[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- You might want to do a bit more research on vouchers before getting so upset. That is not the way they work and they WILL have the money to use to educate their children in the school of their choice. It will not require anybody to be wealthy to educate their children as the vouchers are issued based on the child, not income with a set amount per child. This amount will fully cover the cost of the education of that child and will be sufficient for that at a number of schools. Most blacks are for the idea as they can then send their children to schools outside the black neighborhoods. It will give parents a choice and they will not be forced to use a particular school that is now assigned to them. The schools will then compete to become more what the parents instead of the almighty government want. Hopefully, less indoctrination and more education. Amelia - Original Message - From: "inri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers??? -Caveat Lector- because, otherwise, those who can't afford to pay for their education won't get one. you can afford to pay for multiple educations while not jeopordizing your high standard of living. therefore, it is your responsibility. do you want to live in a society where the vast majority of people cannot afford to educate themselves? well, george bush DOES - and if you do not voice the other opinion (my opinion) and continue to contribute to public education, this WILL be the outcome. forget about yourself for a moment and think of the welfare of others less fortunate than yourself - and fortunate is it, man - you're where you are by chance and if you deny that you're daft. once again, this is their responsibility as it does not jeopordize their high standard of living. even the poorest in america have more than the lower classes in india. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- would you care to describe to me the high standard of living I had as a child? Did you know me? i don't need to. you were regularly fed and you recieved an education. therefore, you had a much higher standard of living than most people on the planet. you may take those two things for granted, and all people SHOULD have the right to them, but the reality is that most don't. the fact that you are able to wear clean underpants every day gives you an extremely high standard of living. We do have people in this country that can not afford to educate themselves. Currently, we take money sometimes $1+ per student per year and send them to a place where there is strong possiblity that at the end of four years we'll have, as a result of the $4 spent, a person that cannot read a job application or a childrens's novel and can't figure out change on a ten dollar bill if a transaction costs $8.25. Would you care to cite for me the private schools where this is the case? i disagree with the 'strong possibility' designation and if you want me to take you seriously you're going to have to cite me statistics from a reliable source. yes, there are some people that have problems with this. in canada, anyways, they have programs for these people - they are put into special classes [put may be a strong word; we have seperate academic levels that students follow within the same school. in order to stay in, for example, the 'advanced' program one would need to maintain a certain average. otherwise, they are refused entry and put in a general program. if they don't meet the general program requirements, which is where the kids you are speaking of would fall in, they are put in the 'basic' program. this is what i am speaking of in the next few lines. some schools, like the one i was at, also have 'enriched' programs for the really bright kids.] where they are taught essential life skills instead of academics. the same curriculum, with very subtle changes, is retaught over again throughout the 5 years - this way the kids get it straight. instead of doing book reports in senior english, they take spelling courses. some even make it to college. others drop out, but that's their choice - a choice that is usually based on outside influences. if a kid can't cut it in the special programs, they are put into the 'alternate' program - where they are taught almost one-on-one the VERY basics that they need in order to get by. some kids can't, or choose not to, excel even in these programs - there's not much else you can do for them, but their numbers are extraordinarily low. remember that most of the western world shares literacy rates of higher than 95%, most are at 97, 98, 99 and some even boast of being at 100! students in private schools just get booted out if they can't follow the material. that way the statistics are more favourable. by getting money involved, yes, SOME people will benefit but the vast majority will suffer. competition will skyrocket, and so will prices. but let me get this straight: i don't doubt that your school system needs an overhaul, most americans i speak to online are uneducated gun-crazy lunatics, but privatizing schools is a completely ass-backwards way to go about it. We provide various forms of assistance to poor people in this country. We provide food stamps, yet you don't have to spend them at a government food store. We provide some medical coverage, which many private doctors will honor. In some cases, we send a check which can be cashed and spent on whatever the hell the recipient would like to buy. Why not give poor people another check and say "here, find yourself a good school for your child. One that provides as much or as little academic rigor, structure, and moral training as you desire." ? because, as i said earlier, this will lead to segregation in schools. do you think that middle class kids are going to get to go to schools as good as extremely wealthy kids? do you think that poor kids will get to go to schools as good as the middle class kids? what 'class' do most minorities fall into? supply and demand will set in, schools will raise prices...universities will cut deals with high schools.HIGH SCHOOLS WILL BECOME CHAIN-OPERATED BEAUROCRACIES RUN BY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS. elementary schools will become corporate brainwashing centers. god, could you imagine what would happen if aol or microsoft or exxon or dupont got into the business of running elementary schools? the rockefellars and the harriman's will have the minorities EXACTLY where they want them - subject to everything from vaccine testing to just plain out purposely bad schooling with awful teachers. propaganda through films will skyrocket. guess what will happen to the heroin usage rate/distribution curve and if they don't fall into the bell curve that george w. bush speaks so highly of? Dear Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, i'm sorry but your son Johnny, (13), has
[CTRL] what the...
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010115/ts/iraq_usa_dc_2.html i don't know what to think of this.. any ideas? extortion? propaganda? brain damage? inri np: nirvana - nevermind A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- You might want to do a bit more research on vouchers before getting so upset. That is not the way they work and they WILL have the money to use to educate their children in the school of their choice. It will not require anybody to be wealthy to educate their children as the vouchers are issued based on the child, not income with a set amount per child. This amount will fully cover the cost of the education of that child and will be sufficient for that at a number of schools. until the schools start raising prices as the market dictates, of course. surely the tuition will not be REQUIRED to be the amount handed out as a voucher - otherwise, what would the purpose of privatizing be? do you suggest that the government should regulate the prices? in that case, why bother with the whole thing at all? surely not to make the insignificant portion of the population that goes to private schools nowadays more happy. if the issue is getting out of the ghetto, i have a story for you: i attended a school outside of my district simply because i applied to and because my marks in jr. high were good enough to justify it. if this loophole is not available in the US perhaps this is something you should look into as it would save a lot of time, effort and dangerous circumstances for the future of your country. this is definately an attempt at segregation. now, of course, certain schools will be set up as 'voucher schools'. but i wouldn't want to send my kids to one of those. as they will simply replace the inner city schools of today. Most blacks are for the idea as they can then send their children to schools outside the black neighborhoods. assuming they get accepted [remember - these are private schools. acceptance is not guaranteed]. once these schools start getting run by people with bad race recordswhich is, of course, inevitable as they're the ones with all of the capital.. i'm sorry amelia, but you've gotta look deeper than what they're telling you on the surface. you're regurgitating *exactly* what they're trying to cram down your throat. please read my other reply for a better argument.. inri A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] ANOTHER SHAPESHIFTER WHITE HOUSE
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANOTHER SHAPESHIFTER WHITE HOUSE Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 7:19 AM BUSH TAKES THE OATH: ANOTHER SHAPESHIFTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE. by David Icke Saturday, January 20th, 2001, will be remembered as a dark day for human freedom - the day that George W. Bush took the oath on the same Freemasonic Bible used by George Washington and became the 43rd President of the United States. It is not George W. Bush that is truly the problem, it is all that he represents. Bush ("Shrub") is president in name only, of course. The real power is with others behind the scenes, like his father George Bush and those of even greater authority than he, like Henry Kissinger and other leg-men for the Illuminati. We can see this clearly in the people the Shrub has appointed to "his" cabinet. It is like a roll call of Illuminati placemen that served under his father and other child abusers, rapists, and serial killers like Gerald Ford. Alongside them are a stream of Illuminati operatives from corporate America, including ALCOA, the Aluminum cartel controlled by the infamous Mellon family, those close friends of the British royal family. It is ALCOA and the Mellons who gave us fluoride, a poison and mind suppressant, in public drinking water. Shrub's vice-president, Dick Cheney, was his father's Defence Secretary and together they launched the "NATO" (British-American) war on Iraq in 1991. Cheney, as exposed by Cathy O'Brien in Trance-Formation of America, is yet another mind controller, child abuser, and serial killer. Colin Powell, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was America's highest military commander during the Gulf War and you do not get to that level unless you know what people like Father George and Cheney are involved in. Powell, like the Bushes and Cheney, is bloodline and that's why he is to be the new Secretary of State. Given that line-up and their mentality and agenda, don't be at all surprised if the United States finds itself in another manipulated war during this administration. You will see "monsters" being created in the public mind to justify such action. The Bush inauguration marks the start of the massive push by the Illuminati to further their agenda for a global fascist state. You will see this clearly unfolding in the next 24 months and, as usual, watch what they do, not what they say. The Bush administration will be a cold, calculating, vicious, period of human history. I know people who have met the Shrub during his period as Governor of Texas and cold, calculating, and vicious, as well as staggeringly unintelligent, are words they chose to describe him. But those who will be dictating the actions of his presidency make him look like a puppy dog. Or maybe lapdog would be more appropriate. Even many of those who still deny any evidence of a global fascist state emerging before our eyes will be shocked out of their comatose state by the time the Shrub leaves office. Indeed, probably long before. Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] VulgarKlintoonAdmin Vandalizes Air Force One White House
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/25/2001 8:29:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: quietly ?? I've heard about it on the net and at least three TV news stations. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] WP: Deutch Had Signed Plea Agreement, Sources Say
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/25/2001 8:41:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But Clinton's pardon of Deutch rendered the issue moot. Phillips declined further comment. This was the unforgivable pardon. You'll notice there's little about it in the general news. There's all that blatherskite about some stupid millionaire on that. This pardon outweighs any other, and Clinton should be ashamed of it. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- I live in a primarily white suburb; most of the people I know moved here and paid for good schools, highe taxes than most suburban cities, but it was to escape this black plague in the schools. In other words, most whites fled from the cities to get away from these people.and we had a right to so do. I believe in segregation by choice, but if it would be done by law or any other way, I would be in complete approval. We were warned not to buy a house in Columbus, Ohio because blacks carried knives and little guns, and I got a good example of black life in Columbus in particular when I remember a beautiful little blonde girl who worked for a living in a covenient store - three ugly blacks came into the store, and for no reason the 14 year old black girl with sawed off shotgun, shot her in the face and tore half her face off. You think I would want any of my family to be around such garbage? Shootings and shoot bys for no reason..ever look into the face of some of these animals? Working in a Court I saw them and what I saw I did not like. Generalization of a race - well maybe, but in the suburbs such animals should tread softlyand if it takes vouchers to segregae the animals from our kids, I am all for it. So if any whites out there want to send their kids to these black schools I do not care.if they want to intermarry with blacks, I do not care. But a 100 years from now, my grandchildren will still be blonde haired and blue or gray eyes - and above all white.do not want any Al Sharptons or Whoopie Goldbergs in my family. So more power to you George Bush.separating wheat from chaff? Did you get a load of those two animals who murdered five white people - sodomized the women, raped and tortured them? Did they get the idea to so do when Jesse Jackson told them to take to the streets? Do I want to live around these people? Well to each his own...guess AIDS has been chosen as the final solution - so do not get caught in this trap. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] VulgarKlintoonAdmin Vandalizes Air Force One White House
In a message dated 1/26/01 5:08:13 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: quietly ?? I've heard about it on the net and at least three TV news stations. Prudy its on all the wires.
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: {slick-d} CNN Fires Hundreds of Staffers!!!
-Caveat Lector- Shocked employees are being told to pack it up and get out in hours as layoffs hit the once-mighty allnews network CNN this week. Hundreds of fired staffers are forced to sign papers agreeing to release and severance pay. Security card-keys and IDs are confiscated, but not before passwords on their work computers are changed, preventing them from retrieving personal files and cutting them off from their e-mail. Some are returning to their desks to find their telephones disconnected. The NEW YORK POST's Adam Buckman reports that uniformed security guards stand and watch as the dismissed - some crying - clean out their desks. The guards then escort them like common criminals to the exits. There's nothing different here than has happened in any number of other companies who have also had layoffs over the past decade... It SOP to have those laid off sign severance agreements, and to deactivate their card keys and computer logons; it is also not uncommon to have security guards on hand. Hey, if you were an employee who was NOT laid off, wouldn't you want some measures taken to make sure that your coworkers who did get laid off didn't at the very least vandalize property, including computer systems, or at worst 'go postal'? "I felt like a criminal, a crook, a loser," one fired on-air talent told the DRUDGE REPORT late Tuesday. "Maybe I am all those and more, I worked here for so many years. I'll never be able to log on to AOL again, without feeling blind rage." Hey, when I used to have an AOHell account, I almost always felt blind rage when I logged in -- or more accurately, attempted to log in to a system that more often than not has all access lines busy... I really experienced blind rage once I was able to get in, and was constantly confronted with evidence that my emails were being censored by AOHell, and that they were in bed with the fedspooks, who took inordinate interest in some very innocuous private chat rooms June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Barr introduces bill to repeal US Gov sanctioned assassinati...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Ruppert) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (From The Wilderness) HOUSE BILL PROPOSES LIFTING BAN ON ASSASSINATIONS BUSH ADMINISTRATION WASTING NO TIME IN MOVING TOWARD WAR FOOTING Armitage The Executioner FTW 1/24/01 - HR 19, Introduced by Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr on January 3, 2001, the first day of the new 107th Congress, would legislatively repeal sections of three Executive Orders specifically prohibiting assassinations by the United States Government. Entitled the "Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001", the bill, submitted to the House International Relations Committee, would specifically nullify sections of three previous Executive Orders including one initiated by Ronald Reagan in 1981. It is interesting to note that acts of Congress are not required to nullify previous Executive Orders (EOs) which are, by definition, orders issued by the President and Commander in Chief to all federal employees (including military) under his authority. All that is necessary to reverse one EO is another EO. This is exactly what President George W. Bush did with respect to EOs issued by President Clinton on the environment in the last days of his administration. Section 3 of HR 19 specifically states: "The following provisions of Executive orders shall have no further force or effect: (1) Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905. (2) Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12306. (3) Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333." [By Ronald Reagan] Section 5 (g) of Executive Order 11905, signed by Gerald Ford on 2/18/76 specifically prohibited "political" assassination. Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12036, signed 1/24/78 by Jimmy Carter renewed the ban. Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on 12/4/81 renewed the ban on assassinations, or conspiracy to commit assassinations, as part of a broader package which gave virtually complete control of the American National Security apparatus to then Vice President George H.W. Bush. The full text of HR 19 may be viewed at http://thomas.loc.gov. Enter a search in the 107th Congress for 19 and it will take you straight to the bill. The bold move, unreported and ignored by any major media, offers a chance for an early referendum on the new administration's full-speed run at a more violent and brutish foreign policy. The current bill, introduced by staunch Bush supporter and Clinton impeachment leader Barr, indicates that the Bush administration is seeking to add legitimacy to the move by implying that Congress and the American people support the action. This can only mean that there is quite likely a list of people the Bush Administration wants to start killing fairly quickly. The appointment of career covert operative and Annapolis graduate Richard Armitage as Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell only underscores the clear message that the Bush Administration is sending to the world. Armitage, who was denied a 1989 appointment as Assistant Secretary of State because of links to Iran-Contra and other scandals, served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan years. U.S. Government stipulations in the Oliver North trial specifically named Armitage as one of the DoD officials responsible for illegal transfers of weapons to Iran and the Contras. But Armitage's dirty past goes much deeper. A Vietnam veteran and graduate of Annapolis, Armitage's roots have been thoroughly intertwined with the likes of CIA veteran Ted Shackley, Richard Secord, Heine Aderholt, Elliot Abrams, Dewey Clarridge, Edwin Wilson and Tom Clines. All of these men have been directly linked to CIA covert operations, the drug trade, the abandonment of U.S. prisoners of War after Vietnam and/or Iran-Contra. Armitage has also been routinely discussed in FTW as a Bush-era covert functionary who has been linked to covert operations, drug smuggling and the expansion of organized crime operations in Russia, Central Asia and the Far East. In 1986 a private dispute between POW activist Ross Perot and Armitage went public as photos of Armitage with a topless Vietnamese nightclub owner Nguyen O'Rourke brought allegations of gambling and prostitution very close to Armitage's doorstep. The stories went public when TIME and "The Boston Globe" wrote lengthy stories on the feud in 1986 and 1987. That scandal arose as a result of 1984 investigations by President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime in which the photo and documentation of gambling charges and prostitution led directly to Armitage's close association with O'Rourke. Then LAPD Assistant Chief Jesse Brewer, a former Commanding Officer of this writer, served on the Reagan Commission. The 1992 best-seller "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" by former "60 MINUTES" producer Monika Jensen-Stevenson details Armitage's role as Reagan point man on Vietnam POW-MIA issues and describes why
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- I live in a state (New Jersey) where schools are funded by PROPERTY taxes, not income or sales taxes, so those who own homes are subsidizing renters (businesses, which include apartment buildings, are taxed differently than residential properties, and businesses pay very little school tax). Our property taxes are the highest in the nation. The biggest cry for vouchers in this state is in the primarily black districts of Newark and Elizabeth. I'd have to dig up the source, it's been a while, but it's interesting that the number 1 parental occupation of PRIVATE school students in New Jersey is.. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS! If the teachers, who are in the middle of the action, have no confidence in the public schools, why should I trust my precious children to them? Oh, I forgot, I'm not one of the elites. snort Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [TAS] GSA will seek repayment from Clinton/Gore staffers for $250,000 damage to White House for vandalism
-Caveat Lector- Source: American Spectator http://www.spectator.org/prowl/prowl.htm GSA! GSA! Facilities managers at the Old Executive Office Building and the Government Services Administration estimate it will cost as much as $250,000 to clean up the mess left by outgoing Clinton and Gore staff in the Old Executive Office Building. The Washington Post thought it funny that the outgoing crew left "pranks" for the new Bushies: prying the "W" from computer keyboards, shifting the signs on the Men's and Ladies' rooms. But according to an inspector at the GSA who was called in to inspect the vandalism, several executive desks were damaged to the point that they must be replaced, several more offices must be repainted due to graffiti. Entire computer keyboards will have to be replaced because the damage to them is more extensive than simply missing keys. "The place was a pigsty," says a new OEOB resident. "The Gore and Clinton people didn't 'clean out' the place because there was nothing clean about what they did before they left." The GSA has told the Bush administration that it will seek reimbursement for some of the expenses. That's because the GSA and maintenance office of the OEOB still has records of who inhabited the vandalized offices in the Clinton administration's final days and can collect damage costs from these former government employees. Out of the Loop It appears that the vast left-wing conspiracy that directed Clinton employees to remove "W" keys from White House-OEOB computers and generally trash the place neglected to include everyone in its scheme. Late Wednesday two former staffers, one of whom worked in Hillary Clinton's office, were spotted near Dupont Circle laughing and giggling about the mess their former colleagues left behind. "I wish someone had told me about it," one said. The other agreed: "I would have gone through all 12 computers in our office. All I did was leave a nasty cartoon for the Bush people to find, and I thought I was being funny. But I didn't know about the W's." Read more from the Washington Prowler http://www.spectator.org/prowl/prowlarchive.htm Click here to give us your feedback http://www.spectator.org/forms/letter-comment.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] 2 Klinton articles
-Caveat Lector- Funny, I've never seen any indication of tnohava's gender in any of his/her posts. Wouldn't it be a hoot if Bill Shannon's "real wussy lil' fella' " turns out to be a lady? Tenorlove LOL at the links __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- From: "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] My oh my. Yes, I think the perpetrators of a coup de etat should be frothing in righteous indignation over vandalism. It is perfectly appropriate. Bush and Clinton are racehorses from the same stable. I can't believe anyone with half a brain or a modicum of ethics can CONDONE the vandalism and theft conducted not only in the White House but on Air Force One. In the business world if a departing executive and his or her staff did what the Clintons and their staff did, the cops would be involved and arrests would be immediately forthcoming. It's disappointing that Bush has indicated he is going to sweep this under the rug, but as I said, he's from the same stable as Clinton. The White House and Air Force One are maintained by our tax dollars, so every American citizen should be outraged, if not over the blatant display of sophomoric vindictiveness of the outgoing administration, then over the blatant distruction and theft of public property. June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders
-Caveat Lector- From: "Kindred Spirit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has always been my understanding that "Caveat Lector" was there for a reason before each post and that a person could post something and not expect to be attacked personally because of the content of the post. Then you really are the idiot you come off as being... If an articel "Articel"? calls somebody a name that is not the same as the person who posted it doing so, unless they are also the author of the article. Yes, you are an idiot. Unless someone specifically puts a disclaimer of "Forwarded Without Endorsement", then it is to be expected that the person forwarding the post agrees with the sentiments expressed therein. "Caveat Lector" has nothing to do with whether the person sending the post actually agrees with the opinions expressed within the post. It just warns the reader to not necessarily accept what is posted at face value, it says nothing regarding what the person sending the post actually feels or believes about the post. So everybody endorese every article "Endorese"? they post 100% or issue an elaborate explanation. No explanation is necessary, unless the person forwarding the post does not agree with the sentiments expressed therein and is only forwarding it for information purposes only...then it is up to the person doing the forwarding to clearly state that they do not endorse what is in the post and are forwarding for information purposes only. And if they don't, they have no business wasting bandwidth on the list by whining for days that they were misunderstood. And it is very impractical because a person might endorse paragraphs 3, 5 and 7 but not 2 and 4. Then it is up to you to specifically spell out what you DO endorse, and what you do not. And failing that, you have no business bitching and moaning over the fact that people presumed you endorsed the opinions expressed in the post you forwarded. I can change my name if you do not like it. You do it all the time, Colleen, whether we like it or not... It was changed twice for me already by people just like you, once when I started to school and again to give me an anglo name. My anglo name is Abbey. I hate it. But this time I think I will cahnge it to Prudy June. Anglo names are better, aren't they? I wouldn't know. I'm not even sure what an 'Anglo name' really is... "June" comes from the latin "Juno"... Why not just stick with Colleen, Colleen? We are band and you are good. "We are band"? Is that anything like "We are Borg"? As for you, June, telling me to get a skin (scalp) on ebay, you are just too funny for words and your ethnic slur is not wasted on me. There was nothing ethnic about it, idiot. First off, I never used the word 'scalp' (and by your referencing it, I presume you are claiming to be of Native American extraction?)...I specifically told you to get a thicker skin, if you want to play with us big kids. Your continual whining, bitching, and moaning proves my point -- you are extremely thinned-skinned, and if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. I wonder why posting an article containing an ethnic or racial slur written by somebody else (and containing other more important information)is so evil but yours to me is not. Because you are an idiot, who sees ethnic slurs when the slur has nothing to do with your ethnicity, but with your tiny, pea-sized brain. Until this post of yours, I had no idea what ethnicity you claimed for yourself. And it matters not a whit what your ancestors were, it doesn't change the fact that you are still an idiot. You cannot tolerate people who do not agree with you. There are many people on this list who disagree with me...Prudy is one of them. What I really cannot tolerate is the idiocy and stupidity such as you constantly display. And for your edification, June, the People of the Hills North American Natives did not traditionally take scalps any more than your own ancestors probably did. Again, where do you get anything regarding scalps? I never once said anything about scalps, and had no idea you claim to be a Native American. Maybe you and Prudy and Nessie could go to ebay yourselves and get something to make you less hypercritical and some manners and a new decency as yours is seriously flawed. None of you contribute very much to this list And what do you define as contributing 'very much to this list'? June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the
Re: [CTRL] Hilliary and her Eye Contact
-Caveat Lector- So my present dog, kind and gentle, but if someone tries to get too close to me that she does not know - she smiles and it is enough to ward off many demons. Never heard of the alpha beta state in dogsthis K 9 training is usually kept rather secret but to program a dog to kill with a word, is no different than programming an assassin to kill with a word or phrase under hypnotic control. You hypnotize with eyes normally and drugs induce hypnotic states. Anyone who tries to hypnotize my pit bull, is in for a jolt. Thank you for the information. Saba A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] In a First Act, Bush Blocks Clinton Orders
-Caveat Lector- I am NOT and have never claimed to be a "Native American." I AM a North American Native. You have called many people Colleen. I think you and Prudy are the same person but I do not care for you are full of shit as both people. According to you, who seem to make the rules now, everybody on the list is Colleen. Scalps and skins are close enough to make your slur, much closer and directly from your mouth, unlike the one you liars accused me of making. You never post anything and like Prudy your sole function is to argue and be rude to people who do try to post.PrudyJune(formerly Kindred Spirit)--- Ynr Chyldz Wyld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- From: "Kindred Spirit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has always been my understanding that "Caveat Lector" was there for a reason before each post and that a person could post something and not expect to be attacked personally because of the content of the post. Then you really are the idiot you come off as being...If an articel "Articel"?calls somebody a name that is not the same as the person who posted it doing so, unless they are also the author of the article. Yes, you are an idiot. Unless someone specifically puts a disclaimer of "Forwarded Without Endorsement", then it is to be expected that the person forwarding the post agrees with the sentiments expressed therein. "Caveat Lector" has nothing to do with whether the person sending the post actually agrees with the opinions expressed within the post. It just warns the reader to not necessarily accept what is posted at face value, it says nothing regarding what the person sending the post actually feels or believes about the post.So everybody endorese every article "Endorese"?they post 100% or issue an elaborate explanation. No explanation is necessary, unless the person forwarding the post does not agree with the sentiments expressed therein and is only forwarding it for information purposes only...then it is up to the person doing the forwarding to clearly state that they do not endorse what is in the post and are forwarding for information purposes only. And if they don't, they have no business wasting bandwidth on the list by whining for days that they were misunderstood. And it is very impractical because a person might endorse paragraphs 3, 5 and 7 but not 2 and 4. Then it is up to you to specifically spell out what you DO endorse, and what you do not. And failing that, you have no business bitching and moaning over the fact that people presumed you endorsed the opinions expressed in the post you forwarded.I can change my name if you do not like it. You do it all the time, Colleen, whether we like it or not... It was changed twice for me already by people just like you, once when I started to school and again to give me an anglo name. My anglo name is Abbey. I hate it. But this time I think I will cahnge it to Prudy June. Anglo names are better, aren't they? I wouldn't know. I'm not even sure what an 'Anglo name' really is... "June" comes from the latin "Juno"... Why not just stick with Colleen, Colleen?We are band and you are good. "We are band"? Is that anything like "We are Borg"?As for you, June, telling me to get a skin (scalp) on ebay, you are just too funny for words and your ethnic slur is not wasted on me. There was nothing ethnic about it, idiot. First off, I never used the word 'scalp' (and by your referencing it, I presume you are claiming to be of Native American extraction?)...I specifically told you to get a thicker skin, if you want to play with us big kids. Your continual whining, bitching, and moaning proves my point -- you are extremely thinned-skinned, and if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.I wonder why posting an article containing an ethnic or racial slur written by somebody else (and containing other more important information)is so evil but yours to me is not. Because you are an idiot, who sees ethnic slurs when the slur has nothing to do with your ethnicity, but with your tiny, pea-sized brain. Until this post of yours, I had no idea what ethnicity you claimed for yourself. And it matters not a whit what your ancestors were, it doesn't change the fact that you are still an idiot. You cannot tolerate people who do not agree with you. There are many people on this list who disagree with me...Prudy is one of them. What I really cannot tolerate is the idiocy and stupidity such as you constantly display.And for your edification, June, the People of the Hills North American Natives did not traditionally take scalps any more than your own ancestors probably did. Again, where do you get anything regarding scalps? I never once said anything about scalps, and had no idea you claim to be a Native American.Maybe you and Prudy and Nessie could go to ebay yourselves and get something to make you less hypercritical and some manners and a new decency as
Re: [CTRL] A Question.....
