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GEORGE W. FDR:
THE 9-11 COVER UP

By: Joe Sansone

On December 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by a Japanese sneak attack, condemning thousands of souls to the bottom of the sea, and sealing the fate of a nation. The United States would enter the Second World War.

Now imagine if the United States government withheld who was behind the Pearl Harbor bombings and deemed such information classified for national security reasons. Farfetched? That is precisely what happened on September 11th 2001.

A PBS Transcript of an interview with Senator Graham of the Select Committee On Intelligence revealed the most shocking news story since the terrorist bombings took place. When discussing classified evidence that he felt Americans should know about, Graham said, âI was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States.â

Understand clearly the impact of this statement. The Senator is saying that a foreign government or governments committed an act of war against the United States, but the government of the United States is hiding that information from its citizens in the name of national security.

How exactly can Americans through their congress decide on the best course of action if information about those responsible is being denied? Instead of this abstract war on terrorism to rid the planet of evil wherever it may surface, that of course will last forever, and is increasingly moving us towards a totalitarian state, Americans could intelligently decide whether to wage war against the nation or nations responsible.Â Â Â Â

The 9-11 cover-up is not only denying Americans their right to decide the best course of action, it is also endangering the lives of Americans to possible future attacks. Senator Graham, when speaking of classified evidence and the dereliction of the U.S. government to pursue it, said, âI am stunned that we have not done a better job of pursuing that to determine if other terrorists received similar support and, even more important, if the infrastructure of a foreign government assisting terrorists still exists for the current generation of terrorists who are here planning the next plots.â

So because the United States government is not pursuing the nation or nations that assisted the terrorists, the possibility exists that the nation behind it is still operating on American soil. The public is being held completely in the dark on the issue.

The possibilities of who assisted the terrorists are nearly limitless. It could be supposed allies that are receiving foreign aid from America like Saudi Arabia or Israel. It could be potential adversaries like China or Russia. Equally as important a question as who was behind the attacks is why hide it from the American public?

Regardless of any supposed reason for the cover-up, it is wrong and has nothing to do with national security. Americans have a right to know what nation or nations committed an act of war against them. Cover-ups typically imply that there is something to hide.Â

The president has been given powers that no American president has ever had before. Congress has ceded its constitutional duty to declare war to Bush. Even General Washington in the American Revolution had to answer to congress.

Why is it that the United States Congress, the instrument of the political will of the American people, cedes its most important power to the president?

At the same time that it does so the American people are being denied the right to know whom it was that assisted in the 9-11 attacks.

The essence of Bushâs war on terrorism is to protect the U.S. government from American citizens by stripping them of civilian rights as guaranteed by the Bill Of Rights, while at the same time leaving Americans defenseless to foreign terrorists.

While the U.S. marches towards war in Iraq, the borders of the United States are left undefended. In the name of security American citizens are being forced to undergo humiliating strip searches at airports while foreign terrorists may as well be allowed to come and go as they please.

The Bush administration takes national security so seriously that an Illegal Alien worked at the White House. And we are told that we must sacrifice some of our freedom for security. Â

Oh, and in 30 years or so the information about who it was that was behind the attacks on September 11th 2001 might become public.

[CTRL] 800 American professors warn against coming Israeli ethnic cleansing

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http://www.yellowtimes.org/print.php?sid=949



800 American professors warn against coming Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign
Date: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 @ 01:08:28 EST
Topic: News from the Front


By Nigel Parry,
Electronic Intifada 

Earlier this year, 187 Israeli professors signed an "Urgent Warning" letter titled "The Israeli government may be contemplating crimes against humanity." As of today, 800 American professors have signed a similar document, warning of coming Israeli ethnic cleansing.

Released on September 29, 2002, the original Israeli letter began by stating, "We, members and friends of Israeli academe, are horrified by US buildup of aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's enthusiastic support for it. We are deeply worried by indications that the 'fog of war' could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing." 

The letter continued on to note that the coalition ruling Israel included parties that promote ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population as a "solution" to the conflict, the letter cited several examples of senior Israeli government and military officials using the language of ethnic cleansing, and called on the international community to "pay close attention to events that unfold within Israel and in the Occupied Territories." 

The American letter, released on December 18, 2002, opens with expressions of full support for the Israeli letter. Signed by 800 professors and intellectuals to date, the U.S. letter concludes: We join with our Israeli colleagues in calling for vigilance as events unfold in Israel and the Occupied Territories. With an average of more than $10 million dollars per day of American tax dollars going to Israel, we believe Americans cannot remain silent while crimes as abhorrent as ethnic cleansing are being openly advocated. 

We urge our government to communicate clearly to the government of Israel that the expulsion of people according to race, religion or nationality would constitute crimes against humanity and will not be tolerated. More information about the U.S. letter, including instructions on how to sign it, can be found at www.professorsofconscience.org. 

This initiative by American academics represents a highly significant mainstream articulation of Palestinian concerns about where the international community's tacit acceptance of Israel's now regular excessive use of force will ultimately lead. 

The letter is expected to draw much criticism and praise in the hotly-contested arena of Middle East education. Earlier this year, a few days before the Israeli academics' letter was released, EI reported on the launch of the Campus Watch website, an initiative by Daniel Pipes to encourage McCarthyite monitoring of faculty opinion and lesson plans in U.S. higher education institutions. 

Such initiatives would seem to have failed. It appears from today's letter and several other recent moves to encourage universities to remove Israeli stocks from their investment portfolios, that U.S. faculty are increasingly feeling the need to express an opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and their message is not one that Mr. Pipes or his ilk wish to hear. 





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[CTRL] You’re Invited to the War Party

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Youâre Invited to the War Party
By Georgie Anne Geyer

Ever since his Watergate revelations, which helped evict a president and change the United States for all time, for better or worse Bob Woodward has stood as the major force in a new genre of journalism. He talks, wheedles, and, using government officialsâ personal ambitions and dreams of political eternity, implicitly threatens his way into the often closed corridors of powerâthere, he is a master at getting a certain number of figures who try their best to remain aloof and unknown to tell their stories. The proposition, understood if not explicitly spoken, is that this book, as his former ones, will tell the storyâyou miss out on leave on this journalistic port, fellow, you miss the whole historic ship!

But once again with Bush at War, one has to wonder first what really is this genre? As with his other books, such as The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, the style is curt and commanding. It is easy and fully intended for the reader to get the impression that this is exactly the way it all really happened, particularly since by far the largest part of the book is direct quote after direct quote, many of them quite complex and all totally impossible to check. There is also little contextual matter or balance and certainly no âother-thinkâ even minimally allowed on the pages.

So, first, we need to keep in mind that the Woodward genre, or style, or indeed whatever we want to call it, is one that we might best and most legitimately call a kind of âjournalistic political theater.â And the important thing in theater is always, first, to know it is theater and thus not exactly life; but the next important thing is to realize that the discerning theater-goer, the person who has other facts and sufficient faculties of discernment at his fingertips, can gain enormous amounts of knowledge and reflection from a careful attendance to the stage and particularly from a skeptical perusal of the movements behind the curtains.

So, do not look in this book for âthe whole story,â but do look for incredible insights. Woodward walks us into the closed salons of this secretive administration, and that is a valuable escort service indeed.

First of all, Bush at War is really about the decision-making process in the upper levels of the Bush administrationâthe White House, the State Department, and the Pentagonâfrom the exact morning of Sept. 11th. It begins with a profoundly worried George Tenet, head of the CIA and, from all of the space he gets in the book, obviously one of Woodwardâs best and favored sources. That very morning, Tenet is wondering about when Osama bin Laden, whom he has been desperately tracking, will strike the U.S. Then âitâ happensâand from then onward, the book delineates day-by-day, and sometimes hour-by-hour and minute-by-minuteâwhat supposedly went on in meeting after meeting. From all accounts that I know of, Woodwardâs interpretations are exactly right; it is the quotes that are so bothersome.

But since so much of the material on the Afghan war has been covered before, the clues as to a future attack on Iraq are the parts that are the most original and that I will therefore deal with here.

The âquestion of Iraq,â for instance, was raised at a White House meeting of principals the very next day after the terrorist attacks. It was raised by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld but was actually reflecting the long-time obsession of Paul Wolfowitz, his aggressive deputy. In fact, Wolfowitz did not hesitate even to step in ahead of his demanding boss that day in regaling the president on Iraq. âWolfowitz seized the opportunity,â Woodward writes. âAttacking Afghanistan would be uncertain. He worried about 100,000 American troops bogged down in mountain fighting in Afghanistan six months from then. In contrast, Iraq was a brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily. It was doable. He estimated that there was a 10 to 50 percent chance Saddam was involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks.â

Here you come upon some of the many revealing counterpoints in the score. Some, like Wolfowitz and the group of neoconservative zealots, with their intimate ties to the hardest parts of the Israeli Right, wanted to attack and ultimately âreconfigureâ the entire Middle East for their own and Israelâs interests, and soon they were moving Heaven and Earth to convince the president that Iraq constituted, not a mere 10 to 50 percent of the problem, but 100 percent of it. Some of the presidentâs advisors also genuinely feared Saddamâs possible use of weapons of mass destruction. But there is also a persistent undercurrent of macho thinking that, hey, weâve got the weapons: âShould they think about launching military action elsewhere as an insurance policy in case things in Afghanistan went bad?â Woodward paraphrases these moment

[CTRL] PROMIS & Bin Laden

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030106-75579570.htm

Firm says stolen software helped bin Laden plot 9/11
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The head of a computer firm wants the independent commission named to investigate September 11 intelligence failures to review accusations that his software-tracking program, which he says the Justice Department stole, was diverted to Osama bin Laden. Top
William H. Hamilton, president of Inslaw Inc., said the commission — headed by former New Jersey Gov. David H. Kean — should focus on the validity of published reports saying bin Laden penetrated classified computer files before the attacks to evade detection and monitor the activities of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The 10-member Commission on Terrorist Attacks will have the authority to subpoena witnesses and documents in an effort to determine whether intelligence lapses by the FBI, CIA and other agencies contributed to the deadly success of the September 11 attacks.
"Bin Laden reportedly bought the U.S. intelligence community's version of the Promis database software on the Russian black market, after former FBI Agent Robert P. Hanssen had stolen it for the Russians, and used Promis in computer-based espionage against the United States," Mr. Hamilton said in a two-page fact sheet.
"The national commission may wish to examine whether the Justice Department's misappropriation of Promis was, at a minimum, linked indirectly to pre-September 11 performance problems of U.S. intelligence," he said.
Law enforcement authorities said Hanssen gave secret U.S. software to his Russian handlers that later went to bin Laden, allowing him to monitor U.S. investigations of his al Qaeda terrorist network.
The Washington Times reported last year that an upgraded version of the Promis software was routed to bin Laden after Hanssen, who is now serving life in prison for his espionage activities, had sold it to Russia for $2 million.
The software not only would have given bin Laden the ability to monitor U.S. efforts to track him down, the authorities said, but also could have given him access to databases on specific targets of his choosing and the ability to monitor electronic-banking transactions, easing money-laundering operations for himself or others.
The government has denied using the Promis software or that Hanssen delivered it to the Russians, but charged in a criminal complaint against the former FBI agent that he made extensive use of the bureau's computerized case management systems — Field Office Information Management Systems (FOIMS) and Community On-Line Intelligence Systems (COINS) — as part of his activities.
The government also said Hanssen gave his handlers a technical manual on the U.S. intelligence community's secure network for online access to intelligence databases. Law enforcement authorities said FOIMS and COINS are believed to be upgraded versions of the Promis software.
Mr. Hamilton said FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III acknowledged to Inslaw attorney C. Boyden Gray in late 2001 that the FBI system was based on "the Inslaw software," a fact the bureau had vigorously denied for more than a decade. He said Mr. Mueller referred further inquiries to the Justice Department, although a requested meeting never was scheduled.
"The national commission will need to overcome resistance from the Justice Department, remarkable for both its ferocity and tenacity, to any inquiry that might even imply the existence of the department's improprieties regarding Promis," Mr. Hamilton said.
He said federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including the FBI, later denied under oath that they had used the program, but the government did "an abrupt about face" a month after the September 11 attacks following news reports that bin Laden might have used the Promis program.
Mr. Hamilton said the FBI confirmed on Oct. 16, 2001, that the government had used Promis to track classified information in federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Inslaw battled the Justice Department for more than a decade over a $10 million, three-year contract to install the Promis program. A federal court initially ruled the department had used "trickery, fraud and deceit" to steal the Promis program, but that ruling later was overturned in the government's favor.
The House Judiciary Committee, after a three-year investigation, also found in 1992 that there was "strong evidence" the Justice Department had conspired to steal the Promis program.

