date:20010618


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The BBC Documentary on Ariel Sharon is now online.

You can see it here at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/panorama/latest.ram

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[CTRL] BBC defends Sharon documentary (fwd)


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BBC defends Sharon documentary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1393000/1393861.stm

Sunday, 17 June, 2001

An Israeli inquiry said Mr Sharon was indirectly responsible

The BBC has rebuffed intense criticism from the Israeli Government over a
documentary that asks whether Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be charged
with war crimes.

The programme, broadcast in Britain on Sunday, examined Israeli-allied
militiamen's massacre in 1982 of hundreds of people in the Palestine
refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

The job of a reporter is to deal with the facts. And the facts of Sabra
and Shatila are deeply shocking

Fergal Keane

The programme contained comments from international legal expert Richard
Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton University, suggesting
that Mr Sharon could be indicted.

It also showed the prime minister's spokesman, Ranaan Gissen, rejecting
the notion as an insult and an injustice.

Mr Sharon resigned from his post as defence minister after a 1983 Israeli
inquiry concluded that he had failed to act to prevent the massacre.


'Anti-semitism'

The BBC programme, titled The Accused, part of the investigative series
Panorama, looks at the question of ultimate legal responsibility for the
massacres, the BBC said in a statement.

The programme asks whether the evidence from that time would be
sufficient to justify criminal charges.

In its statement the BBC said it stood by the story, which it called a
legitimate analysis of a human rights issue.

Gideon Meir, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, told Israel
army radio that the BBC's reporting was sometimes slanted against Israel,
and sometimes there is a shade of anti-Semitism.

Responding to claims of pro-Palestinian bias, Fergal Keane, the BBC
journalist who reported the piece, said: I have nothing but contempt.

At Panorama we are simply being true to a basic principle. It is a duty
of journalists to question the actions and record of those who wield
power, he said.

Claims rejected

The job of a reporter is to deal with the facts. And the facts of Sabra
and Shatila are deeply shocking.

He also repudiated claims by Mr Gissen, that the BBC had tricked him into
giving an interview for the documentary.

Contrary to inaccurate statements put out by some Israeli officials, Mr
Gissen was fully aware of the subject when he gave the interview, he
said.

When the interview was over he left us on friendly terms. In fact some
days later his officials provided us with a letter to help us transit
easily through Ben Gurion airport with our tapes.

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[CTRL] Secrets of Tim McVeigh

2001-06-18 Thread Schmidt


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This was just posted at Sherman Skolnicks website, so as it doesn't seem to have been 
put on list yet I present:

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tmsecrets.html

and check his other site

http://www.skolnickstv.com

and my site of course!

http://leviathan.weblogs.com

THE SECRETS OF TIMOTHY McVEIGH
by Sherman H. Skolnick 06/15/01



Shackled and hand-cuffed to major financial forces, the moguls of the monopoly press 
believe the secrets of Timothy McVeigh ended when he ended. And the stooges, 
masquerading as our leaders, governing nowadays without our consent, are inclined to 
believe that as well.

What they did not realize is that some of their supposed confidential conversations 
were not that hush-hush. Were overheard and noted, even apparently taped. What did 
they know and not tell us? Information confirmed to them as correct but kept from the 
common people?

[1] That the American secret political police had McVeigh under video and audio 
scrutiny from at least thirty days prior to the multiple bombings on April 19, 1995, 
of the Alfred P. Murrah Building.

[2] McVeigh was surveilled in Kansas and Oklahoma in the company of two middle-eastern 
types, partly disguised. As known to the FBI , the American CIA, and other espionage 
agencies, foreign and domestic, his two handlers accompanied him in a late model 
four-wheel drive pick-up truck.

[3] As these agencies corroborated, McVeigh's supervisors were actually Iraqi military 
officers, from intelligence units, quietly brought into the United States at the end 
of the brief Persian Gulf War, 1991. They were part of more than four thousand of the 
same, supposed defectors, arranged by then President George Herbert Walker Bush. The 
Elder Bush, many do not know, for the decade of the 1980s, was the PRIVATE business 
partner of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi strongman. Together, they shared billions and 
billions of dollars of kick-backs and protection funds, from the weak oil sheikdoms 
of the Persian Gulf. A little known Chicago federal lawsuit was brought, in October, 
1990, during the lead-up to the shooting war, to keep concealed the related bank 
records showing the clandestine partnership. The case involved the records of the 
Chicago unit of Italy's largest bank, owned in part by the Vatican, Banca Nazionale 
del Lavoro, BNL. The Federal Reserve Board wanted the House Banking Committee Chairman 
to agree never to use the records because he refused to sign a secrecy oath.

As the only journalist attending the court hearing, I interviewed some of the 
participants in the back of the courtroom.I asked and received identical answers three 
times, to be certain of the crucial data. They confirmed the Bush-Saddam relationship 
and the monstrous kick-backs from the sheikdoms. Only one publication, a populist 
newspaper, The Spotlight, penetrated the nationwide censorship and ran my exclusive 
story, August 19, 1991. The case was entitled People of the State of Illinois ex rel 
Willis C. Harris, Bank Commissioner vs. the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System and the House Banking Committee, No. 90 C 6863, in the U.S. District Court, and 
later heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Chicago. The three-judge 
federal appeals court panel was dominated by the infamous Chief Judge Richard A. 
Posner [(312) 435-5806] [Visit our website for our story Chief Crook Enters Microsoft 
Case.] Posner and his virtual shadow, federal appeals Judge Frank H. Easterbrook 
[(312) 435-5808], although on the bench, continue to represent reportedly the billion 
dollar stock portfolio of the oil-soaked Rockefeller's University of Chicago, were 
they used to be law professors. [The two judges have reportedly failed to disclose the 
relationship in their mandatory annual Federal Financial Disclosure Report.]

As part of the cover-up, Chief Judge Posner ordered the Bush/Saddam/BNL case removed 
from the courthouse. Later, Posner and his shadow Easterbrook, as a reprisal for my 
reporting the case on my TV Show, unconstitutionally ordered me and a TV program 
associate of mine, Joseph Andeuccetti, barred from all the federal courtrooms in the 
7th Circuit, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. [The U.S. Supreme Court refused a 
remedy to this blatant First Amendment violation.]

[4] Of the more than four thousand Iraqi military officers brought into the U.S. by 
then President Bush, more than five hunded reside with their families in Lincoln, 
Nebraska, and two thousand with their families reside in Oklahoma City and right 
nearby.

[5] As actual cronies, although little known or understood, the Elder Bush and later 
as President, William Rockefeller Clinton, arranged for these supposed defectors to 
have housing, to be usefully employed, and to have other financial and related 
provisons, for the Iraqis and their families. Jointly, the Elder Bush and Clinton were 
in a position to know full well that some of these military officers were

[CTRL] Gore Vidal


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Difficult to imagine Timothy McVeigh and his interest in Gore Vidal.

Once years ago Buckley and Vidal got into a public argument - Buckley
called Gore a queer son-of-a-bitch, after Vidal goaded him into
reacting.   Gore Vidal was a homosexual and wasn ot offended by the
remark.

So why Gore Vidal?   From Turner Diaries to Gore Vidal?   Maybe McVeigh
should have read a little less Vidal and a little more of a great work
called Crime and Punishment.

Gore Vidal liked to shock people; he held the American people in
contempt which was obvious, but then so did McVeigh.

After all it appears in the end McVeigh was just another Oswald who
considered himself superior to the American sheeple?

So McVeigh was his own executioner but wonder, must wonder if he was a
latlent homosexual hence the curious interest in Gore Vidal .

Makes one wonder if there was a little bit of Gore in McVeigh -

Saba


Credits and feedback


Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal (1925-) - Original name Eugene Luther Vidal -
Detective novels under the pseudonym Edgar Box
Prolific American novelist, playwright, and essayist, one of the great
stylists of contemporary American prose, who has been active in
politics. Vidal made his debut as novelist with WILLIWAW at the age of
19, while still in US Army uniform.

One understands of course why the role of the individual in history is
instinctively played down by a would-be egalitarian society. We are,
quite naturally, afraid of being victimized by reckless adventurers. To
avoid this we have created a myth of the ineluctable mass
('other-directedness') which governs all. Science, we are told, is not a
matter of individual inquiry but of collective effort. Even the surface
storminess of our elections disguises a fundamental indifference to
human personality; if not this man, then that one; it's all the same,
life will go on. (from 'Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars', in
Rocking the Boat, 1963)

Gore Vidal grew accustomed at an early age to a life among political and
social notables. He was born at the military academy in West Point, New
York, where his father was an instructor.

He was raised near Washington, DC, in the house of his grandfather,
Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat senator from Oklahoma.

Vidal learned about political life from him and when he was a teenager
he adopted the first name of Gore. Vidal also spent time on the Virginia
estate of his stepfather, Hugh. D. Auchincloss. After graduating from
Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, he served on an army supply
ship in the Aleutian Islands, near Alaska.

Much of his time in the Enlisted Reserve Corps he devoted to writing.
Upon his discharge he worked for six months for the publishing firm of
E.P. Dutton. From 1947 to 1949 Vidal lived in Antigua, Guatemala. His
first novel, Williwaw, was based on his wartime experiences as first
mate on Freight Ship 35 in the Alaskan Harbour Craft Detachment. The
conventional seafaring story was written in the spirit Ernest Hemingway.

The novel was praised by the critics like the following books, although
THE CITY AND THE PILLAR (1948) shocked the public with its homosexual
main character. However, he became known as a serious writer at the age
of 21, and the novel also 'broke the mold' of gay American fiction.

The book was reissued in 1965 with a different ending. THE JUDGEMENT OF
PARIS (1953) was about a young man travelling with jet-set and wondering
how to satisfy his own part-cynical, part-romantic outlook. Several of
his following novels did not gain critical approval and Vidal started to
write plays for television, motion pictures and stage. Among his
best-known works from the 1950s is VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (prod. first
for television in 1955).

In the 1960s Vidal returned to the literary scene by producing
historical or contemporary novels, including JULIAN (1964), written in
the form of a journal by the eponymous Roman emperor,

WASHINGTON, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years
1937-52, BURR (1974), in which its title character rises above the other
Founding Fathers, 1876 (1976), DULUTH (1983), and LINCOLN (1984), a
carefully reconstructed account of the life of the US president, who is
almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power. CREATION (1981)
was the memoir of an imaginary grandson of Zoroaster who travels the
world in the service of Persian kings and plays with the ideas of
Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Anaxagoras and other thinkers. In LIVE FROM
GOLGOTHA (1992) Vidal portrayed events in the Bible as though they were
reported on television. Among Vidal's finest works are two novels which
deal with power and sex. MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (1968) was a transsexual
comedy parodying the cult of the Hollywood film star, dedicated to
Christopher Isherwood. Its sequel, MYRON, appeared in 1974. Myra is a
feminist and her alternate self, Myron, is her mirror image and bitter
antagonist.

The hero of Washington, D.C., Peter Sandford, apperared again in

[CTRL] Mormons, third try

2001-06-18 Thread Schmidt

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OK, this is the third time I have posted this to the list, the Mormon hackers seem to
be far more efficient than the Scientologist ones!

Anyweay, the book referred to (and which one poster claimed I had invented) is called
Doc, the rape of the town of Lovell. Info on it from amazon is here, it's out iof
print but there are a dozen 2nd hand copies being offered.

BTW I just found out from reading this that the Dr in question has recently been
paroled.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440206685/qid=992873642/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-1944459-0166920

An excerpt

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This story about the impact of a malevolent family physician on a tiny Wyoming town is
my favorite of Jack Olsen's true-crime books so far. In measured prose worthy of a
literary novel, Olsen gives life to the docile but ultimately stalwart characters of a
mother and two adult daughters who were raised according to Mormon strictures about
sex--including the garment, a cotton sack that they were supposed to wear next to
their skin for every single moment of their lives. These three were among hundreds of
naive girls and women who trusted their beloved Dr. Storey so much that they submitted
to his molesting and raping them under the guise of unnecessary pelvic exams. And they
became the reluctant leaders of the fight to bring him to justice--a fight that
divided the community between the doctor's (mostly) Baptist supporters and his Mormon
detractors. Doc won the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

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[CTRL] House investigates Isralie use of F16s

2001-06-18 Thread Schmidt


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 my weblog, updated daily,

http://leviathan.weblogs.com


http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/front_3.html


GAO probes Israel's use of F-16s

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, June 15, 2001
WASHINGTON  The watchdog agency of Congress has launched an investigation of Israel's 
use of F-16 warplanes against the Palestinian Authority.

The General Accounting Office seeks to determine whether Israeli F-16 strikes against 
PA targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip constitute a violation of U.S. law. The 
probe follows a complaint by a House member and Arab-American leaders.

Rep. John Conyers Jr. a Democrat from Michigan, has questioned whether the F-16 attack 
violated the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, Middle East Newsline reported. The law 
limits the use of U.S. weapons to legitimate self-defense.

It appears on the face of numerous international reports that attacks on Palestinian 
Authority Headquarters and regional police stations fall outside these terms, Conyers 
wrote in a letter to President George Bush.

Last month, a Bush administration official told Arab-American leaders that the use of 
U.S.-made arms by Israel against the Palestinians would be investigated. But other 
officials said the White House has kept these efforts low-profile.

The Arab American Institute sent a letter of complaint to Secretary of State Colin 
Powell and members of the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee regarding the Israeli 
use of U.S. weapons in the more than eight-month-old conflict with the Palestinians.

The facts are not hidden, the letter said. Israel admits its use of Apache and 
Cobra helicopters, F-16 fighter jets, TOW missiles and now Flechette rounds, against 
Palestinians.

Israeli diplomats in Washington said the F-16 strikes were against centers of 
terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They said among the targets were factories 
that produced mortar rounds for Palestinian use.

The GAO findings are regarded as recommendations that are not binding on the 
administration.


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[CTRL] Bush gives cheap gas to other states but NOT California

2001-06-18 Thread Jenny Decker


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 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12662-2001Jun17.html

Bush to Back FERC Energy Price Limits
Proposed Restraints Would Affect 11 States
 _ Update _

Bush: FERC Western Plan Not Price Controls

From Reuters at 10:20 AM


President Bush said Monday he did not consider an electricity price-relief
plan for the Western region that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
was expected to approve to be a form of price controls.

Bush said he remained opposed to electricity price controls. But he said the
plan that FERC was expected to approve Monday for limited wholesale price
curbs in the West was different.

I'm interested to see what FERC comes up with. They're not talking about
firm price controls, they're talking about a mechanism to mitigate any
severe price spike that may occur, which is completely different from price
controls, Bush told reporters.




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Monday, June 18, 2001; Page A02


President Bush, who has argued against price caps on California electricity,
plans to support less stringent price limits by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, administration officials said yesterday.

The commission will meet today to consider new restraints on the wholesale
price of electricity in California. An aide to California Gov. Gray Davis
(D) said the governor considers the commission's leading proposal to be too
little, too late.

Administration officials said they will argue that Bush can support new FERC
limits that are based on market factors, and will contend that the president
has not changed his position.

Nevertheless, the willingness to embrace new limits could temper the anxiety
of some congressional Republicans, who fear Bush has handled the matter
callously. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) said Vice President Cheney rankled
some members of the California delegation during a Capitol Hill meeting last
week.

He lectured us about markets, Eshoo said yesterday on a conference call
with reporters organized by Davis's office. When I reminded him that our
market was dysfunctional and that in a healthy market there's competition,
he looked at his watch.

FERC, an independent agency with commissioners appointed by the president,
has limits on wholesale electricity prices in California that are in effect
only during emergency power shortages. FERC sets a target price based on the
costs of the least efficient producer, and companies have to explain in
writing if they exceed that target.

At a special meeting today to deal with California energy issues, the
commissioners will consider a proposal supported by congressional
Republicans that would extend those restraints around the clock during the
next year, and to 10 other Western states, federal officials said.

Davis plans to use a Capitol Hill appearance this week to reiterate his
request for the federal government to order electricity generators to refund
billions of dollars to his state, an aide said.

Power producers are planning television ads in California that Democratic
officials consider to be anti-Davis, and the governor plans to point to
those campaigns as evidence that generators have made excessive profits
during the state's power crunch, the aide said.

One of California's leading electricity generators, Reliant Energy Inc. of
Houston, said it is considering television ads in California but has not
made them yet. Richard N. Wheatley, the firm's director of corporate
communications, said the ads would be educational, talking about the
supply-demand imbalance in California.

Asked about Davis's planned comments about the ad spending, Wheatley said,
There's been a tremendous amount of misinformation coming out of
Sacramento, so I'm not surprised by the tenor of the remarks.

Time magazine reported that Republican consultants hope to raise $25 million
to run an anti-Davis ad in California beginning today under the name of the
American Taxpayers Alliance.

Davis will make his request for refunds at a hearing Wednesday called by
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), the new chairman of the Governmental
Affairs Committee. Lieberman held his first hearing on energy regulation
last week and said the commission had done too little to carry out its
mandate to ensure just and reasonable wholesale energy rates following
deregulation in California.

Lieberman's hearings are an example of the benefits to Democrats

[CTRL] Understanding the Palestinian Uprising ( Lecture and Discussion) (fwd)


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You are invited to a Lecture and Discussion: Understanding the
Palestinian Uprising

Presented by Ramzy Baroud,
international journalist and managing editor of
Middle East Newswire

SUNDAY, JULY 1
1:30PM
at Gift of Grace Church

2102 N. 40th Street, Seattle
(on the corner of 40th and Meridian in the Wallingford district)
(206) 632-2662


Palestinians prefer to remember their martyrs through recalling stories
associated with their deaths. Some of these stories retrieve sadness,
innocence, faith, and heroism. The West Bank twins who died on two
consecutive days as one tried to avenge the other, the man who died on his
wedding night, and the child who wasted away in the arms of his father are
all becoming part of a memory crowded with stories and filled with sadness.
And with the continuation of the Palestinian Intifada, more and more stories
are being told. This is how Palestinians commemorate the legacy of their
martyrs, so that the memories remain alive, rather than becoming cold
statistics, which often fail to present the human tragedy.
--Ramzy Baroud
The Guardian (UK)Â  January 4, 2001

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Re: [CTRL] Take Wingate thread OFF the list


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In a message dated 6/17/01 9:42:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Hey Duncan, can we say 'get real'. I post the truth here when I don't have
to
contend with defending myself against psychotics and extreme rightwing
zealots, and alarmist journalists wasting valuble bandwith.
If I was God you would be long gone, stepped on like an insignificant bug
who's only brain is distributed through his body, but luckily you are
relegated to being an Aussie in a very big land where you can p*** off
anyone you please and still get away with it. Have a nice day, my CIA friend.

Steve
Regardless of whatever someone's idea of the truth is. Steve, please be more
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Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag


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In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the

sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings. When

Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of my African ancestors' struggle for

freedom, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Slavery was an African

institution long before it spread to the South, and there was no abolition

movement to trouble it.

 Gee, I guess there is no history of slaves being held by other races.

What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the gentleman should read more
than one book on slavery before baring his ignorance to the world.

MHO
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[CTRL] Return to Clinton Approach Heralds Disaster (fwd)


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Return to Clinton approach heralds disaster

By Ali Abunimah

The Jordan Times,

June 18, 2001

THE MOST abused word of recent times is ceasefire. Hoping to reap
international sympathy, several weeks ago Israel declared a unilateral
ceasefire in its war against the Palestinian people. In reality,
Israeli occupation forces continued to operate with all their
customary brutality and violence, avoiding only the most dramatic
measures, such as the use of attack helicopters and F-16
fighter-bombers.

What Israel discovered is that if it desists from these telegenic
measures, it can continue with all its usual tactics of shooting dead
unarmed civilians, assassinating activists with car bombs, demolishing
houses as it has done without pause in occupied Gaza and occupied East
Jerusalem, confiscating land and destroying tens of thousands of trees
while building settlements apace.

On June 9, three Palestinian women were killed by Israeli shelling as
they slept in their home in Gaza. Israel's army later admitted that it
used Flechette shells against them, a horrific and illegal weapon
which spreads hundreds of razor-sharp nails over a wide area to kill
and maim as many people as possible. Meanwhile, settlers rampage
through the occupied territories, destroying Palestinian houses and
crops and attacking civilians.

Israel guaranteed itself the space to behave in this way by tightening
to an unprecedented degree its internal and external siege of the
occupied territories, to such an extent that poverty has skyrocketed,
normal life is rendered impossible and it is now routine for sick
Palestinians to die because they are denied permission to pass through
checkpoints, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.

Following the horrendous bomb attack which killed twenty young
Israelis in Tel Aviv two weeks ago, Israel made a great show of
restraint even though its measures against Palestinians on the
ground were as harsh as ever. But Israeli violence against
Palestinians has become so routinised that most of the ongoing Israeli
repression falls beneath the radar of the US media who almost
universally continue to report that Israel has indeed imposed a
ceasefire while Israel continues to be subject to Palestinian
attacks. Under severe international pressure following the Tel Aviv
bomb, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat also called for a ceasefire, an act
which, while demanded by the Israelis and Americans, runs counter to
popular feeling that a ceasefire is something which can only be
called between two warring armies and not between an occupied
population fighting for its freedom, on the one hand, and a powerful
occupying army, on the other.

But like every word related to the peace process, the word
ceasefire has been debased, its meaning altered beyond normal
recognition. According to the Israelis, American government and the US
media, violence is almost uniquely a Palestinian phenomenon.
Israelis only respond and retaliate, the aggressive and
systematically violent nature of the Israeli occupation itself having
been deliberately obscured. Therefore, a ceasefire is something that
imposes a burden almost entirely on the Palestinians. What it means in
effect is that Palestinians are being told to cease their resistance,
accept military occupation in full and return to the situation where
Israel is allowed to do whatever it pleases on the ground. The
Palestinians, meanwhile, are to give up all rights to respond on the
ground and are to limit themselves to futile complaining at what is
misleadingly called the negotiating table.

