[CTRL] Oilmen Don't Want Another Suez (Anthony Sampson) (Flashback)
Title: Guardian | Oilmen don't want another Suez -Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4572347-110373,00.html Oilmen don't want another Suez Critics of US policy claim it aims to carve up Iraq's oil wealth. But, argues Anthony Sampson, oil companies fear the fallout from a new Gulf warObserver special: Iraq Anthony SampsonSunday December 22, 2002The Observer While Washington hawks depict a war against Iraq as achieving security of oil supplies, Western oil companies are worried about the short-term danger and the supposed long-term benefits of intervention. Left-wing critics in Britain depict the proposed invasion as an oil war. Former Cabinet Minister Mo Mowlam has called it a 'war to secure oil supplies' as a cover for a war on terrorism. And the fact that President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney have both been enriched by oil companies raises suspicions about their motives for war. But oil companies have had little influence on US policy-making. Most big American companies, including oil companies, do not see a war as good for business, as falling share prices indicate; while the obvious beneficiaries of war are arms companies. Western oil companies have differing attitudes. The French want to maintain their special relationship with Iraq, while seeking links with Iraqi opposition leaders who may form a post-war government. The Russians are performing a more difficult balancing act. Worried that their previous friendship with Saddam might exclude them from a post-war share-out, they have sought assurances from Washington in return for their diplomatic support for a war. But Saddam has counter-attacked by cancelling the Russian contract for developing new oilfields. The British believe they are specially entitled to share in the development of Iraqi oil supplies. BP (then known as Anglo-Persian) was involved in the discovery of oil after the British and the French invented Iraq as a separate state, carved out of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. But BP is worried about being displaced by US companies. As Lord Browne, its chief executive, said in October: 'We would like to make sure, if Iraq changes its regime, that there should be a level playing-field for the selection of oil companies to go in there.' The Americans, if they won the war, would be in the strongest position to insist on access to Iraqi oil and exploration. But they cannot ignore the interests of the Iraqi opposition. The State Department has convened a working group on oil and natural gas in Washington this week. It will include representatives of Iraqi groups and the US Energy Department, which will present proposals to a transitional government. A State Department spokesman said: 'There is a misconception that the US is trying to orchestrate the post-Saddam oil market in Iraq. That's not at all what we are doing.' But European companies fear the Americans are trying to do just that, while using the promise of future oil supplies as leverage to ensure support for the war. James Woolsey, former CIA director, has explained: 'The French and Russians should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq towards decent government, we'll do our best to ensure the new government and American companies work closely with them.' Some companies are worried that the opportunities for developing Iraqi oil will lead to a free-for-all. 'I've had one opposition leader offering a commission in return for access to oil,' said one oil executive. 'I showed him the door, but there will be many more.' Many neo-conservatives in Washington are indicating they want the US intervention to go beyond Iraq; and to redraw the diplomatic map of the Middle East. They look to a realignment of US foreign policy, to intervene in both Iran and Saudi Arabia, ensuring both the security of American oil supplies, and the security of Israel. Above all, they see the development of Iraqi oil as lessening US dependence on Saudi Arabia, which they see as a dangerous source of future terrorists. The oil companies are much less confident that this escalation will protect supplies. Shell and Exxon-Mobil have made huge investments in natural gas in Saudi Arabia, which could be at risk in a confrontation with the Saudi government. All oil companies in the Middle East would face a more dangerous political climate, caught between the American-Israeli intervention and nationalists fearing reversion to a neo-colonial system. Oil companies dread having supplies interrupted by burning oilfields, saboteurs and chaotic conditions. And any attempt to redraw the frontiers could increase the dangers in both Iran and Iraq, as rivals seek to regain territory. Hawks in Washington believe military intervention could bring about the demise of Opec (the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries), thus cutting oil prices. But collapsing prices would be devastating, not only for regional
[CTRL] Fox News Viewers at the Bottom of the Barrel
-Caveat Lector- The chart below is almost hilarious. Fox News viewers might just as well wear a sticker on their foreheads reading, "I am a moron." Rupert Murdoch, international multibillionaire, owner of Fox News, Octopus principal, pro-Israel zealot, master of lies and deception, manipulator and exploiter of the dim masses http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 02, 2003 Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq warBy FRANK DAVIESKnight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war. The three common mistaken impressions are that: U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists. People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it. Overall, 60 percent of Americans held at least one of those views in polls reported between January and September by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, based at the University of Maryland in College Park, and the polling firm, Knowledge Networks based in Menlo Park, Calif. "While we cannot assert that these misperceptions created the support for going to war with Iraq, it does appear likely that support for the war would be substantially lower if fewer members of the public had these misperceptions," said Steven Kull, who directs Maryland's program. In fact, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S. intelligence has found no clear evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaida or was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Gallup polls found large majorities opposed to the war in most countries. PIPA's seven polls, which included 9,611 respondents, had a margin of error from 2 to 3.5 percent. The analysis released Thursday also correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions. The comparable figures were 47 percent for those who said they relied most on newspapers and magazines and 23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio. The reasons for the misperceptions are numerous, Kull and other analysts said. They noted that the Bush administration had misstated or exaggerated some of the intelligence findings, with Bush himself saying in May: "We found the weapons of mass destruction and we'll find more as time goes by." The Bush administration has also been a factor in persistent confusion. Last month, for example, Bush said there was no evidence that Saddam was involved in the Sept. 11 attack after Vice President Dick Cheney suggested a link. Cheney, in a "Meet the Press" interview, had described Iraq as "the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9-11." Why some news audiences had more accurate impressions than others was less clear. Kull cited instances in which TV and newspapers gave prominent coverage to reports that banned weapons might have been found in Iraq, but only modest coverage when those reports turned out to be wrong. Susan Moeller, a University of Maryland professor, said that much reporting had consisted of "stenographic coverage of government statements," with less attention to whether the government's statements were accurate. The study found that belief in inaccurate information often persisted, and that misconceptions were much more likely among backers of the war. Last month, as in June, for example, nearly a quarter of those polled thought banned weapons had been found in Iraq. Nearly half thought in September that there was clear evidence that Saddam had worked closely with al-Qaida. Among those with one of the three misconceptions, 53 percent supported the war. Among those with two, 78 percent supported it. Among those
[CTRL] Are Americans Event Naïve?
-Caveat Lector- Are Americans Event Naïve? Yesterday, 7 December 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. President Roosevelt AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL. 7:55 A.M. Hawaii Standard Time December 7th 1941 On December 7th, 1941, at 6:00am HST some 183 Japanese aircraft are launched from Japanese aircraft carriers and at 7:02am radar operators Private George Elliot and Private Joseph Lockard spotted the Japanese aircraft onto their approach to Oahu, and contacted the US Information Center to report the contacts and was informed that it was a flight of American B-17 Flying Fortresses on an approach to the islands. And at 7:15am a second wave of 167 Japanese aircraft were in the air and they also used the radio station at Honolulu as a beacon to find their way to Pearl Harbor. It was at 7:55am that the attack on Pearl Harbor began with the bombing Wheeler Field, just 8 miles from Pearl Harbor. So December 7th 1941 at 07:55 Hawaiian time, the first wave of Japanese attack aircraft were over Pearl Harbor, and by 8am that Sunday morning the American anti-aircraft guns were heard by the people of Honolulu and surrounding area. For two hours and twenty minutes Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese pilots. About 3,581 people were killed, missing, or wounded, of which 2,008 were US Navy dead, and 710 wounded and109 Marines were killed and 69 wounded, whereas the US Army suffered some 218 dead and 364 wounded. Also 68 civilians were killed and 35 wounded, many from friendly fire. The United States lost a total of 5 battleships with another 3 damaged and also 3 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, and 4 auxiliary craft that were either sunk or heavily damaged. In addition to those there were 205 aircraft either destroyed or damaged. Only 29 Japanese pilots were shot down by American gunfire, most during the attack of the second wave. But fortunately the three American aircraft carriers that were stationed at Pearl Harbor were not docked at the time of the attack. On September 2nd 1945, Japan officially surrendered aboard the USS Missouri and the terms of surrender allowed Emperor Hirohito to maintain his throne. It has been said that the White House knew of the coming attack because the intelligence services in South America told the White House that the United States was to be attacked. It was also said the selection of war ships at Pearl Harbor was chosen with the prior knowledge of an attack. And the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the Second World War, a war that ended for with the United States dropping two atomic bombs in anger onto the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to some President Franklin D. Roosevelt sacrificed his American warships and over 2000 lives because Hitler had to be stopped. Otherwise, once the Germans and Japanese finished subduing Europe and Asia, they would turn on America, and conquer the whole world, with Hitler's troops eventually goose-stepping through New York City. On December 7th at 1:50pm Washington time, Harry Hopkins, who was the only person with FDR when he received the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor by telephone, and wrote that FDR was unsurprised and expressed 'great relief'. And Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about December 7th 1941 in her book 'This I Remember' that FDR became in a way more serene. And yet over 2,000 in the US Navy were soon to die. So to number crunching the horrific event of December 7th 1941. First to the 'Statue of Liberty' that is 'Liberty Enlightening the World' I suggest represents the 'Statue of Horus' Statue from base to torch is 151 feet 1 inch or 151.083334 feet or 1,813 inches Pedestal 154 feet or 1,848 inches. Total height 305 feet 1 inch or 305.083334 feet or 3,661 inches And the diabolical reference number 3,661 + 3,661 is equivalent to Horus at 6,100 + the 'Skull and Bones' flag at 611 + 611. So the 'Statue of Liberty' can be considered as representing Horus wearing the mantle of Lucifer, the emblem of the Order of the Illuminati' the banner that flies over the 'Gates of Hell'. Now my number crunching and revelations has shown me that a fundamental reference number for Satan, the Adversary of Humankind, the Deceiver, is emphatically 155. And counting from 12:05am, that is five minutes after midnight Hawaii Standard Time on December 7th 1941 to a moment past midnight Eastern Standard Time, (not EDT), September 11th 2001, the infamous day called 9.11, one of the most important Time Markers in over 1,000 years, is 59.76167825 years. And 59.76167825 years x the Statue of Liberty at 1813 inches x 1848 inches and squared thrice x 6 is Satan's reference 1.550e+66. So can this calculation really be no more than a contrived bit of number crunching? Of course many Skeptics would say this if they bothered to read such, but then some really do prefer to stay not
Re: [CTRL] Fox News Viewers at the Bottom of the Barrel
Title: Message -Caveat Lector- Any weapons the Iraqishad couldhave beengiven to others or sold during the time we were playing "should we or shouldn't we" games.Anyone operating at Saddam's level wasn't going to be stupid enoughto take on theUS. There are political networks in this world which are quite unknown to the average person who relies only onnews sources from Fox to PBS. Fox has its agenda as does PBS. As was said elsewhere, the best propaganda is 75% truth. Does it really matter if someone believes Fox or PBS? Probably not.This kind of information spins elections, but once in office the electedreally don't care what thepeople in their district think. A more interesting poll would be to ask respondants what they have done based on whatever they believe. -Original Message-From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean McBrideSent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 3:50 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [CTRL] Fox News Viewers at the Bottom of the Barrel-Caveat Lector- The chart below is almost hilarious. Fox News viewers might just as well wear a sticker on their foreheads reading, "I am a moron." Rupert Murdoch, international multibillionaire, owner of Fox News, Octopus principal, pro-Israel zealot, master of lies and deception, manipulator and exploiter of the dim masses http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 02, 2003 Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq warBy FRANK DAVIESKnight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war. The three common mistaken impressions are that: U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists. People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it. Overall, 60 percent of Americans held at least one of those views in polls reported between January and September by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, based at the University of Maryland in College Park, and the polling firm, Knowledge Networks based in Menlo Park, Calif. "While we cannot assert that these misperceptions created the support for going to war with Iraq, it does appear likely that support for the war would be substantially lower if fewer members of the public had these misperceptions," said Steven Kull, who directs Maryland's program. In fact, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S. intelligence has found no clear evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaida or was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Gallup polls found large majorities opposed to the war in most countries. PIPA's seven polls, which included 9,611 respondents, had a margin of error from 2 to 3.5 percent. The analysis released Thursday also correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions. The comparable figures were 47 percent for those who said they relied most on newspapers and magazines and 23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio. The reasons for the misperceptions are numerous, Kull and other analysts said. They noted that the Bush administration had misstated or exaggerated some of the intelligence findings, with Bush himself saying in May: "We found the weapons of mass destruction and we'll find more as time goes by." The Bush administration has also been a factor in persistent confusion. Last month, for example, Bush said there was no evidence that Saddam was involved in the Sept. 11 attack after Vice President Dick Cheney suggested a link. Cheney, in a "Meet the Press" interview, had described
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Title: Message -Caveat Lector- From the Financial Times out of London. EU looking to defence harmony by 2010 By Judy Dempsey in Rome Published: October 4 2003 5:00 | Last Updated: October 4 2003 5:00 Europe's defence ministers yesterday backed ambitious plans to have their armed forces capable of working together by 2010. The radical plans would apply to resources, doctrines and equipment. The initiative is part of a strategy aimed at creating defence structures in the European Union that are more coherent, homogenous and able to respond quickly to crises. Even though 11 European Union countries are members of the Nato military alliance, EU member states have made little progress towards harmonising the military equipment they purchase or co-ordinating their capabilities. The calls for a greater push on military capabilities were made by Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, and Antonio Martini, defence minister of Italy, also chairing the EU's rotating presidency. Both said Europe's ambitions to have a strong and effective security and defence policy - particularly in crisis management, conflict prevention and peacekeeping missions - could not be achieved without better capabilities. These included logistics and the ability to sustain troops on the ground for long periods. A paper presented by Italy, said that if the EU wanted to be active "it must develop a strategic culture that favours early, rapid and, when necessary, robust intervention in order to try to head off or defuse crises". Italy also called for a special agency to co-ordinate capabilities among the member states. Geoff Hoon, British defence minister, and Henk Kamp, his Dutch counterpart, suggested Mr Solana head the agency, which could be set up by December. Mr Solana, who has spent the past four years trying to improve Europe's security/defence capabilities, said there was little point in member countries offering forces if they were not "usable in real operations". The EU, he added, needed armed forces that were "agile, flexible, deployable and sustainable". That meant combining forces, focusing on quality and beefing up military spending. In 2000 the EU average defence expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product was 1.8 per cent, compared with the Pentagon's 3.1 per cent. Lord Robertson, Nato secretary-general, said yesterday that the Europeans had to spend on quality, not quantity, particularly on research and development. http://news.ft.com/home/us 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] Identity cards
