Re: [CTRL] ALMOST LIKE A ROBOT
-Caveat Lector- Police sketch artist Jeanne Boylan was on Good Morning America recently. She expressed concern that John Doe #'s 3 4 have been virtually ignored by the FBI. I was intrigued by her account of John Doe # 3 whom witnessed placed with McVeigh before the bombing, near the building. In one case, the witness saw #3 with McVeigh at the Post Office across the street in the days before the bombing. The witness said it seemed that this man (#3) was the dominant peronality between the two of them - asking the questions, seeming to be in charge. It immediately struck me that this is a reasonable description of a mind control victim's handler. If this were a government op, of course the Feds wouldn't want to expose the handler. They would need the handler for future ops. http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/community/dailynews/chat_boylan.html quote There's been a lot of confusion over John Doe No. 2, and unfortunately that tends to draw attention away from No. 3 and No. 4. The witnesses in the citings of No. 3 and No. 4 all provided their descriptions to the FBI, but only in the days preceding the execution of McVeigh has the media and the public taken such a keen interest. The witnesses who saw the olive skinned man primarily were around the federal building just prior to the bombing. end quote Samantha In a message dated 5/19/01 5:20:59 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoted from: Mind Control Timothy McVeigh's Rise from Robotic Soldier to Mad Bomber By Alex Constantine He (McVeigh) complained that federal agents had left him with an unexplained scar on his posterior, implanted him with a microchip. It was painful, he said, to sit on the chip. He was real different, Todd Regier, a plumber, told the Boston Globe. Kind of cold. He was almost like a robot. 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: HORROR! CHINESE COOK AND EAT ABORTED HUMAN BABIES] (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 5/18/01 8:35:43 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XXX - RATED - DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN SEE THESE PICTURES XXX XXX - HORROR! CHINESE COOK AND EAT ABORTED HUMAN BABIES XXX http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495article=1649 I hope you read further down in the posts. This was an artist trying to make a statement. He stole the fetus and did what he did for his art. example: The Final Taboo Rotten.com has come clean on the source of the faked man-eating-a-fetus pics: They come from a rejected art exhibit by Chinese artist Zhu Yu, who is the man in the photos. Michael Pugliese and Baby-eating photos are part of Chinese artist's performance STAFF WRITER Following the publication of an article in a Malaysian weekly tabloid that alleged a Taiwanese restaurant served the meat of human infants, the Taiwan government has taken steps to ensure the publisher prints a retraction. --- Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away
-Caveat Lector- We don't call it the Kennedy crime family, because they all stopped making their money that way. If you look a bit carefully at the Bush family, you will note that they are still involved in some pretty strange dealings. 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] PBS: Beyond Human: Cyborg Creation for Real
-Caveat Lector- I never said other species DIDN'T have a right to be free from torture, Jenny. I agree with you, but I don't appreciate the implication that I don't care about the animals because I DID mention the human children! Samanthaa - -Caveat Lector- Wow--what a good reason not to buy or use any conventional pharmaceuticals. They're ALL developed by torture of innocent beings. It is not just the children of the species YOU belong to that are made by God, and that have a God-given right to safety and preservation from such human atrocities. Jenny - Original Message - From: Samantha L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 6:49 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] PBS: Beyond Human: Cyborg Creation for Real -Caveat Lector- And they gained the ability to do these things by experimenting on humans, especially children. This technology was built on the foundation of a string of corpses and tortured children .Yippee. 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] ADL Being Exposed for What They Are.....Mossad/KGB Cats Paw
-Caveat Lector- So who put militias on FBI Hate List along with Christians and Moslems? Who spies on all lists and sends virus mail to those with whom they disagreeput them all together and it does not spell Mother - it spells Anti Defemation League - Cats Paw for psuedo masonic Bnai Brith, a German Secret Order linked to Mossad. Who took bribe from Marc Rich for President of the United States for Rich's pardon? Why the ADL.cats paw for Mossand and KGB which now operate out of the FBI? Nice item here - thank my friends for mailing to me. Will omit their names for obvious reasons: Mail message Subject: [Conspiranoia!] Scientology, sneaky vipers and the ADL. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose, or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid; unjust; mendacious; and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. - The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Protocol 12: Control of The Press. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Conspiranoia/files/Room%20101/The%20Protocols%20of%20Zion.html 'And the I AM said unto me, A CONSPIRACY is found among the men of Judah (Jew-dah), and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.' - The Book of Jeremiah, 11:9. God Bless. Long live the fighters. Long Live The King. John Russell. + From: Megiddo Publications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 13:39:55 +0100 To: here and now [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scientology, sneaky vipers and the ADL. Gun for Hire. Folks familiar with the downfall of the once-respected Institute for Historical Review (IHR), taken over in 1994 by a profit-mad gang of lawyers and parasites, may think of Greg Raven as merely a common gunsel and thug. But this would be wrong. He's more-or less-as the case may be. It now turns out that Raven's denials that he is a paid agent of the Church of Scientology may be true. In fact, it may be true that no real Church of Scientology exists. It has come to light that this organization is actually owned by a group of lawyers, most of whom are not even Scientologists! The record shows that Scientology, its names, trademarks, copyrights, logos-even including LRH, the initials of its founder-L. Ron Hubbard-are the property of a separate corporation, Religious Technology Center, Inc. (RTC). And RTC is completely separate from Scientology. It receives fees, commissions and payments every time that the sect's names appear in any of the printed material it puts out. RTC is hidden in a corporate maze. It lists its official address in care of a little professional mail drop at 419 Larchmont Avenue in Los Angeles called Village Mail Call. And yet this obscure corporation owns the multi-million dollar Scientology empire! How many veteran followers of L. Ron Hubbard know this? The board of directors of RTC is composed of lawyers for the most part, few if any of whom are Scientologists. One of these is Lawrence E. Heller, a longtime Scientology lawyer. Significantly, Heller was also the lawyer for Mel Mermelstein, the holocaust survivor who sued the IHR and Liberty Lobby for millions of dollars in 1991. In the courtroom, Mermelstein's performance was so poor that the judge dismissed his suit before the trial. At this, Heller lost his mind and physically attacked Liberty Lobby's attorney, Mark Lane, who had (easily) made Mermelstein look like a fool. Here is the legal notice and Heller Co. requires be printed in every publication issued by Scientology: It is reprinted from International Scientology News magazine issue No. 16, released in May, 2001 by Church of Scientology International, 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 801, Los Angeles, CA 90028-6300. It is printed on page 47 at the bottom in extremely light 4-point type. This message appears on all official Scientology publications. It proves that Scientology is owned by Religious Technology Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. SCIENTOLOGY, the new FLAG logo, Flag Service Organization, corporate symbol, SCIENTOLOGY symbol, GOLDEN AGE OF TECH symbol, OT, FLAG, FREEWINDS, HUBBARD, LRH, LRH DEVICE, SMI corporate symbol, I HELP logo, CLEARSOUND logo, CLEARSOUND, E-METER, STANDARD TECH, STUDENT HAT, MARK SUPER VI/VII E-METER configuration, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM, NED, SAINT HILL, SHSBC, FREEWINDS logo, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM logo, Religious Technology Center symbol, DIANETICS, THE BRIDGE, Lion symbol, SUPER POWER, FSSO symbol, RON signature, CSI corporate symbol, OT symbol, Solo Auditor symbol, FSO corporate symbol, Sea Organization symbol and Sea Organization coat of arms are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its permission. SCIENTOLOGIST is a collective membership
Re: [CTRL] Pulverizing the Palestinians Into Submission
-Caveat Lector- Arafat would do well to remember the USS Liberty before he makes this trip and also the Egyptian Plane Tutmosis II that crashed under very mysterious circumstances.for every time USA tries for better relations with an Egypt, or an Iraq - along comes a Jonathan Pollard, or a USS Liberty disaster or a USS Cole disaster where blame for things Mossad does is laid at door of - well the usual suspect, Osama bin Laden who has seen his people murdered without just cause. Might do well for them to well remember those words Jihud is Forever - for God also has been angered at Isralis in the past? Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?
-Caveat Lector- Both the Bible and the Koran (and perhaps other holy books as well) advise closeted or private prayer. I agree that true members of any faith do not feel the need to drop to their knees or join hands to intone their prayers in public places. Still, if you want to impress people with your piety, it's really hard to do that unless you make sure everybody is aware of how seriously you take your religiocity. 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] Fw: Scientists Often Mum About Ties to Industry
-Caveat Lector- It's not hard to understand that few men who have supposedly dedicated their lives to truth do not want it known that they are actually either industry's paid hacks or even worse, it's whores. 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] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won't Go Away
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Linda Minor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away -Caveat Lector- Some have taken the fact that a few generations back George Bush's grandfather married into the Walker family and make that the basis of their research. All connections seem to follow from that. So where do YOU think the money George and Jeb and Neil and Marvin--not to mention Bucky, Prescott, Jr., and the rest of them--have to invest comes from? I never said they did not do some of the things they have been said to do. My point is that I do not have the whole picture and unless and until I do I refuse to make any moral judgments. I believe the job of rendering judgment is already taken. I don't care about their money or where they got it. I do not have to answer for their actions, only they do. And if they could be stopped, it would have been done long ago. After getting 288 pages into American Terrorist by Michel and Herbeck I would agree that McVeigh and others may be victims of mind control technology. But if so, why is McVeigh so determined to take all the credit for the OKC bombing? He killed 168 people all by himself (or so he says) because of something that MIGHT happen - and might not. This I call the spilled milk syndrome. The parent says you're going to spill your milk. Some children might believe the parent. And some may think the parent is insane or clairvoyant. I am not against taking action when it is called for. But something (other than manipulation of money) that threatens me personally has to actually happen, not just be possible, before I get very excited. Others will take other views of the future and that is their right as a human being. 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] RE: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won't Go Away
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Linda Minor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away -Caveat Lector- Some have taken the fact that a few generations back George Bush's grandfather married into the Walker family and make that the basis of their research. All connections seem to follow from that. So where do YOU think the money George and Jeb and Neil and Marvin--not to mention Bucky, Prescott, Jr., and the rest of them--have to invest comes from? I never said they did not do some of the things they have been said to do. My point is that I do not have the whole picture and unless and until I do I refuse to make any moral judgments. I believe the job of rendering judgment is already taken. I don't care about their money or where they got it. I do not have to answer for their actions, only they do. And if they could be stopped, it would have been done long ago. After getting 288 pages into American Terrorist by Michel and Herbeck I would agree that McVeigh and others may be victims of mind control technology. But if so, why is McVeigh so determined to take all the credit for the OKC bombing? He killed 168 people all by himself (or so he says) because of something that MIGHT happen - and might not. This I call the spilled milk syndrome. The parent says you're going to spill your milk. Some children might believe the parent. And some may think the parent is insane or psychic (able to predict the future). I am not against taking action when it is called for. But something (other than manipulation of money) that threatens me personally has to actually happen, not just be possible, before I get very excited. Others will take other views of the future and that is their right as a human being. 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] ICCAF on Sudan: Issues of Concern
-Caveat Lector- The European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council 1 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5BW England Tel:020 7872 5434 Fax:020 7753 2848 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date of Publication: April 2001 THE INTER-CHURCH COALITION ON AFRICA AND SUDAN: ISSUES OF CONCERN It is disappointing to note that Inter-Church Coalition on Africa (ICCAF) continues to misinform the Canadian public with regard to events in Sudan. ICCAF's clearly selective and unbalanced activity on Sudan has already been commented upon in 'Turning a Blind Eye and a Deaf Ear to Crimes Against Humanity: The Inter-Church Coalition on Africa and Sudan'. (1) It is sad to relate that ICCAF continues to serve as the Canadian extension of the American anti-Sudan lobby tenaciously wedded to the failed Sudan policies of the previous Clinton Administration. In so doing it continues to echo questionable claims made by equally questionable, often right-wing Christian fundamentalist groups and others in the United States. Even a cursory review of ICCAF's recent positions and statements on Sudan illustrates the disjointed and distorted image it projects of the country - projections based on questionable claims. In April 2001, for example, ICCAF published as part of its 'Sudan News' a report entitled 'Sudan: Oil Before Food'. Amongst other things this report alleged, on second hand accounts, that Sudanese government forces have left the areas around oil installations and supply roads virtually empty of the original population...Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homesteads. The report also spoke of continued expulsions of the people living in 'promising' oil fields. (2) In a February 2001 letter to Canadian Parliamentarians, ICCAF Coordinator Gary Kenny had similarly asserted that the Sudanese government has used scorched-earth warfare to secure the oil fields for development. Thousands have been brutally driven off their lands. (3) These particular claims can now be assessed. The focus of many of these questionable allegations has been the Canadian oil company Talisman Energy. In April 2001 Talisman released the results of a detailed analysis of a series of satellite photographs taken of their oil concession in Sudan. The images analysed by the leading British satellite imagery analysis company, the Kalagate Imagery Bureau, included civilian satellite images collected last year and images acquired by U.S. military intelligence satellites in 1965, 1967, and 1969. Ground resolution in the images varied between about three feet and 10 feet. There were additional lower resolution Landsat images from the 1980s and Radarsat images from 2000. (4) The images were analysed by Geoffrey John Oxlee, a former head of the United Kingdom Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre and one of Britain's leading experts in the field. Mr Oxlee focused his analysis on the epicentres of the oil areas claimed by ICCAF to have been subject to population displacement. Mr Oxlee stated: there is no evidence of appreciable human migration from any of the seven sites examined. (5) To the contrary, he further stated that analysis revealed that once the sites were developed, then people did come into the area, and in fact it looked as if people developed around the oil sites rather than going away from it. (6) He further stated that he would stand by his conclusions in court, if needed. It is inconceivable that the scorched earth displacement of thousands of civilians as claimed by Gary Kenny would not have been immediately noticeable in the satellite pictures studied. When asked if there was any possibility of interference with the pictures he analysed, Mr Oxlee stated that the satellite photographs examined are genuine pictures. Having looked at hundreds of thousands of satellite pictures, there's no way these pictures have been doctored. Absolutely none. We check these things out. (7) ICCAF's third or fourth-hand disinformation about Sudanese oil fields would appear to have been partly displaced by first-hand state-of-the- art science. Mr Kenny's reliance on questionable disinformation on Sudan is a matter of record. His gullibility is perhaps nowhere better displayed than in ICCAF's 'Sudan Urgent Action Bulletin #5 August 31, 2000'. In it ICCAF states that A very critical situation is developing in Sudan. China appears poised to intervene militarily to protect its investment in the oil fields. The 'Sudan Urgent Action Bulletin' urged Canadians to write to the Canadian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister on this issue, and included, as a model letter that written by ICCAF chairman Rodger Talbot to the Canadian Foreign Minister. This letter claimed that credible reports indicate that China is worried that access to its premier off- shore source of oil is at imminent risk as a result of advancing SPLA forces. Under such circumstances it makes sense that China would want to act to defend its strategic interests. ICCAF then sought to use
[CTRL] An Open Letter to Anti-Slevery International: CSI, Slavery and Sudan
-Caveat Lector- The European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council 1 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5BW England Tel:020 7872 5434 Fax:020 7753 2848 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date of Publication: May 2001 TIME TO SPEAK OUT ON CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL AND SUDAN: AN OPEN LETTER TO ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL We address this open letter to Anti-Slavery International given its well-deserved reputation as one of the world's premier human rights organisations, and its particular concern about slavery and slavery-like practices. We call upon Anti-Slavery International to once again publicly speak out with regard to the claims of government-sponsored slavery and slave redemption in Sudan being made by groups such as Christian Solidarity International. A civil war has been fought in Sudan between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) since 1983. As Anti-Slavery International will be only too aware, while there have been legitimate concerns about inter-tribal raiding and abduction in the course of this conflict, several organisations and anti-Sudanese activists have claimed there is a flourishing slave trade in Sudan in which the Sudanese government and its northern forces raid southern villages and enslave Dinka tribesmen, women and children. These claims have been made by groups such as the Swiss-based Christian Solidarity International (CSI). CSI further claim that in the course of visits to parts of southern Sudan it has engaged in slave redemptions whereby southern Sudanese tribesmen, women and children are supposedly bought back from northern Sudanese tribesmen said to have abducted them. Christian Solidarity International and other groups claim to have bought back or redeemed thousands of slaves, often several hundred at a time, from Arab traders. (1) These groups have also been active in taking outsiders in with them on pre-arranged trips. Westerners, often with no experience whatsoever of Africa, then come back believing what they have been told they saw. Having taken these claims at face value, several of these political pilgrims have taken somewhat opportunistic positions with regard to slavery in Sudan. This has degenerated into little more than a propagandistic circus. African-American activists such as Rev Al Sharpton and pop star Michael Jackson have now also been caught up in this circus. (2) Even 'The New York Post' has described Al Sharpton as a crass opportunist. (3) We now also have further crass opportunism in the form of anti-Sudanese activists deliberately getting themselves arrested in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington. Former District of Columbia Congressional delegate Walter E. Fauntroy, radio talk show host Joe Madison and the Hudson Institute's Michael Horowitz all chained themselves to the fence in front of the Sudanese embassy in protest at slavery in Sudan. When they appeared in court their lawyers were Johnnie Cochran, of O.J. Simpson fame and former Monica Lewinsky scandal independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. (4) All these people claim to be responding in large part to allegations about slavery and slave redemption made by groups such as Christian Solidarity International. It is also clear that there is concern amongst better-informed sources much closer to the issue about this American campaign. 'Africanews', a Nairobi-based newsletter closely identified with the Roman Catholic Church in Kenya and in southern Sudan, has observed that: Analysts, mainstream Church officials, and aid workers are worried that the stance taken by the Christian Right might jeopardize relief operations and precipitate a humanitarian crisis in Sudan...Since last year, interest in Sudan by Americans has mushroomed largely due to campaigns led by missionary groups and U.S. based African-American churches, resulting in an unusual alliance of right-wing politicians identified with the Republican Party and members of the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus...Observers also note that some leaders - particularly Rev. Al Sharpton - could be using the Sudanese conflict to build political careers back home. (5) Anti-Slavery International has itself spoken out in the past challenging many of the claims made by Christian Solidarity International. The official 1997 Anti-Slavery International report on allegations of Sudanese slavery commented on claims of government involvement in slavery: [T]he charge that government troops engage in raids for the purpose of seizing slaves is not backed by the evidence. (6) Anti-Slavery International's comments were supported by the then co- director of African Rights, the human rights expert, and Sudan specialist, Alex de Waal: (O)vereager or misinformed human rights advocates in Europe and the US have played upon lazy assumptions to raise public outrage. Christian Solidarity International, for instance, claims that Government troops and Government-backed Arab militias regularly raid black African
[CTRL] Know Your Customer
Free Congress Foundation's Notable News Now Excerpts from FCF Programming and Other FCF Projects May 21, 2001 Inside Stories Paul Weyrich's Endangered Liberties Commentary: Judicial Nomination Tug-of-War The Free Congress Commentary Threat of Know Your Customer Still Lingers by Lisa S. Dean From the Endangered Liberties Television Program In 1999 Congress and the American people squashed a program proposed by the federal banking agencies known as Know Your Customer. Over 300,000 Americans responded to the agencies during the public comment period expressing outrage. Members of Congress expressed outrage that such a proposal was even being considered. Even state banking associations strongly opposed the rule. Briefly, Know Your Customer would have deputized your banker by forcing him to collect your personal information and monitor your bank accounts to determine a pattern of banking activity. If he spotted what he considered to be unusual account activity, that is, if you deposited or withdrew a little more money per month than normal, or deviated from your usual pattern of activity, then your banker had to report you to the federal government, specifically, he had to file a Suspicious Activity Report with the Treasury Department's investigative arm, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN, without your knowledge. FinCEN would then review your account activity and determine whether it should investigate you for possible money laundering or other financial crime. If your banker chose not to report you, he could have been subject to fines, imprisonment or loss of employment. Needless to say, that accounts for the overwhelming number of citizens and congressmen who complained about the rule. The agencies were forced to withdraw their proposal and mercifully, Know Your Customer, as a proposed federal regulation, died and several attempts have been made in Congress to ensure that it does not return. However, those attempts just might be futile if the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has its way. The OECD is a Paris-based international organization charged with handling international money laundering and other financial crimes along with the Financial Action Task Force, also based in Paris. Its current proposal calls for each of the 28-member nations to increase bank surveillance on customers by instituting Know Your Customer practices. For an international organization to twist the arms of democratic nations in order to get them to adopt policies that conflict with the rights and freedoms of their citizens is no surprise. But the thought that these countries, including our own, are considering them is. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has not calmed the fears of privacy advocates and other Americans who are concerned that this proposal could become a reality. While concerned about the tax implications involving e-commerce is a worthy one, privacy advocates strongly caution O'Neill not to sacrifice our Constitutional rights in the process, especially for a system that has proven itself both unpopular and inadequate. Larry Lindsey, the current White House Assistant for Economic Affairs, and former member of the Federal Reserve Board has repeatedly denounced Know Your Customer as an ineffective program. Last year The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) estimated that one in five suspicious activity reports filed by banks on their customers are related to a serious crime. 45% of those reports involve amounts of money less than $10,000, the limit that is required by law enforcement to begin investigations against citizens. Which means that banks are forwarding personal financial records of citizens to federal agencies that couldn't legally investigate even if they wanted to. That information, which by nature is confidential between a bank and its customer, can be shared with other agencies as well as state and local law enforcement officials WITHOUT A WARRANT. This year alone banks are expected to file approximately a quarter of a million suspicious activity reports on their customers. If these statistics are any real indicator, tens of thousands of innocent bank customers will be reported to the federal government for alleged financial crimes and some might actually be investigated. Why? Because some relative left you some money or your boss gave you an unexpected bonus? Or perhaps because you needed a little more money for the weekend and withdrew from your account? Whatever the case, the bottom line is that this country needs a REAL victory over Know Your Customer rules and its methods of doing so must be conducted through our Constitutional process, and certainly not by international decree. Secretary O'Neill must part ways with the mindset that was so prevalent during the previous administration, namely, that our Constitutional rights are an obstacle to the law rather than the purveyor of it. Bush has so far been successful at restoring
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] Series on Citigroup-Banamex Merger Begins on Narco News
May 21, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Series Begins Today The Citigroup-Banamex Deal The Mexican Press Speaks In the case of Citibank's laundering of Raul Salinas' (brother of Mexico's ex-President) $200 million account... When Salinas was arrested and his large scale theft of government funds was exposed, his private bank manager at Citibank, Amy Elliott told her colleagues that 'this goes in the very, very top of the corporation, this was known...on the very top. We are little pawns in this whole thing' - James Petras La Jornada May 19, 2001 Why are the Mexican people going to pay, through taxes, for the financial bankruptcy of a bank that today is successful because it has foreign capital, and also, because its owners are being paid in dollars? That, certainly, is what is being asked far and wide inside national territory. - Francisco Cárdenas Cruz El Universal May 21, 2001 Dear Colleagues, We start as we often do: by translating what the Latin American press is saying about important news and public policy regarding the war on drugs in our América. The merger announced last week of Citigroup - the largest bank in the world, and with a documented history of laundering illicit drug money - with the National Bank of Mexico (Banamex) has profound implications, and not just for Citigroup, which inherits the Banamex lawsuit against our freedom to publish and your freedom to know. From Mexico City, Francisco Cárdenas Cruz examines The Clamor in Mexico Over Citigroup's Deal: http://www.narconews.com/pulsopolitico1.html And from SUNY Binghamton, in a column published this week in La Jornada of Mexico, James Petras reports on the drug money laundering history of Citibank and other financial giants in Dirty Money: Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire: http://www.narconews.com/petras1.html Keep a close watch this week on page one of Narco News. Alert anybody and everybody interested in the drug war, the economy, banking, international investments and authentic journalism: The Mexican press is raging over the Citigroup-Banamex deal and we are translating its words for all to read. More stories go up later today as part of this major series on Narco News: http://www.narconews.com/ The Drug War on Trial. Now More Than Ever. from somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] FW:Another nadir in homicidal hair-splitting
-Caveat Lector- FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Another nadir in homicidal hair-splitting The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday there is no medical necessity exception to the federal Controlled Substances Act -- a lower appellate court erred by considering relevant the evidence that some people have 'serious medical conditions for whom the use of cannabis is necessary in order to treat or alleviate these conditions or their symptoms,' that these people 'will suffer serious harm if they are denied cannabis,' and that 'there is no legal alternative to cannabis for the effective treatment of their medical conditions.' Federal court prosecution of the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative et al. shall thus proceed, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the unanimous court. The California-based American Medical Marijuana Association (http://americanmarijuana.org/ -- founded by former California Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby) was quick to reassure concerned parties that the ruling was of sharply limited scope: It is important to recognize that the Supreme Court decision did not strike down or in anyway modify any state medical marijuana laws, the AMMA wrote in a press release. The Supreme Court did not say that citizens don't have the right to cultivate and possess medical marijuana within their own state borders. All this decision said is that medical necessity is not a defense to federal law. Bottom line, the AMMA continued, medical marijuana still stands in those states that have approved it. Even the medical marijuana clubs will be largely unaffected, because they will simply switch from distributing medical pot to helping patients grow their own. ... Maybe. But it turns out I wasn't the only person whose first response was to recall the high court's previous nadir of homicidal hair-splitting, when Justice Taney held in the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that black men are property, not persons entitled to the protection of the law. The court and its defenders will whine that they're not supposed to legislate from the bench; that they were only asked whether there is a medical necessity defense under the federal Controlled Substances Act, whereupon they looked it up, determined that there was none, and so ruled. The question of whether the Drug War on a whole is Constitutional wasn't answered because it was never asked. The court simply tells us what Congress intended. Which is a black-hearted lie, of course. If Congress in a fit of madness were to enact the Nazi race laws tomorrow, would the eight justices sit there with straight faces, instructing us We cannot locate within the Act any 'religious freedom' exemption to the requirements that Jews sew yellow stars on their clothing, that Jews are no longer allowed to own businesses, etc.? Of course not. When it's the First Amendment right of religious freedom that's involved, everyone understands the court's first duty is to determine whether the law in question is Constitutional on its face. If it isn't, under the great precedent of Marbury vs. Madison (in which the court answered several questions which no one had bothered to ask, by the way) the law is held to be null and void; we're instructed to treat it as though it never existed. Besides which, attorneys for the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative et al. did assert (as Justice Thomas acknowledges) that the federal drug statute exceeds Congress' Commerce Clause powers, violates the substantive due process rights of patients, and offends the fundamental liberties of the people under the Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments. So there it is, laddies, staring the eight lawyer politicians (Ms. Breyer retired to the powder room) square in the face. Because, you see, the entire federal drug war -- all of 21 U.S.C. -- is blatantly unconstitutional, and any high court obeying its oath to preserve our government of limited power (as opposed to insisting we prostrate ourselves before the majesty of the federal government's plenary authority, holding us down by the elbows while the DEA greases up and services us from behind) would have thrown it out in its entirety the first time they got a look at it. There are no fewer than three independently sufficient grounds on which this could and should be held. The weakest of these is the 10th amendment, which tells us that any power not specifically delegated to the United States by the Constitution is reserved to the states or to the people. Since nowhere in the Constitution is Congress delegated any specific power to regulate drugs, the practice of medicine, or what responsible adults choose to put in their own bodies, any state law (like California's successful 1996 medical marijuana proposition) supersedes federal authority. This is the weakest argument simply because it would seem to authorize state drug wars. I personally wouldn't feel all that much better having my door kicked in and being hauled away
