[CTRL] Bush to Back Out of '72 Nuclear Pact
-Caveat Lector- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/ts/bush_missile_defense_10.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush to Back Out of '72 Nuclear Pact By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites), eager to deploy a missile shield long sought by Republicans, soon will give Russia notice that the United States is withdrawing from a landmark 1972 arms-control treaty, U.S. government officials said Tuesday. The pact bans missile defense systems. Bush will invoke a clause in the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that requires the United States and Russia to give six months' notice before abandoning the pact, the sources said. Initial White House plans were to announce the decision Thursday, but officials cautioned the date could change. One source said formal notice would be issued in January. The four government officials spoke on condition of anonymity. ``The time is coming when we will need to move beyond the ABM treaty,'' said Sean McCormack, a White House spokesman. Last Thursday, a group of Russian military officials on a visit to Washington told private American arms-control experts they expected the Bush administration to give notice of withdrawal over the year-end holidays. Bush told Putin during their autumn talks in China that he would withdraw from the ABM in January even if Russia had not agreed to a deal by then. With the decision, Bush takes a huge step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to develop and deploy an anti-missile system that he says will protect the United States and its allies, including Russia, from missiles fired by rogue nations. Bush has said the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks heightened the need for such a system. Russia and many U.S. allies have warned Bush that withdrawing from the pact might trigger a nuclear arms race. Critics of the plan also question whether an effective system can be developed without enormous expense. Conservative Republicans have urged Bush to scuttle the ABM, rejecting proposals to amend the pact or find loopholes allowing for tests. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Bob Stump, R-Ariz., said he has received no advance tip from the administration, but he backs the plan. ``There's all these questions about Russia upholding their end of the treaty anyway, and I just don't think we should penalize ourselves,'' Stump said. ``We shouldn't delay our ballistic missile defense. If it takes withdrawing from the ABM treaty, that's fine.'' Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., told CNN he was opposed to pulling out of the pact. ``It is not a good idea. It would be a real setback for defense and foreign policy to violate the ABM treaty.'' He added: ``It's a slap in the face for many people who have committed years if not decades'' to arms control. The president defended his push for a missile shield during a national security speech Tuesday at the Citadel in South Carolina. ``For the good of peace, we're moving forward with an active program to determine what works and what does not work,'' Bush said. ``In order to do so, we must move beyond the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a treaty that was written in a different era, for a different enemy.'' ``America and our allies must not be bound to the past. We must be able to build the defenses we need against the enemies of the 21st century,'' he said. According to Bush administration officials, Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) had assured Bush during their October talks in Washington and Crawford, Texas, that U.S.-Russian relations would not suffer even if Bush pulled out of the treaty. They said Bush's decision reflects a desire by the Pentagon (news - web sites) to conduct tests in the next six months or so that would violate the ABM. Tests may be conducted on sea-based radars and missile interceptors, which could be fielded in combination with the land-based systems that the Pentagon has been testing for years and which are permitted under the treaty. The Pentagon later might test space-based missile defense technologies. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said that even after the administration gave notice of its intent to withdraw, the administration would be interested in continuing discussions with the Russians on an arrangement to replace the ABM treaty. If that produced agreement within six months, there would be no need for a formal withdrawal. The decision came as Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), in Moscow, said Russia and the United States are near agreement on drastic cuts in long-range nuclear arsenals. But the U.S.-Russian disagreement over missile defense is so deep that Russia is bracing for the possibility of a U.S. withdrawal from the landmark ABM treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told a joint news conference with Powell on Monday. Another major nuclear treaty, the 1993 START II treaty to
[CTRL] Requiem for a terrorist
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25644 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Requiem for a terrorist -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com After decades in power, it would appear that the rule of Mohammed Yasser Arafat may well be coming to an end. The regime of the old terrorist is being consumed by the new terrorists created by Arafat himself in the school classrooms of the new Palestinian Authority. Arafat has worked against Israel since the days before it was born. As an 18-year-old fighter, Arafat organized a gun-smuggling ring that was tasked with smuggling weapons into Israel for use by the Arabs who fought against the establishment of the Jewish state. When Israel was attacked by the combined might of the Arab world in an effort to annihilate the Jewish state at birth, Arafat was there, fighting the Jews from within their new borders. When the Arabs were defeated, Arafat fled to Egypt where he enrolled in Cairo University. In 1956, he formed al Fatah as an underground terror organization. Fatah competed with the Palestine Liberation Organization that was backed by Syria, Egypt and Jordan. In 1967, the Arabs attacked Israel again in the third effort to annihilate the Jewish state in 19 years. When Egypt lost the Gaza Strip, Syria the Golan Heights and Jordan the West Bank, the Arabs living there ceased to be Jordanians, or Syrians, or Egyptians, and they all became Palestinians. Arafat combined al-Fatah with the PLO in 1968 and declared himself chairman. Arafat has been called the father of modern terrorism. It was Arafat who discovered the value in hijacking American and Israeli airplanes. Between 1968 and 1973, Yasser Arafat oversaw at least nine international aircraft hijackings. Arafat outlined the goal of his organization and his view of a peace process with Israel in an interview with the El Mundo newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 18, 1980. Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all out war which will last for generations. We shall not rest until the day we return to our home and until we destroy Israel. Note that Arafat's vow is in two parts. He vows not to rest until, first, he returns to his home â presumably fulfilled when he returned to Israel following the signing of the Oslo Agreement. And from that moment forward, he has devoted his attention to the second part of his vow â the destruction of Israel. To that end, Arafat has spared no effort. The Oslo Agreement in 1993 gave the Palestinian Authority autonomy over the Palestinian educational system. Arafat promptly ordered a curriculum for young Palestinians that taught hatred of all things Jewish, taught that all of Israel was really the Palestinian homeland, that martyrdom was good and that the peace process was really just a delaying tactic. Arafat's indoctrination of a people, complete with the textbooks (financed by U.S. dollars) used to brainwash every Palestinian now under the age of 25, has been carefully documented. Through his control of state-owned radio, television and newspapers, Arafat was able to incite and brainwash the rest of his people that were old enough not to have received a proper Palestinian education. Again, this is all carefully documented. By early 2000, the Palestinian population was so completely convinced of the necessity to destroy Israel before a peace deal could be concluded, that Arafat needed to find an excuse for an uprising to vent popular anger before it turned on him. Peace was within his grasp, but Arafat was a wartime ruler. In peacetime, he would be quickly replaced, and he knew that. In July 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered him everything he had been asking for. If he accepted the Camp David offer, there would be nothing left to fight over. Planning the new uprising went into high gear. According to PA Communications Minister Imad Faluji: It [the intifada] had been planned since PA Chairman Arafat's return from Camp David, when he turned the tables on the former U.S. president [Clinton] and rejected the American conditions. All that remained to find was an excuse. Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provided the excuse he needed in October, and the spontaneous Al Aqsa intifada began. But Arafat can no longer control it. As Sheik Abdul Majid Atta told the Washington Times this week, Hamas owns the streets, not Arafat. The EU has demanded Arafat dismantle Hamas and Hezbollah. The U.S. has demanded he arrest 33 wanted terrorists. Even the U.N. demanded he do something about the continued suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets. But he can't. He created an atmosphere in which 4 out of 5 Palestinians support continued violence. Less than 20 percent support a ceasefire. His own lieutenants are breaking up into factions. If he meets the demands of the Europeans,
[CTRL] U.S. Strikes Resume as Deadline Passes
-Caveat Lector- http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/strike_MAIN.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! No Surrender U.S. Strikes Resume as Deadline Passes Dec. 12 â U.S. bombers resumed airstrikes on al Qaeda targets in the Tora Bora mountains after a deadline for surrender came and went. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence received the clearest indication yet that Osama bin Laden leader was still in the area. Al Qaeda forces had been told to surrender by 8 a.m. (10:30 p.m. ET Tuesday) after losing their positions in the mountains around the Tora Bora complex and indicating they were ready to discuss surrender terms, said Haji Mohammed Zaman, one of the three commanders leading the assault. But bin Laden's forces apparently ignored that deadline. According to some accounts, they said they would surrender only to U.N. diplomats, and/or representatives of their own nations. Many al Qaeda fighters are non-Afghan Arabs. The initial offer to surrender followed the drop of a 15,000-pound daisy cutter bomb on suspected al Qaeda positions on Sunday. Sources told ABCNEWS the bomb had a massive impact in terms of its outright destruction, and also set off a series of panicked radio and satellite-phone calls immediately after, and creating a flood of new hard evidence on the whereabouts of bin Laden. The communications told intelligence sources that bin Laden was near the blast and is now on the run â and that many other al Qaeda leaders were killed. According to sources, bin Laden and his inner circle are still in the Tora Bora mountains A Complicated Surrender Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that even if the remaining al Qaeda fighters in the mountains surrender, the conflict is far from over. There's no question but that some of the terrorists are on the run, and there also are pockets of terrorists and Taliban that are being attacked as we speak, Rumsfeld said Tuesday. But we all know that a wounded animal can be dangerous, and so, too, the Taliban and al Qaeda can hide in the mountains, they can hide in caves and, indeed, they can hide in cities. The cease-fire was ordered after Zaman held a radio conversation with al Qaeda leaders followed by a meeting between commanders from the two sides. An interpreter working for The Associated Press listened in on some of the radio negotiations between Zaman and the al Qaeda commanders. The al Qaeda fighters called me, they said, 'Please don't fight us, we want to surrender,' Zaman said, adding that the surrender would occur in small groups, not all at once. It was not clear, though, how many of the al Qaeda soldiers might actually be involved in any surrender, if it occurred, or what would happen to the mostly non-Afghan fighters. We'll give them to the United Nations. I asked them whether there were any women and children. They said they were only young men, Zaman said. Tonight we will make a plan to get them out. The news was greeted with skepticism by a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, and at the Pentagon, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, said even the term cease-fire was a misnomer. I don't think I would characterize it as a cease-fire, Myers said. There are some valid military reasons to stop fighting for a while before you resume and that is probably what you're seeing. Rumsfeld said the American position on al Qaeda was unchanged â if they want to surrender, they are welcome to, but there will be no deals. Our interest remains exactly the same: It is to capture or kill all the al Qaeda and prevent them from escaping into other countries or other locations in Afghanistan where they can continue their terrorist activities, Rumsfeld said. Calls by some al Qaeda members for negotiations could be just a stalling tactic, to give the mostly Arab, Pakistani and Chechen mercenaries who fought for bin Laden's terror network a chance to escape, Pentagon officials said. U.N. Special Envoy in Kabul In other developments: The White House is expected to release today a 40-minute videotape found last month in Afghanistan that offers another connection between bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen all said they want their citizens extradited back to them. ?These are our sons ⦠Those who are criminally involved will be punished. But they are our responsibility,? the Saudi foreign minister said. The Marines have expanded their operations around Kandahar. U.S. troops are stopping everyone, searching for weapons and destroying any that they find. Afghans who surrender their weapons are allowed to leave. Those who resist are killed. U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Kabul Tuesday to begin talks with rival leaders to try to smooth the way for the interim government, which is due to be sworn in on Dec. 22. The toll of dead and missing at the World Trade Center
[CTRL] China demands return of its terror fighters
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/12/wchi12. xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/12/ixhome.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China demands return of its terror fighters By David Rennie in Beijing (Filed: 12/12/2001) BEIJING yesterday demanded that Chinese citizens found fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan should be handed over to face justice - a demand that will alarm human rights groups and test China's fledgling anti-terror alliance with the United States. Zhang Qiyue, a foreign ministry spokesman, said China had been informed that ethnic Uighurs from the far western province of Xinjiang had been caught in Afghanistan. She said: Once they are determined to be Chinese citizens, the relevant side should hand them over to the Chinese side so as to handle them according to law. She repeated claims that hundreds of Uighur separatists had been trained in Afghan terrorist camps, and said the detainees had close association with international terrorist forces. A senior American anti-terrorist envoy, Gen Francis Taylor, confirmed last week that anti-Taliban forces had captured people from western China in Afghanistan. Uighur militants have carried out bombings and assassinations in Xinjiang, which was overrun by Communist forces in 1949, ending a brief period of independence as East Turkestan. *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] B52s break bin Laden's men
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560015-2001573033,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! B52s break bin Laden's men FROM JANINE DI GIOVANNI IN TORA BORA THE aftermath of the battle for Tora Bora was apocalyptic: a blasted scene of shredded clothes, bloodied shoes and scraps of abandoned food. Yesterday, as we walked past caves and defensive positions that al-Qaeda fighters had abandoned only hours before, Mujahidin fighters marched forward, their Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades hanging off their shoulders, calling out excitedly. âTheyâre gone,â said one. âThe Arabs have run away.â On this battlefield the awesome power of the bomber to destroy men and morale was in no doubt. The 15,000lb daisy-cutter bomb leaves little in its path, creating a 600-yard radius of destruction. Everything was blackened and broken. Everywhere we saw bloody shoes, tins of tomatoes, packets of biscuits, pieces of food the enemy had eaten before their last stand against the anti-Taleban forces were scattered in front of their abandoned positions. The eight days of bombing finally shattered the morale of the al-Qaeda fighters and yesterday forced them to turn and run. Wave after wave of B52s delivered the explosive force equivalent to the bombing of Dresden. The bombing was continuing last night with AC130 gunships being deployed again above al-Qaeda positions. For a week the Arabs had fought fiercely with mortars, tanks and long-range missiles. But yesterday, as 800 Mujahidin fighters were deployed against them, they were flushed from their caves and forced to climb to the higher ridges where escape will be difficult, if not impossible. A senior commander, Hazret Ali, said he was âone hundred per cent sureâ that bin Laden, who was believed to be leading the men, was still with them. âHe was spotted yesterday by our intelligence,â he said. Last night the Afghan Eastern Alliance commanders were claiming a decisive victory, with a possible Taleban surrender expected early this morning. But more than 1,000 al-Qaeda fighters were thought to be streaming towards the Pakistan border as they attempt to flee. According to local commanders dozens of heavily armed American soldiers made lightning raids against al-Qaeda command centres overnight and returned to the nearby village of Pacir before sunrise. In one place, fires still smoked where the Arab fighters had made their morning tea before being overrun by the Mujahidin.The trees were burnt and shrivelled, their branches, like arms, reaching towards the sky. On remnants of a CBU87 cluster bomb, an American soldier had written before dropping his weapon: âFor those whose dreams were taken, Here are a few nightmares. This is gonna shine like a diamond in a goatâs ass.â There was the stink of death, too, with pieces of uniform hanging from the trees, where someone had been blown apart by a bomb. Three al-Qaeda fighters in a snipersâ nest were shredded by gunfire. Down the mountain gorge into the Milewa Valley, the air was still except for the sporadic sound of machinegun fire and the occasional shell, the silence frightening after a week of heavy fighting. I climbed down the mountain, past a pile of stones that were used as gun positions and shelter from sniper and mortar fire, and into the caves and forward positions of the al-Qaeda fighters. I did not feel brave. I could not forget the words of the fighters who vowed they would fight to the death. The same ones who told villagers that they would come and kill any Westerners who ventured here. âThey might still be somewhere, hiding,â said one mujahidin soldier who had been fighting since early morning and whose shoes had fallen apart from marching up and down the ridges. He was leading me towards the caves, helping me up the dusty mountain. âThis could be a trap.â He still could not believe that the battle was nearly over. He pointed to the darkness of the cave that he was guarding, the stacks of ammunition boxes, the empty shells and cartridges, remnants of al-Qaeda. Down the valley, between the ridges where the plumes of smoke from bombs dropped by B52s rose, were further reminders of how these fighters had lived for the past few weeks. They left behind pieces of gym equipment â green plastic barbells, boxing gloves, weights â- and in the middle of the field they had constructed a primitive chin-up bar. Inside the dankness of the caves, there were scattered documents in Arabic, tattered notebooks, Kevlar helmets. Pillows and mattresses remained where they had slept. A soldier pointed out a ruined position. He said bin Laden had lived here. âThis was his house, his place.â As the sun went down, the soldiers gathered their blankets around their uniforms and prepared to break their fast for Ramadan. In one valley that had been gutted by bombs, a wrecked tank was left abandoned in the middle of
[CTRL] American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES An American Taliban fighter held captive by Marines in Afghanistan has told American officials that al Qaeda's next attack on the United States will take place in days and involve biological weapons, U.S. intelligence officials told The Washington Times. Top Stories ⢠1st terror indictment issued ⢠Tribal forces trap bin Laden's foreign troops ⢠Afghan wants to try Omar in home court ⢠U.S. says tribunals just for terror leaders ⢠U.S. to pull out of Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ⢠DeLay eyes majority leader post ⢠Father files grievance over pledge John Walker Lindh, the Taliban guerrilla captured near Mazar-e-Sharif, said in intelligence debriefings at the U.S. Marine Corps base near Kandahar that Phase II of al Qaeda's war against the United States will occur at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends Sunday. Mr. Lindh told U.S. intelligence officials that the Ramadan attack will involve the use of biological weapons. A third phase of al Qaeda's war on the United States will result in the destruction of the entire country, the Islamic convert stated. The officials said they have questioned the credibility of Mr. Lindh's claim because of his relatively low-level position. Still, the information was among other intelligence reports that led the Bush administration to issue a public warning last week about a possible terrorist attack, the officials said. No other details were available about Mr. Lindh's debriefing. However, the intelligence about the impending attack is an indication Mr. Lindh may have been part of the al Qaeda network in addition to fighting on behalf of the Taliban militia. A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that Mr. Lindh was providing information. He's been pretty close to the action, and he has provided from the Afghan perspective some useful information, Gen. Myers said on Fox News Sunday. I think the evidence is pretty strong that he was right in the middle of it. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told reporters the American had provided information that has been very helpful to the United States, including information on the prisoner uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif that led to the death of CIA officer Johnny Mike Spann. Obviously the people who really have the information that we really want to get are those top al Qaeda leaders and maybe some of the Taliban leaders and maybe we'll find it in documents in places we are now able to get into, Mr. Wolfowitz said Sunday. But I think anyone who knows anything about that organization is a potentially valuable source of information. The Pentagon has not decided how to handle Mr. Lindh and whether he will be charged with treason. The U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said in a statement that Mr. Lindh was being treated as an enemy prisoner of war. Mr. Lindh, 20, was videotaped as he was interrogated by the CIA officer hours before his death at the hands of rebelling Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif. He initially gave his name as Abdul Hamid. The Marines are using a large green metal shipping container to hold Mr. Lindh at their base in southern Afghanistan, according to pool reports from the base. Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton said he had no information about Mr. Lindh being held in the container, which is surrounded by barbed wire and Marine guards. A second Marine spokesman, Capt. David Romley, said later that the only detainee at the camp was Mr. Lindh. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters that valuable intelligence is being collected as U.S. and Afghan opposition forces take over areas once ruled by the Taliban. There's documentation being found and discovered and analyzed and translated, so that each day we learn more and know more, Mr. Rumsfeld said. As more address books are found and phone books are found and computer hard drives are found as people have left areas, clearly our knowledge base is going up. *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.
[CTRL] Is the Cold War 'Over'?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/10/232545.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is the Cold War 'Over'? Center for Security Policy Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001 Decision Brief No. 01-D 79 (WASHINGTON) â In his syndicated column in Monday's New York Times, William Safire offers an ominous assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signal successes he has achieved since President Bush started looking into his soul and declared that he trusts his Kremlin counterpart. Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, as alarming as the Safire critique is today â concerning, for example, Russia's machinations, at U.S. and Western expense, on NATO, Chechnya, oil prices, weapons sales to Iraq and other state sponsors of terrorism, etc. â the record could become even more damning if Secretary of State Powell has his way. 'Reading Putin's Mind' Bill Safire rightly worries that the new relationship being forged at President Bush's behest between Russia and the Atlantic Alliance will translate into Moscow having access to NATO's military secrets and an effective veto over its conduct of operations. He notes that Putin's ruthless repression of the Chechens has now been legitimated as just another front in the global war on Islamist terrorism. Safire wonders about Russian double-dealing on oil prices, too. He notes that Moscow at first declined to go along with production cutbacks sought by OPEC, but has recently signaled a willingness to make more-than-token reductions in supply so as to jack up the price per barrel. And he observes that, while the Kremlin was only too happy to have us attack its enemies in Afghanistan, Moscow will want no part of our doing the same in Iraq or other Russian client-states. The Powell Gambit These concerns are hardly unjustified. If press reports are correct, however, the gravity of their implications may be greatly compounded by Secretary of State Powell during his personal diplomatic mission to Moscow this week. According to the Washington Post, Mr. Powell told reporters en route to Russia that a deal between the United States and Russia to sharply reduce nuclear weapons is 'just about done,' and the two countries are now looking for ways to verify that they abide by the proposed limits. Specifically, they are focusing on how to apply verification measures included in the earlier START I and START II arms control treaties to the new limits proposed for offensive weapons. In other words, President Bush risks having a unilateral decision to reduce American strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds over the next decade morphed by his Secretary of State into a binding bilateral agreement, replete with verification mechanisms carried forward from earlier arms control treaties. This would be a very bad idea on several grounds. First of all, the number of strategic arms President Bush has decided to retain a decade from now â 1,700-2,200 weapons â may prove inadequate to future targeting requirements. One of the distinct advantages of making that decision as a matter of unilateral U.S. discretion is that it could relatively easily be revised down the road. That is not the case with understandings formalized by accords (treaties, executive agreements, etc.) between countries. Second, the START I and II verification measures are predicated on elaborate and artificial counting rules. For instance, a given long-range missile may have fewer warheads aboard it than the number it can carry but, in the interest of arms control monitoring, a larger number is automatically assigned to each missile of that type. Should such rules now be applied to the president's projected force levels â something explicitly rejected in their formulation and adoption â the practical effect would be that the United States could field still fewer weapons than even he thought necessary. Finally, and most troubling, Secretary Powell's efforts to get a deal on strategic arms violates a fundamental principle of the president's approach to Russia: The Cold War is over. The State Department's preference for arms control agreements with the Kremlin â replete with arrangements for verifying each other's compliance with such accords â amounts to a direct repudiation of Mr. Bush's concept of a new post-Cold War era. The affront would only be compounded were Mr. Powell to sign onto another deal that would perpetuate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty but somehow allow the U.S. greater latitude to conduct missile defense tests it prohibits. The Bottom Line In the world President Bush has envisioned, massive American nuclear reductions are possible. U.S.-Russian cooperation on intelligence, counterterrorism, drug enforcement and maybe even missile defense are imaginable (if debatable). Who knows, in such an environment, it might actually be possible to trust Russia with access to NATO's innermost councils, to maintain stable
[CTRL] Surrender in doubt; troops slip away
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp#BODY WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Surrender in doubt; troops slip away Dec. 11 â U.S. Marines are patrolling outside Kandahar to head off any Taliban or al-Qaida trying to escape. Jim Miklaszewski reports. NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES Dec. 12 â U.S. warplanes resumed bombing Wednesday morning around Tora Bora as U.S.-allied rebel forces prepared to enter caves in search of cornered al-Qaida forces. The foreign fighters allied with Osama bin Laden, who have been holed up inside the caves, turned their backs on a surrender agreement, insisting that they would only turn themselves in to the United Nations, according to Afghan reports. âAN INTENSE AND SEVERE fightâ is now likely, an Afghan commander identified as Yunas told The Washington Post. âThe Arabs want to surrender,â said the commander, but âthe Americans wouldnât let them.â The al-Qaida fighters had been expected to lay down their weapons by 8 a.m. Wednesday local time (10:30 p.m. ET Tuesday) and then walk a short distance to an alliance position where they were to have been searched. Trucks then were to have taken them to the allianceâs local command post at Agom village, about 3 miles to the southeast, where they were to be detained. Mohammed Zaman, defense chief of the U.S.-allied âeastern tribal alliance,â told NBC Newsâ Bob Campi after the deadline that the surrender had not taken place and that alliance troops would begin entering local caves in search of the al-Qaida forces. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press, which has close ties to the al-Qaida-supporting Taliban militia, reported that at the last minute, the fighters imposed a new condition: that they would surrender only to U.N. officials â and only in the presence of representatives of their own countries. âThe military mission remains to destroy al-Qaida.â â AIR FORCE GEN. RICHARD MYERS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff A group of al-Qaida fighters made radio contact on Tuesday to discuss surrender terms, but it was unclear how many al-Qaida fighters had been talking of surrender. In the past, forces loyal to bin Laden have vowed to fight to the death. There was no immediate reaction from U.S. officials, but Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, earlier had stressed that there was âno confirmationâ of surrender talks. âThe military mission remains to destroy al-Qaida,â he told reporters. Angry anti-Taliban fighters blocked reporters from moving to the intended surrender area, but Western journalists reported hearing gunfire. B-52 RESUMES BOMBING A U.S. B-52 bomber began making new bombing runs about an hour after Wednesdayâs deadline passed, the Arabic-language news agency al-Jazeera and the British Broadcasting Corp. reported from the front lines Wednesday morning. U.S. forces had continued bombing through the night in the general area to try to block escape routes for Taliban and al-Qaida troops. U.S. defense sources told NBC News on Tuesday that hundreds of such fighters, were believed to have slipped out of Afghanistan into neighboring Iran and Pakistan, alarming military officials. The Talibanâs supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, remains missing and was believed to have been holed up outside Kandahar, but U.S. officials told NBC News that almost all of the remaining top 22 Taliban leaders have escaped into Pakistan. Pakistani authorities, meanwhile, said they had arrested 20 foreigners trying to slip across the border from Afghanistan, the Pakistan News Service reported Tuesday. No further details were available. U.S. sources also told NBC News that as many as 500 troops of the Taliban and of al-Qaida, the terrorist network run by bin Laden, had bought safe passage into Iran after they were captured at Mazar-e-Sharif and Kunduz in the north. Most escaped on foot or horseback over remote mountain trails, while one top leader was wounded and still escaped, sources said. U.S.: AL-QAIDA STILL DANGEROUS Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters Tuesday that âthey can escape across the borders and regroup and then plot to strike again as they have promised to do.â U.S. troops from the 10th Mountain Division are patrolling the mountainous areas along the Pakistani border. And Pakistan, a key U.S. ally, said it had sent 4,000 troops to the area. In southern Afghanistan, U.S. Marine âhunter-killerâ teams with armed vehicles set up a staging ground about 12 miles from Kandahar to cut off escape routes, and UH-1 Huey command-and-control and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters were patrolling the air. âWe continue to conduct interdiction efforts to halt their fleeing and try to seal off as much as possible and as many as possible potential avenues for their
[CTRL] The end of sovereignty?
-Caveat Lector- http://townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/printpcr20011212.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Paul Craig Roberts December 12, 2001 The end of sovereignty? Tyranny is coming to Europe in the form of a new multicultural empire. Ancient sovereign states, such as England and France, and newer ones, such as Germany and Italy, are to cease to exist, and to be folded into a European superstate. National existence is targeted for extinction by about 2006, followed by national consciousness. Preparing the British for their demise as a people, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote in The Independent on Nov. 22 that in a world where states and the interests of their citizens are so obviously interdependent, we need to rethink our attitudes to concepts like 'independence' and 'sovereignty'. Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees. The war against terrorism, he says, has made national sovereignty out-of-date. If you think these are weak arguments for giving up the nation-state, you have a point. The basis for successful political life is a common language, history and culture, which create a people sufficiently cohesive for democracy or self-rule to arrive at compromises that reconcile conflicts. When multicultural diversity replaces a people, cohesion must be provided by coercion. Coercion is the response to the massive Third World immigration into European nation-states. The erosion of a people by diversity has evoked tyrannical laws in an effort to coerce an artificial commonality. Great Britain, for example, no longer consists of its indigenous peoples: English, Scots and Welsh. Britons are having to make room for large numbers of Africans, Indians, Arabs and Pakistanis. Shear numbers and victim-group status impede assimilation, which, in turn, both impedes the immigrants' progress and fosters resentment by diluting British culture. The consequence of non-assimilation is racial inequality. The Labor Party has responded by blaming racism. On Dec. 6, the government implemented draconian race equality laws. Public, private and voluntary organizations are under statutory obligation, policed by the Commission for Racial Equality, to produce racial equality in employment, college admissions, school performance, disciplinary proceedings, pay, benefits, facilities -- in short, a thoroughgoing quota system. Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, called the legislation a powerful lever for change. In effect, British culture has been declared unfair, because immigrants who do not assimilate are disadvantaged. Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain. Some German Social Democrats favor immigration as a way of diluting the German population, thereby diminishing the worst characteristics of the nation -- in other words, as a way of de-Germanizing Germany. Proposals are afoot to give the same state subsidies to Islamic cultural organizations as German ones receive. Dilution of national cultures by immigration is the basis for the European Union. A weakened sense of nationhood in Britain, France and Germany means no effective opposition to bureaucratic rule by the European Commission in Brussels. In order to criminalize national patriotism and opposition to immigration, the European Union is pushing forward legislation that makes xenophobia and racism crimes. Once this legislation passes, a European who, for example, criticizes immigration as an anti-diversity measure that is wiping European civilization off the face of the earth, can be found guilty of racism and sentenced to two years in prison. Similarly, persons who oppose EU measures as contrary to British values or French culture can be imprisoned for xenophobia. Hand-in-hand with the criminalization of national identity goes the European arrest warrant. Once in effect, an Englishman could be extradited to Greece and put on trial for offenses that are not crimes in England. No finer recipe for oppression could be devised. The oppression will be felt most keenly by the British, for it is the liberties protected by their unique legal system that will be lost. Oppression leads to civil war, not European unity. The United States, of course, is on the same path. In fact, it began here with coerced racial integration by judicial decree, a civil rights act that destroyed freedom of conscience and substituted coercion for persuasion, and unconstitutional racial quotas that destroyed equality in law. In the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, white governments are responding to the postwar propaganda about racist white hegemonic culture by disadvantaging the white populations and diluting the hegemonic culture. In the United States, the melting pot has been evicted by the slogan, Assimilation is racism. If the melting pot is dismissed as racist, it must also be racist to question immigration. In the United States, only one side of the immigration
[CTRL] A Warmer World Awaits: Fact or Fiction?
