[CTRL] SaddamGate - The Story Continues
-Caveat Lector- Saddam's capture: was a deal brokered behind the scenes? When it emerged that the Kurds had captured the Iraqi dictator, the US celebrations evaporated. David Pratt asks whether a secret political trade-off has been engineered For a story that three weeks ago gripped the world's imagination, it has now all but dropped off the radar. Peculiar really, for if one thing might have been expected in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's capture, it was the endless political and media mileage that the Bush administration would get out of it . After all, for 249 days Saddam's elusiveness had been a symbol of America's ineptitude in Iraq, and, at last, with his capture came the long-awaited chance to return some flak to the Pentagon's critics. It also afforded the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of America's elite covert and intelligence units such as Task Force 20 and Greyfox . And it was a terrific chance for the perfect photo-op showing the American soldier, and Time magazine's Person of the Year, hauling High Value Target Number One out of his filthy spiderhole in the village of al-Dwar. Then along came that story: the one about the Kurds beating the US Army in the race to find Saddam first, and details of Operation Red Dawn suddenly began to evaporate. US Army spokesmen - so effusive in the immediate wake of Saddam's capture - no longer seemed willing to comment, or simply went to ground. But rumours of the crucial Kurdish role persisted, even though it now seems their previously euphoric spokesmen have now, similarly, been afflicted by an inexplicable bout of reticence. It was two weeks ago that the Sunday Herald revealed how a Kurdish special forces unit belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) had spearheaded and tracked down Saddam, sealing off the al-Dwar farmhouse long before the arrival of the US forces. PUK leader Jalal Talabani had chosen to leak the news and details of the operation's commander, Qusrut Rasul Ali, to the Iranian media long before Saddam 's capture was reported by the mainstream Western press or confirmed by the US military. By the time Western press agencies were running the same story, the entire emphasis had changed however, and the ousted Iraqi president had been captured in a raid by US forces backed by Kurdish fighters. In the intervening few weeks that troublesome Kurdish story has gone around the globe, picked up by newspapers from The Sydney Morning Herald to the US Christian Science Monitor, as well as the Kurdish press. While Washington and the PUK remain schtum, further confirmation that the Kurds were way ahead in Saddam's capture continues to leak out. According to one Israeli source who was in the company of Kurds at a meeting in Athens early on December 14, one of the Kurdish representatives burst into the conference room in tears and demanded an immediate halt to the discussions. Saddam Hussein has been captured, he said, adding that he had received word from Kurdistan - before any television reports. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the delegate also confirmed that most of the information leading to the deposed dictator's arrest had come from the Kurds and - as our earlier Sunday Herald report revealed - who had organised their own intelligence network which had been trying to uncover Saddam's tracks for months. The delegate further claimed that six months earlier the Kurds had discovered that Saddam's wife was in the Tikrit area. This intelligence, most likely obtained by Qusrut Rasul Ali and his PUK special forces unit, was transferred to the Americans. The Kurds, however, are said to have never received any follow-up from the coalition forces on this vital tip-off and were furious. Whatever the full extent of their undoubted involvement in providing intelligence or actively participating on the ground in Saddam's capture, the Kurds, and the PUK in particular, would benefit handsomely. Apart from a trifling $25 million bounty, their status would have been substantially boosted in Washington, which may in part explain the recent vociferous Kurdish reassertion of their long-term political ambitions in the new Iraq. For their own part the Kurds have already launched a political arrangement designed to secure their aspirations with respect to autonomy, if not nationalist or separatist aspirations. To show how serious they are, the two main Kurdish groups, the PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), have decided to close ranks and set up a joint Kurdish administration, with jobs being divided between the two camps. They have made it clear to the Americans that their leadership has a responsibility to their constituency. Last week Massoud Barzani, leader of the KDP, called for a revision of the power-transfer agreement signed between the US-led coalition and Iraq's interim governing council to recognise Kurdish rights. The November 15 agreement calls for the creation of a national assembly
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Private Contractor Tests New Illegal Ammo By Killing An Iraqi
-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- Private Contractor Tests New Illegal Ammo By Killing An Iraqi : Lovely People We've Sent Over There To Fight ; Army Times Private Contractor Tests New Illegal Ammo By Killing An Iraqi Lovely People We've Sent Over There To Fight 12/16/2003 6:07:03 PM Army Times Baghdad, Iraq -- [Bill: Isn't this what the Jews accused Mengele of doing -- testing military equipment on human beings? Oy! Just two-faced-ness. One would never expect such a thing from a Jewish war. :-/] http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2426405.php Private Contractor Tests New Illegal Ammo By Killing An Iraqi 1-shot killer. This 5.56mm round has all the stopping power you need ? but you can?t use it. Here?s why: By John G. Roos Special to the Times 12/01/03: (The Army Times) Ben Thomas and three colleagues were driving north out of Baghdad in an SUV on a clear mid-September morning, headed down a dirt road into a rural village, when gunmen in several surrounding buildings opened fire on them. In a brief but intense firefight, Thomas hit one of the attackers with a single shot from his M4 carbine at a distance he estimates was 100 to 110 yards. He hit the man in the buttocks, a wound that typically is not fatal. But this round appeared to kill the assailant instantly. ?It entered his butt and completely destroyed everything in the lower left section of his stomach ... everything was torn apart,? Thomas said. Thomas, a security consultant with a private company contracted by the government, recorded the first known enemy kill using a new ? and controversial ? bullet. The bullet is so controversial that if Thomas, a former SEAL, had been on active duty, he would have been court-martialed for using it. The ammunition is ?nonstandard? and hasn?t passed the military?s approval process. ?The way I explain what happened to people who weren?t there is ? this stuff was like hitting somebody with a miniature explosive round,? he said, even though the ammo does not have an explosive tip. ?Nobody believed that this guy died from a butt shot.? The bullet Thomas fired was an armor-piercing, limited-penetration round manufactured by RBCD of San Antonio. A new process APLP ammo is manufactured using a so-called ?blended-metal? process, said Stan Bulmer, president of sales and manufacturing for Le Mas Ltd. of Little Rock, Ark. Le Mas is the distributor of RBCD ammo. Various bullet types made by RBCD are designed for different effects, Bulmer said. The frangible APLP ammo will bore through steel and other hard targets but will not pass through a human torso, an eight-inch-thick block of artist?s clay or even several layers of drywall. Instead of passing through a body, it shatters, creating ?untreatable wounds.? Le Mas gave Thomas a small number of APLP rounds after he contacted the company. After driving off their attackers, Thomas and his colleagues quickly searched the downed enemy fighter for items of intelligence value. They also took time to examine the wound. ?There?s absolutely no comparison, whatever, none,? to other wounds he has seen from 5.56mm ammo, Thomas said in a telephone interview while on home leave in Florida. He said he feels qualified to assess a bullet?s effects, having trained as a special-operations medic and having shot people with various types of ammo, including the standard-issue green tip and the Black Hills Mk 262, favored by spec-ops troops. Thomas was the only member of the four-man group who had RBCD ammo. He said that after the group returned to base, they and other members of his group snatched up the remaining rounds. ?They were fighting over it,? he said. ?At the end of the day, each of us took five rounds. That?s all we had left.? Congress wants tests Last year?s defense budget included $1.05 million for testing blended-metal
[CTRL] Fwd: Building on Our Victories
