[CTRL] Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold11.html A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on the so-called Iraqi threat and then delivered it to top White House officials who used it to win support for a war in Iraq. More than a dozen calls to the White House, the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon for comment were not returned. The ad-hoc committee, called the Office of Special Plans, headed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and other Pentagon hawks, described the worst-case scenarios in terms of Iraq's alleged stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and claimed the country was close to acquiring nuclear weapons, according to four of the CIA agents, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the information is still classified, who conducted a preliminary view of the intelligence. The agents said the Office of Special Plans is responsible for providing the National Security Council and Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice and Rumsfeld with the bulk of the intelligence information on Iraq's weapons program that turned out to be wrong. But White House officials used the information it received from the Office of Special Plans to win support from the public and Congress to start a war in Iraq even though the White House knew much of the information was dubious, the CIA agents said. For example, the agents said the Office of Special Plans told the National Security Council last year that Iraq's attempt to purchase aluminum tubes were part of a clandestine program to build an atomic bomb. The Office of Special Plans leaked the information to the New York Times last September. Shortly after the story appeared in the paper, Bush and Rice both pointed to the story as evidence that Iraq posed a grave threat to the United States and to its neighbors in the Middle East, even though experts in the field of nuclear science, the CIA and the State Department advised the White House that the aluminum tubes were not designed for an atomic bomb. Furthermore, the CIA had been unable to develop any links between Iraq and the terrorist group al-Qaeda. But under Feith's direction, the Office of Special Plans came up with information of such links by looking at existing intelligence reports that they felt might have been overlooked or undervalued. The Special Plans office provided the information to the Pentagon and to the White House. During a Pentagon briefing last year, Rumsfeld said he had bulletproof evidence that Iraq was harboring al-Qaeda terrorists. At a Pentagon news conference last year, Rumsfeld said of the intelligence gathered by Special Plans: Gee, why don't you go over and brief George Tenet? So they did. They went over and briefed the CIA. So there's no there's no mystery about all this. CIA analysts listened to the Pentagon team, nodded politely, and said, Thank you very much, said one government official, according to a July 20 report in the New York Times. That official said the briefing did not change the agency's reporting or analysis in any substantial way. Several current and former intelligence officials told the Times that they felt pressure to tailor reports to conform to the administration's views, particularly the theories Feith's group developed. Moreover, the agents said the Office of Special Plans routinely rewrote the CIA's intelligence estimates on Iraq's weapons programs, removing caveats such as likely, probably and may as a way of depicting the country as an imminent threat. The agents would not identify the names of the individuals at the Office of Special Plans who were responsible for providing the White House with the wrong intelligence. But, the agents said, the intelligence gathered by the committee sometimes went directly to the White House, Cheney's office and to Rice without first being vetted by the CIA. In cases where the CIA's intelligence wasn't rewritten the Office of Special Plans provided the White House with questionable intelligence it gathered from Iraqi exiles from the Iraqi National Congress, a group headed by Ahmad Chalabi, a person whom the CIA has publicly said is unreliable, the CIA agents said. More than a dozen CIA agents responsible for writing intelligence reports for the agency told the former CIA agents investigating the accuracy of the intelligence reports said they were pressured by the Pentagon and the Office of Special Plans to hype and exaggerate intelligence to show Iraq as being an imminent threat to the security of the U.S. The White House has been dogged by questions for nearly a month on whether the intelligence information it had relied upon was accurate and whether top White House officials knowingly
[CTRL] Yale Paper Says Bush a Hypocrite on Cuba
-Caveat Lector- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com Yale Paper Says Bush a Hypocrite on Cuba Washington, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) US President George W. Bush is supporting the interests of elite businessmen who trade with the Island, while denying Cuban-American close connection with their relatives in Cuba, Bush's alma mater criticizes Wednesday. According to the Yale Daily News online, Bush should not allow US companies to trade with Cuba while he keeps Cuba-American families out, denying them the right to visit their loved ones in Cuba. At the same time Bush tightened the restrictions on travel for Cuban Americans with families on the Island, US agribusiness has profited from selling agricultural goods to Cuba. Bush severely restricted travel to Cuba by Cuban Americans, permitting only immediate family members to visit once every three years and, in an attempt to keep US currency from the Cuban economy, he tightened the rules on remittances, so Cuban Americans can now send only small sums of money to immediate family members. The administration"s policy is hypocritical, the university daily asserts. American food companies have grossed $243 million in food sales to Cuba. Why should large companies be able to sell millions of dollars of food to Cuba while Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba cannot help them? Cuban-Americans with relatives on the Island have the largest stake in the welfare of Cuba and should have the most rights to travel and send money according to their own judgment, the daily declares. The university paper points out that Warren Staley -with close ties to the Bush administration and a major supporter of Bush's 2004 presidential campaign- is chairman and CEO of Cargill, Inc., an American company that has pioneered in food sales to Cuba. Cargill has sold over 500,000 metric tons of food products to the Cuban state for tens of millions of dollars. In the first half of 2004 alone, Cargill grossed over $20 million in sales to Cuba. ile/ccs/ima *** Growing Challenges to Bush Cuba Travel Restrictions New York, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) Opponents of President Bush's Cuba travel and aid restrictions see hurricane damage as a fresh opportunity to go after Bush and other Republicans on an issue severely affecting Cuban-American and Cuban families, Tampa Tribune online published Wednesday. Bush limited Cuban visits to only close family members once every three years and sharply curtailed money and supplies that can be sent to the Island in order to economically suffocate the Cuban revolution as Cuban families feel the pain. In Washington, with budget legislation nearing approval this week, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill blocking travel limits and easing restrictions on business people trying to sell food and medical supplies in Cuba. Tampa Democratic Congressman Jim Davis filed an amendment to spending legislation that would allow Cuban-Americans visit their relatives every year without applying for a specific license, the newspaper reports. The sudden burst of activity coincides with recent damage to Cuba by hurricanes Charley and Ivan. Davis pointed out that his amendment would let Cuban-Americans make emergency trips beyond annual visits, the Tampa-based newspaper noted. "This isn't about politics," the congressman said, "This is about the fundamental right of family to visit each other. The hurricane is the most recent example of how important it is for families to be able to help families." Opposition to the Bush policy is growing, maintains Joe Garcia, a Cuban-American political authority and senior adviser to the New Democrat Network, according to the Tampa Tribune. "A significant percentage of Cuban-Americans think this policy is ridiculous," Garcia said. "The hurricane and everyday events in Cuba make it clearer and clearer that his policy is ludicrous." ile/ccs/ima/ Copyright (c) 2004 Prensa Latina, SA. All rights reserved. * Search the NYTr Archives at: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ To subscribe or unsubscribe or change your settings via the web, visit: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr = NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Do you Yahoo!? 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
[CTRL] George W Bush: The Dunce of Harvard Business School
-Caveat Lector- [President George W Bush's] former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar. See: The dunce of HBS was George W Bush http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=3243mode=threadorder=0thold=0 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Report Shows Cheney Went Abroad to Attack America
