[CTRL] Fwd: Conservatives skeptical on 9/11, Bush
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Robert Lederman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 4:45:47 AM PDTTo: "Robert Lederman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Conservatives skeptical on 9/11, Bush http://www.arcticbeacon.com/page/page/1518131.htm---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.734 / Virus Database: 488 - Release Date: 8/6/2004 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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] Day Two of Gary Webb's Dark Alliance
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Daniel A.Feder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 5:51:08 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [narconews] Day Two of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance"Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] June 28, 2005Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,Today, Narco News publishes part II of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series. The series returns this week to the Internet in its original, groundbreaking format after years offline.In reports filed for the August 19 edition of the San Jose Mercury News, Gary Webb looks back to the origins of crack cocaine use in Los Angeles. Just as the invention of crack was bringing cocaine out of the parlors and clubs of the elite and into poor urban neighborhoods, a young Ricky Ross used his connections to the Crips organization in L.A. on the one hand, and to Nicaraguan suppliers with unbelievably low-priced cocaine on the other to become the king of the crack business. A former L.A. narcotics officer tells Webb of Ross that "…there's no telling how many tens of thousands of people he touched. He's responsible for a major cancer that still hasn't stopped spreading." Through Ross, the Contras and their North American allies were able to pour tons of cocaine into the streets of L.A. to fund their war.Read all three full reports, plus Day One of the "Dark Alliance" series, in The Narco News Bulletin:http://www.narconews.com From somewhere in a country called América,Dan FederManaging EditorThe Narco News Bulletinhttp://www.narconews.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]Narco News is supported by:The Fund for Authentic JournalismP.O. Box 241Natick, MA 01760http://www.authenticjournalism.orgThe Fund receives online donations at this web page:http://www.authenticjournalism.orgApply for your co-publisher's account, here:http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.phpSubscribe for free alerts of new reports:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsSuscríbete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en español:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandesInscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do último minuto em português brasileiro:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil--Daniel Aaron Feder | AIM/Yahoo!/Jabber.org: dafeder | check out:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.narconews.comYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Rumsfeld on Vietnam and Government Secrecy
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 3:27:10 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Rumsfeld on Vietnam and Government SecrecyReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rumsfeld on Vietnam and Government Secrecyhttp://www.juancole.com/These quotes from Congressman Rumsfeld, circa 1966, are amusing and tragic in retrospect.' A 1966 article in the Chicago Tribune quoted Rumsfeld as saying the following: “The administration should clarify its intent in Viet Nam,’ he said. ‘People lack confidence in the credibility of our government.’ Even our allies are beginning to suspect what we say, he charged. ‘It’s a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy,’ he said. ‘With the secrecy, it’s impossible. The American people will do what’s right when they have the information they need.” [Chicago Tribune, 4/13/66] 'posted by Juan @ 6/28/2005 06:08:00 AM~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ AlamaineGrand Forks, ND, US of Awww.ctrl.orgDECLARATION 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, ctrl gives 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.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: The G-8 meets at Gleneagle, Scotland
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 27, 2005 6:01:52 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The G-8 meets at Gleneagle, ScotlandReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. G8: who are the hijackers?2. Link to longer article on G-8 Conference from "Focus on the Global South"===1. G8: who are the hijackers?THE HINDU, 26 JUNEby Mike Marquseehttp://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/06/26/stories/2005062600200300.htmwww.mikemarqusee.com"FROM July 6 to 8, violent extremists will beconverging on Scotland," declares the Dissent Network,one of the groups planning militant opposition to theup-coming G8 summit, "They'll be trying to meet at theGleneagles hotel, and we'll be trying to stop them." Aneat inversion of the mainstream media presentation ofwhat promises to be a symbolic confrontation withworldwide resonance.On one side, the world's most elite club, the leadersof the "Group of Eight" (Canada, France, Germany,Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the United States),whose economies account for two-thirds of globalwealth, but currently pour more money into pet foodthan international development. On the other, a diversegrassroots global justice movement determined to "makepoverty history" -- by forcing the G8 to cancel debt,increase aid and end unfair trade practises.Remarkably, since its emergence into westernconsciousness with the Seattle protest of 1999, thismovement has succeeded in making its cause sofashionable, that pop stars queue up to join its ranks(or at least be seen to join its ranks) andcorporations vie to sponsor its initiatives. Even thepoliticians at whom the protests are aimed seem eagerto be associated with the movement, when they're notbusy trying to demonise, divide or protect themselvesfrom it.Gleneagles was chosen as the site for the summitbecause it combines luxury with security. The80-year-old French chateau style golf resort is set in850 private acres of stunning Perthshire scenery. It'sremote by British standards, but not nearly remoteenough to deter large numbers of protesters -- which iswhy the police have banned a march to the resortplanned for July 6.For decades, Gleneagles was a high society fixture.After the London "season", it was yachting at Cowes,polo at Deauville and golf and grouse shooting atGleneagles. These days the hotel relies on "GreatGatsby" discount packages to American tourists and thecorporate conference business -- of which the G8gathering is the creme de la creme. Gleneagles is ownedby Diageo plc, one of the planet's biggestbooze-merchants, whose brands include Johnnie Walker(over four bottles consumed worldwide every second),Guinness, Baileys, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan and JoseCuervo. The company recently reported a half-yearoperating profit of #1.1 billion on a turnover of #4.98billion -- somewhat more than the United Kingdom willspend on aid for the whole of the current financialyear.Of course, the corporate connection, along with theexpense (#150 million to the U.K. taxpayer) andfive-star comforts, are being played down by the G8'simage-managers. Gleneagles is stocking up on fair tradecoffee. The summit, we are told, is to be made "carbonneutral", thanks to a #50,000 grant for green projectsin Africa. More significantly, Prime Minister TonyBlair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown havesought to paint themselves as champions of globaljustice. Brown has presented a modest debt-reliefinitiative (with stringent conditions, including therequirement that countries eliminate "impediments toprivate investment, both domestic and foreign") andBlair has donned the "Make Poverty History" wristbandcreated by NGOs organising what promises to be a2,00,000 strong demonstration in Edinburgh on July 2.The wristbands have become symbols not only of thecause but of attempts to incorporate and exploit it.More than a million of them were produced in Chinesesweatshops shamed by some of the world's worst labourpractices. And shops in the U.K. are selling a versionof the wristband -- personally endorsed by Bob Geldof --branded with the logos of companies accused ofviolating workers' rights in developing countries,including fashion empire Tommy Hilfiger. The "exclusiveonline partner" for Geldof's "Live 8" pop concerts(timed to step up the pressure on G8 leaders) isAmerica Online, part of the Time Warner media behemoth,a beneficiary and sponsor of the very policies themusicians hope to challenge.So while politicians and editors fret about"anarchists" hijacking the protests, global justiceactivists are entitled to ask just who the realhijackers are.When not being treated as a threat to law and order, adomestic Al-Qaeda, these activists are subject tomockery and condescension. They are told to leave themaking of history to wiser heads, to be "realistic",not to ask for too much. But despite the subtle and notso subtle attempts to blur the distinction between theagents of wealth and power and the agents of change,increasing numbers see through the public relationsruse. They
