Channel

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Well look at the Pepsi they sell in schools now with a "kick back".
Normally all monies from vending machines are to go into the General
Fund...nobody challenges this, but take a good look at some of this
kids drinking a lot of pop and some even beer - some have pepsi bellies,
and others have beer bellies.

Junk Fund and Pepsi - without discretion and swilling a lot of beer,
well that adds at last 1,000,000,000 tons of lard today on some
Americans.

I imagine being fat would not be fun and I am not talkig about
pleasingly plump - I am referring to kids - look at Government run city
buses selling poliitical advertising - which isn't that bad, but where
does the money go here?

If someone ones to die from junk food, go to a good bakery and do it
right if one must over=-indulge...might cost more, but then why do you
think they call it junk food?

Kids need good health fruit and vegetable juices and decent food in
schools..This is corruption moving into our schools for these are
kick backs for which we pay - merely another tax without a vote.

I would like to see Pepsi and this stuff voted out of our schools, and f
the Governor will not do anthing- dump the school boards - especially
ones who boast developers on the board?  And in our town, it was always
the insurance companies that got in and oh how they play games.

Take a look at some of these kids.I saw a school kid the other day,
a girl, who had back end of a pumpkin that actually bounced.wonder
what her diet is at home and at school.

Saba

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Re: [CTRL] DJ: Israel Weighs Economic Sanctions Against Palestinians

2000-10-24 Thread Aleisha Saba


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Well Prudy let them try that one = for you can see Albrights at work
here - sanctions.

Time for Arab League to provide money and food and bring in the
contractors to built Palestine up to what it should be.

Also there is so much oil in Palenstine they could take on Kuwait
without a doubt.

So see what they do from Kissinger, to Clinton who is going into
"investments" - it is a handfull of people stealing the natural
resources from the nations.

We need a William Sheakespeare here - he said, First we kill all the
lawyers - he should have said, first we kill all the tyrants and
assassins and murder inc.   for you find the making of othe Mafia in the
Merchant ov Venice whom seome refer to as the Merchant of Menace?

So the mob did think right when they said let the tail wag, and aim for
the dog's head..this is how these assassins operate and Rabin was no
holy roller when he was put into office, but I did like him - so why was
he murdered

And then that idiot assassin Ehad Brug aka Barak - just another assassin
with a big mouth and USA backed gunscut off the money, and watch it
all stop.   Nader is right - cut off all funds to Israel, we buy our oil
from Russia and go ingo solar energy.

Arab leage should start caring for people and we should take care of our
own vineyards.

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