[CTRL] A Real Shoot 'Em Up
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Heroin chic
Newly allied Afghan drug warlords enjoy the spoils of victory
By Peter Dale Scott / Pacific News Service
12.20.01 | Within two years, Afghanistan may again be producing 2,800
or more tons of opium annually, according to U.S. and Pakistani
sources, becoming again the world's chief supply source. In areas
bordering Pakistan, where most of the opium is processed, prices have
already plummeted.
While the Taliban effectively forbade growing opium poppies -- the
raw material for heroin -- their defeat means starving farmers are
hurrying to replant the one lucrative crop available to them.
This is of course bad news for those striving to reduce the scourge
of heroin in the world. It also presents the risk of a return of
warlordism to Afghanistan -- regional commanders and armies financed
by the opium in their area, jealously refusing to relinquish such a
lucrative income source to a central government. At risk is a revival
of the vicious internecine feuds that took so many civilian lives in
the 1990s, after the Soviet withdrawal.
With planting and other drug business already moving quickly on the ground, there has
not yet been any vigorous U.S. counteroffensive to finance the post- Taliban
government from healthier sources.
An October United Nations report confirmed that the Taliban successfully eliminated
opium production in Afghanistan with a ban in 2000 that was almost universally
enforced. The feat was enormous: before the ban, Afghanist
an supplied 90 per cent of Europe's heroin. Then, Afghanistan provided 3,276 tons of
opium poppies, more than half the world's output. This year's post-ban crop, however,
was a small 185 tons, over 90 percent of it from p
rovinces under the control of America's allies the Northern Alliance.
Those skeptical about Mullah Omar's motives for the ban speculated that the Taliban
held substantial reserves of processed opium and wished to drive up prices. The same
sources predicted that a dumping of Taliban opium in
to the world market would follow the U.S. attack. This did not happen.
Indeed, the U.N. report noted that the dramatic reduction in Afghan opium production
was not offset by increases in other countries. The stage was set for the biggest blow
to global heroin trafficking since the Communist
crackdown in China after World War II.
However, what would have been the world's largest curtailment of opium production in
half a century will now apparently be reversed. As the Taliban was driven or fled from
province after province, reports indicated farmer
s were replanting wheat fields with opium poppies.
Another dark indicator of a coming boom is the recent and unexpected release from a
Pakistani jail of Ayub Afridi, once the Khyber Pass kingpin for a network of Pashtun
drug warlords in Nangarhar Province. Some have inter
preted his release as a boost to his former contacts such as Haji Abdul Qadir, Haji
Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali, who, according to the Asia Times Daily in Hong Kong,
used to be the biggest heroin and opium mafia in Afgh
anistan's Pashtun belt.
Haji Abdul Qadir is now the political leader in Nangarhar Province, west of Khyber
Pass, while Hazrat Ali and Haji Mohammed Zaman are leading the Afghan ground attack
against the al Qaeda holdouts in the nearby Tora Bora
caves.
The lack of U.S. comment and nearly invisible reporting on these developments are
ominous signs that Washington may turn a blind eye as its former proteges and current
allies finance themselves once again with drug traffi
c.
Yet another sign is active disinformation by officials of the Bush administration.
The Taliban's drastic ongoing reduction in opium cultivation was ignored, and indeed
misrepresented, by CIA Director George Tenet in his February report to Congress, in a
speech that threatened retaliatory strikes against
the Taliban. Production in Afghanistan has been exploding, accounting for 72 percent
of illicit global opium production in 2000, Tenet said. He added that The Taliban
regime in Afghanistan... encourages and profits fr
om the drug trade.
This was two months after the first indications on the ground that the Taliban
interdict was being enforced.
In the l980s, U.S. officials ignored heroin trafficking in Afghanistan by its allies,
the mujahideen. As we move into 2002, it appears that situation is being recreated.
Pacific News Service commentator Peter Dale Scott is a former
Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of
California, Berkeley, and has authored numerous books on drugs and
U.S. foreign policy.
Copyright © Pacific News Service
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[CTRL] Genetic experiment leads to two-beaked chicken
-Caveat Lector- from - http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_478033.html Genetic experiment leads to two-beaked chicken Scientists have rearranged a bird's face by using only two chemicals. They managed to produce a chicken with two beaks. Researchers exposed chicken embryos to one chemical which prevents bone growth and another related to vitamin A which turns on genes. Nature reports the two chemicals transformed the patterns in which bone, cartilage and other tissues were laid down. Both occur naturally in the developing embryo and have a number of jobs to do but it seems their concentration has a major influence on the fate of individual cells. The discovery may not directly help in the understanding of facial deformities in humans but it does offer some insight. The research was carried out by Joy Richman of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Story filed: 10:50 Thursday 20th December 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] Microchip id on way
-Caveat Lector- --- Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_477554.html A US company says it has developed a microchip identity card which can be implanted under the skin. Nakano comments: The news is finally catching up to our expectations. I have been expecting the injectable ID chip for at least 10 yearsand I don't think it's going to be another 10 years before it's mandatory for everyone on planet earth. How will this be done? The Controllers will eliminate what we call money. There will be no cash. All transactions will be via computer. The technology to do this is here now. This exact technology was portrayed back in the 60's on the original Star Trek TV show with Captain Kirk and Spock. Landing parties were injected with a subcutaneous electronic chip so they could be tracked on the surface of the planet from the starship Enterprise. In a few years the Controllers will be tracking the movements and activities of everyone. But, of course, it will be so convenient, everyone will want one. Nakano - http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_477554.html Microchip id on way they could be used to replace car keys and credit cards within 10 years. [Won't be that long. NN] __ 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] Main Cause Of Global Warming Discovered
-Caveat Lector- Thu 20 Dec 2001 Research not to be sniffed at http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1707762001 Gethin Chamberlain SCIENTISTS in New Zealand have concluded that the biggest cause of global warming is not the burning of coal or oil, but the discharges of flatulent cows and sheep. A research team fitted sheep with a device to measure the amount of methane released when they belched and broke wind, as part of a project to reduce greenhouse gasses by 10 per cent. The AgResearch scientists concluded that methane released by the country's 45 million sheep and eight million cattle accounted for 44 per cent of domestically produced greenhouse gasses. Methane is the largest contributor to New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions and the country has the world's highest per capita methane production, amounting to six times the global average. Sheep are the worst offender, emitting between nine and 35g each day. The company believes the large differences between individual animals' digestive systems could potentially be exploited as an emissions mitigation strategy. This article: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1707762001 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] RE: [CTRL] Gary North-Eyewitnesses to Disasters
-Caveat Lector- This demonstrates quite clearly the unreliability of historical accounts because of their subjective nature. Even first-person descriptions must be reconstructed from the often-faulty memory of the eye/earwitness. And each witness will have a different story to tell. Demanding the truth about what happened is, unfortunately, a wish and a dream. Even the time line is subject to the different timepieces being observed. Humanity eventually will come to understand that reality is only an outward projection of belief. In other words, believing is seeing, not the other way around. Man has been deceived with the illusions of logic and absolutism. This is the only conspiracy that really matters. 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] Pentagon Trying to Block Advanced EU Space Project
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:16:06 -0800 (PST) From: Cheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ParanoidTimes] Pentagon Trying to Block Advanced EU Space Project U.S. Out of Line on Global Positioning, EU Says Barry James International Herald Tribune Wednesday, December 19, 2001 PARIS - The European Commission said Tuesday that the United States had sought to block the deployment of a European system of navigation known as Galileo, with the Americans arguing that an enemy could turn it against the West in the event of a war. The U.S. move added to the economic and political pressures surrounding the project in Europe, where many countries see it as a vital means of catching up with America in a key technology sector but others balk at the expense. Only last weekend, at a summit meeting in Brussels, leaders of the European Union instructed government ministers to try to resolve the financing issues by March. A spokesman for the commission said the U.S. Defense Department had written to the defense ministers of the 15 EU countries warning that Galileo could be used by an enemy and asking governments to consider scrapping the project. But President Jacques Chirac of France warned that Europeans risked vassal status if they abandoned this and other important space projects. France and several other governments, as well as the European Commission, see Galileo as a vital counterweight to the U.S. Global Positioning System, which has a vast number of military and civilian applications, from landing smart weapons on target to locating trucks on a continental highway network. The United States offers free use of the Global Positioning System to the EU countries, but the commission spokesman, Gilles Gantelet, said there was no guarantee that it would still be free in 10 years' time. Loyola de Palacio, the European commissioner in charge of the Galileo project, angrily denounced the prospects of further delays. We are at the limits of coherence already, she said, and any new delay threatens the profitability of the project. While the United States had originally expressed its support for the European project, Mrs. Palacio said there was now a letter and pressure exerted by the United States. American pressure against the Galileo project has increased since September 11. The commission says the project must be operational by 2008 to be profitable. This is partly because the World Telecommunication Union has guaranteed radio frequencies only up to that date, and partly because the EU has entered into commitments with a number of other countries, including the United States, Canada, Russia and China. Under the worst possible scenario, including the need for backup launchers and satellites, the final bill to deploy Galileo could be as high as E3.6 billion ($3.2 billion), according to an independent accounting survey carried out on behalf of the commission this year. But the accounting study also estimated that Galileo would generate economic benefits more than four times greater than that, with wide scale applications in transport and personal communications, and a vital contribution to the operations of police, fire and emergency services. The study indicated substantial social and economic benefits, notably for the protection of the environment, employment and European technological development. Mr. Gantelet said the U.S. objections were contained in a letter dated Dec. 4 from the deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz. He said the Americans considered, in times of conflict, they would have problems because of Galileo. They feel that the enemy could use some applications of Galileo and that they could not impede that. According to diplomatic sources who have seen the letter, Mr. Wolfowitz said the United States was planning to upgrade its Global Positioning System by separating the military and civilian spectra. The addition of Galileo services in the same spectra, the letter said, will significantly complicate our ability to ensure availability of critical GPS services in times of crisis or conflict and at the same time assure that adversary forces are denied similar capabilities. He said the U.S. government was willing to work toward finding acceptable solutions to avert potentially serious impacts. The apparent U.S. bid to block Galileo is likely to have the most resonance precisely in the countries most skeptical about the project: Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. They argue in essence that it is pointless to spend so much money on something they can get for free from the United States. Because of their objections, EU transport ministers refused on Dec. 7 to release money to fund the next phase of the project. In a speech to the National Center for Space Studies in Paris, Mr. Chirac said that satellite navigation had vital commercial and industrial applications and would be a key factor in
[CTRL] US Moving to Forcefeed Europeans Genetically Modified Crops
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Cheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paranoidtimes [EMAIL PROTECTED], living [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ParanoidTimes] US steps up pressure on Brussels over modified crops INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: US steps up pressure on Brussels over modified crops: Bush administration warns that continued EU moratorium may escalate trade dispute, write Edward Alden and Michael Mann Financial Times, Dec 18, 2001 By EDWARD ALDEN and MICHAEL MANN The Bush administration is stepping up pressure on the European Commission to approve imports of a dozen crops made with genetically- modified organisms, warning that a continuation of the moratorium could escalate into a serious trade dis-pute. Robert Zoellick, US trade representative, will raise the issue today in meetings with senior EU officials including David Byrne, health commissioner. While the US remains extremely reluctant to launch a dispute settlement case at the World Trade Organisation, there is a growing belief in the government and the US agricultural industry that it may be the only way to end the de facto ban. The bottom line is the Europeans have to show they have a workable system in place, said a US industry official. Otherwise it's a technical barrier to trade that violates WTO rules. Any escalation in US pressure, however, risks triggering a backlash among European governments and consumers. With European public trust in food safety at a low ebb, no new GM crops have been approved by the EU for more than three years. Applications from biotechnology companies to sell 12 new varieties of genetically-modified crops have remained in limbo despite being declared safe by EU scientific advisers. The US has become increasingly impatient since earlier this year when many EU member states said they would not agree to lift the ban until the EU implemented new labelling and traceability rules. It will take at least two years before EU governments and the European parliament can approve those rules, while the Bush administration has protested that the proposals are discriminatory and unworkable. I think there is frustration and it's growing, said a senior US official. We have tried to separate the approval issue from the traceability and labelling issue, but obviously the Europeans aren't doing that. Alan Larson, US undersecretary of state, warned in Brussels last week prior to meetings with EU officials that it was urgent for the EU to find a way to move forward with the approval process. While US pressure is increasing, Bush administration officials are acutely aware that a WTO case could result in a pyrrhic victory that the EU would refuse to enforce. We don't want another hormone situation on our hands, or to look like we're shoving GMOs down their throats, the US official said. On the other hand we can't admit that we can't do anything. The Commission itself is in an awkward position. In principle, it has a legal duty to approve the products stuck in the system if member governments fail to act, and many in the Commission want to see the approvals go forward. But it also fears a public relations disaster if it chooses to override the wishes of elected EU governments on such an emotive issue. We've done everything we can. We've put proposals on the table as we were asked to do, said a senior Commission official. Forcing things through isn't the approach we feel will unblock things. We're engaged in a confidence-building exercise and consumers wouldn't understand. In the long-run, it would just slow down the process of winning people's confidence. Asked whether the threat of a WTO panel would force the Commission to change its mind, the official said: No one thinks it's a good idea to force products through against the wishes of member states, but I can't prejudge what we'd do if someone was smashing us up against the wall. Copyright: The Financial Times Limited 1995-1998 http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=trueid=011218001083 = __ 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 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Send FREE Holiday eCards from Yahoo! Greetings. http://us.click.yahoo.com/IgTaHA/ZQdDAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM -~- == IF YOU'RE NOT PARANOID, THEN YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION! == To Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanoidTimes Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is
[CTRL] CYBERWAR: FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:51:12 -0600 From: mark hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSINT [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [osint] CYBERWAR: FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data More detailed report on the FBI's request of Badtrans.B logs. /mark Rizzn's Wartime Factbook: http://factbook.diaryland.com/ The Best UAV: http://www.unmannedaircraft.com - Original Message - From: Dave Hartley To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E-mail) Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:43 PM Posted to Spy News by Dave Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.localcomputermart.com Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284 -Original Message- From: Roger Bunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:46 PM To: Dave Hartley Subject: FW: FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data -Original Message- From: Sanho Tree (by way of Michael Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED]) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 December 2001 21:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE 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. 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
[CTRL] CYBERWAR: Government Internet Snooping: Out of Control?