-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- Building on Our Victories By Eisha Mason January 2, 2004 by CommonDreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0102-11.htm We have arrived at the end of a tumultuous year in our world, in which our country and our own lives have changed dramatically. Last winter, in bitter cold, I was in Washington, D.C. marching to prevent the war in Iraq with 100,000 other dedicated Americans. We were a part of demonstrations all over the world, united in a desire for peace. We were cold, but our hearts were warm; and we dared to believe that we might really stop the coming war. But war came. And a year later, the Bush Administration continues its assault on civil liberties, on the environment, media, human services programs, and on our childrens financial future. It continues to rob from the poor and give to the rich, and undermine the foundations of democracy. If we listen unquestioningly to the mass media, we may begin to believe that we have endured one defeat after another in 2003. And some of us see the commencement of the Iraq War as our greatest defeat. But this is a mistake. Such a perception sees through too narrow a prism. Iraq was a milestone. One battle does not make a war, one experiment does not make an invention and one campaign does not make a movement. In the past year, we have been victorious in progressing as a movement for peace and justice. We have much to celebrate and much to build upon as we face the challenges ahead of us. The Victories We Won We Were Not Silent In 2003, our movement firmly established itself in resistance to the war and in the recognition that the military build up abroad, in effect, declared war on the economic and civil well being of Americans at home. Throughout America, neighborhood peace groups spontaneously sprang up with lightening speed. And these autonomous groups rapidly formed loose networks of like- minded local groups and all ready established peace and justice organizations. Street corner vigils multiplied, not just in the numbers of individuals on a corner, but in the number of corners occupied across America, in small towns as well as urban communities. Mass demonstrations in San Francisco, LA and New York became more massive because people, ordinary people, traveled across country to make their voices heard. We Spoke Truth to Power Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his reflections on the Birmingham campaign during the American Civil Rights movement, said, The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people. Let us celebrate that we were not silent. At a time when it was so easy to be cowed by the media war machine or by this Administration that called us traitors and collaborators with the enemy, we dared to question or think for ourselves. When it was easier to keep silent in family gatherings or in the lunchroom at work, when neighbors may have turned away from us, when we sometimes thought we were all alone, we can celebrate that we were not silent. When we were pumped an intravenous diet of Fear each day, we did not succumb. We were true to our own consciences. When our children and grand children question us about this time, we will be able to look them in the eye and tell them that we were not silent. When they ask how countrymen betrayed their values and almost lost our freedoms and almost bankrupted this country, we can tell them how we helped save these treasures for the next generation and how we held the vision and listened to the Truth in our own hearts. Perhaps this, more than anything, is what matters most. We Created Public Debate In 2003, even though we were all but shut out of mainstream media, we succeeded in demonstrating our presence as a movement. Through our vigils, demonstrations, letters, and alternative media, we
[CTRL] Fwd: The Left, Faith-based Movements and Social Change
-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- On The Left, Faith-Based Movements and Social Change [On Dec. 26, portside posted an item from the Christian Science Monitor entitled Inequity - Is it a Sin? The article generated a number of responses by portsiders. Below are the urls for the orginal article as well as portsiders' comments. Today we post the most recent contribution to the discussion in the hope that it will generate even more on this topic. See also today's Tidbits - portsideMod] http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1224/p14s03-lire.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/5258 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/5266 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/pending?view=1msg=63362 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/5269 Re: Faith-based movements - Bruce Boccardy By Chris Lowe,Portland, Oregon This is a friendly response to Bruce Boccardy's reply to Katha Pollitt. When this sort of argument flares up periodically among progressives, it always puzzles me. In every social movement with which I have had any contact since my childhood in the 1960s, there have always been coalitions involving cooperation between religious, faith- or spiritually-motivated people and secular people. I am not sure exactly what Bruce Boccardy means by embracing people of faith. Personally I have never been part of a secular organization that either refused to work with religious groups or excluded religious individuals. Likewise when I recently gave a talk on HIV/AIDS in Africa at a local Lutheran church as part of an Advent project they do each year, no one questioned me about my faith. Yet the coalitions have also often had important activists whose religions are based on subtle and stark formal contrasts. Besides Christianity's powerful and exclusivist formal embrace of Jesus as the only path to salvation, religious progressive Christians tend to look to New Testament emphases on peace, mercy, and forgiveness. Progressive and religious Jews tend to look to emphases in their traditions on justice and on living an engaged ethical life that adapts old principles to new situations. For the Christians, the question of justice is not absent, but it has tended to be brought in partly from the coalition work itself. This may be partly from work with Jews, but more especially reflects the influence of African-American varieties of Christianity have for historical reasons drawn more heavily on the Old Testament, not least for the role of justice in its ethics, as well as the freeing of peoples from literal bondage, not simply the metaphorical redemption from the bondage of sin. It has been the social struggles of the past 50 years or so that have brought to the fore the peace and justice linkage that now characterizes much mainline Christian church social thinking, as well as such liminal denominations as the divided Quaker movement and the Unitarian-Universalists, with influence also from Buddhists (mostly western converts) and from Gandhi's Hinduism. That has happened in the shadow of World War II and the Jewish Holocaust in Europe, with the rise of organized efforts and Christian-Jewish rapprochement as well as intra-Christian ecumenical efforts to limit or ameliorate sectarianism and destructive denominationalism. Now there is a whole new dimension being brought in involving Muslims, the need to protect Muslim people from discrimination and demonization, and the abysmal ignorance of most other Americans of whatever faith or secularity about Islam, particularly its internal debates and struggles that relate to progressivism and social justice issues, and questions like those vexing Christian denominations about embracing full equality for women and sexual minorities. In coalition movements and organizations containing both secular and faith-motivated activists, it has been clear enough to me
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] From the Treasurer of The Fund for Authentic Journalism
-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- January 5, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Friends and Supporters of Narco News, Please let me introduce myself. My name is Andrew Grice. I live in Michigan and I'm a long time Narco News reader. I'm the Vice President and Treasurer of The Fund for Authentic Journalism, the new fiscal sponsor for Narco News. By now most of you have heard the wonderful news. We found a way to save the Narco News. To bring it back, not just with the unparalleled reporting you'd come to rely on, but with expanded coverage and innovative new features to involve readers on a level unheard of in any newspaper in English, Spanish or Portuguese. 2004 promises to be the year of Narco News' greatest impact yet. But we are not out of the woods just yet, which I why I write you today. To overcome the funding problems which caused Narco News to suspend publication in October, we've organized The Fund for Authentic Journalism as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Michigan. This will allow us to keep fundraising and editorial functions separate and to broaden our funding base. Never again will your online newspaper reporting on the drug war and democracy from Latin America have to depend on large donations to publish. Insuring a solid financial basis to keep Narco News' journalists working safely in the field was mandatory, and with your help, The Fund for Authentic Journalism will do exactly that. Thanks to a generous $30,000 matching grant from the Tides Fund for Drug Policy Reform, we are well on our way, but there is still much left to do. By April 18th we need to raise $30,000. This will insure a minimum budget for Narco News to keep its journalists working safely in the field and provide for an August 2004 session of The School for Authentic Journalism. Thanks to so many of you, we've already raised $10,360, one third of our goal and only five days into the new year. Now we need everyone who possibly can, to chip in whatever they can to make up the difference. Because of our matching funds grant, each dollar contributed right now means two dollars will fund the work of Narco News. Every contribution, however large or small, is crucial. Our fundraising goal for the year itself, isn't even measured in dollars, but in finding 1000 individual donors. Your 2 or 25 dollar contribution means just as much to the success of this project as another's 80 or 800 dollars. The important part is to give now, so we bring Narco News back to full publication as soon as possible and make our April 18th goal. Please send checks or money orders payable to The Fund for Authentic Journalism to P.O. Box 71051 Madison Heights, MI 48071. Or use the PayPal buttons on our website http://www.authenticjournalism.org to donate instantly from your credit card or bank account. An especially great way to help us right now is with the PayPal subscription buttons. It's an easy way for those of us with modest incomes to help with a small regular monthly contribution. For many of us, a 60 or 120 dollar contribution is an awful lot at once, but PayPal makes it easy by automatically charging 5 or 10 dollars to your credit/debit card or bank account once a month, for 12 months. This is money we can budget and plan around, so every penny of the full contribution counts towards our April 18th goal. It's so easy, you can even click this link from this email, for example, to sign up to pledge 10 dollars a month: https://www.paypal.com/subscriptions/business=andrewgrice%40authenticjournalism.orgitem_name=%2410+Monthly+Pledgeno_note=1currency_code=USDa3=10.00p3=1t3=Msrc=1sra=1srt=12 Or to make a one time donation of any amount, via this link:
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Paul Graham on Heresy
