Re: [CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] LA Weekly: Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster
-Caveat Lector- For an amusing account of the Secret Service visiting a fairly insane webmaster, check http://www.seanbaby.com/cleveland/part3.html They kept asking the SS members what the secret was, and were eventually told there wasn't one. On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:21:58 -0600 Amelia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-Caveat Lector- > >These laws have been on the books for decades. The Secret >Service was just doing their job. They are required BY LAW >to fully investigate ANY threat, even in jest on the life of >ANY presidential party, the Supreme Court, or statement >concerning the overthrow of the government. If you do not >believe me, just threaten a Democrat--say Billy Jeff--and >you, too, will be the proud recipient of just such a visit. >It is not a partisan thing. This law was made when >politicians were being assassinated for real. And often. >And somebody did just try to blow up the capitol building. >These things have to be investigated because one never knows >when to take seriously such comments. > >notice how Leo, Letterman, etc. always stop short of "death" >jokes. This post did not say what was the consequence of >the Supreme Court being "wanted." I think this guy was >asking for it and this site sounds like it is, too. But >blaming it on Bush---? Oh, pluh--eese! These laws are 30 >years old. Some people will try anything. >Amelia > >- Original Message - >From: "DIG alfred webre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:42 PM >Subject: [CTRL] LA Weekly: Secret Service intimidates >anti-Bush webmaster > > >> -Caveat Lector- >> >> http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/09/offbeat.shtml >> January 19 - 25, 2001 >> Offbeat: Bush Web Intrigue by Johnny Angel >> Edited by Gale Holland >> >> Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster >> >> The 2nd of January was already a pretty rotten day for >Wheaton, Maryland, >> resident Mike Hershdorfer, laboring at his computer under >the pall of one of >> the harshest Eastern winters on record. But it got a lot >rottener at 2:20 >> p.m., >> when the Webmaster for the anti-Bush political site >> www.bushoccupation.com answered a knock at the door to >find two Secret >> Service agents and a >> Montgomery County police officer. >> >> The agents gave a vague explanation of investigating a tip >about Web-site >> activity, Hershdorfer said. As he >> stood in the doorway with the dogs barking, the agents >repeatedly pressed to >> enter his home. "I got the >> distinct impression that they were not going to leave >unless I let them >> inside, so I did," Hershdorfer >> recalled in an interview this week. >> >> The agents declined to say who made the tip, or what was >said. They asked >> Hershdorfer for a list of Web >> sites he had visited, and for permission to search his >house and review his >> medical records. They also >> asked him how he felt about the Clintons and Bush - and >whether he had ever >> threatened to blow up the >> White House. Meanwhile, the police officer stood in the >corner, saying he was >> there "to protect me," an >> incredulous Hershdorfer remembered. >> >> In the course of the hourlong interrogation, Hershdorfer's >roommate Patty >> happened to telephone. After >> he had explained the situation, she rang up her lawyer >stepfather, who >> instructed her to tell Hershdorfer to >> keep quiet and to refuse a search. >> >> Hershdorfer told the agents he suspected the tip had come >from someone with >> the right-wing Free >> Republic Web site, which he had begun monitoring following >media accounts of >> Freeper harassment of >> Democratic veep candidate Joe Lieberman and others. "I >told the agents I felt >> intimidated and that my >> rights were under threat," Hershdorfer said. They packed >up their notes and >> left. >> >> Hershdorfer told OffBeat he closely monitors >bushoccupation.com and a related >> e-group; neither has >> posted a threat, he claims. "I'm trying to organize in the >middle left, not >> with people who want to blow >> things up," he said. The strongest language on >bushoccupation.com is: "We are >> dedicated to opposing the >> extraconstitutional and illegitimate occupation of [the] >U.S. government by >> George W. Bush and the >> people using him as a front man for the extreme right-wing >anti-democratic >> operatives." Hershdorfer also >> has put up "Wanted" posters with photographs of the five >U.S. Supreme Court >> justices who halted the >> Florida ballot recount, handing Bush the presidential >election. >> >> Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin refused to comment on >Hershdorfer's case, >> but said it's standard >> procedure to investigate any report of a threat against >the president or >> president-elect. "It only takes a >> minute to pull a post off a Web site, as you know," said >Mackin. "We don't >> care about anyone's >> politics." >> >> Hershdorfer remains shaken by the experience, and thinks >that he will >> probably never know who his >> accusers were - j
[CTRL] Vaccines and Autism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003038683162729&rtmo=kCoCLZop&atmo=g3MK&pg=/et/01/1/21/nmmr21.html THE consultant who first raised concerns about MMR vaccinations has disclosed to The Telegraph that he has identified nearly 170 cases of a new syndrome of autism and bowel disease in children who have had the triple-dose injection. Andrew Wakefield, a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, said that in the "majority" of cases parents had documentary evidence that their child's physical and mental decline had followed the vaccination. Professor Wakefield said: "Last week in our clinic we saw nine or 10 new children with exactly the same story, referred by jobbing paediatricians from around the country who said, 'This child developed normally, had a reaction to MMR and is now autistic'". In his first public comments since the row erupted in 1998, when he reported on 12 cases, Professor Wakefield said that he remained seriously concerned by the safety of the vaccine, despite reassurances from the Department of Health. He said: "The department says that the safety of MMR has been proven. The argument is untenable. It cannot be substantiated by the science. That is not only my opinion but increasingly the view of healthcare professionals and the public. He said: "Tests have revealed time and time again that we are dealing with a new phenomenon. The Department of Health's contention that MMR has been proven to be safe by study after study after study just doesn't hold up. Frankly, it is not an honest appraisal of the science and it relegates the scientific issues to the bottom of the barrel in favour of winning a propaganda war." The doctor, who was fiercely attacked by health officials for voicing his doubts three years ago, said in an exclusive interview that he felt driven to break his silence because of the accumulating evidence. His remarks will infuriate the Government and sharpen the dilemma of parents over whether to have children innoculated with MMR. It emerged last month that a rising number of doctors and nurses were worried about giving second doses of the vaccine, and pressure is growing for its separation into its three component vaccinations, spread over three years. In his 1998 article in The Lancet, Professor Wakefield reported finding a devastating combination of bowel disease and autism in 12 children. His revelation that that figure has reached almost 170 cases will shock parents and doctors and add pressure on the Government to justify its vaccination policy. This month Dr David Salisbury, the head of the Government's immunisation programme, insisted that MMR was safe. The vaccine, which contains live measles, mumps and rubella virus, has been given to millions of children in the UK since its introduction in 1988 but the take-up rate has fallen sharply since Dr Wakefield made his original claims. Ten days ago health chiefs warned parents that Britain could face a measles outbreak unless more had their children vaccinated with MMR. Professor Wakefield said, however, that if an outbreak were to erupt it would be the fault of the health department, which had "failed to address the safety issues". The doctor and his colleagues are testing the hypothesis that the measles virus from the vaccine can lodge in the gut of susceptible children, damaging the bowel and causing autism, and that the addition of the mumps virus makes that more likely. http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders
-Caveat Lector- >``Everyone who enters into public service for the United States has a duty to the American people to maintain the highest standards of integrity in government,'' Bush said in the memo. This from a guy who drove drunk, got busted and lied about it. Integrety? Gimme a break. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl o 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] FW: FEAR: Write your Senators about Ashcroft nomination
-Caveat Lector- >I can readily see why you hate Ashcrofters would be so meticulous about the qualifications of your new Attorney General, after the shining example provided over 8 years by the AG of the most ethical administration in the history of the nation. I can't speak for anybosy else, of course, but I personally hate Ashcroft because of who and what he is. It's way more than enough. I also hate Reno, Meese, Mitchell, Palmer and all the rest of those scum. What I don't understand is how people can hate Reno and not hate Meese more. Reno burned a few dozen people to death. Meese burned the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. You tell me, which is worse in the long run? www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl o 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] German official criticizes U.S. for uranium weapons in Balkans
-Caveat Lector- German official criticizes U.S. for uranium weapons in Balkans By AIDA CERKEZ-ROBINSON, Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (January 20, 2001 10:10 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping repeated criticism of the United States over depleted-uranium weapons used in NATO missions, suggesting Saturday that Washington has kept information from its allies. Speaking at a German base near the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Scharping said recent tests have shown the risk to German peacekeepers in the Balkans from weapons containing depleted uranium is minimal. But Scharping said he will "not be satisfied with pages of information pulled out from the Internet," which he said "our American friends" have offered as a response when asked for information about the depleted-uranium munitions. Scharping's two-day trip came amid concerns that illnesses among peacekeepers serving in NATO-led missions in Bosnia and Kosovo could be linked to weapons fired by the alliance -- primarily by U.S. warplanes -- containing depleted uranium. Australia is the latest country to announce testing of its troops who served in the Balkans. The government announced Sunday soldiers will undergo blood and urine tests to measure their possible exposure to depleted uranium. On Wednesday, Scharping demanded the United States come forward with all the information it has on the depleted-uranium weapons and initiated an investigation into whether they contain cancer-causing plutonium, which is far more dangerous than uranium. The United States was complying, but Germany's defense ministry said Friday that it was still waiting to receive more files. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States has been open and clear about its use of depleted-uranium ammunition and will continue extensive discussions on the issue. Depleted uranium is a slightly radioactive heavy metal used because of its ability to pierce armor. U.S. forces fired weapons containing depleted uranium in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, and NATO used them in its 1999 bombing campaign in Yugoslavia. Scharping said Friday that U.S. Army documents show there have been numerous incidents involving depleted-uranium ammunition held by U.S. troops stationed in Germany. NATO insists there is no scientific evidence linking cancer cases to depleted uranium. Earlier this month, it rejected an appeal from Germany and Italy to impose a moratorium on its use because there is no armed conflict under way in Europe. NATO and many countries have ordered investigations into the level of radiation around the ammunition as well as of sites where it was used. German troops last week measured the level of radiation in a former military compound near Sarajevo, where boxes with such ammunition were found. The results showed "the risk is minimal," Scharping said. He also said that "so far there is not one indication plutonium is really present" in the ammunition. NATO said Wednesday the organization had always accepted that there were trace amounts of plutonium in depleted uranium but that the plutonium caused almost no additional radioactivity, pointing to test results reported by the United States last December. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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: "Power Crisis" -- a "Behavior Modification" Exercise
"Until now, Democrats have thwarted attempts to fashion a national energy policy that would give incentives for more oil and gas drilling ... ""The biggest problem in California is that consumers are still not [responding properly to the 'free market']," Enron Corp chairman Ken Lay announced. ""They are not changing behavior so the problem is going to get worse. Painful as it may be, they need to start modifying their behavior ..." Clinton declares natural gas supply emergency in California By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton declared a natural gas supply emergency in California on Friday, and ordered out-of-state suppliers to continue selling gas to California's largest utility to fuel electric generation plants. Clinton directed Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to issue a federal order requiring firms to supply natural gas to Pacific Gas and Electric , which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Richardson said the emergency order, which expires at 3 a.m. EST (8 a.m. GMT) on Jan. 24, was issued after PG&E said several energy firms refused to sell it gas on credit because they feared the utility would be unable to pay for the gas. "I am very concerned that such supply disruptions could endanger the health and welfare of PG&E's residential and commercial gas customers and could exacerbate the already precarious condition of California's electric grid by eliminating fuel supplies to a number of generating plants," Richardson said. The electricity shortage in the nation's richest and most populous state will be among the immediate issues facing President-elect George W. Bush when he takes office Saturday. A key energy adviser to Bush said the federal government should limit itself to an "advisory" role and let California state lawmakers resolve a complicated problem that was mostly self-inflicted by a flawed deregulation plan. "The biggest problem in California is consumers are not going to see the price signals. If they don't see the price signals, they are not changing behavior so the problem is going to get worse," Enron Corp chairman Ken Lay told reporters. "Painful as it is, they need to see the price signals and start modifying behavior to reduce demand until we get new supplies," he added. PG&E and Edison International have warned federal and state officials they face bankruptcy because California's landmark 1996 deregulation law does not allow them to pass on the tenfold leap in wholesale power costs to consumers. California's woes have also been exacerbate the also have not been helped by the fact that practically no new power generating plants have been built in the state for the last 10 years -- a period during which the population and the economy have boomed, greatly increasing demand for electricity. NATGAS NEEDED TO KEEP UTILITY RUNNING California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, asked Clinton last weekend for the emergency natural gas supply order, before the state was hit with two days of rolling blackouts and a widening power crisis. Residents in many cities have had to cope with the loss of traffic lights, automatic teller machines, elevators and computers during the rolling blackouts. Richardson said the Energy Department would take legal action against firms that did not comply, saying: "There will be enforcement action if the order is not carried out." On Thursday, PG&E said its deteriorating credit rating could force it to drain all its natural gas in storage by early February because suppliers have balked at providing more. The Clinton administration has also tried to help ease the California crisis with a separate order issued on Wednesday that forces out-of-state power generators to sell extra electricity to PG&E and to Edison International . BUSH READY ON ENERGY ISSUES Richardson said he had briefed his successor, Spencer Abraham, on the California crisis. Abraham, a former Michigan senator, was expected to win swift confirmation by the U.S. Senate as Bush's choice for energy secretary. Richardson said Abraham was prepared, saying: "They are ready to act." He did not elaborate. On Thursday, Abraham testified before the Senate Energy committee but refused to say what options, if any, the Bush administration was considering to help solve the crisis. The California state legislature met this week to try to work out a solution that would cap wholesale power prices at a more reasonable level and let utilities sign long-term supply contracts. Longer term, industry experts say the state must ease environmental restrictions and allow more power plants to be built to meet demand in California. On Friday, the state was still on a so-called "Stage 3" alert for critically low electricity supplies, but officials said they hoped to avoid more blackouts during the day. Congress indicated it would also move on energy issues. Sen. Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican who will resume his post as Senate Majority Leader nex
[CTRL] Fwd: A "Recession," Thanks to "Economic Warfare" ?
PG&E is warning customers that, even while their utility bills as much as double, the "rolling blackouts" that loom ahead may increase in duration from two hours a day to TWELVE, and no longer will hospitals, fire and police stations, and government offices --essential public services-- be exempted from having their power turned off too. The utility also announced that next week it might begin "rolling cut-offs" of natural gas -- meaning California citizens will lose their HEAT (during winter!) as well as light. Simultaneously, 10-20% of the gasoline that's piped into the state is under threat, since it takes electrical power to pump it through the pipelines. Combined with the OPEC ministers' decision to cut down on oil production, to keep their profits "stable," that means a GASOLINE shortage, and possibly the doubling gas prices per gallon, for drivers in California, who are already paying fifty cents more per gallon than Texans. Traffic lights go out, cars stall, even the airports have their flights grounded ... "Rationing" of electricity, heat, and gasoline What's next, a crisis in the clean water supply? Telephone service? Telecommunications? The producers of the "New Economy" in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, still reeling from the dot-com meltdown on Wall Street, are ready to pack up their bags and leave what's become "ground zero," California -- taking millions of the best-paying jobs with them -- resulting in high unemployment rates and lower wages for all the rest of us. From where I sit, it certainly looks like the "civil war" between the Right and Left evident during the 2000 election has begun in force, with the powerful corporate friends of the Bush administration surreptitiously firing the first shots in California, the nations's monolithic bastion of "liberalism" and "high tech" iconoclasm. A la the old "Cowboys vs Yankees" conflict present during the '60s, Bush's new "Confederated States of the Right-Wing Jee-zus" seems to have quietly unleashed, behind the scenes, ECONOMIC WARFARE against the great metropolitan areas that remain Democratic enclaves. That's a form of "bloodless" warfare last demonstrated in Yugoslavia, which, please note, last year had ts urban infrastructure (rather than its armies) specifically targeted for destruction, in order to undermine the population's everyday sense of security. California has already begun to feel like Eastern Europe. Will the people of New York, New England, and Chicago be next on the "hit" list? Valero Says California Crisis May Bring Fuel Shortage San Francisco, Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Valero Energy Corp., which produces about 10 percent of California's gasoline, said the state may soon face shortages of the fuel because one the West Coast's biggest pipelines was disrupted by power cuts. Supplies of jet fuel to San Francisco International Airport ran low and some rural gasoline terminals went dry following the temporary shutdowns of Kinder Morgan Inc.'s California pipeline. It distributes almost 1 million barrels of gasoline, jet fuel and diesel a day. The pipeline has been idle 12 to 18 hours a day since Wednesday as California's grid operator ordered rolling blackouts to conserve electricity, Kinder Morgan spokesman Larry Pierce said. Further disruptions to the pipeline may force refiners to cut production, sending the state's already-high gasoline prices climbing, Valero spokeswoman Mary Rose Brown said. ``It doesn't do us any good to produce a bunch of diesel and jet fuel and gasoline if we can't pipe it anywhere,'' Brown said. ``We have about one or two days of storage.'' A refining halt might lead to fuel shortages lasting months, because of the time needed to restart and build up inventories, said Jay McKeeman, executive vice president of the California Independent Oil Marketers Association. The group's members distribute 80 percent of the state's diesel fuel. Valero shares fell 38 cents to $33.19. Houston-based Kinder Morgan fell 75 cents to $48.75. The units of its pipeline partnership, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, rose $1.25 to $59.69. `Around Midnight' McKeeman said he is ``extremely concerned'' about the disruptions. Jet fuel reserves at San Francisco International dipped yesterday when the pipeline went down, airport spokesman Ron Wilson said. The airport's six-day reserve was down to two days, he said. ``We would have run out around midnight tonight,'' he said, had Kinder Morgan not started pumping fuel again after San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown intervened. The company must pay a penalty for running the pipeline during periods when power is being conserved, Wilson said. Restoring the airport's reserves will take about two weeks. In the state's rural southeastern corner, a terminal has been out of gasoline for two days, said Harlan Calhoun, controller of McNeece Brothers Oil in Imperial. His company, which sells gasoline to a dozen service stations, is send
Re: [CTRL] FW: FEAR: Write your Senators about Ashcroft nomination
-Caveat Lector- I can readily see why you hate Ashcrofters would be so meticulous about the qualifications of your new Attorney General, after the shining example provided over 8 years by the AG of the most ethical administration in the history of the nation. Nessie wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > -Original Message- > From: Brenda Grantland > Sent: Sat 1/20/2001 6:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: > Subject:FEAR: Write your Senators about Ashcroft nomination > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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: WW: Clinton Accepts 5-Year Law Suspension
-Caveat Lector- Last I heard the Arkansas Bar was planning on revoking his law license. Pretty good effort, he couldn't have done much better if he just pardoned himself and be done with it. http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] FW:100 Links to Bush info: A GW Bush Inaugural Special
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 1/20/2001 10:39 AM To: undisclosed-recipients Cc: Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] 100 Links to Bush info: A GW Bush Inaugural Special Bush Inaugural Special: 100 Links to Bush info The following are links to information about the Bush family, the Bush cabinet appointees and the corporations, think tanks and foundations that are behind the GW Bush administration. My including these links to materials other than the articles I wrote is not to be considered an endorsement of any statement they contain. These links connect to sites run by the left, the religious right, conservative think tanks, political independents and the mainstream media. Some are pro-Bush and are included for cross reference value. All links were good as of this writing so if you get a message to the contrary keep trying-they are busy sites. When you cut and paste the web adresses or type them in there must be no added spaces or characters or else you will not be able to access the sites. Within each of these sites you can do a word search on Bush or any other word or name that interests you. These materials, which are only a tiny fraction of what's out there, will help you to see through the blitzkrieg of false information we are all being subject to about GW Bush and his cabinet. Please forward these links to your friends, the media, elected officials and anyone else with an interest in knowing the real story behind the 43rd President of the United States. This list was compiled by Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (718) 743-3722 Lederman articles on the Bush connection to Nazis, eugenics and drug companies. Also articles on West Nile Virus, Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute - more than 50 articles filled with references. http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/ An exceptional article on the relationship between American conservatives, GW Bush, so-called compassionate conservatism, eugenics and the Nazis: Nazis In America by Myrna Estep Ph. D http://www.feminista.com/v3n10/estep.html Bush financial misconduct http://www.campaignwatch.org Bush family background http://www.geocities.com/alanjpakula/triplecrown.html http://www.shorejournal.com/elkhorn/ http://www.prorev.com/bush.htm http://www.copvcia.com/witness_list.htm http://members.tripod.com/~Evademic/naznwo/naznwo10.txt http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush17.html http://www.gwbush.com/ http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/commentary.html http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/midland.html http://afrocubaweb.com/bushes.htm http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/bush.html http://www.infomanage.com/secrets/bios/bushes.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3750/bush.htm http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook.html http://www.hli.org/issues/pp/bcreview/index.html http://www.joinhugs.org/mainpage/bushrecord.html http://www.monitor.net/monitor/morgue.html CIA, Nazis & the Republican Party http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/OldNazis_NewRig ht.html http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ratline.html http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mblinks.htm http://www.watch.pair.com/jbs-cnp.html Philadelphia Enquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," September 10, 1988. Project Paperclip: the CIA Nazi recruitment program - many of the tink tanks and organizations behind Bush got their ideas directly from these former Nazi officials. http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/ass ignments/experiment/paperclip.html Head of Florida holocaust Museum links Bush family to Nazis "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 4/14/1990 New York Times quotes George Bush as stating, "Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals." US releases Nazi documents (AP) http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/1999/11/03/nazis1103_ 01.html Josef Goebbels on propaganda - Understand how the Big Lie techniques used by the Bush campaign work http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm Eugenics sites (the Bush family are among the world's top advocates for eugenics) http://www.notdeadyet.org/eughis.html http://www.techreview.com/articles/as96/allen.html http://www.hli.org/issues/pp/bcreview/index.html http://users.erols.com/straymond/EUGENICS2.htm http://home.att.net/~eugenics/ http://www.sightings.com/general3/eugene.htm http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/SG.html Fluoride info (Alcoa, which plays a major role in the Bush administration, is the world's leading producer of fluoride and was a leading ally of Nazi Germany) http://204.181.21.150/truf
[CTRL] FW: FEAR: Write your Senators about Ashcroft nomination
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Brenda Grantland Sent: Sat 1/20/2001 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:FEAR: Write your Senators about Ashcroft nomination The enclosed bulletin from G. Alan Robinson of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas shows that Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft's claim that he will enforce the law even if he does not believe in it is belied by his record of encouraging Missouri police to use federal adoption to evade state constitutional requirements that state forfeiture revenues go to education. Read this and write your Senators, asking them to oppose his nomination! Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drug Policy Forum of Texas) Reply-to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Alan Robison) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends: Dan Forbes has written a story published in the Progressive Review (check it out at http://prorev.com/ashcroft.htm) that ties then-Governor Ashcroft directly to the violation of the Missouri Constitution and a Missouri Supreme Court decision. A former law enforcement official is going on record saying that Senator Ashcroft told the police he would "look the other way" if they took steps to avoid Missouri law. Below is a copy of the article and a press release concerning the situation. This undermines the foundation of Governor Ashcroft's claims that he can be trusted to enforce the law even when he disagrees with it. This information has been sent to all the major newspapers in the country as well as to all Senators, so it's going to be fascinating to see if so much as a word of it get mentioned in either the press or on any of the TV programs. Cheers / Al G. Alan Robison Executive Director Drug Policy Forum of Texas Houston, Texas 713-784-3196; FAX 713-784-0283 www.dpft.org --- For Immediate Release January 18, 2001 For Further Information: Kevin B. Zeese 703-981-3619 Ashcroft Tells Police: "I'll Look the Other Way" As They Violate Missouri Constitution and Supreme Court Decision Can Ashcroft Be Trusted to Enforce Laws He Disagrees With? Washington, D.C.: Today, Progressive Review, www.prorev.com, reported that when Senator Ashcroft served as Governor of Missouri his administration violated a 100 year old provision of the Missouri Constitution (Article IX, 7) that required all forfeited funds go to public schools. In 1990 after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that this provision of the Constitution was clear and all forfeited proceeds must go to the public schools his administration circumvented the decision. (Reorganized School District No. 7 v. Douthit, 799 SW.2d 591 (Mo. Banc. 1990). The article by Dan Forbes is below. In reaction to the Missouri Supreme Court decision state and local law enforcement officials met to discuss how to circumvent the ruling and the constitutional requirement. According to Don Burger, then an official of the US Department of Justice two Missouri law enforcement officials told the group of independent meetings with Governor Ashcroft where he said he would "look the other way" if forfeiture cases were federalized. By federalizing the forfeiture the proceeds would go to federal law enforcement officials and they would kickback a portion to local police. In that way, the public schools were denied the proceeds required by law. After the meeting the Ashcroft Administration, through the state police, engaged in federalizing forfeitures to circumvent state law. In $844,520 v. United States, 136 F.3d 581 (8th Cir. 1998), the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the DEA and the Missouri Highway Patrol "successfully conspired to violate the Missouri Constitution" by using adoptive forfeiture to keep forfeiture proceeds for law enforcement purposes and avoid giving the funds to the schools. "During his confirmation hearings Mr. Ashcroft asked people to look at his record as proof that he would enforce the law. Now that people have looked at his record it is evident that Mr. Ashcroft may not enforce laws when he disagrees with them," charged Kevin Zeese, Executive Director of the Common Sense for Drug Policy Legislative Group. "Mr Ashcroft's ardent support of the war on drugs was more important than following the clear requirements of the Missouri Constitution and the decision of the Missouri Supreme Court. His administration intentionally took steps to circumvent the law simply because Governor Ashcroft did not like the law. The state police violated the law with Governor Ashcrofts' knowledge and approval," noted Zeese. "Senator Ashcroft's favoritism for law enforcement has been clear in his zealous advocacy for law enforcement. As governor he went further than advocacy - he actually denied money that was required by law to go the public schools and allowed law enforcement authorities to take it for themselves. As a member of the executive branch Mr. Ashcroft will once again have the power to put his anti
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-Caveat Lector- Theres a lot of REALLY STUPID people out there, and a lot of them are Christians. A friend was telling me just the other day that some years ago, her mother sold her house and donated everything she owned to Oral Roberts in the US, then had to come and live with them because she was destitute. Add in the wills that people sign giving their estates to various religious hucksters, and there are plenty of bucks in televangelism. On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:39:14 EST "Prudence L. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-Caveat Lector- > >In a message dated 01/18/2001 9:51:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Oh god it's happening again! Gulp. Saba is right. Speeches and CNN don't > really pay enough to account for his being a multi millionaire. > > Besides hanging out with guys who screw chicks in office, and screwing chicks > in the office, what does this elite CFR scumbag actually DO? >> > >I've always wondered about Billy Graham too. I don't mean his morals. I'll >give him the benefit of the doubt on that, but just who pays him enough to >wear those super expensive suits and be constantly in company of the super >rich. If speeches and television appearances don't really pay enough, what >do these guys do for pocket change. I know Christ espoused poverty, but none >of our Evangelicals have ever said they didn't live in the lap of luxury. It >has to be a good job. Didn't Billy Graham's kid give up his life of >carousing to take up the family business? Prudy > >http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org >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 > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl > >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 > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Skousen-THE BUSH TEAM--HOW CONSERVATIVE?
WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF Jan 5, 2001 Copyright Joel Skousen. Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief. Website: http://www.joelskousen.com THE BUSH TEAM--HOW CONSERVATIVE? After hearing the following exchange on the news, I’m not enthusiastic about president-elect Bush’s ability to halt or reverse the present erosion of constitutional liberty. When asked what he would do as president if faced with congressional legislation that was clearly unconstitutional, his response was, "How would I know if it was unconstitutional?" Well, it just so happens that the president is sworn to uphold the Constitution. He should at least have a sense of what is constitutional and what is not. Otherwise the Justice Department, which works for the Executive department, won’t tackle constitutional issues in defense of original intent. During the campaign the Bush advisory team was composed almost exclusively of old-guard, CFR and NWO globalists. The New American even published a dramatic series of photographs taken at a little-publicized press conference in 1999 in which George W. was surrounded and endorsed by the entire Kissinger team including Kissinger himself, George Schultz, and Brent Scowcroft. These three global controllers are still actively engaged in jet-setting around the world intervening in other nations’ affairs. Major heads of states or their foreign ministers almost always pay a visit to one or more of the Kissinger team when they come to Washington on official business. If that weren’t bad enough, Bush still has on his team insiders like Richard Armitage and C. Boyden Gray who have formerly served as "black side" operatives with the CIA under George Bush Sr. Interestingly enough, it seems that the Bush transition team has become sensitized to all the discontent brewing within the hard-core conservative wing of the Republican Party and has dumped plans to give these obvious insiders the high appointments they were promised. Armitage, who wanted the position of Sec. of Defense has been denied any public position so far. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if he shows up as a Deputy Undersecretary in the Defense Department. Let’s take a hard look at the background of the other Bush nominees for cabinet and advisor positions. It’s a mixed bag of a few conservatives tasked with overseeing totally socialist programs and globalist insiders masquerading as conservatives. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: Condolezza Rice Rice (CFR) served on the National Security Council during the former Bush administration. Her mentor was none other than Brent Scowcroft. She has been carefully groomed for eventual leadership in the traditional way--by being named to a series of prestige building jobs that have kept her in the limelight for a return to service (Hoover Institution, World Federalist Society, Provost of Stanford University). By the way, if you track where up-and-coming people are placed within the "private" sector you can also track which companies and organizations are controlled by the CFR-globalist leadership. In fact, the National Security Council itself is staffed exclusively by advisors trained by and taking orders from the CFR and Kissinger Associates. These are the people who direct and influence the president in critical foreign policy issues. SECRETARY OF STATE: Colin Powell Colin Powell has a long history of being a military yes-man to the Powers That Be (PTB). As Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations in the Americal Division in Vietnam he was responsible for the initial investigation that covered up the facts surrounding the My Lai massacre. He was clearly responding to pressure from up the chain of command when he denied the claims of witness Tom Glen. He was rewarded for his "loyalty" by being given leave from the Army to pursue an MBA at George Washington in 1971 and was selected in 1972 as a White House fellow--a post reserved for those who show "future promise" to the PTB. He then joined the Pentagon as a military aide to Sec. of Defense Casper Weinburger. In that capacity he was directly involved in the transfer of weapons to Iran, via Israel, as part of the Iran-Contra scandal. Being part of this secret CIA operation, he was a natural choice to join the National Security Council in 1987. In 1989 he leap-frogged over numerous other senior officers in the military, who had greater military prowess, to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He presided over the outrageous invasion of Panama which was a cover for the CIA take-down of Panama’s Manuel Noriega, the CIA’s drug and money-laundering bagman who, according to CIA defectors, was taking a much bigger cut of the drug profits than he was allowed. Many innocent civilians and soldiers (US included) were killed in this trumped-up war. Powell could not have been oblivious to the phony rationale for this invasion. Then to cap his career in the Joi
[CTRL] None Dare Call It Treason
FEATURE STORY | February 5, 2001 http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20010205&s=bugliosi None Dare Call It Treason by VINCENT BUGLIOSI In the December 12 ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law. If you doubt this, try to imagine Al Gore's and George Bush's roles being reversed and ask yourself if you can conceive of Justice Antonin Scalia and his four conservative brethren issuing an emergency order on December 9 stopping the counting of ballots (at a time when Gore's lead had shrunk to 154 votes) on the grounds that if it continued, Gore could suffer "irreparable harm," and then subsequently, on December 12, bequeathing the election to Gore on equal protection grounds. If you can, then I suppose you can also imagine seeing a man jumping away from his own shadow, Frenchmen no longer drinking wine. From the beginning, Bush desperately sought, as it were, to prevent the opening of the door, the looking into the box--unmistakable signs that he feared the truth. In a nation that prides itself on openness, instead of the Supreme Court doing everything within its power to find a legal way to open the door and box, they did the precise opposite in grasping, stretching and searching mightily for a way, any way at all, to aid their choice for President, Bush, in the suppression of the truth, finally settling, in their judicial coup d'état, on the untenable argument that there was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause--the Court asserting that because of the various standards of determining the voter's intent in the Florida counties, voters were treated unequally, since a vote disqualified in one county (the so-called undervotes, which the voting machines did not pick up) may have been counted in another county, and vice versa. Accordingly, the Court reversed the Florida Supreme Court's order that the undervotes be counted, effectively delivering the presidency to Bush. Now, in the equal protection cases I've seen, the aggrieved party, the one who is being harmed and discriminated against, almost invariably brings the action. But no Florida voter I'm aware of brought any action under the equal protection clause claiming he was disfranchised because of the different standards being employed. What happened here is that Bush leaped in and tried to profit from a hypothetical wrong inflicted on someone else. Even assuming Bush had this right, the very core of his petition to the Court was that he himself would be harmed by these different standards. But would he have? If we're to be governed by common sense, the answer is no. The reason is that just as with flipping a coin you end up in rather short order with as many heads as tails, there would be a "wash" here for both sides, i.e., there would be just as many Bush as Gore votes that would be counted in one county yet disqualified in the next. (Even if we were to assume, for the sake of argument, that the wash wouldn't end up exactly, 100 percent even, we'd still be dealing with the rule of de minimis non curat lex--the law does not concern itself with trifling matters.) So what harm to Bush was the Court so passionately trying to prevent by its ruling other than the real one: that he would be harmed by the truth as elicited from a full counting of the undervotes? And if the Court's five-member majority was concerned not about Bush but the voters themselves, as they fervently claimed to be, then under what conceivable theory would they, in effect, tell these voters, "We're so concerned that some of you undervoters may lose your vote under the different Florida county standards that we're going to solve the problem by making sure that none of you undervoters have your votes counted"? Isn't this exactly what the Court did? Gore's lawyer, David Boies, never argued either of the above points to the Court. Also, since Boies already knew (from language in the December 9 emergency order of the Court) that Justice Scalia, the Court's right-wing ideologue; his Pavlovian puppet, Clarence Thomas, who doesn't even try to create the impression that he's thinking; and three other conservatives on the Court (William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy) intended to deodorize their foul intent by hanging their hat on the anemic equal protection argument, wouldn't you think that he and his people would have come up with at least three or four strong arguments to expose it for what it was--a legal gimmick that the brazen, shameless majority intended to invoke to perpetrate a judicial hijacking in broad daylight? And made sure that he got into the record of his oral argument all of these points? Yet, remarkably, Boies only managed to make one good equal protection argument, and that one near the very en
[CTRL] How Jesse Invented Himself In Memphis (2)
http://www.sightings.com/general7/jesse.htm How Jesse Invented Himself In Memphis http://www.truefoodnow.org/shoppinglist.html 1-19-01 So it seems that Jesse Jackson was the perfect person to counsel President Clinton about infidelity. As the saying goes, the man knows whereof he speaks. Are you really surprised that Jesse has a secret mistress and love child? You shouldn't be. Jesse is the quintessential lovable rogue - although "lovable" might be a stretch. Jackson (c.), Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy (r.) the day before King's assassination Like many - both black and white - I have been mesmerized by Jackson for decades. Modesty is a virtue with which he has never been familiar. I first heard Jesse speak at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., in 1972. Sporting a huge Afro and colorful dashiki, Jackson stirred the juices, an American Fidel who enchanted his audience for hours as the venom flowed fast and furious. "The idea of looking for racial equality [in America] is a farce," he thundered to deafening applause. Jesse blew me away - and then I got to know him. During his run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, I revisited the story that formed the backbone of the Jackson legend - that immediately after the assassination in Memphis in 1968, Jesse had cradled Martin Luther King in his arms. Building that story helped Jesse assume Martin's mantle - but like much about Jackson, that story was a lie. Jesse Jackson with his wife Jackie at the 1998 Democratic National Convention Hosea Williams, who had been a King assistant, was only one of several people, including former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who told me what really happened on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on that horrific day: "Right after the shooting, Jesse shouted to us all not to talk to the press," Williams said. "But then I saw him telling reporters, 'Yes, I was the last man in the world King spoke to.' He said he held King in his arms. I knew he was lying - Ralph Abernathy was the one who held 'Doc.'" "I don't know for sure why Jesse says what he says," Abernathy told me in 1987. "He's always had this deep need to project a special closeness to whatever seemed holy." While the rest of King's stunned aides stayed close in Memphis, Jesse flew home to Chicago. The next morning, wearing a turtleneck that he said was stained with King's blood, Jackson turned up on the "Today" show, retelling his tall tale. When I confronted Jesse with the testimony of King's other associates, he dodged artfully. "Peter was with Jesus physically," Jackson said, reaching for a biblical metaphor that avoided a direct answer. "But Paul interpreted Jesus better than Peter did. Peter and them got jealous of Paul and have been trying to ax him out ever since." The King story is only one of many Jackson embellishments. For years, he movingly recounted his impoverished upbringing to anyone willing to listen. "I used to run bootleg liquor and buy hot clothes," Jackson told television interviewers. "I had to steal to survive." His stepfather, he said, was a janitor, his mother a maid. In fact, Jackson's stepfather was a postal worker, his mother a beautician. (Upset by his stepson's fabrication, a proud Charles Jackson told Barbara Reynolds, for her book on Jesse, "We never begged for a dime, and my family never went hungry a day in their lives.") Ever since King's death, no other African-American has come close to supplanting Jackson in the role he most relishes: In private, Jackson considers himself the President of Black America. As he travels the nation, urging the downtrodden to pull themselves up from poverty - one of many admirable exhortations - Jesse still asks his audiences to repeat after him: "I am somebody." Well, Jesse is certainly somebody. He's a world-class piece of work, and it now seems he's been comfortably living his biggest lie for some time. Jesse Jackson is more than somebody. He is two bodies. How Jesse Invented Himself In Memphis (2).url
[CTRL] CHEMTRAILS OVER TEXAS
-Caveat Lector- As George W. Bush was being sworn-in as President today, the skies over Austin Texas were being crisscrossed with chemtrails. The skies were mostly clear until almost noon and then the high altitude spraying began. Three jets flying abreast spewed out the thick white streams from the southeast to the northwest. They flew almost directly over the State Capital Building. Then a little later, they flew over in a crossing pattern making a huge grid of chemtrails. There is no mistaking what these were. They hung in the sky for at least an hour as the spread out to a width of several miles until the skies were about half "cloudy". I saw several other high-flying jets at this same time which were not leaving any contrails at all. Over a period of two hours, I saw other jets leave ordinary contrails which dissipated within 2 minutes. One wonders if the new President is aware of what is happening in the skies over America. It happened today over the city he has called home for the past 6 years. Regards to All Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders
http://live.altavista.com/e?efi=467&ei=2364195&ern=y In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders Deborah Charles 01/20/01 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moving quickly upon taking office, President George W. Bush on Saturday issued an order that essentially blocked some of the last-minute executive orders and rules laid down by outgoing President Clinton. The order was believed to apply to such orders as new regulations for managed care programs under Medicare and new environmental rules on runoff from animal feeding operations. It would also apply to Clinton's declaration of the former military post of Governor's Island in New York Harbor as a national monument, a designation Clinton made on Saturday. Bush's move did not apply to the 140 presidential pardons and 36 prison sentence commutations that Clinton issued less than two hours before his term expired on Saturday. Bush's order, signed by new White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and sent to the heads and acting heads of executive departments and agencies, said the decision was made ``to ensure that the president's appointees have the opportunity to review any new or pending regulations.'' ``It's a way for us to conduct a more thorough and effective review of these last-minute regulations,'' Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said. The order meant that no new rules could be printed in the Federal Register, which blocked them because the rules cannot take effect until they have appeared in the Federal Register for a period of time. Bush also issued a 60-day stay on regulations that were published in the Federal Register but have not yet taken effect. Some of the blizzard of rules issued by Clinton in his last days in office angered Republicans, particularly his decision to declare nearly 60 million acres of federal land, mostly in the western states, off limits to logging. That order, however, came after a lengthy federal review period and would appear to be extremely difficult to withdraw. BUSH DEMANDS INTEGRITY, DECLARES DAY OF PRAYER Fleischer said the new administration had a variety of options on how to deal with Clinton's orders. ``I expect some will be repealed, some will be amended, some will be kept.'' In other initial items of business, Bush directed employees of his new government to observe ``the highest standards of integrity,'' declared Sunday a national day of prayer and enacted a hiring freeze. In a memorandum to the heads of government departments and agencies, Bush said employees should not use public office for private gain. They should disclose waste, fraud, abuse and corruption to appropriate authorities. ``Everyone who enters into public service for the United States has a duty to the American people to maintain the highest standards of integrity in government,'' Bush said in the memo. The memo, released less than two hours after Bush took the oath of office as America's 43rd president, followed Bush's campaign pledge to ``restore honor and dignity'' to the White House after the ethical lapses and scandals of the Clinton administration. ``It is a living and breathing reminder to our staff and to the nation of the importance that the president himself attaches to high ethic standards and government service,'' Fleischer said. Card sent a separate memo to heads of executive departments and agencies, saying Bush froze hiring until a department or agency head appointed by Bush approves it. He also said each agency head will be instructed to develop a plan to meet Bush's goal of reducing management ranks. Reflecting his deep religious convictions, Bush also signed a proclamation declaring Sunday a ``national day of prayer and thanksgiving'' to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power between him and Clinton. ``On this day, I call upon Americans to recall all that unites us,'' Bush said in the proclamation. My AltaVista In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders.url
[CTRL] Holy Warriors: Killing for the Glory of God, in a Land Far From Home
-Caveat Lector- Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company January 16, 2001 Holy Warriors: Killing for the Glory of God, in a Land Far From Home By JUDITH MILLER ANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan Muhammad Khaled Mihraban, a polite, soft- spoken 26- year-old Pakistani, thinks he has already killed at least 100 people. Maybe more; he isn't really sure. "My goal was not to kill," he said. "But I had a line to follow, an Islamic ideal. I knew that Muslims needed their own country, a real Islamic country." Mr. Mihraban found that country when he came to Afghanistan in 1992. Having decided "to consecrate my life to jihad" while studying Islamic law at Punjab University in Lahore, he said, he joined a Pakistani militant group that was fighting India in the disputed province of Kashmir. His training took place in Afghanistan. "We learned how to plant mines, how to make bombs using dynamite and how to kill someone quietly," he recalled. A gifted student, he was soon asked to train others in group camps near Khost. "But I wanted to act, not teach," he explained. So after a stint waging war in Kashmir, he returned to Kabul to fight alongside the Taliban forces that control most of the country. Mr. Mihraban, who was captured by the rebels fighting the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, said in an interview in a bleak prison that if he were released, he would "stay right here and fight again for Kabul." If he were asked to do so, he said, he would go to London, Paris or New York and blow up women and children for Islam. "Yes, I would do it," he said quietly, without hesitation. If the international terrorism that has haunted Americans for the last decade has a home, it is Afghanistan, the place that comes closest to the extremists' ideal of a state ruled by the strict code of Islamic law. Afghanistan is an inspiration, an essential base of operations, a reservoir of potential suicide bombers and a battle front where crucial ties are forged. It is also, American officials say, where Osama bin Laden is experimenting with chemical weapons. Participants in nearly every plot against the United States and its allies during the last decade have learned the arts of war and explosives in Afghan camps, authorities say, including the defendants in the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa. The Central Intelligence Agency estimates that as many as 50,000 to 70,000 militants from 55 countries have trained here in recent years. The agency says the Taliban permit a wide range of groups to operate in Afghan territory, from the Pakistani militants who trained Mr. Mihraban to Mr. bin Laden's organization Al Qaeda (Arabic for The Base). Middle East officials said that as many as 5,000 recruits have passed through Mr. bin Laden's camps. American and Middle Eastern intelligence officials believe that Mr. bin Laden maintains a network of a dozen camps in Afghanistan that offer training in small arms and in explosives and logistics for terrorist attacks. The officials said the embassy bombings, which killed more than 200 people, were rehearsed on a model built to scale at one of Mr. bin Laden's Afghan camps. One camp, according to those officials, is educating a new generation of recruits in the uses of chemicals, poisons and toxins. Within the last year, trainees at the camp, which is called Abu Khabab, have experimented on dogs, rabbits and other animals with nerve gases, the officials said. Recruits have also fashioned bombs made from commercially available chemicals and poisons, which have been tried out on animals tethered to outdoor posts on the camp test range, according to surveillance photographs and informers' reports. "The role of Afghanistan is now absolutely clear," said Michael A. Sheehan, the former coordinator of the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, who in late December became assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations for the United Nations. "Every Islamic militant we've looked at goes scurrying back there for sanctuary. Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent Iran, are the only major sanctuaries left." The Training: Where Recruits Study Tactics and Explosives Middle Eastern officials estimate that in the last six months, more than 100 men recruited by Mr. bin Laden's and affiliated groups have been trained at the camp, which is named after the Egyptian militant who runs it, Midhat Mursi whose nom de guerre is Abu Khabab. The camp is part of a large complex of such training sites known as Darunta, about eight miles from Jalalabad, an Afghan eastern provincial capital, down a dusty road that runs atop an old stone dam of the same name. According to Western and Middle Eastern officials, a cache of chemicals is stored in the reinforced caves of nearby mountains and naturally protected underground tunnels. Abu Khabab's graduates in the last year include Raed Hijazi, the Jordanian- American whom Jordan has convicted in absentia as a ringleader of the failed plot to a
[CTRL] AP: Bush to Block Some Clinton Orders