-Caveat Lector- A Warmer World Awaits: Fact or Fiction? http://spacedaily.com/news/greenhouse-01x.html Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2001 Record global temperatures, melting polar ice caps and glaciers, shorter winters, reduced snow cover, rising sea level, increased coastal flooding, more frequent hurricanes, dramatic shifts in the distribution of wildlife, vegetation and diseases, and changes in ocean currents. These are just some of the consequences that have been associated with changes in global climate caused by human activity - particularly the pumping of so-called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Noone disputes that, with a population exceeding 6 billion today and likely to become 9 billion in 50 years, the potential of humanity to alter our planet is now far greater than at any time during the previous 3,000 years of human history. However, the key questions remain. Is human interference with Nature really causing long-term changes to our climate? Just how realistic are the apocalyptic predictions? Greenhouse Earth Our Earth is a fertile oasis in space. The blue planet so admired by astronauts lies approximately 150 million km from the Sun. At this distance, our water-covered world should be frozen, a globe covered in a sheet of ice. On an airless Earth, the average surface temperature would be 33 degrees lower: -18°C instead of the present average temperature of +15°C. Only the atmosphere prevents Earth from freezing. In particular, the presence of certain heat-trapping gases - the greenhouse gases - provides our Earth with the mild, stable temperature that makes it so hospitable for life. The greenhouse gases, primarily water vapour and carbon dioxide, play a crucial role in regulating the temperature of the Earth since they are transparent to incoming solar radiation but they absorb some of the infra-red (heat) radiation emitted by the warm surface. The result is an increase in the temperature of the lower atmosphere. Other trace gases such as methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) also contribute to this global warming. Most of these occur naturally, but they may also be generated by human activity. The fear is that enhanced emissions of greenhouse gases from industry and agriculture will also enhance the natural greenhouse effect. There can be no disputing that concentrations of most greenhouse gases have increased significantly in recent years. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen by almost one third since 1750, largely as a result of fossil fuel burning and land use changes such as deforestation. Studies of air trapped in Antarctic ice cores indicate that the current level is the highest for at least 420,000 years, and possibly unprecedented for 20 million years. It is a similar story for many of the other greenhouse gases. Methane levels have trebled since 1750, nitrous oxide has risen by 17% and ozone in the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) has increased by more than one third. The situation is further complicated by the ability of certain man-made pollutants, particularly oxides of nitrogen and organic hydrocarbons, to have an indirect influence by generating ozone in the lower atmosphere. A Warmer World Scientists agree that global mean temperatures are half a degree Celsius warmer than they were a century ago, that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing for two centuries, and that carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas that is most influential in warming the Earth. It is also generally accepted that the 1990s were the warmest decade and 1999 was the warmest year since records began in 1861. However, despite this apparent link, the scientific community is unable to agree on whether the warming is caused primarily by CO2 emissions, whether it will continue, or whether it would be harmful if it did. One reason for this uncertainty is that the climate is always changing, said Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two centuries ago, much of the northern hemisphere was emerging from a little ice age. During the Middle Ages, the same region was in a warm period. Thirty years ago, we were concerned with global cooling. Apart from the natural climatic variations, scientists are also struggling to take into account the complex interactions that take place between the atmosphere, oceans, land and biosphere. Only now, with the advent of supercomputers and streams of data from Earth-orbiting satellites, are global climate models becoming sufficiently realistic to make reasonably accurate predictions. However, even the most advanced computer models cannot forecast the future with any precision, partly because of the complex interactions between the Earth's natural systems, and partly because they are often based on data sets covering no more than a few decades. This uncertainty is reflected in the latest Assessment Report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
[CTRL] Fast-Track Authority Would Boost U.S. Security Agenda
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stratfor.com/home/giu/archive/121101.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Fast-Track Authority Would Boost U.S. Security Agenda December 11, 2001 Summary The U.S. House approved fast-track trade promotion authority Dec. 6 by a single vote. The measure now goes to the Senate, where approval is nearly assured. Fast-track authority will change the calculus for many nations seeking expanded trade with the United States and will empower Washington to reward allies with bilateral trade deals. Analysis An eleventh-hour lobbying blitz by the Bush administration succeeded in convincing the U.S. House of Representatives to pass fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA) in a contentious 215-214 vote Dec. 6. If it becomes law, the measure will require Congress to approve or nix entire trade agreements without amendments -- greatly speeding the trade negotiation process. The legislation now goes to the Senate, which is traditionally friendlier to free trade initiatives than the House. Full adoption of the bill will greatly enhance President George W. Bush's ability to achieve security goals, as well as economic and political goals, through trade negotiations. That could affect the United States' relationships in many parts of the world. Moderate Muslim states such as Egypt and Turkey are the most likely candidates for such bilateral trade deals -- partly because they play an influential role in the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition. India, Tanzania and Russia are also possibilities, though to a lesser extent. *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] A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Subject: A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero Subj: KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA-HONORING A TRAITOR This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear.Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century. Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American Peace Activist the lenient and humane treatment he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton.From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent 6 -years in the Hilton- the first three of which he was missing in action. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a peace delegation visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: Aren't you sorry you bombed babies? and Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a black box in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's war criminals. When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as humane and lenient. Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me. This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of 100 Years of Great Women. Lest we forget...100 years of great women should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget. Jan Howman A HREF=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A *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
[CTRL] Not All Heroes Are Honored
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Not All Heroes Are Honored By Chuck Baldwin December 11, 2001 The horrific events of September 11 gave rise to many acts of heroism by numerous brave Americans. Many of these stouthearted souls have been duly honored. However, not all heroes are so honored. Some are left to suffer the devastating consequences of their courage alone and are totally forgotten. One such American hero is Linda Tripp. Does anyone remember Linda Tripp? Linda is the Pentagon employee whose honesty and courage led to Bill Clinton's impeachment. During a time when Democrats were 800-pound gorillas, Republicans were 90-pound weaklings, and the media were nothing more than Clinton lap dogs, Linda Tripp stood up to the awesome power of the establishment in a fashion not heard of since little David faced off against Goliath of Gath. Unfortunately for Linda (and for the rest of us, too), she has not been rewarded for her sacrifice. Instead, news reports recently revealed that Tripp is virtually penniless. She has not been able to find work since being fired by Clinton's war machine. As a result, she has lost her home to foreclosure, and any prospects for gainful employment appear minimal. Linda went from a job paying more than $100,000 per year to joblessness and penury almost overnight. For what reason? you ask. She heroically stood up for truth, justice, and constitutional government. President Bush's compassionate conservatism has not helped, either. One would think that one of Bush's first priorities would be to reward those great Americans who suffered so intensely under Clinton. It did not happen. Linda's phone never rang; her job was given to someone else. Linda Tripp has been treated as so much debris. She has received no kind words, no congratulations, no accolades, no rewards, nothing. However, Linda Tripp is an American hero! She represents justice and courage in a way that most people could only dream about. It appears that heroes are not created equal. It is not enough that one is heroic; he or she must be heroic in a matter deemed politically correct. Therefore, Linda Tripp is left to live out her days in obscurity, without appreciation or honor. Instead, Linda has seen herself become the butt end of every late night comedian's act. She has been denigrated by the press, hounded by the Democratic Party, and abandoned by the Republican Party. No, not all heroes are honored. Some, like Linda Tripp, must wait for a higher power to reward them. In the end, I suppose it is always that way. Real heroes do not seek the applause of others; their reward was found in what they did. They make most of us seem small - especially that crowd in Washington, D.C. *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] 10 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 10 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50 Monday Brief *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. __O__ FROM THIS WEEK'S E-MAIL ACCLAMATION FILES I recently told a friend about The Federalist, and thought you might share my comments: The Federalist is a more than excellent conservative newsletter that tells it like it is. The editors draw on The Federalist Papers to defend the unadulterated meaning of our Constitution. They call a spade a spade without worrying about being called racist for doing so. They call this country what it is, a republic, and not what it ain't, a democracy. They are real flag-wavers and proud of it. The Federalist is an excellent resource, whether you are just browsing for conservative talk or a public advocate of freedom and liberty. To read The Federalist is to be driven to tears by the plight of the oppressed and deceived, to be driven to anger by the hypocrisy of the Left, and to be encouraged by the words AND actions of the real heroes of America's past as well as her true present. Don't just read The Federalist, be a Federalist, and, by all means, support The Federalist! Each year we must raise 70% of our annual support between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Please register your support for The Federalist today. SUPPORT BY CREDIT CARD: Link to our Secure Commerce Page at -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp SUPPORT BY CHECK: If you prefer to support us by check, please make your contribution payable to: The Federalist. Suggested support levels: Individual -- $20, Family -- $35, Corporate and Professional -- $50, Advocate -- $100 and Founder -- $250. Larger contributions are, of course, welcome. (To prevent the IRS from dictating our editorial content, we have not elected charitable corporate tax status.) Please note your e-mail address on your check for proper credit. Mail your contribution to our subscription fulfillment center at: Federalist Fulfillment Services, P. O. Box 507, Chattanooga, TN 37402-0507 CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word __O__ THE FOUNDATION Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed. --Thomas Jefferson __O__ INSIGHT Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself -- and be lenient to everybody else. --Henry Ward Beecher __O__ GOOD NEWS For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) __O__ ICTUS IMPRIMIS The Bible was as much America's founding document as the Declaration of Independence or Constitution. The Founding Fathers' beliefs in liberty, equality before the law and representative government came from Sinai. The Constitution is a covenant reflecting a much older covenant. --Don Feder __O__ FAMILY The best news is that even the dimmest children now know they live in an actual country. For the first time in 50 years, kids have been exposed to emotional patriotism and have been confronted with the fact that there are other things of importance besides the mall, the latest rap CD and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Will American history actually make a comeback in school? Could happen. The not so good news is the fact that children have learned that their country cannot protect them. Anthrax letters, suicide terrorists and fanatical foreign governments pose a threat that can never be entirely snuffed out. Some adults have learned this lesson too but apparently those adults do not inhabit Congress. --Bill O'Reilly __O__ CULTURE Crass elites who might not be able to earn a thin dime in another society refer to flag waving as jingoism and compete with each other to see who can show more smug contempt for our society and the 'sheep' who support it unfailingly. We are constantly reminded
[CTRL] Week Ending: 8 December 2001/23 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: 8 December 2001/23 Kislev 5762 Hear the word of the L-rd, O nations, and declare in the coastlands afar off, and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.' For the L-rd has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. Jeremiah 31.10-11 This Week's Headlines: :: TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN IN HAIFA! :: MUFTI: SUICIDE BOMBINGS ARE JUSTIFIED :: IT'S OFFICIAL: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORISM :: ISRAEL RETAILIATES FOR ATTACKS :: PA/PLO ARRESTS MINOR PLAYERS :: REVITALIZING NORTH AMERICAN ALIYAH :: IS IT THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN? :: MEANWHILE, IN GENEVA :: ANTI-SEMITISM ALIVE AND WELL ON ARAB TV :: TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN IN HAIFA! A terrorist bomb attack occurred Sunday morning [9 December 2001] at a bus stop used by soldiers returning to their base on Bar-Yehuda Street in Haifa, near the Checkpost Junction. Northern District Police Chief Borovski reports the number of injured in the suicide bombing attack appears relatively low. Borovski added that the preliminary information reveals one of the security personnel assigned to the busy bus stop spotted the suicide terrorists, making eye contact, prompting him to detonate the bomb early, explaining the small number of wounded. Meanwhile, Idan Cohen, 17, has died of injuries sustained in the Jerusalem Ben-Yehuda suicide bombings last Saturday. The death toll is now 11. Twenty-six victims remain in Hadassah Hospitals in Jerusalem. Nine victims of last Sunday's suicide bus bombing in Haifa remain admitted to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. :: MUFTI: SUICIDE BOMBINGS ARE JUSTIFIED: The mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Akrameh Sabri, says that suicide bombings are justified and should be encouraged, according to a report published on Friday in the international Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat. Sabri was appointed by PLO leader Yasir Arafat. During a visit to Abu Dhabi, Sabri criticized the Muslim religious leaders in Egypt and Saudi Arabia who issued an Islamic ruling (fatwa) against suicide attacks. According to Sabri, We must not stand in the way of the intifada and jihad [holy war]. Rather, we must stand at their side and encourage them. :: IT'S OFFICIAL: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORISM: Following a marathon five-hour meeting Monday night, the Israeli government declared the Palestinian Authority a terrorist supporting entity. The security cabinet - Prime Minister Sharon, Foreign Minister Peres, and Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer - will decide on the specific steps to take in light of this decision. The government also declared the Tanzim, Arafat's personal Force 17, and Fatah [which is headed by Arafat] as terrorist entities, and will take action against them and their leaders accordingly. It was further decided to prevent Arafat from leaving the autonomous areas. [Editor's note: How long till the PA/PLO is itself declared a terrorist entity?] Tourism Minister Benny Elon said that calling the PA/PLO a terrorist-supporting entity has practical ramifications: It means, for instance, that the PA television and radio stations can be bombed I think that Peres, by walking out last night and fighting this decision, understood correctly that there is no more Tenet, Mitchell, or Oslo. :: ISRAEL RETAILIATES FOR ATTACKS: Israel effectively grounded Arafat when it launched an evening air-strike destroying his three helicopters at his headquarters in the Gaza Strip Monday. Israel also struck at Palestinian bases inside Jenin whose suicide bombers have murdered more than a score of Israelis in recent weeks. The IDF offensive continued Tuesday with helicopter attacks on PA/PLO police buildings in Ram'Allah, Gaza, and Salfit (south of Ariel). Four missiles were fired in Ram'Allah at a building practically next door to Arafat's office. The IDF entered PA/PLO-controlled areas around Ram'Allah, Shechem, and Tul Karem Monday night. The army also destroyed the Gaza airport runway used by Arafat. Israel Air Force jets strafed a mortar-shell manufacturing factory in central Gaza early Friday morning. The factory is located in a neighborhood called Arafat City, next to many buildings of the PA/PLO para-military force. The Israeli bombing followed the firing of 12 mortar shells by the Arabs Thursday at Jewish communities in Gush Katif. Palestinians fired at an IDF outpost near N'vei Dekalim Friday morning; no one was hurt. :: PA/PLO ARRESTS MINOR PLAYERS: Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Thursday that the PA/PLO has arrested no more than 2-3 significant terrorists -- and even they are being held in hotel-like conditions. Arafat says his forces have
[CTRL] [Spy News] US cable channel whitewashes the CIA (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:27:30 +0100 From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [Spy News] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Spy News] US cable channel whitewashes the CIA US cable channel whitewashes the CIA http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/cia-d12.shtml Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood, written, produced and directed by Charles C. Stuart By Joanne Laurier 12 December 2001 The US cable television channel American Movie Classics (AMC), devoted to broadcasting Hollywood films of the past, aired its own special on December 4. Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood is as revealing for what it omits as what it presents. From its title and the breathless quality of the narration, the viewer might have reasonably expected an exposé of the filthy deeds of the spy outfit and its connections to the American film industry. Instead, however, the show, with its pseudo- film noir veneer, essentially depicts the CIA as a life-saving, humanitarian entity. The program amounts to little more than a propaganda piece to improve the agencys image at a time when it is playing a central role in the US war drive. Indeed the show might rightfully be considered an element in one of the agencys own disinformation campaigns. Against a background of suspenseful music, the narration, read by prominent liberal Democrat actor Alec Baldwin, initially tantalizes by suggesting that the CIA has involved the entertainment industry in clandestine and sometimes sordid operations. The tone then quickly shifts and becomes sycophantic toward one of the worlds most hated and discredited organizations. The program is more or less given over to Tony Mendez, introduced as the former CIA chief of disguise. Needing some Mission Impossible -style help in the 1960s, Mendez approached Disney Studios, founded by right-winger Walt Disney, and enlisted the help of an award-winning makeup specialist, John Chambers. Chambers skills were used to put together disguise kits with which CIA operatives went into the field. A company that Chambers later formed with fellow makeup expert Tom Burman was called upon to design masks, concoct fake personas and phony companies for CIA missions in Laos, Poland, the USSR and Iran. The show provides only two or three examples of these missions. In one case Hollywood talent was used to effect the 1979 escape from Iran of six American diplomats. The latter had taken refuge in the Canadian embassy during the student takeover of the US embassy following the overthrow of the shah. Every detail of this rather trivial enterprise is discussed. No mention is made, of course, of the bloody repression carried out by the secret police, the notorious SAVAK, which the CIA helped set up and train, under the shahs regime. In order to appease the angry Iranian populace and perhaps win the release of the American hostages held by the students, thought was also given at the time to a scheme to fake the death of the shah, who was in the US undergoing cancer treatment. An individual was hired and work was done to prepare him to impersonate the shah. The fake shah caper came to naught, but the tale was told to highlight the extraordinary work of the CIA. The other story concerns the production of masks for a black CIA operative in Laos during the Vietnam War so that he could pass through checkpoints undetected. This is all very sanitized and unreal. The program fails to answer the obvious question: how often were Hollywood talents put to use in the course of assassination plots, the overthrowing of governments and mass killings? In fact, Mendez explains that his hope is that the program will counteract Hollywoods too-often portrayal of the CIA as the bad guy, and give a more balanced view of what spies do; that they are not the dregs of humanity. In the not-so-distant past, it would have been unthinkable for film industry technicians and artists to openly acknowledge collaboration with these dregs of humanity. The agencys crimes in Iran, Chile, Central America, Vietnam and elsewhere were too well known. It is not the CIA and its assets who have changed, but the liberal and media establishment, which now chooses to portray Mendez and the others as unsung heroes. In the second portion of Into the Shadows, entitled Hollywood Goes to Warreferring to the present conflict in Afghanistan the programs makers interview figures such as Michael Bay, director of Pearl Harbor, and Steven E. de Souza, scriptwriter for Die Hard. In the light of current efforts to enlist Hollywoods support for the new war drive, the shows producers apparently want to make clear that there is a precedent for such government use of the entertainment industry. In a cursory review of the postwar period, the program notes that President Eisenhower set up a department of psychological warfare which availed itself of the talents of screenwriter
[CTRL] Condit's Condems
-Caveat Lector- Shaped like little coffins, and guaranteed not to float, even in salt water. Slogan: Don't leave home without 'em, or else! 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
Re: [CTRL] The end of sovereignty?
-Caveat Lector- the nation state was no great deal in the 1st place -- We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. President John F. Kennedy From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:38:45 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] The end of sovereignty? -Caveat Lector- http://townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/printpcr20011212.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Paul Craig Roberts December 12, 2001 The end of sovereignty? Tyranny is coming to Europe in the form of a new multicultural empire. Ancient sovereign states, such as England and France, and newer ones, such as Germany and Italy, are to cease to exist, and to be folded into a European superstate. National existence is targeted for extinction by about 2006, followed by national consciousness. Preparing the British for their demise as a people, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote in The Independent on Nov. 22 that in a world where states and the interests of their citizens are so obviously interdependent, we need to rethink our attitudes to concepts like 'independence' and 'sovereignty'. Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees. The war against terrorism, he says, has made national sovereignty out-of-date. If you think these are weak arguments for giving up the nation-state, you have a point. The basis for successful political life is a common language, history and culture, which create a people sufficiently cohesive for democracy or self-rule to arrive at compromises that reconcile conflicts. When multicultural diversity replaces a people, cohesion must be provided by coercion. Coercion is the response to the massive Third World immigration into European nation-states. The erosion of a people by diversity has evoked tyrannical laws in an effort to coerce an artificial commonality. Great Britain, for example, no longer consists of its indigenous peoples: English, Scots and Welsh. Britons are having to make room for large numbers of Africans, Indians, Arabs and Pakistanis. Shear numbers and victim-group status impede assimilation, which, in turn, both impedes the immigrants' progress and fosters resentment by diluting British culture. The consequence of non-assimilation is racial inequality. The Labor Party has responded by blaming racism. On Dec. 6, the government implemented draconian race equality laws. Public, private and voluntary organizations are under statutory obligation, policed by the Commission for Racial Equality, to produce racial equality in employment, college admissions, school performance, disciplinary proceedings, pay, benefits, facilities -- in short, a thoroughgoing quota system. Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, called the legislation a powerful lever for change. In effect, British culture has been declared unfair, because immigrants who do not assimilate are disadvantaged. Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain. Some German Social Democrats favor immigration as a way of diluting the German population, thereby diminishing the worst characteristics of the nation -- in other words, as a way of de-Germanizing Germany. Proposals are afoot to give the same state subsidies to Islamic cultural organizations as German ones receive. Dilution of national cultures by immigration is the basis for the European Union. A weakened sense of nationhood in Britain, France and Germany means no effective opposition to bureaucratic rule by the European Commission in Brussels. In order to criminalize national patriotism and opposition to immigration, the European Union is pushing forward legislation that makes xenophobia and racism crimes. Once this legislation passes, a European who, for example, criticizes immigration as an anti-diversity measure that is wiping European civilization off the face of the earth, can be found guilty of racism and sentenced to two years in prison. Similarly, persons who oppose EU measures as contrary to British values or French culture can be imprisoned for xenophobia. Hand-in-hand with the criminalization of national identity goes the European arrest warrant. Once in effect, an Englishman could be extradited to Greece and put on trial for offenses that are not crimes in England. No finer recipe for oppression could be devised. The oppression will be felt most keenly by the British, for it is the liberties protected by their unique legal system that will be lost. Oppression leads to civil war, not European unity. The United States, of course, is on the same path. In fact, it began here with coerced racial integration by
[CTRL] happy anniversary
Title: happy anniversary one year ago today America officially abandoned democracy hail to the chief long live the new world order -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Justice Louis D. Brandeis NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew
[CTRL] The Futue Arab Israel
-Caveat Lector- Population new Arab weapon By Paul Martin THE WASHINGTON TIMES 12/12/01 LONDON - Amid American mediation efforts, a new battleground has opened up between Israel and its Arab antagonists. The issue: Whether Israel can be conquered by making Palestinians the majority of the population. After failing to extinguish Israel in three conventional wars and a war of attrition since its foundation in 1948, many Arab strategists are convinced that this is now the key to destroying the Jewish state without needing an all-out military conquest. The underlying thinking behind this concept is not entirely novel. In the past some planners considered that Israel could be killed with kindness. Their belief was that, after Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, Israel could be made so dependent on Arab trade and on water supplies piped across the Sinai from the Nile - an offer made by the late President Anwar Sadat - that it would eventually be unable to withstand Arab demands for a bi-national rather than a Jewish state, and then become progressively Arabized. Another popular Arab theory was that if Israel no longer felt it faced an imminent danger of destruction from the outside, its unity in the face of the enemy would evaporate, and supposed internal tensions between Ashkenazi masters and Sephardic minions would lead to the state imploding. Now, as the intifada sputters on, leading Arab strategists say they are fine-tuning plans to destroy Israel by using the population bomb. The prime proponent of this conquest by demography is Wahid Abdel Maguid, chief editor of the Arab Strategic Report, an annual publication of the Al Ahram Institute, Egypt's premier think tank. It's part of the group that publishes Al-Ahram, the semiofficial newspaper. We are capable of increasing the demographic threat against Israel if we demonstrate the necessary determination, Mr. Maguid said in a recent interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat. Currently, there are around 1.2 million Arab Israelis and some 5 million Israeli Jews, but the Arab birthrate is far higher than that of the Jews, and Mr. Maguid estimates that simply by natural increase the Arab population will equal the Jewish population in 34 years. However, Mr. Maguid outlines a five-point strategy for making sure this population bomb can be accelerated, hence defeating Israel without an all-out war: .Limit and even reverse immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union countries. .Bring Arabs living inside the pre-1967 borders into close alignment with their fellow Palestinians, encourage them to spurn their identities as Israeli citizens and give them decision-making roles in the anti-Israel campaign. .Maintain an ongoing intifada to discourage Jewish immigration and encourage Israeli emigration. .Continually build worldwide condemnation of Israel as a racist state to prevent Israeli pressure against Arabs to leave Israel or to reduce their birthrates. .Promote an influx of Arabs into pre-1967 Israel through infiltration and marriage. The population battle has been joined already. Not only has the intifada damaged Israel's economic output, living conditions and tourism, it has led to far fewer immigrants coming into the Jewish state. Apparently in response, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last month announced his government's plan to bring 1 million Jews to Israel by 2020. He identified as potential immigrants hundreds of thousands [more Jews] in the former Soviet Union, about 230,000 Jews in Argentina in dire material straits, as well as more than 100,000 in Brazil, 150,000 in Mexico, 600,000 in France, 80,000 in South Africa and thousands in Ethiopia. Mr. Sharon added: Israel is the only place in the world where Jews can continue to live as Jews and withstand the danger of assimilation. ... By 2020 we should gather most of the Jewish nation in the State of Israel. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, added: The country is strong today, but with a million more Jews it will become even stronger. When Israel overcomes its current difficulties, we can also expect it to attract Western Jews thanks to its thriving high-tech and biotech industries. The quality of life is rising all the time. Already the Palestinian Authority has recognized the dangers of any new wave of Jewish immigration. Its spokesman has condemned Mr. Sharon's proposal as a powder keg likely to set off a new explosion. His statement expressed fear the new immigrants could be settled in the West Bank and Gaza. Mr. Maguid's fear would be that these new immigrants settle within Israel's pre-1967 borders, as the vast majority of immigrants have, and make Israel more Jewish. Mr. Maguid said success for the Arabs can only come about if their leaders heal themselves from the disease of suspecting and fearing the Palestinians living within Israel's pre-1967
Re: [CTRL] A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero
-Caveat Lector- that was an evil war we had no business being there in the 1st place -- --- - Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it Elwood P Dowd NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:44:59 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero -Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Subject: A True Story...by a A TRUE Hero Subj: KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA-HONORING A TRAITOR This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear.Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century. Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1978, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the Hanoi Hilton. Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJs, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American Peace Activist the lenient and humane treatment he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton.From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4Es). He spent 6 -years in the Hilton- the first three of which he was missing in action. His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a peace delegation visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: Aren't you sorry you bombed babies? and Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a black box in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's war criminals. When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda. I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as humane and lenient. Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me. This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of 100 Years of Great Women. Lest we forget...100 years of great women should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget. Jan
[CTRL] Fwd: Doctor Heeds Dees' Deeds
Am sending this to CTRL at Listserve to see if mail running through ...so Here is a man, known as Morrise the Sleaze Dees, who deserves a little investigation - the Southern Poverty Stricken Law Center and for those interested pull up the item and see the pictures this man sends out who is also known as Sleaze Dees, whose own wife charged him with child molestation according to court records made available on the net, amongst other charges. This letter is written by one of his own; further some of these TV movies showing Dees as a such a moral man - have been sponsored financially by Deeswonder if this guy is involved in a certain amount of money laundering? Would make a nice front - right? Accountable to nobody? For the full effect of this sleaze Dee's tactics pull up under subject matter in particular about the BOMBINGS . Saba May 8, 1996 Mr. Morris Dees Chair, Executive Committee The Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Avenue P.O. Box 548 Montgomery, AL 36101-0548 re: MILITIA TASK FORCE Dear Mr. Dees: I have, until recently, been a contributing member to SPLC for several years, and until recently, I have been proud of that association. Even when the center received adverse publicity due to the overwhelming success of its financial strategy, I continued to support it. The Center's programs for Teaching Tolerance and pursuing justice for those whose civil rights were violated have made a lasting and positive impression on American society. Unfortunately, the SPLC's new focus is detracting from our solid reputation, and if it does not change soon, I fear that the damage to an excellent organization will be permanent. As the impact of the SPLC lawsuits against bigotry and racially-motivated violations of constitutional protections were felt, their efficacy was proven by the waning severity of the violations that were pursued in the courts. As this occurred, the Southern Poverty Law Center was faced with a choice: it had to widen or shift its focus. The question was, how? In the past, the Lawsuits by SPLC have been taken up on behalf of the weak in order to secure compensation and/ or some measure of justice against a somewhat stronger entity, whether that entity was a well-financed racist fringe group, or a local government. With the overwhelming success of this strategy, new frontiers had to be opened. There are many out there whose civil rights are being ravaged by the strongest entity of all - the United States Government - not for racial reasons, but for political reasons. I personally have three friends* who are currently fighting for their lives, and who have been through horrors inflicted on them by their own government, our government, the likes of which most people don't even believe can happen in this country. There are literally thousands like them, and these people are in severe need of assistance. But rather than seek justice for those so abused, the Center has chosen to exploit sensationalist journalism, to which the SPLC itself has contributed heavily, inducing largely irrational fears to fight against the so-called Patriot Movement and its related Militias. In the SPLC campaign, this heterogeneous group is painted with broad strokes in threatening ways which are very unfair to the great majority of those in the movement. Abuses of power by the federal government like those mentioned above have given rise to the Patriot Movement and the Militias. These are understandable reactions from a very concerned population. If we in the SPLC are truly concerned with the threat presented by these groups, we should be looking for ways to constructively address their legitimate concerns, rather that seek to blindly discredit and destroy the entire movement. There is no room for violence in the Patriot Movement. Violence always results in more power being granted to the federal government in the interest of security and at the expense of constitutional law - the exact opposite of what the Patriots seek. But any counter-establishment movement which addresses problems the magnitude of which are addressed by the Patriots is bound to attract some fringe elements, whose motives and means are dangerous and counter-productive. (In fact, the deliberate infiltration of such agent provocateurs by the federal government has been a common occurrence in its dealings with rebellious organizations for many years.) But instead of throwing out the baby with the bath water, the decent and truly patriotic core of the Patriot Movement should be integrated into the Center's constituency, rather than marginalized and alienated from it. In the SPLC's latest mailing, there is a picture of some militia men in fatigues, taking target practice with rifles in the desert. Their eyes are blacked out, and on the other side, we are informed that this is for security reasons. I would submit that the real reason for this move is because the defamatory nature of the Center's accompanying description of
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: More on Symantec, McAfee, loopholes, and espionage-enabled 'ware
---BeginMessage--- Previous message: Symantec, McAfee backpedal furiously on espionage enabled-software http://www.politechbot.com/p-02914.html ** Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:21:49 -0800 (PST) From: Annalee Newitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: symantec's new position To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you can post this if you like) --- Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've now heard contradictory reports from both Symantec and McAfee, though I'm inclined to believe McAfee's public, on-the-record statements. Declan, I've been interviewing spokespeople from Symantec (they don't like to give out their real names) about this issue for the past couple of weeks. I finally got one to go on record saying very specifically that if a Symantec customer located a copy of the Magic Lantern trojan horse virus and gave us a copy, we would be obliged to filter for it with our anti-virus software. In other words, their new public position is that they will actively block FBI-authored viruses. Interesting, no? Annalee = Annalee Newitz tech * pop * sex 415.487.2559 - cell: 415.378.4498 www.techsploitation.com ** From: Adrian Alcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Symantec, McAfee backpedal furiously on espionage enabled-sof tware Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:30:21 +1100 Hi Declan. Despite subsequent reports to the contrary, officials at Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC - news) and Network Associates Inc. (Nasdaq:NETA - news) said they had no intention of voluntarily modifying their products to satisfy the FBI. Spokesmen at two other computer security companies, Japan-based Trend Micro Inc. They probably wouldn't have to modify their product to suit the FBI. I don't use either Symantec's or NA's software, but I know that a Sophos installation requires extra files (called virus identity files) for each new virus to be protected against. Assuming that the same applies to McAfee and Norton, then we would be concerned if they didn't alter their product to identify the FBI's snoopware as it means they are doing nothing to identify, let alone act on the threat. Adrian ** From: Nomen Nescio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Symantec, McAfee backpedal furiously on espionage enabled-software You may be interested in the statement on Magic Lantern issued by Moscow-based anti-virus maker Kaspersky: Betreff: [Kaspersky Labs Press Release] The FBI's Magic Lantern Shines Bright Datum: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:53:09 +0300 Von: Denis Zenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] December 11, 2001 The FBI's Magic Lantern Shines Bright The FBI's latest cloak-and-dagger tool has attracted the attention of virus writers The rumors surrounding the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's developing of its own Trojan program, Magic Lantern, has drawn interest from the computer underground. On December 10, it was discovered that a seventeen-year-old Argentinean hacker, going by the pseudonym of Agentlinux, has developed a Trojan that poses as the widely advertised Magic Lantern. We remind readers that in mid-November, MSNBC reported that the FBI has begun developing its latest spy program that will allow the Bureau to discover and crack PGP encoded messages sent by suspects under investigation. Magic Lantern is a classic keystroke-tracking bug that FBI authorities, by logging a suspect's keystrokes and transmitting them to a secret file, could use to decipher encoded files and messages containing supposed evidence. The FBI has yet to comment about the Magic Lantern program, but, according to ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2829781,00.html), two US-based anti-virus developers, McAfee and Symantec, have already decided not to include detection procedures for Magic Lantern in their databases, causing varying reactions amongst users. As previously mentioned, December 10 witnessed the appearance of a Trojan program that masks itself as Magic Lantern. Malantern (the Trojan's given name) is a very simplistic malicious program written in Visual Basic. Upon start up, Malantern deletes files in the Windows temporary directory (C:\WINDOWS\TEMP) and all .SYS files in the Windows system drivers directory (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DRIVERS\). So far, we haven't registered any reports of incidents caused by Malantern. However, it isn't important that the program isn't spreading. What is necessary to realize is that with the appearance of the official 'Lantern,' virus writers won't wait long to release numerous clones, commented Eugene Kaspersky, Head of Anti-Virus Research at Kaspersky Labs. In addition, the possibility that the original Trojan version could end up in the hands of hackers cannot be excluded. In
[CTRL] Some Further News of Laissez Faire City
-Caveat Lector- Many links in article at site. Om K - http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.50/lfc_news2.html Some Further News of Laissez Faire City by J. Orlin Grabbe On a Lufthansa flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Frankfurt, Germany, I discovered there was still some sanity left in the world. I unrolled the cutlery wrapped in the dinner service napkin and found two forks and two knives. Real stainless steel forks, and real stainless steel knives. Everyone else had them also. If anyone tries to rush the cockpit, I thought to myself, he'll end up with at least two eating utensils embedded in softer portions of his anatomy. I was thinking of the forks, not the knives. Forks make better weapons. When I was growing up in Texas, it was a rule of thumb that a sharp fork was a standoff against a pocket knifemuch like the equivalent point value of a knight and a bishop in chess. But life was different elsewhere, further north, in the land of norteamericanos locos, as they might say in Costa Rica, orsince I am writing this while overlooking the Persian Gulfback in that great Fount of Terrorism, the U.S. There in the land of the locos they believe the way to stop hijackers is to disarm all the passengers. And they believe the way to drum up more air travel business is to make the lines longer, and to turn up the metal detectors to gonad-frying levels, and to execute security romps through each woman's underwearrather than just the usual invasions they undertake with relish whenever a boarding passenger looks sexyand to do their best to tangle up computer cables before cramming them back into the carry-on case. And the loco way of stopping terrorism is to bomb innocent farmers and shepherds and hungry people, so they and their children and their children's children will just love you and will never have a reason to plant an explosive in your territorial space or send one of your children a letter filled with anthrax, or something unappreciative like that. And the loco way of making the country safe from what are alleged to be foreign goofs flying airplanes into buildings is to trash the U.S. Constitution and turn the country into a fascist police state with increased surveillance of banking transactions and email and political activity, and to have more warrantless arrests and searches and seizures, and to give the odious, criminal FBI more police powers, and the CIA more military and assassination powers, and to create a new domestic Gestapo called the Office of Homeland Security. All to the apparent cheers of the American people, according to the polls. (Just who are they polling these days?) And when the news media doesn't go alongwell, they are next on the list to receive one of those little letters filled with anthrax, now, aren't they? That'll straighten them out while the locos censor web sites and news reports and set out to bomb a half dozen countries, and thus clean out military inventories and get the factories back into war production and make some money again, dammit. And the loco way of creating airline security is to put the Federal Government in charge, so it can do for airports what it did for the U.S. bordernamely let through the drugs and illegal immigrants, while harassing ordinary, law-abiding citizen travelers. The first thing that came into my mind when I heard of the proposal to nationalize airport security was, Oh, a return to the good ol' days, when officially-approved drugs and arms were transported via ordinary commercial airline passenger flights. I was sitting at an outside table at a restaurant in San Jose (Costa Rica, not California) when the waiter said to me, Big trouble in the U.S., no? It was shortly after noon on September 11. I had worked late, to about 7 a.m., and had gone to bed, and had just gotten up to have breakfast/lunch and to do some work I had brought along with me. After listening to him for a few minutes, I decided I hadn't the faintest idea what he was talking about. Then someone I knew came out of the door, and he explained about the four planes. I sat there stunned for a while, refusing to go inside the restaurant and watch TV. I tried to go back to my work. Then I sat there and cried for about thirty minutes. It is not my style to cry in public. I used to work a half-block from the World Trade Center, seeing it whenever I looked out of the window of 220 Broadway (or 222 Broadwaythe same building has both addresses) and down the street past the Millennium Hotel, whose upstairs bar we sometimes frequented after work. I had been there at my desk at the investment bank Barclays de Zoete Wedd when the previous World Trade Center bombing had taken place. So now, in San Jose, I thought of the people I knew who might be dead; I thought nostalgically of an area that carried too many old memories, beginning in the days I was trying to start a financial software company; and I had a feeling the world had suddenly shifted out of kilter; and I cried.
