[CTRL] (Fwd) IRAN TESTS TAEPO DONG MISSILE
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Iran has tested North Korea's Taepo Dong missile engine and plans to soon launch the missile in its first test flight. -- Middle East Newsline [ http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/january/01_28_1.html ] IRAN TESTS TAEPO DONG MISSILE ENGINE TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Iran has tested North Korea's Taepo Dong missile engine and plans to soon launch the missile in its first test flight. U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies are said to have concluded that the missile engine test took place last year. They assessed that Iran obtained the Taepo Dong engine around 2000. Ephraim Kam, deputy director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, said Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Iran has been testing the Taepo Dong engine as part of development of the Shihab-4 intermediate-range missile program. Iran has obtained from North Korea the missile engine for the Taepo Dong-1, Kam told a recent news conference in presenting the center's Middle East military balance. Iran has tested the engine and Israel and U.S. intelligence expect the first launch of the Shihab-4. NOTE: The above is not the full item. This service contains only a small portion of the information produced daily by Middle East Newsline. For a subscription to the full service, please contact Middle East Newsline at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details. Last Updated: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:39:44 GMT --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Internet Attack
-Caveat Lector- Jan 27, 2003 Internet Attack's Disruptions More Serious Than Many Thought Possible By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The weekend attack on the Internet crippled some sensitive corporate and government systems, including banking operations and 911 centers, far more seriously than many experts believed possible. The nation's largest residential mortgage firm, Countrywide Financial Corp., told customers who called Monday it was still suffering from the attack. Its Web site, where customers usually can make payments and check their loans, was closed with a note about emergency maintenance. Police and fire dispatchers outside Seattle resorted to paper and pencil for hours Saturday after the virus-like attack disrupted operations for the 911 center that serves two suburban police departments and at least 14 fire departments. American Express Co. confirmed that customers couldn't reach its Web site to check credit statements and account balances during parts of the weekend. Perhaps most surprising, the attack prevented many customers of Bank of America Corp., one of the largest U.S. banks, and some large Canadian banks from withdrawing money from automatic teller machines Saturday. President Bush's No. 2 cyber-security adviser, Howard Schmidt, acknowledged Monday that what he called collateral damage stunned even experts who have warned about uncertain effects on the nation's most important electronic systems from mass-scale Internet disruptions. One would not have expected a request for bandwidth would have affected the ATM network, Schmidt said. This is one of the things we've been talking about for a long time, getting a handle on interdependencies and cascading effects. The White House and Canadian defense officials confirmed they were investigating how the attack, which started about 12:30 a.m. EST Saturday, could have affected ATM banking and other important networks that should remain immune from traditional Internet outages. Schmidt said early reports suggested private ATM networks overlapped with parts of the public Internet. Such design decisions were criticized as totally brain-dead by Alex Yuriev of AOY LLC, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm for banks and telecommunications companies. Officials were most concerned about risks that citizens might lose confidence in financial networks. Their bread and butter is the public being able to get access to their accounts when and where they want them, said Ron Dick of Computer Sciences Corp., former head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center. Even during nominal disruptions, the key is having a plan so you can provide assurances to your customers. The virus-like attack, alternately dubbed slammer or sapphire, sought out vulnerable computers to infect using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp. called SQL Server 2000. The attacking software scanned for victim computers so randomly and so aggressively that it saturated many of the Internet largest data pipelines, slowing e- mail and Web surfing globally. One thing people have always feared was that the mesh among certain critical infrastructure sectors would be affected, and there was some of that, said Eddie Schwartz, a vice president at Predictive Systems Inc., which runs Internet warning centers for the banking and energy industries. Congestion from the Internet attack eased over the weekend and was almost completely normal by Monday. That left investigators poring over the blueprints for the Internet worm for clues about its origin and the identity of its author. Complicating the investigation was how quickly the attack spread across the globe, making it nearly impossible for researchers to find the electronic equivalent of patient zero, the earliest infected computers. Basically within one minute, the game was over, said Johannes Ullrich of Boston, who runs the D-Shield network of computer monitors. He watched the attack spread with alarming speed worldwide. Asia, especially Korea, was among the areas hardest-hit. Experts said blueprints of the attack software were similar to a program published on the Web months ago by David Litchfield of NGS Software Inc., a respected British security expert who discovered the flaw in Microsoft's database software last year. The attack software also was similar to computer code published weeks ago on a Chinese hacking Web site by a virus author known as Lion, who publicly credited Litchfield for the idea. Litchfield said he deliberately published his blueprints for computer administrators to understand how hackers might use the program to attack their systems. Anybody capable of writing such a worm would have found out this information without my sample code, Litchfield said. Just because someone publishes a proof-of-concept code doesn't necessarily help the people we should be worried about. Still, Litchfield's disclosure was likely to reignite a simmering dispute
[CTRL] Ancient Israel and the Constitution
-Caveat Lector- SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Ancient Israel and the Constitution by Steve McKamey Little attention is paid these days to either the debate over the Constitution or the period of the Judges in Israel. The Constitution was vigorously opposed by a large minority of the people and was barely ratified at all. The writings of the opponents, called the Antifederalist Papers, are filled with prophetic warnings of what evil men would make of the Constitution. There was also an antifederalist in ancient Israel. His name was Samuel. Samuel also wrote against consolidating the government of Israel under one earthly king. He was a true prophet of God and his prophecies were proven by the test of history. The test of time has also proven the vision of the American Antifederalists. There are several parallels between Israel and the United States. First, there were thirteen tribes in Israel if you consider that Ephraim and Mannaseh, the sons of Joseph, as individual tribes. There were thirteen colonies at the time of the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution. Israel existed for the period of the Judges as a loose confederation among the tribes. The United States existed for a time as a loose confederation of independent states under the Articles of Confederation. After a time, both sought the prestige and power afforded by a more centralized government. Consider these passages from 1 Samuel, and Antifederalist No.3: 1 Samuel Chaper 8 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. 13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. 19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; 20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. Antifederalist No. 3, New Constitution Creates a National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign Influence; Dangers of Civil War and Despotism; There are but two modes by which men are connected in society, the one which operates on individuals, this always has been, and ought still to be called, national government; the other which binds States and governments together (not corporations, for there is no considerable nation on earth, despotic, monarchical, or republican, that does not contain many subordinate corporations with various constitutions) this last has heretofore been denominated a league or confederacy. The term federalists is therefore improperly applied to themselves, by the friends and supporters of the proposed constitution. This abuse of language does not help the cause; every degree of imposition serves only to irritate, but can never convince. They are national men, and their opponents, or at least a great majority of them, are federal, in the only true and strict sense of the word. Whether any form of national government is preferable for the Americans, to a league or confederacy, is a previous question we must first make up our minds upon That a national government will add to the dignity and increase the splendor of the United States abroad, can admit of no doubt: it is essentially requisite for both. That it will render government, and officers of government, more dignified at home is equally certain. That these objects are more suited to the manners, if not [the] genius and disposition of our people is, I fear, also true. That it is requisite in order to keep us at peace among ourselves, is doubtful. That it is necessary, to prevent foreigners from dividing us, or interfering in our government, I deny positively; and, after all, I have strong doubts whether all its advantages are not more specious than solid. We are vain, like other nations. We wish to make a noise in the world; and feel hurt that Europeans are not so attentive to America in peace, as they were to America in war. We are also, no doubt, desirous of
[CTRL] Interesting for the Things the Mass Media Leave Out of Their Stories
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/nyt-j28_prn.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : North America New York Times offers friendly advice to abort the anti-war movement By David Walsh 28 January 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author This months mass demonstrations against the Bush administrations imminent war in Iraq took the political and media establishment by surprise. The surge of opposition evaded their political radar screens. They had either ignored the growing resistance or pretended it did not exist. Once the depth of popular sentiment against war became impossible to disregard, the various factions of bourgeois opinion makers swung into action. They had now to confront the reality of a nascent mass movement emerging outside of their control. On the one side are political thugs like right-wing commentator Michael Kelly, who launch witch- hunting attacks on the communist Workers World Party, which played a prominent role in organizing the protests. (See Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly red-baits the Workers World Party, 24 January 2003). This is the crude and filthy face of bourgeois politics. The particular task assigned to these forces is to stir up everything backward and poisonous in the body politic. The liberal, or erstwhile liberal, establishment, represented most prominently by the New York Times, has undertaken a subtler and more sinister intervention. Its aim is to isolate the left-wing elements and drive them out, so as to bring the movement under the control of reliable political agents of the ruling elite, principally the Democratic Party. This is the significance of a January 24 Times article, Some War Protesters Uneasy With Others. Lynette Clemetson writes that behind the scenes, some of the protesters have questioned whether the message of opposing the war with Iraq is being tainted or at least diluted by other causes of International Answer, which sponsored both the Washington and San Francisco rallies Some of the groups chief organizers are active in the Workers World Party, a radical socialist group with roots in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The precise meaning of the phrase roots in the Stalin-era Soviet Union is not explained. The founder of Workers World, Sam Marcy, was associated with the Trotskyist movement until he abandoned it in 1959 and founded his own group. The evident purpose of the inchoate reference is to drag in the name of Stalin as a political epithet. The unstated political motivation of the article is indicated by the insinuation that the movement against war in Iraq is being tainted by the illegitimate interjection of other causes. Clemetson elaborates on this theme: Answers critics say they simply wish that when it sponsors antiwar rallies, it would confine its message to opposition to the war. She cites the comments of Tikkun magazine editor Rabbi Michael Lerner, whose concerns include pro-Palestinian speeches. Lerner observes, It feels that we are being manipulated when subjected to mindless speeches and slogans whose knee-jerk anti-imperialism rarely articulates the deep reasons we should oppose corporate globalization. In a hopeful tone the Times notes that the next major rally, to be held February 15 in New York, is being organized by United for Peace, a coalition of more than 120 groups, most of them less radical than Answer. The political message is clear. The Times wants an anti-war movement that does not go beyond the confines of the existing social order. The newspapers editors are alerting sections of the middle class: you can have your rallies and protests, but not on the basis of anti-capitalism. The Times editors are arguing for a protest movement that accepts certain basic premises above all, the defense of US imperialism and its right to dominate the world. They fear the development of a movement that links the struggle against war to critical social issues in America and makes a direct appeal to the working class. The Times sudden interest in the anti-war movement is cynical and self- serving. The newspaper has been one of the chief drum-beaters for war. Only Saturday, in an article calling on Bush to delay a conflict only until the necessary international support can be built up, Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for the New York Times Magazine Bill Keller asserted: So far in its showdown with Iraq, the Bush administration has mostly done the right things There are compelling reasons for war with Iraq. How should serious opponents of US militarism respond to the attempt by the Times to politically tame and strangle any movement against imperialist war? In our view, they should make every effort to expose these attempts and drive such pro- imperialist elements out of the anti-war movement. As events have already shown, together with the Democratic Party and the establishment liberals come
[CTRL] SQLExp
-Caveat Lector- * ** SYMANTEC SECURITY ALERT ** Alert! W32.SQLExp.Worm Category 3 * * WARNING: W32.SQLExp.Worm Threat level: Category 3 Type: Worm ** What is W32.SQLExp.Worm and how does it affect me? ** W32.SQLExp.Worm targets systems running Microsoft SQL Server 2000, as well as Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) 2000. The worm sends 376 bytes to UDP port 1434, the SQL Server Resolution Service Port. Symantec Security Response has detected a significant increase in the unique number of source IPs scanning for UDP port 1434. Symantec Security Response highly recommends all users of either Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000 audit their machines for the vulnerabilities referred to in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-039 and Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-06. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-039 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp? url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.asp Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-06 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp? url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-061.asp Symantec Security Response also recommends configuring perimeter devices to block UDP traffic to port 1434 from unknown hosts. The worm has the unintended payload of performing a Denial of Service due to the large number of packets it sends out. ** WHAT ACTION CAN I TAKE FROM HERE? ** Because the worm is only resident in memory, and is not written to disk, it is not detectable using virus definitions. Symantec Security Response has provided a tool to remove infections of W32.SQLexp.Worm. Click here to obtain the tool: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sqlexp.w orm.removal.tool.html Symantec Security Response encourages all Norton AntiVirus users to regularly download virus definitions in order to protect against future threats. For more information on how to run LiveUpdate, please go here: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/sharedtech.nsf/docid/1999121613 163206 UPGRADE CUSTOMERS If you have an older version of Norton AntiVirus and would like to upgrade to Norton AntiVirus 2003, please go here: http://nct.symantecstore.com/0001/upgrade_center.html NEW CUSTOMERS If you would like to purchase Norton AntiVirus 2003, Please go here: http://www.symantecstore.com/51410/nav ** Sincerely, Symantec Security Response Team Symantec Corporation ** Scan for Viruses. Free! Free Service. Check your system online using Symantec's award- winning virus detection technology to determine if it is infected by any known virus or Trojan horse. Click Here - http://www.symantec.com/securitycheck * Special Offers * Visit the Symantec Store Web site for comprehensive security solutions and special Symantec promotions. Click Here - http://www.symantecstore.com/51410 For non-English products, please visit our global store at: http://www.symantecstore.com/global/ *** Subscribe to Symantec Security Alert *** Subscribe to the Symantec Security Alert to find out about the latest worms, viruses and Trojans. Click here to subscribe: http://nct.symantecstore.com/virusalert ** Copyright (c) 1995-2003 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Other brands and products are trademarks of their respective holder(s). DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. If you require Customer Service or Technical Support, please check the Symantec Web site for contact information at http://www.symantec.com Should you wish not to receive this Symantec Security Alert Service, simply unsubscribe or change your e-mail address at: http://www.digitalriver.com/v2.0-bin/ecm/opt-out?uid=fks2bz2bz9yekvhj7 For information on Symantec's Return Policy, please click here: http://www.symantecstore.com/return_policy Symantec Corporation 20330 Stevens Creek Boulevard Cupertino, CA 95014 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
[CTRL] Hollywood and Culture
-Caveat Lector- SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Hollywood and the Culture of War by Rod Oglesby Having come of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I still find myself having many of those famous Second Thoughts popularized by David Horowitz (though I arrived at a different destination). To many of my generation, this reconsideration is seen as anything from unnecessary to bewildering. Most of the American public seems to share this attitude, hence it's no wonder that the effects of bad foreign and economic policy continue. Congressman Charles Rangel (D, NY) recently proposed resurrecting the military draft. It's a silly idea, but it reveals the current level of desperation among pacifists to stop the fanatical war cabal in the White House. In 1968 I registered for the draft and waited for my birth date (August 31, 1950) to be drawn for selection. August 31 drew number 11, and if it were not for my 1-Y deferment (i.e., losing the use of my left arm to polio), I would have been on my way to Southeast Asia. Many of my friends were lucky enough to be selected, but I truly wanted to go. As the horrors and futility of Vietnam now become more obvious with every passing year, what was it that played a large part in convincing me that I wanted to go? War and the Rise of Television In the 1950s, World War II was still fresh in the public mind and television was becoming an increasingly prominent part of everyday life. TV programming in the 1950s was filled with Westerns and war movies balanced with the occasional horror film at the local drive in. Westerns always had good guys prevailing over bad guys by way of the gun. The adventures of Wyatt Earp (Wyatt Earp), Johnny Uma (The Rebel), Paladin (Have Gun Will Travel), Maverick (Maverick), Cheyenne (Cheyenne), and Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke) made the Western king. Virtually all Westerns centered on bad guys committing a crime followed by good guys killing the bad guys for their crime. This injected an atmosphere of self- righteous vigilantism into the culture. Americans were inherently good people, could readily discern good from evil, and therefore not only had the right to march around their communities and cities like Robert Conrad with their chests puffed out, but also march around the Western hemisphere or world and put the hurt on people of whom they didn't approve. During this time more literal enactments of war were of course found in such conspicuous weekly TV dramas as 12 Oclock High and Combat. 12 O'clock was about the adventures of a squadron of B- 17s. Combat documented the activities of a squad of American GIs in the European theatre. When conducting their assigned patrol and encountering German troops or winning over a German position, the small squad numbering 46 soldiers always implausibly survived the fierce fire fight while numerous German soldiers were always killed. This military implausibility of Americans winning just because they were good ol' Americans preceded the inane Rambo series by decades. One can only wonder how the rest of the world has marveled at our cultural arrogance as these movies and TV shows are replayed overseas. One wonders what their appeal could be to the rest of the world. My hunch is that some clever impresario has reclassified them as comedies. Military comedies continued the cultural dishonesty. Hogans Heroes and McHales Navy seldom (if ever at all) showed hand-to-hand combat and limited the human carnage and destruction of war to safely distant explosions of bombs. The main characters were always heroes and rarely did we see crew members suffer loss of life or limb or kill fellow soldiers in agonizing incidents of friendly fire. In the interest of added realism, some programs did allow some death. These kill off roles lasted for usually no more than a few episodes. (It was truly a pity for any acting career to get typecast into these roles.) Movies could have been better at portraying the horror of war but were only used to create a reason for a soldier to become a hero (e.g., to gladly storm a position to become machine gun fodder). If killed, the soldiers sacrifice was always (unconvincingly) portrayed as leading to some significant advance of Allied troops or the winning of a key battle. The movie To Hell and Back (1955) was released as a dramatized autobiography of the heroic achievements of Audie Murphy during the Second World War. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, Audie was depicted as willing to risk himself to save a position, a comrade, or the fate of a battle. Much overlooked was the distinct possibility that there could have been some not-so-admirable reasons for Audie's behavior. It's been said that Audies attraction to heroic exploits was rooted in a psychological need to measure up in terms of proving his manhood. His small stature caused him to think that to be considered equal to other soldiers, he had to be braver than they were, even to the point of recklessness. In
