[CTRL] A Rose by any other name ... Robbins ... Sarandon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.buzzflash.com/buzzscripts/buzz.dll/content BUZZFLASH REPORT Saturday April 12, 2003 at 1:10:12 PM Buzzflash Unearths National Baseball Hall Of Fame News Release Announcing Ari Fleischer Lecture Anti-Democracy Republican Operative Who Barred Sarandon And Robbins From Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomed Ari Fleischer To Speak at Hall Lecture Series. April 12, 2003 A BUZZFLASH BREAKING NEWS ANALYSIS Hundreds and hundreds of BuzzFlash.Com readers have inundated the venerable Baseball Hall of Fame with letters, calls and e-mails protesting the cancellation of an event honoring the legendary film Bull Durham. (http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/10_baseball.html) The celebration -- featuring stars Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Robert Wuhl -- was abruptly deep-sixed by Dale Petroskey, a former White House assistant press secretary under Ronald Reagan and obvious Karl Rove protg. Petroskey wrote to Sarandon and Robbins to lambaste their political views: In a free country such as ours, every American has the right to his or her own opinions, and to express them. Public figures, such as you, have platforms much larger than the average American's, which provides you an extraordinary opportunity to have your views heard -- and an equally large obligation to act and speak responsibly We believe your very public criticism of President Bush at this important -- and sensitive -- time in our nation's history helps undermine the U.S. position, which ultimately could put our troops in even more danger. As an institution, we stand behind our President and our troops in this conflict. Not that it matters because the Baseball Hall of Fame should not be in the business of censoring political viewpoints, but Petroskey never -- even by his own admission after the fact -- asked Sarandon and Robbins if they would agree to keep politics out of the celebration. So, it was a White House/Hall of Fame set-up from the get-go. BuzzFlash has learned that Petroskey hasn't always been so concerned about politics entering into the Hall of Fame's official programming. In fact, BuzzFlash.Com has unearthed a January 17th, 2002, Cooperstown Hall of Fame news release in which Petroskey announces the appearance of Ari Fleischer -- Yes, that Ari Fleischer -- at a National Baseball Hall of Fame lecture series on February 2 of last year. In the news release, Petroskey glowingly praises Fleischer and details his political accomplishments. Petroskey writes that he is thrilled to welcome Fleischer for his Cooperstown lecture. Most significantly, Petroskey boasts that audience members will hear his [Fleischer's] perspective on life in the White House and the current political scene which of course includes the war on terrorism. So much for keeping politics out and the war on terrorism out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Here is Petroskey's remarks about Fleischer in the January 17, 2002, news release: The Cooperstown Winter Cultural Series opens on Saturday, February 2 in the Louis C. Jones Center at The Farmers Museum with President Bushs Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. As White House Press Secretary, Mr. Fleischer is the primary spokesperson for the President and delivers the daily White House briefing. He previously served as the Senior Communications Advisor and Spokesman for the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. Prior to joining Governor Bushs campaign, Mr. Fleischer was the national spokesman and Communications Director for Elizabeth Doles presidential campaign. Mr. Fleischer was hired by the House Committee on Ways and Means after Republicans took control of the Congress in November 1994. As Communications Director there, Mr. Fleischer was the House of Representatives principal staff spokesman on issues relating to taxes, Medicare, Social Security, welfare and international trade. In his first year Ari Fleischer has had a more demanding job than any White House Press Secretary in history said Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey. He has managed to be a candid spokesman for the President while clearly and simply articulating the Bush Administrations goals, both foreign and domestic. We are thrilled to welcome him to Cooperstown and hear his perspective on life in the White House and the current political scene which of course includes the war on terrorism. (See http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/whats_new/press_releases/2002/ pr2002_01_17.htm) The Bush Cartel literally owns the White House, Congress, most of the Federal Judiciary, most of the mainstream media. Now, we learn that they also own the politics of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Say it ain't so Joe, Say it ain't so! A BUZZFLASH BREAKING NEWS ANALYSIS BuzzFlash Note: Petroskey, in a typical Republican non-apology, tried to weasel his way out of his un-American, politically biased action in canceling the April 26-27 Bull Durham festivities. Keep inundating Petroskey with letters, e-mail and phone calls telling him
[CTRL] [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Regime Change Playing Cards (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:15:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Regime Change Playing Cards You were right about the dangerous precedent of regime change by force as foreign policy. Wonder when the Troglydytes of Afghanistan will issue THEIR decks of regime change playing cards. CBC's Passionate Eye estimated that a suitcase nuke could sell for about $10,000,000. Even Trogs often have that kind of money. POC Join Freeserve www.freeserve.com/time Winner of the 2003 Internet Service Providers' Association awards for Best Unmetered ISP and Best Consumer Application. -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX To leave the Group, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Prize for Blocking American Armies
-Caveat Lector- http://www.turkishdailynews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm 12 April 2003 Exclusive interview with the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Turkey says EU membership process is on its way ITC calls for U.S.-Turkish committee to investigate Kirkuk events UN council deadlocks on Cyprus peace initiative Turkey reviews military readiness for possible operation Turcomans take to streets in Ankara and Istanbul Exclusive interview with the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Gul: Don't test Turkey's northern Iraq resolve The foreign minister stresses that Turkey explained to U.S. and Iraqi Kurds in 'clear terms' its concerns in northern Iraq and made clear that it would take any required action if pledges made to Ankara were not abided with Yusuf Kanli Ilnur Cevik Turkey has strongly warned the United States and Iraqi Kurdish factions Friday that Ankara's northern Iraq resolve should not be tested. In an exclusive interview with the Turkish Daily News, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul stressed that Turkey was not yet satisfied with the actions taken by the United States following the occupation of Kirkuk by Iraqi Kurds in contravention to previous pledges made to Ankara. Gul said Turkey understands that because of the uncertainty brought about with the war, some developments may evolve out of control, but warned that If these out of control developments could not be corrected or there is a disability to correct these, then we would not hesitate to undertake whatever we are required to do. Everyone knows this. The world knows this. And the people in northern Iraq know this better than anyone else. The foreign minister said Turkey was not a country which could be tested with fait accompli. No one can stage a fait accompli for a country like Turkey. Everyone must know this. Everyone who might have the intention of making some gains by staging a fait accompli must know that no fait accompli may be staged against Turkey. Turkey shall definitely not allow such things, he said. Upset with the occupation of Kirkuk by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan peshmergas, Gul said Turkey was now following the developments and will look at the end result. The PUK peshmergas were withdrawn from Kirkuk Friday but the news of the withdrawal coincided with reports Mousul was captured and a large group of peshmergas, together with a small contingent of U.S. troops, entered the city. Turkey has told the United States and Iraqi Kurds in talks over the past several months that if the cities were occupied by the peshmergas and if civilian movements towards the cities in a manner that could change the demographic situation was allowed, it would not hesitate from sending its troops into northern Iraq. Gul, talking with the TDN moments before he attended a key policy-making meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok on northern Iraq situation, did not rule out a possible incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq. We will look whether there is compliance with the pledges made to Turkey or a fait accompli is wanted to be implemented within a span of time. For sure, we have plans and programs ready for any eventuality. These are issues unfolding on a daily and momentary basis. We are closely following the developments and let everybody know that when it is required we shall definitely not hesitate from taking any required decision. Right from the beginning we have said Inshallah, there won't be a need for such a decision and to take such a step, but if and when such a need arises, the moment we see the pledges and assurances made to Turkey were not serving any purpose, we shall evaluate the evolvement of the developments and won't hesitate from taking the appropriate decisions accordingly. There is no question on this, he said. Gul warned that withdrawal of peshmergas from the cities won't be enough, and underlined that any move aimed at changing the demography of the cities, would be unwelcome. It is out of the question for Turkey to accept any planned move in the region aimed at changing the demography of the area. Everything must evolve in its natural course. An attempt to benefit from the atmosphere of disorder and confusion and to change the demography of the area with armed or unarmed population movements. We have said that we won't allow such moves and we are determined not to allow such moves. Everyone must know this. We shall not accept such moves with ulterior motives designed to serve some future aims, he warned. Gul also denied claims that the government has left some key decisions to the military. He said the political will was with the government and all through the Iraq war process, the military respected government decisions without any hesitation. The political will is with the government. All institutions of the Turkish state are abiding without any hesitation with the political will expressed by the