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Multiple investigations
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 2:41:59 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Multiple investigationsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, June 27, 2005 http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050627/NEWS01/506270351/1056/rss02template=printpicartTaft faces a widening scandal Multiple investigations affect more GOP officialsBy Jon CraigEnquirer Columbus BureauGov. Bob Taft said he failed to report golf outings with lobbyists.COLUMBUS - After months in which a growing scandal ensnares more and more state officials - including Gov. Bob Taft - State Sen. Mark Mallory says he wonders what's next.The answer, according to the chairman of the state Republican Party, is possible indictments.A handful of people - mostly Democrats and liberal activists - are calling for, or predicting, Taft's resignation.For now, the scandals involving the Bureau of Workers' Compensation fund, its unusual investments and the cozy relationship between Columbus Republicans and the people who invested money from the fund are just the subjects of investigations.The rapidly developing case now involves the Public Integrity unit of the U.S. Justice Department, Franklin and Lucas county prosecutors, the Ohio Ethics Commission, the legislative inspector general and the state inspector general.When the Ohio General Assembly approved Taft's $51.2 billion budget last week, it included $750,000 for Ohio Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to investigate more than $225 million in lost investments at the state Bureau of Workers' Compensation.Investigators who raided investor Thomas W. Noe's coin shop in Maumee last month left with 128 boxes of records, including memos and financial information of the major GOP contributor.That evidence is now locked down, in possession of a joint state-federal task force, and fueling lots of rumors.The investigation intensified last week as Taft disclosed that he failed to report golf outings with lobbyists and others doing business with the state.While Legislative Inspector General Tony W. Bledsoe recently informed Noe that he had failed to register as a lobbyist, Noe's lawyer said treating public officials to social events including golf is a part of doing business.Lawyer William Wilkinson wouldn't say who paid or how many times Noe golfed with Taft.If Taft knowingly failed to report the gifts, it's a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and six months in jail.Taft's disclosure prompted several Democrats and Ohio Citizen Action, a nonprofit watchdog group, to call for his resignation.But Taft told reporters at a public appearance Wednesday in Mansfield that he will not resign. "I have a year and a half to go. I have a lot of work I want to get done," he said.The charges accumulateThe Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported Sunday that companies hired to manage investments for the insurance fund have donated millions of dollars to the campaigns of top Ohio Republicans while contributing little to Democrats.Almost two-thirds of the 212 money managers hired gave a total of almost $5 million to Republicans from 1997 through 2004, the paper found.Taft, elected to two terms during the period of the newspaper's analysis, received $700,000 in contributions from those companies, more than any other Republican in a statewide office. The companies also donated to Attorney General Jim Petro, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and state Auditor Betty Montgomery. All three Republicans are candidates for governor next year.One contractor, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank, contributed $558,000 to politicians, most of them Republicans.Fifth Third spokesman Larry Magnesen told the Plain Dealer that the donations were not meant to influence but "support candidates who are pro-growth and pro-business."National City, whose subsidiary, National City Investment Management Co., has a contract with the bureau, contributed $938,000 to politicians - the most of bureau money managers during the eight-year period."We support candidates who we believe have an understanding of the business and economic issues facing our state," banking company National City said in a statement.The Plain Dealer reported Friday that the top Republican in the House - Speaker Jon A. Husted - paid just $50 a night over the Memorial Day weekend to stay with his son in a $428,000 Florida Gulf Coast home with three Statehouse lobbyists.In an interview with the Enquirer, Husted said he spent two days producing receipts and records. He said $50 was the fair market value."These kinds of things are certainly a distraction for me and others," the Kettering Republican said. "There's no question that the environment that exists in Columbus is one where everybody is trying to eat the other person."I think we have done a good job in trying to run the House in an open and honest manner, in a way that shows we are trying to lead the state with integrity."Other state
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Iraq Torture Investigators Reveal Scores of New Cases
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:54:30 AM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] Iraq Torture Investigators Reveal Scores of New CasesReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action="">Iraq Torture Investigators Reveal Scores of New Casesby Lisa Ashkenaz Croke (bio)A legal team looking for evidence of involvement by US corporations in the torture, abuse, rape in US-run prisons in Iraq continue to uncover indications that the mistreatment is profound and systemic.Dec 31, 2004 - An American legal team interviewing men and women formerly held in US-run prisons throughout Iraq says new cases of abuse and torture have continued to stream in since an initial fact-finding mission to the country in August.Michigan-based attorney Shereef Akeel told The NewStandard that he has not had time to count up each separate allegation of abuse since returning from a December trip to Amman, Jordan, where he met with released detainees, but said there were "absolutely" now at least 100 cases. He said he expected to compile as many as 300 after sorting out survivors' statements and coordinating them with witnesses' accounts.The newer cases also appear to substantiate earlier evidence gathered implicating a widespread policy of insult and assault committed against Iraqis charged of no crimes, as well as the systematic targeting of prisoners with particularly strong religious convictions.The team had already recorded testimony from over 50 former detainees, detailing severe abuse, rape, torture, humiliation, and religious degradation allegedly committed throughout the network of US-run detention centers and prisons in Iraq. In August, Akeel and his investigative partner, Mohammed Alomari, also revealed what appears to be the systematic targeting of religious inmates, as well as the rape of a 15-year-old boy by his captors as late as July 2004.After two more rounds of interviews with former detainees, one in October and another earlier this month, the team has at least doubled the number of abuse cases their office is officially handling. The growing chaos in Iraq kept Akeels team out of the country, so Iraqis were bussed into Jordan and put up in a hotel, giving them