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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/139.php }}}Begin Shia News.com http://www.shianews.com A Warning to Muslims against the Bid'ahs preached by Muhammad Ibn 'Abdi-l-Wahhab By: Shaykh Abdul Hadi Palazzi and Zubair Qamar This article has been written by prominent scholars of Ahlul Sunnah. Although there are many articles and fatwas by Shia scholars regarding the menace of Wahabism, we have published this fatwa by Sunni scholars so that our Sunni brothers will not fall in the traps laid down by the Wahabis who disguise their evil preachings as Sunnism. Using this article does not mean that we agree with ALL the fatwas by the above mentioned scholars. Praised by Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessing and peace upon the best of His creatures, the Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdi-Llah, upon his noble family, his pure wives, his purified Sahabahs and upon all those who follow his path till the Day of resurrection. This paper has been compiled by Shaykh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community and by Zubair Qamar as a mean to seek Allahs favor and as a warning against the founder of the heretic Wahhabi-Salafi cult and against the bidahs he preached. May Allah save this Ummah from bidahs and dalalah, and preserve us on the right path followed by Asyaduna al-akram in. Amin. Rasul-Ullah (S) said:Allahumma, bless Yemen, Allahumma, bless Sham. He was asked: And what about Najd? He answered: From Najd Shaytans horn will rise. He (S) also said: Beware of Shaykhu-n-Najdi, since he is Shaytan. He (S) also said: There will be people who come from the eastern side of Arabia who will recite Quran, but their recitation will not pass beyond their collarbones. They will go out of Islam as swiftly as the arrow goes through the prey. Their sign is shaving their heads. Muhammad Ibn Abdi-l-Wahhab was a descendent of the Bani Tamim tribe and was born in the Uyaynah village (Najd) in H. (1699 M.). His father was a learnt Hanbali scholar, and sent him to study tafsir, fiqh and tasawwu f in Mecca, Medina, Baghdad, Basrah and Damascus, as well as in Iran and India. His attitude, from the beginning, was very much polemic, and he took active part in scholarly debates. During this period, he received the su rname Shaykhu-n-Najdi. He contacted many Shaykhs of tasawwuf, and tried his best to be appointed as a khalifah. This request of his, however, was not accepted, since the Shaykhs realized he was too must influenced by ki br and by the desire to become a leader. At the age of thirty-two he came back to Najd and started working as a teacher for Bedouins; he also started exercising ijtihad, and accusing Sunni scholars and Ahlu-t-tasawwuf of bidahs. In 1143 H. (1730 M.) he met a le ader of a gang of marauders called Muhammad Ibn Saud, whose main activity was plundering travelers in the desert of Najd. Since most of those Bedouins living in Dariyyah were completely unlearnt, Ibn Abdi-l-Wahhab coul d easily convict them of his theories; Ibn Saud and him made an agreement, according to which the former was appointed as the Amir, and the latter as the Shaykh. The Shaykh declared he was ready to publish fatwahs where non-Wahhabi Muslims were described as apostates and idol-worshippers; this point of view obviously represented a sort of religious justification for Ibn Sauds gang. They were not, anymore, robbers and criminals , but mujahids, authorized to kill kuffars, to plunder their properties and to rape their women. The Shaykh also appointed some wakils and send them to preach Wahhabism in Mecca, but scholars living in the Blessed City were ready in understanding how dangerous this doctrine was. Sayyid Ahmad Zayni Dahlan as-Shaf' i (D) was the Chief Mufti of Mecca. In wrote in the book Al- Futuhatu-l-Islamiyyah: To deceive the ulemas in Mecca and Medina, those people sent emissaries in al- Haramayn, but these missionaries were not able to answer questions asked by Sunni scholars. It became evident that they were ignorant bidah holders. Muftis of the four madhhabs wrote a fatwah that declared them kuffars, and this document was distributed in the whole Jazirah. The Amir of Mecca, Sharif Masud Ibn Said, ordered that the Wahhabis should be impr isoned. Some Wahhabis fled to Dariyyah and informed their leader of what was happening. Muhammad Ibn Abdi-l-Wahhabs brother, Sulayman Ibn Abdi-l-Wahhab (D), studied his works and tried his best to invite him to tawbah. At least, when he realized verbal admonitions had no effect, decided to write a book ca lled As-Sawaiqu-l-Ilahiyyah fi-r-Raddi ala-l-Wahhabiyyah. It contains a detailed refutation of his brothers heresies, and states: One of the dalils showing that your path is heretic is the hadith sharif narrated by Uqbah Ibn Amir and collected in the Sahihayn [Bukhari and Muslim]: Rasul- Ullah (S) ascended the minbar, and it was the last time I s aw
[CTRL] The Menace of THC ... er ... DEA
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White House Watch: THC madness
The drug war blunders on: The DEA is cracking down on hempseed oil in
tortilla chips
Sunday, December 09, 2001
By Ann McFeatters
WASHINGTON - And now, for something completely different, to borrow a
phrase from Monty Python.
The three earnest young men burdened with plastic bags came to the
office bearing food. Pretzels with seeds. A snack bar. An energy bar.
Tortilla chips.
Ann McFeatters is National Bureau chief for the Post- Gazette and The Blade of Toledo,
Ohio. Her e-mail address is amcfeatters@
nationalpress.com.
Never mind the caloric sin. We're talking serious evil here.
Or so the government says.
Unless you are an avid reader of the Federal Register and perused the tiny print of
almost undecipherable bureaucratese on pages 51,539 through 51,544, you might have
missed it -- but the government has returned to normal
.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Asa Hutchinson, the former
GOP congressman from Arkansas, has announced rules to ban certain brands of a wide
variety of foods -- beer, cheese, coffee, corn chi
ps, energy drink, flour, ice cream, snack bars, salad oil, soda and veggie burgers --
if they contain trace amounts of THC.
THC, as those who came to the age of majority in the 1960s know well, is
tetrahydrocannabinols. As DEA succinctly explains: That's the hallucinogenic
substance in marijuana that causes the psychoactive effect or high.
The THC found in certain brands of the above-mentioned food comes from hempseeds and
hempseed oil, popular with some so-called natural food manufacturers because they
are high in protein and serve as a fatty acid supple
ment -- good fats that doctors like. But DEA says such foods are now controlled
substances illegal for everyone.
Makers of foods with hempseeds or oil, with $5 million in annual sales, argue that the
amount of THC is so infinitesimal that inhumanly high consumption of them would be
required to get high. They liken it to getting a bu
zz from eating the opiate-containing poppy seeds on bagels or the alcohol in orange
juice.
But the Controlled Substances Act says that any consumption of THC is forbidden. And
any food that contains it is no longer to be sold, distributed or eaten.
Says the DEA: If you wish to err on the side of caution, you may freely dispose of
the product. As stated in the rules that DEA published on Oct. 9, 2001, anyone who has
purchased a food or beverage product that contains
THC has 120 days (until Feb. 6, 2002) to dispose of the product without penalty under
federal law.
After Feb. 6, it will be illegal to sell or import any hemp-containing foods.
The DEA, in its wisdom, notes that bird seed with cannabis seeds, clothing such as
hats, shirt and shoes, cosmetics, lotion, paper, rope, twine and, yes, shampoo and
soap, which also can contain hemp, are not illegal. Ba
sed on the information currently available, DEA believes that [such products] do not
cause THC to enter the human body and are therefore legal.
Confronted with the thought that the government's investing time, money and energy in
such a campaign during a time of war is, possibly, ridiculous, Hutchinson says, Many
Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are
both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing
marijuana.
Not surprisingly, supporters of food with hempseed oil have gone to court, beseeching
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block the DEA rule. DEA says it is permitted
to issue the ban on THC-laced products without a
formal rule-making procedure although the public may comment until Dec. 10. It's like
the judge announcing the verdict before the trial, complained John Young, a lawyer
for the hemp-food lawsuit, to the National Law Jou
rnal.
Groups which are applauding the DEA's action, such as the conservative Family Research
Council, say food with hempseeds sends a pro-drug message to children and is
camouflage for a campaign to legalize marijuana.
The other day, confronted by a man in Florida who said the government was not
responding to his needs, President Bush muttered, I can't stand bureaucracy.
Bush remembered the cameras were rolling and said that he appreciated the
hard-working people who care enough to work for the government. But what I don't like
is systems that get so cumbersome that those who are trying
to help you don't get the product out.
In the course of writing this, I have munched on the 120-calorie corn
chips, the 220-calorie pretzels and devoured the 170-calorie snack
bar. In truth, I feel nothing but my waistband.
And a curious desire to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Unpaid Alliance soldiers spark crime wave in Kabul
THE GUARDIAN
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Gangs of Northern Alliance soldiers have unleashed a crime wave of
looting and killing in Kabul which is awakening nostalgia for the
Taliban.
Lawlessness is creeping into daily life, after six years of Taliban
order, in the form of robberies, extortion and murder aimed at the
few Kabul residents with visible wealth.
Parts of the city have become no-go areas for taxi drivers after a
spate of abductions and roadside executions of their colleagues by
soldiers loyal to the new Afghan government.
Many of the fighters have not been paid since July and admit they are
hungry for spoils after last month's sweep into the capital.
The breakdown in discipline appears confined to a small minority of the thousands of
newly arrived troops and is nowhere near the scale of banditry that ravaged Kabul when
the mujahidin ruled from 1992 to 1996. But fear t
hat crime will worsen has induced nostalgia for the ruthlessly effective law-and-order
policies of the Taliban, if not its brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
Random interviews with Kabul residents suggest the looting has deepened support for
the proposed British-led multinational force.
I would love it if foreign soldiers came. It is not safe anymore. I am afraid to go
to certain areas because of what the Northern Alliance men are doing, said Wahid
Aullah, 31, a taxi driver.
Colleagues echoed his observation that the Taliban had tended to be disciplined and
honest until their final days.
The Butkhak and Baysabaz districts had become out of bounds for taxis in the wake of
robberies by soldiers, who turned violent after ordering drivers to remote locations,
Aullah said. Yesterday my friend was beaten very
badly and had his car stolen.
A driver known only as Rassoul was less lucky. Last week shopkeepers in Taimaney
district saw four soldiers getting into his car at 2pm and asking to be taken to
Sorobi, a stretch of desert on Jalalabad road that is notor
ious for bandits.
The next day Rassoul's body was found in Sorobi with four bullet wounds in the chest.
His Toyota, worth about US$2,880, had disappeared.
We have not complained to the police. There is no point because the people who killed
him are government people, said Rassoul's cousin, Siar.
The shopkeepers claimed the soldiers responsible belonged to the Northern Alliance
faction of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a power broker in the interim government. At least
three other abductions and killings have been reported.
Crimes were also allegedly committed by troops of the Jamiat-i-Islami faction, the
backbone of the Northern Alliance, which is headed by General Mohammad Fahim, the
defense minister.
A businessman who asked not to be named said he had been visited at home by three
soldiers who demanded he sign and apply a thumbprint to a legal document declaring he
owed them US$1,200. They set a two-week deadline for
the cash and visit every few days to remind him.
I will have to sell my car by the weekend. It's the only way, he said.
Such crimes pale beside the mass murders, rapes and kleptomania which disgraced the
Northern Alliance's previous incarnation as the mujahidin, when rival warlords fought
each other and opened the way for the Taliban takeo
ver. Memory of those days swells support for the proposed UN peacekeepers.
Morale among the alliance troops is low for a victorious force. Mostly strangers to
Kabul, they are housed in grim barracks and subsist on meager rations.
Wages have not been paid in five months and what booty was grabbed on the way to Kabul
has been cashed in and spent, according to several junior ranking troops.
Commanders said they might be paid a month's salary -- ranging from US$21 to US$36 --
in time for Id al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, which begins today. But for some that will
not be enough.
I have had to borrow money since coming to Kabul and it'll take three months' salary
to pay it off, said Joma Khan, 33, wandering through a market with a rifle over a
shoulder.
There's good food and clothes here but I can't buy anything, Khan said.
A guard outside the culture ministry eyed passing barrows of dried fruit and
complained of not being able to afford sweets for Id despite risking his life to expel
the Taliban.
It's not right, he said.
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December 15, 2001
Glenn Miller killed by friendly fire, paper says
Big-band leader disappeared in 1944
Reuters
LONDON - It has been one of the most enduring mysteries of
entertainment history.
On the night of Dec. 15, 1944, U.S. big-band leader Glenn Miller, the
hottest pop star of the wartime era, left an airbase in southeast
England to entertain U.S. soldiers in Paris.
Within minutes, his plane had disappeared in fog and Mr. Miller was never seen again.
Wild theories about his demise sprang up -- from his torture and death at the hands of
the Nazis to the less respectful rumour that he had died in the arms of a Paris
prostitute and it had all been hushed up.
But a documentary to be shown on British television claims to have unravelled the
mystery: Mr. Miller was a victim of friendly fire, a hail of British bombs blowing his
tiny single-engined Noorduyn Norseman plane out of t
he sky, the Guardian newspaper reports today.
Documentary-makers believe that a fleet of 139 Lancaster bombers returning on the
fateful night from an abortive mission over Nazi Germany dumped their payload into the
English Channel -- and right on to Mr. Miller's plan
e.
In a recently uncovered amateur film interview, Fred Shaw, a navigator on one of the
Lancasters, said he saw the bombs hit a small plane beneath him, the paper said.
I had never seen a bombing before so I crawled from my navigator seat and put my head
in the observation blister. I saw a small high-wing monoplane, a Noorduyn Norseman,
underneath, Mr. Shaw reportedly said in the inter
view recorded before his death several years ago.
'There's a kite down there,' I told the rear-gunner. 'There's a kite
gone in.' He said 'Yes, I saw it.'
Mr. Shaw did not make the connection with Mr. Miller until 1956 when
he saw the film The Glenn Miller Story.
But with several unanswered questions remaining, his claims were
dismissed at the time as publicity seeking.
However, the paper said new research into Mr. Miller's flight path
and time had left little room for doubt.
Mr. Miller and his band became famous for such tunes as Tuxedo
Junction, In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade and the million-selling
Chattanooga Choo Choo.
The documentary is to be screened on Britain's Channel Four on New
Year's Eve.
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The overall article is about withdrawing from the ABM Treaty
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Does Bush realize that these moves, as well as the phony war on
terrorism, are taking the country closer to a world war? Probably
not, given his shallow background. There are plenty of superficial
reasons his advisors can give him for these moves--in line with such
lofty ideas as world peace and international disarmament (notions
only fools really believe in). The ultimate game plan for world
government is kept in a very close-knit circle--lest those who are
mere predictable lackeys in the process develop pangs of conscience,
or worse yet, spill the beans. Still, Bush is not totally blameless.
He has made his pact of allegiance to those who govern the country
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Iraqi opposition urges US to make war on Baghdad
David Teather in New York
Monday December 17, 2001
The Guardian
An Iraqi opposition leader has lobbied the US government with a war
plan against Saddam Hussein, calling for an air assault and the
deployment of American special forces.
He also wants the participation of Iran, which has reportedly agreed
to accommodate offices of the opposition Iraqi National Congress and
would allow an invasion across its border into southern Iraq.
According to the respected commentator Seymour Hersh, writing in the
Christmas edition of the New Yorker magazine, published today, the
Bush administration has been encouraged by its success in
Afghanistan, and some quarters are pushing for similar action in
Iraq, using the opposition led by Ahmed Chalabi.
America's success in routing the Taliban has improved Chalabi's standing with some
elements of Washington's defence community, he writes.
One defence analyst said: They believe they have found the perfect model and it
works. The model is bombing, a modest insertion of special forces plus an uprising.
Iraq has been a clear potential target for the US-led campaign since the terrorist
attacks of September 11 jolted the US out of complacency. Many politicians have argued
that a campaign against terrorism which excluded Sa
ddam Hussein would prove to be an empty war.
Suspicions have been voiced that Iraq has links with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
network and may have sponsored the anthrax attacks in the US.
Iraq has denied any link to Bin Laden but tensions with the US have heightened in
recent weeks.
Last week a House of Representatives panel endorsed a resolution dubbing Iraq's
refusal to allow the unrestricted return of UN weapons inspectors a mounting threat to
the US and the world.
President George Bush demanded two weeks ago that Iraq open its doors to the
inspectors, who have been absent for three years, or face the consequences.
September 11 changed the whole equation, the New Yorker quotes former New York
congressman Stephen Solarz as saying. Before then, an argument could be made that
deterrence worked.
The national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, recently declined to comment on
whether Iraq would be the next target for the US campaign on terrorism.
Iraq, she said, had been a problem before September 11 and continues to be a problem
since September 11, as President Saddam had made it clear that he was seeking weapons
of mass destruction. But she added: Iraqi invol
vement is not the key issue here.
The New Yorker claims that Pentagon officials are at odds with the state department
over what step to take next.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that he expects the US to consult Moscow
before taking the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan.
He told the Financial Times that the top priority should be blocking the financing of
terrorism and he specifically warned against military action in Iraq. Asked if he
expected Washington to consult him before embarking o
n any further military actions, Putin said: Yes, we expect this.
Many within the Bush administration are reported to be sceptical of
Mr Chalabi and his supporters. One senior official said the
administration has no intention of allowing a bunch of half-assed
people to send foreigners into combat.
He added: Who among them has ever smelled cordite? These are
pissants [nonentities] who can't get the president's ear and have to
blame someone else. We're not going to let them lead others down the
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Dr. Horowitz' s Open Letter to FBI Director Re: Anthrax
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Subject:Dr. Horowitz' s Open Letter to FBI Director Re: Anthrax Mailings An Open Letter and Question for FBI Director, Robert Mueller, from Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, Prepared for Broadcast on Inside Out, Hosted by Michael Levine on KRLA radio in Los Angeles December 17, 2001. Dear FBI Director Robert Mueller, I dont know whether you have seen Sundays Washington Post (Dec. 16, 2001) article by authors Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt entitled Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Armys Stocks: 5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick, in which a short list of your chief suspects is provided? I am pleased to read these revelations, and wish to further facilitate your investigation toward a successful conclusion. As a Harvard-trained public health authority and independent investigator published in the field of using the FBIs motivational model for investigating serial homicides involving infectious agents, I want you to know that on Monday December 10, I released a 20-page detailed report to the press, to members of Congress, and to your bureau chiefs, which has largely propelled these recent mainstream media identifications of the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as your principle suspects in the anthrax mailings mystery. (Download report at: http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.ht ml) Given this opportunity on Los Angeles radio, I would like to have you respond to the following facts, and question, Why should the people of the United States trust you and the FBI to fulfill your expressed mission to solve this case when: 1) On October 1, 2001, approximately two weeks prior to the first publicized anthrax mailing, I personally delivered information to the FBI that should have prompted an immediate investigation of affiliated military-industrial and pharmaceutical contractors that maintain intimate ties to BMI and the CIA-information and an investigation that might have prevented the mailings sent more than a week later from Trenton, NJ. In fact, as evidenced by Sundays report in the Washington Post, this information still appears to be actively suppressed, namely, the most obvious motives behind the mailed anthrax was to fan fears, dramatically expand pharmaceutical industry profits, and meet military-industrialists and political objectives grossly jeopardizing American freedoms and civil rights. 2) Here are the incriminating facts Mr. Mueller: The Battelle Memorial Institute administers and supplies the Dugway anthrax proving facility in Utah where the only virtually identical Ames strain of silica-impregnated hyper-weaponized anthrax was found. According to Sundays Washington Post, Dugway is the only facility known in recent years to have processed anthrax spores into the powdery form that is most easily inhaled. Dugways military supply is allegedly well protected by multiple security measures, (according to Scott Shane reporting in the Baltimore Sun, Dec. 12, 2001). BMIs security is apparently not as strict. 3) The Battelle Memorial Institute, (according to William Broad and Judith Miller in the New York Times, Thursday, Dec. 13) provides services as a military contractor in [West Jefferson] Ohio, and has experience making powdered germs. . . . [T]he contractor participated in a secret Central Intelligence Agency program, code-named Clear Vision [that] began in 1997, that used [allegedly] benign substances similar to anthrax. 4) BMI directs the Defense Departments Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program worth more than $1 billion in vaccine contracts; an acquisition program in which Battelle, as a CIA contractor, partnered with Bioport for Americas sole anthrax vaccine production. Bioportlargely owned by Britains top secret biowarfare consortium Porton Down, bin Laden family associate Faud El Hibri, Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and others (including, according to some investigators, the multinational investment firm and defense contractor, the Carlyle Management Group, that managed bin Laden family millions prior to 9-11, directed by past CIA director Frank Carlucci, James Baker, III, and Past President George H.W. Bush); a vaccine maker that has negotiated a steady stream of controversy and illegalities since 1996, the year before the CIA contracted with Battelle to conduct a special study of aerosolized hyper-weaponized anthrax. 5) Based on a September 7, 2001 Associated Press report, a new strain of extremely lethal anthrax had been under development before September 2001, by a U.S. biological weapons contractor, apparently Battelle Memorial Instititue in West Jefferson, Ohio, as this fit the intelligence published by the New York Times (wherein Americas top anthrax expert, William C. Patrick III, said the American program had achieved [an unprecedented]
Re: [CTRL] Is Arafat provoking full-scale war?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/13/01 11:41:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Israeli security sources say there is growing evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is plotting to lead the Middle East into a major new conflict, which they say could be part of a larger effort to bring much of the world to war. Although the evidence is still mainly circumstantial at this point, sources maintain it is substantial enough to be taken seriously by regional and international leaders. The security sources point out that several recent Palestinian terror attacks appeared to be joint operations carried out by groups that Arafat is supposed to be suppressing, working with terrorists connected to his own PLO Fatah movement. More ominously, they seem to have coordinated their operations with the Iranian and Syrian backed Hezbollah militia stationed in southern Lebanon. This is funny. Poor old Arafat couldn't promote or provoke anything, and the Israeli know it. The fact is that the various Palestinian organizations ignore him and do what they want. If he wanted to do Palestinians a favor, Arafat would resign and go into exile. That way, the Israeli would have to find another horse to flog, and might even have to let up on killing Palestinians for a while. Not for long of course. Right now all systems are go for them. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Bush Shields Clinton Scandals
-Caveat Lector- Dubya is not shielding Clinton. He is making sure there is no precedent where he has to release information about Bush the First. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Glenn Miller Mystery Resolved
-Caveat Lector- Well this story I do not believe is true; and, further I have a picture of Glen Miller, a snap shot, standing in front of a brick wall with my brother in law who was stationed at East Wycombe (bomber pilot) during WWII.this was the last picture taken of Miller to my knowledge. Back maybe in 1987 my sister found the picture which had slipped behind a dresser drawer - full of memorandum, etc., and the New York Times did a story on it. My brother in law in the story told Miller not go go that night - the weather was furious..and I believe no way anybody could have seen this small plane - he had told Miller no experienced flyer would take a plane like his out on a night like that. So - when saw this photo - which the New York Times used - I thought, my gosh it looks like they are to be shot before a firing squad with that brick wall behind them. During WWII this bunch dropped a lot of bombs on German - some of which contained the melted down plates of William Hogarth.. So this friendly fire bit, well some of these guys are getting pretty old - maybe truth in both stories - only remember the inclement weather bit - Years ago when I used to go with a young Navy Lt. Commander, we would go out to Port Columbus where they had this big light shining up in the air - he could tell if he would fly the next day using this light.if the weather was bad - we would stay out later going to the old Monkey Bar Club at the old Port Columbus...that was long ago but nobody took any chances with a pilots life then if the weather would be bad, cloudy, etc.. At least the Navy did not. So Miller took nobody's advice; he had a mission as I recall - how to salvage American planes shot down and their return.at least this was part of the story. So in the picture Miller looked very handsome, but he sure as hell could not compare to Phil - who was more handsome - some saidi he looked like a movie star - but he was also a hero with evry medal but the top two and a croix d'guerre (with palm means he got it twice and kissed by Degalle).. It was then he used the old line so often used with the real men in that war who some it is said flew by the seat of their pants - blind flying, was really blind flying.but he said there was a war going on, and he was just another trumpet player. Good guy though..but I never liked his music...would rather go to war playing Dixie than Little Brown Jug. My brother in law only made one mistake that my sister caught - a picture of two young officers, and a woman - he was beaming in the picture - but my sister said okay, who took the picture A picture is worth a thousand words but there was, a war going on. Saba A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FLORIDA OF THE RAILROAD BARONS - POLITICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH - THE POLITICS OF LAND