[CTRL] Wind Blowing Up Your Camoflouged Skirt?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27167809 27 Jan 2003 19:01 U.S Congress may push for military draft By Vicki Allen WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - As the United States prepared for a possible war against Iraq, an influential senator added his voice on Monday to calls to reinstate the military draft, a step the Bush administration says is unnecessary and unwise. South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings said he is sponsoring the Senate version of a bill offered in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, who said a universal draft would bring men and women from all walks of life into the military instead of leaving it mostly to low-income people and minorities. Rangel and Hollings held a joint news conference as weapons inspectors issued a report at the United Nations that said Baghdad had not fully complied with requirements that it disarm, a finding that the Bush administration has said could lead to war with Iraq. Rangel opposed the congressional resolution authorizing a possible attack on Iraq. Hollings backed it. But citing tensions around the world, they said they worry that the volunteer force would not be enough to fight multiple wars. With prospects of continued military action in Afghanistan, a potential war in Iraq, the continued war on terrorism and growing tensions in the Korean peninsula, it becomes clear that we do not have the personnel to fight a multi-theater war, they said in a letter to colleagues. Our proposal ensures that all Americans answer the call of duty and that the size of our military forces meets our growing military needs, Rangel, a Korean War combat veteran, and Hollings, a World War II combat veteran, said in their letter. Hollings said forces already are stretched too thin, as the Pentagon is extending service time of reservists to handle operations in Afghanistan and the troop buildup in the Gulf, which he said is a hardship on them and their employers. The bill requires military or national service for men and women, ages 18 to 26, without exemptions for college or graduate studies. The president would set the number of people needed for military service, and those not selected for that would serve at least two years in a civilian post. With the Pentagon against the plan, the bill was seen as having little chance in the Republican-led Congress. But Rangel said it raised issues that the nation should debate. It already has caused the administration some discomfort as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week apologized to veterans for comments he made dismissing the need to bring back the draft, that was ended in 1973. With the draft, Rumsfeld said people were sucked into the intake, trained for a period of months, and then went out, adding no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time. Rumsfeld said he had not intended to say that draftees added no value to the military, but that he was commenting on the loss of that value when they left the service. AlertNet news is provided by © 1998-2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] The Dangers of Having Foreigners Drive Policy
-Caveat Lector- David Frum, a 42-year-old Canadian who served for 13 months as a presidential speechwriter ... How I created the axis of evil http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,883698,00.html It is the phrase that defines the Bush era - and Washington insiders are betting on whether it will turn up again in today's State of the Union address. But David Frum, the man who coined it, is now out in the cold. Julian Borger meets him Julian Borger Tuesday January 28, 2003 The Guardian We are at the end of Year One in the time of the Axis of Evil. It was 12 months ago that George Bush took three apparently dissimilar countries in his State of the Union address and fashioned a new enemy for America. Banded together, the three rogue states, Iraq, Iran and North Korea, conjured up an enemy every bit as fearsome as Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire. The phrase has not only defined the battle lines of the 21st century, it has helped shape the world we now inhabit. Bush's supporters naturally insist this is a good thing. It has opened our eyes to the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of dictators. The detractors, who include most of Europe and the developing world, see the axis of evil speech more as a self-fulfilling prophecy that has set back the democracy movement in Iran, goaded North Korea towards nuclear brinkmanship and undermined any incentive Saddam Hussein might have had to disarm. Bush himself has not used the phrase since summer, but Washington is now placing bets on whether it will resurface in the State of the Union address today. Whatever happens, its true father looks on in awe and pride. David Frum, a 42-year-old Canadian who served for 13 months as a presidential speechwriter and helped coin the fateful phrase, has just written a book about the experience - a cardinal sin amid the hushed piety of the White House. Speechwriters are supposed to be anonymous. We are supposed to associate the State of the Union speech, the rhetorical high point of the White House calendar, with the president alone, not with the paid hack in the back room. In retaliation, Frum has been left out in the cold in Bush's Washington. His book, The Right Man, tells how the callow and unimaginative American prince was challenged by the horror of September 11 and responded Henry V-style, by showing his true mettle. It is larded with chapter upon chapter of rightwing polemic, brimming with contempt for European appeasers and the stinking bowl of the Arab world. As so often with the most vituperative pamphleteers, Frum is in person genial and conciliatory. He argues that his former boss is misunderstood in Britain, mainly because of his Texan drawl and Bible-thumping ways. In fact, Frum suggests - and here he is surely stretching the hand of doctrinal friendship further than credulity allows - Bush has a lot in common with the average Guardian reader. He is someone who takes a moral view of the world and looks for big, bold answers, he says, by way of evidence. He even suggests the Bush-as-Guardian-reader idea would make a thought- provoking article. As one of the louder voices of radical neo-conservatism, such outside-the- box ideas are Frum's stock in trade and there are a lot of them in The Right Man - so many that they invite the creeping suspicion that the title does not just refer to Bush. But the book is also a well-written memoir of Frum's short adventure in the administration which just about lives up to its sales pitch as the first inside account of the Bush White House. Frum talks about Bush's sour, watchful presence, in contrast to the jovial hick he sometimes appears in public. He talks about the disconcerting grip evangelical Christianity has on the White House, its squeaky- clean gentility and generally low level of intellectual curiosity. The president, Frum tells us, is sometimes glib, even dogmatic; often uncurious and as a result ill- informed; more conventional in his thinking than a leader should be. Most interesting of all, The Right Man tells the story of how the axis of evil got its name - an unnerving tale of rhetorical accident by which a catchy phrase ended up driving policy. It begins when Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, approaches Frum a few weeks before the pivotal State of the Union address and tells him, Here's an assignment. Can you sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq? This was in late December 2001. Frum argues that this does not necessarily mean a decision to oust Saddam had been taken, as he is sure other speechwriters were working on more peaceful versions. But his was the version that was used on January 29 2002. Looking for historical resonance, Frum goes leafing through the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, in particular the day of infamy address to the nation that followed Pearl Harbor. On December 8 1941, Roosevelt had exactly the same problem we had. The United States had been attacked by Japan, but the greater threat
[CTRL] Warring for Dollars
-Caveat Lector- 28 January 2003 Tuesday 24 Ziqa'ad 1423 Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window) http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/28/int12.htm Military spending is inadequate: Hawks tell Bush By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON: If there was any doubt about the global ambitions of the Bush administration hawks, it was dispelled this weekend when a group of influential right-wing figures complained that the current military budget of almost $400 billion - greater than the world's 15 next biggest military establishments combined - is not enough to sustain US strategy abroad. In a letter to the president released on the eve of his State of the Union address, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose alumni include both figures close to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as most of their top aides, called for increasing the defence budget by as much as $100 billion next year. Today's military is simply too small for the missions it must perform, said the letter whose signatories included mainly key neo-conservatives, former Reagan administration officials, and a number of individuals close to big defence manufacturers like Lockheed Martin. By every measure, current defence spending is inadequate for a military with global responsibilities The letter, which also suggested that Washington should prepare for confrontations with North Korea, Iran, and China, is to be published in the 'Weekly Standard,' the Rupert Murdoch-financed neo-conservative journal edited by William Kristol, PNAC's co-founder and chairman. Publication of the letter comes as public confidence in Bush's leadership, and particularly his apparent eagerness to invade Iraq, has slipped substantially, according to recent by recent polls. The same surveys show increasing concern as well about his management of the economy, including the return of $300 billion budget deficits fuelled mostly by military and security-related spending and tax cuts. It also comes as veteran foreign-policy analysts here and abroad are warning that anti-American sentiment is rising sharply in both the Muslim world and among US allies in both Europe and North-east Asia due to the perception that the Bush administration is insensitive to their views and seeks permanent military domination of Eurasia. In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday (today), Bush is expected to lay out his budget and other priorities for the coming year. In the following days, the administration will make specific budget requests. If the administration asks increases urged by PNAC, public concerns about Bush's intentions both here and abroad are likely to rise steeply. On the other hand, PNAC's past letters, particularly its recommendations on its anti-terrorist campaign and Middle Eastern policy, have anticipated to a remarkable degree the administration's policy evolution. Just nine days after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, PNAC issued an open letter that called on Bush to take his anti-terrorist war beyond Afghanistan by ousting Saddam Hussein in Iraq, severing ties with the Palestinian Authority, and preparing for action against Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. PNAC in many ways is the latest incarnation of a series of hawkish groups dominated by Jewish neo-conservatives dating back to the 1970s, when they fought the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party and combined with Republicans like Rumsfeld to oppose detente with Moscow. Midge Decter and her husband, Norman Podhoretz, for example, helped found the Committee on the Present Danger in the late 1970s and the Committee for the Free World in the early 1980s which Decter co-chaired with Rumsfeld. Both signed the new letter. Founded formally in 1997, PNAC works mainly as a front group for the coalition of neo-conservatives, hard-right Republicans, and Christian Right activists behind what has come to be called Bush's neo-imperialist policies. Among its charter members were Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their chief deputies, Paul Wolfowitz and I Lewis Libby, respectively, as well as a dozen other top administration policy-makers today. During the 2000 presidential campaign, PNAC produced a book-length blueprint for the incoming administration called 'Present Dangers' edited by Kristol and Robert Kagan, another signer and prominent neo- conservative. PNAC is closely tied to the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) from which it rents office space, and whose leading lights include Perle, former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Lynne Cheney, the vice president's spouse. The administration, which already won an $80 billion increase in the defence budget for fiscal 2003, has called for further increases up to $442 billion by 2007. But hawks have warned that this will not match what is needed if Bush's global ambitions are to be realized. A year into this activist foreign policy, wrote Frederick Kagan, a military historian and Robert Kagan's brother, late last year, the
[CTRL] War Within
-Caveat Lector- The war within http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,883685,00.html Israelis are not only in conflict with the Palestinians. They are also bitterly divided among themselves over race, religion and politics. As the country goes to the polls, Jonathan Freedland reports on how deep - and hateful - those divisions really are Jonathan Freedland Tuesday January 28, 2003 The Guardian Everyone here knows that he will lose. Even he, the leader of Israel's Labour party on a last campaign swing before today's general election, knows it. To cheer up this basement room crammed with activists and, who knows, perhaps to lift his own spirits, Amram Mitzna promises that he will win one day - if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. The audience take the message well. They understand that Israelis have united in their despair at two years of Palestinian terror, rallying behind Ariel Sharon and making it impossible for a challenger like Mitzna to break through. But they are also used to defeat. Here, in the down-at-heel, southern town of Bet Shemesh, it has long been a lonely business working for Labour. This is Likud country. Bet Shemesh may be scarred by decades-old poverty and unemployment, but it's still hostile terrain for Labour. That sounds like a paradox - surely the poor should rally to the party of the left? - but it is explained by one of the countless social faultlines that marks Israel. They are part of an Israeli landscape that can be hard to see under the cloud-cover of national unity produced by the all-consuming conflict with the Palestinians. But look beneath and what you glimpse is a society riven along every possible line: secular against religious, religious against religious, European (Ashkenazi) against Middle Eastern (Mizrahi). These are Israel's other wars - and they have been laid bare by this election campaign. Take another look at Mitzna in that Bet Shemesh basement. He stands tall and impressive, in cobalt blue shirt and neat navy blazer. He has a distinguished, even noble face: modern rimless glasses, and an ancient, prophet's beard. He speaks fluently and well. Yet the key fact about him for many in this town - visible in the way he looks, dresses and speaks - is that he is not one of them. Instead, he looks the archetypal man of the Labour establishment - educated and Ashkenazi - which so many Mizrahi Jews continue to resent. This has been a Labour problem ever since Likud first toppled them from power in 1977, and they have still not cracked it. Jews who fled Yemen, Morocco, Iraq and the rest of the Arab world in the 1950s stored up decades of anger at their treatment by the embryonic Jewish state. They felt that they were patronised, herded first into tent cities and then make shift development towns; their centuries-old customs and costume were mocked as primitive. They were urged to shed their traditions and become Israeli - and in those days, in a state founded by Russians, Poles and Germans, that meant Ashkenazi. The collective memory is one of humiliation and Labour, the unchallenged masters of that period, bear the blame. By rights, those feelings should have faded long ago. Ashkenazim and Mizrahim now mix and marry freely; few Israeli families are not intertwined. Yet the pool of hurt remains, ready to be tapped. So the TV commercials aired by Shas, the middle-sized party of religious Mizrahim, include black- and-white pictures of a Yemeni arrival apparently being sprayed with disinfectant by an (Ashkenazi) immigration official. It is a deliberate bid to stir bitter collective memories and spur Israelis, even third-generation Israelis, to vote on ethnic lines. That's when the legacy manifests itself crudely. More subtle is the strange case of Ariel Sharon's escape from what looked like a lethal corruption scandal. A fortnight or so ago, the PM was haemorrhaging in the polls amid allegations of undeclared, million-dollar foreign donations. He was under police investigation. To stop the slide, he gave a televised address. By common consent, it was a disaster, with Sharon rambling and aggressive. Halfway through, he was pulled off the air by order of a high court judge, for violating the election law which bars on-air politicking outside the official campaign broadcasts. Instantly, and curiously, the slide was halted. It turns out that the judge's decision had helped Sharon, by confirming what many Likud voters have long believed: that the country's institutions, including the judiciary, are still run by the same condescending, leftwing Ashkenazi elite of old. The snobs had gagged the Likud leader; he was once again the underdog, leader of a party which has cast itself since the 1970s as the champion of the outsider. That used to mean Mizrahim, but now Likud's coalition of the excluded has stretched to include Ethiopian Jews and the million Russians who have come to Israel in the past decade. Ashkenazi they might be, but Likud's hold on these
[CTRL] Rube Goldberg Foreign Policy
-Caveat Lector- World dispatch http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,883248,00.ht ml An engineered crisis The desire for hegemony over the Middle East - not Iraq's weaponry or even its oil - is America's real motivation for war, writes Brian Whitaker Brian Whitaker Monday January 27, 2003 The Guardian On the first day of war the United States will rain down 300-400 cruise missiles on Iraq, according to a report by CBS news. That averages out at one missile every four minutes around the clock, easily exceeding the total fired over six weeks in the 1991 Gulf war. The aim, according to the Pentagon sources quoted, is to cause such shock and awe that Iraqi troops will lose their will to fight at the outset. Just in case they do not get the message immediately, the US plans do the same again on day two, CBS said. Whether this is the actual plan or merely a strategically timed bit of disinformation intended to terrify Baghdad in advance, I have no idea, but anyone who has watched television over the last few days can be in little doubt as to the awesome array of weaponry that is now being assembled for the attack. To a world that remains mostly unconvinced of the need for it, there is something surreal and not quite believable about this. How has it come about? And why now? In 1990 at least, the issue was clear: Iraq had invaded a sovereign state (Kuwait) and could not be allowed to get away with it. Everyone, including those who favoured a solution by diplomatic means, could understand the principle at stake. Since then, Iraq has done little to cause offence, though there are many things that it might have done to redeem itself. It could have made more effort to comply fully with UN resolutions, for instance, but it is not alone in that and other countries are regularly let off with a verbal slap over the wrist. Taken individually, none of Iraq's transgressions over the last few years provides a case for war. And taken collectively, they only tell us what we knew already: that Saddam Hussein is not the sort of man you would trust to look after your grandmother. Overall, whatever military threat Iraq presents, it is no greater now than it was when UN weapons inspectors first started their work in the early 1990s and is almost certainly a great deal less. Essentially, the weapons at the centre of the current furore are the relatively small number of items that were still unaccounted for when the inspectors pulled out under pressure from Iraq in 1998. On the nuclear front, the best that the White House website can come up with is a one-line statement that Iraq's declaration to the UN last month ignores efforts to procure uranium from abroad. Until quite recently the prevailing view in Washington was that any danger from Iraq could be effectively contained - as, indeed, it has been for the last decade or so. This general lack of alarm about Iraq's military capacity was reflected in security council resolution 1284, approved in 1999, which sought to get the Iraqi issue out of the way by resuming weapons inspections in a less aggressive manner than previously, and then suspending sanctions if nothing untoward was found. Iraq raised a number of objections (which it probably now regrets), but resolution 1284 remained the security council's preferred way forward until last November, when the goalposts were dramatically moved by the toughly worded resolution 1441 which, in one interpretation or another, looks set to give the US its pretext for military action. What this amounts to is an engineered crisis that is driven from Washington rather than Baghdad. It began with the election of George Bush and a noticeably harder line on Iraq almost from the moment he took office. Since then it has hardened further as the neo-conservative hawks have gained predominance - helped in no small measure by Osama bin Laden. Those who say that oil lies at the root of it are right up to a point, but it is not simply a matter of grabbing Iraqi oil. The neo-conservatives see Iraqi oil as a political weapon which can be used to undermine Saudi Arabia's influence and thus promote their grand design for reshaping the entire Middle East. Whether they will succeed in achieving their broader plans, even after an invasion of Iraq, is doubtful. But there is no doubting the damage that will be done to the US in the meantime. Last week the US-based Middle East Institute published a report by Edward Walker, a former assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, who has also served as US ambassador in Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Following a visit to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, he found that popular opinion in the region was more antagonistic toward the United States than at any time in recent memory. The perception is that we are driven by the six Cs - cowboys; colonialism; conspiracy; Coca-Cola; cowardice; and clientitis, he wrote. The 'client' is Israel. The 'cowardice' is the perception that we