-Caveat Lector- Again, from the Financial Times of London A necessary bureaucratic tool for Europe By Robert Graham and Raphael Minder Published: October 3 2003 20:31 | Last Updated: October 3 2003 20:31 The idea of a powerful and intrusive administrative machine, combined with petty officialdom, makes British hackles rise over the introduction of identity cards. Yet in continental Europe, where the identity card has long been in use, it is regarded as a necessary bureaucratic tool rather than a restraint on individual liberties. In most European capitals, identity cards are a fact of everyday life, as much as credit cards. And where they exist, identity cards have become even more acceptable now that people are allowed to use them to cross borders in the Schengen area - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland - without a passport. The Schengen agreement allows each nation to design its own identity cards. Now there are moves to introduce electronic identity cards with a more intrusive biometric system of identification. The German identity card currently has a barcode and provides limited personal information such as eye colour. Portugal's card includes a fingerprint. Italy's card leaves a space for a sophisticated fingerprint which has yet to be used; the photograph of the holder is merely stapled on rather than engraved. In France, there are plans for the reproduction of a fingerprint, the structure of the hand and the iris. There has been some controversy over the issue of whether women should be allowed to use photographs of themselves wearing the Muslim head scarf. The interior ministry has ruled against this practice. France was the first country to introduce a form of identity card in 1888. The measure was conceived not to provide documents for the local population but to obtain better control over foreigners inside the country. In 1893, French law formally required foreigners wanting to work in France to obtain an identity card. During the first wor ld war the measure was extended for security reasons to include all foreigners on French territory. The French national identity card dates from 1965 - a near passport-size two-page document. The photographs on this version were relatively easy to replace and a more sophisticated plastic card was introduced in 1992. Unlike passports, the issuing of identity cards has been free in France since 1988. Within EU countries the debate now is about what sort of identity document should be required of temporary residents and migrant workers. This week EU interior ministers signalled their willingness to back a proposal from the European Commission to include biometric technology on visas and residency permits to help combat forgery and illegal immigration. The Commission's proposal is that by 2006 EU countries issuing visas would include a photograph and fingerprint - the latter being stored electronically in a computer chip on the travel documents. The UK may be thinking about the use of an ID card but everywhere else in Europe the debate has moved a lot further than that, said one senior EU official. 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] International Law
Title: Message -Caveat Lector- is in a libertarian law professor's blogAOL link: The Volokh Conspiracy Text URL: http://volokh.com/Quote - with links to the original article:" [Eugene Volokh, 10:35 AM]Signing treaties may erode the Bill of Rights: American decisions to sign on to international treaties may erode the protections of the Bill of Rights, for instance the First Amendment. Yes, the Supreme Court has supposedly said otherwise, in Reid v. Covert (1957): "[N]o agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the [federal government] which is free from the restraints of the Constitution" (speaking of the Bill of Rights). But it turns out that this supremacy of the Bill of Rights really isn't that strong: The President and the Senate can, in the long run, "insinuat[e] international law" that would create "a partial displacement of constitutional hegemony" (for instance, with "an international norm against hate speech . . . supply[ing] a basis for prohibiting it, the First Amendment notwithstanding"). "In the short term," international norms would and should be "relevan[t] . . . in domestic constitutional interpretation." But "In the long run, it may point to the Constitution's more complete subordination." These quotes are not from some anti-internationalist "The U.N. is coming to take away our liberties" conservatives. They are from a recent article by Prof. Peter Spiro, one of the leading American international law scholars; the article, called Treaties, International Law, and Constitutional Rights, was published in the Stanford Law Review, which is generally seen as one of the top 3 legal journals in the country. Prof. Spiro is both defending the notion that treaties should be able to trump constitutional rights -- "If some constitutional norms are more appropriately set at the international level" (and he believes they are), "that should justify a treaty power that, in some cases, overcomes even the Bill of Rights" -- and predicting that treaties will over time do so. Courts, he acknowledges, would try to "maintain[] the formal hegemony of the domestic constitution," but "this formal hegemony may disguise a loss of domestic constitutional autonomy over the long run." "Constitutional rights 'adjusted' by treaty norms are changed by them. The Constitution is read to conform with the treaty." Of course, some people may be quite happy about this: They might well conclude that parts of the Bill of Rights should be superseded by "international" norms. They may think the international lawmaking community (mostly, I suspect, composed of European legal and political elites, plus of course those segments of American legal and political elites that are involved in this field) will indeed reach better results than those provided for by the current understanding of the U.S. Constitution. But those of us who disagree should vigilantly watch for, and resist, the "displacement of constitutional hegemony" that the article welcomes. We should insist that the President and the Senate consistently stress in all the treaties they sign and ratify that our agreement to the treaty is constrained by our Constitution, and that the treaty should be read to conform to the Constitution, and not the other way around. We should criticize judges who rely on international norms in interpreting American constitutional provisions (in this respect, reading Prof. Spiro's article has led me to reconsider some of my views in this post, and to view with much more alarm reliance on international law in American constitutional interpretation). And we should assiduously publicize the ways in which international rules are, in our view, worse than ours, for instance to show that foreign bans on "hate speech" actually end up banning (as American First Amendment thinking would have suggested) a good deal of speech that deserves to be protected (see, for instance, this post by David Bernstein). Our Constitution is far from perfect, both as written and as interpreted. I think courts should indeed change their views on many issues, and people should try to press courts to do so. But this should be our decision as Americans. We should not cede our control over our constitutional rights to international bodies, international professional elites, or even to our own President and Senate. In any event, that's just my opinion. Read the Stanford Law Review article, which is fortunately quite readable and not terribly long (30 law review pages) for a different view." 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
Re: [CTRL] Fox News Viewers at the Bottom of the Barrel
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 10/4/2003 9:52:05 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more interesting poll would be to ask respondants what they have done based on whatever they believe. I'd like to see a poll asking whether or not we're getting our monies worth with our foreign aid. Maybe even a federal ballot initiative. 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] Who is gardengrow@earthlink.net...
-Caveat Lector- ...and why does he/she instigate a private email campaign against me and then whine and cry about harrassment when I respond to his/her silly, anti-Americanism?? Thin-skinned pseudopatriots...a dime a dozen under the Bush regime. 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] Did Rupert Murdoch Have Prior Knowledge Of 9/11?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1130 Did Rupert Murdoch Have Prior Knowledge of 9/11? By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. Two organizations, both pro-Israel, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the Fox News network, have desperately tried to smear Bollyn as an anti-Semite in order to discredit him and diminish the significance of his work. At the helm of both organizations, the ADL and Fox News, is an Australian-born Zionist named Keith Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch and the ADL are clearly trying to marginalize Bollyn, and other independent researchers like him, who use facts to challenge the governments flawed explanation of what occurred on 9/11. Did Rupert Murdoch Have Prior Knowledge of 9/11? Rupert Murdoch is said to be televisions most powerful man in the world with the capacity to reach more than 110 million viewers across four continents. Murdoch sits at the helm of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News network, and controls a large part of the mass media in the United States, including The New York Post and the Fox cinema and television network. Murdochs international media network owns more than 175 newspapers and magazines on three continents, publishes 40 million papers a week and dominates the newspaper markets in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. A close friend of the accused Israeli war criminal and prime minister Ariel Sharon, Murdoch and his media network are well known for supporting Israels right-wing Likud Party and the Anglo-American war on terrorism. Less well known, however, is the fact that Murdoch produced a television program in 2000, which predicted with uncanny accuracy the attacks of 9/11. Murdoch also has long-standing relationships with the key individuals who gained possession of the World Trade Center shortly before 9/11 and who profited from its destruction. In 2000, Murdoch produced a television program about a terror attack on the World Trade Center, which predicted precisely the kind of attack that occurred on 9/11. He is also closely connected to the two individuals who leased, and then insured the WTC property and their future earnings against precisely such an attack. These connections and circumstances suggest that Murdoch had a considerable degree of prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Repeated calls to Murdochs office by American Free Press to inquire about what he may have known or suspected about the possibility of such an attack were not returned. The Lone Gunmen On March 4, 2001, Fox TV, a branch of Murdochs media empire, broadcast the pilot episode of a spin-off series based on characters from the popular Fox program X-Files. The short-lived series was called The Lone Gunman. A Murdoch-owned company called Canadian Millennium Productions, Ltd. (News Corp. owns 83 percent), produced the pilot episode for The Lone Gunman in Vancouver, Canada, and New York City from March 20 to April 7, 2000. The title The Lone Gunman refers to a Washington-based government watchdog news weekly, not unlike the court-killed SPOTLIGHT and the American Free Press. The shows main characters are the investigative reporters who produce the paper. The pilot episode of The Lone Gunman depicted the hijacking of a passenger aircraft by a hostile computer hacker who takes control of the plane computer flight system and directs it to fly into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. The climactic sequence shows the plane heading straight for one of the twin towers, but thanks to the efforts of the crew of The Lone Gunman and the powerful Octium computer chip, the pilots are able to regain control of the plane at the last second and avoid the building by inches. The pilots do not swerve away from the tower but pull the plane up in a steep climb. In a memorable scene full of suspense the plane narrowly missed the tower. The background footage for the planes approach to the WTC was actually filmed during the spring of 2000 by a special aerial crew that used a helicopter flying low over Manhattan on a night flight toward the twin towers. Despite the uncanny similarities between the Murdoch-produced film and the horrific reality of 9/11, rather than being discussed in the media as a prescient warning of the possibility of such an attack, the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman series seemed to have been quietly forgotten. While an estimated 13.2 million Fox TV viewers are reported to have watched the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman, broadcast on March 4, 2001, when life imitated art just six months later on 9/11, no one in the media seemed to recall the program. No One Noticed I woke up on
[CTRL] A Study in Art I
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1127 A Study in Art I By Israel Shamir Part One Wandering on the great peninsula of Peloponnese I drove into the medieval-looking town of Nauplio. Its harbour is guarded by a grey-walled islet, cosy cafes line up the waterfront, while behind them, narrow and curvy lanes rapidly climb up the steep mount, crowned by a Venetian fort. City streets are fresh and dainty, and preserve the proverbial charm of Greece. There are not many places on the Greek mainland that so effortlessly captivate a stranger. Greeks call it Nafplio, probably in honour of Nafnaf the Pig. Unusual for Greece, it was built up by Crusaders on their way to Jaffa and Acre, sculpted by Venetians, Turks, French and Bavarians, ruled by Duke of Athens. Nauplio was for a short while a first capital of independent Greece, but mercifully was spared the grim fate of Athens: it did not become a centre of overcrowded honking urban spread. It is a good base to scout the plain of Argolis. On its main square, there is an old Venetian building. It houses now the local archaeological museum. Its collection starts with the great Mycenaean civilisation, a child of Minoan civilisation of Crete. This art blossomed not far away, in the walled cities of Mycenae and Tiryns, once ruled by the accursed Atreid kings. It is a period of wonderful free and inspired art, with voluptuous (like Baroque nymphs crowding the ceiling of my hotel room) figurines of goddesses, jolly octopuses (octopi for Jennifer) on the jars, and frescoes reminiscent of Palestinian work in Deir el-Balach. Mycenaeans could read and write, built castles and palaces, carved the magnificent lions above the gate of their capital. But as one continues the tour, all of a sudden one witnesses the great collapse. Art disappears, and its place is taken over by bare geometric forms. Centuries will pass from 12 c BC to 6 c BC, until local inhabitants will regain the developed forms of art, knowledge of writing and sophistication of old. One feels this lacuna of time while reading Odyssey. Homer composed his anachronistic masterpiece some four hundred years after the collapse, and he did not know that his heroes could write and read, and their princesses did not have to do laundry by themselves. After the collapse, one finds pieces of art strangely similar to our modern creations. In the small museum of Acropolis in Athens, there is a precise copy of Giacometti statuette, made some 2700 years ago. Geometric forms of that period are reproduced now as best examples of modern art. Thus, in the small museum of Nauplio, I found a missing piece to fit into the puzzle. Death of Art is a symptom of civilisation collapse. For another piece of the puzzle, I travelled to the other end of Europe, to the Basque capital Bilbao, where the great Jewish American family of Guggenheim built a huge museum of modern art. It is probably the biggest building erected in modern Spain, looking like a flagman of the merchant fleet entering the shore of Biscay. Its forms are unique, there are no right angles, and curves are too complicated and defy easy definition. It is a building that intends to impress and it impresses you as a spacecraft on the village street. Inside, it is less imposing. Some pieces of corrugated iron, video screens, bare geometric forms are being offered as the chef-douvres of the modern art. A New York artist brought here fifteen ton of rusty iron plates, a Japanese artist has a big room where dozens of TV screens show endless emptiness. Four large floors of nothing are surmounted by the fifth floor, displaying the collection of Armani suits. Every piece could be easily interchanged for another one. There is no Rafael of rusty iron, an artist as creator of art disappeared and gave place to the museum curator, the collection owner. It is he who decides what sort of junk will be displayed, whose name will be written under the photo of tinned soup or a dead rat. Only Armani brand reigns supreme, impervious to curators will, or perhaps it is the curators ideal art. The museum of Modern Art in Bilbao was supposed to contain Gernica, Picassos modern version of the Last Judgement. Instead, it is stuffed with corrugated iron. It is a good place to contemplate the present decay, nay, demise of the European visual art. As good as any, for the example set by Guggenheim is followed everywhere. In Biennale of Venice, Belgians exhibit a row of chairs, Japanese two hundred yards of photo of a cell, Israelis bookshelves with yesteryear cheap books, English trashed old cars. On my way through Milan, I passed by a lorry carrying a dozen of flattened car wrecks to the scrap yard. It could make a good object of art for Biennale, as well as a heap of garbage. I am sure nobody would find it out of place if it would be provided with a name of artist, his country and his media. In Amsterdam museum I saw a collection of rotten decomposed pig trunks.
