[CTRL] Staff Exposed To Lethal Virus
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001252956,00.html The Times - UK http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ College exposes staff to lethal virus TUESDAY JULY 24 2001 BY HELEN STUDD IMPERIAL College, London, renowned as one of Britain's leading research institutions, was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay more than £21,000 costs yesterday for exposing staff to a potentially lethal new virus for which there is no cure. The college's seriously flawed approach to health and safety matters raised a distinct possibility that both hepatitis C and dengue fever could be released into the open while it was attempting to create a hybrid from the two. Neither staff nor members of the public were adequately protected from the possibility that the man-made organism could have escaped, Blackfriars Crown Court in London was told. Scientists, led by Dr John Monjardino, failed to use sealed cabinets while studying the virus and made no emergency plan for dealing with a spillage. Staff at the college, part of London University, were not provided with protective clothing and had to walk through a room used as an office by other university employees in order to dispose of contaminated material. Keith Morton, for the prosecution, said: They were creating a hybrid virus for which no vaccine or treatment exists. Safety measures should have been of a very high standard to protect staff and the general public. They have shown a disregard for basic measures to ensure and monitor safety, as a consequence of which their employees were exposed to a very real risk of infection. Contrary to expected procedures, the Health and Safety Executive was only notified that the research had begun when a researcher inquired about transporting the hybrid virus to Oxford. A subsequent inspection in December 1998 uncovered the potentially hazardous regime. While Judge David Martineau acknowledged that work on finding a vaccine for the two diseases was very important, there could be no excuse for such lapses, he said. Hepatitis C is frequently fatal, while dengue fever causes a severe but non-fatal reaction. Imperial College admitted one count of failing to apply principles of good microbiological practices and principles of good occupational safety and hygiene under the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 1992. It also pleaded guilty to one charge of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The college and its safety advisers were each fined £20,000 in March for exposing the public to an unacceptable risk from the HIV virus. In 1998 it was fined £4,500 for exposing a worker to an animal allergen. --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] : Geomagnetic Storm Alert
-Caveat Lector- Amelia, The HAARP magnetometer is down but there are others in Alaska online which show quite a large disturbance. http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/magchain.cgi Also Current Solar Data (from NOAA) http://www.maj.com/sun/noaa.html This is the CME from the SOHO spacecraft http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/daily_mpg/010816_c3.mpg Steve On 18 Aug 01, at 0:17, Amelia wrote: Maybe Steve would send the link to the graph. Anyone know what HAARP is doing? ~Amelia~ - Original Message - To: SpaceWeather.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:44 PM Subject: Geomagnetic Storm Alert Space Weather News for August 17, 2001 http://www.spaceweather.com An interplanetary shock wave hit Earth's magnetosphere on August 17 at approximately 10:30 UT (3:30 a.m. PDT) and triggered an ongoing geomagnetic storm. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras Friday night and Saturday morning. Visit SpaceWeather.com for details. Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Reports of Torture by Israelis Emerge
-Caveat Lector- Reports of Torture by Israelis Emerge Rights Groups Document Frequent Police Abuses Against Palestinians THE WASHINGTON POST By Lee Hockstader Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, August 18, 2001; Page A01 HUSAN, West Bank -- It was nearly 1 a.m. on a chilly night in January when Israeli soldiers pounded on the Zaul family's door in this scruffy Palestinian village. Open up, it's the army! they shouted. Then they rushed in and grabbed Ibrahim Zaul, 15, a lanky boy growing a wispy mustache. Zaul was taken to an Israeli police station, where for the next eight or nine hours, he said, he was blindfolded and spat upon, cursed and threatened with death, beaten with fists, truncheons and rifle butts until he screamed, doused with freezing water and forced to stand upright with a heavy weight hung excruciatingly from his neck. I would fall to the ground, and whenever I fell, they would kick me in the back, he said in an interview. It did not take long for Zaul to break: Later that morning, he confessed to having thrown stones at Israeli troops and eventually served four months in prison. About a dozen teenagers, all minors and most from Husan or nearby villages south of Jerusalem, have given similar accounts of arrests, beatings and torture by Israeli police in recent months. Their stories, which differ only in the harrowing details, have been recorded by Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations, which find them credible. As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict drags through its bloodiest chapter in a generation, there are signs that fraying discipline and an atmosphere of permissiveness in the ranks of Israeli security forces are resulting in violence and abuse directed at Palestinian civilians. Operating under tense, occasionally lethal conditions in the West Bank and Gaza territories they occupy, and sometimes attacked by Palestinian gunmen and bombers, some Israeli soldiers and police appear to have taken out their frustrations with their fists and gun butts, according to human rights groups and spokesmen for the Israeli army. Most concern from abroad has focused on Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian activists involved in attacks on Israel, or on the Israeli military's retaliatory attacks on Palestinian-controlled areas. But the increase in abusive behavior by the security forces, and the Israeli public's tendency to overlook it, has led some dovish Israelis -- a distinct minority in the current climate -- to warn of what they call a widening mentality of occupation. More broadly, it has raised questions about whether Israel can fulfill its own ambitions to be the Middle East's only democracy with Western-style rights guarantees in the crucible of the bloody conflict between Arabs and Jews. Nearly from its inception at mid-century, Israel has boasted that it alone in the region strives to meet Western human rights standards. It made that argument even while the late Yitzhak Rabin encouraged the army to break their bones when Palestinians staged the first intifada, or uprising, in the late 1980s. And for years the main domestic security service, Shin Bet, regularly tortured Arab detainees. Moreover, Israel's Arab citizens were denied basic rights in housing, employment and land ownership. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that Shin Bet's torture of prisoners was illegal, and the agency says it has halted the practice in most cases. Human rights activists and liberals celebrated the ruling at the time, hailing it as a sign of enlightenment. But now those same advocates say the current conflict is leading Israel to use brutal practices in which beatings and abuse of Palestinians are regarded not only as necessary, but as acceptable. Some Israelis suggest the practices also betray a vein of racism. All colonial wars have the same inner logic, said Uri Avnery, a veteran of the frayed Israeli peace movement. When you are occupiers subjugating another people, you need some moral reason for it, and the reason is that they are an inferior race. You have that mentality here. It's like the old American South: If the brutal sheriff is the hero and the inferior people are seen as becoming uppity, as raping our women, then it's okay to be brutal toward them. It's harder, in fact, not to be brutal. One of the more dramatic examples is an allegation that at least 10 Palestinian teenagers, including Zaul, were tortured into giving confessions at Israel's Gush Etzion police station in the southern West Bank. The experience has embittered some of the youths; one told an Israeli newspaper he was thinking of retaliating against Israel by becoming a suicide bomber. There has been a rash of other recent incidents and allegations involving beatings and abuse by Israeli soldiers and police, often at checkpoints where they regulate the daily movements of tens of thousands of Palestinians. Last week, six Israeli soldiers were arrested on suspicion that they had subjected a
[CTRL] Forgetting that murder is murder
-Caveat Lector- Robert Fisk: When journalists forget that murder is murder 'It's not the words Israelis and Palestinians use about each other that concern me. It's our submission to them' 18 August 2001 What on earth has happened to our reporting of the Middle East? George Orwell would have loved a Reuter's dispatch from the West Bank city of Hebron last Wednesday. Undercover Israeli soldiers, the world's most famous news agency reported, shot dead a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction yesterday in what Palestinians called an assassination. The key phrase, of course, was what Palestinians called an assassination. Any sane reader would conclude immediately that Imad Abu Sneiheh, who was shot in the head, chest, stomach and legs by 10 bullets fired by Israeli agents had been murdered, let alone assassinated. But no. Reuters, like all the big agencies and television companies reporting the tragedy of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, no longer calls murder by its real name. Back in the days of apartheid, no one minced their words when South African death squads gunned down militant opponents. They talked about murder and assassination. They still do when Latin American killers murder their political opponents. I've yet to find a newspaper which shrinks from reporting the murder or at the least assassination of IRA or UDA gangsters in Belfast. But not when the Israelis do the murdering. For when Israelis kill, they do not murder or assassinate, according to Reuters or CNN or the most recent convert to this flabby journalism, the BBC. Israelis perpetrate something which is only called an assassination by Palestinians. When Israelis are involved, our moral compass our ability to report the truth dries up. Over the years, even CNN began to realise that terrorist used about only one set of antagonists was racist as well as biased. When a television reporter used this word about the Palestinian who so wickedly bombed the Jerusalem pizzeria last week, he was roundly attacked by one of his colleagues for falling below journalistic standards. Rightly so. But in reality our reporting is getting worse, not better. Editors around the world are requesting their journalists to be ever softer, ever more mealy mouthed in their reporting of any incident which might upset Israel. Which is why, of course, Israelis are so often reported as being killed by Palestinians while Palestinians, some as young as 10, are killed in clashes clashes coming across as a form of natural disaster like an earthquake or a flood, a tragedy without a culprit. One sure way of spotting Israel's responsibility for a killing is the word crossfire. Mohamed el-Dura, the little Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza last year, became an iconic symbol of the Palestinian intifada. Journalists investigating the boy's death, including The Independent's Jerusalem, correspondent were in no doubt that the bullets which hit him were Israeli (albeit that the soldiers involved may not have seen him). Yet after a bogus Israeli military inquiry denounced in the Knesset by an Israeli member of parliament, all the major Western picture agencies placed captions on the photo for future subscribers. Yes, you've guessed it, the captions said he was killed in crossfire. Wars have always produced their verbal trickeries, their antiseptic phrases and hygienic metaphors, from collateral damage to degrading the enemy. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has produced a unique crop. The Israeli siege of a city has become a closure, the legal border between Israel and the occupied territories has become the seam line, collaborators for the Israelis are co-operators, Israeli-occupied land has become disputed, Jewish settlements built illegally on Arab land have become neighourhoods nice, folksy places which are invariably attacked by Palestinian militants. And when suicide bombers strike terrorists to the Israelis, of course the Palestinians call them martyrs. Oddest of all is Israel's creepy expression for its own extrajudicial murders: targeted killings. If a dark humour exists in any of this dangerous nonsense, I must admit that Israel has found a real cracker in its expression for Palestinians who blow themselves to bits while making bombs: they die, so the Israelis say, from work accidents. But it's not the words Israelis and Palestinians use about each other that concern me. It's our journalistic submission to these words. Just over a week ago, I wrote in The Independent that the BBC had bowed to Israeli diplomatic pressure to drop the word assassination for the murder of Palestinians in favour of Israel's own weird expression, targeted killings. I was subsequently taken to task by Malcolm Downing, the BBC assignments editor who decreed this new usage. I was one-sided,
[CTRL] [PalestineDiary] ZOA on Pro-Zionist Resolution introduced by Cong.Saxton(R-NJ) and Engel(D-NY) (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- News Release The Zionist Organization of America Jacob Libby Goodman ZOA House Phone: - 212-481-1500 4 East 34th St. New York, NY 10016 Fax: 212-481-1515 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: www.zoa.org August 17, 2001 Contact: (212-481-1500) ATTN: News Editor ZOA Applauds Saxton-Engel Resolution NEW YORK: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) announced its support for a recent resolution offered by Congressmen Jim Saxton (R-NJ) and Eliot Engel (D-NY). This important resolution will condemn last week's horrific bombing of a pizza parlor in Central Jerusalem that killed nearly 20 individuals and injured nearly 100 more. The resolution to be introduced when Congress reconvenes in September will provide the Sense of the Congress that the Palestinian Authority must cease all violence, terror and incitement. Moreover, the resolution also states that Israel has the right to defend herself and to use force in the face of these terrorist attacks. ZOA President Morton Klein noted. Arafat and his. coterie of terrorists and thieves must be put on notice by the United States Congress that these senseless acts of violence will not go unpunished. Killed in last week's bombing were six children and Judith Greenbaum, a resident of Passaic, New Jersey. Greenbaum was one of 19 American citizens who have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists in lsrael since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein noted, Jim Saxton and Eliot Engel have once again demonstrated their unwavering support for Israel during these difficult times by authoring this common-sense and important resolution. The ZOA urges all Members of Congress to support this initiative. Home ©2000 Zionist Organization of America Web Design by Resource Team If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls I will write always I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Immigration, Efficiency and Empire
-Caveat Lector- One of the greatest tragedies of American conservatism in the late 20th century was the Rights abandonment of the moral high ground. The moribund nature of the Rights moral arguments became apparent in the 1980s as many intellectuals on the right adopted New Deal thinking and accepted supply-side economics as a way of achieving Leftist goals through conservative means. The rhetoric of liberty was remembered by many within the movement, but for many the goal of maximizing government while minimizing taxes did not seem to be a contradiction at all. The ideal of tinkering with an aggregate efficient economy became fashionable. Liberty was nice, but only because it led to greater aggregate growth and aggregate efficiency. Thus, the managerial state devoted not to liberty, but to a narrowly defined efficiency, was born. It should not surprise us then, when we read commentary from members of the conservative movement who justify unlimited immigration on the grounds that it provides us with cheap labor and greater efficiency. This is the language of the modern mega-state with its planned economies and its disregard for local customs, values, and traditions. If one needs proof of this, one need only look at how other nations have fared. The nations unfortunate enough to resist American hegemony and demands for market democracy around the world are either bribed into compliance through international welfare or are summarily dismissed as rogue nations. The word democracy is a mantra for the neo-conservative right, and all around the world, nations who dare not worship democracy as well will fall victim to the wrath of the American state. Any regard for ancient patterns of government or local tradition are of no concern for the American democracy crowd who will abide no barriers to full adoption of democracy as defined by the official intellectuals in Washington, DC. This state of affairs is significant both at the national and the international levels, and it is very indicative of the change in attitude toward immigration that has taken place on the Right. The anti-communism of traditional conservatives like Russell Kirk and Frank Meyer was based on the premise that communism was destroying the traditional structures and customs of nations around the world. To the traditionals, the United States had a duty to fight communism in order to allow the traditions of the various nations of the world to avoid succumbing to the totalitarianism of communism. In contrast, the goal of modern neo-conservatives (and their Leftist allies) is not to preserve traditional civilizations, but to turn all the world into Western style democracies. The old respect for localism and national uniqueness has been eradicated from the movement, and it manifests itself at the domestic level through our current immigration policies. Since local sovereignty of the worlds foreign cultures is looked at with abhorrence by the American government, why not treat American culture the same way? The language we are being subjected to on the immigration question is the language of national abolition. It is the language of worldwide mass efficiency which treats national differences as mere obstacles to a greater empire of market democracy to be administered by the American mega-state. This is why Americans who refuse to accept the destruction of their culture are dismissed as racist rubes who dont understand the realities of the modern economy. This is why so-called conservative columnists are justifying unlimited immigration on the grounds that it brings us cheaper housekeepers and day care workers. Since such pundits cannot conceive that traditional values are something that might actually rival or even trump a worldwide planned and efficient economy, it is not surprising that they can see little in immigration other than the cheap labor. While the traditionalist Right recognized that local customs could have value and validity both at home and abroad, modern neo-conservatism actively works to destroy these customs. The old Washington paradigm of American society standing only as a peaceful example to the rest of world has been turned on its head, and now the pursuit of a new order demands that American society itself be cheapened while the rest of the world is made to follow the edicts of the American empire. All of this is done under the guise of promoting a free market economy, but free economies cannot just be imposed by one nation on other nations. They are certainly not achieved by mocking the value systems of those nations for not being sufficiently in line with the thinking of some Washington think tank. Nevertheless, this kind of coerced market democracy is taking place around the world, as well as here at home. Real efficiency, as the economist Ludwig Von Mises noted, is always a result of a truly free economy because it allows individuals to make choices
[CTRL] Fwd: [AL-AWDA-News] Israel's version of Ethnic Cleansing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A27984-2001Aug17.html Taking Exception Israel's Version Of 'Ethnic Cleansing' By Arjan El Fassed (Washington Post, August 18, 2001; Page A21) JERUSALEM -- This week on The Post's op-ed page, Michael Kelly [Aug. 15] Charles Krauthammer [Aug. 16] and George F. Will [Aug. 17] advocated what amounts to ethnic cleansing in the Mideast. Using such words as strike and expel and destroy, kill, capture and expel, they seemed to be advocating a sort of final solution to the Palestinian problem. This kind of thinking embarrasses every Jew who believes in a just peace and universal values and norms. But columnists such as these simply make explicit what has long been clear to us in this region. They put into plain words Israel's cruel and discriminatory policy, practiced against Palestinians for the past 50 years. Discrimination against non-Jews is grounded in Israeli laws, regulations and practices, which have created a system similar to apartheid in South Africa -- but different from apartheid in that its goal is not to rule over but to remove or expel the indigenous Palestinian population. Will's column is particularly offensive. He urges Israel not just to kill or capture those terrorists and destroy the Palestinian Authority's military [sic] infrastructure but also to destroy other physical infrastructure. Perhaps Will should be provided with a copy of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which clearly states that such acts are prohibited. Some of them even amount to war crimes. Israel's assassination policy constitutes willful killing, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which stipulates in Article 32: The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or by military agents. Moreover, the U.N. Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions emphasize that extrajudicial executions are never allowed, not even in time of war. Will suggests that all of Jerusalem should be within Israel's borders. In fact, East Jerusalem is occupied territory. According to international law, East Jerusalem is part of the Occupied Territories, from which Israel should withdraw. From 1947 through 1996 the U.N. Security Council issued 21 resolutions regarding Jerusalem. The General Assembly has also issued similar resolutions. These resolutions were issued either because of Israeli policies and measures regarding Jerusalem in particular or Jerusalem in the context of the occupied territories. They emphasize the illegitimacy of Israel's annexation of Jerusalem, based on the illegitimacy of its acquisition of territory by war. Additionally, these resolutions regard the city as an integral part of the occupied territories and emphasize the applicability of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention. There has been a unique degree of international consensus on these resolutions. That Israel has acquired territorial sovereignty in those areas is not sustainable in international law. Conquest, aggressive or defensive does not confer title. Many of the world's nations have expressly and repeatedly declined to recognize Israel's title to Jerusalem. International humanitarian law prohibits confiscation of private property and allows the occupying power to take land but with compensation and only to meet its military needs (The Hague Regulations, 1907). Underlying all such limitations is the idea that the occupying power is not the sovereign in the territory. Consequently, the occupying power may not commit any act that constitutes unilateral annexation of all or part of the occupied territory. The writer is the international public advocacy officer the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights. http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm http://al-awda.org/terminate_israel_aid.htm == To join Al-Awda action committees in your area, please visit the Join Us link at our website http://al-awda.org. == To subscribe to Al-Awda News, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Unless indicated otherwise, all statements represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] Paying poor women to marry (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- WASHINGTON http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=MARRIAGE-08-12-01cat=WW Paying poor women to marry fathers of their babies By JESSICA THOMPSON and ROB HOTAKAINEN McClatchy Newspapers August 12, 2001 WASHINGTON - West Virginia made history with its welfare system last year, becoming the first state to provide a cash bonus as an incentive for marriage: A single mother who marries the biological father of her child gets an extra $100 per month. Wade Horn, President Bush's new assistant secretary for family support, said that Congress should run with the idea. In a recent article, he wrote that government needs to show that it values marriage by rewarding those who choose it. He cited a proposal by the Heritage Foundation to give $5,000 in cash payments - $1,000 in five successive years - to a woman who bears her first child in wedlock and stays married. Critics say the marriage bonus could become a financial onus for poor women, who might be forced to stay in abusive situations just to pay their bills. For some of these women, staying in a marriage means they will lose their lives, said Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., who opposed Horn's confirmation when it was approved last month. The skirmish over Horn's appointment is just the latest evidence that all is not bliss in the world of matrimony. At a time when married couples make up barely half of all American households, supporters of the so-called marriage movement are looking to government for help in propping up the state of marriage, and Horn's record would appear to make him a willing candidate. In his new job in the Department of Health and Human Services, Horn will have authority over federal welfare, childcare, foster care and adoption programs. His supporters, and those who back the marriage movement, say that children who grow up without a father are far more likely to commit crime, have promiscuous sex, drop out of school and commit suicide. His detractors, and those who question government intervention, fear that Horn will discriminate against single-parent, gay parents and people who just don't want to marry. For his part, the former president of the National Fatherhood Initiative said he will do nothing to hurt nontraditional families. Instead, he said, his goal will be to remove any disincentives to marriage that exist in the welfare system. I want as many kids as possible to grow up with a loving father as well as a loving mother, Horn said in an interview. With two incomes you're less likely to be poor, which would help out kids. Like West Virginia, many states have taken marriage matters into their own hands. In Florida, marriage skills courses are an obligatory part of high school curriculums. In Oklahoma, Gov. Frank Keating pledged to cut the state's divorce rate by one-third by 2010. He earmarked $10 million for pro-marriage initiatives. Couples in Arkansas, Louisiana and Arizona can now opt to enter into a covenant marriage, where they pledge to stay married for life and renounce their legal right to a no-fault divorce. Similar legislation has been proposed in more than 20 states. Bush, speaking in June at the National Summit on Fatherhood in Washington, said, We must never forget children need their dads, and when they're absent, something is lost. Bush proposed spending $60 million on grants for faith- and community-based organizations that help unemployed or low-income fathers and their families avoid or leave welfare, along with programs that teach successful parenting. The movement to promote marriage has been a bipartisan effort that did not start with Bush. It had support in the Clinton White House and has gained support among groups such as the Urban League, which has focused on strengthening the role of fathers in black communities. In an article published in June, Horn wrote that Congress should implement incentives for marriage. He wrote that Congress could require states to follow West Virginia's lead in providing marriage bonuses, but a spokeswoman said that he has no plans to make a formal proposal to Congress. He's not going to tell the Congress what they should do, said Pamela Carter, a spokeswoman for Horn's department. She said that Horn wrote the article last year and that in his new job he will not endorse specific things. (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service.) [Forwarded For Information Purposes Only - Not Necessarily Endorsed By The Sender - A.K. Pritchard] -- A.K. Pritchard http://www.ideasign.com/chiliast/ http://rosie.acmecity.com/songfest/189/ To subscribe to The Republican email list - just ask! [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a time in America, a better time, when: We openly and proudly expressed our love of God and country; we did not lock our doors; our streets were safe to walk and drive; we honored our heroes; we cherished our founders, their
[CTRL] The Corsican Bros
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Saturday, August 18, 2001
Cold-blooded Iguana will not be missed
From Lara Marlowe, in Paris
FRANCE: Not many will weep for Mr Francois the Iguana Santoni, the
Corsican nationalist who was gunned down in front of his mistress and father
as he left a village wedding at Monacia-d'Aulléne on the south of the island
early yesterday.