Re: [CTRL] The CIA's Secret Army
Title: Re: [CTRL] The CIA's Secret Army -Caveat Lector- on 01/27/03 6:58 PM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ru for a usually intelligent and open minded person, you are friggin obsessed on this topic. Why not mention the British agents who will be working with them? Or agents from any of a number of other international intelligence spooks the CIA has ties with? Yeah, well the Brits haven't decided to take out whomever they don't like right here in River City. Do you really believe the British Intelligence have never killed someone in America? Never killed an Irish radical or IRA bankroller here? Cmon... Really? Think James Bond. The Israeli seem to have rights here that no one else is claiming. You mean the same rights America claims for the rest of the globe? Prudy -- -- -- -- -- Planet spins - so do I neo-sufi wisdom NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Eire Ired over Cherie_Boie
-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window Cherie Blair flats-row man to be deported from Ireland January 29 2003 Australian conman Peter Foster will be deported from Ireland, possibly to Australia, after being dramatically refused entry to the country. Foster, 40, spent the night in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison despite begging Irish immigration officials not to send him to jail following his arrest at Dublin Airport yesterday. He will be taken from the jail's detention centre later today and transported to the airport for a flight to either Australia, where he is wanted over a 1.4 million pound ($3.91 million) slimming scam, or France. Foster, who helped Prime Minister's wife Cherie Blair buy two flats in Bristol, was refused entry to Ireland yesterday afternoon when he landed at Dublin on a flight from France. The serial fraudster was seized by airport officers and police yesterday afternoon following a weekend in Paris with his London-based girlfriend, Carole Caplin. He was heard to beg: Don't take me to prison, before pleading to be allowed to stay in Ireland overnight. Look, if you want to make me go back to Australia just let me into the country for 24 hours, Foster, who has been jailed in Britain, the United States and Australia for fraud, reportedly said. I didn't run away from England, I made a voluntary departure. I'll leave if I have to go to Australia, just don't take me to prison. Let me into the country for 24 hours, then I'll leave. Foster fled from London to his mother's home in Ireland shortly before Christmas to escape the Cheriegate scandal and pending deportation from Britain. He hit the headlines last December when it was revealed he had helped Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, buy two luxury apartments at a knockdown price after viewing the apartments on her behalf with Caplin, Mrs Blair's close friend and personal adviser. It then emerged that Mrs Blair, a leading barrister, spoke to Foster's lawyers about his deportation case. But she denied suggestions she had tried to influence the case, saying only that she was doing a favour for her friend. Secretly recorded phone calls between Foster and his mother, Louise Pelloti, revealed that he was planning to sell his story and smear Mrs Blair's reputation for 100,000 pounds - but could not find a buyer. He later dropped his appeal against deportation and went to Ireland, where he has been writing his autobiography. He flew to Paris last Thursday to meet Caplin to discuss a new business venture but was arrested on his return, British newspaper The Sun said. Having a conviction in another country is one of the reasons a passenger can be refused entry into Ireland, an immigration official said. We are in negotiations with French officials. If they don't allow him to return he will be sent back to Australia. Pelloti refused to speak to the media but a friend said she broke down in tears when police told her Foster had been arrested. She was told: 'Your son has been refused leave to enter the Republic of Ireland and will be held in a place of detention overnight', the friend said. In Canberra, a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokeswoman said it was believed Foster had already been deported from Ireland. She said Australian consular staff had not been able to talk to Foster during the period he was held while in Dublin. There was no reason for direct consular discussions with Foster if he had been deported to another country, she said. Foster was held overnight at Mountjoy Prison under the Aliens Act as immigration officials prepared to remove him from the country. At about 11.30am yesterday, a red Transit van with blacked out windows took Foster out of the prison and across to Dublin Airport, where he was expected to be boarding a flight shortly. Irish police said they expected he would be sent back to France, but would not confirm details of the flight. A spokesman for the Prison Service said Foster spent last night in a cell in the prison's main C2 wing, since there was no room in the holding cells usually used for people due to be deported. AAP and PA This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/29/1043534066422.html Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
[CTRL] Gonna Be Sing-Singing a Different Tune for Their Supper
-Caveat Lector- When last in Germany (early 1990ies), we had a little incident associated with the base in which a military member dismembered (hands, feet, and head) his girlfriend and burned the body. The investigation took the police-type peoples to the hobby shop where they had a chipper-shredder to destory oil cans and the like. So, who's to blame? Real life or art? A:E:R Print this article | Close this window Sons murdered mother Sopranos-style By Scott Martelle, Christine Hanley and Kimi Yoshino January 29 2003 Two Californian half-brothers accused of murdering their mother re- enacted a scene from The Sopranos TV show when they severed the head and hands from her strangled body before dumping it in a mountain ravine, police said on Monday. The brothers allegedly mutilated the body to keep authorities from identifying it as their mother, an idea one of them told investigators they got from the award-winning series about New Jersey mobsters, police said. Taking another page from the underworld, the brothers first tried to toss the torso into a garbage bin at a construction site but were apparently scared off by a security guard, police said. Victor Bautista, 20, and his brother, Matthew Montejo, 15, were arrested over the weekend after the older brother allegedly admitted to police they had killed their mother, Jane Marie Bautista, 41, whose dismembered body was found in a forest on January 15. Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona said the older brother told investigators their decision to cut the head and hands off the body to obscure its identity came from a Sopranos episode in which Tony Soprano kills an associate and, helped by another character, dismembers the body and dumps the parts. Based upon his viewing of that show, they decided after they killed their mother, how they would dispose of the body, which was dismemberment, Mr Carona said. Though investigators knew how the killing occurred, they didn't know why. I don't know what motive you could possibly give for killing your mother, cutting off her head and cutting off her hands, Mr Carona said. According to neighbours, the family had a fractious relationship. She was always yelling and screaming at them: 'Get in the house. Do your chores', said Dan Cormier, a former neighbour. Police said the mother was probably killed in the family's flat sometime on January 14, but they could not say where the body was dismembered. If the allegations prove true, the killing would add a gruesome twist to copycat deaths from at least eight murders reported after the 1995 release of the movie Natural Born Killers to recent deaths and injuries of people involved in stunts based on Jackass, a television show and film. The lessons kids learn is obvious, said former senator Paul Simon, an outspoken critic of violence in the media. Los Angeles Times This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/28/1043534058509.html Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A
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-Caveat Lector- This story has been forwarded to you from http://www.alternet.org by [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Shock and Awe: Guernica Revisited http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15027 If George W. Bush gets the war he wants, Baghdad could become the 21st century's Guernica. - A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Deceiving for Dollars
-Caveat Lector- w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=256722 contrassID=1subContrassID=3sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y Report: U.S. donors to Sharon allegedly violated U.S. tax law WASHINGTON - U.S. organizations that donated money to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's election campaign for leadership of the Likud in 1999 allegedly contravened American tax laws, saying they were financing academic studies and cultural exchanges, which are exempt from tax under U.S. law. According to a report Monday in The Washington Post, the American entities named by the Israeli State Comptroller in his report on illegal contributions to Sharon are registered in the United States as organizations with the goal of aiding academic and cultural projects in Israel. As charitable organizations, they are exempt from taxes. U.S. regulations, however, stipulate that contributions by tax-exempt organizations to political parties or candidates both in the United States and abroad cannot be considered tax-exempt donations and require an amendment of the organizations' status. The organizations in question are the American and Israel Research and Friendship Foundation Inc. (AIRFF) and the College for National Studies Inc. (CNS). In 1999, the AIRFF, the declared purpose of which is to afford grants to students, received donations totaling some $1.5 million, but transferred money for only one cause in Israel - $815,000 went to Annex Research Ltd., the company behind Sharon's campaign for the leadership of the Likud that year. The remainder of the money went on travel expenses and to public relations and political consultants Kalman Gayer, Jay Warsaw and Arthur Finkelstein. The CNS, the stated purpose of which is to provide aid to the Ben-Eliezer College in Israel, noted in a report submitted to the U.S. tax authorities that the money it had transferred to Israel had gone to causes related to polls and surveys for Sharon. The IRS refused to comment on The Washington Post Report, but U.S. tax experts said that the material in the hands of the authorities was a basis for reviewing the tax- exempt status of the two funds. Baruch Kra adds: The police investigations into allegations concerning serious acts of corruption in the Likud began with much fanfare on the part of Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein; till now, however, the inquiries have produced just three indictments against three small-fry. Despite the fact that both the State Prosecution and the police believe that far more serious acts of corruption were committed during all stages of the Likud primaries, they are having a hard time translating these assumptions into well- grounded suspicions. The Justice Ministry's hesitancy is hampering the police. On publication of complaints concerning attempted bribes that were lodged by several Likud primaries candidates who failed to make it onto the party's Knesset list, Rubinstein ordered an investigation into all allegations, to be completed before election day. The police efficiently played its part, but the Justice Ministry did not display the same degree of competence. While the State Prosecution has filed three indictments, it has not even come to a decision on the matter of former deputy minister Naomi Blumenthal. If there are no grounds for an indictment, they should close the file, a police officer said. And if there are grounds, they should [file an indictment] with the expedience the attorney general demanded of us. Naomi Blumenthal is indeed a politician, but that doesn't mean that her case has to be handled more delicately and slowly. After the elections, the police will continue to investigate the legitimacy of the pre-primaries activities of various Likud elements, as well as if and how organized crime figures managed to infiltrate into the party. Among other issues to be investigated is the nature of the connection between Sharon's son, Omri, and former convict Shlomi Oz. The two banded together to recruit hundreds of individuals to the Likud and managed to get a few dozen representatives onto the party's Central Committee. Police sources say the allegations are weighty ones, but are difficult to prove. The attorney general's forgiving attitude when it comes to offenses committed by politicians and their emissaries, they add, grossly undermines the motivation of the investigators. By Nathan Guttman, Ha'aretz Correspondent /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=256722 close window Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply
[CTRL] Through the Eye of Stormin' Norman
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52450-2003Jan27.html Desert Caution Once 'Stormin' Norman,' Gen. Schwarzkopf Is Skeptical About U.S. Action in Iraq By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 28, 2003; Page C01 TAMPA--Norman Schwarzkopf wants to give peace a chance. The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War says he hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to follow. He's worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war plan, and even more by the potential human and financial costs of occupying Iraq. And don't get him started on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In fact, the hero of the last Gulf War sounds surprisingly like the man on the street when he discusses his ambivalence about the Bush administration's hawkish stance on ousting Saddam Hussein. He worries about the Iraqi leader, but would like to see some persuasive evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs. The thought of Saddam Hussein with a sophisticated nuclear capability is a frightening thought, okay? he says. Now, having said that, I don't know what intelligence the U.S. government has. And before I can just stand up and say, 'Beyond a shadow of a doubt, we need to invade Iraq,' I guess I would like to have better information. He hasn't seen that yet, and so -- in sharp contrast to the Bush administration -- he supports letting the U.N. weapons inspectors drive the timetable: I think it is very important for us to wait and see what the inspectors come up with, and hopefully they come up with something conclusive. This isn't just any retired officer speaking. Schwarzkopf is one of the nation's best-known military officers, with name recognition second only to his former boss, Secretary of State Powell. What's more, he is closely allied with the Bush family. He hunts with the first President Bush. He campaigned for the second, speaking on military issues at the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia and later stumping in Florida with Cheney, who was secretary of defense during the 1991 war. But he sees the world differently from those Gulf War colleagues. It's obviously not a black- and-white situation over there in the Mideast, he says. I would just think that whatever path we take, we have to take it with a bit of prudence. So has he seen sufficient prudence in the actions of his old friends in the Bush administration? Again, he carefully withholds his endorsement. I don't think I can give you an honest answer on that. Now 68, the general seems smaller and more soft-spoken than in his Riyadh heyday 12 years ago when he was Stormin' Norman, the fatigues-clad martinet who intimidated subordinates and reporters alike. During last week's interview he sat at a small, round table in his skyscraper office, casually clad in slacks and a black polo shirt, the bland banks and hotels of Tampa's financial district spread out beyond him. His voice seems thinner than during those blustery, globally televised Gulf War briefings. He is limping from a recent knee operation. He sometimes stays home to nurse the swelling with a bag of frozen peas. He's had time to think. He likes the performance of Colin Powell -- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, now secretary of state. He's doing a wonderful job, I think, he says. But he is less impressed by Rumsfeld, whose briefings he has watched on television. Candidly, I have gotten somewhat nervous at some of the pronouncements Rumsfeld has made, says Schwarzkopf. He contrasts Cheney's low profile as defense secretary during the Gulf War with Rumsfeld's frequent television appearances since Sept. 11, 2001. He almost sometimes seems to be enjoying it. That, Schwarzkopf admonishes, is a sensation to be avoided when engaged in war. The general is a true son of the Army, where he served from 1956 to 1991, and some of his comments reflect the estrangement between that service and the current defense secretary. Some at the top of the Army see Rumsfeld and those around him as overly enamored of air power and high technology and insufficiently attentive to the brutal difficulties of ground combat. Schwarzkopf's comments reflect Pentagon scuttlebutt that Rumsfeld and his aides have brushed aside some of the Army's concerns. The Rumsfeld thing . . . that's what comes up, when he calls old Army friends in the Pentagon, he says. When he makes his comments, it appears that he disregards the Army, Schwarzkopf says. He gives the perception when he's on TV that he is the guy driving the train and everybody else better fall in line behind him -- or else. That dismissive posture bothers Schwarzkopf because he thinks Rumsfeld and the people around him lack the background to make sound military judgments by themselves. He prefers the way Cheney
Re: [CTRL] Gonna Be Sing-Singing a Different Tune for Their Supper
-Caveat Lector- I don't think the lesson is so obvious. Without the Sopranos, these kids were still going to kill their mother. They just might not have figured out to cut off their heads and hands - unless of course they read it in a book or newspaper - a fine source of information no one suggests causes violence or needs to be banned - There is violence in media because there is violence in society, not the other way around. on 01/28/03 10:16 AM, Euphorian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The lessons kids learn is obvious, said former senator Paul Simon, an outspoken critic of violence in the media. -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. Abraham Lincoln NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Congo rebels cannibalize their victims
-Caveat Lector- Congo rebels cannibalize their victims Associated Press BENI, Congo -- Hiding in bushes, Amuzati Nzoli watched as rebel soldiers turned from killers into cannibals: his 6-year-old nephew was their victim. Accounts like the one told by the middle-aged Pygmy are sweeping through northeastern Congo. Human rights activists and investigators from the United Nations say rebels cooked and ate at least a dozen Pygmies and an undetermined number of people from other tribes during recent fighting with rival insurgents. Pygmies have no calendar, so Nzoli can't say exactly when the rebels from the Congolese Liberation Movement invaded his forest camp. But he remembers what he saw. The rebels slaughtered the dozen people they found at the camp. Nzoli, who had been hunting, arrived during the attack and hid. Rebel fighters butchered the man's nephew, Kebe Musika, and roasted his body parts over an open fire, grabbing pieces from the smoldering embers. They even sprinkled salt on the flesh as they ate, as if cannibalism was all very natural to them, Nzoli said. He fled as the rebels were eating his nephew and can't say what happened to the bodies of the others. It is not the first time cannibalism has been reported in Congo; it generally occurs during great upheaval, like the Simba rebellion in 1964. The latest upheaval is the country's 4-year civil war, which has left an estimated 2.5 million people dead, the vast majority from starvation. It set the stage for this latest round of cannibalism. As in the past, the attacks are fueled by a mix of tribal animosities and a desire to spread fear in the region. There is also a belief among some that eating one's foes is a source of power. The rebels used cannibalism to provoke terrible fear in their foes and pave the way to dramatic success in the battlefield, said Apollinaire Kighoma, a Roman Catholic priest in Mangina, 19 miles northwest of Beni. The priest has heard accounts about the practice from hundreds of people displaced by fighting who have taken refuge at his church. Once you develop a reputation as a cannibal, no one wants to stay in your path, Kighoma said. Most of the reported acts of cannibalism took place between November and December when the Congolese Liberation Movement launched a successful offensive to retake Mambasa, a town about 70 miles northwest of Beni. The Congolese Liberation Movement had previously lost the town to a rival rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation Movement, which was allied with Mayi-Mayi tribal fighters. The Mayi-Mayi believe witchcraft endows them with supernatural power to transform bullets into water. Witch doctors reportedly told troops from the Congolese Liberation Movement that the Mayi-Mayi were vulnerable to bullets fired by people who had eaten the hearts of young men, said Jackson Basikania, coordinator of the Program for the Assistance to Pygmies in Congo. Tribal rivalries, fueled by the fight to control the region's mineral and timber resources, determined the victims. Aside from the Pygmies, many other victims were Nande, the tribe from which most of the leadership of the rival rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy- Liberation Movement, is drawn. Some of the Nande victims were eaten. Many in northeastern Congo -- one of the most fertile and resource-rich regions in the vast central African country -- regard Pygmies as less than human. Original inhabitants of Congo, they continue to live deep in the forests, eking out an existence by hunting and gathering food from small, nomadic base camps. Congolese Liberation Movement rebels may have eaten Pygmies as punishment for their guiding rival troops through the dense forests, said Angali Salehe, the chief of the camp were Nzoli lived. Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Congolese Liberation Movement, says he is shocked by reports that his troops ate people. I don't even know how to explain it, Bemba said by telephone from his headquarters in Gbadolite, about 630 miles northwest of Beni. Bemba is slated to become one of Congo's four vice presidents under a peace deal reached last year. But it's unclear whether that power-sharing deal will end the war, which has been marked by shifting alliances among a handful of fractured rebel groups all jockeying for Congo's natural resources. The rebels, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, control nearly half of the country, the third largest in Africa. Even if Bemba had an explanation, it would offer little comfort to Nzoli. He is struggling to overcome the trauma of seeing his nephew devoured. I don't remember any of their faces, but the one thing that I won't ever forget is the sight of their eyes as they ate, Nzoli said. They looked wild, evil and unlike any I have ever seen. http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0103/28cannibals.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list.