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:53:03 -0600 From: mark hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OSINT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [osint] CYBERWAR: Government Internet Snooping: Out of Control? Rizzn's Wartime Factbook: http://factbook.diaryland.com/ The Best UAV: http://www.unmannedaircraft.com http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/15364.html Government Internet Snooping: Out of Control? By Jay Lyman www.NewsFactor.com, Part of the NewsFactor Network December 18, 2001 Despite an unwillingness to criticize the government and its Magic Lantern plans, most antivirus experts assert that no computer worm is a good worm. While no one wants to stand in the way of the U.S. government and its use of technology to tackle terrorism, privacy advocates and security experts continue to express the same low-tech concerns -- that oversight of government snooping is inadequate and that the United States has proven it cannot keep the information it collects safe. Law enforcement officials have received even broader powers thanks to recent antiterrorism legislation, such as the PATRIOT Act and cyber-terrorism laws, which allows wider application of electronic surveillance with less obtrusive warrant requirements. Civil libertarians have focused much of their attention on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's e-mail scanning DCS1000, better known as Carnivore, and its deployment on large Internet service provider (ISP) networks. In addition, the FBI admitted last week that it is developing a computer worm capable of recording and transmitting data to investigators -- the project called Magic Lantern. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/15301.html New Tech, Old Problems Despite an unwillingness to criticize the government and its Magic Lantern plans, most antivirus experts assert that no computer worm is a good worm. Concerns center on a lack of control over a virus on the Internet and the fear that Magic Lantern, which the government reportedly plans to ask antivirus vendors to allow through their security screens, would provide an attack avenue for other viruses that emulate it. Electronic Privacy Information Center legislative counsel Chris Hoofnagle told NewsFactor Network that regardless of the technology -- Carnivore, Magic Lantern or anything else -- the same concerns apply. The FBI has always underestimated the amount of process they need, which is natural -- it's a zealous defense of law enforcement, he said. What review or court oversight will the FBI deem appropriate for the use of new technology? The challenge is keeping the FBI honest about the amount of court oversight. Beyond Government Hoofnagle also expressed concern that any technology used by the government is likely to make its way into the hands of non-government individuals as well as foreign governments. These surveillance techniques are not limited to the American government, he said. That needs to be thought through. Hoofnagle argued for privacy protections, adding that government technologies -- such as Carnivore, which was discovered after its mention during an FBI trade show address -- are difficult to uncover. There is not a general way to figure out what the government or National Security Agency might be developing on their own, Hoofnagle said. So you never know what's going on out there. Insecure With Uncle Sam http://www.securityfocus.com/ Security Focus incident analyst Ryan Russell told NewsFactor that in addition to privacy concerns, there is a mistrust of government and its handling of personal or sensitive information. Nobody's real thrilled with the government's record of securing its own stuff, Russell said. Even if you're not worried about abuse of authority, what about the computer the stuff is actually stored on? Is it going to be stored on one of the computers the [General Accounting Office] keeps faulting? Holding the Keys Russell said that while the security community is predominately opposed to giving government the keys to encryption, a better model is to have private companies hold secure data and provide law enforcement with access to it. Both Russell and Hoofnagle said the biggest concern for computer users is probably the fact that recent legislation has established lighter warrant requirements for e-mail and Internet surveillance. Once the U.S. Attorney certifies that the application of Carnivore is relevant to an ongoing investigation, the judge's discretion stops, Hoofnagle said. We're always skeptical, we're always questioning. 'Trust us' isn't sufficient. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM
[CTRL] Argentine Riot Death Toll Rises to 16
-Caveat Lector- This news are from my country. The opressive economy policy during former president Carlos hijo de remil puta Menem (Bush friend) and Fernando (imbécil) de la Rúa with the butcher FMI brought us to this caos. God save my country, I m very sad because we re walking on a thin wire Saludos, Fer http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/wl/argentina_dc.html Thursday December 20 10:33 AM ET Argentine Riot Death Toll Rises to 16 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Sixteen people have died in rioting and looting across Argentina, police said Thursday as the government declared a state of emergency to contain the unrest driven by a staggering economy. Half of the deaths were in the suburbs of the capital, said police, who estimated 20,000 people took part in the looting and thousands of others demanded food handouts at grocery stores. Some were shot dead by shopkeepers defending their shops. On Wednesday, police said at least four people had died as thousands of looters sacked supermarkets in Buenos Aires, its suburbs and several provinces in rage against deepening austerity and poverty spurred famished slum dwellers to take matters into their own hands. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to scatter the looters. Some 1,210 people were arrested for looting in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, provincial police said. Protests overnight in front of the presidential palace and Congress were dispersed by police who fired tear gas at crowds of mainly peaceful demonstrators. A dozen banks and restaurants as well as the Israeli Embassy in the city's center were vandalized during the overnight violence, police added. ``Everything is a mess. There's no work and the situation is deteriorating. I was here protesting peacefully last night and they tear gassed us,'' one protester said at Plaza de Mayo in front of the presidential palace. Demonstrators returned to the presidential palace by mid-morning on Thursday and riot police armed with truncheons arrested dozens of protesters who yelled insults or demanded that President Fernando de la Rua resign. Police managed to clear the square but cars driving around the presidential palace blared horns and drummed pots and pans. Many supermarkets in the heavily populated suburbs of Buenos Aires remained closed. 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] Main Cause Of Global Warming Discovered
-Caveat Lector- And you wonder why Cows are mad? Now in 1987 when I was communicating with Metzenbaum's office through John Maynard, one of his assistance, in an attempt to get more informaiton on this weather program - this story came out. Maynard later called me to tell me the Senator could not help me - for as it was the program was classified since 1965. I kept the item with regrd to the main cause of Global Warmingit consisted of this huge cow, a beautiful animal - and this stupid woman dressed in farmer attire - smirking - with the story of the cause of Global Warming. That is all it was - just the picture with the cow, and presumably someone put out for a joke and if not, if our government put this out well - what a waste of time and money. I did manage to get the center spot on the editorial page - and the truth rang out loud and clear as I accused these bastard scientists of being a team of maniacs - these faceless, nameless scientists - who seem to want to destroy the world. Mad Cows? I would be angry too..so who the hell cares if some of our Scientists are missing - might be victims of some mad cow somewhere. He I like that theory - maybe I will use another name and get it published. O'Saba Also kept a picture of a farmer, his wife holding a baby - heartbroken as their farm is auctioned off - for you see this weather program had been centralized in their location - and they lost all. You think a mad cow is dangerous? Hey, how about a few more mad farmers as they see their land being stolen from them for taxes - and who is buying up this land? Well, the usual suspects. 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] Argentine Riot Death Toll Rises to 16
-Caveat Lector- Well Fernando you see now why suburbanites in America are armed to the teeth - used to be during the 60 periods and these savages were crossing lines causing problems you would see the sign The Lady of the House is a Crack Shot indicating just because a woman lives alone does not mean she cannot defend herself. These are just criminals or is there something more to this than just the poor showing their teeth. Saw this in Cincinnati, Ohio..a civil riot which was downplayed but it ended up just a bunch of thieves looking for an excuse to steal for they would rather be on welfare than work in a fast food joint. So do you have gun control laws? Are the people at the mercy of these barbarians? And if so - isn't it time for a change - time to overthrow a government that is more interested in serving themselves, than others - those who pay their salaries. Good Luck Fernando..if you can't beat them, join them for there is always, as usual SAFETY IN NUMBERS? If I would be there I would get a job gun running...if arms are a problem. O'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] Fwd: [narconews] Investigation/Photos: Assassination of Casimiro Huanca
---BeginMessage--- December 20, 2001 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, We have returned from the Amazon region of Chapare and concluded the first phase of our investigation into the December 6th assassination of coca growers' union leader Casimiro Huanca. Narco News went to the crime scene, took testimony from eyewitnesses, gathered photographic evidence, solved the crime -- and found that there has been a massive cover-up of the facts by the Bolivian and US governments. Our White Paper on the assassination of Casimiro Huanca now appears on Narco News: http://www.narconews.com/ In the coming days, Narco News will present interviews with Bolivian indigenous and social leaders including Felipe Quispe, El Mallku of the Aymayra nation, and congressman Evo Morales. These important interviews will be published in English and in Spanish. If this is Thursday it must be La Paz, capital of Bolivia. Stay tuned for more Live from Bolivia reports. From somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gift subscriptions -- gratis! -- for alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---End Message---
[CTRL] mixed muck 12-19
-Caveat Lector- The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) have denied Human Rights Watch access to detention centers that hold people arrested in relation to the September 11 terrorist investigation. The INS has also said that it cannot provide information regarding a Pakistani citizen who died in its custody unless Human Rights Watch produces a document with the mans signature indicating his consent to the release of information. The man, Mohammed Butt, died on October 23 allegedly of unspecified heart problems. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/demo-d15.shtml The most powerful warlord during the Mujaheddin's battle against Kabul regime. The most destructive and antisocial element during the years 1970-1975. He carried out a number of terrorists acts within territory of Afghanistan during the Mohammad Daoud presidency and following regimes . Gollbuddin Attended two years of engineering faculty in Kabul University and involved in politics in late 1970 and became member of Ikhwan-e Muslimin (Muslims' Brothers) movement in 1970. He received most of military and financial aides from the United States government and CIA during the Afghan War against Kabul regime. After that Mujaheddin became to the power of Kabul regime, Gollbuddin has continued fighting against Raban's government and his Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Masoud. http://www.afghan-info.com/Politics/Afghan_Mujaheedin/GULBUDIN.HTM Let's look at the heroin boom of the 1980s. In the 1980s, CIA op-erations again played a role in the revival of the U.S. drug problem. In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua, prompting two more CIA operations with some revealing similarities. Let us now pay particularly close attention to the CIA's Afghan operation. Not only is the Afghan operation simultaneous and similar to the controversial contra operation, but its direct and negative impact on U.S. drug supply is beyond question or controversy. http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/97-08%20AUG/ciacovert.html On December the 12th 1969 the bombing began, with one bomb in Milan and three in Rome. The bombs in Rome left eighteen wounded, the bomb in Milan killed seventeen and injured eighty-eight. Police acting on information from S.I.D. ( intelligence agency) arrested two anarchists for the Milan bomb, later murdering one of them , Giuseppe Pinelli , with a fake suicide. Despite mounting evidence that this was a Fascist bomb, the official party line for years afterward was blame the Anarchists. Later the Establishment view changed and the idea that this was a joint operation between Anarchists and Fascists is propounded! Eventually a number of Fascists are tried, convicted and imprisoned but are acquitted, as is the surviving Anarchist. One of the bombers acquitted for lack of evidence was Guido Giannette a S.I.D. agent.. When Giannette became a suspect, the secret state sent him out of Italy and continued to pay his wages after the arrest warrant had been issued. http://struggle.ws/freeearth/fe3_italy.html Quick on the heels of Taliban defeat, starving farmers are replanting the opium poppies banned under the Islamist regime, giving rise to fears of renewed drug warlordism. Engaged in the shooting war, Washington may be turning a blind eye to a favorite income source of its allies, says Pacific News Service commentator Peter Dale Scott -- bad news for those who want to reduce global heroin production. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and has authored numerous books on drugs and U.S. foreign policy. http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1217warlords.html The CIA's biowarfare program is now being investigated. The Washington Post reported a law enforcement source said the FBI did not initially include the CIA on its list of labs working with anthrax because the agency was not among 91 labs registered with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to transfer anthrax specimens. But as investigators interviewed workers at those known labs, they learned of the CIA's work, and in the past few weeks posed questions about it to the agency. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=798mode=order=0 How can a democratic people have confidence in elected officials who hide the records of their actions from public view? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46716-2001Dec14.html Analysis of Sharon's order to liquidate Hamas leader suggests it was calculated to trigger an escalating cycle of violence. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1848 Sen. Lieberman: war against terrorism cannot end before Saddam Hussein is out of power in Iraq http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1850 THE PICTURE THAT FOOLED THE WORLD! http://emperors-clothes.com/Film/doctored.htm What's next? How will they handle the worldwide derision over the latest bin Laden video?
[CTRL] Jerry Falwell involved in kidnapping?
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.ishipress.com/jerry.htm - Jerry Falwell accuses Clinton of Drug Smuggling and Murder Jerry Falwell accuses President Clinton of peddling drugs and of being involved in the murder of Vincent Foster, the former White House deputy counsel. You may order the video of Jerry Falwell making these accusations by writing to the address below: Jerry Falwell squeezes the hand of Shamema Honzagool Sloan, daughter of Sam Sloan But what about the fact that Jerry Falwell was involved in the kidnapping of my daughter, Shamema Honzagool Sloan, and is right now holding my daughter a prisoner in his Lynchburg Christian Academy in Lynchburg, Virginia? Judge Lawrence Janow was up for re-election in the Virginia General Assembly. Please help me stop this monsterous criminal from being re-elected as a judge. Here is news: Falwell Meets with Prime Minister of Israel and Offers to Mobilize Churches to Oppose Palestinian Rights. Shamema Note: Several readers have expressed disbelief at my statement that the Falwell organization kidnapped my daughter and is holding her prisoner now. However, my statement can be proven. Just go to Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church on Thomas Road in Lynchburg, Virginia almost any weekday, and my daughter will be there. Then, try to approach and speak to her. You will find that she is closely watched and guarded and that no outsider is allowed to speak to her. What do you think? Falwell says the Teletubby is Gay. Express your opinion in the guestbook! What do you think? Falwell says the Antichrist is a Jew. Express your opinion in the guestbook! Here are links: * My daughter, Shamema Honzagool Sloan, graduated from Jerry Falwell's Bible School on May 29, 1999 * Proof that Jerry Falwell kidnapped my daughter Shamema * Come Worship and Study with Jerry Falwell at his Thomas Road Baptist Church and Get Saved! * Jerry Falwell says that Teletubby is Gay * Jerry Falwell says the Antichrist is a Jew * Welcome Back Jerry Falwell, All is Forgiven * Miss America threatens to sue Sam Sloan * My reply to Miss America threatens to sue Sam Sloan * Paula Jones, John Whitehead, Donovan Campbell, Jerry Falwell and the kidnappers of my daughter, Shamema Sloan * Demand for Retraction of Misrepresentations Made Regarding John W. Whitehead * Initial reply to Demand for Retraction of Misrepresentations Made Regarding John W. Whitehead * Wanted for Kidnapping * Jerry Falwell's Personal website * The Old-Time Gospel Hour with Jerry Falwell * The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson * The other woman in Bill Clintons life: Susan McDougal, the woman who has sat in prison for more than one year to protect her president * The Latest Look at Monica S. Lewinsky * Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, a Man Who is Without Sin * Story of the Birth of Jesus: From Birth to Resurrection * Order Now: The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson - Just Out * Order the Video of Clinton's Testimony To write a letter to Jerry Falwell, send e-mail to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return to my Home Page Contact address - please send e-mail to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 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:]
[CTRL] US INVADES MOHELI
-Caveat Lector- Troops claiming to be US soldiers landed on the Comoran isle of Moheli, seizing control of the security forces on the island, a former prime minister said by phone. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011219/1/25by3.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] US Views on Sept. 11 at Odds with World, Says Poll
-Caveat Lector- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American opinion makers differ sharply with foreign colleagues over whether U.S. policies were a major cause of the Sept. 11 attacks, with a majority of non-Americans believing such policies were responsible, a major opinion poll said on Wednesday. The Pew Global Attitudes Project poll found that only 18 percent of American respondents believed U.S. policies brought on the attacks, while 58 of non-Americans believed they were responsible. The poll question did not specify which policies were involved. It also found sharp differences between the two groups on whether the war on global terrorism in Afghanistan should be expanded to Iraq and Somalia. Half of American respondents urged the action, while only 29 percent of non-Americans supported expansion. The wide ranging poll questioned 40 Americans and 10 people in each of 23 other nations from Nov. 12 to Dec. 13. The respondents were described as political, media, cultural, business and government leaders. The poll was conducted in association with the International Herald Tribune newspaper. In another stark contrast of attitudes, 70 percent of Americans believed U.S. support for Israel was a reason why Americans were disliked, but only 29 percent of non-Americans shared that view. The poll said even in Muslim nations only 57 percent of respondents judged U.S. support for the Jewish state as a reason for disliking the United States. However, 73 percent of non-Americans felt the United States was too supportive of Israel while only 35 percent of Americans believed there was too much support. There was almost unanimous agreement between both American and non-American respondents that recent events had not significantly slowed the pace of globalization. The poll said 10 percent of Americans believed globalization was a major cause of terrorism while 35 percent said it was a minor cause. Among non-Americans, 19 percent judged globalization as a major cause and 41 percent as a minor cause. The spread of American culture through movies, TV and music is at most a minor reason for animosity toward the U.S., according to foreign influentials (opinion makers), said a statement issued with the poll. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=827mode=order=0 __ 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] Bush Administration Wants To Build New Nuclear Bomb
-Caveat Lector- Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 by the Associated Press Bush Administration Wants To Build New Nuclear Bomb Critics Charge 'Dirty' Bomb Would Send Wrong Signals by H. Josef Hebert WASHINGTON Defense officials are considering the possibility of developing a low-yield nuclear device that would be able to destroy deeply buried stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons. Such a move would require Congress to lift a 1994 ban on designing new nuclear warheads. In a report to Congress, the Defense Department argues that conventional weapons, while effective for many underground enemy targets, would be unable to destroy the most deeply protected facilities containing biological or chemical agents. In recent years there has been a growing unease that terror groups or unfriendly, newly nuclear-capable states may be hiding weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons, in deep underground facilities. In the report sent to Congress in October, the Defense Department said a low-yield, less than five-kiloton, nuclear warhead coupled with new technology that allows bombs to penetrate deep underground before exploding could prove effective in destroying biological and chemical agents. Although not formally engaged in developing a new warhead design, nuclear scientists have completed initial studies on how existing nuclear weapons can be modified for use to destroy deeply buried targets containing chemical or biological weapons, the report said. Studies include synergies of nuclear weapons yield, penetration, accuracy and tactics, it said. Conventional weapons cannot destroy the most deeply buried chemical and biological holding facilities, the report concludes, but a low-yield nuclear device could do the job. It notes that the current nuclear arsenal was not designed with this mission in mind. The report was submitted in response to a congressional directive that the Pentagon report what it was doing to develop ways to attack stores of chemical and biological weapons and also contains updates on a number of programs involving conventional weapons. The report shows the Bush administration views a nuclear strike as an intrinsic part of dealing with deeply entombed enemy targets and is essentially doing all the preparation for a future full-scale research and development program for a new mini-nuclear warhead, said Martin Butcher, director of security programs at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. This kind of warhead is the dirtiest kind of all. It's highly radioactive, said Butcher, whose group has been a leading voice in the nuclear nonproliferation debate. Development of such a bomb would send the wrong signals and would add to the risk of nuclear proliferation, he said. A low-yield nuclear weapon generally is considered to be no more than five kilotons. By comparison, the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II were about 15 kilotons each. The report sent to key committees in Congress by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in October provides a general outline of U.S. capabilities for dealing with what defense officials believe is a growing gap in U.S. military response. The House International Relations Committee is pressing for renewed U.N. inspections in Iraq on the belief that it has rebuilt its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs since President Saddam Hussein's government stopped allowing inspections in 1998. Notes and diagrams found in houses vacated by al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan also point to an effort to create weapons of mass destruction. The report said enhancements expected to be completed by 2005 to an array of conventional weapons, including laser-guided bombs and cruise missiles, should be able to destroy most underground facilities. But it maintains such weapons cannot penetrate the deepest facilities. The report acknowledges that any decision to proceed with a nuclear device for attacking underground targets would be considered within the administration's broader plans for the nuclear stockpile and overall nuclear weapons policy. It said a joint nuclear-planning board already has been established to examine the use of nuclear weapons as bunker-busters. The idea of using low-yield nuclear warheads to attack deeply buried enemy targets has been discussed for years. It was the subject of a classified study concluded in 1997 and has been frequently discussed by nuclear weapons scientists at the Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. The essence of the report sent to Congress was reported Tuesday by The Albuquerque Journal. A copy was distributed by Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, based in Santa Fe, on its Web site. The report had been requested by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Wayne Allard, R-Colo., and was part of this year's defense authorization legislation. On the Net: Nuclear Watch of New Mexico: www.nukewatch.org http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1219-04.htm
