[CTRL] [radtimes] # 139

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[radtimes] # 139

An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.

"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:

--Rehnquist --Political Puppeteer
--Water cannon fired on Davos protestors
--Fun Facts About Global Inequality
--Puppetista Manifesto
--Israeli Army Deserted by Soldiers with a Conscience
--The Army Is Watching Your Kid
--Police fire water cannons at Davos protesters
--The CIA Academics and Spies

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January 29,  2001

Rehnquist --Political Puppeteer



By Robert Parry

When William Rehnquist swore in George W. Bush as president on Jan. 20, the
U.S. Supreme Court chief justice completed a near-decade-long struggle by
conservative jurists to put their political allies in control of the U.S.
government  a victory that marks a radical shift in American democracy.
Never before in American history have a chief justice and other federal
judges exploited their extraordinary powers as brazenly to advance clearly
partisan interests as have Rehnquist and his fellow Republican appointees
jurists sworn to enforce the laws impartially and to protect the Constitution.
Yet there is a history to this development that the news media has
missed.  This unprecedented politicization of the federal courts dates back
at least to the early 1990s when federal judges  including
Rehnquist  adopted legal strategies to protect the Reagan-Bush
administrations from the legal fallout of the Iran-contra scandal.
This partisanship arced higher through the Clinton administration and
reached its apex with the installation of George W. Bush as president.
On a personal level, Rehnquist's history of behind-the-scenes political
machinations dates back even further to the 1960s when he opposed
desegregation in Phoenix and worked on Republican "ballot security" in
Arizona, a program criticized as intimidation of African-American and other
minority voters.
According to a Senate summary of the opposition to Rehnquist's 1986
nomination to be chief justice, Rehnquist "publicly opposed a Phoenix
public accommodations ordinance, and he publicly challenged a plan to end
school segregation in Phoenix, stating that 'we are no more dedicated to an
integrated society than a segregated society.'
"Moreover," the summary said, "in the early 1960s, he led a Republican
Party ballot security program designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
The [Senate Judiciary] Committee has received sworn testimony from numerous
credible witnesses that, as part of his involvement in the ballot security
program, Mr. Rehnquist personally challenged the eligibility of minority
voters.  Justice Rehnquist has categorically denied this. But, none of
these witnesses had anything to gain by misrepresenting the truth."
Though Rehnquist's denial of the "ballot security" charges prevailed as he
won Senate confirmation, he seemed equally callous to minority voting
rights in 2000 when he ensured that the votes of African-Americans and
other minorities were undercounted, this time in Florida.
In the weeks after the ruling to stop the Florida vote count, the Rehnquist
court's intervention has come into clearer focus.
   Shifting Reasons
New information indicates that the five conservative justices flipped their
legal rationale nearly 180 degrees between Dec. 11, when they were first
prepared to rule in Bush's favor, and the night of Dec. 12 when the
decision to make Bush president finally was announced.
The judicial gymnastics demonstrated how Rehnquist and the four other
conservatives settled on a political outcome  Bush's victory  and then
dressed up the choice in legal verbiage.
USA Today disclosed this inside story in an article about the strains that
the Bush v. Gore ruling created within the court. [USA Today, writer Joan
Biskupic, Jan. 22, 2001]
Though the article was sympathetic to the five conservative justices, it
disclosed an important fact: that the five justices were planning on ruling
for Bush after oral arguments on Dec. 11. The court even sent out for
Chinese food for the clerks, so the work could be completed that night.
On Dec. 11, the legal rationale for stopping the recount was to have been
that the Florida Supreme Court had made "new law" when it referenced the
state constitution in an initial recount decision  rather than simply
interpreting state statutes.
Even though this argument was highly technical, the rationale at least
conformed with the conservative principles of the five-member majority,
supposedly hostile to judicial "activism."
However, the Florida Supreme Court threw a wrench into the plan. On the
evening of Dec. 11, the state court submitted a revised 

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: "Lights Out!" Lest You See the Light

[Aleisha Saba]

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That will teach you to knock the Illuminati.

REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO ST. PAUL WHEN HE SAW THE LIGHT  - virtually
knocked him on his ass and he reformed.

Saba

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[CTRL] Fw: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger

[Amelia]

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Isn't this a shame!  Ashcroft and his supporters have
answered every charge and there is no proof of any of their
claims. They are so frightened of this man because they have
so much to hide.  A letter was read today from the
Archbishop of Washington recommending his confirmation and
commending his work on behalf of people of all creeds and
races, etc. but the race-baiting jackals continued their
assault on his "rhetoric" and "views" as they distortedly
assume them to be.  Very subjective stuff with no basis in
fact.  They have distorted his representing the STATE in the
desegregation lawsuit as though that were his personal
opinion.  The State of Missouri could not afford the $1.8
billion dollar plan proposed so that makes his a racist?
His wife has taught at Howard University for the last five
years.  That is traditionally and predominately a black
university yet the lies continue. He will be confirmed
tomorrow whether these people like it or not.  These
Senators have far overstepped their authority as they are
only allowed the right to deem a person qualified and of
integrity.  I never thought I would see a person so treated
because of his religious beliefs in this country but
consider the people involved in this character
assassination.

I was heartened by some of the speakers over the last couple
of days.  Sen. Bob Smith and Orin Hatch pretty well set the
record straight and every charge has been answered. He did
the right thing in regard to Judge White because of the
heinousness of the crime involved. After all, sheriffs are
our only elected law enforcement and deserve better.

Ashcroft will probably not be the best attorney general ever
but he is such an improvement over Janet Reno who was
nothing more than an extension of the Clinton/Gore defense
team! Little wonder she has FBI guards.  I think the
Democrats would have liked someone a little more
"blackmailable" like Reno.  One can never tell when they
will need some more things swept under the rug.
Amelia

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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger


> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Speaking of lies, just read on below- for a WHOLE pack of
them.
>
>
> -
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:45:44 EST William Shannon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> >
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/01/30/ashcroft/index
.html
> >
> >
> > The artful dodger
> > John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's
during his
> > Senate
> > confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be
as evasive
> > with the
> > truth?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > By Joe Conason
> > Jan. 30, 2001 | Of all the perfectly sound reasons to
oppose  >
HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/john_ashcroft/">
John
> > Ashcroft's
> > nomination -- and perhaps to mount a filibuster against
him, now
> > that his
> > confirmation appears likely -- the most compelling is
that he didn't
> > tell the
> > truth to the United States Senate.
> > In deference to the presidential prerogative, many
senators may feel
> > they
> > should approve Ashcroft despite his ideological
extremism; others
> > may think
> > they owe a former colleague the benefit of the doubt
when he
> > promises to
> > enforce the law impartially. But how are they to believe
that
> > pledge, or
> > expect the majority of skeptical Americans to trust
Ashcroft, after
> > he
> > prevaricated so blatantly during his own testimony under
oath?
> > Two years ago, the Senate conducted an  >
HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/impeachment/">im
peachment
> > trial against a president
> > who had lied about personal matters in a private
lawsuit. Before  >
HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/bill_clinton/">P
resident
> > Clinton was finally acquitted because the majority
felt his
> > offenses were not
> > impeachable, dozens of Republicans declared that such
lying was
> > unacceptable
> > in the nation's chief magistrate. Why then is similar
conduct now
> > deemed
> > acceptable in a candidate for the nation's highest law
enforcement
> > position?
> > And why would the Senate vouchsafe the responsibilities
of that
> > office to a
> > man who has already mocked its trust?
> > The senators who vote to confirm his nomination this
week will laud
> > Ashcroft
> > as a public servant of unblemished integrity, and such
praise may be
> > uttered
> > by them in full sincerity. But to any senator who
fulfills his or
> > her own
> > obligation to examine the hearing record completely and
> > dispassionately,
> > Ashcroft's dishonesty will be too obvious to be ignored.
> > Almost nobody believes his evasive answers about the  >
HREF="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/10news.html">ambassa
dorial
> > nomination
> > of James Hormel, for instance. Rather than admit
forthrightly
> > that he had
> > blocked Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because the
Clinton
> > nomine

[CTRL] Landmark Legal Challenges Leahy on Anti-Ashcroft Lobbying

[Amelia]

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{{I also heard it mentioned during the hearings today that
threats of some sort had been made against Democrats who are
planning to vote for the confirmation of Ashcroft.
AKE}}
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001 12:32 a.m. EST

Landmark Legal Challenges Leahy on Anti-Ashcroft Lobbying

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking minority member on the
Senate Judiciary Committee, was challenged on Tuesday to
explain contacts between opponents of Bush attorney general
nominee John Ashcroft and staffers working for leading
Senate Democrats.

Arguing that the contacts may have violated federal law
barring lobbying by tax-exempt organizations, the Landmark
Legal Foundation sent the following letter to the Vermont
Democrat:

Dear Senator Leahy:

According to a published report, staffers working for
leading Senate Democrats, as well as the Senate Democratic
Policy Committee, secretly met with over 200 national
organizations opposed to the nomination of former Senator
John Ashcroft for attorney general of the United States.
Among other things, the group established a lobbying
committee. (Exhibit 1)

At the time of the Ashcroft hearings, you served as chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Therefore, we ask you
whether the Senate staffers present at the meeting were
aware that the non-profit organizations were preparing to
lobby senators, and whether they did so with your knowledge.

Many of the organizations that attended the above-mentioned
meeting are classified under the Internal Revenue Code as
either 501(c)(4) or 501(c)(3) entities.

501(c)(4) Organizations

Federal law prohibits 501(c)(4) organizations that receive
federal funds from engaging in any lobbying activity. 2
U.S.C. § 1611.

501(c)(3) Organizations

Federal law places strict limits on lobbying activities by
501(c)(3) organizations. 26 U.S.C. § 501(h).

According to a recent study by the Capital Research Center,
eighteen (18) of the organizations present at the
above-mentioned meeting received approximately $150 million
in federal funds over a four (4) year period, from 1996
through 1999. (Exhibit 2)

These groups include: the American Bar Association, American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Center
on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Feminist Majority,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, National
Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, National
Black Women's Health Project, National Coalition Against
Domestic Violence, National Council of Jewish Women,
National Education Association, NOW Legal Defense &
Education Fund, Organization of Chinese-Americans,
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Planned Parenthood
(USA), Sentencing Project, Sierra Club and Youth Law Center.

Inasmuch as Democratic staffers participated in the
above-mentioned meeting, Landmark Legal Foundation
(Landmark) requests that you respond to the following
questions:

1. Please identify the names of the congressional or
committee staffers who attended the above-mentioned meeting
and for what purpose.

2. For each individual named in the response above, please
describe their role at the meeting.

3. Did any of the individuals named above attend the meeting
with your knowledge or at your direction?

4. To what extent have you or your staff consulted with
these non-profit groups about lobbying senators against the
Ashcroft nomination?

5. Have you or anyone at your direction made any attempt to
determine whether any of these non-profit groups are in
violation of federal lobbying restrictions?

Landmark believes that the public has a right to know
whether these non-profit organizations, with your
encouragement, are using tax-exempt funds or federal funds
to lobby senators.

Upon receiving your response, Landmark will immediately make
this information known to the public.

Landmark is also providing a copy of this letter, with
exhibits, to the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax Division
of the United States Justice Department, and the Senate
Select Committee on Ethics.

Thank you for attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Mark R. Levin,
President

Enclosures
CC: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Division (DOJ), Senate
Select Committee on Ethics

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[CTRL] Fw: Got Change For a $200 bill?

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

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>
> 31-JAN-01 -- Got Change For a $200?
>
> A Danville, Kentucky Dairy Queen employee accepted a $200 bill
> with the face of George W. Bush on Sunday. She took the $2.12 food
> order and gave back the $197 in change.
>
> "Essentially, the story is that somebody at a drive-in ordered
> some food and passed a $200 novelty deal with George Bush on it,"
> Danville Police Detective Bob Williamson said. "At a distance it
> looks like a real bill, it's got the green color," Williamson
> said when asked how the cashier possibly could have mistaken it
> for "real" currency.
>
> This bill depicted Bush on one side and an oil well on the other.
> The White House lawn contained signs saying "U.S. deserves a tax
> cut," "No more scandals" and "We like broccoli."
>
> Police are still looking for the customer who passed the phony
> bill. Because there is no actual $200 currency, the culprit could
> face a charge of theft by deception but not counterfeiting,
> Williamson said.
>
> - DailyDarwin.com Staff
>

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Re: [CTRL] "Insecticide causes Mad Cow disease"

[Samantha L.]

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http://eionews.addr.com/organop/organop.htm

excerpt

Cover-up
   Insecticide causes
   Mad Cow disease

 by Fintan Dunne
 Research Kathy Mc Mahon
 13th December 2000

 Pharmaceutical interests in the UK are ignoring new scientific research that
shows the insecticide used in the
UK government's own warble-fly campaigns triggered the UK surge of 'Mad Cow'
disease.

 The new work shows that prions can bond with manganese in animal feeds or
mineral licks. These manganese prions can cause the neurological degeneration
seen in BSE. And other researchers unpublished work shows that prions in the
bovine spine --along which insecticides are applied-- can be damaged by ICI's
Phosmet organophosphate(OP) insecticide -causing the disease.

By a similar process, prions in human brains can be damaged by lice lotions
containing organophosphate. Later in life, this can result in neurological
diseases like CJD and Alzheimers.

 British scientists have led the current theory that an infectious prion in
bonemeal fed to cattle causes bovine spongiform disease (BSE). Infectious
prions are also claimed to cause new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD)
in humans -from ingesting beef. But the infectious prion theory serves to
obscure a
tragic chemical poisoning scandal behind the majority of BSE cases.

  Latest experiments by Cambridge University prion specialist, David R.
Brown, have shown that manganese bonds destructively with prions. Many might
be surprised to hear that organophosphates were developed by Nazi chemists
during the course World War Two, as a chemical weapon nerve agent.

 The marginalised research has devestating financial implications for ICI. It
would provide a firm basis for litigants -who could include CJD sufferers,
farmers across the world and families of the many British farmers who
committed suicide during this BSE debacle.

Samantha

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[CTRL] Fwd: "Lights Out!" Lest You See the Light

[Kris Millegan]

 "While overall demand for electricity and natural gas is growing
relatively slowly, the process of deregulation and Enron's ability to grab
increasing shares of the deregulated markets should sustain high growth
rates."


INTERVIEW-Enron sees further strong wholesale energy growth

By Andrew Kelly


HOUSTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - You might hear more of a buzz about the company's
fledgling broadband telecommunications business, but Enron Corp.
President Jeff Skilling says he is looking for further strong growth from
core wholesale energy operations to drive Enron's earnings growth for the
time being.

Enron vaulted past analysts' earnings projections on Monday, reporting that
operating earnings for the fourth quarter of 2000 rose to 41 cents per share
from 31 cents a year earlier. Wall Street analysts had expected earnings per
share of 35 cents.

At the heart of that performance was a 90 percent increase in physical sales
of natural gas and electricity by Enron, North America's biggest buyer and
seller of both commodities.

In an interview with Reuters following the company's earnings release on
Monday, Skilling noted that the volume increase in physical energy sales
amounted to 59 percent for the whole of last year compared with the preceding
year.

"I don't see why that would slow down in the future. In spite of what happens
to the economy, we compete in the non-regulated side of the business and the
non-regulated wholesale business is growing by leaps and bounds," he said.

While overall demand for electricity and natural gas was growing relatively
slowly, Skilling said, the process of deregulation and Enron's ability to
grab increasing shares of the deregulated markets would sustain high growth
rates.

"You're seeing the portion of the market that we compete in just explode," he
said.

"CALIFORNIA WON'T HURT EARNINGS"

Skilling said he expected the non-regulated portion of the North American
wholesale energy market to continue to grow at high rates for "quite some
time", even though the California power crisis might slow down the process of
deregulation in those states that had not already started to implement it.

Skilling said the California crisis would not have an adverse impact on
Enron's earnings, because the company was a merchant buyer and seller of
power and gas in California and did not own significant electricity
generation assets there.

Enron was well-placed, he said, to profit from moves underway to deregulate
natural gas and electricity markets in Europe.

"We have a huge head start in Europe over anybody else that's currently
operating in that market. And the market's as big as North America, so we've
got a much better competitive position over there than we ever had over here
in the old days," he said.

Skilling, who succeeds Ken Lay next month as Enron's Chief Executive Officer,
said he was also optimistic about the outlook for the company's fast-growing
Enron Energy Services unit which helps business customers save on their
energy bills and reduce their exposure to sharp swings in electricity and gas
prices.

Last year Enron Energy Services posted an increase in revenues of 155 percent
to $4.6 billion and an operating profit of $103 million, versus a loss of $68
million in 1999 when the business was still largely in startup mode.

"The momentum and trajectory there are excellent. It's just that it's
starting from a smaller base and will take a little longer to catch up," he
said.

For purposes of comparison, Enron's longer established wholesale energy
business posted a profit of $2.3 billion on revenues of $94.9 billion last
year.

Skilling said that in the long run, Enron Energy Services could benefit from
the power crisis in California.

"All of this volatility and uncertainty in the marketplace is encouraging
customers to think of this stuff for the first time," he said. "The phone's
ringing off the hook right now with people saying that they're interested in
talking to us".


Bush adviser opposes cap on Western power prices

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A proposal to cap prices for wholesale
electricity in the West in hopes of easing California's power crisis "would
start spreading the shortage around" to other states, an adviser to the
incoming Bush administration said on Friday.

"That is not even a short-term solution," said Ken Lay, head of Enron
Corp. and an energy advisor to incoming President George W. Bush, a
former Texas oilman who takes the oath of office on Saturday.

Enron is the largest power marketer in the United States, and a cap would
limit the prices it and other wholesalers could charge to utilities.

Lay told reporters the federal government should limit itself to an advisory
role, letting California leaders resolve a "pretty much self-inflicted
problem." Wholesale power prices were deregulated under the landmark 1996 law
but retail rates were not.

A proposal by California officials to cap wholesale power prices in the West
as a way to help their stat

[CTRL] Ecuadorian protesters take police officer hostage

[Amelia]

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 Ecuadorian protesters take police officer hostage
January 31, 2001
Web posted at: 4:09 PM EST (2109 GMT)


QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) -- A group of Ecuadorian Indians
protesting government economic policy took a police officer
hostage on Wednesday, planning to free him only when an
Indian leader detained on Tuesday who helped lead a coup
last year is released from police custody.

The officer was captured when he tried to enter Salesman
University in Quito, safe haven for thousands of Indians who
have traveled to Quito from the countryside to protest
government economic policy, claiming to be a journalist.

"So long as our compatriots are well-treated, he will be as
well," Marcos Salte, an Indian leader in charge of security
at the university, told reporters.

The capture followed Tuesday's detention of Antonio Vargas,
an Indian leader who led an uprising last year that toppled
president Jamil Mahuad, along with union leader Luis
Villacis, who led several marches against government policy
this month.

A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon to determine
whether they will be freed.

Thousands of Indians from across Ecuador have arrived in
Quito since Friday to protest government mandated price
increases, backed by the International Monetary Fund, which
boosted municipal bus fares by 75 percent and gasoline by 25
percent in December.

Police estimated that 3,000 Indians are camping out in
Salesian University, while the school set the count at
6,000.

But Ecuador's military high command said two weeks ago it
would crack down on protests and any attempts to destabilize
the government after university students used petrol bombs
and dynamite against police in demonstrations against the
economic measures earlier this month.

Government officials are seeking to protect political
stability just one year after an Indian and military
uprising overthrew president Mahuad, catapulting then-vice
president Gustavo Noboa into power.

University students took to the streets on Wednesday to show
their support for the Indian movement, with some marching
semi-nude to protest the strong-hand with which military and
police have repressed popular marches.

Several Indian and student protesters were injured on
Tuesday when they tried to lead a march toward Arbolito
Park, a common place for popular protest just a few blocks
from Ecuador's Congress, as police fired tear gas to contain
them inside the university campus.

Confining the Indians to university grounds is a breach of
the constitution, according to Gustavo Larrea, regional
director of the Latin American Association for Human Rights.

"I think there's an abuse on the part of the Interior
Ministry, because they could easily give them a permit so
they can express their demands," he told Reuters.

Indian road blockades continued north and south of Quito on
Wednesday, making car and bus transportation virtually
impossible and triggering a scarcity of basic goods such as
potatoes, grains and fruit in the capital and the nation's
most populous city and commercial center, Guayaquil.

According to Fernando Navarro, president of Quito's Chamber
of Commerce, the country loses $20 million every day the
highways are closed.

Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian association of mayors, chambers of
commerce and Congress have urged the government to engage in
a dialogue with the Indian groups, with all three entities
offering to act as mediator.

Interior Minister Juan Manrique said he would be eager to
talk with the mayors' association, whom he considers
"legitimate representatives" of the people's concerns and
interests.

The majority of Indians in Salesian University are asking
the government to lower bus fares and cooking gas prices to
ease their economic burden, as just 25 percent of
Ecuadorians capable and eager to work hold a full-time job.

Several Indian leaders have also said they seek a return to
the former national currency, the sucre, after the
government adopted the U.S. dollar in April and a reduction
in foreign debt payments.

Copyright 2001 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material
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Re: [CTRL] [nandotimes] O'Hair disappearance--FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

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From: "Aleisha Saba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well Tenorlove - this item on O'Hai you might find interesting - looks
> almost like a Mafia job.

Too sloppy.  If the mafia had done it, the remains would never have been found, ala 
Jimmy Hoffa and Judge
Crater


> What attracted these killers to O'Hairshe did hae some gold pieces
> and I wonder from where.   She claimed to be an anarchist - and had a
> few followersbut someone took a great deal of time and trouble to
> put this woman to death - and it sure wasn't over money.

What I find strange is that it took a year before she was reported missing.  I can 
understand why it took the
sone that long to contact the police, since he was estranged from his mother and 
supposedly did not keep in
close touch with her.  But you would think that at least one of the many people who 
worked for and with her in
her organizations would have reported her disappearance.  Didn't she have one friend 
in the world who cared
about her welfare?

And the article mentioned that her 'beloved' dogs were left behind...who took care of 
the dogs?  Or were they
left to starve to death?


June

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[CTRL] Fwd: Enron & the CIA

[Kris Millegan]

In a message dated 01-01-30 17:38:01 EST, you write:

>Frank G. Wisner.

Any relation to the infamous Wisner who worked under Dulles as head of
OSS/CIA "covert ops" in Gehlen's Europe after WWII, and who eventually
committed suicide?

BTW, I've been fwding to Kris a series of posts pointing the finger at Ken
Lay of Enron --Dubya's buddy and unofficial "energy czar"-- as most likely
directly responsible for manufacturing California's "energy crisis," by
jacking up the price of the natural gas needed to fuel electrical power
plants.  Now the state is promised a natural gas (and of course OIL =
gasoline) "crisis," which both he and Dubya blame on popular resistance to
the "free market" and its obscene profit-taking and "them durned
environmentalists" restricting pollution.  And I just read that --now that
PG&E and SoCal Edison are on the edge of going bankrupt (another scam)--
Lay's ENRON is jumping into that vacuum, stepping over the corpses, to cash
in by selling power more directly to consumers ...

[CTRL] (Fwd) Re: [tHenEwTriBe] Would your Dr like $20000?

[Marilyn Wright]

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>
> THE FOLLOWING OFFER is made to U.S.-licensed medical doctors who
> routinely administer childhood vaccinations and to pharmaceutical
> company CEOs worldwide.
>
> Jock Doubleday, president of the California nonprofit corporation
> Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc., hereby offers $20,000.00 (U.S.) to
> the first medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO who publicly
> drinks a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients in the
> same amount as a six-year-old child is recommended to receive under
> the year-2000 guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention.
>
> The mixture will not contain viruses or bacteria dead or alive, but
> will contain standard vaccine additive ingredients in their usual
> forms and proportions. The mixture will include, but will not be
> limited to: thimerosal (a mercury derivative), ethylene glycol
> (antifreeze), phenol (a disinfectant dye), benzethonium chloride (a
> disinfectant), formaldehyde (a preservative and disinfectant), and
> aluminum.
>
> The mixture will be prepared by Jock Doubleday, three medical
> professionals
> that he names, and three medical professionals that the participant
> names. The mixture will be body weight calibrated.
>
> The participant agrees, and any and all agents and associates of the
> participant agree, to indemnify and hold harmless in perpetuity any
> and all persons, organizations, or entities associated with the
> event for any harm caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or
> indirectly, to the participant or indirectly to the participant's
> heirs, relations, employers, employees, colleagues, associates, or
> other persons, organizations, or entities claiming association with,
> or representation of, the participant, by the participant's
> participation in the event.
>
> Because the participant is either a professional caregiver who
> routinely
> administers childhood vaccinations, or a pharmaceutical company CEO
> whose business is, in part, the sale of childhood vaccines, it is
> understood by all parties that the participant considers all vaccine
> additive ingredients to be safe and that the participant considers
> any mixture containing these ingredients to be safe.
>
> The event will be held within six months of the participant's
> written agreement to the above and further elaborated terms. This
> offer, dated January 29, 2001, has no expiration date unless
> superceded by a similar offer of higher remuneration.
>
> Contact Jock Doubleday at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[CTRL] Fwd: Over the (Oil) Barrel

[Kris Millegan]

 "Enron has been working directly with California leaders to try and
resolve the energy crisis -- but its first order of business has been to
secure payment of money that's now owed it by SoCal Edison and PG&E  The
utilities are $12 billion in debt."


Energy wholesalers profiteering or just profiting?

By C. Bryson Hull

HOUSTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Massive profits made by power producers during
California's electricity crisis are demonstrating that one man's hallelujah
is another's expletive deleted.

On one side stand power marketers and sellers with stellar fourth-quarter
earnings reports who say they have profited legally, blaming California's
bungled deregulation plan, lack of electricity generation and poor weather
for the problems.

Opposite them are corporate watchdogs, lawyers and California politicians who
see in the swollen balance sheets of the mostly out-of-state companies acts
of profiteering, price-fixing and greed.

Critics argue that corporate greed is the reason Californians have suffered
rolling blackouts and the state's two largest utilities, Edison
International's  Southern California Edison and PG&E Corp.'s 
Pacific Gas & Electric, are hovering at the edge of bankruptcy.

Public Citizen, a Washington. D.C.-based consumer advocacy group, on
Wednesday accused several power wholesalers and marketers of gouging
Californians, echoing Gov. Gray Davis' charge earlier this month that the
state was being held hostage by "out-of-state profiteers."

"Profiteering is just a loaded term. To some people it means illegal action
to make money, and some people say anything that's unfair is profiteering,"
said Adrian Moore, executive director of Reason Public Policy Institute, a
nonpartisan, pro-free market think tank in Los Angeles.

"The companies are just taking advantage of the rules that our foolish
legislators created."

The companies include several which reported exceptional earnings for the
past quarter, among them Duke Energy Corp. , Enron Corp.  and
Dynegy Inc. . Reliant Energy Inc. reported a sevenfold increase in
income because of its activity in Western markets in the third quarter.

While even their critics acknowledge that record high prices for natural gas
and accordingly, gas-fired generation, helped the balance sheets, the
companies easily profited under California's deregulation scheme.

The rules forced utilities to buy their power for the day ahead from the
state-created California Power Exchange (CalPX) at one price, set by taking
the highest successful bid submitted by wholesalers.

At first, generators kept their bids low to ensure their plants were utilized
and because they were likely to get a higher price anyway. But not for long.

"As soon as demand equaled supply, these guys had carte blanche to charge
whatever they wanted the power suppliers got to throw prices out at whatever
level they wanted to and rake in the dough, and by gosh, they did," Moore
said.

The state's other pooled electricity market, the Independent System Operator,
had to bear even higher prices when tight electricity supplies, caused by a
shortage of generation capacity, forced them to buy power to prevent
blackouts.

The unexpected power shortage last August has led some critics to accuse
generators of withholding supply to spike prices, although a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission investigation found no substantive proof. The
California Attorney General's office and several other agencies are still
investigating.

The San Francisco City Attorney's office last week sued 13 companies for $1
billion, alleging they conspired to withhold power.

Deputy City Attorney Nathan Ballard told Reuters their proof may include
phone records, e-mail and other correspondence, and evidence of "irrationally
high prices at times of low demand."

"My 12-year-old cousin knows the laws of economics don't work that way,"
Ballard said.

All of the companies have denied the allegations, and deny they did anything
other than what capitalists should do -- make money.

"It's always easy to try to lay blame at someone else's doorstep, but that
only delays resolution to the problems," Reliant Energy spokesman Richard
Wheatley said. "It's pretty hard to be blamed for causing this problem in
California when they brought it upon themselves."

Reliant, Dynegy and Enron have all been working directly with California
leaders to try and resolve the problems, but their first order of business
has been to secure payment of the money that SoCal Edison and PG&E owe them.
The utilities are some $12 billion in debt.