[CTRL] MRC Alert: Bush's Tax Plan 'Gives the Most to the Rich' (fwd)

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1) The broadcast networks on Monday night, especially CBS, pushed
the liberal spin that the Bush tax cut proposals will unfairly
benefit the rich. Assuming all money belongs to the government,
CBS's John Roberts insisted "the President's plan would give the
most to the rich." CBS's Byron Pitts highlighted how "a middle
class wife" saw Bush's plan as "little more than a feel-good gift
that won't give much to most Americans -- especially the middle
class." ABC's Peter Jennings conveyed how Democrats "say that it
grossly favors the wealthy."

2) ABC decided on Monday morning to showcase a family which
welcomes the Bush tax cut plan, but which worries about how "it'll
cost in the long run," and how other "critics of the President's
plan say it favors the rich." On Good Morning America, Mellody
Hobson even found opposition from a millionaire: "A person with a
million-dollar income will get an estimated $24,000 in savings.
Even wealthy investors like Bill Bartholomay, chairman of the
Atlanta Braves, are uneasy."

3) Another left-wing harangue from Hearst Newspapers columnist
Helen Thomas at the White House press briefing. On Monday, Thomas
demanded to know why Bush wants "to drop bombs on innocent
Iraqis?" She whined about how the Iraqis are "not attacking" the
U.S. and wondered if this is "your revenge? Eleven years of
revenge?" She also sputtered about how "many countries don't have,
people don't have the decision" on U.S. policy, adding in disgust:
"Including us."

4) A Saudi terrorist wanted to donate to the Bush presidential
campaign, NBC News correspondent Lisa Myers reported Monday night
but, in a change from the Clinton era, Myers learned that "a
Republican fundraiser said no because it's illegal to take
contributions from foreigners."

5) Update: The author on whose book CBS based its movie about
Enron revealed that the movie's producers removed references to
the Clinton administration. Brian Cruver told the Houston
Chronicle: "In the book, as far as connections to the Bush
administration, to me it was a bipartisan corruption, and I have
as much information in the book about connections to (Bill)
Clinton as (George W.) Bush. But the movie has taken a more
one-sided view of that." Indeed it did.


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the MRC's bi-weekly compilation of the most outrageous, sometimes
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"Sliming Frist's Conservative Votes...And Impugning All
Republicans"; "Equating Conservative Stances With Segregationist
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> 1) The broadcast networks on Monday night, especially CBS,
advanced the liberal spin that the Bush tax cut proposals, to
accelerate the income tax rate reductions and eliminate the tax on
dividends, will unfairly benefit the rich. No story bothered to
put the dollar value of tax reductions by income level

[CTRL] Your Bloglet Update from "LibertyThink"

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Mohamed Atta sent polemical emails, including one containing a gruesome photo of a dead Palestinian child, to a regular email list of some 40 individuals, all of whom became the focus of intense scrutiny from the FBI after the lists existence became known last September, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Alarmingly, the email addresses of several of the names on Attas terrorist e-list appear to have been, or still are, employees of US defense contractors. One name on Atta's email list, for example, apparently worked at a Canadian company called Virtual Prototypes, whose website touts the fact that the firm helped prototype the avionics instruments in the F-15 jet fighter, the F-22 Raptor, the B2 bomber and the Apache Longbow, among others.

Virtual Prototypes Engenuity Technologies The Efficient Aerodynamic Model Builders Conceive and deploy a complete and sophisticated aero model for real-time simulation of any aircraft or helicopter without writing a single line of code. Used On: * Avionics integration test bench * Aerodynamics studies and aircraft design * Part task trainer * Operational flight trainer * Pilot evaluation of cockpit layout and multi-function display design

(1/6/2003 9:35:00 PM)
DEBKA-Net-Weeklys intelligence sources report mounting fears within US and Israeli counter-terrorism agencies that al Qaedas three command centers are preparing mega-terror attacks for US and Israeli targets.
(1/6/2003 9:25:00 PM)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says governnment forces have broken the spirit of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the country's conflict-torn north. .. The LRA has battled since 1988 to overthrow Museveni's secular government, ostensibly to replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments. Their campaign has been marked by atrocities and extremes of violence against civilians.Perhaps they aren't saying their war prayers loudly enough for God to hear them? (1/6/2003 9:09:00 PM)Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary?
Kenneth R. Timmerman, The American Spectator November, 1996 "It wasn't just a Republican scandal," says Marianne Gasior, a lawyer who worked for Kennametal Inc., a machine-tools manufacturer located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. "Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly linked to the network that was involved in a clandestine CIA arms export ring." Sound incredible? Certainly, the White House thinks so. When we suggested that it sounded a bit odd for an Arkansas governor's wife to be invited in 1990 to join the board of a company that had ties to an alleged arms export network, spokesman Neel Lattimore retorted: "Everything The American Spectator says about Mrs. Clinton is a bit odd, but I'll see if I can get an answer for you." He never did. (1/6/2003 8:58:00 PM)from The Washington Times The head of a computer firm wants the independent commission named to investigate September 11 intelligence failures to review accusations that his software-tracking program, which he says the Justice Department stole, was diverted to Osama bin Laden. William H. Hamilton, president of Inslaw Inc., said the commission headed by former New Jersey Gov. David H. Kean should focus on the validity of published reports saying bin Laden penetrated classified computer files before the attacks to evade detection and monitor the activities of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Also see: The EFF's files on the Inslaw/Promis affair http://www.inslawinc.com Or is he? (1/6/2003 6:58:00 PM)Gestapo-like tactics prompt outrage, complaints among owners, citizenry
In the ongoing effort to keep public places clear of intoxicated citizens and drunk drivers, some police agencies are using a controversial tactic going directly into bars and restaurants in order to make arrests. Such is the situation in northern Virginia, where Fairfax County Police are targeting patrons suspected of having one too many. "[Officers] were talking to one of the guests, then physically pulled him off the barstool," Richie Prisco, general manager at Champps bar told the Reston Times. "They were really aggressive and nasty." (1/6/2003 4:42:00 PM)by Francis Boyle, Dissident Voice, January 5, 2002
During the Fall of 2001, we witnessed anthrax attacks on the United States government that were obviously designed to shut down the government at a very critical time immediately after September 11. It was during this time that Congress should have been in session, making decisions regarding oversight of the Executive Branch of government. This note will discuss some historical background for the law, policy and science of biological weapons here in the United States. Why are we supposed to forget about the Anthrax attacks?
What do we really know about the anthrax attacks of October 2001, beside the apparent precedence for framing Arabs for terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction? When looking for a source

[CTRL] Selling Chem trails to the public: Boeing talks of spraying chemicals in the sky

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Paul Marston, Boeing, and the Telegraph all seem to think that global warming is real.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/08/wplane08.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/08/ixworld.html
New plane may plug hole in the ozone layer By Paul Marston, Transport Correspondent(Filed: 08/03/2002)
A NEW breed of airliners could help reduce the hole in the Earth's ozone layer.

Boeing's Sonic Cruiser
Boeing is designing the Sonic Cruiser to operate at 42,000-50,000ft, within the lower levels of the ozonosphere. It will be fitted with sensors to monitor the ozone layer and could eventually be used to release replacement ozone.
Boeing hopes it will be flying within six years at just under the speed of sound, saving an hour per 3,000 miles flown on current airliners.
Environmentalists are sceptical about Boeing's plans.
Friends of the Earth said: "Trying to tinker with this huge problem by adding yet more chemicals into the Earth's environment could make matters worse."

7 December 2001: Boeing unveils new Concorde
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[CTRL] Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval:Turner: Murray 12.23.2 rmforallRich Murray, MA Room For All [EMAIL PROTECTED]1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103http://www.swankin-turner.com/Swankin & Turner is a law firm specializing in the areas of regulation(food and drug, health care, standard setting, antitrust and trade) andpolicy (agricultural, insurance, corporate, tax, administrative andconsumer). Established in Washington, D.C. in 1973, it has served abroad variety of individual and organizational clients, includingnational and local business corporations and nonprofit associations. All attorneys with the firm are members of the District of Columbia bar.In addition, James Turner is admitted to the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courtbars; Betsy Lehrfeld is admitted to the California and U.S. SupremeCourt bars; Charles Brown is admitted to the bars of Ohio, West Virginiaand the U.S. Supreme Court; and Chris Turner is admitted to thePennsylvania bar.http://www.swankin-turner.com/aspartame.htmlhttp://www.swankin-turner.com/hist.htmlAspartame/NutraSweet: The History of the Aspartame Controversyby James Turner, ESQ. Director of the National Institute of Science,Law, and Public Policy (NISLAPP)National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 462-8800 Fax: (202) 265-6564 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Timeline:December 1965-- While working on an ulcer drug, James Schlatter, achemist at G.D. Searle, accidentally discovers aspartame, a substancethat is 180 times sweeter than sugar yet has no calories.Spring 1967-- Searle begins the safety tests on aspartame that arenecessary for applying for FDA approval of food additives. Fall 1967-- Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University ofWisconsin, conducts aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys on behalfof the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were being fedaspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand malseizures. November 1970-- Cyclamate, the reigning low-calorie artificial sweetener-- is pulled off the market after some scientists associate it withcancer. Questions are also raised about safety of saccharin, the onlyother artificial sweetener on the market, leaving the field wide openfor aspartame. December 18, 1970-- Searle Company executives lay out a "Food and DrugSweetener Strategy' that they feel will put the FDA into a positiveframe of mind about aspartame. An internal policy memo describespsychological tactics the company should use to bring the FDA into asubconscious spirit of participation" with them on aspartame and get FDAregulators into the "habit of saying, "Yes"." Spring 1971-- Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney (whose pioneering work withmonosodium glutamate was responsible for having it removed from babyfoods) informs Searle that his studies show that aspartic acid (one ofthe ingredients of aspartame) caused holes in the brains of infantmice. One of Searle's own researchers confirmed Dr. Olney's findings ina similar study. February 1973-- After spending tens of millions of dollars conductingsafety tests, the G.D. Searle Company applies for FDA approval andsubmits over 100 studies they claim support aspartame's safety. March 5, 1973-- One of the first FDA scientists to review the aspartamesafety data states that "the information provided (by Searle) isinadequate to permit an evaluation of the potential toxicity ofaspartame". She says in her report that in order to be certain thataspartame is safe, further clinical tests are needed. May 1974-- Attorney, Jim Turner (consumer advocate who was instrumentalin getting cyclamate taken off the market) meets with Searlerepresentatives to discuss Dr. Olney's 1971 study which showed thataspartic acid caused holes in the brains of infant mice.July 26, 1974-- The FDA grants aspartame its first approval forrestricted use in dry foods. August 1974-- Jim Turner and Dr. John Olney file the first objectionsagainst aspartame's approval. March 24, 1976-- Turner and Olney's petition triggers an FDAinvestigation of the laboratory practices of aspartame's manufacturer,G.D. Searle. The investigation finds Searle's testing procedures shoddy,full of inaccuracies and "manipulated" test data. The investigatorsreport they "had never seen anything as bad as Searle's testing." January 10, 1977-- The FDA formally requests the U.S. Attorney's officeto begin grand jury proceedings to investigate whether indictmentsshould be filed against Searle for knowingly misrepresenting findingsand "concealing material facts and making false statements" in aspartamesafety tests. This is the first time in the FDA's history that theyrequest a criminal investigation of a manufacturer. January 26, 1977-- While the grand jury probe is underway, Sidley &Austin, the law firm representing Searle, begins job negotiations withthe U.S. Attorney in charge of the i

[CTRL] Revelations at Memes.org!