[CTRL] N.Y. police win more latitude in traffic stops
-Caveat Lector- The next 'logical' step would seem to be to use this precedent and apply it to house searches; in other words, if the police get called to your house because you're playing your stereo too loudly or your dog is outside barking all night, the police can use that as an excuse to enter your house and search it June === Source: Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester, NY http://www.rochesternews.com/ N.Y. police win more latitude in traffic stops http://www.rochesternews.com/1219story4.html By Yancey Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ALBANY (Wednesday, December 19, 2001) -- In a landmark ruling, New York's top court yesterday gave police wide latitude to stop vehicles for traffic violations and then search for evidence of serious crimes. The Court of Appeals said in a 4-3 decision that New York should follow the less stringent federal guidelines for making such stops. The court said that when police have probable cause to believe the driver of a vehicle has violated laws, a stop-and-search doesn't violate New York's constitutional guarantee against illegal searches. Defense lawyers said the ruling would allow officers to use more than 3,000 traffic law provisions to stop someone. This greatly expands their ability to use traffic stops to investigate unrelated behavior -- and I believe it won't stop there, said Rochester lawyer Thomas A. Corletta, who represented Patrick Reynolds, one of three defendants in the case that the top court reviewed. Prosecutors cheered the ruling because it removes a subjective standard -- an officer's motivation -- for judging validity of a stop. A clear rule is preferable for police. They have to make quick reactions to what is happening on the streets, said Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Stephen Lindley, who argued the case. In the 1999 Rochester case, police saw a prostitute get into Reynolds' truck. Police pulled him over after learning that the truck's registration had expired. He was arrested after failing a sobriety test. His case now returns to Rochester City Court, which had ruled the search illegal and dismissed the charges. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FW: NYC Ruling Favors Church, Homeless
-Caveat Lector- Ruling Favors Church, Homeless By Patricia HurtadoSTAFF WRITER NEWSDAYDecember 20, 2001In an early holiday gift to the city's most destitute, a federal judge in Manhattan yesterday granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting city police from rousting the homeless off the property of a Manhattan church located on a tony stretch of Fifth Avenue. After a brief hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence McKenna granted the request made by the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church to stop police from conducting nightly sweeps of sleeping homeless people on its grounds, a practice started about two weeks ago. The order would remain in effect until a hearing on a preliminary injunction could be held on Dec. 28, McKenna said. For the past two years, the church, which has Cartier and Tiffany's for neighbors, has allowed the homeless who refuse to go to shelters to sleep within its property line at 55th Street and Fifth Avenue as part of its homeless outreach program. It also operates a 10-bed homeless shelter inside.But the church filed suit Monday charging that police - acting at the behest of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik - recently began sending in police officers to bang on the homeless' cardboard boxes and tents with their batons and threatening to arrest anyone who did not leave.Yesterday, a city lawyer, Daniel Connolly, argued that the church was not suffering any irreparable harm to its ministry because "no ministry is happening after 9 p.m. when people are out there sleeping." He also accused it of operating "the world's worst illegal homeless shelter" by allowing the homeless to sleep on the sidewalk. But McKenna disagreed, saying the church was not operating an illegal shelter but an alternative. "The city's acts would impinge on the church's rights to the free expression of religion under the ... First Amendment," McKenna said from the bench. Margaret Shafer, who works at the shelter, said police continued to make nightly pre-dawn sweeps of the church property and during one incident last week police threatened to arrest any homeless people who did not immediately leave the area. She said police also cordoned off entrance to the church's steps. Chris Dunn, a lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union, representing the church, told McKenna yesterday that the area was "private property" and argued that the city has known about the practice for years and not acted.Connolly denied police threatened to arrest the homeless, only telling the judge they had tried to "invite" the homeless to go to shelters. www.ctrl.org 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 Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl 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] From the Irv Rubin Bust to the Stern Gang
-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/ Week of December 19 - 25, 2001 From the Irv Rubin Bust to the Stern Gang: The Rich History of Jewish Terrorism Oy McVey by Jason Vest WASHINGTON, D.C.At a moment when the popular mind-set once again links the words Arab and Islamic with all things retrograde and threateningincluding terrorism (cue the new Charlie Daniels anthem and revel in the poetry: This ain't no rag, it's a flag/And we don't wear it on our heads. . . . /We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound)it came as a surprise to some that the latest malefactors accorded POW status in the War on Terrorism turned out to be Jewish. Arrested and charged last week with intriguing to do explosive little actions on a Culver City, California, mosque and the offices of Lebanese American U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, Jewish Defense League chief Irving David Rubin and JDL member Earl Leslie Krugel were, according to FBI wiretap transcripts, anything but circumspect about their devices and desires: Though Rubin lamented the wanting state of technology in the JDL's possession (not good enough to blow up an entire building), Krugel was adamant that Arabs need a wake-up call and that the JDL needs to do something to one of their filthy mosqueswhich may explain the five pounds of gunpowder and pipe-bomb matériel found at his house. If the people responsible for September 11 are the quintessence of evil genius, these guys are at the Keystone Kops end of the spectrum, says Hussein Ibish, communications director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The only reassuring thing about them is their absolute ineptitude and the fact that they were arrested. Mainstream Jewish groups were quick to condemn the JDL as well: Characterizing the activities of the organizationfounded in 1968 by Brooklyn's own, now deceased Rabbi Meir Kahaneas contemptible, the Anti-Defamation League's regional director issued a statement abhor[ing] and condemn[ing] the potential terrorist plot. The American Jewish Committee said it categorically condemns in the strongest possible terms the alleged JDL plot, and went so far as to follow up with a personal letter to Republican representative Issa, decrying such wanton lawlessness, which is so clearly contrary to the fundamental tenets of our faith, and to the basic principles of justice and liberty that brought our parents and grandparents to America's shores and that form the bedrock of our national values. Yet some observers of the current Middle East crisis see more than a bit of disingenuousness and historical irony here. While both the ADL and the AJC have condemned the JDL, they've unequivocally backed Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's indiscriminate use of force against the Palestinians and the cutting of ties with Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafatneither of which is universally seen as a particularly constructive way to slow the cycles of violence across Israel and the Occupied Territories. But what's even more vexing to others is the apparent inability or unwillingness to discern similarities between the current Palestinian milieu and Israeli operations of 50-plus years ago, which secured statehood from colonialist occupiersas well as similarities between violent, internecine struggles among disparate underground groups. It's peculiar, it's paradoxical, that Sharon and Likud should be the ones who are trying to equate any authentic resistance in Palestine with some of the terrorist activities, as terrorism in Israel really started with Begin and Shamir and later Sharon, says Clovis Maksoud, the former Arab League ambassador to the United Nations. It's a very valid question as to why they see no similarities between themselves under the British and the Palestinians under their occupation. Especially, he adds, as the Israeli government supports museums that honor assassins and terroristsincluding one located on a street named for a terrorist. The thoroughfare in question runs between Florentine and Emeq-Yisrael, and bears the name Stern Streetin honor of Avraham Stern, a 1920s Zionist and charter member of the Haganah, then a loose-knit Jewish militia organized as a self-defense mechanism against Arab violence. Finding the Haganah insufficiently proactive in realizing the goal of a Jewish state that would encompass both sides of the River Jordan, erstwhile Mussolini follower and early-day ultra-nationalist Ze'ev Jabotinsky broke with the militia and formed the Irgun, which devoted itself to terrorist operations against the British. Once an enthusiastic Irgunist, Stern was appalled when the Irgun decided to make common cause with the British against the Nazis, and created the even more underground and more violent Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael, or Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, which held there was no greater threat to the Jews of Palestine than the mandate's British administrators. To this end, Stern
[CTRL] Photos of US chemical war results in Colombia
-Caveat Lector- --- M. L. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: M. L. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:10:06 -0800 Subject: [AS] Photos of US chemical war results in Colombia Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.witnessforpeace.org/colombia/photos.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
Re: [CTRL] Argentine Riot Death Toll Rises to 16
-Caveat Lector- Fernando, I'll keep you and your country in my prayers. Keep yourself safe keep us posted. Tenorlove Co-Editor, CTRL --- Fernando Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- This news are from my country. The opressive economy policy during former president Carlos hijo de remil puta Menem (Bush friend) and Fernando (imbécil) de la Rúa with the butcher FMI brought us to this caos. = Make yourself at home. Clean my kitchen. __ 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 Nose Knows
-Caveat Lector- Go here http://www.orlingrabbe.com/homepage.html and just look at the first two guys' noses. It don't take any extraordinary skill with a slide rule to be able to tell there's a difference between 1 2; now, between 2 3, things become more uncertain. AER Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust 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] Captial Confusion Over Anthrax Vaccine
-Caveat Lector- You must give the person who is giving consent all the relevant information so they can make a wise decision whether to take the experimental drug, she said. Now, I know nothing except what I read in the news or in commentaries. However, I was one who MIGHT have been induced to take this vaccine under former Sec'y of Offense Cohen's program, the same program -- I might add -- that has caused some to be considered for courts martial for declining the shots and others to resign from otherwise promising careers the military to avoid further conflicts of any kind. But now we have the Congress and the Postal workers being offered this vaccine as an option, the same vaccine from the same heretofore FDA UNapproved BioPort company. For some reason, the Postals don't like being used as Guinea pigs. So goes my introduction. Here's my rationale for the anthrattax, solely based on events as they have unfolded in the media: ** The military was originally chosen to test the vaccine, with Willie Cohen leading the charge, his one contribution to and participation in the requirements of military service. ** Some of those who were needle and vaccine pokers or pokees became somewhat enraged by their complicity as Guinea pigs. ** Coincidental to the 9-11 extreme vandalism events, someone in the system decided that it was time to heighten the nation's sensitivity and awareness to the issue of misuse of vaccine and military personnel for medical (aux Nazis) experimentation. ** Ergo, the lettres were sent to members of Congress, realising that the cure (Cipro-cating) would be short term, with the only supposed long-term cure would be the vaccination. ** Knowing that the vaccine was still an unapproved, experimental substance, the onus was now on Congress to either accept or decline it as a course of treatment or prophylaxis. ** Now, Congress has issued a delay on inoculations due to the risks of the vaccine. Note the next statement provides only part of the story. On Capitol Hill yesterday, inoculation of congressional workers was postponed a day because federal officials had not completed the necessary consent forms laying out the risks associated with taking a vaccine that has not been approved as a post-exposure treatment. I could be wrong but in any event, Have A Nice Day (HAND). AER From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3541- 2001Dec19.html }}}Begin Anthrax Vaccine Plan Sows Confusion D.C. Advises Workers Against Treatment By Ceci Connolly and Avram Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 20, 2001; Page A01 Postal workers expressed frustration and confusion yesterday over the federal government's plan to offer them anthrax vaccine on an experimental basis, complaining they do not have the medical information to make such a difficult decision. Even as the Bush administration scrambled to meet the legal requirements of such an unprecedented proposal, lawmakers and local officials reacted bitterly to the lack of guidance they were receiving eight weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began formulating the plan. First it was Cipro; then it was the other pill. Now it's this, said Willard Tucker, an employee at the Brentwood postal facility. Why do we have to be guinea pigs for them? They don't even know what's going on. Adding to the confusion, Mayor Anthony A. Williams said in a statement released last night that District officials were advising against vaccination and recommending that workers contact the CDC. After discussing this issue at several scientific meetings, and the careful review of the scientific data, and absent a recommendation from the CDC, the District . . . affirms its previous public health advisory which recommends strict compliance with the 60-day course of antibiotics, the statement said. As such the District Department of Health does not recommend investigational post-exposure prophylactics with anthrax vaccine at this time. No one has recommended the vaccination yet. We're not ready to do so, said District Health Director Ivan C.A. Walks. He met with postal workers for about two hours last night and told them of the mayor's recommendation. Antoine Barry, 40, a letter carrier at the Friendship Station post office, said he felt more confident about not taking the vaccine after hearing Walks speak. My concerns were basically just 'Am I safe?' he said. We're just handling this one day at a time. I feel a little better now. I feel like I know a little more about what's going on. Postal workers in New Jersey, still waiting to be contacted by federal officials, said they are relying on news reports for guidance. We don't know how to protect ourselves, said Dianne Fazekas, who worked beside two co-workers at a Hamilton, N.J., postal facility who contracted inhalational anthrax. We read in the paper that the spores can reactivate themselves after we stop the medicine. We also read that the vaccine has
[CTRL] Fwd:John Walker
---BeginMessage--- Yesterday, George H.W. Bush made an appearance on CNN that John Walker should be parade around the U.S. with his long hair in disgrace. The U.S. Attorney General is not going to prosecute Walker for Treason. I sure hope someone will see if John Walker is related to the Bush Walker family. The Bush family does have a cousin by the name of Johnny Walker, but this is a fairly common name. Another thing why does he use the name Walker when his father is a Lin? Bruce Adamson Save 34 cents, Send an Email. Yet, don't forget you're U.S. Postal Carrier/Clerks this Holiday Season, with donuts or a gift! Please visit website at http://ciajfk.com _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] Fwd:John Walker
-Caveat Lector- There is something fishy about this entire matter; first, the kid has an accent - almost a french accent but not an American accent. Second - he looks like a big bear with all that fur on his face - something does not match up here. Third - you are saying Bush said this kid should be paraded around the streets? What do we have in our government - who are these people. These are the terroristsand from whom do they take orders? Does the Mossad have something on them too? Maybe Osama was sending a message back to Bush.veiledthey were so afraid he would get out messages to the public and believe me - he did but they were directed to Bush and Bush alone..for it ws the CIA who created Osama bin Laden. But he still did not pull off that Twin Towers job. Maybe the day will come when Bush will be paraded about the streets as a War Criminal with Rumfeldthe face of America and all the time like Hollywood they think they are so loved? This government is sicker than the Clinton regime - at least he had a sense of humor. 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] 1998: Talks with Osama bin Laden - Robert Fisk
-Caveat Lector- Talks with Osama bin Laden by Robert Fisk http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=829mode=order=0 From the September 21, 1998 issue of The Nation The last time I saw Osama bin Laden was in a tent on a mountaintop camp in Afghanistan last year. A few meters away was a twenty-five-foot-high air raid shelter cut into the rock, a relic of bin Laden's days fighting the Soviet Army, but bombproof against even a cruise missile. bin Laden had entered the tent in his white Saudi robes, shaken hands with me and sat cross-legged on the rug, when he noticed that I had the latest Beirut daily newspapers in my bag. He seized upon them and pored over their pages for almost half an hour, one of his Arab mujahedeen in Afghan clothes holding a sputtering gas lamp over the papers. Carefully, bin Laden read the news from Iran, from his own country, from the Israel-occupied West Bank. Was it true, he asked me, that Iran was making a diplomatic démarche to Saudi Arabia? As I sat there watching the man who had declared a holy war against the United States a year earlier--the man who was supposedly the mastermind of world terrorism--I reflected that he didn't seem to know much about the world he was supposedly terrorizing. A Saudi who regards the leadership of his country with contempt, he had told me at a previous meeting in 1996, If liberating my land is called terrorism, this is a great honor for me. But not as great as the honor bestowed on him by President Clinton in the aftermath of the American missile attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan last month. America's Public Enemy Number One--Clinton's infantile description of bin Laden--must have appealed to a man whose simple view of the world is as politically naïve as it is dangerous. Last year, upon that remote mountaintop amid the snow--so cold that there was ice in my hair when I awoke in the tent before dawn--bin Laden had seemed an isolated, almost lonely figure, largely ignored by a United States that was still obsessed with the evil Saddam Hussein. Clinton has changed all that. By endowing bin Laden with his new title, he has given the Saudi dissident what he sought: recognition as the greatest enemy of Western corruption, the leader of all resistance against US policy in the Middle East. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic, the way America now treats its opponents as if they were Hollywood bandits. It was Oliver North who branded Palestinian killer Abu Nidal America's Public Enemy Number One. Saddam was compared to Hitler, even though Saddam hero-worships the memory of Stalin. Before that, when Saddam was one of our guys, busy invading Iran, we had demonized the Ayatollah Khomeini. Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi was described by Ronald Regan as that mad dog of the Middle East. Even Yasir Arafat was a super-terrorist until his support for Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Kuwait rendered him weak enough to make peace with Israel--at which point we turned him in to a super-statesman. I doubt if Osama bin Laden understands the hierarchy of US hate figures--or whether he would care if he did. The Afghan conflict against the Soviets molded him, taught him the meaning of his religion, made him think. What I lived in two years there, he told me, I could not have lived in a hundred years elsewhere. When he brought his 9,000 Arab fighters to support the Afghans in their conflict against the Soviet occupation army, hacking out the mountain trails with his construction equipment, building hospitals and arms dumps, he became a war hero. Some of his current Afghan fellow fighters had been trained earlier by the CIA in the very camps that were the target of the recent US missiles--but whereas they had been called camps for freedom fighters when US agents set them up in the early eighties, now they had become camps for terrorists. He and his comrades never saw evidence of American help in Afghanistan, he told me, but he must have been aware of the CIA's presence. When I first met bin Laden, in the desert north of Khartoum in 1993 where he was building roads for isolated villages--and, so the Egyptians were claiming, training Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's Islamist enemies in the same Sudanese desert--I persuaded him to talk about the effect of the Russian war. was under bombardment, but I was so peaceful in my heart that I fell asleep. This experience has been written about in our earliest books. I saw a 120-millimeter mortar shell land in front of me, but it did not blow up. Four more bombs were dropped from a Russian plane on our headquarters, but they did not explode. We beat the Soviet Union. The Russians fled. No, I was never afraid of death. As Muslims, we believe that when we die, we go to heaven. Before a battle, God sends us sequina--tranquillity. Here was a man, then, who felt God protected him. My fellow Muslims did much more than I. Many of them died but I am still alive. I was myself in Afghanistan in 1980, when bin Laden arrived there.