[CTRL] Vacuum Waiting to be filled
-Caveat Lector- 10.04.2003 - 17:44 CET http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=9aid=10897 Kirkuk falls to Kurds, Turkey mobilised The fall of Saddam Hussein has left a power vacuum in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk (Photo: Jan Oberg) EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Following the fall of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk into Kurdish hands, Turkey has announced it will send military observers into the city, and has restated that they will send in troops if necessary. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gl said, after talks with his US counterpart Colin Powell on Thursday, that Turkey had reminded the US of their promise that Kurdish forces would not control oil-rich Kirkuk after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Mr Gl also announced that Turkey would send military observers into the city to ensure that Kurdish Peshmerga (allied to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) withdraw from the city. The Peshmerga entered the city early on Thursday with some US special forces a spokesperson for the PUK said. Reports indicate that only a handful of US forces are actually in the city, wrong-footed by the Kurdish forces who entered the city sooner than expected and not in synchronisation with coalition forces, as had been planned. However one US official told the EUobserver that Turkey has been reassured that US forces are in control. In a sign of how potentially explosive the situation is, Washington is backing limited Turkish involvement but are anxious to play-down military overtones. We would be happy to have liaison officers accompany some of our units in the interest of transparency said one US diplomat. It is not clear yet how many observers will be involved or what their role will be. Both the US and Turkey now find themselves in an extremely difficult situation. Ankara fears a Kurdish controlled Kirkuk would fuel Kurdish aspirations to statehood and could potentially envelope the whole of South East Turkey, also a Kurdish area. Turkey's aspirations to enter the European Union hinge on fulfilling a number of political criteria one of which is having good relations with neighbouring countries. A number of EU member states, most notably Belgium, have warned that Turkish accession to the Union would be unthinkable if Turkish forces were to enter northern Iraq. The European Union has repeatedly emphasised the need for all countries in the region to respect Iraq's territorial integrity. The US also has to play its hand carefully stopping Turkey acting unilaterally which could lead to clashes between Kurds and Turks, creating a war within a war. But Washington also needs to keep the Kurdish groups on board as they will be a helpful ally in future battles in the north of Iraq and in helping set up an interim administration. Kurds make up approximately 20% of Iraq's population. Press Articles Boston Globe Washington Post Le Monde El Mundo Gazeta Wyborcza RTP Ha'aretz BBC Written by Andrew Beatty Edited by Honor Mahony 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 Sutra 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A
[CTRL] QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN BUSH
-Caveat Lector- The war in Iraq is really about peace -President G.W. Bush Bethesda Navy Hospital April 11, 2003 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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] Repeal of 22nd Amendment (It's for real)
-Caveat Lector- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query THIS SEARCH THIS DOCUMENT GO TO Next HitForward New Bills Search Prev HitBack HomePage Hit ListBest Sections Help Contents Display GPO's PDF version of this bill References to this bill in the Congressional Record Link to the Bill Summary Status file. Printer Friendly Display - 1,482 bytes.[Help] Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual... (Introduced in House) HJRES 11 IH 108th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 11 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 7, 2003 Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification: `Article-- `The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'. 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://archive.jab.org/[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] Repeal of 22nd Amendment
-Caveat Lector- This is the Representativewho introduced the bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Text Only BiographyMay 2002 Rep. José E. Serrano (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary of the exclusive and powerful House Appropriations Committee, represents the Sixteenth Congressional District in the Bronx. This year, Serrano, who also serves in the influential House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, celebrates his 28th year in the public service. Serrano has been in Congress for seven terms. Congressman Serrano was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico on October 24, 1943, but when he was seven years-old his family moved to the South Bronx, where he attended public schools and completed courses at Lehman College, City University of New York. The most senior member of the three stateside Puerto Ricans in Congress, he served in the 172nd Support Battalion, Fort Wainright, Alaska, in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Before being elected to the United States Congress, Serrano had a distinguished sixteen year career in the New York State Assembly, including six years as chairman of the Education Committee. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1974, and was re-elected and continued to represent the same Bronx communities until his election to the U.S. Congress. In 1983, Serrano was appointed Chairman of the Assembly's Committee on Education. He authored legislation that doubled state funding for bilingual education programs in 125 languages and provided $50 million in funding for New York City to combat school drop-out crisis. Working to better the future of children has been very satisfying for Serrano. Elected by an overwhelming majority to represent New York's 18th Congressional District by a special ballot, Serrano was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in March 1990. Serrano was re-elected to serve a full term in November 1990. In 1992 he was reelected to represent the newly drawn 16th Congressional District as well as in 1994, 1996, 1998 and again in 2000 each time receiving wide margins of support. The first bill of which Serrano was a prime sponsor (P.L. 101 600) provides funding for successful school drop out prevention programs. It was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on November 16, 1990. His most recent legislative proposal enacted into law (H.R. 2897) followed the September 11th terrorists attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. This bill was incorporated into a larger bill and signed into law at the end of 2001. It granted posthumous citizenship to non-citizens who died as a result of the September 11th attacks and who had already started the petition process to become U.S. citizens. During his time in Congress, Serrano has co-sponsored a number of major bills including the Civil Rights Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Higher Education Act, the Brady gun control bill, and the César Chávez Workplace Fairness Act. During the 102nd Congress, Serrano sponsored the Voting Rights Improvement Act, mandating bilingual registration and voting, and the Classroom Safety Act, to provide funds for programs to discourage violence and protect students and teachers. Through his first full term, Congressman Serrano served on the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Small Business. In 1992, Serrano was appointed to the prestigious Appropriations Committee, an exclusive committee -because Members serve solely on that committee- responsible for approving the expenditure of federal funds and for applying fiscal discipline to the federal budget process. Serrano served then on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, and on Subcommittees on the Legislative Branch and on Agriculture. Congressman Serrano was instrumental in the allocation of $7.5 billion for child nutrition programs and $28 billion for food stamps, $3.3 billion for Head Start, $543.2 million for AIDS prevention and $111.5 million for tuberculosis control grants. In addition, in 1992, Serrano was elected by his colleagues to serve a two-year term as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and chaired its administrative branch, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Continuing as a member of the Hispanic Caucus, Congressman Serrano now serves on the Civil Rights and Census Task Force. During the 107th Congress, he has led the
[CTRL] QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN DUBYA: 2
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[CTRL] QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN DUBYA: 3
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-Caveat Lector- Evil doers can imitate nice folks in clever ways. They misunderestimated me. -G.W. Bush __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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- I want my administration to be remembered for making America a more literate country and a hopefuller country. -G.W. Bush __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Repeal of 22nd Amendment (It's for real)
-Caveat Lector- Search carefully there are two HJRES11 IH HJ25 IH - Original Message - From: Jim Rarey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: [CTRL] Repeal of 22nd Amendment (It's for real) -Caveat Lector- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query THIS SEARCH THIS DOCUMENT GO TO Next HitForward New Bills Search Prev HitBack HomePage Hit ListBest Sections Help Contents Display GPO's PDF version of this bill References to this bill in the Congressional Record Link to the Bill Summary Status file. Printer Friendly Display - 1,482 bytes.[Help] Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual... (Introduced in House) HJRES 11 IH 108th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 11 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 7, 2003 Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification: `Article-- `The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'. 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://archive.jab.org/[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 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://archive.jab.org/[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] Killing a child: 'I did what I had to do'