It is within this framework that CIA Director George Tenet came to the
region with an American plan to cement the ceasefire and explicitly
to restore the situation on the ground which existed prior to Sept. 28
one which was rightly wholly unacceptable to Palestinians. This
initiative sidestepped and undercut the already minimally acceptable
suggestions of the Mitchell report which Palestinians embraced, albeit
with reservations, since at least that report recognised the need for
the cessation of all settlement activity as a condition for progress.

The Tenet plan, as far as it has been revealed, says nothing about
settlements and calls only for Palestinians to cease all resistance
(violence) and for the Palestinian National Authority to arrest
those whom Israel deems to be militants or terrorists. What few
obligations this plan imposes on Israel only follow after Israel deems
the Palestinians to have carried out their part to its satisfaction.
The absurdity of this plan and the impossibility of Palestinians
complying with it successfully is embodied in a so-called six week
cooling off period which, according to one of Sharon's advisors,
will be restarted every time any Palestinian anywhere so much as
throws a rock at occupation troops.

Tenet's initiative marks the final return of the Bush administration
to the failed approach of the Clinton administration. The Bush

[CTRL] Egyptian feminist faces stiff penalty for statements deemed anti-Islamic (fwd)


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Egyptian feminist faces stiff penalty for statements deemed anti-Islamic

Preliminary hearings begin today against Nawal Al-Saadawi, who faces
forced divorce.

By Sarah Gauch
Special to The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/18/p9s1.htm

CAIRO

A prominent Egyptian feminist and novelist goes to court today in a case
that will determine whether or not she will stay married to her husband of
many years.

But this is no ordinary divorce court. Nawal Al-Saadawi is accused of
breaking Islamic law, and if found guilty, she would be required to
divorce her husband. Her crime: making statements construed as a
renouncement of Islam.

Ms. Saadawi's dilemma began when a weekly independent newspaper published
some of her controversial opinions. In the article, she said the
Islamic-based inheritance law that gives women half of what men get should
be abolished, that the Koran doesn't require women to wear the veil, and
that the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia is in fact a
pre-Islamic ritual. Egypt's Mufti later deemed her comments anti-Islamic.

A hearing for opening arguments begins today in the case, which was filed
by civil lawyer Nabih Al-Wahsh.

The case against Saadawi has provoked outrage among intellectuals,
writers, and human and women's rights groups worldwide, many of which have
started support campaigns and written letters urging the Egyptian
government to block the case.

That one person could bring charges so easily against someone for
expressing controversial opinions raises serious questions about freedom
of speech here, many say.

And for a legal provision that is rarely used in this society, this case
also shows the increased power of Egypt's Islamic conservatives and the
growth of religion in the society at large.

Intellectuals concerned

This is a very inhibitive atmosphere, says Walid Kazziha, political
professor at the American University in Cairo.

The danger is that it's not an inhibition imposed by a political Islamic
group only, but it is imposed by the new cultural twist of society
itself, which is growing more religious. It is very operative and it
could lead to the stifling of innovation in literature, art, politics,
even in religion.

Founder of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association - which was dissolved
by the Egyptian government in 1991 - Saadawi is known worldwide for her
progressive viewpoints on women's rights issues.

She has written 30 books - 28 of them later translated into other
languages - and recently finished a stint as a scholar at Duke University
in Durham, N.C.

This punishment [of divorce] is not reasonable, ... it is used as a
discouragement of freedom of expression, which is the right of everyone
and the special duty of the writer, the International PEN Women Writers
Committee said in a letter to Egypt's general prosecutor.

Nonetheless, with her signature white mane of hair and broad smile,
Saadawi is as feisty as ever and doesn't seem at all cowed by her present
ordeal.

We're not separating, says Al Saadawi, and we'll not leave the
country.

Her husband, novelist Sherif Hetata, agrees: If they say we're separated
and then we come home and live in our flat, what are they going to do?

Recently in the media, journalists and citizens have called for her death.
But even these threats are not new to Saadawi. While her writings and
ideas have won her acclaim abroad, they have marginalized her in
traditional Egyptian society, led to her imprisonment by the regime, and
to the death threats from Islamic extremists.

We are ready to die for what we believe, she says defiantly. I'm not
afraid.

Does law protect or persecute?

Mr. Wahsh, the lawyer, is bringing the case to court under a part of the
Islamic law, called hisba, that allows citizens to file a court case on
behalf of the community to defend their religion.

Nawal Al Saadawi is a respectable person, a writer and a thinker, and she
has her rights, says Wahsh, but let her not touch religion. Talk how you
please. Write books as you please. But don't mess with religion.

For many Egyptians, this case conjures memories of the 1995 trial that
ordered Cairo University Professor Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid to divorce after
his writings were deemed against Islam. The couple are still married and
living in voluntary exile in Holland. To curtail the use of this law, a
1996 amendment to the law required Egypt's general prosecutor to approve
and prosecute all hisba cases.

Political analysts, intellectuals and human rights advocates, however,
want the law eliminated completely. They say it allows citizens to sully
the names of others, puts people's lives at risk, and could open the door
to rampant stifling of free speech.

It means silencing anyone who has an opinion, says Hisham Qassem,
publisher of the English-language weekly, The Cairo Times. There was no
argument. There was no debate. There was just some interview published
with Al-Saadawi in Al-Midan [newspaper], and

[CTRL] GULAG BRITANNIA june 2001AD [after democracy]


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GULAG BRITANNIAjune 2001 AD [after democracy]

BREAD  CIRCUSES - TONY DROPS DRINK LEGISLATION

a pre-election pledge to bring in 24 hour drinking in pubs and clubs has
been dropped.
Labour conned young voters on the saturday before the election by sending
them text messages:
which promised to give them more time for drinking and partying.
CLDNT GVE  4 LST ORDRS, VTE LBR ON THRSDY 4 XTRA TME.
The brewers and licensed retailers association said 'at the beginning of may
this was a priority issue but just after the general election, it seems to
have dropped off the list'

Funny that because that happened with the proposed freedom of information
act. Also expected to be missing from the Queens speech - to the dismay of
cancer charities - was a long delayed Bill banning tobacco advertising. The
fox hunting ban bill is set to be re-introduced to give tony another chance
to show how caring and sensitive he is - looking after the interests of our
furry friends in the country - though shame he has completely destroyed the
rural economy. No doubt there will be more protests from farmers - and the
secret police rent a thug unit will probably help brand farmers 'eco
terrorists'.

MORE JOBS FOR THE BOYS in the Alphabet Soup
a nationwide squad of 'Untouchables' is to be set up to hunt britains super
rich gangsters. Elite members of police, MI5, customs and excise and inland
revenue will form the NATIONAL RECOVERY AGENCY. The team likened to the
Untouchables led by eliott ness to bring down al capone [will probably work
for the gangsters to cover their tracks more efficiently :)] - will focus on
drugs, prostitution and gun running. The government beleives the income from
confiscation of assets could raise £50 million a year [how can you
confiscate a prostitute ?] perhaps we should name them the unthinkables coz
of what they are all about to get away with.

YOUNG MOTHER DIES OF CJD
a teacher has died from CJD - the human form of mad cow disease - just four
months after giving birth. Julia Blair, 28 became ill whilst she was
pregnant with her first child Jonathan.
At first her symptoms confounded doctors and she was tested for
psychological problems before they realised that she was suffering from
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.
A month after giving birth in february her condition suddenly deteriorated.
The number of people dying from CJD has risen from 5 a year in 1995 to an
estimated 45 a year by the end of 2001 [diagnosed] CJD has an incubation
period of 12 to 15 years, raising fears that thousands of people could be
carrying it precipitating a deadly epidemic.

TOP LEADERS NEED TESTS FOR MENTAL ILLNESSES
boris yeltsin used to hug trees, winston churchill was prone to sever bouts
of depression and JFK had an adrenal deficciency which caused severe
distortions in mood and behaviour ... ?
according to leading neurology expert dr james toole who is president of the
world federation of neurology, history is littered with examples of unhinged
leaders.
but while many professionals have their mental health scrutinised,
politicians go their their careers unchecked.
This is a dangerous mistake said dr toole
addressing a neurology congress in london yesterday, dr toole said he was
worried about the lack of safeguards in place to deal with the most powerful
people - many of whom have nuclear arsenals at their fingertips - should
they lose their sanity 'politicians control the lives of millions, but we
let them run around [whos we???] without any form of psychological
profiling' he said. its time now to think how we can pinpoint the danger
signals and curtail their activities.'

SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR SCOTLAND
patients at one of scotlands newest hospitals are being served 3 day old
food made more than 200 miles away in england. staff say the food is
'inedible' - a spokesman for the health workers union UNISON said that
nurses had been inundated with complaints about the quality of food. satff
are shocked that people are being given this reheated foot and are worried
about its safety.
There isn't a single heart surgeon in scotland either - and scotland has the
worst diet and heart health in europe.

meanwhile scots produce the best quality sperm in europe, a new study
claims. Researchers found edinburgh men topped the poll and was 15% more
potent than the continents traditional lovers. finland, copenhagen, paris,
were also looked at following concern about falling sperm counts.
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[CTRL] 666 in barcodes


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 is it true that barcodes have an integrated number 666 in them
 tagged on at the beginning or end -
   - I take it that that is a UNIX end of programme instruction ???
 these computer nerds seem to generate a lot of fun in the lab ... ;)

 andrew

 A number of years ago I was asked this question. Since I had the
 specification for the EAN-13 barcode format handy (Pretty much the
standard
 for retail use) I looked into it.

 And freakily enough, Yes, 666 is coded into every EAN-13 barcode, sort of.

 Grab several books and look at the barcodes. While the pattern of bars is
 obviously different for each barcode, there is a pattern called the
 guard-bars which is the same for each bar-code. Its two thin lines that
 appear at the start, middle and end of each barcode.

 You will notice that there is human readable version of the barcode
 underneath it. The bars that appear directly above each digit are in fact
 the bars that encode that particular digit.

 Now look for some 6's. You will notice that most of the time, the SAME two
 thin bars are used to encode the 6. With three sets of guard-bars thats
666!

 The reason its only most of the time is because each digit has three
 seperate encodings, and only two of the encodings for 6 have the thin
bars.
 However no other digit uses the same 'two thin bar' pattern.

 What you also have to ignore to get 666 is the fact that the spaces
between
 the bars are just as important as the bars themselves, and the guard-bars
 don't have the same pattern of spaces.


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[CTRL] More crime in France than in US - report

2001-06-18 Thread Carl Amedio



More crime in France than in US - report

PARIS, June 18 (AFP) - France has become a more crime-ridden society than the 
United States, according to a new report which draws on official statistics 
from the FBI and French ministry of interior.
Examining figures for a range of offenses since 1995, the study found that 
France overtook the US for the first time last year, as zero tolerance 
policies in America coincided with the steady growth in crime in French 
cities and suburbs.
Per 100,000 inhabitants, there were 4,244 crimes in France compared with 
4,135 in the US. "It was bound to happen one day that the curves converge 
then cross over," said security consultant Alain Bauer, the report's 
co-author.
Sector by sector, Bauer discovered that while figures for murder and rape 
remained much higher in the United States, in other types of violent crime 
France was approaching or had surpassed American levels.
Thus the number of physical assaults in 2000 was put at 327 per 100,000 
people by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and at 299 by the French 
police. Five years before the numbers were more than 400 in the US, and just 
over 200 in France.
For theft with violence, France was well in advance of the US, with 185 
compared to 145.
The figures for crimes on property were even more stark, with the US 
statistics declining dramatically over the past five years, while France 
registered a steady increase. 
For simple theft, France hit 2,588 per 100,000 inhabitants while the US fell 
to 2,475. Car-theft was markedly more pronounced in France, with 507 reported 
compared to 420 in the US for the same head of population.
The authors, who included in the report only those crimes they said were 
directly comparable, warned that any study of this nature was "necessarily 
relative and partical," but they insisted the overall picture was 
unmistakeable.
"We can confirm, without serious risk of contradiction, that France has just 
overtaken the USA in levels of criminality," Bauer told Le Figaro newspaper.
He called on the French government to follow the example of the American 
authorities, who he said had succeeded in a spectacular reduction in crime -- 
notably in New York -- via a mix of strict enforcement and the "pragmatic" 
application of local initiatives.
"What's essentially changed in criminality in France is the return of 
physical violence," Bauer said. "There exists here a real sense of impunity 
which makes the victims all the more dejected and the criminals all the more 
determined.
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Re: [CTRL] Anarchists and leftists battle Bilderbergers

2001-06-18 Thread flw


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  Old fashioned American Right Wing Populism has always attacked
  Big Corporations; Wall Street, and Globalism. Their biggest taint was
  the anti semitism that often was intertwined. Now that the Left has
  embraced State Racism (affirmative action; quotas; multi culturalism) it
  appears the Old Right was their guiding light.
 flw

 This is foolish rhetoric, and besides the point
  J2

I don't think so. Racism is bad. It is bad when a group or government
advocates classifying people by race - it is the road to Nazism. I find
it very interesting how the so called left embraces so much of the
old anti globalist, anti corporate Right Wing agenda.

WHERE WAS THE RIGHT IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
DC, LONDON, DAVOS, SWEDEN?
Yeah, you got it... the Right is nowhere.
 J2

Ha. Ha. I remember Pat Buchanan on TV wearing his Teamsters jacket in Seattle.
Also that crazy quilt of demonstrators in Europe included a goodly amount
of skinheads...
flw

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Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag

2001-06-18 Thread flw


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 In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the
 sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings. When   
Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of my African
ancestors' struggle for
 freedom, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Slavery was an African
 institution long before it spread to the South, and there was no abolition
 movement to trouble it.

  Gee, I guess there is no history of slaves being held by other races.
 What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the gentleman should read more
 than one book on slavery before baring his ignorance to the world.
  MHO
 Om
 K

It seems the above statement about Africa is historically accurate.
I don't think Sobran ever wrote that only Africa promoted the slave trade.

Of course slavery has always been practiced by Europeans in Europe.
Thats where the word slavery (i.e. slavs) comes from.
Huge numbers of slaves taken as war booty have been transferred
all over the world since ancient times. Many modern day Italians can
trace their linage to Israelis brought to Rome as slaves after the Diaspora.
A recent article revealed that some old English families have African
DNA from African slaves brought to England by the Romans.

Africans have also owned white slaves. The North African Moors
owned large numbers of white slaves in Spain before the 15th century.
We haven't even begun to discuss slavery in China (millions upon
millions).

As a matter of fact more white slaves aka indentured servants (5 million
over 200 years) were brought to the North America then black African slaves.
Probably over 25%  of these white slaves suffered death and extreme
suffering  as indentured servants. But of course millions of poor European
serfs suffered the same fate without leaving their villages.

Slavery  and serfdom has always been an equal opportunity employer.
flw

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Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

2001-06-18 Thread c.

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From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:25 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

 Gore Vidal liked to shock people; he held the American people in
 contempt which was obvious, but then so did McVeigh.

you obviously are not familiar *first hand* with the reading of his novels.
i am. you do not know what you are talking about.
you are *not able* to go and read his novels and make the same illinformed
remark about vidal. he is more of a patriot than you ever can be aleisha.

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Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

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Not suprising at all. Tim was very well read. He read the classics as well
as modern books. I sent him more than a few books when he was at Terre
Haute.

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 Difficult to imagine Timothy McVeigh and his interest in Gore Vidal.

 Once years ago Buckley and Vidal got into a public argument - Buckley
 called Gore a queer son-of-a-bitch, after Vidal goaded him into
 reacting.   Gore Vidal was a homosexual and wasn ot offended by the
 remark.

 So why Gore Vidal?   From Turner Diaries to Gore Vidal?   Maybe McVeigh
 should have read a little less Vidal and a little more of a great work
 called Crime and Punishment.

 Gore Vidal liked to shock people; he held the American people in
 contempt which was obvious, but then so did McVeigh.

 After all it appears in the end McVeigh was just another Oswald who
 considered himself superior to the American sheeple?

 So McVeigh was his own executioner but wonder, must wonder if he was a
 latlent homosexual hence the curious interest in Gore Vidal .

 Makes one wonder if there was a little bit of Gore in McVeigh -

 Saba


 Credits and feedback


 Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal (1925-) - Original name Eugene Luther Vidal -
 Detective novels under the pseudonym Edgar Box
 Prolific American novelist, playwright, and essayist, one of the great
 stylists of contemporary American prose, who has been active in
 politics. Vidal made his debut as novelist with WILLIWAW at the age of
 19, while still in US Army uniform.

 One understands of course why the role of the individual in history is
 instinctively played down by a would-be egalitarian society. We are,
 quite naturally, afraid of being victimized by reckless adventurers. To
 avoid this we have created a myth of the ineluctable mass
 ('other-directedness') which governs all. Science, we are told, is not a
 matter of individual inquiry but of collective effort. Even the surface
 storminess of our elections disguises a fundamental indifference to
 human personality; if not this man, then that one; it's all the same,
 life will go on. (from 'Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars', in
 Rocking the Boat, 1963)

 Gore Vidal grew accustomed at an early age to a life among political and
 social notables. He was born at the military academy in West Point, New
 York, where his father was an instructor.

 He was raised near Washington, DC, in the house of his grandfather,
 Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat senator from Oklahoma.

 Vidal learned about political life from him and when he was a teenager
 he adopted the first name of Gore. Vidal also spent time on the Virginia
 estate of his stepfather, Hugh. D. Auchincloss. After graduating from
 Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, he served on an army supply
 ship in the Aleutian Islands, near Alaska.

 Much of his time in the Enlisted Reserve Corps he devoted to writing.
 Upon his discharge he worked for six months for the publishing firm of
 E.P. Dutton. From 1947 to 1949 Vidal lived in Antigua, Guatemala. His
 first novel, Williwaw, was based on his wartime experiences as first
 mate on Freight Ship 35 in the Alaskan Harbour Craft Detachment. The
 conventional seafaring story was written in the spirit Ernest Hemingway.

 The novel was praised by the critics like the following books, although
 THE CITY AND THE PILLAR (1948) shocked the public with its homosexual
 main character. However, he became known as a serious writer at the age
 of 21, and the novel also 'broke the mold' of gay American fiction.

 The book was reissued in 1965 with a different ending. THE JUDGEMENT OF
 PARIS (1953) was about a young man travelling with jet-set and wondering
 how to satisfy his own part-cynical, part-romantic outlook. Several of
 his following novels did not gain critical approval and Vidal started to
 write plays for television, motion pictures and stage. Among his
 best-known works from the 1950s is VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (prod. first
 for television in 1955).

 In the 1960s Vidal returned to the literary scene by producing
 historical or contemporary novels, including JULIAN (1964), written in
 the form of a journal by the eponymous Roman emperor,

 WASHINGTON, D.C. (1967), a political thriller spanning the years
 1937-52, BURR (1974), in which its title character rises above the other
 Founding Fathers, 1876 (1976), DULUTH (1983), and LINCOLN (1984), a
 carefully reconstructed account of the life of the US president, who is
 almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power. CREATION (1981)
 was the memoir of an imaginary grandson of Zoroaster who travels the
 world in the service of Persian kings and plays with the ideas of
 Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Anaxagoras and other thinkers. In LIVE FROM
 GOLGOTHA (1992) Vidal portrayed events in the Bible as though they were

Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal


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Well if you call Gore Vidal a patriot - fine; I still remember remarks
he made about JFK, his appearance on TV, and this obsession with
homosexuality.

I imagine you are in love with Arthur Miller too?

Was glad to hear he had recovered from his illness and to tell the
truth,  do not care to read further the work of an alleged man who
calls himself the gentleman bitch..

Recall when he called John F. Kennedy a fascist and when JFK was
murdered when asked who were the greatest historical figures, he
responded Muhammed, Buddah, Jesus Christ, and John F. Kennedy...he
delighted in the death of JFK, and he was to me just one queer bastard
with built in room service - and he was no gentleman, just a
bitch...can see at that how McVeigh would idiolize and worship at
his feet, as would any mutt dog before a bitich in heat.

He failed to win two elective offices (as did Norman Mailer fail to win
any office for which he ran)..Vidal a social critic - well Gay Pride
may adore him, America really did not care for him at the public trough.

Did McVeigh ever have a girlfriend - I wonder.

Saba

Gore Vidal (1925- )
Friday March 22 1:50 PM EST

U.S. author Gore Vidal in hospital in Italy
SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - American author and social critic Gore Vidal
was rushed to hospital in the southern Italian town of Salerno Friday
after suffering a hemmorrhage but was in a stable condition, doctors
said. Vidal, 70, was taken to the San Giovanni hospital shortly after 6
a.m. following a rectal hemmorrhage. A hospital official said he would
undergo tests Saturday and a decision would be made then on how long to
keep him in hospital. Vidal, controversial author of such best-sellers
as Lincoln, Myra Breckinridge and Burr plus essays and
screenplays, has a villa on the Italian coast. REUTER

Sunday March 24 2:34 PM EST
Gore Vidal Doing Well In Italian Hospital
SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - U.S. author Gore Vidal was reported doing well
Saturday, a day after being rushed to an Italian hospital with a rectal
hemorrhage. Doctors in the southern Italian town of Salerno said Vidal,
70, suffered the hemorrhage at his villa in the town of Ravello on the
nearby Amalfi coast. He is doing pretty well. He is undergoing a few
more tests today to determine the cause of the hemmorrhage, Dr.
Francesco Mastrandrea of the town's San Giovanni hospital told Reuters
in a telephone interview. The hemorrhage has been stopped and I think
he could go home in a couple of days, said Mastrandrea, adding: His
morale is good and he is chatting with everyone.

Vidal, a controversial author and social critic, was taken to the
hospital shortly after 6 a.m. Friday. Gore shocked Americans when he
burst onto the literary scene in 1948 with a noval called The City and
the Pillar, which dealt frankly with homosexuality. He wrote frankly
about homosexuality at a time when it was taboo.