Exactly how much they are owed is unclear, but Dynegy and Mirant Corp, the
power plant unit of Southern Co.  took an unspecified reserve to
protect against nonpayment. Duke set back $110 million to protect against
about $400 million of receivables. Reliant's receivables are in the hundreds
of millions, Wheatley said.

[CTRL] [endsecrecy] Dulles Son Becomes Cardinal

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Subject: [endsecrecy] Dulles Son Becomes Cardinal
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:24 PM

From:
http://www.nypost.com/01222001/commentary/21983.htm

CROWNING GLORY OF DULLES' CAREER
Monday, January 22, 2001
By ROD DREHER

NEW YORK, New York: the city so great they named it twice. And now they're
going to give it two cardinals!

Everybody knew that Archbishop Edward Egan would get a red hat, but only a
relative few had any idea that the Jesuit Father Avery Dulles would become a
prince of the Church as well.

John Paul II's elevation of the 82-year-old Fordham scholar, widely regarded
as America's most influential Catholic theologian, is the crowning glory to
a long and distinguished priestly career.

And the justice of the pope's gesture to him is one thing this country's
fractured Catholic community can agree on.

There is, papal biographer George Weigel once wrote, "little wonder that
virtually everyone on the American Catholic scene regards Avery Dulles as
the plumb line of theological good sense."

Though always an active participant in the theological controversies of his
time, the judicious Dulles has been captive neither to a hidebound
conservatism nor the anything-goes liberalism dominant in contemporary
theological circles - and certainly in the Society of Jesus.

Dulles' fidelity and fair-mindedness have generally kept him above the
factional fray while allowing him to engage the issues rending the Church in
America.

A scion of one of America's great Protestant establishment families, Dulles
was part of the greatest generation of 20th-century intellectual Catholic
converts, among them Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh and St. Edith Stein.

His decision to enter the Jesuits coincided with his 1940 conversion. Like
the current pope, Dulles was an enthusiastic supporter of Vatican II, and
later a leading interpreter and defender of the council's teachings in some
19 books, and countless lectures and articles.

Some orthodox Catholic theologians blame Dulles' work for providing cover
for radicalism in the Vatican II aftermath. In his latter years, he has
admitted that he tended "to exaggerate the novelty of the council's doctrine
and the shortcomings of the preconciliar period."

In the last decade, he has begun to take on dissenters. In a much-discussed
1997 article, Dulles agreed with Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law that the
Catholic Theological Society of America was a "wasteland," and questioned
whether they could any longer be called Catholics.

Yet, puzzling to some, he has never joined the Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars, a rival organization faithful to Rome.

"If he had, he would have been beaten up by the club," a knowledgeable
source said yesterday.

His scintillating defense of the pope's virtually infallible 1994
declaration that the Church cannot ordain women may have been the key to his
winning a red hat.

"He was elegant in that," said an archdiocesan source. "He's a Dulles. He's
a Brahmin."

Whatever the reason, New York can soon boast of two exceptional men as
cardinals. Unlike Egan, Dulles is too old to vote for the next pope.

But, health permitting, the venerable Dulles will surely be an important
adviser at the next papal conclave. He will bring to that task not only his
great intellect and generous spirit, but the wisdom of hard-won experience.

e-mail: dreher@ nypost.com

Also From:
http://www.nypost.com/01222001/news/regionalnews/21981.htm

FORDHAM PROF MAKES HISTORY
Monday, January 22, 2001
By DAN MANGAN

The Rev. Avery Dulles, a former agnostic turned Fordham University religion
professor, yesterday became the first American theologian appointed a
cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

"I'm still not quite sure whether or not it's a dream," Dulles, 82, said at
a press conference at Fordham's Law School in Manhattan. "I can't even think
what an even greater honor would be."

The Jesuit priest said he thought being named to the College of Cardinals
was a message from Pope John Paul II to emphasize theology's importance to
the Church, to encourage the Jesuit's Society of Jesus to pursue its
theological mission, and to acknowledge North American scholarship's growing
contribution to the Church.

The son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Dulles is
considered the dean of American Catholic theology, or the study of God and
religious truth. He is the author of 21 books.

In addition to being the first American theologian named a prince of the
Church, Dulles also is the first Fordham faculty member to become a
cardinal.

"We are all in the Fordham University community . . . very proud of Avery
Dulles for what he stands for in the American church,

Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger

[Samantha L.]

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In a message dated 1/31/01 7:17:52 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Speaking of lies, just read on below- for a WHOLE pack of them.

  I have followed the hearings closely and found that all of the objections
to Ashcroft are based on the PUBLIC RECORD.  If you insist that the article
is a pack of lies, you're going to have to specify.

Samantha

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--The Kidnap and Ransom Industry
--BioApocalypse
--Report on the Jan 27 Davos Protest
--IMAGES FROM DAVOS
--An Anarchist View of the Presidency of Bush, Jr.
--Greenpeace uses riot police van in nuclear protest
--Links to Davos, Switzerland articles
--Bones Found During FBI O'Hair Probe

===

The Kidnap and Ransom Industry



The Predators, The Prey and the Protectors Equal Millions in Business
By Andrew Chang

NEW YORK, Jan. 22  It's a multimillion dollar industry that unites men in
three-piece-suits with kids carrying Kalashnikovs  often with the kids
giving orders to the suits.

It has no industry leader, though some countries host more deals than others.
Some of the world's wealthiest companies, like AIG, Chubb, and Lloyds of
London, take part but news of this business rarely shows up in the Wall
Street Journal.
And Hollywood has only taken a look at it a handful of times  most
recently, in the movie Proof of
Life.
Insiders call it K&R, which stands for "kidnap and ransom."
Dealing in the Shadows
Specific information on K&R is rare  and with good reason.
Corporations or families who have had a loved one or employee kidnapped
often won't go to police because they are "incompetent, corrupt, or in some
countries, confederates of kidnappers," says Brian Jenkins, a Green Beret
veteran of the Vietnam War and past chairman of Political Science at the
Rand Corporation.
In other countries, going to police may mean kidnappers will never get
their money  and the
hostage will never be released alive. Italy, for example, passed a law in
1991 intended to reduce
the number of ransom kidnappings  by freezing the assets of a kidnap
victim's family to prevent
payment of a ransom.
Even after the ransom is paid, the impulse to stay quiet remains. "You
don't want to give kidnappers a number to aim for," says Jenkins.
Yet, executives doing business overseas feel they face an increased risk of
kidnapping nowadays, and many of them are purchasing insurance against it.
"One of the few statistics that we see is about 60 percent of corporate
America  large companies, that is  have purchased this type of coverage,"
says Terry D'Italia, a press officer for Chubb Executive Risk in Simsbury,
Conn.
Such executive risk insurance not only pays for ransom, but it also
provides advice on how to stop kidnappers before they even get a hostage.
More important, it pays for advisers when a ransom needs to be paid.
   New Overhead for Overseas Business
The advisers are usually employees of organizations with innocuous names
like Control Risks Group.
But they are the best people in the world for what they do, drawn from the
ranks of the world's elite law enforcement and military agencies.
And they are very expensive. One can cost several thousands of dollars a
day, and sometimes one is not enough.
These advisers typically have had experience in kidnappings, have served in
the country at issue, know the language, and have good contacts with
government officials.
In many cases, they will also know the local kidnapping gangs, and can form
a list of suspects, and have a sense of their negotiating tactics and
techniques. They'll also know the going rates for ransoms  and whether a
deal is reasonable or not.
But they are not Rambo-types. "The gun-toting, cigar-chomping, scar-faced
individual is an image
built over the years from Hollywood," says Michael Grunberg, commercial
adviser to Sandline, a
private military company with headquarters in London that has been retained
for K&R situations.
In fact, he describes one his operatives, a former member of the Special
Air Service  the British
special forces: "He's very diminutive, small, very small, quiet
mannered  this is what you need,
someone's who cool and will think things through before taking action,
someone who is prepared for acting as a member of a team."
In worst-case scenarios, these advisers can also resort to a rescue
operation  but that is very rare.
There are innumerable risks to a rescue operation, and they have to be
planned out meticulously, Grunberg says. "There are more lives at risk than
just individual captives."
Sometimes kidnappers live among local villagers, "so when you mount one of
these operations you put at risk innocent lives," he says.
Grunberg says that in one of the few rescue operations he's aware
of  Operation Barras, where British forces earlier last year freed fellow
troops in Sierra Leone  the liberators had the area under surveillance fo

Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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<< The artful dodger
 John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate
 confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the
 truth? >>

It's that cunning, sly expression that gets me.  I know what he says and I
hear what they say about him, but he comes across as a really nasty man.
Prudy

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[CTRL] [radtimes] # 137

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An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.

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Contents:

--Police issue radar guns to civilian snoopers (UK)
--"WBAI: The Democratic Party's Newest Target"
--Trust Us, We're Experts
--The left is right?
--MOVIE: Traffik/Traffic
--Supreme Ironies: No Closure, No Peace
--Great countercoup strategies & Anti-bush Links
--U.S. approves high-resolution spying by commercial satellites

===

Police issue radar guns to civilian snoopers



1/21/01

THE police, whose zeal in catching speeding motorists has earned them
little popularity, have come up with an arresting new idea. Members of the
public are being recruited as informers to mount roadside patrols that
clock over-hasty drivers, writes Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas.
The new volunteer surveillance corps, kitted out with fluorescent jackets
and radar guns, will brandish electronic scoreboards that flash up the
motorist's speed. West Yorkshire police say the experiment, based on a
Canadian project, is designed to act as a deterrent.
However, some motoring groups called the project "absolutely crackers".
The scheme is expected to be launched in Shipley, West Yorkshire, within
the next few weeks, but may later be adopted across the country.
Although the volunteers will have no powers of prosecution, they will
occasionally be backed up by police officers.
If volunteers spot "blatant" speeding and record the number plate, a
warning letter could be sent to the motorist.
West Yorkshire Police Federation is less than overjoyed.  "They're not
trained for this job and could be a danger to themselves and other road
users," said a spokesman. "This is policing on the cheap to make up for a
shortfall in officers."

===

"WBAI: The Democratic Party's Newest Target"

Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001
From: Karl Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lorna Salzman: "WBAI: The Democratic Party's Newest Target"

The following is by Lorna Salzman and is about what happened in the
mid-1980s to Friends of the Earth, an equivalent in its heyday in the
environmental movement to WBAI and KPFA, "Democracy Now," and all of what
Pacifica was created to be--bold, grassroots-progressive, a real challenge
to the "establishment." Lorna was Mid-Atlantic Representative of Friends of
the Earth. She draws this from an article by her published in 1990. She can
be reached at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Karl Grossman

WBAI: The Democratic Party's Newest Target

by Lorna Salzman

The sneak attack against WBAI-FM by its parent Pacifica Foundation did not
happen suddenly. The gradual take-over by corporate and Democratic Party
infiltrators happened over a period of some years, leading some to wonder
just why the radio network staff, volunteers and local advisory boards
never noticed what was going on. Perhaps they were so delighted just to get
their stuff on the air without censorship that they figured free speech was
all they needed.

But having said that, I think the latest struggle at WBAI in NYC needs to
be seen not in isolation but as part of a nationwide pattern of subversion
of progressive and radical voices and tendencies, a pattern that definitely
includes the recent backlash by pro-abortion, women's and civil rights
groups against the Nader presidential campaign and against the Green Party,
which,along with those who sympathized with or gave voice to the
anti-Republicrat feelings, will intensify over the next four years.

It was quite telling, at yesterday's teach-in by WBAI staff and supporters,
to hear that the president of the Pacifica Foundation has retained her
Federal government job through both Republican and Democratic
administrations. Such stability in the face of purported partisan battles
can only mean that "she must be doing something right", at least from her
employer's point of view. By inference this means for the rest of us that
he must be doing something wrong.

My contribution here is a history that presaged the WBAI battle by fifteen
years: that of the (likely) Democratic Party/managerial elite/centrist
takeover and destruction of Friends of the Earth between 1984 and 1986. The
same maneuvers and patterns that characterize the Pacifica battle were
eerily present in the FOE battle, in which I played a role: union busting,
stifling of dissidents, suppression of information from FOE members,
facilitated by the slow but inexorable "election" to the FOE board of
directors of individuals with either a personal grudge against FOE founder

Re: [CTRL] Manitoba Study Group, September 1999

[Aleisha Saba]

-Caveat Lector-

Interesting item here - refers to the signs of the Zodiac in Washington
DC..

Now Bush had the Masonic bible opened to Genesis 49-50 - these are the
twelve tribes, each has a sign of the zodiac attributed to the different
tribes - as Gad, the overcomers (black masons, We Shall Overcome and
Black is Beautiful)...

So the Royal Arch Masons (I Am That I Am...and he Burning Bush) their
banners and colors stem from these signs.

OX equals Bull shall we say.

So this is nice item if interested  - the beautiful Chartres Cathedral -
once if you stood in a certain place at a certain time, the sun struck a
certain spotonce in a synagog I was taken to the chapel, and a
circular window in the ceiling reminded me of the Chartres Cathredal -
for my friend built his restaurant - a beautiful place with this same
circular window in the ceiling (high degree Mason and was also a God
father I was told).so everyone has their high noon but at a certain
time on a day certain the sun would be right above this circular window
to the sky..

So much for the secrets of theTemplars...wish I were a Mason and
this bunch in Manitoba is something else.

Saba  (see under subject matter for pictures, etc.and then wonder
why the tunnels dug underground in Israel..moles in the making.






 The Manitoba Masonic
Study Group
Newsletter


with Connections to the QUATUOR CORONATI CORRESPONDENCE CIRCLE
The Transactions of the Manitoba Masonic Study Group
Vol. 5 Issue 4  September 1999
Chartres Cathedral
The current cathedral in Chartres was consecrated on 17 October 1260. It
had been completely rebuilt since 1194 when a fire had destroyed
everything of the old cathedral except except for its magnificent
crypts, the newly completed western towers and the Royal Portal. This
period was significant in the history of Charttres as the Chartres
Catheral School, one of the foremost scholastic institutions of
medieaval Europe was at its zenith: the school's influence on the design
and construction of the new cathedral may well have been significant.
Its reputation had been established by Fulbert who ran the school
between 990 and 1028 and was known as the 'Venerable Socrates of the
Chartres Cathedral Academy.' Amongst his successors was the
neo-Platonist Bernard of Chartres (1119-1124) and Thierry, his younger
brother who wrote "Philosophy has two principal instruments, the mind
and its sxpression. The mind is enlightened by the Quadrivium
(arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music). Its expression, elegant,
reasonable and ornate, is provided by the Trivium (grammar, rhetoric and
dialectic)." Several years after the death of Thierry, these seven
disciplines, accompanied by those authors who best illustrate each, were
sculptured on the Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral.
Source: On Earth as it is in Heaven by Greg Rigby.


ANCIENT SYMBOLISM
"The Virgin is consecrated to Isis, just as Leo is consecrated to her
husband Osiris... The sphinx, composed of a Lion and a Virgin, was used
as a symbol to designate the overflowing of the Nile... they put a
wheat-ear in the hand of the Virgin, to express the idea of the months,
perhaps because the sign of the Virgin was called by the Orientals, ...
wheat-ear."
Source: Joseph Lalande, French Astronomer and Freemason. Astronomie par
M. de la Lande, 1731, 2nd Ed'n, Vol. 1.4 p 245.

MASONIC INTERNET SITES
Look at photos of Masonic sites in Israel--
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9991/gallery.html
or how about Canadian Masonic history, biographies, and graphics from
http://www.freemasonry.bc.ca/TextFiles/historyindex.html

The Symbolism and Difference of the Laying of Stones
"Symbolically speaking, there is considerable difference between the
laying of a foundation stone and the laying of a cornerstone. As the
name implies, the foundation stone was the one laid within the earth--
it was the first masonry deposited at the footings of a particular
building. And since it was buried in the earth, it was emblematic of
darkness and the chthonic. In contrast, the cornerstone was laid on top
of an already-founded wall -- usually the wall of an underground cellar,
or (in the case of a church) a crypt, which had been constructed prior
to the foundation ceremony. The cornerstone symbolically represents the
first transition of the building from the earth plane into the upper
realm. It is viewed in terms of the form the building will take as a
structure rising into the light, towards the eye of the sun, away from
the chthonic, coffin-bearing darkness of the earth. This is probably one
reason why the more careful Masonic writers usually refer to the
ceremonial of the cornerstone-laying, rather than to the foundation
stone."
Source: The Secret Zodiacs of Washington, D.C. by David Ovason.
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
-- William Thackery
About the Manitoba Study Group
The Manitoba Study Group may be contacted through the Secretary at 420
Corydon Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3

Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN BOMBS.......

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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In a message dated 01/29/2001 10:10:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Oh, I don't know...breaking expensive executive desks, super-gluing file
cabinets shut, leaving porno pictures
 in photocopiers and laser printers, and spray-painting graffitti on the
walls, seems a tad more than what
 'could be expected when a 400 person staff leaves a facility. >>

Still when the ex-prez offered to pay for the damage, his offer was refused.
I'm wondering if this all so much nothing.  I've never heard of Republicans
turning down money.  Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM]

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<< Nationalize the electric companies. Problem solved.

Joshua2 >>

This will just give us a whole new set of problems. Anytime the government
gets involved in enterprise, it winds up taking longer and costing more than
if private industry did it.

Bill

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[CTRL] Illegal Immigrant Elephant Busted

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http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/international/ap888.htm

Illegal Immigrant Elephant Busted
by MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer
TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) -- Benny crossed the border illegally
and went to work for a prominent family, but somebody tipped off
the authorities and now a full-fledged scandal has erupted.
It's a common story -- a tipster, an illegal immigrant, an
embarrassing revelation -- except for the fact that Benny is an
American who came to work in Mexico. And he's an elephant.
The prominent family -- Mexico's most famous circus clan, the
three generations of the Vazquez Brothers -- has endured as much
media attention as any U.S. Cabinet nominee grilled about hiring
illegal workers.
They plead necessity. ''Look, we needed an elephant, and they're
not exactly easy to come by in Mexico,'' said Ramon Vazquez, 37,
whose grandparents started the one-ring circus more than three
decades ago.
The Vazquez family won't confirm or deny local press reports
that Benny, a 7-year-old captive-born Asian elephant also known as
Dumbo, was smuggled into Mexico in a crate from Texas in April
without a visa.
The Vazquezes are a bit coy. ''Try to imagine us bringing him
across the river,'' snorted Ramon Vazquez, speculating on the
impossibility of moving three tons of lumbering gray pachyderm
across the muddy Rio Grande.
But Tom Bauer of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Texas
said anybody moving such an animal across the border would have
to get a permit from his office -- and nobody did.
Benny -- the American name that trainers still use, though he is
billed at the Mexico City circus as Dumbo -- was apparently bought
by Ramon Vazquez's father, Guillermo, for $40,000 from his U.S.
owners, a company called Trunks and Humps based in Cut and
Shoot, Texas.
Trunks and Humps owner Bill Swain refused to comment, saying --
oddly for a reputed elephant broker -- ''I don't know how this whole
situation got so out of control.''
Vazquez reportedly got tired of waiting for official permits,
and so Benny was allegedly put in a wooden crate aboard a flatbed
truck and driven across the border, with a $4,500 bribe to Mexican
customs inspectors to overlook the somewhat large shipment.
How exactly did a package the size of a small house get across
with no inspections? Mexico's Customs Service was not available to
comment on that, and U.S. customs officials said they normally do
not check outgoing crates, however large.
Police took on the case soon after Benny's arrival in Mexico on
a tip from Jane Garrison, a Los Angeles-based elephant specialist
with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
U.S. authorities contacted Mexican police, and the case was a
piece of cake. ''We had to locate him, but it was easy because of
his distinguishing mark. He has a hole in his trunk,'' said
Salvador Gonzalez of Mexico's environmental prosecutor's office.
Garrison wants Benny seized and brought back to spend his days
at a U.S. sanctuary for former circus animals. ''If children could
see how animals are treated at the big top, they'd have to be
dragged kicking and screaming to the circus,'' Garrison said.
But Benny's return is unlikely. Authorities formally seized him
in May but ''allowed the circus to keep exhibiting him, because if
you don't keep elephants working they go wild,'' Gonzalez said.
This week Benny performed one of his last shows at the circus.
Trainers unhooked the chain from his hind leg and led him into the
tent at the end of the show to grab a harmonica with his trunk and
''play'' it. He doesn't actually play, but squeals an imitation of
the harmonica's sound.
Benny sat on his rump, stood tall on his hind legs and nodded
when asked whether he liked children. The audience of 200 people,
who paid $2 to $5 for the show, applauded generously.
''He's a good elephant,'' said trainer Junior Herrera.
But most likely Benny's days at the circus are numbered.
Gonzalez said within a week, Benny will be confiscated and sent to
a zoo outside Mexico City.
''He'll keep doing tricks,'' Gonzalez said. ''And the children
will get to see him for free.''

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Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN BOMBS.......

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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In a message dated 01/29/2001 12:42:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< According to a recent article in Salon.com, the Reagans had to
 pay $1 million in taxes after an investigation about the stuff they
 took with them when they left the White House. (ever hear of it? I
 don't seem to recall reading about it.)

 And the damage done to the White House was not more than
 could be expected when a 400 person staff leaves a facility wherein
 they have been ensconced for 8 years.

 Bill Clinton was just such jolly fun to go after that the Republicans
 just don't want to stop. >>


Too true.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Global Tax Proposal

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> The Washington Times
> www.washtimes.com
>
>

> 
>
>
>
> U.N. seeks to tax international currency trades
>
>
> Betsy Pisik
> THE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished 1/31/01
>
>

> 
>  NEW YORK The United Nations yesterday issued a sweeping list of
> proposals to help the world's poorest nations cope with the effects
> of
> globalization, including an idea for a global tax on international
> currency
> transactions.
>  A 0.1 percent tax on $1.5 trillion worth of "speculative"
> currency
> transactions could yield $150 billion a year that could be used to
> stabilize
> volatile markets, said the report, compiled in collaboration with the
> World
> Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization
> and
> others.
>  Officials who drafted the report showed little enthusiasm
> yesterday for
> the measure, one of dozens that may wind up in a non-binding
> agreement
> nations will negotiate in March 2002.
>  "We have not recommended any such thing," Nitin Desai, the U.N.
> undersecretary-general for economic and social affairs, said of the
> global
> tax, which is presented in paragraph 113 of the 64-page report and
> touted in
> its press kit.
>  Instead, he said, "It's one of the areas where the report is not
> clearly making an explicit recommendation but simply saying that
> someone has
> said, 'Think about it.' "
>  He declined to elaborate on how such a tax would be collected,
> administered or disbursed. Nor would he say whether U.N.
> Secretary-General
> Kofi Annan would endorse such a measure.
>  Reinhard Munzberg, the U.N. representative for the International
> Monetary Fund, and Enrique Rueda-Sabater, a World Bank senior
> manager, also
> pointedly refused to endorse the suggestion, which apparently was
> offered by
> nongovernmental organizations and unnamed member states.
>  A panel of high-profile financial analysts, including former
> Treasury
> Secretary Robert Rubin and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo,
> is to
> release its own recommendations next month.
>  The U.N. officials no doubt are stung by reactions to earlier
> ideas for
> world taxes.
>  Last year, the authors of the U.N. Development Program's annual
> Human
> Development Report suggested a special tax on Internet commerce and
> messages. The suggestion presented in less than a sentence
> overshadowed the
> massive evaluation of human rights.
>  Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali derailed his hopes for a
> second
> term, in part, by suggesting in the mid-1990s that the United Nations
> raise
> funds by taxing international airline tickets. Largely because of
> that, the
> U.S. Congress made payment of $100 million in U.N. funds contingent
> on the
> organization's promise not to try to levy its own taxes.
>  "Among [private nonprofit organizations] there is a strong
> sympathy for
> a measure of this kind," said Danish Ambassador Jorgen Bojer. He said
> his
> own government was mildly interested in the idea but had decided it
> was not
> worth the political effort to pursue it.
>  The report released yesterday suggests scores of ways for the
> industrialized world to lower trade barriers, encourage debt
> forgiveness,
> and direct capital and investment dollars to the poorest nations.
>  Developing countries are advised in the report to improve access
> to
> microcredit loans, provide better regulation of financial markets,
> and
> reform tax and banking measures.
>  The officials note that official development assistance
> continues to
> shrink well below a long-standing target of 0.7 percent of developed
> countries' gross national product (GNP). The median in 1999 was only
> 0.25 of
> GNP, while the bulk of nearly $200 billion in private investment last
> year
> went to 20 nations.
>  Meanwhile, the world's poorest nations slid deeper into debt.
> Total
> debt equaled the total GNP in 1998 for the world's poorest countries.
>  World trade more than tripled to $5.4 trillion between 1995 and
> 1998,
> while exports from the least-developed nations accounted for $26
> billion, a
> $2 billion increase in the same period.
>
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[CTRL] Fw: BREAKING NEWS: Skakel ruling

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

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Michael Skakel is the Kennedy cousin who is suspected of having killed 14 year old 
Martha Moxley back in 1975.
Martha's mother has been fighting for 25 years to have this guy brought to trial, and 
brought to trial as an
adult, so for her sake (if nothing else) I'm glad the judge ruled as he did...

June

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Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Skakel ruling


> Michael Skakel will be tried as an adult for the murder of
> Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley.  A Stamford Superior Court
> judge released the decision at 4 p.m.
>
> In August, a judge ruled that there was enough evidence to try
> Skakel for the killing.  Moxley was beaten to death with a golf
> club Oct. 30, 1975. Skakel, who was 15-years-old at the time,
> lived across the street from the Moxley's in Greenwich.
>
> News Channel 8 will have the complete story tonight on News Channel
> at 5 p.m., with updates throughout the night on WTNH.com.
> -
> For the latest news, Storm Team 8 weather and sports coverage, stay
> tuned to NEWS CHANNEL 8!
>
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Re: [CTRL] Ashcroft-The Artful Dodger

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Speaking of lies, just read on below- for a WHOLE pack of them.


-
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:45:44 EST William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2001/01/30/ashcroft/index.html
>
>
> The artful dodger
> John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his
> Senate
> confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive
> with the
> truth?
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> By Joe Conason
> Jan. 30, 2001 | Of all the perfectly sound reasons to oppose  HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/john_ashcroft/">John
> Ashcroft's
> nomination -- and perhaps to mount a filibuster against him, now
> that his
> confirmation appears likely -- the most compelling is that he didn't
> tell the
> truth to the United States Senate.
> In deference to the presidential prerogative, many senators may feel
> they
> should approve Ashcroft despite his ideological extremism; others
> may think
> they owe a former colleague the benefit of the doubt when he
> promises to
> enforce the law impartially. But how are they to believe that
> pledge, or
> expect the majority of skeptical Americans to trust Ashcroft, after
> he
> prevaricated so blatantly during his own testimony under oath?
> Two years ago, the Senate conducted an  HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/impeachment/">impeachment
> trial against a president
> who had lied about personal matters in a private lawsuit. Before  HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/bill_clinton/">President
> Clinton was finally acquitted because the majority felt his
> offenses were not
> impeachable, dozens of Republicans declared that such lying was
> unacceptable
> in the nation's chief magistrate. Why then is similar conduct now
> deemed
> acceptable in a candidate for the nation's highest law enforcement
> position?
> And why would the Senate vouchsafe the responsibilities of that
> office to a
> man who has already mocked its trust?
> The senators who vote to confirm his nomination this week will laud
> Ashcroft
> as a public servant of unblemished integrity, and such praise may be
> uttered
> by them in full sincerity. But to any senator who fulfills his or
> her own
> obligation to examine the hearing record completely and
> dispassionately,
> Ashcroft's dishonesty will be too obvious to be ignored.
> Almost nobody believes his evasive answers about the  HREF="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/10news.html">ambassadorial
> nomination
> of James Hormel, for instance. Rather than admit forthrightly
> that he had
> blocked Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because the Clinton
> nominee would
> have been the nation's first openly gay envoy, Ashcroft chose to
> make vague
> claims about Hormel's "entire record," adding ominously that Hormel
> had
> "recruited" him to the University of Chicago. Few falsehoods more
> obvious
> than that one have ever been told under oath in a Senate hearing.
> Ashcroft
> also testified untruthfully about the substance of the St. Louis
> desegregation case. Instead of admitting that he 
HREF="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/16/hearings/">opposed

> integration, which
> he clearly did, the former Missouri attorney general insisted that
> he was
> merely defending his state government from an overreaching federal
> judge.
> That may be a matter of opinion, but it left the clear impression
> back then
> of a politician stirring racial conflict for personal advancement.
> But when Ashcroft claimed repeatedly in the hearings that "the state
> had not
> been found really guilty of anything" in the St. Louis court case,
> he knew
> that answer was wholly false. Having appealed the matter all the way
> to the
> Supreme Court and lost, he can't have forgotten that the state of
> Missouri
> was held responsible by the courts for its long history of
> maintaining
> segregrated schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.
> Ashcroft lied confidently during the hearings about matters large
> and small,
> presumably relying on the gullibility of his former colleagues.
> Among the
> more disturbing instances was his attempted explanation of the
> now-notorious
> interview he gave in 1998 to the 
HREF="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/03/partisan/">Souther
n
> Partisan, an organ of the
> neo-Confederate movement.
> On Jan. 17, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., engaged Ashcroft in a long,
> rambling
> discourse about the Southern Partisan's racial and ethnic bias and
> its dogged
> defense of slavery and "states' rights." Mostly Biden seemed to be
> talking to
> hear the sound of his own voice, as he often does in hearings, but
> Ashcroft
> eventually had a chance to respond to Biden's scolding.
> "I don't know if I've ever read the magazine or seen it," he said,
> claiming
> that he had merely answered a few questions in a telephone
> interview. "And I
> regret that speaking to them is being used to imply that I agree
> with their
> views."

