[CTRL] 9/11 film makes hero of Bush
-Caveat Lector- Please confine your comments to language suitable for public viewing. - JR http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030528/UFILMN//?query=9%2F11+film 9/11 film makes hero of Bush TV movie, made with White House help, gives revised account of President's day ByDOUG SAUNDERS Wednesday, May. 28, 2003 Trapped on the other side of the country aboard Air Force One, the President has lost his cool: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard!" His Secret Service chief seems taken aback. "But Mr. President . . ." The President brusquely interrupts him. "Try Commander-in-Chief. Whose present command is: Take the President home!" Was this George W. Bush's moment of resolve on Sept. 11, 2001? Well, not exactly. Actually, the scene took place this month, on a Toronto sound stage. The histrionics, filmed for a two-hour TV movie to be broadcast this September, are as close as you can get to an official White House account of its activities at the outset of the war on terrorism. Written and produced by a White House insider with the close co-operation of Mr. Bush and his top officials, The Big Dance represents an unusually close merger of Washington's ambitions and Hollywood's movie machinery. A copy of the script obtained by The Globe and Mail reveals a prime-time drama starring a nearly infallible, heroic president with little or no dissension in his ranks and a penchant for delivering articulate, stirring, off-the-cuff addresses to colleagues. That the whole thing was filmed in Canada and is eligible for financial aid from Canadian taxpayers, and that its loyal Republican writer-producer is a Canadian citizen best known for his adaptation of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, are ironies that will be lost on most of its American viewers when it airs on the Showtime network this fall. While the film is intended for U.S. viewers, it is produced in collaboration with Toronto-based Dufferin Gate Productions in order to take advantage of Canadian government incentives. It is eligible for the federal Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit, the Ontario Film and Television Production Services Tax Credit and a federal tax-shelter program, which together could result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in Canadian government cheques being sent to the producers. Lionel Chetwynd, the film's creator, sees nothing untoward about his role as the semi-official White House apologist in Hollywood. For him, having a well-connected Republican create the movie was a way to get the official message around what he sees as an entertainment industry packed with liberals and Democrats. "A feeding frenzy had started to develop around this story, and a lot of people who wanted to do this story had a very clear political agenda, very clear," Mr. Chetwynd said in an interview from his Los Angeles home yesterday. "My own view of the administration is somewhat more sympathetic than, say, Alec Baldwin's. . . . In fact, I'm technically a member of the administration [Mr. Chetwynd sits on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities], so I let it be known that I was also interested in doing it. I threw myself on the mercies of my friend Karl Rove." Mr. Rove is the President's chief political adviser, so this was not a typical Hollywood pitch. But then, Mr. Chetwynd is not a typical Hollywood writer-producer: He is founder of the Wednesday Morning Club, an organization for the movie colony's relatively small band of
Re: [CTRL] Sending
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 5/28/2003 12:51:10 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do any of you trust another who differs from your approved point of view? Of course, and with a few I even carry on long-term meaningful and enjoyable dialogue. I gravitate towards open-minded, intellectually mature people though and will not dialogue with anyone who takes themself too seriously or lacks a sense of humor. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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] WSBeware of United Nations II (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: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:48:36 PDT From: carl william spitzer iv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] WSBeware of United Nations II By Mike Schelstrate Geopolitics are spiraling out of control. Old European alliances have been cast aside. NATO appears to be perma- nently split between pro and anti American allegiances. Bush has defied and derided the United Nations Security Council. Russia and China are voicing strong objections to the Iraq invasion. France and Germany are clearly replete with anti- American sentiment. In Orwellian doublespeak; Oceana versus Eurasia. Kofi Annan is vainly attempting to retain relevance as the Secretary General of the United Nations. To the Get US out of the UN movement, this may appear to be great news. Appearances are deceiving. Do not fall for this great act of theatre being played out on the world stage. The Globalists have devised an extremely sinister plot that will initially appear to reduce the power of the UN. To the contrary, these momentous events are a carefully scripted series of actions designed to greatly increase the power of the World Government. Already, an outpouring of criticisms and concerns are filling foreign and domestic political and media outlets. What will the world do without an effective United Nations? What institution will manage world events? This cannot be allowed to happen, they say. We must do something to contain the sole superpower America, and restore world order. The so-called conservative pundits are laughing with glee. Rush Limbaugh could not be more pleased with the US decision to bypass the UN Security council. His daily talk show consist- ently depicts the UN as an ineffective and anti-American institution. We are Americans, we do not kneel before the UN! It is almost comical to watch this theatre play out. How anyone could believe this drivel is beyond me. George W. Bush and Colin Powell have been the leading stars of the theatre production. The entire charade of going to the UN for approval to invade Iraq has been an act de- signed to show the world that the UN is in desperate need of revamping. Bush submitted to Congress a bill requesting approval to go to war. Congress answered by passing a reso- lution authorizing action against Iraq contingent upon UN approval. This is entirely unconstitutional. Our national sovereignty does not require the permission of any supra- national organization to act in what is supposed to be our national self-defense. The problem is that Iraq does not threaten our security; therefore, Congress does not have legal authority declare war. They answered this by passing a compromise resolution that placed the responsibility on the UN to authorize conflict. Shortly after this bill was passed by Congress, Bush began beating the war drums against Iraq. Colin Powell immediately came out stating we must pursue diplomatic solutions through the UN prior to beginning the invasion. Multilateralism versus Unilateralism; generate a coalition of Nations sanctioned by the UN or go it alone. A rift between the State Department and the Department of Defense was widely described by the political pundits. This intra-administration conflict was designed and created by the Globalist propaganda machine, and was totally scripted and blatantly false. There is no conflict within the Bush Administration. All players have been assigned a role, and they are performing them to perfection. Every perceived argument and public disagreement is nothing more that lines in a prepared script. Kofi Annan and Bill Clinton, slated to be the next Secretary General of the UN, have their parts in this fantasy also. Mr. Annan has begun grumbling about the US being in violation of International Law. Mr. Clinton has been quoted as declaring the US is treading on dangerous territory when bypassing the authority of the Security Council. Three of the five permanent members of the Security Council have come out against the US led war against Iraq, and are
[CTRL] MRC Alert: Bryant Gumbel on President Bush: 'Don't Get Me Started!' (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: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:31:38 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert: Bryant Gumbel on President Bush: 'Don't Get Me Started!' ***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 11:30am EDT, Wednesday May 28, 2003 (Vol. Eight; No. 101) The 1,508th CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 Intel Manipulated by Hawks, So War Under False Pretenses? Time Champions Robert Byrd as Overnight Internet Sensation NYT: Willie Horton Republicans Rough Up Softball Democrats Brian Williams Waxes Over a Tanned, Slim and Fit Bill Clinton Stephanopoulos Drives This Week to Lowest Ratings Since 1987 Bryant Gumbel on President Bush: Don't Get Me Started! Distributed to more than 14,000 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the news media since 1987. The MRC is the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. CyberAlerts from this year are at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/welcome.asp For 2002: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/archive02.asp Subscribe/unsubscribe information, as well as a link to the MRC donations page, are at the end of this message. When posted, this CyberAlert will be readable at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030528.asp 1) ABC's Charles Gibson on Monday morning asked Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers if, since we haven't found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he's not worried we might...have gone to war under false pretenses? The next morning on NBC's Today, Katie Couric cued up Democratic Senator Joe Biden to take a swipe at those in favor of going to war: How concerning is that to you that somehow information, intelligence information might have been manipulated by hawks within the Bush administration? 2) Under the laudatory headline of Lionized in Winter, this week's Time magazine championed Bush-bashing Democratic Senator Robert Byrd as an overnight Internet sensation and the new Paul Wellstone for his floor speeches attacking the Bush administration as reckless and arrogant. But in 1996 Time greeted new House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton, a vociferous Clinton critic, with a headline which denigrated him as a zealot. 3) In back-to-back front page looks on Sunday and Monday at the status of the Republican and Democratic parties, New York Times reporter Adam Clymer painted Republicans as ruthless operators who have built their strength in the South by appealing to white resentment of civil rights policies and by deploying hard-hitting campaign advertisements with demagogic messages. But Democrats are a put-upon party led by people who are just too soft. Clymer lamented how Democrats these days supposedly lack the killer instinct that it takes to sell blunt, demagogic messages. 4) Brian Williams ended his nightly CNBC newscast on Tuesday night by highlighting a shot from Bill Clinton, who we haven't heard from in a good long time, at George W. Bush's 2000 campaign theme of compassionate conservatism. Digging out C-SPAN video of a tanned, slim and fit Bill Clinton free associating on politics last week in front of a college class, Williams quoted how Clinton castigated the theme as a code phrase which meant to the swing voter, I will give you what you like about them, the Democrats -- compassion, and a good economy -- and I'll give you something else besides: a tax cut and a small government. 5) The New York Times has confirmed the ratings slide for This Week as Jim Rutenberg reported that after a season under George Stephanopoulos, for the first time since 1987, ABC finished in third place for the season among the Sunday morning news programs. 6) You may not be able to see Bryant Gumbel every morning anymore, but he doesn't seem to have lost any of his contempt for conservatives or George W. Bush. Last week on HBO's Real Sports, when Bob Costas suggested that some are thinking about the possibility of making Bush the Commissioner of Major League Baseball when he leaves the presidency, an aghast Gumbel sniffed: Don't get me started! ++ Corrections: A May 23 CyberAlert item on an ABC story about the tax cut quoted what Mark Garay of Deloitte Douche said in a soundbite. That's an accounting firm, not a manufacturer of feminine hygiene products, so it should have read Deloitte Touche. Another item in the same CyberAlert credited David Nyhan with documenting, in a
[CTRL] SAUCERS FULL OF SECRETS