-Caveat Lector- Saturday January 20 10:07 AM ET Bush to Block Some Clinton Orders By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Bush will move quickly to block new Medicare guidelines, environmental protections and other late executive actions by President Clinton (news - web sites), Republican officials said Saturday. As one of his first acts after taking office, Bush will issue an order to effectively halt a series of last-minute executive orders and rules by the outgoing president, the officials said. Among those actions targeted are environmental restrictions on runoff from animal feeding operations, and guidelines for managed care programs under Medicare. Clinton was leaving office Saturday with a flurry of decisions, many of which have drawn sharp criticism from Republicans. Bush will impose a moratorium that would for the time being block any new rules from being printed in the Federal Register. That would essentially block the most recent of Clinton's executive orders because most rules cannot take effect until they have appeared in the Federal Register for a certain period of time. Older regulations would not be covered, but are actively under review by the incoming Bush administration. Many may be rescinded, Bush transition officials said. The freeze would not affect presidential pardons. The moratorium on regulations was expected to be announced by incoming White House chief of staff Andrew Card, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Bush was also to issue executive orders on Saturday outlining ethics guidelines for his administration and declaring a national day of prayer, the officials said. Imposing a freeze on rules has been used in the past by other incoming presidents. Then-President Ronald Reagan used a similar technique in 1981 to block scores of last-minute executive orders by his predecessor, Democrat Jimmy Carter. And when he took office in 1993, Clinton moved quickly to block several orders that Bush's father, George Bush, had put in place in the closing days of his administration. One would have required federal contractors to inform nonunion employees of their rights to have any dues withheld from their paychecks refunded. The younger Bush may issue a new executive order reimposing that blocked order of his father's, the GOP officials said. = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] AP: Clinton Pardon's List
-Caveat Lector- Clinton Pardon's List January 20, 2001 13:52est By The Associated Press A list of the people pardoned or commuted Saturday before President Clinton left office, as released by the White House: COMMUTATIONS: Benjamin Berger Ronald Henderson Blackley Bert Wayne Bolan Gloria Libia Camargo Charles F. Campbell David Ronald Chandler Lau Ching Chin Donald R. Clark Loreta De-Ann Coffman Derrick Curry Velinda Desalus Jacob Elbaum Linda Sue Evans Loretta Sharon Fish Antoinette M. Frink David Goldstein Gerard A. Greenfield Jodie E. Israel Kimberly Johnson Billy Thornton Langston Jr. Belinda Lynn Lumpkin Peter MacDonald Kellie Ann Mann Peter Ninemire Hugh Ricardo Padmore Arnold Paul Prosperi Melvin J. Reynolds Pedro Miguel Riveiro Dorothy Rivers Susan Rosenberg Kalmen Stern Cory Stringfellow Carlo Anibal Vignali Jr. Thomas Wilson Waddell III Harvey Weinig Kim Allen Willis PARDONS: Verla Jean Allen Nicholas M. Altiere Bernice Ruth Altschul Joe Anderson Jr. William Sterling Anderson Mansour Azizkhani Cleveland Victor Babin Jr. Chris Harmon Bagley Scott Lynn Bane Thomas Cleveland Barber Peggy Ann Bargon David Roscoe Blampied William Arthur Borders Jr. Arthur David Borel Douglas Chrles Borel George Thomas Brabham Almon Glenn Braswell Leonard Browder David Steven Brown Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson John H. Bustamante Mary Louise Campbell Eloida Candelaria Dennis Sobrevinas Capili Donna Denise Chambers Douglas Eugene Chapman Ronald Keith Chapman Francisco Larois Chavez Henry G. Cisneros Roger Clinton Stuart Harris Cohn David Marc Cooper Ernest Harley Cox Jr. John F. Cross Jr. Reickey Lee Cunningham Richard Anthony De Labio John Deutch Richard Douglas Edward Reynolds Downe Marvin Dean Dudley Larry Lee Duncan Robert Clinton Fain Marcos Arcenio Fernandez Alvarez Ferrouillet William Dennis Fugazy Lloyd Reid George Louis Goldstein Rubye Lee Gordon Pincus Green Robert Ivey Hamner Samuel Price Handley Woodie Randolph Handley Jay Houston Harmon John Hummingson David S. Herdlinger Debi Rae Huckleberry Donald Ray James Stanley Pruet Jobe Ruben H. Johnson Linda Jones James Howard Lake June Louise Lewis Salim Bonnor Lewis John Leighton Lodwick Hildebrando Lopez Jose Julio Luaces James Timothy Maness James Lowell Manning John Robert Martin Frank Ayala Martinez Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez John Francis McCormick Susan H. McDougal Howard Lawrence Mechanic Brook K. Mitchell Sr. Samuel Loring Morison Charles Wilfred Morgan III Richard Anthony Nazzaro Charlene Ann Nosenko Vernon Raymond Obermeier Miguelina Ogalde David C. Owen Robert W. Palmer Kelli Anne Perhosky Richard H. Pezzopane Orville Rex Phillips Vinson Stewart Poling Jr. Norman Lyle Prouse Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr. Danny Martin Pursley Sr. Charles D. Ravenel William Clyde Ray Alfredo Luna Regalado Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort Marc Rich Howard Winfield Riddle Richard Wilson Riley Jr. Samuel Lee Robbins Joel Gonzales Rodriguez Michael James Rogers Anna Louise Ross Gerald Glen Rust Jerri Ann Rust Bettye June Rutherford Gregory Lee Sands Adolph Schwimmer Albert A. Seretti Jr. Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw Dennis Joseph Smith Gerald Owen Smith Stephen A. Smith Jimmie Lee Speake Charles Bernard Stewart Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins John Fife Symington III Richard Lee Tannehill Nicholas C. Tenaglia Gary Allen Thomas Larry Weldon Todd Olga C. Trevino Ignatious Vamvouklis Patricia A. Van De Weerd Christopher V. Wade Bill Wayne Warmath Jack Kenneth Watson Donna Lynn Webb Donald William Wells Robert H. Wendt Jack L. Williams Kavin Arthur Williams Robert Michael Williams Jimmie Lee Wilson Thelma Louise Wingate Mitchell Couey Wood Warren Stannard Wood Dewey Worthey Rick Allen Yale Joseph A. Yasak William Stanley Yingling Phillip David Young AP-NY-01-20-01 1352EST = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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
[CTRL] IBD: Clinton Seeking Treaties w/o Senate Approval
-Caveat Lector- 1/19/01 www.investors.com Clinton Seeking Treaties w/o Senate Approval By Douglas Austin Investor's Business Daily Treaty making seems simple enough. The president inks the deal. Two-thirds of the Senate votes to ratify. The treaty becomes the law of land. But what if the president inks the deal, orders it acted on, but doesn't ask for the Senate's OK? That's just what President Clinton has done for several treaties. Will they survive his leaving office? NOt if the treaties' Republican critics have their way. "(President-elect George) Bush ought to look hard at every single one of these agreements and ascertain whether it makes sense for the country to be bound by them," said Frank Gaffney, director of the Center for Security Policy. "In most cases, I think the answer is going to be no." Clinton's unratified treaties cover a range of issues, from missile defense to civil rights for children. Human Rights In 1998, Clinton issued an executive order, No. 13107, telling federal agencies to comply wth several human rights treaties the Senate had not yet ratified. The order sets up an "interagency working group" to oversee compliance. "It's almost as if ratification is only a detail, a mere formality," said Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, a group that opposes the treaties. "Clinton is trying to get the federal machinery moving to implement these treaties whether they have been ratified or not." Two of the treaties are the Convention on the Rights. of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Critics fear the treaties mask a move toward greater state control over the family and the economy. The treaty's rights for children provides legal grounds for state intervention in family matters. The treaty to ban all discrimination against women could be used to push wage controls. "They use these treaties to shape and reorient the public policies and even the social culture of nations around the world," said Patrick Fagan, research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The U.N. sends a team every five years to report on local conditions. The report is used to pressure the country to change its laws. In the U.S., that would shift more power to Washington. Fagan says the U.N. takes a radical interpretation on the rights of the child, driving a wedge between parents and their kids. For example, parents in Britain had the right to remove their kids from sex-education classes. But that right was criticized by the U.N.'s first report on conditions for children in Britain. The U.N. report was then used in Britain to change the law, taking away the parents' right. The ABM Treaty The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty might have died when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. But in 1997, President Clinton signed off on a memorandum of understanding with four ex-Soviet states. The memo treated the ABM treaty as still valid. That put severe limits on any missile-defense system the U.S. might field. First the White House said any follow-on to the ABM treaty would need Senate OK. It even promised to seek the Senate's OK when the Senate approved the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty in 1997. But after signing the 1997 memo with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the White House changed its mind. ln a 1998 letter to Congress Clinton said a case could be made that the ABM. treaty. was still in effect, so the new memo didn't need the Senate's OK. ABM treatyopponents want Bush to renounce the memorandum. They say Clinton violated the rider put in the CFE treaty ordering a Senate vote. "The Clinton administration's trying to bypass the Senate regarding this 1997 MOU (memorandum of understanding), which they tried to do before the Senate said no, was constitutionally questionable," said Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation. "I think that agreement inherently required Senate consent, and there was a real question of undermining the Senate's tidvice and consent powers in an unconstitutional way." Clinton signed the treaty to join the "International Criminal Court" on New Year's Eve. Standing Tribunal The treaty would create a standing tribunal to indict, prosecute and punish people for crimes against humanity. The White House claimed it would give the U.S. influence during further talks. But Clinton said Bush shouldn't send it to the Senate until U.S. concerns were fixed. Bush's people agree the treaty is flawed. They have no plans to send it to the Senate and will review the treaty when Bush. takes office. GOP opponents in Congress are weighing a law banning cooperation with the court. Critics charge Clinton gave support to the treaty by signing it. He also made it more difficult to work against the pact. "Once we sign, we are saying well, we're kind of basically in favor of this," said Jeremy Rabkin, professor of government at Cornell University. "And that mak
[CTRL] MAJESTIC 12
http://www.rhedae.com/ MAJESTIC 12 MJ-12 is a ULTRA TOP SECRET Research and Development, Intelligence Operation established by President Truman on September 24, 1947 in light of the events at Roswell, New mexico, where a UFO supposedly crashed and gray aliens/ alien hybirds were captured. The group also know as The Majestic Twelve Operation, Majestic 12, Majic 12, MAJCOM or MJ-12 was created under an executive order on September 24th , 1947. The panel was empowered to review all available evidence and data collected by the government, military and intelligence agencies. MJ-12 was a 'Committee' set up inside the NSC. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed the Secret Executive Order, "Order Number 54-12". (NSC=National Security Counsel) This committee able to take appropriate action without congressional oversight. The MJ-12 group worked closely with the Joint Intelligence Committee, the Air Technical Intelligence Center and Intelligence Advisory Committee. Projects connected to or spun off from MJ-12 were PROJECT SIGMA, PROJECT SIGN which was said to have evolved into PROJECT GRUGE. It can make a person feel uneasy that such an organization was formed outside of the normal channels of our democratic process, that the citizens of the United States work so hard to fund and keep together. Its manifestation set precedents for much of the double-dealing and covert activities that run so rampant within United States Government political system today. Amongst the MJ-12 documents there is information about UFO crashes and recoveries, connected military installations, scientific facilities, laboratories, locations of wreckage storage, experiments with advanced technology and labs wherein secret operations took place. MJ-12 was the President's special panel to investigate the UFO/alien phenomena and participate in capture of unidentified space vehicles. The President was briefed on a weekly activity in what was called 'Current Intelligence Review'. The group also dealt with the social impact on personnel directly exposed to any given recovery or incident as well as the effects if this information if it ever went public. The line up of the MJ-12 committee members varied from document to document that I dug up. My conclusion was that there were different committee members depending on the date the document surfaced. One of the names that was consistent in most of the document rosters was Dr. Vannevar Bush, who himself and James V. Forrestal created the committee with the approval of President Truman. The other cast of characters consisted of U.S military generals, scientists, a Shell Oil executive and, on a few documents, Professor Albert Enstein and Warner von Brauns names came up as being associated with the project. A conference was held in September of 1947 to discuss approximately 1200 memorandums and intelligence's reports of UFO incidents. The conference consisted of National Security officials and leaders of private industry for the purpose of other world visitations. Points were made about the technological and economic standpoints of advanced life forms. They went as far as having concern for the division of celestial bodies and the distribution of ownership. The potential of anarchy and the peaceful arbitration of such cases arising. There was the notion of United Nations having to deal with the problems related to extraterrestrials, and how profound changes in traditional concepts on this planet would occur if intelligent life-forms were uncovered. There was also concern of how international law would deal with the occupation by celestial peoples at certain location on our planet. Military and other personnel involved with any of the operations had a "Need To Know" access with proper security clearance. One document stated that the Roswell security had gone well, but a few Military Police had suffered nervous breakdowns and one suicide. Some of the documents inform military officers on the political and psychological impact on personnel directly involved with recovery, transport, research and storage of any UFO/alien related materials, and how official appraisal and evaluations of the situations at said facilities are to be reported back on a regular basis. There was also an official procedure established for how civilians were debriefed and warned of consequences of talking to the press. And the secrecy established seems to almost be working. What was interesting was the mention of an information leak about the secret UFO recovery operation at Roswell and their concern that it had gotten to a Massachusetts representative named John F. Kennedy. There was a strict regulation to detain civilian witnesses for interrogation to satisfy intelligence requirements in the interests of national security. The government perspective and policy was and is control and denial. One of the documents stated that the objective was to control the public's mind - which was in actuality to control the press. The policy is to e
[CTRL] AP: Clinton Pardons McDougal, Cisneros
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010120/aponline103226_000.htm Clinton Pardons McDougal, Cisneros By John Solomon Associated Press Writer Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001; 10:32 a.m. EST WASHINGTON In one of his final acts, President Clinton on Saturday pardoned more than 100 Americans, including his former Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal and former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, officials said. The sources said Clinton also pardoned his brother, Roger Clinton, who had been convicted of a drug charge, as well as Hearst heiress Patty Hearst and former Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald. The list also was notable for the number of people it did not include. Among them, the sources said: Webster Hubbell, a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy analyst imprisoned for spying for Israel; one-time Wall Street financier Michael Milken; and Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents on an Indian reservation in 1975. McDougal's pardon came just one day after the Whitewater investigation was closed down under a deal in which Clinton gave up his law license and admitted make false testimony under oath in the Monica Lewinsky in return for prosecutor agreeing not to indict him. "She's absolutely delighted," said her lawyer, Mark Geragos. "She is speechless for once in her life. And I think it is especially poignant that it was one of the last acts of Bill Clinton's administration." McDougal went to prison rather than testify in the Whitewater investigation. Convicted at a 1996 trial where Clinton testified in her defense, McDougal remained an unabashed supporter of the president, appearing on national television in her orange prison jumpsuit to insist that Clinton never engaged in illegal loans or other improper conduct as prosecutors in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office sought to prove. Her former husband, failed Arkansas savings and loan operator James McDougal, also was convicted at the same trial but took a markedly different path. He chose to cooperate with Starr's office and implicated the Clintons in wrongdoing before his sudden death in prison. Susan McDougal never wavered, embarking on a campaign to portray Starr, a Republican, as politically motivated, on a "personal vendetta" to pursue the Clintons and disinterested in the truth. Starr and his staff repeatedly denied those allegations. She only served 3 months of a two-year prison term for her four felony convictions before a federal judge released her because of a back problem. But her freedom was short-lived. She defied a judge's order to answer Whitewater prosecutor's questions before a federal grand jury and was returned to jail for 18 months for civil contempt. Frustrated she still wasn't cooperating, Starr's office decided to prosecute McDougal for criminal contempt for obstructing the grand jury probe. The jury deadlocked, and prosecutors decided not to retry her. MacDonald, 72, the former leader of the Navajo Nation, has been in a Fort Worth, Texas, medical prison since his 1992 sentencing for his role in a Window Rock, Ariz., riot that resulted in the deaths of two of his supporters in 1989. MacDonald was removed from office for taking bribes and kickbacks. The two supporters were killed on July 20, 1989, by tribal police during a march to protest what they considered a coup against their leader. MacDonald, his health deteriorating, has been serving a 14-year sentence for inciting the deadly riot. At age 19, Hearst was kidnapped in the 1970s by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. She later served part of a prison sentence for a bank holdup in San Francisco before it was commuted by President Carter. She is married to her former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. Cisneros was Clinton's first housing secretary. He resigned in 1996 amid an investigation into allegations that he lied to the FBI about payments he made to a former mistress, Linda Medlar. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Since leaving office, Cisneros served as head of Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network. Last year, he returned to his native San Antonio to launch an organization to provide housing for low-income families. Roger Clinton, the president's brother, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He cooperated with authorities and testified against other drug defendants. He has since focused on an entertainment career. The president was best man at his brother's wedding back in the mid-1990s. Copyright 2001 The Associated Press = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[CTRL] It's good to be an elite: Here's why...
-Caveat Lector- ONLY the public should have the right to pardon. The elites use it to get away with theft and murder. Why should we allow this to continue? J2 = Clinton Pardons More Than 100 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010120/aponline104904_000.ht m By Sonya Ross Associated Press Writer Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001; 10:49 a.m. EST WASHINGTON In one of his final acts, President Clinton on Saturday pardoned more than 100 Americans, including former Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal, brother Roger Clinton and former CIA Director John Deutch, officials said. Deutch's pardon spares the one-time spy chief and top Pentagon official of facing criminal charges in connection with his mishandling of national secrets on a home computer. Clinton also pardoned a former Cabinet member, ex-Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, who was convicted in a controversy over payments to an ex-mistress. The president granted clemency to Patty Hearst, the 1970s kidnap victim who later went to prison in connection with a bank robbery, and former Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald. The list, released less than two hours before Clinton turned over the White House to President-elect Bush, was also notable for the number of people seeking pardons it did not include. Among them: Webster Hubbell, a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy analyst imprisoned for spying for Israel; one-time Wall Street financier Michael Milken; and Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents on an Indian reservation in 1975. McDougal's pardon came just one day after the Whitewater investigation was closed down under a deal in which Clinton gave up his law license and admitted make false testimony under oath in the Monica Lewinsky in return for prosecutor agreeing not to indict him. "She's absolutely delighted," said her lawyer, Mark Geragos. "She is speechless for once in her life. And I think it is especially poignant that it was one of the last acts of Bill Clinton's administration." McDougal went to prison rather than testify in the Whitewater investigation. Convicted at a 1996 trial where Clinton testified in her defense, McDougal remained an unabashed supporter of the president, appearing on national television in her orange prison jumpsuit to insist that Clinton never engaged in illegal loans or other improper conduct as prosecutors in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office sought to prove. Her former husband, failed Arkansas savings and loan operator James McDougal, also was convicted at the same trial but took a markedly different path. He chose to cooperate with Starr's office and implicated the Clintons in wrongdoing before his sudden death in prison. Susan McDougal never wavered, embarking on a campaign to portray Starr, a Republican, as politically motivated, on a "personal vendetta" to pursue the Clintons and disinterested in the truth. Starr and his staff repeatedly denied those allegations. She only served 3½ months of a two-year prison term for her four felony convictions before a federal judge released her because of a back problem. But her freedom was short-lived. She defied a judge's order to answer Whitewater prosecutor's questions before a federal grand jury and was returned to jail for 18 months for civil contempt. Frustrated she still wasn't cooperating, Starr's office decided to prosecute McDougal for criminal contempt for obstructing the grand jury probe. The jury deadlocked, and prosecutors decided not to retry her. Roger Clinton was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He cooperated with authorities and testified against other drug defendants. He has since focused on an entertainment career. The president was best man at his brother's wedding back in the mid-1990s. Deutch had been considering a deal with the Justice Department in which he would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of keeping classified data on his home computers. He got in trouble when CIA security officials discovered, as he was stepping down in 1996 as CIA chief, that he had written and stored highly classified intelligence reports on home computers linked to the Internet. Deutch publicly apologized. Pentagon officials later discovered Deutch had similar security lapses during his tenure as the No. 2 defense official.Deutch Cisneros was Clinton's first housing secretary. He resigned in 1996 amid an investigation into allegations that he lied to the FBI about payments he made to a former mistress, Linda Medlar. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Since leaving office, Cisneros served as head of Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network. Last year, he returned to his native San Antonio to launch an organization to provide housing f
[CTRL] Did Ashcroft "Look the Other Way" as Missouri Governor?
