[CTRL] Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush
-Caveat Lector- June 03, 2002 Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush From James Doran in Washington THE United States must be prepared to take the War on Terror to up to 60 countries if weapons of mass destruction are to be kept out of terrorists hands, President Bush said at the weekend. His impassioned speech to 1,000 graduates of West Point Military Academy in New York State on Saturday marks a watershed in the Administrations foreign policy. Mr Bush said that terrorism cells in countries that make up close to one third of the globe must be actively sought and dismantled. We must take that battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge, he said, adding that Americans must be ready for pre-emptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives. He said: In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. The 52-minute speech also contained a series of thinly veiled attacks on countries already singled out as enemies of the US. Mr Bush did not mention any country by name, but he pointed repeatedly to non-democratic regimes that are said to sponsor terrorism. In what officials later hinted was a reference to President Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq, Mr Bush said that attempts to contain terrorist activity and anti-US sentiments within some countries would fail without direct action. (Containment) is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or can provide them to terrorist allies, he said. The criticism of foreign countries appeared to go further than any other he has made since September 11. Some nations need military training to fight terror and we will provide it, Mr Bush said. Other nations oppose terror but tolerate the hatred that leads to terror and that must change. White House officials told The Washington Post that these comments were directed at Middle East allies such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. If the United States decides to make surprise strikes on other countries, it will mark a big change in strategy for the US military, which traditionally acts only in self-defence. The speech was billed by the White House as the first instalment of a renewed overall security framework. The framework will be expanded in a national security strategy document expected in July. Mr Bush said that Americas foreign policy would have three strands. We will defend the peace against threats from terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers. And will we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent. He said that the conflict the graduates would be required to fight would differ greatly from that fought by their forefathers in Japan and Europe. Enemies in the past needed great armies and great industrial capabilities to endanger the American people and our nation, Mr Bush said. The attacks of September 11 required a few hundred thousand dollars in the hands of a few dozen evil and deluded men. All of the chaos and suffering they caused came at much less than the cost of a single tank. Abdul Rahman Yassin, one of the men accused of bombing the World Trade Centre in 1993, planned to attack New Yorks biggest Jewish districts, but his cohorts decided that more Jews would be killed if the Twin Towers were destroyed, according to CBS news. The station said that the bomber had told them that he was talked into the attack as revenge for my Palestinian brothers and my brothers in Saudi Arabia. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
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Re: [CTRL] Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush
-Caveat Lector- Like the recent CNN banner above the Bush middle east trajedy, the new 'New World Order'. I guess it's an improvement on his dad's NeoNazi NWO. New and Improved, just like the economy... Steve On 30 Jun 2002 at 0:03, in, it, s, ctrl, ciadrugs wrote: June 03, 2002 Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush From James Doran in Washington THE United States must be prepared to take the War on Terror to up to 60 countries if weapons of mass destruction are to be kept out of terrorists hands, President Bush said at the weekend. His impassioned speech to 1,000 graduates of West Point Military Academy in New York State on Saturday marks a watershed in the Administrations foreign policy. Mr Bush said that terrorism cells in countries that make up close to one third of the globe must be actively sought and dismantled. We must take that battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge, he said, adding that Americans must be ready for pre-emptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives. He said: In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. The 52-minute speech also contained a series of thinly veiled attacks on countries already singled out as enemies of the US. Mr Bush did not mention any country by name, but he pointed repeatedly to non-democratic regimes that are said to sponsor terrorism. In what officials later hinted was a reference to President Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq, Mr Bush said that attempts to contain terrorist activity and anti-US sentiments within some countries would fail without direct action. (Containment) is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or can provide them to terrorist allies, he said. The criticism of foreign countries appeared to go further than any other he has made since September 11. Some nations need military training to fight terror and we will provide it, Mr Bush said. Other nations oppose terror but tolerate the hatred that leads to terror and that must change. White House officials told The Washington Post that these comments were directed at Middle East allies such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. If the United States decides to make surprise strikes on other countries, it will mark a big change in strategy for the US military, which traditionally acts only in self-defence. The speech was billed by the White House as the first instalment of a renewed overall security framework. The framework will be expanded in a national security strategy document expected in July. Mr Bush said that Americas foreign policy would have three strands. We will defend the peace against threats from terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers. And will we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent. He said that the conflict the graduates would be required to fight would differ greatly from that fought by their forefathers in Japan and Europe. Enemies in the past needed great armies and great industrial capabilities to endanger the American people and our nation, Mr Bush said. The attacks of September 11 required a few hundred thousand dollars in the hands of a few dozen evil and deluded men. All of the chaos and suffering they caused came at much less than the cost of a single tank. Abdul Rahman Yassin, one of the men accused of bombing the World Trade Centre in 1993, planned to attack New Yorks biggest Jewish districts, but his cohorts decided that more Jews would be killed if the Twin Towers were destroyed, according to CBS news. The station said that the bomber had told them that he was talked into the attack as revenge for my Palestinian brothers and my brothers in Saudi Arabia. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please
Re: [CTRL] SNET: Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush
-Caveat Lector- All terrorist countries should be held accountable, including their leaders, including the US, Including Bush! Steve Not a Terrorist but a Patriot On 30 Jun 2002 at 0:03, Steve Wingate wrote: - SNETNEWS Mailing List June 03, 2002 Terror war must target 60 nations, says Bush From James Doran in Washington THE United States must be prepared to take the War on Terror to up to 60 countries if weapons of mass destruction are to be kept out of terrorists hands, President Bush said at the weekend. His impassioned speech to 1,000 graduates of West Point Military Academy in New York State on Saturday marks a watershed in the Administrations foreign policy. Mr Bush said that terrorism cells in countries that make up close to one third of the globe must be actively sought and dismantled. We must take that battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge, he said, adding that Americans must be ready for pre-emptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives. He said: In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. The 52-minute speech also contained a series of thinly veiled attacks on countries already singled out as enemies of the US. Mr Bush did not mention any country by name, but he pointed repeatedly to non-democratic regimes that are said to sponsor terrorism. In what officials later hinted was a reference to President Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq, Mr Bush said that attempts to contain terrorist activity and anti-US sentiments within some countries would fail without direct action. (Containment) is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or can provide them to terrorist allies, he said. The criticism of foreign countries appeared to go further than any other he has made since September 11. Some nations need military training to fight terror and we will provide it, Mr Bush said. Other nations oppose terror but tolerate the hatred that leads to terror and that must change. White House officials told The Washington Post that these comments were directed at Middle East allies such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. If the United States decides to make surprise strikes on other countries, it will mark a big change in strategy for the US military, which traditionally acts only in self-defence. The speech was billed by the White House as the first instalment of a renewed overall security framework. The framework will be expanded in a national security strategy document expected in July. Mr Bush said that Americas foreign policy would have three strands. We will defend the peace against threats from terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers. And will we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent. He said that the conflict the graduates would be required to fight would differ greatly from that fought by their forefathers in Japan and Europe. Enemies in the past needed great armies and great industrial capabilities to endanger the American people and our nation, Mr Bush said. The attacks of September 11 required a few hundred thousand dollars in the hands of a few dozen evil and deluded men. All of the chaos and suffering they caused came at much less than the cost of a single tank. Abdul Rahman Yassin, one of the men accused of bombing the World Trade Centre in 1993, planned to attack New Yorks biggest Jewish districts, but his cohorts decided that more Jews would be killed if the Twin Towers were destroyed, according to CBS news. The station said that the bomber had told them that he was talked into the attack as revenge for my Palestinian brothers and my brothers in Saudi Arabia. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b1hBhC Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website
[CTRL] A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington?
-Caveat Lector- (A dirty leader from the evil ones rules our country. Can we say Bush? You had better watch what you say!!! Don't worry, ball-headed homosexual man who speaks for the Bush, we will!) A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington? Just as the heat was building on the CIA and FBI over failures of intelligence-gathering, up popped a brand new suspect. Rupert Cornwell smells a rat 16 June 2002 It sure sent a jolt through the United States. Yet last week's much ballyhooed arrest of the dirty bomb suspect Jose Padilla now seems, like other developments in the war against terror, to have been a political device of the Bush administration designed to distract attention from US intelligence failures and solidify support behind President Bush. For who, exactly, is Mr Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir? Is he a highly trained al-Qa'ida operative who was about to explode a radioactive dirty bomb in Washington DC, as the US attorney general, John Ashcroft, would have us believe? Or a Chicago street punk of no great danger to anyone? With each passing day, the latter looks more likely. No plot and no accomplices have been discovered, despite Mr Padilla having been in detention for more than a month before his existence was revealed to the nation, which duly panicked. As the New York Times said on Thursday, quoting some of those unnamed US officials who abound in the nation's press, he was an unlikely terrorist, a low-level gang member with no technical knowledge of nuclear materials who was arrested long before he represented a significant terrorist threat. And why, if it was as important as Mr Ashcroft claimed, was his arrest kept secret for five weeks only for the attorney general to reveal it while in Moscow of all places? Some might claim the venue was oddly apt, though. With his fierce prosecutorial zeal and taste for scary hyperbole, Mr Ashcroft calls to mind Andrei Vyshinsky, the infamous prosecutor at Stalin's show trials, whose prime contribution to 20th-century legal doctrine was the presumption of guilt against those unfortunate enough to be in his sights. For enemy of the people read enemy combatant, as Mr Padilla, a US citizen, has now been designated. He sits in a naval prison in South Carolina, presumed guilty but not charged with any criminal offence. Indeed, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, has acknowledged that he may never be charged. Mr Padilla's lawyers responded to that statement with a petition to the courts, saying their client's detention without time limit or the right to counsel should be a constitutional concern to everyone. No one would dispute the US's right to defend itself against terrorists, nor that this shadowy struggle, asymmetric in the jargon of conflict experts, demands exceptional, equally shadowy means. But Mr Padilla's fate is currently shared by hundreds of non-Americans, mostly Arab individuals, swept up in dragnets in the days and weeks following 11 September, and nine months later still in detention on the most minor of charges. The only difference is, no one knows their names. One thinks also of Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian pilot whose one stroke of good luck was to be arrested in Britain, not the US. He was picked up at his home near Heathrow airport on 21 September 2001, and Mr Ashcroft's Justice Department instantly demanded his extradition on the grounds that he had trained some of the 11 September hijackers. But not a shred of evidence was ever forthcoming from Washington, beyond the fact that Mr Raissi was an Arab and had trained at an Arizona flight school at roughly the same time as Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. In February he was released on bail, and in April his case was thrown out entirely. Had he been in the US, however, he would undoubtedly still be rotting quietly in jail. But the fanfare around Mr Padilla served Mr Bush's purposes perfectly. Forgotten were the host of clues missed by the FBI and the CIA before 11 September. The US was on full nuclear terror alert, ready once more to take the President's word for anything and to support his plans for a new super- ministry for domestic security. Recent revelations about Khalid Almidhar, another of the AA77 hijackers, are equally instructive, albeit for different reasons. More unnamed officials told Newsweek magazine that Almidhar was spotted by the CIA at a meeting of al-Qa'ida operatives in Malaysia in January 2000. But the CIA, it seemed, failed to alert other agencies, including the immigration services who might have picked him up on entry into the US. But wait. A few days later, other intelligence sources disclosed, this time to the Washington Post, that the CIA had in fact told the FBI. By now an alert reader will have divined that the disclosures have less to do with the fight against terrorism than with the equally entrenched fight between the FBI and the CIA. And as armistice