-Caveat Lector- COVER STORY by Dan Gilgoff Dec. 14-20, 2001 SAUCERS FULL OF SECRETS Decades later, Washington's fabled UFO invasion has witnesses, skeptics, and true believers asking: Where were you in '52? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/2001/cover1214.html Howard Cocklin, assistant chief of Washington National Airport's control tower, was working the graveyard shift on Saturday night, July 19, 1952. Just after he settled into a chair behind a radarscope, an unidentified white blip blinked onto his screen. We were tracking a flight that had just taken off, when all of a sudden, we had another target show up, says Cocklin, now 82 years old and living in Fairfax, Va. It was very erratic. It went left and right. We knew it wasn't an airplane, because a plane flies in one direction. But it was a strong signal, just like an airplane. Then a man named Harry Barnes in the Air Route Traffic Control [ARTC] center down below called the control tower. He wanted to know if we had seen what he saw, whatever it was. Three days later, the muddled headline Radar Spots Air Mystery Objects Here ran in three decks across the front page of the Washington Post. Controllers at National Airport, the article reported, had picked up a gaggle of unidentified flying objects-perhaps a new type of 'flying saucer'-on radar over the weekend. The article supplied the opening paragraphs to the story of history's biggest UFO flap. More than 500 UFO-sighting reports were reported to the U.S. Air Force that July, still a record. Pulp magazines had long lavished pages on the subject, but the Washington sightings stole front-page headline space from the 1952 Democratic National Convention and had President Harry Truman hounding the Air Force for an explanation. The Washington invasion, as it's referred to in the UFO literature, had the CIA wringing its hands over how to squelch the public hysteria. UFO sightings had been steadily mounting since World War II, when the atmosphere was clogged with more Earthling-manned vehicles than ever before, but the Washington sightings marked a seismic shift in UFO history. And not for the reason that the Post reported: For the first time...the objects were picked up by radar. That had happened before. But the Post didn't report that, as morning broke on July 20, the U.S. Air Force sent an F-94 fighter jet to intercept the airborne objects, which had been tracked in the restricted airspace over the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Or that at one point that night three separate radars, two at National and another at Andrews Air Force Base 10 miles east, simultaneously picked up the same unidentified targets before they vanished. Or that, for one of the first times ever, a batch of unidentified radar blips had been complemented by a spate of ground reports of strange lights in the sky. Before calling Cocklin in the tower that night, Barnes, National's senior ARTC controller, had a technician inspect the radar equipment at ARTC for glitches. The tech could find nothing wrong. Around 1 o'clock in the morning, an ARTC controller radioed Capital Airlines Flight 807, which had just taken off, to ask about any suspicious lights in the air around it. A moment later, 17-year veteran pilot Casey Pierman's voice roared through the radio: There's one-off to the right-and there it goes. And a controller on the ground watched the blip to the right of the airplane's blip disappear. Pierman reported a half-dozen more lights in the next 14 minutes, describing them as like falling stars without tails. All of them corresponded to blips on the ARTC radarscopes. Some of the lights, he said, moved faster than shooting stars. Every time Pierman reported that the light streaked off at high speed, Barnes wrote in an article for a New York newspaper a few days later, it disappeared on our scope. Over at Andrews, Air Force personnel were spotting lights in the sky. I saw a strong light South of Andrews AFB traveling from east to west at a terrific rate of speed, around 2 o' clock in the morning, wrote Sgt. Charles T. Davenport in an Air Force report dated July 21, 1952. The light traveled from Andrews to approximately the Potomac River in about 5 to 15 secondsIts color was orange red. Later on we spotted what seemed to be a star northwest of the field. It was very bright but not the same color. This was a bluish silver. It was very erratic in motion, it moved from side to side. Three times I saw a red object leave the silver object at a high rate of speed and move east out of sight. Davenport saw a second string of strange lights that night; that sighting ended near 3:30 a.m., about a half-hour before a commercial pilot closing in on National from the south called the control tower to report a light off his left wing. The object showed on the scopes both at the tower and at ARTC, where a half-lit hall glowed with lavender from all the radars. When the pilot gave word that the light was trailing
Re: [CTRL] [JBirch] WSBeware of United Nations II (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- On Wed, 28 May 2003, William Bacon wrote: 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. But none of you know what a nation under God, SERVING God, would be like. That is why you are individually and collectively, Babylon-the-Whore. Maybe UN II can tell you. Repent!!! POC (LEZ) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[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] [U-S-A] Re: Christ as the Living Torah (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Re: Christ as the Living Torah Dear Ed and Hageeites: According to my De Sola Poole Traditional Jewish Prayer Book, the word Torah means teaching. It also says Judaism has never asked for an unreasoning faith which hearkens to Isaiah, Let us reason together saith the Lord. If you Christians cannot reason better than the Antichrist Jews (I John 2:22) then you had better pull up your socks (see Proverbs). Jesus Christ was and is the Lion of Judah, the King of the Jews who said He came only to find the lost sheep of Israel. U-S-A Christianity Today is the Whore of Babylon which has sold the birthright of the True Israelites for a few creature comforts and the vanity of pray tv. Repent! Zandu Goldbar (Learned Elder of Zion) * http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens ** On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ed Martinez wrote: May 27, 2003 Dear Brethren, Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On behalf of Pastor John Hagee, we appreciate your support and confidence you have in John Hagee Ministries. We acknowledge receipt of your e-mail letter describing a letter sent to Charlie Rose, PBS Org. We thank you for sharing this information with Pastor Hagee. Our staff at John Hagee Ministries will further review your conclusions indicating the Torah is Jesus personified. At the moment our staff cannot spare the time to respond to the views you present in your interpretations of Holy Scripture. The Lord has blessed our ministry this year and we are experiencing growing pains, one of which is keeping up with the enormous amount of correspondence. Gods word says, The joy of the Lord is our strength. (Neh. 8:10). We pray for you in the name our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. May God bless you for your faithfulness in the work of the Kingdom. Sincerely, Edward Martinez John Hagee Ministries Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/KlSolB/TM -~- U-S-A = Usurers, Sodomites, Abortionists. The U-S-A Cult is the ruling power over America-the-Good and now seeks to a establish One World Government of Evil-Doers via the Afghanistan-Iraq domino effect. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[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] rabbi abuse, Kucinich, Phoenix Prog/nam, Coercive Ques. OK, Whole Foods
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news articles Rumors And The Rabbi - Rabbi Unnerved Students 5/27/03 By Stephanie Saul "Alumni of a California yeshiva (Kerem Yeshiva) held a reunion, of sorts, in Brooklyn recently, but it wasn't to reminisce about the school's idyllic setting, lakeside lessons or frequent class trips. Instead, a handful of former students aired claims against the now-closed school's former rabbi, Matis Weinberg. The charismatic Weinberg had enthralled and entertained them with his brilliant lectures, the former students recalled, but, they alleged, he also had shocked and confused them with sexual attacks." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/nyc-wein0528,0,5026846.story http://Kucinich.us DENNIS KUCINICH: THE PROGRESSIVE CHOICE As a candidate for President, I offer a different vision for America, one which separates me from the other candidates. I am the only candidate for President who will take this country away from fear and war and tax giveaways, and use America's peace dividend for guaranteed health care for all, ending health care for profit. I am the only candidate who will stop the privatization of social security and bring the retirement age back to 65. As President, I will cancel NAFTA and the WTO, restore our manufacturing jobs, save our family farms, create full employment programs, create new jobs by rebuilding our cities and schools. As President, I will repeal the Patriot Act to regain for all Americans the sacred right of privacy in our homes, our libraries, our schools. http://www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/ The Memory Hole Documents from the Phoenix Program Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing"through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torturethe civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality. http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/052803C.shtml Court Finds Coercive Questioning OK By James Gerstenzang The Los Angeles Tuesday 27 May 2003 Justices say defendants or suspects can be compelled to respond to police questioning, even though the statements may not be used against them in court WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled today that coercive questioning of a suspect by police officers -- even a gravely wounded man who has not been offered his Miranda rights -- does not violate a person's Constitutional rights, as long as the questioning stops short of torture. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/business/24WHOL.html?ex=1054911121ei=1en=78feb19d32db158a Love the Worker, Not the Union, a Store Says as Some Organize By AARON NATHANS MADISON, Wis., May 23 In just 23 years, Whole Foods Market has grown from a single store in Austin, Tex., to the largest natural foods chain in the nation Whole Foods workers here have found, however, that the principles do not include embracing labor unions. The first and so far only successful union drive in Whole Foods' history took place last year in this liberal, pro-labor state capital. In the aftermath of the drive, there were allegations of dirty tactics by each side; a personal plea from Mr. Mackey for the Madison employees to "expand into love"; and the firing of two pro-union employees over what they say was, almost literally, spilt milk Whole Foods opened its Madison store in 1996, and workers soon found themselves at odds with management over a host of issues, like rising health insurance costs. The rumblings grew louder last spring, when the company told store employees they would have to adhere to a dress and appearance code. In this casual-dress city, that meant losing the brightly colored hair, political buttons, and, for Debbie Rasmussen, a "juice bartender," the piercing from her upper lip. "It struck a nerve with a lot of people," Ms. Rasmussen said. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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
[CTRL] The Jewish Century
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=811 The Jewish Century By Henry Makow, Ph.D. Kevin MacDonald book The Culture of Critique (2002) portrays the 20th century as a Jewish century. A hundred years ago, Jews were an impoverished people living mostly in Eastern Europe surrounded by hostile populations. Today Israel is firmly established in the Middle East and Jews have become the wealthiest and most powerful elite in the United States and other Western countries. More significantly, according to MacDonald, the Western intellectual world has become Judaized. Jewish values and attitudes now constitute the culture of the West. Because of deep-seated Jewish hostility toward traditional Western (i.e. Christian) culture, the founding peoples "have been made to feel deeply ashamed of their own history, surely the prelude to their demise as a culture and a people." (lxix) Specifically, Jewish organizations promote policies and ideologies aimed at undermining cultural cohesion while practising the opposite policies themselves. While they promote multiculturalism and internationalism in the West, they insist that Israel remain a racially pure national enclave for Jews. "The present immigration policy essentially places the United States and other Western societies "in play" in an evolutionary sense which does not apply to other nations of the world," MacDonald writes. "Notice that American Jews have no interest in proposing that immigration to Israel should be similarly multiethnic, or ... threaten the hegemony of the Jews." (323) The Party of National Decomposition MacDonald says anti Semitism in Weimar Germany was based on a perception that "that Jewish critical analysis of gentile society was aimed at dissolving the bonds of cohesiveness within the society." One academic referred to the Jews as "the classic party of national decomposition." (163) MacDonald speculates that Jews feel more comfortable societies without a distinctive national character. I think there is more to this. The break-up of society into isolated individuals is also the agenda of the new world order, which wishes to remove any united resistance. The new world order is essentially the transfer of all power to international finance. The question then arises: is the new world order a Jewish phenomenon? Or are Jewish intellectuals the pawns of financiers, both Jewish and non-Jewish? MacDonald focuses on how Jewish intellectual movements led by authoritarian figures took over modern intellectual life. He discusses Boas in Anthropology, Adorno in Sociology, Freud in Psychiatry and Derrida in Philosophy. The "Frankfurt School," for example, was a "Marxist Jewish cult" financed by Jewish millionaire Felix Weil. Theodore Adornos influential book "The Authoritarian Personality" (1950) was actually sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. It attributed prejudice to Christian sexual repression and portrayed gentile group affiliations (including Christian religion, patriotism, and family) as indications of psychiatric disorder. (162) Social disintegration leads to psychological confusion. Society has accepted Adornos view that there is no objective standard of truth, no common reality. Everyone is isolated and different. Adorno resisted attempts to "endow the world with any universality, objectivity or totality, with any single organizing principle that would homogenize society..." (164) This kind of post modernist philosophy has paralysed modern Western culture. Western civilization is built on the foundation that truth is spiritual, universal and knowable. Ultimately truth is God. Universities today have given up the pursuit of truth and are devoted to Bolshevik-like social engineering and indoctrination. A liberal arts education today is not only a waste of time but toxic. Far from bearers of the Western tradition, universities are its executioners with the tacit blessing of the government. A Rare Teacher Kevin MacDonald, a professor of Psychology at California State University is a rare exception. His courageous indispensable book unveils the subversive character of our time. A soft-spoken man who approaches his subject with scientific detachment, MacDonald has amassed a wealth of remarkable detail. For instance, did you know that white gentiles are the most underrepresented group at Harvard? They account for approximately 25% of the student body. While Asians and Jews make up only 5% of the US population, they account for at least 50% of Harvard enrolment. "The United States is well on the road to being dominated by an Asian technocratic elite and a Jewish business, professional and media elite," MacDonald says. He details the Jewish role in sponsoring Communism, non-European immigration and the NAACP. He documents the stranglehold Jews have on US cultural life and shows how it is used to shape American attitudes. " For example, All in the Family...not only managed to portray working