-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- Paul Graham on Heresy http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html January 2004 (This essay is about heresy: how to think forbidden thoughts, and what to do with them. The latter was till recently something only a small elite had to think about. Now we all have to, because the Web has made us all publishers.) Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it. What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed. If you could travel back in a time machine, one thing would be true no matter where you went: you'd have to watch what you said. Opinions we consider harmless could have gotten you in big trouble. I've already said at least one thing that would have gotten me in big trouble in most of Europe in the seventeenth century, and did get Galileo in big trouble when he said it-- that the earth moves. [1] Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them. It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise. Is our time any different? To anyone who has read any amount of history, the answer is almost certainly no. It would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right. It's tantalizing to think we believe things that people in the future will find ridiculous. What would someone coming back to visit us in a time machine have to be careful not to say? That's what I want to study here. But I want to do more than just shock everyone with the heresy du jour. I want to find general recipes for discovering what you can't say, in any era. The Conformist Test Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told. The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps so they can tell when someone copies them. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence. Like every other era in history, our moral map almost certainly contains a few mistakes. And anyone who makes the same mistakes probably didn't do it by accident. It would be like someone claiming they had independently decided in 1972 that bell-bottom jeans were a good idea. If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have. Back in the era of terms like well-adjusted, the idea seemed to be that there was something wrong with you if you thought things you didn't dare say out
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush's Democracy Hypocrisy at Home
-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- While claiming to export democracy to Iraq, the Bush administration has been undercutting democracy at home. U.S. public debate -- even about the life-and-death issues of war and peace -- is now dominated by bogus information and ridicule of dissent, with those trends already reaching into Campaign 2004. For this second part of a two-part series on Bush Democracy Hypocrisy, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com ___ Powered by List Builder To unsubscribe follow the link: http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/sp?c=13595s=5E4EA2C74ECF300Bm=226 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=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: Saddam's capture - brokered behind the scenes?
-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- Saddam's capture: was a deal brokered behind the scenes? By David Pratt January 04, 2004, sundayherald online http://www.sundayherald.com/39096 When it emerged that the Kurds had captured the Iraqi dictator, the US celebrations evaporated. David Pratt asks whether a secret political trade-off has been engineered * * * * * For a story that three weeks ago gripped the world's imagination, it has now all but dropped off the radar. Peculiar really, for if one thing might have been expected in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's capture, it was the endless political and media mileage that the Bush administration would get out of it . After all, for 249 days Saddam's elusiveness had been a symbol of America's ineptitude in Iraq, and, at last, with his capture came the long-awaited chance to return some flak to the Pentagon's critics. It also afforded the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of America's elite covert and intelligence units such as Task Force 20 and Greyfox . And it was a terrific chance for the perfect photo-op showing the American soldier, and Time magazine's 'Person of the Year', hauling 'High Value Target Number One' out of his filthy spiderhole in the village of al- Dwar. Then along came that story: the one about the Kurds beating the US Army in the race to find Saddam first, and details of Operation Red Dawn suddenly began to evaporate. US Army spokesmen - so effusive in the immediate wake of Saddam's capture - no longer seemed willing to comment, or simply went to ground. But rumours of the crucial Kurdish role persisted, even though it now seems their previously euphoric spokesmen have now, similarly, been afflicted by an inexplicable bout of reticence. It was two weeks ago that the Sunday Herald revealed how a Kurdish special forces unit belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) had spearheaded and tracked down Saddam, sealing off the al-Dwar farmhouse long 'before the arrival of the US forces'. PUK leader Jalal Talabani had chosen to leak the news and details of the operation's commander, Qusrut Rasul Ali, to the Iranian media long before Saddam's capture was reported by the mainstream Western press or confirmed by the US military. By the time Western press agencies were running the same story, the entire emphasis had changed however, and the ousted Iraqi president had been 'captured in a raid by US forces backed by Kurdish fighters'. In the intervening few weeks that troublesome Kurdish story has gone around the globe, picked up by newspapers from The Sydney Morning Herald to the US Christian Science Monitor, as well as the Kurdish press. While Washington and the PUK remain schtum, further confirmation that the Kurds were way ahead in Saddam's capture continues to leak out. According to one Israeli source who was in the company of Kurds at a meeting in Athens early on December 14, one of the Kurdish representatives burst into the conference room in tears and demanded an immediate halt to the discussions. 'Saddam Hussein has been captured,' he said, adding that he had received word from Kurdistan - before any television reports. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the delegate also confirmed that most of the information leading to the deposed dictator's arrest had come from the Kurds and - as our earlier Sunday Herald report revealed - who had organised their own intelligence network which had been trying to uncover Saddam's tracks for months. The delegate further claimed that six months earlier the Kurds had discovered that Saddam's wife was in the Tikrit area. This intelligence, most likely obtained by Qusrut Rasul Ali and his PUK special forces unit, was transferred to the Americans. The Kurds, however, are said to have never received any follow-up from the coalition forces on this
[CTRL] Fwd: All it takes is a little boldness
-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- [emphasis mine] http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/010504A.shtml Two Loud Words By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 05 January 2004 There have always been 'third-rail' issues in American politics, subjects that, if touched upon, will lead to certain political death. For a long while, and until very recently, Social Security was one of these issues. A new one, surrounding the attacks of September 11, has been born in this political season. If September 11 is discussed, the only allowable sub-topic to be broached is whether or not the Bush administration is capable of keeping us safe from another onslaught. Friday's edition of the Boston Globe had a case in point on the front page. An article titled 'For Bush, Readiness is Key Issue' stated that, "In speech after speech, President Bush has emphasized his administration's pledge never to forget the lessons of Sept. 11. He says the top goal of his administration is to prevent another attack." The Globe article contained, in the next paragraph, the standardized rejoinder: "And while Democratic opponents of the administration are unanimous in their hope that that vulnerability is not exposed with deadly results, they have also argued that Bush has done far too little to protect the country from another attack. He has refused to adequately reimburse state and local officials for homeland security costs, they argue, and has ignored dangerous gaps in air cargo and port security." Thus, the 'preparedness-gap' becomes the whittled-down talking point du jour. This is a whiff of colossal proportions, the implications of which will echo down the halls of history unless someone develops enough spine to speak the truth into a large microphone. The talking point is not difficult to manage. It was splashed in gaudy multi-point font across the front page of the New York Post in May of 2002. Two words: 'Bush Knew.' It is, frankly, amazing that this has fallen down the memory hole. Recall two headlines from that period. The first, from the UK Guardian on May 19, 2002, was titled 'Bush Knew of Terrorist Plot to Hijack US Planes.' The first three paragraphs of this story read: "George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11 September that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday. In a top-secret intelligence memo headlined 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US', the President was told on 6 August that the Saudi-born terrorist hoped to 'bring the fight to America' in retaliation for missile strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998. Bush and his aides, who are facing withering criticism for failing to act on a series of warnings, have previously said intelligence experts had not advised them domestic targets were considered at risk. However, they have admitted they were specifically told that hijacks were being planned." Another story on the topic came from the New York Times on May 15, 2002, and was titled 'Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes.' Unlike the Guardian piece, the Times chose to lead the article with the Bush administration's cover story, one the administration has stuck with to this day: "The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft but that the warnings did not contemplate the possibility that the hijackers would turn the planes into guided missiles for a terrorist attack. 'It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad,' Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, said this evening. 'The president was also provided information about bin Laden wanting to
[CTRL] Fwd: Gotham Gazette on street artists 1/5/04