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10358 Did Ashcroft "Look the Other Way" as Missouri Governor? Daniel Forbes, Progressive Review January 19, 2001 John Ashcroft drapes himself in the mantle of "integrity." He used the word in reference to himself several times during his introduction by President-elect Bush as the Attorney General nominee. The repeated characterization fuels the oft-proclaimed notion that Sen. Ashcroft is a man of such moral rectitude that the nation can count on him to fully enforce all laws -- no matter his personal views. During the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, Sen. Ashcroft declared, raising his right hand for emphasis, that, "When I swear to uphold the law, I will keep my oath, so help me God." Yet, during Sen. Ashcroft's tenure as governor of Missouri, he blithely told two senior law enforcement officials he would ignore a serious matter of law, according to Don Burger, then an official with the US Department of Justice. Says Burger, two law enforcement officials said Gov. Ashcroft had told them he would "look the other way" should the police ignore a ruling about to emerge from the Missouri Supreme Court. The ruling, ultimately issued in November 1990, mid-way through Sen. Ashcroft's second term as governor, concerned a case brought by a local school board that argued that Missouri law enforcement must follow the state constitution and turn proceeds from asset forfeiture cases over to education rather than keep the money for themselves. Millions of dollars were at stake, money Missouri law enforcement agencies had used for years to buy everything from computers to radio systems to cars and guns. Now, with a ruling expected shortly, the cops were nervous that their well might run dry. But, according to Burger's recollection of statements by the two top cops, who spoke independently at different times during the meeting, police -- especially the highway patrol that reports to the governor's office -- need not fear interference from the same cabinet nominee who now pledges to rigorously and impartially enforce the nation's laws. Hosted by US Attorney Bradshaw, the meeting was attended by members of what was known informally as the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee, says Burger. Among the items on the agenda was a discussion of the "problem of state law," he says -- that is, the provision in Article IX, Section 7 of Missouri's constitution that requires "the clear proceeds of all penalties, forfeitures and fines collected hereafter for any breach of the penal laws of the state ... shall be distributed annually to the schools of the several counties according to law." Referring to the sheriff and the police chief, Burger told the Review, "Both men stated at different times during the meeting that -- based on their conversations with Governor Ashcroft -- the governor said he would 'look the other way' specifically regarding the [Missouri] Supreme Court's ruling and asset seizures going to education. That was the terminology used by both persons." Burger adds that he remembers both individuals using the specific "look the other way" terminology because, "It struck me as an unusual reference regarding the applicability of funds to be set aside for education." In fact, says Burger, the remarks were salient enough, that he later jotted down the Ashcroft quote in the margins of a Dept. of Justice report he was reading. The governor's statement, in Burger's opinion, indicated that Missouri law enforcement agencies would continue, despite any state supreme court ruling, to "use asset forfeiture to divert money to sheriff and police department projects." Bradshaw, now in private practice in Kansas City, recalls no such statements by any police officials at any meeting he attended. Mindy Tucker, a spokesperson for the Bush/Cheney transition team said that ignoring a court ruling "is not a position ever held by Gov. Ashcroft." She based her statement, she said, on conversations with "people familiar with his positions on this." But, consider the disclosure last May by Karen Dillon, who's written an award-winning two-year series in the Kansas City Star on asset forfeiture issues: "In 1990, just a few days after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that state forfeitures had to go to education in most cases, the US attorney for the Western District of Missouri wrote a letter to state and local law enforcement agencies. 'I know that all of you in law enforcement are in desperate need for additional financial resources,' wrote Jean Paul Bradshaw. He explained that police could bring seizures to a federal agency even if the agency had no involvement in the case. 'As most of you know, the money we share through our forfeiture program goes [directly] to the state or local law enforecment agency,' he wrote." The fruits of Ashcroft's alleged winking and Bradshaw's exhortation were harvested richly. There have been subsequent attempts in 1992, 1993, and last year in the Missour
[CTRL] Reports Say US, Britain, Israel Making Preparations For War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general7/prep.htm Reports Say US, Britain, Israel Making Preparations For War By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21384 1-18-01 U.S. military forces in Europe, which are currently at threat condition "Bravo," are set to be upgraded to condition "Charlie" by Jan. 20, while other elements of U.S. European theater forces -- as well as British special forces troops -- may be headed to Israel "within a few weeks," sources have told WorldNetDaily. According to a host of reports from various European and Middle East military sources, all of whom requested anonymity for security reasons, European Command, or EUCOM, forces last week were placed on alert status "Bravo" -- with "Alpha" being the lowest and "Delta" being the highest -- "across the board," which included all U.S. forces stationed in the European theater -- Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Bosnia and elsewhere. Other sources said the alert status would be upgraded to "Charlie" -- the second highest level -- at "2400 hours European time, Jan. 20," the day President-elect George W. Bush is to be sworn into office, due to developments taking shape in the Middle East. Another source said the U.S. V Corps -- which includes the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division and the 1st Infantry Division, plus supporting artillery, engineer, medical and supply units -- "are moving en masse to Grafenwoehr" -- a sprawling training center near Nuremberg -- and that Patriot missile batteries may be moved to Israel. A spokesman for the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Dave LaPan, confirmed that EUCOM's alert status was upgraded to "Bravo" last week, noting that "they go up and down all the time." Another U.S. Army spokesman said he was "unaware of any pending change to the threat conditions in the United States European Command." While he said he had "no specific knowledge" of the troop movements, he added, "I can tell you that we frequently train at Grafenwoehr. It would not be at all unusual for [those units] to move there." When asked if the Pentagon planned such training exercises -- which typically cost millions of dollars -- well in advance, the spokesman said, "Yes, yes, way in advance." But, after some hesitation, he added, "As far as I know, there would be no relation between" the movement of those forces "and any raise or elevation of the threat condition." "I'm unaware of the things that you're talking about in advance," he said. When asked if WND could quote him as saying the particular exercise at Grafenwoehr had been planned in advance, he replied, "I wouldn't say that, because I don't know that there is an exercise going on." According to EUCOM, there is no record of a major January 2001 exercise involving the numbers of troops that comprise the U.S. Army's V Corps. But, sources told WND, the divisions reportedly being deployed to Grafenwoehr are "taking with them more than just enough stuff for a weekender. They're taking contamination outfits, protection gear, all of it -- lock, stock and barrel." Also, sources said, "the 69th Air Defense Brigade" -- a two battalion Patriot missile brigade -- "is going through the process of deploying overseas, meaning leaving Europe, and they're going to Israel." One source said U.S.
[CTRL] "Deep ecology" encompasses the Universe
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01-01-20 18:36:32 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << UFOs aren't even ecology, much less deep ecology. Deep ecology has to do with seeing the world from the point of view of ALL of creation, rather than from only the human point of view. >> = Now that's an anthropocentric opinion! Consider this, more UNIVERSAL statement, delivered at the 2000 Presidential Forum, Santa Clara, CA, October 2000. http://www.exopolitics.com/cuenews1.html "CUE: ECO-CRISIS LAUNCHES NEW ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN" Copyright EcoNews Service 2000 Vancouver, BC VANCOUVER, BC - What do Extraterrestrials and the expanding hole in the Earth's ozone layer have in common? "A great deal," says Vancouver-based environmentalist Alfred Webre. "The Extraterrestrial Presence may hold the key to our ecological crisis. That's why we have launched CUE, a new Campaign for Universe-based Ecology, as a vehicle to increase awareness of Extraterrestrial assistance for our environment." CUE, is now housed on the Internet at www.EcologyNews.com. Individuals and organizations are welcome to visit there. Participants are invited to promote a Universe-based ecology in various ways, including seeking open public hearings on Extraterrestrial and environmental policy. Public disclosure of possible extraterrestrial presence may be absolutely necessary to our ecological survival, according to CUE. "The Extraterrestrial presence may be a vital component of our saving the ecology of Earth. They may be here to assist us beyond petroleum-nuclear into cosmic free energy sources; beyond our planetary regime of war, disease, crime and poverty into a Universe-based future," says Webre. CUE considers that Earth's ecology may be the true goal of extraterrestrial disclosure. "We can base our awareness of the environment-extraterrestrial connection on several factors," claims Webre. "One is that transcripts of authentic, non-abducted Extraterrestrial contactees tell us that Earth's ecological crisis is a prime concern. Exopolitics - politics in the Universe - also tells us that the Universe is highly organized and advanced. Universe society's intervention to correct an ecological imbalance is consistent with how Earth may fit in to Universe society. Many reported negative "abduction experiences" may in fact be the product of psychological warfare operations in an information war by covert para-military organizations against the Extraterrestrial Presence." Extraterrestrial Disclosure Webre is an environmental lawyer and former General Counsel to New York's Environmental Protection Administration. He spoke as a featured speaker at a recent X-PPAC Presidential Politics Town Hall panel held at California's Santa Clara Convention Center. Steve Bassett heads the Washington, DC-based Extraterrestrial Political Action Committee which sponsored the Town Hall to promote government disclosure of a possible extraterrestrial presence on Earth. A 1996 Gallup poll found that 45% of adult Americans, or approximately 100 million persons believe that extraterrestrial civilizations visit Earth. By contrast, the Federal Election Commission determined that 96 million adult Americans voted in the 1996 US Presidential election. 1977 Carter White House Study Webre is no stranger to examining extraterrestrial policy. His 1974 context communication theory of extraterrestrial intervention led to a 1977 Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication study, which he directed as a futurist at Stanford Research Institute. Had the Carter White House study not been terminated by direct intervention of Pentagon officials, we would now have been living under nearly a quarter century of extraterrestrial disclosure. "If there is an Extraterrestrial presence in Earth's dimension, why here and now?" Webre asks. "Perhaps that Extraterrestrial intelligence is impelled to assist us out of our petroleum-nuclear planetary coffin." Ecological Catastrophe "Our petroleum-nuclear civilization has made toxic our oceans, atmosphere, and landmasses," Webre continues. "The hole in the ozone layer has now expanded from Antarctica to hover over a city in southernmost Chile, expanding the threat of human skin cancer and the disappearance of food-chain vegetation." "Global warming and greenhouse gases, caused by our petroleum-nuclear civilization (as well as by solar and galactic activity), threaten Earth's species, habitats, and basic ecology," Webre notes. "Already, our polar ice cap is melting." "Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere are being dangerously affected by global electromagnetic weapons and mind control systems such as HAARP and other monstrosities," Webre states. "Electromagnetic weapons affect the human brain's limbic system, and can trigger earth changes by altering the magnetosphere and tectonic plate systems." According to Webre, Extraterr
[CTRL] Flyby News: Space War & Leonard Peltier
-Caveat Lector- Post Cassini Flyby News Editor - Jonathan Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.O. Box 1999 Wendell Depot, MA 01380 USA Re: http://www.bartjordan.com 20 January 2001 Peltier Denied Freedom President Clinton, in his farewell address said, "..As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead." Even though the word "lie" stood out, one could only hope that what he was saying will become true. For this to happen it would require a total transformation in the military-industrial-academic complex with a truly fair justice system for a prosperity, health and peace for humankind and our natural environment. Yet the denial of Leonard's freedom, in the wake of documented evidences of overt FBI misconduct, showed the reality of the ruthless power dominating world affairs and our government. Peltier's Clemency denial does not bid well for justice, human rights and the peace in space issue. The new administration is proposing a policy for the U.S. to dominate space, which would lead to an acceleration of the arms race, which leads to more terrorism, leading to more elimination of our civil rights and liberties, that leads to more terrorism, internal instability, more wars and a more probable collapse of the human and many other species of life. Our environment has a limited capacity for abuse. A political solution to help end the continued injustices to Leonard Peltier and help prevent a downward sprial with missile defense, is in the hands of our supposed representatives in Congress. This may be our last resort in stopping the terror confronting everyone. Congressional Hearings on the case of Leonard Peltier would expose FBI misconduct, an illegal land transfer, a corrupt Indian Council group, armed by the FBI, and more than sixty murders remaining uninvestigated during the Reign of Terror. Leonard Peltier was on the Pine Ridge Reservation to protect families for their lives and for Mother Earth. He remains in prison for this same purpose. It seems apparent that when President Clinton made his deal with the independent investigators about being less than honest in court regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, other nondisclosed issues were tide-up in the same package, including the sad fate of human rights activist, Leonard Peltier. Perhaps, what was at stake for President Clinton in fighting the FBI, or whoever they represent, was too much to take a stand to grant Clemency. This choice of self interest will place Leonard Peltier in prison for a quarter of a Century this February 6. To keep best informed on the ongoing struggle subscribe for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee's email updates by sending a blank message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . Leonard Peltier's book, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, is available from bookstores, libraries and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committe - http://www.freepeltier.org ** An excerpt from President Clinton's final address 1/1801 ".. we must remember that America cannot lead in the world unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the fabric of one America. As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder to unite around our common values and our common humanity. We must work harder to overcome our differences. In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation and regardless of when they arrived in our country, always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address in 1961. "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so
Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- Ashcroft would have beaten Carnahanhowever, the unfortunate plane crash the pilot took off in very bad weather.and like little John John, he evidently was not so experienced. However when Carnahan went down, of course Mrs. Carnahan would be the ultimate winnerlike little Sonny Bono and his lovely wife - who spoke of Sonny's drug problems and I presume she went along with it - always thought it strange that he shot ahead of her and it seemed they may have had an argument. Then we had Michael Kennedy? That set of course - all into drugs So the widows took the seatsFeinsein in California got in when the Mayor and Ryan was killed and of course, Ryan was little Pattie Hearst's congressman. Oh how they play the role when someone is murdered - and Sonny Bono's funeral was typical show time rather ike the performance they gave at Littleton with Clinton and Gore - both those guys are good at funerals. So I had a great uncle who died on Court House steps, and his name was taken off the ballot but the people in Seneca County voted dead man into office by writing his name in - he was called "honest George"..old time democrats. That California bunch - oh so brilliant - now their lights are going off because evidently they are so stupid they did not feel it necessary to provide for services and to be sure the needs of the people are met - they were too busy trying to disarm the public and push sodomy off on the kids. Pretty soon we will have a lot of widows sitting around - Hilliary and Bill are probably measuring each other by now too. What about death of John Tower, Payne Stewart, 4 dead men flying across American and Clinton for some reason was ready to shoot down the plane? Did somebody know something? Vince Foster - with secret bank accounts? Such nice people as Larry Flynt and Carville and Oliver Stone who was picked up on Hash charge? And Heinz was killed in crash - some of these pickup trucks used to run people off road..then we have Manson family members set loose and from within his prison walls, Manson and Jimmy Carter's nephew became good friends - until Manson got mad at him and said he would get Ms. Lilliam murdered? Every wonder how John Gotti could put a million dollar contnract on OJ simpson from prisonor whether his little boy was murdered in very strange accident and look at Waco, and tell me Clinton and Reno as now butchers and never forget Ruby Ridge - boy they sured loved to murder little kids. Clinton is no democrat.neither is Al Gore. As for George Bush, of the true aristocracy - have a feeling this genleman C will now get this country back to normal and the scenario will change..think people want their kids around lesbians and homosexuals - or Jessie Jackson and his followers with Al Sharpton running this country. Yes I sometimes think there is and was a conspiracy and part of it was leaving the White House today. Dirty mafia money and a lot is channeled through these "foundations"now buying up America - for you see that money was all tax free So conspiracy? Yes, I believe so - but Carnahan, to tell the truth people really don't give a damn anymore..democrats were virtually assured a seat with Mrs. Carnahan, the widow in the wings waiting - worked for Sonny Bono ... Wonder why Payne Stewart had to die? Well he beat out Tiger Woods and you know golf is almost a joke now - I saw Tiger play twice, he came in 60th place the first time yet his henchmen were here paying off news media to plug him and he had real pros pushing him. And how many golfers I have heard say "oh, to think I beat the great Tiger Woods"...supposed now gol will become like basketball and wrestlingthrowing golf clubs, and you know the routine.once Eisenhower said he hoped golf would always be a gentleman's game. I can still see Tiger sitting in back of room while Payne Stewart's famly sat in front during the funeraland wouldn't you know, Clinton hurt his "hamstring" down there at Greg Normans always wondered about that - but one thing I know for sure, that which is crooked cannot be made straight - think that old biblical term. No such thing as an accident some say.Carnahan was Irish but there is more background in that race, than has been revealed. I am going on the widow theory...some people love to cry and get on TV at funerals.i.e. Littleton, for there it was really Show Time folks. Just my opinion..I often wondered bout Adlai Stevenson for he died at high noon outside a restaurant - with CIA dirty tricks head's wife at his side CIA has always been controlled by the wasps and it seems they are letting the bastards in befoe the 5th generation now. Anyone who wants to follow Jesse Jackson and the likes of an Al Sharpton - well okay by me, but if that ever happened - this time the South would win for sure. Saba Always liked the gentleman C's. http://www.ctrl.org/">
[CTRL] Fwd: ROSS OFFICIALLY JOINS ISRAELI LOBBY
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\© WEEKEND READING http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, & Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] WASHINGTON SCENE: ROSS OFFICIALLY JOINS ISRAELI LOBBY THINK-TANK WHICH IMMEDIATELY ISSUES MAJOR REPORT They put him there and now they hire him with a big pay raise "Work with key Arab moderates (especially Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Morocco) to encourage acts of public and private leadership in support of the peace process." MID-EAST REALITIES © - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 1/19: During the Lebanon War of 1982 -- some think of it as Sharon's war -- the Israelis and their American Jewish friends felt they had a difficult time when it came to public relations. And when the American Marines pulled out, symbolizing the failure of the Israelis to force Lebanon into the American-Israeli orbit and out of the Syrian-Arab one, the Israelis realized that they had much power in Washington on Capitol Hill, but not enough power with the media, intellectuals, and think-tanks. Hence was born the new think-tank to become known as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy -- the lobby's own think-tank. Over the years the Israelis and their American Jewish friends have spent much time and effort building up the Washington Institute as well as positioning their people in key positions, both in and out of government. A few examples: Wolf Blitzer, former editor of the lobby's newsletter, Near East Report, became Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and then, with much help from "the lobby", was promoted to his current still expanding role at CNN. Martin Indyk, former Executive Director of the Washington Institute, was detailed to the Clinton campaign in Little Rock; and then when Clinton was elected Indyk was quickly made an American citizen and "the lobby" got Clinton to essentially put him in charge of Middle East negotiations (first in the National Security Council, then as Assistant Secretary of State, and then Ambassador to Israel). Dennis Ross is another of those whose careers have been guided by "the lobby"; and when he was put in charge of Middle East negotiations Ross hired a group of loyal (or is it "dually loyal") American Jews to make up the "negotiating team" -- all approved by "the lobby" of course. Over the years the Washington Institute has become a force in Washington with the media similar to how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), essentially its parent, is on Capitol Hill. Amazingly, many of the Arab ambassadors and journalists have cooperated with the Institute in helping it achieve this role -- but that's another major story in itself. So, even before he leaves his role in Government overseeing the "peace process" as an American Ambassador working on behalf of the Israelis as well as the U.S., Dennis Ross has officially signed up with the Washington Institute. Others from the American negotiating team will probably do the same; and who knows maybe Indyk will be coming back as well. Meanwhile, "the lobby" doesn't waste time. Bush is not even President yet and the Washington Institute has already issued a major "Presidential Study Group" report designed to guide, and pressure, the new Administration. Read on. There's a lot of information here (hence we saved it all for "MER Weekend Reading") but the insights into how "the lobby" thinks and what to expect from the US in the months ahead are worthwhile. U.S. MEDIATOR PUTS OF MIDEAST TRIP WASHINGTON (AP - The Guardian - Tuesday, 16 January) - With the outlook bleak for concluding a peace accord, U.S. mediator Dennis B. Ross on Tuesday put on indefinite hold a scheduled trip to the Middle East where he had planned to confer with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. With only five days left in his term, President Clinton's hopes for a settlement approached the vanishing point. And Ross' long career as a Mideast mediator could end without a final burst of diplomacy in the region. Ross will joint the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a private research group, its top officers, Fred Lafer and Michael Stein, announced Tuesday. Simultaneously, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Ross was ``not going to make the trip we thought he would make.'' But, Boucher said, ``we are not giving up in our efforts.'' Ross, who held the post under Secretaries of State James A. Baker III, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, said late last y
[CTRL] Fwd: CBS News Reveals Microwave Weather Control Experiments - Pt 2
Well this information is so old it is outdated - they even have artificial lightning now but look to Florida and the hurricane seasons, etc. Now that this is coming out, maybe things will not be so dangerous for the public many of whom have been killed and lost homes for 30 years? This information - I had in 1986 from sources plus Colonel Beardon out of Huntsville, ALA had information on it.woodpecker signals - so hope you all remember the day MIR was up there and they woke up the "scientitsts" and/astronauts to the Woody Woodpecker songthese are Russian signals. US Patent office has printed material on this, which War Department attempted to stop. Red Chinese report information on their news medias but not in America.why? Too many hungry lawyers waiting to sue baby sue. FEMA - note they come in right away to offer money - but have you noticed how many insurance companies have gone busto or insurance rates going up? Farms lost, they burn with drought and then the deluge comes? It is about warming up Russia and the UN resolution insists these poor third world countries not share in the expense of this program..we will pay to destroy ourselves? So Green House Theory is a bunch of crap; George Bush in 80 period tried to tell the public this, but nobody caught his message . Do know this when this program used to go into force, ship to shore and planes lost communication..was a spot years in Mexico where people complained their car motors would turn off...but what I love - nuclear reactors at North and South Poles.the source of clear, pure water.. Saba Rense.com CBS News Reveals Microwave Weather Control Experiments - Pt 2 By Margareta-Erminia Cassani www.moonbowmedia.com 1-16-01 In the second of CBS' Special Reports series "Eye on America", correspondent Jerry Bowen reported on the joint interest of The U.S. Department of Defense, Sandia Research, and The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in weather control experiments - namely those championed by Dr. Bernard Eastlund, a former Star Wars physicist who claims he can dismantle a raging tornado with a microwave beam shot from an orbiting satellite in outer space. >From his home in sunny Del Mar, California, a place that's never had a tornado occur there, Eastlund explained how by directing a microwave beam into the cold downdraft of a tornado, he could dissipate the funnel and render it harmless, thereby saving thousands of lives and property. Sounds great on paper, or rather on computer generated model, but Eastlund's theory has several drawbacks, the most immediate being that of potential air traffic catastrophes of both the animal and human kind - birds and airplanes could explode in mid-flight if hit by a microwave beam. Dr. Stephen Schneider, a global warming expert at Stanford University offered a strong warning for FEMA and Sandia Research, as well as both the European Space Agency, who funds Eastlund's on the edge research, and NASA, if they're going to continue to pursue microwaving Mother Nature: "You better have a fund in place to pay the people who get hurt when anything goes wrong, without arguing whether you did it or not because you'll endlessly argue whether you did it or not". Another critic of Eastlund's theory is scientist John Monteverdi of San Francisco State University who claims that Eastlund's unproven and untested theories might work okay in computer models but in reality he's crossing into dangerous waters and that his tornado nuking experiments might just make tornadoes worse. "We just don't know enough about the workings of these supercells to start fooling around with them". But, Eastlund defends his "brain storm" idea of shooting a microwave beam into a tornado as nothing more than a "souped up police radar beam". MainPage http://www.rense.com This Site Served by TheHostPros http://www.rense.com/general7/exp.htm
[CTRL] Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- Since this is a conspiracy group, I'm rather surprised no one has raised any questions about the unfortunate fatal accident suffered by Carnahan. Especially an air accident so close to an election. sno0wl http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Fw: CONGRESS ACTION: January 21, 2001