[CTRL] Australia Warned About US Intel On Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/05/26/1053801342459.htm Canberra was warned on spy reports, says ex-analyst Date: May 27 2003 By Tom Allard, Foreign Affairs Writer Warnings by Australian intelligence officials that US spy reports exaggerated Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorists were discounted by the Federal Government, a former intelligence analyst said yesterday. Amid recriminations in Washington about the quality of the US intelligence used to justify the war against Iraq, a former analyst at the Office of National Assessments (ONA), Andrew Wilkie, said there had been widespread doubts about it among Australia's intelligence operatives. Australia, the US and Britain share almost all their intelligence and the vast bulk of Australia's information on the Middle East is sourced from US and British agencies. "For years, ONA has looked sceptically on some of the US information on Iraq and communicated this scepticism to [the] Government," Mr Wilkie said. He said, as is alleged in the US, there was political pressure applied to Australian intelligence agencies to produce reports favourable to the Government's line. However, this pressure was largely resisted. "Despite the pressure from [the] Government, the Australian intelligence community did a much better job than the US in offering frank and fearless advice," he said. "It was the Australian Government that decided to make a big issue of the WMDs, not the analysts. They ignored advice that it [the WMD threat] was overstated." While ONA believed that Iraq did have such weapons, Mr Wilkie said it did not believe it had them in the quantity asserted by US intelligence reports, or had the ability to disperse them. The doubts over US intelligence were even more pronounced when it came to Saddam Hussein's alleged links to al-Qaeda. "Some of the US evidence was mystifying," Mr Wilkie said. The ONA, along with the Defence Intelligence Organisation, directly advises the Prime Minister, John Howard, and cabinet. Mr Wilkie resigned as a senior analyst at the ONA in protest at the Government's participation in the Iraqi conflict just days before hostilities broke out in March. The ONA yesterday declined to comment on the quality of US intelligence reports and whether it was investigating the alleged shortcomings. The Minister for Defence, Robert Hill, also refused to reveal whether the Government had concerns about the information that underscored its commitment to fight in the war. A spokeswoman for Senator Hill said: "Our focus is on the ongoing collection of material associated with WMD." Coalition forces have yet to find clear evidence of Iraq's WMD stockpiles and programs, fuelling the disquiet in Washington. Much of the concern centres on the preparedness of US agencies to accept intelligence provided by sources linked to the Iraqi opposition movement. But an intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it would be inappropriate and almost impossible for Australia to launch an inquiry into US intelligence collection and analysis procedures. "To a large extent, we have to rely on their own checks and balances," he said. "We don't have the resources. It's a co-operative relationship founded on trust." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[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] On To Tehran? The Threat Of War Is Real
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/raim052803.shtml ON TO TEHRAN? THE THREAT OF WAR IS REAL By: Justin Raimondo Okay, let's play "Name That Nation": Al Qaeda is supposedly hiding there, the country's rulers are fast developing "weapons of mass destruction," and the population, we are told, longs for "liberation." No, it's not Iraq before the recent war, but Iran before the next war. How long before is an open question. All the stories they told us about Iraq are now being repeated, shamelessly, in an Iranian context, the only difference being that, this time around, no one is even bothering to verify or treat them as anything other than a pretext for "Operation Iranian 'Freedom.'" Osama bin Laden's son, and two other top Al Qaeda chieftains responsible for the recent Riyadh bombing are said to have found refuge in northern Iran, near the border with Afghanistan, "according to intelligence sources." What sources, from which agency or which country? It isn't quite clear. What is clear is that we are now entering phase two of the neoconservative plan to effect regional "regime change" and refurbish the Middle East with rulers more to America's and Israel's liking. Get on board the War Train. Next stop Tehran. Toot! Toot! This war, too, is going to be a "cakewalk": the Iranian people are just waiting for us to intervene, and they will rise up and overthrow the mullahs just like the Iraqis didn't rise up and overthrow Saddam. And the parallels don't end there. While Iraq has the Iraqi National Congress and a convicted embezzler as America's puppet-of-choice, our Iranian sock-puppets are even more bizarre: the matriarchal cult-like Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), based on a weird amalgam of Islam and Marxism and ruled over by Maryam Rajavi. Yes, a woman in a country where the role of women has always seemed irretrievably stuck in the tenth century B. C. And she's a radical feminist! That should bring the lefties on board, if or, rather, when it comes to war. Iran, for its part, vehemently denies providing assistance to Al Qaeda, whose leader has, after all, called for the overthrow of the Tehran regime. But Osama's hostility to the secular Ba'athists didn't give the Iraqis an alibi acceptable to the Americans, and the Iranians will do no better. Although U.S. officials deny it, low-level negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have reportedly been severed, and the announcement by the Iranians that they have arrested some Al Qaeda members in Iraq has provoked an American demand that they be handed over. The two sides are now locked in to a crisis mode that can only end in one of two ways: the capitulation of the Iranians, which seems unlikely, or a U.S. military strike against Iran. The same double-pronged attack formerly endured by Iraq is now being launched against the Iranians. If the Bushies fail to establish a viable Iranian connection to Al Qaeda, then they can always get them on a "weapons of mass destruction" charge. The reason being that such allegations, including possession of chemical and biological weapons, are impossible to disprove. This time they won't bother with the UN, and Congress, too, will get very short shrift: according to the Bushies and every President since Harry Truman they don't even have to consult our elected representatives until after the fact. With Iraq and Afghanistan constantly threatening to slip out from under U.S. control, the prospect of conquering and occupying Iran is more than merely daunting. U.S. resources and military capabilities would be stretched well beyond the breaking point. As in the case of Iraq, the War Party has started out by telling us that the "opposition" forces are capable of overthrowing the regime with just a little help from Washington. In order to earn their subsidy, the pro-U.S. opposition in this case, the commie-feminist-MEK is acting as a channel for charges of WMD possession. This ups the ante considerably, and sets the clock to ticking: we can't wait for the Iranians to rise up, we'll soon be told, because the ayatollahs will have the Bomb in a matter of months or even weeks. The Iranians contend that they are pursuing a nuclear program designed solely to provide plentiful electric power to their woefully underdeveloped country, but surely this is a matter that can be solved by inspections. The U.S. is seeking to have the International Atomic Energy Commission verify what is, or is not, being cooked up in Iran's nuclear facilities, but it is the matter of the Al Qaeda connection that could prove to be explosive. The arrest of Al Qaeda operatives on Iranian soil, if confirmed, shows at least that Tehran and Bin Laden are not allies. Furthermore, this time the Saudis (and Moroccans) have experienced their own version of 9/11, and they, too, are demanding that the plotters be handed over to Riyadh. Such a hand-over would short-circuit U.S. war plans, and send the War Party back to the drawing board in search of a
[CTRL] Rumsfeld Admits WMD May Never Be Found
-Caveat Lector- http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=182535in_page_id=2 'We may not find Iraq weapons' BY ROBERT FOX and JAMES LANGTON, Evening Standard 28th May 2003 US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said for the first time today that there may not be any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The admission comes amid mounting embarrassment at the failure to produce evidence that Saddam Hussein had an active programme to create weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The fear that the Iraqi dictator was building an arsenal was the main reason President Bush and Tony Blair gave for going to war. Mr Rumsfeld, speaking at a foreign affairs think-tank in New York, also tried to play down fears over law and order in Iraq by comparing looters in Baghdad to rioting English football fans. "We all know what happens at a soccer game in England," he said. Mr Rumsfeld said that it was possible Iraqi leaders had "decided that they would destroy the WMD prior to a conflict". He said this could explain why allied troops had not faced chemical, biological or nuclear weapons during the invasion of Iraq. White House backing down His remarks are being seen as another sign that the White House is backing away from its earlier insistence that Saddam had been developing the weapons and was prepared to use them. Seven weeks of intensive searching by a force of nearly 2,000 American special forces troops have failed to produce a "smoking gun". A pair of converted Iraqi army lorries that may have been mobile biological laboratories represent the sum total of US efforts to date. There are reports that the hunt is being scaled back because there are a dwindling number of areas to search in Iraq. But Mr Rumsfeld - one of the main architects of the war on Iraq - insisted: "It's hard to find things in a country that's determined not to have you find them." Crucial clues could still come from senior Iraqi officials who have only recently surrendered, he said, adding: "I suspect we'll learn a lot more as we go along and keep interrogating people." He also repeated that Iraq was "a country the size of California". He said: "We haven't managed to look in every place. Why? Because we've only been there seven weeks." Bad for morale His admission that weapons of mass destruction might not exist in Iraq echoes the views of senior British commanders and intelligence experts. In London, a very senior Army officer said: "It's becoming highly embarrassing and bad for morale of the troops. The emphasis is now clearly switching away from weapons to evidence about war crimes, mass burials on a scale we never imagined, and links with terrorist organisations." Many British and American forces in Iraq do not believe any evidence of current biological, chemical and nuclear warfare will be found. One British soldier attached to an American Nuclear Biological and Chemical warfare detection unit in Iraq said: "The Americans seemed brainwashed by the maps and photographs they had been provided by their command. "They kept saying they had been told where to look. But nothing was there." Doubts over active warfare programme Experts attached to the previous UN weapons investigation team, UNSCOM, believe that Saddam had destroyed all his active biological warfare stocks well before the war. The tide of doubt about whether there was an active chemical and biological warfare programme has provoked a call for a major investigation of the CIA's intelligence on Iraq and the political use made of it by the Bush administration. Similar questions about the political manipulation of Iraq intelligence material by Downing Street are being voiced in the UK. One senior Whitehall source said: "We have a situation in which people believe, because they were led to believe, that there were cupboards full of biological and chemical agents just waiting to be discovered - because that is what was suggested to them. "The fact is Saddam had a lot of time to disperse his weapons cache. What we are looking for is now very diffuse and divided into small quantities. Expectations were hyped up." Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said: "I am obviously very interested in the question of whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction and I am beginning to suspect there possibly were not." Despite these concerns, a Downing Street spokeswoman said today: "We are confident that weapons of mass destruction will be found." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the