[CTRL] PopularMechanics: On Physical Evidence: WHEN UFOS LAND
-Caveat Lector- [See the URL for pictures and diagrams. --MS] http://www.popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/0105STMIAP.html WHEN UFOS LAND At long last, scientists have there hands on the proof skeptics say doesn't exist -- physical evidence of flying saucers. By Jim Wilson Illustrated by Edwin Herder The rich really are different. When Laurance S. Rockefeller-yes, those Rockefellers-wanted to know more about UFOs, he didn't have to satisfy his curiosity at alien-hunters' Web sites or in the Weird Science section of Barnes Noble. He asked Peter A. Sturrock, the former director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University, to convene a private meeting of a dozen top scientists at the Pocantico Conference Center, on the grounds of the old Rockefeller family estate 20 miles north of Manhattan. Sturrock's guest list and agenda was noteworthy for its omissions. Bob Lazar, who claimed to have reverse-engineered UFOs at Area 51, wasn't invited. Neither was alien-buster Philip J. Klass of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Roswell, the face on Mars and other familiar sightings got little attention. Instead, researchers from Princeton University, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Center for Space Research in France focused on cases with more meat on their bones-sightings in which physical evidence was left behind. While their findings were not conclusive, I hope [they] will raise the level of the debate, Rockefeller said afterward. Ask most scientists what they think of the UFO enigma and you will almost certainly get a scoff and a brushoff like, 'There's not one shred of evidence,' says Bernard Haisch, an astronomer with more than 100 scientific publications to his credit. That answer is simply not true. The problem is that this evidence does not follow our expected scientific logic, and so scientists dismiss what is, in fact, a huge number of accounts. Many sighting reports, as absurd as they sometimes appear, are probably real. Most professional scientists never bother to look at the evidence. Instead, the dogmatic dismissals by professional debunkers, which are often patently ridiculous, are simply taken at face value. As you will see for yourself, some of the cases discussed at Pocantico are difficult for even die-hard skeptics to ignore. Police Cruiser Blackout Luis Delgado was a 28-year-old patrolman for the Haines City, Fla., police department when he became part of one of the most compelling UFO sightings. It happened about 3:50 am, on March 19, 1992. Delgado noticed a rapidly descending green light in his rearview mirror as he drove down a street alongside a citrus grove. The light seemed to keep pace with his cruiser, until he slowed down. Then the silent, dome-shaped object flew overhead, filling his police cruiser with a brilliant green glow. He pulled to a stop, and the power in his vehicle went dead. For the next several minutes he stood outside his car watching the 15-ft.-wide craft hover silently in front of him. It seemed to float about 10 ft. off the ground, cooling the surrounding air to the point at which it formed a foggy mist. Then, just as quickly as it appeared, it sped away. Delgado returned to his car, and found the electrical system was again operating. The scientific panel was very impressed by cases in which electrical equipment was disrupted, says Michael D. Swords, of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. A conference participant at Pocantico, Swords told Popular Mechanics that this type of encounter is far more common than most people realize. UFO investigator Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago told the conference at Pocantico that over the past 50 years more than 500 similar reports had been filed. What distinguishes the Delgado sighting is the inherent credibility of the observer. As a police officer, Delgado had nothing to gain-and possibly a great deal to lose-by coming forward with his account. Trans-En-Provence For UFO investigators, the most disappointing aspect of the Delgado sighting isn't the absence of evidence, but the way evidence has been allowed to simply disappear through neglect. Samples of the nearby road and vegetation were never collected. No radiation measurements of the area were made. UFO researchers in France take the scientific investigations of unexplained aerial phenomena more seriously than those in the United States. The Center for Space Research, France's counterpart to NASA, even has a team that swings into action when these types of events occur. The team is called GEPAN, after the French acronym for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group. The Trans-En-Provence landing site was carefully documented by the French government. [PHOTO BY JEAN-JAQUES VELASCO ] GEPAN investigator Jean-Jacques Velasco told the Pocantico conference the details of what is perhaps the most completely and carefully documented
[CTRL] Backlash Hits Bush Energy Policy
-Caveat Lector- Backlash Hits Bush Energy Policy WASHINGTON, DC, May 18, 2001 (ENS) - Criticisms of the Bush administration's National Energy Policy unveiled Thursday are being expressed by a wide range of citizens groups and politicians from across the political spectrum and around the world. Objections to its reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear power rather than renewables and conservation dominate the comments. The Bush energy plan is an all-you-can-eat buffet for big oil, gas, mining, nuclear, and timber. Industry executives are salivating over this plan more than a Texan at a rib roast, said Brian Vincent, California organizer for the national conservation group American Lands. President Bush's energy policy fails to meet the test of conservative leadership, REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection, said today. The plan doesn't go far enough to improve our energy efficiency, said REP America executive director Jim Scarantino. It perpetuates our dangerous dependence on oil, a national security risk. The plan would pick the taxpayers' pockets to continue giving handouts to the coal and nuclear industries. It threatens America's natural heritage by throwing our wild lands wide open to drilling. And it does little to address global warming, irresponsibly dumping a costly burden on our descendants. California Governor Gray Davis (Photo courtesy Office of the Governor) California Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat whose state has been hit by high energy prices and repeated rolling blackouts, slammed President Bush's energy plan Thursday, saying the administration is turning a blind eye to the bleeding and hemorrhaging that exists in this state. While agreeing with Bush that America needs more supply, Davis faulted the President for not providing California with any immediate relief. We are literally in a war with energy companies, many of which reside in Texas, Davis said. Texas is Bush's home state where he served as governor since 1996 during the time when deregulation of California's electricity industry forced California power suppliers to purchase electricity out of state. Sensitive to the storm of complaints, President George W. Bush, out selling the plan to the American public, is stressing the parts of his energy plan that deal with conservation and renewables. President George W. Bush (Photo courtesy the White House) It starts with encouraging and enhancing conservation efforts all around America, Bush told a crowd in Conestoga, Pennsylvania today. We're going to have better cars, I'm convinced of it, that have better mileage, rely less upon hydrocarbons. We'll have better homes, many of which will be powered by solar energy. This future is fantastic for the country. And a lot of it is based upon good, sound conservation measures, the president said. But Bush went on to extoll the virtues of nuclear power generation, and press his view that drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in other fragile ecosystems can be done with little environmental impact and must be done not only for national security reasons, but for international reasons, as well. Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federation, America's largest environmental organization said, The nation's need for a stable energy supply must not be satisfied at the expense of people, wildlife and wild places. We must not surrender our natural treasures to a short sighted drilling frenzy, as this plan threatens. The administration proposes to rush ahead with increased energy production, invading some of the nation's wildest and most sensitive public lands by side-stepping the very safeguards established to protect them. The McGuire nuclear power plant near Charlotte, North Carolina, is owned and operated by Duke Power. (Photo courtesy Nuclear Regulatory Commission) The Bush-Cheney administration's promotion of nuclear energy is distressingly short-sighted and potentially dangerous, said Kyle Rabin, Nuclear Energy Policy Project Director for the Albany, New York based Environmental Advocates. It's all about denial and fantasy: Denying the nuclear meltdowns and near disasters; fantasizing that Yucca Mountain will solve the country's radioactive waste problems. Nuclear power must be phased out. The League of Conservation Voters, a national organization, rejected the Bush plan because it focuses on dirty, unreliable and inefficient fossil fuels and other energy sources that threaten the health of our environment and the strength of our economy. Bush's proposal will ensure high public health costs and energy demand well into the future, protecting the corporate bottom line of his big oil and coal allies at the expense of the public's interest in clean air, safe water, open spaces, and low electricity and gas prices, the voters' advocacy group said. Bush's dirty, unbalanced, irresponsible energy policy has placed the special oil and coal
[CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Fw: Scientists Often Mum About Ties to Industry
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orgonelab.org **NY TIMES, April 25, 2001Scientists Often Mum About Ties to IndustryBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERGWASHINGTON, April 24Scientists who report research findings are expectedto divulge any financial ties that might influence their work. But oftenthey do not, according to the first comprehensive analysis of disclosurepolicies in science and medical journals.In reviewing 61,134 scholarly articles published in 181 academic journalsin 1997, researchers at Tufts University and the University of Californiaat Los Angeles found that just one-half of 1 percent detailed personalfinancial interests, including consulting arrangements, honorariums,expert witness fees, company equity and stock, and patents. All of thosefew disclosures appeared in just a third of the 181 journals.It is possible, of course, that scientists have few conflicts to report.But experts say previous studies have shown that as many as half of allacademic researchers consult with industry, and roughly 8 percent havestakes in biomedical companies related to their research.So the more likely explanation, said Dr. Sheldon Krimsky, a professor ofurban and environmental policy at Tufts and the studys lead author, isthat journal editors "are not forceful enough" in requiring disclosure,"or there is widespread disobedience" of their rules.Dr. Krimskys study appears in the April issue of Science and EngineeringEthics, a journal that was not part of his survey.It comes at a time of increasing concern about the effects ofcommercialization of science. And the findings are not surprising, saidDr. David Blumenthal, director of the Institute for Health Policy, aresearch center at Massachusetts General Hospital.Dr. Blumenthal, who studies the ties between academia and industry, saidthat scientists who failed to report conflicts generally "believe thatthey are people of integrity, and they feel they can separate their workfrom their financial interests."But research suggests otherwise, Dr. Blumenthal said. Studies have foundthat scientists with financial ties to the companies whose products theystudy are more likely to write favorably about those products.The issue of financial disclosure has been in the news of late; lastyear, the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine apologized toreaders for violating their own conflict-of-interest policies bypublishing reviews of the medical literature on drug therapies despitethe reviewers financial relationships with the companies marketing thedrugs.Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen, The Journals editor in chief, said thatpersuading scientists to divulge personal financial data was not easy."We have to work at it," he said. When researchers ignore inquiries aboutconflicts, he said, many journals, including his own, assume none exist.Dr. Drazen said editors of journals around the world would meet in Mayand discuss whether researchers should be required to submit either adisclosure of conflict or what he called an "active negativedisclosure," a declaration that the researcher is free of financialconflict.**OBRL News is a product of the non-profitOrgone Biophysical Research LabGreensprings Research and Educational CenterPO Box 1148, Ashland, Oregon 97520 USAhttp://www.orgonelab.org = 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=
[CTRL] UPI: FORENSIC WASHING MACHINE
-Caveat Lector- FORENSIC WASHING MACHINE By By JIM KLING (UPI) A 'washing machine' that can separate forensic evidence from soil could save valuable time at the scenes of crime investigations. The old-fashioned way - rummaging through soil or vacuumed material by hand with a magnifying glass takes hours and isn't efficient, Jay Siegel, a researcher at Michigan State University who helped develop the system, told New Scientist. You can sort for days and never see what you want. The 'Trace Evidence Concentrator' was originally developed to wash delicate plant roots. It dumps material into a whirlpool, and tiny holes in the bottom of the tank blow air bubbles up through the whirlpool, causing less dense fragments to rise to the surface. Those fragments -- hairs, for example -- are directed into filters that sort them by size. One limitation to the device is that it isn't suitable for water-soluble evidence, like blood. Copyright 2001 by United Press International and Heavy Sci. 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 List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYP: ONLY ONE BOYCOTT GETS REPORTED
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/40327.htm ONLY ONE BOYCOTT GETS REPORTED - --- May 18, 2001 -- MEDIA WATCH THE metro section of yesterday's New York Times carried a long piece by David M. Herszenhorn on a protest by Yale's left-wing faculty members over plans to present President Bush with an honorary degree. As Ira Stoll of smartertimes.com notes, what makes the piece particularly unusual is that The Times has been completely silent about another Yale protest - plans by conservative students to boycott Hillary Rodham Clinton's appearance there Sunday as Class Day speaker. It's not as if no one has written about the protest: William F. Buckley Jr., for example, wrote a nationally syndicated column about it which The Post published on March 31. Also unmentioned by The Times is how the Ivy League has boycotted the new White House team - in favor of Clinton officials. In fact, the president's appearance at his alma mater is the only scheduled Ivy League commencement speech by an administration official. Besides Hillary's Yale invite, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has been picked to deliver commencement speeches at Harvard and Williams, while ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will do the honors at Brown. = 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] OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS---SPLIT IN FBI? FURTHER DETAILS
-Caveat Lector- OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS---SPLIT IN FBI? FURTHER DETAILS by Sherman H. Skolnick 05/11/01 The following further details in this report might be helpful in understanding the situation 1. As stated, the head of the McVeigh defense team, attorney Stephen Jones, prior to the 1997 McVeigh murder trial, filed a Petition for Mandamus, an extra-ordinary attempted remedy in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, Denver. Because of perceived prejudice against a fair trial in Oklahoma, the case had been transferred to Denver U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch. Prior to the beginning of the trial, Jones was attempting to force Judge Matsch to order the release of secret records in the possession of U.S. intelligence agencies, corroborating that U.S. dissidents were secretly surrogates for an Iraqi revenge plot to carry out a major terrorist attack on an Oklahoma City federal office building. That these records, also referred to in secret court records, would show Iraqi complicity, as known in advance by U.S. intelligence agencies, as referred to in Jones' unpublicized Petition of some 185 pages. The spy-riddled monopoly press did not bring out an important detail. Namely, that Judge Matsch was intimidated into keeping these records secret to protect the Clinton White House cover-up of the multiple bombings of the Murrah Building as well as protecting the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and others of the spy agency Establishment. How? Judge Matsch's daughter was apparently murdered. She somehow fell into a volcano in Hawaii. This apparent murder made the Judge naturally distraught. The apparent murder example also was known to and intimidated the Federal Appeals Judges in Denver who after the McVeigh murder trial, conducted without these highly revealing records, upheld the District Court's guilty verdict of McVeigh. So both the trial judge and the federal appeals Judges in Denver had been coerced into going along with a cover up by murder close to home. Will trial Judge Matsch and/or the federal appeals judges, all apparently intimidated by the apparent murder, do something at this late date to bring out the true nature of the bombings of a federal office building in Oklahoma City? 2. The apparent split in the FBI by which some three thousand records suddenly showed up also involves the super-secret Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. Seldom accurately referred to by the pressfakers, FEMA is not authorized OR FUNDED by Congress. According to very well placed sources, FEMA secretly funds their covert operations, planning to run the U.S. FROM ABOVE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, with huge funds garnered from the CIA's dope trafficking into the U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney has promoted the idea that FEMA should take over all anti-terrorist planning of the U.S., thus excluding the FBI, and causing a rift between the FBI and FEMA. Yes, FEMA seeks to run the U.S. from ABOVE the U.S. Constitution and yes, I recognize such a doing is itself unconstitutional. [The martial law edict, quietly signed several years ago by President Clinton and carried over by alleged President or White House resident George W. Bush, provides---now get this---that no judge in the U.S. has jurisdiction to consider any challenge to the martial law edict. We are about the only ones publicly stating that several federal judges in the U.S. wear two hats---one as federal judge, and two, generally unknown, as FEMA official. One such judge sits in the Federal Court in Chicago. We pointed all these details out in a several hundred page documented lawsuit, in January, 1991, against FEMA, in Chicago's Federal District Court. Yes, a federal judge on behalf of FEMA dismissed our suit in secret, without any legal formality.] 3. Despite the military coup planned against Clinton as President, referred to in our story, Clinton was never concerned. Why? Because he had reason to know that his rise to and stay in power was orchestrated with the aid of blackmail and murder. We mentioned how supposed Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr was blackmailed. Clinton benefitted from an epidemic of suspicious if not sabotaged military aircraft crashes and from the strange death of those who knew too much about Clinton and about the military coup plot against him. One of those who knew too much and was reportedly sympathetic if not supportive of the coup, was General David McCloud, head of he Alaska Military District. He died in a sabotaged plane crash. His military colleagues are aware of the terrible details but refuse to allow a reporter to publicly identify them or take their position public. His relatives tend to agree with our details. 4. Some in the monopoly press, who talk to us off the record and we agree never to identify them as sources, contend such details as in our stories, which they believe to be true but cannot go in print or on the air with them, could well topple the U.S. government.
Re: [CTRL] OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS---SPLIT IN FBI? FURTHER DETAILS
-Caveat Lector- Split in FBI - we have the KGB operating in the FBI? Like Kissinger works in counter-intelligence? Only Kissinger was secret agent KGB Code Name Bor? As for Strassmeier - he is Jewish and Germanis under control of Zionism. 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: ONLY ONE BOYCOTT GETS REPORTED
-Caveat Lector- By their fruits we do know them. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away
-Caveat Lector- I am not against taking action when it is called for. But something (other than manipulation of money) that threatens me personally has to actually happen, not just be possible, before I get very excited. By the time you figure out that it has already happened, it will be too late, if it isn't already. Knowing how prevalent that attitude is helps to keep the bad guys winning. Most people can't stand up for a moral principle unless it affects them personally in the pocket book. Thanks for expressing this so well. None of us really have the whole picture. The best we can do is work to uncover as much information as possible and try to connect the dots. Because of the work of such people as Antony Sutton, Eustace Mullins, Peter Dale Scott and many others, we have a better picture of how money works. But more help is needed. -Original Message- From: Dale Stonehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:31 AM Subject: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away -Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Linda Minor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] RE: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won' t Go Away -Caveat Lector- Some have taken the fact that a few generations back George Bush's grandfather married into the Walker family and make that the basis of their research. All connections seem to follow from that. So where do YOU think the money George and Jeb and Neil and Marvin--not to mention Bucky, Prescott, Jr., and the rest of them--have to invest comes from? I never said they did not do some of the things they have been said to do. My point is that I do not have the whole picture and unless and until I do I refuse to make any moral judgments. I believe the job of rendering judgment is already taken. I don't care about their money or where they got it. I do not have to answer for their actions, only they do. And if they could be stopped, it would have been done long ago. After getting 288 pages into American Terrorist by Michel and Herbeck I would agree that McVeigh and others may be victims of mind control technology. But if so, why is McVeigh so determined to take all the credit for the OKC bombing? He killed 168 people all by himself (or so he says) because of something that MIGHT happen - and might not. This I call the spilled milk syndrome. The parent says you're going to spill your milk. Some children might believe the parent. And some may think the parent is insane or clairvoyant. I am not against taking action when it is called for. But something (other than manipulation of money) that threatens me personally has to actually happen, not just be possible, before I get very excited. Others will take other views of the future and that is their right as a human being. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available
[CTRL] Jobless in Utopia
-Caveat Lector- conservativeinfo - Subscribe to the Conservative Information email list at http://conservativeinfo.listbot.com Montana sawmill tries to stave off extinction By Sean Paige SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES EUREKA, Mont. -- Thousands of trucks carrying hand-hewn logs descended on this tiny northwestern Montana town last week in a bid to save the area´s last independent sawmill and draw attention to rural areas hit hard by the Clinton administration´s environmental policies. Trucks lined up through the day to drop off their loads at the Owens and Hurst Lumber Co., which laid off a third of its work force in January as a result of declining access to timber on national forests. To keep going, the sawmill has been hauling in burned logs from Alberta, Canada, more than 500 miles away. At the fairgrounds, Gov. Judy Martz applauded the little town´s perseverance in the face of economic adversity and said she believes the Bush administration understands Western issues and at least is willing to listen. Mrs. Martz, a Republican, blasted the Clinton administration´s roadless initiative and called for more aggressive management of federal forests and local input. It´s time that Washington, D.C., listens first to those closest to the land, she said. Mrs. Martz and other speakers said Americans need to understand that logging and healthy forests have a symbiotic relationship, and that the non-management of federal forests during the Clinton years have left them overgrown, diseased and fire-prone. It´s not about logging, it´s about forest health, Mrs. Martz said. And logging is one of the tools to ensure a healthy forest. The Eureka Log Haul drew participants from as far away as Ohio, including one man who flew a log on a small airplane. The declining fortunes of mining, oil and timber -- Montana´s bread-and-butter industries since its founding -- have left the state in dire economic straits. Last year, Montana ranked last nationally in average wages paid and near the bottom in per capita income earned. The closure of two major sawmills last year was a serious blow to Lincoln County, where more than 50 percent of the economy is tied to the wood products industry and unemployment is four times the national average. The 30 percent decline in wood products production in the last decade is related directly to a 70 percent reduction in trees harvested from national forests, largely because of the Endangered Species Act, said Chuck Keegan, a timber industry specialist with the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana. I would place almost all the blame for the timber industry´s decline on the 70 percent reduction on timber sale offerings from national forests, said Mr. Keegan. Mills like the one in Eureka cannot survive unless they are assured a dependable supply of timber off national forests, said sawmill co-owner Jim Hurst. Our immediate survival depends on the accelerated sale of timber that was burned [in wildfires] last year, Mr. Hurst said. Those sales will buy the mill time while we figure out what´s going to happen with the Forest Service in the new administration. Bob Seidel, timber management assistant at the Eureka office of the Kootenai National Forest, doesn´t expect the amount of timber sold in that district to rise much in the future because of critical habitat designation for grizzly bear, wolf and other endangered species. But his office is hustling to put together a sale on stands of timber burned in wildfires last summer, he said, and is trying to implement a stay on the salvage timber sale, which will speed along the process by allowing work to go forward while any appeals to the sales are considered. 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
[CTRL] No Subject
-Caveat Lector- test 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] Let the Riot Begin
-Caveat Lector- Let the Riot Begin http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45536-2001May18.html A defunct Gothic prison, stun guns, tear gas, beer and testosterone. Who says criminal justice can't be fun? by Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 20, 2001; Page F01 MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- SUDDENLY, THE STEEL DOOR SWUNG OPEN and somebody threw something in. It exploded -- BOOM! -- and then the SWAT team swarmed into the cafeteria of the West Virginia Penitentiary. They held Plexiglas shields that pumped out a pulsing, blinding red light. The inmates threw Styrofoam trays of food at them and little orange carrot cubes bounced off the shields. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder, the SWAT team advanced, step by step, led by a snarling German shepherd who barked angrily. The inmates retreated, throwing chairs. One prisoner charged the advancing line and the guards slammed him to the concrete floor. The crowd watching from behind glass windows cheered lustily. Nice move!! one impressed observer muttered. The observers were guards from prisons around the country. Most of the inmates were also prison guards. The SWAT team was from Minnesota. And this was the first of 36 riot-training scenarios at the Mock Prison Riot here, a four-day festival of technology, testosterone and controlled mayhem. Get down! the leader of the Minnesota SWAT team screamed. Get down! His men fired tear gas and pressed forward relentlessly. One by one, the inmates gave up, lying facedown on the concrete. . The official safety observer blew his horn, ending the riot. The crowd cheered. But something was wrong. The inmates rushed outside, coughing and gasping for air, their eyes oozing tears. Somebody had screwed up and firedem real/em tear gas. Lawrence Kosiba, the man who runs the Mock Prison Riot, was not happy. They're supposed to use 'inert' gas, he said. Kosiba looked worried. The inmates were sprawled on the grass around him, sucking wind. And there were still another 35 riots to go. The fifth annual Mock Prison Riot had kicked off the previous night, which was Sunday, April 29, with a gala buffet dinner in the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Wheeling. . Look around the room, Kosiba said from the dais. There is a little bit of beef here.. He wasn't talking about the food. He was talking about the people. They were, indeed, beefy -- large men (and a few formidable women) with bulging biceps and military haircuts, some of them already wearing their combat boots and camouflage pants. They were correctional officers -- the term prison guard is no longer politically correct -- from 35 states. Most were members of tactical teams titled with curt macho acronyms: SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) or CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team) or SORT (Special Operations Response Team).). We are full, folks! Kosiba announced. Between the correctional officers, the students and the vendors hoping to sell high-tech prison gadgets, there would be nearly 1,400 people at the Mock Prison Riot. There's no more room! Kosiba is the director of the Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization, the federally funded program, based at Wheeling Jesuit University, that invented the Mock Prison Riot in 1997. He introduced Ralph DiRemigio, the mayor of Moundsville, who had been a guard at the now-closed penitentiary where the Mock Riot would take place. I want to give you a feel for the place, DiRemigio told the guards as they chowed down. Built in the 1870s and closed in 1995, the huge Gothic stone-walled state pen once held over 2,100 inmates, he said, plus a coal mine, an electric power plant, and factories that made mattresses and license plates. It was also the site of 85 hangings and nine electrocutions. DiRemigio remembered the last electrocution, which took place in 1959, and he told the crowd a story about it. On the day of the execution, the condemned man asked a guard to turn on the radio. The guard did. And you know what the song was? DiRemigio asked. He smiled and then started singing: So long, it's been good to know you. The guards burst out laughing. . So help me, DiRemigio said, grinning, that's a true story.. Kosiba introduced Paul Kirby, the former head of the West Virginia Department of Corrections, who touted the advantages of holding mock riots in a deserted old prison: In this facility, you can blow it up, tear it up, smoke it up. I don't care what you do. The crowd buzzed with anticipation. There will be more testosterone there tomorrow morning than you can shake a stick at, Kirby said. You're going to have a great, great time!! When the dinner was over and the speeches were done, Kosiba urged the guards to have a nice, safe riot. Then he left them some final words of wisdom. . This is your riot, he said. It's not for us, it's yours! Business Is Booming We're number one!! The United States of America currently incarcerates nearly 2 million people in jails and prisons -- a higher number than any other
[CTRL] The American Terrorist...