Re: [CTRL] Proof

[Prudence L. Kuhn]

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<< > The burden of proof is on the person who states an alleged fact. If
 >you can't prove something, don't expect people to believe it. >>

Information is offered.  Who cares if people believe it or not?  Prudy

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[CTRL] SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS FOR JOHN ASHCROFT

[William Shannon]

http://tompaine.com/news/2001/01/30/index.html


SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS FOR JOHN ASHCROFT
Unasked and Possibly Excruciating Queries That Should Be Posed Morton Mintz
is a former chairman of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. He was a 
Washington Post reporter for nearly thirty years before departing in 1988.


Editor's Note: During the 2000 presidential campaign, Mr. Mintz produced a 
series of articles for TomPaine.com outlining questions that reporters -- on
behalf of the nation -- should be asking the candidates. In the same spirit,
this article poses questions for John Ashcroft, George Bush's nominee for
attorney general.

Justice Department Policies and Priorities

Q. To evade U.S. income taxes, Americans are transferring cash, securities
and other assets to foreign tax havens in an amount equivalent to, by one
unofficial but reliable estimate, the sum of "every tax dollar paid by
everyone in New York State and New Jersey who earns less than $200,000 a
year. " What will you do to halt this massive tax evasion?

Q. In August 1993, the National Law Journal surveyed the counsels of major
corporations, of which there are tens of thousands, and found that 66 percent
of them believed that their companies had violated federal or state
environmental laws during the previous year. There were very few
prosecutions. Do you believe this suggests that there is sufficient
enforcement of the environmental laws against corporate violators?

Q. As Attorney General of Colorado, Gale Norton, chosen by President Bush to
be Secretary of the Interior, favored letting corporate environmental
violators police themselves. Do you favor self-policing for corporate
environmental violators?

Q. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of fatal work injuries each
year between 1992 and 1999 at between 6,023 and 6,632 -- an average of 6,247
annually. Over the decades, obviously, there have been hundreds of thousands
of fatal on-the-job injuries. According to David Burnham, an expert monitor
of Justice Department data, perhaps five to ten percent were "a result of a
knowing violation of the law." Yet by the early 1990s, "one businessman had
gone to prison for violations of federal occupational safety and health law."
What will you do about this situation?

Corporate Crime v. Street Crime

Q. Are there two standards of criminal justice? Is there one standard for men
and women -- mostly poor and minorities -- who knowingly and willfully commit
crimes, often trivial ones like possession of tiny amounts of illegal drugs?
Is there another standard for corporate executives who knowingly and
willfully: market defective products that injure or sicken hundreds or
thousands of innocent people; pollute in grave violation of environmental
protection laws; seriously endanger workers in violation of occupational
safety and health laws, or lie to the Food and Drug Administration about
prescription drugs that cause injuries or deaths or were inadequately or
fraudulently tested?

Q. Do you favor the death penalty for corporate executives who knowingly and
willfully market lethally defective products, such as tires, SUVs, and IUDs?

Q. Can you name any corporate executives who have been indicted, prosecuted,
convicted and/or incarcerated for having knowingly and willfully marketed a
gravely or lethally defective product, gravely violated environmental or
occupational safety and health laws, or lied to the FDA?

Death Penalty

Q. Would you yourself be willing to administer a lethal injection or other
form of capital punishment to a person on death row?

Q. As governor of Texas, was George W. Bush "a man of no mercy"? In 1983,
Karla Faye Tucker, a drug-addicted prostitute, and her boyfriend brutally
murdered two people. On death row in Texas, she became a born-again
Christian, began a prison ministry that reached out to prisoners in other
states and countries as well as a great many in Texas, and admitted and
expressed remorse for her crime.

Tucker's lawyers asked the Board of Pardons and Parole -- all of whose
members were appointed by Governor Bush -- to commute her death sentence to
life in prison without parole, but the Board never met with her or her
attorneys, never met to consider the plea, and turned it down in private, and
without explanation.

In 1998, your close friend and backer, the Reverend Pat Robertson, pleaded
with Governor Bush to spare Karla Faye Tucker, saying that were he to refuse
to do so he would be "a man of no mercy." She was promptly executed.

Do you agree or disagree with Robertson's characterization of Governor Bush?

Q. During the election campaign, both Governor George W. Bush and Al Gore
justified the death penalty with the undocumented assertion that it deters
others from committing capital crimes. Numerous careful studies have found
that capital punishment does not deter as claimed. What evidence do you have
to challenge these studies?

Q. Most leaders of religious organizations -- Christian and Jewish --
maint

[CTRL] How Ashcroft Could Make an End Run Around Roe v. Wade

[William Shannon]

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0105/lerner.shtml

How Ashcroft Could Make an End Run Around Roe v. Wade
Reading Between the Lines
by Sharon Lerner


In his first few days as president, George W. Bush has dispensed with the 
moderate stand on abortion that helped get him into office, opening the door 
to a review of the abortion drug RU-486 and—on the 28th anniversary of Roe v. 
Wade—reinstating his father's so-called Mexico City policy, which blocks 
federal funding for overseas family planning organizations that counsel about 
abortions. Meanwhile, John Ashcroft, his nominee for attorney general, seems 
poised to make a similarly dramatic transformation. 

A fierce opponent of abortion, Ashcroft has been unfailingly polite 
throughout Judiciary Committee hearings, and patient as the length of his 
examination was extended to accommodate hundreds of questions from his 
opponents, including Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the National Abortion 
Federation. He has repeatedly assured the senators he knows the difference 
between enforcing the law and changing it. Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision 
affirming a woman's right to abortion, is "settled law," Ashcroft declared, 
and he promised he would not seek to overturn it. 

But another, far more aggressive John Ashcroft emerges from his 25-year 
record. As attorney general and governor of Missouri, Ashcroft consistently 
used his office to restrict women's legal right to abortion and birth 
control. He supported antiabortion legislation of dubious constitutionality, 
slashed family planning funding, even joined in a case against nurses that 
would have had them serve prison time for distributing contraceptive devices. 
He has backed a version of the ban on so-called "partial-birth abortions" 
that could have put doctors and women in prison as well. Not surprisingly, he 
has won perfect ratings from the National Right to Life Committee.



Ashcroft goes so far as to oppose abortion in cases of rape, a position that 
seems particularly extreme in light of the news that his wife, Janet, was 
"attacked by a rapist," as she explained recently on Good Morning America. 

Still, some supposedly pro-choice senators—among them Susan Collins of Maine 
and Robert Byrd of West Virgina—are sufficiently confident that Ashcroft 
would abandon his previously staunch antiabortion activism to support him. 
The thinking is that Ashcroft has promised not to overturn Roe, and the 
deeply religious former senator is a man of his word. 

But skeptics are questioning what exactly his word is. "He's misrepresented 
himself at best, lied at worst," says a frustrated Rosemary Dempsey, director 
of the Washington office of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. "How 
he testified was in contradiction to his actual behaviors, which in common 
parlance is lying." 

Others cite holes in his carefully worded testimony as evidence he may be 
planning to restrict and even outlaw abortion. "He said that he did not think 
it was the Bush agenda to overturn Roe, and he said that it wouldn't be his 
role to change the Bush administration agenda," says Marcia Greenberger, 
copresident of the National Women's Law Center. "He didn't say, 'It isn't my 
agenda.' It wasn't a slip of the tongue; he said it twice in virtually the 
same way." 

When asked about his position on birth control, Ashcroft also gave what on 
the surface seems a vote of support: "I think individuals who want to plan 
their families have every right to do so." But Ashcroft's record shows he 
doesn't think the right to birth control applies when those individuals are 
teens. He sponsored legislation in Missouri that would have required minors 
to get parental consent before purchasing contraception from any federally 
funded programs, even though courts have struck down such stipulations 
several times. 

As a U.S. senator, Ashcroft was one of the architects of an abstinence-only 
provision in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, another obstacle between teens and 
birth control. The abstinence provision set aside almost half a billion 
dollars in government funds to teach that any sex outside of wedlock—even 
among adults—is "likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects." 
Teachers in programs receiving this funding are not allowed to discuss 
contraception, except to mention its failures, even though surveys show that 
89 percent of Americans favor sex education that includes discussion of 
contraception. 

Ashcroft has also opposed the distribution of birth control when recipients 
include married adults. As Missouri attorney general, he chose to get 
involved in a case in which family planning nurse practitioners were charged 
with the unauthorized practice of medicine for providing birth control and 
other services in clinics that served married and unmarried poor women in 
rural Missouri. Supporters contend Ashcroft's concern was that nurses were 
acting too much like doctors, but others involved say the real target

Re: [CTRL] How the Democrats made loving Dixie a hate crime

[Nurev Ind Research]

-Caveat Lector-

Nessie wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> >Your premise is logical but wrong. Logic is only a human construct.
> Nature is. Hierarchy is the norm.
>
> It's not my logic. It's a basic axiom of anthropology, real 101, first
> semester stuff. If everybody does something, it’s human nature. If only
> some people do it, it’s not human nature; it’s culture.

By this obviously absurd reasoning, human hetero sexuality is NOT human
nature. Why? Because approximately 10% of humanity practices homo sexuality.

You've become enthralled with your brain. Miss educated. Anthropology is
a human construct, while nature IS.

Firstly, culture is part of human nature. Culture is the loopback and
transmission mechanism for the organism.

Secondly, if only some people do it, it's STILL human nature.

> There are
> number of stable, long lived non hierarchical cultures. Ergo, hierarchy
> is not human nature. It’s culture.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

> The capacity for dominant/submissive
> relationships is human nature.

No. It's animal nature.

> Using that capacity to structure a
> culture is not.

Just the opposite.

Leave the Jesuits and Rabbis behind. They are blinded by cerebral pyrotechnics.
But they are ultimately idiots. They don't understand that intelligence is the
ability to correctly perceive and describe the world around them. Instead they
" believe " in virgin births and " stopping the sun " to win battles.

Nature is. All the rest is commentary.

J2
.

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John Cone wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> --- "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Joshua
> This crisis got out of hand because of
> deregulation..."
> 
>
> This is monumental ignorance from Joshua.
> Michaelj is correct: "Deregulation did NOT occur."
> The power companies would love to build more
> powerplants and have more electricity to sell
> to the people of California.

1_ Where is it written that privately owned corporations
   get to decide anything about California's power needs.
   Why do you even PRESUME such a thing?

> They have been prevented from doing so by the
> environmental wacko groups and the politicians
> and bureaucrats who carry out the anti-development
> agenda.  It has become virtually impossible to
> build new power plants in California.  The regulatory
> "red tape" (including endless environmental impact
> studies) have, in effect, prohibited the electric
> companies from meeting the demand for electricity.

2_ If the people of California vote to paint all buildings
   and cars pink, then that's way it goes. If they decide
   that they don't want to live in a poisoned environment,
   then that just shows how sane they are. If private companies
   can't meet that requirement, then fuck em. The state should
   take over complete responsibility for the state's power needs
   as desired by the state's citizens, and kick out the private
   businesses who won't or can't comply.


> It's that simple.

Yes. It's that simple.

> Now the people of California have to shiver
> in the dark.

They won't shiver in the dark for long. Just watch.

> Blaming the Electric Companies for this state of
> affairs is a classic example of delusional denial.
>
>  Regards to All
>Nakano

Nationalize the electric companies. Problem solved.

Joshua2

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[CTRL] ECUADOR: INDIGENOUS LEADER ARRESTED AMID MASSIVE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS

[William Shannon]

http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/Radio_Havana_Cuba-30

_January_2001

*ECUADOR: INDIGENOUS LEADER ARRESTED AMID MASSIVE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS

Quito, January 30 (RHC)-- Authorities in Ecuador have arrested indigenous
leader Antonio Vargas. Interior Minister Juan Manrique said Vargas,president
of the powerful Ecuadorian Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities, had
entered terrain in which he will have to respond to thelaw -- but refused to
specify charges.

The arrest is threatening to radicalize the indigenous uprising in
Ecuador,with leading activists of the organization insisting that now more
than evertheir protest will continue. The leader of the Popular Front
coalition, Luis Villacis, has also been arrested, while authorities attempted
to arrest indigenous leader Salvador Quishpe. Quishpe was seized at a market
place,but workers and customers at the establishment surrounded police,
forcing them to release the activist.

Organizers of the protest that has been building since last January 2nd
charged that authorities have a list of ten popular leaders with arrest
warrants against them. Thousands of activists have converged on Quito, laid
siege to other cities and blocked major roads and highways in Ecuador. But
President Gustavo Noboa said he will in no way repeal the drastic price hikes
in transportation, fuel and domestic gas agreed to with theInternational
Monetary Fund.

[CTRL] U.S. Aides Hired for Israel Vote

[William Shannon]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010130/aponline150101_001.htm

U.S. Aides Hired for Israel Vote 

By Will Lester
Associated Press Writer


Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001; 3:01 p.m. ESTWASHINGTON –– The same American 
political advisers have traveled to Israel to help again in an election for 
prime minister, but the political landscape is drastically different from two 
years ago. 

Arthur Finkelstein, the Republican political consultant advising Gen. Ariel 
Sharon, is engaged more in warm and fuzzy image-making these days than the 
pointed, repetitive negative advertising that has marked many past campaigns 
of the GOP pollster from New York. 

Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and image maker Bob Shrum, who work with 
the campaign of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, have had more experience over the 
last decade selling a candidate's skills with the economy. That strategy 
worked well for former President Clinton and later for Barak in 1999, but 
this campaign is focused more on the dangers of war if Barak loses. 

The use of American consultants in Israel grew popular in the mid 1980s and 
gained an even higher profile in the past five years. 

"I'm not sure it's an advantage," said Israeli political scientist Abraham 
Diskin. "Candidates are doing it mainly as a therapy because they are under 
great pressure." 

The political situation has changed dramatically in Israel, which is facing 
some of its worst violence and most tense relations with Palestinians in 
decades. That has had an effect on the candidates' campaigns. 

During the successful 1996 campaign that Benjamin Netanyahu ran against 
Shimon Peres, Finkelstein used campaign ads that included shocking images of 
terror attacks. They painted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as the main 
beneficiary of the peace process and boosted Netanyahu as tougher than the 
Labor Party on security. A similar approach was used in 1999. 

Finkelstein has worked for some of this country's well-known conservatives, 
including Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina and former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato 
of New York. 

Sharon campaign spokesman Jonathan Becker said the campaign uses Finkelstein 
as "general adviser who sits in the same meetings as the other strategists. 
Although he does not have a veto, he has experience so people listen to him."

 In 1999, Labor Party candidate Barak hired Greenberg, Shrum and Democratic 
strategist James Carville, who ran his campaign on the economy so effectively 
that security concerns, usually the top issue in Israel, virtually vanished 
from the debate. Carville didn't join Greenberg and Shrum in Israel this 
time. The Barak campaign is run by the Israelis, who are advised by Greenberg 
and Shrum. 

The Israeli election is set for Feb. 6 and Sharon has had a double-digit lead 
in the polls. 

"Sharon has had a very upbeat strategy, full of promise, smiling songs, very 
lighthearted, extremely vague, to say as little as possible about his plan, 
while assuring he will bring Israel both peace and security," said Gadi 
Wolfsfeld, a political communications specialist at Hebrew University. "Barak 
has had the opposite intention, to heat up the campaign, to discredit Sharon 
as an extremist and connect him with his more extremist allies. 

"Barak's 1999 campaign was enthusiastic and full of volunteers, it was easy 
for Greenberg and Shrum to keep him on message, the economy," said Wolfsfeld, 
noting they reassured voters Barak was one of the most decorated generals in 
Israel's history. 

Barak has been contending this time with public anxiety over the Palestinian 
conflicts. He's expressed regrets over the violence and has worked feverishy 
for an elusive peace agreement. One of his ads spelled out concessions that 
would be needed to achieve peace. Another offered images of war with the 
Arabs if Sharon should win. 


On the other side, one Sharon ad pictures him walking through a field in 
jeans and a casual shirt with a child on his shoulders. The criticism of 
Barak in most of the Sharon ads has been muted, analysts say, though the ads 
contend that Israelis have been disappointed in Barak's leadership. 

The use of American political expertise in elections has become increasingly 
common overseas, especially in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. 

"Polling expertise originated in the United States," said political scientist 
Robert Shapiro of Columbia University, a specialist in public opinion. 
"Polling and consultants are tools for political candidates in democracies. 
What's required is open, competitive elections and candidates in political 
parties that have money." 

[CTRL] CUBA ISSUES DETAILED REPORT ON ARRESTED CZECHS

[William Shannon]

http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Caribbean/CUBA_ISSUES_DETAILED_REPORT_ON

_ARRESTED_CZECHS


CUBA ISSUES DETAILED REPORT ON ARRESTED CZECHS

Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit

The following report was issued by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 
the arrest of Czechs working for "Freedom House"

January 25, 2001

INFORMATION ON THE CAUSES FOR THE ARREST OF CZECH CITIZENS IVAN PILIP ANDJAN 
BUBENIK, AND THE EXTENSIVE HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY AND INTERFERENCE ON THEPART 
OF THE CZECH GOVERNMENT AND ITS DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES IN CUBA,WHICH 
DEMONSTRATE THE CLOSE AND DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS POLICY ANDTHE LATEST 
INCIDENT.

The Government of the Czech Republic, as part of its ongoing campaign tocast 
doubt on the charges made by Cuba, continues to maintain that 
Cuba'saccusations against two Czech citizens caught in the act of 
promotingsubversion within our country are false.Acting out of ignorance, 
prejudice or ill intent, representatives of othercountries have echoed the 
false claims made by the Czech government, andhave voiced uninformed opinions 
whose content and nature are damaging to thepeople and the Government of the 
Republic of Cuba.What is the true story?On January 12 of this year, 
authorities from the Cuban Immigration Divisionin Ciego de Ávila, Republic of 
Cuba, arrested Czech citizens Ivan Pilip andJan Bubenik. Although they had 
entered the country as tourists, theyviolated that status following 
instructions from the U.S.-basedcounterrevolutionary organization Freedom 
House to hold conspiratorialmeetings with members of small subversive groups 
in that province.The involvement of Freedom House in the most recent Cuban 
program set up bythe U.S. Government, under section 109 of the Helms-Burton 
Act, adopted in1996 to destabilize our Revolution through the promotion of 
internalsubversion, began in 1997 with the ``Transition Project'', which 
receivedgenerous financing from the U.S. Agency for International 
Development(USAID), to the tune of 500,000 dollars. This was followed by a 
further275,000 dollars in 1999, which was doubled to 550,000 in the year 
2000. Thefirst program gave rise to the establishment of an anti-Cuban 
organizationcalled ``Center for a Free Cuba'', headed by CIA agent and former 
FreedomHouse Cuban Project director Frank Calzon. The Center has already 
receivedover a million dollars from USAID for the same purposes.One of the 
fundamental goals of Freedom House current project is to identifyand recruit 
politicians, journalists and community activists fromcentral-eastern Europe 
experienced in the so-called ``democratictransitions,'' which is how they 
describe the overthrow of revolutionarygovernments. These recruits are then 
sent to Cuba to undertake destabilizingand subversive actions.USAID publicly 
acknowledged in June of 2000 that Freedom House had organizeda visit to Cuba 
by four journalists, four members of parliament, twoeconomists and an 
academic from Eastern Europe, all of whom were trained insubversive tactics 
and paid with U.S. government funds. This is exactly whatthey have just done 
with Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik, as we have been able toconfirm.Ivan Pilip 
was formerly Minister of Finances in his country, and iscurrently a deputy in 
the Czech parliament. As for Jan Bubenik, he is amember of the so-called 
``Czech Pro-Democracy Foundation'' and was one ofthe leaders of the 
anti-socialist movement in Czechoslovakia.They both arrived in Cuba on 
January 8, 2001 through the José MartíInternational Airport in Havana, on 
flight CBE-7538 from Cancun, Mexico,following a two-day stay in the United 
States of America.Investigations have revealed that Ivan Pilip has 
connections with a numberof Freedom House officials, including Robert (Bob) 
Pontichera, Director ofPrograms in the organization. It was Pontichera who 
proposed covering thecosts for Pilip to travel to Cuba, accompanied by a 
friend, in order tocontact certain individuals and deliver to them the means 
necessary to carryout the U.S. government's program of subversive 
activities.It has been verified that Pilip and Bubenik arrived in New York 
earlier inJanuary and met with Robert Pontichera for dinner on January 6. 
Ponticherainformed them that the people they would be meeting with in Cuba 
wereopponents of the Cuban government, and that they were expected to speak 
withthem and obtain information about the political, economic and 
socialsituation on the island. He gave them a list with the names and 
addresses ofthese individuals and 1400 dollars to cover their accommodation, 
food andcar rental costs, for which they would have to show receipts.The 
Freedom House representative also gave the two Czechs a laptop computerwith 
various accessories, diskettes and CDs to be handed over to the peoplethey 
would be meeting with in our country.He also advised them that on their 
return from Cuba they should meet withthe Freedom House representative again 
to

[CTRL] Covert action and political clout help Enron win contracts

[William Shannon]

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/


Covert action and political clout help Enron win contracts 


By Pratap Chatterjee © 2001
WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) - What links Enron, the largest natural gas company 
in the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Pentagon and 
the fast-growing energy markets of developing countries around the world?
 If you said covert intelligence operations to support Washington's 
aggressive pursuit of emerging markets and a network of ''good old boys'' who 
have long helped each other in and out of government, you probably got it 
right.
 Consider the facts. Houston-based Enron was the one of the first companies 
to bag lucrative new deals to build private energy projects in both the 
Philippines and India.
One of the Filipino deals was to take over a power plant from the Pentagon, 
the popular name for the U.S. Defense Department. Enron also bagged two other 
projects to build power plants in the country.
The Indian deal was clinched with the help of the CIA which provided Enron 
and U.S. government officials with key data on the risks of the project and 
strategies of possible competitors, according to published accounts.
''A number of U.S. government agencies worked on helping Enron in the 
Department of Commerce's new advocacy center. Several of them told me that 
the CIA had helped them get information, but the Commerce people themselves 
would not talk about it,'' David Sanger of the New York Times told IPS.
Curiously enough, the most senior U.S. diplomat in both countries when the 
deals were negotiated was the same, Frank G. Wisner. He served as ambassador 
to the Philippines from 1991 well into 1992. He has presided over the U.S.  
Embassy in New Delhi since last August.
Enron agrees that the ambassador helped it in the final stages of the Indian 
deal but says it had no contact with him in Manila.
''Enron officials paid a courtesy call on the embassy in Manila, but ...did 
not meet Wisner until his arrival in India. The U.S. government's assistance 
for the trip to India was to prepare for (Commerce Secretary) Ron Brown's 
trip. You must remember that we had been negotiating in India two years 
before Wisner or Brown arrived,'' says Diane Bazelides, Enron's chief 
spokesperson.
Enron struck a deal to manage a 28-megawatt power plant in Subic Bay, 
formerly the largest U.S. military base in the region, shortly after Wisner 
left Manila in July 1992. Enron took over the plant in January, 1993, two 
months after the last U.S. troops left the base.
''The U.S. embassy staff produced an excellent report on how U.S. business 
could win contracts in the former base. They had an edge because they knew it 
so well,'' recalls a senior staffer at the Filipino embassy in Washington.
Wisner spent a lot of time after arriving in New Delhi last year helping 
Enron win a 2.8-billion-dollar deal to build a 2,015-megawatt power plant 
near the southwestern coastal town of Dhabol, close to Bombay. The deal is 
now under heavy fire for being over-priced. Allegations of bribery are rife.
''If anybody asked the CIA to help promote U.S. business in India, it was 
probably Frank. That's his style - take action rather than wait for somebody 
else to make a decision,'' a former Wisner staffer told IPS.
In recent weeks, newspaper reports have claimed that CIA support for U.S.  
business abroad is now an official priority. On Monday, for example, the Los 
Angeles Times reported that the Clinton administration has issued a set of 
rules for the CIA to engage in ''economic espionage'' in keeping with the 
new, geo-economic mindset of U.S. foreign policy.
''The idea is that an ambassador can call on a chief of station (the top CIA 
official in a foreign country) to find out who will take the key decisions on 
the bid, information on competitors, any possible corruption on the part of 
foreign companies,'' a former US ambassador told IPS.
Wisner is himself long acquainted with the CIA and its capabilities. His 
father was one of its architects and served as a top official there from just 
after its creation in 1947 until just before his suicide in 1965.
As such, he helped oversee the toppling of the Guatemalan government of 
Jacobo Arbenz for United Fruit company, a family-owned U.S. business, in 
1954.  He also was involved in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister 
Mohammed Mossadeq who had threatened to nationalize U.S. and British oil 
interests, and in secret operations against Indonesian President Sukarno in 
the mid-1950s.
Wisner, Jr. has not been associated with anything quite so dramatic, but he 
has gone out of his way to promote both U.S. business and military policy.  
Before his posting to New Delhi, Wisner held the number three position at the 
Pentagon. During his stint there, Washington actively courted the Indian 
military.
Help from such powerful sources in the elite and secret worlds of this city 
are commonplace for Kenneth Lay, the chief executive officer and fou

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Chamish Opinion Pieces

[Aleisha Saba]

-Caveat Lector-

'Want to see the lost gold of the Templars?  Go to Fort Knox.and
then consider also that Israel is selling billions of dollars in diamons
that legally and rightfully is not theirs to sell.

Check out Chartres Cathedral sometime.

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[CTRL] GOP Rioters Feted In Fla.