[CTRL] A Study in Art II
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1126 A Study in Art II By Israel Shamir Part Two Why did it happen? What is the reason of Jewish success in the field of Modern Art? It is not due to great achievements of Jewish artists: they are quite modest, and despite the PR support of Jewish art collectors, curators and critics, they are well within what could be expected for a fifteen-million-strong wealthy community. Interaction of wealthy Jewish collectors and philanthropists with Jewish critics active in the Jewish-owned media provides us with a partial answer. Still, the Jews were extremely ill equipped for their conquest of Olympus. For many generations, Jews never entered churches and hardly ever saw paintings. They were conditioned to reject image as part of their rejection of idols. In the course of two thousand year long selection process, visual gifs of Jews were not developed, as opposed to abilities to learn, argue and convince honed to perfection in Talmudic environment. Rejection of Christ this main fountain of creativity is even deeper reason. There is no visual art or poetry outside of God, at best, a godless person can imitate art. For this reason, Jews are, as a rule, poor painters and sculptors. (Chagall and Modigliani embraced Christ, and Chagall made the stained glass of Chartres). While their mastery of word and ideology is very high (well above average of 100, at 130), their average visual ability is only 75, extremely low. One can consider it a scientific proof of no art without Christ. Indeed until recently there were no important Jewish painters or sculptors. The Jewish temple was supposedly built by Phoenicians and Greeks, and it had a very few images. Even illumination of medieval Jewish manuscripts was usually done by non-Jewish artists, who made very obvious errors trying to copy Jewish letters. Jewish success in the Art world is amazing. If the Olympic Sports committee would consist of handicapped persons, and a fair share of sports commentators would be lame, and even some winners of the games would be lame, we would have reason to be astonished. But probably, looking at it carefully we would find that the main Olympic sport is Run in Bags, or chess. Visually handicapped Jews created a similar anomaly that of non-visual conceptual art. A piece of conceptual art is describable and explainable. It is a narration. Tracey Emins Unmade bed fully describes the object, while another beauty, Alighiero Boettis sculpture Yearly Lamp, a light bulb that illuminated itself only once every twelve months, is fully described by this description. Preparation of these items places no demand on artistic abilities. They can be done by anybody. Such art is perfectly within Jewish abilities. Moreover, Jews with their good ability to produce ideas and read iconography will surely succeed in it. Thus, the Run in Bags, the kind of sport that began as a new entry into Olympic games, eventually is promoted to the position of an all-important one. We can easily dismiss demonising talk of the Jews who destroy art in order to break Aryan spirit. Jews bend art to fit their abilities, in order to succeed in this difficult (for them) occupation. Breaking (or not) the Aryan spirit is quite irrelevant for them. While there are wealthy Jews able to buy art and provide for an artist who makes what they like, while there are witty Jews in the media that approve of the art Jews like (one that is easy to tell about), they would create bias in favour of the art they like and understand. But how did they get into this position in the first place? How the lame runners of our example have got their opening into the Olympic committee? Despite their wealth and media domination, the Jews would not make it, but for a few previous developments. 1. Photography and reproduction. Recently I visited an excellent photo exhibition of Hagia Sophia mosaics, made to the highest standard. The photographs are so good that one has to touch it in order to recognise that these are not real mosaics. But for a strange reason, the photocopies do not inspire. One can look at them all day long but the soul is not stirred. And then, one comes across the real thing, and the heart turns to God. Photography is to painting as pornography to real women. Both create an illusion of real thing, but leave a lingering emptiness. In the long run, the real thing suffers. Pornography undid many happy unions. Reproduction of art conditioned us to view uninspiring beauty. It is difficult to view a painting of Mona Lisa without instinctively comparing it to its endless reproductions. In a way, the modern art was a botched response to reproductions, for an artist needs to attract attention of blas viewers. Photography was an important stepping stone to demise of art. Great paintings were reproduced in albums, and caused no great uplifting in the hearts. Purely materialistic vision of the age precluded even to
Re: [CTRL] Sean McBride's (McFraud's) artificial stance of concerned intelligent discourse is a fraud for divisive treasonous cointelpro tactical actions.
-Caveat Lector- Screw you, McFraud, You never answer questions, tell lies, do not own up to mistakes, are an anonymous coward posting under a false name, you have participated in using forged emails of a dead man for destructive purposes and used Brian Quig's death to shamelessly promote your cointelprose homilies. You wish to criticize my typing skills, well, I have never claimed to be a great typist and I am not obsessed with presentation and take people for their spirit rather than pose. And you use that as an excuse for not talking to me? Gee, it really wouldn't have anything to do with me informing you that Senator Bob Graham isn't a member of the Order of Skull Bones? (After you used that falsehood to bolster your fake good guys -bad guy bs.) Your artificial stance of concerned intelligent discourse is a fraud for divisive treasonous cointelpro tactical actions. I make it a policy to call a spade a spade and to not waste time "debating" false assumptions and contrived dichotomies. There is a chapter from my new book on Skull and Bones online, that shows the level of psywar and controlled conflict used against us hoi polloi. Fleshing Out Skull Bones Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society Now that wouldn't be the reason for your besmirching myself and my positions about the secret societal involvement in the conspiracy and corruption of our republic, would it? Oh, and by the way, I can also find you stories of oil execs saying that they are great environmentalists or statements from Bush explaining his actions with Haarken Energy. Shall we believe that too? What about, GHW's statement that he was "out of the loop," during Iran-Contra. Shall we believe that also? Peace, Om Kris Millegan - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End In a message dated 10/3/03 5:13:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- I have a strict policy of not engaging in"discussions" with people who can't write civil and well-organized prose, and who don't seem to havedone anyhomeworkon the subjects they are excited about. Usenet is downing in the kind of sludge which one hopes to avoid in more selective mailing lists. Perhaps you'd be happier there, where you could flail away with likeminded "conspiracy theorists." Rewrite your posts, removing all the personal attacks and focusing on your best points and documentary evidence, and perhaps we can pick up these topics. I have seen enough of your efforts by now, however, to be doubtful that you are capable of serious writing or thinking. You were always the weakest contributor to cia-drugs, and are frankly embarrassing whenever you open your mouth. To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">
[CTRL] Fwd: Vanguard Group Founder Blasts Capitalist Culture
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- A Blast at Capitalist Culture Vanguard founder: 'Time for Bluntness' == By Jeff Richgels October 2, 2003 by the Madison Capital Times http://www.madison.com/toolbox/index.php?action=printmeref=captimesstoryURL=/captimes/business/stories/57961.php A titan of American capitalism delivered a stinging critique of American capitalism in Madison on Wednesday. But John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and father of the index mutual fund, also offered a plan to fix it as he spoke at the Directors' Summit conference on corporate governance at UW-Madison. The fact is, in America today it is high time for bluntness, said the feisty Bogle, who showed none of the frailty that might be expected from a 74-year-old heart transplant recipient. Reciting the litany of recent corporate scandals - from Enron to Tyco to WorldCom to the New York Stock Exchange - Bogle said that in the 1990s our whole system broke down. With boards of directors failing to act in the interests of the shareholders they ostensibly represent, our system of ownership capitalism became one of management capitalism, where the profits went not to shareholders as they should but to executives receiving outrageously excessive compensation, Bogle said. From 1988-2001, he said, workers' compensation increased 60 percent - just slightly above inflation - while CEO compensation soared 443 percent. Little good comes from when the CEO becomes not only boss of the business but boss of the board as well, Bogle said. Don't be surprised when the looting begins. Even worse, the excessive executive compensation did not correspond with any appreciable corporate achievements, he said. Simply no evidence possibly justifies the outrageous compensation increases bestowed on corporate leaders, Bogle roared. While a few bad apples caused immense harm, their exposure had a benefit, Bogle said. We owe a perverse kind of debt to the fallen apples for illuminating the cracks in the barrel of capitalism, he said. We're all better off now that it's out in the open. While directors may have abdicated their responsibility in overseeing companies, the owners - shareholders - have the ultimate responsibility and should have stepped in. In America today, shareholders essentially means institutional investors such as mutual funds and pension funds: The 100 largest own 56 percent of U.S. equities, Bogle said. But they did nothing during the stock market bubble, he said. The only sound we heard was the sound of silence, Bogle said. And that's because they became a part of the problem, he added, as evidenced by the scandal uncovered by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that has engulfed Milwaukee-based Strong Capital Management, among others. As in some of the businesses they owned shares in, the interests of the managers prevailed at the funds, rather than the interests of the investors, Bogle said. Short-term trading and portfolio turnover to produce fees won out over long-term investing in pursuit of corporate value, said Bogle, who called the change from stewardship to salesmanship. It was not always that way but it became so in the 1990s, he said. I hope the recent scandal helps this industry return to its proud past. Bogle urged a return to corporate democracy with enhanced shareholder rights. The cause is not lost, he said in laying out eight ideas for reform: Encouraging corporate citizenship; clearly separating ownership from management; returning to a long-term business focus rather than quarter-to- quarter earnings; fixing the stock option mess; letting sunlight shine on accounting; bringing back dividends; reforming the fund industry; and institutions of the world unite in pursuit of corporate governance. We have eroded the character of capitalism yet
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Chicago City Counsel Condemns PATRIOT Act
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Thursday, October 2, 2003 PERMALINK: Chicago City Counsel Condemns PATRIOT ACT On October 1, the Chicago City Counsel voted to pass a resolution condemning the USA PATRIOT Act, becoming the largest city in the United States to show its contempt for the Ashcroft-Congress brand of patriotism. As reported by attorney Noah Leavitt, with Chicago's Jewish Counsel on Urban Affairs, Aldermen Helen Shiller (Ward 46), Joe Moore (Ward 49), Freddrenna Lyle (Ward 6) and Ricardo Munoz (Ward 22) introduced a resolution to the City Council supporting Chicago's immigrant population and condemning the excesses of the USA PATRIOT Act. The resolution reaffirms the rights of all people living within the City under the U.S. Constitution and calls for the City to work for the repeal of the Act and associated Executive Orders which violate our fundamental rights and liberties. City Council passed the resolution at this mornings meeting. Chicago Arabs and Jews, represented by the Jewish Counsel on Urban Affairs (JCUA) and the Muslim Civil Rights Center (MCRC), worked together to get the resolution passed. Said Rasheed Ahmed, President of the MCRC, This is a huge victory for all people who care about civil rights. As Muslims, we feel the sting of suspicion and the fear of a knock on our doors. The practice of guilt by association, perpetrated against American Muslim and Arab-American communities, undermines the fundamental meaning of the Bill of Rights and sets the legal precedence for the same fate for all Americans. The nefarious USA PATRIOT Act is leading to the creation of a second tier justice system that could be used against any American for political purposes and weakens the fabric of our democratic society. Jane Ramsey, Executive Director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, shared these. We at JCUA are proud to be counted on the side of people who have spoken out against this violation of our fundamental rights. As Jews, who are so familiar with the immigrant experience and the unfortunate suspicions placed upon outsiders, we understand the need to protect those who are not yet citizens. We also recognize that the PATRIOT Act threatens the Constitutional rights and freedoms of all of Americas residents - citizens and non-citizens alike. Todays PATRIOT Act is reminiscent of other infringements on civil liberties in Americas history such as the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the Red hunts of the McCarthy period in the 1950s. The USA PATRIOT Act compromises the civil liberties of all Americans, but particularly affects Muslim and Arab-American communities. In Chicago, large numbers of immigrant workers have been arrested on numerous occasions, including in raids at O'Hare and Midway airports as well as the Sears Tower. These raids have led to the detention and deportation of many Latino immigrant airport workers. A joint statement released by JCUA and MCRC indicates that violence against Arabsin Chicago increased from four in the year 2000 to 60 in the year 2001 to 124 last year. The PATRIOT Act, it reasons,poisonsChicago by creating a climate of xenophobia, distrust, and paranoia. It alienates the very communities that could provide crucial assistance to our national security and law enforcement bodies. Because of the PATRIOT Act's broad scope and its many negative effects, communities across the country are joining together to voice their opposition. Three states and more than 160 municipalities from 28 states --approximately 20 million people-- have passed resolutions criticizing the Act. Similar efforts are underway across the country. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