[CTRL] Building Blocks of Life Found in Two Meteorites
-Caveat Lector- http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=830mode=order=0 Building Blocks of Life Found in Two Meteorites During a recent analysis of two meteorites scientists got a sweet surprise; they detected the presence of a sugar and many sugar-related compounds. The sugar and sugar-like molecules, collectively called polyols, were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Murchison, Australia, in 1969 and the Murray meteor that fell in Kentucky in 1950two meteorites that are rich in carbon. Sugars play an essential role in living organisms. They are a component of both types of genetic materialRNA and DNAthey provide a source of energy, and they form an essential structural component of the membrane that surrounds every cell. Previous studies have revealed that the meteorites also contain amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, and present in all life forms. Some scientists have speculated that material from meteors may have provided some starting material for early life forms, possibly even jump-starting the origin of life itself. The research is published in the December 20 issue of the journal Nature. We may never know what particular compounds were important for the very start of life, we weren't there to observe, says George Cooper, of NASA Ames Research Center in Mofett Field, California, who led the research. The finding is important because it proves that two classes of biologically important compoundssugars and amino acidsmay have had extraterrestrial origins. These meteors were thought to be formed about 4.5 billion years agofairly early in the life of the solar system. A commentary that accompanies Cooper's report suggests that starlight may have acted upon icy mixtures of water, ammonia, and carbon monoxide to form simple sugars such as those found on the Murchison meteorite. Issues of contamination have muddied investigations to detect these substances from previous meteorite samples. To address concerns that the polyols were not contaminants from Earth, Cooper and colleagues measured the quantities of these compounds and their atomic makeup. The researchers found that the sugar-related compounds contain more heavy isotopes of both hydrogen and carbon than would be found if the compounds were formed on Earth through biological processes. The team also found many compounds with molecular arrangements that are rare on Earth. The incorporation of many heavy isotopes and the presence of rare polyols is a signature of extraterrestrial materials. __ 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] How Israeli terrorism and American treason caused the September 11 Attacks
-Caveat Lector- although this piece sometimes fails to distinguish between zionism and judaism, nonetheless i find certain items contained herein to be very interesting...if anyone can verify ANY of the claims here [especially the item on operation suzannah] i would much appreciate it... --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], nuntius_adicio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How Israeli terrorism and American treason caused the September 11 Attacks November 21, 2001 If Osama bin Laden is the man behind the attack that caused the death of thousands of Americans on September 11, I, like most Americans want to him to suffer the ultimate punishment for his crime. No person or nation that commits terrorism against America should escape punishment. But now I am going to make a statement that may well shock you. If you agree that those who commit terrorist acts against America should be punished, then America should put Israel at the top of our hit list; for in this article, I will prove that Israel has committed deliberate acts of murderous terrorism and treachery against America. Israel's acts of terrorism and treachery against America have not only gone unpunished, but have been rewarded by politicians who have treasonously betrayed the United States. Read David Duke's previous articles: The Big Lie - The true reason behind the attack Will Anyone Dare to Ask Why? I will show that Israel has committed more continuing terrorism in the last half century than any other nation on earth. Then, I will expose Israel's terrorism and treachery against the United States of America. Finally, I will show the shocking facts proving that Israel deliberately sought the death of thousands of Americans on September 11. Why was America attacked? No one would argue that whatever his motivations, if bin Laden was behind the horror of the WTC attacks, he deserves punishment for killing so many innocent people. At the same time, it is vital that we know why bin Laden and millions of others around the world have come to hate America. Why are so many willing to risk or even sacrifice their lives to get at us? I certainly hope no one reading this is so naïve as to believe that the growing millions who hate America do so because we are free. That canard has to be the most ridiculous notion ever sold to the American people since the pet rock. To end the threat of terrorism against the American people, we must know the true reason why we are so hated. Modern technology makes mass murder and terrorism so ridiculously easy that just about anyone can do it. It cannot be stopped by military might. In fact, even the brute force we are using in Afghanistan supposedly to wipe out terror -- already shows signs of whipping up enough world-wide hatred against America to give rise to a thousand new terrorists for every one terrorist we might kill. I also wonder what the kill ratio is in Afghanistan. Perhaps 1 member of the al-Qaida network is killed for every 10 run-of-the-mill Afghan soldiers and civilians who are basically just trying to get through their own lives like the rest of us. Or maybe it's 1 terrorist for a 100 Afghanis. I suspect the real figure is more like a 1000 non- terrorists dead for the life of 1 genuine terrorist who might ever bother America. Perhaps we should have enough courage to consider the possible reasons why so many might hate us. Only when we have all the facts, rather than cute little clichés like They were attacking freedom, can we decide the best way we can protect our people in the future. By the way, how do we define an attack on American freedom? I would say that a real attack on freedom is trashing the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. The Ten Amendments are the very core of what American freedom actually is. George Bush and the U.S. Congress, armed with the newspeak U.S.A. Patriot Act, did infinitely more to take away our Constitutional freedoms than bin Laden ever could. The real reason we have suffered terrorism The real reason we have suffered the terrorism of the WTC attack is shockingly simple. Too many American politicians have treasonously betrayed the American people by blindly supporting the leading terrorist nation on earth: Israel. The American mass media and the government cannot have it both ways. If they are motivated to attack Afghanistan for giving aid and comfort to terrorists, then some Palestinians naturally find motivation to attack America for giving aid and even military support to Israel, a nation that has committed unrelenting terrorism against them. Traitors to the United States have allowed a terrorist foreign nation to control the United States Government. Some readers might think it preposterous for me to assert that that a foreign nation controls America. But, consider the fact that the former head of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Fulbright, said precisely that. He asserted on ABC's Face the Nation television program that Israel
[CTRL] UFO Crash?!?
-Caveat Lector- From Bremner Thomson (TSA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Town's water supply tested after mystery crash. Testing will continue today on the water supply dam at Guyra in northern New South Wales after an unidentified object crashed into it. more at: http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=832mode=order=0 __ 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] Annie's Got A Plan
-Caveat Lector- From WND }}}Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25759 Wednesday, December 19, 2001 They've surrendered, let's attack! By Ann Coulter © 2001 Universal Press Syndicate As pundits mull whether America's next target in the war on terrorism should be Iraq or a smaller quarry first such as the Sudan or Somalia it's time to consider another petri dish of ferocious anti- American hatred and terrorist activity. The Bush doctrine is: We are at war not only with the terrorists, but also with those who harbor them. We've got to attack France. Having exhausted itself in a spirited fight with the Nazis in the last war, France cannot work up the energy to oppose terrorism. For decades now, France has nurtured, coddled and funded Islamic terrorists. (Moreover, the Great Satan is getting a little sick of our McDonald's franchises being attacked on behalf of notoriously inefficient French dairy farmers.) At the 1972 Olympics, Muslim terrorists assassinated 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman. Five years later, acting on intelligence from Israeli secret police, French counterespionage agents arrested the reputed mastermind of the massacre, Abu Daoud. Both Israel and West Germany sought the extradition of Daoud. Afraid of upsetting Muslim terrorists, France refused on technical grounds and set him free. In 1986, Libyan agents of Moammar Gadhafi planted a bomb in a West Berlin discotheque, killing an American serviceman and a Turkish woman. Hundreds more were injured. President Reagan retaliated with air strikes against Libyan military targets including Gadhafi's living quarters. Quaking in the face of this show of manly force, France denied America the use of its airspace. As a consequence, American pilots were required to begin their missions from airbases in Britain. When the pilots finally mad e it to Tripoli, tired from the long flights and showing a puckish sense of humor, they bombed the French embassy by mistake. POW! So sorry, our mistake. France has repeatedly decried economic sanctions against Iraq and has accused the United Nations of manufacturing evidence against Saddam Hussein. The U.N., not even the Great Satan. The French U.N. ambassador dismissed a erial photographs of Iraqi military trucks fleeing inspections sites just before U.N. weapons inspectors arrived as quote perhaps a truckers' picnic. Along with the rest of the European Union, France sends millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority every year. Sucking up to the P.A. has really paid dividends to the craven butterbellies. While visiting Arafat in G aza last year to announce several million more dollars in aid, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was attacked by angry, stone-throwing Palestinian students. Earlier this year, France connived with human-rights champions China and Cuba to toss the United States off the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Sudan took America's place, and, if its diplomats are not too bogged down with human torture and slave trading, they are very much looking forward to attending the meetings. This summer, Paris made Mumia Abu-Jamal an honorary citizen of Paris. In America's cowboy, bloodlust, rush-to-judgment approach to the death penalty, this convicted Philadelphia cop-killer has been sitting on death row and giving radio interviews and college commencement addresses for 20 years. Since Mumia sounds like a Muslim terrorist, Parisians can use the same bumper stickers for the war. Two weeks into America's war on terrorism, Le Figaro began calling for American restraint. In polls, 47 percent of the French said they believed the U.S. military action was failing. Seventeen percent thought it was wor king (which was admittedly 17 percent more than on the New York Times editorial page). Flaunting France's well-established reputation as a fearsome fighting machine, the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, immedi ately advised the United States to stop bombing Afghanistan. The first indictment to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks was of a French national, Zacarias Moussaoui. He is believed to be the intended 20th hijacker on Bloody Tuesday. France quickly moved to extend consular protection for Moussaoui. Intriguingly, French Justice Minister Marylise Lebranchu has demanded that Moussaoui not be executed. Mlle. Lebranchu seems to have forgotten, but WE ARE THE GREAT SATAN! We also have Moussaoui. It's annoying enough when these celebrated Nazi slayers refuse to extradite terrorists on the grounds that America does not obse rve the pristine judicial formalities of their pals, China, Cuba and the Sudan. But under what zany theory of international law does France think it can tell us what to do with a terrorist we caught right here on U.S. soi l? The Great Satan is wearying of this reverse hegemony, in which
Re: [CTRL] UFO Crash?!?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/20/01 12:01:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Town's water supply tested after mystery crash. Testing will continue today on the water supply dam at Guyra in northern New South Wales after an unidentified object crashed into it. This meets the criteria for a UFO. But, nothing will be found. It was a black budget project and the Aussie Government has cleaned up the mess. BHoward Bah! Humbug! May everyone with Merry Christmas upon his breath be buried in his own Christmas Pudding with a stake a holly through his heart. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fwd:John Walker
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/20/01 11:40:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is something fishy about this entire matter; first, the kid has an accent - almost a french accent but not an American accent. Try Arabic accent. Second - he looks like a big bear with all that fur on his face - something does not match up here. What doesn't match up? These are the terroristsand from whom do they take orders? Does the Mossad have something on them too? Yes, it is true that these are terrorists, and like any religious wacko, they take their marching orders from only one source, G*d, Allah, The prime directive, etc. Why would you think that the Mossad had a hand in this? There are people on the face of this planet who are capable of doing evil without any outside help. This seems to be one of those times. Maybe the day will come when Bush will be paraded about the streets as a War Criminal with Rumfeldthe face of America and all the time like Hollywood they think they are so loved? Only if the UN prevails in their attempt to take over international law. This government is sicker than the Clinton regime - at least he had a sense of humor. Not so. BHoward Bah! Humbug! May everyone with Merry Christmas upon their breath be buried in their own Christmas Pudding with a stake of Holly through their heart 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] apocamon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.e-sheep.com/apocamon/ __ 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] Traumatic Abuse in Cults
-Caveat Lector- Traumatic Abuse in Cults: An Exploration of an Unfamiliar Social Problem http://www.anti-fascism.org/cult2-2.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] humor..aar-aar!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/index.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] Distant Echoes of Empire
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Wasn't it Torquemada Blair who recently asserted, We are back!
Back to the future, eh, what, Tony? Watch out for Jesse Jay (or
not). AER
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Warning over child slave trade
Staff and agencies
Wednesday December 19, 2001
The Guardian
Thousands of west African children are being traded in Britain as
domestic slaves by people who use them to claim benefits, social
workers have warned.
They said the slave trade was coordinated by criminal gangs who often
took children from their parents in lieu of debts incurred from being
smuggled into the UK.
The situation has come to light in the wake of the inquiry into the
death of child abuse victim Victoria Climbié, who was murdered after
being sent from the Ivory Coast to live with her great-aunt. The
eight-year-old died at her north Tottenham home in February 2000
after suffering 128 separate injuries.
A BBC investigation identified a network of 13 adults who ran a child-trading network
in London.
One woman in north-west London had acquired 12 children, for each of which she was
able to claim £40 a week in benefits.
It emerged that three of these had since been taken into care, care orders were out on
three more, two had been passed on to a south London woman and two were missing.
Children are being trafficked and held hostage in lieu of debt repayments and in
doing so are being abused, being used as houseboys or servants and younger children
are being neglected, said an unnamed social worker.
In my 15-year career in social work, inside and outside London, I have come across it
in every place I have worked, he said.
The social worker added that social service departments lacked the legal powers to
investigate cases while the police did not have sufficient resources.
Trafficked children could be located through the benefit system, but inspectors were
interested only in checking that multiple claims were not being made for the same
child and not in whether the child was with its legiti
mate carer, he claimed.
The trafficking network extends to Ireland, making it even more difficult for the
authorities to track down the child slaves.
From a point of view of trying to identify whether these children are being used, it
is virtually impossible, said an Irish healthworker, who also wished to remain
anonymous.
They disappear and go back to the UK. There is a network between the UK and Ireland.
Esther Rantzen, founder and chairwoman of Childline, said social services should
investigate child-trafficking as a matter of urgency.
It is quite clear that social workers do have evidence of what is going on and have
taken children into care, she said.
However, Ms Rantzen expressed concern that some social workers were reluctant to
pursue possible cases because of politically correct beliefs that passing children
around extended families was simply part of west Africa
n culture.
Mike Caye, communications director of charity Anti-Slavery International, said
legislation was needed to deal with human trafficking for both sexual and labour
exploitation.
Until you get the legislation in place, you can't make it a priority
for the police, he warned. In a statement, the Home Office said:
Trafficking of human beings, and particularly children, is an
abhorrent practice.
The UK signed the trafficking protocol of the UN convention on
transnational organised crime and there is at European level a draft
framework for the definition of trafficking in human beings.
SocietyGuardian.co.uk © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
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[CTRL] Strategic Deceptions Desk
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[CTRL] Drug Resistance
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Although there are some who dispute the connexion between HIV and
AIDS/SIDA and suggest the drugs are actually killing them, the point
remains that whatever malady, ailment, disease the drugs are intended
to fight may become useless after a while. The seriousness of THIS
problem is that even the mega-drugs (Cipro, e.g.) may be inferior to
Nature. AER
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Tuesday, 18 December, 2001, 20:38 GMT
HIV 'develops resistance to drugs'
Campaigners have fought to make the drugs available
By BBC's science correspondent Richard Black
HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is fast becoming resistant to the
drugs used to treat it, according to research presented at a major
medical conference in Chicago on Tuesday.
Scientists have discovered that more than three- quarters of HIV-positive people in
the United States carry versions of the virus that are resistant to commonly used
drugs.
The researchers examined viruses taken from about 1,500 HIV-positive people across the
US.
They found that 78% of them carried HIV which has become resistant to at least one
anti- retroviral drug, while more than half had a virus that was resistant to more
than one.
Most people carrying HIV in the United States take a cocktail of three drugs to keep
the virus under control.
When the virus within an individual evolves resistance to all three, the result is a
complete breakdown of the immune system - the condition known as Aids.
New drugs needed
The new figures from the United States are not in themselves surprising. Research in
other parts of the world has produced similar findings.
However, this is a much bigger study than those performed previously, and big studies
produce reliable data.
Bleak findings will worry many who thought anti- retrovirals were the key to a better
life
Experts say the findings have two major implications for treatment and research.
First, they demonstrate the need for new classes of drugs to tackle
the virus in new ways - and, as other researchers have been telling
the same medical conference, a new type called fusion inhibitors
could be available within a year.
Secondly, the study reinforces the importance of safe sex, and safe
use of needles by intravenous drug users.
The more people who carry drug-resistant strains of HIV, the more
likely it is that anyone being newly infected will pick up a drug-
resistant strain, reducing their chances of successful treatment.
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[CTRL] Fwd: The Bin Laden Video Tape More Cooked Evidence?