-Caveat Lector- The American Terrorist: A PINCH OF POLITICS, A POUND OF HATE by Rodger Doyle Scientific American Say terrorism, and most people think Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh, but they are just a small, if scary, part of a much larger American problem. The accumulation of solid data on U.S. terrorism is only now beginning, most notably with the FBI's tabulation of hate crimes starting in the early 1990s. These and other reports suggest that the number of terrorist acts against Americans worldwide over the past 20 years is 250,000 to 300,000. During this time, at least 1,500 Americans have died in terrorist incidents that, in their timing, were utterly unpredictable. Most died as a result of bombings. Fewer than 3,000 of the terrorist acts were committed abroad, most prominently by Muslim groups, who have killed about 600 Americans since 1982 (the majority of them in the bombings of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 and Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988). The biggest domestic terrorist act in recent years was, of course, the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Political beliefs have little to do with domestic terrorism. The McVeigh group and other organized, overtly ideological extremists, whether right-wing, left-wing, anti-Muslim, pro-Muslim, anti-Castro, Puerto Rican nationalist, eco-terrorist, animal liberationist or cyber-terrorist, probably accounted for a small number of incidents since 1982, when the FBI began keeping systematic records. Rather the largest categories of terrorist offenses are racial/ethnic crimes (mostly against blacks), followed by religious (mostly anti-Semitic) and anti-gay crimes. The occurrence of racial/ethnic offenses declined during the 1990s, while religious and anti-gay offenses held steady. Many, perhaps most, of these incidents were spur-of-the-moment acts by individuals or ad hoc groups. Another important category, one that is not adequately covered by official statistics, is attacks against and harassment of abortion-services providers. The National Abortion Federation, in its incomplete tabulation of violence and threats, estimates such incidents at 12,000 from 1984 to 2000, with a substantial decline since 198889, the peak years of clinic protests. Unfortunately, there are no reliable statistics on other kinds of terrorism, such as student attacks on other students, exemplified by the infamous Columbine shootings in 1999, and police violence against civilians, as in the notorious Rodney King episode of 1992. It would be useful to include such acts, as well as anti-abortion terrorism, in the national reporting system. That way, Americans will have a comprehensive and reliable picture of all types of terrorist acts. DEFINING TERRORISM There is no agreement on what constitutes terrorism. The U.S. State Department says it is premeditated, politically motivated violence by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience. The FBI says it is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence against persons or property in furtherance of political or social objectives. In this article terrorism is defined as the use or threat. of violence to make a statement about ideological or cultural beliefs. The conscious aim may or may not be to coerce a government or a group of people into granting the terrorists' demands. Rodger Doyle's e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Will Europe Ban Aspartame? - UK Orders A Full Investigation
-Caveat Lector- Will Europe Ban Aspartame? - UK Orders A Full Investigation From Betty Martini (Betty's comments at end of article) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5-21-1 Action at last over additive Aspartame as fears grow of health risk in food and drink. The Government has ordered a top-level investigation into the safety of Britain's best-selling sweetener amid fears that the low calorie chemical is a health risk. Aspartame, used in thousands of diet food and drinks has been linked to more than 90 adverse reactions including brain tumours and blindness. The Sunday Express has seen a leaked letter which reveals the Government's food watchdog - the Food Standards Agency - has sent more than 500 research papers on the chemical to the Brussels-based Scientific Committee on Food. If it finds it is a health risk, the sweetener widely used in fizzy drinks, squashes, yoghurts, spring water, chewing gum and pharmaceutical products, and often sold under the names NutraSweet and Canderel, could be banned. Last night, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is campaigning for NutraSweet to be taken off the shelves added: This is a very positive step. Doubts have been raised about this product and they need to be cleared. Last September, the Sunday Express led calls for an inquiry after our investigations discovered large numbers of people were claiming their health had been damaged by the sweetener. They included Lyn Hunter, 49, of Liverpool, who regularly drank diet drinks with Aspartame and had pain in her limbs, headaches, lack of concentration and insomnia. Her constant pain became so great she even considered suicide. Her doctor treated her for arthritis even though tests for this condition were negative. When she eliminated Aspartame her symptoms disappeared. The leaked letter from food scientist Dr Sandy Lawrie expresses concern that Aspartame has not been reviewed by the Scientific Committee on Food for 13 years. It states: We have discovered more than 500 papers on Aspartame published between 1988 and 2000. There is clearly sufficient new data on Aspartame to justify a review. Sources at the agency say that if scientists find strong evidence about dangers of a product, they will advise an EU-wide ban. A spokeswoman for European manufacturers of Aspartame, Ajinomoto, said: All of the good scientific data shows it is safe. No data raises any concerns about Aspartame either new or old. However, many studies which have not been sponsored by the food industry highlight potential dangers. Professor Ralph Walton of Northwestern Ohio Universities said: I dispute the assertion that there are no health risks. I believe Aspartame increases risk of cancer. Virtually all the studies attesting to its safety have been funded by the industry. One independent study on animals shows how digestion breaks Aspartame down into formaldehyde, which accumulates in the animals' cells, damaging DNA and poisoning the liver, kidneys, eye and brain. However, the manufacturers argue that all the constituents of Aspartame are found in much
[CTRL] SNET: GUESS WHAT'S GOING ON IN SCHOOL........ (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Well with Education like this going on in california, no wonder they think they can repeal the law of supply and demand. The rest of the country is no doubt not far behind. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:59:20 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: GUESS WHAT'S GOING ON IN SCHOOL - SNETNEWS Mailing List Guess What's Going On In School! May 16, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly While the education debate in Congress revolves around standards, testing, accountability and spending, 3,000 miles away on the Left Coast, very different factors have leapt to center stage. Santa Rosa (CA) High School held a Week of Diversity on April 9-13 that included 82 presentations by outside speakers. The announcement letter sent to parents permitted them to opt out their children, but said the event was essential to the exposure and understanding of important topics and teen issues not normally taught in our public school system. However, the letter failed to mention a controversial assembly entitled Sex and Stuff. Students who had been excused from the other presentations attended the assembly. Sex and Stuff was a play presented by the San Marin High School Peer Counselors. According to parents who attended, the play depicted all the ills and sadness a high school student could ever experience, from sexual molestation to rape to unwanted pregnancy, HIV infection, anorexia, deaths from drunk driving, fights, and even suicide. Still worse, according to parent Orlean Koehle, were the vulgar, inappropriate sex scenes, beginning with a very suggestive dance followed by a scene where a bra, undies, and nylons are thrown from behind a sheet. Another scene, by virtue of sound effects, was suggestive of sexual intercourse taking place behind the sheet. Although the play occasionally contained a redeeming statement or line, these were surrounded by such filth that only the filth is likely to be remembered. The teaching of abstinence included recommendations for alternative sex acts. Some parents were so outraged at the school's failure to notify them about the assembly that they contacted the Pacific Justice Institute, which found the lack of notice in direct violation of California education code. PJI is now working with parents to help them assert their legal remedies and hold the school accountable. Some parents, who opted their children out of the 82 presentations listed in the announcement, attended the classes themselves. Mrs. Koehle reported that at least half the classes were conducted by an amazing lineup of leftist, radical, Marxist speakers. Fourteen classes addressed gender, homophobia, and AIDS issues, all in support of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ideology that these lifestyles are not a choice, but genetic, and that they are healthy and normal. The week-long agenda included more than 20 hours of pro-homosexual indoctrination and only one 50-minute presentation in opposition to the gay agenda. Eleven classes espoused radical leftist ideology and causes. These included support for Communist Cuba, for guerrilla forces in Colombia, and for stopping American Imperialism imposed by greedy capitalist corporations. One class offered support for social change to make America like Cuba where the government owns everything and gives it out equally to the people so there are no rich and no poor. Seventeen classes supported leftist environmental causes, animal rights, or vegetarianism. Speakers from Amnesty International and the Sierra Club encouraged students to change their diets and become environmental activists. Five classes were devoted to police bashing, including a video depicting police brutality and tales of alleged atrocities committed by the Santa Rosa police department. Students were encouraged to support a group called the Purple Berets and the ACLU in setting up a Citizens Review Board to monitor the police. One class was conducted by militants representing the Midnight Special Law Firm. Students were given a three-page handout that warned, Never trust the police, and included tips on how to engage in civil disobedience. Two classes focused on making a hate-free world. One presenter portrayed a person who expresses hatred as a believer in a book which she reads every morning, especially on Sunday, and which supposedly gives her the right to hate and to put down others. Everyone understood what book the presenter was referring to. Christian students felt they were being accused of prejudice. The California Education Code is really very pro-parent, but it was ignored by Diversity Week. Education Code 51554(b) requires written notification to parents prior to
[CTRL] B'Ad
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/05/02bigsellramonet }}Begin Manufacturing desire by IGNACIO RAMONET The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. Samuel Johnson, 1759. Advertising and its tricks are not new (1). As early as the 12th century town criers ran through the streets shouting out announcements. In the 18th century, with the introduction of lithography, the first commercial advertisements appeared and covered all available walls and fences. In the 19th century advertising became a market-centred activity, creating the publicity machine as it conquered the newspapers. In 1836 Emile de Girardin decided to launch his mass circulation daily newspaper La Presse and to make space available for commercial advertising, says Libération. In 1832 Charles Havas set up the first international information agency, which was soon dealing with advertising as well. In 1865 classified ads accounted for one-third of newspaper space (2). In the late 19th century the large companies founded during the industrial revolution began creating mass markets and shaping demand. For there is nothing natural about mass consumption. It is a cultural and social construction. In 1892 Coca-Cola already had one of the world's largest advertising budgets. In 1912 the Advertising Club of America declared it to be the best-publicised American product Coca-Cola's advertising budget for that year i ncluded $300,000 for newspaper ads, a million calendars, 2m ashtrays, 5m lithographic signs and 10m Coca-Cola-coloured matchboxes (3). The company's executives had understood that they had to reach the largest number of p otential buyers. As one put it, Repetition wins out in the end. One drop of water can pierce a rock (4). With the rise of the media electric (cinema and radio), electronic (television) and digital (internet) advertising, of increasing sophistication, expanded enormously in the 20th century. The drive to shape people's th inking and reach into their homes achieved semi-scientific status. Techniques of persuasion became refined enough to pierce the constant hubbub of communication and deliver precise messages to our brains. The advertising barrage in developed nations is now estimated at a total of 2,500 daily hits per person. In 1999 the French TV channels showed more than 500,000 ads. These sorts of figures mean that any single commercial has very little chance of standing out. One study found that 85% of ads had no effect at all on their intended audience, 5% had a negative effect (they boomeranged) and only 10% had any positive influence. Moreover, due to the imperfections of human memory, the 10% figure dips to only 5% after 24 hours: 95% of all ads are lost. In the blinking of an eye What must advertising do to influence us? There was an attempt to reduce messages to a single image subliminal imagery to make advertising imperceptible. A parasite image inserted within the 24 frames per second use d in the cinema (25 per second on TV) circumvents normal retinal reaction time. The eye sees the message and the brain registers it, but only subliminally, below the edge of consciousness (from the Latin limen, threshold) . This is regarded as illegal, but the idea still appeals (5). In France, following François Mitterrand's 1988 election victory, the newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris accused him of having benefited from secret subliminal im ages hidden in the credits of a TV news programme aired on the Antenne 2 network. Legal proceedings were brought on the grounds of electoral manipulation but the plaintiffs were unsuccessful. France's regulatory body for telecommunications and broadcasting nevertheless decided to ban all hidden images. Last May an American group accused the film Battlefield Earth, based on a novel by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, of containing subliminal images designed to win converts. Last September, in the middle of the Un ited States election campaign, George W Bush acknowledged that an ad produced by his Republican team contained a subliminal image. The ad was critical of the platform of his Democratic opponent, Al Gore. Superimposed over Gore's picture was the phrase The Gore Prescription Plan: Bureaucrats Decide. Then, over a black background, the last four letters of the word bureaucrats appeared in capitals RATS for a fraction of a second, fil ling the entire screen (6). Under intense media pressure, the Bush campaign was forced to pull the ad. Advertising sees itself as the art of persuasion, and its messages are carefully wrought. Consumers and their visual reactions are studied in depth. Prior to distribution, images are sometimes tested using an eye camera spectators watch an image and their pupil response is recorded by an invisible camera. The path traced by the eye can be statistically determined: what the eye sees first, what it fails to
[CTRL] SNET: Woman Beaten To Death For Not Being Sterilized..... (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:48:41 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: Woman Beaten To Death For Not Being Sterilized. - SNETNEWS Mailing List PLEASE REMEMBER THAT CHINA IS A MOST FAVORED NATION TO YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (and as such, to YOU also) AND WAS INSTUMENTAL IN PUTTING WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON INTO THE WHITEHOUSE. PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT NOW HAS ALL OF OUR MISSILE GUIDANCE TECHNOLOGIES AND HARDWARE TO PUT A THERMONUCLEAR MISSILE ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT IT SO DEEMS NECESSARY.Please cogitate it's important Sadly Submitted, Bob Chinese woman refusing sterilization beaten to death BEIJING, May 19 (AFP) - A 34-year-old woman in southeast China's Fujian province was beaten to death by birth-control officials who wanted to sterilize her against her will, her relatives said on Saturday. Sun Zhonghua, from a farming family in Xiapu county near the provincial capital of Fuzhou, was taken away by birth-control officials from her home by daybreak on Wednesday, a relative told AFP by telephone. The officials told Sun, the mother of two boys aged 12 and 13, that she was to be taken to the birth-control clinic for sterilization, a procedure they had previously been pressing her to submit herself to. She refused vehemently, showing documents obtained from a local hospital in April that the planned operation was not advisable because of a medical condition. Despite her and her relatives' protests, she was forced into a waiting car and driven away. In the afternoon of the same day, officials informed Sun's relatives that she had died after jumping from the fourth floor of the building housing the local birth-control administration. Family members who were allowed to see her body discovered large bruises to her head and different parts of her body. There is no way she could have received those injuries from jumping to her death, said the relative. During the anxious hours on Wednesday while Sun's relatives were waiting for news about her, they went to the police to report the birth-control officials' violent manner when taking her from her home. But they were given the rounds by a string of police officials, who appeared unwilling to get involved in the case. We tried to report the incident, but there was no one to report to, said the relative. Already being the mother of two, Sun understood that she had to conform with national population policies and had no plans of giving birth to more children, her family said. She had gone to the hospital every year since 1992 to make sure she was not pregnant, they said. China's controversial one child policy continues to result in serious human rights violations 20 years after it became law. In the early years, the world was shocked by mass campaigns to round up women and sterilize them almost like cattle. Such public campaigns are rare now, but the policy is being enforced in ways that many human rights groups say are equally unjust. Pressure on China's army of family planning workers to meet the birth quota in their jurisdiction have led to widespread excesses. Family planning workers and local officials resort to beating people, locking them up illegally, confiscating livestock and destroying their homes. Despite the harsh measures, births are still growing at an annual rate of 10 million and the government has vowed to continue the policy to cap the population at 1.6 billion by the year 2050. China's population now stands at nearly 1.3 billion, the largest in the world. Beijing credits the policy for helping the country avoid 300 million births. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b2B0gP Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ 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] What's up with the list?
-Caveat Lector- I got 80+ messages on Saturday, and none today. Is Listserv pulling a Yahoo? Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush's Contra Buddies
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010507s=kornbluh COMMENT | May 7, 2001 Bush's Contra Buddies by PETER KORNBLUH The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A number of his foreign policy appointments are former Iran/ contra operatives who are being rehabilitated and rewarded with powerful foreign policy posts. John Negroponte's nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations is a case in point. Bush has named him to represent the United States at an institution built on principles that include nonintervention, international law and human rights. Qualifications for the job: Negroponte was a central player in a bloody paramilitary war that flagrantly violated those principles and was repeatedly denounced by the institution in which he would now serve. As ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was the acknowledged "boss" of the early covert contra operations; he also acted as a proconsul, working closely with the Honduran military commander, whose forces aided the covert war while his embassy consistently denied or misrepresented politically inconvenient evidence of atrocities and abuse. The nomination of Otto Reich to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere is even more offensive to international and domestic principles. A longtime anti-Castro Cuban-American, Reich is backed by Senator Jesse Helms and the hard-line exile groups that want political payback for giving Bush his real or imagined margin of victory in Florida. Like Negroponte, Reich was a key player in the illicit contra war. In 1983 a CIA propaganda specialist named Walter Raymond handpicked Reich to head the new and innocuous-sounding Office of Public Diplomacy. Housed in the State Department, Reich's office actually answered directly to Raymond and to Oliver North in the White House. A General Accounting Office review showed that Reich's office repeatedly provided sole source contracts to other members of North's network, including those involved in illegal fundraising for arms. More important, a Comptroller General's review concluded that Reich's office had "engaged in prohibited, covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public." Among those activities, as revealed in declassified records, were "white propaganda" operations--having contractors plant articles in the press or influence print and TV coverage while hiding their government connection--and using US military psychological warfare personnel to engage in, as Reich put it, "persuasive communications" intended to influence public opinion. Reich himself engaged in a crude form of "persuasive communications," personally berating media executives and harassing reporters if news coverage was not favorable to the Reagan Administration's position. When NPR's All Things Considered ran the first major investigative report on contra human rights atrocities, Reich demanded a meeting with its editors, producers and reporters, at which he informed them that his office was "monitoring" all their programs and that he considered NPR to be biased against the contras and US policy. A Washington Post stringer remembers that after a contentious briefing from Reich in Managua in which the stringer and a reporter from Newsweek questioned the truthfulness of the Administration's assertions, an article appeared in a right-wing newsletter put out by Accuracy in Media calling him a "johnny sandinista" and falsely asserting that the Nicaraguan government was providing the two reporters with prostitutes. Reich's office, the then-US Ambassador to Managua told the Post reporter, was responsible for the rumors. Reich's role as a revolving-door lobbyist is also likely to be a factor in his nomination hearings. As a partner in the Brock Group, a lobbying firm that according to Justice Department records represented the anti-Castro liquor giant Bacardi, Reich advised Jesse Helms's office on the drafting of the Helms-Burton legislation, which tightens the embargo against Cuba. Since passage of the law in 1996, Reich's own lobbying firm, RMA International, has received $600,000 in payments from Bacardi. Another Reich organization, the US-Cuba Business Council, has received more than $520,000 in US Agency for International Development money for anti-Castro work supporting the goals of the Helms-Burton law. If he's confirmed, Reich would become the key policy-maker interpreting and implementing legislation on Cuba, which he was handsomely paid to promote--a clear conflict of interest. Reich's only diplomatic credential is his 1986 posting as Ambassador to Venezuela, to which officials in Caracas repeatedly objected. While there, Reich became responsible for the case of notorious terrorist Orlando Bosch, jailed in Caracas on charges of masterminding the bombing of an Air Cubana flight that killed
[CTRL] New Crisis In UK - Is F/M Killing Spreading Mad Cow Disease?
-Caveat Lector- New Crisis In UK - Is F/M Killing Spreading Mad Cow Disease? Paul Harris and Jason Burke The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/ 5-20-1 Ministers have summoned their top scientific advisers to an emergency meeting as fears mount that ash and the buried carcasses of cows slaughtered during the foot and mouth epidemic could be spreading the deadly human version of BSE. On Thursday new evidence from tests at hundreds of sites where cattle have been burnt or buried will be reviewed by experts. Ministers are concerned that proteins known as 'prions' which cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and are found in BSE-infected meat may have polluted the water supply or the air. The hastily convened meeting shows the depth of the Ministers' concern. Members of the committee have confirmed to The Observer that the mass slaughter programme posed a risk of infection from prions. 'There is certainly a risk, but we do not know how big or small it is,' said Professor Harriet Kimbell. Another committee member, veterinary surgeon Peter Jinman, said he had been called early last week and told of the meeting 'specifically to look at this issue of possible contamination'. The problem lies with cows that are older than 30 months and may have developed BSE. Though enormous efforts have been made to stamp out the disease in Britain, experts believe that nearly 2 per cent of cattle are still infected. Usually the infected cattle have special rules governing the disposal of their carcasses, but during the foot and mouth epidemic whole herds were slaughtered and disposed of without testing. Environmental health officials in Devon, one of the areas hardest hit by foot and mouth, told The Observer that in many instances piles of ash remain unburied. In some cases the ash has lain exposed for up to three months. That raises the risk of prions being blown away on the wind or washed into local streams and rivers. Nicholas Mann, a senior commercial services manager for Torridge District Council, said there were up to 40 ash pyres in his district alone. Adverts in local newspapers have been placed asking residents within two kilometres of a pyre to come forward to have their water supplies tested for ash contamination. Aside from prions, other possible contaminations include bacteria such as E.coli and campylobacter, which are harmful to humans. 'It is a worry and we are seeking advice from our local health authority on communicable disease,' Mann said. A spokesman from the Environment Agency said that routine tests were continuing. She said that all ash was disposed of after assessment of potential health and environmental risks. MainPage http://www.rense.com 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,
[CTRL] Bar Code ID's In Schools
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local01_20010519.html Grant to take swipe at bar-code ID cards By Sandy Louey Bee Staff Writer (Published May 19, 2001) Students at a Sacramento junior high school will soon start carrying ID cards with computer bar codes so officials can track their attendance throughout the day, whether they are getting on a school bus, entering a classroom or buying lunch in the cafeteria.The system approved this week by the Grant Joint Union High School District will begin this summer at Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School. State and local officials believe Grant is the first district in the state to try such an identification program, though some large East Coast school systems use similar technology. The benefits, Grant officials say, will be increased attendance as well as improved campus security. "If we don't have kids in class, we can't teach them anything," said Jim Griffis, the district's education technology coordinator. Under the pilot program, bus drivers and teachers will use hand-held computers to scan the photo ID cards as students get on buses or come into classrooms. Students also will have to use the cards when buying cafeteria lunches or checking out library books. Officials said the system will let educators note unexcused absences instantly, so calls to parents can be made almost immediately. Bus drivers will be able to tell right away whether students are riding the correct bus, and by using the system in the cafeteria and library, officials believe students will be less likely to lose or forget their cards. Grant teachers now take roll manually, reporting absences on fill-in bubble sheets that then are fed through a main computer. Parents are notified after the end of the school day, but computer problems sometimes result in absences being processed days after a student missed school, officials said. The district, which has about 12,300 students in grades seven through 12, has as many as 450 unexcused absences each day, officials said. Truancy rates can affect the amount of money the district receives from the state because funding formulas are based on attendance. Yolanda Guajardo, mother of a Martin Luther King Jr. seventh-grader, said the ID cards are a good idea because parents will know much more quickly if their children skipped school. "Too many kids are getting away with too much nowadays," she said. The cards also will make it easy to spot students who don't belong on campus, said Angie Turner, another parent of a seventh-grader. "It will better identify the kids who go there," she said. Not only have card-swipe student identification systems been adopted in other districts around the nation, identification cards are the norm in workplaces today, said Peter Blauvelt, president of the National Alliance for Safe Schools. "You can hardly go into any business today without wearing badges. It's part of the culture in which we live," Blauvelt said. "It tells us who you are." Some of the districts already using computerized ID systems are in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. New York City schools will start using the system this fall, and pilot programs will be launched in Atlanta and Chicago. School districts are turning to such systems because they reduce paperwork and provide a better tool to fight truancy, said John Amatruda, president of School Technology Management, an ID-system manufacturer. "It's not Big Brother. It's saving money. It's being more accountable," he said. These systems might be more convenient, but they also could reduce the personal connection between students and teachers, said Elizabeth Schroeder, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "It means teachers don't have to know who their students are," she said. But with the pilot program at Martin Luther King Jr., teachers will be responsible for making sure that a class's physical head count matches its electronic one. When it was proposed a few months ago, the ID system drew support from the teachers union, which said it should improve attendance and prevent students from trying things like slipping into classrooms where substitutes are filling in. The hand-held computers also will give administrators and teachers immediate access to students' schedules, parent-contact information and health data -- the same information already in the student database. Detention slips also could be printed immediately, Griffis said. The pilot program is scheduled to begin during the summer session so that kinks can be worked out before it is launched for the full school year. Martin Luther King Jr. has about 300 students for summer school and about 900 students during the regular academic year. The University of California, Davis, through an existing partnership with the district, will evaluate the project. Any decision on whether to expand it to other schools would be made later, district officials said. The money for the
[CTRL] Warm and Fuzzy Misinformation
-Caveat Lector- conservativeinfo - Subscribe to the Conservative Information email list at http://conservativeinfo.listbot.com Little Bears and Big Oil: The Debate Begins in Earnest By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Morning Editor May 18, 2001 A warm and fuzzy photograph of a polar bear and her cubs that appeared on the front page of the Washington Post Tuesday was not snapped in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after all. The photo supposedly showing A polar bear and her cubs at rest in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge accompanied an article about oil firms making a high-tech pitch to develop the ANWR. But a correction in Thursday's Washington Post noted the picture actually was snapped in the 1980s about 200 miles northwest of ANWR. Here's the newspaper's May 17 correction: Due to incorrect information provided to the Associated Press, a photo caption accompanying a May 15 article on Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge describe a polar bear and cubs as being at rest in the refuge. The file photo, taken in the early 1980s, actually showed bears on pack ice 30 miles offshore in the Beaufort Sea, about 200 miles northwest of the ANWR. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) said cute bear photos like the one the Post ran are part of the propaganda we'll be seeing more of in the days ahead, as ANWR drilling opponents ratchet up their campaign to prevent oil exploration and drilling in what they call America's pristine wilderness. Alarmist But Murkowski and others who support the development of domestic energy supplies say ANWR opponents are exaggerating the environmental threat. They note that while the refuge itself is enormous - about 20 million acres, the size of South Carolina - only a tiny section - about the size of Washington's Dulles Airport - would be set aside for drilling. President Bush pitched his call for ANWR drilling Thursday, saying, We can build roads of ice that literally melt away when summer comes and the drilling then stops to protect wildlife. ANWR can produce 600,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 40 years. What difference does 600,00 barrels a day make? Well, that happens to be exactly the amount we import from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. On the Today show Friday morning, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham picked up where the president left off, calling the president's plan balanced and sensible. While some say Bush's energy plan is dead on arrival in Congress, Secretary Abraham said, I think you're going to find a lot of support for an overwhelming number of the 105 recommendations the president has made. 'Misguided, flawed, one-sided' An editorial in Friday's New York Times calls the Bush energy proposal misguided...an alarmingly unbalanced piece of work whose main objective seems to be to satisfy the ambitions of the oil, gas and coal industries, either by easing environmental rules or by opening public lands for aggressive exploration. The newspaper, which counts itself among Bush's energy critics, complains the plan does little for efficiency or renewable energy. It urges an attentive Congress to make sure that Bush's bad ideas disappear and that only good ones survive. Democrats, pushing their own energy plan, are expected to attack Bush on the grounds that his plan was hatched in secret, and that it's nothing more than a sop to the Big Oil Companies that supported the Bush during his presidential campaign. 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] Contra Kyoto
-Caveat Lector- conservativeinfo - Subscribe to the Conservative Information email list at http://conservativeinfo.listbot.com A Stronger Case Against Kyoto by S. Fred Singer President George Bush finds himself under siege after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that would impose punitive energy sanctions on the United Statesâ economy in response to unjustified global warming fears. Foreign politicians, American political opponents, and fundraisers for Green groups are all ganging up on him. It could get worse once the sharks smell blood in the water. But there are sensible ways to meet the challenge. Of course, the critics are being disingenuous. Bush announced his opposition to Kyoto during his campaign and has never wavered. His position also reflects the U.S. Senate vote of 95 - 0 against any such treaty that would cause severe economic damage to the U.S. but exempt most of the rest of the world. And while the American public may express concern about global warming, a recent Time/CNN poll indicates that less than half would be willing to pay an additional 25 cents for a gallon of gasoline. True enough, Bushâs PR has not been the greatest. For example, he should have reiterated his position after the election using the bully pulpit instead of waiting until March. He could have stressed the higher energy costs flowing from Kyoto and the severe job losses as industry moved offshore, pointing to the calamitous consequences on lower-income groups and attacking Green elitists at the same time. He neglected to inform the public that Kyoto is not supported by adequate science and is ineffective in reducing the rise in greenhouse gases. In any case, even enviro groups, certainly the moderate ones, agree that cutting energy use by some 35 percent in a decade is wildly unrealistic. Worst of all, he has been keeping on the White House staff and in key government departments Gore acolytes who are actively opposed to his policies. The White House has even recruited from environmental organizations. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. But itâs not too late; there are countermeasures that might work and would let his critics take the onus for opposing Kyoto. But while they might conceivably change the specific targets or timetables or modalities of Kyoto, they would keep its structure in place. And this would almost certainly come back to haunt us. Kyotoâs expanding bureaucracy and the 180 or so nations that form the Conference of the Parties to the Protocol would get their hooks into U.S. energy policy and thereby our economic policy. Unelected regulators not responsible or even responsive to our citizens would determine our economic future. To avoid paying such a heavy price, it would be best to return to the original 1992 climate treaty and its voluntary efforts to control emissions through conservation and higher energy efficiency. Slowly rising fuel prices, as oil and gas become depleted, and advances in technology will surely accelerate the ongoing trend towards decarbonization â producing more GNP output with less fossil fuels. Hybrid electric cars, electricity generation with fuel cells and advanced nuclear reactors, more efficient appliances, and cheaper wind and solar energy production are all in the offing. In the meantime, advancing climate science could convince the public that human-induced climate change is a minor contributor to the much larger natural changes and that, in any case, a slightly warmer climate and higher carbon dioxide levels would benefit agricultural crops and all of humanity. The Kyoto Protocol is the opening wedge. Unless the Bush White House takes a firm stance on climate policy, its energy policy is in peril; one cannot separate the two. Beyond this, foreign policy and national sovereignty are at stake. *S. Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and a former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. He is the author of Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warmingâs Unfinished Debate, published by the Independent Institute (Oakland, CA, 1999). 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] 500,000 UKRAINIANS DEMAND: FREE SLOBODAN MILOSHEVICH!
The URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/cos/50-2.htmwww.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] To read or sign petition go to http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/petition.htm500,000 UKRAINIANS DEMAND: FREE SLOBODAN MILOSHEVICH!AND THEY'RE STILL SIGNINGby Jared Israel [19 May 2001]In Ukraine, the powerful Peasant Party has collected 500,000 signatures on a very strong statement demanding that former Yugoslav President Miloshevich be freed from jail immediately. They have sent the petition and a cover letter to Yugoslav President Kostunica and others.Meanwhile, ninety-two out of the one hundred and thirty members of the Russian Parliament's Upper House have signed an equally strong statement demanding the Russian government take action in the case.RUSSIANS DEMAND ACTIONThe Russian statement was circulated among members of the Federal Council, upper house of the Russian Parliament. While the Council isn't the main legislative body it does include all provincial Governors as well as Mayors of the biggest cities. Individually these people have immense political and economic strength. Included are (for instance) the Mayors of St. Petersburg and Moscow. The signers, including members of Pres. Putin's UNITY Party, called on Putin and the Russian Government to take immediate action to secure the release of Mr. Miloshevich.Here is a translation of their statement, gotten by phone hookup: "We cannot understand how it is possible that those who used armed force to bomb the cities and villages of Yugoslavia, trampling all human values without any justification in International Law, are now trying to destroy one of the greatest Yugoslav and world politicians, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a true patriot of his country. "The attack on Miloshevich is an attempt to avoid the punishment for the crimes they committed directly and for encouraging genocide against the Serbian population in Kosovo. "We protest the policy of the United States and NATO countries in the Balkans and demand that the prosecution of Slobodan Miloshevich cease. We declare out support and solidarity for Slobodan Miloshevich in this most difficult struggle."We appeal to the President and government of the Russian Federation: Take action to defend the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a country which has always been Russia's most reliable friend!"The Council members have also signed the petition being circulated by the newly formed Russian Committee to Defend Slobodan Miloshevich. We will have the Russian Committee's petition translated into English and other languages as soon as possible.HALF MILLION SIGN UKRAINE PETITIONOn May 5th the powerful Peasant Party, the 3rd or 4th biggest in Parliament, launched a major campaign called, "FREEDOM FOR SLOBODAN Miloshevich!". They set up 449 action committees to collect signatures demanding Miloshevich be released from jail. As of 16 May they have collected about one half MILLION signatures.Here's what people signed [capital letters as per Ukrainian original]:"To President Kostunica: "Stating the will of hundreds of thousands of citizens of Ukraine, we address to you the demand that you release from the walls of his jail THE GREAT CITIZEN OF YUGOSLAVIA, THAT IS, OF THAT COUNTRY WHICH BY AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY YOU LEAD. In demanding you take this action we count on your honorable relationship with the heroic past of your very much suffering but never broken people and with its best sons such as the steadfast leader of the Socialist Party, Slobodan Miloshevich."The leader of the Peasant Party sent this statement along with a letter to Yugoslav President Kostunica. We don't yet have the exact wording of the letter but in general it attacks the conditions under which President Miloshevich was arrested and explains in detail what the Peasant Party has done in Ukraine to organize for Slobodan Miloshevich's release. According to Ukrainian activists, the petition was signed by a number of leaders of leftist parties, by deputies who are Heroes of the Soviet Union, by directors of social organizations, leaders of NGOs, as well as prominent artists, writers, musicians, scientists, by students, by directors of various companies and so on. The Ukrainian activists are sending a similar letter to the United Nations, to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, to the OSCE, and to the leaderships of Russia, Belarus and Greece and the Parliamentary opposition in all the NATO countries.***We're free, but we definitely need help from our friends...Emperor's Clothes does not charge a subscription fee because we want everyone to read these articles. Instead we rely on help from our readers. We have many expenses.For example, the cost of Lexis, our news media search engine, has doubled. Apparently Lexis figured out that we needed it to rapidly locating news stories from among thousands
[CTRL] Fwd: PEPIS #28 - Bilderberg 2001 Update
After some technical difficulties - here it is: 1. Bilderberg 2001 - Conference Update 2. Bohemian Grove TV programme on UK Channel 4 tomorrow evening 3. A number to call if you think we should know more about Bilderberg and the Bohos. 4. Carl Bildt has been invited instead to the Aspen Conference Updates on the web at http://www.bilderberg.org/2001.htm // Power Elite Public Information Service - http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#pepis - to join/leave list To bypass search engines why not put in a link to http://www.bilderberg.org - now funded for another 2 years PLEASE FORWARD TO NEWSGROUPS AND ANYONE YOU FEEL WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS INFORMATION This is an occasional (max. 1 per month) email list as part of the campaign for press access to and public awareness of Bilderberg and similar elite meetings. See www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm for more info. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/pepis/messages \\ 1. Bilderberg 2001 - Conference Update My contact at Radio Sweden says the Swedish Secret Service have confirmed the Bilderberg meeting will be taking place on the hotel/island at Stenungsund near Gothenburg on 24-27th May this year. We will only know for sure when the security services turn up to sweep the hotel and the black Mercedes cars with the characteristic 'B' on the front windscreen begin to arrive. This conference venue is likely to become a no-go zone within Sweden as foreign marksmen seal the entire island off from scrutiny of press and public. Could it be that in this Bilderberg fortress the agenda, and even main decisions for the EU summit in Gothenburg three weeks later (14-17 June) will be decided? There will be a counter-summit conference taking place in Gothenburg over the same June dates where I hope this will be discussed as an unacceptable possibility. Happily the Swedish mainstream press and broadcasing have taken an interest in the forthcoming Bilderberg conference (see below). If anyone can translate these articles to English please send them to me for publication on bilderberg.org. Swedish TV say they will run a piece on the conference next Tuesday (22nd). THINKING OF CHECKING BILDERBERG OUT FOR YOURSELF THIS YEAR AND JOINING THE BILDERBERG SCRUTINEERS? Bilderberg bloodhound Jim Tucker is the most reliable contact for those wishing to visit/photograph or otherwise cover the conference. He will be arriving on Tuesday, May 22 and staying at the Hotel Eggers-Best Western in Gothenburg. Their phone number is +46 31 806 070. Prices at Jim's hotel are $130 per night for a single room or $80 per night per person for a twin. If this is too expensive for you there are plenty of cheaper places to stay in Gothenburg or you may wish to stay closer to Stenungsund. Youth hostels: Vandrahem Slottsskogen, Vegagatan 21, 413 63 Göteborg, tel. +46 31 426 520 Vandrahem Stigbergsliden 10, 414 63 Göteborg, tel. +46 31 241 620 Vandrahem Steningssund, pl 6109, 444 91 Stenungsund, tel. +46 30 382 120 The Gothenburg tourist office are there to help you on +46 31 293 000 Discuss your travel/hotel plans at the forum created for that purpose http://pub44.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=3765661844cpv=1 Swedish Press Article - On the 13th May the large swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter had a full page article with a lot of facts and background on the meeting which is confirmed to be 24 - 28 of May. 1: The meeting is taking place on an island off the coast of Stenungsund - the island is called Stenungsön and is connected to the mainland by road 160. No doubt the road will be closed to regular traffic. 2: The Wallenberg-group´s powerful company Investor is the host and is responsible for security at Hotel Stenungsbaden. 3: Prominent foreign participants are protected by their own countries´ security services and have requested permission from the Swedish secret police Säpo to carry arms in Sweden. Drawings of the layout of the hotel have been classified and the staff of the hotel have been forbidden to discuss the meeting with media. 4: Carl Bildt will not (according to his own statement) be attending this year - since he is needed to participate at the Aspen-conference in the north of Italy (a similar meeting at the same time). note: Carl Bildt's record of disaster in Swedish politics: http://www.nnn.se/n-model/foreign/warrior.htm Cradle-to-Grave Discontent: http://www.nnn.se/n-model/price/price.htm 5: The swedish government representative who´ll participate this year is Minister of Trade, Leif Pagrotsky (who just recently was greeted in the university city of Lund with a pie in his face). 6: It is not certain yet - but was mentioned last night on the news in tv that even mr Putin
[CTRL] Support conservation!
-Caveat Lector- Friends, a safe and throughtful message about the importance of energy conservation can be made by participating in this simple event. This is an interesting approach to begin thinking of conservation rather than oil production. ROLL YOUR OWN BLACK OUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE, 7 - 10 pm worldwide, all time zones In protest of George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of Summer, June 21 at 7pm - 10 pm in any time zone (this will roll it across the planet). It's a simple protest and a symbolic act. Turn out your lights from 7 pm - 10 pm (your local time) on June 21. Unplug whatever you can unplug in your house. Light a candle for the Sun, kiss, make love, play games, tell ghost stories, do something instead of watching television, have fun in the dark. Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government representatives and environmental contacts. Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and alternative energy efforts -- and an end to over exploitation and misuse of the Earth's resources. From the SustainDane listserv -- We are trying to subvert the system. We would like to see the system collapse. When I say the system, I mean the modern industrial system as we know it. And one reason we see the modern industrial system so destructive, is because it's based on the premise that human beings are superior it teaches that for human beings the world exists. The Industrial/Technological Revolution=Genocide of Human Species Earth First! http://bcn.boulder.co.us/environment/earthfirst/Misc/Note.htm http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/9901/ http://www.imaja.com/change/environment/ef/earthfirst.html Shannon 'bLiTz' Magnani CEO/Designer/Minister of Propaganda 1059 SE Delaware Avenue, Suite A Ankeny, IA 50021-6527 Design Lab: 515.965.3302 Mobile: 515.229.9668 Mobile Text Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or-http://www.msg.myvzw.com/messaging.jsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bounce.to/blitzgrafx - 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: Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone
In a message dated 5/20/01 4:31:46 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj:Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone Date:5/20/01 4:31:46 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (American Patriot Friends Network) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (APFN Yahoogroups) Witnesses heard multiple explosions - Sun May 20 14:39:56 2001 http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Witnesses heard multiple explosions Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone By Jon Dougherty - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiple witnesses reported hearing more than one explosion the day the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was bombed, while other explosives experts contend that the damage done to the building could not have been caused by a single bomb placed outside in a truck. According to excerpts of a new 500-page report authored by the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Commission, led by ex-Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key, "the FBI concluded that the damage to the Murrah Building was caused by one ammonium nitrate truck bomb, which was concealed in a 20-foot Ryder rental truck." However, the commission's report said, multiple witnesses "have testified to hearing a second bomb" go off shortly after 9 a.m. the morning of April 19, 1995. Furthermore, the report said, "explosives experts contend that the extent of the damage to the building" -- of which aerial photos showed nearly one-third was destroyed -- "could not have resulted from a single truck bomb. â¦" A summary of the damage report to the building, which was made available exclusively to WorldNetDaily, said witness accounts regarding the explosions "vary, depending upon their location at the time of the bombing." And just a few of those accounts were provided to WND via the report summary. Nevertheless, the accounts cast doubt on the federal government's insistence that a single ANFO -- ammonium nitrate and fuel oil -- bomb, driven to the front of the Murrah building by convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and, witnesses say, at least one other person, caused all of the damage. The bombing killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. Witness statements The commission said a Housing and Urban Development employee reported feeling an "initial shock" while she was on the ninth floor, which "she assumed was an earthquake." A "massive explosion then followed" that sensation, she said. A local CBS affiliate reporter also said she had interviewed "a number of people who had climbed under their desks to seek shelter." That indicates, according to some analysts who agree with the commission's conclusions, that another device likely exploded -- perhaps in the garage area of the Murrah Building -- before the Ryder truck bomb, because a "sensation" was felt and people had enough time to get under a desk before the ANFO explosion. Another witness, the report said, "felt a 'boom,' then heard a second explosion," while another, who "was at a third floor stairwell," also "heard a second explosion." Bomb numbers, characteristics change Initial reports in local media said city and county bomb squad personnel, as well as some government agents, had discovered up to two other unexploded bombs in the building. But those reports virtually disappeared a few days after the bombing. The sightings of the additional bombs were, when reported, confirmed by local, state and federal officials. The commission's report said Dr. Raymon Brown, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, "explained how two explosions" could be heard or felt by witnesses. "He stated that the ground wave [from a single explosion -- outside, in front of the building] was probably heard first, with an air wave following, giving the impression of two explosions," the report said. "Because the speed of sound is faster in the earth, the ground wave arrives early. The air wave follows, which allows the explosion to be heard." Other experts refuted that explanation. As the commission report showed, there were discrepancies in witness accounts, seismological accounts, and even official federal accounts about the bomb's makeup, the shock waves it caused and specific characteristics surrounding the bomb's size. The report said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "reported the blast as being the result of a car bomb containing 1,200 pounds of ⦠ANFO. Then, it was reported that the bomb weighed 4,000 pounds. The story changed again immediately preceding [McVeigh's 1997 federal] trial [in Denver, Colo.] when it was asserted that the bomb was a mixture of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane (ANNM), weighing 4,800 pounds." Also, the commission pointed out, "as rescue efforts began, there were reports of other bombs being found in the building, causing [it] to be evacuated twice" during
Re: [CTRL] Contra Kyoto
-Caveat Lector- Global Warming? This has not been proventhe weather modification program has been the culprit and this Russian Woodpecker system Years ago I remember when a Soviet Satellite blew up over Canada and suddenly our weather normalized. This green house stuff is a just plain lie. Today it is warm but our temperature is going back down into the 50 and low 60 range in a few days. California has a problemlet that loud mouth Diane Feinstein handle it - or this loud mouthed Govenor who spent half his time warding off those who tried to recall him and the other half intimidating the public re taking away guns and gun control.. And also they were too busy pushing sodomy as a lifestyle in the schools to worry about such a small matter as weather controlso let Mexico have California back? Who the hell would really care. 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] Your Tax $$$ at Work
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins12.html }}Begin The Deadliest Ally by Jeff Elkins What would your reaction be if our oldest ally, Great Britain, attacked a lightly armed US military vessel with overwhelming force: a stunning array of jet fighters, bombs, missiles, machine gun fire and torpedoes? And further, once the ship was nearly sinking, attacked lifeboats in the water, spraying them with a hail of deadly fire from attack boats and strafing runs by jets? What would your reaction be to a final butchers bill of 34 US sailors dead and 171 grievously wounded? Would Americans of an earlier era have filled the coffers of Great Britain with treasure as a reward for such a perfidious act? What would your reaction be if you were told that such an attack was not carried out by Great Britain, but by our staunchest ally Israel, supposedly the only democracy in the Middle East? Sadly, this is not fiction. Rather than being the plot line of a Tom Clancy technothriller its a very real piece of horrific military history from the 1967 Middle East war. On June 8th of 1967, the U.S.S. Liberty was patrolling a few miles off the Sinai peninsula. It was tasked with gathering information regarding Soviet troops and technology in use by Egypt, at that time a client state of the U.S.S.R. This was not a furtive mission, carried out by some stealth-cloaked intruder. The Liberty, commanded by Captain William Loren McGonagle, was clearly in international waters and clearly marked as a US flag ship, prominently flying Old Glory from its mast. This was the fourth day of the Six Day War, when Israel had decidedly won the conflict and was engaged in driving its enemies from Israeli borders and occupying Arab territory as spoils of war. At this point, Israel had virtually no air opposition and had never faced any significant naval forces. They were in total control of the Sinai peninsula. Ominously, Israeli military jet fighters circled closer and closer to the Liberty. Close enough that the crew on deck could see the Star of David markings on the jets and exchange waves with the Israeli pilots. Liberty radio operators intercepted transmissions from the circling warplanes where the identity of the US ship was discussed, confirmed and radioed back to military controllers in Tel Aviv. At 1400, the Israelis struck! A simultaneous attack by a flight of fighter jets streaking from Tel Aviv and torpedo boats racing from over the horizon plunged the Liberty into a withering barrage of rockets, cannon fire, machine gun fire and torpedoes. Stunned and defenseless, the Libertys only hope was support from the Sixth Fleet, located in the Mediterranean, 30 minutes away by jet. But the Israeli Mirage jet fighters had apparently successfully disabled the Libertys radios. Midway through the attack, heroic Liberty sailors managed to establish emergency communications with Sixth Fleet flagship, U.S.S. America. The America launched F4 Phantoms to race to the Libertys defense, but amazingly, Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara ordered the rescue canceled. The American fighter jets were ordered to land and the Liberty and its men were left to die off the Sinai peninsula. Miraculously, Captain McGonagle and his crew were able to recover our wounded sailors from the warm and bloody waters of the Sinai and somehow during a period when the Israeli attack paused, move the stricken Liberty back towards the protective arms of the Sixth Fleet. Captain McGonagle later received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during this dastardly and cowardly attack. The questions remain: Why did the Israelis attack? Why did a putative ally of the United States perpetrate such a horrendous attack on a lightly armed US intelligence ship that posed no threat? Why did Viet Nam war criminal, Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara order the rescue canceled? Why did the Johnson administration cover the attack up? As to why the Israelis attacked, shocking new allegations have emerged. James Bamford, an investigative journalist and a former
[CTRL] Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Witnesses heard multiple explosions - Sun May 20 14:39:56 2001 http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html Witnesses heard multiple explosions Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone By Jon Dougherty - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiple witnesses reported hearing more than one explosion the day the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was bombed, while other explosives experts contend that the damage done to the building could not have been caused by a single bomb placed outside in a truck. According to excerpts of a new 500-page report authored by the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Commission, led by ex-Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key, the FBI concluded that the damage to the Murrah Building was caused by one ammonium nitrate truck bomb, which was concealed in a 20-foot Ryder rental truck. However, the commission's report said, multiple witnesses have testified to hearing a second bomb go off shortly after 9 a.m. the morning of April 19, 1995. Furthermore, the report said, explosives experts contend that the extent of the damage to the building -- of which aerial photos showed nearly one-third was destroyed -- could not have resulted from a single truck bomb. A summary of the damage report to the building, which was made available exclusively to WorldNetDaily, said witness accounts regarding the explosions vary, depending upon their location at the time of the bombing. And just a few of those accounts were provided to WND via the report summary. Nevertheless, the accounts cast doubt on the federal government's insistence that a single ANFO -- ammonium nitrate and fuel oil -- bomb, driven to the front of the Murrah building by convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and, witnesses say, at least one other person, caused all of the damage. The bombing killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. Witness statements The commission said a Housing and Urban Development employee reported feeling an initial shock while she was on the ninth floor, which she assumed was an earthquake. A massive explosion then followed that sensation, she said. A local CBS affiliate reporter also said she had interviewed a number of people who had climbed under their desks to seek shelter. That indicates, according to some analysts who agree with the commission's conclusions, that another device likely exploded -- perhaps in the garage area of the Murrah Building -- before the Ryder truck bomb, because a sensation was felt and people had enough time to get under a desk before the ANFO explosion. Another witness, the report said, felt a 'boom,' then heard a second explosion, while another, who was at a third floor stairwell, also heard a second explosion. Bomb numbers, characteristics change Initial reports in local media said city and county bomb squad personnel, as well as some government agents, had discovered up to two other unexploded bombs in the building. But those reports virtually disappeared a few days after the bombing. The sightings of the additional bombs were, when reported, confirmed by local, state and federal officials. The commission's report said Dr. Raymon Brown, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, explained how two explosions could be heard or felt by witnesses. He stated that the ground wave [from a single explosion -- outside, in front of the building] was probably heard first, with an air wave following, giving the impression of two explosions, the report said. Because the speed of sound is faster in the earth, the ground wave arrives early. The air wave follows, which allows the explosion to be heard. Other experts refuted that explanation. As the commission report showed, there were discrepancies in witness accounts, seismological accounts, and even official federal accounts about the bomb's makeup, the shock waves it caused and specific characteristics surrounding the bomb's size. The report said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reported the blast as being the result of a car bomb containing 1,200 pounds of ANFO. Then, it was reported that the bomb weighed 4,000 pounds. The story changed again immediately preceding [McVeigh's 1997 federal] trial [in Denver, Colo.] when it was asserted that the bomb was a mixture of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane (ANNM), weighing 4,800 pounds. Also, the commission pointed out, as rescue efforts began, there were reports of other bombs being found in the building,
[CTRL] Fwd: Radio Netherlands and UN Jamming Radio Waves