[CTRL] Fwd: from a longer document
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- If you are someone who finds questions like this to be dangerously = incendiary and conspiratorial, I would direct you to look long and hard = at this document. = [http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf] This is a set of instructions issued from the Joint Chiefs of = Staff on the 1st of June 2001, describing in minute detail the protocols = and procedures to be undertaken if a plane is hijacked. Not one of these = protocols, issued three months and ten days before the terror attacks, = were followed. Why? JQS 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 ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: 'Strange Fruit' at Del Monte's Guatemalan Plantation
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Strange Fruit = By Matt Pacenza The Village Voice October 1 - 7, 2003, http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0340/pacenza.php MORALES, GUATEMALA--Florinda Lollo Martínez lost her job so your bananas could stay cheap. And now she's so desperate to provide food for her family that she's risking her life to grow corn on a former banana plantation, even though thugs linked to her former employer, Fresh Del Monte Produce, have been accused of murdering eight of her fellow farmers in the past two years. A single mother of two young children, Martínez worked for 12 years at the Del Monte packing plant here, where union workers earned up to $10 a day cutting green bananas into bunches, cleaning them, and packing them into cardboard boxes, for supermarkets in the eastern United States. That's good pay by Guatemalan standards, and along with it Del Monte, through its subsidiary BANDEGUA, provided subsidized housing in a local factory town called Tikal Sebol. The banana giant also let workers like Martínez grow corn and other vegetables on unused land. But in 1999, Del Monte moved to cut costs in northeastern Guatemala, firing Martínez and 917 other members of the 4,000-strong Izabal Banana Workers Union. The unpopular move violated the company's contract with its laborers, and international outcry forced Del Monte to give some of the jobs back--but at lower wages, with fewer benefits, no housing, and no fields to plant food on for their families. Martínez and hundreds of others refused Del Monte's offer. On October 11, 2001, with pressure to feed their families mounting, some of the former banana workers decided to occupy nearly 1,000 acres of Del Monte land, known as the Lankin farm. I had nowhere else to go, nothing to do, says Martínez when asked why she decided to join the illegal invasion. My kids were hungry. Next month will mark the second anniversary of their uprising, with Martínez and several hundred other campesinos still on the old Del Monte plantation, living in what remains of their Tikal Sebol homes and planting subsistence crops. For Del Monte and BANDEGUA, the Lankin campesinos are more than just an irritant; standing by while peasants occupy valuable farmland sets a bad precedent. So the multinational corporation, based in Coral Gables, Florida, has moved swiftly to distance itself from the conflict--and to get rid of the peasants. Soon after the occupation began, Del Monte sold the Lankin land for perhaps a tenth of its market value to a group of notorious local thugs. Called ganaderos, or cattle ranchers, these gunmen have often served to control dissent in the steamy Izabal region. Local advocates say what happened when Del Monte turned its back on its former workers was predictable: Since the occupation began, they claim, the ganaderos have shot and killed eight Lankin farmers--three in the last six months. The campesinos can do little in their own country to seek justice. They can only hope their global allies will be able to pressure Del Monte in the United States. Lawyers with the International Labor Rights Fund are already trying, helping exiled union leaders sue the company in a Florida court under the 214-year- old Alien Tort Claims Act. They're accusing Del Monte of responsibility for violence in their 1999 effort to quash the union, known in Spanish as SITRABI. Meanwhile, activists both from Guatemala and the U.S. are working in the community, investigating the Lankin murders. Ask the banana workers why some 500 people remain here despite the killings, and the answer is always the same--if they didn't, they might starve. It's not just a rhetorical response. The World Food Program estimated last year that 60,000 Guatemalan children were suffering from acute malnutrition, with 6,000 close to death. There's no
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Is this why Rush lost his hearing???
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-091001vicodin.storyMisuse of Pain Drug Linked to Hearing LossDoctors in L.A. and elsewhere have identified at least48 cases of deafness tied to prolonged misuse ofVicodin and other comparable prescription medicines. By LINDA MARSA, TIMES HEALTH WRITERA powerful and potentially addictive painkiller usedby millions of Americans is causing rapid hearingloss, even deafness, in some patients who are misusingthe drug, according to hearing researchers in LosAngeles and elsewhere.So far, at least 48 patients have been identified bydoctors at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles andseveral other medical centers who have treatedpatients with sudden hearing loss. The hearingproblems appear to be limited to people who abuseVicodin and other chemically comparable prescriptiondrugs by taking exceptionally high dosages for severalmonths or more, doctors said.Vicodin, one of the most commonly prescribedpainkillers, is frequently used improperly."This has become such a popular drug of abuse," saysDr. John W. House, president of the House Institute inLos Angeles, one of the nation's leading centers ofhearing-related research.Actress Melanie Griffith and Cindy McCain, wife ofU.S. Sen John McCain, have acknowledged their struggleto overcome their addiction to Vicodin, which theyboth were prescribed for severe back pain.But it's not just notables who are getting hooked.Christina Jaeger of Sherman Oaks was prescribedVicodin in 1993 after a back injury. Gradually, shegot addicted. She would wean herself off Vicodin forbrief periods, only to relapse when doctors continuedto prescribe the drug for her recurring pain.Then, earlier this year, the 36-year-old model andfitness trainer suddenly began to lose her hearing.When her doctors couldn't explain what was happening,she went to the House Institute, where specialistsconcluded that Vicodin was to blame. Jaegerimmediately entered a treatment program to kick herVicodin habit. But it was too late. By the time shecompleted the program, she was deaf."If I had only known, I would have tried anything tostop," Jaeger said. "The lack of information is whatI'm most furious about. That, and the proclivity ofdoctors to write prescriptions for Vicodin like it'scandy."Some experts believe that doctors' willingness toliberally prescribe potent narcotic painkillers may becontributing to the rise in abuse.A government survey found that more than 1.6 millionAmericans began using painkillers like Vicodin in 1998for nonmedical reasons, up from fewer than 500,000 in1990. A new U.S. survey on drug use due out in a fewweeks will likely find "an upswing" in improper use ofprescription pain drugs, said Frank J. Vocci, directorof treatment research and development at the NationalInstitute on Drug Abuse.Vicodin, a synthetic opiate that is a chemical cousinof heroin and morphine, has long been known to doctorsas a potentially addictive medication. "As soon asVicodin hit the market, there was a steady stream ofaddicts," said Dr. Drew Pinsky, medical director forthe chemical dependency program at Las EncinasHospital in Pasadena. "It's such a huge problemalready that I don't know how much bigger it couldbe."Researchers at the House Institute were among thefirst to connect Vicodin use with sudden hearing loss.They now have identified 29 people who heavily abusedthe painkiller and who subsequently suffered a suddenhearing loss; 16 of those were diagnosed in the lasttwo years. UCLA scientists said they have seen anadditional 14 patients with opiate-inducing hearingloss, mostly from overuse of Vicodin, and other earexperts around the country report seeing at least fivemore of these cases.Dr. Richard Wiet, a professor of otology atNorthwestern University, said he began noticing casesof hearing loss tied to Vicodin use
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Approval Numbers Slide, Poll Shows
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Poll Shows Drop in Confidence on Bush Skill in Handling Crises By Todd S.Purdum and Janet Elder The New York Times October 3, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/national/03POLL.html?pagewanted=printposition= The public's confidence in President Bush's ability to deal wisely with an international crisis has slid sharply over the past five months, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll has found. And a clear majority are also uneasy about his ability to make the right decisions on the nation's economy. I don't feel George W. Bush has a grasp on what the public is really interested in. I wasn't happy about the invasion in Iraq. We shouldn't have attacked before anything was proven. There seem to be no nuclear weapons. Right now he is trying to rally everyone around to the cause and give money to rebuild Iraq. But why should other countries kick in cash when he didn't wait until the U.N. said we're behind you? The other countries don't believe he has the leadership skills he should have. Mary Preble, 46, a registered nurse and a Texas Republican Over all, the poll found, Americans are for the first time more critical than not of Mr. Bush's ability to handle both foreign and domestic problems, and a majority say the president does not share their priorities. Thirteen months before the 2004 election, a solid majority of Americans say the country is seriously on the wrong track, a classic danger sign for incumbents, and only about half of Americans approve of Mr. Bush's overall job performance. That is roughly the same as when Mr. Bush took office after the razor-close 2000 election. But more than 6 in 10 Americans still say the president has strong qualities of leadership, more than 5 in 10 say he has more honesty and integrity than most people in public life and 6 in 10 credit him with making the country safer from terrorist attack. By contrast, the Democratic presidential contenders remain largely unknown, and nearly half of Americans -- and a like number of registered voters -- say the Democrats have no clear plan of their own for the country. A summer of continuing attacks on American soldiers in Iraq, the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction there and Mr. Bush's recent request for $87 billion to pay for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a toll on public support for his administration's Iraq policy and on views of his ability to handle such issues in general. The poll found that just 45 percent of Americans now have confidence in Mr. Bush's ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, down sharply from 66 percent in April, and half now say they are uneasy about his approach. Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say the war in Iraq is still going on, and 6 in 10 say the United States should not spend as much on the effort as Mr. Bush has sought. Three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, say the administration has yet to clearly explain how long American troops will have to stay in Iraq, or how much it will cost to rebuild the country. I am very uneasy because of the war, said Joyce Austin, 69, a retired nurse's aide in Readstown, Wis., who was reinterviewed after the poll was conducted. I don't think the Bush administration had a good plan for ending the war, and for what was going to happen afterward. I don't think they realized how much it was going to cost. Mrs. Austin paused and added, Maybe they knew and just didn't tell us. The nationwide telephone poll of 981 adults has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The poll, taken Sunday through Wednesday, was in progress when the Justice Department announced that it would investigate accusations that someone in the White House may have leaked the name of an undercover C.I.A.