[CTRL] Fwd: US: Doomed by Bush to Be a POLICE STATE? by Ron Paul
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- FORWARD FAR AND WIDE x ** TOP_VIEW ** x The Bigger Picture 6.28.02 US: Doomed by Bush to Be a POLICE STATE? by Rep. Ron Paul = = = = = = = = Date:Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:44:28 -0700 From:American Patriot Friends Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Are We Doomed To Be a Police State? http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul41.html Are We Doomed To Be a Police State? by Rep. Ron Paul, MD U.S. House of Representatives, June 27, 2002 Most Americans believe we live in dangerous times, and I must agree. Today I want to talk about how I see those dangers and what Congress ought to do about them. Of course, the Monday-morning quarterbacks are now explaining, with political overtones, what we should have done to prevent the 9/11 tragedy. Unfortunately, in doing so, foreign policy changes are never considered. I have, for more than two decades, been severely critical of our post-World War II foreign policy. I have perceived it to be not in our best interest and have believed that it presented a serious danger to our security. For the record, in January of 2000 I stated the following on this floor: Our commercial interests and foreign policy are no longer separate...as bad as it is that average Americans are forced to subsidize such a system, we additionally are placed in greater danger because of our arrogant policy of bombing nations that do not submit to our wishes. This generates hatred directed toward America ...and exposes us to a greater threat of terrorism, since this is the only vehicle our victims can use to retaliate against a powerful military state...the cost in terms of lost liberties and unnecessary exposure to terrorism is difficult to assess, but in time, it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but instead is a threat to our liberties. Again, let me remind you I made these statements on the House floor in January 2000. Unfortunately, my greatest fears and warnings have been borne out. I believe my concerns are as relevant today as they were then. We should move with caution in this post-9/11 period so we do not make our problems worse overseas while further undermining our liberties at home. So far our post-9/11 policies have challenged the rule of law here at home, and our efforts against the al Qaeda have essentially come up empty-handed. The best we can tell now, instead of being in one place, the members of the al Qaeda are scattered around the world, with more of them in allied Pakistan than in Afghanistan. Our efforts to find our enemies have put the CIA in 80 different countries. The question that we must answer some day is whether we can catch enemies faster than we make new ones. So far it appears we are losing. As evidence mounts that we have achieved little in reducing the terrorist threat, more diversionary tactics will be used. The big one will be to blame Saddam Hussein for everything and initiate a major war against Iraq, which will only generate even more hatred toward America from the Muslim world. But, Mr. Speaker, my subject today is whether America is a police state. I'm sure the large majority of Americans would answer this in the negative. Most would associate military patrols, martial law and summary executions with a police state, something obviously not present in our everyday activities. However, those with knowledge of Ruby Ridge, Mount Carmel and other such incidents may have a different opinion. The principal tool for sustaining a police state, even the most militant, is always economic control and punishment by denying disobedient citizens such things as jobs or places
[CTRL] 9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=20612 Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum 9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission Posted By: Christopher Bollyn Date: Friday, 28 June 2002, 2:32 p.m. ISRAELI AGENTS NABBED ON 9-11 ADMIT: âOUR PURPOSE WAS TO DOCUMENT THE EVENTâ By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press Americanfreepress.net The jubilant Israeli intelligence agents caught photographing the attacks on the World Trade Center were allowed to return to Israel where they divulged the purpose of their mission on a radio program: âOur purpose was to document the event." The explosive story of the 5 suspicious Israelis seen celebrating while filming the attacks on the World Trade Center was first reported nationally in American Free Press shortly after September 11. ABC News recently reported on this story and added a comment that deserves attention. The Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported that at least two of the men were Israeli intelligence (Mossad) agents. The Israeli agents were first seen filming the attack on the WTC while kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of a New Jersey apartment building across the river from lower Manhattan. "They seemed to be taking a movie," the resident who noticed them said. The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck her were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know ⦠They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said. She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. The FBI was soon on the scene and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van. The van belonged to a Mossad front company called Urban Moving Systems. Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was pulled over, and five Israelis: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, all between 22 and 27 years old, were arrested at gunpoint. One had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock while another carried two foreign passports. Box cutters were found in the van. âWE ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEMâ According to the police report, one of the men said they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" â referring to the World Trade Center attack. Sivan Kurzberg, the driver, said, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The case was turned over to the FBI's Foreign Counterintelligence Section because the FBI believed Urban Moving Systems was a âcover for an Israeli intelligence operation,â ABC reported. While the FBI searched the companyâs Weehawken, N.J., offices, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives, the owner of the company, Dominic Suter, was allowed to flee the country. When FBI agents tried to interview Suter a second time they discovered that he had cleared out of his New Jersey home and fled to Israel. When ABC reporters visited Urban Moving Systems, âit looked as if it had been shut down in a big hurry. Cell phones were lying around; office phones were still connected; and the property of dozens of clients remained in the warehouse.â The Israelis had been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge ordered them to be deported, however, FBI and CIA officials in Washington put a hold on the case, according to ABC. The five men were held in detention for more than two months. Some of them were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days and given as many as seven lie-detector tests. One of them, Paul Kurzberg, refused to take a lie-detector test for 10 weeks and then failed it, according to his lawyer. âOUR PURPOSE WAS TO DOCUMENT THE EVENT." A deal was struck between Israeli and U.S. government officials after 71 days and the five Israelis were put on a plane, and deported to Israel. The detained Israelis discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home. One of the men said: "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event." Finis 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
Re: [CTRL] End Times For Israel?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/29/02 11:14:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recent events in the Middle East leave me wondering whether we're witnessing not just the end of the Oslo peace process, but the end of the whole idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hardly. There never really was an idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was always a myth. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Are We Doomed To Be a Police State?
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Are We Doomed To Be a Police State? by Rep. Ron Paul, MD U.S. House of Representatives, June 27, 2002 Most Americans believe we live in dangerous times, and I must agree. Today I want to talk about how I see those dangers and what Congress ought to do about them. Of course, the Monday-morning quarterbacks are now explaining, with political overtones, what we should have done to prevent the 9/11 tragedy. Unfortunately, in doing so, foreign policy changes are never considered. I have, for more than two decades, been severely critical of our post-World War II foreign policy. I have perceived it to be not in our best interest and have believed that it presented a serious danger to our security. For the record, in January of 2000 I stated the following on this floor: Our commercial interests and foreign policy are no longer separate...as bad as it is that average Americans are forced to subsidize such a system, we additionally are placed in greater danger because of our arrogant policy of bombing nations that do not submit to our wishes. This generates hatred directed toward America ...and exposes us to a greater threat of terrorism, since this is the only vehicle our victims can use to retaliate against a powerful military state...the cost in terms of lost liberties and unnecessary exposure to terrorism is difficult to assess, but in time, it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but instead is a threat to our liberties. Again, let me remind you I made these statements on the House floor in January 2000. Unfortunately, my greatest fears and warnings have been borne out. I believe my concerns are as relevant today as they were then. We should move with caution in this post-9/11 period so we do not make our problems worse overseas while further undermining our liberties at home. So far our post-9/11 policies have challenged the rule of law here at home, and our efforts against the al Qaeda have essentially come up empty-handed. The best we can tell now, instead of being in one place, the members of the al Qaeda are scattered around the world, with more of them in allied Pakistan than in Afghanistan. Our efforts to find our enemies have put the CIA in 80 different countries. The question that we must answer some day is whether we can catch enemies faster than we make new ones. So far it appears we are losing. As evidence mounts that we have achieved little in reducing the terrorist threat, more diversionary tactics will be used. The big one will be to blame Saddam Hussein for everything and initiate a major war against Iraq, which will only generate even more hatred toward America from the Muslim world. But, Mr. Speaker, my subject today is whether America is a police state. I'm sure the large majority of Americans would answer this in the negative. Most would associate military patrols, martial law and summary executions with a police state, something obviously not present in our everyday activities. However, those with knowledge of Ruby Ridge, Mount Carmel and other such incidents may have a different opinion. The principal tool for sustaining a police state, even the most militant, is always economic control and punishment by denying disobedient citizens such things as jobs or places to live, and by levying fines and imprisonment. The military is more often used in the transition phase to a totalitarian state. Maintenance for long periods is usually accomplished through economic controls on commercial transactions, the use of all property, and political dissent. Peaceful control through these efforts can be achieved without storm troopers on our street corners. Terror and fear are used to achieve complacency and obedience, especially when citizens are deluded into believing they are still a free people. The changes, they are assured, will be minimal, short-lived, and necessary, such as those that occur in times of a declared war. Under these conditions, most citizens believe that once the war is won, the restrictions on their liberties will be reversed. For the most part, however, after a declared war is over, the return to normalcy is never complete. In an undeclared war, without a precise enemy and therefore no precise ending, returning to normalcy can prove illusory. We have just concluded a century of wars, declared and undeclared, while at the same time responding to public outcries for more economic equity. The question, as a result of these policies, is: Are we already living in a police state? If we are, what are we going to do about it? If we are not, we need to know if there's any danger that we're moving in that direction. Most police states, surprisingly, come about through the democratic process with majority support. During a crisis, the rights of individuals and the minority are more easily trampled, which is more likely to condition a
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: WorldCom and Brown Brothers Harriman
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Linda Minor To: kate Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 4:38 PM Subject: Fw: WorldCom and Brown Brothers Harriman Kate, This fits in perfectly with Part 6. LM - Original Message - From: Linda Minor To: Lois Battuelo ; Catherine Austin Fitts Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: WorldCom and Brown Brothers Harriman http://www.freeedgar.com/search/ViewFilings.asp?CIK=723527Directory=912057Year=02SECIndex=21287Extension=.tstPathFlag=0TextFileSize=39673SFType=SDFiled=DateFiled=5/20/2002SourcePage=FilingsResultsUseFrame=1OEMSource=FormType=DEFR14ACompanyName=WORLDCOM+INC We have entered into certain loan and guaranty arrangements involvingBernard J. Ebbers, principally relating to certain obligations to financialinstitutions secured by Mr. Ebbers' stock in WorldCom. We initially establishedthese arrangements in 2000, and have agreed to a series of modifications sinceJanuary 1, 2001. On April 29, 2002, in connection with Mr. Ebbers' resignationas President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of WorldCom, we consolidatedthese various loan and guaranty arrangements into a single promissory note inthe principal amount of approximately $408.2 million, repayable with accruedinterest over five years. This principal amount includes approximately$198.7 million that we have paid to Bank of America, N.A., or Bank of America,as repayment of outstanding indebtedness of Mr. Ebbers or certain companiescontrolled by him which we had guaranteed, approximately $36.5 million that wehave deposited to collateralize a letter of credit used to support financing toan unrelated third party, approximately $165 million that we have loaned toMr. Ebbers and all interest accrued on the foregoing amounts to April 29, 2002.These transactions are further described below. Since establishing these arrangements, we agreed to guarantee $150 millionprincipal amount of indebtedness owed by Mr. Ebbers to Bank of America, as wellas certain additional payments and related costs. The additional paymentsincluded, among other things, amounts payable to Bank of America by Mr. Ebbersor certain companies controlled by him relating to an approximately$45.6 million letter of credit secured by a portion of Mr. Ebbers' stock andused to support financing to an unrelated third party; specified amounts,including margin debt, that became payable following stock price declines; andamounts subject to a margin call with respect to certain margin debt. The scheduled maturity of the Bank of America margin debt was extended inJanuary 2002 for a period of up to two years. However, following declines in theclosing price of the WorldCom group stock through early February 2002, we madeaggregate payments of approximately $198.7 million to repay all of theoutstanding debt covered by our guaranty and deposited with Bank of Americaapproximately $36.5 million to collateralize the letter of credit, which isscheduled to expire on February 15, 2003, subject to renewal, extension orsubstitution. Our payments, together with any amounts paid or costs incurred byus in connection with the letter of credit, plus accrued interest at a floatingrate equal to that under one of our credit facilities, were payable byMr. Ebbers to us, as modified in early April 2002, within 90 days after demand,or within 180 days after demand if subsequent to his death or incapacity. In addition to the guaranty arrangements, during 2000 we loaned$100 million to Mr. Ebbers. Since January 1, 2001, we have loaned himapproximately an additional $65 million, for a total maximum principal amount