[William Shannon]

http://www.voter.com/home/news/article/0,1175,2-17814-,00.html

Recount Reunion


The Florida recount seemed to last forever, and now it seems like forever ago
-- long enough, at any rate, to merit a reunion. Which is exactly what
Washington power lobbying firm Patton Boggs hosted the Sunday after
Inauguration.
The hundreds of Republicans who flew (read: were flown) down to Florida in
the weeks after Election Day were feted at "An Inaugural Reception Honoring
the Men and Women Who Made it Happen," as the event's invitation put it.
The fully catered, open-bar event was hosted by Bush campaign manager (and
incoming Federal Emergency Management Agency director) Joe Allbaugh and Bush
attorney Ben Ginsberg, a partner at Patton Boggs, which is an investor in
Voter.com.
(Patton Boggs is a historically Democratic firm, a fact that wasn't lost on
the visiting Republicans. "Everybody's got their price," one GOP attendee
quipped. "Mine is free glasses of wine.")
Among the guests at the event were power-lawyer couple Ted and Barbara Olson,
and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (remember her?), with whom
some partygoers got their pictures snapped.
Allbaugh got choked up when he spoke to the crowd, thanking them for their
help during the difficult post-election phase.
Veterans of the "19th floor riot" -- the angry protest in Miami-Dade County,
which Democrats allege intimidated vote-counters into abruptly ending their
recount efforts -- were awarded T-shirts celebrating their moment of glory.
All partygoers were given Lucite paperweights etched with the words "George
W. Bush for President Florida recount team, November 8 to December 13, 2000."
Suspended inside: handfuls of chads

[CTRL] Fw: [Fwd: Canada 19th Biggest Weapons Contractor for Pentagon]

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic]

 
- Original Message - 
From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mrs. Jela Jovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:24 PM
Subject: Fw: [Fwd: Canada 19th Biggest Weapons Contractor for 
Pentagon]
> > > Subject: Canada 19th Biggest Weapons Contractor 
for Pentagon> > > > > >> > > (PLEASE FORWARD, 
AND FEEL FREE TO REPRODUCE)> > >> > > "Canada is a 
peacekeeping nation." - Popular Canadian myth> > >> > 
> "Canada the 19th Largest Pentagon Contractor, Fiscal Year 2000" - 
U.S.> > > War> > > Dept.> > >> 
> > "Death is our business and business is good."> > > - 
Slogan on U.S. helicopter unit headquarters, during Operation> > > 
Speedy Express, a particularly brutal period of U.S. mass murder in> > 
> Vietnam> > >> > > (The following is the first in 
a series of research articles produced by> > > the Toronto chapter 
of Homes not Bombs, which believes Canada Should> > > Build> 
> > Homes, not Blow Them Up. Homes not Bombs is developing a Campaign 
to> > > Demilitarize Canada, one major part of which is attempting 
to expose the> > > many tentacles in the Canadian arms production 
and export process. We> > > encourage research submissions on 
what's going on in your neck of the> > > woods> > > 
(and there's plenty of it going on across Canada that needs exposure to> 
> > the> > > public light.) If you've got information on the 
local arms manufacturer> > > in> > > your 
neighbourhood, we'd be pleased to hear about it, share it and, if> > 
> possible, work with you to protest and transform it from a merchant 
of> > > death to a builder of community).> > >> 
> >> > >> > > There seems no stopping the Big 
Lie. Canada continues to promote> > > the big lie of "peacekeeping 
nation," evidenced lately by glowing> > > encomiums> > 
> to former Secretary of State for External Affairs Lloyd Axworthy, 
who,> > > among his many crimes, oversaw millions of dollars in 
arms shipments to> > > the> > > regime in Indonesia, 
supported Canadian armed enforcement of sanctions> > > against the 
Iraqi people, and cheered loudly the bombing of the Balkans.> > > 
Axworthy also made several desperate visits to the U.S. to ensure that> 
> > American "security concerns" would not interfere with Canada's 
$5> > > billion> > > weapons production 
industry.> > > It is hard to square Canada's self-proclaimed 
reputation as> > > international good guy, however, with the 
factual record. And this> > > week's> > > news 
provides yet another piece of the true puzzle of Canadian policy:> > 
> that> > > as far as military production and export are 
concerned, death is indeed> > > a> > > Canadian 
business, and by all accounts, business is good.> > > Each year, 
the U.S. War Dept., known as the Pentagon, releases a> > > list of 
its top 100  weapons contractors. For the year 2000, the list> > 
> contains most of the usual suspects (most of which have Canadian> 
> > subsidiaries), including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, 
Litton,> > > General> > > Dynamics, General Electric 
and Honeywell.> > > Making the top 20 for the year 2000 is an 
entity described as> > > "Government of Canada." Yes, right there 
at #19 in the top 100 is the> > > peacemaking nation Canada, which, 
through the benign front of the> > > Canadian> > > 
Commercial Corporation (CCC), raked in $676,881,000 in contracts to help> 
> > the world's most vicious military power construct even more 
ingenious> > > ways> > > of liquidating whole 
populations.> > > It's instructive to visit the website of the 
friendly CCC> > > (www.ccc.ca) to 
see how, exactly, Canada acts as a pimp for arms> > > manufacturers 
north of the U.S. border. Essentially, this government> > > 
export> > > sales agency, wholly funded by you and me, is mandated 
to promote trade> > > between Canada and whoever is willing to buy 
our stuff (more than  100> > > countries, according to the 
CCC).> > > Staff at the CCC help with the bidding on contracts for 
weapons> > > systems, acting in essence as prime 
contractor.> > > "CCC is a security blanket for us and our bankers, 
and it gives us> > > credibility with foreign buyers," explains 
Henriette Martinitz, CEO of> > > Parry Sound-based Pro-Safe Fire 
Training Systems Inc. With CCC's> > > assistance, that company 
generated multi-million-dollar sales to the> > > U.S.> > 
> Navy and Air Force, helping those institutions do their dirty work> 
> > around> > > the globe.> > > So, if you've 
got a big gun, or the key component for the use of> > > that new 
weapons system, CCC will use our tax dollars to find a market> > > 
for> > > it. "CCC, as Prime Contractor, will enter into a contract 
with your U.S.> > > government buyer and take a legal risk position 
in the deal. Our> > > governmental status to sign contracts on 
behalf of Canadian exporters> > > puts> > > the power 
of Canada behind the export sale-guaranteeing its full and> > > 
satisfactory completion." So much for the glory of the free market, eh?> 
> > Plus, 

[CTRL] Fw: CP of Greece, Thessaloniki - hidden Plutonium found in forest !

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic]

 
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Subject: CP of Greece, Thessaloniki - hidden Plutonium found in 
forest !
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CP of Greece, Thessaloniki - hidden Plutonium found in forest ! 
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From: Communist Youth of Greece, Wed, 31 Jan 2001 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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* Hundreds of metallic tiles, which contain plutonium where found in 
forest Kouri, close to Asvestohori of Thessaloniki. 
 300 tiles of plutonium where found on Friday 26/1 in forest Kouri, 
close to Asvestohori of Thessaloniki. It is also possible that there might be 
more tiles of this dangerous materials. Mayors, massive organizations and 
residents of the region demand the better examination of the territory from 
special groups of research, so that there will be no danger for the residents. 
The mayor of municipality of Hortiatis, which is located nearby the 
forest,  mr Xristodoulou, denounced the lack of information by the side of 
the government regarding the research operation. Scientists have said that 
touching Plutonium can cause death. Mr Geranios, professor of Nuclear 
Physics in the University  of Athens, in his statements to the press 
asked for a thorough searching of the whole area by the Greek Committee for 
Atomic Energy, underlining the possible dangers. It is a real mystery why no one 
- not even the prefect of Thessaloniki -  was informed about this research 
operation held on Friday 26/1. There are  suspicions of a possible cover 
up, since in this region there have been NATO exercises, and operations centres 
with German and other NATO forces, not only in the time of the bombing. Also, 
there is a greek camp operating  the last 8 years next to the forest 
Kouri. There are also other suspicions made because of the disclosure that 
soldiers of KFOR from the German forces are involved with the illegal 
transportation and trade of Serbian weapons. Also, the possibility of illegal 
trade of the 3 grams of Plutonium from members of the Ukraine and Bulgarian 
mafia is also taken in mind. The questions that remain are the following: In 
what kind of field is Thessaloniki and North Greece being transformed in where 
hundreds of mercenary troops of NATO pass by every day? Why, is our country 
chosen as a safe place to transport these materials? 
The international department of KNE . KNE 
Communist Youth of Greece 11, Kotopouli str - Athens 10432 tel: 
+301-5282523 / fax: +301-5241526 http://www.forthnet.gr/kne-odigitis/ 

*End*   

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WHY THE PLO IS TUNNELING UNDER THE TEMPLE MOUNT by Barry Chamish

The following is a brief extract from very long article I completed for
Fate Magazine. I wish I could send the full text but I have a hard copy
career to preserve. Nonetheless, in light of the revelation that the PLO is
tunneling under the Holy Mount, I'd like to give my faithful readers at
least a clue as to why.

 Let us begin with a compelling history of the Knights Templar written
by two Freemasons, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, called The Second
Messiah. Summarized is their history of the organization:

    The Templars were a poor chivalric order which disdained materialism
until their arrival in Jerusalem in the early twelfth century on a papal
crusade. Eleven knights dug under the ruins of Solomon's Temple for nine
years and hit paydirt. Under the Temple Mount the Templars discovered a
network of tunnels where the Jewish priests hid their treasures from the
marauding Romans in 70 AD. The knights not only uncovered some of the gold
and silver described in the Copper Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls but the
records of the first Jerusalem church of Christianity. This according to
Knight and Lomas is precisely what they went digging for.
    The first Bishop of the Jerusalem Church was Jesus' brother James. He
was aided by Jesus' other siblings, five brothers and two sisters. After
the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Jews, James and his family
fled to France, a fact confirmed by the bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy
Grail. These descendants of the holy Davidic line had the wherewithal to
gain wealth throughout Europe and buy vast properties. Over time they
constituted a good chunk of European royalty.
 While professing whatever religion the state demanded, first
worshiping the pantheon of Roman Gods and later papal Christianity, they
secretly practised the Christianity of the early Jerusalem church. These
descendants of the priestly line, now called themselves Rex Deus, and
passed on their traditions throughout the royal courts of Europe where they
ruled. The original Celt church was founded by the Rex Deus, and St.
Patrick of Ireland was a Jew. Other Rex Deus included the Habsburgs, the
Stuarts of Scotland and today's King Juan Carlos of Spain, who includes
among his titles, Protector Of The Holy Places Of Jerusalem.
  The Templars returned from their Crusade with vast wealth uncovered
under the Temple Mount and initiated a monumental building program in
Europe, which ultimately resulted in the construction of over 250 castles
and Gothic churches. They now challenged the papacy for political control
of Europe, yet the usually jealous Vatican allowed their power to grow
unabated. Knight and Lomas insist this is because the Templars had a huge
advantage over Rome.
 According to their version of events, the Knights uncovered the
original records of the Jerusalem Church and they proved that the Vatican
was not practising Christianity as its founders intended. For example, a
pope with exclusive rights of divine interpretation was not part of G-d's
plan. If the scrolls were made public, they would jeopardize Rome's
legitimacy.
 In the fourteenth century, the French king known as Philip the Fair
coordinated a purge of the Templars in coordination with the Holy See.
Their properties were seized and their leader, in fact the last Templar
leader, Jacques de Molay was brutally tortured by crucifixion until he
confessed to the alleged sins of his Order. He survived the first round of
torture and a linen cloth was placed over him to absorb his blood and keep
him warm. This cloth became known as the Shroud of Turin and the authors
arguments for this claim are superbly grounded in fact.
  A group of Templars led by the St. Clair clan escaped the French
siege by ship and landed in Scotland, a safe port since it was ruled by the
Rex Deus member, Robert the Bruce. It must be noted that at his death,
Robert the Bruce's heart was transported to Jerusalem for burial. Two
versions of what happened to it exist. The first says the deliverers of the
heart were captured in Spain, the second insists they made it and the heart
lays buried in Jerusalem to this day.
 According to Knight and Lomas, the French Templars brought with them
the damning scrolls from under the Jerusalem Temple Mount and built a
chapel in Rosslyn, near Edinburgh to house them. The chapel, built by
William Sinclair (1415- 1482), which exists today, was built according to
the specifications of the Herodian Temple and an exact duplicate of the
Western Wall was constructed alongside it. To hide their now-banned Templar
roots, the Knights formed a new organization, Freemasonry, whose rites were
precisely those set down

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Leila Khalid - Refugee from Haifa,Fighter for Palestine

[Nurev Ind Research]

-Caveat Lector-

My hero.

It's the PFLP which blew up Pan Am 101 over Lockerbie. Not
the Libyans. Maybe sweet Leila did it.

J2
===
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>"I MADE THE RING FROM A BULLET AND THE PIN OF A HAND GRENADE"
>
>  When Palestinian liberation fighter Leila Khaled
>  hijacked her first plane in 1969, she became
>  the international pin-up of armed struggle.
>  Then she underwent cosmetic surgery so she could
>  do it again.  Thirty years on, she talks to
>  Katharine Viner about being a woman at war
>
> [The Guardian, 26 January):
> In a way, the whole story is in the ring. The iconic photograph of Leila
> Khaled, the picture which made her the symbol of Palestinian resistance
> and female power, is extraordinary in many ways: the gun held in fragile
> hands, the shiny hair wrapped in a keffiah , the delicate Audrey Hepburn
> face refusing to meet your eye. But it's
> the ring, resting delicately on her third finger. To fuse an object of
> feminine adornment, of frivolity, with a bullet: that is Khaled's story,
> the reason behind her image's enduring power. Beauty mixed with violence.
>
> And the ring? "I made it from the pin of a hand grenade - from the first
> grenade I ever used in training," she says. "I just wrapped it around a
> bullet."
>
> Leila Khaled - international hijacker for the Popular Front for the Liberation
> of Palestine (PFLP), the papers' favourite 70s "girl terrorist" and "deadly
> beauty" - is now 57, and sitting with me in the House of Commons for her
> first ever interview on British soil. Her cheekbones are still like knives;
> her eyes are gentle but flicker
> when moved. She has a Rothmans cigarette constantly dangling languorously
> between her fingers (she once said of a potentially boring time in Kuwait:
> "I was politically conscious and a chain smoker - I needed no other diversions").
>
> She is, of course, wearing a keffiah, fringed with wool in the Palestinian
> colours of red, green, black and white, like a shawl.  But she looks very
> different now from the way she did in that famous photo, and not just because
> of age. Since that picture was taken in 1969, after her first (successful)
> hijack of a TWA plane, Khaled
> underwent no fewer than six cosmetic operations on her face, so that no
> one would ever recognise her again. She refused to wander around with the
> face of an icon.
>
> "The surgeon just made a few differences to my nose and my chin," she says.
> "But it worked. No one recognised me."  She elected to have surgery without
> a general anaesthetic; because, as she said in her autobiography: "I have
> a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests
> and concerns must be
> subordinated."
>
> Such revolutionary-speak is a reminder that Khaled is from a very different
> time: an age when hijacks were a political tool of the moment, when commitment,
> extreme risk and sacrifice were admired and often romanticised. Her sexuality
> was always emphasised; as recently as 1980, a Norwegian newspaper made
> jokes about her "bombs" (Norwegian slang for breasts) and she is supposed
> to have been the inspiration for Leela, Dr Who's foxy sidekick in 1975.
>
> She is the pin-up of armed struggle; like her hero, Che Guevara, Khaled
> had the glamour as well as the belief. She had a certain disdain for her
> fellow western revolutionaries, however: "We found it very amusing that
> they honestly believed they were making a 'revolution' if they undressed
> in public, seized a university building, or shouted an obscenity at bureaucrats,"
> she says.
>
> The surgery meant that Khaled was able to undertake her second hijack without
> detection; this time of an El Al jet from Amsterdam. "At Amsterdam airport
> my comrade Patrick [Arguello, a Nicaraguan] and I were stopped by Israeli
> officers," she says. "They searched our bags very thoroughly, but they
> didn't find anything in there. Because the grenades were in my pockets."
> She takes a deep breath. "We had passports from Honduras. The officer said
> to me, 'do you speak Spanish?' At once I said, 'Si señor' - I was lucky,
> b

[CTRL] Fwd: Karl Rove, Herr Goebbels would be proud of you

[radman]

-Caveat Lector-

>Online Journal - http://www.onlinejournal.com
>
>Originally published in BuzzFlash.com
>
>01-31-01: Karl Rove, Herr Goebbels would be proud of you
>
>By David Podvin
>
>January 28, 2001
>
>The media has breathlessly informed America that the Clinton
>administration's parting act was to vandalize the White House. Brandishing
>the story as their metaphor for what they see as eight years of smarmy,
>lowlife executive branch activity, they have triumphantly produced their
>coup de gras: The president who they view as having figuratively trashed
>the White House leaves by literally treating it like a backwoods Ozark
>outhouse. In case the point has been drawn too subtly, the conclusion that
>we as reasonable observers are expected to reach is, "Thank God those
>inbred hillbilly lowlifes are finally gone and that true royalty is
>resuming it's rightful place on the throne."
>
>Somewhere, doubtlessly somewhere balmy, Joseph Goebbels is smiling.
>
>Karl Rove was born five years after Herr Goebbels' suicide, but he has
>carried on the tradition of acquiring and maintaining power through deceit
>and intimidation like a son devotedly maintaining the family tradition.
>Most people recoil when public figures are compared to Nazis, believing
>that such parallels are invariably exaggerated and slanderous. But this
>phony Clinton vandalism story is just the latest perversion of the truth
>that Herr Rove has engineered.
>
>Let's begin by presenting Rove's point of view. He was given the
>responsibility of somehow dragging into the presidency a man who is such
>an inarticulate, clueless mediocrity that the man's own nephew recently
>said it had never occurred to anyone in the family that he might become
>president. Stop and consider the magnitude of this statement; George W.
>Bush is the son of the former President of the United States, and no one
>in his own family ever considered the possibility that he might become
>president. W's former neighbor in Midland said that he was the last one on
>the block whom she thought might wind up staying in the White House. And
>he had stayed in the White House! Beginning to get the picture? So Rove
>was assigned the task of selling to America a product that tastes bad, but
>isn't good for you.
>
>The first step was to defeat the truth at every turn. In the primaries,
>Bush was running against a war hero who was qualified to be president.
>Rove crafted what was ultimately the winning strategy-lie. They lied about
>McCain's record. They lied about his wife being a junkie. In New York,
>they falsely accused him of being in favor of breast cancer. In South
>Carolina, they falsely accused him of hating white Southerners. In
>Wisconsin, they falsely accused him of hating Jesus Christ. They were so
>shameless in their deceit that they even falsely accused John McCain, who
>was a longtime guest at the Hanoi Hilton, of being pro-Viet Cong. They had
>the full faith and credit of Corporate America backing them, and they used
>those unlimited funds to defecate on McCain's reputation from sea to
>shining sea. You might have noticed that Senator McCain has emerged as
>Bush's biggest headache in Congress. He has good reason.
>
>Next, it was on to Al Gore. Rove knew what the mainstream media didn't
>know-that, despite what the polls were showing at the time, in a honorable
>contest on the issues, his candidate would wind up playing John Wayne
>Bobbitt to Gore's Lorena. So Rove devised a plan to turn Al Gore into
>Pinocchio. The approach was simple-falsely accuse Gore of having a long
>history of lying (inventing the internet), falsely accuse Gore of lying
>anytime he made a misstatement (accompanying FEMA to view Texas fires),
>falsely accuse Gore of lying if he made a joke or facetious comment (his
>mother's singing of union lullabies), make up false statements and
>attribute them to Gore (confiscating all handguns), and have the entire
>right wing chorus of Republican elected officials, publications, and
>pundits play Johnny-One-Note on this theme ad nauseum. Now, for those of
>you who believe that the comparison to Goebbels is harsh, who is credited
>with inventing the Big Lie Technique?
>
>When the election entered the Florida contest phase, Rove continued the
>homage to Hitler's Minister of Propaganda by escalating the intensity of
>the lying. And, not wanting to play Third Reich favorites and thereby
>slight Heinrich Himmler, Rove added the Brown Shirt-style riot that closed
>down the Miami-Dade recount. This effectively took the election out of the
>hands of the American people and placed it into the loving arms of the
>loyal Party members of the High Court, who then redefined democracy by
>ruling that American voters are not legally entitled to have their ballots
>counted. By this time, Rove had used surrogates to inform the country that
>the Vice President of the United States was not only a liar, but also a
>thief and a felon who hated the military.
>
>That last one illust

Re: [CTRL] How the Democrats made loving Dixie a hate crime

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flw wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> > That's because they know we are hardwired for hierarchy. Yes people don't want
> > to be at the bottom, but they don't mind not being at the top either. The
> > middle is good. Hence it's OK to be middle class but not low class.
> >
> > J2
> >
>
> "Low class" is a state of mind, not a permanent economic situation.
> flw
>

For most of history there was ONLY low class and elites. It's actually
" middle class " which is a state of mind and not a permanent condition.

J2

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Re: [CTRL] Sidney Blumenthal Tells It Like It Was

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flw wrote:
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> >
> > Sidney Blumenthal Tells It Like It Was
> >
> > By Lloyd Grove
> > Washington Post
> > Staff Writer
> > Tuesday, January 30, 2001; 12:20 PM
> >
> > * "I will discuss... Tony Blair's firmness"
>
> This is a travesty!
> These so called journalists go too far!!
> This is a matter that should be strictly between Tony Blair and his wife.
> flw
>


Sydney would know. He's always been a hands on kinda guy.

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[CTRL] Dental Amalgam & Brain Impairment

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From: "Ian Goddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Dental Amalgam & Brain Impairment
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:25 PM

STUDY: "...we conclude that chronic inhalation of low-level Hg0
[mercury vapor from amalgam fillings] can inhibit polymerization
of brain tubulin essential for formation of microtubules."

ABSTRACT:

Neurotoxicology 1997;18(2):315-24

Mercury vapor inhalation inhibits binding of GTP to tubulin in rat
brain: similarity to a molecular lesion in Alzheimer diseased brain.

Pendergrass JC, Haley BE, Vimy MJ, Winfield SA, Lorscheider FL

College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40536, USA.

Hg2+ interacts with brain tubulin and disassembles microtubules that maintain
neurite structure. Since it is well known that Hg vapor (Hg0) is continuously
released from "silver" amalgam tooth fillings and is absorbed into brain, rats
were exposed to Hg0 4h/day for 0, 2, 7, 14 and 28 d at 250 or 300 micrograms
Hg/m3 air, concentrations present in mouth air of some humans with many amalgam
fillings. Average rat brain Hg concentrations increased significantly (11-47
fold) with duration of Hg0 exposure. By 14 d Hg0 exposure, photoaffinity
labelling on the beta-subunit of the tubulin dimer with [alpha 32P] 8N3 GTP
in brain homogenates was decreased 41-74%, upon analysis of SDS-PAGE
autoradiograms. The identical neurochemical lesion of similar or greater
magnitude is evident in Alzheimer brain homogenates from approximately 80%
of patients, when compared to human age-matched neurological controls. Total
tubulin protein levels remained relatively unchanged between Hg0 exposed rat
brains and controls, and between Alzheimer brains and controls. Since the rate
of tubulin polymerization is dependent upon binding of GTP to tubulin dimers,
we conclude that chronic inhalation of low-level Hg0 can inhibit
polymerization
of brain tubulin essential for formation of microtubules.



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Re: [CTRL] (Revised) Carla Binion: A call for Democratic party reform

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A call for Democratic party reform
By Carla Binion

No other subjects in our current political life deserve as much thorough
scrutiny as (1) the stealing of presidential election 2000, (2)  the
mainstream media's cover-up of the election theft, and (3) the need for
reforming the Democratic party.

The theft of the election was a covert political coup.  Rather than examine
what this coup reveals about the condition of democracy and our political
system today, most TV talking heads and mainstream politicians are in a big
hurry to change the subject.

It was only six weeks ago that the Supreme Court stopped the vote count.
However, the subject-changers rush to bury the incident, to obliterate the
event from the American memory.

In The Nation, 2/5/01, author and prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi
points out the criminal nature of the Supreme Court's decision to hand the
presidential election to George W. Bush.  Bugliosi says:

"The stark reality, and I say this with every fiber of my being, is that the
institution Americans trust the most to protect its freedoms and principles
committed one of the biggest and most serious crimes this nation has ever
seen -- pure and simple, the theft of the presidency.  And by definition, the
perpetrators of this crime have to be denominated criminals."

Bugliosi laments the fact that most critics of the Supreme Court's behavior
have not shown outrage but mere disappointment.  Why have so many of the
Court's critics responded tepidly?

Vince Bugliosi is not the only prominent attorney voicing outrage.  Over 500
law professors around the country signed a petition giving similar analyses
of the five Supreme Court Justices; and, as Bugliosi mentions, even judicial
conservatives such as Terrance Sandalow, former dean of the University of
Michigan law school, have criticized the Court.

Sandalow, who supported the nomination to the Court of rightwing icon Robert
Bork and opposed Roe v. Wade, said the Court's staying the vote count was
"incomprehensible" and "an unmistakably partisan decision without any
foundation in law."  What can be done about this travesty?

On MSNBC's Hardball last week, Chris Matthews and his guests agreed that
people unwilling to forget the stealing of the election and embrace the Bush
Cabinet nominees are not "political moderates," inferring they are a fringe
element.  There you go!  Just proclaim over 500 law professors, including the
conservative Sandalow, as "not moderate, but extreme," and you don't have to
be bothered with troublesome critical examination at all.

One Hardball guest, journalist Elizabeth Shogren said that a moderate would
be willing to accept all that happened and go along with the Bush
nominations.  That definition equates being moderate with being a doormat,
supposedly blessedly free of those annoying questions and doubts raised by
Bugliosi and others.

According to this Orwellian Newspeak, moderates are extremists, and
extremists are conservatives.  When TV commentators claim progressives and
reformers are not "moderate," by what yardstick do they measure?  A moderate
would not roll over for the theft of a presidential election.  The stealing
of an election is an extremist act, and a moderate would oppose such extreme
behavior.

A moderate or conservative would want to conserve democracy and protect our
traditional way of life and democratic values, including the vote.  A
political moderate would also oppose John Ashcroft's extremist views, and
Gale Norton's extreme anti-regulatory views and her support of extremist,
excessive exploitation of the environment.

A moderate or conservative would want to conserve environmental resources and
use moderation when it comes to mining, logging and opening the land to oil
exploration.  A political moderate would want to preserve American jobs, or
at the least move jobs out of the country at a slow pace.

Media critic Michael Parenti has said that the mainstream media "invent
reality" by telling Americans which news events to think about and which to
ignore.  Thus, we are told it is "moderate" to forget the theft of the
presidency and rally behind the beneficiary of the theft.

If our TV news media organizations functioned as they should, as institutions
mediating on behalf of democracy and the people at large, commentators from a
wide range of political persuasions would scrutinize and thoughtfully discuss
the views of Vince Bugliosi and the over 500 law professors who protested the
Supreme Court's decision.

In a viable, healthy political system, news talk shows would feature Bugliosi
or some of law professors discussing subjects related to the election, such
as our deteriorating democracy, the credibility of the judicial system and
voter disenfranchisement.

If the mainstream media functioned on behalf of the majority of Americans,
left-of-center political analysts such as Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal or
historian Howard Zinn, would be invited to weigh in with their views o

[CTRL] If this happens, we as a "free" country are screwed.

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If this happens, we as a "free" country are screwed.

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[CTRL] Atlas Shr

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http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rand/

Atlas Shr - A glimpse into an alternate universe where Ayn Rand's
books are all 400 pages shorter

1.  ALAN GREENSPAN finished reading Ayn Rand's complete works
seven years earlier. He advanced more quickly into Rand's inner
circle, began his career as an economist in the mid-1960s, and became
chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1971. Thanks to his earlier
leadership, there was no oil crisis or recession in the 70s. As a
result, widespread vilification of Arab culture by working class
Americans never came to pass, and the professional wrestling
scapegoat known as The Iron Sheik was never created. This allowed
wrestler Bob Backlund to retain the WWF championship belt in 1983.

2.  COLLEGE FRESHMEN vowing to read longest book they could find
in the library, turned not to "Atlas Shrugged" but to the unabridged
"Notre-Dame de Paris." One of these students went on to a position of
power at Walt Disney Pictures, where he nipped in the bud an
ill-conceived plan for an animated version of "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame," thus leaving collaborators Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
free to work on other projects. Schwartz signed on for a "Pippin"
revival in Liverpool. Bernie Taupin, who had been competing with
Schwartz for the job, was so distraught over not getting it that he
began drinking again, and was in no condition to adapt the lyrics for
"Candle in the Wind" when Princess Diana passed away. Elton John's
own attempt at reworking the lyrics failed to take the world by storm
("Oh Princess Diana / we won't see you mañana") and the international
land mine treaty was never ratified. While crossing the Iran-Iraq
boarder, The Iron Sheik stepped on a mine and was mortally wounded.
On his deathbed, he admitted that he cheated in the 1983 championship
match and insisted that the title be returned to Bob Backlund.

3.  RAND'S MORE CONCISE and artistically potent edition of "The
Fountainhead" made for a much better screenplay when it was adapted
in 1949. Galvanized by the script, Gary Cooper turned in the greatest
performance of his career, inspiring many young film-goers to move to
Hollywood and become actors themselves, including the young Iron
Sheik, who settled into a comfortable if undistinguished television
career instead of becoming a pro wrestler. Bob Backlund easily
defeated Greg Valentine in 1983.

4.  THE BOOK "ANTHEM," being only 235 pages, was never written,
and so the Canadian power trio Rush never recorded their
"Anthem"-inspired album "2112." Due to the artistic hole gnawing at
him, drummer/lyricist Neil Peart felt stunted, dropped out of the
band, became an alcoholic, and killed the Iron Sheik in a drunk
driving accident on the eve of the 1983 championship match, and Bob
Backlund retained the belt.

5.  INFORMED BY SEVERAL PUBLISHERS that "We the Living" was about
400 pages too short, Ayn tried to pad her first manuscript with a new
preface discussing the European impact of the Bolshevik revolution.
During her research at the Gregorian University in Rome, she met a
handsome young student named Albino Luciani. Though she was a married
woman and he was ordained a priest, they were able to keep their
torrid affair a secret until Albino was elected Pope in 1978, taking
the name John Paul I. Almost immediately, an embittered Nathaniel
Branden released his memoir "My Year with Ayn Rand." The ensuing
scandal forced John Paul I to choose between his office and the woman
he loved, and he abdicated after only 33 days as pontiff. His
successor Kozrow Vaziri took the name "Pope the Iron Sheik," but died
on his first day. Kozrow's legacy was honored by his successor Karol
Wojtyla who became "Pope the Iron Sheik II", as prophesized in the
third and fifth secrets of Fatima. Last year, Bob Backlund ran for
U.S. Senator from Connecticut.