---BeginMessage--- The bin Laden video tape appears to be legitimate, but that means little in the Pixar age. One thing is certain: Even native Arab speakers can't understand most of bin Laden's musings, including those that have been translated? so how did the government's experts? The Toronto Sun observes, Bin Laden's statements looked cut up and edited... This isn't an Islamic berserker speaking, but the most prominent newspaper in Canada. Did the U.S. government pull ANOTHER fast one? AC =-=-=-=-=-= In 1990, the U.S. used retouched satellite photos to convince the Saudis that Iraq was about to invade - which it was not =-=-=-=-=-= Toronto Sun December 17, 2001 Is the Gun Smoking? 'Experts' Disagree on bin Laden Home Video by Eric Margolis WASHINGTON -- ... The Osama bin Laden home video released by the U.S. last Thursday gave a fascinating look at the head of a fanatical Muslim cult receiving a visiting Saudi sheik. According to the accompanying translation from Arabic to English - made by the U.S. government and checked by two U.S.-based Arabic experts - bin Laden clearly appears to voice his culpability for the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. In the most damning admissions, a gleeful-looking bin Laden says, We calculated in advance the number of casualties from (sic) the enemy who would be killed based on the position of the tower. And, We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. The U.S. government is delighted by the smoking gun tape, which was mysteriously found in Afghanistan a few days ago. The White House says the tape should dispel any lingering doubts bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 mass killings. But two other Arabic experts say the tape's audio quality is so poor that almost nothing bin Laden says on it can be verified. To my ears, well accustomed to Arabic, half of bin Laden's words were inaudible. The translation was sometimes out of sync with the action on screen. Bin Laden's statements looked cut up and edited. Cynics suggest the tape was a forgery made by Russian intelligence or the U.S. government, with incriminating statements spliced into an otherwise boring exchange of pleasantries between bin Laden and a visiting admirer. This is possible. In 1990, the U.S. used retouched satellite photos to convince the Saudis that Iraq was about to invade - which it was not Some Muslims will certainly accept the tape at face value and turn with disgust against bin Laden as a fanatical mass murderer. Few Muslims accepted his wild claims or calls for jihad against the West. But one suspects many Muslims and other Third Worlders will still believe bin Laden and his henchmen gave the United States what it deserved, payback for decades of bloody meddling in their affairs - revenge, as the tape mentioned, for the martyrs of Palestine. Third Worlders do not always accept our western view that when states kill huge numbers of innocent civilians, c'est la vie, but when private enterprise killers strike, that's unacceptable terrorism. [STATE killing is acceptable terrorism? AC] To many, the fanatical Osama bin Laden will still represent the hand of retribution against the arrogant western powers and their local satraps. New avengers will follow in his footsteps. Suicide bombers are the poor man's version of cruise missiles, helicopter gunships, B-52s, fuel-air explosives and 15,000-lb. bombs. Copyright © 2001, Canoe Limited Partnership ### ---End Message---
[CTRL] Tom Wolfe on NY
-Caveat Lector- From (!?) http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,622057,00.html }}}Begin The new New York We all know that after September 11, New York will never be the same again. But the same as what? Tom Wolfe says the city has changed beyond all recognition in the past few years Tom Wolfe Thursday December 20, 2001 The Guardian Has it been duly recorded that everything in New York changed just before September 11? Granted, it's hard to get the picture here in the Afghan glare of the TV set, but it looks like this: 18 months before 9/11 and the death storm of ashes that rolled uptown from the World Trade Centre, all of lower Manhattan's artists' quarters - SoHo, NoHo, WeVar, TriBeCa, the Village and Little Italy - were already history. The last stronghold, WeVar, a decrepit old warehouse area that was home to a hive of artists' lofts west of Varick Street and south of the Canal Street exit of the Holland tunnel, was finally overrun by investment bankers , Silicon Alley then-fat cats and real-estate developers in the spring of 2000. Construction elevators started whining up and down the sides of the warehouses, and the victors' banners proclaimed FOR SALE NOW: HISTORIC OL D NEW YORK LOFT CONDOMINIUMS. The usual droves of young artists - from the California Institute of the Arts to the Rhode Island School of Design and every MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programme in between - still arrive to storm the Manhattan art scene, but can no longer get even remotely within rent range and wind up in Williamsburg and Jersey City. Twenty months before 9/11, Wall Street was already history, too. Wall Street hadn't been Wall Street since December 31 1999, when Nasdaq started the street's great migration to Times Square. Reuters, Morgan Stanley, Lehma n Brothers, Bear Stearns and Ernst Young soon followed their lead. Today, out-of-town financial types must be perplexed to find the mighty Morgan Stanley shank-to-flank with a pink-neon girlie bar called Runway 69. A year before 9/11, that old standby of New York humour, folklore, fiction and drama - the shrink, the Freudian psychiatrist with the couch - had already gone the way of the Irish cabbie with the cap over one eye. When neuroscientists Paul Greengard of Rockefeller University and Eric Kandel of Columbia won the Nobel Prize in 2000 (along with Arvid Carlsson of Germany) for discoveries about how information actually circulates inside the brain, physiology and not Freud was king. The New York teaching hospitals were now training psychiatrists who had actually been introduced to brain functions and the central nervous system. As the witticism went, going to a Freudian psychiatrist was like going to a cardiologist who only knows about broken hearts and valentines. The psychiatrist who, in an ABC News conversation with Peter Jennings, referred to the World Trade Centre as two towering phallic symbols subjected to symbolic castration came off as quaint. He would have done better on The Sopranos, the show that hasn't yet got the word about yackety-yak therap y. Twenty months before 9/11, the Democratic party organisation, ruler of the city for half a century, had disintegrated thanks to, of all things, an oversupply of populous racial and ethnic minorities, and wound up like t he Republican party and Liberal party organisations. The term limits that cleansed the city council slates for the 2001 races were the mopping-up operation. Politicians still ran successfully under the Democratic party banner, but only because they were neighbourhood warlords who had to call themselves something. Ten months before 9/11, New York City's architects, who only yesterday had battled so gloriously and avant- gardely as the Whites (Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk et al) versus the Greys (Michael Graves, Jaquel in Robertson, Robert Stern et al), had already given up the cutting edge because they could no longer find one. When Cathy Lang Ho and Raul A Barreneche set out to do a book on the edgiest residential designs in North Ame rica (House: American Houses for the New Century), they could find only three New York architects with houses actually built or under construction that deserved any such adjective: Toshiko Mori, Steven Holl and Michael Mc Donough with his cyberspatial e-house2000 (for e-nergy, the e-nvironment and e-xciting) in the upper Hudson Valley near New Paltz, built with Scada software enabling the owner to (among other techie things) turn on the dishwasher from Tokyo. Two years before 9/11, contemporary American art, which in market terms had never recovered from the stock-market and commercial real-estate nose dives of the early 1990s, went into sleep mode. Since the Brooklyn museum's noisy Sensations show (all Brits) in 1999, the only thing causing anybody in the art world to open even one eye has been the wildfire rumour of a guerrilla art happening known as Meat Shower in a Brooklyn loft, at
[CTRL] NASA to Terminate All Radar Astronomy at Arecibo
-Caveat Lector- -- NASA to Terminate All Radar Astronomy at Arecibo http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6945 -- Planetary Society Protests Stop to Near-Earth Object Observations http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6951 NASA has notified Don Campbell, Associate Director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo and Head of the Radar Astronomy Group, that all funding for Arecibo radar studies will be terminated on January 1 2002. The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society believes that the Arecibo program should not be terminated to meet an arbitrary deadline. The Planetary Society strongly condemns NASA's decision, announced today, to terminate radar observations of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Arecibo is the most powerful radio observatory on Earth and is the most accurate instrument we have for studying NEOs. _ EcoNews Service: Always online for Ecology, Consciousness, and Universal Exopolitics EcoNews: http://www.ecologynews.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, BC V6M1V8 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] Off the Mark
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001583315,00.html }}}Begin WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 2001 The deutschemark FROM ROGER BOYES IN BERLIN Obituary for a symbol of German power in the first of an occasional series on Europe's dying currencies THE deutschemark, child of crisis, symbol of German power, is dead. But its faithless consumers barely spared a thought yesterday for the once rock-hard currency as they thronged outside banks to pick up packets of parvenu euros. Dead, but not yet buried: there will be time for mourning in the first two months of next year, when lame-duck marks will be allowed to flutter for a little longer, like an arthritic athlete making a final trot around the stadium. Tears had been expected, but it seems they will flow only when the death certificate has been signed and sealed on New Years Day. The mark was an adopted child, dreamed up by American economists. The infant currency replaced all the improvisations of postwar occupation: the Allied Military mark, the reichsmark and the blackmarket currency of Chester field and Lucky Strike cigarettes. In 1948 crates of the currency were shipped from America into Bremerhaven and taken across the country under heavy escort. Even then it was a currency that divided rather than united: introduced in the western zones of Germany, it quickly spawned an eastern rival, the ostmark, in the Soviet zone. Yet this foundling, from 1957 jealously protec ted by the Bundesbank, became the apple of the Germans eye. Its stubborn resistance to politicians, its muscular buying power, its ability to win friends abroad all this stirred the national pride of the Germans. Fifteen years after defeat in a devastating war, they were becoming Europes most dedicated package tourists; unloved perhaps, but respected for the weight of their purses. The mark became one of the few national icons of the West German state. By the 1980s the talk was of mark diplomacy. The currencys strength underwrote Germanys Ostpolitik and was in many ways a substitute for policy. Bundesbank presidents were treated like statesmen, their words nervously monitored by a Europe increasingly dependent on the mark. The clumsy description of Germany as an economic giant and a political dwarf was backhande d recognition that the mark now counted for more than the German Army or German diplomacy. Ultimately, it was the mark that propelled so many East Germans to stampede across the crumbling Berlin Wall. In a few months during 1989-90, East Germany abandoned four decades of Communist propaganda and signed up for c apitalism. The demonstrators chanted: If the mark does not come to us, we will come to you. The ostmark collapsed, as did much of East German industry. Rundown baroque castles changed hands for a single mark on condit ion that the purchaser invested millions in restoration work. German unity was the zenith of the marks career; the mark that had once split the country had brought it together again. Certainly, the marks prewar ancestor, the reichsmark, must have chuckled from beyond the grave. In the hyperinflation of 1922-23 a dollar could be bought for 4.2 billion marks. The lost war and the heavy reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles created chaos. German companies inflated away their debt payments . Inflation galloped up to 1,300 per cent. Wheelbarrows full of banknotes replaced wallets. It became cheaper to burn the notes than buy fuel; rooms were wallpapered with banknotes. This whirlwind inflation influenced sub sequent generations of Germans. Hitler promised sound financial policies, but the main task of his Reichsbank soon became the distinctly unsound financing of war. The modern German has always insisted that the Bundesbank guarantees the stability and security of the mark in effect to guard it against politicians, be they dictators or simply high spenders. As the Bundesbank became a hollow shell, so anxiety has spread about its successor. How solid is the European Central Bank? Will it listen closely enough to the Germans, who have just lost their emotional anchor? To measure the marks real achiev ements it is necessary to go back to the first united Germany. It was the 1875 mark based on the gold plundered from the French that first created a unified currency out of a jumble of talers and guilders. The idea fo r a single currency uniting the German states arose out of the German Customs Union in 1834; a single market, it was argued, needed a single currency. But it took a bloody war to make Bismarcks coinage a reality and the currency was duly destroyed by war. The mark was born out of the confusion of the Second World War, but was killed in peacetime by the Maastricht Treat y. That represents a kind of progress. History of Germany's currency 1875 The mark becomes the currency of united Germany 1922-23 Hyperinflation. Introduction of the rentenmark 1933 Hitler takes
[CTRL] Fwd: The Argentine Disappeared were Profitable
---BeginMessage--- [AFIB] Nazi Echo: Argentina, Death Camps The Contras RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT _ * THE CONSORTIUM * For Independent Journalism Web: http://www.consortiumnews.com/ Tel: (703) 920-1580 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Volume 3, No. 19 (Issue 71) - September 28, 1998 - _ NAZI ECHO: ARGENTINA, DEATH CAMPS THE CONTRAS By Marta Gurvich Robert Parry - 19 September 1998 - The tracks of secret financing for the Nicaraguan contra war may cross a troubling money-raising tactic passed on from Adolf Hitler's Nazis to their ideological heirs in Argentina: the liquidation of property from victims killed in death camps. An investigation in Spain is examining evidence that an intelligence officer in Argentina's Dirty War was responsible for selling the property of Argentines after they were disappeared -- that is, taken to secret concentration camps and murdered. Money from the victims' property may have ended up in Swiss bank accounts maintained by Argentine military officers. The Argentine intelligence officer accused of overseeing the property liquidations is Raul Guglielminetti. In closed-door U.S. Senate testimony in 1987, one of his accomplices also fingered Guglielminetti as the manager of a Miami-based money-laundering operation that funnelled tens of millions of dollars in Bolivian drug money to the Nicaraguan contras and to other right-wing paramilitary operations in Latin America. The extent of the contra connection to various Bolivian drug smuggling operations reportedly is one of the surprises contained in the still-secret volume two of an internal CIA investigation into contra-cocaine trafficking. But the CIA so far has refused to release the 600-page volume two. CIA spokesmen say the agency eventually may release an unclassified summary, but will likely keep much of volume two secret. In Spain, meanwhile, the property-liquidation case is one part of a larger examination of Argentina's Dirty War by Judge Baltasar Garzon. The judge has been investigating the fate of Spanish citizens who disappeared in Argentina during the late 1970s and early 1980s when the military slaughtered some 10,000 to 30,000 people who were considered politically suspect. Garzon's investigation is looking at evidence that Guglielminetti oversaw the selling of property stolen from the victims, with the proceeds allegedly deposited in nearly 100 Swiss bank accounts belonging to Argentine officers. Earlier this year, the inquiry led to confirmation that at least six Argentine military officers maintained secret bank accounts in Switzerland. But it was not clear whether those accounts contained proceeds looted from Dirty War victims or money from other sources. Still, the historical echo of Hitler's financial strategies is striking. During Hitler's World War II extermination campaign against European Jews, the Nazis raised capital by selling the possessions of death-camp victims, including gold melted down from wedding bands and extracted from teeth fillings. Hitler's government transferred large amounts of this wealth through Swiss banks and used the money to buy vital goods from neutral countries, including Argentina. Argentina then was dominated by the quasi-fascist movement of Gen. Juan Peron. The country harbored strong sympathies for the Axis powers, especially Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. After World War II, many Nazis escaped along rat lines to Argentina and other South American countries which protected war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie. International Jewish groups long have suspected that Argentina played a role, too, in laundering the Nazis' legendary ODESSA funds to fascist survivors of the Third Reich. In the decades that followed, some fascist and neo-fascist operatives branched out, linking up to organized crime and earning money as narcotics traffickers. Others found jobs assisting Latin American intelligence services suppressing leftist insurgencies. The ex-Nazis shared their skills in torture and other intelligence techniques. The Cold War further heightened the region's political tensions, with terror and counter-terror campaigns reaching a peak in the early 1970s. [For details on the Nazis in South America, see Martin A. Lee's The Beast Reawakens; Henrik Kruger's The Great Heroin Coup; and iF Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1997.] Into that combustible ideological mix stepped the shadowy figure of Raul Guglielminetti. Born in 1941, Guglielminetti's criminal history dates back to 1960, when he was investigated on fraud charges but released. In 1964, he got into more
[CTRL] Fwd: UNDERNEWS DEC 20
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- UNDERNEWS Dec 20, 2001 THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW Inside the Beltway, Out of the Loop Ahead of the Curve Edited by Sam Smith Since 1964, Washington's most unofficial source 1312 18th St. NW #502, Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 REVIEW E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] REVIEW INDEX: http://www.prorev.com/ UNDERNEWS: http://www.prorev.com/indexa.htm SUBSCRIBE TO UNDERNEWS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] REVIEW FORUM: http://www.topica.com/lists/reviewforum/read WAR NEWS ARCHIVES: http://prorev.com/bushwar.htm SAM SMITH'S WAR STORIES: http://prorev.com/warstories.htm WORD I have a higher and greater standard of principle [than George Washington]. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't. Mark Twain TEN LESSON ON TERRORISM FROM SRI LANKA SHARIF ABDULLAH, COMMON WAY INSTITUTE - The Sri Lanka government has been fighting terrorists for almost two decades, with no end in sight. On the other hand, the American war on terrorism is only two months old. Is there anything the US can learn from the conflict in Sri Lanka? Can America head off twenty years of bloody suffering by looking for lessons in Sri Lanka? I live in both worlds. For half of my year, I live in Portland, Oregon, what is arguably the best city in America, as far from civil war and suicide bombers as I can get. The other half of the year, I live in steamy, tropical Sri Lanka, the teardrop hanging off the tip of India . . . My reason for being in Sri Lanka is simple: help stop the two decades of debilitating war that is sapping the vitality and civility of an otherwise beautiful island. I do this through the application of the philosophy of inclusivity, a search for a third way solution that does not support either party to the current struggle. Our goal is to permanently break the cycles of victim-villain-violence. I work with Sarvodaya, a 40-year-old self-help development organization based on Gandhian and Buddhist principles. In my time in Sri Lanka, Ive learned a few things that can be applied to Americas new-found war on terrorism: 1. THE WAR COULD GO ON FOREVER. Armed conflicts can last for generations. The longest hot war of modern times is the conflict in Angola 45 years, with no end in sight. The military standoff in Korea is also multi-generational. Sri Lanka: Terrorist attacks become so routine they simply arent news anymore. Each attack further reduces the vitality of the island and her inhabitants. Politicians meet each new attack with words of outrage and promises of retribution. However, for most Sri Lankans, raised for a full generation on daily doses of terrorism and violence, the ongoing cricket matches are more newsworthy than unending stories of horror and retribution. America: Airplanes, skyscrapers, anthrax, bridges, federal buildings, alerts Attacks and rumors of attacks are becoming so prevalent that many people are already turning off and going numb. This trend will continue the public will become more numb as more terrorist attacks occur. LESSON #1: Violence never resolves anything. At some point in time, people will stop shooting at each other and will start talking to each other. Nonviolent dialog is the only proven way to resolve conflict. 2. THE TWO SIDES ARE FIGHTING VASTLY DIFFERENT WARS, BASED ON VASTLY DIFFERENT VIEWS OF REALITY. Because the wars are different, the standards of winning are different. The fighting goes on for decades, with both sides claiming victories. Sri Lanka: The government sees itself fighting a war against a handful of terrorists who are trying to destroy the government. The Tigers see themselves leading a movement for national liberation against a Sinhalese government that wants to exterminate the Tamil ethnic group. Both sides see themselves as the victim and the other as the perpetrator of violence. America: The government sees itself fighting a war against a handful of terrorists who are threatening the American way of life. The Al Qaeda group sees itself fighting a war against foreign invaders in their homeland. Both sides see themselves as the victim and the other as the perpetrator of violence. Lesson #2: Help formulate and articulate a third way position (beyond government and insurgent positions.) This third way must look at reality from the point of view of the people, not the advocates of violence. 3. WHAT EACH SIDE SAYS ABOUT THE OTHER IS TRUE. WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEMSELVES IS NOT. Each maximizes the sins of the other, while minimizing their own. Both sides commit atrocities. Each justifies its actions while vilifying the actions of the other. Because of anger, history and psychological filters, the two sides cannot see or hear each other. They
Re: [CTRL] Off the Mark