-Original Message-From: Kim Weissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Date: Saturday, January 20, 2001 11:48 AMSubject: CONGRESS ACTION: January 21, 2001 CONGRESS ACTION: January 21, 2001 = TAXPAYER FUNDED ATTACKS: According to the New York Times, "a broad coalition of liberal public policy organizations" (the London Times counted "more than 200 groups") are engaged in scurrilous attacks on the character of John Ashcroft. Being liberals, they of course deem themselves so much smarter than you, and so deem themselves entitled to use your money -- confiscated from you as taxes by the federal government -- however they see fit, regardless of what you, the taxpayer (who, even though you are so stupid, managed to create the wealth that they, despite all their brilliance, couldn't manage to create by themselves) thinks is appropriate. The following quotes are from just a few of the groups in the anti-Ashcroft jihad. Following the quotes are the total tax dollars received by each group in just the past 4 years, according to a study done by the Capital Research Center of data from the Federal Assistance Awards Data System (FAADS) of the U.S. Census Bureau. Feminist Majority: "His utter lack of understanding of freedom of political speech and the right to take political action to achieve social justice exemplifies a track record where his right-wing ideology prevails over his legal judgment." Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $115,440. NAACP: "It is outrageously disingenuous for President-elect George Bush to say he intends to reach out to all Americans and then nominate Ashcroft, a man who has an anti-civil rights record, to hold the nation's highest law enforcement position." Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $1,153,928. National Organization for Women (NOW): "Both Ashcroft and Thompson would turn over tax money -- including public education funds -- to religious institutions' programs, without adequate protection against proselytizing and discrimination. … The majority of voters in this country, especially women voters, reject the agenda of religious and political extremists. " Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $1,168,252. Physicians for Social Responsibility: Ashcroft's "…slavish devotion to the National Rifle Association - including personally recording ads for the NRA endorsing a doomed law that would have granted child molesters and stalkers the right to carry concealed weapons - is what particularly concerns Physicians for Social Responsibility…. Ashcroft's commitment to ensuring freedom for weapons was a major factor in his departure from the Senate and underscores the growing tide of opinion against the NRA." Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $15,000. Planned Parenthood: "…reject the nomination of anti-choice extremist former Senator John Ashcroft. … As attorney general, Ashcroft would rob us and our children and grandchildren of Americans' most fundamental right to privacy…". Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $57,214,090. Sierra Club: "Ashcroft has an exceedingly poor environmental voting record and is openly hostile to most environmental laws. … Ashcroft also opposes campaign finance reform. … Former Senator John Ashcroft has an extreme anti-environmental record, and as Attorney General could allow utilities, big oil and others to ignore environmental laws. He is a partisan, divisive choice for a job that should be neither, and should not be confirmed." Taxpayer money received in the last 4 years: $12,171. Aren't you glad that you are paying taxes for this? Taxes which, let us not forget, have generated budget surpluses into the hundreds of billions of dollars. Surpluses which, according to left-wing extremist groups and politicians, the government simply cannot afford to give back to you in the form of tax cuts, because they need every last dollar of it -- to help fund the scurrilous character assassination of conservatives. And as the quote from NARAL makes clear, they're going to spend "whatever it takes" -- of your money -- to pursue those attacks. Nobody seeks to in any way stifle the First Amendment free speech rights of those extremist groups. Not like they are trying to stifle John Ashcroft's First Amendment right to the free exercise of his religion. But it would be nice (even though entirely out of character, if such a word may be used in connection with those groups) if those groups had the common decency, and a modicum of respect for taxpayers, to use their own money and money contributed to them voluntarily by their members, rather than using the forced extractions of money from taxpayers who may not agree with their extremist ideology. But, it is countered, nobody is seeking to deny Ashcroft his right to the free exercise of his religion, just to deny him federal resources to do so. Aren't conservatives advocating exactly that
[CTRL] What goes around, goes around. 2
-Caveat Lector- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 2001 CHANGING OF THE GUARD http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=!380 Chao has ties to Lippo Group Sits on board of insurer that co-owns subsidiary with Chinese government By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- A review of financial assets held over the past six years by Elaine L. Chao and her husband, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, reveals that the Labor secretary-designate serves as director of an insurance company that jointly owns a Lippo Group subsidiary with the Chinese government. Indonesia-based Lippo is controlled by the Riady family and is at the center of the Chinagate fund-raising scandal. Lippo chief executive James T. Riady has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of defrauding the U.S. government. Prosecutors say he funneled foreign donations to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and other politicians. Lippo's man in the U.S., John Huang, was convicted of campaign fraud in 1999. Senate financial-disclosure records show that, over the past four years, Chao has held a seat on the board of Protective Life Corp., which owns 50 percent of CRC Protective Life Insurance. Lippo co-owns the rest of the Hong Kong-based unit with China Resources Holdings Co., an intelligence-gathering front company for China's People's Liberation Army. Chao owns more than 7,000 shares of Birmingham, Ala.-based Protective Life Corp., public securities records show. The $1.4 billion-in-sales insurer sought out the joint venture in 1994, with the goal of underwriting policies in southern China. To "solidify" the deal, a company director, William B. Blount, wrote Vice President Al Gore a letter seeking the administration's support. The company also lobbied Commerce Department officials for their support. Gore, in turn, sent a letter to Riady, congratulating him on the partnership. And Huang, then a Commerce official with a glaring conflict, nonetheless helped put the venture on the list of federally backed projects. Meanwhile, Protective Life gave $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee. The Chinese government subsequently took a stake in the venture. Critics of Chao's nomination worry that her ties to Chinese business interests present a conflict. Her China-born father, James S.C. Chao, has a cozy relationship with Beijing's Communist Party leader, and owns a shipping company that does business with the Chinese government. "I worry about Elaine Chao's business relationship with communist China," Chinese dissident Hongda "Harry" Wu told WorldNetDaily. As a Cabinet member, Chao would have top-level clearance to U.S. trade and military secrets. Sequestered from the press until after her confirmation hearings, she was not available for comment. The Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee has not yet set a date for hearings. GOP Sen. James Jeffords and Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy head the panel. Chao's Lippo ties don't end there. Her husband, McConnell, has received steady campaign contributions during his years in the Senate from Lippo partner American International Group Inc., and its chairman, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Last year, the New York-based insurer bought 5 percent of Lippo Life and 70 percent of its unit, PT Asuransi Jiwa Lippo Utama, for about $200 million. AIG also has business ventures in China, recently opening its fourth office on the mainland. In fact, $40 billion-in-sales AIG was the first foreign company allowed to sell insurance in China. Besides thousands in donations, McConnell also got $2,000 from AIG for a 1995 speech he gave in New York, his financial records show, though he says he gave it to charity. McConnell hasn't been shy about supporting AIG. He rushed to its side in 1987, for example, to spare it from having to pay claims on the policy it underwrote on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The bugged building had to be rebuilt. And he is China's biggest Republican booster in the Senate, fighting to liberalize trade with Beijing, which is one of Greenberg's hobby horses. Greenberg, former chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council, has lobbied hard -- and successfully -- to sever the link between China's human-rights and missile-proliferation records and its most-favored-nation trade status. (He was, incidentally, one of President Clinton's candidates in 1995 to be CIA director.) AIG's international advisory board is headed by Henry A. Kissinger, the leading pro-China lobbyist in Washington. Greenberg, a Heritage Foundation donor, was so forceful in his efforts to secure permanent trade benefits for China that he threatened to cut off funding to the conservative think tank if it didn't tone down its concerns about China's growing military threat. Chao, also an outspoken China trade booster, is Heritage's top Asian studies adviser and a distinguished fellow. The Huang connection Chao and former Lippo executive Huang are no strangers. In 1993, when Chao was taking over as United Way pre
Re: [CTRL] 54 Socialists in the United States Congress
-Caveat Lector- "Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote: > > -Caveat Lector- > > In a message dated 01/18/2001 12:40:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot > survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for > he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst > those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the > alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor > appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he > wears their face and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies > deep in the heart's of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works > secretly and unknownest in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he > infects the body politic, so that, it, can no longer resist. A murderer is > less to fear. The traitor is the plague." >> > > As I said a long time ago--just substitute the word lobbyist for the word > traitor, and you are describing our real problem. Prudy I would improve on that by suggesting " Elite " as a substitute for traitor, and you could pick an example anywhere, and anytime in history. J2 http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Capitalism - It's a beautiful thing to watch freemarkets dowhat they do best.
-Caveat Lector- "M.A. Johnson" wrote: > > -Caveat Lector- > > At 09:41 PM 1/19/01 -0500, you wrote: > >-Caveat Lector- > > > > > >"Why is California short on Electricity ? > > You should TRULY learn the fucking difference between > PRIVATE and GOVERNMENT. > You should TRULY learn to live in the real world. Your ideology is ridiculous and so are you. This crisis got out of hand because of deregulation. It was deregulated because businessmen run the politicians. The results are PRIMARILY because the producers are either causing or exacerbating the ' shortage.' That's what happens when you let businessmen control prices. There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER, why anything as vital as electric power should be bought and sold on the " free market " as if it were a commodity like shoes. > California's Enemy: The State > by Thomas J. DiLorenzo > > California is a beautiful state with a (mostly) mild, > sunny climate, which is one reason why so many people > live there. But who would want to move there, it is > often asked, if one had to endure chronic water > shortages, earthquakes and now, "rolling > blackouts?" These events are typically blamed on either > Mother Nature or the free market, but in reality they are > either caused or exacerbated by government regulation. Possibly. But these conditions DIDN'T EXIST when electricity was highly regulated by the state. > > California's politicians have been quick to blame > the current electricity "shortages" on "deregulation" > when in fact the opposite is true: Although wholesale > electricity prices have been deregulated, retail prices > have not, and regulation has all but prohibited the > building of additional electricity supply capacity. Only certain kinds of capacity. The polluting kinds which are most profitable for producers and whose external costs are borne by the state and its population. This is the free market no one will tolerate anymore. > > The population has doubled in the past ten years, which > has caused about a one-third increase in electricity > demand, whereas supply has remained stagnant thanks > to the environmentalist extremists in the state > government. These neo-luddites have blocked nuclear > power plant construction; they have vetoed the building > of additional dams for hyrdoelectric power (lest some > aquatic creepy crawlers be disturbed); and are nearly > apoplectic in their opposition to coal- or natural > gas-fired electric power plants. Excellent! I guess they'll have to try something else won't they? > > Ballooning demand, restricted supply, and price > controls are a perfect recipe for shortages. Complete > deregulation of the electric power industry is the only > way to resolve this problem, Yeah, yeah. That's the solution. That's like telling a snakebite victim that only getting bitten a few more times will save him. How twisted does a true believer have to be to make a proclamation like that and believe it. This guy is pathetic. > although California's > governor is currently proposing the worst of all > worlds: a Soviet-style government takeover of > the state's electric power industry. And this case will be a practical lesson for the rest of the country. VITAL NECESSITIES DON'T BELONG IN THE ' FREE MARKET ' ! They should be controlled by people who DON'T personally benefit from rising prices. The consumers. > > California's periodic water "crisis" is another > unnatural disaster caused by government regulation. Not exactly. The crisis exists because there are too many people living where they don't belong. The desert has become overpopulated with people who want to reproduce the wetter climes they come from. Golf courses, lawns, car washes, and corporate monoculture don't belong in a desert. > The big problem is that most of the water in the state > has been regulated for decades by the Federal Bureau > of Reclamation, which heavily subsidizes the irrigation > which delivers water from the northern part of the > state to the bone-dry southern part. (Seventy-five > percent of the water comes from the north, whereas > 75 percent of the population is in the southern half > of the state). So far so good. > > Some 85 percent of the water is used for agriculture > and is sold at government-imposed, below-market > prices. Some farmers pay as little as $3.50 per > acre foot for water that costs $100 per acre foot > just to pump through the government-run irrigation > system. Corporate welfare. > At these prices it is "economical" to grow > cotton and rice in the desert, even though the > Mississippi Delta and the rice paddies of Vietnam > are more natural habitats for these crops. > California grows prodigious amounts of both. Very good. > > Government-subsidized water use for one purpose > alone -- irrigating pastures for grazing sheep -- exceeds > the water used for all other purposes in California, > residential and industrial. In
[CTRL] US Has Its Own Record of Atrocities
-Caveat Lector- Published on Saturday, December 23, 2000 in the Boston Globe US Has Its Own Record of Atrocities by James Ron and Charles T. Call DURING SERBIA'S FORCED depopulation of Kosovo in 1999, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavian president, acknowledged that irregular Serbian forces were committing excesses while fighting Kosovar insurgents. He claimed, however, that these were mild when compared with US war crimes in Vietnam. Slobodan Milosevic was a deceptive autocrat responsible for the deaths of thousands, but he had a point. Compared with the US record in Vietnam, Serbia's Kosovo atrocities were far fewer. Remember My Lai? In just a few hours, Lieutenant William Calley's men shot or knifed more than 400 men, women, and children, raping and mutilating some victims. Even that chilling episode, however, pales alongside US tactics in the Vietnamese and Cambodian countryside, where high explosives, napalm, and defoliant were the methods of choice. Serbian forces killed some 10,000 Kosovars, but in Southeast Asia the United States and its allies slew 1 million, many of whom were civilians. More than twice that number were wounded or forcibly displaced. Direct US involvement in war crimes continued even after the Vietnam conflict. CIA operatives mined Nicaragua's main harbor in the 1980s, and until the 1990s, US Army courses for Latin American soldiers included torture. In the early 1990s, CIA agents created a right-wing group in Haiti that killed hundreds of civilians. Although most Americans barely recall those events, others elsewhere have not forgotten. For them, the contemporary US fascination with human rights seems empty and cynical. If the United States does not investigate its past misdeeds, these suspicions will ring true. In addition to directly participating in abuses, the United States also covertly aided brutal authoritarians abroad. Just as Milosevic pulled the strings during Bosnia's ethnic cleansing, the United States secretly sponsored cruel allies to advance political goals. Consider Chile, where CIA operatives helped overrow an elected leftist leader in the early 1970s, creating the long nightmare of Pinochet's rule. The Chilean judiciary is now investigating Pinochet's crimes, but the CIA is only reluctantly opening its files. Or recall Iran, where US operatives in the 1950s helped depose an elected government that was threatening Western oil profits. They then installed the Shah, a dictator who relied on torture to maintain control. The same is true for Guatemala, where UN-backed investigators found that government counterinsurgency forces killed 90 percent of an estimated 200,000 civil war victims. President Clinton recently called the substantial, clandestine US role in that war wrong, but did nothing to investigate those responsible. The US government offered widely accepted reasons for its behavior during the Cold War years. It was fighting global communism, which to many seemed a noble and worthwhile goal. Yet wouldn't men like Milosevic supply similarly reasonable explanations? Governments are skilled at justifying abusive policies, citing overwhelming threats to national security. Milosevic defended the Serbian nation, Pinochet battled subversives, and South African whites were fighting communism. Although the rhetoric of justification shifts with time, the realities of abuse remain constant. When states use indiscriminate force to get their way, innocents usually suffer. In the post-Cold War environment there is increasing cause for optimism. Many countries, including Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Ethiopia, Chad, El Salvador, Chile, Haiti, and Guatemala, have tried to expose the truth about their past, often at great political cost. Yet the United States still refuses to practice what it preaches. As supreme Cold War victor, its representatives lecture others about human rights without stopping to consider their own past crimes. For both moral and political reasons, the United States should create a commission to investigate its own involvement in Cold War misdeeds. The methods of an official US ''truth commission'' should be professional and nonpartisan in order to avoid narrow political agendas. Despite these precautions, a US inquiry would be painful and divisive. Presidential fortunes might suffer, and congressional careers could be hurt. Yet recall that these are only some of the powerful risks run every day by politicians promoting truth-telling elsewhere, from South Africa to Argentina. How long can the United States promote accountability for others if it itself is unwilling to do the same? James Ron is assistant professor of sociology and political science at Johns Hopkins University. Charles T. Call is assistant professor for research at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. © Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company http://www.c
Re: [CTRL] Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way
Translating the "mumbo-jumbo" and "hocus-pocus", this would seem to describe a technique for creating holograms using a super-cooled gas medium instead of a traditional static chemical (photographic) emulsion as the storage medium...3D projection television, anyone? Interestingly, it might also describe a workable technique for im- plementing quantum teleportation of physical matter ( see the attached URL about "Schroedinger's Eskimo".) Regards, William Harry Tenorlove wrote: > > -Caveat Lector- > > Forwarded without comment. > > Tenorlove > > ~` > > > http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/science/18LIGH.html?Partner=AltaVista > > &RefId=_WLmY_WEFnnunuu-ly > > January 18, 2001 > > Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way > > By JAMES GLANZ > > > > > > The New York Times > > > > > > > researchers say they have slowed light to a dead stop, stored it and > > then > > released it as if it were an ordinary material particle. > > > > The achievement is a landmark feat that, by reining in nature's > > swiftest and > > most ethereal form of energy for the first time, could help realize > > what are > > now theoretical concepts for vastly increasing the speed of computers > > and > > the security of communications. [snipped] Title: Man 'Made Cold By The Universe' Seen By Scores Who Knew Him SIGHTINGS Man 'Made Cold By The Universe' Seen By Scores Who Knew Him By Liz Ruskin - Anchorage Daily News From Fred Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5-15-00 BETHEL - In villages along the Kuskokwim River and in this hub city, scores of people have reported catching sight of Richard Pavilla, a 38-year-old man who disappeared in December while on a snowmachine trip from his home village of Atmautluak. Pavilla, they say, is still alive but he is in a rare condition in which he is feather-light and as wary as a wild bird. "It has happened in the past, but it's kind of long and in between," said 77-year-old Peter Jacobs, through a Yup'ik translator. "That person is not dead. The spirit is still with the body, but he's in a different state." The Alaska State Troopers ended their search for Pavilla more than three months ago, 12 days after they found the body of Pavilla's companion and the snowmachine the two were riding. The troopers presume Pavilla is dead, too. But day after day, Bethel's search and rescue coordinator keeps taking the reports of people who say they've seen the lost man. Pavilla and Richard Tikiun, 27, left Christmas Eve on a snowmachine for Bethel, about 30 miles away across the frozen tundra. People in the village told troopers the men had been drinking and may have been planning to pick up Tikiun's stash of alcohol on the way. Searchers found Tikiun's body Dec. 28, four miles from Atmautluak and just north of the main trail to Bethel. He lay face down on the ground next to his snowmachine and an empty vodka bottle, troopers said. Pavilla, troopers said, obviously stayed alive for a while, despite fierce winds and temperatures that dropped to minus 30 degrees. Searchers found a series of windbreaks made of snow blocks and tree branches, snow caves dug into drifts and even a hastily made igloo, as well as several sets of tracks thought to be Pavilla's. It was shortly after New Year's when the first sighting of the lost man was reported, said Peter Atchak, Bethel's volunteer search and rescue coordinator. Five of the searchers, Pavilla's cousins, reported seeing a solitary figure on foot about eight miles southwest of Bethel. "They thought it was a searcher, but when they were approaching close he took off running," Atchak said. The person crossed the frozen river and was gone, the cousins reported. The next report came a couple of days later. A group of youngsters were driving a truck from Napakiak upriver to Bethel when someone came out of the brush toward them. They got frightened and drove off, Atchak said. The troopers ended their search Jan. 9, figuring no one could survive so long in such severe weather. The volunteer search and rescue group kept looking, and Atchak kept track of the reported sightings. They came from up and down the Kuskokwim and from villages on the coast. In all, there were more than 50 reports from 10 villages. People also reported seeing Pavilla in Bethel - near the high school, at the hospital and crouched under a woman's house. Atchak said he has repeatedly investigated reports of boot prints and found they were made by size 7 Sorels, just like Pavilla's. "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't seen his tracks, hi
[CTRL] Fw: Cell Phones and Eye Cancer
-Caveat Lector- > Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups > > ** > > http://www.cosmiverse.com/science01160103.html > > Scientists Link Eye Cancer to Cell Phones > January 16, 2001 08:12 CDT > > For the first time, a link has been discovered between cancer and mobile > phone use. New research suggests a threefold increase in eye cancers for > people who regularly use mobile phones. These new results will most likely > cause concern in the mobile telecom industry. > > Mobile phones emit radiation that has long been known to temporarily > modify how brain cells work, However, until recently, no evidence has been > found of permanent health damage. If the findings are confirmed by more > research, it could lead to thousands of costly lawsuits by eye and brain > cancer patients. > > The research was published in the journal Epidemiology and was performed > by a team from the University of Essen in Germany. The team studied a form > of eye cancer called uveal melanoma, where tumors form in the layer that > makes up the iris and base of the retina. > > Dr. Andreas Stang, leader of the research team, told The Sunday Times that > he had studied 118 people with uveal melanoma and collected data about > their use of digital mobile phones. This was compared with a control group > of 475 people without the disease. The researchers were unaware which > subjects had cancer or were healthy. > > Once the results were analyzed, they found the cancer victims had a > significantly higher rate of mobile phone use, although Stang cautions > that his findings require further investigation. The mechanism by which > the radiation causes cancer is not known, but it is known that the watery > contents of the eye help with the absorption of radiation. > > Other research showed that cells called melanocytes in the uveal layer > began to grow and divide more quickly when exposed to microwave radiation. > Because uveal melanoma begins inside such cells, a ready-made mechanism > exists by which mobile phone radiation could help start cancer, > particularly in those who are genetically predisposed to the condition. > > Last year, no evidence was found to link the devices with brain tumors or > any other disorder. Last month, however, multi-billion dollar lawsuits > were launched against Verizon Horizon. Customers behind the suits claimed > they got brain tumors from using the devices. > > Original Source: Times Newspapers Ltd > http://www.cosmiverse.com/science01160103.html > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] "Who Is Hooverizing Jesse Jackson?"
-Caveat Lector- --- "Samantha L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who Is Hooverizing Jesse Jackson? > by Carla Binion > > "In light of the recent media furor about Jesse > Jackson's extramarital affair > and "love child," Nakano Comments: WHAT MEDIA FUROR? This story was on Page 6 of most major newspapers by yesterday. Can you imagine the "media furor" we would be seeing and hearing right now if Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson were the father of the "love child"? If this were the case, today's Presidential Inauguration story would not be the first report on tonight's TV News. Fact is the alleged news media has muted its coverage of the Jesse Jackson affair. Bill Clinton's "Spiritual Advisor" got off rather lightly and no doubt he hasn't been permanently damaged. Regards to All Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] FW: More pre-inauguration security photos; protesters organize via web
-Caveat Lector- http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19069 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl o 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] FW: More pre-inauguration security photos; protesters organize via web
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Declan McCullagh Sent: Sat 1/20/2001 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:FC: More pre-inauguration security photos; protesters organize via web On Thursday, I walked from the Capitol building to the White House via Pennsylvania Avenue and took some shots of the inaugural parade preparations: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2001-bush-inauguration-setup-pa-ave.html Note the high security and planned police checkpoints: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-park.html http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-fbi.html Bleachers cleverly blocking Freedom Plaza, where protesters will be, from parade route: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-fbi.html When I was standing on a sidewalk in front of the federal courthouse on Pennsylvania Ave (of Monicagate and Microsoft trial fame), a deputy U.S. Marshal told me I could not take a photo of the courthouse. It was a wide-angle shot of the front, and no people or security preparations appared to be visible. Here's him walking back to his van, which appears to have -- from another photo -- U.S. Government plate 60163: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-5/pennsylvania-ave-setup-fbi.html I covered the Microsoft trial in that courthouse, took photos of the exterior, and never had any problems from the marshals. Here's a photo I took from that same sidewalk last year when the atmosphere was much less tense: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/9/mike-pettit.html Photos from earlier in the week: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01636.html -Declan * http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41317,00.html DC: It's Now a GOP-Com World By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Jan. 20, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- As Republican loyalists converge on the nation's capital this weekend for black-tie celebrations, anti-GOP activists are planning protests. The most complete website is inaugurauction.org, which includes press releases with protest details. The folks at the Independent Media Center, veterans of both Republican and Democratic conventions last year, are planning their usual exhaustive, if not exactly unbiased, coverage. There's even a protest-ball on Saturday evening ($10) -- a gown or tuxedo is definitely optional. But protesters lost a lawsuit challenging the police checkpoints that, for the first time, will block access to Pennsylvania Avenue. [...] - POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list 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/ - http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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: MENE MENE TEKEL!
