[CTRL] [radtimes] # 159
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 159 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Dissent is in the air: take to the streets --Go-ahead for GM insect release --Research ties crime, climate --Climate change could kill thousands --Canadian Motorcycle Gangs Gun For Control Of Illegal Drug Trade --You Can't Hide Your Lying Eyes === Dissent is in the air: take to the streets http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C434878%2C00.html Public meetings are the new rock'n'roll as unlikely groups unite by George Monbiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday February 8, 2001 The Guardian At last it's happening. Just as the neo-liberals on both sides of the Atlantic proclaim universal victory, a composite radical opposition movement is beginning to emerge. It's confused, it's contradictory and it looks like nothing we've ever seen before. But for the first time in 14 years of campaigning, I feel that I've witnessed something unstoppable. I've spent this week touring the country with a ragged coalition of greens, anarchists and socialists. Everywhere we've been so far, I've picked up a sense of excitement I've never felt in Britain before. In Glasgow we drew 500 people: according to the locals I met it was the biggest political meeting in the city for 15 years. In London, 1,300 turned up. But the numbers, unprecedented though they may be, are less impressive than the unity of purpose. In London, green activists stood and cheered an RMT official as he left the stage to join the Tube strike. In Coventry, car workers demanded an end to global warming. No one denies that there are issues which divide us, but in contesting the neoliberalism to which almost every major political party on earth has now subscribed, we have discovered an oppositional accord which overrides our differences. Neoliberalism demands the privatisation of everything. While the general agreement on trade in services, due to be negotiated next month, would force governments gradually to transfer their mandate to the corporations, Britain has anticipated it with the universal application of the private finance initiative. PFI serves companies better than overt privatisation, as the government guarantees their income stream. For the same reason it serves us worse: we lose both public control and public funds. Neoliberalism also insists that companies be permitted to dump their costs on to people and the environment. As deregulation allows firms both to pollute the planet and to sack their staff without consultation, steelworkers and global warming campaigners have discovered, to their surprise, that they're on the same side. New corporate freedoms, moreover, can be sustained only by denying freedom to everyone else. While the companies seizing our public services are permitted to use "commercial confidentiality" to disguise their intentions, our emails, even our computers can now be monitored and raided by the security services without a warrant. While corporations have acquired the legal status of human beings, but without most of the accompanying criminal liability, jury trials are being denied to those who protest against them. The government, which granted passports to the billionaire businessmen accused of involvement in the biggest arms corruption scandal in modern times, has just announced new restrictions on asylum seekers. The world has been wrested from our hands. In seeking to wrest it back, we have yet to develop a coherent political programme to which all of us can subscribe. While the greens support small business, trades unionists find workers within big corporations easier to mobilise. The anarchists want to smash the state, while the socialists want to rebuild it. But the unprecedented solidarity between these disparate groups is beginning, I feel, to develop into a programme in its own right: a grassroots reorganisation of the political process, propelling democratic renewal from below. We must, of course, be careful not to mistake the affirmation expressed at these meetings for wider public consent. But the public support for the strikers contesting the privatisation of the London Underground and the West Midlands hospitals suggests that some, at least, of our demands are beginning to resonate with Britain's biggest political movement: the disillusionment party. The extraordinary numbers promising to attend the protests at Faslane, the Scottish nuclear base, on Monday and the G8 summit in Genoa in July, suggest that this is the beginning of something big. The new political movements have rediscovered in the public meeting an effective forum for dissent. We
[CTRL] [radtimes] Shocking FACTS about U.S. income wealth inequality
-Caveat Lector- Shocking FACTS about U.S. income wealth inequality Tue, 13 Feb 2001 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After 8 years of a genuinely sociopathic "New Democrat" as President of the United States the appalling inequality of income and wealth that was exacerbated under the Republican President Reagan actually WORSENED. At a time when the top 1% of U.S. citizens owns more wealth than the bottom 95% the new U.S. President wants to further cut the taxes of that wealthiest 1% while vast numbers of the bottom 95% live paycheck- to-paycheck and owe enormous credit card debts. Whether Democrat or Republican, whether Gore or Bush, the result is the same: the U.S. is damn close to becoming a Third World nation. Perhaps if more poor people in Honduras, the Philippines, India or other Third World countries had credit cards they, too -- like so many heavily-indebted Americans -- would delude themselves that they were "well-off". The fact is that tax rate for the wealthiest Americans was 88% in the two decades following World War II, a time when the U.S. economy was booming. Working-class and middle-class Americans saved more and charged less then, too. What follows are some disturbing facts (from www.inequality.org) about just how far from a fair economy we've come, notwithstanding the joint Dem-GOP deceitful propaganda that claims most Americans are "better-off" nowadays: * Since the mid-1970s, the most fortunate one percent of households have doubled their share of the national wealth. They now hold more wealth than the bottom 95 percent of the population. (Shifting Fortunes) * In 1998, 18.7 percent of American children lived in poverty, a lower rate than 1993 (19.6 percent), but higher than the 1979 rate of 16.4 percent. (Columbia University, http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/) * Nine states have reduced child poverty rates by more than 30% since 1993. These states include Tennessee, Michigan, Aransas, South Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Illinois and New Jersey. Michigan is a prime example of a national trend, in that even the recent, dramatic improvement did not counter the losses of the previous 15 years, in which its poverty rate increased 121%. (Columbia University) * In California, the number of children living in poverty has grown from 900,000 in 1979, to 2.15 million in 1998. (Columbia University) * Nearly 3 percent of all workers live under the federal poverty line, defined in 1998 as $13,003 for a family of three. Counting dependents, this encompasses roughly 5 million people.(The Conference Board, contact Linda Barrington, 212-339-0481) * In 1998, the top 1 percent of stock owners owned 47.7 percent of all stock, while the bottom 80 percent owned 4.1 percent. Between 1989 and 1998, nearly 35 percent of all stock market gains went to the top 1 percent of shareholders. 64 percent of American households have stock holdings worth $5,000 or less, or own no stock at all. (Economic Policy Institute) * Between 1995 and 1998, the total wealth of the typical American household rose from $58,800 to $61,000. The average value of stock holdings rose $5,500, the value of non-stock assets (mostly homes) climbed $8,500, and household debt increased $11,800. (Economic Policy Institute) * Middle-class families enjoyed 2.8 percent of the stock market gains between 1989 and 1998, but accounted for 38.8 percent of the increase in household debt. (Economic Policy Institute) * In 1998, 62.9 percent of private sector workers had employer-provided healthcare, down from 63.1 percent in 1989. 49.2 percent of private sector workers have employer-provided pension plans. (Economic Policy Institute) * 60 percent of U.S. workers say that if they were laid off, their savings are sufficient to maintain their current standard of living for a few months or less. Only 29 percent said they are able to save for the future. 40 percent say they earn enough to be comfortable, but not to save, while 27 percent said they earn only enough to get by, and 3 percent said they are unable to pay their bills. (Fleet Bank, contact Rena DeSisto, 212-703-1961) * 64 percent of U.S. workers say they would rather have more time than more money. Even in households earning less than $25,000, 49 percent said they would still prefer time over money. (Fleet Bank) * Fewer than 43,000 estates -- 2 percent of the total -- paid federal estate taxes in 1997. (Money, 9/2000) * In 2000, the federal estate tax is expected to raise $27 billion, more than double the amount of federal income taxes paid by the bottom half of all taxpayers. (United For a Fair Economy, http://www.ufenet.org/activist/action_alert/Estate_Tax_Talking_Points.ht ml) * A study by Treasury Department economist David Joulfaian found that eliminating the estate tax would reduce charitable bequests by about 12 percent. (United For a Fair Economy) * While the top tax rate is 55 percent, on average, estate taxes represent 17 percent of the gross value of the
[CTRL] Fwd: [GospelofThomas] carnivore
In a message dated 2/15/01 4:25:30 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:[GospelofThomas] carnivore Date:2/15/01 4:25:30 AM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (staats fasoldt) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The controversial Internet surveillance tool known as "Carnivore" has been renamed DCS1000, a name devoid of any negative associations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. "With upgrades come new names," said Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman. The old name of a flesh-eating predator had conjured up "unfortunate" images for many people, he added. Carnivore is specialized software installed on an Internet service provider's network under federal wiretap authority. Used in criminal and national security cases, it is capable of keeping tabs on a suspect's e-mail, instant messages and Web surfing activities. Privacy and civil-rights advocates have argued the system violates protections against unreasonable search and seizure in the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment. Former Attorney General Janet Reno ordered an independent review of its inner workings after a stir in Congress. The name change was to have been rolled out in conjunction with an internal Justice Department review of Carnivore to be presented to Attorney General John Ashcroft soon, an FBI official said. But the change was leaked to a trade publication, Government Computer News. "Had it not been called Carnivore, it probably wouldn't have stirred as much controversy," Bresson said. He said the new alpha-numeric "doesn't stand for anything." Different name, same concerns Critics said the FBI was kidding itself if it thought a name change alone would allay fears. They consider the system ripe for abuse largely because of the secrecy surrounding how it scans passing data to find the court-authorized target. "It's not the name that worries people," said David Sobel of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the FBI and Justice Department for the source code and other data about Carnivore. "It's the way this system works." Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, added: "If it prowls like a wolf, howls like a wolf and has the voracious appetite of a wolf, it's still a carnivore." The new name also fell flat with Naseem Javed, a New York-based author of Naming for Power, a book about business naming, and Domain Wars, a book about cyberspace names. The FBI should have seized the opportunity to name the system in a "friendly way," as would any company seeking to score points with the public, he said. "I think they had a bad name to begin with," he said, adding that DCS1000 was worse because such combinations of letters and numbers sow confusion. "They need a proper name branding so they can roll this out as a readily identifiable tool for law enforcement," Javed said, adding it would take him weeks to come up with a good one himself. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details Click Here! -_- GoT list - unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Then... respond to the confirmation email that you will receive from egroups. If this fails... go to the egroups.com website: http://www.egroups.com/group/GospelOfThomas click "unsubscribe", then click, "save changes" button. If this still doesn't get you off the list, please feel free to ask for help... --- Headers Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (rly-yb05.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.5]) by air-yb04.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:25:30 -0500 Received: from ef.egroups.com (229.yahoo.240.211.64.in-addr.arpa [64.211.240.229]) by rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.21) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:25:21 1900 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2001 10:22:17 - X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: (qmail 27598 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 10:22:16 - Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.thebiz.net) (216.238.0.21) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 11:23:21 - Received: (qmail 12230 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 05:22:08 -0500 Received: from mail1a.backend.thebiz.net (172.16.0.72) by mx2.backend.thebiz.net with QMQP; 15 Feb 2001 05:22:06 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ulster.net) (216.238.226.11) by mail.ulster.net with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 05:22:05 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: woodstock school of art X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 (Macintosh; I;
[CTRL] Slade Gorton
-Caveat Lector- Well folks, guess who all but one Republican senator want to give a lifetime appointment as a Federal judge? None other than Slade Gorton. Senator McCain has withheld his approval pending a decision as to the location of the judgeship. It seems that Senator McCain feels it would be improper to give him a position in the Washington State area, because of his prejudice regarding Native Americans. Okay. That's a plus for McCain, but I well remember that Mr. Gorton was totally approving of the incident where the police held open the eyelids of the young girls who were protesting in his office in Washington State and wiped pepper spray liberally into their open eyes. Such an act is not only contra to the reason our police forces have been given pepper spray, but ranks right up there as a form of torture. I was astounded that Senator Gorton did not condemn such behavior on the part of the police, but he thought it all just wonderful. THIS is the man our new president and the Republican members of the senate want to gift with a federal judgeship, presumably to compensate him for the fact that the people in his district finally came to their senses and voted him out of office. Way to go, guys. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Another Clinton first
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/14/2001 9:24:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "I fully understand why you are upset that former President Clinton spoke at one of our conferences," Morgan Stanley chairman Philip Purcell wrote, obviously feeling some pain of his own, in an e-mail zapped last week to some undisclosed number of his five million customers. "We clearly made a mistake." Yes, and that's the wimpiest thing I've ever heard. If they were my brokers, I'd jump ship too. Anyone who is waiting for their customers approval of who and what they hire, listen to, or read doesn't need to be in business. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] PETITION TO BAN ALL GUNS IN THE UNITED STATES
-Caveat Lector- So does this fellow have a bull's-eye painted on his house, and a sign in the front yard saying "Gun-free house: rob me" ? --- Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Feel free to email this idiot at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my blessings! Come and get 'em, Bozo--MOLON LABE! --Henrietta PETITION TO BAN ALL GUNS IN THE UNITED STATES __ Do You Yahoo!? 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Important article about gold consumption and short position
10:13p ET Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: There's an important new article at The Mining Web about gold consumption and the short position in gold, written by Tim Wood. You can find it here: http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B2852569F3007384 5F?OpenDocument But if that link is too long for your browser, use this one and just scroll down a little and you'll find it: http://www.theminingweb.com CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/126/_/982206801/"BClick Here!/B/A -_-
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] MARC RICH -- HAS CLINTON SET UP THE REPUBLICANS?
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/163550/_/98915/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Rumor Mill News Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com BUSH WANTS TO MOVE ON -- NO PROBE OF MARC RICH Posted By: Q Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 7:05 p.m. CONGRESS WANTS THE MARC RICH PARDON FULLY PROBED BUSH WANTS TO MOVE ON WHY? Does Bush know something that the rest of the Republicans don't know? Has Clinton set up the Republicans? Bush Not Happy About Clinton Probes Several congressional panels are looking into Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife is a major Democratic contributor. On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters he would be open to congressional proposals to give Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, immunity in exchange for her testimony. Bush said he had not talked to Ashcroft about it but reiterated, "My attitude is it's time to move on." Burton asks CIA to declassify Rich WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Congressional investigators Tuesday requested that two U.S. intelligence agencies declassify documents and materials on fugitive financier Marc Rich, who received a controversial pardon from then-President Clinton on his last day in office. ...the House Government Reform Committee wants the Central Intelligence Agency to declassify materials pertaining to Rich that were used to brief committee investigators on Feb. 6. Meanwhile, President Bush told reporters accompanying him on Air Force One Tuesday that "it's time to move on" but "the Congress is going to do what they're going to do. They've already started the process." Bush said he had not spoken with Attorney General John Ashcroft, who on Monday said he was considering cooperating with the congressional probe, including the possibility of granting immunity to Rich's ex-wife, Denise, a key figure in the pardon. -- DEMOCRATS AND MARC RICH -- MISSING THE TARGET! Friday, 9 February 2001, 1:01 p.m. While the Democrats are trying to decide if they want to keep silent and support their Leader... King Clinton, they are missing the most incredible opportunity. Yes, Mark Rich was part of the intelligence community. He worked with the CIA, the Mossad, and any other intelligence agency that needed the type of "product" he sold. Let's go back 20 years. What as going on about that time? October Surprise... The promised arms pay-off to Iran for delaying the release of the hostages. The "drawing down" of the NATO stores to supply Iran with the promised arms. The intermediary "help" from the Frydell's in Israel. The replacement, by Israel, of "working" equipment with faulty equipement.. precipitating the "hostage-taking" debacle that went on for years! Where was Mark Rich in all of this? He should be given immunity so he can tell the American people what he was doing and who ordered him to do it? Who did he take his orders from at that time? His "upline" ended in the office of the Vice President and/or the Director of the CIA...(William Casey) or DCO (Director of Covert Ops) If the Democrats pull the thread that is named Mark Rich, the entire cover up will begin to unravel. Bill Clinton handed the Democrats the world on a platter, but they are too stupid to see it. Mark Rich has the power to get former President George H.W. Bush indicted for "trading with the enemy", treason, drug trafficking and many other crimes that were committed on his watch with his knowledge. But the Democrats run the risk of exposing their own crooked underbelly if they do this. The United States Congress is being run on mutual blackmail! The only way to move out of the box that the crooks in controll have trapped themselves in is to do what Nelson Mandela did. Truth and Reconciliation Bring on the trials. Let it all hang out! Try the crooks, convict them, throw them out of Congress, and government... and then FORGET ABOUT IT AND MOVE ON! This is the door that Clinton has opened for Congress. But do you think they will be smart enough to walk through it? The Bush family may! Since they have the most to lose right now, they may opt to offer Clinton an olive branch. And that olive branch will be the Truth and Reconcilation Trials. Who will be the first to tell the truth? (Oh well... an old man can have his fantasies, can't he?) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TEL 831 462 3949 FAX 831 462 2545 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED?
[CTRL] Fwd: [RMNEWS] MARC RICH --Clinton, the stool pigeon, is leaking hot items of specific criminality
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/163550/_/98860/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Rumor Mill News Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com UPDATE TO MARC RICH STORIES Posted By: SKOLNICK Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 10:52 p.m. UPDATE TO MARC RICH STORIES by Sherman H. Skolnick 2/14/01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skolnicksreport.com The Chief Federal Prosecutor in New York City is compiling proof that Clinton, while President, was bribed with millions of dollars to grant a presidential pardon to purported super-criminal Marc Rich. Holed up in Zug, Switzerland, Rich has been in huge illegal deals with Clinton's sometimes pals George Bush the Elder and sons George W., Neil, and Jeb. Enough evidence exists to send both Clinton and Bush Family members to prison, say those intimately familiar with the facts. Ex-President Clinton has been ratting on his Bush Family confederates. Bill has direct evidence that the Elder Bush has been a kingpin in the massive dope trafficking from South East Asia, "The Golden Triangle". Bush's dope traffic business partners reportedly have been General Colin Powell [who also covered up the Viet Nam Mia Li massacre] now U.S. Secretary of State, and Powell's long-time side-kick, Richard Armitage, now Deputy Secretary of State, this trio fingered by a Burmese General for whom they built a highway to facilitate his dope shipments. The pardon bribery loot went, in part, through corrupt former high-level IRS officials and their laundering operation on the Dutch St. Maartens Island, in the Caribbean. [Visit our website for related details.] Part of the pardon bribery gang, according to witnesses and evidence available to the New York Federal Grand Jury, include key traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. One of them reportedly is Rahm Emanuel, former top official in the Clinton White House who is a dual citizen, U.S./Israel. Rahm ostensibly is the Acting Deputy Chief for North America of Israel's secret political police, The Mossad. After leaving the White House, Rahm became a managing director of Wasserstein Perella Co., at their Chicago office. With Rahm's supervision, they have reportedly been specializing in laundering huge funds tied to the Red Chinese and their secret police, washed through certain Chicago's La Salle Street commodity brokers, such as reportedly REFCO-LFG Division [Richard Friedman Co.] The Red Chinese, with Wasserstein's apparent connivance, have reportedly been repeatedly attempting to smuggle into the U.S. AK-47 submachine guns manufactured and marketed by a Red Chinese firm run by Wang Jun, who is also reputed head of the Red Chinese Secret Police. [Wang Jun has been a PRIVATE law client of Kenneth W. Starr, supposed "Independent" Counsel investigating Bill and Hillary Clinton.] Some AK-47 shipments have been seized enroute to U.S. inner-city narco-terrorists. Clinton, the stool pigeon, is leaking hot items of specific criminality of the Bush Family, from documents he removed from White House files, to the major networks who so far, are using it for blackmail, not to inform the public. ABC Network wants the American CIA to renew the highly lucrative secret subsidy deal by which ABC News finances and staffs their overseas bureaus as a spy operation. As we have mentioned in exclusive stories for more than a decade, CBS News, 1988-89, upon losing the CIA subsidy, closed a number of their overseas intelligence gathering bureaus while ABC News, upon getting the subsidy instead of CBS, opened more of theirs. [Ted Koppel, a Canadian citizen, has a long espionage background and his ABC "Nightline" Program often has Foundation "consultants" known by him to be CIA but never on-camera identified as such.] The whole mess comes as the U.S. heads for what some contend is a financial meltdown. Called by critics the alleged "President", or White House RESIDENT, George W. Bush may not know how to deal with the apparent on-coming Depression and may go bananas, so say skilled psychiatrists who recognize him as having what they call a "nut house" face. A constitutional crisis may be in the works. A small group of highly dedicated U.S. Admirals and Generals, out of uniform, and seeking refuge in a Paris suburb, have repeatedly vowed in the past to arrest Clinton, under the Uniform Military Code, for documented treason, as their Commander-in-Chief. [We are the only ones to run exclusive stories about that.] They now vow to arrest BOTH George W. Bush AND Clinton for high crimes including treason. Confidants of Albert Gore, Jr., speaking on the promise they not be
[CTRL] Fwd: AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres
For quite a while I have wondered why Rosie O'Donnell was permitted to play with the children on Sesame Street - and ran across this article re Ellen Degenerte..who now will plan a Nun in a TV show - which I consider an attack on the Church. So we have this lesbian Rosie O'Donnell playing with the Children, now in Broadway Play playing Cat In The Hat and we see what PBS is all about..they will NEVER receive another dime from me but for some time I have wondered if this stuff was deliberate - so Ellen and Rosie what a nice pair - preparing our kids for the kill? It was just reported that 1 in 3 black mailes, are afflicted with AIDSnice? We have Rosie adopting little children - one of whom is very, very accident prone.armed guards take them to school? Seems to me Rosie did not like guns, but as far as I am concerned we are sending kids to slaughter in promoting homosexuals on children's programs - Why is it - consider the sodomists attempt to invade the Boy Scouts of America? Little Cub Scous with their little Beanies about to be attacked too .. teach the kiddings that sodomy is good for you - How many people died form AIDS or have HIV/AIDS in this country now? Aren't these people who practice sodomy more of a threat to our children health wise than any loaded gun - on the AIDS is just a longer death. Disney is Dead - so we see now why Disney is no longer pay TV...have you watched their programs lately - now the attack beings on the Catholic Church... Why not put Ellen into a say Jewish Synagoguge - first woman Rabbi? First sodomist Rabbi? So Rosie is now shown with her costume as the Cat In The Hatwell to tell the truth, never really cared for the Dr. Suess stuff - Dr. Suess and Walt Disney, are dead.this evil has now made specific targets of our childrennotice how Michael Jackson on he Democrat Platform when Clinton first ran, played with the childrenthis freaked out pedophile? So it says this much to me - life is cheap, but in death there is a profit - abortions to bash in little babies heads after feeling first breath of life - and sale of little baby body partas - wholesale slaughter in China of female babies for body parts.life is so cheap but DEATH you make a profit from the $5,000 minimum decent burial coffin - well why waste these dead bodies - sell them... Calling Dr. Death? Rosie and Elllen why not dress these pigs up as Grim Reapers and put them in their proper place for they are harvesting childreninnocent little children. To me it is an insult to watch TV for which I pay, and watch this obvious move to eventually sodomize the children of America. How do they get away with it? Well look a their sponsors and consider we had a Sodomist in the Oval office who had a sodomist prostitute and a wife whom some say was caught in some rather disturbing predicaments. Now Remember Rosie was dumped by K Mart..guns are just so dangerous and I agree in wrong hands they can be very dangerous. I consider Rosie O'Donnel and Ellen Degenerate a greater threat to the children of America.they want a generation of our children to play with and to sodomize? The very word de-generate speaks for its selfzero population anybody - would prefer to be killed by a gun than to die a long death with the AIDS which afflicts now 1 out of 3 black homosexualsnice people - want to share a pool with them or use a public restroom with them. Rosie O'Donnel and Ellen Degenerate are a greater threat to our children than the statistics showing how many kids were killed or shot with a gunand then we have Littleton, the greatest story ever told, all staged in advance. Public Service will NEVER receive another dime from this house - our children are targets and these people are more dangerous to our children than a loaded gun. Get that pig Ellen out of the nuns outfit and and put her where she belongs - on X Rated TV for why should the American people and their children be subjected to these lewd, vile, vicious people who come with a smile on their face - but take a good look at their pig eyes.oh we see through Clinton's glass but darkly but each day the picture gets a little clearer. Rosie O'Donnel wearing costume of Cat in Hat - associate the children with the sodomistslike this clown Gacy who also played Santa Clause - he was a homosexual but took pride in saying he was also married? He attacked only male children.I put O'Donnell and Ellen Degenerate in this same class -see how they identify with Big Bird, Cat in the Hat, Nuns now - this is attack on the Church and the Morals of America and are we going to sit back and let these pigs attempt to destroy our children? He who troubles his own house will inherit the windClinton, the Sodomists Symbol, is now gonelet the dead bury the dead but protect your children by boycotting anyting to do with the degeneration planned for our children.