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[CTRL] NewsMakingNews Secret Connections Covert Operations

[Kris Millegan]

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from:
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Click Here: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/">NewsMakingNews Secret
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Covert action and political clout help Enron win contracts
By Pratap Chatterjee © 2001
WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) - What links Enron, the largest natural gas company
in the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Pentagon and
the fast-growing energy markets of developing countries around the world?
 If you said covert intelligence operations to support Washington's
aggressive pursuit of emerging markets and a network of ''good old boys'' who
have long helped each other in and out of government, you probably got it
right.
 Consider the facts. Houston-based Enron was the one of the first companies
to bag lucrative new deals to build private energy projects in both the
Philippines and India.
One of the Filipino deals was to take over a power plant from the Pentagon,
the popular name for the U.S. Defense Department. Enron also bagged two other
projects to build power plants in the country.
The Indian deal was clinched with the help of the CIA which provided Enron
and U.S. government officials with key data on the risks of the project and
strategies of possible competitors, according to published accounts.
''A number of U.S. government agencies worked on helping Enron in the
Department of Commerce's new advocacy center. Several of them told me that
the CIA had helped them get information, but the Commerce people themselves
would not talk about it,'' David Sanger of the New York Times told IPS.
Curiously enough, the most senior U.S. diplomat in both countries when the
deals were negotiated was the same, Frank G. Wisner. He served as ambassador
to the Philippines from 1991 well into 1992. He has presided over the U.S.
Embassy in New Delhi since last August.
Enron agrees that the ambassador helped it in the final stages of the Indian
deal but says it had no contact with him in Manila.
''Enron officials paid a courtesy call on the embassy in Manila, but ...did
not meet Wisner until his arrival in India. The U.S. government's assistance
for the trip to India was to prepare for (Commerce Secretary) Ron Brown's
trip. You must remember that we had been negotiating in India two years
before Wisner or Brown arrived,'' says Diane Bazelides, Enron's chief
spokesperson.
Enron struck a deal to manage a 28-megawatt power plant in Subic Bay,
formerly the largest U.S. military base in the region, shortly after Wisner
left Manila in July 1992. Enron took over the plant in January, 1993, two
months after the last U.S. troops left the base.
''The U.S. embassy staff produced an excellent report on how U.S. business
could win contracts in the former base. They had an edge because they knew it
so well,'' recalls a senior staffer at the Filipino embassy in Washington.
Wisner spent a lot of time after arriving in New Delhi last year helping
Enron win a 2.8-billion-dollar deal to build a 2,015-megawatt power plant
near the southwestern coastal town of Dhabol, close to Bombay. The deal is
now under heavy fire for being over-priced. Allegations of bribery are rife.
''If anybody asked the CIA to help promote U.S. business in India, it was
probably Frank. That's his style - take action rather than wait for somebody
else to make a decision,'' a former Wisner staffer told IPS.
In recent weeks, newspaper reports have claimed that CIA support for U.S.
business abroad is now an official priority. On Monday, for example, the Los
Angeles Times reported that the Clinton administration has issued a set of
rules for the CIA to engage in ''economic espionage'' in keeping with the
new, geo-economic mindset of U.S. foreign policy.
''The idea is that an ambassador can call on a chief of station (the top CIA
official in a foreign country) to find out who will take the key decisions on
the bid, information on competitors, any possible corruption on the part of
foreign companies,'' a former US ambassador told IPS.
Wisner is himself long acquainted with the CIA and its capabilities. His
father was one of its architects and served as a top official there from just
after its creation in 1947 until just before his suicide in 1965.
As such, he helped oversee the toppling of the Guatemalan government of
Jacobo Arbenz for United Fruit company, a family-owned U.S. business, in
1954.  He also was involved in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister
Mohammed Mossadeq who had threatened to nationalize U.S. and British oil
interests, and in secret operations against Indonesian President Sukarno in
the mid-1950s.
Wisner, Jr. has not been associated with anything quite so dramatic, but he
has gone out of his way to promote both U.S. business and military policy.
Before his posting to New Delhi, Wisner held the number three position at the
Pentagon. During his stint there, Washington actively courted the Indian
military.
Help from such powerful sources in the elite and secret worlds of this city
are 

Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

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  - Original Message - 
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  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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  Subject: Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER 
  COURSE
  
  Go ahead and laugh, your logic may be sound as a pound, which isn't 
  worth much, nevertheless your logic is lunacy. 
   
  >> first: the saying 
  "sound as a pound" refers to the weight- not the currency! (i think 
  :))
   
  >>>and if it does 
  refer to the currency then...
   
  >>>second- the 
  british pound  has always been worth more than the american (and any 
  other) dollar. at the momnet i think it is abut 1.6 dollars to 1 british 
  pound.
  ergo- if the pound is not worth much- then the dollar is 
  worth less.
   
  Nobody here is emoting, you can wallow in your smug disarmanent 
  attitude, and get round-shouldered from patting yourself on the back 
  because you have no protection from some moron who wants to stick a 
  knife in you or beat you to death
  >>>you are 
  (deliberately?) missing my point- i only need to defend myself against knives 
  or beatings because that is all the small criminals use in the UK- i was not 
  saying i don't defend myself- i am saying that i can and do- and i am equally 
  prepared to defend against these weapons.
  but in 
  america- one trigger pull and someone is dead- too easily- it makes life too 
  cheap.
  >>again i say- i prefer 
  to have to worry about knives and beatings- than worry about a mugger/ burglar 
  having a gun.. 
   
   
  , but you seem to be a perfect citizen of a government which has 
  convinced you that socialism is great
  >>>LOL  
  socialist? our government? our conservative party is right wing and our labour 
  party is right wing- but pretends it is of the middle ground! saying the S 
  word around them would get you a good beating probably LOL
  where did ya 
  get the idea that socialism EVER existed anywhere in the world successfully? 
  it never has and it never will. now, fascism- that is q different story- just 
  ask russia, china, cuba, america, britain, whoever.
   
  , and to be defenseless is desirable. 
  >>see 
  above.. *yawn*
   
   
  You seem delighted that "the cost and availablity of guns in 
  the UK is prohibitive." 
  >yes i am 
  delighted- i am not enamoured by the limited possibilities of gun use or their 
  availability- the chances of death when settling a dispute with firearms is 
  too great to be workable.
  how many news stories do you see from america about arguments 
  (on the highway, in a shop, wherever) in the most mundane situations being 
  settled with guns?
  this doesn't happen in the UK.
  you know how people get angry and lash out- with very dire 
  results, happens all the time in various circumstances. now- i am dsaying that 
  i would prefer a sociey where the choice to pick up a gun in a temper does not 
  exist. i prefer a society where youngs kids cannot get access to guns.
   
  That is your problem which your citizens have allowed to befall yourselves. 

  it isn't a problem - it is a blessing.
  we lost the right to bare arms some centuries ago and it is 
  true that the motivation for this was nervousness on the part of the 
  government about the public being armed. but it has turned out ok 
  really.
  like i said many times- if the government decide to oppress me 
  (even more than they are doing now) and i need a gun to defend myself...well.. 
  i may as well have a water pistol the good a real gun would do me against such 
  an organisation.
   
  It seems that the idea of being free and armed is hateful to you, so I can 
   no not 
  hateful- i said to nessie and the list yesterday that i sympathise entirely 
  with the terrible situation america is in and i see the need for lawful people 
  to arm themselves.
  i am free and unarmed- an anathema to you it seems.
   
  conclude that the next time some moronic madman starts raining bombs 
  on your cities, you will not be calling upon us for assistance. 
  >>LOL  oh 
  and if a moronic madman starts bombing YOUR cities- what good will your 
  collection of guns do you? you think you will win against a bomber one on one? 
  ;)
  >>i thin 
  it is america that may be worrying about the erosion of the "special 
  relationship" between america and  the UK, not the other way 
  around.
  it is 
  YOU who needs US if you are to make your shield work. incidentally- that is 
  some deal the americans offer the UK- they need the bases in england to make 
  the shield work- but the shield will not protect  the UK and the UK will 
  be a direct target for any of america's enemies LOL
  >cool, uh? 
  a very "special" relationship
   
   
  Good luck. 
   
  > well- you need the luck, dude, 
  considering where you live...    

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Belgium Announces Plans to Decriminalize Pot

[Kris Millegan]

http://www.hightimes.com/News/2001_01/europot.tpl
BELGIUM ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DECRIMINALIZE POT USE
FILED 01/25/01

"I fully expect decriminalization to pass, as it has the support of the Prime
Minister and the six main political parties," says Belgian MP Vincent Van
Quickenborne. He's promised to light up in Parliament when it does.

Belgium announced its intention to decriminalize personal marijuana use and
cultivation on January 19. Those over the age of 18 will only face legal
sanctions if their use is "problematic," creates public disturbances or
endangers others.

Proposed by Flemish Green Party member Health Minister Magda Aelvoet, the
legislation has the full backing of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and his
cabinet. The issue will go before the Belgian House in mid-February, then on
to the Senate, with a vote expected by the entire Parliament by mid-June.

"I think it is a good decision," MP Vincent Van Quickenborne, a member of the
Flemish liberal Volksunie (People's Union) Party, told HT. "I fully expect
decriminalization to pass, as it has the support of the Prime Minister and
the six main political parties." Van Quickenborne, 27, campaigned in 1999
promising not only to work for a change in the marijuana laws, but to light
up in the Parliament chambers upon final passage of decriminalization. He
still plans to do so, having taken part in the reform efforts, but he
stressed some reservations about the proposal which still need to be hammered
out.

"Problematic use is use a person cannot control, but who will decide this?
The police. They are not formed for this. They haven't the knowledge." Van
Quickenborne also has some decidedly radical ideas about the issue. "The
presumption that the use of pot by someone under 18 is 'problematic' troubles
me. I think it is stupid to confront 16-to-18-year-olds with sanctions,
sending them to a clinic or something, for smoking cannabis. Our main goal is
to differentiate between hard and soft drugs."

Another problem he sees is that the quantity considered "personal use"
remains undefined. "We plan to fix the amount of cannabis to 15 grams in
pocket, and to five plants," he says. "The proposal is still too vague. What
is personal use? Someone could say they have five years' supply for personal
use, so this will be debated and determined before the vote."

Van Quickenborne points out that while Holland has an open system of
decriminalization in place with its famous coffeeshops, other European
countries currently have de facto decrim policies. Switzerland, Portugal,
Spain and Germany have all made marijuana use a low priority for law
enforcement. France, Britain, Sweden and Norway still follow US War on Pot
policies.

"Belgium is headed for the European Presidency in the second half of 2001,"
Van Quickenborne told HT. "I expect European marijuana and soft drugs
policies will be discussed again."
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[CTRL] The Bush Era Beckons

[Kris Millegan]

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from:
http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor.html
Click Here: http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor.html">The
Bush Era Beckons

The Bush Era Beckons
by Kenn Thomas
Editor, Steamshovel Press

Now that George Bush Jr. has been installed as president "elect", Steamshovel
readers can safely say they saw it coming. I wrote a column about conspiracy
connections of the vice-presidential candidates for Fortean Times that
predicted the Florida trouble spot; and my comments to the BBC last June that
Bush would "win" impressed it such that they will have some additional
prominence in the Beeb's upcoming series on conspiracy theories (more info
about that when it becomes available).

  The new issue of Steamshovel, although dedicated to "Conspiracy As
Usual in Florida", actually refrains from discussion about the election,
focussing instead back on Diana and the Octopus--which obviously does connect
with the incoming administration.

  The new issue also includes a farewell look at Clinton's place in
conspiracy history, and a boatload of other topics of interest to those who
knew how election 2000 was going to turn out long ago.

  Check out the order form on the front page for a contents list, and
subscribe today.

  My comments about Bush merely followed the logic of parapolitical
manipulation--successful extra-electoral power politicking by Dubya's father
that leaves trail back from Iran-contra, to the Reagan assassination attempt,
the October Surprise, on back to the Kennedy assassination, back further even
to the Nazis.

  (The real prophet about the election was Sean David Morton, who made
uncannily specific remarks detailing the election squabble and the Bush
ascendancy to Art Bell several years ago.) In this context, even Bill
Clinton's presidency resulted from a Bush, Sr. so tuckered from four years in
the public limelight he gave the presidency away by special arrangement, to a
player squirrelly enough to ignore the drug-running in Mena, Arkansas. How
could anyone expect that deal to last forever?

  In response to the befuddling support by the militia groups of George
Bush, Jr., who clearly represents the same NWO forces the militias have
always opposed, especially under George Bush Sr., I offer the following from
Repairman Jack in the book "Conspiracies" by F. Paul Wilson
(www.repairmanjack.com).

  Repairman Jack is a violent anti-hero who appears in the kind of
trash-fiction novels often found at airport bookstores. The author is a crony
of horror writer Stephen King. The latest installment of the Repairman Jack
series takes place at a conference of conspiracy theorists--The Society for
the Exposure of Secret Organizations and Unacknowledged Phenomena. In it,
Repairman Jack opines:

  "I can't help wondering why these New World Order types should bother
with an armed takeover. I mean, considering how nowadays people are slugging
away at two and three jobs to make ends meet, how Mr. and Mrs. Average
American are working until mid-May every year just to pay their federal
income tax, and then on top of that they pay state and city income taxes, and
then after those they've got to fork over sales taxes, property taxes, excise
taxes, and surcharges, not to mention all the hidden expenses passed on in
day-to-day prices jacked up by license fees and endless streams of
regulations from OSHA and all the other two-bit government regulatory
agencies."

  "By the time Mr. and Mrs. Citizen are through they've surrendered
seventy-five percent of their earnings to the bureaucracy. Seems to me like
the NWO boys have already got you right where they want you."

  Add the military budget, and subtract the dishonest talk of tax cuts
and smaller government coming from the new administration, and the result is
the new Bush era that the militia right would surrendered to if it indeed
holds Bush out as hero. Ralph Nader called it the permanent corporate
government. (The scoop on Nader found in the Gemstone file features
prominently in the new issue of Steamshovel).

  So what difference did the election make? As one well-known conspiracy
writer recently put it more succinctly, "Who cares which reptile is in
charge?" At Steamshovel, the 2000 election results are an occasion to revisit
a great deal of recent parapolitical history in its next issue, currently
planned as an all-Bush issue.

  Perhaps Steamshovel readers can move closer to some closure about
various Bush family scandals, or at least obtain a more detailed review as it
watches the puppet show in progress.

  Embarrassment, shame, outrage and all of the other emotions attendant
to the latest assault on the supposedly cherished American values of
democracy stopped nothing this election season; only a reasoned understanding
and a healthy dose of satire and nose-thumbing remain to make the next four
years (or whatever truncated term develops) bearable.

Kenn Thomas
Steamshovel Press

PS - The

Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

[c.]

 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  BB 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: 31 January 2001 08:45
  Subject: Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER 
  COURSE
  I used Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition. I 
  AM sure of my facts. 
  Why would you cite a VERB as a reply to a list of observations 
  regarding guns, and those who feel more comfortable being disarmed?? 
  You might just as well have replied "run", or "jump." A more 
  appropriate reply might have been a noun, such as "ballocks", meaning 
  "balls."  I didn't think it was spelled, I knew. 
  > ace... would that be an 
  american english dictionary or an english dictionary?
  FYI bollocks was used in the right way- you got the insult 
  didn't you? enough to try and correct me... twice even!
  so... i used enough correct language to make my point- and you 
  got the point i was making- and it angered you enough to retort with nothing 
  of substance- only an anally retentive spelling error.
  :)
   
   
   
  You surely did choose a classy reply - I guess it goes along with the 
  disarmament frame of mind. 
  However, we digress. 
  It's STILL disrespectful, no respect at all. 
  Again, if you feel better about life being disarmed and at the mercy of 
  whomever decides to invade your home, be it some authority or 
  criminal, 
   
  >> as i said in another 
  post on this subject-  about being attacked in my home
  burglars (burgalizing? LOLOL)  coming into my home are 
  not a problem- there is an infentissimal chance of them being armed with a 
  gun. i repeat- muggers and other small time criminals do not have access to 
  handguns and so do not use them. if i am attacked in scotland in that way then 
  i will defend myself if i can with whatever is at hand- the climbing axe 
  springs to mind- because i am not in danger AT ALL of being shot (except in 
  very exceptional circumstances- accidently being caught up in a bank raid - or 
  if i am in england- a terrorist attack)
   
  really- i know it is hard for americans to believe it- but ALL 
  i have to defend myself against is knives, coshes etc, aids filled syringes 
  (very popular last year after one guy got some success with that technique) 
  and, well, i am not sure what else.
  but it is unknown for burglars to rob a house with a firearm. 
  really!
  secondly- defending myself against authority. listen, dude- 
  cause this is a repeat too,
  your firearm defends you SYMBOLICALLY against authority. i 
  hear this subject/ citizen argument and i wonder why people are kidding 
  themselves with this fascile rhetoric.
  the government, UN, or any big organisation has the resources 
  to ALWAYS have more firepower than you. you cannot defend your house against 
  them. your firearm will never save you against them. 
  even if all the legal gunowners in america managed to 
  co-operate to take on the national army- they would flatten you if they chose. 
  you know this, don't you?
  i stand by my initial point- that the more guns in 
  circulation- the more deaths in circulation.
  nessie mentioned that guns can stop deaths by guns- but if 
  there weren't so many goddamned guns- then there would be far less life 
  threatening situations to stop with a gun. is that not logical?
  if a gun does not exist- then it cannot kill. 
  if there were no guns for the bad guys to break into your 
  house with- then they would tool up with blades- and i fancy my chances 
  against a blade more than i do against a gun, don't you?
   
   
  try defending your family with indisputable logic. 
  "c." wrote: 
  

  not according to http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bollocks 

bollocks v : make a mess of, destroy or ruin [syn: botch, 
fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball 
up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, 
bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess 
up, fuck up] 
be sure of your facts. how did 
you think it was spelled anyway? 
 

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Three Day Extension on Treaty in Colombia - It's getting close

[Kris Millegan]

As we get closer to war in Colombia, Pastrana grants a three day respite.
Meanwhile, other sources confirm that tanks and soldiers are staging in the
area. AR ran a story earlier emphatically stating that Green Berets, though
close to hot zones, were not doing any fighting. Yeah, sure.

Maybe better rating if it starts over the weekend, or less oversight.

This from AFP.

MCR


Wednesday, January 31 9:23 PM SGT

Colombia's Pastrana prolongs agreement on FARC-controlled zone
BOGOTA, Jan 31 (AFP) -
Colombia's President Andres Pastrana said the 1998 agreement ceding a
demilitarized zone to control by leftist FARC guerrillas would continue in
operation until "the end of this week."

Speaking in a televised address to the nation, Pastrana said he had decided
on the extension "with the sole purpose of holding the meeting which I have
proposed with Manuel Marulanda," leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC).

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[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: Nazism and the EU

[Kris Millegan]

THE OMINOUS PARALLELS : NAZISM AND THE EU
http://www.iits.dircon.co.uk/newalliance/nazieu.htm
It's often claimed - not least by our opponents - that Nazis and Fascists
are nothing more than extreme xenophobic nationalists, totally opposed to
'good' international bodies like the EU. In the words of the song, "It Ain't
Necessarily So.""

The EU War Baby

Back in 1942, a book called "The European Community" was published. Its
principal author, a Doctor of Economics, had argued in 1940 for a "Central
European Union" and "European Economic Area" and for fixed exchange rates -
EMU in all but name. In this book, he wrote that "No nation in Europe can
achieve on its own the highest level of economic freedom which is compatible
with all social requirements...The formation of very large economic areas
follows a natural law of developmentinterstate agreements in Europe will
control [economic forces generally]...There must be a readiness to
subordinate one's own interests in certain cases to those of [the EC]."

One of his co-authors wrote that the "classic national economy..is
dead...community of fate which is the European economy...fate and extent of
European co-operation depends on a new unity economic plan". Another
observed that "We have a real European Community task before us...I am
convinced that this Community effort will last beyond the end of the war."

The last three words explain things. The principal author was Nazi Economics
Minister and war criminal Walther Funk. The other two were respectively Nazi
academic Heinrich Hunke and official Gustav Koenig. Nor were they just
eccentrics. Goering's orders in 1940 were followed by a project for the
"large-scale economic unification of Europe" Goebbels, in the same year,
compared Germany's road to unification in the nineteenth century with
Europe's in the twentieth, believing that "in fifty years' time [people] no
longer think in terms of countries."

The Same Old "New Europe"?

Ribbentrop, in 1943, endorsed plans for a European confederation.
Seyss-Inquart, Gauleiter of Holland, spoke of "The new Europe of solidarity
and co-operation among all its people... will find...rapidly increasing
prosperity once national economic boundaries are removed."

Their collaborators felt the same way. Quisling himself stated that there
was no opposition between European economic co-operation and National
Socialism, Vichy French Minister Jacques Benoist-Mechin that France had to
"abandon nationalism...take place in European Community with honour."

In the words of Rodney Atkinson, "The European Community was therefore
intended by the Nazis as a common cause against British...economic
systems of trade and free exchange." Mr. Atkinson goes on (in his book
"Europe's Full Circle") to kindly provide us (pages 92-93) with a list of
parallels between "Hitler's Europe" and "Today's Europe."


Europaische Wirtshaftsgemeinschaft
European Economic Community


European Currency System
European Exchange Rate Mechanism


Europabank (Berlin)
European Central Bank (Frankfurt)


European Regional Principle
Committee of the Regions


Common Labour Policy
Social Chapter


Economic and Trading Agreements
Single Market

A few further quotes may be of interest -"The Germans alone can really
organise Europe... The future will belong to the Germans when we build the
House of Europe...The Anglo-Saxon economic system, the classic national
economy, is dead...It is important to establish a European Single Currency
core in order to stand firm against Anglo-Saxon values."

I just quoted, respectively, Goebbels, Kohl, Hunke, and (in 1996) Belgian
Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt. No, I'm not just indulging in cheap
jibes or insinuating that all Europhiles are closet Nazis. Obviously they
don't share Hitler's racial paranoia. No doubt they see them selves as good
liberal-minded democrats. However, all totalitarian regimes stand for
concentrating power in central hands. They're all prone to meddle in
people's private lives and pursuits and to issue directives without properly
consulting a free Parliament first. In short - the Eurocrats may not be
totalitarians but they are totalitarian-minded in their behaviour.

For further details, I recommend "Europe's Full Circle" by Rodney Atkinson,
"The Tainted Source" by John Laughland and "Britain Held Hostage" by Lindsay
Jenkins. Click for stockist details

A final thought: The Nazis used referenda to seduce power out of the hands
of the people's representatives and concentrate it in the hands of a few.
With the prospect of a UK referendum on the single currency and the dangers
of concentrating economic powers in the hands of a virtually unaccountable
European Central Bank - remember: NEVER AGAIN!


- About the author: Mark Taha is a freelance researcher into British and
European history and politics. A National Committee member of CIB, he is
writing in a personal capacity.


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Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

[c.]

-Caveat Lector-

it hasn't been that succesful johannes because comprehensive checkpoints
surrounding london are an impossible task. the police clai to use
intelligence to know when to use such tactics. i am sure no-one has too much
of a problem reaching buck house :)

june, was it "prime suspect" by lynda la plant? sounds like the correct plot
outline. i would not read too much into any subtext to her "work". she has a
habit of exploiting any contemporary fear that is in the news- the cameras
in that story- and in "killer net" LOL she created a drama about net
chatting and roleplaying leading to actual murder etc  in very much the
same way as she used the cameras in "prime suspect". she is well known for
claimiung to research her subjects- but really not doing very much at all-
as was evident in her potrayal of the internet and roleplaying games. i
think in america in the recent past there have been several urban myths
propogated about D&D leading to cultish deaths and kids being drawn into a
web of evil etc etc.
so- yeah- i agree that there was a subtext regarding the use of cameras- but
anyone aquainted with the actual issues and detail of the subject matter
will see right through it.

generally i am, like most people, uneasy at the cameras- most cities are
putting them in place in town centres- but i am no different from anyone
else- they do make city centres safer at night- but they are quite
exploitable. obviously.
important to note that they are not in any way omnipresent.


- Original Message -
From: "Johannes Schmidt III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 31 January 2001 14:24
Subject: Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE


> -Caveat Lector-
>
> The city of London is under the most intensive electronic surveillance of
any civilian city in the world. There are cameras, satellites, listening
devices, infra-red, you name it. It sall to prevent (ostensibly) IRA
attacks, and has been remarkably succesful. I've also read accounts that a
great many cars entering London are searched by checkpoints, not to mention
boats and planes.
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:20:39 -0800 Ynr Chyldz Wyld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >-Caveat Lector-
> >
> >From: "Carl Amedio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > cameras every ten feet? LOL
> >> >
> >> > surely you jest, carl, you obviously haven't been here
> >> >
> >> I just watched a BBC program on the complete loss of privacy in UK. The
fact
> >> you pooh pooh this says volumes.  Enjoy the gulag.
> >
> >There is a show on PBS called "Mystery", which shows primarily British
imports.
> >
> >About a year ago on one of these imports, "Prime Suspect", a case of
child rape/murder was solved due to these
> >cameras.  A big deal was made about how the suspect would never have been
caught if it weren't for the fact
> >that the suspect's car was caught on one of these cameras, showing the
suspect was at the location of the
> >crime at the time the crime was committed, when the suspect seemingly had
an alibi for being elsewhere.
> >
> >I thought at the time that it was very interesting that this British show
presented these cameras so
> >matter-of-factly, and indeed I got the impression the whole plot twist of
the cameras being used to solve a
> >horrific crime was orchestrated to help "sell" the idea of these
cameras...
> >
> >
> >June
> >
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[CTRL] Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews

[kl]

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http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.html

Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews
Stephen P. Halbrook(1)
17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-
535 (2000).
We are in danger of forgetting that the Bill of Rights reflects experience
with police excesses. It is not only under Nazi rule that police
excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence
on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked
on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that
by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at
first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
--Justice Felix Frankfurter(2)
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors
who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their
own downfall by so doing.
--Adolph Hitler(3)
Gun control laws are depicted as benign and historically
progressive.(4) However, German firearm laws and hysteria created
against Jewish firearm owners played a major role in laying the
groundwork for the eradication of German Jewry in the Holocaust.
Disarming political opponents was a categorical imperative of the Nazi
regime.(5) The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed."(6) This right, which reflects a universal and historical power
of the people in a republic to resist tyranny,(7) was not recognized in
the German Reich.
This article addresses German firearms laws and Nazi policies and
practices to disarm German citizens, particularly political opponents
and Jews. It begins with an account of post-World War I chaos, which
led to the enactment in 1928 by the liberal Weimar republic of
Germany's first comprehensive gun control law. Next, the Nazi seizure
of power in 1933 was consolidated by massive searches and seizures
of firearms from political opponents, who were invariably described as
"communists." After five years of repression and eradication of
dissidents, Hitler signed a new gun control law in 1938 which
benefitted Nazi party members and entities but denied firearm
ownership to enemies of the state. Later that year, in Kristallnacht (the
Night of the Broken Glass), in one fell swoop, the Nazi regime
disarmed Germany's Jews. Without any ability to defend themselves,
the Jewish population could easily be sent to concentration camps for
the Final Solution. After World War II began, Nazi authorities continued
to register and mistrust civilian firearm owners, and German resistence
to the Nazi regime was unsuccessful.(8)
The above topic has never been the subject of a comprehensive
account in the legal literature.(9) This article is based on never before
used sources from archives in Germany, German firearms laws and
regulations, German and American newspapers from the period, and
historical literature. It contributes to the debate concerning firearms
ownership in a democracy and presents the first scholarly analysis of
the use of gun control laws and policies to establish the Hitler regime
and to render political opponents and especially German Jews
defenseless.
I. A LIBERAL REPUBLIC ENACTS GUN CONTROL
Germany's defeat in World War I heralded the demise of the Second
Reich and the birth of the Weimar republic. For several years
thereafter, civil unrest and chaos ensued. Government forces,
buttressed by unofficial Freikorps (Free Corps), battled Communists in
the streets.(10) The most spectacular event was the crushing of the
Spartacist revolt in Berlin and other cities in January 1919, when
Freikorps members captured and murdered the Communist leaders
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.(11) This coincided with the
passage of the Verordnung des Rates der Volksbeauftragen über
Waffenbesitz (Regulations of the Council of the People's Delegates on
Weapons Possession), which provided: "All firearms, as well as all
kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately."(12)
Whoever kept a firearm or ammunition was subject to imprisonment for
five years and a fine of 100,000 marks.(13) That decree would remain in
force until repealed in 1928.(14)
When Spartacists attacked a Berlin police station in March, Reich
Minister of Defense Gustav Noske declared that "any person who
bears arms against government troops will be shot on the spot."(15) A
Social Democrat, Noske was known as the "Bloodhound of the
Revolution."(16) Another order was issued that anyone in mere
possession of arms would be shot with no trial.(17) Under these
orders, hundreds of Berliners were killed.(18)
An inept April Communist uprising in Bavaria fared no better.(19) Lieutenant Rudolf 
Mann, a regimental adjutant in the Freikorps, was humored by the "mopping-up 
operations" against the Reds:
The supreme

[CTRL] Special report: trial by jury

[kl]

-Caveat Lector-

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/law/story/0,3605,426119,00.htm
l

Perverting the course of justice?