Vidal has made two failed bids for public office and in recent years has
published a series of best-selling historical novels that analyze where
he thinks America fell from grace. Few contemporary writers have
generated as much controversy as Gore Vidal, who calls himself the
gentleman bitch of American letters. I am exactly as I appear. There
is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you
break the ice, you find cold water, the tall, gray-haired author of
such best-sellers as Lincoln, Myra Breckinridge and Burr, once
told an interviewer. Vidal has lived with male companion Howard Austin
for more than three decades, splitting their time between the United
States and the villa in Italy. REUTER


The American writer Gore Vidal, b. West Point, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1925,
achieved success with his first novel, Williwaw (1946), inspired by his
wartime service in the Aleutians. The City and the Pillar (1948), an
account of homosexual life in the United States, and The Judgment of
Paris (1952), a modernization of the ancient myth, won the respect of
critics. Myra Breckinridge (1968), an outrageous spoof of Hollywood
featuring a transsexual hero/heroine, brought him a much larger reading
public. Vidal demonstrated his flair for dialogue and political
understanding in two successful plays: Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
and The Best Man (1960; film, 1964). His penchant for re-creating
history led to Julian (1964), a fictional biography of the Roman
emperor; Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), and Hollywood (1990),
studies of 19th- and 20th-century U.S. politics; and Creation (1981),
about the 5th century BC. Vidal's acerbic literary and political essays
have been published in the collections Homage to Daniel Shays (1973),
Matters of Fact and Fiction (1977), and The Second American Revolution
(1982). In 1992, Vidal brought out Screening History, a nonfiction work
concerned with film themes, and the fictional Live from Golgotha, which
some readers called sacrilegious.

Bibliography: Dick, Bernard F., The Apostate Angel: Gore Vidal (1974);
Kiernan,

Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

2001-06-18 Thread c.

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- Original Message -
From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

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 Well if you call Gore Vidal a patriot - fine

stop idolizing the philosopher king as vidal called him.

read his work before you judge his remarks without the context of having
read his novels and understood that in his descriptions of the utter
corruption by individuals within a beautiful system, gore vidal has a vision
of a republic where the individuals within are noble and sincerely working
for the people. he is an idealist and loves america. your insistance on
disliking him for his attacks on the kennedys is because you seem to rely
on the celebrity rather than on the beauty of the system that has been
corrupted allowing families to run your country. you love the dynasty and
vidal loves the ideal of the republic.
your obsession about gays is shocking. god only knows what your thought
sequences are like- most gays don't even write about gays as much as you do!
it must be in your head and emotions so often- it must be really sweaty
inside that brain.

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Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

2001-06-18 Thread magnetic_field

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As a matter of fact Tim did have girl friends. He liked to keep his personal
life private.
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- Original Message -
From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

 -Caveat Lector-

 Well if you call Gore Vidal a patriot - fine; I still remember remarks
 he made about JFK, his appearance on TV, and this obsession with
 homosexuality.

 I imagine you are in love with Arthur Miller too?

 Was glad to hear he had recovered from his illness and to tell the
 truth,  do not care to read further the work of an alleged man who
 calls himself the gentleman bitch..

 Recall when he called John F. Kennedy a fascist and when JFK was
 murdered when asked who were the greatest historical figures, he
 responded Muhammed, Buddah, Jesus Christ, and John F. Kennedy...he
 delighted in the death of JFK, and he was to me just one queer bastard
 with built in room service - and he was no gentleman, just a
 bitch...can see at that how McVeigh would idiolize and worship at
 his feet, as would any mutt dog before a bitich in heat.

 He failed to win two elective offices (as did Norman Mailer fail to win
 any office for which he ran)..Vidal a social critic - well Gay Pride
 may adore him, America really did not care for him at the public trough.

 Did McVeigh ever have a girlfriend - I wonder.

 Saba

 Gore Vidal (1925- )
 Friday March 22 1:50 PM EST

 U.S. author Gore Vidal in hospital in Italy
 SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - American author and social critic Gore Vidal
 was rushed to hospital in the southern Italian town of Salerno Friday
 after suffering a hemmorrhage but was in a stable condition, doctors
 said. Vidal, 70, was taken to the San Giovanni hospital shortly after 6
 a.m. following a rectal hemmorrhage. A hospital official said he would
 undergo tests Saturday and a decision would be made then on how long to
 keep him in hospital. Vidal, controversial author of such best-sellers
 as Lincoln, Myra Breckinridge and Burr plus essays and
 screenplays, has a villa on the Italian coast. REUTER

 Sunday March 24 2:34 PM EST
 Gore Vidal Doing Well In Italian Hospital
 SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - U.S. author Gore Vidal was reported doing well
 Saturday, a day after being rushed to an Italian hospital with a rectal
 hemorrhage. Doctors in the southern Italian town of Salerno said Vidal,
 70, suffered the hemorrhage at his villa in the town of Ravello on the
 nearby Amalfi coast. He is doing pretty well. He is undergoing a few
 more tests today to determine the cause of the hemmorrhage, Dr.
 Francesco Mastrandrea of the town's San Giovanni hospital told Reuters
 in a telephone interview. The hemorrhage has been stopped and I think
 he could go home in a couple of days, said Mastrandrea, adding: His
 morale is good and he is chatting with everyone.

 Vidal, a controversial author and social critic, was taken to the
 hospital shortly after 6 a.m. Friday. Gore shocked Americans when he
 burst onto the literary scene in 1948 with a noval called The City and
 the Pillar, which dealt frankly with homosexuality. He wrote frankly
 about homosexuality at a time when it was taboo.

 Vidal has made two failed bids for public office and in recent years has
 published a series of best-selling historical novels that analyze where
 he thinks America fell from grace. Few contemporary writers have
 generated as much controversy as Gore Vidal, who calls himself the
 gentleman bitch of American letters. I am exactly as I appear. There
 is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you
 break the ice, you find cold water, the tall, gray-haired author of
 such best-sellers as Lincoln, Myra Breckinridge and Burr, once
 told an interviewer. Vidal has lived with male companion Howard Austin
 for more than three decades, splitting their time between the United
 States and the villa in Italy. REUTER

 The American writer Gore Vidal, b. West Point, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1925,
 achieved success with his first novel, Williwaw (1946), inspired by his
 wartime service in the Aleutians. The City and the Pillar (1948), an
 account of homosexual life in the United States, and The Judgment of
 Paris (1952), a modernization of the ancient myth, won the respect of
 critics. Myra Breckinridge (1968), an outrageous spoof of Hollywood
 featuring a transsexual hero/heroine, brought him a much larger reading
 public. Vidal demonstrated his flair for dialogue and political
 understanding in two successful plays: Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
 and The Best Man (1960; film, 1964). His penchant for re-creating
 history led to Julian (1964), a fictional biography of the Roman
 emperor; Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), and Hollywood (1990),
 studies of 19th- and 20th-century U.S. politics; and Creation (1981),
 about the 5th century BC. Vidal's acerbic literary and political essays
 have been published in the

[CTRL] Subject: Mormon Doctor







Kris, I've tried to post a particular message twice about 12 years ago. I didn't get a 
message saying that the 100 posts were up, so I assume that maybe you are holding 
posts with certain key-words for approval? Anyway, if you could be so good the message 
reads as follows

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Subject: Mormon Doctor

The Doctor's Name was Olsen. The best book on the subject may be viewed

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440206685/qid=992828585/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-1944459-0166920

Regretabbly Amazon says it is out of stock, but many crime-bookshops may have it and 
there are 12 copies listed as available second hand.

I just foud out from reading this review that the doctor has just been paroled.

Here is a quick review from the site

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This story about the impact of a malevolent family physician on a tiny Wyoming town is 
my favorite of Jack Olsen's true-crime books so far. In measured prose worthy of a 
literary novel, Olsen gives life to the docile but ultimately stalwart characters of a 
mother and two adult daughters who were raised according to Mormon strictures about 
sex--including the garment, a cotton sack that they were supposed to wear next to 
their skin for every single moment of their lives. These three were among hundreds of 
naive girls and women who trusted their beloved Dr. Storey so much that they submitted 
to his molesting and raping them under the guise of unnecessary pelvic exams. And they 
became the reluctant leaders of the fight to bring him to justice--a fight that 
divided the community between the doctor's (mostly) Baptist supporters and his Mormon 
detractors. Doc won the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.


Joe Schmidt.




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Michael Parenti Political Archive

May 2001

Monopoly Media Manipulation

By Michael Parenti

In a capitalist democracy like the United States, the corporate
news media faithfully reflect the dominant class ideology both in
their reportage and commentary. At the same time, these media leave
the impression that they are free and independent, capable of
balanced coverage and objective commentary. How they achieve these
seemingly contradictory but legitimating goals is a matter worthy of
study. Notables in the media industry claim that occasional
inaccuracies do occur in news coverage because of innocent error and
everyday production problems such as deadline pressures, budgetary
restraints, and the difficulty of reducing a complex story into a
concise report. Furthermore, no communication system can hope to
report everything, hence selectivity is needed.

To be sure, such pressures and problems do exist and honest mistakes
are made, but do they really explain the media's overall performance?
True the press must be selective, but what principle of selectivity
is involved? I would argue that media bias usually does not occur in
random fashion; rather it moves in more or less consistent
directions, favoring management over labor, corporations over
corporate critics, affluent whites over low income minorities,
officialdom over protestors, the two-party monopoly over leftist
third parties, privatization and free market reforms over public
sector development, U.S. dominance of the Third World over
revolutionary or populist social change, and conservative
commentators and columnists over progressive or radical ones.


Suppression by Omission

Some critics complain that the press is sensationalistic and
invasive. In fact, it is more often muted and evasive. More insidious
than the sensationalistic hype is the artful avoidance. Truly
sensational stories (as opposed to sensationalistic) are downplayed
or avoided outright. Sometimes the suppression includes not just
vital details but the entire story itself, even ones of major import.
Reports that might reflect poorly upon the national security state
are least likely to see the light of day. Thus we hear about
political repression perpetrated by officially designated rogue
governments, but information about the brutal murder and torture
practiced by U.S.-sponsored surrogate forces in the Third World, and
other crimes committed by the U.S. national security state are denied
public airing, being suppressed with a consistency that would be
called totalitarian were it to occur in some other countries.

The media downplay stories of momentous magnitude. In 1965 the
Indonesian military -- advised, equipped, trained, and financed by
the U.S. military and the CIA -- overthrew President Achmed Sukarno
and eradicated the Indonesian Communist Party and its allies, killing
half a million people (some estimates are as high as a million) in
what was the greatest act of political mass murder since the Nazi
Holocaust. The generals also destroyed hundreds of clinics,
libraries, schools, and community centers that had been established
by the Communists. Here was a sensational story if ever there was
one, but it took three months before it received passing mention in
Time magazine and yet another month before it was reported in the New
York Times (April 5, 1966), accompanied by an editorial that actually
praised the Indonesian military for rightly playing its part with
utmost caution.

Over the course of forty years, the CIA involved itself with drug
traffickers in Italy, France, Corsica, Indochina, Afghanistan, and
Central and South America. Much of this activity was the object of
extended congressional investigation -- by Senator Church's committee
and Congressman Pike's committee in the 1970s, and Senator Kerry's
committee in the late 1980s. But the corporate capitalist media seem
not to have heard about it.


Attack and Destroy the Target

When omission proves to be an insufficient mode of censorship and a
story somehow begins to reach larger publics, the press moves from
artful avoidance to frontal assault in order to discredit the story.
In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News, drawing from a year-long
investigation, ran an in-depth series about the CIA-contra crack
shipments that were flooding East Los Angeles. Holding true to form,
the major media mostly ignored the issue. But the Mercury News series
was picked up by some local and regional newspapers, and was flashed
across the world on the Internet copiously supplemented pertinent
documents and depositions supporting the charges against the CIA.
African American urban communities, afflicted by the crack epidemic,
were up in arms and wanted to know more. The story became difficult
to ignore. So, the major media began an all-out assault. A barrage of
hit

Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

2001-06-18 Thread Dale Stonehouse

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 -Original Message-
 From: Aleisha Saba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:52 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal

 He failed to win two elective offices (as did Norman Mailer
 fail to win
 any office for which he ran)..Vidal a social critic -
 well Gay Pride
 may adore him, America really did not care for him at the
 public trough.

While this is true the analysis reminds me of my parents and grandparents,
who would say Well, he must be smart; look at all the money he's got. As
if having money equals intelligence somehow. I guess that would make Michael
Jackson and Michael Jordan geniuses and drug lords the smartest of all.

Similarly, homosexuality equals stupidity in Saba's world. Wishing the world
was that simple does not make it so.

 Did McVeigh ever have a girlfriend - I wonder.

Here's another one that twists logic into a pretzel. If he didn't have a
girlfriend then he must have been gay and if he was gay then he must be
stupid. False premises do not result in true conclusions in any version of
logic I am familiar with.

Vidal and McVeigh may not fit everyone's ideal, so their ability to think
must somehow be minimized in the small minds of their detractors.

Next we will probably see them compared to Hitler and Mussolini, two more
individuals who have been historically simplified to the point of being the
same as one-celled organisms.

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[CTRL] EU Summit Braced for More Violence

2001-06-18 Thread radman


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EU Summit Braced for More Violence

By Ian Geoghegan

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - Swedish police were braced for fresh protests
on Saturday after rioting raged through a European Union (news - web sites)
summit, leaving three anarchist protesters shot and wounded and 12 policemen
injured.

The center of the picturesque port of Gothenburg looked like a war-zone with
wrecked shops and streets strewn with rocks and smoldering barricades after
the latest bout of anti-capitalist violence to hit a major international
meeting.

After nearly 12 hours of non-stop violence in which masked anarchists
smashed shop windows and torched piles of tables and chairs, protests had
died down by the early hours of Saturday and the city appeared calm.

But authorities were clearly anxious at the prospect of further violence on
Saturday when EU leaders resume meeting.

``I am very worried about what might happen in the hours ahead. There are
more demonstrations planned for tomorrow,'' Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom
told a late Friday briefing.

In the worst violence, three protesters were shot and wounded and were being
treated later in a Gothenburg hospital, a spokesman told Reuters.

The protesters were believed to have been shot when trapped and outnumbered
police fired in self-defense.

``Of the three, one is seriously hurt with wounds to the abdomen and is
being operated on. The other two, including one with a gunshot wound to the
thigh, were not seriously wounded,'' Pider Avall, spokesman for Sahlgrenska
University Hospital, said.

Overshadowed by the mayhem outside, EU leaders continued their business
agreeing that Ireland's shock rejection of the Nice Treaty on EU reform must
not derail plans to admit up to 12 ex-communist and Mediterranean states
over the next few years.

``There is a consensus...to send a signal to the applicant countries that we
want to go ahead with the enlargement process,'' said Swedish Prime Minister
Goran Persson.

``Despite the Irish vote, there will be a signal that the enlargement
process is irreversible,'' German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told
reporters.

CLEAR TIMETABLE

Diplomats said most of the 15 members wanted to set a more precise timetable
for admitting the first eastern candidates but Germany and France were
holding out against fixing dates.

Persson said he hoped leaders would agree on a formula that would satisfy
leaders of the dozen candidate countries when they meet for lunch on
Saturday.

Reflecting the majority view, Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok said: ``We should
declare our will to close the negotiations with the most advanced candidates
in 2002 and thereby encourage them to hasten reforms.''

But diplomats quoted Schroeder as saying that fixing dates would send the
wrong signal.

A senior EU diplomat said the Germans argued that setting an early target
date could make it harder for Poland to qualify in the first entry wave -- a
key German goal -- and leave insufficient time to reform agricultural
policy.

Photos

Reuters Photo


Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the leaders agreed that those
applicants who had not completed ratification by 2004 could still take part
in European Parliament elections that year. Their MEPs would take their
seats upon accession.

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told leaders his country needed an
``extended period of reflection'' after last week's stunning 54-46 percent
defeat of the treaty negotiated in December to reform EU institutions to
cope with new members.

He stressed that Ireland's ``no'' should not be seen as a vote against
enlargement.

SHOTS FIRED

The rioting, much of it carried out by protesters masked and hooded to avoid
identification, devastated the center of Sweden's second largest city and
overwhelmed authorities. Some EU leaders were forced to flee their hotels.

Bodstrom said some 600 people were detained. He said 12 police were injured
but he denied they lost control during the rioting, the biggest challenge
the country's security forces had faced.

A hospital spokesman said over 50 people were treated for injuries.

A planned gala dinner for the heads of government had to be abandoned after
police said they could not guarantee their safety. Leaders ate instead
inside the heavily guarded summit conference complex.

Schroeder told reporters: ``At every international summit, you get
desperados who are just out for violence without any political background.''

Danish Premier Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said it was a ``paradox'' to see young
people rioting against a meeting ``where we are working toward a better
world, better environment and better future for coming generations.''

British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) said the rioters were
''misguided'' and argued that world trade was good for jobs and living
standards.

Several leaders, including Schroeder, acknowledged that their citizens were
among the rioters.

POLICE DEFENDED

Bodstrom rejected criticism that police lost

[CTRL] Israeli breaches of the cease-fire for June 17th and 18th (fwd)


-Caveat Lector-

Israeli breaches of the cease-fire

Palestine Media Center (PMC)

18 June 2001

Despite its announced acceptance of the Tenet cease-fire work plan, Israel
has yet to comply with its specified terms. Below are examples of the
Israel's breaches from late 17 June until today 18 June.

Gaza Strip:

  1.. Israeli occupation snipers fatally shot Murad Abu Shawish (12 years
old) in the heart. The snipers fired at the children from the Israeli
settlement of Jani Tal in Rafah. Palestinian medical sources reported
that Israeli sniper fire also critically injured Adel Qinnin (16 years
old) in the chest, Ramzi Qinnin (16 years old) in the abdomen, Jihad Abu
Musa (15 years old) in the chest, and Jaser Al-Salmi (18 years old) in the
chest.

  2.. Israeli occupation forces opened fire, unprovoked, towards Ahmed
Saids (39 years old) car in Al-Sheikh Radwan, near the Israeli settlement
of Netzarim. Said was moderately injured in the shoulder.

Qalqilya District:

An Israeli settler ran over 81 year-old Ahmed Ali with his car, instantly
killing him.

Ramallah District:

  1.. Israeli settlers burned tens of dunams of planted fields belonging
to the residents of Alluban AL-Gharbi. This is the second such attack in a
week.

  2.. Israeli occupation soldiers set up sand barriers on the road
connecting Betin and Ein Yabrood in Ramallah.

  3.. Israeli occupation authorities confiscated tens of dunams of land
belonging to Betunia. The illegally confiscated land is adjacent to the
Israeli occupation military's camp Ofra.


Salfit District:

Israeli settlers razed fields belonging to the residents of AL-Zawieh.
Residents reported that the Israeli settlers uprooted tens of olive trees
in the area in addition to the razing. This is the second settler attack
in a row against the village.

Nablus District:

  1.. Israeli occupation forces continued to raze the famous Mount
Jarzim in Nablus. For the past eight months, Israeli occupation forces
have been razing the mountain, famous for its evergreens and tourism
appeal, and setting up cement blocs and other fortifications to their
military outpost atop.

  2.. Israeli occupation forces entered Aqraba, conducted violent house
searches, and chased after the youths.

Hebron District:

  1.. Israeli occupation forces further tightened the restrictions they
impose against the Palestinian residents in the Old City in Hebron.

  2.. Despite an Israeli High Court ban, Israeli settlers in Ramat Shai
continued to expand their illegal settlement, using land that is known to
contain historical artifacts.

  3.. Israeli settlers brutally beat Mohamed (11 years old), Fida (8
years old), and Nihad Abu Eisheh (13 years old), who live in the Old City
in Hebron.

  4.. Israeli Military Court chose to only reprimand an Israeli soldier,
convicted of shooting Jad Allah AL-Jabari (55 years old) in Hebron six
months ago. Al-Jabaris leg was amputated as a result of his injury. A
journalist working nearby filmed the incident. The film disproves the
soldiers claim that the victim did not stop when asked, which made him
fire a live bullet at Al-Jabaris foot from a close distance.