-Caveat Lector- http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/08/1049567660897.html Killing a child: 'I did what I had to do' April 8 2003, 12:49 PM When a young Iraqi boy stooped to pick up a rocket propelled grenade off the body of a dead paramilitary, US Army Private Nick Boggs made his decision. He unloaded machinegun fire and the boy, whom he puts at about 10 years old, fell dead on a garbage-strewn stretch of waste land at Karbala. Boggs, a softly spoken 21-year-old former hunting guide from Alaska, says he knew when he joined the army 18 months ago he might someday have to make a decision like that. He hoped it would never come and, although he has no regrets about opening fire, it is clear he'd rather it wasn't a child he killed. I did what I had to do. I don't have a big problem with it but anyone who shoots a little kid has to feel something, he said after fierce weekend fighting in this Shi'ite Muslim holy city that left dozens of Iraqis and one American soldier dead. As US troops take the Iraq war out of the desert and into the main cities, they are increasingly seeing children in their line of fire. Many are innocent civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time and military officers concede that some may have been killed in artillery or mortar fire, or shot down by soldiers whose judgment is impaired in the fog of war. But others are apparently being used as fighters or more often as scouts and weapons collectors. US officers and soldiers say that turns them into legitimate targets. I think they're cowards, Boggs said of the parents or Fedayeen paramilitaries who send out children to the battlefield. I think they thought we wouldn't shoot kids. But we showed them we don't care. We are going to do what we have to do to stay alive and keep ourselves safe. The boy he killed was with another child of around the same age when they reached for the RPG and came under fire. Boggs thinks the second boy was also hit but other soldiers think he escaped and that he dragged his friend's dead body away. Boggs' platoon leader, Lieutenant Jason Davis, said the young soldier struggles with what happened even if he had no choice but to shoot. Does it haunt him? Absolutely. It haunts me and I didn't even pull the trigger, he said. It blows my mind that they can put their children into that kind of situation. Although Boggs plays down suggestions he was upset by the incident, he also says his view of combat has changed since Saturday, when his platoon came under intense RPG and rifle fire from the moment they entered Karbala until way after nightfall. Before - like many young soldiers - he says he was anxious to get his first kill in a war. Now, he seems more mature. It's not about killing people. It's about accomplishing a mission ... When we talk, we don't say how scared we were. But we found out how you feel when an RPG hits the wall just up from you and you think 'Damn, I could have been right there', he said. News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www1.iraqwar.ru/?userlang=en http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.overthrow.com/ http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/politics/content.htm 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://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[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) Liberation tastes like crow to anti-war crowd
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- townhall.com Liberation tastes like crow to anti-war crowd Kathleen Parker April 12, 2003 What was that whimpering sound? Oh that. It's just the Yes, but crowd formerly known as the anti-war pundits. Ignore them. Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to couch this unseemly turn of events. One might almost think they didn't want Saddam to fall. You couldn't help noticing the careful balance the antis tried to strike between reluctant admission and preachy admonition. The formula goes something like this: Yes, we defeated Iraq, BUT . let's not get too carried away, it ain't over yet. No one exercised this template better - or more oddly - than New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Here are a couple of snippets from her column the day Baghdad collapsed: Victory in Iraq will be a truly historic event, BUT (my emphasis) it will be exceedingly weird and dangerous if this administration turns America into Sparta. And this: There remains the unfinished business of Osama bin Laden. BUT (my emphasis) the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom should not mark the beginning of Operation Eternal War. Hardly anything to argue with there. But, Sparta? Reading the myriad yes-butters, I keep free-associating to the final scene of Sleeping With the Enemy, after actress Julia Roberts has shot her loathsome, raping, tyrannical husband. The audience titters in dread, hoping he's truly dead but suspecting a final terrifying lurch from near-death to unleash a fatal blow. Here's the connection: While those who supported the coalition assault on Iraq really do hope Saddam is dead and cautiously celebrate the demise of his regime, the anti-war gang, we suspect, is tittering hopefully that he will yet spring again from near-death and make us wrong after all. Nah, no one really wants Saddam to return to power. He was, to mimic Dowd's vernacular, such a meanie-weanie. Still, the Bush-bashers have plenty of reason to wish for something less spectacular than a free and happy Iraq festooned with flowers and sloppy with kisses for trench-scented soldiers. It's hard to admit you were flat wrong. It's also hard to be humble when you're right, but guess who is both? Guess who first cautioned against glibness, hubris, immodesty and arrogance? Those mean men Dowd can never bring herself to address as adults: her Bushy, Rummy and Wolfie. The lead players in this epochal drama have spoken with the restraint and authority of grown-ups undistracted by childish antics, either from the pacifist nursery or from exuberant Iraqis tasting freedom, in some cases for the first time. Let them rant or Let them loot, as the case may be, is an attitude of tolerance born of higher sights. The media are having a little more fun. The conservative Media Research Center, which monitors liberal slant in the media, quickly posted a special Gloat and Quote edition, showcasing the predictions and news analyses proved ridiculous by recent events. Various bloggers and Web sites, including National Review Online and Andrew Sullivan, did the same, providing amusing anecdotes for dull parties. Meanwhile, it's a good idea to stay focused, as Bush has urged without the prompting of pundits. There's hard work ahead, though Operation Eternal War isn't likely part of the plan. As in all wars, there are no guarantees, no certainties, even though Dowd now asserts: We were always going to win the war with Iraq. Who says girls can't keep secrets? Here's what we really do know: Coalition forces have gotten this far in the game, as Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, churlishly put it, through gritty determination and the unflinching conviction that we were doing the right thing. Those who supported the war policy had no special sixth sense, no claim to revelation or prescience. Rather they possessed an unambiguous moral clarity. As journalist Christopher Hitchens put it during a television interview - and I paraphrase wildly from memory - There's just no way that allowing Saddam to continue butchering innocents and potentially threatening the rest of the world can be viewed as a morally superior position. No doubt the antis and naysayers, who seem to favor any old status quo to the frightening prospect of upheaval, will lurch again from whimpering near-death to unleash new protestations. Little matter. They have proven themselves irrelevant to today's reality, which includes a freed Iraqi people for whom the operative conjunctive phrase isn't Yes, but but Yes, and. --- 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
[CTRL] The Attack on Iraq from the Perspective of a Serbian Woman
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Artel To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: ARTEL: The Attack on Iraq from the Perspective of a Serbian Woman by www.artel.co.yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12 April 2003 Warning: If you have received this message by error or you don`t want to receive our e-mails anymore, please click on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "unsubscribe" in the subject column. The Attack on Iraq from the Perspective of a Serbian Woman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spomenka Deretic (Journalist)Belgrade, 7. April 2003 Waiting for Death The first victim of the Anglo-American attack on Iraq was the Iraqi Belgrader Adnan. That night, sitting on his couch, in his home, in one of Belgrade's suburbs, he was watching TV. The announcer suddenly, in an agitated voice, anounced the news that the Americans had begun attacking Iraq. Adnan could see the first rockets hitting Baghdad and the city's grandiose buildings being transformed into ruins. It was at that moment that Adnan's heart simply stopped beating. We will never know for sure what Adnan was thinking about at that moment. Was he thinking about the injured Iraqi children? Or his sister (an english professor)? Or of his familly home? Or the brutal destruction of a beautiful city and an old, civilized people? Adnan often told his Serbian wife and his friends in Serbia that oil was a curse for Iraqis, not a source of wealth. Adnan believed that oil attracted today's rapacious conquerors, just as once, the fertile lands of Babylon - regulated by intricate canal systems - attracted conquerors and plunderers. The night before the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, Adnan was speaking with his sister who was still in Baghdad. Adnan's sister (the english professor), was telling him that she no longer closed the gate to their father's house. "We Iraqis" she said " wait every morning for only one guest now - DEATH" The Ninth Crusade The feudal rulers of Western and Central Europe led wars of conquest against the lands and peoples of the Middle East for a whole three-centuries (from the XIth to the XIVth). The Western and Central European political elite of the middle wages wanted, so they said, to "liberate" Christ's grave in Jerusalem from Muslim rule. This is why they called their