I found this story rather revealing = this network's connections to the Prince of the Netherlands and Royal Family (used by ocmmunists) and to the UN give lots of room for thought. So for whom do they act as a front? Why the UN.they worry about mass immigration to Europe now and the EU not paying the UN big bucks as they once didmaybe this is the start of he end of this thing they call the UN where a Monarch such as Prince Bernhard would sit on equal basis with Zulu Chiefton? You got to be kidding; but what are these creeps doing monitoring American radio programs - in particular ones that do not like this New World Order... Hey Mark from Michigan - you made the big time - in same show as Queen of Netherlands and Prince..what, this one small voice is such a threat but then truth, does have a way of being squelched which makes it burn all the brighter over time. Now we see too the ADL Connection who has been after Dr Pierce for years for he will not let them forget the USS Liberty? What about mass murder in Africa? Stealaing diamonds from Sudan; genocide of Palestinians? Saba Dossiers: In this dossier: This page last updated: 15 May 2001 Conspiracy Theories Several hate radios operate in the United States. A white supremacist organisation, the National Alliance, spreads its message to the public via several media: a weekly radio programme, a variety of recorded audio and video materials, and a wide range of printed publications. The National Alliance's weekly program, [launched in December 1991], reaches White people around the world via shortwave radio at several times and frequencies. In addition [since 1992], a number of AM broadcasting stations in the United States carry the program to local or area audiences. The program is aimed at a more general audience than most of the National Alliance's other media. It reaches many thousands of people each week who know that something is seriously wrong with the way their world is being run, but who need help in understanding the details and in comprehending the overall picture, so that they can accept their responsibility to work for a better future... Recent editions of American Dissident Voices are now also available on the Internet in a variety of different audio formats. The National Alliance Web site's description of the broadcast of March 25th gives a clear idea of the aims of the programme: Dr. Pierce says that the current assault on White people is an engineered assault. The change in American immigration laws to bring in millions of non-Whites while cutting off the immigration of Whites from Europe; the refusal to round up and deport illegal immigrants except on a token scale; the forced integration of Whites with non-Whites in schools, neighborhoods, and work places; and the encouragement of miscegenation by the controlled mass media are all deliberate. Dr. Pierce discusses what we can do to fight back. A number of private shortwave stations air programmes which may loosely be termed patriotic. The largest in terms of geographical coverage is Worldwide Christian Radio (WWCR) based in Nashville. WWCR distributes approximately 400 programmes internationally to Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. Most cover religious subjects, but a small proportion of the programmes WWCR transmits on shortwave are aimed at an audience characterised as patriots. The number of such programmes aired by WWCR has been steadily reduced during the past decade, and the most controversial have moved to other stations. The contracts of some organizations were terminated following the April 19, 1993, attack at David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco and again after the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing by Terry Nichols. Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, WWCR talk show host Mark Koernke, broadcasting as Mark of Michigan, warned his listeners that the US government may have been responsible for the worst act of terrorism ever committed on US soil. Responding to a flood of protest, WWCR took Koernke off the air. The management of WWCR now pay close attention to the content of all broadcasts aired on the station. However, at least some of the displaced organizations are now hiring airtime on other private shortwave stations, examples being WWFV in McCaysville, Georgia and WBCQ (The Planet) in Maine. WBCQ serves North America, the Caribbean and most of South America and is owned by Allan H. Weiner, who gained notoriety as the owner of various unlicensed stations before finally getting a permit to broadcast legally on shortwave. Bob Grant (right), a presenter on WOR-AM, a MW station operating from New York, conducted a hate campaign against Indian immigrants in Iselin, a community in New Jersey, which he called the Black Hole of Calcutta. Following a particularly vitriolic attack on 12th December 1996, swastikas and ethnic slurs were spray-painted on a home and two businesses in Iselin, all belonging to
[CTRL] Unfriendlies
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds37.html }}Begin merica Is Hazardous to Children by Brad Edmonds Two misadventures involving home schoolers have made news all over the internet in the last week. In one case reported by Michelle Malkin on May 18, a county in Maryland has charged a mother with criminal truancy because she refused to allow officials to review her curriculum while she also had not registered her schooling efforts with an approved sponsor. She was using a strong curriculum, by the way. Another case goes like this: A naked two-year-old gets out the front door of the house, and a neighbor calls the authorities. Social workers demand to question family members, the family members refuse, and the family is now in the third year of dealing with it in court. This case isnt about home schooling directly, but relates to parents rights to decide for their own children. It also happens that the parents are home schoolers maybe coincidence, maybe the reason for the government pursuit. What should be news, however, is that attacks are happening across the nation, and theyre nothing new. Heres a smattering from the Home Schooling Legal Defense Association: The East Otero School District in Colorado requires parents to report home-schooled childrens standardized test scores. What the district did to at least one family was try to intimidate them into letting the government determine the time and place of testing, which is not the law. In California, the Montabello Unified School District sent a representative to the home of home-schooling parents to try to make them register their children with the public schools, which is not the law. Also in California, two families that recently began home schooling went through all the legal rigmarole, and still were treated to mistaken accusatory visits from social workers, one accompanied by a policeman. All these cases were reported during the first 17 days of May highly significant because they involved members of the Home Schooling Legal Defense Association. How much more such bullying is happening to home schoolers who arent members of this one organization? The same website details legislative attacks on home schooling. A current proposal in Maine would remove forced-immunization exemptions for those who have religious or other objections, and thus would indirectly (but disproportionately) affect home schoolers. Florida is considering a bill that would allow the government to assess the needs and strengths of families until every child reaches age 9. More openly aimed at home schooling is a bill in Michigan that would impose new mandatory standardized testing for home schoolers, even though the data show that home-schooled children do better than government-school victims on college entrance exams. Minnesota is currently considering adding new testing and parent-qualifications requirements. So, while we have state legislators making it increasingly difficult to home school your children without being prosecuted, we have school districts knocking on doors and lying to parents about the law to intimidate them into giving up the whole idea. I suspect that many of the knocking-on-the-door-and-lying incidents are done knowingly: In the cases mentioned above, the Home Schooling Legal Defense Association faxed a letter to the offending district, and the parents were not bothered again (not bothered so far; these are recent cases). All this after it has become common knowledge that home schooling is the best thing for children, which proves that the best thing for the children is the last thing on the mind of your government. Some states are becoming friendly to home schoolers. Learn about those, and consider relocating to them even if you dont have children. However, the other states noted above (and more) are desperate to stamp out home schooling, whether by lying about the law or by pressuring lawmakers into changing the law. In these states, the absolute-power ambitions of elected politicians combine with the damn-the-children, protect-our-jobs union mentality of the government schools to produce damaging
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] Vladi-Video #1487 reveals U.S. Colombia Invasion Plans
May 20, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, Narco News has now translated a transcription of one of former Peru strongman Vladimiro Montesinos' clandestine videos - an April 1999 conversation Montesinos had with a prominent Peruvian television executive. The transcript was published in Spanish last week by the daily La Republica of Lima, Peru. The only alternative that the Americans have in order to solve the problem of Colombia, is the invasion... They are preparing half a million Marine infantry troops in order to invade Colombia. -- Vladimiro Montesinos Vladi-Video #1487 The Invasion April 21, 1999 The transcript contains information that confirms Peru correspondent Peter Gorman's view, as published on Narco News, that it was Peru President Alberto Fujimori's reluctance to support Plan Colombia - not his drug trafficking or atrocities against human rights - that led to his U.S.-sponsored downfall. You can read the transcript at: http://www.narconews.com/vladivideo1487.html Also today, on page one of Narco News, a preview of a series of reports, beginning tomorrow, on Citigroup's purchase of Banamex. The Mother of All Free Speech Battles Begins: Citigroup v. Narco News http://www.narconews.com/ from somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/05/14idleness }}Begin IN THRALL TO THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY Slaves of idleness Internet, cell phones, videophones, virtual reality devices, computers, modems, data banks: the communications industry is taking over. Productivity, utility, management are the watchwords. But are we masters or servants of our devices ? by LUCIEN SFEZ * Information highways, despite the hype, are no more than a combination of telephone, video and computers, as are the gadgets telecom engineers devise for the future. They are all really just cell phones plugged into the internet, linking with fixed stations, videophones, virtual reality devices, computers, modems, data banks, tradesmen, managers, repairmen. All are logged in to technical, social or professional networks. There are no black holes, no negatives, no opposites in this joined-up world. Everything runs smoothly in electronic silence. Even the occasional audible signal can be turned off. Communication is easy when all it involve s is using machines to connect with machines. If you want to stop communicating, to enjoy your own company, all you have to do is put down the handset and switch off the screen. Anyone using such machines is free and happy in a world of instant communication, without time to think ill of himself or of anyone else. The long term doesn't exist in this world, only short-term gains. The communication s industry dreams of productivity, utility and management, the watchwords of homo communicans. Homo communicans is inseparable from his communication devices. They are his life and he takes on their characteristics. He is their servant as much as their master, but he is unaware of his chains because he believes him self to be in control and as powerful as the machines. They make his life easy. Everything is positive, everything in its place. There is no price to pay and no other side of the coin in what Douglas Coupland, in his nove l Microserfs (1), calls the flatland of cyberculture. Cyberculture uses the language of clans and communities but it does not share their reality, for to join the clan, you have to make sacrifices. And in cyber flatland the only thing to fear is the loss of the machines: breakdown. When I asked Martin Landau, an eminent researcher in organisation science at Berkeley, California, about theories of communication, he replied: Do you know why the 747 is the safest aircraft in the world? Because it has four separate control systems, one for each engine. And the pilot also has a manual control system separate from those four (2). It seemed a strange answer. In aviation, breakdown means death. But breakdown in communication, loss of relationships or position, is also a kind of death, the end of homo communicans, who lives by communication and is defined only by the links his machines give him to other machine-bound human beings. Think how people panic when their computer or television breaks down or their phone is out of order. The gap in their lives causes real distress. These machines have become part of us; we have become part of them. When they break down it is like being in pain, the fear of it is a nightmare. That is the system's only contradiction, the only conceivable misfortune. The fear of breakdown has replaced the old apocalyptic fear of the devil, and it is only the threat of that breakdown which gives life and feeling to a system that has none. This is the communication system's last vital opportunity. In his book Anatomy of Criticism (3), Northrop Frye shows that the Apocalypse is a text that advocate union between the city, the individual and God. And just as fear of the Apocalypse exists to serve the Christian faith, so fear of breakdown exists to consolidate the cult of the computer. But homo communicans, ignorant of the sacrifices of communication, does not know this. He thinks he is always on the winning side, not knowing that in order to win you also have to lose. He doesn't know what he is losing. Driving for you Machines are created for productivity and efficiency, and have unexpected consequences: they make men into idle and superfluous creatures who no longer do much on their own initiative. Men are assisted in everything, even getting to work, since with their self-guided cars they can dream at the steering wheel until the device tells them they have arrived. The old hauliers' slogan driving for you now applies to us all. As technology continues to develop, homo communicans faces a future of total, profound idleness. And the first signs of this are already visible in our daily lives. We let machines remember things for us, from our address books complete with telephone numbers and email addresses to the management of bibliographies, texts, business meetings, accounts, planning. Our voice, or better still a synthetic one, answers for us, recorded once for all time. We open doors and change channels on the TV
[CTRL] Test - Re: [CTRL] What's up with the list?
-Caveat Lector- this is just my own test . . . The Pied Piper Tenorlove wrote: -Caveat Lector- I got 80+ messages on Saturday, and none today. Is Listserv pulling a Yahoo? Tenorlove __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 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] Impressions on the life and times of Karl Marx
-Caveat Lector- http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/deskill/deskill2/Marx.html Impressions on the life and times of Karl Marx 1)Karl Marx lived in a time when technology was having an major impact on an individuals productivity and standard of living. What he saw was that while machines were increasing the standard of living, the workers that ran the machines were living at substance level. Believing that the cause was the territorial aristocratic nobles and their belief of territory at the expense of business, Marx termed territory accumulation as capitalistic. He thought that a state should be based on business and corporations instead of territory or individuals and that any threat to productivity should be eradicated. Threats to business were national pride or any other oaths or commitments outside of the business. 2)Inventions like the printing press, gas lamps, electricity, indoor plumbing, and machine woven cloth were increasing the standard of living and domestic productivity while making money for the businesses that produced them. Marx saw that the biggest market for these items would be the common worker, yet the common worker seldom had the money to buy and considered many of the new inventions, luxuries. Visualizing a way for businesses to keep production up in the face of technological change that would require a business to buy the new machine to stay competitive, Marx hit on a plan to have state run businesses. 3)If a nations priorities were based on business instead of religion, national pride, or individual rights, Marx believed that the average worker would reap the benefits of technology. Up to this time tithes and taxes to the aristocracy and church took up a large portion of the workers extra money, if that extra money were to go to buying the products produced by machines then the business could buy more machines. He figured that the cheaper that product could be made then the more would be sold of the product. If a workers loyalty were to the business instead of family, national pride or religion then they would support the state business and give their best work, which would ultimately result in a less expensive product that the worker could buy too. 4)Marx defined territorial aristocratic nobles with landed titles as capitalistic. He also saw education as making workers dissatisfied with their lot and a potential waste of time for many since all they would need to know is how to use the new items. Except for a few skilled workers to keep the machines running, education that might lead to individual dissatisfaction and strikes was discouraged. A blind obedience and belief was required for a business to keep up in the face of changing technology. To make sure that the state's business was business instead of territory or anything else that would threaten the businesses productivity, any idea of individual worth would have to be changed. Threats to business were national pride or any other oaths or commitments outside of the business. The worker's first priority would have to be making money by working and family or any other activities outside of the business would only be allowed if they did not conflict with the business. Any sense of self worth, self confidence, or self discipline would be decided and defined by the state business. 5)What this has led to in the present day is a country where the only real accomplishment that an individual can achieve is in the arts or sports. The art is technically perfect but sometimes lacks originality or spontaniousness since to not be perfect mean that the person may lose their standing and have to find another career field. New thoughts or philosophies that are discouraged since they may endanger the state. Education or knowledge of how the human body operates that may increase a individual workers worth is discouraged. 6)Marx's state philosophy has resulted in a country run by people that often see no worth in natural products. Unless the item can be made by a company or mass produced it has no value. An example might be instead of farmers saving seed to grow next years crop, that the farmer would have to buy a special company seed. Problems with this philosophy gradually happen because of the strangle hold on education and new ideas, since the business is based on new technology to be able to build a new improved item that the worker needs to buy. Gradually the state business would have to rely on other countries for new ideas and machines. 7)Eventually the lack of worker education and ideas will topple the business, and when the business does attempt to start education it will have rampet plagiarism because the
[CTRL] Time Line in tables
-Caveat Lector- http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/deskill/deskill2/timeintables.html Time Line in tables Presentation 2: 1900 - 1958 1914-1918 1925 1929 1933 1939-1945 1958 WW I Mein Kampf US Stock Market Crash First Concentration Camps opened at Oranienburg outside of Berlin WW II Nobel Prize for Proving Sexual Recombination of Bacteria. Enderlein supported this idea 1910. 1889-1945 currently alive Hitler, Adolf Lederberg, Joshua Presentation 1: 1800 - 1899 1845 1846-1851 1861-1865 1859 1867 Conditions of the Working Class in England The Irish Potato Famine US Civil War Origin of Species Das Kapital 1861-1941 1809-1882 1818-1883 Engel, Friedrich Darwin, Charles Marx, Karl Added 02 May 2001: 1700 - 1799 1729 1776 1785 1790 1789-1793 1793 1794 1798 Swift, Johnathan American Revolution Power Loom Ortes, Giammaria French Revolution Slater, Samuel Cotton Gin Malthus, Robert 1667-1745 1713-1790 1765-1825 1766-1834 cannibalism inheritance first successful textile mill in America Whitney, Eli population Presentation 1: 1450-1699 1450's 1600's 1665 Invention of Printing Press Fermat, Pierre de Land taken out of cultivation in Ireland Great Plague London 1601-1665 SOURCES presentation 2 Chapman, Stanley. 'Introduction', The Cotton Industry: - Its Growth and Impact, 1600-1935. (ed.), [Online} Retrieved March 2001. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999), pp. v-xvix. [ http://www.thoemmes.com/economics/cotton_intro.htm ] New York forced the pace of change after 1870 when the cotton market there was organized exclusively for 'futures'
[CTRL] Who the Hell is the ADL???? A Cats Paw for Whom?
-Caveat Lector- Speak softly, and carry big battle ax - for the words you write are monitored by this ADL, aka Anti Defamation League, branch of German Bnai Brith a psuedo secret masonic order.use all rituals of masons - presumable. Like KGB forming KKK for Walker spies, the Navy Family of spies during same time frame Jonathan Pollard, on payroll of Mossad, spied for the KGB..leaving little red arrows always to right winged extremeists or neo nazis, like little Buford and lo and behoild the ADL's most hated enemy a Dr. Pierce who wrote The Turner Diaries - why little Timothy McVeigh, a hit and run Gideon - had copy of Turner Diaries with him at all time - with little red arrows leading to neo nazis. ADL informed FBI and BATF - stay home today is April 19..beware of the 19th of April - day of Warsaw Ghetto attack and Waco attack - but same people seem to be always involved. Who funds this ADL which seems to be a considerable Cats Paw for the Federal Reserve, this infamous International Bankers of which we hear and read about so much? These Untouchables who pay for the bullets that knocked off JFK and Lincoln - not that I liked Lincoln, but John Wilkes Boothe came from Illuminati family of long standing? Who the Hell is this ADLformed to fight anti semitism - what the hell they doing them permitting the true semites, the Palestinians and domestic jew and arabs from being massacred - genocide is name of game - and what about 55 million people who died in WWII, Not one monument to them, or reparations from the International BAnkers who financed Hitler - well financed both sides didn't they? This ADL is a big pile of manure..I refrain from the four letter word, which would be more appropriate - they are poisoning AMERICAlook at your TV and garbage movies, and then blame it on The Turner Diaries? ADL is garbage. Saba Jews for Morality ON THE SOCIO-MORAL ISSUES OF THE DAY From a Traditional Jewish Perspective [ Back ] [ Opening Page ] [ Essay Index ] [ Next ] 28 Av 5759 / 10 Aug. 1999 ADL and Racist Terrorist Groups A Symbiotic Relationship ADL Attacks on American Conservatives Help Racist Groups Gain New Recruits, While New Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Centers Help ADL Raise More Funds Almost totally ignored in the reporting on the Los Angeles Jewish Center shooting, is the rapid growth in the membership of white racist terrorist groups in recent years. This increased membership is the most important factor in the recent increase in terrorist incidents. Most people have the mistaken notion that the ADL (Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith) is simply a Jewish defense organization whose purpose is to protect Jews in the United States from discrimination and physical harm. Nothing could be further from the truth. In recent years, the ADL, under the leadership of Abraham Foxman, has metamorphosed into a left-wing organization that closely coordinates its activities with some of the most radical groups in America. The ADL works closely with the homosexual lobbies in Washington and in the state capitols to promote the Gay agenda, including the current hate crimes bill, which would effectively silence all of the religious organizations who consider homosexuality an abomination, and focus scarce law enforcement resources into efforts to give special protections to homosexuals, at the expense of all other Americans. The ADL works closely with pro-abortion groups to make certain that no restrictions whatsoever are placed on abortionfor any purpose, at any time in the development of the baby in the womb, and including partial-birth abortion (infanticide). The ADL works closely with the gun-control lobby to promote legislation as a panacea for all school shootings. [Now let us not forget that little Klebold was Jewish Black Trench Coat Mafia .and those were all Christians slaughtered that day for as Klebold said it was Judgment Day.and all the time the press had labeled these two kids, Harris and Klebold, Neo Nazis - SABA NOTE This legislation would disarm decent people and make them and their families easy targets for armed predators with illegal guns. The ADL ignores the proven strategies of increased gun licensing for well-trained decent citizens and reinforced security in public places. The ADL works closely with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and PAW (People for the American Way) to prevent decent Americans from mentioning the Creator in schools and public places. These are all leftist positions that are guaranteed to focus suspicion, resentment, and hatred on American Jews.The ADL is manufacturing the very hatred it purports to eliminate. Strange, isn't it! See also Letter to Abraham Foxman [ Reader Response Form ] [ Back ] [ Opening Page ] [ Essay Index ] [ Next ] Jews for Morality P.O. Box 262 Gravesend Station Brooklyn, NY 11223E-mail address for letters concerning the technical aspects of this website: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CTRL] SNET: Bogus Claims of Unconstitutionality (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I couldn't agree with Mr. Dutter more! visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:18:12 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SNET: Bogus Claims of Unconstitutionality - SNETNEWS Mailing List I would suggest some folks read about the concept of enumerated powers and read the writings of the founders wrt the tenth Ammendment. The Federalist papers and Madisons notes on the debates of the constitutional convention are particularly apropos. The STATES have the power to make law in any concievable direction where the STATE legislative votes are available to get such passed unless in contradiction to enumerated Federal Powers. It is the FEDERAL sphere of powers that was purposely limited to ONLY what was stated in the constitution. The understanding of the fathers was that the Feds were specifically limited to powers directly given in the constitution or that could be clearly connected to those powers. The Feds are specifically prohibited from having carte blanche levels of power. A single centralized authoritarian govenment ruling on every sphere of life like the current Federal system was anathema to the founders. What is the CONSTITUTIONAL foundation for FEDERAL mandates wrt the environment? There has to be a demonstrated direct connection to an ENUMERATED power for a FEDERAL law to be constitutional. The subjective label of bogus is not objective evidence. What is the constitutional basis for your objection Steve? Because the 10th Ammendment clearly means that powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution or powers not directly connected to an enumerated power are by definition unconstitutional, and reserved for lower levels of government. Where is the direct connection Steve? On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:25:42 -0700 Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - SNETNEWS Mailing List It appears that some people who are claiming that certain laws are 'unconsitutional' do not understand the Constitution very well. The Constitution gives the authority to determine if a law enacted by Congress is Constitutional or not, to the Courts, not by the opinion of the citizens of the US. To claim otherwise shows a complete lack of understanding of the basis of rule by law as spelled out in our Constitution, upon which this great nation was founded. Steve ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b2B0gP Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ 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: {slick-d} Tiptop Murrah bombing websites] (fwd)
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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon
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for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto:
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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 08:46:00 -0700
From: John Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: ACT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Beyond any doubt the Murrah Building was destroyed
from within
by high explosive contact charges on the critical support
columns and NOT
by a fertilizer bomb in a truck outside. The top experts in
the country
have said this, and the FBI has known this from day-one.