It's fascinating that a lengthy article like that could recount the history of the mark without once mentioning its strength was because it was backed by gold. After the war (W.W.II) the Germans did the exact opposite of American advice from economic guru Walter Heller and put the mark on a gold standard. That, much more than the Marshall plan, was responsible for Germany's resurgence. But then it would be too much to expect the Fabian Socialists to pay tribute to the gold standard, anathema to all spend and elect governments. Jim Rarey - Original Message - From: Euphorian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:43 PM Subject: [CTRL] Off the Mark -Caveat Lector-Fromhttp://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001583315,00.html}}}BeginWEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 2001The deutschemarkFROM ROGER BOYES IN BERLINObituary for a symbol of German power in the first of an occasionalseries on Europe's dying currenciesTHE deutschemark, child of crisis, symbol of German power, is dead.But its faithless consumers barely spared a thought yesterday for theonce rock-hard currency as they thronged outside banks to pick uppackets of parvenu euros.Dead, but not yet buried: there will be time for mourning in thefirst two months of next year, when lame-duck marks will be allowedto flutter for a little longer, like an arthritic athlete making afinal trot around the stadium. Tears had been expected, but it seemsthey will flow only when the death certificate has been signed andsealed on New Year's Day.The mark was an adopted child, dreamed up by American economists. The infant currency replaced all the improvisations of postwar occupation: the Allied Military mark, the reichsmark and the blackmarket currency of Chesterfield and Lucky Strike cigarettes. In 1948 crates of the currency were shipped from America into Bremerhaven and taken across the country under heavy escort.Even then it was a currency that divided rather than united: introduced in the western zones of Germany, it quickly spawned an eastern rival, the ostmark, in the Soviet zone. Yet this foundling, from 1957 jealously protected by the Bundesbank, became the apple of the Germans' eye. Its stubborn resistance to politicians, its muscular buying power, its ability to win friends abroad - all this stirred the national pride of the Germans.Fifteen years after defeat in a devastating war, they were becoming Europe's most dedicated package tourists; unloved perhaps, but respected for the weight of their purses. The mark became one of the few national icons ofthe West German state. By the 1980s the talk was of mark diplomacy. The currency's strength underwrote Germany's Ostpolitik and was in many ways a substitute for policy.Bundesbank presidents were treated like statesmen, their words nervously monitored by a Europe increasingly dependent on the mark. The clumsy description of Germany as an economic giant and a political dwarf was backhanded recognition that the mark now counted for more than the German Army or German diplomacy.Ultimately, it was the mark that propelled so many East Germans to stampede across the crumbling Berlin Wall. In a few months during 1989-90, East Germany abandoned four decades of Communist propaganda and signed up for capitalism. The demonstrators chanted: "If the mark does not come to us, we will come to you." The ostmark collapsed, as did much of East German industry. Rundown baroque castles changed hands for a single mark - on condition that the purchaser invested millions in restoration work.German unity was the zenith of the mark's career; the mark that had once split the country had brought it together again. Certainly, the mark's prewar ancestor, the reichsmark, must have chuckled from beyond the grave.In the hyperinflation of 1922-23 a dollar could be bought for 4.2 billion marks. The lost war and the heavy reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles created chaos. German companies inflated away their debt payments. Inflation galloped up to 1,300 per cent. Wheelbarrows full of banknotes replaced wallets. It became cheaper to burn the notes than buy fuel; rooms were wallpapered with banknotes. This whirlwind inflation influenced subsequent generations of Germans. Hitler promised sound financial policies, but the main task of his Reichsbank soon became the distinctly unsound financing of war.The modern German has always insisted that the Bundesbank guarantees the stability and security of the mark - in effect to guard it against politicians, be they dictators or simply high spenders. As the Bundesbank becamea hollow shell, so anxiety has spread about its successor. How solid is the European Central Bank? Will it listen closely enough to the Germans, who have just lost their emotional anchor? To measure the mark's real achievements it is necessary to go back to the first united Germany. It was the 1875 mark - based on the gold plundered from the
[CTRL] An Appeal from Palestine
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- --Please forward, print, and post widely-- An Appeal from Palestine Appeal to the World The situation in Palestine is verging on that of a humanitarian crisis. The Palestinian population, 3.2 million people, is currently under the worst siege in their entire history. · People are unable to move between Palestinian villages and towns, and goods cannot be transported. · Large parts of many cities and villages are under 24 hour, or dusk-to-dawn curfews; tanks and armoured personal carriers sit in the streets, outside homes. · A shortage of supplies is being reported in some areas, including gas and food. · Sewage and garbage remains uncollected, presenting a public health crisis. · Vaccinations and primary health care systems are paralysed, and epidemics are possible · Patients in need of kidney dialysis and cancer treatment cannot receive it; in addition to this, 30 Palestinians have died after being denied access to medical care, and numerous women have given birth at the Israeli military blockades. · Most universities and schools are not functioning. · More than 50% of the population is unemployed; furthermore many employed people are unable to get to their places of work. · Heavily armed Israeli soldiers arbitrarily occupy civilians' homes. · Israeli soldiers make armed raids into areas under Palestinian Authority, shooting people in their homes, and arresting others. Palestinians are being punished through a combination of occupation, military aggression siege. During the past 14 months the Israeli army has killed 924 Palestinians and 25,000 others have been injured which is 1% of the population. 2,000 people have become permanently disabled. Without your actions the situation can only worsen. We call on you to contact your representatives to prevent this humanitarian crisis from becoming a disaster. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT = Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is the largest network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights. To subscribe to Al-Awda-News, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out how to join an Al-Awda action committee in your area, please visit our website at http://al-awda.org = FREEZE TERRORIST ASSETS! STOP US AID TO ISRAEL! Sign the petition letter online at: http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm = Unless indicated otherwise, all statements posted represent the views of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] The End of Enron
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- The End of EnronGavin Rose http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/doc244.html December 19, 2001 A political powerhouse behind global energy deregulation and major GATS designer, the Enron Corp. has been a pivotal figure in the military-industrial network of cartels behind the Bush administration. Now filing for bankruptcy, Enron is the topic of Senate hearings, the subject of SEC investigations, and the possible target of criminal charges (for concealing massive debt in partnerships with de facto subsidiaries). The story of Enrons rapid rise and fall illustrates many times over the flippant ease with which leaders of multinational cartels can and will engineer global social and economic crises banking on disaster. Enron has been moving Bushs hand since the 1980s, when Enrons first foray into Argentinas utility contract bidding failed. Asserts the former Argentine minister of public works Rodolfo Terragno, W. Bush called to personally solicit the government contract for Enron in 1988 (while his father was President-elect). Back then the brokerage was less adept at passing itself off as a legitimate business. Enron had transparently adopted as a local frontispiece the Argentine firm Westfield (Westfield's only asset the previous year was $20, its corporate filing fee). Terrango was unimpressed and considered the lame attempt an offensive joke. After long resistance to the disreputable company's advances, in 1998 Enron was granted the first power marketer license in Argentina, "in accordance with a governmental resolution that allows companies which do not own power generation assets to market electricity" Enrons press release on this coup (which could conceivably have involved extensive bribery) is smug. This marked "an important step in Enron's strategic efforts to establish power marketing operations in Latin America and to further its participation in the future integration of the Southern Cone's energy markets," said Scott Porter, Enron International Argentina executive director. Enron International Argentina also built pipelines and sold risk management services to industrial and commercial customers, while providing "the same customers with access to low-cost capital and a range of alternatives for securing affordable debt and equity financing for energy-related projects." While Satirewire makes light of the intimacy between Enron and Argentina sobering facts point to the likelihood that Enron's chicanery may have precipitated Argentina's financial crisis. The Argentine government has accused Wall Street of speculation on an economic collapse. Enron may have created an investment scare with this warning, on its credit consulting on-line database, which seems crafted to deliberately drive up fears of debt default (against which Enron was eager to sell protection). Through political connections (most prominently, the presidential Bush family) Enron aggressively pressured energy officials in many other countries to overlook its shady finances and irresponsible track-record. The companys tactic was to make eleventh-hour bids (to avert pre-emptive popular opposition). Enron finally came under investigation in India this summer in connection with Dhabol Power U.S. Ambassador Frank Wisner had exerted enormous pressure on the Indian government to award the power plant contract to Enron, and the CIA had provided strategic intelligence on the competitors and the bidding process. An inept risk-taker, Enron also sank billions of dollars in power companies in South Korea, China and the Philippines, a water company in Britain, pulp mills in Canada, and power plants throughout South America. U.S. taxpayers picked up the tab through corporate welfare programs (including the Export-Import Bank, which insures overseas investments for U.S.-based multinationals at unreasonably low rates). Get rid of people, they gum up the works The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a new body of rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO) designed to liberalize international trade-in-services. One of the largest multi-sector private service providers in the world, Enron
[CTRL] Re: [CTRL] Gun Ownership Are We Fit to Be Free? Part 2
-Caveat Lector- On the other side of the coin, gun control has proved deadly, as is the case in England where under the Firearms Act of 1997 all handguns and most rifles were outlawed and confiscated. In the dead of night in an isolated English farmhouse in south east england the lone farmer heard his house being broken into - nervously he got his shotgun and went to the top of the stairs to be confronted by 2 attackers - he fired his shotgun - and an attacker fell and a bigger attacker ran away. the fallen assailant was a young bow - who died, his accomplice was a housebreaker with a string of previous convictions. The farmer was tried and jailed for murder. He was told that he used unreasonable force to defend himself. The farmer was of poor health. 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
[CTRL] harry potter and the lord of the rings
-Caveat Lector- I don't suppose anybody got the connection between Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings ?? answer - scotland - Harry Potter was written in edinburgh and probably refers to Gordonstoun - the public school in north east scotland at which the royals are educated Lord of the Rings - mentions the stone of destiny, [erec] the surrounding county around edinburgh is lothlorien, [lothians] the name of the returning king is edinburgh [dunedain] it will be the end of the stewards [stewarts] - and there is evidence to suggest that edinburgh could be the city of Minas Tirith - around which the last battle was/will be fought. Edinburgh with its seven hills, patron saint of david, and masonic secret that it was once the aryan jerusalem - pontius pilates family stayed 50 miles north of edinburgh - and like the jerusalem in the bible - edinburgh has the port of Joppa - not jaffa. The NWO has sneaked out 2 films that centre around the scottish question - maybe we should take note. andrew hennessey www.scottishxfiles.co.uk www.fantasyedinburgh.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] civil liberties, bin laden tape
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4321856,00.html The Taliban of the west - This war is threatening the very freedoms it claims to be defending George Monbiot - Guardian - Tuesday December 18, 2001 The pre-Enlightenment has just been beaten by the post-Enlightenment. As the last fundamentalist fighters are hunted through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the world's most comprehensive attempt to defy modernity has been atomised. But this is not, as almost everyone claims, a triumph for civilisation; for the Taliban has been destroyed by a regime which is turning its back on the values it claims to defend The first is the formal suspension of certain civil liberties by governments backing the war in Afghanistan. The new anti-terror acts approved in Britain and the US have, like the reinstatement of the CIA's licence to kill, been widely reported. The measures introduced by some other allied governments are less well known. In the Czech Republic, for example, a new law permits the prosecution of people expressing sympathy for the attacks on New York, or even of those sympathising with the sympathisers. Already one Czech journalist, Tomas Pecina, a reporter for the Prague-based investigative journal Britske Listy, has been arrested and charged for criticising the use of the law, on the grounds that this makes him, too, a supporter of terrorism. Toronto Sun - December 17, 2001 - Is the Gun Smoking? 'Experts' Disagree on bin Laden Home Video by Eric Margolis WASHINGTON -- ... The Osama bin Laden home video released by the U.S. last Thursday gave a fascinating look at the head of a fanatical Muslim cult receiving a visiting Saudi sheik. According to the accompanying translation from Arabic to English - made by the U.S. government and checked by two U.S.-based Arabic experts - bin Laden clearly appears to voice his culpability for the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, D.C But two other Arabic experts say the tape's audio quality is so poor that almost nothing bin Laden says on it can be verified. To my ears, well accustomed to Arabic, half of bin Laden's words were inaudible. The translation was sometimes out of sync with the action on screen. Bin Laden's statements looked cut up and edited. Cynics suggest the tape was a forgery made by Russian intelligence or the U.S. government, with incriminating statements spliced into an otherwise boring exchange of pleasantries between bin Laden and a visiting admirer. This is possible. In 1990, the U.S. used retouched satellite photos to convince the Saudis that Iraq was about to invade - which it was not 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] Dont mention it
-Caveat Lector- The US State Departments Human Rights Reports on Israel and the Occupied Territories http://www.mediamonitors.net/jenniferloewenstein1.html Don't Mention It by Jennifer Loewenstein On Saturday, 15 December 2001, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have cleared the way for international monitors in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many believe that such monitors would help reduce the violence in the increasingly bloody low-intensity war Israel is waging against Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, as well as stop the devastating suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Among the reasons the US gave for its veto was that the United Nations is not the proper forum for resolving Middle East violence. The US prefers to see itself as the sole arbiter in this conflict despite or perhaps because ofits marked pro-Israel bias, all the more evident of late in its backing of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons public condemnation of PA President Yassir Arafat, and in its refusal to challenge Israels appropriation of the Bush administrations language regarding Americas War on Terror. We are expected to accept that Israels policies and strategy towards the Palestinians are analogous to US policies and strategy towards al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Most people in the Arab and Muslim worlds know that this is a standard example of US hypocrisy and support for unjust regimes. The United States government is well aware of Israels poor human rights record both towards the Palestinians living under its 34-year-old occupation and towards Palestinian citizens of Israel itself. Our politicians and pundits regularly distort the reality of the situation, however, ignoring or overlooking carefully documented records of Israeli human rights abuses. To highlight this point one need not only quote from the extensive reports of Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. The US State Department has yearly, detailed reports of Israeli human rights abuses available for anyone interested. The State Departments Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000: Occupied Territories (February 2001) states unequivocally that Israels overall human rights record in the occupied territories [is] poor. It goes on to report that Israeli security forces committed numerous serious human rights abuses during the year . Since the violence began, [September 2000] Israeli security units often used excessive force against Palestinian demonstrators. Israeli security forces sometimes exceeded their rules of engagement, which provide that live fire is only to be used when the lives of soldiers, police, or civilians are in imminent danger. Israeli security forces abused Palestinians in detention suspected of security offenses. There were numerous credible allegations that police beat persons in detention. Three Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody under ambiguous circumstances during the year. Prison conditions are poor. Prolonged detention, limits on due process, and infringements on privacy rights remained problems. Israeli security forces sometimes impeded the provision of medical assistance to Palestinian civilians. Israeli security forces destroyed Palestinian-owned agricultural land. Israeli authorities censored Palestinian publications, placed limits on freedom of assembly, and restricted freedom of movement for Palestinians. Often lauded as the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel nevertheless appears to have difficulty applying its high human rights standards to non-Jews. One might plausibly argue that these standards are, out of necessity, suspended in areas under military occupation were it not for the fact that the Jewish settler population in the territories benefits from the same rights and privileges accorded their counterparts within Israels internationally recognized borders. One might also argue that Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are equal participants in the countrys democratic social institutions were it not for certain serious problems such as that nearly 70,000 Arab Israelis live in legal limbo: the more than 100 villages they live in within Israel are unrecognized by the government. As a result these residents pay taxes to the government but are not eligible for government services . Consequently, such villages have none of the infrastructure, such as electricity, water, and sewers, provided to recognized communities. The lack of basic services has caused difficulties for the villagers in regard to their education, health care, and employment opportunities. New building in the unrecognized villages is considered illegal and subject to demolition. The Israeli government has yet to resolve the legal status of these villages and their inhabitants. [Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000: Israel; US Department of State, February 2001.] In addition, the report continues, Palestinian citizens
[CTRL] UN votes 161 to 3 against for Palestininian state
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- ADVERTISEMENT My Groups | southnews Main Page Angered by Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Authority the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday in emergency special session moved to condemn Israeli violence in the occupied Palestinian territories The session was called for by Egypt, on behalf of the Arab League and South Africa, which leads the Non-Aligned Movement of largely developing countries. The emergency special session was the fourth in recent years to be called to consider ``illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.'' Earlier sessions, which took place in 1997, 1998 and 2000, date back to the establishment of new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory in 1997. -- A 161 votes majority for a UN resolution for establishing the Palestinian State New York December 20th Wafa, The UN General assembly has adopted a new resolution that guarantees the Palestinian peoples rights of self determination including establishing their own Palestinian State. 161 countries voted in favor of the resolution and three countries voted against it, in addition to the USA, Israel and Marshal Islands, voted against while Micronesia abstained. The resolution urged all countries, related agencies, and the UN Institutions to go on supporting and aiding the Palestinian people accordingly. Hereby is the full text authorized by the General Assembly: The UN General Assembly, being aware of developing the, trusty and friendly relations between the nations and their countries, based on mutual rights recognition and respect, being coinciding with the essence of the UN formation and Charter. Taking in consideration the two treaties of human rights and the declaration of the human rights, and the declaration of independence of all colonized countries, and Vienna Framework Program accepted June 25th 1992, and the UN declaration of the Millennium. Hoping for resumption of the negotiations in the Middle East based on the previous agreements, will lead to understanding between the Palestinians and the Israelis in solving their problems peacefully. Emphasizing all nations rights of living peacefully and securely inside their recognized borders: 1- The UN General Assembly reiterates the Palestinians right of self determination, including the establishment of their own independent free state. 2- Hopes that the Palestinian people will soon practice their own freedom away from any veto. 3- Urges all countries, UN agencies and International institutions to come forth helping the Palestinian people through, until achieving their national goals. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fear Drives the Making of a Secret Government
http://www.iht.com/articles/42297.html Fear Drives the Making of a Secret Government Charles Levendosky New York Times News Service Wednesday, December 19, 2001 CASPER, Wyoming The Bush administration is creating a secret government - a government accountable to no one but the president. Congress stomps and moans yet does little to stop the administration from hacking away constitutional checks and balances. And a majority of the American people awash in fear do not care.. But fear and a thirst for revenge against the terrorist networks responsible for Sept. 11 are not reason enough to betray America's traditions of liberty. They cannot be a rationale for treating the Constitution and Bill of Rights as if they are mere scraps of paper.. Nearly 1,200 noncitizens have been detained by the Department of Justice, by presidential order - an order that violates the Fourth Amendment, which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.". When a person from another country enters the United States, he or she receives many constitutional protections. The Bill of Rights speaks about the rights of people or persons, not citizens - it does not limit its guarantees of freedom only to citizens. Attorney General John Ashcroft has refused to disclose the identity of more than 500 people still being detained. Many have been shuffled from one jail to another, across state lines, so that they cannot contact attorneys to represent them. Many families did not know where their loved ones were for weeks. The Fifth Amendment states: "No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.". According to testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee by those formerly detained or their attorneys, some were held for weeks without being charged, without being able to see an attorney and without a hearing before a judge. Others have been held for weeks after being cleared by the FBI of any criminal violations. They were held incommunicado, which violates a cardinal principle of liberty.. In order to keep the government accountable, the people have a right to know the conditions of confinement and whether the detainees are being treated fairly and properly. In late November, Amnesty International sent a 26-page memorandum to the attorney general listing its concerns relating to the treatment of the detainees. Its memorandum and a follow-up letter detail how some detainees were denied medicine and food, were held in handcuffs and shackles for prolonged periods of time and were subjected to beatings and other mistreatment.. On Dec. 5, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and 16 other civil liberties organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding immediate release of documents concerning the identity and location of the detainees.. Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, a nonprofit civil liberties organization in Washington, said: "There is mounting evidence that secrecy is being invoked to shield serious violations of individual rights and not for legitimate investigative purposes.". On Dec. 6, with the arrogance of power that English kings once displayed before Parliament, Mr. Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Committee that its authority to oversee the Department of Justice was limited and that he would only answer those questions he wished to answer. In "some areas" he said, "I cannot and will not consult with you.". Congress's response to the executive branch's usurpation of power has been to pass bill after bill granting it greater wiretap authority, greater access to information about the public and loosening restrictions on federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Congress has, in effect, given up its constitutional duty to keep the presidency in check.. There should be a balance of power. There isn't. If Congress won't assert its rightful authority, Congress then yields its dominion to the presidency - that inevitably leads to autocracy.. The writer, editorial page editor of the Casper Star-Tribune, has a national reputation for Bill of Rights commentary. This comment was distributed by the New York Times News Service.
[CTRL] A Victory for the Star Wars Lobby
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/abm_treaty.html A Victory for the Star Wars Lobby President Bush's decision to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was based as much on ideology as on his support for a missile defense program. by William D. Hartung December 18, 2001 The Bush administration last week declared its intent to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, calling the pact an obsolete agreement that stands in the way of US efforts to develop and deploy a missile defense system. The timing of the decision is peculiar. Why risk alienating Russia, China and major US allies in Europe in pursuit of an unproven missile defense system? Why abandon the treaty now when experts have indicated that the current missile defense testing program could go on for years before running up against limits imposed by the agreement? Such questions may have been given careful consideration by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who opposed the rush to abandon the treaty. But for the cadre of administration officials who have long viewed scrapping the ABM treaty as a worthwhile goal in its own right, since doing so would set the stage for making military/technical dominance the centerpiece of U.S. security policy, such questions were probably viewed as irrelevant. For these hard-liners -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and other staunch members of the administration's ballistic missile defense lobby -- the decision to abandon the ABM treaty was driven by ideology. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), another committed advocate of missile defense, has dubbed this approach "peace through strength, not peace through paper." For Bush, the decision may have also been driven by politics. Sources within the administration have also indicated that the president made a political calculation that it would be better to junk the ABM treaty now, when he's riding high in public opinion polls, than to wait until closer to the 2004 elections, when the decision could become an issue to be used against him by political adversaries. Whatever the reasons behind it, this historic shift in U.S. arms control policy represents a major victory for the Star Wars lobby, the powerful network of conservative ideologues, cowboy militarists, and cash-hungry contractors spearheaded by right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and Center for Security Policy. During the Clinton administration, this lobby was reduced to attempting to influence the defense debate from the outside. Now, with Bush in the White House, it has staged a friendly takeover of the Executive Branch. The Center for Security Policy, which last year alone received more than $200,000 from major weapons contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, brags in its latest annual report that no fewer than 17 of its former advisory board members have been appointed to positions in the Bush administration, including Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Secretary of the Air Force James Roche. As if this weren't enough, Rumsfeld is a long-time associate and financial backer of the center. Rumsfeld recently served as the keynote speaker at the center's "Keeper of the Flame" awards dinner, the organization's largest annual fundraising event. For companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, which have already captured more than $17 billion in long-term contracts for missile defense research, Bush's decision represents a huge financial shot in the arm. Still, the decision may come back to haunt the companies and their supporters in Washington, as the spotlight of public attention will increasingly be played directly on the missile shield's glaring technical and strategic flaws. o The most "advanced" element of the system, a ground-based interceptor designed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads in flight, has succeeded in three out of five tests -- all of which were rigged to produce a positive result. As the Union of Concerned Scientists noted in a recent report, each test to date has involved using a transponder in the target missile which emits a signal and guides the interceptor to within 400 yards of the mock warhead. Real enemy missiles, of course, are unlikely to feature transponders. o The booster rocket that will be used to launch production versions of the interceptor is years behind schedule. In a test conducted earlier this month, a prototype of the booster exploded shortly after launch, littering the beaches in coastal areas near California's Vandenberg Air Force base with debris. o The Navy has announced that the simplest version of a sea-based missile interceptor system, the Navy Area Wide system, is being canceled due to poor performance and major cost overruns. None of these problems were caused by the ABM Treaty. In fact, it's quite likely that still more flaws in the missile shield program will be exposed once the treaty is fully abandoned and more
[CTRL] The Bush-Bin Laden Anthrax-Vaccine Connection
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=82contentid=418 The Bush-Bin Laden Anthrax-Vaccine Connection by IAN GURNEY (Editor's note: Domestic/State Terrorist George Bush is connected to the anthrax vaccine fraud. Should this article then be classified under Bush Crime Family, or Criminal Government, or Biowarfare, or New World Order? So many choices. What's an editor to do?) According to a story published by the Pakistan News Service on the 1st of December, documents referring to US anthrax vaccine-maker BioPort Inc. were found in the possession of the al-Qaeda in Kabul, Afghanistan. The documents came from the US Department of Defence, but were not classified and contained highlighted items and stars scribbled across the top of one page. A BioPort spokeswoman Kim Brennen Root commented: "The discovery supports the notion that the al-Qaeda and the Taliban have been studying biological warfare and protecting against weapons of mass destruction. The document was a report on the environmental impact of renovations to our Lansing, Michigan plant, not a "how-to" manual on making the vaccine. So, exactly what is BioPort Inc. and who runs the company? BioPort is the only corporation in the United States with a license to make the Anthrax vaccine -- except that BioPort doesn't actually make the vaccine. BioPort simply bought the laboratory that does make the vaccine, Michigan Biologic Products Institute, from the State of Michigan in 1998. Less than a month after it took over the business from the state-owned Michigan Biologic Products Institute in September 1998, along with the actual Anthrax vaccine, BioPort acquired Michigan Biologic Products Institute's sole and exclusive customer for the vaccine, the US Department of Defence, and an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defence to "manufacture, test, bottle and store the anthrax vaccine." According to former Central Intelligence Agency military analyst Patrick Eddington, the estimated $60 million worth of anthrax vaccine Bioport is expected to produce for the Defence Department over the next five years could just be the beginning. "The Pentagon has a $322 million, 10-year program to develop at least three, and perhaps as many as a dozen additional biological warfare vaccines," Eddington told ABCNEWS. However, since acquiring Michigan Biologic Products Institute, BioPort has only delivered a small amount of the anthrax vaccine to the US Defence department. In fact, just 4% of the vaccine contracted for has so far been delivered because Federal Drug Administration (FDA) audits have uncovered suspicious record keeping as well as security and contamination problems at BioPort's North Lansing laboratory, causing the FDA to ban delivery of the product. Tim Watson of The Lansing State Journal says: "BioPort finished renovating its North Lansing laboratories in 1999, but so far does not have FDA approval to sell vaccine made there." Despite this ban, the US Government has given BioPort $126 million to keep the operation going. Given the situation that now exists in the US, it is likely that FDA concerns for the product will soon be set aside and the vaccine delivered, US administration officials having been told that it would take too long to set up a new vaccine manufacturing operation in the present circumstances. So, now lets look at who owns and runs BioPort Corporation. Let's begin with Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. former Head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former US ambassador to Great Britain. It seems that back when President George H. W. Bush was setting up Osama Bin Laden as a "freedom fighter" (Afghanistan's "freedom fighters" were credited with shooting down more than 270 Soviet aircraft using American made Stinger missiles in the 1980's), the good Admiral and his associates on the Joint Chiefs of Staff were, according to some reports, selling American made weapons-grade anthrax to Saddam Hussein in the hopes that he would use it against Iran. But that was then and this is now. Admiral Crowe is retired, he is also a wealthy person, far beyond what one might expect on even an Admiral's salary. In fact, Admiral Crowe sits on the Board of Directors and owns 13% of BioPort. According to ABC News reporter Howard L. Rosenberg: "Bioport Corp. was created solely to take over the assets of Michigan Biologic Products Institute by Admiral Crowe, his partners in a company called Intervac L.L.C. and a group of former managers of the Michigan-based institute." It is Intervac that has the most interesting history. According to Crowe's associate and spokesman, Jay Coupe, Crowe owns 22.5 percent of Intervac shares, though he hasn't "invested a penny" in the venture. Another 30 percent of Intervac shares are owned by Nancy El-Hibri, a mother and homemaker in suburban Maryland and the rest of the company is in the hands of "IF Holdings," a company directed by Nancy El-Hibri's
[CTRL] Martin-Redstone Arsenal To Shut Down
http://www.almartinraw.com/column44.html Redstone Arsenal To Shut Down: Department of Defense Deceptions Continue Elsewhere by Al Martin (Dec. 19, 2001) Al Martin Raw has learned that the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, notorious home of military fraud, is to be closed down. As a matter of fact, late last night, the military moved out the rest of the supplies and equipment. They are maintaining a small contingent of low-level military people on the base to give it the façade that it's still in operation - but it isn't. Even the mail is being redirected, so it's unlikely that this deception can be maintained much longer. The Friendly Colonel says that the base was becoming a major political liability and that there was too much heat. Apparently it wasn't just Al Martin Raw that was hammering them on the flagrant frauds and other illicit operations at Redstone Arsenal. Information had also been recently leaked to members of Congress, and that was starting to cause some real problems. There was also evidently even talk of forming a whole new investigation. The helicopter development chief, the missile development chief and the supply and transportation chief have all been moved back to Washington. Recently there had also been a TV broadcast about the "mushrooms" (anti-personnel mines), which Al Martin Raw had previously reported. (See "Pandora's Box Opens: Marshmallow Business Booming") In fact, there are going to be revelations soon that these "mushrooms" were in fact being illegally purchased by China, and that China was the "end user" for these weapons systems, and were not trans-shippers as was previously believed... The US inventory of "mushrooms" has been exhausted. These are supposedly very convenient weapons for use in caves. They can be used to blast people inside the caves, and evidently we had to go back to the Chinese to buy some of them back. The "Southeast Trucking" company, an illegal cut out that was formed by the Department of Defense, is apparently going to be moved to Virginia. The three corporate officers are myself (Al Martin), the infamous swindler and government money launderer extraordinaire Lawrence Richard Hamil, and one "Major Walker." And nobody seems to know who this Major Walker is. So this is what they do. They file corporate papers and they put my name on them as a corporate officer. It's the same thing Hamil used to do to me. In order to throw smoke in everybody's eyes, the Department of Defense puts natural combinations of people back together again, people who were once associated with each other, but who, in fact, have not been associated with each other for years and years. They expected that I would never find out about it. The FBI has admitted that they're trying to find a guy named Larry Hamil and a guy named Al Martin, that they're trying to find out why these guys' names are on this corporation which is apparently trying to illegally transport weapons. Our names have also apparently ended up on hazardous materials application licenses. It was obvious that the local FBI guy in Huntsville had no idea who Larry Hamil or I really were. If they contact me, I'll just have to refer them to the Department of Defense because I don't know anything about it. I just want this out in the open that the Department of Defense was setting up a fraudulent cut out corporation known as "Southeast Trucking." (See previous story "Double Dealing: Over the Road Explosives…") It was supposed to illicitly transport weapons pursuant to the illegal sales thereof, and the infamous con man and government swindler Larry Hamil and my name ended up on the corporate docs -- without my knowledge. [See "The Conspirators," Chapter 11, Lawrence Richard Hamil: The Government's Con Man, Order Form.] This is not the first time that something like this has happened to me -- that one government agency has inserted my name in corporate papers of an illegal cut out that they've formed, to be involved in covert and illegal transactions that I had no knowledge of, and that I didn't even know my name was on the corporate papers till later on -- when somebody finally told me, or some agent of some federal agency came looking for me. And then it was always news to me. The Department of Defense is setting me up as an officer of an illicit cut out, to be involved in a covert illegal activity. They've tried to do this to me before - without my knowledge. As usual, the Department of Defense has no cooperation with the FBI whatsoever. It's interesting to note that when the Huntsville FBI officer in charge called the Washington home office to find out more information, he was told by an FBI guy who knows both Hamil and me (a more senior FBI agent in the National Intelligence division) that he doesn't know who we are. The reason why he was lying is because he was trying to protect the FBI from things that
[CTRL] Enron Ruin
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/enron Enron Ruin (Conspiracy Nation, 12/19/01) -- Enron suckers who invested heavily in the benevolent Enron retirement account were not allowed to sell their shares and had to watch their savings evaporate like steam from a vaporizer. Energy giant Enron "barred them from selling Enron shares from their retirement accounts." [1] "While ordinary employees were prohibited from selling company stock from their Enron-heavy 401(k) accounts, Enron executives cashed out more than $1 billion in stock when it was near its peak..." [1] What does Enron's longtime auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, know? Why didn't they notice anything fishy until so late as Nov. 2nd? What sort of accountants are Arthur Andersen LLP? Are they "auditing" any other large corporations? Ought we to be informed about it, before our own benevolent 401(k) savings are obliterated? How is it that Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron, was also on the board of directors of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly? What does energy have to do with pharmaceuticals? [2] Kenneth Lay, George W. Bush's largest "campaign contributor," apparently played a significant role in Veep Dick Cheney's secret "energy task force." The government's General Accounting Office (GAO) has asked to see the Cheney task force records, but GAO is being stonewalled. [3] Perhaps Kenneth Lay, Dick Cheney, and Arthur Andersen LLP are privately saying, "Let's lay low until this whole thing is forgotten." If so, then where is Walker, the Texas Ranger, now that we need him? (Suppose _you_ got pulled over by Walker, the Texas Ranger? Suppose _you_ tried to give Walker a "campaign contribution"? Hey, it's just "free speech", right?) "Did financial analysts who kept issuing 'strong buy' recommendations for Enron stock know what they were doing? Did they have a conflict of interest because of their investment firms doing financial work for Enron?" [4] And wasn't it a conflict of interest for Arthur Andersen LLP "to depend on Enron for tens of millions of dollars in consulting contracts, in addition to its auditing work?" [4] Besides the seamy aspects of "campaign contributions" serving as bribes for corporate wheeling and dealing, the looming ghost in the affair is shady accounting practices which are more widespread than people realize. -- [1] Associated Press report by Marcy Gordon. 12/19/01 [2] Associated Press, 12/19/01 [3] "An Enron Link To Energy Policy?" by Adam Zagorin. Time magazine, 12/24/01 [4] Associated Press, 12/18/01
[CTRL] THE WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN...DESCRIBED IN CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX BEFORE IT BEGAN
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html THE "WAR" WITH AFGHANISTAN (AND EVERY OTHER) DESCRIBED IN CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX MONTHS BEFORE IT BEGAN By David Icke Gatekeeper police and soldiers Police, the military, government officials, and “civil servants” are at the front line in the imposition of Illuminati policy on the global population. What I am about to describe is “democracy”, a word that has become interchangeable with “freedom” in the newspeak of Illuminati propaganda. I wonder if you think this sounds like freedom: first you elect a government by voting once every four or five years and choosing between two or more masks on the same Illuminati face. These governments then do almost whatever they like in their period in office and there’s nothing that can be done within the “law” to remove them until another farcical election is upon us in which we can, if we want “change”, elect another Illuminati mask. Governments pass laws in which you have had no say and, because of their majority in Parliament or Congress among the voting fodder that pass for “politicians”, they can get virtually any legislation into “law”. Once that happens, yet more fodder-people – gatekeepers – appear on the scene. We call them police and soldiers. Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is just to do or die. You are not paid to think, just to implement the law and follow orders. We pay for the use of your body and your trigger finger, not your brain, soldier. Now FIRE! YES, SIR! If it were not so tragic, it would be hilarious. Little boys playing soldiers at the expense of other people’s lives. Hey, soldier, you left a pile of bodies there in a country you only arrived in yesterday. What did they do to you? “They’re the enemy, Sir.” Have you ever spoken to them? “Of course not, Sir.” Never considered that they are just like you, with families and children, and aspirations to build a better life in the face of the bloody dictator your army has been flown in to defend? “No, Sir.” Ever read anything about this country you’re in? “No, Sir.” Then how do you know they’re your enemy? “My commanding officer told me, Sir.” An who told him? “His commanding officer, Sir. ” And who’s the chief commanding officer at the top of this heap? “The President, Sir.” And who commands the President? “The people, Sir, this is a democracy.” How many of “the people” just told you to kill that pile of bodies? “Well, one, Sir.” And who was that? “My commanding officer, Sir.” And who told him? (See above) . The training in the military is pure, classic, mind control. It is designed to break the spirit of a recruit to the point where he will do, by reflex action, whatever he is told to do, whenever and wherever, he is told to do it. The more elite the regiment, the more profound is the mind control. The training for the elite of the British military like the SAS and the Parachute Regiment, or the Delta Forces or Green Berets in the United States, is designed to produce robotic psychopaths because that is the mentality most suited to requirements. Thinking in the military is another bad career move. It is these clones of someone else’s commands that are used to implement the decisions, often on innocent people, of the Illuminati networks operating within global politics, the United Nations, and NATO. They are perhaps the nearest thing to zombies that you could imagine. That is not to say that out of uniform there are not intelligent, thinking, people among them. There are. But once the military garb is upon their person, their programming locks in and the gatekeepers take their positions at the checkpoint. If soldiers, and others in uniform, refused to follow orders without asking for justification, the Illuminati could not survive. Then the dog would wag the tail, instead of, at present, the other way around. The police are the same. It is not that we don’t need the police in today’s society, it is that we need them to think for themselves and assess situations on their merits, and not implement the law to the letter no matter what. There are some who try to do that, but the system constantly discourages them, as it does with teachers who tell their pupils to think and question. Many world police forces have “quotas” to maintain every month and so we have the pathetic situation in which more drivers are ticketed for speeding at the start of the month to get them off to a good start and at the end of the month when they are trying to complete their quota. It’s called justice. We need the police to ask themselves if a course of action is fair in the circumstances, even if the law insists that rules are rules. Otherwise they are just robots to another’s command. Thinking for yourself is called “insubordination”. You see this on a minor level when cars are targeted for illegal parking even though they are not causing a problem and there are reasons why they are there. We have reached the point now where parking a
[CTRL] Scuttlebut on Israeli agents and the Golden Gate
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/Rightwing/Adepasc211201.html Scuttlebut on Israeli agents and the Golden Gate Aldo de Pascale I NORMALLY don't pass along stories on the internet unless they can be independenly verified. However, this one rings true. A military officer based at Camp Pendleton in California revealed the following story: According to this military source, the cause of the well publicised terror alert for California's bridges that California Governor Gray Davis issued was the suspicious activity of two Middle Eastern men near the Golden Gate Bridge. Vigilant locals had reported that a group of men sharing an apartment were spending rather a lot of time on a boat in San Francisco Bay. They suspected they were drug smugglers. When their apartment was raided, the authorities discovered detailed plans of the Golden Gate Bridge. The men claimed that they just admired the structure of the bridge. Attorney General Ashcroft and Governor Davis had doubts about their "architectural passion" and issued an alert about a plot to blow up California bridges. We were never told what those alerts were based on, and the media hype passed as quickly as it came. According to my source, this military officer, the terror suspects were Israelis. If this were an isolated claim, I'd dismiss it as hearsay. But when you combine this with the other verified stories about Israeli ex military personnel in the USA a rational person is compelled to ask: "What the *%!@% are all these Israelis up to? This is why Ashcroft refuses to release the names of all those detained since September 11. Apparently, everyone in America is so petrified of being labeled "anti-semitic" that they downplay the possibility of Israeli terrorists aiding and abetting Arab terrorists. Very strange indeed.
