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for People Around the World
206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147
Sandpoint, ID 83864 #1776; 208-265-2575
http://www.healingcelebrations.com;
http://www.miracle6.com

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Release: No. MI6-3

Date Mailed: Nov. 21, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ingri Cassel208/265-2575; 800/336-9266

Bioelectric Software Developed for Peace and Healing:
Love Energy and Prayer Used to Produce Miracles

Sandpoint, ID At a time when more people are praying for
miraculous healings and world peace, a team of researchers has
developed a computerized bioelectric device said to enhance our
ability to pray for personal and global salvation.  Called
MIRACLE 6, the software operates using physics, mathematics,
and subtle energies that experts theorize may underlie the
widespread success of earnest prayers.

MIRACLE 6s design evolved from the work of twentieth century
genius, Nicola Tesla, and the universally accepted principle
that prayer, and loving spiritual intent, consistently produces
beneficial outcomes, and often miraculous results.

The research team was led by Harvard graduate and
public health authority, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, and computer
expert and physicist, Ernie Vega. The team reasoned that for
prayer to work, a heart-felt positive desire had to be
communicated in the form of electromagnetic (mathematic)
frequency signals directed into six non-physical dimensions.
Mr. Vega then developed mathematical models that amplified the
same energy signals generated by sincere focused prayer.

Everything in the physical universe is, in fact,
crystallized mathematics, Dr. Horowitz explained.
Theologies in most popular religions reflect one
Divine Law of physics and mathematics. Spoken words
and/or sacred geometric forms, known throughout the millennia
to be associated with miraculous manifestations, are
essentially mathematical formulas directing energy inter-
dimensionally.

MIRACLE 6 works because it obeys all of nature's laws,
and shares critical steps in common with devout
prayer, Mr. Vega said.
The Book of Genesis records that God used His spoken
word to create. Word is sound, and sound is
electromagnetic frequencies. These creative technologies are
explained by advances in mathematics and physics. In essence,
Gods language is math, and His Kingdom is very near.

In the first step, since God is obviously
multilingual, all language is alphanumerically translatable.
Thus, MIRACLE 6 translates a written prayer into a mathematical sequence.

Next, the prayerful intent, empowered by the heart felt
emotion of love, generates a harmonic frequency signal that
is mathematically relayed. The software directs the computer,
to function much like a radar detector. It thus records users
subtle heart energy with a highly sensitive, pulsed,
recognizance signal. The signal identifies tiny coherent
frequencies coming from the individuals prayer-filled heart.
These signals are mathematically distinguishable from the
general background noise in the room.

Finally, consistent with recent discoveries in several fields
of science, an energy vortex or spiral energy transducera
critical component in the system dynamics of natureis used to
transmit the mathematically distilled prayer signal millions of
times a second into multi-dimensional space, or spiritual
dimensions. According to the inventors, and many MIRACLE 6
users, God hears this multiplied amplified signal and always
responds appropriately.

The machine also boasts a Rife frequency and tone generator,
resident tones from the ancient musical scale for sound
therapy, a brain wave generator, clustered water maker,
and a full color library of 30,000 sacred geometric forms
and crystallographs said to aid in color therapy
and radionic healing.

Some people ask Who needs a computer to pray? Dr.
Horowitz said. They are absolutely right. You dont need
MIRACLE 6 to pray, or help you manifest miracles. You also
dont need a car to drive to work. Its just a lot faster and
more comfortable to use technologies that have been made
available today, based on God's laws. Remember, technology is
inherently neutral, not evil. It is evil men who corrupt the use of neutral 
technologies.

MIRACLE 6 is said to even have safeguards against
devil-doers. The few who have tried to use MIRACLE 6
prototypes for evil have been made seriously sorry, Mr. Vega
said, quoting from the Bible (I John 4:1). We say, Dear
friends, dont trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the
spirits to see whether they are from God.

The developers are so certain MIRACLE 6 can help you
manifest miracles, they are offering a fifteen-day free trial,
encouraging users to put their problems and illnesses to the
test. Besides this, they have created a World Peace Prayer
Module which is also freely downloadable from
http://www.MIRACLE6.com.
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[CTRL] Cipro Effect Wearing Off at Bayer

2001-11-22 Thread Steve


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The Cipro effect is wearing off. The gloss that temporarily attached to Bayer
thanks to its anti-anthrax drug has been stripped away by its awful third-
quarter figures - far short of even bottom-end forecasts. Since the Baycol
withdrawal, things have gone from bad to worse.

The pharmaceuticals decline was foreseen, but the lack of recovery in
Kogenate is worrying. Bayer now puts the costs of the Baycol and Kogenate
problems at E1.4bn this year. Adalat, its number two drug, and Avelox, its
successor to Cipro, were disappointing. The real nasties, however, were in
polymers and chemicals, where operating margins of 3.1 per cent and 2.5
per cent respectively hit historical lows. With 60 per cent of sales going to the
car industry, polymers look unlikely to bounce back quickly.

Bayer admits its conglomerate structure failed to cushion it from the Baycol
withdrawal and deepening economic downturn. So why cling to it? Bayer
looks as though it no longer has the management resources to run such a
diverse business. Its balance sheet, after buying Aventis CropScience, will
also be stretched.

Selling pharmaceuticals, however, could secure its future as a significant
industry influence and raise $20bn or more to bolster its remaining
businesses. While Bayer rules out that option, its shares look set to bump
along at their 30 per cent-plus discount to sum-of-the-parts valuations. With
trading deteriorating, they are best avoided.

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Re: [CTRL] [ctrl] So Bush Did Steal the White House

2001-11-22 Thread Steve


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If Gore and Lieberman were in office, I'll bet that 9/11 would not have
happened and we would be wondering how high the stock market would go.

Have a nice Bush Jr./Sr. war/recession/repression, isn't that what the
Republicans voted for? No?

Steve

On 22 Nov 01, at 3:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Not according to law Bush did not steal the election.

 How wonderful it would be though if Gore and Lieberman would be in
 office now - the former who was described by his wife as Oh Al he is
 sexy as if who the hell cared, and the latter - Holy Joe quoting
 scripture, but then it is said the devil himself could quote scripture
 if need be and appear as an angel of light

 But Holy Joe now wants to go to war and destroy Iraq - this little twerp
 with the big mouth is as blood thirsty as Sharon.

 For there are many many people now questioning - hey, who really took
 out the Twin Towers?

 Don't know - well maybe, ask Joe?

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Re: [CTRL] His grasp of spin is chilling . . .

2001-11-22 Thread Svetska srpska zajednica


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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: [CTRL] His grasp of spin is chilling . . .


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  Wednesday 21 November 2001

 telegraph.co.uk

 His grasp of spin is chilling . . .
 (Filed: 16/11/2001)


 Few Westerners have seen Osama bin Laden's recruitment video in
 full. So what did Julia Magnet, a young Jewish New Yorker, make of
 it?


 THE Third Reich may have honed a formidable propaganda
 machine, but even Hitler might have drawn the line at flashy music
 videos. In that respect, at least, Osama bin Laden has topped the
 Fuhrer.

 Until I sat down to watch a two-hour Al Qa'eda recruitment video,
 made just six months before the September 11 attacks, I had no
 idea that the champion of anti-Americanism had hijacked our
 Hollywood gimmicks and television tricks. Far more likely, I thought,
 that he'd produce a dreary display of militant fundamentalism: lots
 of ranting against America and Saudi Arabia, with some macho
 gun-play thrown in for show.

 What I actually saw was far more worrying: Osama bin Laden
 beating us at our own media game. With devilish cunning, he has
 plugged into the MTV generation - and it's clear he knows how to
 reach us. I have spent all day humming militant Islamic songs. And
 I am a Jewish twenty-something from New York.

 For the best part of a week, I have been watching his video over
 and over again, trying to match every syllable with a translation of
 the Arabic that Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern
 Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, has just
 completed. Long before I understood each phrase in its context, I
 realised that words are only a small part of bin Laden's propaganda
 arsenal. Like Hitler, his speeches are more concerned with creating
 an emotional effect than expounding a concrete message.

 Let me give you a 30-second example of how he creates terrorist
 MTV. The screen darkens. We are in a room, playing a virtual
 reality game: assassinate the American leader of your choice. Light
 pulses from a movie screen, hanging eerily in space, as a song
 pounds over the speakers: We defy with our Koran/ with blood, we
 wipe out our dishonour and shame.

 Zoom in from a figure watching the screen to the still image of a
 Taliban fighter straddling a corpse. The music rises. Then, the
 image changes, as if the hands of a clock are erasing it. We are still
 in the dark room, but our anonymous alter-ego is now in Taliban
 dress. Bush Snr and Colin Powell appear on the screen. With
 cowboy timing, our watching figure reaches into his robe to grab a
 gun. He crouches and fires at the screen, in time to the martial
 rhythm. Smoke obliterates the face of Colin Powell.

 Cut to Warren Christopher and President Clinton. Boom! Cut to a
 close-up of Clinton, wearing his habitual self-satisfied smirk. The
 gunman's shadow blocks out Clinton's face. Kerpow! Now, in a
 parody of the American flag, a puzzle of horizontal stripes emerges
 from each side of the screen, finally connecting to reveal two
 fighters facing down Warren Christopher. Bang, bang! Whoosh - the
 images disappear and the screen spins to reveal Osama bin Laden.

 He knows his audience. His most impressionable recruits are of the
 same age and sex as MTV's loyal following: alienated teenage
 boys, full of the resentment, hyperactivity and maddening sense of
 impotence that typify that age group - in any country. In the video,
 the oppressor is not parental authority, but the West, which can be
 blamed for everything.

 This is a great propaganda film - the kind that you can't get out of
 your head. Bin Laden's story of Muslim subjugation turning to
 resistance is so effective that I barely need my transcripts. He uses
 the most sophisticated western film-making techniques: it's as if
 Guy Ritchie, Sylvester Stallone and Spielberg have banded
 together to make jihad, the movie.

 Despite all this flashiness, bin Laden seems hardly flamboyant as
 an orator - certainly not modern. Yet his grasp of spin, of product-
 packaging, is chilling. If you did not understand his hateful and ugly
 words, you could easily believe he is simply a preacher. His body
 language is gentle and controlled: only his right hand moves, and
 then never farther than six inches from his body. Rarely does he
 shake his fist, a gesture familiar in all propaganda. When he does, it
 is with weary anger: his cause is so self-evident that he does not
 need an indignant mime show.

 But it is those eyes that grab you - otherworldly, luminous eyes that
 remind me of Charles Manson's. They never meet the camera. It is
 as if he doesn't see this world - only the spiritual dimension.

 I had half-expected some of Hitler's propaganda tactics: highly
 choreographed mass events, flanks of elite soldiers, booming
 speeches. Bin Laden employs none of those. When he is on screen,
 the camera stays on him, making the viewer imagine that he is
 being addressed personally.

 Initially, I wondered:

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] The Problems With Bush's Executive Order Burying P...

2001-11-22 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn


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In a message dated 11/21/01 8:34:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   You mean that Reagan  Bush had been able to delay the releases through
the
 Clinton years, but feared not being able to hold off any longer?  O'Conner
 would be concerned about that if she were party to (or aware of) some of
 their criminal deeds?  Hmmm.  Interesting. 

Well apparently the action is kind of on a time release.  The historians were
busy sharpening their pencils when Dubya told them he was not releasing his
father's papers.  It makes Daddy Bush more questionable than ever, but
apparently the proof will never out.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Diverse Voices

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Case

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from: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/

"Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have
been its victims, principally the victims of U.S. fundamentalism, whose
power, in all its forms-military, strategic, and economic-is the
greatest source of terrorism on Earth People are neither still nor
stupid. They see their independence compromised, their resources and
land and the lives of their children taken away, and their accusing
fingers increasingly point north: to the great enclaves of plunder and
privilege. Inevitably, terror breeds terror and more fanaticism. But how
patient the oppressed have been. Their distant voices of rage are now
heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalized places have at last come
home."

John Pilger, author - Hidden Agendas

*

"The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our
television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a
long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone
through, often as a result of our policies."

Howard Zinn

*

"We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or
uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these
things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by
our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back
to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear
terrorism."

Robert Bowman, Vietnam Veteran, bishop of the United Catholic Church in
Melbourne Beach, FL.

*

"Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a
natural and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures
one's country by military superiority over all rivals regardless of
consequence is irrational... There is surely a more rational form of
patriotism that searches for excellence in social, economic and moral
spheres rather than in weapon systems."

Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Rollback


**

"I believe the profligate waste of our resources on irrelevant weapons
systems and the Asian economic meltdown, as well as the continuous trail
of military 'accidents' and of terrorist attacks on American
installations and embassies, are all portents of a twenty-first century
crisis in America's empire, an empire based on the projection of
military power to every corner of the world and on the use of American
capital and markets to force global economic integration on our terms,
at whatever costs to others."

Chalmers Johnson - Blowback

*

" Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow
make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is
punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence
has to be internally denied. "

Arthur Miller, playwright

*

"America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the
Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical
change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would
destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the
United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power
... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the
underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization
to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way."

Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution

*

" Rogue states that are internally free - and the U.S. is at the outer
limits in this respect - must rely on the willingness of the educated
classes to produce accolades and tolerate or deny terrible crimes."

Noam Chomsky, Rogue States

*

"Leaders symbolize what the country stands for. As corruption becomes
routine in Washington in both parties, it trickles down as a corrupting
influence in everyone's lives... Democracy is the ultimate casualty, and
the sapping of democratic life is the most serious contribution of
corporate ascendancy to our spiritual decline. As democracy ebbs,
Americans retreat into private cocoons, feeling helpless to make a
difference... In a democracy, civic participation and the belief in
one's ability to contribute to the common good is the most important
guarantor of public morality. When that belief fades, so too does the
vision of the common good itself."

Charles Derber, Corporation Nation

*

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the
leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship
...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger."

Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

**

"Military intervention to

Re: [CTRL] Israel Says No Iraqiaqs on 9/11

2001-11-22 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn


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In a message dated 11/22/01 1:46:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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 Perhaps.  But don't you recall the impressive scenes from the Gulf
 fiasco when the Scuds were falling from the skies over Israel and
 everyone was freaking out and donning gas masks and freaking out
 some more?  This is more a matter of self-preservation in my view. 

Absolutely.  You're right.  Besides this gives them more reason to bash
Palestinians.  Prudy

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[CTRL] President Bush's UN General Assembly Speech

2001-11-22 Thread THe eXTReMiST


Transcript: President Bush's UN General Assembly Speech

Following is the text of the president's speech:
(begin text)
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (New York, New York) For
Immediate Release November 10, 2001

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
U.N. Headquarters New York, New York

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President,
distinguished delegates, and ladies and gentlemen. We meet in a hall
devoted to peace, in a city scarred by violence, in a nation awakened to
danger, in a world uniting for a long struggle. Every civilized nation
here today is resolved to keep the most basic commitment of civilization:
We will defend ourselves and our future against terror and lawless
violence.

The United Nations was founded in this cause. In a second world war, we
learned there is no isolation from evil. We affirmed that some crimes are
so terrible they offend humanity, itself. And we resolved that the
aggressions and ambitions of the wicked must be opposed early,
decisively, and collectively, before they threaten us all. That evil has
returned, and that cause is renewed.

A few miles from here, many thousands still lie in a tomb of rubble.
Tomorrow, the Secretary General, the President of the General Assembly,
and I will visit that site, where the names of every nation and region
that lost citizens will be read aloud. If we were to read the names of
every person who died, it would take more than three hours.

Those names include a citizen of Gambia, whose wife spent their fourth
wedding anniversary, September the 12th, searching in vain for her
husband. Those names include a man who supported his wife in Mexico,
sending home money every week. Those names include a young Pakistani who
prayed toward Mecca five times a day, and died that day trying to save
others.

The suffering of September the 11th was inflicted on people of many
faiths and many nations. All of the victims, including Muslims, were
killed with equal indifference and equal satisfaction by the terrorist
leaders. The terrorists are violating the tenets of every religion,
including the one they invoke.

Last week, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar University, the world's oldest Islamic
institution of higher learning, declared that terrorism is a disease, and
that Islam prohibits killing innocent civilians. The terrorists call
their cause holy, yet, they fund it with drug dealing; they encourage
murder and suicide in the name of a great faith that forbids both. They
dare to ask God's blessing as they set out to kill innocent men, women
and children. But the God of Isaac and Ishmael would never answer such a
prayer. And a murderer is not a martyr; he is just a murderer.

Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no
forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in
honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will
remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the
children.

And the people of my country will remember those who have plotted against
us. We are learning their names. We are coming to know their faces. There
is no corner of the Earth distant or dark enough to protect them. However
long it takes, their hour of justice will come.

Every nation has a stake in this cause. As we meet, the terrorists are
planning more murder -- perhaps in my country, or perhaps in yours. They
kill because they aspire to dominate. They seek to overthrow governments
and destabilize entire regions.

Last week, anticipating this meeting of the General Assembly, they
denounced the United Nations. They called our Secretary General a
criminal and condemned all Arab nations here as traitors to Islam.

Few countries meet their exacting standards of brutality and oppression.
Every other country is a potential target. And all the world faces the
most horrifying prospect of all: These same terrorists are searching for
weapons of mass destruction, the tools to turn their hatred into
holocaust. They can be expected to use chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons the moment they are capable of doing so. No hint of conscience
would prevent it.

This threat cannot be ignored. This threat cannot be appeased.
Civilization, itself, the civilization we share, is threatened. History
will record our response, and judge or justify every nation in this
hall.

The civilized world is now responding. We act to defend ourselves and
deliver our children from a future of fear. We choose the dignity of life
over a culture of death. We choose lawful change and civil disagreement
over coercion, subversion, and chaos. These commitments -- hope and
order, law and life -- unite people across cultures and continents. Upon
these commitments depend all peace and progress. For these commitments,
we are determined to fight.

The United Nations has risen to this responsibility. On the 12th of
September, these buildings opened for emergency meetings of the General
Assembly

Re: [CTRL] Israel Says No Iraqiaqs on 9/11

2001-11-22 Thread Saba


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Oh no Prudy - those little Israeli planes have been sitting in Turkey so
long waiting to attack Iraq now that the Iraqis have called their bluff
- well poof..

Contrails all the way home to Israel - imagine that little flyspeck
going to attack Iraq...

The other day I have this huge pit bull and my son has this tiny little
spindly legged dog - size of Mexican Hairless only it is something
elsethat little dog attacked my Pit Bull fron side, from rear and
even tried to sexually assault my poor defenseless Pit Bull for it would
be terrible for a big dog to fight back - right?
Nobody likes to see, a great big Pit Bull built like a panzer tank, take
on a little barking obnoxious loud mouthed doggie.

WRONG - that dog suddenly turned and one big GRR with teeth
flashing and ears down - and you know, well they call it the Streak now.

Saba

So they huffed and the puffed and they huffed and they puffed - tell me,
could George Bush have sent over some of his guestapo to talk to them
all?

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Florida Disbars F. Lee Bailey Over Stock Funds


By THE NEW YORK TIMES


ALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 21  F. Lee Bailey, the lawyer who gained fame nearly
40 years ago for his defense of Dr. Sam Sheppard, was disbarred today in
Florida.

Citing his mishandling of stock forfeited by a drug-smuggling client, the
Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Mr. Bailey may not practice law
in the state for at least five years. The court called his conduct egregious
and evidence of a complete disregard for the rules governing attorneys.

Mr. Bailey, part of the so-called dream team that represented O. J.
Simpson in his murder trial, was found to have misappropriated money earned
from the stocks. The court also ruled that he had kept the stocks despite a
federal court order to relinquish them, that he had lied to a federal judge
and that he had put his financial interests above those of his client.

The complaints were brought in 1999 by the Florida Bar, after Mr. Bailey's
defense of Claude Duboc from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Bailey had said money he
earned from nearly $6 million of stock that had belonged to Mr. Duboc was
payment for his services. But the Florida Bar contended that Mr. Bailey knew
all along that he was given control of the stocks with an understanding that
they would be turned over to the federal government.


I'm very pleased with the decision, said David Ristoff, a lawyer for the
bar group who pursued the case against Mr. Bailey. The Supreme Court
decision is based on overwhelming evidence against him that he engaged in
theft, conflict of interest and misrepresenting his client, which are the
most serious things lawyers can engage in.

Mr. Bailey did not return a telephone call to his law office in West Palm
Beach. A lawyer who represented him before the Supreme Court, Beverly Pohl,
said her client could decide to appeal the case to the United States Supreme
Court.

We are obviously disappointed, Ms. Pohl said. But we have no idea if we
will do that or not.

The seven judges decided against permanent disbarment, as had been
recommended by a judge in Collier County who conducted disciplinary
proceedings last year.

Mr. Bailey has to wait at least five years before he can reapply to practice
law here. To be readmitted, Mr. Bailey has to retake the bar examination and
be cleared in a background and character review.

The court gave Mr. Bailey 30 days to close his law practice.




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[CTRL] Fwd: J.P. Morgan crashing? derivatives, gold, dollar




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[[Additional insight may be gleaned by researching a couple of 
topics. Purple currency (or rather, blue), Purple Report, radioactive, 
dust. Those are the key words I've gotten recently and have notbeen 
able to track down much. Supposedly printed by the Treasury and stored 
somewhere. A currency that would provide minute monitoring far in excess 
of the "new" bills with stripes. Back in the mid-'80s or so.

http://www.helsinki.fi/~benaaron/2001_06_01_blogarc.html
"If I had access to a scanner, I would scan my new residence permit, which 
I got from the police today. It takes an entire page in my passport, and next 
year I'll have to get a new passport because with six years' permits, a Romanian 
visa (also full page) and a hell of a lot of stamps, there's almost no room 
left, even with the extra pages inserted. The permit is printed on pink 
and blue currency paper seeded with various holograms, diffraction gratings, 
threads, watermarks, fluorescent and radioactive markings. It has a 
lion (symbol of Finland) and a bull with some stars around it (probably symbol 
of the EU). It is magnificent. I feel like I should get a medal to go with 
it."

Does anyone else remember an odd report in the last couple of months that a 
crop duster owned or contracted by the fed-gov was lost or crashed somewhere 
near Florida on a trip back from down south-ways? IIRC,the oddity 
was related to the department --Defense or something like that (not 
agriculture). According to a tip I got recently, seems the fed-gov has 
been spraying radioactive dust on particular areas in order to track certain 
movements. Don't know if that specificplane was involved, but it was 
coming back from a certain part of the world which is targetted.

In any event, the reader will see why I mention this after seeing the full 
article below. Hey, I don't know if all this stuff is real but I don't 
make it up, either; decide for yourself. You will certainly be affected by 
the elephant feet when they really stampede -- right now, the afermath of Day 
911 is still a cupcake.

P.S. Radioactive dust has a "mark".]]


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Dear What Matters...

The message from the Central Bank Oversight  Monitor Committee below 
is clear. JP Morgan is considered to be in the early stages of 
crashing. 

For background, I refer you to WHAT MATTERS-9 of September 19. [[see 
copied below]]

Posted at: http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmemails/wmemailsindex.html 


If having difficulty with long link go to "E-letters to list members" on 
the home page menu at: http://www.whatmatters.nu 

In friendship, Boudewijn Wegerif What Matters Programme 
Folkhogskola Vardingeby --- 

From: Central Bank Oversight  Monitor Committee Wednesday, 
November 21, 2001 6:03 PM JP Morgan in Early Stages of Crashing To: 
Central Bankers, Secretariats, Governors, and Concerned Others 

Sirs: 

As we've been reporting JP Morgan is the key player in the financial 
derivative markets. What we could be seeing right now are the early 
tremors going through their common stock, reflecting in part a plunging US bond 
market, and massive debt repudiation by Enron and Dynegy. 

The entire derivative pyramid will come down around this institution and 
other players having extreme risk exposure. The US Federal Reserve will be 
powerless to prevent this unraveling. To attempt a remedy would be to 
threaten the recovery of the entire world economy, and the political 
institutions of same. 

As you can clearly see the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average 
Convergence/Divergence (MACD) are sounding the alarm bells for the collapse of 
JP Morgan. 

Be certain your institutions are not caught in the vortex with nearly all 
your foreign reserves in US dollars. 

