[CTRL] US Queers
-Caveat Lector- From WND Seems like they're not unique in their views about their chosen few. Another article @ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25518 }}}Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25465 Tuesday, November 27, 2001 Homosexual site advocates death of opponents Reagan, Falwell, Dobson urged to 'die soon' a 'horrible death' By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A radically pro-homosexual website has published a list of notable people its creators hope will die soon because the activists and lawmakers cited oppose the gay lifestyle. The site, called usQueers.com, is similar to a pro-life website that once published names and addresses of abortion doctors and providers before being forced to pull its pages by a court after being sued. UsQueers.com says it is not anti-heterosexual, claiming it is merely a collection of gays, lesbi ans, bisexuals, transgendered, intersexed, questioning and our supporters who are dedicated to a mission of assisting wi th the recognition, protection and defense of the rights to 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happi ness' which belong to Queers. However, listed on one page are the names of several notable religious, cultural and political figu res historically opposed to homosexuality that the group says it hopes will die soon preferably a horrible death. usQueers.com does not authorize, ratify or directly threaten acts of violence toward the people or organizations on this list, said the site's creators. If a person on this list dies (preferably a horrible death), a li ne will be drawn through their name, and then the deceased will be added to the site's good ridda nce list. Included on the die soon list are: Former President Ronald Reagan, who deserves to experience a horrible death soon and is getting wh at he deserves, the latter a reference to Reagan's worsening Alzheimer's disease; Donald E. Wildmon, president of the American Family Association; Tim Wildmon, the AFA's vice president; Sens. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and Jesse Helms, R-N.C.; Pat Robertson, the anti-Christ, if there is one, according to the site; James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family. Paul Weyrich, founder of the Free Congress Foundationm is also listed, as is Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okl a., nationally known evangelist and WND columnist Rev. Jerry Falwell, and Gary Bauer, the former he ad of the Family Resear ch Council. UsQueers.com mocks Reagan as it blames him for what site creators say was his lack of proper attent ion to such issues as HIV/AIDS research and funding for drug treatment. Ronald Reagan is personally responsible for the long and torturous deaths of hundreds of thousands of gay men in the USA from AIDS. Today, he can't remember not to go to the bathroom in his pants, and he deserves worse, said the site. We're listing him as wounded because the way he is dying is horrible (Alzheimer's) and irreversibl e, even if he isn't aware of it anymore, and not soon enough we will happily add him to our 'Good R iddance!' section, the site said. Creators called Thurmond doddering, old and useless, and says is rotting to death while the nation watches and laughs. Helms, meanwhile, can't walk anymore, so he qualifies as being a bit wounded, but unfortunately, h e is not suffering much, said site creators. Rev. B. Allan Ross of San Diego the officially designated spokesman and the only contact person l isted for the site refused an interview with WorldNetDaily. Barring the unforseen (sic), we're not doing any more interviews with anybody about anything until next year, Ross said in his reply to an e-mail interview request. That page has been there since March without comment, by the way. Site creators already may be anticipating a backlash from some of what they have published online b ecause the site is billing itself as a news service doing online news reporting that no one else i s doing. As journalists, creators said in the site's About Us section, if it ever comes down to a court order to reveal anonymous sources, we will reluctantly go to jail to protect our right to practice our art without interf erence or restrictions, rather than break our word to keep such information confidential. However, they added, we don't expect to be forced to reveal sources. The usQueers.com site is similar to another website, Christian Gallery, publisher of the so-calle d Nuremberg Files which compared abortion doctors to Nuremberg defendants and also provided the names and addresses of those physicians, as well as their clinic and home addresses. When physicians who appeared on the site's list were killed, the Christian Gallery site would put a line through their names. The site eventually garnered the attention of the Justice Department aft er representatives of t he American
[CTRL] Another Sad Day
-Caveat Lector- Senseless killing continues. We need to find a way to eliminate this kind of violent thinking, and the resulting destructive behaviors, while preserving freedom and self-determination. This is a difficult proposition in the current context. The problem is complex. What will the solution be, and how will our society and civilizations change as a result of these tragic and sensless acts of terrorism by religious extremists in the name of their God? Steve If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Anyone seen Neil ?
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Former largess buys little sympathy
By Nancy Dunne and Peter Spiegel in Washington - Nov 29 2001 23:22:46
On Inauguration Day this year, no business leader seemed better
positioned politically than Kenneth Lay, Enron chairman and
significant financial backer of both Presidents Bush.
Mr Lay had supported George W. Bush to the tune of nearly $2m, first
when he ran for governor and later in his race for president. He was
a respected adviser on energy issues to both Mr Bush and Dick Cheney,
the vice-president.
But on Thursday, as the Enron empire lay in ruins, the White House
seemed in no way inclined to mount a rescue. Instead, Tom Daschle,
the Senate leader, said Congress would have to ask hard questions.
We certainly need to try to find answers to the questions involving
the collapse of Enron, said the South Dakota Democrat.
Like dozens of other members of Congress, Mr Daschle had been a
recipient of Enron's campaign largess, but in the end it bought the
company little sympathy. Some say Enron has been a force for good in
Washington, including Roger Ballantine, a former Clinton White House
official, who described the company as progressive and cutting-
edge.
Others have been less kind. They were ruthless. That's why they had
no friends when they were in trouble, said one investor.
Besides a possible congressional inquiry, Enron is still subject to a
Securities and Exchange Commission probe investigation, which is
looking at partnerships run by Andrew Fastow, Enron's ousted chief
financial officer.
You can be sure that we will investigate the situation thoroughly
but quickly, and if wrongdoing occurred, make sure that the people
who are responsible for that will answer, Harvey Pitt, SEC chairman,
said. yesterday.
The SEC began the probe last month, and it is believed to focus on
how Enron reported and accounted for the partnerships in its legally-
mandated financial disclosure statements.
Mr Pitt said one of the issues the Enron collapse has raised was the
extent to which corporations disclose to their shareholders
information that can have a material impact on what the shareholders
equitable investment and interest is in the corporation.
Enron has insisted Mr Fastow's dealings were legal and properly
disclosed, but experts familiar with the SEC probe have said
executives could face criminal charges. Mr Daschle's comments also
seem to suggest trouble ahead for electricity deregulation. A broad,
free market in electricity was vital to Enron's trading business, and
that is where Mr Lay wielded influence.
Few people noticed when Curtis Hebert, chairman of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, appointed by Mr Bush, was replaced after six
months in office by Patrick Wood. , former head of the Texas public
utilities commission.
According to Mr Hebert, Mr Lay offered to back him against Mr Wood if
he would speed the creation of large regional transmission
organisations. , which would broaden the trading market. Mr Hebert
refused. He was soon replaced.
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JP Morgan Chase to face greater fallout from Enron
By Gary Silverman in New York - Nov 30 2001 23:05:14
JP Morgan Chase, a lender and adviser to Enron, could face greater
fallout from the energy company's collapse than first thought.
It was learned on Friday that JP Morgan Chase was also a investor in
companies that traded with Enron and could be hurt by its demise.
Bankers fear such secondary exposures could be significant because
Enron was such a big derivatives dealer.
The analyst who uncovered the investments in Enron's counterparties
said they also could raise questions about JP Morgan's role as an
adviser to Enron.
JP Morgan and Citigroup advised Enron in its efforts to sell itself
to Dynergy, a rival energy firm. The deal fell apart on Wednesday as
Enron's credit was downgraded.
Whose interest were they working on? said Charles Peabody, analyst
at Ventana Capital, a research boutique. There are natural conflicts
between the lending side, the advising side and the investing side.
JP Morgan said it has about $500m of unsecured exposure to Enron
entities, including loans, letters of credit and derivatives.
Another $400m of Enron loans are secured.
Securities and Exchange Commission filings also show that Enron
counterparties have ranked among the top 10 holdings of JP Morgan
Partners, the company's venture capital arm.
As of September 30, JP Morgan said it owned 6.4m shares, worth $97m,
in Encore Acquisition. Encore, an energy company, said on Thursday it
had paid Enron $1.8m for derivatives hedging its exposure to oil and
natural
Re: [CTRL] State's Data Marketing
In most cases, however, a person would need at least one other piece of
information -- suchas a bank account number or Social Security number
-- to access a financial account.
Of course, that also becomes available once the federal mandate to the
states that Social Security Numbers be shown on drivers' licenses is fully
implemented The Attorney General in Michigan fought against that mandate in
court and lost.
Jim Rarey
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way to clone?}}}BeginState sells birth data to Web
site, raising ID theft fearsSACRAMENTO -- The birth records of more than 24
million Californianshave been sold by the state and posted on the Internet,
offering easyaccess to critical information needed to create fake
identities.By logging onto a genealogy Web site, people can gain access to
suchpersonal data as someone's place of birth and mother's maiden
name,which can then potentially be used to access bank records and
othersensitive material.While the sale of the database was legal, a
leading state senator andexpert on privacy said Wednesday that she was
``appalled'' by thenews and wanted to find ways to restrict access to such
information.``The time has come for us to recognize that identity theft
hasbecome a big problem,'' said state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-San
Mateo.``The fact that this information is public should raise a red
flag.''The ongoing war on terrorism has sparked a renewed nationwide
debateover how to balance personal privacy and national security. Since
theSept. 11 attacks, experts from Washington to San Jose have
beendiscussing everything from a national identity card to
extensivebackground checks for people who buy airline tickets.Concerns
about false IDs were heightened by news that several of the alleged Sept. 11
hijackers were able to get fake driver's licenses in Florida and Virginia.
Several states have already started to tighten rules for getting driver's
licenses.At a special hearing Wednesday on privacy, state leaders
demonstrated how easy it is to get the building blocks for identity theft. Using
the free genealogy Web site with the California birth information, a legislative
aide typed in the name of California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and
quickly came up with his mother's maiden name, along with the date and county of
his birth.That could provide a thief with enough information to check
Lockyer's bank accounts or get a new birth certificate, Speier said. In most
cases, however, a person would need at least one other piece of information --
suchas a bank account number or Social Security number -- to access a
financial account.Under current law, California sells birth and death
records. The site, Rootsweb.com, claims to be the oldest and largest free
genealogy Web site. The site lists 24.5 million California birth records and 9
million death records from the state.One other state, Texas, has
provided similar information to the company.Lea Brooks, a spokeswoman for
the state Department of Health Services, said birth records from 1909 to 1995
sell for about $900 and that just two people had bought the information in the
past year. She could not identifythe buyers.California is one of just a
few states that make birth certificates easily available, one privacy expert
said.Making it more difficult to get that information seems both reasonable
and necessary, said Jamie Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology,
a Washington, D.C.-based privacy protection group created by Ralph
Nader.``If identity theft wasn't a problem, this wouldn't be a
problem,'' he said. ``But, given the limited number of data points that banks
and other institutions ask for before they grant access to your information, it
seemslike this creates a problem.''Not everyone was as concerned about
the database.State Sen. Debra Bowen, a Redondo Beach Democrat and member of
theSenate Privacy Committee, said there was little evidence to
suggestthat thieves are taking such information to create fake
identities.Bowen said that the Internet site contains only basic information
andthat anyone can legally get any California birth certificate
acrossthe state.``Unless you can answer the question that crooks are
going down toget the birth certificate and using that fraudulently, what's
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Re: [CTRL] Homosexuals help syphilis comeback/stuns officials
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/01 0:38:46 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: History shows that the rise of and acceptance of homosexuality always occurs, without exception, just befor e a nation is destroyed. Homosexuality is the terminal cancer of any nation. Wait - a few e-mails back you said exactly the same thing about the pagans You're an idiot. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Police State: Brink of Destruction
-Caveat Lector- November 30, 2001 Dear Newswatch Magazine Listeners/Readers: The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack upon the United States was a terrible crime against our nation. Those who are working for a One-World-Government look for opportunities to use crises to further their aims and purposes. Legislators rush to pass Laws that they say are designed to protect America from future terrorist attacks. One such Law has now been passed with only three no votes. The short name for it is the USA PATRIOT ACT. Critics, on both the left and right politically, are saying the Act does nothing to secure our nation from terrorist attacks, but it only STRIPS Americans of fundamental Constitutional rights. THEY SAY IT HAS SET THE STAGE FOR A POLICE STATE IN AMERICA. Representative Ron Paul from Texas is one of the three who voted against it. WHY? He claims the Act is a wholesale abrogation of civil liberties and totally unconstitutional. Ron Paul revealed that this monumental act of congress was not printed and a copy delivered to each congressman BEFORE it was introduced to be voted upon. No one knew WHAT was inside the pages of it. Only those who wrote it knew the true ramifications of the Act. He reported that the committee stonewalled as to what the contents of the Act was - yet it was passed!!! Ron Paul said the worst part of the antiterrorism bill is the increased ability of the federal government to commit surveillance on all of us without proper search warrants. He referred to Section 213 which allows police to avoid giving prior warning when searches of personal property are conducted. This totally eliminates OUR Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. I, Editor of Newswatch Magazine, have said for years that their plan is to erode the constitution piece-by-piece until we have a police state. The Fourth Amendment states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall NOT be violated; and no warrants shall issue, BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Ron Paul says the new Law clearly authorizes illegal search and seizure. Our founding fathers rebelled against the British government for less. Representative Bernie Sanders from Vermont is an independent. He voted against the Act also because: I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that by voting for this legislation fundamentally violates that oath. And the full contents of the legislation have no been subjected to serious hearings and searching examination. Representative C. L. Otter [R-Idaho], one of the three who voted against the Act, found the legislation unconstitutional and said he knew the provision would be a problem. Section 215 authorizes the FBI to confiscate any business records by order of A SECRET U.S. COURT. The person searched is FORBIDDEN from telling any person that he has received such a request [to be searched]. This is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property. Otter said that some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcers than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law abiding Americans. This bill is rife with constitutional INFRINGEMENTS I could not support. America - we are on the brink of destruction as a nation the way we have known it. Sincerely, David J. Smith http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/ -end article- -THe eXTReMiST If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -George W. Bush, The man who has out-Clintoned Clinton. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy
Re: [CTRL] Strieber intelligence
-Caveat Lector- There's an unofficial Whitley Strieber website that has info on Strieber's books (including book jacket info) and interviews. http://www.beyondcommunion.com/ In the text for the book jacket on The Hunger it says, He has traveled through many parts of the world, working in fields as diverse as intelligence and filmmaking. (Synopsis courtesy of William Morrow Company, Inc.) Whitley has been defending himself against accusations that he works/worked for intel for years, but this book jacket bio has been at the Beyond Communion site for a very long time. What's so funny is that only recently has there been a disclaimer added to this synopsis: [This bio, from the first edition of The Hunger was not written by Whitley Strieber. According to the author, the publisher sensationalized some parts of his life in this bio, particularly the part about having worked in fields as diverse as intelligence...] To prove that this disclaimer was only a recent addition, I looked up beyondcommunion.com at archive.org. Sure enough, there was no such disclaimer as recently as the July 22, 2001 archived site. The next archive date was Sept. 24, 2001, and there it is. What a hoot - a how about that timing? For the July 22, 2001 archive, go to: http://web.archive.org/web/20010722184842/http://www.beyondcommunion.com/ scroll down to The Wolfen, The Hunger, Black Magic, Night Church and click on it - it can be seen sans disclaimer under The Hunger section. For the Sept. 24, 2001 archive, go to: http://web.archive.org/web/20010924021037/http://www.beyondcommunion.com/ and do the same as above - and Whoop! there it is. LOL. Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Homosexuals help syphilis comeback/stuns officials
-Caveat Lector- At 08:51 AM 12/2/01 , diggy wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/01 0:38:46 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: History shows that the rise of and acceptance of homosexuality always occurs, without exception, just befor e a nation is destroyed. Homosexuality is the terminal cancer of any nation. Wait - a few e-mails back you said exactly the same thing about the pagans You're an idiot. Wrong, my exact quote was: Popular paganism and modern churchianity are just different flavors of the same product. And history shows a direct correlation between paganism and the fall of nations. As a nation becomes paganized, it becomes more corrupt, the people become more decadent and unjust, and ends up destroying itself from the inside and then gobbled up by it's enemies. Can't think of one exception. And the unseen powers that be ( the illuminati, international bankers, etc.), love both churchianity and pagans, because they are easy to herd and control through lies. Now that's the third time you have missed the point. I may be an idiot but you're dense as a rock. --- -THe eXTReMiST And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.' -Matthew 13:14-15 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Fw: [CTRL] Ariel Sharon, Architect of 9-11?
-Caveat Lector- I followed up on the quote below. A friend of mine is a NY Policeman and I forwarded the quote about Giuliani. My friend's comments are below. Just wanted to get a local's take on it. Hope this is helpful And Giuliani this sick twisted man - counts body parts - 180 body parts he said.while placing police and firemen in jail for protesting their brothers being scooped up and placed in dumpsters AFTER they reached the load of gold? There was an incident several weeks ago when the FD announced they were going to cut back the personnel digging at Ground Zero. The FD demonstrated, and it got ugly, to the point of a few hitting the police. These guys did go to jail. While there is some heavy machinery scooping up the rubble and putting it into dump trucks, along with any human remains, it is all carted to a land fill in Staten Island where it is gone through by police and firemen with rakes to recover any parts, rather a grisly bit of work, I haven't been there but others I know have. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [AL-AWDA-News] ACT NOW! CALL, FAX EMAIL: DEMAND SHARON BE BROUGHT TO J...
---BeginMessage--- AL-AWDA ACTION ALERT CALL, FAX EMAIL NOW! DEMAND SHARON BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE For Immediate Release 2 December 2001 Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) calls on all people of conscience to call, email, and/or fax the White House and State Department today, to express concern about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit, and to demand that the United States cooperate fully in bringing him to justice on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity before, during and after Israel's 1982 invasion and occupation of Lebanon. The United States actively supported indictments against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, even while he was in power, as well as the international tribunal for Rwanda. Failing to apply standards of justice to Sharon and protections for the victims of the crimes of which he is accused would be evidence of a gross double-standard and a signal that the United States is willing to tolerate atrocities against innocent civilians as long as they are committed by the leaders of friendly states. TALKING POINTS: *The U.S. government should investigate and pursue evidence that Sharon is responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Such investigations should review the evidence that Sharon as defense minister in 1982 directly ordered the deliberate bombardment of residential neighborhoods of Beirut, Sidon and other cities in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion, killing thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians; directly ordered the siege of west Beirut, deliberately depriving civilian residents of food, water, safe passage and access to medical care; and that Sharon and other Israeli officers and officials were responsible for arming, training and protecting the perpetrators of the massacres of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees in Sabra and Shatila camps in September 1982, including providing protection and illumination so that the butchers could carry out their work more easily. *These charges, if proven, would constitute grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. * The United States should help to assure that Sharon is brought to justice, under the laws of an international tribunal. *As prime minister, Sharon has ordered measures which further violate the Fourth Geneva Convention including blockades which have reduced the Palestinian civilian population in the occupied territories to extreme poverty and in some areas near starvation, and resulted in deaths due to deliberate deprivation of access to medical care. *Three decades earlier, as a young military officer, Sharon led an Israeli elite commando force, Unit 101, which carried out brutal raids against Palestinians. The massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on October 14, 1953, was perhaps the most notorious. According to Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, Sharon's unit blew up 45 homes in the village, killing 69 civilians, two-thirds of them women and children. *Sharon has appointed to his government at least one minister who openly espouses such crimes against humanity as forcing the entire Palestinian population of the occupied territories and other areas to leave. * The High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, including the United States, are required to hold those who violate the Convention accountable. Hence, bringing Sharon to justice is an urgent necessity. Failure to do so would send a signal that the United States condones war crimes and protects accused war criminals. CALL, FAX, AND EMAIL YOUR LETTERS TO: * President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Phone: 1-202-456-1414 Fax: 1-202-456-2461 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Secretary of State Colin Powell Phone: 1-202-647-4000/ Bureau of Near East Affairs: 1-202-647-5150 Fax: 1-202-261-8577 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Letters may be faxed online via http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html --- Demand a Freeze to Terrorist Assets! STOP US AID TO ISRAEL Sign the petition letter online at: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm - Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition P.O. Box 1172 Orange, CT 06477 Fax: (717) 832-1123 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://al-awda.org Press Room: http://al-awda.org/pressroom.htm Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99See What You've Been Missing! Amazing Wireless Video Camera. Click here /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [AL-AWDA-News] ACT NOW! CALL, FAX EMAIL: DEMAND SHARON BE BROUGHT TO J...
-Caveat Lector- Well Bush should protect his Public Image for does he want to go down in history as in league with War Criminals? Take a look at our friends in Afghanistan - women slaughtered, babies murdered, men castrated - it seems this certain element always goes for castration, just like this jewish Mafia - very notice in their history they love to emasculate men? So guess it runs in the family..Bush Leaguers? Before it is all over with, well look what had been planned for the end of September and then BOOM..but Larry Silverstein comes out with SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS The country was falliong, Silverstein had already bankrupted once.and now neat and handy deal - So Bush entertains the Slaughterman Ariel Sharon? Well Woe to Ariel and Bush..many eyes are on them and I don't just mean Texas. Whatever happened to that bunch and the big meeting set in Washington - where the fences six feet tall we placed in order to keep protesters out? How much did this cost us? And for whom and for what? So BOOM..Fiery Flying Serpents take on Godzilla and win? Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] IT/Ginger revealed!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.drudgereport.com/matt91j.htm X DRUDGE REPORT X SUN DEC 02 2001 10:54:28 ET X DEVELOPING: 'IT' REVEALED; 'SEGWAY' SELF-BALANCING PEOPLE MOVER TIME MAG REVEALS INSIDE DETAILS OF WHAT INVENTION 'IT' IS Award-winning Journalist John Heilemann Spent Three Months on Story for TIME 'IT' UNVEILS THIS WEEK UNDER OFFICIAL NAME: SEGWAY The Segway 'Will Be to the Car What the Car was to the Horse and Buggy,' Inventor Dean Kamen tells TIME 'The Big Idea is to Put a Human Being into a System Where the Machine Acts an Extension of your Body' MORE New York -- Dean Kamen's long-awaited, secret invention, the Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy, he tells TIME on the eve of his product's unveiling. Kamen imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. Cars are great for going long distances, Kamen says, but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb asses around town. In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make room for millions of empowered pedestrians - empowered, naturally, by Kamen's brainchild, reports John Heilemann in next week's issue. The invention is set to be unveiled Monday morning during ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA. MORE The Segway is a self-balancing people mover - powered by batteries and controlled by tilt-sensors and five solid state gyroscopes - that looks like a rotary lawnmower. The magic is in the balancing act no matter how hard you try, it won't let you fall. For the past three months, Kamen allowed TIME behind the veil of secrecy as he and his team grappled with the questions that they will confront - about everything from safety and pricing to the challenges of launching a product with the country at war and the economy in recession. There is no denying that the Segway, previously code-named IT and Ginger, is an engineering marvel, reports Heilemann, who rode on the machine many times. Developed at a cost of more than $100 million, Kamenis vehicle is a complex bundle of hardware and software that mimics the human bodys ability to maintain its balance. Not only does it have no brakes, but also no engine, no throttle, no gearshift, and no steering wheel. And it can carry the average rider for a full day, nonstop, on only five cents' worth of electricity. Kamen explains how the Segway works: When you walk, youire really in what is called a controlled fall. You off-balance yourself, putting one foot in front of the other and falling onto them over and over again. In the same way, when you use a Segway, thereis a gyroscope that acts like your inner ear, a computer that acts like your brain, motors that act like your muscles, wheels that act like your feet. Suddenly, you feel like you have on a pair of magic sneakers, and instead of falling forward, you go sailing across the room. As Kamen and his team were working on the IBOT wheelchair - a six-wheel machine that goes up and down curbs, cruises effortlessly through sand or gravel, and climbs stairs - it dawned on them that they were onto something bigger. We realized we could build a device using very similar technology that could impact how everybody gets around, he says. The IBOT was also the source of Gingeris mysterious codename. Watching the IBOT, we used to say, Look at that light, graceful robot, dancing up the stairsi so we started referring to it as Fred Upstairs, after Fred Astaire, Kamen recalls. After we built Fred, it was only natural to name its smaller partner Ginger. With Ginger, as with the IBOT, Kamen explains, the big idea is to put a human being into a system where the machine acts an extension of your body. With the Segway, Kamen plans to change the world by changing how cities are organized. To Kamenis way of thinking, the problem is the automobile. Cities need cars like fish need bicycles, he says. Segways, he believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk, he argues. Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it is like being hit by another pedestrian. Ordinary consumers won't be able to buy Segways for at least a year, a consumer model is expected to go on sale for about $3,000, Heilemann reports. For now, the first customers will be deep-pocketed institutions such as the U.S. Postal Service and General Electric, the National Parks Service and Amazon.com institutions capable of shelling out $8,000 apiece for industrial-strength models. TIME also takes a hard look at the question of whether this product will really make it in the consumer market. The consumer
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Fw: [CTRL] Ariel Sharon, Architect of 9-11?