soldiers Crusaders and the "liberators" of Christ's grave. But those Europeans were, in fact, really only a bunch of common criminals and thiefs. They were more attracted by the wealth of the Middle East and the desire to control the lucrative trade routes with the other Asian and African states of the era. The false "liberators" of Christ's grave even robbed and massacred the citizens of wealthy Constantinople, the main city of Byzantine Christiandom. The Eigth Crusade led by these thieving Crusaders was initiated by his "Holiness" Louis IX. The Ninth Crusade was called "Freedom for Iraqis" and was led by George Bush II. The goals of both Lois the IXth and Bush the IInd were identical: the conquest of other countries and the plunder of other people's wealth. In the Middle Ages the justification for the killing of other peoples and the destruction of other nations was the "liberation" of Christ's grave. Today the justification for the destruction and looting of Iraq is the battle against "terrorism." In fact, the real terrorism is the destruction of the valuable material remains of old civilizations. In Iraq, at the turn of the 20th century, the German archeologist Kohldevey (sp?) uncovered physical evidence that confirmed Herodotus' accounts of the highly-developed nature of Babylonian culture. The Anglo-American pilots who bombed Al-Qasr were also bombing some of the oldest monuments of ancient Babylon. Until this month, one could find strucures that were at least 4000 years old in the region, with the Gate of the Godess Istar, decorated in the richest ways, one of the key surviving monuments of this glorious history. It would seem that when the Americans and British break through this gate - representative of all human civilization - they will build in its place a monument to the Marines and to the all-mighty Barrel of Oil instead. A Pyrrhic Victor for the Americans and the British The Americans and the British expected that they would easily occupy Iraq. They were suprised by the heroic resistance of the Iraqi people. They became frustrated and angry that the Iraqis were defending themselves and their own land. Bush the IInd and Blair the Ist's soldiers and rockets unceasingly rained-down on Iraqi cities and the Iraqi people in direct proportion to the people's resistance. They bombed Iraqi TV, just as NATO had bombed the workers of TV Belgrade four years ago [killing 14]. The Americans and the British have killed in the past few weeks alone over a thousand Iraqi civilians. Iraqi children injured in this assault will - if they survive - only remember the foreign
[CTRL] Al-Saadi After Surrendering
-Caveat Lector- http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-04/12/article10.shtml No Banned Arms In Iraq: Al-Saadi After Surrendering I tell you for history: we have nothing, not to defend the regime, Saadi BAGHDAD, April 12 (IslamOnline.net News Agencies) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's top weapons advisor insisted while surrendering to U.S. troops here Saturday, April 12, that he was ready for questioning because the ousted regime did not have arms of mass destruction. I expect to be questioned, to be interrogated about the Iraqi armament program, General Amer Al-Saadi, a rockets specialist and Saddam's chief weapons advisor, told German ZDF public television, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said. Iraq Has No Banned Arms I tell you for history: we have nothing, not to defend the regime, said Saadi, who was the chief interlocutor of U.S. disarmament experts, referring to U.S.-British allegations that the Saddam regime still had prohibited weapons. Saadi told the station that he had remained in his Baghdad home even after U.S.-led forces entered the Iraqi capital Wednesday, April 10, and that he decided to give himself up because he felt in no way guilty. He accused the United States of attacking Iraq without reason. The U.S. launched its war against Iraq without UN authorization and without providing any evidence that Iraq possess any banned weapons. Before the war, the general had been charged by Saddam with liaising with the UN arms inspectors verifying Baghdad's assertion that it had no program for weapons of mass destruction. ZDF footage viewed in Baghdad showed Saadi wearing a mustard shirt and black trousers while speaking with his German wife, Helma, his brother and his nephew in the garden of his home in an undisclosed location in the capital. Then Saadi sat in the back seat of the ZDF van next to the journalist who was interviewing him along the way. Saadi was seen stepping down from the vehicle near a public bath on Abu Nawas avenue which travels along the eastern bank of the Tigris river, on the opposite side of the U.S.-controlled Republic Palace of Saddam Hussein. Saadi shook hands with the U.S. troops who told him that he could take along his wife, but the weapons specialist insisted on going alone. He kissed his wife on the cheek before sitting in the passenger seat of a U.S. military truck that took off to an undisclosed location. Saadi, an avid tennis player, was carrying only a small sports bag. A ZDF statement said Saadi declared in an interview to be aired later Saturday that he had no information on the whereabouts of Saddam, who has not given sign of life since a U.S. air strike on a Baghdad building where he was believed to have been present on Monday, April 7. He also said that Iraq had no chemical or biological weapons. The station said in the statement that Saadi wished to be accompanied by a ZDF team when he gave himself up. ZDF said Saadi appears on a list of 52 most wanted Iraqis released by the U.S. Defense Department on Friday under the name Amir Hamudi Hasan with the title of presidential scientific advisor. The Defense Department's list takes the form of playing cards. Saadi, or Hasan, is represented by the seven of diamonds. 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 Sutra 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.
Re: [CTRL] Knitting
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 4/12/2003 12:54:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While it seemed incomprehensible that muscular teenage men would beat an elderly woman, the 68-year-old grandmother said, they didand they seemed to enjoy it. The Israeli have become what they abhored. They are what the Nazi were fifty years ago. Of course they enjoy inflicting pain. They have been trained that if anyone does what they do not like, they should hurt or kill them. Won't it be a lovely place when they've finally killed off all the Palestinians. Having learned to enjoy sadism, they will turn on their own. What is that term? Oh yes--Zion. Uh huh! Prudy 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://archive.jab.org/[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] [JBirch] Ten Worst Tax Laws (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:07 -0700 From: Paul Blumstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Subject: [JBirch] Ten Worst Tax Laws http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/04-14-03/10taxlaws.htm Ten Worst Tax Laws Human Events asked a panel of 14 distinguished judges, ranging from Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to our own Stephen Moore, to pick the Ten Worst provisions in the federal tax code. Each judge made nominations, then submitted a ballot ranking their Ten Worst from the full list of nominees. A provision received ten points for a Number 1 vote, nine points for a Number 2 vote, and so on. The estate tax won with the highest aggregate score of 71. Here are all the winners in ignoble order. 1. Estate Tax * Score: 71 * Started when: 1916 * By whom: President Woodrow Wilson signed the estate tax into law. * Why: To tax the rich and redistribute wealth. * What it does: Nicknamed the death tax, it requires families or other heirs to pay up to half the assessed value of a deceased person's estate. Before the Bush cut, rates ranged from 18% to 55%. A 5-percent surtax was imposed on transfers between $10 million and $17.2 million, creating an effective 60-percent rate. Under the Bush cut, the top rate was instantly reduced to 50%, and the 5-percent surtax repealed. The rate will be reduced and the unified credit increased from $625,000 to $3.5 million until 2010 when the estate tax will be repealed. But the repeal will expire on December 31, 2010. * Revenue: In fiscal 2002, the unified estate and gift taxes brought in $27.2 billion in revenue-1.3% of the over $2 trillion in federal revenues. * Reform efforts: In 2000, President Clinton vetoed a repeal of the estate tax passed by Congress. In 2002, the House voted to make the repeal permanent, but Senate Democrats blocked it. This year, five bills have been introduced to make the repeal permanent. 2. Double Taxation of Dividends * Score: 68 * Started when: 1913 * By whom: President Howard Taft, evading the Constitution, signed the first federal corporate income tax in 1909 (see Number 5). In 1913, President Wilson's original income tax law taxed dividends as income. * Why: Conservative economists say that politicians at the time did not bother to think that by taxing dividends they were taxing the same corporate profits twice. * What it does: By taxing corporate income through the corporate income tax and then taxing that same income again when it is paid to shareholders as dividends, the government creates a disincentive for corporations to pay dividends and for investors to buy stocks. Double taxation makes dividends a highly inefficient way to distribute corporate profits-imposing an effective tax rate of up to 60% on money paid out in dividends. * Revenue: OMB estimates that taxation of dividends will bring in about $24.9 billion in fiscal 2004. If the tax is eliminated that much will go back into taxpayers pockets. * Reform efforts: President Bush has proposed abolishing the dividend tax. 3. Alternative Minimum Tax * Score: 61 * Started when: 1969 * By whom: President Richard Nixon signed it. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills (D.-Ark.) pushed it through Congress. * Why: To make sure the rich who are eligible for tax credits and deductions pay their fair share. * What it does: The personal AMT ensures that if a taxpayer's tax bill falls below a certain threshold because his taxable income has been reduced by legally applicable credits and deductions-home mortgage interest, dependent deductions, child-care credits, charitable contributions-he will have to pay a higher, predetermined rate of tax. Because the AMT is not indexed for inflation, each year it applies to Americans at lower and lower real income levels. By 2010, almost one-third of American taxpayers (35 million people) could see their taxes hiked by the AMT. Only 2.7 million are affected now. The corporate AMT discourages investment in capital equipment, thus reducing long-term economic growth. * Revenue: In 1999, the personal AMT yielded $6.5 billion (0.3% of total revenue), a 29.2% increase over the previous year. According to the Tax Foundation, in 1998, corporations paid $3.3 billion in AMT. * Reform efforts: Rep. Phil English (R.-Pa.) has introduced HR 1233 to repeal both the personal and corporate AMTs. 4. Capital Gains Tax *