Please check these websites for tiptop Murrah
bombing info:
http://www.okcbombing.org/
http://www.devvy.com/oklahoma.html
http://www.cia.com.au/serendipity/more/ok_bomb.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/video-reviews/0966690702/103-9136538-5331
014#09666907025000
http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0697/30quest.htm
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no07/vo13no07_blasts.htm
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[CTRL] Bush's Contra Buddies
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010507s=kornbluh COMMENT | May 7, 2001 Bush's Contra Buddies by PETER KORNBLUH The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A number of his foreign policy appointments are former Iran/ contra operatives who are being rehabilitated and rewarded with powerful foreign policy posts. John Negroponte's nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations is a case in point. Bush has named him to represent the United States at an institution built on principles that include nonintervention, international law and human rights. Qualifications for the job: Negroponte was a central player in a bloody paramilitary war that flagrantly violated those principles and was repeatedly denounced by the institution in which he would now serve. As ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was the acknowledged "boss" of the early covert contra operations; he also acted as a proconsul, working closely with the Honduran military commander, whose forces aided the covert war while his embassy consistently denied or misrepresented politically inconvenient evidence of atrocities and abuse. The nomination of Otto Reich to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere is even more offensive to international and domestic principles. A longtime anti-Castro Cuban-American, Reich is backed by Senator Jesse Helms and the hard-line exile groups that want political payback for giving Bush his real or imagined margin of victory in Florida. Like Negroponte, Reich was a key player in the illicit contra war. In 1983 a CIA propaganda specialist named Walter Raymond handpicked Reich to head the new and innocuous-sounding Office of Public Diplomacy. Housed in the State Department, Reich's office actually answered directly to Raymond and to Oliver North in the White House. A General Accounting Office review showed that Reich's office repeatedly provided sole source contracts to other members of North's network, including those involved in illegal fundraising for arms. More important, a Comptroller General's review concluded that Reich's office had "engaged in prohibited, covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public." Among those activities, as revealed in declassified records, were "white propaganda" operations--having contractors plant articles in the press or influence print and TV coverage while hiding their government connection--and using US military psychological warfare personnel to engage in, as Reich put it, "persuasive communications" intended to influence public opinion. Reich himself engaged in a crude form of "persuasive communications," personally berating media executives and harassing reporters if news coverage was not favorable to the Reagan Administration's position. When NPR's All Things Considered ran the first major investigative report on contra human rights atrocities, Reich demanded a meeting with its editors, producers and reporters, at which he informed them that his office was "monitoring" all their programs and that he considered NPR to be biased against the contras and US policy. A Washington Post stringer remembers that after a contentious briefing from Reich in Managua in which the stringer and a reporter from Newsweek questioned the truthfulness of the Administration's assertions, an article appeared in a right-wing newsletter put out by Accuracy in Media calling him a "johnny sandinista" and falsely asserting that the Nicaraguan government was providing the two reporters with prostitutes. Reich's office, the then-US Ambassador to Managua told the Post reporter, was responsible for the rumors. Reich's role as a revolving-door lobbyist is also likely to be a factor in his nomination hearings. As a partner in the Brock Group, a lobbying firm that according to Justice Department records represented the anti-Castro liquor giant Bacardi, Reich advised Jesse Helms's office on the drafting of the Helms-Burton legislation, which tightens the embargo against Cuba. Since passage of the law in 1996, Reich's own lobbying firm, RMA International, has received $600,000 in payments from Bacardi. Another Reich organization, the US-Cuba Business Council, has received more than $520,000 in US Agency for International Development money for anti-Castro work supporting the goals of the Helms-Burton law. If he's confirmed, Reich would become the key policy-maker interpreting and implementing legislation on Cuba, which he was handsomely paid to promote--a clear conflict of interest. Reich's only diplomatic credential is his 1986 posting as Ambassador to Venezuela, to which officials in Caracas repeatedly objected. While there, Reich became responsible for the case of notorious terrorist Orlando Bosch, jailed in Caracas on charges of masterminding the bombing of an Air Cubana flight that killed seventy-three
[CTRL] Fw: Saving Gasoline and Money
---Original Message--- Date: Sunday, May 20, 2001 02:11:02 AMOrgone Biophysical Research Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.orgonelab.orgForwarded News ItemPlease copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups**As of today, I've got at least five or so emails from well-meaning folkorganizing various gasoline station boycotts, car-free days, power-freedays (candles only, please) and other ideas which from my thinking willhave absolutely zero affect upon anything, except perhaps making people whoparticipate in them feel a little better. I wish to remind OBRL-newssubscribers of a very simple way to save from 5-15% on their automobilegasoline bill, by simply putting strong magnets on the gas line, close towhere it enters the carbeurator or fuel-injector.Natural Energy Works formerly sold fancy magnetic fuel treatment deviceswhich cost around $50, and you had to cut your fuel line to have themfunction. Later, I discovered these devices contained simple magnets withthe south-seeking poles directed inward. So you don't have to buy suchexpensive devices, nor cut into your fuel line. You can put a few dollarsof strong magnets on the outside of the existing fuel line, and tape theminto place, with similar beneficial results.My Astrovan, a V-6, 4-wheel drive behemoth that is necessary for wintersnow at the Greensprings Center, routinely gave around 17 mpg. With themagnets on, the boost was to around 20 mpg, or 3 additional mpg for anincrease of around 15%. The magnitude of efficiency boosting seems to varya bit from car to car, and from region to region.The magnets used are fairly strong rare-earth strontium ferroxide ceramicmagnets which will pinch your fingers (Ouch!) if you are not careful, andfour of them are enough for a single fuel-line for one car. Any similarstrong magnet will work. Two of them are stacked together on one sideof the fuel line, with another two stacked magnets on the opposite side ofthe line, secured in place with multiple wrappings of black electrical tape.Simple! Double fuel-lines for dual injectors need eight magnets. Theysell for around $1 each. Thats a total of eight bucks maximum, plus a fewcents for the tape, or an additional $2 for a hose clamp, if you wish tohave something more secure than the tape. That's a total cost of around$10 for saving from 5-15% on your gasoline bill, which today can payfor itself in about two or three tank-fulls.Like the orgone accumulator, it is too simple for most people to believe,so most people don't, but they will plunk down $150 for some other gadgetthat has a lot of slick brochures and MLM hysteria standing behind them.Open up those $150 devices (for fuel or water treatment) and in many casesyou still have the same $4 worth of magnets.You can get the magnets at any Radio Shack, but they have to be strongerthan simple refrigerator magnets, strong enough to pinch your skin if youare not careful. Otherwise the field won't penetrate into the fuel line.Get them whereever you want, but Natural Energy Works has been sellingthese simple strong magnets for years, available in sets of 10 for $10 plus$7 USA-Canada shipping, along with a little book on the subject for $12.95.The same effect works also on your propane or natural gas stove or furnace,when magnets are added to the feed lines just before the burners orcombustion chambers.Check out the following web site for more information, and also the linkrecently added that provides the results of scientific studies backing upthe magnetic effect.http://www.orgonelab.org/xpmagnet.htmLet's face it, Americans are the biggest energy hogs of the world, and ourpolitical leadership have been fiddling while Rome burned, totally failingus for years, on both sides of the political spectrum. Here's somethingyou can do, today, which will directly benefit yourself, and allow you towalk a bit softer on Mother Earth. Boycot Exxon, walk to work and read bycandle-light, if you wish, but a lot more can be done with cleverconsiderations, and quite inexpensively.JD**OBRL News is a product of the non-profitOrgone Biophysical Research LabGreensprings Research and Educational CenterPO Box 1148, Ashland, Oregon 97520 USAhttp://www.orgonelab.org _Bravenet IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
[CTRL] Fw: Bulgaria/Partnership For Peace
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: blagovesta doncheva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:21 PM Subject: Bulgaria/Partnership For Peace N A T O PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE The Partnership for Peace (PfP) Programme has been launched at the January 10-11 1994 NATO Summit in Brussels. This Programme has turned out to be the main instrument of carrying out NATO's relationships with all non-NATO countries in Europe and in former Soviet Union. Practically all of them take part also in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) that has been created in May 1997 with the participation of 28 countries, namely: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrdgjhyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. All but Tajikistan were also members of RfP. (Later the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became regular NATO members.) Politically the PfP Programme appeared after a period of certain discussions about the future of the Alliance that has followed the end of the Cold War. These discussions have been carried out both among the wider East and West public and to some extent - within certain NATO circles in the days of former General Secretaries Werner and Klaas, immediately preceding Solana on this post. For some time it was difficult to explain to the world the necessity of preserving NATO after its main adversary, the Warsaw Pact, has unilaterally declared its self-dissolvement. Just in this period the idea of transforming NATO into an all-European (and even transcontinental) POLITICAL SECURITY SCHEME was launched. It was liked and advocated mostly by the former Soviet and East European politicians. They somehow believed in this though they did not have any evidence of intentions on the side of their NATO partners. (?) In this atmosphere most of the long Declaration of the Heads of States and Governments taking part in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council on January 10-11 1994 could be interpreted (and obviously has been interpreted) as a kind of a step towards such a POLITICAL SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY. It underlined the necessity of a Pact of Stability in Europe, of unconditional continuation of the Nuclear Arms non-proliferation Treaty, of the importance the Conventions on chemical and biological weapons come into operation as soon as possible, etc. On this general political background the measures that have been proposed by the PfP Programme looked quite reasonable and acceptable. Briefly, they covered fields like: - transparency in national defence planning and budgeting; - providing democratic control of defence forces; - strengthening the ability to undertake peacekeeping missions, search, rescue and humanitarian operations; - modernising military forces so that they become better able to operate jointly with those of NATO members in the view of fostering a common approach to security in the Euro-Atlantic era, etc. These detailed suggestions together with a number of considerations of a general political nature were revealed in 26 paragraphs in the Jan 1994 NATO Summit Declaration, in the Partnership for Peace Invitation and in the PfP Framework Document launched by the same Meeting. We can only guess what have been the reasons that have made Russia, all former Warsaw Pact countries and a number of classically non-aligned and neutral European countries accept unanimously this Invitation. Perhaps they believed that after the demise of the Warsaw Pact there will be an end of the military counterpoise in Europe and world-wide, and more room for free choice and expression of their opinions, interests and policies. Or was it possible that the end of the so-called Cold War has marked a new period in the history of the international relations? A period in which all these countries lose their national independence and turn into puppets and serfs of the USA and NATO as the only remaining unrivalled super power in Europe and world-wide? Whatever the case, all these countries seemed not to have noticed the closing sentence of point 13 from the Declaration of the Meeting in Jan. 1994. It said that: Active participation the PfP will be of great importance for the revolutionary process of NATO enlargement. In the ocean of good words and considerations only that one sentence strikes another note, and it maybe could well be ignored. However just that sentence seems to contain all the main objectives both of PfP Programme and of USA-NATO policies in the world of nowadays. The Framework Document and the other materials of the PfP Programme create the impression that the Programme will; provide for the further development and modernisation of the
[CTRL] Fwd: [BMD-List] 010521 WMD/Missile Defense News
[BMD-List] is a news service covering missile defense and special weapons issues. Special weapons news is archived @ http://www.fas.org/news/ Back issues and other news reports are archived @ http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command (without brackets) in the body of your email message: unsubscribe bmd-list [your email address] Table of Contents China * China / missile defense * Pentagon Spokesman's Briefing - Pacific Deployment * Study: U.S. should shift military focus in Asia closer to potential hot spots * China / Missile Defense * DOD: Rand report is among many the Pentagon will look at North Korea * North Korea: U.S. Missile Sale To South Korea * North Korea threatens U.S., South over missile defense plan * State Department Noon Briefing - North Korea Iran * Moscow Hopes To Build More Reactors In Iran Iraq * RFE/RL Iraq Report * Moscow Says Increased U.S., U.K. Flights Over Iraq 'Obstacles' To Peace' * ONW's commander calls the shots on Saddam watch * Pentagon Spokesman's Briefing - No Fly Zones * State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq Sanctions * UN/Iraq/Sanctions * UN panel pays out $760 million for losses from Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait * Iraq: Annan would welcome measures to ease impact of sanctions on civilians * State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq Sanctions * RFE/RL Iraq Report * Moscow Unimpressed By U.S.-U.K. Plan To Modify Iraq Sanctions Regime Russia * A Looming Proliferation Threat * Foreign Ministry Ready To Discuss U.S. NMD Plans...As Karaganov Urges Avoiding Confrontation And Humiliation...But Rogov Calls For 'Exhaustive' Talks * Russia Now Without A Spy Satellite In Orbit * Defense Minister Muzzles Generals On NMD * Moscow Loses Control of Military Satellites After Fire * Nikolaev Leads Russian Opposition To Bush Missile Defense Initiative * Military Loses Contact With Its Satellites * U.S., Russia Consult On Missile Defense * U.S. Ideas On NMD Described As 'Laughable' * Russia Launches U.S. Satellite * US / Russia * Moscow Plans Deployment of More Topol-M Missiles * US/Russia/Talks United States * Missile Defense * Pentagon Spokesman's Briefing - Missile Defense Consultations @@@ China China / missile defense, Voice of America, 15 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/china/2001/china-010515.htm A senior U-S diplomat is wrapping up (has wrapped up / concluded) talks in Beijing with very skeptical Chinese officials about a planned U-S missile defense system. Pentagon Spokesman's Briefing - Pacific Deployment, U.S. Department of Defense, 15 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/china/2001/china-010515-taiwanzdb.htm Q: A Rand report commissioned by the Air Force was released today, making suggestions about U.S. military force posturing and emphasis toward Asia. It suggested that the U.S. ought to be focusing more of its resources on Asia and also suggested that Guam be considered for a buildup of U.S. military strength, as a prepositioning area. To what extent does this report, that was commissioned by one of the services, reflect the thinking of the Pentagon now, as you're going through this review process? Study: U.S. should shift military focus in Asia closer to potential hot spots , Stars and Stripes, 16 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/china/2001/china-010516-taiwan.htm The United States should shift its military focus in Asia toward the Philippines and other nations closer to potential hot spots such as Taiwan, a Pentagon-sponsored study says. /p pBut a senior U-S envoy says talks on the issue were useful, and further discussions are planned. China / Missile Defense, Voice of America, 16 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/china/2001/china-010516.htm A high level U-S delegation has left China without denting Chinese opposition to the Bush Administration's planned missile defense system/p pBut a senior U-S envoy says talks on the issue were useful, and further discussions are planned. DOD: Rand report is among many the Pentagon will look at, By David Allen, Stars and Stripes, 17 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/china/2001/china-010517-taiwan.htm A recently released study that calls for focusing U.S. forces in Asia toward the Taiwan Strait is one of many scenarios the Pentagon is considering, a defense official said Tuesday. North Korea North Korea: U.S. Missile Sale To South Korea, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 14 May 2001 http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/2001/dprk-010514.htm QUESTION: Comment on N. Korean complaints about S. Korea's plans to procure M-41 missile launchers (which it charges could form part of a missile defense system). North Korea threatens U.S., South over missile defense plan, By Jim Lea, Stars and Stripes, 15 May 2001
[CTRL] Mind Control, the Media CIA
-Caveat Lector- SFLR News The newsletter of San Francisco Liberation Radio Monday, May 21, 2001 San Francisco Liberation Radio, 93.7 FM Broadcasting 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. nightly, 12 midnight on Saturdays, In Western San Francisco In this Issue: 1. Benefit for SFLR: Mind Control, the Media CIA 2. The Keys to Hell and Death * 1. Benefit This Saturday San Francisco Liberation Radio will sponsor a discussion on Mind Control, the Media and the CIA this Saturday night, May 26, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church at Geary and Franklin Streets in San Francisco. Guest speakers will be Mark Phillips and Cathy O'Brien, authors of the book, TRANCE-Formation of America, documenting O'Brien's life experience in the CIA's Project Monarch mind-control program (see below). Admission is $10 - $15 sliding scale. For additional information call 415-386-3135. ** 2. The Keys to Hell and Death By Richard Edmondson, SF Liberation Radio co-founder Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino--U.S. Army reserve officer with a top-secret security clearance Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino--founder of a Satanic cult in San Francisco known as the Temple of Set Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino--named as a suspect in a highly publicized child molestation case All of these aspects of the public persona of High Priest Michael Aquino emerged 14 years ago when police, investigating what had become known as the Presidio child molestation case, raided Aquino's San Francisco home, confiscating in the process: ? 36 videotapes ? Photographic negatives ? Photo albums ? Cassette tapes ? Photos of costumes and masks (San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 30, 1987, p. B11) Despite all of this evidence--with, additionally, the statements of more than 50 children and their parents, plus examining physicians--Aquino walked away from the whole affair without ever having to go to trial. The reserve U.S. Army officer, identified by the San Francisco Chronicle as an intelligence and psychological warfare expert (Dec. 24, 1988, p. A2), eventually faded from the public spotlight. However, he has emerged again, figuring prominently in a book entitled TRANCE-Formation of America, by Mark Phillips and Cathy O'Brien. O'Brien, a survivor of the CIA's Project Monarch program, alleges that Aquino was one of her principle handlers--and mind controllers--for the Agency. Project Monarch was an offshoot of MK-ULTRA, the CIA's more famous sojourn into the search for the ultimate mind-control weapon. The Agency's MK-ULTRA follies included, among other things, giving LSD to unwitting recipients. Under Project Monarch, children of pedophile parents were taken and deliberately psychologically traumatized--over and above what they had already endured by simply having pedophiles for parents. O'Brien herself was such a child. My pedophile father, Earl O'Brien, brags that he began substituting his penis for my mother's nipple soon after I was born, she writes in TRANCE-Formation. Later traumatization (under CIA guidance, she says) included the witnessing of Satanic rituals as well as grisly murders and mutilations, plus her prostitution to an endless string of cops, mobsters and politicians. The operative theory was that Dissociative Identity Disorder (more commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) could be successfully induced in children and youth's like O'Brien by exposing them to events so horrifying that the brain quite literally would shut down the neuron pathways to the memories of these incidents. The memories, once blocked, could again be triggered by the verbalizing of certain code words or phrases by a third party. If you knew the code words, you thus possessed the keys to the mind of the trauma victim--and held enormous power over him or her. It was believed--and it has since been borne out--that such trauma-based mind control could reduce the subject to the status of automaton, incapable of having an original thought. Whether or not a form of trauma-based mind control can be exerted at a mass level, upon a nation's population as a whole, possibly through the engineering of events like the Oklahoma City bombing, remains to be seen. It is a safe bet, however, that research into the question is somewhere ongoing--financed by your tax dollars. O'Brien's father, with a sixth grade education and earning a living as a worm digger for sport fishermen on Lake Michigan, would seem to have had bleak prospects in life. And so they were--until, that is, Earl O'Brien was reportedly caught sending kiddie porn through the U.S. mail, Cathy O'Brien states. Suddenly the CIA took notice of the O'Brien family, at which point Earl O'Brien's prospects in life improved rather dramatically. It was a bestiality film of me with my Uncle Sam O'Brien's boxer dog, Buster, writes Cathy O'Brien in TRANCE. My Uncle Bob, also implicated in the
[CTRL] U.S./German Talks Re: Russia Leaked
http://www.ds-osac.org/globalnews/story.cfm?KEY=13322 Schroeder, Bush Talks on Russia Leaked Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 Country:Russia/Germany/US Source: Gazeta Story: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Bush agreed to withhold financial aid from Russia as long as vast sums continue to flow out of the country, two German magazines reported on Saturday. Quoting from a 10-page diplomatic cable on the minutes of confidential talks between Schroeder and Bush, the news weeklies Focus and Der Spiegel said Schroeder also expressed doubts to Bush about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin could push through free market and democratic reforms. A German government spokeswoman declined to comment. She said the government does not, as a general rule, have anything to say about confidential information obtained illegally. German media have been reporting this week other details from the leaked secret cable to Berlin from Germany's ambassador in Washington, Juergen Chrobog, who took minutes of Schroeder's meeting with Bush in Washington on March 29. In the most explosive revelation, Schroeder's foreign policy adviser Michael Steiner was reported to have told Bush that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had told him he had had a role in the Lockerbie bombing. The government has denied Gaddafi or Steiner ever made such comments. Focus and Der Spiegel both reported new details from the telegram on Saturday, including the two leaders' observations on Putin. ''The chancellor agreed with Bush that there can be no new financial aid as long as vast sums are being spirited abroad,'' Focus quoted the cable as saying. ''It is an open question whether he (Putin) can really assert himself against the elites shaped during the Soviet era,'' the cable quoted Schroeder as adding. Der Spiegel, which published lengthy excerpts of the cable, added that Bush said he did not view Russia as an enemy. ''But before one is ready to make further economic assistance available, one has to know more about Putin's policies and analyze his goals,'' Bush was quoted as telling Schroeder. Schroeder, asked by Bush for his opinion of Putin, said the Russian leader ''came from the old (Soviet) apparatus but had developed beyond that. He (Putin) believes there have to be close ties between Russia and the 'Christian West'. This includes especially Europe, but also the United States.'' Russia owes Germany around 40 percent of its $40 billion debt to Western governments. Germany is Moscow's main trade partner and creditor. Schroeder has met Putin several times in recent years but resisted calls for debt relief. Focus said Bush also made critical remarks about Putin, according to the minutes recorded by Chrobog. ''First of all his relation with a free press and secondly the continued delivery of weapons to Iran, which defies logic, because Russia is thus supporting Islamic fundamentalists,'' Bush was quoted as telling Schroeder. Focus reported the cable as saying Schroeder told Bush that Germany was supplying Israel with special military assistance. ''Germany is doing a lot for the military stabilization of this country without mentioning this in public,'' Schroeder told Bush, adding that Arab countries would view that as an affront.
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Radio Netherlands and UN Jamming Radio Waves
From: Aleisha Saba So for whom do they act as a front? Why the UN.they worry aboutmass immigration to Europe now and the EU not paying the UN big bucks asthey once didmaybe this is the start of he end of this thing theycall the UN where a Monarch such as Prince Bernhard would sit on equalbasis with Zulu Chiefton? Bernhard is Prince Consort. The real monarch in the Netherlands is Queen Beatrix. Quite a stir was aroused when she married Bernhard because the Dutch have long memories of the atrocities they suffered under German occupation during WWII. Bernhard is not only German, but was a member of Hitler's Youth Corps. June _Bravenet IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
[CTRL] Mafia Boss of the Balkans
http://www.nacional.hr/htm/287051.en.htm Nacional Reveals the Head Mafia Boss of the Balkans Stanko Subotic Cane, Croatian citizen and head of the entire Balkan mafia, has worked together with Djindjic and Djukanovic, as well as with the late Vjeko Slisko In a recent interview with the Croatian Internal Affairs Minister, Sime Lucin, he confirmed for Nacional that Stanko Subotic Cane, one of the largest Serbian mafia bosses and the tobacco smuggling partner of Montenegrin President Mile Djukanovic, became a Croatian citizen in 1999. According to Lucins claims, this Serbian mobster with a Croatian passport is estimated to be one of the richest people in this entire region, worth some $500 million. He allegedly received his Croatian documents on the recommendation of General Ljubo Cesic Rojs, former commander of the 66th HVO Brigade. He received these documents based on an article in the law stating that foreigners who are particularly supportive of Croatian national interests can qualify for citizenship. This discovery is so scandalous to even the benevolent representatives of the governing coalition, that the Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) has begun an official internal investigation into secret protection Subotic receive from the former HDZ government, enabling him to receive Croatian citizenship and residence in Zagreb. According to the information Nacional has, the following has been confirmed: that Stanko Subotic Cane received Croatian citizenship on June 15, 1999, and that the signature on the approval form was that of former MUP minister Ivan Penic. That same day, Penic signed another document which granted Subotics wife Jagoda and ten year old daughter Mija citizenship as well. The identity cards and passport for the three family members were already completed by the following day, June 16, 1999 in the Zagreb police headquarters. However the Subotic family did not personally pick up their documents. According to instructions received from the top ranks of MUP, the papers were to be mailed in a package to Subotics address in Geneva, Switzerland. That request was denied the same day, and the documents were then allegedly taken by Miljenko Bukovac, who was at that time assistant to the minister, and today is retired. Following this, there is no longer any trace of the documents. Only one more detail is known: that the Serbian mafioso was granted Croatian documents at exactly the time his Yugoslav passport ran out, and when an international warrant for his arrest was issued in Belgrade, due to his suspected involvement in a number of murders and showdowns with opposing smuggling networks. From this it is not difficult to conclude that General Ljubo Cesic Rojs and the last HDZ police minister provided the Serbian tobacco emperor with a form of political asylum. Smuggling Channels The identities of his powerful sponsors and protectors in Croatia, hiding behind Cesic and Penic, are still unknown. However, educated by the many years experience of HDZs generous handing out of Croatian citizenship all over the world, it is not difficult for us to conclude that Subotic could have come to his citizenship in two ways. He could either have bribed some high ranking HDZ politician, or via indirect channels and secret partner agreements with joint criminal organizations operating both in Croatia, and in BiH. As far as is known, Subotics smuggling channels stretch out over the entire Balkan region, thanks to the secret support or protection of the highest ranking politicians and police authorities in virtually all of the republics of the former Yugoslavia. In Serbia, that role until recently belonged to Jovica Stanisic, head of the Serbian State Security Agency, and Milorad Vucelic, former president of the governing SPS and former director of Serbian National Television. Today, that role belongs to Serbian Premier, Zoran Djindjic. On the front page of a recent edition of the Belgrade newspaper Politika, a photograph was published of the private airplane, which belongs to Subotic, in which Djindjic officially traveled to Moscow. Today, Subotic brags about having complete protection from Djindjic. Finally, Subotic is also the business partner of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, who is directly involved in distributing profits derived from cigarette