Sincerely, CBOM 
WHAT MATTERS-9 September 19, 2001 
Please prove me wrong, but I think the worlds top banks will be let off the 
hook on the gold and other derivatives losses that are now inevitable.



Dear list members,
On the day of the 9.11 disaster, in fact, as the planes were tearing 
into the twin towers of the One World Trade Centre, I was working on the hereon 
following review and summary of an important essay by market analyst Adam 
Hamilton, The JPM Derivatives Monster. 

I have been reluctant to post my review and summary till now, eight days 
later. Even now I hesitate. Because now when I read the original and what I have 
written about it, I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that it is too 
late to normalise the market. 

I SUSPECT THAT THE INSIDERS KNEWTHAT THIS WOULD BE THE CASEALL 
ALONG. AND I DO NOTREALLY WANT TO ACCEPT THAT.

Regular readers of my e-letters know that I seldom use block letters. Here 
they are warranted. Because my gut feeling tells me that the banking fraternity 
and major world treasury departments have known since 1995 at least that the 
dollar's days are

[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] He who decides the meaning of the word is the master (fwd)




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Excerpt:

Do we know what this thing called terrorism is, this thing that all the
police and military might of the United States is attacking? You might have
thought so, but in steps Tom Ridge, the Director of the new Office of
Homeland Security. The anti-terrorism czar. Not long ago, he said something
truly frightening. Referring to Americans who 'lash out at people who
dress differently or practice a different religion, he said we have a word
for that: terrorism.'

He who decides the meaning of the word is the master

By Thomas L. Jipping
web posted November 19, 2001

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1101/1101word.htm

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, it
means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean different
things.

The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master - that's all.

He who determines the meaning of words is indeed the master. Bill Clinton
fiddled with the meaning of words such as sexual relations, alone, and
is and became the master. He was impeached but not removed from office.
He was suspended from practicing law in Arkansas but not disbarred. He cut
a deal with the independent counsel but was not prosecuted. And now he's
making six-figures a speech, doing commercials with Bob Dole, and working
on his political future.

Judges are truly our masters by fiddling with the meaning of words. The
Supreme Court does it with the Constitution all the time. The Court
secularized our culture by fiddling with the words establishment of
religion in the First Amendment. The Court gave the federal government
power over everything by fiddling with the word commerce in Article I.
The Court launched the culture of death by fiddling with the word liberty
in the Fourteenth Amendment.

Legislatures and courts fiddle with the word discrimination and suddenly
we find that treating people differently based on race is required to avoid
treating people differently based on race. Fiddling with the words sexual
harassment has transformed the workplace.

I attended law school at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The
faculty unanimously passed a policy banning racist, sexist, anti-lesbian,
ageist, and other remarks based on prejudice and group stereotype. But, I
thought, the First Amendment applies to state institutions and the First
Amendment doesn't allow bans on speech based on its content. And here, it
was my First Amendment professor who had drafted this censorship policy.
Then I discovered the faculty had just fiddled with words a little; these
remarks were not actually speech, they said, but harassment. And schools
can certainly ban harassment to improve the educational environment. Isn't
that neat, just come up with a different label, call it something else, and
anything is possible. Call it speech, and the Constitution makes me the
master. Call it harassment, and the school authorities become the master.
As Humpty Dumpty said, the question is which will be master, that's all.

Now we see the same thing happening in this war on terrorism. Everything
from Special Forces troops and carpet bombs in Afghanistan to wiretaps,
warrantless searches, and detention without criminal charges right here in
America are being used against this thing called terrorism. Congress just
radically expanded the FBI's powers to fight this thing called terrorism.
The consequences of fiddling with the word speech in law school seemed
major at the time, but the consequences that flow from the word terrorism
can literally mean life and death.

Do we know what this thing called terrorism is, this thing that all the
police and military might of the United States is attacking? You might have
thought so, but in steps Tom Ridge, the Director of the new Office of
Homeland Security. The anti-terrorism czar. Not long ago, he said something
truly frightening. Referring to Americans who lash out at people who
dress differently or practice a different religion, he said we have a word
for that: terrorism.

That law school censorship policy was so scary because what it prohibited
was so open to subjective impression. I was called racist because I opposed
race-based policies. I was called sexist because I opposed killing babies
in the womb. I was called homophobic because I thought children ought to be
raised by a father and mother. And who knows what ageist is? Suddenly,
harassment was in the eye or ear of the beholder, a serious problem because
attaching the label harassment had negative consequences.

Now we see the same problem on a grand scale. What is lashing out? Mr.
Ridge was talking not about physical attacks, which of course would
otherwise be against the law, but about speech. My law school labeled
harassment speech the authorities did not like. Mr. Ridge appears to be
saying the government will label terrorism speech the authorities do not
like. Do you see a very

[CTRL] Fwd: Most valuable U.S. spy-recon plan mysteriously goes down 26 minutes fro...




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Another plane down near New York!

A Navy intelligence plane equipped to detect, analyze and block enemy radio
and guidance transmissions.  (Recall that the section of the Pentagon
destroyed on September 11 housed Naval Intelligence, a division of U.S.
military and  intelligence that has is rumored to be resisting elite plans
globalization at the expense of American sovereignty and interests.)

There are nations, firms and criminal organizations that would be willing to
take substantial risks and invest substantial resources to capture the
technology aboard a Prowler.

It is also possible that this Prowler still carried data collected during
operations in the Middle East (Iraq) and Central Asia (Turkey).

This too fits a very improbable pattern of accidents and terrorism within a
small radius of Manhattan Island,

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Electronic Warfare Plane Crashes
By Associated Press

November 21, 2001, 2:36 PM EST

CHERRY POINT AIR STATION, N.C. -- A Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler electronic
warfare jet crashed into the Atlantic on Wednesday after all four crew
members ejected safely.

The cause of the crash was under investigation.

The plane went down 26 miles off the coast, said Maj. James Bell, a
spokesman for Cherry Point Air Station.

The crew members were all rescued by two helicopters from the base, he said.
They were taken to Carteret Regional Medical Center for checkups but none
had serious injuries.

No decision had been made on whether the aircraft will be recovered, Bell
said. One factor we will have to consider is the Prowler has sensitive
electronic equipment on it.

Replacement cost for the Prowler, introduced to the Marine Corps in 1984, is
$52 million.

Prowlers are assigned to fly with fighters and bombers to jam enemy radar.
Bell said the squadron to which the jet was assigned had recently returned
from duty in Turkey, where it patrolled no-fly zones over Iraq.

The air station has four Prowler squadrons consisting of about 20 planes,
Bell said.

Prowlers have a range of more than 900 miles without refueling, and can
reach a maximum speed of nearly the speed of sound.

Names of the crew members were withheld until their families could be
notified.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-prowler-crash1121nov21.s
tory



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[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: THAT RYTHMIC SOUND...




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That rythmic noise you hear in thebackground
is the sound of jackboots crunching on tarmac.

On September 9th - two days before the WTC "event"
- I was talking by phone to someone in the United States who had information on
Collateral Trading Programmes and related matters. Since I was about to
publish THE PROJECT HAMMER FILE that deals with these secretive financial
programmes, I had made the call to seekcorroboration of certain
facts.

The individual I spoke with is knowledgeable on
such matters. During the course of what became a quite agitated and random
conversation I was told that "the world needs militarism not capitalism."
It was a startling thing to say and completely out of context to our
discussion. At least that was my thought at the time. I even made a
special mention about it in my interview note pad and underlined it three
times.

I now believe that this individual
wascognisant that something breath-taking was about to happen. Two
days later a breath-taking event did indeed take place. 

Even if my gut instincts are incorrect and this
assessment is wrong, it is plain that there is now a strong move
towardsmilitarim, especially in the US. Mike Ruppert made that exact
point in his most recent posting to this list. The below post from a
Michael Ratner, a human rights lawyer further bolsters this
viewpoint.

That rythmic sound you hear in the background
really is getting louder.

And unless you do something about it now, you'll
wake up in mourning tomorrow.


David Guyatthttp://www.deepblacklies.co.uk

THE PROJECT HAMMER FILETHE SECRET GOLD
TREATYTHE BILDERBERG FILE

***


  
  


  
Secret Military Tribunals, Mass Arrests and
  Disappearances, Wiretapping  TortureBy Michael Ratner
  HumanRightsNow.orgI live a few blocks from the World Trade
  Center. In New York, we are still mourning the loss of so many after the
  attacks on our city. We want to arrest and punish the terrorists,
  eliminate the terrorist network and prevent future attacks. But the
  government's declared war on terrorism, and many of the anti-terrorism
  measures, include a curtailment of freedom and constitutional rights that
  have many of us very worried.I wrote the above paragraph and much
  of the article that follows toward the end of October. At that time, the
  repressive machinery then being put into effect was already terrifying.
  Since that time the situation has gotten unimaginably worse; rights that
  we thought embedded in the constitution and protected by international law
  are in serious jeopardy or have already been eliminated. It is no
  exaggeration to say we are moving toward a police state. In this
  atmosphere, we should take nothing for granted. We will not be protected,
  nor will the courts, the congress, or the many liberals who are gleefully
  jumping on the bandwagon of repression guarantee our rights. We have no
  choice but too make our voices be heard; it is time to stand and be
  counted on the side of justice and against the antediluvian forces that
  have much of our country in a stranglehold.The domestic
  consequences of the war on terrorism include massive arrests and
  interrogation of immigrants, the possible use of torture to obtain
  information, the creation of a special new cabinet office of Homeland
  Security and the passage of legislation granting intelligence and law
  enforcement agencies much broader powers to intrude into the private lives
  of Americans. Recent new initiatives -- the wiretapping of attorney-client
  conversations and military commissions to try suspected terrorists --
  undermine core constitutional protections and are reminiscent of
  inquisitorial practices.Although it is not discussed in this
  article, the war on terrorism also means pervasive government and media
  censorship of information, the silencing of dissent, and widespread ethnic
  and religious profiling of Muslims, Arabs and Asian people. It means
  creating a climate of fear where one suspects one's neighbors and people
  are afraid to speak out.The claimed necessity for this war at home
  is problematic. The legislation and other governmental actions are
  premised on the belief that the intelligence agencies failed to stop the
  September 11th attack because they lacked the spying capability to find
  and arrest the conspirators. Yet, neither the government nor the agencies
  have demonstrated that this is the reason.This war at home gives
  Americans a false sense of security, allowing us to believe that tighter
  borders, vastly empowered intelligence agencies, and increased
  surveillance will stop terrorism. The United States is not yet a police
  state. However, even a police state could not stop terrorists intent on
  doing us harm. In addition, the fantasy of Fortress

Re: [CTRL] OT If I Had My Life to Live Over by Erma Bombeck

2001-11-22 Thread Samantha L.


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IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER
by Erma  Bombeck

I would have talked less and listened more.

I would have invited friends over to dinner  even if the carpet was  stained,
or the sofa faded.

I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much
less about the dirt when someone wanted  to light a fire in the fireplace.

I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his
youth.

I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day
because my hair had just been teased and  sprayed.

I would have burned the pink candle sculpted  like a rose before it melted in
storage.

I would have sat on the lawn with my children  and not worried about grass
stains.

I would have cried and laughed less while watching television-
and more while watching life.

I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth
would go into a holding pattern if I weren't  there for the day.

I would never have bought anything just  because it was practical, wouldn't
show soil, or was guaranteed to last  a lifetime.

Instead of wishing away nine months of  pregnancy,  I'd have cherished every
moment and realized that the wonderment  growing inside me was the only
chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would  never have said, Later.  Now go
get washed up for dinner.

There would have been more I love you's.. more I'm sorry's but mostly,
given another shot at life,  I would  seize every minute...look at it and
really see it ...
live it..and never  give it back.

Stop sweating the small stuff.  Don't worry  about who doesn't like
you, who has more, or who's doing what.   Instead, let's cherish the
relationships we have with those who do love  us. Let's think about what  God
HAS blessed us with.  And what we are  doing each day to promote ourselves
mentally, physically, emotionally, as well as spiritually.

Life is too short to let it pass you by. We only have one shot at this and
then it's gone.

I hope you all have a blessed day.

Note: Erma Bombeck needed an organ transplant, and even though she could have
been moved to the head of the waiting list, due to her prominence and wealth,
she refused to do such, and subsequently, died from organ failure.

http://inspirations.crossdaily.com/overagain/

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Re: [CTRL] fwd So Bush Did Steal the White House

2001-11-22 Thread Samantha L.

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From:  radtimes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Thu Nov 22, 2001  7:44 am
Subject:  So Bush Did Steal the White House

So Bush Did Steal the White House
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/112101a.html

By Robert Parry
November 22, 2001

George W. Bush now appears to have claimed the most powerful office in the
world by blocking a court-ordered recount of votes in Florida that likely
would have elected Al Gore to be president of the United States.

A document, revealed by Newsweek magazine
http://www.msnbc.com/news/660124.asp, indicates that the Florida recount
that was stopped last year by five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court
would have taken into account so-called overvotes that heavily favored Gore.
If those overvotes were counted, as now it appears they would have been,
Gore would have carried Florida regardless of what standard of
chad  dimpled, hanging, punched-through  was used in counting the so-called
undervotes, according to an examination of those ballots by a group of
leading news organizations.

In other words, Bush lost not only the national popular vote by more than a
half million ballots, but he would have lost the key state of Florida and
thus the presidency, if Florida's authorities had been allowed to count the
votes that met the state's legal requirement of demonstrating the clear
intent of the voter.

The Newsweek disclosure  a memo that the presiding judge in the state
recount sent to a county canvassing board  shows that the judge was
instructing the county boards to collect overvotes that had been rejected
for indicating two choices for president when, in reality, the voters had
made clear their one choice.

If you would segregate 'overvotes' as you describe and indicate in your
final report how many where you determined the clear intent of the voter,
wrote Judge Terry Lewis, who had been named by the Florida Supreme Court to
oversee the statewide recount, I will rule on the issue for all counties.
Lewis's memo to the chairman of the Charlotte County canvassing board was
written on Dec. 9, 2000, just hours before Bush succeeded in getting five
conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Florida recount.
Lewis has said in more recent interviews that he might well have expanded
the recount to include those overvotes. Indeed, it would be hard to
imagine that he wouldn't count those legitimate votes once they were
recovered by the counties and were submitted to Lewis.

The overvotes in which voters marked the name of their choice and also
wrote in his name would be even more clearly legal votes than the so-called
undervotes which were kicked out for failing to register a choice that
could be read by voting machines.

Misguided Articles

This new information indicating that the wrong presidential candidate moved
into the White House also makes a mockery of the Nov. 12 front-page stories
of the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading news outlets,
which stated that Bush would have won regardless of the U.S. Supreme
Court's ruling.

Those stories were based on the hypothetical results if the state-ordered
recount had looked only at  undervotes. The news organizations assumed,
incorrectly it now appears, that the overvotes would have been excluded
from such a tally, leaving Bush with a tiny lead.

In going with the Bush Wins headlines, the news organizations downplayed
their more dramatic finding that Gore would have won if a full statewide
recount had been conducted in accordance with state law. Using the
clear-intent-of-the-voter standard, Gore beat Bush by margins ranging from
60 to 171 votes, depending on what standard was used in judging the
undervotes.

Beyond the big newspapers' false assumptions about the state recount, the
news stories showed a pro-Bush bias in their choice of language and the
overall slant of the articles.

The New York Times, for instance, used the word would and even
declarative statements when referring to Bush prevailing in hypothetical
partial recounts. By contrast, the word might was used when mentioning
that Gore topped Bush if all ballots were considered.

A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots, the Times wrote,
reveal that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States
Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that
the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many
partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United State
Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would
have been won by Mr. Gore.

Two paragraphs later, the Times noted that the examination of all rejected
ballots found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a
full statewide recount. â¦ The findings indicate that Mr.  Gore might have
eked out a victory if he had pursued in court a course like the one he
publicly advocated when he called on the state to 'count all the votes.'
Left

[CTRL] AF News 22 Nov 01


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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!



1669.  Air Force delivering holiday meals to deployed airmen

by Erin Zagursky
Air Combat Command Public Affairs

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Twenty pounds of turkey is more than
enough for an average family on Thanksgiving.  But the Air Force is a big
family, and it requires much more of the bird for its deployed troops -- 54
tons, to be exact.

This Thanksgiving, the Air Force Services Agency is providing the food for a
traditional holiday meal to airmen supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, as
well as every other deployed airman worldwide.

We want to make sure everyone gets the opportunity to get that Thanksgiving
feast, said Senior Master Sgt. Jim Kreuger, chief of food services
operations for the agency.

Also headed to the deployed troops are 14 tons of roast beef, 4 tons of ham,
2 tons of stuffing, 4 tons of mashed potatoes, 1.3 tons of cranberry sauce,
3.5 tons of yams, 1.6 tons of corn on the cob and 2.3 tons of peas with
mushrooms. If they have any room left over, deployed Air Force people will
get to follow their meals with apple, cherry and pumpkin pies.

If you were deployed and you only got a boxed lunch, then you realized it's
Thanksgiving, how would you feel? Kreuger said. This is a huge morale
booster, and we want to ensure every effort is made to get the feast to all
the troops.

Private contractors are being used to transport the food over land, sea and
air. The Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia is coordinating the effort
and members of U.S. Central Command air forces are the logistical
masterminds behind getting the food to airmen in their theater, Kreuger
said.

Services troops worldwide have pulled together to ensure this year's meals
are a big success, he said.

The plan for the Thanksgiving meal has been in the works for more than a
month and a half. A similar meal is being planned for Christmas.  (Courtesy
of Air Combat Command News Service)



1664.  Secretary, chief send Thanksgiving Day message

by James G. Roche, secretary of the Air Force, and
Gen. John P. Jumper, Air Force chief of staff

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- One of our nation's oldest and most treasured holidays
is our tradition of gathering on the fourth Thursday of November to
celebrate our harvest, the fruits of our labor, teamwork, and sacrifices.
It is a day of reflection designed as a wonderful opportunity to gather with
family and friends to acknowledge our blessings and the good fortunes we
enjoy.  This year we have special reason to reflect on family and loved
ones. Americans have much to be thankful for, including the men and women of
our Air Force.  The eyes of America are on us as we carry out our duty to
keep our nation free and secure.

To all the members and family members of the Air Force family - active,
Guard, Reserve, civilian, and retired -- we thank you for your enduring
commitment and outstanding service.   For those Air Force members stationed
overseas or deployed in defense of freedom, we are especially thankful for
your selfless service.  Your dedication and sacrifice have made America and
all for which we stand possible, both now and for the future. May you all
have a safe and happy Thanksgiving Day and, as you say your prayers of
thanksgiving, please also say a prayer for those who lost their lives on
Sept. 11 and their families.



1671.  JASSM test proves deadly accurate

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon successfully launched a
joint-air-to-surface standoff missile Nov. 20.

This successful launch clears the way for a low-rate initial production
decision, said Terry Little, JASSM program manager.

During a flight test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., an F-16 from the
46th Test Wing launched the JASSM while cruising at about 500 mph at an
altitude of 15,000 feet. The weapon separated cleanly from the aircraft,
deployed its wings and tail section and ignited its engine at the proper
altitude to begin a 50-mile dash toward the target array on the desert
floor.

The JASSM missile impacted within a lethal distance of the mobile radar
target and the warhead exploded. All systems, including the engine,
guidance, and fuze-arming, performed flawlessly, officials said.

The JASSM is a 2,250-pound cruise missile which carries a 1,000-pound class,
dual-purpose warhead. The warhead is capable of destroying soft and
distributed surface targets or deeply buried, hardened structures. It can
fly in adverse weather, day or night, from standoff ranges well beyond enemy
air defenses. The range is classified, but officials said it is beyond 200
nautical miles. Its stealth characteristics and on-board anti-jam
countermeasure components make it extremely difficult to defend against.

The Air Force originally planned to buy 2,400 JASSMs, but there are ongoing
efforts to greatly increase that number. Current plans call for the missile
to be carried on the F-16, B-1B Lancer, B-2 Spirit and

[CTRL] The Great Thanksgiving Hoax


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George Washington should have also thanked God for William Bradford, governor
of the Plymouth Colony. Without Bradford's wisdom, there might not have been
an America. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Especially, I ask
God's blessings and protection for our men and women in uniform, separated
from their families at this festive time, many of whom go in harm's way.

http://www.foundingspirit.com/library/Thanksgiving_hoax.htm

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

by Richard J. Marbury

Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the
official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote
vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.

It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really
happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of
half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.

The official story has the pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America
and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first
winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard
working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the
Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration,
and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land
He has given them.

The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever
after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also
have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual
tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America.

The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not
bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine
year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.

In his 'History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of the colony, William
Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they
refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says
the colony was riddled with corruption, and with confusion and
discontent. The crops were small because much was stolen both by night and
day, before it became scarce eatable.

In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, all had their hungry bellies
filled, but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was
not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The
first Thanksgiving was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of
condemned men.

But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different.
Suddenly, instead of famine now God gave them plenty, Bradford wrote, and
the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for
which they blessed God. Thereafter, he wrote, any general want or famine
hath not been amongst them since to this day. In fact, in 1624, so much food
was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.

What happened?

After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, they began to think how
they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop. They
began to question their form of economic organization.

This had required that all profits  benefits that are got by trade,
working, fishing, or any other means were to be placed in the common stock
of the colony, and that, all such persons as are of this colony, are to have
their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock. A
person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what
he needed.

This from each according to his ability, to each according to his need was
an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving.
Bradford writes that young men that are most able and fit for labor and
service complained about being forced to spend their time and strength to
work for other men's wives and children. Also, the strong, or man of parts,
had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak. So
the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced
was never adequate.

To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each
household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced,
or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with
a free market, and that was the end of famines.

Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same
terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of
settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months
in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the
other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called
The Starving Time, the population fell from five-hundred to sixty.

Then the Jamestown colony was converted

[CTRL] Pravda-THE USA WILL NOT BOMB IRAQ

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/22/21690.html

Pravda.RU:Main:More in detail

17:24 2001-11-22

SENSATION: THE USA WILL NOT BOMB IRAQ

It is not about the wish, it is about the opposition from NATO. American President George Bush said in his speech in front of the American military men in Fort Campbell that the world anti-terrorist operation will not be limited to the army action against Afghanistan. The new target for the American military was announced in that speech too – Iraq. A supposed target.

As it is turning out currently, there are plans to bomb Iraq, indeed, they were discussed at the session of the NATO council. The sensational information was revealed today: NATO vetoed America’s plans regarding the new military action against Iraq. Apparently, the opinion of the European countries played the key role in this news - the countries, which are included in the North Atlantic Alliance.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer had this to say after the meeting with the top American officials: “Everyone knows in Washington that Europe will have very, very serious questions pertaining to the actions on Iraq’s territory, putting it diplomatically.” Fischer did not expose any details of that meeting with the senior officials, but this fact is a sensation anyway – NATO does not approve the USA’s plans.

For the time being it is not yet clear, why NATO made up its mind to leave Iraq alone. But earlier, these two military operations and permanent bombing of the military objects on the territory of the country were approved by the Alliance.

Re: [CTRL] Pravda-THE USA WILL NOT BOMB IRAQ

2001-11-22 Thread Saba


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Maybe a word to wise is sufficient and the message was delivered - so
this must be why the Israeli's pulled in their little horns (do they
really have horns as I have heard).

For the first time in a long while, NATO has spoken and I agree.

Let the Isralis and Moslems go back to herding sheep and I am out of
here...

Saba

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[CTRL] Government Investigated Bush Family's Financing Of Hitler

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Nazis Bush Family History:
Government Investigated Bush Family's Financing Of Hitler
By Carla Binion

OnlineJournal.com

11-22-1

This article on Nazis in the Republican party was originally published in Online Journal on 1/28/00. However, the following includes additional information regarding George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather, George Herbert (Bert) Walker, and the fact that the U. S. government investigated their financing of Adolf Hitler.

One book referenced here, Christopher Simpson's "Blowback," was praised by journalist Seymour Hersh as "the ultimate book about the worst kind of cold war thinking." Nora Levin, Director, Holocaust Archive, Gratz College, said "The full story of this country's shameful, cynical collaboration with Nazi criminals has not been told until now with the publication of Simpson's book." Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman said, 'Blowback' is a must read for anyone who wants to understand postwar policy on Nazi war criminals and the cold war."