Re: [CTRL] Dead Constitution (was New Antigravity Topic)
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: konehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:02:18 -0700 Subject:Re: [nuenergy] Re: Dead Constitution (was New Antigravity Topic) - off topic Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Cameras are now OFF completely (but to show chaos and looting) - that is what really makes the war seem over to John Q Public. Killing all the journalists from Holland and Al-Jazeera really made the worldwide media shut up about reporting the truth they see anymore, its not worth it. the reason that the hospitals and other places werent secured is because those actually doing the looting (of the important classified stuff like addresses and computers linked to regime members) were actually lots of soldiers in civilian clothes under orders to destory and take anything of value to the invaders, this then followed by throngs of real civilians, as a cover-up to what really happened. the reason all the hospital stuff was taken is because the people who really need it are the thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers and they are in makeshift hospitals around town. If the soldiers went to regular hospitals, they will be taken as POWs or perhaps killed. Being taken as a POW in a war that will NEVER END is pretty scary eh...you would NEVER get back homelook at what Guatanomo Bay compound does with Afghan fighters - absolutely no rights, legs chained 48hrs, and arent even classified as POWs even!treated like animals, and lots of stupid and ignorant flag-waving people think the USA should just shoot them all since they hate us (almost got into a fistfight yesterday over this... well I hate YOU, do you want to kill me now?) Funny and very cruel that some of the American Medics dont help staff the hospitals - just some of them as a token-gesture at least would be civilized. Maybe there are so many coaltion casualties we dont know about they cant. What really brought FEAR into the Iraqis was the SIX 2000lb bombs all dropped onto one location in attempt to kill Saddam in a public restaurant in wealthy middle-class district the day before Baghdad was deserted by Iraqi military and police. There MUST of been a thousand people killed or injured (eyes popped out from concussion..is this terrorism?) in this attack at least, the USA always said over and over on the media we do NOT intentionally target civilians areas Well, here is one big INTENTIONAL targeting of civilians (with always-can-be-used excuse Saddam might of been there)...and what did the MEDIA say or do or criticize about it?? NOTHING ...it was TOO scary, almost nuclear proportions, and what happens is the people who do WIN wars are ALWAYS the most mean, scary and cruel to the opposition (civilization marches on) The USA just now established to anyone that doubts it, that they are more than willing to be the most mean, cruel, and scary with the SUDDEN change in military policy: TARGETING CIVILIAN AREAS(by the way the real (or secondary) reason for the 6 2000lb bombs was to protect the left flank of the invasion into Baghdad across the rivers) so the battle of Baghdad is over, but the war continues and will probably be intense guerilla fighting for years with soldiers coming in from all different Muslim countries to take shots at American occupiers for many more years to come.. ciaoKone - Original Message - From: Bruce A. Perreault To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 8:04 AM Subject: [nuenergy] Re: Dead Constitution (was New Antigravity Topic) - off topic Steve, The greatest crime against humanity has occurred by the hands of the Bush family. It wasn't enough that over one million people of Iraqi's have died because of sanctions alone, not counting the Depleted Uranium mutations and deaths. Now, most of Iraq's hospitals are gone due to looting. Why weren't these hospitals secured by our troops? I'll tell you why... because Mr. Bush is another Hitler. What makes anyone think that he can rebuild IRAQ when our own soil is in dire trouble? He is a divider and a destroyer and we are all going to take the fall for him. If only the media would report living conditions and the true picture of the IRAQ massacre then there would be an uprising here in the USA to oust our own corrupt leaders. You and I know that this isn't going to happen. People will continue to be duped and as a consequence. our freedom will become a faded memory. Once the economic system here totally collapses there will be a few days of anarchy but this will soon be replaced with a military dictatorship. I suspect that this has been the plan all along. Do we stay and fight with the 80% that has betrayed our country or do we leave to someplace like Canada? -Bruce Steve Wingate wrote: This message has
[CTRL] Fwd: LP RELEASE: War pork
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Libertarian Party Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: LP RELEASE: War pork Date: 4/10/2003 12:44:01 PM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org === For release: April 10, 2003 === For additional information: George Getz, Communications Director Phone: (202) 333-0008 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Congress is profiteering on the war by funding special interests, Libertarians say WASHINGTON, DC -- The bill funding the war in Iraq has become jam- packed with so many special-interest favors -- such as a $250 million grant for Southern catfish farmers -- that Congress should be ashamed to vote for it, the Libertarian Party says. Unfortunately, wartime looting isn't confined to Iraq, said Geoffrey Neale, the party's national chairman. Politicians in Washington, DC, are using the fog of late-night legislating to cover their tracks as they funnel money to their political supporters. As a House-Senate conference committee negotiates the final details of legislation funding the Iraq war, Democrats and Republicans are scrambling to insert dozens of special-interest riders. Though the $80 billion package was stalled by disagreements on Wednesday, it is expected to be completed within days and presented to President Bush. According to an estimate by Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, the bill contains $20 billion in wartime pork, or spending that has no connection with the war in Iraq or the battle against terrorism. By turning the bill into a spigot for special interests, Congress is profiteering on the war -- and that should anger every American, Neale said. One especially egregious example: Republican Sen. Thad Cochran inserted language that would funnel $250 million to Southern catfish farmers, many of them in his home state of Mississippi, under the guise of providing drought relief for livestock producers. Other war-time pork includes: * $69 million to fund a Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, named after the former Missouri Congressman. * A measure intended to prevent a German company, DHL Worldwide Express, from competing with Federal Express and United Parcel Service in the delivery of military cargo. During the 2002 election cycle, UPS gave $1.5 million to Democratic and Republican candidates and $300,000 to the Republican National Committee, Neale noted. * $98 million for an agricultural research lab in Iowa, and $250 million in other Agriculture Department grants. * $3.2 billion to extend unemployment benefits for airline employees. * $11 million for Congressional salaries and expenses. * A total of $12.4 million for the Library of Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the General Accounting Office and the U.S. Court of International Trade. * $8 billion in foreign aid for nations that are supposedly helping the fight against terrorism, including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Djibouti. It's disgraceful that politicians who publicly brag about supporting our troops are privately using this war as a device to enrich special interests and benefit their own re-election campaigns, Neale said. The Libertarian Party is challenging Mr. Bush to veto this bill. Maybe that will send a message to the politicians who insist on conducting business as usual in Washington, DC -- while their fellow Americans are dying in Iraq. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBPpXFKdCSe1KnQG7RAQGnlAQAqoMhK2xqvxBvc/YYoenZyQK9 +c4hl30S RaRtS1KvN19xPGfGRE6J5UC2GeRywHGsaVYYHHLsQuwsubJDRz5h6oZlTH3ASR3 h N7HGcI+tbm6cTskmasUN2M7eWtevjE6AQC681XYI+xTzv3Q/bzOOWkJxHel6P2k 0 gbolbfZDsWU= =f/M5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- The Libertarian Partyhttp://www.lp.org/ 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 100voice: 202-333-0008 Washington DC 20037 fax: 202-333-0072 --- For subscription changes, please use the WWW form at: http://www.lp.org/action/email.html End of forwarded message 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