-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.gothamgazette.com http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/arts/20040105/1/820 Gotham Gazette 1/5/04 Artists' Fight To Sell On The Sidewalk by Martha Hostetter January, 2004 Ever since the founding of New Amsterdam, there have been battles over the right to control the public marketplace. The citys well-traveled sidewalks and parks offer enticing places to set up shop, whether youre selling books, art, knockoff purses, or hot dogs. The most recent battle has been simmering since last March, when a 1991 New York State law that regulated vending expired. Since then, vendors have been proliferating in Times Square, Canal Street, Battery Park, and Fifth Avenue, with their numbers peaking during the holiday season. In October, the Times Square B.I.D. counted 208 vendors in the area, 66 more than in March. Mayor Michael Bloomberg argues that the resulting sidewalk congestion creates a public safety issue, forcing pedestrians to spill out on to the street. This month, the State Assembly is likely to vote on legislation that would revise the old regulations and also place new restrictions on vending. Advocates for artist vendors say the proposed law infringes on their First Amendment rights and threatens their livelihood, and they have sworn to fight it. Through odd legal quirks, the fate of artist vendors is tied to that of veterans. The old law limited the number of disabled veterans allowed to sell on city streets. Once it expired, veterans could sell anywhere and street artists could follow, thanks to a Department of Consumer Affairs policy that states once a disabled veteran sets up shop on an otherwise restricted street, artists can also set up there legally. The proposed legislation [see below], which passed in the State Senate in June, would clarify regulations on veteran vendors, allow for fingerprinting of any vendor arrested for vending without a license, and prohibit vending altogether for several blocks around Ground Zero. The bill stalled when Democrats rejected the fingerprinting requirement, which they viewed as a threat to immigrant and minority rights (vendors would get permanent criminal records, even if their license had only recently expired). To its supporters, fingerprinting would be a security measure and a way to deter those without permits from selling. A related bill before the City Council proposes to create a permit system for vendors of written matter in all city parks, even though such a system was found to be unconstitutional in the past. Like immigrants, minorities, and disabled veterans, artist vendors tend to live near the poverty level and make their primary income on the street. While many hawk mass-produced prints of celebrities or landmarks, others sell original art that has not made it into museums or galleries. In the early 1990s, the city began requiring that artist vendors hold licenses, even though vendors of written matter did not need to do so. To protest this, a coalition of vendors formed A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) and filed suit against the city. From 1996 to 2001, the group won a series of cases, including one that the city appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The courts found that vendors of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs have the same First Amendment rights to free _expression as those who sell written matter. A 1996 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that visual artwork is as wide ranging in its depiction of ideas, concepts, and emotions as any book, treatise, pamphlet or other writing, and is similarly entitled to full First Amendment protection. . . . The sale of protected materials is also protected. . . . Furthermore, street marketing is in fact a part of the message of appellants art. Anyone
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Fw: Miles Copeland
-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- Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:03 AM Subject: Miles Copeland I love this article, describing events in 1959. To the world, CIA station chief in Cairo Miles Copleland "quit" in 1954, following an unsuccessful coup attempt in Cairo, moving then to a position with Gulf Oil where Kermit Roosevelt joined him in 1957. However, herewe find Miles in Cairoin 1959, a "CIA specialist," overseeing Saddam Hussein. But during this time Saddam was making frequent visits to the American Embassy where CIA specialists such as Miles Copeland and CIA station chief Jim Eichelberger were in residence and knew Saddam, former U.S. intelligence officials said. Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot By Richard SaleUPI Intelligence CorrespondentPublished 4/10/2003 7:30 PM U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials. United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report. While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim. In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed." According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan. Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official. Washington watched in marked dismay as Qasim began to buy arms from the Soviet Union and put his own domestic communists into ministry positions of "real power," according to this official. The domestic instability of the country prompted CIA Director Allan Dulles to say publicly that Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world." In the mid-1980s, Miles Copeland, a veteran CIA operative, told UPI the CIA had enjoyed "close ties" with Qasim's ruling Baath Party, just as it had close connections with the intelligence service of Egyptian leader Gamel Abd Nassar. In a recent public statement, Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s, confirmed this claim, saying that the CIA had chosen the authoritarian and anti-communist Baath Party "as its instrument." According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim. According to this source, Saddam was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qasim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qasim's movements. Adel Darwish, Middle East expert and author of "Unholy Babylon," said the move was done "with full knowledge of the CIA," and that Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian
[CTRL] Fwd: Fw: US Intelligence was formed from Nazi Criminals - Far Worse than we were Told!
-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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: US Intelligence was formed from Nazi Criminals - Far Worse than we were Told! Subscribe to our newsletter at http://emperor.vwh.net/MailList/index.php Receive articles from Emperor's Clothes Website Please send this text or the link to a friend. http://emperors-clothes.com/coverup/summary.htm Emperor's Clothes * www.tenc.net == Six decades of cover-up and still going strong... * US intelligence was formed from Nazi war criminals * The Nazi war crimes apparatus was recruited lock, stock and barrel and secretly redeployed worldwide. It's much worse than we were told. Part 1: Primed not to hear by Jared Israel [Posted 4 January 2004] == * Summary: Primed not to hear * The other day, someone called to make a donation to Emperor's Clothes, and he asked, What's this article you're going to post about the origins of US and German Intelligence? And I said, It's really shocking. The US foreign policy establishment created both intelligence services by re-creating the Nazi war crimes apparatus. Lock, stock and barrel. I expected the caller to be amazed but I was the one who was amazed because he wasn't. Oh that, he said. Yeah, they were working with some Nazis. Everyone knows that. Notice that what he said is not what I said. I have had virtually the same exchange with other people. I now realize that this reaction is common because over the past 20 years we have gradually been inoculated against hearing the truth about US recruitment of Nazi war criminals. We have been fed fragments of accurate information mixed with lies. We have been taught a trivialized version of what happened. This is worse than not knowing anything at all because when I say, The US ferreted out and reconstructed the Nazi war crimes apparatus which then *became* US foreign intelligence and covert political operations, people hear, They were working with some Nazis. In this series of articles I will show you that the picture you have been shown of the relationship between US intelligence and Nazism after World War II is deliberately off-focus. I will dissect a few texts so you can see how you were lied to. The truth is much worse than you think. Indeed, it is probably much worse than what I presently think because the more research I do, the worse it looks. Let's start with the caller's statement, that US intelligence was working with some Nazis. Why is this wrong? Because the phrase, working with, implies equality of power. A slave owner does not work with his slaves. A jailer does not work with his prisoners. And US intelligence officers do not work with Nazis who lost the war and are wanted for mass murder. The Nazis recruited by US intelligence were wanted for the most heinous crimes. Many were members of the SS, the Gestapo and the Nazi Leadership Corps. The Nuremberg Tribunal, whose decisions were binding under international law, defined these groups as parts of the worst criminal conspiracy in history. The fact that a person had been a member subjected that person to arrest. [1] The people sought out for recruitment by US intelligence had been involved in war crimes all over Europe, especially in the East. The US was obliged under the Moscow Declaration to turn over these Nazis so they could be tried in the countries where their crimes were committed. [2] People hunted for war crimes are in no position to bargain with those supposedly hunting them. If the US employed these criminals, then they were employees whose alternative was the hangman's noose. If US operatives treated these Nazis super-well, even deferring to their
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] J Taylor's Gold Tech Stocks newsletter interviews Blanchard CEO Don Doyle
-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- 8:10p ET Sunday, January 4, 2003 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Once again GATA's great friend Jay Taylor has produced what might well be considered a state paper in the gold business -- a comprehensive interview with Blanchard Co. CEO Donald W. Doyle about Blanchard's increasingly successful antitrust lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase and Barrick Gold. The interview, published in the December 15, 2003, edition of J Taylor's Gold Technology Stocks newsletter, has been posted, with Taylor's generous permission, at GATA's Internet site here: http://www.gata.org/latest.html In the interview Doyle lucidly explains the Blanchard suit, its relation to the similar lawsuit brought by Reg Howe with GATA's support, and the case's importance to all gold investors and all those who believe in free markets. GATA once again is deeply grateful to Taylor for his devotion to the gold cause. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. To subscribe to GATA's dispatches, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RECOMMENDED INTERNET SITES FOR DAILY MONITORING OF GOLD AND PRECIOUS METALS NEWS AND ANALYSIS Free sites: http://www.jsmineset.com http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com http://www.mineweb.com/ http://www.gold-eagle.com/ http://www.kitco.com/ http://www.usagold.com/ http://www.GoldSeek.com/ http://www.capitalupdates.com/ http://www.goldenbar.com/ http://www.silver-investor.com http://www.thebulliondesk.com/ http://www.sharelynx.com/ http://www.mininglife.com/ http://www.financialsense.com http://www.goldensextant.com http://www.goldismoney.info/index.html http://www.howestreet.com http://www.depression2.tv http://www.moneyfiles.org/ http://www.howestreet.com http://www.minersmanual.com/minernews.html http://www.a1-guide-to-gold-investments.com/euro-vs-dollar.html http://www.goldcolony.com http://www.miningstocks.com http://www.mineralstox.com http://www.321gold.com Subscription site: http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/ http://www.hsletter.com Eagle Ranch discussion site: http://os2eagle.net/checksum.htm COIN AND PRECIOUS METALS DEALERS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED GATA AND BEEN RECOMMENDED BY OUR MEMBERS Centennial Precious Metals 3033 East 1st Ave. Suite 403 Denver, Colorado 80206 www.USAGold.com Michael Kosares, Proprietor US (800) 869-5115 Canada 1-800-294-9462 European Union 00-800-2760-2760 Australia 0011-800-2760-2760 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colorado Gold 222 South 5th St. Montrose, Colorado 81401 www.ColoradoGold.com Don Stott, Proprietor 1-888-786-8822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Investment Rarities Inc. 7850 Metro Parkwa Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425 http://www.gloomdoom.com Greg Westgaard, Sales Manager 1-800-328-1860, Ext. 8889 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitco 178 West Service Road Champlain, N.Y. 12919 Toll Free:1-877-775-4826 Fax: 518-298-3457 and 620 Cathcart, Suite 900 Montreal, Quebec H3B 1M1 Canada Toll-free:1-800-363-7053 Fax: 514-875-6484 http://www.kitco.com Lee Certified Coins P.O. Box 1045 454 Daniel Webster Highway Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054 www.certifiedcoins.com Ed Lee, Proprietor 1-800-835-6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Miles Franklin Ltd. 3015 Ottawa Ave. South St. Louis Park, Minn. 55416 1-800-822-8080 / 952-929-1129 fax: 952-925-0143 http://www.milesfranklin.com Contacts: David Schectman, Andy Schectman, and Bob Sichel Resource Consultants Inc. 6139 South Rural Road Suite 103 Tempe, Arizona 85283-2929 Pat Gorman, Proprietor 1-800-494-4149, 480-820-5877 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiss America Trading Corp. 15018 North Tatum Blvd. Phoenix, Arizona 85032 http://www.buycoin.com Dr.
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] By 'addressing the consequences,' does Greenspan mean meddling in other markets?
-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- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Buy 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. /FONTA HREF=http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511;BClick Here!/B/AFONT COLOR=#99 /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/WfTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- 8:04p ET Sunday, January 4, 2003 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Great minds probably soon will be dissecting the speeches given Saturday at the conference of the American Economic Association in San Diego by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Fed Governor Ben Bernanke. These guys approach the truth in public only indirectly, but maybe the key remark Saturday was Greenspan's congratulating his central bank for having gotten away with running U.S. interest rates down so low for so long rather than pop the U.S. stock market bubble by raising rates, which might have popped the U.S. economy too: There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful. Exactly how has the Fed been addressing the bubble's consequences? Greenspan wasn't so clear about that, but GATA might suggest that it has been accomplished by surreptitious intervention in other markets, as by suppressing the gold price through central bank gold leasing and derivatives and suppressing long-term interest rates and certain commodity prices through derivatives. This might explain why Greenspan has opposed greater regulation of derivatives -- for such regulation and the publicity that would come with it might send the Fed back to influencing the economy by conventional monetary means. In any case, Greenspan's remark about addressing the consequences does seem to acknowledge more or less the central bank's intent to intervene unconventionally all over the place. See what you think. The full text of Greenspan's speech can be found here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040103/default .htm The full text of Bernanke's speech can be found here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200401033/defaul t.htm And a very good Reuters story about the San Diego conference is appended. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. * * * Greenspan Defends Stock Market Bubble Policy http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml? type=businessNewsstoryID=4068885 By Kevin Krolicki SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3 (Reuters) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Saturday that policymakers have been proven correct in their decision not to try to prick a 1990s stock-market bubble that subsequently broke on its own. There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful, Greenspan told the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego, Calif. Greenspan cited the exceptionally mild nature of the eight-month 2001 recession despite a series of shocks to the economy that included plunging stock prices, the Sept. 11 attacks, corporate scandals and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In defending the Fed's tactics, Greenspan said if the Fed had stepped in to curb stock prices by raising rates, it might have done damage to the entire economy in the process. Stock prices collapsed in early 2000, wiping out trillions of dollars of investors' wealth. Now in his 17th year as chief of the U.S. central bank, Greenspan stressed that sound policymaking requires
[CTRL] Conventional Wisdom Was Correct - Neocons and Bush Wrong
-Caveat Lector- The untold remarkable story is how a small bunch of crazed ideologues were able to capture control of American Foreign Policy and bring the nation to war against all the predictions of the Washington Establishment. I guess it is the old story. Once you control the brain of the King, the Kingdom will follow. So much for our 'constitutional republic'. flw washingtonpost.com Foresight Was 20/20 By Jackson Diehl Monday, January 5, 2004; Page A17 The Bush administration has been hammered for failing to anticipate or plan for the many problems of postwar Iraq or to set aside the money to pay for them. Its spokesmen insist, as they did before the war, that there was no way of knowing in advance what challenges might come up and what it might take to meet them. Yet, looking back at what Washington's foreign policy community expected from an intervention in Iraq, it's striking how much of the trouble the U.S. mission now faces was accurately and publicly predicted. On my desk is a pile of more than a dozen studies and pieces of congressional testimony on the likely conditions of postwar Iraq, prepared before the invasion by think tanks of the left, center and right, by task forces of veteran diplomats and area experts, and by freelancing academics. The degree of consensus was remarkable: Iraq's reconstruction would be long and costly, violence was likely and goodwill toward the United States probably wouldn't last for long. Who could have foreseen the Sunni insurgency that is slowly bleeding U.S. forces? Well, for one, Amatzia Baram, a well-known expert on Iraq. In a paper included in a survey published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in September 2002, Baram predicted that U.S. soldiers would represent an ideal target for underground Baath cells, al Qaeda terrorists, Shiite fundamentalists. The United States, he concluded, would be on the horns of a dilemma. If it evacuated its military forces soon after toppling Saddam, it would be unable to ensure the new regime's stability. If U.S. troops remained in Iraqi cities, however, they would be in harm's way. Phoebe Marr, another leading specialist on Iraq, also warned of a nationalist backlash. In six months or a year, she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 10 days before the war, some opposition [will] surface. She added: This presents us with a dilemma, and we will have to make tradeoffs. To get real political and social change -- a constitutional regime, for example -- will take time. But the longer we stay, the more we risk generating national resentment and opposition. The resistance might not now be so great, of course, if the occupation administration had not dissolved the Iraqi army -- an error that several of the pre-war studies warned against. The army could serve as a guarantor of peace and stability, said one commission chaired by former ambassadors Edward P. Djerejian and Frank G. Wisner. The army ought to be downsized and revamped . . . but this ought to be done gradually and without deliberately humiliating its members, counseled the International Crisis Group. Nor, it turns out, was it so hard to predict how much the war would cost or how many troops might be needed. A Council on Foreign Relations task force report cited a range of 75,000 to 200,000 U.S. soldiers; there are 130,000 there now. Former State Department official James Dobbins stressed in a footnote that this is not a commitment America alone can long sustain. As for costs, most of the independent estimates fell between $100 billion and $200 billion; William D. Nordhaus of Yale published a widely quoted study predicting direct costs of $150 billion to $740 billion over 10 years. So far, the Bush administration has committed to spend more than $160 billion in the first two years. It's not that these predictions weren't heard inside the administration; some were echoed by the State Department's own postwar Iraq project. But the small group of Pentagon civilians who monopolized control over the occupation chose to ignore the expert opinion -- they were more swayed by Iraqi exiles, who insisted the country could be rapidly transformed if only existing institutions, such as the army, were completely dismantled. L. Paul Bremer, who took charge of the Coalition Provisional Authority in June, confessed that until his appointment he had been absorbed by his private-sector career and hadn't read most of the Iraq studies. It's not too late to listen to some of the advice. The most serious problems foreseen by the experts have not yet materialized but may do so this year. One is the drive of the Kurdish leadership to acquire more territory and autonomy than the rest of Iraq can tolerate, which could touch off a civil war or foreign intervention. Another is the danger that an Iraqi provisional government will be created too quickly, causing it to be perceived as a U.S. puppet. Summing up the Washington Institute's collection of papers, Patrick