[CTRL] The Bush Regime - He's Gone Over The Edge!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/lang052703.shtml THE BUSH REGIME HE'S GONE OVER THE EDGE! By: Ted Lang Neither Democrats nor Republicans are good for America and the American people. We have lost our constitutional freedoms to both. Both believe in ever-expanding government, both plot and scheme to confiscate as much of our wealth as possible; forget about Bushs snake-oil tax refund - look at his spending! Both parties are controlled by the Magnificent Seven [thousand] behind-the-scenes multi-millionaire/billionaire socialists and their cabals and secret societies, thereby precluding any input from the populace, dumbed-down by the media and the government-controlled educational system. Voting is a waste unless used to vote against an incumbent Democrat or Republican, or to elect Libertarians. The Republican Party has made it clear that conservatives will no longer be permitted a voice in the party. Bush deliberately avoided supporting Californias Bill Simon and New Jerseys Bret Schundler and Doug Forrester. Both would have made a great difference slowing down or even destroying New Jerseys "smart gun" legislation, which the States delegation will now try to ram down Americas throat. "Smart guns" to abolish handguns, "assault weapons" permanency to abolish long guns. That includes both rifles and shotguns, even if only single-shot. Its the left-liberal numbers game: One gun a month, then one gun every six months, then one gun every 23 years. Ten rounds, eight rounds, three rounds, no rounds! It would seem that Bushs stance on Clintons gun law was the showstopper, but alas, thats not so. Some other anomaly is now underway by Bushs Skull and Bones phantoms. These behind-the-scenes Dubya handlers, operators and manipulators are now in the process of doing amazing things with smoke and mirrors. But before we open the creaking door of Bushs Inner Sanctum of closet spooks, lets look at Bushs past accomplishments: He supports fully the communist-created United Nations, summarily ignoring their objections to the Iraqi war, using them only when convenient to fool the people and to put down Congress, and using Congress to fool the people and put down the UN; He guaranteed that al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan were responsible for 9-11, yet as John LeBoutillier points out, sent only 20,000 troops there and 200,000 troops to Iraq; The foregoing does indeed confirm much more planning for the unconstitutional Iraqi invasion as opposed to a "war on terrorism" - where are the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Mr. Bush? We the people were assured that they "proliferated" all of Iraq. Why didnt Saddam use them if there were so many? You offered that you had intelligence on this, so where are they? It is apparent the Iraqi invasion was planned BEFORE 9-11; Whats the status of the inquiry on the 9-11 attack - wheres that report? Why was an executive order written and "enacted" freezing presidential papers from access via the Freedom of Information Act? Where are Clinton and Algores e-mails? If Clinton sold WMD to the Communists for cash, why do we need a "campaign finance law" to punish ALL Americans? Why not just prosecute Clinton? Spending has exceeded LBJs "Great Society." The Patriot Act belongs in Stalins Communist Soviet Union, or Hitlers Nazi Germany - I report, you decide! Clearly, we could go on a bit more. The Bush administration has not only covered up for the Clinton regime, but has improved on the lesson book, creating so many constitutional distractions to confuse one and all so no one will catch on to whats really going on. Remember Clintons fantastic ability to do that? Bush is orchestrating the legalistic paper chase to facilitate the full consolidation and control of all of the American media. Bush has instructed the Federal Commissar of Communications [FCC] to clear the way for a select few of the Magnificent Seven to control all the media. Move over Howell Raines! And congratulations Mr. Bush, on the meager accomplishment of losing a Republican, and on the much greater one in achieving "regime" status! "Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
[CTRL] Sen. Byrd's MAGNIFICENT Speech
-Caveat Lector- http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?heading=Memo+on+the+Margin Senator Byrd`s Floor Speech on Iraq Memo: To: website fans, browsers, clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: The wisdom of Bobby Byrd Almost nobody in the Senate pay any attention to the oldest and wisest member of the Most Important Deliberative Body on Earth. He is 85 years old and has a benign syndrome which makes his hands tremble. He did, though, shakes things up a bit last week with his Senate floor statement. It triggered a number of statements from other Democrats who are beginning to suspect that the pre-emptive war in Iraq was based on deceptions of the American people and maybe President Bush. Those of you who have been following my analysis over the last few years will not be surprised that I think Byrd is on the mark. May 21, 2003 Senate Remarks: "The Truth Will Emerge" "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, - - The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers." Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time. No matter to what lengths we humans may go to obfuscate facts or delude our fellows, truth has a way of squeezing out through the cracks, eventually. But the danger is that at some point it may no longer matter. The danger is that damage is done before the truth is widely realized. The reality is that, sometimes, it is easier to ignore uncomfortable facts and go along with whatever distortion is currently in vogue. We see a lot of this today in politics. I see a lot of it -- more than I would ever have believed -- right on this Senate Floor. Regarding the situation in Iraq, it appears to this Senator that the American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law, under false premises. There is ample evidence that the horrific events of September 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda who masterminded the September 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein who did not. The run up to our invasion of Iraq featured the President and members of his cabinet invoking every frightening image they could conjure, from mushroom clouds, to buried caches of germ warfare, to drones poised to deliver germ laden death in our major cities. We were treated to a heavy dose of overstatement concerning Saddam Hussein's direct threat to our freedoms. The tactic was guaranteed to provoke a sure reaction from a nation still suffering from a combination of post traumatic stress and justifiable anger after the attacks of 911. It was the exploitation of fear. It was a placebo for the anger. Since the war's end, every subsequent revelation which has seemed to refute the previous dire claims of the Bush Administration has been brushed aside. Instead of addressing the contradictory evidence, the White House deftly changes the subject. No weapons of mass destruction have yet turned up, but we are told that they will in time. Perhaps they yet will. But, our costly and destructive bunker busting attack on Iraq seems to have proven, in the main, precisely the opposite of what we were told was the urgent reason to go in. It seems also to have, for the present, verified the assertions of Hans Blix and the inspection team he led, which President Bush and company so derided. As Blix always said, a lot of time will be needed to find such weapons, if they do, indeed, exist. Meanwhile Bin Laden is still on the loose and Saddam Hussein has come up missing. The Administration assured the U.S. public and the world, over and over again, that an attack was necessary to protect our people and the world from terrorism. It assiduously worked to alarm the public and blur the faces of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden until they virtually became one. What has become painfully clear in the aftermath of war is that Iraq was no immediate threat to the U.S. Ravaged by years of sanctions, Iraq did not even lift an airplane against us. Iraq's threatening death-dealing fleet of unmanned drones about which we heard so much morphed into one prototype made of plywood and string. Their missiles proved to be outdated and of limited range. Their army was quickly overwhelmed by our technology and our well trained troops. Presently our loyal military personnel continue their mission of diligently searching for WMD. They have so far turned up only fertilizer, vacuum cleaners, conventional weapons, and the occasional buried swimming pool. They are misused on such a mission and they continue to be at grave risk. But, the Bush team's extensive hype of WMD in Iraq as justification for a preemptive invasion has become more than embarrassing. It has raised serious questions about prevarication and the reckless use of power. Were our troops needlessly put at risk? Were countless Iraqi civilians killed
[CTRL] TIA And Her Twelve Sisters
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski17.html Tia and Her Twelve Sisters by Karen Kwiatkowski Iran-Contra hero John Poindexter has risen like a phoenix from the Washington wasteland. And as with Iran-Contra, Poindexter has made some tactical errors in his new role as director of DARPAs Total Information Awareness program. That all-seeing eye on the pyramid logo was a bad idea. So was sharing the biographies of the TIA senior leadership. "Total" has now been replaced by the more seemly "Terrorist." Admiral Poindexter found out that "total" information awareness could harm people like himself and his friends in the bureaucracy, and bring them unwanted scrutiny. Their privacy might be vulnerable to violation. John actually runs the whole DARPA Information Awareness Office. Terrorist Information Awareness is just one of thirteen known IAO offspring. Since were paying, we might wonder what we are getting, other than consultants who apparently told somebody about branding disasters, for example, free-mason symbology in the hands of John Poindexter, John Ashcroft or even Dick Cheney and his friends. It works on the dollar, an honest mistake, Im sure. Like the glamorous Hilton twins and the outspoken Dixie Chicks, Tia and her twelve sisters are stumbling into the spotlight. Maureen Dowd pokes fun at the clumsy one, where the government tries to find out who you are and what youre going to do by how you walk. This is eleven of the thirteen listed projects, officially known as Human ID at a Distance, or HumanID or just HID. They say the wearing of trenchcoats will foul this technology, but of course the wearing of trenchcoats will identify you as someone out to foul the technology, so. The bakers dozen of lovelies includes FutureMAP, or "Futures Markets Applied to Prediction." Libertarians will certainly favor Future MAP because she seeks to understand how markets react so rapidly to "knowledge held by only a few participants." Wow might I suggest von Hayek or Mises? "I, Pencil" anyone? It would be less expensive and far more effective, but then Poindexter couldnt spend our money now and justify more cash in the out-years because of program failures that could be corrected if only he had more of our money. If HID is the clumsy sister, and FutureMAP is the pseudo-libertarian sister, then Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery is the bitch. EELD is one mean sister, and she has staying power. Her mission in life, this fiscal year alone, is to: extend its capabilities to the extraction of data from multiple sources (e.g., text messages and web pages), with an ability to adapt rapidly to new threat domains; develop the ability to detect instances of patterns comprising multiple link types (e.g., financial transactions, communications, travel, etc.); and, will develop the ability to learn patterns comprised of multiple types of entities (e.g., persons, organizations, etc.) and multiple link types. This language, as with all government language, is designed to soothe and bore. Im sure that if an innocent person, in researching an article, visited web sites on occultist symbols, terrorism, technology, the federal government, then posted an article with said links on a public website with a high Alexa hit rating, and then other folks emailed and blogged, including to and from overseas, about the dangers of the TIA in the hands of the Bush league or any political appointee to the pursuit of their life goals and politics, and perhaps even used angry or seditionist words in their communications, this would not be of interest to EELD. No, not at all. Not even for practice, not even to demonstrate a capability. Naahh, never happen. Poindexters brood contains at least one ugly sister, but it is hard to choose from between Effective, Affordable Speech to Text (EARS) or Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment (WAE). Babylon is perhaps the batty one up in the attic, as a PDA device that translates the "low-population, high-terrorist-risk languages" of Pashto, Dari, Arabic, and Mandarin. Babylon might have use in a field environment, where American soldiers need to tell foreign enemies to "be quiet," "drop the gun" and "hands up." But as a counterterror tool, this chick and some of her sisters that focus on computerized translations clearly live in an alternate universe. Most of the 9-11 terrorists, as well as all of our homegrown ones, used English and could have been identified in advance without the slightest bit of eavesdropping on their private foreign language conversations. In fact, most past terrorists were already well-known to a number of U.S. government agencies with no help from an automatic phrase translator. Heck, some of the Arabic speaking terrorists (the crowd control toughs on the aircraft who thought it was a hi-jack) didnt even know the full terror plan but the feds think if they could get a computer to translate some phrases, they would? Mandarin, Dari and
[CTRL] AIPAC Hijacks The Roadmap