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We at memes.org have attained to a certain level of harrassment online, for all of us, and in person, for at least myself.  This is a chemical reaction between political dissidents in the United States on the grassroots level and a fascist entity that wishes to shut us up and is naked in its way.  I sicken of the glorification of bullies and spit at it.
BTW, my Psy-Op mailing list was killed last week as I covered DARPA and it's Total Information Awareness program of spying on US citizens.  The head of the agency is the guy that called the shots in Iran-Contra, Mr. Amiral John Poindexter.
See:
Total Information Oppression: Now my mailing list has been killed! http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1428
and
Total Information Awareness Relies on Private Sector to Track Americans http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1458
 
Here is the meat of my email to you.  };-)~
http://www.memes.org 
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"In a nutshell: Zacarias Moussaoui offered to Congress to testify about Bush's prior knowledge regarding September 11. Instead, he was slapped with another charge as a punishment. Was he going to talk about Andreas Strassmeir, a man with close connections to Helmut Kohl? Strassmeir is said to be behind OKC and has strong connections to Iraq, like Moussaoui. And what about those eighty German corporations excluded from the list of those that supplied Iraq's Bioweapons program?"
more at
Oklahoma City Revisited - or HOLY OCTOPOID REDUX BATMAN! http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1583
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According to the Petroleum Economist of February 11, 2002, it was the Taliban which tried to get a trans-Afghan pipeline, and it was the U.S. and Unocal which jinxed the project.
more at
It's NOT the oil, Stupid, it's the power http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1578
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Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970: "Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraisedTechnology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
Weather Modification http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1566
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You don't think Danny Pearl's trip to Pakistan and subsequent death had anything to do with his father being an expert on AI, do you?
China and the World Trade Center: A Strategic Defense Initiaitive http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1606&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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"This kind of operation is aimed at starting conflicts in Indonesia and creating the image that Indonesia is a land of terrorists. " 
Ex-Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board chief: Bali Bomber is CIA http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1601&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Even as President Bush reiterated on Friday that it is not too late to avert war if Saddam Hussein fully complies with the weapons inspections by the United Nations, military analysts say that the bombing, almost daily, by US jets over the mandated no-fly zone, coupled with Special Forces and CIA officers operating inside Iraq, means that a quiet, barely noticed fight has been unfolding.
Undercover war begins as US forces enter Iraq http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1596&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Meet Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the United States, who was holding a 'conference' in Omaha Nebraska on September 11, 2001. This man is part of Mitre Corp. and Mitre is heavily into UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles). In fact, this little get-together was being held at the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offut AFB. A number (it hasn't been reported exactly how many but it was called 'a small group of business leaders') of CEO's from New York, including at least one from the WTC, were there. 
Mitre Corp., Offutt AFB, September 11, DARPA, Global Hawk, and Wetware http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1594&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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"The company was working on the developement of remote control aircraft and on Sept 6th I recieved word that some of my people may have been released from China to work on a change over of ATC Radar. I was told they had been contacted to be in a work detail in the WTC which was being renovated."
Can you hear the whistle blowing? http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1593&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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The Pentagon has launched a series of remarkable medical experiments to find a way to keep its soldiers and pilots awake and alert for up to five days at a time. The mission to create an "Extended Performance War Fighter", as the project is known, took on added urgency last week as the military use of amphetamine stimula

[CTRL] The Drug War According to Dr. Mengele

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The Drug War According to Dr. MengeleAgent Green Over the Andesby Jeffrey St. ClairDissident VoiceDecember 27, 2002Hostile intentions toward the people of another country. Deployment ofchemical weapons and biological agents. Pursuit of a scorched earth policy.Sound like Saddam's Iraq? Think again. This neatly capsulizes the Bushadministration's ongoing depredations in Colombia, all under the shadybanner of the war on drugs.The big difference is that Saddam's hideous use of poison gas against theKurds and, most likely, against Iran occurred more than 15 years ago. Sincethe Gulf War, Saddam's mad pursuits have been more on the order of chemistryexperiments in bombed out basements. But the Bush administration's toxic waron Colombian peasants is happening now, day after day, in flippant violationof international law.Indeed, as Bush offers pious homilies on Iraq's possible hoarding ofso-called Weapons of Mass Destruction, his administration and its backersfrom both parties in congress are poised to unleash a new wave toxins in themountains of Colombia, including a dangerous brew of biological weapons itsproponents rather quaintly call mycoherbicides. Let us call it: Agent Green.The leading germ war hawk in the congress these days is Rep. Bob Mica, aRepublican from Florida. In mid-December, Mica called on his pals in theBush administration to uncork a currently banned batch of killer fungi andbegin a campaign of saturation spraying. "We have to restore ourmycoherbicide," Mica fumed. "Things that have been studied for too long needto be put into action. We found that we can not only spray this stuff, butwe found that we can also deactivate it for some period of time-it will do alot of damage-it will eradicate some of these crops for a substantial periodof time."Of course, Agent Green also kills everything else it touches. There's noteven a pretense to call these germ bomblets "smart fungi." This is the drugwar as it might be waged by Dr. Mengele. Mica's bracing call for anunfettered germ war on Colombia should jotted down by junior legal eagleswith dreams of becoming future prosecutors of war crimes.But Mica is far from a lone crazed voice. Even the perpetually conflictedColin Powell is on record supporting the use of biological agents as a keypart of Plan Colombia. Indeed, Anne Peterson, the US ambassador to Bogota,testified recently that she believed bio-weapons had already been deployedin Colombia. Bizarrely, she later retracted this chilling observation,saying that it had been made under duress. Ms. Peterson didn't say who hadapplied the thumbscrews.Then there's Rand Beers, one of the few holdovers at the State Departmentfrom Clinton time. It's easy to see why this biowar zealot appealed to theBush crowd. Back in the late 90s, Beers was all for using germ weapons oncrops in drug-producing countries. Now, as Assistant Secretary of State fornarcotics, Beers trots across the globe to various international conferenceswhere he invariably is forced to defend this toxic footnote to Plan Colombiaagainst critics who charge that it violates, among other treaties, theBiological Weapons Convention. Beers often says that the toxic weapons areneeded to fight international crime syndicates. This heady bit of sophistryis hardly an exemption from the prohibitions, which, it must be pointed out,the Bush administration doesn't believe in anyway, even though they aretrigger-happy to invoke its provisions against enemy states, such as Iraq.So, as in Macbeth, sin plucks on sin.Agent Green is a genetically engineered pathogenic fungi, conjured up by theUS Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Maryland.It is now being produced with US funds by Ag/Bio Company, a private lab inBozeman, Montana and at a former Soviet bioweapons factory in Tashkent,Uzbekistan. The labs are brewing up two types of killer fungi, Fusariumoxysporum (slated for use against marijuana and coca plants) and Pleospora papveracea (engineered to destroy opium poppies).The problem is that both fungi are indiscriminate killers, posing threats tohuman health and to non-target species. Add to this the fact that whensprayed from airplanes and helicopters, Agent Green will be carried by windsand inevitably drift over coffee plantations, fields, farms, villages, andwater supplies.Agent Green also threatens the ecology of the Colombian rainforest, one ofthe most biologically diverse on the planet. These forests harbor a greatervariety of species per acre than any country's. But the Colombian forestsare already under frightful siege from gold mining, oil companies, loggingoutfits and cattle ranching. By one count, Colombia has already lost morethan a third of its primary forest and continues to lose forest at a rate of3000 square miles (or nearly 2 million acres) a year. It's possible that theAgent Green operation may saturate more than a million acres of Colombianrainforest, with potentially devastating ecological consequences for

[CTRL] From R-Kansan to Anglian

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January 07, 2003

Bill Clinton heads Oxford's wishlist for new Chancellor
By Tony Halpin, Education Editor


BILL CLINTON, who has made no secret of his love for Oxford
and whose daughter is a student there, may be asked to stand for Chancellor of the
university to succeed Lord Jenkins of Hillhead.

The prospect of a Clinton candidacy was greeted enthusiastically yesterday by Professor
Alan Ryan, Warden of New College, who is on a sabbatical year at Stanford University in
California.

He said: I would love to see Bill Clinton nominated. It would be tremendously good 
fun and
extremely useful if Oxford was going into the fundraising business in a serious 
fashion. I am
sure somebody will put him up.

The death of Lord Jenkins on Sunday leaves vacant the chancellorship for only the 
fourth
time in 70 years. Sixty-thousand Oxford graduates will vote for his successor. With 
just 50
graduate supporters required for any nomination, the way is open for Britains most
intriguing intellectual election campaign this year. The ballot is expected to be held 
in March.

The chancellorship is a lifetime position, elected by members of Convocation. For the 
first
time, the electorate will all be graduates of the university and not just those whose 
degrees
have been converted into an MA after seven years.

The only catch is they have to vote in person at the university. A record 8,300 turned 
out in
March 1987, when Lord Jenkins gained 3,249 votes to beat Sir Edward Heath and Lord
Blake to the post.

The post of titular head of Britains oldest university has usually gone in recent 
times to a
heavyweight public figure with strong political connections. In the present financially
conscious era, an ability to pull in big donors is an added attraction.

It traditionally offers elder statesmen  there has not yet been a woman  the 
opportunity
of a prominent position of influence from which to pronounce on anything they like.

Debate about possible contenders will be intense in common rooms across the city,
although names are unlikely to emerge until at least the start of the new term on 
January 19.
Conceivably, Tony Blair could stand, as Harold Macmillan did when he was Prime 
Minister in
1960. The required 50 backers could be gathered from within the corridors of 10 Downing
Street, but a candidacy is thought unlikely.

Mr Clinton is a more realistic prospect, however. If he indicates that he would like 
the post he
would be a hot favourite among younger graduates and dons dazzled by his star appeal.
The former US President, 56, has said that he spent two of the happiest years of his 
life
while a Rhodes scholar at University College.

Lord Jenkins even joked with Mr Clinton during the latters visit to the university in 
May 2001
that he was welcome in any capacity provided he did not have premature ambitions 
towards
the chancellorship.

An Oxford University spokesman said that there were no restrictions against a Clinton
candidacy. But he added: The only thing that might be a barrier would be the need to 
be in
the country for significant amounts of time. That might interfere with his lecture 
tours.

Discussion at Balliol College could centre on support for the candidacy of Chris 
Patten, a
Balliol man and the European Unions External Affairs Commissioner.

Balliol could be hoping for an academic hat-trick as the alma mater of the two previous
Chancellors, Lord Jenkins and Macmillan. Mr Patten, 59 this year, is widely viewed as 
Mr
Blairs favourite Tory and has both the political connections and international 
profile that
Oxford will be seeking.

He may also have had enough of life in the Brussels bureaucracy. He once calculated 
during
a particularly dreary Euro meeting that he had another 175,200 hours to live if he 
survived
20 more years, and intended to put them to better use.

Baroness Williams of Crosby, 72, could be a strong contender as Oxfords first woman
Chancellor. The former Labour Education Secretary and Lord Jenkinss fellow gang of 
four
founder of the SDP, is a graduate of Somerville. She has an impressive academic 
pedigree
to match her political career, most recently as Professor of Elective Politics at 
Harvard
Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Supporters of Lord Heseltine, a former President of the Oxford Union, may seek to 
secure
his consent to a nomination. But the former Deputy Prime Minister, who has not 
concealed
his despair at the present state of the Conservative Party, may prefer to retain the 
freedom to
campaign for British entry to the euro should Mr Blair call a referendum later this 
year.

An outside contender could be Lord Birt of Liverpool, the former BBC Director-General 
John
Birt, given Oxfords extensive diaspora of media graduates.

But Mr Blairs personal strategy adviser may feel that he has all the influence he 
needs
without submi

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>Unfortunately, because we don't have democracy here, >it's not 
up to us if we want or don't want Empire.
 
Democracy is the majority of the ignorant led 
by the mendacious.
That said, clearly we are a democracy.

 
>Our job is to create wealth through labor for the the Rich to pay for 

>mercenary armies to protect their investments and steal other people's 

>natural resources.>Then we can get old. Get sick. And 
die.>Capitalism is a beautiful thing.
 