[CTRL] Oy McVey-The Rich History of Jewish Terrorism
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0151/vest.php From the Irv Rubin Bust to the Stern Gang: The Rich History of Jewish Terrorism Oy McVey by Jason Vest WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a moment when the popular mind-set once again links the words "Arab" and "Islamic" with all things retrograde and threatening—including terrorism (cue the new Charlie Daniels anthem and revel in the poetry: "This ain't no rag, it's a flag/And we don't wear it on our heads. . . . /We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound")—it came as a surprise to some that the latest malefactors accorded POW status in the "War on Terrorism" turned out to be Jewish. Arrested and charged last week with intriguing to do explosive little actions on a Culver City, California, mosque and the offices of Lebanese American U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, Jewish Defense League chief Irving David Rubin and JDL member Earl Leslie Krugel were, according to FBI wiretap transcripts, anything but circumspect about their devices and desires: Though Rubin lamented the wanting state of technology in the JDL's possession (not good enough to "blow up an entire building"), Krugel was adamant that "Arabs need a wake-up call" and that the JDL needs to do something to one of their "filthy mosques"—which may explain the five pounds of gunpowder and pipe-bomb matériel found at his house. "If the people responsible for September 11 are the quintessence of evil genius, these guys are at the Keystone Kops end of the spectrum," says Hussein Ibish, communications director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "The only reassuring thing about them is their absolute ineptitude and the fact that they were arrested." Mainstream Jewish groups were quick to condemn the JDL as well: Characterizing the activities of the organization—founded in 1968 by Brooklyn's own, now deceased Rabbi Meir Kahane—as "contemptible," the Anti-Defamation League's regional director issued a statement "abhor[ing] and condemn[ing] the potential terrorist plot." The American Jewish Committee said it "categorically condemns in the strongest possible terms the alleged JDL plot," and went so far as to follow up with a personal letter to Republican representative Issa, decrying "such wanton lawlessness," which is "so clearly contrary to the fundamental tenets of our faith, and to the basic principles of justice and liberty that brought our parents and grandparents to America's shores and that form the bedrock of our national values." Yet some observers of the current Middle East crisis see more than a bit of disingenuousness and historical irony here. While both the ADL and the AJC have condemned the JDL, they've unequivocally backed Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's indiscriminate use of force against the Palestinians and the cutting of ties with Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat—neither of which is universally seen as a particularly constructive way to slow the cycles of violence across Israel and the Occupied Territories. But what's even more vexing to others is the apparent inability or unwillingness to discern similarities between the current Palestinian milieu and Israeli operations of 50-plus years ago, which secured statehood from colonialist occupiers—as well as similarities between violent, internecine struggles among disparate underground groups. "It's peculiar, it's paradoxical, that Sharon and Likud should be the ones who are trying to equate any authentic resistance in Palestine with some of the terrorist activities, as terrorism in Israel really started with Begin and Shamir and later Sharon," says Clovis Maksoud, the former Arab League ambassador to the United Nations. "It's a very valid question as to why they see no similarities between themselves under the British and the Palestinians under their occupation." Especially, he adds, as the Israeli government supports museums that honor assassins and terrorists—including one located on a street named for a terrorist. The thoroughfare in question runs between Florentine and Emeq-Yisrael, and bears the name Stern Street—in honor of Avraham Stern, a 1920s Zionist and charter member of the Haganah, then a loose-knit Jewish militia organized as a self-defense mechanism against Arab violence. Finding the Haganah insufficiently proactive in realizing the goal of a Jewish state that would encompass "both sides of the River Jordan," erstwhile Mussolini follower and early-day ultra-nationalist Ze'ev Jabotinsky broke with the militia and formed the Irgun, which devoted itself to terrorist operations against the British. Once an enthusiastic Irgunist, Stern was appalled when the Irgun decided to make common cause with the British against the Nazis, and created the even more underground and more violent Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael, or Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, which held there was no greater threat to the Jews of Palestine than the mandate's British administrators. To
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] The Power of Propaganda
---BeginMessage--- The Power of Propaganda http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/709vuidh.asp Warriors have been employing psychological warfare at least since Alexander the Great. Some have had greater success than others. by Matt Labash 12/20/2001 PROPAGANDA, PROPAGANDA, PROPAGANDA, Adolf Hitler once wrote, all that matters is propaganda. When it came to employing propaganda, the Fuehrer was obviously on board. Dedicating two chapters of Mein Kampf to the subject, the patron of the art that brought us Leni Riefenstal and Joe Goebbels became a propaganda champion after watching Germany's trouncing in World War I, which came in no small part because of British propaganda efforts directed against it by the not-so-subtly named Ministry for the Destruction of the German Confidence. Because Hitler made Nazism so readily identifiable with propaganda (Goebbels, never a light touch, assumed the title Minister of Propaganda), the very word tends to give American soldiers a severe case of the euphemisms. This I learned when visiting the U.S. Army's propaganda specialists at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Psyching Out the Taliban in the current issue of The Weekly Standard). The last century has seen propaganda dissemination called everything from psychological warfare to information operations to today's relatively clinical sounding psychological operations (And how did your psychological operation go? one colleague asked upon my return). I prefer not to use the word propaganda, says Lt. Col. Glenn Ayers, the 9th PSYOP battalion commander. It has negative connotations. So it does, but many argue it shouldn't. Dr. Philip Taylor, in his book Munitions of the Mind, writes that Propaganda itself is neither sinister nor evil. It is really no more than the organization of methods designed to persuade people to think and behave in a certain way, and in wartime that usually means getting them to fight or to support the fight. Or to stop fighting altogether. Since warfare's beginning, military philosophers and strategists have recognized the necessity of psychological operations (a subset of propaganda, since PSYOP is generally directed at the enemy, while propaganda is additionally used on one's own). Sun Tzu wrote, One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage. And Carl von Clausewitz wrote, Killing the enemy's courage is as vital as killing his troops. How forces have gone about doing so demonstrates the full spectrum of wartime caginess and brutality, of ingenuity and comic ineptitude. As Taylor writes, the word propaganda actually comes to us from the Vatican, which established the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (The Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith) intended to defend Catholicism against the heretics of the Protestant Reformation. But even before it had a name, it was widely practiced. Retired PSYOPer Ed Rouse, keeper of psywarrior.com (the web's definitive PSYOP history source), says that Alexander the Great was one of history's earliest propagandists. After conquering most of the known world, his army was stretched thin. Forced to retreat and regroup with armies he had left behind, he realized such an action would advertise that he was vulnerable to attack. His only option was to intimidate opposing forces as a deterrent. So Alexander had his armorers build oversized breastplates and helmets, ones that looked as if they were fitted for eight-foot tall soldiers. As his army retreated, they left the big-and-tall armor behind, scaring possible pursuers who feared they'd be doing battle with giants. (During the Vietnam War, American operatives tried to trick the North Vietnamese into thinking they were facing giants of another sort, by planting foot-long condoms along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.) Other forces, however, exhibited less cleverness, which is not to say they weren't effective. One Assyrian king discouraged revolts in the rebellious city of Suru by nailing the flayed skins of revolutionaries to a pillar of the city gate. While in the pre-leaflet era, Vlad the Impaler found that his most effective calling card came from spearing Turkish invaders on tall spikes. Gutenberg and Marconi certainly didn't end wartime barbarity. But their inventions allowed for the dissemination of propaganda through the more sophisticated means of printed materials and radio broadcasts. The British helped usher in PSYOP's modern era, which sought to persuade the enemy to cease fighting, as much as it did to demoralize them while they still were. The Brits weren't always perfect gentlemen. During World War II, they grew especially nasty with their own P.G. Wodehouse, who they were convinced was a Nazi collaborator. One BBC broadcaster derided Jeeves's creator, claiming he was throwing a cocktail party when the storm troopers clumped in on his shallow life. They led him away, the funny Englishman,
[CTRL] Burton Seeks Probe Into Convictions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.truthout.com/12.21A.Burton.Probe.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! December 19, 2001 Burton Seeks Probe Into Convictions By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:14 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Dan Burton, known for investigating the Clinton White House, asked Wednesday for a congressional investigation into whether the Bush Justice Department had inflated its figures on convictions of terrorists. He cited reports that drunks and the mentally imbalanced had been labeled as terrorists. Burton, R-Ind., asked the General Accounting Office, the investigative office of Congress, to look into reports the Justice Department was giving Congress inaccurate information. The allegations, while unproven, were one more indication of a heightened need for congressional oversight of the department, he said. Burton, as chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, held extensive hearings during the Clinton administration into alleged campaign finance irregularities linked to the Clinton White House. He also recently sparred with the Bush White House, subpoenaing documents pertaining to the FBI's handling of mob informants in Boston in the 1960s. Bush responded by invoking executive privilege to protect the confidentiality of those documents. Burton, in seeking the GAO report, referred to a recent Philadelphia Inquirer article concluding that many of the 236 terrorism convictions reported by the Justice Department for the budget year ending last September were questionable. It said cases classified as terrorism involved erratic behavior by people with mental illnesses, passengers getting intoxicated on airplanes and convicts rioting to get better prison food. Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra said the department doesn't feel it is necessary to quibble about the characterization of what is terrorism. He said there is no evidence the department padded the number of convictions to justify its counterterrorism budget, as the article suggested. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was interested in seeing the results of the GAO study. The bipartisan concern in Congress over the possible inaccuracy of Justice Department terrorism statistics is growing, he said. Burton, speaking of the terrorism conviction issue and the dispute over the Boston documents, said, An iron veil is descending over the executive branch that will keep information away from the Congress and the public. He said that could create a schism between the executive branch and Congress. Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant, in a letter to Burton Wednesday on the subpoena issue, said the department had a strong confidentiality interest in the extremely sensitive prosecutorial decision-making documents sought by the subpoenas. But he said the department was ready to make a proposal on how it can better accommodate the legitimate needs of the committee for information. *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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd:John Walker
-Caveat Lector- From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is something fishy about this entire matter; first, the kid has an accent - almost a french accent but not an American accent. Second - he looks like a big bear with all that fur on his face - something does not match up here. While I agree that something is fishy, I fail to see what Walker's facial hair has to do with anything... What I find interesting is that the kid's father works for the Justice Department, and that supposedly when he was 16 he suddenly announced he was dropping out of school to become a Moslem and to go study the Koran, and Mr. and Mrs. Walker apparently said Okay honey, have fun... I mean, what parents do YOU know who wouldn't have raised a fuss if their 16 y.o. announced they were going to drop out of school for ANY reason, let alone to go overseas to study Islam? I almost suspect the kid was groomed to be a spy...but for who, against who? ;-) 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: [CIA-DRUGS] Heroin, Drug Warlords Reappear on Afghan Scene
---BeginMessage--- Heroin, Drug Warlords Reappear on Afghan Scene Peter Dale Scott, Pacific News Service December 20, 2001 EDITOR'S NOTE: Quick on the heels of Taliban defeat, starving farmers are replanting the opium poppies banned under the Islamist regime, giving rise to fears of renewed drug warlordism. Engaged in the shooting war, Washington may be turning a blind eye to a favorite income source of its allies, says Pacific News Service commentator Peter Dale Scott -- bad news for those who want to reduce global heroin production. Within two years, Afghanistan may again be producing 2,800 or more tons of opium annually, according to U.S. and Pakistani sources, becoming again the world's chief supply source. In areas bordering Pakistan, where most of the opium is processed, prices have already plummeted. While the Taliban effectively forbade growing opium poppies -- the raw material for heroin -- their defeat means starving farmers are hurrying to replant the one lucrative crop available to them. This is of course bad news for those striving to reduce the scourge of heroin in the world. It also presents the risk of a return of warlordism to Afghanistan -- regional commanders and armies financed by the opium in their area, jealously refusing to relinquish such a lucrative income source to a central government. At risk is a revival of the vicious internecine feuds that took so many civilian lives in the 1990s, after the Soviet withdrawal. With planting and other drug business already moving quickly on the ground, there has not yet been any vigorous U.S. counteroffensive to finance the post-Taliban government from healthier sources. An October United Nations report confirmed that the Taliban successfully eliminated opium production in Afghanistan with a ban in 2000 that was almost universally enforced. The feat was enormous: before the ban, Afghanistan supplied 90 per cent of Europe's heroin. Then, Afghanistan provided 3,276 tons of opium poppies, more than half the world's output. This year's post-ban crop, however, was a small 185 tons, over 90 percent of it from provinces under the control of America's allies the Northern Alliance. Those skeptical about Mullah Omar's motives for the ban speculated that the Taliban held substantial reserves of processed opium and wished to drive up prices. The same sources predicted that a dumping of Taliban opium into the world market would follow the U.S. attack. This did not happen. Indeed, the U.N. report noted that the dramatic reduction in Afghan opium production was not offset by increases in other countries. The stage was set for the biggest blow to global heroin trafficking since the Communist crackdown in China after World War II. However, what would have been the world's largest curtailment of opium production in half a century will now apparently be reversed. As the Taliban was driven or fled from province after province, reports indicated farmers were replanting wheat fields with opium poppies. Another dark indicator of a coming boom is the recent and unexpected release from a Pakistani jail of Ayub Afridi, once the Khyber Pass kingpin for a network of Pashtun drug warlords in Nangarhar Province. Some have interpreted his release as a boost to his former contacts such as Haji Abdul Qadir, Haji Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali, who, according to the Asia Times Daily in Hong Kong, used to be the biggest heroin and opium mafia in Afghanistan's Pashtun belt. Haji Abdul Qadir is now the political leader in Nangarhar Province, west of Khyber Pass, while Hazrat Ali and Haji Mohammed Zaman are leading the Afghan ground attack against the al Qaeda holdouts in the nearby Tora Bora caves. The lack of U.S. comment and nearly invisible reporting on these developments are ominous signs that Washington may turn a blind eye as its former proteges and current allies finance themselves once again with drug traffic. Yet another sign is active disinformation by officials of the Bush administration. The Taliban's drastic ongoing reduction in opium cultivation was ignored, and indeed misrepresented, by CIA Director George Tenet in his February report to Congress, in a speech that threatened retaliatory strikes against the Taliban. Production in Afghanistan has been exploding, accounting for 72 percent of illicit global opium production in 2000, Tenet said. He added that The Taliban regime in Afghanistan... encourages and profits from the drug trade. This was two months after the first indications on the ground that the Taliban interdict was being enforced. In the l980s, U.S. officials ignored heroin trafficking in Afghanistan by its allies, the mujahideen. As we move into 2002, it appears that situation is being recreated. Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and has authored numerous books on drugs and U.S. foreign policy. A society that will trade a little