[CTRL] Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,881984,00.html Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution Nobel laureate under fire for new book on the role of Jews in Soviet-era repression Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Saturday January 25, 2003 The Guardian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges. In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia. But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it, accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-semitism in Russia. Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary period consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians as being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the Jewish experience. In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: If I would care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of others. Yet he added: But it is impossible to find the answer to the eternal question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain the actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that two thirds were Jews, is certainly incorrect. Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when he wrote about his experiences. He is currently in frail health, but in an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to terms with the Stalinist and revolutionary genocides - and that its Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them. My book was directed to empathise with the thoughts, feelings and the psychology of the Jews - their spiritual component, he said. I have never made general conclusions about a people. I will always differentiate between layers of Jews. One layer rushed headfirst to the revolution. Another, to the contrary, was trying to stand back. The Jewish subject for a long time was considered prohibited. Zhabotinsky [a Jewish writer] once said that the best service our Russian friends give to us is never to speak aloud about us. But Solzhenitsyn's book has caused controversy in Russia, where one Jewish leader said it was not of any merit. This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes, said Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress. Richard Wagner did not like the Jews, but was a great composer. Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer, but had a very sceptical attitude towards the Jews. This is not a book about how the Jews and Russians lived together for 200 years, but one about how they lived apart after finding themselves on the same territory. This book is a weak one professionally. Factually, it is so bad as to be beyond criticism. As literature, it is not of any merit. But DM Thomas, one of Solzhenitsyn's biographers, said that he did not think the book was fuelled by anti- semitism. I would not doubt his sincerity. He says that he firmly supports the state of Israel. In his fiction and factual writing there are Jewish characters that he writes about who are bright, decent, anti-Stalinist people. Professor Robert Service of Oxford University, an expert on 20th century Russian history, said that from what he had read about the book, Solzhenitsyn was absolutely right. Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of how Trotsky, who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919 to ensure that Jews were enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said that Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet civil bureaucracy, including the cheka. Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-semitism was [partly down to] objections about their entrance into the civil service. There is something in this; that they were not just passive spectators of the revolution. They were part- victims and part-perpetrators. It is not a question that anyone can write about without a huge amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia because the Jews are quite
[CTRL] Fwd: Bali High
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Bali High The Daily Reckoning Paris, France Monday, 27 January 2003 *** Bad day for stocks on Friday...another episode of the Wall Street Horror show *** The dollar's dolorus decline continues... *** Teetering on the edge of deflation...war in Iraq...and more! Another GUDD week. Gold Up, Dollar Down. While the rest of the world watches the stock market, here at the Daily Reckoning, we keep our eyes on the dollar. Both have been going down of late. We were out of stocks, but through no fault of our own, we were still in dollars, like it or not. Our rent here in the Paris headquarters has gone up more than 20% in the last 12 months, not to mention our liquor and foie gras. Recently, the dollar has gone down 9 days in a row. We take it personally. Why didn't we take a bigger position in euros, we ask ourselves? Why didn't we buy more gold when it was below $300? They 'had' to go up against the dollar, we kept explaining to anyone who would listen. Here it is...gold over $350 and the euro over $1.08...and, oops, looks like we forgot to listen to our own rant! Now what to do? Won't the price of gold and the euro drop...giving us one last chance to load up before they go to the moon? Or is it already too late? If you're not on the train, you have to ride a bicycle, goes the expression in Europe. The dollar/gold trend is one that is likely to last for many years...a long time to spend on pedaling. The dollar rose - unnaturally and unusually - against gold for 20 years. That is not something that is likely to be corrected in a couple of trading sessions. Maybe we shouldn't worry about the price...maybe we should just make our move now...and not look at it again for the next 10 years? There are so many things we don't know. As we get older, we learn more and more...but know less and less. For the more we look into things we thought we knew, the more we realize we knew nothing at all. We bring this up only to prepare you, dear reader, for out latest confession: we don't what to make of the war against Iraq (though we can't help talking about it...more below) ...nor do we know how the inflation/deflation match will turn out...nor can we tell you whether U.S. stocks will end the year up or down. But the closer we look into it, the more we've come to believe that gold is going up, if not in the short run, certainly in the long one. The government can produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes as essentially no cost, said Ben Bernanke. What Bernanke meant to say was that the he and other Fed governors could control the supply of dollars. He failed to mention what they could not control - the demand for them. Was it not obvious that demand would go down - eventually - since supplies have gone up for so long? And then, we curse ourselves because we forgot to get out of the dollar when the getting was good. Now, it's not quite as good - because demand for dollars has already dropped sharply since Bernanke let the cat out of the bag. But at least we, as Americans, still keep score in dollars...we pay our taxes, tuition and medical insurance in dollars. Think of the poor foreigners who hold somewhere between $3.7 trillion and $9 trillion (we know the gap is cosmic...we have seen both numbers reported and have not yet been able to reconcile them) in U.S. dollar assets. While we fret and regret...these poor saps must sweat and lose sleep. Imagine the hedge fund manager with a billion in U.S. dollars. He's lost $100 million or so - on the exchange rate alone - in the last year. Every day, another few million evaporate. How long will he stand for it? The real collapse of the dollar is coming soon, Dr. Kurt
[CTRL] Logic of Iraqi intent to use biochems apply equally to Allies also
-Caveat Lector- I am in no way a supporter of any group wishing to fight a war, but I see little evidence here for any one faction 'preparing to use chemical weapons' morethan any other. For example: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-553590,00.html Documents 'show Saddam's chemical plans' by pa news The hand-written Arabic-language notes state that elite units of the Iraqi military have been issued with new chemical warfare suits and supplies of the drug atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve gas. This sounds like troop protection from hazmats, OK... but use of such ? Bill Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector, told Today: The key point is that the Republican Guard have been issued this new equipment. I don't see the logic. I wear a seat belt in the car, does that mean that I'm intending to cause a car crash ? My reasoning (besides satisfying a legal requirement) is that it might help protect me should someone/something else, hit me. If both these units have new equipment, then it would indicate that they are prepared to use chemical weapons. The Iraqis' standard chemical weapon is mustard gas, but they were keen on developing VX. Given that the deplyed British and American forces are issued with such, should we conclude that they are also 'prepared to use them' ? The fact that they have imported atropine is an indicator that they are willing to use VX. Likewise the British and American forces ? The logic is very poor here, and I remain unconvinced of these particular arguments. I still await clear evidence, and am sure it is available. T. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: The coming end of an era
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- South African War (Boer War) v. Iraq War Queen Victoria of England went home happy on her Diamond Jubilee day, June 22, 1897. History had humoured her, as she deserved... It was more than a personal happiness, more even than a national rejoicing, for the British had chosen to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee as a festival... It would mark this moment of British history as an Imperial moment, a Roman moment. It would proclaim to the world, flamboyantly, that England was far more than England: that beneath the Queens dominion lay a quarter of the earths land surface, and nearly a quarter of its people... (Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, (London: Faber and Faber, 1998, p.21). Being islanders, they knew more about the world than most of their neighbours: they possessed more ships than all other nations put together... They were an immensely experienced people. Compact, patriotic... and this gave them punch and phalanx... (Morris, p.27). ... the Transvaal had been discovered to contain, in the highlands around Johannesburg, the worlds largest deposits of gold. In those days gold played more than a practical, almost a mystic part in the affairs of the nations: that this vast new supply should fall within a British sphere of authority seemed to the imperialists, not to speak of the City of Speculators, almost a divine dispensation. So by the last years of the century strategy, morality, economics, instinct and plain greed made it inevitable that the Boer Republics must be tidied up beneath the Crown - sooner of later, as Winston Churchill wrote, in a righteous cause or a picked quarrel ... for the sake of out Empire, for the sake of honour, for sake of the race, we must fight the Boers. (Morris, p.66). In such a spirit did the soldiers of the Empire go to war against the Boers in the autumn of 1899 - cocky after a century of easy victories, secure in their tribal jokes and customs, confident in their leaders... but though the Empire had a population of 370 million, and there were not much more than 100,000 Boers - though General Buller had 85,000 men [in his expeditionary force] at his disposal, and the Boers only 35,000 - though the Army believed it could end the war by Christmas, and it was the ambition of every British officer to get to the front before then - still the campaign to which they were so boisterously sailing marketed the beginning of the end of their Empire, and the first faltering of their pride... nothing would be quite the same after the Boer War (Morris, pp.64-65). The Boer Army ... was hardly an army at all... it was simply the Boer manhood in toto, mustered in local mounted units called commandos, owning its own horses, elected its own officers... Its discipline, like its morale, was variable... The Boers had armed themselves, though, with the most modern equipment from European arsenals... and above all they were born to the terrain... all in all they were born irregulars, perhaps the best guerilla soldiers in the world... (Morris, p.69). It was the first of the propaganda wars. Every incident in the field, flashed across the world by the electric telegraph, was magnified or distorted to prove a point or support an ideology. The whole world joined in this new excitement: the Boer War was the Algeria or Vietnam of its time. When, in Black Week, the British armies were so disastrously defeated three battles in a row, half the world laughed or cheered at their discomfiture... (Morris, p.86). The British public, which for twenty years had been accustomed to see its army perform with remarkable efficiency and success in campaigns on a limited scale against coloured forces, was amazed by the break-down (R.C.K Ensor, England 1870-1914, (London: OUP,
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-Caveat Lector- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=256746 contrassID=2subContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Shvat 25, 5763 Israel Time: 22:41 (GMT+2) Back Home Cartoon in UK paper draws Israeli protest By Sharon Sadeh LONDON - The Israeli Embassy in London has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to The Independent, following an editorial cartoon yesterday by Dave Brown, depicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon biting the flesh of a Palestinian baby. In the cartoon, Sharon says: What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby? The background shows Apache attack helicopters sending missiles from the cockpit with the message Vote Likud. In her letter, Shuli Davidovich, the embassy's press secretary, writes: As Britain commemorates National Holocaust Day, I am shocked that The Independent has chosen to evoke an ancient Jewish stereotype which would not have looked out of place in `Der Sturmer', and which can unfortunately still be found in many Arabic newspapers. The blood-thirsty imagery not only misrepresents the real reason for the IDF's operations in Gaza, but also feeds the hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people which lies at the very core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. She adds: One must be extremely careful to draw the line between legitimate criticism, and the anti-Semitism that often parades as such. A year ago, a furor broke out over a New Statesman cover picture showing a Magen David sticking into the Union Jack, portraying the effect of the Jewish lobby in Britain. At the time, the magazine apologized. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/10437 49912106821.xml Woman is made to walk naked before co-workers 01/28/03 Karen Farkas Plain Dealer Reporter Akron- A U.S. Postal Service manager was forced to disrobe and walk naked in front of about a dozen employees yesterday morning by a colleague who threatened to kill her unless she complied. Lonnie Wilson, 60, who planned to retire on Friday, is in Summit County Jail, charged with kidnapping, aggravated menacing and gross sexual imposition. We have no idea what led to this, Terrence Sullivan, a postal inspector from Cleveland, said. They didn't work together, and we can't understand why this occurred. Wilson, of Canton, was a revenue assurance specialist. He worked in a section of offices adjoining a Postal Service encoding facility, where workers type in codes for the destination of handwritten letters that cannot be read by automated machines, Sullivan said. Wilson had worked for the Postal Service for 24 years and had no prior problems. The 43-year-old Akron woman worked in the same office area, in marketing, but normally did not interact with him. Sullivan did not know how long she had worked there. At 8:30 a.m. yesterday, Wilson approached the woman, became angry and said he was going to kill her if she didn't do what he said, according to police reports. He ordered her to disrobe and forced her to walk in front of employees. He also hugged her and told her to kiss him, the report said. Sullivan said Wilson, at 6 feet 5 and 235 pounds, can be physically intimidating. He did not have a weapon, but employees were scared. As Wilson left the building, police were arriving. He drove away slowly, followed by police, and was stopped a short distance from the Exeter Avenue building. He is scheduled to be arraigned today in Akron Municipal Court. Sullivan said Wilson will be placed on administrative leave. The locks to the building have been changed, and he has no access to computers. Counselors will be available to talk to the woman and the employees. We are very concerned about the victim, Sullivan said. She was not physically harmed, but emotionally she had a very rough day, the first of some rough days. To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1-800-628-6689 © 2003 The Plain Dealer. Used with permission. Copyright 2003 cleveland.com. All Rights Reserved. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- ''Who leaked Iraq's arms declaration?'' Printed on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 @ 00:01:13 EST ( ) http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1027mode=threadorder=0 By Firas Al-Atraqchi YellowTimes.org Guest Columnist (Canada) (YellowTimes.org) In recent weeks, much has been made of the Iraqi weapons declaration, which Iraqi officials have claimed is final and comprehensive. The world will never really know because the report was seized en route to the United Nations Security Council from Cyprus by U.S. officials who claimed that the declaration contained vital information and military technology secrets that could not be distributed to the rest of the non- permanent members of the Security Council. And definitely not to the rest of the world, who would love to see how Iraq's weapons procurement program had gotten so advanced, so discreetly. During the weekend preceding the handing over of the declaration, the U.N. Security Council had decided that the report would be distributed simultaneously to the permanent members, followed by the non-permanent members. (France, China, Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. are the permanent members.) However, in an about face, the Security Council later decided (was it a decision or a unilateral decree?) that the U.S. would effectively receive the report first and foremost. This was an extremely suspicious affair since it is the U.S. that is leading the call to wage war against Iraq, much to the disillusionment and chagrin of the rest of the Security Council. Since December 11, when the declaration was handed over to UNMOVIC, little has been made of the declaration except to be lambasted by U.S. officials as incomplete and in clear material breach. UNMOVIC head Hans Blix has said that some issues remained unresolved and that he would press the Iraqis to answer some questions. This has since happened as of January 19, 2003, when Blix and IAEA head Mohammad Al-Baradei visited Iraq and obtained some answers (and documents) to their queries. Prior to December 12, the deadline for the Iraqi declaration, mainstream media, at the behest of the Bush administration, taunted the date as a fulcrum for going to war. That date has since passed. Why then has there been no war? Mainstream media quickly jumped in and reported that White House officials, although dismayed by the lack of information and citing it as a material breach, would give Iraq another final chance. Some media analysts dared to challenge this change in the U.S. position, but, within a few days, the focus shifted to such entertaining stories as how the White House was preparing for Christmas and the Trent Lott alleged racism fiasco. In Europe, however, where media is a lot more risqué and intrusive, another theory surfaced. Die Tageszeitung, one of Germany's leading alternative newspapers, claimed it had secretly obtained vital information contained within the Iraqi declaration. The information consisted of a list of nations who had discreetly equipped, supported, and engaged in aiding Iraq's weapons procurement program. The list included 24 leading and highly successful American companies which were directly involved in arming Iraq during the 1970s leading up to the eve of the 1991 Gulf War. The list also includes some 80 German companies as well as others from the U.K., Russia, China, France, Sweden, and Belgium. Ironically, the list highlights the level of cooperation between the U.N.'s permanent members of the Security Council, most notably the U.S., with Iraq. It would be naïve to believe that many of these countries acted without explicit U.S. support. The Iraqi declaration was eventually edited and abridged to 3,000 pages, much to the shock and abjection of the non-permanent members of the Security Council. The reasons are clear: Should the American public demand to know why such companies as IBM, DuPont, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard and Eastman Kodak armed and supplied Iraq with vital chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons related information, the entire state of the U.S. economy would undergo massive upheaval. The U.S. economy is already reeling from widespread layoffs, the Enron and WorldCom scandals, and the weakening of the NASDAQ. A quick look at the contributors list reveals that many of the aforementioned companies are prominent, and indeed, sustaining the vitality of the NASDAQ. The U.S. economy could not handle such a blow. Neither could the White House, which has tried to stave off numerous rumors of duplicity in the Enron (and Halliburton, among others) scandals. Furthermore, an increasing number of U.S. Gulf War veterans are demanding an investigation into mysterious illnesses they have contracted since their return from Iraq. Stories of exploding chemical munitions storage facilities in Khamisiyah (southern Iraq), in the sight of unprotected U.S. army divisions, have surfaced in mainstream media in recent months. A 1997 CIA White Paper, titled Khamisiyah: A
[CTRL] Chickenhawk Bush on dodgy ground
-Caveat Lector- "Bush himself managed to stay home during Vietnam by getting a coveted slot with the Texas National Guard, only to go awol after completing his training as a fighter pilot, effectively making him a deserter." http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/27-1-19103-0-20-52.html Chickenhawk Bush on dodgy ground Those who served and suffered find strange bedfellows in Iraq protest, writes AARON HICKLIN AMERICANS have a word for men like George W Bush and Dick Cheney.In the parlance of Vietnam veterans Mr Bush and his vice-president are "chickenhawks", men who dodged the draft and now cheerfully dispatch young Americans to war. Not without irony they note that the most hawkish and bellicose government in living memory is filled with men who never saw battle themselves. Of the senior members of the US administration, Colin Powell, the secretary of state, is the single exception. For many military men and women in America, the discrepancy has become a rallying call all the more potent because those who avoided the draft were invariably the sons of the wealthy and well-connected. Bush himself managed to stay home during Vietnam by getting a coveted slot with the Texas National Guard, only to go awol after completing his training as a fighter pilot, effectively making him a deserter.This is just one of the reasons why an impending war on Iraq is creating strange bedfellows, and why staunch anti-war activists, such as Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology, find themselves in the same camp as a Gulf war hero like "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf. Across the country, a belated anti-war movement is finally finding its voice and feet. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=373371 Embattled Bush now faces trouble on many fronts By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 28 January 2003 George W Bush is in trouble. This is not wishful thinking by Europeans who cannot abide a man they see as a trigger-happy, unilateralist half-wit. It is an assessment of the 43rd President's standing at home, on the day he delivers what is surely one of the most important State of the Union messages in modern times. Ten weeks ago, Mr Bush's prestige was at its height higher in many respects even than in the aftermath of 11 September. His personal campaigning had made the difference in securing Republican control of Congress at November's mid-term elections. Cowed by fear of his popularity, Democrats in the Senate and the House helped grant him a virtual carte blanche in dealing with Iraq. Today cracks have appeared in the façade. Not gaping cracks to be sure, but ones that if not swiftly repaired could yet bring down the Bush edifice. They are visible in tumbling consumer confidence, the Trent Lott affair which tarred the Republicans' image on race, the growing unease at the prospect of war in the Gulf and in the polls. Few ruling politicians would admit to allowing polls to influence their pursuit of the national good. But this White House the most efficient and secretive in recent memory pays as much attention to them as its predecessors. The indications are not good. Mr Bush's approval ratings have slipped to the mid-50s respectable enough for a President in normal times halfway through his term. But they have dipped 10 per cent since the mid-terms, bringing his popularity back to levels before the 2001 terrorist attacks. A majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of the US economy, the bread and butter issue that over the longer term will eclipse even Iraq as a priority for voters. More than 1.5 million jobs have been lost on this Bush's watch. On Iraq, American public opinion is increasingly resembling that of the despised wimps in old Europe. Seven out of 10 believe that United Nations inspectors should be given months or more to complete their work. The country, according to one finding yesterday, is split down the middle when asked whether it trusts the President or the UN to make the right decisions on Iraq. Though 60 per cent broadly support military action against Iraq, Newsweek found, that backing plummets if the US were to act alone, or with the backing of just one or two allies, for example Britain. This is the mood Mr Bush must turn around in his address to the Senate, House and other dignitaries. Hans Blix's report to the Council yesterday that Baghdad was not co-operating on the substance of the demands of resolution 1441 may help him. But he has to make the case that Saddam Hussein poses a real and immediate threat, and spell out America's responsibilities post-Saddam: not least the cost of reconstruction, much of which will be borne by Washington, probably for years. There will be no declaration of war tonight, the White House assures, nor a specific date for Iraqi compliance. But nor is there likely to be the detailed proof of banned Iraqi weapons programmes that opinion, at home as well as abroad, demand. Iraq is not the only battleground. Mr Bush must defend his $670bn (£410bn) economic stimulus package, centred on the abolition of taxes on dividends. No amount of White House spin can hide the fact the package is heavily tilted towards the rich. If small-government, tax-hating Conservatives love the proposals, the country is unconvinced. Sensing Mr Bush's vulnerability, Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leaders in Senate and House respectively, yesterday made a new pitch for their party's quick-acting $130bn package, explicitly targeted at the less well off. Mr Bush's problem is that he is trying to achieve two goals which are irreconcilable: to unite a sceptical country behind him in launching an unprovoked war, and pursue nakedly partisan domestic policies not just over the economy. Mr Bush wants to further privatise health care, one day even social security. He seems oblivious to the collapse of US public finances from a federal surplus of $250bn two years ago to a similar deficit this year. You've got to tend the garden, Colin Powell said recently, referring to America's dealings with its allies. He was quoting a dictum of George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state. Mr Bush has not done that. He is paying the price in the charges of arrogance and the personal dislike he inspires abroad. But he has also failed to tend the garden at home. The Democrats feel they've been taken for a ride. Having given the President their backing over Iraq, runs their version, they saw Mr Bush throw it back in their faces using the national security issue to beat his opponents, implying that any Democrat who questioned his policy was unpatriotic. Of
[CTRL] The Under-reported Ethnic Cleansing Goes On ... and On ... and ...