-Caveat Lector- http://www.floridahistory.org/floridians/railroad.htm - Lots of links and more at site. Om K - FLORIDA OF THE RAILROAD BARONS POLITICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THE POLITICS OF LAND Just as the Louisiana Purchase opened the West to settlers in 1803, the Disston Purchase of 1881 cleared the way for a mass development of South Florida, a development that would seriously reshape Florida's political and economic future. Thirty years earlier the State of Florida purchased from the Federal Government's Swamp and Submerged Lands program millions of acres of land for public sale and railroad construction. The Florida Internal Improvement Fund held title to this land, but during the Civil War era its trustees found few customers except land speculators. Most payments were made in worthless Confederate script, rendering the entire system about a million dollars in debt and tied up in legal battles. The largest creditor of the state debt was Francis Vose who tied up the land in court until the state found the money to pay off its debts. The Bourbon Democrats, mostly planters and businessmen, did not want to spend tax moneys on this debt, but Florida needed to clear the debt to expand. Investment in the least populated state east of the Mississippi was stymied, but Governor Bloxham found a white knight to rescue the state in Philadelphia saw manufacturer HAMILTON DISSTON Hamilton Disston. Disston recognized the tremendous potential of Florida real estate south of Gainesville and agreed in 1881 to purchase four million acres of listed swamp and submerged lands, from the Kissimmee Basin to the Everglades, with large sections along the Gulf Coast, at just twenty-five cents an acre. Most of the land was suitable for some form of successful agriculture. EARLY FLORIDA CITRUS GROVE Tallahassee businessmen cheered their Northern savior and the ending of debts without increased tax burden. Disston was no generous patron; he realized the potential wealth of much of his purchase. He was also no friend to the hundreds of farmers who squattered in the Kissimmee Valley under the Armed Occupation Act of 1842. The Swamp Act superseded their homestead titles and they only had to pray Disston did not demand payment for their isolated farms. Disston's canal company immediately dredged large sections of fertile muck lands out of the Kissimmee marshes. Overnight new agricultural regions opened up. In the Pinellas Peninsula, Disston started a town on the bayou of Lake Butler, invited rich Northern to build winter homes, and made the birth of Tarpon Springs. Disston City, today near the town of Gulfport, was opened in 1884 as the beginning of that region's farm growth. Visit historic and distinctive TARPON SPRINGS EARLY SPONGE DOCKS IN TARPON SPRINGS AT SPRING BAYOU STEAMBOATING IN FLORIDA IN 1880'S The intrusion of Disston's huge dredges in the Caloosahatchee Valley was a warning to the cattlemen that the days of the homesteaders were beginning. In the winter of 1884-85 hundreds of Northern visitors arrived in the region including Thomas Alva Edison who decided to bring a prefab winter complete, complete with South Florida's first swimming pool, to Fort Myers. The father of the electric bulb and the phonograph attracted dozens of other winter residents including Henry Ford. THOMAS ALVA EDISON PREFEB HOUSE Fort Myers THOMAS EDISON'S FRONT PORCH SIGNS OF THE TIMES AT EDISON'S FARM Before the railroad steamboats controlled the destiny of much of Florida. If you did not live along the coast or along a navigable river, you were living in isolation. The fur trappers and Seminoles, cowboys and fishermen ruled the frontier, but not for long. THE RAILROAD BARONS OF FLORIDA The Disston Purchase stimulated the interest in railroad builder, for the State of Florida could offer land deals to railroad development much like the transcontinental railroad system growing in the West. The greatest development was due to three major railroad barons: William D. Chipley in the Panhandle; Henry B. Plant on the Gulf of Mexico; and Henry F. Flagler on the Atlantic Coast. Their domain contained more than just railroad track - they built hotels, roads, and villages. Their track gave birth to new towns and small trunk railroad developments. WILLIAM D. CHIPLEY, the son of a Georgia Baptist preacher, became the most important developer of the growth of West Florida, an area of lumbering and farming interests. Chipley had a knack of buying up bankrupted railroads and turning them into profitable enterprises, by improving the rolling stock and developing a shipping
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Helpful comments from AngloGold's Godsell, and heartfelt thanks from S. Africa
---BeginMessage--- By Bill Murphy, Chairman Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Sunday, December 16, 2001 The Christmas/end-of-year holiday season is a time of reflection for many of us. As a result of the terrorist attacks and other strife in the world, the closing of 2001 may be more poignant than most years. It certainly is for me, as chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. Chris Powell and I will soon commence Year 4 in our effort to expose the manipulation of the gold price. From Day 1 we stated that our main goal was to expose the truth about the gold market. That is what we told the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert; the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Rep. Spencer Bachus; the House chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Rep. James Saxton; and the president of the United States, George W. Bush. Over the past four years we had discovered massive evidence of gold market manipulation. None of that evidence contradicts our initial assertion that gold was not allowed to rise in price due to an orchestrated effort of certain bullion banks. Unfortunately, we have learned the gold price manipulation extends to the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, and the U.S. Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund. It is not a pretty picture. We are talking about the most powerful and wealthiest institutions in the world. Who wants to take them on? That is especially the case for the world's major gold producers, which count on the bullion bankers for financing and on the politicos for mining rights, permits, etc. To question these powerful institutions is to challenge the elites of the world. But that is just what must be done if truth is to remain a standard to be aspired to. It saddens me to say that GATA has found out the tedious way the truth is often sacrificed by the establishment and mainstream press to preserve the interests of big money. How else can you explain the three-year U.S. news media blackout of GATA and Reg Howe's lawsuit against the gold cartel in federal court in Massachusetts? Fortunately, that has not been the case in South Africa. The GATA African Gold Summit held in Durban on May 10, 2001, was covered by all the major South African news organizations and covered for two days by the South African Broadcasting Co. All the major gold producers in South Africa have supported financially GATA's search for the truth about gold. We are most thankful. One of GATA's supporters in South Africa is AngloGold, the world's largest gold producer. Its respected CEO, Bobby Godsell, is also the chairman of the World Gold Council. He is unique in that he is willing to share his thoughts, ideas, and opinions with AngloGold shareholders over the Internet. It is most admirable and reflects a serious truth-finding effort on his part. The following is recent correspondence between Godsell and Jim Bruce, a GATA supporter and member of www.LeMetropoleCafe.com. With all the commotion in the gold world these days, I think you will find the exchange illuminating. Godsell has authorized its publication. * * * * * * * * * Dear Jim: Thank you for your email. For ease of reference I offer you a response to your five questions, under each question, and simply to distinguish answer from question I have put the answer in capitals. Please do not hesitate to come back with a further response. I know I work with less than full information, and so I value what I have learnt from many sources, including email. Regards, Bobby Godsell * * * Dear Mr. Godsell: It is an honor to write you, and I thank you very much for the time you take with this email. I am an AngloGold shareholder (through a number of funds) and am in my mid-60s. I own my own computer services company in upstate South Carolina. I have been a gold buff for many years, going back to at least the early 1980s. I am frustrated because I cannot help but believe that the gold markets have to have been manipulated over the last few years. Nor can I understand why the World Gold Council is not standing up to that or promoting, with gusto, gold as having primarily monetary value and being an integral part of one's investment portfolio, rather than push an agenda to sell jewelry. I've read some of your commentary on the Internet and respect your views. I have also followed GATA and its chairman, Bill Murphy, and visited www.LeMetropoleCafe.com many times. While Murphy may seem eccentric at times and can get quite angry and frustrated, thereby ticking off the gold establishment, he and his team do throw enough wood on the fire to make the average person lean toward manipulation as the only logical reasoning for the suppression of gold prices. With half of the larger mines, the WGC, the Fed, the bullion banks, most of the news media, and most of the central banks ignoring him (other than
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Moorgate Name Game
---BeginMessage--- According to the following item, the intended target was an area name Moorgate. Ah, do we have a little Name Game here? Even though it actually may be the gateway to the wild open peat moors, it is an interesting name-lex-link to the Arabs called Moors (literally dark people)? And is it one of the Masonic gates, temples, and bridges found throughout London? Just Fortean-curious, of course, Loren http://www.lorencoleman.com -- Bin Laden in plot to bomb City Terror blueprint for attack on London War on Terrorism: Observer special Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor, Kandahar Sunday December 16, 2001 The Observer Chilling plans for a devastating bomb attack on the City of London have been discovered in a terrorist base in Afghanistan, revealing a sophisticated al-Qaeda training programme to spread its terror campaign to Britain. The blueprint is contained in a notebook written in clear English discovered by The Observer at an al-Qaeda camp in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Disturbingly for British police and intelligence services, there is no indication whether the terrorist who drew up the plan stayed to fight and die with Osama bin Laden's group, or whether he had already left on his mission to Britain before the suicide hijackings of 11 September and the US bombing of Afghanistan. In step-by-step instructions it describes how to construct a huge remote-controlled van bomb - identical to those used by al-Qaeda against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with lethal effect in 1998. A scribbled note on top of one page suggests the intended target was Moorgate in the centre of London's financial district. The discovery of the notebook comes after the US released a video, also apparently found in an abandoned al-Qaeda base, showing a giggling bin Laden boasting of how he had planned the suicide hijackings. It confirms a growing body of evidence that bin Laden - who American intelligence last night said was co-ordinating his last stand by his fighters through shortwave radio broadcasts in the Tora Bora area - was orchestrating a global terrorism campaign against Western interests. But the notebook is the first hard evidence that London was also an intended target. It appears to confirm the fears of intelligence services and the Metropolitan Police that an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may already be in Britain preparing an attack. A Scotland Yard source said yesterday that The Observer's discovery in southern Afghanistan would be investigated by anti-terrorist officers. 'We have to recognise that there are some very big targets in the City,' he said. Written in note form - apparently as an aide-mémoire by the man who would construct the bomb - the language used suggests that the author was a British fundamentalist who prepared the document while training in the Sheragha Jama district of Kandahar, an area riddled with the former homes and compounds of al-Qaeda fighters. Other documents found with the notebook indicate it was probably written in the early part of this year. Although most of the al-Qaeda camps around Kandahar had already been cleared of their document caches by US Special Forces, The Observer came across the padlocked compound, riddled with bunkers, when local Afghan residents led us to it. In one small room papers had been tossed on to a bonfire by al-Qaeda fighters who, locals said, had abandoned the area to join the fight for the city's airport against anti-Taliban fighters. It was here that the notebook was discovered. It appears to be a record of meetings between al-Qaeda's master bomb-maker and an English-speaking activist in which he is guided through each step in building a bomb. In places the author has revisited his notes, adding information in a small, neat hand, often underlined, suggesting he has tried some of the procedures in the camp, had problems and been talked through his mistakes. The notebook is a mixture of apparently sophisticated data and simplistic checklists consistent with the tone of documents found in the luggage of the 11 September hijackers. It provides a detailed guide about how to behave while working under cover during the operation. The intended target is made clear by references to what to expect when entering Britain. The target itself is identified by scribbled notes on how to find Moorgate, including reminders to use an A-Z and a Business Directory . The bomb-maker's guide is written by someone familiar with electrical engineering and chemical procedures. The first of the 80 pages include calculations of the weight of boxes of detonators and discusses safety arrangements for handling explosives. The author lists equipment and material needed to make the bomb, which will be installed in a van. Under the heading 'Business Plan' he writes: 'Connect the wires properly. Isolate connecting wires (Sellotape). Constantly refer to diag[ram], nobody work alone, const[ant] double checking.'
[CTRL] Fwd: [MadCowMorningNews] Osama the Mob
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[CTRL] Fwd: Dr. Charles Crenshaw on JFK Murder
---BeginMessage--- Published Thursday, November 22, 2001 JFK gunmen theorist, 68 Los Angeles Times Service Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw, who became a favorite of conspiracy buffs [!] when he asserted three decades after the assassination of John F. Kennedy that Lee Harvey Oswald had not acted alone and that as a surgical resident he saw four gunshot wounds in the fallen president, has died. He was 68. Crenshaw, who disclosed his multiple-gunmen opinions in the 1992 book JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, died Nov. 15 of what his family described as natural causes at his Fort Worth, Texas, home after years of deteriorating health. On Nov. 22, 1963, Crenshaw was a third-year resident on the trauma team at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was brought to the emergency room. Crenshaw disputed the findings of the Warren Commission in his book. The commission, appointed by President Johnson to investigate the Kennedy slaying and the killing of Oswald by Jack Ruby, concluded that Kennedy was killed by two shots through the back of the head and neck that were fired solely by Oswald. But Crenshaw's book claimed that Kennedy had four wounds. The fatal shot, he insisted, was fired from the front and could have come from a second gunman. Crenshaw is survived by his wife, Susan; a son, Charles A. Crenshaw II; a daughter, Adelaide Andrews; and two grandchildren. MARY ROBERTS WILSON ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Nine-page special report about GATA in New African magazine
---BeginMessage--- 6:05p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's dispatch this evening mentioned briefly something of great encouragement to us: a nine-page special report in the December issue of the New African magazine about GATA and the suppression of the gold price. The report includes the full text of Murphy's speech to the GATA African Gold Summit in Durban, South Africa, last May, as well as essays by one of the magazine's correspondents, Pusch Commey, and financial analyst and GATA supporter Adam Hamilton. The subheadline on Commey's essay reads: Pusch Commey, the prodigal son, returns home with one of the biggest stories of the year he forgot to report -- GATA's all-revealing gold summit in Durban on 10 May. It is worth every ounce in gold. Commey writes that he attended the conference but, distracted by pressing personal matters, didn't get around to writing about it until now. Well, better late than never, and the New African's treatment of the suppression of the gold price is sure to help awaken the continent -- help it realize that, far from being poor, it is rich beyond imagining, if it will just stand up and claim its birthright. The magazine's special report shows that GATA's message IS getting out and that we ARE making a difference. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/Pv4pGD/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/WfTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Beast of the Month - October 2001
In a message dated 12/16/01 3:32:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: against Afghanistan, for their refusal to surrender Osama bin Laden. No evidence has yet been supplied to Afghanistan or the world public showing his supposed guilt. ---BeginMessage--- 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/zgSolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.konformist.com/botm/volume05/botm1001.htm Beast of the Month - October 2001 The Shrub Military-Industrial Police State, American Terrorist Network I yam an anti-Christ... John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of The Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.'' president George W. Bush Ah, it seems like it was only yesterday that the biggest outrage in the world was Gary Condit and his lies surrounding the disappearance of Chandra Levy. Since the day of infamy on September 11, 2001, conspiracy theories have been rampant about what happened in the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by hijacked planes. (Gee, imagine that?) There's been many questions asked, but the biggest of all, of course, is Who done it? While the chorus of the korporate media has focused almost completely on lone nut evil madman Osama bin Laden - or, perhaps, that other evil crazy Muslim monster Saddam Hussein - in their own officially sanctioned conspiracy theory, there have been numerous alternative theories presented in the underground press: Israel and Mossad, China and the PLA, Russia and the KGB, MI6 and the Royal Crown, and, of course, the always nominated Illuminati. Still, one theory seemed to stick out as a popular choice, and indeed its popularity is an obvious one: the idea that this was an inside job. Specifically, the theory (or theories, as there is more than one strain) posit that the 911 attacks involved US intelligence agents and military people who wanted to let the attacks happen for cynical and amoral (or immoral) reasons. Some believe that they were even the masterminds of the operation, and not merely passive supporters. Whether it be a Pearl Harbor (which was known about beforehand by many US military leaders) or Reichstag (which appears to have been staged by the Nazis themselves), this secret network, so the theory goes, is linked to the BushMob, and some allege includes Dubya himself. For once, the official viewpoint of The Konformist editorial board is in rejection of the most anti-Shrub konspiracy, as much as we detest the sorry excuse for a man. Of course, that's partly why we reject the more extreme version: the look on Shrub's face after he was alerted of the attacks was the face of true cowardly fear and self- concern. As good of a liar Bush is, he couldn't have faked being so scared for his own life and political future as he showed in those first hours. In fact, his behavior was so lacking in any virtue, the White House had to lie and claim that the White House and Air Force One were targeted in order to cover for his courage deficiency. (Little surprise there: like father, like son, and George I was a wimp, after all.) One thing is pretty clear: whether or not Team Bush was behind in any way the 911 tragedy, as luck would have it, they are the main beneficiaries. Actually, luck has little to do with it, as such a reaction to such a terrible event could've been easily predicted. So much so, it almost makes you wonder. And that is why what we dub the Shrub Military-Industrial Police State is The Konformist Beast of the Month. Whatever enemy lurks from without, from within the gates is something that is perhaps even more frightening. And with a defense budget of $345 billion (plus another $40 billion for emergency funds) it is the richest and most heavily armed network of terror - which, let's face it, is precisely what all that weaponry is for - the world has ever known. All without even having to win an election. With such a nebulous group of Beasts in our midst, it is important to identify who they are and what they stand for. Let's start with PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, the top winner in the 911 sweepstakes. Rather than pointing out what a terrible job he is doing in an office he never won, pundits, in a predictably cowardly display of false patriotism, have tried to compare his embarrassing speeches to the words of Winston Churchill. Of course, it isn't just in mere political survival that Shrub has won out. The bloated defense contractors (with increased expenditures) and oil companies (who stand to gain big time from a Caspian Sea pipeline) are the big winners of the sweepstakes as well, groups
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Essay in Barron's protests Fed's shredding its minutes
---BeginMessage--- 8:45p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Last week Barron's published an essay by Robert D. Auerbach, a professor at the University of Texas, complaining about the Federal Reserve's active concealment of the public policies it carries out. Interestingly, one of the Fed meetings cited by Auerbach is the one in whose minutes GATA's investigators discovered what we consider to be the smoking-gun reference to gold swaps undertaken by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Open Market Committee meeting of January 31, 1995. The Fed clearly has a lot to hide, about gold and other things. We ask that our supporters in the United States share this essay with their representatives in Congress as a way of reiterating their request that the Fed and the Treasury Department be compelled to do their business fully in public and come clean about gold. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. * * * That Shreddin' Fed Just 18 minutes of Watergate tapes were erased, while the Fed's edits veil years of historic record By Robert D. Auerbach Barron's December 2001 Richard Nixon regretted not having burned the infamous Watergate tapes. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who, shortly after Nixon's resignation, came to Washington to be Gerald Ford's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, evidently intends not to make the same mistake. When the Federal Open Market Committee gets together Tuesday, certain portions of the meeting may not be recorded. Moreover, unedited transcripts of what is taped will be disposed of, leaving only records edited by Fed staffers for the public to read, and then only after a wait of five years. That could leave a serious gap in the historical record of the Fed's response to the national emergency after the terrorist attacks of September 11, when U.S. monetary authorities provided unprecedented liquidity to prevent a meltdown of the global financial system. In another instance when the central bank, under Greenspan, deftly defused a crisis -- the October 1987 stock-market crash -- the records of Fed officials' crucial telephone conference calls are conspicuously missing. Since early 1995, some discussions among the 12 FOMC members, the Fed's policy-setting panel, have been declared off the tape. Supposedly, these unrecorded talks don't relate to devising monetary policy. But at the two-day meeting of January 31-February 1, 1995, the FOMC voted to pull the plug on recording its meetings if the discussion fell under the undefined rubric organizational. And Greenspan stated: I am not going to record these votes because ... there is no legal requirement. The vote was taken without recording members' names. Ironically, that vote came after Greenspan noted prior FOMC reluctance to have its discussions recorded mainly on the grounds that we thought the taping inhibited the deliberative process. But he added ... with perhaps a qualification [a subpoena for early release of the transcript] ... there is very little evidence that the quality of our discussions has been reduced. Prior to the vote, a report from an FOMC subcommittee suggested a policy of off-the-tape discussion that is not about monetary policy. But Lawrence Lindsey, then a Fed governor and now a Bush economic adviser, warned that one might think of it as a witch hunt in which we are turning over to the prosecutors evidence that is really none of their business. It is possible for us to prevent taping under those circumstances by turning off the tape now. The Fed chairman was determined to turn off the recorder for organizational discussions after what he called a frankly outrageous request for the tape of our discussion in October a year ago, according to the January 31-February 1, 1995, meeting transcript. Once the motion passed, FOMC members also were told to move some discussions to lunchtime, when the tape is not on. The outrageous request Greenspan referred to came from former House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez, who insisted that congressional staff members hear a recording of an October 15, 1993, FOMC conference call. In that tape, most of the presidents of Fed district banks and board governors agreed not to mention the previously unknown existence of the FOMC transcripts when they testified before the Banking Committee about FOMC written records. Greenspan, who was to cover this subject for the banking panel, didn't mention the 17 years of transcripts at the hearing. Gonzalez later accused the witnesses of misleading Congress. A week after the hearing, Greenspan ended the Fed's 17- year secret by informing the Banking Committee that unedited transcripts exist for each regular meeting of FOMC held after the meeting of March 15-16, 1976, in a letter to Gonzalez. Thirty-eight of the transcripts (or tapes) for 104 FOMC conference calls were reported missing, however. The FOMC also has shredded its unedited transcripts
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Silver as money is proposed for Mexico's economic liberation
---BeginMessage--- 9p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Mexican industrialist and patriot Hugo Salinas Price, a longtime GATA supporter, got onto national television in Mexico a couple of weeks ago for an interview advocating the remonetarization of silver in that country. Price was explaining and warning about dollar imperialism long before GATA was even founded, and his analysis of the world financial situation has strongly shaped ours. With silver, Price has found a method of economic liberation uniquely suited to Latin America. He makes a compelling case amid the catastrophe under way in Argentina. You can read a transcript of his interview here: http://www.plata.com.mx/plata/comNOT21a.htm That Internet site also has other insightful essays on the money problem that you well may want to read. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Barrick bid for Normandy, or even for AngloGold?