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/blankfort05272003.html May 27, 2003 AIPAC Hijacks the Roadmap How Israel's US Lobby is Stacking the Deck By JEFFREY BLANKFORT It would be a mistake to view the Israeli cabinet's narrow approval of the Bush administration's "road map" on Sunday, (or Sharon's use of the word "occupation") as steps towards resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict or as a victory for President Bush. If there is any gloating to be done, it will be by Israel's domestic US lobby and it will largely be done in private. Had the administration not surrendered on Friday to Ariel Sharon's demands for significant revisions in the "road map," the Israeli cabinet might not even have taken the vote. Moreover, the president would not have been forced to make those concessions had not the Israeli prime minister been backed solidly by the pro-Israel lobby and by the majority of both houses of Congress. And thus, the supposedly immutable "peace plan" has foundered at the starting gate. As his part of the deal, and before the cabinet vote, Sharon publicly accepted the plan's broad outlines, but not the phased steps contained in the original which carried the stamp and presumably the input of the "Quartet," (Britain, the European Union and the Russians plus the US). During the debate, Sharon told his cabinet that the 14 reservations about the plan that Israel presented to Washington were not negotiable. (BBC, May 25) One that has been prominently mentioned is Israel's refusal to recognize the right to return of Palestinians who were expelled or who left in 1948, an issue that was not to be raised until the "road map's" final phase. Its prospects can best be understood by a metaphor that arose from a press conference with Secretary of State Colin Powell who up to Friday had been insisting that "no changes" would be made in the "road map." Faced with yet another humiliation at the hands of the Israeli prime minister, Powell downplayed criticism that the US was simply kicking the can down the road by agreeing to address Israel's concerns "fully and seriously." "At least we have a can in the road," Powell told reporters. "We have to get started. And so the can is in the road now. We will start moving it down the road with perhaps little kicks as opposed to a 54-yarder." "It's easy to say, why don't you solve this up front - because you couldn't. You have to get started," Powell said, adding that issues like dismantling some Israeli settlement outposts may be "very, very difficult" to resolve. (Ha'aretz May 24). And if those are hard for Powell to contemplate, one can imagine the problems the administration will face if it attempts to deal seriously with those that can no longer be euphemistically described as settlements and have become well-established and well-populated towns that the US no longer considers to be illegal. This raises a key question. Quite apart from the failings inherent in the document, itself, weighted as it is in Israel's favor, it is difficult, at this point, to discern how much the effort of the Bush administration to pursue the "road map" is one of substance as opposed to appearances. Every American president, beginning with Richard Nixon and the Rogers Plan, has attempted to get Israel out of the territories it seized in 1967, and every president since Jimmy Carter, has attempted to get Israel to halt the building of Jewish settlements. Some of these efforts have been more serious than others but all have failed. Given the events of the past few days, the prospects of the current office holder do not seem any better. "What happened to all those nice plans?" asked Israeli journalist and peace activist, Uri Avnery, back during the first Bush's administration. (Ha'aretz, March 6, 1991). "Israel's governments have mobilized the collective power of US Jewry - which dominates Congress and the media to a large degree - against them. Faced by this vigorous opposition, all the presidents, great and small, football players and movie stars - folded one after another." And so it appears to have happened once again. By its efforts to be "more Bush than Bush," Israel's officially registered lobby, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), appears to have gotten its way. It wanted to appear to be supportive of the "road map," while working to derail it . It managed this trick by drawing on a speech that Dubya gave last June 24, in which he expressed such strong and unqualified support for Israel that some observers, like Robert Fisk, jokingly suggested that it might have been written by Sharon. Unlike, the "road map," it had no timetable and placed the onus on the Palestinians to institute a new, democratic government and end all "terrorist acts" before Israel was required to take a single step. Rather than openly criticizing the "road map," and be seen as in opposition both to a popular president and to "peace," AIPAC decided to get the members of both houses to
[CTRL] Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fff.org/comment/com0305n.asp Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists by Sheldon Richman, May 26, 2003 Conservatives favor strict construction of the U.S. Constitution. How do we know? They never stop telling us so. But judging by what they say about the late Iraq war, we may conclude that most conservatives are just phony-baloney constitutionalists. These politicians, such as Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.), and pundits, such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, are as committed to the pernicious idea of the living Constitution as the so-called liberals they despise. The living Constitution is the doctrine that the principles in the Constitution, which was supposed to limit government power and thereby protect individual liberty, must change with the times without resort to the onerous amendment procedure specified in the same document. Thus when the Supreme Court during the New Deal upheld legislation that previous generations of Americans would have condemned as unconstitutional, big-government advocates invoked the living Constitution doctrine to explain why amendment was unnecessary. It should be obvious why this is such a dangerous practice: it effectively repeals the Constitution. As Thomas Sowell put it: to say the Constitution is living is to say that its dead. Or as Walter Williams suggests, those who like a living Constitution should think about what it would mean to play poker with a living rule book. For these reasons, conservatives have led the charge against this pernicious doctrine. They have often been effective in pointing out its horrendous consequences. After all, it turns the Constitution upside down. The Framers made the amendment process difficult because a constitution that is easily amended is more likely to be changed casually. As the Constitution was written, the central government is permitted to exercise only those powers expressly delegated, which, as James Madison noted, were few and defined. If a power is not listed, the government may not exercise it. If someone wants that power exercised, he has to undertake the burdensome task of amending the Constitution. But under the living Constitution doctrine, the government can do anything as long as it is not expressly forbidden. Thus the burden of amendment is shifted from those who wish to expand government power, to those who wish to maintain liberty and keep government constrained. That directly subverts the system established by the Framers. It came about as a result of decisions by judges and so-called lawmakers. How are conservatives guilty of embracing the very doctrine they claim to abhor? Look at what they say about President Bushs war in Iraq. Bush said he had to go to war to protect us from Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction. He also justified the war on grounds that Hussein was brutal to the Iraqi people (which he was). As the war proceeded and no threatening weapons were found, Bush changed the emphasis to the liberation of the Iraqis, as foreshadowed by the name Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now that the war has been over for weeks and still no weapons have been found, just about all we hear is how wonderful it is that we freed Iraq. Conservatives are at the front of the chorus singing George Bushs praises as the great liberator. Theres only one problem. There is no warrant in the U.S. Constitution for the president of the United States to launch a war in order to liberate people from a brutal government. You can look it up. Americans used to know that. In 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams famously said, America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. This is not the only example of conservatives embracing their adversaries doctrine. The Constitution clearly says that only Congress can declare war. But Bush never asked Congress to declare war, and it did not do so. Instead, it illegally delegated the war-declaring power to the president. But most conservatives wanted war, so they did not care. For them, the Constitution has to keep pace with the times. It has to live. So they did their part to kill it. Such is the bankruptcy of what goes by the name conservatism today. Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation, author of Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State, and editor of Ideas on Liberty magazine. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
[CTRL] BOOK REVIEW: Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder
-Caveat Lector- http://www.oss.net/extra/news/?module_instance=1id=1123 BOOK REVIEW: Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder OSS Comment: There are four people who can be said to embody both a public and private representation of the modern CIA--Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Sherman Kent, and--with the best of intentions but some ill results, William Casey. Today we offer, with enormous regard, a review of a most fortunate book from a man who epitomized the concept of honorable secrecy. OSS BOOK REVIEW: Richard Helms, with William Hood, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (Random, 2003), 478 pp. Richard Helms is, after Allen Dulles, arguably the most significant US spymaster and intelligence manager in history. It is a fortunate circumstance that he overcame his reluctance to publish anything at all, and worked with the trusted William Hood, whose own books are remarkable, to put before the public a most useful memoire. Below are a few of the gems that I find worth noting, and for which I recommend the book as a unique record: 1) Puts forward elegant argument for permissive necessary secrecy in the best interests of the public 2) Defends the CIA culture as highly disciplined--he is persuasive in stating that only Presidents can order covert actions, and that CIA does only the President's direct bidding. 3) Makes it clear in passing, not intentionally, that his experience as both a journalist and businessman were essential to his ultimate success as a spymaster and manager of complex intelligence endeavors--this suggests that one reason there is "no bench" at CIA today is because all the senior managers have been raised as cattle destined to be veal: as young entry on duty people, brought up within the bureaucracy, not knowing how to scrounge sources or meet payroll... 4) Compellingly discusses the fact that intelligence without counterintelligence is almost irrelevant if not counterproductive, but then glosses over some of the most glaring counterintelligence failures in the history of the CIA--interestingly, he defends James Angleton and places the blame for mistreating Nosenko squarerly on the Soviet Division leadership in the Directorate of Operations. 5) Points out that it was Human Intelligence (HUMINT), not Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), that first found the Soviet missiles in Cuba. 6) He confirms the Directorate of Intelligence and the analysis it does, as the "essence" of intelligence, relegating clandestine and technical intelligence to support functions rather than driving functions. This is most important, in that neither clandestine nor technical collectors are truly responsive to the needs of all-source analysts, in part because systems are designed, and agents are recruited, without regard to what is actually needed. 7) He tells a great story on Laos, essentially noting that 200 CIA paramilitary officers, and money, and the indigenous population, where able to keep 5 North Vietnamese divisions bogged down, and kept Laos more or less free for a decade 8) In the same story on Laos, he explains U.S. Department of Defense incapacity in unconventional or behind the lines war by noting that their officers kept arriving "with knapsacks full of doctrine". 9) In recounting some of CIA's technical successes, he notes casually that persistence is a virtue--there were *thirteen* satellite failures before the 14th CORONA effort finally achieved its objectives. 10) He gives Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) much higher marks at a user and leader of intelligence, such that we wondered why Christopher Andrew, the noted author on US Presidents and intelligence, did not include LBJ is his "four who got it" (Washington, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Bush Senior). 11) He confirms, carefully and directly, that the Israeli attacks on the USS Liberty were deliberate and with fore-knowledge that the USS Liberty was a US vessel flying the US flag on US official business. 12) He expresses concern, in recounting the mistakes in Chile, over the lack of understanding by President Nixon and Henry Kissinger (who writes the Foreword to this book) of the time lags involved in clandestine operations and covert actions. 13) In summary, he ends with pride, noting that all that CIA not only reduced fear, it saved tens of billions of dollars in defense expenditures that would have been either defeated by the Soviets, or were unnecessary. There can be no question, in light of this account, but that CIA has more than "paid the rent", and for all its trials and tribulations, provides the US taxpayer with a better return on investment than they get from any other part of the US Government, and certainly vastly more bang for the buck that they get from the US Department of Defense. Richard Helms is a one-of-a-kind, and this memoire should be read by every intellience professional, and anyone who wishes to understand how honorable men can thrive in the black world of clandestine and covert