[CTRL] Understanding the Terrorist War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.50/understanding_war.html Understanding the Terrorist War Some Reflections on Strategy by B. Gold There comes a time when we must put aside our moral sentiments and consider matters with the cold calculus of war. Let us consider the realities. It is immediately obvious that there is a vast disparity of strength between the US and the terrorists. This is the first and singular fact to consider. If this wasn't the case, there would be no need for terrorism. The enemy would simply negotiate what it wanted from a position of strength or they would pursue open warfare. The fact that they do not and can not is an indication of their weakness. Accordingly, their war from the shadows is in itself an admission of weakness. They are seeking the classic advantages of stealth and cunning while they minimize the US's military, political and economic advantages. This disparity of strength is even more glaring when we consider the issue of Jihad. Much talked about and threatened, its actual history is one of utter failure. This history clashes with the common perception of Jihad as a new and unprecedented threat. In actuality, the clerical faction that is promoting Holy War has been actively engaged in this practice for close to a century. Militants have been calling for Jihad ever since the Jewish colony was established in Palestine after the First World War. A call that intensified after the foundation of Israel and its successful war of national survival in 1947 and 48. The plain truth is that these calls for Jihad have failed and are continuing to fail. They have generated extremist groups, terrorism, mobs and political agitation. Nevertheless, in no case and at no time has there been anything resembling a mobilization for general warfare much less full blown religious warfare. These facts are the key to understanding the terrorist strategy. The hard bottom line is that they can not win this war in any meaningful sense and they know they can't win. They know that winning is beyond their capabilities. However, the possibility exists that the US will win the war for them. That if the US is manipulated cunningly enough, if its weaknesses are exploited shrewdly enough, it just might deliver the victory that is beyond their own strength. This article examines this possibility and that strategies that flow from it. Psychological Warfare Their basic strategy is to use psychological warfare to gain the victories they can not accomplish in the field. The raid on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon are examples of this strategy in action. These raids were calculated to gain the maximum amount of attention and generate the maximum amount of emotional response. They achieved this goal. However, if one puts aside one's understandable moral outrage to consider these raids militarily they are far less impressive. First, they have had very little impact on America's actual military, economic or political strength. True, they killed a serious number of people, even a shocking number by current peacetime standards, but the casualty figures are not particularly impressive compared to bombing casualties in Britain or Germany during the Second World War. They also destroyed a number of large buildings but the US is not short of large buildings and can demonstrably build more. The raid, despite its human and material damage, was aimed at America's emotions. The very symbolic nature of the targets and the symbolic nature of the date (911) underlie this basic intent. Further, we must note that these were merely raids not invasions or campaigns. As such, they maximized the raider's advantages of surprise, preparation and planning. Much has been said of their success. However, when one has unlimited time to prepare, can pick when, were and how and it is an initial strike against an enemy at peace success is not so impressive. Given so many advantages success at least in the tactical sense is not particularly difficult. The same can be said of the Anthrax attack. Mailing a few letters with poison is not difficult. We can also note that the targets, politicians and media types, are justly famous for over-reaction and moral panics. Clearly, this attack's main aim was not to produce casualtiesso far 4-5 dead in a nation of 300 million. Its aim was psychological, to destroy our sense of proportion, to inflate our assessment of risk and to push us into reaction. Its aim is clearly to influence public policy and its targets in politics and the media were selected for that purpose. The terrorists are clearly trying to generate a political response by the much larger and stronger US. Their hope is that the US will respond with ham-handed stupidity and create the victory that is beyond their own strength. They operate in the hope that the US will adopt practices so in tune with a moral panic and so out of tune with the realities that the policies will be self-defeating. In short,
[CTRL] Fwd: New Laissez Faire City Times Now Online V5.50 - 12/10/01
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Re: [CTRL] The Futue Arab Israel
-Caveat Lector- This story does not ring true - but then look at America and see rather, is this not what is happening here? Over and over we read the face of America darkens.well okay, but if it is part of a plan then whose plan is it? Of what importance is Israel to anybody, other than the Israels.Sharon threatens to bring in all these jew when they do not have enough water now, to serve their own for after all, good government is about services to the people, not fighting about religion and how can they call this mess even religion. What does anybody want from Israel other than the Palestinians who seem to have been hurt the mostwho is this Hamas and this other group. Are we missing a third party involvement here for the plan is - the Master Plan - calls for the viritual aniliation of Israel by five Arab Countries. Will say this for Larry Silverstein - he wanted Israel off the welfare list - to stand on its own..you had jews murdering jews when it came to Rabin? Of what importance is Israel, so isolated and just a fly speck on the map, of what importance are they to anybody other than the true believers? Was item on the list about Ramadan and a dated re their calendara of the 27th as being possible bad day for USA or maybe Israel.well I got new, they do not use a Koran, the killers use a King James Bible. If these Phineas Priests are involved in murder - get them and round them up.but they why all the missing pages from Numbers in this particular bible - this strange bible published in a manner where missing pages done deliberately, timed up date wise to major murder. And, in Numbers 25 you find the story of the sons of Eli - one of which was Phineas and those guys were bad news.yet it ws Phineas who murdered using the spear later to be held by Charlemagne and then by Longinus when he pierced the side of Christ and on to be held by HitlerGeorge Patton realized the significance of this spear, and it was returned to a museum - the spear that pierced the side of Christ was of little consequence to the barbarians who stole billions in gold (and this includes the Japanese in the game of gold dealing) and other treasures - it took a man like Patton to return same to the museum? Hitler recognized the importance..for it symbolized the coming of the atomic age and the man who would harness this power which could be used for good or evil - this man now is the President of the United States. NATO - well when one wards off demons, you have to use the right words - problem seems to be, power is now held by those who are just plain unworothy. How do we get rid of these bums? Just a thought.The Phineas Brotherhood of which I had heard mentioned in hushed voices - were the men in on the Manhattan project. Hey where did the build those twin towers..are the doomsdayers getting revenge but who really is behind it all. So do not blame the celebration of Ramadan for anything that might happen. For the use of Gideon Forces - got the wrong bible Try King James Bible and December 28 is the date to watch and hopefully all will be peaceful - at last they are beginning to admit to a calendar of events. Imagine George Bush is onto them but I do not believe Osama bin Laden pulled off the Twin Towers job for 7 billon dollars, is a lot of money tax clear TAX CLEAR. The King James Bible is the Master Plan..Jesus Christ closed the book in Isaiah and without words said hey now way, we got a new book the New Covenant or New Testament but then where there is a testament there must by necessity be the death of the testator. What did David Koresh know that we do not know? This man who flew the flag of the Fiery Flying Serpents? What did McVeigh know when he circled the passages in the bible Wrath of God.. Could the Palestians and the Israelis both be victims of this third party who pushes them further and further towards their Armageddo? Well read Daniel and Ezekial and when you read of the bough in one hand and the arrows in the other, think Presidential Seal in Ezekial 38 and 39 you find the clues for over this we already buried one president in 1963the Valley of Hamon Gog. And you know it had to be that John F. Kennedy had to fall in the open field - for Jean Dixon and the astrologers (Chaldeans) were working overtime creating the vision and the scenario, of same. Saba At least this is what I think and know to be true. 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
Re: [CTRL] happy anniversary
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/01 7:30:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one year ago today America officially abandoned democracy We never have been a democracy, we were founded as a representative republic. 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] CLARIFYING THE VISION - welcome to medialens
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.medialens.org/frameset.html - CLARIFYING THE VISION - welcome to medialens Search for Search Wed Dec 12 07:33:19 2001 Media Lens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable. In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power. We reject the idea that journalists are generally guilty of self-censorship and conscious lying; we believe that the all-too-human tendency to self-deception accounts for their conviction that they are honest purveyors of uncompromised truth. We all have a tendency to believe what best suits our purpose - highly paid, highly privileged editors and journalists are no exception. Media Lens has grown out of our frustration with the unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of many of the problems facing us, such as human rights abuses, poverty, pollution and climate change. Because much modern suffering is rooted in the unlimited greed of corporate profit-maximising - in the subordination of people and planet to profit - it seems to us to be a genuine tragedy that society has for so long been forced to rely on the corporate media for 'accurate' information. It seems clear to us that quite obvious conflicts of interest mean it is all but impossible for the media to provide this information. We did not expect the Soviet Communist Party's newspaper Pravda to tell the truth about the Communist Party, why should we expect the corporate press to tell the truth about corporate power? We believe that media 'neutrality' is a deception that often serves to hide systematic pro-corporate bias. 'Neutrality' most often involves 'impartially' reporting dominant establishment views, while ignoring all non-establishment views. In reality it is not possible for journalists to be neutral - regardless of whether we do or do not overtly give our personal opinion, that opinion is always reflected in the facts we choose to highlight or ignore. While we seek to correct corporate distortions as honestly as possible, our concern is not to affect some spurious 'objectivity' but to engage with the world to do whatever we can to reduce suffering and to resist the forces that seek to subordinate human well-being to profit. We do not believe that passively observing human misery without attempting to intervene constitutes 'neutrality'. We do not believe that 'neutrality' can ever be deemed more important than doing all in our power to help others. We accept the Buddhist assertion that while greed and hatred distort reason, compassion empowers it. Our aim is to increase rational awareness, critical thought and compassion, and to decrease greed, hatred and ignorance. Our goal is not at all to attack, insult or anger individual editors or journalists but to highlight significant examples of the systemic distortion that is facilitating appalling crimes against humanity: the failure to communicate the truth of exactly who is responsible for the slaughter of 500,000 Iraqi children under five; the silence surrounding the motives and devastating consequences of corporate obstruction of action on climate change; the true nature, motives and consequences of 'globalisation'; the corporate degradation and distortion of democratic society and culture. Our hope is that by so doing we can help all of us to free ourselves from delusions. In the age of global warming and globalised exploitation these delusions threaten an extraordinary, and perhaps terminal, disaster - they should not be allowed to go unchallenged. We have to acknowledge the debt we owe to Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, and in particular to their brilliant (and largely ignored) text, 'Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media'. (Pantheon, 1988) We recommend Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model of media control as a basis for understanding the manner in which truth is filtered from, rather than consciously obstructed by, the modern media system. We hope that this website will help to turn bystanders into compassionate actors. As historian Howard Zinn has written: Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and
[CTRL] Tell people the truth, Mr. President
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.medialens.org/articles/rmb_tell_the_truth.html - Tell people the truth, Mr. President By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col. USAF, ret. 10-25-01 A few years ago, terrorists destroyed two U.S. embassies. President Clinton retaliated against suspected facilities of Osama bin Laden. In his television address, the President told the American people that we were the targets of terrorism because we stood for democracy, freedom, and human rights in the world. On that occasion, I wrote: Tell people the truth, Mr. President ... about terrorism, not about poor Monica. If your Lies about terrorism go unchallenged, then the terror war you have unleashed will likely continue until it destroys us. The threat of nuclear terrorism is closing in upon us. Chemical terrorism is at hand, and biological terrorism is a future danger. None of our thousands of nuclear weapons can protect us from these threats. These idols of plutonium, titanium, and steel are impotent. Our worship of them for over five decades has not brought us security, only greater danger. No 'Star Wars' system ... no matter how technically advanced, no matter how many trillions of dollars was poured into it ... can protect us from even a single terrorist bomb. Not one weapon in our vast arsenal can shield us from a nuclear weapon delivered in a sailboat or a Piper Cub or a suitcase or a Ryder rental truck. Not a penny of the 273 billion dollars a year we spend on so-called defense can actually defend us against a terrorist bomb. Nothing in our enormous military establishment can actually give us one whit of security. That is a military fact. Mr. President, you did not tell the American people the truth about why we are the targets of terrorism. You said that we are the target because we stand for democracy, freedom, and human rights in the world. Baloney! We are the target of terrorists because we stand for dictatorship, bondage, and human exploitation in the world. We are the target of terrorists because we are hated. And we are hated because our government has done hateful things. In how many countries have we deposed popularly elected leaders and replaced them with puppet military dictators who were willing to sell out their own people to American multinational corporations? We did it in Iran when we deposed Mossadegh because he wanted to nationalize the oil industry. We replaced him with the Shah, and trained, armed, and paid his hated Savak national guard, which enslaved and brutalized the people of Iran. All to protect the financial interests of our oil companies. Is it any wonder there are people in Iran who hate us? We did it in Chile when we deposed Allende, democratically elected by the people to introduce socialism. We replaced him with the brutal right-wing military dictator, General Pinochet. Chile has still not recovered. We did it in Vietnam when we thwarted democratic elections in the South which would have united the country under Ho Chi Minh. We replaced him with a series of ineffectual puppet crooks who invited us to come in and slaughter their people_ and we did. (I flew 101 combat missions in that war which you properly opposed.) We did it in Iraq, where we killed a quarter of a million civilians in a failed attempt to topple Saddam Hussein, and where we have killed a million since then with our sanctions. About half of these innocent victims have been children under the age of five. And, of course, how many times have we done it in Nicaragua and all the other banana republics of Latin America? Time after time we have ousted popular leaders who wanted the riches of the land to be shared by the people who worked it. We replaced them with murderous tyrants who would sell out and control their own people so that the wealth of the land could be taken out by Domino Sugar, the United Fruit Company, Folgers, and Chiquita Banana. In country after country, our government has thwarted democracy, stifled freedom, and trampled human rights. That's why we are hated around the world. And that's why we are the target of terrorists. People in Canada enjoy better democracy, more freedom, and greater human rights than we do. So do the people of Norway and Sweden. Have you heard of Canadian embassies being bombed? Or Norwegian embassies? Or Swedish embassies. No. We are not hated because we practice democracy, freedom, and human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in third world countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. And that hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism _ and in the future, nuclear terrorism. Once the truth about why the threat exists is understood, the solution becomes obvious. We must change our government's ways. Instead of sending our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so the oil companies can sell the oil under their sand, we must send them to rebuild their infrastructure,
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Access to information is declining after Sept. 11
---BeginMessage--- Access to information is declining after Sept. 11 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-insshrinkingaccess120901dec0 9.story By Eric Lichtblau | National Correspondent Posted December 9, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The document seemed innocuous enough: a survey of government data on reservoirs and dams on CD-ROM. But then came this past month's federal directive to U.S. libraries: Destroy the report. So a Syracuse University library clerk broke the disc into pieces, saving a single shard to prove that the deed was done. The unusual order from the Government Printing Office reflects one of the hidden casualties of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: the public's shrinking access to information that many once took for granted. Want to find out whether there are any hazardous waste sites near the local day-care center? What safety controls are in place at nuclear power plants? Or how many people are incarcerated in terrorist-related probes? Since Sept. 11, it has become much harder to get such information from the federal government, a growing number of states and public libraries as heightened concern about national security has often trumped the public's right to know: [...] The trend reverses a decades-long shift toward greater public access to information, even highly sensitive documents such as the Pentagon Papers or unconventional manifestos such as the Anarchist's Cookbook, a compilation of recipes for making bombs. The popularity of the Internet has made sensitive information even easier to come by in recent years, but the events of Sept. 11 are now fueling a new debate in Washington: How much do Americans need to know? The swinging of the pendulum away from open records, supporters of the trend say, is a necessary safeguard against terrorists who could use sensitive public information to attack airports, water treatment plants, nuclear reactors and more. In an Oct. 12 memo announcing the new FOIA policies, Attorney General John Ashcroft said that, while a well-informed citizenry is essential to government accountability, national security should be a priority. But academicians, public-interest groups, media representatives and others warn of an overreaction. [...] Officials acknowledge there are few examples of terrorists using public records to glean sensitive information, but they say the terrorist attacks prove the need for extraordinary caution. The first directive by the Government Printing Office, made last month at the request of the U.S. Geological Survey, ordered libraries to destroy the water resources guide. While the depository program has pulled documents before because they contained mistakes or were outdated, this was the first time in memory that documents were destroyed because of security concerns, said Francis Buckley, superintendent of documents for the printing office. Because the water survey was published and owned by the U.S. Geological Survey, the libraries that participate in the depository program said they had little choice but to comply. Some librarians asked if they could pull the CD from shelves and put it in a secure place, but federal officials told them that it had to be destroyed. I hate to do it, said Christine Gladish, government information librarian at Cal State Los Angeles, which has pulled the water survey from its collection and is preparing todestroy it. Libraries don't like to censor information. Freedom of information is a professional tenet. Peter Graham, university librarian at Syracuse University, said: Destruction seems to be the least desirable option to me. . . . We're all waiting for the other shoe to drop. Are we going to see a lot more withdrawals (of documents)? That's my fear. Some have resisted the push to limit access, even on such nerve-rattling subjects as anthrax. The American Society for Microbiology, for one, has on its Web site certain details on how to produce an antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax. After the anthrax attacks, we had an internal discussion and decided not to remove it, said Dr. Ronald Atlas, president-elect of the prestigious scientific organization. [...] Chemical- and water-industry groups are lobbying the Bush administration to curtail regulations providing public access to the operations of public facilities, data that environmentalists say are critical to ensuring safety. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing publications that it has made available to the public, and it is almost certain to ask for the destruction of some of its titles. [...] --- This mail, sent by Mario Profaca, is clean, certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 11. 12. 01 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Quit now for Great American Smokeout http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM
[CTRL] CONGRESS INVESTIGATING SECRET AIDS FLOW CHART
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2001 Contacts : Boyd E. Graves, J.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Congressman James A. Trafficant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comptroller Walker, General Accounting Office www.gao.gov N.O.A.H. Zygote Media 1-800-257-9387 B.A.H.C. www.ericturemuhammad.com CONGRESS INVESTIGATING SECRET AIDS FLOW CHART http://www.boydgraves.com/images/brock100101.JPG (Washington, DC) U.S. Congressman Trafficant's offices confirmed Monday continuing activities inside the U.S. General Accounting Office to openly investigate the missing appropriations which spent over $550 million tax payer dollars to secretly develop HIV/AIDS. Comptroller General David M. Walker, head of the U.S. General Accounting Office responsible for the investigation. The G.A.O. is the investigative arm of Congress. The G.A.O. exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities to improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people. The investigation is in response to Dr. Boyd E. Graves' years of AIDS activism and Ohio Congressman Trafficant's answer to the peoples' demands for the immediate review and deactivation of the AIDS virus. Dr. Graves states any review of the secret U.S. Virus Program (1962-1978) and experimental phases of the AIDS Flow Chart will yield immediate better treatments for people dying from AIDS, Gulf War Illness, and other mysterious diseases. Dr. Graves has collected thousands of petition signatures from concerned citizens around the world demanding review of the secret AIDS Flow Chart. He has provided almost 20,000 Flow Chart documents freely to doctors, activists, the United Nations, and other world leaders educating and preparing for global review. Dr. Graves is considered both the discoverer and leading investigator of the secret AIDS Flow Chart. The thirty six inch black and white blue-print reads virus recipes and as been called the greatest document find in history. Dr. Graves' will present the 1971 Special AIDS Virus Flow Chart during the 11th Annual Black African Holocaust Conference at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, NY Saturday December 15th 2001. For more information visit www.boydgraves.com and www.ericturemuhammad.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] FW: Just a co-incidence... this was recently overlooked by major media
---BeginMessage--- -Original Message- From: Odell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:50 AM To: Harwell, Odell Subject: JUST A CO-INCIDENCE.. this was recently overlooked by major media Original Message Subject: JUST A CO-INCIDENCE.. this was recently overlooked by major media Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:46:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends: I guess this is all just a co-incidence. William Phillips of AMERICANS FOR LAWFUL GOVERNMENT, of Atlanta (ALG), today attended a meeting of local leaders pertaining to Homeland Security. Interesting information obtained by Bill was that the WTC was inspected by two Israeli security experts approximately 30 days before September 11, 2001. In attendance was an Israeli General, whose name I do not presntly have available. Read this article. Am I really just paranoid or what ?? I will have an addendum to this by tomorrow. Bill is speaking this evening in Atlanta regarding this. But this is quite interesting. MK **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 interestin receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only. [Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] = TWO MOSSAD AGENTS ARRESTED In Attempt To Bomb Mexican Congress From--- http://www.kosmos.uni.cc 11-26-1 Interview with Journalist Hector Carreon on 11-30: http://www.broadcast.com/shows/endoftheline/01archives.html From the PGR (Mexican Department Of Justice) official web site comes an interesting story. As reported in La Vox De Aztlan, two men, one of them a former Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested INSIDE the Mexican congress carrying 9mm pistols and dynamite. They were released shortly following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy. HARRY POTTER AND ANTHRAX MINUTIA DOMINATED U.S. MEDIA and somehow this minor co-incidence was overlooked! Army General and Head of the PGR Releases Two Israelis Arrested With Guns and Explosives Inside the Mexican Congress By Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan October 15, 2001 LOS ANGELES (ACN) - In a mind-blowing development, La Voz de Aztlan has learned that Mexican Army General Rafael Marcial Macedo de la Concha who heads the Procuraduría General de la República (Mexican Department of Justice) has released the retired Israeli Defense Forces colonel and presumed MOSSAD agent Salvador Guersson Smecke and Israeli illegal immigrant Saur Ben Zvi after both had penetrated the security of the Mexican Congress and where in possession of guns, hand grenades and explosives. This morning La Voz de Aztlan had a personal telephone interview with the Mexican Congressional Press Secretary, Lic. Adriana Lopez, and verified the arrest of the two Israelis after they had entered through the highly secured front entrance of the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro. She stated to La Voz de Aztlan that the two terrorists had taken advantage of a situation that occurred around 1700 hours of Wednesday October 10 when a large contingent of Sugar Industry Unionists were entering through the metal detectors. The two Israelis followed about 50 of the unionists to the office of the President of the Mexican Congress Beatriz Paredes. The two Israelis were first pretending to be press photographers but called the attention of the sugar unionists because of their nervous and out of the ordinary behavior. About ten of the unionists confronted them and observed that they were carrying guns and and what looked to them to be explosives. They held the Israelis until Official Congressional Security personnel took them into custody. The head of Congressional Security Salvador Alarcón verified that the Israelis had in their possession nine hand grenades, sticks of dynamite, detonators, wiring and two 9mm Glock automatics. Mexican Congressional Press Secretary Lic. Adriana Lopez informed La Voz de Aztlan in the telephone interview that Congressional Security then turned the terrorists Salvador Guersson Smecke, age 34, and Saur Ben Zvi, age 27, to the Procuraduría General de la República (Mexican Department of Justice) which is headed by Mexican Army General Rafael Marcial Macedo de la Concha. Initial reports by the Procuraduría General de la epública (PGR) were that both Israelis worked for a private security agency and that they both had gun permits. It turned out that there is no connection of either suspect to any private security agency. The PGR has released the retired Israeli I.D.F. colonel with the official explanation that he had a legal permit to carry a gun. They also released the illegal Israeli immigrant on about $4000 bail and the case turned over to
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News]The U.S. Department of Defense has launched five new weapon
---BeginMessage--- U.S. steps up purchase of Global Hawk spy planes http://www.circuitsassembly.com/departments/news/OEG20011210S0036 EE Times December 11, 2001 (1:49 p.m.) WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Defense has launched five new weapon acquisition programs since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, including a $5.5 billion program to speed up purchases of Global Hawk unmanned spy planes. According to a quarterly Pentagon summary of new and current acquisition programs called the selected acquisition report, the DOD launched plans prior to the end of the Sept. 30 reporting period to buy an unspecified number of the spy planes. The Pentagon announced in November that Global Hawk had been deployed to southern Asia to help provide new reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities over Afghanistan. Global Hawk is a high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying 13,500 nautical miles and initially carrying a 2,000-pound payload. It is designed to loiter over targets for extended periods, providing field commanders with high-resolution, near-real-time imagery of large areas. The spy plane was initially designed to carry synthetic aperture radar and electro-optical/infrared sensor payloads. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a research contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop a foliage-penetrating radar that could be applied to the aircraft. Global Hawk is being built by Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Ryan Aeronautical Center (San Diego). Other new acquisition programs listed in the Pentagon report include a radar upgrade for Navy F/A-18 E/F fighter planes. Called the active electronically scanned array, the DOD estimated the initial cost of the upgrade program to be nearly $2.4 billion. A communications program launched during the period is intended to meet the military's growing need for bandwidth as it attempts to transmit sensor and targeting data in near real-time. Hence, the military has launched a wideband communications satellite system called Wideband Gapfiller at an initial cost of $894 million. Together, DOD estimates that new acquisition programs will initially cost $15 billion. --- This mail, sent by Mario Profaca, is clean, certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 11. 12. 01 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Break free. Great American Smokeout http://us.click.yahoo.com/3vN8tD/.pSDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM -~- == SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html == *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews To change your subscription mode to Daily Digest (one message a day) send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that replying to THIS e-mail will not remove you from the mailing list. To unsubscribe SPYNEWS send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mario Profaca, independent journalist, SPY NEWS eGroup list owner, editor moderator, is a member of of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative administered through the offices of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in Washington, D.C. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Cannabis legalized in Switzerland
---BeginMessage--- AS OF TODAY, DECEMBER 12TH, CANNABIS IS LEGAL IN SWITZERLAND!!! The Swiss Government voted to completely legalize cannabis for personal use. It was in the fifties when Switzerland first imposed laws making it a crime to possess or grow marijuana, thanks to some pressuring from the United States and their drug laws. There are no details yet on sales or limits on how much you may have, since the law was just passed today. Currently there are over 650 shops that sell cannabis over the counter. This comes as a great relief for the citizens of Switzerland, knowing their humanitarian freedoms are in good hands. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Quit now for Great American Smokeout /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Gee, who put that thought in his head? After Mossad/CIA interrogation John Walker Lindh suddenly talking about upcoming bio attacks.