-Caveat Lector- So Bill the day they cut back was when they pulled out the truck loaded with gold, and it took two Brinks trucks to unload which made me wonder - whose and what truck was this upon which the Twin Tower landed? Further my son returned from New York and said he visited to site - not right on it but the stench is in the air...he hopes he does not have to go back too soon. Further this plane crash Globe carried an article just picked it up where they believe somebody messed with the bolts on the engines of the planes for they may have been loosened and this ship had been gone over by mechanics, the night before. So yesterday I had put out on the web story about the racketeering involved selling inferior bolts and materials to certain Airlines which were causing crashes way back in 1996, believe it was dated. So a big plane comes down in Queens and oh how they close this one up. They have introduced and pushed the enemy within...but yet the call is to come to New York to see the shows? Tell me did this guy mention the stench from burning flesh My son returned last week and this guy likes to have fun..but it would take years before he would return to New York - so back to Paradise Island, I presume. What I cannot forget is the day after this demolition with burning flesh smouldering at the botton of the Twin Towers - Larry Silverstein already had plans on his drawing board for new Twin Towers or maybe 4 - this man who held the 99 year lease? Herein lay the truth of the matterfurther Giuliani - in 7 World Trade Center with CIA and Silverstein? Well over the world people begin to believe it was CIA and Mossad that pulled this off - but the word is MAFIA MAFIA MAFIA.so they call Osama the Contractor and out of Afghanistan came the killers? This was all home grown stuff and for over two years people have questioned the activity of foreign agents and intruders and military invading this Country? So go to Queens and see that mess - they got off pretty lucky at that... The start checking pedigress and find who are saying they are Muslims and are not? The pictures I saw on these terrorists - well speaks for itself, from Kenya, Tanzinia, but we slaughter people in Afghanistan? How did they know there was a gold truck caught under the rubble? Whose gold was it.why was it not in a Brinks truck...was their a heist at the bottom of the Center for billions of gold down there and most of it Saudi gold.what about this FBI agent who went to work for Silverstein who had lost briefcase containing TUNNELS UNDER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER..where the gold was.and part of their terrorism program. What about that plane in Queens..oh so unfortunate - more living burnt sacrifices.a plane dropping big engines like hailstones from the sky? It will get worse - for Sharon was here yeser and left chaos for Jerusalemthat guy is already described as the Slaughterman and he sets such a nice stage Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] I play chess ...
-Caveat Lector- Wondered how anybody could sit through a chess game and enjoy it on TV for example...this item explains Bobby Fischer a little better - this man is a genius and had jewish mother?Or does he just know how to make a fast buck when need be - while others lay in wait to steal and claim his ideas for their very own profitting from same big time? So sounds like Bobby victim of say like a 109th Psam conspiracy...as a jew who is not so jewish anymore - well takes one to know one for they have blotted this man's nae out of the book Saba Index | Polgar | Fischer | Search | pgn2html| Informant| Games Bobby Fischer interview no 9 Report on Radio Bombo interview (18 Sep 2000) by Vincent Cabreza, source below. BAGUIO'S BEST-KEPT SECRET The enigma that is Bobby Fischer MANONG Andres, 58, a retired Ibaloi miner, said he spends hours of pawn-baiting at a local grove in the center of Baguio City called the Igorot Garden, retracing the chess moves he picked up from Bobby Fischer's 1970 classic ''My 60 Memorable Games.'' Manong Andres belongs to the Garden's daily huddle of retired Ibalois, hyperactive Ilocano and Tagalog vendors, street-smart students and bored jeepney drivers who pit their skills every morning in non-stop street chess tournaments in the city. But he said he could never get his Fischer right. Here's one reason why: The irrepressible Fischer, the most celebrated world chess champion and a self-styled American outlaw, surfaced in Baguio recently to denounce a conspiracy between the US government and the international Jewish community for stealing and tainting some of his best chess ideas. In a Sept. 18 broadcast over Bombo Radyo Philippines, Fischer cited key trademark violations by a CD-ROM producer who had effectively stolen his name, and crucified the faulty editing of new editions of his best-selling chess books, including ''My 60 Most Memorable Games.'' Fischer had been enumerating page-by-page alterations of his original chess manuscripts and their new editions over Philippine public radio since 1999.Because of these changes, Fischer said the world had been receiving tainted ''Fischer concepts'' in the last few years. But that wasn't all. Copyright infringement Fischer said he was a victim of international corporations that stole his own name for a series of sports merchandises. ''Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess'' has become a trademark of Time-Lerner International, and is currently selling as a CD-ROM. Fischer turned to the Internet to launch his new chess variant called FischeRandom, partly to escape corporate intervention. Most of these copyright infringement cases were opportunities opened up by Fischer's fugitive status. A Sept. 1, 1992 rematch between Fischer and East European chess champion Boris Spassky earned unusual media attention when Fischer announced that he had become a US fugitive for rebuking a US Treasury directive supporting United Nations sanctions against war-torn Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was his first media presentation since he retired 20 years ago. He surfaced in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia, for a rematch with Spassky. Their first match in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1960 bought them a tie for first place. Fischer was immediately indicted by the US federal government in December 1992, and had been on a self-imposed exile in defiance of the Bush administration. For nearly nine years, Fischer had turned into a mythical self-creation, shunned by most of the Western world because of his radical fight against everything Jewish. But he had always been Baguio City's best-kept secret. Chess-happy Baguio dwellers often spin rumors of secluded chess matches with Fischer. Some stories place him huddled with the likes of Manong Andres and other Ibaloi retirees, making magical moves on chess boards engraved on park benches. But not a single park dweller could describe the legendary chess champion. None has reviled him for his hard-core hostility against the international Jewish community. Fischer himself portrayed this one Filipino character as a disappointment. Broadcasting his anti-Jewish sentiments, Fischer pulled back to praise the Filipino media's forthright perspectives about the world. But he later mused about the Filipinos' inability to appreciate the grand Jewish conspiracy he preaches regularly over Baguio radio. It's a Jewish conspiracy that Fischer predicts would soon engulf the Philippines, through ''Jewish-sponsored'' corporations. This statement immediately attaches itself to activist attacks against gene mapping--a serious political issue in a region dominated by indigenous Filipinos. Pablo Mercado, Bombo Radyo manager in Baguio, suggested the connection to Fischer during the radio station's most recent broadcast. He asked Fischer to comment on speculations that a series of gene-mapping activities by Europe were dedicated to patenting the human genome signature of the Ifugaos and other indigenous peoples of the region. This matter
[CTRL] U.S. Citizens Could Be Tried By Military Tribunals
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,155%257E243420,00.html What about evidence? By Reggie Rivers Denver Post columnist Thursday, November 29, 2001 - U.S. citizens could be tried in military tribunals. That's not part of President Bush's current executive order - which gives him the power to hand any non-citizen over to the Department of Defense for a quick trial and execution - but the Supreme Court's oft-cited 1942 Quirin decision clearly states that citizens are fair game. Quirin was the World War II case in which the Supreme Court ruled that eight German saboteurs, who entered the United States illegally with illegal weapons, intent on destroying military targets, could be prosecuted in tribunals. According to the international law of war, lawful combatants are soldiers in uniform fighting for their respective militaries, and unlawful combatants are people not in uniform who sneak into the opposing territory to wreak havoc. With regard to unlawful combatants, the Supreme Court's Quirin opinion reads in part: "The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoner of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals." The court went on to state that citizenship is no barrier to military commissions. The justices wrote: "Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of war. Citizens who associate themselves with the military arm of the enemy government, and with its aid, guidance and direction enter this country bent on hostile acts, are enemy belligerents within the meaning of the Hague Convention and the law of war." It may be easy to support the use of tribunals when they're aimed at non-citizens, whose rights we seem eager to throw away, but what if all of us lost the guarantee of a fair trial? Significantly, the president's order gives him sole authority to decide who is or who is not the enemy. That's a departure from the Quirin decision. In 1942, the question before the court was whether the men should be tried in civilian court or by military tribunal. The government presented a great deal of evidence to prove that the men were indeed enemy agents. The opinion reads: "The following facts appear from the petitions or are stipulated. Except as noted they are undisputed." The justices then begin a recitation of facts, including that all eight men were born in Germany; seven were admittedly members of the German Reich, with which the United States was at war. All attended a sabotage school near Berlin and were instructed in the use of explosives and secret writing. They were delivered to the United States in two submarines. They were wearing German Marine Infantry uniforms carrying explosives, fuses and incendiary and timing devices. Immediately after arriving, they discarded their uniforms, buried their weapons and traveled farther into the country. All received instructions from an officer in the German High Command to destroy war industries and war facilities in the United States. The court ruled that, based on "the admitted facts," the trial of these men was clearly within the jurisdiction of the military commission. Shouldn't that be the model we use now? The government should be required to go to federal court to prove that the suspect is an enemy agent. If the proof is compelling, the court can hand that person over to the department of defense for trial by military tribunal. But, at the very least, shouldn't we require evidence?
[CTRL] Secret US plan for Iraq war
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610461,00.html Secret US plan for Iraq war Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver Sunday December 2, 2001 The Observer America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt. President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that could begin within months. The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising. One version of the plan would have US forces fighting on the ground. Despite US suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 11 September attacks, the trigger for any attack, sources say, would be the anticipated refusal of Iraq to resubmit to inspections for weapons of mass destruction under the United Nations sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. According to the sources, the planning is being undertaken under the auspices of a the US Central Command at McDill air force base in Tampa, Florida, commanded by General Tommy Franks, who is leading the war against Afghanistan. Another key player is understood to be former CIA director James Woolsey. Sources say Woolsey was sent to London by the hawkish Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, soon after 11 September to ask Iraqi opposition groups if they would participate in an uprising if there was US military support. The New York Times yesterday quoted a senior administration official who admitted that Bush's aides were looking at options that involved strengthening groups that opposed Saddam. Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, said that action against Iraq was not imminent, but would come at a 'place and time of our choosing'. Washington has been told by its allies that evidence it has presented of an Iraqi link to 11 September is at best circumstantial. However, US proponents of extending the war believe they can make the case for hitting Saddam's regime over its plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. A European diplomat said last week: 'In the past week the Americans have shut up about Iraqi links to 11 September and have been talking a lot more about their weapons programme.' The US is believed to be planning to exploit existing UN resolutions on Iraqi weapons programmes to set the action off. Under the pre-existing 'red lines' for military action against Iraq - set down by Washington and London after the Gulf War - evidence of any credible threat from weapons of mass destruction would be regarded as sufficient to launch military strikes along the lines of Operation Desert Fox in 1998, when allied planes made large-scale strikes against suspected Iraqi weapons complexes. Opposition by Blair and French President Jacques Chirac may not be enough to dissuade the Americans. One European military source who recently returned from General Franks's headquarters in Florida said: 'The Americans are walking on water. They think they can do anything at the moment and there is bloody nothing Tony [Blair] can do about it.' Bush is said to have issued instructions about the proposals, which are now at a detailed stage, to his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, three weeks ago. But Pentagon sources say that a plan for attacking Iraq was developed by the time Bush's order was sent to the Pentagon, drawn up by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the joint chiefs General Richard Myers, and Franks. The plan is to work with a combination of three political forces: Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq, radical Sunni Muslim groups in and around Baghdad, and, most controversially, the Shia opposition in the south. The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say. 'Significant numbers' of ground troops could also be called on in the early stages of any rebellion to guard oil fields around the Shia port of Basra in southern Iraq.
[CTRL] Fwd: THE BUDDHA, THE GOLD, THE MYTH
---BeginMessage--- Hi Kris: Thanks for sending this. McDougal is a former US Spec Forces guy who was personally involved in the recovery of the Fort Santiago stash in the mid-Eighties. He then wrote a book (Asian Loot) in which he artfully propagated the myth that there was no Marcos gold. He subsequently wrote another book saying there was Marcos gold and a lot of it. Not to be trusted, I think. regards David McDougal, Charles. THE BUDDHA, THE GOLD, THE MYTH. San Francisco: San Francisco Publishers, 1997. 211p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Softcover $ 24.50 Finally there is a book that exposes the truth about one of the greatest myths ever perpetrated on the Filipino and is still being perpetrated today. from the book's back cover. ? Om K ---End Message---
[CTRL] Report-Over 50 American Soldiers killed during Botched Attack on Helmand
http://66.96.205.195/~azzam/afghan/news/news.php?id=21 02 December 2001 : Over 50 American Soldiers killed during Botched Attack on Helmand A large number of American troops backed by tanks and helicopters, launched a new attack on the 'strategic' city of Helmand. The Mujahideen awaited them patiently, and at the right time ambushed them using heavy artillery, BM rockets and ZSU-23 Anti-Aircraft guns in the area of Koumalk, south of Helmand, close to the River Douistan . As a result of this offensive by the Mujahideen, around 80 US soldiers were killed, three tanks belonging to the United Nations (but used by the US) were destroyed, and two American Apache AH-64 helicopters were brought down, killing all occupants. All praise be to Allah who grants these victories. A number of Mujahideen were injured during the attack, but were taken back to their base for treatment, along with significant hi-tech spoils of war. The whole operation was filmed and the video will be soon be made public insha-Allah to prove to the whole world, and especially the American people, the truth about the Afghan Jihad and the lies spread by the US government. In a separate incident Saturday, the Mujahideen shot down an American warplane near Kandahar airport. As expected, this news was denied by the Pentagon, since American soldiers are never killed in combat, nor do they ever lose any aeroplanes nor equipment nor vehicles. The thousands of American soldiers killed in Vietnam was a myth. The CIA continues to assist drug barons and highwaymen in order to cause disorder and try to destabilise the Taliban between Spin Boldak and Kandahar. The Taliban launched an attack around the mountain areas of Spin Boldak to crush this US-supported militia. Following the attack, approximately 100 of the enemy (composed mainly of drug dealers and highway robbers) as well as 17 of their US military 'advisors' were killed. These advisors organize the aerial cover and plan the militia's ground operations. The Taliban reconfirm that the town of Spin Boldak is still under their control and that all is well. The Taliban has also set up special patrols to pursue and engage the remaining militia who were fleeing to the mountains in the east. Since the arrival of the Northern Alliance in areas previously held by the Taliban, poppy cultivation has been started again on a very large scale (confirmed by the UN) with the encouragement of Americans. This higlights the hypocrisy and lies against the Taliban, who were accused by the West, of still cultivating and profiting from the Poppy farms. However, the reality is that the Taliban had completely banned the cultivation of the crop, thereby reducing the country's production by nearly 95%, and it was America's beloved Northern Alliance who were responsible for all the remaining production and trade. This was even confirmed by the United Nations. The Taliban reported that they had carried out a lightening attack against the American forces in Shandan, which resulted in the deaths of well over 100 American soldiers. More details on this will be provided soon insha-Allah. Human Rights 'Respected' in Mazar-i-Sharif In the presence and auspices of American soldiers, the protectors of human rights, General Dostum walked over the bodies of the martyred Mujahideen in the prison fortress of Qala-e-Jhangi, while his soldiers drove tanks over their bodies to make sure they were dead. It is reported that an incredible number of rapes by his soldiers took place, also under the observation of US troops. These uncivilized soldiers were also seen by the whole world beating and shooting prisoners, kicking the bodies of the Mujahideen and even extracting the golden fillings from the mouths of Taliban who were martyred. The soldiers of the Northern Alliance captured around 10 wives of the Foreign Mujahideen and raped them several times before making them slaves. These women were from families who had tried to cross over to Pakistan, but were prevented at the border by Pakistani troops under the orders of the US Government. America and the whole world are accessories to these mutilations, massacres, rapes and mass injustices and owing to the fact that they are committed under their own eyes and protection. May Allah help all those who are oppressed. The Mujahideen inform the people that they are well and remind the Muslims not to be deceived or depressed by reading the lies of the Western media. They ask all viewers to pass on the true information of the situation that they receive from the Internet, not to forget them and the people of Afghanistan in their duas and increase the duas against those who cause corruption and oppression on the Earth.
[CTRL] THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THE MOST DANGEROUS, THUS FAR
http://www.centrexnews.com/columnists/skousen/2001/1123.html THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THE MOST DANGEROUS, THUS FAR by Joel Skousen www.joelskousen.com WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF November 23, 2001 Copyright Joel M. Skousen Partial Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief (http://www.joelskousen.com). [Excerpt] I never imagined that any US administration could surpass the egregious and treasonous acts of the Clinton administration. However, the Bush administration has not only failed to stop, overturn or dismantle any of the significant evil acts of the former administration, but it is continuing the cover-up of illegal government activities: e.g., surveillance without a warrant, withholding of crucial intelligence regarding national defense threats, corruption of evidence in ongoing investigations, money laundering, collusion with judges to imprison whistleblowers, and massive drug control and importation schemes to finance black budget operations. While most Bush administration advisors claim conservative leanings, in reality all belong to the same internationalist group (Council on Foreign Relations) to which advisors in previous administrations have belonged. This Council is dedicated to subtly eroding American sovereignty and even encouraging its demise, an objective hardly in line with its members' professed dedication to American values. Why is the Bush administration more dangerous than the lawless corruption of the Clinton-Reno days? Simply because the current administration does it under the cover of an even bigger lie: that what they do is out of genuine love of country, duty to God, patriotism, and love of the Constitution. In short they claim to be God-fearing, constitutional conservatives, and nothing could be further from the truth. Each of these national leaders, including Bush, Cheney, Powell, and Ashcroft have agreed to follow a control agenda formulated by others who do not respect God, nor the Constitution, nor national sovereignty. This administration is dangerous because its lies are believable. Clinton's lies were not. The Bush administration is rapidly undermining many American constitutional rights, in the oft-repeated name of fighting terrorism. Local police forces are being corrupted into serving as federalized police under a variety of circumstances. Indeed, the administration is now openly talking about instituting a federal police force, under the aegis of "increased coordination." Bush all too willingly signed legislation federalizing airport security workers, even though he claimed to oppose it. The US is now in a continuous state of emergency, which justifies tremendous expansions of federal powers. Though Bush ostensibly champions religious liberty, the Justice Department has failed to intervene in the ongoing oppression of certain fundamentalist Christian churches in their battles with the IRS over improper tax control of churches. Verbiage is cheap and goes a long way toward keeping Christians thinking that they have one of their own in the White House. It's hard for most people to detect a lie when the person is telling them what they want to hear. Speaking of lies, this administration is engaging in cover-ups that will exceed the Clinton record. Not only has Attorney General Ashcroft refused to prosecute any of the Clinton-Reno crimes, he has refused to even meet with those who have the evidence, in particular Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch and former Clinton impeachment prosecutor David Schippers, who is representing FBI agents who have evidence of official Justice Department suppression of evidence in the OKC bombing. There are other would-be whistle blowers who are also having no luck with justice. No conservative with crucial evidence on government wrongdoing has been able to gain meaningful access to the White House or the Justice Department in this, the supposed paragon of all conservative administrations. The Bush administration is also rapidly undermining our defense against strategic threats (Russia and China) while claiming to be building up our military forces. In fact, we are wasting our military stores in an interventionist war in Afghanistan that only superficially has anything to do with terrorism, and that primarily serves US and Russian oil interests and increases the number of countries that hate America. While a billion dollars a month goes down the drain in this war, the money we need to counter the more dangerous long term threats continues to diminish. Despite the propaganda, it isn't the tiny "rogue nations" with cobbled-together, second-rate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that are the big threat--it's the two predator nations in the world that provide those rogue states with weapons and material on an ongoing basis. Not only do Russia and China continue to finance, train and feed terrorism (albeit through client states), but both of these nations are also building for a much larger future
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Fw: [CTRL] Ariel Sharon, Architect of 9-11?
-Caveat Lector- From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] They have introduced and pushed the enemy within...but yet the call is to come to New York to see the shows? Tell me did this guy mention the stench from burning flesh First off, the 'stench' is due to ALL the materials that are burning, not just any potential human flesh. Secondly, the WTC center is MILES from midtown where Broadway is -- one can't smell the burning WTC in midtown... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: THE BUDDHA, THE GOLD, THE MYTH
-Caveat Lector- Ever hear story about the dead volcano where heliocopters were seen to enter and emerge - is this where Marco's gold was stashed? Now the Shah of Iran had a solid gold John and who the hell would want a solid gold John - he probably had 1000's of Golden Johns and used a different John each time he flew in? Maybe many buddahs. Buddah's from same mold..be nice way to get into the import export business where all corruption lay in drugs and the treasures of the world. Years ago I was sent saphire and emerald ring total 5 carats each - stuffed in with some junk - worth big bucks today, but oh so easy to smuggle gemstones into this country. You find more of this stuff on Home Shopping including Mel Fischer's gold sometimes than you do in the Diamond Cellar? So many diamonds - so now our FBI traitors are paid in diamonds like this Hannsen - KGB stuff and Israel has billoins in diamonds which they do not mine? From whence do these treasures come? Poor South Africa why so poor - the treasures of the world sitll lay under their feet. But this is too much..strange the volcano looked like a huge pyramid..something straight out of a James Bond movie? Bet Mrs. Marcos with all those shoes, was it 2,000 pair - had heels of gold? Then we have the Columbian gold and big ships in the night landing at private docks and landing strips in Florida But hey as my old MI6 friend said after threatened for exposing Big Ship Rio (and that was my ship for I found out about it) - she was lectured later by a deputy Sheriff, friend of hers about how they all knew about this smuggling of Columbian Gold and worse - but it was necessary - and suddenly poof - not too long before she died her last words to me were I have brought trouble into my own housere my bible calendar linked to drugs, murder, slaughter and sabotage - real heavy Mafia stuff. So much for Marcos gold.but what concrns me now is this gold at the bottom of the World Trade Center. You see if it has been stolen, which I think much of it was..it is all insured - watch your insurance go up and not in smoke if this be true.. the World Trade Center Caper and the gold, always the gold...7 billion to Silvrstein..but what about all that gold. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Confound It
-Caveat Lector- From Working For A Change (URL @ bottom) }}}Begin Confounding Carnivore How to protect your online privacy By Omar J. Pahati AlterNet.org 11.30.01 | Ever since the FBI confirmed the existence of their Internet wiretapping device -- a device they named Carnivore -- cyberprivacy activists have been up in arms. Carnivore promised to be their worst nightmare: a technology that could track and record every email sent, every Web page browsed, every chat room visited. Today, those fears are more likely to come true than ever before. The passage of anti-terrorism laws in the wake of Sept. 11, and the extended powers of the FBI, CIA and police agencies everywhere, make it likely that Carnivore will see more use in the near future. Congress has been quite willing to trade some privacy for security, and the Bush Administration -- especially Attorney General John Ashcroft -- has been no defender of online privacy. With Constitutional protections being chipped away, what can civil liberties-minded citizens do to maintain their privacy online? Though the technology behind the mysterious Carnivore box (officially renamed DCS1000 in early 2001, though that name hasn't stuck) has been portrayed as quite sophisticated, it's actually very simple. When attached to se rver computers at an Internet service provider (ISP), the device records the details of all traffic coming through that ISP. It can snatch email headers and content, and keep a history of Web pages accessed. This data can then be saved onto disk and admitted as evidence in court. Similar devices have long been used in private enterprise, allowing cautious business administrators to monitor the Internet activity of employees. In network security circles, these devices are referred to as sniffers. As common as this technology is, its potential uses give security specialists great power to track electronic communications. Sniffers can produce a list of Web sites visited so that ISPs can block access to sites deemed questionable or subversive. Carnivore can also keep track of whom you send email to and who sends you email, shedding light on the company you keep and potentially tying you to activities you know nothing about. Aside fro m these scary scenarios, the mere fact that someone is watching is disconcerting. But before you panic about the government tracking those flirty emails you sent to a co-worker last year, consider that the FBI is reported to have used Carnivore only 13 times between October 1999 and August 2000 (the la test figures available). That's not very much, given the enormous amount of Web traffic. So the chances that Carnivore has been watching you are incredibly low -- you're much more likely to have been sniffed by your emplo yer. Nevertheless, with the passage of the USA Patriot Act, Carnivore's use is very likely to increase. In addition to committing unprecedented resources to security, the new law drops some of the checks and balances once requ ired for getting permission to eavesdrop. Futhermore, rumors that Osama bin Laden has used encrypted messages, images, and Web sites to communicate with the global Al Qaeda network, and fears that unknown terrorists are u sing the Web as a tool, has upped Carnivore's value in law enforcement's eyes. The FBI has even begun to enhance Carnivore, effectively broadening its net and fortifying its encroachment into once private sectors of cyber space. Cyber-libertarians determined to maintain anonymity have already found ways to circumvent Carnivore's watchful eyes. Most of the methods were developed by hackers to cover their tracks when engaging in questionable, somet imes illegal activity. But these techniques work just as well for the law-abiding citizen who wishes to uphold the right to privacy. And thankfully, you don't have to be a hacker to use these tools effectively. Controversial, but legal, encryption software has been publicly available for years. Encryption allows users to maintain a high level of secrecy when sending email or files over the Internet. The most storied of encryption tools is a free program called PGP. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, but it's a whole lot more than just pretty good. PGP is strong crypto, geek speak for encryption that is nearly impo ssible to break. PGP is so strong that after releasing PGP to the public in 1991, Philip Zimmermann, the program's creator, drew immediate attention from federal prosecutors intent on preventing its distribution. Zimmermann says, PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it. That's why I wrote it. And that's why governments are so afraid of it. As a result, Zimmermann became the target of a three-year criminal investigation that questioned the legality of exporting PGP to users in other nations. But by 1996, the in vestigation had produced no evidence of wrongdoing and PGP had become the most
Re: [CTRL] It's Not Bush's Land to Give Away
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/1/01 1:00:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bush's decision to support Palestinian statehood can only be regarded as abject appeasement to Islamic terrorists. The grandfather of all modern-day terrorists is Yasser Arafat. For the Bush administration to promote making Arafat the president of his own country while at the same time sending American warriors to fight Osama Bin Laden is the height of hypocrisy. Such deluded thinking betrays logic not to mention our friends in Israel. I think Begin and Sharon might have had a slight headstart on Arafat, and if not they certainly can be considered contemporaries in terrorism. Our friends in Israel are the same folks who fired on the Liberty. Israel seems to be a friend of the United States only when the US is following Israel's directions to the letter. Israel seems to be less a friend than a commander. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Fw: [CTRL] Ariel Sharon, Architect of 9-11?