-Caveat Lector- ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:36:45 -0500 (CDT) From: The Daily Mislead Subject: Report Shows Cheney Went Abroad to Attack America To: undisclosed-recipients:; === THE DAILY MIS-LEAD www.Misleader.org === REPORT SHOWS CHENEY WENT ABROAD TO ATTACK AMERICA Vice President Cheney has regularly attacked the national security credentials of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), calling him weak on terrorism. But according to a new report, it was Cheney who actually did business with terrorist countries and traveled abroad to attack America's counter-terrorism efforts in the 1990s. As The American Prospect documents, Cheney oversaw Halliburton's effort to do business with Iraq and Iran in the 1990s, despite American sanctions against those countries. During his time as CEO, he oversaw Halliburton's $73 million worth of business with Saddam Hussein.[1] This, despite his claim that he had imposed a firm policy[2] of not doing business with Iraq. Similarly, details of Halliburton's Iran business during Cheney's tenure was so egregious, it is being investigated by authorities today.[3] Halliburton today admits one of its subsidiaries still performs between $30 [million] and $40 million annually in oilfield service work in Iran.[4] On top of evading U.S. sanctions laws against terrorist countries, Cheney actually attacked the U.S. government in a series of trips abroad, demanding sanctions be lifted on terrorist countries so he could do business with them. In trips to Malaysia and Canada, for instance, he insisted the Clinton administration lift sanctions on Iran, despite that country being listed by the U.S. State Department as a state-sponsor of terrorism.[5] You can see the full American Prospect piece at http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55997. Sources: 1. The Greed Factor, The American Prospect, 9/15/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55997. 2. Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said, Washington Post, 6/23/01, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55991. 3. Halliburton probed over Iran ties, CNN.com, 7/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55992. 4. Halliburton's Work in Iran Stirs Democrats, Washington Post, 7/21/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55993. 5. Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism, U.S. Department of State, 4/30/01, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55994. Visit www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion. ; === Subscribe to the Daily Mislead! Go to http://www.misleader.org and enter your e-mail address in the Receive the Daily Mislead box in the top-left corner of the page. To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with only the word remove in the subject line of your e-mail, or visit http://daily.misleader.org/unsubscribe/ and follow the instructions listed there. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Faster, Neocons! Kill! Kill!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10080.shtml Faster, Neocons! Kill! Kill! Commentary by Martin KellySeptember 16, 2004 Beginning in 1922, the British boys comics Wizard and Hotspur carried a story called The Wolf of Kabul. The Wolf, British intelligence agent Bill Sampson, was a typical end of Empire type, happiest when kicking ten bells out to the locals. He had an Afghan sidekick, Chung, whose weapon of choice was a cricket bat, which he called Clicky-ba. Chungs catchphrase after using lethal force was to say to The Wolf, Lord, I am full of humble sorrow I did not mean to knock down these men Clicky-ba merely turned in my hand. Clicky-ba was turning in the hands of neocon commentator Jed Babbin in a September 13th article called Did We Lose The War? in The American Spectator on the Web. I like TAS, think its a great site, second only to The Washington Dispatch. In the current difficult climate, it has the courage to publish the widest range of opinion of any conservative site affiliated to print media, with steady authors ranging from the sublime James Bowman to the ridiculous Babbin. Theyve published a lot of my letters, so I write this with some regret, as theyll probably never do so again. Babbin, a contributing editor of TAS and a contributor to the National Review Online, is a former functionary in the Bush I Pentagon and is or was a talking head for MSNBC. In this capacity, he patronised Bob and Wladys readers by referring to his broadcasting duties as being a talking warhead while describing himself on NRO as a military analyst. However, his climb up Rich Lowrys greasy pole has not yet gone so far that he has merited pop-up ads for either of the books hes written while Ive been reading him. The second sentence of the article was Were doing pretty well in the war against terrorists and the nations that support them. Therefore, a neocon betrays their belief that a state of war exists between America and any nation they believe supports terrorism. Do not expect peace any time soon. Ive written regularly about the immorality of the neoconservatives rapprochement with Gaddafi. Has he? From paragraph four Its awfully likely that we will see some large attack in the U.S. homeland before the election, because the terrorists want to affect the result. Classic neoconservative scaremongering. His idol, George W. Bush, has invested billions of dollars in Homeland Security, which seems to have paid off. There have been no attacks. There were no attacks during the primaries, none during the conventions. Why should Babbin think that the entire force of the Federal government will be unsuccessful in preventing an attack he is utterly confident will happen within the next few weeks? And to prevent that happening, why isnt he calling for the return of troops from Iraq to bolster security at home? And why does he think such a strong and powerful people as the Americans are so weak that they would let terrorists affect the outcome of their election? Does he think they are children? In paragraph five is a phrase that could be interpreted as meaning Babbin believes we arent killing Afghans quickly enough a still-too-slow decision process is delaying our hunter-killer teams Faster, Neocons! Kill! Kill! Feel the turn of Clicky-ba! On the efficacy of the Iraqi provisional government, from paragraph seven We should be doing much more to destroy the insurgency in Iraq, but we cant unless Allawi lets us. We are paying a high price for turning sovereignty back to the Iraqis too soon One could pick over that statement on several levels; all I will say is that it is the statement of a classical imperialist. On the stone in their shoes that is the country of Iran, from paragraph nine (His overly diplomatic comment meant that) Iran was running the al-Sadr insurgency and had become one of the principal obstacles to freedom in Iraq. Two principal observations firstly, does the fact that the British government has been accused of using Basra as cover for building links with the mullahs qualify us as one of those nations that support terrorists; and secondly, the real obstacle to freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the willingness of neoconservatives to agree to Sharia law as a source for both those countries new constitutions. As a result of their failure to demand totally secular states, both of those countries will fail again. It is only a matter of time. From paragraph 11, while discussing North Korea John Kerry said he wants America to be respected, not feared. Sorry, Johnnie. I prefer feared. How they love the power of fear, a power developed by their spiritual grandfather Trotsky when he wielded the might of the Red Army. The last sentence of the article is, well, just read this Our October surprise should be a big nasty one for Iran. One does not know whether to mock or pity such a
[CTRL] A Piece Of Work
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040917/index.php A Piece Of Work by Charley Reese It was 1996, and Bill Clinton was president. To give the rascal his due, he was laboring mightily to make the Middle East peace process work. That same year, three Jewish-American neoconservatives produced a policy paper for the newly elected Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The neocons were Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser. Their policy paper recommended to Netanyahu that he abandon the peace process, reject "land for peace" and strengthen Israel's defenses in order to confront Syria and Iraq. The document said, "This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right." It also recommended that Israel use pretexts for pre-emptive attacks. Now, if all of this sounds familiar and it should that's because Perle, Feith and Wurmser joined other neocons in the Bush administration. Perle was especially vocal in pushing the war on Iraq. They had two pretexts: the attack of Sept. 11, even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with it, and the mythical weapons of mass destruction. Netanyahu, by the way, did abandon the peace process. And, at a cost of $200 billion and nearly 1,000 American lives, Israel did achieve its "strategic objective in its own right" removing Saddam from power. Unless Perle and his buddies were paid for their advice, it didn't cost Israel one shekel or one life. Furthermore, if you stretch your memory, you will recall that until Iraq blew up in its face, the Bush administration was laying the groundwork to attack Syria, the other country Perle and his crowd named as a target for Israel. It has already imposed sanctions on Syria despite the fact that, according to our own intelligence people, Syria had been cooperating with the war on terror. The other target of the Israelis excuse me, the Bush administration is Iran. If you want more details on these neocons, I recommended "Secrets and Lies," by Dilip Hiro, a distinguished Middle East scholar, and James Bamford's "A Pretext for War." When President Bush first started talking about terrorism, he use to say "terrorists with global reach" to distinguish between al-Qaida and strictly local outfits with local agendas. That did not suit the Israelis and their American supporters. They wanted Israel's enemies to be our enemies, and so the distinction was soon dropped, and Israel's enemies were added to the official list of terrorist organizations. The problem is that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are Palestinian organizations fighting for independence. True, they have used terrorist tactics, just as the Jewish organizations the Stern Gang and the Irgun did when they were fighting British occupation of Palestine. But their target is the Israeli occupation, not us. Hezbollah is a Lebanese organization that has also used terrorist tactics, including attacks against Americans in Lebanon when it figured we were helping the Israelis in their occupation of Lebanon. But there again, its quarrel is with Israel. I have long since given up the hope that Americans would wake up and resent the manipulation of their government by a foreign country. The Israeli lobby has been so successful in labeling any criticism of Israel, no matter how justified, as anti-Semitic that most Americans prefer to stick their heads in the sand. For sure, American politicians and much of the media seem to be terrified by the Israeli lobby, which says more about their cowardice than it does about the power of the lobby itself. So, suit yourself. Go ahead and spend American blood and treasure for the benefit of Israel. Just remember, the United States has one, and only one, legitimate interest in the Middle East, and that is buying oil that everybody who has it wants to sell. It doesn't matter whether we buy it from a dictator (we bought plenty from Saddam) or from a democratic government. It doesn't matter to us if the country that sells us oil likes or hates Israel. This whole mess, including the war in Iraq and the terrorist attacks, is a result of the American government's involvement with Israel. It's a dangerous and unhealthy state of affairs that will not be cured until Americans find the courage to have an open and honest debate about our foreign policy in the Middle East. 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 ABLE>