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- John Walker Lindh, the American who fought for Afgan Indepenence with the al Qa-eda is suddenly claiming that he knows that al Qa-eda is about to use bilogical weapons on the U.S. http://www.drudgereport.com/ THIS IS ABSURD. REMEMBER THAT BIN LADEN HIMSELF DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE WTC ATTACK UNTIL HE HEARD ABOUT IT ON AMERICAN NEWS PROGRAMS REMEMBER THAT THE AL QA-EDA HAS HAD ITS LINES OF COMMUNICATIONS CUT REMEMBER THAT JOHN WALKER LINDH IS AN AMERICAN AND THAT ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF AFGANISTAN THERE WOULD BE NO PURPOSE SERVED BY TELLING HIM OF INTENTIONS TO HARM HIS COUNTRYMEN THIS NEVER HAPPENED. JOHN WLAKER LINDH HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCEDURES THAT RESULT IN HIM MAKING THESE CLAIMS. BUT WHY WOULD THE U.S. WTC FRAME-UP CONSPIRATORS WNAT TO PLANT DISINFORMATION ABOUT IMPENDING BIO ATTACKS. SIMPLE.THEVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEY WANT ANOTHER FRAME-UP TO DISTRACT, TO BUY THEM TIME, TO GIVE THEM OBTIONS THAT OTHERWISE HAVE ALL RUN OUT. EXPECT BIO-WARFARE AND BE ASSURED IT IS OF ANGLO-AMERICAN-ISRAELI PROVINENCE. Cornered rats, you know. Dick Eastman Yakima, Washington www.whatreallyhappened.comwww.copvcia.comwww.emperorsclothes.comwww.rense.com http://www.drudgereport.com/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media
-Caveat Lector- http://www.medialens.org/articles/unholy_trinity.html An Unholy Trinity: Truth, Market Forces and the Media By David Cromwell Are you a regular newspaper reader? If so, you'll have noticed that many journalists and columnists include an email address at the bottom of their articles. They surely crave your feedback! So here's a fun experiment. Fire off an email to the commentator of your choice asking: 'To what extent can we learn the truth about the world from the mainstream media, your own newspaper included?' OK - let's flesh out the challenge a bit. Draw attention to the media's concentrated ownership, its need to attract advertising, the use of corporate 'flak' to maintain a business-friendly media, the sourcing of media 'news' from centres of political and corporate power, and the demonisation of the 'enemy' (Communists, Galtieri, Gaddafi, Milosevic, Saddam,...). Point to abysmal media performance on any number of issues: western intervention in Indochina; the sanctions against Iraq which kill up to 200 children under the age of five every day; the machinations of business lobby groups in Brussels, Washington, London to further a 'deregulated' corporate-shaped global economy; the obstructionism of even mainstream business - such as the US Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers - in the face of global warming; and the attempt of the 'greener' oil companies like Shell and BP to keep the emerging technologies of clean and renewable energy out of community hands. In other words, mass media performance - its omissions, biases, distortions, deceptions - reflects the fact that the mass media is itself part of the same power structure that plunders the planet and inflicts human rights abuses on a massive scale. Armed with such arguments, courtesy of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's 1988 landmark book 'Manufacturing Consent' (and other sources), email some mainstream journalists - keep the tone polite, of course - and see what response you get. Prepare for silence, curt dismissal, mild interest -- perhaps even complete agreement. We could do worse than start with the British newspaper columnist of the year, Deborah Orr of The Independent. 'Yes, the media is awful', she replied to my email. 'Narrow, self-serving, lazy, manipulative, cynical, and terribly, terribly set in its ways'. Well, it would be difficult to argue with any of that. But consider further that 'self-serving' tag. Is that as far as her criticism goes? What about the bigger truth that the media serves powerful elite interests - governments, transnational corporations, international investors? Orr continues: 'The organisations with the best PR (like Nato) are the ones who get their facts across most effectively'. But how exactly +do+ organisations like Nato manage to convey 'their facts'? By relying on largely compliant journalists, as The Independent's Robert Fisk pointed out recently. Fisk, who had been critical of Nato throughout the Kosovo bombing, expressed scorn last year at the almost universal acceptance by his fellow reporters of the Nato line spun to them: 'Most of the journalists at Nato headquarters were so supine, so utterly taken in by Nato's generals and air commodores that their questions might have been printed out for them by Nato in advance.' Returning to Orr: 'If you get papers coming out on the same day going back years and look at the content, you'll find that it's amazingly similar'. In other words, the big news story of the day is the same across virtually all the newspapers, and the additional stories to boot. Of course, it's not a conspiracy, just a reflection of the editorial need to follow state-corporate power or the fear of looking stupid by going out on a limb chasing the 'wrong story'. Moreover, each big story is approached from the same 'hard-hitting' journalistic angle which is marked by asking tough questions about peripheral issues, but leaving the structure of society unprobed. Orr's apparently scathing criticisms of the press actually avoid the fundamental reality - that elite interests shape the mass media agenda and that the media is complicit in global human rights and environmental abuses. She focuses instead on symptoms of the underlying malaise. In one phrase, Orr unwittingly sums up the relationship between the media and the vested interests which shape it, and of which it is a crucial component: 'no one wants to bite too hard at the hand that feeds it.' And so the real world of western state intervention, propping up of terror regimes, and environmental abuses goes unreported. 'It's not that The Independent is so different to the rest, but at least it is the best of a bad bunch in these respects.' Is it? As a self-avowed 'liberal' free-thinking newspaper, is The Independent - or The Guardian, for that matter - really better than blatantly reactionary papers like The Times and The Telegraph? Ostensibly centre-left newspapers mark the limits of
Re: [CTRL] Gee, who put that thought in his head? After Mossad/CIA interrogation John Walker Lindh suddenly talking about upcoming bio attacks.
-Caveat Lector- Further, of all the people who were captured, it was Walker all alone in a scene on TV being interrogated by Mike and Dave - having his arms tied behind his backwhile vile laguage and threats were levied at him by Mike. All so posed.suddenly someone said you are our enemy - and David got away, and Mike was killed. The scene was a set up and who was taking the pictures and for what purpose? So one dead CIA agent. And then this kid turns out to be of all things, an American who will now be charged with treason and or murder, etc., and no doubt will be tried if all all, in a Military court? Well these videos taking pcitures of just this one man? And then came the slaughter? So David got away with his little Uzi or AK and he left his friend to die? What a set up - but why? Wel now they have a young kid who at this point will say anything..if you look at this kid he looks more arabic or jewish than aryan? He sure fit in with his accomplices. 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] happy anniversary
-Caveat Lector- well we ain't that either anymore -- -- -- -- -- Planet spins - so do I neo-sufi wisdom NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:31:55 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] happy anniversary -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/12/01 7:30:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one year ago today America officially abandoned democracy We never have been a democracy, we were founded as a representative republic. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL 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] Whistleblower on CIA brainwashing in Canada
---BeginMessage--- (forwarded from Alex Constantine) [At war with the CIA: U.S. whistleblower wants asylum in Canada, large photo of Alexander Legault with caption: RETALIATION?...Montrealer Alexander Legault, who says he'll be persecuted by the CIA if he returns to the United States, is seeking refugee status in Canada. The Toronto Sun, Feb. 1, 1998, by Tom Godfrey] A U.S. man who claims he'll be persecuted by the CIA for blowing the whistle on a Montreal brainwashing experiment is fighting to become one of the few Americans to be granted refugee status here. Alexander Henri Legault, 49, a Wisconsin native who has lived in Canada for 17 years, will find out in days if he'll be granted asylum by an Immigration and Refugee Board. About 40 Americans yearly claim status here, but very rarely are they accepted, immigration files show. Legault, a Montreal food exporter who's married to a Canadian and is the father of four children, filed his claim in 1993 after immigration officials refused to extend his visa. Legault and his lawyers claim he'll be persecuted by the CIA for obtaining documents that led to nine Canadians being compensated $100,000 each in 1988. They were guinea pigs in brainwashing experiments, code named MK Ultra, at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the '50s and '60s. Legault's mother-in-law was one of the survivors of the experiment which was made into a CBC mini-series, The Sleep Room, that aired three weeks ago. The experiments, headed by the late Dr. Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA, subjected unwitting patients to hallucinogenic drugs, weeks of forced sleep and massive doses of shock therapy. I can't sleep living in limbo, Legault told The Sunday Sun. The CIA is upset because I provided a list of their projects. His lawyer, Richard Kurland, said MK-Ultra was one of 100 brainwashing programs the CIA funded. He said the CIA is outraged that Legault's tip led to the compensation of victims. The Sun has obtained transcripts of Legault's top-secret refugee claim, which began in July 1996 in Montreal and wrapped up in June 1997. Testifying under oath was former CIA agent-turned-author Philip Agee, who's written several books about the agency, and Ari Ben Menashe, a former intelligence adviser to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. Agee, who recruited and ran CIA spies for 11 years in South America,testified that he has been hounded by the agency since he began writing books about them. The CIA will retaliate if someone does them harm, Agee testified. Menashe, 45, now a Canadian citizen, testified in June last year that he flew twice to Virginia, to meet retired U.S. admiral Stansfield Turner,who was the CIA director under former president Jimmy Carter. He said Turner, now a consultant, agreed to help with the case for $50,000, but Legault refused to pay. William Schaap, 57, an expert witness on the CIA, testified that the MK-Ultra experiment was one of the most frightening ever conducted by the CIA. The agency had a fundamental disregard for the value of human life, a U.S. Senate committee said of the experiment.Schaap testified that the CIA had infiltrated the U.S. and Canadian communist parties, and owned 100 media organizations worldwide. It also experimented with hundreds of chemical and biological testing programs, which saw a cold virus spread over San Francisco in the '50s, exposed whooping cough in Tampa, Fla, in 1955 and a cold bacteria in the New York subway system in 1966, Schaap testified. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Assault on Grammar
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/01 /nterry01.xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/01/ixhome.html }}}Begin Why grammar is the first casualty of war By Terry Jones, Monty Python member, writer and performer (Filed: 01/12/2001) WHAT really alarms me about President Bush's war on terrorism is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? It's rather like bombing murder. Imagine if Bush had said: We're going to bomb murder wherever it lurks. We are going to seek out the murderers and the would-be murderers, and bomb any government that harbours murderers. The other thing that worries me about Bush and Blair's war on terrorism is: how will they know when they've won it? With most wars, you can say you've won when the other side is either all dead or surrenders. But how is terrorism going to surrender? It's hard for abstract nouns to surrender. In fact it's very hard for abstract nouns to do anything at all of their own volition - even trained philologists can't negotiate with them. It's difficult to find their hide- outs, useless to try to cut off their supplies. The bitter semantic truth is that you can't win against these sort of words - unless, I suppose, you get them thrown out of the Oxford English Dictionary. That would show 'em. Admittedly, the Second World War was fought against fascism. But that particular abstract noun was cunningly hiding behind the very real Nazi government. We simply had to defeat Germany to win. In President Bush's war, there is no such solution. Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery. Moreover, in its current usage, terrorism cannot be committed by a country. When America bombed a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory under the impression that it was a chemical weapons establishment, that was stupid. But it was not an act of terrorism because the US Government did it officially. And it apologised for it. That's very important: no self-respecting terrorist ever apologises. It's one of the few things that distinguishes legitimate governments from terrorists. So, it was difficult for President Bush to know whom to bomb after the World Trade Centre outrage. If Bermuda had done it, then it would have been simple: he could have bombed the Bahamas. It must have been really irritating that the people who perpetrated such a horrendous catastrophe were not a nation. What's more, terrorists - unlike a country - won't keep still in one place so you can bomb them. They have this annoying habit of moving around, sometimes even going abroad. It's all very un- American (apart from the trai ning, that is). On top of all this, you have no idea who the terrorists are. It's in their nature not to be known until they've committed their particular act of terrorism. Otherwise, they're just plain old Tim McVeigh who lives next doo r, or that nice Mr Atta who's taking flying lessons. So, let's forget the abstract noun. Let's rename this conflict the war on terrorists; that sounds a bit more concrete. But, actually, the semantics get even more obscure. What exactly does President Bush mean by terrori sts? He hasn't defined the term, so we'll have to try to work out what he means from his actions. Judging by those actions, the terrorists all live together in camps in Afghanistan. Presumably, they spend the evenings playing the guitar and eating chow around the campfire. In these camps, the terrorists also engag e in training and stockpiling weapons, which we can obliterate with our cluster bombs and missiles. Nobody seems to have told the President that the horrors of September were perpetrated with little more than a couple of dozen box-cutters. I suppose the US could bomb all the stockpiles of box-cutters in the world, but I have a sneaking feeling that it's still not going to eradicate terrorists. Besides, I thought the terrorists who crashed those planes into the World Trade Centre were living in Florida and New Jersey. I thought the al-Qa'eda network was operating in 64 countries, including America and many Europ ean states - which even President Bush might prefer not to bomb. But no: the President, Congress, Tony Blair and pretty well the entire House of Commons are convinced that terrorists live in Afghanistan. And what is meant by: We mustn't give in to the terrorists? We gave in to them t he moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan. The instigators of September 11 must have been popping the corks on their non-alcoholic champagne. They had successfully provoked America into attacking yet another poor country it didn't previously know much about, there by creating revulsion throughout the Arab world and ensuring support for the Islamic fundamentalists. Words have become devalued, some have changed their meaning, and the philologists can only shake their heads. The first casualty of war is grammar. This is an edited version of an essay by Terry
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] FW: Just a co-incidence... this was recently overlooked by major media
-Caveat Lector- Just read where these guys were (the ones in Mexico connected to Mossad) were there to set up a security system it ws said? Then why all the hardware? So Silverstein - (Larrry Silvestein wih the 99 year LEASE he does own anything but his 7 million dollar insurance policy) - this Silverstein pushed out the security when they had longer contracts and put in his own man, the FBI Agent who had lost the briefcase witth locations of tunnels, etc. in NYC, and terrorist attack plans, etc.so were these two Israelis goint to set up more security or did they have hand in maybe setting up bombs that day in the Twin Towers...this one gold truck was it leaving the gold center - the one that was crushed in he tunnel? Note how they are all going after the gold? Everywhere.Kissinger got into Indonesia set up... So is my understanding these former Mossad men or whatever - Israel government got them released and said they were there to look ove the place to set up security? 7 billion dollars tax free insurance, and these old buildings needed at least 100 millon for asbestos renovation and nearly billion in major repairs? Cheap demolition - served dual purpose? But the Mexican connection is something else and remember in the Lavon Affair they could note tell the differnc between an arab jew or arab muslimand the Mossad used Egptian JEWS to blow up AMERICANS and American movie houses. They operate in and like the old Russian comunist cells in the 50 period. Leaving false trails like little red arrows to a Koran -this thing is almost ludicrous. For it was Netanyahu who said in a moment of anger he would set Washington afire - and Sharon who said the arabs had the oil but he had the fuse. This is all about - like Morrs Dees and ADL operate - to turn Moslems and Chistian int objects of hatredand Dees and Foxman - well the latter is front for organied crime mne and the former - this child molester - serves many purposes. But American is experiencing an awakening now...and the face of Israel is a face of ugliness - they want the Arab gold and the Arab oil...only they will all end up in potters field if they do not watch it. 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 Last Dayze of Yasser ?
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From The National Post (CA)
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December 10, 2001
Iran plotting with Hamas to replace Arafat regime
Assassination discussed: Hardliners hope to set up Palestinian
Islamic republic
Con Coughlin
The Sunday Telegraph
LONDON - Iran has substantially increased its financial support for
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, in the hope it will succeed
in establishing an Islamic regime in the West Bank and Gaza.
The desperate position in which Yasser Arafat, chairman of the
Palestinian Authority, finds himself after a series of suicide
bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa has led Iran's hardline ayatollahs to
conclude there is a realistic possibility Mr. Arafat's regime could
be replaced by a Tehran-style theocracy.
Iranian hardliners are so confident of the West Bank and Gaza falling
under Hamas control they have even broached the notion of
assassinating Mr. Arafat as a means of expediting the Islamic
takeover.
Western diplomats based in Syria have been closely monitoring a
series of meetings Hamas leaders have attended in recent weeks at the
Iranian embassy in Damascus.
The latest took place last Wednesday, when Khaled Mashal, head of
Hamas's political bureau, met Hussein Sheikh el-Islam, the Iranian
ambassador. According to intelligence reports of the meeting, the
outcome was a commitment by the Iranians to increase Tehran's
financial support from its current level of $3-million to $18-million
a year. The money will be paid to Hamas through front companies in
South America.
The Iranian officials also are said to have suggested Hamas should
assassinate Mr. Arafat to facilitate the establishment of an Islamic
regime to govern the Palestinian-controlled areas.
The Iranians firmly believe there is now a golden opportunity for
Hamas to take control of the West Bank and Gaza,'' a Western diplomat
commented last week. They believe that last weekend's suicide
bombings have illustrated that Mr. Arafat can no longer control the
Palestinians.''
The Hamas leadership, however, is said to have declined the Iranians'
invitation to murder Mr. Arafat, arguing it would be
counterproductive to its goals because Mr. Arafat is regarded as an
important symbol of the Palestinian cause.
The revelation that the Iranian embassy in Damascus is plotting to
influence events in the occupied territories will cause concern in
Washington, where George W. Bush, the U.S. President, last month
warned Syria it could find itself targeted in the war on terrorism if
it did not take effective action to prevent Damascus being used as a
base for terrorist operations.
The Iranian embassy in Syria has a long history of involvement in
acts of terrorism. In the 1980s, it was used to orchestrate attacks
on U.S. targets in Beirut and to control the hostage crisis during
which a number of U.S. and British citizens were kidnapped. More
recently, it has been used to direct Hezbollah attacks on Israel from
southern Lebanon.
Although relations between Hamas and Iran have been strained in the
past, security experts believe they have improved during the past
year as Hamas has sought support from hardline Islamic states for its
attacks on Israel.
Teams of Iran's Revolutionary Guards are reported to have been active
in the Palestinian territories for several months. In particular,
they are said to be concentrating their energies on collecting
information on Mr. Arafat's health, his political position, the scope
of funds he holds in banks around the world and his relations with
senior members of the Palestinian Authority.
The Iranians are working directly on the orders of Ayatollah
Khamanei, Iran's spiritual leader, who has personally approved the
increase in funding for Hamas. Two months ago, Ayatollah Khamanei
condemned Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, for visiting
Tehran in an attempt to win Iran's backing for the war on terrorism.
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Re: [CTRL] US cable channel whitewashes the CIA (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- The US cable television channel American Movie Classics (AMC), devoted to broadcasting Hollywood films of the past, aired its own special on December 4. Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood is as revealing for what it omits as what it presents. From its title and the breathless quality of the narration, the viewer might have reasonably expected an exposé of the filthy deeds of the spy outfit and its connections to the American film industry. Maybe I'm more jaded, but I didn't approach viewing this show with those expectations; indeed I figured that it would only show what the CIA wanted it to show... And maybe because I had lower expectations than the author of this article, I wasn't as disappointed in it as the author... Indeed, I found it interesting for what it DID reveal, things which the author of this article seems to have missed, or perhaps chooses to ignore... Instead, however, the show, with its pseudo- film noir veneer, essentially depicts the CIA as a life-saving, humanitarian entity. I didn't get that impression...at least, not for the totality of the documentary The program amounts to little more than a propaganda piece to improve the agencys image at a time when it is playing a central role in the US war drive. Indeed the show might rightfully be considered an element in one of the agencys own disinformation campaigns. Interesting...what *I* took away from the documentary is just how much they admitted that the CIA controls Hollywood, down to choosing the storylines that will get financial backing from the major studios... Against a background of suspenseful music, the narration, read by prominent liberal Democrat actor Alec Baldwin, Yes, I thought it strange that Baldwin was not only chosen, but agreed to do the project; so what can we conjecture regarding THAT? ;-) The program is more or less given over to Tony Mendez, introduced as the former CIA chief of disguise. Needing some Mission Impossible -style help in the 1960s, Mendez approached Disney Studios, founded by right-winger Walt Disney, and enlisted the help of an award-winning makeup specialist, John Chambers. Okay, here the author is combining 2 separate things...and also forgets (or ignores) something else... First off, the documentary made it a point to show that the CIA has a long-standing relationship with the Disney Studios, going back to the CIA's precursor, the OSS, and their relationship with Disney in WWII; apparently that relationship has NEVER been broken since... John Chambers did NOT work for Disney; he was the freelance (not attached to any one studio) designer of the prosthetic devices of the original Planet of the Apes movies, and indeed he won an Oscar for his work. He helped design prosethetic disguises for the CIA, but as Mendez pointed out in the documentary, this had limited success, because it is one thing to design a device that will only be seen from one camera angle under strictly controlled lighting and which will take hours to apply to an actor beforehand, and to design a device which by necessity (to save an agent's life) will need to be put on in only minutes or even seconds by someone untrained in makeup techniques, and to be seen from all angles and in a variety of light The show provides only two or three examples of these missions. In one case Hollywood talent was used to effect the 1979 escape from Iran of six American diplomats. The latter had taken refuge in the Canadian embassy during the student takeover of the US embassy following the overthrow of the shah. Every detail of this rather trivial enterprise is discussed. Which did NOT involve prosthetic makeup, indeed any makeup at all; it was all accomplished via setting up a fake production company which supposedly was scouting out locations for a new movie to be filmed in Iran...the 6 diplomats were provided with papers which established them as members of the team doing the scouting for the film. The author ignores what I found most intriguing -- that the time from the initial idea of establishing a fake movie production company, to actually having it physically in place ONLY TOOK 3 DAYS! The office space was available, phones in place, electricity and water turned on in the office, ads already showing up in Variety, letterheads and business cards with the fake company's name and logo already printed, all in only 3 days time; also other paperwork put in place that would show that this fake company had 'actually' been in existence for a longer period of time, at least a couple of months. In other words, they were able to create the ILLUSION that there not only was an actual movie production company, but that it had been in existence for at least a couple of months, and were able to get it all together in only 3 days time... That was back in 1979...how much easier do you think it is TODAY, with modern technology (including the Internet), for the CIA to pull off a similar illusion?