a brief respite from the war even as they were asked to show their prison-issued documentation, including release papers, and to tell their horrific stories."Were only speaking with people who have been released. They were released without charges. They were held without charges," stressed Akeel. "One day you get a form -- your time is up and youre served with a blanket release."The newer cases also appear to substantiate earlier evidence gathered implicating a widespread policy of insult and assault committed against Iraqis charged of no crimes, as well as the systematic targeting of prisoners with particularly strong religious convictions.Clerics and other community leaders apparently comprise a significant number of the teams documented cases. Akeel said he was surprised by how many Iraqi professionals and clergy were among the detainees interviewed in building the case."The stature of these people -- lawyers, doctors, pharmacists -- all they're trying to do is help Iraq," said Akeel, who is particularly concerned with the number and nature of abuse claims brought by imams and tribal leaders. "When you're torturing imams, making naked women serve them food... what do you think they're going to tell their followers about Americans?" Akeel said.Akeel cited one instance in which a man engaging in a religious fast during the day said he was denied food throughout the night, only to have it served minutes before he was required to resume his fast. Akeel said this treatment went on "for days."One of the teams most unexpected initial discoveries in reviewing the release papers was that former detainees were alleging illegal activities in as many as two dozen different US-run prisons in Iraq, challenging the US governments official position that the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was limited to a single facility. Akeel says they have now documented cases from "over 25 prisons.""The more people we meet, the more detention centers we find out about," said Alomari, Akeel's partner.The vast majority of claimants in the case are men. Aside from one lost client who killed herself upon discovering she was pregnant, Akeel said only about ten women have come forward, though suspicion of sexual and other abuses committed against Iraqi women by American captors is widespread."It's very, very difficult for them," said Akeel, explaining that while a man may be ostracized following sexual abuse, a woman could very well face death at the hands of her family or at the very least, be shunned and never allowed to marry.Akeel charges that interrogators "took advantage of the culture," knowing the women would be unlikely to talk. He described one case where captors reportedly raped a
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Michael A. Hoffman II on 9/11 discoveries
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "wleighwleigh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 9:50:27 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Michael A. Hoffman II on 9/11 discoveriesReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Then in accordance with the clockwork script, 5, 10 or 15 yearslater, after the trail is hopelessly cold and highly obscured, a spateof tightly documented and well-researched books and films emerge whichheat us up, turning our heads 180 degrees in the opposite direction:now we are passionately afire with indignation as we are shown a massof evidence proving that the cops and the media had to be eitheridiots or co-conspirators to have ever believed that these spectacularhits were one man operations"If you carefully study this scenario what you'll discover isastonishing. You'll find that the after-the-fact revelations are asmuch a part of the assassination plot as the murder and its initialcover-up. It's a deliberate psychological process they're taking usthrough, a psychodrama of enormous scale, .."'This demonstrates one of our simpler methods. Realizing that ouractivites will sooner or later come to light, we structureoveractivities so that as conspiracy reserachers unravel them, theywill release information in the publis consciousness in such a waythat it mirrors our initiatory procedure. In this way, the more we areinvestigated, the more masses of people are psychologically processedby the very people who seek to expose us. ...'..."One: the ritual murders are successfully accomplished. The principalsget-away, the scapegoate conveniently takes the blame. Two: later welearn the truth but no one is prosecuted. We are mocked, disorientedand demoralized. Occult prestige and potency is heightened."This is what simplistic researchers miss: the function of macabrearrogance thumbing its nose at us while we do nothing except spreadthe tale of their immunity and invincibility. That is the game planoperant here."To the belief system of the modern man it sounds too crazy. Why wouldthe perpetrators want their secrets revealed after the fact -- even itis years later? This question can only be definitevely answered if onehas an understanding of the zeitgeist which overseers in theCryptocracy have partly manufactured and partly tailored their ownoperations to coincide with"But to reveal these after-the-fact secrets in our modern time, to apeople who have no memory, no will-power and no interest in their ownfate except in so far as it may serve as momentary titillation andentertainment actuallly strengthens the enslavement of such a people."above are excerpts from pages 76-78 of SECRET SOCIETIES ANDPSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE by Michael A. Hoffman II, 2001, IndependentHistory and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816 -- available onAMAZON.COM.www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION 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, ctrl gives 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.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL]
[CTRL] Fwd: Gonzales v. Raich: Growing food is not a fundamental right
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Chris Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 10:20:43 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Chris Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Gonzales v. Raich: Growing food is not a fundamental right To Whom It May Concern: Unbelievable as is it may sound, the U.S. Supreme Court said in Gonzales v. Raich,See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=USvol=000invol=03-1454, that the Constitution’s Commerce Clause supersedes the un-enumerated Ninth Amendment right to grow food, grow medicinal plants, and to feed or medicate ones own body. The Court gave particular relevance to the New Deal case of Wickard v. Filburn (1942) maintaining that Congress’ commerce power included intrastate production of wheat produced for the Ohio farmer’s own consumption. To think that something as fundamental to survival as the production of food and medicine for strictly personal consumption is only a privilege granted by Congress contravenes every principle upon which this nation was founded. And then to deny the sick and suffering their right to medicate themselves is a usurpation of liberty and justice so reprehensible that it confounds the most unreasonable among us. Indeed, the un-enumerated rights protected by the Ninth Amendment will never be protected. The Ninth Amendment is a dead letter. The Ninth Amendment was designed to involve rights too numerous to mention. For example, do you have the right to defecate, urinate, shelter yourself, feed yourself, medicate yourself, procreate, marry, have consensual sex, clothe yourself, breathe, etc., etc., etc.? This decision demands that we force our elected representatives to put an ”Enumerated Rights” Amendment into the Constitution. And let’s demand to have it authorized by state constitutional conventions instead of by the state legislatures. This is a matter for the people to decide, not elected officials. With God’s grace, perhaps America won’t have to thank the Almighty Congress for the dinner we harvest. Sincerely, Chris WrightABNORMLMN6304 Falcon CourtEdina, MN 55436(952) 920-5024 HM[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:
[CTRL] Cameron, UK clergy abuse