They admitted it. The judge said they had no defence. But last
week, two people who attempted to trash a nuclear submarine
were acquitted.  Marcel Berlins  and  Clare Dyer on why more and
more juries are returning 'perverse' verdicts

Special report: trial by jury
Marcel Berlins and Clare Dyer
MondayJanuary   22, 2001

On the very day that the appeal court described the jury's verdict in
the Bruce Grobbelaar libel trial in the most damning terms that
judges can muster, virtually calling the jurors mad, another12
men and women, in Manchester, were doing their bit to be added
to the roll-call of juries for whom "perverse" is an honourable label.

They brought in a verdict of not guilty on two anti-nuclear protesters
charged with conspiracy to cause criminal   damage to a Trident
submarine in a Barrow-in-Furness shipyard. The two happily
admitted their intention to trash the sub but said they were doing
so because nuclear weapons were immoral and illegal. The judge
told the jury that such ideals formed no defence against the
charge. He was ignored. Not guilty, said the jury.

It was not the first time that juries have, apparently contrary to the
evidence, acquitted defendants charged with sabotage of defence
equipment. But that strand of acquittals is itself part of a greater
English tradition, going back to the trial of William Mead and
William Penn, nonconformists charged in 1670 with unlawful
preaching and conducting a seditious assembly. The jury was
threatened by the judge and locked up for two nights "without
meat, drink, fire or tobacco" after it refused to convict them but still
stubbornly stuck to its verdict. The jurors were then fined and
imprisoned till they paid, but were ultimately released by the Chief
Justice, upholding "the right of juries to give their verdict by their
conscience".

A perverse verdict could just mean - as in the Grobbelaar case - a
totally unreasonable conclusion from the evidence presented. But
the more distinguished form of jury perversity arises when jurors in
a criminal trial, following their consciences and their moral beliefs,
acquit a defendant even where the evidence and the law clearly
point to conviction. Lord Devlin, one of the great law lords, regarded
the jury's right to bring in a perverse acquittal as one of the glories
of our jury system. "It gives protection against laws which the
ordinary man regards as harsh and oppressive . . . an insurance
that the criminal law will conform to the ordinary man's ideas of
what is fair and just. If it does not, the jury will not be a party to its
enforcement."

In 1985, Clive Ponting, a senior Ministry of Defence official, was
tried under the Official Secrets Act for revealing to an MP that
government ministers had misled Parliament over the sinking of the
Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
There was no doubt that he had done so and that he had no legal
defence to the charge, as the trial judge made clear to the jury.
Nevertheless the jury acquitted him. Jurors may not be asked why
they reached a particular verdict, but it emerged that some of them
resented the patronising and over-emphatic way in which the trial
judge, in effect, ordered them to convict. Another factor was the
feeling that the "catch-all" section of the Official Secrets Act under
which Ponting was charged and which allowed no public interest
defence was unfair and oppressive.

Even more striking was the acquittal at the Old Bailey in 1990 of
Pat Pottle and Michael Randle, on a charge of helping the Soviet
spy George Blake escape from Wormwood Scrubs in 1963,
enabling him to flee to Russia. This was not just a case of a jury
disregarding the judge's clear - and legally correct - instruction that
the two men had no defence. The jury knew for a fact that they
were guilty - not least because they had published a book entitled
The Blake Escape - How We Freed George Blake and Why. As if
that wasn't enough, Pottle and Randle, defending themselves,
confirmed their responsibility for the crime and made impassioned
speeches from the dock. They argued that bringing them to court
26 years after the crime was an abuse of the legal process and
showed a political motive behind their prosecution. The jury was
clearly impressed and acquitted, knowing that it was delivering a
perverse verdict, showing two fingers to a system that would
behave in this way. Nor is it just in highly publicised cases raising
quasi-political or social issues that juries have shown their bolshie
independence. Away from the headlines, juries often acquit guilty
defendants simply because they feel strongly that no prosecution
should have been brought. Forgetful elderly shoplifters are frequent
beneficiaries of jury anger at their being in the dock at all.

In the 19th century, juries used to find defendants not guilty of
crimes they had clearly

[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Austin Chronicle..Bush will be called to testify

[Kris Millegan]

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 From my friend Pat:
  http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-01-26/pols_naked5.html">
The Austin Chronicle Politics: Naked City
 http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-01-26/pols_naked5.html>
 The Lawsuit That Wouldn't Die

 Naked City

 BY http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/authors/robertbryce.html">
ROBERT BRYCE



 January 26, 2001: You read it here first: Within a year, George W. Bush will
 be ordered to testify under oath in the influence-buying scandal known as
 Funeralgate. So far, Bush has avoided all efforts to put him under oath. In
 1996, his attorney, Al Gonzales, was able to keep his client from being
 selected for jury duty in a drunken driving case here in Travis County. But
 the stakes in that case were small and Bush wasn't the focus of the court
 action. Funeralgate is a different story. Bush has been named as a defendant
 in the whistleblower lawsuit brought by Eliza May, the former executive
 director of the Texas Funeral Service Commission; the suit alleges that Bush
 and others who got campaign contributions from funeral giant Service
 Corporation International worked to thwart an investigation into SCI's
hiring
 of improperly licensed embalmers. Just as he did in 1996, Gonzales, who is
 now the White House general counsel, will do all he can to keep Bush out of
 situations in which he must swear to tell the truth. May's attorneys have
 been trying to get Bush under oath for more than 16 months. And they have
 many reasons to support their argument that Bush, and only Bush, can answer
 questions about discrepancies in testimony given in the Funeralgate mess.
For
 instance, the attorneys want to ask Bush about his conversations with former
 TFSC chairman Dick McNeil, who has testified that he talked briefly with
Bush
 in 1998 about the investigation the agency was doing. They also want to ask
 Bush why his chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, was so quick to intervene during
 the TFSC's 1998 investigation of Houston-based funeral giant SCI. May's
 attorneys are particularly interested in what Allbaugh, whom Bush has
 appointed as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will say under
 oath. During May's investigation into SCI, Allbaugh conducted two meetings
 with her. The purpose of the meetings, says May's lawsuit, was to "pressure
 and intimidate May concerning the SCI investigation." Adding further
intrigue
 to the influence-buying mess was last month's move by May's attorneys to
name
 Texas Attorney General John Cornyn as a defendant in the suit. The attorneys
 charge that Cornyn went out of his way to help SCI during the TFSC
 investigation. As first reported in the Chronicle, the AG's office
determined
 in early 1999 that it would not get involved in interpreting TFSC
regulations
 while the agency was conducting its investigation of SCI. But shortly after
 that finding, Cornyn personally intervened, overruling the agency's earlier
 finding. That allowed the agency to interpret state law in a manner that was
 favorable to SCI. In their latest court pleading, May's lawyers, Derek
Howard
 and Charles Herring Jr., claim that in January of 1999, Cornyn "began
 participating in the improper and illegal effort to prevent a full and
proper
 investigation of SCI and to assist SCI and other conspirators in covering-up
 their prior improper, illegal actions, and in preventing May" and the TFSC
 from enforcing the law. The suit points out that Cornyn's chief deputy, Andy
 Taylor, used to work at the same law firm that was representing SCI at the
 commission -- and that by meeting with some SCI officials while working for
 the attorney general, Taylor acted unethically. In response to the lawsuit,
 Cornyn's office issued a terse statement, saying the attorney general "holds
 himself and his staff to the highest ethical standards. This is a
politically
 motivated effort to try to jump-start a two-year-old lawsuit." Herring said
 that by intervening in the SCI matter, Cornyn changed longstanding policy at
 the AG's office. Cornyn was "doing a special favor for [SCI CEO Robert]
 Waltrip," he said. "That's not the way government is supposed to work. In
our
 view, Cornyn was enlisted in the conspiracy." The lawsuit was originally
 scheduled to go to trial in the spring. It now appears that it will be
 delayed by several months. May's attorneys appear to have a good case
against
 the state, though they'll have a difficult time proving that Bush, Cornyn,
 and the others acted to protect SCI because they got campaign donations from
 the company and Waltrip. Still, that's not the most disturbing aspect of
 Funeralgate. Voters have become inured to the fact that politicians d

Re: [CTRL] How the Democrats made loving Dixie a hate crime

[flw]

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> That's because they know we are hardwired for hierarchy. Yes people don't want
> to be at the bottom, but they don't mind not being at the top either. The
> middle is good. Hence it's OK to be middle class but not low class.
>
> J2
>

"Low class" is a state of mind, not a permanent economic situation.
flw

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Re: [CTRL] Sidney Blumenthal Tells It Like It Was

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>
> Sidney Blumenthal Tells It Like It Was
>
> By Lloyd Grove
> Washington Post
> Staff Writer
> Tuesday, January 30, 2001; 12:20 PM
>
> * "I will discuss... Tony Blair's firmness"

This is a travesty!
These so called journalists go too far!!
This is a matter that should be strictly between Tony Blair and his wife.
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[CTRL] Mudra in the Martial Arts

[Kris Millegan]

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from:
http://www.furyu.com/onlinearticles/mudra.html
Click Here: http://www.furyu.com/onlinearticles/mudra.html">Mudra in
the Martial Arts
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Mudra in the Martial Arts


by Wayne Muromoto

c. 1999. Special to Furyu Online

One of the more curious things that I encountered in my martial arts training
was the use of mudra in combative arts. Mudra (Japanese: in), for those who
aren't familiar with them, are these weird hand gestures that are derived
from esoteric Buddhism (mikkyo), particularly the Tendai and Shingon sects.
These gestures are supposed to generate spiritual focus and power which then
are manifested in some way externally.

Unfortunately for the greater amount of martial artists in the modern budo
(martial ways), mudra are not part of their training. Most "modern" budo are
based in some way on modern concepts of physical education and sports
training, and do not include, unless a particular teacher is himself/herself
an adherent of a Buddhist sect, the use of esoteric Buddhist rituals, such as
mudra, mantra (chanting or words of power), and mandala (inscriptions,
paintings or scrolls that can create spiritual energy). This, by and large,
includes judo, kendo, iaido, kyudo, karatedo, and even aikido as it is
presently formulated.

Ueshiba Morihei, the founder of aikido, was a devotee of a Shinto sect called
Omoto-kyo, which made use of some unusual rituals, including the use of
chinkon and kotodama and several body exercises to generate spiritual power
(including a rowing motion with one's arms to project spiritual energy), but
by and large, in my opinion, most of the esoteric nature of aikido goes back
to Omoto-kyo and esoteric Shinto rituals.

Although esoteric Buddhism and other sects such as Zen share the same goals,
that of the salvation of the soul, their routes to this end differ somewhat.
Mikkyo makes use of rituals and rites that go back to tantric sources, which
some say predates Buddhism itself, and may even be as ancient as prehistoric
magical shamanistic rites of Asia, as found in India, Tibet, China, Mongolia
and Japan. Zen stripped Buddhism of the importance of these arcane rites, and
instead focused on the intellect, on direct experience, in the emptying of
the mind rather than of the filling up of the mind. I know that this is
really a simplistic statement that does neither mikkyo or Zen much justice,
but that's about as basic as I can get with the differences in this short
span of pages. (Lest anyone get all upset in the mistaken notion that I'm
taking sides, I prefer to be open-minded about all sects; my family was
originally Soto Zen but sent me to Hongwanji and Jodo Shinshu temple schools
to learn Japanese--which didn't work. But they also allowed Christian
missionaries to preach to the neighborhood kids in our backyard, I attended a
Baptist summer school once, and my Filipino and Porgtuguese friends even took
me to Catholic church a couple of times. I'm really messed up.)

In any case, I had known of the use of mudra in koryu ("old" martial arts)
since the time I was privy to a discussion with the training master of the
Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, Otake Risuke, and the late Donn F. Draeger.
Otake sensei described some of the mudra used in his school, which is one of
the oldest martial ryu still in existence in Kanto (Eastern) Japan.

For us martial artists involved in the koryu, use of mudra sometimes explain
some odd movements in the middle of kata that we cannot logically understand
as being necessary in a particular fighting technique. In the case of the
Katori Shinto-ryu, Otake sensei was replying to a query one of us observers
had of a naginata form in which the naginata wielder pointed an open palm at
a swordsman. We thought that if the distance was shorter, he'd have his hand
cut off, so why introduce a needless opening? Because, Otake sensei said, in
that palm, the naginata person had inscribed with a pass of his fingers a
secret mikkyo sign to ward off evil spirits and then directed that force at
the attacker. Of course, samurai being practical-minded warriors, they did so
at a distance far enough away so that if the magic didn't work, their hand
wouldn't get chopped off in the process.

Otake sensei also described other mikkyo-derived rituals that his system used
before a battle and even apart from martial arts in general, such as rituals
used to heal people with various ailments and so on. Some years later, when I
was training in the Takeuchi-ryu, my own sensei informed me that I had to
place my fingers a certain way when returning the sword to its scabbard. I
thought it was simply an affectation of our particular style, but he then
told me that I was secretly inscribing a mudra with my fingers to finish the
combat, to ward off evil spirits, and to offer prayers to the dead.

"Even if the attacker was your enemy, once he's dead, he becomes a Buddha, so
you should pray for his enlightenment," my sensei said. "That is the
compassion of

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Profit in Pulling the (Electrical) Plug on the Peasants

[Aleisha Saba]

-Caveat Lector-

Do you suppose it is Yes We Got No Bananas, like when wheat was sold to
Russia and people went to bakeries and no bread - 

Siberia in critical way for this weather mod program seems to be
diminishing somewhawt and now they have this Siberian Weather they had
30 years ago when we got into this project.

Our town was hit by the Siberian Clippers and Artic freeze and it killed
all my rose trees and daffodils would bloom and in one day die in the
freezing snow...florists put out plants in May rathr than April
since the 60 period for weather was changing.

MIR is gone now Siberia is in trouble?

I say let them move to greener pastures - for now they want our
weather..but could it be we are now heating up Siberia while
California faces blackouts?

Oh well, these Californians are busy trying to take guns away from
Americans while Black Panthers are armed with Uzis still on Clinton/Gore
payrol, without a doubt - who has the time to worry about a little thing
like illumination -

California has lived in darkness for a long time.someone ought to
check out the Siberian weather and they have of all things - heat, oil,
and electricity shortges - totally unprepared.

Well - MIR could not last forever could it.remember one morning when
our men were up there with them, they played the Woody Woodpecker song -
inside joke.

California Land of Sunshine living in darkness?

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Re: [CTRL] [nandotimes] O'Hair disappearance--FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader

[Aleisha Saba]

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Well Tenorlove - this item on O'Hai you might find interesting - looks
almost like a Mafia job.

So you remember Larry Flynt?  He was the born again Christian who
chummed with President Carter's sister, who converted him.front man
for big time drugs?   Like for us to think he was gunned down for
Freedom of Speech?   Even Oliver Stone in on drug scenario, but no
surprise there is there?   He was a Democrat Convention supporting
Clinton?

So keep thinking this - is there a connection here to Manson - he was in
jail with Jimmy Carter's nephew and when they had falliong out, he said
he would send someone to kill Miss Lillian..and of course we all
remember Billy Beer and little Billly having his picture taken urinating
on Lybian airplane?

What attracted these killers to O'Hairshe did hae some gold pieces
and I wonder from where.   She claimed to be an anarchist - and had a
few followersbut someone took a great deal of time and trouble to
put this woman to death - and it sure wasn't over money.

She got her way in the end - for without a doubt she was "done in" by
anarchists and people who followed the great Satan of this world, for a
bit of gold?

Speaking of gold, I always wondered why Mel Fischer was not investigated
for some of his gold was dental gold...

Anarchists - life with Madalyn Murray O'Hair - was that her real name?
She was never a Catholic - and the name of the game seemed to be fame -
but keep thinking these crimes were almost Manson time crimes - and it
was August - very bad dates in August for murders including Marilyn
Monroe (?) and Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger - did someone get the idea
to kill O'Hair in the bible - and into a melting pot?

Such a mystery - wonder if any of these so called killers resided in
prison with Mr. Manson, but then most of her killers were set free?

So much for the pursuit of happiness in our time.

Saba

IFAS | Freedom Writer | January/February 1996 | madalyn.html
Madalyn Murray O'Hair:
Woman, Atheist, Anarchist

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 76, perhaps the world's best-known atheist,
mysteriously disappeared last August. Rumors abound. In poor health in
recent years, some speculate O'Hair died.

Others theorize she was kidnapped by radical Christians; some think she
relocated to New Zealand or Australia. O'Hair's conceivable death
brought to mind Freedom Writer's March 1989 interview with the outspoken
activist. Here are some excerpts.

FW Were you always an atheist?

O'HAIR Oh no, not at all. I was born into and reared in the Presbyterian
faith. My father was a Presbyterian and it used to be the obligation,
the social obligation, of women to take their husband's religion, no
matter what they [the women] were reared in. So my mother was a
Lutheran, and the moment she married my father she started attending a
Presbyterian church. She attended that church for 50 years. My brother
and myself were both brought up in the Presbyterian church.

FW At some point you must have changed your mind.

O'HAIR I sure did!

FW What happened?

O'HAIR I used to skip grades in school, and I'd been reading since I was
three. Just generally speaking, my family's pretty bright, including my
parents. One weekend my father refused to take me to the library. I used
to go down and load up on library books, and when he wouldn't take me to
the library,

I was forced to read the Bible from cover to cover. I was either in the
fifth or sixth grade. Now, you know damn well I didn't understand
everything that I was reading, but I understood enough that I thought it
was pretty horrible. I thought that it was violent, that God was pretty
mean, and that the visitations he made caused troubles of all kinds on
the chosen people. Then I started to read some of that to my father and
mother. I would pick out stuff that I thought was pretty horrible. My
mother would just look at me and say, "Oh, that's not in my Bible!"

FW Is your organization tax-exempt?

O'HAIR Oh, we are now, yes. We just finished winning tax- exemption for
every one of our organizations. So, every single one is tax-exempt. Now
let me tell you about that because you probably have the same thing. Are
you tax-exempt?

FW Yes, we are.

O'HAIR Good, good. There are four kinds of tax exemptions. Health,
education, welfare, and religion. With health, education, and welfare,
you have to file Form 990. With religion, they file nothing. Nobody can
ask them anything.

That's a tax-exemption we think they shouldn't have. They should be
accountable to the citizens of the United States for exactly what they
do with that tax-exempt money. Also, I think that they're obligated to
do something.

Such as, there are millions of homeless, and millions of churches that
are used one day a week. There isn't a reason in the world that they
can't let people come in and sleep on the pews.
There isn't a reason in the world that they can't feed them. Most of the
churches have kitchens. And, they should do this for love of Jesus

[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Is gold cabal wrecking South Africa's currency?

[Kris Millegan]

10:30p EDT Thursday, January 11, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With his "Midas" commentary tonight at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com, GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy has information of special interest to South
Africa. It is copied below.

A few weeks ago Murphy showed how an attack on the Australian dollar
seemed to be related to the gold cabal's need to induce Australian
gold producers to sell more gold. Tonight Murphy examined an attack
on the South African rand that seems inexplicable except for a
similar result: pressure on South African gold producers to sell more.

Of course there isn't proof here yet. But this should be of urgent
interest to South Africa's government as well as to gold mining
companies in that country on the eve of the visit of the GATA
delegation.

If indeed the gold cabal is so desperate to protect its short
positions that it is prepared to strangle a whole country by
destroying its currency -- and not just any country, but the
struggling multi-racial democracy that liberated itself peacefully
and has become the hope of Africa -- then an undeclared war is
being waged.

We do think that this is what is happening, and that South Africa
must rise up to defend itself as well as the gold cause. GATA and our
lawsuit offer a way of doing it. And imagine the pressure that could
be turned against the gold cabal if a South African delegation of
government officials, mining company executives, and mining union
representatives came back to Washington with GATA to ask some urgent
questions of the new president, new treasury secretary, and the
Exchange Stablization Fund.

We ask our South African friends to raise with their elected
representatives and their news media the issue of the attack on the
rand and its possible connection to gold.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

* * *

"Midas" commentary: The Rand? This Is No Small Matter

By Bill Murphy
www.LeMetropoleCafe.com
January 11, 2001

There is nothing but selling as gold approaches the U.S. trading
hours. It is always the same. Once gold is sold off, it rarely
rallies either, and if it does, those rallies do not hold.

The selling by the gold cartel is once again attracting speculators
who are jumping on board. The open interest went up 6,187 contracts
yesterday on the steep gold selloff and now stands at 132,314
contracts.

The world is back to being gold bearish to the hilt as the bullish
consensus dropped down to 17 percent this morning. It's probably
even lower now.

It meant little that the dollar was knocked down against most
currencies except the yen. The euro surged after some healthy German
economic statistics and is closing in on 96 against the dollar once
more.

Silver just continues to meander.

>From www.businessreport.co.za in South Africa:

"Rand will ride out 22-cent fall, says Reserve Bank.

"Johannesburg -- The Reserve Bank believed the currency weakness in
the rand was overdone and expected the currency to recover over time,
Bertus van Zyt, the bank's head of international banking, said
yesterday.

"The rand closed at a new low of R7.90 against the dollar.

"Analysts, most of whom were expecting the currency to start the year
on a strong ooting, were baffled and could only point to rumours in
the market.

"Analysts did not detect any general emerging market currency
weakness and that, together with the relative strength of the euro
and other currencies like the Australian dollar, indicated that there
was something peculiar to South Africa about the rand's latest fall.

"Speculation that the partial listing of Telkom could be delayed, or
that a South African company was buying pounds for a UK acquisition,
was cited as initial trigger for the selloff. Speculation about
possible exchange control relaxation in the budget next month was
also mentioned as a possible reason for the fall.

"Analysts said there was no reason to believe that any of the rumours
were credible, which made it even harder to explain the fall in the
currency.

"The rand's weakness overshadowed a strong performance by South
African equities."

In just the last five trading days, the rand sank lower from 7.5 to 8
to the dollar, before firming up a tad.

>From the Sydney Sunday Times:

"Another highly-regarded South African-based economist, who declined
to be named, said he believed the rand's fall could be the result of
a speculative attack 'because lots of the trading against it' was by
known speculators.

"'I just wonder what is making them do it now, and not last week or
next week?' he added, saying that there was no fundamental reason for
the rand's demise."

Until late last year Midas surmised that much of the weakness in the
Aussie dollar was a raid by the gold cartel on the Aussie dollar to
build incentives for the Aussie gold producers to sell forward as the
gold price rose in Aussie dollar terms in regard to gold priced in
U.S. dollars.

That was the case until the gold cabal miscalculated and overdid it.
M

[CTRL] Fwd: Small (New) World (Order)

[Kris Millegan]

 TRUE OR FALSE?  Another of John Schmitz's children --Mary Kay
LeTourneau's siste or brotherr-- is married to Jeb Bush's wife's sister or
brother, thus sort of making Joe McCarthy fan Schmitz and crypto-fascist
George Bush Sr "uncles-in-law" ...


Ex-Ultrarightist Congressman Dies

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) - John G. Schmitz, the ultraconservative politician
whose fiery rhetoric defined right-wing Southern California Republicanism for
nearly two decades, has died at age 70.

Schmitz's legislative career ended in scandal, and years later his daughter,
schoolteacher Mary Kay LeTourneau, gained her own notoriety and went to
prison for having sex with an underage pupil, conceiving two children with
him.

A one-term congressman who also served in the state Senate, Schmitz died
Wednesday in Washington, according to a statement from the Orange County
Republican Party. He had been suffering from cancer.

``Congressman John G. Schmitz played a significant role as a state senator
and a member of the House of Representatives during a very colorful era of
politics in the Orange County community,'' Thomas A. Fuentes, the local party
chairman, said in a statement.

Schmitz, whose political hero was Sen. Joseph McCarthy, was first elected to
office in 1964 as a state senator. A national director of the
ultraconservative John Birch Society, he attracted the support of wealthy
conservatives and was chosen to run for Congress when the county's longtime
conservative Rep. James B. Utt died.

After his election in 1970, Schmitz established himself as one of the
country's most right-wing and outspoken congressmen, even enraging his most
famous constituent, President Nixon, a part-time San Clemente resident.

Of Nixon's historic visit to China, Schmitz, who considered the visit a
sellout, quipped, ``I have no objection to President Nixon going to China. I
just object to his coming back.''

The comment cost Schmitz Republican support and he lost the June 1972
primary. That fall, Schmitz replaced Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who was
paralyzed when shot by a would-be assassin, as the American Independent Party
candidate. He collected more than a million votes.

In 1978, Schmitz won a state Senate seat again, but his caustic remarks about
minorities had grown so extreme that he lost the support of even the John
Birch Society. The scandal that ultimately brought his downfall, though, was
the 1982 revelation that the politician who espoused family values and
fiercely opposed sex education in schools had a pregnant mistress and a
15-month-old son.

In 1997, his daughter LeTourneau, a 35-year-old teacher in Washington state,
was convicted of carrying on a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student
whose child she ultimately bore.

LeTourneau, married and the mother of four children, served a six-month jail
sentence in 1997 after pleading guilty to second-degree child rape. After her
release on probation, she became pregnant by the teen a second time, drawing
a seven-year prison term that she is still serving.

[CTRL] Fwd: The Profit in Pulling the (Electrical) Plug on the Peasants

[Kris Millegan]

The California "power crisis" is a microcosm of many things ...

http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/15/15edsec.html

I forget the source, but it was on the TV news the other day that journalists
had found that natural gas (which fuels most of the power generated in
California) was secretly being sold by Enron and BP to foreign countries at
prices far lower than the lowest rate charged US power companies, whom
they've been apparently gouging for years while claiming they're losing money
and desperately need rate increases (which of course get passed on to
consumers by the ISOs [themselves perhaps the greediest profit-mongers
around, judging by what I often get to see in my confidential
litigation-support work]   ...

I like the proposal of the SF Greens, offered publicly and carried by local
TV -- "fiscal disobedience."  Whatever percent increases the "regulatory
agencies" permit, DEDUCT f rom what you pay when billed!  They can't turn off
the lights if you still pay, say, 90% of your bill each month ...  FORCE
those parasites into bankruptcy, to keep 'em honest!
No more corporate welfare for the richest of the rich each & every time they
cry "wolf"!