[CTRL] Why Do Dad Things Happen To Good Guys Like Us?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Copies to: 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John F. Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:IUFO: Why Do Dad Things Happen To Good Guys Like Us? Date sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good Guys Like Us? April 12, 2003. Do you ever get the feeling that a lot of bad things are happening to Us Good Ole Boys and Girls and wonder why? . From: l Subject: Multi-D News Congressman McDermott Depleted Uranium Bill HR 1483 McDERMOTT INTRODUCES DEPLETED URANIUM BILL March 27, 2003 http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/pr030327.html Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) today introduced legislation requiring studies on the health and environmental impact of depleted uranium (DU) munitions, as well as cleanup and mitigation of depleted uranium contamination at sites within the Uni-ed States where DU has been used or produced. McDermott, a medical doctor, has been concerned about this issue since veterans of the Gulf War started experiencing unexplained illnesses. His concern deepened, he said, after visiting Iraq, where Iraqi pediatricians told him that the incidence of severely deformed infants and childhood can-ers has skyrocketed. Depleted uranium is toxic and carcinogenic and it may well be associated with elevated rates of birth defects in babies born to those exposed to it, said McDermott. We had troops coming home sick after the Gulf War, and depleted uranium may be one of the factors responsible for that. Because of its density, the military uses depleted uranium as a protective shield around tanks. It is also part of munitions like armor-piercing bullets. Because it tends to spontaneously ignite upon impact, it is used to cause explosions. But depleted uranium, a by-product of the uranium enrichment process, is also linked to grave health concerns because of its chemical toxicity and low-level radioactivity. When depleted uranium explodes, soldiers are exposed to DU in the form of alpha-emitting airborne particles that are inhaled and shrapnel that gets embedded in the body. They are also exposed through unprotected contact with equipment. About 300 metric tons of depleted uranium was used in the Iraq during the Gulf War, and many citizens of Iraq as well as veterans of the Gulf War have experienced terrible health problems-many say as a consequence of depleted uranium. Increased rates of c-ncers, leukemia, and birth malformations are among the health problems that may be linked to DU. The Pent-gon has sent mixed signals about the effects of depleted uranium, at times claiming DU is not a health hazard, and at other times acknowledging the need for sophisticated protective gear and safety training regarding exposure to DU. The need for these studies is imperative and immediate, said McDermott. We cannot knowingly put the men and women of our armed forces in harm's way. The Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act of 2003 has several original co-sponsors, including Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.). Congressman Jim McDermott Contact Information: http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/contact.html Related Articles: THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES An interview with Dr. Doug Rokke http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm DEPLETED URANIUM: THE AMERICAN LEGACY By Sarah DeHart and Louis Farshee http://www.americaheldhostile.com/ed031503.shtml IT'S TIME FOR ANSWERS By Scott Taylor http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/091200-02.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Winston. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... From: C Subject: Depleted Uranium Weapons in W-r Dear John, I recently had a personal, face-to-face conversation on a dark night in Arizona with a rough-and-tumble man who claimed to be a former U.S. Spec-al Forces soldier in Viet Nam -- and a former C-A contract ope-ative. In response to my concern and question about uranium-depleted warheads, he explained that they were mostly used for armor-piercing ordinance against enemy tanks. The reason uranium was used is that it's extremely hard -- allowing U.S. shells to pierce enemy tanks. John Winston continued: Let me state that I'm proud of our military people who are in the fight against Iraq. I'm a veteran myself and served in the US Navy. They are doing the best that they know how. C commented: Yes -- and all our American soldiers want to go home as soon as possible. However, as
[CTRL] EURO VS DOLLAR: Petrodollar Politics Behind This War
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: EURO VS DOLLAR: Petrodollar Politics Behind This War Date sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:37:11 -0700 Defending the dollar... Put another way, the war is about world economic dominance. http://www.witness.co.za/content/2003_04/14315.htm Writing in the Sunday Times on March 30, Judge Richard Goldstone stated that there were only two lawful ways in which the U.S. could use military force against Iraq. One was if the UN Security Council sanctioned it; the other was in the case ofdire self-defence. The U.S. war against Iraq is in dire defence of dollar imperialism against the threat of the euro. http://etherzone.com/2003/sart040403.shtml THE PETRO-DOLLAR AND THE EURO: MONEY IS THE ROOT OF WAR Published in the April 4, 2003 issue of Ether Zone. War is always about achieving a political end. Even holy wars seek to impose a secular control over the vanquished. At the root of every political conflict, lies the MONEY component. On the scale of greed or fear, international discords can slide up or down. Depending on the circumstances or demands, governments rally domestic populations to accept their foreign interventionist goals. Claims of altruistic liberation are fictitious, when the rhetoric is stripped away and the real substance is exposed. Notwithstanding, variances of emphasis; the motive of money underpins the movements of all military confrontations. The case that the conquest of Iraq is about appropriating control over oil reserves is well known. The argument that removing Saddam Hussein for a friendly regime change will enhance the adherence of global community policies, secure and annex a ëgreater Israelí and project the power of the empire into the region, has been circulated widely. The excuses of a ìWar on Terrorismî, elimination of WMD, combating radical Islamics, fulfilling prophecy and personal grudges between feuding criminal families and former business partners, have been known to all. But the one aspect that seems to allude the scrutiny of most observers is that of the precarious nature of the global economy, which teeters on the fragile requirement that the US Dollar must remain as the world reserve currency. OPEC always priced oil in US Dollars. In the perceptive essay, The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq by W Clark, the thesis that a shift using the EURO as the settlement currency, drives the Bush/Cheney administration hydrocarbons geo-strategy. The Federal Reserve's greatest nightmare is that OPEC will switch its international transactions from a dollar standard to a euro standard. Iraq actually made this switch in Nov. 2000 (when the euro was worth around 82 cents), and has actually made off like a bandit considering the dollar's steady depreciation against the euro. (Note: the dollar declined 17% against the euro in 2002.) The real reason the Bush administration wants a puppet government in Iraq -- or more importantly, the reason why the corporate-military-industrial network conglomerate wants a puppet government in Iraq -- is so that it will revert back to a dollar standard and stay that way. (While also hoping to veto any wider OPEC momentum towards the euro, especially from Iran -- the 2nd largest OPEC producer who is actively discussing a switch to euros for its oil exports). The effect of an OPEC switch to the euro would be that oil-consuming nations would have to flush dollars out of their (central bank) reserve funds and replace these with euros. The dollar would crash anywhere from 20-40% in value and the consequences would be those one could expect from any currency collapse and massive inflation (think Argentina currency crisis, for example). You'd have foreign funds stream out of the U.S. stock markets and dollar denominated assets, there'd surely be a run on the banks much like the 1930s, the current account deficit would become unserviceable, the budget deficit would go into default, and so on. Your basic 3rd world economic crisis scenario. A U.K. article by Hazel Henderson, is cited that outlines the likely consequences of the displacement of the US Dollar (translate: federal reserve counterfeit species) as the reserve currency. 1. US global over-reach in the `war on terrorism' already leading to deficits as far as the eye can see -- combined with historically-high US trade deficits -- lead to a further run on the dollar. This and the stock market doldrums make the US less attractive to
[CTRL] The Weird Men Behind Bush's War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general37/theweirdmenbehind.htm The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's War By Michael Lind New Statesman - London 4-12-3 America's allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy? And what are they trying to achieve? Quasi-Marxist explanations involving big oil or American capitalism are mistaken. Yes, American oil companies and contractors will accept the spoils of the kill in Iraq. But the oil business, with its Arabist bias, did not push for this war any more than it supports the Bush administration's close alliance with Ariel Sharon. Further, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not genuine "Texas oil men" but career politicians who, in between stints in public life, would have used their connections to enrich themselves as figureheads in the wheat business, if they had been residents of Kansas, or in tech companies, had they been Californians. Equally wrong is the theory that American and European civilisation are evolving in opposite directions. The thesis of Robert Kagan, the neoconservative propagandist, that Americans are martial and Europeans pacifist, is complete nonsense. A majority of Americans voted for either Al Gore or Ralph Nader in 2000. Were it not for the over-representation of sparsely populated, right-wing states in both the presidential electoral college and the Senate, the White House and the Senate today would be controlled by Democrats, whose views and values, on everything from war to the welfare state, are very close to those of western Europeans. Both the economic-determinist theory and the clash-of-cultures theory are reassuring: they assume that the recent revolution in US foreign policy is the result of obscure but understandable forces in an orderly world. The truth is more alarming. As a result of several bizarre and unforeseeable contingencies - such as the selection rather than election of George W Bush, and 11 September - the foreign policy of the world's only global power is being made by a small clique that is unrepresentative of either the US population or the mainstream foreign policy establishment. The core group now in charge consists of neoconservative defence intellectuals (they are called "neoconservatives" because many of them started off as anti-Stalinist leftists or liberals before moving to the far right). Inside the government, the chief defence intellectuals include Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence. He is the defence mastermind of the Bush administration; Donald Rumsfeld is an elderly figurehead who holds the position of defence secretary only because Wolfowitz himself is too controversial. Others include Douglas Feith, the number three at the Pentagon; Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a Wolfowitz protege who is Cheney's chief of staff; John R Bolton, a right-winger assigned to the State Department to keep Colin Powell in check; and Elliott Abrams, recently appointed to head Middle East policy at the National Security Council. On the outside are James Woolsey, the former CIA director, who has tried repeatedly to link both 9/11 and the anthrax letters in the US to Saddam Hussein, and Richard Perle, who has just resigned from his unpaid defence department advisory post after a lobbying scandal. Most of these "experts" never served in the military. But their headquarters is now the civilian defence secretary's office, where these Republican political appointees are despised and distrusted by the largely Republican career soldiers. Most neoconservative defence intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the largely Jewish-American Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti- communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history. Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party's tactics, including preventive warfare such Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for "democracy". They call their revolutionary ideology "Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism. Genuine American Wilsonians believe in self-determination for people such as the Palestinians. The neo-con defence intellectuals, as well as being in or around the actual Pentagon, are at the centre of a metaphorical "pentagon" of the Israel lobby and the religious right, plus conservative think- tanks, foundations and media empires. Think-tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) provide homes for neo-con "in-and- outers" when they are out of government (Perle is a fellow at AEI). The money comes not so much from corporations as from decades-old
[CTRL] It Is About Oil, But Not All About Oil
-Caveat Lector- http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?heading=Memo+on+the+Margin It Is About Oil, But Not All About Oil Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: Secret Bechtel Documents Someone sent me this Counterpunch article yesterday, by a fellow named David Lindorff who I dont remember ever meeting. I like Counterpunch, though, so I read it, and really did not find anything in it that I disagreed with. There are a lot of people who will make a lot of money out of the war, which is one reason we have wars, and it would not be surprising to find Bechtel Corp. at the center of these financial bonanzas. Oil and money is not the primary reason for the war, but it is a good part of it, which is why I recommend the Lindorff exposition. When you think of Bechtel, the global construction company, think of George Shultz, who sits next to Richard Perle at the Defense Policy Board, which ordered up the war with Iraq. One of these days Ill have to write about Shultzs role as an agent of the Establishment over the past three decades. (He was the Treasury Secretary who floated the U.S. dollar away from gold, for example.) But this is a most interesting piece that will get you started: * * * * * April 9, 2003 Counterpunch Special Report Secret Bechtel Documents Reveal: Yes, It Is About Oil By DAVID LINDORFF Is the war against Iraq all about oil? Not to hear Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell it. Back on November 15, he called the notion that oil was the real reason behind the Bush administration's drive against Saddam Hussein "nonsense," saying, "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil." But a new study released by the Institute for Policy Studies, based upon secret diplomatic cables just declassified by the National Archives, and internal communications of the Bechtel Corporation, suggests just the opposite: that oil is the underlying cause of this war. The study, which discloses the intimate links between the Bechtel Corporation and Bechtel executives and U.S. policy towards Iraq, also shows that some key players in the push for America's war against Iraq, including Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other former Reagan administration officials Roger Robinson, Judge William B. Clark and Robert McFarlane, have been intimately involved in issues relating to Iraqi oil as far back as the 1980s. Titled "Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein," this report traces an intense effort by Reagan officials in the mid-OE80s to win Hussein's approval for a $2-billion oil pipeline to be built by Bechtel, running from the Euphrates oilfields in southern Iraq westward to Jordan and the Gulf of Aqaba. A key player in that effort was Rumsfeld, then the CEO of Searle, the giant pharmaceutical company. One particularly revealing 1983 memo, declassified for the first time in February by the National Archives, concerns a trip by Rumsfeld to Iraq. Acting as a special White House "peace envoy" allegedly to discuss with Hussein and then foreign minister Tariq Aziz the bloody war between Iran and Iraq, Rumsfeld turns out according to this memo to have been talking not about that war, but about Bechtel's proposed Aqaba pipeline. In his memo to Secretary of State George Schultz reporting on the meeting with Hussein, Rumsfeld talks at length about the pipeline discussion, but makes no mention of having discussed either the war or charges that Hussein's army was using chemical weapons against the Iranians. The intense focus of Rumsfeld, Schultz (a former president of Bechtel), Cheney and other Reagan officials, in concert with Bechtel, on the pipeline, reads like an abbreviated, or mini "Pentagon Papers," laying the groundwork for a collapse in relations between the U.S. and Iraq, and eventually to war. The documents also cast Bechtel's current position as one of two top candidates for the lucrative contract to "rebuild Iraq" in a troubling light. As American troops press into Baghdad, and Iraqi casualties run into the thousands, Counterpunch speaks with Jim Valette, director of research at the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, and one of the three authors of "Crude Vision." Q: What prompted this study? A: We were examining the interconnections between private corporations and the U.S. government in the pursuit of oil worldwide since 1995--principally the U.S. financing --through the World Bank and US agencies like the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), etc. of that pursuit. But what has clearly occurred in recent months has been clearly an even more serious _expression_ of this pursuit of fossil fuels for the benefit of Big Oil, which is an extension of this relation into the military role. And so we're looking at the deployment of troops and paramilitaries financed by the U.S. government worldwide, and of course the most serious conflict of interest is in
[CTRL] (1 of 2) The Ignoble Liars Behind Bush's Deadly Iraq War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015ignoble_liars_js_.html The `Ignoble Liars' Behind Bush's Deadly Iraq War by Jeffrey Steinberg On Sunday, March 16, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from his cave to appear on the NBC News "Meet the Press" show, for a one-hour interview with Tim Russert. In the course of the hour, Cheney all-but-announced that there was nothing that Saddam Hussein could do to avert an unprovoked and unjustifiable American military invasion of Iraq. Cheney repeatedly referred to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the "historic watershed" that, for the first time, justified an American unilateral preventive war. Yet Cheney himself, a dozen years earlier, had embraced the idea of preventive warnot against a Saddam Hussein who had been armed by the Reagan and Bush Administrations with weapons of mass destruction, but against any nation or combination of nations that challenged American global military primacy in the post-Soviet world. On the pivotal issue of preventive war, Cheney was lying, willfully. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Cheney's extraordinary hour-long pronouncement was composed, almost exclusively, of disinformation, which had either already been publicly discredited, or would soon be exposed as lies. Cheney asserted that Saddam Hussein was actively pursuing the acquisition of nuclear weapons, when, days earlier, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief weapons inspector Mohammed El-Baradei had testified before the UN Security Council that the allegations were based on documents determined to be forgeries. Indeed, in the March 31 issue of The New Yorker magazine, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh detailed how IAEA investigators had determined, in just several hours of research, that purported Niger government communiqus confirming the sale of 500 tons of "yellow cake" uranium precursor to Baghdad, were shoddy forgeries, drawn up on outdated Niger government letterheads. Hersh wrote that the forgeries were passed to the Bush Administration, through British MI6, and had probably originated with the British intelligence service, with the Mossad, or with Iraqi oppositionists affiliated with the Iraqi National Congress (INC) of Dr. Ahmed Chalabi. Cheney also repeated the by-then-thoroughly-discredited charge that Saddam Hussein had "longstanding" ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, and that it was "only a matter of time" before Saddam Hussein provided the bin Laden gang with weapons of mass destructionbiological, chemical, and, ultimately, nuclear. As Cheney well knew, an October 2002 assessment from Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet, delivered to the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee, had pointedly stated that Saddam Hussein would only resort to WMD, or engage with al-Qaeda, if he felt that he was backed into a corner and facing imminent American military attack. Repeated efforts by "war party" operatives, like former Director of Central Intelligence and Iraqi National Congress lobbyist R. James Woolsey, had failed to turn up any credible evidence of Saddam-al-Qaeda links, particularly prior to Sept. 11, 2001. Perhaps Cheney's biggest liewhich flew in the face of all assessments from the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and State Department Middle East expertswas that the military conquest of Iraq would be a "cakewalk." Cheney told Russert, "Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." Russert challenged Cheney's rosy forecast: "If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators, but conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?" To which Cheney responded: "Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I've talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but that they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that." Later in the interview, Cheney added, "If you look at the opposition, they've come together, I think, very effectively, with representatives from Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish elements in the population." Towards the end of his performance, the Vice President extended his "cakewalk liberation" forecast, to further assert that American preventive military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein would stabilize the Middle East. He cited Dr. Bernard Lewis, the British Arab Bureau spook and author of the "Arc of Crisis," "Islamic card" fiasco, as his authority: "I firmly believe, along with, you know, men like