Guess it depends on the definition of 
'capitalism.' 
Our current economic system is known as Corporate Statism.
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[CTRL] abused children, bishop destroyed records, Barris/CIA, juveniles/execution

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this may be heavy for survivors

Abused child liable to be teenage offender: study 1/7/03  - by Farah Farouque "Abused and neglected children are more likely to break the law than their peers by the time they reach age 17, a study confirms. Cases of physical abuse or neglect were "significant", as these children were most likely to offend later, according to the study published by the Australian Institute of Criminology." http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/06/1041566361234.html

Lawyer says US bishop destroyed records of abusive priest  J. M. Hirsch AP Manchester, New Hampshire 1/7/03 "The former bishop of New Hampshire destroyed church records in the late 1980s that detailed sexual abuse of children by two Roman Catholic priests, according to court records. The records indicate that Odore Gendron, the bishop of the Diocese of Manchester from 1975 to 1990, destroyed documents in one case at the request of the accused priest and in the other at the request of a facility treating a priest for sexual misconductPatrick McGee, spokesman for the diocese, said Gendron did destroy the documents in question because they were private medical records and were made available to the diocese only on condition they be destroyed. He said the intent was never to cover up allegations of abuse." http://world.scmp.com/worldnews/ZZZAFHKDFAD.html

Chuck Barris' 'Dangerous Mind'(CNN) -- Chuck Barris created TV classics such as "The Dating Game" and "The Gong Show." And in his autobiography, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," he also claims he was a CIA AgentBill Hemmer, Cnn Anchor: The plot of your transfer to film is what? Chuck Barris, Author, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": It's the premise -- take a guy who has been crucified by the television critics for trying to entertain people, and meanwhile, [he receives] covert medals and citations from the president for killing enemies of the United States." http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/30/barris.cnna/   

from L Moss Sharman http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,869363,00.html
Guardian Unlimited  Special reports  
Mississippi plan to execute juvenile fuels legal debate - Only Iran and US apply death penalty to under-18s  Julian Borger in Washington Monday January 6, 2003 The Guardian  Mississippi is due this week to execute a man convicted of murdering a shop assistant at the age of 17, while the supreme court contemplates whether the US should remain almost the last country to execute juvenile offenders. 
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[CTRL] Influenza Toll Rising

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HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: National

Jan. 7, 2003, 3:10PM

Flu deaths up sharply despite vaccine

Associated Press

CHICAGO -- Despite the advent of a vaccine four decades ago, flu-related deaths in the
United States have risen dramatically since the 1970s, and influenza now claims more 
lives
each year than AIDS, researchers say.

The rising death toll is attributed largely to the nation's growing number of elderly 
people,
who are especially vulnerable to the flu.

Only about 65 percent of older people get vaccinated, and the annual shots do not 
protect
aging immune systems as well as they do younger ones.

The U.S. death toll surged fourfold from 16,263 in 1976-77 to 64,684 in 1998-99, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Flu deaths now average about 
36,000
a year, up from 20,000 in previous estimates, the CDC said.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said the news "that influenza may
be taking an even larger toll than we have realized" underscores the importance of flu 
shots,
especially for older people.

The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

While drug breakthroughs in the mid-1990s helped tame AIDS and reduce the U.S. death
toll from 51,000 in 1995 to about 15,000 in 2001, the main weapon doctors have against 
flu
-- vaccines -- have proven disappointingly ineffective in the most vulnerable 
population,
people 65 and older.

The death toll pales in comparison to that of the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918, 
which killed
more than 20 million people, including 500,000 Americans.

But the new numbers frustrate public health experts who had hoped the development of 
flu
vaccine about 40 years ago would have had a greater effect. Annual flu shots have been
recommended for people 65 and older since the 1960s and for those 50 and older since
2000.

Vaccination rates are also dismal -- about 30 percent -- for another target group, 
people with
high- risk conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, a CDC
epidemiologist.

Thompson noted that flu shots are free under Medicare and said new federal rules should
help increase vaccination rates by allowing hospitalized Medicare patients to get flu 
shots
without a doctor's order.

For the study, researchers developed a new statistical model to create a more accurate
estimate of flu deaths using national mortality and virus surveillance data.

The new model shows that a more lethal virus strain has hit in recent years, 
contributing to
the increase in deaths.

But between 1976 and 1999, the number of U.S. adults 85 and older doubled. And the
researchers found that this age group was 16 times more likely to die of flu-related 
causes
than people ages 65 to 69.

Flu can progress to pneumonia and other life-threatening lung infections and can weaken
elderly people, making them more vulnerable to other serious ailments, such as heart
disease.

The study also found that older people are disproportionately affected by another 
respiratory
virus previously thought to be more common in children.

The researchers estimate there are 11,000 deaths annually from respiratory syncytial 
virus,
which can cause severe cold-like symptoms and pneumonia.

Their study confirmd that RSV is the most common cause of viral death in children 
under 5.
But to researchers' surprise, the study found that 78 percent of RSV deaths occur in 
people
65 and older.

"We've known for some time that influenza and RSV have a profound impact on public
health," said CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding. "However, these data indicate that the
magnitude of the problem is larger than we once thought."

Vaccines against RSV are being developed.



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[CTRL] Troops Unprepared for Iraq's Chemical 'Death Pit'

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Col. Hackworth: Troops Unprepared for Iraq's Chemical 'Death Pit'

Col. David H. Hackworth warns that the Pentagon is willing to send in
American troops unprepared for Iraq's "death pit of spent radiation and
bio-chem weaponry," a "poisonous caldron of Desert Storm II, where
casualties could be as catastrophic as the last time our soldiers stood
tall in that unforgiving desert and suffered at least 160,000 disabled
and dying WIA (Wounded in Action) and 10,000 KIABGN (Killed in Action
by Government Neglect)."

A recent report by the U.S. General Accounting Office noted that
"serious problems still persist" regarding the protective masks, suits
and detection gear. An Army report in December stated that more than
half of its protective masks and nearly all of its chemical-weapons
alarms were either "completely broken or not fully operational."

A Pentagon spokeswoman insists "the Pentagon has substantially improved
individual protective garments, gas masks and chemical detectors since
the Gulf War."

Hackworth counters, "But a line sergeant I'd trust with my life says,
'The only improvement I've seen since the Gulf War is now that we have
the M-40 Protective Mask instead of the M-17A1, we can change our
filters without committing suicide.'

"Why won't the media or Congress touch this story when we could be only
weeks away from destroying the lives of another generation of American
heroes? Is it the prevailing attitude that war is a nasty business, but
our all-volunteer force signed up for it? Or is it just that no one who
could make a difference cares about blue-collar bio-chem fodder mainly
from metropolitan slums or small-town America?"

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[CTRL] [U-S-A] THIS MOTHER OF ALL TERRORISTS (fwd)

2003-01-07 Thread Party of Citizens

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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:00:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [PERSIANS-JEWS-FLIES] Re: Proved Bush Lies: Charged With Treason

I agree that Bush has a heinously evil, criminal mind. Scott Ritter was on
CNN again last night, referring to photographs which Rumsfeld had held up
to "prove" the location of installations for weapons of mass destruction.
Ritter said the UN inspectors had checked them and found nothing. The Bush
rhetoric has persisted in TERRORIZING the world by threatening what is
essentially World War III or "Armageddon" as General Scowcroft has called
it. He has persisted in looking for any excuse to war and his capacity to
fabricate lies to foment war, terrorize billions and derail the peace
process is not over yet. The world holds its breath and lives in fear
while this mother of all terrorists begs for an opportunity to wage war.

FWP

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University, where he 
>also directs the Project on Media Ownership.  His writings on film, television, 
>advertising and rock music have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, 
>including The Nation and The New York Times.  In 1988, he published his first book, 
>'Boxed In: The Culture of TV', followed by 'Seeing Through Movies', a collection 
>which he edited for Pantheon Books in 1990.  Books he is currently working on include 
>'Mad Scientists, a study of propaganda practices in the United States', and 
>'Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion'.
>
> Through the Project on Media Ownership (PROMO) at New York University, Miller has 
>worked to focus public attention on the growing problem of excessive concentration in 
>the U.S. culture industries.  Through several special issues of The Nation, among 
>other ventures, PROMO has thus far helped inform the nation of the oligopolistic sway 
>of just a few giant players over television news, book publishing, popular music and 
>cable TV.
>
> Miller earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1971 and earned 
>his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977.  Although he 
>specialized in Renaissance literature, Miller is best known as a media critic.  
>Before joining New York University, Miller served as director of film studies at 
>Johns Hopkins University for a number of years.
>
> Most recently, he is the author of 'The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National 
>Disorder' (Norton).
>
> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14877
>
> A Lesson In U.S. Propaganda
>
> by Mark Crispin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> January 3, 2003
>
> Last week, a once-notorious Iraqi site made news again.  Seeking evidence of 
>biological weapons production, United Nations arms inspectors swooped into the closed 
>industrial facility at Abu Ghreib, outside Baghdad -- the same plant that U.S. forces 
>bombed on January 23, 1991.
>
> The Iraqis claimed in '91 that the site was a baby milk factory and nothing more, a 
>charge reported by Peter Arnett on CNN and then denied by the U.S. government.  
>"Numerous sources have indicated that [the factory] is associated with biological 
>warfare production", an Air Force spokesman said at the time, a few hours after the 
>bombing.  "It was a biological weapons facility, of that we are sure", repeated Colin 
>Powell later that same day.
>
> "That factory is, in fact, a production facility for biological weapons", repeated 
>White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.  "The Iraqis have hidden this facility behind 
>a facade of baby-milk production as a form of disinformation."
>
> Baby Milk or Lethal Virus?
>
> The U.S. claim seemed credible, especially because of the crude way in which Iraq 
>had made its case.  Arnett's report included shots of a tall red-lettered sign, 'Baby 
>Milk Plant', in Arabic and English, posted at the ruined factory's entrance.  That 
>makeshift piece of work was not convincing.  CNN's coverage also included shots of an 
>Iraqi technician in the factory, dressed in a lab coat with the legend, 'BABY MILK 
>PLANT IRAQ', stitched in English on the back.
>
> Despite such comic hints of fraudulence and denials issued by Washington, Arnett 
>stood firm.  He had toured the factory in August (for a story on Iraq's response to 
>the international sanctions), and again just after it was bombed.  "Whatever else it 
>did, it did produce infant formula", Arnett said at the time.  Although the Pentagon 
>had cast the factory as a veritable fortress, with "military guards around it, [a] 
>barbed wire fence, a military garrison outside", Arnett saw only one guard at the 
>gate and a lot of powdered baby milk.  "That's as much as I could tell you about it", 
>he added carefully.  "It looked innocent enough from what we could see."
>
> For his a

[CTRL] Boiling for Oil

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Tuesday 7 January 2003

Turkey prepares to stake claim in Iraq's oil fields
By Amberin Zaman in Ankara
(Filed: 07/01/2003)

Turkey, one of Washington's most important allies
against Saddam Hussein, claimed yesterday that it may have a historical stake in Iraq's
northern oil fields.

Yasar Yakis, the foreign minister, said he was examining treaties from the early 20th 
century
to see whether Turkey had a claim to the oil fields of the Mosul and Kirkuk provinces, 
which
the Turks ruled during Ottoman times.

In comments published yesterday in the Hurriyet newspaper, Mr Yakis said: "If we do 
have
such rights, we have to explain this to the international community and our partners 
in order
to secure those rights."

His comments will not be welcomed in the United States or the region, where there are
considerable anxieties about the likely results of a war on the integrity of Iraq.

While Mr Yakis was careful to emphasise that Turkey had no territorial claims over the
provinces, his comments were greeted with anger by Arab diplomats in Ankara.

"He is revealing Turkey's true intentions. They are playing a dangerous game," said one
senior Arab diplomat, who declined to be identified.

However, Western diplomats interpreted Mr Yakis's remarks as a further attempt to
discourage the Iraqi Kurds from making a play for the provinces during an eventual war
against Baghdad.

The Iraqi Kurds, who have controlled the north of the country - but not the oil fields 
- since
the 1991 Gulf war, say that Kirkuk is historically a Kurdish city and should be the 
capital of
the semi- independent state they are demanding in exchange for support in a war against
Saddam Hussain.

Such claims have angered Turkey, which claims that Kirkuk and Mosul are dominated not
by the Kurds but by an ethnic Turkish group called the Turcomans.

In recent years, Turkey has been arming and training a Turcoman faction in northern 
Iraq
known as the Turcoman Front as its stalking horse in the Kurdish-controlled enclave.

Ankara's top generals have taken turns to threaten to invade Iraqi Kurdistan should the
Kurds try to break away from Baghdad. Some 5,000 Turkish troops are already deployed in
and around Iraqi Kurdish territory held by Massoud Barzani, the leader of the stronger 
of the
two Kurdish factions controlling northern Iraq.