So is the handwriting on the wall and all is going according to Plan? But who is master planner - who wants the oil? Saba Forward a message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aleisha Saba) To: Cc: Subject: Forwarded message: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "One Crying in the Wilderness..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MENE MENE TEKEL! Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2001, 7:55am (EST-3) Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Topica-Loop: 169155 UNSUBSCRIBE? Directions are at the bottom of each post. Before you do--read what I've got to say! It may involve YOU! EDUCATION is our only successful weapon to defeat IGNORANCE! --- Sponsor's Message -- Tech News...With Attitude! Get the top stories in your in-box -- commentary included! http://click.topica.com/4xbUrDDrbUYIFHa/technewsdaily -- You can now enjoy American history on my NEW LIST at: http://www.egroups.com/group/Those-Days To join it, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ "Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious..." [Amos 5:15] Our Weekly Quote: "I speak not for others, but for myself. Deprive us of this right and appropriate this common property to yourselves, it is then your Government, not mine. Then I am its enemy, and I will then, if I can, bring my children and my constituents to the altar of liberty, and like Hamilcar, I would swear them to eternal hostility to your foul domination. Give us our just rights, and we are ready, as ever heretofore, to stand by the Union, every part of it, and its every interest. Refuse it, and for one, I will strike for Independence!" Alexander H. Stephens--Confederate Vice President. On this date, January 20, 1901: Frontiersman Henry H. Jaycox, who fathered four children and whose two wives divorced him, dies alone at Hooker's Ranch on the Salt River in Gila County, Arizona. ___ Dear Friends: Welcome to the Global Age which officially begins at noon eastern standard time today. (Am I being sarcastic enough?) Several days ago, a reader sent me some info about an event in Confederate history that I thought was worth sharing and even somewhat delightful. He has been unable thus far to find any further info but I wanted to pass on what he has found. Perhaps some of you could help if you know something about it. It reads: The battle of Chicamauga was Dec. 20, 1862, so the snowball fight had to be in Jan or Feb or 1863 Civil War Memories Of Robert C. Carden Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1912 CHAPTER VI I remember a couple of incidents at Dalton that had slipped my mind. One was a snow battle between some Tennessee soldiers and some Georgia troops. It commenced in a small way but grew to be a big battle with at least a brigade on each side with the officers and colors. The snow was five or six inches deep. There was a small branch between the combatants and sometimes one side, then the other would have possession of the field. Sometimes the Tennesseans would drive the Georgia men back, then they would rally and drive the other side. They used up all the snow on the field then each side had a detail to bring up big snow balls to be used as ammunition. Our Tennessee side finally charged the Georgia fellows and ran them back to their camp. I never got there for at the branch a Georgia fellow rolled up a snowball with a lot of ground with it and struck me in the eye, coming very near knocking my eye out, so I got knocked out and went back to the rear. I understood that several lost an eye in the fight. John Dougherty If any of you have any further information about this incident, John would like to know--and so would I. __ On the world front today, the World Net Daily reports that the war in the Middle East is to begin again today. The article reads: Next Mideast war in the offing? Reports say U.S., Britain, Israel making preparations for battle © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com U.S. military forces in Europe, which are currently at threat condition "Bravo," are set to be upgraded to condition "Charlie" by Jan. 20, while other elements of U.S. European theater forces -- as well as British special forces troops -- may be headed to Israel "within a few weeks," sources have told WorldNetDaily. According to a host of reports from various European and Middle East military sources, all of whom requested anonymity for security reasons, European Command, or EUCOM, forces last week were placed on alert status "Bravo" -- with "Alpha" being the lowest and "Delta" being the highest -- "across the board," which included all U.S. forces stationed in the European theater -- Germany, Italy, Kosovo, Bosnia and elsewhere. Other sources said the alert status would be upgraded to "Charlie" -- the second highest level -- at "24
[CTRL] It's a trend: Willie follows Jesse
-Caveat Lector- > Posted at 10:20 a.m. PST Friday, Jan. 19, 2001 > Willie Brown fathers child with aide > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Mayor Willie Brown says he's going to be a dad > again. > Carolyn Carpeneti, the mayor's chief-fundraising coordinator, is > pregnant > with Brown's child, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The > baby > girl is due in late April or early May. > Brown, 66, is known to enjoy going out on the town with female > friends. He > has been separated from his wife, Blanche, for 20 years, and said he > does > not plan to divorce or get remarried. He has three grown children and > two > grandchildren. > ``This was something certainly not planned, and to be honest, it's > something > that I never in my life expected to happen at (this) age,'' Brown > told the > Chronicle. > ``She asked how it would affect my career, and I told her that wasn't > an > issue,'' said Brown, who is supportive of her decision. ``That's what > 'choice' is all about -- the mother's choice.'' > Brown said he wants to protect the privacy of Carpeneti, a > 38-year-old > divorced mother. > ``There's nothing unseemly about this at all,'' Brown said. ``She's a > great > friend.'' > Brown's re-election committee paid Carpeneti $380,000 for > fund-raising in > the mayoral race. The two also have gone on trips together to Paris > and to > the Academy Awards. > © 2000 The Mercury News. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Microsoft News You Need to Hear
-Caveat Lector- > Source: SatireWire > Published: 1/19/2000 > Posted on 01/19/2001 17:52:14 PST by Gomez > Redmond, Wash. (SatireWire.com) Only hours after President Clinton > struck > a deal to avoid prosecution by admitting he lied in court about > Monica > Lewinsky, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the entire company > will > admit to an affair with Lewinsky if the government will drop the case > against it, too. > > In a prepared statement, Ballmer said people were "sick and tired" of > both > the Clinton proceedings and the Microsoft trial, and noted that both > defendants should be given the same settlement, "especially since > we're both > guilty of the same thing." > > "Microsoft did have an inappropriate relationship with that woman, > Miss > Lewinsky, and it was wrong of us not to testify to that in court," > the > statement said. "This has been painful to the entire Microsoft family > of > products, and I hope our actions today will help bring closure and > finality > to the matters." > > U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, however, declared > the > confession "irrelevant" to the case, which is awaiting a date in > appeals > court. "I don't care if they admit cheating with Paul Jones and > (Rev.) Jesse > Jackson," he said. > > In response, Ballmer said Microsoft was prepared to confess to those > as > well, although he insisted a Rev. Jackson disclosure would require "a > little > something" back, such as the complete revocation of the Sherman > Antitrust > Act. > > Ballmer refused to make public details of the alleged affair, but > according > to an inside source, Lewinsky briefly worked as an intern in Redmond > in > 1997, shortly after leaving the White House. According to the source, > Lewinsky met several times with the company, usually at night, where > certain > sexual acts were performed on the corporation. Often, Microsoft would > lean > against a doorway, or sit on the edge of a desk. > > Copyright © 2001, SatireWire. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Inauguration Special: Woman-A-Night
-Caveat Lector- On 20 Jan 2001, at 6:15, Dale Stonehouse wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > With the bashing of womanizing black leaders at an all-time high, it's > time to remember that this activity is not limited to any race. > I assume you are referring to the Jesse Jackson revelations. Your are correct this is not limited to any race, and once again, there has been an attempt (IMO) to divert attention from a serious wrongdoing (in this case the use of tax free money extorted from the public to support the unofficial family) to an activity that all people recognize as a part of the human condition. Such coverage is basically dishonest, but it works since most people don't look at anything except the most sensational parts of any story. -- All kings is mostly rapscallions. Mark Twain (1835-1910) - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884 -- ...a strict observance of the written laws is doubtless ONE of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not THE HIGHEST. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. - Thomas Jefferson http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Russia Halts Military Cuts as Hawks Take Over in the US
-Caveat Lector- Published on Thursday, January 18, 2001 in the Guardian of London Russia Halts Military Cuts as Hawks Take Over in the US by Ian Traynor in Moscow The Kremlin has shelved plans to cut and restructure the Russian armed forces radically, a decision seen by Moscow analysts as its first concrete response to the incoming Bush administration's decision to press ahead with the "son of Star Wars" national missile defence system. In November, after months of infighting between military commanders, President Vladimir Putin ordered them to put their house in order by reducing the 1.2m under arms by 360,000 in the next five years. He also ordered a shift in emphasis from the strategic nuclear missiles to conventional forces. The reshaping was to have begun last month, but nothing will happen until March at the earliest. "The main reason for the delay is the first steps of the new US leadership," the respected military analyst Viktor Litovkin said. Only time will tell whether Presidents Putin and Bush will strike up a friendly relationship, but the early signs are of increasing hostility between Moscow and Washington on security, arms control and economic and financial issues. In the past few weeks Washington has accused Moscow of covertly deploying battlefield nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, its westernmost enclave, and has been angered by Russian moves to invigorate arms sales to Iran. Moscow, in turn, accused the US last week of breaching the Start-I nuclear arms reduction agreement by going ahead with the national missile defence system (NMD). Mr Putin described the Kaliningrad allegation as "total rubbish." George W Bush indicated at the weekend that his administration would halt much financial aid to Russia. Yesterday the chairman of the Russian parliament's budget committee, Alexander Zhukov, brusquely responded: "Russia does not need large loans from foreign countries at the moment." Yuri Gladkevich, a military observer at Moscow's independent Military News Agency, said: "There are signs of a worsening in relations, and it looks as though things will get a lot worse yet." Moscow analysts see the people Mr Bush has named for his key cabinet posts - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice - as hawks from a bygone era. "These are people who see themselves as the victors of the cold war," said Alexander Golts, military commentator on the news magazine Itogi. "The Kremlin and the generals are flattered by that, because it reminds them of the days of the USSR when they were a great power. But the new American administration is making a very strong and negative impact on our military." Moscow sent three warships on patrol in the Pacific on Monday, its most ambitious naval display since the Soviet Union collapsed a decade ago. Mr Putin has been pushing for a radical overhaul of the armed forces since the Kursk submarine disaster August, and that has provoked a public brawl between the defence minister, Igor Sergeyev, and the chief of the general staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, who wants the currently separate strategic missile forces integrated with the army, navy and air branches and scarce resources redirected to building up conventional forces. Gen Kvashnin was generally supposed to be getting the better of the struggle, but Marshal Sergeyev's hand may have been strengthened by the new US administration's robust militaristic signals and "new realism" in international relations. "Sergeyev wants to maintain the strategic missile forces as a political-military instrument, as the main lever for pressure on the US and Nato," Mr Gladkevich said. "The new US administration means Putin won't weaken the strategic missiles forces to the degree that Kvashnin wants." In the past year the Kremlin has repeatedly stated that it wants major arms reductions, including cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 1,500. But Alexei Arbatov, an influential moderate on the parliamentary defence committee, now argues that Russia needs 4,500 nuclear warheads to maintain parity with the US. "The Kremlin sees NMD as as threat to Russia's national security which will ignite a new arms race it can't afford," Mr Gladkevich said. ©
[CTRL] Fwd: No Power to the People (2/2)
Utility Bankruptcy Could Cause Havoc Creditors may lose big in power crisis by Sam Zuckerman San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2001 Financial shock waves will be felt far and wide, from the nation's largest banks to schoolchildren in Orange County, if California's two big electric companies file for bankruptcy. Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filings would be the largest and third-largest bankruptcy cases, respectively, in U.S. history, involving a combined $20 billion in debt. Creditors, especially ones whose loans aren't backed by collateral, would face potentially irrecoverable losses. And the ripple effects from the bankruptcies would shake markets around the world, analysts say. "Either one of these would be a huge case by itself," said Lynn LoPucki, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. "Together, they surpass anything we've ever seen. This is putting more creditor dollars at risk than any bankruptcy in history." Edison and PG&E are selling electricity at prices far below their costs, a situation they say will force them to seek court protection from their creditors within weeks unless political leaders bail them out. The danger was highlighted in the past few days as the two companies defaulted or said they would default on hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due. The list of creditors owed money by the utilities is long. It includes power suppliers, banks and thousands of institutional, governmental and individual investors who hold bonds or other debt securities. The outcome of bankruptcy is uncertain since a solution to the utilities' business problems depends on political action. A state or federal bailout could save the utilities, but there is no guarantee that it would protect the interests of creditors. "If there is a political rescue, there could be enough money to keep the utilities operating," said LoPucki. "But if it's just enough to keep them operating and no more, that wipes out the debt holders." The trauma of bankruptcy would be compounded by one overriding fact: Utilities, unlike, say, casinos or airlines, aren't expected to renege on their debt. "It's an extremely rare thing," said Jacob Mercer, a utility debt analyst at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray. "Only two publicly traded electrical utilities have declared bankruptcy since the Great Depression, and both of those involved nuclear power." Among those who could be hit hardest are individual investors, who don't have the resources to diversify their portfolios. Mercer said he has fielded frantic calls from small-time investors who bought utility bonds to play it safe. "There are lots of ma's and pa's who own these bonds,'' he said. In the days before California's power market was deregulated, utilities had captive markets and guaranteed profits. Their bonds and other debt securities were considered among the safest places to put money. "These are the kinds of investments you sold to widows," said Orange County Treasurer John Moorlach. "Utility companies were no-brainers." Orange County is already one of the victims of the utilities' financial plight. The bond rating service Fitch downgraded the county's school investment pool yesterday because of its vulnerability to a utility default. Orange County holds about $40 million of Edison debt securities in a fund that supports local school operations, representing about 3.3 percent of total assets. If the county's entire Edison investment were lost, the yield in the school fund would be cut from more than 6 percent to less than 4 percent, Moorlach calculated. That would cut to support local schools by millions of dollars. There is a special irony to Moorlach's dilemma. Orange County itself went through a bankruptcy crisis in the mid-1990s because of investments that went sour. Moorlach was elected county treasurer on a platform that stressed prudent investment management. Moorlach said he bought Edison debt securities precisely because he considered it safe. "We buy prime paper only," he said. "We've been very cautious." Banks, for their part, have lent about $2.2 billion to PG&E and Edison, the brokerage firm Salomon Smith Barney estimates. Bank of America, the nation's third-largest bank, led a group of financial institutions that extended an $850 million credit line to PG&E last year, while J.P. Morgan Chase, the No. 2 bank, was leader on a $1 billion Edison credit. Defaults and downgrades by debt rating agencies have put the utilities out of compliance with terms of the loans, making the credits immediately due in full, bankers said. Bank of America and Morgan Chase declined to comment on their loans to the California utilities. BofA's Chief Financial Officer James Hance told analysts earlier this week that the bank projects that it will write off $3 billion in delinquent credits in 2001 and
[CTRL] Fwd: No Power to the People (1/2)
San Francisco's top law enforcement official --the City's equivalent of Janet Reno-- is suing major energy suppliers for "conspiring to fix prices" and for "withholding electrical power at critical times in order to artificially boost prices." LIGHTS OUT / Juice cut again; S.F. sues power firms by David Lazarus San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 2001 The lights went out again throughout Northern California this morning when state officials resumed rolling blackouts to ease pressure on the beleaguered power grid. The blackouts were ordered by the California Independent System Operator, which oversees the electricity network, at 9:50 a.m. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. promptly cut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers in communities stretching from the Central Valley to the Oregon border. At the same time, San Francisco became the first city to sue power producers on behalf of consumers facing blackouts and high electricity bills during the state's energy crisis. San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne announced today that she is suing 13 major energy suppliers for allegedly conspiring to fix prices and withholding power supply at critical times in order to artificially boost prices. Kellan Fluckiger, the ISO's chief operating officer, said it appeared by midday that conservation efforts were reducing stress on the system, but he was unable to say whether this would be enough to end the blackouts. "We are accessing all available megawatts, but in any hour we have a possibility of rotating blackouts," he said. He added that the blackouts could extend to Southern California by the time demand hits its expected peak around 6 p.m. The northern half of the state experienced its first widespread rolling blackouts yesterday when they were ordered at 11:40 a.m. They were suspended at 1:40 p.m., and a threat of continued problems last night was averted when additional power was obtained from out-of-state generators. Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency late last night and ordered the Department of Water Resources to buy and sell electricity to help alleviate the crisis -- a move that could cost taxpayers $900 million for two weeks worth of power. A state of emergency opens the door for federal assistance in helping California out of the mess, but it was not immediately clear just what Washington could do. Meanwhile, PG&E and its parent company, PG&E Corp., defaulted yesterday on paying $76 million to holders of the company's commercial paper, a form of short-term debt. PG&E said additional bills may go unpaid as a result of the utility's increasingly shaky finances. The suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court seeks to force power companies to return their allegedly ill-gotten profits -- an estimated $1 billion during the year 2000 -- to consumers. "The companies are playing with marked cards," Renne said. "They have a very dim allegiance to their customers. I think consumers know when they are being conned, and this is a clear instance of corporations taking advantage of a deregulated market to make a quick buck." Companies named in the suit include subsidiaries of PG&E. The 13 power generators are Dynegy Power Marketing; ENRON Energy Services; Enron Power Marketing; PG&E Energy Trading; Reliant Energy Services; Sempra Energy Trading; Sempra Energy Resources; Southern Co. Energy Marketing; Williams Energy Marketing and Trading; Williams Energy Services Co.; Duke Energy Trading and Marketing; NRG Energy; and Morgan Stanley Capital Group. As news of San Francisco's lawsuit spread today, consumer groups praised the move. "The problems we're seeing right now have more to do with greed than the power supply," said Mindy Spatt, a spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network in San Francisco. Terry Winter, chief executive officer of the ISO, blamed the shortage on an unusually high number of power plants idled for maintenance as well as problems with transmission lines that move electricity between Northern and Southern California. U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson responded to the shortfall by extending an emergency order requiring generators to sell excess electricity to California. The order now will stay in effect until Tuesday. Winter said the blackouts were confined to the northern half of the state because power normally provided by generators in Oregon and Washington was unavailable due to lower-than-normal rainfall, which has affected the region's dams. Officials had expected the outages by last night to extend to Southern California, but demand on the grid eased after power use peaked around 6 p.m. PG&E began cutting power to customers around 11:50 a.m., just minutes after the ISO's order for blackouts was issued. The outages affected about 400,000 customers for between 60 and 90 minutes at a time, said Ron Low, a PG&E spokesman. He
[CTRL] WP: Clinton Administration Delays in Issuing Pardons
-Caveat Lector- Clinton Administration Delays in Issuing Pardons By Bill Miller Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 20, 2001 ; Page A19 An array of presidential pardons that White House officials expected to announce yesterday was held up late last night because of continued debate within the Clinton administration over whether to grant one to Whitewater figure Susan McDougal and others. Mark Geragos, McDougal's attorney, said last night he had been told the delay stemmed from disagreements among White House staffers about whether to include his client in the list of those being pardoned. "She is front and center the main reason" the pardons were delayed, Geragos said. A White House source said there was debate in the Oval Office over McDougal and others as late as 9 p.m. yesterday. White House spokesman Elliot Diringer said only that "the decisions haven't been finalized." McDougal was convicted of bank fraud and spent 18 months in prison for civil contempt after she refused to testify about the truthfulness of Clinton's testimony at her trial, which grew out of the investigation of the Clintons' financial dealings in Arkansas. Geragos said last night that he had been told by the White House that close to 100 people are on the list of potential pardons. The White House abruptly canceled its plan to issue the pardons at about 9:15 p.m., after pushing back the announcement all day. Clinton will leave office at noon today, when George W. Bush will be sworn in as president. The last-minute wrangling came several weeks after Clinton issued 59 pardons, including one on behalf of former representative Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat and onetime chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He served a 17-month prison term after pleading guilty in 1996 to two counts of mail fraud. At that time, Clinton also pardoned Archibald Schaffer III, a Tyson Foods executive who was convicted in 1998 of providing an illegal gratuity to former agriculture secretary Mike Espy. Several people, or their associates, have acknowledged waging active campaigns for pardons, including Michael R. Milken, the junk bond peddler who pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges in 1990. His supporters cited the work he has done for charities since serving almost two years in prison and paying $1 billion in penalties. But law enforcement officials urged Clinton to deny the request, saying the magnitude of Milken's wrongdoing made him an inappropriate candidate for a pardon. Also generating controversy were two other high-profile defendants who sought consideration: Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy analyst who pleaded guilty in 1986 to spying for Israel, and Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout. Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, urged Clinton not to commute Pollard's life sentence, and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh wrote a letter recommending Peltier remain jailed. Hundreds of FBI agents marched to the White House to express opposition to a pardon for Peltier. Pardons have stirred debate throughout the nation's history. In recent times, none has been more controversial than Gerald R. Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate matter. Weeks before he left office, Clinton's predecessor, George Bush, drew the ire of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh by pardoning former defense secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and five other former government officials involved in the Iran-contra affair. At the time, Bush issued a lengthy statement that cited a "healing tradition" of pardons dating back to James Madison's pardon of Jean Lafitte's pirates after the War of 1812. The Constitution gives presidents unlimited power to pardon – or officially forgive – criminal wrongdoing. Pardons do not expunge convictions but can be used to restore civil rights lost as a result. In recent days, White House officials have been peppered with questions about who might make Clinton's final cut. The drama increased as the end of the term approached. Clinton made reference to the issue on Wednesday, remarking that "everybody in America either wants somebody pardoned or a national monument" in his last days in office. = 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 = 0 http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 fraudsi
[CTRL] AP: Billionaire makes plea in Democratic finance scandal
-Caveat Lector- Billionaire makes plea in Democratic finance scandal By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (January 19, 2001 3:22 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Federal prosecutors say the plea bargain negotiated with Indonesian billionaire James Riady in the Democratic campaign finance scandal allows him to withdraw from the deal if a judge rejects it. There were no indications the judge plans such action. The withdrawal provision is one of many that convinced Riady to return to the United States and enter a guilty plea, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Clauses allowing either side to withdraw if a judge rejects a plea agreement are standard. This case is unusual because Riady is from a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States, Mrozek said Friday. "There was no reason for him to return to the United States and deal with this if he was going to be arrested," Mrozek said. Prosecutors said Riady and his international conglomerate, Lippo Group, funneled foreign contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and other Democrats. Riady is accused of pledging $1 million in 1992 to support Clinton's campaign for president. Foreign campaign contributions are illegal under U.S. law. Riady was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government. He has agreed to plead guilty and pay a fine of $8.6 million. The plea was not immediately taken because U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew had undergone eye surgery and was unavailable to convene court. Mrozek said lawyers were conferring on a date, which would follow submission of a required report from the probation department. That date probably would be at the end of February or beginning of March. There was no indication that Riady or the government intended to withdraw from the deal. Riady's attorney, Abbe Lowell, did not immediately return a phone call Friday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan O'Brien, who negotiated the agreement, has said the lack of an extradition treaty was the biggest hurdle in arranging the plea bargain. The agreement states that if the judge rejects it, Riady can withdraw his guilty plea and return to Indonesia without being arrested. However, it also states that if Riady breaches the agreement by failing to cooperate with the government, the United States will no longer be bound by it. "We think this is a significant victory for us," Mrozek said. "He's not going to serve any time, but he's going to pay a giant fine. And we have received and are continuing to receive significant information from him." = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NM:Judicial Watch Slams Ray-Clinton Deal
-Caveat Lector- With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Friday Jan. 19, 2000; 1:19 p.m. EST Judicial Watch Slams Ray-Clinton Deal Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton slammed the expected "no prosecution" deal between President Clinton and the Office of Independent Counsel Robert Ray Friday afternoon, saying that Clinton instead deserved a 25-year jail sentence. "With this deal, Robert Ray has abused his office," Fitton told NewsMax.com. "Ray is supposed to investigate and prosecute crimes, not to extract meaningless letters of apology from criminal wrongdoers." Ray is believed to have agreed not to indict Clinton in exchange for a written admission that he "misled" prosecutors while under oath. "This shows how corrupt the system truly is," Fitton added. "Any other person would be sent to jail for 25 years for Clinton's crimes." Fitton noted that Clinton had not only committed perjury, but, "threatened witnesses, tried to intimidate prosecutors and bribed witnesses with government jobs." The notion that a letter of apology would suffice, he said, "shows that Ray's respect for the rule of law is almost as bad as Clinton's." Judicial Watch has filed over 50 lawsuits against the Clinton White House and currently represents key Sexgate witnesses Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Dolly Kyle Browning. = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Pardon Me?