[CTRL] NEW PROOF BUSH SNORTED COCAINE
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=62344 - NEW PROOF BUSH SNORTED COCAINE George W. Bush While President George W. Bush's spokespeople are denying the allegation in Kitty Kelley's new book that Bush used cocaine, an ENQUIRER investigation has tracked down others who are making similar bombshell charges! One source, author Toby Rogers, said a former member of George Bush Sr.'s staff revealed to him that George W. used cocaine and "has been out of control since college." The issue that goes on sale Friday explores Kelley's charge that George W. did cocaine at Camp David while his father was President, that First Lady Laura Bush sold marijuana in college ... and much more. Published on: September 17, 2004 To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">
[CTRL] Fwd: Liafax [EN] N. 38
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/16/04 5:15:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3675 02/09/2004 SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA THE WAR ON DRUGS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington has given Colombia two and a half billion dollars during the past four years, mainly for purchase of anti-drug enforcement hardware. Up to now, Congress has turned a blind eye on human rights abuses, but if that should change, the bilateral collaboration might be diminished. To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">---BeginMessage--- Title: LIAfax - eNewsletter -Caveat Lector- Sign the appeal to reform the UN Conventions on Drugs e-Newsletter on the world campaign for the reform of the UN Conventions on Drugs #.38 - YEAR II - 15 September 2004 Published in NEWS FROM THE IAL :_ ITALYThe declarations of Vice Premier Gianfranco Fini [of the far-Right Alleanza Nazionale -- translator's note] during a meeting of the Catholic Action group, and those of Under-secretary Alfredo Mantovano during an Alleanza Nazionale festival, both airing their support of newly proposed drug law reforms, have raised the following comments:- Daniele Capezzone, Radicali Italiani secretary: With the new law, imprisonment would be certain for possession of a mere six or seven joints of cannabis. I'm addressing my appeal to the intelligence of the police sniffer dogs, which is clearly superior to that of our prohibitionist mentors both on the right and on the left.- Marco Cappato, secretary of the Luca Concioni Association: We must see to it that the drug question won't end up in the same quagmire as in-vitro fertilisation. - Alessandro Caforio, president of www.antiproibizionisti.it: Fini has the right to speak, but let him remember that his words are like stones that he is hurling at the citizens and the voters, even against his own supporters.- Giulio Manfredi, Radicali Italiani National committee: This is a proposal waved around solely for propaganda purposes. There'' be opposition, just like at the time of the referendum of 1993. NEWS FROM THE WORLD :_ 3670 08/09/2004NORTH AMERICA (California)POLITICSDRUGPOLICY.ORGDrug Policy Alliance has tabled three proposed laws for Governor Schwarzenegger's consideration: for the curtailment of abuse of anti-drug tests, for the sale of sterile syringes without doctor's prescription, and for restoring several social welfare benefits to those convicted of drug crimes. 3676 03/09/2004EUROPESWITZERLANDSTATISTICSNEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNGThe figures for 2002 on out-patient emergency services for addicts show that risky behaviour is returning among heroin users. Heroin intake by injection is on the increase, now at 44% against the previous reading of 36%, as is needle-sharing, now at 6.6% against 3.3%. 3672 07/09/2004NORTH AMERICAU.S.A. (Minnesota)THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPupils of Milwaukee high schools smoke more cannabis than their peers elsewhere in the nation: thus a study by the Federal Centre for the Control and Prevention of Disease. Twenty-nine per cent admit to using the
[CTRL] Khashoggi, Fayed, De Morenschildt, Bush Family
-Caveat Lector- (J Khashoggi, Fayed, De Morenschildt, Bush Family(B (J(B (Jhttp://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg76885.html(B (J(B (J... Adnan Khasggoi was a frequent visitor to Edwin Pauley's island in(B (JHawaii, Coconut Island. Pauley was chairman of the Democratic Party in the(B (Jearly 1960s. Pauley had a direct line to the White House and was listed(B (Jfour times in 1954-55 in George de Mohrenschildt's phonebook. Pauley ran an(B (Joil company in 1960 which was a CIA front with George H.W. Bush for the(B (JCIA's Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Zapata.(B (J(B (JMohamed Al Fayed has the power of attorney to the Sultan of Brunei, one of(B (Jthe richest men in the world. All of these men, including George H.W. Bush(B (Jhad contacts to many sources in the Arab world. In 1953 both Bush Sr. and(B (JFayed were working with Singer Sewing Machine company and both were in(B (Jbusiness with George de Mohrenschildt, Fayed in 1964, Bush in the 1950s.(B (JBoth Fayed and Bush have ties to the Central Intelligence Agency and to(B (JBritish Intelligence. Bush Sr. had worked with [Hussein] and Ban Ladin who(B (Jwere trained by the Central Intelligence Agency(B (J(B (JBruce Campbell Adamson(B (JP.O. Box 1003(B (JAptos, CA, 95001(B (J--(B (Jhttp://www.spitfirelist.com/lecture.html(B (J(B (J... George Sr.'s close connections to Oswald handler and probable Nazi spy(B (JGeorge de Mohrenschildt. (In the Company of Friends, by Anthony L. Kimmery,(B (JCovert Action Information Bulletin, Issue #41, Summer 1992.)(B (J-(B (Jhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdemohrenschildt.htm(B (J(B (JGeorge De Mohrenschildt(B (J(B (JGeorge De Mohrenschildt, the son of a wealthy noble, was born in Russia on(B (J17th April, 1911. After the Russian Revolution his father, Sergius Alexander(B (Jvon Mohrenschildt, was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks. In 1921 he was sent to(B (JSiberia but managed to escape with his family to Poland. His wife died soon(B (Jafterwards from typhoid fever.(B (J(B (JWhile a young man De Mohrenschildt left Poland and after travelling around(B (JEurope. He later claimed that he was involved in a pro-Nazi plot to kill(B (JJoseph Stalin. De Mohrenschildt reached the United States in 1938. The(B (JBritish intelligence services warned the American government that they(B (Jsuspected that De Monrenschildt was working for German intelligence.(B (J(B (JDe Mohrenschildt went to work for the Shumaker company in New York. He(B (Jworked under Pierre Fraiss who was connected with French intelligence. De(B (JMohrenschildt agreed to collect information on people involved in(B (J"pro-German activity". In 1939 he went to work for Humble Oil, a company(B (Jfounded by Prescott Bush.(B (J(B (JIn 1941 De Mohrenschildt went to work for his cousin, Baron Maydell, and his(B (Jcompany, Film Facts, in New York. Maydell was also known to have pro-Nazi(B (Jsympathies. During this period he made a documentary about the resistance(B (Jmovement in Poland. He also failed in his attempt to join the Office of(B (JStrategic Services (OSS).(B (J(B (JAfter the Second World War De Mohrenschildt settled in Dallas where he(B (Jworked for the oil millionaire, Clint Murchison. During this period he got(B (Jto know Jackie Kennedy.(B (J(B (JRuth continued to live in Irving and at a party in February, 1963 she was(B (Jintroduced to Marina Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald by George De(B (JMohrenschildt. On 24th April, 1963, Marina and her daughter went to live(B (Jwith Ruth Paine. Lee Harvey Oswald rented a room in Dallas but stored some(B (Jof his possessions in Ruth Paine$B".(Js garage. Ruth also helped Oswald to get a(B (Jjob at the Texas Book Depository.(B (J(B (JIn October, 1962 De Mohrenschildt became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald in(B (JFort Worth. He suggested that Oswald should move to Dallas. In February,(B (J1963 he introduced Marina Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald to Ruth Paine. On(B (J24th April, 1963, Marina and her daughter went to live with Paine. Oswald(B (Jrented a room in Dallas but stored some of his possessions in Ruth Paine$B".(Js(B (Jgarage. Ruth also helped Oswald to get a job at the Texas Book Depository.(B (J(B (JIn 1963 De Mohrenschildt moved to Haiti. After the assassination of John F.(B (JKennedy De Mohrenschildt was recalled to America to testify before the(B (JWarren Commission. He was asked about the claim of Marina Oswald that he(B (Jknew about Oswald's attempt to kill General Edwin Walker. After giving(B (Jevidence he returned to Haiti.(B (J(B (JDe Mohrenschildt returned to the United States in 1977. He approached Edward(B (JJay Epstein complaining that he was short of money. Epstein offered him(B (J$4,000 for an interview. During their talks De Mohrenschildt admitted that(B (Jin 1962 he had been contacted by J. Walton Moore,
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] This is why an Iron fist can never make free people secure.