[CTRL] NPR Pimps for White House
-Caveat Lector- Forwarded with Compliments of Free Voice of America (FVOA): Accurate News and Interesting Commentary for Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free. NOTE: Thanks to Rick Davis for this. -- kl, pp News Flash On October 2nd, Nina Totenberg reported on Morning Edition that the Justice Department granted a White House request to delay a directive to preserve its records as part of the CIA exposure scandal. Then, NPR deletes her report from its transcript of the show. Hear the audio of her report, and see the sanitized transcript. http://traprockpeace.org/npr_totenberg_oct_02_2003.html Why did the Justice Department delay its directive to not destroy phone and email records? Does this action support the call for independent investigation? Why did NPR delete what was clearly the most interesting (as well as the most damaging) part of Nina Totenberg's interview on Morning Edition? Thanks to Robert E. Reynolds for transcribing the lost segment. Thanks to buzzflash.com for posting Reynolds' work. Traprock discovered the NPR deletion when it followed Reynolds' advice to purchase the transcript of the show, only to find that Totenberg's report on the cooperation between the White House and the Justice Department had been deleted from the transcript. Luckily, NPR had neglected to delete the report from the audio. You can hear the audio of the missing report at Traprock's site - http://traprockpeace.org/npr_totenberg_oct_02_2003.html Also at http://www.traprockpeace.org **Updates to national 'depleted' uranium tour. After the Oct 2nd stop in Bloomington, IN, the next stop is Oct 4 in Rapid City, SD. See the evolving itinerary and watch for Texas dates posted within a few days. Austin and Houston have confirmed with Dallas coming along. The tour continues to Washington state, Oregon, and California, with dates confirming in Missouri, Texas and New Mexico and back to Indiana. http://traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_rokke_03.html **Scott Ritter is coming on October 7 - watch for the audio of his presentation with Randy Kehler and Juanita Nelson. http://www.traprockpeace.org **The Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) - http://www.antiwarnetwork.org - has published the schedule of its national tour. CAN and Traprock are working together in bringing Doug Rokke to Austin as part of the DU Tour. http://www.antiwarnetwork.org/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=41 Glen Rangwala has updated his definitive analysis of Iraq's proscribed weapons with references for further reading on many specific issues. http://traprockpeace.org/iraqweapons.html **See also links to British reaction to the failure to find WMD's in Iraq. http://www.traprockpeace.org Coming soon: audio resources and photo journals (Scott Ritter; presentations and interviews at the World Uranium Weapons Conference in Hamburg, Germany; interviews in Europe with leading activists and authorities concerning Iraq and human rights. Plus, continual updates and reports on the US 'depleted' uranium tour and reports from the CAN national conference in Chicago, November 1-2. Charles Jenks, attorney at law President of the Core Group Traprock Peace Center 103A Keets Road Deerfield, MA 01342 413-773-1633; Fax 413-773-7507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://traprockpeace.org 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] Fwd: [cia-drugs] It's Hasta La Vista To $9 Billion If The Governator Is Selected
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general42/dsdt.htm Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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 email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Black Box Voting being distributed free over internet
-Caveat Lector- Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): Free Americans Proclaiming Total Emancipation and Working Towards Democracy. NOTE: Thanks to Rick Davis for this. -- kl, pp -Original Message- From: Barbara Date: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: fwd: "Black Box Voting" being distributed free over internet Stephen Brown posted: Bev Harris spearheaded the investigation into the potential for fraud in electronic voting and has been joined by activists and researchers around the nation, who have all donated their time for democracy. She is offering her upcoming book "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" FREE. Download the first 2 chapters via the Buzzflash links below; she'll offer new chapters every couple of days. She is urging everyone to download the book and to let others, especially members of the media, know that the free downloads are available. Go here for FREE electronic chapters 1-2: http://www.blackboxvoting.com. Here's the actual text: http://blackboxvoting.com/bbv/bbv_chapter-1.pdf New uploads are scheduled every two days. (They may come sooner.) Click here: Black Box Voting: The Book Is Out of the Gate - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary or http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/02_harris.html To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">
[CTRL] Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40012-2003Oct3_2.html Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm By Walter Pincus and Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A03 The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly defunct firm was listed as Plame's employer on her W-2 tax forms in 1999 when she was working undercover for the CIA. Plame's name was first published July 14 in a newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that quoted two senior administration officials. They were critical of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, for his handling of a CIA mission that undercut President Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium from the African nation of Niger for possible use in developing nuclear weapons. The Justice Department began a formal criminal investigation of the leak Sept. 26. The inadvertent disclosure of the name of a business affiliated with the CIA underscores the potential damage to the agency and its operatives caused by the leak of Plame's identity. Intelligence officials have said that once Plame's job as an undercover operative was revealed, other agency secrets could be unraveled and her sources might be compromised or endangered. A former diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday that every foreign intelligence service would run Plame's name through its databases within hours of its publication to determine if she had visited their country and to reconstruct her activities. "That's why the agency is so sensitive about just publishing her name," the former diplomat said. FEC rules require donors to list their employment. Plame used her married name, Valerie E. Wilson, and listed her employment as an "analyst" with Brewster-Jennings Associates. The document establishes that Plame has worked undercover within the past five years. The time frame is one of the standards used in making determinations about whether a disclosure is a criminal violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. It could not be learned yesterday whether other CIA operatives were associated with Brewster-Jennings. Also yesterday, the nearly 2,000 employees of the White House were given a Tuesday deadline to scour their files and computers for any records related to Wilson or contacts with journalists about Wilson. The broad order, in an e-mail from White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, directed them to retain records "that relate in any way to former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, his trip to Niger in February 2002, or his wife's purported relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency." White House employees received the e-mailed directive at 12:45 p.m., with an all-capitalized subject line saying, "Important Follow-Up Message From Counsel's Office." By 5 p.m. on Tuesday, employees must turn over copies of relevant electronic records, telephone records, message slips, phone logs, computer records, memos, and diaries and calendar entries. The directive notes that lawyers in the counsel's office are attorneys for the president in his official capacity and that they cannot provide personal legal advice to employees. For some officials, the task is a massive one. Some White House officials said they had numerous conversations with Wilson that had nothing to do with his wife, so the directive is seen as a heavy burden at a time when many of the president's aides already feel beleaguered. Officials at the Pentagon and State Department also have been asked to retain records related to the case. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday: "We are doing our searches. . . . I'm not sure what they will be looking for or what they wish to contact us about, but we are anxious to be of all assistance to the inquiry." In another development, FBI agents yesterday began attempts to interview journalists who may have had conversations with government sources about Plame and Wilson. It was not clear how many journalists had been contacted. The FBI has interviewed Plame, ABC News reported. Wilson and his wife have hired Washington lawyer Christopher Wolf to represent them in the matter. The couple has directed him to take a preliminary look at claims they might be able to make against people they believe have impugned their character, a source said. The name of the CIA front
[CTRL] Karl Rove - The Most Insidious of Traitors
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/093003A.shtml The Most Insidious of Traitors By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 30 September 2003 "Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." -- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999 Karl Rove, senior political advisor to George W. Bush, is a very powerful man. That is not to say he has never been in trouble. Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush Sr. campaign for trashing Robert Mosbacher, Jr., who was the chief fundraiser for the campaign and an avowed Bush loyalist. Rove accomplished this trashing of Mosbacher by planting a negative story with columnist Bob Novak. The campaign figured out that Karl had done the dirty deed, and he was given his walking papers. Demonstrably, Rove is back in the saddle again. The January 2003 edition of Esquire magazine carried an article by Ron Suskind which quoted comments from John DiIulio, a domestic policy advisor to the White House who had just retired from his post. On October 24, DiIulio had sent a letter to Suskind describing what he had seen while working for the Bush administration. The meat of the letter described an administration far, far more interested in raw political triangulation and ruthless spin than in actual policy and government functionality. Some excerpts from DiIulio's letter: "Some are inclined to blame the high political-to-policy ratios of this administration on Karl Rove...some staff members, senior and junior, are awed and cowed by Karl's real or perceived powers. They self-censor lots for fear of upsetting him, and, in turn, few of the president's top people routinely tell the president what they really think if they think that Karl will be brought up short in the bargain. Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most powerful person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political advisor post near the Oval Office." Even a casual political observer would have trouble missing the fact that this is one of the sharpest political outfits ever to reside in the Oval Office. Bush's team is a unified wall, cemented to their message-of-the-day, and they have done very well for themselves because of this. All of this can be laid at the feet of Karl Rove, the senior political advisor to George W. Bush. According to DiIulio, the preeminence of political considerations within this administration is so complete that any and all policy considerations or contemplation of actual issues are not so much in the back seat as they are in the trunk below the spare tire and the jack. This, again, can be laid at the feet of Mr. Rove. All of Washington and the country has been buzzing for the last few days over a report that the CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate the White House regarding a matter of important national security. The wife of a former ambassador named Joseph Wilson, it has been alleged, was 'outed' as an active CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak by this White House in an act of political revenge. Joseph Wilson was the man dispatched to Niger in February of 2002 by the CIA, after Vice President Dick Cheney asked CIA to figure out whether there was any substance to the charge that Iraq was attempting to procure uranium "yellow cake" from that nation for the purpose of starting a nuclear weapons program. Ambassador Wilson went, investigated, and returned eight days later to state flatly that the evidence was garbage. He has claimed since that his analysis was one of three intelligence reports debunking the Niger story. Ambassador Wilson told this to Cheney's office, the CIA, the State Department, and the National Security Council. Despite the fact that Wilson made it clear that these allegations were untrue - it was revealed that the 'evidence' to support the Niger uranium charge was a pile of crudely forged documents - George W. Bush used the Niger uranium evidence dramatically in his 2003 State of the Union address. In July, Ambassador Wilson went very public, criticizing the White House for using evidence to support war that they knew was patently false. One week later, Robert Novak reported that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. As it turns out, two senior White House officials cold-called six different journalists and informed them of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA agent, according to an anonymous administration official quoted by the Washington Post. None of the journalists ran the story. That same administration official was quoted about these revelations as saying, "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge." Joseph Wilson likewise charges that this act was done as an act of revenge for his vocal criticism of George W. Bush and the administration's actions leading up to the Iraq war. Specifically, he views Karl Rove as being