The troops are officially there to hunt down Kurdish separatist PKK guerrillas who 
fought a
15-year insurgency against Turkish troops that ended in 1999 after the capture of their
leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Iraq is home to the world's second-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and before 
the
1991 Gulf war more than half of the country's oil exports were pumped through a dual
pipeline running from Kirkuk to Turkey's southern Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.

The pipeline was sealed in compliance with United Nations sanctions after Iraq's 1990
invasion of Kuwait. It was re-opened in 1996 under the UN's oil for food programme, 
which
allows Iraq to export its oil in order to purchase humanitarian supplies.

Iraq has repeatedly accused America of wanting to seize control of its oil under the 
pretext of
installing a democratic government in Baghdad.

Turkey's claims to Iraqi oil date back to the early 1920s when the Ottoman Empire was
being carved up following its defeat by the Allies in the First World War. Under a 
treaty
signed by the new Turkish Republic and Britain, Turkey was to receive 10 per cent of 
all Iraqi
oil revenues for a 25-year period in exchange for renouncing its territorial claims 
over Mosul
and Kirkuk.

That treaty was suspended in 1958 under the government of Adnan Menderes, the late
Turkish premier, as a gesture of goodwill towards Iraq. But subsequent governments 
sought
to revive the treaty.

"Such initiatives by Turkey will go nowhere," said Baskin Oran, a professor of 
international
relations at Ankara University, who has studied the treaties.

According to Prof Oran's own estimates, Turkey is not due any more than £20 million in
unpaid revenue stemming from its 1926 treaty rights.


23 December 2002: Saddam's agents launch bloodbath against West's allies

14 December 2002: Europe dismisses Bush plea to let Turkey join earlier

12 December 2002: Turks wary of joining US-led war on Iraq

5 November 2002: AK victory heralds new dawn for Turkey

4 November 2002: Islamic 'clean' party sweeping board in Turkey

21 August 2002: Turks plan Kurdish buffer zone

8 February 2002: Turks take step to end torture of Kurds

29 September 2001: Turkey signs up, but fears Iraq is next US target


Related reports




Claim from Ottoman break-up



External links




Republic of Turkey


Hurriyet [in Turkish]


Iraqiturkmans


Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst


Turkish Press


Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections


Diplomatic Observer


Iraq country file - Platt's Global Energy





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[CTRL] Mecca for Moderns

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>From Mexico to Mecca
How a Latino immigrant reinvented himself in America as a Muslim
Ana Campoy
Sunday, January 5, 2003
©2003 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback



URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/05/IN207622.DTL

When the doorbell rings, Daniel Denton rises from the couch.

"Ah, Martin!" he says, opening the door a crack. "Babe, Martin is here," he shouts to 
his
wife, who rushes to get her veil and fits it around her face tightly, so none of her 
wiry black
hair shows. The couple hasn't seen Martin in months. He is Daniel's cousin and has just
arrived in Stockton after a day's drive from Rosarito, Mexico.

Roxanne approaches the door, smiling reassuringly. "How are you Martin? Come on in."

"Fine," Martin says, but he stays put, out there in the November cold, his heavy boots 
not
budging, no matter how many times Roxanne invites him in.

Five hundred miles of driving and still nothing can convince him to enter their warm 
living
room, decorated with colorful Mexican sarapes. His discomfort is palpable, as is 
Roxanne's
frustration.

They both know the problem. If he were to come in, he would have to take off his 
boots. He'd
have to leave his dignity and manhood at the door next to his niece's tiny pink 
sneakers and
Roxanne's flip-flops, and then feel naked in his socks, holding the glass of water or 
tea that
his cousin's wife would offer him.

No, he stays outside, his feet bound in well-worn leather, in the chilly wind, and 
chats with
his shoeless cousin about the traffic on the highway, the workload of a traveling 
mechanic,
but not the single most important thing in Daniel's life: Islam.

Once upon a time, Daniel -- like Martin, like 93 percent of the Mexican population -- 
was
Catholic. Growing up in Tijuana, his mother taught him to go to church, but when he 
was 22
years old, Daniel walked away from the Catholic doctrine and embraced a faith virtually
unknown in his world.

For years, the Vatican has struggled to keep its Latin American sheep from dispersing 
into
less "acceptable" folds of Christianity -- evangelical Protestant sects, Mormonism and 
the
Jehovah's Witnesses.

Islam, with its veiled women and monthlong fasting, has not even been on the priestly 
radar
screen. But its numbers are growing.

Thousands of Hispanics -- estimates range from 50,000 to 75,000 -- now attend mosques
all over the United States, according to the American Muslim Council, an Islamic 
advocacy
group.

Daniel's departure from the church is in line with a much older tradition of 
anti-Catholic
sentiment in Mexico. Liberals and church had been antagonistic since the establishment 
of
the Mexican republic in 1823, says Alex Saragoza, professor of Mexican history at 
University
of California, Berkeley.

>From Benito Juarez, the president who declared the separation of church and state in 
>1857,
to the Cristero war from 1926 to 1929, when armed Catholics revolted after the 
government
suspended many of their rights, certain sectors of Mexican leadership have discounted
religion. Now, after more than two decades of intermittent economic crisis and 
political
scandal, belief in all Mexican institutions, including the church, is diluted, and 
traditional and
cultural practices that had long dominated life are replaced by imports, from music to 
faith,
says Saragoza.

"Mexican youth are looking toward spirituality that is not tied to any institutional 
form of
religion," he adds.

Transfer this situation across the border, where instead of a cohesive religious 
system there
is a myriad of options, and cases like Daniel's will start emerging from places like 
Stockton
and Los Angeles, New York and San Antonio.

In a sense, their journey is no different from that of other young Americans, exposed 
to the
limitless lifestyle choices available, says Saragoza.

"It's almost like a buffet. You take what you want," he explains. "It's like guacamole 
in a
sandwich. I'm sure the Aztecs never thought of putting it on white bread with luncheon
meat." But in a country like the United States, where new and old cultures are in 
constant
flux, that's what ends up happening.

Daniel's is the story of one man's conversion. It wouldn't have happened in Mexico, 
where
Islam is virtually unknown, but his new country provides the freedom to pick and choose
among diverse belief systems.

Being Muslim involves intensive juggling to meet secular and religious obligations --
especially hard during Ramadan, when Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Koran
to prophet Mohammed by setting aside from dawn to dusk all their worldly desires and 
wake
up before 5 a.m. to eat.

Changing spiritual stations can be a challenge. As we shall see, it has had profound 
effects
on Daniel's thinking, his family, his lifestyle, his career and even his view of his 
heritage.

Islam calls

Black curls still crushed from bed, Daniel trudges to the kitchen to fix

[CTRL] Downers

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Thursday, October 31, 2002
Meat from Dying, Sick or Diseased Cows Getting into Food

 KIRO 7 Video

Chris Halsne
KIRO 7 EYEWITNESS NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
A KIRO Team 7 Investigation discovers an explosive story about meat from dying, sick or
diseased cows getting into your food.

Some images are exceptionally disturbing and may be upsetting, especially to children.

Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne spent six months under cover, exposing something 
the
meat industry would rather keep secret from consumers.

They're called "downers," getting that name because healthy cattle walk into the
slaughterhouse but the "downers" are too ill or injured to do so.

Video shot by KIRO Team 7 Investigators raises serious questions about the quality or
safety of this kind of beef.

We've seen a healthy cow, one you might expect to become steak some day.

Downers, however, are delivered by pick-up truck to slaughter horizontally, in a pile 
of
manure. This meat gets to your dinner plate with the help of some hoisting and 
dragging.

Gaylis Linville wonders how downers can become food. She's a consumer expert of sorts
when it comes to food safety. Her son, Max, nearly died from an E. coli-contaminated 
Jack in
the Box hamburger.

She was surprised to learn from our videotape that sick, diseased, or injured dairy 
cattle still
make their way into federally-inspected slaughterhouses.

"I don't understand how it can be accepted and ground up into the food supply. It 
seems like
that type of animal should go to a rendering plant," Linville says.

The US Department of Agriculture labels downers "high-risk or suspect" but under proper
inspection allows their use for hamburger, soups and hot dogs.

That's a dangerous practice, according to former USDA veterinarian Dr. Lester 
Friedlander.
He trained federal meat inspectors for years, and has personally examined hundreds of
thousands of downers.

"If it was up to me, I'd probably condemn all downers because I wouldn't want to take 
the
chance of my family eating it," Dr. Friedlander says.

Federal law is clear: livestock found in a dying condition shall be condemned and 
disposed.
Dr Friedlander says federal meat inspectors routinely ignore that segment of the food 
safety
regulation under pressure from plant owners and the USDA.

That brings us back to our surveillance video. KIRO Team 7 Investigators recorded 
several
hours worth of downer transactions at Midway Meats in Chehalis. A number of animals we
saw enter the plant were too sick or injured to even stand up.

We asked Friedlander and another former USDA vet to review large portions of our 
unedited
tape.

"After looking at a tape like this you ask 'Where do you think fecal contamination 
comes
from? Is this a good source? Obviously, it is a good source, the main source.'"

Friedlander isn't offended by unconscious cows hanging by their necks, but is outraged 
he
doesn't see white-coated federal meat inspectors doing their jobs. He says if the 
downers we
videotaped were healthy enough to eat, the USDA inspector wouldn't know it.

Midway Meats says our videotape doesn't tell the whole story. Some cows may look 
lifeless,
but that's because they were stunned with a captive bolt gun while inside the trailer, 
where
we couldn't see.

Owners of the plant also say USDA vets examined the animals inside the trailers. Again,
that's something we didn't see.

Bill Sexsmith owns Midway Meats.

"I have every confidence in the world that the meat that goes through is absolutely 
safe,"
Sexsmith says.

He says USDA vets review all his downer business and do a good job at disqualifying
diseased animals.

"It has to be done effectively or they'll tag us and we can't continue to operate."

Sexsmith says federal meat inspectors do a quick health check in his parking lot but
normally retest downers inside the plant as well. Some national experts like Dr. 
Friedlander
tell KIRO Team 7 Investigators the risks of processing downers at all are just too 
great.

"If you take care of the downers, you'd probably see a lower incidence of these 
outbreaks of
E. Coli," Friedlander says.

Gaylis Linville, who watched her son suffer for three months from E. Coli, would love 
to see
downer meat banned.

"There's not anything here to debate. Clearly it's a sick animal being dragged into a
slaughterhouse and USDA inspectors are just turning the other cheek and letting this
occur!" she says.

Midway Meats owner Bill Sexsmith says he's unaware of any consumer complaints regarding
quality or safety of his products.

We repeatedly asked the USDA to comment on the apparent lack of proper outside
inspection by their vets, but so far, nothing.

Congress recently banned the use of downer meat in the federal school lunch program.
However, there is no current requirement for meat processors inform consumers about
downer meat or label packages that may contain it.

If you want to comment on the use of downers to Congressional members on the 
Ag

[CTRL] Total Info Phascist Stasi-fication [TIPS]

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http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-spy1503,0,4325331.story?coll=bal-home-
headlines

Broader U.S. spy initiative debated

Poindexter leads project to assess electronic data, detect possible terrorists; Civil 
liberties
concerns raised

By Susan Baer
Sun National Staff

January 5, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Even its name, some say, is ominous and Orwellian, conjuring up visions
of Big Brother tracking your video rentals, prescriptions or e-mail: "Total Information
Awareness."

To privacy advocates and civil libertarians, this government supercomputer project is 
nothing
less than domestic spying, the chilling first step toward a surveillance society. The 
man
leading it, former Iran-contra figure John M. Poindexter, only adds to what critics 
call the
"spook factor."

But to security specialists, the drive to develop a network of public and private 
databases
could be crucial to identifying terrorists before they strike and to preventing 
another Sept. 11.

Total Information Awareness, which officials say is in the experimental phase and 
years from
being used, is a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the
Pentagon's research arm. Since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, DARPA has
developed technologies for the military. It led the way in the creation of the 
Internet.

The goal of the Total Information Awareness program is a global computer surveillance
system that could sift through mountains of personal information in databases -- 
credit card
purchases, telephone calls and e- mails, medical prescriptions, passports, driver's 
licenses,
school records, magazine subscriptions, gun purchases -- to look for suspicious 
patterns
and ultimately identify potential terrorists.

Poindexter, a national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan whose felony 
convictions
in the Iran- contra scandal were overturned on appeal, says such a system could help 
track
terrorists who can now move freely without detection.