In another Simpson book, "The Splendid Blonde Beast," the author wrote about George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, and his maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker. Both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush were powerful financial supporters of Adolf Hitler.

Walker was president of Union Banking Corporation, a firm that traded with Germany and helped German industrialists consolidate Hitler's political power. Simpson says Union Banking became a Nazi money-laundering machine.

Walker helped take over North American operations of Hamburg-Amerika Line, a shipping line and cover for I. G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the U. S. Hamburg-Amerika smuggled in German agents, and brought in money for bribing American politicians to support Hitler. A 1934 congressional investigation showed Hamburg-Amerika subsidized Nazi propaganda efforts in the U. S.

George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott, was a board member of Union Banking and a senior partner in a Union Banking affiliate,Äîthe investment firm Brown Brothers, Harriman. The U. S. government investigated both Bert Walker and Prescott Bush, and under the Trading with the Enemy Act seized all shares of Union Banking, including shares held by Prescott Bush. The government held that "huge sections of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort."

Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in "Blowback" that after World War II, Nazi ©migr©s were given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U. S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas. The Nazi agenda did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the Republican Party.

Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll "for their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer. After Germany's defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U. S. certain concessions in exchange for his own protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the political right in this country, and helped shape U.S. perceptions of the cold war.

Journalist Russ Bellant ("Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party") shows that Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican ©migr© network. Pasztor, who served as adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.

Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small newspaper, Washington Jewish Week, disclosed that a coalition for the Bush campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.

According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:

(1) Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of "Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust denier, Austin App.

(2) Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of "Romanians for Bush." Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.

(3) Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.

(4) Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.

(5) Walter Melianovich,

[CTRL] [endsecrecy] Frame-Up Part 1

2001-11-22 Thread lloyd


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Subject: [endsecrecy] Frame-Up Part 1
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:02 AM

The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so
monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
   -- J. Edgar Hoover
===

Here, in two postings, is overwhelming evidence that the crashes
were remotely controlled, that the terrorists were on what they
thought was a hijacking mission, but were themselves stung when
control of the planes was taken over by remote controllers.

Several articles by several people lend support to this aspect of
the frame-up/cover-up explanation of the September 11
crashbombings and the conquest of Afganistan.


The sabotage of New York-Cario flight EgyptAir flight 990,
  on 11-31, 1999.

 The hijackers, never suspecting a suicide mission,  were stung, by (CIA?,
Mossad?, renegade Mossad?, Mafia?) infiltrators posing as al Qu'eda field
leaders on a mission under orders from bin Ladin.  It was infiltrators of al
Qu'eda who gave the long-waiting Qu'eda moles the right activation passwords
and a set instructions to set a  hijacking in motion  -- but later, when the
ordered hijacking was underway  the infiltrator handlers on the ground
(offshore?, in an AWAC?)took remote control of the planes,  turning them
into cruise missiles.  (The infiltrators were most likely Mossad and not CIA
because the the Israeli government has told us that the U.S. has no
infiltrators in Central Asia and is dependent upon Mossad for all of its
on-the-ground intelligence there.

I am convinced that no one was knowingly on a WTC suicide mission. The
4 planes were all taken over by remote control on 9-11-10 after the
hijackings were begun.

The FBI has uncovered letters of the hijack suspects indicating that they
were expecting to be arrested following the hijacking, that the hijacking
was understood by the set-up hijackers to be a relatively harmless
operation to draw attention to some cause.

But the hijackers themselves were being misled as part of a grand
counter-espionage sabotage frame-up sting.  They were not aware that they
were taking orders from Mossad agents and not Qu'eda  (some even suggest
that the bin Laden himself may be a double agent in his own organization,
based on his prior CIA ties and the current economic ties of his family with
both Presidents Bush.

Crashbombing by Remote Control

And this was not to be the first time that a passenger jet was crashed by
remote
sabotage --

EgyptAir 990 was crashed in a test for the WTC operation,  on Halloween
morning, 11/31/99.

On November 31, two years ago, , EgyptAir flight 990, a giant Boeing 767
took off from New York's JFK Airport bound for Cairo Egypt with 100
Americans and 87 Egyptians aboard.

The takeoff had been successful and routine, but at one half hour into the
flight, at 1:48:30  at a moment when the pilot left the controls for a
trip to the toilet  and the co-pilot was left in the cockpit alone -- an
English voice can be heard on the black box recorder saying control it
(the co-pilot was Egyptian and had not been speaking English with the pilot
that morning) -- when suddenly, one must conclude,  control of the plane
taken from him,i.e., the cockpit controls were bing overridden.  -- After
some seconds the co-pilot, reacting to his losse of control to a phantom
controller, says,
I'm trusting you Jehovah (or I'm in your hands, Jehovah) --Tawakkalt
ala
Allah.)

The co-pilot then attempted to disengaged the auto-pilot to restore control.
Control was not restored.  The co-pilot again reacted with this prayer
exclamation as the elevators dropped putting the plane into a dive.  After
sixteen seconds of this dive the Captain returned to the cockpit asking
What happening?  Whats happening?  Now captain and co-pilot were
presumably working to pull out of the dive, but the controls were not
responding and now the throttles turned up to full forward  -- at which
point the co-pilot cut the fuel lines.  Then by phantom control  the right
and left elevators each moved all the way in the opposite directions and the
ailerons on both wings both went fully up.The pilot cried Get away in
the engines!  Shut the engines!  To which the co-pilot
replied,  It's shut.  The last words are those of the captain frantically
instructing Pull!  Let's pull!  Let's pull!  At this point something shut
off the instrument recorders (or they were later erased).

The American investigation said that the co-pilot committed suicide, with
the Egypt AIr and the Egyptian government insisiting that that is an
impossible interpretation of the audio message.  The Egyptians -- who

[CTRL] Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State

2001-11-22 Thread Agent Smiley


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Confessions of a Mild-Mannered
Enemy of the State

Part 1 (1945-1969)
Childhood
How I became an atheist
Shimer College and first independent ventures
Berkeley in the sixties
Kenneth Rexroth
How I became an anarchist


---


If the world reproaches me for talking too much about
myself, I reproach the world for not even thinking
about itself.

 Montaigne


[Childhood]

I was born in 1945 in Louisiana, where my mother had
gone to be with my father at an army camp. While he
was overseas we lived on her parents farm in
Minnesota. When he returned a couple years later, we
moved to his home town in the Missouri Ozarks.

Moving at a somewhat slower pace than most of the
country, Plainstown still maintained much of that
small-town, early-twentieth-century, pre-television
American life idealized by Norman Rockwell  the world
of porch swings and lazy afternoons, Boy Scouts and
vacant-lot baseball, square dances and church picnics,
county fairs, summer camps, autumn leaves, white
Christmases. That way of life has often been
disparaged, but it did have some advantages over the
plastic suburban lifestyle that was already beginning
to replace it. Despite their naïveté in many regards,
the inhabitants of the Show-Me State retained some
vestiges of Mark Twainian skepticism and common sense.
Even the poorest people often owned their own home or
farm. Extended families provided a social cushion if
anyone fell on hard times. Things were quiet and safe.
A kid could grow up without much awareness of the
problems in the outside world.

Yearly visits to the Minnesota farm maintained another
link with earlier traditions. I still remember
burrowing in the huge hayloft in the old barn;
exploring the Victorian house, with its old-fashioned
furniture and intriguing things like a clothes chute
that ran from the second floor all the way down to the
musty basement full of strange curios and contraptions
left over from the previous century; or traipsing
after my grandfather, a spry old guy still working
vigorously in the fields in his late eighties.

My father was one of the last of the old-fashioned
family doctors  the kind who used to deliver
successive generations of babies and who charged $5
for a house call, even if it was in the middle of the
night  or sometimes nothing at all if the family was
in difficult circumstances. Like his father before
him, he combined full-time doctoring with part-time
farming; he still does a little of the latter, though
he retired from medical practice a couple years ago.
My mother was trained as a physical therapist, but
spent most of her time as a homemaker taking care of
me and my two sisters.

My earliest and best friend, Sam, was two years older
and lived just around the corner. We played all the
typical games  baseball, basketball, football,
badminton, ping pong, kick the can, marbles, cards,
Monopoly, Scrabble; but what I remember enjoying most
of all were the activities that we created for
ourselves  elaborate constructions with Lincoln Logs
or erector sets, deployment of little metal cowboys
and Indians among forts and tunnels in a sandbox,
building our own club house and tree house, putting on
shows and carnivals for the other kids in the
neighborhood.

I also have fond memories of grade school. Although
the educational system was not particularly
progressive, it was very flexible and encouraging
for me. Once I had demonstrated that the usual lessons
were a breeze, the teachers allowed me, and to a
lesser extent a few of my more intelligent classmates,
to skip some of the routine tasks and pursue
independently chosen projects  researching geography,
history, astronomy or atomic physics in the
encyclopedias, compiling lists and charts, conducting
experiments, constructing science exhibits.

Outside class I read voraciously  science, history
and Pogo comics being my main favorites  and learned
some new games: tennis, pool, chess, and above all,
bridge (a fascinating game  I still enjoy reading
books on bridge strategy, though Ive rarely played it
since I left home). But here again, I remember with
particular fondness the activities my friends and I
devised for ourselves. Three of us created a little
imaginary island world with extended families of
characters cut out of foam, about whom we composed
elaborate genealogies and stories. Another friend and
I invented a game inspired by our fascination with the
history of exploration. (Politically correct types
will have a field day with this one.) He was England
and I was France, each out to explore and colonize the
rest of the world during the sixteenth century. We
would close our eyes and point to a spot on a spinning
globe, then throw three coins: the combination of
heads and tails would determine how far we could
travel from that spot (the distance depending on
whether we traveled by sea, river or land) and how
much territory we could claim. I think there were

[CTRL] The Joy of Revolution

2001-11-22 Thread Agent Smiley


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The Joy of Revolution


Chapter 1: Some Facts of Life
Utopia or bust
Stalinist communism and reformist socialism are
merely variants of capitalism
Representative democracy versus delegate democracy
Irrationalities of capitalism
Some exemplary modern revolts
Some common objections
Increasing dominance of the spectacle


---


Chapter 1: Some Facts of Life
We can comprehend this world only by contesting it as
a whole. . . . The root of the prevailing lack of
imagination cannot be grasped unless one is able to
imagine what is lacking, that is, what is missing,
hidden, forbidden, and yet possible, in modern life.

 Situationist International(1)


[Utopia or bust]

Never in history has there been such a glaring
contrast between what could be and what actually
exists.

Its hardly necessary to go into all the problems in
the world today  most of them are widely known, and
to dwell on them usually does little more than dull us
to their reality. But even if we are stoic enough to
endure the misfortunes of others, the present social
deterioration ultimately impinges on us all. Those who
dont face direct physical repression still have to
face the mental repressions imposed by an increasingly
mean, stressful, ignorant and ugly world. Those who
escape economic poverty cannot escape the general
impoverishment of life.

And even life at this pitiful level cannot continue
for long. The ravaging of the planet by the global
development of capitalism has brought us to the point
where humanity may become extinct within a few
decades.

Yet this same development has made it possible to
abolish the system of hierarchy and exploitation that
was previously based on material scarcity and to
inaugurate a new, genuinely liberated form of society.


Plunging from one disaster to another on its way to
mass insanity and ecological apocalypse, this system
has developed a momentum that is out of control, even
by its supposed masters. As we approach a world in
which we wont be able to leave our fortified ghettoes
without armed guards, or even go outdoors without
applying sunscreen lest we get skin cancer, its hard
to take seriously those who advise us to beg for a few
reforms.

What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide
participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish
both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a
big order, but Im afraid that nothing less can get to
the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk
about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the
continuation of the present system, which is even more
absurd.


* * *

[Stalinist communism and reformist socialism
are merely variants of capitalism]

Before going into what this revolution would involve
and responding to some typical objections, it should
be stressed that it has nothing to do with the
repugnant stereotypes that are usually evoked by the
word (terrorism, revenge, political coups,
manipulative leaders preaching self-sacrifice, zombie
followers chanting politically correct slogans). In
particular, it should not be confused with the two
principal failures of modern social change, Stalinist
communism and reformist socialism.

After decades in power, first in Russia and later in
many other countries, it has become obvious that
Stalinism is the total opposite of a liberated
society. The origin of this grotesque phenomenon is
less obvious. Trotskyists and others have tried to
distinguish Stalinism from the earlier Bolshevism of
Lenin and Trotsky. There are differences, but they are
more of degree than of kind. Lenins The State and
Revolution, for example, presents a more coherent
critique of the state than can be found in most
anarchist writings; the problem is that the radical
aspects of Lenins thought merely ended up
camouflaging the Bolsheviks actual authoritarian
practice. Placing itself above the masses it claimed
to represent, and with a corresponding internal
hierarchy between party militants and their leaders,
the Bolshevik Party was already well on its way toward
creating the conditions for the development of
Stalinism while Lenin and Trotsky were still firmly in
control.(2)

But we have to be clear about what failed if we are
ever going to do any better. If socialism means
peoples full participation in the social decisions
that affect their own lives, it has existed neither in
the Stalinist regimes of the East nor in the welfare
states of the West. The recent collapse of Stalinism
is neither a vindication of capitalism nor proof of
the failure of Marxist communism. Anyone who has
ever bothered to read Marx (most of his glib critics
obviously have not) is aware that Leninism represents
a severe distortion of Marxs thought and that
Stalinism is a total parody of it. Nor does government
ownership have anything to do with communism in its
authentic sense of common, communal ownership; it is
merely a different type of capitalism in which

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Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer,
and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of
the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Scott. He is married to
Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and
John, by a previous marriage to Maylie Marshall.
His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The
Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime
and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate
Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration,
1987),  Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central
America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998),  Deep Politics and the
Death of JFK (1993, 1996), and Deep Politics Two (from
JFKLancer, 1995).
His chief poetry books are two volumes of his projected trilogy
Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989),
Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992). In addition he
has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994).
Minding the Darkness, to be published by New Directions in Fall
2000, forms the concluding volume of his poetic trilogy Seculum.
An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, he was
a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC
Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).

His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the
latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact
on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John
F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-
critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that Coming to
Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the
English language in a very long time.
A Note to Visitors:
See my special Webpage on Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden ,
updated November 15, 2001
A Note to Visitors, July 24, 2000:
I want to thank those who have visited either the prose or the
poetry sections of my website. I would also like to invite both
groups of readers to check out what I have posted about my new
book, Minding the Darkness, which appeared in October 2000 from
New Directions.
Rightly or wrongly, I believe Minding the Darkness to be my most
important book. It is certainly the book on which I have worked the
longest, having begun it in 1990. Working on it helped me refine my
thinking about the central notions of Deep Politics, as I mention in
passing on p. 22 of that book.
If you want to check out more, go to Selected Writings: I. Poetic
Trilogy and look at the options at the end. Those interested in my
writings on drugs in particular should look at the option From IV.i
which concerns the Fed, the CIA, and the role of drug-trafficking in
diminishing balance-of-payments crises. (I read from this section in
my  speech on drugs and the CIA at the June 2000 CIA Drugs
Symposium that was broadcast over Alternative Radio and NPR in
December 2000.)
Click here for a brief summary of how my poem handles the current
9/11 crisis of secular capitalism...facing the theocratic alternative
of shariah and jihad  (p. 240).
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THE WAR AGAINST TERROR: WHERE WE AS A PEOPLE CAN
OFFER LEADERSHIP
a) The Need for Political Activism
As much as any in American history, this is a crisis in which the
American people should not hesitate to formulate and express their
own opinions. This is not a time for blind faith in official leadership.
Our leadership is confused and even involved in its own internal
conflicts. Meanwhile Congress, the normal vehicle for political
debate and criticism, has been neutralized by a resolution more
sweeping even than that passed in 1964, in response to a Tonkin
Gulf incident that probably never occurred.
About a month after 9/11, the US press reported the tension in
Washington between two increasingly intransigeant camps. One
favored the multilateral approach of Colin Powell and the State
Department, which would limit the US military response to such
measures as would receive support from other nations, including
Moslem nations, in the new anti-terrorist coalition.
The other camp included unilateralists like Rumsfeld and
Wolfowitz, who seem at times quite willing to drive the rest of the
non-Anglophone world into the ranks of the anti-US opposition.
Wolfowitz first articulated his vision of the US as a great power
which should tolerate no competitors in a draft Defense Policy
Guidance statement ten years ago. The draft explicitly called for
the US to exercise its power unilaterally, adding that it must
sufficiently account for the interests of the advanced industrial
nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership (New
York Times, 3/8/92). The draft caused such an uproar when leaked
that it was redrafted to pay lip service to multilateralism (Financial
Times, 5/26/92).
Our first challenge as a people is to help ensure that such
triumphalist unilaterism is again not allowed to prevail.
No Attack on Iraq:
Thus, for example, we should express our disapproval of current
noises from what has been called the Wolfowitz cabal that the
US should expand its campaign to include Iraq. As I noted in a
story for Pacific News Service on 10/23/01, this could well put an
end to the coalition assembled by Colin Powell. As I reported in
that story, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote on October 19:
Britain, Russia, China, Europe and, importantly, the  Arab states
that have given their backing to the war against Afghanistan and
Osama bin Laden have publicly stated their total opposition to any
raids on Baghdad.
October 29 update: The London Times today reiterated the
disagreement of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw with the idea
of targeting Iraq, a prospect raised on 10/28 by US Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Also on 10/28, CBS Sixty Minutes
featured a segment which suggested strongly that Iraq might be
behind the anthrax attacks in the US. Neither Rumsfeld nor Sixty
Minutes dealt with the important story of 10/24/01 in the well-
informed British scientific journal New Scientist, arguing that The
bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain
the US itself used to make  anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or
close to it. It is not a strain that  Iraq, or the former Soviet Union,
mass-produced for weapons.
On 10/29/01 New Scientist went further, arguing that the
weaponization method used to process the anthrax reinforced the
genetic evidence that it is an American, not an Iraqi product. It
claimed further that this was known to US scientists.
The article is worth quoting at length:
As anthrax continues to turn up in US postal facilities, and postal
workers, evidence is emerging that it is an American product. Not
only are the bacteria genetically close to the strain the US used in
its own anthrax weapons in the 1960s, but New Scientist can
reveal that the spores also seem to have been prepared according
to the secret US weaponisation recipe.
This is troubling, say bioterrorism specialists. While the terrorists
behind the anthrax-laced mail US might have got hold of the strain
of anthrax in several laboratories around the world, the method the
US developed for turning a wet bacterial culture into a dangerous,
dry powder is a closely-guarded secret.
Its apparent use in the current spate of attacks could mean the
secret is out. An alternative is that someone is using anthrax
produced by the old US biological weapons programme that ended
in 1969 - in which case the scope for further attacks could be
limited. Experiments to determine which is true are underway now
in the US.
Stop the Bombing:
To oppose an attack on Iraq is to endorse a viewpoint within the

current parameters of official US policy. As I have written
elsewhere, we should also reinforce those elements of elite public
opinion who are calling for a  stop the bombing, as
counterproductive, politically dangerous, and leading to a
humnitarian disaster.
Even ex-CIA operatives like Raymond Close have warned that it

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Posted by Mat on November 22, 2001, 7:23 pm
If the Nazis Could See Us Now!
by Penney Morgan
On October 23, a nefarious, conniving group of lawyers and public
health experts from Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins
University excreted one of the most sinister and dangerous
documents ever written in the history of the United States. This
degenerate monstrosity, commissioned by the Center For Disease
Control in Atlanta, Georgia, is titled the Model State Emergency
Health Powers Act. It is intended to be a templet for various state
laws that will be written in the future to deal with any national
health emergency--real or contrived.
The exquisitely totalitarian draft model contains the following
Stalinist provisions:
*The public health authority is to be given absolute power and
authority over the bodies of all citizens in its jurisdiction.
*With no court order required, the public health authority can
compel a person to submit to physical examination and/or testing
immediately upon command.
*If a person refuses to submit to such medical examination, he will be guilty of a 
misdemeanor.
*Any physician or health care provider who refuses to perform the exam will be guilty 
of a misdemeanor.
*Any order for examination issued by the public health authority shall be immediately 
enforceable by the police authority.
*The health authority can compel a person to be vaccinated. Individuals refusing to be 
vaccinated will be liable for a misdemeanor. An order for vaccination of any 
individual shall be immediately enforceable by any peace
 officer.
*The public health authority may perform tests on any person or animal, living or 
deceased.
(*Places of relocation, quarantine and isolation shall be set up by the state.
*Any citizen--even if he is merely suspected of being exposed to a disease-- can be 
relocated and forced to remain indefinitely in isolation and quarantine upon order of 
the public health authority. Persons will be releas
ed from isolation or quarantine only by order of the public health authority.
*A person's health records can be disclosed to any government agency or authority.
* The public health authority may waive any or all licensing requirements of those 
health care providers who will carry out their duties in the testing and treatment of 
the public under the law.
*The public health authority may refer citizens to mental health support personnel 
to address psychological responses to the public health emergency.
*The public health authority will have the power to enforce the provisions of the law 
through fines, penalties and the issuance of additional orders.
* Neither the state, nor the governor nor any other government official, nor any 
public health authority shall be liable for the death of or injury to a person, or for 
damage to personal property as a result of complying
with any rule or regulation of the Act.
This Model statute has to be the most noxious, brutal machination that any political 
terrorist could possibly contrive. It a collective, sticky wet dream of power-drunken 
maniacs-- creatures who, in my imagination, look a
 lot like Josef Mengele. Citizens subject to these provisions would have minus zero 
human rights. In a nightmare world envisioned by this model legislation, not a single 
ash of the Constitution could be found. In a cruel
world where such provisions are backed by police power, humans would be reduced to 
captive animals on the way to the state-selected slaughterhouses. Picture trainloads 
of diseased persons being routed to special destina
tions where they are greeted with armed guards to keep them safe. Pure and simple, 
the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act is Auschwitz revisited.
Citizens of every state in the Union must be determined that their state legislatures 
never-- under any circumstances-- adopt the draconian provisions of this grotesque 
draft. We must also make sure that the Congress does
 not slip these murderous chains upon us in some devious federal legislation. We have 
our job cut out for us. But right now, I can't think of a more important job to have!
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act may be read at: 
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA.pdf
You will need Adobe Reader to decipher the text.
You will not be able to save the text from that sight.
You can either read it right there or print it out.
Ingri Cassel, President
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P.O. Box 1444
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Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT) Weekly Newsletter

When we assumed the Soldier, We did not lay aside the Citizen.
General George Washington, to the New York Legislature, 1775

In this weekâs Issue of DefenseWatch: New Tactics for the War on Terrorism



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Commentary: Military Tribunals a Necessary Weapon of War, by Ed Offley

Hackâs Target for the Week: Itâs Time to Set the U.S. Army Straight

Article 01 â Oh No, Not the âTuesday Lunch Bunchâ Again! By Paul Connors

Article 02 â ON THE RECORD: Rumsfeld Response to Targeting Controversy

Article 03 â The Terrorist Threat and the American Left, by Patrick Hayes

Article 04 â In Hand: A Revolution in Command  Control, by Robert G.
Williscroft

Article 05 â FEEDBACK: Statesâ Response for Homeland Security

Medal of Honor:

Article 06 â COLE, ROBERT G. Lt. Col. USA

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COMMENTARY: Military Tribunals a Necessary Weapon of War

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By Ed Offley

The two teams of four covert attackers infiltrated the United States on a
mission of sabotage and murder. Wearing civilian clothes to blend in with the
population, they carried disguised explosive devices and planned to attack
key industrial plants and railroad facilities and their civilian workers.

Fortunately for the United States â still reeling after the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor six months earlier, and an ongoing German U-Boat
anti-shipping campaign that was lighting up the eastern Atlantic with the
fires of torpedoed oil tankers from Maine to Florida â the German saboteurs
were quickly rounded up by the FBI just days after they came ashore in
mid-June 1942.

It is how the U.S. government dealt with these enemy agents that lies at the
heart of a budding controversy in the ongoing war against terrorism.

Several weeks after the German teams (which included two naturalized American
citizens who had returned to Nazi Germany and later volunteered for the
sabotage mission), President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that anyone
planning to commit sabotage or espionage would be âsubject to the law of
warâ and turned over to military jurisdiction instead of facing indictment
and trial in the federal judiciary system.