[CTRL] SFBG News | January 10, 2001 | Bursting bubbles

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Click Here: http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/15/15bgiv.html">SFBG News |
January 10, 2001 | Bursting bubbles
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By Christian Parenti

AUTHOR DOUG HENWOOD is something of a cult figure among left-wing brainiacs.
A former part-time merchant marine and toll collector on the New Jersey
Turnpike, Henwood was the first in his family to go to college. From there he
made it to graduate school for literature, dropped out, and almost began a
career on Wall Street ... but something went wrong, terribly wrong. Today
Henwood is America's leading radical economic journalist. His merciless wit,
fluid writing style, and uncompromising analysis have made his newsletter,
Left Business Observer, the intellectual equivalent of uncut dope, subscribed
to religiously by everyone from death row inmates to Canadian finance
ministers. Henwood's last book, Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
(Verso, 1997), is an irreverent tour de force that demystifies the workings
of high finance. Another book, on the so-called new economy, is on the way. I
interviewed Henwood at his Spartan office in Manhattan, which overlooks one
of the last sweatshops in the garment district. Henwood calls it "a very 'old
economy' view."
Bay Guardian: What do you think of the much used term "globalization"?
Doug Henwood: I think it's very imprecise and used to mean many things. On
the left, "globalization" is used instead of "capitalism," or "imperialism,"
or some combination of the two. In some ways this is an uncritical embrace of
vocabulary that comes out of the ruling class. Look at the World Bank or
mainstream pundits: they all talk about the "inevitability of globalization."
Many on the left just take that term – whatever exactly it means – and put
negative signs in front of it. They don't really sort through what the term
itself means or what the critical approach of an oppositional movement should
be.
Also, I think "globalization" presumes a past, innocent, "localized" age when
things were nicer. And it identifies the process of internationalization
itself as the enemy rather than the capitalistic, imperialistic, exploitative
aspects of that internationalization.
Internationalism is something progressives should embrace. I thought we liked
cosmopolitanism, and intercourse of all kinds among the people of the world.
BG: So why the use of this term, "globalization"?
DH: People are very timid about using words like "capitalism" and
"imperialism." We're told they're very out of fashion now. But I don't think
a mushy and misleading substitute terminology is acceptable. People should
call things by their names and start thinking of things by their names.
Luckily, I see more of a willingness on the part of troublemakers to do just
that.
Once you start to understand capitalism, you see that it's always been an
international and internationalizing system. Maybe we can say the pace of
that has picked up, but I don't think there is anything particularly newly
international about the political economy today.
For example, levels of capital flows and international trade in the late 19th
century were by some measures higher than they are today. A hundred years ago
you had the age of outright imperialism, which was certainly a sort of
globalization. This has always been a global system, a world system. To posit
this utopia when everything was really groovy and "local" is misleading,
historically and politically.
BG: Some would concede your point but argue that the sheer quantity of
international transactions and communication has led to a qualitative shift.
DH: Certainly things have speeded up. But the shift from a world in which
information and capital could only flow at the speed of weeks – transatlantic
ocean voyages, for example – to the era of the telegraph was a much bigger
shift than anything we've seen today. That change compressed the whole world
timescale from weeks into seconds. Going from seconds to nanoseconds is
faster, but is it really more radical or important than changes in the past?
We're used to thinking in a global way because of the telegraph. We inherited
a whole way of global thinking that was created ex nihilo then. The same with
the telephone, the photograph, jet travel – these all had to do with creating
a proverbial "global village." We're not now entering some new kind of
hyperspace severed from what went before it.
And although the international movement of capital and goods may take
different technical forms today, the basic soc

[CTRL] [News2U] Bush Web Intrigue

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Subject: [News2U] Bush Web Intrigue
Date: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:08 PM

LA Weekly - January 19 - 25, 2001

Bush Web Intrigue

Edited by Gale Holland
The 2nd of January was already a pretty rotten day for Wheaton,
Maryland,
resident Mike Hershdorfer, laboring at his computer under the pall of
one of
the harshest Eastern winters on record. But it got a lot rottener at
2:20
p.m., when the Webmaster for the anti-Bush political site
www.bushoccupation.com answered a knock at the door to find two
Secret
Service agents and a Montgomery County police officer.
The agents gave a vague explanation of investigating a tip about Web-
site
activity, Hershdorfer said. As he stood in the doorway with the dogs
barking,
the agents repeatedly pressed to enter his home. “I got the
distinct
impression that they were not going to leave unless I let them
inside, so I
did,” Hershdorfer recalled in an interview this week.
The agents declined to say who made the tip, or what was said. They
asked
Hershdorfer for a list of Web sites he had visited, and for
permission to
search his house and review his medical records. They also asked him
how he
felt about the Clintons and Bush â€" and whether he had ever
threatened to blow
up the White House. Meanwhile, the police officer stood in the
corner, saying
he was there “to protect me,” an incredulous Hershdorfer
remembered.
In the course of the hourlong interrogation, Hershdorfer’s roommate
Patty
happened to telephone. After he had explained the situation, she rang
up her
lawyer stepfather, who instructed her to tell Hershdorfer to keep
quiet and
to refuse a search.
Hershdorfer told the agents he suspected the tip had come from
someone with
the right-wing Free Republic Web site, which he had begun monitoring
following media accounts of Freeper harassment of Democratic veep
candidate
Joe Lieberman and others. “I told the agents I felt intimidated and
that my
rights were under threat,” Hershdorfer said. They packed up their
notes and
left.
Hershdorfer told OffBeat he closely monitors bushoccupation.com and a
related
e-group; neither has posted a threat, he claims. “I’m trying to
organize in
the middle left, not with people who want to blow things up,” he
said. The
strongest language on bushoccupation.com is: “We are dedicated to
opposing
the extraconstitutional and illegitimate occupation of [the] U.S.
government
by George W. Bush and the people using him as a front man for the
extreme
right-wing anti-democratic operatives.” Hershdorfer also has put up
“Wanted”
posters with photographs of the five U.S. Supreme Court justices who
halted
the Florida ballot recount, handing Bush the presidential election.
Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin refused to comment on
Hershdorfer’s case,
but said it’s standard procedure to investigate any report of a
threat
against the president or president-elect. “It only takes a minute
to pull a
post off a Web site, as you know,” said Mackin. “We don’t care
about
anyone’s politics.”
Hershdorfer remains shaken by the experience, and thinks that he will
probably never know who his accusers were â€" just that they made a
miserable
day more miserable. Mission accomplished, one imagines.
â€"Johnny Angel
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[CTRL] NM: Morris: Scandal Insider Quinn Forced Clinton to Pardon Fugitive

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Newsmax-Inside Cover

Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001 12:55 p.m. EST

Morris: Scandal Insider Quinn Forced Clinton to Pardon Fugitive

 House and Senate investigators currently pondering probes into
ex-President Clinton's pardon of billionaire tax evader Marc Rich
may find the outrageous decision had more to do with Rich's
lawyer, one-time White House counsel Jack Quinn, than political
donations from Rich's ex-wife Denise.

 "It has very little to do with Denise Rich's money," former
White House political guru Dick Morris told Fox News Channel's
Paula Zahn Thursday night. "It has to do with one thing and one
thing only, what Jack Quinn knows."

 Quinn headed up the White House's legal fire brigade for 18
months, Morris explained. And he was in a position to know where
all the Clinton scandal bodies are buried.

 "Jack Quinn knows everything," Morris told Zahn. "And when Bill
Clinton talks to you, he keeps an encyclopedic file in his mind
of what you know. He knows what you know. ... And when you know a
lot and you come to Bill Clinton and you ask for a favor, you get
it."

 "And believe me, I know what I'm talking about!" added Morris,
sounding as if he may still harbor a Clinton secret or two
himself.

 The one-time White House adviser noted that Quinn would have had
to review all the evidence eventually turned over to
congressional probers.

 "He knows all of the documents on travel office, all of the
documents on Foster, all of the documents on Whitewater, all of
the documents on every one of the Clinton scandals that predates
1996," said Morris.

Quinn also knows what they decided not to release, which could
amount to a cache of evidence compelling enough to outfit Bill
and Hillary Clinton in orange jumpsuits for years to come.

 So, posited Morris, "When Jack Quinn comes to Bill Clinton and
makes a request, Bill Clinton says, 'How high?'"

Morris outlined a few of the scandal secrets that likely forced
Clinton to pardon Quinn's client.

 "They have Riady pay off Hubbell 100,000 bucks to shut up, pay
off Jim Guy Tucker and his wife 500,000 bucks to shut up.

"And then Hillary shreds all the documents she can get her hands
on. And then they're saying there is no evidence to convict them.

"You have to be a certified moron to believe that Jim Guy Tucker
and Jim and Susan McDougal borrowed $300,000 from a government
fund for a program that they never spent the money on, know that
they spent it on Whitewater, all of which is an established fact,
and believe that Bill and Hillary didn't know it.

"You have to be an absolute moron to believe that, yet there is
no documentary evidence that they knew about it because the
people that know it were either pardoned or bribed, Hubbell and
Tucker bribed, McDougal pardoned."

 Is the old Clinton hand talking through his hat? Lest anyone
doubt him, Morris issued this challenge:

"If Tucker wants to sue me over the use of the word 'bribe,' or
Hubbell does, too, go ahead. We'll have a fun time in discovery."


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   "I MADE THE RING FROM A BULLET AND THE PIN OF A HAND GRENADE"

 When Palestinian liberation fighter Leila Khaled
 hijacked her first plane in 1969, she became
 the international pin-up of armed struggle.
 Then she underwent cosmetic surgery so she could
 do it again.  Thirty years on, she talks to
 Katharine Viner about being a woman at war

[The Guardian, 26 January):
In a way, the whole story is in the ring. The iconic photograph of Leila
Khaled, the picture which made her the symbol of Palestinian resistance
and female power, is extraordinary in many ways: the gun held in fragile
hands, the shiny hair wrapped in a keffiah , the delicate Audrey Hepburn
face refusing to meet your eye. But it's
the ring, resting delicately on her third finger. To fuse an object of
feminine adornment, of frivolity, with a bullet: that is Khaled's story,
the reason behind her image's enduring power. Beauty mixed with violence.

And the ring? "I made it from the pin of a hand grenade - from the first
grenade I ever used in training," she says. "I just wrapped it around a
bullet."

Leila Khaled - international hijacker for the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP), the papers' favourite 70s "girl terrorist" and "deadly
beauty" - is now 57, and sitting with me in the House of Commons for her
first ever interview on British soil. Her cheekbones are still like knives;
her eyes are gentle but flicker
when moved. She has a Rothmans cigarette constantly dangling languorously
between her fingers (she once said of a potentially boring time in Kuwait:
"I was politically conscious and a chain smoker - I needed no other diversions").

She is, of course, wearing a keffiah, fringed with wool in the Palestinian
colours of red, green, black and white, like a shawl.  But she looks very
different now from the way she did in that famous photo, and not just because
of age. Since that picture was taken in 1969, after her first (successful)
hijack of a TWA plane, Khaled
underwent no fewer than six cosmetic operations on her face, so that no
one would ever recognise her again. She refused to wander around with the
face of an icon.

"The surgeon just made a few differences to my nose and my chin," she says.
"But it worked. No one recognised me."  She elected to have surgery without
a general anaesthetic; because, as she said in her autobiography: "I have
a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests
and concerns must be
subordinated."

Such revolutionary-speak is a reminder that Khaled is from a very different
time: an age when hijacks were a political tool of the moment, when commitment,
extreme risk and sacrifice were admired and often romanticised. Her sexuality
was always emphasised; as recently as 1980, a Norwegian newspaper made
jokes about her "bombs" (Norwegian slang for breasts) and she is supposed
to have been the inspiration for Leela, Dr Who's foxy sidekick in 1975.

She is the pin-up of armed struggle; like her hero, Che Guevara, Khaled
had the glamour as well as the belief. She had a certain disdain for her
fellow western revolutionaries, however: "We found it very amusing that
they honestly believed they were making a 'revolution' if they undressed
in public, seized a university building, or shouted an obscenity at bureaucrats,"
she says.

The surgery meant that Khaled was able to undertake her second hijack without
detection; this time of an El Al jet from Amsterdam. "At Amsterdam airport
my comrade Patrick [Arguello, a Nicaraguan] and I were stopped by Israeli
officers," she says. "They searched our bags very thoroughly, but they
didn't find anything in there. Because the grenades were in my pockets."
She takes a deep breath. "We had passports from Honduras. The officer said
to me, 'do you speak Spanish?' At once I said, 'Si señor' - I was lucky,
because they were the only words I knew."

In mid-flight, Khaled and Arguello tried to storm the cockpit. They banged
on the door; Khaled took the pins out of her grenades with her teeth and
ordered the captain to let them in. But there were armed guards on the
plane and they began to shoot. "Patrick was shot in the back four times,
and another man came with a bottle of whisky and banged it over his head,"
says Khaled. "It was terrible." Why didn't they shoot her? "I had grenades,"
she says, with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Eventually I was hit on the

[CTRL] LT: First space war game alarms Pentagon

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000118613908976&rtmo=fsM3Yl0s&atmo=rrrq
&pg=/et/01/1/30/wswar30.html

First space war game alarms Pentagon

By Ben Fenton in Washington


  THE Pentagon has held its first war games in space and
discovered that it could be vulnerable to a serious defeat,
military planners said yesterday. The five-day exercise, aimed at
finding out how to defend America's satellites and destroy those
of a potential enemy, is thought to have had alarming results.
Set in 2017, the deadly serious game - acted out in Colorado -
involved two countries, codenamed Red and Blue, but obviously
representing China and the United States.

Maj Gen William Looney III, commander of US air force space
operations, said: "We don't normally play space. The purpose of
this game was to focus on how we really would act in space."

The military has been reluctant to talk about the results of the
war game, but it is believed both sides used "cyberattacks" -
efforts to disable each other's mainframe computers. The
"Chinese" side also tried a pre-emptive strike by buying up all
the commercial satellites it could find, blocking a vital source
of support that the Pentagon has come to rely on.

Unexpected side-effects of the war game are thought to have
included the new tactic of hijacking an opponent's satellites and
using it to broadcast propaganda.


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[CTRL] WT: Records unravel $70 million trail taken by Rich

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January 29, 2001

Records unravel $70 million trail taken by Rich

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Marc Rich, the fugitive financier pardoned on Inauguration Day by
President Clinton, personally devised and oversaw an elaborate
scheme to funnel to Swiss banks more than $70 million in illegal
profits from the resale of crude oil.

According to federal law enforcement authorities and government
records, Mr.  Rich — as part of an extensive plot to evade U.S.
taxes and federal energy regulations — successfully hid millions
of dollars in illegal profits that he and his partner, Pincus
Green, also pardoned by Mr.  Clinton, accumulated in the 1980s.

The scheme, described by authorities as one of the biggest
tax-fraud cases in U.S. history, continued over nine months while
the illegal profits were secretly being routed from the United
States to banks in Switzerland. Records show the profits had been
obtained through the purchase and later resale of $200 million of
Iranian oil after President Carter had banned trade with that
country.

Authorities said Mr.  Rich diverted the cash through a series of
phony transactions involving companies he had set up in Delaware,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, the U.S.  Virgin Islands, Australia
and Switzerland.  The money, on which taxes were never paid,
ended up at Marc Rich & Co.  in Zug, Switzerland.

"It was Rich who personally laundered those profits off the books
in an effort to evade taxes and avoid federal energy
regulations," said one law enforcement official, who asked not to
be identified.  "The evidence is clear.  Had Rich ever been
brought to trial, he would have been convicted."

Mr.  Rich, whose ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, gave $1.3
million to the Democratic Party, fled to Switzerland in 1983
after his indictment on charges of evading $48 million in taxes
and violating U.S.  sanctions by trading with Iran while American
hostages were held in that country.  Still a Swiss resident, he
was accused of tax fraud, racketeering and tax evasion.

Mr.  Rich left the country at a time when his attorney, Edward
Bennett Williams, who has since died, was attempting to negotiate
a settlement in the case — including a June 1983 offer to pay a
$100 million fine to resolve the matter without his client
serving time in prison. Authorities said prosecutors refused the
offer because Mr.  Rich and Mr.

Green were fugitives and had not agreed to return to this country
to plead guilty in court.

The Justice Department, which steadfastly declined over a 17-year
period to consider pardon requests from Mr.  Rich and Mr. Green,
maintained at the time of the settlement offer that it was not
interested in closing the case without admissions of guilt by the
two men.

"Marc Rich and Pincus Green certainly became this country's
highest priority white-collar fugitives, and that really didn't
change until Inauguration Day 2001," said another law enforcement
official, who also requested anonymity.

Federal law enforcement authorities said Mr.  Rich initially came
to their attention in 1981 after two Texas men pleaded guilty in
a scheme involving the illegal resale of crude oil.  The two men
implicated Mr. Rich in the diversion of millions of dollars in
crude-oil profits.

A review by the FBI and federal prosecutors of thousands of
documents, along with interviews of more than 100 witnesses,
eventually led to the indictment of Mr.  Rich and Mr.  Green.

The indictment represented the first time the 1970 Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act was used in a
major white-collar fraud prosecution.  The law originally was
designed to combat organized crime groups accused of operating
continuing criminal enterprises.

Mr.  Clinton said last week from his new home in Chappaqua, N.Y.,
that he granted the pardon — requested by former Clinton White
House Counsel Jack Quinn —based on the merits of the case as
argued by Mr.  Quinn and denied the donations by Mrs.  Rich had
anything to do with the decision.

"The only thing I would do is ask people to look at the facts.
Then I think they will agree with me," Mr.  Clinton said in brief
comments to CNN.

The contributions by Mrs.  Rich began in 1992 and went to Mr.
Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic National
Committee and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat.
She made an emotional plea to Mr.  Clinton for the pardon as a
friend and an admirer.

"Let no one think exile for life is a light burden.  The world we
cared about was cut off from us," she said in a letter to the
president.

The House Government Reform Committee is investigating the
pardon, although it cannot be revoked.  The committee said last
week it wants to know if Mr.  Clinton had an improper motive for
the pardon, if law enforcement authorities were consulted before
it was granted and if any regulations governing the lobbying of
the president were violated.

The committee also is probing what role the Clinton Justice
Department, particu

[CTRL] Fwd: A Nation of Sheep: The Legal Response to Homelessness - 12/24/93

[Aleisha Saba]

Interesting item.now Prince Phillip thinks he had the right idea for
over population - he would like to be reincarnaed as a virus - well
maybe for all we know the bastard is dead and came back as AIDS for this
stuff was the stuff of which the Clintons are made?

Once I saw the Secret Service clearing the streets of Columbus - it was
my custom to bring hot coffee to this one mad, who would lay in the
entry of a store long closed which had been popular until street people
hit the streets - but what I noted at night was not so much the poor
taking to the streets - but I shall never forget this vile lewd black
man, dressed as a woman in maroon shiney material, walking up and down
the streets - and being bombarded by young blacks, well dressed
demanding money and this was only 6 in the evening - prostitutes walking
streets in a once great "cow town" they called it on Johnny Carson
because at that time we just didn't have queers and a cess pool of night
life coming out of water closets.

The man to whom I brought coffe, looked like a Charlie Manson - a wino,
and wrapped in American Flag - maybe even an old time hippie longing for
the past.but this man was roushed up a bit and shuffled away without
his coffee that am, for you see Clinton was coming to town - this would
have been in 1994 or 1993..many were given COTA passes to ride the
bus all day but oh, dare not let the world see what has happened to
Columbus - they should see it today..

Today we have in Columbus, a black mayor and a black chief of police who
previously had been up on many different charges including being on
streets in areas where his conduct was questioned.attempts by the
Mayor to rid the deprtment of this man failed - our NAACP saw to
that.now when the new King Center was built with
auditorium/theatre and stores, blacks demanded whites come to their
stores and patronize them..they got to be kidding - first of all,
take that up with the Lazaras family(and that store is going busto -
guess Lazaras already bailed out)..

So where are they going to hide all these people now.what I did
years ago was to look into the Slum Landlords - renting condemned
properties - interesting to see who owns these properties and for what
you pay in rent in one of those dumps, say like an Al Gore slum
property, you could find a nice apartment.

So the poor we have with us always.and the morning after pills seem
to be devised to prevent birth of babies of more affluent
individuals.so now they cannot even give this stuff awaybut we
have the Jesse Jacksons and this asshole out in San Francisco, another
black God Shouter who backed up Jesse with I have an illegitimate kid on
the way too.

Imagine what the cities will be like in say another ten years..what
lovely people as the suburbs arm up.years ago more affluent whites
including all your major TV stars, etc (who now carry guns by special
decree, some of them, yet push to take this right from the Amerian
people)..but imagine cities in 10 years and then ask yourself - why
such expensive pills and backed by Planned Parenthood?

Have better solution for Canada and England and America - confiscate the
slum landlord property - for a lot of this property is bought up by
Judges in Probate Courts and lawyersgive the property to these
street people who have no desire to work, evidently their only desire is
to die - and make their lives as comfortable as possible.many would
be entitled to Social Security?   They could buy some of these old
houses and the more fit could rehabilitate the property and maybe the
person with a little help

Interesting to see though how Clinton is getting away with murder,
literally and figuratively - I can only remember the SS ridding the
streets of Columbus of the queers, the untouchables, and the winos and
black men dressed as women for now they have come out of the closet and
taken to the streets.Jesse Jackson is a good example of this type of
individual maybe he thought God intended him to replenish the land?

The poor you have with you always - well let the big cities have them -
for years I paid income to the great City of Columbus and this great
city hogged all the proceeds not wishing to share our own money with
them...Goodbye Columbus, I left there a long time ago for I saw the
"angel" in the whirlwind and it is still coming at us..

Now they went after the cigarette companies - wonder why they do not go
after the booze makers and sue the hell out of them and let them take
care of the ends of mispent lives.

Wasn't it Holy Joe Lieberman's father who had a liquor store - get the
bastard for some kind of "reparations" - his father went from pulling a
bakery truck to sending his kid to Yale - now i knew a guy once who had
a similar job and Al Capone had paid him $75.00 a week to so do, and in
that day and age, he made more than his father - he was a professional
wrestler - however I was told by this on

[CTRL] WTH: Johnston hearing rescheduled again; plea deal said to be in works

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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Johnston hearing rescheduled again; plea deal said to be in works

By TOMMY WITHERSPOON
Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer

A pretrial hearing in the obstruction of justice case against
former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston has been rescheduled for
the second time as the parties continue to iron out a plea
agreement, sources said.

Johnston, a former U.S.  attorney from Waco, had been set for a
pretrial hearing on Wednesday in U.S.  Magistrate Mary Ann
Medler's court in St. Louis.  That hearing has been canceled, and
the next court setting in Johnston's case is Feb.  6 before U.S.
District Judge Charles Shaw, said Jan Diltz, a spokeswoman for
John Danforth's Office of Special Counsel.

Johnston was the lone person indicted in Danforth's 14-month, $17
million investigation into government actions on the final day of
the 1993 standoff at David Koresh's compound known as Mount
Carmel.

Danforth's special grand jury, meeting in St.  Louis, indicted
Johnston in November on two counts of obstructing Danforth's
investigation and on three counts of lying to Danforth's
investigators and to the grand jury.

A trial date has been set for April 2 in St.  Louis.

Johnston and Diltz declined comment Monday on reports that the
pretrial hearings set for Jan.  16 and reset for Wednesday were
canceled because of ongoing plea negotiations that reportedly
will result in a felony conviction for Johnston but no prison
time.

"There is just nothing I can really say at this point," Diltz
said.

Johnston's attorney, Michael Kennedy, did not return phone
messages to his office on Monday.

Kennedy has filed motions asking that the charges against
Johnston be dismissed for a number of reasons, including
allegations that the special counsel is holding Johnston to a
higher standard of conduct than others who have lied or were not
cooperative with the investigation.

Johnston, who helped prosecute 11 Branch Davidians on murder
charges in 1994, has acknowledged that he "temporarily misled"
the grand jury about his knowledge of the FBI's use of tear-gas
cannisters that were capable of starting a fire.

Johnston also is charged with withholding his handwritten notes
that indicated that he had discussed the use of the pyrotechnic
devices before the Branch Davidian criminal trial.  Johnston
falsely testified before the grand jury that he had turned over
all his notes involving the Branch Davidian case, the indictment
against him alleges.

Before that, he also had been ordered by a federal judge in Waco
and a congressional subpoena to turn over all of his materials in
the case.

The pretrial hearings had been set in Medler's magistrate court,
and she was to have considered Johnston's motions and made a
recommendation to Shaw, who was to have made final rulings in the
case.  The Feb.  6 hearing, however, is set in Shaw's federal
district court, another possible indication that the parties are
close to finalizing a plea bargain, said the sources, who spoke
on condition of anonymity.


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[CTRL] ABC: Yeman Attack Warning

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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ABC NEWS


Yemen Attack Warning

Terror Suspect in 1998 Allegedly Told of Plans Against a U.S. Warship


By John McWethy

W A S H I N G T O N, Jan.  30 — In the days after the August 1998
bombing of the U.S.  Embassy in Nairobi, Mohamed Al-Owhali was
arrested by Kenyan authorities and interrogated by the FBI.

He told the FBI he participated in the attack and had deep ties
to alleged terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, according to court
records in his trial, in which FBI documents claim he personally
asked bin Laden for an assignment and got Kenya.

ABCNEWS has learned he also provided details of a plan to attack
an American warship in Yemen.  Al-Owhali, whom bin Laden has
hailed as one of the martyrs in American jails, said it would be
a Katyusha rocket attack conducted by a terrorist cell and it
would come in the next few months, ABCNEWS has learned.

This plan may have been the seed that later grew into the USS
Cole attack.

Roughly two years later, on Oct.  12, 2000, a small boat carrying
explosives bombed the Navy warship USS Cole in Yemen's Aden
harbor, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.  Eight months
earlier, on Jan.  3, sources tell ABCNEWS, terrorists had
attempted to attack the USS Sullivans in the same harbor but
their boat sank.

Following an investigation into security precautions taken prior
to the Cole attack, then-Defense Secretary William Cohen on Jan.
19 faulted himself and the entire chain of command for
insufficient protective planning ahead of the attack.  Cohen told
reporters U.S.  intelligence needed to be improved and he noted
that conspirators had watched for a year prior to the Cole attack
to see how U.S.  warships refueled in Aden.

The Navy, in its own investigation, concluded that security
lapses on the Cole itself were not serious enough to warrant
punishing the commanding officer, Cmdr.  Kirk Lippold, or any of
his crew.

Opening statements in Al-Owhali's embassy bombing trial could
begin as early as next week.  A U.S.  federal judge on Monday
decided not to throw out Al-Owhali's confession on the embassy
bombing, which Al-Owhali, 24, argued in court papers had been
coerced.

Classified Message Was Sent

The morning after Al-Owhali told of the planned attack, Aug.
26.  1998, the FBI sent out a classified message under FBI
Director Louis Freeh’s name warning of a plot to attack "a U.S.
Navy ship" in Yemen.

The FBI message went to three Pentagon agencies and, as a result,
the visit of one American warship to Yemen was canceled.

It also came as Gen.  Anthony Zinni was finalizing an agreement
for refueling ships in Aden.  But it apparently left no lasting
impression with Zinni.

"And in fact, Aden never had a specific terrorist threat," Zinni
said at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct.
19.  "All the other ports that have been mentioned here that we
should have considered as options have had specific threats."

Was It Received?

So what happened to the FBI warning?

CIA officials say they never received either the warning or
details of Al-Owhali's interrogation.  FBI officials say they did
copy the CIA.

Another problem: The FBI warning gave no source for its
information and said it was "uncorroborated" information of
"undetermined reliability."

Military officials say it would have been extremely helpful to
know that the FBI warning came from a man who was already
arrested for allegedly committing a major act of terrorism, who
had been granted partial immunity to provide more details and who
had deep ties to Yemen — having briefly lived there and
repeatedly telephoned an operative there after he'd left.

Officials are still trying to figure out why such crucial
information seemed to disappear within the bureaucracy.

It might not have prevented the attack on the USS Cole, officials
say.  But it could have made all 28 U.S.  ships that refueled
there much more cautious and that could have saved lives.


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[CTRL] Special Prayer Intentions

[Bill Richer]

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Dear Friends:
  Could you all pray for me for a special prayer intention I have for
my job that things will turn out the way I want them to!

Thank You & God Bless

Bill Richer

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[CTRL] Find a grave

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http://www.findagrave.com/

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[CTRL] Green Goo in NZ

[Johannes Schmidt III]

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This is the sort of important story I feature daily at my website,

http://leviathan.weblogs.com

from

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/irnstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=36675&newsection=3

Bright green "goo" troubles Aucklanders

31.01.2001 19:45

A bright green "goo" - as described by motorists - has caught the attention of the 
Auckland Regional Council tonight.

The substance is floating on water near the Upper Harbour Bridge, and the Council says 
the liquid appears to have come off the land.


Pollution Control Officer, Sarah Yarrow says workers are trying to block the 
substance, so that it doesn't flow under the bridge into the harbour.


She says a sucker truck will be brought in to have the stuff removed, at which time it 
will be analysed and traced.


Sarah Yarrow says the bright green liquid doesn't have any immediate acidic effects, 
and doesn't have any odour.


She says it could be some sort of dye.

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Re: [CTRL] [nandotimes] O'Hair disappearance--FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader

[Ynr Chyldz Wyld]

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> > Roderick Beverly, special agent in charge of the FBI's San
> > Antonio office, stopped short of confirming the identity of the
> > bodies, but he said officials believe the nearly 6-year-old
> > mystery is over.

Seem's to me that it's hardly 'over'...I would think there is still the mystery of who 
did it, and why...


June

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Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

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The city of London is under the most intensive electronic surveillance of any civilian 
city in the world. There are cameras, satellites, listening devices, infra-red, you 
name it. It sall to prevent (ostensibly) IRA attacks, and has been remarkably 
succesful. I've also read accounts that a great many cars entering London are searched 
by checkpoints, not to mention boats and planes.