-Caveat Lector- scroll this one fwd from Lynne Moss Sharman - Is a fetus a non-consenting patient? Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC Peter Selby, MD Bhushan Kapur, PHD "ABSTRACT - QUESTION In the 1960s, Dr Cameron, a Montreal, Que, psychiatrist, experimented with drug-induced sleep and electroconvulsive therapy for psychiatric patients, believing that this method "wipes them clean of harmful memories." In 1992 the government of Canada settled lawsuits by former patients of Dr Cameron, awarding them large payments. The government rejected a similar claim by Lloyd Schrier, whose mother had been treated by Dr Cameron while she was carrying Lloyd, arguing that Lloyd was not Cameron's patient. Or was he? ANSWER The fetus was exposed to the medications taken by his mother, (eg, barbiturates) and thus qualifies as an unconsenting patient." http://www.cfpc.ca/cfp/2004/Sep/vol50-sep-clinical-1.asp Catholic Church admits abuse claims up by 50% By Ruth Gledhill "Allegations of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church increased by 50 per cent in England and Wales last year. But of 153 reported incidents of abuse, 116 took place in the 60 years before 2004 and involved abusers who have since died. The increase in allegations of abuse from 62 in 2003 to 100 last year was disclosed in the third annual report from the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults. The 100 incidents involved 153 victims. There were 111 cases of sexual abuse, 14 of physical abuse and 11 of child pornography. Of the 37 incidents of alleged abuse that actually took place last year, 17 involved priests and 10 of these concerned sexual abuse." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1671757,00.html 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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Bombling Them Softly
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 12:13:22 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Bombling Them SoftlyReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is This What They Call Democracy? By Brendan Smith and Zeynep Toufe t r u t h o u t | Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062705Z.shtml Sunday 26 June 2005 Istanbul, Turkey - Today in Istanbul the jury was taken aback by witness testimony from Iraqi war victims and a US Air Force veteran. "Snipers hunt people in the streets. People attempting to go to health centers are shot at," testified Eman Kmammas, an Iraqi translator. "There are many crippled children. There are thousands of widows and orphans. There are no police for security and there are no courts. Even hospitals are occupied and bombed and burned." Former US Air Force combat veteran Tim Goodrich stunned the jury by revealing his role in the "softening up" of Iraq months before the US declaration of war. "We were dropping bombs then, and I saw bombing intensify," Goodrich explained to a hushed room. "All the documents coming out now, the Downing Street memo and others, confirm what I had witnessed in Iraq. The war had already begun while our leaders were telling us that they were going to try all diplomatic options first." This gripping but unsettling revelation came on the second day of proceedings at the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul, Turkey, which is collecting evidence of war crimes in Iraq. Goodrich's testimony had just begun when a 75-foot banner prepared by the Iraqi delegation and composed of harrowing pictures of Iraqi child victims of the war was carried into the courtroom. In the presence of the father of one of the victims shown on the banner, Goodrich and others stood and a moment of silence spread through the room while the banner was carried through the hall. The teeming press contingent rushed to photograph the scene as some members of the audience cried. While the first day of the trial had concentrated on moral and political issues, emotional testimony from Iraqi witnesses dominated the second day of proceedings. Fadil al Bedrani, an Iraqi journalist who survived the siege of Fallujah, told the audience that he watched as "20-25 persons were running barefoot when an American warplane bombed, killing and wounding them; only one elderly woman and 2 children stayed safe ... the doctors and the staff of the Fallujah hospital were detained; the warplanes bombed the alternative hospital in downtown ... and bombed the medicine warehouses in Nazzal area, killing 4 doctors, and 8 medical workers." Dahr Jamail, an unembedded journalist who had been reporting from Iraq during the past year, narrated the story told to him by Ali Shalal Abbas from Baghdad. While detained at Abu Ghraib and tortured, Abbas was approached by two men, "one a foreigner and one a translator," who asked him who he was. "I said I'm a human being. They told me, 'We are going to cut your head off and send you to hell, we will take you to Guantánamo.'" Abbas questioned why only Saddam Hussein, who also had people tortured, was put on trial while the Americans were not. The fate and the rights of the detainees remained a recurring theme at the Tribunal. Iraqi lawyer Amal Sawadi expressed her frustration at being stonewalled by occupation authorities who refused to tell her of the charges against her clients, if there was any evidence, and even if the person was under detention. "All of Iraq has become a vast prison," she sighed. "Is this what they call democracy?" There was also ample discussion at the Tribunal - supported by nearly 200 non-governmental organizations ranging from Greenpeace to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War - of various forms of resistance. Goodrich, who refused to return to Iraq for an additional tour of duty, urged more soldiers to become conscientious objectors. And to those who questioned his anti-war activism, he responded, "Some people accuse us of being against the troops or unpatriotic, but we are the troops. How can I be unpatriotic by asking our soldiers to come back home alive?" The Egyptian sociologist Samir Amin urged participants of the more than twenty tribunals held around the world over the last two years to begin a campaign under the slogan "US Come Home" in America and "US Go Home" in the rest of the world. Eva Ensler, member of the WTI jury and American playwright most famous for her award-winning "Vagina Monologues," told reporters that both the UN and national governments had failed the Iraqi people and that "the people's movement across the world that rose up is an opportunity for the conscience of the world to be heard." Iraqi and US military testimony was joined by former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Denis Halliday, who argued that the Tribunal has an "obligation to demand full international prosecution of US/UK war leaders as war criminals
[CTRL] [PropagandaMatrix.com] Senate approves $16 billion energy bill (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- HOOORRA 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 Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com 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: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:40:28 -0400 From: Lori R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lori R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PropagandaMatrix.com] Senate approves $16 billion energy bill News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government 28 June 2005 http://www.legitgov.org/ http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Senate approves $16 billion energy bill --After four years and two rounds of effort that failed to produce a law, the Senate has approved a sweeping $16 billion energy [corporate welfare] bill. A measure calling for a substantial increase in automobile fuel economy was defeated late last week. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., proposed an amendment calling for an increase in automobile fuel economy standards to an average of 40 miles per gallon over the next decade. Instead, the Senate passed an auto industry-friendly measure... Address to receive newsletter: http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg Please write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for inquiries. lrp/mdr CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, General Manager. Copyright ? 2005, Citizens For Legitimate Government ? All rights reserved. CLG Founder and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. 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/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;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] how much oil isthere in the Artic national Wildlife reserve?