---BeginMessage--- By Michael Weir The West Australian http://www.thewest.com.au/20011217/business/tw-business-home- sto36656.html December 17, 2001 North American gold miners Barrick Gold and Homestake Mining have wrapped up their $US2.3 billion ($4.43 billion) merger, clearing the way for the expanded Barrick to enter the battle for Normandy Mining. Barrick remains the last realistic contender to take on AngloGold and Newmont Mining in the tug-of-war for Australia's biggest gold producer. At stake is the ability to lay claim to being the biggest gold miner in the world. For the past couple of weeks there has been speculation Barrick would mount a counter-bid, but no firm evidence to suggest it would. On Friday Homestake shareholders approved the merger, which was announced in June. The new company will be the second-biggest gold producer, pouring an estimated 5.7 million ounces a year, compared with AngloGold's 7 million ounces. Our goal is to be the most profitable, lowest-cost producer, not to be the biggest producer, Randall Oliphant, Barrick's president and chief executive, said in a statement. Views are still mixed over whether Barrick will make a tilt for Normandy and get involved in what is already a two-way tussle between Newmont and AngloGold. Newmont has the upper hand with its revised bid last week, which values Normandy at $1.86 a share. Newmont has also secured the support of the Normandy board and chairman Robert de Crespigny, who has recommended the bid to shareholders. AngloGold's revised cash and scrip bid was worth $1.75 based on Friday's closing share price. Normandy closed on Friday at $1.76, which suggests the market is not expecting much more money to be put on the table. In a note to clients, Credit Suisse First Boston said it appeared there was very little left in the battle for Normandy. However, it suggested AngloGold may offer an incremental sweetener, which could largely close any pricing gap that exists in several days. One school of thought has AngloGold letting Normandy fall to Newmont, then organising its own merger with the new Barrick. An AngloGold-Barrick, with annual production approaching 13 million ounces, would once again take the title as the biggest gold producer from an expanded Newmont (8 million ounces). One thing for certain is that Normandy shareholders will be big winners out of the latest round of corporate rationalisation. The latest Newmont bid values Normandy at more than $4 billion, double what it was before AngloGold kicked off the bidding duel in early September. Mr. de Crespigny has warned shareholders not to do anything until they receive Normandy's response to the formal Newmont offer, which has not yet been lodged. It is expected to go out today or tomorrow. On Friday Normandy formally rejected AngloGold's revised offer. Having regard to the increased value and improved terms of the proposed Newmont offer and the fact that it exceeds the value of AngloGold's revised offer ... by a significant margin and all other relevant considerations, the Normandy directors recommend you reject the AngloGold offer, Mr. de Crespigny said. -END- 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/WfTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: FW: EO Order 12333 --- Critical to Trafficking/WOD by Government Agencies
---BeginMessage--- -Original Message- From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:10 PM To: G. Alan Robison; Tom O'Connell; Tom Flocco Subject: EO Order 12333 --- Critical to Trafficking/WOD by Government Agencies My guess is that this Executive Order has a dramatic impact on the ability of private investors to use government for narcotics trafficking and WOD mischief. I would recommend that you make sure that you learn about it and the MOU that DOJ and CIA created in the early 80's shortly thereafter to faciltiate drug dealing by CIA proprietaries. I was once speaking with Bill Tyree, a researcher who had been in the special forces in the '70's, helping with government narcotics trafficking in connection with Operations Watchtower (Why I keep sending you the transcript on Corone, a key player for Bush in Watchtower. He kept using enforcement and Narcotics trafficking as synonymous...as those moving the drugs was an enforcement function. It was after the Tyree blow up that caused so much trouble for Bush, etc, that the EO 12333 and the MOU was implemented, making it possible for folks like Casey, Bush, North, to run the drugs through government contractors and avoid the line management problems with running them with government employees. Same general issues arise with the takeover of sensitive federal agency and Treasury accounting, transaction and information systems by government contractors loyal to the Fed owners and outside investors. I will continue to send the Carone pieces as they are transcribed... From the Harvard DataDump: Promis Allegation #4: Finally, the Promis allegations raise whole new questions about Executive Order 12333 and the shift during the Reagan and Bush years of our national security intelligence infrastructure and technology into private hands through government contracting with firms such as DynCorp, as part of the events that have come to be referred to as Iran-Contra. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Rep. Paul would outlaw ESF intervention in metals markets
---BeginMessage--- 10:24p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Our friend Jay Taylor of J Taylor's Gold Technology Stocks newsletter reports that U.S. Rep. Ron Paul believes that the Exchange Stabilization Fund is intervening in the gold and silver markets and that he is drafting legislation to forbid it. Read about it here at www.Gold-Eagle.com: http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/taylor121701.html CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Need new boots for winter? Looking for a perfect gift for your shoe loving friends? Zappos.com is the perfect fit for all your shoe needs! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/ltdUpD/QrSDAA/ySSFAA/WfTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] so you say you want a solution
-Caveat Lector- from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let the Jews, who claim to be the chosen race, prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. --Mahatma Gandhi, Nov. 26, 1938 (full text below) M.K. Gandhi, Towards Lasting Peace, ed. by Anand T. Hingorani (Chowpatty: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1956) Gandhi on The Jews, November 26, 1938: Several letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine, and the persecution of Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question. My sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became life-long companions. Through these friends, I came to learn much of their age-old persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity. The parallel between their treatment by Christians and the treatment of untouchables by hindus is very close. Religious sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. Apart from the friendships, therefore, there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews. But the sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood? Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English, or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine to-day cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely, it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews, partly or wholly, as their national home. The nobler cause would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or, do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colourable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews. But the German persecution of the Jews seems to have no parallel in history. The tyrants of old never went so mad as Hitler seems to have gone. And he is doing it with religious zeal. For, he is propounding a new religion of exclusive and militant nationalism, in the name of which any inhumanity becomes an act of humanity to be rewarded here and hereafter. The crime of an obviously mad but intrepid youth is being visited upon his whole race with unbelievable ferocity. If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is, therefore, outside my horizon or province. But if there can be no war against Germany, even for such a crime as is being committed against the Jews, surely there can be no alliance with Germany. How can there be an alliance between a nation which claims to stand for justice and democracy and one which is the declared enemy of both? Or, is England drifting towards armed dictatorship and all it means. Germany is showing to the world how efficiently violence can be worked, when it is not hampered by any hypocrisy or weakness masquerading as humanitarianism. It is also showing how hideous, terrible and terrifying it looks in its nakedness. Can the Jews resist this organized and shameless persecution? Is there a way to preserve their self-respect, and not to feel helpless, neglected and forlorn? I submit there is. No person who has faith in a living God need feel helpless or forlorn. Jehovah of the Jews is a God more personal than the God of the Christians, the Mussalmans or the Hindus, though, as a matter of fact, in essence, He is common to all and one without a second and beyond description. But as the Jews attribute personality to God and believe that He rules every action of theirs, they ought not to feel helpless. If I were a Jew and were born in Germany and earned my livelihood there, I would claim Germany as my home even as the tallest gentile German might, and challenge him to shoot me or caste me in the dungeon; I would refuse to be expelled or to submit to discriminating treatment. And for doing this, I should not wait for the fellow Jews to join me in civil resistance, but would have confidence that in the
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: National ID Card Gaining Support-Wash Post
---BeginMessage--- -Original Message-From: Robert Lederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Robert Lederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:00 AMSubject: National ID Card Gaining Support-Wash Post Washington Post National ID Card Gaining Support by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 17, 2001; Page A01 Second in a series of occasional articles Navy Petty Officer Wellington Jimenez walked into the identification room at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn one day recently and gave his name, rank and fingerprint. In return, he got a token of the future: a plastic ID card embedded with a computer chip. The card -- with two photos, two bar codes, a magnetic stripe and the etched gold chip -- looks like a driver's license on steroids. More than 120,000 active duty military personnel, selected reserves, Defense Department civilians and some contractors have received the cards in recent months.About 4 million are to be issuedover the next two years. When Jimenez sits down at a computer on his next ship, the USS George Washington, he will slip the card into a device that will electronically scramble, or encrypt, his e-mail to prevent outsiders from reading it. The same card will automatically give him access to secure rooms across the world. At a military hospital, its chip will one day summon his medical records. Used as a debit card, it may even buy him a sandwich at a base cafeteria. And more than ever, the cards will enable Defense Department officials to look into their databases and know the doorways he passes through, the computer he accesses, the doctor he sees, all of which is fine with Jimenez. "I know the government will have more access to my information," Jimenez said. "But I know it's going to be used in the right way. I feel protected." The high-tech IDs, the latest in "smart cards," were designed for tracking personnel across the globe and running more secure and efficient military operations. But now they are models for something that was unthinkable before Sept. 11: national identification cards for all U.S. citizens. Almost from the day the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, members of Congress, security experts and high-tech executives have endorsed the idea of some new form of identification system as a critical weapon in the fight against terrorism.They believe the cards, linked to giant databases, would be invaluable in preventing terrorists from operating under assumed names and identities. Any such proposals in the past foundered on a distrust of centralized government as old as the American republic. Opponents raised the specter of prying bureaucrats with access to databases full of personal information, of Gestapo-like stops on the street and demands to produce papers, and the kind of unchecked police authority that would erode constitutional protections. The nation's new consciousness of terrorism, a product of both the fear and anger engendered by Sept. 11, has markedly changed the way Americans think about security, surveillance and their civil liberties. For many people, the trade-off of less privacy for more security now seems reasonable. As Alan M. Dershowitz, a Harvard University law professor, wrote in October in endorsing a national ID card, the "fear of an intrusive government can be addressed by setting criteria for any official who demands to see the card." "Even without a national card, people are always being asked to show identification," he said. "The existence of a national card need not change the rules about when ID can properly be demanded." Airport Security Needs The new enthusiasm for ID cards is not the only example of a changed attitude toward privacy issues. Face recognition systems that link computers and cameras to watch passing crowds spurred so much controversy last summer that many public officials refused to consider using the technology. Now airports across the country are clamoring to test and install such systems. Congress in October approved a sweeping anti-terrorism bill that gives authorities much broader powers to monitor e-mail, listen to telephone calls and secretly gather records. And the Bush administration, led by Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, has proposed a series of other measures with wide public support. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, almost 3 of 4 people said they support government eavesdropping on telephone conversations between terrorist suspects and their lawyers. For the first time, there is also strong support for secret tribunals for terrorist suspects and more government wiretapping. On the specific question of a a national ID card, about 70 percent of those recently polled by the Pew Research Center said they favor a system that would require people to show a card to authorities who request it. "We're willing to accept this immense flow of data to law enforcement and their
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Enron-gate
---BeginMessage--- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Unlimited PC-PC calling at Crystal Voice! - Only $1/Mo. Download your free 30 day trial. Click here. /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/Gb1xVB/GxbDAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Enron-gate Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate 12.06.01 - AUSTIN -- Hail and farewell, o Enron! What a flameout. The Establishment media, sucking its collective thumb with unwonted solemnity, is treating us to meditations on two themes: How the mighty have fallen, and, Who would have thunk it? Pardon me while I snort, in lieu of ruder noises, and offer two themes of my own: What took so long? and, Anyone with an ounce of common sense. If you want to know what this story is about, pretend Bill Clinton is still president. Pretend Clinton's long-time, all-time biggest campaign contributor, a guy for whom Clinton has carried water for over the years, a guy with unparalleled access, a shaper of policy, a man with a veto on regulatory appointments affecting his business, with connections at every level of the administration, a political fixer beyond the wildest dreams of James Riady -- imagine that this guy's worldwide empire has tumbled into bankruptcy in just three months amid cascading reports of lies, monumental accounting errors, evasions, iffy financial statements, insider deals, a board of directors rife with conflicts of interest, top executives bailing out with millions while regular employees see their life savings shrink to nothing -- imagine all this back in the day of Bill Clinton. Holy moley, we'd have four congressional investigations, three special prosecutors, two impeachment inquiries and a partridge in a pear tree by now. The Republicans would all be drumming their heels on the floor in full tantrum. But this is not President Clinton, it is President Bush -- so of course different standards must apply. The fact that Ken Lay, Enron's chairman, has been Bush's chief money man and key backer since he first went into politics is mentioned only in passing. The media don't want to be impolite. They have been credulously swallowing Enron's p.r. and overlooking the obvious for years. The main problem with Enron is that it has never produced much of anything in the way of either goods or services; it has not added a single widget to the world widget supply. Enron was in the business of financializing, making markets, trading in wholesale electricity, water, data storage, fiber-optics, just about anything. One Enron executive told The New York Times the company's achievement was to create a regulatory black hole to suit its core management philosophy, which was to be the first mover into a market and to make money in the initial chaos and lack of transparency. Enron started as a gas pipeline company that went into trading natural gas, and even then the company's critics claimed Enron was making profits by stoking volatility in gas prices. The same charge showed up again in spades with the newly deregulated electricity markets. Enron had lobbied for utility deregulation relentlessly, formidably and very expensively at both the state and national levels. The company seemed to spend more time influencing government than doing business. Like Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that went awry, it seemed to have only a parasitic relationship to actual economic activity. The problem with deregulating utilities is the reason they were regulated in the first place -- monopoly power and the threat of market manipulation are a set-up for unholy price-gouging. How many times do we have to re-learn that lesson? Just a few spiffy eye-openers on Enron's connections: Lay and Enron together donated $2 million to George W. Bush. In 2000, a company memo that was an open strong-arm recommended employees give campaign checks for Bush to the political action committee: low-level managers were urged to contribute $500 and senior executives at least $5,000. Another $1 million was given to mostly Republican congressional candidates. It gave more money last cycle than any other energy company. Lawrence B. Lindsey, Bush's top economic adviser, got $50,000 from Enron in 2000 for consulting, presumably giving the company the same excellent economic advice now proving so healthy for the nation's economy. Karl Rove, Bush's top political strategist, sold between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of Enron stock earlier this year, after being criticized for conflict of interest. The California Legislature passed a contempt motion against Enron for failure to respond to a June 11 subpoena. The legislature is investigating whether power generating companies willfully
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore
---BeginMessage--- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Call any Phone in the World from your PC with CrystalVoice -LOW rates world-wide - $0.039/min in U.S. FREE trial. Click here. /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/Ib1xVB/IxbDAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Printed from http://www.thenation.com © 2001 The Nation Company, L.P. -- -- FEATURE STORY | December 17, 2001 Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore by GORE VIDAL The late Murray Kempton once noted that although the New York Times likes to pose as being above the battle, this position has never stopped the Times, once the battle's fought, from sneaking onto the field and shooting the wounded. November 12, krauthammers at the ready, Times persons swept through the electoral swamps of Florida, shooting those survivors who questioned President Bush's alleged plurality. In the old Soviet Union, various Russian friends were often surprisingly well informed about the world despite the fact that their view of it was largely shaped by their New York Times, Pravda. When asked how do you find out what's really going on, they would give secret smiles: You must know how to read Pravda. Now the USSR is gone and we are on our own, trying to sort out our Pravda's often contradictory mendacities, on such lurid view a few weeks ago in an edition that contained three or four not exactly synoptic tales of the findings of a ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations. Apparently, 175,010 ballots from throughout Florida were examined. As always, when the Times's dread sharpshooters are slithering across a bloody no-man's land, one must first deconstruct the headline for clues. Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote. So much for those conspiracy theorists who dared attack the Court's interference in the election when the Court was, simply, as always, anticipating the will of the majority of those people that the Court has, from the very first admiralty suits of the original Republic to now, cherished-- property owners. Wall Street Journal headline: In Election Review, Bush Wins Without Supreme Court Help. Conspiracy? No. They all think alike. The story: Paragraph one: A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. That's pretty plain. State was always for Bush. No point in wading any farther into the joint prose of sharpshooters Ford Fessenden and John Broder (the second name suggests that the hereditary principle is at work not only at the presidential level but even at the humblest journalistic one--but since John M. is not related to David M., was he, like a pope, obliged to change his name from...whatever?). Paragraph two: Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged... Note partisan. Ugly word. Do anything to win. We know about them. Bushites compassionate. Dumb maybe but real nice. Sincere. ...close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have won if the Florida court's order to recount had not been reversed by the Supreme Court. This is bald, bold. True? Keep reading the Times. Paragraph three: Gist: Even if Gore had got his four-county hand count, which the Supreme Court denied him, Bush would have kept his lead. Get that, sore losers? Real Americans hate a sore loser. You may stop reading this story now because... Paragraph four: The Times's two scouts step on a landmine. Watch two scouts explode. But the consortium, looking at a broader group of rejected ballots than those covered in the court decisions...found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots The findings indicate that Mr. Gore might have eked out a victory Only someone truly slimy ekes. A real man wins big with a 5-to-4 vote. ...if he had pursued in court a course like the one he publicly advocated when he called on the state to 'count all the votes.' So after paragraph three's firm Bush wins without Supreme Court, the Times, on further evidence, finds Gore eking out a victory. What next? Paragraphs five and six: In addition, the review found statistical support for the complaints of many voters, particularly elderly Democrats in Palm Beach County, that the ballot was so confusing that more than 113,000 voters cast ballots for two or more presidential candidates. Of those, 75,000 chose Mr.
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Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
by Jared Israel
[9 October 2001]
===
In 'US Army Gets Secret Advice from Hollywood,' the BBC (British Broadcasting
Corporation) notes that:
American intelligence specialists are reported to have 'secretly' sought
advice on handling terrorist attacks from Hollywood film-makers.
(http://emperors-clothes.com/news/hollywood-i.htm )
Among said film-makers is Steven E De Souza, the screenwriter for the movie
'Die Hard,' whose plot deals with terrorists trying to destroy a big city
skyscraper.
The goal of this interaction?
In particular...the entertainment industry can offer [the Army] expertise in
understanding plot and character, as well as advice on scenario training.
Have the black ops boys by any chance lent their script doctors to Osama bin
Laden?
Consider the following.
Bin Laden was interviewed September 28th by a pro-Taliban newspaper. Here's a
summary:
In an interview with 'Ummat' -- a publication sympathetic to Afghanistan's
ruling Taliban -- bin Laden said both he and al Qaida had 'nothing to do with
the terrorist attacks in America' and that 'hard-line Jewish organizations
might be involved…'
Ummat said it sent questions to bin Laden through Taliban officials, and
received written responses. Bin Laden reportedly said in his replies that
dozens of terrorists organizations from countries like Israel, Russia, India
and Serbia could be responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon that left over 6,000 people dead or missing.
He also insisted that al Qaida does not consider the United States its
enemy… ('United Press International,' 28 September 28, 2001, Friday)
This interview was seized on by those opposed to bombing Afghanistan. They
noted that terrorists always take credit for their murders. Indeed, the whole
point of terror is to take credit. How else can the terrorists intimidate the
target group and force them to flee, give up, change their political
allegience or make concessions to terrorist demands?
Since bin Laden wasn't taking credit, how, asked critics, could anybody be
sure he was behind the WTC attacks? And if nobody could be certain he was
behind the attacks why was the U.S. so anxious to 'counter'attack against
Afghanistan?
Now bin Laden has issued a speech which he recorded on videotape. This speech
has been broadcast on TV. Transcripts have been published in major
newspapers. His picture is on the front page of the 'NY Times,' holding a
microphone, looking like a maniacal crooner.
This is in itself remarkable. As opponents of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
and the U.S.-supported, Kosovo Liberation Army attacks on that country will
testify, it is virtually impossible for people critical of U.S. foreign
policy to get their views presented in major newspapers or on TV in the U.S.
But here is bin Laden, front page and prime time.
And mind you, he's no longer saying, Russia, India, Serbia and Israel did
it, or America is not the enemy. Rather, his expressed views have altered:
God Almighty hit the United States at its most vulnerable spot. He destroyed
its greatest buildings. Praise be to God. Here is the United States. It was
filled with terror from its north to its south and from its east to its west.
Praise be to God...
But if the sword falls on the United States after 80 years, hypocrisy raises
its head lamenting the deaths of these killers who tampered with the blood,
honour, and holy places of the Muslims.
… When Almighty God rendered successful a convoy of Muslims, the vanguards
of Islam, He allowed them to destroy the United States. I ask God Almighty to
elevate their status and grant them Paradise. (1)
Quite a change.
The 'Times' commented:
Within hours of the first American bombs dropping on Afghanistan, the
world's most wanted man, Osama bin laden, appeared in a videotape broadcast,
worldwide in which he taunted the United States and celebrated the Sept 11
terrorist attacks. (Our emphasis)
Allow me to remind you, Osama bin Laden's tape was not broadcast worldwide by
Osama bin Laden, nor by chance. Rather, it was broadcast worldwide by the
mainstream mass media, that is, by the conscious effort of bin Laden's
supposed enemies.
The 'Times'
[CTRL] Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
-Caveat Lector-
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/taketwo.htm
Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
by Jared Israel
[9 October 2001]
===
In 'US Army Gets Secret Advice from Hollywood,' the
BBC (British Broadcasting Company) notes that:
American intelligence specialists are reported to
have 'secretly' sought advice on handling terrorist
attacks from Hollywood film-makers.
(http://emperors-clothes.com/news/hollywood-i.htm )
Among said film-makers is Steven E De Souza, the
screenwriter for the movie 'Die Hard,' whose plot
deals with terrorists trying to destroy a big city
skyscraper.
The goal of this interaction?
In particular...the entertainment industry can offer
[the Army] expertise in understanding plot and
character, as well as advice on scenario training.
Have the black ops boys by any chance lent their
script doctors to Osama bin Laden?
Consider the following.
Bin Laden was interviewed September 28th by a
pro-Taliban newspaper. Here's a summary:
In an interview with 'Ummat' -- a publication
sympathetic to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban -- bin
Laden said both he and al Qaida had 'nothing to do
with the terrorist attacks in America' and that
'hard-line Jewish organizations might be involved
'
Ummat said it sent questions to bin Laden through
Taliban officials, and received written responses. Bin
Laden reportedly said in his replies that dozens of
terrorists organizations from countries like Israel,
Russia, India and Serbia could be responsible for the
attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that
left over 6,000 people dead or missing.
He also insisted that al Qaida does not consider the
United States its enemy
('United Press
International,' 28 September 28, 2001, Friday)
This interview was seized on by those opposed to
bombing Afghanistan. They noted that terrorists always
take credit for their murders. Indeed, the whole point
of terror is to take credit. How else can the
terrorists intimidate the target group and force them
to flee, give up, change their political allegience or
make concessions to terrorist demands?
Since bin Laden wasn't taking credit, how, asked
critics, could anybody be sure he was behind the WTC
attacks? And if nobody could be certain he was behind
the attacks why was the U.S. so anxious to
'counter'attack against Afghanistan?
Now bin Laden has issued a speech which he recorded on
videotape. This speech has been broadcast on TV.
Transcripts have been published in major newspapers.
His picture is on the front page of the 'NY Times,'
holding a microphone, looking like a maniacal crooner.
This is in itself remarkable. As opponents of the NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia and the U.S.-supported, Kosovo
Liberation Army attacks on that country will testify,
it is virtually impossible for people critical of U.S.
foreign policy to get their views presented in major
newspapers or on TV in the U.S.
But here is bin Laden, front page and prime time.
And mind you, he's no longer saying, Russia, India,
Serbia and Israel did it, or America is not the
enemy. Rather, his expressed views have altered:
God Almighty hit the United States at its most
vulnerable spot. He destroyed its greatest buildings.
Praise be to God. Here is the United States. It was
filled with terror from its north to its south and
from its east to its west. Praise be to God...
But if the sword falls on the United States after 80
years, hypocrisy raises its head lamenting the deaths
of these killers who tampered with the blood, honour,
and holy places of the Muslims.
When Almighty God rendered successful a convoy of
Muslims, the vanguards of Islam, He allowed them to
destroy the United States. I ask God Almighty to
elevate their status and grant them Paradise. (1)
Quite a change.
The 'Times' commented:
Within hours of the first American bombs dropping on
Afghanistan, the world's most wanted man, Osama bin
laden, appeared in a videotape broadcast, worldwide in
which he taunted the United States and celebrated the
Sept 11 terrorist attacks. (Our emphasis)
Allow me to remind you, Osama bin Laden's tape was not
broadcast worldwide by Osama bin Laden, nor by chance.
Rather, it was broadcast worldwide by the mainstream
mass media, that is, by the conscious effort of bin
Laden's supposed enemies.
The 'Times' described Mr. bin Laden's performance as
an evident attempt to rally the entire Islamic world
against the United States.
I beg to differ.
By providing this videotape at this time, bin Laden
has given the mass media an effective and timely
argument to justify bombing Afghanistan and perhaps
other countries.
The other day the British government published a
document purporting to prove bin laden was behind
9-11. In fact, the document proved no such thing.
Rather, it listed some horrific crimes in which he was
involved, or probably involved, prior to 9-11, and it
repeated various violent things he purportedly said.
This might constitute negative character
[CTRL] The Rockefeller Syndicate
-Caveat Lector- http://iresist.com/cbg/rockefeller.html The Rockefeller Syndicate by Eustace Mullins --- Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order . This severely limited the effect of their otherwise ground breaking work on the Medical Monopoly. This writer advanced a contrary view in The World Order, fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a the policy makers for what has essentially been since 1900, re-established colonial government in the United States The colonial, or occupation, government, functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation which controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, the religions and the state legislatures. It is true that the American colonials have free elections, in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate . This touching evidence of democracy serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people . We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it . American youth have been free since 1900 to be marched off to die in Hegelian wars in which both combatants received their instructions from the World Order . We are free to invest in a stock market which the daily quantity, price and value of the monetary unit is manipulated and controlled by a Federal Reserve System which is answerable only to the Bank of England . It has maintained its vaunted independence from our governments control, but this is the only independence it has ever had . The realization that we do indeed live under the dictate of the ;Rockefeller Syndicate can well be the starting point of the long road back of a genuine struggle for American independence . In exposing the Rockefellers as agents of a foreign power, which is not merely a foreign power, but a genuine world government, we must realize that this is not merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group which committed to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government over the American people . Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller as a man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company) obscures the act that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their coffers at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an independent power, nor does any department of the Rockefeller Syndicate operate as an independent power . We know that the Cosa Nostra, or Mafia, with which the Syndicate is closely allied has somewhat autonomous power in the regions which have been assigned to that particular ;family by the national directors, but this always implies that that family remains under total control and answerable for everything which occurs in its territory . Similarly, the Rockefeller Syndicate operates under clearly defined spheres of influence . The charitable organizations, the business companies, and the policy groups always meld into a working operation, nor can any department of the Syndicate strike out on its own or formulate an independent policy, no matter what may be its justification. The Rockefeller Syndicate operates under the control of the world financial structure, which means that on any given day, all of its assets could be rendered close to worthless by adroit financial manipulation .nubs; This is the final control, which insures that no one can quit the organization . Not only would he be stripped of all assets, but he would be under contract for immediate assassination . Our Department of Justice is well aware that the only terrorists operating in the United States are the agents of the World Order, but they prudently avoid any mention of this fact . The world financial structure, far from being an unknown or hidden organization, is actually well known and well defined . It consists of the major Swiss Banks ; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking axis ; the Big Five of the world grain trade ; the British combine, centered in the Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, functioning trough the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having absolute control over their Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of
Re: [CTRL] $158 fine for distributing religious tracts?
-Caveat Lector- No, it was a $158 fine for violating the law against putting ANY sort of literature on the windshield of a car...it just happened to be literature pushing a form of superstition in this case June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] BUSH SAW SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE SAW
-Caveat Lector- From: Nakano Nakamura [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone on this list seen a picture or video of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center? We all saw the second plane hit the second Tower over and over and over. But were there any pictures ever shown of the first plane as it hit the WTC? Yes, most people have seen the clip of the first plane hitting that was caught from a ground-level training video that was being shot in the Wall Street area that morning...but that clip wasn't broadcast until more than an hour after the plane hit, and then it too was played and replayed over and over... In addition, I remember the NYC station I was watching also showing a clip of the FIRST plane hitting that was caught by one of the many traffic helicopters that fly in the area on weekday mornings; I at first thought it was one of the many replays of the video of the 2nd plane hitting until the reporter stressed that it was the first plane, and indeed both towers were intact and not on fire until the plane hit the North Tower; this clip was replayed for a couple of minutes on this one station, and never repeated...neither did I ever see it shown on another station -- why it disappeared and what happened to it, I do not know. But this clip wasn't shown until almost noon time, so it couldn't have been what Bush was referring to... People are taking a simple statement from a simple mind, and blowing it out of context; what Bush ACTUALLY said was that he was watching TV at 9am and saw *A* plane hit the WTC...he does not specify 'first' or 'second' plane, just 'a' plane; a few minutes later he says an aide whispered in his ear that 'a second plane hit the WTC'; from this people are imagining that Bush said he saw the FIRST plane hit the WTC... But that isn't what he said, and it would have been impossible even if he DID say it, because the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:45 a.m., NOT at 9 a.m. when Bush says he watched as a plane hit the WTC; the second plane hit the South Tower at 9:02 a.m., so what ACTUALLY seems to have happened is: 1) the first plane hit the WTC North Tower at 8:45 2) all the media switched to live coverage of the burning tower 3) as Bush waited to go in to read to the kiddies, a TV was switched on for him to see the breaking news 4) at 9:02 all the live media coverage of the burning North Tower showed a plane plowing into the South Tower (the 2nd plane) 5) Bush then went in to read to the kiddies, a photo op that had already been put in place and couldn't be avoided 6) as he read to the kiddies, an aide came in and CONFIRMED that a second plane had crashed into the WTC Quite simple, really June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Economic Totalitarianism at Your Grocery Store
-Caveat Lector- Reminds me of something I learned in a Marketing class I took at a local community college back in the 70s... (That college had some really good teachers, people who came from 'the real world' as opposed to the elite academia one found at the 4-year colleges in the area, and these community college teachers quite often ignored the required textbook and taught from their own real-life experiences)... Anyhow, this Marketing teacher actually worked in advertising and marketing and only taught part time, and one of the things he stressed to us was the scam of supermarket coupons, of which the present-day 'bargain cards' are I feel a variation... And the bottom line was that not only the retailer (the supermarket chain), but the manufacturer artificially inflate the price of an item to then offer a 'discount' via coupons (or by the modern-day equivalent of the 'bargain card') In other words, a bottle of dishwashing detergent may only be worth 98 cents, and that is factoring in profit for both the manufacturer AND the supermarket chain; but both wish to entice shoppers with 'sales', so the manufacturer may tack on 50 cents, requiring the supermarket to charge at least $1.48 for the bottle, unless the manufacturer itself offers sales coupons on the item. But the supermarket is free to tack on ADDITIONAL charges, so the store may actually usually sell the stuff at $1.78 and occasionally offer it 'on sale' for $1.48... But remember, the stuff at 98 cents a bottle still makes a profit for both the manufacturer AND the store; the manufacturer could offer a 50-cents-off coupon at the same time that the store could offer it's additional 'sale' (or require clipping a coupon from its weekly flyer) offering an additional 30-cents off; a shopper with both coupons would get the bottle for 98 cents and think they just got a huge bargain. The modern-day 'bargain card' is just a replacement for traditional coupons; and as my teacher explained, if there weren't any coupons (or 'bargain cards'), prices would naturally be lower, as there would be no need to artificially inflate prices to make up for occasional 'sale' prices. But just as 25 years ago it was a losing battle to convince people to give up clipping coupons so that prices across-the-board would go down, so to is it today in trying to convince people that they really aren't saving money with the so-called 'bargain cards'... Another thing we learned in that class was that coupons were only directed to those in the middle and upper classes -- in other words, coupons were very rarely available to those living in the inner city, or printed in papers read by people deemed to be in an economic stata below 'middle class'...in other words, the people who could most benefit from getting 'discounts' at the supermarket rarely had the opportunity to do so. I suspect that these 'bargain cards' are marketed in the same manner... June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: LIES, TRICKS, DECEPTIONS...then and now?