-Caveat Lector- Well ask again, my son was there and the next time he said its Paradise Island - he never wants to return to New York. So go join the circus - but the thought of all those bodies somehow puts a damper on anything you might call - well fun? Planes dropping from the skies? But come see the show - the circus is in town. Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] ARABS WON'T SAVE IRAQ FROM PREZ
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/1/01 1:18:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: November 30, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Team Bush yesterday signaled Arab objections won't stop the United States from acting against Iraq's Saddam Hussein if the president believes it's needed in the war on terror. The White House comments came after Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher met with Secretary of State Colin Powell and relayed Arab concerns about a possible U.S. strike against Iraq. Hey, Dubya is aching to bomb Iraq. I've occasionally wondered if Hussein has some kind of proof of something unsavory regarding Bush the First. Maybe it's just that Dubya likes to kill people in the name of Christ. That's happened before. Wasn't he the one who called it a Crusade? Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Sharon to tell Bush: If Iraq attacks us, we will respond
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/1/01 1:24:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leaves tonight for a five-day visit to the United States where he will reportedly tell President George W. Bush that should Saddam Hussein attack Israel after an American strike on Iraq, Israel would respond. What's wrong with that? I expect any country that is attacked to reciprocate. Isn't that why we are bombing Afghanistan? Hasn't the present administration decided that Afghanistan is to blame for the WTC? Israel has every right to respond to an attack, and if I know Israel, we might see a premptive strike. Israel would love to loose its atomic weapons on Iraq. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Homosexuals help syphilis comeback/stuns officials
-Caveat Lector- On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:13:52 -0500, in news:internal.mailing-list.independent.ctrl, THe eXTReMiST [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted: Wrong, my exact quote was: Popular paganism and modern churchianity are just different flavors of the same product. And history shows a direct correlation between paganism and the fall of nations. As a nation becomes paganized, it becomes more corrupt, the people become more decadent and unjust, and ends up destroying itself from the inside and then gobbled up by it's enemies. Can't think of one exception. And the unseen powers that be ( the illuminati, international bankers, etc.), love both churchianity and pagans, because they are easy to herd and control through lies. Now that's the third time you have missed the point. I may be an idiot but you're dense as a rock. I can see you learned nothing from my earlier post in this thread. Damaeus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Are we being watched?
-Caveat Lector- On 1 Dec 01, at 0:27, Steve wrote: I feel better, but it was recording since 11/24. Are we being watched? Go here http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,10615,56718,00.html to consider this Trojan Remover Get rid of Trojan horse viruses. Version: v4.4.5 Date Added: 10-28-01 Size: 1.51 MB Downloads: 32,109 OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP License: Shareware Trojan Remover aids in the removal of Trojan horses when standard antivirus software has failed to detect them or is unable to eliminate them. Trojan Remover was written to let you carry out a removal without having to manually edit system files, including the Windows Registry. Trojan Remover also gets rid of the additional system modifications some Trojan horses carry out, which are ignored by other virus and Trojan horse scanners. Note: This shareware program has a 30-day trial. The cost to register is $24.95. Copyright (c) 2000 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Inc. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE ENRON BLACK MAGIC, PART ONE
-Caveat Lector- THE ENRON BLACK MAGIC, PART ONE by Sherman H. Skolnick 12/02/01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skolnicksreport.com In the often evil world of oil and natural gas, and other energy, they became the seventh largest of the Fortune 500. What has happened to put them as the largest of the No Fortune 100? How did they become, so far, the biggest loser? The real operators of Enron Corporation are, to some, great sorcerers. They have waved their magic wand, and turned paper promises into black gold and vice versa. Sort of latter day alchemists. Later in this series we will explore the role of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. Now just look at some of the other names. A Director of Enron has been Wendy Gramm, wife of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm [R., Texas]. A former Professor, supposedly adept in economics and banking, Senator Gramm has been the Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and member of the Budget and the Finance Committees. He has blocked laws against money laundering. Convenient to the Enron mess, he decided ahead of time not to run for re-election. For some twelve years during the Reagan/Daddy Bush Administrations, Wendy was Chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. As a highly corrupt federal regulatory agency, CFTC wields great power and influence over markets, often little understood by commonAmericans. Spreading out in the 1980s worldwide was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI. Some called them, with their hundreds of branches round the world, the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International. They were actually a huge money laundry for political assassination and dirty tricks funding, as well as espionage proprietaries, for the American CIA, British MI-6, French CIA, and The Mossad of Israel. BCCI had or were planning some five branches in the U.S. For their U.S. agenda, they needed to put the arm on the U.S. government. Elsewhere in the world, BCCI had already honed the real world specialty of buying and bribing public officials. BCCI as a foreign entity not only dealt in secret transactions in banking but were a highly mostly covert player on the world markets, particularly the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and on markets such as LIFFE in London. Through six La Salle Street brokers, BCCI bribed and blackmailed its way into the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Key law-makers were invited to come to Chicago, all expenses paid, to supposedly give a speech for the CME, or Merc as some call it, and the CBOT. While in the Windy City, the law-makers were informed that their hosts, the market honchos, were opening courtesy accounts for them. And, that they would be informed of the good results that developed. In some instances, the so-called courtesy account was not told to the Representatives and Senators, but was set up in their name anyway as a blackmail device on the date of their Chicago visit. Through a hocus-pocus series of transactions, the Chicago accounts showed a supposed loss while the London acounts showed a huge profit. In the lingo of the markets, it was called a straddle. The Senators and Congressmen themselves, or most often their known agents, from time to time personally picked up the huge profits in London. On other occasions, someone identifying themselves with credentials as their known agents, likewise picked up the heavy profits from the courtesy accounts, in the British money center. It was either a direct provable bribery payment to the law-makers or verifiable record-kept blackmail. Either way, twenty five per cent of both houses of the American legislature were hooked. By the time BCCI supposedly collapsed in the summer of 1991, some five billion dollars had disappeared. It was used in great part to buy, that is, to bribe, 28 U.S. Senators and 108 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Bank of England, by a series of circumstances, became the kingpin in supervising and overseeing the supposed demise of BCCI. [BUT, see Foonote One, how BCCI rose from the ashes under another name.] Notice the strange happenings. For only thirty days, the Bank of England had as an open record, the list of those bought and bribed, whether directly or through the blackmail devices, of the legislative branch of the U.S. Government. A major media correspondent got wind of this and before secrecy was clamped on the records, got a copy of the entire list of bribery/blackmail. Part of one of the largest media operations worldwide, he went to his media editor with the details. The editor was thunder-struck. Here was documented proof that twenty five per cent of the House and Senate were bribed. We cannot publish the list and the details that go with it, the journalist was told. The media mogul added the obvious, It would cause the scandal downfall of the American Government, as the journalist later related the editor's statements to an independent-minded confidant.
[CTRL] Oregon To Ashcroft: Get Lost
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- http://www.koin.com/c6k/news/stories/news-109721420011129-131127.html Corvallis Police Refuse To Question Foreign Visitors Corvallis Joins Portland Police Posted: 11:42 a.m. PST November 29, 2001 Updated: 12:42 p.m. PST November 29, 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland police are no longer alone in their refusal to interview foreign visitors as part of a federal terrorism probe. Corvallis police joined their Portland counterparts Wednesday, and the Eugene police might soon follow suit. The City of Eugene was awaiting its lawyers' advice before making a decision. Until Wednesday, Portland had been the only city in the nation to refuse a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to participate in the interviews, citing state privacy laws. As many as 5,000 foreign visitors will be questioned nationwide, some 200 of them in Oregon. Corvallis Police Chief Pam Roskowski believes the city's officers can legally participate in the federal probe, according to a statement released Wednesday. However, Roskowski believes the city will be better served if officers concentrate on criminal investigations rather than in interviewing people on the federal list who are not criminal suspects, police spokesman Lt. Paul Miller said in the statement. It is incumbent on all law enforcement agencies to promote the balance of protecting the community ... while preserving the freedoms and civil liberties of all residents, the statement said. Eugene police were waiting Wednesday for advice from city attorneys before deciding whether to participate in the FBI interviews. Salem police said federal agents have not yet asked them for help. Give us some legitimate reason to talk to the people -- other than that they're from the Middle East -- and we'll be glad to, said Pam Alejandere, a Eugene police spokeswoman. Federal agents will likely question 23 foreign visitors in the Portland area, the U.S. Attorney's office said Wednesday. Another 40 will be questioned in Eugene. About 30 people will be interviewed in Corvallis. The state attorney general on Tuesday said there is nothing in Oregon law that prevents state investigators from helping with the interviews, but Portland officials have a different interpretation. City attorney Jeffrey Rogers said Wednesday a few of the Justice Department's questions could violate state privacy laws protecting people not accused of crimes. Federal authorities want to question about 200 people in Oregon who are in the state on student, work or tourist visas. All have come to the state in the past two years from countries known to harbor terrorists. The people on Oregon's list will be questioned, one way or another, said Kent Robinson, chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office in Portland. The Oregonian newspaper obtained a partial list of the questions federal agents instructed local police officers to ask as part of the probe. The paper identified three guidelines issued by federal authorities that Portland city officials believe would violate state law if posed during interviews. They are: You should obtain all telephone numbers used by an individual and his family or close associates. If he lives with others you should inquire as to their identities. You should note any information that would assist us in locating the individual in the future. You should inquire specifically whether he or anybody he knows has ever visited Afghanistan. Those were among the guidelines sent to U.S. Attorneys on Nov. 9 by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, the newspaper said. A group called the Portand Peaceful Response Coalition (PPRC) is holding a march in support of the Portland police decision not to take part in the questioning. The group plans to meet at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland at 5 p.m. Friday and will march to City Hall. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4bQK.B/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/NJYolB/TM -~- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] CNN, your coverage is incredible
don't forget, israel moved forces into palestine and THEN this bombing occurred... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1148 Israeli Terrorist Forces Invade Palestinian Cities Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- The following was sent to CNN at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Similar letters may be sent to CNN, MSNBC, FOX News etc. From: Zahi Damuni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: CNN, your coverage is incredible Dear CNN, I was completely disgusted by your coverage of the attack that took place in Jerusalem last night. At a particularly sensitive time, in which lives were lost and many more were at stake, you allowed Mr. Netanyahu to spew racist blood-thirsty hate and right-out lies as well as ridiculously comparing to the Taliban, Palestinians living under a prolonged Israeli occupation recognized by international law and community as illegitimate! CNN gave Mr. Netanyahu, a self-admitted Jewish supremacist and right wing extremist and fascist, by any standard, the forum to war monger with lies, to dehumanize an entire people with full intent to cause more suffering and destroy any hope for a just and lasting peace. CNN, your coverage is uninformed, racist and totally unbalanced. It is often disgusting. I am not aware of a single occasion in which you interrupted your regularly scheduled programs to report extensively on even one of the many daily attacks Palestinian men women and children suffer at the hands of Israel's terrorist army and settlers, whether in the besieged refugee camps, villages or cities behind the barbed wire. Even during your extended coverage last night, you failed to report, give brief mention or simple acknowledgement of the attacks Israel's terrorist army launched in the West Bank and Gaza just hours prior to the Jerusalem attack! Why? Alas, CNN is not a credible, reliable, professional and unprejudiced source of news. Your coverage is racist. Respectfully, Zahi Damuni, Ph.D. Hershey, Pennsylvania Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to Al-Awda-News, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committee in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org = To sign Al-Awda's petition to terminate US aid to Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm To sign a letter asking Intel Corporation to disinvest from Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/campaign/intel_letter.htm = Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons 2 December 2001 Palestine Media Center - PMC http://www.palestine-pmc.com Israeli occupation authorities declared during the afternoon hours of 2 December, that all Palestinian civilians would be barred from exiting or entering Palestinian-controlled areas. According to the Israeli media, Palestinian traffic is not to leave any Palestinian-controlled area (area A) or travel between area A and villages in areas B and C throughout the West Bank. The move effectively turns every Palestinian population center, no matter how large or small, into a prison. Israeli media purports that the Israeli occupation authorities have stated that travel exemptions would be permitted in humanitarian cases only. However, such claims or announcements have been proven false on the ground on numerous occasions, often leading to deaths and health complications of Palestinian civilians in need of medical attention. The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has previously condemned the Israeli occupation army for obstructing Palestinian patients' passage to hospitals. According to various Palestinian sources, these draconian measures, which contravene international humanitarian law, have lead to at least thirty-three deaths of kidney patients. They have also caused at least twenty-two cases of miscarriages and labor at the various Israeli military checkpoints, in the West Bank alone. On 16 October, B'Tselem stated, The [Israeli occupation forces] spokesperson has repeatedly stated that: The [Israeli occupation forces] has regulations whose purpose is to ensure the passage of urgent medical cases at roadblocks. The regulations may exist, but the soldiers at the roadblocks have apparently not heard about them. Earlier in the morning, Israeli occupation authorities sealed off all passages, including the international crossing points between the West Bank and Jordan as well as between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to Al-Awda-News, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committee in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org = To sign Al-Awda's petition to terminate US aid to Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm To sign a letter asking Intel Corporation to disinvest from Israel go to: http://al-awda.org/campaign/intel_letter.htm = Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] bombings
-Caveat Lector- hi all, Does anyone have a list of the contries that the USA/NATO has dropped bombs on, and comitted militaty actions in, along with the dates? mostly looking for the last twenty years, and the leaders, presidents involved.. thx iggy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NOSTRADAMUS: Did Nostradamus Predictions include Osama Bin Laden? Find links to Nostrodamus, Nostradamus Predictions and Osama Bin Laden related web sites.
http://216.15.252.253/nostradamus-osama-bin-laden.html Title: NOSTRADAMUS: Did Nostradamus Predictions include Osama Bin Laden? Find links to Nostrodamus, Nostradamus Predictions and Osama Bin Laden related web sites. Did Nostradamus Predictions includereferences to Osama Bin Laden? Did Nostradamus Predictions link Osama bin laden, the taliban, afghanistan, recent attack on america that include the world trade centre, the pentagon,have correlations with a number of nostradamus predictions? Are nostrodamus, nostradamus predictions and osama bin laden related? Recent events alleged against Osama Bin Laden, aka Bin Laden, appear to be linked to a number of nostradamus predictions. Note correlations between ecent terrorism at New York state, the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, the pentagon, etc., as well as the use of several american airlines as delivery systems targeted at not only the twin towers of the World Trade Center, New York, New York City (potentially empire state building), as well as the pentagon, White House, Camp David, Air Force One and the general american population through coordinated attacks untilizing the auspices of american airlines. Indeed, alleged actions perpetrated by a person fitting Nostradamus Quatrains indicate an person fitting Osama bin Laden. Nostradamus predictions may contain prophecy of unknown origin which may have great predicitive value to modern man. While a variety of world news media have focused on multiple allegations of Bin Laden related terrorism, televised and online news sources such as Cnn News and Cnn Headline News (CNN and CNN News: see cnn.com, www.cnn.com, CNN.COM,), as well as aol (see aol.com), yahoo (see: yahoo.com and/or www.yahoo.com), msn (see; msn.com), MSNBC (also see: Msnbc News) and msnbc (see: msnbc.com), nbc and nbc news, cbs and cbs news (see cbs.com), abc (see abc.com), abc news, BBC, (bbc, Bbc World News and bbc news systems), together with news papers such as boston herald, washington post, boston globe, new york times, new york post, usa today, associated press, etc., have placed news media focus on terrorist attack focused upon osama bin laden as prime suspect. We find it particularly noteworthy and associate some predictive value to contemplate various nostradamus predictions in hopes of deriving practical insights worthy of inspiring useful tactics and strategies for coping with increasingly difficult political, social and economic uncertaintities which apparently relate Bin Laden to Nostradamus. Is osama bin laden attempting to lure the Great Satan into an islamic jihad as set forth in Nostradamus Prophecies and/or Nostradamus Predictions? as set forth in the sites and links to Nostratdamus Predictions and Osama bin Laden related web pages. Predictions may relate directly to Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, Afghanistan and the attack on America as a catalyst to Islamic jihad. Why were american airlines used by alleged terrorist Osama Bin Laden to target the world trade center, pentagon, and american citizens in acts of terrorism? Were the Twin Towers located in New York at the world trade centre merely one of many targets focused on initiating an Islamic jihad? While Nostradamus never depicted in direct fashion the use of american airlines as airborn missles destroying New York's world trade center twin towers, let alone the pentagon, Nostradamus quatrains evoke an uncanny interpretation of modern terrorist activities not unlike those of unleashed in centuries past. Given the scrutiny of modern news media such as CNN, events involving the world trade center and pentagon to alleged terroist activities by Osama Bin Laden, the FBI and American Red Cross have taken the world news stage, just as the american flag has in general, in ushering in what looks to be a new era in conflict caused by taliban leaders in afghanistan refusing to release Osama Bin Laden to the FBI as leading suspect in the use of american airlines as guided missles aimed directly at the New York's twin towers of the World Trade Center, pentagon, as well as number of other suspected targets that include the empire state building, the president, the White House, Air Force One, Camp David as well as american airlines in general. In addition, intense efforts by the FBI which have news media worldwide focused upon keeping these events in the world limelight, similarliy depicted by Nostradamus. Has the FBI identified Osama Bin Laden as sole suspect, or are there other co-conspirators supporting terrorist activity upon the United States, such as Iran, Iraq, Lybia and Palestine? in the year 1654. Were the coordinated attacks upon New York, the twin towers of the World Trade centre and Pentagon in Nostradamus Prophecy for Century VI, Quatrain 97? ..."By fire he will destroy their city, A cold and cruel heart, blood will pour, mercy to none. Earth-shaking fire from the center of the earth. will cause the towers around
[CTRL] Fwd: YES, GEORGE W. BUSH HAS STATED HE'D PREFER TO BE A DICTATOR AT LEAST 3 T...