"Total Information Awareness -- a prototype system -- is our answer," said Poindexter, 
a
retired Navy rear admiral, during a speech last summer.

"One of the significant new data sources that needs to be mined to discover and track
terrorists is the 'transaction space,'" he said. "If terrorist organizations are going 
to plan and
execute attacks against the United States, their people must engage in transactions, 
and
they will leave signatures in this information space."

Privacy advocates say that giving the government access to such data could subject
innocent citizens to scrutiny and that, in the wrong hands, the information could be 
used to
intimidate political foes -- much as J. Edgar Hoover's FBI exploited the gathering of
intelligence to harass critics of the Nixon administration.

The program "is the mother of all privacy invasions," complains Jay Stanley of the 
American
Civil Liberties Union. "It would amount to a picture of your life so complete it's 
equivalent to
somebody following you around all day with a video camera."

But many security specialists say such technology is worth considering and point out 
that it
would have to stand up to legal challenges.

"In this environment, we have to engage in very aggressive, exhaustive research and
development efforts," says Phil Anderson, an international security senior fellow at 
the
Center for Strategic and International Studies. "If they're inappropriate, then they 
never make
it through the legal system. Reason -- and our great Constitution -- prevails."

Poindexter's role

Poindexter, who has worked as a DARPA contractor for several years, approached the
Pentagon with the idea after the Sept. 11 attacks and discussed it over lunch with 
Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Early last year, Poindexter was made head of DARPA's Information Awareness Office, 
which
is also working on technologies to identify people at great distances through facial 
features
and gait. The TIA program's budget was set at $137 million for this fiscal year.

After recent criticism, Poindexter and the office have kept a low profile. A DARPA
spokeswoman said that neither Poindexter nor any other agency official was available to
discuss the project.

Even the Web site for the Information Awareness Office has been toned down. Until
recently, the site featured as its emblem an all-knowing eye atop a pyramid -- with 
its sights
set on the entire globe -- and a Latin motto meaning "knowledge is power." A redesigned
Web site now has no such logo or slogan.

Differing policies

Specialists in technology policy tend to support Poindexter's basic theory that 
linking and
comparing databases could yield valuable information.

For example, a report by the Markle Foundation, a private philanthropic group that 
focuses
on information technology, showed how the Sept. 11 hijackers could have been identified
before the attacks if the names of all airline passengers had been run through the
government's "watch list" of su

[CTRL] New Yak Gangstahs

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Gangs of New York

by Al Gore

(Typing by P.J. Gladnick)



Hooker?

Gangs Of New York had the potential of being a great movie but failed in large part 
due to
Leonardo DiCrapio giving one of DiCrapiest performances ever seen on the big screen. 
With
all the millions they pay him, you would think that DiCrapio would make just a little 
effort to
mimic something of a convincing New York Irish accent.

Instead, we hear DiCrapio veering over to a fake sounding Irish brogue only to quickly 
lapse
back to a jaded Hollywood nightclubbing drawl. And what DiCrapio was doing on the 
screen
wasn't even acting. It was more like marking time until DiCrapio could crawl back to 
his
superstar trailer.

But should we be surprised? Have you ever seen DiCaprio's non-performance in The
Beach? That movie was so bad that if Michael Medved ever updates his Fifty Worst Movies
Of All Time, it would surely supplant The Trial Of Billy Jack on that list.

Almost as ridiculous as Leonardo DiCrapio's sleepwalking through the role of Amsterdam
Vallon was Cameron Diaz trying to pass herself off as a common street whore, Jenny, 
with
pickpocketing talents in the Five Corners slum section of New York in 1863. Who can
believe glamour girl Cameron as a slum whore for a nickel a throw? However, I don't 
blame
just director Martin Scorsese for this particular bit of miscasting. Hollywood has 
never
realistically portrayed hookers on the big screen.

Take a look at Hollywood Westerns. Even if the scene is a saloon in a small dust 
covered
Old West town, all the hookers would look like either Ann-Margret, Ursula Undress, or 
Anita
Ekberg (as they appeard 40 years ago). Not only were the Hollywood Old West saloon
whores always great looking but they could also sing and dance. To believe these 
movies,
you could picture some broken down cowpoke telling his buddy:

"Well, Clem. I sure do like that Ursula Undress but she just can't sing near as well 
as Ann-
Margret so I think I'll take a roll in the hay with Annie tonight."

The sad truth is that the whores (or what they called "soiled doves") of the Old West 
were
mostly GROTESQUE. Take a look at the photos of the hookers from that erabig fat, and
ugly beyond belief. However, the cowboys back then weren't very picky. After a couple 
of
months on the cattle drive, even Elsie the cow would look like hot stuff. Come to 
think of it,
what do you think those cowboys were doing with some of the prettier cows out on the 
cattle
trail? They didn't call them "cowpokes" for nothing.

No wonder cowboys hated sheepherders. It had nothing to do with grazing rights. They 
were
just jealous of all the great action the sheepherders were getting with their flocks.

Yeah, so if you were ever transported back in time to the Five Points area of New York 
in
1863, you sure ain't gonna see many Cameron Diazes working the streets. If Scorsese
wanted accuracy, he would have cast Rosie O'Donnell in the hooker roleand pulled out
about a dozen of her teeth for authenticity.

Even dumber than casting Cameron Diaz as a whore was Amsterdam's angry reaction when
Jenny told him that she might be putting out for William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting as 
played
by Daniel Day- Lewis. If I were Amsterdam, I would be a little more concerned about the
THOUSAND other guys that Jenny the Hooker spread her legs for. Instead of getting 
morally
outraged about Jenny getting boinked by Bill the Butcher, Amsterdam should have been
sweating over the fact that his "beloved" probably had the Clap.

What do you think the odds were of a street hooker working the bums of Five Points back
then at about a nickel a throw NOT carrying some horrible social disease? How about
somewhere between Nil and None?

But, of course, Hollywood rarely presents the disease scourge carried by hookers. 
Instead,
according to their distorted view, it was all fun and games with Ann-Margret or Ursula
Undress or Anita Ekberg or..Cameron Diaz. To reflect the reality of prostitution back 
then,
they should have had a scene of Amsterdam in a doctor's office with dialogue like this:

AMSTERDAM: Doc, my Talleywhacker has been painfully oozing red and green stuff ever
since I shtooped Jenny. I must have the Clap so could you give me a teaspoon of mercury
for a quickie cure?

DOCTOR: Well, Amsterdam. I have good news and I have bad news for you.

AMSTERDAM: What's the good news?

DOCTOR: You don't have the Clap.

AMSTERDAM: So what's the bad news?

DOCTOR: You've got the Syph. However, I've got some more good news and bad news for
you.

AMSTERDAM: Okay, this time give me the bad news first.

DOCTOR: Syph is incurable. You're going to die a long agonizing death and go insane in
the process.

AMSTERAM: Now tell me the good news.

DOCTOR: I just bought a brand new revolver. It can put you instantly out of your misery
without you feeling a thing.

Depressing, huh? And a far cry from the glamour girl portrayal of prostitution back 
then by
Cameron Diaz. Of course

[CTRL] Nurenberg Don't Count Nohow

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Peace or permanent war Israel's choices
Athens | By Linda S. Heard | 07/01/2003

A British-born Israeli coloniser of the West Bank is attempting to sue the European 
Union in
the sum of $20 million for the death of his wife and injuries to his daughter at the 
hands of
two Palestinian militants. Stephen Bloomberg said: "My parents in England are paying 
taxes
going in part to helping the EU which is pouring millions of euros every month into the
Palestinian Authority".

EU commissioner Chris Patten has refuted Bloomberg's contention saying, "The EU takes
allegations of misuse of its funds extremely seriously. We investigate all such 
allegations,
but have found no evidence that our funds have been diverted into support of 
terrorism".

In the extremely unlikely event that Bloomberg should succeed in his mission, it could 
set a
precedent, opening the gates for thousands of Palestinians to take the U.S. and the 
British
governments to court for their pain and suffering. Without American taxpayers' money 
the
State of Israel would not be able to function, and without American and British 
weapons it
would not have the dubious status of being the third greatest military power in the 
world. In
the case of Israel, proving state-sponsored terrorism shouldn't be difficult.

Further, if donor governments are to be held responsible for the brutal actions of 
their state
proteges, then responsible officials in America and Britain could well find themselves
implicated in war crimes. The American president has ensured that his citizens are 
immune
from prosecution under the jurisdiction of the new International Court. The British 
are not so
fortunate.

Britain now appears cognizant that its weaponry has been used to murder Palestinian 
men,
women, children and babies and has imposed an unofficial arms embargo, which could
mean that Israel may have to ground its Phantom fighter-bomber fleet.

While the American government emulates the three wise monkeys when it comes to the
transgressions of Israel, the British cabinet is becoming increasingly uncomfortable 
watching
the Jewish state oppress the Palestinians.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has expressed his desire for a speedy Mideast 
solution on
numerous occasions, a message he has passed to the region's main players and to George
W. Bush.

The American president has admittedly made numerous conciliatory statements addressing
the concerns of the Arab world - his "visionary" roadmap and wish for a two-state 
solution -
but while he talks the talk, he has yet to walk the walk.

In reality, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is calling the shots. He isn't ready 
to adhere to a
timetable for peace, he says as much to the fast-greying Texan, the message gets passed
down to Blair who has little choice but to shelve his grandiose plans once more. If we 
get
down to the nitty-gritty we have to face the unpalatable fact that without enlightened 
and
resolute American leadership, the Mideast conflict will never be solved.

George Bush has often said that he cannot impose peace on the two parties but, in 
reality,
he could. All he would have to do is refuse to supply Israel with any more weapons, 
spare
parts and aid until Ariel Sharon withdrew his troops from the West Bank and Gaza 
Strip, as
a prelude to the resumption of peace talks. Sound simple? It is, but this would 
infuriate the
Jewish lobbies and the president's Southern Baptist, Christian Zionist support base.

Riding roughshod over Israel's wishes would be political suicide. Bush junior will 
recall that
his father failed to be re-elected in 1992 all because he had delayed approving a loan
guarantee in Israel's favour.

In the meantime, the Israeli government's crimes continue to grow. After all, it has 
proved to
be immune from any kind of international censor. It has ignored more than 60 United
Nations resolutions without having to face sanctions of any kind; it has waved away a 
UN
fact-finding team set up to investigate Jenin, while its mentor the U.S. vetoed a 
recent
Security Council resolution condemning Israel for the killing of UN employees. Israel 
has
become a law unto itself.

Not only is Israel a protected country which views its critics with derision, its 
military literally
gets away with murder. The Israeli army even ignores orders issued by Israel's own
Supreme Court. On December 24 seven human rights organisations petitioned the
Supreme Court to prevent the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human 
shields.

The human rights organisations presented four new cases to the court, which fly in the 
face
of an earlier High Court injunction banning the criminal practice. The Fourth Geneva
Convention labels the use of human shields as a war crime, and yet cowardly Israeli 
soldiers
still hide behind frightened, unarmed civilians.

The human rights groups also complained to the court about the contempt for Palestinian
lives, which runs through the highest levels of the

Re: [CTRL] Israelis To Confine Arabs to Ghetto

2003-01-07 Thread Prudy L

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A light rain brings some of the farmers of Qalqiliya out to look at their
fields, which should be busy with orange and lemon pickers. But the only
sign of activity is a giant Israeli digger carving out a trench wide enough
to drive a car along.

The digger works amid a scene of devastation: an 80-yard-wide area stripped
of its orchards and greenhouses that will shortly become the perimeter
fence of what is effectively a big open-air prison enclosing a town of
40,000.

Ah yes, the tranquil picture of Israeli democracy. Makes one yearn to send even more of our tax dollars to Israel. Prudy

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists seek 'super-soldiers' formula

2003-01-07 Thread Jei

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Science can very well make human serial-killer machines,
with easily eliminated conscience and no emotions.

Unfeeling and uncaring human robots of the New World Order,
with absolute, addicted obedience to their masters.

Their highest reward, being allowed to serve their masters
and lick their boots after a job well done.

Conditioned to obey and serve. Future soldiers have no
right to refuse the drugs or the conditioning treatment.