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- Title: This is why an Iron fist can never make free people secure. -Caveat Lector- Report: Bribes Got Bomb Suspects on Planes By MARIA DANILOVA MOSCOW (AP) - Russian authorities believe that two Chechen women suspected of blowing up Russian passenger jets last month got on the planes by paying bribes, media reports said. Both were detained and handed over to a police officer, who let them go, the Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov as saying. The women had arrived at the airport the evening of Aug. 24, accompanied by two other Chechens, Ustinov told Interfax. ``Police officers spotted them, confiscated their passports and handed them over to a police captain responsible for anti-terrorism operations to examine their belongings,'' he was quoted as saying in the Wednesday report. ``The captain let them go without any check, and they started to try to obtain tickets in the same buildings.'' It is not unusual for Chechens to be stopped by police in Moscow for questioning. One of the alleged suicide bombers used an intermediary to pay $34 to a Sibir airlines employee to board a jet, even though she had a ticket for a flight the next day, Interfax quoted Ustinov as saying. She got on the plane two minutes before check-in closed, he said. The same intermediary also took a bribe from the other alleged suicide bomber to get on a Volga-Aviaexpress flight, he said. Ustinov said both the intermediary and the Sibir airline employee have been arrested. The two planes crashed almost simultaneously on the night of Aug. 24 after taking off from Moscow's Domodyedovo airport, killing 90 people. Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said laboratory tests of the wreckage of the Sibir Tu-154 and the Volga-Aviaexpress Tu-134 confirmed the explosions that brought down the two planes both occurred in passenger cabins, reinforcing the suspicion that the two Chechen women were suicide bombers. He said explosive residue and information from the planes' flight data recorders pointed to an explosion in the main cabin. One of the women had purchased a ticket for a flight scheduled the next day but - after paying the bribe - got on the earlier flight two minutes before check-in closed, Ustinov said. The crashes were the first in a series of recent attacks that have killed more than 430 people. On Aug. 31, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Moscow subway station, killing 10. The next day, dozens of heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages at a school in southern Russia, which led to the deaths of more than 330 people, many of them children. Female suicide bombers have become increasingly common in Russia, where they are known as ``black widows'' - women who turn to violence after losing husbands or male relatives in Chechen fighting. Russia's Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported Wednesday that Russian security services have been searching for about 20 women allegedly recently trained by extremist Islamist underground cells to commit suicide terrorist attacks. 09/16/04 02:46 Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. -- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865 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
[CTRL] Fwd: michael moore sacrifices for KERRY
-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- Michael Moore is making a sacrifice in NOT going for the oscar for documentary he EASILY has sewn in a bag...by tv.airing his documentary. CUZ he wants KERRY TO WIN. Feels tv viewership would put Kerry over the edge. -he wrote--- Why I Will Not Seek a Best Documentary Oscar (I'm giving it up in the hopes more voters can see Fahrenheit 9/11) 9/6/04 Dear Friends, I had dinner recently with a well-known pollster who had often worked for Republicans. He told me that when he went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 he got sodistraught he twice had to go out in the lobby and pace during the movie. The Bush White House left open a huge void when it came to explaining the war to the American people, he told me. And your film has filled that void -- and now there is no way to defeat it. It is the atomic bomb of this campaign. He told me how he had conducted an informal poll with Fahrenheit 9/11 audiences in three different cities and the results were all the same. Essentially, 80% of the people going IN to see your movie are already likely Kerry voters and the movie has galvanized them in a way you rarely see Democrats galvanized. But, here's the bad news for Bush: Though 80% going IN to your movie are Kerry voters, 100% of those COMING OUT of your movie are Kerry voters. You can't come out of this movie and say, 'I am absolutely and enthusiastically voting for George W. Bush.' His findings are similar to those in other polls conducted around the country. In Pennsylvania, a Keystone poll showed that 4% of Kerry's support has come from people who decided to vote for him AFTER seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 -- and in an election that will be very close, 4% is a landslide. A Harris poll found that 44% of Republicans who see the film give it a positive rating. Another poll, to be released this week, shows a 21-point shift in Bush's approval rating, after just one viewing of the movie, among audiences of undecideds who were shown Fahrenheit 9/11 in Ohio. My pollster friend told me that he believes if Kerry wins, Fahrenheit 9/11 will be one of the top three reasons for his election. Kerry's only problem, he said, is how many people will actually be able to see it before election day. The less that see it, the better for Bush. But 20 million people have already seen it -- and the Gallup poll said that 56% of the American public has seen or plans to see Fahrenheit 9/11 either in the theater or on home video. The DVD and home video of our film, thanks to our distributors listening to our pleas to release it before November, will be in the stores on October 5. This is very good news. But can it also be shown on TV? I brought this possibility up in this week's Rolling Stone interview. Our contract with our DVD distributor says no, it cannot. I have asked them to show it just once, perhaps the night before the election. So far, no deal. But I haven't given up trying. The only problem with my desire to get this movie in front of as many Americans as possible is that, should it air on TV, I will NOT be eligible to submit Fahrenheit 9/11 for Academy Award consideration for Best Documentary. Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical release (fiction films do not have the same restriction). Although I have no assurance from our home video distributor that they would allow a one-time television broadcast -- and the chances are they probably won't -- I have decided it is more important to take that risk and hope against hope that I can persuade someone to put it on TV, even if it's the night before the election. Therefore, I have decided not to submit Fahrenheit 9/11 for consideration for the Best Documentary Oscar. If there is even the remotest of chances that I can get this film seen by a few million
[CTRL] Fwd: Press Reports on US Casualties - About 17,000 Short: UPI
-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- 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- Breaking News and CommentaryfromCitizens for Legitimate GovernmentSeptember 16, 2004 http://www.legitgov.org/ Alllinks to articles as summarized below are available here: http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Please contribute today, forSeptember expenses!! We need donations to continue. Thank you. http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short, UPI Says --Nearly 17,000 service members medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports commonly cited by newspapers, according to military data reviewed by United Press International. Two GOP leaders attack Iraq policy --Lugar and Hagel cite slow pace of reconstruction --Two leading Republican legislators yesterday attacked the Bush regime's approach to rebuilding Iraq, in one of the strongest indictments of the regime's Iraq policy from members of Dictator Bush's party. Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, addressing two of the State Department's point men on Iraq, said the pace of reconstruction has been ''beyond pitiful. It's embarrassing. It is now in the zone of dangerous." Kerry Accuses Bush of Hiding the Truth About Iraq --Senator John Kerry accused Dictator Bush today of "living in a fantasy world of spin" about Iraq and hiding the truth from the American people and the country's men and women in uniform. U.S. Weapons Inspector: Iraq Had No WMD --Drafts of a report from the top U.S. inspector in Iraq conclude there were no weapons stockpiles, but say there are signs the fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had dormant programs he hoped to revive at a later time, according to people familiar with the findings. Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan --The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal. Huge blast rocks Baghdad --A huge explosion has been heard in central Baghdad, where a gunbattle has been raging for several hours. A plume of grey smoke was seen rising from an unknown target near the Tigris close to Haifa street. Dozens killed, wounded in US air strike --At least 16 people were killed and 25 wounded in overnight strikes by the US air force near the city of Falluja in the al-Anbar province, Iraqi hospital sources said. Several strikes on the village of Zoba, some 7kms south of the city of Falluja, demolished 13 houses, the sources and witnesses said early on Friday morning. U.S. Says Kills 60 'Foreign' Fighters in Iraq Strike --U.S. warplanes bombed rebel targets near the restive Iraqi city
[CTRL] Another CONJURELLA story...