Not Prime Minister Lionel Jospin; his advisers believe Mr Santoni founded
Armata Corsa, which murdered three people and set off 20 bombs in the
past two years. The group had two obsessions: sabotaging Mr Jospin's
Matignon Accords on Corsican autonomy and avenging the murder a year
ago of Mr Santoni's friend Mr Jean-Michel Rossi.
Mr Jean-Guy Talamoni and Mr Charles Pieri won't mourn him. Mr Santoni
called the nationalist leaders he quarrelled with mafiosi in All Accounts
Settled, the book he published with Mr Rossi two months before Mr Rossi
was murdered. The suave Mr Talamoni angered the thuggish Mr Santoni by
replacing him as the French government's chief interlocutor. Mr Santoni and
Mr Pieri were once rival leaders of the political wing of the extremist FLNC-
canal historique. Mr Santoni claimed that Mr Pieri ordered Mr Rossi's
assassination on a mobile phone from his prison cell near Paris.
Least likely to shed a tear for the Iguana is Ms Marie-Helene Mattei, the voluptuous
blonde lawyer who left Mr Santoni for Mr Pieri. She and Mr Talamoni both received
unexploded letter-bombs last month - sent, police su
spected, by Mr Santoni.
Mr Santoni joined the FLNC in 1978, when he was 18. He epitomised the military wing
of nationalists whose civil war with politicals claimed dozens of lives in the
early 1990s. Mr Santoni's ice-cold demeanour, shaved
head and hulking figure earned him the sobriquet Iguana. He had been sentenced to
14 years in prison, of which he served six, and was appealing a four-year sentence for
racketeering. But the death of the most dangerous
opponent of the Matignon Accords does not increase the agreement's chances of
enactment. Le Monde said: Inevitably, it will be suggested . . . that the Jospin
government negotiated in the daytime with representatives wh
o, at night, let killers 'liquidate' their opponents.
The accords were voted by a large majority of the Corsican Assembly on July 28th,
2000. But the left-wing interior minister, Mr Jean-Pierre Chevènement, objected to
provisions for teaching the Corsican language and giving
the island power to adapt French laws. In a severe setback to the agreement, Mr
Chevènement resigned on August 29th, 2000. Yesterday, he said the assassinations of Mr
Rossi and Mr Santoni have blown apart the illusions
upon which the Matignon process are based.
Mr Chevènement believes it was a mistake to negotiate with nationalists without a
prior commitment on their part to renounce violence. These accords are dead, he
said. The government must change its path.
Last February, the Council of State questioned the constitutionality of the accords.
Then President Jacques Chirac - eager to capitalise on French disillusionment with the
island - postponed cabinet discussion of the draf
t law. The National Assembly passed a watered-down agreement in May, which went to the
Senate in June. But the Senate postponed its debate until November, pending the
results of a fact-finding mission.
Violence continues and nationalists are pushing for the liberation of 43 Corsican
political prisoners. Mr Francois Hollande, head of Mr Jospin's socialist party,
argued yesterday that through this process of dialogue .
. . Corsica may find a way out. But the bullet-riddled body lying across the
seat of Mr Santoni's grey BMW seemed to indicate that 20 months of
dialogue have not changed much on the island.
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[CTRL] Cleansing Israel of Foreigners
Divine Incitement 18 August 2001 Palestine Media Center http://www.palestine-pmc.com An Israeli Rabbi notorious for his racism and spite towards Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular is once again being probed for inciting to violence and racism. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, a prominent spiritual leader of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva groups, has been known to publish and advocate calls for violence against Palestinians and Arabs in general. In his latest book, Tipul Shoresh (Root Treatment), Rabbi Ginzburg makes the claim that the land of Israel belongs solely to the Children of Israel. According to a 16 August Haaretz article, the Rabbi states in his book, no goy (non-Jew) has the right to live in the area unless he is a convert or a righteous Gentile. The spiritual leader also calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel (which includes the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the Rabbis mind). He calls for the land to be cleansed of foreigners and urges his followers not to employ or trade with Palestinians. Of course, the Rabbi refers to Palestinians as Arabs, refusing to so much as recognize the existence of a Palestinian People. The Israeli head of the State Prosecutors Offices special tasks division, Talia Sasson has ordered an investigation in the Rabbis latest book. Just two months earlier, a similar investigation was launched against Rabbi Ginzburg because of comments he made to the Jerusalem weekly newspaper Kol Hazman and the daily Maariv. In both commentaries, the Rabbi expressed his support for Baruch Goldsteins massacre of Palestinian worshipers as they prayed in Hebrons Ibrahimi mosque. In the 1994 massacre, Goldstein butchered over 60 Palestinians. The investigation was dropped and no charges were filed. Rabbi Ginzburg had published Baruch Hagever (Baruch the Man) in 1998. The Rabbi, apparently a fan of massacring Palestinians, published a book praising Goldstein and his final act of mass murder. Following the publication of this book, the Rabbi was investigated for inciting to violence and racism. However, the investigation was quickly botched and no charges were filed. Unfortunately, Rabbis of higher spiritual influence have made even far more racist remarks without so much as being questioned, let alone investigated. For example, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas, Israels third largest party has recently stated that Arabs multiply like ants and wished that they would all go to hell. Earlier in the year, he called for the extermination of Arabs altogether. On the other hand, Rabbi Lau, one of Israels Chief Rabbis has justified and blessed the extra-judicial executions carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians. The investigation comes at a time when the United States is threatening to boycott a United Nations Conference on discrimination in which over 50 nations want to discuss the issue of Zionism as a form of racism. Knowing that its absence would undermine the international conference, the United States has threatened to boycott it altogether if the item is discussed, claiming that such a discussion would be anti-Semitic. This is despite the fact that all Arab Peoples in the Middle East are Semitic.
[CTRL] Durban / Egypt
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/547/in2.htm }}Begin Al-Ahram Weekly Online 16 - 22 August 2001 Issue No.547 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map Will there be a deal in Durban? Is there any chance of the Palestinians receiving a fair hearing in Durban? Dina Ezzat looks for an answer A political condemnation of Israeli racist practices against Palestinians under occupation does not seem to be something that Arab countries will be able to extract out of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), which opens in Durban, South Africa on 31 August. However, the Durban Declaration and its Programme of Action are likely to offer some form of recognition for the racist practices to which Palestinians, and other Arabs living under Israeli occupation, are being subjected -- even if the name of Israel is kept out of the books to please the United States and other allies and friends of Tel Aviv. A ten-day preparatory meetings which ended last Friday in Geneva failed to produce an agreement between those countries which want to see Israeli practices highlighted and condemned, and those which do not. While it is true that each side has shown flexibility regarding its original stance, agreement on the Durban approach to the Middle East remains elusive. For their part, Arab and Muslim countries have given up their initial attempt to include in the Durban Declaration wording which entails a direct or indirect equation between Zionism and racism. Meanwhile, Israel, and its supporters -- the US, Canada, Australia and even many European countries -- have moved from their stance of no language at all on the Middle East to a milder position which allows some language providing it does not entail a specific country condemnation. A position paper prepared by Arab and Muslim countries offering a compromise on the bracketed Middle East paragraphs in the Durban Declaration and the Programme of Action was, however, deemed unacceptable by the Israel-US camp. A special meeting over this paper was supposed to take place in Geneva in the presence of representatives of some Arab and Muslim countries and their counterparts from Israel, the US and Belgium, the current chair of the European Union. However, a last-minute change of mind by Israeli and US diplomats stymied this reconciliatory effort. The Geneva-based office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, which is acting as a secretariat for WCAR, is conducting contacts with diplomats of the concerned capitals to try and reach a compromise acceptable to all before the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance opens at the end of this month. Both Israel and the US have vowed to boycott the international event if an overwhelming majority of the participants insist on including in the Durban Declaration and programme of action any condemnation of Israel. Today, the draft declaration and programme of action includes bracketed language which annexes each reference to the Jewish holocaust in Europe with a reference to the massacres perpetrated against Arabs in historic Palestine since 1948. The drafts also includes a reference to Jerusalem as occupied territory, of which the demographic and institutional characteristics should not be changed by Israel. A critical reference to settlement-construction in the occupied territories is also included in the documents. Anti-semitism is not presented as an exclusively anti-Israeli racist practice, since both the draft declaration and programme of action refer to anti- semitism in its Jewish and Arab forms. Racist practices exercised against Palestinians in the wording are currently bracketed without being attributed to Israel. This bracketed language, however, refers to the fact that these practices are taking place not only in Palestinian territory but also in the Golan Heights under foreign occupation. Geneva-based diplomatic sources told Al- Ahram Weekly that compromises were still being worked out. While the US keeps threatening a boycott, it may not be that easy for Washington to stop its delegation from going to Durban at the end of this month, since the American administration is coming under big pressure from American rights groups to participate, commented one source, who asked for his name to be withheld. According to this source, if the Americans are to go then they will have to show more flexibility. Especially that the current Israeli government is not making it very difficult for anyone to see its racist practices, the source said. The compromise currently being negotiated in Geneva involves persuading Arab countries to further tone down the language by the time the Durban conference closes on 7 September. In return, they will be granted their long- standing wish for a conference for the high-contracting parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention concerning the protection of civilians in
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: LSD doctor dies at 83
This Bulletin: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 9:24 AEST BREAKING STORIES LSD doctor dies at 83 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Oscar Janiger, a Hollywood psychiatrist who introduced scores of artists, intellectuals and elite members of America's entertainment community to the psychedelic drug LSD, has died at the age of 83. In the 1950s and early 60s, before LSD was declared illegal, Dr Janiger was one of the first researchers to probe the drug's potential for enhancing intellect and creativity. He incorporated the drug into his therapy and handed it out to an estimated 1,000 volunteers, including novelists Anais Nin and Aldous Huxley and actors Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. Some of his patients also took part in a creativity experiment in which he asked them to paint or draw the same object before taking the LSD and then again one hour after taking it. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-18aug2001-22.htm Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] Fwd: More Woes for IRS AMS
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200109106.shtml 09/10/2001 Rossottis Hires Raise Red Flags By John Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti has been filling plum positions at his agency with employees of his information-technology company and others who steered business to it. Already under fire for holding on to millions of dollars worth of stock in an information-technology company that he used to run and that does substantial business with the IRS, Commissioner of Internal Revenue Charles Rossotti has hired another large stockholder in the same company to advise the agency on computer modernization and technology purchases, Insight has learned. Rossotti just installed his former employee, Fred L. Forman, as executive program adviser for business-systems modernization, a new position that pays $186,300 a year, the same salary Vice President Dick Cheney earns. Forman had joined Fairfax, Va.-based American Management Systems (AMS) in 1971, a year after it was founded by Rossotti and his partners. Before he joined the IRS in April, Forman was executive vice president and participated in key AMS-wide executive-management activities, according to an AMS proxy statement in 2000. Like Rossotti, Forman accumulated millions of dollars worth of stock in AMS. He was listed in the proxy statement as a principal stockholder in the company, with 240,560 outstanding shares of common stock, which now is worth more than $4 million, plus whatever stock options he may hold. And Forman has something else in common with Rossotti: He is not planning to sell his AMS stock, according to the IRS, despite the fact that AMS has had more than $80 million worth of contracts with the IRS since 1990. This has raised further concerns about conflicts of interest because Forman will be involved in the day-to-day operations of IRS computer systems, where AMS does significant business and wants to do even more. Forman will not be approving procurements, but certainly would be involved in discussions that relate to it, IRS spokesman Frank Keith tells Insight. Clearly, he is a significant part of the business-systems modernization management structure. According to his official job description, provided to Insight by the IRS, Formans duties include developing and reviewing plans for quality, feasibility and business value; resolving critical security issues; drafting key reports, presentations and documents for use in budgets; and providing general advice and guidance to the Associate Commissioner [for Business Systems Modernization] on programs and projects. Critics say the hiring of Forman is more evidence that Rossotti is using the power Congress granted him to hire outside experts to benefit his former company. Larry Klayman, chairman of the conservative public-interest legal group Judicial Watch, tells Insight, Its outrageous! We see here a pattern of a continuing crime under the Ethics in Government Act commonly known as feathering ones own nest. Forman says, just as Rossotti did, that he will exclude himself from matters affecting his stock holdings in AMS. In an April letter Forman promised to recuse himself from personally and substantially participating in any project that will have a direct and predictable effect on my information-technology holdings. In addition to AMS, Forman also owns stock in America Online, Lucent Technologies and Siebel Systems. Insight could not ascertain the value of Formans holdings in these and other companies because he obtained an extension on his financial-disclosure forms, IRS ethics official Barry Ratowe tells Insight. He, of course, would be recused on any matters, procurement or otherwise, that deal directly or in any way with AMS because of his stock ownership, says the IRS Keith. Thats a routine prohibition that exists under the government ethics rules for all employees, including Mr. Forman. But Klayman notes that Rossotti was able to get around the rules with a conflict-of-interest waiver issued in the last days of the Clinton administration. As previously reported by Insight, the December 2000 waiver signed by Bill Clintons deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat (see IRS Boss Snagged Clinton Waiver, May 7) allowed Rossotti to join in decisions about the IRS Custodial Accounting Project, which interfaced with an automated financial-management system provided by AMS, even though certain decisions would have a direct and predictable effect on your [Rossottis] financial interest in AMS. Rossottis waiver is getting attention. Judicial Watch recently filed a lawsuit to force the agency to turn over documents related to the decision to grant the midnight waiver after the IRS did not respond to the groups Freedom of Information Act request. The story finally made it into the mainstream media when the Associated Press (AP) reported in August news about
[CTRL] MY NAME IS OLD GLORY
-Caveat Lector- [Unable to display image]' I AM THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I am the flag of the United States of America. My name is Old Glory. I fly atop the world's tallest buildings. I stand watch in America's halls of justice. There I tremble - For injustice is the rule of the day. Judges and lawyers, you shame yourself. You dishonor the Woman that gave you birth. My Honor is in tact. You need to feel the sting of real Justice and cry for your shame. My Children, JAIL4Judges, is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country. My Children shall win, for they stand with me. Truth and Justice is their Battle Cry. Join the call America - I will fly Proudly for your fight. Never give in to injustice. Be silent no longer. I shall Always be here for My Children. I fly majestically over institutions of learning. I stand guard with power in the world. Look up and see me. I stand for Peace, Honor, Truth and Justice. I stand for Freedom. I am confident. I am arrogant. I am proud. When I am flown with my fellow banners, my colors a little truer. I bow to no one! I cringe and tremble at injustice. I will not fail Truth or Justice. I am recognized all over the world. I am saluted, loved, and revered. I am respected - and I am feared. My Children, you who love Truth, Justice, and Honor, Stand up, and I shall lead you to Victory! I have fought in every battle of every war for more than 200 years. I was flown at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Appamatox. I was there at San Juan Hill, the trenches of France, in the Argonne Forest, Anzio, Rome and the beaches of Normandy, Guam, Okinawa, Korea, and KheSan, Saigon, Vietnam know me -- I was there. I led my troops. I was dirty, battleworn and tired, but my soldiers cheered me. I was proud. I have been burned, torn and trampled on the streets of countries I have helped set free. It does not hurt, for I am Invincible. I have been soiled upon, burned, torn and trampled on the streets of my own country. And when it's by those whom I've served in battle - it hurts, but I have overcome. I have slipped the bonds of Earth and stood watch over the uncharted frontiers of space from my vantage point on the moon. I have borne silent witness to all of America's finest hours. But my finest hours are yet to come. JAIL4Judges will bring Justice for the People, and by the People Back to Our Halls of Justice. Once again, Justice will no longer be just words carved in stone on Buildings that house the dishonorable and unjust. For the Tireless effort of these selfless Leaders, I Will let Freedom ring once again across America. I love My Country and All My Children When I am torn into strips and used as bandages for my wounded comrades on the battlefield; When I am flown at half-mast to honor my soldiers; Or when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving parent at the grave of their fallen son or daughter, I am proud. MY NAME IS OLD GLORY LONG MAY I WAVE. DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN LONG MAY I WAVE. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] US Pilots in Colombia Dispel Image
US Pilots in Colombia Dispel Image Friday, August 17, 2001 5:55 p.m. EDT http://news.lycos.com/headlines/World/article.asp?docid=APAP-Colombia-Pilotsd ate=20010817 E-mail or Print this story - - - - - By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Trying to dispel their mercenary image, U.S. contract pilots waging a drug war in Colombia insisted Friday they are just regular pilots doing a job - which happens to involve them getting shot at. Flying crop dusters and helicopters, the American employees of DynCorp, of Reston, Va., have been on the front lines of Washington's campaign to eradicate cocaine- and heroin-producing crops in the South American country. Three Americans have been killed in two crashes since 1997. Other aircraft have been hit by gunfire from rebels and paramilitaries who ``tax'' and protect the coca and poppy crops. The pilots have been earning a reputation as daredevils. A leading Bogota newsmagazine, Semana, last month called the Americans ``mercenarios'' and ``Godless Rambos'' in a cover story. In a public relations counteroffensive, three veteran U.S. pilots and a manager met with reporters in a drab DynCorp briefing room full of maps at Bogota's airport. The conversation was monitored by a U.S. Embassy official, who said the pilots could only be identified by their first names and that they could not be photographed. FROM THE LYCOS NETWORK: Lycos Travel Regional Web Sites Translate Anything Wearing T-shirts or sport shirts, and in their 30s and 40s, they look like any regular group of guys you might find in a working-class area of Dallas or Detroit. And if they make the news, it won't be good news. DynCorp pilots earn upward of $75,000 per year, but volunteers for the job are not plentiful. ``It's tough to find people who are willing to come down here and do this,'' said Bob, a veteran pilot from Texas who wears his hair long and sports a thick mustache. ``It's a little different,'' agreed Mark, another crop-duster pilot with a boyish face. Meanwhile, concern is building in Washington that the Bush administration is quietly increasing America's involvement in the Colombia conflict by using civilian fliers to avoid a direct U.S. military buildup. Americans also fly Colombian army and search-and-rescue helicopters. The U.S. Congress has mandated that up to 300 U.S. contractors and 500 U.S. military personnel are allowed in Colombia. DynCorp acknowledged Friday that it already has 335 employees in the country. But the company and the U.S. Embassy insist the contractor limit is not being broken because only about 100 of the personnel are U.S. citizens, with the rest coming from Peru, Guatemala and other countries. ``This raises a whole new set of issues, like how the United States may be trying to circumvent the contractor cap,'' said Ingrid Vaicius, an analyst with the Center for International Policy in Washington. Critics charge the widespread spraying of herbicide is harming the environment and making people sick. Mark, from his bird's eye perspective, said he has seen farmers burning down the rainforest to replace their fumigated coca fields. Some of the three dozen American pilots - like Thomas, a lanky Texan - are veterans of Vietnam and other conflicts. Others fell into this risky business through classified ads or word-of-mouth with no prior experience in hostile environments. Mark, who crisscrossed the United States working as a crop-duster, said he took the DynCorp job because he could work year-round. If he works two weeks on, he gets two weeks off, and the company flies him home during the break. The pilots carry sidearms on missions and have received survival training. Beyond facing being shot down, the Americans also risk capture by members of the 16,000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who earn millions of dollars in the drug trade. ``We're just concerned that we survive the incidents,'' said Bob. ``We've been hit over solid jungle, we've been shot at by people standing on the banks of small streams, over coca fields and open fields, in almost every segment of the flight.'' Copyright © 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99The Nissan Sentra Everything but compact /FONTA HREF=http://NissanDriven.com;BClick Here!/B/AFONT COLOR=#99 /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/3vsIKC/txlCAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [CTRL] Cleansing Israel of Foreigners