[CTRL] Does A Felon Rove The White House?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles8/DN_Rove-Felon.htm Does A Felon Rove The White House? by Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of Democracy Now! Dissident Voice September 30, 2003 First Published in Democracy Now! Allegations are swirling that Karl Rove, senior political adviser to President George W. Bush, may have committed a felony by blowing the cover of a CIA operative. CIA Director George Tenet has called on the Justice Department to investigate but the White House said Monday that President George W. Bush has no plans to ask his staff members whether they played a role. And what makes this story even more remarkable is how seriously the Bush family has viewed outing intelligence operatives in the past. The man at the center of this firestorm is Joseph Wilson, the retired U.S. diplomat who debunked the White Houses key evidence that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear program. Two weeks ago Democracy Now! aired Wilsons comments before a suburban Seattle audience that he believes Bushs closest aide, Karl Rove, told reporters that Wilsons wife was a CIA agent. At the forum Wilson declared, At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of White House in handcuffs. Wilson added, And trust me when I use that name, I measure my words. Wilson told Democracy Now!, I have reason to believe that it was the political office that at a minimum confirmed it and the political office was Karl RoveIt was a reporter who told me it was Karl Rove and thats as far as I want to go right now. The whole scandal began in July a week after Wilson went public in an op-ed piece in the New York Times saying he was the diplomat sent by the Bush Administration to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from the African country. His findings: the accusations were baseless. Wilson was not alone. The US ambassador to Niger, Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick, knew of the allegations of uranium sales to Iraq and had already debunked them in her reports back to Washington. Wilsons conclusions also coincided with those of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces four-star Marine Corps General, Carlton Fulford, who had also researched the matter on the ground in Niger. Wilson felt he had authoritatively debunked the Niger rumor and the matter was settled. But the lie refused to die. In January 2003, Bush made his famous 16 word line in his State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." In July, soon after Wilson blew the whistle in The New York Times, the White House was forced to admit that the accusation should not have been included in the State of the Union. A few days later, conservative columnist Robert Novak wrote a column in which he cited two senior administration officials and stated that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative dealing with weapons of mass destruction. In an extensive interview on Democracy Now!, Wilson said that the outing of his wife as an alleged CIA operative and other attempts to discredit him are clearly intended to intimidate others from coming forward. But its not just intimidation; its a felony. Until now, a crime the Bush family has taken very seriously. According to Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst who worked under Bush Sr. at both the CIA and the White House, The Intelligence Identities Protection Act was made draconian, it was made very, very specific, automatic penalties that would accrue to both officials and non-officialsanyone who knowingly disclosed the identity of a CIA agent or officer. The penalty: fines of up to $50,000 and imprisonment of up to 10 years. Many believe the law was passed in direct response to former CIA agent Philip Agees blowing the whistle on CIA dirty tricks in his book Inside the Company. George H.W. Bush, who was vice-president when the law was passed, said some of the criticism of the Agency ruined secret U.S. clandestine operations in foreign countries. So seriously did the Bushes take the crime of exposing CIA operatives that Barbara Bush, in her memoirs, accused Agee of blowing the cover of the CIA Station Chief in Greece, Richard Welch, who was assassinated outside his Athens residence in 1975. Agee sued the former first lady and Mrs. Bush withdrew the statement from additional printings of her book. Still, at a celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the CIA, the elder Bush again singled out Agee in his remarks, calling him a traitor to our country. David MacMichael worked as a CIA analyst at the time the law was passed. He told Democracy Now!: If former President Bush could define Philip Agee as a traitor for exposing the identities of serving intelligence officers, if his sons political advisor has done the sameit is a very serious felony under the current Act. (If in fact it was Karl
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Bidness as usual - Texas style
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- Title: Bidness as usual - Texas style -Caveat Lector- October 4, 2003 REBUILDING Questions are Raised on Awarding of Contracts in Iraq By PATRICK E. TYLER and RAYMOND BONNER BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 3 Last month the Iraqi Governing Council questioned why the American occupation authority had issued a $20 million contract to buy new revolvers and Kalashnikov rifles for the Iraqi police when the United States military was confiscating tens of thousands of weapons every month from Saddam Hussein's abandoned arsenals. On Wednesday the Iraqi council, in a testy exchange with the occupation administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, challenged an American decision to spend $1.2 billion to train 35,000 Iraqi police officers in Jordan when such training could be done in Iraq for a fraction of the cost. Germany and France have offered to provide such training free. These decisions are being questioned by Iraqi officials as Congress is also seeking to examine how the American occupation authority and the military are spending billions of dollars here. Iraqi officials and businessmen charge that millions of dollars in contracts are being awarded without competitive bidding, some of them to former cronies of Mr. Hussein's government. There is no transparency, said Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of the Governing Council, and something has to be done about it. There is mismanagement right and left, and I think we have to sit with Congress face to face to discuss this. A lot of American money is being wasted, I think. We are victims and the American taxpayers are victims. A number of businessmen say they believe it is necessary to pay kickbacks to win contracts. A spokesman for one of the largest American corporations awarding subcontracts here, Bechtel, said his company had neither paid any kickbacks nor had been approached by Iraqis seeking to pay kickbacks. He said Bechtel made all of its contract information available on its Web site and at offices in Baghdad and Basra. A check of the Web site on Friday found no information, only a notice that the site was under construction. The lack of transparency and competition, Governing Council members said in interviews, may be encouraging corruption. They said they believed that many contracts had been inflated beyond the reasonable cost for the work, creating opportunities for kickbacks between prime contractors and subcontractors. One council member, Naseer K. Chadirji, said: As the Governing Council we are in a very weak legal position. We don't have the right to investigate these contracts. He added, I don't have the evidence, but I think there is corruption. This is a common grievance that people tell me. An Iraqi executive, who made millions of dollars as an insider under the Hussein government and would not allow his name to be used, said a relative outside Iraq had asserted that a Bechtel executive was looking to become a silent partner in an Iraqi company that would be favored with subcontracts from Bechtel. A senior Bechtel official in Iraq, Clifford George Mumm, said that his company would fire immediately anyone who tried to do such a thing and that he did not believe that any Bechtel executive would engage in the kind of behavior described. Mr. Mumm said there had been no kickbacks on the 105 subcontracts Bechtel had signed with Iraqi firms. Asked about Iraqi assertions that Bechtel and other major American companies were awarding contracts to Iraqis who had grown rich under Mr. Hussein, Mr. Mumm said all of the Iraqi businesses that received Bechtel subcontracts were vetted by the occupation authority under Mr. Bremer. The largest and most prominent Iraqi subcontractor that has emerged belongs to the Bunnia family, which grew immensely wealthy under the former government and was known for
[CTRL] Hell
-Caveat Lector- "The future's here, we're it, we're on our own". John Barlow and Bob Weir, 1982. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:49:53 -0500 From: t Subject: Hell Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 07:14:43 -0700 (PDT) From: x Subject: Hell While walking down the street one day, George "Dubya" Bush is shot by a disgruntled NRA member. His soul arrives in heaven and he is met by St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. "Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem: We seldom see a Republican around these parts, so we're not sure what to do with you." "No problem, just let me in; I'm a believer." says Dubya. "I'd like to just let you in, but I have orders from the Man Himself: He says you have to spend one day in Hell and one day in Heaven. Then you must choose where you'll live for eternity." "But, I've already made up my mind; I want to be in Heaven." "I'm sorry, but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorts him to an elevator and he goes down, down, down, all the way to Hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a lush golf course; the sun is shining in a cloudless sky, the temperature a perfect 72 degrees. In the distance is a beautiful clubhouse. Standing in front of it his dad...and thousands of other Republicans who had helped him out over the years.. Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Jerry Falwell . The whole of the "Right" was there ... everyone laughing ... happy casually but expensively dressed. They run to greet him, hug him, and reminisce about the good times they had getting rich at expense of the "suckers and peasants". They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar. The Devil himself comes up to Bush with a frosty drink, "Have a Margarita and relax, Dubya!" "Uh, I can't drink no more, I took a pledge," says Junior, dejectedly. "This is Hell, son: you can drink and eat all you want and not worry, and it just gets better from there!" Dubya takes the drink and finds himself liking the Devil, who he thinks is a really very friendly guy who tells funny jokes and pulls hilarious nasty pranks. kind of like a Yale Skull and Bones brother with real horns. They are having such a great time that, before he realizes it, it's time to go. Everyone gives him a big hug and waves as Bush steps on the elevator and heads upward. When the elevator door reopens, he is in Heaven again and St. Peter is waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit Heaven," the old man says, opening the gate. So for 24 hours Bush is made to hang out with a bunch of honest, good- natured people who enjoy each other's company, talk about things other than money, and treat each other decently. Not a nasty prank or frat boy joke among them; no fancy country clubs and, while the food tastes great, it's not caviar or lobster. And these people are all poor, he doesn't see anybody he knows, and he isn't even treated like someone special! Worst of all, to Dubya, Jesus turns out to be some kind of Jewish hippie with his endless 'peace' and 'do unto others' jive. "Whoa," he says uncomfortably to himself, "Pat Robertson never prepared me for this!" The day done, St. Peter returns and says, "Well, then, you've spent a day in Hell and a day in Heaven. Now choose where you want to live for eternity." With the 'Jeopardy' theme playing softly in the background, Dubya reflects for a minute, then answers: "Well, I would never have thought I'd say this -- I mean, Heaven has been delightful and all -- but I really think I belong in Hell with my friends." So Saint Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down, all the way to Hell. The doors of the elevator open and he is in the middle of a barren scorched earth covered with garbage and toxic industrial waste.. kind of like Houston. He is horrified to see all of his friends, dressed in rags and chained together, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags. They are groaning and moaning in pain, faces and hands black with grime. The Devil comes over to Dubya and puts an arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers a shocked Dubya, "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a clubhouse and we ate lobster and caviar... drank booze. We screwed around and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and everybody looks miserable!" The Devil looks at him, smiles slyly, and purrs, "Yesterday we were campaigning; today you voted for us." (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">
[CTRL] accuracy of recovered memories, Bahamas case, Schwarzenegger
-Caveat Lector- also has Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor (Schwarzenegger) Research discussing corroboration and accuracy of recovered memories An Annotated Bibliography - This is only one of many peer reviewed abstracts and summaries listed at the website. "Van der Kolk, BA, Fisler, R. (1995). Dissociation and the fragmentary nature of traumatic memories: Overview and exploratory study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 505-525. Summary: 46 adults with in depth interviews. Of the 36 with childhood trauma, 42% suffered significant or total amnesia at some time. Corroborative evidence was available for 75%." http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/suggestedrefs.html Man arrested in Bahamas missing schoolboys case Reuters, 10/03/03 - Nassau, Bahamas, "Bahamian police held a man for questioning on Friday in connection with the disappearance since May of five schoolboys who worked at a supermarket in the resort town of Freeport. Assistant Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said the man was arrested on Thursday after an intense investigation in Williams Town on Grand Bahama island, where 14-year-old Desmond Rolle vanished on Sunday. All five boys worked as part-time sackers at the downtown Winn-Dixie (store in Freeport, located about 75 miles (120 km) east of Palm Beach, FloridaResidents expressed fears that a serial killer or satanic cult was at work on Grand Bahama. Bahamian police have sought help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States and Britain's Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery." http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/10/03/rtr1099814.html http://www.latimes.com/ Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor - A campaign aide says Schwarzenegger has no recollection of alleged encounter in the 1970s. By Megan Garvey October 3, 2003 A well-known nationally syndicated radio host on Thursday publicly described being groped and propositioned by Arnold Schwarzenegger more than 20 years ago, when she was starting in the business and he was promoting his film "Pumping Iron." Joy Browne, a psychologist whose advice program is syndicated to nearly 200 stations nationwide, described on the radio an encounter with Schwarzenegger that took place during an interview about the documentary, which was released in 1977. Schwarzenegger fondled her legs under the table during the interview, she said. Then, she said, he left his Gold American Express card in the studio and insisted that Browne personally return it to his hotel room. According to Browne, who was in her late 20s at the time, she took her young daughter along to return the credit card. Schwarzenegger, she said, answered the door in tight pants, wearing no shirt. He had champagne. He asked her if her daughter could "take a walk for a while?" She declined. Rob Stutzman, a Schwarzenegger spokesman, said Thursday that the candidate had no recollection of the alleged incident. 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] NAZI America?
-Caveat Lector- Are the NAZI running America? Adolf Hitler, the NAZI killing machine. Case White was a most secret German document, and only five copies were made, and this top secret directive of April 1939, meant war, that is World War Two, when over 50 million were to die, and the Case White document represents all those killed. SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES MOST SECRET Berlin, August 31,1939 Directive No.1 for the Conduct of the War 1. Now that all the political possibilities of disposing by peaceful means of a situation on the Eastern Frontier which is intolerable for Germany are exhausted, I have determined a solution by force. 2. The attack on Poland is to be carried out in accordance with the preparations made for Case White with the alterations which result, where the Army is concerned, from the fact that it has in the meantime almost completed it. dispositions; Allotment of tasks and the operational target remain unchanged. Date of attack: September 1, 1939. Time of attack: 4:45 A.M. The German Generals were desperately waiting each day during August 1939 for the Directive No.1 document to be signed by Adolf Hitler, which the Fuhrer did at about noon time on August 31st 1939, nearly 17 hours before the commencement of World War Two. On August 31st 1939, some 1,500,000 German troops move into position and await orders. Hitler creates the desired provocation, code name Canned Goods. At noon that day, some German troops masquerading as Polish soldiers invade a German radio station and so Hitler considered such provocation as an act of war. The Second World War caused the death of 47,200,000 (is Darkness at 17,700,000 x 3/8). Including the degradation and murder of some 5,750,000 Jews. See WWII Statistics http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html Counting from American Independence at 3:01am Day, on July 4th 1776, that is day of the year 184.126 days and divided by 365.242198 days + year is 1776.504121 to noon on August 31st 1939, that is year 1939.663942 is 163.1598214 years. And counting down from the Time Marker of September 11th 2001, that is day 253 and year 2001.692691, to noon August 31st 1939 is 62.02874801 years. So a ratio of 163.1598214/62.02874801 years is 2.630390370. And next to the Statue of Liberty the Statue of Horus and Liberty Enlightening the World The height of the Miss Liberty statue from base to torch is 151 feet 1 inch or 1,813 inches And Miss Liberty stands on a pedestal 154 feet or 1,848 inches high. Total height 305 feet 1 inch or 3,661 inches. And so 3,661 + 3,661 is Horus at 6,100 + the Skull and Bones flag at 611 + 611. So the Statue of Liberty can be considered as representing Horus wearing the mantle of Lucifer, the emblem of the Order of the Illuminati. And the reference number for the falcon masked Ancient Egyptian god Horus, the merciless killer of the sky is 61, and 61 is made of the Serpent at 17 with eagles wings at 44. So to the USA NAZI calculation. The Hitler American Ratio of 2.630390370 x Miss Liberty at 1813 inches x the pedestal for Miss Liberty at 1848 inches and squared x Pi is 4 x 6.10e+13, that is Horus, the merciless killer of the New York sky. So the United States Miss Liberty was used as the key to start the Second World War. What more can be said? The NAZI do surely run America. But of course the United States Skeptics will stay blind, so I await even more innocent blood to be on their hands, for the Skeptics have failed miserably to come against evil on a vast scale, so I blame them for the coming downfall of the United States of America. Sad, John D. Miller PS And the USA likes to use Miss Liberty when organizing war. Yesterday, 7 December 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan President Roosevelt AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL. 7:55 A.M. Hawaii Standard Time December 7th 1941 So to number crunching the horrific event of December 7th 1941. First to the Statue of Liberty that is Liberty Enlightening the World I suggest represents the Statue of Horus Statue from base to torch is 151 feet 1 inch or 151.083334 feet or 1,813 inches Pedestal 154 feet or 1,848 inches. Total height 305 feet 1 inch or 305.083334 feet or 3,661 inches And the diabolical reference number 3,661 + 3,661 is equivalent to Horus at 6,100 + the Skull and Bones flag at 611 + 611. So the Statue of Liberty can be considered as representing Horus wearing the mantle of Lucifer, the emblem of the Order of the Illuminati the banner that flies over the Gates of Hell. Now my number crunching and revelations has shown me that a fundamental reference number for Satan, the Adversary of Humankind, the Deceiver, is emphatically 155. And counting from 12:05am, that is five minutes after midnight Hawaii Standard Time on December 7th 1941 to a moment past