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres
-Caveat Lector- For your convenience I reproduce the story re our children being targeted by sodomists...and this is for real Awake thou that sleepeth.this is now an attack on the Catholic Church - Awaken Hibernians - for these evil people sent polluted AIDS blood to Ireland through Clinton with love from Canada..Maybe the Church of England thinks sodomy is okay for the children and would feed them garbage - the land of Shakespeare reduced to killing fields by virtue of AIDS and mass production of government propagandaBlair, and Clinton, and Carville, and Larry Flynt and even Ehud all working together to destroy a generation of children? Name your poison - but you do not have to drink it this cup of poison they try to feed your children. saba AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres The Gay Agenda Targeting of Children Moves into High Gear ELLEN ON PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM (PBS) The Disney/ABC sitcom ELLEN continues to be controversial this season, as lesbian actress Ellen DeGeneres unashamedly uses it as a vehicle for evangelizing young people with the message that "Gay is O.K." Now PBS has joined Degeneres in targeting children. Prior to last season's "coming out" episode of ELLEN, the executive producer of the show admitted to TV GUIDE that young people were a target group for the show's message. This season Degeneres complained bitterly when ABC used a parental advisory prior to an episode where Ellen kissed another woman. DeGeneres said children should be allowed to watch same-sex affection. The 'celebrated kiss' earned the October 8 ELLEN episode a parental advisory warning of "adult content." DeGeneres said the advisory was discrimination against same-sex affection and threatened to quit. "This advisory is telling kids something's wrong with being gay," DeGeneres complained to the New York imes. The point to the show is to let kids know there's nothing with being gay, she said. "And now they're saying children shouldn't watch it," she told TV GUIDE. ABC backed away from the confrontation and removed the parental advisory the following week. Last week PBS - the Public Broadcasting System - aired shows targeting children with DeGeneres as a hostess: SESAME STREET and STORYTIME. American Family Association president, Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, said, "With a past history of enthusiastically pushing th homosexual agenda, viewers should not have been surprised to see Ellen DeGeneres on PBS. But seeing her on a children's show is further proof that the Hollywood-New York-Washington, D.C. axis has strategically chosen the next generation as their safest bet for normalizing this lifestyle." What do you think about your tax money being used to convince our children and grandchildren that there is nothing wrong with being gay? AFA urges you to immediately contact your congressional leaders. CONTACT YOUR SENATORS ONLINE: www.senate.gov/senator/membermail.html CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ONLINE: www.house.gov/MemberWWW.html You may phone the U. S. Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. You may correspond with your Congressional leaders office by writing: Office of Senator/Representative (Name) Untied State Senate / United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20510 American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone: 601/844-5036 Fax: 601/844-9176 World Wide Web: www.afa.net 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: [RMNEWS] MARC RICH -- HAS CLINTON SET UP THE REPUBLICANS?
-Caveat Lector- There is nothing, absolutely nothing Bush can do about a pardon - in particular the pardon of Marc Rich aka Reich (strange name for German Jew - wonder what his REAL name is, for Reich I believe is an aka too). Bush made it clear he was going to go on with government business...and for the files Larry Flynt has - those were given to Carville and on to Flynt's stooge for blackmail purposes, which really didnot work for I understand now Flynt is more than just a little insecure sitting in his wheelchair - the price of messing with the big boys when it came to fronting for the drug industry). Why should Bush dirty up his administration whipping a dead horse? A Pardon is final; however, Clinton is subject to prosecution as is Rich under State Laws and Courts, etc., so he will not get a free ride. The cesspool in the White House and Oval Office is gone but the aroma lingers on.by their fruits, you shall know them. Bush won't look back like Lots wifethat is not his job. His job is to provide services to the people of this country, to provide for the defense of this great country - and he doesn't need a sodomist who seems to thrive in the limelight, be it for evil or for good, attempting to distract the government from the seirous business, of running a government. If you re-read this article by Skholnick, or whatever his name is - well you see it is self serving for someone in particular? 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] Make the Wheel Squeak and Get Some
-Caveat Lector- You guessed it! Oil! Let's see, now, the over ten-year old war against Iraq; the almost ten-year-old war against Yugoslavia (as a convenient bag); Columbia; E Timor (Indonesia?). What kind of foreign policy mandates the oil trade at the point of a missile? Rumour had it once that VietNam was part of LBJ's oil crusade. This is like the trade deficit with the Chinese; once we become too reliant on others' goods and services (resources), we become hollow. AER www.sfgate.com Return to regular view For All the Oil in Colombia Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2001 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/14/ED92758.DTL PRESIDENT BUSH has inherited a $1.3 billion commitment to supply and train government troops to fight rebel forces who protect -- and profit from -- Colombian coca-growing peasants. Now he must decide whether to pursue a policy that has failed miserably and threatens to spread the 37-year-old Colombian civil war into Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. The first hopeful sign appeared last week, when President Andres Pastrana -- risking political support, as well as his life -- ventured into rebel-controlled territory and rekindled peace talks that had been dormant for months. For that brave and audacious gesture, however, U.S. military aid was unnecessary. Otherwise, the news from Colombia has been grim. Last year, paramilitary forces killed 60 labor leaders. Seven hundred peasants caught in the cross fire -- their crops and families fumigated by military helicopters -- fled to Panama last month. Colombian guerrilla forces have recently clashed with government troops in Ecuador. Why are we in Colombia? It may be that the country's huge oil reserves interest President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney -- both oil men from Texas -- more than coca leaves. Last year, Colombia's main export poured some $4.6 billion into its economy. But oil is not easy to procure there. Just days ago, leftist rebels bombed Colombia's second-largest crude export pipeline, which forced Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. to drastically reduce its production. Guerrilla groups, which view the above-ground pipeline as the most visible symbol of foreign corporate exploitation of Colombia's natural resources, bombed the 485-mile oil duct 98 times last year alone. So far this year, they have crippled the pipeline 13 times. When he campaigned for the presidency, Bush pledged to make Latin America his highest priority. In the region, he sees a unique opportunity to leave a distinguished foreign policy legacy. But what kind of legacy? Neither the drug war nor the civil war in Colombia can be won quickly or easily by military means. And if it is the flow of oil that Bush seeks to protect, he needs to make his case honestly and directly to the American people. 2001 San Francisco Chronicle Page A24 AER Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] 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
[CTRL] Vacationing at Taxpayer Expense
-Caveat Lector- Vacationing at Taxpayer Expense by Ryan McMaken Last week, I wrote an article here on LewRockwell.com on the problem of "roadless" forests and federally protected wilderness areas. In it, I suggested that the people who benefit most from such set asides are the same people who lobby for them in Washington: upper-middle and upper class white people who have the leisure time and the money to enjoy such amenities. I received angry responses condemning me for being an apologist for land-raping corporations and heartless developers. All who wrote were sure to point out what salt-of-the-earth folks they are. Statistics would indicate that they were probably lying. Government records of national forest and park lands indicate that users have incomes considerably above the national average. People who head up to the mountains with their fly rods, tents, horses, and hiking boots are not exactly the same people who are working eighty hour weeks to keep their small businesses from going under. Nor are there a whole lot of inner city kids who take day trips up to Glacier National Park up on the Canadian border. In these degenerate times of self-hatred, the people who use national lands probably like to fancy themselves as downtrodden schmoes, but they are wrong. Leisure and travel are expensive commodities. Many people do not possess these things in enough abundance to enjoy the taxpayer supported public lands. Given the history of modern environmentalism, this should not surprise us. The modern politics of "conservation" and "preservation" became popular in the 70s when more and more Americans were enjoying disposable income and more leisure time. As the immediacy of economic viability receded for many people, more peripheral "quality of life" issues became more important. Young people from the middle classes began to band together in support of the new "green" politics. These new greens were not concerned with the same things as environmentalists of earlier eras. The old environmentalists were concerned with issues that pertained directly to the immediate health and safety of human beings. They were concerned with potable water, breathable air, and toxic industrial waste. Most of these issues directly impacted the lives of people who lived and worked in urban centers and along waterways. They concerned themselves with fairly obvious problems of filth, disease, and toxicity. Modern green policies, on the other hand, deal with problems much less immediate. They deal with arsenic levels in water that might give you cancer fifty years from now, and they make a lot of noise about the spotted owl and old growth forests. Such things benefit the lives of remarkably few human beings. The people they do benefit are people who get a lot of pleasure out of viewing wildlife while riding their pricey mountain bikes who arent impacted by the lost jobs every time they pass through some ridiculously strict regulation on the cleanliness of water and air, or the development of forest land. Instead of keeping drinking water clean of sewage or uranium, enhancing eco-recreation for a singular class of people is the new motivation of preservation politics. To witness this change in environmental priorities, one only needs to look at the modern hubs of environmental activity. Places like Seattle, San Francisco, and Boulder, Colorado are the places where modern environmentalism flourishes. Populated by people who are highly educated and highly paid, these places support a population keen on travel, leisure, and pristine wilderness. Thanks to the tax supports paid by all Americans, these people can engage in their leisure activities at a reduced price. Its a pretty sweet deal. Not content to meddle with their own country, these people want to extend their green agenda to foreign countries as well. Staging such keen events as the "Battle in Seattle" the new greens support world- wide controls on pollution and wilderness development. The industrial countries have no problem with such controls, but the third world isnt quite so excited. Those environmental boors in the third world want to trash the environment so they can escape their desperate poverty and the scourges of disease, war, and rampant misery. Of course, most greens know nothing of genuine disease, war or misery, so they have hard time relating to those third world peasants who are abandoning the clean air of the country to breathe the filth in the city where they can afford to feed themselves. For most of those peasants, it would be a step up just to live at a standard of living equal to nineteenth century America where the buildings were covered with soot from the steel mills and other smoke- belching industries. I should conclude by pointing out that I have nothing against people who have lots of money and lots of leisure time. People who make a lot of money generally do so because they provide a valuable product or service. Such people have a right
Re: [CTRL] Vacationing at Taxpayer Expense
-Caveat Lector- It is hard for me to imagine that old growth forests are the cause of the world's problems. It's hard for me to imagine that anyone who lives in the over-populated, over-polluted disaster that is today's Denver, would really like to see the rest of the West (to say nothing of a few embattled areas in the rest of the world) look like what he sees every day. If we just let the mining companies, the oil companies and the lumber companies destroy the rest of the world, all poverty will disappear overnight. Of course. Why didn't I think of that? 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] NEWS:Canada Bars Extradition to U.S. for Death Penalty
-Caveat Lector- Thursday February 15 10:42 AM EST Canada Bars Extradition to U.S. for Death Penalty By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday barred the extradition of two murder suspects to the United States unless Ottawa won assurances they would not face the death penalty, which has been abolished in Canada. The 9-0 decision effectively overturned a 1991 ruling that allowed the extradition of two U.S. murder suspects. The court said arguments have since then grown stronger against sending people away to face possible execution. "Canada is now abolitionist for all crimes, even those in the military field. The international trend against the death penalty has become clearer," it said, adding that there were also "hard-headed concerns about wrongful convictions." In the present case, Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns, both Canadians, were arrested in British Columbia in 1995, a year after Rafay's parents and sister were bludgeoned to death in neighboring Washington state. The two men, then 18 and now 25, had told an undercover agent that they had carried out the murders with a baseball bat to obtain the proceeds of the family home and life insurance, about $400,000. The court agreed with the characterization in 1996 by Canada's then-justice minister, Allan Rock, of the crimes as "brutal and shocking coldblooded murder." Rock agreed at the time that they should be surrendered without seeking assurances from Washington state that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty. He said Canada could not become a safe haven for murderers. It was a case in which the U.S. legal system ran up against Canada's often more liberal values. Amnesty International and the Italian Senate had intervened to urge the pair not face execution. _ EcoNews Service - Always online for Ecology, Consciousness Universe Exopolitics. EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Vancouver, BC V6M 1V8 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] Dr. Nick Begich: Mind Control the Internet
-Caveat Lector- I From Mind Control-L: Dr.Nick Begich Interview Coast to Coast AM interview with Dr.Nick Begich: "What didn't come out in the congressional hearings on MK Ultra,and we sight the congressional record on that particular area as well but what didn't come out is the use of electromagnetic systems to do the same thing,control behavior.In other words to over ride things within the brain to create the same activity and alot of the documents were shredded during the congressional hearings except what they didn't go after were the procurements records in the accounting side of the CIA,what the equipment was that they were buying and the rationale for buying it.So some of that came out much later in further requests made by researchers in the 1990's so we were able to get some of that data and show a very clear connection going back into the 60's and the use of electromagnetic means for affecting behaviors. Now the most revealing thing we found in terms of this whole concept really dealt with the idea that anew technologies have been evolved both in the former Soviet Union and in the United States. The publication "Orientere," which is a military publication from Febuary 1997,its a Russian publication speaking about this technology as well as, the U.S. Army's War College publication "Parameters," and what they said,and this is a very interesting quote of what they say is now possible: "A psychotronic generator which produces a powerful electromagnetic emination capable of being sent through telephone lines,television,radio networks,supply pipes,and incandescent lamps.This signal would manipulate the behavior of those in contact with the signal;" unquote. What thats saying is that any carrier, any form of electromagnetic energy that can be pulsed and shaped can actually carry a signal in that it can interfere with brain activity." Host Mike Siegal: "In other words , if your watching television in affect what this would do is to send the electromagnetic energy from the television,out of the television, in a form that would effect you and the way you behave,by affecting your brainwaves." Begich: "Absolutely,in fact,when you talk about China's use of the internet,this is one of the other tools thats mentioned,in fact,there's a virus that was developed by the Russians to utilize the internet where they could actually send a signal in to put people in almost a trance-like state as they are watching that terminal and then be able to put information into the brain in a very rapid way where its not sorted out by the conscious mind in terms of whats right,wrong,and what lines up with our own values and beliefs." Siegal: "Where is this all going though? The scary part of this that you talk about is the new technology and much more subtle way,almost hidden way this can be done. I mean after all,we've had talk about how people using their computers could be manipulated in that way.There is electromagnetic energy coming out of your computer screen. I'm looking at one right now." Begich: "Absolutely!" Siegal: I could be a victim of that as I'm looking at it. Begich: "Absolutely, and because its the internet, it can be accessed from any point on the planet where theres decent communicationlinkages." This is not the entire interview for the radio program that was aired. __ EcoNews Service - Always online for Ecology, Consciousness Universe Exopolitics. EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Vancouver, BC V6M 1V8 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] Dr. Nick Begich: Mind Control the Internet
-Caveat Lector- I wonder if a firewall would stop this sort of signal... ? Samantha In a message dated 2/15/01 12:36:46 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Siegal: "Where is this all going though? The scary part of this that you talk about is the new technology and much more subtle way,almost hidden way this can be done. I mean after all,we've had talk about how people using their computers could be manipulated in that way.There is electromagnetic energy coming out of your computer screen. I'm looking at one right now." Begich: "Absolutely!" Siegal: I could be a victim of that as I'm looking at it. Begich: "Absolutely, and because its the internet, it can be accessed from any point on the planet where theres decent communicationlinkages." This is not the entire interview for the radio program that was aired. 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] Election Destabilization in USA?