-Caveat Lector- these rabbi are animals religious Jews, not Arabs are the greatest long term danger in Israel today. (for short term danger exploding school buses, pizzerias, and the like fill in nicely) as a secular Jew let me tell what I think it means to be Jewish, what the underlying philosophy of Judaism is supposed to be.(I understand that like the concept of America - the real falls far short of the ideal) The primary purpose of a Jew is to repair the shattered shekkinah - ( the idea is that the feminine nurturing aspect of god was thrown down) rather than get into the metaphor I will simplify, the world is not in perfect shape, and right behavior is behavior that heals the pains of the world. To be a Jew is to repair the nurturing nature of the universe. (Remember all religions/cultures think theirs is the most natural (for instance most tribal peoples name for themselves translates as the people and everyone else is not quite people in the same way) - so when the ancient Hebrews needed a word for right acting people they used the word for their own religious culture - today that word is translated as Jew. Unfortunately people keep mistaking the map for the territory, and forget that it is metaphor. SO when they read Jew , in this case, they no longer understand it to mean right acting person and think it means people of a certain ethnic and or religious background. This has happened in every culture and religion, and is not unique to Judaism, which we are discussing.) This is where the chosen people concept comes into play. This is the most dangerously misunderstood and misused idea in the entire culture, especially by most Jews themselves. It is not Chosen people like master race, or God's favorites, or specially favored even though that's how most people interpret it. (My mother. e.g., is especially prone to this - but I think that comes from taking on the nature of one's enemy and I think this is the case with many who went through the death camps.) Chosen here mean's chosen to do the hard work to repair the broken world. This is a very different meaning. Those who benefit from evil, or just the status quo, will make an enemy of those who try to change things. This is always the case, in all places. People who upset the status quo, revolutionaries and dreamer, are persecuted, and often killed. (that indeed is also the central myth of Christianity - which makes sense as an extension of Abstract Judaism into Historically realist Christianity) SO to be chosen does not mean superior - it means chosen to carry a heavy burden. I know this has been long winded - but here's my point. These virulent ultra religious motherfuckers are not real Jews, by any deep interpretation of the word. I dont care how ornate their yarmulkes , or how little pork they eat. (Likewise Islam is supposed to be a religion of respect and understanding and learning. It was initially envisioned as RETURNING to a purer form of what Judaism was supposed to be, and had strayed from. So these assholes screaming jihad, or praising the murderers of little children, are not true Muslims.) It's sad to me that Judaism is defined in the world by the actions of Israeli militarists, and ultra-religious zealots. They have indeed strayed far from the path. Where is the Judaism of spinoza and einstein? -- -- -- -- -- Planet spins - so do I neo-sufi wisdom NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:42:49 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Cleansing Israel of Foreigners Divine Incitement 18 August 2001 Palestine Media Center http://www.palestine-pmc.com An Israeli Rabbi notorious for his racism and spite towards Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular is once again being probed for inciting to violence and racism. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, a prominent spiritual leader of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva groups, has been known to publish and advocate calls for violence against Palestinians and Arabs in general. In his latest book, Tipul Shoresh (³Root Treatment²), Rabbi Ginzburg makes the claim that the ³land of Israel² belongs solely to the Children of Israel. According to a 16 August Ha¹aretz article, the Rabbi states in his book, ³no goy (non-Jew) has the right to live in the area unless he is a convert or a righteous Gentile². The spiritual leader also calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel (which includes the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the Rabbi¹s mind). He calls for the land to be ³cleansed² of foreigners and urges his followers not to employ or trade with Palestinians. Of course, the Rabbi refers to Palestinians as ³Arabs², refusing to so much as recognize the existence of a Palestinian People. The Israeli head of the State Prosecutor¹s
Re: [CTRL] MY NAME IS OLD GLORY
-Caveat Lector- not to quibble or anything but the worlds tallest building does not fly the American flag -- --- - Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it Elwood P Dowd NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:25:40 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] MY NAME IS OLD GLORY -Caveat Lector- [Unable to display image]' I AM THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I am the flag of the United States of America. My name is Old Glory. I fly atop the world's tallest buildings. I stand watch in America's halls of justice. There I tremble - For injustice is the rule of the day. Judges and lawyers, you shame yourself. You dishonor the Woman that gave you birth. My Honor is in tact. You need to feel the sting of real Justice and cry for your shame. My Children, JAIL4Judges, is the new means of a peaceful revolution in this country. My Children shall win, for they stand with me. Truth and Justice is their Battle Cry. Join the call America - I will fly Proudly for your fight. Never give in to injustice. Be silent no longer. I shall Always be here for My Children. I fly majestically over institutions of learning. I stand guard with power in the world. Look up and see me. I stand for Peace, Honor, Truth and Justice. I stand for Freedom. I am confident. I am arrogant. I am proud. When I am flown with my fellow banners, my colors a little truer. I bow to no one! I cringe and tremble at injustice. I will not fail Truth or Justice. I am recognized all over the world. I am saluted, loved, and revered. I am respected - and I am feared. My Children, you who love Truth, Justice, and Honor, Stand up, and I shall lead you to Victory! I have fought in every battle of every war for more than 200 years. I was flown at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Appamatox. I was there at San Juan Hill, the trenches of France, in the Argonne Forest, Anzio, Rome and the beaches of Normandy, Guam, Okinawa, Korea, and KheSan, Saigon, Vietnam know me -- I was there. I led my troops. I was dirty, battleworn and tired, but my soldiers cheered me. I was proud. I have been burned, torn and trampled on the streets of countries I have helped set free. It does not hurt, for I am Invincible. I have been soiled upon, burned, torn and trampled on the streets of my own country. And when it's by those whom I've served in battle - it hurts, but I have overcome. I have slipped the bonds of Earth and stood watch over the uncharted frontiers of space from my vantage point on the moon. I have borne silent witness to all of America's finest hours. But my finest hours are yet to come. JAIL4Judges will bring Justice for the People, and by the People Back to Our Halls of Justice. Once again, Justice will no longer be just words carved in stone on Buildings that house the dishonorable and unjust. For the Tireless effort of these selfless Leaders, I Will let Freedom ring once again across America. I love My Country and All My Children When I am torn into strips and used as bandages for my wounded comrades on the battlefield; When I am flown at half-mast to honor my soldiers; Or when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving parent at the grave of their fallen son or daughter, I am proud. MY NAME IS OLD GLORY LONG MAY I WAVE. DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN LONG MAY I WAVE. . A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] AF News 18 Aug 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 1136. Cops graduate from second countersniper school by Staff Sgt. Jason Tudor Air Force Print News CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, Ark. -- Eight airmen and three Naval Academy cadets graduated Aug. 16 from the Air Force countersniper course here, ending more than two weeks of physical and mental training. The course, taught by National Guard Sniper School instructors here, is the second of its kind to be taught to airmen. It provides fundamental countersniper techniques for air base defense, including reconnaissance techniques, target distance measurement, and memory and marksmanship skills. The Army accredited National Guard Sniper School, established in 1993, provides a variety of services for the Defense Department, teaching classes across the spectrum of sniper training to all services. The countersniper course is part of a pilot program for the Air Force. Airmen in this class came from the 16th Special Operations Wing's Defender Challenge team, a group of security forces personnel, that was eager to tackle the challenge of the countersniper course. It's good training. We thought we were going to come here and learn how to fire a weapon, but it's so much more than that, said Senior Airman Todd Tomlinson, one of the course graduates. I've learned a lot doing this and more about air base ground defense. Instructors of the course bring together a diverse background of shooting specialties from Air Force, Army and Marine Corps backgrounds. The entire school cadre emphasized the countersniper aspect of the course -- that is, the sniper's role in air base defense -- which is not a traditional Army or Marine sniper's job. Instructor Chief Master Sgt. Mark Hughes emphasized the sense of urgency every student needs to have during the instruction. Stress is the biggest challenge, but most of that is self-induced, Hughes said. We've had students quit because it was just too much on them. Hughes also emphasized the relationship between the interchangeable positions of shooter and the spotter. Here they are equal, but usually the spotter is the most experienced, he said. The guy on the gun doesn't do anything unless the spotter tells him to. The most important part of these guys is the spotter because if he misses the first round, it's his job to make him hit on the second round. The students qualified shooting Army M-24 rifles on targets between 300 and 1,000 meters away. They also qualified firing the Barrett .50 caliber rifle, which can reach targets at ranges of more than 2,000 meters. They were required to fire in day and night settings. In addition, students were required to score 70 percent or higher on the Army physical fitness test, memory tests and shooting scores to pass. 1141. Iraqi forces threaten coalition aircraft STUTTGART-VAIHINGEN, Germany (AFPN) -- Iraqi forces threatened Operation Northern Watch coalition aircraft Aug. 17 by firing anti-aircraft artillery from sites north of Mosul. Coalition aircraft were also targeted by Iraqi radar while conducting routine enforcement of the northern no-fly zone. Coalition aircraft responded to the Iraqi attacks by delivering ordnance on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system. All coalition aircraft departed the area safely. Coalition aircraft have been enforcing the northern no-fly zone for more than 10 years. Officials at U.S. European Command here said that since Dec. 28, 1998, Saddam Hussein has opted to challenge this enforcement by firing at coalition aircraft with surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery and by targeting them with radar. Operation Northern Watch aircraft respond in self-defense to these threats, while continuing to enforce the no-fly zone, officials said. 1134. Test Pilot School application deadline draws near by Leigh Anne Bierstine Air Force Flight Test Center Public Affairs EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- The deadline is drawing near for people planning on applying for a position at the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School here. Training at the school lasts 48 weeks, and recent graduates walked away with 1,200 sorties in more than 38 different types of U.S. and foreign fighter, trainer and transport aircraft. For those interested in the daily and often hourly challenges of the flight test world, the school's selection board is accepting applications for classes beginning in July 2002 and January 2003. Applications must reach the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, no later than Sept. 21 to meet the next selection board convening Nov. 5 through 9. Both experienced pilots and engineers are eligible to apply for what some call the ride of their lives -- training in the latest methods of flight testing and systems evaluation. Depending on their background, students graduate from either the experimental test pilot course or the experimental test
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] IMF rules both provide for and forbid gold loans and swaps
9:48a ET Saturday, August 18, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA consultant Michael Bolser has found that the rules of the International Monetary Fund in regard to gold are contradictory, putting the IMF in the gold lending business even as they forbid that business to the IMF. His memo to a financial journalist follows. The chart contained in the memo cannot be reproduced here, but it should be posted soon at www.GATA.org. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. * * * By Michael Bolser [EMAIL PROTECTED] August 17, 2001 To: A major financial news service journalist familiar with GATA, Washington, DC RE: A Depleted SDR Account is a Depleted Gold Account, and More on Gold Swaps and Gold Loans in the International Monetary Fund As James Turk has reported in his essay, The Mystery of the Disappearing SDRs, SDRs and SDR Certificates represent claims against U.S. gold reserves. Reading further in the operative International Monetary Fund document, Classification of Financial Assets contained in the IMF Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual at Section 123, Page 37, one finds that SDR holdings represent unconditional rights to obtain foreign exchange or other reserve assets from other IMF members. Combine this with Turk's observation in Section 121 that monetary gold and SDRs issued by the IMF are financial assets for which there are no corresponding financial liabilities. We can now confidently state that the depleted SDR account of the U.S. Treasury Department's Exchange Stabilization Fund, shown below in the associated chart, represents a depleted gold account, since the new owners of these transferred ESF SDRs have a valid claim against ESF gold. [CHART OMITTED] Why has the United States sold its gold? Why are the Federal Reserve and Treasury denying the obvious? Also in the IMF Classification of Financial Assets document cited above, I find much more about the gold swaps about which Federal Reserve lawyer Virgil Mattingly says the Federal Open Market Committee transcribers misquoted him. Indeed, there are nine substantial paragraphs covering gold swaps (154, 155), gold loans, collateralization of gold loans, and gold as repos, etc. (156, 157,159,160,161,163, and 164). Referring briefly to the gold swap example shown in 161: Consequently, for repos and gold swaps, four financial transactions would be recorded: a loan (payable/receivable) with a commensurate change in currency and deposits, plus a transaction in the asset, coupled with the recognition of the obligation (right) to return (receive) the asset at the termination of the repo's life as an entry in accounts receivable/payable. For security lending and gold loans, a transaction in the underlying asset would be recorded, coupled with the recognition of the obligation (right) to return (receive) the underlying asset at the termination of the borrower's (lender's) life as an entry in the accounts receivable/payable. The above procedural excerpt stands in direct conflict with the IMF policy listed below regarding gold operations, from Appendix I: Role of Gold in the IMF, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/pam/pam45/APPENDIX/API.htm. Gold is reported as an asset in the IMF's balance sheet and financial statements but is not used in its regular operations and transactions. The IMF does not have the authority to buy gold; it may only accept payments from a member in gold at a price agreed upon for each operation or transaction on the basis of market prices, with Executive Board approval by a majority of 85 percent of the total voting power. With the same majority, the IMF may decide to sell gold at market prices (see Box 4) or to 'restitute' gold. 75 In any operation or transaction in gold, the IMF must avoid managing its price or establishing a fixed price in the gold market. Furthermore, the IMF may not engage in such gold transactions as loans, leases, or swaps and may not use gold as collateral. 76 We now know the ESF's gold account is substantially encumbered by equivalent gold sales (SDRs) and we also know that the IMF has rules for engaging in varied gold operations -- operations it formally denies. Empty denials by the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the IMF should raise journalistic red flags. Which of the above IMF gold procedures is valid? The one that sets out the IMF rules for gold swaps, etc., or the one that forbids the gold activity? -END- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] 17 August 2001 Federalist Edition #01-33
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 17 August 2001 Federalist Edition #01-33 Friday Digest *Retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF (much easier reading than e-mail text!) Link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To purchase a book from the Patriot's Library, link to -- http://www.federalist.com/books.asp *To support or sponsor an edition of The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Foundation Federalist Perspective __O__ PUBLISHER'S NOTE Reminder Many subscribers prefer The Federalist in an alternate format -- HTML or PDF. Those formats are now available by e-mail -- you no longer have to link to our site to obtain them. If you want to continue receiving each edition as e-mail text, NO action is necessary. If you want to change your e-mail format from text to printer-friendly HTML or Adobe PDF (as an attachment), click the following link and select the format you prefer. Visit -- http://www.federalist.com/subscribe/myformat.asp?[EMAIL PROTECTED] __O__ THE FOUNDATION You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! --John Adams __O__ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, it's the season of compromising positions -- with the two major international peace processes, in Israel and Ireland, failing. In Israel, Palestinian suicide bombers struck again this week, with an especially vicious terrorist murder-explosion in Jerusalem, directed specifically at families with young children in a Sbarro Italian cafeteria, causing 15 deaths. Another bombing on Sunday wounded 15 Israelis. Israel responded with brief armored incursions to destroy Palestinian security assets, leaving tanks positioned outside West Bank towns Bethlehem, Beit Sahur and Beit Jallah. Undercover agents also shot and killed a known terrorist planner in Hebron. President Bush and administration members spoke softly, and drew no clear moral distinctions between intentional attacks on innocent noncombatants and defense against murderers. My only point is the cycle of violence has got to end in order for any peace process to begin, Mr. Bush commented on the continuing attacks and counterattacks between Israeli defenders and Palestinian instigators. (Shades of Bush(41).) Secretary of State Colin Powell also reduced Israel's efforts to defend itself from Palestinian terror with a soliloquy on the cycle of violence, a phrase introduce into the lexicon of international realtions by Bill Clinton's principle architect of appeasement, Dennis Ross. National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack went further to suggest Israel is responsible for the attacks: Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory are provocative and undermine efforts to create an atmosphere of calm. Security analyst Frank J. Gaffney observed of the deteriorating situation, Worse yet, if the Bush Administration persists in treating with moral equivalence terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and Israel's generally restrained defensive responses to such actions -- the ineluctable effect of equally condemning these two very different things by characterizing them as part of 'the cycle of violence' -- it will convey a portentous impression: The United States is more interested in being an 'honest broker' than Israel's ally. We note that peace processes necessarily involve compromising positions, as they are applications of internationalism through pressured negotiations. The phrase peace process is a term of art coined by diplo-babblers to prejudice evaluations of the actual accomplishments from negotiations. We further note that the term for the only 100% guaranteed peace process is far simpler -- war. Only after a decisive victory, and wisely shepherded surrender conditions, is true and lasting peace achieved. Peace, like liberty, can only be attained through acts of self-reliance, with real peace coming only once former enemies themselves decide to quit warring. International pressure cannot suffice -- and indeed invariably makes enmities worse. To admit reality, Israel is in a low-grade state of war with the Palestinians, and the Middle East situation is assuredly volatile these days. Moreover, as we alerted readers not long ago, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has moved some troops toward the Jordanian border, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has announced he might send soldiers from his 3rd Armored Division into the Sinai Peninsula, in violation of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Memo to Secretary of State Colin Powell: You might want to brush off your copy of the Powell Doctrine and revisit it with the Israelis. You wrote, Have a clear political
[CTRL] Is This Leadership?