---BeginMessage--- ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! YOU CERTAINLY CAN'T DEPEND ON CNN! === To receive MER regularly with our compliments: http://www.MiddleEast.Org/subscribe == LIES, TRICKS, DECEPTIONS...then and now? Will the real OSB please stand up MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 12/17/2001:Like on the American TV game show, it's now Will the Real Osama Bin Laden (he has now been dubbed OSB putting him in a class like IBM or JFK it seems) please stand up? Was what the world watched a few days ago, originally broadcast direct from the Pentagon no less, the real OSB and the whole truthful story of the conveniently found and timed tape? Was this just a part of the real but more more complex and convoluted story? Was there a CIA Sting involved as has been reported by the establishment British press in London over the weekend? Who knows the answers for sure at this point. BUT, we do know this: the timing and many other factors relating to this whole affair are in themselves very suspicious; AND the source for this tape, and its conveniently supplied and timed story, has many past tricks and deceptions to its credit; though we no doubt learn about only a few of them and usually much after the fact when it's too late to really matter. THE 1990 P. R. SCAM THAT HELPED CHANGE HISTORY Take for instance a forgotten episode from not that many years ago in which the same cast of players were involved. Flashback to 1990 and the campaign to whip up support for American military intervention in Saudi Arabia to liberate Kuwait (for the Royal al-Sabah family then comfortably esconced in a Saudi hotel) and overthrow Saddam and his regime. By the way, at this time OSB was himself sitting with the Saudi Royals in Riyadh, discusing with none other than King Fahd and entourage what should be Saudi policies. This was the period in which the al-Queda of the future and the OSB of history was born; a direct result from what happened in those days not all that long ago. The political climate was quite different at the time. Bush 41/Cheney and Powell (then Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) needed a Senate resolution of war to back their war plans of the day, and it was a close divide on Capitol Hill. Then, perfectly timed, a young Kuwaiti woman was brought before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the lined-up TV cameras of the world, to plead the case. She had witnessed first-hand she said the brutality of the Iraqis in Kuwait, including throwing babies out of their incubators and described in detail wanton acts of cruelty. It was powerful threater fitting for the West Wing TV drama of today. Tears flow. Blood boiled. The desire to pursue good over evil rose perceptibly like a thermometer. And then, by a narrow vote, the Senate gave Bush/Cheney/Powell and the American militarists what they wanted. And a new phase of history in the Middle East, and in world affairs, was launched -- New World Order I. But when the political and military smoke cleared, not to mention the deaths of more than a million Iraqis, it turned out that the woman who told her captivating story had not only made most of it; but she was actually in the US at the time, not Kuwait, and she was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.! Yes, hard to believe we know; but nevertheless true. In fact, working in tandem with the CIA and the Pentagon, the Kuwaits had hired a very expensive American Public Relations firm which had designed the political strategy to manipulate the American people, the media, and the Congress. And no, no one was ever held accountable -- like white collar crime, such political crimes by the rich and powerful were overlooked even though the very credibility of the American Congress was undermined. Indeed, it's all rather conveniently forgotten by the ever-compliant corporate media who job it should be to uncover, remember, and reveal. Additionally, then like now, there was much help and advice behind the scenes and under the table for the war makers from the legendary Jewish/Israeli lobby, whose power to manipulate and control Congress and the media is well-known if not well understood. Moral of the story? When dealing with the new/old cast of characters -- now Bush 43/Cheney/Powell/Rumsfeld -- and the same powerful, secret and
Re: [CTRL] UBL Tape (some ongoing observations)
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/14/01 10:18:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's cause those caves in Tora Bora are world-famous for their goat curry Not curry, Owl, pilav. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Terrorist Web
-Caveat Lector- This is really weird. I recall that Claire Sterling said the IRA was linked to all the rest of the terrorist groups. Why isn't it listed here? Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Hunt for the Menace
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From
http://freedomofpress.tripod.com/bbc1.html
This is expected considering UbL and Iranians have been reportedly
(*UbL*, Bodansky) working together for years attempting to radicalise
the Moslem world and recreate something on the order of the Ottoman
Empire but a modern form that is entirely Islamic. Reportedly, UbL
is one of a Committee of Three, he and two others, Imad Mughaniyah
and Ahmad Salah. They work under an Irani, Mahdi Chamran, for
coordination, planning and attacks by HizbAllah Int'l of world-wide
terror activities. Two of the three (UbL and Salah) are Sunni with
the third a Shi'ite, something that has evolved in order to unite the
Islamists despite their sectual differences until the Kufr
(unIslamic, apostate peoples) are purged from the lands of
Mohammedists. AER
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Bin-Ladin said to be in Iran - Pakistani newspaper report
[Report by Saleh Zaafir: Usamah arrives in Iran; provided shelter by
a group]
Islamabad: Usamah Bin-Ladin, wanted by the United States and its
allies for terrorism, mysteriously left Afghanistan and arrived in
Iran, where he was provided shelter by an ethnic group, which is not
in full harmony with the Iranian government.
Highly credible diplomatic sources informed a special central
reporting cell of daily Jang late Saturday night [15 December] that
Usamah Bin-Ladin, after leaving Tora Bora via a comparatively long
and non-traditional route, entered Iran, where he was taken to an
unknown place.
Usama left his mountainous hideout while local mojahedin commanders
were holding talks with Al-Qa'idah fighters last week. The US bombing
was also relented during this period.
The sources said that the disclosure about fleeing of Usamah and his arrival in Iran
was made by those detained Taleban, who lived with him and captured by the mojahedin.
These Taleban said that Usamah Bin-Ladin was informed by his
associates that he could not cross the Pakistani border due to the
extraordinary security arrangements there. So, they informed him that
his entry into Pakistan would be very difficult.
When an attempt was made late in the night to contact the Iranian
Ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Serjeddin Musavi, about the fleeing of
Usamah Bin-Ladin to Iran, his relative, Mr Hassan, said that the
envoy was not available at the moment.
Source: Jang, Rawalpindi, in Urdu 16 Dec 01 pp 1, 7
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[CTRL] The Menace the Czechs
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html ?ei=5006en=74d9e39970d99a8dex=100917partner=ALTAVISTA1pagewant ed=print }}}Begin December 16, 2001 New Clue Fails to Explain Iraq Role in Sept. 11 Attack By CHRIS HEDGES with DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. hen Czech officials disclosed that Mohamed Atta, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, had met last April with an Iraqi diplomat in Prague, it stirred immediate speculation about whether Iraq had a role in killing thousands of Americans. But in the weeks since, the Prague meeting has emerged as an object lesson in the limits of intelligence reports rather than the cornerstone of the case against Iraq. Interviews with Iraqi defectors, Czech officials, and people who knew the Iraqi diplomat have only deepened the mystery surrounding Mr. Atta's travels through central Europe. Iraqi opposition groups say the episode cannot have been a coincidence. According to several former Iraqi intelligence officials, the diplomat was actually a well trained spy with ties to terrorist operations, a master of disguise whose movements are supervised by Iraq's most senior officials. American officials in Washington, by contrast, said the diplomat was a minor functionary who happens to have the same last name as a more important Iraqi intelligence agent. These officials said that they had no evidence that Iraq was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. There are even questions about whether the reports of the meeting took place. An associate said the Iraqi diplomat had a business selling cars and met frequently with a used car dealer from Germany who bore a striking res emblance to Mr. Atta. Just this week, there were even reports from Prague that the Mohamed Atta who visited Prague last April was a different man with the same name. In a retreat from the earlier definitive statements by his government, the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, recently said there was a 70 percent chance the meeting between Mr. Atta and an Iraqi agent named Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani took place. With the Taliban vanquished and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda fighters cornered in Afghanistan, this sort of arcane debate among experts has taken on new significance. President Bush has said he intends to defeat the nations and groups that support terrorism, a global war whose targets will be selected by intelligence agencies sifting through fragmentary conflicting evidence comparable to the reports about the Prague meeting. There was definitely one meeting, between Mr. Ani and Mr. Atta, an intelligence official in Washington said. We don't know if it was significant. We certainly don't attribute to it the significance others attribute to it automatically. Just because there was a meeting doesn't mean it was connected to 9/11. This much has been asserted. Mr. Atta went to Prague last April and then flew to Florida as the plot to ram jetliners into buildings gained momentum. It has been reported by Czech authorities that he met with Mr. Ani, the diplomat who Iraqi opposition leaders insist is an important spymaster for Saddam Hussein. American intelligence officials who believe that Mr. Ani is a low- ranking diplomat of little consequence emphasize that the Iraqi National Congress, the opposition group seeking to overthrow Saddam Hussein, has an agenda and a history of coloring fact to suit its needs. As if the waters were not muddied enough, some in Prague who knew the diplomat say he met with a used car salesman named Saleh from Nuremberg, Germany, who looked like Mr. Atta. He is a perfect double for Atta, said a S yrian businessman who has lived in Prague for 35 years and says he knew the diplomat and the car salesman. I saw him several times with Mister Consul. On Friday, a major Czech newspaper, quoting Czech intelligence officials, offered still another theory: the Mohamed Atta who came to Prague last April was not the hijacker but a Pakistani of the same name. He didn't have the same identity card number, an unidentified Interior Ministry official told the newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes. There was a great difference in their ages, their nationalities didn't match, basically not hing it was someone else. The details of the meeting, as reported by the Czech authorities, remain vague. The Czech intelligence service has not said how it knows the meeting took place, or what was said. We went to the public just with the thing we can really prove, said Hynek Kmonicek, the Czech ambassador to the United Nations who gave Mr. Ani his expulsion orders last April. And we can really prove just one thing: t hat these two people met. But his proof, he acknowledged, is the Czech Interior Ministry announcement. Mr. Ani was expelled from Prague for activities that were described as incompatible with his diplomatic status. Details of his infraction have never been made
Re: [CTRL] BUSH SAW SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE SAW
-Caveat Lector- June: Thank you for this information. Somehow I missed seeing the first plane video. I think your explanation of what Bush said is probably what occured. I find one thing about all this still puzzling. The President sees the second plane hit the Trade Center. He goes ahead with the plan to read to the children. His aide steps up and whispers in his ear, something to the effect of: Mr. President we definitely have had a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Bush gives no visible reaction to this information. He calmly goes back to reading to the children for another 20 minutes??? This reactionor lack of reaction by the President of the United States makes no sense at all. Nakano --- RevCOAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- From: Nakano Nakamura [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone on this list seen a picture or video of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center? We all saw the second plane hit the second Tower over and over and over. But were there any pictures ever shown of the first plane as it hit the WTC? Yes, most people have seen the clip of the first plane hitting that was caught from a ground-level training video that was being shot in the Wall Street area that morning...but that clip wasn't broadcast until more than an hour after the plane hit, and then it too was played and replayed over and over... In addition, I remember the NYC station I was watching also showing a clip of the FIRST plane hitting that was caught by one of the many traffic helicopters that fly in the area on weekday mornings; I at first thought it was one of the many replays of the video of the 2nd plane hitting until the reporter stressed that it was the first plane, and indeed both towers were intact and not on fire until the plane hit the North Tower; this clip was replayed for a couple of minutes on this one station, and never repeated...neither did I ever see it shown on another station -- why it disappeared and what happened to it, I do not know. But this clip wasn't shown until almost noon time, so it couldn't have been what Bush was referring to... People are taking a simple statement from a simple mind, and blowing it out of context; what Bush ACTUALLY said was that he was watching TV at 9am and saw *A* plane hit the WTC...he does not specify 'first' or 'second' plane, just 'a' plane; a few minutes later he says an aide whispered in his ear that 'a second plane hit the WTC'; from this people are imagining that Bush said he saw the FIRST plane hit the WTC... But that isn't what he said, and it would have been impossible even if he DID say it, because the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:45 a.m., NOT at 9 a.m. when Bush says he watched as a plane hit the WTC; the second plane hit the South Tower at 9:02 a.m., so what ACTUALLY seems to have happened is: 1) the first plane hit the WTC North Tower at 8:45 2) all the media switched to live coverage of the burning tower 3) as Bush waited to go in to read to the kiddies, a TV was switched on for him to see the breaking news 4) at 9:02 all the live media coverage of the burning North Tower showed a plane plowing into the South Tower (the 2nd plane) 5) Bush then went in to read to the kiddies, a photo op that had already been put in place and couldn't be avoided 6) as he read to the kiddies, an aide came in and CONFIRMED that a second plane had crashed into the WTC Quite simple, really June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy
Re: [CTRL] The Terrorist Web
-Caveat Lector- Okay sign me up. O'Saba, Chairman of Board International Order of Irish Mafia Terrorist 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 New [Pseudo] Patriotism
-Caveat Lector- --- THe eXTReMiST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- I've found myself spending time putting my finger on what is troublesome about the new patriotism. It is superficial. From somewhere I recall hearing a sarcastic, 'Instant patriotism. Add water and stir.' Real patriotism is not simply worn on your lapel, or flown from your car. Real patriotism costs something. well said! __ 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] Alan D on Usama bL
-Caveat Lector- From Nat'l Post Normally, I'm not a fan of Alan D. However, it is interesting to see this whole thing from the standpoint of such a thing as the rule of law (where have I heard THAT before and how MANY times?). Buckaroo Bush and his posse are out riding the range (remember the Rambo movie then the images of the SpecOps guys on horses, both in Afghanland) seeking outlaws and saving native gals in distress. While they are doing this, they're operating on some yet-to-be- defined pretext of legitimacy. This ought to go into Guinness as the world's largest man-hunt, lynch mob, and vigilante (frontier justice) action as UbL has yet to be tried, yet he's been given the sentence.. This is like feeding a goat meadow muffins and having them come out carrots, eh, what? AER }}}Begin Page URL: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011215/8779 25.html December 15, 2001 Tape doesn't prove bin Laden's guilt National Post Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University and an appellate lawyer, has represented such clients as Claus von Bulow, Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson. In an exclusive to the National Post, he analyzes the legal merits of the Osama bin Laden videotape, released on Thursday. - - - Now that the world has seen and heard Osama bin Laden and his fellow Islamic extremists taking credit and praising Allah for the mass murder of thousands of innocent people, few reasonable people will doubt the moral culp ability, despicability and dangerousness of these misguided Muslims. But does the tape actually strengthen the legal case against bin Laden, Zacarias Moussaoui and others likely to face trial in connection with the outrag es of Sept. 11? In assessing the legal implications of the tape, it is as important to focus on what is missing from the tape as what is present on it. There is nothing on the tape that reveals bin Laden possessed information only a pers on guilty of planning this horrible crime would possess. In other words, the truth of the incriminating statements made on the tape is not self-proving: It relies on believing bin Laden is telling the truth. Contrast this tape with tapes that are sometimes introduced in organized-crime or drug cases that are self-proving. Such tapes contain information that is not in the public domain and could be known only by the criminal. Such information might include the calibre of bullets used, the location of transit points for drugs, the names of undisclosed associates, etc. The bin Laden tape, in contrast, includes only information known to everybody . For example, bin Laden's assertion that Mohammed Atta was the leader of the hijackers has been widely reported and cannot be independently confirmed. It could be argued bin Laden's statement that several of the hijackers were unaware of their mission until just before they boarded the plane is precisely the kind of information that would be known only to the planner. B ut there is no independent evidence that this claim is true. It is exactly the sort of statement that would be made by someone falsely seeking to claim credit for something he did not plan, since it suggests unique knowle dge that can never be disproved. It, too, had been widely reported in the press before bin Laden made his statements. In other words, it is entirely possible bin Laden is boasting and claiming credit for a success for w hich he had little personal responsibility and no advance knowledge. Why, one may ask, would bin Laden lie to his fellow Muslim idealogues? What motive might he have for taking credit for so horrible a deed if he was not, in fact, responsible? There are no easy answers to these questions, but it will be argued by some that in that part of the world people often take credit for the terrorist acts of others. There is a long history of multiple groups claiming credit for a single act of terrorism -- even of g roups claiming credit for explosions that turned out to be accidents. It is possible this tape, despite its poor quality, was intended as a recruiting device, and that claiming credit for the largest attack on the United States was seen as helping the recruiting effort. It is also possible bin Laden was responsible for creating the terrorist holding company that commissioned specific groups to design and carry out terrorist acts against t he United States, without himself knowing the specifics in advance. It is also possible -- I would say probable -- that bin Laden was directly involved in planning the attacks, but this tape by itself does not prove legal guilt, as I hoped it would. There may well be other evidence proving bin Laden's culpability, but the tape alone consists primarily of dreams, Koranic quotations, boasts, congratulatory statements and information that has been widely reported or can not be confirmed independently. If a prosecutor sought to have the tape admitted against bin Laden himself, it would
[CTRL] McVeigh
-Caveat Lector- By 1966, MKULTRA had spawned Operation MKSEARCH, the use of biological, chemical, and radiological substances to induce psychological and physiological changes in the CIA's victims. MKSEARCH spawned Operations OFTEN and CHICKWIT, using biological, chemical, and radiological substances to induce psychological and physiological changes. Operations THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT involved the Army's Military Intelligence Group's (M.I.G.) surreptitious dosing of victims in Europe and the Far East. MKDELTA, an offshoot of MKULTRA, involved spraying massive doses of LSD and other drugs by the Army over areas inhabited by Viet Cong.[200] [The preeminent don of the CIA's psychological warfare program was Dr. Louis Jolyn West. As part of his MKULTRA experiments, West decided to send an elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo on an LSD trip. Apparently, the poor creature did not appreciate the effects of Dr. West's Magical Mystery Tour. It died several hours later. A close associate of Drs. Cameron and Gottlieb, West studied the use of drugs as adjuncts to interpersonal manipulation or assault, and was among one of the pioneers of remote electronic brain experimentation, including telemetric brain implants on unwitting subjects. West's good friend, Aldous Huxley, suggested that he hypnotize his subjects before administering LSD, in order to give them post-hypnotic suggestions which would orient the drug-induced experience in a desired direction. Interestingly, West was the psychiatrist who examined Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby's assertion that an ultra-Right-wing cabal was responsible for JFK's murder, and his refusal to admit insanity, led West to conclude that he was paranoid and mentally ill. West placed Ruby on anti-depressants, which did little to modify his claims of conspiracy. He died of cancer two years later, claiming to the end that he had been injected with cancerous biological material. West also examined Sirhan Sirhan, a controlled hypo-patsy who allegedly killed Robert F. Kennedy. Currently chairman of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, West headed the American Psychological Association (APA) trauma response team that rushed to Oklahoma City in the wake of the disaster. I interviewed Dr. West by phone. While confirming that he had indeed traveled to Oklahoma City with his team, the eminent psychiatrist made a curious Freudian Slip. When asked if he had examined McVeigh, he said, No, I haven't been asked to do that. I think his lawyer wouldn't want someone he didn't trus⦠pick.[201] West nevertheless told me that someone from the FBI's Behavioral Sciences unit would have interviewed McVeigh. In fact the FBI's Behavioral Sciences unit did interview the prisoner. John Douglas of the FBI's Psychological Profile Unit was later quoted in the Times as saying, This is an easily controlled and manipulated personality. What Douglas is unwittingly confirming is that McVeigh was perfect material for the CIA's psychological mind-control program. http://mindprism.com/__ocbpt/cover.html __ 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] 'The US is an indicted terrorist state'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3art_id=ct2001190122948U232530set_id=1 November 11 2001 at 07:01PM 'The US is an indicted terrorist state' Madras, India - The bombing of Afghanistan was a greater crime than the September 11 US terror attacks, noted American social critic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told a seminar here on Sunday. He said the Western approach to the Afghan conflict was both shortsighted and catastrophic. The United States is an indicted terrorist state, Chomsky said. It had committed several acts of aggression against other nations and frequently violated all canons of international law. He said it had no moral right to be a critic of terrorism, having committed the same crimes. The US has trained groups of terrorists to overthrow governments found to be inconvenient to its interests and replace them with its own lackeys, Chomsky said. He added that the US did not bother to get the sanction of the UN Security Council for its war on Afghanistan. Despite knowing it was easily obtainable, it did not get the sanction only because it did not want to acknowledge such a need and thereby compromise on its own right to act unilaterally. He added that globalisation, as passionately promoted by the Western world, only led to a further divide between the haves and have-nots. Globalisation is a conspiracy of the Western elite to establish private tyrannies across the world, said Chomsky. The globalisation process invariably benefited a small community, even within a prosperous nation like the US. The argument that globalisation will promote prosperity is only a myth, said Chomsky. In the backdrop of such pressures being exerted on the rest of the world by affluent Western powers, the future of the masses can only be guaranteed by popular movements championing human rights and environmental issues. He said US hegemony had increased with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a unipolar world. During the existence of the Soviet Union, the rest of the world had some manoeuvring space between the two superpowers, and the Non-Aligned Movement gathered strength. Also, the victims of one superpower managed to get support from the other. Saying the US was not a democracy, Chomsky said it was dominated by the rich, who indoctrinated society with a consumerist culture. Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. - Sapa-AFP also see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1801 __ 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
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forwarded message ---BeginMessage--- Title: A BuzzFlash News Alert: Newspaper Publisher Heckled for Speech about Threats to Civil Liberties A BuzzFlash News Alert: Newspaper Publisher Heckled for Speech About Threats to Civil Liberties. BuzzFlash is concerned about that state of free speech in America. When someone questions the actions of our government it is quickly labeled by many as "anti-American" and sandbagged. We don't know why this is happening -- other than some symptom of September 11th post-traumatic stress disorder -- but we wish it would stop. Without free speech and the ability to have non-violent dissenting opinions about our government's actions and deeds, we become no better than every other repressive regime that ever inhabited our planet. And that, indeed, is a sad thing. Below is a report in the Sacramento Bee on the speech and the complete text of the speech by Janis Besler Heaphy, president and publisher of The Sacramento Bee. BuzzFlash. *** Graduation speech cut short by hecklers By Nancy Weaver Teichert -- Bee Staff Writer Published 5:15 a.m. PST Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001 http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1335122p-1404788c.html The commencement address for mid-year graduates at California State University, Sacramento, was halted Saturday after audience members in the packed house at Arco Arena drowned out the speech with heckling. Janis Besler Heaphy, president and publisher of The Sacramento Bee, was speaking before the largest crowd ever for a CSUS graduation ceremony about the threats to civil liberties posed by the federal government's investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Her comments were drowned out about five minutes into the eight-minute speech when a segment of the audience began to stomp and clap in protest to her words. University President Don Gerth said he could not provide exact figures for the number of people attending Saturday's event, but said Arco Arena was packed for the ceremony, which combined the graduation rites for several schools at the university. The arena can hold more than 17,000. "This was a message about civil liberties and our acceptance of differing points of view in American society," Heaphy said in an interview after the commencement. "It's a message that needs to continue to be heard." During her speech, the heckling began after Heaphy voiced concerns about racial profiling, the suspension of civil rights of suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, and the establishment of military tribunals. Gerth said the graduating students were respectful and that the interruptions came from family members and friends in the audience. He said several students came up to Heaphy afterward to apologize. Before Heaphy was interrupted, Gerth said, she was making a point about the potential consequences of the methods being used to investigate the terrorist attacks. He said that, in light of the many lives lost in the attacks, some members of the audience may have found the message hard to hear. "The temper of the times is not terribly open to that," he said. "Our students have a right to hear our speaker. I have never seen behavior like this. It is a day I will never forget. I am not proud of it." Gerth said he took the microphone and quieted the audience after the first interruption, but that Heaphy stopped speaking about three-quarters of the way through her speech after more loud heckling. "When the university invited me to speak," Heaphy said, "I thought about what to say. I decided that the message should be one that emphasizes the need to continue to embrace the traditions of liberty that are at the core of American democracy. "Nothing that happened today changes my mind for the need to continue to articulate those values." Gerth concluded the ceremony by announcing that the speech will be posted Monday on the university's Web site. The Bee will publish the address on Monday's opinion page. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1335122p-1404788c.html *** Text from Saturday's Winter 2001 Commencement address Janis Besler Heaphy, Publisher and President of The Sacramento Bee commencement address http://www.csus.edu/commence/addresses.html Thank you, Dr. Gerth. Honored guests, faculty, parents, graduates: It's challenging to give a commencement address. Understandably, the parents would like a speech that is somewhat sentimental. The faculty would prefer a speech that is substantive. And the graduates want a speech that is, well short . I'll do my best to strike a balance among all those demands. A common theme at commencement ceremonies is the future. And why not? For you, the graduates, today marks the end of one journey. And the beginning of another. That is as true for you today as it has been for the thousands of students that have walked before you. Each graduate, enriched by his or her academic experiences, has been poised to take
[CTRL] Stateless Socialism: Anarchism
-Caveat Lector- Stateless Socialism: Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-1876 --- From The Political Philosophy of Bakunin by G.P. Maximoff 1953, The Free Press, NY --- Effect of the Great Principles Proclaimed by the French Revolution. From the time when the Revolution brought down to the masses its Gospel - not the mystic but the rational, not the heavenly but the earthly, not the divine but the human Gospel, the Gospel of the Rights of Man - ever since it proclaimed that all men are equal, that all men are entitled to liberty and equality, the masses of all European countries, of all the civilized world, awakening gradually from the sleep which had kept them in bondage ever since Christianity drugged them with its opium, began to ask themselves whether they too, had the right to equality, freedom, and humanity. As soon as this question was posed, the people, guided by their admirable sound sense as well as by their instincts, realized that the first condition of their real emancipation, or of their humanization, was above all a radical change in their economic situation. The question of daily bread is to them justly the first question, for as it was noted by Aristotle, man, in order to think, in order to feel himself free, in order to become man, must be freed from the material cares of daily life. For that matter, the bourgeois, who are so vociferous in their outcries against the materialism of the people and who preach to the latter the abstinences of idealism, know it very well, for they themselves preach it only by word and not by example. The second question arising before the people - that of leisure after work - is the indispensable condition of humanity. But bread and leisure can never be obtained apart from a radical transformation of existing society, and that explains why the Revolution, impelled by the implications of its own principles, gave birth to Socialism. Socialism Is Justice...Socialism is justice. When we speak of justice, we understand thereby not the justice contained in the Codes and in Roman jurisprudence - which were based to a great extent upon facts of violence achieved by force, violence consecrated by time and by the benedictions of some church or other (Christian or pagan), and as such accepted as absolute principles, from which all law is to be deduced by a process of logical reasoning - no, we speak of that justice which is based solely upon human conscience, the justice to be found in the consciousness of every man - even in that of children - and which can be expressed in a single word: equity. This universal justice which, owing to conquests by force and religious influences, has never yet prevailed in the political or juridical or economic worlds, should become the basis of the new world. Without it there can be neither liberty, nor republic, nor prosperity, nor peace. It then must govern our resolutions in order that we work effectively toward the establishment of peace. And this justice urges us to take upon ourselves the defense of the interests of the terribly maltreated people and demand their economic and social emancipation along with political freedom. The Basic Principle of Socialism. We do not propose here, gentlemen, this or any other socialist system. What we demand now is the proclaiming anew of the great principle of the French Revolution: that every human being should have the material and moral means to develop all his humanity, a principle which, in our opinion, is to be translated into the following problem: To organize society in such a manner that every individual, man or woman, should find, upon entering life, approximately equal means for the development of his or her diverse faculties and their utilization in his or her work. And to organize such a society that, rendering impossible the exploitation of anyone's labor, will enable every individual to enjoy the social wealth, which in reality is produced only by collective labor, but to enjoy it only in so far as he contributes directly toward the creation of that wealth. State Socialism Rejected. The carrying out of this task will of course take centuries of development. But history has already brought it forth and henceforth we cannot ignore it without condemning ourselves to utter impotence. We hasten to add here that we vigorously reject any attempt at social organization which would not admit the fullest liberty of individuals and organizations, or which would require the setting up of any regimenting power whatever. In the name of freedom, which we recognize as the only foundation and the only creative principle of organization, economic or political, we shall protest against anything remotely resembling State Communism, or State Socialism. Abolition of the Inheritance Law. The only thing which, in opinion, the State can and should do, is first to modify little by little
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[CTRL] Message From the Last Libertarian