[CTRL] Bush Ideologues vs. Big Oil
-Caveat Lector- Alexander Cockburn's CounterPunch is one of the better sites on the net for *serious* political and conspiracy research, as opposed to conspiracy fantasizing and quackery. This is the real scoop on the conflict between big oil and the neocons: http://www.counterpunch.org/burbach10032003.html Weekend EditionOctober 3 / 5, 2003 Bush Ideologues vs. Big Oil The Iraq Game Gets Even Stranger By ROGER BURBACH The mounting criticism of Bush's Iraqi policies now extends to key business allies of the administration. "The big oil companies were not enthusiastic about the Iraqi war," says Fareed Mohamedi of PFC Energy, a consultancy firm based in Washington D.C. that advises petroleum firms. "Corporations like Exxon-Mobile and Chevron-Texaco want stability, and this is not what Bush is providing in Iraq and the Gulf region," adds Mohamedi. The specific interests of big oil appear to have been trumped by the ideologues in the Bush administration. As Chris Toensing of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) argues, "administration neoconservatives like Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz are dreamers driven more by ideology than by concrete material interests. They believe the United States is virtuous and has a mission to remain indefinitely as the world's sole superpower. They don't really care about specific oil interests. Iraq became the focal point for their dreams so the United States could exert unparalleled power in reordering the Gulf, the Middle East and the world." Other analysts of the Iraqi war like Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies see the neoconservatives as tightly aligned with "unreconstructed cold warriors" like Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "They represent the interests of the defense industry and want to see ever expanding military budgets for the world's only superpower." Toensing concurs with this view, noting "Cheney and Rumsfeld are tight with the defense industry. They see control of oil as merely part of a much bigger geo-strategic vision that involves a reliance on military power to dominate the world. By controlling the Gulf and the Middle East the United States gains leverage over countries that are more dependent on the Gulf for oil, like China and Europe." The problem for the ideologues and militarists is that their dreams of forging a new world order by invading Iraq are contradicted by reality. As Toensing notes "the war planners thought they could simply lop off Saddam Hussein and his Baathist party in Iraq and install their own hand picked rulers." Ahmad Chalabi and other exiled Iraqi's grouped together in the Iraqi National Congress convinced the Pentagon that "liberated" Iraqis would welcome US troops with flowers and rice when they took Baghdad. Of course as we now know from the growing toll of US causalities in Iraq, Chalabi and his cronies duped the Bush administration into believing what they wanted to hear. Fareed Mohamedi of PFC Energy asserts that the large petroleum companies had a more realistic approach to securing their interests in the Gulf region and the Arab world. "Big oil told the Cheney Task Force on Energy Policy in 2001 that they wanted the US sanctions lifted on Libya and Iran so they could gain access to their oil supplies. As far back as 1990, they were even arguing that the United States should cut a deal with Saddam because he had given signals he was willing to let US oil companies into Iraq." Cheney of course ignored the arguments of the big oil companies. Sanctions are currently being lifted against Libya, but this has more to do with the Libyans working out a deal with European governments over the downing of the Pan Am passenger jet in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 than with any initiatives emanating from Washington. The Bush administration is of course intent on seeing that US defense and business interests in general benefit from the occupation of Iraq. While the big US oil companies are not yet engaged in Iraq, "down stream" energy contractors like Cheney's former company Halliburton are being awarded multi-billion dollar contracts that are underwritten by American tax payers. In mid September the US appointed administrator of post war Iraq, J. Paul Bremmer, announced that the country would be thrown open to free enterprise and foreign investors. Here again it appears that the ideologues of the Bush administration will wreck havoc on Iraq. As Chris Toensing notes, "the neo-liberal belief in the free market economy will greatly expand the huge unemployed pool of labor in Iraq, a major breeding ground for the militant opposition to the US occupation of the country." A large portion of the factories and businesses in Saddam's Iraq were state owned. Many of them will be permanently shuttered under Bremmer's free market plan, and thousands of jobs will be slashed in the enterprises that are sold
[CTRL] It's Not About the Oil (John Chuckman) (Flashback)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=987 ''It's not about oil'' Printed on Monday, January 13, 2003 @ 14:41:55 CST ( ) By John ChuckmanYellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada) (YellowTimes.org) I do get tired of reading claims that oil is the reason why Mr. Bush wants to attack Iraq. Perhaps commentators pick oil because it seems to give clarity where there is so little, evoking the slightly romantic image of 19th century troops in pith helmets, scrambling for colonial resources. I don't want to be guilty of discouraging Americans from giving up on their horribly wasteful and polluting SUVs, for there are many important reasons to encourage them to do so, but at least for now, oil supply is not one of them. Yes, of course, Bush's light-truck constituency cares about oil, and Iraq's reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia's. But the notion that a great power needs physically to control sources of a plentiful raw material is simply outdated. The nationalization of oil reserves, a worldwide phenomenon of a few generations ago, is something not likely to be undone, and, besides, a very comfortable modus vivendi has grown up between producing and consuming governments.Anything resembling American expropriation of Middle East oil fields would produce tidal waves not just in the Arab world, but in places like Mexico and Venezuela. I cannot think of a better way of causing Al Qaeda recruits to line up in a dozen countries much the way alarmed, idealistic, young Britains lined up in 1914 to fight "the damned Bosch." Even with the hillbilly crowd running the White House, I think it safe to say this approach is not on. Iraq's reserves are of no value to Iraq unless their production is for sale. No matter who runs Iraq, it is a sure bet that its oil will flow for as long as the reserves hold out, at prices worked out under those cozy arrangements of producing and consuming countries. In recent years, it has only been America's harsh economic restrictions on Iraq that prevented a possible glutting of the oil market. Iraq's reserves represent a gigantic future revenue stream, many hundreds of billions of dollars. Bush's crowd definitely wants this future revenue stream put into hands that are friendlier to American policy. The uncertainty that Saddam Hussein represents for American policy-makers is not uncertainty over the availability of oil; it is uncertainty over what Hussein may choose to do with the revenue stream over the decade or so possibly left to his rule, and it is the uncertainty of what Israel may do in response. Hussein's army is not a serious threat to Israel. Its leadership and equipment make it inferior in almost every respect to the IDF, and it certainly doesn't have the United States supplying round-the-clock military intelligence, new technical capabilities, a bottomless supply of spare parts, and diplomatic pouches full of cash. But Hussein with a small nuclear arsenal is quite another matter. Israel is a small country, and just two or three nuclear devices could devastate its highly-urbanized population. And you wouldn't need missiles to achieve this. School buses, delivery trucks, aircraft, or fishing boats are all more accurate delivery systems than Iraqi Scuds. That is the reason why Israel not only has nuclear weapons but has more of them than it would at first appear to need as a deterrent. The concept at work here is having a deterrent that compensates for Israel's small size vis--vis a threat from a much larger country or a group of countries. The United States, it seems almost childishly unnecessary to say, does not care about how wicked or unpleasant Hussein may be. Nor does it care about his record on human rights. The truth is that he is no worse than the many cutthroats with whom the U.S. cozily does business. The problem with Hussein is that he won't play the game under rules the U.S. has laid down. Oh, he has cooperated in the past, and for considerable periods of time, he was treated as one of America's useful
[CTRL] Bush's Oil Move Backfires (Flashback)
Title: Guardian | Bush's oil move backfires -Caveat Lector- In a dream ending for the chapter of history being written now in Iraq, neo-conservatives fantasised before the war about a privatised, pro-American Iraqi oil industry. Note well: NEOCONSERVATIVES fantasized about easily exploiting Iraqi oil, NOT big oil industry executives. Big oil all along has had a much more skeptical and realistic understanding of the Mideast oil situation than the fanatically ideological neocons, most of whom have no track record of succeeding in any business. Neocons are simultaneously chickenhawk laptop bombardiers andimaginary capitalist tycoons. They are grotesque fantasists. Bush, of course, had no track record of succeeding at anything before launching the disastrous Iraq War. Winning the White House has given him, with the help of the neocons,the opportunity to fail on a truly grand scale. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4726562-103682,00.html Bush's oil move backfires Now he will have to try diplomacy LeaderTuesday August 5, 2003The Guardian In a dream ending for the chapter of history being written now in Iraq, neo-conservatives fantasised before the war about a privatised, pro-American Iraqi oil industry. This would have access to the world's second largest hydrocarbon reserves and produce so much oil that Saudi Arabia, in charge of Opec, would lose its grip on petrol prices. The world would then be swimming in inexpensive petrol - the cost of which would be dictated by the market, not by an anti-American price-fixing club run by Riyadh. Low prices would also mean falling revenues for oil-producers, which in the Middle East might precipitate the collapse of regimes hostile to the US. These hopes are now being dissipated like sand before the desert wind. Oil is dribbling, rather than pumping, from Iraq's bomb-blasted oil industry. Sabotage and theft mean Iraq's oil production remains at a fraction of the levels achieved under Saddam. With reconstruction failing to take off, there is little sign of a post-Ba'athist dividend in the form of low oil prices. The result is that US action in Iraq has not weakened Opec, and hence Saudi Arabia, but strengthened it. Last week's meeting of Opec ministers confirmed that with supplies being disrupted by political unrest in Venezuela and Nigeria, oil prices would remain where the Saudis want them to be - high. This is bad news for any putative global recovery and the US economy. Ever since Arab nations imposed an embargo on oil exports to America in 1973, the United States has tried, in theory, to wean itself off foreign oil. George Bush declared hydrocarbon independence a priority. But the real issue is not where the oil spurts from, but how much it costs to buy. If politics is the pursuit of economics by other means, then Mr Bush needs now to display a deftness previously absent. Oil ministers are already talking of cutting production, with the implicit, Exocet-shaped threat of rising petrol costs. Every major economic recession in the past 40 years has been preceded by a jump in the oil price. The Saudi foreign minister's fury last week over a Congressional report that implicated his nation in terrorism will not have gone unnoticed. The neo-conservatives' project for Opec has been exposed as counterproductive. Instead Washington will have to revert to diplomacy to win over Riyadh.The question is whether they do so by being crude - or by being refined. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 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
Re: [CTRL] Bush's Oil Move Backfires (Flashback)
-Caveat Lector- Keep in mind that a number of the neocons were also oil industry executives. Condoleeza Rice was a consultant to Chevron. They are definitely connected. Steve On 4 Oct 2003 at 15:35, Sean McBride wrote: Guardian | Bush's oil move backfiresIn a dream ending for the chapter of history being written now in Iraq, neo-conservatives fantasised before the war about a privatised, pro-American Iraqi oil industry. Note well: NEOCONSERVATIVES fantasized about easily exploiting Iraqi oil, NOT big oil industry executives. Big oil all along has had a much more skeptical and realistic understanding of the Mideast oil situation than the fanatically ideological neocons, most of whom have no track record of succeeding in any business. Neocons are simultaneously chickenhawk laptop bombardiers and imaginary capitalist tycoons. They are grotesque fantasists. -- ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com 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] Who really runs the Carlyle Group?
-Caveat Lector- While I do not agree with some of the angles of the author of this piece (nor do I agree with many of the conclusions), it is FILLED with absolutely incredible information. This just may be the biggest bombshell of a piece on the Carlye Group yet to be seen online. 9-11: CARLYLE GROUP/HOMELAND INSECURITY--WHO OWNS CARLYLE GROUP? Posted by: Anonymous on Oct 03, 2003 - 01:06 PM See: http://makeashorterlink.com/?N4D933A16 * -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze 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] Identity cards
-Caveat Lector- And in the United States the state issued driver license has become a de facto internal passport. On Saturday, Oct 4, 2003, at 08:05 US/Pacific, Zuukie wrote: The UK may be thinking about the use of an ID card but everywhere else in Europe the debate has moved a lot further than that, said one senior EU official. 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] Fwd: Fw: BUSH SCREWS AMERICAN PEOPLE *AGAIN* !