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>From: "Carl Amedio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > cameras every ten feet? LOL
>> >
>> > surely you jest, carl, you obviously haven't been here
>> >
>> I just watched a BBC program on the complete loss of privacy in UK. The fact
>> you pooh pooh this says volumes.  Enjoy the gulag.
>
>There is a show on PBS called "Mystery", which shows primarily British imports.
>
>About a year ago on one of these imports, "Prime Suspect", a case of child 
>rape/murder was solved due to these
>cameras.  A big deal was made about how the suspect would never have been caught if 
>it weren't for the fact
>that the suspect's car was caught on one of these cameras, showing the suspect was at 
>the location of the
>crime at the time the crime was committed, when the suspect seemingly had an alibi 
>for being elsewhere.
>
>I thought at the time that it was very interesting that this British show presented 
>these cameras so
>matter-of-factly, and indeed I got the impression the whole plot twist of the cameras 
>being used to solve a
>horrific crime was orchestrated to help "sell" the idea of these cameras...
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Re: [CTRL] Morning-after pill flops in Canada

[Johannes Schmidt III]

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Probably because they use the standard birth control pills, which i'd imagine are 
considerably cheaper than $5. Is that per pill or for a bottle? And also it seems to 
have required a prescription. How many women are going to go to their GP and ask for a 
morning after pill prescription? They will probably get alecture on the dangers of 
STDs etc.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:40:27 -0500 Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>-Caveat Lector-
>
>[I seriously thought this was from the Onion at first!  Kelly]
>
>http://www.nationalpost.com/
>January 31, 2001
>
>Sales to stop as morning-after pill proves a flop
>Minuscule demand
>
>Mary Vallis
>National Post
>
>A British pharmaceutical company is discontinuing sales of its so-called
>morning-after pill in Canada because not enough women are buying
>it.
>
>Shire Inc. has sold less than 10% of its Preven emergency
>contraceptive kits since the product first hit Canadian pharmacies in
>October, 1999, even though the company slashed its price from $22
>to $5 last year.
>
>"This is a huge disappointment for me," Joseph Rus, chief executive
>officer of Shire Canada Inc., the company's Canadian subsidiary, said
>yesterday. "I'm totally puzzled ... I'm just not sure if there's
>anything at all that I could have done differently."
>
>[Perhaps he should advocate a Just say No to Condoms campaign!]
>
>
>Preven, the first morning-after pill to become available in Canada,
>became part of the debate over when human life begins.
>
>Anti-abortion groups say the drug is the equivalent of an early
>abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the
>wall of the uterus. Preven's supporters argue it works as a
>contraceptive because it prevents pregnancies but does not affect
>fertilized eggs already lodged in the uterine wall.
>
>According to IMS Health, an independent organization that tracks
>drug sales, national sales of Preven peaked in retail pharmacies in
>July, 2000, when an estimated 684 kits were sold.
>
>Mr. Rus expects the company to lose $1.5-million on unsold kits, which
>will expire in storage without reaching pharmacy shelves.
>
>The reasons for the pill's failure are a mystery, Mr. Rus said. It had
>the support of Planned Parenthood and the Society of Obstetricians
>and Gynaecologists.
>
>Mr. Rus said many factors could have contributed to the product's
>poor sales. A lack of awareness among women, the unwillingness of
>doctors to prescribe it and the vocal resistance of anti-abortion
>groups are all potential factors, he said.
>
>"This is unfortunate news," Thirza Smith, president of the Society of
>Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, said from
>Saskatchewan. "There is no reason why emergency contraception
>should not be more readily available."
>
>John Hof, president of the B.C. branch of Campaign Life Coalition, said
>he worries Shire may not be telling the whole story.
>
>"All over the world, there's a push on to make the morning-after pill
>available in schools, in Planned Parenthood clinics, in every pharmacy
>-- Britain, the United States and France are all pushing the
>morning-after pill," he said.
>
>"And now Shire can't sell it? There's got to be a reason."
>
>The Preven kit includes a pregnancy test, sets of pills to be taken 12
>hours apart and an instruction booklet. The first set of drugs can be
>taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.
>
>News of Preven's discontinuation reached Canadian pharmacists this
>week through a company posting in a national industry newsletter. It
>comes months after a Montreal company launched another
>morning-after pill called Plan B.
>
>Morning-after pills have been available to women in British Columbia
>without a doctor's prescription since last fall. There, pharmacists,
>using their own discretion, can give the drug to women.
>
>Some pharmacists, however, are torn over whether they should
>distribute the pills, claiming they do not want to enter the moral and
>ethical fray surrounding emergency contraception.
>
>"A lot of us do not feel it is our job to help a woman end a
>pregnancy," said Cristina Alarcon of B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience.
>
>Controversy over the product is raging worldwide.
>
>In the United States, Wal-Mart has refused to sell the kit.
>
>And this week, Britain's House of Lords rejected an attempt to ban
>over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pills.
>
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Re: [CTRL] What the heck?

[Johannes Schmidt III]

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I must have missed them. I think this guy and his friends are English, nominally. 
Certainly in very bad taste.

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[CTRL] [nandotimes] O'Hair disappearance--FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader

[Tenorlove]

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> FBI believes remains are missing atheist leader, family members
>
> By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press
>
> CAMP WOOD, Texas (January 28, 2001 6:36 p.m. EST
> http://www.nandotimes.com
> http://www.nandotimes.com">
> http://www.nandotimes.com) - Investigators unearthed a metal
> artificial hip and three skulls at a ranch Sunday, and strongly
> believe they have found the grave of atheist leader Madalyn
> Murray O'Hair and two family members.
>
> Roderick Beverly, special agent in charge of the FBI's San
> Antonio office, stopped short of confirming the identity of the
> bodies, but he said officials believe the nearly 6-year-old
> mystery is over.
>
> Investigators believe O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray and the
> granddaughter she had adopted, Robin Murray O'Hair, were killed,
> dismembered and dumped on the private, 5,000-acre ranch in 1995.
>
>
> O'Hair had a hip replacement operation several years before her
> disappearance.
>
> "The bones indicate three sets of human remains," Beverly said.
> "All appeared to have their legs cut off. The remains and the
> ground around the bones were charred, indicating a fire at the
> scene.
>
> "The likelihood of three individuals walking around here, one of
> which has a hip replacement, and the trauma and marks we see on
> the bones, it's a better than even chance" that the remains
> belong to the O'Hair family, he said.
>
> Beverly said investigators also expect to find partial remains
> of Danny Fry, who was a suspect in the family's disappearance.
> His body was found in the Dallas area, but the head and hands
> had been severed.
>
> Beverly said they expected to finish digging by dark Sunday.
>
> Beverly said investigators would try to match the serial number
> on the metal hip to O'Hair's medical records. DNA tests and
> dental records also will be used to confirm the identities of
> the victims.
>
> David Glassman, a forensic anthropologist at Southwest Texas
> State University, will take the remains to the university for
> analysis. Autopsies could take a week to 10 days.
>
> As law enforcement officers came and went through the ranch gate
> Sunday, a man walked down the road pulling an 8-foot wooden
> cross.
>
> "I'm not doing it for her, I'm doing it for her family," said
> Bob Hanus, 35, a self-described Christian missionary. "I said,
> 'What better place to go and pray.'"
>
> Investigators got their break in the O'Hair disappearance on the
> eve of the trial of David Roland Waters, who faced kidnapping
> and extortion charges in the case. Waters made an agreement with
> investigators Wednesday that was ordered sealed by a federal
> judge in Austin.
>
> A law enforcement source who spoke to The Associated Press on
> condition of anonymity confirmed that Waters was taken to the
> ranch Saturday. His two lawyers also were present.
>
> A hearing is scheduled Monday to hear objections from The
> Associated Press on the judge's decision to seal the agreement.
> Waters' attorneys had made the request.
>
> O'Hair, who was 77 and suffered from diabetes and heart disease
> when she disappeared, enjoyed calling herself the most hated
> woman in America. She was involved in successful court battles
> in the 1960s to ban prayer and Bible-reading in public schools.
>
> O'Hair, Jon Garth Murray and Robin Murray O'Hair left their
> Austin home in August 1995 under mysterious circumstances.
> Breakfast dishes were still on the table and O'Hair's medication
> was left behind. The family's beloved dogs were left at the
> house.
>
> They were later seen in San Antonio but dropped from sight along
> with about $500,000 in gold coins from one of O'Hair's atheist
> organizations.
>
> Prosecutors contend the victims were dismembered at a public
> storage shed in Austin, placed in 55-gallon drums and dumped on
> the ranch property under Waters' directions. He worked as
> O'Hair's office manager before being convicted of stealing
> $54,000. He is serving 60 years in prison on weapons charges.
>
> Last August, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks sentenced Gary Paul
> Karr, 52, a former jailmate of Waters, to life in prison for
> extorting money from the O'Hair family.
>
> O'Hair's disappearance wasn't reported for a year until her
> estranged son, William Murray, told Austin police she was
> missing.
>
> Theories ranged from O'Hair having run off with money from her
> atheist organization, United Secularists of America. Others said
> she went away to die privately where Christians wouldn't pray
> over her.

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Re: [CTRL] What the heck?

[Tenorlove]

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--- Johannes Schmidt III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could this be a CIA psy-op or something?

According to several previous posts to this list (search the archives
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[CTRL] Morning-after pill flops in Canada

[Kelly]

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[I seriously thought this was from the Onion at first!  Kelly]

http://www.nationalpost.com/
January 31, 2001

Sales to stop as morning-after pill proves a flop
Minuscule demand

Mary Vallis
National Post

A British pharmaceutical company is discontinuing sales of its so-called
morning-after pill in Canada because not enough women are buying
it.

Shire Inc. has sold less than 10% of its Preven emergency
contraceptive kits since the product first hit Canadian pharmacies in
October, 1999, even though the company slashed its price from $22
to $5 last year.

"This is a huge disappointment for me," Joseph Rus, chief executive
officer of Shire Canada Inc., the company's Canadian subsidiary, said
yesterday. "I'm totally puzzled ... I'm just not sure if there's
anything at all that I could have done differently."

[Perhaps he should advocate a Just say No to Condoms campaign!]


Preven, the first morning-after pill to become available in Canada,
became part of the debate over when human life begins.

Anti-abortion groups say the drug is the equivalent of an early
abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the
wall of the uterus. Preven's supporters argue it works as a
contraceptive because it prevents pregnancies but does not affect
fertilized eggs already lodged in the uterine wall.

According to IMS Health, an independent organization that tracks
drug sales, national sales of Preven peaked in retail pharmacies in
July, 2000, when an estimated 684 kits were sold.

Mr. Rus expects the company to lose $1.5-million on unsold kits, which
will expire in storage without reaching pharmacy shelves.

The reasons for the pill's failure are a mystery, Mr. Rus said. It had
the support of Planned Parenthood and the Society of Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists.

Mr. Rus said many factors could have contributed to the product's
poor sales. A lack of awareness among women, the unwillingness of
doctors to prescribe it and the vocal resistance of anti-abortion
groups are all potential factors, he said.

"This is unfortunate news," Thirza Smith, president of the Society of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, said from
Saskatchewan. "There is no reason why emergency contraception
should not be more readily available."

John Hof, president of the B.C. branch of Campaign Life Coalition, said
he worries Shire may not be telling the whole story.

"All over the world, there's a push on to make the morning-after pill
available in schools, in Planned Parenthood clinics, in every pharmacy
-- Britain, the United States and France are all pushing the
morning-after pill," he said.

"And now Shire can't sell it? There's got to be a reason."

The Preven kit includes a pregnancy test, sets of pills to be taken 12
hours apart and an instruction booklet. The first set of drugs can be
taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.

News of Preven's discontinuation reached Canadian pharmacists this
week through a company posting in a national industry newsletter. It
comes months after a Montreal company launched another
morning-after pill called Plan B.

Morning-after pills have been available to women in British Columbia
without a doctor's prescription since last fall. There, pharmacists,
using their own discretion, can give the drug to women.

Some pharmacists, however, are torn over whether they should
distribute the pills, claiming they do not want to enter the moral and
ethical fray surrounding emergency contraception.

"A lot of us do not feel it is our job to help a woman end a
pregnancy," said Cristina Alarcon of B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience.

Controversy over the product is raging worldwide.

In the United States, Wal-Mart has refused to sell the kit.

And this week, Britain's House of Lords rejected an attempt to ban
over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pills.

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[CTRL] Bush administration to review listeria proposal

[Steve Wingate]

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Bush administration to review listeria proposal

Copyright © 2001 Nando Media
Copyright © 2001 Scripps Howard News Service

By LANCE GAY, Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON (January 29, 2001 9:02 a.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Bush administration has pulled back for
review a food-safety regulation aimed at forcing meat and cheese
processors to do more testing to prevent listeria-tainted cold cuts and
cheeses from reaching supermarket shelves.

Consumer groups said they were disappointed by the delay in publishing
the 300-page regulation. President Clinton had ordered the regulation after
an outbreak of listeria in hot dogs and deli meats was linked to 21 deaths
and 100 illnesses in Michigan two years ago.

Listeria is a bacteria named after British physician Joseph Lister. The
bacteria appears in prepared meats, including hot dogs and hard sausage,
and unpasteurized "soft" cheeses such as camembert and brie. According
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the bacteria is
responsible for 2,300 hospitalizations and 500 deaths a year.

The bacteria can cause miscarriage and be fatal to the elderly or those with
compromised immune systems. Because of this, the government last year
recommended that pregnant women and those at risk avoid deli meats and
soft cheeses. It also recommended that they reheat all prepared food.

"I'm troubled the listeria rule is being held back," said Caroline Smith
DeWaal, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "This is
not a good first step out of the administration."

Representatives of the food-processing industry said they don't know
what's in the regulation because it has yet to be published.

Former Agriculture Department Secretary Dan Glickman said he was
releasing the regulation Jan. 18, two days before his office term expired.
But it was not released because President Bush's first action on taking
office Jan. 20 was to issue an executive order freezing any pending federal
rules - including the listeria proposal - until all can be reviewed by the new
administration.

The National Food Processors Association, the Washington voice for the
$460-billion food processing industry, questioned why the new regulation
was rushed to publication two days before the Clinton administration left
office.

Spokesman Timothy Willard said public outbreaks have declined over the
last five years as the industry has adopted voluntary testing at meat
processing plants.

Willard said the industry supports scientific testing for pathogens at plants,
but doesn't have a specific position on the listeria regulation because it
hasn't been published.

Under a Clinton administration "Healthy People 2010" program, the
government's food safety experts were putting together a plan aimed at
cutting the number of listeria outbreaks 50 percent by 2010. But following
the outbreak in Michigan, Clinton last May ordered the Agriculture
Department to accomplish that goal by 2005, and take other "aggressive
steps" to reduce the risk of illness from foods.

The government already is implementing new testing procedures at meat-
packing plants for salmonella, a more prevalent pathogen in raw meat.

Glickman had said that the new listeria regulations would provide the
industry with guidance for safe preparation of processed foods, increase
surveillance and outbreak response, and provide technical assistance to
train employees on detecting the bacteria. The industry said it supports
those goals.


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[CTRL] HC vs Ashcroft

[BB]

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The new senator from NY, first partner to the leader of
the most ethical administration in the history of the country,
has expressed her views regarding John Ashcroft, as described
in exerpts from a news story of Jan 29, 2001:


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat
  of New York, also said today that she
  would vote against the nomination.

Mrs. Clinton, in announcing that she would vote against Mr. Ashcroft,
said,
  "His record and his views placed him on the distant shores
of American
  jurisprudence."

Members of several groups that have opposed Mr. Ashcroft accompanied
  Mrs. Clinton today in Manhattan as she announced her
decision to vote
  against him and Gale A. Norton, the interior secretary
nominee.


Mrs. Clinton said she feared that Mr. Ashcroft would deepen the
divisions
  that already existed in the country over emotion-laden
issues like abortion and
  civil rights. She also expressed doubts about whether he
could set aside his
  personal beliefs and carry out the responsibilities that
come with being the
  nation's top law enforcement officer.

  "His record demonstrates a long and personal struggle to
bend the rule of law
  to fit his views," Mrs. Clinton said. "Senator Ashcroft is
not the right man to
  help President Bush build a single nation of justice, for
his view of justice,
  were it the law of the land, would divide Americans even
more sharply."



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  to fit his views," ring any kind of bell?

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[CTRL] Education: The System is the Problem

[Bob Stokes]

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The System Is the Problem
by Milo Markovich

President Bush’s new education plan that has been praised by most Republicans
and conservatives as positive and long overdue has left me quite confused.
Here is a man that has staffed his new cabinet with people who have built
their careers either working for think tanks, government and corporations
that are directly responsible for the state that public education is in
today. These are the same sources from where the Clinton administration had
drawn their staff. The federal government cannot "fix" education simply
because the federal government is the prime culprit that has utterly ruined
whatever remained that was good about public education. On this, most who are
not financially benefiting from public education would agree.

What is surprising about the views of those people who would agree, is that
most of them also agree that the federal government can not only fix the
problem, but they are the only logical entity that should attempt it. Just as
one would not ask a known child molester how to best protect children from
child molesters, why do parents keep expecting the federal department of
education (FDOE) to fix the problems in education that they have created?
Granted, both department of education bureaucrats and child molesters know
much about their respective fields, but their past performance and common
sense should be sufficient to warn us all to keep our children away from both.

I believe this misconception that most well-meaning parents have is because
they are not aware of how extensively foundation money has been intentionally
used to influence and direct the FDOE to set policies over the years at the
local level. The ongoing consolidation of local boards and concurrent
strengthening of state departments of education has been no accident. This
has been intentional and planned since the early days of the 20th century. It
has also been a primary tool of the socialist movement to condition the
American population by psychologically conditioning the young minds of the
children. The foundations and their elite corporate benefactors want a
docile, controllable work force. So does a socialist government. The last
thing the elite of this country want are independently-minded, thinking,
competitive people who could ultimately ruin their free ride that they view
as their collective birthright.

While this may seem an overly-strong view to some of view, let me say that I
was among you not that long ago. What changed my thinking and opened my eyes
was by reading some excellent books written by people who are not
professional authors, but were directly affected by these changes in
education. They or their children were affected so much, that they wrote
books to share their new-found knowledge with the public. The ultimate hope
is that once parents really understand the true nature and purpose of what
passes for public education today, they will rise up to force changes at the
grass roots level, and force the FDOE out of existence.

There are three excellent books I would recommend to anyone that knows in
their gut that there is something systemically wrong with education today,
but cannot quite identify it. There are many other books, but these should
convince the most ardent scoffers among you.

The first is by John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American
Education. I would read this first so you can get a good perspective of what
and how large the problem really is. Mr. Gatto was a teacher in the New York
City schools for 30 years. Beginning in 1961, he watched the schools become
progressively worse institutions for teaching, and was effectively powerless
to stop it. Many teachers who effectively taught academics in the 1960’s
became problems for the progressive education movement and teacher’s unions
if they refused to get "re-educated" themselves and go along with the new
paradigm. Along with his personal story and wonderful real-life anecdotes, he
provides the reader with a teacher’s eye view of what has transpired. He also
places the last century in a proper historical context by showing how truly
educated the average American was prior to "freely" available public
education. Most Americans were self-educated, and we boasted a national 98
plus percent literacy rate. Americans were among the most educated in the
world. Our citizens were incredibly self-reliant and innovative, and it
didn’t cost one cent of tax revenue to accomplish this. Then along came
public education to ostensibly improve it and make it more available to
everyone.

The second book is by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down
of America. The third is by B.K Eakman, Cloning of the American Mind. You can
read either or both of these, depending upon how much detailed evidence you
need to prove to yourself that what has happened to public education has been
a deliberate, orchestrated effort. Both books necessarily overlap in some
area

[CTRL] Stage Three in Education Has Arrived

[Bob Stokes]

-Caveat Lector-

Stage Three in Education Has Arrived
by Gary North

There is a fixed pattern in economic development that is not well understood
by the public. There are three main stages of development. Using political
terminology, I call these three stages the oligarchic/autarchic, the
democratic, and the individualistic. I realize that we lose some conceptual
accuracy by transferring concepts from one discipline to another, but when no
readily recognized terms exist in one discipline, imports sometimes help.

Oligarchy

The oligarchic phase of an economy is where skilled craftsmen produce mainly
for the rich. The market is narrow. Competition is based on quality rather
than price. Meanwhile, poor families produce for themselves (autarchy) and
for barter with their neighbors, with a few local producers of low-quality
goods that are priced in money, but at prices where the poor can just barely
afford them.

To maintain such a hierarchical, stratified economy, political compulsion is
mandatory. A common feature of the medieval economy was the producers’ guild.
Members of a guild cooperated politically with members of other guilds in
cities to pass laws that restricted access to local consumers. A system of
hierarchical apprenticeship and screening was established by each guild in
order to restrict competition. The goal was to keep price competitive
products away from consumers. This subsidized those who competed in terms of
high quality rather than price. It kept the masses poor.

Democracy

At some point, those producers with the ability to produce a larger quantity
of goods by means of a new technology break through the legal barriers. They
beat their way into the market by offering significantly lower prices. The
market responds to a fundamental economic law: "At a lower price, other
things remaining the same, a greater quantity will be demanded." I call this
the democratic phase of economic development. It is marked by a decline of
political compulsion in the market.

Price competition is initially associated with lower quality, but only when
compared to quality that had been available to the rich elite. For the poor,
these new mass-produced products represent a quantum leap in quality. Buyers
who could never have afforded to buy similar goods at the older, higher
prices now find new products available and affordable. For them, the quality
seems very high: something rather than nothing. The goods’ lower quality in
relation to the older array of prices and products is irrelevant to the
buyers.

Two groups oppose this development: those who produce for the rich, who now
find that some of their rich clients also like a bargain; and those who
produce for the poor, offering shoddy merchandise at prices that the poor
have barely been able to afford. Both groups lose customers to the new
producers.

Individualism

The new mass-market producers at first offer limited choices. As was said of
the Model T Ford, "You can get it in any color, as long as you want black."
The Model T opened the automobile market to the growing American middle
class. But in the 1920’s, General Motors took this market away from Ford by
offering five brands of GM cars and many options within each brand line. This
price competitive market had begun to increase diversity. Ford and Chrysler
had to imitate this multi-brand automobile marketing strategy in order to
survive. Then came foreign imports in the 1950’s. Today, the level of
diversity is beyond most car buyers’ ability to monitor.

Here is the pattern. Price competition initially creates a mass market for
some product line by offering minimal diversity. But as these new mass
production techniques are imitated by competitors, diversity raises its
lovely head. Buyers then are offered more choices at far lower prices than
existed before the initial market-creating breakthrough took place. They get
rising quality and falling prices.

The microcomputer has been the best example of this process of
diversification in a physical product line during the last two decades. As
for services, the best example is the steady erosion of network television’s
audience to cable and satellite channels. This process even has a clever
phrase: from broadcasting to narrowcasting. This is the individualism phase.
Buyers can get pretty much what they want.

Dell Computer will sell you a computer with most of the features you can
imagine. They will even help you to imagine lots of new ones. Your computer
is put together for you personally in Taiwan (or wherever) and flown to the
United States, to be delivered to your door. This is truly a personal
computer. All this came about because a teenage Michael Dell started
producing microcomputers to order in his college dorm room back in the early
1980’s. He still offers the same service, but he uses a much larger room.

Stages of Education

The same stages of development have taken place in education. Prior to the
printing press, education was limite

Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

[BB]

Go ahead and laugh, your logic may be sound as a pound, which
isn't worth much, nevertheless your logic is lunacy.
Nobody here is emoting, you can wallow in your smug disarmanent
attitude, and get round-shouldered from patting yourself on the back
because you have no protection from some moron who wants to
stick a knife in you or beat you to death, but you seem to be a
perfect citizen of a government which has convinced you that
socialism is great, and to be defenseless is desirable.
You seem delighted that "the cost and availablity of guns
in the UK is prohibitive."
That is your problem which your citizens have allowed to befall yourselves.
It seems that the idea of being free and armed is hateful to you, so
I can
conclude that the next time some moronic madman starts raining bombs
on your cities, you will not be calling upon us for assistance.
Good luck.
 
 

[CTRL] Fwd: VtM - Rules: Illuminati: The Conspiracy

[Aleisha Saba]

In Genesis God noted the abundance of gold in certain areas and the
bible is charted throughout with location of gold.

He who owns the gold calls the tune...so origin of Illuminati is
found in Genesis.

Let there be light - and in masonic degrees the cry is more light - but
also wasn't someone on the road to Damascas blinded by the light?

So this is nice item of the Illuminati - but then it is also written
that the deeds of certain men were so evil, they preferred darkness to
light.

The Great Illuminated ones we have with us always...it was the
Illuminati as I recall for a joke formed the Man Will Never Fly Club -

Saba  (and this is very long but covers most everything - but origin of
Illuminati is from Gnesis.Let There Be Light - and the world was
illuminated by the son and the moon and the stars.in particular the
great and bright Morning Star.




http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/granboul/Vampire/Rules/Illuminati.html

Re: [CTRL] GUN REFRESHER COURSE

[BB]

I used Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.
I AM sure of my facts.
Why would you cite a VERB as a reply to a list of observations
regarding guns, and those who feel more comfortable being disarmed??
You might just as well have replied "run", or "jump."
A more appropriate reply might have been a noun, such as "ballocks",
meaning "balls."  I didn't think it was spelled, I knew.
You surely did choose a classy reply - I guess it goes along with
the disarmament frame of mind.
However, we digress.
It's STILL disrespectful, no respect at all.
Again, if you feel better about life being disarmed and at the mercy
of
whomever decides to invade your home, be it some authority
or criminal, try defending your family with indisputable logic.
"c." wrote:

 
not according to
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bollocks
bollocks v : make a mess of, destroy or ruin [syn: botch,
fumble, botch up,
muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil,
muck up, bungle, fluff,
bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse
up, foul up, mess up,
fuck up]
be sure of your facts. how did
you think it was spelled anyway?
 

[CTRL] Human clone `only 18 months away'

[Steve Wingate]

-Caveat Lector-

"To create animal clones, scientists frequently made hundreds of failed
attempts to develop viable embryos. Medical ethicists have posed the
possibility of cruel failures in human cloning, where genetic abnormalities
result in grotesque foetuses unable to survive outside the womb. "

Human clone `only 18 months away'
By ANDREW STERN in Chicago
30jan01

REPRODUCTIVE experts in the United States are at loggerheads after
one group claimed it would clone humans within 18 months.

A separate group, which refused to be identified, said such a move was
technically feasible but probably would produce many stillborn or
genetically diseased embryos.

The group planning the cloning said it would provide children to infertile
couples.

A viable embryo, probably using stem cells or other cells taken from the
man, could be available for implantation in the woman's uterus within 18
months, said Dr Panayiotis Zavos, of The Andrology Institute of America
and the Kentucky Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Invitro Fertilisation
in Lexington, Kentucky.

"This is going to be the first serious effort," Dr Zavos said.

"I do know various individual groups that are acting on their own, but they
lack the support."

Scientists have cloned sheep, beginning with "Dolly" in Scotland in 1997,
as well as mice and cows, but any suggestion of cloning humans has been
met by outrage within the scientific community and in political and religious
circles.

"As revolutionary as it may sound, as fictional as it may sound, it will be
done," Dr Zavos said.

"It's a genie that is out of the bottle and will be controlled." He said 10
infertile couples had volunteered to participate.

One US pair cannot conceive because the man's testicles were severed in
an accident, he said.

The consortium would operate in a Mediterranean country.

Dr Zavos said his group would hold a conference in Rome in March,
inviting a cardinal from the Vatican, which opposes human cloning.

The scientists plan to use regular cells or undifferentiated stem cells from
the husband and insert them into an ovacyte, a woman's egg stripped of its
genetic material.

The cell would be stimulated to divide and create an embryo equipped with
all the specialty cells that make up a copy of the man, and then implanted in
the wife's uterus. The wives could also be the person cloned, depending on
the couple's choice, he said.

"We have a great deal of knowledge. We can grade embryos, we can do
genetic screening, we can do quality control," Dr Zavos said.

"It's not the easiest thing. The stability of the genetic information is what's
important. We're cloning a human being now, we're not trying to create a
Dolly. You don't want to create a monster," he said.

To create animal clones, scientists frequently made hundreds of failed
attempts to develop viable embryos. Medical ethicists have posed the
possibility of cruel failures in human cloning, where genetic abnormalities
result in grotesque foetuses unable to survive outside the womb.


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[CTRL] Favish: New OIC Motion in Vincent Foster FOIA Case (fwd)

[MICHAEL SPITZER]

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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:08:20 -0800
From: Allan Favish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New OIC Motion in Vincent Foster FOIA Case

The Office of Independent Counsel has filed a 23-page motion to
alter the judgement in my Vincent Foster Freedom of Information
Act.  The OIC is trying to get the judge to reverse his January
11, 2001 decision to release 5 Polaroid photos of Foster's body
as it laid in Fort Marcy Park.

A 3MB PDF file of the motion is available at my web site in the
Foster section, under the heading for my FOIA Lawsuit for
Photographs.  A direct link to the document is:

http://members.nbci.com/allanfavish/foster/oic1_29.pdf

I have not read it carefully yet, but I think there may be a few
factual assertions that may be new.

The crux of the OIC's legal argument is that

 1) the district court judge misinterpreted the Ninth Circuit's
decision regarding the privacy interest and therefore did not
give enough weight to the interest of the Foster family in
keeping the photos secret even if they were not the photos that
were "extremely upsetting";

 2) I need to give the judge more evidence of the public's
interest in seeing these specific photos then I have given.

My response to this motion is due February 26, 2001. Any
suggestions, comments or other feedback is welcome.

On the same day the OIC's motion is heard (March 5, 2001), the
court will also hear my motion to compel testimony from former
OIC prosecutor Miquel Rodriguez and his former assistant Lucia
Rambusch, which was rescheduled from February 12th.

_

Regards,

Allan J. Favish
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