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] London Telegraph picks up RBC gold price suppression report
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- 11:35a ET Sunday, June 30, 2002 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The RBC Global Investment Management report endorsing GATA's assertions of manipulation of the gold market has crossed the Atlantic from Toronto to London, where the Telegraph newspaper has a story about it in Sunday's edition. The story's use of the word retraction is a bit misleading, since RBC did not retract the report as much as say it represented the views of one investment manager -- he just happens to be the firm's best -- and not the views of the firm itself. No matter. Only a central banker could miss the point. The Telegraph story is appended here. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. * * * Bank retracts gold price-fixing report By Edward Simpkins London Telegraph Sunday, June 30, 2002 http://ad.uk.tangozebra.com/0675/ad_telegraph_business.html? tz_creative=http% 3A//ad.uk.tangozebra.com/0675/superjury400x400_16k_3.swftz_rnd=88 6307595061673tz_adIndex=1 The Royal Bank of Canada has issued a retraction after a research report by one of its most senior asset managers appeared to support the claims of conspiracy theorists that central banks have secretly connived to keep the price of gold low. The eight-page report published as a research note by the investment division of the bank speaks of increasing evidence of unsustainable gold price manipulation and says the evidence of secret price fixing is overwhelming. The report refers to the practice in the past, when the price of gold was pegged to currencies, of central banks dumping gold to keep the price down. Today, instead of the overt action of yesteryear, it is covert because the market is allegedly free, the report says. It goes on to claim that instead of selling physical gold the banks have sold derivatives, called hedging, leaving them owing far more metal than they control and giving them an interest in the price of gold continuing to fall. The size of the short position, officially acknowledged to be more than 5,000 tonnes by the bullion bank apologists, is thought to be well over 10,000 tonnes and may exceed 15,000 tonnes, the report adds. The claims were seized on by fringe groups such as the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee which said it showed that mainstream investors were coming round to their view that central banks secretly act to keep a lid on the price of gold in order to support the dollar. The establishment in the gold world is coming around to our central premise, Chris Powell, secretary of GATA, told his members last week. Central banks and particularly the U.S. Treasury Department have been colluding surreptitiously and desperately to suppress the gold price and manipulate the gold market, he added. The report has caused embarrassment to Royal Bank as many of its clients and some of the biggest companies on the Canadian stock exchanges are gold miners, including Barrick Gold Corp., the world's second largest producer, which is also the world's biggest hedger. Bank of Novia Scotia is one of the largest bullion banks in the world and the Canadian central bank has been a consistent seller of gold over the past decade. Mark Arthur, head of Royal Bank Investment Management, issued a statement saying the report was produced for internal use and in no way reflects the views of Royal Bank. However, the report is by John Embry, a senior figure at RBC who sets strategy for the bank's $38 billion in funds under management and chairs its stock selection committee as well as running its Royal Precious Metals fund. He was not available for comment. Embry predicts in the report that the price of gold is
Re: [CTRL] End Times For Israel?
-Caveat Lector- Prudy - in 47 there was a 2 state solution in the works. It was rejected by the Arabs, who started a war - and lost it. The 2 state solution was not torpedoed by the Israeli's. on 6/30/02 8:49 AM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/29/02 11:14:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recent events in the Middle East leave me wondering whether we're witnessing not just the end of the Oslo peace process, but the end of the whole idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hardly. There never really was an idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was always a myth. Prudy A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] firefighter held in connection with AZ fire
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/0630fire-rimfire30.html Suspect in 'Rodeo' fire held By Mark Shaffer, Anne Ryman and Chris Fiscus The Arizona Republic June 30, 2002 12:00:00 excerpt A Bureau of Indian Affairs firefighter has been arrested in connection with starting the Rodeo fire, according to federal sources. 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] lanner, house bill, bishops, CSA outcomes, Lindh, Chaney/Iraq, homeland sec.
-Caveat Lector- SMART issue #45 is now online at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Sample-Issue-45.htm The newsletter has information on child abuse, clergy abuse, cult abuse, mind control and ritual abuse. this may be heavy for survivors from L. Moss-Sharmann Sexual Abuse Scandal Hits Orthodox Jews By Alan Cooperman 6/29/02 Freehold, N.J. ...a jury of six men and six women here in central New Jersey found Rabbi Baruch Lanner, 52, guilty of abusing two teenage girlsDuring his 30-year career as a Jewish youth leader, he sexually, physically and emotionally abused dozens of teenage girls and boys while his colleagues failed to believe or act on the allegations, according to a stinging internal investigation by the Orthodox Union. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63807-2002Jun28.html House Approves Sex Crimes Bill By Janelle Carter Washington (AP) 6/25/02 The measure would cover a number of sexual offenses, including convictions for sexual abuse, exploitation of children and sex trafficking of children. H.R. 4679, H.R. 4623, H.R. 4477. Text of bills: http://thomas.loc.gov from AOL http://www.beliefnet.com/story/108/story_10820.html Which bishops have made the worst decisions about abusive priests? The very solid and good work that has been accomplished by the majority of bishops in their dioceses has been completely overshadowed by the imprudent decisions of a number of bishops during the past ten years, said Bishop Wilton Gregory... http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/Research/CSA/csa.html Association between Childhood Sexual Abuse History and Adverse Psychosocial Outcomes - Nonclinical studies using rigorous designs that have examined the relationship between child sexual abuse and psychological harm, after controlling for Social Environment. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3531246.htm?template=contentModule/p rintstory.jsp Posted on Mon, Jun. 24, 2002 Judge slams terror law; Lindh defense could gain BY GREG WINTER New York Times Service LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department's case against seven people accused of funneling charitable donations to an Iranian military group deemed partly responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and still labeled a terrorist threat. After deliberating for months, Judge Robert M. Takasugi of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled on Friday that a 1996 law passed by Congress to classify foreign groups as terrorist organizations is ''unconstitutional on its face,'' and thus cannot be used as the basis of criminal charges. http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.22A.cheney.hussein.htm Cheney Sees 'Gathering Danger' in Iraq By Reuters | New York Times Thursday, 20 June, 2002 DETROIT (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein represents a gathering danger'' to the United States, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday, while warning that Washington will act preemptively against threats of terrorism. We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction,'' said Cheney. In the case of Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already possesses some of these weapons,'' he said.Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals with Hussein by Martin A. Lee San Francisco Bay Guardian November 13, 2000 During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's vice-presidential candidate. Of course, U.S. firms aren't generally supposed to do business with Saddam Hussein. But thanks to legal loopholes large enough to steer an oil tanker through, Halliburton profited big-time from deals with the Iraqi dictatorship. Conducted discreetly through several Halliburton subsidiaries in Europe, these greasy transactions helped Saddam Hussein retain his grip on power while lining the pockets of Cheney and company. http://www.aclu.org/action/homeland107.html To: ACLU Action Network FR: Damon Moglen, National Field Coordinator June 27, 2002 In the latest threat to civil liberties to emerge from the government's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Bush Administration's proposed Department of Homeland Security explicitly removes structural and legal safeguards necessary to keep the agency open and accountable to the public. The President's proposal contains provisions that exclude the new agency from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and whistleblower protections. His proposal also lacks guarantees of strong oversight; as proposed, the agency's secretary will have veto power over the inspector general's audits and investigations. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list.
[CTRL] Ruppert
-Caveat Lector- http://mckinneysucks.blogspot.com/2002_06_01 _mckinneysucks_archive.html ... WhatDIDN'Treallyhappen.com. Devoted to smashing conspiracy theories and humiliating their purveyors! Monday, June 24, 2002 :: A flimsy attempt at a snappy rejoinder. A nameless blogger (another one of those valiant dissidents who's afraid of the Treasury agents underneath his bed) has tried his hand at refuting my Ruppert timeline post below. He has his own conspiracy yarns, including a Vince Foster redux, exposing the Cliff Baxter suicide sham. In any event, his prodding of my timeline focuses on items 3 and 4, in which Ruppert first claims the Unocal pipeline deal failed because the Taliban's price was too high (in 1997), and that Unocal VP John Maresca testified a year later that the deal would not be feasible unless and until a stable Afghan regime was in place. Predictably, this mystery blogger does not see the incongruity here. but presumably that doesn't necessarily follow. The 1997 negotiations could have failed over money, and the Unocal Vice President could also have testified before the House that the pipeline would not be built before there was a stable government in Afghanistan. I suppose you could make this argument if Afghanistan had slid into chaos between 1997 and 1998, but the truth of the matter is that the Taliban continued to consolidate its rule after 1996, and the country was certainly more stable (inasmuch as a country living under the most brutal, Luddite tyranny the world has seen since the Khmer Rouge can be called stable) in 1998 than 1997, when Unocal was supposedly haggling over a price. Prudent entrepreneurs ensure the investment is a secure one before they negotiate a price, not after. The argument then progresses to Unocal's recent press release stating that it no longer had any interest in building the pipeline, which we are to believe is a case, I dare say, of protesting too much. Uh-huh. If Unocal had released it out of the blue, but what he doesn't tell you is that it was in response to a report that it was the lead company in the pipeline's construction. Protesting too much is something corporations sort of have to do from time to time, as they depend of what are called investors who give special slips of paper called money for their stock, based on the decisions the corporation makes. Moron. But here's the best part of the missive: Ruppert's strength isn't in any particlar part of the timeline, but in the sheer quantity of suspicious details. So you see, it doesn't matter if none of Ruppert's weak assumptions, distortions, logic fallacies, and outright factual errors, hold any water. The fact that he is able to come up with such a wealth of idiotic arguments proves him right! It should also be noted that this despicable pig also notes (again, in what is apparently his own yarn) the fact that only one flag officer - Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude - died in the attack as proof that there was foreknowledge, snidely remarking, I guess he didn't get the memo. Thanks for reminding me why I devote so much time to humiliating you people, Mr. Xymphora. Fucktard. :: Bill Herbert 9:27 PM [+] :: ... :: Sunday, June 23, 2002 :: Mike Rupperts bullshit-riddled timeline (Part 1). NOTE: This is the first in what will be at least a 5-part series refuting Mike Rupperts conspiratorial timeline point by point. It may grow longer, as Ruppert continues to add more allegations, in lieu of actually providing evidence to support his older ones. David Corn may not have the space to devote to Rupperts entire timeline which contains most of his purported evidence of government foreknowledge of, and complicity in, the 9/11 attacks. But I do. From the top FTW, November 2, 2001 1200 PST On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Ladens private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and this years attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down. Now, lets go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro the one that has Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June. The story says that, Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits from many family members [There goes the story that hes a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and going to bin Ladens room.