-Caveat Lector- Election Destabilization in USA Following the US House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings, a serious question emerges: Were the 2000 US Presidential elections intelntionally destabilized, using known psyops destabilization technologies? Because covert black operations are off the radar screen of both the Congressional hearings, and the mainstream press, the issue of whether VNS data fed to the major networks was manipulated for election destabilization purposes is not recieving investigative attention. Election destabilization is a known technique of USA intellegence agencies around the world. Read Philip Agee's works if you doubt this. Given the near perfect performance of VNS in ALL prior national elections since 1988, it is at least questionable why a MASSIVE reporting flaw came re Florida. There is as well the role of FOX news, which may have functioned in the past as a black ops disinformation channel. The goal of the black ops election destabilization, of course, was to facilitate the ascendency of George W. Bush, as CEO of a global mind control, militaristic empire. Are there any questions about USA election destabilization 2000? Alfred Webre EcoNews Service http://www.ecologynews.com = http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0214-07.htm Published on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times How TV Killed Democracy on Nov. 7 by Todd Gitlin Suppose that a first cousin of Al Gore had been running one of the network news teams issuing election night projections. Suppose that, having previously recused himself from a columnist job, saying his objectivity would suffer from family loyalty, this cousin had chatted with Gore six times on election day. Suppose that the same cousin had been first to declare Gore as the winner in Florida on election night, helping coax the rival networks to follow suit, leading George W. Bush to call up Gore in order to concede, thereby helping create a presumption that Gore was the duly elected president of the United States long before all the votes had been counted. Can anyone reasonably doubt that the pundits would be working themselves into a nonstop lather charging "the liberal media" as accessories to grand larceny? Can we imagine, say, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel right-leaning barking heads dropping the subject? Just kidding, of course. John Ellis, the cousin in question, is George W. Bush's. Ellis' own account reports his chatty times with his cousin. The network is Rupert Murdoch's. Murdoch defends Ellis in these words: "Every journalist is desperately trying to get in touch with candidates--that's their job." Just as the U.S. Supreme Court enunciated a special rule for Bush vs. Gore, shutting down the Florida vote count by suddenly discovering the principle of equal protection of the law in an election--a principle it hadn't troubled itself to notice since Jim Crow days--the media have "moved on," as they like to say, to show business as usual. As the House Energy and Commerce Committee begins hearings today on the networks' bad election night calls, let it also consider the tremendous subsidy that our political system hands the media plutocrats. The maximum network commitment is to convenience their own status quo. In more than one way, the television networks conduct themselves as if democratic elections take place for their own delectation. It's rare for network arrogance to matter as egregiously as on Nov. 7. But Ellis' private family channels are the tip of a grander scandal, which is the dominance of the national voicebox by vastly profitable organizations, their pundits tilting rightward as they blare their talking points, stripping everyone else's sound bites to seven seconds each, all the while operating on public airwaves, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from political ads while lobbying furiously against campaign finance reform. Try finding a discussion of these issues on any news network. The barking heads who usurp the space of public affairs with high-volume jeers are not equal-opportunity offenders. Ever since Ronald Reagan's presidency, when George Will, the president's debate chum, became inescapable in newspapers, magazines and on television, there has been no left-of-center equivalent. Would Jim Lehrer's "Newshour" tolerate a Democrat who, like its regular Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal columnist, celebrated a riot (the one that had been organized on Nov. 22 by Republican operatives to shut down the Miami-Dade vote count)? Onetime Democrats like Chris Matthews and Tim Russert have absorbed the pugnacious atmosphere, with Matthews insulting anyone to his left and Russert flattering the likes of Rush Limbaugh, kowtowing to James Baker while cutting off Warren Christopher, and telling viewers no fewer than three times on Nov. 8 that, the way things were going in Florida, it was time for Al Gore to play statesman and concede. Not one barking head ever suggested that Bush concede
[CTRL] THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID
- Original Message - From: Mike Clark To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: DavidIcke2000 RE: THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID Dont count on ART BAEL having Ted Gunderson on either. Or Bo Gritz. Or William Cooper. The ART BAEL show is JUST ANOTHER FINE EXAMPLE of the CONTROLLED MEDIA. It's just that ART is a little more OPEN and some FUN to listen to. Just like I am reading Sir Laurence Gardner's latest book " Realm of the Ring Lords " he only gives you JUST SO MUCH INFORMATION and then suppresses the stuff he DOESNT WANT you to know. ALL TRULY GREAT DISINFORMATION EXPERTS ( AND ART BAEL is one of them ) will give you a SMATTERING of TRUTH just to WHET your appetite but then STEER you away from the REAL STORY. All in the great pattern of Propaganda Super Hero Doctor Joseph Goebbels. Mind control is now TWEAKED UP to a HIGH SCIENCE. But ONCE anybody LEARNS about the PSYCHO MIND CONTROL designed by the INFAMOUS MKULTRA LABORATORY AT TAVISTOCK IN LONDON and its little brother the STANFORD RESEARCH CENTER then the PROPAGANDISTS cant touch you anymore. When the individual FINALLY realizes that he is being MISLED at every JUNCTURE then NO ONE EVEN HIS own MOTHER can deceive him anymore. I HAVENT TRUSTED MY MOTHER FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS NOW. MIKE FROM DALLAS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:37 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: DavidIcke2000 Mr.Bell will not have Mr.Icke on his show !To all members of David Ickes group, I have attempted to reach Art Bell now several times in regard to having both David Icke and Dr. Len Horowitz on anup coming show and apparently Mr. Bell will not have Mr. Icke on his show again, nor would Mr. Mike Seigal, who flatly told a caller no and hung-up after being asked if he would have David Icke on his show. Please fellow members, if you believe as I do about the message that Mr.Icke is revealing and that of Dr. Horowitz, lets get busy by contacting Art Bell via e-mail, phone or fax.Art, My name is Karl ***, form Lake Tahoe '1490 KOWL,' I have been listening to you since your KDWN days.I trust that during your absence you were able to read a lot of the books bysome of the guests you have had on your show over the past year or so and have been able to confirm or not the works of these authors. I have taken itupon myself to contact Elaine, Dr. Len Horowitzs' PR person, they would loveto be on your show any time your producers contact them. And would youplease consider having David Icke on again also? Possible both on the same show thesame night.I am sure Mr. Icke would be willing. Please Art, consider having them on together, all that you have discussed in the past is coming about. So muchis happening so quickly that most people have no idea of what is really goingon.Please Mr. Bell have these two on again and welcome back KarlSubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CTRL] IBT SEIZED!! Additional Info
-Caveat Lector- And they seemed to invite it. You don't need to be a business with employees in order to be a church. You don't even need to worship in public. Jesus himself said it was better to pray in a closet than "aloud on a street corner." A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID
-Caveat Lector- Is Mike Clark writing "ART BAEL" instead of Art Bell due to a typo, or trying to compare him to the Semitic deity Ba'al? --- Ole_Gerstrøm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Clark To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: DavidIcke2000 RE: THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID __ Do You Yahoo!? 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] THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID
-Caveat Lector- Having read a large number of Mike's rantings for some months now, I can assure you it was not a typo. One also approaches the point of belly-laughter when grappling with Mike's fetish for Ted Gunderson and Bo Gritz - claiming Art Bell to be a disinformation agent while the former pair aren't. LOL Bond. - Original Message - From: "Tenorlove" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 16 February, 2001 07:30 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID -Caveat Lector- Is Mike Clark writing "ART BAEL" instead of Art Bell due to a typo, or trying to compare him to the Semitic deity Ba'al? --- Ole_Gerstrøm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Clark To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: DavidIcke2000 RE: THE ART BAEL SHOW AND DAVID 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] FoxNews: Clinton may join Oracle Board
-Caveat Lector- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/021401/clinton_oracle.sml Clinton's Oracle Speech Hints He May Join Company's Board Wednesday, February 14, 2001 By Michael Liedtke SAN FRANCISCO When Bill Clinton delivers the keynote speech at an Oracle Corp. convention Monday, it might mark the start of a new business relationship between the former president and the world's second-largest software company. The buzz around Oracle's Redwood Shores headquarters these days is that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, an unabashed Clinton admirer, is trying to persuade his old political friend to fill a vacant seat on the company's board of directors. Oracle representatives have little to say about the possibility, but the theory began making the rounds even before Clinton left office Jan. 20. Clinton's marquee appearance at an Oracle conference in New Orleans provides more momentum to the tantalizing notion of the former president joining forces with Ellison, the world's second-wealthiest man behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Oracle said there are no hidden agendas behind Clinton's President's Day speech in New Orleans, where thousands of the company's customers and software developers will gather. "We just thought an audience would be interested in hearing from the man who was the leader of the free world during a period of the greatest technological innovation in history," Oracle spokeswoman Jennifer Glass said. Clinton's speaking fee for the New Orleans appearance hasn't been disclosed. Investment bankers Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co. paid Clinton $100,000 to speak at a Florida conference last week. Clinton has stayed in the headlines, and has been a nearly constant subject of criticism, since he left office. On Capitol Hill, a House committee is expanding its investigation into Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, and a Senate panel is taking its own look at the pardon. At the White House, workers are sorting out gifts Clinton sent back under fire. Even Clinton's selection of office space in New York City became a matter of controversy. He went to Harlem on Tuesday to check out office space after his plan to rent a floor of a vastly more expensive building in midtown Manhattan was criticized. And while other recent ex-presidents waited months before joining the paid lecture circuit, Clinton gave his first paid speech barely two weeks after leaving office. Morgan Stanley officials caught so much flak from clients that they apologized. On Wednesday, there were reports that London-based firm UBS Warburg has backed away from having Clinton speak because of the controversies surrounding him. If Clinton were to join Oracle's board, it would make a lot of sense for both sides, according to business and political analysts. With Clinton on its board, Oracle would gain the prestige and political clout of a former president, as well as a sharp mind, said Raymond Strother, a Democratic Party media consultant who worked with Clinton during his Arkansas campaigns for governor. Sitting on Oracle's board also would represent a feather in Clinton's cap because the company has emerged as one of the world's technology leaders and looks like it will remain a force for years to come, said Joshua Greenbaum, an industry analyst with Enterprise Applications Consulting in Daly City. With his resume, Clinton no doubt is getting inundated with offers from corporations that want him on their boards, said Strother, who believes Clinton would be wise to join Oracle. "They represent the future and he will be better off linking himself to the future than the past," Strother said. Oracle might also have an inside track because of Ellison's connections and kinship with Clinton. In November, Ellison hired Clinton's former White House press secretary, Joe Lockhart, as Oracle's communications director, a move that some believe foreshadowed Ellison's interest in courting Clinton. Unlike many Silicon Valley executives, Ellison hasn't spent that much of his time or wealth publicly lobbying for his political agenda. While contributing money to both the Democratic and Republican parties during the past eight years, Ellison openly supported Clinton, even through the various scandals that shadowed the former president. Clinton's checkered past and the recent controversies are unlikely to scare off Ellison, a mercurial character who has been entangled in a series of highly publicized dustups. "Larry also gets picked on for various shenanigans," Greenbaum said. "That's why there might be a certain brotherhood developing between these two guys. There are some compelling reasons why these two might get along in the same boardroom." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change
[CTRL] WSJ: The Pardon Precedent
-Caveat Lector- The Wall Street Journal http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=85000590 JOHN FUND'S POLITICAL DIARY The Pardon Precedent In 1978 Clinton got a close look at the dangers of selling forgiveness. Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:01 a.m. EST A chief executive from the South, long protected by powerful friends in the media, is leaving office under suspicion that he or his aides are selling pardons. His critics have been smeared or fired if they opposed him. The voters breathe a sign of relief as his Republican successor is sworn into office and investigations of the questionable pardons accelerate. While the story has some resemblance to President Clinton's leave-taking, the pardon scandal involved another Southern governor, Ray Blanton of Tennessee. It caused Gov. Blanton to be stripped of his office as his only term as governor ended in 1978. His office door was nailed shut to ensure that evidence wasn't removed, and Lamar Alexander, his elected successor, was sworn into office three days early to keep more pardons from being issued. Days after this denouement, 32-year-old Bill Clinton took the oath of office for his first term as governor of Arkansas. Mr. Clinton was well aware of the uproar the Blanton case had caused, which makes his friends all the more shocked and puzzled at his controversial pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Outrage is building as we also learn about his pardons of a notorious California drug dealer and a Florida businessman currently under federal investigation for fraud. Ray Blanton was born dirt poor in rural Tennessee in 1930, but his folksy charm and ambition got him elected to Congress in 1966. In 1974 he eked out a victory in the Democratic primary for governor with 23% of the vote in a field of a dozen candidates. In the general election, the stench of Watergate allowed him to win a landslide over his Republican opponent, Mr. Alexander, who would become governor four years later. Ethical trouble in the fast-and-loose Blanton administration began early but was downplayed by the local media. But by 1977, Marie Ragghianti, chairman of the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles, was getting worried. She finally refused to release some felons who were later proved to have bought their freedom by bribing Blanton aides. Mr. Blanton summarily fired her and then set his media friends upon her, smearing her reputation. Ms. Ragghianti eventually hired Fred Thompson, the Republican counsel for the Senate's Watergate committee, as her lawyer to file a suit challenging her dismissal. In July 1978, a jury found that Mr. Blanton had fired her "arbitrarily and capriciously," ordered her reinstatement and awarded her $38,000 in back pay. Hollywood made a 1985 movie about the case called "Marie," starring Sissy Spacek in the title role. Mr. Thompson convinced the producers that with his booming voice and Bluegrass drawl he was the perfect candidate to play himself. The film's success launched a part-time movie career that eventually helped him win election to the U.S. Senate in 1994. Sen. Thompson vividly recalls how the pardon scandal picked up steam in late 1978 as Gov. Blanton, who had not sought re-election, was winding down his term. On Dec. 14 the governor held a Christmas party at which his staff presented him with a present: a metallic-blue Lincoln Continental. Reporters immediately began to wonder why he could get such an extravagant gift. The next day, FBI agents swarmed into the Capitol in Nashville and seized hundreds of documents on pardons and clemency actions. Shortly thereafter, the FBI announced the arrest of the governor's legal counsel, his chief extradition officer and a state trooper assigned to Gov. Blanton. A week later, the governor appeared before a federal grand jury and declared his innocence. "I never took a dishonest dollar in my life." Pressure mounted for Gov. Blanton to be removed early and reached a fever pitch late on Jan. 15, 1979, after he finished a three-hour meeting with the announcement he had granted clemency to 52 inmates. His explanation? He was under a court order to reduce overcrowding in the state prisons. One of the freed inmates, Roger Humphreys, was serving a 20- to 40-year sentence for murder. The son of a Blanton political crony, he had pumped 18 bullets from a two-shot Derringer into his former wife and her boyfriend. Mr. Blanton called him "an outstanding, fine young man" and arranged for him to work outside prison as a state photographer. On Jan. 15 he signed Mr. Humphrey's release papers in office with a rhetorical flourish: "This takes guts." At that point, his secretary of state, Gentry Crowell, piped up: "Some people have more guts than brains." The Humphreys case infuriated Tennessee's political establishment. Then on Jan. 17, three days before Gov. Blanton's term expired, U.S. Attorney Hal Hardin, a Democratic appointee, called Gov.-elect Alexander to tell him that Gov. Blanton was preparing papers
[CTRL] NYT: U.S. Is Beginning Criminal Inquiry in Pardon of Rich
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/politics/15PARD.html?pagewanted=all February 15, 2001 U.S. Is Beginning Criminal Inquiry in Pardon of Rich By DAVID JOHNSTON New York Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 ó The United States attorney in New York has started a preliminary criminal investigation into the circumstances of President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader, senior government officials said today. The inquiry will include issuing grand jury subpoenas for bank records and other documents, the officials said. They said the investigation would try to determine whether anyone acting on behalf of Mr. Rich in effect sought to buy his pardon or obtain it by fraudulent misrepresentation. The investigation was initiated by Mary Jo White, the United States attorney in New York and head of the office that indicted Mr. Rich in 1983. * When Mr. Clinton approved the pardon last month, Ms. White complained bitterly that her office had not been consulted, the officials said, and in recent days pressed Justice Department officials in Washington to allow her to look into the pardon. * The inquiry, which also involves Justice Department investigators in Washington, began even as President Bush said on Tuesday that he had little enthusiasm for protracted Congressional inquiries into Mr. Clinton's activities, a lack of interest that officials said was shared by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The investigation came as Congressional inquiries have focused on donations that Mr. Rich's former wife, Denise Rich, contributed to Democratic causes in recent years, including $450,000 to Mr. Clinton's presidential library foundation. A spokesman for Ms. White would not comment today on the investigation today. Today, in a related development, the House Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating the Rich pardon, said it would defer for at least a week its plan to grant immunity to Ms. Rich. Lawyers have said that granting immunity could interfere with the criminal investigation. The committee announced its decision after consultations with the Justice Department. The criminal inquiry comes less than a month after Mr. Clinton, on his last day as president, reached a settlement with the independent counsel on several unrelated investigations that gave Mr. Clinton immunity from indictment or criminal liability in those cases. In a statement, Mr. Clinton denied any wrongdoing in the Rich pardon. "As I have said repeatedly, I made the decision to pardon Marc Rich based on what I thought was the right thing to do," he said. "Any suggestion that improper factors including fund-raising for the D.N.C. or my library had anything to do with the decision are absolutely false. I look forward to cooperating with any appropriate inquiry." The inquiry started as Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee today sharply criticized the pardon of Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. At a hearing, Republicans criticized the pardon decision, but so did Democrats, even some who stood with the former president in his darkest hours. Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, said, "The pardoning of fugitives stands our criminal justice system on its head and makes a mockery of it." Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said the pardon "certainly raises the appearance of impropriety." Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, who has sponsored campaign finance legislation, said, "For me, as for many senators and many Americans, suspicions about this pardon arise from the fact that Marc Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, was a large donor to the Democratic Party ó not just a large donor, a huge donor." The inquiry by prosecutors in Ms. White's office is being coordinated with senior officials at the Justice Department. Several Republicans at today's hearing said that a criminal investigation was warranted. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said, "From what I've seen, based on the law of bribery in the United States, if a person takes a thing of value for himself or for another person that influences their decision in a matter of their official capacity, then that could be a criminal offense." "And I think at this point," Mr. Sessions said, "from what I see, the F.B.I. and the United States attorney's office in New York ought to be looking at this matter." Some lawyers have said that proving such a case could be exceedingly difficult because bribery cases usually required the cooperation of one of the parties. Moreover, contributions to political parties or to Mr. Clinton's library foundation are legal, and the president's pardon authority is unreviewable. Criminal cases involving high level corruption or senior executive branch officials are almost always managed at the Justice Department's headquarters. But officials in Washington are apparently deferring to prosecutors in New York at the outset of the inquiry
[CTRL] TH: Torricelli turns on his friends
-Caveat Lector- http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/printmm20010214.shtml Michelle Malkin February 14, 2001 Torricelli turns on his friends Teflon Bob Torricelli's coat of armor is wearing a little thin these days. The once-invincible, Democratic fund-raising superman can't seem to shake questions about his prodigious campaign finance practices. Now, the New Jersey senator -- who raised $12.5 million for his 1996 campaign and a record $87.2 million as Democratic Senate Campaign Committee chairman -- has turned on some of his deep-pocketed donors. The Justice Department is on to something here. The clock is ticking (there's a five-year statute of limitations for campaign finance violations), but maybe, just maybe, DOJ's election task force will be able to pin down the slippery politician's role in alleged campaign corruption. Torricelli and his lawyers dismiss his financial troubles as "garden-variety" bookkeeping errors. But since the federal probe of Torricelli's 1996 fund raising began, six of his donors have pleaded guilty to making illegal straw donations for the purpose of evading contribution limits. At least two listed Torricelli donors told reporters they were illegally reimbursed by their company for contributions they didn't make on their own. And three other donors have implicated Torricelli and his seasoned aides in their schemes. Passing political contributions through unsuspecting donors doesn't just happen with a slip of the pencil. It's deliberate money laundering, and it's one of the most fundamental violations of campaign finance law. No official in the Torricelli campaign has yet been charged with breaking the law, but the campaign's past working relationships with shady donors smell like a garden variety of rotten vegetables. One of Torricelli's old buddies, David Chang, pleaded guilty in federal court last summer to charges of illegally funneling $53,700 into Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Chang broke contribution limits, made illegal corporate donations, enlisted straw donors, illegally reimbursed them, and obstructed justice by pressuring one of his former employees to lie to a grand jury. According to The New York Times last week, Chang revealed to prosecutors that Torricelli "was not only aware of some of his illegal donations but also encouraged them" and that he encouraged Chang to flee the country. Fair-weather Torricelli and his aides now attack one of their chief fund-raisers as a "pathological" liar and perjurer. Chang is "about as fraudulent a human being as has ever graced the earth," one of Torricelli's lawyers told the press. What does all this say about Torricelli? He knew that Chang, a Beijing-born entrepreneur who conducted exclusive business with the communist regime in North Korea, had made $12,000 in prior illegal donations to former California Rep. Jay Kim in 1992. Yet, Torricelli hired Chang to raise funds, placed calls to the government on his behalf, and defended him last year against charges of foreign money laundering by accusing investigators of being motivated by prejudice because Chang "happens to be of a different race." Now, Torricelli's dear friend -- yes, he used to call Chang "friend" -- is a pathological liar and world-class fraud. And now, Torricelli -- who is furiously raising money for his legal defense fund -- complains that he is a victim of "the politics of personal destruction." He has also traded in the race card for the generational card, casting his targeted staffers Adam Crain, Roberta Stern and David Plouffe as "dedicated young campaign workers who worked tirelessly" and "have done nothing wrong." At least two other Torricelli donors have come forward to dispute that claim. French businessmen Mark Rousso and Philippe Hababou, both suspected of financial fraud abroad, have told investigators they worked with Crain, the campaign's chief fund-raiser, to pass $40,000 in proceeds from a Manhattan art auction to the campaign. Investigators are also reportedly looking into claims that Crain instructed Hababou to funnel money illegally through straw donors. "Garbage," says Torricelli lawyer Robert Bauer, "told by people who are peddling lies for profit." These donors, he says, "offer only a distinguished and extensive history of complete and criminal fraud." Pathological liars. Perjurers. Distinguished frauds. "You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends," Joseph Conrad wrote. No wonder Torricelli, who is used to dodging bullets, is now sweating them. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a
[CTRL] WT: Putin Caught in Big Lie
-Caveat Lector- "Russian President Vladimir Putin last month dismissed reports of the nuclear arms in Kaliningrad as "rubbish."" http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2001215224952.htm Satellites pinpoint Russian nuclear arms in Baltics By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. spy satellites have located the exact position of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, contradicting Moscow's contention that it had not transferred the battlefield arms. Satellite photographs first revealed the transfers June 3 when the weapons were spotted aboard a Russian military train at a seaport near St. Petersburg, according to U.S. intelligence officials. A second intelligence breakthrough took place June 6 when spy satellites detected the arrival of the nuclear arms in Kaliningrad, said officials familiar with intelligence reports who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The weapons were moved by ship from the Russian port to a special nuclear storage bunker near a military airfield in Kaliningrad, a small Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. The satellite photographs have refuted Russian government denials about the transfer or deployment of nuclear arms in Kaliningrad. The transfers were first reported by The Washington Times on Jan. 3. "The Russians are denying it, but we know better," said one defense official. Debate within the U.S. government has ceased on the nuclear transfers. The disclosure of the tactical nuclear arms transfers prompted statements of concern by the governments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Moscow has refused inspections of all military facilities in Kaliningrad by those governments. Polish Defense Minister Bronislaw Komorowski called for inspections of Kaliningrad to determine whether the nuclear arms were deployed there. The State Department did not support the call for inspections, even though Poland is now a member of the NATO alliance. Under an informal agreement reached between the United States and Russia in 1992, Moscow was to remove all tactical nuclear weapons from forward-deployed areas and said they had done so. Russian President Vladimir Putin last month dismissed reports of the nuclear arms in Kaliningrad as "rubbish." U.S. intelligence is still trying to determine the exact type of the nuclear arms. They were described in reports as either nuclear naval, ground forces or air-delivered weapons. The weapons in Kaliningrad are based in what the Pentagon calls a nuclear storage site, a special facility used to house nuclear arms. The intelligence photographs, gathered by the Pentagon's array of reconnaissance satellites, confirmed suspicions dating back to 1998 about the deployment of tactical nuclear arms in Kaliningrad, the officials said. Russia has between 4,000 and 15,000 tactical nuclear weapons, none of which is covered by formal U.S.-Russian arms control agreements. They include short-range missile warheads, nuclear-armed torpedoes and air-dropped nuclear bombs. A Pentagon spokesman told The Washington Times last month that the deployment of tactical nuclear arms to Kaliningrad violates Moscow's pledge to keep the Baltic region a "nuclear-free" zone. The nuclear transfers were not reported in formal Pentagon intelligence reports until December, fueling speculation among some officials that the information was withheld from U.S. government policy-makers for diplomatic reasons. Intelligence officials denied the information was withheld. After the disclosures last month, the State Department sent a formal diplomatic note to the Russians asking for an explanation of the deployment. The Russian government replied by repeating Moscow's public denials insisting that there were no nuclear arms in Kaliningrad, U.S. officials said. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser during the Carter administration, said the nuclear arms in Kaliningrad are a political problem more than a serious strategic worry. "It tells us something about the dogged attitudes of the Russian military and political leaders," Mr. Brzezinski said in an interview. "It's conduct you would not expect from a responsible government that generally wants to be part of the partnership of the European community, as Putin has indicated," Mr. Brzezinski said. "No one likes to be sitting next to nuclear weapons, stored or unstored," he said. But efforts by Polish and Baltic-nation governments to seek nuclear inspections will be difficult because there are no formal agreements allowing such reviews, Mr. Brzezinski said. As for Russian government denials, Mr. Brzezinski said: "The fact that the Russian government denies it . . . is probably an affirmation that it is true." Richard Perle, a senior defense official in the Reagan administration, said the movement of the weapons would be a concern if