[CTRL] [U-S-A] Trotskyite Strategy in Israel-Palestine (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- * http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens ** -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Trotskyite Strategy in Israel-Palestine http://www.iht.com/articles/97522.html The International Herald Tribune, May 27, 2003 A cage for Palestinians: A 1,000-kilometer fence preempts the road map Jonathan Cook Jerusalem: A humorous e-mail circulating on the Internet explains the law of diminishing territorial returns in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first attempt at partitioning the land between Jews and Arabs, undertaken by the United Nations in 1947, resulted in the Palestinian majority being offered 47 percent of its historic homeland, with the rest allocated to a new Jewish state. The Palestinians rejected the plan and the ensuing war established Israel. The Palestinians had to wait 46 years for the next offer: Under the 1993 Oslo accords, the Palestinians were to receive 22 percent of their homeland - the territories of the West Bank and Gaza. They accepted the terms, but Israel never got around to returning most of the land. Then Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel decided to speed things up and negotiate a final agreement at Camp David in 2000, generously offering the Palestinians 80 percent of the 22 percent of the 100 percent of their original homeland. Yasser Arafat refused to sign and the second intifada began. The e-mail's payoff line is that Barak's successor, Ariel Sharon, has devised an even more miserly take-it-or-leave-it deal: the Palestinians can have a state on 42 percent of the 80 percent of the 22 percent of 100 percent of their original homeland. And of course the purpose has been to KEEP THE TERRORISM GOING as the purpose of post-9/11 U-S-A policy has been to KEEP THE TERRORISM GOING. It is all the same Trotskyite Administration with a puppet-president mouthpiece named Bush to front for it. Make impossible offers to the Palestinians. Keep stealing their land and killing their people and refusing to allow millions of miserable and desperate refugees to return. Clever and diabolical stategy. Keep calling them terrorists for fighting for their LIBERTY with the only weapons they have left...the LIBERTY which the citizens of America lost long ago. POC Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/KlSolB/TM -~- U-S-A = Usurers, Sodomites, Abortionists. The U-S-A Cult is the ruling power over America-the-Good and now seeks to a establish One World Government of Evil-Doers via the Afghanistan-Iraq domino effect. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[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] Same Old Shellgame - What Sharon Wants, Sharon Gets
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/christison05272003.html May 27, 2003 Same Old Shellgame What Sharon Wants, Sharon Gets By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON The Israeli cabinet's highly qualified acceptance on Sunday of the "roadmap" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is likely to mean the final derailment of this latest in a line of misbegotten peace plans. Just a random sampling of the Sunday morning talk shows demonstrates why this perverse reality is so. Reacting to the Israeli cabinet's twelve-seven vote (with four abstentions) in favor of the roadmap, but taking no note of the crippling preconditions imposed on Israel's adherence to the peace plan, Fox News Sunday host Tony Snow asked Senator Joseph Lieberman if he did not agree that the Bush administration should now ignore the other members of the Quartet altogether (the others being the European Union, the UN, and Russia) and go ahead with the roadmap in whatever way the administration saw fit; the U.S. should simply assert its prerogative as principal peace broker. "Well, yes," Lieberman responded, in a tone implying that the answer was so obvious the question need not have been asked. The Israelis mistrust the rest of the Quartet, Lieberman observed, and if we expect Israel to make peace we have to accommodate its concerns. Period. Whatever Sharon wants Sharon gets. Later, on Wolf Blitzer's Late Edition on CNN, Blitzer asked Representative Tom Lantos about the impact of the Israeli cabinet's rejection, as a condition for accepting the roadmap, of any consideration of a Palestinian right of return. With a figurative wave of his hand, Lantos dismissed the right of return as a spurious demand. The bulk of Palestinian refugees never lived in what is now Israel in the first place, he said; most of the refugees are descendants of the original refugees. And in any case, the right of return has never been considered a serious part of the negotiating process. At least not by Tom Lantos or the Israelis. Whatever Sharon wants Sharon gets. Simultaneously with these Israel-is-good, Palestinians-are-bad pronouncements by the congress members and the media outlets who essentially control what Americans know about the peace process, the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom, led by Uri Avnery, issued a newsletter discussing what is really going on in Israel and Palestine, significantly entitled "Behind the Diplomatic Moves: Intensified Assault on Peace Activists." Noting that Sharon's acceptance of the roadmap is so heavily cratered with caveats as to be devoid of any meaning, Gush Shalom writes about what Israel is actually doing on the peace front: ongoing raids, killings, and curfews throughout the occupied territories; a stepped-up offensive against all peace and human rights activists, whether Israeli, Palestinian, or international; continuing arrests and expulsions; the barring of humanitarian aid and development workers from reaching projects in Palestinian territories. While the United States congratulates Sharon for his statesmanship, the Israel campaign to fence in those small areas of the West Bank that might be given over to some measure of Palestinian control continues with the construction, on devastated Palestinian agricultural land, of a massive apartheid wall that will mark out the huge settlement blocs and vast expanses of Palestinian land that Israel intends to retain. While the U.S. praises Sharon's vision, the Israeli campaign to destroy Palestinian national existence and Palestinian identity continues. While the U.S. bends over backward to accommodate Israel's demands, the Israeli campaign to silence the witnesses to its depredations against Palestinians, which began with the killing of Rachel Corrie on March 16, continues in numerous ways. Oblivious to these concrete indications of Sharon's attitude toward making peace with the Palestinians, the U.S. media and most commentators have been concentrating on Israeli rhetoric, hailing the cabinet decision on the roadmap as a "dramatic breakthrough," highly significant because it is the first-ever official Israeli acceptance of the notion of Palestinian statehood. Although the media generally note the Israeli reservations, these are downplayed in the rush to highlight the supposed breakthrough. Few note that Ariel Sharon has long spoken of accepting a so-called Palestinian "state," but a state so truncated (encompassing only about 40 percent of the West Bank in multiple small disconnected segments, including none of Jerusalem, and completely surrounded by Israeli territory) that it would be a travesty of commonly accepted notions of independence and sovereignty. There is nothing in the Israeli cabinet decision or in Sharon's personal "commitment" to the roadmap to indicate that his destructive view of Palestinian nationhood and the right to statehood has changed. Not surprisingly, media outside the United States seem to be taking a more sober and realistic approach to the Israeli
[CTRL] War Budget Includes Yet More Money for Israel
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wrmea.com/archives/may03/0305020.html May 2003, pages 20-21 Congress Watch War Budget Includes Yet More Money for Israel By Shirl McArthur On March 25 Bush finally presented his $74.7 billion supplemental war budget to Congress.The spending requestincludes the hush-hush military aid and loan guarantees to Israel, as well as military and economic aid to other Middle Eastern countries.For Israel the amounts are $1 billion in military grants and $9 billion in loan guarantees, to be available over four years.Israel had requested $4 billion in military grants and $8 billion in loan guarantees.Reportedly, the loan guarantees have the same conditions as the 1991 guarantees, that none of the money may be used in the West Bank and Gaza.The 1991 conditions did nothing to stop Israeli colony expansion, however, and money is still fungible, that is, interchangeable.The amounts requested for other Middle East countries are $300 million in economic aid for Egypt; $700 million in economic aid and $406 million in military aid for Jordan; $90 million in military aid for Bahrain; $61 million in military aid for Oman; $1 billion for Turkey; and $50 million for the West Bank and Gaza to reduce terrorism and support the peace process. Congress Fiddles During Inexorable March to Invade Iraq Throughout February and early March most members of Congress appeared oblivious to the fact that the administration of President George W. Bush, in lockstep behind the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Perle/Feith cabal, was leading the country into uncharted waters with unknown consequences that threatened to undo Americas foreign policy successes since World War II and magnify its failures.Congress did pass the FY 2003 appropriations bill, as described in the previous issue of this magazine, but then seemed either to not care or be too timid to try to head off the looming disaster.There were a few voices in the wilderness, especially Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). The Republican leadership, however, appeared either to agree with the rush to war or fear challenging the White House. Except for House Minority leader Pelosi, the Democratic leadership was equally frozen into inaction.Some, such as Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-SD), Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT), and former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO), seemed to genuinely support Bushs position, while criticizing him for failing to get international support for the war effort.For the most part, however, Democrats seemed more afraid that opposing Bush would somehow hurt them in the 2004 elections than they were concerned about the countrys welfare. But, reported Arab American Institute president James Zogby, a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), at the DNCs winter meeting, attended by some 400 party leaders, the most vigorous applause was given to those who spoke out against the war effort.Presidential candidate former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean was quoted as questioning, why in the world the Democratic leadership is supporting the presidents unilateral attack on Iraq. There are certain truths one does not utter in Washington. Among those who spoke out during late February and March against the rush to war were, in addition to those mentioned above, Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Duncan (R-TN), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Jay Inslee (D-WA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), John Lewis (D-GA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), David Obey (D-WI), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), and Mark Udall (D-CO).Duncan, the only Republican on the list, described at length why this war would be contrary to such traditional conservative positions as being against huge deficit spending, against being the policeman of the world, against world government, and believing it unfair to U.S. taxpayers and our military to put almost the entire burden of enforcing U.N. resolutions on the U.S.He pointed out that other nations have violated U.N. resolutions; yet we have not threatened war against them. Moran created something of a firestorm, at least in the Washington, DC area, when he said to a Northern Virginia anti-war group, If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this.The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going.Moran was responding to a question from a woman who identified herself as Jewish and was wondering why she didnt see more Jewish people in attendance.Moran later said he was trying to make the point that if more organizations in this country, including religious groups, were more outspoken against a war, then I do not think we would be pursuing war as an option. Never mind.There are certain truths one does not utter in
[CTRL] US money funding Uzbeki torture chambers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/05/27/2003052859 US money funding Uzbeki torture chambers BELIEVE IT OR NOT: The Bush administration, in its zeal to put an end to Islamists in the country, is providing aid to the remnants of communist-era Brezhnevism THE GUARDIAN Tuesday, May 27, 2003,Page 5 Abdulkhalil was arrested in the fields of Uzbekistan's Ferghana valley in August last year. The 28-year-old farmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison for "trying to overthrow the constitutional structures." Last week his father saw him for the first time since that day on a stretcher in a prison hospital. His head was battered and his tongue was so swollen that he could only say that he had "been kept in water for a long time." Abdulkhalil was a victim of Uzbekistan's security service, the SNB. His detention and torture were part of a crackdown on Hizb-ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), an Islamist group. Death by boiling Independent human-rights groups estimate that there are more than 600 politically motivated arrests a year in Uzbekistan, and 6,500 political prisoners, some tortured to death. According to a forensic report commissioned by the British embassy, in August two prisoners were even boiled to death. The US condemned this repression for many years. But since Sept. 11 rewrote America's strategic interests in central Asia, the government of President Islam Karimov has become Washington's new best friend in the region. The US is funding those it once condemned. Last year Washington gave Uzbekistan US$500 million in aid. The police and intelligence services -- which the US Department of State's Web site says use "torture as a routine investigation technique" has received US$79 million of this sum. Pact with US Karimov was US President George W. Bush's guest in Washington in March last year. They signed a "declaration" which gave Uzbekistan security guarantees and promised to strengthen "the material and technical base of [their] law enforcement agencies." The cooperation grows. On May 2 NATO said Uzbekistan may be used as a base for the alliance's peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban, US support for the Karimov government has changed from one guided by short-term necessity into a long-term commitment based on America's strategic requirements. Critics argue that the US has overlooked human rights abuses to foster a police state whose borders give the Pentagon vantage points into Afghanistan and the other