-Caveat Lector- News | Sport | Argument | Education | Money | Travel | Enjoyment Home News Europe http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=372790 Gypsy women 'forced into sterilisation' Slovakian women say they are being operated on against their will. By Julian O'Halloran 26 January 2003 Roma, or Gypsy, women in Slovakia claim they are being subjected to forced sterilisation, according to a new report to be launched in Brussels this week. Research by human rights organisations has found evidence strongly suggesting that many hundreds of Roma women could have been sterilised against their will. While sterilisation was used in both the Nazi and Communist eras to curb the Roma population in Europe, there will be deep concern among MPs and MEPs that such practices are continuing in the 21st century, especially in a country that is one of Britain's putative European partners. EU officials have for some time been reporting that Slovakia respects human rights. But, while expressing concerns about the treatment of up to half a million Roma, monitors seem to have been unaware of the scale of the alleged medical crimes against Roma women. Slovak, Czech and US researchers behind the report believe that some medical staff have taken their own measures to limit Roma population growth, while the authorities turn a blind eye. In a freezing one-room wooden shack in the Roma settlement of Richnova in eastern Slovakia, I met Renata Horthovathova, a 32- year-old mother who went into her local hospital in April last year to have twins by Caesarean section. After the successful operation, Renata and her husband Josef were ecstatic about their new babies. They already had one child and had always wanted more. But five days after the operation, as she packed to go home, she was told by a doctor she must sign a form before leaving. I told him that a woman leaving hospital doesn't need to sign a form, Renata recalls. But he told me that I must sign because I had been sterilised, and I would not be having any more children. I was shocked. Then I got angry. I asked him how he dare do something like that when I hadn't even asked for it. She showed me her hospital discharge form, which my translator confirmed contained the medical phrase for sterilisation. In the same settlement, a 19-year-old mother alleged she too had been sterilised without her consent during a Caesarean operation two years ago. Ingrid Ginova looks little more than a child herself, but her child- bearing life is already over. She says she only learned of the sterilisation five days after it had happened, when complications set in and she was transferred to hospital in Kosice. A doctor checked me. He told me that my tubes were tied, that I was sterilised and I would have no more children. Ingrid and Renata were among 230 women who gave testimony to a team of eight lawyers and researchers visiting 40 Roma settlements in Slovakia last summer. The team's co-ordinator, Christina Zampas, of the Centre for Reproductive Rights based in New York, says that 110 of the mothers interviewed said they had been sterilised without consent, or without full consent. We met women who, while they were on the operating table, were told to sign a consent form, said Ms Zampas. The testimony we found was disturbingly consistent. It's appalling that this is happening in Europe in 2003. At Krompachy hospital, where Ingrid and Renata had their Caesareans, the head of the baby unit denied the allegations. Dr Jan Kralik insisted that no women had had their tubes tied against their will since he had become head of obstetrics in 1996. But he said he feared a Roma population explosion. When I raised the cases of the two women, he said: It probably happened at another place. The human rights team obtained power of attorney from some of the women to view their medical records. But most hospitals refused access. Ms Zampas said: The authorities must hand over these records. If they do not ... it's a clear indication they have something to hide. Because of the severity of these human rights violations Slovakia needs to address these issues. If it decides not to, international bodies will. Human rights groups are now preparing a number of court cases, and warn that if they fail in Slovakia's courts they will take them to the European Court of Human Rights. When suspicions of forced sterilisation were aireda year ago, the government in Bratislava shrugged them off and demanded firm evidence. Now, with the evidence and with all eyes on entry to the EU, they may have a much bigger problem on their hands. Julian O'Halloran's report will be on 'The World Tonight', Radio 4, at 10pm on Tuesday Also in Europe Zimbabwe sanctions face collapse after EU rift UN seeks flag and anthem for Cyprus UK in sanctions deal over Mugabe visit Belgian coast faces oil disaster from sunken cargo ship Gypsy women 'forced into sterilisation' Legal | Contact us | Using our Content | ©
[CTRL] Fw: SB165:Saddam should be on trial in The Hague next to Slobodan Milosevic (says a US spy Richard Butler) (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:22:16 +1300 From: nebojsa Subject: Saddam should be on trial in The Hague next to Slobodan Milosevic (says a US spy Richard Butler) Saddam should be on trial: Butler 28jan03 FORMER UN weapons inspector Richard Butler has called on the international community to strive for an alternative method to war in deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Mr Butler today suggested similar action to that under way against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who is on trial for crimes against humanity before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. In a more ideal world Saddam should be on trial in The Hague next to Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, Mr Butler told the ABC. It's an established fact that his actions have led to the death of a million people. Why isn't the world community saying you have to yield this man for trial? Mr Butler praised the efforts of UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who today told the UN Security Council Iraq had not accepted international demands to disarm. Dr Blix, the head of the UN disarmament agency, said there were signs Iraq still had anthrax stocks, and dismissed a 12,000-page declaration made by Baghdad to the United Nations on its weapons programs. Mr Butler said the Iraqi leadership had persisted with denial in principle and then deception in practice when it came to UN inspection and verification. What Hans Blix has said is that Iraq has been reasonably cooperative on the surface but he complained sharply about their failure to come forward with the material that will fill the gap in their declaration, he said. And I agree with him, I think that's a matter of deep concern. I think it just leaps off the page that Iraq has still not yet taken that central government decision that they need to take which says `yes, we'll give over those weapons, we'll give them across'. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5902163%255E401,00 .html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush ratings on AOL - Rate President Bush on Iraq: 47% · Poor
-Caveat Lector- AOL poll 1/28/03 Rate President Bush on Iraq: 47% · Poor 253,503 39% · Good 207,170 14% · Fair 75,216 Total votes: 535,889 Rate Bush on the war on terror: 44% · Good 235,004 31% · Poor 164,764 25% · Fair 135,907 Total votes: 535,675 Rate Bush on the economy: 52% · Poor 279,713 27% · Good 141,997 21% · Fair 111,417 Total votes: 533,127 Rate Bush overall: 44% · Poor 237,322 38% · Good 203,644 18% · Fair 93,699 Total votes: 534,665 NOTE: Poll results are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those users who chose to participate. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- I am looking for any information not easily found on the web about the Order of St. John. Please send any info. offlist to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Pandora's Box
-Caveat Lector- http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/pandora.htm Pandora's Box by Alex Christopher Little has been published about the early life of Abraham Lincoln. However, during a search of some old property records and will in a small courthouse in central North Carolina, Alex Christopher the author of "Pandora's Box", found the will of one A.A. Springsin an old will book dated around 1840. Upon reading the will he was shocked and amazed at the secret it disclosed. But the fact is that wills, even though classified as public records the same as property and corporation records, are rarely combed through as he was doing. These documents can hold dark secrets hidden from public view and never uncovered because few research these old records. Thus secrets are hidden in public view so that when accused of concealing the records, bureaucracy can reply "It was on public record in plan view for any and all to find." The will of the late A.A. Springs lists his property and to whom the beneficiaries who included his children. Mr. Christopher and others were looking to find what railroads and banks this man might have owned and left to his son Leroy Springs. He didn't find anything like that, but he did find the prize of the century. On the bottom of page three of four pages was a paragraph where the father, A.A. Springs, left to his son an enormous amount of land in the state of Alabama which is now known as Huntsville, Alabama. At first Mr. Christopher and his colleagues could not believe what their eyes, because the name of his son was "ABRAHAM LINCOLN"! This new information added to what they had already learned about the Springs, whose real name was Springstein, was one more twist to this already enigmatic family. This unexpected knowledge about Lincoln set their hearts on fire to see what further secrets this new lead might disclose. Because everything they had so far found in the railroad and banking saga had been really mind-opening, they figured this one would be the same. So they investigated the local archives and historical records on families and found a reference to one Abraham Lincoln in a published genealogy of a Carolina family by the name of McAdden. This genealogy was a limited edition of the type once found in the public libraries. The section on Lincoln resembled the following form of words: "In the late spring of the year of 1808 Nancy Hanks, who was of the family lineage of McAdden was visiting some of her family in the community of Lincolnton, North Carolina. During her stay in the Carolina's, she visited many neighboring families she had known for many years; one such was the Springs family. The sordid details had been omitted but obviously the young Nancy Hanks had found herself in a compromised position and was forced to succumb to the lust of A.A. Springs. She became pregnant as a result. There were no details of a love affair or an act of violence on a helpless female. Abraham Lincoln was the result of that act, which leads one to wonder if the name Lincoln was real or fabricated from the area of conception which was Lincolnton. Was there really a Thomas Lincoln? Since the Springs were of the race that called themselves "Jewish", Lincoln was part Jewish and as part of the Springs family, he also became a relative of the Rothschild family by blood." The following data was derived from information that exists in the Smithsonian Institute, National Archives, the Congressional Library, Courtroom Police files, public and private libraries and storage vaults across the United States and Europe: "Abraham Lincoln was slapped three times with a white glove by a member of the Hapsburg royal family of Germany (Payseur family relatives) during a White House reception in 1862. The German royal family member demanded a pistol duel with the then President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The blows to the face stunned Lincoln but he non-verbally refused to participate in the duel by bowing his head before walking out of the reception room. What had ol' honest Abe done to so enrage and upset the royal European personage? It seems that promiscuity was running rampant in many families in those days and the German King Leopold had an illegitimate daughter named Elizabeth who was sent to America, where she lived in a very comfortable manner. Although Leopold could not recognize her position, he was very interested in her life. In the early or mid 1850s, Abraham Lincoln and Elizabeth began having sexual liaisons that produced twin daughters named Ella and Emily in 1856. The regal German father who was so royally upset with ol' honest Abe probably had full knowledge of the true blood line of Lincoln. Abraham's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, did not find out about Elizabeth, Ella and Emily until 1865. Lincoln's wife Mary Todd was into the occult. Abraham Lincoln was a Rosicrucian and a member of the Order of the Lily's Council of Three along with Paschal Beverly Randolph and General Ethan
[CTRL] Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine, Massive Cover-Up
-Caveat Lector- http://www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine, Massive Cover-Up By Mike James: January 28 2003 A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography: "The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person. There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur." The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister (known to Propaganda Matrix.com). The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter. Speaking from London, freelance journalist Bob Kearley told me: "Whether or not a D-Notice has been issued is not clear. But based on some of the feedback I've been getting it's apparent that editors and media owners have voluntarily agreed not to cover the story at this time. Operation Ore is still being reported, but not in regard to government ministers, and it's taking up very few column inches on the third or fourth page. Don't forget that the intelligence services are involved here, and Blair is anxious to ensure that the scandal does not rock the boat at a time when the country is about to go to war." "You can imagine the effect this would have on the morale of troops who are about to commit in Iraq. In fact morale is reportedly quite low anyway, with service personnel throwing their vaccines into the sea en route to the battlefront and knowing how unpopular the war is with the British people. And a lot of squaddies I've met think there's something weird going on between Bush and Blair. If you're then told that the executive responsible for the conduct of the war is staffed by child-molesters ... well, then Saddam suddenly looks like the sort of bloke with whom you can share a few tins [beer]." [In an E mail to Paul Joseph Watson, Mike James identified his sources as "people I knew in London who used to work for the Treasury department throughout the 1980s, one being a private secretary at a senior levelmy sources will definitely refuse to support my claims - both are doing extremely well financially and career-wise."] A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
[CTRL] THE CFR AND THEIR GOALS
-Caveat Lector- http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=602 THE CFR AND THEIR GOALS by David Allen Rivera The CFR's "1980's Project," evolved from a Council Study Group on International Order, which had met from 1971-73. They sought to duplicate the success they had achieved with the War Peace Studies, and their concentration was to be on creating a new political and economic system that would have global emphasis. Miriam Camps, former Vice-Chairperson of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, recorded the group's discussion in a report called "The Management of Independence," which called for "the kind of international system which we should be seeking to nudge things."... In the fall of 1973, the 1980's Project was initiated, and to accommodate it, the CFR staff was expanded, and additional funds raised, including $1.3 million in grants from the Ford, Lilly, Mellon and Rockefeller Foundations. The Coordinating Committee had 14 men, with a full-time staff; plus 12 groups, each with 20 members; in addition to other experts and advisors who acted as consultants to the project. Some of the reports produced: "Reducing Global Inequities," "Sharing Global Resources," and "Enhancing Global Human Rights." Stanley Hoffman, a chief participant of the Project, wrote a book in 1978, called Primacy or World Order, which he said was an "illegitimate offspring" of the Project. Basically, it was a summary of the Project's work, and concluded that the best chance for foreign policy success, was to adopt a "world order policy." When Jimmy Carter was elected to the Presidency in 1976, some of the Project's strongest supporters, such as Cyrus Vance, Michael Blumenthal, Marshall Shulman, and Paul Warnke, went to the White House to serve in the new Administration. In 1979, the Project was discontinued for being too unrealistic, which meant it was too soon for that kind of talk. The CFR headquarters and library is located in the five-story Howard Pratt mansion (a gift from Pratt's widow, who was an heir to the Standard Oil fortune), 58 E. 68th Street, in New York City (on the corner of Park Ave. and 68th Street, 212-734-0400 212-861-1789 FX), on the opposite corner of the Soviet Embassy to the United Nations. They are a semi-secret organization whose 1966 Annual Report stated that members who do not adhere to its strict secrecy, can be dropped from their membership. On the national level, the Business Advisory Council and the Pilgrim Society are groups which form the inner circle of the CFR, while on the international level, it's the Bilderbergers. James P. Warburg (banker, economist, a member of FDR's braintrust, and son of Paul M. Warburg) of the CFR, told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950: "We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent." The Chicago Tribune printed an editorial on December 9, 1950: "The members of the Council are persons of much more than average influence in the community. They have used the prestige that their wealth, their social position, and their education have given them to lead their country towards bankruptcy and military debacle. They should look at their hands. There is blood on them - the dried blood of the last war and the fresh blood of the present one." They have only been investigated once, and that was in 1954, by the Special House Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations (the Reece Committee), who said that the CFR was "in essence an agency of the United States Government." The Committee discovered that their directives were aimed "overwhelmingly at promoting the globalistic concept." On December 23, 1961, columnist Edith Kermit Roosevelt (granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt) wrote in the Indianapolis News that CFR policies "favor...gradual surrender of United States sovereignty to the United Nations." Researcher Dan Smoot, a former FBI employee, said their goal was "to create a one- world socialist system and make the United States an official part of it." Rep. John R. Rarick of Louisiana said: "The CFR, dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education and mass communication-media, should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the U.S. Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation's right-to-know machinery, the news media, usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses
[CTRL] The Holocaust as Mental Paradigm
-Caveat Lector- http://www.bankindex.com/read.asp?ID=1628 The Holocaust as Mental Paradigm Why the Jews Didn't Resist By Henry Makow, Ph.D. "My flock has become a prey...because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves..." Ezekiel 34:8 Israel's most potent psychological weapon is the holocaust. The Zionist battle cry is "Never again!" In a previous article, I suggested that the real motivation behind traumatic events like Hiroshima and Sept. 11 might be to impose a new mental paradigm upon humanity. Zionists and their globalist sponsors may have contributed to the severity of the holocaust for the same reason. http://www.savethemales.ca/060103.html Because of the holocaust, the world became convinced that Jews needed their own country. The Palestinians were identified (in many minds) with the Nazis, and the Israelis were given moral sanction to drive them from their homes and subjugate them. Criticism of Israel is often equated with Nazi anti Semitism. As a psychological weapon, the holocaust also serves an array of new world order causes. The world is divided into heroic victims (Jews) and haters (Nazis). The "victims", who are championed by Rockefeller liberals, include oppressed women, homosexuals, and the minority flavor-of-the-day. The "haters" are the intolerant people who defend the things the globalists want to destroy: nuclear family, religion, democracy, individualism and nationhood. The haters are "right-wingers" for whom the tolerant liberals have "zero tolerance." It is not my intention to mitigate Nazi responsibility for the Jewish holocaust but to scrutinize its use by Zionists and globalists as a psychological weapon. Before I continue, I had better declare myself. I am a non-observant, non-self-hating Canadian Jew who believes in God and Christ's gospel of love. My grandparents all died in the holocaust; my parents narrowly survived by passing as non-Jews. I lived in Israel in 1972-3 but left because Israelis seemed as materialistic as Canadians. Israel also struck me as a country that devoured its own people. Nevertheless I remained a Zionist until recently when I discovered its hidden imperialist character. Still, I support Israel's existence within the 1967 boundaries, with restitution to the Palestinians. I believe most Israelis and Jews have been hoodwinked as I was. DEFENDING A PSYCHIC MONOPOLY The definitive history of the Holocaust is "The Destruction of the European Jews" by Rolf Hilberg, a Jewish professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. Hilberg's three-volume work is largely based on meticulous Nazis documentation. Hilberg could barely get his book published because he documented the extent to which the Nazis depended on the Jewish Councils ("Judenrat") to administer the final solution, and the lack of any real Jewish resistance. He estimated that fewer than 200 Nazis died due to Jewish resistance. Why the negative reaction? Hilberg concluded that the mythology of the holocaust requires that the victims appear to be heroic, and to be engaged in a struggle, however unequal. In fact, the Jews went to their death like lambs to the slaughter. (Hilberg, The Politics of Memory p.135) In the 1960's the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt was slandered and ostracized when she concluded from Hilberg that "almost without exception" the Jewish leadership cooperated with the Nazis. In her book, "Eichmann in Jerusalem" she wrote, "In Amsterdam as in Warsaw, in Berlin as in Budapest, Jewish officials could be trusted to compile the list of persons, and of their property, to secure money from the deportees to defray the expenses of their deportation and extermination, to keep track of vacated apartments, to supply police forces to help seize Jews and get them on trains, until, as a last gesture, they handed over the assets of the Jewish community in good order for final confiscation. They distributed the Yellow Star badges [and sometimes sold] cloth and fancy plastic armbands which were washable." (p.117) http://www.aldeilis.net/zion/zionhol02.html Had the Jews been totally unorganized and leaderless, Arendt writes, there would have been chaos and misery aplenty but the total number of deaths would have been far less. (p.125) The reason Jews went quietly is not a mystery. Jewish leadership betrayed them. Hilberg attributes it partly to an age-old Jewish habit of persevering in the face of overwhelming odds. But a more important factor is that both Jewish world leadership and the Judenrats were dominated by Zionists. http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/ch21.htm Zionists had a record of cooperation with the Nazis in the 1930's. They had a trade plan by which German Jews could redeem their property in Nazi goods exported to Palestine. Adoph Eichmann helped them set up training camps in Europe and even visited Palestine as their guest. Zionists did not believe in the Jewish diaspora and
[CTRL] Quiz: Answers to the Hawk/Dove Quiz