forwarded message ---BeginMessage--- YES, GEORGE W. BUSH HAS STATED HE'D PREFER TO BE A DICTATOR AT LEAST 3 TIMES, ACCORDING TO BUZZFLASH.COM http://www.buzzflash.com/BuzzScripts/Buzz.dll/sub2 From Paul Begala's Is Our Children Learning You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier. Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98) December 18, 2000 CNN.com I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator, Bush joked. July 27, 2001 Associated Press A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, [Bush] said. Buzzflash.com thanks a loyal reader for compiling this chronology. ___ Powered by List Builder To unsubscribe follow the link: http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs?customerid=9353subid=228F92FABE9B63BBmsgnum=616 ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Antiwar News...(# 38)
---BeginMessage--- Antiwar News...(# 38) -- Contents: --[British MP] Alan Simpson on bombing Afghanistan --The Wizard of Bombs --Pakistani paper says 45 US special forces killed after raid --Relief Effort Races Winter to Save Millions --Depleted Uranium Toxicity in Afghanistan --26 more body bags in Jacobabad --U.S. is Dropping World's Biggest Non-Nuclear bomb in Afghanistan --130-plus civilians killed: report --Women Oppose War --Embrace the refugees --Appeals to halt cluster bombs Also of interest (links only): *Afghanistan Through the Eyes of an Aid Worker *The War's Dispensable People *Generals leery of war? *Global toll; Various Reports *The war at home -- (Anti-war links/resources at the end.) === [British MP] Alan Simpson on bombing Afghanistan Question: Why have you called for a pause in the bombing of Afghanistan? Alan Simpson: Partly because I think the war is wrong full stop. It's just the wrong way of seeking to track down terrorists and bring them to justice. The second is that I am really fearful that we're sitting on the edge of a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan for which the West will legitimately be blamed. The aid agencies reckon that there's maybe ten more delivery days before the Afghan snow cuts the lorries off. They have fallen behind the delivery rate that they needed to be able to keep people alive through this winter. The current position, irrespective of the numbers who are in refugee camps on the Pakistani/Iranian borders, is that two million people have been displaced inside the country. One million children are at the edge of starvation. When the winter snows go and we start to count the bodies of those who didn't make it through, I believe the Muslim or Arab countries within the region will blame us for that catastrophe. It won't wash that it was the Taliban that delayed things. Everyone knows that the aid agencies have delivered food through famine or war zones in the past. They are used to having to pay food taxation, they are used to the delays and frustrations that they've had to face from both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, and in the past three years under the Taliban governments when the droughts have still been in place, the aid agencies have managed to get the food through. Simpson on humanitarian efforts Question: But the US and UK governments say that the action they are taking is in co-ordination with humanitarian efforts. Does that not wash with you? Alan Simpson: It doesn't make any sense at all. You can't drop bombs and bread in alternating consignments. The absurdity is compounded by the fact that some of the food packages look like the cluster bombs that have been strewn across the landscape, and children have been sent out to collect them. This is just a wretched and stupid way of trying to deliver humanitarian aid. We've changed the targets this is the worst part about the strategy. All of a sudden we talk about this war with the Taliban - it has become a war with Afghanistan. We're not pursuing Bin Laden in the mountains where he is, we're bombing the plains and the cities, and we're taking out the power and the infrastructure, the fragmented infrastructure that existed to prop the country up. And the people on the frontline are those who are homeless, starving, or living on grass. They are the frontline of reprisals and the rest of the world knows this. In fact large numbers of people in Britain know this, which is why I think that the whole momentum of public opinion has shifted dramatically over the last couple of weeks. There is now a majority of people who oppose bombing. They want to let the food get through to the people of Afghanistan who really need it. Question: What's your proof of that? Alan Simpson: The opinion polls in last week's press found that 54 per cent of the population in Britain currently favour halting the bombing to get the food through. Simpson on the role the UK should be playing Question: So how do you think the US and UK should have reacted to the atrocities of September 11? Alan Simpson: I think the role the UK should have played was to rescue America from a mindset that makes it its own worst enemy. At the moment it's almost as though if America can't bomb, it can't think. And our own experience of terrorists' attacks and atrocities across mainline Britain has given us definite experience of how you deal with terrorism. It never made the outrages any more acceptable. Never once did we say that the sensible strategic response was saturation bombing of Dublin, or if the killings and atrocities were committed by protestant paramilitary groups, that we should flatten the protestant communities in the
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] The Oil War: UNOCALs once-grand plan for Afghan pipelines
---BeginMessage--- http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/02/new-crogan.shtml The Oil War UNOCAL's once-grand plan for Afghan pipelines by Jim Crogan A victory by the U.S.-led coalition and its Northern Alliance supporters would not only boost America's power and influence in this strategic Caspian region, but it would reopen the door to a potential energy windfall for the West. Afghanistan's oil, gas and coal reserves are waiting to be exploited. And neighboring Turkmenistan, the former Soviet Republic, is loaded with resources, waiting to go to market. But landlocked by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on the north and east, Afghanistan and Iran on the south, and bordered by the Caspian Sea to its west, Turkmenistan has struggled to find a viable supply route. A 1995 proposal by UNOCAL, the Southern California oil giant, shows what might be in store and gives a hint of influence the oil-friendly Bush administration could have in charting the future of the strategic region. UNOCAL proposed building twin oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan, south through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to a shipping terminal on the Arabian Sea, with a possible pipeline extension into India. To date, the roadblocks have been twofold: Afghanistan's ongoing civil war and the lack of international recognition for the Taliban government. UNOCAL says it has pulled out of the project. A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report, issued in June, ranked Turkmenistan's reserve of natural gas, with more than 101 trillion cubic feet, as the fifth largest in the world. After the breakup of the USSR, this newly independent nation became embroiled in a payment dispute with the Russian gas giant Gazprom, and lost its access to the region's only pipeline. UNOCAL, which has been publicly criticized for alleged human-rights abuses involving its Burma pipeline operation, signed an agreement in 1995 with Turkmenistan's president for life, Saparmurat Niyazov, to build the 890-mile, $2 billion pipeline. Its goal was to transport 1.9 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas from the country's giant Dauletabad Field into Pakistan's energy grid. The project has been on hold for several years. Barry Lane, a UNOCAL spokesman, says there were only two viable routes for this pipeline: Iran or Afghanistan. And the U.S. sanctions against doing business with Iran left us only one option, he says. Hoping to hedge its bets against Iran or future OPEC cutbacks, the Clinton administration offered backing for the projects. In 1997, UNOCAL joined with Turkmenistan and six international companies: Delta Oil company (Saudi Arabia), Indonesia Petroleum and ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co. (Japan), Hyundai Engineering Construction Co. (South Korea), Crescent Group (Pakistan) and the Russian company Gazprom to form the Central Asia Gas ä Pipeline consortium (CentGas). However, UNOCAL remained the driving force, controlling nearly half of its shares. In addition to the natural-gas pipeline, UNOCAL also proposed building a second 1,000-mile, $2.5 billion oil pipeline to take 1 million barrels per day from Turkmenistan's proven reserves of 546 million barrels. The country also has an estimated 1.7 billion barrels in offshore areas under the Caspian Sea. After UNOCAL completed negotiations with Niyazov, it opened talks with the Taliban and opposition groups in the north, which later became the Northern Alliance. The proposed deals would have paid Afghanistan up to $100 million per year for access across its territory. To show its good will, UNOCAL donated money to CARE projects in Afghanistan and provided support for in-country earthquake relief efforts. The oil giant also gave nearly a million dollars to the University of Nebraska's Center for Afghan Studies. The money was used to provide pipeline-construction training for Afghans and schooling for their children. At the time UNOCAL was also being attacked by feminist groups for working with the Taliban, whose regime denies human rights to women. But Lane insists that issue was repeatedly raised during their pipeline talks, and company-financed schooling was given to both boys and girls. Lane says that CentGas met several times with Taliban delegations and factions of the Northern Alliance. The meetings occurred during 1997 in Afghanistan and at UNOCAL's Texas office. But little headway was made. The project quickly began to deteriorate, he says. We emphasized to the Taliban they had to form a stable government that would be internationally recognized, before any construction could begin. Lane says he wasn't involved in the Texas meetings and doesn't know whether then-Governor George W. Bush, an exoil man, ever had any involvement. UNOCAL's Texas spokesperson for Central Asia operations, Teresa Covington, said the consortium delivered three basic messages to the Afghan groups. We gave them the details on the proposed pipelines. We also talked to them about the projects' benefits, such as the transit fees that would be
[CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense
-Caveat Lector- http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Kelly.htm An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense TERRENCE KELLY © 2001 Terrence Kelly --- From Parameters, Autumn 2001, pp. 105-16. Go to Autumn issue Table of Contents. Go to Cumulative Article Index. --- One of the most difficult problems facing government today is the question of how to organize to address new threats to national security. Noteworthy among these are threats from terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and attacks on our critical infrastructures. Others include the international drug trade, organized crime, and assorted transnational threats. These are nonconventional threats, and no single department or agency of the federal government can address them alone. They require coordinated policies, planning, and execution by agencies that fall on both the national security and domestic sides of the government, and they often involve cooperation with state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector as well. Responses to them are crosscutting, involve non-federal organizations, and draw on assets that are already committed to other important missions. For the federal government, this creates problems of issue ownership (turf), and resource allocation--in both the annual President's Budget Submission, and in the congressional authorizations and appropriations processes. A lot of people have given a lot of thought to these issues, and it has become apparent that there will be no simple organizational solution. Another important aspect of this problem of organizing for homeland defense is the difficult questions it raises about the role of government in society. When individual actors have the ability to launch cyber-attacks that shut down major corporations (as in February 2000) and madmen with modest assets can culture and spread pathogens that have the potential to kill thousands or even millions of citizens,[1] government must carefully consider how it should organize to address such potentially disastrous threats. In this process, important tradeoffs must be considered between catastrophic damage to the nation and an expanded (and possibly more intrusive) role for government. The prospect of an expanded government intruding on its citizens' rights is of such major importance that it must be addressed in full partnership with the Congress and, to the greatest extent possible, in open forums. A Recommendation A solution to this organizational issue can be based loosely on the military combatant command model.[2] In this model, the military's regional Commanders in Chief (CINCs) conduct operations (warfighting, peacekeeping, humanitarian operations) and report to the Secretary of Defense and the President. The forces they use to conduct these operations are raised, trained, and supplied by the military services. Almost all resources come through the military services as well.[3] And while the CINCs do not own the forces they use to conduct operations (these forces are assigned to them by the Secretary of Defense for specific missions), the CINCs have a loud voice in setting the requirements that shape them. In fact, the entire military model for the structuring and equipping of forces is driven by the requirements set by doctrine and warfighting demands. This model could provide a framework for solving some of the most pressing problems of organization and resource allocation for homeland defense. The framework could include: The creation of a Homeland Defense Agency (HDA) with a headquarters staff similar to that of a regional CINC. The identification of government agencies that could be permanently moved under the HDA without adversely affecting their home agency. The identification of government agencies that could not be permanently moved under the HDA without adversely affecting their home agency, and the establishment of habitual, plan-driven relationships with them to address specific homeland defense missions. The placement of the resource allocation decision authority for homeland defense issues that span more than one department or agency with the Vice President. The elevation of the position of National Coordinator for Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Counterterrorism to Assistant to the President, and the dual placement of this position under both the Vice President and National Security Advisor. The stipulation of specific engagement considerations. The exact structure and missions of the Homeland Defense Agency would depend on the outcome of the debates on the larger issues concerning the role of government in society. The goal here is simply to recommend a framework, highlight important considerations, and stimulate discussion. Background It is useful to note that homeland defense has multiple meanings. In the
Re: [CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense
-Caveat Lector- Reviewed 15 August 2001 this is at the bottom of the page...the plan was drafted and reviewed on Aug. 15 and implemented about a month later...h http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Kelly.htm __ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Safe Passage to Healing - A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
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[CTRL] Victor Ostrovsky: Experiences with Mossad
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], NY Transfer News [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Ostrovsky on Experiences with the Mossad source - Bill Koehnlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] When Israels Mossad set out to break me, it found its helpers here at home by Victor Ostrovsky [Victor Ostrovsky published two books on his experiences as a former Intelligence agent working for the State of Israel: By Way of Deception and The Other side of Deception. In these he recorded his personal observations made within Israel's external security service, The Mossad. He wrote an article on what subsequently happened to him for the authoritative journal, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (October/November 1997, pp 37, 84-85). Here we reproduce the article.] We will get to him by other means, we will break him economically, stated the chief of the Mossad, Israel's CIA, to a Knesset committee after the failure of the government of Israel's attempt to ban publication of my first book, By Way of Deception, in the U.S. and Canada. This statement made on camera was purposely leaked to an Israeli reporter and printed in the weekend edition of Ma'ariv, Israel's leading daily newspaper, with the military censor's approval. Since that day, Israel's foreign intelligence agency has waged a war of attrition against me with the enthusiastic cooperation of its cabal of North American Zionist organizations. For years as a Canadian-born, Israel-raised former Mossad caseworker I was unwilling to accept the possibility of a wide conspiracy against me. After all, my book had finally been published. What more harm could I do to the country I had left in disgust to return to the land of my birth. Only hitting rock bottom has finally jolted me out of this state of innocence - and optimism that a change of luck is just around the corner. I'm now convinced that I am the target of a broad collusion between elements of the Israel government and their gofers, mostly in the American Jewish community. Following publication of my By Way of Deception I wrote a spy novel, Lion of Judah, using the spycraft I'd learned with the Mossad as background. The book described a fictional Mossad operation aimed at thwarting a secret peace process underway in the Middle East. (The book was written and published before the real-life, year-long secret negotiations that led to the Oslo accord came to light.) In the book I revealed considerably more about Mossad techniques than I had in By Way of Deception. But, despite the wide publicity garnered by my first book due to the Israeli government's unsuccessful effort to suppress it, my second book was ignored. Radio and television interviews that were scheduled by my publisher were canceled almost as soon as they were booked. A speaker's bureau in Toronto, which seldom had trouble arranging speaking engagements with student and other groups eager to have me as a speaker, found that the engagements were cancelled before I could appear. In fact, the cancellations occurred each time a loal B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chapter got wind of them, and they always did. But, of course, the less I spoke, the more time I had to write. In 1995, when my third book, The Other Side of Deception, another work of non-fiction, was published, the efforts against me were stepped up. So, on Oct. 21, 1995, I was surprised to be invited by Canadian Television (CTV) producer Ron Fine to do a guest appearance on Canada AM, the widely viewed Canadian version of Good Morning America. Scheduled to appear on the same program, via satellite from Israel, was Israeli journalist Yosef Lapid, the former head of Israeli television. An Appeal To Murder Lapid had earned his 14 minutes of North American media fame by appealing openly on the Israeli television show Popolitica for the Mossad to seek me out in Canada and kill me for writing my books. He had followed this with an article making the same appeal in the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv headlined By Virtue of Murder. On cue, Lapid repeated, as I listened, his call for my assassination on the Canadian television show, but this time with a twist. He said that, since Israel's Mossad could not kill me in Canada without causing a diplomatic incident, I hope that there would be a decent Jew in Canada who would do the job for us. My reaction was horror mixed with relief. Now it was going to be hard for media gatekeepers to pretend that there were not ugly Israelis every bit as vicious and fanatical as the Iranian ayatollah who had called for the assassination in Britain by a British Muslim of author Salman Rushdie. Along with the producers of the show, a large percentage of the Canadian public had just seen for themselves a former Israeli government official calling upon Canadian Jews to murder me on Canadian soil for the books I had written. But, to my astonishment, there seemed no inclination by the Canadian media to follow up
[CTRL] Ashcroft: Groups Could be Monitored
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011202/us/attacks_investigation_41.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Ashcroft: Groups Could be Monitored By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) warned Sunday that religious or political groups normally free from government intrusion could be monitored by agents if they are suspected of engaging in terrorism. ``People who hijack a religion and make out of it an implement of war will not be free from our interest,'' he declared as officials took to the Sunday news shows to debate America's new anti-terrorism police powers. The Senate's top Democrat said he might support the narrow use of one of the most controversial tactics - secret military tribunals to try terrorists. ``Under certain circumstances, very, very restricted circumstances, depending on how it's handled, I'm willing to look at it,'' Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said. ``With regard to the situation in Afghanistan (news - web sites) in particular, trying a Taliban or terrorist or ... people involved in terrorist activity, clearly there's at least the possibility that something like that might have merit,'' Daschle said on NBC's ``Meet the Press.'' The debate offered a preview of a Senate hearing this week at which Ashcroft will address criticisms of both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans concerned the new tactics will erode civil liberties. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that investigators have gathered evidence showing similarities among the last three terrorist attacks against Americans by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s supporters. Those attacks include the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole (news - web sites) in Yemen and the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the similarities included the way the attacks were planned, communicated and carried out, and the way the attackers were trained. The officials declined to be more specific. ``There are certainly similarities among the three, some of which have emerged more clearly in the last few weeks,'' one official said. The investigators said they also are examining whether some of the same people were involved in planning and assisting the three attacks. One official said authorities are waiting for more information from authorities in Yemen and other countries about certain suspects. On the news shows, Ashcroft previewed his appearance Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), where he will confront criticism about some of his department's hardest line tactics. ``We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people,'' Ashcroft said on ABC's ``This Week'' when asked whether restrictions designed in the 1970s to protect religious and political groups from government monitoring were being eased. ``If a religion is hijacked and used as a cover for killing thousands of Americans, we're interested in that,'' he said. He added, ``We will respect the rights of political freedom and religious freedom, and we are deeply committed to that. But for so-called terrorists to gather over themselves some robe of clericism ... and claim immunity from being observed, people who hijack a religion and make out of it an implement of war will not be free from our interest.'' Ashcroft told ``Fox News Sunday'' that military tribunals would be limited to non-U.S. citizens and ``not just normal criminal activity, but war crimes.'' He refused to rule out military tribunals for any foreigners detained on U.S. soil. ``Can you imagine apprehending a terrorist, either in the deserts of Afghanistan or on the way to the United States to commit a crime, and having to take them through the traditional justice system?'' Ashcroft asked. ``Reading them the Miranda Rights? Hiring a flamboyant lawyer at public expense? Having sort of Osama television ... allowing that kind of propaganda to go out, jeopardizing American assets in the intelligence community and in the war? Putting a courthouse and a community as a target for terrorism?'' Rep. Bob Barr (news - bio - voting record), R-Ga., a conservative former federal prosecutor, said he opposed tribunals for any suspect detained on U.S. soil. ``I'm not worried about tribunals, for example, overseas, but domestically we have to abide by the Bill of Rights,'' he told ABC. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news - bio - voting record), D-Conn., the former vice presidential candidate, said he supported using tribunals for terrorists who engaged in acts of war but opposed them if used against people legally in the United States. In other developments: -Ashcroft said there continues to be no evidence the deadly anthrax mailed in four recent letters was the work of foreign terrorists or a foreign
Re: [CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense
- Original Message - From: eric stewart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense -Caveat Lector-"Reviewed 15 August 2001"this is at the bottom of the page...the plan wasdrafted and reviewed on Aug. 15 and implemented abouta month later...hhttp://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Kelly.htm__Do You Yahoo!?Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping.http://shopping.yahoo.comA HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/ADECLARATION DISCLAIMER==CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandicscreeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These aresordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups withmajor and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, andalways suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives nocredence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Archives Available at:http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.htmlA HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Ahttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/ATo subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Om
[CTRL] 25 Israelis killed by suicide attacks
-Caveat Lector- http://msnbc.com/news/468764.asp WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 25 Israelis killed by suicide attacks Israeli medics remove a body from the site of a bus suicide attack in the coastal city of Haifa on Sunday. MSNBCâs Gregg Jarrett reports from Tel Aviv and talks with MSNBCâs Alex Witt about an explosion that rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Jerusalem. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Dec. 2 â Israelâs troops surrounded cities in the West Bank Sunday and shot dead four armed Palestinians outside Jenin. The military took action after suicide bomb attacks in two Israeli cities killed at least 25 people and left more than 200 injured. The blasts â one on a crowded bus in Haifa and two more in a Jerusalem shopping mall â brought a furious reaction from the government of Israelâs Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who on Sunday met with President Bush in Washington. December 1 â Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks via phone with MSNBCâs Alex Witt about his reaction to reports of the suicide bombing attacks and car blast in a busy pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. ISRAEL IMMEDIATELY blamed the bombings on Yasser Arafatâs Palestinian Authority, which controls areas that have been used by militants to mount such attacks on Israeli civilians in the past. The militant Islamic group Hamas, which opposes Israelâs existence, claimed responsibility for the attacks in both cities to avenge Israelâs killing of one of its top military leaders in November. The Israeli military statement said Israelâs decision to encircle Palestinian cities was a direct result of inaction by Arafatâs own security forces. âThis action is carried out because of the numerous warnings of future attacks and the lack of any actual Palestinian action to prevent the exit of terrorists from their territories or the stopping of terrorist attacks,â the statement said. Israel surrounded Jenin and two other West Bank cities on Saturday, citing warnings that Palestinian militants were planning new attacks on Israelis in a 14-month-old Palestinian uprising against occupation. The army encircled additional cities in the West Bank on Sunday after the attacks. In an exchange of fire south of the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, Israeli paratroopers shot dead four armed Palestinians, an army spokesman said. âThere was an exchange of fire and they were killed,â he said. Palestinian officials could not immediately comment on the circumstances of the menâs death. âONE OF THE WORSTâ Israeli officials said all three of the blasts were believed to be the work of suicide bombers. Witnesses said the Haifa blast, which occurred at 12:12 p.m. local time (5:12 a.m. ET), was so intense it damaged a second bus nearby as well. Haim Erovsky, a witness, told Israel Radio, âOne bus is totally burned out, charred.â He said it was at a busy intersection and that the second damaged bus belonged to the Israeli military. Only 12 hours earlier, two more suicide attacks tore through an outdoor Jerusalem pedestrian mall packed with young shoppers. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres described the attack as âone of the worst we have ever seen.â NBCâs Keith Miller in Jerusalem reported that most of the dead appeared to be teen-agers. Eli Shetreet, who witnessed the Jerusalem blasts, said he saw bodies being hurled in the air. âA lot of people were crying, falling and there was the smell of burning hair,â said Shetreet, 19. Images of the carnage â blanket-covered bodies lying on sidewalks, blood-smeared survivors crying out in agony â filled TV screens without letup, and there was a growing sense that 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting had reached a crossroads. âIt must be understood that we are at a turning point,â said Cabinet Minister Matan Vilnai, without saying how Israel would retaliate. In a first step, the Israeli military further tightened travel restrictions, barring Palestinians from driving on most West Bank roads. PALESTINIANS ORDER CRACKDOWN With Israeli troops poised to re-enter Palestinian-held territory, the Palestinian leadership gave its security forces new powers to rein in militants on Sunday. âThe Palestinian leadership has decided to declare a state of emergency throughout the Palestinian territory,â the statement said. Security forces were ordered to detain âthe planners and executors of these attacks so that they could face justice.â Arafat also called an emergency meeting of the Palestinian leadership following the deadly bombings. An aide to the Palestinian leader said they were about to make âa very serious and urgent decisionâ but he gave no details. A senior Palestinian security source said 50 militants had been arrested in the West Bank and
[CTRL] MILITANT LEADERS CELEBRATE BLASTS
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypost.com/apstories/V1472.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! MILITANT LEADERS CELEBRATE BLASTS By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writer -- -- BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) . Palestinians in refugee camps across Lebanon fired rifles into the air Sunday to celebrate a series of anti-Israeli suicide attacks that killed more than two dozen people. After news emerged of the bombings in Jerusalem and the northern Israeli city of Haifa, refugees in at least six camps in Lebanon celebrated in the streets, Lebanese security officials said on condition of anonymity. ``These great achievements restore the spirit of victory and jihad to the people and the nation,'' said Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, leader of the Syrian-based Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. Another extremist group, Hamas, claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks. The suicide bombings . one Sunday against a Haifa bus and another Saturday night in a Jerusalem pedestrian mall . killed 25 people, along with an Israeli slain in a gun attack on cars in the Gaza Strip. The refugee camps in Lebanon, like others in Syria and Jordan, are populated by Palestinians who lost their homes in Israel during the 1948 war and their descendants. The attacks, which also injured nearly 200 people, came as a U.S. envoy was in the region trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian truce after more than 14 months of fighting. ``The Americans have come to the region with one goal . an Israeli goal . to liquidate the intefadeh (uprising) and resistance,'' Shallah said in comments to Lebanon Hezbollah's al-Manar Television. Shallah said the series of attacks was motivated by Israeli killings of militant Palestinian leaders, in particular the Nov. 23 slaying of a top Hamas militant in the West Bank, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud. ``The death of a commander will lead to the emergence of tens of commanders who will horrify the enemy and make them feel the pain like last night and today,'' he said. Egypt and Jordan called for and end to Israeli-Palestinian violence. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that his country deplores all violence against innocent people and that ``there is no alternative but to return to negotiations and dialogue.'' Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Ilah Khatib expressed his country's deep concern about the bombings, calling them ``another episode in the vicious circle of the Palestinian-Israeli violence.'' The latest casualties should ``persuade everybody that the bloody confrontations will not lead to any benefit for any party,'' Khatib said in a statement carried by the official Petra news agency. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Britain asked to prepare strikes against terror bases in Somalia
-Caveat Lector- http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$SOPKX2QAAJJF3QFIQMGSFFO AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/12/02/war02.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/02/ixhome.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Britain asked to prepare strikes against terror bases in Somalia By Robert Fox and Jessica Berry (Filed: 02/12/2001) BRITAIN has been asked by America to help prepare military strikes against Somalia in the next phase of the global campaign against Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda network. US Marines prepare a mortar position on their frontline in southern Afghanistan President Bush indicated last week that Somalia, Yemen and Sudan were likely to be the next targets in the war on terrorism because of their links to al-Qa'eda. A team of senior British military officers who visited US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, last week was asked to prepare the strategy for attacks on sites in Somalia. They have returned to London to discuss the plan with MoD ministers. The request was made as it emerged that Saddam Hussein is funding a number of terrorist training camps in Somalia used by a militant Islamic group with close ties to al-Qa'eda. According to Iraqi dissident groups based in London, Saddam has agreed to provide funding, training and equipment to the Somali Islamic group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya in return for assistance from the Somali authorities in avoiding United Nations sanctions. Mr Bush placed al-Itihaad on his list of outlawed terrorist groups after the September 11 incident. Bin Laden's network is known to have several training camps in southern Somalia and it has been rumoured that he would seek sanctuary in Somalia if forced to flee Afghanistan. Western intelligence agencies have said that members of al-Itihaad have been trained at al-Qa'eda camps and are suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Pentagon officials have confirmed that American naval ships have been stationed just off the Somali coast to prevent bin Laden from trying to enter by sea. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Secret US plan for Iraq war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.observer.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0-610461,00.ht ml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Secret US plan for Iraq war Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam War on Terrorism: Observer special Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver Sunday December 2, 2001 The Observer America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt. President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that could begin within months. The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising. One version of the plan would have US forces fighting on the ground. Despite US suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 11 September attacks, the trigger for any attack, sources say, would be the anticipated refusal of Iraq to resubmit to inspections for weapons of mass destruction under the United Nations sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. According to the sources, the planning is being undertaken under the auspices of a the US Central Command at McDill air force base in Tampa, Florida, commanded by General Tommy Franks, who is leading the war against Afghanistan. Another key player is understood to be former CIA director James Woolsey. Sources say Woolsey was sent to London by the hawkish Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, soon after 11 September to ask Iraqi opposition groups if they would participate in an uprising if there was US military support. The New York Times yesterday quoted a senior administration official who admitted that Bush's aides were looking at options that involved strengthening groups that opposed Saddam. Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, said that action against Iraq was not imminent, but would come at a 'place and time of our choosing'. Washington has been told by its allies that evidence it has presented of an Iraqi link to 11 September is at best circumstantial. However, US proponents of extending the war believe they can make the case for hitting Saddam's regime over its plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. A European diplomat said last week: 'In the past week the Americans have shut up about Iraqi links to 11 September and have been talking a lot more about their weapons programme.' The US is believed to be planning to exploit existing UN resolutions on Iraqi weapons programmes to set the action off. Under the pre-existing 'red lines' for military action against Iraq - set down by Washington and London after the Gulf War - evidence of any credible threat from weapons of mass destruction would be regarded as sufficient to launch military strikes along the lines of Operation Desert Fox in 1998, when allied planes made large-scale strikes against suspected Iraqi weapons complexes. Opposition by Blair and French President Jacques Chirac may not be enough to dissuade the Americans. One European military source who recently returned from General Franks's headquarters in Florida said: 'The Americans are walking on water. They think they can do anything at the moment and there is bloody nothing Tony [Blair] can do about it.' Bush is said to have issued instructions about the proposals, which are now at a detailed stage, to his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, three weeks ago. But Pentagon sources say that a plan for attacking Iraq was developed by the time Bush's order was sent to the Pentagon, drawn up by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the joint chiefs General Richard Myers, and Franks. The plan is to work with a combination of three political forces: Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq, radical Sunni Muslim groups in and around Baghdad, and, most controversially, the Shia opposition in the south. The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say. 'Significant numbers' of ground troops could also be called on in the early stages of any rebellion to guard oil fields around the Shia port of Basra in southern Iraq. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION
[CTRL] Nurse claims she was fired for talking with FBI
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/30/inv.nurse.fired.suit/index.html Only in America! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Nurse claims she was fired for talking with FBI FBI: Nurse had tip on September 11 attacks November 30, 2001 Posted: 8:42 PM EST (0142 GMT) Eileen Luongo says she was fired for speaking with the FBI. -- -- -- -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- A nurse who says a hospital fired her after she spoke with the FBI about people allegedly involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks has filed suit against the facility. Eileen Luongo is seeking back pay, compensatory damages, attorneys fees and a return to her job in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Broward County Circuit Court against Fort Lauderdale Hospital. She claims her rights were violated under Florida's whistleblower act. I'm angry that a person who would try to help out in a situation like that could lose their job, she said. The hospital, which was under investigation by the FBI for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, objected to her talking to the FBI agents in the facility, she said. Luongo, an admissions nurse at the hospital, said she recognized four of the suspected September 11 hijackers when their photos were published in a local newspaper in October. Among those she recognized, she said, were Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehi, suspected to be the pilots of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. She said she called the FBI, and agents agreed to meet her at the hospital. Hospital officials objected to the FBI being inside the facility and asked the two investigators to leave, Luongo said. She finished talking with them outside. When she returned to work her supervisor, Susan DelValle, told her, Turn in your badge and your keys. You're fired, Luongo alleges. And I said, 'Am I fired because I talked to the FBI?' and she said, 'Yes,' Luongo said, adding that she was later told that it was inappropriate to bring the agents into the hospital. Luongo said the terrorist suspects had visited SeaWinds Healthcare services, a chemical dependency program in Miami Shores, where she had worked over the summer, and which has since shut down. They walked into the clinic one day to use a computer, she said, and she helped them compose a letter. She said Atta appeared to be the leader. Once the letter was finished he held it up and smiled, and they all left. The clinic's owner, Mohammed Ibrahim, an Egyptian, was deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in June. FBI spokesman Judy Orihuela in Miami said Luongo's information provided credible leads we needed to follow up on. After she was fired, Luongo said, she asked the FBI to intervene. FBI agents assured the hospital's administrator that Luongo was cooperating in the September 11 investigation and not in the FBI's fraud investigation of the facility, but to no avail, the FBI said. Robert Casey, assistant special agent in charge of the Miami FBI Field Division, told CNN that he would hope that employers would understand the need for cooperation in such a mammoth terror investigation. He said the information Luongo provided is still being followed up on, and was critical to our investigation. Luongo said she would do it all over again. I didn't know if there was more danger ... who those people were linked with down here. I thought anything could happen any day. It could be my life, my grandchildren's life ... anyone's, she said. I thought it was urgent. I thought it was life-threatening. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] SAS to assault Bin Laden cave
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9002-2001554920,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! SUNDAY DECEMBER 02 2001 SAS to assault Bin Laden cave JAMES CLARK, DAVID CRACKNELL AND MATTHEW CAMPBELL BRITAIN'S SAS is poised to lead an attack on the underground fortress in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden is thought to be preparing for a last stand. The 60-strong SAS Sabre squadron that captured a cave complex near the southern city of Kandahar last month has been told to prepare for the even tougher mission of hunting down Bin Laden in his Tora Bora stronghold. A senior British defence source said yesterday that the SAS soldiers had honed and developed unique skills and experience during the raid, in which 18 Afghans were killed and four Britons injured. The British troops are planning a joint attack with American special forces on Tora Bora, where Bin Laden is reported to be surrounded by hundreds of followers ready to fight to the death. It will be in partnership with the Americans, who have some very good people, but what we learnt in the other cave was crucial, the British source said. The most seriously injured SAS soldier was hit in the leg and abdomen by enemy fire. A 26-year-old married man, he recovered consciousness last Wednesday and is expected to survive, but may lose a leg. SAS commanders in Afghanistan and Britain are briefing American Delta Force officers on the lessons of the earlier raid in preparation for an assault on Tora Bora, which is likely to follow an exhaustive intelligence effort. Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the foreign minister of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, said last night he believed Bin Laden was still hiding in the south of the country, where coalition intelligence agencies thought they had him cornered two weeks ago. However, senior figures on both sides of the Atlantic indicated they were confident Bin Laden had since reached Tora Bora. Planning for an attack intensified as it emerged that Britain is to double the strength of its special forces, partly to cope with an expansion of the war on terrorism in other countries next year. Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, will say in a speech on Wednesday that a review of UK armed forces following the September 11 terrorist attacks on America had shown the need for an urgent reorganisation. Although the SAS and the Special Boat Squadron (SBS) will remain virtually unchanged for fear that their expertise would be diluted if they were enlarged, a new tier of special forces will be formed as part of a £100m initiative. The defence review has concluded that the Parachute Regiment and Royal Marines have been overstretched by events. Hoon wants entire regiments retrained to similar standards, creating more elite infantry to fulfil difficult roles abroad. They could be asked to assist states such as Yemen, whose government has been unable to prevent terrorists from controlling large areas of the country. Under the plans Britain's 2,000-strong rapid-reaction force, dominated by marines and paratroopers, would be bolstered by about 1,800 more elite infantry. Candidates for retraining and re-equipping include the Hampshire-based Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets. The review will also see an important change in the ethos of the Territorial Army (TA). Since 1996 it has been sent to serve abroad as much as possible. Hoon will say this week that it should make homeland defence its priority. The 1997 strategic defence review suggested that the UK did not face the possibility of attacks from the air, a perception transformed by the events of September 11. The reorganisation to meet new threats will represent a victory for the Ministry of Defence over the Treasury. In recent weeks Gordon Brown, the chancellor, has resisted Hoon's calls for extra money to fund the expansion of special forces. But, after consulting senior military advisers, Tony Blair, the prime minister, has ruled that the expansion should go ahead. He believes the war against international terrorism has demonstrated the need for more flexible fighting forces. Blair has also written to security and intelligence chiefs, praising them for their work during the conflict. He has told the heads of MI5, MI6, the joint intelligence committee and GCHQ, the communications centre, that the government and British people are fortunate to be served by security and intelligence organisations whose professionalism is admired by our enemies and feared throughout the world. Brown, however, is annoyed by a section of the defence review that says MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, as well as military intelligence, will need far more money in next summer's spending round to protect the UK against terror threats. The review concludes that if the regular army is tied up on home defence, and intelligence services are so overworked preventing attacks here that they cannot
[CTRL] Eighty Taliban prisoners in mass suicide
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/02/wkand10 2.xmlsSheet=/portal/2001/12/02/ixport.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Eighty Taliban prisoners in mass suicide By Damien McElroy (Filed: 02/12/2001) EIGHTY Taliban prisoners of war have apparently blown themselves up rather than surrender to the Northern Alliance. The troops, captured after the fall of the northern city of Kunduz, had been herded into a makeshift jail - a freight container - by soldiers loyal to the Afghan warlord Gen Rashid Dostum, whose fighters were involved in last week's slaughter of more than 600 prisoners of war in the uprising at the Qali-i-Jhangi fortress. Yesterday, 80 survivors of the massacre emerged from the basement of the ruined fortress. They had hidden without food for days in the hope of escaping the Northern Alliance. Gen Dostum was in the process of bringing two Taliban leaders from Kunduz - Mullah Faizal and Mullah Dadullah - to persuade the prisoners to accept their defeat, when the men apparently took a decision to commit suicide en masse by setting off at least one grenade. There was a loud rumble from inside one of the containers, said Abdullah Ismail, one of Gen Dostum's commanders. We opened it up to find that one or more of the Taliban had triggered an explosion inside. It was a mess. There were about 80 in there. There was stinking smoke and the walls were smeared with flesh. The incident in Sherberghan, near Mazar-i-Sharif, will raise new concerns over the treatment of prisoners by the Northern Alliance. Gen Dostum's troops are holding a further 6,000 former Taliban fighters. The suicides, which took place on Friday afternoon, have stalled efforts to get prisoners to hand over arms and ammunition. Northern Alliance guards have been ordered to stop body searches of the captured troops, mainly Uzbeks and Pakistanis. We will not start to examine them until the Taliban mullahs address them, said Commander Ismail. Yesterday, Gen Dostum's lieutenants nervously patrolled the huge encampment of prisoners. There are fears of a revolt that might lead to an even greater slaughter than that at the Qali-i-Jhangi prison fortress. The three-day uprising there, apparently sparked by the belief that prisoners were to be executed, led to the death of a CIA officer and to US planes bombing the prisoners. Mindful of the fate of their colleague Johnny Mike Stunn, a CIA specialist in paramilitary activities, Americans waiting to question the prisoners at Sherberghan are keeping away, at least until the Northern Alliance confirm that they have been searched. Yesterday, at a guesthouse in the grounds of a grand villa a few miles away, six American special operations personnel were waiting for word that they can begin interrogations. The six, who would not give their names but were happy to show photos of their children back home, were given a tour of the compound on Thursday evening by Gen Dostum, a man whose easy-going manner belies his reputation as having the bloodiest hands in Afghanistan. When Gen Dostum controlled Mazar in the mid-1990s, he disliked visiting the city and instead spent his time at his walled-in villa in Sherberghan, with its crystal chandeliers and swimming pool, receiving envoys such as Bill Richardson, the former US ambassador to the United Nations. A visitor last week said that the compound now resembled a vandalised version of a Miami drug dealer's mansion. The Taliban had even chipped the heads of animals in the mosaics that cover the walls in its grandest rooms. During his heyday, a 2,000-strong militia was based at the nearby fort on the outskirts of the dusty city to protect their leader and enforce his commands across the region disparagingly nicknamed Dostumia, seized by the general after he turned on former comrades in the pro-communist regime of President Najibullah. The Dostum army last week returned to Sherberghan to corral the prisoners from Kunduz. After the fall of the last Taliban stronghold in the north, the regime's fighters were packed into steel shipping containers and put on open lorries. The lorries were interspersed with the general's personal Washington-procured cavalry: armoured personnel carriers and 4x4 off-roaders with satellite telephone links. Gen Atta Mohammed, a Tajik whose forces entered Mazar with Gen Dostum, told The Sunday Telegraph last week that foreign prisoners would be handed over to the United Nations. He said: We have taken all the prisoners to Sherberghan where they will be quite safe. We have decided to forgive some of them, especially the Afghans. The decision over what to do with the foreign ones we will leave with the UN. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
[CTRL] US seeks tribal help to hunt out Osama
-Caveat Lector- http://www.indian-express.com/ie20011202/int4.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! US seeks tribal help to hunt out Osama JALALABAD: The US has enlisted tribal warriors in its hunt for Osama bin Laden in the inaccessible network of caves cut into a rugged mountain south of here. The self-appointed government has agreed to help the US flush hundreds of suspected terrorists and hard-line Taliban forces out of a honeycomb of caves and tunnels around the village of Tora Bora, commander Haji Mohammed Zaman said. Developed by mujahedeen fighters with the CIAâs support, Tora Bora served as an underground hide-out and headquarters during the war against the former Soviet Union in the 1980s. Having seized control two weeks ago, officials claimed that bin Laden is hidden with as many as 2,000 foreign fighters and terrorists in Tora Bora. Zaman said, last week, that he was ready to surround Tora Bora and cut off its supply lines â but not without money and arms from Western allies. Zaman refused to elaborate the action the two governments might consider and what contribution each would make. ââWeâve asked for a variety of opposition leaders to help us find al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders wherever they may be in Afghanistan,ââ Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, spokesman for the US Central Command, said. Tora Bora is an attractive hide-out: remote, relatively close to an isolated stretch of the Pakistani border and a nearly untouchable target. The caves can only be reached by walking three hours from the nearest village. Thick canopies of trees camouflage the headquarters from the sky, and nobody can approach on the ground without being spotted. Some of Zamanâs 6,000 fighters know the terrain intimately, having helped build the complex two decades ago. The commander has insisted he needs no men, only money and weapons. Bin Ladenâs ties to this mountain city are strong. When the government of Sudan asked him to leave that country in 1996, he flew to Jalalabad. He built a home on the hilly outskirts of town, brought in a wife and children and erected terrorist training camps. â *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 'Patriot Act' or privacy slap? Part 1
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25499 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 'Patriot Act' or privacy slap? Metcalf interviews professor on government use of surveillance -- -- Editor's Note: The latest round of anti-terrorism legislation wasn't the first time the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI misled Congress to obtain new tools to perform surveillance on ordinary Americans, says economist Charlotte Twight, a contributing editor of the Independent Review and professor at Boise State University. Although represented prior to passage as an innocuous measure intended only to maintain existing government authority, writes Dr. Twight, [the 1994 federal Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)] immediately became a springboard in the government's quest for increased surveillance power. WorldNetDaily writer and talk-show host Geoff Metcalf interviewed Twight about government abuse of power, particularly as it relates the new Patriot Act, recently signed into law by the president. Metcalf's daily streaming radio show can be heard on TalkNetDaily weekdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time. By Geoff Metcalf © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Q: I continue to hear from readers and listeners (including some real snotty e-mail) who say, Hey, if you don't have anything to hide, what do you care if the government is looking into your stuff? A: Oh, I know a lot of people have that belief. My answer to it is, first of all, we can't be sure if we have anything to hide, because nowadays there are so many vague and conflicting laws and so many laws and regulations that an ordinary person can't know if he or she is in compliance with all those things. Q: Ayn Rand had it right: They'll eventually make everything illegal, and then they can just cherry pick who they want to go after. A: Right. And also, from my point of view, the logical implication of that â the argument that I have nothing to hide â is that if you have nothing to hide, then it would be perfectly OK for the government to have a surveillance camera in your home. And I don't think that's the kind of country I grew up in or the type of country that most Americans want to live in and have lived in historically. Also, there is the danger of abuse of power that we always have to be concerned about. Q: Some folks come back and say, Yeah, but it's been sunsetted! So that at the conclusion of the Bush administration it has to be revisited. But hey, come on ⦠we know the way these things happen. At the eleventh hour, late night in Congress: All in favor, opposed, so voted, and you've got these draconian powers gifted to arguably another administration like the one we just survived for the last eight years. A: Exactly so. And as you say, some of the provisions in the new, so-called U.S. Patriot Act don't actually expire. They just have to be looked at again. I think there is a good likelihood that they will just continue. Q: This isn't a unique happenstance. I wrote a piece a while back, noting that multiple times in U.S. history â going back to the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, the McCarren Act, the Smith Act â the government has pretty regularly chosen either to undermine or abrogate the First Amendment. Your piece on Privacy and the 1994 federal Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) was fascinating. A: What was very interesting to me about that 1994 law was, again, the rationale was simply to help law enforcement maintain existing powers. The whole idea was simply to sort of bring law enforcement up to the modern technological standard. The FBI made very clear, repeated, but false claims that it did not intend to do certain things with this legislation, that it would not create any new authority, that it would not give them authority to go after cell-phone location information, that it would increase, rather than decrease privacy protection, and almost as soon as ⦠Q: In other words, they lied! A: Exactly. Almost as soon as the ink was dry on that statute, they completely reversed the position they had taken before Congress in their own testimony. Q: Echelon has been around for about 50 years, Carnivore â they can change the name as many times as they want â and now there's a new one. What's the latest one? A: There is one called Digital Storm that they are after. But I read a very charming article a few months ago saying it really seemed like the FBI and the Department of Justice had a tin ear on these things. One commentator suggested that perhaps their program should be called Vegetarian. Q: I don't find this stuff funny. A: I don't either. Q: Obviously, the opportunity for abuse of power is legion. I want to ask you, when the FBI was trying to sell the 1994 CALEA thing, were they intentionally being duplicitous and lying? You try
[CTRL] 'Patriot Act' or privacy slap? Part 2
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Q: I don't feel real warm and fuzzy with the fact that this latest anti-terrorism legislation is supposedly sunsetted. I'm not a betting man, but I would bet it doesn't go away. A: I bet that it won't go away either. Q: Government is not ever in a great big hurry, notwithstanding the fact that the Constitution was designed as a government-limiting tool. It wasn't intended to give us stuff. It was intended to control government. I'm not sure where that concept got lost, but it got lost. Once they have acquired a new power, I can't see a government willingly, anxiously giving it up again. A: I really agree with you about that. And we see it with this 1994 statute, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. They got that through. They keep trying to expand it, and then we see it flowering anew with even broader powers through the U.S. Patriot Act. Q: In that 1994 legislation, CALEA, the way that was sold, it was sold to Congress and to the American people. It was going to improve privacy protection. A: Yes. Q: Now even people that don't understand this stuff empirically will say that's good. I want my privacy protected. But it did just the opposite of that. At what point is anyone, the FBI or Congress, to be held accountable for that fraud? A: I think they should be held accountable immediately. But within the way the system is structured. But ordinary Americans are just thinking about their business and taking care of their families, and they trust their elected officials, or at least some of them. Ordinary people don't have time to investigate these things. Then you have the reality that elected officials are sometimes trying to hide what is being done, or heads of agencies are trying to misrepresent what is being done, so it is a very challenging thing. All we can hope for is that ordinary people take it upon themselves to become informed and do some of their own research, like you did in reading NAFTA. Q: I don't think I'd do it again. A: I always tell my students when I'm teaching international economics that if NAFTA were only designed to establish free trade between the countries, it wouldn't have taken thousands of pages to do it. Q: Hey, GATT was probably 10 times bigger. They killed a lot of trees to print that sucker. Actually, Dr. Pat Choate was kind of my mentor throughout the NAFTA/GATT battles. Pat kept telling me all this stuff, and I was in denial. I said, Come on, that just can't be right. Then I took a weekend and plowed through it, and then I had my epiphany. The dispute resolution stuff with executive session committees, real Star Chamber stuff that most Americans to this day don't understand, and arguably don't care about. A: And I'm thinking about that Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, and also especially the new Patriot Act. You've seen all the provisions where you can't even understand what they are doing from the actual language. It is referring to some other section, a completely different statute, and they are just saying change this and insert the words ⦠Q: I hate that! That should be illegal for them to do that. You read something, and they say change the 'therefore' to a 'whereas' in subparagraph (d), page 832, and they don't show you what they are changing. A: Yes, and so they aren't even straightforward enough with us to list out what the new wording will be and what the implications of that will be. Instead, you have to do weeks of research to figure out what is actually coming down. Q: In the long piece you wrote on CALEA, once that filters down to the states and counties and municipalities, who holds their hands to walk them through the revisions? A: I don't know the answer to that in detail. Q: Do they just get a memo from the FBI saying this is a policy directive, and you are to do it this way because we tell you to? A: Basically, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act allows the government to require the telecom carriers to install certain equipment that will make surveillance easier. The issue then is what kind of authority the law-enforcement officials have to have to gain access to that, and I don't know the details, but I know there are memos that go from the FBI on down to the local law enforcement. Q: I remember there was some software that the FBI was supposed to install at the ISPs (Internet service providers) and Earthlink for one told them no. A: And the court said that they had to accept it anyway. Q: Wasn't there more to it though? Earthlink didn't object for the altruistic reasons of protection of privacy. They were concerned techno-geek-wise, because the software the FBI had messed up their system somehow. A: Yes, they were worried about that, but it is my understanding that they lost in court. Q: I am sorry to hear that. Buried in the middle of your language, there is one phrase that