neighboring republics which are as rich in natural resources as they are in Islamist movements. The geographical hub of the US-Uzbek alliance is 350km south of the capital, Tashkent. Outside the town of Karshi lies the Khanabad military base, the platform for America's operations in Afghanistan. The town of Khanabad has been closed for months by the Uzbek government. Locals say the restrictions are compensated for by the highly paid work the base brings. Journalists are not allowed in to see its runway, logistical supply tents and troop lodgings, all set on roads named after New York avenues. One western source said: "[The Americans] expect to be here for over a decade." This will suit the Uzbek government, which welcomes America's change in attitude as its own security forces continue to repress the population. Uzbeks need a permit to move between towns and an exit visa to leave the country. Attendance at a mosque seems to result in arrest. In the city of Namangan, in the Ferghana valley, there are many accounts of the regime's brutality. A fortnight ago, Ahatkhon was beaten by police and held down while members of the Uzbek security service stuffed "incriminating evidence" into his coat pocket. They called in two "witnesses" to watch them discover two leaflets supporting Hizb-ut-Tahrir. He was forced to inform on four friends, one of whom -- an ex-boxer -- is still in pain from his beating. Abdulkhalil and Ahatkhon prayed regularly. This seemed to have been enough to brand them as the Islamists the Karimov government fears. The Ferghana valley has been a base for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which the US and the UK say has links with al-Qaeda. But the group is thought to have been crippled by the operations in Afghanistan. Analysts diss US claims that the IMU is targeting American military assets in the neighboring republic of Kyrgyzstan. Poverty begets extremism The fight against the IMU has been used to justify the repression of Islamists. But the Islamic order advocated by Hizb-ut-Tahrir fills a void left by devastating poverty and state brutality. Craig Murray, the British ambassador to Uzbekistan, said, "The intense repression here combined with the inequality of wealth and absence of reform will create the Islamic fundamentalism that the regime is trying to quash." Another senior Western official said: "People have less freedom here than under Brezhnev. The irony is that the US Republican party
[CTRL] Principles of a new world orde
-Caveat Lector- http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/6863.taf May 28, 2003 Guest Opinion | Principles of a new world order By Graduate Students Against the War May 27, 2003 - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George H.W. Bush ushered in the post-Soviet era by calling it a New World Order. The former president Bush followed up his statement by invading Panama and then going to war against Iraq in the first Persian Gulf War. Like his father, President George W. Bush is aggressively pursuing this New World Order. He has prosecuted unilateralism to the fullest, aggressively trumpeting violence in foreign affairs. In just over two years in office, President Bush has attempted to overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan government, escalated the Andean guerilla war via Plan Colombia, engendered a war in Afghanistan, disregarded the will of the U.N. Security Council and violating the organizations charter and invaded Iraq a second time, finishing off Saddam Hussein. Yet, these worldwide interventions are not misguided blunders, but rather a rational policy aimed at global military domination. Even before Bushs election, a Washington neoconservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century, laid out the nature of this omnipotent American Empire. Headed by conservative strategists William Kristol and Gary Schmitt, PNAC is a central actor now defining the Bush Administrations foreign policy. Senior members of the Bush Administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department strategist Paul Wolfowitz and State Department Undersecretary Elliott Abrams, have signed on to PNACs Statement of Principles. By advocating an invincible military as well as a bold and aggressive foreign policy, PNAC aims to duplicate the successes of Reagans bellicose Presidency. However, PNAC seeks to go beyond that in the current Administration, calling for a state of permanent global intervention. Neo-conservatives insist that the United States must have the will to create an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity and our principles. PNAC is arguing for a permanent state of war, in which the United States will be in perpetual conflict with all who seek to oppose American domination. In order to achieve global military dominance, PNAC projects remaking the American military machine. In its paper Remaking Americas Defenses, the neo-conservative planners call for a transformation of the American military. PNAC advises a revolution in military affairs through the application of advanced technology and reorganization of the military. This includes missile defense, control of space and cyberspace, and a hybridization of robotic and conventional forces. PNAC envisions America to be the hegemonic military power on land, in the sea, over the air, and in outer space. This, of course, is precisely Donald Rumsfelds program as defense secretary. And to what end? A new technological military supremacy will secure vital resources and ensure political submission throughout the empire. As ominous as this radical expansion of military control is, the domestic governmental change that PNAC advocates and that the Bush administration has begun to implement is just as frightening. Essentially, PNAC thinkers desire military control over the American polity. PNAC planners understand that Americas voters will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the requirements of current missions. Attaining absolute political power, then, will enable neo-conservatives to institutionalize their policy goals within the federal bureaucracy. As the new Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the ongoing infringement of civil liberties and the growing climate of fear demonstrate, some of these goals have already been met. PNAC planners realized several years ago that the American public must live in fear in order for such imperialistic plans to be accepted as reasonable. Writing a year and a half before Sept. 11, 2001, the PNAC noted that the process of bringing about this public state of fear would likely take a considerable length of time, absent some catastrophic and cataclysmic event like a new Pearl Harbor. In other words, a Pearl Harbor-type event offered the possibility of accelerating the American publics willingness to accept the project of world domination (and the stifling of domestic dissent) as its own. Bush saw Sept. 11, then, precisely as an opportunity Condoleeza Rices word in a policy briefing the next day to galvanize the American public into quickly accepting belligerent policies as necessary for Americas defense. Bush has fought his wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and has undermined Constitutional rights all in the name of the war on terror. But before Sept. 11 and before the war on terror, the PNAC was already advocating just the policies that Bush is pursuing today. PNAC prescribes violence because it has no
[CTRL] WHY DO WE HAVE THE WAR ON SOME DRUGS, ANYWAY?
-Caveat Lector- WHY DO WE HAVE THE WAR ON SOME DRUGS, ANYWAY? SAM SMITH - The angry American reaction to Canada's move towards sanity on drug laws raises a question that is seldom asked, let alone studied by academics or the media. Given that the drug war has been a demonstrable failure why does it continue to be so strongly supported by the American political and legal establishment? One reason that few want to touch is corruption, in both the moral and legal sense, which is to say the corruption that comes from political pressure - with its rewards and punishments - and the corruption that comes from hard cash. For example, the Drug Policy Alliance notes that the war on drugs includes a $9 billion prison economy, not to mention more billions in homeless shelters, healthcare, chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment, etc. Each one of these industries - as well as the employment of cops, judges, probation officers, etc - would be severely hurt should America decide to give up its war on drugs. This doesn't justify the madness but it is important to remember that we have created a multi-billion dollar economy based on our failed drug policies. Notes DPA, the beneficiaries of the drug war include: Prison architects and contractors, corrections personnel, policy makers and academics, and the thousands of corporate vendors who peddle their wares at the annual trade-show of the American Corrections Association - hawking everything from toothbrushes and socks to barbed-wire fences and shackles. And multi-national corporations that win tax subsidies, incentives and abatements from local governments -- robbing the public coffers and depriving communities of the kind of quality education, roads, health care and infrastructure that provide genuine incentives for legitimate business. The sale of tax-exempt bonds to underwrite prison construction is now estimated at $2.3 billion annually. . . Corporations that appear to be far removed from the business of punishment are intimately involved in the expansion of the prison industrial complex. Prison construction bonds are one of the many sources of profitable investment for leading financiers such as Merrill Lynch. MCI charges prisoners and their families outrageous prices for the precious telephone calls which are often the only contact inmates have with the free world. Many corporations whose products we consume on a daily basis have learned that prison labor power can be as profitable as third world labor power exploited by U.S.-based global corporations. Both relegate formerly unionized workers to joblessness, many of which wind up in prison. Some of the companies that use prison labor are IBM, Motorola, Compaq, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Microsoft, and Boeing. But it is not only the hi-tech industries that reap the profits of prison labor. Nordstrom department stores sell jeans that are marketed as 'Prison Blues,' as well as t-shirts and jackets made in Oregon prisons. Far more serious, however, is the role that illegal corruption plays. If one is to believe the media and scholars, it would appear that the drug industry - by UN estimate a $400 billion global business - is the only commercial sector in the country that doesn't buy politicians. In other words, the drug trade is the only honest trade when it comes to politics. Of course this is nonsense, but try to find the news story that even raises the possibility that some, if not many, of our politicians are beneficiaries of the drug trade either directly or through well laundered sources. To be sure, there are periodic reports of cops on the take, but any suggestion of political involvement is absent. Further, the collateral beneficiaries of the drug trade - of which money-laundering banks would be a prime example - are exempt from examination as well, unless their misdoings occurred in some foreign land like Mexico or Colombia. To cover such a story is exceedingly difficult and rarely rewarding. When the Review tried to report some of the connections between Bill Clinton and the Arkansas drug trade we discovered that even many journalists just didn't want to hear about it. It was so much easier to describe the story as just about sex, one of the biggest media myths of the 20th century. Mike Rupert, a detective turned writer, gives one example of the stories begging to be covered with the same energy as, say, the misdeeds of Jason Blair. In an interview, he was asked, Who benefits most from an addicted inner-city population? Rupert's reply: It's not just who benefits most; it's how many people can benefit on how many different ends of the spectrum. We published a story in my newsletter, From The Wilderness, by Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing [and Urban Development]. She produced a map in 1996, August of 1996 - that's the same month that the Gary Webb story broke in the San Jose Mercury News. It was a map that showed the pattern of single family foreclosures or
[CTRL] White House insider cleans up Bush's image on film
