[CTRL] Ever Read the New Juno Service Agreement? You MUST See This One...
-Caveat Lector- Well, I've seen it all now. I wonder how many service agreements say things like this, and how many Juno users are aware of it? And no, I'm not the one who put it all in one paragraph. That's Juno's responsibility. Notice how it's so much text, nobody would dare bother to read it. Source: http://help.juno.com/privacy/agreement.html January 18, 2001 [...] Section 2.5 2.5. You expressly permit and authorize Juno to (i) download to your computer one or more pieces of software (the "Computational Software") designed to perform computations, which may be unrelated to the operation of the Service, on behalf of Juno (or on behalf of such third parties as may be authorized by Juno, subject to the Privacy Statement), (ii) run the Computational Software on your computer to perform and store the results of such computations, and (iii) upload such results to Juno's central computers during a subsequent connection, whether initiated by you in the course of using the Service or by the Computational Software as further described below. In connection with downloading and running the Computational Software, Juno may require you to leave your computer turned on at all times, and may replace the "screen saver" software that runs on your computer while the computer is turned on but you are not using it. The screen saver software installed by Juno, which may display advertisements or other images chosen by Juno, is an integral part of the Computational Software and you agree not to take any action to disable or interfere with the operation of either the screen saver software or any other component of the Computational Software. You agree that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for any costs or expenses resulting from the continuous operation of your computer, including without limitation any associated charges for electricity, and that you shall have sole responsibility for any maintenance or technical issues that might result from such continuous operation. You agree that, as between you and Juno, Juno shall have sole rights to the results of any computations performed by the Computational Software, including without limitation any revenues or intellectual property generated directly or indirectly as a result of such computations, without further compensation to you. If your usage of the Service is infrequent, Juno's ability to obtain the results of completed computations may be impaired. Consequently, you expressly permit and authorize Juno to initiate a telephone connection from your computer to Juno's central computers using a dial-in telephone number you have previously selected for accessing the Service; Juno agrees that it shall exercise such right only to the extent necessary, as determined in Juno's sole discretion, to upload the results of completed computations to Juno in a timely fashion; and you agree that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for any costs and expenses (including without limitation any applicable telephone charges) resulting from the foregoing. Juno agrees that any software, data, or other materials downloaded to your computer in connection with the activities described in this Section 2.5 will comply with Juno's privacy policies, as reflected in the Privacy Statement. You agree that you will not attempt to reverse engineer any such software, data, or other materials or transfer or disclose any such software, data, or other materials, or the results of any such computations, to any third party. You acknowledge that your compliance with the requirements of this Section 2.5 may be considered by Juno to be an inseparable part of the Service, and that any interference with the operation of the Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination or limitation of your use of the Service. You acknowledge that Section 6 of this Agreement shall expressly apply to the activities described in this Section 2.5. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- nice thought- but it happens when you smoke it legally as well LOL and yeah i think we are all psychotic to a degree- just a case of how we measure it and how our authorities measure it. - Original Message - From: "Mark McHugh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 February 2001 04:36 Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane One of my pet theories is that pothead paranoia is generated by the extrinsic legal risks which are involved with cannabis, thanks to our psychotic governments. By the way, does anyone know what percentage of the total population shows psychotic symptoms? -- Mark McHugh It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society. -J. Krishnamurti A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Britain ambivalent on US missile plan
-Caveat Lector- Analysis: Britain ambivalent on US missile plan Bases in Britain could be used by the US By Defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus The British Government shares some of the scepticism of its European partners towards the Clinton Administration's proposals for limited defences against missile attack. The National Missile Defence (NMD) and Theatre Missile Defence (TMD) systems are aimed at defending the US against in-coming missiles. Despite doubts, if the programme goes ahead then Britain could nonetheless find itself playing an important supporting role. Two US military installations in Yorkshire in the northern part of England; Fylingdales and Menwith Hill could be critical to the missile defence systems's success. Fylingdales on the North Yorkshire Moors was opened in 1962 as part of the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Radars need updating Its golf-ball shaped radomes are a familiar landmark and its radars would need to be upgraded to form part of the new missile defence scheme. Initial upgrades might just involve software improvements, though an expanded version of the US defence system would probably require the construction of a new X-band radar at the base. Fylingdales would provide vital mid-course tracking data on any incoming missile which would be used to cue other radars, based in the United States that would help guide an interceptor missile to the target. Menwith Hill is a communications centre, pulling down information from satellites and forwarding it to command centres in the United States. It too would play a key role in any missile defence system in which the rapid transmission of data is a critical element for success. Opposition Anti-nuclear groups like Greenpeace and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have already begun to mobilise support in Britain against the use of these facilities for missile defence. Opposition is widespread Some critics of the system say that the use of bases in the UK will increase Britain's potential vulnerability to attack - it would be seen as an accomplice of the US while not being covered by its defensive screen. Indeed, this is a view that is widely shared in Europe where many experts believe that a US defence system - while it may or may not lead to greater security for the US - will certainly lead to less security for Europe. The British Government refuses to be drawn on whether or not it would allow US bases here to be used for this purpose, though it is almost inconceivable that it would deny its closest ally such facilities. Britain, along with its European partners may be privately hoping that, given the barrage of criticism that the US plans have drawn, President Clinton will pause for thought, thus delaying any final decisions until next year after the US Presidential election is over. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] US confronts 'Star Wars' fears
-Caveat Lector- Saturday, 3 February, 2001, 09:16 GMT US confronts 'Star Wars' fears The new US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has strongly defended American plans for new missile defences as he arrived in Europe to meet critics of the system for the first time. He said the rest of the world had nothing to fear. Mr Rumsfeld was speaking on his way to the German city of Munich where he is meeting his European counterparts for their annual conference on security policy. They know... that the systems that are being discussed are not in any way relevant to the Russians' [nuclear force] US defence chief Donald Rumsfeld He dismissed suggestions that the programme - nicknamed "Son of Star Wars" - was a threat to arms control. But Russia and China both oppose the plan, and many western European countries have considerable misgivings about it. The BBC defence correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, says there is also concern about the possible direction that the new Bush administration will take with regard to its allies. He says President George W Bush and his team are suspected of being less understanding than the Clinton administration was about the EU's efforts to craft its own defence identity. In his first interview since taking office, Mr Rumsfeld tried to ease NMD fears, arguing that the system envisaged by the Bush administration was too limited to threaten the deterrent value of Russia's large nuclear force. 'Damaging relations' "That doesn't threaten anyone. It just doesn't," he told reporters travelling with him from Washington. He said he had only started assessing the programme and did not plan to go into detail about it in Munich. Tests on the system failed last July Mr Rumsfled has also dismissed suggestions that the programme would contravene the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which is one of the cornerstones of superpower arms control. He said it was an "open question" whether Washington would seek to modify the ABM treaty in discussions with Russia, implying that it might opt to withdraw from the treaty instead. Russia has said NMD deployment would do irreparable damage to the architecture of international relations. But Mr Rumsfeld dismissed these objections. "The idea that a missile defence system that is capable of dealing with handfuls of (missiles) is going to change in any way the interaction between the US and Russia with respect to ballistic missiles is just not correct," he said on Saturday. He said it was time to get over what he described as Cold War thinking. The defence chief is scheduled to hold private meetings with several of his Nato counterparts, including the defence ministers of the UK, Germany and Italy. Correspondents say European ministers are concerned about the possibility the US might withdraw troops from peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia. And they say the ministers will also want to hear the Bush administration's view of the EU's recently agreed rapid-reaction force. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The battle over missile defence
-Caveat Lector- The battle over missile defence Some argue that missile defence will trigger an arms race By BBC US State Department Correspondent Richard Lister Comments by the Russian President Vladimir Putin that the US deployment of a National Missile Defence shield would do "irreparable damage to the architecture of international relations" may prove to be just the opening salvo in what is likely to be a tough battle for President George W Bush over this controversial system. Unlike former President Bill Clinton, who was a late and reluctant convert to NMD, Mr Bush argued all through his election campaign that it was vital to set up a system capable of defending America from ballistic missiles fired from countries such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Russian President Putin says the missile defence system will harm international relations The fact that his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and his Secretary of State, Colin Powell, are both advocates, means that one way or another this is a policy initiative the Bush administration is likely to pursue with some vigour. Obstacles for NMD But there are any number of minefields to be crossed along the way. Not least is the cost, estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to be in the region of $60bn. That is on top of the $60bn that has already been spent researching the concept since it was first proposed by the then President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Supporters argue that it is a small price to pay for the foolproof defence of the nation. But so far, NMD has proved to be anything but foolproof. Two of the first three tests of the systems failed. A missile defence system would not defend against terrorist acts And even if it is possible to develop the technology which will in effect shoot a bullet with a bullet (or a laser), you are still left with the problem of how to deal with decoys, multiple launches, or other delivery methods. With a missile-shield in place, aggressors might simply decide to use alternative delivery systems for their nuclear, chemical or biological warheads - like a truck, or a backpack, or an aerosol can. But the Bush administration argues that the countries once known as "Rogue States" (before being re-labelled as "States of Concern" by the Clinton team), are all developing longer-range missiles, and it would be negligent not to try to combat the threat. New arms race? Of course, combat the threat from them, and you have also gone some way to addressing the potential threat from other countries, which brings us back to Mr Putin. Not only would NMD give the US a strategic edge, it would also break the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with the Soviet Union. Mr Bush has indicated that if the treaty cannot be renegotiated he would scrap it rather than forgo NMD. Missile defence faces opposition from friends and foes of the US The Russians suggest that if that happened they would have no choice but to beef up their own armoury. China appears to feel even more vulnerable to NMD. Because, while the new system would be unable to defend the US from a mass strike by Russia with its estimated 6,000 warheads, China has only about 20 ICBMs, about the size of arsenal that NMD would be designed to combat. Again, NMD opponents see the ingredients for a dangerous new arms race. Concern in Europe The Europeans too are distinctly dubious about US implementation of NMD and are concerned about the impact on relations with Russia. The Bush administration will have to decide the extent to which is prepared to sacrifice diplomatic friendships and isolate strategic adversaries for the sake of a missile shield, which is not yet proven and which could be quickly rendered obsolete by the development of new weapons or tactics. But for the Bush administration and its supporters, the alternative is to leave the most powerful nation in the world vulnerable to attack from anyone with a missile, a warhead and a hatred of the United States. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- I had alot of trouble with paranoia and psychosis in the 60's when I smoked marijuana.I had to give it up for that reason. So. YOU are the one who has been spying on me...plotting against me... spreading liestrying to steal my pot flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Man with Machete Hurts Kids in Pennsylvania School
-Caveat Lector- A couple of things pop out for me in the article below, which makes this whole event seem mighty suspicious, e.g. 'staged'... First, that the attacker says he has no idea what he was doing at the school; in and of itself, this perhaps would suggest nothing...someone could be under the influence of drugs, or a psychotic, and have episodes of memory loss. But coupled with this is the fact that this guy asked that his bail be set at $2 million...usually people try to get their bail REDUCED, not raised to such a high amount that one presumably cannot be bailed. It is almost as if this guy WANTS to remain in jail for some reason, and not get released. Is he perhaps afraid that 'someone' will get to him if he is released from custody? Also, for all the bad stuff we read about public education and the teachers and principals in the public system, it's nice to read about how heroic the principal and staff of this school were in trying to subdue this guy. I hope that the principal makes a full recovery of her injuries... June === REUTERS Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001 Man with Machete Hurts Kids in Pennsylvania School FELTON, Pa. (Reuters) - A man wielding a machete went on a rampage inside a Pennsylvania elementary school on Friday, injuring five kindergartners, two teachers and the principal before staff members subdued him, authorities said. The children -- four girls and a boy, all aged 5 or 6 -- were slightly injured in the melee. But a kindergarten teacher and the principal at North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School both required surgery for hand lacerations. The wounds of 41-year-old principal Norina Bentzel were so severe that doctors sent her by air ambulance to a hospital that specializes in reconstructive hand surgery 50 miles away in Baltimore. State police identified the suspect as William Michael Stankewicz, 55, of Johnson City, Tenn., and charged him with attempted murder, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on school grounds. He was jailed in the York County prison after asking that his bail be set at $2 million, a request granted by the district magistrate presiding over his arraignment hearing. The outer doors of the elementary school are kept locked as a security precaution. But police said Stankewicz entered the building shortly after 11:30 a.m. behind a parent and attacked Bentzel when the principal confronted him in the lobby. An ensuing struggle between the machete-wielding suspect and school staff spilled into a kindergarten classroom, where five children were hit by the machete, police said. Staff members finally subdued Stankewicz in a health room at around 11:45 a.m., just before police arrived and took him into custody. A 911 emergency call placed to York County Emergency Services by a panicked school staff member said the assailant was also carrying a baseball bat. But police said the report proved to be false. There was no immediate word on a motive for the attack. But during his arraignment hearing, Stankewicz described himself as a former Baltimore school teacher whose Russian wife and two children reside in York County. He also said he had no idea what he was doing inside the elementary school. A spokeswoman for Memorial Hospital in nearby York, a city about 10 miles northwest of Felton, said 52-year-old kindergarten teacher Linda Collier was scheduled for surgery on Friday evening. Third-grade teacher Stacey Bailey, 33, was treated for minor injuries and released. The five injured children -- four 5-year-olds and one 6-year-old -- were treated for minor cuts at another nearby hospital. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- Far less, I suspect, than the number of people science itself has driven insane June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane The reason they are so against it in this study and why the government fears the weed, is that while high on it, your perception of what the government is (ie. NAZI, socialist pigs), becomes much more clearer. The person stoned realizes that the government is a crock and has no use for them, realizes that they don't need them and are willing to get rid of them (government), that's why the study is written against the weed. Of note, the word hashish is from the word"hassasin" (sp), in East Indian dialect. This group of individuals paid assassins(hassasin) would get loaded on hash and go out and do there job for which they were hired(murdering the opposition,ie government figures). Thats what the government fears opposition, anarchy! LOL. = Theodor S. Parada, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 0x537C4815 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly, but the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the heart's of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknownest in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic, so that, it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 BC A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
www. My Groups | konformist Main Page Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner Special report: the US elections Martin Kettle in Washington Monday January 29, 2001 Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confirmed. The first survey, conducted on behalf of the Washington Post, shows that Mr Gore had a nearly three-to-one majority among 56,000 Florida voters whose November 7 ballot papers were discounted because they contained more than one punched hole. The second and separate survey, conducted on behalf of the Palm Beach Post, shows that Mr Gore had a majority of 682 votes among the discounted "dimpled" ballots in Palm Beach county. In each case, if the newly examined votes had been allowed to count in the November election, Mr Gore would have won Florida's 21 electoral college votes by a narrow majority and he, not Mr Bush, would be the president. Instead, Mr Bush officially carried Florida by 537 votes after recounts were stopped. In spite of the findings, no legal challenge to the Florida result is possible in the light of the US supreme court's 5-4 ruling in December to hand the state to Mr Bush. But the revelations will continue to cast a cloud, to put it mildly, over the democratic legitimacy of Mr Bush's election. Some 56,000 so-called "overvotes" were examined in the Washington Post survey. All of these ballot papers were ruled to be invalid votes on November 7 because they contained two or more punched holes in the presidential section of the ballot. Twelve Florida counties used voting machines where voting was by punch cards in this way, and eight of them participated in the survey: Broward, Highlands, Hillsborough, Marion, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Pasco and Pinellas. None of the ballot papers in the survey formed part of any official count or recount. The research shows that 45,608 of the 56,000 ballot papers (87% of the total) contained votes for Mr Gore, compared with 17,098 containing votes for Mr Bush (33%). In 1,367 cases, voters punched every hole except that for Mr Bush. In cases where the voters cast invalid "overvotes" in the presidential election, but then cast valid votes in the US senate contest lower down on the same ballot, 70% voted Democrat, Mr Gore's party, and only 24% voted Republican. The disproportion was especially dramatic in Palm Beach, whose butterfly ballot paper interleaved two lists of candidates in such a way as to show Mr Gore's name second on the ballot paper, but to require the voter to punch the third hole to record a vote for him. Though no absolute conclusions can be drawn from the overvotes, the implication that many thousands more invalidated Floridians intended to vote for Mr Gore than for Mr Bush seems hard to resist. The survey also clearly implies that some of Florida's voting machines were inadequate and that many voters were confused by the procedure. In the second survey, the Palm Beach Post examined 4,513 dimpled "undervotes" - so named because no hole was punched in the ballot paper - and which were excluded from the November and December manual recount process. In each case, the Palm Beach county canvassing board ruled that no vote had been cast on these ballots but Democratic or Republican observers disputed the ruling. The ballots in the survey had been set aside for a possible court-ordered review that never took place. Of the disputed ballots, some 2,500 had dimples for Mr Gore, while 1,818 had similar marks for Mr Bush. If they had been counted, Mr Gore would have had a net gain of 682 votes. This would have been in addition to a separate net gain of 174 votes from Palm Beach which was disallowed by Florida's secretary of state. If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist
[CTRL] Borland Interbase backdoor exposed
-Caveat Lector- Borland Interbase backdoor exposed By: Kevin Poulsen Posted: 12/01/2001 at 05:45 GMT A back door password has been hidden in Borland/Inprise's popular Interbase database software for at least seven years, potentially exposing tens of thousands of private databases at corporations and government agencies to unauthorized access and manipulation over the Internet, experts say. Analysts report that the account name 'politically' with the password 'correct' unlocks access to Interbase versions 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 over the Net, and on any platform. Moreover, because Interbase has the ability to execute user-defined functions, the back door can be used to inject malicious code into a system, which could give an attacker administrative access to the computer itself, according to a Wednesday advisory from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). "The back door account password cannot be changed using normal operational commands, nor can the account be deleted from existing vulnerable server," the CERT warning states. Jim Starkey, architect of the original, 1985 version of Interbase -- which did not contain a back door -- says hackers have already begun scanning the Internet for services on TCP port 3050, the default port for Interbase servers. Balance of the story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16023.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The Profit in Pulling the (Electrical) Plug on thePeasants
-Caveat Lector- "Prudence L. Kuhn" wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01/31/2001 11:16:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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] ... Gee, just like the pharmaceutical companies. Perhaps if enough of us learn to do without their stuff Prudy THAT'S YOUR SOLUTION? Do without energy and medicine? Unbelievable! Don't you understand that this is capitalism? You people are so brainwashed, that you would rather give up your vital necessities rather than get rid of the system that fucks you every single day of your life. Unbelievable! J2 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane-The Origins of the Assassins
-Caveat Lector- The Origins of the Assassins http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/2.htm The roots of the fraternity of Assassins go back to A.D. 632, the year in which the prophet Mohammed died without leaving any designated heir. The religion of Islam, which Mohammed founded, began in the year A.D. 622, following the entry of the prophet into the city of Medina. It was the culmination of a meteoric career that saw a penniless unknown emerge to forge a religion that would unite a disorganized nation of nomads into one of the greatest empires of the world. Born some time between A.D. 570 and 580, Mohammed became an orphan at a very early age and was raised in the city of Mecca by his grandfather. Although born into poverty, he became wealthy and respectable by marrying the widow of a rich merchant and taking over his business. It was not until he was about forty years old that Mohammed began to feel the proverbial "call to religion". Dissatisfied with the tribal religions and idolatry of his fellow Arabs, and unable to accept either Judaism or Christianity, he began to preach against the evils of the old Arab religion and announced the coming of a new era. While he initially had no idea that he was beginning a new religion, he did succeed in converting a number of people to his way of thinking. Foremost among these new converts were his wife and his cousin Ali, who was later to become Mohammed's successor. The more he criticized the existing religion, the more his activities came to the attention of the authorities, who looked with disfavor upon this challenge to their own position. Persecuted, Mohammed and his tiny band of converts fled to Abyssinia. From this relatively safe haven, Mohammed continued to preach his message, and the more he spoke, the more the people listened. When at last he felt that he had a strong enough following, Mohammed brought his entire religion to Medina in present-day Saudi Arabia, an event celebrated today as the starting point in the Arab calendar. From that time on, the religion became so widely accepted that Mohammed was able to overcome all opposition. The Blood Feud The religion of Islam which Mohammed founded was based on the recognition of the one god, Allah, and his prophet Mohammed. When Mohammed died in A.D. 632, the new religion faced the difficult problem of choosing a successor (caliph). Among those nominated was Ali, cousin to the prophet and one of his first converts. Also in Ali's favor was the fact that he was the husband of Fatima, Mohammed's only surviving daughter. But Ali was not chosen. Instead, the office was given to an elderly man whom Mohammed had once asked to lead the daily prayers. This first caliph did not live very long, however, and a new successor had to be chosen. Again Ali was skipped over. Two more caliphs were elected before Ali was finally chosen in A.D. 656. Five years later he too was dead, the victim of a feud between Arab factions that supported him as caliph and those who refused to accept his appointment. The bloodletting associated with the succession issue eventually split Islam into two main sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites. The Sunnis saw themselves as the upholders of orthodoxy in Islam. They contended that the people had a right to elect whomever they wished to be caliph. The Shiites, on the other hand, insisted that the only legitimate successors were those in whom the blood of the Prophet himself flowed. This meant Ali and his descendants. Although the differences between the two parties appeared to rest on the problem of the rightful heir to the office of caliph, the animosities were much deeper and involved basic differences in racial background and ancient traditions. Racially, the Shiites were mainly Persians of Aryan ancestry. It was their custom, based on a tradition that reached back to the time of the great Persian empire, to be governed by a hereditary monarchy. The Sunnis, who represented the majority of Arabs, were Semitic in origin. Their custom was to elect leaders on the basis of personal merit., not blood line. Since the Sunnis far outnumbered the Shiites, they exerted the dominant influence in Islam. The Shiites, however, refused to accept the caliphs chosen by the Sunnis, and instead pledged their allegiance to the family of the Prophet. These descendants were treated as divinely inspired and divinely appointed interpreters of the faith. Obedience to their commands, whatever these might be, was regarded as an integral part of the religion of Islam. Ali's descendants were many in number, however, and while the Shiites agreed on the fundamental principle of hereditary succession, they were often unable to agree on who that legitimate successor ought to be. This internal disagreement resulted in a schism within the Shiite party which eventually led to the creation of the Ismaili sect, the party to which the Assassins belonged. A House Divided against Itself The precipitating
[CTRL] Capitalism ubber alles: Slavery? What slavery?