[CTRL] Pics suggest deep ocean in Jupiter moon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/virtual/editions/europe/2000/roof/change.pop/frameset.exclu de.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Pics suggest deep ocean in Jupiter moon November 30, 2001 Posted: 12:32 PM EST (1732 GMT) A heavily cratered portion of the surface of Callisto in an image taken by the Galilieo spacecraft. -- -- -- -- PASADENA, California -- New close-up pictures from a deep space probe offer tantalizing evidence that one of Jupiter's largest moons contains a sizable ocean in its interior, scientists said this week. Callisto, the outermost of four large jovian satellites, was rocked in the past by a collision in an area known as the Valhalla basin. Newly released images of the region directly opposite the basin, which Galileo took when it flew by Callisto in May, suggest that an underground ocean cushioned the blow of the impact, NASA planetary geologists said. The opposition point shows no effect from the impact, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement. Other bodies such as the moon and Mercury have similar impact basins. But unlike Callisto, they have grooved and hilly terrain on the other side, attributed to intense seismic shocks from the collisions. Planetary geologists theorize that those bodies do not have underground reservoirs to soften the blow. Galileo snapped the photographs in May when it flew to within 20,000 miles (32,000 km) of Callisto, an icy, rocky moon that is the most heavily cratered in the solar system. The new discovery parallels a 1990s theory that a liquid layer inside Callisto could cushion collisions on the exterior, according to David A. Williams of Arizona State University. But he cautioned that the photos are not proof of an ocean. A lot more evidence needs to be uncovered before we will know for sure whether Callisto has a subsurface ocean, the planetary geologist told the Associated Press. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Daschles lies and his attempt to sabotage the US economy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newaus.com.au/econ302daschle.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Daschleâs lies and his attempt to sabotage the US economy by Gerard Jackson TNA News with Commentary Monday 3 December 2001 Last January I predicted that Daschle and his fellow patriots on the Hill were moving to try and sabotage any economic recovery so that they could blame the continuing recession on President Bushâs economic policies (Democrats move to sabotage US economy). Since then the situation has deteriorated with the Daschle led Democrats shamelessly lying to their constituents and the media about the tax cuts and what really caused the recession. Dick Morris, former adviser to Clinton, has publicly said that the Democrats are working to sabotage economic recovery. In his own words: Sen. Daschle âThe obvious central political fact of the stimulus package debate now gridlocking Congress is that the Republicans want the recession to end and the Democrats have to pretend to want it to endâ (The Hill 29/11). So now we have it: Daschle, Dodd, Lowey, etc., are working to create longer dole queues, more bankruptcies, more poverty and more misery just so they can retake the House in November 2002. Apparently there is no amount of bastardry this lot are not prepared to resort to in order to win. And if that means deepening Americaâs recession â so be it. Daschle revealed his ruthless contempt for Americansâ welfare when he refused to schedule a vote on the energy security bill because it would interfere with his fund-raising tour. Daschle is deeply concerned about the welfare of the unemployed that when Sen. Charles, Grassley, the Finance Committeeâs ranking Republican, offered to extend benefits for workers who had used up the benefits, Daschle and his fellow Democrats rejected the offer. The opportunity to cause more economic misery and then blame it on Bush was just too good a chance to pass up. So not only is Daschle planning more unemployment for Americans he is even fighting against more energy for them. What a sweet guy. With a Goebbelesque flourish in perfect keeping with Daschleâs deceitful strategy DCCC Chairman DCCC Chairman Nita M. Lowey Nita M. Lowey of New York brazenly misdescribed the economic slowdown as the âBush recession.â Clearly. Lowey is as big a liar as Daschle, according to whom the recession is a direct result of his tax cuts. Letâs do this by the numbers so that even callous economic dummies like Daschle and Lowey can understand it. Last October was the 15th consecutive month that manufacturing had contracted. That means for those like Lowey who canât count that manufacturing officially went into recession in September 2000. Now if my memory serves me right, and Iâm sure it does, the priapic Clinton was still president. Our readers will know that I frequently stated early last year that the US economy was going into recession. I emphasised that recession would first emerge in manufacturing and then work its way down through the production structure until it reached the point of consumption, which is exactly what happened. It should be self-evident, therefore, that the recession was well underway during the last three months of the Clinton administration. No matter how dumb Lowey is, and sheâs pretty dumb, she cannot possibly be ignorant of this fact, particularly when we consider that it was discussed at length in every leading paper. And in my book that makes her an unmitigated and callous liar. Which brings me to the lying Daschle. His claim that tax cuts caused the recession are utterly absurd. As I have already pointed out, America went into recession last year under Clinton. Moreover, even though the recession has only been made official from March this year the tax cut bill was only passed in June. Perhaps the brilliant Senator Daschle and the equally brilliant little Miss Lowey could tell us how Juneâs tax bill was able to trigger a recession in March. (It should be noted that even if the March date for the recession was correct it would still mean that recessionary forces must have been operating for sometime beforehand). Blaming the recession and the shrinking surpluses on tax cuts is like blaming the fire brigade for fires. The sequence is so blindingly out of order that even most of media hasnât swallowed the Daschle line, at least not yet. What Daschle has not been called upon to explain is how tax cuts can cause a recession. If he were right about the tax cuts then consumption would have fallen. But consumption continued to rise even as manufacturing contracted, something else I predicted. To my knowledge no economist ever called tax cuts contractionary. On the contrary, they are usually opposed for being too expansionary! According to the Keynesian Paul Samuelson: â...dollars of tax reduction are almost as powerful a weapon against mass unemployment as are increases in dollars
Re: [CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense
The plan most certainly predates August 15th. Legislation to set it up was introduced in the Congress in March of this year. It is based on the recommendations of the "Commission on National Security for the 21st Century." Congress, evidently, will be relying on the recommendations of this commission as the basis for the countrys national security and foreign policy for the next twenty-five years. The commission comprises fourteen members of which eleven are members of the CFR including the two co-chairmen as well as the top executive of the CFR itself. (Doesnt that give you a warm feeling?) The actual legislation is HR 1292 The Homeland Security Strategic Act introduced on March 29, 2001 by Representative Ike Shelton. - Original Message - From: eric stewart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] An Organizational Framework for Homeland Defense -Caveat Lector-"Reviewed 15 August 2001"this is at the bottom of the page...the plan wasdrafted and reviewed on Aug. 15 and implemented abouta month later...hhttp://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Kelly.htm__Do You Yahoo!?Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping.http://shopping.yahoo.comA HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/ADECLARATION DISCLAIMER==CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandicscreeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These aresordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups withmajor and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, andalways suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives nocredence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Archives Available at:http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.htmlA HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Ahttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/ATo subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Om
[CTRL] Marines Land, Seize Desert Strip
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/main5/B31F95D726B4468C85256B150076B B0B?opendocument WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Marines Land, Seize Desert Strip Submitted by: 15th MEU Story Identification Number: 2001121163443 Story by Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly MARINE FORWARD OPERATING BASE, Southern Afghanistan(November 25, 2001) -- The thunderous thumping of Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters ripped through the cold, black desert night signaling the start of Operation Swift Freedom as the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) seized a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan November 25, 2001. Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/1, 15th MEU (SOC) charged down the helicopter ramps through clouds of dust and into the darkness sweeping across vast areas of deep sand, clearing buildings and establishing a secure airstrip for hundreds of follow-on forces who arrived before dawn. The airstrip was setup less than an hour after the first helicopter stirred up the Afghan sand. Lights were added to the runway allowing KC-130 aircraft filled with Alpha Co. Marines and tactical vehicles to land here. Planes and helicopters continued the inflow of troops and gear non-stop through the night and early morning. It was exciting seeing the Marines going into action, Fascetti said. You know there is a possibility that there could be enemy forces out there. The raid force flew several hundred miles directly from the USS Peleliu to the desert strip aboard six Super Stallions. The long flight required tricky nighttime aerial refueling with the KC-130 Hercules aerial refueling and transport aircraft. Hundreds of hours of planning, rehearsals and briefs preceded the mission back aboard the Peleliu in the North Arabian Sea. Terrain models were built. The raid force kept a special sleep schedule to prepare for the all-night mission. Fast attack vehicles, weapons and other gear were painted with desert camouflage patterns. Packs were put on pallets and flown in later to keep the force light on their feet. The new chapter of the international war on terrorism began without contacting enemy forces. Not a single shot was fired during the raid. A base camp was established and security positions were dug as the sun rapidly climbed above the Marines in occupied Afghan territory. One the first platoons on the ground raised an American Flag high into the new dawn sky on a makeshift pole proudly marking the Marines' successful landing. This is for our great country, the United States, and the great city of New York, Staff Sgt. Norris, a platoon sergeant with Charlie Co. and Brooklyn, NY native. Marines take pride in raising the flag, and pride doesn't begin to describe our feelings today. I hope these colors can be seen all the way across Afghanistan. Marines overcame temperatures that dipped below freezing and howling winds kicking up cyclones of sand that engulfed aircraft and blasted marching troops. It's cold, said 1st Sgt. Phil Fascetti, Charlie Co. 1st Sgt and Spokane, Wash. native. You're disoriented by the dust blowing all around you. Marines used ingenuity to combat nature's wrath. They stripped cardboard boxes from numerous pallets being offloaded and erected walls around the combat operations center shielding them from blowing sand and maintaining light discipline. Adrenalin and constant movement kept Marines warm throughout their first sleepless night. 15th MEU (SOC) Dig In Afghanistan Submitted by: 15th MEU Story Identification Number: 2001121163651 Story by Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly MARINE FORWARD OPERATING BASE, Southern Afghanistan -- Within striking distance of the Taliban held city of Kandahar, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) stands ready for follow on missions after seizing a forward operating base here in southern Afghanistan. A large percentage of the 15th MEU (SOC) is working around the clock within the confines of the compound's walls keeping the base secure and building it up for the continuous in-flow of Marines. Infantrymen occupy fighting holes around the entire perimeter. Armored vehicles, heavily armed vehicles and reconnaissance Marines patrol the immense desert outside the boundary. Helicopters and jets keep watch even farther out. We all want to do our part just like every other American said Capt. Eric Putnam, Alpha Co. commander. We are morally right. We are defending our country, and we're going to win. Marines occupy guard towers that were already in place when the compound was seized Nov 25. The elevated observation posts allow the Marines to see nearly 20 miles across the flat terrain. There is ice in our canteens in the morning and the parkas we have practically save our lives, said Sgt. Anthony Anguiano, a squad leader with Alpha Co., Battalion Landing Team 1/1, 15th MEU (SOC) and Houston native. Our focus keeps us awake
[CTRL] Russian admiral, chief of staff sacked after Kursk sinking
-Caveat Lector- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011201/1/1zrqt.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russian admiral, chief of staff sacked after Kursk sinking The commander of the Russian Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, has been fired after making serious mistakes in connection with the sinking of the Kursk submarine 16 months ago, Interfax reported. Popov, along with the head of the joint chiefs of staff of the Northern Fleet, Mikhail Motsak, were relieved of their functions and demoted for serious mistakes in organizing the fleet's manoeuvres, Admiral Vladimir Kuriedov said according to Interfax. But Kuriedov said that there was no direct link between the dismissals and the sinking of the Kursk. Earlier Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Admiral Kuriedov, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, army chief Anatoly Kvashin and chief prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov to discuss the provisional conclusions of the Kursk inquiry. Putin underlined afterwards that it was not possible given the available evidence to establish a direct connection between the actions of those responsible on board the Kursk and the heavy consequences that followed. He added that all the various hypotheses put forward for the disaster were still being examined. The nuclear-powered Kursk sank under still unexplained circumstances in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, killing all 118 men aboard. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Anti-gun Measure Billed as Anti-terror
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/29/185238.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Anti-gun Measure Billed as Anti-terror Kevin Curran, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 30, 2001 Two Republican senators want to close the so-called gun show loophole in federal firearms laws. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, sent a note to fellow GOP senators that they would attach a rider addressing gun shows in the next appropriate bill. Their reasoning for backing the measure: that it will help stop terrorists. Under this proposal, all vendors at gun shows would be required to have a background check before selling a gun. McCain and DeWine are joining two Democrats, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Charles Schumer of New York, as sponsors of the measure. It may seem like a strange position for a politician from a state in which open carrying of handguns is allowed without a permit, but McCain said this was just another move to make life more difficult for potential terrorists. He backs his position with three examples of terrorists who bought firearms at gun shows without background checks. Federal agents witnessed a man in Michigan with ties to Hezbollah buy guns at three shows. Ali Boumelhem has since been convicted of weapons smuggling. A Pakistani being held in the Sept. 11 attacks had been a customer at gun shows for seven years. He has pleaded guilty to immigration and weapons charges. A Florida man with ties to the Irish Republican Army testified to buying thousands of dollars in weapons and ammunition at gun shows to send to Ireland. In an interview on KTAR radio in Phoenix, McCain wondered, If these three have been caught, how many havenât we caught? McCain acknowledged the past difficulties in getting the measure passed, but said he had no doubt as to how people feel about this. He pointed to recent initiatives in Colorado and Oregon that closed the loophole in those states and passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. McCainâs feeling that attitudes have changed since the prior bill doesnât sit well with top officials at the National Rifle Association. Will Box Cutters Be Banned? NRA legislative director James Jay Baker told USA Today on Nov. 28 that none of the terrorism we saw visited on this country on September 11th had anything to do with firearms. McCain admitted that NRA lobbying had stalled this proposal before. He said he could not understand the NRAâs position given the organizationâs stand that existing gun laws need to be enforced. If you want to enforce existing laws, donât you want to close the loopholes? McCain asked. McCain is confident that closing the so-called loophole will not prevent legitimate buyers from obtaining guns. He pointed to General Accounting Office figures showing that 90 percent of background checks take just a few minutes and that 95 percent of them are completed within two hours. Checks that take longer are 20 times more likely to turn up a felon. Asked about the chance of the measure becoming law should it pass Congress, McCain said he had very little doubt that the president would sign the bill. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Leading Taliban officers 'ready to surrender'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$R0UIE4QAAC4FXQFIQ MFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2001/12/03/war03.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/03/ixhome. html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Leading Taliban officers 'ready to surrender' By Alex Spillius in Chaman (Filed: 03/12/2001) MORE than 20 high-ranking Taliban figures led by the justice minister were said to be on the verge of surrender yesterday, as opposition forces closed in on Kandahar, the militia's last urban bastion, in the face of fierce resistance. Moving out: US Marines march to the frontline in southern Afghanistan As American bombers pounded the city, United States commanders said the battle might be reaching culmination point. A senior US marine officer told journalists in southern Afghanistan that he had expected the city to fall last week but the Taliban were still in control. But you have a lot of forces at play. Opposition groups coming from the north down, from the south-east up, and us coming potentially from where we are, said Major James Higgins. Everywhere the Taliban are looking [they are under] a lot of pressure, kind of a snake squeezing in on them, and hopefully we can get them out of there in the near future. The marines acknowledged for the first time yesterday that British, German and Australian military liaison officers were working at the airstrip they seized on Nov 25 to co-ordinate coalition forces. A leading anti-Taliban commander, Abdul Khaliq, said he had received reports that the Kandahar governor, Mullah Mohammed Hassan, had been killed during US bombing on Friday. Hassan was a founder of the radical Afghan movement and a confidant of its leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. His death would be a considerable blow to the militia as it struggles to withstand the continued American aerial bombardment. Afghans arriving in Pakistan from the city said the Taliban had ordered that violators of a night time curfew would be shot on sight. Two suspected spies have already been hanged in public. Other travellers reported dozens of civilian casualties from recent air strikes. Last week Omar suffered the defection of the intelligence minister, who may well soon be followed by a mass desertion. Mr Khaliq said he held secret talks with the justice minister, Nuruddin Turabi, in the Pakistani border town of Chaman late last week. The minister said he was ready to capitulate with about two dozen other ministers, members of the Kandahar ruling council or military commanders, who could bring thousands of troops with them. Omar would then be reduced to a few diehard ministers and commanders, in addition to the 4,000 to 5,000 foreign fighters mostly recruited by Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'eda organisation and now spread across the south of the country. Several thousand Afghan Taliban would also stay loyal and fight to the death. Mr Khaliq, speaking in Quetta, said: There are a lot of Taliban commanders who don't want to fight opposition groups and who don't support Omar's ideas. I have given guarantees of their safety. I met Turabi and he agreed with us that we shouldn't fight. He said he would meet friends who agree with him and try to convince Omar [to surrender]. If Omar refuses to compromise, Mr Khaliq expects a delegation from the justice minister, who is now back in Kandahar, to return to the border within the next few days and finalise the surrender. The tribal leaders still hope that the south, the birthplace of the Taliban, can be won with a combination of military pressure and political persuasion. Like the Taliban, they are Pathans, and have appealed to potential defectors on the basis of ethnic unity. Kandahar is now virtually surrounded. The roads north to the capital Kabul, and the western city of Herat are in opposition hands. The main road south to the frontier with Pakistan has been cut. Tribal leaders are loath to engage in too close combat with the Arab and Chechen fighters. They hope that American bombs and marines will do most of the work for them. According to reports the Americans are still awaiting orders. Their mission will focus as much on hunting bin Laden as attacking Kandahar. The opposition has suffered heavy losses in a battle for Lashkargar, the capital of Helmand province, one of three still mostly controlled by the Taliban, while Arab allies of the militia were said to be putting up stiff resistance at Kandahar airport yesterday. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A
[CTRL] Turn Someone In - Get a Visa!
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent R. Widener III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [In another indication of Law Enforcement's ineffectiveness, The government of Dummy, Rummy Scummy are now offering to help aliens with their residency problems if they turn someone in to the Feds. Wonderful -- that's a GREAT way to get accurate information, Scummy, almost as unreliable as torture! Turn someone in and get a visa! They've coached Ashcroft on how to look more relaxed in a bid to be reassuring, perhaps, and they've taught him how to smile. He's now doing more PR touring around, visiting Muslims for dinner and talking about how it's all designed to protect innocent Americans. He keeps his news fixed smile on his face, like a corpse, and folds his hands together, like an undertaker. He seems to be quivering less these days. Maybe they have him on drugs. Thursday November 29 12:26 PM ET (via Yahoo) U.S. Anti-Terror Bid Dangles Carrot for Foreigners By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday launched a program to lure foreigners into informing on suspected terrorists in exchange for help with visas and citizenship, following the Sept. 11 attacks on America. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who has come under a barrage of criticism by civil rights groups in recent months, announced the Responsible Cooperators Program, promising foreigners that for the right information they would get help with visas and other immigration issues. It is designed to say to people that if you would like to have an improved visa status for your own presence in the United States and a pathway to citizenship, one of the ways you can do that is by providing reliable and useful information about terrorism, said Ashcroft. While it was important for everyone to help save American lives, visitors might have valuable information because of their language skills and things they know from home, Ashcroft told ABC's Good Morning America program. Ashcroft told NBC's Today show, while it was not an amnesty program, people without proper documentation who come forward should not fear for their futures. We will be interested in the information they have and not interrogating them and not about their own status, he said. The United States currently issues a small number of 3-year S visas every year to noncitizens who provide critical and reliable information concerning a terrorist organization. The criteria to qualify for an S visa require the applicant to have placed his or her life in danger as a result of providing that information and to be eligible to receive a government reward. This is useful program but we want to go beyond this, said a Justice Department official. Only 50 S visas are granted each year. RELIEF FOR INFORMATION Ashcroft offered an alternative if a foreigner was not eligible for an S visa but still provided useful information in the fight against terrorism. I am directing the INS, the criminal division and the United States attorneys in appropriate cases to defer action on placing the alien into removal proceedings or to grant parole in the public interest to allow the alien to enter and remain in the United States, his three-page directive said. The United States is seeking to find out who was behind the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed more than 3,900 people. With respect to terrorists who are being sought by the United States or who plan to commit further violent acts against the United States, there may be aliens who have useful and reliable information as to their whereabouts, their organizations and their plans, but who may be reluctant to provide that information to law enforcement officials, Ashcroft said in the directive. The Department of Justice ... has the legal authority to offer incentives to those aliens, whether living in the United States or abroad, to provide reliable and useful information about the terrorists and their plans, he said. He did not detail what information had to be provided. Ashcroft has launched an aggressive arrest and detention program aimed at finding those responsible and preventing another attack from occurring. But he has been criticized by civil rights groups for allowing hundreds of people to be rounded up. Ashcroft announced this week that federal criminal or immigration charges have been brought against more than 650 people since the attacks. U.S. attorneys have also been ordered to question 5,000 foreign men living in the United States to see if they have information about the attacks. The men, who are not suspects, are aged 18 to 33 and entered the country since January 2000. The new program is partially aimed at ensuring many of those 5,000 men -- including those who may be in the country illegally -- take part in the interviews and answer questions. In an interview with CNN, Ashcroft declined to comment on
[CTRL] Fun and Games With Anthrax
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/11/30/231717 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Fun and Games With Anthrax Richard Poe Dec. 1, 2001 What is the purpose of these anthrax attacks? I can't figure it out. As a weapon of mass destruction, anthrax is a dud. The stuff only seems to kill occasional senior citizens by accident. Were the terrorists simply idiots for choosing anthrax? Or does this operation serve some purpose other than killing? I suspect the latter. Anthrax has failed dismally to hurt, kill or even frighten most of its intended victims. But it has proved remarkably effective in poisoning American unity. Consider the sequence of events. After the 9/11 attacks, Americans stood united. The sleeping giant had awakened. Terrorist leaders from Cairo to Baghdad trembled. Then the Middle East propaganda mills started grinding. The Sept. 13 edition of Iran's Tehran Times declared: After the bombing in Oklahoma City, the U.S. officials under the influence of the Zionist lobby immediately pointed their fingers at Muslims and Palestinians. However, later it was revealed that a U.S. citizen Timothy McVeigh was behind the bombing. ... Homegrown extremists must have carried out the Sept. 11 attacks as well, the editorial implied. Throughout the Muslim world, journalists, government officials and terrorist leaders took up the chant. But Americans wouldn't buy it. The role of radical Islam in the 9/11 atrocities seemed too obvious. Then came the anthrax offensive. Suddenly, things got hazy. Harvard University terrorism expert Juliette Kayyem led the way. An Arab-American and former Clinton political appointee, Kayyem told the New York Times on Oct. 15 that right-wing groups in America were likely behind the anthrax attacks. As soon as I heard the word anthrax, that's what I thought of, she told the L.A. Weekly. And what made her jump to that conclusion? Well, it seems that right-wing extremists in America have, on occasion, scared people with fake anthrax hoaxes. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, uses the real stuff. Saddam has the anthrax, noted Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley on Oct. 29. After his defeat in the Gulf War, U.N. inspectors found he'd deployed missiles and artillery shells loaded with anthrax, botulism toxin and nerve gas. ⦠We know that he's capable of milling anthrax to military grade. ... Government leaks have only muddied the waters, following a kind of Newton's Law of action and reaction. For every leak blaming Muslim terrorists, an equal and opposite leak fingers domestic hate groups. For instance, leading U.S. intelligence sources told the London Observer that Iraq was the prime anthrax suspect. Two weeks later, anonymous sources from the security services and Justice Department told the same newspaper that Aryan militants were the likeliest culprits. Such contradictory leaks may signal a dangerous rift in the counterterror community. On Oct. 27, NewsMax.com investigative reporter Carl Limbacher exposed serious mishandling of the anthrax investigation by what he called a Clintonized FBI, obsessed with pinning blame on right-wing extremists. Nothing [about the anthrax attacks] seems to fit with an overseas terrorist-type operation, one senior FBI official assured the Washington Post on Oct. 27. So why was terrorist Mohamed Atta looking at cropdusters in Florida? And why did a newspaper in Pakistan receive an anthrax envelope? The Clintonized FBI may have similarly whitewashed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Former KFOR-TV reporter Jayna Davis told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly in a March 20, 2001, broadcast, that the FBI ignored massive evidence linking Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden's terror network. The alleged OKC whitewash has received extensive coverage on Internet news sites such as WorldNetDaily.com. But mainstream media favor their own conspiracy theories, in which right-wing Americans are the sole villains. On Nov. 16, for instance, CNBC Hardball reporter Dan Abrams proposed that some sort of right-wing group may have sent anthrax to Democratic senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. That's been my theory since the beginning, replied host Chris Matthews, a Democrat. On Tuesday, the U.S. military identified over 40 sites in Afghanistan with possible connections to chemical and biological warfare operations. Stay tuned for a rash of government leaks debunking this claim. I don't want to be a bad sport. Disinformation is inevitable in war. Lies and counter-lies are all part of the game. But I'm getting worried. Eight years of Clinton appointments seem to have packed our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the sort of people who believe the NRA, the Republican Party and the Christian Broadcasting Network constitute greater threats to our nation than Al-Qaeda. We are going to have a very hard time winning this war if we can't agree on who the
[CTRL] Week Ending: 1 December 2001/16 Kislev 5762