[CTRL] SNET: Has Communism Infiltrated The Federal Government? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one NAtion under God,indivisble,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:31:51 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: Has Communism Infiltrated The Federal Government? - SNETNEWS Mailing List In a message dated 6/30/02 10:29:08 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Socialism leads to Communism See chart (toggle down) on this site: A HREF=http://dsausa.org/archive/Docs/DTH.html#mike; http://dsausa.org/archive/Docs/DTH.html#mike/A I have a list of 53 card carrying members of Congress belonging to the DSA. with their Congressional addresses, Websites, and email addresses: (attached). Why isn't the FBI checking out these people? Is there any reason why everything having to do with God is being removed from our society? Subject: Has Communism Infiltrated The Federal Government? Has Communism infiltrated the Federal Government? You might be surprised! The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA's members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics. Communism is alive and well in America! Democracy is indispensable to socialism. - V.I. Lenin Democracy is the road to socialism. - Karl Marx The goal of socialism is communism. - V.I. Lenin The Progressive Caucus of the US House of Representatives is made up of more than 50 members of the House. The Caucus works to advance economic and social justice through sponsoring legislation that reflects its purpose. The Caucus also works with a coalition of organizations, called the Progressive Challenge, to bring new life to the progressive voice in US politics. The last report I was able to retrieve on members names from the DSA's web site in April 1999 included the following members of Congress. Rep. Earl Hilliard (AL-07), Rep. Eni Faleomavaega (AS-AL), Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ-02), Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-06), Rep. George Miller (CA-07), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-08), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (CA-13), Rep. Henry A. Waxman (CA-29), Rep Julian C. Dixon (CA-32), Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA-30), Rep. Esteban Edward Torres (CA-34), Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35), Rep. George E. Brown (CA-42), Rep. Bob Filner (CA-50), Rep. Diane DeGette (CO-01), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-03), Rep. Carrie P. Meek (FL-17), Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (FL-23), Rep. Cynthia A. Mckinney (GA-04), Rep. John Lewis (GA-05), Rep. Neil Abercrombie (HI-02) Rep. Patsy Mink (HI-02), Rep. Jesse Jackson (IL-02), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04), Rep. Danny Davis (IL-07), Rep. Lane Evans (IL-17), Rep. Julia Carson (IN-10), Rep. John Olver (MA-01), Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-03), Rep Barney Frank (MA-04), Rep. John Tierney (MA-06), Rep. David Bonior (MI-10), Rep. Lynn N. Rivers (MI-13), Rep. John Conyers (MI-14), Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02), Rep. Melvin L. Watt (NC-12), Rep. Donald Payne (NJ-10), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Rep. Major Owens (NY-12), Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (NY-12), Rep. Charles Rangel (NY -16), Rep. Jose E. Serrano (NY-16), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY-26), Rep. John LaFalce (NY-29), Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10), Rep. Stephanie- Tubbs-Jones (OH-11), Rep. Sherrod Brown (OH-13), Rep. Elizabeth Furse (OR-01), Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (OR-04), Rep. Chaka Fattah (PA-02), Rep. William Coyne (PA-14), Rep. Carlos A Romero-Barcelo (PR-AL), Rep. Robert C. Scott (VA-03), Rep. Bernard Sanders (VT-AL), and Rep. James A. McDermott (WA-07) Check Out A HREF=http://dsausa.org/archive/Lit/Harr1.html;http://dsausa.org/archive/Lit/Harr1.html/A or read below. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! Beaver Cole A HREF=http://dsausa.org/index.html; DSA Home Page/A | A HREF=http://dsausa.org/archive/Lit/*Lit.html;Other DSA Literature/A | A HREF=http://dsausa.org/archive/Links/Global.html;Globalist Links/A Socialism Informs The Best of our Politics A HREF=http://dsausa.org/archive/Docs/DTH.html#mike;by Michael Harrington/A Is socialism relevant to the late 20th and 21st centuries? And if so what does one mean by socialism? In any case, why identify as a socialist in the United States where the very word invites misunderstanding at best, and a frantic, ignorant rejection at worst? Finally, given all of these problems why build a socialist organization in this country? First, the socialist critique of power under both capitalism and communism is not only
Re: [CTRL] lanner, house bill, bishops, CSA outcomes, Lindh, Chaney/Iraq, homeland sec.
-Caveat Lector- Lets just eradicate religion and be done with all this nonsense on 6/30/02 2:53 PM, Smart News at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- SMART issue #45 is now online at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Sample-Issue-45.htm The newsletter has information on child abuse, clergy abuse, cult abuse, mind control and ritual abuse. this may be heavy for survivors from L. Moss-Sharmann Sexual Abuse Scandal Hits Orthodox Jews By Alan Cooperman 6/29/02 Freehold, N.J. ...a jury of six men and six women here in central New Jersey found Rabbi Baruch Lanner, 52, guilty of abusing two teenage girlsDuring his 30-year career as a Jewish youth leader, he sexually, physically and emotionally abused dozens of teenage girls and boys while his colleagues failed to believe or act on the allegations, according to a stinging internal investigation by the Orthodox Union. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63807-2002Jun28.html House Approves Sex Crimes Bill By Janelle Carter Washington (AP) 6/25/02 The measure would cover a number of sexual offenses, including convictions for sexual abuse, exploitation of children and sex trafficking of children. H.R. 4679, H.R. 4623, H.R. 4477. Text of bills: http://thomas.loc.gov from AOL http://www.beliefnet.com/story/108/story_10820.html Which bishops have made the worst decisions about abusive priests? The very solid and good work that has been accomplished by the majority of bishops in their dioceses has been completely overshadowed by the imprudent decisions of a number of bishops during the past ten years, said Bishop Wilton Gregory... http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/Research/CSA/csa.html Association between Childhood Sexual Abuse History and Adverse Psychosocial Outcomes - Nonclinical studies using rigorous designs that have examined the relationship between child sexual abuse and psychological harm, after controlling for Social Environment. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3531246.htm?template=contentModule/p rintstory.jsp Posted on Mon, Jun. 24, 2002 Judge slams terror law; Lindh defense could gain BY GREG WINTER New York Times Service LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department's case against seven people accused of funneling charitable donations to an Iranian military group deemed partly responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and still labeled a terrorist threat. After deliberating for months, Judge Robert M. Takasugi of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled on Friday that a 1996 law passed by Congress to classify foreign groups as terrorist organizations is ''unconstitutional on its face,'' and thus cannot be used as the basis of criminal charges. http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.22A.cheney.hussein.htm Cheney Sees 'Gathering Danger' in Iraq By Reuters | New York Times Thursday, 20 June, 2002 DETROIT (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein represents a gathering danger'' to the United States, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday, while warning that Washington will act preemptively against threats of terrorism. We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction,'' said Cheney. In the case of Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already possesses some of these weapons,'' he said.Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals with Hussein by Martin A. Lee San Francisco Bay Guardian November 13, 2000 During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's vice-presidential candidate. Of course, U.S. firms aren't generally supposed to do business with Saddam Hussein. But thanks to legal loopholes large enough to steer an oil tanker through, Halliburton profited big-time from deals with the Iraqi dictatorship. Conducted discreetly through several Halliburton subsidiaries in Europe, these greasy transactions helped Saddam Hussein retain his grip on power while lining the pockets of Cheney and company. http://www.aclu.org/action/homeland107.html To: ACLU Action Network FR: Damon Moglen, National Field Coordinator June 27, 2002 In the latest threat to civil liberties to emerge from the government's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Bush Administration's proposed Department of Homeland Security explicitly removes structural and legal safeguards necessary to keep the agency open and accountable to the public. The President's proposal contains provisions that exclude the new agency from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and whistleblower protections. His proposal also lacks guarantees of strong oversight; as proposed, the agency's
[CTRL] A Dog's-Eye View of the Recession
-Caveat Lector- http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/07.01A.pitt.dogs.eye.htm A Dog's-Eye View of the Recession By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Opinion Sunday, 30 June, 2002 In order to make a few extra dollars during this summer gap between teaching high school, I applied for and nailed down a job at a well-known store. The store, which I won't name for obvious reasons, is part of a large chain that covers pretty much the whole country. They sell a variety of items: clothes, books, videos, high-tech gadgets and the like. If I named the place, you'd know it. After a few shifts, I am stunned I got the job in the first place. I have worked there on several different days for a good number of hours now, and in all that time I have served exactly three people. Plenty come in to browse, and to take advantage of the air conditioning, but no one is buying anything. I've had conversations with the register jockeys at neighboring stores - we're all located in a popular tourist zone/shopping district - and they are singing the same tune. The wallets are not coming out. A year ago, I am told by my manager, the store was positively booming. They did not have enough people to handle the customer volume. Now, the home office sends daily memos to the store cajoling the sales associates to throw a full-court-press at everyone who comes through the door. Sell anything you can, we are told, and squeeze out every dollar possible. They set daily sales goals that are missed by thousands of dollars. These goals are based upon last year's sales totals. By my calculations, the place is experiencing a factor-of-ten decrease in revenue. Why they hired me is a mystery. They don't need me, and my meager salary is further cutting into their profits. I have gotten myself a dog's eye view of this recession: A ground-level perspective on the spending habits of very average Americans. People are completely unwilling to part with their money right now. This is a cancer of the most elemental economic kind that goes by the moniker of consumer confidence. From my dog's-eye view behind the register, there is no confidence out there at all. The political observer in me wants to believe all this is happening because of the disastrous stories of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Arthur Andersen and the rest. The fear that every single share of stock on Wall Street has been polluted and corrupted by lies and shady profit reporting cast a dark shadow across the economy. Even the good stocks - and there are plenty of them - are burdened by a sense of total mistrust. Strangely enough, the political observer in me has to take into account that most of the people I've questioned about these companies know very little about the scurrilous details of their dirty dealings. It is almost as if all these tales of fraud and deceit are taking place in an alternate dimension. Most people seem bored by the dry facts behind these stories, and have not bothered to inform themselves on them to any great degree. Why is it, then, that my hours as a retail sales associate have been spent watching people absolutely refuse to buy anything? Something seems amiss. Maybe consumers, like the prey they are, have begun to smell danger on the wind. There is more to consumer confidence, after all, than the desire to by doodads at some store. A recent Zogby poll indicates that Bush is enjoying a 69% approval rating, but only 51% of the people questioned would vote for him in 2004. The margin of error for that last number puts Mr. Bush right back where he was on November 7, 2000. The 18 point gap between those numbers suggest that the populace is not entirely comfortable with the guy in charge. Another recent poll stated bluntly that some 46% of Americans don't think Bush is in charge of anything beyond deciding what kind of sandwich meat to have for lunch. These people believe he is controlled entirely by the corporate interests that funded his campaign. This takes us back around the bend to Enron and WorldCom. Even the catastrophically uninformed know that Bush was tight with Enron's CEO, Kenneth Lay, to the point that Lay and other Enron executives basically wrote Bush's energy policy proposal. The WorldCom scandal will soon revolve politically around Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, home state of that dying telcom corporation. Still, this big-business fraud stuff is vague for most people. Much of America hadn't heard of Enron or WorldCom before these revelations, and don't seem prone to getting worked up about it. It's like hearing about dirty dealings by strangers - you're disgusted by the behavior, but you're also pretty quick to turn the page and check the box scores. That is why, from my dog's-eye perspective, this whole insider trading flap surrounding Martha Stewart could be the straw that breaks the economic camel's back. Martha made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars a year selling her goods through K-Mart. Her TV show and magazine made her Queen
[CTRL] Roosevelt ordered surveillance of Windsors