[CTRL] Farmers warned against biotech corn
-Caveat Lector- Farmers warned against biotech corn By PHILIP BRASHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (February 13, 2001 6:28 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Stray kernels of the biotech corn that caused nationwide recalls of taco shells still pose a problem for farmers this year, even though the seed is no longer for sale. The National Corn Growers Association warned its members Tuesday that stray kernels from last year's crop of StarLink corn could sprout in fields and cross-pollinate with other varieties of corn if farmers aren't careful. StarLink corn was never approved for human consumption because of unresolved questions about its potential for causing allergic reactions. Many farmers didn't know about the restriction, or else ignored it, and the biotech grain wound up contaminating at least 80 million bushels of last year's corn harvest. Kraft Foods was among several companies that recalled taco shells and other products after StarLink was detected in them. There is a danger that stray StarLink plants will contaminate corn fields this year, "further compounding the problems of keeping StarLink out of the supply of U.S. corn," said Fred Yoder, chairman of the growers association's biotech working group. Farmers are advised to grow something other than corn, such as soybeans, on last year's StarLink acreage, or else plant herbicide-tolerant varieties of corn. Those varieties can be sprayed with a weedkiller that will kill the StarLink plants. But even that option has its own potential problem, because corn that's immune to the popular weedkiller, Roundup, isn't approved for sale in Europe. Farmers also are being warned not to plant any corn seed that hasn't been tested for the presence of StarLink. StarLink is one of several types of corn that have been genetically engineered to kill an insect pest, but it is the only one not allowed in food. The American Corn Growers Association, a smaller group that is critical of biotechnology, has said that farmers should be compensated by StarLink's maker, Aventis CropScience, for any contaminated crops grown this year. Meanwhile Tuesday, an anti-biotech group released a report prepared by the Food and Drug Administration on attitudes of consumers toward genetically engineered products. Virtually everyone questioned in a series of focus groups the agency sponsored last year believed that foods ought to be labeled if they contain any genetically engineered ingredients. "Consumers want to have information on how their food is prepared for a variety of reasons," said Richard Caplan of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. FDA has refused to impose mandatory labeling on biotech foods. The agency says there is no justification for labeling food with biotech ingredients that are essentially the same as conventional ones. The food industry fears such labeling could unfairly stigmatize biotech products. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: HOW MARC [RICH] HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA
-Caveat Lector- HOW MARC HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA Thursday,February 15,2001 By ROD DREHER EVERYBODY is boiling mad over the pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, in large part because he is a traitor who did business with the ayatollah, and helped keep the South African apartheid regime in business under sanctions. Overlooked so far is Rich's role in the looting of the disintegrating Soviet Union by Communist Party officials and their associates in the early 1990s. You can read about it in "Godfather of the Kremlin," an exhaustively researched book about Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, which was published last fall. The author is Paul Klebnikov, an expert on Russia and a Forbes magazine senior editor. The book details the myriad ways Berezovsky and his minions stole untold sums from the Russian people through international financial schemes. According to Klebnikov, Rich came into the picture around 1990, when the Soviet Union began to open up to outsiders. "Governmental authority began to crumble. All these local Communist Party bosses got to strike deals on their own," the author tells me. Based in Switzerland, with its secretive banking laws, Rich was in a prime position to help Russia's plunderers carry out their dirty work. Klebnikov reported that Rich dealt in oil, aluminum, zinc and other raw commodities. "He'd strike a deal with the local party boss, or the director of a state-owned company," explains the author. "He'd say, 'OK, you will sell me the [commodity] at 5 to 10 percent of the world market price. "'And in return, I will deposit some of the profit I make by reselling it 10 times higher on the world market, and put the kickback in a Swiss bank account.'" For at least two years, as the Soviet Union was in its death throes, Rich was that nation's largest trader of aluminum and oil on a spot basis. "He made a complete mint off of Russia," says Klebnikov. A former foreign-trade minister told the author that Rich instructed the robber-baron elite how to skirt the law by doing secret deals through shell companies and the like. "Marc Rich ended up being a mentor to all these young kids who came out of the Communist Party establishment, and who made billions off these schemes themselves," Klebnikov charges. There were allegations at the time in the Russian press and elsewhere that Rich was aiding and abetting capital flight from the country, but he was never charged. A widely read 1999 article in the foreign-policy journal The National Interest, written by ex-CIA officer and National Security Council staffer Fritz W. Ermarth, noted that as far back as 1985, the KGB was engaged in the massive transfer of assets abroad via commodities trading through front companies. "The program evolved into . . . avenues for squirreling away funds for the safe retirement or political comeback of embattled communist leaders," Ermarth writes. If Rich had anything to do with this, then he would have had a key role in making the world safe for nuclear-armed communist tyrants who were America's greatest enemies. Can U.S. intelligence files from the era establish a link between Rich and the transferred KGB billions? Congress should find out. Rich's profitable relationship with the Russians ended in 1993, when the monster he helped create turned on him. The Russian swindlers became so good at Rich's game that they muscled him out of the action. "Applying the lessons they learned from Marc Rich, they bankrupted Russia," Klebnikov alleges. "As a result, you have a ruined economy, bankrupt government, and an impoverished population." Tens of millions of Russians are suffering through the worst winter there in 50 years. They and their government are broke. There is no money to buy coal to run the power stations. People are sick, cold and dying. They are freezing to death in the dark. One man told the Red Cross that life has turned into "a permanent struggle for survival. It's not even life, it's just existence." This is part of the legacy of the man pardoned by Bill Clinton. It is now part of the 42nd president's legacy as well. Clinton, his belly full, sleeps in warmth and comfort in cozy Chappaqua. If he can sleep at all. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the
Re: [CTRL] FoxNews: Clinton may join Oracle Board
-Caveat Lector- So the Justice Deparatment attempts to destroy Bill Gates under Clinton because he would not give tribute to Ceasar? Oracle should be boycotted unless this is just another propaganda piece . sure Clinton is getting a lot of press - all of it bad. Nice company image - Chief of Thieves and you think stockholder's would not scream over this one? Birds of feather flock togetherset a thief to catch a thief - Clinton should go to work for the AIDS foundations or Gay Prides where he would be more acceptable. 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] AP: Prosecutor Opens Rich Pardon Probe
-Caveat Lector- Prosecutor Opens Rich Pardon Probe by PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal prosecutor has cranked up the heat on former President Clinton, launching a criminal investigation to determine if money played a role in the last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, in a brief statement issued Thursday, confirmed her office and the FBI ''have opened an investigation to determine whether there have been any violations of federal law'' in the pardons of Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. It did not elaborate. White's probe is expected to examine bank and telephone records and other documents for evidence of illegal conduct, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. ''She is trying to determine if there was a transfer of money to buy the pardon,'' the source told The Associated Press on Wednesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity. The move comes after Senate and House committees launched similar probes of the Rich pardon, one of 141 granted by Clinton on Jan. 20, his final day in office. White, who was appointed to her post by Clinton in 1993, has said the pardon was granted without consultation with her office, which indicted Rich in 1983. Critics have noted that Rich's ex-wife Denise contributed an estimated $450,000 to the Clinton Presidential Library Fund, more than $1.1 million to the Democratic Party and at least $109,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign. According to the source, the White investigation will try to determine if there was any link between the contributions and the Clinton decision. Under the U.S. Constitution, presidents have an absolute right to issue pardons that are not subject to review by any other government entity. The federal probe would focus instead on possible criminal wrongdoing stemming from the contributions. In a statement issued through transition office spokeswoman Julia Payne late Wednesday, Clinton again denied any wrongdoing. ''As I have said repeatedly, I made the decision to pardon Marc Rich based on what I thought was the right thing to do,'' he said. ''Any suggestion that improper factors, including fund raising for the (Democratic National Committee) or my library, had anything to do with the decision are absolutely false. I look forward to cooperating with any appropriate inquiry.'' White's spokesman, Herb Haddad, said her office would have no comment on the report of an investigation. In Washington, Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker also had no comment on the report. Rich, who fled to Switzerland in the 1980s, was wanted by the Justice Department on charges of evading more than $48 million in taxes, fraud and participating in illegal oil deals with Iran. In testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Justice Department pardon attorney Roger Adams said the White House initially failed to tell him during a midnight phone call that Rich was a fugitive. ''I was not told,'' Adams said. ''I learned that from the FBI.'' After discovering that Rich and his indicted partner were fugitives, Adams fired off a fax to the White House summarizing the facts of their criminal case. The White House then asked Adams to fax over the materials that he had gotten from the FBI. The revelations prompted several Democrats to questions Clinton's decision to later pardon Rich. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said the pardon ''certainly raises the appearance of impropriety.'' Rich's pardon was one of 177 total clemency actions Clinton handled Jan. 20. Thirty-two were not reviewed in advance by the Justice Department's pardon attorney, which is the usual -- though neither legally nor constitutionally required -- procedure. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the pardoning of fugitives ''stands our criminal justice system on its head.'' And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she has ''concerns not only about the Rich pardon but about a number of'' others granted clemency. Despite the Rich flap, officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and in the Clinton camp said there were no plans to return the Denise Rich contributions. ''There's been no discussion about it,'' Clinton adviser Harold Ickes said Wednesday. Mrs. Clinton, through a spokesman, said she would have no comment on the reported probe and referred calls to her husband's transition office. Denise Rich has refused to answer questions from the House committee, citing her constitutional right against self-incrimination. The AP left a message on an answering machine of her spokesman seeking comment on the report of the White probe. The chairman of a House committee said Wednesday he was told by the Justice Department it will be ''at least one week'' before officials there act on the panel's request to grant Denise Rich immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony to the panel. The House committee also expects to subpoena records this week from two of
[CTRL] LAT: U.S. Built Vignali Case on Wiretaps
-Caveat Lector- Thursday, February 15, 2001 U.S. Built Vignali Case on Wiretaps Law: Informants portrayed dealer who received clemency as key financier of a cocaine pipeline. By RICHARD A. SERRANO and STEPHEN BRAUN Los Angeles Times Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS--The 1994 case against Carlos Vignali, whom President Clinton freed last month after appeals from prominent Los Angeles politicians, was built on the testimony of informants and federal wiretaps, which convinced a jury that he had provided large sums of cash to purchase cocaine for sale in Minnesota. About 800 pounds of cocaine were mailed in the early 1990s from Southern California to Minneapolis. In one telephone recording, Vignali discussed a successful drug deal with two of his partners, boasting: "It's going to be like that. Ain't never going to be a problem." Later, talking about 15 pounds of cocaine that was missing, Vignali complained: "Get that right back. . . . Kick anybody down. You guys should roll right up in there and get it." The trial narrative, reviewed by The Times on Wednesday, was contained in boxes of trial transcripts and other court documents at the federal courthouse here. It reveals a government case built almost entirely upon wiretaps and the testimony of informants, who turned against Vignali in hopes of winning lighter sentences. The government portrayed Vignali as one of the key financiers of the cocaine pipeline from Los Angeles to Minneapolis. He was described as a young man flush with cash, who clinched his deals in cell phone conversations and sought to meld with tough-talking drug hustlers. Among those who lobbied on Vignali's behalf were former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles), former U.S. Rep. Esteban Torres and Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles. Most asked for further review of Vignali's case, though some went further. Villaraigosa, for instance, claimed that Vignali had been wrongly convicted. Villaraigosa and Mahony recently have expressed regret at involving themselves in the case. Horacio Vignali, father of Carlos Vignali and a well-connected Los Angeles businessman, had asked them to contact the White House on his son's behalf, most of the letter writers said. Of the 30 defendants indicted on charges of involvement in the drug ring, which converted the cocaine powder from Los Angeles to crack cocaine in Minneapolis, all but one were convicted or pleaded guilty. The jury convicted Vignali on three counts of conspiracy and cocaine distribution and acquitted him of a fourth count. While prosecutors have said that Vignali was a central figure in the conspiracy, U.S. District Judge David S. Doty, who has criticized Clinton's decision to commute Vignali's sentence, cautioned at the 1995 sentencing that he was not "an organizer, leader or manager." Still, the judge sentenced Vignali to 15 years, one of the harshest sentences handed down in the case. Clinton commuted the sentence after Vignali had served six years. In an interview Wednesday, Doty said that Vignali "provided funds to the conspiracy, provided places and was involved in the direct transfers. . . . He was a big player. He was one of the top two or three defendants." Andrew Dunne, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Vignali and who advised the Justice Department against commuting his sentence, said that "he was clearly a key player. . . . He never said, 'I'm sorry.' " Vignali, who testified in his own defense, said that he thought he was loaning money to friends for an investment with a group of basketball players. He and his father, who also testified, said that his son had had much of the money since childhood, when he would lovingly iron hundred-dollar bills and keep the crisp cash stacked neatly in his bedroom closet. "I don't understand," Carlos Vignali said on the witness stand. "What do you mean, drug money?" Dunne told the jury that this account was absurd. "I submit to you that's the most preposterous story I have every heard," he said. His father testified that ready cash had always been a central part of the way he had done business in the auto body shop industry, one of several of his business ventures, including real estate. "Cash is a way of making money when nobody else can," said Horacio Vignali, who bragged about his wealth. Since his son's arrest, he has contributed $160,000 to federal and state politicians in California and elsewhere. "If I have the right amount of cash and I go to an auction, or I happen to see somebody with a for-sale sign on the street and I pull them over and we start dealing about the price, if I have the cash, I buy the car," the father testified. "If I don't have the cash, somebody else buys the car. So it gives you an advantage." He said of his son: "I treated him like my best friend, my partner, anything he needed, I would always provide for him, always. It doesn't matter
[CTRL] JW: BUSH STATEMENTS CAUSE ASHCROFT TO BACK OFF OF PARDONGATE
-Caveat Lector- Judicial Watch FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/15/2001 Press Office 202-646-5172 BUSH STATEMENTS CAUSE ASHCROFT TO BACK OFF OF PARDONGATE U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York Conducting Questionable Preliminary Inquiry (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, stands virtually alone in its quest to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton accountable for their serious violations of ethics and the law. First, with regard to what has become known as Pardongate, the recent statements of President Bush that Americans should simply move on and not hold the Clintons accountable for their crimes, has obviously influenced new Attorney General John Ashcroft into following his boss's lead in taking an ambivalent attitude toward the Marc Rich bribery/pardon scheme. The New York Times reports today in an article by David Johnston that: . . . President Bush said on Tuesday that he had little enthusiasm for protracted Congressional inquiries into Mr. Clintons activities, a lack of interest that officials said was shared by Attorney General John Ashcroft. Similarly, in an article today by Robert L. Jackson and Richard A. Serrano, theLos Angeles Times reports that: The decision by Mary Jo White, a Democratic appointee, to investigate the Rich pardon came just a day after President Bush criticized congressional reviews of the matter, saying it was time to move on. Bushs remark dampened interest within the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, said one source familiar with the matter, which in turn prompted White to act. Given Mr. Bushs lack of support, the recently-announced U.S. Attorneys investigation in New York is little more than window dressing and is unlikely to result in much of anything. Even if it did, the U.S. Attorney, Mary Jo White, is a Clinton appointee unlikely to take any real action against the person who appointed her, Bill Clinton. Indeed, it is incredible that Mary Jo White has remained as U.S. Attorney under the Bush-Cheney Administration, and Judicial Watch is sure that former President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton are pleased that Ms. White is investigating the apparent bribery scheme. Obviously, this is why Mr. Clinton is now pleased to cooperate. A special counsel should be appointed to head a real criminal investigation. Senate Allows Illegal Hillary Clinton Book Deal On another front today, the Senate Ethics Committee cleared Hillary Clintons $8 million book deal, proving again that Congressional investigations and inquiries are for show and not for reality. Judicial Watch is pursuing justice concerning this and other Clinton bribery schemes The American people should not be fooled by the gyrations of Washington politicians and a Clinton-appointed U.S. Attorney. While the Washington press corps likes to write stories about such meaningless gestures and gives little, if any, consideration to the actions of the American people, through Judicial Watch and other concerned citizens groups the hard and sad fact is that we are the only ones who are serious about these matters. Indeed, just yesterday, I was removed as a potential witness on the Senate Judiciary Panel investigating Pardongate, apparently by Senator Orrin Hatch who obviously feared Judicial Watchs comments and non-political findings concerning the ongoing pattern of bribery during the Clinton Administration. Senator Hatch himself was subject to potential investigation over his role in the BCCI banking scandal during the Reno Justice Department reign, and has been the lapdog of the Clinton Administration ever since, stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY IN PARDONGATE
-Caveat Lector- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/15/2001 Press Office 202-646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY IN PARDONGATE: FEDERAL COURT RULES DOCUMENTS ON CLINTON PARDON OF PUERTO RICAN TERRORISTS ARE PUBLIC Documents Had Been Withheld for Over One Year by Clinton-Gore Administration Decision Will Serve as Precedent for Documents on Latest Pardon Scandal (Washington, D.C.) A federal court judge, The Honorable Thomas Hogan, ruled this week that documents that were withheld by the Clinton-Gore Administration relating to Bill Clintons pardon of several Puerto Rican terrorists in 1999 are public documents subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Judicial Watch, the non-partisan public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes public corruption, has been trying since September, 1999 to obtain documents on the pardons under FOIA and a subsequent FOIA lawsuit. The Clinton-Gore Administration had tried to withhold documents related to pardons on the basis of law enforcement and privacy privileges. In his decision earlier this week, Judge Hogan ruled that these privileges do not apply, as any privacy interests of the terrorists are outweighed by the public interest in the pardons. Judge Hogan ruled that ...these pardoned prisoners have arguably become public figures through their well-publicized pleas for clemency and the speeches some have made since their release... the presidential pardons have been highly public as well as controversial events, which clearly implicate the public interests in knowing and understanding the activities of the federal government. The Court ruled that Judicial Watch can now pursue access to these documents through FOIA. Previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch in this case show that the FBI vociferously opposed Clintons pardons of the Puerto Rican terrorists. Documents released to Judicial Watch show the FBI warned that these individuals [to be pardoned] sanctioned, supported and/or directly or indirectly participated in activities resulting in no fewer that nine fatalities, hundreds of injuries, millions of dollars in property damage, and armed attacks on U.S. Government facilities. The documents also show that the FBI only learned through press reports that Clinton was considering clemency for the terrorists. This is an important ruling in the context of the current Clinton pardon scandal. It will be difficult, under the precedent of Judge Hogans decision, for the government to hide documents from the American people about Clintons latest pardons, stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] More Beg Your Pardons....
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, Feb 15, 2001, 1:45pm Subject: JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY IN PARDONGATE To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Language:en FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/15/2001 Press Office 202-646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY IN PARDONGATE: FEDERAL COURT RULES DOCUMENTS ON CLINTON PARDON OF PUERTO RICAN TERRORISTS ARE PUBLIC Documents Had Been Withheld for Over One Year by Clinton-Gore Administration Decision Will Serve as Precedent for Documents on Latest Pardon Scandal (Washington, D.C.) A federal court judge, The Honorable Thomas Hogan, ruled this week that documents that were withheld by the Clinton-Gore Administration relating to Bill Clintons pardon of several Puerto Rican terrorists in 1999 are public documents subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Judicial Watch, the non-partisan public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes public corruption, has been trying since September, 1999 to obtain documents on the pardons under FOIA and a subsequent FOIA lawsuit. The Clinton-Gore Administration had tried to withhold documents related to pardons on the basis of law enforcement and privacy privileges. In his decision earlier this week, Judge Hogan ruled that these privileges do not apply, as any privacy interests of the terrorists are outweighed by the public interest in the pardons. Judge Hogan ruled that ...these pardoned prisoners have arguably become public figures through their well-publicized pleas for clemency and the speeches some have made since their release... the presidential pardons have been highly public as well as controversial events, which clearly implicate the public interests in knowing and understanding the activities of the federal government. The Court ruled that Judicial Watch can now pursue access to these documents through FOIA. Previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch in this case show that the FBI vociferously opposed Clintons pardons of the Puerto Rican terrorists. Documents released to Judicial Watch show the FBI warned that these individuals [to be pardoned] sanctioned, supported and/or directly or indirectly participated in activities resulting in no fewer that nine fatalities, hundreds of injuries, millions of dollars in property damage, and armed attacks on U.S. Government facilities. The documents also show that the FBI only learned through press reports that Clinton was considering clemency for the terrorists. This is an important ruling in the context of the current Clinton pardon scandal. It will be difficult, under the precedent of Judge Hogans decision, for the government to hide documents from the American people about Clintons latest pardons, stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. ### 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] NYP: HOW MARC [RICH] HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA
-Caveat Lector- This pig at the trough and he has been at the trough in the pig style once known as the Clinton Oval Office - if something is no done there must be a way to get this entire congress up on criminal charges. People starving and these pigs stealing? Who are they - give you one guess - do a little checking and you will see. See Jesse Jackson and this pig Al Sharpton - stealing from the poor? Maybe it is vigilante time - eternal watch on these bums and their prostitutes.for that is all they are - bums - to think I thought the Mafia was Italian. Look what this Monica Lewinski - a sodomist in the White House - cost the American taxpayers playing sex games with the President with the Mossad recording the transactions? Pigs are pigs - first step was to get them out of the White House and away from our children for they would teach our children, the ways of sodomists. 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] CIA - Zambia - Money laundering.
-Caveat Lector- CIA Sees Zambia As The Region's Money Laundering Centre http://allafrica.com/stories/200102150387.html Post of Zambia (Lusaka) February 15, 2001 Posted to the web February 15, 2001 Lusaka The American Central Intelligence Agency has labelled Zambia as a centre for money-laundering activities in the Southern African region, disclosed Drug Enforcement Commissioner Raphael Mungole (in picture) yesterday. Addressing the fourth Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) commanders and senior officers' conference in Siavonga, Mungole said the stalemate in enacting the anti-money laundering Bill into law and its withdrawal from Parliament without the public knowing the reasons gave drug dealers and money-launders a field day. He said this has led to an unfortunate situation where the American Central Intelligence Agency has labelled Zambia as a centre for money- laundering activities in the region. He added that the withdrawal of the Bill created an economy which was not protected resulting in a foreign exchange regime which was running away from controlled management. "We need an anti-money-laundering law to help Zambia rebut the label," Mungole said." While drug trafficking, drug abuse and its related money- laundering activities have emerged as a national problem for transparency and good governance, the challenge is really on the government and civil society to be seen to do something." Mungole said government should place drug trafficking, drug abuse and related money-laundering activities on priority items if drug trafficking was to be effectively checked. He said money- laundering, porno trafficking and trafficking in government trophy has become an economic sabotage which has undermined the economy of the country. Mungole said the DEC will tighten its operations as the country draws near to the parliamentary and presidential elections to stop a phenomenon where drug money is used to finance and support candidates for elections. He said this was in line with observations made by members of parliament at a drug awareness workshop in Lusaka mid last year that persons convicted of drug trafficking and drug related offences should not be allowed to run for political office or be appointed to public office. "The parliamentary and presidential elections coming in late November will pose a challenge because drug dealers and money-launders would be working to sponsor their associates to the political altar. This will undermine democracy and transparency in elections," he said. Mungole urged enforcement officers to be alert in view of the forth coming Organisation of African Unity (OAU) heads of state summit and the eclipse of the sun in June this year to ensure the nation is not turned into a drug tourist destination. He said despite operational problems, DEC was able to arrest 2,362 drug traffickers and seize about K 6 billion worthy of narcotic drugs last year. -- Copyright 2001 Post of Zambia. 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: Collective Suicide or Zionism United?