-Caveat Lector- On 25 Jan 01, at 17:58, Arthur Hickman wrote: -Caveat Lector- Sounds like a job for you, Prudy. You have all the answers don't you? You know what. I think she does sno0wl A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Hackers
Under what circumstances do you say the death penalty? Hacking into pc's/programs containing state secrets? For me death would be cruel and unusual punishment. - Original Message - From: Steve Wingate To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:54 AM Subject: [CTRL] Hackers -Caveat Lector-I think hackers should be punished severely, including, in the most extremecases, the Death Penalty.SteveANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILEShttp://www.anomalous-images.comA HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/ADECLARATION DISCLAIMER==CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandicscreeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These aresordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups withmajor and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, andalways suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives nocredence 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.htmlA HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Ahttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/ATo 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] Was Confucius a Jesuit Priest?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99apr/9904confucius.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99apr/9904confucius2.htm -- Democracy is a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Sudan: Oil for the Taking
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sudan: Oil for the Taking Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:48 PM Part I Baroness Cox and the Chinese Connection The August 27th unsubstantiated story emanating from the London Telegraph, flashed around the internet at light speed. It alleged that 700,000 Chinese troops had amassed in Sudan, ready to slaughter the alleged Christian rebels in Southern Sudan. Within 24 hours the story was debunked as preposterous. But that does not prevent it from being repeated and even exaggerated further. Like most lies that kill, the China tale contains a grain of truth expanded to bizarre proportions. What is the truth about war, oil and Christianity in Sudan? The US press and thousands of church journals and newsletters pass along reports like the China tale as fact. But under the light of logic and experience, both the story of 700,000 Chinese and the tale of a "Christian" army in southern Sudan are about equally false. Both appear to be figments of a well-oiled and financed propaganda organization, started by House of Lords member Baroness Caroline Cox. She has now tipped her hand that her quest, like that of the Chinese, is for the oil fields of Sudan. It seems likely someone is financing her to this end. Over a year ago, We Hold These Truths published MISSIONARIES, MERCENARIES, MISSILES AND MONEY which stated that we believe that the oil-starved State of Israel is behind Ms. Cox's campaign. (http://www.whtt.org/990927cc.htm) In order to understand the fever for an international war against the government of Sudan and its coveted oil field, a brief look at Sudan's past is of value. Historians are fond of saying, "History repeats itself." In fact, just as winning football teams repeat the plays that work, powerful men repeat in the present, those acts that brought success in the past. History is just the result of these repeated acts. Today, the third battle of Khartoum is on the drawing board. The booty today is not the vast cotton plantations in the crescent of the White and Blue Nile rivers, as it was at the turn of the 20th century -- it is Sudan's oil! But the "plays" of those that would steal oil from the Sudanese are much the same as the plays used a century ago. Let us see how these men will do their best to make history repeat itself in Sudan. It was at dawn in Sudan on a warm September morning in 1898 when the British, with a huge force of more than 20,000 men, 100 guns, and gunboats of the Royal navy. began their attack on the native army that guarded the open south front to the city of Khartoum. Youthful journalist Winston Churchill was there, and British war correspondent, G.W. Stevens, wrote, "It was not a battle, but an execution." British General Kirchner suspended the battle for lunch. After eating lightly, he rode his white charger leisurely across the plain that had once held an opposing army. Mangled black bodies of about 10,000 men and numerous animals lay in heaps. None were alive by this time, as the General's policy was to take no Muslim prisoners, and the expert mounted Royal Lancers had shot or impaled the wounded and prisoners on the blades of their feared eight-foot lancers. Most of the 50,000 Khalifa warriors who attempted to defend the 34,000 inhabitants of Khartoum were armed with spears and obsolete guns. General Kirchner continued the "execution" of remaining tribes and caravans for several months. In one documented and embarrassing case, he dragged a captured and chained black Muslim leader through the city behind a horse, to the horror of the English people back home. England had once more colonized Sudan as a giant cotton farm. The "Muslim Revolt" was over. According to English Historian Alan Moorehead's, "The White Nile" the population of Sudan was reduced by 50%--to barely two million-- during the terrible years of British conquest and rule in the last-half of the 19th century. Sudan was only target practice for the brutality of the conquest of the African Gold mines four years later, commonly known as the Boer War, only four years later. English Army applied some of the brutality learned in Sudan to commandeer the world's greatest gold camps in South Africa. The British applied similar tactics to the white Dutch farmers of the Veld. Its army captured and interned the wives and children of almost every Boer farmer who was not at home to protect them, and burned their farms to the ground. By English records, more than half of the 25,000 Boers killed in the war were women and children deliberately starved and unprotected. The British came to Sudan for cotton and sweet revenge. Now another of
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Ted Kennedy is wrong person to judge Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- I am a little surprised, but not much, to see you defending this notorious drunk driver. I'm not defending Kennedy or drink driving. I'm merely pointing out that if you objectively investigate the impirical data in the Chappaquidick case, rather than just taking his enemies' word for what happened, you will conclude that Kennedy was framed. Kennedy has many faults. Having killed Mary Jo is not one of them. A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A 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 A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- The White House and Air Force One are maintained by our tax dollars, so every American citizen should be outraged, if not over the blatant display of sophomoric vindictiveness of the outgoing administration, then over the blatant distruction and theft of public property. With those same tax dollars the democrats killed at least a half a million Iraqi women and children. To ignore that, but get upset over a couple computer keys, is sick, evil, or both. A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A 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 A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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: Re: [CTRL] Fw: Ted Kennedy is wrong person to judge Ashcr...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/26/01 1:08:42 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, he has been involved in drunk driving incidents for years and in several states. Remember the police in the West Palm Beach Rape Case and his driving record in Florida that came out at that time? I did a search and could only come up with reckless driving/speeding in his record. Do you have info on his history of alleged drunken driving? I watched his nephew's trial. I don't recall allegations or evidence of Ted's DUI's in several states, but then I don't recall all the details of the trial. Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: Republican Party Racists
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 1/26/2001 6:58 AM To: undisclosed-recipients Cc: Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Republican Party Racists http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/enemie23.html The Two Faces of the Republican Party HOME | RICHARD M. SCAIFE | DICK ARMEY | BOB BARR | GARY BAUER | DAN BURTON PAT ROBERTSON | ADOLPH COORS | JAMES DOBSON | JERRY FALWELL TOM DELAY | CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISTS Presented by the Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast -- -- Neo-Confederate Nazi Racial Bigots of the GOP rise to the Top Excerpts from a news story by Stanley Crouch -- -- Somewhere in the material of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the statement is made that one should be a Nazi but never use the word. That seems to be the approach the council is taking now that more and more light is being cast on its white supremacist doctrine, its vision of Negroes as "monkeys," its belief there was no such thing as the Holocaust and so on. This exposure would not be happening if some of us in the media hadn't focused on the fact that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., have associated with the council. In the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the heat has been turned up. The question that is beginning to spread is one that I believe I first raised in this column: Why is there less coverage of this story which has real political import than of sex, lies, soiled dresses and Hustler magazine? What appears before us now is clear: Neo-Confederates with a disguised racial policy have risen to the top of the GOP. But this rise is something that has to remain under wraps, because in the era of Michael Jordan, one cannot just come out and be a hard-core racist. That would be impolitic. Be a Nazi, but never use the word. That is why Lott and Barr have repudiated the council's philosophy. That is why the council denies its own identity and, in the words of its CEO, Gene Lee Baum, says that it is primarily a conservative organization focused on the rights and culture of Euro-Americans. The material on this organization keeps stacking up, however, and the claims Lott and Barr have made about not knowing what the council is about don't really hold water. Lott has spoken to the organization a number of times, has written a column for its publication and, according to his uncle, has had ties to it for a long time. In 1992, he praised the council for its philosophy. In 1997, council leaders met with the Mississippi senator in his Washington office. In June, when Barr appeared as the keynote speaker at a council meeting in South Carolina, the atmosphere was clearly that of a racist organization. There was plenty of material on sale about "Nordic" superiority and black inferiority, plus revisionist Holocaust documents and pro-Confederacy tracts about "the lost cause." Barr, supposedly, didn't notice any of it. This is part of something that has recently taken place in our society. The racist of old would come right out and call an insulting name at those who raised his paranoia. But these guys are cagier. Or more cowardly. Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says it this way: "I get more racist and anti-Semitic mail with names and return addresses these days than ever. That's one side; these people are not afraid of being known for what they are. On the other hand, there is a very sophisticated kind of bigot among us who doesn't want to be stopped along the way by his opinions. This one wants power. He is far more dangerous." Could this be true of Lott and Barr? We have called Lott's office to get his statement on these matters and left messages but have not heard back. Barr's office immediately faxed us the congressman's letter of attack on the council and his repudiation of its racial philosophy. Not good enough. Let's have pointed questions asked by reporters not only of Lott and Barr, but powerful Republicans such as Reps. Henry Hyde, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay. Then we will find out just what this party is made of. -- -- To write a letter to Congressman Bob Barr, click on his photo and send mail to the following address: Congressman Bob Barr's Guestbook For information on all individuals and organizations listed in this website, or the name of a contact person in your area that can give you further information on the Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast, or the First Amendment Coalition, contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let us hear from you! You may call also call us at (770) 516-8500 If you access our voice mail, we will call you back collect if long distance. Or, you can write to us at: RFCSE, P.O. Box 674884,
[CTRL] FW: [CIA-DRUGS] Trent Lott and white supremacy
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 1/26/2001 6:52 AM To: undisclosed-recipients Cc: Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Trent Lott and white supremacy FROM: http://www.trenttellthetruth.com/trent.htm Trent Lotts History on Issues of Race and Sexual Orientation Trent Lott hails from the old segregationist school that opposed court-ordered desegregation in the South in the 1950s and 1960s. As a young man, he supported Mississippi Governor Ross Barnetts segregationist movement, and when he first entered Congress, one of the first bills he filed was designed to halt school desegregation. As the years wore on, the segregationist movement began to wilt. But Mr. Lott clung to its ideals. In 1981, he lobbied President Reagan to protect the federal tax exemption for segregated educational institutions in the South, such as Bob Jones University in South Carolina, and the all-white private schools - or "seg" academies - that were cropping up in Mississippi at the time. As late as 1983, he still argued for states rights under the Tenth Amendment - echoing the rallying call of the old segregationists - and he still opposed a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. After the early 80s, Mr. Lott moderated his public stance on racial issues, but he continued to appeal to the racist elements of his constituency. As recent stories in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Newsweek have revealed, Mr. Lott has maintained a close relationship, in recent years, with a racist and anti-Semitic group called the Council of Conservative Citizens. Since 1992, Mr. Lott has appeared as the keynote speaker at a CCC event, received the organizations leadership in his Washington D.C. office, posed for photographs with that leadership, sent his regular column to CCC publications, and appeared at the groups rallies for the "seg" academies that he supported in the early-80s. At one speech before the Councils membership, Trent Lott told the audience that "the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy." A review of CCC publications and the organizations web site reveals that the groups "philosophy" is one of intolerance. The CCC has argued for apartheid in South Africa, complained that minorities are turning the US population into "a slimy brown mass of glop," and asserted that Jews have "turned spite into welfare billions for themselves." But Mr. Lotts positions on racial issues are not the only cause for concern. Just last year, on June 15, 1998, Mr. Lott said on a radio show that homosexuality is a sin, and that gay people should be assisted in dealing with their problem just as we might assist people who have a problem with "alcohol or sex addiction," and just as we might assist "kleptomaniacs." A SENATE MAJORITY LEADER WITH CLOSE TIES TO WHITE SUPREMACISTS, A SENATE THAT REMAINS SILENT IN THE FACE OF BIGOTRY In December of 1998, a racist and anti-Semitic organization called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) made headlines. Immediately thereafter, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lotts name arose in connection with the group. Mr. Lott said through a spokesman that he had "no firsthand knowledge" of the groups beliefs. But, subsequent reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times suggested that the Senate Majority Leader was being less than truthful. These reports revealed that Mr. Lott had received CCC leaders in his office, posed for photographs with those leaders, sent his column to CCC publications, appeared at the organizations rallies and served as a speaker at the groups events - declaring at one such event that "the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy." The United States Senate has known about the disturbing relationship between Trent Lott and the CCC since December of 1998, but the body has taken no action. If you find this situation unacceptable, please join us in filing a complaint against Mr. Lott with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. Please join us in telling the Senate that we cannot tolerate a Senate Majority Leader with close ties to a white supremacist organization. CITIZENS FOR TOLERANCE URGES MCI, ATT AND LOCKHEED MARTIN TO DROP SPONSORSHIP OF TRENT LOTT INSTITUTE CAMBRIDGE, MA (May 10, 1999) - Today, Citizens for Tolerance sent letters to the CEOs of MCI Worldcom Inc., ATT and Lockheed Martin Corporation, urging them to reconsider their sponsorship of the proposed Trent Lott Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi. "Over the course of the last six months, the national press has documented a long-term relationship between Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a white supremacist group called the Council of Conservative Citizens," said Tom Cosgrove, chairman of Citizens for Tolerance. "In the wake of this story, it is not appropriate for major corporations to endorse, and institutionalize, Trent Lotts model of
[CTRL] FW: [RWWATCH] Missouri Official Denied Holocaust (Under Ashcroft Tenure)
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Rich Cowan Sent: Fri 1/26/2001 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:[RWWATCH] Missouri Official Denied Holocaust (Under Ashcroft Tenure) Here is a tidbit sent to me when I was down in DC for the inauguration. It might be worth looking into these articles from the Star and Post Dispatch. If anyone can help dig them up, please email the text of the stories to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Jan! -rich Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:46:53 -0500 From: "Jan B. Tucker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RWWATCH] Good Luck! People who know me know that I rarely -- if ever -- forget anything. This is when this trait comes in handy. John Ashcroft was Governor of Missouri in from January 1985 to January 1993. During his tenure, William Armentrout III was Warden of the State Penitentiary and Chief Executioner of the State of Missouri. In 1985, Ernst Zundel -- infamous Holocaust Denier (just put in the name in any search engine and see what you find) -- was on trial in Canada for promoting hate in violation of the Canadian anti-hate law. Guess who testified for the defense? William Armentrout, Chief Executioner of the State of Missouri, who got up and claimed that it was impossible to gas all those millions of people. I got it exposed around that time period in the state of Missouri. If I recall correctly, I got the story on page one of the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. What exactly did Governor Ashcroft do about this? Armentrout should have been fired. He wasn't. Was he disciplinedI don't think so. Spread the word about this. People in the Senate need to start asking Ashcroft what he did about the Armentrout-Zundel affair. Jan Tucker Organizers' Collaborative PO Box 400897, Cambridge MA 02140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.organizenow.net |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This message was sent via RWWATCH, a low-traffic forum that responds to right-wing campaigns (coming from any party) to misrepresent the truth in order to undermine democracy. info page www.topica.com/lists/rwwatch subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (send a blank email) unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organizers' Collaborative (OC) home page: www.organizenow.net Organizers' Collaborative PO Box 400897, Cambridge MA 02140 |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please support our efforts to foster online communication and resource sharing by social change groups. All contributions to OC are tax-deductible. T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- Why do people equate "[educating] every single member to the greatest extent of their ability" with maintaining the current public school fiasco in many cities? I don't. I do, however, recognize that taking money away from an already cash strapped system will only make it worse. Why should I be happy about my tax dollars supporting such an enterprise? What you should be unhappy about is that the tax money that could fix the schools is being spent by the Pentagon on weapons for a war that ended ten years ago. I'm sure the government does many things with your tax money that you consider criminal or immoral; I find the perpetuation and protection of failing tax-funded schools to be one of these things. We're depriving many, many people of the basic level of literacy needed to function. What, and spending even less money on their education will make it better!?! Gimme a break. So when you have an idea on how the public schools can educate people to the fullest extent of their ability in Detroit, and Philly, and Oakland, and Atlanta, and Baltimore, and Newark, and many other places, you let us know. Hire more, better teachers. Buy better books and equipment. Build new school buildings. Stop wasting the money on weapons for a war that's been over ten years. We've tried showering them with money and that does not work. No, we have not. The buildings are crumbling, the books out of date and the classes are crowded. Meanwhile, we spend money on weapons for a war that's been over for ten years. The pentagon sucks on this country's neck. Spend half the Pentagon budget on education and we'll see an end to the education crisis. Spend the other half on infrastructure. We don't NEED and army. We ARE an army. There are eighty million armed Americans. If anybody invades, we can kill them ourselves. The military we have now is not for defense of the American people or of American soil; it's for advancing the overseas interests of the corporations. To make the corporations even richer, we are robbing our children of their education. I know that not from reading Ayn Rand but from looking at the schools where I greu up. The ones who taught you to spell? I don't think I'm selfish, shortsighted, or brainwashed (well how would I know if I was brainwashed?) That's the real problem. Selfishness is not a natural part of the human condition. It's an aberration that has been nurtured, fostered and promoted by our rulers, in part through their control of the educational process. You went to a private school. Of course they taught you to look down on public schools. Thats how they make their living. I'm simply observing a disaster, expressing how I think it's robbing and cheating so many people, and also voicing my opposition to funding such a thing. It is not funding, but lack of funding, that is at the root of the problem. Let me give but a single example. My son graduated in 1986 from one of the better public high schools in the Bay Area. My SO taught biology at the same school that year, so I spent a lot of time at the place and got to know it pretty well. I read my sons text books. The geography books were from 1961, before the era of decolonization. Dozens of countries werent even listed. His American history book was from 1976. It contained two (count em, TWO) sentences on Viet Nam. They were both lies. My SO regularly spent from her own meager salary to buy necessary supplies for her class. I personally bought supplies for her class. The ceiling tiles were hanging loose and you could see the asbestos particles floating in the air when the sun came through the window at the right angle. Half of the science department had active cases of cancer that year. Meanwhile, back in Washington, those tax-and-spend Democrats were sitting on their hands while the borrow-and-spend Republicans were putting my as yet unborn great grand children into debt to buy Cruise missiles. For the cost of a single B-2 they could have rebuilt every school building in the Bay Area. and what does this have to do with consipiracy Our rulers want us to be uneducated because an uneducated people are easier to manipulate. When I was a kid, Sputnik went up and the American establishment got scared. All of a sudden there was a ton of money for education. Anybody who wanted to could go to college. What did they get for their money? A whole generation of over-educated, under-employed kids out in the street throwing rocks at them, thats what they got. Theyll never make that mistake again, rest assured. But they cant tell us that to our faces because if they did, we'd be right back out there in the street with the rocks again. So they dumb us down behind our backs. That's a conspiracy. A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot
Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- On 26 Jan 2001, at 8:29, Nessie wrote: With those same tax dollars the democrats killed at least a half a million Iraqi women and children. To ignore that, but get upset over a couple computer keys, is sick, evil, or both. So you think it isn't possible for one person to be upset about both situations? -- Best wishes The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside...Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived the use of them. --Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War," Pennsylvania Magazine, July, 1775. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FW: Republican Party Racists
-Caveat Lector- So Nessie - I pulled up the website of these people, and I must be visitor number 4 - for this is a new site Now ADL, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton - probably founded this site..they just pick on Republicans While I am a segregationist by choice it seems for years white people just quietly move to the suburbs to get away from the big cities, often too polite to say away from the "racial" problems. Now where I am people are already moving further out.even Lex Wexner moved here. He must be sick of it too - and hey that guy got tax abatement? So I reproduce this for you as visitor number 4 of this site. Now I have an idea - Columbus is attempting to woo whites back to the city - now let us see how succesful this will be with shoot bys, rapes, murders, and I say;, at twilight time its time to vacate this once great city where people used to love to go shopping, look into the Lazaras window and the beautiful mechanical Christmas decorations, etc. So..maybe I am a racist - I do not care what anybody calls it..but what happens when old whitey has nowhere to run? Civility will cease...a well armed militia and well armed public at least in the suburbs, we do not mess around. Saba - Wonder how much this crap will cost Al Gore and Clinton..and ADL I say, now are on endangered species list? The Two Faces of the Republican Party HOME | RICHARD M. SCAIFE | DICK ARMEY | BOB BARR | GARY BAUER | DAN BURTON PAT ROBERTSON | ADOLPH COORS | JAMES DOBSON | JERRY FALWELL TOM DELAY | CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISTS Presented by the Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast Neo-Confederate Nazi Racial Bigots of the GOP rise to the Top Excerpts from a news story by Stanley Crouch Somewhere in the material of the Council of Conservative Citizens, the statement is made that one should be a Nazi but never use the word. That seems to be the approach the council is taking now that more and more light is being cast on its white supremacist doctrine, its vision of Negroes as "monkeys," its belief there was no such thing as the Holocaust and so on. This exposure would not be happening if some of us in the media hadn't focused on the fact that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., have associated with the council. In the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the heat has been turned up. The question that is beginning to spread is one that I believe I first raised in this column: Why is there less coverage of this story which has real political import than of sex, lies, soiled dresses and Hustler magazine? What appears before us now is clear: Neo-Confederates with a disguised racial policy have risen to the top of the GOP. But this rise is something that has to remain under wraps, because in the era of Michael Jordan, one cannot just come out and be a hard-core racist. That would be impolitic. Be a Nazi, but never use the word. That is why Lott and Barr have repudiated the council's philosophy. That is why the council denies its own identity and, in the words of its CEO, Gene Lee Baum, says that it is primarily a conservative organization focused on the rights and culture of Euro-Americans. The material on this organization keeps stacking up, however, and the claims Lott and Barr have made about not knowing what the council is about don't really hold water. Lott has spoken to the organization a number of times, has written a column for its publication and, according to his uncle, has had ties to it for a long time. In 1992, he praised the council for its philosophy. In 1997, council leaders met with the Mississippi senator in his Washington office. In June, when Barr appeared as the keynote speaker at a council meeting in South Carolina, the atmosphere was clearly that of a racist organization. There was plenty of material on sale about "Nordic" superiority and black inferiority, plus revisionist Holocaust documents and pro-Confederacy tracts about "the lost cause." Barr, supposedly, didn't notice any of it. This is part of something that has recently taken place in our society. The racist of old would come right out and call an insulting name at those who raised his paranoia. But these guys are cagier. Or more cowardly. Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says it this way: "I get more racist and anti-Semitic mail with names and return addresses these days than ever. That's one side; these people are not afraid of being known for what they are. On the other hand, there is a very sophisticated kind of bigot among us who doesn't want to be stopped along the way by his opinions. This one wants power. He is far more dangerous." Could this be true of Lott and Barr? We have called Lott's office to get his statement on these matters and left messages but have not heard back. Barr's office immediately faxed us the congressman's letter of attack on the council and his repudiation of its racial