-Caveat Lector- Message From the Last Libertarian A Letter to the Editor of The Match Taken from Issue #86, Summer 1991 P.O. Box 3488 Tucson, Arizona 85722 Dear Fred: I'm a 1967-style Libertarian, and that seems to have little in common with the Libertarians we've picked up since 1980. You have no idea of the corruption that entered the Party of Principle. Reason Magazine sold out. The great anarchistic Mr. Libertarian, Murray Rothbard, joined with an arch-fascist; most state-level positions have been lost to the conservatarians. Why? Because the right-wingers had so much more money than the left-wingers. They were able to flit about the country and create a controlling clique that people without money couldn't keep up with. Many Libertarian organizations have gone under. USA Today recently ran a guest column supporting the beating of that guy by the Los Angeles Cops. The writer was a newcomer who repeatedly called himself a Libertarian. Like the writer of the Summer 1990 editorial in The Match, I too have swerved from hating government to hating government-lovers. I love the editorial response to Mike Hall in the letters column of issue 83. I've worked my ass off since childhood at junk jobs because of the very conditions mentioned. Correct: too many of these pseudo-Libertarians have had it too easy in life. I had to collect bottles at factories at age five and I was shoveling coal in basements at age nine, but according to these pseudo-Libertarians who spent those years playing, I'm poor and they're rich because I didn't work as much as they did. An inverted crazy-quilt world made by people who inherited while demanding that others earn and don't even want to face it. But remember, if nine out of ten Anarchists are really secret government informers who misrepresent Anarchism, that still doesn't mean Anarchism is what they say it is. I'm a Libertarian, and a lot of these other guys aren't. Having more money, they can make everybody think they are Libertarians. One of my biggest problems is with inheritance. On the one hand I do not support inheritance taxes as they strengthen the State. On the other hand, I'm sick of hearing Libertarians and Objectivists say how everything in life must be earned and then they look away and whistle when I say, True, but how about inheritance? It's not earned. Perhaps it's because having been born along the East River in New York City, I've never known what it's like to be middle-class and to have the necessities of life handed to me so I'd be set up in life. I've never known any Ayn Rand fans to be Hank Reardens themselves; they seem to be born owners, not renters. I've watched my fellow libertarians sell out as they got older; they no longer care about personal liberty, just economic freedom. They liked to play at being poor by dressing and living ratty while in their early twenties, but quickly joined the establishment when their parents helped get them set up in polite society. Personally, I think the whole Capitalism vs. Socialism argument is a red herring. We're still in medievalism. You tell me what class your daddy was and I'll tell you which one you're in - just like the twelfth century. First, we get out of medievalism, then with everyone starting off equally, we'll see about the Capitalism vs. Socialism bit. However, you would be doing the real Libertarians a favor if you called these pseudo-Libertarians by their true name: Conservatarians. How would you like it if government-lovers started calling themselves Anarchists and proceeded to embarrass true Anarchists? These phonies, Conservatarians, are far more interested in profit than liberty, that's for damn sure. Don't blame us because these rich bastards came in since 1980, expropriated our name and disgraced us. It was just like LaRouche taking over the Chicago Democrats. Most people who came in since 1980 are phony and many of those who came in during the '60's sold out - but there are still some real Libertarians left. Don't hurt us by letting them get away with stealing the word Libertarian. At least help us by calling them pseudo-Libertarians or Conservatarians. These pseudo-Libertarians like to mock the idea of a diligent person being homeless. Diligent? I used to load boxcars in the rain for minimum wage. Considering the rents nowadays, how the hell does one pay them? The modern jerks won't admit to themselves that their parents greased their way through life. It was nothing they did. People I know, including myself, now live in places doubled-up, without even heat or running water. And we're grateful for even that much. Thank goodness for libraries and their warmth between junk jobs. Thank goodness for college shower rooms that one can sneak into to get clean. More Conservatism posing as Libertarianism - using the average income rather than the mode. Hell, by that reasoning all serfs and slaves were middle-class when you average in the vast wealth of the lord with the zero of the lackeys.
[CTRL] Fwd: [the_octopus] Obit: Susan Forrest, 42, won Pulitzer for Horton story
forwarded message ---BeginMessage--- Atlanta Constitution http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/metro_c38174e3429b 400600f6.html THURSDAY December 13, 2001 OBITUARIES: Susan Forrest, reporter who won Pulitzer Associated Press Thursday, December 13, 2001 Susan Forrest, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis' furlough of convicted murderer Willie Horton, died while visiting her sister in Decatur. Her mother, Phyllis Davidson of Boca Raton, Fla., said Tuesday that Ms. Forrest, 42, of Queens, N.Y., died in her sleep Dec. 5. She said an autopsy was performed on her daughter's body, which was cremated, to determine the cause of death. Results will not be known for six to eight weeks, she said. Ms. Forrest's coverage of Mr. Dukakis' furlough of Mr. Horton helped doom Mr. Dukakis' 1988 presidential bid. George Bush effectively used the furlough, during which Mr. Horton raped a woman, to help clinch his win. She won journalism's top prize while working at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune in Massachusetts. She later worked for Newsday and the New York Post. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1982. Ms. Davidson said Ms. Forest was visiting her sister, Debra Sidell, for the holidays while looking for a job in the Atlanta area. She said her daughter was laid off from the New York Daily News in June and had been working as a Red Cross volunteer at the World Trade Center while looking for another job. ''She sounded fine,'' Ms. Davidson said. ''I asked her if it was too much for her, and she told me it wasn't as long as she was helping out.'' ''She wrote passionate, compassionate stories,'' said Joe Demma, a former editor at Newsday. A memorial service is scheduled Sunday at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton. The Octopus: A Yahoo! Groups Message Service Founded August 25th, 1999 In Memoriam: Danny Casolaro Jim Keith Ron Bonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] BILLY JOEL SETTLES SCORE WITH KIN OF NAZI
-Caveat Lector- NYPOST.COM: BILLY JOEL SETTLES SCORE WITH KIN OF NAZI By ALLAN HALL A HREF=http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/36837.htm; http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/36837.htm/A 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] Afghan Civilian Death Toll Surpasses Sept. 11
-Caveat Lector- Afghan Civilian Death Toll Surpasses Sept. 11 A new study by Marc Herold lifts the veil of the US media blackout regarding civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan, and concludes that US military strikes have now killed over 3700 Afghan civilians, compared to 3148 killed by Sept. 11 attacks. Herold's research combines a broad range of international news reports with first-hand accounts, and leads to a damning indictment of the mainstream news media, whose slanted, ideological coverage of the war has encouraged the US public to look the other way. http://seattle.indymedia.org/ __ 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] USA STRUGGLES AGAINST ISRAELI SPIES AND JEWISH EXTREMISTS
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/17/23815.html 20:03 2001-12-17 USA STRUGGLES AGAINST ISRAELI SPIES AND JEWISH EXTREMISTS Relations between the USA and Israel have become complicated recently. America decided to support Israel’s rough actions towards the Palestinians. At the same time, US special services detain Israeli spies on American territory and struggle with home-bred Jewish extremists. Fox TV reports that during the investigation of the Sept.11 terrorist acts, about 60 Israelis were detained in the USA on suspicion of intelligence activity. Several of the detained are Israeli military men and secret intelligence agents operating on the US territory, the TV company reports. Charges of the violation of immigration rules have been brought against most of the detained. A polygraph was used for the interrogation of the Israelis suspected of spying against America. Investigators say that for some of the detained, the polygraph became an obstacle. The detained Israelis are not accused in connection with the terrorist acts in New York and Washington, although the version is well spread in many Arab states. The detained are said to have been aware of the terrorist acts, but they provided no information about them. Israel’s embassy in the USA denies any connection of Israeli with intelligence activity against the USA. Fox reports that before the Sept.11 events, 140 Israelis were detained on suspicion of espionage. Israel’s special services have created a wide spy network in the USA. Students studying art in Jerusalem penetrated US army bases, anti-drug services, governmental institutions, secret offices, and homes of law enforcement officers. US intelligence considers Israel as an A-category country. States that carry out the most aggressive intelligence operations against the USA are in this category. Fox cited a report US intelligence agencies on the problem. “The actions of Israeli in the political and economic spheres are dictated by their strong survival instinct. That is why Israel is aggressive in itst collection of information about US military and industrial technologies." However, the USA has to struggle not only with “harmless” Israeli spies on its territory. Recently, two leaders of the Jewish Defense League (JDL)were detained on suspicion of organizing bombings of a mosque, a congressman's office, and the headquarters of an Arab-American group in Los Angeles. A special anti-terrorism team of the US Department of Justice detained the two leaders of the JDL, Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel, as the plotters of terrorist acts aimed at the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City near Los Angeles and office of Senator Issa in San Diego. Issa, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, is a Christian of Arab origin and a member of the Republican party. He is on the House Committee for International Relations and supports the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The senator cannot understand why he has become a target for extremists. In Issa’s words, most American Jews are in a panic after information about more explosions. The senator says that the same panic was observed among American Arabs after the Sept.11 explosions. Investigators say that the plans of the terrorists were frustrated when the last component, explosive powder, was delivered to Krugel’s home. One of the League’s members, whom Krugel asked to assist in the bombings, told the FBI about the plan. Now, attorneys of the detained say that it was this FBI special agent who brought explosives to Krugel’s home. The prosecution does not deny the fact. Krugel’s attorney considers the FBI agent the producer of the whole act. The preparation for the explosions is said to have been taped. The tapes reveal that, to avoid numerous victims, the targets were to be exploded at night. The amount of the explosive powder found in Rubin’s home is not enough to explode a building, experts say. The US press reports that the JDL's leaders have been detained after recent promises of the Public Prosecutor and the FBI director on prevention of response attacks against American Arabs. The Jewish Defense League (13 000 members) was founded in 1968 as an armed response to anti-Semitism. It also stood for the punishment of Nazi criminals and immigration of the Jewish population from the USSR. The League’s founder, Meir Kahane, quit the organization in the 1980s and was assassinated in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting. The situation in the Middle East is extremely tense; Americans support Israel’s strict actions in its struggle with terrorists. That is why the JDL's preparation for bombings in the USA were so unexpected. Attorneys of the two terrorists are more likely to stress this fact in court. The JDL's attorneys will say that law enforcement authorities have already lunched an anti-Jewish campaign for the sake of a balance. Several Arab-American organizations have asked authorities
[CTRL] FBI reportedly wants Badtrans worm's pilfered data --Rotten.com
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. Victims of Badtrans are infected when they receive an email containing the worm in an attachment and either run the program by clicking on it, or use an email reader like Microsoft Outlook which may automatically run it without user intervention. Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to all other email addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke-logger capable of stealing passwords including those used for telnet, email, ftp, and the web. Also captured is anything else the user may be typing, including personal documents or private emails. Coincidentally, just four days before the breakout of Badtrans it was revealed that the FBI was developing their own keystroke-logging virus, called Magic Lantern. Made to complement the Carnivore spy system, Magic Lantern would allow them to obtain target's passwords as they type them. This is a significant improvement over Carnivore, which can only see data after it has been transmitted over the Internet, at which point the passwords may have been encrypted. After Badtrans pilfers keystrokes the data is sent back to one of twenty-two email addresses (this is according to the FBI-- leading anti-virus vendors have only reported seventeen email addresses). Among these are free email addresses at Excite, Yahoo, and IJustGotFired.com. IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco based independent Internet Service Provider. In particular, [EMAIL PROTECTED] began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the suck_my_prick alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., and requested a cloned copy of the password database and keylogged data. The database includes only information stolen from the victims of the virus, not information about the perpetrator. The FBI wants indiscriminant access to the illegally extracted passwords and keystrokes of over two million people without so much as a warrant. Even with a warrant they would have to specify exactly what information they are after, on whom, and what they expect to find. Instead, they want it all and for no justifiable reason. One of the most basic tenets of an authoritarian state is one that claims rights for itself that it denies its citizens. Surveillance is perhaps one of the most glaring examples of this in our society. Accordingly, rather than hand over the entire database to the FBI, MonkeyBrains has decided to open the database to the public. Now everyone (including the FBI) will be able query which accounts have been compromised and search for their hostnames. Password and keylogged data will not be made available, for obvious legal reasons. The implications of complying with the FBI's request, absent any legal authority, are staggering. This is information that no one, not even the FBI, could legally gather themselves. The fact that they seek to take advantage of this worm and benefit from its illicit spoils, demonstrates the FBI's complete and utter contempt for constitutionally mandated due process and protection from unreasonable search and seizure. It defies reason that the FBI expects the American people to trust them to only look at certain permissible nuggets of data and ignore the rest of what they collect. One need only imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would do with today's expansive surveillance system, coupled with the new powers granted by the Patriot Act, to appreciate the Orwellian nightmare that the United States is becoming. The last thing the FBI should have is a spying Internet worm, and it looks like they've found one. Welcome to the Magic Lantern.
[CTRL] Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universa
Refugees meeting hears proposal to register every human in GENEVA, Dec 13 AAP|Published: Friday December 14, 7:18 AM Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting today. The plan was put forward by Pascal Smet, the head of Belgium's independent asylum review board, at a roundtable meeting with ministers including Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock this afternoon. Mr Smet said the European Union was already considering a Europe-wide system, using either fingerprints or eye scanning technology, to identify citizens. But he said the plan could be extended worldwide. "There are no technical problems. It is only a question of will and investment," he said. "If you look to our societies, we are already registered from birth until death. Our governments know who we are and what we are. But one of the basic problems is the numbers of people in the world who are not registered, who do not have a set identity, and when these people move with real or fake passports, you cannot identify them. "It's a basic rule of management that if you want to manage something, you measure it. It's the same with human beings and migration. "But instead of measuring it, you have to register them." Mr Smet said the scheme would give people dignity by giving them an identity if their papers had been lost or destroyed. And he said it would allow countries to open their borders to genuine travellers or asylum seekers, because they would be able to prove the identity of any over-stayers and deport them without argument from their home country. Mr Ruddock appeared unconvinced by the merits of the plan. "In principle we would be supportive of a system which would crack down on multiple asylum claims, but a universal identification system would be taking it too far," he said through a spokeswoman. By Maria Hawthorne
[CTRL] Bush
-Caveat Lector- Has *anything* gotten any better since Bush has been in office? I can't think of a single thing, can you? Steve In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com/12.17C.Saudi.Friends.htm Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Peter Dale Scott - Interview Transcript
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_conspiracy/transcript.html THE WAR CONSPIRACY Peter Dale Scott - Interview Transcript Stephen Marshall: Hello Peter. I guess I wanted to start off by turning to some of the work you have done, some of the analysis of U.S. policy and what you have described as 'deep politics' and 'para-politics' in your books. One of the things that I feel many people, specifically young people, are lacking in their approach to understanding what is happening right now is a good historical context. So let's start with that. Peter Dale Scott: Alright. On many of the forums and chat rooms around the web, people are referring to the current course of action (in the War on Terrorism) and what the "U.S. government" is going to do. And they think of the government as one singular, monolithic entity. But in your books Cocaine Politics and Deep Politics you describe a government that is not a unified organization. Rather, that it is one of factions and interests who don't always operate from the same agenda. Can you describe how we should be looking at the government right now? Is it a monolithic entity being run by the President or is it a group of factions working with different objectives and agendas? Well, I think that particularly in a country like the United States, which has such diverse elements in it, you are going to see those diverse elements reflected inside the government. There are a lot of tensions. One is, for example, whether America should try to live as a partner in a world with many other, different cultures and states within it or whether America should assert its supremacy. And even in that second camp, there is tension between the people who believe the military and the use of force is the answer to problems versus the people who believe in political understanding of other cultures and states and who advocate a more political and diplomatic approach. This is very much being debated at this moment in Washington. Right. Now you are a person who finds the origins of their work as an FOIA activist and critical thinker back in the era of the Vietnam War. Maybe even before then… but, let me ask you, as a person who has witnessed the various stages of the post-WW II evolution of the U.S. as the dominant global military power, where would you place this recent event on that timeline? Is it even linked to that timeline? Where does it emanate from… Well, I think that the best way to place what is happening right now in perspective is to see it as fall-out from the Cold War. Back in the 1950's… first in 1950 and then, again, in 1954, America - rightly or wrongly, I think wrongly - decided they were dealing with an implacable and absolutely unscrupulous enemy and actually decreed on paper, in internal documents, that the United States should be equally unscrupulous in fighting back. And that was the beginning of the (U.S.) cultivation of terrorism. We trained the Cuban exiles against Castro, we trained the Contras in Nicaragua and most relevant to this new crisis, we trained a lot of Afghans in terrorism… taught them how to commit sabotage and to plant bombs and blow things up. And now some of those people are fighting back against us. Coordinating terrorist activities against the United States. So, when yyou look at the people who make up Bush's cabinet and various military advisors, what can we expect to be the dominant or, maybe I should say, policy response to the attacks? Well I think its not just the heads in the Cabinet that matter, it’s the bureaucracy. And there will be a State Department faction that will say we need to understand the Middle East better and figure out why it is that we're so hated there. And there are some people who will say we have to do more of what we've done. And, you know, Congress has just passed a huge blank check, $40 billion. Well, only $10 billion of it is a completely blank check and the speculation is that a lot it will be used to build up the CIA in precisely the areas where the cultivation of terrorism has brought about the culture of terrorism that is now being used against us. That's right on point. Now, since the attack on 9-11 there has been a lot of independent speculation about the origin and nature of the operation. One camp puts it all in the realm of a totally unforeseen and pre-meditated attack on the United States while some others see it as a quasi-covert intelligence operation that is being likened to the American foreknowledge about Pearl Harbor. What is your opinion? Well, I'm somewhere in between. I think that they're both wrong. It's absolutely clear… it's a fact and not a speculation that the United States had some forewarning of this because they did send out an advisory to V.I.P.'s - one of them was Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco - not to travel by airplane. So they had some degree of knowledge. But that doesn't mean that they foresaw the whole thing. One of the problems is - and it is a real
[CTRL] Year 2004: G. Bush to be Crowned the Emperor of United States
-Caveat Lector- On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Steve wrote: Steve Wingate, Webmaster: Has *anything* gotten any better since Bush has been in office? I can't think of a single thing, can you? Steve In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com/12.17C.Saudi.Friends.htm That depends on your point of view and your placement in the society. Many people are getting richer now, that didn't before. Military, defence and oil company executives come to my mind at least. Of course, if you are a lower class working American and have no government connections, you are in deeper shit than ever before. The national debt is increasing like crazy and the lower class taxpayers will have to pay the bill during the years to come. Unemployment is going rapidly up, as internationals are moving the work to cheap labor countries such as China. All that has happened makes me wonder: just how much worse can the things still get during the remaining years that your prez is going to be in power? I mean, the guy just started and he's making a very good pace. I bet he'll probably name himself the Emperor of the United States before his term is over, if he continues at this rate. 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] CIA's Phoniest Home Video (Part 2)
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/index.cfm CIA's Phoniest Home Video (Part 2) by BRASSCHECK.COM Fun with sound tracks Long ago, for six very intense and interesting months, I was a hands on, minority partner in a then struggling motion picture sound editing studio. Our offices were on the 13th floor of New York City's then decrepit Film Center building on Ninth Avenue, two blocks north of the Port Authority bus terminal I won't mention the name of the company or my then partner because he is not only apolitical, he also finds my opinions horrifying and "negative", However, if you've ever seen "Like Water for Chocolate" (the highest grossing Spanish language film of all time) or "When We Were Kings" (Academy Award winner for Best Documentary), you know his sound editing work. Anyway, in that brief period, I learned quite a bit about the practical details of manipulating the sound that accompanies film and video so that it seems not only plausible, but *perfect* Here's some of the things I learned: First, creating a movie *always* requires the meticulous, step-by-step cobbling together of audio and visual materials to create the illusion of reality. A good percentage of this work takes place *after*the film is shot. It's called post production. Second, sound editing (or sound manipulation) is a profession. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people all over the world who practice it every day of the week. It's no big deal. Digital tools have made it easier, but the principles have been in play since the first "talkie." Third, every television program and motion picture you see depends of aural as well as visual manipulation. In fact - and note this well - of the two, sound manipulation is the more essential. Here's what I mean. Have you ever seen a godzilla movie where the dubbing is off? The lips are moving, but no sound comes out and then suddenly you hear the person speak with his mouth closed. It kills the "suspension of belief" doesn't it? You're instantly reminded that you're watching a movie, a fake. On the other hand, visual blemishes are routinely overlooked by movie goers and TV watchers. Black and white, for example, does not look real, but within seconds we accept it and become engrossed in the story. Because of this phenomenon, huge quantities of time, money and energy are spent to manipulate audio tracks (sounds effects and dialog) in the post production process so that they sound "right." It's not at all unusual that due to production problems (a plane flying overheard, a faulty microphone, a muddled line) an entire dialog track has to be re-recorded long after the movie is "in the can." This process is known as "looping" or ADR (automatic dialog replacement) and *every* film actor and film studio is familiar with it. Any time you see a movie and are not jarred by audio discrepancies, you're experiencing a masterpiece of audio manipulation, the product of HUNDREDS of hours of minute attention to creating, modifying and matching sound to picture so that it is experienced as "real.". Think about the number of film and TV movies you've seen. How many times have you experienced an audio error? Answer: With the exception of the godzilla flicks, never. The reason: Audio errors are intolerable and they are virtually always fixable. (Audio is far more malleable than visuals.) Let's get practical. If the Osama bin Laden "confession" was a faked, how would it have been done? Before I answer, let me say that I'd love to have a copy of the video for further study. I'd ESPECIALLY love to have the very video that was purportedly found in Afghanistan. It would be pretty easy to detect manipulation of the audio track on the original. It may even be possible to do it from a copy, but the closer to the original the better. Given that no one is going to give me the original, let me suggest how I, as a former audio manipulation professional, would have created this particular tape. I'll start with an easy method and advance to more complicated ones. However, keep in mind that nothing that I'm describing is rocket science. It is done every day in Hollywood and anywhere else where there are people who make movies for a living. - The easy way First: Find some footage of bin Laden. Muddy the video and darken it so it's not easy to match his lip movements with what comes out of his mouth. Second: Muddy the audio so it cannot be heard clearly. Obscure any passages where he says things that create a context that does not support the "confession" interpretation of what he is saying. Third: Hire friendly interpreters to create subtitles that interpret everything he says in such a way as to support the "confession" story. Fourth: Thank Allah the whole thing is in Arabic so the intended audience won't have the faintest clue as to what he was or was not saying. - A somewhat more involved way First: Hire an Osama bin Laden look alike. Intelligence agencies are
[CTRL] Michael Hoffman's Xmas Message
http://www.hoffman-info.com/inferno.html Keep the Faith! The HOFFMAN WIRE Dec. 17, 2001 by Michael A. Hoffman II In the last decades of the American Empire, as it heads down its long peregrination toward decay and eventual collapse--a collapse as certain as that of the Twin Towers-- some have lost vision, and therefore faith, in the struggle for God's truth, our culture and our immemorial rights. They see instead the Great Beast Leviathan rumbling toward them with all the inevitability which the Cryptocracy's predictive programming can muster. It seems that there are millions of Americans processed to expect the worst. I have analyzed this loser psychology in audiotapes and newsletters and in "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare 2001". The establishment of the groundwork for martial law courts on the part of President Bush is but one example of the fundamental weakness of the American Empire over which he presides as figurehead. The tutelary powers behind Bush's throne are using the Revelation of the Method stratagem, starting with the raw underlying truth that the U.S. in its role as world policeman over countless warring sects, factions and races, brought war to these faraway groups first. The war has come to our shores mainly as a result of Washington's betrayal of the solemn, farewell counsel of its namesake, to say nothing of its covert role in shaping and shepherding the terrorists themselves. As of this writing, not one shred of credible evidence has been produced connecting bin Laden to Sept. 11. Yet, according to the Nov. 28 Wall Street Journal, US officials are reportedly "seeking to kill rather than capture bin Laden and his henchmen." Such assassinations are authorized by "media law courts," since that is the only place bin Laden has been "tried and convicted." I am not asserting bin Laden's innocence, since the bin Laden family had the bad judgement to be business partners of the Bush family (cf. "Towering Inferno: The Cryptocracy's Great Game" Revisionist History newsletter no. 20); but I require more evidence for culpability in the 9/11 attacks than the wild rumors and hearsay which the five corporate TV networks have thus far proffered. The unilateral declaration of martial law courts by Emperor Bush (cf. Revisionist History newsletter no. 21, "In the Kingdom of Anthraxistan"), signals that we are approaching the Soviet model, slightly disguised under a layer of lip service in support of Mom, apple pie and Americanism. Attorney General John Ashcroft launches a court fight in Oregon against euthanasia and Bush condemns the cloning of human embryos. I hope you can detect the cheat. Those who bomb women and children in Afghanistan to kingdom-come, who machine gun prisoners in POW camps in northern Afghanistan, who sponsor Israeli child-murder sprees in Palestine are themselves terrorists and war criminals, not sagacious demi-gods of democracy and Americanism. The First Lady, Laura Bush, privately works for the abortion-on-demand dogma of Hillary and the rest of the corps of baby-killers. Together with the United Nations they are hectoring the people of Afghanistan with lofty sermons about "women's rights," i.e. the imposition of the scourge of abortion. One cannot have abortion-on-demand and Christian culture. One cannot have abortion-on-demand and the American Republic that always regarded abortion as an abominable crime and deadly sin crying to heaven for vengeance. In the American Republic the attitude toward human life in the womb came from the Bible, where God said, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you." In other words (1) the unborn baby is sent to the mother by the will and command of the Almighty and (2) the unborn baby is a human person by virtue of God declaring He knows him. In the American Empire, the attitude toward human life in the womb is derived from the Talmud, where the "sages" say that if the Judaic woman is being "pursued" by her unborn infant (please don't ask what "pursued" means in this context, for we are dealing with a mentality sunk in utter delusion), she may abort it. The USA has adopted the infanticidal horror of the Talmud, which is the root of euthanasia and cloning. The media are very keen on publishing videotape of supposed Taliban officials allegedly beating women, but the people who championed serial rapist Bill Clinton care nothing for women. The Taliban were notable opponents of rape and put a stop to it in Afghanistan, while the American surrogate in Kabul, Rabbani, is a notorious rapist who has the American feminist seal of approval. In this context, where, pray tell, is the video footage on TV news of the thousands of slavic women kidnapped from East European nations and sold into white slavery in the "Holy Land" to vile prostitution rings operated by Israelis? However hopeless the situation may seem as even poor and working class Americans flag-wave themselves into a stupor of big-government boosterism, it is a grave
Re: [CTRL] BIN LADEN TAPE: 10 Points
-Caveat Lector- quite apart from the obvious political inconsistencies you mention, the tape looks like some spook got a cheap video card with an old PC and blacked out the lower half of ladens face - and Only ladens face was the darkest - which was totally inconsistent with the lighting in the room - Bin Laden is also a talented ventriloquist because not only were his lips not synched but at one point where his speech was the loudest - his silhouetted mouth was obviously closed - The spooks never seem to employ anyone with artistic merit andrew hennessey 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] Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
-Caveat Lector- c'mon, the poor little rich kid has already shaved his beard and is spending his unlimited credit on the french riviera or north west australia - you don't seriously believe this runt can be cornered down some dark cave - next week ?? all he has to do is get on the shortwave radio to rent a gangster, american express - that'll do nicely for a rental of a stealth helicopter from some black ops unit - and he's out - and he probably did that last month. andrew hennessey http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/taketwo.htm Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two! by Jared Israel [9 October 2001] === 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 Terrorist Web
-Caveat Lector- O'Saba, Chairman of Board International Order of Irish Mafia Terrorist aleisha macSaba of the third scottish foot in mouth, I hope that you're well and that you're not too terrified yourself of all these unconstitutional acts that are being passed - and their evil detention camps. I did say that china is more american than america - it has fully operational factory Gulags AND pepsi and macdonalds and disney - america are still looking for good dependable factory workers that can do an 18 hour day - maybe the local ladies sewing circle will be able to increase their output under intense supervision ?? Take care of yourself andrew hennessey 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] Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
-Caveat Lector- Maybe this has been brought up before, but do the powers that be want Bin Laden caught? He is a convenient bad guy. Bill Kalivas - Original Message - -Caveat Lector- c'mon, the poor little rich kid has already shaved his beard and is spending his unlimited credit on the french riviera or north west australia - you don't seriously believe this runt can be cornered down some dark cave - next week ?? all he has to do is get on the shortwave radio to rent a gangster, american express - that'll do nicely for a rental of a stealth helicopter from some black ops unit - and he's out - and he probably did that last month. andrew hennessey 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] Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two!