[CTRL] Slavery By Bankers And Debt - How We Can Break Free!
-Caveat Lector- Resources for Community Currency Activists http://www.communitycurrency.org/resources.html Community Currencies http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/ An Example: Guernsey's Monetary Experiment Ardeshir Mehta [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: THIS is how we can break free of the clutches of the Mammonites, who control our every move by constantly forcing us into greater and greater debt. This is how we can break free of SLAVERY! http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/Guernsey.html [QUOTE] GUERNSEY'S MONETARY EXPERIMENT by Louis Even Guernsey is a small island located in the English Channel. An Anglo-Norman population. This island is located closer to the French coast than to the English one. At the close of the Napoleonic wars, the island, like several other countries, was in pitiful condition, both physically and financially. No money Sea walls, roads, markets were needed. There was no manpower shortage. But there was no money to pay for these works. The money used by the people on the Island was the money from England, the pound sterling. But, like after any war, the financiers were calling back the money advanced to finance the slaughter, and the pounds sterling were very scarce everywhere. The Island had an autonomous government, the States of Guernsey. So it had the rights inherent in all sovereign government, among other rights, that of regulating the volume of money in circulation in the country. But, no more than any other country, the States of Guernsey had thought of exercising this sovereign prerogative. An intelligent governor The Island was especially in need of a new market house, and a committee was set up to take care of it. The committee went to see the governor to explain the situation to him : We need a new Market, but we have no money to build it. With what material are you going to build a market? asked the governor. With stone and wood. Do you have it in the island? Certainly, and in plenty. Do you have workers? Yes again. But it is money that is lacking. Could not your parliament issue the money? asked the governor. A new idea! This idea had never occurred to the committeemen, who had never analysed the money question. They knew where to get money when there was some: but they never wondered where money begins or can begin. The method of taxing when there was money was quite familiar. But the method of infecting the money that is lacking, and of taxing only after, was something new to our administrators. ISSUES OF NATIONAL CURRENCY An estimate of the cost was prepared and the States printed the money required, which was paid to those who either worked on the project or furnished materials for it. As the new currency was paid out into circulation among the people, exchanges were being expedited. The wage-earners went to the shopkeepers, the shopkeepers went to the producers, the producers bought enough to increase their production. The currency was accepted everywhere. The government took measures against inflation by decreeing hat money would be withdrawn by taxes, so it does not accumulate. And, in fact, the money was retired on schedule by taxes. But, as the increasing activity required a corresponding volume of money, other issues were brought out by the government for other works. On October 12, 1822, the new Market House was completed and opened. Not a penny of public debt on this public enterprise. THE BANKERS INTERVENE At the time of the original issue, there was no bank upon the Island. This explains, without doubt, why there was no opposition to the issue of State money. But ten years after the first issue, the Island had become so prosperous, thanks to the activity allowed by a sufficient volume of money, that the banks of England had an eye on this island. English bankers set up branches in the island and brought the population around to orthodox rules. It was unsound. They said, to let the government finance its enterprises without getting into debt. The bankers did everything to stop further issues, to introduce the system of interest-bearing loans to the government, and to withdraw from the island the State money that had been paid out into circulation. There was some resistance, but the bankers won their point, with their usual methods; and on October 9, 1836, the States of Guernsey had abdicated their sovereign prerogative over the control of the volume of money. From then on, the amount of the national currency decreased gradually, and was replaced by money issued by private bankers in the form of loans getting the island into debt. Nevertheless, there is still about 40 000 pounds sterling ($200 000) of national currency outstanding at this date in the Island. (According to Gertrude M. Coogan in Money Creators, published in 1935). WHY A FINANCIAL PROBLEM? As we can see, with natural resources, workers, and a bit of common sense, there is no financial problem. But when shrewd exploiters want to regulate economic activities
[CTRL] evidence for MPD/DID and trauma/DID, sex slaves, Iraqi prisoners abused
-Caveat Lector- also has : 3 soldiers discharged for prisoner abuse - Detainees in Iraq were repeatedly kicked, military says scroll for news articles from Backlash_ology One brain, two selves. Reinders AA, Nijenhuis ER, Paans AM, Korf J, Willemsen AT, den Boer JA. Neuroimage 2003 Dec; 20(4):2119-25. "The anatomical localization of self-awareness and the brain mechanisms involved in consciousness were investigated by functional neuroimaging different emotional mental states of core consciousness in patients with Multiple Personality Disorder (i.e., Dissociative Identity Disorder [DID]). We demonstrate specific changes in localized brain activity consistent with their ability to generate at least two distinct mental states of self-awareness, each with its own access to autobiographical trauma-related memory. Our findings reveal the existence of different regional cerebral blood flow patterns for different senses of self." Department of Biological Psychiatry, Groningen University Hospital, The Netherlands Developmental neurobiology of childhood stress and trauma. Teicher MH, Andersen SL, Polcari A, Anderson CM, Navalta CP. Psychiatr Clin North Am 2002 Jun; 25(2):397-426, vii-viii. "Severe early stress and maltreatment produces a cascade of events that have the potential to alter brain development. The first stage of the cascade involves the stress-induced programming of the glucocorticoid, noradrenergic, and vasopressin-oxytocin stress response systems to augment stress responses. These neurohumors then produce effects on neurogenesis, synaptic overproduction and pruning, and myelination during specific sensitive periods. Major consequences include reduced size of the mid-portions of the corpus callosum; attenuated development of the left neocortex, hippocampus, and amygdala along with abnormal frontotemporal electrical activity; and reduced functional activity of the cerebellar vermis. These alterations, in turn, provide the neurobiological framework through which early abuse increases the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity, borderline personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and substance abuse." Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] from L Moss Sharman - Setting Precedent - Jeff Rud Times Colonist 1/4/04 "During the next few months, 18 suspected members of the Serbian Mafia will go on trial in Sarajevo for allegedly trafficking in human sex slaves forcing young girls from countries such as Moldavia, Ukraine and Hungary into service in the brothels and nightclubs of Bosnia." http://www.canada.com/victoria http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3878877p1=0 3 soldiers discharged for prisoner abuse - Detainees in Iraq were repeatedly kicked, miitary says The Associated Press 1/5/04 KUWAIT CITY - The U.S. Army discharged three soldiers for abusing prisoners at a detention center in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday. Three soldiers, all from Pennsylvania, were scheduled to face court martials this month but opted instead to submit to a nonjudicial hearing, in which their conduct was judged by a commander without a jury, Lt. Col. Vic Harris said. Brig. Gen. Ennis Whitehead III, the acting commander of the 143d Transportation Command, found the three soldiers had maltreated prisoners at Camp Bucca, southern Iraq, on May 12. He demoted two of the soldiers and ordered that all three forfeit their salaries for two months. All three were also discharged. The general found that Master Sgt. Lisa Marie Girman, 35, of Hazelton, Pa. knocked a prisoner to the ground, "repeatedly kicking him in the groin, abdomen, and head, and encouraging her subordinate soldiers to do the same," Harris said. Girman received an "other-than-honorable conditions" discharge. Staff Sgt. Scott A. McKenzie, 38, of Clearfield, Pa., was found to have dragged a prisoner by his shoulders and then to have held his legs apart "and encouraging others to kick him in the groin while other U.S. soldiers kicked him in the abdomen and head," Harris said. McKenzie was also found to have thrown the detainee face-down to the ground and have stepped on "his previously injured arm." 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.