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- Why should I be happy about my tax dollars supporting such an enterprise? What you should be unhappy about is that the tax money that could fix the schools is being spent by the Pentagon on weapons for a war that ended ten years ago. I'm as unhappy about the Pentagon spending as you are. Actually, we could also ask some Serbians if they think we stopped fighting ten years ago. We could ask some Iraqis if we suspended hostilities ten years ago. Our friends at the Pentagon will always find somewhere to drop their load. We've tried showering them with money and that does not work. No, we have not. The buildings are crumbling, the books out of date and the classes are crowded. Meanwhile, we spend money on weapons for a war that's been over for ten years. My Catholic grade school (which has since closed) and many others in the country (especially in cities) have poor facilities and books that you could carbon date. Yet people voluntarily use their own money to send their kids there. I have personally witnessed one public school district, and I know there are others, where money sent for books and buildings has a spectacular way of simply disappearing without a trace. I know that not from reading Ayn Rand but from looking at the schools where I greu up. The ones who taught you to spell? Well, a typo. The U and W are so close together on the keyboard it's easy to make a mistake. and what does this have to do with consipiracy Our rulers want us to be uneducated because an uneducated people are easier to manipulate. When I was a kid, Sputnik went up and the American establishment got scared. All of a sudden there was a ton of money for education. Anybody who wanted to could go to college. What did they get for their money? A whole generation of over-educated, under-employed kids out in the street throwing rocks at them, thats what they got. Theyll never make that mistake again, rest assured. But they cant tell us that to our faces because if they did, we'd be right back out there in the street with the rocks again. So they dumb us down behind our backs. That's a conspiracy. I agree. It's also why I don't want to hear any of their current "solutions." If you believe the above paragraph, if you believe the gov't wants an uneducated people, then you shouldn't have the government in control of education. They will take the money, get rid of the old crumbling building where they dumb down the kids, and buy a shiny new building in which to dumb down the kids. But it's not just the kids, the rest of us are getting our own dumbing down via CNN, Dan Rather, etc.. And dammit, I ran spell check on this email. "Dumbing" is not an approved word (perhaps a conspiracy in and of itself.) You missed my misspelling of "conspiracy" above. And I apologize if I ended any sentences with prepositions or dangled any participles. jeff __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: CyberArmy declares war on govt regulation
-Caveat Lector- CyberArmy declares war on govt regulation By Megan McAuliffe, January 19, 2001 URL: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,210021,20173441,00.htm With a member base of 35,000, CyberArmy may have the biggest armament the Net has ever seen, rallying to take down Web sites that 'abuse' the World Wide Web - and removing power from governments. AUSTRALIA (ZDNet Australia) - "We want to self-regulate the Internet so that the government doesn't come in and regulate it," Marshal Yowler told ZDNet Australia. CyberArmy started off as a small group of advocates promoting free speech and Internet deregulation. Growing to a full size army of 'Netizens', the group has since shifted its views - due to privacy issues and government intervention. "Now we believe in Internet self-regulation. If you deregulate you end up with anarchy," Yowler said. According to the organisation's founder, 'Overlord' - the Commander in Chief - CyberArmy is set up just like a game. Members have to solve puzzles - which is usually breaking codes and encryption - to move on to the next commanding level. Missions possible Commanding ranks give a member more power and involvement in the organisation's missions. Some missions include hunting for, and taking down, child pornography Web sites. "We're trying to get rid of child pornography on the Internet," Overlord said. The commanding structure begins at the bottom with troopers, rising through the ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lt. Kernal, Kernal, General and Marshal. Each division within CyberArmy has its own job to complete, with one of the divisions devoted solely to child pornography Web sites. "[The division] has taken down around two dozen child porn sites in the last few weeks, and was also instrumental in bringing down the Wonderland Club child porn ring last week," Overlord said. He told ZDNet the group is an advocate of ordinary citizens policing the Internet. Due to the Internet being global, "governments aren't the right authority to police it." Hacktivists In defending the 'hacktivist' title that the group has been branded with, Overlord says it doesn't believe in defacing a Web site just for the fun of it. If a site is defaced it's usually in the form of protest. "The group was a bit more 'hackerish' about a year ago however, we're moving away from that. There are more social minded people on the Net now, which I think is good," he said. Lt. Kernal thepr0digy - responsible for the defacement of the Australian National Library's Web site last year - told ZDNet the reason for being in CyberArmy is because he is "sick and tired of child pornography and Net censorship." "Our mission is to prove that there are good hackers not just Script Kiddies out there," he said. The CyberArmy site also posts discussion boards and Internet tools for users, and has a section dedicated to teaching network security. This story was printed from ZDNetAsia, located at http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,210021,20173441,00.htm. -- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Franken Shrub
-Caveat Lector- Bush Ties to Monsanto ((Village Voice 17-20 Jan 2001)) Text: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0104/ridgeway.shtml#monsanto . One way conspiracy buffs can get a handle on the new Bush administration is by examining the many ties between the president's team and Monsanto, the big Missouri chemical company that promotes genetically engineered foods. For starters, consider the fact that Bush Sr. appointed Clarence Thomas, a Monsanto attorney, to the Supreme Court. Thomas cast a key vote in the decision that handed the White House to George Jr. In addition, John Ashcroft, Dubya's choice for attorney general, was the top recipient of Monsanto contributions during his losing reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate. While he was in the Senate, Ashcroft fought hard for Monsanto. He was active abroad in convincing hesitant nations to accept genetically engineered crops and is credited with persuading the British to push for European Union acceptance of Monsanto's Roundup Ready corn. Other links include Donald Rumsfeld, the new secretary of defense, who was president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Monsanto, and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, who was on the board of directors of Calgene Pharmaceuticals, another Monsanto affiliate. Over at HHS, there's new secretary Tommy Thompson. While he was governor of Wisconsin, Thompson was a good friend to Monsanto and other biotech firms. He received $50,000 from biotech companies in his election campaign, and got the state to set up a $37 million biotech zone in Wisconsin. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: DU/ Brussels international meeting: victims speak
Please distribute widely. - Original Message - From: Michel Collon To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:56 AM Subject: DU/ Brussels international meeting: victims speak Dear friends,The Belgian Coalition for Abolition of Depleted Uranium Weapons invites you to give your help, your suggestions and, if possible, to participate to a big international debate in Brussels, on the 1st of March. Please fin below:1. Announcement of the meeting:2. Calendar of the three days activities in Brussels3. Call for your help and suggestions4. Contacts.5. Platform of the Coalition University of Brussels, 1st of March 2001URANIUM : The victims speakNato and the Western armies tried long to hide the truth about Depleted Uranium and to isolate the victims. It is now time to bring all these victims together, and demand justice.In the very capital of the Nato, Brussels, an exceptional debate will give the word to : BELGIUM :Guido FLEURACKERS, contaminated soldierMarc DE CEULAER, contaminated soldier and leader of military trade unionMarleen TEUGELS, investigation journalist (Knack) (invited)Frédéric LOORE, investigation journalist (Journal du Samedi), author of La Guerre invisible Pierre PIERART, professor (Association of Doctors against Nuclear War)FRANCE :Hervé DESPLAT, contaminated soldier, founder of Association AvigolfeChristine ABDELKRIM-DELANNE : investigation journalist, author of La Sale Guerre propreIRAK : (Names will follow)BOSNIA : Dr Bojidar STAVROVIC (Sarajevo)Dr ILICContact taken for one victimYUGOSLAVIA : (Names will follow)KOSOVO : (Contact taken)NETHERLANDS :XXX, victim of the 1992 catastrophe in Amsterdam (Bijlmermeer)Louis BERTHOLLET, association of victims of BijlmermeerGREAT-BRITAIN :(Invited : National Gulf Veterans and Families Association)GREECE ? (Contact taken for one soldier, representative of the association demanding to cancel the presence of Greek troops in Kosovo)OTHERS ? We are waiting for other answers.2. Full program of three daysWe propose to those who can to stay a few days more in Brussels. It seems to us very important to organize a high level activity in the capital of Natgo, at this present time. Also We can provide you accomodation and transport in Belgium, and also contacts with the press.This is our full program:Tuesday 27 evening or Wednesday 28 morning: arrivalWednesday 28 : interviews, contacts with the press, contacts (following your wishes) with Belgian medical institutions, experts and activists.Thursday 1 (9 - 17) academic symposium in Brussels (Place will follow)Thursday evening : Great public debateFriday 2 : non public exchange of views between victims, associations and activists, measures for future cooperationFriday 2 evening or Saturday 3: departure.3. How can you help?1° Making suggestions to complete (very soon) this program)2° Participating3° Helping for the cost: preparing the possibility of some small donations to cover the costs of some trips and some material expenses. Which are limited since every is benevolent but4. ContactsThe representatives of the Coalition are:- Marcel Poznansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Pierre Piérart (Association of Doctors against Nuclear War): mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Michel Collon is helping for the preparation of these three days: [EMAIL PROTECTED]E-mails can be sent, for the next days, to these mail-address. Afterwards, a specific secretariat will come.5. Our platform: COALITION FOR ABOLITION OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONSDepleted Uranium Weapons (D.U.) have been used during the wars in the Gulf, in Bosnia, in Yugoslavia by the Americans and the British or by Nato. D.U. weapons have been tested secretly since dozens of years in many army manoeuvres in the US, Great-Britain, France, Germany, Central America and Pacific. More than forty countries possess them.D.U. is producing alpha radiations. When inhaled in the form of small particles, it becomes a factor of cancer and the risk is aggravated by different pollutions (tobacco, motor gas, industrial pollutions)The general secretary of the Nato, George Robertson, supported by most of the national authorities of the member countries, is maintaining a complement incoherent position to exonerate the political and military leaders.These weapons, chemical, radiological and non-discriminatory are polluting many places in the world. They are subject to the rule of law of armed conflicts (Declarations of St Petersburg 1868, The Hague 1899, Protocol of Geneva 1925, Declaration of the Conference in Paris 1989, U.N. Conventions concerning environment 1976)In front of aggressions, often
[CTRL] Inauguration 2001: Watching The Media Watch The News
-Caveat Lector- Inauguration 2001: Watching The Media Watch The News By Dimitri Devyatkin Mediachannel.org January 21, 2001 After watching a day of solemn proceedings marking the handing over of power from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, instead of feeling confidence and reassurance, I feel a wave of dismay, discomfort and distaste, with a sense of coming disaster. W. was able to move through the ceremony without misstep, delivering a cold, not particularly compassionate conservative speech and shaking all the right hands. After watching him so long on screen, I get a sense of his arrogance and feeling of entitlement to privilege. He seemed nervous to me, in a sort of unspoken hurry to get it all over with so he could get back to his comfortable slippers and bathrobe, warm milk and cookies. Last Saturday I watched the peaceful transition on TV. There were about 350,000 spectators. About 30,000 almost 10 percent were demonstrators, having traveled to the nation's capital from all over America. There was almost no violence, despite police preparations for potential disturbances, and the heaviest security ever at an inauguration, with 10 checkpoints through which everyone had to pass to get to the parade route, a first in inauguration history. "The police can spin it however they want," said Adam Eidinger, an organizer with the D.C.based Justice Action Movement, "but the reason why this demonstration was by and large peaceful was because we were peaceful, not because the police kept us from doing anything." Demonstrators stood at nearly every block of the parade route except the very end, where the president and his wife got out of the car to walk. Some of the protesters were obvious by their colorful dress and placards. Others were stealth demonstrators, dressed inconspicuously, who whipped out placards and banners a moment before the motorcade arrived to add their voice to the loud chanting and booing. At the swearing-in ceremony, a man and woman close to the main podium stood up and stripped to the waist, revealing protest slogans written on their bodies. None of this was shown on television. The mainstream commentators deftly footnoted the protesters as fringe elements. The New York Times barely mentioned the demonstrators, only quoting one, the comedian Dick Gregory, at a rally: "If you stole my car, I'm never going to accept that it's your car." In any other country, there would have been mass demonstrations and troop movements on the day that the man who did not win the popular vote took power. But in America a bona fide coup d'tat has happened, and our national press is doing everything to make us "accept" it as a done deal. The television networks devoted no more than 10 minutes combined to the demonstrators. And The New York Times placed a single story about the protesters on Page 17 and left readers with the impression that the dominant themes of the day were "unity," "tradition" and, above all, "legitimacy," according to the media watch group FAIR. Activists Weigh In The Independent Media Center (IMC), a nonprofit group of media activists using mini video cameras, cell phones and the Internet, organized alternative coverage of the Inauguration on their Web site as an audio stream. Over 310,000 hits were recorded to the main site over the day. Listeners were very generous, contributing more than enough funds to cover the entire production budget. I tuned in at 8:30 a.m. to hear the indomitable Amy Goodman, the prize-winning host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now". She is Pacifica's leading light, and her program is carried nationally. In what is perhaps a related development, the Pacifica board in a "Christmas Coup" has sharply curtailed WBAI's freedom, forced a number of staffers to leave and limited what Amy can say on the air. Amy had two hours on IMC, from 8 to 10 a.m. She called her show "Plutocracy Now," and it covered a wide array of issues related to the power shift from Clinton to Bush. Amy's professionalism and skill and her producer's made hers the best IMC coverage. She kept the listeners well-informed and used every moment of airtime judiciously. Free of the newly imposed WBAI censorship, the program was carried nationally on many radio stations in Santa Cruz, Seattle, Hawaii, even the Netherlands. At one point she patched in a representative from "Billionaires for Bush," who proffered: "People don't matter money does." In the most emotional moment of Amy's coverage, President Clinton used the last hours of his presidency to announce whom he would and would not pardon, intruding into Bush's media day with the surprise announcements. To the shock and disappointment of thousands of activists through the country, Clinton decided not to pardon Native American activist Leonard Peltier. She called Dennis Moynihan of www.FreePeltier.org in Lawrence, Kansas, to learn that Peltier comes up for parole only in 2008. You can bet no one listening to CNN heard the instant analysis
[CTRL] Fwd: Left Coast dissent: Notes from the front line
-Caveat Lector- Online Journal - http://www.onlinejournal.com 01-26-01: Left Coast dissent: Notes from the front line By Larry Chin January 26, 2001 | On Saturday, January 20, I took to the streets to welcome the criminal son, George W. Bush, with a heaping dish of dissent, served very cold. In San Francisco, between 15,000 and 20,000 men, women and children-of all ages, races, occupations, sexual orientations and social classes, and in every shape and size-gathered in front of City Hall in opposition to a common enemy. We marched. We discussed Ashcroft, Mumia, the CIA, the devastation of Iraq, the coming 'Star Wars'-inspired arms race. We were one with those in Washington, DC, who staged the largest inaugural protest since Nixon. On this day, as veteran activists joined with those who had never attended a demonstration in their lives to oppose Bush the Fraudulent and all of the demons of the right wing, I saw hope for a new coalition, a new national opposition unified and galvanized by Bush the right wing extremist. In San Francisco, George W. Bush is public enemy number one. It was inspiring, save for one sobering thought: San Francisco is not America. San Francisco is a progressive stronghold, a Green and Democratic fortress on (appropriately) the far left of the map. San Francisco is a haven of diversity, led by an African-American mayor and a board of supervisors that include gays and women and people of color. In San Francisco, we can turn on the radio and listen to Bernie Ward and Ray Taliaferro on KGO-AM 810, two powerful liberal talk show hosts. We click the dial to FM and listen to discussions of the progressive literature of Upton Sinclair, and hear commentary by Norman Solomon on KPFA. We can find progressive publications on our newsstands and in our bookstores. San Francisco is not America. America is the land of right wing radio. America is the World Wrestling Federation and shopping malls. America is a willfully ignorant nation held hostage, absolutely manipulated and controlled by a corporate media that disseminates, repeats and realizes the lies of its corrupt rulers-but kept happy and stupid with hundreds of cable TV channels, plenty of junk food, and long days full of distractions and mindless "productivity." It is in this vast middle of America that we find those who still believe, to this day, that George W. Bush is a "nice man to have a beer with." In San Francisco, none of Bush's lies have any traction. Here, Bush is viewed as what he is: a right wing extremist CIA son, hell bent on the raping, pillaging and exploitation of democracy for personal enrichment, power and family cronies who run corporations. In just two ruthless days, Bush has more than demonstrated what his definitions of "compassion" and "uniting" entail. He has declared war against women, reproductive freedom and family planning. He has spitefully reversed Clinton's environmental protection orders. He wants to gut the public school system and shove vouchers. All this on top of appointing the most extreme right wing cabinet since the Third Reich. The wolf in wolf's clothing has exposed himself. Will America see what San Francisco has known all along? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- What I see out there are scores and hundreds of committed teachers and administrators doing the best they can with what they have. I also see truckloads of propaganda attempting to undermine the very fine work these people do day after day and year after year. I got a helluva lot more brainwashing in private religious school than I did in public school. But I guess that's what all this propaganda crap is about. The goal is to fry kids' brains and make them better worker drones. Public education avoids most of that baloney, and MUST BE STOPPED! Samantha The above sets reality and history on its head. Today's Government School Model was developed 100 years ago. At the turn of the century, many of the Government School Advocates traveled to Prussia to study the Prussian Government School model. That system was designed to produce obedient workers who were subservient to the State. The Prussian Model has long served as the model for US Government Schools. That is what we now have in the US. The purpose of Government Schools is to further the Interests of the Corporate / State Establishment. So called "professional educators" were originally funded by the leading Corporate Foundations... need I say anymore? flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [0] The Devil's Chemists
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Devil's Chemists - 24 CONSPIRATORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FARBEN CARTEL WHO MANUFACTURE WARS Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Edward Johnson (collaborator) THE BEACON PRESS 1952 BOSTON First Edition - 374pps - Only edition - Contents PREFACE.ix PART ONE TOTALITARIAN INDUSTRY -THREAT TO WORLD PEACE? 1. Easter Hats and Wild Horses 3 2. Anything Intact Was Beautiful . 8 3. Before Armies March 14 4. "If We Lose the Next War 23 PART TWO THE INVESTIGATION 5. Furth Airport31 6. Digging -January 194737 7. The Address That Wasn't There44 8. American Addresses 48 PART THREE A NORmAL BUSINESS? 9. "They Will Not Dare Go on With This" 71 10. "Simply a Big Business Concern" 76 PART FOUR CONQUEST BY INDUSTRIAL ROBBERY 11. How Can You Call It Murder? . 97 12. A Sojourner of Four Countries . 107 13. Without Armies Marching 115 PART FIVE MASTERS AND SLAVES 14. A Nobel Prizewinner 122 15. "The Fellows Have Let the Rats Loose" 132 16. Gasoline and Rubber Mix 158 17. Some Purely Personal Notes 163 18. The Plain Chemist 169 19. "I'd Be Sure This Is True If I Were You" . 182 20. Everybody Knows, Nobody Knows 193 21. Silver Thickets 207 22. Monowitz219 23. A Loud Voice227 PART SIX THE MASTERS MARCH 24. International Co-operation 234 25. Like a Stroke of Lightning 252 26. The Short Thrust258 PART SEVEN THE MASTERS CONQUER 27. An "Invasion in Peacetime" 275 28. "The European States Should Get Together" 282 29. "For in the Woods There Are the Robbers"287 30. The Final Battle in Sight . 298 PART EIGHT DAY OF WAR 31. September 1, 1939 307 PART NINE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MASTERS 32. Generals in Gray Suits 321 PART TEN DAY OF JUDGMENT 33. How Sorry We Are . 338 34. An Extraordinary Standard 348 35. The "Bulwark" Foreign Policy . 357 APPENDIX Organization Chart of I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. 364 List of I.G. Farben Defendants 365 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.368 INDEX 370 The illustrations are grouped together following page 78 = Preface To UNDERSTAND THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE of this story, bear in mind that today the main characters defendants in the most farreaching criminal trial in history -are all alive and free to work against the way of life you and I cherish. Today a great struggle is being waged for the political allegiance of men. The United States of America has been steadily -losing in that struggle since the end of World War 11. In seven years the free world has lost to Communism half of Europe and large areas of Asia. This amounts to the loss of over eight hundred million people who once regarded themselves as our friends and allies. The foreign policy of the United States demonstrates that most of our leaders understand little of what has happened in Europe and Asia during the last generation. We have challenged disillusioned hearts with only a hodgepodge of defensive tactics. It is my belief that we lost the support of most of these people because we appealed to them almost entirely through our own fears, with little regard for their real hopes, dreams, and needs. To replace Communist bread, often we have spread our own table reluctantly and too late. Often we have countered the vicious Communist evangelism only by negative argument. Most important, we have poured salt on the ugly wounds which certain hated industrialists have cut into four continents. For ten years the average European and Asian has understood my story better than our leaders yet understand it. I believe also that the average American, should he read this book, will have a better understanding than his government of how Europeans and Asians feel about the facts. To those who sickened in the 1930's at the news that American scrap iron was being sold to Japan; to those who later observed with disgust the failure of the League of Nations to put teeth into its economic "sanctions" against Italy when she invaded Abyssinia; to those who recently cried shame On the shipment of British war-potential goods through Hong Kong to the Chinese Red Army; to those who are flatly opposed to doing strategic business with any totalitarian institution, whether by direct sales or outright political subsidy -to all those, this book is recommended. The full story of all the industrial groups that have deliberately bred war, or have deliberately shut their eyes to the breeding of war, could not be contained in ten books. I have limited my story to the single group of men whose vast influence epitomizes all the others a group that is still many years
[CTRL] [1a] The Devil's Chemists
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Devil's Chemists - 24 CONSPIRATORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FARBEN CARTEL WHO MANUFACTURE WARS Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Edward Johnson (collaborator) THE BEACON PRESS 1952 BOSTON First Edition - 374pps - Only edition - PART ONE TOTALITARIAN INDUSTRY- THREAT TO WORLD PEACE? 1. Easier Hats and Wild Horses THIS IS THE STORY of twenty-four geniuses who changed the face of the earth. The most brilliant men in Europe, they headed the industry known to the newspaper reader as "I. G. Farben." I. G. Farben first subdued nature in ten thousand ways, then shipped the marvelous products of that victory across the seven seas. Its business has touched the life of every man and woman in the world. Often an unrecognized guest, it has visited every American home, with dyes, plastics, fabrics. If Farben did not make your bathroom fixtures, your shaving mug, or even your razor, your wife surely owes much of her prettification from Easter hat to synthetic stockings to I. G. Farben. Long before the age of plastics and nylons, I. G. Farbenindustrie was known to many Americans as simply the world's best druggist. Every reputable pharmacy, every physician's bag, every good family medicine cabinet, stocks some of Farben's 6000 medicines. The firm invented a drug that is still the best cure for epilepsy. They made atabrine, the quinine-substitute for treating malaria. And from the aspirin tablet alone, I. G. Farben made a vast fortune. But the founders were not concerned merely with balance sheets. They drew their inspiration from the gurgling of water, the perfume of damp earth, and every vegetable and mineral in the earth. Could health, personal beauty yes, even universal brotherhood be created by two dozen men of dynamic chemical genius? They believed it could. By 1925, they had nursed food from and lands, made fats and fuels from coal and water, and were dreaming of making copper out of clay. A few years later, their talents crowned a combine that overshadowed even the giant United States corporations. From the sun a competitor in nurturing such things as cotton they had learned many economies of mass production. Now the sun shone with subservient benevolence on a fabulous industrial empire, from the Rhineland to the Hudson Valley to the muddy Yangtze River. I. G. Farben's holding companies and plants then blanketed Europe, its house banks and research firms and patent firms clustered around every important commercial center in both hemispheres. This success did not curb their seemingly strange vision. The Farben "president" transferred millions of dollars into other hands on faith alone. On faith he transferred the legal ownership of a $100,000,000 U. S. combine to a friend in Switzerland. This combine was the old American I. G. Chemical Corporation. From 230 Park Avenue, New York City, its main office governed five subsidiaries, all producing marvels of modem chemistry. They were the Ozalid Corporation of Johnson City, the General Dyestuffs Company, the old Hudson River Color Works, the Agfa-Ansco factory which manufactured cameras and films, and a research plant in Pennsylvania. Dyes were the basis of American I. G. Chemical's entire business, just as dyes were the financial and scientific wellspring of all the Farben companies. Yet in a brief memo Farben's president let the American I. G. go. This poetic magnanimity unless it concealed a desperate gamble of some kind was more typical of an artist- scientist than of a financial wizard. One might not have been surprised at a show of generosity from, say, the Farben director who founded the photo-chemistry whose cameras were sold around the world under the Agfa-Ansco trademark. He had helped to develop color photography, too. At the trial, he testified: "I did not like to see beauty just in a dark room somewhere. I wanted to see my child, or some fish or game I had caught, in color -to see it in all its beauty. And we succeeded." So, even at their trial, these men did not think as robber barons are supposed to think. Exclaimed another of the directors on the witness stand: Chemistry is a dynamic science. Thank goodness, every people is inventive. The effects of everyday life are noticed in everything we see fibers, everything that is dyed, plastic articles, and parts of automobiles and radios. It was the climax of my life when Dr. ter Meer sent me to the forests of Ceylon and the Malay States, to study how nature produces rubber. These studies were so enlightening that Dr. ter Meer entrusted me with the on-the-spot management of synthetic rubber development. We were dealing with the unknown That was Dr. Otto Ambros -a member of I. G. Farben's florstand, or board of directors speaking. To his mentor, Dr. Friedrich ter Meer, all the natural substances like rubber were "wild horses that must be broken to the reins." But mankind was no wild horse to him, if Dr. ter Meer's witnesses were telling the truth.