-Caveat Lector- well, if they can pull a stunt like faking a bad home video on us, then we may yet see a body mangled beyond recognition - some lookalike that is not too identifiable - of course, the DNA tests will confirm it was osama - after all the very useful osama and the bush/carlyle/laden cartel will want to get the heat off their NWO luciferic star child. Friend of the reptoid hive and honey bee and grand sufi initiate into the dark demonic ways of the king of the earth then, after the 'conspiracists' go on the rampage disclaiming it was obviously not osama - a new 'video' will turn up of osama being ceremonially shot by his sons - and if we get to the end of the film - we might see 'dreamworks' or disney - and then 'everybody' will be convinced that enemy of the state is truly dead - Original Message - From: Bill Kalivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Bin Laden, Terrorist Monster: Take Two! -Caveat Lector- Maybe this has been brought up before, but do the powers that be want Bin Laden caught? He is a convenient bad guy. Bill Kalivas - Original Message - -Caveat Lector- c'mon, the poor little rich kid has already shaved his beard and is spending his unlimited credit on the french riviera or north west australia - you don't seriously believe this runt can be cornered down some dark cave - next week ?? all he has to do is get on the shortwave radio to rent a gangster, american express - that'll do nicely for a rental of a stealth helicopter from some black ops unit - and he's out - and he probably did that last month. andrew hennessey 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] Cuba: Sunken City Resurrects Atlantis Myth
-Caveat Lector- Forwarded From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOURCE: El Nuevo Herald DATE: Sunday, December 16, 2001 Sunken City Resurrects Atlantis Myth B elieve to have existed 6,000 years ago in Western Cuba. JULIO CESAR RIVAS / EFE TORONTO, Canada The discovery of what appear to be the remains of a city off the Cuban coast by a group of Canadian researchers has fired the imaginations of many who have begun dreaming that fabled Atlantis could have been a reality. Following a series of explorations using an underwater robot, the couple formed by Russo-Canadian researcher Paulina Zelitsky and Canadian Paul Weinzweig--together with the former's son, Ernesto Tapanés, a Cuban national -- believes that the structures form part of a city erected over six thousand years ago on the slopes of a volcano. This information, based on images taken by the underwater robot and by a modern sonar system, places the construction of the Cuban city fifteen centuries earlier than the building of the Gizeh pyramid in Egypt. While the researchers have still not obtained any physical evidence to date the remains, the possibility that a lost civilization had built highly specialized buildings in such a distant age seems too enticing to restrain the imagination. One of the hypotheses suggested in the past--and which could be confirmed with this discovery--is that Cuba was linked to the Yucatan Peninsula by a land bridge which sank into the Caribbean due to volcanic activity. To others, the notion of a civilization submerged under the Caribbean brings to mind the stories of the Greek philosopher Plato concerning lost Atlantis. Zelitsky told the Canadian press that the megaliths located both by sonar and the underwater robot are of a type similar to the one found at Stonehenge [Great Britain] or on Easter Island. Images taken with sonar and converted into photographs have been shown to U.S. and Cuban scientists who belive that pyramids, streets and buildings can be discerned. An antrhopologist with the Cuban Academy of Sciences consulted by the Canadian couple has pointed out that some of the images contain signs and inscriptions and that the shapes are reminiscent of the pyramidal designs of the Mayan or Aztec cultures. Zelitsky and Weinzweig, while currently residing in Cuba, are the owners of British Columbia-based Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), which has specialized in locating underwater treasrue in the Caribbean. ADC has participated in the search for old Spanish galleons lost in Cuban waters and which could contain great riches. The team has scheduled another venture in January in the Guanahacabibes Peninsula area, where the archaeological remains were located. In the summer of 2002, they plan to use an underwater excavator to explore the find. ## Translation (C) 2001. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi. In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com/12.17C.Saudi.Friends.htm Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: US Can't Find G.W. Bush's Business Partner
---BeginMessage--- Times of London 12-17-01 US doesn't know where Bin Laden is The Pentagon says it is anybody's guess where terror suspect Osama bin Laden is. The admission comes from Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem, of the joint chiefs of staff, who says there is no information about Bin Laden's whereabouts. United States military chiefs had believed Bin Laden was hiding in the cave complex of Tora Bora but Stufflebeem says it has been a few days since any evidence of his presence there has been found. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Ruppert on Rense.com Tonight
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[CTRL] NWO Christmas CD
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[CTRL] Free trade: Pied piper to global government
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25736 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Free trade: Pied piper to global government -- -- © 2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc. John M. Culbertson, an economist known for mounting an articulate defense of protectionist economic policy long after the tenets of free trade were de rigueur among his colleagues, died on Sunday, in Madison, Wis. He was 80. So read Sunday's obit in The New York Times, which went on to quote a Culbertson essay in 1986: The future of the United States depends on whether we can escape from the childish dream world in which 'free trade' is The Good Fairy and 'protectionism' is The Wicked Witch of the West. The first line of the next paragraph of the obit said it all: Unable to find publishers for his books ... Culbertson, author of a major college textbook, Money and Banking, could not find anyone to publish his patriotic dissent on free trade. Orwell spoke of the smelly little orthodoxies of his age, and this intolerant free-trade cult is one of ours. What has it produced? Republicans promised us free trade would cut government, as taxes and regulations must be cut to keep products competitive. But government has exploded. Europe's Common Market gave birth to a Frankenstein they call the EU â a transnational monstrosity with a legal code of 80,000 pages that is swallowing up the once-free nations of Europe. As every national economy â Bismarck's Germany or Hamilton's America â gives birth to a national government, a global economy must end in global government. That is why international socialism has signed on. Has the Right lost its principles â or its mind? The Financial Times' Amity Shlaes scourges the AFL-CIO for fast moving leftward on trade. But protectionism was always championed by men of the right â Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Clay, Lincoln, McKinley, T.R., Cal Coolidge. It is the left's icons â Wilson and FDR â who gave us free trade. And that ideology was spawned by 19th-century scribblers and utopians like John Stuart Mill and Richard Cobden, none of whom was a Man of the Right. The Republican House has now buckled to Bush's demand for fast track. But what is fast track, but abject surrender by Congress of all rights to amend trade treaties? Is abdication to the executive by Congress what we now mean by conservatism? When did it become so? What has 30 years of free trade produced but 30 trade deficits totaling $2 trillion, a hollowed-out manufacturing base that now employs 13 percent of U.S. workers â where in 1960 it employed 26 percent â and a vast disparity between workers' wages and corporate salaries? Real wages for working Americans have hardly risen in 30 years. Last year, free trade gave America a merchandise trade deficit of $450 billion. Our pre-NAFTA trade deficit of $10 billion with Canada and Mexico now exceeds $90 billion. Our total trade deficit with China in the Clinton decade reached $400 billion, a transfer of wealth, factories and technology that has made China a threat to America. U.S. companies like GM, Ford and Boeing now call themselves global companies, and their loyalty to America is dying as fast as their allegiance to their workers. And there are the hidden costs. Republicans had to prostitute themselves to vote vast sums for the IMF to bail out bankrupt regimes, so those corrupt regimes could keep paying back rich investors who preferred to risk their capital outside the United States. Meanwhile, Congress lets our great industries like steel and textiles die in the name of free trade principles. Are we more secure in this free-trade world? Why, then, the wild panic when Asian nations began to default in 1997? But one country never caught the Asian flu, and one country still grows at 9 percent. Protectionist China remembers what the West has forgot: Every nation to rise to world power â Britain before 1850, the United States before 1914, Japan after 1945 â rejected free trade to put the nation first. There are other hidden costs: the enormous subsidies to keep our farmers alive, now that the price of their produce does not cover their costs. Broken families, dying towns, shattered communities from what our think-tank welfare queens hail as creative destruction â i.e., U.S. factories shutting down here and opening up abroad. America herself is being sacrificed on the altar of this Moloch. For the ultimate cost of this free-trade addiction will be the loss of America's industrial base, the loss of our economic independence and, finally, the loss of our national sovereignty. Then the global parasites will have it all. I didn't know Culbertson. But from his brief obituary, he had common sense, a love of country and intellectual courage â as rare in politics as they are among the academics who scorned him.
[CTRL] Bringing back civil defense
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25725 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bringing back civil defense -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com If there's a silver lining to the dark cloud of terrorist attacks on America, I hope it is the awareness that our country is virtually defenseless against attacks on our homeland. For far too long, America has relied exclusively on the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction as its only defense of U.S. soil. In fact, the very word defense, in the American lexicon, has come to mean offense. The Pentagon is solely focused on fighting foreign wars in foreign lands and has abdicated its authority and responsibility for defense of the civilian population of the USA. If a nuclear war is launched against the United States, our only recourse is to watch millions of Americans die, while raining death and destruction on the attacker. There are several problems with the MAD doctrine in the post-Sept. 11 world. How would we respond to a terrorist nuclear attack on U.S. soil? Who would we kill? And what difference would it make to the untold number of Americans dead? What about the even more likely scenario of a large-scale chemical or biological attack by terrorists on the U.S.? How does mutually assured destruction protect us from suicide bombers â who, by definition, kill themselves in the attack? MAD assumes our potential adversaries are as defenseless as we are â but are they? Some time during the first Bush administration, America completely scrapped any vestige of its fledgling civil defense structure. It had eroded badly during President Carter's administration, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency took over as the lead agency for civil defense. In other words, the real defense work â protecting the American people from attack â was removed from the Defense Department. That is when the Defense Department became the Offense Department. It got worse during eight years of Clinton. FEMA's meager efforts to maintain equipment needed for saving lives in a future nuclear war were cut from the budget. The equipment was destroyed, lost, sold or abandoned. For years, a political movement determined to disarm America had persuaded the public there was no use in trying to save lives during a nuclear war. We were all going to die. We might as well be vaporized. There was no point in trying to prepare, no point in defending ourselves, no point in living if we were attacked. This movement ultimately won out and became official national policy during the Clinton years. But the movement is based totally on lies. People do survive nuclear blasts. Most people survived the initial blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many emerged from the rubble unscathed â only to die a miserable and unnecessary death from fallout. There were dire predictions the two islands would never be inhabited again â or at least for 75 years. Nagasaki and Hiroshima today are bustling metropolises â much bigger, more prosperous and more healthy places to live than they were before the blasts. There is no question that properly constructed and stocked shelters can and do save lives during nuclear attacks. The proof? Russia has built them. China has built them. The Swiss have built them. All of them, by the way, built based on technology developed by the U.S. government and paid for by U.S. taxpayers â who remain defenseless. There's more proof. Not all Americans are left defenseless. Your federal government has used your tax dollars to build shelters for itself and its key people â tens of thousands of them. They will survive the inevitable attack on the U.S. You, the taxpaying public, will not. That's the plan. National suicide. It may be the biggest scandal involving government I have ever witnessed in my life. And it's the theme topic of the January issue of Whistleblower magazine â based largely on the revelations of a real-life whistleblower, Art Robinson, who has spent some 20 years trying to alert the public to the need for civil defense and the intrepid reporting of my wife, Elizabeth Farah. There's been a great deal of debate in the last 20 years about strategic missile defense. Yet, as important as that component of defense is to our future, it is no substitute for civil defense â as the terrorist attacks illustrate so well. The first nuclear attack on the U.S. may well be a hand-delivered bomb â not one delivered on an intercontinental ballistic missile. This is a big topic â one, granted, no one else is talking about. And that's why this special issue of Whistleblower is so important, so urgent, so needed. Find out how the government is planning to sacrifice you, your kids and your grandchildren on the altar of political correctness. You will be shocked â and I hope shocked into action, before
[CTRL] Al-Qaida fighters welcomed home
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25734 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Al-Qaida fighters welcomed home Some 'veterans' taking leadership roles in Islamic movement -- -- By Toby Westerman © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com While some captured Taliban fighters have been portrayed as humiliated and sobbing, other Islamic militants are well on their way â or have already arrived â home. Once their wounds are healed, they will reorganize and be ready for a new mission, according to the influential Italian news daily Corriere della Sera. Though defeated in battle by the United States and its allies, the embattled al-Qaida veterans return to their respective villages, from Saudi Arabia to Morocco, commanding respect â and even leadership â of local militant organizations. Many militants have returned enlarging the local Islamic movements and [assuming] leadership of them, according to the paper. Local authorities in the Islamic world are watching warily as those involved in the fighting in Afghanistan return home, but they are not expected to seek assistance from the international community, preferring to wash their own dirty cloths, according to Corriere della Sera. In Algeria, where tens of thousands have already died during a prolonged civil war between the government and Islamic militants, the national authorities are attempting to avoid additional fighting. The Algerian government is prepared to treat returning fighters as prodigal sons â as long as the former Taliban militants return peacefully to their homes. Dozens of al-Qaida fighters have slipped into Somalia, torn for years by a many-sided civil war that has left the country without a functioning national authority. The local Somali warlords fear an Islamic rebellion arising in the far north and south of the country, fomented by the newly arrived militants. Some of the al-Qaida organization are finding their way to the Balkans, a region still suffering civil strife, especially in Macedonia. The Islamic fighters have been seen in Albania and in Bosnia, a primarily Muslim nation that, like Macedonia, was once part of the Federation of Yugoslavia. Not all of the al-Qaida entering into the Balkans using Bosnian passports are Bosnians, according to Corriere della Sera. Some are also of Egyptian, Tunisian or Algerian origin. The article from Corriere della Sera appears to verify earlier reports of links between militant Islamic fighters in Afghanistan and in the Balkans. According to a Sept. 22 report from Radio Yugoslavia, former Muslim leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic, approved the issuance of Bosnian passports to citizens of various Islamic nations who proved themselves to be meritorious combatants during the Bosnia-Herzegovina struggle against Yugoslavia. Citing the Sarajevo weekly newspaper DANI, Radio Yugoslavia stated that Izetbegovic on one occasion ordered 50 passports to Mujahedin [Islamic warriors] from Islamic countries who fought on the Bosniak side during Bosnia's war for independence in the mid 1990s. Not all al-Qaida fighters, however, have enjoyed a homecoming. The Corriere della Sera article warns that there is still an appreciable pool of displaced soldiers on the Afghan/Pakistani border seeking escape. The number is at least 2,500 Islamic militants. The most reliable method of crossing the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan is through bribery, according to Corriere della Sera in another report. In event of capture, between $1,600-$3,300, depending upon one's rank in the Taliban, has proven, so far, to purchase freedom. If the detainee lacks funds, the family contributes, or in several cases, even local tribal chiefs have opened [their] purses. Although defeated, the militants escaping the collapse of the Taliban are not repentant. They remain loyal to Mullah Omar and still, by and large, unquestionably support Osama Bin Laden. Those coming across the Afghan/Pakistani border also universally condemn the United States, as well as its main ally on the ground, the Northern Alliance. -- -- I.J. Toby Westerman, is a contributing reporter for WorldNetDaily who focuses on current events in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Balkans. *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
[CTRL] Chinese ammo found in al-Qaida hideouts
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25732 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Chinese ammo found in al-Qaida hideouts Evidence of links between terrorists, Taliban, Beijing continues to grows -- -- Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Pentagon officials aboard the plane taking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Brussels revealed large quantities of Chinese-manufactured ammunition were discovered in the Tora Bora cave hideouts of Osama bin Laden. This disclosure lends further support to earlier reports by WorldNetDaily, based in part on the intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly, that Beijing has supported the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network in various ways â including men and materiel. The arms cache included mortar shells, anti-tank rockets and ammunition for various types of automatic rifles and machine guns of Chinese manufacture, abandoned by fleeing al-Qaida men. Earlier today, WorldNetDaily reported China was seeking the return of some ethnic Uighurs from northwestern Xinjiang province who were captured while fighting with Taliban. The U.S. is refusing to turn them over, according to a STRATFOR report. WorldNetDaily also reported the findings of author Gordon Thomas, who has written a book claiming that Beijing had an actual role in the Sept. 11 attack on America. In Seeds of Fire, Thomas purports to show how Beijing is positioning itself to become America's new major enemy. Citing DEBKA's intelligence sources, WorldNetDaily has also reported that Chinese troops, fighting with the Taliban, have been killed in Afghanistan. In addition, citing those same sources, WorldNetDaily first reported Chinese troop and materiel support to the Taliban early in the war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post earlier confirmed a pact signed between Beijing and the Taliban announced, ironically, Sept. 11 of this year. Sky Television also later reported the presence of Chinese fighters alongside the Taliban and al-Qaida in the battles of Konduz and Khanabad in northern Afghanistan. -- -- *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] China simulates attacks on U.S. carriers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25731 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TAIWAN TINDERBOX China simulates attacks on U.S. carriers Beijing forces also practice invasion of island neighbor -- -- By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Along the coast of China's two southernmost provinces, Beijing has conducted large-scale amphibious and naval exercises designed to practice attacking and sinking U.S. aircraft carriers and to rehearse an invasion of the island nation of Taiwan. According to Al Santoli, national security advisor for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and editor of China Reform Monitor, which is published by the American Foreign Policy Council, the exercises â called Liberation 2 â were held in the Guangdong and Zheijiang provinces and simulated amphibious landings on Taiwan as well as attacks against American carriers. Santoli, in a recent issue of CRM, said details of the exercises were published in the Hong Kong Sing Tai Jih Pao newspaper. He quoted Chinese officials as saying that preparations for the exercises, which coincided with parliamentary elections in Taipei, were personally inspected by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. CRM quoted a top Beijing official as saying that as long as [China] can strike and sink U.S. aircraft carriers that come to Taiwan's aid, there is no problem settling the issue of forcing the reunification of both Chinas. Any such attacks would include strikes using DF-31 road mobile ICBMs, the report said, which have a range of 8,000 miles. The missiles could be launched either from land or by submarine. The drills are part of an ongoing effort by Beijing to expand its influence in the region. Besides practicing how to attack and sink U.S. aircraft carriers, Santoli said Chinese officials have implemented a southeasterly expansion of China's airspace over Hainan Island, the site of major U.S.-Chinese tensions last spring. On April 1, one of a pair of Chinese F-8 fighters shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II made contact with the prop-driven electronic surveillance plane, damaging it and forcing its crew to land on Hainan Island. The crew was released after 11 days, but U.S. officials said China virtually stripped what sensitive onboard equipment that could not be destroyed by the crew prior to landing. The airspace, Santoli said, includes some of the air space over the Zhongsha Islands and the Xisha Islands â an area rich in natural resources and which surrounding countries claim sovereignty. ... The move strengthens Chinese control over the area, he said. Specifically, China's claim over the area is strongly contested by Vietnam, Santoli said â a nation invaded by China in 1979. Washington has recently rebuilt its diplomatic relations with Hanoi, some 25 years after the U.S. pulled out of its 11-year war in South Vietnam. China has set up a number of 'dangerous airspace' areas in the [spaces] over the southern part of Hainan Island, said Santoli, where Chinese forces have conducted numerous training and tests of new weapons and technologies such as aerial tankers. He said some experts believe China's policy of moving south through the air is being pursued as part of their military modernization. In addition, transit fees [being paid] by at least 30 commercial airlines that pass through the space will provide China with millions of dollars in annual revenue, Santoli said. *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
[CTRL] Iran to aid US attack on Iraq as al-Qaeda crumbles
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1694662001 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iran to aid US attack on Iraq as al-Qaeda crumbles Nick Drainey PLANS for US air attacks and ground assaults on Iraq to open a new phase in the war against terrorism were at the centre of a Washington power struggle last night as al-Qaedaâs last major stronghold collapsed in Afghanistan. The New Yorker magazine claims Iraqi opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi has delivered the Bush administration a war plan using Iranian help in an offensive against Iraq which calls not only for bombing but for the deployment of thousands of American Special Forces troops. The news came as US forces failed to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan despite claiming they had caught him sending radio broadcasts to his troops in the Tora Bora region. Chalabi has won permission to open an office for his party, the Iraqi National Congress, in the Iranian capital Tehran, according to the New Yorker. The magazine, which is published today, also claims the move has put Pentagon officials at odds with the State Department. One senior Bush administration official is quoted as referring to Chalabi and his supporters as a bunch of half-assed people to send foreigners into combat. As the US war commander for Afghanistan, General Tommy Franks, said, it was not actually certain if bin Laden had been heard broadcasting to his troops in the Tora Bora as previously claimed. Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State last night admitted: We donât know where he is. The fruitless search in the east of Afghanistan apparently ended as US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in the country to meet the new interim prime minister, Hamid Karzai, at Bagram airport, outside the capital, Kabul. Mr Rumsfeld is the first senior US official to arrive in the country since the Taleban regime was stopped. His visit though was tarnished with news that the main US target in the war against terrorism was still at large and no-one knows where he is. With the Tora Bora seemingly empty of senior Taleban leaders, the US is now trying to find other small hideouts in the mountainous country where bin Laden and Taleban supremo Mullah Omar could be. They are believed to be in the western Shindand area, the Halmand province north-west of Kandahar and the southern city itself. Three US marines were injured by a landmine yesterday at the newly opened airport in Kandahar. All are stable but one could lose a leg. The reopening by the US of Kandahar airport to military flights further strengthens its grip on Afghanistan. American forces have been scouring training camps near Kandahar for traces of chemical and biological weapons material. Documents reportedly found by a Sunday newspaper in one of the camps detail planned terror attacks in London. The information includes instruction on how to build a remote controlled van bomb, similar to those used by al-Qaeda in Kenya and Tanzania, which would be targeted on the financial Moorgate area of the capital. Despite the fall of Kandahar, some fear civil unrest will break out in the former Taleban heartland. Four out of 13 armed Arabs holed up in a hospital in the city escaped early yesterday, apparently with the blessing of their guards, according to the hospitalâs head nurse, Ghulam Mohammed Afghan. The guards are loyal to tribal leader Mullah Naqibullah, a fierce rival of Gul Agha, the governor. Mr Afghan predicted a battle if Mr Aghaâs men tried to seal off the hospital. On his visit to Bagram yesterday, Mr Rumsfeld met the interim prime minister in an upstairs room in a wrecked Soviet-era aircraft hangar, with burnt skeletons of destroyed Russian-made MiG fighter jets littering the tarmac outside. He told him: The United States coveted no territory. We were here for the sole purpose of expelling terrorists from the country and establishing a government that would not harbour terrorism. Mr Karzai said the Afghans were thankful for US help in battling terrorism and the Taleban. Mr Rumsfeld told US troops at the airport that he expected an international peacekeeping force for Afghanistan of up to 5,000 troops would be put in place sometime after Mr Karzai is due to take over on 22 December. He warned that the US role in the country would not be over until Mullah Omar and bin Laden were found. Weâre not leaving till we get the job done, he added. Britain has said that it is happy to lead a peacekeeping force and troop figures are expected to be announced this week. Discussions in London at the weekend between military officials from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Jordan had been very successful, Prime Minister Tony Blairâs spokesman said. The spokesman also dismissed reports that troops in Afghanistan would overstretch the British military presence in other areas such as Macedonia and Sierra Leone. The last of the Tora Bora caves