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZIONISM UNITED OR "COLLECTIVE SUICIDE" FOR LEFT-WING ZIONIST? "If there is a national unity government, it will be evident that the differences between Labour as the main branch of the left and the Likud as the main branch of the right are not that big." Eli Goldschmidt Barak Campaign Head of Publicity "You are a man of peace, a man of truth. Don't give him [Sharon] legitimacy around the world." Yossi Beilin screaming at Shimon Peres MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/14: The basic reality is that the differences between the two major wings of Zionism, Labor and Revisionist (Likud), have always been more stylistic, more cosmetic, more personality, than principled. That explains much of the past of course, and also now explains why it was so easy for a triumphant Ariel Sharon to immediately turn to the top figures in labor, Barak and Peres, both personal friends for a very long time, to come to his Cabinet in senior positions -- no matter what the final outcome of this gambit. We predicted many weeks ago that Israel's Labor Party, dominant as it has been going back to the days of Ben-Gurion and Israel's founding, may well be coming to an end and splitting into piecesment as Revisionist Zionism -- i.e, the most militant and racist form -- triumphs in ways hardy imaginable just a short time ago. LABOUR REELS AS COALITION TALKS SPLIT ISRAELI LEFT [The Guardian - 12 Feb]: The Labour party, the erstwhile bastion of the Israeli establishment, appeared to be heading towards collective suicide yesterd ay with deep splits opening over the prospect of an alliance with the hardline prime minister-elect, Ariel Sharon. As Shimon Peres, Labour's elder statesman, declared yesterday his willingness to serve Mr Sharon as foreign minister in a national unity coalition, several figures in the party, including its leading dove, Yossi Beilin, were poised to make their exit. "We have in the Labour party a leadership crisis," Eli Goldschmidt said. Mr Goldschmidt resigned from parliament in spectacular fashion last week, saying the party was a "den of backstabbers", who put personal ambitions before the interests of the party and the country. Another Labour leader, Uzi Baram, also announced his resignation yesterday after nearly 25 years in parliament, saying the party needed to rebuild after the devastating defeat of the prime minister, Ehud Barak, in last week's elections. "I believe there is a real need for a change of generations," Mr Baram said. "The party has to set a new platform and work towards reviving itself after the blow we received." It may have to do so without Mr Beilin, who began discussions yesterday for the formation of a new social democratic force with the leftwing Meretz party. Never a cohesive force, Labour's divisions became starkly apparent during the election campaign, with key figures - including Mr Peres - working behind the scenes to bring down Mr Barak. "I am sure that more than one or two members of the [Labour] leadership were happier than Ariel Sharon himself with the election results," Mr Goldschmidt, in charge of publicity for Mr Barak's campaign, said. With negotiations underway for a unity government, those ugly rivalries have been exposed to full public view. But many argue that a coalition with Mr Sharon could prove even more damaging, by robbing Labour of its one selling point: its willingness to make the painful compromises needed for a peace deal with the Palestinians. "If there is a national unity government, it will be evident that the differences between Labour as the main branch of the left and the Likud as the main branch of the right are not that big," Mr Goldschmidt said. Mr Barak, who led a second session of coalition talks with Mr Sharon yesterday, thinks otherwise. Yesterday, he led the Israeli cabinet in disowning the compromises offered to the Palestinians at last month's talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Taba. Mr Peres also supports the Likud stand against picking up negotiations where they left off, as the Palestinians demand. "It is important for the country and for the nation to have peace," Mr Peres told Israel Radio yesterday. "Labour has to follow the needs of the country." But that stand has infuriated the stalwarts of the left in Labour, including Mr
[CTRL] Jeb Bush Caught in Govt Sting -- Again
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49contentid=126page=1 Jeb Bush Caught in Govt Sting -- Again by URI DOWBENKO According to Al Martin, writing in his column "Behind the Scenes in the Beltway," Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been caught on camera with an unidentified woman during the FBI's "Big Brother Is Watching You" Super Bowl super-surveillance program. This high tech video system is evidently able to match surveillance photos in real time, like the system currently in place on the streets in the United Kingdom. "Since the FBI had surreptitiously set up multiple surveillance cameras during the Super Bowl," Al Martin writes, "there had been a substantial number of matches, including many people wanted for questioning, regarding allegations of espionage, terrorist activities, as well as a large assortment of escaped felons, parole and probation violators, etc." "Some high-level prominent politicians were also caught on camera, including Jeb Bush with an unknown attractive woman -- not his wife. In this latest scandal, the FBI has a problem because they're afraid that one of the women has threatened to file a lawsuit to obtain copies of the tape. The girlfriend is evidently asking for some hush money, after becoming aware that she and Jeb were photographed by the FBI. As you can imagine, the FBI is in a quandary." Al Martin adds more observations about the FBI, a continuation from the last column "Fraud As Usual at Redstone Arsenal," as well as an explanation of double-dipping (and even triple dipping) which refers to illegally getting more than one pension from the US Government by retired federal employees. For the record, this is not the first time that Jeb Bush has been caught on videotape in a compromising situation. Terry Reed, author of "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA" Penmarin Books told Mike Ruppert that infamous CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal had bragged to him that he had "insurance" in the form of proof that the Bush Boys were doing heavy drugs. Seal's evidence was an alleged DEA videotape of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush flying in to Tamiami Airport outside of Miami to pick up a couple of kilos of cocaine powder for a party. Ruppert wrote, "Thanks to the UC's or undercover agents, Barry Seal and Terry Reed were sent on a drug sting to meet some wealthy Texans," writes Ruppert in his newsletter, "From the Wilderness" (From the Wildernesss. "It turns out that the wealthy Texans were George W and Jeb Bush who flew in on a family owned King Air to pick up the cocaine themsleves. Hidden DEA cameras filnmed the whole incident, including the tail number of the aircraft and both Bushes' participation." According to Reed, nobody knew in advance who the buyers were. The secret DEA video has never been shown publicly. Ironically, the plane that had been the crown jewel in Barry Seal's drug smuggling fleet, a 1982 Beechcraft King Air 200, after a convoluted series of transactions, ended up as George W. Bush's personal aircarft. Ruppert quotes Jerry Daniels, Executive Director of the Texas State Aircraft Pooling Board, who said, " He [Bush] used to fly on that airplane all the time. He stopped when he became a presidential candidate because the state won't let you fly its aircraft for political purposes." The question remains -- was that the plane, George W. Bush's favorite, called "Zero-Eight-Foxtrot" the one he used in the cocaine pickup at Tamiami Airport? For the rest of the story about Jeb Bush's latest surveillance video appearance, this time courtesy of the FBI, click here Al Martin Raw: Criminal Govt Conspiracy (c) Copyright 2001, Uri Dowbenko. All rights reserved. Uri Dowbenko is the Chairman and CEO of New Improved Entertainment. He is a frequent contributor to Conspiracy Digest (http://www.conspiracydigest.com),Steamshovel Press (http://www.steamshovelpress.com, and Conspiracy Planet(http://www.conspiracyplanet.com). He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] IT'S THE EMPIRE, STUPID A moron in the White House?
http://128.121.216.19/justin/j021401.html IT'S THE EMPIRE, STUPID A moron in the White House? Is George W. Bush just a little, er, slow? Just because Hollywood flake Martin Sheen says he is doesn't mean it ain't so. The BBC reports that Sheen, a longtime Clinton camp follower – who plays the presidential role in that TV series about the White House of a liberal's dreamworld, The West Wing – opined that "George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression." Leaving aside the utter absurdity of every third-rate thespian in the hills of Hollywood pontificating on the political and cultural issues of the day – never mind us taking them seriously – Sheen may have a point. I suspected this when I read the headline in a front page International Herald Tribune piece: "Bush Vows He'll Never 'Overextend' U.S. Forces"! DON'T BET THE RANCH What, one wonders, does he think we are now? A full decade after the end of the cold war, the United States maintains over eight hundred Defense Department facilities located overseas, from listening posts to major military bases. American troops still occupy Japan over half a century after the end of World War II. In Europe, too, the legacy of that war, and the superpower standoff that followed it, has yet to recede into the mists of history: American troops are not only patrolling the Balkans but are still occupying Germany, as if on eternal guard duty against the ghost of Hitler should he rise from his unmarked grave. In Central and South America, the "drug war" has meant that American soldiers – "advisors" all – have penetrated deep into the jungles of Colombia, Peru, and beyond, armed with an all-purpose ready-made rationale for intervention anywhere. If the President pledges the end of "overdeployment," is he really promising to pull back from the radical over-extension begun in the late 1940s? Will American troops be coming home from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East? Don't hold your breath. READ HIS LIPS: NO NEW DEPLOYMENTS American troops, the President told soldiers of the Third Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia, were "overdeployed and underpaid." While the latter could be taken care of by Congress, only the President could ensure that the former promise would be kept, and Dubya gave his solemn word: "When we send you into harm's way," US forces will have "a clear mission, with clear goals." And there was more good news: Bush promised them $1.4 billion in pay raises and $4.3 billion for improved housing and healthcare benefits. "If our military is to attract the best of America, we owe you the best," he said, to sustained applause. What was striking about the tone and content of this speech, and was noted in the IHT headline, was that foreign leaders looking for some clue as to the shape of a new activism in US foreign policy had no reason for encouragement: in particular, the bit about overdeployment did not bode well for our overseas satraps, who depend on US military aid and economic largess for their very survival. Bush praised the troops as the embodiment of our readiness to "project American power," but the President's speechwriters were careful to qualify that with "wherever America's interests are threatened." ONLY ON MONDAY Yes, on Monday, the President was a foreign policy "realist," with definite "isolationist" tendencies. There was even a touch of the old "humility" line he gave out during the presidential debates, and this same note was struck when he asked the assembled soldiers to bow their heads and pray for "those still missing after the tragic accident involving one of our naval submarines and a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Please join me in a moment of silence for those missing, their families, and our friends, the people of Japan." Ah, but on Tuesday, speaking at Norfolk Naval Air Station, in Virginia, it was an entirely different story. DUBYA GOES TRUMANESQUE Instead of reiterating his promise that US armed forces will no longer be "overdeployed," and holding out goodies for the grunts, the President's speech to the assembled NATO-crats at Norfolk was basically a hymn to NATO expansion and the "transatlantic" "unity" to be ushered in by Star Wars technology. Citing Harry Truman on NATO's founding, the President reaffirmed the interventionist dogma of collective security, which globalizes every local conflict, as the foundation stone of US foreign policy. "None of us alone can assure the continuance of freedom," said Truman, and "this is still true today," averred the President. "Our challenges have changed, and NATO is changing and growing to meet them," he declared, "but the purpose of NATO remains permanent." While the enemy is was organized to defeat has long since defeated itself, NATO, we are told, will not join the Warsaw Pact on the dustbin of history. A defensive alliance
[CTRL] MindControl: CIA's Tricks are for Kids
-Caveat Lector- MindControl: CIA's Tricks are for Kids http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0213-04.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Dr. Nick Begich: Mind Control the Internet
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From:
Cosmic Comentary - http://CosmicRose.tripod.com/CCC.html
Re: HAARP - Recent research supports Begich's early findings. This is
submitted for the record to deconstruct opinions holding that HAARP and its
progeny are harmless and defunct. Prof. Chossudovsky (below) is
a major debunker of the "HAARP is OK" line. In addition, research reported
about 4 months ago on MC-L shows that an electronic pulse capable of
controlling the limbic system is covertly piggy-backing onto the overt HAARP
signal.
Official disinformation about HAARP resides in continued confusion and
personalization-memories about Nick Begich (A meme-trick), as opposed to the
issue of HAARP and progeny-generated global mind control and environmental
warfare.
Alfred Webre, Vancouver, BC.
http://www.ecologynews.com
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IT'S NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS:
WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS
HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The
Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press, 2000.
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Subject: OBRL - Environmental warfare, Chossudovsky
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From: Peter Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The Americans and the Russians have developed capabilities to manipulate
the World's climate.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military scientists are working on
weather systems as a potential weapon."
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000
From: Michel Chossudovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Climate Change: Washington's New World Order Weapons
IT'S NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS:
WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS
HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The
Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press, 2000.
The important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a
partial picture of climate change; in addition to the devastating
impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the World's
climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated
"non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians have developed
capabilities to manipulate the World's climate.
In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency
Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars")
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests
that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially
triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military
standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it
constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively
destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions.
While there is no evidence that this deadly technology has been used,
surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue of
"environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of
greenhouse gases.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Despite a vast body of scientific knowledge, the issue of deliberate
climatic manipulations for military use has never been explicitly part
of the UN agenda on climate change. Neither the official delegations nor
the environmental action groups participating in the Hague Conference on
Climate Change (CO6) (November 2000) have raised the broad issue of
"weather warfare" or "environmental modification techniques (ENMOD)" as
relevant to an understanding of climate change.
The clash between official negotiators, environmentalists and American
business lobbies has centered on Washington's outright refusal to abide
by commitments on carbon dioxide reduction targets under the 1997 Kyoto
protocol.1 The impacts of military technologies on the World's climate
are not an object of discussion or concern. Narrowly confined to
greenhouse gases, the ongoing debate on climate change serves
Washington's strategic and defense objectives.
"WEATHER WARFARE"
World renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military
scientists are working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The
methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor
rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or
floods."2 Already in the 1970s, former National Security advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski had foreseen in his book "Between Two Ages" that:
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations,
techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum
of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather
modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of
[CTRL] FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
-Caveat Lector- FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2000/09/27/index.html George W.'s Missing Year By Marty Heldt February 12, 2001 Nearly two hundred manila-wrapped pages of George Walker Bush's service records came to me like some sort of giant banana stuffed into my mailbox. I had been seeking more information about his military record to find out what he did during what I think of as his "missing year," when he failed to show up for duty as a member of the Air National Guard, as the Boston Globe first reported. The initial page I examined is a chronological listing of Bush's service record. This document charts active duty days served from the time of his enlistment. His first year, a period of extensive training, young Bush is credited with serving 226 days. In his second year in the Guard, Bush is shown to have logged a total of 313 days. After Bush got his wings in June 1970 until May 1971, he is credited with a total of 46 days of active duty. From May 1971 to May 1972, he logged 22 days of active duty. Then something happened. From May 1, 1972 until April 30, 1973 -- a period of twelve months -- there are no days shown, though Bush should have logged at least thirty-six days service (a weekend per month in addition to two weeks at camp). I found out that for the first four months of this time period, when Bush was working on the U.S. Senate campaign of Winton Blount in Alabama, that he did not have orders to be at any unit anywhere. On May 24, 1972, Bush had applied for a transfer from the Texas Air National Guard to Montgomery, Alabama. On his transfer request Bush noted that he was seeking a "no pay" position with the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron. The commanding officer of the Montgomery unit, Lieutenant Colonel Reese R. Bricken, promptly accepted Bush's request to do temporary duty under his command. But Bush never received orders for the 9921st in Alabama. Such decisions were under the jurisdiction of the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado, and the Center disallowed the transfer. The Director of Personnel Resources at the Denver headquarters noted in his rejection that Bush had a "Military Service Obligation until 26 May 1974." As an "obligated reservist," Bush was ineligible to serve his time in what amounted to a paper unit with few responsibilities. As the unit's leader, Lieutenant Colonel Bricken recently explained to the Boston Globe, ''We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing.'' The headquarters document rejecting Bush's requested Alabama transfer was dated May 31, 1972. This transfer refusal left Bush still obligated to attend drills with his regular unit, the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron stationed at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston. However, Bush had already left Texas two weeks earlier and was now working on Winton Blount's campaign staff in Alabama. In his annual evaluation report, Bush's two supervising officers, Lieutenant Colonel William D. Harris Jr. and Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, made it clear that Bush had "not been observed at" his Texas unit "during the period of report" -- the twelve month period from May 1972 through the end of April 1973. In the comments section of this evaluation report Lieutenant Colonel Harris notes that Bush had "cleared this base on 15 May 1972, and has been performing equivalent training in a non flying role with the 187th Tac Recon Gp at Dannelly ANG Base, Alabama" (the Air National Guard Tactical Reconnaissance Group at Dannelly Air Force Base near Montgomery, Alabama). This was incorrect. Bush didn't apply for duty at Dannelly Air Force Base until September 1972. From May until September he was in limbo, his temporary orders having been rejected. And when his orders to appear at Dannelly came through he still didn't appear. Although his instructions clearly directed Bush to report to Lieutenant Colonel William Turnipseed on the dates of "7-8 October 0730-1600, and 4-5 November 0730-1600," he never did. In interviews conducted with the Boston Globe earlier this year, both General Turnipseed and his former administration officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Lott, said that Bush never put in an appearance. Bush campaign aides claim, according to a report in the New York Times, that Bush in fact served a single day -- November 29,1972 -- with the Alabama unit. If this is so it means that for a period of six weeks Lieutenant George W. Bush ignored direct instructions from headquarters to report for duty. But it looks even worse for Lieutenant Bush if the memory of Turnipseed and Lott are correct and Bush never reported at all. After the election was over (candidate Blount lost), Bush was to have returned to Texas and the 111th at Ellington Air Force Base. Bush did return to Houston, where he worked for an inner-city youth organization, Project P.U.L.L. But, as I
[CTRL] Oppenheimer Family to Take De Beers Private
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/business/16CND-DIAMOND.html February 15, 2001 Oppenheimer Family to Take De Beers Private By ALAN COWELL with RACHEL L. SWARNS LONDON, Feb. 15 — The Oppenheimer family, which has controlled much of the world diamond trade for more than 70 years, has tightened its already powerful grip with a $17.6 billion agreement to turn De Beers into a private company in partnership with its sister corporation, Anglo American, and other close allies. The deal, announced in London and Johannesburg today, would transform a cumbersome and often opaque relationship between Anglo American, the world's largest mining company, and De Beers, the dominant diamond miner and trader, in which each owned one-third of the other's stock. The deal offers Anglo American, whose stock is listed in London, an escape from the cross-holdings, which have depressed its stock price and which would otherwise soon be subjected to penalties under new exchange rules. In return, Anglo American would financially support the creation of a new private De Beers, delisted from stock exchanges in South Africa and Switzerland, where components of it now trade. The new De Beers would still be run by Nicky Oppenheimer, the grandson of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the founder of Anglo American. The Oppenheimers have controlled the two intertwined businesses since the 1920's. "This has to be the biggest change since those days," said Gary Ralfe, De Beers's managing director, in a telephone interview. Particularly during South Africa's apartheid era, Anglo American and De Beers were often seen by outsiders as a single secretive giant whose complex web of investments threaded through the whole economy. Since Anglo American moved its primary listing to London from Johannesburg in 1999, it has sought to establish a clearer corporate identity to satisfy investors. Nevertheless, the deal extends Anglo's powerful interest in De Beers, which controls about two-thirds of the world's rough diamond trade. Under the agreement, De Beers stockholders would be bought out by a consortium to be called DB Investments, in which Anglo American and the Oppenheimer family would each have a 45 percent stake. The remaining 10 percent would belong to Debswana, a mining venture co-owned by De Beers and the government of Botswana, a major source of diamonds. The deal values each De Beers linked unit — which combines shares in the South African and Swiss-traded De Beers entities — at $43.17. That price includes $14.40 in cash, 0.43 Anglo American share and the right to a $1 dividend payment. Over all, the deal values De Beers at $17.6 billion, about 10 percent more than the $16 billion figure used on Feb. 1, when the companies first said they were in talks, and 31 percent more than its closing market price on Jan. 31. Mr. Ralfe broke the value down to $8.3 billion for the diamond business and $9.3 billion for De Beers' holdings of Anglo American stock. [In New York trading, units of De Beers rose $1.50 to close at $42 today; Anglo American's shares rose 69 cents, to $65.56.] "We are bringing financial muscle; the Oppenheimers are bringing literally generations of experience," said Tony Lea, Anglo American's finance director, in an interview. Responding to critics' concerns about the deal, both Anglo and De Beers said the new company would not retreat into corporate secrecy now, when De Beers is moving into diamond retailing in partnership with LVMH, the luxury goods company, and the diamond industry is under pressure from advocacy groups to distance itself from the illicit trade in so-called conflict diamonds from war-torn parts of Africa. "Once De Beers goes private, it has no intention of disappearing behind locked doors," Mr. Oppenheimer said. Mr. Lea said the company and its shareholders would insist on openness. "De Beers is very conscious of the whole issue of conflict diamonds," he said. "It doesn't want to be seen as a secret business." Even so, Justin Pearson-Taylor of Standard Equities in Johannesburg said the deal meant the diamond industry "won't become as open as it would have." An issue still unresolved is De Beers's legal status in the United States, where half of all retail diamond sales are made and where De Beers's historical control of the diamond trade is the subject of a long antitrust inquiry. Mr. Lea said Anglo American had "no concern at all" that its own operations in the United States would be affected by its increased stake in De Beers. Still, in a satellite video hookup from Johannesburg, Mr. Oppenheimer said, "The new owners of De Beers will still have to wrestle with" the antitrust investigation. The company hopes for a more sympathetic hearing from the Bush administration than it got from the Clinton administration, which rebuffed a settlement feeler from De Beers last year. "The change in administration is much more positive to De Beers than changing from a
[CTRL] Part of the list of the kidnapped
The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, Belgrade, YU
At the beginning of 1999 the leading Western mass media announced the
statement of Mr. Walker, head of the Verification mission, about the alleged
massacre of the Albanian civilians committed by the Serbian armed forces, that
report served as a pretext for the brutal NATO attack on our country, the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Today, two years later, the leading world mas media assess Walker's report as
a cheer forgery since there has never been a massacre in Rachak. On the other
hand, as of June 10, 1999 and the deployment of KFOR in Kosovo and Metohija,
over 350.000 of Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians have been expelled
from their homes where they had been living for centuries, and over 1300 of them
have been kidnapped by Albanian terrorists.
Over these crimes the United States and the Western countries have turned a
blind eye. Until today there is no information on the fate of 1300 kidnapped
most of whom are Serbs and Montenegrins. For Western politician and there mass
media they simply do not exist! And which is even more deplorable as if they
have never existed!
But, truth is implacoble!
The responsible for NATO agression and the pogrom of the Serbs and
Montenerins from Kosovo and Metohija can no longer wash their dirty consicions
in the blood of the innocent.
The Serbs and Montenegrins, man, women and children, 1300 of them, kidnapped
from their homes, fields, draged out of their cars, or seized on the way to
school, alive or dead, burried or keep in prison in Albanian concetration camps
in Kosovo and Metohija and Albania have to be found. It is the commitment not
only of the new government in Serbia and Yugoslavia, but, above all, of the
Western powers: United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, who, at least
have given their oral support to the new government.
The criminal is not only the perpetrator of the crime. The greater criminal
is the one that closes eyes pretending not to see it.
Mrs Jela Jovanovic, art historian
Secretary General
VELJKO SPASI (1959) Missing since
10.06. 1999. He is from Pritina, Sunani Breg
KRUNOSLAV JOVANOVIC (1937)
seriously ill. Kidnapped on 11. 06. 1999. Family found out that he is kept, by
terrorists, in the prison near Podujevo.
BOIDAR JOVANOVI (1949) - from
Muotite, Suva Reka. Missing since 11.06. 1999.
DUKO KARANOVI (1958) - The judge in municipal court in Suva
Reka. Kidnapped on 12. 06. 1999. on the road near Suva Reka together with his
wife Sneana. They were driving from Belgrade towards Suva Reka. He was
murdered.
SNEANA KARANOVI Kidnapped on
12.06. 1999. on the road near Suva Reka. She was murdered.
ZORAN STEPI and four workers of coal
mine - Kidnapped on 12. 06. 1999. in 14,45h, from the open pit
"Belaevac". Stepi drove a bus with these four workers.
STANOJE LJUI (1934) - from Istok.
Kidnapped on 12. 06. 1999. in Istok. He was murdered soon after.
IVICA JOVANOVI (1963) - from
Panevo. Kidnapped on 13.06.1999. the road Prizren-Suva Reka, while driving a
truck.
DRAGOLJUB BOJI - Missing since
13.06.1999. from Suva Reka. He was with Markovi Zoran.
ZORAN MARKOVI - Missing since
13.06.1999. from Suva Reka. He was with D. Bojiem.
TODOR STANKOVI (1948) The truck
driver from Bujanovac. Missing since 13.06.1999. from S. Reka
DEJAN TRAJKOVI (1970) - The truck
driver from Bujanovac. Missing since 13.06.1999. from S. Reka. Reg. No. VR
498-19.
DRAGAN BURI Missing since
13/14.06.1999. on the road Suva Reka Koria. He was driving a truck
("Mercedes" Reg. No. PZ 123-017).
IVAN CELI (1959) - from Pritina. Kidnapped on 4.06.
1999. He went with his car ("Golf" PR plates) to his home.
RADOJKO STANKOVI (55) - Kidnapped in
front of his house in Stari Kaanik on 14.06.1999.
BOBAN KRSTI - Kidnapped on 14.06. 1999. on 17,00h in
the village Gatnja, Uroevac.
SLAVIA KRSTI - Kidnapped on 14.06.
1999. in 17,00h in the village Gatnja, Uroevac.
ARKO OREVI - Kidnapped on 14.06.
1999. in Vitina near gas pump.
MILUTIN KARA (1948) - Missing
since 15.06. 1999. from Pe.
SLOBODAN STOLI (1947) - from
timlje. He was kidnapped in front of his house on 15.06. 1999.
STANKO UNGUROVI (55) - from
Uroevac. He was kidnapped in front of his house on 15.06. 1999.
MARKO VITOEVI (1938) and his wife -
from Orahovac. Missing since 15.06. 1999.
NENAD SIMONOVI - from Prizren. He
was kidnapped in Prizren by the mid of July 1999.
NENAD HAJDERPAI and one unidetified
person of Serbian nationality - Missing since 17. 06.1999. He and one
unidetified person drove from Berane towrds Pritina.
JOVICA KORDI - from Vuitrn.
Kidnapped on 17.06.1999. in 15,00h, in Vuitrn.
LUKA PETRUI - Kidnapped on
17.06.1999. in the village Banje, Istok. He was with Radmila Petrui and
Vujai Slobodan. He was murdered.
RADMILA PETRUI - Kidnapped on
17.06. 1999. in
[CTRL] Right Wing Populism: Too Close for Comfort
-Caveat Lector- RIGHT WING POPULISM: TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: http://www.e-venthorizon.net/parallax/culture_constitution/rtwing_populism.html An Interview with Chip Berlet Matthew Lyons by Elaine Wolff, editor, parallax views February 15, 2001 It's hardly news that the coalition that brought George W. Bush to power in the 2000 presidential election includes heavy representation by far right organizations with agendas to dismantle the gains of the civil rights movement over the past forty years, as well as impede any further improvement in social or economic equality by the working poor, feminists, gays and lesbians, immigrants or people of color. Unclear to many of us, however, is the roots of this coalition in the right-wing populism of George Wallace, who launched two unsuccessful presidential bids, as well as the remnants of Goldwater Republicans and evangelical Carter Democrats. The political influence exerted by these groups since Reagan's election was also responsible in large part for that public travesty known as "welfare reform" an attack primarily directed at women and children of color living well below the poverty line. To this day, many of us on the left are still shocked that the largest rollback of public assistance in the history of the U.S. was passed under a Democratic president. Politicians in both parties successfully created and preyed upon middle class fears that a large, idle underclass was the parasite that threatened their prosperity - during the largest economic boom in history. The truth, as author Matthew Lyons notes, is that the Reagan revolution "involved a massive redistribution of wealth from working-class and middle-class people into the coffers of the wealthy," while the lowest-income Americans are worse off in absolute and relative terms than they were twenty years ago, as reported by Brookings Institution economist Gary Burtless. How were the architects of the welfare reform movement so successful? In their new book, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, Lyons and co-author Chip Berlet shed some much-needed light on the power behind the New Right coalition and its firm foundation in American history. Berlet and Lyons caution the reader that racism and scape-goating, far from fringe elements in our society, have been a key ingredient in the development of our nation from the very beginning because they speak to the human temptation to find an easy target rather than challenge the larger social and economic structures that create inequality. Berlet began our interview by defining "populism." Berlet: Populism is a style of banding together to challenge some kind of elite system or group. It can move to the left or the right; it can be very democratic in terms of involving people in the political system or it can be very profoundly demonizing or scapegoating. Wolff: Matthew, do you want to define "right-wing?" I think it's a term that is used very loosely, especially on the left. Lyons: "Right-wing" is defined in opposition to something else as we use the term. We see right-wing populist movements as involving a backlash against social change movements, progressive political movements, revolution and reform. One of the key things about populism in general is it involves some kind of attack on elites or groups that are perceived as elite. In the case of right-wing populism, rather than looking at the actual structures and positions of power and domination in society, it involves focusing on scapegoats, which can mean certain prominent individuals or groups who hold a certain amount of power, or focusing on groups that really don't hold much power at all in the larger scheme of things, but who become a lightning rod for people's resentments about very real disempowerment that they experience. Historically, this has included attacks on people of color, immigrants, gays and lesbians, women workers, poor people, a lot of different groups depending on the specific movement. It's this combination of a distorted anti-elitism as an attack upward, so to speak, and then this attack downward against oppressed groups that we see as characteristic of right-wing populism. Berlet: One of the things we like to point out is that there are very different types of right-wing politics, from conservatism, to reaction, to the Christian militia movement out on the far right. Matt and I are critics of right-wing politics, we're on the left, but we see very often that when people criticize the right, they lump them all together, they use a kind of simplistic and demonizing rhetoric to characterize the right, and we don't think that's fair, first of all, it's not accurate certainly, but it gets in the way of serious political discussion. Wolff: Your book is an historical work. You start at the beginning of the United States as a nation and come up to the present time, so let's talk about the history of right-wing populist movements in the US. Lyons: We see the roots of
Re: [CTRL] JW: BUSH STATEMENTS CAUSE ASHCROFT TO BACK OFF OF PARDONGATE
-Caveat Lector- Of course, Dubya wants to back off. You don't think he wants to dig up all the deals his Dad did with Marc Rich, now, do you? Iran- Contra all over again? The Bushes have much more to hide when it comes to Marc Rich than Clinton does. You don't think he's just being Mr. Nice Guy, do you? sno0wl A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] A terrorist version of NATO?
-Caveat Lector-
radman pull quote:
"A century ago, a dedicated transnational terrorist group - anarchists -
wreaked havoc around the globe, notes Gideon Rose, deputy director of
national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New
York."..."We've all forgotten just how successful they were," says Mr.
Rose. "Imagine how worked up we'd be if some group knocked off so many
heads of state today."
=
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2001
A terrorist version of NATO?
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/02/16/p1s2.htm
As trial continues, a new picture emerges of bin Laden's vast network of
alliances.
By Peter Grier ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON
The terror group already had an army of extremist fighters. It had an
economy, too, as its leader ran everything from a Middle East construction
firm to a sesame farm in the Sudan.
Then in the 1990s, Osama bin Laden decided that Al Qaeda ("The base")
needed something more: foreign allies. Federal prosecutors allege that
throughout the decade, Al Qaeda leaders worked on a three-way alliance with
the Islamic Front of Sudan and elements of the Iranian government.
This terrorist "NATO" may have never really solidified. But the mere fact
that Mr. bin Laden planned it shows the breadth of his ambition, say US
officials.
In his quest to wage jihad, or holy war, against the United States, bin
Laden may have constructed something that is bigger than a guerrilla group
and more complex than a multinational corporation. Call it a virtual
country - the Republic of Jihadistan.
"It has statelike aspects, but without state borders," says Richard
Rosecrance, an expert on terrorism at the University of California at
Berkeley.
This does not mean that bin Laden has replaced the Soviet Union - or even
Iraq - on the scale of dangers to American national
interests. Personifying extremist threats in one individual, as the media
and some US officials are prone to do, undoubtedly exaggerates that
person's influence and power.
Nor is Al Qaeda's loosely organized, ideologically motivated network
unprecedented in Western history. A century ago, a dedicated transnational
terrorist group - anarchists - wreaked havoc around the globe, notes Gideon
Rose, deputy director of national security studies at the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York.
Between 1894 and 1901, anarchists assassinated the president of France, the
prime minister of Spain, the empress of Austria, the king of Italy, and
William McKinley, president of the United States.
"We've all forgotten just how successful they were," says Mr.
Rose. "Imagine how worked up we'd be if some group knocked off so many
heads of state today."
But bin Laden's network appears to represent the coming thing in the age of
modern terrorism. The sponsorship of terror groups by geographical states
such as Syria and Libya appears to be on the decline. Their place is being
taken by virtual states such as Al Qaeda, which have little physical
infrastructure to attack and less in the way of safe harbors against which
economic sanctions can be effective.
The head of the US National Security Agency has publicly complained that Al
Qaeda's sophisticated use of the Internet and encryption techniques have
defied Western eavesdropping attempts. Director of Central Intelligence
George Tenet told Congress this month that bin Laden and his network are
the nation's most immediate and serious transnational threat.
And officials remain worried that bin Laden's network will link with other
networks to become a terrorist Warsaw Pact. A recent CIA study of the world
of 2015 concluded that while it is not the most likely future, it is
possible that "the trend towards more diverse, free-wheeling transnational
terrorist networks [will lead] to the formation of an international
terrorist coalition with diverse anti-Western objectives and access to
Weapons of Mass Destruction."
Bin Laden's Jihadistan has been under particular scrutiny in recent days
due to the ongoing trial in New York of four of his alleged followers on
charges that they conspired to bomb the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
in 1998.
The government's first witness in the trial, a man named Jamal Ahmed
Al-Fadl, who describes himself as a former Al Qaeda paymaster, has painted
a vivid and detailed picture of bin Laden's organization.
He has described the organization's former headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan,
where bin Laden had the first office on the left and office work went on
like anyplace in the world - except it dealt with such things as the
purchase of clandestine passports and the purchase of uranium and elements
of chemical weapons.
Silicon Valley dotcoms offer workers cappuccino and game rooms. Al Qaeda
offered bonuses in the form of office deliveries of sugar, tea, and cooking
oil. "Sometimes they busy. They can't go shopping," said Mr. Al-Fadl.
The alleged bin Laden insider also described the organization's
Re: [CTRL] NYP: HOW MARC [RICH] HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA j2
-Caveat Lector- Aleisha Saba wrote: -Caveat Lector- This pig at the trough and he has been at the trough in the pig style once known as the Clinton Oval Office - if something is no done there must be a way to get this entire congress up on criminal charges. People starving and these pigs stealing? Who are they - give you one guess - do a little checking and you will see. See Jesse Jackson and this pig Al Sharpton - stealing from the poor? Maybe it is vigilante time - eternal watch on these bums and their prostitutes.for that is all they are - bums - to think I thought the Mafia was Italian. Look what this Monica Lewinski - a sodomist in the White House - cost the American taxpayers playing sex games with the President with the Mossad recording the transactions? Pigs are pigs - first step was to get them out of the White House and away from our children for they would teach our children, the ways of sodomists. I already know the ways of sodomists, and you sound like you could do with some yourself. 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] JW: BUSH STATEMENTS CAUSE ASHCROFT TO BACK OFF OFPARDONGATE
-Caveat Lector- Marilyn Wright wrote: -Caveat Lector- Of course, Dubya wants to back off. You don't think he wants to dig up all the deals his Dad did with Marc Rich, now, do you? Iran- Contra all over again? The Bushes have much more to hide when it comes to Marc Rich than Clinton does. You don't think he's just being Mr. Nice Guy, do you? sno0wl BAM! Right on the money. 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
[CTRL] [Fwd: The Embarrassment of the Riches:CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: The Embarrassment of the Riches:CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:28:55 -0500 From: Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Nurev Independent Research BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 5, 2001 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The Embarrassment of the Riches: Minority Report Are the Clintons better off than they were eight years ago? The evidence appears to point to a resounding yes. So why do they seem to resent the question? Probably because only a full-dress Congressional investigation could establish quite how this came to be and exactly how much better off they are. And are we all better off as well? It depends, as Bill Cosby's grandmother famously said while solving the half-full, half-empty distinction, on whether you're pouring or drinking. In Korea this past fall, after the visit of Madeleine Albright to Pyongyang, expectation was high that a presidential visit would follow and that perhaps the long and lethal confrontation on the peninsula would begin to dissipate somewhat. This would have had an importance well beyond the local: North Korea is the central exhibit in the Rumsfeldian worldview and the main pretext for the "Star Wars" fantasy incubated by Reagan, preserved by Clinton and Gore, and now approaching consummation with Bush. To defuse this and, incidentally, to begin the emancipation of the North Koreans from their petrified party-state, would have been a "legacy" action worthy of the name. But Clinton, with several weeks still to go, announced that he just could not find the time. Now we know what was keeping him so busy in his closing months. He was working like a beaver on arranging his own immunity, on trading pardons for kickbacks and on asset-stripping the White House. He was also working on the lying cover stories that would justify these things. Only in the latter respect has his usual luck failed him, and I suppose that this is because he no longer has the bodyguard of hacks and spinners who were retained at public expense to defend him on previous occasions. Sidney Blumenthal--whose own defenders once accused me of denouncing him in order to sell a small book I hadn't even written--is too busy justifying his own $650,000 advance to spare much time to put a nice gloss on the embarrassment of the Riches. And so Clinton was reduced to red-faced and pathetic spluttering before an audience of bond traders in Boca Raton, unable to face the simplest questions and unable any longer to hide behind ludicrous claims, such as that he was our first black President, still less the friend of those who "work hard and play by the rules." He sucks up to the fat cats; they wrinkle their noses and hand him the check using a pair of tongs. Perfect. To anyone with eyes to see, the Clinton presidency always had the look and feel of a shakedown enterprise--the transfer of the Arkansas racketeering style to the more lush and lucrative terrain of Washington, DC. "Nice to see you," the eventually discovered video has him saying to Roger Tamraz, a man who raises eyebrows in the Beirut "business community," when this choice person appears at a White House coffee morning. We don't know what he said to James Riady, front man for Suharto, when Riady gave him a very thick and sleek envelope in the back of a limousine, because although he admits to the meeting and to the money, the master of the briefing book and the king of detail has no real-time recall of the actual conversation. Other influence-peddlers for the Chinese had virtual passes to the Executive Mansion; Dick Morris was employed there under a code name while helping to concert a fantastic circumvention of all known laws on campaign finance. The "privacy" defense was a very ingenious way of fending off inquiries into this, and it worked, too, when Clinton was accused of using campaign-finance cupcakes as personal comfort women. How nice it was to see that Walter Kaye, the New York moneyman who bought Miss Lewinsky her internship, also contributed some furniture and even paid for Mrs. Clinton's victory ball at the Mayflower in January. (No hard feelings, eh Walter?) The First Lady has taken to the privacy tactic like a duck to water, first saying that what happened in the publicly owned Oval Office and Lincoln Bedroom was confidential, and nobody's business, and then agreeing to write about it herself at the rate of $1 million per year of occupancy. Obviously, it became tiring to the Clintons to raise money from sleazebags only for their own re-election. The time comes, as come it has, when you weary of public-spirited effort and want a little pot of dough for your own pretty needs. In much the same way, Jesse Jackson feels entitled to use the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow to succor the unintended and inconvenient results of his own
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 160
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 160 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Sorry, Wrong President --Masking Up And The Black Bloc: A Pre-Seattle History --The Phony President --The Resurgence of Citizens' Movements --Special forces spied on crowds during Olympics --Church to Be Seized for Unpaid Taxes --We'll create GM humans by 2020, says researcher === February 26, 2001 Sorry, Wrong President http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010226s=alterman by ERIC ALTERMAN Don't look now, but the various recounts under way in Florida are determining that the wrong guy is in the White House. The media have demonstrated remarkably little interest in this story. Nobody is saying that Bush should be removed, but the fact that he lost both the popular vote and, without the intervention of the Supreme Court, would probably have lost Florida and the Electoral College vote should count for something. Recall that before rendering its decision the Court acted so precipitately to stop the count, as Bush hero Justice Antonin Scalia helpfully explained, explicitly in order to insure public ignorance of the genuine result. "Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires." One aspect of the Court's controversial majority opinion dealt with the validity of Florida's 110,000 "overvotes," where a machine count recorded more than one vote for President. When examined by hand, many of these votes turned out to be legal, since the punch card (or check mark) matched the name of the candidate written in by the voter. The Gore team stupidly ignored these votes, and the refusal of the Florida Supreme Court to consider them (in favor of an "undervote only" count) was one reason given by the Supreme Court for overturning that decision. So count the overvotes and what happens? The final answer is not in yet, but it sure looks bad for Bush. In late December, the Orlando Sentinel took a look at about 3,000 overvotes in Lake County. They found more than 600 valid ballots that had been ignored by the machines, with Gore picking up 130 even in this heavily pro-Bush county. In late January the Chicago Tribune reported that in fifteen counties with a particularly high rate of overvotes, more than 1,700 votes that showed a clear choice had been discarded. Most of the counties in the Tribune's study were small, rural and predominantly Republican. Yet even so, Gore's net gain was 366 votes. And a Washington Post review of the computer records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties reported that overvotes trended toward Gore at a rate of three to one. Undervotes tell the same story. A study by the Palm Beach Post of 4,513 of that county's ballots set aside for possible court review indicates a Gore pickup of 682 votes, surpassing Bush's alleged 537 statewide margin. These patterns demonstrate that the Republicans' strong-arm tactics in Florida made sense. Without them, their guy would be cutting brush back in Crawford. Today, with the conspicuous exception of the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr., most of the punditocracy appears to think it an act of bad sportsmanship to point out that the man appointing far-right extremists to oversee the nation's legal system and its natural resources is a pretender to the throne. Sam and Cokie mock the idea as a joke. George Will smirks, "I don't think when the country hears media declaring Gore the winner they're impressed." Perhaps the most instructive document of the "Get Over It" school of political science was an angry TRB column in The New Republic penned by the magazine's former editor and famed "gaycatholictory" Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan attacks writers he terms "the usual suspects" for questioning the quality of Bush's mandate. Suspects include such distinguished scholars and writers as Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, Yale law professor Jack Balkin, New Yorker writer and successful former editor of The New Republic Hendrik Hertzberg and TNR senior editor Jonathan Cohn (whose argument did not even appear in the magazine until after Sullivan's attack on it). Each called upon the Democrats to resist Bush's extremist tendencies, most notably the nomination of John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Sullivan's ire is a bit puzzling. Leaving Florida aside, he is furious at folks opposing a potential chief law enforcement officer who, as senator, refused to approve the ambassadorial nomination of James Hormel because, like Sullivan, Hormel is gay, something Ashcroft believes is "a choice
Re: [CTRL] FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
-Caveat Lector- Military personnel records to my last understanding are as confidential if not more than medical records IF the person is still living. I would have to say the author of this article is either very brave, stupid or lying. Or perhaps just a compilation of generally known data. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of radman Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD -Caveat Lector- FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2000/09/27/index.html George W.'s Missing Year By Marty Heldt February 12, 2001 Nearly two hundred manila-wrapped pages of George Walker Bush's service records came to me like some sort of giant banana stuffed into my mailbox. I had been seeking more information about his military record to find out what he did during what I think of as his "missing year," when he failed to show up for duty as a member of the Air National Guard, as the Boston Globe first reported. The initial page I examined is a chronological listing of Bush's service record. This document charts active duty days served from the time of his enlistment. His first year, a period of extensive training, young Bush is credited with serving 226 days. In his second year in the Guard, Bush is shown to have logged a total of 313 days. After Bush got his wings in June 1970 until May 1971, he is credited with a total of 46 days of active duty. From May 1971 to May 1972, he logged 22 days of active duty. Then something happened. From May 1, 1972 until April 30, 1973 -- a period of twelve months -- there are no days shown, though Bush should have logged at least thirty-six days service (a weekend per month in addition to two weeks at camp). I found out that for the first four months of this time period, when Bush was working on the U.S. Senate campaign of Winton Blount in Alabama, that he did not have orders to be at any unit anywhere. On May 24, 1972, Bush had applied for a transfer from the Texas Air National Guard to Montgomery, Alabama. On his transfer request Bush noted that he was seeking a "no pay" position with the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron. The commanding officer of the Montgomery unit, Lieutenant Colonel Reese R. Bricken, promptly accepted Bush's request to do temporary duty under his command. But Bush never received orders for the 9921st in Alabama. Such decisions were under the jurisdiction of the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado, and the Center disallowed the transfer. The Director of Personnel Resources at the Denver headquarters noted in his rejection that Bush had a "Military Service Obligation until 26 May 1974." As an "obligated reservist," Bush was ineligible to serve his time in what amounted to a paper unit with few responsibilities. As the unit's leader, Lieutenant Colonel Bricken recently explained to the Boston Globe, ''We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing.'' The headquarters document rejecting Bush's requested Alabama transfer was dated May 31, 1972. This transfer refusal left Bush still obligated to attend drills with his regular unit, the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron stationed at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston. However, Bush had already left Texas two weeks earlier and was now working on Winton Blount's campaign staff in Alabama. In his annual evaluation report, Bush's two supervising officers, Lieutenant Colonel William D. Harris Jr. and Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, made it clear that Bush had "not been observed at" his Texas unit "during the period of report" -- the twelve month period from May 1972 through the end of April 1973. In the comments section of this evaluation report Lieutenant Colonel Harris notes that Bush had "cleared this base on 15 May 1972, and has been performing equivalent training in a non flying role with the 187th Tac Recon Gp at Dannelly ANG Base, Alabama" (the Air National Guard Tactical Reconnaissance Group at Dannelly Air Force Base near Montgomery, Alabama). This was incorrect. Bush didn't apply for duty at Dannelly Air Force Base until September 1972. From May until September he was in limbo, his temporary orders having been rejected. And when his orders to appear at Dannelly came through he still didn't appear. Although his instructions clearly directed Bush to report to Lieutenant Colonel William Turnipseed on the dates of "7-8 October 0730-1600, and 4-5 November 0730-1600," he never did. In interviews conducted with the Boston Globe earlier this year, both General Turnipseed and his former administration officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Lott, said that Bush never put in an appearance. Bush campaign aides claim, according to a
Re: [CTRL] Dr. Nick Begich: Mind Control the Internet