[CTRL] Nude Nukes
-Caveat Lector- From WND }}}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=25648 Wednesday, December 12, 2001 HOMELAND INSECURITY U.N. sponsors Arab tours of U.S. nuclear reactors 'Field trips' part of training course taught by Energy Department lab By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- To help fight nuclear terrorism, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham last month pledged $1.2 million in additional funds to a United Nations agency that sponsors foreign nationals -- including some from Arab te rrorist states -- to tour U.S. nuclear reactors. The tours are part of a little-known federal course that trains foreign nationals in security techniques used at U.S. nuclear sites. Security experts from Sandia National Laboratory, one of the Energy Department's three nuclear-weapons research labs, teach the two-week course every other spring. Despite the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the course will be offered again this spring, a lab spokesman told WorldNetDaily. Plans remain in place for the International Training Course to be offered April 28 through May 16, said Rod Geer of Sandia. Under a nuclear nonproliferation law signed by President Carter, Energy is obligated to share physical-protection technology with the 133 member states of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which is headed by Mohamed el-Baradei and based in Vienna, Austria. Six of IAEA's members -- Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba and Sudan -- show up on the State Department's terrorist blacklist. Afghanistan also is a member. Since 1978, Albuquerque, N.M.-based Sandia has presented the course 14 times to more than 400 participants from 57 countries, Geer says. Islamic countries represented include Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, says Sandia's Basil Steele, a course instructor. We have everybody coming here, he said, with the last group passing through in May 2000. The international security classes, which used to run three weeks, are held at the Marriott Hotel in Albuquerque. They cover sensors, cameras, entry and access controls, response-force communications and other methods to protect nuclear facilities and materials from sabotage or theft. After classes, participants are taken on field trips to some of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's facilities, Steele says. They go out to an NRC site to tour it, to see security there, and understand how they practice security, he said. Steele would not name the nuclear-reactor sites they visit, other than to say they're west of New Mexico. Palo Verde nuclear-power plant in Arizona is the closest to New Mexico. It's one of 86 nuclear sites protected by a no-fly zone recently ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of the hijackings. A spokeswoman in IAEA's New York office acknowledges the risk of sharing security techniques with potential Arab terrorists, who may be using the U.N. invitation only to scout U.S. nuclear facilities for weak areas to pen etrate. But she says the agency weighs that against the benefit of helping foreign nationals safeguard nuclear materials in their countries from terrorists (even though some of the countries themselves sponsor and harbor terroris ts). She says IAEA does not blackball any member from participating, and provides rosters of participants to Energy. We encourage our member states who host such meetings to allow entry for all nationalities, she asserted. Steele says Energy does not vet the rosters for suspected terrorists. It's up to IAEA to screen their participants, he said. The IAEA spokeswoman demurred that the State Department is the final check, since it grants visas to those on its roster. Steele says that, to the best of his knowledge, federal authorities haven't scrubbed the roster of 400-plus foreign nationals who have participated in the course over the past 23 years, for matches to terrorist watch list s. Authorities recently audited another Energy training program, started by the Clinton administration, that teaches Yemenites, among other Arabs, security techniques at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Former Energy security officials say they repeatedly expressed their reservations about letting rogue-state types, as one put it, inspect security systems at U.S. nuclear sites under the IAEA program. We objected on a number of occasions to the kinds of things they were training these guys, said a former senior Energy official, who says his warnings fell on deaf ears at Energy's headquarters during the Clinton admini stration. He says the course materials overlap with a lot of the security procedures in place at Sandia and other nuclear labs. The labs pulled heavily from the procedures in the books that they prepared for the course. So when you went through that course, you pretty well knew what
[CTRL] Conspiratoriality
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20011211.htm }}}Begin From the December 2001 Idaho Observer: Conspirators' Theories: In their own words Compiled by Hari Heath Conspiracy theories abound in our modern society. That's easy to understand. There are many organized efforts to deprive us, individually and collectively, of our lives, liberties and property. Those who believe in conspiracy theories often find themselves socially demonized as whackos on the lunatic fringe. This is natural. Most people prefer not to think, and avoid anyone who makes their little world uncomfortable with thoughts about conspiracies. And those who are actually engaged in such conspiracies often demonize the messenger in an effort to avoid being exposed. Conspiracy is an often misused word. We tend to view conspiracy as a major organized effort for control on a global scale. But conspiracy can also be simply defined as two or more persons planning or committing an illeg al act or unlawfully depriving another of their rights or liberties. It need not be as sophisticated as the mental image conjured up by the phrase conspiracy theory. But let's face the facts. There are major conpiracies engaged in the business of world domination and subjugation. The Bilderbergers, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome and many others, do exist. It's not just a theory. What are the theories promoted by the people who are conspiring to to accumulate the power, wealth and resources of the world? How do they view humanity and what do they have in store f or us? Lets find out in their own words and the words of those who study them. The following was compiled with the help of of www.whatreallyhappened.com: The politics of power Power is the great aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissenger, New York Times, January 19, 1971. We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia ... somehow, we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. -- former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. -- Senator Robert Byrd, West Virginia I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world. -- U.S. General Colin Powell talking about U.S. military power prior to the Gulf War in 1991 Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. -- John Stockwell, former CIA official We need a common enemy to unite us. -- Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor, March 2000 The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. -- Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. president 1953-1961 When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical constitution with a radical bill of rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that free dom would use it responsibly What's happened in America today is too many people live in areas where there's no family structure, no community structure and no work structure. And so there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it -- President Bill Clinton Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. -- NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country. -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, 1997 The major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people ... from knowing what the nation's leaders are doing. -- John Stockwell, former CIA official and author How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. -- Adolph Hitler You know the one thing that is wrong in this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. -- President Bill Clinton Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out ther e that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts. -- Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an Ap ril, 1997, counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn If they do
[CTRL] Arms Hugging the World
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.motherjones.com/arms/ }}}Begin Arms Around the World It was the early 1990s and then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton was on the campaign trail making promises: I expect to review our arms sales policy and to take it up with the other major arms sellers of the world as a part of a long-term effort to reduce the proliferation of weapons. Ah, campaign promises. But the economy was in the doldrums, and the prospect of cutting arms sales -- sugar daddy to one of the nation's largest industries -- didn't thrill either labor or corporate America. What's more, the Gulf War had just ended the previous year, and it was the best extended commercial an arms salesman could ask for. (Indeed, some arms manufacturers incorporated bombing videos into their promotional materials.) Countries were clamoring for the high-tech weapons that made for such good TV. So, once elected, Bill Clinton did what he does best: He took advantage of the opportunity. Rather than insert human-rights concerns into the arms-sales equation, as did his Democratic predecessor President Carter, Clinto n decided to aggressively continue the sales policies of President Bush, himself no slouch when it came to selling U.S. arms. Early on, Clinton required our diplomats to shill for arms merchants to their host countries. The results were immediate: During Clinton's first year in office, U.S. arms sales more than doubled. From 1993 to 1997, the U. S. government sold, approved, or gave away $190 billion in weapons to virtually every nation on earth. The arms industry, meanwhile, has greased the wheels. It filled the Democratic Party coffers to the tune of nearly $2 million in the 1998 election cycle. To examine the Clinton administration's eagerness to arm the world, the MoJo Wire has compiled a detailed look at America's top weapons customers during the Clinton years, tallying their total 1993-97 purchases through bo th the Pentagon (so-called Foreign Military Sales, or FMS) and U.S. manufacturers (Direct Commercial Sales, or DCS). What we found is that while the U.S. obviously sells weapons to NATO countries and relatively democratic allies like Japan and South Korea, it also has a nasty habit of arming both sides in a conflict, as well as countrie s with blighted democracy or human-rights records, like Indonesia, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia. All of this might be justified as a way to maintain a strong manufacturing job-base in the U.S., but some of these sales actually result in jobs being shipped abroad -- while arms manufacturers get tax breaks for merging, resulting in further layoffs here at home. We examined the top dozen of these arms-exporting corporations, showing which does business where and how each has taken advantage of myriad federal tax breaks, reimbursements, and golden parachutes -- as well as the eage rness of Congress to keep one of the economy's largest employing segments happy. In a separate story, we detail the arms industry's lobbying strategies in Washington: how it keeps the export pipeline wide open, and easily outmaneuvers Congress' occasional attempt to tie arms sales to human-rights reco rds. Lastly, we list organizations that you can join or support to help influence U.S. and corporate policies toward arms sales around the world. U.S. market share of worldwide arms sales Source Below is a sample of some of our most interesting findings: Shipping Jobs Overseas According to the Pentagon, the defense industry laid off 795,000 American workers between 1992 and 1997. At the same time, many of these corporations were sweetening their arms deals to other countries by offering offset s -- incentives provided to foreign countries in exchange for the purchase of military goods and services. The programs often include agreements to manufacture some or all of the products in the purchasing country. Turkey, for example, agreed to buy 160 F-16s from General Dynamics in 1987 (for delivery through 1994) for an estimated $4 billion -- on the condition that most of the planes be built in Turkey. The offset resulted in 1,5 00 jobs going to Turkey. In 1992, General Dynamics entered into a similar F-16 offset deal with South Korea and brought 400 Koreans to its Fort Worth, Texas, plant for training, after having laid off 10,000 workers in the previous two years. Lockheed Martin has continued the trend since it bought General Dynamics' F-16 program in 1993: In vying for a contract to supply fighters to Poland, it is offering to build an assembly plant there for all future F-16 sal es to Central Europe -- so the planes won't be made in the U.S. at all. Makes you feel patriotic, doesn't it? Corporate Pork Under a Defense Department policy initiated in 1993, U.S. taxpayers wind up covering a big chunk of the cost of defense-corporation mergers. The tally so far has reached $856.2 million in perfectly legal write-offs, inclu ding $405 million for the
[CTRL] For the Sheiks' Sake
-Caveat Lector- From Boston Herald }}}Begin http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12102001.htm U.S. ties to Saudi elite may be hurting war on terrorism by Jonathan Wells, Jack Meyers and Maggie Mulvihill Monday, December 10, 2001 First of two parts. A steady stream of billion-dollar oil and arms deals between American corporate leaders and the elite of Saudi Arabia may be hindering efforts by the West to defeat international Islamic terrorism. U.S. business and political leaders are so wedded to preserving the gilded American-Saudi marriage that officials in Washington D.C. continue to give the oil-rich Gulf monarchy a wide berth, despite mounting evidence of support in Saudi Arabia for Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, some experts say. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Saudi Arabia has been a reluctant ally, refusing to let the U.S. use Saudi bases as staging areas for military operations in Afghanistan. The Saudis have also balked at freezing the assets of organizations linked to bin Laden and international terrorism, some of which are Saudi-run. Just last week, Bush administration officials embarked on their second trip this month to the kingdom to try to convince the Saudi government to cooperate. ``If there weren't all these other arrangements - arms deals and oil deals and consultancies - I don't think the U.S. would stand for this lack of cooperation,'' said William Hartung, a foreign policy and arms industry expert at the World Policy Institute. ``Because of those relationships, they have to tread lightly.'' The Saudi government's refusal to publicly join the war against terrorism is rooted in its own fragile internal politics, experts say. Inside the gulf monarchy there is a deepening schism between the authoritarian ruling elite and a politically powerless populace burdened by a rapidly declining standard of living. The Saudi royal family, headed by the ailing King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, is seen by many in the country as bloated and corrupt. On top of that, the Saudi people, most of whom adhere to a particularly harsh brand of conservative Islam called Wahabbism, have become increasingly anti-American, alienated by their leaders' extensive dealings with the non-Islamic West. This anger was revealed starkly in the days following Sept. 11, when it was learned that 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers were Saudis. Nevertheless, the Saudi elite and corporate America continue to do big business and reap the rich rewards of their close and longstanding associations. Jean Charles Brisard, a French security expert and co-author of the recently released book, ``Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth,'' said the American addiction to Saudi oil and arms money threatens to undermine national security in the West. ``We have to have a critical look at 50 years of foreign policy,'' Brisard said. ``We've had to close our eyes to the support (from Saudi Arabia) of the radical fundamentalists.'' Brisard and other analysts say the extensive U.S.-Saudi collaboration is increasingly risky because to Bin Laden, a Saudi exile, and other Islamic terrorists, it is an unforgivable betrayal of Islam. Bin Laden has already declared his aim of overthrowing the Saudi royal family and expelling all Americans and other Westerners from the kingdom's soil. A Herald examination of corporate records, intelligence reports and published accounts - as well as interviews with terrorism and foreign policy experts - reveals an extraordinary array of U.S.-Saudi business ventures which, taken together, are worth tens of billions of dollars. They range from deals to pipe oil and natural gas out of former Soviet republics and develop Saudi Arabia's own vast natural gas reserves, to lucrative but rarely talked about arrangements pairing private U.S. military contractors with virtually every branch of the Saudi armed forces. In the oil industry, U.S.-Saudi ventures include: Two consortiums involving U.S. oil giant Unocal and a pair of private Saudi oil firms - Delta Oil and Nimir Petroleum - which won rights in the mid-1990s to develop Azerbaijan's vast oil reserves. Both are multi-billion- dollar deals. Another American-Saudi venture between U.S.-based Amerada Hess and Delta Oil - called Delta-Hess - has won the rights to drill in two other oil fields in Azerbaijan. Delta-Hess is also part of a group in line to build a $2.4 billion oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey. A 1998 joint venture between Texaco and Nimir Petroleum has already begun drilling in a 1.5 billion barrel oil field in Kazakhstan. For the last 13 years, half of Texaco's refining and marketing operations in the U.S. have been owned by Saudi Aramco, the government-owned company that controls all of Saudi Arabia's vasts oil reserves. This year, some of the biggest U.S. oil firms were tapped by the Saudi government to undertake a $25 billion project to extract and sell 220 trillion cubic feet of the kingdom's natural gas. One of the most
[CTRL] The Grim Reaper
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.viewzone.com/lizmichael110601.html }}}Begin The American Empire On Its Deathbed by Liz Michael Copyright, 2001 11.05.01 ...and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? Revelation 13:4 There is a conspiracy theory, which has made the rounds in many circles for many years, that there are forces within the US government that are engineering events such as the 9-11 incident, the Oklahoma City bombing, and so forth, to implement this great Master Plan to implement a totalitarian government. This government is part and parcel of a much larger effort by the New World Order, the United Nations, the Illuminati, the Queen of England in league with the Vatican, the multinational corporations, or whomever the scapegoat of the day or the movement, is. Most of the conspiracy theorists present this as if it is a fait accompli which cannot be undone. For all intents and purposes, these people WORSHIP this coming leviathan which they see as unconquerable. The truth may actually prove a lot more discomfiting for a lot more people when it materializes. The truth is that the American government is in near collapse. The truth is that the recent attacks on the United States are NOT the result of the Bush family conspiring with the Clintons and other state liberals to coale sce power. The truth is likely that outside powers, far from trying to CREATE a totalitarian USA, are trying to remove the USA from its current position as world military and economic superpower, and would attempt to DEST ROY any totalitarian USA, just like the Soviet Union collapsed and Nazi Germany was disassembled. The powers that be have lost control All the various moves you are seeing now are not the moves of someone in control. They are the moves of a group of people that have suddenly discovered they have lost control. And are desperately trying to get it back. Totalitarians in control wouldn't be intimidated by a little anthrax spread around Washington DC. Totalitarians would stand and fight. The Congress did not stand and fight. They RAN, and they ran like scalded dogs. The re st of the government also ran. These are the actions, not of people in control of a master plan, but of people in panic: people who have suddenly discovered they DON'T control what's going on. Is the CIA having been hit with anthrax a sign of control? Let me repeat this: the terrorizers of the U.S. government HIT the Central Intelligence Agency. This is the agency that is supposed to know about these things bef ore they happen. This is also the agency that was told by several sources that the 9-11 event was imminent, but either ignored the threat, or could not react to it in time. Do you REALLY THINK they LET themselves be hit? Gray Davis, in an incredible moment of grandstanding, demonstrated more of this lack of control, by announcing a terrorist threatbut not quite a verified one. Just a rumor. Something even the FBI is now disavowing. So now we have all the king's men scrambling around trying to catch...they have no idea what...trying to stop.they have no idea who. In other words, they are stumped. They're snookered. They're outsmarted. A Sacramento journalist was taken into custody by police at Los Angeles International Airport and was forced to destroy photos he had been taking by an over-zealous National Guardsman. Totalitarians are not usually afraid to have their pictures taken. Recently, a key member of the Green Party was denied entry onto an aircraft, because she was a member of the Green Party attending a peace conference. They have tried to blame the anthrax in cidents on everyone from Al-Queda, to Iraq, to racist domestic militias, to libertarian militias, to pagans: and its only a matter of time before they try and blame it on leftist activists, unions, and the religious right , or as Clinton did with the Murrah Building bombing, right wing radical talk show hosts. These people are not only afraid of foreign terrorists. These people are afraid of you and me. They are afraid of the press. They are afraid of the political activists. They are afraid of the pacifists. They are afraid of their own shadows. They are not in control of anything. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping? Now, this War On Terror could have gone a different way. After September 11th, there could have been a call for the militia, which is the whole people, and not a handful of backwoods rednecks as is the romantic ideal (n ot that there's anything WRONG with being a backwoods redneck), a call for the whole people to be on alert, to become armed, to learn self-defense and battle techniques, and to train to do things like protect the bridges, the nuclear plants, the borders, the planes. That did not happen. We could have been told to prepare shelters against nuclear or biological attack. We could have been told to stock up on
[CTRL] The Issue Is Bigotry
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Court Rules on La. School Prayer
By ALAN SAYRE
Associated Press Writer
December 11, 2001, 4:09 PM EST
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court Tuesday declared
unconstitutional Louisiana's school prayer law, which evolved from
allowing a moment of silent meditation in 1976 to permitting spoken
prayer in public classrooms.
A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 to uphold a judge's 1999
ruling striking the law down. The state had asked the appeals court to reinstate the
law.
A 1976 Louisiana law initially allowed for silent meditation. It was amended in 1992
to include the word prayer and again in 1999 to remove the word silent.
The mother of a ninth-grader sued the Ouachita Parish School Board because students
had made fun of her son and another boy who did not participate in prayer, calling
them atheist and devil worshipper.
In striking down the Louisiana law, U.S. District Judge Robert James rejected the
state's contention that the statute is neutral toward religion. The appeals court
agreed.
A week after James' ruling, the school board voted to stop student-led prayers over
the intercom at West Monroe High School in a settlement reached with the American
Civil Liberties Union.
In a historic 1961 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said that organized school prayer
violates the separation of church and state.
Once again, the Louisiana Legislature has passed an unconstitutional law, resulting
in local governments, in this case a school board, spending money that could have been
better used to educate our children, said Joe Co
ok, executive director of the Louisiana ACLU. The purpose of the Legislature was to
defy Supreme Court rulings of long standing.
The state attorney general's office said it has not decided how to
proceed. It could appeal to the full 5th Circuit or the Supreme
Court.
On Monday, the high court rejected an appeal from a Florida high
school student who objected to his school's policy of letting the
senior class pick a classmate to deliver a religious message at
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FBI Arrests JDL Chairman, Follower
Associated Press 12.12.01
LOS ANGELES -- The chairman of the Jewish Defense League was arrested
in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said.
Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59,
were booked early Wednesday at the federal Metropolitan Detention
Center in Los Angeles, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said.
The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said
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describe the alleged scheme except to say, The bombing was not
carried out.
Criminal charges should be filed later Wednesday, Mrozek said.
Law enforcement agencies raided a home identified by television
stations as Krugel's late Tuesday night. Footage showed officers
carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes.
Calls to the FBI, U.S. Customs and the JDL were not immediately
returned.
The Jewish Defense League was originally formed by Meir Kahane to
mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained
notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them
aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country
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Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. A power struggle ensued,
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[CTRL] A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax - Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Sc
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:55:22 -0800 From: Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:IUFO NEWS: A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax - Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], SkyOpen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists revised December 10, 2001 All the available evidence indicates that the source of the mailed anthrax, or the information and materials to make it, is a US government program. ANTHRAX STRAIN All letter samples contain the same strain of anthrax, corresponding to the AMES strain in the N. Arizona State University database (which has been used for identification). The Ames substrain possessed by N. Arizona State is referred to herein as the reference strain. That strain was obtained from Porton Down (UK) in the mid-90's (the sample was marked October 1932); Porton had gotten it from Fort Detrick. A 2000 paper by M. Hugh-Jones, PJ Jackson, P. Keim et al says that the Ames strain played a central role in the US BW program [i.e., before 1969]. Hugh-Jones says he learned that from David Huxsoll, Former Commander, USAMRIID. However, he says Vollum 1B was the strain stockpiled (at least in the early days of the US biological weapons program). The search for better strains undoubtedly continued, leading the US program to prefer the Ames strain because of its high virulence. The Ames strain is used now in the US biodefense program for testing vaccines etc. The Ames reference strain in the N. Arizona collection is probably the earliest Ames substrain (isolated in 1925 and sealed in 1928, perhaps subcultured in 1932). There are at least four Ames substrains, all under the control of Fort Detrick. They were isolated by laboratories in Ames, Iowa but were not subsequently studied or distributed by them. Undoubtedly the confusion about Ames substrains could be cleared up by USAMRIID, but they have been evasive. WEAPONIZATION Weaponization is used here to mean preparation of the form of anthrax found in the Daschle letter: fine particles, very narrow size range, treated to eliminate static charge so it won't clump and will float in the air. The weaponization process used was extraordinarily effective. The particles have a narrow size range (1.5-3 microns diameter), typical of the US process. The extraordinary concentration (one trillion spores per gram) and purity of the letter anthrax is believed to be characteristic of material made by the US process. A reporter who writes on anthrax vaccine has privately stated that four labs have told him that under the electron microscope the appearance of the sample is like that of unmilled anthrax spores. Milled samples are identifiable because they contain debris. The optimal US process did not use milling. The US weaponization process is secret-Bill Patrick, its inventor, says it involves a COMBINATION of chemicals. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington DC) is studying the anthrax using an energy dispersive X-ray spectroscope, which can detect the presence of extremely tiny quantities of chemicals; traces of several chemicals have been found. The Senate sample contains a special form of silica used in the US process. It does not contain bentonite (used by the Iraqis). All the letters probably contained the same material. The clumping of the anthrax in the two letters mailed on Sept 18 (to NBC and the NY Post) probably resulted from the letters getting wet in the course of mail processing or delivery, according to Army scientists. This conclusion is strengthened by the similarity of the Florida anthrax (the first to be observed, probably also mailed on Sept 18) to that in the Daschle letter, mailed Oct 9. ANTHRAX PRODUCTION A study of genetic drift at certain locations in anthrax is underway at Northern Arizona State University. The results are expected to give an idea of how many times the letter anthrax had replicated, in comparison to the reference strain-ie, whether it was grown on a very large scale (as in a State program) or on a very small scale, as would be likely if recently made by a terrorist. Analysis of trace contaminants could also indicate the scale/method of production (ie, liquid medium, in a fermenter, or solid medium, on petri dishes, a likely method for small-scale preparation). OTHER ANALYSES It has just been reported that the complete sequence has been determined for the genomes of both the anthrax used in the Florida attack and the Ames reference strain to which it
Re: [CTRL] A Warmer World Awaits: Fact or Fiction?
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Re: [CTRL] China demands return of its terror fighters
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies : Suspected Israeli Spi
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S. 12/12/2001 2:11:37 PM Fox News Washington, DC -- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S. Wednesday, December 12, 2001 By Carl Cameron WASHINGTON Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned. The Israelis, a handful of whom are described as active Israeli military or intelligence operatives, have been detained on immigration charges or under the new Patriot Anti-Terrorism Law. Federal investigators said some of them failed polygraph questions inquiring about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States. There is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it. A highly placed investigator told Fox News there are tie-ins, but when asked for details flatly refused to describe them. Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified, I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information, the source said. An Israeli Embassy spokesman offered categorical denials, and said any suggestion of Israelis spying on or in the United States is simply not true. But Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis spotted in North Carolina recently is suspected of keeping an apartment in California to spy on a group of Arabs who the U.S. authorities are investigating for links to terrorism. Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to Sept. 11, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States. Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that has been compiling evidence in the case since the mid-1990s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say quote may well be an organized intelligence-gathering activity. Investigators are focusing part of their efforts on Israelis who said they are art students from the University of Jerusalem or Bezalel Academy and repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork. Documents say they targeted and penetrated military bases, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, dozens of government facilities and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. Another part of the investigation has resulted in the detention and arrest of dozens of Israelis working at kiosks in American malls, where they had been selling toys called Puzzlecar and Zoomcopter. Investigators suspected a front. Shortly after the New York Times and Washington Post reported the detentions of Israelis on immigration charges last month, the carts began vanishing. Why would Israelis spy in and on the United States? A General Accounting Office investigation referred to Israel as Country A and said, According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the U.S. of any U.S. ally. A Defense Intelligence report said Israel has a voracious appetite for information. The Israelis are motivated by strong survival instincts which dictate every facet of their political and economic policies, the DIA report said. It aggressively collects military and industrial technology and the U.S. is a high priority target. Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives, the document concludes. Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) (Formerly http://www.libertariansocialist.com) --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S.
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S. Wednesday, December 12, 2001 By Carl Cameron WASHINGTON Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned. The Israelis, a handful of whom are described as active Israeli military or intelligence operatives, have been detained on immigration charges or under the new Patriot Anti-Terrorism Law. Federal investigators said some of them failed polygraph questions inquiring about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States. There is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it. A highly placed investigator told Fox News there are tie-ins, but when asked for details flatly refused to describe them. Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified, I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information, the source said. An Israeli Embassy spokesman offered categorical denials, and said any suggestion of Israelis spying on or in the United States is simply not true. But Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis spotted in North Carolina recently is suspected of keeping an apartment in California to spy on a group of Arabs who the U.S. authorities are investigating for links to terrorism. Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to Sept. 11, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States. Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that has been compiling evidence in the case since the mid-1990s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say quote may well be an organized intelligence-gathering activity. Investigators are focusing part of their efforts on Israelis who said they are art students from the University of Jerusalem or Bezalel Academy and repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork. Documents say they targeted and penetrated military bases, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, dozens of government facilities and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. Another part of the investigation has resulted in the detention and arrest of dozens of Israelis working at kiosks in American malls, where they had been selling toys called Puzzlecar and Zoomcopter. Investigators suspected a front. Shortly after the New York Times and Washington Post reported the detentions of Israelis on immigration charges last month, the carts began vanishing. Why would Israelis spy in and on the United States? A General Accounting Office investigation referred to Israel as Country A and said, According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the U.S. of any U.S. ally. A Defense Intelligence report said Israel has a voracious appetite for information. The Israelis are motivated by strong survival instincts which dictate every facet of their political and economic policies, the DIA report said. It aggressively collects military and industrial technology and the U.S. is a high priority target. Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives, the document concludes 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 = FREEZE TERRORIST ASSETS! STOP US AID TO ISRAEL! Sign the petition letter online at: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.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
Re: [CTRL] American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near
-Caveat Lector- FYI WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! American in Taliban: Biological strike on U.S. near By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES An American Taliban fighter held captive by Marines in Afghanistan has told American officials that al Qaeda's next attack on the United States will take place in days and involve biological weapons, U.S. intelligence officials told The Washington Times. Top Stories ⢠1st terror indictment issued ⢠Tribal forces trap bin Laden's foreign troops ⢠Afghan wants to try Omar in home court ⢠U.S. says tribunals just for terror leaders ⢠U.S. to pull out of Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ⢠DeLay eyes majority leader post ⢠Father files grievance over pledge John Walker Lindh, the Taliban guerrilla captured near Mazar-e-Sharif, said in intelligence debriefings at the U.S. Marine Corps base near Kandahar that Phase II of al Qaeda's war against the United States will occur at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends Sunday. Mr. Lindh told U.S. intelligence officials that the Ramadan attack will involve the use of biological weapons. A third phase of al Qaeda's war on the United States will result in the destruction of the entire country, the Islamic convert stated. The officials said they have questioned the credibility of Mr. Lindh's claim because of his relatively low-level position. Still, the information was among other intelligence reports that led the Bush administration to issue a public warning last week about a possible terrorist attack, the officials said. No other details were available about Mr. Lindh's debriefing. However, the intelligence about the impending attack is an indication Mr. Lindh may have been part of the al Qaeda network in addition to fighting on behalf of the Taliban militia. A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that Mr. Lindh was providing information. He's been pretty close to the action, and he has provided from the Afghan perspective some useful information, Gen. Myers said on Fox News Sunday. I think the evidence is pretty strong that he was right in the middle of it. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told reporters the American had provided information that has been very helpful to the United States, including information on the prisoner uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif that led to the death of CIA officer Johnny Mike Spann. Obviously the people who really have the information that we really want to get are those top al Qaeda leaders and maybe some of the Taliban leaders and maybe we'll find it in documents in places we are now able to get into, Mr. Wolfowitz said Sunday. But I think anyone who knows anything about that organization is a potentially valuable source of information. The Pentagon has not decided how to handle Mr. Lindh and whether he will be charged with treason. The U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said in a statement that Mr. Lindh was being treated as an enemy prisoner of war. Mr. Lindh, 20, was videotaped as he was interrogated by the CIA officer hours before his death at the hands of rebelling Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif. He initially gave his name as Abdul Hamid. The Marines are using a large green metal shipping container to hold Mr. Lindh at their base in southern Afghanistan, according to pool reports from the base. Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton said he had no information about Mr. Lindh being held in the container, which is surrounded by barbed wire and Marine guards. A second Marine spokesman, Capt. David Romley, said later that the only detainee at the camp was Mr. Lindh. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters that valuable intelligence is being collected as U.S. and Afghan opposition forces take over areas once ruled by the Taliban. There's documentation being found and discovered and analyzed and translated, so that each day we learn more and know more, Mr. Rumsfeld said. As more address books are found and phone books are found and computer hard drives are found as people have left areas, clearly our knowledge base is going up. *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
[CTRL] JDL Chairman Arrested in Bomb Plot LOS ANGELES
-Caveat Lector- --- Ken Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: ME [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ken Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44:59 -0500 Subject: [AS] JDL Chairman Arrested in Bomb Plot LOS ANGELES Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011212/us/jdl_arrests_4.html From: joe_liberty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:22 PM Subject: JDL Chairman Arrested in Bomb Plot LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman of the Jewish Defense League was arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said. Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59, both of Los Angeles, were booked early Wednesday at the downtown federal Metropolitan Detention Center, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said. The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. He would not describe the alleged scheme except to say, ``The bombing was not carried out.'' Criminal charges were expected to be filed later Wednesday. ``Irv Rubin never had anything to do with explosives,'' said Rubin's attorney, Peter Morris. ``It seems to us that, given the timing ... the government's action is part of an overreaction to the Sept. 11 events.'' Law enforcement agencies raided a Reseda home Tuesday night. Footage showed officers carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes. A neighbor, Rod Colson, said Krugel had lived there more than 20 years. He said he heard Krugel's dog barking at about 10 p.m. and went outside, where he saw people carrying out boxes. ``I saw a lot of agents in the back yard taking photos,'' he said. The screen door of the red brick home was broken and part of the fence had been knocked down. A menorah, the Jewish candelabra used for Hanukkah, was visible through a window and there was an American flag on the mailbox. Matthew McLaughlin, an FBI (news - web sites) spokesman in Los Angeles, declined to discuss the alleged target but said physical evidence was found. ``The tools might have been in place to do this thing,'' he said. ``We don't put people in (custody) just for superficial impressions. We put people in place for their physical actions.'' Rubin's wife, Shelley, said in a telephone interview that her husband and Earl ``are completely innocent of anything. They are law-abiding, good people.'' Originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City, the JDL gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population. Kahane left the JDL in the 1980s. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting. Rubin has made a career out of confrontation, challenging white supremacists to fistfights, or burning a Confederate flag outside a courthouse. By his own count he has been arrested more than 40 times. In 1980, he was tried and found innocent of soliciting the murders of Nazis in the United States. A suit filed by Rubin resulted in a court decision last year banning prayer during Burbank City Council meetings. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Scores of Israeli settlers, soldiers, killed in guerilla attack near Nablus
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[CTRL] 12 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-50
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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
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CONTENTS:
The Foundation
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDATION
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. --George
Washington
__O__
INSIGHT
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile --William Shakespeare
{} The best things and best people rise out of their separateness.
I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
--Robert Frost {} God will not be absent when His people are on
trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their
behalf. --Charles H. Spurgeon {} The smallest good deed is better
than the grandest good intention. --Duguet {} The man for whom law
exists -- the man of forms, the conservative -- is a tame man.
--Henry David Thoreau {} Common sense is the knack of seeing things
as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. --Harriet
Beecher Stowe {} Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying
of thirst. --Frederick Buechner {} God doesn't call people who are
qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies
them. --Richard Parker {} The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the
well-meaning: it is for the desperate. --James Denney {} We
believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs.
The Democrats believe in more welfare. --Ronald Reagan (1972)
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UPRIGHT
If you harbor a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you feed a
terrorist, you're a terrorist. --George W. Bush ++ ...[I]f ...
[the 9-11 dead] could see how our country is united to preserve
freedom from terror, they'd be proud. Proud of our unity, proud of our
strength, and proud of the determination to find, root out and deal
with the evil of terrorism and those who seek to terrorize. And we
will. We will remember their lives, and retell their stories, again
and again, so that neither the nation nor the world will ever forget.
--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ++ Nobody wants to capture
Osama bin Laden and have him tried by Judge Ito for two years.