-Caveat Lector- HOW MUCH OIL GAS IS IN ANWR'S COASTAL PLAIN? High potential. The high potential for significant discoveries of oil and gas in ANWR has long been recognized. Early explorers of the region at the turn of the century, found oil seeps and oil-stained sands. However, since ANWR was established in 1960, exploration in the region has been restricted to surface geological investigations, aeromagnetic surveys, and two winter seismic surveys (in 1983-84 and 1984-85). No exploratory drilling has been accomplished in the area except for one well commenced in the winter of 1984-85 on Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation lands southeast of Kaktovik on the Coastal Plain. Location to big finds. Although little oil and gas exploration has taken place in ANWR, the Coastal Plain is believed to have economically recoverable oil resources. The Coastal Plain lies between two known major discovery areas. About 65 miles to the west of the Coastal Plain, the Prudhoe Bay, Lisburne, Endicott, Milne Point, and Kuparuk oil fields are currently in production. Approximately 1.5 million barrels of oil a day are produced from these fields, representing 25% of our domestic production. To the east of the Coastal Plain, major discoveries have been made in Canada, near the Mackenzie River Delta and in the Beaufort Sea. U.S. Geological Survey - 1980. In 1980, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the Coastal Plain could contain up to 17 billion barrels of oil and 34 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. U.S. Department of Interior - 1987. After several years of surface geological investigations, aeromagnetic surveys, and two winter seismic surveys (in 1983-84 and 1984-85), the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), in its April, 1987 report on the oil and gas potential of the Coastal Plain, estimated that there are billions of barrels of oil to be discovered in the area. DOI estimates that in-place resources range from 4.8 billion to 29.4 billion barrels of oil. Recoverable oil estimates ranges from 600 million barrels at the low end to 9.2 billion barrels at the high end. They also reported identifying 26 separate oil and gas prospects in the Coastal Plain that could each contain super giant fields (500 million barrels or more). U.S. Geological Survey - 1998. The most recent petroleum assessment prepared by the USGS in 1998 (OFR 98-34), increased the estimate for technically recoverable mean crude oil resources. (See Oil in the ANWR? It's Time to Find Out!) Only drilling will tell. The geologic indicators are very favorable for the presence of significant oil and gas resources in ANWR, but the limited data means that there is a high level of uncertainty about how much oil and gas may be present. Consequently, current estimates represent the best scientific guesses. However, most geologists agree that the potential is on the order of billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable gas and that these resources may rival or exceed the initial reserves at Prudhoe Bay. The validity of these estimates can be proved only by drilling exploratory wells. Authorization for exploration must be given by Congress and the President. In 1996 the North Slope oil fields produced about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, or approximately 25 percent of the U.S. domestic production. However, Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for over half of North Slope production, began its decline in 1988, and no new fields have yet been discovered with the potential to compensate for that decline. ANWR Flash Movie Search Web anwr.org Ten reasons to support responsible oil development in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge View our ANWR Powerpoint Presentation ANWR Quicklinks Media Kit Structured Settlements - cash for structured settlements, sell annuity, lottery winnings, and more. | What's New | Background | Technology | People | Photo Gallery | Links | Your State | Media Kit This Page Is Brought To You By Arctic Power Web site design by Frontier Communications - Anchorage, Alaska All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. also check out my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html 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 Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com 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 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] DOMINION AND DECEPTION
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: elvis oner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:08:25 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], o [EMAIL PROTECTED], om [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] DOMINION AND DECEPTIONReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DOMINION AND DECEPTIONBy Gillian Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]“One prince of the present time, whom it is not well to name, never preaches anything else but peace and good faith, and to both he is most hostile, and either, if he had kept it, would have deprived him of reputation and kingdom many a time." Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince: Concerning The Way In Which Princes Should Keep Faith, Florence, 1532 “You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”George W. Bush, joking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001 “Goodbye Jack Daniels, Hello Jesus!" So it was that George W. Bush says he met the Messiah as he switched the bottle for the Bible on a summer day after his 40th birthday. When he was young and irresponsible, he was really irresponsible, he admits, but all that has changed. Now, they say, his Christian faith permeates his daily life; he starts each day on his knees, reads the Bible and devoutly attends church. The air in the White House is said to be scented with the fragrant incense of prayerfulness, and presidential speeches are spiced with religious metaphors. Bush envisions himself fulfilling a divine calling, as he heads a global battle that pits the forces of good against the forces evil. He claims God speaks to his mind, directing his actions and inspiring his presidential policy decisions. He says he “felt the call" before his inauguration as Texas governor in 1999, as he listened to Methodist pastor Mark Craig preach on Moses' reluctance to lead. It spoke conviction directly to Bush’s heart for abrogation of responsibility. Assembling leading pastors at the governor’s mansion for a laying-on of hands, he announced the news: "I've heard the call, I believe God wants me to run for president." Bush’s testimony appears to the sincere evangelical to be genuine; his heart was changed in a “born again” experience, through a personal encounter with Christ leading to repentance, reconciliation with God, and a conviction of God's plan and purpose for his life. Desperate for a breath of moral fresh air after the putrid impropriety that disgraced the Clinton White House, honest Christians who never question the meaning of the word “is”, were swayed by Bush's invocation of the name of “Christ”. He was, by his own admission, “one of them”. Few doubted and even fewer publicly questioned the veracity of Bush’s “born again” claims. But, hey, hey, in those exuberant days that brought the warm glow of Christian fellowship right to the heart of the election campaign, who would have dared to mouth a ripple of doubt? And who could have foreseen that in pursuing their quest for a leader of integrity and compassion in action, the Christian churches, armed with the Bible in one hand and the flag in the other, were just about to exchange one liar in the White House for a better one. Dominion and deception go claw in glove. >From empire to empire there have always existed foul creatures in elegant attire lurking beneath the mud of political intrigue with megalomaniac intent. Deeply dark elites have always wielded untold influence beneath the mantles of anonymity that keep the powers behind the powers hidden from the public eye. Yet today, as the autocratic American Empire performs its awesome debut on the global stage, some of these dangerous schemers have boldly emerged from their subterranean refuge to reveal their previously hidden lust for power, and are now, in public statements and policy papers, baring their visible teeth. These nefarious elitists – all too often naively scorned as paper tigers by sensible folk who dismiss conspiracy theories – may have a smile as sweet as sugar and spice, but they also have a nasty snarl and a fearsome bite. The deception that promotes their bid for dominion is the claim that American military dominance over the world is best for everyone, and that this policy – disguised as “democracy” – is endorsed, even directed by God. The new elite that slipped from the shadows to direct the Bush administration foreign policy are neoconservatives, or neocons, who have formed an unprecedented right-wing alliance of former leftists and liberals. Their ideology is paradoxical, spawned in that fetid breeding ground where right meets left, producing a hybrid offspring that resembles a power-hungry, pro-Zionist mutation of Trotsky's ideas on permanent revolution. This new elite now openly promotes a glorious vision of
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Illuminati-Staged US Presidential Election