-Caveat Lector- Cosmic Comentary - http://CosmicRose.tripod.com/CCC.html In a message dated 01-02-15 20:35:42 EST, you write: Recent investigations as RECENT AS LAST YEAR show nothing. THE SITE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN. And you know why? Because of all this crap. Vanessa = Vanessa - I have no idea what your values or enmeshment with the persona of Nick Begich are. But I do have a sense of when a person is being misrepresented. And most importantly, you are misrepresenting evidence of HAARP's environmental and personal negative impacts. As a journalist, I first became concerned about the HAARP Project after reading and publishing Earth Island's analysis of the environmental impact of HAARP made to the US Congress. The environmental impact analysis showed that HAARP had the potential of over heating and destroying the ionosphere. A runaway effect would be cataclysmic for the earth's system. While I have not spoken to Nick Begich directly, I have followed his work, and know from others who have worked with him and investigated his work - including Earth Island - the pressures he has had to face. I believe your misrepresentations to be distorted themselves, and I consider Nick to be a public champion. What follows are the Earth Island articles that led to the US Congress requiring an environmental impact statement on HAARP. Alfred Webre, VAncouver, BC http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Insights/HAARP_project.htm Project HAARP: The Military's Plan to Alter the Ionosphere by Clare Zickuhr and Gar Smith, Earth Island Copyright 1998 !EcoNews! Service ! Clare Zickuhr, a former ARCO employee and ham radio operator based in Anchorage, is a founder of the NO HAARP campaign. Gar Smith is editor of the editor of Earth Island Journal. The Pentagon's mysterious HAARP project, now under construction at an isolated Air Force facility near Gakona, Alaska, marks the first step toward creating the world's most powerful "ionospheric heater." Scientists, environmentalists and native peoples are concerned that HAARP's electronic transmitters -- capable of beaming "in excess of 1 gigawatts" (one billion watts) of radiated power into the Earth's ionosphere -- could harm people, endanger wildlife and trigger unforeseen environmental impacts. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP), a joint effort of the Air Force and the Navy, is the latest in a series of a little-known Department of Defense (DoD) "active ionospheric experiments" with code-names like EXCEDE, RED AIR and CHARGE IV. "From a DoD point of view," internal HAARP documents state, "the most exciting and challenging" part of the experiment is "its potential to control ionospheric processes" for military objectives [emphasis in the original]. According to these documents, the scientists pulling HAARP's strings envision using the system's powerful 2.8-10 megahertz (MHz) beam to burn "holes" in the ionosphere and "create an artificial lens" in the sky that could focus large bursts of electromagnetic energy "to higher altitudes... than is presently possible." The minimum area to be heated would be 50 km (31 miles) in diameter. The initial $26 million, 320 kW HAARP project will employ 360 72-foot-tall antennas spread over four acres to direct an intense beam of focused electromagnetic energy upwards to strike the ionosphere. The Earth's ionosphere is composed of a layer of negatively and positively charged particles (electrons and ions) lying between 35 and 500 miles above the planet's surface. The next stage of the project would expand HAARP's power to 1.7 gigawatts (1.7 billion watts), making it the most powerful such transmitter on Earth. While the project's acronym implies experimentation with the Earth's aurora, HAARP's public documents make no mention of this aspect. For a project whose backers hail it as a major scientific feat, HAARP has remained extremely low-profile -- almost unknown to most Alaskans, and the rest of the country. A November 1993 "HAARP Fact Sheet" released to the public by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) stated that the Department of Defense (DoD)-backed project would "enhance present civilian capabilities" in communications and "provide significant scientific advancements." However, while previous DoD experiments with smaller high frequency (HF) heaters in Puerto Rico, Norway and Alaska were conducted to "gain [a] better understanding" of the ionosphere, internal HAARP documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the project's goal is to "perturb" the ionosphere with extremely powerful beams of energy and study "how it responds to the disturbance and how it ultimately recovers" The public fact sheet describes HAARP as "purely a scientific research facility which represents no threat to potential adversaries and would therefore have no value as a military target." However, while
[CTRL] Part II - HAARPS Environmental Dangers
-Caveat Lector- Cosmic Comentary - http://CosmicRose.tripod.com/CCC.html http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Insights/HAARP_project1.htm Part II - HAARPS Environmental Dangers by Clare Zickuhr and Gar Smith, Earth Island Copyright 1998 !EcoNews! Service ! Wildlife advocates also have cause to be concerned. The HAARP site lies 140 miles north of the town of Cordova on Prince William Sound, on the northwest tip of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Since ordinary radar is known to be deadly to low-flying birds, HAARP's powerful radiation beam could pose a problem for migratory birds because the transmitter stands in the path of the critical Pacific Flyway. In addition, HAARP's ability to generate strong magnetic fields could conceivably interfere with the migration of birds, marine life and Arctic animals that are now known to rely on the Earth's magnetic fields to navigate over long distances. The HAARP fact sheet states that "most of the energy of the high-power beam would be emitted upward rather than toward the horizon." Later on, however, the fact sheet notes that care will have to be taken "to reduce the percentage of time large signal levels would be transmitted toward large cities." The closest large cities are Fairbanks and Anchorage. Even if HAARP's beam were to be directed primarily at the ionosphere, people on the ground would still have reason to be concerned. According to DoD consultant Robert Windsor, clear damp nights, downdrafts and temperature inversions can cause "ducting" and "super-refracting" that can send energy beams streaming back to Earth with "a significant -- up to tenfold-- increase in field intensity." In addition to their main beams, all electromagnetic transmitters produce large swaths of "sidelobe" radiation along their flanks. US-based PAVE PAWS over-the-horizon radars, for example, use approximately one megawatt of power to send a 420-430-megahertz (MHz) beam on a 3000-mile-long sweep. At the same time, the "incidental" sidelobe radiation from these Pentagon radars can disable TVs, radios, radar altimeters and satellite communications over a 250-mile range. PAVE PAWS radiation can also disrupt cardiac pacemakers seven miles away and cause the "inadvertent detonation" of electrically triggered flares and bombs in passing aircraft. At peak power, the energy driving HAARP could be more than a thousand times stronger than the most powerful PAVE PAWS transmitter. HAARP's High-Level Hazards HAARP project manager John Heckscher, a scientist at the Department of the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory, has called concerns about the transmitter's impact "unfounded." "It's not unreasonable to expect that something three times more powerful than anything that's previously been built might have unforeseen effects," Heckscher told Microwave News. "But that's why we do environmental impact statements." The July 1993 EIS does, in fact, admit that HAARP is expected to cause "measurable changes in the ionosphere's electron density, temperature and structure," but argues that these disruptions are insignificant "when compared to changes induced by naturally occurring processes." Subjecting the ionosphere to HF bombardment can ionize the neutral particles in the upper atmosphere. The HAARP Fact Sheet notes that "ionospheric disturbances at high altitudes also can act to induce large currents in electric power grids" on the ground, causing massive power blackouts. According to the 1990 Air Force-Navy document, power levels of one gigawatt and above "can drastically alter [the ionosphere's] thermal, refractive, scattering and emission character." While the ionosphere over the government's smaller HF transmitter in Puerto Rico is relatively "stable," the document notes that the ionosphere above Alaska is "a dynamic entity" where added bursts of electromagnetic energy could trigger exaggerated effects. Writing in Physics and Society (the quarterly newsletter of the American Physical Society), Dr. Richard Williams, a consultant to Princeton University's David Sarnoff Laboratory, denounced ionospheric heating tests as irresponsible and potentially dangerous. "Trace [chemical] constituents in the upper atmosphere can have a profound effect" on the formation of ozone molecules, Williams stated. It is known that altering the temperature of the ionosphere can affect the chemical reactions that produce ozone. Referring to the Montreal Protocol (the international agreement to protect the ozone layer from ozone-depleting chemicals), Williams warned that activating HAARP's ionospheric heater "might undo all that we have accomplished with this treaty." "Look at the power levels that will be used -- 10**9 to 10**11 watts!" Williams told the Journal in a recent interview. "This is equivalent to the output of ten to 100 large power-generating stations. A ten-billion-watt generator, running continuously for one hour,
Re: [CTRL] JFK Today
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/13/01 10:29:19 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please read petition calling for the indictment of those who continue to Obstruct Justice in the Murder of JFK http://go.to/jfktoday Thank for sending this, Kris. 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] AP: Committee To Subpoena 3 in Probe
-Caveat Lector- Committee To Subpoena 3 in Probe by JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three of President Clinton's closest White House aides -- former chief of staff John Podesta, lawyer Beth Nolan and adviser Bruce Lindsey -- will be subpoenaed for the next House hearing into millionaire Marc Rich's pardon, officials said Thursday. The questioning will reach into the Bush administration this time, a committee source said, with the committee likely to call Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, one of Rich's former lawyers. The House Government Reform Committee also asked Clinton and Rich to release all their aides and lawyers from any executive privilege so they can testify at the committee's March 1 hearing without betraying any confidentiality oaths. ''We're also asking Mr. Rich, if he has nothing to hide, to let his counsel speak freely and that goes for the documents that have been claimed by them as well,'' said committee spokesman Mark Corello. This comes as a U.S. attorney in New York announced she had opened a criminal investigation into whether money played any role in Clinton's last-minute pardon of the fugitive financier. Senate and House committees are also probing that possibility, with the House holding its second hearing on the matter next month. Rich was wanted by the Justice Department on charges of evading more than $48 million in taxes, fraud and participating in illegal oil deals. Critics have noted that Rich's ex-wife, Denise, contributed an estimated $450,000 to the Clinton Presidential Library Fund, more than $1.1 million to the Democratic Party and at least $109,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign. Clinton has denied any wrongdoing. The House panel asked Podesta, Nolan and Lindsey to testify at their first hearing last week but none of them appeared. This time the committee plans to issue subpoenas to ensure their presence at the March 1 hearing, officials said. A Jan. 16 e-mail between Rich lawyers Robert Fink and Jack Quinn, who also is a former White House counsel, detailed a conversation another person had with Podesta: ''It seems that while staff are not supportive they are not in a veto mode, and that your efforts with POTUS are being felt,'' the e-mail read. ''It sounds like you are making headway and should keep at it as long as you can. We are definitely still in the game.'' POTUS is government shorthand for president of the United States. A November 2000 e-mail from Quinn listed the people he expected to read the pardon application: ''POTUS, Beth Nolan, the White House Counsel (she worked for me when I was there; is a former Georgetown Law Prof and an expert on legal ethics); conceivably Bruce Lindsey, Beth's deputy, but more importantly a very close confidant of the Pres from Arkansas and some whose law practice was in labor relations,'' Quinn wrote. Quinn and Libby also will be called for the March 1 hearing. Democrats pointed out Libby's connection to Rich during the House and Senate hearings and called for him to be questioned. Burton is likely to approve that request, a committee source said. The committee sent letters to Clinton and Quinn on Thursday asking them to waive their aides' confidentiality oath and not to claim any privacy privileges on any documents or communication. Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne referred questions to lawyer David Kendall. A message left for Kendall was not immediately returned. The Justice Department also plans its own investigation of the pardon. Officials will focus on issues such as whether the department got the proper information to process the pardon, said a Justice official, who requested anonymity. Attorney General John Ashcroft doesn't want Justice to get involved in a political investigation but has to balance that with the need to look at whether there were any illegalities in the way the pardon was handled, the official said. AP-NY-02-15-01 1939EST = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not
[CTRL] MSNBC: Clinton says Israel influenced pardon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com/news/525024.asp Clinton says Israel influenced pardon Amid the firestorm over fugitive financier Marc Rich¹s pardon, former President Clinton said Thursday in an interview with CNBC¹s Geraldo Rivera that Israel influenced him ³profoundly² in granting the pardon. In his first extensive comments, Clinton said he was ³bewildered² by the controversy and that there was not a ³shred of evidence that I did anything wrong.² CLINTON, IN A phone interview with the host of CNBC¹s ³Rivera Live,² said he was ³blindsided² by the furor over the pardon for Rich, who faces tax evasion and other charges. ³I have no infrastructure to deal with this, no press person. I just wanted to go out there and do what past presidents have done, but the Republicans had other ideas for me,² said Clinton. ³There¹s not a single, solitary shred of evidence that I did anything wrong, or that his (Rich¹s) money changed hands,² he said. ³And there¹s certainly no evidence that I took any of it.² He also said his political enemies were trying to use the pardon for partisan gain. ²(Rich) had three big-time Republican lawyers, including (Vice President) Dick Cheney¹s chief of staff,² he said. ³Marc Rich himself is a Republican.² Rivera told MSNBC the former president sounded ³beleaguered² on the phone. ³He is sincerely shocked by all of the noise and hubbub surrounding this. He had no idea that it would be this tidal wave and that he would find himself once again on the front pages of every newspaper defending himself against the charges of his political enemies,² said Rivera, a long-time friend of Clinton¹s. ISRAEL¹S ROLE During the interview, Clinton said campaign funding played no role in the pardon, but added, ³I¹ll tell you what did influence me Israel did influence me profoundly.² It was unknown whether Clinton elaborated during the interview. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Rich has been a long-time supporter of Israel¹s Labor Party, including acting Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The Belgian-born Rich grew up in the United States but renounced his U.S. citizenship. He holds Israeli and Spanish citizenship and has lived in Switzerland since 1983. He was indicted in the United States on charges of evading more than $48 million in taxes, fraud and conducting illegal oil deals with Iran. Over the past 20 years, Rich has contributed $70 million to $80 million to Israeli hospitals, museums, symphonies and to help settle immigrants, said Avner Azulay, head of the multimillion-dollar Rich Foundation in Tel Aviv. Azulay, the former chief of Israel¹s Mossad spy agency, said he believed Clinton pardoned Rich, in part, because of his role in helping Israel get Jews out of Ethiopia and Yemen. Azulay said he helped collect the testimonials from prominent Israelis that played a role in obtaining the 11th-hour pardon, now subject of congressional hearings and a federal probe. He wouldn¹t say how many statements were collected, but that Barak and Peres had spoken to Clinton about Rich. Barak spokesman Gadi Baltiansky confirmed that the prime minister raised the subject in a recent conversation with Clinton, but refused to elaborate. Peres declined comment. TRAIL OF E-MAILS E-mails subpoenaed by Congress and now part of the public record reveal intensive behind-the-scenes efforts to engineer a pardon for Rich. Barak¹s name is mentioned repeatedly. In one e-mail, Azulay suggests asking the White House to delay making a decision until leading Israelis such as Barak and Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami ³can make their appeals.² An e-mail from Robert F. Fink, one of Rich¹s lawyers, emphasizes the importance of high-level Israeli support. ³So do not let up,² Fink wrote. Azulay also asked the Rich team to keep the prime minister¹s name out of the press. ³It¹s important to keep all politicians¹ names out of the story ... this is election time here and has a potential of a blowup,² Azulay wrote. Former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit said he recommended to Clinton that Rich be pardoned because the billionaire¹s business ties helped Israel get Jews out of Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen -countries without diplomatic ties to the Jewish state at the time. In a Nov. 28 letter to Clinton, Shavit, who headed the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, wrote that he asked Rich for assistance in the search for missing soldiers and ³help in the rescue and evacuation of Jews from enemy countries.² ³Israel and the Jewish people are grateful for these unselfish actions, which sometimes had the potential of jeopardizing his own personal interests and business relations,² the letter said. MIDEAST TIES Rich, 66, has never lived in Israel, but has given to a series of charities, from funding a program for young Diaspora Jews studying at a Jewish seminary in the West Bank, to a health program for Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. In northern Israel, he built a home for autistic
[CTRL] -Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres
-Caveat Lector- Saba, I don't know where you get your homophobia from, but I feel sorry that you were indoctrinated to hate the homosexuals. I think what she is doing is good. Many teenagers are gay and many kill themselves because of the non-acceptance. She is making a difference. This world has been too closed down and it is time to rock the boat. Look how they black-balled her, yet there a few sitcombs now with gay men in them. They are comedy and it is really funny. I do agree that Ellen did go to far with the kiss on TV. People were not ready for that yet. But it should not be that way. Birds Private Mail Welcome - Original Message - From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres -Caveat Lector- For your convenience I reproduce the story re our children being targeted by sodomists...and this is for real Awake thou that sleepeth.this is now an attack on the Catholic Church - Awaken Hibernians - for these evil people sent polluted AIDS blood to Ireland through Clinton with love from Canada..Maybe the Church of England thinks sodomy is okay for the children and would feed them garbage - the land of Shakespeare reduced to killing fields by virtue of AIDS and mass production of government propagandaBlair, and Clinton, and Carville, and Larry Flynt and even Ehud all working together to destroy a generation of children? Name your poison - but you do not have to drink it this cup of poison they try to feed your children. saba AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres The Gay Agenda Targeting of Children Moves into High Gear ELLEN ON PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM (PBS) The Disney/ABC sitcom ELLEN continues to be controversial this season, as lesbian actress Ellen DeGeneres unashamedly uses it as a vehicle for evangelizing young people with the message that "Gay is O.K." Now PBS has joined Degeneres in targeting children. Prior to last season's "coming out" episode of ELLEN, the executive producer of the show admitted to TV GUIDE that young people were a target group for the show's message. This season Degeneres complained bitterly when ABC used a parental advisory prior to an episode where Ellen kissed another woman. DeGeneres said children should be allowed to watch same-sex affection. The 'celebrated kiss' earned the October 8 ELLEN episode a parental advisory warning of "adult content." DeGeneres said the advisory was discrimination against same-sex affection and threatened to quit. "This advisory is telling kids something's wrong with being gay," DeGeneres complained to the New York imes. The point to the show is to let kids know there's nothing with being gay, she said. "And now they're saying children shouldn't watch it," she told TV GUIDE. ABC backed away from the confrontation and removed the parental advisory the following week. Last week PBS - the Public Broadcasting System - aired shows targeting children with DeGeneres as a hostess: SESAME STREET and STORYTIME. American Family Association president, Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, said, "With a past history of enthusiastically pushing th homosexual agenda, viewers should not have been surprised to see Ellen DeGeneres on PBS. But seeing her on a children's show is further proof that the Hollywood-New York-Washington, D.C. axis has strategically chosen the next generation as their safest bet for normalizing this lifestyle." What do you think about your tax money being used to convince our children and grandchildren that there is nothing wrong with being gay? AFA urges you to immediately contact your congressional leaders. CONTACT YOUR SENATORS ONLINE: www.senate.gov/senator/membermail.html CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ONLINE: www.house.gov/MemberWWW.html You may phone the U. S. Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. You may correspond with your Congressional leaders office by writing: Office of Senator/Representative (Name) Untied State Senate / United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20510 American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone: 601/844-5036 Fax: 601/844-9176 World Wide Web: www.afa.net 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
[CTRL] -Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres
-Caveat Lector- Rosie O'Donnell has never publically said she was gay. So children have no way of knowing this. She has done great things for children. She loves children. She is not a pedophile and going to harm the children. Rosie has talent that works and that is all that counts. She is a good role model as being a good mother. I am serious in questioning you as to how far back and when did your family get so homophobic? Some people are gay because they were sexually abused as children and prefer the sex that their offender was not. This is very common for women who were sexually abused. Their trust in men is not good. You are really angry about this subject. Just wonder where the anger stems from. Birds Private Mail Welcome - Original Message - From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: AFA ACTION ALERT-Gay Recruiting on PBS Sesame Street by Ellen DeGeneres For quite a while I have wondered why Rosie O'Donnell was permitted to play with the children on Sesame Street - and ran across this article re Ellen Degenerte..who now will plan a Nun in a TV show - which I consider an attack on the Church. So we have this lesbian Rosie O'Donnell playing with the Children, now in Broadway Play playing Cat In The Hat and we see what PBS is all about..they will NEVER receive another dime from me but for some time I have wondered if this stuff was deliberate - so Ellen and Rosie what a nice pair - preparing our kids for the kill? It was just reported that 1 in 3 black mailes, are afflicted with AIDSnice? We have Rosie adopting little children - one of whom is very, very accident prone.armed guards take them to school? Seems to me Rosie did not like guns, but as far as I am concerned we are sending kids to slaughter in promoting homosexuals on children's programs - Why is it - consider the sodomists attempt to invade the Boy Scouts of America? Little Cub Scous with their little Beanies about to be attacked too .. teach the kiddings that sodomy is good for you - How many people died form AIDS or have HIV/AIDS in this country now? Aren't these people who practice sodomy more of a threat to our children health wise than any loaded gun - on the AIDS is just a longer death. Disney is Dead - so we see now why Disney is no longer pay TV...have you watched their programs lately - now the attack beings on the Catholic Church... Why not put Ellen into a say Jewish Synagoguge - first woman Rabbi? First sodomist Rabbi? So Rosie is now shown with her costume as the Cat In The Hatwell to tell the truth, never really cared for the Dr. Suess stuff - Dr. Suess and Walt Disney, are dead.this evil has now made specific targets of our childrennotice how Michael Jackson on he Democrat Platform when Clinton first ran, played with the childrenthis freaked out pedophile? So it says this much to me - life is cheap, but in death there is a profit - abortions to bash in little babies heads after feeling first breath of life - and sale of little baby body partas - wholesale slaughter in China of female babies for body parts.life is so cheap but DEATH you make a profit from the $5,000 minimum decent burial coffin - well why waste these dead bodies - sell them... Calling Dr. Death? Rosie and Elllen why not dress these pigs up as Grim Reapers and put them in their proper place for they are harvesting childreninnocent little children. To me it is an insult to watch TV for which I pay, and watch this obvious move to eventually sodomize the children of America. How do they get away with it? Well look a their sponsors and consider we had a Sodomist in the Oval office who had a sodomist prostitute and a wife whom some say was caught in some rather disturbing predicaments. Now Remember Rosie was dumped by K Mart..guns are just so dangerous and I agree in wrong hands they can be very dangerous. I consider Rosie O'Donnel and Ellen Degenerate a greater threat to the children of America.they want a generation of our children to play with and to sodomize? The very word de-generate speaks for its selfzero population anybody - would prefer to be killed by a gun than to die a long death with the AIDS which afflicts now 1 out of 3 black homosexualsnice people - want to share a pool with them or use a public restroom with them. Rosie O'Donnel and Ellen Degenerate are a greater threat to our children than the statistics showing how many kids were killed or shot with a gunand then we have Littleton, the greatest story ever told, all staged in advance. Public Service will NEVER receive another dime from this house - our children are targets and these people are more dangerous to our children than a loaded gun. Get that pig Ellen out of the nuns outfit and and put her where she belongs - on X Rated TV for why should the American people and their
[CTRL] (Fwd) Release: Shocking FBI study: Blacks are more likely to b
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:23:14 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Release: Shocking FBI study: Blacks are more likely to be arrested for hate crimes From: Libertarian Party Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: February 15, 2001 === For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Shocking FBI study: Blacks are more likely to be arrested for hate crimes WASHINGTON, DC -- African-Americans who thought that hate crime laws would protect them against rampaging white racists are in for a shock: A new FBI study reveals that blacks are proportionally one-and- a-half times more likely to be arrested for hate crimes against whites than vice versa. "This new hate crime study is Jesse Jackson's worst nightmare," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party national director. "It appears that he and other African-American leaders have been duped into crusading for laws that have condemned a disproportionate number of blacks to prison. "In light of this study, it's fair to ask who poses a greater threat to the black community: Racist, violent whites -- or oblivious black politicians?" The hate-crime issue was thrust back into the national spotlight on Tuesday when the FBI released its "Hate Crime Statistics" report for 1999, which is part of the agency's annual Uniform Crime Report. Law enforcement agencies nationwide reported that 2,030 whites were arrested for hate crimes against blacks, while 524 African- Americans were arrested for such crimes against whites. Adjusting for the fact that blacks make up only 13% of the population, blacks were statistically one-and-a-half times more likely than whites to face prosecution for hate crimes. "Unfortunately, hate crime laws have boomeranged on blacks," said Dasbach. "African-Americans thought that hate crime legislation would protect them, but instead they're being used as another legal weapon to prosecute them. "And though Americans may assume that politicians who write such laws are well-intended, it's obvious that for blacks, the road to prison is paved with good intentions." The study also revealed that, shockingly, 87 African-Americans were arrested in 1999 for hate crimes against other blacks, meaning that even among same-race crimes, some minorities face heightened jail terms because of hate crime laws. "Hate crimes aren't just for KKK members anymore," said Dasbach. "They are now being applied even to same-race crimes -- apparently giving racist police, prosecutors, or judges another weapon to use against African-Americans." The solution to this disproportionate application of hate crime laws is simple, said Dasbach: Eliminate hate crime laws. "Racist criminals, whether white or black, should be punished for their crimes, but hate crime laws aren't needed to do that," he said. "Murder is murder and assault is assault -- regardless of whether the criminal was motivated by racist hate, generic hate, or pure greed, lust, or envy. People should be prosecuted for their actions, not for their opinions." Such a straightforward system of punishing criminals for their crimes, not their thoughts, would make the criminal justice system more fair, more simple, and more effective, said Dasbach. "Real crimes -- like rape, murder, and robbery -- don't require police to play a guessing game to determine whether they actually occurred, but 'thought crimes' do," he said. "For example, how is a police officer supposed to determine whether a hypothetical black criminal chose a robbery victim because he was rich, because he was white, or because he was rich and white? And why should it make a difference? People should be prosecuted for their actions, not for their opinions." The bottom line is that crimes against a certain protected class of citizens should not be treated more seriously than crimes against anyone else, said Dasbach. "To do so is un-American, and a violation of equal justice under the law," he said. "It also creates the ironic situation we now face: Laws that were supposed to stop racism apparently have racist consequences -- making hate crime laws themselves a hate crime against African-Americans." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBOoxkiNCSe1KnQG7RAQFwSQQAqMMxoM5zm9hNDWwAAHHxGZxW99pOWS1y pWMuBSAD0CYnHQf48UtGvK7X+k3NACGlju9CftiPVhKutjX2eXIN6AG/YllI09tb