--Justice Antonin Scalia {} Real heroes do not seek the applause of
others; their reward was found in what they did. They make most of us
seem small -- especially that crowd in Washington, D.C. --Chuck
Baldwin ++ The average American is always more courageous than the
average lawyer, politician or government official. --Wesley Pruden
{} We are all Americans. And as Americans, we have a duty to protect
the freedoms that make our union the example and the envy of the
world. --Charlton Heston {} Like our families, our nation gives us
an identity and nurtures us. In the case of America, it also offers
unparalleled personal freedom and prosperity. To turn against such a
nation is an act of ingratitude that must make the angels sigh. --Don
Feder {} Compassion comes after victory, not before it, not
alongside it. First victory, then greatness of spirit. --Michael
Ledeen {} Limited-government types worry that wars lead to
permanent expansion of government budgets and programs. Civil
libertarians fear the fight against terrorism will do irreparable
damage to basic freedoms. --Steve Chapman {} A gun-free world
would be much more dangerous for women, and much safer for brutes and
tyrants. --Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant Joanne Eisen {} The truth is
that the UN cannot create peace or end terrorism, but it can vastly
expand its power over the lives of U.S. citizens. We must resist any
attempt by the UN to advance its agenda in the wake of the September
11th tragedy. --Rep. Ron Paul
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
New York City officials have been revising their estimates of how
many thousands died in and around the World Trade Center on September
11; counting has been slow because the murderers left few bodies. The
total death toll, including those killed at the Pentagon and in
Pennsylvania, now looks as though it could reach 3,245. To put that in
perspective: It is more than all the deaths at Pearl Harbor; more than
all the deaths at Saratoga, or the Battle of New Orleans; more than
all who perished in the New York draft riots, or the Chicago Fire, or
the San Francisco earthquake, or on the Titanic. Because of the
courage of the rescue workers, the gallantry of the passengers of
Flight 93, and the strength
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies : Suspected Israeli Spi
-Caveat Lector- I am interested in the ones with the box cutters who worked for the Moving Company that turned out to be front for Israeli Mossad it appears for it was a front. Further this company sold boxes...and box cutters and boxes kind of go together for they moved people all over - sounds like drug front maybe, or could it be some of these trucks have been used for smuggling in aliens and even loading gold. What is this Twin Towers was also a gold heist.the FBI agent gave Silverstein no doubt copies of all the tunnels and Silverstein kicked out the security much sooner than anticipated and could not get them out fast enough? So what about that truck loaded with gold that when found, took TWO trucks to move.who owned the truck and where was it headed - it was in the tunnel under the Twin Towers.. One report I had showed over billion dollars in gold down there and the FBI PRIOR TO THE 911 ATTACK this agent had bragged about a vault of gold the size of two football fields under and beside the Twin Towers? The CIA in Silverstein's building (this man only LEASED the Twin Towers and acts as though he owns it)but CIA, Silverstein, and Giuliani in building 7 .. After all do you think the Zionists would not want to get that gold? Tlhis is what it is all about, gold, oil and drugs. Silverstein is a front man in with this Bronfman for buzzards of same feather stick together. But the moment they got the one truck loaded with gold.then came the bug bulldozers and scoopers bulldozing bodies in to dumpsters and this is when Giuliani showed such deep compassion for the men his police and firemen, who remained aat the bottom of the hell hole. So Israelis with boxcutters - you cannot tell an arab jew from an arab muslim. but there is nothing that looks more like our Black House of Israel Jews who migrated to Israel where Silverstein tried to put the tax free mind you, Free Trade Zone - at Negiv where these blacks livedcheap labor, and no taxesand then came the money laundering charges and Silverstein left in rage. So tell me why is the news media so very quiet about all this? And this trip of Giliani with Bloomberg to Israel..when the Twin Towers still smouldering from 911. Check them out..and toss in Moskowitz for laughs. In Israel looks like some counterterrorism here --- for they want us to destroy the Arab Nations but first, if we go to war, those 5 big Arab Nations will blow Israel off the face of the earthfor you see, this is part of the Master Plan and they do not use a Koran - they use a King James Bible for easier communication. The one book that goes into every country in the world nearly and printed in nearly every major language in the world INCLUDING ARABIC - for after all we have Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Israeli Jews, Syrian Jews and you name it - a horse of many colors. But behind it all the Ashkenazi jew.the European Jews whoe would love to see America fall flat on its face for this EU - well Hitler could not have done a better job in organizing Europe and not a shot so far is fired... But then why does the EU want its own Army and well the Irish were the only ones not fooled by this bunch of assassins and thieves. This is the Demolition of America for there is a Contract on America. And no camel driver has that much going for him...these Israelies are placed in ey locations and even in Mexico. Remember Castro's Cuba - Oswald also traveled to Cuba and that guy - they were also running guns and drugs maybe? Saba Osama bin Laden was and still is CIA connected but to black ops - for he is a contract man Code Name The Contractor. And this is Contract of America. George Bush better watch his back.. 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
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies : Suspected Israeli Spi
-Caveat Lector- you are fascinating one has to watch you over time - its like a symphony watching themes develop across time when did the moving company become known as a front? slowly across 3 months, without a new fact coming in bravo most moving companies sell boxes - all of them use boxcutters as to why the media didn't report this - you must be watching the news this kind of stuff gets reported on fantasy island -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:49:14 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies : Suspected Israeli Spi -Caveat Lector- I am interested in the ones with the box cutters who worked for the Moving Company that turned out to be front for Israeli Mossad it appears for it was a front. Further this company sold boxes...and box cutters and boxes kind of go together for they moved people all over - sounds like drug front maybe, or could it be some of these trucks have been used for smuggling in aliens and even loading gold. What is this Twin Towers was also a gold heist.the FBI agent gave Silverstein no doubt copies of all the tunnels and Silverstein kicked out the security much sooner than anticipated and could not get them out fast enough? So what about that truck loaded with gold that when found, took TWO trucks to move.who owned the truck and where was it headed - it was in the tunnel under the Twin Towers.. One report I had showed over billion dollars in gold down there and the FBI PRIOR TO THE 911 ATTACK this agent had bragged about a vault of gold the size of two football fields under and beside the Twin Towers? The CIA in Silverstein's building (this man only LEASED the Twin Towers and acts as though he owns it)but CIA, Silverstein, and Giuliani in building 7 .. After all do you think the Zionists would not want to get that gold? Tlhis is what it is all about, gold, oil and drugs. Silverstein is a front man in with this Bronfman for buzzards of same feather stick together. But the moment they got the one truck loaded with gold.then came the bug bulldozers and scoopers bulldozing bodies in to dumpsters and this is when Giuliani showed such deep compassion for the men his police and firemen, who remained aat the bottom of the hell hole. So Israelis with boxcutters - you cannot tell an arab jew from an arab muslim. but there is nothing that looks more like our Black House of Israel Jews who migrated to Israel where Silverstein tried to put the tax free mind you, Free Trade Zone - at Negiv where these blacks livedcheap labor, and no taxesand then came the money laundering charges and Silverstein left in rage. So tell me why is the news media so very quiet about all this? And this trip of Giliani with Bloomberg to Israel..when the Twin Towers still smouldering from 911. Check them out..and toss in Moskowitz for laughs. In Israel looks like some counterterrorism here --- for they want us to destroy the Arab Nations but first, if we go to war, those 5 big Arab Nations will blow Israel off the face of the earthfor you see, this is part of the Master Plan and they do not use a Koran - they use a King James Bible for easier communication. The one book that goes into every country in the world nearly and printed in nearly every major language in the world INCLUDING ARABIC - for after all we have Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Israeli Jews, Syrian Jews and you name it - a horse of many colors. But behind it all the Ashkenazi jew.the European Jews whoe would love to see America fall flat on its face for this EU - well Hitler could not have done a better job in organizing Europe and not a shot so far is fired... But then why does the EU want its own Army and well the Irish were the only ones not fooled by this bunch of assassins and thieves. This is the Demolition of America for there is a Contract on America. And no camel driver has that much going for him...these Israelies are placed in ey locations and even in Mexico. Remember Castro's Cuba - Oswald also traveled to Cuba and that guy - they were also running guns and drugs maybe? Saba Osama bin Laden was and still is CIA connected but to black ops - for he is a contract man Code Name The Contractor. And this is Contract of America. George Bush better watch his back.. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy
[CTRL] 15 Yr Old Suspended for Anti-War T-Shirt
-Caveat Lector- Katie Sierra was suspended for wearing anti-war T-shirts in high school and trying to organize an anarchist club to protest the war. We are free to express any and all opinions as long as they support the government's agenda. Parts of a local newspaper article are below followed by an interview with Katie by www.infoshop.org. Gavin Student can't wear anti-war clothing to Sissonville High By Eric Eyre http://www.wvgazette.com/news/News/2001110193/ Students at Sissonville High School no longer feel safe, said school system attorney Jim Withrow. Without question, it has disrupted the educational process. (Gavin.Contrary opinions are a threat to other pupils.) Sierra's attorney blamed Mann for the turmoil at Sissonville, saying he overreacted and took those bellows and flamed the fires. He wanted her shirts out of there, Forman said. He wants her opinions out of there. If truth be known, he probably wants her out of there. End article quote. First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller Please visit my nonprofit website. Exposing the Cancer Indu$try. http://www.cancerinform.freewebsites.com Thank you. Gavin. KATIE SIERRA http://www.infoshop.org/interviews/katie_sierra.html Katie Sierra is a 15-year-old anarchist who lives in Sissonville, West Virginia. She recently made international news after her high school suspended her for wearing a t-shirt critical of the war in Afghanistan, as well as for her efforts in organizing a student anarchy club at the school. Her legal protest of the school's decision was turned down by the courts. There is an international effort to support her and her fight against the school. Infoshop.org: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Katie Sierra: Let's see..my name is Katie. I am a former student from Sissonville High School. I'm a 15-year-old 10th grader. In my spare time I go to shows, read, and write poetry. Infoshop: Why did you get suspended from your high school? KS: I was suspended for wearing a t-shirt that spoke of political views. Also, for having possession of the flyers in my purse. Infoshop: What did your T-shirt say? KS: Well, there's more than one. The one I got suspended for said Racism, Sexism, Homophobia..I'm so proud of the people in the land of the so called Free. Then the next week after my principal allowed me to wear them again...and then made me take it off again said When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America. Infoshop: What happened in court? KS: Besides staring at Mr. Mann's strange comb-over and missing thumb lol. I didn't win. I don't really know why. At least everything I said was factual, but everything Mann said was opinion or hearsay. Infoshop: Are you appealing the judge's decision? KS: Yes, we'll be going to court uhhh...Jan. 25. State Supreme turned it down...but I'm not giving up! How do you feel about the authorities telling you that you have no rights? KS: It makes me feel like total crap. I mean I think it's crazy. Everyone else in that school can say how they feel towards certain things, unless you have something no one agrees with. I just don't think that is fair. If I could go back to school for a day. I think I'd probably. wear duck tape over my mouth with I have no rights printed on the front. lol I think that might be quite humorous. Why did you decide to start an anarchy club? Are other students interested in joining it? KS: I think we were pretty much a group already. I mean I know we were a group. At the time we didn't have a name. And there isn't anything for us to join at SHS. So I was thinking since we are all interesting in Anarchy and whatnot things it would be a good idea. I read about it on Infoshop...that's how the idea popped into my head. Yeah, there was about 15-20 people who wanted to join. If your club existed, what kind of projects would the club be working on? KS: It was mostly for us to learn and discuss things. We had somewhat started a zine--it isn't really finished. We were going to work in some soup kitchens on the weekend. Just a lot of different things. Have people come speak. Possibly a Food not Bombs group. Tell us about the zine you were working on? KS: It was going to be called the Anny. There was four of us working on it. We were only going to print no more than 30 copies of it. Honestly, we didn't want anyone besides people in our uhh freak/punk to know about it. It was going to be about things that happen in our school, city, state, country, world...blah blah blah and how we
Re: [CTRL] (Fwd) Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies : SuspectedIsraeli Spi --j2
-Caveat Lector- Saba wrote: -Caveat Lector- I am interested in the ones with the box cutters who worked for the Moving Company that turned out to be front for Israeli Mossad it appears for it was a front. Shh. Whiz wh. Colleen's brain is spinning up. Further this company sold boxes...and box cutters and boxes kind of go together for they moved people all over - sounds like drug front maybe, or could it be some of these trucks have been used for smuggling in aliens and even loading gold. Sherlock Holmes has nothing on this broad. What is this Twin Towers was also a gold heist.the FBI agent gave Silverstein no doubt copies of all the tunnels and Silverstein kicked out the security much sooner than anticipated and could not get them out fast enough? So what about that truck loaded with gold that when found, took TWO trucks to move.who owned the truck and where was it headed - it was in the tunnel under the Twin Towers.. One report I had showed over billion dollars in gold down there and the FBI PRIOR TO THE 911 ATTACK this agent had bragged about a vault of gold the size of two football fields under and beside the Twin Towers? The CIA in Silverstein's building (this man only LEASED the Twin Towers and acts as though he owns it)but CIA, Silverstein, and Giuliani in building 7 .. After all do you think the Zionists would not want to get that gold? Tlhis is what it is all about, gold, oil and drugs. Ahh. So THAT's what it's all about. Silverstein is a front man in with this Bronfman for buzzards of same feather stick together. But the moment they got the one truck loaded with gold.then came the bug bulldozers and scoopers bulldozing bodies in to dumpsters and this is when Giuliani showed such deep compassion for the men his police and firemen, who remained aat the bottom of the hell hole. So Israelis with boxcutters - you cannot tell an arab jew from an arab muslim. I can. but there is nothing that looks more like our Black House of Israel Jews who migrated to Israel where Silverstein tried to put the tax free mind you, Free Trade Zone - at Negiv where these blacks livedcheap labor, and no taxesand then came the money laundering charges and Silverstein left in rage. So tell me why is the news media so very quiet about all this? Obvious! No one besides you is smart enough. And this trip of Giliani with Bloomberg to Israel..when the Twin Towers still smouldering from 911. Check them out..and toss in Moskowitz for laughs. In Israel looks like some counterterrorism here --- for they want us to destroy the Arab Nations but first, if we go to war, those 5 big Arab Nations will blow Israel off the face of the earthfor you see, this is part of the Master Plan and they do not use a Koran - they use a King James Bible for easier communication. ? The one book that goes into every country in the world nearly and printed in nearly every major language in the world INCLUDING ARABIC - for after all we have Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, Egyptian Jews, Israeli Jews, Syrian Jews and you name it - a horse of many colors. I thought it was a COAT of many colors. But behind it all the Ashkenazi jew.the European Jews whoe would love to see America fall flat on its face for this EU - well Hitler could not have done a better job in organizing Europe and not a shot so far is fired... But then why does the EU want its own Army and well the Irish were the only ones not fooled by this bunch of assassins and thieves. Can't fool the Irish. Too sharp. Like Colleen Jones Esq. This is the Demolition of America for there is a Contract on America. And no camel driver has that much going for him...these Israelies are placed in ey locations and even in Mexico. Remember Castro's Cuba - Oswald also traveled to Cuba and that guy - they were also running guns and drugs maybe? Maybe Saba Osama bin Laden was and still is CIA connected but to black ops - for he is a contract man Code Name The Contractor. And how do you know this my lovely Irish genius? And this is Contract of America. George Bush better watch his back.. This is really hard to do unless you have a mirror. Thanks for letting me join you on a trip through your brain. It was very illuminating as usual. Good thing you're on our side, even if you do support Bin Laden. I guess your prophesy about him might still come true. Joshua2 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.
[CTRL] Fwd: Irv Rubin and the Libertarian Party : And How He Tried To Recuit AntiWar...
---BeginMessage--- Irv Rubin and the Libertarian Party And How He Tried To Recuit AntiWar.com' 12/12/2001 11:30:20 AM -- Irv Rubin and the Libertarian Party http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/garris2.html by Eric Garris I was recently taken aback when I read this item in the national Libertarian Party News: Jewish Defense League leader signs up with LP. I was shocked. They couldn't be talking about Irv Rubin, could they? Unfortunately, that is exactly who they were talking about. Irv Rubin is the International Chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL). I met Rubin in 1972. A political activist friend introduced us with the hope that Rubin could recruit me into the JDL. I am Jewish, and did not know much about the JDL, and I was genuinely interested. I am not going to pretend to remember the exact words Rubin and I exchanged 28 years ago. But I do recall his emphasis on offensive violence as an integral part of the JDL's activities. I am not a pacifist, and I have never been opposed to using force to defend oneself. However, it was clear to me that Rubin was talking about going beyond defense. He explained that the tactics of our enemies justify the use of preemptive violence. And he explained that the hate speech of anti-Semites and racists justified the use of force, that their very speech was in fact an aggression against Jews. When he sensed my resistance to this kind of talk, he assured me that the JDL had many other activities which were completely legal and political in nature. I declined the offer to join the JDL. In 1973 I joined the Libertarian Party. I served as a National Committee member, California State Director, and candidate and campaign manager numerous times. I am still a life member of the LP, but I am no longer registered LP. I still consider myself to be a libertarian with strongly held beliefs and, as Webmaster of Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, consider myself an activist in the libertarian movement. I still read much of the LP's literature, have many friends and associates in the LP, often even vote Libertarian. I also subscribe to the LP's internal email discussion list. Earlier this month Justin Raimondo wrote a column explaining why he was not voting for the LP this year. In the column he talked about the LP's promotion of Rubin's entrance into the LP. The key issue that brought Rubin to the LP was opposition to gun control. In the LP News article, Rubin stated that he agreed with most of the party's positions, except non-interventionism. Not surprisingly, he stressed the importance of continued military aid to Israel. I don't think this is a minor point. Noninterventionism is a key aspect to libertarianism. To ignore it is to ignore the international application of libertarian principles. It took a few days, but when news of Raimondo's article filtered onto the LP email discussion list, what followed was an avalanche of several hundred email posts, hotly discussing the issue. Unfortunately, Rubin's support of military intervention was not one of the main discussion points. But that aside, many of the points brought up need addressing. The most substantive point of contention on the email list was the nature of the Jewish Defense League. Many insisted that the JDL is a strictly defensive organization. The JDL was founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, an advocate of violence against Arabs both in the US and Israel. In later years he was expelled from Israel for advocating the ethnic cleansing of all Arabs from greater Israel. Throughout the 80s, the JDL was implicated in many bombings and attacks, including the 1985 bombing of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee which resulted in the death of their director, Alex Odeh. At the time, Rubin publicly stated that Odeh got what he deserved, adding I'm not crying over the death of Alex Odeh. Rabbi Kahane, however, disavowed the group and moved to Israel. Rubin took over as Chairman. According to the Historical Dictionary of Terrorism, law enforcement officials have ascribed at least 37 terrorist acts to JDL members: While the International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE) database developed on behalf of the United States Central Intelligence Agency by Edward F. Mickolus recorded 50 such incidents from 1968-1987, making the JDL second only to the Puerto Rican FALN as the major domestic terrorist group. Nonetheless the JDL is a legally incorporated political action group and has officially disavowed responsibility for any violent actions carried out by its members. Bombings accounted for 78 percent of all JDL terrorist activities; shootings accounted for 16 percent; while arson attacks, vandalism, kidnapping, threats, and verbal harassment accounted for the rest. In addition to alleged terrorist activities, the JDL has been involved in intimidation and mob violence countless times. In 1987, several members of the JDL were convicted of violent assaults. Their targets often go beyond nazis and
[CTRL] Thursday 9 pm EST: Promises will air on PBS
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[CTRL] B-1 Bomber Crashes Into Sea
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- My Groups | southnews Main Page The Pentagon says a US Air Force B-1 bomber has gone down in the Indian Ocean. The US plane went down about 50 kilometers north of Diego Garcia - a British base being used by the US military in the war in Afghanistan. . -- Crashed US bomber crew rescued BBC News Online: World: Americas Wednesday, 12 December, 2001, 20:23 GMT The four crew of a US B-1 bomber which crashed in the Indian Ocean 100 km (60 miles) north of the British base of Diego Garcia have been rescued. The bomber crashed at 1630 GMT in what is thought to be the first accident involving a manned fixed-wing aircraft in the war in Afghanistan, although helicopters have crashed before. There was no evidence the aircraft crashed as a result of hostile action, officials said. This underscores what we try to remember all the time - that the men and women in the US military put their lives at risk every single day, said Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke. The four crew members were in good condition after being taken aboard the American naval destroyer USS Russell, another Pentagon official said. Navy Lieutenant Commander Jeff Davis said the bomber had been on an outbound mission when it crashed. They were first spotted by an Air Force KC-10 refuelling plane which established voice contact after noticing a strobe light blinking at the site. The official did not know if the plane had been carrying bombs. Marine General Peter Pace, vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said B-1s had been taking part in the same missions in Afghanistan as B-52 and B-2 bombers. All these airframes are doing the same type of mission. They are providing support to our teams that are with the opposition force that are on the ground, he said. Bombers have been flying missions from Diego Garcia in the air strikes that began on 7 October. There are 51 B-1 bombers in active military service; each plane costs more than $200m to build. They are described as long-range, heavy bombers, built for low-level, high-speed missions. The crew of four comprises a commander and co-pilot, and offensive and defensive systems officers. The aircraft has terrain-following radar and GPS satellite navigation. The two specialists have at hand a range of electronic equipment to protect the aircraft and attack ground targets. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Link-Moussaoui Indictment
http://cryptome.org/usa-v-zm-ind.htm
[CTRL] mixed muck 12-12
of Abraham's decisions, or because they were locked in a struggle for control over the Mediterranean maritime trade? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1590 John Bin Ashcroft is wanted in connection with the post-September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He is believed to be in the terrorist stronghold of Washington, D.C. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ashcroft/bin_ashcroft.htm Now, three decades after the sabotaged publication of the book, Guerrilla News Network presents a beat-driven, design-enhanced video of The War Conspiracy. In addition, we are featuring an in-depth interview with Professor Scott regarding the new War on Terrorism and how it parallels his research in the Vietnam era. We are also honored to present an exclusive publication of the Introduction to The War Conspiracy, revised and re-edited on the thirtieth anniversary of the book's conception. http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_conspiracy/ Today Colin Powell, the US secretary of state widely seen as the White House 's leading dove, is to visit Tony Blair in London to discuss a multi-national stabilisation force for Afghanistan. It became increasingly clear last night that Britain will lead a UN-sponsored stabilisation force of thousands of troops to be deployed in Kabul next week. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,616845,00.html From December 15, 2001 through January 1, 2002, the International Solidarity Movement will be welcoming dozens of international civilians who will be coming to the Occupied Palestinian Territories to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and an end to Israeli military occupation. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1598 Meanwhile, the rate of evidence manufacture was astounding. The FBI, who didn't have a clue that anything was going to happen prior to September 11#151;and therefore needed a bigger budget, and more police powers, and more days of paid vacation#151;suddenly traced many of the alleged hijackers to two flight schools in Venice, Florida (two flight schools which had all the curious trappings of a U.S. intelligence operation). All the flight school records were confiscated and placed on a government plane, which flew out of Florida with Jeb Bush aboard. http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.50/lfc_news2.html Media Lens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable. http://www.medialens.org/frameset.html The U.S. Department of Defense has launched five new weapon acquisition programs since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, including a $5.5 billion program to speed up purchases of Global Hawk unmanned spy planes. http://www.circuitsassembly.com/departments/news/OEG20011210S0036 Iran has substantially increased its financial support for Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, in the hope it will succeed in establishing an Islamic regime in the West Bank and Gaza. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20011210/834184.html There are major #147;conpiracies#148; engaged in the business of world domination and subjugation. The Bilderbergers, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome and many others, do exist. It's not just a #147;theory.#148; What are the #147;theories#148; promoted by the people who are conspiring to to accumulate the power, wealth and resources of the world? How do they view humanity and what do they have in store for us? Lets find out #147;in their own words#148; and the words of those who study them. http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20011211.htm Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html To examine the Clinton administration's eagerness to arm the world, the MoJo Wire has compiled a detailed look at America's top weapons customers during the Clinton years, tallying their total 1993-97 purchases through both the Pentagon (so-called Foreign Military Sales, or FMS) and U.S. manufacturers (Direct Commercial Sales, or DCS). http://www.motherjones.com/arms/ The chairman of the Jewish Defense League was arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011212/us/jdl_arrests_4.html U.S. business and political leaders are so wedded to preserving the gilded American-Saudi marriage that officials in Washington D.C. continue to give the oil-rich Gulf
[CTRL] We'd Better Try The JDL Thugs As Terrorists!!
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/1307525p-1375898c.html Jewish Defense League chairman, follower arrested by FBI Published 9:27 a.m. PST Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman of the Jewish Defense League was arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said. Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59, were booked early Wednesday at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said. The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. He would not describe the alleged scheme except to say, "The bombing was not carried out." Criminal charges should be filed later Wednesday, Mrozek said. Law enforcement agencies raided a home identified by television stations as Krugel's late Tuesday night. Footage showed officers carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes. Calls to the FBI, U.S. Customs and the JDL were not immediately returned. The Jewish Defense League was originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population. Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting.
[CTRL] Mossad´s Record
http://abbc.com/islam/english/terror/ostrov3.htm Mossad´s Record In Victor Ostrovsky's book, "By Way of Deception: A Devastating Insider's Portrait of the Mossad" (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990) we discover many remarkable things about this "extreme right" organization. •Who is Victor Ostrovsky? "Ostrovsky, a Canadian born of an Israeli mother and Canadian Jewishfather, spent most of his formative years in Holon, Israel. He was, at age 18, the youngest officer in the Israeli military. A weapons-testing expert, he was recruited by the Mossad and completed their extensive training program, becoming a katsa, or case officer, only to grow disillusioned with the organization's aims and operations and return to Canada." In his own words: "I was elated when I was chosen and granted the privilege to join what I considered to be the elite team of the Mossad. But it was the twisted ideals and self-centered pragmatism that I encountered inside the Mossad, coupled with this so-called team's greed, lust, and total lack of respect for human life, that motivated me to tell this story. It is out of love for Israel as a free and just country that I am laying my life on the line by so doing, facing up to those who took it upon themselves to turn the Zionist dream into the present-day nightmare." •Spying on American Citizens First off, we learn that the Mossad often receives information from the CIA, while it has a policy of never giving such information out - even if the lives of Americans are in danger. Also, we discover that a super-secret division of the Mossad (called Al) is active in New York and Washington - engaged in spying on American citizens, recruiting Jewish "helpers", and carrying out covert activities. It employs between 24 and 27 field personnel, and most of their activity is with U.S. borders (primarily New York and Washington). •Systemic Utilization of Jewish Abuse of Position We discover also that, thanks to the threat of anti-Semitism, the Mossad can tap the "significant and loyal cadre of the worldwide Jewish community outside Israel." These volunteer Jewish helpers, placed in convenient positions, can, say, help agents secure documents from their employer's office, or money if needed, or keys to a person's room in the hotel where they work (for assassination). Apparently the threat of anti-Semitism, which is exaggerated by orthodox groups to enforce cohesivity, results in a reflexive betrayal of social positions and trusts whenever the specter of anti-Semitism is manifested by Mossad agents. •The Bombing of an Innocent Libya We are informed, in Victor Ostrovsky's next book "The Other Side of Deception", that the Mossad was the controlling force responsible for the American action against both Libya and Iraq. It is a remarkable story of how American sentiment was manipulated by the subterfuges of a foreign country, the outcome of which could only entail the risking of American lives (Iraq: at least 600 dead) and the enmity of the Arab world. The Mossad placed a transmitter on Libyan soil which made it appear that Libya was sending terrorist orders to its various embassies, which the gullible Americans decoded and considered to be real, even though they failed to predict the attack on Le Discotheque in West Germany which - ironically - was the very "provocation" which was used to justify the strike. Only the French, whose secret service is more astute at recognizing the hand of Mossad, were not fooled. And this was the reason why the French did not allow the United States to use their airspace for what was, in essence, an aggressive act against an innocent party - An act which resulted in the death of three Americans and forty Libyan civilians, including Qadhafi's adopted daughter. •The Persian Gulf War "Even as early as May 1, 1986 was the Mossad working on building up Saddam Hussein as a great threat to the world. The main reason for this was the threat his giant armies posed to Israel after the Iran-Iraq war which had previously occupied him. This is the REAL reason we bombed Iraq. The story of this Jewish action is of greater complexity, since it spanned a greater length of time - in which the American public was successively propagandized through a wide variety of sources. "The Mossad's psychological warfare machine activated every agent it had, including volunteer agents in Amnesty international and fully bought members of the U.S. congress to portray Saddam Hussein as a great threat to the world. Grisly footage of the Mossad-financed Kurds who were killed, casualties of the ongoing guerrilla war with Bagdad, were shown on Jewish run U.S. television. "An Iraqi explosives factory was blown up by Mossad operatives to generate publicity about the gigantic and powerful military arsenal that Saddam was bulding. And after the explosion, when the Iraqis invited journalists to see how their rebuilding efforts were going, a Mossad agent approached a former agent, who had been caught prying into
[CTRL] LAROUCHE-THE INSANE FASCISM OF ARIEL SHARON
http://larouchein2004.net/pages/pressreleases/2001/011210sharonfascism.htm
LAROUCHE SPEAKS BLUNTLY ABOUT
THE INSANE FASCISM OF ARIEL SHARON
December 10, 2001
Lyndon LaRouche, the Democratic Party pre-Presidential candidate, issued a blunt warning on Dec. 9, 2001, that the policies being pursued by Ariel Sharon and top officials of the Israeli Defense Force will surely lead to the self-destruction of Israel, and its future vilification as a Nazi-like state, guilty of hideous crimes against the Palestinian and Arab people.
LaRouche wrote, “Israel under the current Sharon dictatorship, is a Nazi-like, fascist regime in the footsteps of Napoleon I, Napoleon III, the Carlists of Spain, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler. In the pre- history of modern Israel, the most notable roots of fascism are traced from the Odessa of the days of the Okhrana's Col. Zubatov, the Odessa of the common associates of Alexander Helphand ("Parvus") and Vladimir Jabotinsky. The principle immediate antecedent of political fascism in Israel is the influence of Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky's organization of his fascist movement is situated principally in the Italy of Jabotinsky's Venice associate, Volpe di Misurata, Benito Mussolini, Ezra Pound, and Jay Lovestone's crony, James Jesus Angleton, et al.”
LaRouche continued, “Fascism, as fascists such as Napoleon Bonparte defined his fascism, and Mussolini and Hitler theirs, is a form of murderous tyranny created in explicit imitation of the Romantic tradition of the ancient Caesars. It was created out of the rubble of Immanuel Kant's empiricist `Enlightenment,' as a counterforce to the impact of the American Revolution of 1776-1789, first in France. It was launched under the conditions that the world of the Habsburg tyranny was crumbling. The intent was always a rebirth of Roman Caesarism.
“Within Judaism's ranks, fascism found its most immediate enemy in the Judaism of Moses Mendelssohn and the Yiddish Renaisance. In Israel today, a Nazi-like form of fascist tyranny is centered in the currently ruling, bonapartist consulate of the ruling circles of the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). In the background, we find that the corrupting influence of existentialism, as spread back into Israel by the arguments of Martin Buber, has been the corrosive, anti-Mendelssohn sickness, which made possible a widespread abandonment of everything precious which the Mendelssohn-led reform and the Yiddish Renaissance had contributed to European civilization at large. Today, any American Jew who wishes to know what Nazism was, and who supports the present rampage of Sharon and the IDF directorate, need but stand before the mirror, and look into his own hate-filled, enraged eyes. Take the case of wild- eyed Congressman Tom Lantos, for example."