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is This Leadership? By Chuck Baldwin August 17, 2001 It was only a few months ago when virtually every conservative Christian leader in the country was quick to condemn embryonic stem cell research. However, that seems like ancient history now. Since President Bush decided to use taxpayer dollars to fund medical research for existing lines of embryonic stem cells, those same conservative Christian leaders have suddenly become outspoken proponents for a procedure they once found reprehensible. What happened? Did the principle change, or did our leaders change? If public funding for embryonic stem cell research was wrong six months ago, how can it now be right? Either it is morally wrong to use human baby parts for medical research, or it is not. If it is not wrong today, it was not wrong six months ago. If it was wrong six months ago, however, it is still wrong today. Either our illustrious leaders are confused, or I am. Thankfully, not every pro-lifer surrendered his principles in order to ingratiate himself with this unprincipled Republican White House. Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said, The trade-off he [Bush] has announced is morally unacceptable. It allows our nation's research enterprise to cultivate a disrespect for human life. Amen. Congressman Bob Barr issued a statement saying, I am disappointed with the President's decision to initiate federally funded embryonic stem cell research. It is morally and ethically wrong, and I will continue to oppose it. Thank you, Congressman Barr. At least there is one elected representative in the Republican Party that is not willing to compromise the sanctity of life issue. The burning question, however, is where are the evangelical Christian leaders? Most either have joined Bush in surrendering the issue or have kept silent on the subject. In either case, they have given aid and comfort to the abortion culture. When Bill Clinton was caught in acts of immorality, he selected liberal ministers to serve as spiritual advisors to assist his recovery. Is there anyone who does not know that what those advisors actually did was to provide cover for him? So, how is that different from what these conservative ministers are now doing with Bush? Are they not providing cover for a morally egregious decision? Are they not, therefore, enabling a compromising president to abandon a firmly held conservative principle? Again, I ask, is this leadership? Frankly, I am ashamed of this president for making such a morally deficient decision and I am ashamed of the conservative Christian leaders that have voiced their approbation for such a morally deficient decision. It seems to me that if we had more prophets like Nathan we might have more kings like David. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Gun Owners Likelier to Distrust Government
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gun Owners Likelier to Distrust Government NewsMax.com Wires Friday, Aug. 17, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University study indicates that people who distrust the government own guns in greater proportion than those who expressed trust in at least one branch. The study, published in the current issue of Social Science Quarterly, also found government mistrust is widespread, not just the characteristic of a small minority. Associate sociology professors Robert Jiobu and Timothy Curry studied data assembled for the General Social Survey. The material was collected between 1988 and 1996 and included interviews with 6,576 people. We found that these people who don't have confidence in the government are more likely to own guns, Jiobu said. Rick Pearson, president of the Illinois State Rifle Association, said he was not surprised by the study results because the government deserves citizens' distrust. I would say this is probably historical in nature because a lot of time the federal government, as well as other governments, have done things to gun owners that they haven't liked after they said they wouldn't do it. Pearson cited New York as an example. They said if you register your firearms, they wouldn't come and get them and then they came and got them. The same is true of California. The problem is that though no matter what happens, you wind up with some bureaucrat who twists the intent of the law. Nearly half of those surveyed, 43.9 percent, said they had hardly any confidence in one or more branches of the federal government. Of those who said they had a great deal of faith in the government, only 23 percent owned a firearm, while 37 percent of those who doubted the government owned one. The researchers said the percentages held firm even making allowances for such factors as political ideology, gender, age, education, general fear of crime and whether the respondents had been crime victims the preceding year. The results also held true through the three presidential administrations spanned. Curry suggested firearms give those who distrust government a sense of empowerment. For some people, guns represent freedom and the ability to protect themselves, Curry said. Guns are seen as a little bit of protection in an otherwise chaotic world. Those who own guns and distrust the government may fear the government will take away their rights or that it will not be able to protect them. Jiobu said efforts to control weapons sales may have the unintended effect of encouraging some to stockpile weapons. We have to understand that for many people, the gun is an icon for evil and violence, while for others that same gun is an icon for democracy and personal empowerment, Curry said. Until that is understood, neither side of the debate will be able to understand how the other side can be so blind to the 'truth.' *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AF News 17 Aug 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 1131. F-22 gets green light for low-rate production by Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Defense Acquisition Board approved the F-22 Raptor to enter low-rate initial production, Pentagon officials announced Aug. 15. The decision means Lockheed-Martin will build 10 F-22s using fiscal 2001 funds, and 13 in fiscal 2002. There are currently eight F-22s already flying. The program has met all its exit criteria for entering into low-rate production and is performing to its design goals, said Pete Aldridge, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. The acquisition board unanimously approved low-rate production, Aldridge said. Low-rate production will run through fiscal 2005, then shift into high-rate production. The program will provide air dominance through the next 20 years, Aldridge said. The board's decision requires the Defense Department and the Air Force to seek a lift in the F-22's current $37.6 billion budget cap. The production budget would rise to $45 billion. Research, development and testing of the aircraft cost about $18 billion, raising the total cost to about $63 billion. The acquisition board also cut the total number of F-22s to be produced from 331 to 295. The board reached this decision because of a difference in the cost estimates between the Air Force and the independent Cost Analysis Improvement Group. The Air Force estimated greater savings than the independent group once the F-22 enters high-rate production, Aldridge said. The board's solution was to accept the Air Force program cost estimates, but the independent group's estimate of the number of aircraft the money will buy. The decision gives the Air Force incentive to achieve the savings it forecasted. If the Air Force can, in fact, get the cost estimate at their level, they can buy more airplanes, Aldridge said. Low-rate production is set to rise to 30 aircraft in fiscal 2005. High-rate production calls for 90 aircraft per year beginning in fiscal 2006. Aldridge said the plan can change as circumstances dictate. Anything can happen next year, he said. It depends on what happens to the budget, what happens to the production, what happens in the operational test and evaluation. We address these programs every year, but we have to layout a plan. Right now, this is our plan. 1128. Air Force helps fight Western fires PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFPN) -- An Air Force Reserve unit here and Air National Guard units in California and Wyoming have sent specially equipped aircraft and support people to help fight wildfires in the western United States. Specially configured C-130 Hercules from the 302nd Airlift Wing here will be staging out of Boise, Idaho, and C-130s from the 153rd AW in Wyoming and the 146th AW in California were activated Aug. 13, and are currently staging out of Klamath Falls, Ore. The C-130s, equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, can release 3,000 gallons of water or 27,500 pounds of fire retardant per drop. 1130. Error, malfunction cause Predator accident LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Officials investigating the March 30 crash of an RQ-1L Predator unmanned aerial vehicle have determined the accident resulted from operator error. The Accident Investigation Board report released Aug. 16 by Air Combat Command said the Predator experienced an icing problem and the pilot was unable to maintain control of the aircraft. The Predator, which belonged to the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., was supporting the Kosovo Stabilization Force. There were no injuries or fatalities, but the Predator was destroyed upon impact. The pilot recognized the icing problem, the report said, but failed to immediately execute critical checklist steps for pitot static system failure. The pitot static system uses air and static pressure to determine the aircraft's altitude and airspeed. There is also substantial evidence that nonuse of the pitot static heating system was a substantially contributing factor in this mishap. (Courtesy of ACC News Service) 1129. Captains may make major sooner by Staff Sgt. Amy Parr Air Force Print News WASHINGTON -- Captains wanting a promotion to major may not have to wait as long anymore. A proposal recently submitted to Congress would modify the grade-ceiling table in Title 10 U.S.C. 523, calling for a 7-percent permanent grade relief to majors. This table provides the authorized strengths of commissioned officers on active duty in the grades of major, lieutenant colonel and colonel. By increasing the authorized Air Force major grade ceiling by 7 percent, more officers at any one time will wear the rank of major than previously allowed by law, said Lt. Col. Jan Middleton, Air Force promotion, evaluation and separation policy chief at the
[CTRL] The Pledge of Allegiance
-Caveat Lector- The Pledge of Allegiance by Jello Biafra I pledge defiance to the flag Of the United Snakes of Captivity And to the republic for which it stands I dip it in kerosene and stick it up the ass of you know who...and light it! One nation under God - or else. One nation under psychopathic Pentagon gangsters whose idea of national security is concentration camps for people who dare to use the drugs that the CIA brings in and the government supplies themselves. One nation under Wall Street - If the cops and the government are all crooks, then I might as well be one too. One nation of sedated tabloid robots who actually believe what they see on t.v., even on MTV, and when asked what they think about it they reply I don't care. One nation drowning in its own garbage Indivisible from the Fall of Rome With liberty and justice for all - who can afford it. Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Old glory. The yankee swastika. Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Whenever I see you, I see red! Whenever I see you, I see red! If the communist countries can do it, why can't we? Throw the bastards out and try some real democracy. Run not by rich people. Not by military people. Not by son's of Senator's sons of Senator's sons of Senator's sons Have you noticed how the more they give people back their freedom over there, the more they take it away over here? So now, before it's too late to even talk about stuff like this Be a patriot, a good patriot The one that cares more about their country than forcing people to worship a flag. And take the swastika The yankee swastika And let it burn burn burn baby burn! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SNET: Y E S ! (fwd)
visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -> SNETNEWS Mailing List From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carol Blackmon) SOMETHING WE ALL NEED ... please keep my name confidential. Subject: Launch of New Company An Internet Publication For Real Americans Home News Business Article Business News At The Ranch Thwarting the Alphabet Clubs (or, How To Keep Private Information Private!) By Wayne Hicks 08.16.01 "Armed agents of the City Zoning Commission yesterday raided the home and business offices of a prominent local businessman, confiscating computers in their search for evidence of possible bad light switches in the buildings. The businessman, who has not yet been identified by authorities, protested the seizure of his computers, saying that files stored thereon were not related to building maintenance, and should not be subject to seizure under the terms of the warrant, which listed only 'evidence of poor maintenance or health and safety hazards' as the objects of the search. "In a related turn of events today, the Internal Revenue Service, acting on information forwarded by the Zoning Commission, has filed Federal Charges against the businessman, based on files relating to 'the illegality of the income tax' found on his computer. An arrest on these new charges is expected at any time." Sound familiar? Think about Nick Jesson, Dick Simkanin, and many others whose homes and offices have been raided by various alphabet groups that allegedly work for our government. These people have been raided, often under color of some innocuous inspection, and had computers seized despite the fact that the information they contain is unrelated to the actual object of the search. The only possible reason for such seizures is that the Alphabet Clubs have learned to work together... and sharing information, no matter how illegally it was gained, enables them to cloak their nefarious activities from the eyes of the sleeping public for a short time longer. You could be next. If your computer is seized, what information might be found on it that could be construed by a zealous agent or prosecutor to have criminal connotations? Think about it... there have been cases where the simple fact of owning a beeper was sufficient to send an innocent man to prison as a drug dealer. What files might you have that, although you know they are meaningless or harmless, might be interpreted as having implications of "anti-government sentiments"? While that may not yet be a crime, it has been used successfully lately to justify wiretaps, surveillance, and even repeated questioning of people who are merely trying to go about their daily lives. What about your computer? A new company, Folder Safe, Inc., of Carson City, Nevada, can help you prevent anyone from reading your personal or business files without your express authorization... even if they have a keystroke-tracking device attached to your computer to capture your encryption keys and passwords. Here's how it works... you've just completed your latest article on the Evils of Big Brother, and you're ready to shut it down. Simply insert your Folder Safe Key CD into the CD-ROM of your computer, do a "save as encrypted" from the file menu or drag the file into the Folder Safe icon on your desktop, and it is instantly encrypted with a level of security higher than you can imagine possible. When you want to read or edit the file, you simply insert the Folder Safe Key CD again, and open your encrypted file or drag your file back onto the Folder Safe icon, and the file will be automatically decrypted. Then put it back in again when you're finished. If someone else tries to open that file without your Key CD in the drive... all they will see is gibberish! Listen! What's that noise, sounds like a window breaking, you can hear men shouting, people are screaming... you're being raided! Pop the Key CD out, and as the armed agents rush through your office door, hold the CD firmly between your thumb and fingers... and snap it in half. Let 'em have the computer. They can't read a thing on it. The Folder Safe system works by storing a randomly generated encryption key on a CD, an encryption key that takes up almost all of the CD's data storage capacity... At 630 MB, it is the largest encryption key ever known, and is impossible to duplicate. There is no chance that your key will ever be determined, or hacked, or recreated by randomly trying strings of numbers and data... it's just too big. The possible combinations of digital information from which it is derived are too many; it would probably be easier, and take less time, to count all of the stars one by one. If you do ever get your computer back, they will probably have wiped it clean of your files... but
[CTRL] International negotiations on germ warfare break down
-Caveat Lector- Ha! Talk about unenforceable. Every country that can afford a petri dish is doing this and would continue to do so no matter what agreements are reached. each only wants to stop the other from doing it, never themselves.. Note the comment about the US protecting our 'biotech' industry, too. Rather telling about the connection between it and germ warfare. Wonder who the guinea oigs could be for this. ~Amelia~ International negotiations on germ warfare break down By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press GENEVA (August 18, 2001 10:38 a.m. EDT ) - Negotiators from 60 countries labored late into the night to salvage six years of work to create a way to enforce a ban on germ warfare. But negotiations hit an impasse early Saturday over assigning blame for the breakdown, diplomats said. Cuba and Iran led nonaligned nations in seeking to fix blame on the United States, which shocked fellow negotiators at the start of the four-week round of talks by declaring a draft proposal unacceptable and refusing to negotiate further on it. The Western group of nations refused to blame the United States in a final report on the talks. Unfortunately, because of this issue, it was impossible to agree on the whole of the report, said Tibor Toth, the Hungarian diplomat who has been chairing the negotiations since they began in January 1995. We were very, very close. Diplomats said the focus now shifts to this fall's U.N. General Assembly. Parts of the draft protocol will be preserved for possible negotiations in the future, Toth said. Negotiators have been trying to put teeth into the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, a Cold War-era treaty that lacks a mechanism to enforce the ban - in part because no one seriously thought any country would try to use germ warfare. Iraq's germ warfare arsenal in the 1991 Gulf War prompted nations to begin talks on creating a way to enforce the ban. Most of the countries had accepted the compromise text put forward by Toth. But six key nations - China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Cuba and Iran - said there would have to be some modifications. Those negotiations never got under way. At the start of this round of talks, the United States abruptly rejected the 210-page draft protocol that was six years in the making, saying it would be ineffective in stopping countries from developing biological weapons. The United States said the proposal, which includes limited inspections of biotech industries and defense facilities, would pose risks to U.S. national security and to commercial secrets of the U.S. biotech industry, the largest in world. Washington promised to come up with other ideas on how to enforce the ban on germ warfare, and many delegates said they were awaiting those proposals. Meanwhile, negotiators got stuck writing the report on the talks, usually a routine process - an indication of how deeply divided they remain. The nonaligned nations dropped their demand that blame be stated in the report itself, but insisted that the national speeches delivered during the session - including the U.S. denunciation of the compromise - be attached to the report. The next step is liable to be the U.N. General Assembly meeting this fall, said Toth. The assembly has routinely passed a resolution supporting efforts to enforce the ban on biological weapons. It will be a continuation of this discussion in a different forum. The U.N. General Assembly is not a negotiating forum, he said. Toth said he has had no indication that any countries are considering a move recommended by some disarmament campaigners who have urged the world to bypass the United States and create an enforcement mechanism as they did last month with an agreement to fight global warming after Washington withdrew. Another chance for advancement comes in November, when the 143 nations that have ratified the accord gather in Geneva to review what has happened over the past five years, Toth said. Hopefully there will have to be some ideas how to overcome an impasse, because there is a certain impasse - it is absolutely clear, he said. News Copyright © 2001 Interest!ALERT All rights reserved. Copyright © 1996-2000 Nando Interest!ALERT Inc. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Reports of torture by Israelis emerge