[CTRL] Mullah Omar 'holed up with 500 men in cave hide-out'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/18/walq118 .xmlsSheet=/news/2001/12/18/ixhome.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mullah Omar 'holed up with 500 men in cave hide-out' By Barbie Dutter in Kandahar (Filed: 18/12/2001) THE Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is thought to holed up with hundreds of heavily armed men at a mountain hide-out in southern Afghanistan, the interim intelligence chief in Kandahar disclosed last night. In the first detailed report of Mullah Omar's possible whereabouts, Haji Gullalai, a senior anti-Taliban commander, said witnesses' accounts placed the fugitive leader and up to 500 fighters in an area of hills and caves near Baghran village, 100 miles north west of Kandahar. He said they had taken all their weapons, ammunition, vehicles and even office equipment as they fled Kandahar 12 days ago, when the city surrendered. Mr Gullalai claimed that local tribal fighters were preparing to hunt down Mullah Omar with support from the air by American forces, who had been given regular updates on the Taliban leader's suspected escape route. We are completely ready to face the situation if it is confirmed. We have enough forces to fight against them, he said. Even with 400 or 500 guys he is alone because the Afghan nation is with us. But he said the assault would not begin for two or three days as the security of Kandahar and the welfare of its citizens were a top priority for the security forces. There were no fears that Mullah Omar would escape from Baghran as he has no other place to hide. If he tries to go further the Northern Alliance are also trying to find him and kill him. Mr Gullalai also said Hafiz Majid, a former right-hand man to Mullah Omar, is negotiating his surrender. Majid sent family members to Kandahar to hand over weapons and vehicles, but is seeking guarantees that he will not be executed or handed over to US forces before leaving the village of Sperwan, 20 miles from Kandahar, where he has been holding out with an unknown number of men. Meanwhile, the faithful were gathered yesterday at the Taliban cemetery in Kandahar, chanting verses from the Koran at the graves of commanders and warriors who have fallen in the name of Islam over the years. As the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr entered its second day, Taliban diehards went to the 2,000-grave burial ground to pay homage to the dead and offer prayers for their fundamentalist rulers' return. We pray that God gives Mullah Omar 200 more years of life, said Janan, a 31-year-old goat seller whose home in Durai, a village on Kandahar's hilly hinterland, was damaged in a bombing raid last month. We miss him and are very sad he has gone, he said of the regime's supreme leader. We pray five times a day and in every prayer we ask for his long life and his health and for him to come back. The men brimmed with confidence that their fighters would one day regroup and reclaim Kandahar, the regime's spiritual cradle and last sanctuary before its surrender. It was in the city and its surrounding districts that Mullah Omar emerged as a Robin Hood figure in the early 1990s, protecting the poor and the abused from the region's rapacious warlords. He asked for no reward, save for his supporters to follow him in setting up a just Islamic system. In 1996, he was named Leader of the Faithful after taking out the reputed cloak of the Prophet Mohammed and showing it to a large crowd of Taliban supporters in Kandahar, a gesture aimed at legitimising his role as a man chosen by God to lead the Afghan people. The Taliban's political power base has now dissolved and Kandahar is in the tenuous care of the same rival tribal factions from whom Mullah Omar seized the city seven years ago. But support for the regime remains strong in the dilapidated city. The Taliban brought Islamic laws to our country and they solved everyone's problems. There was peace in the city. Now we have no law, no justice, only guns on the streets, said Raz Mohammad, a 21-year-old shopkeeper. *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
[CTRL] Strong Japan Quake Causes Tsunami
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57574-2001Dec17.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Strong Japan Quake Causes Tsunami By Kozo Mizoguchi Associated Press Writer Monday, December 17, 2001; 11:52 PM TOKYO ââ A fairly strong earthquake struck parts of southern Okinawa and Taiwan on Tuesday, generating small tsunami, or ocean waves caused by seismic activity, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The quake, which had an estimated preliminary magnitude of 7.3, was located off the coast of Taiwan and several small islands in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost state, Meteorological Agency officials in Tokyo said. The quake was centered about six miles under the sea floor about 90 miles west-southwest of Ishigaki island, which has a population of about 41,000. Japan's Meteorological Agency estimated the size of the tsunami at about 20 inches. Live video from Ishigaki showed no obvious damage, and all appeared calm. The video was broadcast on NHK, Japan's national television network. Officials in nearby Taiwan also reported feeling the earthquake, though they estimated that it had a 6.7-magnitude. In Taiwan, the tremor lasted long enough to shake and move objects on shelves and was felt more strongly in the northern half of the island. Mass rapid transit in the capital, Taipei, was temporarily halted following the quake. Every year, hundreds of earthquakes rattle the Okinawa area and Taiwan. Most of the tremors cause little or no damage. But two years ago, a 7.6-magnitude quake in central Taiwan killed about 2,400 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 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] Radio silence in bin Laden hunt
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001570010-2001582540,00.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Radio silence in bin Laden hunt BY DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON AND RICHARD BEESTON DIPLOMATIC EDITOR THE United States admitted last night that the trail had gone cold in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and that it was unclear even if he was dead or alive. After pounding the mountains of Tora Bora for days in the belief that the terrorist mastermind was hiding there, the Pentagon said that intelligence âchatterâ had gone quiet and that he may have escaped the area. A senior Pentagon official said that âanybodyâs guess is the latest thinkingâ on bin Ladenâs location. As the air assault on the area was scaled back and special forces joined Afghan fighters in moving from cave to cave in the White Mountains in search of final pockets of resistance, the fear was that bin Laden had escaped, possibly to Pakistan. âIndicators were there, and now indicators are not there. So maybe he still is here, maybe he was killed, or maybe heâs left,â Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. âA few days ago we believed that he was in that area. And now weâre not as sure. Iâm not sure how close we ever really have been.â He likened the pursuit of fleeing al-Qaeda forces to âsearching for fleas on a dog. If you see one and you focus on the one, you donât know how many others are getting away.â Admiral Stufflebeem said that the US had received reports of al-Qaeda troops fleeing across the border into Pakistan and that while some had been detained by the Pakistani authorities, it was believed that others were âhiding outâ in the area. There are concerns that elements in Pakistan sympathetic to bin Laden could provide him with shelter. Western intelligence sources are worried that he may try to escape from Pakistan back to Saudi Arabia, posing as one of the tens of thousands of pilgrims who begin the haj to Mecca next month. Although the pilgrimage does not begin until the end of February, the first of hundreds of charter flights carrying some 120,000 people will start leaving six cities in Pakistan in the middle of January. Security is generally lax and identifying bin Laden could be harder as pilgrims look much the same during the huge annual religious migration. Men usually wear identical white gowns and shave their heads. Bin Laden was stripped of his Saudi nationality a decade ago, but his extended family still lives in Jedda. Many of his al-Qaeda fighters come from Saudi Arabia, where some regard him as a national hero. In Afghanistan, coalition forces are preparing for a possible assault on mountains northwest of Kandahar, where Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Talebanâs spiritual leader, is thought to be hiding. *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] Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Arafat's call for quiet
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/18/News/News.40139.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Arafat's call for quiet By Lamia Lahoud JERUSALEM (December 18) - Hamas and Islamic Jihad issued a leaflet yesterday rejecting Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's call for an end to all armed activities and terror attacks and called for a continuation of the intifada until the end of the occupation. They also vowed to continue suicide attacks and denounced the US as the enemy of the Palestinian people, threatening to target US targets in the future. The statement was issued before Israel assassinated Yakub Idkadak, a leader of Hamas in Hebron suspected of sending suicide bombers, a PA source said. The source was not sure what action Arafat would order following their rejection of his call for an end to terror. Hamas leaders said their actions would depend on Israeli actions. They said that the assassination of Idkadak proves that Israel does not want a truce and vowed revenge. We are waiting to see whether the Israeli government will stop its aggression against the Palestinian people. The operation in Hebron proves there is no Israeli truce, said Sheikh Abdel-Majid, Hamas representative in Bethlehem. While local Hamas leaders tried to link their rejection of Arafat's call for an end of all attacks to Idkadak's assassination, the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad abroad rejected Arafat's call outright. Nobody has the right to strip the Palestinian people of its natural right to self-defense, said Abu Imad Rifai, a Beirut spokesman for Islamic Jihad. The justification for the resistance is the existence of the occupation. Until now, there is nothing that signals that this occupation might end, said Osama Hamdan, a Lebanese representative of Hamas. The PFLP also rejected Arafat's call. Arafat's speech was directed at Fatah and the PLO, a PA source said. As long as Arafat can convince his Fatah movement, most of the PLO, and most of the Palestinian population that his call for an end to terror is in their interest, he can go ahead with measures against the militants and those who oppose his cease-fire orders, the PA source explained. Fatah has not reacted to the speech. But many independent Palestinians responded favorably, he said. He did not know what actions Arafat would take against violators of his orders, but said the decision to end the violence was taken by the PA leadership, and Arab and international responses encouraged the PA to go forward with it. He said the matter is now in the hands of the security services. The media in moderate Arab states expressed support for Arafat's statements and called upon the Palestinians to follow the order. Whatever the choice of the Palestinian leadership, the people must embrace it regardless of their political preferences, to avoid falling into the trap of Israel, which wants to reoccupy the free areas and tear up the signed agreements, Al-Ittihad of the United Arab Emirates editorialized. Jordan and Egypt also welcomed Arafat's speech. Both are eager to see an end to the uprising, which has caused tension in their countries. *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]
[CTRL] Russia Announces Big Push to Build Nuclear Reactors at Home and Abroad
-Caveat Lector- http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAVET8NCVC.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Russia Announces Big Push to Build Nuclear Reactors at Home and Abroad By Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press Writer Published: Dec 17, 2001 MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will build at least four nuclear reactors at home and others in China, Iran, India and ex-Soviet republics as part of an ambitious plan to revive the atomic industry after the Chernobyl disaster, the nation's top nuclear power official said Monday. Russia's nuclear power industry is now coming through what can be called the post-Chernobyl renaissance, Nuclear Power Minister Alexander Rumyantsev said at a news conference. A reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, at that time a part of the Soviet Union, exploded in 1986, contaminating a huge area and sending a radioactive cloud over much of Europe. The world's worst nuclear accident is believed to have killed some 8,000 people in the explosion and aftermath. The catastrophe long stalled plans to build new nuclear reactors. But nuclear fears have gradually faded, and blackouts and electricity shortages in the post-Soviet turmoil have raised interest in building new power plants. In March, Russia launched its first nuclear reactor since the Chernobyl catastrophe, at the southern Rostov plant. Rostov's 1,000-megawatt reactor is of the VVER-1000 type using pressurized water to cool its fuel rods instead of the less-stable graphite used in RBMK reactors such as the one that exploded at Chernobyl. International industry trade groups and environmental watchdogs acknowledge the VVER-1000 model is the safest of Russia's reactors, but they say it is less reliable than modern Western counterparts. Next year, Russia will launch another nuclear reactor near the western city of Kursk, this one of the modernized RBMK type, Rumyantsev said. In 2003, Russia will put into service another VVER-type reactor at the Kalinin plant, and will launch a second reactor of that type in Rostov in 2005. In 2009 a new fast-neutron reactor will be launched at the northern Beloyarsk plant, Rumyantsev said. The nuclear ministry is considering plans to complete another two nuclear reactors in Ukraine, unfinished since Soviet times, and another one in the ex-Soviet republic of Kazakstan, Rumyantsev said. The ministry has also signed contracts to build nuclear power plants in China, India and Iran. The United States has long pushed Moscow to abandon its $800 million deal with Tehran, voicing concern that Iran could use the technology to develop nuclear weapons. Moscow has dismissed the U.S. warnings, saying that the reactor at Bushehr can be used only for civilian purposes and will be under international control. Rumyantsev said the Bushehr reactor would be finished by 2005 and reaffirmed that the project posed no risks for nuclear weapons proliferation. It fully corresponds to all requirements of the international law and Russia's international obligations, he said. On other issues, Rumyantsev said: - Russia remains unable to reach an agreement with the European Union nations willing to provide aid for dismantling Russia's decommissioned nuclear submarines. Russia can't accept the EU's demand that Russia accept full legal responsibility for all nuclear risks, offer more breaks and give Western officials unlimited access to all dismantling sites; - Despite much-publicized plans to accept spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing and storage, Russia has so far failed to wedge itself into the market dominated by Britain and France. *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
[CTRL] Schumer, Kennedy Want to Register Gun Owners
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/17/183216.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Schumer, Kennedy Want to Register Gun Owners Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 WASHINGTON â Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Department of Justice to keep personal data on law-abiding gun buyers from the National Instant Check System (NICS), and to offer the information for unlimited use by state and local agencies. National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called the move gun owner registration, plain and simple. Making good on a promise he made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Dec. 6, Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced the Use NICS in Terrorist Investigations Act (S. 1788) after Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to allow the FBI access to NICS records of lawful gun purchases. Schumer introduced the bill one day after Ashcroft explained that he was merely obeying the law Congress had passed. The law which provided for the development of the NICS, the National Instant Check System, indicates that the only permissible use for the National Instant Check System is to audit the maintenance of that system, Ashcroft responded. The Department of Justice is committed to following the law. Ashcroft also reminded the senators that NICS records from any illegal attempt to buy a weapon, whether by a convicted felon, a terrorist, an illegal alien or a person with a history of mental illness, are maintained indefinitely, and completely available to police. But Schumer, along with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and five other co-sponsors, dismissed Ashcroft's explanation and offered the Use NICS in Terrorist Investigations Act in response. No Reference to Terrorist Probes Despite the bill's title, the language of the proposal makes no reference to terrorist investigations, and no limits are placed on the use of the information. The proposal would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to access NICS audit log records for the purpose of responding to an inquiry from any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency in connection with a civil or criminal law enforcement investigation. It would require the Department of Justice to maintain the records of lawful gun purchases in no event fewer than 90 days after the date on which the licensee first contacts the system with respect to the transfer. Present federal law and DOJ policy require the records to be destroyed within 24 hours of a purchaser's approval. The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) had harsh words for Schumer and the co-sponsors of S. 1788. 'Anti-gun Extremists' Exploit 9-11 Anti-gun extremists have been attempting for weeks to invoke the specter of terrorists acquiring firearms as justification for their attempts to end traditional American gun shows, the organization said in a fax alert Friday, and now they are doing the same to promote their attempts to create the mechanism to establish a registry of law-abiding gun purchasers. LaPierre explained further. Clearly, this will be the basis of a national firearms-owner computer registry that would profile decent honest citizens, violate their privacy, and provide a locator to assist Kennedy's and Schumer's vision of ultimately banning private ownership of firearms, he said. Of more immediate danger are the civil data-sharing provisions in this legislation. You have to think about what a Janet Reno or any future anti-gun-rights attorney general would do with this power, he added. While the legislation mandates that the FBI and the Treasury Department destroy any records they maintain for auditing NICS sometime after 90 days, no such restriction applies to information shared with state or local law enforcement agencies. Once the personal information is out of the hands of the feds, it could become part of a permanent record elsewhere, the NRA warned. NRA-ILA Executive Director James Jay Baker says it's vital that Americans understand the need to protect the NICS data. This is not about denying law enforcement any records that bear on criminals or terrorists and guns, he said. This is about preserving the privacy rights of decent, innocent people. Calls to the offices of Kennedy and Schumer were not returned prior to publication of this story. *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
[CTRL] Reverse Decision to Cut Navy Missile Defense Program
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/17/234042.shtml WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Reverse Decision to Cut Navy Missile Defense Program Center for Security Policy Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001 CSP Decision Brief No. 01-D 80 Decision to Cancel Navy Missile Defense Program Should be Reversed and New Management, Willing to Deploy Sea-Based Systems, Hired WASHINGTON: Two amazing things happened in the aftermath of President Bush's visionary and courageous decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. First, contrary to the confident predictions of many so-called experts, the sky remained in its place. Russian President Putin called the Bush action a mistake, but did not launch nuclear Armageddon or otherwise respond aggressively. In fact, he observed that it would not threaten Russia's security and that U.S.-Russian relations should continue at the same level. For its part, China mildly groused, but there was no talk of breaking off diplomatic â let alone commercial â relations with the United States. As for our allies, the worst of their reaction was confined to mild tut-tutting. So Much for the Chicken-Littles In other words, the concerted and sustained campaign to intimidate the United States into remaining within a treaty that prohibited the development and deployment of effective anti-missile defenses is now seen for what it always was: a flim-flam operation whose fraudulent character should have been exposed and rejected years ago. The upshot of our having failed to do that before now is that this country has been left vulnerable to the real and growing danger of ballistic missile-backed blackmail and/or attack. The Kremlin's exceedingly muted reaction has left the few congressional Democrats who have publicly assailed Mr. Bush (notably, Sens. Tom Daschle, Joe Biden and Carl Levin) in the unhappy position of being holier than the pope â professing more concern about how badly the Russians would take this than the Russians themselves were actually taking it. The foolishness of this stance may be why so few of the senators' colleagues are publicly following their lead. In fact, after the withdrawal notification was announced, Congress authorized full funding for the president's missile defense budget. In short, President Bush has now succeeded in creating legal, diplomatic and political conditions that give him essentially complete latitude in pursuing and putting into place the missile defenses he has so clearly recognized are needed now. Seize the Day, Cancel Missile Defenses This makes all the more amazing the second thing that happened after Mr. Bush withdrew from the ABM Treaty on Thursday. On Friday, a small coterie of civilian Pentagon officials decided to cancel the Navy's short-range Area Missile Defense program. As a result, the Navy will be sent back to the drawing board, postponing â perhaps by years â the day when forward-deployed U.S. amphibious forces and naval battle groups will have any protection against the danger currently posed to them by widely proliferated ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Predictably, missile defense critics â reeling from the body blow delivered by the president's disposing of their cherished cornerstone of strategic stability â were euphoric. They chided the Defense Department, saying if it could not do something as relatively easy as building short-range anti-missile systems, it certainly couldn't build more complex defenses against longer-range ballistic missiles. And they claimed vindication in asserting that the president had not needed to abandon the ABM Treaty at this juncture since no developing missile defenses were ready to bump up against the treaty's limitations. Needed Now: Navy Area Regrettably, giving comfort to the president's political opponents is the least of the reasons why it was a mistake to terminate the Navy Area Missile Defense at this juncture. While this short-range anti-missile system has experienced both considerable cost growth and schedule slippage, it was described just last August by the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, as essential to national security. He declared that a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter. Of particular relevance to the Friday decision, Gen. Myers' letter stated, There are no alternatives to this program that would provide equal or greater military capability at less cost. This assessment was foreshadowed in a letter sent to the Joint Chiefs chairman in January by the chief of naval operations and Marine Corps commandant. They emphasized the critical importance of early deployment of Navy Area Missile Defense capability. Navy Area is the number one priority of the Navy and Marine
[CTRL] His narcissism, our problem
-Caveat Lector- http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/reiland/s_8553.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! His narcissism, our problem By Ralph R. Reiland Monday, December 17, 2001 A car bomb exploded in Saudi Arabia at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 13, 1995, at an American training camp in Riyadh, killing five U.S. servicemen and wounding 34. It was the same day Monica Lewinsky landed a paying job at the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs. In May 1998, some 30 months later, with a federal judge ruling against Bill Clinton's claim of executive privilege and Linda Tripp tucked away in a safe house, Osama bin Laden met with ABC News to applaud those who kill Americans for Allah, pointing specifically to Riyadh: We called and they answered. They have washed away some of the dishonor we had to bear by the Saudi government's collaboration with the American government in the land of Allah. The attack, said bin Laden, had raised the head of the Muslim nation high. In fact, the four heads of the Saudis found guilty of the Riyadh blast had been lopped off in a public beheading two years earlier, on May 30, 1996, two days after a Little Rock jury had convicted Clinton business partners Jim and Susan McDougal of bank robbery. Less than a month after the decapitations, militant Islamic terrorists struck again with a massive truck bomb on June 25, 1996, at the U.S. base in Khobar with what Clinton National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said was probably the biggest terrorist bomb ever set off, killing 19 American servicemen. As it turned out, those servicemen in Khobar were killed during a month when the White House was crawling with Chinese agents. Cooperating with the Justice Department, Johnny Chung told federal investigators that he'd transferred illegal funds to Clinton's 1996 campaign from high-ranking Chinese military officers and Chinese Communist Party officials. More specifically, Chung told investigators how he'd slipped money to the Clinton White House from the daughter of the top commander of China's People's Liberation Army, General Liu Huaqing, a top member of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling Politburo. QUID PRO CLINTON Bernard Schwartz, CEO of rocket manufacturer Loral Space and Communications, was also adding to the stack of campaign loot during this period. Lobbying Clinton to relax export controls so Loral could sell rocket technology to China, Schwartz dropped a record $632,000 in the Democrats' coffers, becoming Bill Clinton's largest single campaign contributor. Clinton, predictably, relaxed export controls and signed an executive order that protected Loral from prosecution for handing over top-secret U.S. targeting know-how to the communist Chinese, missile technology that key officials in Clinton's own administration said would make it easier for the Chinese to hit U.S. cities with nuclear weapons. All told, by the time a re-elected Clinton had stood up to promise to preserve, protect, and defend for a second time, Lewinsky already had spilled the beans to co-worker Linda Tripp at the Pentagon and nearly 100 potential witnesses to the Clinton-Gore illegal foreign campaign contributions had either fled the country or taken the Fifth. On Aug. 7, 1998, Islamic terrorists struck again, bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Ten days later, with unparalleled media interest, Bill Clinton made history by becoming the first U.S. president to testify in front of a grand jury regarding his own criminal conduct. Lost in the media circus, shoved off to an inconsequential side ring and off the White House radar screen, were the thousands who were killed and wounded in the latest episode of anti-American terrorism. On Aug. 11, with rescue crews still digging through the ruins in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton announced an early release from prison for 16 militant members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group that was involved in 130 bombings in the United States. Nothing showed more clearly how things vital had become marginal, how national security had ended up in the back seat. WAG THE DOG On Dec. 16, 1998, exactly one day before the House was scheduled to vote on the articles of impeachment, Clinton launched an air strike against Iraq. By a margin of 74 percent to 13 percent, reported Gallup, Americans supported the air attack. Still, the House approved two of the four articles of impeachment three days later - perjury and obstruction of justice - making Bill Clinton the first elected president in American history to be impeached. A year later, Hillary Rodham Clinton caused an international stir by kissing Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, after hearing her deliver a speech in which she accused Israel of murdering Arab children - with poison gas! The solidarity and kisses, however, didn't stop a suicide strike on the USS Cole 11 months later, an attack that killed 17 American sailor. It was Feb 26, 1993, only 36 days into
[CTRL] Is This the End of Christmas in America?