- Sharon's suicidal march -
LaRouche concluded with a warning that Israel faces doom, if the policies of Sharon are not abandoned.
“All among those of us who understand the strategic implications of the role currently assigned to those Israeli Ceasars, know with certainty, as martyred Prime Minister Rabin knew, that the end result of what Sharon and his IDF masters are doing, will be the obliteration of Israel, with the construction of the Third Temple on the site of al Haram al Sharif as its crematorium, its `Massada.' Is the Washington Post, for example, supporting Israel; does one describe a man who throws a hand grenade as a supporter of that hand grenade. If Israel's Nazis did not exist, the haters of Judaism would have probably had to have created them.”
[CTRL] David Rosenberg On Bush's Israeli Flag Photo
http://www.rense.com/general17/flag.htm American Foreign Policy? 12-11-1 From David Rosenberg (NY) 12-12-1 Dear Mr. Rense, I saw today the speech by our President. See photo http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011211/ts/mdf99013.html As a Jew, I am absolutely outraged that the President chose to be photographed with the Israeli flag during ALL the ceremony. 1. Normally, you cannot see the Star of David because it is hidden inside the folds of the flag. This is the FIRST TIME in my entire life that I could see full the Star of David in a flag on a post or poll unless there was a strong breeze blowing. Somebody had to work very hard on this flag to display it in this fashion with the President. I will not be surprised if they put a piece of cardboard behind it. 2. As you can see in the photo, this is his initial position, only him swearing to the Israeli flag. After the initial ceremony, he had a 4 minute speech in which his body turned to the right and, once again, they positioned him in front of the Israeli flag...and again 'miraculously' you could see only him and the Israeli flagFOR 4 LONG MINUTES! 3. I compared his head size next to the flag. From the angle from the front of the camera, the size of the star was greater than twice the size of the President's head. 4. During ALL of his speech you could see ONLY his head and the Star of David. Our American flag was nowhere to be seen. That was the most embarrassing moment in my life as an American, since I got my American citizenship. 5. This was a clear message from the shadow elite and zionists to all of us that they are in total control of America. I took the time to write you all of this for the very simple reason that Israel is now becoming a very serious liability to all of us American Jews, and for the whole world. Make NO mistake, this dominance of the Star of David during the President's speech was done intentionally by the White House and the Jewish lobby in order to accelerate hatred by Moslems around the world against America. This is clearly promoting the Elders Of Zion agenda (whether or not they be a hoax) to stimulate a Third World War - a religious war between us Jews and Christians, against the Moslems. See this story: http://www.rense.com/general17/prot.htm To all our American brothers and sisters of ALL religions: Please do not let this vulgar display of the Israeli flag promote anti-Semite feelings against us American Jews. The 'Jewish lobby' which totally controls our Congress and Senate and manipulates America, has NOTHING to do with American Jews. This "lobby" is the brilliant invention of elements within Israel and has been controlled by Israel since 1948. Thank you, sir, for reading my email, David Rosenberg New York
[CTRL] Fwd: RIGHT POINT: Whose War
---BeginMessage--- Whose War By Marge O'Brien One of the most important articles to make the rounds last week was entitled Who Wants This War and Why. It was written by a Washington area journalist who sometimes uses the pen name Gilbert Blythe. Here's what he wrote: (1) In the October 29 issue of The Weekly Standard, a leading neoconservative magazine, William Kristol and Robert Kagan write that 'when all is said and done, the conflict in Afghanistan will be to the war on terrorism what the North Africa campaign was to World War II--an essential beginning on the path to victory. ... a war that will 'spread and engulf a number of countries' and that 'could well require the use of American military power in multiple places simultaneously.' In the turmoil that would follow, Kristol and Kagan think it likely that Israel could reoccupy the West Bank and depose Yasser Arafat; that several moderate Arab governments could be overthrown; and that America's war against terrorism could resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. They add that in a conflict of such scale, some countries might use biological or chemical weapons. Though they do not say so explicitly, they are telling us to prepare for World War III. According to Mr. Blythe, Kristol and Kagan are not alone in urging us toward what they call The Right War (2), but are joined by Charles Krauthammer, Norman Podhoretz, William Safire, Morton Kondracke, Don Feder, Ben Wattenberg, and Mona Charen. He adds that In the Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz is the most prominent advocate of a multi-front war. And he points out that all of these people are Jewish. Just as Kristol and Kagan are not alone in pushing for a war of catastrophic dimensions, Gilbert Blythe is not alone in noting that the leaders of this effort are predominantly Israeli-firsters. Georgie Anne Geyer writes that a smaller war of interests, beliefs and realities is going on beneath the surface, consisting of a Get Iraq campaign that originated with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and adviser Richard Perle, and includes those neoconservatives, journalists and congressmen who are known to always put Israeli policy, or even their perception of it, above anything else. She states that an important goal of this campaign is to diminish, or ruin, the United States' relations with any Arab states, and that without proof of Iraqi involvement, ...it would be the worst kind of madness to isolate America in this difficult, poisonous struggle. (3) In other words, the people who are pressuring our government into entering a large-scale war against Iraq and other Arab countries--a war that will certainly result in a high number of American casualties--are not looking out for the interests of America or the American people, but for the interests of Israel and the Jews. In a September 18 memo to Henry Kissinger entitled The Prince of Darkness, Jude Wanniski, a former Washington journalist and present president of Polyconomics, wrote this: There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard [Perle], whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last week's cataclysm. It was no surprise to me to see Richard on CNN... on Sunday, calling for all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of western Europeans. If he were just an ordinary maniac, we could live with him, Henry, but he is chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and which gives him total access to all military secrets. Do you have any doubt that he is now in constant communication with Ariel Sharon and Binjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of the coo-coo wing of the Likud Party in Israel? Now I see you practically in lockstep with Perle, whom we have always known as the Prince of Darkness, ! a master of disinformation ... who now wants to bring the Muslim world to its knees... In case you did not know it, Secretary of State Colin Powell refers to Perle and his network as the bombers. They include the WSJournal editorial page, which Perle has in his back pocket, The Weekly Standard, which he has in his front pocket, and Bill Safire, his mouthpiece at the NYTimes. (4) In a memo to Donald Rumsfeld, Wanniski writes, Do you realize that Wolfowitz, and his pal Richard Perle who chairs your Defense Policy Board, have been calling all their friends in the press corps, urging them to beat the drums for war with Iraq? in order to finish the war against Saddam Hussein. He reminds Rumsfeld that Iraq was the least radical of all the Islamic states, the most civilized and modern and hospitable to Jews and multiculturalismwhich is why the Iran/Iraq war was fought, with Saddam doing our killing for us, at times with the chemical weapons the CIA supplied him with Bin Laden DOES speak for the entire Islamic world in noting that at least a million Iraqi civilians
[CTRL] coping w/ traumas, nazi allies, defense cos, somalia next?, online surveillance
-Caveat Lector- also article excerpts on Sudan, Iraq and oil and the Taliban excerpts from the articles are below Second Opinion: Coping With Traumas, Public and Private - By Abigail Trafford - Washington Post Staff Writer - 12/11/01, But there is a difference between public and personal trauma. One is acute and visible â repeated daily on television. The other is chronic and hidden â largely ignored by the press. One elicits sympathy. The other provokes revulsion. Yet both kinds of trauma share a common dynamic: fear. As the woman at the House of Ruth described it: I was afraid to breathe. This kind of fear leads to permanent anxiety and in many victims of domestic violence, the development of mental illness such as PTSD, depression and addiction. This may be heavy for survivors of abuse. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22474-2001Dec10?language=printer Our Nazi allies - A German amateur investigator finds information on the U.S. government's friendly dealings with war criminals. Meanwhile, the FBI and CIA guard their records. By Ken Silverstein - 5/3/00 - Washington December 12, 2001 That U.S. officials collaborated with Nazis after World War II is, of course, well known. Just one day after Germany's surrender, on May 10, 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to arrest all suspected war criminals, though advising him to make such exceptions as you deem advisable for intelligence and other military reasons. In other words, cut deals with war criminals who could be usefully employed by U.S. intelligence. Over the years, the United States found a spot on the payroll for thousands of former Nazis, especially as part of intelligence gathering operations aimed at the Soviet Union, our wartime ally but soon-to-be mortal foe. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/03/nazi/ http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/011205/n04321155_2.html Wednesday December 5, 2:07 pm Eastern Time United Defense to break 5-year drought for defense IPOs By Elena Molinari NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Defense companies are back after a five-year absence from the market for new equity issues. And they could not have picked a better time United Defense will sell 21.1 million shares, but the company's main stockholder, private equity firm Carlyle Group, will get more than half of the money raised. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war11.xmlsSh eet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html US mounts spy mission in Somalia By Adrian Blomfield and Michael Smith (Filed: 11/12/2001) AMERICAN officers have secretly entered Somalia in the first indication of President Bush's determination to extend the war against terrorism. Five military personnel reached the heart of the country and met a rebel movement in Baidoa, 150 miles west of the capital Mogadishu, in a search for terrorist camps. In another move indicating wider military action, the United States 3rd Army began deploying several hundred headquarters staff to Kuwait America is determined to widen the war to include countries such as Iraq, Somalia and Yemen. But British politicians have repeatedly said that they have seen no evidence linking Iraq to the September 11 attacks. http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66430,00.html Feds boost online surveillance activity Efforts to ferret out sleeper cells raise civil liberties concerns, say experts By DAN VERTON (December 10, 2001) Significant changes are under way in the federal government's war on terrorism, including unprecedented electronic surveillance measures designed to uncover terrorist cells in the U.S. ADVERTISEMENT FBI officials have acknowledged that the agency is developing a combination computer worm/Trojan horse called Magic Lantern that's designed to capture keystrokes on a target computer and encryption keys used to conceal data. http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war211.xml; sSheet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html Pentagon switch in Gulf heralds wider war By Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 11/12/2001) THE Pentagon has moved the headquarters of its 3rd Army from America to Kuwait, apparently in preparation for expanding the war on terrorism to Somalia and elsewhere. Military analysts said the transfer of several hundred headquarters staff from Fort MacPherson, Georgia, to an undisclosed location in Kuwait was significant. They said it would give Gen Tommy Franks, commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, a base from which to expand his campaign. Gen Franks said last week that he was considering sending more troops to Afghanistan. When asked which other areas his planners had been looking into, he mentioned Somalia, Sudan and Iraq. http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/556/5war.htm Al-Ahram Weekly Online 18 - 24 October 2001 Issue No.556 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Fuel for the war machine Big Oil, defence, and policy-making: Pascale Ghazaleh discovers some curious
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] TRACON Andrews AFB
---BeginMessage--- Dan Russell wrote: Would the lack of a transponder beacon mark Flight 77 for AWACS over Kentucky, without external identifying communication, or just mark it for a Radar Approach Control system? What was tracking that plane when it turned the transponder off? I had occasion to fly into the Washington-Virginia airport more years ago than I wish to remember (about 1968). I was flying a cherokee six that was not fully IFR rated. The only piece of equipment missing was the transponder. I was warned before we departed Brunswick, Georgia, that my intended destination had a restricted air space surrounding the whole area around Washington, D.C. I was informed that I would be required to check in with air traffic control before penetrating the restricted air space. "Failure to check in could result in your being shot down", the air park operator warned. As an aside, I received the same warning about penetrating the ADIZ without checking with ATC and on one occasion, leaving the US airspace to fly to key West, we miscalculated. We were not shot down, but we did have have a pair of F8U's escort us to the Key West Airport. Those planes were scrambled from Key West and intercepted us within 10 miles of the ADIZ. Back to the story. When we got to within 5 miles of the Restricted air space in Washington, we reported in to ATC our intentions of landing at the Washington-Virginia Airport. The ATC controller instructed us to "squawk" a code on the transponder so he could identify us. When informed that we did not have a transponder, he required us to make a series of turns and to descend to a particular altitude for identification purposes. Once the required turns were made and we were at the assigned altitude, he said he had us identified and asked us of our destination. We told him where we wanted to land and he assigned the heading and altitude for us. The point is we were not allowed to fly in this controlled airspace without ATC having control of heading and altitude. If we had failed to check in prior to penetrating that restricted air space, we would have had an escort within minutes. To finish the story, he vectored us to the airport. I don't mean he got us to the airport. When he said the airport was 8 miles straight ahead to call the tower for landing instructions, we were lined up on final. We called the tower requesting a straight in approach and permission was granted instantly with a "...we were expecting you." Jim Norman Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] A Good Quote for our Police Military!
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: I was doing research on the Plot to kill Hitler and found the following quote: It is a lack of greatness if a soldier in the highest position regards his duties and tasks only within the limited framework of his military instructions without being aware of his highest responsibilities to the nation as a whole. - Ludwig Beck This lesson should be well heeded by our own military today! God Bless; Bill PS He was Army Chief of Staff in Germany from 1935 to August 1938. Hitler said of him: The only man I fear is Beck. He would be capable of acting against me. 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 Empire Strikes Out
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Britain Britain: 30,000 job losses at Consignia By Richard Tyler 13 December 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author December has seen over 40,000 job cuts announced in the UK. On December 11, the Post Officenow renamed Consignia Plcrevealed it plans to shed 30,000 staff over the next 18 months, amounting to some 15 percent of its 200,000-strong workforce. According to the Financial Times, Consignia has acknowledged the cuts would involve frontline sorting and delivery jobs, and would not exclude compulsory redundancies. These latest losses come on top of the 10,000 jobs cut by Consignia over the last year, and form part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs by up to £1.2 billion by April 2003. The company is desperate to trim its £8 bi llion cost base in preparation for further privatisation. Despite enjoying a monopoly in many areas of its operations, Consignia reported a 500 percent increase in operating losses at the end of Novemberamounting to £100 million. The company has been unable to reach delivery ta rgets for first and second-class mail, partly due to delays caused by the poor state of Britains rail system. The biggest losses have been caused by Consignias Parcelforce Worldwide parcel delivery arm, as well as a dro p in business due to increased use of email and text messaging. Like many other essential services that have been privatised, the Post Office has been starved of investment, as successive governments took profits from the business to boost Treasury funds. With many areas of its operat ions now open to competition, such as parcels, the lack of investment and relatively low productivity has turned what was an average £350 million annual profit into mounting losses. Roger Lyons, leader of the MSF union, said, We know Consignia needs to make savings. Everyone agrees with that. Its no secret that thats been the subject of detailed discussions. But the threat of 30,000 redundancies i s so horrendous on the eve of Christmas that I have appealed to Consignia: Come back to the table. Lets get through Christmas without this cruel cut. Communication Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary, John Keggie, representing the majority of Britains postal workers, said, Any suggestion of compulsory redundancies will lead to appropriate industrial action, but added that there would be no strikes in the run up to the Christmas holiday period. The CWU, which claimed the announcement came as a shock, had drawn up a voluntary agreement with Consignia to limit compulsory redundancies in face of expected job losses of up to 15,000 over the next five years. In September, the unions signed a no-strike deal with Consignia, that has served to curb the plethora of unofficial and wildcat stoppages. The numbers out of work in the UK rose in November for the second consecutive month, for the first time in almost nine years. The National Statistics Office reported that the number claiming unemployment benefit rose by 4 ,800 in November, on top of a 7,500 rise in October, taking the official jobless level to 3.2 percent. However, the International Labour Organisations measure of unemployment put the UK rate at 5.1 percent in October, or 1.52 million people. The Consignia announcement brings job losses so far this month to 40,000. Just some of the companies who have also announced UK lay-offs this month include: NTL The cable television and phone operator brought forward plans to cut 2,000 staff next year, taking its total lay-offs this year to 4,000. The financially troubled company is saddled with £12 billion in debt, accrued t hrough a series of buyouts and an extensive cable-laying programme. BT The leading British telecommunications company has confirmed it will shed another 4,000 employees from the companys 115,000-strong workforce by 2003. Some 9,000 staff have already lost their jobs in the last two years . A spokesman said the jobs would be divested through natural wastage, saving BT £850 million. Manchester Airport is set to lose around 800 jobs. 600 workers employed by aircraft maintenance company FLS Aerospace will go, as part of the companys worldwide cutback. The Irish company plans to cut 25 percent of its e ntire workforce, largely as a result of the decline in air travel following the September 11 attacks in the US. In a move that has sparked widespread criticism, the airport has said it will shed up to 200 staff employed on security duties, in order to cut costs. An airport spokesman said that between 100 and 140 permanent employees could be made redundant, with further cuts in temporary and part-time staff usually taken on in the busier summer period. Devonport Naval Dockyard The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is reviewing it warship maintenance and support programme, threatening up to 600 jobs at its Plymouth
[CTRL] Resolution on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- From WND }}}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=25660 Thursday, December 13, 2001 EYE ON THE GULF Committee softens language on Iraq Rep. Paul concerned that bill would justify attack on nation By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Members of the House International Relations Committee have revised a joint resolution demanding that Iraq allow international weapons inspectors back in after some lawmakers found the original language too threatening. On Tuesday, WorldNetDaily reported that the measure HJR 75 was scheduled for consideration by the committee yesterday after being introduced Dec. 4 a timetable some staffers believed was unusually quick. Initially, HJR 75 stated: (1) the president and the United Nations should insist on monitoring weapons development in Iraq, as required by United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991); (2) Iraq should allow United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq, as required by Security Council Resolution 687; (3) Iraq remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations; and (4) the refusal by Iraq to admit United Nations weapons inspectors into any facility covered by the provisions of Security Council Resolution 687 should be considered an act of aggression against the United States and its allies. Kent Snyder, executive director of The Liberty Committee, a group co- founded by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said Monday, It's No. 4 we have a problem with. But Jeff Deist, a spokesman for Paul, said yesterday that because of objections raised by his boss and others about the initial threatening version of the resolution, it appears the committee decided to soften the langua ge somewhat. The new version, he said, which the committee approved yesterday, contains two new provisions. The fourth item was changed to read: Iraq, as a result of its refusal to comply with the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 and subsequent relevant resolutions, remains in material and unacceptable b reach of its international obligations. ... A fifth item was then added, which says: Iraq's refusal to allow United Nations weapons inspectors immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to facilities and documents covered by United Nations Security Council R esolution 687 and 707 and other relevant resolutions presents a mounting threat to the United States, its allies, and international peace and security. I can't guarantee that there will not be some last-minute refinements to this text, but if it is not the final product, it is extremely close, Deist said. Other minor changes include a passage that calls for the U.S. to ensure that the U.N. accept no monitoring regime that fails to guarantee weapons inspectors immediate and unrestricted access to any and all areas, facil ities, equipment, records and means of transportation which they wish to inspect. ... At the end of the day, the measure passed out of committee on a vote of 32-1, Snyder said. Paul was the only member to dissent. Now the bill heads to the full House, officials there said. The Texas lawmaker outlined his concerns about the measure in a letter to President Bush last week. He said the resolution sounded as though Congress and the administration were set to expand the war against terrorism to Iraq. In Paul's view, Congress, in a Sept. 14 mandate, did not authorize the administration to attack Iraq without proof that Baghdad played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Paul noted the congressional resolution said: The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided t he terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons. ... An attack on Iraq, or any other nation not involved in the 9-11 attacks, would therefore exceed the authority given by Congress in the joint resolution of Sept. 14, Paul wrote, urging the president to stay the course by responding only to those who attacked the United States. Other lawmakers believe Iraq is well on its way to producing weapons of mass destruction and therefore must be dealt with quickly, even if there is no direct proof that Baghdad was involved in any way with the Sept. 11 te rrorist attacks. There is overwhelming evidence that Saddam Hussein continues full speed ahead in his quest to obtain weapons of mass destruction, said Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., when HJR 75 was introduced. Without inspections and ov ersight from the United States and international community, I think he will eventually acquire the capability. For the security of the United States and our allies, we must not allow that to happen. Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Graham, told WND that
[CTRL] Ruskies Want Your Gun Rusty
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Thursday, December 13, 2001
WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Russia backs U.S. gun-control advocates
Claims firearm manufacturers profit from Americans' fears
By Toby Westerman
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Making a link between U.S. gun sales and global instability, Moscow
has lent its support to American gun-control advocates.
Russia supports restrictions on U.S. gun ownership, according to
official sources, pointing out that after the events of Sept. 11 gun
sales in the United States increased.
The blame for increased gun sales, according to Moscow and anti-gun
activists, lies with gun manufacturers.
American firearms manufacturers saw their chance at profiting from
the tragedy of people scared of threats from international
terrorists, Moscow declared. Asserting that a nationwide campaign
has been launched to advertise pistols and guns, Moscow referred to
a recent press conference held to draw attention to gun makers'
marketing efforts. The event included participation by Rep. Henry
Waxman, D-Calif., Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and Nan Aron,
president of the Alliance for Justice.
The statements were reported by the Voice of Russia World Service, the official
broadcasting service of the Russian government.
The broadcast referred to two instances of the criminal use of firearms in the U.S.
a shooting in Indiana and the arrest of an individual for illegal possession of
weapons near the White House and declared that the cr
imes were facts testifying to the spread of small arms in the country.
Moscow also constructed a strained connection between terrorists and gun- sales
campaigns following 9-11. After noting that the U.S. State Department has threatened
to deport aliens connected with some 39 organizations su
spected of assisting terrorist groups, the link was made to gun sales.
There are still a large number of people in the United States who could use the
gun-sales campaign for criminal purposes, Moscow reasoned, and then called for
certain measures inside the United States, which would obst
ruct the terrorist activity.
Observers note that, since using weapons for criminal purposes is by definition
illegal, Moscow's reference to certain measures inside the United States translates
into restrictions on gun ownership for U.S. citizen
s.
The sale of a United We Stand 9-millimeter pistol patterned after those used by
U.S. military personnel by the U.S. division of the Italian arms maker Beretta irked
both Moscow and participants in the anti-gun news
conference.
Beretta's promise to pay a portion of the sale of each pistol to survivors and
relatives of the Sept. 11 attacks was particularly irritating to the gun-control
advocates.
Moscow cited remarks from firearms opponent Aron who condemned Beretta's contribution
offer, stating that we shouldn't seek to help the victims of one senseless tragedy by
increasing the likelihood of more senseless trag
edies.
Moscow added that the spread of small arms causes concern in many countries, and
referred to a recent conference in the Russian capital linking global instability
with the spread of small arms.
The anti-gun activists with whom Moscow found close agreement are strengthening their
efforts and are attempting to make the anti-gun movement into a youth crusade.
Aron's group, the Alliance for Justice, has opened a new website, Gun Industry Watch,
dedicated to monitoring the gun industry and the National Rifle Association.
The new anti-gun group proclaims itself to be a new student watchdog network that
will examine the manufacturing, marketing and sale of guns. The group promises to
take direct action aimed at gun makers and the gun l
obby, including exposing and boycotting corporate partners and sponsors of the gun
lobby.
Gun Industry Watch claims that it is the fastest growing student network in the
country.
Moscow's connection of U.S. gun sales to problems of global stability are not new.
In late July, the U.N. Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
concluded its deliberations.
Due to substantial U.S. pressure, the conference refrained from issuing a global call
for regulation on the ownership of small arms.
Observers note that many of the nations at the conference have placed severe small
arms restrictions on their populations, and many of these same governments as well
as the leaders of these governments themselves are
regularly accused of murder, fraud and intimidation of their defenseless citizens.
Related story:
Global gun controllers target U.S.
I.J. Toby Westerman, is a contributing reporter for WorldNetDaily who
focuses on current events in the Commonwealth of Independent States
and the Balkans.