-Caveat Lector- Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations January 31, 2001 By Michael Schwartz Daily Bruin U. California-Los Angeles (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- It seemed like a normal factory closing. U.S. Technologies sold its electronics plant in Austin, Texas, leaving its 150 workers unemployed. Everyone figured they were moving the plant to Mexico, where they would employ workers at half the cost. But six weeks later, the electronics plant reopened in Austin in a nearby prison. At the same time, the United States blasts China for the the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation to pay. As if exploiting the labor of prison inmates was not bad enough, it is legal in the United States to use slave labor. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States." There are approximately 2 million people behind bars in the United States -- more than three times the number of prisoners in 1980. The United States now imprisons more people than any other country in the world. In fact, in the last 20 years California has constructed 21 new prisons while in the same amount of time, it has built only one new university. That statistic is even more astounding when we think about the fact that it took California almost 150 years to build its first 12 prisons. Another five new prisons are under construction and plans are in the works to build another 10. The question that needs to be answered is -- why? Why are prisons such a booming business? The answer lies in the prison industrial complex. At the same time that prisons clear the streets of those you feel are a "threat" to society, prisons also offer jobs in construction, guarding, administration, health, education and food service. Prisons in impoverished areas often end up with inmates from the local area who had previously worked in the community. Often they were laid off from a factory job that moved overseas and they turned to alcohol or drugs, which ultimately landed them in prison. Others are luckier and get a job in the prison. One of the fastest-growing sectors of the prison industrial complex is private corrections companies. Private prisons also have an incentive to gain as many prisoners as possible and to keep them there as long as possible. Many corporations, whose products we consume on a daily basis, have learned that prison labor can be as profitable as using sweatshop labor in developing nations. You might have had a first-hand experience with a prison laborer if you have ever booked a flight on Trans World Airlines, since many of the workers making the phone reservations are prisoners. Other companies that use prison labor are Chevron, IBM, Motorola, Compaq, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Microsoft, Victoria's Secret and Boeing. Federal prisons operate under the trade name Unicor and use their prisoners to make everything from lawn furniture to congressional desks. Their Web site proudly displays "where the government shops first." Federal safety and health standards do not protect prison labor, nor do the National Labor Relations Board policies. The corporations do not even have to pay minimum wage. In California, inmates who work for the Prison Industrial Authority earn wages between 30 and 95 cents per hour before required deductions for restitutions and fines. State Corrections agencies are even advertising their prisoners to corporations by asking these questions: "Are you experiencing high employee turnover? Worried about the cost of employee benefits? Getting hit by overseas competition? Having trouble motivating your work force? Thinking about expansion space? Then the Washington State Department of Corrections Private Sector Partnerships is for you." Prisons are being filled largely with the poor, the mentally ill, people of color, drug addicts and many combinations of these characteristics. They are not reserved for violent people who are extremely dangerous to society. In fact, of the nearly 2 million prisoners, about 150,000 are armed robbers, 125,000 are murderers and 100,000 are sex offenders. Prisons are certainly not filled with corporate criminals who make up only 1 percent of our nation's prisons. In California, then-Gov. Pete Wilson signed the "three strikes and you're out" law in 1994. The law states that if an offender has two or more previous serious or violent felony convictions, the mandatory sentence for any new felony conviction is 25 years to life. Though people thought the three-strikes
[CTRL] [Fwd: Public ownership will solve the power crisis - L.A. Weekly]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Public ownership will solve the power crisis - L.A. Weekly Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:27:47 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Eisenscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; L.A. Weekly February 2, 2001 Power to (and From) the People! Why outright public ownership (and not just shares in Edison) will solve the power crisis by Harold Meyerson As our new president and vice president see it, California's power crisis is simply what happens when government meddles with the iron laws of supply and demand. If the lamps are going out all over Eureka, if Silicon Valley is flickering at twilight, it is simply because Californians have been too damned finicky about their air quality to build the power plants they need. Over the past few years, after all, demand has been soaring as the state has recovered from the deep recession of the early '90s. The solution, obviously, is more supply - and if that spoils some wildlife reserve or raises the shmutz-quotient of our air, well, that's just the price of economic growth. If we are in a crisis of supply and demand, though, why are the lights still on here in L.A.? After all, no part of the state saw its economy dip so low in the early- and mid-'90s as Los Angeles, where the end of the Cold War fairly halved the size of our then-largest industry, aerospace. And nowhere has demand grown more, as the local economy has turned from bust to boom, than here in Los Angeles. We consume power like nobody's business: L.A. today is home to the greatest concentration of manufacturing in the nation, and, come to think of it, we stay up nights a lot later than they do in Turlock. If California is truly experiencing a wave of underproduction and overconsumption, Angelenos should be just now lighting their candles and cursing the darkness. Instead, we're still shooting lights across the sky at the premieres of third-rate movies. For what California is confronting is a crisis not of supply and demand, but of deregulation, of free-market mania, of ideology run amok. That the lights are still on in Los Angeles is pretty good evidence that publicly owned power companies such as our own DWP can keep the lines humming, even as deregulated private power companies can plunge a city into darkness if their profit margins are too low. Consider, for instance, how our other local power company, the investor-owned Southern California Edison, chose to allocate its revenues over the past several years. The state has just completed an audit of this model corporate citizen, and discovered that of the $7 billion that SoCalEd took in over the past five years from the good ratepayers of Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley and the other parts of the L.A. area not serviced by the DWP, it forwarded $4.8 billion to its parent company, Edison International, which paid out $1.6 billion in shareholder dividends and used $2.7 billion to buy back its stock. While the DWP was keeping its rates low and creating cleaner and more efficient generating and transmission facilities, Edison simply "took the money and ran," as state Senate President John Burton put it. Worse yet, Edison was taking money out of the community that had been guaranteed it by the terms of the state's deregulation package, which fixed the rates that Edison here and PGE in Northern California could charge their customers. This was not a ratepayer-protection provision, though it has been widely reported as such by innumerable editorialists chastising the state for coddling its consumers. To the contrary, it was designed to keep the utilities' revenues higher than they otherwise would have been, since wholesale prices were so low. The rate was fixed not to keep it from rising above what consumers could afford, but from falling beneath what the companies wanted. And - until wholesale prices moved upward last year - that's precisely what it accomplished. The editorialists thundering that California's consumers have been unnaturally sheltered from the market, then, have it backward. For four years, consumers paid more so that Edison shareholders could thrive. And now that the crisis has hit, consumers are being asked - well, to pay more so that Edison shareholders can thrive. And thrive they will. On Monday, the Legislature began to craft a bill that would have the state issue bonds that would fund its going into business to purchase power from generators, that would fund the utilities' repayment of debt, and that would authorize them to raise their rates. And on Monday, not coincidentally, brokerage houses told their clients that it was safe again to buy PGE and Edison stock. Indeed, word of the pending bond issues was good news for Wall Street not simply because it meant the investor-owned utilities were viable again. For one
[CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:12:17 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Thursday February 1 3:47 PM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. Melting of that much ice doesn't mean that it is time to get into boats, said one researcher, but the finding may be a ``yellow warning flag'' that confirms long-term changes are under way in the ice fields covering the South Polar region. The study, which appears Friday in the journal Science, involved altitude measurements of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet, the smaller of two major ice sheets. It covers 740,000 square miles of the frozen continent. Based on satellite measurements, said Andrew Shepherd, a University College London geologist and first author of the study, it appears that since 1992 the ice sheet has lost ice principally through the speeded-up movement of the Pine Island Glacier, an ice stream that drains about a third of the ice sheet. ``The Pine Island Glacier is key,'' said Shepherd. ``It is totally exposed to the sea, and people have identified it as the weak underbelly of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet.'' Melting of the entire sheet theoretically could cause a global sea level rise of 25 to 45 feet, but Shepherd said that at the present rate of change it would take centuries for the Pine Island Glacier, which is only about 10 percent of the ice sheet, to affect sea level seriously. Jane Ferrigno, a U.S. Geologic Survey geologist and polar ice expert, said a speedup of the Pine Island Glacier, as reported by Shepherd and his co-authors, could foreshadow continuing changes of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet's ice levels. The glacier ``is moving faster than we thought,'' Ferrigno said. ``This doesn't mean it could have an effect on coastal areas around the world within the next few decades, but this is a yellow warning flag. This is an area that should be watched carefully.'' Shepherd said eight years of satellite data show a steady trend of ice-sheet shrinkage, with most of the decline coming in the Pine Island Glacier system, which drains an area about the size of the Mississippi River basin. The Pine Island Glacier thinned by 30 to 36 feet during those eight years, and the glacier's grounding line - the point where sea water undercuts the main stem of the glacier - has pushed inland by about three miles. ``The thinning is 10 times greater than the rate of snowfall in the basin,'' said Shepherd. ``The speed of the glacier means that much more mass is going out (through melting and breaking off of icebergs) than is coming in.'' Shepherd said if the present rate of change continues, the main stem of the Pine Island Glacier will be undercut by the sea and lifted up in about 600 years. When the glacier floats, it would cause a dramatic shift in sea level, he said. Understanding how fast the Pine Island Glacier is moving and the effect of this motion on the total West Antarctica Ice Sheet ``is of considerable importance'' in predicting what will happen to the ice in Antarctica, Ferrigno said. She said the work by Shepherd and his co-authors adds new data for an area of the polar continent that was virtually unknown before. Antarctica contains about 7.2 million cubic miles of ice, about 84 percent of all the glacial ice on Earth, according to the USGS. Melting all the Antarctica ice would cause a global sea level rise of about 240 feet. Such a rise would flood virtually all the world's coastal areas and drown many islands. - On the Net: Science journal: [25]http://www.eurekalert.org USGS: [26]http://terraweb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/projects/Antarctica/AVHRR.html USGS site for glacial volume, sea-level rise potential: [27]http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs133-99/gl-vol.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- Thursday February 1 3:47 PM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. This is such a crock of sh-t! The sea waters won't rise, it is simple physics. Take a glass of water and ice, let the ice melt, it doesn't overflow (same principle). How stupid do they think people are? The next thing they'll be screaming is, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! or, Oh! what beautiful clothes the (naked) king has!. = Theodor S. Parada, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 0x537C4815 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly, but the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the heart's of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknownest in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic, so that, it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 BC A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tonight on History Channel: The Crop Circle Controversy
-Caveat Lector- Usually they trot out a couple of elderly guys or some college students who say they made all the crop circles. They must have one heck of a travel allotment. As the y appear all over the world. IMHO, they are made with masers or lasers from satellites, using templates that someone or other drew. Although to just what purpose, I have no idea. Perhaps to keep the uFO controversy going. If they're done by satellites (which I find more plausible than a couple of geysers with two-by-fours) then the purpose would be to gain ultimate control of the people. Create a hoax, let the suspense build, then say it's aliens doing it, and if we don't do as they say, the aliens have threatened to destroy us in probably more words than that. I imagine that most people in the world would be gullible enough to believe such a story. Then the real scientists and intellectuals would become what UFOlogists are now -- that wild and crazy bunch that can't get a grip on reality. if people did that, you'd get riots and whatnot worldwide. they're not about to go and create more chaos... they're just religious symbols being shot down by ruling masons using some kind of bizarre electromagnetic waves or something. do some comparisons on crop circles runes, mason art, etc.. inri np: throbbing gristle A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane-The Origins of the Assassins
-Caveat Lector- Hey C: Thanks for the info! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- Who is Martin Kettle? -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prudence L. Kuhn Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner Special report: the US elections Martin Kettle in Washington Monday January 29, 2001 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- "Theodor Parada, MD" wrote: -Caveat Lector- Thursday February 1 3:47 PM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. This is such a crock of sh-t! The sea waters won't rise, it is simple physics. Take a glass of water and ice, let the ice melt, it doesn't overflow (same principle). How stupid do they think people are? The next thing they'll be screaming is, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! or, Oh! what beautiful clothes the (naked) king has!. You are such an idiot. You are starting to rival Saba in your stupidity. Unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic ice is mostly on solid land. Whet it melts it becomes additional water running down to the sea. I REALLY hope you are not a doctor for humans or pets. Joshua2 = Theodor S. Parada, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 0x537C4815 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly, but the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the heart's of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknownest in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic, so that, it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 BC A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- On 3 Feb 2001, at 11:42, Nurev Ind Research wrote: You are such an idiot. You are starting to rival Saba in your stupidity. Unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic ice is mostly on solid land. Whet it melts it becomes additional water running down to the sea. I REALLY hope you are not a doctor for humans or pets. Joshua2 LOL!! Then have them prove it mathematically, they won't be able to. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Pug's Pop
Question: What do the Following Have in Common? The California Energy Crisis (Enron) Ex-Im Bank Subsidies (Enron) Plan Columbia (DynCorp) War on Drugs seizures in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia (DynCorp) War on Drugs asset forfeiture and seizures in all the states of the US (DynCorp) Fort Hood, Texas (Waco) (DynCorp) AIMCO (Capricorn Harvard) NHP/HUD Housing and Low Income Housing Subsidies (Capricorn Harvard) WMF/HUD Mortgage Banking (Capricorn Harvard) HUD low income housing and mortgage banking enforcement/Operation Safe Home (DynCorp) HUD data (DynCorp) Treasury databases converting welfare recipients to electronic benefits (DynCorp) HHS databases (DynCorp) The Gulf War (DynCorp) Kosovo (DynCorp) Promis Software (Justice Office Consolidated Network) (DynCorp) Non-lethal weapons research Development (DynCorp) The Council on Foreign Relations (Individual) Harvard Endowment Harvard Corporation (Of Russian, Harken and HUD investments) (Individual Capricorn) The Clinton Inauguration $100,000 donor list (Individual) Penn Central (individual) Ron Brown's Plane Crash (DynCorp) Bio-warfare (DynCorp) Advanced Genetic Research (Jackson Labs) Tinker Air Force Base (Oklahoma City) Mrs. Fields Cookies (Capricorn) TCBY (Capricorn) Human diapers/incontinence products (Capricorn) Department of Defense (individual) Answer: Pug Winokur Question: Given his rich experience to forecast short term and long term trends in population changes, why does Pug foresee rich capital gains in the human diaper and incontinence business?
[CTRL] Fwd: Cellular Implants
New Scientist 1 February 2001 Silicon and cells Electrical signals from human cells are coupled to silicon chips Living tissue has been hooked up to electronic circuitry by scientists in Germany. The technique could lead to implants that communicate with the body and hybrid sensors made from biological material and silicon. "Having solved the principal problem of coupling cellular electrical signals with silicon electrical signals, we can now proceed to develop cellular biosensors," says Peter Fromherz at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. Connecting living cells to silicon circuitry is difficult because cells grown on silicon sheets do not bond to the surface. Instead they float in their nutrient solution about 40 nanometres above it. Even though the gap is small, it makes it very difficult for electronic devices to detect the weak electrical signals produced by the cells. Fromherz found a way around the problem by making cells produce larger electrical signals through their "ion channels". These are gates in the cell membrane that pump out electrical signals. Signal booster To boost the signal, he took human kidney cells that have very few "ion channels" - effectively a blank canvas - and added a gene for a specific type of ion channel capable of conducting large electrical signals. The result was a group of cells with extra ion channels capable of producing stronger electrical signals. When Fromherz grew the cells on a silicon transistor he found the transistor could detect and amplify the electrical signals being pushed out of the cells. Erwin Neher of the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G)ngen says that coupling living tissue to electronics in this way could lead to far more sophisticated implants than we have right now: "Intelligent prosthetic devices could be designed that allow two-way communication between their control circuits and the nervous system."
[CTRL] Fwd: Police Pop for DynCorp: $1MM+ Per Cop
Let's estimate how the stock pop might work here... DynCorp on a cost plus type contract would get an overhead factor for each cop they field, plus administrator to oversee them. They are advertising for police who they will pay $79-101,000 (See ad below) So let's guess for every four cops DynCorp will need one administrator and one clerk. So one cop is $85,000 average cop $85,000 cop support and management, other direct contract support $170,000 total direct costs Let's guess that DynCorp's overhead should be about 1- 1.5 times direct costs. That would add another $170,000 or $255,000 in overhead for a total direct and indirect costs of $390,000 to $425,000 per police. It would be interesting to look at how much they can load into the overhead. It should include costs like fees paid to lawyers and investment bankers for mergers and acquisition fees. It would be interesting to see if it included their costs of running their internal stock market making operation. It would certainly include the costs of top management, etc. Typical profit margins for federal cost plus contracts run at 5-10% so $39,000 to $42,500 per policeman Under these assumptions, the total cost to the American Taxpayers would be $429,000 to $567,500 per policeman The total increase in DynCorp stock value would be $1,170,000-1,2750,000 per policeman (pop of 30X income based on Dyncorp's internal market making as reported in SEC filings) The only problem is that the American taxpayer only makes $36,000 a year, and the people being policed make much less (what is the annual average income in Kosovo?). Meantime, all the guys taxing them and spending the money are making far more. Let's say if DynCorp gets a contract to move 50 international location for "peacekeeping" their stock value would go up as much as $50MM plus depending on the length of the contract. The American people would get 0% of that $50 MM plus. http://copspotweb.hypermart.net/employment/open-chief.htm DynCorp, Technical Services International Police Officer- $79,000 to $101,000 Indefinate On behalf of the United States Department of State, DynCorp Aerospace Operations (UK) Ltd., is seeking active, recently separated, or retired law enforcement officers to accept a challenging and adventurous assignment within the International Police Programs. Officers must have a combined total of eight (8) years work experience with at least five (5) years being at the position of sworn civilian law enforcement, and who are at least 26 years of age with no maximum age requirement. Annual compensation begins at $79,000 and may exceed $101,000. Applications are being accepted on a continuing basis, for immediate and future hire. Fax Resumes' to (817) 570-2120, email Resumes' to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or apply immediately via our website at www.policemission.com. To speak to a recruiter, call toll-free 1-888-466-5417. An Equal Opportunity Employer. http://www.policemission.com-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Don't Pledge
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/moody7.html With Liberty and Justice For All? by Rob Moody Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ~ Samuel Johnson I just read that Virginia state senator Warren Barry, a Republican (of course), recently introduced a bill that would require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or face suspension. The bill allows students to remain silent during the pledge if they or their parents object on religious or philosophical grounds, but Barry originally wrote the bill to let students off the hook only with a written excuse from their "ecclesiastical officer" an ordained or otherwise credentialed religious leader. "I personally don't believe anybody should be allowed to object on a philosophical basis," said Barry, a statement that probably would have made the father of his grand old party proud. Barry said he introduced the bill "to help nurture patriotism in todays youth." The Virginia Senate, which probably didnt want to look like a bunch of pinko traitors, passed the bill 27-9 last Tuesday. As a boy, I always dutifully recited the pledge each morning at school. As the patriotic, first-born child of a conservative family in a small southern town, refusing to say the pledge was the last thing on my mind. After I graduated from high school, my mother began to teach at that level, and as the quality of the children in public schools began to decline, I started hearing about students who refused to stand for the pledge, much less recite it. Id always laugh when my mother would tell me how shed tell these budding anarchists, "As long as my son is serving in the military and sleeping outside during the winter in the fields of Germany so you can be free, you will stand for the pledge!" And thats what the pledge is all about. It never occurred to me until I heard Marshall Fritz of The Alliance for the Separation of School and State say the following, which hit me like a shot to my solar plexus: Government schools churn out men who march obediently off to war, and women who cheer them. The welfare- warfare state always needs an ample supply of willing cannon fodder, and boy was I ever willing. Its ironic that conservatives like the pledge so much, considering its origin. The Pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist and Baptist minister. In his pledge, he expressed the ideas of his cousin Edward Bellamy, author of the socialist utopian novels Looking Backward and Equality. As Dr. John W. Baer wrote in The Pledge of Allegiance, A Centennial History, 1892-1992: Francis Bellamy in his sermons and lectures and Edward Bellamy in his novels and articles described in detail how the middle class could create a planned economy with political, social and economic equality for all. The government would run a peacetime economy similar to our present military industrial complex. The Pledge was published in The Youths Companion, the leading family magazine of its day. Its owner and editor, Daniel Ford, had hired Francis as his assistant when Francis was pressured into leaving his church in Boston because of his socialist sermons. [I doubt that would happen today! RM] As a member of his congregation, Ford had enjoyed Franciss sermons. Ford later founded the liberal and often controversial Ford Hall Forum . Francis Bellamy was also a chairman of a committee of state superintendents of education in the National Education Association. As its chairman, he prepared the program for the public schools quadricentennial celebration for Columbus Day in 1892. [This was before celebrating Columbus Day became a hate crime. RM] He structured this public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute his "Pledge of Allegiance." What follows is Bellamys own account of some of the thoughts that went through his mind as he picked the words of his Pledge: The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the "republic for which it stands." ...And what does that vast thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches. So there you have it. How many times have you shown your fellow citizens what a loyal and patriotic American you are by dutifully reciting the pledge, without ever stopping to think about what it was that you were doing? One day the young son of a friend of mine told him that he doesnt say the pledge at school anymore. When his father asked him why, the boy said, "Because we dont have liberty and justice for all anymore." I wish I had been that perceptive and courageous when I was a boy. But now we have people like Sen. Barry, who want to force children like my friends son to pledge their allegiance to a republic that frankly no longer deserves it. Virginia Sen. Janet Howell, a Democrat,
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- --- Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Subject: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday February 1 3:47 PM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. The thinning is 10 times greater than the rate of snowfall in the basin,'' said Shepherd. ``The speed of the glacier means that much more mass is going out (through melting and breaking off of icebergs) than is coming in (from fresh snowfall.'' Nakano Comments: So...satellite measurement shows the icecap at the South Pole is shrinking. But there is no reason given for this. Even if the greenhouse gas global warming theory is correct, it doesn't begin to explain this. The most alarmist reports talk in terms of 1/2 of one degree (mean avg. temp) increase over a 10 year period. In the Antarctic, 1/2 a degree of difference wouldn't even melt an icecube. But the climate-modification capabilities of "scalar" technology (such as HAARP) does offer a rational explanation. Are "they" melting the anarctic ice to prevent the catastrophe Richard Noone described in his book: "5/5/2000 Ice The Ultimate Disaster"?? My guess is...this is what's happening. HAARP and other such installations are being used to warm at least some areas of Anarctica. This is being done to intentially shrink the icecapnot to cause rises in sea level and coastal floodingbut actually to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. Here's the situation in a nutshell. Water evaporates from the oceans. Some of it falls on the earth's continents as precipitation (rain, snow, sleet). On the warm continents, this process in in balance. The world's rivers return much of the precipitation to the oceans and the cycle is continuous. Butnot in Anarctica. The year-round subfreezing temperatures there holds the water prisoner in the form of ice. Water falls on Anarctica in the form of snow and sleet. Under normal conditions, it never gets warm enough for this frozen precipitation to melt and run off the land back into the ocean. It just remains there and piles up. The icecap gets thicker and thickerand heavier and heavier. When Admiral Byrd explored the Anarctic, he erected 80ft tall radio towers in order to have communications with the outside world. Many years later, during the International Geophysical Year explorations (1959), scientists found Byrd's radio towers were only 8 to 10 feet above the ice! Since then, those towers have been completely covered by the ice. This continual thickening of the Anarctic icecap poses a tremendous threat to the entire earth. And so it may be that the hidden purpose of intentional climate modification via HAARP-type technology is benevolent. However, since the earth's weather is a "closed system", when they modify the weather in one area of the earth, other areas are also affected. For instance, if you increase rainfall over one region, this will probably result in decreased rainfall over other regions. And sothere are unintentional side-effects. This could be draughts in some areas...floods in other areas...warmer winters in some areas and colder winters in others. These are precisely the weatherchange patterns we are experiencing worldwide. "They" put out an advance coverstory to provide a plausible explanation for the strange weather. This "coverstory" continues today. It's all about the CFC gasses destroying the ozone layer. This simply is not true. CFC (and HCFC) is too heavy to rise high into the atmosphere and gobble up all the ozone. But "they" knew we would notice the weather changes and there had to be some explanation. So they blamed it on Freon and aerosol spraycans. So they lied. But they had a very good reason for lying. It could be they are saving mankind's butt. Regards to All Nakano 1. Antarctica contains about 7.2 million cubic miles of ice, about 84 percent of all the glacial ice on Earth, according to the USGS. (U.S. Geological Survey) Melting all the Antarctica ice would cause a global sea level rise of about 240 feet. 2. Shepherd said eight years of satellite data show a steady trend of ice-sheet shrinkage...The Pine Island Glacier thinned by 30 to 36 feetin eight years, and the glacier's grounding line - the point where sea water undercuts the main stem of the glacier - has pushed inland by about three miles." ``The thinning is 10 times greater than the rate of snowfall in the basin,'' said Shepherd. ``The speed of the glacier means that much more mass is going out (through melting and breaking off of icebergs) than is coming in (from fresh snowfall.''
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- SMoked cheeba for many years throughout high school and such. Never had any paranoia or insanity issues that I am aware of. The trouble with me is more with that I almost trashed my lungs doing this stuff many times a day and chain smoking and even getting involved in other inhalents later on (no need to go into that). I am a recovering pothead, I am on the wagon, but I dont see why it has always been bashed while alcohol has been pretty much left to reign free...aside from the prohibition of course... I suppose its possible for some really kind bud to send someone into a psychotic episode, but heck so can aspartame or cough drops or candy bars...I think it would be marginally situational at best and not by any means a constant cause and effect thing. I will say that pot ruined my ambition. Looking back it seems like I had little motivation except to party and to have fun...of course I was a kid then too. Not that I am all-wise and mature now but it just seems like daily use does deaden your senses to the fact that your motivation and drive are compromised by the stuff--at least it was for me, I think. Booze kills far more people a year and causes the tax payers a lot more money a year than doobage ever will. Same with cigerettes and fast food health issues. But I guess the government needs a scapegoat for all the problems, and they can't blame LSD anymore sense they basically developed it... clarice starling - Original Message - From: "flw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane -Caveat Lector- I had alot of trouble with paranoia and psychosis in the 60's when I smoked marijuana.I had to give it up for that reason. So. YOU are the one who has been spying on me...plotting against me... spreading liestrying to steal my pot flw A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- The same priciple applies, if you have more snow/ice build up in the antarctic, then you have less water in the ocean, this is essentially a closed system! On 3 Feb 01, at 9:17, John Cone wrote: -Caveat Lector- --- Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Subject: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday February 1 3:47 PM ET By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. The thinning is 10 times greater than the rate of snowfall in the basin,'' said Shepherd. ``The speed of the glacier means that much more mass is going out (through melting and breaking off of icebergs) than is coming in (from fresh snowfall.'' Nakano Comments: So...satellite measurement shows the icecap at the South Pole is shrinking. But there is no reason given for this. Even if the greenhouse gas global warming theory is correct, it doesn't begin to explain this. The most alarmist reports talk in terms of 1/2 of one degree (mean avg. temp) increase over a 10 year period. In the Antarctic, 1/2 a degree of difference wouldn't even melt an icecube. But the climate-modification capabilities of "scalar" technology (such as HAARP) does offer a rational explanation. Are "they" melting the anarctic ice to prevent the catastrophe Richard Noone described in his book: "5/5/2000 Ice The Ultimate Disaster"?? My guess is...this is what's happening. HAARP and other such installations are being used to warm at least some areas of Anarctica. This is being done to intentially shrink the icecapnot to cause rises in sea level and coastal floodingbut actually to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. Here's the situation in a nutshell. Water evaporates from the oceans. Some of it falls on the earth's continents as precipitation (rain, snow, sleet). On the warm continents, this process in in balance. The world's rivers return much of the precipitation to the oceans and the cycle is continuous. Butnot in Anarctica. The year-round subfreezing temperatures there holds the water prisoner in the form of ice. Water falls on Anarctica in the form of snow and sleet. Under normal conditions, it never gets warm enough for this frozen precipitation to melt and run off the land back into the ocean. It just remains there and piles up. The icecap gets thicker and thickerand heavier and heavier. When Admiral Byrd explored the Anarctic, he erected 80ft tall radio towers in order to have communications with the outside world. Many years later, during the International Geophysical Year explorations (1959), scientists found Byrd's radio towers were only 8 to 10 feet above the ice! Since then, those towers have been completely covered by the ice. This continual thickening of the Anarctic icecap poses a tremendous threat to the entire earth. And so it may be that the hidden purpose of intentional climate modification via HAARP-type technology is benevolent. However, since the earth's weather is a "closed system", when they modify the weather in one area of the earth, other areas are also affected. For instance, if you increase rainfall over one region, this will probably result in decreased rainfall over other regions. And sothere are unintentional side-effects. This could be draughts in some areas...floods in other areas...warmer winters in some areas and colder winters in others. These are precisely the weatherchange patterns we are experiencing worldwide. "They" put out an advance coverstory to provide a plausible explanation for the strange weather. This "coverstory" continues today. It's all about the CFC gasses destroying the ozone layer. This simply is not true. CFC (and HCFC) is too heavy to rise high into the atmosphere and gobble up all the ozone. But "they" knew we would notice the weather changes and there had to be some explanation. So they blamed it on Freon and aerosol spraycans. So they lied. But they had a very good reason for lying. It could be they are saving mankind's butt. Regards to All Nakano 1. Antarctica contains about 7.2 million cubic miles of ice, about 84 percent of all the glacial ice on Earth, according to the USGS. (U.S. Geological Survey) Melting all the Antarctica ice would cause a global sea level rise of about 240 feet. 2. Shepherd said eight years of satellite data show a steady trend of ice-sheet shrinkage...The Pine Island Glacier thinned by 30 to 36 feetin eight years, and the glacier's grounding line - the point where sea water undercuts the
[CTRL] Annals of 'thoughtcrime'
-Caveat Lector-
The following article makes me wonder if the segment of society
upon which the government is declaring war (white heterosexual
males) will be compensated in some way - say by lower income
tax rates or exemption from any future military draft. After all,
those who lack full citizenship shouldn't bear the full burdens
required of "real" citizens.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg1.asp
Jewish World Review Feb. 2, 2001 / 10 Shevat, 5761
Paul Greenberg
Annals of 'thoughtcrime'
THE DEBATE over a proposed hate-crimes law here in Arkansas is
growing as confused and surreal as the concept of hate crime
itself.
The state's attorney general, Mark Pryor, explains that the law
would punish only conduct -- not thought.
Can he have read the law he's proposing? It specifically increases
the penalties (by exactly 20 percent) for crimes motivated by
prejudice. What is prejudice but a state of mind -- of thought?
What we have here is a concept that George Orwell named in
1984: "thoughtcrime.''
Not all prejudices would be equal under this law. The bill singles
out nine specific, politically incorrect prejudices that would be
punished:
"A person shall be subject to enhanced criminal penalties if the
person purposely selected the victim of a criminal offense because
of the victim's actual or perceived: (1) Race; (2) Color; (3)
Religion;
(4) Ethnicity; (5) Ancestry; (6) National origin; (7)
Sexual orientation; (8) Gender; or (9) Disability.''
Why not a victim's class, income, dress, political affiliation,
musical taste, sports team (Damn Yankees!), regionalism (Danged
hillbillies!) or eye color? Nope, none of those prejudices are
punishable under this bill. It would still be legal in Arkansas to hate
Republicans.
This law is premised on the assumption that it's not as bad -- it's
20 percent better, actually -- to commit crimes against folks for
reasons other than those specified in the bill. Like greed, revenge,
envy or just general cussedness.
When we punish only some motivations for a crime, we necessarily
privilege other kinds. And we wind up with a dual standard of
justice: political and nonpolitical, "bias crimes'' and just plain, good
old-fashioned, red, white and blue, guaranteed 20-percent-off,
wholesome American ones.
Absurdities soon surface. Like this one: This bill makes it clear
that the 20-percent extra for crimes committed because of a
prejudice against the disabled will not apply if the disability we hate
is (a)
compulsive gambling, (b) kleptomania, (c) pyromania, (d)
alcoholism, or (e) illegal drug use or disorders resulting therefrom.
Why the discount for those hatreds? One hesitates to guess. This
discussion is already sufficiently absurd. Which is the risk one
runs when one discusses an absurd law.
Back in the real world, it's clear enough, despite the neutral
language of the bill, that this law is intended to afford special
protection only to special kinds of Americans -- mainly ethnic,
racial, religious, and sexual minorities, plus the majority sex,
formerly the fair sex.
The bill is only ostensibly neutral. Its word games should have a
familiar ring in these latitudes. After all, the ostensibly neutral
language of states' rights (''separate but equal'') was once used to
discriminate against certain Americans. We were all separate but
equal back then, but some were definitely more equal than others.
The language of this law may be new -- it's even popular and
politically sophisticated -- but the intent is old: To punish the same
crimes more harshly when they're committed against the wrong
people. Just as black-on-white crime used to be punished more
harshly than black-on-black crime. Now we've reversed that
standard. But reverse discrimination is still discrimination.
Why not just leave the degree of punishment for vicious crimes
where it belongs -- with judges and juries -- instead of delegating
that decision to pressure groups that would make the law a
respecter of persons? Or rather a respecter of their race, color, sex
or disability.
Here is another entry in the absurdity department: The executive
director of the American Civil Liberties Union here in Arkansas, Rita
Sklar, doesn't object to this bill because it codifies the concept of
thoughtcrime. That would make too much sense.
No, she wants to change the bill to make certain that any
thoughtcrime is proven by due process. She would insist that,
before these additional penalties were handed down by a judge, the
evidence would have to show a direct link between the prejudicial
thought and the violent deed.
This is what American civil liberties have come to in the hands of
our professional civil libertarians: We're going to punish people for
bad thoughts but, by golly, we'll do it with every regard for legal
procedure. We'll require evidence!
What kind of evidence do you think that would be -- entries in a
diary, chance remarks in conversation, dirty looks given people of
another race, religion,
[CTRL] Elites ubber alles: Elites...are we getting the point?
-Caveat Lector- February 3, 2001 Tapes From Fujimori Era Scandalize Peru http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/03/world/03PERU.html?pagewanted=all By CLIFFORD KRAUSS LIMA, Peru, Feb. 2 They were the most closely guarded secrets of President Alberto K. Fujimori's rule, thousands of videotapes documenting the corruption and sexual high jinks of Peru's most powerful people that his spy chief used to blackmail and control virtually the entire political establishment. Now, as Congress and an investigating judge release the tapes day by day, they have become a national obsession, shaking the elite to its core, stunning a mesmerized public and feeding a deep popular suspicion and cynicism. The tapes testify to corruption and dissolution reaching to the highest levels of the army, Legislature, Supreme Court, business community and news media. Virtually no quarter of power has been left unsinged. Several of the leading candidates in the April 8 election to replace Mr. Fujimori, who resigned in November, have already been damaged by the tapes, which promise to define the political landscape for at least months to come and perhaps permanently transform how politics are conducted in this Andean country, which has been an important regional ally of the United States. The tapes were secretly recorded by Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr. Fujimori's spy chief and a close associate of the Central Intelligence Agency through most of the 1990's, who is now a fugitive from justice. They show Mr. Montesinos and his aides handing out money and giving directions to a wide array of officials. "The impact has been sweeping," Jos Ugaz, the state attorney who is leading the government's investigation into the former spy chief's activities, said in an interview. "The presidential candidates complain that the release of the tapes is being manipulated. The public shows no interest in hearing about government programs but only demands more videos, and the videos we have already seen have changed the political scene." Government officials say there is also evidence that Mr. Montesinos and his henchmen continue to pull strings behind the scenes, spreading disinformation in an attempt to destabilize the government, affect the political campaign and derail the government's investigation. The videotapes released so far show Mr. Montesinos and his associates manipulating everything from government arms purchases, to the concession of mining contracts to foreign companies, to the granting of private bank loans to political allies, to the fixing of the electoral apparatus to allow Mr. Fujimori to win a tainted re-election victory last May. About 2,400 tapes were captured late last year from Mr. Montesinos's offices and a Lima apartment as he and Mr. Fujimori were forced to resign and take flight under a cloud of scandal. Mr. Fujimori remains in exile in Japan, while Mr. Montesinos's whereabouts have remained a mystery since he reportedly underwent plastic surgery in Venezuela in December. "The videos show that Montesinos had absolute control over the public institutions of this country," Mr. Ugaz said. "And he taped absolutely everything." By Mr. Ugaz's count, the tapes have already helped lead to the arrests of eight active and retired generals, one Fujimori cabinet minister, two senior government prosecutors and one mayor. Four of the Supreme Court's 25 members are under investigation, three of whom were suspended from their judicial duties this week, accused of links to Mr. Montesinos. One congressman has been arrested, another has fled to Miami, and five more are under investigation. Mr. Ugaz said only 10 percent of the 700 most sensitive videos captured had been reviewed by judges so far because the former spy chief had them electronically scrambled, forcing a time-consuming process by which technicians reprogram the tapes to retrieve a grainy black and white picture and muffled audio. Mr. Ugaz said he expected many more officials "at the highest level" to be revealed taking bribes once all the videos are seen in the coming weeks. Law enforcement officials are seeking hundreds, if not thousands more videos that are believed to be hidden around Peru or spirited out of the country. Alejandro Toledo, who ran a lively campaign against Mr. Fujimori last year and is the front-runner in the current political contest, said last year that a Montesinos videotape existed showing him drugged and in a compromising position with women other than his wife. Mr. Toledo has said he was kidnapped by government intelligence agents at the time of the taping. The tape has yet to surface, but others reportedly exist showing prominent people patronizing a bordello and using illegal drugs. "There may be all sorts of bombs in the tapes," said Enrique Zileri, director of Caretas, the country's leading political magazine. "The only candidate who is not nervous is Alan Garci, because he was not here for nine years," he added, referring to the former president
[CTRL] Germs Are Bad Enough. Is Social Injustice Enough To Make You Sick?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a65b3871212.htm Germs Are Bad Enough. Is Social Injustice Enough To Make You Sick? Culture/Society News Source: Wall Street Journal Published: 1/17/01 Author: SCOTT GOTTLIEB Posted on 01/17/2001 07:00:23 PST by Pay now bill Clinton Germs Are Bad Enough. Is Social Injustice Enough To Make You Sick? By SCOTT GOTTLIEB In the early 1990s, some influential doctors touted experimental bone-marrow transplants as a breakthrough cure for breast cancer. But many ill women couldn't get one. Insurance companies refused to pay. Women's groups cried foul, of course, including the National Organization for Women, which saw such a refusal as evidence of sexual discrimination. Many insurers relented, exploding the number of transplants performed, although no rigorous studies had yet shown whether the $150,000 procedure really worked. Luckily, some other insurers helped fund four large trials for exactly that purpose. When the trials were done, it turned out that the transplants were probably killing more women than they cured. Identity politics comes to the medical profession Doctors in training are taught "evidence-based medicine." But in the case of such bone-marrow transplants and other procedures these days, the best medical evidence may collide with social goals and ideological expectations. And when it does, accusations of racial and sexual bias are never far behind. This is hardly surprising, argues Sally Satel in "PC, M.D." (Basic, 285 pages, $27), her excellent study of medicine and society. It is now our culture's habit to presume that racial and sexual discrimination lies beneath the surface of nearly every aspect of American life. Dr. Satel, a practicing psychiatrist, draws on her own clinical experience and public controversies to describe how activists are pursuing (supposedly) better health through social justice. And she shows how this dubious practice -- defended in the academy by the "social production theory" of disease -- is muddling doctors' ability to deliver good medical care. An example? A celebrated study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found differences in the treatment of lung cancer between black and white patients. Black patients were less likely to undergo curative surgery and to survive their illness. A sensible person might wonder: Are black patients more likely to have aggressive cancers, or do they "present late," showing evidence of disease after cancer has already metastasized? These are first-order medical questions, but the authors of the study did not answer them, offering only invidious innuendo. That didn't stop countless others who read the study, including the president of the National Medical Association, an organization of black doctors, from charging racial bias among doctors. Another widely reported study -- published in the same journal -- looked at the number of black patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, discovering that black patients were 40% less likely to be referred for it than white counterparts. This "finding," too, caused an enormous commotion. But the journal ended up retracting the study's main conclusion six months later, due to a misleading use of statistics in the study, an event virtually ignored by the mainstream media. A large share of the blame for this climate of accusation, Dr. Satel believes, rests with public-health officials, who allow ideology to infect their interpretation of illness and its causes, blaming large social forces and ignoring the particulars of conduct and environment. In my clinic, located in Spanish Harlem, black patients are more likely to follow dietary habits that promote diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Unprotected sex is common in the inner city, too, where fear of AIDS infection is muted by the mistaken belief that it is a "gay disease." But the public-health crowd often ignores these kinds of unpopular truths, substituting social goals such as income redistribution and affirmative action for bona fide health prescriptions. As a result, the most practical measures for fighting disease are ignored, if not actively avoided. "Indoctrinologists who want nothing less than revolution in the name of health," writes Dr. Satel, "have been quick to condemn practical hygiene efforts as dangerous social intrusion." Little wonder that the official theme of a recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association was "Empowering the Disadvantaged: Social Justice in Public Health." Lost in the din of identity politics are real differences, among groups, in the incidence of illness and response to therapy. For example, certain types of new and expensive anti-hypertension medications called ACE inhibitors don't work as well in black patients as diuretics, an old and cheap alternative. Doctors routinely start black patients on the older drugs, not because they're cheaper but because they work better. Where others find
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- --- "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confirmed. "...the revelations will continue to cast a cloud, to put it mildly, over the democratic legitimacy of Mr Bush's election." __ Nakano Comments: "Democratic legitimacy" is an illusion. It doesn't existnot in this election nor any other major elections in this country. Elections are held as an "escape valve" to let people blow off the steam of pent up anger. "We The People" get angry over the things the government does to us and what it fails to do for us. If this were allowed to build with no relief, eventually the People would rise up and go into the streets and lynch the criminal politiciansthere would be revolution. To prevent this, "they" allow us to play a game called "national elections". In this game, there is a national chosing up of teams. Most people who care about anything get on one team or ther other. There is a lot of name-calling and shouting and blaming and finger pointing. The annointed team captains (presidential candidates) make a lot of promises about how they will make things better and right some of the wrongs done to us. On the appointed day, the people line up and go to the polls to decide the outcome of the game. The people think they are "throwing the rascals out". This serves as a national catharsis. It's equivalent to a sublimated form of the type show put on by professional wrestling. The crowd gets to boo the "bad guys" and cheer for the "good guys" and shout and scream some obscenities and throw some popcorn. It obviously is popular and it works. Just look at the TV ratings for WCW. The People pay good money for this. National elections.same deal...same show on a different stage. The Gore supporters who are still cussing about "democratic legitimacy" and arguing about "the election being stolen" have been had. So have the Bush supporters who are happy because their team "won". Nobody "won". We the People are the losers. We always will be unless we recognise the illusion for what it is. Will we ever have the opportunity or the courage to take the "Red Pill"? Regards to All Nakano __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- "Theodor Parada, MD" wrote: -Caveat Lector- On 3 Feb 2001, at 11:42, Nurev Ind Research wrote: You are such an idiot. You are starting to rival Saba in your stupidity. Unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic ice is mostly on solid land. Whet it melts it becomes additional water running down to the sea. I REALLY hope you are not a doctor for humans or pets. Joshua2 LOL!! Then have them prove it mathematically, they won't be able to. Good answer. That solves it then. I'm sure THEY will be glad to oblige you. ARE you a doctor for humans or pets? Joshua2 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/3/01 11:18:03 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is being done to intentially shrink the icecapnot to cause rises in sea level and coastal floodingbut actually to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. I don't understand why an ever-increasing build-up of ice could become catastrophic. Can you expalin? Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] They Love Us: The Anti-Libertarian Press
-Caveat Lector- They http://www.lewrockwell.com/delemos/delemos11.html They Love Us: The Anti-Libertarian Press by Michael Gilson De Lemos Libertarians see a certain amount of crazy press. That goes with the territory if you seem new, are refining your message, and take on the dark side of social institutions. The system will alternately say your message is crazy, marginal, not new. Youll be identified with those you oppose. Youll be blamed for every ill. Your triumphs will be blandly ascribed to others. Others inanities will be ascribed on you. Youll be a social Rorschach Blot test. Well-meaning people will latch on to a portion of your message, and on the rest unwittingly project provincial ignorance, foolishness, or fear. Things ho-hum for others, associated with you, are scandals. Aristotle had a technical term for this in his political theory. He called it: "Thats life in the big city." Still, Libertarians have noticed loony rhetoric and well-meaning mangled explanations reaching new levels with strident attacks and smears by establishment and government-licensed media. Libertarians are being shot at, big time. The reason? While many newer Libertarians are unclear on what Libertarians have accomplished, the Establishment is very aware that Libertarians were key players in every major positive development in the last generation. From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the fact that it must now figure out how to control 200 TV stations and the internet (instead of 4 well-behaved networks and home presses), the Establishment views Libertarians as a headache at best harbingers of an uncontrollable new era at worst. While a prominent Republican politico stated he felt Libertarians were the shock troops of a the second phase of the American Revolution, the question in his mind was not whether Libertarians would endure. It was whether either Libertarians would be a large third force in two generations or the militant second party facing a last ditch union of the shattered major ones. Like Waiting for Godot, another admitted, uncertain policymakers are now "Waiting for the Libertarians." What can they make of Libertarian Governor Bush advisor like Dr. Randall Holcombe saying Libertarians have won the war of ideas? Libertarians must coolly realize growing attacks are a positive development, and refocus on their strengths and positive contributions. That is what it means to be a profound moral discipline and international social-political movement not just against international war, but that silent and demeaning war of citizen against citizen built on the obsolete and dying institution of coercive, non-rights based government. And that is why were seeing, now in one week, near-identical attacks from Right and Left, with frantic associations of Libertarians with every ill created by the government and its pet "necessary" monopolies and rah-rah foundations even as Libertarians are dismissed as minor irritants. The day is still to come when unless a Libertarian inspector is there, the public will know the alleged privatization, deregulation or rights-restoration is a fraud. Thus, in the last week, three amazing anti-Libertarian articles. Well see more. From the populist-Right Liberty Lobby, Libertarians are not only blamed for the energy crisis in California, about whose phony privatization Libertarians actually sounded the alarm, but magnified as conspirators of titanic economic collapse that would make James Bond envious. From the Left Village Voice, an attack that says the exact same thing, in denouncing Libertarian anarchists (yay!) who will Godzilla- like destructively control (huh?) one-third of the U.S land mass via the Interior Department. The local-communitarian Left suddenly loves distant bureaucracy when Libertarians annoyingly sympathize with Indian and local eco-claims to "government" lands Both identify Libertarians with coercive government-sweetheart crony-capitalists who, often, are actually Democratic Contributors. More: In a third article, officials unaware of their superiors new line that Libertarians are now the powerful, sinister destroyers controlling the US economy, dismiss Libertarians as "inconsequential crackpots" especially when their politicians defect. Libertarians have no shadowy agenda, merely one a decadent society has trouble grasping. Libertarians message is simple. Government is an auto-toxic institution, reinforcing the petty thievery people mutually inflict. In a world where various groups define their brand of government corruption and intolerance as all right, Libertarians are different. Libertarians will fight any corruption, undermine any intolerance, question any prejudice, support any voluntary option, protect property as the wall against oppression, and be the idealists of a new voluntary economy. Hence Leftists paradoxically denounce Libertarian anarchic limousine-liberals. Rightists paradoxically denounce supposed
Re: [CTRL] Elites ubber alles: Elites...are we getting the point?