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[CTRL] Fw: Mammogram Radiation Debate:

2001-06-18 Thread YnrChyldzWyld









  ---Original Message---
  
  Date: Sunday, June 17, 
  2001 01:03:56 PM
  
  Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and 
  groups**Mammogram Radiation 
  Debate:From:Cancer Solutions: Rife, Energy Medicine, and 
  Medical Politics:by Barry Lynes(ordering info 
  below)APPENDIX P: The Depths of Deceit MammographyThe 
  great deceit began in the early 1970s. It was concocted by insiders at the 
  American Cancer Society (ACS) and their "friends" at the National Cancer 
  Institute (NCI). The number of women who were put "at risk" or 
  whodied as a result of this nefarious scheme is not known but 
  estimated to be huge. The Director of the NCI at the time of this 
  massive abuse of the public trust later left government service and took a 
  high paying positionat ACS (sort of a payoff).The American 
  Cancer Society's self serving program (financial scheme) continues to the 
  present day (1999) and probably into the 21st century until enough women 
  realize the stakes and force an end to the lie and the terrible 
  dangers.The American Cancer Society (ACS) particularly wanted to 
  push mammography because it could be tied in with the Society's own 
  financial objectives (keep in mind the ACS slogan "a check and a 
  checkup"). And theradiologists, of course, loved the ACS 
  program. There were few, if any, powerful voices individual or 
  institutional which cried out, "No!" or "God No! Don't do 
  this. NO. NO. NO."The collusive attack on healthy 
  American women happened because "the fix was in." Powerful 
  politicians and the media were silent. Silent as sleeping sentinels 
  while a determined, aggressive, self serving gang ofsophisticated 
  operatives manipulated the nation's entire cancer program to suit its own 
  interests. And to hell with the millions of American women who would 
  pay the price for the next thirty years or more, well into the 
  21stcentury.In 1978, Irwin J. D. Bross., Director of 
  Biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research 
  commented about the cancer screening program:"The women should 
  have been given the information about the hazards of radiation at the same 
  time they were given the sales talk for mammography... Doctors were gung 
  ho to use it on a large scale. They went right ahead and X rayed not 
  just a few women but a quarter of a million women... A jump to the 
  exposure of a quarter of a million persons to something which could do 
  more harm than good was criminal and it was supported by money from the 
  federal government and the American Cancer Society." (P1)The 
  National Cancer Institute (NCI) was warned in 1974 by professor Malcolm C. 
  Pike at the University of Southern California School of Medicine that a 
  number of specialists had concluded that "giving a women under age 50 a 
  mammogram on a routine basis is close to unethical." (P2)Repeat... 
  The experts in the government were told not to do this to healthy women in 
  the YEAR 1974! The warning was ignored because Mary Lasker (whose 
  husband was the dark advertising devil behind the Lucky Strike cigarette 
  advertising campaigns) and her advertising / promotional / corporate power 
  types at the American Cancer Society (ACS) wanted mammography. 
  Everyone else could go to hell. What Mary and her powerful political 
  allies wanted in the cancer world, they got. Everyone else, 
  including the public, was ignored.By the early 1980s, NCI and ACS 
  were at it again. They jointly put forth new guidelines promoting 
  (again!) ... annual breast X Rays for women under age 50. They just 
  simply refused to give up their lucrative racket. (Oneofficial 
  candidly admitted the publicity brought in more research money for both 
  institutions.) They refused to do what was not in their personal, 
  empire building interest no matter the cost in human lives.doctors 
  and their patients assumed that there was good evidence supporting those 
  recommendations. But at the time, only one study showed positive 
  benefit and the results were not significant." (P3)In 1985, the 
  respected British medical journal The Lancet, one of the five leading 
  medical journals in the world, published an article which ripped the 
  NCI-ACS propaganda to shreds. It not only (again!) exposed the 
  originalonslaught by the high level ACS NCI conspirators in the early 
  middle 1970s against a quarter million unsuspecting American women, but 
  reviled the continuing 1980s ACS NCI propaganda."Over 280,000 
  women were recruited without being told that no benefit of mammography had 
  been shown in a controlled trial for women below 50, and

[CTRL] NWO worship of Shaven Images


-Caveat Lector-

NWO worship of Shaven Images -   andrew hennessey

I grew up to the jingles and songs of macho razor adverts - Gillette the
best a man can get etc
with pictures of phallic jets, sportscars and other tokens of conquest -
with the bimbo draped around
a clean shaven square jawed macho successful man.

But something is decidedly odd in the new world order of UK toiletries from
Gillette.
Having moved their flagship razor from the twin bladed Sensor Excel to the
MACH3,
a triple bladed lean phallic symbol against the flash of a jet fighter -
things looked ok... But !!
they started advertising the Gillette Lady Shaver called Venus3 with loads
of bimbos
scraping away happily on a tropical beach - a triple bladed razor in a light
blue
feminine curvy and big hairbrush handle -
the next week - the macho man flagship mach3 acquired the same blue curvy
feminine hairbrush
handle - and now our macho men are shaving from the same bathroom razor as
the ladies.

and thats the end of the clean cut businessman - who now looks like a
transgender epic
in back to back adverts with the ladies venus3.
Its another example of the feminisation of masculine ideas.

andrew hennessey

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[CTRL] Salt Lake Trib Article On Syrian Assassin Order

http://www.sltrib.com/06172001/travel/105789.htm



Syrian Fortress Was a Stronghold Of Mysterious Assassins Order 

Sunday, June 17, 2001   
    



BY HAMZA HENDAWI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 

    MASYAF, Syria -- They worked in twos or threes, stalking victims with the 
utmost secrecy, then brazenly striking them down at crowded mosques or 
markets. 
    
They knew such public slayings made escape impossible and their own 
executions certain. But with murder their profession, death was an 
occupational hazard. 
    
The Assassins belonged to a mysterious medieval sect that terrorized Syria at 
the time of the Crusades. Now, more than 700 years after they were 
vanquished, Masyaf castle in western Syria's highlands is perhaps the most 
famous reminder of that dark chapter in Syria's history. 
    
But years of neglect have taken a toll on the forbidding, six-level stone 
castle perched on a rocky peak in the shadow of the Ansary Mountains. The 
Assassins, also known as the Hashashin for their alleged use of hashish to 
muster enough courage to slay opponents, acquired the castle that became 
their main stronghold from a local chieftain in about 1140. 
    
Today, Masyaf castle is among the best preserved fortresses in Syria, though 
several of its walls have collapsed and others look perilously close to 
tumbling down. Local authorities short of cash and expertise have for decades 
carried out routine restoration work on the site, but the work has been 
inadequate. 
    
The government last year accepted an offer from the Aga Khan Trust for 
Culture to restore the castle with all expenses paid by the Geneva-based 
charity chaired by Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of the world's 15 million 
followers of Islam's Ismaili sect. 
    
The Assassins order, whose origins were in Iran, recruited its men from 
followers of the Ismaili faith. Ismailis today make up 30 percent of Masyaf's 
35,000 people. 
    
The rise of the Assassins in 12th-century Syria -- then a swath of land 
covering present-day Syria, Lebanon and Israel -- coincided with one of the 
worst eras of political fragmentation in Syria. Muslim rulers fought one 
another as the Crusaders made inroads in the Arab hinterlands. 
    
To escape the persecution of Orthodox Sunni Muslims, Ismailis seized 
well-defended castles in the highlands and entered tactical alliances, with 
Muslims as well as Crusaders, to ensure their sect's survival. Members also 
murdered several of their Sunni opponents. 
    
But with Sunni power consolidated in Syria and the sect's base in Iran 
overrun by the Mongols in 1260, the Assassins finally ceased being a 
political entity in the 1270s, when the Mamluks of Egypt suppressed an 
Ismaili revolt there. 
    
Stefano Bianca, director of the Aga Khan Trust's Historic Cities Support 
Program, said urgent work to save parts of the castle in immediate danger is 
done but the project's goal is to make the castle "the centerpiece for a new 
route for the visitors of Syria." 
    
Mohammed al-Russais, the trust's Masyaf representative, said the project 
includes archaeological digs in the castle and installing lighting. Local 
authorities, he said, also would receive assistance from the trust to restore 
and develop ancient sites in the town of Masyaf. 
    
Plans include removing houses built too close to the castle, turning 
Ottoman-era guest houses into a market for traditional crafts and restoring a 
12th-century mosque believed to have been built on the site of a church. 
    
"We cannot just carry out restoration work at the castle without thinking of 
the town, too. We need to revitalize the town economically," Russais said. 
    
Both Russais and Bianca said it was too early to estimate the cost of the 
project. 
    
Wildflowers flourish at Masyaf castle near heaps of rubble, scaffolding and 
metal barrels. Though the site is open to tourists, few make their way out to 
see the maze of long, narrow corridors, rooms connected by steep flights of 
stairs, courtyards, stables and defensive towers. Water reservoirs are carved 
out of rocks on the bottom level. 
    
A good view of the town of Masyaf is offered from the castle's western side, 
together with hilly and mountainous terrain that extends to the coastal 
plains 30 miles (50 kilometers) to the west. 
    
During Roman times, Masyaf castle was part of a network of military 
fortifications extending from Syria's east Mediterranean coast to the 
interior. 
    
Masyaf's military role continued until the Ottoman era early in the 16th 
century, when families began living in parts of the castle, according to 
Mamdouh Mahmoud, government archaeologist in charge of the Masyaf area. 
    
Mahmoud said the castle began to deteriorate when the French took over in 
Syria in 1920. French authorities evicted the residents and used the castle 
as a warehouse. Some of the residents who left, Mahmoud said, quarried castle 
walls for stones to build new homes. 
    
Syria, which

[CTRL] Nuclear Bomb Tested In Aussie Rainforest?

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newsdaily/s312457.htm



Nuclear bomb may have been tested in Australian rainforest

 Declassified Australian government documents reportedly suggest a nuclear
bomb may have been detonated in a tropical rainforest in northern Queensland
at the height of the Cold War.

The documents are reported in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine.

They show that Britain, the United States and Australia set off a 50-tonne
bomb in the rainforest at Iron Range in north Queensland in 1963 as part of a
secret military experiment codenamed Operation Blowdown.

Its detonation was designed to test how the rainforest would react to such an
impact.

But while the Australian documents describe the blast as testing the effect
of a nuclear explosion, the British government says it was a conventional
bomb designed to simulate an air-detonated nuclear device.

However, declassified records in the National Archives of Australia describe
Operation Blowdown as "an investigation into the effect of nuclear explosions
in a tropical forest". (06:54:57 AEST)

[CTRL] Fw: TAYAD statement

2001-06-18 Thread Mrs. Jela Jovanovic

- Original Message - 
From: dhkcbureau 
To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:@SOLAIR.EUnet.yu 

Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:46 PM
Subject: TAYAD statement

THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE RESISTANCE:47 Political Prisoners and 4 TAYAD 
Members Have Fallen Martyred... There are 48 LivingDead... Hundreds are on 
the brink of death.WHAT IS THE BALANCESHEET OF YOUR MIND AND 
CONSCIOUS?TAYAD STATEMENT No: 261 JUNE 16, 2001URGENT. URGENT. 
URGENT. URGENT. URGENT. URGENT. URGENT. URGENT.URGENT.ON THE 240TH 
DAY OF THE DEATH FAST RESISTANCE,VELI GUNES (DHKP-C Trial)LOST HIS LIFE 
AT 22.45 ON SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2001.Veli GUNES was born in 1956 in the 
village of Kocakoc Merkez in the Tunceliprovince. He was in the first team 
of Death Fast volunteers. Following the operation of "Return to life" on 
December 19th Veli GUNES was taken from Umraniye prison to Kandira F-type 
prison. He was transferred to the Izmit state hospital one and a half months ago 
for the purpose of forcible medical intervention. He resisted the intervention 
despite of the days-long torture and on the 240th day of his Death Fast he lost 
his life.On June 17, 2001 Veli GUNES's body will be taken from the 
morgue ofIzmit state hospital and will be brought to the Yenibosna cem 
house. (Religious house for Alevi people). VELI GUNES DIED SO THAT 
PEOPLE CAN LIVE FREELY WITH THEIR OWNTHOUGHTS.NEITHER YOUR TORTURE NOR 
YOUR THREATS WILL SUCCEED TO BREAK THE POWER OFTHE RESISTANCETAYAD 
FAMILIES

[CTRL] Religion The Brain

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/science/A10767-2001Jun16.html



Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality
Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion

By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer


Sunday, June 17, 2001; Page A01

In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated
during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina,
doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce
religious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with
magnetized helmets that produce "spiritual" experiences for the secular.

The work is part of a broad effort by scientists around the world to better
understand religious experiences, measure them, and even reproduce them.
Using powerful brain imaging technology, researchers are exploring what
mystics call nirvana, and what Christians describe as a state of grace.
Scientists are asking whether spirituality can be explained in terms of
neural networks, neurotransmitters and brain chemistry.

What creates that transcendental feeling of being one with the universe? It
could be the decreased activity in the brain's parietal lobe, which helps
regulate the sense of self and physical orientation, research suggests. How
does religion prompt divine feelings of love and compassion? Possibly because
of changes in the frontal lobe, caused by heightened concentration during
meditation. Why do many people have a profound sense that religion has
changed their lives? Perhaps because spiritual practices activate the
temporal lobe, which weights experiences with personal significance.

"The brain is set up in such a way as to have spiritual experiences and
religious experiences," said Andrew Newberg, a Philadelphia scientist who
wrote the book "Why God Won't Go Away." "Unless there is a fundamental change
in the brain, religion and spirituality will be here for a very long time.
The brain is predisposed to having those experiences and that is why so many
people believe in God."

The research may represent the bravest frontier of brain research. But
depending on your religious beliefs, it may also be the last straw. For while
Newberg and other scientists say they are trying to bridge the gap between
science and religion, many believers are offended by the notion that God is a
creation of the human brain, rather than the other way around.

"It reinforces atheistic assumptions and makes religion appear useless," said
Nancey Murphy, a professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological
Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "If you can explain religious experience purely
as a brain phenomenon, you don't need the assumption of the existence of God."

Some scientists readily say the research proves there is no such thing as
God. But many others argue that they are religious themselves, and that they
are simply trying to understand how our minds produce a sense of spirituality.

Newberg, who was catapulted to center stage of the neuroscience-religion
debate by his book and some recent experiments he conducted at the University
of Pennsylvania with co-researcher Eugene D'Aquili, says he has a sense of
his own spirituality, though he declined to say whether he believes in God,
because any answer would prompt people to question his agenda. "I'm really
not trying to use science to prove that God exists or disprove God exists,"
he said.

Newberg's experiment consisted of taking brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist
meditators as they sat immersed in contemplation. After giving them time to
sink into a deep meditative trance, he injected them with a radioactive dye.
Patterns of the dye's residues in the brain were later converted into images.

Newberg found that certain areas of the brain were altered during deep
meditation. Predictably, these included areas in the front of the brain that
are involved in concentration. But Newberg also found decreased activity in
the parietal lobe, one of the parts of the brain that helps orient a person
in three-dimensional space.

"When people have spiritual experiences they feel they become one with the
universe and lose their sense of self," he said. "We think that may be
because of what is happening in that area -- if you block that area you lose
that boundary between the self and the rest of the world. In doing so you
ultimately wind up in a universal state."

Across the country, at the University of California in San Diego, other
neuroscientists are studying why religious experiences seem to accompany
epileptic seizures in some patients. At Duke University, psychiatrist Roy
Mathew is studying hallucinogenic drugs that can produce mystical experiences
and have long been used in certain religious traditions.

Could the flash of wisdom that came over Siddhartha Gautama -- the Buddha --
have been nothing more than his parietal lobe quieting down? Could the voices
that Moses and Mohammed heard on remote mountaintops have been just a bunch
of firing neurons -- an

[CTRL] IRAQ PROCURES HUNDREDS OF TANK TRANSPORTERS

2001-06-18 Thread Carl Amedio

IRAQ PROCURES HUNDREDS OF TANK TRANSPORTERS

MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE ARMS, DEFENSE, STRATEGY
The indepth regional news service http://www.menewsline.com/

17.6.2001

LONDON [MENL] -- Iraq has procured hundreds of tank transporters from Russia
in what has been termed as an effort to improve military logistics and
respond quickly to the prospect of regional conflict.

Western intelligence sources confirmed reports that hundreds of Russian-made
tank transporters have arrived in southern Iraq over the past few weeks.
They said the transporters were seen being unloaded in the port of Basra and
then painted in the color of military khaki.

"This is one of the most significant procurements by the Iraqi military and
demonstrates its preparations for conflict," an intelligence source said.

The London-based daily said at least 200 Ural tank transporters have been
unloaded. Witnesses in Basra were quoted as saying that Iraq plans to import
1,300 tank transporters from Russia.

Iraqi opposition sources said the tank transporters are key to the
military's effort to regain control over the country or join any Middle East
war against Israel. The sources said Iraq's armored fleet has been plagued
by a lack of spare parts and the arrival of tank transporters saves on the
wear and tear of driving tanks from Baghdad to Jordan or Syria.

The Russian export of the vehicles was facilitated by listing them as
civilian transporters, the sources said. As part of the proposed smart
sanctions policy, the United States wants to ban vehicles that can transport
armored systems.



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[CTRL] Missile Defense Could Backfire On U.S.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/orl-oped-reese061401.co

lumn



Missile-defense plan could backfire on U.S.

By Charley Reese
Published June 14, 2001

It's a heck of a note when you find that reason and logic are on the side of 
the Russians and Chinese. But that's the case in regard to George W. Bush's 
desire to build an anti-ballistic missile-defense system.

Let's look at the facts. Bush says we need the system to protect us from the 
launch by small rogue nations of one or two ICBMs. He often mentions North 
Korea and Libya.

This argument is absurd. It is impossible to launch an intercontinental 
ballistic missile without the United States knowing precisely where it came 
from. Any small country that launched one against us would face certain and 
total annihilation.

For this scenario to occur, you would have to have a suicidal lunatic willing 
to destroy himself and his country for the dubious pleasure of inflicting 
what would be, from the United States point of view, relatively minor damage. 
And since no one man can launch an ICBM, you would also need a chain of 
command of military officers willing to sacrifice themselves and their 
families for, in effect, stinging an elephant. That is simply not believable.

Furthermore, Bush is saying that while the threat of retaliation deterred the 
Soviet Union when it had thousands of missiles and warheads, it will not 
deter some little two-bit country with only three or four. That doesn't make 
sense. It is far more likely that, if some small country wished to do us 
harm, it would simply load a warhead on a rusty freighter and detonate it in 
the harbor of an American city.

Now when you conclude that Bush's stated reason for scrapping the ABM Treaty 
and proceeding to build a defense system is nonsense, you are faced with two 
disturbing inferences. One, the leader of a superpower is stupid as is his 
whole top echelon of advisers; or two, he is lying and has another reason for 
wanting to build an ABM system.

The latter is the far more believable. And, if I were a Russian or a Chinese, 
I would infer that his real reason for wanting this system is to nullify any 
nuclear deterrent by both China and Russia. In other words, I would conclude 
that Bush seeks to have the United States in a position to dominate the world 
without fear of challenge.

That being the case, the solution is obvious. The only way to overcome an ABM 
system is to throw more missiles at it than it can handle. Hence, the 
Russians and the Chinese are telling the truth when they say that if Bush 
proceeds, it will set off a nuclear-arms race. Neither country is going to 
sit still while the United States achieves nuclear superiority.

I truly cannot understand Bush's reasoning on this issue. I pray he is not so 
naïve as to believe that the Russians and Chinese are going to believe him 
when he says he's willing to spend billions of dollars to protect the United 
States from small countries. They have already made it clear that they are 
not buying his story.

Nor should we make the mistake of thinking the Chinese and the Russians are 
too broke to add missiles to their arsenals. Command economies have the 
advantage that they can ignore the sacrifices a military buildup would impose 
on other areas of the economy. The Russians are already producing a new road- 
and rail-mobile ICBM.

For a country that always depicted itself as the champion of peace and 
democracy, we have acted strangely since the end of the Cold War. Instead of 
disbanding NATO, we expanded it and used it to launch an offensive war 
against Yugoslavia. Instead of bringing Russia into the family of Western 
nations, we have deliberately poked it in the eye at every opportunity. We 
have launched military operations against Panama, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia. 
And we continue to peddle advanced armaments all around the world.

From the outside looking in, America must present a picture of an arrogant 
bully intent on establishing hegemony over the rest of the world. That is the 
road to endless conflicts. It is not the road to peace.

If Bush is sincere about fearing small nations, then he should propose that 
Russia, China and the United States pool their money and talent and work 
jointly on an ABM system all three countries could deploy. I doubt he will do 
that. I fear he will take steps that in the long run will lead the world to 
the misery of war.

Americans have traditionally not paid much attention to foreign policy, but 
it is by far the most dangerous area. What damage bad domestic policy does 
can usually be corrected with a new election and without bloodshed. Mistakes 
in foreign relations, however, can have very nasty consequences. Ten million 
people died in World War I, which not a single one of the nations involved 
wanted to happen. A chain reaction of mistakes, bad judgments, delays and 
misunderstandings led to that destructive war.

I would feel better if Bush read

[CTRL] Montauk Symposium-Vermont-9-12 Thru 9-16-2001

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The First Montauk Symposium
Important Event: The First Montauk Symposium

New release

 For the first time ever, Montauk survivors Al Bielek, Duncan Cameron,
Preston Nichols, and Stewart Swerdlow (a/k/a "Stan Campbell") share the same
stage along with researcher/publisher/author Peter Moon of Sky Books at the
Lightgate Center in Thetford, Vermont, USA, September 14-16, 2001. This show
of solidarity and strength is unprecedented in the Montauk Project history.

Every attempt has been made to silence this group of people from revealing
the truth about what really happened at the Montauk Project, an outgrowth of
the Philadelphia experiment, from discrediting and ridiculing them to
personal and financial devastation to prison. Yet, each of these individuals
maintains his original story and remains steadfast in his conviction to tell
the truth of this heinous and covert secret government experiment.

The Symposium Topics include such controversial subjects such as time travel;
genetic manipulation; occult, nazi, and Illuminati connections; sleeper
programming; alien manipulation of the Montauk agenda; weapons research;
technology; and mind-control.

Al Bielek, Montauk psychic program manager, has lead a life most would not
choose to live. While many would think that time travel, meeting aliens, and
working on secret projects are exciting ventures, Al paid a big price for the
privilege. Because those who set the agenda wish to keep their activities
secret, Al was robbed of his family, his memories, and ultimately, his
identity. They used advanced technologies to erase what was dear to
him.However, their technologies are not perfect.Slowly, the memories came
back. Al started meeting others who had been through the same process.
Ultimately, a flood of memories returned.For over ten years, Al has been
featured on Radio Talk Shows and as a speaker in many conferences. His story
has captivated the attention of tens of thousands of people worldwide. Many
will question why Al hasn't been silenced. Perhaps, those who set the agenda
are allowing brief glimpses of the truth to emerge. Perhaps it is something
much bigger. Al has recently released a successful and exceptionally complete
personal expose of the Philadelphia Experiment on CD. www.albielek.com

Duncan Cameron, lead Montauk chair psychic, is best known as the enigmatic
and charismatic time traveler of the Montauk Project. He is a real life
person who has recall of serving in the military as an Air Force officer in
Vietnam and was given one of the most extensive regimens of secret mental
training imaginable. He was groomed to be the focal point for the
accumulation of decades worth of secret research so that he could penetrate
the consciousness of the space/time continuum by sitting in a consciousness
amplification device known as the "Montauk Chair." From this experimental
role, he was utilized to determine the outcome of various events in time,
literally changing time itself.

Preston Nichols, lead Montauk engineer, is an electrical engineer who
graduated from Tampa University. He is one of the foremost experts in the
world on electromagnetic phenomena. His expertise has been sought out and
used by the industry for four decades. His early career began in the
recording industry where he sound-engineered for such well-known celebrities
as Chubby Checker and George Lucas.

In the 1970s, Preston worked for one of the top defense contractors on Long
Island, NY when he realized that he had been living a complete "other life"
with a separate set of memories previously unbeknownst to him. This led to
his investigations of telepathy and the electromagnetic phenomena surrounding
it which in turn led to his personal discovery of the huge transmitter at the
Air Force Station at Montauk Point and a devastating series of experiments
that were held there. These have since become popularized in the Montauk
Project book series that includes five books authored by Preston telling
incredible tales of time travel, mind control, and efforts to control the
consciousness of human beings. Preston lives on Long Island and consults to
private industry, where he also continues his research into time and psychic
phenomena.

Stewart Swerdlow, previously written about as "Stan Campbell" in the Monauk
Project series (Sky Books) before publicly revealing himself, is a Montauk
"boy" survivor, trained to work alongside Duncan Cameron as a Montauk
psychic. He was also used for genetic and mind-control experiments.

Stewart's memory flashes of his strange role in the Philadelphia Experiment
and Montauk Project culminated when he was mysteriously introduced to Preston
Nichols. Together, they unlocked the secret genetic and mind-control
experiments that had haunted Stewart all of his life, beginning when doctors
discovered at his impending birth that his mother did not have a birth canal!
His intriguing family history leads back to the last Czar of

[CTRL] Armey takes on traffic-surveillance cameras


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Lawmaker says cities have shortened yellow lights to raise revenue

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House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, is crusading against the red-light
cameras that have sprouted up at intersections around the country, saying
that they violate constitutional principles and that localities have
deliberately shortened yellow-light intervals in order to raise revenue.

Traffic will be safer, said Armey, when local governments increase yellow
intervals and stop trying to trap motorists in petty red-light violations.

We are responsible for protecting people's constitutional rights, Armey
told Human Events. We believe that this is an intrusion against people's
constitutional rights.

We have the state legislature in New Jersey that agrees with us, said
Armey, and we have the Supreme Court in Alaska that agrees with us. We ought
to hold some hearings on this.

No committee has yet committed to holding hearings on Armey's proposal.

There's been an evolution of the federal standards and recommendations that
has moved us away from the time-honored and effective business of using the
length of the yellow light to ensure safety at intersections, Armey said.
We believe that they have consciously done just the opposite of good
yellow-light policy to increase the stream of revenue.

They have not demonstrated any improvement in public well-being because of
these cameras, Armey added.

The House Republican leader said he does not want to use federal regulations
to micromanage states and localities in their use of cameras for issuing
traffic citations. I am against that on principle, he said.

Instead, Armey opposes traffic cameras of any kind, period, as a matter of
constitutional principle.

I have taken the same position with regard to speeding cameras, he said.
The problem with electronic surveillance is that you are denied your right
to face your accuser and you are assumed to be guilty until you have proved
yourself to be innocent. In fact, you are assumed to be there. A police
officer has immediate identification of who's driving the car.

Armey warned that the United States could end up like England.

I would say that I could leave my residence in London, travel all around
town and make three or four stops, and there would be a record of everywhere
I went. The surveillance there is that thorough, he said.

Said Armey spokesman Richard Diamond, The British government has proposed
increasing the number of tickets issued by cameras from 550,000 to 10 million
a year. At present, no American municipality is planning to use traffic
cameras for anything other than red-light running and speeding.

A report prepared by Armey's office says, Today's formula for calculating
yellow times yields yellow times that can in some cases be about 30 percent
shorter than the older formula. Armey's office collected traffic studies
from around the country and found that when the yellow-light time increased,
red-light running decreased. In Mesa, Ariz., for example, the number of
vehicles entering an intersection on red dropped by 73 percent; in Georgia,
by 75 percent; at sites in Virginia and Maryland, 77 percent or more,
including two sites where researchers reported that the red-light running
problem was virtually eliminated.

But lengthening yellow times does not raise revenue.

Fifty cities in 10 states now use red-light cameras. In 18 months, San
Diego's 19 cameras have raked in $30 million. West Hollywood, Calif., earns
$4.9 million annually from its cameras. New York City's 15 cameras made $5.4
million in their first year.

San Diego's red-light camera ticketing program suffered a setback this month
after the city discovered a glitch that meant some motorists may have been
ticketed unjustly. After a lawsuit was filed in February, discovery turned up
a Potential Intersection Worksheet prepared for the city when it was
deciding where to install red-light cameras. Five of the potential sites were
rejected because long yellow, vio [violator] volume not there. Other noted
reasons for rejections included long yellow phase and timing clears out
traffic.

A copy of an agreement between Mesa and Lockheed Martin, the company with
which the city contracted to provide its red-light cameras, prohibited the
city from lengthening yellow times at intersections with Lockheed cameras.
The contract gave Lockheed a cut of every ticket issued by its cameras.

Last year, a red-light camera in Washington, D.C., was turned off after the
local police department admitted that

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Student Prayer Challenge
By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) let stand on
Monday a ruling that students may offer group prayers at football games and
other sports events, assemblies, graduations or other school-related
ceremonies.

The high court refused to hear arguments that an Alabama law that allows
prayers, invocations and benedictions, even over the school public address
system and the classroom intercom, violates constitutional church-state
separation.

The 1993 law specifies that elementary and high school students, rather than
teachers or administrators, must initiate the prayer, which must be
nonsectarian, and that students cannot proselytize.

The law permitting voluntary prayers was challenged by Michael Chandler, a
former high school vice principal in DeKalb County, who filed the lawsuit on
his behalf and that of his son, Jesse, who at the time was a public school
student.

The justices rejected the appeal without any comment or dissent. It marked
the second time the case had reached the Supreme Court.

A federal judge struck down the law as unconstitutional and issued an
injunction barring its enforcement. But a U.S. appeals court in 1999 allowed
the prayers.

The Supreme Court a year ago set aside that ruling and ordered the appeals
court to further consider the case in light of a Supreme Court ruling
striking down student-led prayers at football games.

Despite the high court's ruling, the appeals court once again upheld the
prayers. It said the high court ruling condemned school sponsorship of
student prayer while the appeals court condemned school censorship of student
prayer.

The appeals court also said the Supreme Court did not reject the possibility
of some private religious speech, even if it occurs in schools.

Attorneys for Chandler said the appeals court disregarded the high court's
decision, and that the court's long-standing precedents command reversal of
the ruling.

The Supreme Court in a 1992 ruling said public schools may not require
prayers by clergy members at graduation ceremonies. That decision reaffirmed
the Supreme Court's historic 1962 decision that barred organized, officially
sponsored prayers in public school classrooms.

Attorneys for Alabama said the case became moot on May 23, when Jesse
Chandler graduated from public high school. As a result, they urged the high
court to deny the appeal.

They also argued that the appeals court decision ''faithfully applies''
Supreme Court precedents.




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[CTRL] U.S. plans new missile defense test in July


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Monday, June 18, 2001
WASHINGTON â The United States plans another missile defense test in July in
the start of a series. A second test is planned for the fall of this year.

Our missile defense program is developing complex systems that will employ
the most advanced technologies, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, director
of the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, said.

Kadish told the House Armed Services subcommittee on Thursday that next
month's test is designed to intercept and destroy incoming ballistic
missiles.

The general said the next test will seek to integrate missile defense systems
as well as operate satellites and radars used in tracking an incoming
ballistic missile. Kadish said the United States wants to deploy a system
that will defend the nation against long-range missiles fired by such
countries as Iran, Iraq and North Korea.

Kadish acknowledged technical failures in the U.S. interceptor, but
maintained that they can be repaired. The July test comes after two failures
of the U.S. missile defense program. The last successful intercept was in
July 2000.

We expect steady progress toward success, even though we anticipate we will
have test failures â failures are an inevitable part of the development
process.

The problems we experienced reflected process problems in basic engineering
and fabrication, not underlying flaws in core ballistic missile defense
technologies or design, Kadish said.

In Gothenburg, Sweden, the European Union said it would help prevent the
proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. An EU
statement said members would coordinate to form a common position against
proliferation.

We are committed to contributing to the achievement of this goal, the EU
statement said. We stress the need to maintain strict enforcement of our
national export controls and to reinforce the multilateral non-proliferation
and export control regimes.




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[CTRL] Patients fighting HMOs' denial of claims, and many are winning


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Dawn Ripley never had a problem with her health insurance plan -- until her
daughter, Anna, came along last year.

``I noticed her head seemed misshapened, it seemed like she had more face on
one side than the other,'' said Ripley, who lives in Weston. After several
months of therapy, a physician determined that the infant's condition could
be corrected with a special $3,000 helmet.

Ripley's insurance company denied the request, deeming Anna's condition
cosmetic, not medical.

She paid out of pocket for the device. But Ripley also began a fight to the
finish with her insurer -- which ultimately paid.

Amid a national debate over patients' rights and growing frustration with
managed care -- eight of every 10 Florida residents are in those plans --
thousands of Floridians each year are challenging the decisions of their
HMOs, and many are winning. Statewide figures are not available, but at one
healthcare insurer -- Health Options, one of the state's largest -- 4,981
Florida patients lodged complaints last year, and 675 entered the plan's
formal grievance process.

A patients' bill of rights that will be debated in Congress this week would
give HMO members new rights to sue if they are denied needed care. The two
proposals the Senate will debate differ mainly over how patients can sue
managed-care companies and whether the companies' liability should be limited.

But in many cases, there are existing alternatives.

By state law, consumers at odds with an HMO's decision are entitled to appeal
through their health plan's grievance process -- and thousands do just that
every year. If the decision still doesn't go the patient's way, the consumer
can take the case to the Statewide Provider and Subscriber Assistance
Program, a state government-run panel of state officials, physicians and
consumers that will make a binding decision.

Overall, 21 percent of the 177 cases taken to the panel last year were
decided in favor of patients, according to the Agency for Health Care
Administration, which runs the program. An additional 29 percent of the cases
were settled in favor of the consumer before the panel's review.

The top disputes: repayment for emergency care, treatment by non-network
medical providers, and clashes over benefits and what should be deemed
medical necessities.

Among the cases overturned by the state panel: It ordered an HMO to cover
surgery needed by a patient who received facial injuries while cleaning his
shotgun. The HMO had said it would not cover some of the surgery on the
grounds that it was cosmetic; the HMO's doctors insisted the surgery was
needed to restore function.

Although Ripley's case was resolved without going before the state panel,
Ripley's health plan also initially deemed Anna's condition cosmetic and
would not pay for the head brace to correct it. That prompted Ripley to
embark on a mission to prove that the device was a medically necessary
treatment.

She linked up with an Internet support group -- www.caps2000.org -- for
families of children with the same problem. At night, she scoured medical
encyclopedias online. She contacted the manufacturer of the head brace, who
told her that her insurance company and others had paid for the device. She
wrote to her elected officials. She got letters of support from the child's
doctors.

The health plan, which was offered by her husband John's employer, turned her
down.

She appealed a second time, as the health plan's grievance procedure allowed.
And she contacted her husband's employer, United Parcel Service, hoping the
company would help with her appeal.

After several months, she won the appeal -- with the health plan agreeing the
device was medically necessary. Payment for the device was approved a few
weeks later and the Ripleys were reimbursed.

The lesson? Persistence can pay off.

``That's how hard you have to fight them,'' Ripley said. ``Don't quit. Keep
going.''

Beth Gabrini, an information specialist with the Florida Department of Elder
Affairs' program known as SHINE, or Serving the Health Insurance Needs of
Elders, said some denials stem from a simple error -- an improper billing
code entered by a medical provider. Those codes are used by insurers to match
a medical procedure with a payment.

``Usually the error might be made on the part of the doctor's office when
they submitted your claim,'' Gabrini said. Call the physician's office, she
said, and ask people there to make sure the code submitted is correct. ``They
are pretty interested in getting their money, too, and they usually are
pretty willing to see if an error has been made.''

If that's not the case, Florida HMOs are required by law to have a grievance
process in place for patients who don't agree with their insurer's decision
and want to appeal.

And enlist your

[CTRL] America declares 'war' on America


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It's funny that a nation, rooted in the revolutionary oratory of men like
Patrick Henry and the pamphletry of Thomas Paine, the fiery rhetoric of
Samuel Adams and the sermonizing from the pens and pulpits of men like the
Revs. Jacob Cushing and Moses Mather, would have such a hang-up with
language.

America was forged in the smithy of the spoken word and printed page. The
founders regularly met in pubs and inns both before the War for Independence,
to hash out justification and agreement for secession from England, and
after, to begin the arduous task of making a government. Adams' Committees on
Correspondence kept revolutionary ideas in circulation, while incendiary
tracts by the likes of Paine and others gave backbone and resolve to the
colonials.

After Britain's bonds were shaken off, the founders turned attentions to
carefully crafting the Articles of Confederation, first, and finally the
Constitution of the United States. Polemics pro and con shot back and forth,
detailing every benefit, downside, blessing and danger inherent to the
proposed central government; these debates are preserved for us in part in
collections such as the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.

Language was so important to Noah Webster that he composed his dictionary
specifically to distinguish Americans' use of English from the British. It
was obviously important to many others, as well, since it sold like crazy.

Take a thumb through the Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense,
or John Adams' A Defense of the American Constitutions. Americans find
their freedom in a mountain of words.

It is strange, and all the more tragic, then, that a nation set free by a
million speeches is now being re-enslaved by just one syllable. Whether the
citizens of the United States know it or not, liberties guaranteed by the
Constitution and Bill of Rights are being shackled by a metaphor, bound and
gagged by three little letters:

War.

Not war against a foreign government; not war against a nation that would
threaten our people, our soil, our lives and livelihoods. Those sorts of
wars, while tragic, are vital to the preservation of liberty. To save our
properties, persons and liberties from plunder, sometimes brutal and violent
force must be used to grisly and ghastly ends against the gangster armies of
foreign powers. Such is the price of freedom. That is, however, not the sort
of war I'm talking about.

In order to capitalize on the unifying spirit and goodwill engendered by that
righteous sort of entanglement, American politicians have, since President
Lyndon Johnson, used the word war to gain a backing for their political
programs and social schemes.

Johnson kicked off the scam with his War on Poverty. President Nixon,
facing Johnson's successor in a battle for the nation's biggest bully pulpit,
conjured up the same rhetoric â only Tricky Dick directed the guns of
political rhetoric toward narcotics, officially launching America's War on
Drugs.

Both of these schemes fail any real-world definition of war. The enemy is
less than clear, the battlefield is even less obvious and the rules of
engagement are fungible and at odds with our founding spirit and written
Constitution.

Take just the drug war. In a war, there's no such thing as due process before
depriving a man of life, liberty or property â as required by the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution. Which is more than understandable. It's a war,
after all. Hardly any time to go requesting warrants and worrying about
protecting the liberties of your opponents.

The goal of war is to win, and recalling the wisdom of Gen. George Patton,
you don't win a war by dying for your country; you make the other poor, dumb
bastard (I think those were his words) die for his. Most any tactic in war
is excused and commended provided it results in victory. As such, enemies
have little in the way of rights, and if they are the aggressor nation,
they've ceded whatever rights they might have had. The bully who starts a
fight should not be surprised if his cry of uncle is met with a few more
fists to the teeth and boots to the kidneys.

This works fine for real wars, but the drug war is not a war. It's a policy,
a policy crafted in a nation whose overarching legal doctrines are contained
in the Constitution and Bill of Rights and to which the policy must conform.
By thinking of policy like war, however, the first instinct is to disregard
the rights of the citizens â enemies have no rights.

For first-hand experience with this fact, I'd point you to John Adams of
Lebanon, Tenn., or Juan Mendoza Fernandez of Irving, Texas, or maybe even
Mario Paz of El Monte, Calif. I'd point you to these three men had not police
been paying more attention

[CTRL] Iraqi Sanctions Genocide!

Former U.N. aides call Iraqi sanctions genocide

By WAIEL FALEH, Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (June 17, 2001 03:41 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com)

Two former humanitarian officers for the United Nations on Sunday urged an
end to the U.N.'s sanctions against Iraq, calling them "genocidal" and "a
crime against humanity."

Hans von Sponeck of Germany and Dennis Halliday of Ireland finished a 10-day
fact-finding tour of Iraq, where each served for a year as U.N. humanitarian
coordinators.

"The embargo is incompatible with the (U.N.) charter, declaration of human
rights and the Geneva Convention," von Sponeck told journalists.

Von Sponeck and Halliday resigned their posts in 2000 and 1998 respectively
to protest the U.N. sanctions they said were destroying the lives of ordinary
Iraqis.

An embargo and wide-ranging sanctions were imposed on Iraq following its 1990
invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent 1991 Gulf War. The embargo has crippled
Iraq's economy and drawn international criticism, including from Security
Council members Russia, China and France.

Revisions to sanctions under the U.N. oil-for-food program, proposed by
Britain, supported by the United States and opposed by Iraq, are currently
under Security Council consideration.

The proposal - known as the "smart sanctions" plan - would remove most
restrictions on trade in consumer goods and materials for rebuilding public
services, but see controls tightened on items considered dangerous,
particularly those which could be used to manufacture weapons of mass
destruction.

Von Sponeck rejected the British and American view that smart sanctions will
allow Iraqis to live normal lives. "Only when there is a full lifting of
economic sanctions ... (will) Iraqis have a chance to live again a normal
life," he said.

Halliday said the Security Council was under moral and international legal
obligations to end the embargo. "The results of (the) embargo meet the
definition of genocide under the U.N. Convention on Genocide," he added.

The U.N.'s humanitarian coordination agency directs the oil-for-food program,
which allows Iraq to sell oil to buy food and other humanitarian goods under
U.N. supervision.

The sanctions cannot be lifted until the Security Council certifies Iraq is
free of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq demands the sanctions be lifted
unconditionally, saying it has fulfilled all the U.N. resolutions.

Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag

2001-06-18 Thread YnrChyldzWyld









  
  From: Kris Millegan
  Gee, I guess there is no "history" of slaves being held by other 
  races.What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the 
  gentleman should read morethan one book on slavery before baring 
  his ignorance to the world.What the original post seems to fail to 
  realize is that while it's true that Africans captured fellow Africans 
  (albeit of different tribes than the tribe of those doing the capturing) 
  to put into slavery, it was European traders who were doing the buying of 
  the unfortunate captured Africans.
  
  If there wasn't a market for slaves amongst the European powers, there 
  wouldn't have been a slave trade of the scope it grew to become...
  
  
  
  
  June
  
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[CTRL] SNET: Kyoto Treaty a disaster for third world (fwd)

2001-06-18 Thread William Bacon


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 'The Greens are hurting the poor in Third World'

 Skeptical environmentalist, Dr Bjørn Lomborg believes
 ecological groups are misleading us iwith their doomesday
 predictions.  Roger Highfield reports

 Electronic Telegraph - 14 June 2001

 GREEN activists may do more harm than good in the developing
 world by focusing on phantom problems at the expense of real
 ones, according to a forthcoming book.

 The White House, taken aback by the global outcry at Bush's
 rejection of the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions, is
 developing a new strategy to present at the July climate
 negotiations in Bonn.

 But in The Skeptical Environmentalist, Dr Bjørn Lomborg of
 Aarhus University, Denmark, points out that the treaty will,
 at best, delay warming by a few years by the admission of the
 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

 Dr Lomborg accepts that global warming is real, but says that
 the marginal benefits of the Kyoto Treaty would cost around
 £100 billion annually, possibly twice as much, when half this
 sum could give all Third World inhabitants access to the basics
 of health, education, water and sanitation.

 For all the talk of global warming as a catastrophe by green
 groups, the catastrophe seems rather in spending our resources
 unwisely on curbing present carbon emissions at high costs
 instead of helping the developing countries and increasing the
 use of non-fossil fuel, said Dr Lomborg.

 Global warming will mostly harm the Third World, while an
 initial warming of a few degrees would probably benefit the
 First World.  Kyoto makes us feel good, but if we really want
 to do good, we would do better to give the money Kyoto would
 cost to the Third World, he said.

 Calculations by the IPCC show that the cost of the cure is much
 greater than the illness, he said.  If the world focuses on
 economics alone, it will make around £600 trillion (thousand
 billion) in the 21st century.

 If it focuses on environmental considerations, that profit
 will fall by £67 trillion.  But the total cost of global
 warming is estimated to be only about £3.3 trillion, with or
 without Kyoto, said Dr Lomborg, whose views have triggered a
 national debate in Denmark about the widely-held beliefs that
 the environment is in a state of terminal decline.

 In The Skeptical Environmentalist, which will be published by
 Cambridge University Press in the autumn, the lecturer in
 statistics is critical of the way in which many environmental
 organisations make selective and misleading use of scientific
 evidence to portray an ecological catastrophe.

 An old Left-wing Greenpeace member, Dr Lomborg was provoked
 to look into the state of the planet by the claim by an
 American economist, Julian Simon, that many doomsday
 predictions were false.

 But his follow-up investigation provided support for Simon's
 scepticism over the Litany preached by organisations such as
 Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature: the environment
 is in poor shape; resources are running out; we kill off more
 than 40,000 species every year.

 We know the Litany and have heard it so often that yet another
 repetition is, well, almost reassuring, said Dr Lomborg.
 There is just one problem: it does not seem to be backed up by
 the available evidence.

 Dr Lomborg said the Worldwatch Institute, which annually
 reports on the state of the world, makes blatant errors with
 unfortunate frequency.

 Studying specific cases, such as GM crops and pesticides, Dr
 Lomborg shows how many central arguments used by green groups
 are based on myths.

 Well meaning and compassionate environmentalists are convinced
 that pesticides cause cancer.  Yet the link is tenuous and
 these chemicals may well have decreased the incidence of cancer
 by boosting production of fruit and vegetables, the consumption
 of which cut cancer risk.

 Rather than lose between a quarter and a half of all species in
 our lifetime, the real figure is closer to one per cent, Dr
 Lomborg calculates; acid rain has not destroyed our forests, as
 was often predicted two decades ago; poverty has declined more
 in the last 50 years than in the preceding 500; 35 per cent of
 people in developing countries were starving in 1970 and that
 percentage fell by half by 1996; in 1900 we lived for an
 average of 30 years and today we live for 67; and infants no
 longer die like flies.

 Mankind's lot has actually improved in

[CTRL] SNET: Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years (fwd)

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Mark

 At 6 billion tons, humans are then responsible for a
 comparatively small amount - less than 5 percent - of
 atmospheric carbon dioxide, he said.  And if nature is the
 source of the rest of the carbon dioxide, then it is difficult
 to see that man-made carbon dioxide can be driving the rising
 temperatures.  In fact, I don't believe it does.






 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010615071248.htm


 Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years,
 Says Ohio State University Researcher

 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Global warming is a natural geological process
 that could begin to reverse itself within 10 to 20 years,
 predicts an Ohio State University researcher.

 The researcher suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide -- often
 thought of as a key greenhouse gas -- is not the cause of
 global warming.  The opposite is most likely to be true,
 according to Robert Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy
 Conservation in Ohio State's Department of Mechanical
 Engineering.  It is the rising global temperatures that are
 naturally increasing the levels of carbon dioxide, not the other
 way around, he says.

 Essenhigh explains his position in a viewpoint article in the
 current issue of the journal Chemical Innovation, published by
 the American Chemical Society.

 Many people blame global warming on carbon dioxide sent into the
 atmosphere from burning fossil fuels in man-made devices such as
 automobiles and power plants.  Essenhigh believes these people
 fail to account for the much greater amount of carbon dioxide
 that enters -- and leaves -- the atmosphere as part of the
 natural cycle of water exchange from, and back into, the sea and
 vegetation.

 Many scientists who have tried to mathematically determine the
 relationship between carbon dioxide and global temperature would
 appear to have vastly underestimated the significance of water
 in the atmosphere as a radiation-absorbing gas, Essenhigh
 argues.  If you ignore the water, you're going to get the wrong
 answer.

 How could so many scientists miss out on this critical bit of
 information, as Essenhigh believes?  He said a National Academy
 of Sciences report on carbon dioxide levels that was published
 in 1977 omitted information about water as a gas and identified
 it only as vapor, which means condensed water or cloud, which is
 at a much lower concentration in the atmosphere; and most
 subsequent investigations into this area evidently have built
 upon the pattern of that report.

 For his hypothesis, Essenhigh examined data from various other
 sources, including measurements of ocean evaporation rates,
 man-made sources of carbon dioxide, and global temperature data
 for the last one million years.

 He cites a 1995 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on
 Climate Change (IPCC), a panel formed by the World
 Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment
 Programme in 1988 to assess the risk of human-induced climate
 change.  In the report, the IPCC wrote that some 90 billion tons
 of carbon as carbon dioxide annually circulate between the
 earth's ocean and the atmosphere, and another 60 billion tons
 exchange between the vegetation and the atmosphere.

 Compared to man-made sources' emission of about 5 to 6 billion
 tons per year, the natural sources would then account for more
 than 95 percent of all atmospheric carbon dioxide, Essenhigh
 said.

 At 6 billion tons, humans are then responsible for a
 comparatively small amount - less than 5 percent - of
 atmospheric carbon dioxide, he said.  And if nature is the
 source of the rest of the carbon dioxide, then it is difficult
 to see that man-made carbon dioxide can be driving the rising
 temperatures.  In fact, I don't believe it does.

 Some scientists believe that the human contribution to carbon
 dioxide in the atmosphere, however small, is of a critical
 amount that could nonetheless upset Earth's environmental
 balance.  But Essenhigh feels that, mathematically, that
 hypothesis hasn't been adequately substantiated.

 Here's how Essenhigh sees the global temperature system working:
 As temperatures rise, the carbon dioxide equilibrium in the
 water changes, and this releases more carbon dioxide into the
 atmosphere.  According to this scenario, atmospheric carbon
 dioxide is then an indicator of rising temperatures -- not the
 driving force behind it.

 Essenhigh attributes the current reported rise in global
 temperatures to a natural

Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag

2001-06-18 Thread Carl Amedio

In a message dated 6/18/01 6:16:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


If there wasn't a market for slaves amongst the European powers, there
wouldn't have been a slave trade of the scope it grew to become...


I don't know about that. The Arabs did a thriving business in buying and
selling Africans of all colors. OH wait, non black slaves dot count do they.
only black Africans have been scared for generations, if not eternity, by
slavery?

My ancestors were being bought and sold a thousands of years before "this"
episode of the slave trade. I guess I should demand reparations from the
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Spanish, and French huh.
BTW my ancestors were held as slaves--read indentured servants- long after
its abolishment in the Americas.

Roots Man

Re: [CTRL] Anarchists and leftists battle Bilderbergers


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Nessie wrote:

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 in the streets while rightists sit home in front of their computers and
 do nothing.

Nothing new here Nessie. The Right is all talk and no action unless you
consider blowing up inocent civilians and children in Oklahoma.

They are full of shit.

J2


 For details, see:

 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46944group=webcast

 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46947group=webcast

 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=46936group=webcast

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[CTRL] US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia'


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The Daily Telegraph (UK)

June 15, 2001

US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia'
By Michael Smith

 BRITISH intelligence warned in 1951 that the
Americans were planning to wage a preventative
atomic war on the Russians the next year with or
without the support of their Nato allies.
The Director of Naval Intelligence said the United
States military was convinced that all-out war
against the Soviet Union was not only inevitable but
imminent. Vice-Admiral Eric Longley-Cook went on to
say that the Americans had, accordingly, gone ahead
to prepare for an inevitable clash of arms with the
Soviet Union, 'fixed' for mid or late 1952.

Details of the report, and the British concerns that
their ally was about to provoke a third world war, are
contained in a new book by Richard J Aldrich,
Professor of Politics at Nottingham University. The
Hidden Hand says Longley-Cook's report, so secret that
only six copies were produced, was the culmination of
two years of tension in which the Russians had
exploded their first atomic bomb, four years before
the earliest Nato intelligence prediction.

During that period, a succession of senior British
officers had returned from visits to America
expressing alarm over the apparent conviction among
their United States counterparts that they should
attack Russia. Longley-Cook said that the Russians
were far too cautious to start a war themselves. The
main threat to strategic stability and the security of
Britain appeared to come from the United States where
McCarthyism was in full flow.

Many people in America have made up their minds that
war with Russia is inevitable and there is a strong
tendency in military circles to 'fix' the zero date
for war, he said. It is doubtful whether, in a
year's time, the US will be able to control the
Frankenstein monster which they are creating. There is
a definite risk of the USA becoming involved in a
preventative war against Russia, however firmly their
Nato allies object.

It was not just the view of senior United States
generals and intelligence officers, who seemed
unwilling to endorse a threat assessment based on
factual intelligence rather than their own
prejudices. Many ordinary Americans shared their
opinions. There was an apocalyptic view among the
inhabitants of major American cities, who visualise
in their own concentrated home town the ruins of
Hamburg and Berlin, Longley-Cook said.

These and other Americans say, 'We have the bomb,
let's use it now while the balance is in our favour.
Since war with Russia is inevitable, let's get it over
with now'. Some talk of an 'ultimatum from strength',
but many more believe in the necessity for 'smashing
the Russians' at the earliest possible moment.

There was certainly evidence to support the British
assessment. One US general had said that the West
could not afford to wait until Europe or even America
was devastated by a nuclear holocaust. We can afford,
however, to create a wilderness in Russia without
serious repercussion on Western civilisation. We have
a moral obligation to stop Russia's aggression by
force, if necessary, rather than face the consequences
of delay.

Another US general said that his country was already
at war with Russia. Whether we call it a Cold War or
apply any other term we are not winning. It seems to
me that almost any analysis of the situation shows
that the only way that we can be certain of winning is
to take the offensive as soon as possible and hit
Russia hard enough to at least prevent her from taking
over Europe.

If we plan and execute the operation properly, the
weight of our attack in the early stages may be
sufficient to compel Russia to accept our terms for a
real peace. It will not be a preventative war, because
we are already at war.

Most copies of Longley-Cook's report were ordered to
be destroyed once read but one was passed to Winston
Churchill after he returned to power in late 1951. He
was initially highly dismissive, even suggesting that
Longley-Cook must be a communist and ordering that a
sharp eye should be kept on the writer.

But in April 1952, after returning from Washington
having failed to obtain a veto on US strikes from
British bases, he had changed his mind. He told his
private secretary: I want to see the secret report
prepared by the late Director of Naval Intelligence
and sent to me by the First Lord when I was in
America. Let me have it back again.

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Re: [CTRL] At Least Biotech Terrorists Are Consistent ... They'reAlwaysWrong (fwd)


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 Junkscience.com - www.junkscience.com

 New from JunkScience.com, http://www.junkscience.com

 At Least the Biotech Terrorists Are Consistent ...
 They're Always Wrong

 By Steven Milloy, Fox News
 June 14, 2001

 Oops, they did it again. Biotechnology terrorists started another scare
 that didn't pan out.

 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that no
 evidence could be found that Starlink corn is causing allergic reactions
 in people. Starlink is a type of biotech corn not approved for human
 consumption that was found in Taco Bell taco shells last September...

 The full column is at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27297,00.html

 Steve Milloy


First of all, who here really trusts the CDC? Second of all. Even if they
are right, we don't want GM foods ANYWAY. You are welcome to bloat yourself
on the shit if you like. So as long as it is well marked as genetically
modified, we can both be happy.

But that probably won't happen because there aren't too many people out
there as stupid as you, and that means there won't be much of a market for
the corporate scum to put at risk.

So I suggest you stock up now.

Joshua2

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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Yahoo! Groups : marxist Messages :Message 893 of


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 Heh, been reading your David Icke, eh?
 http://www.publiceye.org/Icke/Table%20of%20Contents.htm
 Michael Pugliese ak/a Illuminati ;-)

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  its like the marxists are living in the 'real'world of practical
  'revolution' where in their world view some funny aircraft lights fly
  overhead that middle class loons call aliens and its all just some middle
  class game etc etc
  classic cardboard marxism -
  these guys want to come to scotland and work hard here - there isn't a
  middle class anymore - just a big bunch of poor people and some very rich
  dudes - but if the marxists want to get real - and really look into the
  loony alien posts - they will see that they are the ones who are off the
  pace - and had better get real real soon.
 
  andrew hennessey [more 'of the people' than they are because I'm sane]
  most of the abductees I interview are ordinary poor people
 
  The Marxists will NEVER have a successful revolution unless they can
 accept
  that Telepathic Shapechanging Reptoids probably run and have infiltrated
  their organisation at every level - thats why the status quo NEVER
 changes.

Tell you what. You worry about shape shifting reptoids, and let the Marxists
worry about the poor.

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Re: [CTRL] Religion The Brain


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William Shannon wrote:

Check out an excellent book called  The God Part of the Brain  and
another called  Belief and Make Believe.

J2


 http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/science/A10767-2001Jun16.html

 Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality
 Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion

 By Shankar Vedantam
 Washington Post Staff Writer

 Sunday, June 17, 2001; Page A01

 In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated
 during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina,
 doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce
 religious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with
 magnetized helmets that produce spiritual experiences for the secular.

 The work is part of a broad effort by scientists around the world to better
 understand religious experiences, measure them, and even reproduce them.
 Using powerful brain imaging technology, researchers are exploring what
 mystics call nirvana, and what Christians describe as a state of grace.
 Scientists are asking whether spirituality can be explained in terms of
 neural networks, neurotransmitters and brain chemistry.

 What creates that transcendental feeling of being one with the universe? It
 could be the decreased activity in the brain's parietal lobe, which helps
 regulate the sense of self and physical orientation, research suggests. How
 does religion prompt divine feelings of love and compassion? Possibly because
 of changes in the frontal lobe, caused by heightened concentration during
 meditation. Why do many people have a profound sense that religion has
 changed their lives? Perhaps because spiritual practices activate the
 temporal lobe, which weights experiences with personal significance.

 The brain is set up in such a way as to have spiritual experiences and
 religious experiences, said Andrew Newberg, a Philadelphia scientist who
 wrote the book Why God Won't Go Away. Unless there is a fundamental change
 in the brain, religion and spirituality will be here for a very long time.
 The brain is predisposed to having those experiences and that is why so many
 people believe in God.

 The research may represent the bravest frontier of brain research. But
 depending on your religious beliefs, it may also be the last straw. For while
 Newberg and other scientists say they are trying to bridge the gap between
 science and religion, many believers are offended by the notion that God is a
 creation of the human brain, rather than the other way around.

 It reinforces atheistic assumptions and makes religion appear useless, said
 Nancey Murphy, a professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological
 Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. If you can explain religious experience purely
 as a brain phenomenon, you don't need the assumption of the existence of God.

 Some scientists readily say the research proves there is no such thing as
 God. But many others argue that they are religious themselves, and that they
 are simply trying to understand how our minds produce a sense of spirituality.

 Newberg, who was catapulted to center stage of the neuroscience-religion
 debate by his book and some recent experiments he conducted at the University
 of Pennsylvania with co-researcher Eugene D'Aquili, says he has a sense of
 his own spirituality, though he declined to say whether he believes in God,
 because any answer would prompt people to question his agenda. I'm really
 not trying to use science to prove that God exists or disprove God exists,
 he said.

 Newberg's experiment consisted of taking brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist
 meditators as they sat immersed in contemplation. After giving them time to
 sink into a deep meditative trance, he injected them with a radioactive dye.
 Patterns of the dye's residues in the brain were later converted into images.

 Newberg found that certain areas of the brain were altered during deep
 meditation. Predictably, these included areas in the front of the brain that
 are involved in concentration. But Newberg also found decreased activity in
 the parietal lobe, one of the parts of the brain that helps orient a person
 in three-dimensional space.

 When people have spiritual experiences they feel they become one with the
 universe and lose their sense of self, he said. We think that may be
 because of what is happening in that area -- if you block that area you lose
 that boundary between the self and the rest of the world. In doing so you
 ultimately wind up in a universal state.

 Across the country, at the University of California in San Diego, other
 neuroscientists are studying why religious experiences seem to accompany
 epileptic seizures in some patients. At Duke University, psychiatrist Roy
 Mathew is studying hallucinogenic drugs that can produce mystical experiences
 and have long been used in certain religious traditions.

 Could the flash of wisdom that came over Siddhartha

Re: [CTRL] Religion The Brain


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yeah, yeah but none of that materialism rationally explains remote data
gathered during out of body experiences in distances far beyond the 5 senses
operating in the  locality of the body.
we all have an eternal soul - get used to it

andrew

 Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality
 Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion

 By Shankar Vedantam
 Washington Post Staff Writer


 Sunday, June 17, 2001; Page A01

 In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are
activated
 during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North
Carolina,
 doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce
 religious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with
 magnetized helmets that produce spiritual experiences for the secular.
 

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Re: [CTRL] US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia'


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The only really surprising thing about this is that it never happened.  It seems that 
there were ultimatley other plans for the Soviet Union than were originally 
intended, also could it have been a ploy to force NATO down the throats of countries 
reluctant to side with the US?



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 The Daily Telegraph (UK)

 June 15, 2001

 US 'planned nuclear first strike on Russia'
 By Michael Smith

  BRITISH intelligence warned in 1951 that the
 Americans were planning to wage a preventative
 atomic war on the Russians the next year with or
 without the support of their Nato allies.
 The Director of Naval Intelligence said the United
 States military was convinced that all-out war
 against the Soviet Union was not only inevitable but
 imminent. Vice-Admiral Eric Longley-Cook went on to
 say that the Americans had, accordingly, gone ahead
 to prepare for an inevitable clash of arms with the
 Soviet Union, 'fixed' for mid or late 1952.

 Details of the report, and the British concerns that
 their ally was about to provoke a third world war, are
 contained in a new book by Richard J Aldrich,
 Professor of Politics at Nottingham University. The
 Hidden Hand says Longley-Cook's report, so secret that
 only six copies were produced, was the culmination of
 two years of tension in which the Russians had
 exploded their first atomic bomb, four years before
 the earliest Nato intelligence prediction.

 During that period, a succession of senior British
 officers had returned from visits to America
 expressing alarm over the apparent conviction among
 their United States counterparts that they should
 attack Russia. Longley-Cook said that the Russians
 were far too cautious to start a war themselves. The
 main threat to strategic stability and the security of
 Britain appeared to come from the United States where
 McCarthyism was in full flow.

 Many people in America have made up their minds that
 war with Russia is inevitable and there is a strong
 tendency in military circles to 'fix' the zero date
 for war, he said. It is doubtful whether, in a
 year's time, the US will be able to control the
 Frankenstein monster which they are creating. There is
 a definite risk of the USA becoming involved in a
 preventative war against Russia, however firmly their
 Nato allies object.

 It was not just the view of senior United States
 generals and intelligence officers, who seemed
 unwilling to endorse a threat assessment based on
 factual intelligence rather than their own
 prejudices. Many ordinary Americans shared their
 opinions. There was an apocalyptic view among the
 inhabitants of major American cities, who visualise
 in their own concentrated home town the ruins of
 Hamburg and Berlin, Longley-Cook said.

 These and other Americans say, 'We have the bomb,
 let's use it now while the balance is in our favour.
 Since war with Russia is inevitable, let's get it over
 with now'. Some talk of an 'ultimatum from strength',
 but many more believe in the necessity for 'smashing
 the Russians' at the earliest possible moment.

 There was certainly evidence to support the British
 assessment. One US general had said that the West
 could not afford to wait until Europe or even America
 was devastated by a nuclear holocaust. We can afford,
 however, to create a wilderness in Russia without
 serious repercussion on Western civilisation. We have
 a moral obligation to stop Russia's aggression by
 force, if necessary, rather than face the consequences
 of delay.

 Another US general said that his country was already
 at war with Russia. Whether we call it a Cold War or
 apply any other term we are not winning. It seems to
 me that almost any analysis of the situation shows
 that the only way that we can be certain of winning is
 to take the offensive as soon as possible and hit
 Russia hard enough to at least prevent her from taking
 over Europe.

 If we plan and execute the operation properly, the
 weight of our attack in the early stages may be
 sufficient to compel Russia to accept our terms for a
 real peace. It will not be a preventative war, because
 we are already at war.

 Most copies of Longley-Cook's report were ordered to
 be destroyed once read but one was passed to Winston
 Churchill after he returned to power in late 1951. He
 was initially highly dismissive, even suggesting that
 Longley-Cook must be a communist and ordering that a
 sharp eye should be kept on the writer.

 But in April 1952, after returning from Washington
 having failed to obtain a veto on US strikes from
 British bases, he had changed his mind. He told his
 private secretary: I want to see the secret report
 prepared by the late Director of Naval Intelligence
 and sent to me by the First Lord when I was in
 America. Let me have it back again.

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Re: [CTRL] America declares 'war' on America


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This is certainly a good polemic against the Idea of a war on drugs or anything else 
for that matter.  It puts me in mind of everyone patriotically doing their duty to 
save the country from the scourge.  It is wrong and always has been.  The rhetoric 
is certainly heating up lately, one can only hope that some sanity is brought to the 
issue and the use of drugs is legalized, and soon, and all the money used in the 
needless war could be put to far better uses.





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 America declares 'war' on America

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 It's funny that a nation, rooted in the revolutionary oratory of men like
 Patrick Henry and the pamphletry of Thomas Paine, the fiery rhetoric of
 Samuel Adams and the sermonizing from the pens and pulpits of men like the
 Revs. Jacob Cushing and Moses Mather, would have such a hang-up with
 language.

 America was forged in the smithy of the spoken word and printed page. The
 founders regularly met in pubs and inns both before the War for Independence,
 to hash out justification and agreement for secession from England, and
 after, to begin the arduous task of making a government. Adams' Committees on
 Correspondence kept revolutionary ideas in circulation, while incendiary
 tracts by the likes of Paine and others gave backbone and resolve to the
 colonials.

 After Britain's bonds were shaken off, the founders turned attentions to
 carefully crafting the Articles of Confederation, first, and finally the
 Constitution of the United States. Polemics pro and con shot back and forth,
 detailing every benefit, downside, blessing and danger inherent to the
 proposed central government; these debates are preserved for us in part in
 collections such as the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.

 Language was so important to Noah Webster that he composed his dictionary
 specifically to distinguish Americans' use of English from the British. It
 was obviously important to many others, as well, since it sold like crazy.

 Take a thumb through the Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense,
 or John Adams' A Defense of the American Constitutions. Americans find
 their freedom in a mountain of words.

 It is strange, and all the more tragic, then, that a nation set free by a
 million speeches is now being re-enslaved by just one syllable. Whether the
 citizens of the United States know it or not, liberties guaranteed by the
 Constitution and Bill of Rights are being shackled by a metaphor, bound and
 gagged by three little letters:

 War.

 Not war against a foreign government; not war against a nation that would
 threaten our people, our soil, our lives and livelihoods. Those sorts of
 wars, while tragic, are vital to the preservation of liberty. To save our
 properties, persons and liberties from plunder, sometimes brutal and violent
 force must be used to grisly and ghastly ends against the gangster armies of
 foreign powers. Such is the price of freedom. That is, however, not the sort
 of war I'm talking about.

 In order to capitalize on the unifying spirit and goodwill engendered by that
 righteous sort of entanglement, American politicians have, since President
 Lyndon Johnson, used the word war to gain a backing for their political
 programs and social schemes.

 Johnson kicked off the scam with his War on Poverty. President Nixon,
 facing Johnson's successor in a battle for the nation's biggest bully pulpit,
 conjured up the same rhetoric â#8364; only Tricky Dick directed the guns of
 political rhetoric toward narcotics, officially launching America's War on
 Drugs.

 Both of these schemes fail any real-world definition of war. The enemy is
 less than clear, the battlefield is even less obvious and the rules of
 engagement are fungible and at odds with our founding spirit and written
 Constitution.

 Take just the drug war. In a war, there's no such thing as due process before
 depriving a man of life, liberty or property â#8364; as required by the Fifth
 Amendment to the Constitution. Which is more than understandable. It's a war,
 after all. Hardly any time to go requesting warrants and worrying about
 protecting the liberties of your opponents.