-Caveat Lector- http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?heading=Memo+on+the+Margin Quiz: Answers to the Hawk/Dove Quiz. To Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: Answers to Yesterdayâs Quiz We posted the quiz yesterday, the day the United Nations weapons inspectors made their first report to the United Nations Security Council on their progress to date. Today we post the correct answers, correct at least according to our best sources and analysis. If you got all the answers correct, you are a certified dove. And vice versa. There is, though, some room for quibbling. 1. Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. True or False. False. The U.S. Armed Forces only consider a nuclear weapon a weapon of mass destruction. Iraq has neither nuclear weapons nor chemical or biological weapons, although it may possess some of the ingredients that would enable it to develop a chemical or biological weapon. 2. Saddam Hussein has had weapons of mass destruction in the past. True or False. False. Iraq had a program to develop a nuclear weapon and acquired a design for one that would use highly-enriched uranium (HEU), but was unable to produce more than a few grams of HEU when it would take several hundred pounds to make one nuke. 3. White House officials assert that Iraq has been training terrorists. True or False. False. Iraq did support a terrorist network prior to 1983, but in that year the U.S. offered to provide support for Baghdad in its war against Iran on condition that it withdraw support from the network. There is no evidence it has resumed. 4. Osama bin Ladenâs al-Qaedaâs terrorist forces have been operating inside Iraq. True or False. True. Al Qaeda is known to have operatives inside Iraq, but in Kurdistan, outside the reach of the Baghdad government. 5. In March 1988, Saddam Hussein committed genocide, killing several thousand Iraqi Kurds at Halabja with poison gas. True or False. False. According to the CIA, âhundredsâ of Iraqi Kurds died at Halabja when caught between the Iraqi and Iranian armies, both of whom used gas. The U.S. government in 1990 concluded the Kurds who died were victims of a cyanide-based gas, which the Iranians possessed, but not the Iraqi army, which used mustard gas. 6. In August 1988, Saddam Hussein committed genocide, killing 100,000 Iraqi Kurds with machine guns, then burying them in mass graves. True or False. False. This is an assertion of Human Rights Watch, which originally reported in 1988 that 100,000 Kurds had been killed by poison gas. When U.S. intelligence services uniformly dismissed this as a possibility and that there was no evidence of mass graves in Kurdistan, Human Rights Watch altered its story to say the Kurds were put in trucks, driven south, machine gunned outside of Kurdistan, and buried in mass graves. No such mass graves have been found and the U.S. Army War College says none exist, that the story was a ânon-event.â 7. In June 1990, Saddam Hussein asked permission of the United States to settle his border dispute with Kuwait, with force if diplomacy failed. True or False. True. Iraq argued that Kuwait was cheating on its OPEC agreement to produce only a certain amount of oil per day, and was driving down the international price of oil. Saddam said his country would be bankrupt unless Kuwait relented and compensated Iraq from what it had stolen from Iraq, by overproducing and by slant-drilling into the Iraqi oilfields on the other side of the Kuwait border. 8. In 1990, the United States advised Saddam Hussein that his issues with Kuwait were a local matter, and that the U.S. had no diplomatic obligation to defend Kuwait if attacked by Iraq. True or False. True. The U.S. State Department testified before congressional committees to that effect: at the time Saddam Hussein was weighing his options with Kuwait. 9. Saddam Hussein personally assured the United States Ambassador to Baghdad that he would take no military action against Kuwait if the emir of Kuwait -- in a meeting scheduled to take place in July 1990 -- agreed to end its âeconomic warfareââ against Iraq. True or False. True. The Ambassador, April Glaspie, was assured and left on vacation. The emir of Kuwait decided not to show up at the meeting in Baghdad, with assurances from the Pentagon that it would defend Kuwait without an agreement to do so. Saddam invaded. 10. After quickly occupying Kuwait, the Iraqi army positioned itself on the border of Saudi Arabia and threatened an invasion. True or False. False. The U.S. government advised King Fahd that Iraq was poised to invade Saudi Arabia. King Fahd sent scouts to check and they could find no sign of the Iraqi army. But when the Pentagon showed aerial photographs of the army, King Fahd agreed to join the coalition. Commercial aerial photographs of the region subsequently showed no signs of any Iraqi army movement at the border area. The details are still Pentagon
Re: [CTRL] The Taxil Hoax
-Caveat Lector-  The Pike, Lucifer, Taxil thing has been a known hoax for decades but Catholic clerico-fascists andXtian Fundi's ever eager to demonise, just don't care about the truth. Dave. - Original Message -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:23 PMSubject: [CTRL] The Taxil Hoax -Caveat Lector- http://www.indianamasons.org/imosanctum/pike/taxil.html#5 The Taxil Hoax by Bro. Eric Schmitz, P.M. "On July 14, 1889, Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff of UniversalFreemasonry, addressed to the 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world, thefollowing instructions: "That which we must say to the world is â We worship a God, but it is theGod that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32 nd, 31 st , and 30 th degrees â The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. Yes, Lucifer is God, and the true and pure philosophicalreligion is the belief in Lucifer." Thus was instigated what would come to be the most sensational, the most widely abused, and the most tenacious of all hoaxes ever perpetratedagainst the institution of Freemasonry. The words I just quoted were attributed to Albert Pike, a prominent Freemason of the late 19 th century, by one Leo Taxil, and are commonly known as the "Taxil Hoax" â although manyFreemasons have come to refer to this hoax as "the lie that would not die." Indeed,as Mark Twain once said, "One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has NINE lives." Albert Pike, who lived from 1809 to 1891, was the Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Riteâs Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 until the end of his life. Many Freemasons consider him to be a Masonic genius,but he has not managed to avoid a certain degree of controversy. Pike wrote a book called Morals and Dogma, in which he quoted many religious and philosophical teachersâ works, on the theory that unless one knows the history of a concept, one cannot understand the concept itself.1 This book tends to be the focus of most of the controversy surrounding Pike.However, the real furor did not get fully underway until three years after hisdeath, upon the 1894 re-publication of a work by a certain Leo Taxil, whosealleged purpose was to reveal a highly secret Masonic order called the"Palladium," which he claimed "practiced devil worship, murder, and other brutalitiesof an erotic nature."2 Born Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, Leo Taxil was a fervent anti-Papist, libertine, and pornographer. He was a member of a Masonic Lodge for ashort time, but was expelled from the fraternity, possibly due to his reputationas an extremely Anti-Catholic writer. It may have been his expulsion which turned him into an anti-Mason as well, but it is also possible that hejoined the order merely to acquire fuel for an already existing hostility to the Craft. At any rate, Taxilâs publication of Pikeâs "Luciferian Doctrine" marked the beginning of an ongoing chapter in Masonic defamation that persists even to this very day. Why did Taxil pick Albert Pike as the target of his venomous prank?Possibly because Pike did make some mention of the name "Lucifer" in his own works.It is a little known fact that the name "Lucifer" is, in some sense, a hoaxin and of itself. The name made its first biblical appearance in the KingJames Bible, in the book of Isaiah (14:12), where we read, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" One problem here is that the name "Lucifer" is actually Latin, a language that did not exist at thetime the Hebrew manuscript of Isaiah was written. In fact, the context of this chapter of Isaiah is an account of a fallen Babylonian king, not a fallen angel, and the in the original Hebrew, the name used is "Helal, benShahar," or "Day star, son of the Dawn." The day star, or morning star, is Venus, which appears in the morning just before sunrise. Hence, "lucem ferre," or "bringer of light," becomes the name "Lucifer," and a fallen king becomesa fallen angel. Ironically, Christ is often identified as the "morningstar," and in fact referred to Himself as such, as we read in Revelation 22:16. 3 Pike may well have known all this, or at least suspected it. His writing, when properly inflected, clearly indicates his shock and surprise at theidea of such a name being applied to the fallen angel and ruler of hell. He writes, "Lucifer, the light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it HE whobears the Light, and with its intolerable light blinds feeble, sensual orselfish souls?" Pike is clearly upset by the attribution, referring at one pointto the "false Lucifer of the legend."4 Now, I have mentioned before that
[CTRL] Take a Neocon Litmus Test
-Caveat Lector- http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=STf=8t=5258s=c4c57bad2bd9081cce779d45e086dfe5 Take a Neocon Litmus Test by Gary North In the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal (December 30, 2002), there appeared an article, "What the Heck Is a Neocon?" It was written by (I am not making this up) Max Boot. This is unquestionably the most unfortunate name in the history of the conservative movement. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face â for ever." ~ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "How much boot?" "Max!" You can see the man's problem. Mr. Boot insists that the word "conservatism" applies to whatever Pat Buchanan isn't and whatever Charles Coughlin wasn't. (Coughlin was an anti-Semitic radio preacher in the 1930's, a defender of fiat money â "greenbackism.") Boot is very upset that he gets tagged with the identification, "neoconservative." Anyway, he says he is. That's his official reason for writing his article. I say, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. But why not take him at his word? He writes: "There's no 'neo' in my conservatism." So why do I, and others of my ilk, get tagged as "neocons"? Some of the labelers have obvious ulterior motives. Patrick Buchanan, for one, claims that his views represent the true faith of the American right. He wants to drive the neocon infidels from the temple (or, more accurately, from the church). Unfortunately for Mr. Buchanan, his version of conservatism â nativist, protectionist, isolationist â attracts few followers, as evidenced by his poor showings in Republican presidential primaries and the scant influence of his inaptly named magazine, the American Conservative. Buchananism isn't American conservatism as we understand it today. It's paleoconservatism, a poisonous brew that was last popular when Father Charles Coughlin, not Rush Limbaugh, was the leading conservative broadcaster in America. Mr. Boot says he grew up in the 1980's, "when conservatism was cool." He should have been there when it wasn't cool. He never found solace as well as ammunition by watching or listening to Dan Smoot, who was a strict constructionist of the Constitution, the first conservative to make it into syndicated television in the 1950's and 1960's, though usually on independent local TV channels. He probably has never heard of Smoot, whose book, The Invisible Government, sold a million copies in 1961. He never listened to Rev. James Fifield's broadcasts from the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. He never subscribed to The Freeman when there was almost nothing else like it to subscribe to. For Mr. Boot and his "ilk," as he calls them, political life began with Reagan, not Taft. For them, economic theory began with Laffer, not Hazlitt. He grew up believing that the government needs to lower marginal tax rates in order to maximize tax revenues. It never occurs to him and his "ilk" that what we need, all over the world, are tax cuts that drastically reduce government revenues. Another thing: Mr. Boot grew up two decades after the 1965 immigration act. That law launched what may now be an irreversible transformation of the United States. It is working as expected by the Democrats who got it through the House and Senate in 1965. It is creating millions of immigrant voters and their children who vote overwhelmingly for the party that offers the most government money. The Southwest is steadily marching into the Democrats' tax-funded hip pocket. This process has only just begun. Differential birth rates will accelerate it. The immigration standards that prevailed before 1965, which the Right and the Left (especially the labor unions) accepted as normal in 1964, are dismissed by Mr. Boot and his "ilk" as "nativist." The dismissal of the past is hardly a conservative mindset. But it is a neoconservative mindset, as I hope to demonstrate. But enough on domestic policy (for the moment). Anyway, that's what Mr. Boot recommends. But it is not really domestic policy that defines neoconservatism. This was a movement founded on foreign policy, and it is still here that neoconservatism carries the greatest meaning, even if its original raison d'être â opposition to communism â has disappeared. Pretty much all conservatives today agree on the need for a strong, vigorous foreign policy. There is no constituency for isolationism on the right, outside the Buchananite fever swamps. The question is how to define our interventionism. FEVER SWAMPS Let's review briefly the history of the fever swamps. I date America's fever swamps with the Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641), the second written constitution in American history, the first being the very brief Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639). The Commonwealth of Massachusetts laid down the law: 7. No man shall be compelled to goe out of the limits of this plantation upon any offensive warres which this Comonwealth or any of our freinds or confederats
Re: [CTRL] The Reluctant Anarchist
-Caveat Lector- JUST an IMO,as I'm not a Yanquee; but the US government seems to be too powerful in the areas it ought be restrained, eg the power of coercion of its citizenry and rather meek when it comes tothe restraint of rapacious monopolistic corporatism. Behind their public image, the latter appear to be thehidden rulers of America. In part, the government is probably too BIG, in the sense of FAT, lethargic and unfit to exercise its proper function. This often makes it an easier target for big $$$ which frequently aim to diminish governments influence as a genuine moral authorityagainst corruption and abuse of power. Sobran could write more about his own churches (Rome) and his co-"Christian" clerico-fascistsrole in theirdestructive endeavour toundermine the US Constitution. Without them, the present and inevitable rise of the likes of Caesar Bush and his cabal would not have been possible. Perhaps another of Sobrans "blind" spots. Well maybe an article one day ... ??? But I didlike reading the piece. Dave. - Original Message - From: "klewis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:18 PM Subject: [CTRL] The Reluctant Anarchist -Caveat Lector- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/sobran-j1.html The following story is part of Walter Block's Autobiography Archive. (http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/autobiographies.html) The Reluctant Anarchist by Joseph SobranMy arrival (very recently) at philosophical anarchism has disturbed some of my conservative and Christian friends. In fact, it surprises me, going as it does against my own inclinations. As a child I acquired a deep respect for authority and a horror of chaos. In my case the two things were blended by the uncertainty of my existence after my parents divorced and I bounced from one home to another for several years, often living with strangers. A stable authority was something I yearned for. Meanwhile, my public-school education imbued me with the sort of patriotism encouraged in all children in those days. I grew up feeling that if there was one thing I could trust and rely on, it was my government. I knew it was strong and benign, even if I didn't know much else about it. The idea that some people - Communists, for example - might want to overthrow the government filled me with horror. G.K. Chesterton, with his usual gentle audacity, once criticized Rudyard Kipling for his "lack of patriotism." Since Kipling was renowned for glorifying the British Empire, this might have seemed one of Chesterton's "paradoxes"; but it was no such thing, except in the sense that it denied what most readers thought was obvious and incontrovertible. Chesterton, himself a "Little Englander" and opponent of empire, explained what was wrong with Kipling's view: "He admires England, but he does not love her; for we admire things with reasons, but love them without reason. He admires England because she is strong, not because she is English." Which implies there would be nothing to love her for if she were weak. Of course Chesterton was right. You love your country as you love your mother - simply because it is yours, not because of its superiority to others, particularly superiority of power. This seems axiomatic to me now, but it startled me when I first read it. After all, I was an American, and American patriotism typically expresses itself in superlatives. America is the freest, the mightiest, the richest, in short the greatest country in the world, with the greatest form of government - the most democratic. Maybe the poor Finns or Peruvians love their countries too, but heaven knows why - they have so little to be proud of, so few "reasons." America is also the most envied country in the world. Don't all people secretly wish they were Americans? That was the kind of patriotism instilled in me as a boy, and I was quite typical in this respect. It was the patriotism of supremacy. For one thing, America had never lost a war - I was even proud that America had created the atomic bomb (providentially, it seemed, just in time to crush the Japs) - and this is why the Vietnam war was so bitterly frustrating. Not the dead, but the defeat! The end of history's great winning streak! As I grew up, my patriotism began to take another form, which it took me a long time to realize was in tension with the patriotism of power. I became a philosophical conservative, with a strong libertarian streak. I believed in government, but it had to be "limited" government - confined to a few legitimate purposes, such as defense abroad and policing at home. These functions, and hardly any others, I accepted, under the influence of writers like Ayn Rand and Henry Hazlitt, whose books I read in my college years. Though I disliked Rand's atheism (at the time, I was irreligious, but not anti-religious), she had an odd appeal to my residual Catholicism. I had read
Re: [CTRL] Solana, the EU and religion
-Caveat Lector- Javier Solana Madariaga isa Roman Catholic Spaniard who bears the name of one of the founding members of the Jesuit Society. His lack of any moral compulsion is indicative of his eulogy of Jesuittrained graduates and thatadage that Jesuitism is best held in contempt for, "the end justifies the mean". There is nothingNew Agey about Solana. He's not out to convert the world with baubles, bangles and magic crystals. He likes bigger toys, like cluster bombs. His allegiance is to the Vatican. All the recent and near recent past wars in Europe have successfully enlarged the lebensraum of the "Holy Roman Empire," once run by the papacy and its obsequious feudal lords. You have lived to witness its revival. That's not to say that papal clericalism does not produce good atheists and very bloody atheists. Look at the French Revolution, hundreds of years of religious despotism. France, the alleged "eldest daughter of the Holy Roman Catholic Church," itsviolent revolution was a clear example of the bloody outworking of a papal dominated society. BTW - I would never quote (below) anything from people like "Hal Lindsey,"as reliable. The guy is a complete halfwit and liar and has demonstrated time and again to be a substandard interpreter of the times, or to use his own Zionist-Xtian gobshyte,he is a FALSE prophet. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Zuukie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: [CTRL] Solana, the EU and religion -Caveat Lector- I am sending this piece in plain text because of the size. I hope you will cut and paste the sites and follow thru on the material, as tedious as it may be. If you do, you will be way ahead of the crowd that is waiting for others to tell them what is happening. Why am I sending this? The European Union is growing and may surpass the US in power. This can affect the military decisions and economic position of the United States. (Read jobs and military decisions.) Cooperation with the EU and Solana will cause cultural changes which will affect monotheists. The European Union is taking a pro-Palestinian stand. (Strange as the coincidence may seem, Hitler attempted to destroy the Jews first because they were the smallest group.) Javier Solana is the key player in European Union activities. There is very definitely a New Age political face to this power...growth of a single governmental power, dislike of monotheism and the morality it promotes. Sounds like another movement that grew in the 20's and '30s. Many who read this would like to see monotheistic religion dropped as a determinant of a culture's morality. I can only remind them that power corrupts. Constance Cumbey has been following Solana's activities since 1995. She recently called attention to an important statement by Solana. This is the story on which the email subject line and the following two comments are based: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,165132,00.html It should be interesting to see how Solana and company want to settle the situation in the Mideast without taking Judaism and Islam into account. Probably all will be told you can have your rituals and spirituality in public, but keep your own morality in your house, behind closed doors if it is in disagreement in any way with what the decreed public morality is ordered to be. 1. This is a transcript of AM broadcast at 08:00 AEST on local radio. EU says US letting religion drive its foreign policy AM - Thursday, January 9, 2003 8:03 LINDA MOTTRAM: America and its allies continue to prepare for a war in Iraq but Europe is attempting to assert its position more strongly with the EU's foreign policy chief accusing the US of letting religion drive its policy on Iraq and terrorism. The European Union's High Representative on Foreign Policy, Javier Solana, made the comments as the German media reported that UN weapons inspectors have failed to find proof of US assertions that Iraq has resumed production of biological weapons. Rafael Epstein reports. RAFAEL EPSTEIN: When President George W. Bush described Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an axis of evil, it failed to impress the continent where such a phrase has historical resonance. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana says the choice of language of the two sides of the Atlantic is revealing. He says the US tendency for its foreign policy to swing between going it alone and working with bodies like the UN is a tendency that now more than ever is being swung by religion. He says the US is increasingly looking at things in a religious context. He told the Financial Times newspaper, the US stance is "all or nothing, for us Europeans it's difficult to deal with because we are secular. We do not see the world in such black and white terms." That contrasts with his words immediately after the September 11 attacks when he offered Europe support with a
Re: [CTRL] Illuminist Freemasonry Rules America (Bloody Nonsense!)