-Caveat Lector- "Dirty tricks are still part of Peruvian politics.." Gee...I'm sure glad this kind of stuff only goes on in far off places like Peru. We sure wouldn't want anything like this in our country." --- Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: February 3, 2001 Tapes From Fujimori Era Scandalize Peru LIMA, Peru, Feb. 2 They were the most closely guarded secrets of President Alberto K. Fujimori's rule, thousands of videotapes documenting the corruption and sexual high jinks of Peru's most powerful people that his spy chief used to blackmail and control virtually the entire political establishment. (The "spy chief" is simply a Peruvian J. Edgar Hoover) Now, as Congress and an investigating judge release the tapes day by day, they have become a national obsession, shaking the elite to its core, stunning a mesmerized public and feeding a deep popular suspicion and cynicism. (And wouldn't the American public have been stunned and mesmerized if Bill and Hillary had released the information in those 900 missing FBI Files which just miraculously were "found" in the family quarters in the White House after 2 years?") The tapes testify to corruption and dissolution reaching to the highest levels of the army, Legislature, Supreme Court, business community and news media. Virtually no quarter of power has been left unsinged." The corruption and dissolution reaches to the highest levels here in the good ol USA also. All of this is just the Peruvian version of an American song. Names have changed but the story is the same. Nakano __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. This is such a crock of sh-t! The sea waters won't rise, it is simple physics. Take a glass of water and ice, let the ice melt, it doesn't overflow (same principle). How stupid do they think people are? The next thing they'll be screaming is, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! or, Oh! what beautiful clothes the (naked) king has!. the antarctic is a continent, man. there's land underneath those ice sheets - not water. ignoring the fact that your analogy is a bit fucked from the getgo, think of it like this instead: get a glass of water and drop some ice in it. does the volume increase? you betcha... inri (who also understands that ice is less dense than water) np: tortoise - standards A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- So...satellite measurement shows the icecap at the South Pole is shrinking. But there is no reason given for this. Even if the greenhouse gas global warming theory is correct, it doesn't begin to explain this. The most alarmist reports talk in terms of 1/2 of one degree (mean avg. temp) increase over a 10 year period. In the Antarctic, 1/2 a degree of difference wouldn't even melt an icecube. maybe not in the centre of the bloody thing, but the outer edges of the antaractic have always gone through yearly melting periods. in other words, yes there ARE seasons on the outer edges of the antarctic. the penguins that live there are grateful. the problem is that more and more ice seems to be melting as it goes through it's warm period, which is 0.5 degrees warmer than before. i don't claim to know whether the greenhouse model is correct or not. but there's no point in trying to prove it wrong unless you can replace it with something - because global warming IS a very, very real phenomenon. inri A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] aol e-mail virus
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Info on the virus is below. Sincerely, Neil from http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2449644,00.html an AOL-specific Trojan Horse worm has returned; it operates as an Internet worm, stealing user passwords and it will forward "buddy-list" addresses to the virus' author. Identified early in 2000, APSTrojan.qa has been upgraded to a medium risk by one anti-virus software company based on incident reports from its customers. What it does This worm comes as an AOL e-mail with as subject line, "hey you," and a message which reads: hey i finally got my pics scanned..theres like 5 or 6 of them..so just download it and unzip it..and for you people who dont know how to then scroll down..tell me what you think of my pics ok? if you dont know how to unzip then follow these steps When you sign off, AOL will automatically unzip the file, unless you have turned this feature off in your download preferences. If you want to do it manually then On the My Files menu on the AOL toolbar, click Download Manager. In the Download Manager window, click Show Files Downloaded. Select my file and click Decompress The e-mail comes with an attachment MINE.ZIP Activating this worm requires that you first open the e-mail, and then either use AOL's automatic unzip feature, or another utility to extract the zip file. MINE.ZIP unzips into two files: MINE.EXE and README.TXT. README.TXT is not significant, but can be used to identify the presence of the virus, as it contains the message, "Did you like it? Write Back ok?=" A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- The same priciple applies, if you have more snow/ice build up in the antarctic, then you have less water in the ocean, this is essentially a closed system! so add it up you bloody nincompoop. when there's less snow/ice build up in the antarctic there's more water in the ocean. when there's more water in the ocean, the volume goes up - as the volume goes down in the north south. if you're my toughest opposition, getting this phd won't be so tough after all! inri A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Jackson's lover bought house with charity cash
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000143789351982rtmo=0xXxeKbqatmo= pg=/et/01/2/2/wjack02.html Jackson's lover bought house with charity cash By Ben Fenton in Washington Citizenship Education Fund - Rainbow Push Coaltion Rev is in a sorry state [18 Jan '01] - New York Post A WOMAN who had an illegitimate child by the Rev Jesse Jackson was given money from one of the civil rights leader's charity organisations to help her to buy a house. Karin Stanford, 39, the mother of Mr Jackson's daughter, bought a house in Los Angeles for 243,000 in Dec 1999, a month after receiving 23,000 from the Citizenship Education Fund. The fund is registered as a charity whose board members include Mr Jackson's wife, Jacqueline, and his sons, Jonathan and Yusef. When the scandal of the child broke last month, Mr Jackson's allies admitted that Miss Stanford had received money from the organisation. They gave various explanations for it, including saying that it was for relocation expenses, redundancy and as an advance on "future consultancy fees". A fund spokesman confirmed yesterday that the payment had been made but said it was up to Miss Stanford what she did with the money. Jackson's lover bought house with charity cash.url
Re: [CTRL] Annals of 'thoughtcrime'
-Caveat Lector- Can he have read the law he's proposing? It specifically increases the penalties (by exactly 20 percent) for crimes motivated by prejudice. What is prejudice but a state of mind -- of thought? What we have here is a concept that George Orwell named in 1984: "thoughtcrime.'' a thoughtcrime, as penned in 1984, is a crime that is not committed - only thought of being committed. in the book, They know how to detect such things. or, at least, they SAY they do - the book alludes to the thought that a thoughtcrime is merely an excuse to persecute those who the state wishes to eliminate for reasons it cannot justify in order to keep control of it's own power. an evolution of the stalinistic purges of the 1930's, if you will. somebody needs a quick lesson in reading comprehension. "A person shall be subject to enhanced criminal penalties if the person purposely selected the victim "purposely selected the victim" - this is not thoughtcrime legislation as committing the crime is a pre-requisite to being punished. i'm not going to bother with the rest, just pointing out that the author isn't exactly stephen hawkings. inri A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] secret weapons - new book on mind control and child abuse
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, I highly recommend this new book for those interested in the topics of mind control, mk-ultra, ritual and child abuse and dissociative indentity disorder. Information is below. Sincerely, Neil Brick This may be heavy for survivors to read. "Secret Weapons - Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage" Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted Schwartz. New Horison Press, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 - ISBN 0-88282-196-2 "By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature..." p. 52 "The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security and defense." p. 53 - 54 The book also contains a variety of documents on mk-ultra and different projects as well as reports to the Presidential Committee on Radiation and Mind Control, including information on the Canadian lawsuit against the U.S. Government. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Saturday Profile: Muammar Al Gaddafi
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=44403 The Saturday Profile: Muammar Al Gaddafi MUAMMAR Al Gaddafi is just misunderstood. The leader of Libya is not the international pariah of western news reports, but an original thinker loved by millions the world over. He is also the author of a book of allegorical short stories, and the inventor of a car - a green Knight Rider-ish thing with a pointed nose - which represents the future of motorised transport. The Saroukh el-Jamahiriya (Libyan rocket) was launched in 1999, on the 30th anniversary of the Libyan revolution, and came complete with an electronic defence system and a collapsible bumper which protects passengers in head-on collisions. Gaddafi is also a cultural scholar, whose findings include the little-known fact that William Shakespeare was an Arab (real name Sheik Espir), and that the Native Americans originated in Libya and Yemen. It is hard to tell whether Brother Gaddafi will be pleased to be back on the front pages of the western press, but the pictures of him embracing the freed prisoner, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, on his return to Tripoli show that the Libyan leader has lost none of his taste for grotesque theatre. The simplistic understanding of the machinations behind the Lockerbie trial was that Gaddafi had sacrificed two men in return for the suspension of trade sanctions against Libya, but the verdict - one man guilty, one not - has complicated the outcome. Libya has not yet complied in full with the UN resolution which sets out the requirements for the abolition of the sanctions, and Gaddafi has wasted no time in seeking to exploit the differences between the pronouncements of the western governments. There exists a possibility that after the Foreign Office’s "assessment" of the latest diplomatic pronouncements, a formula will be found - some compensation, and the abandonment of the convicted bomber Megrahi, perhaps - which allows Libya back into the international family of nations. A precedent was set by Libya’s acceptance of "general responsibility" for the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 and the subsequent offer of compensation - moves which allowed Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to restore diplomatic relations. The hunger of the popular media for a simple answer to the sad riddle of Lockerbie - who ordered the bombing of PanAm 103? - has, if anything, played into his hands. The trial did not consider the chain of command which ordered the bombing, so Gaddafi can assume a posture of wounded innocence. His propaganda has an answer, anyway: visionaries are always distrusted. As one devotee, Prof Francis Dessart, observes on the website which carries Gaddafi’s name, his brand of intellect is hard to classify: "To all exploiters and enemies of humanity, Muammar Qadhafi [the spelling is transliteral] is the world’s number one ‘terrorist’. But to the oppressed, the exploited and the struggling people’s of the earth he is a teacher, guide, brother." Gaddafi’s vision, set out in his Green Book, is a jumbled mix of socialism and dogma. Elected parliaments, he argues, are demagogic, as votes can be bought and falsified. Only the rich get elected. Instead, he proposes The Third Universal Theory, a Soviet-style system of "direct democracy", based on tribal lines. This, he argues, has replaced capitalism and communism with the precepts of the Jamahiriyan era (meaning "an entity of the masses"). It would not do to dwell on the intellectual incoherence which is employed to prop up Gaddafi’s rule, but his skill as a manipulator of moods should not be underestimated. For example, the ITN newsreader, Trevor McDonald, recalled meeting Gaddafi for a television interview in 1994. "I rather liked Gaddafi," he observed. "He made an entrance which I’ve never seen in 25 years: he came from behind bushes and caressed this rose. His people were crawling around on their stomachs with sub-machine guns when I was the only person around. I thought this was farce of a high order. And yet one recognised this man led a country and had survived and ruthlessly kept his opponents at bay. "What I admired most was that he looked terribly smart when I saw him. He had Arab clothes on but beneath that there was a rather neat Italian jacket and after-shave which came straight out of Milan or Paris. I asked him to speak in English and he said he would try. It was very generous of him. That’s the kind of personal thing you remember. Forget his politics, he was very kind in the end." His kindness is easy to over-estimate. One of the most widely-touted theories about the Lockerbie bomb is that is was ordered by Gaddafi as a reprisal for US President Reagan’s 1986 attack on Tripoli, in which Gaddafi’s adopted daughter, Hanna, was killed. The bombing of Tripoli was a punishment for the attack on a Berlin discotheque in which two American soldiers were killed. Official biographies of Gaddafi
[CTRL] Gaddafi-I Will Reveal Proof Of Bomber's Innocence!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004275406612046rtmo=gjZjfkguatmo=rrrq pg=/et/01/2/2/wgad02.html I shall reveal proof of bomber's innocence, Gaddafi announces By David Graves The Libyan leader claimed that on Monday he would reveal evidence that would prove the innocence of one of his intelligence officers jailed for mass murder. Always one for the grand gesture, Col Gaddafi stood in front of his former house, devastated by American bombers in 1986.He warmly embraced Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah shortly after he was flown from Holland in a Royal Netherlands Air Force C130 Hercules aircraft. He then presented him with two camels, one for immediate ritual slaughter.As the men hugged and walked hand in hand around the heavily guarded compound, surrounded by jostling television crews, Col Gaddafi insisted that the convicted Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was also innocent. He vowed to disclose the evidence on Monday.The sudden announcement appeared to take his officials completely by surprise and they were left to wonder how their maverick leader would deliver the vital information. On Wednesday, Libyan officials had said they "respected" the court verdict.Dressed in a brown robe and wearing a yellow and red shirt, Col Gaddafi announced that after revealing his information the three Scottish judges who convicted Megrahi on Wednesday would be faced with three choices: they could resign, tell the truth or commit suicide."I have proven evidence that he is innocent," said Col Gaddafi, as a camel was slaughtered in a ritual gesture of homecoming for Fhimah, who spent nearly two years in Camp Zeist, Holland. As the two men stood in front of colour photographs of victims of the US bombing, the colonel claimed the judges had been "influenced by the US government, by pressure from the US government".He insisted that UN economic sanctions, suspended after the surrender of the two men, had to be lifted immediately "or we will be in a situation of racist aggression". The Libyan leader declined to answer whether his country would pay compensation to relatives of the Lockerbie victims, as demanded by Britain and America.He claimed that Libya should be compensated by the West for the "years of sanctions suffered in the Nineties". The US bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in February, 1986, was in retaliation for an attack on a Berlin nightclub in which Americans died. Referring to the attack, Col Gaddafi said: "We must not forget the victims of the 1986 massacre."What do countries have to say about these victims? What do the UN and America have to say about them? Are these victims human beings or cattle?" Fhimah, who seemed bemused by his reception, continually gave the V for victory sign.Asked by Col Gaddafi about his morale, the former station manager of Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta, replied: "It's good, thank God." Behind the two men was the ruined shell of Col Gaddafi's former home and military headquarters, left untouched since the US bombing. The colonel's adopted daughter, Hana, was killed by an American missile.As the colonel was driven away from the compound in a Toyota Land Cruiser, Fhimah left with his family in a white Japanese saloon car and a camel in the back of a pick-up truck, both gifts from his leader.The Libyan had flown into the Maitgah military air base, a former US airfield on the outskirts of Tripoli, following his acquittal by the Scottish court in Holland. The welcome from his family and supporters was ecstatic and often chaotic.As the Hercules, chartered by the UN, came to a halt a large crowd of relatives and TV crews surged to a side door narrowly missing being hit by the aircraft's propellers. Two bemused UN security officers, who had accompanied the Libyan, watched, shaking their heads. "I've never seen anything like it," said one.Meanwhile, Megrahi's family spent the day at their home next to the Kuwaiti embassy in Tripoli with relatives. The convicted bomber has four children. His wife declined to speak to The Telegraph.
[CTRL] Oppenheimers plan De Beers buyout
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004275406612046rtmo=Qw9wHawRatmo=rrrq pg=/et/01/2/2/cnbeer02.html Oppenheimers plan De Beers buyout By George Trefgarne, Financial Correspondent THE restructuring of the De Beers diamond empire gathered pace yesterday when a consortium backed by the Oppenheimer family announced a potential offer to buy out other shareholders, valuing the company at $16 billion (£11 billion).The consortium, also backed by sister company Anglo American, is offering about $40 per De Beers linked unit. That is a 25pc premium to the closing price on Wednesday and the shares immediately jumped $6.50 to $38.50 on Nasdaq, where most are traded.The move is seen as increasing the Oppenheimer family's control over the company, which was founded by the explorer Cecil Rhodes in the 1880s. The Oppenheimers built up their stake during the 1930s depression. The consortium currently speaks for about 40pc of De Beers shares and is 45pc-owned by Anglo, 45pc by the Oppenheimer family, and 10pc by the government of Botswana. It is expected to offer about $17 in cash and around 0.3 Anglo for each De Beers linked unit.If the offer goes ahead, the Oppenheimers' combined stake in both De Beers and Anglo is likely to be worth about $9.2 billion (£6.2 billion). However, it is seen as a step towards answering their critics. In recent years, De Beers shares have been depressed as a result of the family's complex grip on the company. They are believed to own about 8pc of both De Beers and Anglo, and in a series of protective cross-holdings De Beers also owns 35pc of Anglo and Anglo owns 32.4pc of De Beers.When Anglo moved its main listing from Johannesburg to London three years ago, investors demanded the family unlock the cross-holdings and move De Beers, too. Roger Chaplin, an analyst at brokers Canaccord, said this was now effectively being achieved: "This increases the Oppenheimer control over De Beers as they have good relations with the government of Botswana," he said, "but it unlocks the cross-holding."He added: "It is also good for Anglo shareholders. I reckon Anglo will have to raise $900m in cash for its share of the cash, but it will then have 10pc less shares in issue. That potentially adds 7pc to Anglo's share price." Yesterday, Anglo closed up 172p at £43.25, a gain of 4pc. However, there may be concerns that the Oppenheimers are getting hold of De Beers on the cheap. De Beers shares were trading at these levels before the Asian crisis erupted in 1998.Mr Chaplin said: "The prospect of another bidder coming in is zilch, I am afraid. Nobody is going to want to take on De Beers' problems in the US." De Beers controls two-thirds of the world market for rough diamonds and its directors are wanted by the US Department of Justice on anti-trust charges. "My guess is that, if shareholders complain enough, the offer might go up to $42-$44 a share," said Mr Chaplin.News of the offer was contained in a "cautionary statement" issued in Johannesburg yesterday. De Beers advised shareholders to "exercise caution when dealing in its linked units until a further announcement is made". This could take several months.If it goes ahead, the offer will mark the final reform of De Beers begun by Nicky Oppenheimer when he became chairman four years ago. He has relaxed the company's control over the diamond market and last month signed a deal with French luxury goods group LVMH to use the De Beers brand for a new upmarket jeweller.