[CTRL] [1b] The Devil's Chemists
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Devil's Chemists - 24 CONSPIRATORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FARBEN CARTEL WHO MANUFACTURE WARS Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Edward Johnson (collaborator) THE BEACON PRESS 1952 BOSTON First Edition - 374pps - Only edition - 3. Before Armies March A FEW DAYS BEFORE THAT CHRISTMAS Of 1946, I caught the Washingtonian out of Philadelphia. That was the week the United States called on the United Nations to urge the Spanish people to get rid of Franco, and a Senate committee had gone down to Jackson, Mississippi, to look into the campaign practices of Senator Bilbo. Some time during that week I must have wondered wearily why the State Department had abetted Franco to power in the first place, and why the upper chamber had ever seated the Senator from Mississippi. Throwing the New York Times onto the rack above my seat, I zipped open my briefcase and pulled out my file on the tax matter. No use trying to concentrate! Frost bit the window, designing it into two uneven panes. Winter in Washington was usually a comfortable prospect, after the miserably humid summers; but this time I would feel alone even if comfortable. The man who had introduced me to I.G. Farbenindustrie would not be there. He was Bernard Bernstein, Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department during the years before Pearl Harbor. Early in 1941 Bernstein had wired me in Camden to come down and help out for the "short while" that had lasted over six years. As Bernstein's Chief Counsel of Foreign Funds Control, I had helped to freeze I.G. Farben's assets in the Western Hemisphere. Bernstein and I had worked on the executive order which placed under the vigilant eye of the Treasury Department Farben's main holdings in the United States the companies of the old American I. G. Chemical Corporation, which was renamed "General Aniline and Film Corporation." Then the Treasury had sent me on a journey through a dozen Latin American countries, to try to get their co-operation in defending the whole hemisphere economically. I found that I.G. Farben dominated the political and economic life of many small countries. Guatemala was practically a Farben subsidiary. In June 1942 I was secretary of a conference in which twenty American republics finally agreed to do battle against Farben, the Japanese Zaibatsu, and similar interrelated interests. According to the exact words of the conference, as I remembered them, these interests had "been plotting the downfall of the free peoples who gave them an opportunity to prosper and grow rich by honest trade. " This agreement had not been easily reached. To an extent unknown even by the presidents of the Latin American republics, Farben had so extended its influence in synthetics, and had gained control of so many banks, that to close down or boycott their interests would have led to serious economic depressions. The United States had urged the taking over of General Aniline as an example to the other American governments; we offered to start a school to show them how to do it. But the Latin American representatives had tactfully pointed out how naive the United States was. "A school! It's all right for you in the United States to close down one big company. That has perhaps a small effect on your economy. But a move like this would wreck us. Can you tell us how to replace the employees that I.G. Farben would take out of the country? Can you replace their scientific knowledge? Have you got the people to send us from the United States?" But now, on the eve of 1947, although the current activities of General Aniline and Film were still extremely important, few people in Washington cared any longer what General Aniline did. After taking care of my tax case at the Treasury, I wandered around to F Street, where the Capitol Theater was playing "The Best Years of Our Lives." Remembering the picture, I envied the veterans not the wounds of battle, nor, later, their trying to find homes and jobs, but the fact that they had won somethingWhen a battalion captures a town, foreign policy cannot take away the victory. When the Allied troops were splashing onto the Normandy beachhead, I was preparing to go to London to work out France's makeshift money system. Already we had closed down factories by financial blockade, had frozen the enemies' assets. These measures, as well as tactics and medicines, had saved some lives. But our battle was now a stalemate, and the men who believed that economic warfare never ended had left the government, feeling so out of line with the new policy that it would be useless to stay. Again I thought of Bernard Bernstein. General Eisenhower had appointed him his financial advisor, on recommendation of Secretary Morgenthau, when the prospective invasion of Africa was still a well-guarded secret. Although Bernstein was a colonel, he carried the war of money personally to the front lines. The North African invasion took place in November 1942, and I joined
[CTRL] Ugly Again
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/rep/mcconnell7.html 1/23/01 Ugly Again by Scott McConnell New York Press In a few days, my eldest daughter will board a plane at Kennedy and fly off to a spring semester's study in Europe. Besides the normal parental fears, I have other worries as well. Americans of each generation travel abroad in different contexts, the way they are viewed colored by their country's place and standing in the world. Despite America's dominant global role in popular culture, technology and business, the reception of them today may be the coldest ever. When I spent months in France in my 20s, the Cold War was the backdrop to nearly everything. I read the French political press, liked to talk politics. But even had I not, the French would have taken me, for better or worse, as a representative of a country perceived as big and rich, simpleminded in its culture, unsophisticated in its diplomacy. But also as stalwart in the great political battle of the time-over whether the future would belong to capitalist democracy, or some form, more likely than not dictatorial, of Marxism. The outcome then seemed much in doubt, and most Frenchmen, beneath layers of reservation, were on the same side. Well, the West, the capitalist West, has won. America has won. The Soviet Union, home base to the Marxist coalition, sworn enemy of freedom, collapsed and left the field. In Europe, the Communist parties have shrunk, changed their names and often outlooks. American military and financial power-guarantor of the international system the Beltway pundits hail as "benevolent global hegemony"-for the moment has no real match. But that power now represents something ugly and threatening, at least so it seems to a growing number of the world's peoples. Europe's press buzzes with stories about depleted uranium weapons, used heavily in Washington's air war against the Serbs. The projectiles, effective because uranium is heavy and able to penetrate tank armor, are officially deemed not radioactive-no more dangerous than the background radon often found in American homes, according to one apologist quoted in The Wall Street Journal. Such assurances are belied by the internal NATO "hazard awareness" document issued after the bombing, advising that soldiers patrolling where DU weapons have landed be given warnings; that those entering vehicles hit by DU shells should wear masks, cover exposed skin and receive follow-up monitoring for radiation exposure. Clusters of leukemia and lymphoma have sprung up among NATO troops stationed in areas of intense DU bombardment. This sudden uproar over America's use of these semi-nonconventional weapons in the Balkans represents an awakening of Europe's guilty conscience-as if to say to Washington, "When you bombed Serbia, we kept silent, even went along as you smashed churches, destroyed bridges, bombed hospitals, poisoned the Danube, all the while reluctant to put at risk a single one of your own soldiers in the battlefield. You have left behind a toxic wasteland. It won' t happen again." Ten years ago, Iraq received an American DU bombardment far more intense than Yugoslavia. In Europe at least, recognition of the long-term cost of that bombardment is beginning to emerge. In London's The Independent, Robert Fisk describes the horrible toll of cancers and birth defects around Basra, subject to heavy U.S. shelling in the last days of the war. A decade of sanctions has created more misery. Four years ago, Madeleine Albright was asked on 60 Minutes whether she was troubled by the estimate that half a million Iraqi children had perished as a result of the sanctions. "We think the price is worth it," she cheerfully replied. That toll is growing still. Against the backdrop of America as a superpower whose bomb-bay doors are always open, lesser questions fester. Trade disagreements turn into rancorous accusations of protectionism. Few in Europe admire the campaign of Sen. D'Amato and others to demonize and harass Switzerland for its wartime neutrality. The indictment against the Swiss (over policies the Allies much appreciated during the war itself) is masterfully dissected by Angelo Codevilla in his eye-opening Between the Alps and a Hard Place, an important work that portrays the levers of American diplomacy rented out to campaign contributors and groups pursuing private agendas. Polls in Europe now show 60 to 70 percent of the populace feels that America is unfriendly to their interests. What a turnabout since the Cold War. What a change since V-E Day! Of course it's not just Europe. Harvard Prof. Samuel Huntington reports in Foreign Affairs that surveys of elite opinion in two thirds of the world's societies, including Chinese, Russians, Indians, Arabs, Muslims and Africans, show that the United States is now regarded as the greatest single external threat. Bombardment with depleted uranium weapons; murderous economic sanctions; moralistic preachments about democracy
[CTRL] Fw: ANTIWAR: Belarus: Oasis In The Heart Of Europe
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:32 AM Subject: [KDN] ANTIWAR: Belarus: Oasis In The Heart Of Europe http://www.antiwar.com/nagle/pf/p-n012601.html ANTIWAR, Friday, January 26, 2001 At The End of History by Chad Nagle Antiwar.com Belarus: Oasis In The Heart Of Europe The independent "Nasha svaboda" on 12 January published a "medical conclusion" by Belorussian psychiatrist Dzmitry Shchyhelski stating that Belorussian President Lukashenka is suffering from a "moderately pronounced psychopathy with the prevalence of traits of a paranoid and distractive personality disorder.". Shchyhelski, who is currently on a trip in the U.S., told RFE/RL's Belorussian Service that since 1996 doctors in virtually all psychiatric clinics in Belarus have been discussing symptoms of Lukashenka's psychopathic "deviations." ~ Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline 15 January 2001 [Lukashenka] has.amassed near absolute powers, permitting little dissent or private enterprise. He openly admires Hitler and has said that Belorussians want him to bring back a Stalinist state. ~ "A Dictator in Belarus" (Editorial) International Herald Tribune, 3 November 2000 In a state where the president has amassed "near absolute powers," doctors in nuthouses all across the country are chatting endlessly about their chief executive's sanity. I had no idea this sort of thing happened under Stalin or any other tyrannical despot. I guess I'm going to have to go back into my history books. There must be a case somewhere of a Soviet shrink libeling Stalin in a nationwide newspaper and then being allowed to jet off to America to spread the news. Now, if I can only find it. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE Speaking from experience, Belarus is a refreshing change for someone who's traveled extensively in the old Evil Empire. The streets of the cities are clean and peaceful, the stores are full of inexpensive goods, and the only beggars visible are small handfuls of gypsies and other nomads outside the churches (a common feature throughout central Europe). The Mafia omnipresence of other ex-Soviet capitals is strikingly absent, and the people still seem to have a spring in their step - an air of dignity as they go about their day-to-day affairs. An American would never know this from reading the mainstream press, which has loyally toed the New World Order's PC line for twelve years. It's easy, safe, and probably fun for the "experts" to perpetuate the demonization of Belarus, evidently because America needs enemies, and - as Hitler said - people are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one. Editorials like the IHT's catch the average American eye, but who's going to refute the content? Whenever Imperial America's opinion-makers go anywhere, all they do is stay in Western hotels, keep lesser mortals at a distance, and attend triumphalist conferences where they're told what they want to hear. Non-opinion-making Americans swallow the line with hook and sinker attached while they vacation in Florida and leave Belorussian reality in the hands of government mediocrities, NGO hirelings, and stringer journalists desperate to get in print. So what if NATO ally Poland has called for Kosovo-style bombing of peaceful neighbor Belarus? I'm all right, Jack, and those places are a long way from home. Besides, where exactly is Belarus anyway? Even Westerners who do see that swathes of international reporting are essentially lies nevertheless accept other reports - from the same news agencies - as basically true. If someone were to point out that Lukashenka visited Belgrade during NATO's bombing to show solidarity with the Serbs, many who opposed the war would likely respond: "Yeah, but he's a Communist" (the Belorussian Red Cross also sent Serbia several truckloads of humanitarian aid, which was held up by our trusty allies the Hungarians). And many would "tsk-tsk" reports that Lukashenka was a "dictator" or hadn't enacted "necessary reforms." Oh, before I get accused of being a latter-day George Bernard Shaw or other Stalinist fellow traveler, let's remember that no one has made a serious accusation that Lukashenka is operating gulags in Belarus, not even the lying Western media - not yet anyway. However, I would like to take this opportunity to accuse the Americans and other Westerners who've been to Belarus and reported on the "repressive" regime there of something else: Leninism - of viewing Belarus through the kind of warped spectacles that Bolsheviks Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin wore when they came to New York in 1916-17 and condemned early 20th-century America as evil. Like Trotsky and Bukharin, you see only what your "scientific" (i.e., "politically correct") ideology allows you to see. In your Western compulsion to find the "enemy" on whose face you can hatefully stamp forever, you
[CTRL] Scenes from an Inauguration Day protest
-Caveat Lector- Scenes from an Inauguration Day protest The Fire This Time http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/010123/postcard.shtml By Lori Kurtzman WASHINGTON On this blustery winter day, with misty rain gently collecting on his hat and the crowd around us engaged in furious chanting, Jerry tells me that his plan was to become a priest. That was years ago, though, and now Jerry lives in our country's least holy place and has six children, and 17-year-old James don't call him Jimmy, his father warns is standing to his right. James clicks his retainer into place and points to the bumper sticker on his back. "Green Day," it says, and Jerry is a bit confused. He expected something more along the lines of "Not my president!" We are, after all, at the inaugural parade for the nation's 43rd president, and Jerry and James are two of the many protesters who have come to declare that today is "the day democracy died." I'm about four blocks and three hours from the parade's start, in a line loaded with religious fanatics, man-haters, fur foes and pro-choicers. They've all come out today everyone except the Bush supporters, who seem to be hiding in the street's wet corners, support buttons sitting deep in their pockets. I jump in this line somewhere near the end, and Jerry and James are right behind me. Over the chants of the protesters lining the street and the booming sermon from the "born-again preacher," (that's what he calls himself) on the corner, Jerry has decided to tell me his life story. It starts with the priesthood plan and keeps going, but it's raining and it's cold and I can't bother myself to pay attention. Jerry saw my notebook poking out of my black wool coat and thought I'd be a natural listener, but he was wrong. I've been in Washington for two weeks. I ride the Metro like a pro and have the D.C. yuppie look down. I've tried not to be a tourist, but at the top of my to-do list during my three-week stay here was a stop by the inaugural mess. Now I'm not so sure this was a good idea. As soon as I stepped onto the train today, I saw my first goateed protester, a pseudo-hippie with a black backpack and an embarrassed girlfriend. "Hail to the Thief," read his sign, an original slogan I'd see hundreds of times in the next four hours. He hid it behind the backs of his legs while we waited for our stop to approach. I pass through the gates, wave farewell to Jerry and James (who, as it turns out, aren't bad line company) and assess this lugubrious celebration. The rain comes down harder, the sky grows grayer, and the temperature seems to suddenly drop. I wish for gloves and a hat and shoes without holes. The parade is scheduled to start in two hours, and I have nowhere to go and I can still hear the vendors outside of blocked-off Pennsylvania Avenue with their teasing call: "Um-ba-rellas-um-ba-rellas-um-ba-rellas!" I pick my spot, a few feet from the street and a few more from the tickets-only bleachers. There are "hundreds of thousands" of people here, as the next day's paper reads, and most of them are already yelling. Before the day is over, I'll see a near-riot break out, hear a choir of a hundred voices join in the chanting of "fuck you" and have a William McKinley-obsessed smoking fiend bum two of my cigarettes and stare at me for an uncomfortably long time. The parade starts an hour and a half late, and tensions are soaring. A man behind me yells something profane, his brow tightly knitted, and the spittle soars a good foot from his mouth. A man next to me is poked by an umbrella several times and finally gives the nylon canopy a good shove. This, I tell myself, is a celebration that happens only once every four years. A marching band toots its way bravely by the crowd and is greeted with several hundred turned-down thumbs and one unanimous "Boo!" Today, the sidewalks of Pennsylvania Avenue are the Great American Platform, and if one thing is clear, it is that we are doomed. Trash bins are overflowing, chaos is reigning and hate, well, hate seems to be the theme of Inauguration 2001. There is a hatred for the president, the Supreme Court, the electoral college. But where it's aimed at doesn't seem to matter. This crowd is young, and it is raging. As we wait for the president's motorcade, choppers cut through the air overhead. Snipers atop buildings peer down at the masses, and a man up front offers middle fingers to the chanters. The bleachers fill up, and blue ticket-holders are not happy. "I paid 200 dollars and I don't even get a seat?" one woman wrapped in fur asks. No worries. Her husband, a pudgy man with a brown fedora, pulls her to the front of the crowd, butting and bumping and ignoring those of us who've been holding our spots for three hours. A few people swear at him, but most don't mind. Nobody's really here to see a parade, anyway. I'm told President George W. Bush's weak inaugural address centered on civility and unity, and I have to wonder if he's witnessing
[CTRL] CDC: Diabetes, Obesity Becoming Epidemic
-Caveat Lector- CDC: Diabetes, Obesity Becoming Epidemic http://www.healthmall.com/newsletter.cfm?type=articleid=1402a= Diabetes in the United States rose by about 6 percent in 1999 in what the government called dramatic evidence of an unfolding epidemic. Cases rose sharply across almost every demographic category, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The rise is blamed largely on obesity, which was up a startling 57 percent from 1991. "The message is out there _ lose weight by increasing your physical activity and changing your diet," CDC epidemiologist Ali Mokdar said. "But nobody is doing it." The share of the adult population diagnosed with diabetes jumped from about 6.5 percent in 1998 to 6.9 percent in 1999, the CDC said. The obesity rate increased to nearly one in five Americans _ up from just 12 percent in 1991. The rise in diabetes crossed age groups but was sharpest among people ages 30 to 39. The CDC reported an especially large rise in 1999 among blacks _ more than 10 percent in just one year. CDC director Jeffrey Koplan said the effect on the nation's health-care costs will be overwhelming if the trends continue. "This dramatic new evidence signals the unfolding of an epidemic in the United States," he said. The statistics, released Friday by the CDC, appear in the February issue of the journal Diabetes Care. The report is based on a telephone survey of 150,000 Americans. At least 16 million Americans have diabetes, which prevents the body from regulating blood sugar. The number is expected to rise to 22 million by 2025. Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations; it dramatically raises the risk of heart attacks. Experts have blamed America's inactive culture for the obesity that leads to diabetes. Computer-centered lifestyles, easy fast food and disappearing space for outdoor exercise all have been cited. In many cases, Mokdar said, Americans who do exercise don't do it often enough, and many cut fat from their diets without paying attention to crucial calories. "This used to be a disease that came late in life," he said. "Now it's coming in kids as young as the early 20s. That's alarming." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] (en) Protesters resist inauguration Anarchists destroy inaugural checkpoi...