-Caveat Lector- When the devil became lessspooky and less fashionable as the traditional fearful Roman Catholic effigyportrayed in the West, religionists had to re-invent him in a thousand different ways, much as they did their messiah.Masons, like other various esoteric groups, became one of the new imps of focused religious paranoia as likewise has the US itself, after the break-up of Satan's alleged arch lair formerly inhabited by the godless Soviets. In hindsight, well-worn and overrated iconoclasts like Anton Lavey and Aleister Crowley et al, now seem like mere pawns in the religionists game, for in essence they revived in the public mind the idea of the traditional "Satan"imagery however unintentional perhaps to their own paradigm such a notion was.I could not locate the alleged passage in my copy Ovason's book on p. 219 given in the article. My copy is probably from the original title: "The Secret Zodiacs Of Washington DC". If someone has the other copy, they may wish to check the reference. Having read another of this Fundamentalists sites citations from Ovason's book and after actually checking the context of the passage, I found it is so wildly exaggerated that you were left wondering how it could be so, if not for deliberate obfuscation.People like Ovason do not share the interpretations of Cleric Fundamentalists who like to (mis)quote his book and the meanings he would attribute to terms such as "occult" which he, like many, partly view as a pursuit of esoteric enlightenment outside the established societal channels.As far as the alleged Masonic symbolism of the US Seal is concerned, I venture to say that the emblem(s) were simply widely-known hieroglyphs and art of the Renaissance to Enlightenment era,recognizable as much as today's Peace symbol or the Coke logo and with not a dissimilarawe attached. Nothing mysterious or secretive about it apart from the fact that it's simplicity, even mundanety has been obscured by the paranoidgibberish of popes and their modern clones in the Religious Right and their varied earlier puritanical incarnations. The stigma attached to Free-masonry by Vaticanism has deep roots. Clement XII issued his papal bull In Eminenti banning Masonry and forbidding lodge membership for Catholics. He declared: "For the sake of the peace and safety of civil governments, and spiritual safety of souls, and to prevent these men from plundering the House like thieves, laying waste the Vineyard like wolves, perverting the minds of the incautious and shooting down innocent people from their hiding places no Catholic was to be a Freemason". Eleven other popes would condemn Freemasonry in the most vitriolic language possible. Leo XII lamented the fact that Christian princes and heads of state had not fully obeyed the Vatican in suppressing Masonry, "as the safety of both Church and State required", in the words of one Jesuit writer. Pius VIII declared of the Masons that "lying is their rule, Satan is their God, and shameful deeds their sacrifice". Gregory XVI wrote that Masons and kindred secret brethren were comparable to a sewer in which, "are congregated and intermingled all of the sacrileges, infamy and blasphemy which are contained in the most abominable heresies." Pius IX, outdoing his papal predecessors, condemned Masonry in six separate bulls between 1846 and 1873, denouncing "those baneful secret sects who have come forth from the darkness for the ruin and devastation of Church and State" Catholic Hitler wasdogmatically cultivated by Catholic monks and as he and his henchman rose to power they signed a political concordat with the Vatican. Itis understandable how indoctrinated beliefs coupled with religio-political alliances turned Masons and those they aligned with Masons such as Jews, into targets for their hate. How oft has been repeated the lie of a pope, Pius VIII, "Satan is their God"? Or as you will find on every conspiracy-driven website, the word Satan is replaced by the more intriguing and mysterious,"Lucifer" whom Catholic and co-Fundamentalist clericsallege is the god of Masons and allege thatthe famous Mason Albert Pike claimed as much. Unfortunately, what they cite isaspecious reportby Leo Taxil (real name: Antoine Jogand-Pages). Taxil, who publicly confessed in 1897 of his hoax-ster ways, sought to defame Freemasonry. Hoaxers such as Leo Taxil know that the most clever lies are based on an element of truth. The Freemason philosopher Pike, in his book Morals and Dogma, did in fact write about Lucifer: "Lucifer, the light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it HE who bears the Light, and with its intolerable light blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls?" Pike speaks of Lucifer as a bringer of Light (a metaphor for Wisdom, Knowledge, Enlightenment), and expresses surprise
[CTRL] Is Bush Guilty of Mass Murder?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo01282003.html Bin Laden and the CIA Is Bush Guilty of Mass Murder? By KURT NIMMO "How can you call George Bush a mass murderer?" a recent email asked. "In order for him to be classified as a mass murderer, he would have to kill all those people you say he's killed with his own hands." Let us begin by using the logic of government, in particular the government of California when it prosecuted Charles Manson over thirty years ago. Manson did not personally murder Sharon Tate, et al, he ordered his crazed minions to do it. In fact, when the murders occurred, Manson wasn't even at the scene. Yet he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (a sentence that was never carried out after California repealed in the death penalty in the early 70s). If we use the above criteria, Bush is a mass murderer. But then presidents are never prosecuted for murder, let alone convicted. Bush ordered the US military to bomb Afghanistan -- an act resulting in approximately five thousand murders -- supposedly to get bin Laden and his cronies who are believed to have perpetuated the 911 atrocities. Yet bin Laden was not killed or were any of his high-ranking followers. The people who died were mostly peasants and lowly Taliban. Exactly zero percent, far as we know, of these people were responsible for 911. I will go one better. Bush didn't kill bin Laden because the Saudi is a CIA asset. Bin Laden was the "Pearl Harbor" the neocons have talked about now for years, well before Bush was elected (excuse me, appointed) to the presidency. It's common knowledge that bin Laden was funded by the CIA to fight the Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan. Andrew Evered Allen, a reclusive millionaire and CIA insider, admitted as much in court documents. He also admitted the CIA is attempting to overthrow the government of Myanmar, or Burma. Overthrowing governments and killing dissidents is what the CIA does. Mark Zapezauer has written extensively on CIA operations in Afghanistan under the Reagan regime. Reagan and the CIA spent between five and six billion dollars to bankroll and equip the drug trafficking Afghan mujihadeen, the largest and most expensive operation ever conducted by the CIA. As Ahmed Rashid has detailed, between 1982 and 1992 some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries trained and fought with the Afghan mujihadeen. Reagan's CIA director, William Casey, orchestrated the recruitment and arming of these vicious anti-Soviet warriors. One of these warriors was a young Saudi student, Osama bin Laden. It's not like the CIA to let an asset like that wither on the vine, especially considering the well-documented connections between Bush Republicans and Osama bin Laden going back 20 or more years. (Read Michel Chossudovsky's "Who Is Osama Bin Laden?") As Michael C. Ruppert points out, "Bin Laden's role has not just been as a practitioner of terrorist acts but as a trainer and supplier of terrorist organizations around the world. Included in bin Laden's coterie are terrorist groups linked to the Balkans, Albania, the KLA (a U.S. ally), and rebel groups leading the insurrection against Russia in Chechnya." In other words, the CIA used the bin Laden network (the media calls it "al-Qaeda," although no such organization really exists) on several occasions. The CIA (and the Bush neocons) will use it again in the future. It's too valuable to eradicate. Bush and the neocon chicken hawks tapped into this CIA-cultivated network well before 911. The neo-fascist PNAC (Project for the New American Century) organization (a "think tank" founded by the warmongers Robert Kagan and William Kristol) essentially sketched out the Bush worldview and plan of attack for global dominance, which naturally includes plenty of mass murder (no problem for the butcher of Texas, who oversaw the execution of 152 humans while governor). As Australia's Sunday Herald reported last September, the Bush neocons-in-waiting (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dubya's little bother Jeb, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby) had PNAC contrive a "blueprint for maintaining global U.S. pre-eminence... and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests," an ambitious conspiracy to be carried out by "the cavalry on the new American frontier." In other words, a diagram for mass murder on a global scale. Remember: "international security order" is code for making sure US-backed brutal dictators rule over "strategic" places all over the world (places with a lot of valuable natural resources such as oil, diamonds, rainforests, minerals, agriculturally viable land, etc.); "international security order" translates into more torture, genocide, environmental degradation, and looting of water resources, social programs, schools, hospitals, etc., by banks and transnational corporations. It's US foreign policy on steroids. It's the selfish and anti-social (or
Re: [CTRL] Sons Of Mau Mau Declare War On Freemasonry
Title: Re: [CTRL] Sons Of Mau Mau Declare War On Freemasonry -Caveat Lector- Those are both Asian religions. on 01/29/03 2:58 PM, David Sutherland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The monotheistic Western religions are Judaism and Christianity. -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - What do you mean we, white man? Tonto NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The ADL and Other Branches - Why Waste Time Hacking?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?articleID=3502 The ADL and Other Branches Why Waste Time Hacking? 1/28/03 4:30:31 PM Strike-the-root.com Commentary -- The ADL and Other Branches: Why Waste Time Hacking? by Jim Davidson http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/davidson/davidson2.html The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith (ADL) is some sort of branch of evil. They don't seem to be at the root of the corrupt tree, but they certainly produce corrupt fruit. The ADL came to my attention recently because of a press release they sent around impugning e-gold.com and other digital gold currencies. It is my view that their press release was a lot of nonsense. It claimed that "terrorists" might use e-gold to make transfers and therefore "the government" should be aware. Putting that to rest is easy: just Google up the Wired magazine online archive for January 2002 and read Julian Dibbell's excellent, well-researched piece on e-gold. In it, you'll find mention of the practice of e-gold of responding promptly to subpoenas presented at their offices in Florida. Account histories are handed over to government agents, who are invited to partake of coffee and bagels in the conference room. So, the government already knows all about e-gold, and doesn't need the busy-bodies at the ADL to warn them about it. As for "terrorists," they also buy and sell cars. Some terrorist might buy a car and finance it through General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) and then sell the car to fund a terror attack. So, does the ADL warn that GMAC might be helping fund terrorists? Of course not. The ADL isn't interested in GMAC or anything else that is already well-established. Their attacks are targeted only at new fangled things, like individual liberty. Consider their behavior circa 1947 when the House Unamerican Affairs Committee (HUAC) was busy having a witch hunt for "communists" in Hollywood and other essential defense-related industries. ADL was giving up all the information it could to Congressional committees to identify, or misidentify communist "sympathizers" and anti-government activists. Lives were destroyed, careers were ruined, and the ADL is shameless in its nonchalance. They don't seem to care what results obtained. Consider the Anarchist Action Network. They originally got going as the Anarchism Anti-Defamation League. The ADL sent threatening letters trying to get the use of the term "Anti-Defamation League" off the anarchist site. Why? They seem to think they own the words "anti-defamation" and "league" which has got to surprise a bunch of people. So, what is the ADL all about? It is in favor of all kinds of hate crime legislation, to add thought police to the tasks government should be handling. It is in favor of governmental funding for museums. It appears to be in favor of a close funding and regulatory relationship between government and schooling. It is opposed to groups with Islam in their name, or Islamic connections of any sort. It is in favor of any sort of security apparatus that might make the United States into much more of a police state. It is against the display of the Ten Commandments in Alabama. It opposes private gun ownership, and attacks JPFO.org. It opposes the teaching of Genesis and other books of the Bible. It opposes right wing groups selling anything, and it opposes free speech in music or film for those with views different from the ADL's. It is against militia "organizations" and the whole concept of the Second Amendment, no doubt making the organizers of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising spin in their graves. It appears to favor the burning to death of Texans in their church near Waco, which seems like a hard sell from an anti-death camp outfit. And it has all kinds of hate groups and terror groups in its online database, no doubt where they'll add my name in a few days time. You can find these facts by browsing adl.org or http://www.jpfo.org in your spare time. Mind you, adl.org is a cookie-rich environment, but cancel seems to get past some of them. By all means, tell me I'm all wrong about their views, and form your own opinion. A number of other web sites with varying amounts of fact, fantasy, and hysteria about the ADL are available. You can go to Google.com and come up with a few dozen yourself. I kinda liked William Cooper's eponymous site with its rants and unreality for a change of pace, and I was fascinated by some .uk sites with long stories about ADL bad behavior. Should you take these people seriously? I don't think so. They are just a bunch of sycophants who have never seen a USA governmental agency they didn't want to fawn over. I suspect that they have great enthusiasm for all the airport "security" that was put in place in 1978, and has recently been federalized. I'm sure the irony of an anti-Nazi outfit like the ADL supporting a "papers please" mentality and all sorts of federal eavesdropping and cavity searching is utterly lost
[CTRL] Are Mega Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3004megabucks.html This article appears in the January 31, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Are `Mega' Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections? by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg A small group of American and Canadian mega-billionaires, tied to organized crime and right-wing Zionist causes, has joined in the effort to steal the Jan. 28 Israeli elections, on behalf of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is committed to drowning any Israel-Palestine peace process in a sea of blood. The Mega Group, founded in 1991 by Charles and Edgar Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, Max Fisher, and several dozen other multi-billionaires, meets secretly twice a year, and, since its founding, has sought to impose its top-down control over the "alphabet soup" of pro-Israel political action committees, self-styled civil rights organizations, and tax-exempt charities. Among the Mega Group's institutional power bases are the World Jewish Congress, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, and the United Jewish Fundâa recent merger of the major American and Canadian Jewish charities, disbursing annual gross contributions of nearly $3 billion. According to one Israeli source, the group has expanded in recent years, and now is made up of over 50 American and Canadian super-rich Zionist activists. The dominant figures in the groupâthe Bronfman brothers, Steinhardt, and Fisherâall have longstanding personal and family organized-crime pedigrees, tracing back to the Meyer Lansky National Crime Syndicate. The Canada-based Bronfman gang, headed by Edgar and Charles' father Sam, and by Max Fisher, got their start as bootleggers during Prohibition. Fisher was a leader of the Detroit-based Purple Gang, which, in collusion with Moe Dalitz's Cleveland-centered "Jewish Navy," smuggled Bronfman's illegal booze across the Great Lakes from Canada into the Midwest. The Bronfman family motto, which applies to most of the Mega Group, is: "From rags, to rackets, to riches, to respectability." Michael Steinhardt, like Edgar and Charles Bronfman, is the son of a Meyer Lansky lieutenant, "Red" Steinhardt, who was the National Crime Syndicate's number-one jewel fence. "Red" Steinhardt was also a partner with Lansky in the Havana casinos prior to Castro's takeover, and was also affiliated with the Genovese organized-crime family. According to Michael Steinhardt's autobiography, it was his father's ill-gotten gains that put him through the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business; and it was syndicate loot that started him on a successful career as a Wall Street speculator and hedge-fund manager. For the past 15 years, Steinhardt has been one of Presidential wanna-be Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-Conn.) biggest boosters, having founded the neo-conservative Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), and promoted Lieberman as the group's poster boy. Steinhardt grabbed headlines in January 2001, when he played a pivotal role in conning President Bill Clinton into granting a Presidential pardon to Russian Mafiya "Godfather" Marc Rich, one of Steinhardt's longtime business partners. Rich was a fugitive from U.S. Justice Department indictments for tax evasion and trading with the enemy (Iran). As EIR reported on Jan. 10, Rich is another source of dirty money flows into the Sharon camp, through his secret Russian Mafiya partner, Grigori Loutchansky, among others. Mafiya Damage ControlIn a Jan. 15 interview with a Washington, D.C.-based journalist, Steinhardt boasted about his recent intervention to sabotage the electoral campaign of Israeli Labor Party Chairman Amram Mitzna, which was also intended to control the damage being done by the spreading scandal over the Likud party's ties to organized crime, into which Steinhardt and the whole Mega Group could be swept. On Jan. 12, Steinhardt said, he had had a private dinner with Ariel Sharon. While claiming that he does not support either major party in Israel, Steinhardt did insist, that the Jan. 28 elections must produce another "national unity government," along the lines of the coalition that Sharon formed in 2001, in which Labor Party leaders Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer held the Foreign and Defense portfolios. Their participation with serial war-criminal Sharon, gave him and and his right-wing thug allies, 20 months in which they could tear apart the entire Oslo peace process, brutally exterminate much of the Palestinian Authority, and achieve Sharon's ultimate goal: the "ethnic cleansing" to remove all Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Mitzna has repeatedly stated that he will not join a national unity government with the mobbed-up murderers of Likud, and will press for Israeli authorities to get to the bottom of the Sharon-Likud-Mafiya election theft scandals. Whatever the outcome on Jan. 28, it is widely acknowledged inside Israel, that the scandals have denied Sharon the
[CTRL] The Lights Dim; The Curtain Begins To Rise
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/2003_1-9/2003-4/this_wk.html >From Volume 2, Issue Number 4 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published Jan. 27, 2003 This Week You Need To Know The Lights Dim; The Curtain Begins To Rise Less than three months ago, the talk was of a major Republican electoral victory, led by a highly popular Republican President. Now, all that is evaporating. One credible report has it that Bush's political technician Karl Rove recently hit the panic button, after reviewing disastrous poll numbers, which showed a rapid collapse in support for the Iraq war, and a growing sense that Bush was fixated on Iraqâto the point of ignoring other crises, including, first and foremost, the economic collapse. Rove said Bush must get Iraq behind him fast, to refocus on other problems, or he will lose the 2004 elections. The self-deluded President hopes to do this through a quick war in the near-term, followed by an easy victory. Notwithstanding this, the war can still be successfully stalled by the new Eurasian combination of France, Germany, China, and Russia, along with the institutions of the American Presidency, military and civilian, which have been instrumental in delaying it over the past months. But the only way the drift towards war can actually be stopped, is through a reversal of economic and financial policy. The economic reality of which Karl Rove got a glimpse, through the prism of electoral calculations, was summed up as follows by EIR founder Lyndon LaRouche, in the course of an address at Jaipur University in India, on Jan 21. "First of all, the United States is bankrupt. Every major bank in the United States is bankrupt. Virtually every major bank in Europe is bankrupt. This means the Federal Reserve system is bankrupt. This means that the European banking system, monetary systems, are bankrupt. The Bank of England is bankrupt. Most of the banks of the world, outside of China, are in bankruptcy, or close to it. Whole countries are disappearing. Peru is crushed. Colombia is crushed. Mexico is being crushed. A great genocide dominates all of sub-Saharan Africa. You know some of the conditions in Asia, because you suffer from them here. The world is being crushed. "In the United States itself, 46 states of the 50 Federal states are bankrupt, and there is no hope of balancing their budget. Whether by tax increases, or tax decreases. Makes no difference. Budget increases, or decreases. It makes no difference. The United States is bankrupt. Forty-six states of the 50 are officially bankrupt. Now, we've had enough discussions with a few governors and their circles, to know some of the details of this thing. It's bankrupt! "Typical of that, at the end of this month: If the Congress does not pass and save the Amtrak system, the United States will no longer have a rail system. There will no longer be a national rail system; we're practically there already. We have United Airlines in bankruptcy, and American Airlines going into bankruptcy. If they're put into bankruptcy, they're being plunged into cuts or competition with other airlines that are not yet bankrupt. If this process continues, the entire U.S. airline system will go bankrupt, and they'll be largely disintegrated. "Our power generation and production systems are disintegrating. We have a water crisis beyond belief. The Southwest of the United States is in a tremendous water crisis. There's no way of managing it. The ground is sinking in the large aquifers, from being overdrawn, as in Californiaâsucking the aquifers is what California has done to the other states. "We have a crisis in the health-care system. We're killing people, to try to balance budgets. And the killing is being done by domestic interests which are looting the health-care system, to help guarantee profits. The lower 80% of the population of the United States, and similar family-income brackets, have been collapsing at an accelerating rate, since 1977. We have a social catastrophe. We have an economic catastrophe." There is no solution short of the reforms which LaRouche has advocated with increasing specificity over the past more than 30 years. The legal, regulatory, and treaty frameworks developed since 1964 must be repealed in favor of a regulated, protectionist, and perfectly sovereign system like the 1945-64 Bretton Woods system. The Federal Reserve, the other central banks, and major financial institutions must be declared bankrupt, and placed in bankruptcy reorganization. Rather than depending on private credit, large-scale government credits must be issued, directed towards building or rebuilding required infrastructure, thus rebuilding employment and the tax base of governments. Globalization must be scrapped. Led by the U.S., nations must come together to put in place a corresponding protectionist international order of sovereign states, with relatively fixed currency-exchange rates, and a gold-reserve
Re: [CTRL] Are Mega Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections?