[CTRL] Who Was that Fat Lady?
Title: ConspiracyPenPal Newsletter -Caveat Lector- Who Was that Fat Lady? by Edgar J. Steele January 5, 2004 "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution" (1999) "They have treated me and others like me with utter contempt. They have confiscated our property and put people in maximum-security prisons over ownership of fender washers, claiming they were unassembled silencer parts. ... They have shot a man's wife in the head because his gun's buttstock was too short. ... They burned 90 people alive over a disputed two hundred dollar tax." -- John Ross, "Unintended Consequences" (1996) "It ain't over until the fat lady sings." -- Old Southern American saying (concerning church service) "It ain't over 'til it's over." -- Yogi Berra (1973) It's over. The fat lady has sung. Elvis has left the building. The great American experiment finally fizzled on December 1, 2003, when the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a 9th Federal Circuit decision which gutted the Second Amendment. It was a nice run - over two hundred years - but all good things must end...I guess...at least, that's what they say. We all know how saying nothing sometimes can be among the most profound of statements. Ask any husband. Nowhere is silence so profound as when offered by the Supremes. And, never has their silence been so overwhelming as on December 1, 2003. That's when the US Supreme Court issued its ruling, refusing to hear an appeal in the case of Silveira vs. Lockyer. That made Silveira the law of the land, you see. Here's the background, briefly: California's legislatively-crafted "assault weapon" ban was stronger than the national ban. Both bans essentially outlaw any rifle that looks like it means business, regardless of capability -- I kid you not, cosmetics really is the upshot of these bans. Silveira sued in a losing attempt to overturn the more-stringent California ban. Silveira unsuccessfully appealed up through the legal system to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Next stop: US Supreme Court, which now has "denied cert," which means it allows the ruling below to stand. Here's the real kicker, though. Silveira doesn't just nationalize the California definition of assault weapon. In Silveira, the 9th Circuit Court made the following pronouncement: there is no individual right to bear arms contained within the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. That means that no American citizen, since December 1, 2003, has a fundamental right to possess a firearm. You heard me right. You no longer have a right to own a gun. Mind you, here is the Second Amendment, in full: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Not just some people, but the people. You and me, in other words. And it's a fundamental (God-given) right, therefore the government can't mess around with it...ever. "Unalienable rights," was how the Declaration of Independence described these fundamental rights. Unless we let it. We just did, by tolerating this sort of behavior from our government. Mind you, the Ninth Circuit Court's judges didn't just come out and say you don't have a right to a gun. They did it in legalese: they merely "affirmed" a prior decision of their own, in which they said as much. So, the US Supremes affirm the ruling of a lesser court (by silence, thereby making it the law of America, nonetheless, because contrary rulings from other jurisdictions will not be tolerated), which affirmed its own prior ruling, which says you have no right to own a gun. Like thieves in the night, with stealth, the black-robed dictators steal your rights. All this silence and misdirection clearly tells you how they feel about what it is they are doing. Yet, they go ahead and do it anyway. And the average American is too stupefied to know any better...or, worse, care. No, it does get worse: many who care and understand actually applaud this result. The ground now has been set for blanket bans and confiscation. What? Cold, dead fingers, you say? Yeah, sure. When martial law is declared, hardly anybody will resist. What? Martial law never will be declared in America, you say? Yeah, right. Just wait until the next Reichstag Fireerterrorist event which occurs on US soil. The smart money is betting that happens within a month or two, by the way. Some will ask, "What's the big deal, anyway? Guns are no match for government munitions these days, anyway. Guns really are good only for hunting. Who needs hunting, with the Safeway just down the street?" Here's my response, which echoes that of America's founding fathers: The Second Amendment's guarantee of the individual's right to bear arms actually comprises the teeth of the Constitution; what enables us to
[CTRL] Suddenly Rush Limbaugh Is Concerned About Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- Suddenly Rush Limbaugh Is Concerned About Conspiracies http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/chuckwagon.html By Chuck Baldwin January 6, 2004 Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has seen the light, or maybe felt the heat. In either case, he suddenly realizes the consequences of living in a society where government agencies have unfettered access to personal information and where individuals have little or no constitutional protections. Welcome back, Rush. For years, Limbaugh has impugned, denigrated, and chastised any caller who dared bring up the subject of federal encroachment on individual liberties, calling them conspiracy nuts, or worse. He has had little patience for anyone who wanted to suggest that both political parties are trampling the U.S. Constitution and helping to create a gargantuan federal oligarchy at the expense of The Bill of Rights and personal freedoms. Suddenly, however, he is screaming that he is the victim of a (eeh-gads) conspiracy. The issue at hand is a criminal investigation into whether Limbaugh, who has been addicted to pain killers for years, violated the law by doctor shopping in an illegal bid to obtain a continuing supply of powerful drugs such as OxyContin, Hydrocodone, and Xanax. To obtain the needed evidence, authorities seized, by court order, Limbaugh's medical records. Rush is furious! He maintains his medical records should remain private and that he is being singled out because he is a popular conservative. Rush's inconsistency is massive! For years, his beloved Republican Party has collaborated with liberal Democrats to eviscerate The Bill of Rights, and he has fully supported them! Patriot Acts I II, the SS-style Department of Homeland Security and dozens of other measures have come into reality with Rush Limbaugh's complete and enthusiastic support! As a result of Limbaugh's (and other popular conservatives) endorsement, personal freedoms affirmed under The Bill of Rights have all but vanquished. Virtually any American citizen, not just those targeted by a left wing conspiracy, is capable of being victimized by this new federal monstrosity. So, where was Rush Limbaugh when this New World Order (George Bush, Sr.) was being constructed? He was either ignoring it or demonizing those who opposed it. If Rush was not concerned about people losing their 4th Amendment rights under The Patriot Act, why should people now be concerned about the loss of privacy regarding his medical records? What's good for the common goose should be good for the celebrated gander. The fact is, no American citizen's medical records are private anymore. Neither are our financial records, our phone calls, our emails, or our travel records. The feds have absolute and total access to virtually every piece of information about every single one of us! Furthermore, in the grand scheme of things, the loss of free speech (via phone taps, etc.) is far more egregious than Limbaugh's medical records. Historically, next to the preciousness of life, the freedom of speech has been held in the highest esteem by the laws of this country. No more! Today, America's federal laws more resemble those of Stalin's, Hitler's, or Mao's than they do those put in place by Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. And, until now, Rush Limbaugh has not objected. Suddenly, it's different! Now, Rush Limbaugh believes in conspiracies and is opposed to granting the federal government (or even state government, as in his case) access to personal information. It's amazing how one can change his tune when it's his own bacon in the fire! Unfortunately, it appears that the Limbaugh saga is a microcosm of America as a whole. It seems that until the American people are personally affected by the tyrannical laws that we allow our politicians (including Republicans) to pass, we seem oblivious to their danger. However, we should all realize that once we allow tyranny to take root, nothing short of revolution will stop it, and that what happened to Rush Limbaugh (and worse) will happen to every one of us. Therefore, how long will conservatives continue to support a Republican Party that facilitates such tyranny? Until they join Rush in jail, I suppose. © Chuck Baldwin 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.