-Caveat Lector- A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ Protesters resist inauguration Anarchists destroy inaugural checkpoint, hoist flag: media blackout Source: www.agrnews.org Partially written, partially compiled by Eamon Martin Washington, DC, Jan. 20=D1 As the pomp and circumstance of President George W. Bush=D5s inauguration attempted to forcibly transcend the domestic instability left in the wake of what may be the most contentious election in US history, approximately 20,000 people gathered in the nation=D5s capital to protest. Bush, the first President in more than a century to lose the national popular vote, took the oath of office as president of the United States, pledging to "unite" the country which the November elections showed to be deeply divided, along cultural, geographic, and ethnic lines. For a large percentage of the US public, the presidency is deeply mired in a crisis of legitimacy by numerous allegations of vote fraud, voter disenfranchisement, and the controversial Supreme Court decision that halted the vote count on a legal technicality. For the many who came to demonstrate from as many as forty US states, a Bush/Cheney White House represents nothing less than a debasement of democracy, a Republican coup d=D5etat with a suitably incompetent figurehead for a puppet regime. Despite a relentless, cold rain and unprecedented security restrictions for demonstrators, widespread feelings of outrage and contempt for the incoming administration were literally overwhelming for many of those in attendance. The day saw numerous marches, assemblies, street theater performances, and confrontations between police and protesters that have since drawn concern from media analysts, given the dramatic scope of the activities and - in many cases - their subsequent, mysterious absence from most news reports. Demonstrators were evident on every block of the 1.6-mile inaugural parade route, and on some blocks on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, they outnumbered other paradegoers. The day began early for protesters, who were in the streets well before Bush supporters. At 8:30am, a few hundred met at 12th and G streets NW, then marched to 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, to the beat of homemade drums. A boisterous crowd of more than 1,000 assembled at Dupont Circle just before 10 am, chastising Bush for "stealing" the election. At 10:30, city crews arrived to cut an effigy of Bush from a tree. Speaker Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, told the crowd: "Let them have the tree. We have all of Dupont Circle and we have the whole country. They just have the White House." Meanwhile, near the Supreme Court, Al Sharpton, Walter E. Fauntroy and other civil rights activists were holding a "shadow" inauguration and parade, attended by over 2,000 people. Laura Brightman of Brooklyn, NY commented, "We were sold out," as others around her chanted, "No justice, no peace." "And when we tried to get justice [from the Supreme Court] we were sold again," said Brightman. "The election was stolen." At the Supreme Court building, Rudy Arredondo of Takoma Park, Md., put it this way: "Bush is a Supreme Court appointee. In my eyes, and in my children=D5s eyes, he will never be a legitimate president." Anarchists destroy inaugural checkpoint, hoist flag: media blackout Notably ignored by the mainstream press, radical activists made anarchist history during George W. Bush=D5s inaugural parade when one of nine police checkpoints to the celebration was battered down and overrun with thousands of protesters. Not long after, protesters -- led by the masked, black-clad, anarchist collective known as the "Black Bloc" -- seized the Naval Memorial on Pennsylvania Ave. and raised anarchist flags up the monument=D5s flagpole. Overwhelmed by the security breach, DC police and Secret Service appeared confused, powerless, and embarrassed as they tried to contain, arrest, or disperse the demonstrators, only to fail time and time again when Black Bloc members physically fought back and successfully prevented almost any such police retaliation from happening. In the weeks leading up to Bush=D5s inaugural moment, the "historically unprecedented" security measures being undertaken by the Republican Party in tandem with DC police and the US Secret Service received extensive attention in the news media. For the first time ever, anyone wishing to attend the inaugural parade was required to pass through one of nine police checkpoints, have their bags searched, and in some cases be frisked and have protest signs confiscated. "He stole the vote," said Ethyl Tobch, 79, of New York City. "The fact that the people=D5s votes were absolutely stolen
[CTRL] Health regulators investigating cattle quarantined in Texas
-Caveat Lector- Health regulators investigating cattle quarantined in Texas By PHILIP BRASHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (January 26, 2001 7:23 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Federal health regulators are investigating 1,000 cattle that were quarantined in Texas after a feed mill disclosed it may have violated rules designed to prevent mad-cow disease. Mad-cow disease - or bovine spongiform encephalopathy - has never been found in any U.S. cattle. However, as a precautionary measure, the government has banned cows and sheep from being given feed made from animal parts. The feed maker notified the Food and Drug Administration that it may have mixed up ingredients, letting some cattle eat bone meal made from other U.S. cattle, FDA spokesman Lawrence Bachorik said Thursday. "No cattle that might have received the feed will enter the food chain unless FDA decides there is no problem," he said. A feed lot has quarantined the cattle while FDA investigators determine if any did eat banned feed, Bachorik said. While he wouldn't identify the feed maker, he stressed any risk is theoretical because U.S. cattle haven't been found carrying BSE. Mad-cow disease has so far been confined to Europe. The feed ban is designed to keep mad cow from spreading through animal feed if the disease does get into the United States. A recent FDA report found that hundreds of feed makers were violating labeling requirements and other rules associated with the ban. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has organized a private meeting Monday involving representatives of the industry and officials from the FDA and the Agriculture Department to press for better compliance. "We decided that, given the situation in Europe, that we wanted to bring all the key players together to achieve 100 percent compliance with the FDA feed prohibitions," Gary Weber, who oversees regulatory issues for the rancher's group, said Thursday. The disease first appeared in 1984 in a cow in Britain thought to have eaten feed that included offal from sheep that harbored scrapie, a similar illness. The FDA has warned U.S. feed makers that continued violations will prompt seizures of feed, company closures, even prosecution. Some companies have received warning letters, and some feed has been recalled, the agency said. "We're prepared to go to the meeting and let them know we are doing or are willing to do our part to ensure that we don't get BSE into this country," said Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association, which represents plants that process animal parts for feed and other products. "We want the FDA to enforce the feed ban and take what resources it needs to make sure it is enforced." Americans are aware of the problem in Europe, but so far they are not overly worried, according to a recent ABC-Washington Post poll. One in five of those surveyed said they were very concerned about the problem, and fewer than half said they were at least somewhat concerned. The U.S. livestock industry in 1996 voluntarily banned sheep and certain other animal parts from U.S. feed, in which they were included as a protein supplement. The following year, FDA formally banned any proteins from cows, sheep, goats, deer or elk - animals that get similar brain-wasting diseases - from feed for cows, sheep or goats. Poultry or pigs can still eat those proteins because they cannot contract the disease, but feed must be labeled "do not feed to cows or other ruminants" and companies must have systems to prevent accidentally mixing up the feeds. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Massive earthquake kills thousands in India
-Caveat Lector- Massive earthquake kills thousands in India By NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (January 26, 2001 3:55 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The most powerful earthquake to strike India in more than a half-century shook the subcontinent Friday, killing more than 2,000 people, injuring 3,000 and leaving survivors spending the night by campfires near the rubble of their homes. The 7.9 magnitude temblor in western Gujarat state, close to the border with Pakistan, caused high-rise buildings to sway 600 miles away in the capital, New Delhi, and was felt 800 miles away in Nepal and 1,200 miles away in Bangladesh. All the deaths in India were recorded in Gujarat state, where buildings shook for more than two minutes. The quake struck at 8:50 a.m. as many cities were celebrating India's 51st Republic Day, which commemorates the adoption of the constitution. In Ahmedabad, Gujarat's commercial capital and a city of 4.5 million, as many as 50 multistory buildings collapsed and at least 270 people were killed. Hundreds of people besieged the fire station asking for help to dig out their relatives, fire chief Rajesh Bhat said. "This is an emergency. We are facing a riotous crowd," Bhat said. "A fear psychosis is developing in the city. People have fled their homes and are taking refuge in open fields." Helmeted rescue workers used iron rods to pry up slabs of concrete and metal, searching for survivors. Women wept and rocked back and forth, watching anxiously as the few available bulldozers and cranes pushed through the piles of stone that once had housed families and shops. Beds, children's toys and clothes lay abandoned in the debris. Lamp posts and electric pylons were twisted and many buildings were left leaning precariously. Rescuers stood atop the rubble of collapsed buildings, digging for survivors. Corpses were piled up on the verandah of the N.S. Hospital, while patients overflowing into the hallways wailed and screamed with broken limbs and bleeding wounds. Press Trust of India reported 70 people died while waiting to be treated. Bruised and bleeding bodies were laid in rows, covered with blankets as relatives sat by mourning. The death toll in India was 860 and was expected to climb, authorities said. Six people died in Pakistan when two houses collapsed, bringing the overall toll to 866. The epicenter was near Bhuj, a desert town of 150,000 people in Gujarat where authorities said 200 people were killed and 90 percent of the houses were damaged. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee held an emergency meeting and called on "all people to rally together at this time of national calamity." He made no appeal for international aid, saying the needs were still being assessed. Vajpayee sent federal Home Minister Lal Advani to Gujarat, where Advani said the death figure "could be 1,000 or more." Cabinet minister Pramod Mahajan said the government was flying 10,000 tents, 10,000 tons of grain, 20 doctors and surgeons, communications and seismology experts to Gujarat. The air force said it had landed two helicopters at its base in Bhuj and the government said the runway would be able to handle small planes by Saturday. The temblor caused high-rise buildings to sway from New Delhi in the north, to Bombay and Madras in the south and Calcutta in the west, many hundreds of miles from the epicenter. Reports of aftershocks came in from around the country. An apparent aftershock hit Bangladesh, where hundreds of panicked residents flooded into the streets of Satkhira, on the border with India. The quake was the most powerful to strike India since Aug. 15, 1950, when an 8.5 magnitude temblor killed 1,538 people in northeastern Assam state. On June 16, 1819, a quake in western India killed between 1,500 and 2,000 people. Mahajan insisted that Friday's quake measured 6.9, according to a preliminary figure given by the Indian Meteorological Institute. However, the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., taking an average of seismograph measurements from around the world, said it was 7.9. There was no damage to the two 220-megawatt nuclear plants in Gujarat, authorities said. But gas pipelines, most power supply stations, phone lines and water service were knocked out in the arid state, which is prone to drought. "The whole state has been affected. Communications have been disrupted all over the state," said Gujarat's home minister, Haren Pandya. In Ahmedabad, a center of India's textile industry, about 70 children and some teachers were feared dead in the debris of their school building, while 19 engineering students were believed trapped in a collapsed college elsewhere in the city. Baijubahi, an Ahmedabad man who uses only one name, said his wife was killed in the earthquake and six members of his family were still trapped in their building. "The police are trying to persuade me to go to the hospital for my wife's post-mortem," he said. "I'm more concerned about the
[CTRL] What the Men Who Run the World Are Thinking
http://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,96791,00.html Friday, January 26, 2001 What the Men Who Run the World Are Thinking Fears of a global slump may dominate the Davos gathering of the world's economic and political heavyweights BY TONY KARON The straphanger standing on the bus because he couldn't get a seat is George Soros, the global financier who has the power to destroy a whole Asian economy with the click of a mouse. That guy in the pizza parlor who looks like Bill Gates — chances are it in fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk — Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump by 20 cents within a month. There's something more than a little surreal about the World Economic Forum's annual get-together in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which opened on Thursday. Davos is a conspiracy theorist's dream. Its participants — scores of heads of state and senior ministers, representatives of 1,000 of the world's biggest corporations and an eclectic assortment of economists, social critics, writers, artists and thinkers — may reflect an unparalleled concentration of political and economic power, and yet the event has no formal mandate or decision-making power. In fact, it's not even strictly a conference, by the organizers' definition, but rather a more informal gathering of the people who run the world to discuss the big picture — the really, really big picture, about where the world is headed. And attendance is strictly by invitation only, a fact underlined by the largest deployment in decades of the traditionally neutral Swiss army, to keep at bay the thousands of anti-globalization protesters who would dearly love to spoil the party. Organizers this year are making a concerted effort to focus on some of the concerns of the demonstrators they're working so hard to keep away. The focus is on bridging the gap between rich and poor, addressing the debt burden on developing countries and engaging critics of globalization. Representatives of African governments are expected to promote their development plans and make a pitch for investment. Many of those topics may have been conceived after last year's event, which was dogged by protesters and at which President Clinton sounded a note of caution amid a celebration of the wonders of the New Economy. Clinton had been burned only months earlier by the World Trade Organization debacle in Seattle, in which the combination of anti-globalization street protests and discord among the member states had prevented any progress in negotiating a new round of trade liberalization measures. He devoted his acclaimed speech to the need to ensure that the world's impoverished majority benefited from the promise of globalization. The minds of the participants may be even more acutely focused this year, on the anticipated slowdown in the U.S. economy and its global implications. And, of course, the veterans of those failed WTO trade talks will be inclined to use the demonstration-free environment to huddle over ways of resolving the disputes that divide the world's two biggest trading blocs, the U.S. and the E.U. The Europeans are concerned that the incoming Bush administration — which won't have a high-profile presence at Davos — plans to prioritize trade agreements with Latin America, and they fear that a U.S. economic slowdown may increase pressure on the White House to play hardball in future trade talks. The conference's program may be structured to help focus the minds of the men who run the world (and yes, it is run mostly by men) on the problems of poverty, the digital divide, environmental challenges and other challenges of the future. But the organizers may find that such concerns are more easily dealt with at moments when the power brokers are feeling flush and confident. This time around, most of their attention may be focused on trying to read the message in the clouds gathering on the horizon of the world economy.
[CTRL] Kissinger urges Bush to shore up NATO
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=00422459148rtmo=fsMrolqsatmo=rrrq pg=/et/01/1/26/wkiss26.html Kissinger urges Bush to shore up Nato By Toby Harnden in Washington FEARS that the European defence force could undermine Nato are growing in America with senior Republicans advising President Bush to act swiftly to shore up the transatlantic alliance.Although Mr Bush has been in office for just five days and Gen Colin Powell, the new Secretary of State, and Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser, have yet to appoint senior staff, the US response to European integration is already emerging as a key issue. In an article in the Washington Post, Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Nixon, said: "The European Union is in the process of creating a military force institutionally distinct from Nato." The force, he said, "could produce the worst of all worlds: disruption of Nato procedures and impairment of allied co-operation without enhanced allied military capability or meaningful European autonomy". There has been a weakening of the "emotional bond" between Americans and Europe, he argued, with many EU countries seeking their own "special relationship" with Moscow and viewing Nato as a relic of the Cold War. The Clinton administration had left a "legacy of unanswered questions" about European integration but "the advent of Republican administration will inevitably change America's focus of consultation with Europe's leaders". According to Mr Kissinger, Mr Clinton had put "the prestige of the American presidency behind one side" in many European countries. Under Mr Bush, US policy would be "less geared to personalities and more designed to bring about a meaningful transatlantic dialogue" based on permanent national interests. The backgrounds of Gen Powell and Miss Rice made it "very likely that the task of revitalising the alliance will be given high priority" in the Bush administration. European countries needed to reassess their opposition to America's National Missile Defence (NMD) programme and "ask themselves whether any American president can seriously be asked to leave his people permanently vulnerable" to countries such as North Korea and Iraq.In yesterday's New York Times, William Safire, a leading conservative commentator, was scathing in his criticism of European defence force plans, which represented a "Euro-isolationism" that was "led by French chauvinists and Brussels bureaucrats". He said that only "the bold" William Hague was "resisting this slow dissolution" of Nato and had given a "Churchillian speech" defending the US-European strategic relationship. Mr Hague's support for NMD and his proposal that its umbrella be extended to cover European allies "revives the original idea behind Nato" and would counter the threat from "blackmailers with deliverable weapons of mass destruction", Mr Safire said. Mr Safire also urged Mr Bush to resist a "pre-election photo op" with "the agile Blair, Clinton's buddy". In a 10-minute conversation on Tuesday, Mr Bush and Mr Blair agreed that they should meet soon and officials are finalising arrangements for the Prime Minister to visit Washington next month. Mr Bush's inexperience in world affairs means that he is likely to rely heavily on his advisers during the early months of his presidency. As well as Gen Powell, Miss Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, his Defence Secretary, these will include Vice President Dick Cheney, who ran the Pentagon during the Gulf war. Mr Cheney has appointed his own foreign policy advisers, indicating he will be an influential figure in international security matters. Although Gen Powell and Miss Rice are strongly pro-Nato, they are seen as likely to be less worried about the ramifications of European integration than Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. Under Gen Powell, many senior posts will be filled by career diplomats rather than political appointees, making it more possible that elements of what Mr Safire described as Mr Clinton's "wishy-washy US response to Euro-isolationism" will continue.
[CTRL] The Narrow Separation of Press and State
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010125.html The Narrow Separation of Press and State By Norman Solomon It was a remarkable comment that passed without notice. After interviewing the new White House chief of staff, a network anchor bade him farewell. "All right, Andy Card," said CNN's Judy Woodruff, "we look forward to working with you, to covering your administration." If major news outlets were committed to independent journalism, Woodruff's statement on national television Jan.19 would have caused quite a media stir -- as a sign of undue coziness with power brokers in Washington. But it was far from conspicuous. Woodruff's remark was matter-of-fact. Warm collaboration is routine. Many reporters work closely with each new crew of top government officials. Leading journalists and spinners in high places are accustomed to mutual reliance. That's good for professional advancement. But the public's right to know is another matter. "The first fact of American journalism is its overwhelming dependence on sources, mostly official, usually powerful," Walter Karp pointed out in Harper's Magazine a dozen years ago. Since then, the problem has grown even more acute. A multitude of journalists advance their careers by (in Woodruff's words) "working with" movers and shakers in government. Reporters with outsized reputations for investigative vigor -- Bob Woodward, for example -- may be the most compromised. Behind the scenes, the tacitly understood tradeoffs amount to quid pro quos. Officials dispense leaks to reporters with track records of proven willingness to stay within bounds. "It is a bitter irony of source journalism," Karp observed, "that the most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the 'best' sources." While some fine journalism, assertive and carefully researched, gets into print and onto airwaves every day, the islands of such reporting are drowned in oceans of glorified leaks and institutional handouts. But democracy is only served when journalists keep searching for information that officials hide. On the surface, concerns about scant separation of press and state might seem to be misplaced. After all, don't we see network correspondents firing tough questions at politicians? Isn't the press filled with criticism of policymakers? Well, kind of. We're encouraged to confuse partisan wrangles with ample debate, or -- in the case of certain TV shows -- high decibels with wide diversity. To a great extent, mainstream media outlets provide big megaphones for those who already have plenty of clout. That suits wealthy owners and large advertisers. But what about democratic discourse? In general, news coverage of political issues is about as varied as the array of views propounded by the hierarchies of the Democratic and Republican parties. When there's bipartisan agreement on particular topics -- such as the wisdom of keeping 2 million Americans behind bars or the value of corporate globalization -- the media space for debate tends to be very limited. Consensus among major-party leaders has a way of circumscribing the mass-media arena. With huge conglomerates more enmeshed in media ownership and advertising than ever, news operations are under heightened pressure to promote corporate outlooks, dovetailing with rightward trends in governance. It's true that business has always dominated government policymaking. But in recent times, mitigating interests -- often known in mediaspeak as "special interests" -- have been increasingly expunged from serious consideration. "What is new about the situation today is that a seemingly irreversible mutation in the American system has occurred," syndicated columnist William Pfaff wrote in mid-January. "At some point, quantitative change does become qualitative change. The point when that change took place was probably 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that money spent in support of a political candidate is a form of constitutionally protected free speech. Moneyed interests now finance not only the winners of national elections but also most of the losers." Pfaff's column appears most prominently in the International Herald Tribune. Based in Paris, he has a clear-eyed view of big money's leverage over U.S. politics: "This is part of the enlarging domination of American life by business corporations and their values, which are those of material aggrandizement, a phenomenon accompanied and promoted by the circuses and gladiatorial contests provided by the most important U.S. industry of all, entertainment, which now showcases elections and even wars as entertainments." We need wide-ranging news media. And that's unlikely as long as most "journalism" resembles stenography for the powerful -- and very few eyebrows get raised when a network anchor tells a key official of an incoming administration that "we look forward to working with you."
[CTRL] Deja vu all over again: The Green Berets are 18 miles away.