-Caveat Lector- Maybe the ADL should list them as a Hate Group. This could give them some new material so they do not have to continue to show the Texas dragging death commercial every blessed day. So we have torture and assassination and kidnapping and bulldozing and it is at least OK if not sanctioned? But if others use only language that is suspect, they are the Hate Groups??? I am beginning to understand how it works and think I may have been rather foolish/idealistic to think we should all play by the same rules.~Amelia~ Reports of torture by Israelis emerge Rights groups document police abuses against Palestinians Palestinian women walk by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank near the Kalandia refugee camp. Israel has recently tightened security in the West Bank, disrupting normal life for thousands of Palestinians. By Lee Hockstader THE WASHINGTON POST HUSAN, West Bank, Aug. 18 - It was nearly 1 a.m. on a chilly night in January when Israeli soldiers pounded on the Zaul family's door in this scruffy Palestinian village. Open up, it's the army! they shouted. He was blindfolded and spat upon, cursed and threatened with death, beaten with fists, truncheons and rifle butts until he screamed, doused with freezing water and forced to stand upright with a heavy weight hung excruciatingly from his neck. THEN THEY RUSHED in and grabbed Ibrahim Zaul, 15, a lanky boy growing a wispy mustache. Zaul was taken to an Israeli police station, where for the next eight or nine hours, he said, he was blindfolded and spat upon, cursed and threatened with death, beaten with fists, truncheons and rifle butts until he screamed, doused with freezing water and forced to stand upright with a heavy weight hung excruciatingly from his neck. I would fall to the ground, and whenever I fell, they would kick me in the back, he said in an interview. It did not take long for Zaul to break: Later that morning, he confessed to having thrown stones at Israeli troops and eventually served four months in prison. About a dozen teenagers, all minors and most from Husan or nearby villages south of Jerusalem, have given similar accounts of arrests, beatings and torture by Israeli police in recent months. Their stories, which differ only in the harrowing details, have been recorded by Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations, which find them credible. FRAYING DISCIPLINE As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict drags through its bloodiest chapter in a generation, there are signs that fraying discipline and an atmosphere of permissiveness in the ranks of Israeli security forces are resulting in violence and abuse directed at Palestinian civilians. Operating under tense, occasionally lethal conditions in the West Bank and Gaza territories they occupy, and sometimes attacked by Palestinian gunmen and bombers, some Israeli soldiers and police appear to have taken out their frustrations with their fists and gun butts, according to human rights groups and spokesmen for the Israeli army. Most concern from abroad has focused on Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian activists involved in attacks on Israel, or on the Israeli military's retaliatory attacks on Palestinian-controlled areas. But the increase in abusive behavior by the security forces, and the Israeli public's tendency to overlook it, has led some dovish Israelis - a distinct minority in the current climate - to warn of what they call a widening mentality of occupation. More broadly, it has raised questions about whether Israel can fulfill its own ambitions to be the Middle East's only democracy with Western-style rights guarantees in the crucible of the bloody conflict between Arabs and Jews. BOASTS AND BRUTAL PRACTICES Nearly from its inception at mid-century, Israel has boasted that it alone in the region strives to meet Western human rights standards. It made that argument even while the late Yitzhak Rabin encouraged the army to break their bones when Palestinians staged the first intifada, or uprising, in the late 1980s. And for years the main domestic security service, Shin Bet, regularly tortured Arab detainees. Moreover, Israel's Arab citizens were denied basic rights in housing, employment and land ownership. The Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that Shin Bet's torture of prisoners was illegal, and the agency says it has halted the practice in most cases. Human rights activists and liberals celebrated the ruling at the time, hailing it as a sign of enlightenment. But now those same advocates say the current conflict is leading Israel to use brutal practices in which beatings and abuse of Palestinians are regarded not only as necessary, but as acceptable. Some Israelis suggest the practices also betray a vein of racism. All colonial wars have the same inner logic, said Uri Avnery, a veteran of the frayed Israeli peace movement. When you are occupiers subjugating
[CTRL] Fwd: A Suicide Bomber'sWorld
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\©http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MER WEEKEND READING: RELECTIONS ON THE Suicide Bombers A photograph exists of Nidal's head and upper torso after the bombing. Much of what it depicts is a grisly mess. But his face is unblemished, his hair neatly combed, his eyes almost fully closed. The expression is one of peace. MID-EAST REALITIES © - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 8/18: In a sense, a very important sense, the Suicide Bombers now so much in the news should have stamped on them Made in Israel, Encouraged by USA. There were few if any Suicide Bombers just a few years ago. The phenomena first arose out of Israel's destructive invasion of Lebanon in and before 1982, then the occupation of about 10% of that country which only ended last year. During the first Palestinian Intifada there were few if any Suicide Bombers. But as the military occupation has become even more brutal, and as the peace process has grown even more deceptive and onerous, a generation which has only known fear and torture has turned to new and more grissly tactics of their own. And if no serious and just solution is found to today's predicament this cycle is likely to continue on into the next generation when tactics and weapons of mass destruction may come into play. A SUICIDE BOMBER'S WORLD By Cameron W. Barr [The Christian Science Monitor - 14 August]: Palestinian militants are intensifying their use of suicide attacks against Israel. Since March 4, 15 suicide bombers have taken the lives of at least 52 people, the vast majority of them Israelis. One of the most deadly occurred last Thursday in a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem; another bomber struck a coffee shop near the Israeli port city of Haifa Sunday evening. In recent weeks, the Monitor has interviewed Palestinian militants involved in suicide bombings, a young man who has considered carrying out such an operation, the father of a deceased bomber, and some Israelis who were affected by one attack. The following accounts offer a closer look at this form of violence - the motivations of its perpetrators and the experiences of its victims. CAREER OPTION: MARTYR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK Hassan, as he asks to be called, holds a brand-new professional degree from a Palestinian university. He faces a career choice that says much about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On the one hand, he might like to get into human rights work. Another option is martyrdom - perhaps by carrying an explosive into a crowd of Israelis and detonating it. I have become capable of sacrificing myself for my religion and my homeland, says Hassan, who was interviewed on the condition that his real name not be used. Having spent several years in Israeli jails for militant activity, he worries that the exposure could put the Israelis back on his trail. A slender, soft-spoken young man with wiry brown hair and a narrow face, Hassan wears jeans, a brown T-shirt, and delicate, metal-framed glasses. He has the intense, slightly uncertain demeanor of a university intellectual - hunching his shoulders and crossing his legs, he smokes a lot and fidgets endlessly with a ring on his right hand as he speaks. During a two-hour meeting in the leafy garden of a private home in Ramallah, Hassan is gentle-humored in his explanations of the theology and logistics of suicide bombing. Martyrdom-seekers, as they consider themselves, reject any notion that their actions constitute suicide, which is forbidden by the Koran. Hassan says candidates are chosen for their piety and sincerity; anyone who seems troubled or suicidal is screened out. The proper motive is to take jihad - a holy war to defend or promote Islam - to the extreme. Those preparing for an operation, Hassan says, spend much of their time in prayer in an attempt to separate themselves mentally from the world as they know it. They see jihad as a pillar of Islam, an obligation. As long as people occupy Muslim land, Hassan adds, that obligation remains. Hassan is a member of Islamic Jihad, a militant group that advocates the eradication of Israel. Would-be bombers are always free to step back, even during the final moments of their missions, Hassan insists. It is written in the Koran that the hearts of
Re: [CTRL] US And Other Activists Back Palestinians
-Caveat Lector- Didn't see YOUR name there buddy. Didn't see Prudy's or Colleen's either. Don't disappoint us now guys. Put you ass where your mouth is and head on down to the Holyland. Show those Israeli Nazis what you can do. My cousin Moshe-the-Masher is REALLY looking forward to seeing you Colleen. He's been dulling his blunt instrument in anticipation and reciting the Jewish prayer for god to send under medicated psychopaths from the trailers of the heartland. Oooh baby. Joshua2 The more you rant the more you reveal your pathetic racist mindset. Guess you will soon be winging your way East to help your fellow torturers pull some fingernails. Another National Socialist exposes his true colors. flw A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] suffer the little children
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 08/17/2001 5:09:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just want to clarify that you are saying that Israelis kill children for sport. Is that right Prudy? I'm saying, Not yet, but that's the next step. When you can torture them and beat them, the next step is to eliminate them. Eliminating them can become a pleasurable passtime. That is sport. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] God Forsaken in US Senate
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 08/17/2001 2:45:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why? I mean what specifically about Weyrich and his ilk is disgusting? I've heard him talk on television tons of times. He strikes me as small minded and unforgiving. That's not the way my God feels about things. Do you really expect to watch as the members of our House and Senate proceed into Heaven? No, I don't think there's a blanket exclusion, but I don't think there are many who would qualify either. I don't know too much about Weyrich, but I don't want him preaching to me either. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] TONIGHT 8/18 - Radio Program: Lara Johnstone speaks out on her ET hunger strike
-Caveat Lector- TONIGHT 8/18 - Radio Program: Lara Johnstone speaks out on her ET hunger strike Date: Saturday 8/18 Time: 10PM Pacific Time Program: GROUND ZERO - Clyde Lewis, host LISTEN LIVE: http://www.clydelewis.com Guests: Lara Johnstone, correspondent Holly Conley, CEO Ernie Vega, author Alfred Webre Lara Johnstone is now 20 days into her Presidential hunger strike to request President George W. Bush to fulfill his campaign promise to make public information on U.S. government involvement with Extraterrestrial craft, technologies, and civilizations. Tonight she speaks out publicly, live on WKTO, Portland, Oregon. Tune in on the Internet at 10 PM Pacific Time for this historic broadcast. Are you ready for the revolution? Lara Johnstone, a California woman who began a Hunger Strike for Disclosure on July 28th. Bush/UFO Disclosure Request Update by Lara Johnstone Letter delivered to to Representative Barbara Lee Office in downtown Oakland on Monday October 13, 2001. Berkeley, CA 94707 12 August 2001 Congressional Representative Ms. Barbara Lee Ronald Dellums Federal Building, Oakland, CA Dear Representative Ms. Barbara Lee RE: Request to support my petition to President Bush Attached please find the letter I wrote (mailed, faxed and emailed) to President Bush on 26 July 2001. It is a statement informing President Bush of my reasons for going on a hunger strike, and requesting his response. I understand that Disclosure Project briefing materials have already been delivered to your office. I am very hopeful that you have reviewed those documents and videotapes and have decided to investigate the matter further. As you know, the recorded testimony of scores of military, goverment and other witnesses to Unidentified Flying Objects and Extraterrestrial events and projects is strong evidence of the existence of an UFO/Extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth. This recorded testimony consists of dozens of first-hand, often top-secret witnesses to UFO and Extraterrestrial events, internal UFO-related goverment projects and covert activities, space-based weapons programs and covert, reverse-engineered energy and propulsion system projects. The technologies that are of an Extraterrestrial origin, when publicly released within a planned transition period, will provide solutions to global environmental and security challenges. These numerous recorded witnesses constitute only a small portion of a vast pool of identified present of former military, intelligence, corporate, aviator, flight control, law enforcement officers, scientists and other witnesses, who will come forward when subpoenaed to testify at Congressional Hearings. Without a grant of immunity releasing them from their security oaths, many such unimpeachable witnesses fear to speak out. The legislation to ban space-based weapons will prohibit acts of war against Extraterrestrial civilizations, which have proven to be concerned about nuclear and weapons industry, but also have proven they are not to be hostile. The comprehensive legislation will transform the terrestrial war industry into a world cooperative military (without space weapons), civil, and commercial space industry. This will provide unprecedented benefits and opportunities to all on Earth and in space. Our generation of voters and leaders are responsible for this once in a lifetime decision -- to ban space-based weapons so that we will be permitted to join the peaceful travelers in the universe. My request to your office is: 1. Please attempt to verify that President Bush received my letter, and request a response from his office. [I enclose another copy for delivery to President Bush's office by your office, if required.] 2. Please write a letter in support of my request to President Bush. 3. Please call for open, comprehensive, secrecy-free hearings to take military/agency witness testimony on events and evidence relating to an Extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth. 4. Please call for open hearings on advanced energy and propulsion systems, relating to extraterrestrial phenomena that, when publicly released, will provide solutions to global environmental challenges. Many years ago, your predecessor Representative Ronald Dellums was the first brave and lonely voice calling for an end to the nuclear arms race. Many thought it impossible, yet he persevered, and many followed. All we need in this issue is one brave Congressional Representative to have the courage to step forward, and I imagine the other less-brave Congressional members will eventually follow. Billions of people around the world could benefit from these technologies. Hundreds of witnesses have been brave enough to come forward willing and able to testify. Our entire planet could benefit from some light being shone onto the secrets that divide us, the secrets that encourage our fears, and the secrets that -- if kept -- could result in disastrous consequences for millions, if not our planet and
[CTRL] Sourcing The Taos Hum
http://www.earthpulse.com/ Sourcing the Taos Hum By Thomas Begich, Staff Writer Three years ago Congress directed scientists and observers from some of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise, often described by them as a "hum", had been looking for answers. No one was sure when it began, but its persistence led first a few and then many of those who heard it (called "hearers" by each other) to band together. In 1993 they found their way to Congress. The investigation Congress requested consisted of a team of a dozen investigators from a number of scientific institutions. Joe Mullins of the University of New Mexico and Horace Poteet of Sandia National Laboratories wrote the team's final report. Other New Mexico research organizations involved included Phillips Air Force Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Concern by hearers that the hum might have been caused by the Department of Defense ensured that the investigation was conducted in the open and that a large number of persons were contacted. The first goal of the investigative team was to interview hearers and try to determine the nature of the hum the sound it made, its frequency, timing and its effects on those who heard it. Next the team planned to survey residents of Taos and the surrounding communities to determine how wide spread the hum was. Finally, the team was to try to isolate and determine the cause of the hum. Important to their effort was the team's clear interest in deter-mining the cause of the phenomenon, rather than questioning the hum's existence. There was a generally clear understanding by the investigators that something was happening here, but just exactly what it was seemed to defy definition. The initial investigation focused on ten hearers and determined certain key facts surrounding the hum. It was persistent. It was heard by only a small number of people. The sound was extremely low on the frequency scale between 30 and 80Hz. There was variation in how different hearers perceived the sound. Some heard a sound like the low rumbling of a truck while others heard a more steady, pulsing, yet still low sound. Interestingly, the investigators learned that the sound was not limited to the area around Taos, but was, in fact, heard at places all over the country and around the globe. Hearers described the increasing problems they were having with the hum. Consistent with the reports and complaints that had brought the issue to Congress in the first place, hearers described the hum as a cause not just of annoyance, but also of dizziness, insomnia or sleep disturbance, pressure on the ears, headaches and even nosebleeds. The hearers were also bothered by the disturbing nature of its existence: it did not seem like a natural phenomenon to them. According to the August 23, 1993 " Taos Hum Investigation: Informal Report", most hearers initially experienced the hum with an "abrupt beginning, as if some device were switched on." Many of the hearers believed there was a connection between the hum, the military installations in and around New Mexico, and the Department of Defense or that the hum was somehow caused by the U. S. Navy's ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) stations in Northern Michigan. These suspicions made a civilian presence on the investigation team necessary. After examining ten hearers the team (now including James Kelly, a hearing research scientist with the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center) began a broad survey of Taos locals. Their survey of 1,440 residents led the team to extrapolate that roughly 2% of the Taos population were hearers. Given this large number of hearers, initial exploration of a source for the hum focused on external possibilities for generation of the low frequency hum. While there were isolated instances of hearing within the low frequency range identified by hearers, these tests revealed no consistent background noise which could account for the hum. As Mullins and Kelly concluded, there were "no known acoustic signals that might account for the hum, nor are there any seismic events that might explain it." Having ruled out external sources the team focused on testing hearers' inner ears and on researching frequency sensitivity. While these investigations are not complete, it appears highly unlikely that the hum is caused by low frequency tinnitus as some have speculated. Mullins and Kelly are more inclined to believe that hearers have developed a specific sensitivity to sounds in the 20 to 100Hz range and therefore are directing their research toward gleaning an understanding of how the ear perceives low frequency energy. While this approach may help answer the persistent question of the hum's origin, Dr. Nick Begich and Patrick
[CTRL] Skolnick-The Secret History/Airplane Sabatoge (Part4)
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/shistory4.html
"THE SECRET HISTORY OF AIRPLANE SABOTAGE", Part Four
by Sherman H. Skolnick 08/17/01
Several situations motivated the National Transportation Safety Board,
N.T.S.B., to re-open their hearings into the crash of United Air Lines Flight
553. And to set two full days, June 13 and 14, 1973, for what we publicly
called the crash of the Watergate Plane. My pending lawsuit in the local
state court against the N.T.S.B., claiming air sabotage cover up, was
arbitrarily removed to the federal court in Chicago.
The Rockefeller-owned United Air Lines knew that the Banker-Judges in Chicago
U.S. District Court would not allow my lawsuit to be heard on the facts. A
judicial cover-up. It was a reality understood by the Safety Board panel,
made up primarily of those directly or through their immediate families,
major owners of airline shares. And the unwritten policy of the airlines, and
their substantial owners, is to block all public discussion of airplane
sabotage, a secret and forbidden subject.
Another factor was the way I was informing the public, as best I could,
through late-night radio talk shows and college and university speeches on
the Watergate plane crash. And further, United Air Lines and the Safety Board
had no prior knowledge that we had "liberated" the entire Safety Board
original file of Flight 553.
I proceeded with my own testimony as to our investigation, with the Safety
Board documents and pictures, together with our interviews including the
presence at the re-opened hearings of eight eyewitnesses.
As stated earlier, #1 was THE PEOPLE. #2, THE AIRPLANE. To do a proper job in
sabotaging a plane, an art and science in itself, is to know its weaknesses.
This particular Boeing 737, N9031U, had chronic trouble in the month
preceding the crash, with its Captain's altimeter and its air data
computer---two of the most important instruments on the plane. [N.T.S.B.
Docket SA-435, Exhibits 11A, 11B, 11C, maintenance data.] The Captain's
altimeter {how far he is above ground level] MUST operate at 28 volts D.C.
[Exhibit 9C, page 7.] An increase in amperage or voltage in the electrical
system would cause the instruments to malfunction.
The plane was delayed in departure by about 10 to 15 minutes. [Later
investigations and sources convinced us the tubes in the front of the plane,
leading to the air speed indicator, were drilled out, to give false
readings.] This was enough time for a skilled person to strip down the bus
bar at a certain point and install a device [as was done] that shorts out
UPON DESCENT of the plane [a sort of barometric controlled sabotage device].
In the last 15 minutes of Flight 553, circuit breakers began popping in the
cockpit, causing the Flight Recorder, in the tail, the air data computer, and
other instruments to short out and malfunction. The N.T.S.B. Transcripts of
the sole surviving record, the tape of the Cockpit Voice Recorder, shows this
from the Intra-Cockpit, inside the cockpit, discussion. [Exhibit 12A.]
The pilot had a prophetic name, Captain Whitehouse. By the way, he was one of
the most skilled pilots at United, with a prior background in aviation air
shows and precision flying.
Captain- "Sounds to me a circuit breaker, perhaps." 2nd Officer- "Huh?"
[Unidentified voice, apparently unlawfully deleted by the FBI/DIA.]