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- http://informationclearinghouse.literati.org/article3552.htm White House insider cleans up Bush's image on film By DOUG SAUNDERS 05/28/03: (Globe and Mail) Trapped on the other side of the country aboard Air Force One, the President has lost his cool: If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard! His Secret Service chief seems taken aback. But Mr. President . . . The President brusquely interrupts him. Try Commander-in-Chief. Whose present command is: Take the President home! Was this George W. Bush's moment of resolve on Sept. 11, 2001? Well, not exactly. Actually, the scene took place this month, on a Toronto sound stage. The histrionics, filmed for a two-hour television movie to be broadcast this September, are as close as you can get to an official White House account of its activities at the outset of the war on terrorism. Written and produced by a White House insider with the close co-operation of Mr. Bush and his top officials, the movie The Big Dance represents an unusually close merger of Washington's ambitions with the Hollywood entertainment machinery. A copy of the script obtained by The Globe and Mail reveals a prime-time drama starring a nearly infallible, heroic president with little or no dissension in his ranks and a penchant for delivering articulate, stirring, off-the-cuff addresses to colleagues. That the whole thing was filmed in Canada and is eligible for financial aid from Canadian taxpayers, and that its loyal Republican writer-producer is a Canadian citizen best known for his adaptation of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , are ironies that will be lost on most of its American viewers when it airs on the Showtime network this fall. While the film is intended for U.S. viewers, it is produced in collaboration with Toronto- based Dufferin Gate Productions in order to take advantage of Canadian government incentives. It is eligible for the federal Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit, the Ontario Film and Television Production Services Tax Credit and a federal tax-shelter program, which together could result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in Canadian government cheques being sent to the producers. Lionel Chetwynd, the film's creator, sees nothing untoward about his role as the semi- official White House apologist in Hollywood. For him, having a well-connected Republican create the movie was a way to get the official message around what he sees as an entertainment industry packed with liberals and Democratic Party supporters. A feeding frenzy had started to develop around this story, and a lot of people who wanted to do this story had a very clear political agenda, very clear, Mr. Chetwynd said in an interview from his Los Angeles home Tuesday. My own view of the administration is somewhat more sympathetic than, say, Alec Baldwin's. . . . In fact, I'm technically a member of the administration [Mr. Chetwynd sits on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities], so I let it be known that I was also interested in doing it. I threw myself on the mercies of my friend Karl Rove. Mr. Rove is the President's chief political adviser, so this was not a typical Hollywood pitch. But then, Mr. Chetwynd is not a typical Hollywood writer-producer: He is founder of the Wednesday Morning Club, an organization for the movie colony's relatively small band of Republicans, and he led the White House's efforts to enlist Hollywood's support after Sept. 11. Mr. Chetwynd's script is based on lengthy interviews with Mr. Bush, Mr. Rove, top aide Andy Card, retiring White House press aide Ari Fleischer, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other Republican officials in the White House and the Pentagon. He says that every scene and line of dialogue was described to him by an insider or taken from credible reports. Yet compared with other journalistic accounts of the period, the movie is clearly an effort to reconstruct Mr. Bush as a determined and principled military leader. The public image of Mr. Bush who avoided military service in Vietnam and who has often been derided as a doe-eyed naif on satirical TV shows is a key concern to White House communications officials, many of them friends of Mr. Chetwynd. While Mr. Chetwynd says he principally wanted to tell a good story, the movie's mission gives it a distinctly different tint from other such accounts. The scene aboard Air Force One, for example, is offered in several other accounts but most of them present Mr. Bush as cautious, uncertain and worried as he asks to go home. An account published by the British Daily Telegraph has him: I'm not going to do it [appear on TV] from an Air Force base. Not while folks are under the rubble. I'm coming home. Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter, recounts a line similar to Mr. Chetwynd's in his book Bush At War: We need to get
[CTRL] US 'faces future of chronic deficits'
-Caveat Lector- THE FINANCIAL TIMES US 'faces future of chronic deficits' By Peronet Despeignes in Washington Published: May 28 2003 21:57 | Last Updated: May 29 2003 1:16 The Bush administration has shelved a report commissioned by the Treasury that shows the US currently faces a future of chronic federal budget deficits totalling at least $44,200bn in current US dollars. The study, the most comprehensive assessment of how the US government is at risk of being overwhelmed by the baby boom generation's future healthcare and retirement costs, was commissioned by then-Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill. But the Bush administration chose to keep the findings out of the annual budget report for fiscal year 2004, published in February, as the White House campaigned for a tax-cut package that critics claim will expand future deficits. The study asserts that sharp tax increases, massive spending cuts or a painful mix of both are unavoidable if the US is to meet benefit promises to future generations. It estimates that closing the gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 per cent across-the-board income tax increase. The study was being circulated as an independent working paper among Washington think-tanks as President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed into law a 10-year, $350bn tax-cut package he welcomed as a victory for hard-working Americans and the economy. The analysis was spearheaded by Kent Smetters, then-Treasury deputy assistant secretary for economic policy, and Jagdessh Gokhale, then a consultant to the Treasury. Mr Gokhale, now an economist for the Cleveland Federal Reserve, said: When we were conducting the study, my impression was that it was slated to appear [in the Budget]. At some point, the momentum builds and you think everything is a go, and then the decision came down that we weren't part of the prospective budget. Mr O'Neill, who was fired last December, refused to comment. The study's analysis of future deficits dwarfs previous estimates of the financial challenge facing Washington. It is roughly equivalent to 10 times the publicly held national debt, four years of US economic output or more than 94 per cent of all US household assets. Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, last week bemoaned what he called Washington's deafening silence about the future crunch. US tax-cuts President Bush signed into law a $350bn tax-cut package on Wednesday saying:``We can say loud and clear to the American people: You got more of your own money to spend so that this economy can get a good wind behind it. Read more of the FT's news and analysis of the tax-cut debate. Go there The estimates reflect the extent to which the annual deficit, the national debt and other widely reported, backward-looking data are becoming archaic and misleading as measures of the government's solvency. Mr Smetters, now a University of Pennsylvania finance professor, said tax cuts were only a fraction of the imbalance, and that the bigger problem is the whole [budget] language we're using. Laurence Kotlikoff, an expert on long-term budget accounting, alleged in a recent Boston Globe editorial that the Bush administration suppressed the research to ease passage of the tax-cut plan. An administration official said the study was designed as a thought-piece for internal discussion - one among many left every year on the cutting-room floor - and noted the budget's extensive discussion of projected, 75-year Social Security and Medicare shortfalls. . www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[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] 9/11 film makes hero of Bush
-Caveat Lector- Just what we needed--a 9/11 comedy! Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Great Mountain Conspiracy
-Caveat Lector- Good afternoon Early this morning I thought I would lock into three huge volcanic eruptions, so yet another brand new unpolished offering and eventually tedious number crunching.The Great Mountain ConspiracySo far I have rather failed to reach many with my Measurement Messages in respect of the Biblical understanding of a very influential spirit realm ruled in part by the Adversary.OK, so to yet another but a much more powerful example using the extremely significant Time Marker of September 11th 2001 and another Time Marker of February 1st 2003, the former the Day 9.11 and the latter, the Ring of Fire Day.Thus the two dates represent the destruction of New Yorks two sign posts that of the World Trade Centers Twin Towers, killing some 3,000 innocent people, and the other the destruction of the space shuttle orbiter STS 107 Columbia, killing the seven crew. Now my three mountain measurements in time are those where humankind obviously had no say whatsoever, whereas those people who were the perpetrators of the Day 9.11 horror, I say, were those who were affected mentally by the so called Invisible Hand who is the Adversary, (an event which seemingly required over one hundred conspirators and a considerable amount of finance). The fundamental reference number of the Adversary is 155 So to the Great Mountain Conspiracy where time is paramount so to speak, those of Krakatoa on August 27th 1883 and Katmai on June 6th 1912 and Mount St. Helens on May 18th 1980.Mountain 1 - Krakatoa August 27th 1883 One of the most powerful volcanic explosions in the history of the world occurred on August 27th 1883 at Krakatoa in the last century, once a volcanic island located between Java and Sumatra. In May 1883, a series of eruptions commenced which continued until August 27th, 1883, when a cataclysmic explosion blew the island apart. The island exploded with the force of 100 megatons (the Hiroshima atomic bomb was about 20 kilotons). The explosion was heard as far away as Madagascar some 2,200 miles. And some 36,000 people diedSimon Winchesters book Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 has recently been published by Harper Collins in April 2003, who writes:The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. And the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of such killings anywhere. Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology offer a new perspective on this iconic event.Mountain 2 - Katmai and Novarupta June 6th 1912Katmai was once a cluster of 3 or 4 small volcanoes. The 1912 eruption of Katmai was the largest in North America in this century, when more than 7 cubic miles of ash was erupted in only 60 hours, covering 46,000 square miles.The June 6th 1912 eruption of Novarupta Volcano altered the Katmai area of the Alaska Peninsula dramatically. Severe earthquakes rocked the area for a week before Novarupta exploded with cataclysmic force. Enormous quantities of hot, glowing pumice and ash were ejected from Novarupta and nearby fissures. This material flowed over the terrain, destroying all life in its path. Trees up slope were snapped off and carbonized by the blasts of hot wind and gas. For several days ash, pumice, and gas were ejected and a haze darkened the sky over most of the Northern Hemisphere. When it was over, more than 40 square miles of lush green land lay buried beneath volcanic deposits as much as 700 feet deep. At nearby Kodiak, for two days a person could not see a lantern held at arm's length. Acid rain caused clothes to disintegrate on clotheslines in distant Vancouver, Canada. The eruption was ten times more forceful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. "The magnitude of the eruption can perhaps be best realized if one could imagine a similar outburst centered in New York City. All of Greater New York would be buried under from ten to fifteen feet of ash; Philadelphia would be covered by a foot of gray ash and would be in total darkness for sixty hours; Washington and Buffalo would receive a quarter of
[CTRL] [FWD: Written to Sen. Byrd on his bad mouthing our President]
-Caveat Lector- -- Ed Raymond __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Believe it or not, our President has the support of the military, both active and retired, Sen. Byrd on his bad mouthing our President . Senator Byrd, As a retired Naval Officer, with two Gulf carrier deployments under my belt, I find your criticism of President Bush's visit to the Lincoln offensive in the extreme! This is the first time that the Commander-in-Chief took time out of his busy wartime schedule to pay a visit to thank those who served in the line of fire, in way that was both dramatic and meaningful to those on the carrier. Perhaps if LBJ got off his fat ass to do something similar, our troops' morale in Vietnam might not have been so low. As a Naval officer, I am extremely sensitive to styles of leadership. That is, after all, our stock in trade. And it was not lost on me that the President spent about thirty seconds shaking hands with the Admiral, CO, and CAG (If you don't know these abbreviations just look them up in your Funk Wagnalls!). He then spent the next forty-five minutes putting himself at the disposal of the people who make that ship work, the yellow shirts, the green shirts, the purple shirts, the chiefs, the sailors. If you don't know the significance of those colored shirts, look it up in your Blue Jacket's Manual. Not dressed out in formal uniform (I understand at Bush's request), but in their greasy, smelly, sweaty working uniforms... working a flight deck is hot, hard work. And yet he, in his flight suit, put himself at their disposal, this was their moment for 19 or 20 something year old kids a few years out of high school, to get a picture of themselves with the President of the United States, his arm draped around their shoulder. That is a moment that those kids never dreamed would ever happen to them, maybe not even when they knew he was coming aboard. Surely, he would see the brass, not the troops. But it was the troops to whom he gave his time... and it was the most natural moment in the world. You might have thought it was a family reunion, and in a way, it was... Bush is one of them, the common man, and while he is still the most powerful man on the planet right now, he hasn't lost his touch for them. Was it a political moment? What moment of a president's life is NOT a political moment? Was it grand standing, to come in to an OK pass to a 4 wire, a bit high in close, correcting, left of centerline? Well, hell, he didn't fly the approach anyway, though I understand from the pilots who flew him that he did a pretty good job at formation flying, tucked in close for a lead change. You can always tell a fighter pilot, you just can't tell him very much. And apparently after thirty years, it all comes back, with a little coaching, I am sure. Frankly, I would have liked to see him come aboard in an FA-18, but the Secret Service vetoed that, and Bush accepted their judgment... again, a mark of a good leader. If you had spent some time in the service, instead of the Klan, you might understand the significance of that moment to all the men and women aboard the Lincoln, and indeed to all the men and women in the service who shared that moment vicariously. But you chose the bedsheet instead of the uniform, and so you don't. I am half-tempted to move to West Virginia just so I could vote against you in your next election. Lewis F. McIntyre CDR, USN (Ret) MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE