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,2763,746326,00.html Roosevelt ordered surveillance of Windsors Rob Evans and David Hencke Saturday June 29, 2002 The Guardian President Roosevelt personally ordered covert surveillance on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor during the second world war after receiving intelligence that the duchess had been passing secrets to a top Nazi with whom she was alleged to have had a tempestous affair, according to documents released to the Guardian by the FBI. The damning dossier - released for the first time by the intelligence agency - shows that the main reason why the Americans thought the abdication of Edward VIII had taken place in 1936 was because the duchess fervently supported the Nazi regime and this was totally unacceptable to the then Conservative prime minister, Stanley Baldwin. The official view has always been that he abdicated to marry the person he loved but could not stay on the throne because she was a divorcee. The papers show that the FBI was told by a minor German royal that Wallis Simpson was having an affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was then German ambassador to Britain, while she was seeing the Duke of Windsor. The minor royal, Duke Charles Alexander of Wurttemberg, who later became a Franciscan monk, said that "he knew definitely that von Ribbentrop, while in England, sent the then Wallis Simpson 17 carnations every day. The 17 supposedly represented the number of times they had slept together." Later the FBI reported that while in exile in France, the duchess was in regular contact with von Ribbentrop, then promoted by Hitler to foreign minister, and was leaking secrets to him. They were then exiled again to the Bahamas. The US intelligence operation began in 1941 when the couple came over from the Bahamas to spend a long weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, and were tailed by a FBI agent who had to fool both the Windsors and the US secret service on the orders of President Roosevelt. The FBI also reported that the duke was intoxicated and incapable for much of the time at the beginning of the war. The papers also contain reports from a party in Paris that the duchess told guests that the duke was impotent and she was the only person who could satisfy his sexual desires. The documents fuel the long-running controversy over allegations that the disloyal pair secretly admired fascism and that he was lined up to return to the throne if Hitler had conquered Britain. The FBI first refused to release the documents to the Guardian but the paper appealed against the decision, and as a result 227 new pages - including intelligence reports of the operation and interviews with informants - have been disclosed. The release comes at a sensitive time as the British public record office has not yet released similar documents which cover this period in deference to the sensibilities of the late Queen Mother. 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] MicroSoft Palladium protects IT vendors, not you - paper
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25940.html - MS Palladium protects IT vendors, not you - paper By John Lettice Posted: 28/06/2002 at 10:27 GMT Ross Anderson of Cambridge University has published a lengthy and informative paper/FAQ on Palladium, the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), their relationship and their implications. His take is that Microsoft's Palladium, soft-announced by the company earlier this week, will be built on TCPA hardware, adding some extra features as it goes along. Some of these features, he notes, will the there in order to make the package look more attractive, while some of the components of Palladium are already shipping in Xbox and WinXP. TCPA itself provides for a monitoring component to be included in future PCs. In phase one Anderson expects it to be an add-on chip on the motherboard, but further down the line it will be in the CPU. It's more crackable as an add-on, as you could conceivably get around it by monitoring bus traffic, but once it's in the CPU this becomes a lot harder, and he speculates about the likely effects in the event of TCPA/Palladium being to all intents and purposes uncrackable. Aside from providing the music business with workable DRM, it would also allow software companies to lock in their users. The more Palladium/TCPA-enabled apps there are, the more this will be the case, and it will also have the tendency to favour existing players while locking out new entrants. Anderson refers to the chip as the Fritz chip, after senator Fritz Hollings who has been working tirelessly to make TCPA compulsory. On boot, Fritz checks that the boot ROM is as expected, executes it, measures the state of the machine; then checks the first part of the operating system, loads and executes it, checks the state of the machine; and so on. The trust boundary, of hardware and software considered to be known and verified, is steadily expanded. A table is maintained of the hardware (audio card, video card etc) and the software (O/S, drivers, etc); if there are significant changes, the machine must be re- certified. The result is a PC booted into a known state with an approved combination of hardware and software. Control is then handed over to enforcement software in the operating system - this is presumably Palladium if your operating system in Windows. Note the similarities here to what Xbox is doing already. Once the machine is in this state, Fritz can certify it to third parties: for example, he will do an authentication protocol with Disney to prove that his machine is a suitable recipient of 'Snow White'. The Disney server then sends encrypted data, with a key that Fritz will use to unseal it. Fritz makes the key available only so long as the environment remains 'trustworthy'. For this purpose, 'trustworthy' means that the media player application won't make any unauthorised copies of content. That's an example of the sort of procedure you'd encounter when the system is applied to the entertainment business. However, TCPA-enabled applications will likely have their security policies administered by remote servers, and this has other implications. What you're allowed to read could be censored for reasons other than copyright, so for example the scientologists might convince a court that a certain document should be banned [and] get an order against a policy server. So to what extent could unpalatable and leaked documents be banned or disappeared? It will be possible to turn TCPA off, but if it achieves critical mass then this will mean you don't have access to TCPA-enabled applications, which may isolate you a tad. If the applications that use TCPA / Palladium are more attractive to the majority of people, you may end up simply having to use them - just as many people have to use Microsoft Word because all their friends and colleagues send them documents in Microsoft Word. Anderson elaborates this, based on how this control has been used in the past: TCPA appears designed to maximise the effect, and thus the economic power, of such plays. Given Microsoft's record of competitive strategic plays, I expect that Palladium will support them. So if you control a TCPA-enabled application, then your policy server can enforce your choice of rules about which other applications will be allowed to use the files your code creates. These files can be protected using strong cryptography, with keys controlled by the Fritz chips on everybody's machines. What this means is that a s uccessful TCPA-enabled application will be worth much more money to the software company that controls it, as they can rent out access to their interfaces for whatever the market will bear. So there will be huge pressures on software developers to enable their applications for TCPA; and if Palladium is the first operating system to support TCPA, this will give it a competitive advantage over GNU/Linux and MacOS with the developer community. The most significant
[CTRL] MicroSoft security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box
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MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 30/06/2002 at 05:56 GMT
If you caught our recent coverage of the Windows Media Player trio of
security holes you may have followed a link to the TechNet download site for
a patch, or you might have activated Windows Update. If you did the former
(though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you would have been confronted
with an End User License Agreement (EULA) stating, most ominously, that:
You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software
protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may
provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be
automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates
may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other
software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use
reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update.
Reasonable efforts to post notices somewhere on the Web. I think it's clear
from the wording that MS has absolutely no intention of bringing this
behavior to our attention.
Instead, Microsoft has just assumed the right to attack your computer and
surreptitiously install code of its choosing. You will not be warned; you
will not be offered an opportunity examine the download or refuse it. MS will
simply connect remotely and install what it will, or install it secretly when
you contact them.
This means MS will have administrator privileges on your personal computer.
What they feed you may be infected with viruses; it may break your
applications, corrupt data files, destroy weeks or months or even years of
work, but you'll have no recourse if it does. By downloading this WMP
critical security patch, which you must do to operate WMP safely, you'll
agree to give Billg deed and title to your personal property and to leave
Microsoft immune from legal retaliation if they damage your machine.
The pusillanimity of wrapping what amounts to a digital land-grant into a
needed, critical security patch is matched only by the arrogance of assuming
that Windows is now such a fundamental linchpin of a human life worth living
that no retaliation in the courts or at the retail counters is conceivable.
(And that's not to mention 'informal' retaliation by outraged IP warriors,
which we fully expect to see.)
We've heard the Billg rubbish about Trustworthy Computing until we're sick to
death of the trivial incantation. Ironically, Microsoft has just taken steps
to make the Internet immensely more untrustworthy than it already is. When we
know that arbitrary code will be secretely installed on our connected boxes
by software vendors who are not accountable for the damage they may do, any
issue of trust is obliterated.
May I suggest my (personally) favorite solution to that problem? ®
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Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
All My Relations.
Omnia Bona Bonis,
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Re:Who Paid the Piper The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- From the socialist journal, New Politics. Michael Pugliese http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue31/johnso31.htm The Cultural Cold War: Faust Not the Pied Piper Alan Johnson [from New Politics, vol. 8, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 31, Summer 2001] ALAN JOHNSON is a reader in the Center for Studies in the Social Sciences, Edge Hill of Higher Education, England. He is writing a biography of Hal Draper and is a member of the NEW POLITICS editorial board. I got hold of Sartre and asked him: What would you say if in certain circumstances you were imprisoned in a city where there was a Communist government, and I, knowing you were innocent, started a campaign against the communists on your account? Ah, said Sartre, that is an extremely difficult question. It all depends. But it is just possible that I in my prison might nevertheless think it better that I should be condemned than that my case should be made the occasion for an accusation against the cause which in the long run is that of the proletariat. I said: It seems to me that the only good cause has always been that of one person unjustly imprisoned -- whether this has resulted in habeas corpus or a furious campaign conducted by Voltaire in pamphlets. Sartre: That's the whole drama. That perhaps we live in a situation in which the injustice against one person no longer seems to apply. (extract from the journal of Stephen Spender, March 30, 1956, inThe Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People 1933-75) At certain times and in respects to certain crucial issues, instead of saying neither- nor and looking for viable alternatives, we must recognize an either- or and take one stand or the other. (Sidney Hook, Out of Step. An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century) IN THE COLD WAR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS WERE DESTROYED because much of the left entered one or other Faustian pact of the mind. Two lefts took the view that the times or the situation dictated their temporary, knowing, intellectual and practical subordination to state power in Russia or the United States. The result was that both ended up no sort of left at all. Both, like Goethe's Faust, lost their souls. Both discovered that state power, like Mephistopheles, strikes a hard bargain: The Devil is an egoist/And is not apt, without a why or a wherefore/'For God's sake', others to assist. The first left stretched well beyond card- carrying Communists. It developed, as William Phillips has put it, a Stalinist Unconscious. Viewing anti-Stalinism as quixotic or, worse, objectively pro- Imperialist, this left broke the bonds between reason, socialism, liberty, and democracy and put power-worship, lesser-evilism and sophistry in their place. Unable to rouse itself to oppose widespread slave labor and political murder in its camp it could be moved to paroxysms of anger by the fate of the Rosenbergs or the fact that the Congress of Cultural Freedom received some of its money from the Central Intelligence Agency. Paul Sweezy, editor of Monthly Review, wrote The restrictions of liberty which are characteristic of Soviet Russia [i.e. torture, mass judicial murder, slave labor camps --AJ] are far less symptomatic of the time than the crisis of liberty in the United States.1 This left -- its ranks swelled by the Maoists of the New Left -- has not gone away. Its mental habits (in particular campism, i.e. the disastrous idea that my enemy's enemy is my friend) its sensibility (power-worship, pseudo-realism, arm- chair militarism) and its poverty-stricken idea of what socialism is (Sweezy famously defined socialism as a system which disallows private property) are largely intact and morphing into
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-Caveat Lector- on 6/30/02 3:17 PM, William Bacon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason why everything having to do with God is being removed from our society? Because it's time we weaned ourselves from infantile fairy tales. Took responsibility for our world, and generally got on with it? -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - The police aren't here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder. Mayor Richard Daley NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] Are we at war with China?
-Caveat Lector- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY !! ~ I think that when we are sleeping or otherwise abosrbped mentally that our organic CPU is still engaged in computation and sorting of information, driven by the need to make sense of the world. Last year I lived in Santa Rosa, California up until late September. It was here that about two thirds of the experiences I have detailed, the psychological operations aimed at de-stabilization, occurred. It is here that I had methamphetamine offered to me unceasingly. I was homeless due to the fact that A) I had left Michigan to keep from jeopardizing my family and friends during the height of the Jam Echelon Day campaign due to cryptic threats and B) I had been denied, somehow, every opportunity to make a better situation for myself. It is also here that I was offered heroin regularly. As I go on here you will see how this is key. It was in Santa Rosa wherein the person I eventually fled, the girl who was obviously assigned to me for about a year and a half, was at the center of attempts to shove certain memes (paradigms) down my throat. One of those was a reverence for the now popular dragon iconography you are seeing about. I must caution against assuming that anyone bearing such, be it on a t-shirt or a tattoo, is in cahoots with what I am leading into. It was in Santa Rosa that I had a very disturbing dream and this is the gist of what I was circumlocuting in the first sentence of this text. I do not have dreams like this and I did not even during the height of my psyop induced angst, except for this once. I submit that my unconscious was speaking the only language it knows how to transmit to the conscious mind, the language of the mythic, of dreams, of symbolism. I believe my unconscious had pieced together something that my conscious mind was only vaguely aware of, in its endless computations. I believe this is the nature of prophecy and I believe we are all prophets at times. My dream was of billowy Arabian tents, of a dragon, and of much blood. The words The dragon has shed its spines and gone undergound echoed for months in my head. We had gone from the year of the dragon into the year of the snake. I am sorry that it was not more specific. It bothered me all night and I hardly slept. This was June, 2001. In case you are wondering, I am NOT making this up. See: How do you recruit a person to rain terror, death and destruction on people they do not even know? Do you look for someone who is already evil? No. You use bait. The best bait is information that can easily be accepted as true and may, from a certain perspective, in fact be true. http://www.factnet.org/letters/FACTNewsOctober2001.html ~ Now what the hell does this have to do with anything? I was driven to relay the story above by what I believe is a revelation of sorts that I had today. FACT: China bought four hundred million dollars worth of the very 757's that struck the World Trade Center. Someone needs to explain to me why this was done if these jets had just been shown to be vulnerable. Boeing signs huge China deal http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1574000/1574486.stm FACT: The international cabals we have been often speaking of (or CLUBS if you prefer) always seem to cross paths with Henry Kissinger. FACT: Last year, in the spring, Kissinger and his CFR buddies presented China with what was allegedly new incriminating evidence regarding the Tiennamen square incident years ago. You've heard a lot of mixed info on Lyndon LaRouche for sure. This is because his research department is phenomenal but his conclusions as to what to do about he world he paints with an accurate brush are questionable. It IS he that reports this information. Here is the url. Take it in context with the following two items. http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2803_cfr.html FACT: Kissinger now sits as top advisor to a huge Chines oil firm. What does TOP advisor exactly mean unless he is calling the shots. http://www.cnooc.com.cn/english/news/news_detail.asp?idnews=352 FACT: THIS happened on September 6, 2001: Chinese authorities shut down an outspoken Internet bulletin board last week after students posted messages about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, officials announced yesterday. http://www.dfn.org/focus/china/baiyun.htm also see: Hu Jintao was the democracy advocate for Tianamen Square who was arrested. I put that in quotation marks because the student's demonstrating were not demonstrating about democracy per se. They were medical student's protesting the US pharmaceutical complex experimenting on Chinese citzens and organ harvesting. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/9815 FACT: Soon after September 11, President Bush embarked on a rather extensive trip to China, the details of which managed to not be disclosed. FACT: Jiang Zemins personal jet was reported as being heavily bugged some months ago and they accused the U.S. If
[CTRL] A TIME FOR DISSENT IN AMERICA
-Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=123ncid=742e=10u=/020630/79 /1rtsk.html A TIME FOR DISSENT IN AMERICA Sat Jun 29, 9:01 PM ET By Richard Reeves WASHINGTON -- The presidency seems to be going to George Bush's head. With each morning's paper or evening's news, depending on your preference, our leader is jumping up and saying truly extraordinary things, some of them preposterous, some stupid, some terrifying. Ariel Sharon ( news - web sites), he says, is a man of peace. I must have missed something. If Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites), that other sometimes man of peace, wins an election, the election doesn't count. Nothing counts unless we like it. We are now in the first-strike business, ready to launch pre-emptive or preventive strikes against countries or groups judged hostile to our interests by someone at Central Intelligence or the Republican National Committee ( news - web sites). Frankly, I prefer what a bit more experienced Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, said on that subject in 1954: Preventative war ... I don't believe in such a thing, and frankly I wouldn't even listen seriously to anyone that came in and talked about such a thing. Ah, what did he know? Now, the United States can do anything it wants, right? World's only superpower and all that. We define morality now. We decide who's naughty and who's nice. The Saudi royal family, there's a good bunch, even if they are the greatest exporters of terrorism in the world, getting out of their country and into Afghanistan ( news - web sites), Chechnya ( news - web sites), Kashmir ( news - web sites) and lower Manhattan. We are, since Sept. 11, a nation without dissent -- and a little weak on common sense, too. If the president says it, it must be true. Whether you agree with his pronouncements or not, you are supposed to keep your mouth shut in the name of patriotism and solidarity. Among other things, you have to pretend we actually have the capability to do what we say we're going to do to the axis of evil or anyone else, including corporate America, who gets bad numbers in Republicans' polls. Having said that, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Foreign Policy magazine, hardly a hotbed of anti-establishment thinking, in its July-August edition has a cover story titled The Incredible Shrinking Eagle: The End of Pax Americana, a harsh left-wing analysis asserting that the United States' best days are behind us. I would disagree with that, but I am impressed that someone out there has a clear enough head to point out that with all our big talk, the United States has fought three wars since 1950 and has lost one and tied two. The author, Immanuel Wallerstein, a roving intellectual now a senior research scholar at Yale, counts Vietnam as a defeat, and Korea and Iraq as draws. One of the most influential scholars of the American left, say the magazine's editors in what appears to be a bit of nervousness. He argues that the victory over the Taliban is just another milestone in a gradual U.S. decline that began in the 1970s with defeat in Vietnam. ... More damningly, he accuses the most aggressive proponents of U.S. power of actually hastening the collapse of the American empire, thanks to military outreach that has busted the U.S. economy and a global backlash against American arrogance that has left the United States increasingly isolated. Unexamined triumphalism is Foreign Policy's justification for printing the kind of questioning and skepticism that has been lost in larger journals and electronic news -- to say nothing of the president's head. The Powerless Superpower is one of the subheads in the Wallerstein article. We look best, he declares, when we attack countries without armies, triumphing in Panama and Grenada. In the Balkans and the Middle East alike, he argues, the United States has failed to exert its hegemonic clout effectively, not for want of will or effort, but for want of real power. President Bush ( news - web sites) does not seem to understand that. He is making threats and promises he cannot deliver on, because the only way to control cantankerous little countries with their own history is by occupation. So it is ridiculous for Bush to say, The outcome is certain. And the prospects for the future are not helped by threats such as, You are either for us or against us. The truth is, most countries, with Israel and Saudi Arabia as examples, are not with us; they are paying lip-service waiting to see whether and where we succeed. They are -- surprise -- for themselves. This is heresy in mobilizing Washington, but in fact, more argument, more dissent would be a great help to Bush. He is talking nonsense a good deal of the time, dangerous nonsense if he means it, and it is past time to talk openly about that. In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession
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[CTRL] Why we should be worried
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Why we should be worried about George W Bush
29jun02
THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a
fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself
this week with a long-awaited definitive speech on Middle East policies that
stretched even the weirdest imaginations. BRUCE WILSON in London reports:
US embassies around the world moved to explain the batty future Bush saw for
Israel and Palestine, but nothing could disguise that the bedbug was running the
White House and anything could happen next.
Hey, look. Even Tom Cruise is worried. In London this week he said he wanted his
adopted kids brought up outside the USA because of what happens inside the USA.
He listed terrorism and street crime, but very cogently he listed corporate crime as a
reason not to bring up kids in the old US of A.
Now, Tom Cruise is not a Grade A rocket scientist. In fact, he is a Grade A
Scientologist. On the whole, though, I would say he was brighter than George W.
Bush (along with my neighbour's catatonic cat) and it was most intriguing that he
named corporate crime as a reason not to want to grow up in America.
The WorldCom affair comes after the Enron affair while the Andersen affair simply
defies belief. It has become perfectly clear that major US corporations have been
running out of control, throwing billions of dollars into a kind of international
financial
black hole.
In vain you ask (as I tried to do), well, where has the money gone? I mean, if you
back a loser at Randwick, then you know where your money went. If these
companies have lost billions $US3.8 billion in the case of WorldCom why hasn't
somebody won it? Or got it? Where has it gone? Or, more to the point, did it ever
exist?
Of course it did, said the Doormouse. Otherwise, it could never have been lost and
17,000 people sacked for the lack of it. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, capitalism
rattling around like a high- velocity round in a mental vacuum. Where was
government? Where was control?
Twenty years ago, when I lived in Washington, the US was said to have a trillion-
dollar-a-day economy that was so strong not even government could screw it. Now,
you have to ask if things have turned, that apparent fraudsters like WorldCom can
screw government.
Dubya Bush seems reluctant to address these issues. He is a Texan (although not
by breeding) and there they let things take their course, execute mentally deficient
minors, and generally behave like good old boys, taking the Chevy to the levee.
If it were not for September 11, Bush would be in serious political trouble in
America. He may be yet, in the mid-term November elections. His shocked nation
rallied around him as the personification of The Flag when the atrocities stunned us
all. His personal rating broke all records.
Since then, though, what? On this side of the Atlantic he is seen as a kind of
strange joke. Britons try to understand him, but in Europe they simply think of him
as a sort of circus act. The Middle East pronouncement was so absurd they didn't
know whether to laugh or simply ask the US senior political attache over for a
commiserating drink.
These concerns are based on the belief that seems to be proven that
Washington itself is a divided city. Colin Powell, in State, is trying to plead reason
over the clamouring voices in Defence, led by Donald Rumsfeld, clearly a man not
always entirely in control of his senses.
Bush is listening to Rumsfeld, and other strange voices not least the Israeli Prime
Minister, Ariel Sharon. And, as he does, the US looks more and more to be a long
way away from the rest of the world.
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[CTRL] Kosovaria: Round ?
-Caveat Lector- From WSWS }}}Begin World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkans Kosovo threatens to ignite fresh Balkan conflict By Tony Robson 1 July 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author The Kosovo Provisional Assembly has passed a declaration challenging the Border Delineation Agreement signed in February 2001 and establishing an internationally recognised border between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia. This agreement came after years of negotiations between the governments in Belgrade and Skopje. Ethnic Albanian paramilitaries, however, never recognised the February agreement and instigated a violent campaign against the Macedonian army and border police. The five-month conflict left hundreds of ethnic Albanians and Macedonians dead and tens of thousands homeless. The paramilitaries involved were members of the National Liberation Army (NLA), an off-shot of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The NLA and another splinter group, the ANA, have regularly flouted a cease fire signed last August. The resolution passed by the government in Pristina could prompt the fighting to flare up into full-scale war. This development has gone largely unreported in the Western mass media because it has been instigated by the KLA, which has functioned, even before NATOs 1999 war against Serbia, as a puppet of the United States. NATO and UN representatives in Kosovo have denied that the KLA has exported its war to the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia to further its goal of establishing a Greater Kosovo. The declaration of the Kosovo Provisional Assembly would suggest otherwise. The establishment of the Kosovo Provisional Assembly and the elections last November were hailed as a cornerstone for future Balkan stability and a victory for political moderation. The parameters of the new governing body were set down by the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244. This allowed for greater autonomy within the boundaries of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). Kosovo remained a Western protectorate with the UN having the last word on the final status of the province. But ethnic Albanian parties guaranteed a majority in the governing body have instead contrived to use the assembly as a vehicle to aggressively assert their claim for independent statehood. The assembly passed a declaration on May 23, refusing to recognise the border with Macedonia. Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), presented the motion. The PDK is the main political successor to the KLA, headed by former commander Hashim Thaci. Rexhepi had indicated that he would present the resolution as far back as March. In a statement read to Radio 21 on March 6, following his first meeting with KFOR Commander General Valentine Marselleu, Prime Minister Rexhepi said, Kosovo institutions do not recognise the agreement for the border line between Skopje and Belgrade, because with this deal Kosovo lost some 2,500 hectares (6,100 acres) of its territory to Macedonia. The Kosovo PM stated that the resolution would be forwarded to the United Nations Security Council. This brought an immediate response from Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Slobodan Cashule who warned, One-sided revision of the border, without using the agreement mechanism is a declaration of war, which destroys the European foundation and the basic principle of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for inviolability of borders. The vote was taken in an assembly dominated entirely by ethnic Albanian political representatives. Serb legislators walked out of the proceedings in protest, leaving the resolution to be passed with 85 votes for and none against. President Ibrahim Rugova and his Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), considered a more moderate figure in the West, lent their support. All three parties are unanimous in rejecting the integrity of the FRY and its jurisdiction over the border with the Republic of Macedonia. United Nations Special Representative (UNSR) Michael Steiner had attempted to prevent the motion from being presented. He immediately exercised the power of veto, declaring the resolution null and void. Criticising the assembly, he stated: If you want us to act and if you recognise that for us to act we need the support of the international community then you dont antagonise the international community. Today the assembly did exactly that. Kosovo is not an island. Kosovo needs this international support If we want to progress we must follow the rules. Steiners somewhat mild rebuke was echoed by the UN Security Council and US State Department and by European Foreign Policy chief, Javier Solana, who said the resolution will only undermine the legitimacy of the Kosovo Assembly. The issue in dispute goes far beyond some 2,500 hectares of land. On May 30, a PDK Assembly member told the
[CTRL] Phil M's golf sponsor?
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KPMG conflicts of interest revealed
Jeevan Vasagar and Rob Evans
Monday July 1, 2002
The Guardian
The giant financial consultancy KPMG, whose polo-playing boss is paid £1.7m a
year, has had at least five potential conflicts of interest in its dealings with the
British taxpayer, a Guardian investigation has found.
KPMG is one of the so-called big four who dominate the accountancy world, and is
the latest auditor to be at the centre of controversy over scandals in the US. It
audited Xerox, which on Friday admitted overstating its revenues during the past
five years by almost $2bn.
We have found:
· KPMG was paid to advise Hertfordshire University on a contract to build student
halls which was awarded to one of its construction company clients.
· KPMG advised the highways agency on a major road project awarded to another
of its clients.
· KPMG took £128,000 from the government for an unacceptable investigation
into the tax haven of Belize. It was doing extensive business with the offshore
operators itself.
· KPMG was paid by the Foreign Office to investigate a series of other offshore tax
havens in the Caribbean, where KPMG had its own lucrative offshore operations.
· KPMG has been allowed to place secondees in sensitive departments in the inland
revenue, the Department of Trade and Industry and the serious fraud office, while
specialising in advising firms and individuals how to avoid British tax. In return for
£500 KPMG last month told our reporter in London how to set up an offshore trust.
While the consultancy operates in more tax-avoidance offshore centres than other
firms, KPMG has been paying British politicians and political parties with a generous
hand. Both Toby Harris, leader of the London assembly's Labour group, and Steve
Bassam, before he became a Home Office minister, have been on the KPMG
payroll.
The firm also - uniquely - loaned a KPMG man, Rees Aronson, to serve as the
Labour party's finance director in the year running up to the last general election. It
sponsored and had a KPMG partner on the independent commission set up by the
Labour IPPR thinktank to promote private finance initiative deals, which are
lucrative for KPMG. The firm also helps the Tories, providing several Conservative
frontbenchers with free research.
These big accountancy firms can't simultaneously serve two masters, said Prem
Sikka, professor of accounting at Essex University yesterday. The question must
be asked: are they taking the taxpayer for a ride?
Prof Sikka, a strong of what he calls the anti-social practices of the big four,
calls
for wholesale reform in his book Dirty Business, to be published today. He says as
much as £85bn in tax may be lost to Britain because of avoidance promoted by the
big four.
Last year KPMG took in more than £7bn in fees from 152 offices spread across the
globe. While Mike Rake, who heads KPMG in Britain and its international
organisation, was paid £1.7m, the firm's 690 partners in Britain took an average of
£413,000 in profits.
KPMG's head of corporate affairs, Gavin Houlgate, last night said the firm did not
believe any conflicts of interest had taken place: These events were all on the
record. They are open and well-known.
He said KPMG had operated in a tightly regulated environment, did not favour any
one political party, and behaved no differently from the other big accountancy firms.
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Re: [CTRL] A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington?
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Jun 2002 at 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steve, do you have a full citation or link for that article? thanks! -brian Yes. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=305801 Steve If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ken Konflict of Interest Starr
-Caveat Lector- From http://arktimes.com/reporter/020628reportera.html }}}Begin Kenneth Starr, ethics-buster Private pleader and public prosecutor simultaneously, the Whitewater man blazed a new and frightening trail. By Doug Smith June 28, 2002 I'm the local sheriff. I have reason to believe that you have committed a crime. I put a gun to your head, a common and respectable practice for law enforcement officials in these parts when they encounter suspected criminals. You happen to be the town's mayor. I'm investigating you for alleged corruption, for skewing your official decisions for personal gain and then covering up your actions. Just then, the postal carrier arrives and hands you your mail. One of the letters you have received is, coincidentally, from me, on the stationery of my law firm. You will recall, Mr. Mayor, that being sheriff is only a part-time job; the rest of the time I'm a corporate lawyer. The letter says that I represent frontier.com, that my client is seeking regulatory relief from Town Hall, and that we really deserve your help. With my weapon pressed to your skull - for reasons, of course, wholly unrelated to frontier.com's request - you read my eloquent plea on behalf of my client. That is David Halperin, explaining - better than anyone has - how Kenneth Starr operated. Long before his probe of alleged misconduct in Arkansas was eclipsed by his investigation of the Monica Lewinsky matter, Starr blazed a new trail on our nation's legal ethics map, Halperin writes. For four years, from his August 5, 1994, appointment as independent counsel to his July 31, 1998, announcement that he would take an unpaid leave of absence from his position as a partner in the law firm Kirkland Ellis, Starr pressed the interests of private clients in numerous high- stakes legal matters, many involving the participation or interests of the Executive Branch of the United States Government, while conducting a criminal investigation of, among others, the head of the Executive Branch, President Clinton. Halperin's article Ethics Breakthrough or Ethics Breakdown? Kenneth Starr's Dual Roles as Private Practitioner and Public Prosecutor appeared last month in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, published by the students of the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. Halperin is a lawyer and executive director of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy in Washington, though he stressed in an interview that the article was unrelated to the Society. Halperin believes there was a breakdown, and that Starr violated existing codes of legal ethics. But whether he did or didn't, laws should be enacted to prevent any other special prosecutor from doing what Starr did, Halperin says. He would bar special prosecutors from doing private legal work while they're serving as prosecutors. Although many of the federal independent counsels or special prosecutors appointed since the 1970s continued to engage in private practice while conducting their probes, all of the other counsels whose mandates included investigation of conduct by the president - Watergate prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski, Iran-Contra counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, Starr's Whitewater predecessor Robert B. Fiske Jr., and Robert W. Ray, who replaced Starr in October 1999 - chose not to. And no independent counsel had simultaneously pursued a private law practice touching on so many high-profile and important federal policy matter as did Starr's. Here are a few examples; Halperin's article has more: · In January 1993, in its last week in office, the Bush administration scrapped a policy that prohibited former senior Justice Department officials, for a period of one year after they left office, from litigating in cases where the Justice Department also represented a party. The change benefitted people like Starr - the solicitor general under Bush - who were preparing to re- enter private practice. Three months later, Bush was representing Bell Atlantic Corp. in a suit challenging a federal law, and the Justice Department was defending the suit. Bell had filed the suit while Starr was still at the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration reinstated the old policy about former Justice Department employees, and advised Starr that he was in violation. After some resistance, Starr stopped signing briefs in the Bell Atlantic case until the one-year anniversary passed. In February 1996, after Starr had been appointed special prosecutor in the Whitewater case, Clinton signed legislation that effectively gave Bell Atlantic what it wanted, making the lawsuit moot. By taking advantage almost immediately of a new and untested ethics interpretation, an interpretation implemented at Justice in the final days of Republican control of the Department - implemented by outgoing officials who stood to gain career opportunities from the change in policy - Starr showed a willingness to test the boundaries of ethical
[CTRL] Road Rage Incident
-Caveat Lector- Living in California I have observed many incidents of road rage. Today was one of the worst. A couple of drunk men returning from Stinson Beach were following me, one of them standing up with his head out of the sunroof yelling at drivers and jestering for them to pull over. The road was a winding mountain road with a double yellow no passing lane the entire distance. I was going the speed limit so saw no reason to pull over so the drunk speeders could kill someone, and besides there were several cars in front of me so what would it accomplish? Eventually we came to a crossroads and the other cars in front turned the other way. The drunks behind me illegally pulled in front of me at the stop sigh by crossing the double yellow line, not stoping and swerving around me in the opposite lane. After a while they slowed down to about 10 MPH, then came to a complete stop, blocking the lane. If I tried to go around them they would have sped up. So here we are sitting on a lonely country road and they they started throwing things at my car. I told them to stop, and they started to get out (!) This was becoming very strange very fast. I was so shocked and concerned that I did not even see or try to record their license number. Eventually after a standoff of about 2 minutes, someone else came by and started to pass. The care in front sped off at a high speed. From now on, I will carry a disposable flash camera in my glove compartment to use to gather evidence on these asshole drivers, and will now *always* carry pepper spray. If any drunk treatens me I will not hesitate to use it. I am mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!! (If I was in Texas I would get a permit to carry a gun like my parents do. But then I might be tempted to use it, so pepper spray is probably a good idea for California, however you never now if the other person has a gun.) Steve In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Road Rage Incident