In this case, justice was swift. Three weeks after they came ashore on Long
Island and in Florida, the eight saboteurs faced a closed military tribunal
of seven general officers appointed by the president. U.S. Attorney General
Francis Biddle and Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer, the War Departmentâs judge
advocate general, prosecuted the case and two Army colonels defended the
accused. The proceedings ended on Aug. 4, 1942, and four days later Roosevelt
announced that all eight had been convicted and six had already been executed
in the District of Columbiaâs electric chair. The other two â who
authorities credited with assisting the FBI in arresting the rest of the two
team members â had their death sentences commuted to lengthy prison terms at
the request of Biddle and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Ten weeks after al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners and destroyed the
World Trade Center and heavily damaged the Pentagon, killing thousands of
civilians, President Bush has issued a military order that directs Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to establish a similar tribunal with the
authority to try, convict and execute surviving terrorists or their
supporters involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and earlier incidents.

To no oneâs surprise, the presidentâs order has sparked criticism from both
liberals and conservatives who decry what they believe is an unconstitutional
measure.

Liberal columnist Nat Hentoff this week derided Bush for âabandoning more and
more of the fundamental rights and liberties that he â and his unquestioning
subordinates â assured us they were fighting to preserve.â On the right, New
York Times columnist William Safire criticized the administration for having
âassumed what amounts to dictatorial power to jail or execute aliens â¦ [a]
replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts â¦. â

It is the relaxed legal processes of the military tribunal that have sparked
this bipartisan opposition: the trials may be held in secret; there will be
no independent jury (with its

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ARTICLE 01 â Oh No, Not the âTuesday Lunch Bunchâ Again!





By Paul Connors



Why donât we just call it Vietnam Redux?  Itâs happening again, and this
time the stakes are higher. The methods are the same though, and they include
micromanagement from the highest levels in the military and civilian chains
of command.



According to a major investigative report in The Washington Post on Nov. 18
(âTarget Approval Delays Cost Air Force Key Hitsâ), as many as ten times in
the last six weeks, the Air Force had senior Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders in
their bombsights but couldnât get permission to fire in time to effectively
take them out of the picture. Senior Air Force officials have stated that the
problems in decapitating the Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership stemmed from an
extraordinarily cumbersome approval process that stretches from the theater
of operations all the way back to Office of the Secretary of Defense at the
Pentagon.



Does this sound familiar? Doesnât it recall President Lyndon B. Johnsonâs
infamous âTuesday lunch bunchâ meetings where he personally selected bombing
targets for the Air Force and Navy during the Vietnam War?



Air Force commanders in the theater were quoted in one news report as saying,
âWe knew we had some of the big boys.â  But, one official added, âThe
process is so slow that, by the time we got clearances and everybody had put
in their two cents, we called it (the mission) off.â  Some Air Force officers
even argued that the effect of the slow decisions had prolonged the war.



They further added that U.S. Special Operations troops now needed to conduct
their searches for terrorist leaders on the ground and at great personal risk
when the key enemy leaders could have been killed earlier from the air. The
officials lamented the tampering in operational planning and mission conduct
by politicians and appointees thousands of miles from the fighting.



One Air Force four-star general actually blamed some of the problems on the
micromanagement of the war by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his
advisers at the Pentagon. The general said, âThe execution of the war was
military amateur hour.â  He added, âThe worst thing is the lack of trust at
senior leadership levels.â He did not mean the militaryâs senior leadership,
he was specifically referring to the civilian hierarchy within the Defense
Department.



Despite what would appear to be a repeat of many of the problems faced by
senior Air Force and Navy commanders during the Vietnam War, the current
generation of Air Force leaders seems to face most of their frustrations in
getting approval for air strikes from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
headquarters. CENTCOM, which is run by Army General Tommy Franks, would seem
to be a âblack holeâ when it comes to air mission taskings and approvals for
targeting.



Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Wald, who until recently was air commander for the
current campaign, reportedly complained about the clearance and approval
process to Franks more than a dozen times since the military campaign began
on Oct 7.  General Wald was explicit and blunt when he told his superiors in
the Air Force that he never received a response from General Franks.



What added to an already difficult campaign plan was that CENTCOM, which has
its headquarters at MacDill AFB, Fla., retained for itself the authority to
clear attacks against sensitive targets, rather than delegating that
authority to commanders based at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.



Although many have questioned Air Force assertions that campaigns can now be
won from the air with minimal need for ground troops, the Air Force described
CENTCOM as a bottleneck. Every significant target would require either
CENTCOM approval or clearance by more senior officials in Washington. One Air
Force officer described the delays and obfuscations as almost too numerous to
count.  He also added, âImagine you have a target in sight, you have to wake
up people in the middle of the night and they say, âuhhh.â â Another
officerâs comments were more succinct. He stated, âItâs a scandal.â



General Franks appears to the Air Force and other observers to be far too
cautious.  Like many who grew up in the politically charged atmosphere of the
Vietnam War and its aftermath, he wants to be absolutely certain of each move
before he makes it. As his less-than-stellar predecessors before him did,
Franks seeks to dodge any blame for mistakes that âmightâ occur and
manipulates the outcome so that none will on his watch.



A recent example of Franksâ lack of decisiveness and wanting conclusive proof
arose when a viable target was identified and pinpointed by real-time imagery
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ARTICLE 03 â The Terrorist Threat and the American Left
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By Patrick Hayes



The time for burying heads in the sand and hoping it will all go away has
passed. It is now time for decisive, aggressive and brutal action, but are we
as a nation prepared to go all the way in this war on terror?



Terrorism is, by definition, a means by which any disaffected group can cause
fear and instability in society.  Best defined by Britain in its UK
Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1976, as âthe use of violence for political
ends [including] any use of violence for the purpose of putting the public or
any section of the public in fear.â



By their very nature, open democratic societies have varying degrees of
discomfort dealing with terrorism, but none more so than the United States.
The balance, it is argued, must be met between civil rights and national
security. However, following the calculated and cold blooded murder of 5,000
plus innocent civilians in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon in
Virginia on Sept. 11, complacent Americans, most of whom have never had to
consider the personal threat of terror, have to wake up to some harsh
realities â fast.  Others have.



Americans must face the realities of not just living, but surviving in the
real world of the New World Order. To Osama bin Laden and others like him, we
are soft and unaccustomed to discomfort (whereâs the remote?), much less
bloody masses of flesh and bone in our streets. Many have been pampered for
too long, unaware of the changing world outside, guided in a simplistic âlove
and peaceâ view of the world by the American Left. However, Sept. 11 was a
loud, brutal wake-up call to reality. We are not loved and there is no peace!



Terrorism must be dealt with in an expedient, aggressive and singularly
decisive manner that the Left will oppose at every turn. However, the
government must act to defend national security not only against the
onslaught shadowy terrorists, but also on another front: the hand-wringing
Left, many with good intentions, but many more of questionable loyalty and
character whose concern automatically reaches out to the perpetrators of
these heinous crimes.



Activities like torture, killing and the âdisappearingâ of terrorists was,
we are told, the realm of totalitarian governments when agents of the Gestapo
in Nazi Germany or the KGB in the Soviet Union took action against
individuals and groups to ensure âstate securityâ.  However, democracies
have also engaged in state-sanctioned counter-terrorist activities.  France
for example, when dealing with Algerian terrorists in the 1960s, and later
with Action Directe in the 1970s, pulled out all the stops, including the use
of torture and assassination.



Britain, considered by Americans to be the epitome of staid and proper
behavior, has also conducted assassinations against IRA members or other
perceived threats to their national security. Under the Official Secrets Act,
virtually anyone considered a threat to the Crown could be dealt with in the
harshest manner, out of public view or knowledge.



Germany reacted to the bloody massacre by Black September terrorists of the
Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by organizing the very
aggressive and deadly Grenzschutzgruppe 9. GSG-9 also dealt with terror
perpetrated by the Badder-Meinholfâs Rott ArmeÃ© Fraktion.



Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East, has a history of
assassinating those considered to be potential threats or agents of terror,
which continues to this day.  Following the Munich massacre of the Israeli
team, Prime Minster Golda Meir directed agents of the Mossad to track down
and kill the Palestinian Black September terrorists responsible, which they
did, using terror tactics.



More recently, Shabtai Shavit, the former head of Israelâs Mossad and a 40
year veteran of dealing with terrorists, said, âIt may sound dramatic, but
life in America is not going to be the same as it used to be before Sept. 11.
 In order to be able to go on living, you have to be aware of the fact that
you are going to have to give up some of your formal liberties, and you have
to be ready to give up some of your pleasantries and conveniences.â



 Even the United States has a history of aggressive anti-terrorist
activities, including torture and assassination. Best known is, perhaps, the
CIAâs Phuong Hoang, or Phoenix Program, in

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ARTICLE 05 â FEEDBACK: Statesâ Response for Homeland Security

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I propose the following actions for state governments to strengthen homeland
security:

1.  Each state should form a state guard under its adjutant general with the
mission for community support. State adjutants general should consider
placing a senior National Guard officer in charge of the state guard and
provide them with training and equipment. These are mostly veterans or people
who want to volunteer with a state organization. The state defense forces
were created by the U.S. Congress with the express purpose of providing a
homeland defense during a period of national crisis. That crisis is here.

2.  The Civil Air Patrol should be moved from a national auxiliary status to
the control of the state adjutant general and be a regional part of the Air
National Guard.

3.  The U.S. Coast Guard auxiliary should be placed under each state adjutant
general and be utilized as a regional coastal and inland water patrol for the
various states.

4.  Fire Departments and police or sheriff's reserve units should be utilized
to the maximum extent possible. Volunteer fire departments should be brought
under one central control unit in each county so that there are no
unsupported units. Each county would have a fire district and all departments
whether paid or volunteer would be controlled by that entity.

5. Sheriff reserve and police reserve units should be activated.



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ARTICLE 06 â Medal of Honor Recipient â COLE, ROBERT G. Lt. Col. USA

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Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne
Division.



Place and date: Near Carentan, France, 11 June 1944.



Entered service at: San Antonio, Tex.



Birth: Fort Sam Houston, Tex. G.O. No.: 79, 4 October 1944.



Citation: For gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life, above
and beyond the call of duty on 11 June 1944, in France. Lt. Col. Cole was
personally leading his battalion in forcing the last four bridges on the road
to Carentan when his entire unit was suddenly pinned to the ground by intense
and withering enemy rifle, machine-gun, mortar, and artillery fire placed
upon them from well-prepared and heavily fortified positions within 150 yards
of the foremost elements.



After the devastating and unceasing enemy fire had for over one hour
prevented any move and inflicted numerous casualties, Lt. Col. Cole,
observing this almost hopeless situation, courageously issued orders to
assault the enemy positions with fixed bayonets. With utter disregard for his
own safety and completely ignoring the enemy fire, he rose to his feet in
front of his battalion and with drawn pistol shouted to his men to follow him
in the assault.



Catching up a fallen man's rifle and bayonet, he charged on and led the
remnants of his battalion across the bullet-swept open ground and into the
enemy position. His heroic and valiant action in so inspiring his men
resulted in the complete establishment of our bridgehead across the Douve
River.



The cool fearlessness, personal bravery, and outstanding leadership displayed
by Lt. Col. Cole reflect great credit upon himself and are worthy of the
highest praise in the military service.



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Nov. 22, 2001, 2:39PM

A Different Thanksgiving
This year, families take time to reflect on holiday's meaning
By ROMA KHANNA
Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle

Jonathan Shepko thought nothing could pull him away from his job as an
investment banker in New York City. He was 24 years old and had every
opportunity before him.

But after Shepko escaped his World Trade Center office during the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks, he found the importance of being near his family in
Pearland eclipsing his aspirations for a future on Wall Street.

I had gone up there last January because it was the job I always wanted,
Shepko said. I didn't really know anybody. The attacks really put things
into perspective for me.

In the days after Sept. 11, Shepko racked up an $800 phone bill trying to
feel connected to his family. Eventually, the urge brought him back to Texas,
where he has spent recent weeks working from home and deciding if he will
make the move permanent.

This Thanksgiving, Shepko's sister will return from college in New Mexico,
bringing the entire family together for the first time since the attacks.

Thanksgiving will mean a lot more, Shepko said. It is much more important
to get everyone together -- to see my sister. I have talked to her on the
phone but she won't be relieved until she can actually see me in person and
know that I am OK.

With the country at war and fears of terrorism now part of daily life, family
and tradition have become more important this Thanksgiving. Runaways are
reuniting with their parents; couples are reconciling; and relatives who
might normally skip breaking a wishbone together seem to have decided that
spending time together is more important than their differences.

People are saying that this Thanksgiving is different, said Dr. Sam Buster,
a psychologist who specializes in family therapy. There is more reflection
on the meaning of the event. People are thinking with greater depth about
what they are grateful for and are placing more importance on family.

For some families, Thanksgiving will be different this year because of the
absence of someone who cannot be there. For others the difference will be the
presence of someone who has returned, as families try to look past
differences and release grudges.

During the holidays, and particularly because of these events, you have some
people who say `Gee our differences are not that great. We need to be
together as a family,'  Buster said. After the attacks people thought the
world is a crazy place and they were willing to put their differences aside.

At the age of 14, Christopher Starks had reached a point where his parents
would no longer have him in their home. Starks would take off for days at a
time, running the streets and worrying his family, said Roger Moore, Starks'
stepfather.

He would leave the house on a Friday and we would not see him until the next
week, Moore said. We reported him missing to the police several times.

After months of conflict and failed attempts at discipline, Starks moved into
Covenant House, a shelter for runaway Houston youth. Starks, who said he has
had trouble adjusting to his mother's new husband, has been in and out of the
shelter since this summer trying to catch up on missed school and straighten
out his life.

Despite their problems, Starks and his family have decided to spend
Thanksgiving together this year.

He is still our kid and we love him, Moore said. With everything going on
in the world, you never know what is going to happen the next day or the next
minute. It is important to be together as a family, especially for the
holiday.

So Starks requested a day pass from the shelter, and today was to be the
first he has spent with extended family in months.

I can't wait to see my mama and my baby sister, Starks said. There are
problems at home, but I want to be with them for the day.

The Texas Runaway Hotline operates a message system that allows families to
communicate with their estranged children. Runaways, who often rely on the
hot line to contact their families during the holidays, are expected to use
it more this season.

Every year at the holidays we received calls from runaways who haven't
spoken with their families in a while, said Jay Smith, the hot line program
director. They just want to let their families know they are safe. Things
like Sept. 11 or the holidays tend to trigger that thought process.

Last year the hot line delivered about 140 messages from runaways to their
families, 90 percent of which led to reunions. Smith hopes this year's
circumstances will raise that number.

Some Houston-area couples seem to be re-evaluating their relationships this
holiday season as well. Many who work with couples, from family law judges
and lawyers to ministers, have reported an unusually high number of
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50 Countries Detain 360 Suspects at CIA's Behest

By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 22, 2001; Page A01


At the urging of the CIA, foreign intelligence services and police agencies
in 50 countries have arrested and detained about 360 suspects with alleged
connections to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network or other violent terrorist
groups, according to well-placed sources.

The massive, aggressive international roundup mirrors, in part, the broader
detention program carried out by the FBI in the United States that has netted
more than 1,100 people, including a small number believed to have information
about terrorists and a far larger number of Middle Eastern nationals held on
immigration violations.

The growing number of foreign detentions, part of the unseen war on terror
that President Bush has frequently alluded to, shows the degree of
cooperation other nations are quietly providing to the U.S. effort to crush
al Qaeda.

The number of overseas arrests has grown considerably from what has been
previously acknowledged -- on Oct. 21, President Bush said more than 200
suspected terrorists had been rounded up overseas. An exhaustive search of
English-language newspapers worldwide turned up the names of only 75 foreign
terror-related arrests since Sept. 11.

In one CIA case, intelligence reports indicated the general whereabouts of a
suspected terrorist who may have had advance knowledge of previous attacks.
Only a handful of suspects fall into that category -- a key group that is
targeted because its members might be involved in future attacks.

But one country balked at providing the information the CIA needed to
pinpoint the terrorist's location. Time was critical, so a covert CIA team
broke into a facility overseas and stole the information. Within 12 hours,
the suspected terrorist was located and the details were passed on to a fully
cooperative foreign intelligence service, which had the individual arrested
by one of the country's law enforcement agencies.

As part of the deepening relationships between the CIA and foreign
intelligence services, agency officials abroad are increasingly sharing
sensitive intelligence on suspected terrorists, supporting overseas
investigations and initiating -- in several cases virtually insisting on --
arrests.

The foreign effort reflects the continuing concern of the White House, the
Justice Department, the FBI and the CIA that bin Laden and his network may
have future terrorist attacks already planned in the United States or against
U.S. facilities abroad.

The total number of people detained worldwide as part of the Sept. 11 probe
is unknown, as are the identities and significance of most. In addition to
the 360 foreign arrests generated by the CIA, the FBI through its own
contacts and legal attachés overseas has helped produce a separate, unknown
number of arrests. Dozens of countries have also stepped up their
counterterrorism programs and have arrested on their own many more suspects,
possibly in the hundreds, without any encouragement from the CIA or the FBI.

Of the 360 suspects arrested or detained abroad at the CIA's instigation,
there were more than 100 in Europe, more than 100 in the Near East, 30 in
Latin America and 20 in Africa. Officials said those arrests may have thrown
some known al Qaeda groups off balance, but it is not clear whether any
terrorist attacks in the United States have been disrupted or aborted. Four
planned attacks, including a highly publicized plan to blow up the U.S.
Embassy in Paris, have been aborted abroad since Sept. 11.

The CIA is rapidly developing information on suspected terrorists and working
intensely with foreign intelligence services to turn that information into
arrests. In addition, the agency, which had been accused of timidity, is
undertaking some high-risk operations of its own to track suspected
terrorists.

Since Sept. 11, a number of countries where the authorities thought al Qaeda
did not have a presence have received a loud wake-up call and discovered
cells or operatives within their own borders, several sources said.

The CIA effort is part of the work of a substantial foreign intelligence
coalition involving dozens of countries assembled by CIA Director George J.
Tenet. A senior White House official said recently that the intelligence
coalition is as important as the military and diplomatic coalitions involved
in the war on terrorism, particularly in the war's initial phase in
Afghanistan.

Intelligence may be more important down the road, the official said, when
we can't bomb or send in the [U.S.] Special Forces and have to operate
covertly to root out the terrorists.

Two senior diplomats in Washington involved in assisting the CIA said that
the intelligence-sharing and the pressure to detain suspected terrorists

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Don't write us off yet, Taliban tell West
By Alex Spillius in Spin Boldak
(Filed: 22/11/2001)


THE Taliban warned the world yesterday not to write it off after its
territorial losses last week and vowed to defend its southern heartland to
the last drop of blood.


Tayab Agha: said communication with Osama bin Laden had been lost
At the first press conference inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan since the
fall of Kabul last week, a spokesman for the radical Islamic movement's
leader Mullah Mohammed Omar also said communication with Osama bin Laden had
been lost since the American air strikes began six weeks ago. Tayab Agha said
as far as he knew the suspected Saudi terrorist mastermind was outside the
southern regions still under Taliban control.

He derided as baseless propaganda reports that Omar was negotiating to hand
over power to southern Pathan tribal leaders.

Foreign journalists had been invited into Taliban-held territory to see that
the militia was not on the verge of collapse. We were, however, herded into a
foreign ministry bureau compound and denied permission to leave, despite
officials' claims that they wanted us to meet the people.

In the morning the Taliban brought in tents for those who had had to sleep
under the stars the previous night. They provided some food, water and
electricity, but no access to Kandahar, despite their assertions that they
were in control.

Omar's messenger said the United States bombing, designed to overthrow the
Taliban and kill or capture bin Laden, was already bringing back the
insecurity that allowed the Taliban to seize power and impose rigid Islamic
law, as old warlords and commanders grabbed their former lands.

He said the Taliban started in 1993 in reaction to the robbers, killers and
rapists who were terrorising innocent people. There was anarchy in the
country and there will be anarchy again. These people can't control the
nation, said Agha.

His remarks touched on international concerns that the Northern Alliance and
warlord factions will once again tear the country apart as they did in the
1992-96 civil war.

The alliance and others have so far paid only lip service to the
international community's encouragement of a new broad-based government.

Rather than offering a fantastical assessment of the militia's potential to
retake Kabul, as lowlier officials have, Agha admitted that the movement was
reduced to four provinces - Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul and Oruzgan - and
maintained partial control of another, Ghazni.

He said the militia's forces had dwindled but said they had sufficient
numbers to defend the south from attack by the alliance or the forces of the
western warlord Ismail Khan. For the time being we will defend areas under
our control. When the time comes it will be our responsibility to take other
areas.

Our original purpose was not to grab power but to bring Islamic law. That
remains a duty given by almighty Allah, said Agha, 25, who spoke in English
learnt at school across the border in Quetta.

Spin Boldak, a trucking town of mud hut garages and grimy markets, was the
scene of the Taliban's first victory, when they seized the garrison of a
warlord's forces. They soon took the whole of Kandahar province and cleared
the roads of dozens of self-styled commanders' armed checkpoints where money
was extorted from drivers.

His remarks were intended to suggest that the Taliban had consolidated to a
degree following their reverses. An Afghan United Nations staff member who
left Kandahar four days ago said the Taliban still ruled the city, although
they maintain only a minimal presence because of the American bombing.

He estimated that 80 per cent of the population had fled. There has been so
much bombing that people hate America, he said.

According to Agha, defending the south would be made easier by the popular
support that the Taliban enjoy in their tribal homeland. For all the brutal
justice and privations of life under the militia, some southerners may find
their rule preferable to the chaos, crime and corruption that preceded them,
especially in Kandahar itself.

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That's what the Taliban had to say to the U.S. on Tuesday about the attacks
on America that killed thousands on Sept. 11.

A Taliban spokesman said the U.S. has evened the score â that the U.S.
military campaign in Afghanistan and Muslim suffering elsewhere have
counterbalanced the terror attacks which killed over 4,000 people.

You should forget the 11 September attacks, because now there is new
fighting against Muslims and Islam, said the spokesman, Syed Tayyad Agha.

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November 22, 2001 Posted: 5:30 PM EST (2230 GMT)



Northern Alliance troops await orders to move forward to Konduz


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KONDUZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Despite Northern Alliance claims Thursday that
the Taliban have agreed to soon surrender this northern Afghanistan city,
intense fighting raged between the two sides along the front lines.

After a meeting with a Taliban leader in Mazar-e Sharif, a top Northern
Alliance commander said that Taliban fighters -- surrounded in this city by
Northern Alliance troops -- agreed to lay down their arms Sunday. The
surrender would give the Northern Alliance control of northern Afghanistan.

But in Konduz, where fierce battles raged, Northern Alliance fighters
expressed doubt the surrender would happen, particularly since thousands of
non-Afghan Taliban fighters face trial as war criminals.

And at the same time Northern Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and
Gen. Mullah Faizal, the Taliban assistant defense minister in Konduz, met in
Mazar-e Sharif, chaotic fighting broke out on the eastern side of Konduz
province when Northern Alliance forces began a push west.

Tanks, small arms, rockets and grenade rocket launchers were fired in and
around villages in the Konduz area. Hundreds of Northern Alliances troops,
along with tanks, raced to the front amid an intensive artillery attack on
Taliban positions.



In Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, coalition military jets were heard and
four loud explosions were seen in a village to the southeast, an indication
of bombing in the area.

Dostum said both the Afghan fighters and the so-called foreign fighters in
the Konduz -- mostly Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks -- will
surrender.

The Taliban troops will put down their weapons and give themselves up to
Northern Alliance forces, said Dostum, who also said he planned to go to
Konduz Saturday with 5,000 troops to oversee the surrender. Fighters who
surrender will be taken to Mazar-e Sharif, Dostum said, where the Afghan
fighters will be allowed to return home and the foreign fighters will be
arrested and tried according the laws of the Islamic state of Afghanistan.

The Northern Alliance will fight any Taliban fighters who do not surrender,
Dostum said.

The United States has said it does not want any of the Taliban's
international volunteers or suspected terrorists to be allowed to return to
their home countries.

In talks Wednesday, Faizel said all the Taliban fighters in Konduz --
including the hard-line foreign fighters -- would no longer fight for
Konduz, the last city still under Taliban control in northern Afghanistan.