-Caveat Lector- Conjurella DDT: Cold War Warriors Comic Book Truth by T. Casey Brennan Kepp on dreaming I sont become psycho case please. -- Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan who replaced Benazir Bhutto, on reading the notes for Conjurella DDT, complete with his original spelling, in an e-mail from Pakistan to T. Casey Brennan, on January 3, 1998. This is the story of the assassins. This is the story of the cold war soldiers of AIDS. This is the story of Conjurella DDT. This is the story of hope. I said in Conjurella that I started school in September of 1953. But I may have been a little late that month. I know I was in the Yale, Michigan hospital with asthma in September before either my first of second year in school, I think both. Mama and Daddy loved DDT. But Daddy hated farming. It was sometime around then that we got rid of all the cattle on our eighty acres of farmland in Emmett or Avoca, we weren't sure which, because it was just out in the country, and they'd change the postal address on us. But it was sometime around then, I think, before I started school, that Mama and Daddy got into DDT. I mean, really into it. I was born on August 11, 1948, in a hospital in Port Huron, Michigan. The doctor that delivered me was Dr. Pollack, you know, like former Michigan State Senator Lana Pollack. Later on, Mama and Daddy took me to the railroad bridge in Beard's Hills on M-136, past Avoca, going toward the highway that leads to Port Hope. That was where Dr. Pollack tried to jump off, and kill himself. He knew about MK-ULTRA. Mama said he said: Oh, God, to bring a baby into the world to suffer so. Oh God, to bring a baby into the world to do that. And then he jumped. But he only broke both his legs. He was never the same after that, they said. After I wrote Conjurella, I remembered more about the Old Covered Bridge meeting with David Ferrie. After David Ferrie scared us, after they raped Aunt Bonnie (I only made up the name Conjurella to call her; she never called herself that), her daughter Linda (I only made up the name Glinda to call her in Conjurella, to make it like a fairy tale, a Ferrie tale), says: They're going to make us shoot John Kennedy. That was how long they were after him. And she did. I saw her. After the voices, after they lifted me up, after I initiated the firing that killed the President, they led me groggily into the hall. And I saw that fleeting glimpse of Linda once again. David Ferrie had braced the rifle to the window. I know that, because I threw myself to the floor after firing the first shot. With the heel of my hand, I tried to push the rifle out the window. I was willing to die for her; I was willing to die for my secret friend. But this is the story of Conjurella DDT. This is the story of the cold war soldiers. Sometime in the early 1950s, Daddy got the idea that the pine trees on our eighty acres had to live. He got big cannisters of DDT, wirh sprayers on them. And then he took me and Mama back to the woods with them. I'm not sure David Ferrie wasn't involved. He said tell all this if they killed him. I am. I'm not sure how old David Ferrie was. I don't look in any books before I write the Conjurella stuff; maybe after, but never before. But I think he was an assassin in World War II, maybe a child assassin, for the O.S.S. I think I remember Aunt Bonnie saying something about them, but I don't know any more. Anyway, Daddy was worried about the pine trees dying from these worms that got on them every year. There were little worms on the pines, that lived in big silken tents that looked like spider webs. Mama and Daddy made me go back with them, with the DDT. I don't know how many trips I took with them like that. My eyes burned and wept blood, I wheezed and gasped, my head was light, and all my skin hurt. Finally, I said: Mama and Daddy, I can't stand any more DDT. I can't go back to spray trees with DDT any more. And they didn't make me again. But that wasn't my last exposure to DDT. My cancer observations, too, may be 'out of reckoning', but they have brought me safely through a dark, uncharted water, where more than once my craft has 'grazed the edge of foreign shores'. -- Edna Kaehele, founder of the anti-cancer group, Fear Fighters, in Living with Cancer, Doubleday Company, Inc., 1952 The hardiest individualist I know...is Casey Brennan, a three-year old friend from Avoca, Michigan. -- Edna Kaehele, Training the Family Dog (Chapter Seven), Lantern Press, 1953. The O.S.S. was so bad, we should have fought with the Nazis just to stop them. And I'm a Jew. -- Conjurella In 1953, after Linda told me what we'd have to do, I said, Who is John Kennedy? Little girls are always smarter than little boys. She said: A Senator. I asked What's a Senator? I don't remember
[CTRL] C.R.E.S.T. A couple of quotes worth remembering (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.info-quest.org My ICQ# is 79071904 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:21:04 - From: quicksilverdime [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: C.R.E.S.T. A couple of quotes worth remembering Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. -- Heinrich Himmler This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! -- Adolph Hitler Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT click here [rand=466973934] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheCrest/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [ai-teaching-machine] MIT - OCW - CNN - ?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:04 PM Subject: [ai-teaching-machine] MIT - OCW - CNN - ? It could spoil the whole scam of educational corporate greed to give away higher education! The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 9 President Vest of MIT told Charlie Rose that MIT's $100,000,000 OCW venture would do what Michael Sayler of Microstrategy had failed to do. Michael Sayler's goal was stated as that of providing an ivy-league quality education to anyone in the world who wanted in and was qualified, irrespective of ability to pay. So far MIT has not delivered and the comment of a POC spokesman to David Diamond of Wired magazine stands: It is the biggest boondoggle in educational history. What we are starting with AI-TEACHING-MACHINE will do what MIT failed to do, at least to the extent of one demonstration college level course. See http://www.geocities.com/AI TEACHING MACHINE The point is this: Unless you actually take the course materials to the learning student, and apply them in a form from which the student can learn, you have given nothing of educational value to the student. Free course materials mean nothing without free courses. For $100,000,000 MIT could and should be delivering FREE courseware directly to the student. Can MIT graduates spell B-O-O-N-D-O-G-G-L-E? Now if CNN wants to help global education, why not advertise POC's educational offering as above? Netizens who just want to add 1,000+ words of technospeak to their vocabulary are welcome to participate as well as students planning a career in computing science. Keep up with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will at least be a smarter consumer and citizen of the new techno-democracy. POC http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:36 AM Subject: The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 9 The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: September 2004 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare The September 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. 900 Courses Now Available! 2. MIT OCW Featured on CNN 3. Digging Deeper: Course 15.040 4. A Frequently Asked Question 5. Comments 6. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm 1. 