[CTRL] SNET: CHINESE ELECTRICITY - Oh, you STUPID sheeple....... (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:21:32 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: CHINESE ELECTRICITY - Oh, you STUPID sheeple... - SNETNEWS Mailing List NewsMax.com Sunday, May 20, 2001 Just What The Hell Is Going on Here? Americans facing blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs this summer will be happy to know their tax dollars helped pay for a nuclear power plant now providing electricity for a Chinese shipyard building warships that someday could be used against the United States. The Export-Import Bank of the United States coughed up almost $360 million in two low-interest loans to China to help the Red Chinese build the Quinshan nuclear power plant near Shanghai despite US law that specifically bans the financing of loans to Marxist-Leninist countries, including the People's Republic of China (PRC) unless the loans are considered to be in the national interest. President Clinton obligingly declared the loans to be in the US national interest according to Human Events, which uncovered the shocking scandal. Moreover, the Republican controlled congress stood quietly by and allowed the loans to go forward. Among the customers of the nuclear plant is the Jiangnan Shipyards which builds ships for the rapidly expanding Chinese navy. The Ex-Im loans put up the funding that allowed two American companies - Westinghouse Electric and Bechtel Power - to help the PRC build the strategically important nuclear power plant. The loans were made at an interest rate of 7.49%. at a time when the prime rate in the United States was 8.25% - a rate even lower that the 7.8% then being paid by Americans for a home mortgage. The first loan guarantee of $36,347,390 ) to help the Chinese buy steam turbines and auxiliaries from Westinghouse for the second phase of Qinshan was approved by the Ex-Im bank's directors in July of 1996, The second, for $323 million covered Bechtel's sale of non-nuclear plant components to the China National Nuclear Corp. It was used for the third phase of the Qinshan plant and was approved by the Bank's board of directors on Jan. 14, 1997. The notification of both loans that the Ex-Im Bank was required to send to Congress were transmitted in the form of a letter to then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.) and then-Vice President Al Gore in his constitutional role as president of the Senate. According to Human Events Gingrich and Gore forwarded the messages to the banking committees in their respective chambers where the matters languished without any apparent further action. In addition to helping the PRC build a nuclear power plant that supplies electricity to a key part of their defense industry, Human Events notes that building the later phases of Qinshan - with financing from U.S. taxpayers - helped the PRC develop its nuclear-reactor-building expertise. The magazine quotes Xinhua, the Chinese government's official news agency, as having boasted earlier this year that through the development of . . . Qinshan Phase 3 [and other plants] the corporation has basically mastered the advanced modern methodology for the management of nuclear power development projects. Both Westinghouse and Bechtel are heavy financial contributors to the Democrat and Republican parties. The law requires that three of the five Ex-Im Bank's directors must approve a loan to Communist China. At the time of the two loans, there were two vacancies on the board, and the three remaining members - Board Chairman Martin A. Kamarck and Maria Haley and Julie Belaga voted unanimously to send the money to China. Kamarck is the husband of former Gore aide Elaine Kamarck According to the NY Times On Feb. 14, 1997, a month after she voted to approve the Bechtel-related loan, Ms. Haley's first job in Washington was in the White House personnel office, where she helped John Huang, the Riady family's senior American executive, get a job at the Commerce Department. It was Huang, who helped funnel tens of thousands of dollars in illegal foreign contributions to President Clinton and the Democrats. Riady recently pleaded guilty to violating US campaign finance laws. Julie Belaga was a regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency and an executive in a public relations firm. She was recommended for the Ex-Im job by Sen. Chris Dodd (D.-Conn.). When your lights begin to flicker this summer and your energy bill begins to look like your mortgage payment, be comforted in the knowledge that China is enjoying nuclear power at your expense at a time when Democrats and environmentalists battle against building any nuclear plants in the US. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] SNET: Bilderberg protest (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I wonder why the environmentalists don't complain about these guys? Look at all of the big money, the big cars, the big houses, all of the jetting around the world all of the excess energy, money and excess pollution they generateoops! that would be biting the hand that feeds them! visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:58:17 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: Bilderberg protest - SNETNEWS Mailing List Subj:BILDERBERG 2001 Date: 05/17/2001 9:31:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TROY SOUTHGATE) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JOSEPH KERRICK) A CALL TO ARMS AGAINST GLOBALISATION: DENOUNCE BILDERBERG 2001 For nearly 50 years, an elite group composed of some of the worldâs top business and political figures has been meeting secretively in isolated resorts around the globe. It is no mystery that not all that is discussed in forums such as Davos, WTO, IMF, World Bank, G-7 or G-8 meetings finally makes it to the media, either controlled or âindependentâ. And yet the agenda for what has come to be known as the Bilderberg Group has seldom been disclosed. WHAT IS THE BILDERBERG GROUP? Simply put, it is one of the most secretive globalist organs post-war society has ever witnessed or, to paraphrase the English journalist Will Hutton, the âHigh Priesthood of Globalisation.â Founded in 1954, the forum owes its name to the Dutch hotel in which the groupâs first meeting ever took place. Since then, Bilderberger delegates - a cross-section of presidents, ministers, industrialists and financial leaders - gather annually in token locations to discuss their classified globalist agenda, neither to be disclosed to the public nor to the press. Its regular attendants include former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, business tycoon David Rockefeller, International Monetary Fund (IMF) director Stanley Fischer, World Bank president James Wolfensohn and, at one time or another, every U.S. president since Eisenhower up to Clinton. RULE #1: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT BILDERBERG RULE #2: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT BILDERBERG Under the pretense of allowing so-called âfree discussionâ between the leading personalities of the establishment, society is left in the dark as to what their leaders think the future should hold. Unaccountable, untroubled and unreported, Bilderberger meetings have formed the basis of international policy for decades. Why does Bilderberg shroud itself in the utmost confidentiality? What do the world leaders have to hide? That is, if they are not concealing enough already about the agendae of the mainstream global summits. It seems Bilderberg is the only time in which public officers can cease acting as such under the spurious pretence of privacy. In this way, they refrain from the public accounting that is implicit in the rest of their tenures as policy-makers. It is intriguing that the collaborative silence of the media virtually denies the existence of this forum. It is simply unbelievable that what influentual people discuss behind closed doors is not reflected in their public conduct. AN APPEAL TO ALL CONSCIENTIOUS ACTIVISTS With such a profile, it is hardly a surprise that febrile conspiracy theories have thrived around Bilderberg, from the extreme right to the radical left. The effect has been to leave the importance of the meetings tainted by association. It fits the Bilderbergers perfectly. This has taken place for far too long. In recent years, the oligarchic/capitalist structure beneath the guise of a seemingly inoffensive âfree-tradeâ, has been unmasked. Even societies which to all propaganda purposes have apparently met their basic necessities, are experiencing turmoil from the badly-suppressed, thinly-disguised contradictions inherent within capitalism. Rising unemployment, dispossession, cultural nihilism, environmental plundering, issues we know only too well. And thus we invite you to stand up and reclaim the flags of liberation from those who have spoken too long for us, be it the power centres or the ineffectual political minorities with their tired schemes of left and right. Bilderberg is only the tip of the iceberg, but too heinous a truth to be kept in silence. The dark side of globalization must be brought to light. We, the National Revolutionaries of the European Liberation Front (ELF), ask you to help us build a new society and encourage the more conscientious people to denounce Bilderberg for what it is. No matter where you are or what your means are, globalisation must be fought globally. Let us drag the oligarchs out onto the streets and make them answer for their actions. A WELCOMING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLIGARCHS Bilderberg will hold
[CTRL] The Bush Energy Plan
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/21/energy/index.html Bush's fractured fairy tale With the president's energy plan, no matter how much coal we burn, the sky will always be blue. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Arianna Huffington May 21, 2001 | Forgive me if this column feels a little rushed, but after listening to the president introduce his new energy plan, I'm hurrying to get it done before the lights go out and my computer runs out of juice. "If we fail to act, this great country could face a darker future," Bush warned ominously. "If we fail to act, Americans will face more and more widespread blackouts. If we fail to act, our country will become more reliant on foreign crude oil, putting our national energy security into the hands of foreign nations." He was on a gloom-and-doom roll: "If we fail to act on this plan, energy prices will continue to rise ... We're not just short of oil, we're short of the refineries that turn oil into fuel ... A single accident, a single shutdown can send prices of gasoline and heating oil spiraling all over the country." It was the bleakest forecast since the weather guy on Radio Pompeii predicted: "Morning ash, molten lava and toxic sulfur fumes, followed by widely scattered death and destruction." The strategy is clear: Scare us out of our wits and let the Arctic drilling begin! And it's working. According to the latest polls, the number of Americans who consider energy a top concern soared from 3 percent in March to 21 percent two months later, with 53 percent of us now convinced that the country is in the midst of an "energy crisis." Using fear to sell questionable policies is fast becoming a Bush administration hallmark. If you'll recall, he sold his tax cut as a necessary measure to "jump-start" the economy and prevent the nation from sliding into a recession. "We need tax relief now," he insisted. "In fact, we need tax relief yesterday ... A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy, and we can't just drive on and hope for the best." And now, in a tribute to his single-mindedness or, rather, a monument to his narrow-mindedness, the president has decided that the answer to the energy "crisis" is -- guess what? -- a tax cut. Cue the Who: "Meet the new solution; same as the old solution." The question is: Will we get fooled again? "The quickest way to help people with their energy bills is tax relief," said Bush at a White House news conference. "If I had my way, I'd have it in place tomorrow so that people would have money in their pockets to deal with high energy prices." It wasn't so long ago that Bush was trashing the Democrats for their "targeted tax cuts." Now his signature proposal has morphed into the ultimate targeted cut. What happened to all the rhetoric about trusting "the good people of America to spend their own money, to meet their own priorities?" Now he's directing us to spend it at the gas pump -- helping to line the pockets of his pals in the energy industry. They can then turn around and gratefully give large chunks of it to the Bush reelection campaign, thus maintaining their status as one of his top contributors. It's like a perpetual motion machine -- just what's needed for an "energy crisis." What is particularly ironic is that a conservative administration, which preeningly promised to bring integrity back to the White House, has taken to pooh-poohing personal behavior -- indeed, personal virtue -- as irrelevant to serious matters of public policy. "Conservation," sniffed Vice President Cheney earlier this month, "may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy." Of course, this is the same administration that has also eschewed any talk of personal sacrifice as an element of a wise and sustainable energy policy. "Conservation does not mean doing without," insisted the president. Actually, Mr. President, it means precisely that. But in Bush's America, the one that will exist as soon as we build a few thousand more power plants, drill for oil in a few more national parks and squeeze a few more kilowatts out of our nuclear waste, we'll be able to have our gas-guzzling SUVs and drive them too -- over rolling green hills and across pristine rivers, leaving the windows open so we can breathe in the fresh, clean air. And when the entire earth heats up, we'll just save that much more on our energy bills. Amazingly enough, according to the president, we're going to achieve this glorious state by easing environmental regulations and offering more tax incentives to the $700 billion energy industry -- as though the current windfall of massive profits isn't enough to stimulate more power production. So much for trusting the free market. In the end, the 163-page energy report -- aka "The World According to Dick" -- is a curious combination of Chicken Little and Pollyanna, with lots of pretty color pictures. In this fractured fairy tale, the sky is falling,
Re: [CTRL] SNET: a special mission for Steve Wingate (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:26:47 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Against Constitutional terrorists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: The search network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SNET: a special mission for Steve Wingate (fwd) I suppose that he will pull out the commerce clause as justification for all of these environmental laws. What about about the 13th amendment? I say all of these mandatory edicts effectively makes all of us slaves! And how about all of the commerce that these environmental laws prohibit? Maybe somebody could suggest attacking these these laws with the anti-trust laws. Environmental laws certainly increase prices, restrain trade in the resources they lock up (well after all that is the main purpose!) Are certainly freindly to OPEC by shutting down competition to OPEC's oil and deliberately making us more dependent on their oil.And to mention the constitutionality of all these national parks, wildlife refugees, monuments etc. I can only find one reason why the federal government is allowed to own land outside of the district of Columbia and that is for national defense only after the state legislature cedes land to the feseral government! (article 1 section 8) Article 1 section 10 authorizes interstate compacts. Again, I expect some outlandishly contorted reason why the commerce clause authorizes all of this tyranny at the hands of the federal government. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:46:56 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SNET: a special mission for Steve Wingate (fwd) - SNETNEWS Mailing List STeve, if you knew how the constitution was written, you wouldnt be asking that question. CERTAIN POWERS we delegated to the federal govt by the states, those that were not delegated, were reserved to the states or to the people themselves, so before a law can be passed, it needs to stand up to constitutional muster, if it doesnt, then it is not supposed to become federal law, and if it does become federal law illegally, then thats why we have a Supreme Court, which has on many occasions, has found many laws passed by our so called reporesentatives in D.C. to be unconstitutional. That may be what William was trying to say. Mark Steve Wingate wrote: - SNETNEWS Mailing List On 19 May 01, at 22:14, William Bacon wrote: Well do I even mention the constitutionality of the endangered specis act? I can not find in article 1 section 8 any authority givn to the Federal Government for the endangered specis act Do you really believe that the Constitution must spell out every conceivable law that may or may not be enacted. Come on, get real William. Steve ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b2B0gP Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ 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
[CTRL] Powell Lets Sharon Win
http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html Powell lets Sharon ‘win’ by Ahmed Amr Ariel Sharon was elected on the strength of a one-sentence platform to "let the Army win". Colin Powell and George Bush, characteristically indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians and bowing to the Israel lobby, made a deliberate decision to give Sharon a chance to implement his campaign promise. The old butcher of Sabra and Shatila was given a carte blanche to intensify the violence initiated by the Barak government. It now appears that Sharon has come to recognize that the Army alone cannot win. So, impulsive and demented as ever, he has decided to expand his initial proposal and "let the navy win" and "let the air force win". Perhaps the man with the stain of Qibya on his record might next decide to use a little bit of Israel’s huge nuclear arsenal. The Israelis elected him to kill more Palestinians and he is just being Sharon. For the first time in thirty-three years of military occupation, the Israeli air force, using free American supplied F-16 fighter jets, launched strikes against Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Colin Powell accepted this latest escalation with a shrug. He is, after all, a man who still believes that with a few more ‘Phoenix’ campaigns and a few million additional tons of napalm and Agent Orange, America could have ‘won’ in Vietnam. He is a general who believes politicians should not restrain military men. Reportedly, the general had a friendly phone chat with ‘Arik’ immediately after the F-16s had killed a dozen Palestinians in Nablus and did not bother to raise the subject of the illegal use of American supplied weapons. According to American law, these particular weapons are strictly for defensive purposes. But that was not a problem for Powell, the law being something of an obstacle to his insatiable quest for power and personal wealth. Maybe he spent the precious moments on the phone with his buddy ‘Arik’ exchanging war crime stories. Perhaps they talked about the smell of napalm in the morning or about the reports that as a division commander in Vietnam, Powell did his bit to cover up the My Lai massacre and other reported atrocities. Let us agree that those who spill the blood of innocents during times of war, whether they are Prime Ministers, Army snipers, Air-force pilots, ex-Generals or ex-Senators, are not men of honor, much less soldiers. The deliberate assault against unarmed civilians, even in the heat of battle, is not allowed by American law or under many international treaties to which we are parties. This might come as a shock to Colin "overwhelming force" Powell, but war crimes statutes don’t have exit clauses for Israelis or Americans. Neither do they have statutes of limitation. Let us further agree that a Secretary of State or a President who does not enforce American law is, in effect, breaking the law. When these men, Bush and Powell, were sworn in to their high offices, they took an oath to uphold the constitution, not to express their personal racist views about the value of an Arab life. Now, both these men are definitively aware that the law is being broken by a habitual war criminal called Ariel Sharon and that they have a legal obligation to do something about it. The fact that they do not value Palestinian lives is not material to any defense that they might raise in future litigation. Considering the substantial legal evolution in tracking and prosecuting war criminals, they are well advised to check with their lawyers. Finally, let us be clear that the misuse of the F16s by Sharon’s flying thugs is a violation of domestic American law, not some obscure UN resolution clause. The families of the Palestinians who were killed in this Powell sanctioned F16 air raid and those who survived and sustained injury should consider seeking American lawyers to investigate the possibilities of pursuing legal action in American courts on the strength of domestic statutes. A guy like Powell needs to be reminded that he is not above the law. Recall that Ex-Senator Kerrey, as part of his defense, has claimed ignorance of American law regarding the treatment of ‘enemy’ civilians in times of war. Powell needs to pay a little attention to the laws of the land, if not for the sake of his country, than for the sake of his personal estate. Today in France, a general who was involved in the torture killings of Algerian rebels is facing a trial, four decades after the war ended. In Poland, an ex-Prime Minister is being charged in the murder of dozens of unarmed Polish anti-Communist protesters, some twenty years ago. In the Ukraine, an authoritarian President is being investigated for having the head of a journalist chopped off. Milosovic sits in a prison cell in Belgrade awaiting extradition to The Hague, something that seemed quite remote just a year ago. The fact that Noriega is still rotting in an American
Re: [CTRL] Beckon Call
-Caveat Lector- Just last weekend, my husband and I were out garage-sale-ing, and he asked me if we were the only people in New Jersey who didn't have a cell phone. It must be sad to HAVE to be constantly available to whoever wants to reach you. Tenorlove who can ignore a ringing phone __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Support conservation!
-Caveat Lector- Are they going to broadcast this Roll Your Own Black Out on TV or the Web? --- bLiTz666 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Friends, a safe and throughtful message about the importance of energy conservation can be made by participating in this simple event. This is an interesting approach to begin thinking of conservation rather than oil production. ROLL YOUR OWN BLACK OUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Support conservation!
SUPPORT CONSERVATION EAT YOUR WHALES SLOWLY.
[CTRL] URGENT: Some ISPs secretly block some URLs: Civil Liberties Groups Oppose 'Stealth' Web Blocking
-Caveat Lector- [If there is ANYTHING about the Internet that SHOULD OUTRAGE YOU --MS] Saturday, May 19 2:48 AM SGT Civil Liberties Groups Oppose 'Stealth' Web Blocking WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2001 MAY 18 (NB) By David McGuire, Newsbytes. A clutch of civil liberties groups on Thursday publicly denounced the practice by some Internet service providers (ISPs) of surreptitiously blocking Internet users from viewing certain Web sites. Led by Peacefire.org - an online group that opposes mandatory Internet filtering - the public interest groups issued a joint statement calling for two large ISPs to end their alleged stealth blocking activities. Among the groups that signed the statement were the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If people want to block themselves voluntarily, that's up to them, but hardly anybody who is downstream from these blocking ISPs realize that's what's going on, Peacefire.org Webmaster Bennett Haselton said today. The joint statement accuses AboveNet and Teleglobe - two large Internet backbone providers - of walling off certain Web sites from their downstream customers. Since the two companies' downstream customers include a slew of smaller ISPs, most of the individual Internet users affected by the so-called stealth blocking tactics are completely unaware that their access is restricted, Haselton said. Haselton said he discovered the activities when he learned that Peacefire.org was one of the sites being blocked by the two companies. To make matters worse, Haselton contends, users who are denied access to sites by the upstream ISPs are misled into believing that the sites in question are having technical difficulties. Haselton said that users of the filtered ISPs would get site not responding messages if they attempted to access blocked sites. AboveNet has abandoned most of its blocking activities, but Teleglobe continues to filter out many sites, according to Peacefire.org. Haselton said that most voluntary filtering products block Peacefire.org, because the site allows users to download software designed to disable Internet filters. But Haselton said Teleglobe and AboveNet appear not to have been targeting Peacefire.org directly with their filters. Rather, Haselton said, the ISPs were apparent subscribers to the MAPS (mail abuse prevention system) list of known spammers. Since Peacefire.org's ISP is listed as a provider that hosts spammers, AboveNet and Teleglobe filtered all content hosted on the ISP, Haselton said. Neither AboveNet nor Teleglobe responded to requests for interviews on this story. = 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] [HardGreenHerald] # 16
-Caveat Lector- [HardGreenHerald] # 16 Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. --Dr. Seuss, 'The Lorax' --A RadTimes production-- --- Contents: --- --Foot-and-mouth 'probable' in U.S. --Police interrupt Greenpeace protest by hot-air balloon at Americas Summit --Environmental Leaders Arrested in Earth Day Protest --Ruling: Cement Plant Violates Civil Rights --Planetark links --GM pollution now pervasive: agency --UK biotech firms demand protection from activists --FBI Probe of Eco-terrorists targets Long Island Anarchists --Foot And Mouth Latest --Biotechs target activists --Greenpeace Sprays Waste Water --Report: Polluted air reaching more Americans --Mutant foods overrun world market, ecosystem --Scientists fear biotech will harm food supply --Maxxam Resumes Logging in the Mattole === Foot-and-mouth 'probable' in U.S. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-04-16-footandmouth.htm 04/17/2001 By Jim Drinkard USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Federal emergency officials are preparing for a U.S. outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a prospect they see as highly likely. About 75 federal officials from agencies ranging from the Agriculture Department to the CIA met Wednesday to review plans for addressing an outbreak of the highly infectious animal virus. The group also included officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army's biological warfare office, the Coast Guard, the Interior Department and the Food and Drug Administration. FEMA official Bruce Baughman said the plans call for treating an outbreak much the same as a natural disaster, in which states take primary responsibility and call on federal resources as needed. We are certainly treating it like it's a probable likelihood, he said. Others present at the meeting said the chances that the disease will spread to the United States were described as very high, fueling an intensive planning effort. Until now, the government has focused in its public statements on efforts to keep the disease from reaching the United States. At last week's meeting, officials described arrangements for earth-moving equipment to bury thousands of animal carcasses, and the drafting of emergency orders that could suspend some environmental regulations to allow quick burial of afflicted livestock. Inquiries about the government's assessment of the risk of a U.S. outbreak of the disease were referred to Cliff Oliver, who is heading emergency response plans for the Agriculture Department. Telephone calls to his home Monday night were unanswered. Later, USDA spokesman Kevin Herglotz described the meeting as a standard planning session and said his department does not believe an outbreak is inevitable. I was in the military for 10 years. We did mock exercises every month. That didn't mean war was imminent, he said. Herglotz didn't attend the meeting but says he was briefed on it. Foot-and-mouth disease affects pigs, cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals but is not generally harmful to humans. The United States has not had a case of foot-and-mouth disease since 1929. In England, the current outbreak began in February and quickly spread. Cases also have been confirmed in the Netherlands, France and Ireland. Recent outbreaks have occurred in Saudi Arabia, Argentina, South Korea and Taiwan. The U.S. government has added hundreds of inspectors at airports and ports in an effort to keep the disease out, but the battle is made more difficult because of booming global travel and trade. === April 23, 2001 Police interrupt Greenpeace protest by hot-air balloon at Americas Summit QUEBEC (AP) _ Security for the Summit of the Americas is tight on the ground _ and also in the air. A police helicopter intercepted a hot-air balloon emblazoned with protest slogans above the summit site on Friday, and officers arrested the Greenpeace activist who was piloting it. Two other activists from the environmental group also were aboard the green-and-blue balloon with messages urging action on global warming, but they were not arrested, according to one of them, Jo Dufay. She said the crew set off Friday morning and drifted over the summit site. When a police helicopter approached 20 minutes later, the activists set it down on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Pilot Franz Taucher was arrested, but Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Elaine Lavergne said police didn't know whether he would be charged with flying in prohibited airspace. Police have built a 3.8-kilometer (2.3-mile) security wall around the heart of old Quebec City to prevent protesters from approaching the talks on creating a free-trade area from the Arctic to Argentina.
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 204
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 204 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. We're living in rad times! --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --ADB critics take to streets --New law allows police to keep DNA evidence forever --5 Pounds for a slave girl with a nervous smile --Governments resort to police violence against international May Day protests --Hawaiian protesters get in ADB's face --Supreme Court Nixes Medical Marijuana --Bush creates new office to fight domestic terrorism --RIAA To Music Pirates: Prepare To Be Boarded --Alleged NYC Gang Leaders Charged === Wednesday, May 9, 2001 ADB critics take to streets http://starbulletin.com/2001/05/09/news/story1.html 'We might be angry but we're not going to let it get out of control' By Jaymes K. Song Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) - Asian Development Bank President Tadao Chino left a luncheon session and went into the street Wednesday to accept a petition from representatives of some 500 protesters marching on the bank's annual board of governor's meeting. Chino met with three representatives who were allowed to pass police barriers fronting the Hawaii Convention Center where the sign-carrying, drum-banging demonstrators briefly halted a planned march through Waikiki. As the protesters shouted Hey, hey. Ho, ho. The ADB has got to go, the three activists from the Philippines, Laos and Thailand read to him a long statement about changes they are demanding in the ADB's policies of fighting poverty by funding projects such as dams and power plants. Over and over again, Walden Bello, a professor at the University of the Philippines, would interrupt his reading of the statement to say: Do you understand that, sir? In the end, Chino only listened to part of it for about 10 minutes before thanking the protesters and telling them that the ADB would consider their concerns. As Chino left, Bello yelled, You said the same thing during last year's ADB meeting in Thailand. We demand that you listen to us. You must agree to shut down destructive ADB projects. ADB spokeswoman Ann Quon disagreed with Bello's comments that Chino's coming down to talk to the demonstrators amounted to a defeat. I think that we are open, we are here to listen and we welcome dialogue with all members of civil society, she said. Led by a native Hawaiian blowing a conch shell, the marchers chanting A-D-B is destructive, protesting bank policies they said promote poverty in Asia and the Pacific. The mood before the march was festive, with people banging on drums and preparing signs aimed at the 3,000 delegates to the bank's annual board of governors meeting. Some 500 demonstrators took part in the march, said Honolulu Police Chief Lee Donohue. Organizers informed participants of their legal rights and told them not to speak to police nor provoke confrontations. Several dozen plainclothes police officers wearing aloha shirts and flower leis escorted the marchers. If anything goes down it will be the police who instigate it, said a protester who identified himself as Frank Black. Everyone here I talked to has been stressing nonviolent peaceful action. Black, who wore a helmet, goggles and a black bandana across his nose and mouth to protect against tear gas, said he belonged to the local chapter of a group called Refuse and Resist. We're here with our banners and chants and we have something to say, he said. We might be angry but we're not going to let it get out of control. The demonstrators, including local union members and Hawaiian sovereignty supporters, had the Ala Moana Beach Park virtually to themselves as they gathered Wednesday morning. Beachgoers and tourists apparently heeded advisories about traffic congestion and street closings. Traffic in the area, the most congested in the state, was light for a weekday. Demonstrators were as diverse as their reasons for marching, but most said the ADB's poverty programs hurt poor people instead of lifting them out of poverty. The ADB in our view is an institution of international finance that furthers this corporate globalization that disempowers people and puts wealthy elites in control, said Erik Haunold, member of ILWU, Local 142. The demonstrators were marching along Waikiki's main thoroughfare, Kalakaua Avenue, to Kapiolani Park, for an afternoon rally against ADB policies and in support of native Hawaiian causes. Hundreds of state, city and federal law enforcement officers and private security guards were stationed along the protest route, with state officials mindful of large-scale protests that have disrupted international policy gatherings since the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Last year's ADB Bank
Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?
-Caveat Lector- On 19 May 2001, at 21:07, YnrChyldzWyld wrote: Go through the archives... Your refusal to provide a direct response comes as no surprise. 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] De Beers Goes Private In $19 Billion Deal.
-Caveat Lector- flw wrote: -Caveat Lector- Now here is a conspiracy! De Beers has successfully controlled the diamond market for generations and artificially keeps the cost of diamond artificially inflated in a free market, diamonds would be worth about 75% less then they currently sell. Their latest scam is to have the UN ban diamonds produced in African countries that support social instability. Damm, these guys are good!! flw Yes they are FLW. Only in a system as ridiculous as capitalism could this be achieved with an essentially worthless commodity like diamonds. Remember Pet Rocks? What a stupid fucking system. Ballplayers make hundreds of millions of dollars for UTTERLY non productive work, and farmers and teachers and nurses can't earn a living wage. Stupid, wasteful, evil fucking system. 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] spooky english druid stuff
CHANCTONBURY AND CISSBURY RINGS - OF ENERGY IN THE RAPE OF BRAMBERFrom an Article by Toyne Newton [1987] pub Blandford 'The past lives on with the concrete present, nothing destroyed, the layered centuries preserve all, everything exists for ever, out of sight and sound, waiting to be lifted into the light.'Leonard Clark CHANCTONBURY RINGThis aloof and lovely lord of the southern hills is the most noted landmark in Sussex It was said that sailors marked it from their ships in the Channel, and motorists travelling south could see it in the blue distance as soon as they had breasted the Surrey hills A famous beauty spot, it can be seen clearly from almost any point on the ridge of the South Downs.Rising some 780 feet above sea level, it is crowned with a ring of beech trees which make a conspicuons and beautiful circle on the hill's bold bluff. They were planted in 1760 by Charles Goring in whose large estate Chanclebury, as it was then called, was situate. As a boy, Charles looked up at the bare top and in his mind's eye 'saw it dressed with a grove of trees~, whereupon hc immediately made up his mind to plant them.'With what delight I placed those twigs,' he afterwards wrote, and so that they should strike root ho carried water daily, for months, up to the hill to thern, at that time writing, in verse, that he had .~an alniost hopeless wish that would creep within my breast, Oh! could [live to see thy top in all its beauty dressed!' He got his wish for he lived to be a very old man and saw hisyoung trees established and tbriving. In 1828 he recorded his love of the Ring in a poem: 5av what you wili, there is not in the worldA nobler sight than from this upper Down.No rugged landscape here, no beauty hurledFrom its Creator's hand as with a frown;But a green plain on which green hills look downTrim as a garden pLot. No other hueCan hence be seen, save here and there the brownOf a square fallow, and the horizon's blue.Dear checker-work of woods the Sussex Weald.If a name thrills one yet of things of earth,That name is thine flow often I have fledTo thy deep hedgerows and embraced each field,Each lag, each pasture, fields which gave mr birthAnd saw mv youth, and which must hold me dead Charles Goring of Wiston Although it is thought by many that Chanctonbury was named after the ring of trees, the ring was there well before the trees were planted for it derives its name from the circular earthwork made by the early Celts over 2000 years before excavations carried out this century have revealed that the ramparts of the hillfort date from about 300 BC and the several pits that were found, thought at First to be the remains of prehistoric dwellings, were in fact mine shafts driven into the chalk about 2500 Bc, The Ring consists of the ancient fort's ditch and rampart which form an oval enclosure with diameters of about 550 feet by 400 feet It has two entrances, one on the east and the other on the western part of the rampart, and where the ground slopes away the defensive works are powerfully developed whilst on the north-west side where it skirts the steep escarpment of the hill the earthwork is comparatively slight.The early Celts erected such hillforts in all commanding positions of the Downs, and with nearby Ciss-bury Ring and Rackam, Chanctonbury Ring forms the 'Devil's Triangle', for legend has it that the devil had a hand in the formation of these three downland hills when he discovered that the inhabitants of Sussex were being converted from paganism to Christianity.Consequently he decided to drown them all, and began digging a gigantic trench down to the sea from Poynings (Devil's Dyke) sending large quantities of earth in every direction. One pile became Chanctonbury, another Cissbury and the third Rackham. Those who came after the original builders of the Chanctonburyhill-fort developed the site still more, especially the Romans,who built a sunken temple and surrounded it with a court in aRomano-Celtic style peculiar to Southern England and Francenorth of Provence and west of the Rhine. Being partlvunderground, it may have been a temple to Mithra, an Iraniandeity whose original worship in Persia was held in caves, andwhich was introduced to the Romans in 68 BC, although I havenot heard this postulated before. however, Mithraism was verypopular with thc Roman legions over here. This worship of theGod of Light (which, incidentally, was early Christianity's mostformidable rival) entailed secret ceremonies and rituals fromwhich all women were excluded, and which were conductedamid much mystery in underground caves or specially builtsubterranean chambers Many coins have been found at this ancient shrine, from thosemade in the time of Nero (AD 54-68) to Gratian (AD 375-83).other coins belonging to Tetricus the Flder have also beenuncovered, but these were minted in Britain after the Romansleft. This Roman temple must have been
[CTRL] Elites ubber alles: It's all downhill from here. Never trust your elites.