[CTRL] Fwd: [NA] Its Settled: They Own it
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." attributed to Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin One option available to help us fund 50 organizers to restore honest elections and rescue America ---by going to http://newlife.electriclife.net and look at the information, or to go to the NAFT section at the top of the networkamerica.org home page and read the February 11, 2001 NAFT e-wire. After reading that NAFT e-wire you can also hear a 10 minute phone message at 918-222-8544 that would fill in more of the picture. If you want to see the effects of detoxifying everyday with Electric C from Electric Life -- you can help your group and Citizens for a Fair Vote Count by entering Electric Life on the internet through http://newlife.electriclife.net -- or by calling 888-393-5433 and giving them the number PH8053. Then you will be assigned a number. Go to networkamerica.org in the NAFT section to the Feb 11, 2001 NAFT ewire for fuller explanation. After using as directed, invoke your money back guarantee after 60 days if you are not absolutely sure Electric C has helped you. February 14, 2001 NA (Network America) ewire Its Settled: They Own it We now have a network executive admission that the 5 Big TV Networks and AP wire OWN Voter News Service (VNS). Yesterday, the Congressional Committee of Congressman Bernie Tauzin of Louisiana held hearings on Election Night 2000, Voter News Service, and the 5 Big TV Networks. Before the network executives appeared in a line up on a panel at the end of the day, there were several establishment panels, featuring VNS shills and such conscious Permanent Revolution high level operatives, such as Ben Wattenburg, who, appropriately, runs the PBS show which is the successor to sell-out Bill Buckleys defunct Firing Line. There was a lot of talk of seasoned experts, sophisticated computer systems, and other such eyewash, but neither the network executives, nor any of the panelists could shed even a SLIGHT CLUE on how VNS works or how the projections are made. And the Congressmen either did not know enough, or were not willing to grill them with serious questions at least in the parts I watched. Despite efforts by free lance reporter Christopher Bollyn (who is doing a lot of work for the Spotlight these days), and Vicky Collier of votescam.com, and some of the readers of this e-wire --- Congressman Tauzins office has ignored all requests to have a panel consisting of those of us who would raise the real questions involved in the case of the Networks and VNS on election night. Christopher Bollyn, Dan Gutenkauf, Phillip OHalloran, Vicky Collier, and myself could provide the Congressman with a panel that would raise more on point issues and questions in 10 minutes than were raised in yesterdays 8 hours of hearings. If anyone can get to the Congressman himself, please do so. Now to one piece of key news generated by yesterdays hearings. Its finally settled. THE NETWORKS OWN VOTER NEWS SERVICE. For a long time we had talked of the networks as directing Voter News Service (VNS) because of the secretive nature of the operation, and our inability to prove who owned it. Yesterday, ABCs president David Weston told the Congressional Committee that ABC is a part owner of Voter News Service, and that we sit on the board of directors. So, despite numerous attempts to OBSCURE the TV networks relationship to Voter News Service we finally know for sure: The 5 Big TV Networks ARE VNS. This confirms even more profoundly the fact that the 5 big TV Networks, especially the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC), have been pulling a hoax on the American people. ABC, CBS, and NBC have been doing it for 25 years. The hoax consists of the election night competition to call winners and losers in which these big TV networks PRETEND to be competing with each other to get on the air first with the winners and losers --- but who are in reality getting the exact same exit poll information at the exact same time from the exact same company (VNS), a company they jointly own and direct. Citizens for a Fair Vote has said for years, following the lead of Jim Ken Collier in Votescam: The Stealing of America that the entire election night show is a criminal hoax on the American people. For months before the election the Big TV Networks push an unending stream of their mysteriously done public opinion polls to prepare the voters minds for the phony exit polls they release on election night. Step two is that the exit polls are released shortly after the polls close solely to prepare the voters minds for the centrally rigged computerized results that will be announced by these same Big TV Networks a few hours later. When computers count the votes the networks are infallible but when there is a close HAND COUNTED election, such as the race involving Senator Bob Smith of New Hamsphire in 1996 --- all four Big TV networks
[CTRL] NM: Columnist Stands by Air Force One Looting Story
-Caveat Lector- Newsmax-Inside Cover Thursday Feb. 15, 2001; 5:12 p.m. EST Columnist Stands by Air Force One Looting Story The Washington Times columnist who first reported the looting of the presidential airplane used by the Clintons for their farewell flight home has no plans to retract the story, despite President Bush's statement this week that the incident never took place. "I stand by what I wrote," John McCaslin told NewsMax.com Thursday. McCaslin's widely read "Inside the Beltway" column first revealed on Jan. 25 that the Clintons' plane, which only hours earlier had been designated Air Force One, was "stripped bare" when it landed in New York, according to an Air Force steward. Missing items reportedly included the entire collection of Air Force One porcelain china, silverware, salt and pepper shakers, blankets and pillow cases -- most of which bore the presidential seal. "What most astonished the military steward was that even a cache of Colgate toothpaste, not stamped with the presidential seal, was snatched from a compartment beneath the presidential plane's sink," McCaslin wrote. But on Tuesday President Bush spoke for the first time on the matter, saying the looting never happened. "All the allegations that they took stuff off Air Force One are simply not true," he told reporters. On Wednesday the White House refused to say whether Bush actually investigated the looting incident. "I know you have to do your job," a Bush spokesperson told NewsMax.com. "But I will just tell you that I have nothing to add and I'll refer you back to the president's statement -- and to prior statements that it's time to move on, it's time to move forward. And that's what we're doing." Despite the denials, McCaslin was adamant. "We have reported on the front page of our paper what Bush said," he noted. "But in no way am I going to put any kind of a retraction in." The popular columnist observed that the Bush White House seems to want to keep its distance from the allegations that have swirled around the Clintons since they left Washington, including the controversial pardon of Marc Rich, which is now under investigation by federal prosecutors. Two days after McCaslin's initial report, the Times front paged news that a number of items bearing the Air Force One logo had turned up on the internet auction site eBay. "These are very hard-to-get items," one collectables dealer told the paper. "They are not mass-marketed and are made only for the White House." Citing that report, McCaslin reiterated, "I'm standing by what I wrote right down to the stolen toothpaste." = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] UPI: Rabbi: 'Marc Rich pardon was bought'
-Caveat Lector- Thursday, 15 February 2001 20:39 (ET) Rabbi: 'Marc Rich pardon was bought' NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The head of the largest Jewish denomination in the United States Thursday criticized Jewish leaders who lobbied in favor of a pardon for Marc Rich calling it a "moral stain" for Jews. "Charged with massive tax evasion and breaking an embargo on trading with Iran, Rich is a multimillionaire fugitive from justice who lives in luxury in Switzerland," Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of Reform Judaism's Union of American Hebrew Congregations, wrote in an op-ed piece in the New York-based Jewish Week. "I am in no position to judge Rich's legal claims, but neither are the many Jewish leaders and luminaries who contacted President Clinton in support of the pardon." "Why their interest in a man who appears to have traded illegally not only with Iran but with Iraq and Libya, rogue states devoted to Israel's destruction? The answer is simple: They were bought," added Yoffie. "Rich contributed generously to Jewish causes and charities around the world, and then, in a carefully orchestrated campaign, called in favors to put pressure on the president." A last-minute presidential pardon was given by Bill Clinton on the day he left office last month to fugitive financier Marc Rich who fled the country in the 1980s before he was charged with 51 counts of tax evasion and fraud. "President Clinton was a good friend of the Jews, but many of his last-minute pardons were simply outrageous," Yoffie said. "Among the most indefensible were those granted to Jews, but scarcely a voice of Jewish protest has been heard." In a terse statement released Thursday, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White in Manhattan, who was appointed by Clinton in 1993, said her office and the FBI "have opened an investigation to determine whether there have been any violations of federal law" in the pardons of Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. Clinton denied any wrongdoing in a statement issued through his transition office spokeswoman, Julia Payne, late Wednesday. "As I have said repeatedly, I made the decision to pardon Marc Rich based on what I thought was the right thing to do," Clinton said. "Any suggestion that improper factors, including fund-raising for the party (Democratic National Committee) or my library, had anything to do with the decision are absolutely false. I look forward to cooperating with any appropriate inquiry." According to press reports, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called President Clinton twice, Jerusalem's Mayor Ehud Olmert wrote the president, and dozens of Jewish and Israeli philanthropists added their support to the Rich pardon. Rich donated about $200 million to causes in Israel in the last 15 years, a source who did not want to be identified, told United Press International. Rabbi Irving Greenberg, chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing board of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., made a serious error when he sent a letter to President Clinton on council stationery, according to Yoffie. "Rabbi Greenberg is giving no interviews," museum spokesman, Arthur Berger, told UPI. "But on Jan. 31, he went to the governing council and took full responsibility for writing the letter on council stationery, and apologized to the council." -- Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] NR: The Bagman
-Caveat Lector- The Bagman How a critic becomes a counsel. By NRs John J. Miller Ramesh Ponnuru National Review Online-February 15, 2001 2:10 p.m. Jack Quinn's biggest fan in recent days has been his lawyer, Joseph diGenova. The man representing the man representing Denise Rich, the wife of pardoned criminal Marc Rich, has praised his client to the skies. Here's what diGenova said last Sunday on Meet the Press: "Jack Quinn is an honorable man. He's a man of integrity. He's a great lawyer. He represents his clients with vigor. He did what any good lawyer should do." Just three weeks ago, what impressed diGenova even more than Quinn's integrity was Quinn's retainer. Here's what diGenova told WJR's David Newman, a Detroit talk-show host, on January 22: "The one pardon that is absolutely outrageous and clearly represents what must be a disgustingly political and perhaps money-changing deal is the pardon of Marc Rich, the fugitive financier. Even Rudy Giuliani, who has tended to be a kiss-up to Clinton, objected to this one because obviously it was a case that he prosecuted. The pardon of Marc Rich is perhaps one of the most unbelievably despicable acts. This guy has lived in Switzerland, spending millions that he stole from investors in the United States, and Clinton pardons him. Now his lawyer was Jack Quinn, who was Vice President Gore's chief of staff. And I must tell you, if Quinn represented him, represented Marc Rich, I will venture to say that Mr. Quinn's fees start in the seven figures." Actually, Quinn isn't being paid in "the seven figures," according to diGenova. He told NR today that the sum is less than that. He also insisted that Quinn is just doing his job by representing his client. How a "man of integrity" could enable an "unbelievably despicable act" is something only a lawyer could understand. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: Gossip-WHO'S PATTY'S HEARSTWHILE HERO?
-Caveat Lector- NEAL TRAVIS' NEW YORK New York Post-Gossip-Thursday, February 15, 2001 WHO'S PATTY'S HEARSTWHILE HERO? WHILE it's not in the same league as the Marc Rich scandal, the question of just who got Bill Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst last month has a lot of society tongues wagging. I hear Patty's stepmom, Veronica Hearst, has been telling chums she spent "most of last year" lobbying her friends, Bill and Hillary Clinton, to give Patty the clean bill of health that many of us think was more than warranted. But Veronica's role was "minimal," according to several members of the newspaper dynasty - who seem to be distancing themselves from Veronica since the January death of her husband, Randolph Hearst. Some in the family have never really cottoned to Veronica, who married Randy 12 years ago, after he divorced Catherine, his bride of four decades and the mother of all his children. "The pardon drive was spearheaded by, and succeeded because of, President JimmyCarter," says one family source. "President Carter has always been sympathetic about Patty's case, and the Hearst family is very grateful to him for his intercession." When he was president, Carter commuted the seven-year jail sentence the heiress received for her part in a bank robbery conducted by her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers. Actually, you can feel a bit sorry for Veronica as she tries to continue to have a significant role in the close-knit family. Randolph inherited a fifth of the multibillion-dollar fortune created by his father, William Randolph Hearst, but none of that money goes to Veronica. The Hearst wealth is in trusts and can go only to blood kin. Randolph's share has passed to his five daughters. Veronica gets to keep the Fifth Avenue apartment and a $30 million mansion (said to be heavily mortgaged) in Manalapan, Fla. Russian Rich-es for Bill? AS for the Rich affair, the Senate committee studying the pardons may hear about what insiders are calling "the Russian connection." About a year ago, I wrote of rumors that some very dubious Russians may have secretly contributed to Clinton's re-election coffers. At the time, there was no hint that the fugitive Rich might have been the conduit of those illegal funds. Now I'm hearing from sources that Rich, who made his fortune in the murky world of commodity trading, was hand-in-glove with the Moscow demimonde. Some think he may have had a role in channeling money to Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and that this might explain why Russian mobsters appear to be able to enter the United States with impunity. If Rich was involved in dirty money being slipped to the Democrats, he would have had a powerful bargaining tool when applying for his pardon. snip balance = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL 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] NYT: Inquiry Puts 19 Torricelli Flights Under Microscope
-Caveat Lector- NYTimes February 16, 2001 Inquiry Puts 19 Torricelli Flights Under Microscope By TIM GOLDEN and DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI On September 1996, as he fought through the last weeks of a close race for the United States Senate, Robert G. Torricelli turned for help to a New Jersey businessman who had emerged as one of his most generous political supporters. Mr. Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat then serving in the House of Representatives, was looking for a way to move quickly from one campaign event to the next. The businessman, David Chang, contacted an aircraft charter company, and soon the candidate was flying from one fund-raising event to the next by Lear jet and propeller plane. Four and a half years later, the 19 flights Mr. Chang chartered and their late and incomplete repayment by the Torricelli campaign have become an issue in a Justice Department investigation into possibly illegal activities in the senator's successful race, according to lawyers and others involved in the case. They said prosecutors were examining whether campaign officials tried to evade laws governing a candidate's use of aircraft provided by a supporter. At least two of the three campaign aides who were notified last month that they are targets of the investigation were involved in arranging or accounting for the flights, former Torricelli aides said. But the matter of Mr. Torricelli's flights is also a study in the complexities of campaign finance laws, and the difficulties law enforcement officials can face in trying to prove that a campaign's failure to observe federal financing laws is deliberate. A lawyer for the campaign, Robert F. Bauer, denied that Torricelli officials had done anything wrong in arranging or accounting for the flights. "Everybody who was involved in the scheduling and reimbursement of corporate aircraft in this campaign followed the law with great care," Mr. Bauer said. But lawyers and others involved in the case said a central issue for the investigators was that contrary to Mr. Bauer's assertion, the planes Mr. Chang chartered were not "corporate aircraft" as federal regulations define them: ones a company owns outright or leases for its own long-term use. And the difference is a crucial one. Campaign finance laws permit candidates to use such corporate aircraft if they reimburse the company in advance for either the cost of the highest available commercial air fare for the same route or, if there is no commercial service, the cost of charter service. But since Mr. Chang's company, Bright Bright, did not own or lease the planes but rented them expressly for Mr. Torricelli's use, the campaign was required to reimburse the entire cost of the rentals. That was about $32,000 more than double what it ultimately repaid, people involved in the case said. Campaign finance experts said the difference between what the campaign paid and what it owed could be considered an illegal corporate contribution of about $17,000. But lawyers for the campaign and some of the experts also noted that even in cases involving much larger amounts, the underpayment or late payment of travel costs has generally been viewed as an administrative violation, punishable by fines. To build a criminal case on such a charge, then, the prosecutors must answer a basic question: did the candidate and his aides know that the planes had been rented specifically for them? Justice Department officials said they could not comment because the investigation, by the department's Campaign Financing Task Force, was continuing. According to Mr. Bauer, Mr. Torricelli and his aides "believed and had every reason to believe that Bright Bright owned the aircraft." But several aspects of the matter raise questions about the campaign's assertion. According to one person involved in the case, federal investigators have developed evidence that at least two of Mr. Torricelli's close aides dealt directly with the aircraft charter company and knew that the planes were rented solely for the campaign. Mr. Bauer, the campaign lawyer, denied that assertion. Moreover, Mr. Chang rented not one, but several different planes for Mr. Torricelli, people familiar with the case said. Mr. Bauer said the frequent switching of planes had not led anyone in the campaign to wonder how Mr. Chang, whose company employed only a handful of people, had access to so many aircraft. Campaign officials assumed that the businessman had bought or leased an interest in a fleet of planes, he said. Finally, there is the account of Mr. Chang, who has told the prosecutors that he arranged the flights at Mr. Torricelli's request and that the candidate was fully aware that he did not own his own aircraft, people familiar with his statements said. Mr. Chang made the statements after pleading guilty last year to giving more than $50,000 in illegal contributions to Mr. Torricelli's 1996 campaign and agreeing to cooperate with the
[CTRL] NYT: U.S. Seeks Bank Records in Pardon Inquiry
-Caveat Lector- NYTimes February 16, 2001 U.S. Seeks Bank Records in Pardon Inquiry By DAVID JOHNSTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 Federal prosecutors in New York have prepared subpoenas demanding the bank records of Denise Rich, the former wife of Marc Rich, in an effort to determine the source of her contributions to Democratic causes in recent years, including $450,000 to Mr. Clinton's presidential library, government officials said today. The officials said the prosecutors wanted financial documents that might indicate whether Ms. Rich had contributed her own money, or instead operated as an intermediary who donated money on behalf of Mr. Rich or others in his effort to obtain a presidential pardon. The subpoenas, which will be issued to Ms. Rich, Democratic Party committees and financial institutions, are part of a criminal inquiry into the events surrounding Mr. Clinton's pardon of Mr. Rich on Jan. 20, hours before leaving office. It would be illegal for a donor to conceal the true source of a contribution to a federal election committee. Related laws bar foreign nationals from contributing to these committees. The issue of foreign contributions has been raised, the officials said, because Mr. Rich, who lives abroad as a fugitive, has at times sought to renounce his American citizenship, but the legality of his renunciation remains clouded. As the criminal inquiry got under way today in New York, Congressional committees continued their own inquiries into the pardon. One of them, the House Government Reform Committee, asked Mr. Clinton and Mr. Rich to waive legal rights to confidentiality. Such a step would allow White House aides and Mr. Rich's lawyers to testify fully about their roles in the pardon deliberations and to discuss their private conversations with Mr. Clinton. Mr. Rich has sought to block access to some of his legal papers by citing attorney-client privilege. But Congressional aides said they had not received an immediate reply to their request from either Mr. Rich or Mr. Clinton. The House committee scheduled a second hearing on March 1 to further examine the circumstances leading to the pardons. The scheduled witnesses are Beth Nolan, a former White House counsel; Bruce Lindsey, former counsel to the president; John D. Podesta, former White House chief of staff; and Jack Quinn, a lawyer for Mr. Rich and a former White House counsel. The committee may also seek testimony from a Bush administration official, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and formerly a lawyer for Mr. Rich. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, suggested today on CNN's "Larry King Live" that the Senate Judiciary Committee might call Mr. Clinton to testify about the pardons. In New York, United States Attorney Mary Jo White issued a brief statement today confirming that her office, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was conducting an inquiry into the Rich pardon. Ms. White provided no details about the investigation. She has complained that she was not told in advance that Mr. Clinton would grant pardons to Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. The two men are commodities traders who were indicted in 1983 by prosecutors in Ms. White's office on tax evasion, racketeering and fraud charges after they had fled to Switzerland. Government officials said that Ms. White persuaded senior aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft to allow her to conduct what they said was a preliminary investigation. The inquiry is intended to determine whether there are grounds to open a broader investigation into whether anyone acting on Mr. Rich's behalf sought to, in effect, buy his presidential pardon. Mr. Clinton granted the pardons to Mr. Rich and Mr. Green in the final hours of his presidency after Mr. Quinn urged the president to issue a highly unusual clemency order covering two fugitives. Mr. Clinton has said he made the pardon decision because two men deserved leniency on legal grounds. Mr. Quinn, in testimony to House and Senate committees, has said that Ms. Rich's contributions to Democratic causes were not a factor in Mr. Clinton's decision. In a telephone call today to Geraldo Rivera, the host of the CNBC television program "Rivera Live," Mr. Clinton reportedly said that he was bewildered by the uproar over the pardon and that "there's not a single, solitary shred of evidence that I did anything wrong" or that Marc Rich's money changed hands. According to a partial transcript of the conversation provided by the program, Mr. Clinton told Mr. Rivera of being "blindsided by this." "I have no infrastructure to deal with this, no press person," Mr. Clinton said, according to the transcript. "I just wanted to go out there and do what past presidents have done but the Republicans had other ideas for me." He also said Mr. Rich had been represented by "big-time" Republican lawyers, including Mr. Libby. Still, lawmakers in both
[CTRL] Oracle: Microsoft breakup payoff
-Caveat Lector- Microsoft breakup payoff http://oracle.com/features/index.html?clinton.html Monday, February 19th isn't just Presidents' Day ... it's opening day at Oracle AppsWorld /appsworld/us/index.html?content.html in New Orleans. So who better to kick-off the biggest event in e- business than former United States President Bill Clinton? Mr. Clinton will deliver the opening keynote before thousands of e-business pioneers in New Orleans. "As one of the key companies driving the Internet economy, Oracle is hosting this conference to help business leaders leverage technology for improved business efficiencies," said Mark Jarvis, chief marketing officer, Oracle Corp. "Oracle is honored that Mr. Clinton, the first high tech president, will share his unique perspective and insight on this rapidly changing landscape." Oracle AppsWorld will provide Oracle executive-level customers and partners an innovative forum to discuss e-business strategies and how to best leverage Oracle technology to expand markets and increase business efficiencies. The four-day educational conference will also feature keynote addresses from industry leaders such as Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison /ebusinessnetwork/, as well as Marc Andreessen of Loudcloud and John Chambers of Cisco. Additionally, AppsWorld will offer more than 400 educational sessions, exhibits and product demonstrations as well as variety of tracks and networking events to uncover the winning strategies of today's top business performers. k= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