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 1 December 2001/16 Kislev 5762 O G-d, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O G-d, do not be still. For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have exalted themselves. They make shrewd plans against Your people, and conspire together against Your treasured ones. They have said, 'Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.' For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever, and let them be humiliated and perish, that they may know that You alone, whose name is the L-rd, are the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 83.1-5, 17-18 This Week's Headlines: :: DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM :: JERUSALEM BOMBINGS FOLLOW EARLIER MURDERS :: IDF REENTERS PALESTINIAN AREAS IN WAKE OF ATTACKS :: ZINNI GETS BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF KILLINGS :: FOR SEVEN DAYS OF QUIET, SHARON WILL REWARD ARAFAT WITH A STATE :: WAQF IS DESTROYING TEMPLE MOUNT WALL :: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS THWARTED :: CHANUKAH SITES :: IRAQ ALSO GETS INVOLVED :: IDF TOO MUCH FOR SYRIA :: DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM: At about 11:30 pm Saturday night, two suicide bombers detonated powerful explosive devices seconds apart on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, near Zion Square. The suicide bombers had laced their bodies with nails and screws in order to inflict as much harm as possible to the many civilians who were dining in the nearby restaurants and coffee shops in Jerusalem's outdoor pedestrian mall. About 15-20 minutes later, a car bomb exploded on Rabbi Kook Street near Jaffe Street, intended to strike persons that fled the earlier attack as well as emergency personnel responding to the scene. As of this report, there are 11 persons dead and 180 wounded, with 17 in serious and very serious condition. Many of the people are in their late teens and 20s. About thirty minutes before the attack, an anonymous telephone call was received by Beit Shemesh police, with the caller telling the dispatcher that a car bomb attack would be taking place in downtown Jerusalem. Units were dispatched and a search conducted but nothing was found. The attack came at a time when the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall was filling with teens, as is the Saturday night custom. The blast location is a well-known Jerusalem spot for the young that take advantage of the many cafes and other eateries, opting to spend their Saturday nights on the Ben-Yehuda Mall. Officially no organization has taken credit for the brutal murders. However, a Hamas radio station in Palestinian Authority [PA/PLO] controlled areas was broadcasting joyous music and congratulating those who carried out the attack, Israel CHANNEL ONE television said. Israeli government officials blamed the PA/PLO and its leader Yasir Arafat. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is in New York City ahead of a planned White House meeting on Monday, was informed of the situation shortly following the attack. PM Sharon has conferred with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Officials have confirmed that the prime minister has requested that US President George W. Bush move up the planned meeting. According to a senior official accompanying PM Sharon, the meeting will take place in Washington at noon on Sunday, after which the prime minister will head home. :: JERUSALEM BOMBINGS FOLLOW EARLIER MURDERS: By Friday, Palestinian terrorists had murdered seven Jews. Two Palestinian terrorists opened fire while running from the Afula Central Bus Station to the nearby open-air market Tuesday morning, killing two Jews and wounding over 30 others. The victims were Michal Mor, 25, a mother of three from Rechasim (southeast of Haifa), and Noam Guzovsky, 23, of the nearby moshav Ramat Tzvi. Security forces gave chase, and a soldier finally shot and killed the terrorists. Islamic Jihad and Fatah [which is led by PLO leader Yasir Arafat] took joint responsibility for the attack, in revenge for Israel's killing of Abu Hanoud last Friday. Abu Hanoud was a leader in the Hamas terrorist organization. Some 20 kilometers [12.5 miles] to the west, police thwarted another serious attack when they caught two Arabs carrying a bag with a bomb and other explosive materials. Police safely detonated the bomb nearby. Later that night, Ettie Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, mother of four, was murdered near Kfar Darom as she was driving home. A terrorist crawled undetected from a house near the Kisufim junction and then opened fire on a bulletproof bus carrying children and on several cars. Miraculously, Ettie was the only fatality; three others were wounded. Four more Israelis were murdered
[CTRL] CONGRESS ACTION: December 2, 2001
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CONGRESS ACTION: December 2, 2001 = TERROR TRIALS: Senate democrats are confirming Bush judicial nominees at a rate significantly slower than prior administrations, according to the Congressional Research Service. Despite democrat whining over slow confirmations during the Clinton years, Clinton-appointed judges dominate the federal bench, accounting for more active federal judges than Reagan, Bush senior, and G.W. Bush combined. The longer they can keep Bush's judges off the bench, the more mischief those liberal activist judges can make, says Thomas Jipping of the Free Congress Foundation. What Democrats have done..is try to thoroughly politicize the confirmation process. Thus, in June, and again in early September, they held hearings not on the nominations but on whether nominees should have to pass an ideological litmus test, made up by Democrats, before being confirmed. What's the point of having judges hear cases on abortion, gun control, or affirmative action if you're going to decide those cases, in effect, during the Senate confirmation process? To listen to the Democrats, judges should decide cases not on the facts and the law but on the basis of their ideology. That's the death of the rule of law. -- Roger Pilon, at the Cato Institute. But Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has other things to do beside starting to restore the rule of law and hold hearings on judicial nominees. Many of Bush's judicial nominees haven't even had a committee hearing yet, let alone a Senate vote on confirmation. Instead, this week Leahy's committee began hearings to showcase criticism of the military tribunals established by Bush's Military Order of November 13, 2001, Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism. Leahy's complaint that Congress wasn't consulted about the tribunals, or the other law enforcement activities that he objects to, is completely without merit. Leahy himself approved those activities, by voting for Senate Joint Resolution 23 -- as did every other democrat on his committee. The November 13, 2001, Military Order is explicitly limited to any individual who is not a United States citizen, and that such individual.is or was a member of the organization known as al Qaida; has engaged in, aided or abetted, or conspired to commit, acts of international terrorism, or acts in preparation therefor, that have caused, threaten to cause, or have as their aim to cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States.; or has knowingly harbored one or more individuals who fit that description. The trial procedure is set out in the Military Order: they .may be punished in accordance with the penalties provided under applicable law, including life imprisonment or death; the trials shall at a minimum provide for.a full and fair trial, with the military commission sitting as the triers of both fact and law; admission of such evidence as would.have probative value to a reasonable person; in a manner consistent with the protection of information classified or classifiable; conviction only upon the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the commission; sentencing only upon the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the commission, and the trials shall be subject for review and final decision by [the President] or by the Secretary of Defense. Conservative columnist William Safire (in a seriously over-wrought editorial) wrote, .the President of the United States has just assumed what amounts to dictatorial power.. And in a startling insult to the military, .we are letting George W. Bush get away with the replacement of the American rule of law with military kangaroo courts. Safire's alternative? .turn [bin Laden's] cave into his crypt. So for all of Safire's hysteria about kangaroo courts, Safire proposes to dispense with trials altogether! If bin Laden tries to surrender, Safire says that we should refuse to accept surrender without what he calls a policy of universal surrender: all of al Qaeda or none. The instantaneous and simultaneous surrender of every member of al Qaeda around the world would clearly be impossible, even if bin Laden desired it, so Safire's doctrine can thus be simply stated -- no surrender, no trial, simply have him killed. The New York Times claims that American civilian courts have proved themselves perfectly capable of handling terrorist cases without overriding defendants' basic rights. Where the Times thinks that a non-citizen terrorist, caught and brought to trial outside the U.S., gets those basic rights, is unstated, and since the Constitution obviously does not apply to non-citizens captured and dealt with overseas during wartime, it would be interesting to know exactly what the Times thinks those basic rights are. But the globalists at the Times, and elsewhere, have a
[CTRL] Article by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.gulf1.com/COLUMNS/Pappas/20a.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HITRAP Honesty, Integrity, Trust, Responsibility, Accountability and People. by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET) It's time to get this off my chest On November 26th, Larry King hosted US Secretary of State Colin Powell for a wide-ranging discussion of the War on Terrorism. It was an excellent performance by General Powell who deftly maneuvered through the maze of King's land mines. A long time commentator, anchor and moderator of FACE THE NATION, CBS News chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, followed General Powell. It was the latter interview that prompts this essay. Messieurs King and Schieffer were involved in a dialogue about how the American people are reacting to the War on Terrorism. SCHIEFFER: ... it's a story on two fronts, but it's a story that we not only are covering, it's a story that we know whose side we're on here. This is not covering Vietnam, where there's a big debate over whether American troops ought to be sent off to some country that none of us had ever heard of before the troops went there. To help people, form a democracy, or whatever it was we were trying to do. ...And I'm still not sure we really know. SCHIEFFER: This (ed. note, the attack on America) is something where these are our people. These were Americans, innocent Americans, women and children. I now know two people who died. KING: Do you? SCHIEFFER: As a result of this. And I mean, this is something we were all involved in. So this is different. Ah, yes. How marvelously arrogant and blissfully ignorant, THIS IS DIFFERENT. With that pile of bovine scatology, scar covered wounds that have been slow healing for decades were reopened as with a rusty knife. The wounds came, not just from the 500 missions this writer flew, not only from being shot down, and not even from enduring the capture or loss of close friends. The lasting wounds came from serving the interest of a nation whose political, educational, entertainment, and spiritual leaders understood pathetic little of the reasons for US involvement, and could have cared less about the men and women who served there. The scars came from protecting the broad interests of a generation that did not deserve it, and who to this day are so arrogant and ignorant as to believe that they were righteous in their opposition to the Vietnam War. It is this writer's assertion that it was the United States' action in Vietnam, in conjunction with the brilliant geopolitical skills of Richard Milhous Nixon notwithstanding his lack of other virtues, that rendered the first body blow to the Soviet Union, thus stemming its quest for world domination and resulted in its eventual collapse both as an economic system and totalitarian, evil empire and has made possible unprecedented economic well-being. The beauty of this great Republic is that Americans are able to exercise constitutionally guaranteed freedoms without fear of government reprisal. In this land, unlike most others, reasonable people can disagree on issues of importance without resorting to violence, as was eloquently illustrated during the 2000 elections. It was for the Constitution, for freedom and the blessings of liberty that the writer devoted a major portion of his adult life in the armed service of this great nation. Schieffer's manifest bewildering, arrogant and ignorant attitude about the Vietnam War reflects the attitude of many during the sixties and early seventies. In fact, his and others with similar attitudes grown large gradually affected the outcome of that war and the loss of 58,000 patriots. Although the writer has strongly held opinions about that war, they are about the conduct thereof not about its underlying purpose. In the early 1990s, Mr. Russ Davis wrote a commentary in the Utica, New York, Observer Dispatch titled, Let God sort sinners from the saints. In the article he exemplified a segment of the U.S. population whose behavior during the Vietnam War was characterized as heroic by some and dishonorable by others. Fleeing to Canada or spending time in jail was for them a welcome alternative to the risk of dying in a poorly understood and worse, poorly executed war. Traditionally, through the elective process, patriotic loyalty has been imputed in the nation's elected leaders; and by extrapolation to the nation, states, communities, and ultimately to one another. Mr. Davis' article noted above touched lightly on the essence of loyalty when he described a man who he greatly respected, but who did not come to grips with the reality of his own student deferment until he faced the names on The Wall. There, in front of Davis' friend was the name of someone he knew and who out of loyalty to his fellows, to the Constitution of the United States, had the personal integrity to do what was difficult but right; and that made it possible for Davis' friend
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-Caveat Lector- Arutz Sheva News Service http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001 / Kislev 17, 5762 Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday --- See below for subscription instructions --- *** ICS Globe is the BEST and CHEAPEST Pre-paid long distance service! USA-ISRAEL as low as 8.5 cents a minute. No hidden charges! US Domestic as low as 4 cents a minute! AGENTS WANTED. To find out more, go to: a href=http://www.icsglobe.com; http://www.icsglobe.com /a or call us at: 1-888-850-4500 Ext. 136, or E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Premier website for kosher goods and services in Israel. http://www.jewishuniverse.net/tracking/eluna.asp *** For an unforgettable Pesach vacation a href=http://www.chevrahpesach.com/; http://www.chevrahpesach.com/ /a *** http://NewsFromIsrael.com - Arutz Sheva's All-English Newsradio TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. 24 HOURS OF TERROR IN ISRAEL 2. TEN MURDERED IN JERUSALEM 3. FIFTEEN DEAD IN HAIFA 4. ONE KILLED IN GAZA, AND OTHER SHOOTINGS 5. REACTIONS 6. ARAFAT GAVE THE ORDERS, NOW HE CONDEMNS 7. PERES MAY HAVE TO GIVE IN 1. 24 HOURS OF TERROR IN ISRAEL Israel has suffered a catastrophic 24 hours of terrorism - the worst since the Oslo Peace War began - with the murder of 26 people in a series of Palestinian terror attacks throughout the country. Ten teenagers lost their lives late last night in downtown Jerusalem at the hands of two suicide bombers; a professor was murdered by two Arabs as he drove in northern Gaza early this morning; and fifteen bus passengers were murdered when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Haifa this afternoon. 2. TEN MURDERED IN JERUSALEM Two young suicide murderers from Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, blew themselves up shortly before midnight in a crowded outdoor restaurant area in Jerusalem, off Ben Yehuda St. The ten murdered victims were all males between 14 and 20 years old: Adam Weinstein, 14, Givon HaHadasha, north of Ramot Golan Turjeman, 15, Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem Assaf Avital, 15, Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem Yisrael Yaakov Danino, 17, Har Nof, Jerusalem IDF St.-Sgt. Nir Heftzadi, 19, of Gilo, Jerusalem Guy Vaknin, 19, Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem Yosef Elezra, 19, from Jerusalem Moshe Yedid Levy, 19, Gilo, Jerusalem Moshe Michael Dahan, 20, Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem Yoni (Yuri) Korganov, 20, from Maaleh Adumim About 20 minutes after the double suicide attack, a car bomb exploded on Rabbi Kook St., around the corner. About 85 people are still hospitalized from the triple attack, including 14 in serious condition. President Moshe Katzav accompanied Gen. Anthony Zinni to the site of the Jerusalem attack this morning. This is the deepest evil imaginable, Zinni said, after placing a wreath at the site. To attack young people and children, and then to attack rescue personnel - this is the lowest form of humanity that can be imagined. He called off his meetings with Israeli figures for today. The Cabinet convened this morning, before the Haifa massacre, and decided unanimously to adopt recommendations made by Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz. No Arabs from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza will be allowed to travel outside of Yesha until further notice; only food, gas, and other essential supplies will be allowed into the Arab-populated areas there. The Cabinet meeting will continue tomorrow, after Prime Minister Sharon returns from his abbreviated trip to the U.S. American President Bush agreed to hold his meeting with Sharon at noon today (Washington time), instead of tomorrow, to facilitate Sharon's early return. Washington correspondents say that Bush had been planning to make some demands of Sharon, but that in light of the terrorist onslaught on Israel, the Americans are now placing the onus entirely on the Palestinian Authority. Bush called on the PA to take action against the murderers and the organizations that support them. In the meantime, the IDF has tightened its encirclement around all the PA cities. PA officials have emptied out their headquarters, for fear of Israeli strikes. Dozens of intelligence warnings of still more terrorist attacks continue to be examined by Israel's security bodies. A police search continues for an Arab who attempted to enter two schools in Talpiot, Jerusalem; they suspect that he was planning to carry out more terrorist carnage. An Arutz-7 correspondent participated in one of the ten terrorist-victim funerals in Jerusalem today - that of Moshe Michael Dahan - and reported that the speakers hailed him as a true model of the synthesis of Torah and
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-Caveat Lector- Uptown is another story.. My friend who lives on East 85th Street said on Sept. 11 that she had to close her windows and crank up the air because outdoors it reeked, and she said it smelled not only like fire, but like dead people. I couldn't smell anything when I was at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in October. Tenorlove --- RevCOAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the WTC center is MILES from midtown where Broadway is -- one can't smell the burning WTC in midtown... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om = Make yourself at home. Clean my kitchen. __ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Forbidden Cures
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By Ken Adachi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://educate-yourself.org/forbiddencures.html
Introduction Overview
There are a number of alternative healing therapies
that work so well and cost so little (compared to
conventional treatment), that Organized Medicine, the
Food Drug Administration, and their overlords in the
Pharmaceutical Industry (The Big Three) would rather
the public not know about them. The reason is obvious:
Alternative, non-toxic therapies represent a potential
loss of billions of dollars to allopathic (drug)
medicine and drug companies.
The Big Three have collectively engaged in a medical
conspiracy for the better part of 70 years to
influence legislative bodies on both the state and
federal level to create regulations that promote the
use of drug medicine while simultaneously creating
restrictive, controlling mechanisms (licencing,
government approval, etc) designed to limit and stifle
the availability of non-drug, alternative modalities.
The conspiracy to limit and eliminate competition from
non-drug therapies began with the Flexner Report of
1910.
Abraham Flexner was engaged by John D. Rockefeller to
run around the country and evaluate' the
effectiveness of therapies taught in medical schools
and other institutions of the healing arts.
Rockefeller wanted to dominate control over petrolem,
petrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals (which are derived
from 'coal tars' or crude oil). He arranged for his
company, Standard Oil of New Jersey to obtain a
controlling interest in a huge German drug cartel
called I. G. Farben. He pulled in his stronger
competitors like Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan as
partners, while making other, less powerful players,
stockholders in Standard Oil. Those who would not come
into the fold were crushed according to a
Rockefeller biographer (W. Hoffman, David: Report on a
Rockefeller {New York:Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1971}page
24.)
The report Flexner submitted to The Carnegie
Foundation was titled Medical Education in the United
States and Canada. Page 22 of the report said: the
privileges of the medical school can no longer be open
to casual strollers from the highway. It is necessary
to install a doorkeeper who will, by critical
scrutiny, ascertain the fitness of the applicant, a
necessity suggested, in the first place, but
consideration for the candidate, whose time and
talents will serve him better in some other vocation,
if he be unfit for this, and in the second, by
consideration for a public entitled to protection from
those whom the very boldness of modern medical
strategy equips with instruments that, tremendously
effective for good when rightly used, are all the more
terrible for harm if ignorantly or incompetently
employed.
All too often, politicians are prepared to enact laws
that rob citizens of yet another constitutional
freedom under the banner of public protection.
Needless to say, congress swallowed the
recommendations of this report hook, line, and sinker.
It was decided that the American Medical Association
(AMA), would be the doorkeeper. The AMA was now
empowered to certify or de-certify any medical school
in the country on the grounds of whether that school
met the AMA's standards of approved medicine.
The AMA came into existence in 1847. It is a private
organization of allopathic physicians which serves the
interests of its members, especially when it comes to
influencing favorable legislation. It functions in
every sense of the word as a union, although its
members wear white collars instead of blue. Giving the
AMA the power over the certification of medical
schools is the equivalent of giving the Teamsters
Union the exclusive right to decide on the laws of
interstate commerce and transportation. Is it any
wonder that the total number of medical schools in the
United States went from 160 in 1906 (before the
Flexner Report) to 85 in 1920 and further down to 69
schools in 1944? A little like putting the fox in
charge of the hen house, no?
Not surprisingly, Flexner found' that any discipline
that didn't use drugs to help cure the patient was
tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Medical
schools that offered courses in bioelectric Medicine,
Homeopathy or Eastern Medicine, for example, were told
to either drop these courses from their curriculum or
lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A
few schools resisted for a time, but eventually most
schools cooperated (or were closed down). A similar
scenario was played out in Canada. It was attempted in
England against Homeopathy, but it failed due to the
personal intervention of the Royal Family who had
received much relief and healing at the hands of
Homeopathic healers in the 19th century. By the way,
the AMA was found guilty of conspiracy against
chiropractors in 1987 by a federal judge and fined a
couple of million dollars. Here in America, a
relentless campaign of misinformation, fraud,
deception, and suppression of alternative therapies
and healers has been in place for
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: remember, we have some good guys on board
---BeginMessage--- -Original Message-From: Lois Battuello [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Linda Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Catherine Austin Fitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sunday, December 02, 2001 12:20 PMSubject: remember, we have some good guys on board Keep in mind that Mr. Levitt is on board, former Director of the SEC . more news on Carlyle from today's "San Francisco Chronicle" that may fit nicely into data dump ... www.sfgate.com Return to regular view CalPERS, Carlyle profit from Afghan war David LazarusSunday, December 2, 2001 ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/02/BU172807.DTLtype=business As America's military involvement abroad deepens, profits are increasing for the Carlyle Group -- and, it turns out, for thousands of California civil servants. The Carlyle who, you ask? The Carlyle Group, as in a secretive Washington, D.C., investment firm managing some $14 billion in assets, including stakes in a number of defense- related companies. Carlyle counts among its chieftains former Defense Secretary (and deputy CIA Director) Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of State James Baker and, most notably, former President George Bush. Until October, the Carlyle Group also maintained financial ties with none other than the family of Osama bin Laden, but those links were severed when it was agreed that the relationship was becoming a tad embarrassing for all concerned. What is not well known is that Carlyle's profits also benefit the 1.2 million members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States. CalPERS has about $730 million invested in Carlyle itself and in various Carlyle funds. It owns 5.5 percent of the Carlyle Group in a minority equity stake and has an option to double that holding during the next two years. "We're not too keen on discussing anything related to the political nature of the people at Carlyle," said Pat Macht, a spokeswoman for the fund. But she noted that "Carlyle is among the top five largest private equity partners of CalPERS." Senior Carlyle officials are scheduled to brief CalPERS' investment committee later this month in Sacramento on the performance of the company's assets. The Carlyle Group has cultivated and enjoyed a decidedly low profile for the past 14 years. Yet it has succeeded in attracting to its ranks not just a who's who of Republican bigwigs but also a dazzling array of international politicos. John Major, the former British prime minister, is a Carlyle adviser, as are former Philippine President Fidel Ramos and former Thai Premier Anand Panyarachun. So is a former president of Germany's Bundesbank and a former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Connected? That's an understatement where Carlyle is concerned. And because the Carlyle Group remains privately held, it is not required to disclose details of its investments or business activities. It is commonly known, though, that the firm favors the defense and aerospace sectors, with a wide array of investments in Pentagon affiliates. "Their defense holdings are quite extensive," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a Washington public interest law firm. "Because of their investments, they are a major contractor for the Pentagon." Among Carlyle's holdings is United Defense Industries, a maker of armed vehicles and weapons, which filed in October to raise up to $300 million in an initial public offering of its shares. Judicial Watch filed suit last week to obtain documents shedding light on Carlyle business activities undertaken by President Bush's father, who reportedly met with bin Laden's family in Saudi Arabia at least twice prior to the Sept. 11 attacks. He also has had dealings with a variety of foreign governments. "The appearance is awful," Fitton said. "For the father of our current president to be doing business with foreign governments, there is a clear conflict of interest." Carlyle spokesman Chris Ullman said the elder Bush does little more than give speeches on Carlyle's behalf when abroad and does not call up his son to lobby for Carlyle's business interests. Ullman also said there is nothing improper about the Carlyle Group's phenomenal political connections throughout the world. "These are all former government officials who have chosen to team with us in various capacities," he said. "I stress the fact that they are former government officials." Critics of the Carlyle Group have grown increasingly vocal in recent weeks, particularly over the perception that a private organization with unmistakable links to the White House is benefiting from America's military action in Afghanistan. Because
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-Caveat Lector- Dear President Bush, Mr. Sharon's warm welcome to the White House today has many Americans very concerned and wondering if perhaps you have not been informed of the recent charges that have been leveled against the Prime Minister of Israel in the courts of Belgium. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1190 The Process By Which Forced Relocation And Neglect Combined With The Phony Drug War Are Being Used For Ethnic Cleansing And Genocide In Thailand http://www.akha.org/deathofavillage.htm Because the vast majority of the roughly 30,000 people who took Cipro in the anthrax scare were treating fear rather than exposure, the effectiveness of the bestselling drug was undermined even as its sales were skyrocketing. The more people who don't have bacterial infections take antibiotics, the less effective the drugs are when treating real problems, including TB, pneumonia, and bad colds. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0148/lerner.php The modern western establishment is a vast and cryptic cult that aggressively infiltrates and consolidates positions of social influence and control throughout western civilization, with ambitions that encompass the entire world. It is a functionalistic hierarchy. The greater one's proximity to and involvement with the establishment, and the higher that proximal portion of the establishment is in the hierarchy, the more thorough and insistent is the enforcement of establishment codes of conduct (many of which are fluid and unwritten). http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/ Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political organizations in the United States, senior government officials said today. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1161 Internal opposition to the plan will exacerbate an already fractious atmosphere in the FBI since President Bush took office. http://www.observer.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0-610381,00.html Not only has Washington ignored increasing evidence of Northern Alliance brutality, say critics, but the Bush administration has gone so far as to signal its approval for whatever Alliance commanders decide to do with captured Taliban troops `Well, the president's policy is dead or alive.' Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joked last week with reporters. `I have my preference.' http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1006902671234call_page=TS_Newscall_pageid=968332188492call_pagepath=News/News Portland police are no longer alone in their refusal to interview foreign visitors as part of a federal terrorism probe. http://www.koin.com/c6k/news/stories/news-109721420011129-131127.html The Pandora's box of the American empire is still open, releasing its monsters and fears on a world still not fully under its control. The Northern Alliance is a confederation of monsters. Attaching dissidents to the chains of a tank and crushing them, executing defenceless prisoners, raping men and women, these are all in a day's work for the guardians of the heroin trade. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1170 What goes down comes around. Amidst all the attention to United Airlines' post-September 11 woes, no one noticed the ringing irony of its tapping John W. Creighton Jr. as the new CEO to pull it out of a downward spiral. John Creighton is best known as the Weyerhaeuser president who turned the timber giant around in the early 1990s, but he's held another position closer to the events that sent one United jet crashing into the World Trade Center and another into the Pennsylvania countryside two months ago. Creighton has sat on the board of the California-based oil multinational Unocal since 1995--the period in which Unocal became the main American corporate suitor seeking to do business with the Taliban. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=specials=scigliano20011108 October 29, 2001- The World Bank has invested over $20 billion in more than 200 projects that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels since 1992, according to a first-of-its-kind global database launched by SEEN today. SEEN research found that the sum of lifetime emissions from World Bank projects financed from 1992 to the present will exceed 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide, a figure almost two times that of all global emissions from burning or flaring fossil fuels in 1998. http://www.seen.org/ The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through briefings, reports and the bimonthly digest Bretton Woods Update, it monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns. http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/ For decades, individuals and broad-based movements in the Global
[CTRL] What is A-albionic Research? Information Bulletin