[CTRL] (2 of 2) The Ignoble Liars Behind Bush's Deadly Iraq War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/site_packages/2003/leo_strauss/3015ignoble_liars_js_.html 'New American Century' In early 1997, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, two of the leading neo-con "Straussian intellectuals" in Washington, joined forces with collaborators at the AEI to shove the "Clean Break" policy down the throat of the Clinton Administration. Using office space on the fifth floor of the AEI headquarters, Kristol and company launched a new tax-exempt front group, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), specifically to promote the buildup of American military force to unilaterally police the globestarting with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. On June 3, 1997, PNAC released a Statement of Principle, which was signed by Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William Bennett, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Midge Decter, Francis Fukuyama, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and others. The Statement of Principle was based on an article co-authored by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, published in the July/August 1996 issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the New York Council on Foreign Relationssimultaneous with the Perle-Feith-Wurmser release of "Clean Break." Kristol and Kagan called for a "Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy." This was a willfully dishonest choice of terms, given that President Reagan's most noteworthy foreign and national security policy achievement had been his collaboration with Lyndon LaRouche in launching the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which Reagan envisioned as a joint, cooperative effort with the Soviet Union, to bring about the end of the era of "mutually assured destruction." When Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov rejected Reagan's generous offer of scientific and technological cooperation to build a global defense against nuclear weapons, the collapse of the Soviet empire was guaranteed, as LaRouche forecast in 1984, and again in a now-famous October 1988 speech in West Berlin, in which he anticipated the fall of the Berlin Wall a year later. Kristol and Kagan defined their "neo-Reaganite foreign policy" as "benevolent global hegemony," based on a massive buildup of American military might. The authors were reviving the 1991 Wolfowitz doctrine of unilateral preventive war, explicitly stating, "The appropriate goal of American foreign policy is to preserve that hegemony as far into the future as possible." Kristol and Kagan specifically called for the overthrow of more than 200 years of American anti-colonialist tradition, singling out John Quincy Adams as their particular nemesis: "Conservatives these days," they wrote, "succumb easily to the charming old metaphor of the United States as a 'city on a hill.' They hark back ... to the admonition of John Quincy Adams that America ought not go 'abroad in search of monsters to destroy.' But why not? The alternative is to leave monsters on the loose, ravaging and pillaging to their hearts' content, as Americans stand by and watch. What may have been wise counsel in 1823, when America was a small, isolated power in a world of European giants, is no longer so, when America is the giant. Because America has the capacity to contain or destroy many of the world's monsters, most of which can be found without much searching, and because the responsibility for the peace and security of the international order rests so heavily on America's shoulders, a policy of sitting atop a hill and leading by example becomes in practice a policy of cowardice and dishonor." On Jan. 26, 1998, PNAC issued an Open Letter to President Clinton, calling for immediate "regime change" in Iraq, based on the bogus claim that Saddam was about to launch weapons of mass destruction against the United States and America's allies. Among the signators on the Open Letter were the following individuals, all of whom are now in the "Bush 43" Administration: Abrams, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Fukuyama, Khalilzad, Perle, Peter Rodman, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Robert Zoellick. Other signators included Kristol, Kagan, and James Woolsey, who briefly served as President Clinton's Director of Central Intelligence, and who was, at the time the PNAC letter was issued, already the attorney representing the Iraqi National Congress. In September 2000, on the eve of the Presidential elections, pitting George W. Bush against Al Gore, PNAC issued a lengthy study, "Rebuilding America's DefensesStrategy, Force and Resources for a New Century," which revived at great length the Cheney-Wolfowitz 1991-93 preventive war strategy. Among the "usual suspects" who contributed to the "Rebuilding" study was Wolfowitz protg Lewis Libby. He had just completed a stint as the general counsel to the Cox Commission, which was promoting a strategic showdown in North Asia with China and North Korea; he would soon be Vice President Cheney's chief of staff. While out of government, Libby had also been the personal
[CTRL] David Frum: Son of Uncle Sam
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31949 David Frum: Son of Uncle Sam Posted: April 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern William Rusher of the Claremont Institute is right. There is an ideological war between Bush's social democrats, known as neoconservatives, and those of us who stand on the Old Right, namely paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians. Rusher, however, is not about to tell his readers what it is about the set of policies which neoconservatives support that makes them global social democrats or rank leftists. It's probably more accurate to speak both of modern-day liberals and neoconservatives as proponents of a highly centralized and hence dictatorial managerial form of government, except that, as we've seen in the past two weeks, the neoconservatives are far more dangerous to liberty, life and livelihoods. Nor is Rusher writing to sound the alarm, as paleos are, about an administration that is using war and manufacturing crisis to grow government to unprecedented levels, unseen since Lyndon Johnson. The neocon's aggrandizing mania to make the world safe for democracy is making, to paraphrase Felix Morley in "Freedom and Federalism," a constitutional government unsafe in the U.S. Not a sound from Rusher about these paleo observations, nor a reminder that neocons are more the sons and daughters of Woodrow Wilson and FDR than of Ronald Reagan. What Rusher does inform his readers of is that his buddy, neoconservative David Frum's "Unpatriotic Conservatives," constitutes a profound condemnation of paleos. So profound is Frum's indictment of us that Rusher can't quite bring himself to summarize it. I'll do the honors. Having read it, I can say that Frum hasn't got a "De Profundis" (Oscar Wilde's really profound essay) in him. He's way too shallow. In the praised essay, Frum remains faithful to the gossipy style of his tittle-tattle tome, and produces a series of vignettes designed to "prove" that paleoconservatives, whom he slothfully lumps with paleolibertarians, developed an ideology in order to compensate for alleged career failure. Contrary to Frum and Rusher's ad libs, Murray N. Rothbard traced the American Old Right's inception to a reaction against the New Deal and its crushing of the old republic's classical-liberal foundations. Members of the original Right wanted to abolish the welfare state ushered in by the New Deal and return to the traditional American foreign policy. Anyone remember George Washington's wisdom about aiming at extensive commercial but no political foreign entanglements? Rusher and Frum share the same debating habits. They both bog down in gossip and name dropping to build a political pedigree, mentioning the many retread communists that make up their neocon movement. It's thus hard to see how Frum warrants such superlatives if he never deals with the substance of paleo ideas. Once he gets past Frum's tall tales about allegedly belligerent paleo personalities and their putative professional failures, the reader might just have wanted to know that paleolibertarians care first about the effects of the State on civil society. Everything flows from the passion for "the Old Republic of property rights, freedom of association, and radical political decentralization," as Lew Rockwell writes. "Paleolibertarianism," explains Rockwell, "holds with Lord Acton that liberty is the highest political end of man, and that all forms of government intervention economic, cultural, social, international amount to an attack on prosperity, morals and bourgeois civilization itself, and thus must be opposed at all levels and without compromise." The main point of contention between paleos and neocons is the role arrogated to the State. Yet the main "profundity" Rusher and Frum are able to parrot is to charge paleos with racism. The paleolibertarian beef, of course, is with the coercive distribution by the State of wealth from those who create it to those who consume it. Even Frum must be cognizant of discernible trends in wealth creation and wealth consumption. Ditto where crime is concerned: Certain populations are more likely to be perpetrators, others more likely to be victims. To the extent that it is a relevant variable in crime and welfare, paleos comment honestly about demographics. This may not be politically correct, but it's hardly racist. If so "profound," why does Frum's silly screed not factor in the State, considering it's such a crucial construct here? Clearly, it isn't flattering to have to admit that the force of the Frum faction comes from its endorsement of the Almighty State, while the strength of the paleolibertarian team comes from its enduring commitment to natural rights, to justice and to society not to the State. Frum and Rusher's attempt to cast these paleo ideas as new and discontinuous is clearly ignorant of the history of the ideas. Don't wait, then, for neocons to tell you that, had they been