-Caveat Lector- Pardon Me? By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Sometime within the next two days, in the last hours of his presidency, Bill Clinton will exercise his Constitutional power to grant clemency to a lucky group of federal convicts. Securities fraudster Michael Milken wants to be pardoned. So do a slew of other high profile white-collar criminals. So does convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two federal agents, wants his jail term commuted. Susan McDougal and others caught up in the Whitewater scandal want Clinton to act now. And hundreds of non-violent drug offenders -- victims of Clinton's misguided war on drugs -- want out of prison. In Washington, rumors are flying as to who will get a pardon and who won't. The U.S. Constitution gives the President the power to pardon anyone for a federal crime. Other than political retribution, there are no checks on the President's pardon power. If you are in jail, and you believe that the sentence was unjust, you can petition the President to commute your sentence. Or if you have already paid your fine, and done your time, you can petition the President for a pardon. You would want to get a pardon because there are a long list of civil disabilities that hang on a felony conviction -- barred from securities industry, can't vote, hunt, get certain licenses in many states -- that you might want to relieve yourself of. And the President can do this for you. Ninety-five percent of all those granted clemency since 1977 have fallen into the second category -- pardons. For more than 100 years, the Justice Department has had a Pardon Attorney. It's the Pardon Attorney's job to process petitions for clemency, and make recommendations to the President. The Pardon Attorney receives close to 1,300 petitions per year. But most presidents only grant clemency to a handful every year -- Clinton has granted only 280 in his eight years as President. Margaret Colgate Love, the Justice Department's Pardon Attorney from 1990 to 1997, believes that the pardon power has been underused. Love believes that pardons can and should be used as a policy tool -- to send political signals about what is right and wrong with our criminal justice system. On December 22, 2000, for example, President Clinton commuted the sentences of two women serving decades-long sentences for minor roles in drug offenses. "The President can and should do more," said Rev. Bernard Keels, a member of the Coalition for Jubilee Clemency, a group of more than 700 faith leaders who recently sent a letter to President Clinton urging him to grant clemency to low-level, nonviolent Federal drug offenders. We fear that in the next two days, Clinton will do the Clintonesque thing -- protect his white-collar friends by pardoning them or commuting their sentences, and at the same time trying to cover his tracks by commuting the sentences of only a handful of the thousands of non-violent drug offenders who don't have the high-powered legal talent, resources, or connections necessary to get the President's attention. Last year, Clinton pardoned the former powerful member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dan Rostenkowski, convicted of crimes related to allegations that he padded his pockets while in office. Rostenkowski and his highly connected political friends had visited the White House a number of times since his conviction in 1993. The Rostenkowski pardon reminds us of similar pardons for the politically connected and powerful in the past -- the pardons of the convicted multinational businessman Armand Hammer and of the convicted New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner. And we fear that Clinton may misuse that power again -- this time by pardoning those he wishes to silence -- or pay back for silence -- in the Whitewater matter. Of course, Clinton can pardon anyone he wants, for any reason. He can even type up a pardon for himself, stick it in his pocket, and not tell anyone about it -- until an indictment comes down. But with pardons, like with other aspects of the criminal justice system, you get what you pay for. And this is the season where the white collar criminals have paid big bucks to hire slick Washington, D.C. lawyers to work the system. Michael Milken's lawyers thought they scored a coup last week when the New York Times ran an article headlined "Ex-Financier Milken in Line for a Pardon, Officials Say." The Times reported that "lawyers said that federal prosecutors who might have criticized the pardon had not raised any protest with the White House since news of the possibility of a pardon was first published last month." In fact, prosecutors had vigorously objected to the possibility of a pardon for Milken, and two days later, the Times was forced to run an extraordinary correction, in which the paper of record quoted a letter from Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement chief Richard Walker as saying that while Milken's well-known philant
[CTRL] NM: Bush Adds Whitewater Prosecutor to Legal Team
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/1/19/91743 NewsMax.com 1/19/01 Bush Adds Whitewater Prosecutor to Legal Team Though President-elect George Bush is thought to be uninterested in seeing Bill Clinton prosecuted after he leaves office, the staff of his White House counsels office will include longtime Whitewater investigator Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, one of the longest-serving lawyers in the Office of Independent Counsel, began his tenure investigating the gunshot death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, cross-examining several key witnesses before Starr's Foster grand jury. One such witness, Patrick Knowlton, who suspected foul play in Foster's death, said later that Kavanaugh had grilled him too harshly and complained that he had been treated "like a suspect." When Sexgate exploded, the Yale Law School graduate pressed Starr to send an impeachment referral to Congress even before the OIC had secured the cooperation of Monica Lewinsky. After an immunity agreement was worked out with Starr's office and Lewinsky gave her detailed account of repeated sexual encounters with the president, Kavanaugh urged his boss to downplay the controversial narrative part of his impeachment report based on her racy testimony. Instead, Kavanaugh's contribution to Starr's final report focused on the illegal aspects of Clinton's conduct and made the case for his impeachment by the House. = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] OT:) HOW YOU CAN TELL YOUR CO-WORKER IS A HACKER
-Caveat Lector- THE TOP TEN SIGNS THAT YOUR CO-WORKER IS A COMPUTER HACKER 10. You ticked him off once and your next phone bill was $20,000. 9. He's won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes three years running. 8. When asked for his phone number, he gives it in hex. 7. Seems strangely calm whenever the office LAN goes down. 6. Somehow he/she gets HBO on his PC at work. 5. Mumbled, "Oh, puh-leeez" 95 times during the movie "The Net" 4. Massive RRSP contribution made in half-cent increments. 3. Video dating profile lists "public-key encryption" among turn-ons 2. When his computer starts up, you hear, "Good Morning, Mr. President." 1. You hear him murmur, "Let's see you use that Visa card now, jerk." = 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 = http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] LA Weekly: Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 5:43:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster The 2nd of January was already a pretty rotten day for Wheaton, Maryland, resident Mike Hershdorfer, laboring at his computer under the pall of one of the harshest Eastern winters on record. But it got a lot rottener at 2:20 p.m., when the Webmaster for the anti-Bush political site www.bushoccupation.com answered a knock at the door to find two Secret Service agents and a Montgomery County police officer. The agents gave a vague explanation of investigating a tip about Web-site activity, Hershdorfer said. As he stood in the doorway with the dogs barking, the agents repeatedly pressed to enter his home. âI got the distinct impression that they were not going to leave unless I let them inside, so I did,â Hershdorfer recalled in an interview this week. The agents declined to say who made the tip, or what was said. They asked Hershdorfer for a list of Web sites he had visited, and for permission to search his house and review his medical records. They also asked him how he felt about the Clintons and Bush â and whether he had ever threatened to blow up the White House. Meanwhile, the police officer stood in the corner, saying he was there âto protect me,â an incredulous Hershdorfer remembered. >> Just a little preview of things to come. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Fw: [CTRL] The Dorian Gray Legacy
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 5:36:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Gee, Amelia-- I thought they looked full of good will and good humor. And this bunch coming in looks awfully old and dour. Many of them haven't worked for a decade--outside of sitting on a corporate board or two. And most of them are at retirement age or beyond. You call that fresh? It's merely rich and corporate. Perhaps you're comforted by the Good Ol' Boy Country Club look. I mean, these guys who are coming in are the ones who banged us over the head 24/7 with the Clinton "debaucheries"--which I would say, according to any Cosmopolitan poll are rather common and ordinary and of very little consequence in the lives of most ordinary Americans. Humiliating Clinton and keeping him on the hot seat was a full-time Republican campaign into which milliions of private and public dollars poured. Now they're in the driver's seat, I will be very surprised if the same mean spirit doesn't come crashing down on all our lives. Don't let 'em catch you at any monkey business. >> Well said, Owl. I think the folks are in for "interesting times." Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Inauguration Special: Woman-A-Night
-Caveat Lector- With the bashing of womanizing black leaders at an all-time high, it's time to remember that this activity is not limited to any race. Prior to meeting his wife, our newly-inaugurated President was an acknowledged woman-a-night man in his single drinking days in Houston. He probably even remembers one or two of their names. You can make a very long list of white males who indulged in promiscuity, for the simple reason that they could. If this is an honorable reason for ANY activity, so be it. Begin with Babe Ruth, who was forgiven his excesses by the New York press who never reported them; who called everyone "keed" so he didn't have to remember anyone by name; who consumed more bootlegged whiskey and bedded more women than any man of the Prohibition Era. Or how about Elvis Presley, the most successful record-selling musician in American AND British history, who put a toilet paper tube in his pants in the 50s to let girls know he was ready for them and who would invite them backstage - all of them; who expected his women to go down into unconsciousness with him by sharing handfuls of his powerful, illegally-gotten legal drugs; who died incontinent and drool-mouthed, his bodily functions completely disabled by drugs. Make your own list of promiscuous males; if it doesn't reflect the real world in percentage numbers then it surely reflects your own racial prejudice. But of course morality is never prejudiced and religions never wrong. http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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: It's a cakewalk for Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 3:07:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >As we know too damned well, the so-called "hearings" over the confirmation >of Ashcroft are turning out to be another fine example of what a cowering, >prostrate, bought-and-paid-for puppy dog of a party the Democrats have >become. >> Hear, hear!!! Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] UPDATE-DID BUSH COMMIT PERJURY AFTER GETTING HIS DWI CONVICTION?
-Caveat Lector- Probably not, but if he had it wouldn't have mattered, he's a Republican. I understand his daddy's perjury is well recorded for those who wish to know of it. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Clinton deal with Robert Ray; Linda Tripp Fired
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 3:31:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > WASHINGTON -- Linda Tripp, the woman whose secret tape recordings led > to > President Clinton's impeachment, was fired Friday by the Clinton > administration after she refused to resign like other political > appointees, > her lawyer said. > "The termination of Linda Tripp is vindictive, mean-spirited and > wrong," >> All presidential appointees are expected to resign, and what's the big deal? The Bush family lover her. She was a holdover appointee from Daddy Bush's administration. All they have to do is get Dubya to appoint her again. God knows he should. She's done more for the Republican party that even Monica did. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Clinton Will Not Be Indicted
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 2:19:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << President Clinton has reached a deal with the independent counsel's office guaranteeing him immunity from prosecution after he leaves office. >> Well, Clinton has finally committed an act that really torques my jaws. I never cared about his sex life, and he was a more than adequate president, but just as I was depending on him to keep the Democrats focused on politics, he does the Republicans the favor of leaving center stage. The country has discovered a rather old, old secret about Jesse Jackson (no Republican action here I'm sure), and that leaves no one to remind the country what Democratic ideals really are. Republicans don't have ideals, but they do have control of congress and the judiciary not to mention the executive office. They also have relatives in high places. The slogan, any means to an end, will be the watchword for at least the next four years. Perhaps all those elderly Jewish women in Florida who gave their unstinting support for Pat Buchanan will be able to lead a movement to remind Democrats what their actions might mean to this country, but other than that I don't see much light at the end of the tunnel. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Violence in America
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Print-X!ArticleDetail- 16301,00.html? }}>Begin Sunday, January 7, 2001 As American as Apple Pie VIOLENCE IN AMERICA, An Encyclopedia; Edited by Ronald Gottesman and Richard Maxwell Brown; Charles Scribner's Sons: three volumes, 1,952 pp., $375 By KEVIN STARR Is America more violent than any other nation? The fact is that the United States is a violent place. As a nation, it was brought into being by violence as much as by statecraft, suppressed an entire people through slavery, re-earned its nationhood through a terrible civil war, then celebrated that unification through the systematic, genocidal decimation of its Native American peoples. And it hasn't stopped there. Consider the rampage of Howard Unruh in September 1949, in Camden, N.J., which resulted in the killing of 13 men, women and children; the nurses systematically butchered by Richard Speck in Chicago; Charles Whitman atop his Texas tower; John Oliver Huberty opening fire at the San Ysidro McDonald's in 1984 or the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999. Deliberate terrorism, in other words, is not a new American category, although Unabomber Theodore John Kaczynski has given it a semi-crazed Luddite edge, and Timothy McVeigh, the worst terrorist in American history, who killed 168 people in Oklahoma City, is at either the end or the beginning of an epoch. And now, the encyclopedia format has allowed USC English professor Ronald Gottesman and consulting editor Richard Maxwell Brown to organize the efforts of nearly 500 academics and other experts to tackle the infinitely complex issue of violence in the United States. The result of this enterprise, assiduously pursued across a decade, is a well-written, profusely illustrated and generously referenced three-volume encyclopedia that allows us, simultaneously, to access numerous aspects of the subject in alphabetical order and to approach, however tentatively, a systematic understanding of a field as unwieldy as violence. Putting down these three volumes after days of fascinated reading, I found myself grateful to Gottesman, Brown and their colleagues for assembling signed entries that, cumulatively, bring us closer to the tantalizing--and always impossible--prospect of apprehending America through an understanding of one of its most persistent traits. To read "Violence in America" as I did--completely, page by page--is to encounter a labyrinth of traits running through both the consciousness and subconsciousness of American culture. Are we as distinctively gun-goofy, for example, as some six entries--gun violence, gun control, militarism, the National Rifle Assn., the right to bear arms and weapons: handguns--would make us seem? It was a bourgeois American, after all, Richard Jordan Gatling, who in the mid-19th century perfected the art of killing with a gun by industrializing its manufacture, just as Henry Ford would later industrialize the manufacture of automobiles. Thanks to the Gatling gun and its successor, the machine gun, millions of humans have met untimely ends with increased efficiency. One cannot help but entertain the thought that there might be a special affinity, a special connection, a foundational relationship between violence in all its forms and the American experience. Why, for example, are so many of our memories of major figures--Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.-- so profoundly determined by the violence that destroyed them? Why are so many of our epochs defined by dominating instances of violence--the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (four related entries for this incident alone), the trials of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, the Scottsboro case, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the Lindbergh case, the My Lai massacre--or their aftermaths? * * * Why have so many violent but otherwise marginal figures from the frontier-- James Bowie and his knife, the Indian-killing Kit Carson, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Calamity Jane, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid--entered into American folklore and been celebrated in numerous films, even musical comedies, while the governors, the senators, the entrepreneurs, the founders of cities and towns from the same time lie in their graves forgotten? How can we make a heroine of Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Mass., who most likely gave her mother 40 whacks and walked, thanks to shaky evidence and a sympathetic jury? Why do we remember the 1920s and 1930s in terms of Al Capone, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Bonnie and Clyde, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Ma Barker, Dutch Schultz and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel when we would be hard-pressed to name a roster of brain trusters from the New Deal? Why do some cities of America--New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami
Re: [CTRL] Capitalism - It's a beautiful thing?