Re: [CTRL] Annals of 'thoughtcrime'
-Caveat Lector- Can he have read the law he's proposing? It specifically increases the penalties (by exactly 20 percent) for crimes motivated by prejudice. What is prejudice but a state of mind -- of thought? What we have here is a concept that George Orwell named in 1984: "thoughtcrime.'' a thoughtcrime, as penned in 1984, is a crime that is not committed - only thought of being committed. in the book, They know how to detect such things. And in the proposed law, apparerently "they" know how to detect what the perpetrator was thinking when the crime was committed - hence the 20% penalty surcharge. or, at least, they SAY they do - the book alludes to the thought that a thoughtcrime is merely an excuse to persecute those who the state wishes to eliminate for reasons it cannot justify in order to keep control of it's own power. an evolution of the stalinistic purges of the 1930's, if you will. somebody needs a quick lesson in reading comprehension. "A person shall be subject to enhanced criminal penalties if the person purposely selected the victim "purposely selected the victim" - this is not thoughtcrime legislation as committing the crime is a pre-requisite to being punished. Once again, how do "they" know how the victim was selected. i'm not going to bother with the rest, just pointing out that the author isn't exactly stephen hawkings. inri Gee, since he doesn't meet your purist's criteria for interpretation of literature, I guess we should all just lie down and enjoy being f**d by reverse discrimination. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om -- Now the anti-semites and all the other hate mongers are crawling out from under their rocks, and Academia does not have the ammunition to argue against them. Academia cannot argue the rational principle that hatred of any group does not make sense; they dumped that when they dumped logic (as a "male" perversion). The argument between left and right now consists only of debating which are the correct groups to hate. - Robert Anton Wilson A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Clintons To Pay for Gifts Received
-Caveat Lector- (By the way, the Reagan's never paid for the millions in booty they hauled from the White House. In fact, Nancy didn't declare her gifts on her taxes. There was an IRS investigation and she had to pay a back taxes/fine in excess of $1 million.) Clintons To Pay for Gifts Received by DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trying to erase blots that marred their exit from the White House, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton say they will pay for nearly half the $190,000 in gifts they opted to keep just as they were moving out. Clinton also says he won't let taxpayers be ''taken for a ride'' paying for his pricey post-presidential office in Manhattan. Clinton's first days as a former president and his wife's debut as a senator from New York have been tainted by three controversies: their decision to tote thousands of dollars worth of china, rugs, flatware and other gifts out of the White House; Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich; and his decision to rent a taxpayer-financed, $600,000-plus a year office overlooking Central Park. -- please see http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap114.htm for the full story. Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] John A. McCone-From CIA to USC
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html From CIA to USC Biography of a Trustee (This essay first appeared as a leaflet at the University of Southern California in 1977.) Many USC students are aware that the roots of Watergate were nourished by the dirty tricks and political intrigues of Ronald Ziegler, Dwight Chapin, Gordon Strachan and Donald Segretti when they were students on this campus. The USC environment during the early sixties provided these student-government power brokers with experience and training that proved useful a decade later, especially after cross-fertilization with the USC alumni talents of H.R. Haldeman, Herb Klein and Herbert Kalmbach.[1] Much less is known about USC trustee John A. McCone. His exploits make Watergate look like a mild diversion from the workaday world of international covert operations. While Watergate had its amusing moments, McCone's career is much more sobering. Millions of lives have been affected by his intrigues. When playing politics at McCone's level of sophistication, one does not bargain with slush funds and short prison terms, but with the future of entire nations. McCone began in the steel industry before World War II, and from 1941-1946 he was president and director of the California Shipbuilding Company. According to the 1946 testimony of Ralph E. Casey of the General Accounting Office, California Shipbuilding made $44 million in wartime profits on an investment of $100,000.[2] After the war McCone was Deputy to the Secretary of Defense (1948), Under Secretary of the Air Force (1950-1951), and Chairman of the Atomic Energy commission (1958-1961).[3] While a Cal-Tech trustee in October, 1956, McCone criticized ten Cal-Tech scientists for supporting Adlai Stevenson's mild proposal for a nuclear test ban. McCone, an Eisenhower campaigner, accused the scientists of being "taken in" by Soviet propaganda and of attempting to "create fear in the minds of the uninformed that radioactive fallout from H-bomb tests endangers life." The scientists felt that McCone was trying to get them fired.[4] After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy tried to appease the right-wing by appointing McCone as CIA director.[5] McCone's tenure at the CIA lasted from November 29, 1961 to April 11, 1965. He became a director of ITT and a USC trustee in 1965, while remaining a consultant for the CIA at least through 1970.[6] McCone resigned in 1965 partly because the CIA's intelligence sources in Vietnam were being ignored by Johnson in favor of the Pentagon's more optimistic sources. The Pentagon Papers depict McCone as one who recognized the futility of Vietnam sooner than most policy makers. He objected to U.S. policy on the grounds that it could not be successful and advocated the use of increased force.[7] During McCone's tenure at the CIA, the secret war in Laos (secret from Congress and the public), organized and directed by the CIA, increased to major proportions.[8] Diem was overthrown in 1963 with CIA assistance,[9] and the CIA ignored the Mafia/Saigon-government heroin connections that were developing.[10] After 1965 the heroin trafficking moved to Laos in a big way and received important logistical support from the CIA.[11] The CIA assisted efforts to overthrow Sukarno of Indonesia in 1958,[12] but almost nothing has been revealed about CIA involvement in the 1965 coup and its aftermath. There is no doubt that CIA penetration of Indonesia's post-1958 government was substantial.[13] Although Indonesia received little attention in the wake of U.S. escalation in Vietnam, it was not a minor event -- 300,000 to 1 million workers, peasants, intellectuals and soldiers were slain after the coup,[14] and between 30,000 and 100,000 political prisoners are detained today under the most wretched conditions.[15] McCone may have had a special interest in Indonesia. While CIA director he owned $1 million in stock from Standard Oil of California, which had extensive operations there.[16] While McCone was director the CIA was heavily involved in the Congo, supplying mercenaries and arms to the supporters of Adoula and Mobutu.[17] They also trained and equipped Tibetan rebels[18] and orchestrated many of the events that led to military rule in Ecuador in 1963[19] and Brazil in 1964.[20] And the threat of Allende in Chile's 1964 election prompted the CIA and other agencies to funnel up to $20 million to his opponents.[21] Several attempts on Castro's life were sponsored by the CIA after McCone took office, but no documentary evidence exists to counter his claim that he knew nothing about it. McCone's successor Richard Helms is skeptical of his testimony: "He was involved in this up to his scuppers just the way everybody else was that was in it, and ... I don't understand how it was he didn't hear about some of these things that he claims that he didn't."[22] Perhaps McCone also had no knowledge of the CIA's drug experiments oon unsuspecting citizens that occurred during his
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/3/01 1:32:55 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Serious scientist who have looked at this are concerned that at some point, the dynamic (spin) weight of the growing icecap could result in the entire icemass sliding off the continent of Anarctica and into the ocean. The ice would rapidly travel through the oceans to the equator, due to centrifugal forces. Thank you for the explanation. Could this also tie in to the possible "pole shift" theories? I found this: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/planetary/poleshift.html "Pole shift is generally believed to be due to the gradual redistribution of mass in outer Earth's mantle and the crust. Our planet is most stable when its most massive parts are farthest from its spin axis; that is, on the equator. If mass redistribution were to occur somewhere on an otherwise uniform Earth, the planet would reorient itself so that the mass concentration would move to the equator. Over the past century, the north pole moved about 33 feet toward eastern Canada. Most geophysicists believe the movement is due to true polar wander (TPW), or a shift of the Earth's entire mantle and crust relative to Earth's core." and: "Since at least 1936, rising, pole-directed plumes of dense mantle material have begun to produce increasing mass anomalies in the Arctic and Antarctic regions near the Earth's axis of rotation. Plume heads impacting the base of the crust in the polar regions are beginning to cause earthquakes and upheavals there, making plume presence known. The majority of these rising masses of poleward-directed mantle material will soon cause the Earth to rotate slightly faster, just as figure skaters develop high-speed spins by bringing their arms inward and then up over their heads. An increase in Earthâs spin rate of only one second per day can increase the Earthâs equatorial bulge by about 20 inches. Our planetâs equatorial bulge is due to the centrifugal force of its spinning body, a force that is strongest at the equator. The force is so strong that the figure of the Earth is like a slightly squashed sphere, its diameter at the equator being roughly 27 miles longer than a diameter joining the poles. The liquid ocean responds instantly to changes in planetary centrifugal forces. If Earthâs spin rate speeds up by a few seconds per day, hot magmatic liquids in the volcanoes of the equatorial zone will also respond, only slightly less quickly than ocean waters, to the increased centrifugal force there. This will cause volcanic eruptions in the âtorrid areasâ bordering the equator. Such a situation should be occurring about now. If so, it will last only a short time." -- Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Britain ambivalent on US missile plan
-Caveat Lector- On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:31:40 -, "c." [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted article 003c01c08dcc$8f89ee40$59b3edc1@effluvialvalve, which said: Analysis: Britain ambivalent on US missile plan Is there any way that you can start your own thread without posting your messages in reference to mine? Just a suggestion, Thanks Damaeus A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Britain ambivalent on US missile plan
-Caveat Lector- i don't know what you are talking about- the last mail by you i can see is one about crop circles- i didn't even read it- still haven't, so if it has info about missile defences in it - then it is synchronistic, nothing more. anyway- your tone is unreasonable and immature- even if i did pick up on a topic of discussion and followed up on it by posting related material- what is wrong with that? if anything if someone posted more info about a subject i began talking about- then i would be kinda pleased i think... i don't know what your fucking problem is- but i bet it is hard to spell. incidently- the reason i posted the articles today was that one of them was front page news on the bbc website- so it was only that reason that it caught my eye this morning which made me post it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 February 2001 22:16 Subject: Re: [CTRL] Britain ambivalent on US missile plan -Caveat Lector- On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:31:40 -, "c." [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted article 003c01c08dcc$8f89ee40$59b3edc1@effluvialvalve, which said: Analysis: Britain ambivalent on US missile plan Is there any way that you can start your own thread without posting your messages in reference to mine? Just a suggestion, Thanks Damaeus A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Clintons To Pay for Gifts Received
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/03/2001 4:00:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (By the way, the Reagan's never paid for the millions in booty they hauled from the White House. In fact, Nancy didn't declare her gifts on her taxes. There was an IRS investigation and she had to pay a back taxes/fine in excess of $1 million. I'm trying to figure it out too. Why are the Clinton's offering to pay for things that every other president and or his wife walked out with. Why the fuss about Clinton's office space. The Republicans and the press have been squaling about every penny the Clinton's spent for the entire time he was in office. Have I missed something? Is our country so strapped that we can no longer afford a president? Perhaps its just the expense of a family. We could require only celibates be allowed to run for the presidency. The White House could be run along the lines of the Vatican. No women allowed in at all. The expenses could be curtailed. Less food served, for example. When George gets things running the way Cheney wants them, he'll probably spend a lot of time at the ranch. That will be good. Lights out in the residence. We'll save a bunch. I'm guessing that in a few years, the president can do the way the Dutch royal family does. Ride to where ever they want to go on bicycles. We don't need Air Force One or a helicopter. We can entertain foreign dignitaries either at McDonalds or with take-out from same. It wouldn't hurt if they brought food along with them to share. We don't need all those guards either. One guy is enough, and that would require three for the three eight-hour shifts. There will have to be few extra to allow our guys to have an occasional week-end, so I guess a staff of ten should take care of all of it. If the president wants to feel safe, he can go over to one of the Congessional buildings. Maybe someone might even buy him lunch. He'll need to borrow paper and pencils over there, and if he's lucky, maybe some Congressman's secretary might even type a letter for him now and then. It's too bad we didn't get this whole thing through years ago. Presidents with special talent can make extra money by performing for the crowds who tour the White House. It only requires a small area where the president can stand or sit and perform. There must be something around that bears the presidential seal that can be used to hold the tips he (or she) might receive. I can hardly wait for austerity to become the law of the land. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 143
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 143 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Protesters close oil plants --Students Storm Indonesia Parliament --Letter From Porto Alegre To Znet --The Border's Growing Labor War --Anti-Globalization Activist Jose Bove Is At It Again --World Social Forum in Brazil news release --This Is What Democracy Looks Like --National Progressive Media: Who's Left? === Monday, 29 January, 2001 Protesters close oil plants http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1142000/1142801.stm Poverty in the Niger Delta has driven many to protest Southern Nigerian community activists have forced the closure of three of Shell Oil's pumping stations. Youths from the Ijaw communities of Delta state entered the stations on Sunday and ordered the workers on duty to shut them down. The closure is costing the company 40,000 barrels per day. In a statement issued on Monday, the protesters called for the provision of amenities such as schools and roads, as well as jobs for local people. There is widespread anger in the region over the absence of benefits to the indigenous population from oil revenues. Shell Oil has been a frequent target of attack. Talks underway Shell Oil says it is currently holding talks with community representatives to try and find a solution. The protesters say the stations will not re-open until their demands are met. Lucky Izoukumor, speaking for the Ijaw communities, said that the protest related to Ijaw protection of a key Shell project last year. "We protected the project with our lives," he said. "now we have nothing to show for it. Until our demands are met, we will not give room for Shell to work." The oil coming from the Niger Delta provides most of Nigeria's export earnings and government income. Community anger But the people living there feel they get nothing back. This is the major source of tension in the region. A village living next to a well producing oil worth many thousands of dollars a year may have no clean water supply, no passable road, no electricity, no clinic or school. In theory, a percentage of the government's oil revenues are ploughed back into the producing areas, and that percentage has risen in response to growing discontent. But residents complain that, while the money may get as far as the state capital - even the local government headquarters - it stops there, and they never see the benefit. Local anger was most famously mobilised in the Ogoni area by the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, but in all parts of the Delta protesters have blocked access roads, occupied production platforms and, on occasion, sabotaged pipelines. === January 29, 2001 Students Storm Indonesia Parliament http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2001/jan/29/012900109.html JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Police fired tear gas and warning shots as thousands of rock-throwing demonstrators stormed the gates of Indonesia's parliament on Monday in the largest protest yet against the country's president. Three students were badly beaten by police as running battles broke out on the lawns of the heavily guarded legislature. The estimated 10,000 protesters had marched through the streets of the capital, demanding that President Abdurrahman Wahid quit over two corruption scandals. As the mob broke down the gates, lawmakers met in a closed session inside the legislature to hear the results of a long-running investigation into the two affairs that have bogged down Wahid's 15-month administration. "Wahid must resign immediately," said Ijan, one of the students. Like many Indonesians, he only uses one name. Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace, Wahid dismissed the anti-government demonstration and laughed off demands that he step down. Even so, the size and violence of Monday's rally was reminiscent of protests that led to the ouster of former dictator Suharto in 1998, and his successor, B.J. Habibie, in 1999. Police said about 1,000 supporters of Wahid had also gathered inside the parliamentary compound. However, their calls were drowned out by the much larger anti-Wahid demonstration outside. Wahid has come under increasing pressure as his opponents take heart from events in the neighboring Philippines where President Joseph Estrada was forced to quit this month after protests and impeachment proceedings. Analysts warned that Monday's protest in Jakarta might mark the start of a new wave of violence in Indonesia. "The demonstrations will continue. The students are looking at the fall of Estrada.
[CTRL] Critics Allege Torture of Client in Faith-Based Program
-Caveat Lector- Critics Allege Torture of Client in Faith-Based Program http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010201/pl/charities_abuses_1.html Critics Question Bush Charity Plan By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer Thursday February 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Taking advantage of one of George W. Bush's experiments, Teresa Calalay sent her son to a Texas church home last year hoping to break his pattern of legal, behavioral and work problems. He returned weeks later, broken in other ways. The 18-year-old's feet were swollen from severely sprained ankles and his body was covered with hundreds of welts, bruises and bug bites that led a doctor to file an abuse report with police. The home's superintendent now awaits trial on a felony charge of unlawful restraint - and Calalay has sued the church for what she says was a substitution of abuse for Christianity. The home denies wrongdoing. ``I don't know where in their Bible it says you've got to beat God into people,'' Calalay said. Bush as president is now promoting a plan to shift more federal social services to religious groups - as he did as Texas governor. The idea has early bipartisan support, though supporters of the separation of church and state are pledging to fight it. A review of similar state and federal initiatives shows that beyond the political debate, these experiments have generated allegations of financial and physical abuse, questions of lax oversight and lawsuits questioning whether the needy are being force-fed religion at public expense. Supporters, including Bush himself, offer stories of churches freed from bureaucratic constraints that have helped turn lives around. And they suggest religious groups are less prone to fraud and abuse because of their beliefs. ``Religious organizations feel accountable to a real higher power known as God,'' said Amy Sherman, a researcher with the conservative Hudson Institute. Critics fear some religious groups, however well intentioned, may not have the training and oversight needed for success. ``I see in this faith-based initiative a situation where people who are really unskilled in the problems they are addressing ... are going to be given billions of dollars to treat alcoholism and drug addiction,'' said Marc Davis, one of Calalay's lawyers. Congress has already allowed charitable organizations to get government grants for some social services, such as welfare, community development and drug treatment. Several religious groups have been implicated in defrauding the government in recent years, according to federal watchdog reports. They include: -Former officials of the New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ in Toledo, Ohio, who pleaded guilty to defrauding an Agriculture Department program out of $1.1 million. -Four Hasidic Jews in New York were convicted of stealing tens of millions of dollars in federal housing and education money in connection with a fictitious yeshiva, a religious school. Former President Clinton (news - web sites) commuted their sentences before leaving office. Critics also have filed lawsuits alleging some charities misused tax dollars for religious advocacy. One such suit targets Faith Works, a program that receives government money to provide drug treatment and job training to troubled fathers in Wisconsin. The program was touted by Bush during the campaign and backed by Tommy Thompson, the outgoing Wisconsin governor and incoming secretary of health and human services. The Freedom From Religion Foundation alleges in its suit that the program has used tax dollars to distribute Bibles and encourage attendance at Christian services. Tim Patterson, Faith Works' director of operations, said religious services ``are offered but they are not forced on anyone.'' In Texas, a lawsuit challenges $8,000 of state money that went to the Jobs Partnership of Washington County. ``The problem with the program was they used their funds to buy Bibles and to teach that building a relationship with Jesus Christ was how you found a job,'' said Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project, which sued. The Rev. George Nelson Jr., the job program's director, told The Dallas Morning News that the program was voluntary and broke no laws. The Baptist-run Roloff Homes near Corpus Christi, Texas, at the center of the Calalay case, has been the target of abuse allegations since 1973, when Texas authorities began investigating. The Peoples Baptist Church fought the investigation in court, but shut the homes in 1985 after losing a U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) appeal. Bush supported a 1997 Texas law that let church-run homes for troubled children be accredited by private groups rather than get a state license. That enabled Roloff Homes to return to caring for youths, which it did in 1999 under the oversight of the Texas Association of Christian Child Care Agencies, whose board included Peoples Baptist pastor Wiley Cameron Sr. In May 1999, a 17-year-old girl at the Roloff Homes reported being
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- From: "Theodor Parada, MD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is such a crock of sh-t! The sea waters won't rise, it is simple physics. Take a glass of water and ice, let the ice melt, it doesn't overflow (same principle). You may be a MD, but you're obviously no geologist. While it is true a melting ice cube won't raise the level of the water it floats in, the analogy doesn't account for the vast amount of Antartic ice that sits on bedrock. It is THAT ice, if and when it melts and the runoff runs into the sea, that would be worrisome in regards to rising sea levels... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- From: "Theodor Parada, MD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are such an idiot. You are starting to rival Saba in your stupidity. Unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic ice is mostly on solid land. Whet it melts it becomes additional water running down to the sea. I REALLY hope you are not a doctor for humans or pets. Joshua2 LOL!! Then have them prove it mathematically, they won't be able to. What's to "prove", mathematically or otherwise? Common sense would tell you that when LAND-BASED ice melts off of bedrock, the runoff would cause a rise in sea level. June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Polar Ice Sheet Shows Shrinkage]
-Caveat Lector- From: "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for the explanation. Could this also tie in to the possible "pole shift" theories? I found this: Possibly. In the 1970s, "pole shift" and "the coming ice age" were two disaster theories "de rigeur"...by the 1980s, the new Chicken Little cry was that we were facing imminent disaster due to global warming, and pole shift was no longer mentioned... Strange that a 180-degree turn was made in such a short period of time... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Interesting Interview W/ Japanese WW2 Naval Officer