-Caveat Lector- Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] AP: As warring sides mobilize in Colombia, archbishop warns of apocalypse Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:07:32 -0600 From: "Ken Freeland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "texassoa-watch" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "IMC" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "hprt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [NOTE: Time to wake up, folks! The Green Berets are just 18 miles away from the front, "training" the Colombians. -DG] = Just 18 miles from Doncello, one of the towns where the army was deploying troops and tanks, some 85 U.S. special forces troops were training Colombian anti-narcotics army troops, the U.S. Embassy said. ___ = ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 24 January 2001 As warring sides mobilize in Colombia, archbishop warns of pocalypse -- By Cesar Garcia SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia -- Colombia deployed more troops Wednesday toward the borders of a huge rebel-controlled swath of territory. With rebel forces also mobilizing, an archbishop predicted a blood bath if peace efforts collapse. "There won't be combat between the two sides, but a dirty war," said Francisco Javier Munera, archbishop of San Vicente del Caguan, the main town in the zone the rebels control. "If the peace process is interrupted, we will have an apocalypse." Light tanks rumbled Wednesday toward the so-called demilitarized zone, where Army Col. Romulo Vasquez said hundreds of rebel soldiers were mobilizing. "We're in a state of alert," he said. The demilitarized zone is an area twice the size of New Jersey in Colombia's south. President Andres Pastrana ceded it to the country's main leftist rebel group - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or ARC - two years ago to kick-start peace talks and to have a site where talks could take place. Pastrana must decide by Jan. 31 whether to renew the FARC's control over the zone. He has done so several times in the past. But with the FARC suspending peace talks in November and no sign that either side will make concessions, Colombia's military is preparing for a possible escalation in the country's now 37-year-old civil war. "We are deploying troops where they can be most effective regarding the situation that can come up on Jan. 31," army Gen. Arcensio Barrero said. The 15,000-strong FARC is deeply entrenched in the zone. A decision to take it back could spark heavy fighting and would effectively end the peace process, a top priority of Pastrana's administration. Munera urged Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda to meet. Pastrana cut short a trip to Europe because of the crisis and was due to return to Colombia on Sunday. Residents, meanwhile, were bracing for the worst. Most of the 3,000 people killed each year in the war are civilians attacked by right-wing paramilitary gunmen or by leftist rebels for allegedly supporting the opposing side. If the government does not renew the rebel zone, it must protect its civilians, said Nestor Ramirez, mayor of San Vicente. Pope John Paul II decried the rising violence Wednesday, appealing for end to kidnappings, bombings and attacks linked to drug trafficking. "I am also asking all parties to promote an effective and honest dialogue," he said in a special appeal during his weekly general audience. "It is time to return to the Lord of Life, so that he moves the hearts of Colombians and makes them understand that they are one large family." Just 18 miles from Doncello, one of the towns where the army was deploying troops and tanks, some 85 U.S. special forces troops were training Colombian anti-narcotics army troops, the U.S. Embassy said. The training is part of Washington's $1.3 billion aid initiative aimed at stamping out drug trafficking, which yields the leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups huge profits. After the training, Colombian soldiers will be sent to battle rebels engaged in cocaine production further south. In October, a FARC commander warned that "all Colombian or foreign military personnel who are in the combat zones will be military targets." However, rebels have never penetrated the U.S. encampment in the middle of the sprawling Larandia army base, a spokeswoman for the Colombian army said. Copyright 2001 Associated Press * CLM-NEWS is brought to you by the COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR at * * http://www.prairienet.org/clm * * and the CHICAGO COLOMBIA COMMITTEE * * Email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or * * Dennis Grammenos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * "NATO is an evil force of arms traffickers, fascists, charlatans, murderers and
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- I know that not from reading Ayn Rand but from looking at the schools where I greu up. The ones who taught you to spell? Well, a typo. The U and W are so close together on the keyboard it's easy to make a mistake. they are? my keyboard says: q W e r t y U i o p not that i'm trying to pick on spelling (that's just silly). i just don't like getting lied to, 'sall. inri np: sonic youth - daydream nation A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- Well, a typo. The U and W are so close together on the keyboard it's easy to make a mistake. they are? my keyboard says: q W e r t y U i o p not that i'm trying to pick on spelling (that's just silly). i just don't like getting lied to, 'sall. You've seen through my deception! jeff = Jeff Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college" -- Woody Allen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- I live in a primarily white suburb; most of the people I know moved here and paid for good schools, highe taxes than most suburban cities, but it was to escape this black plague in the schools. snip pathetic racist garbage i don't know whether to feel sorry for you or to hope that you get hit by a train. i do know, however, that this is proof that the american education system really does need an overhaul. inri np: sonic youth - daydream nation A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Q-Who will MOST BENEFIT By School Vouchers???
-Caveat Lector- --- inri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- I live in a primarily white suburb; most of the people I know moved here and paid for good schools, highe taxes than most suburban cities, but it was to escape this black plague in the schools. snip pathetic racist garbage i don't know whether to feel sorry for you or to hope that you get hit by a train. i do know, however, that this is proof that the american education system really does need an overhaul. The train situation in the US is similar to the education situation. I wouldn't count on a train here for anything, including hitting an enemy. jeff = Jeff Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college" -- Woody Allen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Rehnquist-Bigot???
http://www.thenation.com/special/20010101rehnquist.mhtml NOMINATION OF JUSTICE WILLIAM HUBBS REHNQUIST HEARINGS before the COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE SECOND SESSION on the NOMINATION OF JUSTICE WILLIAM HUBBS REHNQUIST TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES July 29, 30, 31, and August 1, 1986 Statement of James J. Brosnahan to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee August 1, 1986 My name is James J. Brosnahan. I was born and raised in Massachusetts, graduating from Boston College in 1956. After my wife and I graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1959, we moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Between April 10, 1961, and February of 1963, I served as an assistant United States attorney, prosecuting federal criminal cases in Phoenix. In 1963 I left Arizona and moved to San Francisco, California, where I also served as an assistant United States attorney prosecuting criminal cases. I am now in private practice in San Francisco. I am appearing today at the request of the Committee. I have never volunteered any information about the events of 1962. My position is that those who are interested in those events are entitled to accurate answers from me as to what I know and specifically the members of this Committee are entitled to the testimony of any witness if they request it. On Election Day in November 1962, in Phoenix, Arizona, several assistant U.S. attorneys were assigned the task of receiving complaints alleging illegal interference with the voting process. As complaints came in, an assistant U.S. attorney accompanied by an FBI agent would be dispatched to the precinct involved. On that day the United States Attorney's Office in Phoenix received numerous complaints from persons attempting to vote in precincts in South Phoenix. At that time the population of south Phoenix was predominantly black and Hispanic and voted overwhelmingly Democratic. The Office of United States Senator Hayden also received complaints on that day. The complaints we received alleged in various forms that the Republican challengers were aggressively challenging many voters without having a basis for that challenge. One of the complaints frequently voiced on that day was that Republican challengers would point out a black or Hispanic person in the voting line and question whether he or she could read. (At this time it was my understanding that Arizona law required that a voter be able to vote in English.) According to the complaints received at the U.S. Attorney's Office, these challenges were confrontational and made without a factual basis to believe the person challenged had any problem reading. The U.S. Attorney's Office was advised that because the challenges were so numerous, the line of voters in several precincts grew long and some black and Hispanic voters were discouraged from joining or staying in the voters' line. It was also reported that at one of the precincts there was a fist fight as a result of a confrontation between a Republican challenger and another person. Based on interviews with voters, polling officials, and my fellow assistant U.S. attorneys, it was my opinion in 1962 that the challenging effort was designed to reduce the number of black and Hispanic voters by confrontation and intimidation. I received a complaint on Election Day and went with an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to a polling place in south Phoenix. The polling place had a long line of voters, several tables at which sat challengers from both parties, and an official whose job was to preside over allowing people to vote. There may have been one or two other officials or clerks. When we arrived, the situation was tense. At that precinct I saw William Rehnquist, who was serving as the only Republican challenger. The FBI agent and I both showed our identifications to those concerned, including Mr. Rehnquist. We both talked to persons involved and the FBI agent interviewed anyone having information about what had occurred at the polling place. In fairness to Justice Rehnquist, I cannot tell the Committee in detail what specific complaints there were or how Mr. Rehnquist responded to them. The complaints did involve Mr. Rehnquist's conduct. Our arrival and the showing of our identifications had a quieting effect on the situation and after interviewing several witnesses, we left. Criminal prosecution was declined as to all participants in the incidents at various precincts that day. Prosecution was declined as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. Our investigation was pursuant to the following criminal statutes: 18 U.S.C. § 594, which made it a misdemeanor to intimidate, threaten, coerce...or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce...any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote. 18 U.S.C. § 241, which made it a felony for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
Re: [CTRL] McVeigh's execution date
-Caveat Lector- Is anyone aware of any primary source corroboration (i.e. McVeigh)that McVeigh actually waived his appeal? From: John Cone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] McVeigh's execution date Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:43:43 -0800 -Caveat Lector- --- Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "For McVeigh somehow I believe, thought he was working for official intelligence source..." ___ Nakano comments: Yes, McVeigh was working for an "official intelligence source." During the peak of the Desert Storm airwar, several hundred Iraqi troops called "Republic Guards" surrendered in Kuwait. They were keep in a prison compound in Saudi Arabia for about a year. These Iraqis appealed to Bill Clinton for "political asylum". He gave it to them and issued an order to allow them to come and live in the United States. They settled in groups in several U.S. cities. (CBS 60 Minutes did a report about this). One group of former Iraqi soldiers settled in.. are you ready for this...Oklahoma City. Tim McVeigh was an undercover intelligence agent assigned to keep tabs on this group. Several eye witnesses in Oklahoma City reported seeing McVeigh in the company of several of the Iraqis in the days before the bombing. The Federal Judge you mentioned was warned of the bombing a week before it happened. BTAF Office also had advance notice. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing the Oklahoma City Fire Dept. Bomb Squad and BATF agents deployed in the area of the Murrah Building as much as 3 hours before the explosion. _ Aleisha Saba: "McVeigh, who was not too bright face it, with a chin like Jay Leno was easy target to find maybe? Or maybe to draw picture for a wanted ad?" _ Nakano: You are almost right on this one too. McVeigh was chosen to be the "Patsy" because there was a "McVeigh double" in the BATF. This BATF agent and McVeigh looked almost like twin brothers. It was the McVeigh "double" who was speeding 85 MPH in a car with no license plates to purposely get pulled over and arrested. That's why the FBI confiscated the mugshots, the fingerprints records and even the bed sheets and blankets from the jail where the McVeigh double had been held for three days. They removed all evidence that might prove that the man who had been arrested wasn't McVeigh. One more thing. McVeigh isn't a dummy. He was an outstanding soldier. Unfortunately, he is also a victim of "mind control programming", and they put a chip implant in him to control him. I know this sounds like bizarre science fiction. But have you noticed there have been only one or two very carefully controlled interviews by reporters with him? No writer has come forward to do interviews with McVeigh and write a book? In fact, since the trial, there has been almost nothing in the media about him. WHY Not? Regards to All Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by
[CTRL] Fw: Madam Kangaroo Mutates to Madam Halfbright (TiM GW Bulletin 2001/1-3, Jan. 26, 2001)
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: TiM Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TiM GW Bulletins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:35 PM Subject: "Madam Kangaroo" Mutates to "Madam Halfbright" (TiM GW Bulletin 2001/1-3, Jan. 26, 2001) FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA Here is another UPDATE to our latest Balkans Affairs TiM Bulletin: Belgrade 12. "Madam Kangaroo" Mutates to "Madam Halfbright" To read the latest update and all the LINKS to the above stories, just click (or double-click, depending on your computer) on the following Web address, and you'll be able to see it in full color, along with accompanying images: http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2001/tim2001-1-3.html - NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by your e-mail address. - 12. "Madam Kangaroo" Mutates to "Madam Halfbright" BELGRADE, Jan. 26 - Madeleine Albright may be gone from her State Dept.'s seat of power, but a European imitation of this former would-be ruler of the world has sprung up in Europe. It comes in the form of one Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the UN War Crimes Tribunal. In a style reminiscent of Madam Halfbright's pompous arrogance, Del Ponte insisted Jan. 26 that Slobodan Milosevic must be tried at The Hague, and warned that failure by Belgrade to co-operate with the court could lead to the imposition of new sanctions. A mere prosecutor of a kangaroo court telling the world's heads of state, including the new White House occupant who pays most of her salary, what they must do. Perhaps the George W. Bush administration should reply using the same tactics that Congress sometimes uses against petulant presidents - cut off the funding to this sham of a court in the Hague. And then sit back and watch Madam Kangaroo-cum-Madam Halfbright's ego wither and dry up like a fall leaf. If in doubt about Del Ponte's arrogance and inflated grandeur, check out the following excerpts from the London Independent's report from Del Ponte's Jan. 25 news conference in Belgrade: "We [the tribunal] are the first who must have Milosevic on trial," the chief prosecutor said. She argued that it would take too long for Serbia to try Mr Milosevic and later hand him over to The Hague. "I cannot wait for years until the fugitives are transferred." Ms Del Ponte said she had the impression that the Yugoslav President, a lawyer, was "not properly informed" about the tribunal. "Dialogue [with Mr Kostunica] was not possible. I tried for half-an-hour to explain about the tribunal. I had to sit and listen to his long complaints," she said. "He [Mr Kostunica] can and must change his mind," she added. "Full co-operation with my office cannot be avoided if Yugoslavia wants full membership in the international community. If there is no cooperation, new sanctions can be imposed." --- TiM Ed.: See what we mean? Here's an administrative UN appointee telling an elected head of state what he MUST do!? Or else. --- "Ms Del Ponte predicted better co-operation with the tribunal as the new Serbian government, which was inaugurated yesterday, takes over. In her talks with the new Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, a time span of two to three months to begin the co-operation was mentioned. In his maiden speech yesterday, Mr Djindjic said that bringing all those who committed war crimes to justice would be one of the priorities of his government ahead of confronting the dire economic situation in Serbia." --- TiM Ed.: No surprise there. a proven western quisling (Djindjic) kissing up to the new Madam Halfbright, as he had done to the old one (see "Cavorting with the Enemy," Dec. 1999). Which sets up a possible showdown between Kostunica and Djindjic, something that many analysts have been predicting all along. For the rest of the Independent report, check out. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2001-01/belgrade260101.shtml . - NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by your e-mail address. - TRUTH IN MEDIA Phoenix, Arizona e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Truth in Media Web site http://www.truthinmedia.org/ for articles on geopolitical affairs. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust
[CTRL] Fwd: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
LOVELY story on "senator" Hilliary Clinton who now is dodging the press - when caught off guard, she is almost speechless and I wonder who writes her speeches these day. Now she had to cancel her speaking engagement with Jesse Jackson - and now we find he has 2 illegitimate children and who pays for the other one? Any taxpayers or UA money involved in that Rainbow ripoff? $10,000 a month child support would feed a lot of hungry children and now it is the Jackson 7 it seems, no longer Jackson 5, or Jackson 6... So New York welcomes Hilliary - not exactly a breath of fresh air for she brings more stench with her than your local sewage lines. Saba Advertise Your Banner Here January 26, 2001 Michael Reagan:: Recommends new book on Clinton's Bitter Legacy For the story behind the story... Friday, Jan. 26, 2000 9:59 a.m. EST Hillary on the Lam From Pardongate Heat Scandal-scarred Sen. Hillary Clinton was reported to be hiding out in her Chappaqua, N.Y., mansion on Friday, canceling all public appearances, including one with new daddy Jesse Jackson - as outrage grew over charges she conspired to sell presidential pardons for campaign cash. The New York Post reports that Clinton has canceled all public appearances for the day, including her address to Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Wall Street Project, announced only yesterday. Clinton also will pass up previously scheduled meetings with two top New York City Democrats, Public Advocate Mark Green and Comptroller Alan Hevesi. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani saved the new senator the trouble of canceling his meeting with her. He did that himself late Thursday, saying he was outraged over the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich, the tax-dodging fugitive whom Giuliani had indicted in 1983 when the mayor was U.S. attorney for New York's Southern District. Rich's ex-wife Denise has donated over $1 million to the Clintons and other Democrats since 1993. "I'm very upset about this," Giuliani told reporters yesterday. "I think what the president did is an absolute outrage." Mrs. Clinton may be able to dodge Pardongate questions for now, but both Clintons could wind up trying to explain the cash-for-clemency scandal to Congress before too long. Yesterday House Government Reform and Oversight Committee chief Dan Burton launched a preliminary investigation, saying, "When a pardon appears questionable on the merits, the American people have a right to know why the president made his decision, so that the constitutional power to grant pardons will not be abused in the future." Finis -30- So the pigs have gone home to roost and left a pig stye for others to clean (no insult to the pigs intended).now that the power is gone, let us see how friends stick to these Teflon Kidsremember John Gotti - he was a piker compared to the Clintons..Remember Waco, Remember Ruby Ridge, Remember the Balkans and above all Remember Janet Reno, the one that walked with her left hand. Inside Cover Stories Tiny TV Camera Produces Guided Tours Of Body's Byways NBC's Mitchell Disputes Charge That Bushies Also Trashed White House Hillary on the Lam From Pardongate Heat British Spy: Mandela Worked for Us A Second Jesse Jackson 'Love Child'? CIA Morale Woes Over Tenet, Deutch Top Judiciary Dem Leahy Defends White House Trashing Air Force One Looted on Last Clinton Trip As Aides Trash White House Greenspan Gives Boost to Bush Tax Cuts Hillary to Address Jesse Jackson Group Dale, Hale, Chung, Aldrich, Tripp What's Bush Waiting For? More Inside Cover Stories Contact Us Financial News UK News Late Night Jokes Forum Article Archives Employment Ops. All Rights Reserved NewsMax.com http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/1/25/210100
[CTRL] 'No king but Jesus' (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21482 'No king but Jesus'.url
Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- From: "Nessie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] With those same tax dollars the democrats killed at least a half a million Iraqi women and children. To ignore that, but get upset over a couple computer keys, is sick, evil, or both. Why should both issues be mutually exclusive? I'm pissed off over both... And BTW, it seems to be much more than just a few missing keyboard keys. I say spray painting graffiti in the hallways of a national monument is a pretty serious matter... I would be just as upset at vandalism done to the Jefferson or Lincoln Memorials, the Washington Monument, Statue of Liberty, etc. June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ashcroft Sings!!!!!!!
And whatta' voice!!! Not Yikes...and YUCK! Bill. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/BlessedBethatCity.mp3
[CTRL] Pravda On Castro On Bush
Pravda.RU:Main:More in detail http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/01/26/2179.html 15:59 2001-01-26 FIDEL CASTRO WELCOMES PRESIDENT BUSH WITH THE PHRASE "I HOPE HE IS NOT AS STUPID AS HE LOOKS" True to form, President Fidel Castro of Cuba launched his first verbal missile across the Straits of Florida yesterday with a venomous speech against his counterpart in the USA. "Someone very strange, who promises very little, took over the great empire that we have as a neighbour. This gentleman arrived and we hope he isn't as stupid as he looks, nor a mafia man, like his predecessors." Since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, he has seen ten presidents come and go, from Eisenhower to Bush Junior, passing by Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior and Clinton. President George Bush (Junior) has stated that his administration does not intend to change US official policy towards Cuba, and that the embargo will remain until the "political prisoners" are released and free elections are held. Maybe Fidel Castro could ask the Americans for a blueprint for an election process, since they are such experts at it. He could also ask for some advice from President Bush about how to get elected by the courts after getting less votes than his opponent and by excluding undesirable votes from being counted, our correspondent Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey reports from Lisbon.
Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- Why should both issues be mutually exclusive? They're not, but to listen to the right, you'd think they were. I can understand the rightist politicos making a big deal out of sex, out vandalism, out of anything in the world except Clinton's war crimes because they share his guilt. They probably share the bribes, too. But what about the grassroots conservatives? Where is their outrage? Even the ones with the common human decency to speak out against America's war of aggression against Yugoslavia are strangely silent about Iraq. Could it be because most Serbians are Christians and ninety percent of Iraqis are Muslim? Or is it because Yugoslavs are white and cheap gasoline is worth any number of Arab deaths, because after all they are only Arabs? Just look at CTRL for example. Count how many times you hear somebody here complain about Monica or Travelgate or some such petty distraction. Then count how many times you hear somebody here complain about the genocide being waged against Iraqi civilians. Then count how many times you hear somebody here complain about the genocide being waged against Iraqi civilians and it wasnt me doing the complaining. Its a very short list. Read some right wing boards and youll find the list is even shorter. The right wing should be ashamed of itself over this. Consider the stream of venom they (justly) spew over the lefts unconscionable absence from the protests about Waco. Less than a hundred people died at Waco. At least a half million have died as a direct result of the blockade of Iraq. Do the math. I'm pissed off over both... That appears to put you on a very short list. Welcome aboard. A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A 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 A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Fwd: ALERT: # 196 Boston Globe: Drug Warriors Fabricate Budget Numbers Too
-Caveat Lector- http://www.drugsense.org/ Boston Globe: Drug Warriors Fabricate Budget Numbers Too --- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE --- DrugSense FOCUS Alert #196 Friday January 26, 2001 Drug war supporters frequently pull "facts" out of thin air. These alleged facts (circulated most prominently by former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey) are designed to show that drug war isn't really a disaster. Now it seems some have also been creating false budgets to suggest that the drug war is more humane than it really is. As the Boston Globe reported this week, a new study indicates that some drug law enforcers have greatly overstated the percentage of money being spent on treatment. McCaffrey and his apologists made much of the general's supposed support for a kinder and gentler drug war that was based on treatment and prevention. But, this study proves that it's all just more disinformation, and that nobody really knows exactly how much money is being wasted on anti-drug efforts in general. Please write a letter to the Boston Globe to say drug warriors have to fudge their facts, or everyone would know just how counterproductive the drug war is. WRITE A LETTER TODAY It's not what others do it's what YOU do *** *** * PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER OR TELL US WHAT YOU DID ( Letter, Phone, fax etc.) Please post a copy your letter or report your action to the sent letter list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your letter will then be forwarded to the list with so others can learn from your efforts and be motivated to follow suit This is VERY IMPORTANT as it is the only way we have of gauging our impact and effectiveness. *** *** CONTACT INFO: Source: Boston Globe (MA) Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** * ARTICLE US: US Is Said To Overstate Spending On Drug Care URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n135/a09 .html Newshawk: Kim Hanna, Sledhead, FoM, Richard Evans and Mark Greer Pubdate: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 Source: Boston Globe (MA) Copyright: 2001 Globe Newspaper Company Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: P.O. Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107- 2378 Feedback: http://extranet.globe.com/LettersEditor/def ault.asp Website: http://www.boston.com/globe/ Author: John Donnelly Cited: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1262/ US IS SAID TO OVERSTATE SPENDING ON DRUG CARE Report Cites $1b In Discrepancies WASHINGTON - Promising to further stoke the debate over America's controversial war against drugs, a Rand Corporation study has found that three federal agencies overstated their spending on drug treatment by $1 billion, and that the reported costs of some law enforcement efforts are no more than "educated guesses." "I tracked down one budget guy for the Border Patrol and asked how they figured out the drug budget and he told me, 'We made it up,"' said Patrick J. Murphy, one of the study's authors and an assistant professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. "He said 10 percent of their budget seemed too low, 20 percent too high, so they settled on 15 percent." The report, a copy of which was obtained by the Globe, was requested by Barry R. McCaffrey, who stepped down last month as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It examined 10 agencies that report their drug budgets to the drug policy office. There were no allegations of misspending in the report, but the survey said "flawed" reporting techniques made it impossible to know how much money was actually spent on the battle against illicit drug use. Critics of US drug policy have long argued that it gives short shrift to treatment programs designed to help addicts overcome their cravings. McCaffrey, who did not return telephone calls seeking comment, insisted on completing the potentially embarrassing report because he wanted a better accounting of the drug war, the authors said. They noted that he had long been bothered by seemingly soft figures in agencies' budgets, even though he continued to cite the inflated treatment numbers in his defense of drug-control policy. The drug policy office said in a statement that it "asked for the Rand reports because we want the most reliable data" and that it has "used the Rand findings, and will continue to do so, to improve the way drug budgets are presented to the Congress and the public." Rand is a consulting and research firm known for its work on complex subjects. The statement said that the FBI drug methodology has been corrected and that the Veterans Affairs and Education departments changed their data collection so as to "substantially address Rand's findings." It gave no specifics. The most politically sensitive aspect of the Rand study, which for more than a year examined the 1998 federal drug
[CTRL] Nader's Untold Story
http://www.brillscontent.com/2001feb/features/nader.shtml February 2001 My Untold Story What if we threw a presidential campaign and nobody came? The Green Party's candidate explains how he tried to engage the press, and why it didn't work. By Ralph Nader On the afternoon of February 21, 2000, I declared my candidacy for the Green Party presidential nomination at The Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., before an impressive assemblage of media. All the major television networks, including CNN and PBS, were on hand, as were radio and print reporters. My announcement speech focused on the "democracy gap" in our country, which helps explain the gap between many systemic injustices and lost opportunities, on the one hand, and the solutions that are ignored because of an excessive concentration of power and wealth. That evening, none of the broadcast networks reported that I had entered the race. The next morning The New York Times ran a short article, and the day after that The Washington Post carried a squib. Challenging the entrenched two-party system under a winner-take-all rule is akin to climbing a sheer cliff with a slippery rope. Without instant runoff voting or proportional representation -- voting mechanisms that can allow smaller political parties to share in government -- it is a task far more difficult than in any other Western democracy. The Republican and Democratic parties command the money and wield the power to exclude other candidates from the presidential debates, and to erect formidable statutory barriers against competitors trying to get on the ballot in many states. But perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle of all is the virtual lock enjoyed by the two major parties on coverage in the national media. The national press's insistence on focusing its attention on the horse race between the two major-party candidates creates a catch-22 for any third-party candidate who wants to inject previously ignored issues into the campaign dialogue: Without coverage, you can't make headway in the polls. And a poor showing in the polls in turn distances the media from the campaign. Meanwhile, the issues your campaign seeks to address remain below the radar of the major candidates and the campaign press. Having worked with the print and broadcast media throughout my career as a consumer advocate, I had no illusions when I launched my campaign about the difficulties I would face in convincing reporters, editors, and producers for the major news outlets that my candidacy deserved their coverage. As it turns out, the major media organizations did cover our campaign. But they consistently viewed it as an occasional feature story -- a colorful, narrative dispatch from the trail with a marginal candidate -- rather than a news story about my proposals or campaign events designed to focus attention on our agenda. During the months when I was traveling through the 50 states, the local press usually reported on the visits, but the national print and electronic media didn't. Instead, they'd parachute in a reporter to travel with us for a few days and file a profile of our campaign that focused on personality and the so-called spoiler issue rather than on substance. We were never a news beat, even when the margins narrowed between Al Gore and George W. Bush during the last month and made our voters more consequential. Back in the spring, however, hope sprung eternal. In April, a Zogby America poll put us at 5 percent nationwide. Our audiences were growing, and we had an exhaustive agenda that was of compelling concern to millions of Americans. We supported a living wage; stronger trade-union organization laws; universal health insurance; strong environmental measures; redirection of public budgets from corporate welfare to neighborhood and community needs; a crackdown on corporate crime against consumers, especially those in ghettos; public funding of election campaigns; protection of the small-farm economy from giant agribusiness abuses; abolition of the death penalty; an alternative to the failed war on drugs; and a military and foreign policy that wages peace, justice, and democracy instead of preparing for war against no known major enemies. These were issues that, over the years, many news outlets had reported on, investigated, and editorialized about. Bush and Gore were either ignoring the subjects altogether or taking positions opposite mine, and their respective records of failing to address them -- well known to the media for years -- gave further credibility to our agenda. We had a long track record, and we weren't offering easy rhetoric. Finally, as the weeks unfolded, the Nader/LaDuke ticket was qualifying on 44 state ballots, far exceeding any potential Electoral College majority. Equipped with these arguments, I paid a visit in May to Jim Roberts, the political editor of The New York Times. Unlike some reporters and
[CTRL] TNA: Bush did not accelerate recession
-Caveat Lector- Return to The New Australian Bush did not accelerate recession by Gerard Jackson TNA News with Commentary Thursday 25 January 2001 "New presidents almost always want to take over in recession and leave in a boom, so they almost always bad-mouth the economy when they come in. Maybe Bush has gone a little bit farther in wishing for a recession than others have." So said Barry P. Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Keynesian think tank. There is probably a certain truth in what Bosworth said but to suggest that Bush's public utterances on the economy may have contributed to recession is just Democratic hogwash. The recession was clearly underway before the election and that means it started under the Clinton Administration. That President Bush should endeavour to remind the public of that fact is not only to be expected it also makes good political and economic sense. If the Democrats could pin the recession on him they would paralyse his economic policies. But I suspect that that wouldn't cause Mr Bosworth too much concern. Democrats can be amazingly blasé about the American economy when it serves their electoral interests. As I have pointed out a number of times, the true nature of recessions always confounds the prevailing economic orthodoxy. Highly paid economists are sitting in their Wall Street offices trying to figure out what's up. It's almost an Alice-Wonderland situation where nothing is what it seems. Steve Slifer, chief economist at Lehman Brothers called the slide in economic activity "an odd-looking slowdown". Of course it's odd if your thinking has been muddied by the Keynesian approach. In its January outlook for regional manufacturing, the Philadelphia Fed, posted the second severest month-to-month fall since the survey began in 1968. What make this odd to the likes of Slifer is that employment is still at 4 per cent while the service sectors and housing are still holding up even though car manufacturing is obviously in trouble. It's this situation that causes them to claim that overall economy is not in recession but manufacturing is. If a ship was slowly taking on water no one would claim it was basically OK because only the engine room and the bulkheads had been flooded so far. There is a lesson here from the Great Depression if only some of these analysts were prepared to look, learn and think. It was certainly observed at the time that the retail trade, the final stage of the production structure, was the least affected by the depression where as the manufacturing stages suffered greatly, with the financial pain increasing as the distance from the point of consumption increased. The process, to a much lesser degree, fortunately, is occurring now. This is why the 4 per cent unemployment figure is deceptive. It's because demand in those areas closest to consumption is holding up that the unemployment rate hasn't risen. A closer look at the figures shows that unemployment in manufacturing has been rising. How else could it be when manufacturing output has been falling? Returning to events that took place just before the Great Depression we find that December 1928 is a key month. It was then that the Fed slammed on the monetary breaks and froze the money supply. Six months later manufacturing output began to slide, which is what one would expect. The stock market felt the blow some three months later and shortly afterwards America was in depression. The sequence of events is clear and beyond dispute. But only the Austrians have accounted for them - and certainly not the Keynesians. What is now accelerating under the Bush administration and was well established under Clinton is nothing new, odd or inexplicable. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] AP: Rich's Wife Denies Money-Pardon Link
-Caveat Lector- Rich's Wife Denies Money-Pardon Link By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ex-wife of pardoned financier Marc Rich said Wednesday her political donations of more than $1 million to Democrats since 1993 were unrelated to President Clinton's grant of clemency during his last few hours in office. Denise Rich said it was ''entirely appropriate'' for her to be among those who petitioned Clinton to pardon the indicted financier who has been living in Switzerland, where he fled in the 1980s. ''The pardon given to Marc Rich will give him the opportunity to visit his daughter's grave for the first time,'' Denise Rich said in a statement through a spokesman, New York publicist Howard J. Rubenstein. ''Her political fund-raising and charitable activities have absolutely nothing to do with the pardon granted to her former husband,'' the statement added. The Riches' daughter, Gabrielle, was 27 when she died from cancer in 1996, and ''Mr. Rich was unable to be with her during her illness as well as when she died,'' the statement concluded. ''That was his choice'' not to return to the United States, replied Marvin Smilon of the U.S. attorney's office in the southern district of Manhattan, which obtained the indictment against Rich in 1983, shortly after he fled the country. He was accused of tax fraud and illegally buying oil from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis. ''That has been a controversial case because he was a fugitive, never did go to trial, and so there are some questions about that,'' Vice President Dick Cheney said on the Fox News Channel. ''I haven't personally looked at the case. ... The fact is, the president does have that authority, and Bill Clinton exercised it.'' In seeking the pardon, Rich's lawyers argued that the case against him could not be brought now because of changes in the law and that similar cases have been handled as regulatory matters. Prior to 1991, Denise Rich, a successful songwriter, made no political donations to federal candidates for office, according to Federal Election Commission records. In 1991 and 1992, her political donations were just $3,000, most of it given to Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. But she donated over $1.1 million to the Democratic Party from 1993 through September; $7,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign committee and $20,000 to other Democratic candidates for Congress, according to the FEC database. She also donated a thousand dollars to Republican New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's exploratory Senate campaign committee in 1999 and $2,000 to Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, another Republican, following his Whitewater congressional investigation of the Clintons. The pardon has drawn strong criticism. Giuliani, a former Justice Department official and federal prosecutor who withdrew from his Senate race against the first lady, urged Congress this week to look into Clinton's pardon of Rich. Former New York City police commissioner Howard Safir told Gear magazine that his office had been frustrated by Swiss authorities in its pursuit of Rich. ''The Swiss police told me that if we did anything to try to snatch Marc Rich from Switzerland, they'd arrest us,'' said Safir. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said her office had been ''bypassed'' by the Clinton White House as the president's aides considered the arguments of Rich, his indicted business partner and several other defendants charged in White's jurisdiction, the southern district of Manhattan. ''We were totally unaware that pardons for Marc Rich'' and his business partner ''were even under consideration,'' said White. Rich was a fugitive and ''I have a hard time seeing how he qualifies for a pardon,'' said Dick Thornburgh, who served as attorney general during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Thornburgh also objected because Clinton administration officials ''bypassed the normal process and kept the application secret from the law enforcement officials who brought the charges.'' AP-NY-01-24-01 1939EST = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what
[CTRL] AP: U.S. Attorney's Office Wrote Letter Opposing Pardons
-Caveat Lector- Jan 24, 2001 - 09:25 PM U.S. Attorney's Office Wrote Letter Opposing Pardons By Shannon McCaffrey Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Just days before President Clinton commuted the sentences of four Hasidic men convicted of stealing $40 million in government funds, the prosecutor in the case urged the White House not to reduce their prison time. In a strongly worded letter to White House counsel Beth Nolan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Landis said the case was being watched closely by the ultra-orthodox Jewish community. "Were the president to pardon or commute the sentences of these defendants he would send a message to that worldwide community that its pursuit of its own religious customs justifies fraud against the government regardless of its magnitude," she said. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter Wednesday. Landis said the fraud scheme in New Square, a Hasidic enclave 20 miles north of New York City, was tied into larger scheme in other ultra-Orthodox communities in Brooklyn and throughout the country. The letter was dated Jan. 16, four days before Clinton reduced the sentences of Kalmen Stern, David Goldstein, Benjamin Berger and Jacob Elbaum. The commutations were among 176 pardons and clemencies issued by Clinton just hours before leaving office. The men are still in prison. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, then New York's senator-elect, sat in on the White House meeting between her husband and supporters of clemency for the men. But she said that she played no role in the president's decision and had no opinion about the case. Her spokesmen said she was there because the New Square supporters were now constituents. Hillary Clinton traveled to New Square during her Senate campaign and met Grand Rabbi David Twersky. Hasidic communities typically vote in blocs and Clinton received New Square's 1,400 votes; her Republican rival Rick Lazio received only 12 votes. After the election, Twersky and New Square's deputy mayor, Izzy Spitzer, were invited to the White House, where they raised the issue of the clemency with the president while the first lady was in the room. Supporters of the four men have not denied their guilt but said they did not keep the money for themselves, and gave it instead to a school and residents of the village. The men are accused of created a fictitious religious school to receive government money. In her six-page letter to Nolan, Landis outlined evidence that was used against the men during the three-month trial. "That evidence overwhelmingly proved that for almost 20 years, the members of this conspiracy successfully corrupted every federal government grant program available to them so that they their families and their friends could maintain a community subsidized almost entirely by the taxpaying public," she wrote. She also noted that community had resisted the investigation and that on one occasion, a mob surrounded federal agents trying to serve subpoenas. AP-ES-01-24-01 2126EST = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Liberals are trying to railroad Ashcroft nomination!
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: BackBush.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: Liberals are trying to railroad Ashcroft nomination! This message is brought to you by BackBush.com. You received it because you requested to be added to our list when you visited our sites. To unsubscribe, scroll down. Dear Arthur, Your help is needed IMMEDIATELY to stop the Left from "railroading" the nomination of Sen. John Ashcroft for Attorney General! http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3 AOL users: a href="http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3" CLICK HERE /a Radical left-wing groups are trying everything they can to stop Ashcroft's appointment by President Bush -- and now Ted Kennedy is threatening to filibuster the nomination when it comes up before the full Senate for a vote. This means at least TEN DEMOCRATS will be needed to stop the filibuster, in addition to the 50 Republicans voting for Ashcroft. And YOU can help convince those Democratic Senators! Send a "Faxgram" to ALL FIFTY Democratic Senators TODAY, for only 30 cents per fax! http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3 AOL users: a href="http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3" CLICK HERE /a SENATORS ARE BEING PRESSURED EN MASSE BY LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS CLAIMING TO REPRESENT YOU -- AND SOME ARE CHANGING THEIR MINDS RAPIDLY AS A RESULT. Time is of the essence. The vote in the full Senate has been postponed until next week -- Your action is needed NOW! Please authorize us to send faxes to all 50 Democratic Senators, and forward this message to AT LEAST FIVE FRIENDS. Let's FLOOD the Democrats with faxes urging them to resist the vicious "race-baiting" attacks and anti-Christian bigotry of left-wing fringe groups. Your faxes will arrive at the Democratic Senators' offices within hours after your authorization. Please help NOW. Thank you. Richard Viguerie, President ConservativeHQ.com, BackBush.com CLICK to send your faxes NOW: http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3 AOL users: a href="http://www.BackAshcroft.com/faxgram.asp?ref=ba3" CLICK HERE /a This message is brought to you by BackBush.com. You received it because you requested to be added to our list when you visited our sites. To Unsubscribe from your membership, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BackBush.com is a project of ConservativeHQ.com - Your Conservative Home Online! Visit us at http://www.ConservativeHQ.com/ AOL: a href=http://www.ConservativeHQ.com/ CLICK HERE /a A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN
-Caveat Lector- From: "Nessie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why should both issues be mutually exclusive? They're not, but to listen to the right, you'd think they were. I consider myself neither 'left' nor 'right'...on some issues I tend to be liberal, on still others I tend to be conservative... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYDN: Cash Bid for Freedom Rudy says fugitive offered Ed Bd. aid
-Caveat Lector- Cash Bid for Freedom Rudy says fugitive offered Ed Bd. aid By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and GREG B. SMITH New YorkDaily News Staff Writers Fugitive financier Marc Rich was so desperate to get a pardon that he offered to donate "an enormous amount of money" to the Board of Education in return for leniency. Mayor Giuliani, who brought the Rich indictment in 1983, when he was U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said yesterday that the charity offer was made through an emissary of Rich. "I thought that he wanted to buy his way out of the case," the mayor recalled. "I'd say, 'Marc Rich should come back here, he should stand trial, he should get convicted or acquitted, and then he should do all the charitable work he wants to do.'" Rich fled to Switzerland rather than face charges he evaded $48 million in taxes, and accusations of fraud and illegal commodities trading. Giuliani said there had been "numerous overtures" through the years in which "lawyers and political figures ... offered all kinds of deals for the purpose of Marc Rich coming back, merely paying money and not having to go to jail." The mayor said the offers were "not in the nature of campaign contributions. [They were] in the nature of charitable contributions to organizations the U.S. attorney's office would designate, the Department of Justice would designate, I would designate, somebody else would designate." "There was once an offer to give an enormous amount of money to the Board of Education, for example, in return for the federal government promising that he wouldn't go to jail," the mayor said. Because he was the original prosecutor, Giuliani's backing would have been important because Rich's lawyers would have cited it when soliciting support from Mary Jo White, the present Manhattan U.S. attorney. Without White's knowledge, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich on Saturday. As part of the Rich pardon application, his ex-wife, Denise, wrote a letter Dec. 6 to Clinton accusing Giuliani of having "unjustly alleged and so aggressively pursued" Rich. Denise Rich's spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, said yesterday that she wrote her letter at the suggestion of lawyer Robert Fink, who worked on the pardon application with John Quinn, former White House counsel. Through Rubenstein, Denise Rich said, "her political fund-raising and activity have absolutely nothing to do with the pardon granted to her former husband." She also said she had not solicited support letters from anyone else. Rubenstein began speaking for Denise Rich on the pardon matter two days after she falsely implied through another flack that she had done nothing on behalf of the pardon plea. The first flack, Bobby Zarem, said yesterday that he had assumed his client had not known about the pardon request. Besides Denise Rich, the fugitive received letters of support from several major international players. They included the king of Spain, Juan Carlos; the mayor of Zurich, Josef Estermann; 1989 Nobel laureate Camilo Jose Cela; the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, and Abraham Burg, speaker of Israel's parliament. Marc Rich even offered himself as an international spy for the U.S. government. "There was questions of whether he could provide intelligence, given his international business ties," ex-prosecutor Martin Auerbach told the Daily News. Auerbach said Rich made it clear he had connections in Nigeria, South Africa, Israel, Iran and other countries that could have been useful to American intelligence. He said Rich made several offers to pay millions of dollars in restitution and fines to settle the indictment, but always without prison time. Prosecutors refused, insisting that any deal include a stretch behind bars. As the scandal escalated yesterday afternoon, the mayor canceled a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at City Hall with New York's new senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her spokesman Howard Wolfson said did not know why the sitdown was nixed, adding, "Now that the campaign is long over, Sen. Clinton looks forward to meeting with the mayor and working with him on behalf of the people of New York." Last night, Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel said the meeting was canceled because of "scheduling conflicts" but provided no other details. She said it would be rescheduled. Original Publication Date: 1/25/01 = 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 = == This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put:
[CTRL] NYDN: Pal Sought Gifts for Hil: NBC
-Caveat Lector- Pal Sought Gifts for Hil: NBC By KENNETH R. BAZINET New York Daily News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON friend of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped solicit donors to buy the pricey gifts that the former First Family took with them as they exited the White House, NBC News said last night. Clinton had registered her choices for gifts in November, just like a bride. NBC said Clinton contributor Rita Pynoos of Beverly Hills, Calif., then urged potential contributors to send a $5,000 check to the store quickly, before a Senate ethics deadline that bans senators from receiving gifts. The donors had no idea what their money bought, according to the network. But Pynoos, a longtime Clinton friend who lives in Marina Del Ray, Calif., insisted to the Daily News last night: "None of it's true. ... Whatever they are talking about, it's not true." The Clintons received $190,027 in gifts, mostly home furnishings, according to their financial disclosure statement released last week. The former First Lady was registered at Omaha-based Borsheim's Fine Jewelry and Gifts, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, an aide confirmed earlier. Supposedly, that was because friends wanted to give her special farewell gifts, according to aides. In addition to denying soliciting any gifts for the Clintons, Pynoos told The News she gave the Clintons a single gift flatware. The Clintons' financial disclosure statement reported that Pynoos also gave the First Lady an expensive cashmere shawl. The flatware and shawl were valued at $5,767. "I don't know about the cashmere shawl. I haven't given her a cashmere shawl," said a distraught Pynoos. "I have a friendship with Hillary, and have for years, and that's it. I'm not in the political field at all." Clinton's spokesman denied any wrongdoing. "The Clintons received gifts while in the White House, as did previous Presidents. All complied with relevant rules and ethics regulations," said Howard Wolfson. With Timothy J. Burger and Shirley Wong = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [OT] UPS: Coulter: People united for swindles and hucksterism
-Caveat Lector- Ann Coulter January 25, 2001 People united for swindles and hucksterism Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister, apparently had no intention of waiting for the afterlife to get his taste of the good life. With his Rainbow/Push Coalition bringing in millions of dollars a year at its peak, Mr. Jackson indulged in expensive homes, cars and companionship, mostly with his ministry's money. That's a paraphrase of how The New York Times began a news item about a fallen preacher -- not Jesse "Show Me the Money" Jackson, but "televangelist" Jim Bakker, head of PTL ministries, swiftly deposed after a sex scandal in the '80s. Bakker's affair was evidently limited to a single night, there was no "love child," and over the course of seven years Bakker paid his lady friend about half ($265,000) of what Jackson admits to paying his mistress in two years ($472,000) -- and about one-third of what the National Enquirer reports Jackson has paid ($640,000). Jackson's mistress probably needs the money more: Having had her affair with a black liberal, she cannot expect lucrative offers from smut magazines to pose nude. The pornography industry is primarily interested in prolonging the humiliation of Republicans. Indeed, the entire establishment is truly gleeful only when discussing the sexual scandals of putative conservatives. By contrast, the Jackson "situation," as a New York Times column put it, merely "illustrates the need to acknowledge that our leaders will occasionally disappoint." The Times column sneered at the idea of using a "test of sexual propriety" as a basis for moral judgments. Real moral lapse -- not to be confused with a 59-year-old man trying to derive sexual satisfaction from a young female staffer -- is being a Republican. Immorality, it seems, can also be "cut(ting) millions of the needy from welfare rolls," or firing Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders because she had "suggested that masturbation should be openly discussed with young people." It takes a particularly fanatical socialist to believe the government is required to teach adolescent boys to masturbate -- but this logic demonstrates: Disbelief in the ministrations of the federal government is the only known liberal iniquity. Immorality incarnate is either Perverts or People Who Believe in Tax Cuts. Take your pick. Democrats are the proud party of perversion. Over a decade ago, the same point was made during the media's giddy celebration of the perfidy of televangelist Bakker. Even then, the left was careful to couch its sneers at Bakker in terms that would not reflect badly on adultery per se. New York Times columnist Tom Wicker sniffed, for example, "Mr. Bakker, whose offense is not exactly unheard of ..." Wicker then went on to pronounce that "the greatest offense" was "the narrowness, exclusivity and lack of charity -- the bigotry --" of Christian evangelism. This "greatest offense" includes a belief in "heterosexuality only, and only within marriage"(!), as well as the "maintenance at all costs of the traditional family." The "at all costs" in that last sentence is a nice touch. It's been about 15 years since Wicker wrote it. How about we compare "costs" of "not exactly unheard of" adultery with the "costs" of traditional families? The Times' more recent explication of what true sin is (Republicanism) refers to society's "obsession with sexual sin" as if we should really be concentrating on something else, like self-immolation. But there's a reason several millennia of religious teaching share this unseemly "obsession with sexual sin": It's apparently one of the more tempting transgressions. People don't have to be exhorted constantly not to stick forks in their eyes -- also a sin -- because it's not that big a temptation. The dirty masses' "obsession with sexual sin" also operates to protect what are normally two of the left's favorite victim groups -- women and children. Indeed, comparing the quantity of love letters women write to mass murderers and serial killers with the number of love letters women write to their adulterous ex-husbands, women seem to find "sexual sin" uniquely unforgivable. They're having a good laugh in Koreatown about the exposure of Jesse Jackson (who further cemented the hatred between blacks and Koreans when he minimized the violence against Koreans during the Los Angeles riots with the dismissive remark, "Desperate people do desperate things"): "Ha-ha, Jesse Jackson have love child -- more work, less babies." But they won't be able to laugh long. Liberals always get a lot of credit for suffering, while never actually being made to suffer. Immediately after he was forced to own up to the love child (the National Enquirer had DNA evidence), Jackson pledged to withdraw from public life to "revive my spirit and reconnect with my family." For a few days, the airwaves were bristling with accounts of the Rev. Jesse's Jackson's deep suffering and his "trial of tears." God's
[CTRL] [OT] NYP: IS DEFIANT JESSE'S CORE OF SUPPORT CRUMBLING?