-Caveat Lector- .. .. Subject: What is A-albionic Research? Information Bulletin Date: Friday, December 2, 2001 1. For several months our www site has been only partially functional since Xoom.Com stopped providing free www space. We have now obtained alternate www space and the www site is now fully functional. Our up-dated Info Bulletin follows. 2. At the end of this post, we have listed dozens of rare reprints of classic conspiracy book available almost nowhere else! Check it out! info prj A-albionic Consulting Research Information Bulletin CONTENTS** 1. New Paradigms Project Archive, Research, Discussion List 2. A-albionic Research Weekly Up-date List ^^ 3. World Wide Web ^^^ Weekly articles, reviews, and archive up-dates. 4. Subscribers Only WEB Site ^^^ 5. Book and Back Issue Catalogs ^^ 6. New Paradigms Project Gopher: (free articles book catalogs) ^ 7. New Paradigms Project FTP Site: (Same information available by FTP) ^ 8. Advertisers--Please Check-out Our Advertisers ^ http://www.alpinenterprises.com/prjframe.html 9.A Note On Recommended Reading--Please Read Carefully!! ^^^ The books, reports, and articles recommended are not without serious faults from the point-of-view of the Project, the Quarterly Journal of A-albionic Research. Most are guilty of blatant partisan bias, too often on the basis of ideology, religion, race, class, interest group, etc. Unfortunately, by its nature, ruling class research is not and probably never will be solely the province of disinterested scholars. However, keep in mind that the bootlicking, lying court historians cultivate only the appearance of objectivity and, therefore, deserve even less credit than some of the partisan authors we have recommended. The Project hypothesis is unique in ruling class-conspiracy literature. None of the authors recommended present the Project theory. The recommended reading simply contributes facts, research leads, evidence, testimony, insights, theorizing, and speculation relevant to the Project's progress toward uncovering the objective nature of the ruling class- conspiracy(s) or power organism(s). Do not judge the Project theory by the readings recommended. We recommend many authors not for objective information, but for insight into the propaganda of the social power organism which holds them in thrall. For the evolving Project theory consult only the Project back issues, especially the August 1985 Issue ($9.00) for the original theory and the Winter- Spring 1989-90 Issue ($9.00) for a major revision of working hypothesis. Check to A-albionic Research, PO Box 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220-0273 or to buy by credit card: http://a-albionic.com/merchform.html *** 1. New Paradigms Project Archive, Research, Discussion List ^^ Welcome to prj, the email majordomo mail list for those exploring, questioning, or attempting to create paradigms or world views in the major fields of human endeavor and knowledge. A New Paradigms Project implies that humanity's current, operative, but conflicting and evolving paradigms are in need of change to meet the challenges of the future, but does not automatically rule out the restoration of Old Paradigms or Lost Knowledge as part of the needed New Paradigms. Some of the paradigms currently being discussed and researched are listed below. Feel free to suggest others that may merit discussion and archiving. **The Myths of Democracy and Pluralism vs Ruling Class/Conspiracy Theories Is America ruled by the outcome of the democratic process in which a plethora of interests have hand or is democratic process a myth by which a ruling class obtains the consent of the governed for its exploitive, parasitical social and economic engineering? If the ruling class/conspiracy paradigm is correct, is the ruling class unified or engaged in serious factional conflict? And, if the ruling class/conspiracy paradigm is correct, are America's ruling factions subservient to or influenced by international geopolital forces such as Secret Societies, the British Oligarchy, the Vatican, or other religions, philosophies,
Re: [CTRL] Article by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET)
-Caveat Lector- Bob Pappa's Article should be included as an epilog to the treatment afforded to the Vietnam War in *every* American History textbook , in *every* classroom in America. Maybe the GOD of us all, who has those 58,151 patriots in HIS presence will see to it that those Colonel Pappas mentionsAND others of the same ilk, who have not sought forgiveness and done penance,spends their eternity in the presence of the Custodian of Hell. This Nation *STILL* owes a debt to the 8,744,000 who served in that war, including those who served, were wounded or died there between 1959 and 1964. I would remind ALL, that those serving now and going in harm's way, under this Nation's banner, deserve no less than 100% support from it's citizens. Failure to give this support *should* preclude their enjoyment of *any* benefit accrued from being an American. Bitch all you want, *after* they are out of harm's way...but then, the bitching should *never* be directed toward them, individually or collectively. I'm sure that on this list will take issue with what I've said..Please do so, privately. John A. O'Neal At 10:15 PM 12/02/2001 -0500, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.gulf1.com/COLUMNS/Pappas/20a.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HITRAP Honesty, Integrity, Trust, Responsibility, Accountability and People. by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET) It's time to get this off my chest On November 26th, Larry King hosted US Secretary of State Colin Powell for a wide-ranging discussion of the War on Terrorism. It was an excellent performance by General Powell who deftly maneuvered through the maze of King's land mines. A long time commentator, anchor and moderator of FACE THE NATION, CBS News chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, followed General Powell. It was the latter interview that prompts this essay. Messieurs King and Schieffer were involved in a dialogue about how the American people are reacting to the War on Terrorism. SCHIEFFER: ... it's a story on two fronts, but it's a story that we not only are covering, it's a story that we know whose side we're on here. This is not covering Vietnam, where there's a big debate over whether American troops ought to be sent off to some country that none of us had ever heard of before the troops went there. To help people, form a democracy, or whatever it was we were trying to do. ...And I'm still not sure we really know. SCHIEFFER: This (ed. note, the attack on America) is something where these are our people. These were Americans, innocent Americans, women and children. I now know two people who died. KING: Do you? SCHIEFFER: As a result of this. And I mean, this is something we were all involved in. So this is different. Ah, yes. How marvelously arrogant and blissfully ignorant, THIS IS DIFFERENT. With that pile of bovine scatology, scar covered wounds that have been slow healing for decades were reopened as with a rusty knife. The wounds came, not just from the 500 missions this writer flew, not only from being shot down, and not even from enduring the capture or loss of close friends. The lasting wounds came from serving the interest of a nation whose political, educational, entertainment, and spiritual leaders understood pathetic little of the reasons for US involvement, and could have cared less about the men and women who served there. The scars came from protecting the broad interests of a generation that did not deserve it, and who to this day are so arrogant and ignorant as to believe that they were righteous in their opposition to the Vietnam War. It is this writer's assertion that it was the United States' action in Vietnam, in conjunction with the brilliant geopolitical skills of Richard Milhous Nixon notwithstanding his lack of other virtues, that rendered the first body blow to the Soviet Union, thus stemming its quest for world domination and resulted in its eventual collapse both as an economic system and totalitarian, evil empire and has made possible unprecedented economic well-being. The beauty of this great Republic is that Americans are able to exercise constitutionally guaranteed freedoms without fear of government reprisal. In this land, unlike most others, reasonable people can disagree on issues of importance without resorting to violence, as was eloquently illustrated during the 2000 elections. It was for the Constitution, for freedom and the blessings of liberty that the writer devoted a major portion of his adult life in the armed service of this great nation. Schieffer's manifest bewildering, arrogant and ignorant attitude about the Vietnam War reflects the attitude of many during the sixties and early seventies. In fact, his and others with similar attitudes grown large gradually affected the outcome of that war and the loss of 58,000 patriots. Although the writer has strongly held opinions about that war, they are about the conduct thereof not about
Re: [CTRL] Article by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET)
-Caveat Lector- FYI http://www.gulf1.com/COLUMNS/Pappas/20a.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! HITRAP Honesty, Integrity, Trust, Responsibility, Accountability and People. by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (RET) It's time to get this off my chest On November 26th, Larry King hosted US Secretary of State Colin Powell for a wide-ranging discussion of the War on Terrorism. It was an excellent performance by General Powell who deftly maneuvered through the maze of King's land mines. A long time commentator, anchor and moderator of FACE THE NATION, CBS News chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, followed General Powell. It was the latter interview that prompts this essay. Messieurs King and Schieffer were involved in a dialogue about how the American people are reacting to the War on Terrorism. SCHIEFFER: ... it's a story on two fronts, but it's a story that we not only are covering, it's a story that we know whose side we're on here. This is not covering Vietnam, where there's a big debate over whether American troops ought to be sent off to some country that none of us had ever heard of before the troops went there. To help people, form a democracy, or whatever it was we were trying to do. ...And I'm still not sure we really know. SCHIEFFER: This (ed. note, the attack on America) is something where these are our people. These were Americans, innocent Americans, women and children. I now know two people who died. KING: Do you? SCHIEFFER: As a result of this. And I mean, this is something we were all involved in. So this is different. Ah, yes. How marvelously arrogant and blissfully ignorant, THIS IS DIFFERENT. With that pile of bovine scatology, scar covered wounds that have been slow healing for decades were reopened as with a rusty knife. The wounds came, not just from the 500 missions this writer flew, not only from being shot down, and not even from enduring the capture or loss of close friends. The lasting wounds came from serving the interest of a nation whose political, educational, entertainment, and spiritual leaders understood pathetic little of the reasons for US involvement, and could have cared less about the men and women who served there. The scars came from protecting the broad interests of a generation that did not deserve it, and who to this day are so arrogant and ignorant as to believe that they were righteous in their opposition to the Vietnam War. It is this writer's assertion that it was the United States' action in Vietnam, in conjunction with the brilliant geopolitical skills of Richard Milhous Nixon notwithstanding his lack of other virtues, that rendered the first body blow to the Soviet Union, thus stemming its quest for world domination and resulted in its eventual collapse both as an economic system and totalitarian, evil empire and has made possible unprecedented economic well-being. The beauty of this great Republic is that Americans are able to exercise constitutionally guaranteed freedoms without fear of government reprisal. In this land, unlike most others, reasonable people can disagree on issues of importance without resorting to violence, as was eloquently illustrated during the 2000 elections. It was for the Constitution, for freedom and the blessings of liberty that the writer devoted a major portion of his adult life in the armed service of this great nation. Schieffer's manifest bewildering, arrogant and ignorant attitude about the Vietnam War reflects the attitude of many during the sixties and early seventies. In fact, his and others with similar attitudes grown large gradually affected the outcome of that war and the loss of 58,000 patriots. Although the writer has strongly held opinions about that war, they are about the conduct thereof not about its underlying purpose. In the early 1990s, Mr. Russ Davis wrote a commentary in the Utica, New York, Observer Dispatch titled, Let God sort sinners from the saints. In the article he exemplified a segment of the U.S. population whose behavior during the Vietnam War was characterized as heroic by some and dishonorable by others. Fleeing to Canada or spending time in jail was for them a welcome alternative to the risk of dying in a poorly understood and worse, poorly executed war. Traditionally, through the elective process, patriotic loyalty has been imputed in the nation's elected leaders; and by extrapolation to the nation, states, communities, and ultimately to one another. Mr. Davis' article noted above touched lightly on the essence of loyalty when he described a man who he greatly respected, but who did not come to grips with the reality of his own student deferment until he faced the names on The Wall. There, in front of Davis' friend was the name of someone he knew and who out of loyalty to his fellows, to the Constitution of the United States, had the personal
[CTRL] HR 3162 -The Police State is Here!
-Caveat Lector- HR 3162 -The Police State is Here! http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162.html Here It Is: A Wish List Granted That Would Make Adolph Hitler Proud. From Warantless Secret Searches to Defining Any Criminal Activity as Terrorism, Our Constitutional Republic Was Gutted on Friday, October 26. H.R.3162 Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Received in the Senate) Authority For Delaying Notice Of The Execution Of A Warrant. http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_213.htm Newsflash: The Secret Warantless Searches And Other Police State Measures In The Bill Are Not Sunsetted. The Media And The Government Are Lying To You. http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_224.htm Your So-called Protection Gives You No Protection. It Is Under Admiralty And Maritime Jurisdiction http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_316.htm SEC. 802. Definition Of Domestic Terrorism. http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_802.htm Bulk Cash Smuggling Into Or Out Of The United States http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec-371.htm Reporting Of Suspicious Activities By Underground Banking Systems. http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_359.htm Use Of Authority Of United States Executive Directors. http://www.infowars.com/HR_3162/Sec_360.htm -THe eXTReMiST http://www.geocities.com/apatriot_2000/ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. -Ps alms: 64:1-9 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Groups criticize use of cluster bombs
-Caveat Lector- Last month, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was unfortunate that the bomblets and aid packages were the same color and said the Pentagon would change the color of the food rations. -- DUH! Groups criticize use of cluster bombs By ED JOHNSON, Associated Press LONDON (December 2, 2001 11:27 p.m. EST) - The war on terror in Afghanistan has left a deadly legacy of unexploded cluster bombs capable of maiming or killing thousands of civilians, campaign groups said Monday. Landmine Action and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund claim U.S.-led bombing missions have dropped some 600 cluster bombs, each containing 202 bomblets, on Afghanistan. They estimate up to 30 percent of the bomblets would not have exploded on impact, and, in a statement released Monday, called for an international law requiring nations who drop the bombs to clear them. Like land mines, unexploded cluster bombs represent a lethal threat, said Andrew Purkis, chief executive of the fund set up in Diana's memory. They can lie in the ground for years, until a child or a farmer disturbs them. Cluster bombs drop smaller bombs, called bomblets, over a wide area. Some explode on contact. Others delay exploding until a certain amount of time has passed, becoming what amounts to an air-dropped minefield. Richard Lloyd, director of Landmine Action, said Afghan children had already been injured, after mistaking the bomblets for aid packages dropped by the U.S. Air Force. Both are the same bright yellow color. The United States has defended the use of cluster bombs in its campaign to topple the Taliban regime and force out Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network. Last month, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was unfortunate that the bomblets and aid packages were the same color and said the Pentagon would change the color of the food rations. Lloyd called for a debate on cluster bombs at a conference in Geneva later this month to review the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. He said nations who use cluster bombs should be legally responsible for clearing them away, for providing appropriate warnings to civilians and for giving the United Nations and mine clearance groups information about the types of bombs used. Campaigners also called for a permanent ban on the use of cluster bombs against military targets in civilian areas and said they should be fitted with self-destruct mechanisms which would cause them to detonate if they did not explode on impact. Last month, leaders of Green parties with government roles in France, Belgium and Finland condemned U.S. use of cluster bombs in Afghanistan, echoing the concerns of several humanitarian groups. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] good thinking
---BeginMessage--- === A quick scratch w/o notes Om K In a message dated 12/2/01 6:01:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [CIA-DRUGS] good thinking Actually, not answering you was the one remotely interesting or honest point the rabid hyena made just now, so I will answer you. In a message dated 12/1/01 7:33:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: native Arab Jihadists don't commit suicide for the CIA, they commit suicide for Osama Allah. Your acceptence of party line when it serves your paranoia and your unability to progress beyond physical death will keep you playing the game and a usefool tool carrying water for the death merchants. You mean native Arab Jihadists will commit suicide for the CIA - given the right mind control - deus ex machina - a very remote possibility, given their roots and connections. And all those UN reports about mass murder in the Nuba (not the Skull and Bones, the Nuba) is all a paranoid dream - the Nuba should just 'progress beyond it'? the Hazara too? we don't have to think in detail about that? - just get over it? It's all my ethnic paranoia? Boy - I'm glad I got that straight. = The CIA ain't no HQ, nothing but a useful arm as are many orgs. There has been extensive contact between arab nationalists and many original mind-control operatives, especially Egypt. And there is an interesting history of islamic use of mind control and exstensive contact between cultures, especially at the secret society level. Paperclip was not just a US phenom. I said nothing of tragedies being dreams, hasn't there been enough? Some folks get reports, some get task forces, - it is the same ole story - kill the indians and take the land - by any means possible. = I thought it would be redundant to say that 'progressing beyone death' does not have any practical political meaning for me - I don't think of warfare as a metaphysical experience, and hundreds of thousands, literally, hundreds of thousands, of Nuba, Hazara and on and on, have 'progressed beyond physical death' the hard way at the hands of the fascist Islamic Jihad. Chinese military intelligence had hegemony in the Sudan - not the CIA. I have no intention of 'progressing beyond' political discussion of that. Genocide is on the table. We talk about genocide - and by all means, the death merchants that finance these regimes. == Yes, and you have asserted that Ghandian principles are not valid and I would gather that you saw no practical political meaning in Ghandi's sea salt production either. Many hoodwinks are used, playing all and any cards that blot out reason in favour of emotional predicated reactions. The fear of death being one very subtle one and some times an all but real one. Gee, the Chinese are now in the WTO, hire Kissassinger for their pipeline, 90 percent of santa's sleigh is made in chinese factories, etc, etc and you want to cast them as a heavy? Well, I guess it works if ya don't look too hard. Yeah Genicide and you are being a cheerleader for one cideside. Don't ya know the death merchants bombs have shelf life and they need their kitty refilled. War is not the amswer and what is going on is not organic. = Let me add another wrinkle . . . When and why did Persia change its name to Iran? 1935 - nationalist rejection of the ancient/colonial Greek/European appelation. No doubt you have a point about Schroeder banking and Iranian oil here. == Hmm, when did Hitler come into power. What did hitler want to do? What was hitler's realpolitick plan? - Gee is it similar to what is playing out? == Where does die spinne have a rather large presence? The Dulles-built Peronist league of cooperating intelligence agencies. = Dulles is from an old family of traitors. yes, they have many contacts in South America as do their nazi friends. But the Dulles family is from switzerland, where allen spent the war, where he accepted surrender from certain Italian and German forces the day before the official surrender. And die spinne has a huge egyptian/syrian/irani/iraqi/saudi presence. = Does Marionette Programming mean anything to you? Project Monarch, the resumption of a mind-control project called Marionette Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic component of the Monarch Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the mind, using extreme trauma to induce Multiple Personality Disorder - ie - the intentional public trauma of the JFK murder to induce political docility - the analogy being to 9/11. Equally obvious, and useful, to Osama bin Laden, and his publicly repeated methodology - to use terrorist Marionette Programming to trigger a massive regional Islamic Jihad - it's on almost every video he made. = As far as the american political reality and real-politic who
[CTRL] Fwd: Inside The Enron Meltdown
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Go here to find out the most statistically popular names in the U.S.
for many a year (over 120 of them years).
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ACTUARIAL NOTE
Number 139
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Originally published June 1998 (updated September 2001)
Office of the Chief Actuary
Name Distributions in the Social Security Area
by Michael W. Shackleford, A.S.A.
Beginning in 1998, for births in 1996 and 1997, the Office of the
Chief
Actuary has published lists of given names in popularity order
by gender
and year of birth. The original version of these lists
were published
as Actuarial Note 139.
Since the inception of this
project updates have been added for births in
1998, 1999, 2000, and
2001 as well as years prior to 1996.
The source of the data have been samplings from Social Security
Number
card applications. The size of the sample has ranged from 1%
to 100%
depending on the data available at the time the list was
compiled. The
selection criteria is based on the last four digits of
the Social Security
Number, which are random and not correlated with
a particular geographical
region. In cases where multiple cards
were issued to the same
person, a rea
son for this might be a lost card or a name change, the name on
the last application was used. Unless otherwise stated birth on U.S. soil
is not required for inclusion in the sample. An exception to this rule are
the t
op 1000 lists for each decade.
The following is a listing of information available since the inception of
this project.
Original actuarial note.
Original actuarial note,
including top three names of each year, 1900-1997.
Top names in recent years.
Top 100 names for births in 2001.
Top 1000 names for births in 2000.
Top 5 names by state for male births in 2000.
Top 5 names by state for female births in 2000.
Top 100 names for births in 2000.
Top 1000 names for births in 1999.
Top 5 names by state for male births in 1999.
Top 5 names by state for female births in 1999.
Introduction to 1998 update including top 40 names for
births in 1998.
Top 1000 names for births in 1998.
Top 5 names by state for male births in 1998.
Top 5 names by state for female births in 1998.
Large list of names for girls born in 1997.
Large list of names for boys born in 1997.
Large list of names for girls born in 1996.
Large list of names for boys born in 1996.
Top 10 names by year of birth for years 1880 through 1997.
Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1880-1919),
and sex.
Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1920-1959),
and sex.
Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1960-1997),
and sex.
Top 1000 names by decade.
Top 1000 names of the 1900's.
Top 1000 names of the 1910's.
Top 1000 names of the 1920's.
Top 1000 names of the 1930's.
Top 1000 names of the 1940's.
Top 1000 names of the 1950's.
Top 1000 names of the 1960's.
Top 1000 names of the 1970's.
Top 1000 names of the 1980's.
Top 1000 names of the 1990's.
Updated September 21, 2001
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Sunday, 2 December, 2001, 13:26 GMT
Church concern over 'Satan's Grotto'
The display opens in two weeks (mock-up image)
Religious groups are appealing to parents to keep their children away
from a new visitor attraction called Satan's Grotto.
The Christmas display at the Edinburgh Dungeon opens to the public on
15 December and features elves impaled on spikes and robins roasting
on an open fire while Santa gently boils in a witch's cauldron.
But religious leaders have branded the site, which shows Satan
sitting on a throne surrounded by books on Devil worship, as
blasphemous and dangerous.
A leading psychologist also said there are dangers in allowing
children as young as eight to see the display.
We have turned the nice idea of Santa's Grotto into something bad but
we are not out to offend anyone
Scott Williamson, Edinburgh Dungeon
The marketing company behind the grotto announced its plans on Sunday 2 December -
the first Sunday of Advent.
Merlin Entertainments said actors playing Satan would ask children who enter the
grotto if they have been bad and offer nasty presents instead of sweets.
A coffin pulled by skeletons will be erected in place of Santa's usual sleigh and
reindeers.
The display will add to other attractions at the Edinburgh Dungeon near Waverly
Bridge, which features the lives of Scotland's most macabre crimes and criminals,
including the Galloway cannibal Sawney Bean and bodysnatche
rs Burke and Hare.
But Edinburgh Dungeon manager, Scott Williamson, 24, said the event was just harmless
fun.
Devil worship
From a holier-than-thou perspective, I can see why the churches are upset, he said.
We have turned the nice idea of Santa's Grotto into something bad but we are not out
to offend anyone.
It is aimed at adults and children. We leave it to parents' discretion to allow young
children.
Glorifying and promoting the occult as a Christmas attraction is not only very
tasteless but sad and very dangerous
Colin Hart, Christian Institute
There is a slight occult idea behind it, but we are not trying to promote Devil
worship.
This view however was not shared by church groups and a leading psychologist.
Jim Cowie, convener of the Church of Scotland's Board for Social Responsibility, urged
parents to keep their children away from the display.
He said: This could become the focus of an anti-Christ view of Christmas.
Christmas for most people is in the realms of the commercial world where there are no
moral values and this is a very sad example of it.
The organisation will doubtless say that there is nothing religious in what they are
doing but they are of playing on the idea of torture and evil.
'Bizarre and blasphemous'
It is very dangerous to highlight the dark and evil side at Christmas, and aim it at
children. It is terrible to use the image of glorifying Satan to make money.
Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, called for Edinburgh City Council to
ban the grotto.
He said: This is bizarre and blasphemous. Glorifying and promoting the occult as a
Christmas attraction is not only very tasteless but sad and very dangerous.
Operating this grotto runs completely contrary to the virtues that Christmas is about,
such as sharing and goodwill
Dr Geoff Scobie, Glasgow University
Peter Kearney, spokesman for the Roman Catholic, said that Christmas
should be about celebrating the birth of Christ.
Glasgow University psychologist Dr Geoff Scobie said the display
could be easily played down but there were dangers in letting
children see it.
What one really has to be careful of is giving children the
impression that being bad or evil gets you gifts, he said.
It is very dangerous to reward children for being bad. It could
encourage them to be violent, aggressive and intimidating to others.
Operating this grotto runs completely contrary to the virtues that
Christmas is about, such as sharing and goodwill. It extols the
virtues of being bad.
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-Caveat Lector- First Mom and her Jonah ... now Bernie ... From http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47214- 2001Dec2?language=printer }}}Begin Goldberg on CBS: Nothing Good to Report By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 3, 2001; Page C01 It's not every day that someone likens Dan Rather and CBS News to the Mafia. Or declares that the don in this case is The Dan, who wanted me whacked. Or calls the CBS brass a bunch of hypocrites so consumed by liberal bias that they reflexively slant the news. The source of this vitriolic attack is none other than Bernard Goldberg, a CBS correspondent for 28 years who left the network last year. In his forthcoming book, Bias, published by the conservative house Regnery Publishing, Goldberg unloads on his ex-employer. What's striking is the intensely personal nature of Goldberg's assault. He describes Rather as a generous man who is also ruthless and unforgiving, with a touch of Richard Nixon's paranoia. He accuses one corresponden t of junk journalism. And he says CBS News President Andrew Heyward once told him: Look, Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left. . . . If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it. Heyward declined to be drawn into a debate with Goldberg, saying: Bernie asked to see me before the book was published and said he didn't want to be portrayed as a liar or a disgruntled employee. Therefore, I have no com ment. Goldberg became something of a pariah at CBS after accusing the network of liberal bias in a 1996 op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal. Some CBS insiders describe Goldberg as a talented journalist who became increasingly bitter and isolated at the network. They are stunned that he would betray Heyward, a longtime friend who refused to fire him during the Journal controversy, pushed to get him a spot at 60 Minutes II and kept him on the payroll until Goldberg could qualify for a larger pension at 55. In the end, he seemed to think his job was to report on CBS News instead of reporting for CBS News, said Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent. Bernie just seemed to be upset about everything. He was upset with the world. Correspondent Eric Engberg said Goldberg committed an act of treason and decided the best way to sell a book is to trash your friends and former colleagues. . . . He didn't have many friends in this organization becaus e he was a selfish, self-involved guy who was not a team player. Engberg accused Goldberg of a sleazy, snake-in-the-grass style for not complaining to him before blasting him in the Journal over his report ridiculing Steve Forbes's flat-tax plan. Goldberg, who now works for HBO's Real Sports, said yesterday he wrote the book because he cares about journalism and that he left out a bunch of things that might really embarrass people. . . . Whenever you raise an issue like this, they close ranks and close their minds. They're just going to call me these terrible vicious names instead of looking at the problem. . . . They don't like the people they're broadc asting to. I can't tell you how many times I heard the term 'white trash' thrown around. I come from a lower-middle-class background and I resent that. Rather declined to comment, but told the Dallas Morning News in 1996 that he wouldn't let anyone intimidate him into reporting the news their way. To which Goldberg writes: Why is it that when journalists write something tough about other people it's called 'news,' but when someone writes something tough about news people like Dan Rather it's called 'intimidation'? In Goldberg's view, CBS staffers are too arrogant to examine the leftward tilt of their reporting, which he says is shared by the other major networks. (Only Andy Rooney sent a supportive note after the Journal article. ) Goldberg describes a CBS conference call in which a Washington staffer nonchalantly referred to a presidential candidate as 'Gary Bauer, the little nut from the Christian group.' No one, says Goldberg, raised an object ion. Bias devotes considerable attention to the subject of race. During the May 2000 sweeps, Goldberg says, CBS's 48 Hours and NBC's Dateline ran no stories involving blacks, and ABC's 20/20 ran two. (The lone exceptio n was 60 Minutes, on which seven of 12 stories featured blacks as main characters.) During a 1999 story for 48 Hours on a teenager in jail, Goldberg says, a New York producer asked his field producer, What is she? 'She's black,' the producer told his boss in New York, 'but she's light-skinned.' He felt he had to say that to get the okay to proceed with the story. Another producer is quoted as saying the bosses were not subtle a t all. They made it pretty damn clear to me that 'we want stories with white folks.' Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of 48 Hours, says Goldberg is merely making assumptions. There's not one fact in there, she says. These are charges without validation. If you can't