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Jun 2002 at 21:57, Steve Wingate wrote: jestering That was supposed to be 'gesturing'. They were acting like jesters however. Steve If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chernobyl: For 14 years the industry has downplayed the damage to humans and the planet
-Caveat Lector- (WND (Worldnet Daily) is a source of disinformation. This article is more unbiased. Unless you are a right wing extremist who worships big business and hates environmentalism. --SW)) http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/050700.html Chernobyl: For 14 years the industry has downplayed the damage to humans and the planet by John M. LaForge 7 May 2000 Minneapolis Star Tribune With a heavy dose of half-truth, the commercial press works overtime to reduce the results of the April 26, 1986, Chernobyl catastrophe to a nervous disorder confined to the former Soviet Union and Europe. Understated anniversary reports of the worldwide radiation disaster help the nuclear industry hold on against overwhelming opposition, in spite of what should have been the final insult from nuclear power. Efforts at psychological cleanup often sound like Peter Crane, a lawyer at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), who says that the explosion . . . sent a radioactive cloud into the atmosphere of Eastern Europe. This is a true statement. It merely neglects to mention the rest of planet Earth. Journalist Michael Specter reports, The fire, which burned out of control for five days, spewed more than 50 tons of radioactive fallout across Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia. This loaded sentence is true, in a limited sense. That the fire burned uncontrolled for two weeks after a series of three explosions; that perhaps 190 tons of reactor fuel was catapulted into the atmosphere; or that the radioactive fallout spread worldwide, reaching Minnesota's milk, for example, doesn't make Specter a liar, only a miser with the truth. The Associated Press' Dave Carpenter's description that deadly reactor fuel shot into the atmosphere, contaminating some 10,000 square miles and reaching as far as Western Europe is likewise correct, but Reuters reported on Nov. 28, 1995, that the contaminated areas include about 61,780 square miles. What is it to understate the total of irradiated territory by a factor of six? It isn't the pot calling the kettle black; it's the cesium calling the strontium a cancer agent. Carpenter's AP lullaby was published widely and included the comment that those living in the shadow of Chernobyl will be living with its deadly health and environmental legacy for years. For years? The word centuries would have been more accurate, if conservative, since radiation's health effects are multigenerational and not limited in time. Indeed, some genetic effects appear to be increasing with each successive generation. The AP's Angela Charlson reported that the explosions sent a radioactive cloud across parts of Europe. Understatement was practiced as well by the New York Times, which said the disaster spewed radiation across much of Europe and that a plume of toxic gases and dust . . . spread across the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. While this uncomfortable fact is nowadays passe, the contamination of the whole world was hinted at when the Times reported that the radiation spread across western Russia and beyond. `Irrational fears'? While Chernobyl's long-lived carcinogens -- primarily cesium, plutonium, strontium and iodine -- are well known to be deadly for decades or centuries, Soviet officials, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and U.S. editors have all ridiculed the common-sense fear of Chernobyl's radioactive fallout. The official Soviet paper Izvestia said in 1988 that doctors in the Ukraine were spending more time on trying to dispel irrational fears than on treating the effects of radiation. The IAEA, which at first refused to conduct a post-Chernobyl health study, claiming that all the accident's effects were confined within Soviet borders, dared to say in a 1991 study that Chernobyl's health effects were mainly psychological. The heavily criticized report did not consider the health of the emergency-response workers or of the evacuees from the 18-mile exclusion zone, 8,000 of whom are now known to have died from radiation-related diseases. The IAEA study failed to mention the lengthy latency period for observed cancer incidence. This cavalier whitewash of the disaster's inevitable results came from a nominal nuclear watchdog. After all, the IAEA is in the business of promoting nuclear energy, not discouraging it. For 10 years the agency has attempted to downplay the consequences of the accident, wrote Alexander R. Sich in a cover story for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The IAEA, still downplaying in 1995, said any increase in cancer caused by Chernobyl would be undetectable. Editors across the country have embraced the IAEA's dismissive attitude, distracting readers with headlines like Citizens still suffering radiation phobia and The legacy of Chernobyl: Fear is the deeper wound. A dread of radiation doesn't appear irrational in view of 1995's report that A second catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in
[CTRL] Chernobyl disaster may have caused increased risk of lung cancer
-Caveat Lector- From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1615000/1615299.stm [...] Five million exposed It is thought that as many as five million people were exposed to some sort of health hazard following the Chernobyl disaster. The latest Russian research, carried out by Victor Chizhikov at the Institute of Pulmonology in Moscow, followed reports of chronic respiratory problems among clean-up workers. It looked for molecular abnormalities in the lung lining of more than 40 of these workers which might indicate an increased risk of lung cancer. One type of abnormality was found in more than 60% of the volunteers, and just under a quarter had another. The majority of the group were smokers, but Mr Chizhikov said they represented a distinct spectrum of molecular alterations and a high risk of lung cancer. Key stories Counselling 'vital' Screening call Genes predict cancer 'Suicide gene' Europe shortchanged Computer help Chernobyl's legacy Research league Impact on children Melanoma advance Vaccine hope One stop shop Nicotine addiction No 'cancer explosion' THE DISEASE Cancer: The facts The legacy: Living with radiation The Soviet programme Deadly toll UK hill farms suffer The accident: How it happened Memories of a disaster AUDIO VIDEO Chernobyl remembered Internet links: Federation of European Cancer Societies ECCO 11 conference Cancer Research Campaign The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Health stories now: Refugee doctors' talents 'wasted' Surrogate couples 'make better parents' Elderly care law takes effect Patient choice revolution launched Price rise to hit IVF patients Why women opt for sperm donation 'He is my son, and that's that' Doctors' concern at overseas care plan Links to more Health stories are at the foot of the page. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Worst Effects of Chernobyl To Come
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/042500.html Worst Effects of Chernobyl To Come Associated Press 25 April 2000 GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations released a new assessment of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown Tuesday, saying the worst health consequences for millions of people may be yet to come. At least 100 times as much radiation was released by this accident as by the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined at the end of World War II, said a 32-page booklet released to mark the 14th anniversary of the disaster. Three people were killed in the explosion on April 26, 1986, and 28 emergency workers died within the first three months, the report said. It gave no other death toll, but noted that 106 of the other emergency workers that were first on the scene also were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome. And, the report said, a total of 600,000 emergency workers who helped in the cleanup and later built a cover to seal the destroyed reactor must be constantly monitored for the effects of exposure to radiation. The booklet, published by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the three countries most affected by the radiation -- Belarus, Ukraine and Russia -- continue to pay the price. Chernobyl is a word we would all like to erase from our memory, said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a foreword. But, Annan added, more than 7 million of our fellow human beings do not have the luxury of forgetting. They are still suffering, everyday, as a result of what happened. He said the exact number of victims may never be known, but that 3 million children require treatment and many will die prematurely. Not until 2016, at the earliest, will be known the full number of those likely to develop serious medical conditions because of delayed reactions to radiation exposure, he said. Annan said response to a U.N. appeal launched three years ago had fallen so short that the original list of 60 projects had been shortened to the nine most urgent. These nine projects could, if implemented, make a vital difference to the lives of many people, Annan said in appealing for governments and institutions to contribute $9.5 million. The projects include modernization of a hospital, creation of a network of centers to treat children and decontamination of schools, kindergartens and hospitals in Belarus. In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Deadly toll of Chernobyl
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/042200.html Deadly toll of Chernobyl BBC News 22 April 2000 One of Chernobyl's nuclear reactors is still in operation About 15,000 people were killed and 50,000 left handicapped in the emergency clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, according to a group representing those who worked in the relief operations. The number of invalids caused by the radiation has multiplied twelvefold since 1991, says Viacheslav Grishin, president of the Chernobyl League. The Chernobyl plant was the scene of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident in April 1986 -- when its number four reactor exploded, sending a radioactive cloud across much of Europe. CHERNOBYL TOLL 30 killed immediately 15,000 relief workers killed 50,000 relief workers invalid 5 million exposed to radiation 52,000 fled the area around Chernobyl The exact number of dead has never been given, but it is estimated that five million people were exposed to radiation in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. About 30 people were killed immediately and thousands were evacuated from the region. AGEING FASTER Ukraine's Health Ministry estimates that 3.5 million people, over a third of them children, have suffered illness as a result of the contamination, and the incidence of some cancers is 10 times the national average. First Deputy Health Minister Olga Bobylyova said: The health of people affected by the Chernobyl accident is getting worse and worse every year. We are very disturbed by these data. Ms Bobylyova told a news conference that the death rate among workers exposed to radiation while cleaning up Chernobyl has been rising. She said that the death rate among the liquidators -- as the group is known -- was higher than among other people apparently because they are ageing faster. Ms Bobylyova said most of the deaths were caused by poor blood circulation, cancer, respiratory and digestive diseases and traumas. She noted that thyroid cancer cases have increased 10 times in Ukraine in general since the accident. One of Chernobyl's four nuclear reactors is still in operation. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chernobyl Kills And Cripples 14 Years After Blast
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/042100.html Chernobyl Kills And Cripples 14 Years After Blast April 21, 2000 By Reuters KIEV (Reuters) -- Fourteen years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl power plant is still reaping a harvest of deaths, Ukraine's Health Ministry said Friday. Some 3.5 million people, over a third of them children, have suffered illness as a result of the contamination and the incidence of some cancers is 10 times the national average. The health of people affected by the Chernobyl accident is getting worse and worse every year, Deputy Health Minister Olha Bobyleva told a news conference. We are very disturbed by these data. Chernobyl's number four reactor exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986, spreading a poisonous radioactive cloud over much of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and parts of Western Europe. Soviet officials, who initially tried to hush up the tragedy, acknowledged in the end that the accident had killed 31 people and affected thousands more. Scale of Tragedy Greater Than Thought But the real scale of the catastrophe, which displaced hundreds of thousands of people and turned bustling villages and towns into ghost communities populated only by stray dogs and crows, has turned out to be far greater than once thought. Official data show that the health of some 3.5 million people, including 1.26 million children, was affected in this impoverished nation of 50 million. Children and also emergency workers sent in to clean up the contaminated areas are among the worst affected. The death rate among those living in contaminated areas is 18.28 percent per 1,000, compared to a national average of 14.8 percent. Bobyleva said high radiation had led to an outbreak of diseases of the nervous, blood and respiratory systems. She said the number of these diseases among children affected by the accident was 17 percent higher than the national average. The rate of thyroid cancer remains 10 times higher than normal among Ukrainian children. The ministry reported 1,400 cases of thyroid cancer between 1986 and 2000, while no cases were registered between 1981 and 1985. Bobyleva said the ministry was particularly worried by an increase in deaths of emergency workers, popularly called `'liquidators, most of whom are still under 50. The death rate in the group is double the national average. She said the consumption of radioactive food produced in the country's most contaminated northern and central regions of Kiev, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkassy and Rivne posed another danger for public health. A lack of cash and other economic problems have further complicated the situation. Cash-strapped Ukraine has spent $1.4 billion to date to fight the consequences of the accident. Ukraine has promised it will close Chernobyl's last operational reactor by the end of this year. j In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes. http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chernobyl's cancer world record
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/060700.html [...] In the years since the disaster, more than 4,000 people in Ukraine have died as a result of acute radiation syndrome and thyroid cancer, and another 15,000 are unable to work. Scientists have discovered genetic mutations in children whose parents were exposed to the radioactivity, so the effects are being passed from one generation to the next. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