Another dream of a dictator come true.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jay Lowry wrote:

> Mind: Scientists seek 'super-soldiers' formula
> Posted by: valis on Jan 05, 2003 - 11:41 PM
>
> The Pentagon has launched a series of remarkable medical experiments to
> find a way to keep its soldiers and pilots awake and alert for up to
> five days at a time. The mission to create an "Extended Performance War
> Fighter", as the project is known, took on added urgency last week as
> the military use of amphetamine stimulants - "go pills" as they are
> called - was plunged into deep controversy.
>
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?U3BA52BF2
>
> Mitre Corp., Offutt AFB, September 11, DARPA, Global Hawk, and Wetware
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?W291259F2
>
> WTC, Buffet, China, Offut AFB, L-3 , MONTAUK, BMI and the CIA
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Re: [CTRL] What Does "Supremacy" Really Mean? - 4 (Last One)

2003-01-07 Thread klewis

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On 7 Jan 2003 at 3:03, Willie Martin wrote:

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>

>
>   Studies as to why White boys on anti-depressants are
> shooting up schools. Studies regarding the racial makeup of those put on
> anti-depressants. Studies that ask why White girls have the lowest
> self-esteem. Studies concerning "White flight." Studies of how classism and
> racism affect rural Whites.  In short, we'd like a little measure of equality
> instead of having feet stomped upon our heads and our hands tied behind our
> back solely on the basis of my race. If we don't address these issues, there
> will be more "intolerance" and "hate."
>

This reminded me of a recent post on the Do It Yourself list:

"OK, Morgan, i take it you're telling me that in the middle of Rural
South Carolina, when i invite those delicious red-necks with rebel
flag dew-rags holding their mullet hair dos in place, cheeks bulging
with smokeless tobacco, and their 1,000 Pabst Blue Ribbon bottles in
the back of the truck, that even tho their boots are solid concrete,
they might NOT be able to produce a wonderful product on my kitchen
counters???
i am truly devastated... i was thinking how entertaining it would be
to empty out all the spittoons they would need... rats. i'll have to
come up with another idea for entertainment...
Feisty by Nature,
Trinity"

I wondered if anyone would bring her to account for her bigoted
remarks.  No one did.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Gestapo-like tactics prompt outrage

2003-01-07 Thread klewis

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30288

Monday, January 6, 2003
POLICE STATE, USA

Cops go to bars
to arrest drunks

Gestapo-like tactics prompt outrage, complaints among owners, citizenry

Posted: January 6, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

In the ongoing effort to keep public places clear of intoxicated
citizens and drunk drivers, some police agencies are using a
controversial tactic - going directly into bars and restaurants in
order to make arrests.

Such is the situation in northern Virginia, where Fairfax County Police are
targeting patrons suspected of having one too many.
"[Officers] were talking to one of the guests, then physically pulled
him off the barstool," Richie Prisco, general manager at Champps bar told the
Reston Times. "They were really aggressive and nasty."

According to the report, police are hauling customers outside of
establishments to conduct sobriety tests, then arresting them for public
drunkenness should they fail.

Tavern owner Jimmy Cirrito says it was intimidating and unnecessary to
have some ten officers show up in SWAT-like attire. He notes police
seemed to be tagging people at random, despite their telling bar owners
they had undercover agents inside, calling in to provide specific
descriptions of certain individuals.

"They tapped one lady on the shoulder - who was on her first drink and
had just eaten dinner - to take her out on the sidewalk and give her a
sobriety test," Cirrito told the paper. "They told her she fit the
description of a woman they had complaints about, and that they heard
she was dancing topless."

Cirrito said the woman passed the test and was allowed back in, but soon
after, police pulled another woman outside who had arrived shortly
before officers did.

"They made her count backward, say the alphabet, tell them where she
lived, how she got there, how she was getting home," he said. "She had
just gotten there five minutes ago in a cab."

Authorities say such methods are not new, despite protests from bar
owners that they've never heard of police coming inside their
establishments to enforce drinking laws.

"I've been an officer for over 17 years, and we've been doing it on and
off over my entire career," police spokeswoman Sophia Grinnan told the
Times. "As much as officers hate to spoil a good time, they hate even
more to go out at 2 a.m. and work a death of anybody that is
alcohol-related."

Virginia statutes say any business with a liquor license is considered a
public place; therefore, police are allowed free access. If they find
someone over the legal alcohol limit of .08, or suspect a customer of
being intoxicated while still being served or present in an
establishment, police can issue a ticket for public intoxication.

In response to complaints the raids were overly aggressive, Grinnan
said, "I've had bar owners come up to me [and] ask what is going on, but
I've also had some approach me aggressively, telling me I couldn't be
there and I was violating their constitutional rights. We love to give
explanations of what we're doing because it has an impact, but officers
don't have to give up their game plan. That is just a courtesy."

In the wake of the published report, citizens appear to be siding with
the bar owners and patrons, gauging from posts in an online
messageboard.

"The way police are handling the drink situation is the biggest B.S. I
have ever heard of," wrote Ray Williams.

"I lost a son (at age 16) a few years ago, and I most certainly support
stopping anyone from drinking and driving. However, this police raid
that seems to take place at some local bars is just totally crazy. ...
Are we now living in a communist environment where we are not allowed to
do anything without being harassed by the military/police?"

Russ Heisinger of Northport, N.Y., asked: "What is next, the alcohol
police entering your home on Super Bowl Sunday, and inviting you outside
to take a breath test? A solution would be for all the bar and
restaurant owners to become 'private clubs,' and charge a very nominal
fee for membership. However, the true solution is for the 'Barney Fifes'
there to uphold the part of the Constitution about unlawful search, and
to remember that we are after all, a free society, unless the cops think
this is Baghdad!"

Others, like Don Armstrong, urged people to reject field sobriety tests,
and request a blood-alcohol test at a local hospital.

"I have a form of arthritis that often affects my speech patterns and
walking abilities," he wrote. "Under their standards of an acceptable
set of motor functions, I would fail even if I never had an alcoholic
drink."

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[CTRL] What Does "Supremacy" Really Mean? - 4 (Last One)

2003-01-07 Thread Willie Martin

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* We want the media to stop routinely ignoring racial crimes against Whites 
and obsessing about White on minority hate crimes. We want the false stereotype that 
only White people can be racists eliminated. It creates a witch hunt atmosphere and 
probably promotes race crimes against Whites.  We want total segregation of the races 
in prison, since it forces inmates to join race-based gangs. Liberals hate to admit 
this, but Whites are often the target of hate-motivated gang rapes. We couldn't think 
of a quicker way to produce fodder for the "hate mill" business. They DAMN WELL KNOW 
THIS, but aren't decent enough to address it, unless in the context of "White racists 
recruit in prison!"

Never an effort to solve the problem. Never any questions why non-violent 
offenders come out with racist tattoos. The other races aren't scrutinized for 
anti-White body markings. How nice. How nice to put other racists in a category of 
"gang member" in need of a mentor. How nice of them to avoid dealing with the reality 
of racially motivated hate rapes. Oh God how we pray that Mo Dees could spend a day in 
there.

* We want an end to penalization of economically-disadvantaged White males in 
affirmative action. Studies as to why White boys on anti-depressants are shooting up 
schools. Studies regarding the racial makeup of those put on anti-depressants. Studies 
that ask why White girls have the lowest self-esteem. Studies concerning "White 
flight." Studies of how classism and racism affect rural Whites.  In short, we'd like 
a little measure of equality instead of having feet stomped upon our heads and our 
hands tied behind our back solely on the basis of my race. If we don't address these 
issues, there will be more "intolerance" and "hate."

Instead of pushing away the legitimate concerns of Whites, it is time to 
address those concerns, without having to endure these idiotic, clueless White zombie 
elitists. In case you think open discussion will promote hate crimes, do you worry 
about hatred promoted against the White race when they are the target of scapegoating 
day in and day out on TV, on radio and in the papers?

Minority racists get away with saying anything they please and held not held 
to the same standards. They can use any racial slur they wish in any venue they can 
produce music that calls for murdering White people. The offices of their producers 
don't get raided and no White person has the guts to organize protests outside of 
music stores that promote violent anti-White racism.

Consider how Whites may not speak of anything good about their race, but can 
only be racially-minded when they are expressing White guilt. When you put an animal 
in a cage and poke at him, he will bite. That is the first rule of "redneck" realism. 
Understand and ABSORB these words from someone who has been on the other side of the 
debate, repeating stupid liberal sound bites and creating an atmosphere of White 
self-loathing.

The stereotyping of Whites MUST STOP. Those who do it must realize they base 
their ideology on stereotypes. We must speak out or we will be buried. The majority of 
working Whites know this, but are too intimidated to be honest. Instead of worrying 
about being an outcast, it is time European-Americans start worrying about the climate 
of hatred being created in a society where their children and grandchildren will be a 
minority.

LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE HATEFUL ANTI-WHITE VENOM SPEWED OUT ON A DAILY BASIS 
AND THE DEMONIZATION OF OUR KINFOLK. In your heart, do you believe these people will 
treat your descendants fairly in this society? If the answer is no, then 
self-determination should be the legacy my generation leaves to it's children. 
regardless of the intimidation and persecution we will face for even mentioning the 
White race.






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mean to stand by the President or any other public official
save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the
country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently
serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the
exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his
duty to stand by the country." (Theodore Roosevelt)





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in an environment in which there are no alternatives
to contradict it.  Otherwise, it can be seen for the lie
that it is."




 There are three kinds of people in America:

1). Those that know what is going on;

2). Those that think they know what is going on; and

3). Those that don't have a clue as to what is going on.

 "5% of the people think. 10% of the people think they think.
The rest would rather die than think."

"How long would it take a blind giant, hammering upon an
anvil, to produce a watch?" That's how long it would take the
evolutionists to explain their stupid

[CTRL] Contaminated Goods

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2 - 8 January 2003
Issue No. 619
Focus
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Contaminated goods

Osama El-Baz* reminds Arab and Islamic proponents of anti-Semitism that they are
purveying shoddy goods of purely Western make. The article is an abridged version of a
three-part study published in the Arabic daily Al-Ahram



Over the last three centuries European society has given rise to an idiosyncratic 
series of
events and ideas that are absolutely specific, both geographically and historically. 
The
peoples of the Middle East, like other non-Europeans, remained remote from these
developments, not only in terms of physical distance but also in terms of their 
outlook on
human nature and their own social and psychological circumstances. They have found --
and continue to find -- it difficult to comprehend the nature of such developments, to
understand the ethos and spirit that gave rise to an important body of humanitarian 
thought.
Europe witnessed several revolutions and widespread social upheaval while 
simultaneously
experiencing rapid and intensive scientific and technological progress. It also 
witnessed
many manifestations of a blend of blind prejudice and a sense of inherent superiority 
over
other "uncivilised" and "backward" peoples producing, among other things, an 
imperialist
colonial movement, which proceeded in tandem with a vaunted spirit of enlightenment and
the prodigious philosophical, intellectual and practical accomplishments that 
benefited all
mankind.

Another manifestation of the irrationality peculiar to the European mindset was the 
prevalent
attitude towards Jews, collectively and as individuals. Jews were inferior and the 
object of
suspicion because they were "different" in their religion, appearance and behaviour. 
And it
was precisely these differences that served as pretexts for intimidation, persecution 
and, at
times, the annihilation of entire populations. Fear and hatred of Jews existed across 
all of
Europe and assumed its most virulent forms in the Russian pogroms and, later, in the 
Nazi
holocaust.

It was during this period of glaring inconsistency between leaps forward in material 
and
intellectual progress and jumps backwards in moral attitudes and behaviour that the 
term
anti-Semitism was first used, coined in Germany in 1873 by Wilhelm Marr. Subsequently,
some European intellectuals would distinguish between "anti-Jewish" and "anti-Semitic"
sentiments.

The former, they argued, denotes prejudice of a purely religious nature, and is 
grounded in
the Jews non-acknowledgment of Jesus Christ as the Messiah and their responsibility 
for his
crucifixion. Anti- Semitism, on the other hand, was directed against a group of 
people, a
volk, thought to share certain physical and behavioural characteristics that have no 
direct
bearing on religious affiliation. The term thus signified a hatred of Jews based on 
ethnic and
racial prejudices and, consequently, assumed secular connotations. According to this
distinction "anti-Jewish" ceases once a Jew converts to Christianity whereas 
"anti-Semitism",
a fundamentally racist concept, persists and pursues its victim regardless of religion.