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[CTRL] Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist-state visitors
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25666 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist-state visitors 'We raised hell about it all the time,' says ex-Energy Dept. security director -- -- By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- The number of foreign visitors and workers at the nation's defense labs from sensitive countries, including ones sponsoring terrorism, exploded under the Clinton administration, says a former Energy Department security official who warned against the visits, citing the risk of nuclear theft and sabotage. Although Energy's nuclear-weapons labs have cut back sharply on visitors from such countries, many of the foreign workers are still assigned there. It's well known that former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary rolled out the welcome mat for Chinese nationals. But in keeping with her openness policy -- which was an outgrowth of President Clinton's denuclearization policy, which called for a global ban on nuclear tests, wholesale declassification of early nuclear-program secrets and lab-to-lab foreign collaborations -- O'Leary also extended the invitation to terrorist-sponsoring Middle Eastern countries. Every terrorist country was represented at the labs, either as post-doctoral workers and students assigned there, or as visitors, said ret. Col. Edward McCallum, former head of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security. Iran, Iraq, Syria ... you name it, we had them from all of those places. In an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily, McCallum revealed that, over the last decade, hundreds of students from sensitive Middle Eastern countries worked at Energy's labs, including Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia labs, where America's nuclear weapons are designed and maintained. And we got hundreds of visits from their intelligence agencies -- that we knew about, he added. At Los Alamos, which designed most of the warheads in the U.S. arsenal and stores nuclear materials at its New Mexico facilities, the number of foreign nationals from sensitive countries working at the lab soared to 182 in 1999 from 31 in 1992, internal lab records show. Countries the lab classifies as sensitive are: Iran, Iraq, India, China, North Korea, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, Pakistan and Syria. In 1998 alone, the three major labs, plus Oak Ridge in Tennessee, hosted more than 10,700 foreign visitors and academic assignees, some of whom stayed on site for as long as two years, according to the House Science Committee, which oversees the labs. Those from sensitive countries totaled more than 3,100. They kicked the doors wide open, McCallum said, despite his protests. They were encouraging visitation. 'Flying carpet trips' He says that in her trade trips to Pakistan, India and Africa, O'Leary invited scientists to tour the labs. When Hazel O'Leary was on her flying carpet trips in the mid-'90s, one of the pitches she made was, 'Send your scientists. We have technology to share,' McCallum said. And she made sure they got into the labs. Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, Energy required background checks on foreign visitors. But in 1994, O'Leary granted Los Alamos and Sandia exemptions from the rule. As a result, few background checks were conducted at those labs, and the number of foreign visits exploded. Los Alamos, for example, had 2,714 visitors in two years from sensitive countries, but only 139 were checked, according to a 1997 congressional report. The new policy did not sit well with McCallum, a former green beret. We raised hell about it all the time, he said. He and other security officials worried that the uncontrolled access to the labs invited not only espionage, but terrorism. But O'Leary and her aides dismissed their warnings. In one meeting, McCallum recalls, the former Energy secretary pooh-poohed the idea of threats from other countries. Hazel said to me, and this is a quote, 'Boy, don't you understand that the Cold War is over, and all these people are our friends now?' McCallum said. And we were talking about security against terrorists and espionage in the same conversation. Phone calls seeking comment from O'Leary were not returned. After McCallum told Congress about Energy's security problems, he was punished by former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. He left the department in 1999. 'Detonate it right there' With Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorists actively seeking nuclear materials for weapons, the threat of theft or sabotage at the labs is now very real, officials note. And that makes the presence there of individuals from sensitive Middle-Eastern countries more worrisome. I've always felt that if there were an insider at one of the labs who had access to nuclear materials, it would be tough to stop them, said Troy Wade, former assistant
[CTRL] Eye Ess Eye
-Caveat Lector- Another good linque http://www.idsa-india.org/an-feb00-2.html From http://fas.org/irp/world/pakistan/isi/ }}}Begin FAS | Intelligence | World Agencies | Pakistan | Index | Search | Join FAS Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] was founded in 1948 by a British army officer, Maj Gen R Cawthome, then Deputy Chief of Staff in Pakistan Army. Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan in the 1950s, expanded the role of ISI in safeguarding Pakistan's interests, monitoring opposition politicians, and sustaining military rule in Pakistan. The ISI is tasked with collection of of foreing and domestic intelligence; co-ordination of intelligence functions of the three military services; surveillance over its cadre, foreigners, the media, politically active segments of Pakistani society, diplomats of other countries accredited to Pakistan and Pakistani diplomats serving outside the country; the interception and monitoring of communications; and the conduct of covert offensive operations. The ISI has become a state within a state, answerable neither to the leadership of the army, nor to the President or the Prime Minister. The result is there has been no real supervision of the ISI, and corruption, narcotics, and big money have all come into play, further complicating the political scenario. Drug money is used by ISI to finance not only the Afghanistan war, but also the proxy war against India in Punjab and Kashmir. The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee deals with all problems bearing on the military aspects of state security and is charged with integrating and coordinating the three services. Affiliated with the committee are the offices of the engineer in chief, the director general of medical service, the Director of Inter-Services Public Relations, and the Director of Inter- Services Intelligence. Staffed by hundreds of civilian and military officers, and thousands of other workers, the agency's headquarters is located in Islamabad. The ISI reportedly has a total of about 10,000 officers and staff members, a number which does not include informants and assets. It is reportedly organized into between six and eight divisions: Joint Intelligence X (JIX) serves as the secretariat which co- ordinates and provides administrative support to the other ISI wings and field organisations. It also prepares intelligence estimates and threat assessments. The Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB), responsible for political intelligence, was the most powerful component of the organisation during the late 1980s. The JIB consists of three subsections, with one subsection devoted to operations against India. The Joint Counter Intelligence Bureau (JCIB) is responsible for field surveillance of Pakistani diplomats stationed abroad, as well as for conducting intelligence operations in the Middle East, South Asia, China, Afghanistan and the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. Joint Intelligence / North (JIN) is responsible for Jammu and Kashmir operations, including infiltration, exfilteration, propaganda and other clandestine operations. Joint Intelligence Miscellaneous (JIM) conducts espionage in foreign countries, including offensive intelligence operations. The Joint Signal Intelligence Bureau (JSIB), which includes Deputy Directors for Wireless, Monitoring and Photos, operates a chain of signals intelligence collection stations along the border with India, and provide commu nication support to militants operating in Kashmir. Joint Intelligence Technical In addition to these main elements, ISI also includes a separate explosives section and a chemical warfare section. Published reports provide contradictory indications as to the relative size of these organizational eleme nts, suggesting that either JIX is the largest, or that the Joint Intelligence Bureau is the lrgest with some sixty percent of the total staff. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) is the ISI's main intern ational financial vehicle. The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence is of particular importance at the joint services level. The directorate's importance derives from the fact that the agency is charged with manag ing covert operations outside of Pakistan -- whether in Afghanistan, Kashmir, or farther afield. The ISI supplies weapons, training, advice and planning assistance to terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, as well as the separ atist movements in the Northeast frontier areas of India. The 1965 war in Kashmir provoked a major crisis in intelligence. When the war started there was a complete collapse of the operations of all the intellience agencies, which had been largely devoted to domestic investigati ve work such as tapping telephone conversations and chasing political suspects. The ISI after the commencement of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war was apparently unable to locate an Indian armoured division due to its
[CTRL] Israel cuts ties with Arafat
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1707000/1707664.stm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thursday, 13 December, 2001, 03:27 GMT Israel cuts ties with Arafat Several people were injured in the latest air strikes Israel has decided to break off all contact with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, accusing him of doing too little to stop terrorism. The decision was announced as Israeli F-16 warplanes and helicopters carried out raids on Gaza and the West Bank in retaliation for a Palestinian attack on an bus at a Jewish settlement in which at least 10 people died. Yasser Arafat is no longer relevant to the state of Israel and there will be no more contact with him Israeli statement The fresh upsurge in violence threw into doubt a US peace initiative being led by special envoy Anthony Zinni. The Israeli Justice Minister, Meir Sheetrit, said Israeli meetings with Palestinian security commanders, arranged by Mr Zinni, would now cease. A statement from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office issued after a special meeting of the security cabinet said Israel had decided to hold Mr Arafat directly responsible for terrorist attacks. Yasser Arafat is no longer relevant to the state of Israel and there will be no more contact with him, the statement said. Israel is upping the pressure on Arafat It added that Israeli troops would be rapidly deployed into Gaza and the West Bank to make arrests and confiscate weapons. Plans were also being drawn up on combating militant Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Shortly after the announcement, witnesses reported that Israeli tanks had fired shells at a Palestinian police checkpoint in the West Bank town of Ramallah and launched an incursion into the refugee camp of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Night of raids Earlier, Israeli warplanes attacked the Palestinian Authority police headquarters in Gaza and the radar tower at Gaza's international airport. Helicopter gunships fired on a radio mast near Mr Arafat's West Bank headquarters in Ramallah. Mr Arafat was evacuated from the building shortly before the attack, though Israeli spokesmen said he was not a target. Planes also struck a helicopter pad belonging to Mr Arafat in the West Bank city of Nablus. One woman died of a heart attack and up to 40 people were reported to have been injured in the raids. Gunmen opened fire from the surrounding hills The violence started on Wednesday afternoon with the attack on the bus, which took place at the Emmanuel settlement in the West Bank as the bus was driving up a winding hilly road towards the settlement. An Israeli army spokesman said that an explosion caused by a bomb on the road, or a suicide bomber, caused the bus to stop. Gunmen then opened fire from the surrounding hills on both sides of the road. They not only fired on a bus but shot at ambulances trying to rescue victims, said an Israeli army spokesman. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group linked to Mr Arafat's Fatah faction, said it carried out the attack, which also left about 30 people injured. This is in response to the recent killings by the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an anonymous telephone caller told Reuters news agency. Crackdown The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack and said it had ordered the immediate closure of Hamas and Islamic Jihad institutions including education, health and political offices. The leadership reiterates that it is working continuously to reinforce calm and security despite continued Israeli escalation, bombardments and assassinations, the Authority said a statement. But the move failed to satisfy Israel, which wants the Palestinian Authority to declare the groups illegal and crack down on their military wings. Israeli Government spokesman Avi Pazner said Israel held Mr Arafat's Palestinian Authority responsible for the bus attack. It is obvious here that their activity has not been curtailed at all by the Palestinian Authority and that the talk of arrests and action against terrorists were just a show for television, Mr Pazner said. In another incident on Wednesday, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the Neveh Dekalim Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, wounding four people. *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
[CTRL] Syria developing VX gas missile warhead with N. Korean help
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_7.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Syria developing VX gas missile warhead with N. Korean help Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Wednesday, December 12, 2001 Syria is developing a warhead that could deliver VX gas on a Scud-class missile. U.S. defense sources said Syria is advancing in the research and development of a VX warhead on the Scud C missile. The sources said the project could be concluded over the next year. There are many ways to interpret how far advanced the Syrian VX program is, a defense source said. What is clear is that this is a priority for Damascus and a breakthrough is expected shortly. VX is a nerve gas that has long been produced by Syria. Damascus is already believed to have produced a Scud warhead that can deliver Sarin gas. The VX warhead has been tested on a Scud B missile, the sources said. The first test was detected as early as 1998. The test was to ensure that VX gas would disperse upon impact of the missile. The latest Syrian efforts, the source said, is on the longer-range Scud C program. The Scud B has a range of about 300 kilometers. The Scud C has a range of 500 kilometers. North Korea is said to have supplied Syria with both technology and equipment for the VX program. But the sources said Syria is believed to have shut out all foreigners from its Scud VX weaponization project. Syria is also developing a chemical warhead for the Scud D program. That missile is said to have a range of up to 700 kilometers. In September 2000, Syria flight-tested the Scud D, which is said to have achieved a range of 600 kilometers. *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] Iraqi Defector Warns Congress of Saddam's Weapons
-Caveat Lector- http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40710,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iraqi Defector Warns Congress of Saddam's Weapons Wednesday, December 12, 2001 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON â A former director of Iraq's nuclear weapons program warned lawmakers Wednesday that if the United States does not topple Saddam Hussein immediately, the Iraqi dictator will possess three nuclear missiles by 2005. American-educated Dr. Khidir Hamza, who defected from Iraq in 1995 after serving as the Iraqi dictator's top official for nuclear weapons development, told a bipartisan task force that his estimation was a conservative one. When I left, we designed one missile, and were acquiring the materials from foreign stockpiles to build it, Hamza said, adding that the U.N. weapons inspections that ended in 1998 were the only measures that ever put a dent in Saddam's plans. While Saddam's nuclear program was still in the development stages at the time weapons inspectors arrived on the scene, Saddam had already used biological and chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers in the 1980s and Iraq's own Kurdish civilians, Hamza told the bicameral Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation. As Hamza described a violent and paranoid leader who would set off on drunken binges and hysterical rages, lawmakers in the House Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday passed a resolution â now headed to a full House vote â that demands that Iraq allow immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to its weapons programs. Any refusal, according to the measure, presents a mounting threat to the United States, its allies and international peace and security. The resolution followed President Bush's recent threat warning Saddam to open his country to weapons inspectors or find out the hard way the consequences of refusal. The focus on Iraq picked up clarity in recent weeks as congressional leaders urged President Bush to make the despotic nation the next target in the war on terror. Several lawmakers have also asked Bush to release $10 million in appropriated funds to Iraq's parliament-in-exile, the Iraqi National Congress. The Bush administration is moving cautiously, however, saying that only loose connections have been made tying Saddam's regime to the Sept. 11 attacks, and allies are uneasy about taking him down. Hamza said the longer the United States plays softball with Saddam, the more time he has to work on his nuclear weapons program. Hamza suggested that a small U.S. force similar to that in Afghanistan today could encourage anti-regime factions, as well as disloyal Iraqi soldiers, to defect and bring down the dictator. He said dropping bombs strategically on Baghdad would help smoke Saddam out. Asked if Hamza's story compelled him to push for the topple of the regime, task force co-chair Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said he wanted to be sure that if the United States were to move into Iraq, its mission would be strategically sound. I don't think there's a debate about whether or not to take out Saddam Hussein â I think if any member of Congress had a magic wand they would eliminate him immediately, he said. The question is whether we have the military capacity to undertake that and to manage it if a civil war were to break out. We're trying to determine that by listening to the experts. *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
[CTRL] (Fwd) Starving for Intelligence
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=842 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=842 Starving for Intelligence by James Ostrowski [Posted December 11, 2001] Bruce Lee--the author, not the karate guy--says that September 11 happened because we starved our intelligence agencies. We have been hearing this ever since. Get ready for a huge increase in intelligence spending, as well as taking the handcuffs off. But lets see if we can kill this handsome theory with some ugly facts. Here is a list of the our intelligence agencies we know about: Central Intelligence Agency *The Directorate of Operations *The Directorate of Intelligence *The Directorate of Science and Technology (DSamp;T) *The National Intelligence Council (NIC) Department of Defense *National Security Agency (NSA) *Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) *Central Measurements and Signature Intelligence Office (CMO) * Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities (TIARA) *The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) *The Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) *Central Imagery Office (CIO) *Army--National Ground Intelligence Center *Navy--National Maritime Intelligence Center *Air Force--National Air Intelligence Center *Marine Corps Intelligence Activity *Joint Intelligence Centers * United States Atlantic Command (ACOM) * United States Central Command (CENTCOM) * United States European Command (EUCOM) * United States Pacific Command (PACOM) * United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM); * United States Space Command (SPACECOM) * United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) * United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) * United States Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) The Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) The Department of Energy: DOE's Office of Intelligence The Department of Treasury: Treasury's Office of Intelligence Support Federal Bureau of Investigation--National Security Division The National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB) The Intelligence Community Executive Committee (IC/EXCOM) National HUMINT Requirements Tasking Center Central Imagery Office (CIO) President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) President's Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) The Christian Science Monitor reports that the combined budget of these agencies is at least $30 billion annually. Officially and unofficially, the U.S. and its allies probably have\xa0more than 75,000 intelligence personnel. This army, larger than the Army of Northern Virginia, and spending twice as much as the entire Chinese defense budget, was unable to foresee or prevent the attacks. Does anyone think we got our moneys worth from these bureaucrats prior to September 11? The problem with bureaucracies can be seen in their genesis. They exist, we are told, because private society and the market are deficient and need to be regulated by bureaucracies with the power to control us. They control us; we do not control them, and this is necessarily so because, we are told, private individuals are bad or stupid or irresponsible and the market is defective. Because bureaucracies have power over us, they are neither responsive nor responsible to us. Therefore, they tend to act in their own interests, not ours. They tend to grow in staff, budget, and power, regardless of their poor performance. It does not take $30 billion to determine that one hundred years of trying to rule the world was bound to result in retaliation at some point, or that $300 billion will not stop determined fanatics. All the CIA had to do to find out that a major terrorist attack was coming was to have had one clerk read http://www.lewrockwell.com/ LewRockwell.com, http://www.mises.org/ Mises.org, and http://www.antiwar.com/ AntiWar.com for the last few years. Cost: $30,000 per year. We have not starved our intelligence agencies; our agencies are starved of intelligence. James Ostrowski practices law in Buffalo, N.Y. See his Mises.org http://www.mises.org/articles.asp?mode=aamp;author=Ostrowski Articles Achive and send him mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MAIL. http://www.mises.org/elist.asp Subscribe to Mises Email List Services https://www.mises.org/donate.asp Join the Mises Institute http://www.mises.org/audio.asp Mises.org Audio http://www.mises.org/ Home | http://www.mises.org/about.asp About | http://www.mises.org/elist.asp Email List | http://www.mises.org/search.asp Search | http://www.mises.org/contact.asp Contact Us | http://www.mises.org/journals.asp Periodicals | http://www.mises.org/articles.asp Articles http://www.mises.org/news.asp News | http://www.mises.org/scholar.asp Resources | http://www.mises.org/catalog.asp Catalog |
[CTRL] U.S. Officials: Shows Bin Laden Planned and Executed Attacks
-Caveat Lector- http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/afghanistan011212_OBLtape.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. Officials: Shows Bin Laden Planned and Executed Attacks W A S H I N G T O N , Dec. 12 â Osama bin Laden acknowledges direct responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, ABCNEWS has learned from a transcript of a videotape obtained by the U.S. government. The videotape â along with the U.S. government's Arabic and English transcripts and English subtitles â is likely to be released by the Department of Defense, pending approval from the president and his security advisers, according to White House officials. Clearly the president hopes that information can be shared with the public, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said early this afternoon. The only thing that would stand in the way is if there is anything from intelligence or security that can be compromised. That is not looking like it is likely. White House officials said the videotape will not be released today, as nongovernment translators continue to review exactly what is said on the Arabic-language tape. The audio quality and the video quality are not good, Fleischer said. We're very comfortable with the translation which we already do have. ⦠Review is under way. Literally, four interpreters are listening to it. Evidently, even if you are a fluent Arabic speaker, it is very hard to hear some of the things, said Tori Clarke, a Pentagon spokeswoman, at a separate news conference. So we want to be very careful that we have an accurate translation. Bin Laden Describes Sept. 11 According to the initial transcript, bin Laden says he and his friends turned on the radio on Sept. 11 at 5:30 p.m. local time â about 9 a.m. in New York City. Soon, they were listening to the coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Bin Laden says they were surprised by the total collapse of the twin towers. He says al Qaeda calculations indicated the heat created by the burning planes full of fuel would melt the steel in the towers, but that only the floors above the point of impact would be destroyed. The body language that I saw really was just disgusting, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said Sunday on ABCNEWS' This Week after viewing the tape. I mean, that people would take delight in having killed innocent civilians is horrible. Hopefully, maybe we'll stop hearing any more of these insane conspiracy theories that somehow the U.S. has made this up or somebody else did it, Wolfowitz added. The conversation takes place between bin Laden and an unidentified P. Sheik, which ABCNEWS has learned stands for paralyzed sheik. The sheik, who is otherwise unidentified, assures bin Laden that imams in the mosques of Saudi Arabia are praising his actions. Sources tell ABCNEWS the tape was shot Nov. 9 in Kandahar, the city in southern Afghanistan that was the Taliban's spiritual capital. Sources say whoever made the recording evidently started at the middle of a used videotape, then rewound, and picked up the conclusion of the meeting at the beginning of the tape. As a result, the tape starts with part two of the meeting, then shows home movies and ends with the beginning of the meeting. Tape Shows Direct Control Over Operatives U.S. officials say the tape proves conclusively that bin Laden is responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks. They also believe the tape eliminates the notion that he was above the details of choosing targets, and that al Qaeda is composed entirely of autonomous cells. Rather, officials say the tape shows clear evidence of bin Laden's command and direct control of al Qaeda operatives. For those who see this tape, they realize that not only is he guilty of incredible murder, he has no conscience and no soul, President Bush said earlier this week. He represents the worst of civilization. ABCNEWS' Chris Isham, Rebecca Cooper and Terry Moran contributed to this report. *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
[CTRL] Wolfowitz: Don't Wait to Confront Terrorists in Indonesia
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/12/173217.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Wolfowitz: Don't Wait to Confront Terrorists in Indonesia Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001 Editorâs note: This is the third in a series of articles that examines the potential targets of Americaâs continuing War on Terror. Also see: Target Somalia? Expert Tells NewsMax, âNo One To Fightâ and Iraqâs Money Pipeline Wins Allies. Going after al-Qaeda in Indonesia is not something that should wait until after al-Qaeda has been uprooted from Afghanistan,â Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz stated recently. There are activities that we donât like that are going on there.â A former ambassador to Indonesia, Wolfowitz echoed concerns voiced by Robert S. Gelbard, then U.S. ambassador to the worldâs largest Islamic country, who predicted Sept. 16 that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta would be the next target of terrorists led by Osama bin Laden. The alarmed ambassador further cautioned that bin Ladenâs network had joined forces with extremist groups within Indonesia led by Laskar Jihad (Jihad Troops). Gelhard has since been followed by Bush appointee Ralph Boyce, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Sept. 26, and sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia on Oct. 9. Rohan Gunaratna from St. Andrewâs University Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence agrees with them, opining recently that the al-Qaeda network has a number of cells active in Indonesia. Extremist Islamist organizations in Indonesia include: Darul Islam, Islamic Defenders Front, and Laskar Jihad. According to a Darul Islam leader, the organization is largely made up of about 15,000 Indonesians who returned from Afghanistan after fighting alongside the mujahadeen against the Soviet Union. Bin Laden also fought alongside the mujahadeen in the 1980s, as did the leader of the Laskar Jihad, who admits to meeting Osama bin Laden there. 'Holy' War Shortly after Bushâs meeting with the Indonesian president Sept. 19, Indonesiaâs top Islamic authority, the Council of Indonesian Ulemas, called for Muslims to unite and join a jihad (holy war) against the United States in the event of U.S. bombing attacks against Afghanistan. Since then, however, the Council has qualified that jihadâ has peaceful as well as warlike forms. Similar threats of jihad in whatever form against the U.S. have also been made by Laskar Jihad and Islamic Defenders Front. Those predicate bombing attacks, of course, are now under way. As a caution to the threats, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta withdrew non-essential staff in late September. Furthermore, families of the staff of some American companies, such as Nike, have been evacuated. Even before Sept. 11, intelligence from Europe indicated bomb threats and a worrisome surveillance of the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia by Sudanese nationals linked to the al-Qaeda network. So far, the promised jihad seems to be limited to demonstrations against the U.S. On Oct. 8, for instance, more than a thousand members of a number of organizations including Islamic Defenders Front picketed the American Embassy. Even Indonesian President Megawati Yudhoyono recently chided, It is unacceptable that someone, a group or even a government, with the reason of searching for terrorists, attack a people or another country for whatever reason.â Remarks such as this have been interpreted as backsliding from Yudhoyonoâs earlier pledge to Bush committing her country to the war on terrorism. Jaffar Umar Thalib, the leader of Laskar Jihad, minces his words even less: We will continue with this anti-American movement, regardless of the brutal attempts by police to shut us down. This movement will continue until Bush decides to stop sending missiles into Afghanistan.â In the meantime, other links to militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan have surfaced. The Indonesian director of immigration, Muhammad Indra, has conceded that members of Afghan militias regularly enter Indonesia illegally. A Muslim activist and writer claimed that an envoy of Osama bin Laden had visited Indonesia at least four times, and that Darul Islam and al-Qaeda enjoy a special relationship. Perhaps even more troubling over the long run, Indonesian students typically study in the Islamic religious schools of Pakistan and elsewhere, being exposed to the same radical teachings as the Taliban. So far, Indonesiaâs biggest contribution to the war on terror has been an investigation of several bank accounts with suspected links to international terrorism. But the countryâs laws have stymied action. Communication Minister Syamsul Muâarif said a new decree was needed to allow authorities to block terrorist funds without violating Indonesian banking laws, the newspaper reported. But perhaps the greatest dilemma of Indonesia is that the countryâs military has
[CTRL] Communism Thrives, Freedom Fighters Warn
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/12/170018.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Communism Thrives, Freedom Fighters Warn Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001 WASHINGTON â There are those who talk on and on about the fall of communism. Donât you believe it!â Those words from Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., set the tone Tuesday night at the Victims of Communism Foundationâs Freedom Awards Dinner. The senator was among those honored by the foundation. The award was presented to the longtime conservative lawmaker for his role in the decades-long fight against communism. He has announced his retirement at the end of his fifth term next year. Noting, for example, that in China, the policy of one child a family has resulted in scenes of drowning little newborn baby girls â Bless their heartsâ â Helms told the gathering, Someone forgot to tell them that the Cold War is over.â He followed it up with stories of atrocities in such communist dictatorships as Cuba and North Korea. A similar warning was sounded by Vladimir Bukovsky, the other awardee at the dinner. The Soviet dissident and human rights activist said the death of communism, to paraphrase Mark Twain, seems to have been greatly exaggerated. If you are talking merely in a military sense, NATO vs. the Soviet-controlled empire, then, yes, we won.â But Bukovsky reminded his audience that the Cold War was never solely about military might. It was also a war of ideas. And on that front, he said, the war is not over. Would we have accepted a milder version of Nazism in Germany following World War II?â he asked. Then why do we accept a milder form of communism throughout the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe? If this is victory, then I must have been on the wrong side,â added the man who was arrested by the KGB for supposedly slandering the government.â The featured speaker of the evening, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, onetime national security adviser in the Carter administration, added his own take to the warnings to those who think we can all live happily ever after. The Soviets [promulgated] the conditions that led to the rise of terrorism,â he declared. In the heat of the aftermath of World War II, he said, would the free world have tolerated a mausoleum honoring the Gestapo? No? Then why are we so passive when in Russia there is a mausoleum to those who created the dreaded predecessors to the KGB? Even President Bush was the object of some criticism by Brzezinski. He noted that in his World Freedom Day proclamation read to the dinner that same night, the president had talked of fascists and totalitariansâ of the 20th century. Two Sides of the Same Coin Actually, Nazi Germany and Soviet communism were the two great evils that made the 20th century the worst, most lethal century in history,â said one of the Carter administration's few officials to gain the respect of President Ronald Reagan. Why is President Bush hesitant to spell out communism as the other evil, in addition to Nazism or fascism? Brzezinski wanted to know. To him, that reflects an inhibition that permeated the entire Cold War: i.e., naming the enemy. Some psychological warfare specialists at the time attributed that to a deliberate plan by the enemy to install reluctance in the Western World to attack communism by its name. However, Brzezinski, counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, did caution his audience not to get too carried away with pessimism about the future of post-Soviet Russia. Russian will ultimately have no choice but to move to the West, he said. After all, that nation has among its neighbors millions of Moslems. It is a different Russia,â Brzezinski added, not a perfect Russia,â but one whose experiment with democracy is not doomed to failure. We should not succumb to historical pessimism.â That advice seemed to contradict the comments of Soviet dissident Bukovsky, who derided President Bush for saying he had looked into Russian President Vladimir Putinâs soul. What we have is the full power of the KGB,â Bukovsky warned. He also cautioned the West against trusting such Judas friendsâ as China and Russia to help in the war on terrorism. To say, as [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair did, that Russia and China have experience in dealing with terrorists is like saying Germany had experience in dealing with Jews, he went on. Russiaâs policy, he insisted, is one of back to the U.S.S.R.â White House aide Tim Goeglein read the proclamation that had been issued on World Freedom Day, 2001. While cheering the move to free republics in many former Iron Curtain countries, the presidentâs statement said, we also recognize that more than two billion people still live under authoritarian regimes. From Burma to Cuba, Belarus to Zimbabwe, citizens of many countries suffer under repressive governments. Our
[CTRL] Annie Found Another Man
-Caveat Lector- From WND }}}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=25655 Wednesday, December 12, 2001 When Johnny comes slinking home By Ann Coulter © 2001 Universal Press Syndicate We can only hope the government will deal with California Talibanist John Walker as harshly as it did with Elian Gonzalez. Encouraged by his indulgent liberal boomer parents to find his own spiritual path, Walker responded predictably and quickly became a walking left- wing cliché. The one spiritual path it is absolutely positively certain Walker could never have chosen is one founded in Scripture. In his hometown of Fairfax, Calif., the conventional spiritual paths include Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sufism, Rastafarianism, Native American spirituality and voodoo. But according to the Boston Globe, only 12 percent of residents attend traditional churches or synagogues. Walker's mother left Christianity to become a Buddhist. At his alternative school, Walker was steeped in Native American spirituality. He was named after John Lennon. If there were a goofy cult that deified cheese doodl es, liberals would ponder its deeper meaning and treat it with respect. The only thing John Walker could have done to shock the neighbors would have been to take off and follow Bob Jones. Alas, Walker was no nonconformist. It was The Autobiography of Malcolm X that shook him to the core at age 16, persuading him to become a Muslim. Has anyone read The Autobiography of Malcolm X? Here's a passage in which Mr. X describes his own education in Islam, as taught by his brother Reginald, whose approach was so effective: The white man is the devil. He told me that all whites knew they were devils -- especially Masons. I said, Without any exception? Without any exception. What about Hymie? What is it if I let you make 500 dollars to let me make 10,000? After Reginald left, I thought. I thought. Thought. Yes, that is something to think about. (I always knew there was something funny about those Masons.) This was the turning point in Walker's spiritual journey. He became a Muslim and ended up fighting with the Taliban against America. (Maybe this conflict does have something to do with Islam.) While studying at an Islamic school in Pakistan, he said he met many people connected with the Taliban and his heart became attached to that. The Taliban may execute people for sport, blow up thousand-year-old Buddhist statues, treat women like goats (and vice versa) -- but at least they aren't sneaky Luciferian Masons! With the deep grounding he found in Islam, Walker couldn't even settle on a name for himself. He called himself variously Sulayman Al-Lindh, Sulayman Faris and his nom de jihad Abdul Hamid. (So it's not quite ac curate to say as various news outlets do that he goes by his mother's last name. He goes by a lot of names, none of them Walker.) Now there's the question of what to do with this perfect fruition of phony left-wing non-judgmentalism. Since the government that stole Abdul's heart is not a signatory to the Geneva Convention, he could be shot. But the government he was fighting against is too nice to do that. America abides by the Geneva Convention even in conflicts with belligerents who do not. (It comes with the territory of being the Great Satan.) Consequently, if Abdul is treated simply as a POW, he is entitled to be repatriated when the war is over. He could also be tried for treason. As defined in the Constitution, treason consists of levying war against the United States, adhering to America's enemies or giving them aid and comfort. Taking up arms against the United States on the side of the Taliban is, as the movie title says, as good as it gets. Though the Constitution requires only two witnesses to the same overt act for a treason conviction, thanks to the miracle of television, there are millions of witnesses to Abdul's treason. Indeed, it appears that Abdul's only defense to treason apart from the Ezra Pound insanity defense is to claim that he has already renounced his U.S. citizenship. He has certainly committed one of the predicate acts f or a loss of citizenship under federal law by entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state ... engaged in hostilities against the United States. The law also requires him to prove, however, that he did s o with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality. There is scant evidence for that. The only downside to a trial in the United States is that it would be a trial in the United States. It's interesting that wide swaths of the public instantly warm to the idea of any proceeding for suspected terrorists and traitors other than a criminal trial. All you have to do is invoke the name O.J. A win-win solution might be to turn Abdul over to the justice
[CTRL] Crew Rescued from Downed U.S. Bomber
-Caveat Lector- http://www.uniontribune.com/news/ap/D7GBQLD00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Crew Rescued from Downed U.S. Bomber By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer December 12, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) â An Air Force B-1B bomber involved in the war in Afghanistan went down in the Indian Ocean Wednesday and all four crew members were rescued, Pentagon officials said. The crew members were taken aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer that was sent to the crash site, according to Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. There was no immediate word on their condition. *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] Anthrax matches Army spores
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.anthrax12dec12.story?coll=bal%2Dhome %2Dheadlines WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Anthrax matches Army spores Bioterror: Organisms made at a military laboratory in Utah are genetically identical to those mailed to members of Congress. -- -- By Scott Shane Sun Staff Originally published December 12, 2001 For nearly a decade, U.S. Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah have made small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax that is virtually identical to the powdery spores used in the mail attacks that have killed five people, government sources say. Until the anthrax attacks led to tighter security measures, anthrax grown at Dugway was regularly sent by Federal Express to the Army's biodefense center at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, where the bacteria were killed using gamma radiation before being returned to Dugway for experiments. The anthrax was shipped in the form of a coarse paste, not in the far more dangerous finely milled form, according to one government official. Most anthrax testing at Dugway, in a barren Utah desert 87 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, is done using the killed spores to reduce the chance of accidental exposure of workers there. But some experiments require live anthrax, milled to the tiny particle size expected on a battlefield, to test both decontamination techniques and biological agent detection systems, the sources say. Anthrax is also grown at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, where it is used chiefly to test the effectiveness of vaccines in animals. But that medical program uses a wet aerosol fog of anthrax rather than the dry powder used in the attacks and at Dugway, according to interviews and medical journal articles based on the research. The wet anthrax, while still capable of killing people, is safer for laboratory workers to handle, scientists say. Dugway's production of weapons-grade anthrax, which has never before been publicly revealed, is apparently the first by the U.S. government since President Richard M. Nixon ordered the U.S. offensive biowarfare program closed in 1969. Scientists familiar with the anthrax program at Dugway described it to The Sun on the condition that they not be named. The offensive program made hundreds of kilograms of anthrax for bombs designed to kill enemy troops over hundreds of square miles. Dugway's Life Sciences Division makes the deadly spores in far, far smaller quantities, rarely accumulating more than 10 grams at a time, according to one Army official. Scientists estimate that the letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle originally contained about 2 grams of anthrax, about one-sixteenth of an ounce, or the weight of a dime. But its extraordinary concentration - in the range of 1 trillion spores per gram - meant that the letter could have contained 200 million times the average dose necessary to kill a person. Dugway's weapons-grade anthrax has been milled to achieve a similar concentration, according to one person familiar with the program. The concentration exceeds that of weapons anthrax produced by the old U.S. offensive program or the Soviet biowarfare program, according to Dr. Richard O. Spertzel, who worked at Detrick for 18 years and later served as a United Nations bioweapons inspector in Iraq. Lab security measures No evidence linking the Dugway anthrax to the attacks has been made public, and there might well be none. Army officials say the anthrax there and at Fort Detrick has long been protected by multiple security measures. The FBI has extensively questioned Dugway employees who have had access to anthrax, according to people familiar with the investigation. Agents also have questioned people at Fort Detrick and other government and university laboratories that have used the Ames strain of anthrax found in the letters. Still, the analysis of the genetic and physical properties of the anthrax mailed to Daschle and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy has caused investigators to take a hard look at Dugway's anthrax program. First, the genetic fingerprint of the mailed anthrax is indistinguishable from that of the Ames reference strain, which is the strain used most often at Fort Detrick and Dugway, according to a scientist familiar with the genetic work. Researchers led by Paul Keim at Northern Arizona University have compared the two samples and found them identical at 50 genetic markers - the most sensitive genetic identification method available. That does not mean the mailed anthrax necessarily originated from an Army program, because Ames anthrax has been widely used at government and university laboratories in the United States and overseas. Shipped without records While some sources have estimated Ames might have been used in as few as 20 labs, one