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: elvis oner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 12:53:42 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], o [EMAIL PROTECTED], om [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Illuminati-Staged US Presidential ElectionReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Illuminati-Staged US Presidential Election By Michael ShoreIsrael10-8-4 WHO BELIEVES THE LIE THAT ANYONE CAN BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.? The Illuminati rule America! Who are the super rich "elite" Illuminati and their associates? The Queen of England, her husband Prince Philip and the Royal House of Windsor, the hierarchy on the board of directors of the Vatican, including the Pope; the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Duponts, Fords, Carnegies, Melons, Bush's etc. To get the details of who the Illuminati are, put Illuminati in www.google.com It is not the American people who choose the President and Vice President of the United States of America, but rather the super secret "shadow government" called the Illuminati/New World Order who choose them! Various researchers, including,David Icke in his book "The Biggest Secret", point out that all 43 men who were Presidents of the U.S.A. are related, and that 33 of the Presidents can be traced back to the bloodline of Charlemagne, who in the year 800 was crowned by Pope Leo III to be Holy Roman Emperor, the first head of an empire that would last over 1000 years! This should be setting off major alarm bells in your mind. Like this is no coincidence. The odds of all 43 Presidents being related, and this just randomly happening, are billions to one. Democratic and Republican candidates are "chosen" by the "Elitist" super rich organization called the Illuminati. Democrats and Republicans and the Illuminati would not want you to believe any of this. They don't teach you this in schools and for good reason: the Illuminati want to stay hidden. They do not want the masses to know that their small secret organization even exists so they can covertly continue their rule. This farce called an "election" shows that America is a one party state. Both Democrats and Republicans work for the agenda of the Illuminati. They create a charade that looks like each party is different, but in the end the Democrats and Republicans vote for anything the Illuminati want in order to push forward the Illuminati agenda for "total world domination". This is why actors make such good politicians because this whole covert political charade at this time is an "act" being played out to control all the people in a so-called democracy. If you'd like to know who is going to win the U.S.Presidential election, just call up super wealthy David Rockefeller and he can tell you today because it's all a "staged event". This may be challenging for most people to believe, but it's true and if given the chance and enough money to fund a proper investigation, this can be proven. There is no "true" democracy in America, only an illusion that looks like a supposed democracy. Currently democracy is imprisonment disguised as freedom. A true democracy is not a two party system. It is many parties with different ideas that represent the will of the People, not the will of a few very rich individuals and the corporations that they own. Why weren't members from other political parties, who have candidates running for the Presidency, allowed to participate in the Presidential debates? Because the Presidential debates are a "staged Illuminati event" that's why. They would not allow any other competing candidates to participate, just like they don't allow any of the Illuminati controlled mass corporate media to cover and interview the other smaller party candidates. By suppressing any competing candidates outside of the Illuminati controlled Democratic and Republican parties, the Illuminati eliminate the possibility that someone might actually tell the American people the truth about 911, the war for oil in Iraq, the unconstitutional income tax, the private banking cartel, called the Federal Reserve that controls the money in the U.S., Patriot Acts 1 2, etc. Did you see any of the Conventions of any other party besides the Democrats and Republicans on T.V. or in any other major mass media? Do you see media coverage on a daily basis of any of the other Presidential candidates and what they stand for? You rarely see or hear anything in the Illuminati controlled mass media about any other candidates, you only see and hear Bush and Kerry! Is this what you call "democracy"? No, it's called brainwashing and mind control. If Bush and Kerry are the only candidates the Illuminati controlled mass media shows everyday, and they both lie about the war in Iraq, the war on "terror",
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Another Karl Rove production - Bush speaks with troops as his stage props
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:37 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] Another Karl Rove production - Bush speaks with troops as his stage propsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://stangoff.com/index.php?p=143Another Karl Rove production - Bush speaks with troops as his stage propsStan GoffJune 28, 2005My opening remarks for the press conference at Quaker House, Fayetteville,NC, organized in response to George W. Bush’s speech on June 28, 2005, atFt. Bragg:I retired out of 3rd Special Forces ten years ago, right up the road herewhen the out-processing one-stop was still over by the Main PX. My son’sfirst assignment after jump school was there in the 82nd Airborne Division,and it was with them that he went to Iraq the first time.Dozens more soldiers and hundreds more Iraqis have been killed over the pastcouple of weeks… and not just killed – crippled, burned, blinded, amputated,consigned to colostomy bags and medication for their rest of their lives,and countless others will be driven a little bit mad by their experience.And we have no idea how many will be damaged by the ticking time-bomb intheir bodies that is depleted uranium.Not only are the troops suffering, but the families of those who are ontheir second and third deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are living withunremitting fear, and I am one of those families. My grandson has seen hisfather for only a few months of his two and a half years.Yet, tonight the President of the United States is going to come here toFort Bragg and tell everyone in the country that this war is making peoplesafer. In fact, since the Bush administration opportunistically used theterrible shock of 9-11 to advance what we now know to have been apre-determined agenda, the number of terror attacks in the world hasdramatically increased.Let me say this very clearly, because the empirical evidence is very clear.Bush’s war has not made anyone safer. It has, however, destroyed the livesof thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and accordingto international polls, the United States is now held in lower public esteemin the world than China.The United States is already suffering higher casualties than we were at thesame stage of the Vietnam War. So, okay, Iraq is NOT Vietnam. It could, infact, get worse. Rumsfeld is now telling us that the war could last for 12more years.And just two years ago George Bush pulled his little airplane stunt on theUSS Abraham Lincoln, and had a big MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign as hisbackdrop.Tonight he will use a captive audience of soldiers, who he commands, and whowill be ordered to smile and cheer and shout hooahs at the appropriatepoints in this latest Karl Rove production, and I find that offensive. Morethan offensive, it is obscene.I find it offensive that the very people he would send to death,disfigurement and despair in the service of this administration’slengthening list of lies, are now required, – when they could be hometonight with the loved ones they have missed so much in the last two years –to serve as stage props so George W. Bush can add one more bit ofcheerleading hype, one more publicity stunt, to his resume. And in Iraq,every time the poll numbers spook the White House, they add one moreso-called counter-offensive, each promising that there is light at the endof this tunnel, and each dispatching more military sedans to the homes ofthose who wait to hear the terrible news that someone they loved is nolonger in the world.George W. Bush is using troops as props, but he doesn’t show up for thefunerals of the troops who have been killed in his war. This is about asclear as things get.This publicity stunt is an obscenity. It is an insult to the intelligence ofthe nation, that is now waking to the reality that this war had nothing todo with 9-11, nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, nothing to dowith liberation, but everything to do with establishing permanent militarybases on the earth’s biggest oil patch.Americans are waking up, and members of Congress who let themselves bestampeded into this war need to put their wind meters back out, becausewhile Bush doesn’t have to run for anything again, every member of the Houseof Representatives and a third of the Senate are running in 2006. Americansare waking up, and they are in a very bad mood about this war, and as BobDylan once sang, it don’t take a weatherman to know which way the windblows. I’ll tell my Democrat right now from the platform, if he doesn’tfight to bring them home now, I’ll vote a Republican who says he or shewill. People are dying, and we will not respect on election day those whosat on a fence while the coffins arrived at Dover, and the cries of painechoed off the walls at Landstuhl and Walter Reed.Bush says if we declare a withdrawal date, the insurgents will wait us out.But we haven’t even declared the *intention* to leave Iraq – in fact, itlooks like