For more than a week, the Northern Alliance has alleged that al Qaeda
fighters and the non-Afghan troops fighting with the Taliban in Konduz have
been killing local Taliban fighters who want to defect or surrender to the
Northern Alliance.


Armor has been in use on both sides of the conflict
The city has been the scene of heavy fighting in recent days, and many
pro-Taliban fighters have pledged to fight until death there. The United
States intensified its air campaign in the region in recent weeks.

Dostum also said he is negotiating with other officials about other
Taliban-controlled areas in Afghanistan, including the southern stronghold of
Kandahar, the Taliban's religious headquarters. He did not specify what
officials he is in contact with.

With Taliban forces pushed into southern Afghanistan under relentless attacks
from Britain and the United States in support of the Northern Alliance,
Pakistan moved to sever its ties with the embattled rulers. Pakistan, until
Thursday the only country that still maintained diplomatic relations with the
Taliban, ordered the Afghans to close their embassy in Islamabad and vacate
the country. Diplomats began leaving Thursday afternoon, telling reporters
they were going home to Kandahar.

Taliban leaders there declared it their religious duty Wednesday to fight for
the southern city, where the fundamentalist movement began its systematic
takeover of Afghanistan after the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime
in 1989.

Syed Tayyad Agha, the personal secretary to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad
Omar, said the Taliban had sufficient forces to defend the area around
Kandahar.

A source close to the Taliban administrator in Kandahar said there is
pressure from al Qaeda on local Afghan Taliban fighters to stay loyal and not
surrender.

The same source also said there is a flow of Taliban fighters heading south,
starting to mass in and around Kandahar, a move that could

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Report: Nuclear India, Pakistan close to flashpoint in Afghan war spillover

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Escalating border clashes, incursions and a massive Indian army buildup on
the Line of Control in the disputed province of Kashmir in the last 48 hours
are some of the most threatening side-effects of the Afghan war, bringing two
nuclear powers close to flashpoint.

Early this morning, a senior diplomatic mission arrived in Kabul, the first
since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital in 1996, and closed the Indian
embassy. In addition to a special envoy for Afghanistan, Satinder Lambah and
his staff, the mission includes a group of military doctors and nurses. Lamba
will meet Northern Alliance and other Afghan leaders before returning to
India. India has already established a field hospital on the Tajik-Afghan
border and looks forward to restoring its historic ties with Afghanistan,
the third country after Russia and Iran to send diplomats to Kabul.

According to DEBKAfile's sources on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian army
is holding its heavily boosted military force in offensive posture opposite
the Pakistani army in Kashmir.

As seen from New Delhi, Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's grip on
government is wobbling dangerously since the setback to his policies
administered by the Northern Alliance's grand sweep of most of Afghanistan.
Indian intelligence reports officers of the pro-Taliban Pakistani
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as plotting to oust him. Indian defense
minister George Fernandes warned recently that Pakistan's involvement in the
anti-Taliban conflict would not only destabilize its society and army, but
rock the country's foundations dangerously. To fight his way out of this
corner, Musharraf may resort to stepping up Pakistan-backed Islamic terrorist
attacks in Kashmir, or outright invasion, deliberately triggering war with
India to deflect popular disaffection.

DEBKAfile's Indian military sources report Indian prime minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee as poised on the brink of initiating wide-scale military action
against Pakistan, pre-emptively or not, after declaring India to be in a
situation of zero military tolerance.

His words are matched by action. Large-scale Indian assault units have been
moved to Kashmir to reinforce its defensive Holding Corps. India's 21 Strike
Force, comprising mainly the 33rd armored division, has advanced towards
Akhnoor in the Jammu region, where the Indian forward command post is already
located. The division was reinforced by two armored infantry brigades and
mechanized artillery units from main bases in Meerut and Mathura. In
addition, the Indians are transferring into Kashmir armored and infantry
brigades to transform 16 Corps at Nagrauta in Jammu, 15 Corps at Badami Bagh,
Srinagar and 14 Corps at Nimmu and Leh from defensive to attack forces.

Indian military sources told DEBKAfile that these movements amount in
practical terms to a full Indian war alert in Kashmir.

As it is, the daily shelling by Pakistan and India could at any moment ignite
the entire front in a flash, drawing a powerful Indian military response
irrespective of the state of the Afghanistan war.

Today, Indian border guards killed a dozen guerrillas crossing from Pakistan
into the Pakistan side of Kashmir, at Ramgarh, 40 miles from the stateâs
winter capital Jammu. According to an Indian spokesman, the men were Muslim
terrorists. A few hours later, an Indian Special Operations Group of the
local police gunned down two top commanders of the Pakistan-based Al-Badr
unit, including its operational chief, Hafiz Ahsan Ali, called Nayeem in a
raid on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Both sides report exchanges of fire along the entire international border.
Pakistani Chenab Rangers claim success in foiling Indian security attempts
to erect an electronic fence along the boundary at three points. This fence
was designed for the Indian army by Israeli experts as part of the defense
exchanges between the two countries. A senior Israeli defense delegation is
due in New Delhi before the end of the month.

India's leaders believe that the United States, pinned down as it is by the
Afghanistan stalemate, is in no position to tie India's hands and force it to
desist from military action. In any case, as

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Kenya crackdown inflaming religious tensions
U.S. pressures country's police to root out Islamic terror cells

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Under U.S. pressure, Kenyan police have launched a series of raids targeting
the country's Muslim community. Nairobi has focused on the predominantly
Muslim coastal city of Mombasa, which is believed to harbor terrorist cells
connected to al Qaeda and which is also a transit point for South Asian drug
traffickers. The crackdown will widen divisions between the Muslim and
non-Muslim communities and will also force drug smugglers to seek alternate
routes.

Kenyan police recently arrested more than 50 Muslims, including the leader of
the National Muslim Youth party. The arrests are part of a new crackdown by
Kenyan authorities -- in response to pressure from Washington -- aimed at
rooting out potential terrorist cells.

Several members of the business community were targeted in the raids, which
are exacerbating the historical hostility between Kenya's Muslims and
non-Muslims. The heightened tensions bode ill for the East African country's
long-term stability. In the near term, the expanded police vigilance will
hinder drug smuggling through Kenya, forcing traffickers to seek alternative
routes and undermining the effectiveness of law enforcement.

The Sept. 11 terror strikes against the United States have thrown a spotlight
on East Africa's Muslim communities. Washington has focused especially on
Kenya and Tanzania. Some of the suspects implicated in the 1998 U.S. Embassy
bombings came from Zanzibar and the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, suggesting
al Qaeda has established cells and contacts in these areas.

East Africa: terrorism's ties to drugs

Seven Pakistanis and a Zambian en route to Europe were arrested recently in
Uganda. The suspects are allegedly tied to Osama bin Laden and have also been
linked to drug trafficking. Suspected terrorist networks in East Africa
overlap with the drug trade from South Asia, making East Africa a vital
source for information on funding sources for al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Uganda's Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce arrested seven Pakistanis and a
Zambian Sept. 29 in Entebbe, Uganda. The suspects -- thought to be both drug
traffickers and members of Saudi exile Osama bin Laden's terrorism network --
were en route from Rwanda to Europe, The Post, a daily in Lusaka, Zambia,
reported Oct. 2.

Terrorists in the region also allegedly receive funding from the drug trade,
and both they and drug traffickers are reliant on the same networks and
routes for support. For instance, Mombasa, besides possibly harboring
terrorist cells, is a key transit point for South Asian drug traffickers.

Nearly 7 percent of Kenya's 30 million people are Muslim. They are
concentrated in Nairobi and Mombasa and comprise a significant portion of
Kenya's entrepreneurial and middle-class business leaders. The Muslim
community's politicians and religious leaders are also vocal factions in
Nairobi's political landscape.

Since Sept. 11, Kenyan authorities have expanded law enforcement efforts,
especially in Mombasa. Several businessmen and politicians there, including
the leader of the National Muslim Youth of Kenya party, Rishad Amana, and
well-known business leader Ali Sharrif Sagaaf, have been held for days.

The FBI had sought to have the suspects extradited to the United States for
questioning about the hijacking attacks. But Mombasa's High Court earlier
this week issued a temporary injunction preventing the extradition to the
United States of Kenyans whose arrest may be connected to the terrorism
investigation, the Daily Nation, a Nairobian daily, reported.

Kenyan authorities have denied that Muslims are being targeted, yet the
recent crackdown suggests the contrary. Several Muslim political groups,
including the powerful Council of Imams, Muslims for Human Rights and the
Islamic Party of Kenya, have condemned the arrests and the involvement of
U.S. law enforcement.

The crackdowns threaten to widen the religious divide in the country. There
have always been tensions between Kenya's religious communities. More than 60
percent of Kenyans are Christians, but the Muslim minority exerts an
inordinate amount

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Whatever the king believed, the kingdom had to believe. That was the
situation in Europe in the 1600s, when James I was not only the king of
England and the commander of the military, but was also the head of the
Anglican Church. Because some in church leadership were there for political
power, there arose a movement to purify the Anglican Church, resulting in the
nickname Puritans.

The Puritans were loyal to the Anglican Church, as compared with the
Separatists, who considered it tainted beyond repair. The Separatists
risked breaking the law to meet in secret and hold prayer meetings. Their
ministers were often arrested for preaching without a license, their members'
homes and farms seized, and some even branded on their face to mark them as
heretics.

In 1607, after years of persecution, the Separatists fled to Holland where
they could have some degree of religious freedom. Even though they didn't
know the language, they struggled to build a community there, but met with
limited success.

Governor Bradford recorded:

Being thus constrained to leave their native soyle and countrie, their lands
and livings, and all their friends and famillier acquantance â¦ to goe into a
countrie they knew not ... where they must learne a new language, and get
their livings they knew not how ... and subject to the miseries of war, it
was by many thought an adventure almost desperate, a case intolerable, and a
miserie worse than death.

After 12 years, they were faced with the decision of moving their community
or seeing their children assimilated into the Dutch culture. They considered
Guyana, but decided against it, based on the tropical diseases and the close
proximity to the Caribbean Spanish Main, where Spaniards murdered attempted
colonies. The Separatists chose to join Jamestown Colony, though they had
heard frightening reports of Indian massacres, starvation, disease-carrying
mosquitos, desolate terrain and cannibalism.

In 1618, they applied to the Counsel of England for approval to settle in
Virginia, and secured an adventurer (investor) to finance their way to the
New World. By means of beaver skins, they repaid this debt, though it took 40
years due to exorbitant interest rates.

In July of 1620, they departed from Leyden, Holland, to Southampton, England,
and from there to America. Little did they know that of the 103 Pilgrims who
departed, only 51 would survive the first winter.

A violent storm while crossing the Atlantic cracked the beam supporting the
main mast. Blown off course, they landed at a place on the Massachusetts
coast, where, according to Governor Bradford:

About three years before, a French ship was wrecked at Cape Cod, but the men
got ashore and saved their lives ... When the Indians heard of it, they
surrounded them and never left watching and dogging them till they got the
advantage and killed them, all but three or four, whom they kept, and sent
from one Sachem to another, making sport with them and using them worse than
slaves.

Providentially, just a year before the Pilgrims landed, a mysterious illness
killed the violent tribe, providing the only place on the eastern coast for a
peaceful settlement.

After the first terrible winter where the death toll had reached several a
day, Governor Bradford described a miracle. It was an:

Indian whose name was Squanto, a native of this place, who had been in
England and could speak better English than himself ... Squanto stayed with
them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for
their good beyond their expectation. He showed them how to plant corn, where
to take fish and other commodities, and guided them to unknown places, and
never left them till he died. He was a native of these parts, and had been
one of the few survivors of the plague hereabouts. He was carried away with
others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, who intended to sell them for slaves
in Spain; but he got away for England, and was received by a merchant in
London, and employed in Newfoundland and other parts, and lastly brought into
these parts by a Captain Dermer.

When Squanto died, in his final request: He begged the Governor to pray for
him, that he might go to the Englishmen's God in Heaven.

On November 29, 1623, three years after the Pilgrims' arrival, Governor
William Bradford proclaimed:

To all ye Pilgrims: In as much as the great Father has given us this year an
abundant harvest ... and protected us from the ravages of the savages, has
spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God
according to the dictates of our own conscience ... I do proclaim that all ye

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The real meaning of Thanksgiving

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Joseph Farah


There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding the people responsible
for the American Thanksgiving tradition. Contrary to popular opinion, the
Pilgrims didn't wear buckles on their shoes or hats. They weren't
teetotalers, either. They smoked tobacco and drank beer. And, most
importantly, their first harvest festival and subsequent thanksgivings
weren't held to thank the local natives for saving their lives.

Do you know there are public schools in America today actually teaching that?
Some textbooks, in their discomfort with open discussions of Christianity,
say as much. I dare suggest most parents today know little more about this
history than their children.

Yet, there is no way to divorce the spiritual from the celebration of
Thanksgiving â at least not the way the Pilgrims envisioned it, a tradition
dating back to the ancient Hebrews and their feasts of Succoth and Passover.

The Pilgrims came to America for one reason â to form a separate community in
which they could worship God as they saw fit. They had fled England because
King James I was persecuting those who did not recognize the Church of
England's absolute civil and spiritual authority.

On the two-month journey of 1620, William Bradford and the other elders wrote
an extraordinary charter â the Mayflower Compact. Why was it extraordinary?
Because it established just and equal laws for all members of their new
community â believers and non-believers alike. Where did they get such
revolutionary ideas? From the Bible, of course.

When the Pilgrims landed in the New World, they found a cold, rocky, barren,
desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, Bradford wrote. No
houses to shelter them. No inns where they could refresh themselves. During
the first winter, half the Pilgrims died of sickness or exposure â including
Bradford's wife. Though life improved for the Pilgrims when spring came, they
did not really prosper. Why? Once again, the textbooks don't tell the story,
but Bradford's own journal does. The reason they didn't succeed initially is
because they were practicing an early form of socialism.

The original contract the Pilgrims had with their merchant-sponsors in London
called for everything they produced to go into a common store. Each member of
the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared
and the houses they built belonged to the community. Bradford, as governor,
recognized the inherent problem with this collectivist system.

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried
sundry years ... that by taking away property, and bringing community into
common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing â as if they were wiser
than God, Bradford wrote. For this community [so far as it was] was found
to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would
have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and
fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and
strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense
... that was thought injustice.

What a surprise! Even back then people did not want to work without
incentive. Bradford decided to assign a plot of land to each family to work
and manage, thus turning loose the power of free enterprise. What was the
result?

This had very good success, wrote Bradford, for it made all hands
industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have
been.

As a result, the Pilgrims soon found they had more food than they could eat
themselves. They set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians.
The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London
much faster than expected. The success of the Plymouth colony thus attracted
more Europeans and set off what we call the Great Puritan Migration.

But it wasn't just an economic system that allowed the Pilgrims to prosper.
It was their devotion to God and His laws. And that's what Thanksgiving is
really all about. The Pilgrims recognized that everything we have is a gift
from God â even our sorrows. Their Thanksgiving tradition was established to
honor God and thank Him for His blessings and His grace.

Today we continue that tradition in my home â and I hope in yours. God bless
you, God bless America, and Happy Thanksgiving.


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Kallstrom's quest for redemption
By Jack Cashill
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Editor's note: James Sanders, a former police officer turned investigative
reporter, co-writes this report with Jack Cashill. Sanders is the author of
The Downing of TWA Flight 800 and Altered Evidence, among other books.
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FBI agent James Kallstrom has been named head of anti-terrorism for New York.
He was chief investigator of the explosion aboard TWA 800. He's just weeks
away from concluding that the World Trade Center collapsed due to mechanical
failure.

â Comedian Argus Hamilton

Sept. 11 had to be a day of agony for James Kallstrom. He had spent more than
20 years of his FBI career in the New York City office, the last four of
those years as bureau chief. How many good people he knew among the dead and
wounded, we do not presume to calculate.

Yet the burden Kallstrom bore that day went deeper than the loss of friends
and colleagues. As the FBI agent in charge of the TWA 800 investigation
starting five years prior, he had had the opportunity to prevent an event
like this from happening. But he did not. The lessons that might have been
learned â and the changes that might have been made â were not.

The corruption of the Flight 800 investigation was not Kallstrom's idea. It
came from the top. But, reluctantly or otherwise, Kallstrom let it happen. He
allowed the investigation to become a farce, an unfunny running gag, an open
sore in America's psyche, and the source of an unprecedented and deeply felt
cynicism among its aviation community. To verify the depths of that cynicism,
just ask any TWA pilot or mechanic or Boeing engineer what brought down that
doomed airliner. Mechanical failure will not be among the answers.

The case of TWA 800 also served as a turning point in the Islamic jihad. In
his authoritative book, Bin Laden, The Man Who Declared War on America,
Yossef Bodansky argues that in its ability to suppress terrorist
explanations and 'float' mechanical failure theories about the demise of TWA
800, the Clinton administration opened a hellish Pandora's Box.

To avoid such suppression after future strikes, Bodansky prophesied,
terrorism-sponsoring states would raise the ante so that the West cannot
ignore them.

Bodansky wrote this in 1999. As the director of the Congressional Task Force
on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, he knew whereof he spoke. For the
record, he is also the director of research of the International Strategic
Studies Association and a senior editor for the Defense  Foreign Affairs
group of publications.

In his book on Bin Laden, Bodansky unequivocally cites the crash of TWA 800
as a terrorist act. Although imprecise on the specifics of the act itself, he
details the events leading up to it and the claims of responsibility
afterwards. The intelligence we (Sanders and Cashill) have received since
Sept. 11 strongly supports his claim. (The actual terrorist scenario,
however, differs from what most people believed. More on this when fully
confirmed.)

Having spent 25 years in the highly Catholic culture of the FBI, Kallstrom
surely understands guilt. His actions suggest as much. A month after the
destruction of the World Trade Center, he abandoned a comfy sinecure as
executive vice president at credit card giant MBNA Inc., and assumed the
gritty top job at New York state's new Office of Public Security. The new job
may well be his own attempt at atonement. He has much to atone for.

Unlike the hacks at the National Transportation Safety Board â Chair Jim Hall
and Vice-Chair Robert Francis â Kallstrom could find no easy refuge in
willful ignorance or political opportunism. In 1996 at least, James Kallstrom
was a serious man with an admirable record. As a young Marine platoon
commander, he had served in Vietnam near the DMZ and fought in the grueling
battle of Khe Sanh. As an FBI agent, he worked on the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing and led his office in its successful assault on John Gotti and the
New York mob. In sum, he had established a worthy record for himself long
before he ever knew the name Bill Clinton, a name that today, he must
regret ever hearing.

The Clinton pattern now seems clear. Right after the crash, the White House
pressured investigators into silence under the guise of national security.
But Kallstrom was savvy enough to recognize political expediency when he saw
it, especially in the run up to a presidential election.

Unlike Clinton, Kallstrom truly felt the pain â in his own words â of
walking into a Ramada Inn on day two or day three, and seeing a thousand plus
people that have just lost their daughter or their son, a mother or father in
some cases, the entire family. In reviewing the record, one finds an impulse
towards truth

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US fears massacre of foreign fighters
By David Rennie in Taloqan, Stephen Robinson and Andy McSmith
(Filed: 23/11/2001)


FEARS of a massacre of thousands of foreign fighters trapped in Kunduz, the
last northern stronghold of the Taliban, were raised last night as the
Northern Alliance launched an all-out attack to capture the besieged town.


Northern Alliance troops gather near the Kunduz front

The 10-day siege of the Kunduz pocket appeared to be moving towards a violent
and chaotic end after alliance leaders first announced that a surrender deal
had been reached and then said talks had failed and an assault was underway.

But amid reports that hundreds of Afghan Taliban fighters were surrendering,
leaving only hardline Arab and other foreign fighters, Downing Street and
Washington faced contradictory worries over the fate of the enclave.

Officials feared the international repercussions of a massacre by their
unofficial allies, and yet also expressed concern that a large part of the
Taliban force could escape unscathed if unreliable Northern Alliance leaders
made a deal with them.

United Nations officials who were approached to oversee a mass evacuation
have ruled it out, arguing that the area around Kunduz was too dangerous and
their forces would be liable to be ambushed.


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Even if an evacuation could be mounted in practice, London and Washington
appeared to oppose it in principle. Normal international practice is that
people become prisoners so they cannot just walk away, said a Downing Street
spokesman.

He added: What we have made clear all along is that the Northern Alliance
and others should behave in a way that avoids atrocities.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that between 400
and 600 bodies had been found in the northern Afghan town of Mazar-i-Sharif
following its capture by the alliance.

But a spokesman could not say whether the dead had been executed or were
killed in the fighting that preceded the fall of the town on Nov 9.

As concern mounted last night in Washington that foreign Taliban might be
allowed to leave Kunduz, possibly to fight on elsewhere, Northern Alliance
officials promised that the foreigners would not be allowed to leave the
country.

There are unknown thousands of foreign Taliban in Kunduz, believed to be a
mixture of Pakistanis, Arabs, Chechens and Uzbeks, some with links to
al-Qa'eda.

Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, said: Any idea that those people
should be let loose on any basis to go bring terror to other countries and
destabilise other countries is unacceptable.

He made clear that he thought the Taliban and their cohorts should either be
killed in battle or forced into unconditional surrender and face local
justice. For the foreigners captured by the Northern Alliance, the outcome of
local justice would be almost certain execution.

However, Daoud Khan, the commander of forces massed to the east of Kunduz,
said that Afghan Taliban who wanted to surrender would be granted safe
passage to Kandahar, the only other Afghan city in Taliban hands.

He added: Those who resist, we will fight against them, and they will be
killed. Gen Daoud refused to say what would happen to foreign Taliban who
asked to surrender.

Hopes of a bloodless conclusion to the siege were raised by the Uzbek
warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who met the top Taliban commander,
Mullah Fazil, for talks near Mazar-i-Sharif.

The meeting was held in Gen Dostum's freshly recaptured headquarters, a
fortress 100 miles west of Kunduz. Mullah Fazil arrived with a heavily armed
squad of bodyguards while senior Northern Alliance commanders were sent to
stay in Kunduz as hostages.

Gen Dostum said he had been assured by Mullah Fazil that 14,000 foreign and
Afghan Taliban in Kunduz remained under his command and would surrender.

However, a few hours later, the alliance interior minister, Yunus Qanuni,
said talks had failed. We have been forced to choose a military solution.
Our forces are advancing. We hope by tomorrow we will have secured Kunduz,
he said.

Mr Qanuni accused the Taliban of treachery. It was a political tactic. They
wanted to buy time; they had no intention of surrendering.

To add to the confusion, rivalries between Gen Dostum and Gen Daoud broke
into the open, with Gen Daoud saying he controlled five front lines near
Kunduz as opposed to Gen Dostum's one and vowing he would take the city first.

His comments fuelled fears that the battle for Kunduz, supposedly a key piece
of the global war against terrorism, would descend into a race for the spoils
left behind by the Taliban, and for long-term control of the strategic city.

The troops massing for the advance on Kunduz expressed little interest in
talk of deals and

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CHINA VOWS SPACE RACE
Thu Nov 22 2001 10:29:59 ET

BEIJING -- XINHUA -- China is speeding up its aerospace industry and plans to
launch more projects concerning rockets, satellites, spacecraft, exploration
of planets and outer space, according to a senior aerospace official.

Luan Enjie, director of the State Aerospace Bureau, said Thursday at a
meeting that his bureau will push the development of space technology, space
utilization and space science in civil sectors, promoting the country's
economic and social development and national defense.

The meeting was held to mark the first anniversary of the release of the
White Paper on China's Aerospace Development.

China has achieved outstanding results in many space programs, including
launching satellites and rockets, and outer space exploration. Meanwhile,
space technology has produced tools which are transforming weather
forecasting, environmental protection, humanitarian assistance, education,
medicine, agriculture and a wide range of other activities.

At present, China's research on recoverable satellites, soft-landing
technology and micro-gravitation has entered a more mature testing stage.
China is now carrying out space breeding and life resources observation.

In the field of space physics, China has set up a small ground-level
laboratory to study physical changes in the universe under artificial
high-temperatures and densities by means of laser induced plasma.

The country plans to send an additional 30 satellites into outer space in the
next five years with the aim of accelerating the development of the space
industry, according to bureau sources.