-Caveat Lector- "M.A. Johnson" wrote: > > You should TRULY learn the fucking difference between > PRIVATE and GOVERNMENT. "The thing I keep running into with libertarians is that they are purposely blind to the following: if you start with a weak state and a laissez-faire economy, eventually megacorporations will coalesce and become a defacto state, usually fascist and obviously not held accountable by the democratic process. And the megacorps will mold and embolden the state so that it has the authority and agenda to serve them. I don't have to wonder about the viability of this theory, since I have discovered that the US is more or less living proof." -Daniel Pouzzner "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain -- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." - Lysander Spooner, No Treason VI "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." -Latin for "Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound." http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Mad Mythe
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.westonaprice.org/myths_truths_mad.html }}>Begin Animal Pharm by Mark Purdey As an organic farmer, Mark Purdey resisted the order to spray his cattle with organophosphates for warble fly and went to court for a judicial review; he won and was exempted from using the spray. No cows born in his herd developed BSE (mad cow disease). He has contributed numerous articles on the subject of BSE to scientific journals. He farms in Somerset, UK. This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2000 As the first snowstorm of winter hit the isolated hill where I farm, I pitched out the last forkfuls of hay to my cattle before nightfall. Much like the whirlwinds of snow surging all around me, my brain was turning over and over the catalogue of injustices that successive governments had levied onto the farming community over BSE. I felt paralysed and powerless in the encroaching snowstorm. My confidence to carry on was battered to pieces by the recent ban on beef-on-the-bone. The announcementbased on the whims of a mere handful of government expertsrenders my hard graft over the last twenty years in far ming into pathetic insignificance. But how can there be any true experts from academia when the most basic facets of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE) disease process remain a total mystery? One would have though t that all of those farmers and independent vets living and working in the front line with BSE cattle would have been the first to be consulted. But strangely, their observations have been completely ignored by officaldom . Cows frequently partake in the bizarre habit of eating their colleagues afterbirths after calving, and I was particularly intrigued to watch my own home-reared, BSE-free cows positively relishing the delicacies of afterb irth tissues derived from a group of pedigree cows that I purchased into my farm in 1989. As the majority of these imported cows went on to develop BSE, it is interesting that BSE has not surfaced in my home-reared cows, despite their overzealous exposure to the allegedly infectious blood and lymph found in the afterbirths of the BSE cows. Other farmers sharing the same experience report the same outcome. Another anecdote hails from the farming community of Shetland, where the island folk are free of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (the human form of BSE), despite their ancient custom of eating potted sheeps brain. Interesting ly, the equivalent of BSE in sheep, called scrapie, has been rife in the sheep flock on Shetland for centuries. The anecdotes are ever-flowing, and all point to a hypothesis based upon some environmental causal factor that falls a long way short of the current governments nightmare infectious ingestion scenario. If the spongifor m agent is as infectious as the authorities would have us believe, why has chronic wasting disease (the BSE equivalent in deer) remained uniquely confined to a small cluster zone in the Rocky Mountains for thirty years no w, without spreading across to the neighboring deer herds roaming the rest of the Rockies? Why has no spongiform developed in the various predators of those affected deer? >From the very beginning of the crisis, the farming community has been the unfortunate >victim of the whole BSE campaign. Yet, ironically, the same presiding authorities who >are responsible for foisting off the burden of BS E are, no doubt, totally oblivious to the fact that more farmers have committed suicide as a result of official BSE blunderings than people have died of new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (nvCJD). A body of government experts was quick to take exclusive control of BSE research, and very rapidly the cause of the disease was attributed to the feeding of scrapie-diseased sheep brains to cattle. In other words, scrapie was said to jump from sheep to cattle by virtue of some sort of infectious agent. And it naturally followed that this same assumption of disease cause was extrapolated into the human CJD contextthe presumed microorgani sm had now jumped from cows into humans. But this was no more than unproven hypothesis, and it still remains that way today. Not surprisingly, only a handful of folk had insight into the unsavory world of the meat and bone meal (MBM) rendering business. But for anyone who had scratched the mere surface of the global distribution of British MBM products, it became strikingly obvious that the very mainstay of the official hypothesis was radically flawed. For instance, during the 1980s thousands of tons of this very same incriminated MBM was exported to cattle far ms in BSE-free countries such as the Middle East, Malta and South Africa. Officials have always brushed this challenge aside, arguing that the cattle in these countries did not receive sufficiently large doses of scrapie to contract BSE. But this contrad
[CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] UN team links DU shells to plutonium
-Caveat Lector- So this is what happens to spent fuel from nuclear power plants that are so clean and safe? We do not properly dispose of it at all but bomb people with it? I do not understand. Is that what this says? Why do we do such a thing? This is evil. Isn't this banned by some treaty, if not common decency? Amelia - Original Message - From: "Steve Wingate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: [CTRL] UN team links DU shells to plutonium > -Caveat Lector- > > THURSDAY JANUARY 18 2001 > > UN team links DU shells to plutonium > > BY MICHAEL EVANS DEFENCE EDITOR JOHN PHILLIPS AND JAMES > ROBSON > > THE European Parliament called for a moratorium by the United States > and Britain on depleted uranium weapons yesterday. The appeal came as > a United Nations team said it was examining fragments of DU found in > Kosovo for traces of plutonium. > > Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, rejected the call and said that British > forces would continue to use DU weapons unless there was scientific > evidence proving there was a link to cancer-related illnesses. > > The focus on plutonium followed the discovery by a laboratory working for > the UN Environment Programme (Unep) of small amounts of Uranium 236, > a more radioactive isotope, in the DU fragments. Pekka Haavisto, > chairman of the Unep investigation team, which visited DU sites in Kosovo > last year, said: "U-236 is much more radioactive than depleted uranium." > > Traces of U-236 were also found by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear > Safety Authority, which had also been sent samples from Kosovo. > However, Mr Haavisto, a former Finnish Environment Minister, said that the > minute traces found would not change the "overall picture of radiological > effects". Nevertheless, the discovery indicated that the DU used in the > shells came from uranium that had been reprocessed from nuclear power > station fuel and could include elements of plutonium, potentially a far more > hazardous material. > > President Ciampi of Italy said yesterday that Nato had a duty to prove > conclusively that depleted uranium had not caused widespread deaths > from leukaemia among peacekeeping troops serving in the Balkans. > > The risks to the military and civilians, including the local population, would > have to be clarified, he said. His strongly worded speech was delivered to > Italian troops serving with the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo at > their headquarters in Pec. > > Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times > Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. To inquire about a licence to > reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication website. > > > ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES > http://www.anomalous-images.com > > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Skolnick - The Rev. Jesse Jackson Affair
-Caveat Lector- Skolnick's word is the gospel on this list as long as he is bashing conservatives. When it is a liberal, he is unreliable. Ditto Konformist. Personally, I find both of them highly unreliable. Skolnick insists Coca-Cola has real cocaine in it to this day, flown in through Canada. One of those little strips like the police use would detect even minute amounts and it is just not there. I tried it. They are both buffoons. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Samantha L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:27 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Skolnick - The Rev. Jesse Jackson Affair > -Caveat Lector- > > In a message dated 1/18/01 9:46:13 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Skolnick - The Rev. > > Jesse Jackson Affair > > By Sherman H. Skolnick > > Are there those on the list who think of Skolnick's info as generally > reliable? I believe it was Skolnick who made the dire prediction about three > years ago that by a certain date, Clinton would completely dismantle the > Social Security system. I waited until that date to see if the prediction > came true and it didn't. I never paid much attention to him after that. > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Skolnick makes dire predictions > and is even specific, and then nothing happens. > > Samantha > > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org > 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 > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archiv es of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl > > 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 > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Fw: [CTRL] LA Weekly: Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster
-Caveat Lector- These laws have been on the books for decades. The Secret Service was just doing their job. They are required BY LAW to fully investigate ANY threat, even in jest on the life of ANY presidential party, the Supreme Court, or statement concerning the overthrow of the government. If you do not believe me, just threaten a Democrat--say Billy Jeff--and you, too, will be the proud recipient of just such a visit. It is not a partisan thing. This law was made when politicians were being assassinated for real. And often. And somebody did just try to blow up the capitol building. These things have to be investigated because one never knows when to take seriously such comments. notice how Leo, Letterman, etc. always stop short of "death" jokes. This post did not say what was the consequence of the Supreme Court being "wanted." I think this guy was asking for it and this site sounds like it is, too. But blaming it on Bush---? Oh, pluh--eese! These laws are 30 years old. Some people will try anything. Amelia - Original Message - From: "DIG alfred webre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: [CTRL] LA Weekly: Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster > -Caveat Lector- > > http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/09/offbeat.shtml > January 19 - 25, 2001 > Offbeat: Bush Web Intrigue by Johnny Angel > Edited by Gale Holland > > Secret Service intimidates anti-Bush webmaster > > The 2nd of January was already a pretty rotten day for Wheaton, Maryland, > resident Mike Hershdorfer, laboring at his computer under the pall of one of > the harshest Eastern winters on record. But it got a lot rottener at 2:20 > p.m., > when the Webmaster for the anti-Bush political site > www.bushoccupation.com answered a knock at the door to find two Secret > Service agents and a > Montgomery County police officer. > > The agents gave a vague explanation of investigating a tip about Web-site > activity, Hershdorfer said. As he > stood in the doorway with the dogs barking, the agents repeatedly pressed to > enter his home. "I got the > distinct impression that they were not going to leave unless I let them > inside, so I did," Hershdorfer > recalled in an interview this week. > > The agents declined to say who made the tip, or what was said. They asked > Hershdorfer for a list of Web > sites he had visited, and for permission to search his house and review his > medical records. They also > asked him how he felt about the Clintons and Bush - and whether he had ever > threatened to blow up the > White House. Meanwhile, the police officer stood in the corner, saying he was > there "to protect me," an > incredulous Hershdorfer remembered. > > In the course of the hourlong interrogation, Hershdorfer's roommate Patty > happened to telephone. After > he had explained the situation, she rang up her lawyer stepfather, who > instructed her to tell Hershdorfer to > keep quiet and to refuse a search. > > Hershdorfer told the agents he suspected the tip had come from someone with > the right-wing Free > Republic Web site, which he had begun monitoring following media accounts of > Freeper harassment of > Democratic veep candidate Joe Lieberman and others. "I told the agents I felt > intimidated and that my > rights were under threat," Hershdorfer said. They packed up their notes and > left. > > Hershdorfer told OffBeat he closely monitors bushoccupation.com and a related > e-group; neither has > posted a threat, he claims. "I'm trying to organize in the middle left, not > with people who want to blow > things up," he said. The strongest language on bushoccupation.com is: "We are > dedicated to opposing the > extraconstitutional and illegitimate occupation of [the] U.S. government by > George W. Bush and the > people using him as a front man for the extreme right-wing anti-democratic > operatives." Hershdorfer also > has put up "Wanted" posters with photographs of the five U.S. Supreme Court > justices who halted the > Florida ballot recount, handing Bush the presidential election. > > Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin refused to comment on Hershdorfer's case, > but said it's standard > procedure to investigate any report of a threat against the president or > president-elect. "It only takes a > minute to pull a post off a Web site, as you know," said Mackin. "We don't > care about anyone's > politics." > > Hershdorfer remains shaken by the experience, and thinks that he will > probably never know who his > accusers were - just that they made a miserable day more miserable. Mission > accomplished, one > imagines. > > > -Johnny Angel > > __ > EcoNews Service - Always online for Exopolitics & a Universe Ecology. > EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ > Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing prop
[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft and Racism: Breaking the Code
-Caveat Lector- Reminds me of Clinton and Gore giving interviews to the likes of Hustler, RolligStone, MotherEarth, etc. Guess that means they approve of every article and product ever published in those magazines, according to your logic. Well, we know they APPROVE of drug use and have done so but they have others arrested for it yet RollingStone has had many pro-drug articles. So guess they just lie about it and then have people arrested anyway? This is silly--people often give interviews with magazines that they do not endorse every word ever printed in. If you are saying Clinton and Gore DO endorse every article that has ever appeared in these magazines that they have given interviews, do YOU know what they have printed over the years? Hustler is trash and soft-porn so you may be right about an interview guaranteeing endorsement. Sounds right for Clinton anyway. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Samantha L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft and Racism: Breaking the Code > -Caveat Lector- > > In a message dated 1/19/01 10:24:50 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Biden neglected to bring up the fact that Ashcroft went out of his > > way to praise Southern Partisan during his 1998 interview -- when he said > > that the magazine "helps set the record straight" and lauded it for > > "defending Southern patriots" such as Jefferson Davis, the vehement > advocate > > of slavery who was president of the Confederacy. > > One of the Dem Senators did bring that up. Something like, "Senator > Ashcroft, if you did not know what the Sothern Partisan stood for, how is it > that you were able to praise them for the work they do?" Ashcroft really > stumbled over that answer, stuttering to the effect that one of his > assistants had advised him beforehand that it was a good magazine. >If Ashcroft lavished praise without knowing the facts, he's a cheap word > whore. If he lavished praised knowing full well what the rag was about yet > not owning up to it, he's a cheap liar. Either way, he's cheap. > Whatever happened to the 'politics of personal responsibility'? Words flow > out of the mouths of people like Shrub and Ash that have no connection > whatsoever with their intentions. DUH. > > Samantha > > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org > 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 > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archiv es of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl > > 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 > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] 452 felonscast votes illegally in Broward
-Caveat Lector- Published Friday, January 19, 2001, in the Miami Herald 452 felons cast votes illegally in Broward Hundreds of other ballots in doubt BY LISA ARTHUR, GEOFF DOUGHERTY AND WILLIAM YARDLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] At least 452 felons voted illegally at the polls in Broward County on Nov. 7, casting more doubt on the effectiveness of state laws to protect the integrity of the ballot box, a Herald investigation has found. The tainted votes -- found during a review of 587,928 votes cast in Broward -- underscore concerns about the failure of Florida's multimillion-dollar effort to prevent election fraud by eliminating dead and illegal voters from the registration rolls. An earlier investigation by The Herald found that of 2.3 million votes reviewed in 22 counties, at least 789 Florida felons cast ballots. That investigation found 30 absentee votes cast by felons in Broward. Joseph Cotter, assistant supervisor of elections in Broward, said he's surprised there were that many. ``No felon should be voting,'' he said. ``We try to keep the rolls clean, but I know the problems and limits of the information we're working with.'' Like other supervisors around the state, Cotter faulted the ``inaccurate'' anti-fraud effort the state undertook after the 1997 Miami mayoral race was overturned because it was rife with fraud. The state Division of Elections hired Boca Raton-based Database Technologies Inc. to compare voter registration rolls to criminal databases and lists of dead people. The lists cast a wide net, and thousands who were eligible to vote found themselves excluded. Some counties used the list to clean up their voting rolls. Broward sent out about 4,000 certified letters to targeted voters. After an outcry here and accusations around the state that the data was unreliable and riddled with bad information, Broward adopted an honor system. ``The state itself said we could not depend on the accuracy of the data,'' Cotter said. ``We got hundreds of calls from people saying they were not felons. So we told people it was their responsibility to have us remove them from the list if they actually were felons who had not had their rights restored.'' State records show that the 67 supervisors of elections were told of the lists' limitations, that the matches were graded as ``possible'' and ``probable,'' and that the responsibility of verifying the accuracy of the matches was theirs. ``We wanted these lists to be fairly broad and encompassing,'' Emmett ``Bucky'' Mitchell, a former Florida Division of Elections lawyer who headed the purge effort, told The Herald in December. ``It was never intended to be a cure-all.'' Some counties such as Duval and Palm Beach essentially ignored the list. Others treated it with great skepticism and did very little with it, interviews with supervisors have shown. In addition to the difficulty of coming up with a way to administer and enforce the laws against felons voting, the laws themselves have been attacked by civil-liberties advocates. Several groups have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the process -- which requires felons to complete what some call burdensome paperwork -- discriminates against blacks. Florida is one of 14 states with such policies. Deerfield Beach resident Douglas Griffin says the law is unfair. He has voted regularly since he was released from prison in 1990 after serving time for an aggravated child-abuse conviction. In the 2000 presidential election, the registered Democrat said he voted for Vice President Al Gore. ``I just went [and] my name was on the [rolls] so I just voted. I wasn't supposed to? Well, I didn't know that,'' Griffin said Thursday. Griffin, 45, said he has been registered since he turned 18 and votes every chance he gets. He said he believed his voting rights were restored upon his release. ``From my understanding it was after X amount of years without any criminal act, after you're released,'' he said. ``Why should it always slap me in the face? That's like going through a ghost house. It's all behind me. It's over and done.'' Charles Bodziak said he was released from prison in 1993 after serving time for several convictions, including burglary and theft. He said he registered to vote when he applied for a driver's license six years ago. I told them I was a felon, and I said, `You sure I can vote?' She said `Yes, I don't see any problem with it,' '' Bodziak, 55, of Fort Lauderdale, recalled Thursday. ``I was surprised, but then I thought, after I served my time, why shouldn't I be able to vote? I didn't mean nothing wrong by it.'' Miriam Oliphant, Broward's newly elected supervisor of elections who took office 14 days ago, says she believes people like Griffin and Bodziak truly don't know they are ineligible to vote. ``They think it is all OK after they serve their time,'' Oliphant said. ``My job now is to educate people, improve communication with the state, intervene and prevent it from happening in the f
[CTRL] Fw: WE DREAM AGAIN!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "THE OUTRAGE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Outraged Recipients" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: WE DREAM AGAIN! > WE HAVE A DREAM! > > Also a tradition. Every year they light a big tree in Rockefeller > Center at Christmas, and Scrooge has his recurring nightmares. Every > New Year's Eve Grandma Outrage has one too many sherries and sleeps on > the sofa. Everyone has their traditions, and one of our favorites is > the dream we have every year after we finish the toasts on Martin Luther > King, Jr. day: > > We have a dream. Someday, in this great land of ours, people, including > even lawyers and political activists, will come to believe that > character really does matter. > > We have a dream. We will no longer deify people who plagiarize their > doctoral theses. If a man takes the title of Reverend, we'll expect him > to honor at least a few of the Ten Commandments. If a married man > competes with Hugh Hefner for sexual conquests we won't feel compelled > to listen to his moral wisdom. > > We have a dream. Someday black churches in America will not be > manipulated as institutional power bases by ambitious black men. We're > starting to worry that the good reverends are using the Borgia Popes as > their role models. We dream that the day will come when lawyers and > politicians stop cynically using race as leverage to increase their > wealth and power. > > We have a dream. Someday, quiet people leading lives of unheralded > virtue and real productivity will be honored. Someday all people, black > and white, will realize that the real heroes aren't the ones giving > speeches filled with bombastic rhetoric. Real heroes are quietly doing > real work: building houses, writing software code, nursing the elderly, > parenting the young - the whole cornucopia of human endeavor that > actually results in better lives for real people. > > We have a dream. Someday holidays will really matter, instead of serving > as crass, meaningless tools of political correctness. People will > actually give thanks on Thanksgiving. Christians will actually celebrate > the birth of Christ on Christmas. New Year's Day will mean something > other than recovering from a hangover and watching football on the tube. > > We have a dream. Someday Americans will realize that there's something > perverse about the idea of devoting an equal amount of time, and > reverence, to: > · A single civil rights leader > · All of America's presidents including founding fathers like George > Washington and Thomas Jefferson > · And the thousands of men and women who have died defending the United > States in wartime. > Yet we have one day for Presidents Day, one day for Memorial Day, and > one day to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. > > We have a dream. Although we're as sentimental as the next fool, we hope > that someday we'll all realize that early death does not qualify one for > sainthood. Whether it be John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, > Princess Diana, or Martin Luther King Jr., dying young may be the road > to legend, but hardly a guarantee that the life was worth remembering, > much less celebrating. > > Our final dream is that the day will come in America when one can > criticize black cultural icons without being labeled a racist. We call > this the impossible dream. > > RAGEBACK! > > Does Martin Luther King Jr. deserve a national holiday? > http://www.theoutrage.com/rageback/00-01-15.html#soundoff > > Read what others have to say: > http://www.theoutrage.com/rageback/00-01-15.html#rage > > > > > OUTRAGEOUS QUOTE! > > I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a > nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by > the content of their character. > -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), speech in Washington DC, August 27, > 1963 > > - > > Subscribing and Unsubscribing > > If for any reason you need to change your mailing address just > unsubscribe your old mailing address and subscribe your new address. You > can subscribe and unsubscribe at: http://www.athensnm.net/lists > > When unsubscribing, remember you must use the same address you used to > sign up for the list. > > > > Please be sure to include your e-mail address in any correspondence. > > Thanks for listening, and stay outraged! > Copyright 2001, The Outrage > > > > > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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] Ashcroft approval rising
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/19/2001 6:16:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << As Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into Attorney General-nominee John Ashcroft stretched into Day No. 3, a new poll says Americans are giving the former U.S. senator higher approval ratings than before the hearings began earlier this week. >> Fabulous. I had heard that stuff floats, but now it has been proven scientifically. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] Mississippi Releases Secret Documents
-Caveat Lector- AP National Mississippi Releases Secret Documents by PAUL PAYNE Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- After examining the burned-out station wagon of three civil rights workers who vanished in Mississippi, an investigator from a secret state agency concluded in 1964 there were no signs of foul play. The revelation about the infamous case, in which the three turned out to have been slain, was included in 1,800 pages of documents released Thursday from the files of the state-funded Sovereignty Commission. It was the third and final cache of papers released by the state and shed new light on some of the darkest days of the civil rights struggle. Documents show the commission, which was created in 1957 and disbanded in 1973, kept tabs on more than 87,000 suspected subversives and civil rights sympathizers. Headed by state legislators, governors and white businessmen opposed to desegregation, the group was pledged to preserve the status quo in the segregated South. ''It's a very important story that needs to be told so that Mississippians can understand what happens when the government is allowed to operate in secrecy,'' said David Ingebretsen of the American Civil Liberties Union. Documents show the group played on the fears of blacks and others by using tactics that sometimes cost civil rights sympathizers their jobs. In one document, a commission agent who examined the three freedom riders' station wagon said there was ''no physical evidence that these three civil rights workers have met with foul play other than the burned car, which could easily be part of a hoax.'' The bodies of the workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were later found buried beneath an earthen dam. No one has been convicted of the murders, although seven Klansmen were convicted of federal conspiracy charges. Some scholars said the agency appeared to be a cross between the Keystone Kops and the Soviet Union's KGB. ''It had a certain comic quality to it, but their actions also had some vicious results,'' said Joe Parker, a political science professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Parker said the spy group had produced a primitive documentary-style segregationist propaganda film called ''Message from Mississippi.'' ''They were nefarious on the one hand and inept on the other,'' said Jerry Mitchell, a veteran newspaper reporter portrayed in the 1996 civil-rights movie ''Ghosts of Mississippi''. The spy agency was disbanded after Gov. William Waller vetoed funding in 1973. The Legislature tried to seal the documents but a federal judge ordered them made public in 1998. Some are available on the Internet. ''We're now filling in the gaps in what is probably the most important chapter in this state's history,'' Ingebretsen said. A total of 132,000 pages of commission documents have been made public since 1998. = On the Web: http://www.mdah.state.ms.us AP-NY-01-19-01 1740EST< 01/19/2001 Newsday Classifieds http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] US Admits To Mad Sheep, Deer, And Elk
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/19/01 9:15:14 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The U.S. government has banned beef from BSE-infected countries, ordered > vaccines from infected countries replaced and has placed bans on certain > blood donations. Research labs used to use fetal calf serum (and likely still do.) Clear vitamin capsules are made using gelatin (?) from cows. There are other gelatin products out there too. I wonder what cow stuff is in vaccines? Samantha http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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] "Who Is Hooverizing Jesse Jackson?"
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Who Is Hooverizing Jesse Jackson?
by Carla Binion
In light of the recent media furor about Jesse Jackson's extramarital affair
and "love child," I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton's comment, "A puritan is
a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things." The
situation also brings to mind the widely known and clearly documented fact
that during the 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI attempted to stop Martin Luther
King's political activities by threatening to make his private sexual
escapades public.
This is not to say the Jackson story should be swept under the rug, but it
should be put into proportion and context. As happened during the Clinton
scandal, some critics: (1) are not viewing the facts in a thoughtful,
proportional way, and (2) in some cases, they are making political hay with
the information.
Jackson and some supporters say he has "sinned" and has hurt others. They
say he is trying to make amends. Of course, he should do whatever his
conscience guides him to do. Beyond that, if his political opponents turn
his private life into fodder to undermine his political work, they are
unethical -- and not just in a puritanical sense.
The puritanical folks who stole the election seem to be ones most
mouth-foamingly irate about Jackson's sex life. However, some of them have
no righteous indignation left for the G. W. Bush team's infidelity to public
health and safety.
An example of infidelity to the public's well-being is this item from The
Nation (Robert Dreyfuss, "Bush's Hammer," 1/22/01.) According to Dreyfuss,
Tom DeLay (R-Tx) "controls the single most powerful political machine in
Washington, running the Republican caucus in the House like a private fiefdom
and maintaining unparalled ties to the class of Washington lobbyists,
political action committees, law firms and money men."
Dreyfuss reports that DeLay is pushing Congress to gut public-protecting
health, safety and environmental regulations; remove limits on campaign
contributions; and privatize Social Security and Medicare. If Jackson's
private life is the wrong place to "pour righteous indigation," Tom DeLay's
public life is the right place.
However, before we veer further from the subject of the unethical nature of
puritanical, politically opportunistic sexual McCarthyism, let's take a
closer look at what Hoover's FBI did to Martin Luther King. The FBI's
harassment of King is documented in U. S. Senate Select Committee reports.
In the mid-1970s, Senator Frank Church led the Senate intelligence committee
in investigating earlier abuses by the FBI and other clandestine agencies.
The FBI's efforts to thwart Martin Luther King are also documented in Kathryn
S. Olmsted's "Challenging the Secret Government" (The University of North
Carolina Press, 1996), and in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's "The
COINTELPRO Papers," (South End Press, 1990.)
At the time of her book's publication, Olmsted was a lecturer in history at
the University of California at Davis. Churchill and Vander Wall are
researchers, and their book is described by author, linguist and political
critic Noam Chomsky as an "extensively documented study [that] lends much
credibility to their supposition that 'COINTELPRO lives on,' and efforts to
organize poor and oppressed people and dissident movements will be targeted
for destruction by state power."
Kathryn Olmsted cites a U. S. Senate Select Committee report ("Intelligence
Activities, vol. 2, Huston Plan, 23 September 1975, p. 31) as her reference
source for the following. Olmstead writes:
"The most egregious example of the FBI's abuse of authority was its
harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Not only had the bureau bugged and
wiretapped the civil rights leader, but it had also engaged in a concerted
program to knock him [and this is a direct quote from the Senate Select
Committe report] 'off his pedestal and to reduce him completely in
influence.'"
Olmsted writes that the FBI gossiped to congressmen, university officials and
others about King, claiming he was dangerous and immoral. Olmsted notes
that shortly before King was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he
received an anonymous tape in the mail -- a tape that "purportedly recorded
him engaged in extramarital affairs."
A letter was sent along with the tape. It was eventually revealed that the
letter was written by assistant FBI director William Sullivan. Again, based
on the Senate Select Committe's report ("Intelligence Activites, vol. 2,
Huston Plan, 23 September 1975, p. 33.) Sullivan's letter read: "King,
there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have
just 34 days in which to do it." King assumed this was a suggestion he
commit suicide, says Olmsted.
Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall refer to a memorandum from William
Sullivan to an Alan H. Belmont. The memo is quoted in full in U. S.
Congress, Joint Committee on Assassinations, Hearings on the Investigation of
the Assassina