900 Courses Now Available The MIT OpenCourseWare Team is pleased to announce that 200 more courses have been published to bring the total number of courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu to 900, 905 to be exact! This publication is very significant as it represents the halfway mark to MIT's publicly stated goal of 1800 courses published by 2008. Today's publication represents a significant achievement for people across the Institute who worked with the MIT OCW Team over the last six months, including the MIT Libraries, MIT's department heads, and most importantly, MIT's remarkable faculty. More than half of MIT's faculty -- 540 of 950 -- have now voluntarily participated in MIT OCW, and we know that MIT OCW would not be succeeding were it not for the faculty's dedication to MIT's institutional mission and belief in the promise of openly sharing their materials through OpenCourseWare. We are pleased to call your attention to the following new MIT courses. When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate courses recently published: Aeronautics and Astronautics (link to department course list) 16.30 -- Estimation and Control of Aerospace Systems, Spring 2004 16.337J -- Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems, Fall 2003 16.422 -- Human Supervisory Control of Automated Systems, Spring 2004 16.652 -- Inventions and Patents, Fall 2003 16.812 -- The Aerospace Industry, Spring 2004 Anthropology 21A.212 -- Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism, Spring 2004 21A.230J -- The Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004 21A.240 -- Race and Science, Spring 2004 21A.336 -- Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization, Spring 2004 21A.340J -- Technology and Culture, Fall 2003 21A.441 -- The Conquest of America, Spring 2004 Architecture 4.132 -- Architecture Design, Level III: Cuba Studio, Spring 2004 4.173 -- Digital Mock-Up Workshop, Spring 2004 4.183 -- Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop, Spring 2004 4.184 -- Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form, Spring 2004 4.212 -- Design Fabrication, Spring 2003 4.240J -- Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City, Fall 2002 4.411 -- Building Technology
[CTRL] Fwd: Marc Cooper Red Baits Peter Camejo
-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- Marc Cooper Red Baits Peter Camejo By Alex Constantine Marc Cooper -- the Nation-KPFK pundit who is forever scrutinizing the Left for signs of communist influence to publicize and cluck his tongue over -- noted in a June 21 Internet posting, entitled Nader's Nadir, that Peter Comejo, Ralph Nader's running mate, was, in the '60s, sponsored by the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Even as he insists he¹s capable of peeling off substantial numbers of disgruntled Republican voters, Cooper writes, Nader nevertheless tapped Peter Camejo, a Green Party honcho with an exclusively leftist appeal, as his VP choice today. Peter Camejo, Cooper spat, has been a dusty fixture on the radical left for literally decades. Back in the sixties, Camejo ran for president on the ticket of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Camejo got 5% of the vote as the 2002 Green Party candidate for California Governor. Last fall he ran again in the recall election but by the end of the race was mostly polishing the apples of doomed Democratic candidate Cruz Bustamante. The rest of us recall that Peter Camejo was the sole voice of rationality in the recent California governor's race. Nader couldn't have shown more integrity in his selection of a running mate. Camejo spoke eloquently against the war in Iraq, villified war profiteers and blind Pentagon idealogues for sacrificing the lives and interests of the country in the pursuit of illicit geopolitical and economic gains, while the other candidates performed in an embarassing parade of whorish marionettes. Indeed, in his youth, Peter Camejo's name was tied to the SWP. Cooper, who echoes the Birchite rhetoric of the Cold War -- the Bureau claimed falsely in 1975, before the Pike Commission, that the Socialist Workers' Party had intimate ties with the Fourth International (Pike Report, p. 171) -- fails to mention that the SWP was a very clean organization. According to the Pike Report, published in 1977, the SWP has avoided illegal and potentially violent confrontations with the authorities during any sort of civil protest. Nevertheless, this had no apparent impact of 34 years of productive spying. Party members, Camejo told Pike's investogator's, were even forbidden by the SWP to smoke marijuana. The bureau had no incriminating information on Camejo or the Party whatsoever (Pike, p. 172) -- despite tight surveillance of their activities. The bureau apparently formulated a philosophy, in this case, to justify their investigation, Pike's commission observed. Considerable resources have been allocated to compound the error. For instance, he FBI's Internal Security agents engaged in a massive intelligence operation to undermine the SWP. Landlords and fellow employees of SWP members were interviewed. The FBI, Pike reported, also maintained intensive surveillance of most, if not all, of the SWP's 2500 members. In their attempts to discredit the SWP, Hoover's agents engaged in tactics that were undeniably as Stalinist. But Cooper has an axe to grind with an organization that even Hoover found to be blameless, forcing the beefy, criminalized director of the Bureau to render his groundless Fourth International smear. As Cooper himself notes, Camejo's past is obscure to most of us. But KPFK's own Prince of Darkness has dredged it up, without elaboration, as if a 40-year-old alliance has the slightest bearing on the 2004 election race, and somehow marginalizes Nader. In his criticism of the running mate, he borrows the rhetoric of a David Horowitz or Sean Hannity. Yet again, Cooper engages in Red baiting, and we can only ponder his motives. No one else in the press is making an issue of the candidate's Trotskyist past. Why does Cooper, who can find Camejo's past ties, fail to point out Bush's ties to any number of
[CTRL] John Gray's Earthly Mother Knew Marshall Applewhite
-Caveat Lector- (J John Gray's Earthly Mother Knew Marshall Applewhite(B (J(B (Jhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/women_rebuttal_from_uranus/yawn1.ht(B (Jm(B (J(B (J" ... mentioning Marshall Applewhite. IJ, IJ, IJ, IJ. So John says this guy(B (Jwent into his mother$B".(Js bookstore and that consequently she knew him ..."(B (J(B (J (BLet us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. (B (BArchives Available at: (B (Bhttp://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (BA HREF=""ctrl/A (B (BTo subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: (BSUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B (BTo UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: (BSIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B (BOm (BE="2">(B
[CTRL] THE RISE OF THE ROUGH BEAST
-Caveat Lector- Of course, the idea that the world should be run by secret societies went down particularly well with...well, secret societies. Consequently, many of them adopted Synarchist principles. In fact, Saint-Yves' ideas transformed the esoteric underground of Europe, particularly France. Some of the greatest figures in subsequent occult history were devotees of Saint-Yves, which is not surprising because occultists, with their love of hierarchy, tend to be naturally totalitarian and unegalitarian. See: THE RISE OF THE ROUGH BEAST http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1457 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] September 17th a day to remember......