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:41 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in IraqReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/28/83229/2960Salvador Option: Death Squads in IraqHal C , Daily KosTue Jun 28th, 2005 at 05:32:29 PDTIn January, Newsweek reported that the Pentagon was considering the SalvadorOption for Iraq--US-trained Death Squads—in an article titled ‘The SalvadorOption’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnappingteams in Iraq. Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Death Squads seem tohave arrived in an article titled Campaign of executions feared in Iraq.Slain Sunnis have arrived at Baghdad's morgue blindfolded, bound and shot.The author of today's K-R article himself was shot and killed undermysterious circumstances last week in Baghdad.The explicit purpose of the Salvador Option was to terrorize the Sunnipopulation. According to Newsweek.[Director of Iraq’s National Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. MuhammadAbdallah] Shahwani also said that the U.S. occupation has failed to crackthe problem of broad support for the insurgency. The insurgents, he said,"are mostly in the Sunni areas where the population there, almost 200,000,is sympathetic to them." He said most Iraqi people do not actively supportthe insurgents or provide them with material or logistical help, but at thesame time they won’t turn them in. One military source involved in thePentagon debate agrees that this is the crux of the problem, and he suggeststhat new offensive operations are needed that would create a fear of aidingthe insurgency. "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support itis giving to the terrorists," he said. "From their point of view, it iscost-free. We have to change that equation."As of January, the Pentagon would admit only that Death Squads were on thetable.Pentagon sources emphasize there has been no decision yet to launch theSalvador option.In a postscript to the Newsweek article Rumsfeld responded to the charges:And at a news conference on Jan. 11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saidthe idea of a Salvador option was "nonsense" and denied that U.S. SpecialForces were going into Syria. But when asked whether such a policy was underconsideration, he replied, "Why would I even talk about something likethat?"Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Salvador Option may be a reality.BAGHDAD - Days after Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April28, the director of Baghdad's central morgue began noticing that the bodiesof Sunni Muslim men were turning up after the men had been detained bypeople wearing Iraqi police uniforms.The official response:Ghathanfar al-Jasim, who sits on Iraq's national judicial council andfunctions as an attorney general, said it was difficult to discussextrajudicial killings. "We cannot admit that our police are doing it; itwould make them look weak,"andBut when battered corpses turn up outside Interior Ministry facilities,[Raad] Sultan [an official in Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights] said, "Howcan I prove it is the security forces?”Knight-Ridder reports several examples. Here is one.On May 5, for example, 14 Sunni farmers were abducted from an east Baghdadvegetable market. […] The bodies of the farmers were discovered in shallowgraves the next day. They had all been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot oncein the back of the head […] "A patrol of more than 10 police vehicles droveup and parked," said Ali Karim, a fruit vendor. "They were running throughthe street with their guns, saying that the farmers had a car bomb withthem. They pushed them against the walls and asked them for their IDs."A moment of respect for the author of the Knight Ridder article:[The author of this article] Yasser Salihee was a special correspondent. Hewas shot and killed last week in Baghdad in circumstances that remainunclear.That Yasser Salihee has not died in vain.Withdraw all troops now.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net CAUTION! # Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] What a wanker!
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:35 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] What a wanker!Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.htmlWHAT A WANKER!Malcom LagaucheTuesday/Wednesday, June 28-29, 2005On Sunday, June 26, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Don Rumsfeld, made the roundsof the U.S. national talk shows. This is obligatory for administrationofficials to get their message to the American people. It is also convenientthat the talk shows are milquetoast, non-confrontational programs that donot challenge what has been said by the guests.The one truthful aspect that came out of Rumsfeld’s discussion was hisassessment of the current situation in Iraq. He told Meet the Press, "Iwould anticipate you’re going to see an escalation of violence between nowand the December elections. And after then, it will take a long time todrive out the insurgents."On Fox News Sunday, Rumsfeld stated, "Insurgencies tend to go on five, six,eight, 10, 12 years." He later affixed the year 2017 as a possible end tothe Iraqi resistance.However, Rumsfeld reverted to his usual stupidity. When asked about thehorrific events now occurring in Iraq, he tried to put a positive slant onthe issue. Rumsfeld told the host that he gave George Bush a list of 15things that could go wrong prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq in March2003: oil wells being set on fire; mass refugees and relocations; blown-upbridges; and a moat of oil around Baghdad. He then said, "So a great many ofthe bad things that could have happened did not happen." Genius.To use Rumsfeld’s logic, one could point out that the people in the area ofthe devastating tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people aboutsix months ago could be upbeat because they did not suffer a nuclear bombattack at the same time.Rumsfeld not only contradicts himself about issues every time he speaks, buthe does it with style. Why sound only like an idiot when you can sound likea fool and a buffoon as well?On March 30, 2003, Rumsfeld was a guest on This Week with GeorgeStephanopoulis. The U.S. had invaded Iraq 10 days prior, yet no weapons ofmass destruction had been found. Rumsfeld had the answer:The area … that our forces control … happens not to be the area whereweapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They’rein the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and northsomewhere.After a few weeks, the questions about weapons of mass destruction becamelouder. On May 4, 2003, Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday:We never believed we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in thatcountry. We’re going to find what we find as a result of talking to people,I believe, not simply by going to some site and hoping to discover it.Then, on Septmber 10, 2003, in a speech to the National Press Club, Rumsfeldsaid:I said, "We know they’re in that area." I should have said, "I believe they’re in that area." Our intelligence tells us they’re in that area, and thatwas our best judgement.Shortly before the invasion, however, Rumsfeld was not ambiguous about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. In a speech on January 20, 2003, he stated:Saddam Hussein possesses chemical and biological weapons His regime ispaying a high price to pursue weapons of mass destruction — giving upbillions of dollars in oil revenue. His regime has large, unaccounted forstockpiles of chemical and biological weapons — including VX, sarin,cyclosarin and mustard gas; anthrax, botulism, and possibly smallpox — andhe has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons.In the space of nine months, Rumsfeld changed his story many times and hewent from declaring an inventory list of Iraqi’s weapons of mass destructionto saying he "believed" they were north, south, east or west of Tikrit.On February 4, 2003, Saddam Hussein was interviewed by British politico TonyBenn. The interview was shown on British television. Here’s what Saddam hadto say about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction:Every fair-minded person knows that as far as United Nations Resolution 1441is concerned, the Iraqis have been fulfilling their obligations under theresolution. If the purpose (of the inspections) was to make sure that Iraqis free of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, then they can do that.We have said many times before and we say it again today that Iraq is freeof such weapons.Saddam made it very clear that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Noambiguities or lies. Just the facts.Rumsfeld, along with the entire administration and much of the Democraticso-called opposition, lied about Iraq in a blatant manner. Saddam in oneparagraph told the precise truth. In other words, Rumsfeld was the liar andthe guy with the moustache told the truth. However, today Rumsfeld appearson talk shows and speaks in broken English and Saddam is in prison.Rumsfeld has come up with some not-so-brilliant statements during his