Capt.-"Yeah, I just meant, I thought you'd better check EVERYTHING, ah."
(Emphasis added.) [N.T.S.B., Exhibit 12A, page 7 of Transcript.] The Cockpit
Voice Recorder was found and removed by the FBI, first on the scene in the
crash zone. Remember what the Chairman of the Safety Board told a
Congressional Committee in Washington on the same day as the re-opening of
the Safety Board hearings in Chicago---about the strange doings of the FBI in
the crash zone. [See Part Two of this series.]
Flight 553 needed its instruments. Visibility was 1 to 2 miles. Ceiling
varied from 400 to 600 feet. [Exhibit 5-K.] With some low clouds as low as
100 feet. As for the National Weather Service, their RUNWAY VISUAL RANGE
RECORDER WAS TURNED OFF AND NOT WORKING. [Exhibit 5-K.]
A major radio navigational instrument is the airport outer marker, also
called by the street name its on. The outer marker at Midway Airport is in
the vicinity of 87th Kedzie, and is called by some, the Kedzie localizer.
THE MIDWAY AIRPORT OUTER MARKER STOPPED WORKING JUST AS FLIGHT 553 APPROACHED
IT AND WENT BACK ON JUST AFTER FLIGHT 553 CRASHED.
Captain-"Is Kedzie localizer off, off the air, is that it?" 2nd Officer-"I
beg your pardon." Captain-"Is Kedzie localizer off the air, there's an
inbound on---ah---there's an inbound on 31---what's that? (referring to JET
RUNWAY 31 LEFT, and a small propeller plane reportedly falsely steered right
in front of 553 as it was preparing to land. The small plane was coming in
right ahead of them on the same runway. Propeller planes are supposed to land
on RUNWAY 31 RIGHT.) [N.T.S.B. Exhibit 12A, page 3.]
Captain's
[CTRL] Fwd: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam under subject matter - fo it was Omar Khayyam the Poet, who entered into a pact with Hassan Sabbah - the Old Man in the Mountain - tather the pact of the three - a Public Relations Man, an Assassin, and the Candidate, let us say. This beautiful poem was translated by Edward FitzGerald - real name Purcell, but he took the name of the grandfather for the coat of arms (which was Coat of Arms of St. Patrick and my Father).. So a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and Joshua2 - and then when he sips the poison from within the cup (my mother's side also clamed descent from a few Borgias)ah maybe Joshua2 Will find himself a Stranger in Paradise better keep the motor running, Joshua. In I Kings in the bible you will find the phrase Laugh, Drink and be Merry for tomorrow, well we all die anyway. As the man said to the martyers who will die for the Palestinians - they will leave a living burning hell but it is like opening a door and walking into another room - Paradise - the same Paradise to which Omar refers - so speaking of roses ... O'Saba (No relation to Hassan Sabbah - the Head Man, the Old Man in Mountain who linked up to the Old Knights Templar, to which my father claimed direct descent - and we can prove our pedigrees.how about you Joshua 2 - give my love and kisses to whats his name, Moshe the Masher was it - a Jack the Ripper with a blunt weapon - sure that guy is not an Arab? Regardless, beautiful work this Rubaiyat - by one of the three - and I say, these Suicide Bombers sure have he same teacher - maybe still living high in an Eagles Nest somewhere and not like what he sees beneath his feet? Powerful hypnotic drugs being used? Maybe some - hypnotic drugone who causes the lips of those who are asleep to speak, and to kill - in order to be taken to Paradise? Beats the hell what they have now, right Joshua. My love and kisses to your ADL friend.s O'Sabbah http://ali.sdc.uwo.ca/khayyam.html
[CTRL] [PalestineDiary] Goodwill hunting
-Caveat Lector- Goodwill hunting A new initiative brings students from North America to an intensive three-week seminar to learn more about the Middle East. The aim is to send them back to their campuses as Israel's `ambassadors' By Anat CygielmanAri Sussman and Shimon Peres, last week in Tel Aviv. The students wanted to know whether Peres trusts Arafat. (Photo: Ariel Schalit) Thirty-nine students, young Jews from the United States and Canada, tried on Wednesday not to miss a word of what Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was saying. They laughed at every witticism he uttered and asked him join them for a group photograph when he finished answering their questions. Tomorrow, they will be leaving Israel at the end of a three-week stay during which they participated in a seminar at Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind, to prepare them for being Israel's ambassadors on the campuses of the universities they attend. The experimental project is called Emet - the acronym of Education, Middle East and Truth, and the Hebrew word for truth. The project is being funded by a group of wealthy American Jewish donors headed by businessman Leonard Abramson of Philadelphia. Abramson was joined by Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman, the initiators of the Birthright project, which during the past year brought thousands of Jewish students from around the world on a free 10-day trip to Israel. The two projects are completely different in nature. The participants in the Birthright program are students who have never visited Israel before and whose ties to Judaism and the Jewish community where they live are minimal. The aim of the trip is to strengthen their Jewish identity. The participants in the Emet program are students who have already visited Israel, young people with strong ties to the Jewish community who are willing to participate in Israel's efforts to present a positive image to the world. In contrast to the Birthright program, the state of Israel does not participate in the funding of Emet. The director-general of the Emet organization, Nir Boms, relates that the initiative was born a few months ago in a conversation between Abramson and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon about Israel's image problem because of the Intifada. What do you mean to do about it, asked Abramson. Sharon said that help would be accepted gratefully. Abramson picked up the gauntlet and set up Emet, which plans to operate on several fronts. Among other things, Abramson discussed the matter with Tel Aviv University President Itamar Rabinovich, formerly Israel's ambassador in Washington. Steinhardt, incidentally, is chairman of the university's board of trustees. Rabinovich organized for the students a program of lectures with the participation of faculty from the department of Middle Eastern studies and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. Thirty-nine students were selected from universities throughout the United States and Canada, all of them members of the Hillel international Jewish students' organization. The lectures they heard covered the entire Middle East, from Strategic Threats to the State of Israel to Syria Under Bashar, Iran Between Revolution and Reform and Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Is this not too much? There was a lot to digest, agreed Karen Mervis of Washington. You have to remember that this is the pilot for the program. She was especially impressed by Professor Asher Susser's lecture on Muslim Suspicions of the Western World. Even the term `the Middle East' was created from a western perspective. To understand the conflict you have to understand the history and the context, she said. The context is the most important thing, in the opinion of Jackie Bliss from Berkeley. Most of the lessons were on Middle Eastern subjects. This was a surprise, a good basis for understanding the region and reaching our own conclusions. According to Gabe Sperber from Florida, The argument about the conflict has become very emotional, instead of rational. The students feel that the lectures afforded them the possibility of passing on information about the complexity of the conflict and creating discussion and dialogue that rises above the simplistic picture in the media. We have the responsibility to be knowledgeable, says Elias Saratovsky of Chicago, not necessarily to defend Israel, but to explain, to put things in context. In addition to the program of studies, the students went on trips to the north and the south. They did not visit the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, since they did not receive security authorization to do so. Even Jerusalem was not included in the original program, but the students insisted and the organizers gave in. Another request from the students was to hear a lecture by a Palestinian or an Israeli Arab. Thus a meeting was organized with Mohammed Darawsha of the Institute for Peace Research at Givat Haviva. Their awareness of issues of equality and discrimination was evident on Wednesday when
[CTRL] Fwd: The Splendor of Persia I
Beautiful story of Persia...for Gerald of Og (the first Gerald on record - Fitz means son of) married a Princess Nesta of ancient Persia and it is alleged her ancestors through her Father, King Nestor, descend to one of the Three Wise Menthey are nothing to mess with Joshua, you little twerp. Beautiful Story on Persian who are beautiful people; recent Shah of Iran was a member of the Peacock Society, which still exists to day and it is said he traveled on a plane with a solid gold john..well he didn't die broke, did he. O'Saba Daughter of a Fitzgerald Tell me what did theIsraeli contribute to the Holy Land other than themselves? http://ali.sdc.uwo.ca/splendor1.html
[CTRL] Expulsionists At The Washington Post
http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html The expulsionists at the Washington Post by Ahmed Amr The expulsionists at the Washington Post are foaming at the mouth over the prospect of visiting additional cruelty on the Palestinians. Whether it is the summer heat or a failure to keep up with their anti-psychotic medication, the racist segregationists who run the show at the Post are executing what appears to be a concerted strategy to defame the Palestinians. The vilification has gotten to new lows over the last week, as the Israel Firsters despair over the violent strategy of their idol, Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila and Qibya. Their advice to this vicious criminal is to add more portions of violence to his recipe for disaster. Charles Krauthammer wrote a column bemoaning Sharon's ineffective strategy and calling for a massive campaign to 'strike and expel' Palestinians (POST, 8/16/2001). A day earlier, Michael Kelley urges Israel to 'go right ahead and escalate the violence' . In addition to recommending an intense military assault against the Palestinians, George Will, goes a step further to advise the Israeli occupation army to 'destroy other physical infrastructure useful to the Palestinian Authority, including all newspaper and broadcasting facilities.' (Post, 8/17/2001) Burning newspapers. What a concept! This from the publisher who endlessly beats his chest about his late mama's courage in publishing the Pentagon papers. Of course, That was three decades ago. This is the new and vastly diminished Washington Post; a safe haven for every warmongering bigot Yiddish supremacist who wants to take a swipe at the long suffering Palestinian people. Just another round of obnoxious Israeli public relations campaign to demonize the Palestinians. The 11 month Palestinian uprising against the land thieving Israeli occupation army has obviously not captured the imagination of the low life segregationist elitists at the Washington Post. Instead of "segregation now, segregation forever'; they want to up the ante to 'expulsion now, exile forever'. When they do bring up the fact that the Israelis have slaughtered over 500 Palestinians, they start going bezerk about 'moral equivalence'. How many Israeli assassin soldiers, with a Bull Conner smile on their face, pulled the trigger on a bullet that wasted a Palestinian kid? Kelly, Krauthammer and Will couldn't give a damn. No doubt, they would like to personally waste a few Palestinians. To these moral morons, they weren't kids, they were Palestinians. The simple reason is that they are the kind of men who probably own more than a linen closet full of white sheets, for those special occasions. The Genoa police managed to inflict one solitary fatality at the G-8 meeting. And they are being duly investigated for it. In Montreal, there were no fatalities. When Jews demonstrate , the Israeli police never think of using rubber bullets, much less tank fire. Israeli cowards, wearing IDF uniforms, well shielded behind massive concrete barriers, have murdered Palestinian children throwing stones that can't even reach their target. They were killed for their brave defiance. The uprising in the West Bank and Gaza are historically an old show. It is the same show that played out in the streets of Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968. It is the show that just last year was applauded when it was performed in East Timor. A year earlier, Kosovo was liberated from genocidal Serbian thugs. This is the same performance that made us crazy when it was booked in Tianamen square. It is always interesting to note that the pursuit of liberty and dignity is denied to the Palestinians, based on their 'national character' and 'behavior'. The only way to market Israel's brutal annexationist policies is to constantly denigrate the Palestinians. And the racist pond scum at the Washington Post are always ready to join the Greek chorus of vilification. Ethnic bigotry is no vice at the Washington Post. They obviously encourage their journalists to stir up the masses with vindictive and hateful incitement to violence against an innocent people. The Washington Post is a willing enabler of Ariel Sharon and his war crimes, past, present and future. It is no longer a newspaper. Just another jingoistic Yiddish supremacist organization out to assist the Israelis in inflicting additional pain and mayhem on the Palestinian people. It is political pornography that should be sold in brown bags to deviant adults who have an insatiable appetite for innocent Palestinian blood. Let the word go out, that this monstrosity of a racist rag deserves to be boycotted by all decent Americans. As part owner of the Herald Tribune, it should be quite possible to take legal actions against the Post in French courts for inciting racial hatred and violence against an ethnic group. Being polite to these bastards,
[CTRL] Fake Terror- The Road To Dictatorship
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/index.html FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP Note: This article first appeared as a post written by myself at Free Republic . I was surprised to learn that it was copied from Free Republic and re-posted at dozens of sites around the world. So, it seems only fitting that the article (with some updating) re-appear here at my own web site. It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need. In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licineus Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade. But in Crassus' version, his fire-fighting slaves would race to the scene of a burning building whereupon Crassus would offer to buy it on the spot for a tiny fraction of it's worth. If the owner sold, Crassus' slaves would put out the fire. If the owner refused to sell, Crassus allowed the building to burn to the ground. By means of this device, Crassus eventually came to be the largest single private landholder in Rome, and used some of his wealth to help back Julius Caesar against Cicero. In 70 BC Rome was still a Republic, which placed very strict limits on what Rulers could do, and more importantly NOT do. But Crassus had no intentions of enduring such limits to his personal power, and contrived a plan. Crassus seized upon the slave revolt led by Sparticus in order to strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Sparticus had already defeated in battle. But Sparticus had no intention of marching on Rome itself, a move he knew to be suicidal. Sparticus and his band wanted nothing to do with the Roman empire and had planned from the start merely to loot enough money from their former owners in the Italian countryside to hire a mercenary fleet in which to sail to freedom. Sailing away was the last thing Crassus wanted Sparticus to do. He needed a convenient enemy with which to terrorize Rome itself for his personal political gain. So Crassus bribed the mercenary fleet to sail without Sparticus, then positioned two Roman legions in such a way that Sparticus had no choice but to march on Rome. Terrified of the impending arrival of the much-feared army of gladiators, Rome declared Crassus Praetor. Crassus then crushed Sparticus' army and even though Pompeii took the credit, Crassus was elected Consul of Rome the following year. With this maneuver, the Romans surrendered their Republican form of government. Soon would follow the first Triumvirate, consisting of Crassus, Pompeii, and Julius Caesar, followed by the reign of the god-like Emperors of Rome. The Romans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Emperors. Julius Caesar's political opponent, Cicero, for all his literary accomplishments, played the same games in his campaign against Julius Caesar, claiming that Rome was falling victim to an internal "vast right wing" conspiracy in which any expressed desire for legislative limits on government was treated as suspicious behavior. Cicero, in order to demonstrate to the Romans just how unsafe Rome has become hired thugs to cause as much disturbance as possible, and campaigned on a promise to end the internal strife if elected and granted extraordinary powers. What Cicero only dreamed of, Adolph Hitler succeeded in doing. Elected Chancellor of Germany, Hitler, like Crassus, had no intention of living with the strict limits to his power imposed by German law. Unlike Cicero, Hitler's thugs were easy to recognize; they all wore the same brown shirts. But their actions were no different than those of their Roman predecessors. They staged beatings, set fires, caused as much trouble as they could, while Hitler made speeches promising that he could end the crime wave of subversives and terrorism if he was granted extraordinary powers. The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Der Fuhrer. The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat appeared to leave no other choice. Our government too uses hoaxes to create the illusion that We The People have no choice but the direction the government wishes us to go in. In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be, Hearst is reported to have replied, "You take the photographs, and I will provide the war". Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published stories of great
[CTRL] The Parrots who quoted scriptures
Very intelligent birds, these Parrots - But nothing worse than a foul mouthed parrot O'Sabbah This lady approaches a priest and tells him, Father, I have a problem. I have these two talking female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing. What do they say?, the priest asked They only know how to say 'Hi, we are prostitutes. Do you want to have some Fun? That's terrible!, the priest exclaimed, But I have a solution to your problem. Bring your two talking female parrots over to my house and I will put them with my two male talking parrots who I have taught to pray and read the Bible, then my parrots will teach your parrots to stop saying that terrible phrase and your female parrots will learn to pray and worship. Thank you said the lady. So the next day, the lady brings her female parrots to the priest's house. The priest's two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage. Such pious birds - a rarity these days. The lady puts her female talking parrots in with the male talking parrots and the female parrots say Hi, we are prostitutes! Do you want to have some Fun? One male parrot looks over to the other male parrot and says, PUT THE BIBLES AWAY! OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! http://www.thebestweb.com/jokes/joke01.htm
[CTRL] Blacks, Jews squabble over White Guilt loot
-Caveat Lector- The big dumb White working class ultimately pays for everything in America. The big dumb White working class are ultimately those paying for Zionism and keeping the Zionist State in business. Should those people who are not Blacks, not Jews, not Hispanics, not Asians, and not Gays (Gays, of course had no rights, and therefore, were not permitted to own slaves) be obligated to pay reparations for slavery? Would reparations for slavery eat into the generous cash flow currently enjoyed by Zionism. Stay tuned. BEHIND THE HEADLINES http://www.jta.org/story.asp?story=8323 Jews soothe tensions over slave reparations By Michael J. Jordan NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (JTA) As Jewish activists scramble to block an effort to resurrect the Zionism is Racism canard, they also are working to defuse potential problems with the black community over the issue of slavery reparations. In the run-up to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, slated to begin Aug. 31 in Durban, South Africa, attention has focused on the Arab campaign to single out Israel as a racist state perpetrating a holocaust against the Palestinian people. In response, pro-Israel advocates have enlisted as many allies as they can find including America's mainstream black leadership. Lost in the shuffle, however, has been the cause celebre of some black leaders: forcing the U.N. conference to address the legacy of slavery, even holding the Western powers accountable for their historic role in the slave trade. That has placed American Jewish activists in an awkward position. Jews have relied on the Bush administration to lobby against the attempt to denigrate Zionism as racism, as well as other perceived anti-Israel or anti-Semitic wording. A senior South African official said this week that the Z=R issue had been removed from the conference agenda, according to Reuters. However, an American Jewish Committee official working closely on the issue dismissed the purported compromise as subterfuge. In the current draft, references to Zionism and Israel simply are replaced with the term occupying power, said Jason Isaacson, the AJCommittee's director of government and international affairs. But the document still is written for no other purpose than to single out Israel, Isaacson said. The Bush administration has threatened to boycott the conference if attempts to link Zionism and racism continue, perhaps keeping Secretary of State Colin Powell at home or sending only lower-level diplomats. Either step likely would undermine the credibility of any declaration to emerge from Durban. Indeed, for Powell, America's first black secretary of state, to attend would be a prize for the conference, one Jewish activist said. For that very reason, the U.S. congressional black leadership insists that Powell attend to deal with the slavery issue, despite the anti-Israel rhetoric. In exchange for their support for the Jewish cause and to maintain harmony in occasionally bumpy relations some blacks want Jews to stand with them on slavery, which in Durban may include a demand for reparations. Jewish organization have yet to formulate a position on slavery reparations, and the black community itself seems divided on the issue. The Bush administration rejects the call for reparations and has indicated that, if addressed at all, the issue must be tackled on America's own terms, not at an international conference. Joining the blacks would force Jews to lock horns with the one ally that has enough sway to make or break the conference. Moreover, if Washington carries through on its threat to boycott Durban over Z=R, there is concern that some blacks would blame Jews for it. They also might accuse the Bush administration of using Z=R as a smokescreen to duck debate on America's slave-owning past. Over the past month, anger has built in Congress against the Arab campaign to link Zionism with racism, culminating with a July 26 resolution sponsored by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) that condemned the direction in which the conference appeared headed. Black politicians reportedly were irritated by what they considered the Jews' single-mindedness, and their lack of reciprocity toward black concerns. That caught the attention of Rabbi Marc Schneier, president and co- founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Schneier said, were complaining to him that Lantos' resolution was too one-sided and did not refer to the needs and aspirations of blacks on the issue of slavery. We were very, very concerned that our colleagues should in no way interpret that we are being insensitive to their needs, Schneier said. The solution, he said, was for Jews to better communicate the reasons for their visceral rejection of the proposed language at Durban, while simultaneously expressing some support for black concerns. In collaboration with the World Jewish Congress, Schneier formulated a letter that condemned
[CTRL] Davis Selling Power During California Blackouts
-Caveat Lector- Remember how the rolling blackouts were all the fault of Bush so he could make himself and his oil buddies rich? Well, well, well, looks like old Gov. Davis was SELLING electric power at that very time and much cheaper than he was buying it! Now why would he do that?? Could it be so he and all the other Bush Bashing fanatics could blame the new president for this? Was it worth it, California, to make a political smear in this manner for you paid rather dearly for that bit of fun. And NEVER, ever forget that the oil companies donate MORE to the campaigns of liberal Democrats than they do to those of Republicans. See our own archive for chart on this. I think the Gov owes W an apology but I will not be holding my breath for some think it is OK to lie like this if it furthers their cause. ~Amelia~ Davis Denies Selling Power During California Blackouts Eric Erickson, CNSNews.com Saturday, Aug. 18, 2001 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California Assemblyman isn't sure if it was corruption or incompetence, but he claims the administration of Democrat Gov. Gray Davis sold more than a half-million megawatt hours of electricity earlier this year at a huge loss - at a time when Californians were being told to conserve energy amid rolling blackouts. Republican Assemblyman John Campbell says documents obtained from the state Department of Water Resources (DWR) show that California sold 583,987 megawatts of power between March and July of this year at a fraction of the price it had paid for the energy. In fact, the DWR sold excess power every day in July, except on the 4th, according to Campbell. He wants the state assembly to investigate the issue through energy oversight hearings. On March 19, Campbell says, the California Independent System Operator ordered rolling blackouts while the DWR was actually selling 2,098 megawatts of excess electricity at a loss. I'm flabbergasted, Campbell said in a press release. While residents and businesses were doing everything possible to conserve energy, the state was practically throwing away power. It doesn't make any sense. Based upon the numbers he obtained from the DWR, Campbell says the state lost approximately $73 million by selling the power. These losses are astounding, said Campbell. How much more evidence is necessary to show that the state needs to immediately get out of the business of buying power? Davis' spokesman, Roger Salazar, reacted by accusing Campbell of political grandstanding. We're too busy here in the governor's office trying to keep the lights on to play political games, Salazar said, adding we were nowhere near a surplus of power. A prime example of the sell-offs, according to Campbell, can be seen in numbers related to May, when the average price the state paid for power was $243.00 a MWh, while the amount it sold its surplus for was $26.72, leading to a loss of $8.1 million on 37,661 MWh. Salazar said Campbell's information is just plain false and for anyone to insinuate that we somehow had a surplus of power and were selling at a loss defies common sense. It would surprise me if the state did something like that ... it would surprise me if Mr. Campbell is the only one with that information and nobody else in the entire state has written about it. All of the information on our power purchases is made public after it is no longer market-sensitive, Salazar said. We've released hundreds of documents, released all of the contracts under which we've been purchasing power, so all of that information is really available for anyone to scrutinize. After scrutinizing the information himself, Campbell says California's long-term power agreements will require the state to buy much of its energy at inflated prices. And in a study commissioned by the Los Angeles Times, it was discovered that as far in the future as 2004, contracts exist that bind California to buy 43 percent of its power at already negotiated prices, which theoretically would provide California with an energy surplus. If California follows the precedent set in the 1980s when it was faced with a similar problem, it may ironically encourage consumers to use more power to keep from selling it at a loss. Other options may include buying out contracts or simply not honoring them, which could lead to legal scuffles. Davis has been accused of improper activities in relation to the power crisis, including the hiring of individuals with conflicts of interests due to their employment within the power industry and their owning of energy industry stock. Oversight hearings will provide a forum to determine whether or not the administration's actions have been prudent. And after investigating the situation, the legislature can decide on what measures, if any, need to be taken, said Campbell. I have serious concerns regarding several of the administration's actions, but I intend to keep an open mind and reserve final judgment until all of the information has been presented to
[CTRL] Blacks, Jews squabble over White Guilt loot
-Caveat Lector- Foundation for Ethnic Understanding! Doesn't that have a nice ring? Maybe they could help out with the situation understanding the Palestinians. This is two groups of shakedown artists of the Jesse Jackson variety if ever I saw such a thing. Perpetual victims. Well, on the heels of black reparations, I hope to live to see the day for the issue of the treatment of the civilian population of the South during and immediately following the Civil War including such shameful things as U.S. Gen Burns legalizing the rape of the women of New Orleans while holding that city under martial law and Sherman the Drunk's boast that a full 80 percent of his military activities were directed at civilian populations. For every man killed in battle, two women or children were systematically and deliberately starved to death. We have all been victims at some point in history. Remember the forgotten 6 million non-Jews who died in the death camps, too. And I would take an apology to the South if inclusive enough in lien of money for all people do not strive to capitalize off the suffering of their ancestors in a financial manner. Simple admission and a little remorse would do nicely. ~Amelia~ - Original Message - From: Damian B. Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 9:47 PM Subject: [CTRL] Blacks, Jews squabble over White Guilt loot -Caveat Lector- The big dumb White working class ultimately pays for everything in America. The big dumb White working class are ultimately those paying for Zionism and keeping the Zionist State in business. Should those people who are not Blacks, not Jews, not Hispanics, not Asians, and not Gays (Gays, of course had no rights, and therefore, were not permitted to own slaves) be obligated to pay reparations for slavery? Would reparations for slavery eat into the generous cash flow currently enjoyed by Zionism. Stay tuned. BEHIND THE HEADLINES http://www.jta.org/story.asp?story=8323 Jews soothe tensions over slave reparations By Michael J. Jordan NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (JTA) - As Jewish activists scramble to block an effort to resurrect the Zionism is Racism canard, they also are working to defuse potential problems with the black community over the issue of slavery reparations. In the run-up to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, slated to begin Aug. 31 in Durban, South Africa, attention has focused on the Arab campaign to single out Israel as a racist state perpetrating a holocaust against the Palestinian people. In response, pro-Israel advocates have enlisted as many allies as they can find - including America's mainstream black leadership. Lost in the shuffle, however, has been the cause celebre of some black leaders: forcing the U.N. conference to address the legacy of slavery, even holding the Western powers accountable for their historic role in the slave trade. That has placed American Jewish activists in an awkward position. Jews have relied on the Bush administration to lobby against the attempt to denigrate Zionism as racism, as well as other perceived anti-Israel or anti-Semitic wording. A senior South African official said this week that the Z=R issue had been removed from the conference agenda, according to Reuters. However, an American Jewish Committee official working closely on the issue dismissed the purported compromise as subterfuge. In the current draft, references to Zionism and Israel simply are replaced with the term occupying power, said Jason Isaacson, the AJCommittee's director of government and international affairs. But the document still is written for no other purpose than to single out Israel, Isaacson said. The Bush administration has threatened to boycott the conference if attempts to link Zionism and racism continue, perhaps keeping Secretary of State Colin Powell at home or sending only lower-level diplomats. Either step likely would undermine the credibility of any declaration to emerge from Durban. Indeed, for Powell, America's first black secretary of state, to attend would be a prize for the conference, one Jewish activist said. For that very reason, the U.S. congressional black leadership insists that Powell attend to deal with the slavery issue, despite the anti-Israel rhetoric. In exchange for their support for the Jewish cause - and to maintain harmony in occasionally bumpy relations - some blacks want Jews to stand with them on slavery, which in Durban may include a demand for reparations. Jewish organization have yet to formulate a position on slavery reparations, and the black community itself seems divided on the issue. The Bush administration rejects the call for reparations and has indicated that, if addressed at all, the issue must be tackled on America's own terms, not at an international conference. Joining the blacks would force Jews to lock horns with the one ally that has enough sway to make or break the conference. Moreover, if
[CTRL] The Schlund Affidavit - 8/17
-Caveat Lector- The truth on corruption in the DEA, CIA, Federal and State Courts and others now and in the future can never be exposed because of the use of the these and other electronic devices against all the witnesses to torture and control them. In the future, all crimes by the government will be covered up using these and other electronic devices. No witnesses can survive this torture for any period of time with their mind intact and still be a good component witness and remember all the facts. Now, and in the future, millions of Americans will be controlled and tortured electronically with these and many other kinds of electronic devices. Only people in high positions of power in the government that are protected by corrupt officials will be safe from exposure. (I have been tortured so badly while I was working on this part that I have to lay down and try to recover. I am partially blind from the torture, and I was screaming in pain as I typed this for the court. My mind is scrambled, and I am unable to exercise my freedom of speech and I am being force to stop writing due to the pain and suffering that the DEA and or other is inflicting on me using torture form the implants that they injected into both sides of my neck and or other ways). When the DEA really releases my files, they will remove all the names and black out everything to cover up their fabrication of evidence to obstruct justice. When the DEA set me up and framed me as knowingly receiving my files, they didn't black out any names or anything else. The DEA wanted it to look like I agreed with what they had written in these files. The only way to do this was to not allow me to know what was in the files. Next, to complete the coverup of their crimes, they will black out what they are trying to hide to cover up the truth. We will reply by fighting them through every court, including the World Court. Today's date is December 6, 1999. I was harassed and tortured during the night for what I typed yesterday. The torture and harassment was mild compared to the past but it still deprived me of some sleep and caused me pain and suffering. The torture was increased in the morning and I was threatened while I was on the phone for what I was saying but the torture was below the levels that make me scream. During the day today the torture was mild at times and somewhat heavier at times. I lost much of the feeling in my feet during the first two hours after leaving the house and while I was bidding a job the torture was put into a mode to make it almost impossible to do my job and I was unable to do the bid. While driving, the torture mode they were using against me so disabled me that it is impossible to drive safely during these kinds of torture. I have informed the DEA of this in writing and by phone many times over many years and the DEA is and has always been fully aware of the fact that they will eventually force me into an accident while using these and or other devices against me. If and when this accident occurs it will be the result of torture and the court and the DEA will have to take full responsibility for any deaths, injuries or property damage that are a result of the DEA's torture of me. I will continue this part of the letter in the proper time frame so the court can understand how evil and satanic the torture of me is by the DEA. I have just returned to typing after setting up the Christmas tree. Every Christmas I am satanically tortured to make me irritable and grouchy for the DEA cameras to make it appear that I am the one spoiling Christmas. No human being could function as a normal human being under these satanic acts of torture by the DEA. I will now be tortured every day until Christmas Day and if I try to go Christmas shopping the DEA will dramatically increase the torture as they have every year to stop me. I am usually tortured out of the stores screaming in pain as I try to shop. In the years past the DEA would satanically increase the torture and deprive me of sleep night after night until Christmas Day. The only way the DEA would allow me any relief from the torture is if I would agree to give them a fabricated conversation to take to the corrupt judge that authorized the warrants against me. From now until Christmas I will be tortured every day after returning home from work in the most horrible ways possible until I agree to give the DEA a conversation to use against me. When I agree to give the DEA one of these fabricated conversations I am under torture in a forced interrogation with the DEA using torture against me. I am usually approaching my breaking point or have reached my breaking point and am in fear of my life and the torture is killing me. Over the years I have repeatedly called the DEA over 1,000 times protesting about the torture of me. To the DEA this is only a joke. Almost every time I called the DEA I was tortured for my call after calling. The DEA would deprive me of sleep
[CTRL] The Schlund Affidavit - 9/17
-Caveat Lector- The following is some more information on this set-up by the DEA. After the DEA had the Dirty Dozen frame me for charging many thousands of dollars at AMFac, next they had Kathy continue to make conversations on the phone to further generate evidence that this is what had happened. The DEA fully knowing the entire time that now of these events ever took place. Next they had Kathy give AMFac a bad check for $8,000.00 to generate more evidence that these events happened. All of this was a set-up by the DEA to frame me, discredit me and then make it look like I had committed suicide. In other words, their plans were to murder me. All of these DEA operations were conducted under orders from Wood who ran the Phoenix Office of the DEA. All of these operations were done under the protection of a warrant issued from the Federal Court. After supplying the FBI with the above information, all of the above was documented and proved by the FBI and many others. George Griffith who also had been released from prison for his shooting of two police officers has now been returned to prison. John Bashem should also be in prison but at this time I have no information on him. The last information I had on him was when he called where I lived and said he was going to blow my brains out. I sent the tape-recording of this to the FBI. AMFac closed all of their operations down and the old AMFac Electric Supply is now Arizona Electric Supply. The bank they used against me was Valley National Bank and it has changed hands because of this and is now Bank One. The FBI and the President of the United States William Clinton went to Janet Reno and tried to destroy the DEA and have it incorporated into the FBI to control the massive corruption. Janet Reno blocked the President and the FBI and the DEA still continues to conduct these illegal covert operations against innocent Americans. The other agencies then had new laws passed to limit the abilities of the DEA. One of these laws was the requiring of two agencies to obtain a warrant against the corporations. This was done to stop industrial espionage. Next, because of the planting of drugs by the DEA against me to use to frame me, a rule was passed forcing them to keep the drugs locked down and accounted for. The Federal court may again say fantastic or surreal. Let me inform the court that all of this is very real and provable in trial. The court may also believe I went too far in the information I'm supplying the court. Let the court fully understand that I am not releasing the real damaging information at this time. The court must understand that I'm being satanically tortured as I type this letter even though the DEA is not making me scream at this time. My body is functional to a high degree of about 50%, which is very good under the torture. The DEA is scrambling my mind badly with the implants and I am in a great deal of pain as I try to write this letter to the court. I am about 50% mentally disabled which is also good compared to normal but I'm also in a lot of pain from the torture of me by the DEA. The amount of information required to understand this case is massive and spans many years and many covert operations. It will be hard for this court to even begin to comprehend the facts in this case while I'm held under the control of the DEA and under torture and this is what the DEA is planning on. If I was given relief from the torture I could make a case against the DEA so damaging that no one could protect the DEA any longer. I will do the best I can under the torture, which is designed to fix this case in the favor of the DEA and give them an unfair advantage over me to cover up their crimes against the American People and me. If there is any part of this information that the court does not understand than please inform me and I will try to supply this portion of the information to the court. The court must understand that the DEA used its powers and authority to fabricate evidence and or take real evidence and then submit it to the court under perjury or in a false and misleading way to frame me as being a drug dealer. The DEA fully knew that I was working with the FBI in a national security investigation and things I said were said as part of this national security investigation and then the DEA submitted these conversations to the court in a false light to obstruct this national security investigation to frame me a being a drug dealer to justify using torture against me to destroy the FBI's investigation of the truth. This is my statement under oath and it is truthful and correct and most of the government stands with me before this court and against the DEA. What my case is really about is: Can the DEA frame me and torture me under the cover of law and be protected by the court because the DEA claims it is conducting an investigation? The DEA claims it can and has the full authority of the court to torture me and destroy my
[CTRL] The Schlund Affidavit - 10/17
-Caveat Lector- Sounds do not travel well in the air. In the files I read they could inject the device into your butt and hear every word including whispers. They needed to use the neck for the injections to adequately torture the targeted person and there was no other reason for the injection being done into the neck. I'm trying to explain to the court how satanic and sadistic the DEA was in the files we read and still is today. In these files probes that had been launched or were about to be launched into space would transmit back to earth using one-half watt of power to transmit hundreds of billions of miles. The power levels used in these devices are far greater than the power levels these deep space probes used. The only reason for the power level to be so high in these devices is to torture their victims. In these CIA and DEA files they were developing a monitoring device that would fit into a human cell. This device worked on very low power and was to be used where they needed to secretly monitor people. Now they have computers that are so small they fit into a human cell. My point is the only intent of these devices was for the torture of political victims. I do not know how much knowledge the court has of a technical nature. I also do not know how far we are to go in teaching the court. The court should understand that a transmitter can be built without using a power supply. There is enough radio frequency in the air to produce electricity using a diode to establish a direction of flow of the Radio Frequency into electrical power to transmit radio signals short distances using no power supply at all. Let me try to explain to the court what my feelings are concerning the use of these devices against the American People. I would also like to give the court my interpretations of how I see the law. In Nazi Germany during the 2nd World War, the Germans gave the Jews and others injections in the neck, which resulted in making them sick, making them vomit and also gave them headaches. This was done against their will under cover of authority. During the trials of these war criminals, the Nuremberg trials called these acts crimes against humanity. Now let's go to my case. The DEA, who are American Nazis, after framing me as a drug dealer gassed me at about 3:00 AM in the morning and came in my home and took my body into their custody. The DEA then performed secret medical procedures on my body against my will under cover of authority. The DEA injected devices in my neck, which made me sick, vomit and also gave me headaches. These injections did far more than this; they satanically tortured me in the most horrible ways possible. I believe this is also a crime against humanity. These warrants to inject these devices were not a warrant for 30 days--it was a warrant for the rest of my life. In other words, the court authorized a warrant to the DEA for life without a hearing or trial. The court also made this a secret warrant. Let the court fully understand that I read the files and this was an illegal act in these files. When the CIA and DEA designed these devices it is was not to monitor someone for the period of time the warrant was good for; it was to monitor these people and their homes for as long as they lived. When these devices were used in walls of people's dwellings, it was not to just monitor those people. It was to monitor everyone that would live there for the next 100 years. The court fully knows that these kinds of warrants are used every day. The court fully knows that millions of Americans and their homes and pets have been monitored or injected with these and other kinds of devices. These devices are not used for investigations; they are used for torture and control over the American public. These devices do not just violate the Nuremberg code. They also violate The Torture Protection Act, The Child Protection Act, The Family Protection Act, The Inner American Treaty, The Geneva Convention and most other Human Rights Treaties that the United States signed or has been ordered by the President to honor. It is my belief that these devices also violate the Constitution of the United States and many other laws. One of these laws would be the United States Supreme Court ruling that no punishment may be given without a trial or conviction first. These devices violate far more than just this; they also violate my freedom of religion. The government has no right to install the mark of the beast in my body. Let me explain to the court what the DEA has done to me using these and other devices against me. They have held me prisoner in an electronic prison for most of the last 22 years while giving everyone the impression that I'm free. They have tortured me Mentally, Physically and Psychologically, causing me far greater pain and suffering then they ever could have done in a mid evil torture chamber. They have destroyed much of my ability to function as a human being. They
[CTRL] A warmer winter ahead? Just on paper
-Caveat Lector- What a neat way to cook the books, pun intended, and make it appear that global warming is actually taking place. Dupont needs to sell more of their new refrigerant worldwide now that their patent on freon has expired so we need it to appear to be really heating up. Let's just change the way we compute the chill factor so everything will appear to be escalating. And of course, outlaw the old freon and aerosol propellants. That should get those sales figures up there. ~Amelia~ A warmer winter ahead? Just on paper Terry Collins Star Tribune Thursday, August 16, 2001 Those days of a 70-below windchill factor in Minnesota are almost surely a thing of the past. That's not because of global warming, but because the windchill factor will be figured differently from now on. The National Weather Service is revising how cold it feels in a given combination of temperature and wind strength. In the past, the agency measured windchill at an altitude of 33 feet. Now readings will be taken at 5 feet above the ground, where most of us actually feel the arctic gusts biting our faces in January and February. For example, with the temp at zero and wind at 20 miles per hour, the windchill would be 39 below under the old formula. Starting in November, it would be 22 below. We may not see numbers like [70 below] ever again, Craig Edwards, chief meteorologist at the Weather Service in Chanhassen, said Wednesday. We have to rethink what our criteria will be for headlining a forecast with a windchill advisory or warning. For decades, the windchill factor -- which combines air temperature and wind speed for a reading of what it supposedly feels like -- has been a staple of winter weather forecasts, especially in Minnesota. Wednesday's temperature illustrates that windchill knows no season in Minnesota. At 2 p.m., the temperature in the Twin Cities was 65 degrees, but an 11-mph wind out of the southwest made it feel like 58, the Weather Service said. And that's with more than a month until fall, which starts Sept. 21. Last week, Minnesotans were concerned about the heat index, which factors in humidity to assess how hot it feels. From Aug. 5 to 8, the heat indices approached 110 to 115 degrees. A little history A change in the windchill factor has been a long time coming. It was created during an Antarctic expedition in the 1940s by U.S. Army Maj. Paul Siple, a geographer, and geologist Charles F. Passel. The two researchers hung plastic cylinders of water in the open air and measured the rate at which the water froze as temperatures and wind speeds changed. The Weather Service adopted the windchill index in 1973. But for decades, scientists have been concerned that the formula overestimates how cold it actually feels. Last year, the Weather Service appointed Maurice Blue stein, an engineering professor at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, and Randall Osczevski, an environmental physicist with Canada's Defense Department, to develop a new system combining studies they had done independently over years. This summer, a dozen volunteers participated in a two-month study in Canada to examine the body's heat loss in simulated windchill conditions. The researchers focused on the face and head, the most exposed surfaces and most likely to suffer frostbite or cause hypothermia. They presented their findings to American and Canadian weather officials, who approved them for both countries earlier this month in Toronto. Starting in November, the public will see warmer, more accurate readings, but the weather won't change, Blue stein said Wednesday. It will still be cold. The new windchill system shows that humans generate heat, unlike the plastic cylinders used in the Siple-Passel model, Bluestein said. He added that the current windchill index also ignores human activity, not to mention sunshine and humidity. The sun's rays can make air temperature feel 10 degrees warmer, he said. Marcia Baisch, principal of Katherine Curren Elementary School in Hopkins, said Wednesday that warmer-sounding windchill readings will not deter her student recess policy next winter. If there's no windchill, we'll go outside, Curren said. If it's colder, we'll have indoor recess. We know Minnesota weather can change very quickly. Likewise, Edwards said he thinks Minnesotans who love outdoor winter activities, such as ice fishing and snowmobiling, shouldn't get a false of security with the new, balmier windchills. I have a hard time believing that I'm going to feel warmer this winter. Cold is cold, he said. But I'd like to think we're more informed. Nobody is going to argue that there isn't a windchill in the air, so we still have to be prepared. -- Terry Collins is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Return to top © Copyright 2001 Star Tribune. All rights reserved. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
[CTRL] Civil Rights Panelists playing ugly games with the truth per Minority
-Caveat Lector- ~Amelia~ August 17, 2001 Looks like the only thing really to have been proven by this panel is that M.F. Berry is intent that these two panel members who heard every word of evidence shall not have their opinions known. This looks like a cover up of the fact that the panel failed to find what they set out to do. Not only do whites have no civil rights according to Berry but apparently members of her own panel do not if they will not say what she wants them to say. Amelia By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights yesterday accused the commission's liberal majority of playing ugly games with the truth in an effort to stifle debate on civil rights issues. Commissioners Abigail Thernstrom, a Republican, and Russell Redenbaugh, an independent, described the panel -- which recently leaked a controversial report saying blacks were denied access to the polls in Florida's 2000 presidential election -- as a rogue body that will not tolerate dissent. The criticism came in response to what the pair called the burying of their dissenting report on the Florida election battles. After two months and threats of legal action, the final minority report was made available on the commission's Web site (www.usccr.gov) just this week, but only as an appendix containing material from a recent Senate hearing, not as a dissenting report. Tucking away our dissent in a crowded appendix, along with much other material, is designed to obscure the fact that we attended all the hearings and viewed all the evidence that other commissioners saw, but believe that the staff's report is partisan and tendentious, Mrs. Thernstrom and Mr. Redenbaugh said. Our goal in joining the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was to add robust debate to the vital issue before the commission, but we have found time and again that the chairman and the liberal majority of the commission have no interest in hearing individuals who disagree with their ideology, the two said in a joint statement. If they were confident in their views, they would allow for the kind of thoughtful discussion we seek. Instead, they go out of their way to hide information so it can't be analyzed, then quash any dissent, they said. In a report leaked in June to three newspapers, the commission's majority, led by Chairman Mary Francis Berry, a declared independent who has contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates over the years, said that black voters were nine times as likely as nonblacks to have their votes thrown out. But Mrs. Thernstrom and Mr. Redenbaugh, in a dissenting report, said economic status and education were the likely factors that resulted in several thousand votes being tossed as invalid, adding that with a large get-out-the-vote effort taking place in black communities nationwide, many were first-time voters unfamiliar with voting technology and rules. They said the commission's majority report did not recognize the concept of voter error. Mrs. Thernstrom and Mr. Redenbaugh said they repeatedly asked Miss Berry over several months about the report on the Florida election, but received no information -- noting that it was leaked to the media before they ever saw it or had a chance to study it. They said that they were denied access to any of the statistical data used for the report and that Miss Berry also refused to make public their minority report in what they described as a naked political act of silencing the voice of dissenting members of the commission. Miss Berry, who was not available yesterday for comment, ruled at the time that a Yale University professor had helped prepare the minority report for no fee and that commission rules prohibited work from uncompensated experts. Mrs. Thernstrom and Mr. Redenbaugh noted yesterday that Miss Berry submitted a similar report in 1988 from an uncompensated expert and said use of the little-known rule rings hollow. The Civil Rights Commission has a long history of allowing commissioners to rely on work by uncompensated experts, they said, adding that since the panel deals with topics ranging from police brutality to immigration, it would be natural for commissioners to All site contents copyright © 2001 News World Communications, Inc. Privacy Policy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's
[CTRL] O, JERUSALEM!
-Caveat Lector- O, JERUSALEM! By Keith R. Wood 08.16.01 © 2001, all rights reserv --- - The news has been filled the last few days with the news of the recent terrorist bombing in Israel. Another desperate Muslim, another group of innocent victims, another grisly video clip. Fifteen dead. The finger has been pointed at the Palestinians, and the Israeli government is stepping up measures against them in response. So why am I not on the side of the Israeli government in their holy war against the Palestinians? Perhaps it is because I am unwilling to paint a whole people based on the actions of a few. This benefits not only the Palestinians but also the Israelis. I do not blame all Israelis for the murder of Gerry Bull, who was to ballistics what Tesla was to electricity. Bull had offered his services to Israel, but when they didn't hire him, he went to work for Iraq (back before the Gulf War). He was murdered in Europe by agents of the Israeli government, who had decided that he wasn't worth employing but that he was too good to let someone else have him. I do not blame all Israelis for the attack on the USS Liberty, made in international waters by Israeli jets and torpedo boats, despite the fact that the American flag was flying bold. The ship had been positively identified as being a US Naval vessel by hours of intense aerial recon in CAVU (Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited) conditions. For over 75 minutes, the Liberty was subjected to cannon and machinegun fire, napalm attack, and five torpedoes. When life rafts were launched, the Israelis machinegunned them, as well as men on stretchers, the stretcher bearers and even the men fighting fires on deck. The average Israeli bears no responsibility for the 34 crewmen killed in that sneak attack (Click here for more information, and look at other websites). I do, however, blame the Israeli people for sitting back and letting their elected government execute a Jewish Jihad against the Palestinians, based on the actions taken by a few. If anyone should understand what it is to be at ground zero for genocide, it would be the survivors of the Holocaust, but they are implementing their own Final Solution. Israeli forces have blockaded the areas of the Palestinian Authority against imports and exports of technology, have made it all but impossible for a Palestinian to get a higher education, and have engaged in a systematic campaign of destruction against family homes, offices, and have killed those who planned opposition to the Israeli actions. However, unlike the citified Jews who obediently allowed themselves to be herded into the death camps, or the Japanese-Americans who were put into relocation centers during the Second World War, the Palestinians are not used to following orders . . .and they refuse to go quietly into oblivion. It is no surprise that, with their backs against the wall, these people are striking out. Their selection of targets is not random. These attacks are against places where foreigners are commonly found, because of the massive news coverage that follows in the native lands of those foreigners killed or wounded. These are also soft targets, where the attacks are not likely to be stopped or diverted. Pressure against civilians is a force multiplier, mobilizing world and public opinion far more than would strikes against government officials, with economic and social effect reaching far beyond the sound of the blast. Don't get me wrong. I am not condoning these terrorist attacks. I simply am not going to blindly follow the Hate the Arab mindset. I consider the entire situation tragic, for Palestinian and Jew alike. Of greater importance, however, is that the escalation of the fighting between the Israelis and the Palestinians is leading to increased tension throughout the Mideast, at a time when the technological advantage that we gave Israel has now been shared with various Arab states, including Egypt. The next Arab-Israeli war will be a bloodbath -- unless Israel uses those nukes nobody admits that they have, or unless a billion or two petrodollars bought an Islamic Bomb (just where ARE all of those Russki nukes that seem to have vanished from the face of the Earth?). Escalation to nuclear war in the Middle East would benefit nobody -- but the people on both sides of a religious war are certain that God is on their side. Even innocents are not spared when the attitude is one of Slay them all; God will know His own! It is time to demand accountability from the Israel government for their actions against the Palestinians. Perhaps such a move by the people of the United States and other nations will show the Palestinians that they are not forgotten, that they may have options other than suicide bombings or gunfights across highways. One can but hope. --- - Keith R. Wood
[CTRL] Was Carl Wilson The Man Who Knew Too Much? Mena Drugs
-Caveat Lector- The Boys on the Track, Mena, Barry Seal and Others as well as the under-rated Dixie Mafia all surround the murder of Carl Wilson. AND guess who shared a meal with Lasater the day before Chandra Levy disappeared? Why Gary Condit, of course. I do hope the FBI investigates that connection but it never does so why would it this time? ~Amelia~ Was Carl Wilson The Man Who Knew Too Much? By Henrietta Bowman 08.15.2001 --- - As previously reported in No Justice for Carl Wilson, the Carl Wilson story is entangled with the Clintonian Arkansas political machine and the Dixie Mafia. It is tied to drugs, and in Arkansas, that inevitably leads back to Mena and to some very powerful people. This will seem a very roundabout tale, but please have patience. I assure you, it does connect to Carl Wilson. People previously willing to talk are being intimidated and frightened into silence. Carl Wilson's widow, Tammy, has also been warned to back off, but unlike others, Tammy Wilson isn't backing. One person who is backing off was a friend of Carl Wilson -- a man that probably owes his life to Carl because of a warning Carl gave him. It would not be the first time this man lost his courage and he may hold the key to why Carl Wilson was targeted for elimination. Once this man was brave. Perhaps he will find his courage again. The man has good reason to be afraid. Just ask Jean Duffey, Linda Ives and Sharlene Wilson (no relation to Carl). This man is John Brown, a former Saline County detective. He investigated the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry. Ives and Duffey know how it feels to be let down by John Brown when it really counted. Initially, the cause of death was reported to be the result of falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. Their deaths at the time were ruled accidental by Clinton-appointed state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak. Later it would be determined in an independent autopsy sought by Linda Ives through the courts that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks and Don Henry had been stabbed in the back. An out-of-state examiner said the cause of death was clear: murder by beating and stabbing before they were placed on the railroad tracks. Dr. Malak was exposed as an incompetent fool with a long record of bad autopsy results, yet Governor Bill Clinton supported him, in spite of his being a political liability. The medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, according to state Rep. Bob Fairchild, a Democrat from Fayetteville, Arkansas was sort of protected by the governor and the [state crime laboratory] board. Clinton appointed the board members in his capacity as governor. Dr. Malak's rulings also helped Clinton's mother, nurse-anesthetist Virginia Kelley, avoid legal scrutiny in one patient's death -- while she was defending herself in a medical malpractice lawsuit stemming from the death of another patient. Brown was a brave man at the time and he ignored all warnings that it would be wiser to leave the Ives-Henry case alone. According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, author of The Secret Life Of Bill Clinton, it came to a head at a tense closed-door meeting with Robert Shepherd, the man appointed by Bill Clinton to be Arkansas's drug czar. Shepherd put on his overbearing cop manner and said 'Brown, those two kids are dead. There's nothing you can do to bring them back. Your career will prosper a lot more if you'd concentrate your efforts somewhere else,' recalled Brown. 'I walked to the door, and just as I was leaving I turned and said, 'Guys, unless somebody wants to discuss the big secret with me, and tells me why everybody wants me to leave this alone, I've got two kids dead and I still consider that murder in Arkansas.' I walked out and thought, 'Oh shit, have I got problems.' Brown's career did not prosper. Forced out of the Saline County Sheriff's Department, he was reduced to digging ditches at $6 an hour to support his young wife Karen and two small children. But he never cracked. Once, when I visited him at his home in the country, there was a volunteer providing protection around-the-clock. The man was unarmed, but at least there would be a witness if anything happened. I have no doubt that it was this informal network of friends and supporters that kept him going, and perhaps kept him alive, through the worst months. It was John Brown who finally broke Sharlene Wilson and extracted her confession. He then discovered a fresh witness, a lad who had been out with two friends that night looking for a marijuana patch. The witness had been about sixty feet away, hidden below the bank, watching a group of men talking on the tracks. 'One of them I definitely recognized as Dan Harmon. Then I noticed two more people, Kevin and Don, walking down the railroad tracks.' At first it looked as if Harmon was just talking to the boys, but then a shot rang out. The
[CTRL] Judge Slams ADL for Hurting Couple - $10.5 Million Award
-Caveat Lector- ~Amelia~ Veracity Judge Slams ADL for Hurting Couple Tarred As 'Anti-Semites Sat Aug 18 21:50:06 2001 Judge Slams ADL for Hurting Couple Tarred As 'Anti-Semites' By MARC PERELMAN FORWARD CORRESPONDENT UPHOLDING most of a $10 million defamation suit against the Anti-Defamation League, a federal judge in Denver has lambasted the organization for labeling a nasty neighborhood feud as an anti-Semitic event. In upholding the first-ever court defeat handed to the 87-year-old ADL, U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham said the organization had endorsed and publicized the bigotry accusations of a Jewish couple against its neighbors without either investigating the case or weighing the consequences. Based on its position and history as a well-respected civil-rights institution, it is not unreasonable to infer that public charges of anti-Semitism leveled by the ADL will be taken seriously and assumed by many to be true without question, the judge wrote on March 31 in a 46-page order and memorandum of decision obtained by the Forward. In that respect, the ADL is in a unique position of being able to cause substantial harm to individuals when it lends its backing to allegations of anti-Semitism. The judge's opinion confirmed a verdict reached last April by a federal jury, which essentially accused the Denver chapter of the ADL and its regional representative, Saul Rosenthal, of falsely portraying William and Dorothy Quigley as anti-Semites. Mr. Quigley, an executive of the United Artists theater chain, said his career in the predominantly Jewish and close-knit film business had stalled after the incident. The ADL seized an opportunity to aggrandize itself as the defender of the Jews by unjustly accusing a middle-class couple of being anti-Semitic crooks, said Jay Horowitz, the Quigleys' Denver-based lawyer. And all along, they showed an unbelievable arrogance. At the same time, the judge reduced last year's judgment by some $675,000, cutting the punitive damages awarded to Mrs. Quigley under state law and reducing the Quigleys' compensatory damages to reflect money they received in an earlier settlement with opposing lawyers. The ADL said it would appeal the decision to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver later this spring. The ADL's law firm, Long and Jaudon, claimed in a statement issued by the ADL last week that there were reversible errors made during both pretrial and trial proceedings. Both the ADL and attorney Joe Jaudon refused to comment further. What is not in dispute is that the ADL, after springing to the defense of a Jewish couple essentially seeking to strengthen their hand in a private dispute, now finds itself entangled in an embarrassing and potentially costly legal stew. The league's annual budget hovers around $50 million. The judgment could harm its reputation as an aggressive but reliable monitor of anti-Semitism. The ruling comes at a time when the ADL is also embroiled in the Marc Rich pardon scandal. The organization said it received some $250,000 in the past 15 years from the fugitive financier who received a controversial 11th-hour pardon from President Clinton. The league's national director, Abraham Foxman, declared last month that he probably had made a mistake in writing a letter to Mr. Clinton supporting the Rich pardon. All this was not lost on Mr. Horowitz, the Denver attorney. Can you imagine an organization using money from Marc Rich, a guy who made millions dealing with anti-Semitic countries like Iran, attacking powerless people for some alleged anti-Semitic slurs? he said. The Denver dispute began in August 1994, when Mitchell and Candice Aronson moved to the affluent suburb of Evergreen, Colo. The couple was initially befriended by the Quigleys, their neighbors, but relations quickly began to sour, escalating from complaints about dogs and stolen plants to an allegation by Mrs. Aronson that Mr. Quigley tried to run her over with his car. The Aronsons contacted the ADL on October 21, after concluding that the Quigleys were plotting to drive them out of the neighborhood because they were Jewish. The suspicions were based partly on a conversation on the Quigleys' cordless phone, which the Aronsons claimed they inadvertently overheard through their police scanner. They said they heard the Quigleys talking about sticking pictures of oven doors on their house, burning their children and wishing they had been blown up in a terrorist attack in Israel. The ADL, after consulting with the district attorney, suggested that the Aronsons tape another six weeks' worth of conversations. None of the parties reportedly knew that Congress had outlawed such wiretaps on October 25. In December, the Aronsons filed a federal suit against the Quigleys, accusing them of ethnic intimidation and violation of their civil rights. The following day, at a press conference, Mr. Rosenthal of the ADL labeled the Quigleys anti-Semitic and said they were planning