-Caveat Lector- IS DEFIANT JESSE'S CORE OF SUPPORT CRUMBLING? New York Post-Thursday, January 25, 2001 By ROD DREHER Moral leader or political hack? WHEN he arrives on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for a lavish fund-raising gala tonight, the Rev. Jesse Jackson could be partying on the deck of his own personal Titanic. Serious new questions are arising about the propriety and legality of Jackson's role drumming up business for minority allies on Wall Street - and that's making some financial bigs nervous about the preacher man from Chicago. On the surface, Jackson's pull with the financial titans appears intact. A $7.1 billion bond deal, one of the largest ever, was announced yesterday at the Wall Street Project conference. Jackson's cronies all got a cut of the action. "Jesse is unrepentant, but his power is undiminished," fumed one insider. We shall see. An emboldened Jackson used the pulpit at the Canaan Baptist Church on Tuesday night to launch another attack on George W. Bush's legitimacy. I'm not sure that a man with Jackson's peculiar financial arrangements is smart to call anyone else a thief, particularly the man who controls the IRS and the Securities and Exchange Commission. But that's our Jesse, brazen to the last. It's costing him elsewhere, though. The randy reverend's handling of his tawdry personal life is losing him support in what has long been his mainstay: the black church. To the uninformed, Tuesday night's prayer meeting for Jesse at Canaan Baptist must have looked good for Jackson. Rep. Charlie Rangel, state Comptroller Carl McCall, McCall's city counterpart Alan Hevesi and other Democratic bigs showed up to back the embattled activist. But others within African-American church circles were more surprised by who wasn't there: powerful New York City black clergymen like Calvin Butts, Floyd Flake, A.R. Bernard, Gary Simpson, Franklin Richardson, and their followers. "These are churchgoing people who are very offended by his behavior and lack of remorse," said one observer. "The turnout shows that Jesse has gone from being a moral leader to nothing but a political hack." "Jesse is not sorry at all," said another person at church. The source reported that some members of the audience "looked at each other and shook their heads" when Jackson showed up without his wife, who was expected, but with a controversial woman in his entourage, someone other than Karin Stanford, who he admits bore his love child. Chutzpah? You bet. But what do you expect from a man who sent out a March 19, 1999, fax to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition supporters noting that Stanford was taking maternity leave - and named someone else as the father! The one high-profile black minister who did make a big show at Jesse-palooza was, of course, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who organized the event. Is Rev. Al really standing by Jackson? Don't be naive. Sharpton is no dummy. He stands to gain the most if Jackson should fall. His outward display of solidarity with Jackson masked a deft assertion of power. Jesse, until last week the most powerful politician in black America, is now beholden to Rev. Al. "That was an in-your-face move. [Sharpton] was saying, You can't come to New York without coming through me first,'" said a well-placed source. "It was a real comeuppance for Jesse to have to do that after he'd been having this well-publicized feud with Sharpton. The truth is, Jesse is over. Sharpton's the one who can get people on the street." At Tuesday night's lovefest, Congressman Rangel railed against the media for picking on poor Jesse. "This is what I say to the press: Get over it!" Rangel bellowed. What the congressman chooses not to notice is that much of the heat being put on Jackson is coming from prominent liberal black columnists like Clarence Page, Cynthia Tucker, E.R. Shipp and Jack White. Said one African-American close to the story: "The only media people protecting Jesse are guilty white liberals." E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust
[CTRL] [OT] WT: Vandals loot Air Force One
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway-2001125214537.htm Washington Times January 25, 2001 Vandals loot Air Force One Inside the Beltway By John McCaslin Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital. Stripped bare The curators were warned to count the silver when the Clintons left the White House, and the Air Force, as it turns out, should have listened, too. Now that Bill Clinton is gone after the longest goodbye anyone remembers an Air Force steward tells us about the former president's "official" farewell flight to New York on Inaugural Day. The presidential plane was "stripped bare." Since Air Force One is the plane only of the president, the designation of the Boeing 747 was changed from Air Force One to "Special Air Mission" and by the time Mr. Clinton boarded he was no longer the president. As a courtesy of President Bush, the plane was nevertheless equipped with all the presidential amenities Mr. Clinton had grown accustomed to during his two terms in office. But not for long. Missing from the plane on arrival in New York, Inside the Beltway is told, was all the porcelain china, silverware, salt and pepper shakers, blankets and pillow cases most of it bearing the presidential seal. What most astonished the military steward was that even a cache of Colgate toothpaste, not stamped with the presidential seal, was snatched from a compartment beneath the presidential plane's sink. (The good news, we suppose, is that there was no halitosis on the return flight to Washington.) Snip = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: Gossip-EX'S PARDON IRKS FORD HEIRESS
-Caveat Lector- [There's an interesting tidbit in the second item.] Page Six New York Post January 25, 2001 EX'S PARDON IRKS FORD HEIRESS AT least one person isn't happy that Ed Downe obtained a full pardon from Bill Clinton - his ex-wife Charlotte Ford. The auto heiress divorced Downe five years ago, shortly after he copped a plea to insider trading. Most people assumed she was dumping the mogul over that disgrace. But Charlotte says the only reason she asked for a divorce was his philandering - right under her nose in the Sutton Place apartment below theirs he used for his office. "A half-hour after I went to bed, the girl, who is now his wife, would come over in a wig and sunglasses. She'd leave at 5 a.m.," Charlotte told one friend. "He'd paid off all the doormen and elevator men to keep their mouths shut." Downe married Mary Baker, the ex-wife of prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Dan Baker, about three years ago. Charlotte had introduced the divorcee to her husband. So it's painful for her now to see Downe rehabilitating his image. "It's like a knife when my name is associated with his," she told her pal. Downe was championed in his bid for a pardon by his friend Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who often went clubbing with Downe at Gotham's most glittering nightspots. "Ed would tell Charlotte they were going out to dinner, and then wouldn't come back until 2 a.m.," a friend of hers said. Dodd's press secretary, Gabe Lam, provided PAGE SIX with a copy of the Dec. 27 letter the senator sent to the ex-president urging a pardon for Downe. "Ed made a mistake a number of years ago, for which he has accepted full responsibility," Dodd wrote. "He pled guilty and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Over the years, Ed has expressed to me, his family and friends his deep remorse for his actions." Downe, 71, who started out as a reporter, was a director at Bear Stearns and Kidde Inc. when he was indicted. He also paid an $11 million fine to the SEC to avoid jail. "Ed Downe is a good person, who is truly sorry for the hurt he caused others, not to mention himself," Dodd wrote. Some of his former friends who were innocently caught up in the mess, such as Revlon founder Martin Revson and financier Steven Greenberg, weren't quite as forgiving. Charlotte isn't the only one who wonders why Downe even wanted a pardon. "Everyone had forgotten about it," she told a friend. "Now it stirs it up in everyone's mind." Money talks IF anyone launches an investigation into how billionaire tax cheat Marc Rich got himself a presidential pardon, maybe they should also look into how the fugitive, who fled to Switzerland in 1983, was able to sneak in and out of the U.S. 10 years later. Rich's ex-wife, Denise - who has lived lavishly on Fifth Avenue while Rich was on the lam - has told people that Rich was able to visit his daughter Gabrielle in 1996 as she lay dying of leukemia in a California hospital. "I heard it from her own lips," said our source. The pertinent question is: Did President Clinton arrange for Rich to make the visit without fear of arrest? snip CHELSEA: connected WITH dad unemployed - and her taxpayer-provided cell phone relinquished? - Chelsea Clinton had to get her own phone yesterday. A blue van pulled up to the ATT Wireless store on West 47th Street at lunch time, and Chelsea emerged in a black overcoat with two Secret Service agents. Chelsea bought a gray Nokia 8260 and signed up for the plan that gives her 900 minutes a month for $99. The politely charming young lady - who is said to look even better in person than in photos - paid with a credit card. snip balance = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] [More re: Falun Gong] NYP: China has a red and blue map problem too.
-Caveat Lector- China has a "red and blue map" problem too. In late afternoon, as a middle-aged man in a worn padded jacket tried to unfurled a small yellow banner, only to be escorted away by police officers, an onlooker said, "Another one from the countryside." 5 Protesters Set Fire to Themselves In Beijing Elisabeth Rosenthal New York Times Service Wednesday, January 24, 2001 Falun Gong Member Dies in Immolations In Tiananmen Square BEIJING Five members of the Falun Gong spiritual organization doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves on fire Tuesday afternoon in the middle of Tiananmen Square, a dramatic act of protest on the eve of China's most joyous holiday, the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year. One woman died and the four other people were severely burned "in two suicidal blazes," according to a report by Xinhua, the official press agency. The self-immolation and very public suicide is the most dramatic act so far in the escalating 18-month war of wills between the Chinese government and members of Falun Gong, which the government has labeled an "evil cult" and outlawed in July 1999. While small acts of defiance by individual Falun Gong members have become a daily occurrence in the square over the past year, they have been mostly silent affairs that passed in the blink of an eye as police officers snatched banners and hustled protesters into vans. Such protests pale in comparison to the chilling scene Tuesday, in which witnesses described Falun Gong members staggering across the vast expanse of the square, arms raised in the organization's meditative pose and flames streaming from their bodies. Police officers rushed to douse the flames and erected a shield to keep onlookers from seeing the injured and dead protesters, according to a CNN television crew that witnessed the event and was detained. One man was seen being carried to a police van with serious burns on his face. Such scenes are certainly anathema to the Chinese leadership, which is going all out to win the 2008 Summer Olympics for Beijing, over the objections of human rights organizations; Tiananmen Square, the political epicenter of Beijing, is expected to be the setting for beach volleyball. Falun Gong spokesmen in New York and Hong Kong immediately distanced the organization from the self-immolation, expressing skepticism and disbelief that the dead and injured were Falun Gong adherents. "In Chapter 7, the first sentence says it is forbidden to take a life - that includes to take your own," said Gail Rachlin, a New York-based spokeswoman for the organization, referring to the writing of the organization's founder, Li Hongzhi. "So when the Chinese government talks about all these people committing suicide, it's not true. It's totally against what we believe." The Chinese government had clearly been bracing itself for the potential of intensified protests by Falun Gong, both during the Chinese New Year celebration this week and again when the Olympic Selection Committee visits Beijing at the end of February. They had hoped to head off spectacles like those that took place in the holiday period last year, when small organizations of Falun Gong members were constantly popping up in Tiananmen Square, unfurling small banners or adopting meditation poses. Most protesters were poor middle-aged people from the countryside. Hundreds, at least, were arrested during that period. And a number were pushed and kicked as they were herded into police vans, sometimes with foreign television cameras rolling. Some were sent to labor camps, but most were sent back to their provinces for "education," the policy at that early stage of the government's battle with the organization. Since then both sides have become more intransigent. On Jan. 1, Mr. Li sent out a message on the organization's Web site suggesting that the organization's cardinal principle of "forbearance" might not be appropriate in all situations. And protest activity has become increasingly defiant in the last few months as members have started covertly pasting up the organization's leaflets in subway stations and slipping them under apartment doors. Since late 2000, the numbers of protesters arrested in Tiananmen Square have been rising, often dozens a day, and the government has become increasingly frustrated with an organization that will not give up. In addition, some protesters are arriving in Beijing without identification papers and have refused to tell the police where they are from, making their ready disposal a vexing problem. This month, a high-level circular instructed the leaders of government work units that they would be held personally responsible for employees who protested in Tiananmen. Since the organization was banned in 1999, hundreds of thousands of followers have been detained by police, at least briefly. Thousands are in labor camps, according to human rights organizations, which have confirmed that about 100 have died in custody.
[CTRL] Fwd: Power and Profit
Already setting the stage for the "recession," aka Great Depression, so sagely "predicted" by Republican President George W. Bush. KEY FIGURE IN CALIFORNIA'S POWER CRISIS HAS BUSH'S EAR by Phillip Matier Andrew Ross San Francisco Chronicle, 17 January 2001 One powerful name to keep an eye on during this energy crisis is Kenneth Lay, chairman and CEO of Texas-based Enron Corp., and a close buddy and contributor to President-elect George W. Bush. Enron has been one of the prime movers behind California's energy deregulation and continues to be a significant player in the state as an energy marketer. And Lay was on hand last week when Gov. Gray Davis met with government regulators and energy providers to try to work out a solution to the state's energy crisis. Billions of dollars are at stake -- and consumers could end up holding the bag. All this comes amid speculation that Lay will serve as the new president's key adviser on energy policy -- even being described as a "shadow" energy secretary. In fact, Lay had been widely mentioned as the possible energy chief until Bush's recent nomination of Spencer Abraham. "The governor knows (Lay) has Bush's ear, and we know where he's coming from," says Davis' press secretary, Steve Maviglio. "He's the head of a billion-dollar corporation that's owed a significant amount of money (from the utilities) -- it's no secret," Maviglio said. And how about Lay's long political and financial ties to Bush? For starters, Enron -- which posted revenues of more than $40 billion in 1999 -- was the single largest contributor to Bush's presidential campaign, giving no less than $555,000, according to published reports. Lay even sent top executives a memo on his personal stationery asking them to contribute $1,000 each to the Bush campaign, says the New York Times. And according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics, Lay -- along with Enron President Jeffrey Skilling -- each contributed $100,000 to Bush's forthcoming inaugural. But the Lay-Bush connections run deeper than money. Lay hired two of Bush's father's Cabinet members and family confidants -- James Baker and Robert Mosbacher -- after they left office. And just last April, Lay played host to George W. and his dad at the Houston Astros' first home game at the team's new stadium . . . Enron Field. Three weeks later, according to Tongue Magazine, Lay joined George W. in Washington for a Republican fund-raiser that brought in a staggering $21.3 million, easily the biggest one-night haul for any political party in history. What's more, the magazine reports, the Bush campaign borrowed Enron's corporate jets eight times last year to fly aides around the country, although the cost of the trips was later reimbursed as required by law. And what did Enron get out of the deal? Well, Lay has repeatedly asserted in interviews that there is no quid pro quo in his relationship with Bush. "Ken Lay and Enron have consistently stood for open access to energy ... markets," company spokesman Mark Palmer told us yesterday. "What that means is for the marketplace to determine how a scarce resource is allocated." So it was no surprise when Lay showed up for last week's energy negotiations, first in Washington and then later in Los Angeles, to push the energy marketers' case. "He's a skilled negotiator," said one source who followed the debate. "He argued for the state to swallow the bitter pill and pony up." How much money are we talking about? "Let's just say," says the source, "a calculator doesn't have that many zeros." STATE OF SHOCK: Last week, Davis was working on his State of the State address -- this week he's got his lawyers working on a possible state of emergency. "It could range anywhere from an emergency appropriation to buy power to moving to use eminent domain to take over power plants," said spokesman Maviglio. And that's why lawyers over at the attorney general's office have been going over contingency plans. It all comes down to this question: At what point is the "public health and safety" at risk? "Clearly," Maviglio said, "blackouts would set those wheels in motion." - On Enron (above), that particular corporation has almost a monopoly not on oil (Bush's OTHER friends have that) but on natural gas, which just "coincidentally" fuels most of the plants that provide "wholesale" electricity -- which in turn is sold at a profit --since deregulation of the industry was approved (by a Republican governor), around a FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT profit-- to California's electrical "retailers," big multi-billion-dollar utilities like Pacific Gas Electric -- which in turn provides the general public with that electricity --at the very highest rate, despite daily and seasonal fluctuations in what
[CTRL] Fwd: The Power Conspiracy
BUSINESS WEEK IN REVIEW San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday January 21, 1999 STATE PROBING POWER PRACTICES by Christian Bethelsen and Scott Winokur (Jan 14) State regulators are investigating whether power companies are engaged in a little-known, profit-making scheme to sell off the natural gas supplies needed to operate their plants -- and thus artificially worsening electricity shortages, the Chronicle has learned. In recent weeks, state energy and utility company officials have become suspicious that generators are shutting down power plants statewide so that they can privately sell the high-value natural gas that runs most of them. In doing so, sources said, the power companies end up profiting on both sides of the equation: They get top prices for their natural gas, and the resulting electricity shortage brings a lucrative run-up in power prices. Such a scenario would go far toward explaining current shortages and skyrocketing prices at a time of year when demand normally is low. REGULATORS OK PGE CORP. SHIELD by Christian Bethelsen (Jan 15) PGE Corp. has quietly won approval from federal regulators to restructure itself in a way that shields the parent company's profits, and shareholders, from the mounting debts of the utility it owns. The move appears to allow Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s parent to record substantial profits while maintaining that its subsidiary, which supplies power to 4.5 million customers, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and trying to force rate- payers to pick up the tab. The corporate restructuring, apprtoved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, came as a surprise to consumer advocates and state leaders dealing with the energy crisis -- including Gov. Gray Davis. A spokesman for the governor said Davis was "disappointed that FERC acted in the middle of the night without notice to all parties." PGE spokesman Greg Pruett said the intent of the plan was merely to allow another unit of the corporate parent, National Energy Group, to receive its own credit rating that would be weighed independently of the troubled utility. HIGH-TECH JOB MARKET SLOWING New York Times Growth slowed in Silicon Valley's job masrket last year, even as housing shortages and transportation bottlenecks became worse for the region that is often held out as the world's model for economic development. At the same time, the gap widened between the region's richest and poorest households, according to an annual economic and environmental report released by Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, a nonprofit regional planning group. Silicon Valley --Santa Clara County and the adjacent parts of Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Alameda counties-- added 39,000 jobs last year, the report said, raising the region's workforce to 1.35 million. But the estimated growth rate of 3 percent was a full percentage point below the 3.8 percent increase in 1999 and 3.9 percent in 1998. CONSPIRACY THEORIES by Katherine Seligman (Jan 17) The energy crisis is serious, but most Californians see it as a plot by power companies seeking to jack up utility bills, according to a poll by the Field Institute. The poll found that Californians are growing more dubious about the roots of the so-called crisis. More than half of those surveyed, 57 percent, said the shortage amounts to an attempt to raise rates, rather than an emergency born purely from a lack of generating sources or from increased demand. BUSH BLAMES DEREGULATION by Caroilyn Lockhead (Jan 18) President-elect Bush bluntly rejected the electricity price caps desperately sought by Gov. Gray Davis, calling them "a short-term delay of a needed solution." Bush, in his first direct comments on California's rolling blackouts, blamed the problem on California's "flawed" deregulation legislation, which he said the state has to fix. "I have read where some propose price controls," Bush said. "I'm against price controls." LEGISLATURE PONDERS BAILOUT by David Larzarus and Lynda Gledhill While Pacific Gas and Electric Co. inched toward bankruptcy, the state Legislature was poised to adopt an emergency plan to bail out the utility with taxpayer money. Lawmakers stopped far short of handing over the blank check that Gov. Gray Davis wanted, but the governor promised to sign whatever rescue measure legislators approved. Meanwhile, 675,000 Northern Californians lost power for the second time in as many days when regulators launched another round of rolling blackouts to ease pressure on the state's beleaguered electricity grid.
[CTRL] Fwd: SL Scandal Then, Utilities Bailout Now
The network news is finally starting to shine the spotlight brightly on Bush buddy and energy deregulation mastermind Ken Lay of Enron, publicly pointing out that last year --just a few months before the so-called "energy crisis"-- HIS multi-billion-dollar corporation (which sells the natural gas that mostly fuels electrical power plants) reported a 500% profit -- which is no longer that unusual, thanks to "deregulation." Calif. Pols Avoiding 'Bailout' Term By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA .c The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - No one trying to solve California's power crisis wants to utter the b-word to describe the multibillion-dollar plan that would keep the lights on while rescuing the state's two largest utilities. ``It's not a bailout,'' Gov. Gray Davis hastened to say after the proposal emerged this week. Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg said: ``It's not just a quick fix, a Band-Aid. It's not a gift.'' Though the plan and its costs are still evolving, consumer advocates and economists aren't so shy about calling it a bailout. They say utility customers will bear the cost through rate hikes that will be in effect for a decade. ``The utilities get bailed out and the consumers pay and pay,'' said Jamie Briesemeister, senior policy analyst with Consumers Union. ``If this proposal gets enacted, deregulation will go down as the biggest consumer rip-off in California history.'' Whatever the terminology, the relief plan being forged for Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas Electric - who say that together they are more than $12 billion in debt - would rank among the nation's biggest. The deal would be dwarfed by the federal bailout of the savings and loan industry, where cost estimates soared as high as $481 billion. But it would be much bigger than the 1995 bailout of Orange County, which rolled up $819 million in debts, and the 1979 Chrysler bailout, even when inflation is factored in. Congress authorized $1.5 billion for the moribund automaker while it reorganized under Lee Iaccoca. Chrysler used only $1.2 billion of the money. California has been under a Stage 3 alert for nearly two weeks, meaning power reserves are practically exhausted. Thousands of homes and businesses have been hit by rolling blackouts in a crisis blamed in part on California's deregulation of its electric industry. Under the deregulation law, the utilities had to sell off their power plants and buy electricity on the open market. But the two biggest utilities have been sliding toward ruin because wholesale prices are soaring and the companies are not allowed to pass the full cost on to their customers. ``The ratepayers' anger is understandable because that's the entity to which they pay their bills,'' said Catherine Wolfram, a University of California energy economist. ``But the utilities faced real regulatory hurdles. And the power generators have been making out like bandits.'' Because the two utilities' credit is practically worthless, the state is spending at least $400 million to buy power on their behalf on the expensive spot market. At the same times, state officials are negotiating long-term power contracts with suppliers of up to 10 years. California lawmakers are also trying to put together a rescue plan under which the state would issue bonds to cover SoCal Edison and PGE's debts. Millions of the utilities' customers would pay back the bonds over several years through an extension of recently approved rate increases. The exact amount of the deal is uncertain. As part of the deal, the state would get long-term options that would let it buy utility stock at a low price. If stock prices rise, the state could sell the stock and use any profits to pay off the bonds. Investment analysts offered cautious praise for the rescue plan, which stops far short of another option that has been on the table: a huge state takeover of utilities' hydroelectric plants and other facilities. ``Bailout implies incompetence on the part of companies who don't deserve help,'' said Susan Abbott, managing director of the public utilities group at Moody's Investor Service. But ``the way the market was structured didn't allow the companies to protect themselves from the volatility of electricity pricing. We believe this is a step in the right direction, although a lot more has to be done.'' Others weren't so generous. ``Any of these proposals has an element of bailout,'' said Richard Gilbert, another economist at the University of California at Berkeley. ``They are subsidizing companies that are running at a deficit.'' Gilbert said any state-sponsored solution needs to raise electricity rates to a level that encourages conservation and allows utilities to buy power at new, higher rates. Otherwise, ``they are trying to solve the problem by going around it,'' he said.