-Caveat Lector- Ha'aretz: Powell: Arafat has lost touch with reality By Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Correspondent 20 May 2001 bulletin In comments made at the end of March, in the presence of United States President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell described Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat as a person who had lost touch with reality. Powell's statement will be published Monday in the German weekly Focus ,which will publish confidential memos written by Germany's ambassador to the United States, Jurgen Chrobog, at a March 29 meeting that included Bush, Powell and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. According to Schroeder, the sixth topic of his discussion with Bush and Powell was the Middle East. Bush first briefed Schroeder on his last talk with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, following which Powell briefed him on his last phone conversation with Arafat. Powell then said that Arafat had lost touch with reality, and that he blamed everyone but himself. Powell then said about Arafat, The guy is lost. 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] School Vouchers, Robin Hood Plan, Privatization of education
-Caveat Lector- These are just some ideas - they will be fleashed out and added to the sites listed at the end. Other concerns that esulated from 1600 - 1700 - 1800 - 1900 and on were how machines integrated into business. This lead to a Ortes, Malthus, Engels, Marx and many more speculating on the roles of Government, Merchant, Religion, and worker. Now we have an economy subcontract everything out to businesses that have stocks the stocks are used as economic indicators of economic health Gradually making it too expensive for small business Too expensive to have states and state workers Sum: This gets rid of nationality - Businesses doing thier own education and with vouchers getting paid for it or did you think the Robin Hood plan and vouchers were to help urban areas? All state agencies will gradually be subcontracted out, it will be too expensive to be a state, and like S. Africa corporations will be given the same status as http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/deskill/deskill2/timeintables.html Time Line in tables http://ThePiedPiper.tripod.com/deskill/deskill2/Marx.html Impressions on the life and times of Karl Marx 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] Be afraid, be very afraid. World Bank scraps meeting in Spain.
-Caveat Lector- ___ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ Saturday May 19 1:45 PM ET MADRID (Reuters) - The World Bank on Saturday said it had canceled a conference on how to fight poverty due to take place in Spain next month because of concerns anti-globalization groups would try to disrupt theevent. ``Despite our efforts to approach some of the groups that plan to demonstrate and include them in the conference, the intention of many of these groups...is to interrupt it,'' the World Bank said in a statement. ``A conference on reducing poverty should take place in an atmosphere of peace, without provocation, violence or intimidation,'' the statement said. The World Bank had planned to hold the conference on development between June 25 and 27 in Barcelona. Spain's Economy Ministry said the meeting would now take place via the Internet. Previous meetings by international organizations like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization have been marred by violent clashes between police and anti-capitalism protesters. 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] Clinton Hit by Egg in Poland
-Caveat Lector- On Sat, 19 May 2001, kl wrote: I bet you you don't think SouthPark is funny. The few times I've seen it, I thought it hilarious. As I do most of Saba's posts. Indeed her posts are SO hilarious, it's hard to know when she is deliberately joking, since all of her posts are a joke... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fundamentalist Muslim sect in Oklahoma City
-Caveat Lector- --- American Patriot Friends Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was apparently some right-wing, fundamentalist Muslim sect in Oklahoma City... __ Nakano comments: Oh yes, there was definitely a fundamentalist Muslim sect in Oklahoma City. Have you ever heard about this Muslim group or where it came from or how it happened to be in Oklahoma City? Probably not. Not if you get your news from the TV Networks or the newspapers. When Saddam Hussein's army was collapsing and being annihiliated in Desert Storm, about 350 of his elite troops (called Republican Guards) surrendered in Kuwait. These Iraqi soldiers were taken to Saudi Arabia and held in a compound for several months. They appealed for political asylum in the United States. Bill Clinton felt their pain. Clinton ordered that these Iraqis be brought to the U.S. He allowed them to come into our country and given government assistance in settling in groups. It was publicly stated that by keeping them in groups they would be better able to cope with the change and adjustment to American society. In case you doubt this, CBS 60 Minutes did 2 reports on the progress of these Iraqis in the U.S. (If 60 Minutes reports it, then it must be true, right?) Can you guess what city became home for about 70 of these former Iraqi soldiers? Any ideas about where 70 former Republican Guards settled down to become model citizens in the Land of the Free? Yep.Oklahoma City! So there was definitely a fundamentalist Muslim sect in Oklahoma City. They had been given an invitation to be there by none other than Bill Clinton. And now you knowthe rest of the story. Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters - The National Interest, Winter, 1995/96
Interesting item - but the reference by UK that the Iraqis would bring the temple down upon our heads.like biblical story of Sampson who stood between the supporting pillar and brought down the temple? This is what I thought happened at Oklahoma - experts claim bomb or bombs set at two main supports This story sounds if you read through it all, like Timothy McVeigh and the Ryder truck. But who is Ramzi Yousef - it was stated later he was a Pakistani? His passport he claimed to be Iraqithen they said he was Iraqi Agent? Reminds me of this Black House of Israel sitting next to Jim Jones - remember him? Rabbi Washington? Nothing happened to those peole and this Washington it turned out later was wanted for murder in Michigan? Noted their name is mentioned in one FBI report - So this item is worth reading - long - but see parallel lines between World Trade Center and Oklahoma? Or are they all a lot of patsies? Clinton let most of the Fundamentalists in? They brought the whole Trojan Horse in didn't they but sometimes things are not as they seem to be, are they? Saba Bigger Question - Who is Timothy McVeigh and why does it matter? - Iraqi Intelligence The National Interest, Winter, 1995/96 THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters by Laurie Mylroie ACCORDING TO THE presiding judge in last year's trial, the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto its twin, amid a cloud of cyanide gas. Had the attack gone as planned, tens of thousands of Americans would have died. Instead, as we know, one tower did not fall on the other, and, rather than vaporizing, the cyanide gas burnt up in the heat of the explosion. Only six people died. Few Americans are aware of the true scale of the destructive ambition behind that bomb, this despite the fact that two years later, the key figure responsible for building it--a man who had entered the United Stares on an Iraqi passport under the name of Ramzi Yousef--was involved in another stupendous bombing conspiracy. In January 1995, Yousef and his associates plotted to blow up eleven U.S. commercial aircraft in one spectacular day of terrorist rage. The bombs were to be made of a liquid explosive designed to pass through airport metal detectors. But while mixing his chemical brew in a Manila apartment, Yousef started a fire. He was forced to flee, leaving behind a computer that contained the information that led to his arrest a month later in Pakistan. Among the items found in his possession was a letter threatening Filipino interests if a comrade held in custody were not released. It claimed the ability to make and use chemicals and poisonous gas... for use against vital institutions and residential populations and the sources of drinking water. [1] Quickly extradited, he is now in U.S. custody awaiting trial this spring. Ramzi Yousef's plots were the most ambitious terrorist conspiracies ever attempted against the United States. But who is he? Is he a free-lance bomber? A deranged but highly-skilled veteran of the Muslim jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan? Is he an Arab, or of some other Middle Eastern ethnicity? Is there an organization--perhaps even a state--behind his work? These questions have an obvious bearing not only on past events but on possible future ones as well. [2] It is important to know who Ramzi Yousef is and who his friends are, because if he is not just a bomber-for-hire, or an Islamic militant loosely connected to other Muslim fundamentalists, Yousef's friends could still prove very dangerous to the United States. It is of considerable interest, therefore, that a very persuasive case can be made that Ramzi Yousef is an Iraqi intelligence agent, and that his bombing conspiracies were meant as Saddam Hussein's revenge for the Gulf War. If so, and if, as U.S. officials strongly suspect, Baghdad still secretly possesses biological warfare agents, then we may still not have heard the last from Saddam Hussein. This essay will focus on three points. First, it will argue that, as things stand now, coordination between the Justice Department and the relevant national security agencies is such that the latter--and thus national security itself gets very short shrift when it comes to dealing with terror incidents perpetrated on U.S. soil. Second, it will look afresh at the evidence from the World Trade Center bombing case and suggest that the most logical explanation of the evidence points to Iraqi state sponsorship. Third, it will assay briefly what dangers the Iraqi regime may still pose to the United States should this analysis prove correct. A High Wall THE SUGGESTION THAT Iraq might well have been behind Ramzi Yousef's exploits may initially strike many as implausible. Wouldn't the U.S. government investigation of the World Trade Center bombing have uncovered evidence to that effect, evidence that the
[CTRL] Read Marc Rich Connection to the Hoodlums -
-Caveat Lector- Read of the Marc Rich connection to Pakastanisand his criminal activity. Larry King announced his former wife may run for public office as he gushed over her seeing the in her eyes - money stolen from the American Peoplewhy do they not confiscate her property inasmuch as 34 million dollars of it was money ripped off from American Taxpayers? So see hoodlum Marc Rich connection here - and keep in mind the ADL took a $250,000 bribe to get the pardon from Clinton - they refused to return the money. Saba APPENDICES Matters For Further Investigation There have been a number of matters which the Subcommittee has received some information on, but has not been able to investigate adequately, due such factors as lack of resources, lack of time, documents being withheld by foreign governments, and limited evidentiary sources or witnesses. Some of the main areas which deserve further investigation include: 1. The extent of BCCI's involvement in Pakistan's nuclear program. As set forth in the chapter on BCCI in foreign countries, there is good reason to conclude that BCCI did finance Pakistan's nuclear program through the BCCI Foundation in Pakistan, as well as through BCCI-Canada in the Parvez case. However, details on BCCI's involvement remain unavailable. Further investigation is needed to understand the extent to which BCCI and Pakistan were able to evade U.S. and international nuclear non-proliferation regimes to acquire nuclear technologies. 2. BCCI's manipulation of commodities and securities markets in Europe and Canada. The Subcommittee has received information that remains not fully substantiated that BCCI defrauded investors, as well as some major U.S. and European financial firms, through manipulating commodities and securities markets, especially in Canada, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This alleged fraud requires further investigation in those countries. 3. BCCI's activities in India, including its relationship with the business empire of the Hinduja family. The Subcommittee has not had access to BCCI records regarding India. The substantial lending by BCCI to the Indian industrialist family, the Hindujas, reported in press accounts, deserves further scrutiny, as do the press reports concerning alleged kick-backs and bribes to Indian officials. 4. BCCI's relationships with convicted Iraqi arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian, Syrian drug trafficker, terrorist, and arms trafficker Monzer Al-Kassar, and other major arms dealers. Sarkenalian was a principal seller of arms to Iraq. Monzer Al-Kassar has been implicated in terrorist bombings in connection with terrorist organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Other arms dealers, including some who provided machine guns and trained Medellin cartel death squads, also used BCCI. Tracing their assets through the bank would likely lead to important information concerning international terrorist and arms trafficker networks. 5. The use of BCCI by central figures in arms sales to Iran during the 1980's. The late Cyrus Hashemi, a key figure in allegations concerning an alleged deal involving the return of U.S. hostages from Iran in 1980, banked at BCCI London. His records have been withheld from disclosure to the Subcommittee by a British judge. Their release might aid in reaching judgments concerning Hashemi's activities in 1980, with the CIA under President Carter and allegedly with William Casey. 6. BCCI's activities with the Central Bank of Syria and with the Foreign Trade Mission of the Soviet Union in London. BCCI was used by both the Syrian and Soviet governments in the period in which each was involved in supporting activities hostile to the United States. Obtaining the records of those financial transactions would be critical to understanding what the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Andropov was doing in the West; and might document the nature and extent of Syria's support for international terrorism. 7. BCCI's involvement with foreign intelligence agencies. A British source has told the Bank of England and British investigators that BCCI was used by numerous foreign intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom. The British intelligence service, the MI-5, has sealed documents from BCCI's records in the UK which could shed light on this allegation. 8. The financial dealings of BCCI directors with Charles Keating and several Keating affiliates and front-companies, including the possibility that BCCI related entities may have laundered funds for Keating to move them outside the United States. The Subcommittee found numerous connections among Keating and BCCI-related persons and entities, such as BCCI director Alfred Hartman; CenTrust chief David Paul and CenTrust itself; Capcom front-man Lawrence Romrell; BCCI shipping affiliate, the Gokal group and the Gokal family; and possibly Ghaith Pharaon. The ties between BCCI and Keating's financial empire require further
[CTRL] [Fwd: FOX NEWS SPECIAL VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA WILLAIR THIS WE]
- SNETNEWS Mailing List visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 05:48:50 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Against Constitutional terrorists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: FOX NEWS SPECIAL VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA WILL AIR THIS WE. (fwd) visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:29:09 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: FOX NEWS SPECIAL VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA WILL AIR THIS WE. - SNETNEWS Mailing List Subj: FOX NEWS SPECIAL VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA WILL AIR THIS WEEKEND, MAY 19 20 Date: 5/19/01 6:23:04 PM Central Daylight Time From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (spiker) WILL YOU PLEASE GET THIS OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS VIA YOUR E-MAIL FREEDOM EXPRESS. IT'S DONE! VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA WILL AIR THIS WEEKEND, MAY 19, 20TH. SATURDAY 10 P.M. EST / 7 P.M. PACIFIC SUNDAY 8 P.M. EST / 5 P.M. PACIFIC THE FOX NEWS SPECIAL VANISHING FREEDOM 2 EXPOSES HOW AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA IS ROBBING AMERICANS OF THEIR RIGHTS, STOPPING ENERGY PRODUCTION, SHUTTING DOWN ENTIRE INDUSTRIES AND PUTTING THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK. IT BEGINS WITH A LOOK AT THE WILDLANDS PROJECT: A RADICAL VISION TO TURN BACK TIME, TO SEIZE UPTO HALF OF AMERICA AND RELOCATE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TO MAKE ROOM FOR WOLVES AND GRIZZLY BEARS. FOX ALSO LOOKS AT EFFORTS TO END GRAZING ON PUBLIC LAND, USING THE SAGE GROUSE TO JUSTIFY GOVERNMENT ACTIONS TO YANK PERMITS AND PROHIBIT AN AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.. OTHER STORIES INCLUDE: - AGENDA 21, AND HOW THE UNITED NATIONS WANTS TO CONTROL WHERE AMERICANS LIVE AND WHAT THEY DO. United Nations Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21.htm - THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT'S CAMPAIGN OF ECO-TERRORISM, - ABUSE OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT IN KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON - GREEN PORK, A LOOK AT HOW PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SPENDS TAXPAYER MONEY ABROAD TO PROMOTE A CONTROVERSIAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA. - ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS OPPOSE DAMS, NUCLEAR POWER, NATURAL GAS PIPELINES, OIL EXPLORATION, COAL MINING EVEN WINDFARMS. SO WHAT BLAME DO GREENS ACCEPT FOR AMERICANS' ENERGY CRISIS? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b18SeS Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
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I don't forward many of the messages I receive, but this one got to me. The WAL-MART procedures are impressive.Hopefully, many other retail stores will adopt them. Perhaps we should be asking the merchants we deal with what they do when a child is missing. Subject: (Lost child) A friend of mine sent this to me today and I want to send it on to you. Although I don't have little children that are liable to get lost, I do have grandchildren and great grandchildren whom I love dearly. This is a great Dottie/Dorothy - Original Message - Wanted to share something that happened today while shopping at Sam's Club. A mother was leaning over looking for meat and turned around to find her 4 yr. old daughter was missing. I was standing there right beside her, and she was calling her daughter with no luck. I asked a man who worked at Sam's to announce it over the loud speaker for Katie. He did, and let me say he immediately walked right past me when I asked and went to a pole where there was a phone. He made an announcement for all the doors and gates to be locked, a code something. So they locked all the doors at once. This took all of 3 minutes after I asked the guy to do this. They found the little girl 5 minutes later in a bathroom stall. Her head was half shaved, and she was dressed in her underwear with a bag of clothes, a razor, and wig sitting on the floor beside her to make her look different. Whoever this person was, took the little girl, brought her into the bathroom, shaved half her head, and undressed her in a matter of less than 10 minutes. This makes me shake to no end. Please keep a close eye on your kids when in big places where it's easy for you to get separated. It only took a few minutes to do all of that-another 5 minutes and she would have been out the door. I am still in shock that some sick person could do this, let alone in a matter of minutes. The days are over when our little ones could run rampant all over the place and nothing worse would happen then them annoying people. The little girl is fine. Thank God for fast workers who didn't take any chances. BE SURE TO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE, SO THEY KNOW JUST HOW SICK PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE!!! (This happened at the Sam's Wholesale Club in Omaha, Nebraska.) This message has been added to the story above: I received this e-mail from one of my friends today. Let me first tell you that I work at the Sam's club in Lincoln, NE. The code that was spoken of is called a Code Adam It is named after John Walsh's (of Americas most wanted) son Adam who was kidnapped and murdered many years ago. It is used in all Sam's clubs, Wal-marts, and Wal-mart super centers to locate lost children. This is how it works. If by some means you have been separated with your child tell the nearest employee! The employee will page a Code Adam (missing child in the store) over the intercom system followed by a description of the child (height, weight, hair color, age, name, etc.). When that page goes out all the exits are immediately guarded, and/or locked in some cases, also every employee will stop whatever they are doing no matter what it is and help look for the missing child. This will continue until the child is found. If the child is not found within a reasonable time then the police are notified and the store will conduct an isle by isle search. So if ever you are separated from your child now you know what to do. Missing children pictures hang by the exits of all Wal-mart and Sam's club stores, please take a few minutes to look these over as you leave, you just might have seen one of the children on them and you might be the one to give there parents hope and give the police a new lead in finding them. Thank you. Sincerely, Rudy Magee Sam's Club #6413 Even if you do not have little kids, pass this one on to everyone you can think of. You never know who you might save by sending this e-mail! Please take the time and forward this to any friend who has grandchildren!
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] More commentary on the gold rally
11:35p ET Monday, May 21, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In addition to GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's commentary tonight at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com, you may be interested in the following From Harry Schultz, the renowned investment adviser and crucial friend to GATA, reporting from Europe this evening: At about 6 p.m. local time CNBC Europe read on the air an email about the GATA lawsuit. Two young talking heads, a man and a woman, discussed it. The man said that if the case goes to discovery, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's credibility will be in question. The woman said yes, in that case his credibility will be in question not only about gold but about the whole U.S. economy, and that could have an impact about the economy. Then the host talking head tried to smooth over what those two had said before he could stop them, saying that we should remember that there is the need for proof of the allegations, but that in any case there are a lot of shorts out there. CNBC showed a gold price chart and spoke of resistance at US$300 but admitted that gold was showing strength. So gold is suddenly a respectable topic on TV! Boy, we waited a long time for this. * * * And there's lots of good commentary tonight at www.TheMiningWeb.com. An essay headlined Explaining gold's rise as the rally fizzles includes a comment from a J.P. Morgan/Chase official who identifies himself as the prototypical Hannibal Cannibal, the term applied to the gold cabal by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy: http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B285256A53006268 52?OpenDocument The Mining Web interviews gold analyst Nick Goodwin: http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B285256A53007A5F 3F?OpenDocument And this article interviews Harmony's Bernard Swanepoel, AngloGold's Bobby Godsell and Kelvin Williams, and Durban Deep's Mark Wellesley-Wood. They are all more or less bullish: http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B242256A530060E1 E6?OpenDocument CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] Fwd: New Laissez Faire City Times Now Online V5.21 - 05/20/01
Quality is Hard to Find - Bookmark Home page now: The Laissez Faire City Times http://www.zolatimes.com The Front Page: http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/pageone.html Articles: -- Top Story: Little Things: Harassment by Laws and Law Enforcement by: Russell Madden http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/little_things.html He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass [sic] our People... The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. It used to be said that the little things were what made life worth living. Now, however, it's the little things in life that can get you handcuffed and hauled off to jail. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled 5-4 that the arrest and incarceration of Texas mother Gail Atwater for a seat belt violation that carried a maximum $50 fine was just okey-dokey with them. After terrorizing Atwater's children through his ballistic response to their mother's objections to his obnoxious behavior, Officer Bart Turek has had his bullying behavior vindicated by the highest court in the land. --- Bay's Blooming Idiots by: T.E. Ruppenthal http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/bay_idiots.html -- The Dish A movie review by Al Gore http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/dish_review.html -- Revisionism and Foreign Policy Part 2: The Machinations of Stalin by: Jim Peron http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/revisionism2.html -- Tyranny Laundering: Why Big Brother Attacks Money Laundering by: Pierre Lemieux http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/tyranny_laundering.html Book Libraries at the Laissez Faire City Times Bookshop http://www.zolatimes.com/SS/BookShop.html Freedom Engineer, Andrew J. Galambos http://www.zolatimes.com/SS/AGlib.html Doomslayer, Julian L. Simon http://www.zolatimes.com/SS/JSlib.html === LFCjfax has a SPECIAL FREE offer! Free Faxes - Free Voice Mail It's the BRIDGE between the 2nd and 3rd Wave.http://www.LFCjfax.com --- You are currently subscribed to zolatimes as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe/subscribe via the web, go to http://earth.lyris.net/zolatimes/ *** NOTE: If you simply reply to this message, you WILL NOT be removed from this list (no matter how many nasty words you use).
[CTRL] Tyranny Laundering, by Pierre Lemieux
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/tyranny_laundering.html Click Here: A HREF=http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.21/tyranny_laundering.html; Tyranny Laundering, by Pierre Lemieux/A - Tyranny Laundering Why Big Brother Attacks Money Laundering by Pierre Lemieux Crime is criminal, but why make a second crime of the processing of criminal proceeds in order to disguise their illegal origin, i.e., so-called money laundering (the definition is from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, The Forty Recommendations, at www.oecd.org//fatf/pdf/40Rec_en.pdf )? And what counts as crime? Under the excuse of fighting organized crime, the U.S. government was the first one to criminalize money laundering. Under the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, explains Bob Bauman, a lawyer and the editor of the Sovereign Society's A-Letter, Currency Transaction Reports (CRTs, on Internal Revenue Service Form 4789) must be filed for all cash transactions of $10,000 or more, or by any individual buying more than $3,000 in money orders. Failure to file Form 4789 is a felony. Any person or organization that attempts to circumvent these regulations by completing a series of smaller transactions that in total exceeds the given limit is guilty of a crime known as 'structuring', adds Mr. Bauman. U.S. customs laws also require the reporting of any sum of $10,000 or more in cash or equivalent negotiable instruments being transported into, or out of, the country. Moreover, American banks and soon other financial intermediaries have to file a Suspicious Activities Report (SAR) if a customer's transactions look suspicious, whatever that means. The International Monetary Fund estimates money laundering at 2 percent to 5 percent of world gross domestic product. Although money laundering also relates to such crimes as embezzlement and fraud, it is mostly associated with the drug trade, arm sales, smuggling, and prostitution. Thus, most laundered money has been earned in committing victimless crimes, i.e., in peaceful activities that have been forbidden by the state. The cost of the money laundering legislation is higher than whatever benefits some might think of. Writes Richard Rahn: [I]f you look at the results of this so-called war on money laundering, you find that it has failed to produce the advertised results and, in fact, has not been cost effective, has resulted in wholesale violations of individual civil liberties. Between 1987 and 1995, 77 million CTRs were collected, which lead to 580 convictions for money laundering, i.e., less than one conviction for every 100,000 reports filled (Why the War on Money Laundering is Counterproductive, at www.freedomandprosperity.org/Papers/rahn01-30-01/rahn01-30-01.shtml). International state cartels have been active co-conspirators in the strengthening of surveillance and control of financial transactions. The 1989 G-7 Summit established the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) with the objective of coordinating the international hunt on the money launderers. Although not formally part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), FATF is lodged in the Organization's Paris headquarters. FATF designed 40 recommendations which include proposals to criminalize money laundering as set forth in the [1988] Vienna Convention, and to extend it to other serious offenses besides drugs. FATF lists bribery and insider trading among these other so-called crimes (Money Laundering, at www.oecd.org/fatf/pdf/PB9906_en.pdf). The definition of money laundering is not closed, as explained in the Forty Recommendations: Each country would determine which serious crimes would be designated as money laundering predicate offences. For example, the state of Singapore, a member of FATF and one of the most repressive regimes in the world, could decide that the proceeds of anti-government writings fall under its definition of money laundering. Once you get a tyrannical idea going in international government circles, it is rapidly picked up by different state cartels. The first Summit of the Americas, held in Miami in 1994, officially aimed at creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), but the Plan of Action it designed included many other state agendas. Governments, states the document, will [e]nact legislation to permit the freezing and forfeiture of the proceeds of money laundering and consider the sharing of forfeited assets among government, and [e]ncourage financial institutions to report large and suspicious tran sactions to appropriate authorities and develop effective procedures that would allow the collection of relevant information from financial institutions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a club of rich-country governments, used to be a friendly, innocuous research organization which provided useful data to economists. During the
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