-Caveat Lector- Pay No Attention to This Day by Harry Browne September 17, 2003 This day isn't important. There are far more significant days in the year: Labor Day, when we pretend to care about other people's jobs while frolicking at the beach. Election Day, when we pretend we're making a difference by voting. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Susan B. Anthony Day, when we pretend to be politically correct. Memorial Day, when we pretend that we live in a free country because of all the people who were killed in the government's senseless wars. Flag Day, when we pretend the government is America. Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day, when we pretended that World War I made the world safe for democracy). National Teachers Day, when we pretend our children are getting an education. Earth Day, when we pretend that making the government more powerful will make the environment cleaner. United Nations Day, when we pretend to believe all those inane statements about world peace. Today doesn't seem to come anywhere near those days in importance. You see, today is supposed to be Constitution Day. And no one really cares about the Constitution anymore. What It Was The Constitution was supposed to spell out what government can do and what it can't do. The government's few legal functions are listed in Article 1, Section 8. It was a revolutionary document, in that no government in history had ever had its duties and restrictions so carefully defined. Despite frequent violations of the Constitution by the government, the document did its job reasonably well for the first hundred years - making America the freest country in history. As late as 1887, when Congress passed a bill providing federal relief to drought-stricken Texas farmers, Grover Cleveland vetoed it, saying, I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. But that was about the last gasp for limited, Constitutional government. Because the Constitution wasn't self-enforcing, it depended on the good intentions of politicians - something Thomas Jefferson specifically warned against in 1798 when he said, In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Michael Cloud put it more succinctly in recent years: The problem isn't the abuse of power, it's the power to abuse. So long as the politicians have the power, they'll abuse it. And the Constitution was intended to prevent the politicians from getting the power to abuse. The Transformation But by the end of the 1800s, too many Americans had lost their fear of government and politicians. The introduction of government schools had made it almost certain that most children would never learn the importance of binding down government with the chains of the Constitution. And so government was transformed in the public mind from a necessary-but-dangerous evil into the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else, as Frdric Bastiat described it. More and more, the Constitution became a political toy, to be tossed about, invoked, ignored, or misrepresented - whatever suited a given politician's agenda at any given moment. The income tax amendment in 1913 hammered the final nail into the coffin of limited, constitutional government. Now the politicians had not only the authority, but also the unlimited revenue, to do whatever they wanted. It seems very, very unlikely, for example, that Americans would have been dragged into World War I if the government hadn't had the unlimited revenue to finance it. Even the Bill of Rights - which eliminates all ambiguity by spelling out specific things the government may not do - was relegated to second place behind the needs of politicians. By the first World War, the Supreme Court had decided that the words Congress shall make no law... don't really mean that Congress shall make no law... They mean only that the government must have a compelling interest in doing something. Not surprisingly, the government employees on the Court almost always decide that the government does have a compelling interest. Where Do We Go from Here? Those conservatives who still care about the Constitution say that it should be taught in the schools. As though government employees will emphasize the original purpose of the Constitution in restraining government. Instead, they'll give snap quizes on such weighty questions as How many years in a Senator's term? or Who appoints the Supreme Court justices? If the American people are to learn the importance of limited, Constitutional government, we have to teach them ourselves. But people aren't interested in academic lectures on constitutional government. They're far more interested in their own lives - and rightly so. That's why repealing the federal income tax is our best tool. We can offer them the reward of never paying income tax again in
[CTRL] Fw: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] UN's Illegal War
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 5:18 PM Subject: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] UN's Illegal War The US does not like losing wars. Vietnam would probably be a much happier and wealthier country today if it had lost the Vietnam War. Anan should talk about illegal wars. The UN has more blood on its hands than any country despite its hypocritical rhetoric. Wasn't it the Belgians who tore up their blue berets when they returned home after having their comrades slaughtered by UN incomptency? Incompetency either feigned or deliberate. What happened to General Dallaire, one of Canada's military heros? The UN destroyed his mental health with its incompetency. Who could tell what Blix was up to except for treachery? Blix/UN were responsible for the misinformation which caused the Iraq War. The iffy statements they kept issuing about WMDs would have made anybody doubt ... Bush and the CIA did doubt. Then they acted. What else would Blix and the UN have expected? Dallaire said to saturate Iraq with UN inspectors and that would prevent war. But the UN and Blix had convinced Saddam that war was inevitable so Iraq did not do the one thing which could have prevented war. The UN keeps war and misery going. How else could pompous buffoons like Anan find employment? Now let's think like Dallaire on military strategy. In Rwanda he said, First we put the people we are here to protect in safe places we can defend for a while. He realized that the soccer stadiums of Rwanda would do the job. Then we fight it out with the combatants and WIN, he said. The UN would let him do neither. OK, now in Iraq, the US could fight the war city-by-city. For each city the citizens are first told they must leave for a safe place ... a UN tent city. If they stay they will be treated as enemy combatants unless they are hostages. Then the US military sends in tele-robotically controlled machines to fight in the streets. When the US wins the city, the surrendering soldiers are relocated to an internment camp prior to rehabilitation and release. Also under UN control to assure humane treatment. The civilians return to the city from the UN camp. The perimeter of the pacified city is guarded by US military. And the war is taken to the next city. POC http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens - Original Message - From: Smacko To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:11 AM Subject: [HumanRobotics] Pentagon seeks ideas to fight 'urban' wars Pentagon seeks ideas to fight 'urban' wars By Jennifer Harper, Washington Times September 12, 2004 Urban-canyon flying vehicles, persistent staring reconnaissance and perching machines may one day prove the weapons of choice among American troops doing battle in dim city streets far from home. That is, if someone comes up with a workable design. A public call for ideas to help soldiers on the unpredictable, unorthodox urban battlefield has been issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA -- the unabashedly inventive arm of the Defense Department that specializes in revolutionary, high-payoff research, according to its mission statement. DARPA is looking for what it calls force multipliers in 11 separate disciplines, seeking ways to bolster the smaller numbers of U.S. forces commonly on patrol in the likes of Fallujah or Kabul. The official solicitation offers a wish list of futuristic technology, which includes devices that literally can see through walls or perhaps spirit a soldier out of a hazardous position. Systems of interest include capabilities to detect and characterize personnel and equipment in severe urban clutter and through external and internal building walls; flying/perching machines able to carry and operate communications and sensor payloads; survivable urban-canyon flying vehicles, the DARPA notice says. An initial round of proposals already has arrived, said DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker. She would not comment on the nature of the offerings to date, other than to note, We're very satisfied with what we've received so far. The agency is prepared to offer initial grants ranging from $50,000 to $400,000 to potential suppliers who think they have the right stuff for an urban battlefield. Some of the specifications from the DARPA notice sound like they're from science fiction, but the agency considers them all emerging asymmetrical warfare countermeasures. Among other innovations, the group is keenly interested in sensor devices that discriminate combatants from non-combatants, or detect the presence of rocket-propelled grenades, crude improvised explosives or the odd weapons of suicide fighters. DARPA would like to see troops defeat their urban enemies with a minimal disruption of the besieged
[CTRL] The MexiChurian Candidate?