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Les Lemke To: Undisclosed-Recipient:@server-1.visp.net; Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: BUSH SCREWS AMERICAN PEOPLE *AGAIN* ! Bush has continued toworke to expandClinton's NAFTA ( No American Firms Taking Applications )"free trade" policies thereby guaranteeing that MORE American jobs will be lost to Americans asbusinesses move their base of operations to Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Banglesh, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Shanghai, Africa and to all countries OTHER THAN the United States. Now, because of Bush's Tax Spend policies of helping Iraq to rebuild THEIR NATION he is putting the screws to the AMERICANfamilies that lost their loved ones in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade center. Read article below. Bush couldn't give a rat's ass about this country OR its peopleas was the attitude of Clinton. Bush = Clinton Republican Party = Democrat Party THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE ! Les Saturday, October 4, 2003 "In a telephone interview, Beasley said Bush had taken away all the money Congress had intended for September 11 victims, in this case allocating it for Iraqi reconstruction and humanitarian needs."Source:http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/04/911.families/index.html9/11 families denied frozen Iraqi funds NEW YORK (CNN) --An appeals court ruled that families of those killed on September 11, 2001, who sought access to Iraqi funds frozen by the United States "must look elsewhere" to collect damages. In a 16-page ruling, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a U.S. District Court decision last month denying the families any part of the $1.7 billion in funds frozen at the start of the first Gulf War. On September 11, 2003, U.S. District Judge Harold Baer ruled that families of the victims of the World Trade Center attacks cannot have access to Iraqi funds seized by the United States in 1990 because the money is "needed to rebuild Iraq." Family members sought the funds to satisfy an earlier court ruling saying Iraq owed the families $63.5 million. The lawsuit was brought by the estates of George Eric Smith and Timothy Soulas, who were killed in the attacks two years ago. Baer said Iraq's frozen assets became property of the United States when President Bush signed an executive order to that effect in March, indicating that the money was earmarked for Iraq reconstruction. The judge ruled in May that the plaintiffs did show there was a link between Iraq and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the World Trade Center attacks and that damages must be paid by bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government. "I conclude that plaintiffs have shown, albeit barely, 'by evidence satisfactory to the court' that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al Qaeda," Baer wrote in his May 7 decision. George Eric Smith, 38, was a senior business analyst for SunGard Asset Management Systems/Global Plus, and Timothy Soulas, 35, was a managing director of foreign currencies for Cantor Fitzgerald. Smith was not married and had no children. Soulas is survived by his wife, Katy, and six children. The families' attorney, James Beasley Jr., vowed to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. In a telephone interview, Beasley said Bush had taken away all the money Congress had intended for September 11 victims, in this case allocating it for Iraqi reconstruction and humanitarian needs. "I represent a widow with six children. Another family lost a significant member of their family, " Beasley said. " How about the humanitarian needs of the people in this country? " The September 11, 2001 attacks killed 3,016 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a those aboard a jetliner that crashed in a field in Shanksville,
[CTRL] Arsonists for Bush?
-Caveat Lector- Darryl Cherney: The heart of countercultural land has been on fire for two weeks, now, since the massive and spectacular lightening storm that set over 200 fires. ~ From a piece about last year's, highly unreported (given it was the biggest last year - bigger than the Arizona fire AND the Colorado fire) fire in southwestern Oregon: The community people from Southern Oregon say that the big forest fires in Southwest Oregon were intentionally set. Some community people looked for the area where the fires were set and found the headwaters of the fire. They tried to get others to look at these areas and when they came back to the area, forest service and other law enforcement officers kept them out. Then the area was burned over again. ~ The following is snipped from AzWildFires.org about last year's huge fire in Arizona, ignited, admittedly, by a government contracted worker (in this case, an employe of the Bureau of Indian Affairs): This website was intended for publishing information and assisting the victims of AZ wildfires, until Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 4:48 pm, when I received a call from an Overgaard/Heber resident/business person drove for 10+ miles to a phone and was very upset in the way everything was going. This person was one of the witnesses to the events of the those who LET the WALL of fire come up to these mentioned towns, which includes all the dis-information that was fed to the media. These witnesses were prepared to make a fire line miles down the road to deter the wildfires from entering Overgaard/Heber and were stopped, allowing them to only watch this wall of fire coming to destroy their homes, this person said. Electrostatic writes: That fire, miraculously, stopped just before wiping out the town of Show Low, Arizona. ~ The following is snipped from a piece I posted to Memes.org last year, entitled Arson and Salvage Logging - a little known tidbit pertaining to the fire that got little attention, courtesy of the Associated Press (ANOTHER fire from last year started by a federally contracted worker - National Forest Service this time): The indictment came after prosecutors expressed doubt about Barton's story that she accidentally started the fire while burning a letter from her estranged husband. Investigators contend the fire was staged to look like an escaped campfire. ~ Earlier this year: (Oregon) Can it be pure coincidence, locals are asking, that two wildfires sprang up in view of the spot where President Bush planned to promote his plan to thin forests for wildfire prevention? Much more at: Arsonists for Bush? http://makeashorterlink.com/?E58B42A16 * -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze 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] Shredding the American Constitution - With the Push of a Button
-Caveat Lector- http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1268 Shredding the American Constitution - With the Push of a Button By Chris Floyd The Moscow Times It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buyouts and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers and presidential family members lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how the United States, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States no matter what the people of the United States might want. The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players Diebold, ESS, and Sequoia with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong... These companies all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled systems many using "touch-screen" technology that leaves no paper trail at all are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities. The technology had a trial run in the 2002 midterm elections. In Georgia, serviced by new Diebold systems, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both unseated in what the media called "amazing" upsets, with results showing vote swings of up to 16 percent from the last pre-ballot polls. In computerized Minnesota, former Vice President Walter Mondale a replacement for popular incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died days before the vote was also defeated in a large last-second vote swing. Convenient "glitches" in Florida saw an untold number of votes intended for the Democratic candidate registering instead for Governor Jeb "L'il Brother" Bush. A Florida Democrat who lost a similarly "glitched" local election went to court to have the computers examined but the case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the innards of America's voting machines are the "trade secrets" of the private companies who make them. Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: The corporate lines even the bloodlines of these "competitors" are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state's votes to Bush next year the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ESS. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful. Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the extremist "Christian Reconstructionist" movement, which openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, placing the entire society under the "dominion" of "Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for non-Christians, stoning of sinners and we kid you not slavery, "one of the most beneficent of Biblical laws." Ahmanson also has major holdings in ESS, whose former CEO is Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. When Hagel ran for office, his own company counted the votes; needless to say, his initial victory was reported as "an amazing upset." Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the parent company of ESS. In Florida, Jeb Bush's first choice for a running mate in his 1998 gubernatorial race was ESS lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a mint installing the machines that counted Jeb's votes. Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where it was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state officials to jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms. Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving immunized testimony against state officials. The British-owned company's corporate parent is private equity firm Madison Dearborn a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush I makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and sweetheart deals with government insiders. Meanwhile, the shadowy defense contractor SAIC has jumped into the vote-counting game, both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci, and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates. SAIC's history of fraud charges and security
[CTRL] [CITIZENS_ASSEMBLY] Haida Nation ... in the UN General Assembly soon? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CITIZENS_ASSEMBLY] Haida Nation ... in the UN General Assembly soon? From an article by BC's eminent political journalist, Charlie Smith (Georgia Straight, Oct 2-9/03). The Haida Nation and its elected president, Gujaaw, are seeking a declaration in BC Supreme Court that they hold aboriginal title over 'Haida Gway', also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Also, ...the federal government has denied that the Haida Nation or descendents ever constituted a 'single unified aboriginal collectivity capable of holding aboriginal title'. - If the Haida win this in court, they could take a seat in the UN General Assembly alongside other Pacific Island micro-nations. POC * http://www.geocities.com/CITIZENS_ASSEMBLY ** Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/XgSolB/TM -~- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Lies: Pillars of the State
-Caveat Lector- The New World Order Exposed! by Victor ThornVictor Thorn presents THE NEW WORLD ORDER EXPOSEDJoin Lisa Guliani's group at New World Order CornerDirect comments to Victor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct comments to Lisa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies: Pillars of the State by Lisa Guliani NOTE: The Victor Thorn show airs every Monday night 9:00 pm eastern standard time on the Reality Radio Network www.realityradionetwork.com. "Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain, "Chronicle of Young Satan" On Monday, September 8th, President George W. Bush informed the nation and the lame-duck U.S. Congress that he now needs a whopping $87 Billion to maintain U.S. military objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan. This eye-popping amount of money is to be used to maintain the ongoing death, doom, destruction and decimation known as defeating the enemies of freedom (also called securing the interests of the cabal and making Poppa Bush gleefully wet his trousers.) On Wednesday September 17th, 2003, George W. Bush calmly announced to reporters that there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein with the events of September 11, 2001. Just like that, our man George reversed himself. You see, George has changed his mind. Forget about what he said BEFORE, ok? Never mind that no weapons of mass destruction have materialized thus far. Never mind that. That was yesterday. This is today and today, George W. has his hand out once again, expecting more of our fake money and more multinational troops over there to assist in the slaying of more phantom dragons. George wants to replenish the war chest, you see. Oh yeah, and he wants LESS focus on the inconsistencies and outright lies of the last couple of years, so if you dont mind, just forget all that business, will ya? George wants bygones to be bygones. Oh, and his administration would like us all to know that they never SAID Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. So please get that one straight. We must have IMAGINED they said it. In reality, on some distant planet in a far-off galaxy, they only IMPLIED it. They ALLUDED to it as Vernon Jordan would say, ova and ova and ova. So what. We dont need your stinkin WMDs, says Dubbya. We get our war without them. Our arsenal is complete with twisted truths, outright lies, and smokescreens. Throw in a little backpedaling and were good to go. Forget too, about the deadly drumbeat of yesterday, Georges formal pretext for this war faked documents which the White House knew all about, yet used anyway. George wants and needs your blind allegiance even if he lied - which he did, which he continues to do. Were supposed to support him and his war anyway. After all, hes our man. We are to forget the outrageous loss of human life which continues even now today - on ALL fronts. We are at war, my friends, and such are the prices to be paid in wars, and apparently in peace time. George is a nation-builder. Mind you, he has no interest in reconstructing a crumbling America. No, our fake money is slotted for foreign aid and assistance. We Americans are on our own as far as thats concerned. We need to help George and his buddies clean up the terrific mess theyve made of the Middle East. George cant clean up his messes by himself. He cant clean up his lies either, for that matter. Bush has spoken of a collection of killers desperately trying to undermine Iraqs progress and throw the country into chaos. Yes, we are certainly witnessing the shenanigans of a collection of killers, Ill agree with that. Witness too, how the war hawks are still dividing, distracting, and diverting our attention from the lies. They need to maintain the mental conditioning process and the status quo and the flat-line American mentality. We are presumed to be so stupid as to believe that this war is necessary that it is morally imperative to waste innocent people, steal their resources and obliterate entire countries. Were dealing with a new morality here. This steroidal flexing of U.S. military muscle has failed to impress the rest of the world, but it damn sure
Re: [CTRL] Bush's Oil Move Backfires (Flashback)
-Caveat Lector- Keep in mind that a number of the neocons were also oil industry executives. Condoleezza Rice was a consultant to Chevron. They are definitely connected. Steve, Strictly speaking, the neocons for the most part are a group of ideologues, academics, intellectuals and journalists who are a strange combination of ultra-leftism on social policy and ultra-right Likud Zionism. Most of them have no accomplishments to their name in pragmatic endeavors. This is the same parasitic personality type which seized positions of bureaucratic power in the Soviet Union and drove it into the ground. The neocons are long on big, unrealistic ideas and short on practical accomplishments. Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are not technically neocons -- they are tools and instruments of the neocons. They are regurgitating concepts and words that have been put into their mouths by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Michael Ledeenand other prominent neocons who dominate the PNAC, AEI, JINSA and similar think tanks. Most oil industry executives hold the neocons in contempt and consider them to be unreliable schemers and blabbermouths. The neocons have been hatching schemes for stealing Arab and Muslim oil on behalf on Israel since at least the seventies. These schemes have little to do with the carefuljudgment of big oil of what is in its best interest. If you want to grasp what the neocons are all about, read a large stack of issues of Commentary -- their key issues come into focus quite quickly. Everything they say and do revolves around the interests not simply of Israel ina practical sense, but of Israel as a grandiose and messianic myth. The neocons are ethnocentric wankers. George W. Bush has gone along with the neocons not because of his oil industry connections, but because of his Christian Zionism -- the neocons have exploited that primitive superstition to the hilt. Bush Sr.'s oil buddies, including James Baker, tried to warn Junior that invading Iraq would be bad for the oil business. This is the reason that Michael Ruppert and Kris Millegan have been able to produce so little evidence supporting their theory that big oil has been the ringleader behind the drive to invade and occupy Israel's Arab and Muslim neighbors. The theory is simply false. For the most part big oil has sought friendly and stable relations with Israel's oil-producing neighbors, a policy which has enraged Israel and the neocons. - Original Message - From: Steve Wingate To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Bush's Oil Move Backfires (Flashback) -Caveat Lector-Keep in mind that a number of the neocons were also oil industry executives. CondoleezaRice was a consultant to Chevron. They are definitely connected.SteveOn 4 Oct 2003 at 15:35, Sean McBride wrote: Guardian | Bush's oil move backfiresIn a dream ending for the chapter of history being written now in Iraq, neo-conservatives fantasised before the war about a privatised, pro-American Iraqi oil industry. Note well: NEOCONSERVATIVES fantasized about easily exploiting Iraqi oil, NOT big oil industry executives. Big oil all along has had a much more skeptical and realistic understanding of the Mideast oil situation than the fanatically ideological neocons, most of whom have no track record of succeeding in any business. Neocons are simultaneously chickenhawk laptop bombardiers and imaginary capitalist tycoons. They are grotesque fantasists.--ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILEShttp://www.anomalous-images.comwww.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandicscreeds are unwelcomed. Substanceâ?"not soap-boxingâ?"please! These aresordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'â?"with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsâ?"is used politically by different groups withmajor and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, andalways suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives nocredence 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="">ctrlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/ATo 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 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