The satellites, with improved quality and function, will be used in fields
such as telecommunications, weather forecasting, environmental protection and
navigation.

New carrier rockets, satellites and even manned space flights will be the
development priorities of China's space industry in the early years of the
21st century.

On top of the agenda will be a new-type carrier rocket which is not only more
powerful but also environmentally-friendly, said Min, a member of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Efforts will also focus on the development of new types of remote-sensing,
communications and navigation satellites, in addition to manned space flight.

To date, China has successfully developed and launched 48 satellites, with a
success rate of 90 percent.

China launched and recovered its second unmanned spacecraft, the Shenzhou II,
earlier this year following its maiden space flight in late 1999. China is
also preparing to carry out manned flights, Luan said.

As outer space exploration inspires people and leads to technologies that can
benefit all people, China will continue to support outer space research and
cooperation with other countries in this field, including a planet-probe
program with the European Space Agency and cooperation on two earth resources
satellites with Brazil, according to Luan.

Data from China's self-developed resources satellite and meteorological
satellite have become an indispensable part of the data bank of the
international satellite network shared by all countries.

China's exploration and utilization of space, the so-called fourth frontier
of mankind, has been encouraging and promising as the country is improving
its aerospace technology and the national strength.

Experts claim that the increasing population and the decreasing resources on
the earth have made it necessary to seek new living space and resources in
outer space.

China's space research will focus on the moon and outer space, Luan disclosed
at the China Industrial Hi-tech Forum last October.His bureau has just
launched a project cooperating with its European counterpart to make
breakthroughs in exploring the moon in the next decade or longer.

The plan was initially made public when the Chinese government released the
White Paper. According to the plan, China will launch moon probes from Long
March carrier rockets on the basis of applied technology development.

Since the launch of its first man-made satellite in 1971, China has
established itself near the top in the world in terms of aerospace
technology, with a full set of carrier rockets and applied satellites, and a
related research and development center and production base.




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Unencumbered Air Power Key to Afghan Successes, Says Moorer
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
President Bush has not imposed a lot of rules on the military commanders
directing the American air offensive in Afghanistan,â retired Adm. Thomas
Moorer told NewsMax on Wednesday. As a result, our air power has quickly
interdicted the supplies and leadership of the Taliban.â
Moorer, who over a 45-year Navy career served variously as commander in chief
of the Pacific Fleet, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, chief of
naval operations, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Vietnam), said
he appreciated and admired President Bushâs pragmatic
let-the-commanders-command approach to the air war in Afghanistan.

Thatâs why itâs working,â Moorer summed up.

We never showed the enemy in Vietnam what a superpower could do,â Moorer
said. There were all kinds of stops and starts to the air campaign in that
war. No military man in his right mind would have run that war in the way it
was run.â

As a young lieutenant commander aviator at Pearl Harbor, Moorer scrambled his
plane, a PBY flying boat,â after the Japanese attack. He and his crew flew
for 17 hours in search of the retreating Japanese fleet, radioing
intelligence back to U.S. commanders.

Moorer has been sharing intelligence with presidents, Congress and the
military leadership ever since.

After a long period of being stymied by President Lyndon Johnsonâs
micromanagement of the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon turned control of
the Vietnam War over to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Moorer on Dec.
14, 1972 with simple marching orders: Win this war.â

The bastards have never been bombed like theyâre going to be bombed,â
warned Nixon.

On Dec. 18, 1972, Operation LINEBACKER II began, hallmarked by 3,000 sorties,
11 days and 40,000 tons of bombs decimating targets in North Vietnam and
elsewhere.

Eleven days after the intensified air war, Americaâs involvement in Vietnam
changed forever.

Stalemated peace talks in Paris resumed on Jan. 8, 1973. North Vietnamese
envoy Le Duc Tho and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reached a final
agreement and signed the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27, 1973.

Within 60 days after the signing, 591 American prisoners of war were released
and returned to the United States.

The new policy of letting the military run the war was key, said Moorer. It
took us eight years to get permission to mine Haiphong harbor. Afterward, not
one ship entered or left the harbor until we took up the mines.â

The bombardment campaign wrecked North Vietnamâs economy, brought its
transportation system to a halt and overpowered its air defenses. The media
so often overlooks the key element of logistics,â Moorer said.

After the war, a candid enemy agreed. This war [LINEBACKER] was different
than the first war of destruction,â concluded historians of the Peopleâs
Army of Vietnam. This time the enemy [U.S.] massed larger forces and made
massive attacks right from the first day of operation, using many types of
modernized technical weapons and equipment.â

IS Air Power the Total Solution?

Moorer admitted that, sooner or later, American forces may get into the
serious business of ground combat. However, air power will still be the key,
he qualified. Our trained special forces on the ground will be directing air
power to targets.â

And thatâs where the carrier-based fighter-bombers will continue to show
their stuff, Moorer said. Strategic bombers have to fly thousands of miles,
he explained. Tactical targets are fluid and may not be around by the time
the bombs fall. The carrier planes can be circling over the target in minutes
or hours.

Moooer referred to the four carriers in the Afghanistan theater as complete
packages,â the very able point of the American sword. Ironically, he said, it
always takes two or three years to push a new carrier through the budget
process.

Combining air power with forces on the ground was always a reality in the
Vietnam War. In Capitol Hill testimony just before the saturation B-52
bombing of Haiphong, Moorer suggested amphibious assaults behind North
Vietnamese lines as an option.

Prior to Nixonâs unleashing of massive air power, a 1972 congressional report
concluded: This study calls into serious question the efficacy of strategic
and interdiction bombing against a highly motivated guerrilla enemy in an
underdeveloped country.â

Reminiscent of early critics of the modern Afghan campaign, the report
lamented the scarcity and nature of targets and the cost of the bombing
operations. The dollar value of the attacks greatly exceeded the dollar value
of the value of the targets destroyed. Chinese and Soviet supply shipments to
North Vietnam were exceeding the damage done by a 6:1

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Hillary's Nuke Safety Scheme Would Evacuate 20 Million
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
Not content with adding thousands of airport workers to the federal payroll â
and union membership â Sen. Hillary Clinton now wants even more new federal
hirings to keep an eye on the nation's nuclear plants, now protected by the
plant owners' security forces.
According to New York Times reporter Robert Worth, Clinton, D-N.Y., told
reporters at the Indian Point nuclear facility that she would introduce
legislation to make the feds responsible for nuclear plant security.

But that's not all. Clinton is also pushing for an expansion of the
evacuation zone from the present 10 miles to 50 miles, putting New York City,
30 miles away, and its 8 million residents within the zone. This would
require the evacuation of all 20 million people in that zone in the event of
an emergency at Indian Point.

The senator did not explain how the nightmarish evacuation of the city's 8
million people plus the other 12 million people living within the 50-mile
perimeter could be accomplished without creating unmanageable chaos.

She told reporters that the bill she'll co-sponsor with Sen. Harry Reid,
D-Nev., would:



Put the feds in charge of plant security at the nation's 103 nuclear power
plants.


Toughen the simulated terrorist attack exercises the feds already conduct
from time to time on nuclear plants to check on their safety precautions.

Stockpile potassium iodide, which helps to prevent cancer and other diseases
among people exposed to radiation.
The Times noted that Clinton failed to address any details of how the
evacuation would be conducted other than to say the direction and force of
the wind would be the major determinant of where an evacuation would be
needed.

According to the Times, the evacuation plan has become a sore point for many
people in Westchester County who believe that it would not work in a serious
accident.




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Bill provision has military collectors up in arms
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


 A sweeping provision in the Senate's Defense Department authorization
bill would force collectors who have bought surplus military items to
demilitarize them â something hobbyists fear means destroying or turning
over vintage military vehicles and guns.
 House members stripped that section out of the version of the bill they
passed, and negotiators from the two chambers are now working to iron out the
issue. No agreement has been announced, but several lobbyists from vehicle
collectors associations and gun rights groups said House negotiators have
promised the provision will be stricken.
 Known to opponents simply as Section 1062, the provision of the Senate
bill would make it illegal for anyone to possess significant military
equipment formerly owned by the military unless it has been demilitarized â
which means made inoperable as a weapon â according to regulations set out by
the Defense Department.
 The purpose of the provision, a Pentagon spokesman said, is to prevent a
recurrence of past mistakes when a helicopter or tank has been sold without
the gun placements removed.
 But a broad coalition â from the National Rifle Association to the
National D-Day Museum in New Orleans to vintage military jeep owners and even
military radio collectors â says the provision is drawn so it encompasses
just about anything the military has ever surplused.
 If Uncle George brought an M-1 rifle home from the war, it would
include that, said Scott A. Duff, who has written a history of the M-1
Garand rifle, which was a staple for World War II infantry.
 Even more ironic, he said, is that the federal government still sells
that particular rifle to civilians through a marksmanship program, creating a
curious situation: The FedEx man could come to your door with an M-1 today,
and the Defense Department could come to your door [to demilitarize it]
tomorrow.
 However, the section of the bill has irked more than gun enthusiasts.
 Allan D. Cors, president of the Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles and
owner of more than 100 tanks, armored vehicles and jeeps, wrote a memo
calling the provision a grotesque and frightening grant of authority to
seize [or] destroy legally acquired and legally possessed private property,
especially since it would specifically harm people like him whose goal is to
preserve artifacts of military history.
 Nobody knows how many planes, trucks, pistols, radios and rifles would
be covered under the provision â simply that it is a lot.
 Several of the groups have been told that demilitarization wouldn't
apply to them, and senators have said they do not intend it to apply to Civil
War cannon and World War II aircraft. The provision also grants the secretary
of defense discretion on what to demilitarize, and how to do it.
 But hobbyists say they want to be sure someone doesn't misinterpret the
provision in the future.
 We want to believe that, but our concern is the language is so broad
that 10 years down the line some bureaucrat may say, 'Oh my goodness, we
haven't been keeping up with this, here's all this ex-military aircraft we
need to demilitarize,' said Peter Moll, executive director of the
Experimental Aircraft Association Warbirds of America, a group representing
civilians who own military aircraft.
 Yet there are some groups that say the issue has been blown out of
proportion.
 We've been in contact with Senate staffers on this and it seems like
some of the concern is typical knee-jerk overreaction of some of the gun
extremists, said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent
Gun Violence.
 Congress is trying to do the right thing on this. They're trying to
make sure someone doesn't have access to high-powered military weapons.
They're not going to take away someone's World War II rifle, he said.
 The fate of the provision â like the rest of the bill â rests with
Democrats and Republicans who are now in conference.
 Tara Andringa, spokeswoman for Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the senator will not
comment on the provision until an agreement has been reached.
 All that Senator Levin has said is that he's aware of concerns that
have been raised and they're working to iron out differences in conference,
she said.
 Lisa Atkins, chief of staff to Rep. Bob Stump, Arizona Republican and
chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he is opposed to Section
1062.
 The congressman is very opposed to it, and doesn't want to include it
in any piece of legislation that is eventually agreed to by both chambers,
she said.




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[CTRL] Michigan appeals court affirms Kevorkian's conviction in death of man


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Michigan appeals court affirms Kevorkian's conviction in death of man shown
on '60 Minutes'




By Kathy Barks Hoffman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 21, 2001

LANSING, Mich. â The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the murder conviction
of assisted suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian in the death of a 52-year-old
man that was shown on television.

The decision, handed down Tuesday and announced Wednesday, said finding
euthanasia legal would be a first step down a slippery slope.

Kevorkian, 73, who says he has assisted in more than 130 deaths, is serving a
10- to 25-year sentence for the September 1998 death of Thomas Youk, who was
terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease.

But for defendant's self-described zealotry, Thomas Youk's death would, in
all probability, not have been the subject of national attention, much less a
murder trial, the court said.

Defendant, in what is now apparently something of an afterthought, asks us
to conclude that euthanasia is legal and, therefore, to reverse his
conviction on constitutional grounds. We refuse. Such a holding would be the
first step down a very steep and slippery slope.

Kevorkian had videotaped himself injecting Youk with a lethal dose of
potassium chloride and gave the tape to CBS' 60 Minutes. The tape was
televised in November 1998, and prosecutors quickly responded with a murder
charge.

Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in March 1999. He acted as
his own attorney for most of the trial, telling the court his actions were a
medical service for an agonized human being.

The jury could have convicted Kevorkian of first-degree murder, which would
have sent him to prison to life without possibility of parole.

Kevorkian's attorney Mayer Morganroth said Wednesday he planned to appeal to
the Michigan Supreme Court and to federal courts, if necessary.

Before the appeals court, Morganroth argued that Kevorkian deserved a new
trial, saying, I don't think (his conviction) would have occurred had he had
effective counsel.

But Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Anica Letica said Kevorkian knowingly
chose to represent himself, with attorney David Gorosh advising him.

He's guilty of murder, she said Wednesday. He knew exactly what he was
going to do. It was to further his own political agenda.

The court found Kevorkian did not prove that Gorosh did an inadequate job, or
that he was responsible for Kevorkian's conviction.

Defendant chose â almost certainly unwisely but nevertheless knowingly,
intelligently, voluntarily and unequivocally â to represent himself. He
cannot now assign the blame for his conviction to someone who did not act as
his trial counsel, the court wrote.

Morganroth also contended that an autopsy never proved that Youk, of
Waterford, died as a direct result of the lethal injection given by Kevorkian
â an argument disputed by Letica.

Kevorkian told 60 Minutes he hoped to push prosecutors to act.

They must charge me. Because if they do not, that means they don't think it
was a crime ... They don't need any more evidence, do they?

Acting as his own attorney, Kevorkian asked jurors at his trial, Honestly
now, do you see a criminal? Do you see a murderer? ... If you do, then you
must convict.





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China's Whampoa Ltd. opens port in Bahamas
By John Collins
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES


 FREEPORT, Bahamas â Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the Hong Kong-based shipping
giant with ties to Beijing that has alarmed conservatives with its ports at
both ends of the Panama Canal, is now fully operational with a $2.6 billion
facility in the Bahamas.
 The company, owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, who has personal
ties to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), now controls some 15 percent
of world shipping â a figure that is expected to grow despite the economic
slowdown.
 And one of Hutchison Whampoa's most important hubs is located here, on
Grand Bahama Island, just 55 miles from Palm Beach, Fla.
 While American security experts argue over the seriousness of the China
threat connected to Hutchison Whampoa â which operates facilities in 29 ports
with 162 berths in 16 countries â American shipping officials are concerned
about their ability to compete with the $2.6 billion Bahamas transshipment
facility.
 Fully operational since 1997, the Freeport Container Port occupies 88
acres of the 530-square mile Grand Bahama Island. With 3,400 feet of
berthing, seven gigantic Post Panamex cranes, 22 yard cranes and a projected
annual capacity of 1 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) â a standard
measure for cargo containers commonly used interchangeably on ships, trucks
and trains â Freeport is one of the most modern and efficient container ports
in the world.

 A dropping-off point
 The port is promoted by operators as the location where East-West meets
North-South. Vessels traveling between Europe and Asia through the Panama
Canal can drop off goods at Freeport for transfer to ships moving between
North and South America.
 Its not hard to imagine what will follow when one massive company
controls a network of port facilities stretching from Asia through the Panama
Canal, up to the Bahamas and then across the Atlantic to Europe where it also
has ports, one Florida port operator warned.
 When all of their cards are in place, they'll be able to offer a price
package that's going to knock everybody but the very biggest players out of
the game.
 Hutchison Whampoa is presided over by Mr. Li, 72, who is reputed to
control a fortune estimated at as much as $50 billion. His role in
controversial Hong Kong developments has earned him the nickname Superman.
 Mr. Li, an unquestionably successful capitalist controlling a
globe-spanning conglomerate involving real estate and communications as well
as shipping, sets off alarm bells among security circles because of his
personal friendships with several top Chinese officials including senior
figures in the PLA.
 Mr. Li is also a member of the honorary board of the China International
Trust and Investment Corp. (CITIC), which has helped to acquire technology
for China's military, and is a business partner of the China Ocean Shipping
Co. (Cosco, which, in addition to commercial transport, acts as the merchant
marine for the Chinese military.
 But, Hutchison officials point out, the CITIC honorary board also
includes former Secretary of State George Shultz and U.S. insurance executive
Maurice Greenberg. Mr. Li is personal friends with British Prime Minister
Tony Blair as well as Chinese leaders, they say.
 They also say that, in the Bahamas as in Panama, the Hutchinson
facilities are managed and staffed almost entirely by British nationals or
local employees. One of the top managers in Panama is an American.
 Nevertheless, the influential Far Eastern Economic Review magazine
reported late last year that even Beijing is growing concerned that Mr. Li's
port business is growing too strong for China, and that officials had been
instructed to limit Hutchison's role in several Chinese cities.
 While both Beijing and Hutchison denied the claims, the move was
interpreted as a belated attempt to give more projects to foreigners, who
missed out during the early 1990s, when the Chinese port industry was first
opened to private investment.

 Port concessions
 When the Panama government granted concessions to Hutchison for port
operations at both ends of the canal in 1999, many officials in Washington
took notice. There was concern, especially among prominent conservatives,
that the Chinese might be gaining undue influence over the canal.
 Among the congressional leaders who spoke out to protest Hutchison
Whampoa's move into Panama were Republican Sens. Trent Lott of Mississippi
and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. In the House, the issue was taken up by
Reps. Porter J. Goss of Florida, Duncan Hunter and Dana Rohrabacher of
California, and William M. Mac Thornberry of Texas, all Republicans.
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Date: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:03 AM

PART II  (of information supporting remotely-controlled-crashbombing
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Item #2:

Are the U.S. pentagon military in Afganistan nothing but mercenaries killing
for  Anglo-American opium-revenue-laundering-oil-wealth
stealing/monopolizing-secret-society-networked ruling-elite criminals -- and
so our airmen and soldiers are functioning exactly as the Hessian
mercenaries King George III hired and George Washington had to fight during
our Revolutionary War.

The slash and burn foreign policy of Secretary Powell, Security Adviser
Rice, and President Bush  serves the CFR (Rockefeller)  interests while
their stated target, the  innocent frame-up victim they seek dead or dead,
is a man, who in the mind of  many millions around the world, is the heroic
champion of Mideast-and-Central-Asian  aspirations for independence, for
self-determination, for debt-free national economic integrity, and for the
heritage of morality from above, that is, from sources deemed superior to
dominant leaders'  politics, power, ambition and greed.

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Robert Lederman has done extensive research into the 911
Frame-up/Cover-up --  following a completely different set of clues than
those that have convinced me.
His conclusions further corroboration that we have been energetic in
following light that is really darkness.

Here is Lederman's essay on the Nine Unpopular Ideas that because they are
intelligent and true will win out in the end.




October 24, 2001


Are you less than satisfied with the official explanations about 9/11?

Here are nine for the moment relatively unpopular but nevertheless
compelling ideas to consider about the attack. Americans who tend to believe
in any or all them are in the minority right now. Perhaps they won't be in
the near future.

1. This new war is not a conflict between Islamic fundamentalism and
American freedom.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point1

2. The destruction of the WTC was anticipated, and might have been
preventable.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point2

3. The Rockefeller connection may be the key to unlocking an understanding
of this entire issue. Why has their connection to the WTC been omitted from
99.999% of the media coverage about 9/11?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point3

4. Anthrax may not be getting sent to the media and to Congress by
terrorists.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point4

5. This conflict is about oil not terrorism, Israel or Islam.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point5

6. Are we bombing the wrong country?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point6

7. Bush is not doing a good job of protecting America. It would be far more
accurate to say he's doing a good job of destroying it.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point7

8. There is an occult aspect to the attacks which cannot be ignored or
attributed to coincidence.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point8

9. NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani did not unify New York City, but has done
everything in his power to destroy the electoral process and guarantee
future social chaos.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Holy_War/message/16244#point9

Rather than attempt to provide a lengthy proof of each idea which would
require a book-length report, here are one or more references from which you
can learn more. Every one of these ideas has voluminous documentation which
can be found in the mainstream media, on the net or in reputable books if
one looks for it.
Are these ideas true, are they connected and do they point to an even more
sinister explanation for 9/11 than is popularly held? I'll let you be the
judge, which is more than our newly popular leaders are willing to do. While
to some it may seem unpatriotic to question the government's actions at this
time of crisis let us remember that the original purpose of free speech was
to enable Americans to ask exactly these kind of unpopular questions of our
elected leaders. Real unity cannot be based on deceiving the American
people.

1. This new war is not a conflict between Islamic fundamentalism and
American freedom.
According to President Bush, we are now at war with the evil-doers who
hate our freedoms and way of life. Reasonable enough, but to be complete the
list of evil-doers involved with terrorists would have to include most of
the nations in our present coalition, the CIA, many of Americas' top
corporations and some of its' wealthiest

[CTRL] The Phoney War in Afghanistan (Part 5) - THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 587


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The Phoney War in Afghanistan (Part 5)



THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 587


   (The FBI Will Never Find the Terrorist Who Caused the Crash)


 A Scientific Analysis of the Events Causing the Crash


(BJNews, November 15, 2001)  On Monday, November 12, 2001

American Airlines Airbus A300 Flight 587 crashed and burned, just

two minutes and 24 seconds after take off from JFK International

Airport in New York City. Within minutes the speculation for the

cause ran from aircraft failure to terrorist attack. Immediately,

both the FBI and the NTSB began a formal investigation. The NTSB

was in charge of investigating the crash and the FBI would take

over if evidence of sabotage were found. So far, the investigators

have eliminated a number of possible theories, such as birds

damaging the engines, simple engine failure, or possible bomb or

missile attacks.


On Tuesday, the 13th, during the NTSB press conference, one of the

reporters asked, What about the possibility of a thrust reverser

failure?  The reporters were told there was no evidence of that

and its not possible for that to occur during flight. What the NTSB

and FBI failed to tell the reporters is that it is not possible for

there to be a thrust reverser failure in flight, UNLESS the thrust

reverser controls were sabotaged by a terrorist. Instead, the

investigation seems to focus on the possibility that wake

turbulence from a 747 jumbo jet which had taken off just minutes

before Flight 587 had caused the damage to the plane and caused the

crash.


What is confusing to most knowledgeable aircraft investigators is

that this is completely impossible. It is not possible for any type

of turbulence to rip off the tail of an airplane, and then have it

go out of control in such a way that both engines would also fall

off. In August 1985 a Japanese Boeing 747 with the vertical tail

assembly completely torn away continued to fly in large circles for

over half an hour before it hit a mountain. But only because the

pilots were busy trying to figure out what happened to the plane

and did not watch where they were going. It did not go into an

instant out of control spin with complete loss of the engines.


The Air Force's B-2 Flying Wing stealth bomber is a perfect example

to prove that a plane with absolutely NO vertical fin or stabilizer

is able to fly and does not instantly become unstable and crash.

The B-2 uses modern fly-by-wire computers to keep the plane

flying straight and level. The original flying wing design from the

1950's also flew but using manual flight controls made it rather

difficult to steer with no rudder. The Airbus A300 uses a modern

fly-by-wire computer system and would fly quite easily with

complete loss of the vertical fin and rudder. The NTSB's claim that

the loss of Flight 587's vertical fin and rudder might be the cause

of the loss of the control of the plane which caused it to crash is

both misleading and deceptive.


Any theory blaming the failure of the vertical fin and rudder

assembly as the cause cannot account for why the engines would fall

off the plane. Any theory blaming an engine failure as the cause

cannot account for why the tail assembly would snap off cleanly

with no appearance of blast damage from an exploding engine. Thus

there would need to be three separate simultaneous failures, of the

tail assembly and both pylons holding the engines on the plane to

account for those three effects observed before the plane crashed.

Most air accident investigators would easily conclude that the

chances of three simultaneous airframe failures all occurring at

the same time is not probable. It must be one or the other but not

all three. It would be much easier to conclude that something else

actually caused all three failures. Thus the breaking off of the

tail and both engines is not the cause of the crash, but is the

effect of some other single failure which caused the crash. And

what would that be?


If the left engine thrust reverser had either partially or

completely actuated during flight, it would cause the plane to go

into a flat spin to the left. The airplane would spin something

like a flat Frisbee with the right engine pushing forward and the

left engine pushing backwards. Within a second of the flat spin

occurring, the sideways wind blast would rip off the tail assembly

since it was never designed to take such a side blast of air.


As soon as the tail assembly broke off there is now very little

wind resistance to the flat spin. At this point the engines would

cause the aircraft to spin even faster with the g-forces away from

the center of the spin becoming so great that both engines would be

violently ripped off the wings and thrown outward away from the

plane. This accounts for why the engines were found so far away

from the crash site and why the tail came off first. Thus a

[CTRL] FBI's Magic Lantern

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FBI Develops Eavesdropping Tools

By Ted Bridis
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, November 22, 2001; 2:34 AM 

WASHINGTON –– The FBI is going to new lengths to be sure it can eavesdrop on high-tech communications, secretly building "Magic Lantern" software to monitor computer use.Separately, the agency is urging phone companies to change their networks for more reliable wiretaps in the digital age.

At a conference Nov. 6 in Tucson, Ariz. – and in a 32-page follow-up letter sent about two weeks ago – the FBI told leading telecommunications officials that increasing use of Internet-style data technology to transmit voice calls is frustrating FBI wiretap efforts.

The FBI told companies that it will need access to voice calls sent over data networks within a few hours in some emergency situations, and that any interference caused by a wiretap should be imperceptible to avoid tipping off a person that his calls might be monitored.

The Magic Lantern technology, part of a broad FBI project called "Cyber Knight," would allow investigators to secretly install over the Internet powerful eavesdropping software that records every keystroke on a person's computer, according to people familiar with the effort.

The software is somewhat similar to so-called trojan software already used illegally by some hackers and corporate spies. The FBI envisions one day using Magic Lantern to record the secret unlocking key a person might use to scramble messages or computer files with encryption software.

The bureau has been largely frustrated in efforts to break open such messages by trying different unlocking combinations randomly, and officials are increasingly concerned about their ability to read encrypted messages in criminal or terrorist investigations.

The FBI said in a statement Wednesday that it can not discuss details of its technical surveillance efforts, though it noted that "encryption can pose potentially insurmountable challenges to law enforcement when used in conjunction with communication or plans for executing serious terrorist and criminal acts."

The FBI added that its research is "always mindful of constitutional, privacy and commercial equities," and that its use of new technology can be challenged in court and in Congress.

Magic Lantern would largely resolve an important problem with the FBI's existing monitoring technology, the "Key Logger System," which in the past has required investigators to sneak into a target's home or business with a so-called sneak-and-peak warrant and secretly attach the device to a computer.

In contrast, Magic Lantern could be installed over the Internet by tricking a person into double-clicking an e-mail attachment or by exploiting some of the same weaknesses in popular commercial software that allow hackers to break into computers. It's unclear whether Magic Lantern would transmit keystrokes it records back to the FBI over the Internet or store the information to be seized later in a raid. The existence of Magic Lantern was first disclosed by MSNBC.

"If they are using this kind of program, it would be a highly effective way to bypass any encryption problems," said James E. Gordon, who heads the information technology practice for Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations Inc. "Once they have the keys to the kingdom, they have complete access to anything that individual is doing."

At least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI on Wednesday to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal suspect.

Experts said the FBI software could be used with a court order against criminals, terrorists or foreign spies. People familiar with the project, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the package is being developed at the FBI's electronic tools laboratory, the same outfit that built the bureau's "Carnivore" Internet surveillance technology.

Some experts said Magic Lantern raises important legal questions, such as whether the FBI would need a wiretap order from a U.S. judge to use the technology. The government has previously argued that the FBI can capture a person's computer keystrokes under the authority of a traditional search warrant, which involves less oversight by the courts.

"It's an open question whether the covert installation of something on a computer without a physical entry requires a search warrant," said David Sobel, a lawyer with the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group.

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[CTRL] Oswald Le Winter General, teacher, poet and spy


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OSWALD LE WINTER
GENERAL, TEACHER, POET AND SPY ?
June 1st 2001

(Lisbon, 2001/6/1) -- The man who claims to know all about the death of
princess Diana is living in Lisbon where he is writing a book about the case,
Portuguese weekly Independente reveals today, 1, June 2001. Oswald Le
Winter, the man who tried to sell Harrodsís owner Mohamed Al Fayed secret CIA
documents in Vienna, Austria, on April 1998, is now living in Lisbon after
two years on an Austrian prison.

On a three-pages interview - General, professor, poeta e espião (General,
teacher, poet and spy) -, Le Winter, who claims to be an ex-CIA agent and has
a reputation as a writer, says that Iíve found all about the death of
Diana, explains Le Winter on todayís edition of Independente. He claims to
have made the investigations while in prison.

During the interview Le Winter says that the ex-American president Bill
Clinton was a CIA agent who used to spy on his colleagues at the Oxford
University. He also defends that Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh, may never
be executed because he was part of a plan to destroy evidences of a drug
scandal concerning Bill Clinton..

Le Winter also makes revelations about CIA actions in Portugal. He says that
he was a member of a CIA team that came to Portugal to prepare the 25 April
1974 coup that would overthrow the dictatorial regime of Marcelo Caetano.
That coup later became known all over the world as a leftist coup under the
name of The Carnation Revolution: The revolution had to have a leftist
image because nobody could suspect that the USA were overthrowing a
government of a NATO country, claims Le Winter. Also the death of Portuguese
prime-minister Francisco Sá Carneiro and his defence minister, Adelino Amaro
da Costa, on a plane crash in December, 4, 1980, as an explanation from Le
Winter: There was a ship transport of weapons from Portugal to Iran on
November, 1980. That was during the October Surprise negotiation, he
says.

These informations are similar to the claims made by the families of the
victimís plane crash that are still today fighting to take the investigation
case into court. Oswald Le Winter also confesses in this interview to the
Portuguese reporter Frederico Duarte that his first CIA mission, in 1967, was
to capture Che Guevara in Bolivia: Che Guevara knew all about the illegal
oil business of George Bush with Cuba. Thatís why Felix Rodriguez was also
sent by George Bush to kill him, says Le Winter.



Contacts - Weekly Independente - Online Editor - PAULO REIS
-- Journalist - FREDERICO DUARTE

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Re: [CTRL] cia drugs, iraq not in on 9/11, kunduz, oil in Afg, patriot act, new CDC law

2001-11-22 Thread Smart News


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Below please find several article excerpts and urls.

Sincerely,  Neil


http://www.nexusmagazine.com/wallstdrugs.html
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 8, Number 6 (October-November
2001) PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

An interview with Michael C. Ruppert
by Guerrilla News Network © 2000
The point about the drug trade is not that the CIA dealt a few drugs
during the Contra years to fund the covert operation that Congress
didn't want it to engage in. The CIA has dealt drugs for all 50 years of
its existence--50 plus years, even before it was the CIA. And the point
is that with 250 billion dollars a year in illegal drug money moved,
laundered through the American economy, that money benefits Wall Street.
That's the point of having the prohibitive drug trade, which the CIA
effectively manages for the benefit of Wall Street.


http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001
/11/21/wirq21.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/11/21/ixhome.html

Iraq 'not linked to September 11'
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 21/11/2001)

ISRAELI intelligence agencies have not detected any link between Iraq and the
September 11 terrorist attacks, officials said yesterday. They also dismissed
claims that Osama bin Laden has acquired nuclear weapons.

The Czech Republic has confirmed that the suspected ringleader of the
September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met an Iraqi intelligence agent in
Prague earlier this year.

But Israeli officials say this does not amount to evidence of Iraq's
involvement in the attacks.

Our assessment is that bin Laden works without co-operating with
governments, said one Israeli official.

It is too easy to detect the intelligence fingerprint of an administration
or a leader. Many intelligence agencies are focused on Iraq. I am sure bin
Laden is clever enough to avoid them.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=105976

US warned on human rights over treatment of troops
War on Terrorism: Kunduz and Kandahar
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
21 November 2001

America would be in breach of its international obligations if it allowed the
Northern Alliance to refuse to accept the surrender of Taliban soldiers in
the Afghan cities of Kunduz and Kandahar, lawyers and human rights groups
have warned.

They said that under international law America could be held responsible for
genocide if Taliban troops were massacred despite offering to surrender.
Under the Geneva Convention, it is illegal to give no quarter to the enemy.

Richard Gordon QC, an international human rights barrister, said: The US
does bear some responsibility for ensuring [the Taliban troops] are treated
humanely because [the US] are effectively in control.

http://www.rense.com/general17/before.htm

New Book Details Bush/Big Oil Negotiations With Taliban BEFORE WTC

   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   11-19-1

Fact: The WTC was bombed right AFTER Bush-Taliban oil pipeline
talks soured. The talks soured right AFTER Bush/Big Oil threatened Taliban
to take their offer or receive a carpet of bombs.

   SPELLING IT OUT

   Bush-Cheney/Big Oil and Afghanistan's Taliban negotiated for
MONTHS over running a Caspian Sea oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Talks
began in February and continued right on until only one MONTH before New
York City's World Trade Center towers were demolished.

   DURING the course of these negotiations, the two parties were
unable to agree upon a deal, MAINLY because Bush/Big Oil agents constantly
upped the ante on the rather naive Taliban representatives: playing
intimidation, bait  switch, and shell games relentlessly. The Taliban
negotiators, understandably, became distrustful of the entire process, and
less and less confident they were being dealt with in good faith.

   In the beginning of August, the Bush administration and its Big
Oil cohorts delivered what amounted to an ultimatum to the Taliban.

   The Taliban representatives were reportedly told by Bush/Big
Oil: Accept our offer of a carpet of gold or you'll get a carpet of bombs.

   That's a DIRECT quote, according to French authors Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, who've just written a thoroughly-researched
and heavily-documented book about the entire extraordinary business titled
Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth

   ALSO revealed in the book is the fact that BUSH HIMSELF directly
ordered the FBI and other U.S. law enforcement groups to BACK OFF on
TERRORIST-RELATED INVESTIGATIONS while the oil pipeline negotiations were
underway!

www.aclu.org/congress/l102301e.html

HOW THE USA-PATRIOT ACT PERMITS INDEFINITE DETENTION OF IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE
NOT TERRORISTS - Section 412 of the final version of the anti-terrorism
legislation, the Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate
Tools

[CTRL] Global Eye -- A Thirsty Evil

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2001/11/23/107.html

Friday, Nov. 23, 2001. Page VIII
Global Eye -- A Thirsty Evil
By Chris Floyd

Are you a terrorist? If you don't know, you'd better find out fast. Because Uncle Sam's made a list and he's checking it twice -- "40 to 50 countries" targeted for possible "U.S. action," according to America's securely-located vice president, Dick "Chicken Hawk" Cheney. As the man says, a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

So here's a simple test to check your moral worthiness and see if you can escape God's -- sorry, Bush's -- all-devouring wrath. Have you ever gone out for a beer and bought a Stella Artois instead of a Bud? Then you, my friend, have engaged in a conspiracy to cause "adverse effects" to the economy of the United States. And that makes you one of the evildoers.

So says the great Oval Object in his latest executive order, in which he grants himself the power to have anyone he designates as a terrorist to be tried by secret military tribunals and executed without appeal. Bush's dread edict -- which of course takes effect without any input from that useless appendage of a bygone era, the U.S. Congress -- covers anyone who "causes, threatens to cause" or even "has as their aim" to cause "adverse effects" on, among other things, the American economy or U.S. foreign policy.

As always, Bush alone retains the right to decide who is and who is not a terrorist, just as he alone decides what constitutes an "adverse effect" on the United States. Could be a bomb, a boycott, a protest, a tariff -- or the wrong beer: it's his call.

The edict gives him the power to seize any non-U.S. citizen, in any country on earth, and to subject him or her to secret summary justice. There is no outside check or oversight of this exercise of universal dominion, and no legal recourse for the accused -- not even to the laws of their own country.

Never has a single person in the history of the world laid claim to such absolute power -- and commanded the military might to back it up. For we should also note that Bush now has the authority to launch attacks against any nation he chooses, at his own discretion, without a vote by Congress or that other withered appendage, the United Nations.

And if you don't like it, pal, you can tell it to the judge. The military judge. Just before he puts a bullet in your brain.

No Direction Home

But what about malcontents in what Bush now calls "the Homeland?" Hey, we got it covered. The U.S. government now has the power to prosecute any public expression of dissent as an act of "domestic terrorism," thanks to the super-duper new "U.S.A. Patriot" Act passed, in the dead of night, by Congress late last month -- a law which most of the dangling legislative appendages freely admit they never read before the vote.

Under the new law, you are a "domestic terrorist," subject to 25 years in prison, if you engage in acts intended to "influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion." Which is, of course, the very definition of public protest: the attempt to force policy changes on reluctant governments through an unsettling display of popular will.

In this case, the Imperial Executive has delegated power to his most faithful minion: Attorney General John Ashcroft. It is Ashcroft -- the only senator in U.S. history to be rejected by voters in favor of a dead man -- who will now define the limits of freedom in America.

And Ashcroft -- a prissy religious crank like his boss -- has gone about his task with Christian zeal. (After all, your true believers know there is a higher law than that secular humanist rag, the constitution.) For example, just last week, Ashcroft stripped prisoners of the ancient right to confer with legal counsel in private, conferring upon himself the power to monitor any such conversation whenever he sees fit.

This also applies to people being held without any charge at all -- and there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, in that category now. We don't know the exact number, because Ashcroft no longer tells anyone -- including the Appendages -- how many people he's holding, or why he's holding them, or who they are, or where they might be, or what he's going to do with them. But not to worry; he's taking good care of his nameless captives. Why, only one has died in custody so far. At least that we know about.

Because Ashcroft's not telling.

Bullet Points

The terrorist attacks on American liberty are coming so fast these days you can't keep track of them all, and so your inundated Eye is reduced to making mere lists of a few recent developments:

*Bush insiders begin pushing the idea of using regular Army troops to "keep order" among the general populace -- the kind of thing that once drove terrorist leaders like George Washington and Patrick Henry to violent rebellion.

*A rightwing group founded by the vice president's wife, Lynn Cheney, issues a list of dozens of academics it considers "short on patriotism" for making

[CTRL] Coincidence?

2001-11-22 Thread RevCOAL


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The following article was in the local weekly paper I got this week...when
the case of the local woman contacting anthrax broke earlier this week, I
heard a brief mention made of this incident from last week, but TPTB
apparently are dismissing a connection...

What I find interesting is that the guy is Croatian, as was the first
Greyhound bus attacker -- again, is this just coincidence?

Derby is the town where Griffin Hospital is located, the hospital that
Ottila Lundgren was taken to and which diagnosed her as having anthrax...


June


===

The Valley Gazette
Nov. 20, 2001, p. 2

FBI CHARGES DERBY MAN...

FBI Agents arrested Amir Omerovic, 28, of Third Street Nov. 13, charging
him with using the mail to send threatening letters and threatening the use
of biological agents against the United States.

Omerovic, a Croatian immigrant, allegedly sent one of the letters to Gov.
John G. Rowland.

No anthrax was found in the letters and it was determined Omerovic had no
access to anthrax, police said.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in jail on the first charge and life
on the second charge.

The letters read, Anthrax is deadly, you breathe you die.  The letter
added that this is only the beginning.  Americans will die.  Death to
America and Israel, it reportedly stated.

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Re: [CTRL] Unencumbered Air Power Key to Afghan Successes, Says Moorer

2001-11-22 Thread Joe Gillaspie


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 Unencumbered Air Power Key to Afghan Successes, Says Moorer
 Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
 Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
 President Bush has not imposed a lot of rules on the military commanders
 directing the American air offensive in Afghanistan,â retired Adm. Thomas
 Moorer told NewsMax on Wednesday. As a result, our air power has quickly
 interdicted the supplies and leadership of the Taliban.â
 Moorer, who over a 45-year Navy career served variously as commander in chief
 of the Pacific Fleet, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, chief of
 naval operations, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Vietnam), said
 he appreciated and admired President Bushâs pragmatic
 let-the-commanders-command approach to the air war in Afghanistan.

 Thatâs why itâs working,â Moorer summed up.

 We never showed the enemy in Vietnam what a superpower could do,â Moorer
 said. There were all kinds of stops and starts to the air campaign in that
 war. No military man in his right mind would have run that war in the way it
 was run.â

 As a young lieutenant commander aviator at Pearl Harbor, Moorer scrambled his
 plane, a PBY flying boat,â after the Japanese attack. He and his crew flew
 for 17 hours in search of the retreating Japanese fleet, radioing
 intelligence back to U.S. commanders.

 Moorer has been sharing intelligence with presidents, Congress and the
 military leadership ever since.

 After a long period of being stymied by President Lyndon Johnsonâs
 micromanagement of the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon turned control of
 the Vietnam War over to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Moorer on Dec.
 14, 1972 with simple marching orders: Win this war.â

 The bastards have never been bombed like theyâre going to be bombed,â
 warned Nixon.

 On Dec. 18, 1972, Operation LINEBACKER II began, hallmarked by 3,000 sorties,
 11 days and 40,000 tons of bombs decimating targets in North Vietnam and
 elsewhere.

 Eleven days after the intensified air war, Americaâs involvement in Vietnam
 changed forever.

 Stalemated peace talks in Paris resumed on Jan. 8, 1973. North Vietnamese
 envoy Le Duc Tho and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reached a final
 agreement and signed the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27, 1973.

 Within 60 days after the signing, 591 American prisoners of war were released
 and returned to the United States.

 The new policy of letting the military run the war was key, said Moorer. It
 took us eight years to get permission to mine Haiphong harbor. Afterward, not
 one ship entered or left the harbor until we took up the mines.â

 The bombardment campaign wrecked North Vietnamâs economy, brought its
 transportation system to a halt and overpowered its air defenses. The media
 so often overlooks the key element of logistics,â Moorer said.

 After the war, a candid enemy agreed. This war [LINEBACKER] was different
 than the first war of destruction,â concluded historians of the Peopleâs
 Army of Vietnam. This time the enemy [U.S.] massed larger forces and made
 massive attacks right from the first day of operation, using many types of
 modernized technical weapons and equipment.â

 IS Air Power the Total Solution?

 Moorer admitted that, sooner or later, American forces may get into the
 serious business of ground combat. However, air power will still be the key,
 he qualified. Our trained special forces on the ground will be directing air
 power to targets.â

 And thatâs where the carrier-based fighter-bombers will continue to show
 their stuff, Moorer said. Strategic bombers have to fly thousands of miles,
 he explained. Tactical targets are fluid and may not be around by the time
 the bombs fall. The carrier planes can be circling over the target in minutes
 or hours.

 Moooer referred to the four carriers in the Afghanistan theater as complete
 packages,â the very able point of the American sword. Ironically, he said, it
 always takes two or three years to push a new carrier through the budget
 process.

 Combining air power with forces on the ground was always a reality in the
 Vietnam War. In Capitol Hill testimony just before the saturation B-52
 bombing of Haiphong, Moorer suggested amphibious assaults behind North
 Vietnamese lines as an option.

 Prior to Nixonâs unleashing of massive air power, a 1972 congressional report
 concluded: This study calls into serious question the efficacy of strategic
 and interdiction bombing against a highly motivated guerrilla enemy in an
 underdeveloped country.â

 Reminiscent of early critics of the modern Afghan campaign, the report
 lamented the scarcity and nature of targets and the cost of the bombing
 operations. The dollar value of the attacks greatly exceeded the dollar value
 of the value of the targets destroyed. Chinese and

[CTRL] DISMANTLING AMERICA


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DISMANTLING AMERICA/ATHE DISMANTLING OF AMERICA
The Phoney War in Afghanistan
the bottom line .

 The current war on Afghanistani terrorism is a misdirection and a
hoax. As pointed out in the book Black Gold Hot Gold the oil expected to
flow from the vast oilfields under the Russian Caspian Sea, discovered about
20 years ago remains undrilled and untapped. That field contains about 500
years worth of oil at present world consumption rates.

 The only possible oil pipeline routes at the present time to handle the
massive flow of oil from the Caspian Sea region under Chechnya is either
through Kosovo to the Mediterranean Sea, or through Afghanistan and Pakistan
to the Indian Ocean. Two years ago, the Clinton administration attempted to
place Kosovo under international control and begin pipeline construction, but
was unable to complete the process.

 The normal oil route would have been to move oil from Chechnya, across
the Black Sea and through the Bosporus to the Mediterranean. But the narrow
Bosporus channel is already clogged with oil tankers from the existing Black
Sea oilfields. The only alternate is to move the tankers from the Black Sea,
bypassing the Bosporus, up the Danube River and then through a very short
pipeline across Kosovo to the Mediterranean at Tirana, Albania. That process
was stopped by the Chinese who have supplied and armed the Albanians, as a
client state, since 1949.

 Following the Soviet discovery of the vast Chechen oilfields in the late
1970's, they attempted to take control of Afghanistan to provide a massive
pipeline system to allow the Soviets to market their oil directly from the
Afghan-Pakistan seaport. This resulted in the decades long Soviet-Afghan war.
The Soviets were stopped by the U.S. supplied and armed insurgent groups,
including Osama bin Laden, who defeated the Soviets in the late 1980's.
 The Soviets had massively built up their military in the 1980's,
including the world's largest nuclear submarine fleet, gambling on the huge
profits to be made by selling their Chechen oil on the open market. When the
Afghans under bin Laden, backed by the U.S. CIA stopped the construction of
the Soviet-Afghan pipeline, the Soviet Union went through an economic
collapse and ceased to exist in 1991.

 The vast Chechen oilfield still remains fallow and untapped. As
identified in Black Gold Hot Gold, the Empire of Energy is now making a new
attempt to market the Chechen oil by carpet bombing Afghanistan and building
the Afghan pipeline.
 George W. Bush's statement about declaring war on terrorism is
obviously hollow and sallow. It strangely does not include the terrorists in
Northern Ireland, nor even the terrorist suicide bombers among the
Palestinians. Instead it makes an instant leap of logic to aim the U.S.
military directly at Afghanistan.

 The terrain in northern Afghanistan is the arid rugged foothills of the
Himalayas known as the Hindu Kush and is defended by the large fierce tribal
armies of the Northern Alliance who are excellent guerilla fighters with
years of experience fighting Soviets, now backed by the Chinese, and not
connected with the main Taliban government in Kabul. The Soviets spent over
10 years at great expense to attack and carpet bomb Afghanistan, but they
found fortress Himalaya is impenetrable. The result was tremendous loss of
Soviet lives and the economic collapse of the Soviet Union.

 George Bush is now leading the United States down that same road. The
Empire of Energy has for almost 100 years had as its goal the dismantling of
the United States of America and amalgamating it into one large global energy
market. They have found in George Bush a willing partner. Any war in
Afghanistan would pit the U.S. against the Chinese who just last week, on the
day of the Word Trade Center attack, signed a mutual pact with the Afghans.

 In the last 50 years the U.S, has fought numerous wars against the
Chinese, as in Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere. In those wars the result was
always a draw with massive loss of life. Even high tech smart weapons in
Kosovo were unable to defeat the Chinese. In the upcoming Afghan war with the
Chinese, the U.S. will lose by simple attrition. Neither smart bombs nor
nuclear bombs work against hidden terrorists or against fortress Himalaya.
There are more Chinese soldiers in uniform than the whole population of the
U.S.

 Numerous recent news stories indicate the attack on the World Trade
Center was known to the CIA and FBI weeks before the attack. Seemingly
nothing was done. As for America, its panzers ran out of gas with the
strange fraudulent election of November 2000. Both G.W. Bush and Al Gore
were backed by the Empire of Energy, so it didn't matter for whom you voted.
Americans have been anesthetized and put to sleep by their lack of knowledge
of world history, as America disintegrates.

Re: [CTRL] Understanding the Murder of JFK

2001-11-22 Thread Samantha L.

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 Subject: Understanding the Murder of JFK

  Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:50:17 -0500

  That was interesting except for that it didn't mention JFK at all except
for in the title.

Samantha

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Re: [CTRL] The REAL meaning of Thanksgiving

2001-11-22 Thread inri


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http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/special%20report-1_11-22-00.asp

Whose Thanksgiving?





11-22-00

By Asiba Tupahache

The
Spirit of January
Reflection
===
November 2000 Takwank
Update Number 24
===

Thanksgiving of the 1600's

Young children, some of them snatched from their mothers, were cut in
pieces before the eyes of their parents, and the pieces were thrown into the
fire or into the water; other babes were bound on planks and then cut
through, stabbed and miserably massacred, so that it would break a heart of
stone; some were thrown into the river and when the fathers and mothers
sought to save them, the soldiers would not suffer them to come ashore but
caused both old and young to be drowned. Some children of from 5 to 6 years
of age, as also some infirm persons, who had managed to hide themselves, but
were all murdered in cold blood and thrown into the fire or the water. A few
escaped to our settlers, some with loss of hand, others of a leg, others
again holding in their bowels with their hands, and all so cut, hacked and
maimed, that worse could not be imagined
From The Narratives of New Netherlands A historic log of accounts and events
kept by the Dutch in the 1600's

The Dutch Governor Willem Keift thanked the soldiers for having brought a
successful night raid and complimented the murdering of babies and children
as having acted with Roman valor. The soldiers were rewarded with a day of
praise and celebrated a thanksgiving. This was an account of a series of
raids that took place over three days in February of 1643. Something about a
rumor having spread about a stolen pig set the colonists and soldiers on a
blood rampage from northern New Jersey to Long Island. This was typical of
the Thanksgivings of the 1600's rather the fabled myth of pilgrims and
Indians in the woods.

Another example of a 1600's thanksgiving was following the massacre of the
Pequots in 1637. Seven hundred or so Pequot men, women and children were
burned alive as they were in ceremony. The structure in which they had
gathered was set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot down. Those
who could not burned alive. As the massacre took place, the Governor of The
Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Bradford commented:

It is a fearful sight to see them frying in the fire, and the streams of
blood quenching the same and horrible was the stink and stench thereof. But
the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God.

What is interesting to me is how all this is disposed of in the American
environment. I read in an encyclopedia references to Governor Bradford and
his involvement with the thanksgiving of the 1600's and no mention of the
above quote or the incident.

The Narratives of New Netherlands (what the Dutch called New York) can be
found in the reference section of the library (not all libraries may have
the actual document). I always encourage folks to find this stuff so they
can hold the information in their hands and see for themselves. There are
too many people frontin' as this or that saying any old thing. The
information is there, it was all the time. Something else I tell people
(especially school children) to check out is the lie about Columbus thinking
he was in India. There was no such place known as India in 1492. Check out
any historical atlas, again, in the reference section of any library. I saw
an atlas dated as late as the 1500's where that land was still called
Hindustan.

In any event, the thanksgivings of the 1600's have been sterilized, dwarfed,
and retarded to a fantasy. There are conglomerations of thanksgivings from
that time up to now that could fractor in to what the American calendar
event has come to be known. Of course it's good to acknowledge a
thanksgiving of some kind. I don't think this society expresses thanks
enough. My people
have had thanksgivings centuries before any boat from Europe hit our shores.
That's in October which is over and so is Thanksgiving as far as I'm
concerned. [inri note: this coincides with the canadian thanksgiving].
However, it isn't wholesome to be stuck into an interpretation that comes
out of a need to fabricate and reinvent over ugly truths. Some historians
have tried to defend thanksgiving as America knows it as having
originated with the Quakers who have a portion of thanksgiving as part of
their religious service. This is fine except that has nothing to do with the
slaughters of the 1600's, Plymouth Rock or anything else.

Some two hundred years after the post massacre thanksgivings, Abraham
Lincoln proclaimed a day of thanksgiving having more to do with the
political agenda of the times but, again, that has nothing to do with the
1600's. I was recently introduced to Tom Mountain who offers the following
(with his gracious permission):

No Thanksgiving/Day of Sorrow

As most Americans are

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WSWS : News  Analysis : Europe : France
France: Support for war, attack on democratic rights
By Marianne Arens and Françoise Thull
23 November 2001
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French troops have been participating in the Afghanistan war since
November 16.
The first contingent of 58 soldiers was sent from the French base
at Istres. It has been tasked with securing the airport at Mazar-e-
Sharif in northern Afghanistan, preparing the way for further troop
deployments. As the troops were leaving, President Jacques
Chirac said on television that he and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
had decided to extend our contribution by sending additional
combat aircraft.
Chirac announced there were already 2,000 French soldiers and
several Mirage IV fighters in the United Arab Emirates, which were
conducting intelligence and secret service operations.
On November 13 in parliament, Prime Minister Jospin used the
question of humanitarian aid to try and cover over Frances efforts
to position itself in strategically important Central Asia. Speaking
about the fall of Kabul, he said, These events are positive,
because they permit a new strategic progress and also open a new
field of action in regard to humanitarian questions. The occupation
of Mazar-e-Sharif, the fall of Kabul, the liberation of a certain
number of northern provinces... open up a new field for
humanitarian aid, which France, the other European countries, the
international community and the UN want to use.
Frances turn towards active and open participation in the
Afghanistan war is directly connected with an attack on democracy
at home. This was already made clear by the fact that the
government consciously dispensed with a parliamentary vote over
participation in the war.
On October 9, two days after the outbreak of the Afghanistan war,
and contrary to previous announcements and what had happened
during the Gulf and Balkans wars, Jospin categorically told the
National Assembly that he would keep parliament up to date, but
would not permit a vote. This was not a war like the Gulf or Balkans
wars, the prime minister argued, but concerned a global conflict
with international terrorism.
In response to question from the Green Party, Defence Secretary
Alain Richard acknowledged on 15 November that there would be a
hearing and a parliamentary debate, but these would not result in a
vote. The position of the government has not changed on this
point, he said.
French daily Le Monde commented, Jospin is obviously afraid that
such a procedurei.e. holding a parliamentary votewould
strengthen the break up of the different components of the
government coalition, which would receive the support of the
Socialist Party [PS] and the rightwing, but not the Communist
Party [PCF] and the Greens. One can understand the political
concerns of the prime minister.
The motives of the PCF and the Greens, who occasionally protest
weakly against the rightward turn of the government, do not arise
from any principled opposition to the war or allegiance to
democracy. For example, the Green Partys European
parliamentary delegate Daniel Cohn-Bendit is an open advocate of
this war. Rather, they are motivated by petty electoral
considerations: next year sees presidential, parliamentary and
local elections in France.
Beefing up the state apparatus
Like many other governments, Paris is also using the September
11 attacks to carry out long-held plans and substantially beef up
the state apparatus under the banner of internal security.
On the night of September 12, the Vigipirate security plan was
activated again. Introduced in 1995 by Gaullist Prime Minister Alain
Juppé in response to the threat from Algerian Islamists, rubbish
bins on the streets of Paris were welded shut from fear of bombs.
Under the Vigipirate plan, thousands of policemen, paramilitary
CRS units and soldiers are now patrolling all the strategic places in
Paris and other large cities.
Vigipirate means the presence of a very large number of
policemen, gendarmes and military in public places, particularly
those with sizeable public traffic, explained the Defence Secretary
Alain Richard. It is the logical and intelligent consequence of
terrorism.
In view of the extensive tasks being undertaken by the army both at
home and abroad, the prime minister wants to introduce a new,
additional 100,000-strong volunteer reserve. He announced
November 17 that all young people, who wanted to contribute to
the defence of France, could participate in a 14-day basic training
programme next year. Compulsory military service was only
abolished last year.
After the attacks in New York and Washington, the senate and
parliament passed the law for security in everyday life (LSQloi
sur la sécurité quotidienne) by a large majority, which was adopted
on October 31.
This law grants wide-ranging powers to the state and sharply
intrudes on the individuals private

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16 Questions on the
Assassination
By Bertrand
Russell
The Minority of One, 6 September 1964, pp. 6-8.
The official version of the assassination of President Kennedy has
been
so riddled with contradictions that it is been abandoned and
rewritten no less
than three times. Blatant fabrications have received very
widespread coverage by
the mass media, but denials of these same lies have gone
unpublished.
Photographs, evidence and affidavits have been doctored out of
recognition. Some
of the most important aspects of the case against Lee Harvey
Oswald have been
completely blacked out. Meanwhile, the F.B.I., the police and the
Secret Service
have tried to silence key witnesses or instruct them what evidence
to give.
Others involved have disappeared or died in extraordinary
circumstances.
It is facts such as these that demand attention, and which the Warren
Commission should have regarded as vital. Although I am writing before the
publication of the Warren Commissions report, leaks to the press have made
much of its contents predictable. Because of the high office of its members and
the fact of its establishment by President Johnson, the Commission has been
widely regarded as a body of holy men appointed to pronounce the truth. An
impartial examination of the composition and conduct of the Commission suggests
quite otherwise.
The Warren Commission has been utterly unrepresentative of the American
people. It consisted of two Democrats, Senator Russell of Georgia and
Congressman Boggs of Louisiana, both of whose racist views have brought shame on
the United States; two Republicans, Senator Cooper of Kentucky and Congressman
Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, the latter of whom is a leader of his local
Goldwater movement and an associate of the F.B.I.; Allen Dulles, former director
of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Mr. McCloy, who has been referred to as
the spokesman for the business community. Leadership of the filibuster in the
Senate against the Civil Rights Bill prevented Senator Russell from attending hearings 
during the p
eriod. The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, Earl Warren, who rightly commands respect, was finally persuaded, much
against his will, to preside over the Commission, and it was his involvement
above all else that helped lend the Commission an aura of legality and
authority. Yet many of its members were also members of those very groups which
have done so much to distort and suppress the facts about the assassination.
Because of their connection with the Government, not one member would have been
permitted under U.S. law to serve on a jury had Oswald faced trial. It is small
wonder that the Chief Justice himself remarked that the release of some of the
Commissions information might not be in your lifetime Here, then, is my
first question: Why were all the members
of the Warren Commission closely connected with the U.S. Government?
If the composition of the Commission was suspect, its conduct confirmed
ones worst fears. No counsel was permitted to act for Oswald, so that
cross-examination was barred. Later, under pressure, the Commission appointed
the President of the American Bar Association, Walter Craig, one of the
supporters of the Goldwater movement in Arizona, to represent Oswald. To my
knowledge, he did not attend hearings, but satisfied himself with representation
by observers.
In the name of national security, the Commissions hearings were held
in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of
the case. This prompts my second question: If,
as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national
security? Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed
in France during the Dreyfus case: If the
Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in
the strictest secrecy?

At the outset the Commission appointed six panels through which it would
conduct its enquiry. They considered: (1) What did Oswald do on November 22,
1963? (2) What was Oswalds background? (3) What did Oswald do in the U.S.
Marine Corps, and in the Soviet Union? (4) How did Ruby kill Oswald? (5) What is
Rubys background? (6) What efforts were taken to protect the President on
November 22? This raises my fourth question: Why did the Warren Commission not 
establish a panel to
 deal with the question of who
killed President Kennedy?
All the evidence given to the Commission has been classified Top
Secret, including even a request that hearings be held in public. Despite
this the Commission itself leaked much of the evidence to the press, though only
if the evidence  tended to prove
Oswald the lone assassin. Thus, Chief Justice Warren held a press conference
after Oswalds wife, Marina, had testified. He said, that she believed her

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Parochial:  adj. 1) of or pertaining to a parish or parishes. 2) of or
pertaining to parochial schools or the education they provide. 3) of very
limited or narrow scope; provincial. [Random House College Dictionary]

Parochial:  Relating or belonging to a Parish. [Black's Law Dictionary]

Parish: In English ecclesiastical law a circuit of ground, committed to the
charge of one person or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein
(1 Bl.Comm. 111). The precinct of a parish church, and the particular charge
of a secular priest. An ecclesiastical division of a town, city or district,
subject to the ministry of one pastor. 2. In Louisiana, a territorial
governmental division of a state corresponding to what is elsewhere called a
county. [Black's Law Dictionary]

We find it particularly amusing that, in these cosmopolitan times of
political-correctness, people should equate provincialism with being
narrow-minded, or presume that either is necessarily a bad thing. The words
themselves are more often used as pejoratives, the kind of insult that one
hurls at an opponent upon being bested at argumentation. And why is it that
narrow-minded rural folk often lead the happiest lives, have stable
relationships, and appear to be least in need of government intervention? Is
there, perhaps, something that our social engineers have overlooked in their
haste, some undefined virtue to be found in provincialism -- something that
may yet teach us a little more about what it is to be civilized?

We think there is, and so we emphasize the word parochial because it
addresses a social concern that is often underemphasized, if not altogether
overlooked: the dynamic equilibrium, or dialectic, that has always existed
between church and state, or religion and politics, and which is crucial to
maintaining that social harmony which is fundamental to a healthy community.
We suggest that this subject is infinitely sublime, and that there is no one,
single, perfect moral and social governing system that has all of the
answers, or which can be -- or ought to be -- enforced upon everybody,
everywhere.

And yet this is exactly what is happening. We all know it, or at least fear
that it might be true: that the New World Order is not just about building a
global economy and making us all into world citizens. It is also about
establishing a world religion, a world culture, a world church and a world
proletariat, a global elite, a world court, a global police force and a world
prison.

Raised as we are on the doctrine of separation of powers, we can easily
forget that the church and government do, in fact, work together. The nature
of this cooperation, and the various forms it takes, are what we mean by the
term dialectic. It is a dynamic relationship, ever-changing, whose every
nuance has a profound effect on how we express civility -- or civilization.

The church has an inherent energy -- a potential for social and political
influence -- that makes it a magnet for political activism, and which renders
it vulnerable to every form of political manipulation. It is therefore
necessary that church leaders have sufficient political savvy to know when
they are being manipulated, and the character to resist the temptation.
Because government has the power to enforce, it will always be attractive to
any church that believes redemption is achieved by works (as it well may be).
Therefore, church leaders will always find themselves politically involved,
insofar as their congregations represent little earthly kingdoms that are
made up of real, flesh-and-blood persons, not disembodied spirits.

The idea of a secular priest may be discomforting to many, who see in their
church a purely spiritual experience. Yet, should a church divest itself
entirely of secular concern (such as care of the poor, education, morals and
dogma, the raising of children and support of the traditional family) it
would most likely transform itself into an apocalyptic cult, removing its
members from any outside contact or interference.

Likewise, a state that divests itself of every religious artifact, or
acknowledgment, will become Godless, worldly, mechanical and amoral, having
substituted a self-seeking code of ethics for the spiritual presence of an
unifying, national, moral purpose ... something that only religion can
provide.

The nations are not bodies-politic alone, but also souls-politic; and woe to
the people which, seeking the material only, forgets that it has a soul. ...
A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its
energies to its material advancement. If it makes

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Friday, 23 November, 2001, 05:47 GMT
Pope sends first e-mail apology

The Pope was unable to travel to Oceania
Pope John Paul II has sent an apology by e-mail for a string of
injustices, including sexual abuse, committed by Roman Catholic
clergy in Oceania.
The 81-year-old pontiff transmitted the message, his first virtual
apology, in a recent string of statements of contrition, from a laptop
in the Vatican's frescoed Clementine Hall on Wednesday.

In certain parts of Oceania, sexual abuse by some clergy has
caused great suffering and spiritual harm to the victims

Pope John Paul II







Reporting on a Synod meeting held in 1998, the Pope wrote that bishops from the region 
apologised unreservedly for the shameful injustices done to indigenous peoples in 
Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the So
uth Pacific.

The Church expresses deep regret and asks forgiveness where her children have been or 
still are party to these wrongs, the document said.
The report singled out the stolen generation of at least 30,000 Aboriginal children 
forcibly separated from their parents in a church-backed government attempt to educate 
them and assimilate them into white culture.
Sexual abuse
His message also addressed the issue of sexual abuse: In certain parts of Oceania, 
sexual abuse by some clergy... has caused great suffering and spiritual harm to the 
victims, the document acknowledged.

The Pope apologised unreservedly for injustices against indigenous peoples
The Pope gave no details of the cases he was referring to, but internal Vatican 
reports documenting instances where priests and missionaries had forced nuns to have 
sex with them - and even to have abortions afterwards -
have come to light in recent years.
Sexual abuse within the Church is a profound contradiction of the teaching and 
witness of Jesus Christ.
The synod fathers wished to apologise unreservedly to the victims for the pain and 
disillusionment caused to them, the pontiff wrote.
Jews and Orthodox
This is just the latest in a series of papal apologies for the sins of the Roman 
Catholic church.
Last month, Pope John Paul II apologised to China for the errors of missionaries in 
colonial times.

This was the latest in a string of papal apologies
On controversial visits to both the Ukraine and Greece earlier this
year, he asked Orthodox Christians' forgiveness for wrongs
committed against them by  Roman Catholics.
And in a trip to Israel last year, he publicly asked God's forgiveness
for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs
inflicted on Jews, women and minorities.
However, the Pope stopped short of travelling to the other side of
the world to deliver this message in person.
I would have wished to visit Oceania once again, he said, but it
was not to be.
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Beyond Conspiracy
The Last Chuckle Continues ...
In the Aftermath of the New World Order.
By Grugyn Silverbristle

He has already lived too long who has survived the ruin of his country; and
he who can enjoy life after such an event deserves not to have lived at all.

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
IX. Elect of the Nine

Secrets of American History The Five Axioms Toward a Deeper
Understanding   The Nature of the Beast A Populist Agenda
Introduction.

Volume I: Secrets of American History



*   Prelude:  Freemasonry and the American Revolutionary War.

*   1787: The Antifederalist Papers: Evidence of a Freemasonic Coup? And you
think there were no objections to the Constitution? For background
information, see Constitutional History from Barefoot Bob Hardison's
impeccable website.

*   1787: The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the minority of the
Convention of the State of Pennsylvania to their Constituents. Proof that the
Constitution itself had been foisted on the freemen; that the Founding
Fathers -- delegates to the 1787 Convention -- had violated the Articles of
Confederation and the Constitutions of their separate States, and implanted
the Constitution through deception, violence and intrigue.

*   The Abolitionists and the Illuminati: Who were the leaders of the
Abolitionist movement? How were they connected to the Communists? Who were
the forty-eighters? Who formed the Republican Party in 1854? Why were they
so determined to create a Civil War?

*   The Civil War: Martial Law  the 14th Amendment. Because it had been a
Revolution! In 20/20 hindsight, the American Revolution of 1776 had been a
civil war between the Lodge of St. John's and the Lodge of St. Andrews' that
ended in gentlemanly accord. [Read The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783!] Very
little had changed. By way of comparison, the Civil War inaugurated the
most radical changes in American history!

*   The Blackstone Memorial: [Not up yet] During the postwar Gilded Age,
the Fabian Socialists set out to subvert the Bourgeoise, by degrees removing
nationalist sentiment from the upper class. Meanwhile, our nation's borders
were being thrown open. [Sound familiar?] In 1891 the Christian
Millennialist Movement, as represented by 413 prominent leaders of the
Anglo-American Establishment (a.k.a. Freemasons), present this petition to
establish a Jewish National Homeland in Palestine with British and American
Government support. See In the shadow of God's Sun-dial. ... Of all things,
it is the Diaspora Jews themselves who reject the plea! They had already
decided to come to America!!!

*   Exodus to America: a Jewish Time-Line, AD (CE) 1502 through 1933. From
1933 to the present, the United States has been a Constitutional Dictatorship
. That period is covered elsewhere.

*   The Unified Conspiracy Theory



Volume II: The Five Axioms


Axiom I:The Federal Government will never abide by the limitations of
power set forth in the Constitution.

Axiom II:   It is a general and necessary law of nature to rule wherever one
can.

Axiom III:  The United States is no longer a nation; rather, it is a universe
of nationalities held together by common institutions; by definition, an
empire.

Axiom IV:   Every empire in history has eventually fractured along racial,
ethnic and religious lines.

Axiom V:
Multiculturalism is an agenda to preserve the multi-ethnic state by
eliminating racial, cultural and religious distinctions.

Volume III: Toward a Deeper Understanding



*   And He closed the Book: What every Christian need not know: Many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Daniel 12:4)

*   An Outline of the Diaspora: The elements that should be covered in school
history. Why isn't Jewish History taught in public schools? (Why isn't
History taught anymore in school?)

*   Zionism and the New World Order: This can't be for real ... can it?

*   The Crusades: Planting the Seed of Our Conquest. How interesting that,
with all the Millennium crap on the media, no one has bothered to notice
how closely the geopolitical situation of AD 1000 resembled that of today
... especially regarding the international banking powers. Come to think of
it, we no longer see comparison of United States' history with the fall of
the Roman Empire, either. As recently as the 1950s, that had been a veritable
cliché. Now we can't even see the obvious!

*   Free Trade (1622) by Edward Misseldon. A fascinating book addressed to
Charles I, explaining how the International Bankers (at the time operating
out of the Netherlands) were

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No more undeclared wars
By Patrick J. Buchanan
© 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
FDR lied us into war because he did not have the political courage
to lead us into it, Rep. Clare Luce blurted out in 1944.

The target of Luce's accusation was a president who by then had
entered the pantheon alongside Lincoln and Washington. FDR's
courtiers savaged the lady for maligning the Great Man, but few
could credibly deny the truth of what she had said.

No matter the justice and nobility of America's cause in World War II, FDR had lied us 
into war. Even as he soothingly reassured the mothers and fathers of America (I have 
said this before, but I shall say it again and a
gain and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars), he was 
stoking war, and provoking Germany and Japan.

FDR lied about the secret war he had ordered U.S. warships to conduct against German 
U-boats. He lied about who fired the first shots when the U.S. destroyers Greer and 
Kearney were attacked. He lied about having discover
ed Hitler's plans for the conquest of South America and the Nazification of 
Christianity. No such plans existed except in the fertile and creative minds of 
British intelligence.

FDR sent picket ships out into the path of the Japanese fleet in the hope they would 
be sunk. He gave Lord Halifax secret, but unconstitutional, assurances America would 
defend His Majesty's colonies in the Pacific. He sp
urned a secret peace offer from Japan's Prince Konoye and issued a secret ultimatum to 
Tojo's regime on Nov. 26, 1941.

As Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote in his diary two weeks before Pearl Harbor, 
We should maneuver them into ... firing the first shot. FDR was guilty of 
impeachable high crimes. But as Field Marshal Moltke told Adm
iral Tirpitz, as he ordered the German army to invade neutral Belgium in 1914, 
Success alone justifies war.

And America succeeded absolutely. And with FDR's death on the eve of total victory in 
the Good War in 1945, people no longer cared how the war had begun. Yet, our 
politics were poisoned by Roosevelt's mendacity, as it w
ould be by Truman's undeclared war in Korea (a police action) and by Vietnam, when 
senators learned they had been deceived in the Tonkin Gulf incident.

Today, America is being stampeded into a new undeclared war, against Iraq. Thus it is 
a time for truth  a time for Congress to do its duty, and debate and decide on war or 
peace. We do not need to have our politics poiso
ned for yet another generation by the mutual recriminations of a War Party and a Peace 
Party in the aftermath of yet another undeclared war. Questions need answering.

Was Saddam involved in the massacres of Sept. 11? Was he behind the anthrax attacks? 
Is he harboring terrorist cells of al-Qaida? Is he preparing nuclear or bio-terror 
weapons to attack us? If the answer is Yes, let Con
gress lay out the evidence before the nation and empower the president to take us to 
war.

Henry Hyde and Joe Biden, chairmen respectively of the House and Senate foreign 
relations committees, should assume their duty to the nation and history, and assert 
Congress' rightful role in the decision on war or peace.
 Both have said that they oppose a war on Iraq. But that is not enough.

On Sunday, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice seemed to assert that President 
Bush had the justification and right to take us to war against Saddam, should he so 
choose. But where did he get this authority? When di
d Congress cede it to him, or authorize U.S. attacks on the other Arab states on the 
War Party's enemies list?

While the United States could launch air strikes on Iraq at any moment, the ground 
troops needed for an invasion are not in place. And given the halving of U.S. forces 
since Desert Storm, it would take months before they
are ready to march  time enough for reasoned debate.

Indeed, the semi-hysteria of the War Party suggests it does not have the evidence to 
convict Saddam of Sept. 11, and a war on Iraq is but the next move on the little 
chessboards of empire they carry about in their book ba
gs. But a war on Iraq could ravage our relations with Britain, Russia and NATO; 
shatter the Afghan war coalition; inflame the Arab street; and destabilize our Arab 
allies, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Should the Saudi
monarchy fall to a revolution as a result of an attack on Iraq, Bush would have lost 
the oil storehouse his father went to war to defend in 1991.

It's time for Congress to debate again Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Is
it to be containment or war? If it is to be war, we have a right to
know why, and to hold accountable those who take us into war. No
more Munichs, no more Yaltas, Bush said. Right he is. But let us
add:

No more

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