[CTRL] Bush Sells Out US Workers To Lowest Bidder
-Caveat Lector- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top11jan05,1,5083321.story?coll=chi-news-hed Bush to Propose Immigration Law Changes By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent Published January 5, 2004, 8:15 PM CST WASHINGTON -- President Bush will propose immigration law changes to allow workers from Mexico to enter the United States if they have jobs waiting for them, officials said Monday in previewing an election-year measure intended to bolster support among Hispanic voters. Advocacy groups were invited to the White House on Wednesday to hear details of the program. "The president has long talked about the importance of having an immigration policy that matches willing workers with willing employers," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "It's important for America to be a welcoming society. We are a nation of immigrants, and we're better for it." Immigration advocacy groups characterized Bush's move as a politically drawn effort to curry favor with Hispanics, a potent political force, particularly in key states like Florida, California and border states. Two sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Bush would outline a set of principles rather than a detailed piece of legislation, and that the policy statement would draw on bills already pending in Congress. "It looks very much like a political effort and what they do with these `principles' is going to determine whether this is really a policy initiative or not," said Cecilia Munoz, vice president for policy at the National Council of La Raza. "The Latino community knows the difference between political posturing and a real policy debate." She said the initiative was crafted by Bush's political strategist, Karl Rove, and that the immigration policy community was excluded from the deliberations. "We know of no one in the immigration policy community, business groups or Latino groups who has been consulted," she said. Rove, with Bush at a campaign fund-raiser in St. Louis, deflected questions about Bush's proposal. "Stay tuned," he told a reporter. Bush's planned announcement comes five days before he meets in Mexico with President Vicente Fox on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, a meeting of the hemisphere's leaders. Mexico is seeking a measure of legality for the approximately 4 million undocumented Mexicans living in the United States and wants a legal way for others to work in the country in the future. Immigration talks between the United States and Mexico stalled when the Sept. 11 terror attacks prompted the United States to tighten border restrictions, and were set back further by Mexico's refusal to support the Iraq war. Tensions also arose over Bush's refusal to stop the execution of a Mexican national in Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, at a town hall meeting in Miami last month, hinted at a change of policy when he said the United States needs to "come to grips" with an estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal immigrants and "determine how you can legalize their presence." He also said that the immigrants should not be rewarded citizenship. Bush, at a year-end news conference in January, said he was preparing to send Congress ideas about an "immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee." He said he is "firmly against blanket amnesty," or a mass legalization. Two guest-worker bills have been proposed in Congress: One from Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain and two of McCain's Republican House colleagues, Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake; and a second from Sen. John Cornyn. Cornyn, a Texas Republican, has proposed that illegal immigrants could volunteer to work for up to three years if a job exists for them. When they've worked three years, they could apply for legal permanent residence, but must return to their country of origin to do so. Workers illegally in the United States would have 12 months to apply to the program and after that would no longer be eligible. Those accepted would be given a "blue card," allowing them to travel outside the United States. The Cornyn proposal would give guest workers the same rights granted Americans under Labor Department laws and would set up accounts for workers in which employers would deposit money drawn from workers' wages in lieu of withdrawing the money for Social Security or Medicare. The money would be held by the Treasury and would be refunded to the worker when the worker returns to his or her home country. 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
[CTRL] Credibility And Virginity
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040105/index.php Credibility And Virginity by Charlie Reese What President Bush does not understand (don't worry, I'm not going through the whole list) is that credibility, like virginity, cannot be recovered once it's lost. He thinks it's unimportant that he took the country to war based on the false claim that Saddam Hussein had amassed large amounts of chemical and biological weapons and was on the verge of handing them to terrorists. His attitude is: "Hey, what's your problem? We got rid of a bad guy." Well, the problem is that now any American who believes anything the Bush administration says without a ton of proof to back it up is a fool. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Like a lot of old sayings, it's a basic truth. Do you really think an administration that would lie about reasons for going to war won't lie to further its re-election efforts or to cover up other blunders? I know that for a lot of young people, Watergate and the Vietnam War are now "that real old stuff," as a baby sitter once described any history that had occurred prior to her puberty. But for many Americans of that generation, it was their first exposure to wholesale lying by the federal government. My own first exposure had occurred in the 1950s, when I caught the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a pack of lies about imported fire ants. So, do you think the Bush administration is telling you the truth about mad cow disease? I don't. The Bush administration says that the discovery of one case of mad cow disease poses a minimal risk. Well, what exactly is the minimal risk of a disease that is 100 percent fatal and incurable? "Minimal," when it comes out of the mouth of a bureaucrat, is a code word for acceptable. In other words, a few dead Americans are an acceptable price to pay for preserving a multibillion-dollar beef industry. That's fine, unless you happen to be one of the dead ones. If the risk is so minimal, why are they trying to recall all of the meat? They have told us that the most dangerous parts of a sick cow are the spinal cord and brain, and that these were "left out of the food chain." Do you think slaughterhouses debone cows with surgical precision? That'll be the day. The human form of mad cow disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD. Did you know there are about 300 cases of CJD in the United States every year? Did you know that clusters of CJD have occurred in: Pennsylvania in 1993, Florida in 1994, Oregon in 1996, New York in 1999-2000, and Texas in 1996? These cases were all classified as "sporadic," which sounds to me much more like semantics than science. Usually, clusters of disease are indicative of an environmental factor. Laura Manuelidis, section chief of surgery in the neuropathology department at Yale University, conducted a 1989 study that found that 13 percent of people who died after being diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease actually had died of CJD. "Now people are beginning to realize that because something looks like sporadic CJD, they can't necessarily conclude that it's not linked to mad cow disease," she told United Press International. There is no good tracking system for CJD, and obviously no good tracking system for cows with mad cow disease. Think about this: If you're a cattleman and you find a sick cow you suspect of mad cow disease, what is in your selfish interest: to report it and lose your whole herd or shoot it and bury it? If you're a bureaucrat in the USDA, what is in your self-interest: to tell the truth and have the agribusiness lobbyists howling for your scalp or to follow the administration line? I'm not saying that altruists don't exist, but they are rare birds in the human flock. As of now, hamburger I don't grind myself and all other processed meats are off the menu. I would advise you to take the same steps. Otherwise, one day, you might hear the president say: "Hey, what's your problem? We preserved the beef industry." There are some things I aspire to, but being part of the acceptable price for achieving somebody else's political and economic goals is not one of them. 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