http://www.japantoday.com/Commentary/Today/MitsuoOkada.asp Mitsuo Okada: Debunking War Myths Many Asian nations criticize Japanese politicians whenever they visit Yasukuni Jinja, the controversial Shinto shrine in central Tokyo. The shrine honours 2.6 million Japanese soldiers killed in wars over the past century. Tens of thousands people make the pilgrimage to Yasukuni each year, including small, formalised groups that wear old war uniforms as they march through the compound to pay their respects. Former Imperial Navy officer Mitsuo Okada leads one of these groups. Okada, who now runs an imported car sales business in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo, spoke with Takehiko Nomura about his wartime experience, Japan's Constitution and politics. = Q-What made you start marching in Yasukuni? I used to go to there every year by myself. In the 1980s, I remember seeing groups of people in naval uniforms marching, but they looked weird because they didn't know what Navy officers were supposed to wear on land. They should have had things like army-surplus canteens and haversacks. I heard the emperor [Hirohito] was a person of virtue and fine character, but you can't protect a country with character. Also, I saw one character who looked like a seaman carrying the naval ensign. But that would never happen. Carrying the flag is an honourable thing to do, and is always assigned to a senior officer. Anyone familiar with naval tradition would think those marchers were part of a comedy show. When my old friends invited me to join their marching group in 1990, I donated some gear so that we could at least look the part. I created the current group in 1996. Whenever we march, visitors to the shrine come up to us and say how much we look like naval officers. I have made many new friends as a result. Q-As you know, last week Kajima (a major Japanese building contractor) agreed to establish a $4.6 million fund for relatives of Chinese labourers forced to work at a Japanese mine during World War II. I don't know whether Japan forcibly brought Chinese and Koreans to this country to work or not. But as you know, the Soviet Union violated the non-aggression treaty with Japan, moved into Manchuria and uprooted about 600,000 Japanese [who were officers, soldiers and paramilitary personnel]. Japan is more like a dependent state of the United States. And they took them to places like Siberia, where they became forced labourers. Some of them died there. So if we have to compensate the Chinese, then the Soviets should be made to pay as well. As for comfort women, they say Japan forcibly brought as many women as possible from the Korean Peninsula. I've read some of these women's diaries and find it hard to believe. One woman wrote, "There was no fighting on Sundays." That's ridiculous. There were a lot of blatant lies in those diaries. I think these women are just trying to get money. It's shameless. I say dump [the constitution] down the drain and let's create our own. What about the Japanese women who worked as comfort women? In some cases their parents sold them, while others did it themselves for the money. But you don't hear them bleating about compensation. Q-But there is a lot of evidence and witnesses... I say there were no comfort women as such. When you say comfort women, that means the master of a whorehouse takes his women to places like Nanking to work. There were Japanese, Taiwanese and Koreans. That was their job at that time. Q-Speaking of Japan's Constitution, an increasing number of politicians are advocating constitutional amendment. I'm opposed to any constitutional amendment. The one we have now is MacArthur's constitution. I say dump it down the drain and let's create our own. Q-Do you believe Japan should be in a state of military readiness? Is there any independent country without a military? Japan is more like a dependent state of the United States, spending taxpayers' money on the US military. We should get out of this dependency. Q-Why do you think Japan got into World War II? It was a ridiculous war. We got into it because of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan [promulgated in 1889]. Hirofumi Ito [who became Japan's first prime minister in 1885 and a member of the privy council in 1888] drafted the flawed constitution that gave the emperor enormous power. The Japanese public should directly elect a head of state with broad powers. I believe that he drafted this constitution because he wanted to prevent the shogunate from re-emerging. After the Meiji emperor passed away, more and more problems emerged. As you know the Taisho emperor (his successor) suffered cerebral meningitis. Later, Korekiyo Takahashi [then finance minister] was assassinated (in 1936). These events led to the monumental tragedy of the Pacific War. Q-When we talk about the
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- You got that right, Junie Moon . . . . - Original Message - From: "Ynr Chyldz Wyld" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane -Caveat Lector- Far less, I suspect, than the number of people science itself has driven insane June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- Always, Dr. Parada. Your judgement is just. Also, you may be interested in seeing this book: Grinspoon, Lester, M.D. _MARIJUANA RECONSIDERED_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971, rpt 1977 and 1994. Dr. Grinspoon, on the Harvard medical school faculty, eloquently details the fundamental information behind your comments. Persecuting and maledicting Maryjane use has always been a means of persecuting and maledicting those who oppose the manipulations of government. Jenny Decker - Original Message - From: "Theodor Parada, MD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane -Caveat Lector- Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane The reason they are so against it in this study and why the government fears the weed, is that while high on it, your perception of what the government is (ie. NAZI, socialist pigs), becomes much more clearer. The person stoned realizes that the government is a crock and has no use for them, realizes that they don't need them and are willing to get rid of them (government), that's why the study is written against the weed. Of note, the word hashish is from the word"hassasin" (sp), in East Indian dialect. This group of individuals paid assassins(hassasin) would get loaded on hash and go out and do there job for which they were hired(murdering the opposition,ie government figures). Thats what the government fears opposition, anarchy! LOL. = Theodor S. Parada, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 0x537C4815 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly, but the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the heart's of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknownest in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic, so that, it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 BC A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
Re: [CTRL] Annals of 'thoughtcrime'
-Caveat Lector- Can he have read the law he's proposing? It specifically increases the penalties (by exactly 20 percent) for crimes motivated by prejudice. What is prejudice but a state of mind -- of thought? What we have here is a concept that George Orwell named in 1984: "thoughtcrime.'' a thoughtcrime, as penned in 1984, is a crime that is not committed - only thought of being committed. in the book, They know how to detect such things. And in the proposed law, apparerently "they" know how to detect what the perpetrator was thinking when the crime was committed - hence the 20% penalty surcharge. yes. however, a crime is still actually being committed. therefore, this is a realcrime and not a thoughtcrime. if johnny joe bob joe smith-jones III tattos "i hate niggers" on his forehead, and dreams about killing blacks every night in his sleep - then he is committing a thoughtcrime. if he wires himself, blows up a black church while in service, somehow survives and is convicted of a hate crime then he stopped committing a thoughtcrime the day he wired himself. do you understand? "A person shall be subject to enhanced criminal penalties if the person purposely selected the victim "purposely selected the victim" - this is not thoughtcrime legislation as committing the crime is a pre-requisite to being punished. Once again, how do "they" know how the victim was selected. the same way they "know" the accused selected them - through an impartial jury and a fair trial. but most cases would be fairly obvious, don't you think? the ones that aren't wouldn't make it through. but my point was that the fact that a crime has been committed means that this law is not thoughtcrime legislation. i'm not going to bother with the rest, just pointing out that the author isn't exactly stephen hawkings. inri Gee, since he doesn't meet your purist's criteria for interpretation of literature, I guess we should all just lie down and enjoy being f**d by reverse discrimination. the purpose of hate crimes legislation is not to attack the white majority. the notion that anybody in power is out to attack the white majority, when the white elite has 99.8% of all power in this continent, is completely laughable. if there's any plot here it's to stir up paranoia within the racist sectors of society, perhaps even to increase therir numbers, in order to divide conquer for the future when the corporations plan on reinstituting slavery in the lower socio-economic classes through destruction of education leading to prison/factory complexes. but i think that's overdoing it a bit. what we've got here is nothing more than a good old-fashioned-gun-toting-southern-good-ol'boy-republican-christian-hick type up to his usual braindead spouting off at the mouth. i'd bet he's voted the party line for at least 20 years. maybe he actually believes what he's saying. i suppose the gracious thing to do is to take pity. hate crime legislation is about adding an extra dimension to those absolutely disgusting crimes out there. to answer a question in the article - yes, i'd say that committing a crime due to racism is at LEAST 20% worse than due to greed and i'm convinced the polls would agree with me on this. the system is COMPLETELY, almost SOLELY, based on...INTENT! the system already says certain types of murder are worse than others: 1st is worse than 2nd is worse than 3rd therefore, the system ALREADY says that some types of murder are "less wrong" than others and "they" are ALREADY the ones trying to figure out which title the murderer gets stuck with. the PURPOSE of a judge/jury system is to DETERMINE INTENT. your INTENT determines your SENTENCE. according to you should all murder be treated as 1st? i suppose the bible doesn't make a distinction, neither should we right? should rape be treated as badly as murder? should theft? larson? drug possession? i mean.we can't treat one as worse, because then that says that it's ok to do the other! if drug possession has a lower sentence than murder, than we're saying it's ok to do drugs! so, should all crimes be treated as equal? that's the conclusion i'm getting from the "logic" you're spouting... well? defend your lunacy! (supposing the lunacy isn't just ignorance.) inri A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always,
Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "Jenny Decker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 February 2001 01:24 Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say cannabis can drive users insane -Caveat Lector- Always, Dr. Parada. Your judgement is just. Also, you may be interested in seeing this book: Grinspoon, Lester, M.D. _MARIJUANA RECONSIDERED_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971, rpt 1977 and 1994. Dr. Grinspoon, on the Harvard medical school faculty, eloquently details the fundamental information behind your comments. Persecuting and maledicting Maryjane use has always been a means of persecuting and maledicting those who oppose the manipulations of government. Jenny Decker and the manipulations always seem to be to one end- money. except for the obvious sexual arousal. or all that purifying the race stuff- but they are the exeptions rather than the rule. in 1916 US department of agriculture scientists, who presumably weren't looking forward to the consumer dreamtime but were concerned with the destruction of the US forests, devised a method of making paper from hemp pulp...probably this concern was prompted less by ecological considerations than by an awareness of the pressure that the war in europe would place on the forests. and indeed by 1918 30 million feet of spruce alone per month was going into the war effort. but the new paper making process remained at that time purely hypothetical, since the industrial machinery hadn't yet been developed and wouldn't be until the 1930s. nevertheless it remained as an ominous threat hovering over the vast US paper industry, with its massive investments in forest lands, machinery and infrastructure. meanwhile dupont industries were working towards a new sulphuric acid process for wood pulp paper, which was to appear in 1937. the hearst paper manufacturing division was just one of the skittles that could have gone over if the new hemp paper had become a reality and it probably would have taken the rest of the hearst empire with it. but W R hearst was also a newspaper magnate and a monumental bigot.perhaps it was his own peculiar good luck that he was a vicious racist with a pathological fear of drug users. maybe he was farsighted to the point of premonition when it came to his own narrow interests. or maybe it was all down to coincidence that pancho villa's dope smoking revolutionaries had annexed 800,000 acres of hearst's mexican forest lands. whatever the reason, from 1920 the hearst news empire introduced america to a new moral panic- marijuana, a hitherto unknown and unbelievably horrific drug, used typically by "inferior peoples" - specifically blacks and mexicans- which would, if not checked, lead to the wholesale debauchery of white womanhood at the hands of reefer smoking, sex crazed negros. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] re : Shriners Scandalized by Sex Bash
-Caveat Lector- Hey, you wouldn't be laughing if you knew what those fez hats were REALLY for. David Icke territory? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fw: [ashcroft-watch] More of the Dirty Dick et.al. Don't Miss A Trick Story
-Caveat Lector- Funny that I never saw such obsessive digging for 'facts' over the last 8 years. Hmm. Was there nothing to dig up on all those saints?? Beyond the filth and corruption that was of such a magnitude that it oozed out beyond their control was MUCH MUCH MUCH more. But we certainly don't want to talk about all that, do we? On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:19:00 -0800 Michael Pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 02, 2001 6:46 AM Subject: [ashcroft-watch] More of the Dirty Dick et.al. Don't Miss A Trick Story More of the Dirty Dick et.al. Don't Miss A Trick Story http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39001-2000Dec21.html Ann Veneman, Bush choice for Agriculture Secretary, according to the article at the url above served on the board of Calgene, described in that article as "a biotechnology company working on genetically engineered foods" .http://www.ucsusa.org/Gene/F97.agribusiness.html "Calgene (is) now a subsidiary of Monsanto" http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/media/00/00nov13_stock.html http://www.social-ecology.org/library/tokar/monsanto.html "In 1947, a rench freighter carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up at a dock 270 feet from Monsanto's plastics plant outside Galveston, Texas.More than 500 people died in what came to be seen as one of the chemical industry's first major disasters.- The herbicide "Agent Orange," which was used by U.S. military forces to defoliate the rainforest ecosystems of Vietnam during the 1960s was a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D that was available from several sources, but Monsanto's Agent Orange had concentrations of dioxin many times higher than that produced by Dow Chemical, the defoliant's other leading manufacturer. This made Monsanto the key defendant in the lawsuit brought by Vietnam War veterans in the United States, who faced an array of debilitating symptoms attributable to Agent Orange exposure. When a $180 million settlement was reached in 1984 between seven chemical companies and the lawyers for the veterans, the judge ordered Monsanto to pay 45.5 percent of the total." http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/about_us/company_timeline/index3.html "Through the Dayton Laboratories, Monsanto became involved in research on uranium for the Manhattan Project, which led to the first nuclear bombs. "Monsanto Company, an 85 percent owned subsidiary of Pharmacia Corporation." http://microrim.samovar.ru "On April 3, 2000, a new first-tier competitor in the global pharmaceutical industry was created. Pharmacia Corporation is the result of a merger between Pharmacia Upjohn and Monsanto Company. http://www.pharmacia.com http://www.pnu.com/ http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/2000/january2000/27012000_monsanto.html "Pharmacia Upjohn's board of directors is comprised of Frank C. Carlucci (and others) http://www.nortelnetworks.com/corporate/news/newsreleases/1999b/4_29_9 999298_Carlucci_appt.html "Frank C. Carlucci Becomes Nortel Networks' New Chairman of the Board of Directors" "Carlucci of McLean, Virginia, a member of the Nortel Networks board of directors since 1989, currently serves as the chairman of the Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based merchant banking firm as well as chairman of the board and a director of Neurogen Corporation. Earlier, Carlucci enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the U.S. government. His periods of service which spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations, included appointments as Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989, National Security Advisor to President Reagan in 1987, Ambassador to Portugal, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget." http://www.njdc.org/readNews.php3?show=67dept=4 "Cheney agreed with his predecessor, Frank Carlucci, that congressional opposition to US arms sales to friendly Arab states has hurt American interests in the region. 'I think the United States does have a role to play in the area that does involve providing our Arab friends with the equipment they need in order to provide for their defense,' Cheney said." http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/cheney.htm "Richard B. Cheney March 21, 1989- January 20, 1993 17th Secretary of Defense Bush Administration President George Bush initially chose former Texas Sen. John G. Tower to be his secretary of defense. When the Senate in March 1989 rejected his nomination, Bush selected Rep. Richard B. (Dick) Cheney of Wyoming. Cheney, born in Lincoln,Nebraska, on 30 January 1941, attended Yale University- For chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he selected General Colin L. Powell, who assumed the post on 1 October 1989.- Cheney and
[CTRL] Mad Computer Disease
-Caveat Lector- THE TIMES February 4 2001 BRITAIN Computer-mad generation has a memory crash Cherry Norton and Adam Nathan GROWING numbers of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss because of increasing reliance on computer technology, according to new research. Sufferers complain they are unable to recall names, written words or appointments, and in some cases have had to give up their jobs. Doctors are blaming computer technology, electronic organisers and automatic car navigation systems. They claim these gadgets lead to diminished use of the brain to work out problems and inflict "information overload" that makes it difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant facts. A preliminary study of 150 people aged 20 to 35 has shown that more than one in 10 are suffering from severe problems with their memory. Researchers from Hokkaido University's school of medicine in Japan said the memory dysfunction among the young required further investigation. "They're losing the ability to remember new things, to pull out old data or to distinguish between important and unimportant information. It's a type of brain dysfunction," said Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the university's professor of neurobiology. "Young people today are becoming stupid." One high-flying 28-year-old salesman treated by Dr Sawaguchi was forced to give up his job when he found himself forgetting where he was going, who he was supposed to be seeing or, when he finally got there, what he was selling. Although no formal studies have been undertaken in Britain, experts are increasingly recognising the problem. Professor Pam Briggs of Northumbria University, who recently chaired a British Psychological Society symposium on the effects of technology, said: "I think increased use of the internet and computer technology is starting to have an effect. Everyday memory might be at threat if you are using the computer as a kind of external memory." Dr Takashi Tsukiyama, who runs a private clinic in Tokyo, said he had seen an increase in severe memory problems. "In the past two years, more people in their twenties and thirties have presented themselves with memory impairment," he said. One sales assistant aged 28 said she suddenly found herself unable to recall written words and was dismissed from her job. "Ageing affects the brain's hardware, but errors may occur in the brain's 'software' that have nothing to do with age but are related to someone's lifestyle, such as not using your brain enough," said Tsukiyama. Dr David Cantor, director of the Psychological Services Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, who has treated patients for memory and attention problems for more than 20 years, said: "Many experts believe information overload is making it difficult for some people to absorb new information, as they have reached a limit of what they can store in their brains. These people forget things because they were too distracted to absorb them in the first place." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Mad Computer Disease
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "flw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:36 PM Subject: [CTRL] Mad Computer Disease -Caveat Lector- THE TIMES February 4 2001 BRITAIN Computer-mad generation has a memory crash Cherry Norton and Adam Nathan GROWING numbers of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss because of increasing reliance on computer technology, according to new research. Sufferers complain they are unable to recall names, written words or appointments, and in some cases have had to give up their jobs. Doctors are blaming computer technology, electronic organisers and automatic car navigation systems. They claim these gadgets lead to diminished use of the brain to work out problems and inflict "information overload" that makes it difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant facts. A preliminary study of 150 people aged 20 to 35 has shown that more than one in 10 are suffering from severe problems with their memory. Researchers from Hokkaido University's school of medicine in Japan said the memory dysfunction among the young required further investigation. "They're losing the ability to remember new things, to pull out old data or to distinguish between important and unimportant information. It's a type of brain dysfunction," said Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the university's professor of neurobiology. "Young people today are becoming stupid." One high-flying 28-year-old salesman treated by Dr Sawaguchi was forced to give up his job when he found himself forgetting where he was going, who he was supposed to be seeing or, when he finally got there, what he was selling. Although no formal studies have been undertaken in Britain, experts are increasingly recognising the problem. Professor Pam Briggs of Northumbria University, who recently chaired a British Psychological Society symposium on the effects of technology, said: "I think increased use of the internet and computer technology is starting to have an effect. Everyday memory might be at threat if you are using the computer as a kind of external memory." Dr Takashi Tsukiyama, who runs a private clinic in Tokyo, said he had seen an increase in severe memory problems. "In the past two years, more people in their twenties and thirties have presented themselves with memory impairment," he said. One sales assistant aged 28 said she suddenly found herself unable to recall written words and was dismissed from her job. "Ageing affects the brain's hardware, but errors may occur in the brain's 'software' that have nothing to do with age but are related to someone's lifestyle, such as not using your brain enough," said Tsukiyama. Dr David Cantor, director of the Psychological Services Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, who has treated patients for memory and attention problems for more than 20 years, said: "Many experts believe information overload is making it difficult for some people to absorb new information, as they have reached a limit of what they can store in their brains. These people forget things because they were too distracted to absorb them in the first place." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being
Re: [CTRL] Leviticus
-Caveat Lector- Last year the good folk at the Landover Baptist Church (http://www.landoverbaptist.org) were having a Levitical Law Survivor Show, where a group of families had to live in one household together under strict Levitical law. The survivors would win a prize. On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:07:44 -0500 Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Leave it to you BooHoo to come up with something so original - again, your style is so familiar.my you sound so intelligent when you quote G-d. Or is that God. So Dr. Laura never made Playboy did she? Anything for the buck - a nudist moralist but when it comes to homosexuality, she has seen the light. She has survived but then, different strokes for different folksthough she lost some advertisers, she did not lose her job and like Jerry Springer, where would he be, without an angel to keep the fight going. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- Dream on, dream on. Many reports say Bush not only HANDILY won Florida, but would have been shown to have won the popular vote also, except that *s like Gov in Calif won't allow 1 million absentee ballots to be counted because the lie would be exposed. Get over it. -- On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:14:13 -0800 John Cone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- --- "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confirmed. "...the revelations will continue to cast a cloud, to put it mildly, over the democratic legitimacy of Mr Bush's election." __ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Tora, Tora, Tora ? ? ?
-Caveat Lector-
This is another quite obvious attack on the US constitution and the citizens
of the United States, by CFR members Gingrich and other subversives.
When will the people of the United States awaken to the reality of their
present perilous situation?
Yours very truly,
Cliff Hume.
At 02:14 AM 2/2/01 -0600, you wrote:
-Caveat Lector-
From
http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/printer_friendly.pl
So: is an alive 2nd Amendment contributory to deterrence? AER
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U.S. Facing 'Catastrophic Attack'
NewsMax.com
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001
National security experts Congress commissioned to examine America's
vulnerabilities
in a changing, hostile world warn of a crippling assault upon its homeland
within 25
years.
According to the Associated Press, the United States Commission on National
Security/21st Century, chaired by former Sens. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and
Gary Hart,
D-Colo., reported Wednesday that:
"Weapons proliferation [and] the persistence of international terrorism
will end the
relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack.
"A direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over
the next
quarter century."
The 14-member panel listed as a close-second threat what it described as the
nation's inadequate scientific research and education.
The nation's entire education system, it said, is "in serious crisis."
It warned that this actually poses "a greater threat to U.S. national
security ...
than any potential conventional war that we might imagine."
One commission member, Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the
House of Representatives, said:
"We put science, and science and math education, second ... because we
believe it's second only to the threat of a weapon of mass destruction
[hitting] one of our cities."
The panel concluded the United States is not prepared adequately to meet
either of those challenges:
"The risk is not only death and destruction but also a demoralization that
could undermine [America's] global leadership.
"In the face of this threat, our nation has no coherent or integrated
governmental structures."
It offered these steps the United States should take:
Assign the National Guard primary responsibility for domestic security
and reorganize, train and equip it to undertake that mission.
Overhaul the Defense Department, where excessive laws have hobbled
weapons acquisition and the failure to privatize some support activities
"wastes huge sums of money."
Reduce by up to 15 percent the staffs of the defense secretary, Joint
Chiefs of Staff and regional commands, where growth has "created mounting
confusion and delay."
Create an independent National Homeland Security Agency.
Pattern it along the lines of the current Federal Emergency Management
Agency.
Assign it responsibility to protect American lives and infrastructure,
such as the
highway system and information technology, and to plan, coordinate and
integrate
domestic security activities.
Reorganize the State Department, a "crippled institution that is starved for
resources by Congress" and weakened further by many of its core functions,
such as
foreign assistance, being parceled out to other agencies.
Double spending on scientific research and development over the next seven to
eight years.
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- Considering Gore's margin of victory in California, which is heavily Democrat statewide, your logic is absurd. Many other reports, BTW, say that Bush LOST Florida. Steve On 3 Feb 01, at 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many reports say Bush not only HANDILY won Florida, but would have been shown to have won the popular vote also, except that *s like Gov in Calif won't allow 1 million absentee ballots to be counted because the lie would be exposed. Get over it. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Critics Allege Torture of Client in Faith-Based Program
-Caveat Lector- Bush is using his father's CIA-based 'Newspeak', more accurately, Neurolinguistic Programming, to replace the word 'religious' with the more diffuse term 'faith-based'. But the effect is the same: to allow the Government to gain control of religious institutions for the purpose of mind control. (Why waste such a valuble resource?) What is to prevent the Church of Satan from applying for government funding for 'charitable purposes'? How can the government determine which 'religion' is ok, and which is not? And is any of this really constitutional? I think not, but then our Supreme Court just appointed our President so anything is possible. We are in for some real surprises in the next few years. Take care. Arwcw On 3 Feb 01, at 20:53, Steve Wingate wrote: - IUFO Mailing List --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent:Sat, 03 Feb 2001 15:56:26 -0800 From: radman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Critics Allege Torture of Client in Faith-Based Program To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to:Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Critics Allege Torture of Client in Faith-Based Program http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010201/pl/charities_abuses_1.html Critics Question Bush Charity Plan By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer Thursday February 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Taking advantage of one of George W. Bush's experiments, Teresa Calalay sent her son to a Texas church home last year hoping to break his pattern of legal, behavioral and work problems. He returned weeks later, broken in other ways. The 18-year-old's feet were swollen from severely sprained ankles and his body was covered with hundreds of welts, bruises and bug bites that led a doctor to file an abuse report with police. The home's superintendent now awaits trial on a felony charge of unlawful restraint - and Calalay has sued the church for what she says was a substitution of abuse for Christianity. The home denies wrongdoing. ``I don't know where in their Bible it says you've got to beat God into people,'' Calalay said. Bush as president is now promoting a plan to shift more federal social services to religious groups - as he did as Texas governor. The idea has early bipartisan support, though supporters of the separation of church and state are pledging to fight it. A review of similar state and federal initiatives shows that beyond the political debate, these experiments have generated allegations of financial and physical abuse, questions of lax oversight and lawsuits questioning whether the needy are being force-fed religion at public expense. Supporters, including Bush himself, offer stories of churches freed from bureaucratic constraints that have helped turn lives around. And they suggest religious groups are less prone to fraud and abuse because of their beliefs. ``Religious organizations feel accountable to a real higher power known as God,'' said Amy Sherman, a researcher with the conservative Hudson Institute. Critics fear some religious groups, however well intentioned, may not have the training and oversight needed for success. ``I see in this faith-based initiative a situation where people who are really unskilled in the problems they are addressing ... are going to be given billions of dollars to treat alcoholism and drug addiction,'' said Marc Davis, one of Calalay's lawyers. Congress has already allowed charitable organizations to get government grants for some social services, such as welfare, community development and drug treatment. Several religious groups have been implicated in defrauding the government in recent years, according to federal watchdog reports. They include: -Former officials of the New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ in Toledo, Ohio, who pleaded guilty to defrauding an Agriculture Department program out of $1.1 million. -Four Hasidic Jews in New York were convicted of stealing tens of millions of dollars in federal housing and education money in connection with a fictitious yeshiva, a religious school. Former President Clinton (news - web sites) commuted their sentences before leaving office. Critics also have filed lawsuits alleging some charities misused tax dollars for religious advocacy. One such suit targets Faith Works, a program that receives government money to provide drug treatment and job training to troubled fathers in Wisconsin. The program was touted by Bush during the campaign and backed by Tommy Thompson, the outgoing Wisconsin governor and incoming secretary of health and human services. The Freedom From Religion Foundation alleges in its suit that the program has used tax dollars to distribute Bibles and encourage attendance at Christian services. Tim Patterson, Faith Works' director of operations, said religious services ``are offered but they are not forced on anyone.'' In Texas, a lawsuit
[CTRL] Census quote
-Caveat Lector- Here's a good quote for the next census spy the government sends to your front door" "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel, And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. . . . And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. . . . So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men" (1 Chronicles 21:1-14). http://leviathan.weblogs.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fw: [ashcroft-watch] More of the Dirty Dick et.al. Don't Miss A Tr...
In a message dated 2/3/01 8:27:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Funny that I never saw such obsessive digging for 'facts' over the last 8 years. Hmm. Was there nothing to dig up on all those saints?? Beyond the filth and corruption that was of such a magnitude that it oozed out beyond their control was MUCH MUCH MUCH more. But we certainly don't want to talk about all that, do we? Actually there was plenty of exposing of the sins, just as often imagined as real, of the Clinton years...but that was then and this is now. And Bush seems to almost invite controversy. Bill.
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/3/01 9:51:29 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dream on, dream on. Many reports say Bush not only HANDILY won Florida, but would have been shown to have won the popular vote also, except that *s like Gov in Calif won't allow 1 million absentee ballots to be counted because the lie would be exposed. Get over it. Source it. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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[CTRL] Architect of Lockerbie trial attacks guilty verdict
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000339931511020rtmo=kCJ31kLpatmo= pg=/et/01/2/4/nlock04.html Architect of Lockerbie trial attacks guilty verdict By Jenny Booth THE Scots law professor who masterminded the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands has launched a scathing attack on the judges for finding the defendant guilty on "very, very weak" evidence. Professor Robert Black described the decision by three Scottish judges to convict Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, a Libyan secret serviceman, of the murder of 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie as "astonishing". He warned that the bomber stands a better-than-average chance of being acquitted on appeal. Professor Black, a former judge with 13 years' experience and Scotland's leading expert on criminal procedure and evidence, said that in his view the Crown case had failed to comply with strict Scottish legal rules - tougher than English law - that evidence be corroborated. Professor Black said: "I thought this was a very, very weak circumstantial case. I am absolutely astounded, astonished. I was extremely reluctant to believe that any Scottish judge would convict anyone, even a Libyan, on the basis of such evidence." Professor Black's reservations will fuel the concerns of bereaved families that, despite the criminal trial, the truth is yet to emerge about the Lockerbie bombing. At a hushed press conference in London the day after the verdict, Martin Cadman, whose son Bill died in the bombing, said: "We have our doubts about the guilt of Megrahi and that will have to remain the subject of any appeal to come. The appeal will hold us up for another year or so before we can have an inquiry into the truth of who was responsible and what the motive was." The chief spokesman for the families, Dr Jim Swire, a former army explosives expert, produced a bomb timer to illustrate why he found it hard to believe the Crown's version of events. He said that the timing of the explosion, 38 minutes after the aircraft took off from Heathrow and while the jet was still over land, made the bomb more likely to have been detonated by a crude pressure-activated timer, such as those used by the Palestinian terror group operating in Germany under the command of Ahmed Jibril, than by a sophisticated 999-hour electronic timer of the type bought by Libyan secret services from MeBo, a Swiss arms firm. Professor Black's concerns are likely to be seized upon by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to back claims of Libya's innocence of the bombing. Professor Black devised the unique format of the Lockerbie trial, which was held in a neutral country without a jury, and campaigned alongside the bereaved families for its acceptance by Libya, America and Britain. Megrahi has a further 11 days to lodge an appeal, which would probably be heard in the same courtroom in Camp Zeist, in front of a bench of five judges, over about two weeks in late summer. The appeal bench is expected to be chaired by Lord Cullen, Scotland's second most senior judge. Under ordinary circumstances, barely a handful of appeals against conviction ever succeed in the Scottish courts, but Professor Black said that the unique circumstances of the trial meant that Megrahi stood a better chance.
[CTRL] Bug-sized robots could be next generation spies
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=storage/remote_n/0203aaa 01b6c.nandSys=v2oFilter=National%20NewsFid=NATIONAL Bug-sized robots could be next generation spies ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Adding a new dimension to the world of creepy-crawlies, researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories have developed mobile, electronic micro-bugs - sensor-equipped robots the size of a nickel. The lab sees the devices as potential environmental monitors or antiterrorist agents - capable of silently scampering under a door, quietly rolling into a corner and eavesdropping on whatever is going on inside. Only about 1/4 cubic inch in size - essentially as small as a large beetle - they are the tiniest of autonomous and untethered robots, Sandia researchers say. "They're small enough to sneak under most doors, yet they have a pretty robust little (computer) chip in them," said developer Doug Adkins, a Sandia mechanical engineer specializing in sensors. He said the onboard computing power is about equivalent to the first small desktop computers. One of the project's other scientists, Ed Heller, said he believes "this could the robot of the future. "It may eventually be capable of performing difficult tasks that are done with much larger robots today," he said, adding they might become useful in "locating and disabling land mines or detecting chemical and biological weapons." Currently, the "minibot" is only outfitted with temperature sensors, but Adkins said a team of six Sandia researchers is developing a suite of microsensors that might be attached to its many computer data ports, starting with a miniature microphone and radio transmitter. Researchers could equip it with a microcamera, but Adkins said current technology is not sufficiently miniaturized "to allow us to do streaming video. "But we might be able to capture a single frame," he said, noting that onboard video could come later as technology advances. Equipped with a computer microprocessor, and about 8,000 bytes of read-only memory, or ROM, the minibots weigh less than an ounce. They might be used in a variety of intelligence-gathering roles - including sniffing out illegal drugs, chemicals or explosives. Sandia expects to be able to remotely control the devices. With that capability, researchers believe they would be ideal for crawling through pipes or ducts or scanning the rooms of a target building for evidence of human activity or unique chemical signatures. One option is an infrared sensor that could detect motion. "We think they could be useful in hostage situations or in detecting dangerous chemicals," said Adkins. The limiting factor, Adkins said, has been power. The current source: three of the smallest, off-the-shelf watch batteries. "One of the things we learned," he said, "is which batteries really last the longest." Sitting atop tiny tanklike treads, the minibots are hardly speed demons, traveling about 20 inches a minute. And they only have enough power for about 15 minutes of operation. Adkins used a computer program to design the robots. Their bodies were produced directly from his computer drafts through Sandia's "stereolithography" manufacturing process. Through rapid prototyping, it manufactured the robot bodies microlayer by microlayer, using a laser to instantly melt and apply the material in a precise, computer-driven procedure. The process allows the production of complex, single parts using strong, lightweight materials. Agile enough "to turn on a dime and park on a nickel," the robots have a simple drive mechanism: two small motors, like those used to move camera lenses back and forth. Adkins said they might be most productive if researchers can get them to communicate with each other and work in swarms, relaying their findings back to a manned station a safe distance from the danger. The minibots are the latest in a series of smaller and more versatile robots developed at Sandia in the last several years - a learning process that has taught many lessons, the researchers say. For instance, the minibots originally were designed with four wheels, but these got bogged down on the smallest of obstacles and didn't have good traction. Adkins switched to mobile tracks, a tiny version of those used by military tanks, which allowed the robots to negotiate rougher terrain, like carpet. But even with that, he confessed, "They might get hung up in shag carpet." Lawrence Spohn writes for The Tribune in Albuquerque, N.M.
Re: [CTRL] Architect of Lockerbie trial attacks guilty verdict
-Caveat Lector- They should try coming to one of the crooked courts in Victoria, where you will be convicted even if the prosecution fails to show up on the day, or even better the charges will be thrown out but it will later be claimed that you were convicted, and you won't be able to prove otherwise. As long as all the Judges are freemasons, and crooked, what do people expect? I was surprised they didn't convict them both. On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 01:17:46 EST William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000339931511020rtmo=kCJ31kLpatmo=; pg=/et/01/2/4/nlock04.html Architect of Lockerbie trial attacks guilty verdict By Jenny Booth THE Scots law professor who masterminded the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands has launched a scathing attack on the judges for finding the defendant guilty on "very, very weak" evidence. Professor Robert Black described the decision by three Scottish judges to convict Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, a Libyan secret serviceman, of the murder of 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie as "astonishing". He warned that the bomber stands a better-than-average chance of being acquitted on appeal. Professor Black, a former judge with 13 years' experience and Scotland's leading expert on criminal procedure and evidence, said that in his view the Crown case had failed to comply with strict Scottish legal rules - tougher than English law - that evidence be corroborated. Professor Black said: "I thought this was a very, very weak circumstantial case. I am absolutely astounded, astonished. I was extremely reluctant to believe that any Scottish judge would convict anyone, even a Libyan, on the basis of such evidence." Professor Black's reservations will fuel the concerns of bereaved families that, despite the criminal trial, the truth is yet to emerge about the Lockerbie bombing. At a hushed press conference in London the day after the verdict, Martin Cadman, whose son Bill died in the bombing, said: "We have our doubts about the guilt of Megrahi and that will have to remain the subject of any appeal to come. The appeal will hold us up for another year or so before we can have an inquiry into the truth of who was responsible and what the motive was." The chief spokesman for the families, Dr Jim Swire, a former army explosives expert, produced a bomb timer to illustrate why he found it hard to believe the Crown's version of events. He said that the timing of the explosion, 38 minutes after the aircraft took off from Heathrow and while the jet was still over land, made the bomb more likely to have been detonated by a crude pressure-activated timer, such as those used by the Palestinian terror group operating in Germany under the command of Ahmed Jibril, than by a sophisticated 999-hour electronic timer of the type bought by Libyan secret services from MeBo, a Swiss arms firm. Professor Black's concerns are likely to be seized upon by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to back claims of Libya's innocence of the bombing. Professor Black A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000339931511020rtmo=LxiNh7ddatmo=pg=/et/97/12/22/nlock22.html" devised the unique format of the Lockerbie trial/A, which A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000339931511020rtmo=LxiNh7ddatmo=pg=/et/98/8/24/nloc24.html"was held in a neutral country/A without a jury, and campaigned alongside the bereaved families for its acceptance by Libya, America and Britain. Megrahi has a further 11 days to lodge an appeal, which would probably be heard in the same courtroom in Camp Zeist, in front of a bench of five judges, over about two weeks in late summer. The appeal bench is expected to be chaired by Lord Cullen, Scotland's second most senior judge. Under ordinary circumstances, barely a handful of appeals against conviction ever succeed in the Scottish courts, but Professor Black said that the unique circumstances of the trial meant that Megrahi stood a better chance. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] JPG of Bohemian Grove Elitist leaders worshipping
-Caveat Lector- http://infowars.com/bg3.html --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 16:43:10 -0800 From: Misty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: JPG of Bohemian Grove Elitist leaders worshipping a giant owl in red and b [TheAntiChrist] Herbert Jamieson wrote: --- Herbert Jamieson --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. This is from http://infowars.com/bg3.html Infowars.com's Exclusive Video Footage from Inside Bohemian Grove Bohemian Grove Page One Bohemian Grove Page Two Bohemian Grove Page Three Bohemian Grove Page Four Bohemian Grove Page Five Bohemian Grove Page Six Bohemian Grove Page Seven Bohemian Grove Page Eight Infowars.com Home Page More Exclusive Photos from Infowars.com More Exclusive Video from Infowars.com EXCLUSIVE INFOWARS.COM PHOTOS CAPTURED FROM THE FIRST VIDEO TO MAKE IT OUT OF BOHEMIAN GROVE Photo of the end of the ceremony, to the right you see the owl god lit up and its robe-clad worshipers. Participants openly worshiped the owl. It appeared that low-level Acolytes were dressed in black and red robes, with higher-level priests in combinations of gold, silver and red. The photos you see are captured from digital video taken by Alex Jones inside Bohemian Grove which will soon be available through infowars.com. Watch this developing section of infowars.com. We will update frequently. More photos and video -- please follow the links below. Infowars.com's Exclusive Video Footage from Inside Bohemian Grove Bohemian Grove Page One Bohemian Grove Page Two Bohemian Grove Page Three Bohemian Grove Page Four Bohemian Grove Page Five Bohemian Grove Page Six Bohemian Grove Page Seven Bohemian Grove Page Eight Infowars.com Home Page More Exclusive Photos from Infowars.com More Exclusive Video from Infowars.com Copyright 2000 Alex Jones All Rights Reserved --- End of forwarded message --- ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