 The goal of war is to win, and recalling the wisdom of Gen. George Patton,
 you don't win a war by dying for your country; you make the other poor, dumb
 bastard (I think those were his words) die for his. Most any tactic in war
 is excused and commended provided it results in victory. As such, enemies
 have little in the way of rights, and if they are the aggressor nation,
 they've ceded whatever rights they might have had. The bully who starts a
 fight should not be surprised if his cry of uncle is met with a few more
 fists to the teeth and boots to the kidneys.

Re: [CTRL] Patients fighting HMOs' denial of claims, and many are winning


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There is a definite conflict of interest in these cases as there are in pharmaceutical 
companies payments to physicians that should be put a stop to.  Basing care on what is 
medically necessary as determined by physicians who are unencumbered by economic ties 
and incentives should be the only way to go, never should it be based on economic 
means when someone's health is at stake.  It surprises me that people don't see the 
obvious conflict this creates.





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 Patients fighting HMOs' denial of claims, and many are winning
 MICHELE CHANDLER
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Dawn Ripley never had a problem with her health insurance plan -- until her
 daughter, Anna, came along last year.

 ``I noticed her head seemed misshapened, it seemed like she had more face on
 one side than the other,'' said Ripley, who lives in Weston. After several
 months of therapy, a physician determined that the infant's condition could
 be corrected with a special $3,000 helmet.

 Ripley's insurance company denied the request, deeming Anna's condition
 cosmetic, not medical.

 She paid out of pocket for the device. But Ripley also began a fight to the
 finish with her insurer -- which ultimately paid.

 Amid a national debate over patients' rights and growing frustration with
 managed care -- eight of every 10 Florida residents are in those plans --
 thousands of Floridians each year are challenging the decisions of their
 HMOs, and many are winning. Statewide figures are not available, but at one
 healthcare insurer -- Health Options, one of the state's largest -- 4,981
 Florida patients lodged complaints last year, and 675 entered the plan's
 formal grievance process.

 A patients' bill of rights that will be debated in Congress this week would
 give HMO members new rights to sue if they are denied needed care. The two
 proposals the Senate will debate differ mainly over how patients can sue
 managed-care companies and whether the companies' liability should be limited.

 But in many cases, there are existing alternatives.

 By state law, consumers at odds with an HMO's decision are entitled to appeal
 through their health plan's grievance process -- and thousands do just that
 every year. If the decision still doesn't go the patient's way, the consumer
 can take the case to the Statewide Provider and Subscriber Assistance
 Program, a state government-run panel of state officials, physicians and
 consumers that will make a binding decision.

 Overall, 21 percent of the 177 cases taken to the panel last year were
 decided in favor of patients, according to the Agency for Health Care
 Administration, which runs the program. An additional 29 percent of the cases
 were settled in favor of the consumer before the panel's review.

 The top disputes: repayment for emergency care, treatment by non-network
 medical providers, and clashes over benefits and what should be deemed
 medical necessities.

 Among the cases overturned by the state panel: It ordered an HMO to cover
 surgery needed by a patient who received facial injuries while cleaning his
 shotgun. The HMO had said it would not cover some of the surgery on the
 grounds that it was cosmetic; the HMO's doctors insisted the surgery was
 needed to restore function.

 Although Ripley's case was resolved without going before the state panel,
 Ripley's health plan also initially deemed Anna's condition cosmetic and
 would not pay for the head brace to correct it. That prompted Ripley to
 embark on a mission to prove that the device was a medically necessary
 treatment.

 She linked up with an Internet support group -- www.caps2000.org -- for
 families of children with the same problem. At night, she scoured medical
 encyclopedias online. She contacted the manufacturer of the head brace, who
 told her that her insurance company and others had paid for the device. She
 wrote to her elected officials. She got letters of support from the child's
 doctors.

 The health plan, which was offered by her husband John's employer, turned her
 down.

 She appealed a second time, as the health plan's grievance procedure allowed.
 And she contacted her husband's employer, United Parcel Service, hoping the
 company would help with her appeal.

 After several months, she won the appeal -- with the health plan agreeing the
 device was medically necessary. Payment for the device was approved a few
 weeks later and the Ripleys were reimbursed.

 The lesson? Persistence can pay off.

 ``That's how hard you have to fight them,'' Ripley said. ``Don't quit. Keep
 going.''

 Beth Gabrini, an information specialist with the Florida Department of Elder
 Affairs' program known as SHINE, or Serving the Health Insurance Needs of
 Elders, said some denials stem from a simple error -- an improper billing
 code entered by a medical provider. Those codes are used by

Re: [CTRL] Armey takes on traffic-surveillance cameras


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While he's at it why doesn't he do something about the passive radar put in airports 
to look at naked people, and the infrared devices used to illegally search someones 
home without warrants, and the numerous cameras on display throughout the country 
spying on us everywhere we go.  This is a small issue but indicative of larger more 
serious trends.





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 Armey takes on traffic-surveillance cameras
 Lawmaker says cities have shortened yellow lights to raise revenue

 --

 --

 Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C.,
 newsweekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every
 Monday. Readers can subscribe to Human Events through WND's online store.
 By Joseph A. D'Agostino
 © 2001 Human Events

 House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, is crusading against the red-light
 cameras that have sprouted up at intersections around the country, saying
 that they violate constitutional principles and that localities have
 deliberately shortened yellow-light intervals in order to raise revenue.

 Traffic will be safer, said Armey, when local governments increase yellow
 intervals and stop trying to trap motorists in petty red-light violations.

 We are responsible for protecting people's constitutional rights, Armey
 told Human Events. We believe that this is an intrusion against people's
 constitutional rights.

 We have the state legislature in New Jersey that agrees with us, said
 Armey, and we have the Supreme Court in Alaska that agrees with us. We ought
 to hold some hearings on this.

 No committee has yet committed to holding hearings on Armey's proposal.

 There's been an evolution of the federal standards and recommendations that
 has moved us away from the time-honored and effective business of using the
 length of the yellow light to ensure safety at intersections, Armey said.
 We believe that they have consciously done just the opposite of good
 yellow-light policy to increase the stream of revenue.

 They have not demonstrated any improvement in public well-being because of
 these cameras, Armey added.

 The House Republican leader said he does not want to use federal regulations
 to micromanage states and localities in their use of cameras for issuing
 traffic citations. I am against that on principle, he said.

 Instead, Armey opposes traffic cameras of any kind, period, as a matter of
 constitutional principle.

 I have taken the same position with regard to speeding cameras, he said.
 The problem with electronic surveillance is that you are denied your right
 to face your accuser and you are assumed to be guilty until you have proved
 yourself to be innocent. In fact, you are assumed to be there. A police
 officer has immediate identification of who's driving the car.

 Armey warned that the United States could end up like England.

 I would say that I could leave my residence in London, travel all around
 town and make three or four stops, and there would be a record of everywhere
 I went. The surveillance there is that thorough, he said.

 Said Armey spokesman Richard Diamond, The British government has proposed
 increasing the number of tickets issued by cameras from 550,000 to 10 million
 a year. At present, no American municipality is planning to use traffic
 cameras for anything other than red-light running and speeding.

 A report prepared by Armey's office says, Today's formula for calculating
 yellow times yields yellow times that can in some cases be about 30 percent
 shorter than the older formula. Armey's office collected traffic studies
 from around the country and found that when the yellow-light time increased,
 red-light running decreased. In Mesa, Ariz., for example, the number of
 vehicles entering an intersection on red dropped by 73 percent; in Georgia,
 by 75 percent; at sites in Virginia and Maryland, 77 percent or more,
 including two sites where researchers reported that the red-light running
 problem was virtually eliminated.

 But lengthening yellow times does not raise revenue.

 Fifty cities in 10 states now use red-light cameras. In 18 months, San
 Diego's 19 cameras have raked in $30 million. West Hollywood, Calif., earns
 $4.9 million annually from its cameras. New York City's 15 cameras made $5.4
 million in their first year.

 San Diego's red-light camera ticketing program suffered a setback this month
 after the city discovered a glitch that meant some motorists may have been
 ticketed unjustly. After a lawsuit was filed in February, discovery turned up
 a Potential Intersection Worksheet prepared for the city when it was
 deciding where to install red-light cameras. Five of the potential sites were
 rejected because long yellow, vio [violator] volume not there. Other noted

Re: [CTRL] Religion The Brain

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I fail to see the controversy in this issue, it seems to me that there is no way to
determine which came first God or the brain which thinks of him. Religious experience
is also a very personal thing and is experienced markedly differently between any two
people and thus will always be unquantifiable.

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BRResearchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion
BR
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BR
BR
BRSunday, June 17, 2001; Page A01
BR
BRIn Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated
BRduring meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina,
BRdoctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce
BRreligious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with
BRmagnetized helmets that produce spiritual experiences for the secular.
BR
BRThe work is part of a broad effort by scientists around the world to better
BRunderstand religious experiences, measure them, and even reproduce them.
BRUsing powerful brain imaging technology, researchers are exploring what
BRmystics call nirvana, and what Christians describe as a state of grace.
BRScientists are asking whether spirituality can be explained in terms of
BRneural networks, neurotransmitters and brain chemistry.
BR
BRWhat creates that transcendental feeling of being one with the universe? It
BRcould be the decreased activity in the brain's parietal lobe, which helps
BRregulate the sense of self and physical orientation, research suggests. How
BRdoes religion prompt divine feelings of love and compassion? Possibly because
BRof changes in the frontal lobe, caused by heightened concentration during
BRmeditation. Why do many people have a profound sense that religion has
BRchanged their lives? Perhaps because spiritual practices activate the
BRtemporal lobe, which weights experiences with personal significance.
BR
BRThe brain is set up in such a way as to have spiritual experiences and
BRreligious experiences, said Andrew Newberg, a Philadelphia scientist who
BRwrote the book Why God Won't Go Away. Unless there is a fundamental change
BRin the brain, religion and spirituality will be here for a very long time.
BRThe brain is predisposed to having those experiences and that is why so many
BRpeople believe in God.
BR
BRThe research may represent the bravest frontier of brain research. But
BRdepending on your religious beliefs, it may also be the last straw. For while
BRNewberg and other scientists say they are trying to bridge the gap between
BRscience and religion, many believers are offended by the notion that God is a
BRcreation of the human brain, rather than the other way around.
BR
BRIt reinforces atheistic assumptions and makes religion appear useless, said
BRNancey Murphy, a professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological
BRSeminary in Pasadena, Calif. If you can explain religious experience purely
BRas a brain phenomenon, you don't need the assumption of the existence of God.
BR
BRSome scientists readily say the research proves there is no such thing as
BRGod. But many others argue that they are religious themselves, and that they
BRare simply trying to understand how our minds produce a sense of spirituality.
BR
BRNewberg, who was catapulted to center stage of the neuroscience-religion
BRdebate by his book and some recent experiments he conducted at the University
BRof Pennsylvania with co-researcher Eugene D'Aquili, says he has a sense of
BRhis own spirituality, though he declined to say whether he believes in God,
BRbecause any answer would prompt people to question his agenda. I'm really
BRnot trying to use science to prove that God exists or disprove God exists,
BRhe said.
BR
BRNewberg's experiment consisted of taking brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist
BRmeditators as they sat immersed in contemplation. After giving them time to
BRsink into a deep meditative trance, he injected them with a radioactive dye.
BRPatterns of the dye's residues in the brain were later converted into images.
BR
BRNewberg found that certain areas of the brain were altered during deep
BRmeditation. Predictably, these included areas in the front of the brain that
BRare involved in concentration. But Newberg also found decreased activity in
BRthe parietal lobe, one of the parts of the brain that helps orient a person
BRin three-dimensional space.
BR
BRWhen people have spiritual experiences they feel they become one with the
BRuniverse and lose their sense of self, he said. We think that may be
BRbecause of what is happening in that area -- if you block that area you lose

Re: [CTRL] Nuclear Bomb Tested In Aussie Rainforest?


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Australia has, it seems, always been the place for interesting testing of unusual 
devices.  And a place where one can find many anomolous things and events.  Certainly 
our relationship with the Australians is full of secrets and strange associations.




On Mon, 18 June 2001, William Shannon wrote:


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 BRbomb may have been detonated in a tropical rainforest in northern Queensland
 BRat the height of the Cold War.
 BR
 BRThe documents are reported in the latest edition of New Scientist magazine.
 BR
 BRThey show that Britain, the United States and Australia set off a 50-tonne
 BRbomb in the rainforest at Iron Range in north Queensland in 1963 as part of a
 BRsecret military experiment codenamed Operation Blowdown.
 BR
 BRIts detonation was designed to test how the rainforest would react to such an
 BRimpact.
 BR
 BRBut while the Australian documents describe the blast as testing the effect
 BRof a nuclear explosion, the British government says it was a conventional
 BRbomb designed to simulate an air-detonated nuclear device.
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[CTRL] How it works: Now that the Palestinians are charging Sharon with war crimes, here's the whole picture. Judge for your self.


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Witness to Sabra and Shatila:
why Sharon is a war criminal

15 JUNE 2001
Dr. Ben Alofs
http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-24/opin/witness_to_sabra.htm

I am a Dutch doctor, currently living in north Wales. In the summer
of 1982 I was working as a nurse in West Beirut, which at the time
was being besieged by the Israeli army.

The American negotiator Philip Habib had mediated an agreement,
according to which the Israeli army would refrain from occupying West
Beirut after the Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas had left.

A second fundamental aspect of the agreement was that the United
States would guarantee the security of the remaining Palestinian
civilian population.

The evacuation, supervised by an international peacekeeping force,
went smoothly, and was completed on September 1, much earlier than
September 26, the date that had been agreed on.

The international peacekeeping force left between September 10 and
13. On September 3 the first violation of the Habib agreement took
place when Israeli forces occupied Bir Hassan in the southern suburbs
of Beirut. Before that, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had
stated he wanted the peacekeeping forces out of Beirut.

After the assassination of Bashir Gemayel, the charismatic and
ruthless leader of the Maronite Phalangist allies of Israel, Sharon
ordered the invasion of West Beirut under the pretext of restoration
of 'law and order'.

Contrary to this statement, West Beirut was perfectly quiet at that
moment. The invasion was a serious violation of the Habib agreement.
But, most important, from the start of the occupation of West Beirut,
the Israeli Army, being an occupation force under the Fourth Geneva
Convention and Protocol 1, became responsible for the security of the
civilian population under its control.

Israeli journalists Zeev Schiff and Ehud Yaari describe how Sharon
insisted on sending Phalangist militiamen into the Palestinian
refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila (see Israel's Lebanon War).

To accomplish this, Sharon had held meetings on September 15 with
Elie Hobeika, Fadi Frem and Zahi Bustani (leaders of the militiamen)
as well as with Amin and Pierre Gemayel, the political leaders of the
Phalangist party.

Sharon and the leaders of the Israeli army were very well aware of
the mood of the Phalangists shortly after the murder of their leader
and knew what would happen if they were let into the refugee camps.

When the Tell Al Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp was captured by
Christian militias in the summer of 1976, over 1000 civilians were
slaughtered.

Sharon gave the green light for the Phalangists to enter Sabra and
Shatila. They did so at dusk on September 16.

I was working in the Gaza Hospital in Sabra. Many wounded were
carried into the hospital and our morgue was full within a short
time. Most of the victims suffered bullet wounds, some had been hit
by shrapnel.

On September 17 it became clear that the Kataeb (Phalangists) and/or
the militiamen of Saad Haddad (funded and armed by Israel) were
slaughtering the civilian population. At night the murderers were
assisted by Israeli flares.

A 10-year-old boy was carried into the hospital. He had been shot,
but was alive. He had spent the whole night wounded, lying under the
dead bodies of his parents, brothers and sisters.

I was working with a team of Scandinavian, British, American, Dutch
and German doctors and nurses. We had insisted that the Palestinian
hospital staff flee to the northern part of West Beirut.

On Saturday morning September 18, we were forced by the
Phalangists/Haddad militiamen to abandon our patients and leave Sabra
and Shatila via the main road.

We passed by hundreds of women, children and men who had been rounded
up. We saw bodies in the road and the small alleyways. The militiamen
shouted at us and called us Baader Meinhof, the German terrorist
group.

A Palestinian nurse who thought he would be safe with us, was
identified and taken away behind a wall. A moment later came the
gunshots.

Just before we left the camp I saw an image that will forever be in
my mind: a large mound of red earth with arms and legs sticking out.
Alongside the mound stood an army bulldozer with Hebrew markings.

Just outside the camp we were ordered to take off our hospital
clothing and we were lined up against a wall.

It was at that moment that an Israeli army officer drove up in an
army vehicle. He saved our lives, ordering the militiamen to hand us
over to the Israelis. Alongside the southern and western borders of
the camps we saw Israeli tanks and halftracks.

Eventually, two of us were permitted to go back to the hospital with
a pass written in Hebrew and Arabic.

There certainly was coordination between the Israelis and the
militiamen. And not once did the Israeli military command try to
respond to reports of killings by putting an end to the slaughter.
Groups of civilians coming out of the camps with white flags were
being sent back.

Even on Saturday morning,

Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag


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Of course the issue here is a lot more complex than the origin of the slave trade and 
also as to races in slavery.  But rather it is one of the decimation by imperialism of 
the entire African continent.  Whether that domination is from within or without is 
secondary to the end result.  Slavery has been an abominable practice for all of human 
history, it should be acknowledged as such rather than minimized by trying to blame 
the other guy.  Every race has done so, and continue to do so, but much more 
stealthily these days.



On Mon, 18 June 2001, Kris Millegan wrote:


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 In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the
 
 sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings. When
 
 Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of my African ancestors' struggle for
 
 freedom, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Slavery was an African
 
 institution long before it spread to the South, and there was no abolition
 
 movement to trouble it.

  Gee, I guess there is no history of slaves being held by other races.

 What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the gentleman should read more
 than one book on slavery before baring his ignorance to the world.

 MHO
 Om
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Re: [CTRL] Secrets of Tim McVeigh


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Of course much of this stuff has been known for some time, the sad fact is that no one 
is listening, rather they are focussed on the fact that the murderer McVeigh is dead, 
ong live the Federal Government which caught him and put a lid on all of it.  There is 
so much bullshit surrounding this issue, that it smells a lot like JFK's 
assassination, a lot of disinformation put out by the Government to cloud the issue 
for all time.  The truth will never fully be known by anyone in either instance.




On Mon, 18 June 2001, Schmidt wrote:


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 This was just posted at Sherman Skolnicks website, so as it doesn't seem to have 
been put on list yet I present:

 http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tmsecrets.html

 and check his other site

 http://www.skolnickstv.com

 and my site of course!

 http://leviathan.weblogs.com

 THE SECRETS OF TIMOTHY McVEIGH
 by Sherman H. Skolnick 06/15/01



 Shackled and hand-cuffed to major financial forces, the moguls of the monopoly press 
believe the secrets of Timothy McVeigh ended when he ended. And the stooges, 
masquerading as our leaders, governing nowadays without our consent, are inclined to 
believe that as well.

 What they did not realize is that some of their supposed confidential conversations 
were not that hush-hush. Were overheard and noted, even apparently taped. What did 
they know and not tell us? Information confirmed to them as correct but kept from the 
common people?

 [1] That the American secret political police had McVeigh under video and audio 
scrutiny from at least thirty days prior to the multiple bombings on April 19, 1995, 
of the Alfred P. Murrah Building.

 [2] McVeigh was surveilled in Kansas and Oklahoma in the company of two 
middle-eastern types, partly disguised. As known to the FBI , the American CIA, and 
other espionage agencies, foreign and domestic, his two handlers accompanied him in a 
late model four-wheel drive pick-up truck.

 [3] As these agencies corroborated, McVeigh's supervisors were actually Iraqi 
military officers, from intelligence units, quietly brought into the United States at 
the end of the brief Persian Gulf War, 1991. They were part of more than four 
thousand of the same, supposed defectors, arranged by then President George Herbert 
Walker Bush. The Elder Bush, many do not know, for the decade of the 1980s, was the 
PRIVATE business partner of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi strongman. Together, they 
shared billions and billions of dollars of kick-backs and protection funds, from 
the weak oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. A little known Chicago federal lawsuit 
was brought, in October, 1990, during the lead-up to the shooting war, to keep 
concealed the related bank records showing the clandestine partnership. The case 
involved the records of the Chicago unit of Italy's largest bank, owned in part by 
the Vatican, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, BNL. The Federal Reserve Board wanted the 
House Banking Committee Chairman to agree never to use the records because he refused 
to sign a secrecy oath.

 As the only journalist attending the court hearing, I interviewed some of the 
participants in the back of the courtroom.I asked and received identical answers 
three times, to be certain of the crucial data. They confirmed the Bush-Saddam 
relationship and the monstrous kick-backs from the sheikdoms. Only one publication, a 
populist newspaper, The Spotlight, penetrated the nationwide censorship and ran my 
exclusive story, August 19, 1991. The case was entitled People of the State of 
Illinois ex rel Willis C. Harris, Bank Commissioner vs. the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System and the House Banking Committee, No. 90 C 6863, in the U.S. 
District Court, and later heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Chicago. 
The three-judge federal appeals court panel was dominated by the infamous Chief Judge 
Richard A. Posner [(312) 435-5806] [Visit our website for our story Chief Crook 
Enters Microsoft Case.] Posner and his virtual shadow, federal appeals Judge Frank 
H. Easterbrook [(312) 435-5808], although on the bench, continue to represent 
reportedly the billion dollar stock portfolio of the oil-soaked Rockefeller's 
University of Chicago, were they used to be law professors. [The two judges have 
reportedly failed to disclose the relationship in their mandatory annual Federal 
Financial Disclosure Report.]

 As part of the cover-up, Chief Judge Posner ordered the Bush/Saddam/BNL case removed 
from the courthouse. Later, Posner and his shadow Easterbrook, as a reprisal for my 
reporting the case on my TV Show, unconstitutionally ordered me and a TV program 
associate of mine, Joseph Andeuccetti, barred from all the federal courtrooms in the 
7th Circuit, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. [The U.S. Supreme Court refused a 
remedy to this blatant First Amendment violation.]

 [4] Of the more than four thousand Iraqi military officers brought into the U.S. by 
then

Re: [CTRL] Strange Murders In Arizona...


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I have not failed to notice a marked upswing in this type of thing in recent years, 
and one at least must stop to wonder at what is the impetus for it.  Could the use of 
mind control/disruption be once again at the head of the population control agenda?  
Don't know, but it is interesting to think about.




On Sun, 17 June 2001, M. F. Abernathy wrote:


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 There seem to be so *many* of them. people committing murders because
 'voices' tell them to kill, people who go out and kill others and then
 have absolutely no recollection of it later. What could explain these
 bizarre occurrences...Could it be mind control/hypnosis?
 Here's one example [of the *dozens* that I have in my files on Arizona
 murders] :



 On September 24, 1994, Eugene Doerr called police. He reported waking up
 and finding a dead woman in his bedroom. The nude victim, Karen Bohl,
 was found lying on the floor with several lacerations to her head. A
 nipple had been cut off her breast. She suffered major trauma to her
 vagina and rectal area. Bruises and abrasions were found on her neck and
 other parts of her body. Investigators noticed signs of a major struggle
 inside the apartment, including bloodstains on walls, floors and
 furniture in different rooms. An autopsy later revealed Karen Bohl died
 from multiple blunt force trauma. Eugene Doerr's clothes and most of his
 body were covered in dried blood. When his clothing was removed,
 investigators observed his pelvic area and penis were also saturated
 with dried blood. He had several injuries, including a broken hand, a
 deep laceration to his wrist consistent with a knife wound. A bloody
 steak knife was found on the bathroom sink. A bloodstained brass pipe
 was located on the living room floor. Eugene Doerr told police he had
 gone out drinking at a couple of bars the previous evening, and did not
 remember coming home. When he woke up, he found the victim's body and
 realized he was covered with blood. He claimed he had no idea what
 happened.


 ===

 Eugene Doerr is currently on death row in Arizona. I suspect that there
 are many people in a similar situation -- people who are being
 *controlled* and used to commit murders and other crimes, and then
 discarded afterwards. This matter deserves a great deal of further
 research.

 ===


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Re: [CTRL] Drug war my ass - why we are really in the region.


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Certainly puts a little bit different spin on the matter but one cannot deny that the 
so-called war on drugs is in fact a tool for money laundering and get rich quick 
schemes for the power brokers of this country as well.




On Sat, 16 June 2001, Nurev Ind. wrote:


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 =
 Oil accounts for 35 percent of Colombia's
 exports, with coal making up 7 percent.
 Colombia is Latin America's fifth-largest
 oil exporter, and sends 85 percent of its
 crude to the U.S.
 ___ =
 REUTERS

 Wednesday, 13 June 2001

 Foreign investment up in
   Colombia's oilfields
 

 By C. Bryson Hull

 HOUSTON, Texas -- Foreign oil companies are tapping more of Colombia's
 rich oil and gas fields as the country offers better contractual terms and
 increased security, the nation's ambassador to the United States said on
 Wednesday.

 ``Colombia has understood that our efforts to make investments in the
 energy sector more attractive to you are tied to the well-being of all our
 citizens,'' Ambassador Luis Alberto Moreno told an audience of energy
 executives at a luncheon sponsored by the InterAmerican Chamber of
 Commerce.

 President Andres Pastrana's administration has already increased foreign
 investment by upping the return energy companies get from exploration and
 production activities, Moreno said.

 Previously, foreign operators had to give the government, via Colombian
 state oil firm Ecopetrol, half of their production. The new contracts, 28
 years in length, lower the state's cut to 30 percent. Right now, 80
 foreign energy companies are operating in Colombia, he said.

 Geologically speaking, Colombia is an attractive target for exploration
 and production companies because of its rich and mostly untapped oil and
 gas reserves. Moreno said Colombia has 33 billion barrels of oil
 equivalent and 7 trillion cubic feet of proved reserves in natural gas.

 But the most bedeviling problem for foreign oil companies is maintaining
 security for its workers and operations. Guerrillas fighting in Colombia's
 37-year-old civil war have bombed pipelines and production facilities and
 kidnapped workers, adding significant costs and risks.

 For example, leftist rebels in April kidnapped 27 employees working for
 U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Corp. at a remote oil field. The Cano
 Limon pipeline Occidental operates has been bombed more than 100 times.

 Harken Energy Inc., a Houston-based oil company, in recent months said it
 was considering the ``timing'' of its Colombian operations, and last week
 said it planned to merge all of its foreign assets with
 internationally-focused operator.

 Pastrana has pushed hard to reach peace with the leftist guerrilla groups,
 which he sees -- along with the eradication of the nation's illegal drug
 trade -- as a key to attracting foreign investment to fund infrastructure
 improvements.

 ``There is still work to do. We are working hard to reach a peace
 settlement, a political solution with the main insurgency group, the FARC,
 which will eventually make situations in Colombia easier for private
 investors,'' Moreno said.

 FARC is the acronym formed by the Spanish name of Colombia's largest
 leftist guerrilla group. The leftist groups generally oppose Pastrana's
 plans.

 Pastrana's $7.5 billion Plan Colombia, a broad policy initiative that
 initially focuses on fighting drug production, also includes efforts to
 protect Colombia's energy infrastructure, Moreno said.

 Oil accounts for 35 percent of Colombia's exports, with coal making up 7
 percent. Colombia is Latin America's fifth-largest oil exporter, and sends
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: U.S. to proceed on missile plan

2001-06-18 Thread lassey


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Steve,

Do your good deed. Double your SS contribution and then don't take
your SS allotment. Isn't that what good liberals do, help the poor, feel
their pain?


On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:50:25 -0700 Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Unalaterally abrogating the ABM Treaty will have very negative
 consequences for the arms race. Also, what is a few hundred billion
 dollars
 + when Social Security is going bankrupt and your hero Bush is
 cutting
 taxes for the rich? Deficit spending, that's what it is.

 Steve

 On 18 Jun 01, at 1:45, Aleisha Saba wrote:

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  Surely Steve if we can give billions of dollars to Israel every
 year to
  this tiny little state to defend itself from Jihud which is
 forever, a
  few billion dollars could be spent to protect the USA?
 
  For what would the Israelis do without us - find some other savior?
 
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Re: [CTRL] Killing without Consequences


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This story tells the sad tail of the lack of justice in our justice system these days. 
 The federal police have a heavy hand and apparently can continue to use it 
indiscriminately.  This whole issue makes me sick, and don't forget old trigger finger 
Horiuchi was at Waco too.




On Fri, 15 June 2001, Peat wrote:


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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 6-5, that theBRstate of Idaho could
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 of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge.BRBRHoriuchi shot Mrs. Weaver through the head
 at 200 yards with a 30-06 sniperBRrifle. She had a baby in her
 arms.BRBRAfter Mrs. Weaver was killed, federal agents taunted the surviving
 familyBRmembers.BRBRFederal agents, one must recall, were there to arrest
 Randy Weaver for whatBRthe Washington Post refers to as #8220;relatively minor
 weapons charges.#8221;BRBRIndeed. Weaver was charged with sawing one-half of an
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 word #8220;minor#8221; isBRto lose part of its meaning. (And so we see how the
 mainstream mediaBRinsidiously sanitizes the news, giving perhaps half of the
 truth).BRBRDid I mention that Weaver sawed the hideously evil half-inch off
 the lengthBRof the shotgun at the request of a federal informant in the hire
 of theBRBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms?BRBRWeaver, by the way,
 had failed to appear in court because he had been givenBRthe wrong date for
 his hearing.BRBRThat justifies killing? Apparently it does in the eyes of
 some people, whoBRperhaps cannot imagine any human conduct which should not be
 subjected toBRstate control. In other words, there are some people whose
 notion of libertyBRis being allowed to do what the government tells you to do
 #8211; and if youBRdisobey, you die.BRBRAnd now the state of Idaho has decided
 that it will not exercise its rightBRto prosecute Lon Horiuchi.BRBRKilling
 without consequences.BRBRDid some federal lackey threaten to take away
 Idaho#8217;s highway funds? IsBRthere a cushy federal agency job in 
somebody#8217;s
 future? So far, no one isBRtalking.BRBRThe Washington Times adds that
 Boundary County Prosecutor BrettBRBenson, in a brief statement issued
 yesterday by his office, saidBRAgent Lon T. Horiuchi, a member of the FBI's
 hostage rescue team,BRwould not be tried in an Idaho court for the Aug. 22,
 1992, death ofBRMrs. Weaver. The statement gave no reason for the
 decision.BRBRThis is more than a bit odd. After the state expends no small
 sum of moneyBRto take the case to a federal Court of Appeals, they decide to
 drop theBRcase.BRBRDisturbingly, one of the five judges who would deny
 Idaho the right toBRprosecute the sniper for the killing, Judge Michael Daly
 Hawkins, called theBRruling a #8220;grave disservice#8221; to federal law 
enforcement
 authorities #8220;who knewBRuntil now that if they performed their duties within
 the bounds of reasonBRand without malice they would be protected...and not
 subject to endlessBRjudicial second-guessing.#8221;BRBRWhat exactly is 
#8220;within
 the bounds of reason#8221; about shooting a woman with aBRbaby in the head from 
200
 yards? Are we to believe that the governmentBRtrained this sniper to kill from
 such a distance, and yet he could not tell,BRor did not have sufficient
 optical devices to discern, that his target was aBRwoman with a
 baby?BRBRThe majority opinion from the Ninth Circuit found that the 
sniper#8217;s
 shootingBRwas #8220;more akin to recklessness than reasonable doubt.#8221; Do we 
want
 toBRencourage reckless behavior by men with sniper rifles? If they work for
 theBRgovernment, apparently so.BRBRAs the Washington Times reports of the
 Ruby Ridge killing,BRBRActing under modified rules of engagement by FBI
 supervisors saying theBRsharpshooters #8220;could and should#8221; shoot any 
armed male,
 Mr. Horiuchi wasBRattempting to hit Weaver friend Kevin Harris when he shot
 Mrs. Weaver, 42,BRas she stood behind a cabin door. The same bullet also
 struck Mr. Harris asBRhe ran behind the door.BRBRAh, he couldn#8217;t see what
 was behind the door #8211; that is the excuse.BRBRBut of course, if any private
 citizen were to shoot at

Re: [CTRL] The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag

2001-06-18 Thread Michael Pugliese


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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
By K. Bales, published in '99.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html
As fine and accessible a work of investigative reporting as any of the best
that have appeared over the last decade. Serious, impassioned, and
unflinching, he has told a story that is too often ignored, and that, as he
points out, shames us all.-- The National Post (Canada)
If you read no other book this year, read this one. --The Santa Rosa Press
Democrat

Kevin Bales knows pretty much all there is to know about slavery in the
contemporary world. In Disposable People he parlays a combination of fact
and indignation into a compelling indictment of an aspect of globalism most
of us prefer not to think about. This is a timely and important expose.
Bales has cast a little light into a very dark place.-- The Globe  Mail

An insightful overview [and] a powerful exposé of human tragedy.-- Dallas
Morning News

A numbing indictiment of our blindness to the new forms of slavery
engendered by the global economy.--Kirkus Reviews

A book replete with both fascinating reportage and acute analysis.--Times
Literary Supplement

At its best an empirically informed general discussion of slavery in the
modern world economy. --Times Higher Education Supplement

Bales is to be congratulated for bringing the immensity of the slavery
problem to our attention. News accounts have highlighted the horrors of
child labor, of exploited women in the developing world and abuses of
workers in Latin America, but Bales's work shows how widespread and
multi-faceted are the many problems that lead to treating people as
disposable assets.--Joyce M. Davis, The Boston Book Review

This sober, well-researched, pioneering study . . . is about the first to
explore slavery in its modern international guise. . . . A convincing and
moving book. One can only hope that it will draw some attention to the
terrible phenomenon it describes.--The Financial Times

Blood-chilling facts and clear analysis.--Booklist

A gripping account of the major forms slavery takes around the world today,
introducing enslaved people, their families, and entire social strata
deprived of the most basic rights. . . . Disposable People is an eloquent
plea. . . . Avoiding easy moralism and sensationalism alike, it discloses
the daily soul-destroying brutality of slavery on our planet today.--Paul
Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor

Because of globalization, Bales argues, every consumer is linked to slavery
and the final chapter explains practical ways of helping to bring it to an
end. Begin by buying this book-all proceeds go to the international fight
against slavery.--The Sunday Tribune

The system is chillingly described in Disposable People. . . --New York
Times


Convincing, emotionally wrenching, and freighted with appropriate moral
indignation, Kevin Bales's startling presentation shows us that while the
general public is convinced slavery is a historical phenomenon of the
ancient past . . . it is in actuality a widespread tragedy found worldwide
and on a large scale. This book innovatively and usefully describes the
permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and
age.--Richard Pierre Claude, editor of Human Rights Quarterly
A timely and fascinating book . . . of crucial importance. Few people
realize that the increasing globalization of the economy has led to the use
of coerced labor in many parts of the globe. . . . Bales has traveled widely
and has gathered a great amount of shocking and disturbing
information.--David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery and Abolition, Yale University

A well-researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing exposé of modern-day
slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this
scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do
something about it.--Desmond Tutu


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Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million
people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.
Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in
Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational
corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil,
Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a new
slavery, one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are
not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains
Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable.

Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous
population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's
labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The
revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has
dispossessed poor farmers, making them

Re: [CTRL] Mormon...Mason...What's The Dif'???

2001-06-18 Thread BB


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June, I do not believe you realize the theology, or religion of the
mormon church.

You made one comment which is very wrong in both fact and logic--

Mormonism, while basing some of its tenets on Christ, is a religion
separate from Christianity, just like Christianity is separate from
Judaism, even though it has its roots in Judaism...calling an anti-Mormon
post anti-Christian makes as much sense as saying someone who bashes
the Catholic Church is antisemitic...

It is NOT a religion separate from Christianity, and your analogy of
Catholic   antisemitic  is very much off base - it does not apply.

You must go back and read my post more carefully - I DID NOT
call an anti-Mormon post anti-Christian, WHAT I SAID WAS:


Seems like the author's name of this viscous trash is psychotic,
or anti-Christian, or religion-hater, or something similar.

I used the same sentence structure and format as the original poster.

But now that you bring up the old saw about Mormons not being Christian,
may I simply remind you that the name of their church is:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

So please don't tell the world that Mormonism, while basing some of its
tenets on Christ, is a religion separate from Christianity -

That statement is simply not true, and it is wrong to say so.

The main point of my post IN THE FIRST PLACE,  is--

WHY AN ANTI MORMON POST?  Why bash a religion?
Why out of a clear sky bring this up? What's the motivation?
I covered all these questions, and strangeness of the anti-
Mormon post when I first wrote.  Nobody seems to be
addressing the question of why would someone, unprovoked,
wish to post an anti -ANY RELIGION message in the first place?

Is there NOTHING more important to concern ourselves with
on this group?  Have we NO national or world problems?

Bill

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[CTRL] Fwd: BIOWARFARE AGAINST CROPS The Cuban example


In December 1999 Ralph McGehee apparently due to poor health, advertised
his CIA Files with hope someone would take over.

This informationo here, I wonder about - but noted he does mention this
weather modificatioan program used in Cuba - cloud seeding, but then we
did that over 100 years ago for I believe we used a little more advanced
program than doing rain dances, etc.

Interesting information; however when McGehee was turning against the
CIA in Thailand my brother in law was over there setting up Missile
Bases and the job was so dangerous, he had to commute from England to
Germany, to Thailand, Scotland, etc., as Thor Chief, etc...seems
their paths may have crossed each other, with one exception - my brother
in law was  true blue Soldier - also CIA under Vandenberg and you know
how that is - once you are in, its like the Mafia - you don't get out.

Saba

BIOWARFARE AGAINST CROPS
The Cuban example.
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/biowar.htm#CIABASE
CIABASE on Biowar against Cuba
* CIABASE *
E-mail: Ralph McGehee, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Thursday, 5 February 1998 -
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_
BIO-CHEMICAL WAR ON CUBA
Information from CIABASE files on bio/chem war on Cuba
_
Ralph McGehee, CIABASE
Source: alt.politics.org.cia
*
BIOLOGICAL WAR
chemical war. covert action information bulletin (now covert
action quarterly) 17:2-31; 18:58,59; 21:29,30; 22:16, 35;
25::3,7,26. germ warfare disinformation, 16:60,58; the history
of U.S. bio-chemical killers, 17:5-7; U.S. biological warfare:
the 1981 Cuba dengue epidemic 17:28-31. in afghanistan 17:13,
17,28; in Cuba 17:28-31; in korea 17:6-7; in laos 17:12
Cuba. Details CIA efforts to avoid destroying offensive
biologicals ordered by pres. nixon. also cites article in the
1/9/77 issue of the Washington Post  CIA linked to 71 swine
virus in Cuba. BCAS v12, #4 1980 p11-17
Cuba, 69-70 a U.S. officer passed a vial of african swine
fever virus to a terrorist group. six weeks later Cuba suffered
the first outbreak of swine fever in the western hemisphere; pig
herds were decimated. richelson, j.t. (1985). the U.S.
intelligence community 231
Cuba, 71 anti-Castro group releases anti-swine virus in
Cuba and Cuban gvt forced to kill 500,000 pigs. CIA agents
delivered sealed container that contained virus to Cuban group in
ft. gurlick, panama canal zone. CIA paramilitary center helped
train members in pm ops. minnick, w. (1992). spies and
provacateurs 262
Cuba, 72-82 Cuban officials charge that the CIA infected
Cuban pigs with african swine fever in the early 70s and again in
the early 80s. also the us introduced mosquitos that carried
bleeding dengue into Cuba in 81. hundreds of thousands became ill
and 150 died. the nation 8/27/83 135
Cuba, 78-87 CIA contacted dr. eduardo sagaro gonzalez
while he taking a medical course in mexico in 78. sagaro traveled
to mozambique in 79 where he recruited and close to douglas james
smith, the cos in maputo. CIA wanted info on fidel's health and
info on pesticide reserves to combat the dengue epidemic. CIA
also had asked another agent many questions relating to bio and
chemical war. CIA convinced manufacturer of containers for
fumigating (dengue fever) mosquitoes to make them without a head
of fumigator - rendering them useless. ridenour, r. (1991). back
fire: the CIA's biggest burn 77
Cuba, 79-82 when CIA agent davidson left Cuba he
instructed officers bruce timpton and richard brennan to keep in
touch with agronomist lopez nunez. they asked for samples of
tobacco leaves. ridenour, r. (1991). back fire: the CIA's biggest
burn 78
Cuba, 79 orlando argudin lopez, aka oscar aka rolando was
told by his CIA handler in paris in 79 that CIA was introducing
diseases to affect people and animals. ridenour, r. (1991). back
fire: the CIA's biggest burn 74
Cuba, 81 300,000 people had dengue fever. two years
earlier swine fever devastated the island nation. entire tobacco
crop attacked by mildew; sugar cane had fungus. Cuban double
agents received reporting requirements from CIA re those events.
top secret 0-88 9-11
Cuba, 81 dengue fever type 2 broke out in Cuba 2 months
after CIA query re topic to Cuban double agent maria
santiesteban. she worked with dse for 11 years and recruited her
husband, jose alberto puig aka abelardo. ridenour, r. (1991).
back fire: the CIA's biggest burn 71
Cuba, 93 Cuba said an epidemic affecting eyesight - optic
neuritis - may have been deliberately introduced from abroad.
washington times 5/1/93 a2
Cuba, 95-97 Cuba showed a u.n. meeting against biological
weapons, pictures of a U.S. op to plague Cuba with a crop-eating
pest and called for an international investigation. it is the
first time the biological weapons convention is dealing with a
complaint under a 1991 provision that lets a nation that believes
it has come under biological attack seek an investigation. a u.n.
meeting on Cuba's charges ended inconclusively

[CTRL] Fwd: LBO-Talk December 1999: Fwd: McGehee offers his CIA collection


Wonder who got this collection?Same people who got map showing UFO
secret missile bases in USA - and these same people want to leave the
Americans at the mercy of the Marxists and Communists and Fascists -
first get the guns, and give China Neutron Bomb and lets have American
Holocaust?

Like Pearl Harbor?  USA is 50 miles across Bering Strait from Russia -
but boy makes good traffic route for drugs to Hope, Arkansnas?

Saba

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IMPORTANT CIA FILE NEEDS HOME
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and
must divest all of the holdings of CIABASE including nearly one thousand
books on intelligence, numerous Congressional studies; e.g. the 13 books
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[CTRL] Face on Mars, West

2001-06-18 Thread Steve Wingate


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Some say that we should forget about the Face on Mars. They say
that it has been exposed for what it is -- a pile of rocks and debris. I say
they are wrong -- the Face now requires a closer look.

http://home.pacbell.net/stevew77/Facenew3d_3.jpg

This is a 3d view of the west side of the Face from a point above the
Cydonia 'City' area, based on the newly-released high resolution image.
The 'friendly, humanoid face' would have greeted the possible inhabitants
of this area near shoreline the ancient northern sea of Mars.

Do you see a Face? I see one, definitely.

Steve


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Yes Steve I see your face in what appears to be a pile of your own dung.

Saba

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Re: [CTRL] Mormon...Mason...What's The Dif'???

2001-06-18 Thread BB


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Sorry Aleisha, but I think you are mistaken on this one:

The only thing I do not like about them is this:
They wrote me once to say I descended from Demons and Satan as in their
Archives they claim the Plantagenets and Fitzgeralds descend from same -
like bright morning stars?

The mormon church does not send information to individuals, does not
contact people through the mails.  I  have never heard any of the four
references above, from the mormon church, regarding people descending
from them, and the 2 families named.

At one time there was a REORGANIZED Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (It has since changed names). I am not aware of any of those references
coming from them, either.

Could you possibly still have the letter or materials that were sent?  It would
be interesting to see where they really came from.

Bill

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