-Caveat Lector- Home Previous Story Next StoryView Comments Post a Comment Send This Page The MexiChurian Candidate? AR Articles on Pandering Politicians Fade to Brown (Apr. 2003) Neo-Con Games (Mar. 2002) Its Race, Stupid (Jan. 2001) Recent news items on Pandering Politicians Fire Dreier Rally Draws Hundreds Of Protesters (September 17) Supervisors Fund Water For Entrants; Day Dissents (September 9) Minority Enterprise Development Week, 2004 (September 7) More articles on Pandering Politicians Brenda Walker, VDARE.com, Sep. 15 [VDARE.COM note: September 16 is Mexican Independence Day and its being celebrated in the United States, where a large chunk of the Mexican population lives. There are two things that you might want to know about. One is the Mexican Independence Day Voter Registration Drive thats taking place in Watsonville, California. That is, theyre registering to vote in U.S. elections. The other is the Mexicans across the U.S. gathered at their local consulates and sang the somewhat bloodthirsty Mexican national anthem. Another missed opportunity for the Border Patrol!] VDARE.COM congratulates Mexico on its Independence Day, September 16. We think the U.S. should have one too! George W. Bush loves Mexicans. He never misses an opportunity to praise them by extolling their qualities of family values and hard work. One of his favorite campaign lines for Hispanic audiences is Family values dont stop at the Rio Grande. At least he doesnt say Rio Grande River. Usually. Typical is this radio address from May 5, 2001 In the United States, Im happy to say, were putting old fears and quarrels behind us. We know that we must protect the integrity of our border, yet we understand how that border can be viewed from the other side, as the gateway to better wages and a better life. Ive often said that family values dont stop at the Rio Grande. The best way to have a stable border is better opportunity in both our nations, opportunity built by trade and education and freedom. In fact, of course, its a typical overclass delusion that their Mexican servants have particularly strong family values. And, while family values may not stop at the Rio Grande, the United States of America does. A neutral observer would have to say that Bush simply prefers Mexicans to Americans. When there is a policy decision to be made that helps Mexicans to the detriment of Americans, George W. Bush consistently advances the Mexican agenda. As our countrys leader, Bush should be our number one advocate and protector. But he listens to the beat of another drummerone wearing a sombrero. Mexico has never had a stronger patron in the White House. He is the MexiChurian candidate. Heres an incomplete list of his thoughtful solicitude: Bush offered up a full amnesty refrigerator amnesty policy in January, proposing that all willing workers, understood to be mostly Mexican, could be hooked up with willing employers. The idea was fuzzy on details like how such a monumentally bureaucratic program could be run effectively, or honestly. But Bush wants to come across as a big picture sort of guy, not bogged down in wonky minutiae. Bush has been gung ho for opening Americas highways to Mexican trucks even after the terrorist attacksdespite the obvious ease by which a largish nuke could be hauled from Mexico to anywhere in the United States. NAFTA trucking has been hanging around since the main trade agreement was passed in 1993, but Bill Clinton was convinced to postpone it by labor and groups like Public Citizen because of the threat to American trucking jobs and highway safety. Bush backed off from the proposed US-VISIT program, hailed last spring as a national security breakthrough because of its biometric identification (scanned fingerprints) for frequent border crossers, when el Presidente Fox complained about Mexican dignity being affronted by new ID procedures. Bush has made no effort to get Mexico to extradite killers and other serious criminals who have harmed Americans and escaped across the border. Mexico remains a sort of national park in which hundreds of thugs who would face capital punishment or life imprisonment in the U.S. can gambol freely. Bush supports Mexican illegal aliens receiving Social Security payments after working only six quarters. Bush has made no attempt to collect on Mexicos water debt of 1.3 million acre-feet, which has severely burdened Texas farmers. Bush has pushed for the easily forged standard ID for illegal aliens, the Mexico-issued matricula card, to be more widely accepted for governmental and banking uses. Back in the Cold War, Washingtons favorite foreigners were Cubans, given the propaganda value of thousands of Hispanic boat people struggling to reach capitalism and apple pieso dramatic on television. (Even today the Cubans retain at least one residual goody which other illegal aliens do not getthe wet foot,
[CTRL] The shots of war
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/17/news_pf/Floridian/The_shots_of_war.shtml Weather | Sports | Forums | Comics | Classifieds | Calendar | Movies The shots of war Cristina Kutz thinks the anthrax vaccinations that she and other troops must undergo devastated her health. Her complaints are not unique, but doctors don't back her up.By SUSAN ASCHOFF, Times Staff WriterPublished September 17, 2004 RIVERVIEW - Cristina Kutz spends too many hours in these silent rooms with the beige walls endemic to starter homes in the Tampa suburbs. She is apprehensive about leaving. She fears her body will betray her. She eats like an anorexic. Food turns on her, unleashing nausea and diarrhea. She always is tired but cannot sleep. She takes almost a dozen pills, from immunosuppressants to antidepressants, every day. She used to be strong. She was Senior Airman Cristina Kutz, who tracked dozens of Air Force pilots and ground crew at Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle, charting their training and readiness for battle. Suddenly, the members of her squadron were no longer rehearsing. They were ordered to the Middle East on the eve of the Iraq war. Before leaving, they prepared for an enemy they could not see: Viruses and bacteria that Saddam Hussein threatened to unleash in lethal clouds upon the battlefield. Kutz, like some 300,000 others ordered to the war zone, was vaccinated against anthrax. In the last decade, hundreds of troops insist the anthrax vaccine made them sick. Hundreds more have refused the shots, risking court-martial. Medical experts say it is safe. But the experts cannot definitively exempt the vaccine for a host of health problems reported by servicemen and women. Kutz believes the anthrax vaccinations ravaged her health, making her too weak to work, too precariously well to venture out of her house most days. She thinks the U.S. government discounts her concerns that the anthrax vaccinations made her unfit to continue as one of its soldiers.That's an order More than 1.2-million troops have received anthrax vaccinations since 1998. In March, a year after the invasion of Iraq, the Department of Defense extended anthrax vaccinations to troops bound for South Korea, in addition to those deployed to the Middle East and Asia. Some soldiers, citizens and congressmen questioned the need for the mandatory vaccinations. Since the mid 1990s advocacy groups have urged the Defense Department to stop them. "The use of a vaccination which appears to have the potential for serious health consequences for our troops in an effort to counter a threat that may not exist seems to unnecessarily expose our troops to risk," wrote Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. At least 400 troops have refused the shots. More than 100 have been court-martialed for defying an order since mandatory vaccinations for active-duty personnel and reservists resumed in 1998, according to government documents and congressional hearings. Hundreds more who got the vaccine blame it for chronic illnesses, from joint and muscle pain to debilitating fatigue, leukemia to blindness. "There's no question the symptoms are real, but there's no scientific connection to anthrax (vaccine)," says Dr. Richard Lockey, director of the University of South Florida's division of Allergy Clinical Immunology. "For the troops, we want them protected," says Col. John Grabenstein, deputy director for military vaccines for the Army's surgeon general. "We can't protect against artillery fire, but we can do this."Maybe it's the food On Nov. 15, 2002, two months before traveling to the Middle East, Kutz received her first anthrax vaccination. She read warnings on the Internet that the shots were unsafe. "I remember wondering, "Why would these wusses refuse the vaccine?' I remember our commander telling us not to be babies." Looking back, the now 23-year-old Kutz finds omissions that give her pause. They received no briefing on health issues. There was no distribution of package inserts, which list dozens of possible side effects, from minor swelling to death. The needle burned into her upper right arm. The next day, the site was sore and swollen, with a lump the size of a golf ball, Kutz says. She was nauseous. Her head ached. The flulike symptoms disappeared in a week but the golf ball remained. On Dec. 13, she got a second shot in her left arm. No rash this time, but the same lump. Her stomach ached. She vomited. She suffered with diarrhea marked by mucus and blood, and heavy menstrual bleeding. Kutz decided she should get no more shots. But an incomplete series - the schedule calls for three anthrax vaccinations in one to two months and three more within 18 months - would mean she could not deploy. She received the third vaccination on Jan. 22, 2003. By February, the 15th Special Operations Squadron was overseas at a hastily
[CTRL] Report Shows Bush Neglecting Hunt for al Qaeda
-Caveat Lector- === THE DAILY MIS-LEAD www.Misleader.org === REPORT SHOWS BUSH NEGLECTING HUNT FOR AL QAEDA In the months after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush promised America he would make the hunt for al Qaeda the number one objective of his administration. [We] do everything we can to chase [al Qaeda] down and bring them to justice, Bush said. That's a key priority, obviously, for me and my administration.[1] But according to a new report, the President has dangerously underfunded and understaffed the intelligence unit charged with tracking down al Qaeda's leader. The New York Times reports Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency has fewer experienced case officers assigned to its headquarters unit dealing with Osama bin Laden than it did at the time of the attacks. The bin Laden unit is stretched so thin that it relies on inexperienced officers rotated in and out every 60 to 90 days, and they leave before they know enough to be able to perform any meaningful work.[2] The revelation comes months after the Associated Press reported the Bush Treasury Department has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's financial infrastructure.[3] It also comes after USA Today reported that the President shifted resources from the bin Laden hunt to the war in Iraq in 2002. Specifically, Bush moved special forces tracking al Qaeda out of Afghanistan and into Iraq war preparations. He also left the CIA stretched badly in its capacity to collect, translate and analyze information coming from Afghanistan.[4] That has allowed these terrorists to regroup: according to the senior intelligence officials in July of this year, bin Laden and other top al Qaeda leaders are now directing a plot to carry out a large-scale terror attack against the United States and are overseeing the plan from their remote hideouts somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.[5] Sources: 1. President Calls for Ticket to Independence in Welfare Reform, WhiteHouse.gov, 5/10/02, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55675. 2. C.I.A. Unit on bin Laden Is Understaffed, a Senior Official Tells Lawmakers, New York Times, 9/15/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55676. 3. More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden, Common Dreams News Center, 4/29/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55677. 4. Shifts from bin Laden hunt evoke questions, USA Today, 3/28/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55678. 5. Officials: Bin Laden guiding plots against U.S., CNN.com, 7/08/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1435098l=55679. Visit www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion. ; === Subscribe to the Daily Mislead! Go to http://www.misleader.org and enter your e-mail address in the Receive the Daily Mislead box in the top-left corner of the page. To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with only the word remove in the subject line of your e-mail, or visit http://daily.misleader.org/unsubscribe/ and follow the instructions listed there. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