Title: Re: [CTRL] Are Mega Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections? -Caveat Lector- An election being influenced by rich and powerful people? Oh my !! That IS a first. on 01/28/03 9:18 PM, William Shannon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3004megabucks.html This article appears in the January 31, 2003 issue http://www.larouchepub.com/eirtoc/2003/eirtoc_3004.html of Executive Intelligence Review. Are `Mega' Bucks Helping Sharon Steal Israeli Elections? -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Impeach the President
-Caveat Lector- http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/impeach_president.htm Impeach the President High Crimes and Misdemeanors by T. E. Ruppenthal After painful consideration, I have decided it is time to bring out my Impeach the President placard, dust it off and display it yet again. It has been an oft-used sign, first waved during the LBJ regime and utilized for every president since. Now it is time to confront this latest in our long line of executive branch losers. I do not take my impeachment stand lightly and only after I am certain that the President is guilty of treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors as mentioned in Article 2, Section IV. I wait for egregious acts that can only be seen as invidious to our Constitution, the pissing all over that which he had solemnly sworn to uphold. I attempt a two-year wait before considering the impeachment step, to give each President time to develop wisdom, to learn from mistakes and become a thoughtful leader. I am such an optimistic idealist. I try to wait, but I usually fail as each President, upon entering office, begins a headlong retreat from the Constitutionâs sagacity and probity and begins treating it as a sworn enemy. Only Carter and Reagan made the two year mark which must mean I wasnât paying attention then. Nixon was Nixon, a blot upon our history; Ford barely had two years and started by pardoning Tricky Dick; George the First crossed the line with his invasion of Panama and with Clinton, I waved my placard before his inauguration since I sensed he was a total sleazebag. There are many reasons to call for Georgeâs impeachment, but one particular stands out as so disreputable that I cannot wait for his second anniversary. When, at a gathering of Fliberals (âFrisco liberals), I announced my call for impeachment, the Flibs agreed and excitedly gathered round me as if I had finally become one of them. When I asked them what were their grounds for impeachment, they had to think (which takes time for a Fliberal, if they can do it at all) until a Flib finally said, "Dubya stole the election." A second chimed in with, "Illegal actions in foreign affairs." "Heâs stifling dissent"and "Heâs incredibly stupid" were other responses. With little examination it became clear that their charges would not measure up to those cited by the Constitution, but then again Flibs have little interest in our Constitution. How long did the Samuel J. Tilden Democrats whine about their loss after 1876? Eight years at least and many, I am convinced, never ceased complaining. If I didnât so enjoy Fliberal whining (which they do so well), it could be grim times ahead. Their nonstop whine that Bush stole the election â Gore not only won the popular vote, but would have won Florida, and the electoral vote too, if the biased and politicized Supreme Court hadnât entered the fray. I have always found it odd that Fliberals proudly claim as their own all those Floridians too stupid to punch a hole in paper. Whine, whine, whine. Yes, Gore did win more votes than Bush but since he did not gain a majority of the ballots cast, he had no clear claim to victory at all. If Fliberals ever took the time to read the Constitution of the United States (and of Florida), they would realize how a disputed or muddled Presidential election was to be settled â by vote of the lower house of the legislature, in which Republicans held a slim but clear majority. Bush would have been selected. No theft. As to overstepping Constitutional limitations abroad and at home, George 2 has, but this is now routine for our Imperial Presidents, including Bill Clinton. If Fliberals wouldnât impeach Bill on these grounds, how can they now impeach Bush? Our Emperor Presidents must be free to kill and maim, bomb and threaten, arrest and jail anyone, anywhere, at any time, and any who dare to disagree or dissent must be distrusted. Once again G-2 has launched us into undeclared and therefore unconstitutional warfare. He had the civility to ask our supine and corrupt Congress for a blank check to cover any and all future actions, ever, but this is not what the Founders envisioned. Time to bring out my Impeach Congress sign too. Our Imperial Presidency has become so accepted that raising a cry for impeachment for overstepping Constitutional limits is met with bewilderment. "Americaâs not an empire," people of all political stripes inform me. End of discussion. And with Congress in cahoots, how could such an impeachment succeed? I would not call our President stupid, as it is such a vague and pejorative word. I prefer to think of him as positively obtuse and mentally phlegmatic â nearer the mark while showing a touch of respect for the once noble office he occupies. Yet, even if all agreed as to his stupidity, could it be construed as a high crime or misdemeanor? Couldnât being dense be viewed as a necessity in a truly representative government?
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Infections in Newly Released Inmates are Rising Concern
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this a new kind of biological warfare?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infections in Newly Released Inmates are Rising Concern January 28, 2003 By FOX BUTTERFIELD MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Jan. 27 - Marva Johnson was thrilled when her longtime boyfriend, Randy Vallad, was paroled from prison in 1999. They went back to living together, and once when he had a bad cut on his head, she took care of him. She was splattered with his blood, but the couple did not think anything of it at the time. It was not until Mr. Vallad was sent back to prison in 2001 for a parole violation that he was accidentally shown his Michigan Department of Corrections medical records. They reported that Mr. Vallad had tested positive for hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that can cause potentially fatal liver disease, when he was first admitted to prison years before. They knew and didn't tell him, Ms. Johnson, 33, said today in this small city in central Michigan. As a result, they also let him infect me. For the past 11 months she has been taking a powerful, enervating course of drugs for hepatitis C. Such cases are becoming increasingly common across the nation, as jails and prisons have become giant incubators for some of the worst infectious diseases. According to a study released today at a conference sponsored by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 1.3 million inmates released from jail or prison in 1996 were infected with hepatitis C. That was 29 percent of the 4.5 million cases nationwide. Similarly, newly released inmates accounted for 35 percent of the 34,000 Americans with tuberculosis in 1996, the study found. And newly released inmates accounted for 13 to 17 percent of Americans infected with H.I.V. or AIDS, the study estimated. The problem has become so acute that health care officials and prisoner rights groups are calling for widespread testing of prison populations for hepatitis C and faster treatment of prisoners. This is a public health problem that has been growing and growing, but we are reluctant to do anything about it because these are bad guys, said Dr. Robert Greifinger, a former chief medical officer for the New York State Department of Correctional Services and the author of the study, which was commissioned by Congress and prepared for the Justice Department. The Centers for Disease Control held a conference of prison medical officers in San Antonio devoted to the issue last weekend. During the conference, the centers said that public vaccination efforts to prevent hepatitis outbreaks should be extended to prisons. The centers also issued new guidelines urging states to test all prisoners with a history of intravenous drug use and other risky behavior for hepatitis C. Sharing needles and unprotected sex are common ways the virus is spread. The problem is not that large numbers of prisoners are contracting hepatitis C while incarcerated, experts say. Most were infected years before. The experts say the high rate of communicable diseases among inmates is a critical issue for two reasons: the danger inmates pose of infecting others when they are released, and the opportunity to treat them that is largely being wasted. Dr. Greifinger said that Americans tended to forget that most inmates eventually return home. In 2000, about nine million people were released from jail and prison, according to Allen J. Beck, of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the Justice Department. In a sign that the problem is getting more attention, the C.D.C. made public Dr. Greifinger's report today. It had been given to the Justice Department in March 2001, Dr. Greifinger said, but never before released to the public. In a separate action, the American Civil Liberties Union and two dozen other organizations interested in prison conditions issued a call today for a Congressional investigation into the state of medical care in jails and prisons. Correctional systems have buried their heads in the sand because they don't want to know how many prisoners have hepatitis C, said Eric Balaban, a staff lawyer with the National Prison Project of the A.C.L.U. Russ Marlin, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, said, We are treating hepatitis C in accordance with federal guidelines. He said that Michigan did not do blood tests of all incoming inmates or all those who engage in risky behavior. Our position is that indiscriminate testing is not useful, he said. In addition, it would cost $200 million to test and treat all suspected cases of hepatitis C among Michigan inmates, he said. Even more important, he said, is that the drug treatment - a combination of interferon and ribarvin given over a 6 to 12 month period - is very toxic. Mr. Marlin said he had no information on why Mr. Vallad was not told he had tested positive for hepatitis C and could not release it even if he
[CTRL] Libertad Vigilada - Spanish Echelon
-Caveat Lector- http://cryptome.org/echelon-es.htm 28 January 2003. Thanks to J. Source: http://adserver.libertaddigital.com/libertadvigilada/english.htm Defence conceals a satellite spy station in the Sierra* of Madrid According to disclosures in the book "Libertad vigilada" (Watching over freedom), whose author is Nacho García Mostazo, the "Fresnedillas-Navalagamella Satellite Monitoring Station" has ten large parabolic antennae that are allegedly being used to "tap" the satellite communications of the countries around us. The base belongs to the Ministry of Defence, but official sources affirm that its activities there are "a mystery". In 1965, the United States built a space monitoring station in the town of Robledo de Chavela, in the Sierra of Madrid, to be used by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). Today, that base continues being one of the its strategic posts for space research. However, although NASA also built two other stations to support Robledo, the first in Fresnedillas de la Oliva (Madrid)and the second in Cebreros (Ávila). On June 1969, a parabolic antennae of 26 metres in diameter located at Fresnedillas achieved a historic goal in capturing the images of the arrival of the first man on the Moon. However, Cebreros and Fresnedillas stopped being useful for NASA in the middle of the eighties, and the United States returned them to the Spanish state. The Ministry of Defence, which took over running them, closed the first in 1983. But it kept the second open, where the Army has recently has installed five parabolic antennae of over 18 metres in diameter and another five of some 14 metres, in addition to six smaller ones. Apart from two that seem to be disconnected, the other sketch a span that ranges from the south-west to the south-east, with a 45 degree tilt. This would mean that presumably they are orientated towards the geo-stationary telecommunications satellites that orbit at an altitude of some 36,000 kilometres above the Equator. In 1986, the Government approved the setting up of a military project that was classified as secret, and that will fully operational in 2008. This is "Santiago Programme", whose main objective according to Defence sources is "the capturing of electro-magnetic broadcasts and images in zones defined as of strategic interest for national security". For this reason, the same sources confirm, the army is deploying a "network of sensors" with "communications, electrical and optical intelligence". Saying this in other word, Spain has a military espionage network composed of surveillance planes (the Air Intelligence Centre at Torrejón de Ardoz), observation satellites (Helios and others that will soon be launched) and land bases, although the system has not yet been finished. Reportedly, the Fresnedillas-Navalagamella Satellite Monitoring Station, as it is officially called, would be one of the key strategic points of the "Santiago Programme". Since this is obviously a classified programme, the Defence Ministry cannot officially acknowledge it. But it does not even confirm that it owns the station and Ministry sources, headed up by Federico Trillo-Figueroa, assure us that the activities being carried on there are "a mystery". Nevertheless, the latest records of the Property Estate Tax (IBI in Spanish) of the Council of Navalagamella, the municipal district in which the station is located, states that the property belongs to the Ministry of Defence, that pays 11.713.52 euros each year as the tax for it. A Spanish "Echelon" The United States and the United Kingdom, along with other allied countries, have a series of bases from where it "taps" the satellite communications of the whole world. In the middle of 2001, the European Parliament denounced the existence of this espionage network, whose code name is "Echelon". As the Euro-chamber showed, there are at least twenty similar bases all over the world and each one of these are fitted out with large parabolic antennae that capture all the communications (telephone conversations, fax, telex, etc.) and those deriving from large filtering computers. These extract only those communications that could allegedly affect the national security interests of the USA, the United Kingdom and the other component members of the network. According to reported data, Spain does not form part of this global espionage set, although the United States is collaborating with the Spanish authorities in order to provide sensitive information, obtained by this other methods, that would presumably be aimed at improving the anti-terrorist struggle. However, even though Spain is not officially involved in this network, this has not stopped it having developed its own systems in order to hugely spy on communications. It was not in vain that the new law concerning the National Intelligence Centre (NIC), the institution replacing the CESID, was passed into law at the start of 2002 and authorises Spanish
Re: [CTRL] Solana, the EU and religion
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- I hope to post more on Solana. New Age is a lot more than crystals and channeling. New Age is one world government and one world religion, a utopian push that began around the turn of the century over 100 years ago. The things you mention are tied to one world religion where the idea is to move the followers of monotheistic religions in the direction of spirituality instead of morality. That way people can feel special even though they are not acting in a moral way. That way a forced common spirituality will be welcomed among the followers of monotheistic religions. As Mortimer Adler wrote, there cant be a one world government unless there is a common culture, and the monotheistic religions are not acceptable whereas the Eastern ones are. You can bet your last dollar that there is a New Age push in all of the monotheistic religion establishments. Again, see the book Modern Fascism by Gene Veith. I used Lindsey, among other sources, because others need to realize that there are truths in all people who use a form of propaganda. Thats why propaganda works. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Sutherland Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Solana, the EU and religion Javier Solana Madariaga isa Roman Catholic Spaniard who bears the name of one of the founding members of the Jesuit Society. His lack of any moral compulsion is indicative of his eulogy of Jesuittrained graduates and thatadage that Jesuitism is best held in contempt for, the end justifies the mean. There is nothingNew Agey about Solana. He's not out to convert the world with baubles, bangles and magic crystals. He likes bigger toys, like cluster bombs. His allegiance is to the Vatican. All the recent and near recent past wars in Europe have successfully enlarged the lebensraum of the Holy Roman Empire, once run by the papacy and its obsequious feudal lords. You have lived to witness its revival. That's not to say that papal clericalism does not produce good atheists and very bloody atheists. Look at the French Revolution, hundreds of years of religious despotism. France, the alleged eldest daughter of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, itsviolent revolution was a clear example of the bloody outworking of a papal dominated society. BTW - I would never quote (below) anything from people like Hal Lindsey,as reliable. The guy is a complete halfwit and liar and has demonstrated time and again to be a substandard interpreter of the times, or to use his own Zionist-Xtian gobshyte,he is a FALSE prophet. Dave. - Original Message - From: Zuukie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: [CTRL] Solana, the EU and religion -Caveat Lector- I am sending this piece in plain text because of the size. I hope you will cut and paste the sites and follow thru on the material, as tedious as it may be. If you do, you will be way ahead of the crowd that is waiting for others to tell them what is happening. Why am I sending this? The European Union is growing and may surpass the US in power. This can affect the military decisions and economic position of the United States. (Read jobs and military decisions.) Cooperation with the EU and Solana will cause cultural changes which will affect monotheists. The European Union is taking a pro-Palestinian stand. (Strange as the coincidence may seem, Hitler attempted to destroy the Jews first because they were the smallest group.) Javier Solana is the key player in European Union activities. There is very definitely a New Age political face to this power...growth of a single governmental power, dislike of monotheism and the morality it promotes. Sounds like another movement that grew in the 20's and '30s. Many who read this would like to see monotheistic religion dropped as a determinant of a culture's morality. I can only remind them that power corrupts. Constance Cumbey has been following Solana's activities since 1995. She recently called attention to an important statement by Solana. This is the story on which the email subject line and the following two comments are based: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,165132,00.html It should be interesting to see how Solana and company want to settle the situation in the Mideast without taking Judaism and Islam into account. Probably all will be told you can have your rituals and spirituality in public, but keep your own morality in your house, behind closed doors if it is in disagreement in any way with what the decreed public morality is ordered to be. 1. This is a transcript of AM broadcast at 08:00 AEST on local radio. EU says US letting religion drive its foreign policy AM - Thursday, January 9, 2003 8:03 LINDA MOTTRAM: America and its allies
[CTRL] Fw: 1. - Hundreds of thousands of child casualties predicted in Iraq - 2. - 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart-remote To: Vicki No Sanctions Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:09 PM Subject: 1. - Hundreds of thousands of child casualties predicted in Iraq - 2. - 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours 2 items: 1) Hundreds of thousands of child casualties predicted in Iraq 2) 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours =Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:19:05 +0200 From: Rick Rozoff Subject: Iraq. Hundreds Of Thousands Of Iraqi Child Casualities Predicted. HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://world.scmp.com/worldnews/ZZZIJGBIWAD.html Hundreds of thousands of child casualties predicted in Iraq South China Morning Post January 28, 2003 ASSOCIATED PRESS in Baghdad Death, disease and starvation await Iraq's children should war break out, and casualties in the hundreds of thousands cannot be ruled out, says an! independent team of European and American experts. Members of the International Study Team, they predict a "grave humanitarian disaster". The panel includes academics, researchers, physicians and child psychologists. Their report, "The Impact of a New War on Iraq Children", was based on information collected in three Iraqi cities - Baghdad, Basra and Karbala - and interviews with 200 families. The team did not receive any help from the Iraqi government and hired its own interpreters, said team leader Eric Hoskins, a Canadian. Dr Hoskins said at least 500,000 Iraqi children were either malnourished or underweight. Iraq has only a one-month supply of food and a three-month supply of drugs in central hospitals. Iraq has about 25 million people. "Iraq's 13 million children are at a grave risk of starvation, disease, death and psychological trauma," Dr Hoskins said. He said those under 18 were worse off than on the eve of t! he 1991 Gulf War, when a US-led coalition drove Iraq's army out of Kuwait. The UN sanctions were imposed after the 1990 invasion. Twelve years of economic sanctions have left Iraq's economy shattered, although expansion of the oil-for-food programme has improved conditions. Under the programme, Iraq is allowed to sell unlimited amounts of oil to buy humanitarian goods, and to pay war reparations. "While it is impossible to predict both the nature of any war and the number of xpected deaths and injuries, casualties among children will be in the thousands, probably in the tens of thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands," Dr Hoskins said. "No one is ready for this war, not the national government not the United Nations," he said, referring to preparations for any humanitarian crisis that may result from a military assault on Iraq. The International Study Team's backers include World Vision Canada, Oxfam Canada, the United Chur! ch of Canada and the University of Bergen. Its report on the humanitarian situation in Iraq following the 1991 war was considered the most comprehensive of such reports, having been based on more than 9,000 household interviews in 300 locations across Iraq. = Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:18:13 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Iraq. 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours. HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- 800 missiles to hit Iraq in first 48 hours ByAndrew West and agencies January 26 2003 The Sun-Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/25/1042911596206.html The US intends to shatter Iraq "physically, emotionally and psychologically" by raining down on its people as many as 800 cruise missiles in two days. The Pentagon battle plan aims not only to crush Iraqi troops, but also wipe out power and water supplies in the capital, Baghdad. It is based on a strategy known as "Shock and Awe", conceived at the Nati! onal Defense University in Washington, in which between 300 and 400 cruise missiles would fall on Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991 GulfWar. "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," a Pentagon official told America's CBS News after a briefing on the plan. "The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before." The plan has emerged just as American diplomats at the United Nations hinted that the US Administration might be willing to give UN weapons inspectors another month to complete their task. Chief inspector Hans Blix is due to report back to the UN on Tuesday. President George Bush has been displaying increasing impatience with the pace of inspections and is eager to start the bombing. But according to UN sources he has resigned himself to the fact that the US lacks enough votes on the Security Council to! wage a military campaign. Mr Bush's belligerence yesterday found a match in comments by Uday Hussein. In a rare public appearance, the