Because anti-Semitism is a secular concept and not contiguous with religious 
affiliation, its
proponents required particular proofs to back the theory. Among the most broadly
disseminated "proofs" were the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the tales 
of
Christian blood in Jewish matzo. Although such claims have never been corroborated, 
their
widespread currency fuelled hatred and fear of Jews.

The so-called Protocols -- of which there were 24 in the original 110-page version -- 
were
attributed to a cabal of rabbis who ostensibly published them in 1897, with the 
purpose of
recording their conspiracy to create a global empire subject to Jewish rule. 
Freemasons,
liberals, secularists, atheists and socialists were variously accused of conspiring 
with these
rabbis to achieve their dream of world domination.

There is a large body of evidence suggesting the Protocols were a forgery. It is hardly
credible that a handful of individuals from a small minority should meet and set down 
their
scheme to rule the world in a 110-page pamphlet that would be exposed sooner or later.
Several experts have also pointed to a work that appeared in 1864 by Maurice Joly, 
Dialogue
in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, or Politics in the 19th Century, which has
many stylistic similarities to the Protocols. And is it not a little strange that a 
group of rabbis
would write a document of this type without using a single word of Hebrew, the 
language of
the Torah and Talmud, or Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazi Jews which is still used in
newspapers in Europe and the Americas today?

Given the revolutions and upheavals Europe experienced in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries it is likely that the Protocols were produced by conservative elements 
seeking to
h

Re: [CTRL] The Two Towers

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On 6 Jan 2003 at 23:44, Mark McHugh wrote:

> Y'all are aware that Landover Baptist is a satirical site, right,
> something akin to The Onion?

But with kernels of truth nonetheless?

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[CTRL] Arabian Alarms

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Things to come

Israel's probable next government is already flexing its muscles. And it is ringing 
alarms
across the region, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem



With polls showing the Israeli electorate poised to return a Likud-led coalition for 
the Israeli
elections on 28 January, several decisions this week have underscored its emerging 
political
culture: aggressively nationalist, occasionally messianic and exclusively Zionist. 
Coupled
with the threat of a US-led war on Iraq, it will cast the darkest of shadows across 
the region.

The culture can be gauged from the verdicts so far delivered by Israel's Central 
Elections
Committee, a cross-party panel currently sitting to hear 13 requests to disqualify 
candidates
and parties running for the 16th Knesset, including Israel's three main Arab lists: 
Hadash-
Ta'al, the United Arab List and Azmi Bishara's Balad Party.

The first sign of things to come occurred on Sunday, when the 41-member panel voted to
approve the candidacy of Baruch Marvel. Marvel is the "former" leader of Israel's 
racist Kach
movement, which advocates the transfer of Palestinians from Israel and the occupied
territories and was banned in Israel after one of followers, Baruch Goldstein, shot 
dead 29
Palestinians while at prayer in Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque in February 1994.

Marvel says Kach no longer exists and that he now accepts "the principles of 
democracy",
evidenced by his decision to join Israel's far-right Herut Party (whose platform also 
calls for
"encouraging the emigration" of Palestinians). Twenty-one members of the CEC said they
believed him, including MKs from Likud, the National Religious Party and Shas. The 18
other members did not, including the Labour Party, Meretz, the Arab lists and the
committee's chairman, Justice Mishael Cheshin.

"An examination of the material brought before us shows that Marzel is the leader or 
one of
the important leaders of Kach. There is absolutely no doubt Marzel is [still] 
connected [to the
movement] and ... working for the same disgusting aims as in the past," said Cheshin. 
The
Labour Party has said it will petition Israel's High Court of Justice to overturn the 
decision.

A similar fate awaits Ahmed Tibi, former aide to Yasser Arafat and leader of Israel's 
Ta'al
Party or Arab Party for renewal. On Monday the CEC heard requests for the 
disqualification
of Ta'al, Hadash, the UAL as well as its leader Abdul-Malik Dahamshe. It rejected all 
four but
approved a ban on Tibi because he defines the PLO as a national liberation movement and
supports the Intifada. It was a charge to which he, together with just about every 
other
Palestinian, could only plead guilty.

"I am a new kind of [Israeli] Arab, a proud leader with a homeland," he told the CEC on
Monday. "We are finished with the mukhtars who did everything they were told."

He also charged that the CEC's judgment was not only about his national identification 
but a
ploy to remove any kind of political representation for Israel's Palestinian minority. 
"We have
been kicked out of the community and delegitimised. We are being told we don't have the
right to protest, to hold a different opinion." Tibi will also appeal this 
disqualification before
Israel's High Court of Justice.

So, almost certainly, will Bishara and his Balad Party, currently expected to retain 
its two
seats in the next Knesset.

Last February Bishara was stripped of his parliamentary immunity for speeches in which 
he
hailed Hizbullah's liberation of south Lebanon and defended the right of Palestinians 
to
resist occupation. Based on undisclosed "secret" evidence supplied by Israel's Shin Bet
intelligence service, his Balad Party is now being accused of aiming to destroy the 
state of
Israel, aiding "enemies of the state" and "inciting" Arabs to rebellion. Unlike Tibi's
disqualification, Israel's Attorney-General Elyahim Rubinstein backs Bishara and 
Balad's
exclusion.

For this reason, Bishara's lawyers and supporters believe it will be approved. They 
also see
the "sedition" charges as a smokescreen. The real motive is political, they insist. 
Bishara and
Balad have become the leading advocates of national rights for Israel's Palestinian 
minority
and of the call for transforming Israel from being a Jewish state into a state for all 
its citizens.
Less than three years ago, Bishara expressed such views from the floor of the Knesset.
Clearly, what was tolerated then to the Israeli consensus is tolerable no more.

If Bishara is disqualified and he and Tibi lose their appeals to High Court, the 
impact on the
Palestinians participation in the elections could be dramatic. Parties like Hadash 
insist
participation is crucial, if only prevent the expected Likud majority becoming an 
absolute
landslide. But many Palestinians see a boycott as the only response to a state that 
appears
bent on denying them any form of independent national representation. In this at least 
they
agree with an editor

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2003-01-07 Thread Willie Martin

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It concerns us more where our stuff is NOT going, whether than where it is 
going. People need to be informed about the class issue, and if we deter anyone of any 
race from committing a violent crime against another person, we have done our job. 
It's not an open discussion of race issues that cause "hate" crimes, it is lack of 
honest discussion, and the "for-profit" hate mill that benefits financially and 
emotionally from it.

White classists and minority haters will surely try to associate me with evil 
because they fear open discussion on these issues. They can try to slander and libel 
us by taking what we say out of context, but we hate the strength to meet these 
attacks with courage and more writing.

We have come to a point where we am feeling more immune to their racist, 
classist attacks. They are just protecting their own dominance, power, and beliefs 
that poor people are like children. They fear rednecks with library cards. They fear 
Blacks discussing the CIA/drug connection. They fear Louis Farrakhan because he pull 
no punches. They fear the Internet because too much truth is being sent out to our 
white people all over the world.

Their hold on power is threatened by the truth. The more they push, the more 
we should talk. They can hound us, but even if we retreat for a week, we will come 
back stronger because hardship and adversity strengthens us.

If they push too hard, they will insure we get funding to do bitch and moan 
full-time! Their stereotypes of the "White racist" and total non-understanding of the 
roots of "hate" is an advantage to us. Their classism and belief that poor Whites have 
no intelligence or character is also an advantage.

THEY ARE NOT REALLY CONCERNED WITH "HATE CRIMES," OR ELSE THEY WOULD ISSUE 
PRESS RELEASES WHEN A WHITE IS THE VICTIM. THEY WANT TO KEEP THE POOR MAN QUIET. 
BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS, PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF ARE BEING CREATED. People who have little 
in financial terms to lose.

Those who are tired of being the scapegoats and are lulled into ignoring the 
problems of their own underclass. Those who don't speak against other races, BUT FOR 
THEIR OWN. People who don't use insulting racial slurs, and shock others when they 
oppose slurs against themselves.

HERE ARE OUR DEMANDS:

* We want White civil rights. The right to talk race (since it is an everyday 
part of our lives) the same way minorities do without fear of being the subject of 
liberal witch hunts. Without fear of job loss and harassment. Equal standards and 
opportunity for all. An end to scapegoating and defamation of my European ancestors.

* We want an end to spitting on the graves of our "dead White people, male and 
female" ancestors who built this great country that everyone in the world wants to 
live in. An end to judging only our history by today's PC standards. An end to all 
racist slurs against Whites, an end to racist and sexist appeals to anti-"White male" 
bigotry. An end to racist and sexist jokes and racist & "classist" slurs against 
working-class Whites.

* WE want an end to ethnic cleansing of Whites by unprecedented numbers of 
hostile anti-White Browns. An end to racist immigration policies that discriminate 
against White Europeans.

* WE want an end to the racial profiling of Whites (for hate crimes) promoted 
and perpetrated by the Simon Weisenthal Center and their puppet police departments. We 
want the tax-funded "hatewatch" groups to start listing more than a few token minority 
racist organizations, using the same standards it used to determine if a White group 
is "racist."

* We want those minority hate groups listed even if they don't promote 
anti-Semitism. For example, the Brown Aztlan racist groups. The Black power groups. If 
they continue to list pro-White (as opposed to anti-minority) groups as bigoted, they 
must also list pro-Black, Yellow, Brown and Red groups.

* We demand an end to the bigoted F.B.I. calling Brown perpetrators of hate 
crimes "White" in the statistics, which is then used to reinforce racist stereotypes 
against our people. We demand that police departments ask White victims of 
inter-racial crimes (we are victims a whopping 90% of the time, however un-PC that is 
to say) if racial slurs were used during the attack. Especially rape since it involves 
sexism. We want anti-White graffiti listed as an anti-White hate crime. If the 
perpetrator is Brown, we don't want him listed as being in the "White" race 
perpetrator category. We want exposure of the fact that even though more Blacks are 
sentenced to the death penalty, more poor Whites are actually executed.








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What next in growing crisis between U.S. and North Korea?


Wall Street Journal
Published 01/05/2003

QWhat does the United States know about the status of North Korea's nuclear- weapons
program?

AThe U.S. government and most outside experts believe that North Korea already has
separated enough bomb-grade plutonium to make at least two nuclear weapons.

QWhat started this current dispute?

AThe Bush administration confronted North Korea with evidence in October that made
Pyongyang officials admit it has a clandestine uranium-enrichment program. It appears 
to be
aimed at making highly enriched uranium, an explosive metal that is used in nuclear
warheads.

QWhy is North Korea's secret program regarded as so important?

AIn 1994, North Korea signed an agreement with the Clinton administration to resolve an
earlier crisis by agreeing to freeze its nuclear-weapons program, which was based on 
the
use of plutonium. In return, the United States agreed to help supply North Korea with a
small amount of heavy fuel oil and two South Korean-built nuclear reactors to provide 
North
Korea with electric power. The hidden uranium-enrichment program was a fundamental
violation of the 1994 pact.

QHow is the conflict escalating?

AThe Bush administration cut off the fuel-oil shipments in November and, last month,
temporarily stopped a North Korean shipment of Scud missiles bound for Yemen. A day
after the Scud incident, North Korea said it was removing U.N. inspection equipment and
restarting plutonium-separation operations at its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon. 
"The
concern is that if they continue operations at Yongbyon they might be able to double 
or triple
that arsenal within six months," said Leonard Spector, director of the Washington 
office of
the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

QWhat are the military risks?

AThey are substantial, but not necessarily nuclear. Most of North Korea's 950,000-man
army is poised near the peninsula's demilitarized zone, which puts parts of South 
Korea's
capital, Seoul, within artillery range. A conventional clash could, potentially, 
involve hundreds
of thousands of casualties, including some among 37,000 U.S. troops there.

QWould North Korea launch an attack?

AU.S. officials and outside experts appear split on this. North Korea's army is a 
poorly
supplied antique, loaded with 1950s and '60s weapons, that is used primarily to keep
internal order.

QWhat does North Korea want?

AEngagement and aid from the United States and its allies appear to be the main goals, 
but
getting caught cheating on the earlier deal would appear to make any new agreement very
difficult. Still, some outside experts remain hopeful that U.S. diplomats can find a 
way to
freeze both nuclear-weapons programs. "These guys [North Korean officials] want to
become billionaires selling real estate in the DMZ. They don't want a potential war," 
said
Peter Hayes, director of the Nautilus Institute, a think tank in Berkeley, Calif.

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