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Is This the End of Christmas in America? By Chuck Baldwin December 18, 2001 All across America, Christmas is being expunged. In spite of the events of three months ago, there is little room for Christmas in America's public life. In fact, Christmas seems to be losing ground even faster than in the past. School districts across the country are forbidding students from passing out personal Christmas cards. In Minnesota, two middle school students were disciplined for wearing red and green scarves. In Massachusetts, ninth grade students were warned to refrain from wishing friends Merry Christmas. In Illinois, a teacher was instructed by her principal to not read a story about Christmas to her second graders. In Georgia, a school removed the word Christmas from its calendar after threats from the A.C.L.U. Throughout the United States, nativity scenes and Christmas trees have been removed. In one South Florida veterans hospital, even a Christmas angel was taken down. In most public places today, all references to Christmas have been obliterated. Taking its place is the politically correct, non-offensive, multicultural, full-of-diversity greeting, Happy Holidays. What is with all this lunacy? It's as if Scrooge has been institutionalized. It is not hyperbole to observe that in many (if not most) American homes, Harry Potter is more popular than the Christ-child is. America's Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves! In their wildest dreams, they could never have imagined such a display of religious intolerance happening in the land founded by Christians on the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Patrick Henry). The longest-living Founding Father was John Quincy Adams. As such, he was a much sought after speaker for patriotic events. On July 4, 1837, he made a very astute observation. He said, Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before? Adams' sentiments seem quite out of fashion today, don't they? His penchant for Christian liberty is as popular these days as limited government is. Then again, I remember a time when children prayed and read the Bible in public schools. That day is gone for good, and it appears that the public celebration of Christmas is nearing its end, also. However, people should not fret. In the new socialist Amerika now under construction, Ramadan and Kwanzaa are perfectly acceptable. *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] Did You Notice The US Is Having A Coup?
-Caveat Lector- http://rense.com/general18/coup.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Did You Notice The US Is Having A Coup? From: Brasscheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12-17-1 1. What great American statesman said this yesterday about the likely authenticity of the bin Laden confession tape? That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man. Answer below. 2. Even the Washington Post must finally report, long after the fact was widely known, that the anthrax spores that hit Capital Hill, and killed several postal workers, were government issue, from Ft. Detrick. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49502-2001Dec15.html They waited until FIVE different labs confirmed it. 3. This today from CNN was pretty interesting: Lead: The CIA uses anthrax in its bio-warfare program... What the *%$#! Since when was the CIA been empowered to conduct bio-warfare? Better read it soon before someone wakes up and takes it down: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/16/cia.anthrax/index.html 4. The Post is also starting to ask question about what really happened to CIA bio-warfare expert Frank Olson who purportedly jumped out a window after a bad acid trip. (A later autopsy revealed he also hit himself on the back of his head with a heavy blunt instrument before taking flight.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34204-2001Dec12.html 5. By the way, did you notice the US is having a coup? Bush is now denying Congress access to routine information (FBI records about an organized crime investigation in Boston.) He also has a major domestic problem called E-N-R-O-N to deal with that involves a lot of his close friends eligible for jail. The difference between Enron and Whitewater is Enron has the very real potential to tank US financial markets thanks to wildly out of control derivatives exposures. What is a derivative? To put it as simply as possible, it's a bet on market movements that, if it goes wrong, can not only wipe out your investment in an eye blink, but leave you owing far more money than you put in the first place. A good derivatives scam can take down one of the world's oldest banks (Barings), one of the world's richest counties (Orange County, California), and many believe even has chance of bringing chaos to the world's largest economy. From F.I.A.S.C.O a book about the derivatives business written by a foot soldier: (Derivative) salesmen often joke about their creations as weapons of mass destruction; and, in fact, the clients are often 'blown up' or have their 'faces ripped off.' Nice business, huh? Derivatives are commonly packaged as bond-like instruments and sold to the knuckleheads that manage things like pension funds and the treasuries of state and local governments. Friends who know the futures business have been long scratching their heads as to how a bunch of energy traders suddenly became the 8th largest business in the US. As we're finding out, they weren't. Billions of dollars have disappeared in the 'learning' process and, thanks to the the derivatives they sold far and wide, we may have only just seen the warm up. = Answer to the quiz question #1. Who said: That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man. George Bush Jr. He was talking about people who question the authenticity of the bin Laden video that was released coincidentally *at the same time* he told Congress he was withholding information from them about the FBI case and the CEO of Arthur Anderson testified before Congress that he believes his client Enron was engaged in fraud. Where's a cop when you need one? *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:
[CTRL] 17 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-51
-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 * 17 December 2001 Federalist Edition #01-51 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__ FRIENDS, PATRIOTS, COUNTRYMEN Lend us your support! We are often asked, Who are you? Contrary to publishing convention, the reason for the notable absence of promotion for our editors is, in a word, humilitas. Our mission is to promote the central theme of liberty, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These God-given rights are timeless and originate, as declared by our Founders, with the Author of life. Also contrary to publishing convention, The Federalist depends completely on the goodwill and voluntary support of our readers -- creating some consternation among our accountants and bankers. Your goodwill has enabled The Federalist to become the most highly subscribed e-journal on the Internet. But that is not the whole story. The Federalist is also one of the most widely distributed e-journals on the Internet, in part because we authorize the redistribution of our publications to various student, media and political lists -- readers who would not otherwise pay for conservative views. It is critical that we keep these ideas before those groups without a subscription fee. Please register your support for The Federalist today. We are still $236,945 short of meeting our necessary fund balance to cover operating and technical expenses from July of 2001 through June of 2002. (We remind you that our Editorial Board and Publisher serve without compensation.) We have to raise 80% of our annual budget between Thanksgiving and the New Year. In the spirit of The Federalist, please don't depend on someone else to help us meet our budget! If you have already supported us this year, we are most grateful! 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 __O__ PUBLISHER'S NOTE We encourage our readers to take a moment and send an e-mail to service personnel overseas, who will not be home for Christmas. The USN has set up a secure Web site where you can post Christmas greetings to American Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen. Link to -- http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/ and consider having your kids participate! How about a class project! 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 If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. --Samuel Adams __O__ INSIGHT The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Yet we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy and appeal to a tardy justice. If you would serve your brother because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson __O__ GOOD NEWS For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. (2 Peter 1:5-7) ++ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in
[CTRL] It's 1984 in Massachusetts And Big Brother Is Gay
-Caveat Lector- Massachusetts is definitely the pits! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Insight Magazine It's 1984 in Massachusetts â And Big Brother Is Gay Posted Dec. 17, 2001 By John Haskins Mary Clossey's children see no American flags at school to remind them that it is their safety that young men are risking their lives to defend. Rather, her daughter and other pupils are filed into an auditorium to hear a speaker liken the U.S. military to terrorists. For years the Newton, Mass., public schools have blithely violated a Massachusetts law that the flag be on display in every classroom. On the other hand, there are many flags on display if you count rainbow flags that symbolize a gay-friendly environment. When Clossey enrolled her son in Newton North High School's reading program little did she know that the teacher had bragged in the Boston Globe (July 8, 2001) of quietly introducing homosexual and transsexual subjects into his classes. The teacher, Michael Kozuch, handed out The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky with instructions to write an essay on it. What literary treats did Kozuch consider mandatory for other people's children? Sex between a boy and a dog, man-boy sex, anal sex between boys, male masturbation and female masturbation with a hot dog. By chance Clossey opened the book her son brought home. But what came after that shock was worse: She encountered public officials who saw protective parents as obstacles. Clossey called her mayor. He never called back. Calling school officials, she says she encountered arrogant disrespect for parents. So she filed a criminal complaint against the teacher for corrupting a minor. Even Boston's hard-line pro-homosexuality newspapers and TV stations couldn't sit on this. But the complaint went nowhere. It emerged that Kozuch was not acting alone. The book was on a reading list given to every student. Urged by other furious parents, Clossey went to the local prosecutor. But the receptionist had been warned to expect her, according to Clossey. She waited and waited, but was not allowed to speak to her district attorney. After parents discovered the book, Newton North High School educators removed it from class discussion but refused to remove it from the reading list. Alert parents already knew the high-school language department, on one pretext or another, had showed Ma Vie en Rose, an R-rated film about a homosexual child. Pupils learned how Ludo enjoys being a girl. Borrowing mommy's red high heels, her lipstick, her earrings ⦠yummy! Trouble is, 7-year-old Ludo is a boy, even if he is pretty in pink. Freshmen learn about masturbation and sodomy in a required course that uses street language, as if proper vocabulary would ruin the educational experience. A large mural in a corridor depicts two girls holding hands, reading something called Romea and Juliet. Is Newton a rogue town? In nearby Brookline a transsexual told first- graders how his penis was cut off and he became a woman. With no sense of irony, the Globe called it sex-change counseling. Parents, never notified, had to comfort their terrified children. Ashland children were instructed to play homosexuals in a skit. As reported in the Middlesex News on April 1, 1994, one boy's line was: It's natural to be attracted to the same sex. Girls were told to hold hands and pretend they were lesbians. As reported widely in Massachusetts in 1992, at a required assembly in Chelmsford, an instructor used four-letter words describing the joys of anal and oral sex. The children then licked condoms. Framingham pupils found themselves answering this Orwellian questionnaire: 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When did you first decide you were heterosexual? 3. Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out of? 4. Is it possible you are heterosexual because you fear the same sex? 5. If you have never slept with anyone of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn't prefer it? Is it possible you merely need a good gay experience? 6. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexuality? How did they react? 7. Why are heterosexuals so blatant, always making a spectacle of their heterosexuality? Why can't they just be who they are and not flaunt their sexuality by kissing in public, wearing wedding rings, etc.? In Lexington, a parent discovered that her 13-year-old could borrow a book telling how gay men at the opera can socialize with the backs of their trousers discreetly parted so they could experience a little extra pleasure while viewing the spectacle on stage. Her school purchased it with health funds. A prominent psychiatrist says the sex-ed curricula at these schools can lower children to the level of animals and inflict lasting harm. Massachusetts schools' systematic promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity fosters sexual confusion and experimentation, says Nathaniel S. Lehrman, former clinical
[CTRL] Highway Hero
-Caveat Lector- Highway Hero By Carol A. Price-Lopata During my third year as a speaker, giving seminars all over the country, I was driving into Wheeling, West Virginia, to teach a class on self-esteem to 150 women. My background includes being raised by a mother and grandmother who took great pains to teach me that families take care of one another no matter what. I knew I could always count on them when I was in trouble, and they knew they could do the same. I was driving faster than I should have been because I desperately wanted to make it to Wheeling before the severe rains that had been predicted began to fall. As I saw the sign telling me Wheeling was eight miles away, I speeded up even a bit more, even though a few raindrops had just begun to fall. With no warning, I heard a boom - not too loud, but loud enough to know it wasn't a good sound. When I turned off the radio to further evaluate the sound, it became clear I had a tire problem: probably a flat. I slowed down, knowing from high school driver's education not to brake hard, but knowing still that I needed to get off the road for my safety. On the side of the road, I looked around, saw nothing but rugged hills, a six-lane highway and very fast traffic. I locked the door, to be safe, and tried to figure out what to do. I did not have a cellular phone, as they were not that common many years ago. Every story I had ever heard about women having bad experiences on the side of the road in strange cities ran through my mind like a movie reel, and I tried to decide if I would be safer staying with the car or walking to the next exit. It was beginning to get dark, and I truly was becoming afraid. My grandmother taught me as a very little girl that things work out if you keep your head about you, and I was trying very hard to do just that. At that very moment, a large semi passed very fast on my left, causing my car to shudder, and I saw that the directional light was on, indicating he was pulling over in front of me. I could hear his brakes squeal, as he was braking fast and hard. I again thought, 'Am I safer or in more danger?' I could see the truck as it slowly backed up on the shoulder of the road and decided that to be very safe, I would take a precaution I had seen in a movie. I took out a pad in my briefcase and wrote down the name of the trucking company and the Ohio license number, as they both were visible from my car. I put the pad with this information under the driver's seat just in case! Even though it was now raining quite hard, the driver came running back from the truck to my car and said through my window that I had opened only three inches, that he had seen the tire blow and would be glad to change it. He asked for the car keys to get into the trunk; and although I knew I was about to lose all my safety precautions, it seemed to be my best choice. I gave him the keys. He changed the tire and gave me back the keys. I asked him through the three-inch opening in the window if I could pay him for his kindness. He said, We drivers in Ohio believe in taking care of women in trouble on the highway. I then asked him for the name of his boss so I could send him or her a letter relaying how wonderful he had been. He laughed a very odd laugh and gave me the name of his boss, a woman, and his card, which had the name of the trucking company, the address and the phone number. I thanked him again, and the now soaking-wet man ran back to the truck. Gratefully, I went on to Wheeling to present my seminar. Upon returning to Florida, I had a T-shirt made for this man that showed an angel in a truck with the words printed across the picture, Highway Hero, and sent it to the address on the card. It came back, addressee unknown. I called the number on the card and got a recording saying no such number existed. I called the city newspaper for that town, asked for the editor, explained the dilemma and asked that a letter to the editor be placed in the paper thanking the driver. The editor, who had lived there all his life, said there was no such company in that city. He further investigated and called me back and said there was no such business registered in Ohio. The editor went one step further. He called the state motor vehicle bureau to ask about the license and was told no such plate had ever been issued. The upshot is that this man, his truck and the company never existed, the rescue never happened and I must have been dreaming. But I know I wasn't. 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
[CTRL] French farce of the force de frappe
-Caveat Lector- http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/16 /wfran16.xmlamp;sSheet=/news/2001/12/16/ixhome.html French farce of the force de frappe By Kim Willsher in Paris (Filed: 16/12/2001) FRANCE'S armed forces are in such a state of disarray that the country could barely defend itself if it were attacked, according to a series of alarming reports by defence experts. Click to enlarge A decade of budget cuts, reorganisation and mismanagement has, it is claimed, rendered all three branches of the country's military powerless to react rapidly and efficiently at home or abroad. In spite of the billions spent on the latest equipment, much of it cannot be used: half of France's fleet of helicopters is grounded and a third of its tanks are out of action, according to a confidential ministry of defence report leaked to newspapers. The conflict in Afghanistan has highlighted the crisis and created widespread public criticism about the country's lack of involvement in the international war against terror. Political leaders have attempted to restore national self-respect by dispatching the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to join American forces in the Arabian Sea. It is hoped that the 40,000-ton accident-prone vessel, which cost a total of £2 billion to build, should be en route by today and will complete its mission without the embarrassing accidents and hitches that have led its crew to nickname it le bateau maudit - the damned ship. French defence spending, currently around 189 billion francs (£18.9 billion) a year, has fallen from 15 per cent of the state budget to 11 per cent since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. The ending of national servic e and the creation of a professional army, announced by President Jacques Chirac in 1996 and intended to save £200 million a year, has drained the defence budget of at least £100 million extra this year. A lack of money, however, is not the only problem. While enormous sums have been spent on such prestigious and high-profile projects as the carrier Charles de Gaulle, the Leclerc tank and the Rafale fighter plane, the arm ed forces lack the resources to maintain and repair their equipment. A confidential report by the general armed forces board, leaked to the economic magazine Capital, concluded that more than a third of Leclerc tanks - which at a cost of £10.4 million each were intended to be the pride of France's ground forces - are currently out of use. A shortage of spare parts meant that the army was having to cannibalise part of its fleet to keep the rest in action. Around half of France's Puma, Cougar and Gazelle helicopters are grounded awaiting repairs and only a fraction of the air force's planes are fit to fly, defence experts say. While the air force has 517 fighter planes, on ly 12 aircraft are ready to take off within two minutes in order to defend our country in the event of an attack, wrote Thierry Fabre, Capital's defence correspondent. The others might take hours or even days to get up in the air. A large part of our aircraft are in fact nailed to the ground because of insufficient maintenance. While admitting that it had budget problems, the French ministry of defence contended that reports of a crisis are exaggerated. Of course only 12 planes are on standby to fly as part of the air defence mission. No coun try has all its entire air force on red alert 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, a spokesman said. However, Pierre Dabezies, a military expert and adviser to Jean-Pierre Chevenement, the former interior minister, said that at the military air base at Metz half the planes aren't able to fly. The navy is faring little better, with only 32 of its 76 ships reported to be in a state of seaworthiness. An alarming cross-party report by MPs Charles Cova of the Right-wing RPR party and Jean-Noel Kerdraon of the rulin g socialist party blames staggering delays and disorganisation at French shipyards for holding up vital repairs. It would be better to carry out small repairs in other European ports. The minesweeper Verseau was repaired in several hours in the United Kingdom compared with the four weeks minimum it would have taken if the boat had gone to Brest, the report said. The Rafale fighter plane is another example of the style over substance extravagance. The air force should have taken delivery of 137 aircraft, commissioned in 1988, almost a year ago. To date only five of the 294 planes ordered have been delivered by the manufacturer, Dassault. Hopes of recovering some of the vast cost through exports have been dashed because the plane will compete for sales against the Eurofighter, being developed by a European consortium that includes Britain, and America's Jo int Strike Fighter combat plane being produced by Lockheed Martin. Each rival is three times cheaper. Jean-Paul Hebert, a military economist, believes that the French defence ministry gave
[CTRL] AF News 18 Dec 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 1806. Air Force alters method for airdrops over Afghanistan RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said the Air Force would stop the airdrop of humanitarian daily rations via the tri-wall aerial delivery system. Air Force units have been using the TRIADS method to airdrop food since Oct. 7. The greatly expanded flow of humanitarian relief supplies by rail, road and across the river, as well as airlift to some of the airfields in Afghanistan, has rendered this form of delivery as unnecessary at this point, Myers said. The Air Force will continue to drop humanitarian aid via the container deliver system, or CDS. Even though we've stopped using TRIADS, we will continue to fly humanitarian airdrop missions, said Lt. Col. John Zazworsky, commander of the 437th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here. We're using the CDS method to deliver boxes of the humanitarian daily rations, in addition to wheat, blankets and winter clothing. The CDS airdrop method uses parachutes to drop large bundles (up to 2,000 pounds) of food and supplies. To honor the end of Ramadan on Dec. 16, Air Force airdrops included packages of dates in the CDS bundles. Dates are a fruit that Muslims traditionally use to break the fast of Ramadan, an Islamic holiday celebrated by fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month. By including dates in our airdrop bundles, we are showing our respect for this significant Muslim holiday, Zazworsky said. To date, the C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to the 437th EAS have flown more than 180 humanitarian airdrop missions and dropped more than 1,200 CDS bundles of food and clothing and more than 2.4 million daily rations. Total delivery of humanitarian assistance via TRIADS and CDS is more than 3,800 tons. (Courtesy of U.S. Air Forces in Europe News Service) 1810. Cook assumes command of AETC by Master Sgt. Michael Briggs Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Gen. Donald G. Cook assumed command of Air Education and Training Command on Dec. 17, in a ceremony held here. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper presided over the ceremony that was attended by about 1,000 people. In his remarks prior to bestowing command, Jumper said there is no one more qualified, able or energetic to take command of AETC than Cook. He's been an instructor in the former Air Training Command; he's commanded at every level; he's flown bombers; he's had three wing commands; he's got extensive experience in space; he's been mentored by the greatest of our Air Force leadership; and he takes the helm at a time when we need him most, Jumper said. That need stems from America's war on terrorism and the challenges the men and women face who will fight and win the war, he said. Where do the people come from who will do this duty? Jumper asked. They come from right here ... those in uniform and the civilians in this command who take youngsters off the streets of our nation and turn them into skilled and trained airmen; who train more than 200,000 a year; and who have more than 1,000 people deployed overseas in support of operations in Afghanistan today. Cook had a message for the nearly 50,000 military people, 15,000 civilians and 10,000 contract employees who make up AETC. AETC's mission is essential and its reputation is renowned, he said. We are a vital part of the world's most respected Air Force. It is up to us to continue to instill, develop and refine ... the skill and dedication that make us the most respected Air Force in the world. In looking to the future, Cook said AETC people must reach beyond what is getting the job done today to what will make the Air Force successful in meeting the challenges of tomorrow. We must continue to recruit the right individuals -- airmen able to meet tomorrow's challenges, he said. We must train with a view to the future to combat unknown threats. We must educate our officers and enlisted members to think critically, preparing them to make the tough decisions ahead. AETC people must always be mindful of the trust placed in them by the people of the United States, Cook said. America's families trust us with the health, safety and welfare of their sons and daughters, Cook said. We must work each and every day to keep that trust. The impact we have on the lives of young airmen and lieutenants that emerge from AETC cannot be understated. Not only are we shaping the lives of individuals, we are shaping the force that will protect the lives of all Americans. Cook received his fourth star at a promotion ceremony in the officers club here immediately before the assumption of command ceremony. (Courtesy of AETC News Service) 1807. Every day challenging for U.S. troops by Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) --
[CTRL] nuclear attack on Israel
-Caveat Lector- http://216.26.163.62/2001/me_iran_12_17b.html Iran's Rafsanjani suggests nuclear attack on Israel SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, December 17, 2001 One of Irans most influential ruling clerics called on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them damages only. The speech by former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani failed to catch the attention of the western press but made waves in the Middle East. If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in its possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world, Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. In Washington Sunday, administration officials said the United States does not plan to target Iran in the war against terrorism. Iran is a situation where there are clearly some pressures from young people, there are pr essures from women in that country, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. Iran had a different history than Iraq. I don't know, if nothing else happened and one looked at those two countries, I would say the like lihood of Iraq reforming itself is zero. The possibility, the remote possibility of Iran reforming itself is considerably above zero. Dr. Assad Homayou, president of the Azadegan Foundation in Washington, D.C. agreed. To me the issue is not nuclear weapons but the responsibility of the regime, he said. This regime is not responsible and that is why I have always emphasized that the removal of this regime is imperative. As the U.S. secretary of defense said the situation with Iran is different from that of Iraq. People only need the moral support of the United States . Analysts told the Iranian Press Service that Rafsanjani's speech marks the first time a prominent leader of the Islamic Republic had openly suggested the use of nuclear weapon against the Jewish State. Rafsanjani advised Western states not to pin their hopes on Israel's violence because it will be very dangerous. We are not willing to see security in the world is harmed, he said, warning that a war of the pious and martyrdom seeking forces against peaks of colonialism will be highly dangerous and might fan flames of World War III. Rafsanjani, who, as the Chairman of the Assembly to Discern the Interests of the State, is the Islami c Republics number two man after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was speaking on International Qods (Jerusalem) Day which is celebrated in Iran only. The Pentagon, which has pressed for a second stage in the U.S. war against terrorism, does not support any military campaign against Iran. Instead, officials have urged that Washington target the regime of Iraqi Presi dent Saddam Hussein. On Monday, Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said the stifling of dissent in the country could spark a new wave of student protests, Middle East Newsline reported. Over the last 20 months, officials said, 56 public ations have been closed. This includes 24 daily newspapers. U.S. officials acknowledge that Iran is more advanced than Iraq in both missile development and weapons of mass destruction. They said that Iran, with Russian help, has succeeded in advancing its nuclear project and th ey could arrive at weapons capability as early as 2005. But the officials said the administration has been impressed with Iran's help in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. The help has included military coordination, security along the Afghan border and intelligence exchange. Some officials expect Iran to also quietly support any U.S. military campaign against Iraq. Iraq is Teheran's rival and neighbor and Saddam used chemical weapons against Iran during their 1980-88 war. One scenario being envisioned by Pentagon sources is increased Iranian help to Shi'ite opposition forces in southern Iraq. The Iranian help could also include coordination for any U.S. ground attack in the oil fields a round the southern port of Basra. I would characterize Iraq as a dictator in a repressive system that is unlikely to be altered from within absent an assassination or something like that, Rumsfeld said. Print this Article Email this article Free Headline Alerts See current edition of Return toWorld Tribune.com Front Cover Contact World Tribune.com at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + +