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standards
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:39 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standardsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=6/28/2005Cat=14Num=001Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standardsFarhat Quammaquami, Tehran Times On-lineJune 28, 2005After the Thanksgiving massacre in Fallujah, which marked the beginning ofDeath Squad Democracy in Iraq for the first time, ABC News broadcast asanitized report from the city of one thousand mosques. The most beautifulcity in Iraq laid in ruin and of the 300,000 original residents only a mere8000 were actually struggling in the ruble of a city devastated by theImperial Tsunami.Although our deep affection and sympathy towards the victims of the tsunamimust not distract us from our deep resentment and condemnation of thenightmare that has been imposed on Iraq by the United States, it seems thecorporate mass media has become the publicity agent of the U.S. governmentin order to divert world public opinion from the U.S. atrocities in Iraq.A critical analysis of the propagated information about the tsunami givescredence to our view that the media’s position is turning into a politicalsmoke screen, covert propaganda, and a publicity stunt of our corporaterulers to shape world public opinion towards the corporate benevolence anddivert public attention from the tragedy in Iraq. The reality is that therehave been over 100,000 deaths, millions uprooted, and hundreds of mosquesdestroyed as a result of the U.S. neocolonial invasion of Iraq which has apopulation of 24 million. Yet, the covert propaganda machine of the mediadiverted attention to the tsunami, which had 147,000 deaths in a populationarea of 2.5 billion people. Iraq has proportionally lost 100 times morelives than Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, disasters must be comparedproportionately and we should not allow the covert propaganda of the U.S.media about a natural disaster to distort the reality of premeditated massmurder of the people of Fallujah.No one has ever seen a vivid report of how the U.S. forces separated allmales of military age in Fallujah from their families, who were forced outof the city, then were hunted down like stray dogs and murdered in coldblood. We had been inundated, daily, by vivid reports of the effects of thetsunami immediately all over the world by the corporate media, yet as SheikAbbas al-Zubeini of Fallujah told IRIN: “The world should see the realpicture of Fallujah.”Indeed, it’s been months since the “Thanksgiving Massacre” of Fallujah in2004, which took place in memory of the first Thanksgiving Massacre of 700Pequot Indians in 1637, and the world has yet to see an investigative reportfrom the scenes of death and destruction in Fallujah. All we know is thatthe “city of a thousand mosques” was demolished so brutally that residentsspoke of even dogs not being able to live there. In the words of CaptainPaul Fowler to the Boston Globe: “The only way to root them out is todestroy everything in your path.”The “liberators” of Fallujah have not shown one picture of their presumed“liberated” population. Their proclaimed aim of rescuing Fallujah from AbuMusab al-Zarqawi was as phony and illusive as their overt propaganda aboutIraq’s WMD. Indeed the 300,000 people of Fallujah have disappeared from theworld radar scene. No one knows how many were murdered. The world hasforgotten the pains and suffering of citizens of this beautiful city, andwhile the UN assistance is pouring for the natural tsunami, no UN agency hasbothered to help the suffering masses of Fallujah.Indeed, a U.S.-made tsunami of bombs and missiles has been pounding thesmall country of Iraq every day for two years, with more than 100,000 deadand millions of displaced people, and the U.S. forces have successfullyprevented any report or body counts. The natural tsunami was over in one daywith virtually no long-lasting effects or long-term heath hazards to theaffected population, whereas the U.S. warplanes have dropped a half millionpounds of depleted uranium on Iraq, affecting the health, reproductiveorgans, and well-being of millions of Iraqis for generations to come. Thetsunami destroyed shacks and flimsy beach houses whereas the U.S. invasionforces in Fallujah destroyed the city of a thousand mosques and displaced300,000 people. Why do the mass media not show the faces, lives, and thecries for help of murder victims in Iraq?Why is there a conspiracy of silence about Iraq, with nobody talking? On theother hand, the mass media were fascinated by the feeding frenzy over thetsunami, and the meager U.S. humanitarian assistance to its victims. Did thetsunami provide the cover under which the suffering people of Iraq would beburied? Suddenly, the covert propaganda machine of the American corporationsand American government found in the tsunami their
[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] US military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmire
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:45 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] US military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmireReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/resi-j28.shtmlUS military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmirePeter Symonds, WSWS28 June 2005 - By any measure, the US military occupation of Iraq issteadily sinking into a quagmire of Washington’s own making. Successiveclaims by the Bush administration that the capture of Saddam Hussein inDecember 2003, the installation of an interim administration last June,national elections in January and the inauguration of the new puppetgovernment of Prime Minister Abrahim al-Jaafari in April would end armedresistance have proven to be completely illusory.There is no end in sight to the daily attacks on American and alliedmilitary personnel, or Iraqi government security forces. In London for talkswith British Prime Minister Tony Blair, al-Jaafari told the press yesterday:“I think two years will be enough, more than enough, to establish securityin our country.” His remarks reflect both wishful thinking and a ratherdesperate attempt to retain some credibility with the Shiite supporters whovoted for his United Iraqi Alliance because it promised to set a timetablefor US military withdrawal.The raw figures demonstrate the scope of the anti-occupation insurgency. UScasualties are running at the highest levels since the January election. InMay, 80 US personnel were killed and so far in June another 75 have died—anaverage of nearly three a day. The number of US deaths for the year to June27, is 890 and, since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the totalis 1,740.The number of attacks by armed insurgents averaged 57 a day for January andFebruary; dropped slightly to 53 a day in March and April, and hit 70 a dayin May. Figures are not yet available for June but there is no indicationthat armed resistance is abating. Over the past two months, 52 Iraqigovernment, legal and religious officials have been assassinated. At least1,338 people, including many Iraqi police and army personnel, have beenkilled since al-Jaafari formed his government on April 28.The attacks reported over the past few days give an indication of the levelof armed conflict. On Monday, a US Apache gunship crashed at Mishahda northof Baghdad killing both pilots. Eyewitnesses said the helicopter was shotdown by a rocket. According to Associated Press statistics, there have been20 fatal helicopter crashes since March 2003, in which 128 people have died.Yesterday also, a bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad killing at least fourpeople and injuring another 16. Another two people were killed by a roadsidebomb in northern Azamiyah neighbourhood.On Sunday, three suicide bombs killed at least 32 people in the northerncity of Mosul. The first blast took place when a pickup truck laden withexplosives slammed into a downtown police station, killing at least 10policemen and two civilians. Two hours later, 16 people lost their liveswhen a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Iraqi army base on the cityoutskirts. The third explosion at the Mosul’s Jumhouri Teaching Hospitalkilled five policemen and injured several others.Elsewhere in Iraq, another 18 more people were killed on Sunday, including aUS soldier whose convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Six Iraqisoldiers were gunned down outside their base north of the capital. Theprevious day in Mosul, a suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint,killing five officers and wounding two more.Last Thursday, a suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy near Fallujah,killing six American troops and injuring at least 13. The US media hasfocussed on the fact that three of the dead and 11 of the wounded werewomen, but the site of the attack is more significant. Last November, the USmilitary levelled much of Fallujah and put what remained of the city undertight martial law, yet it has clearly failed to eliminate armed anti-USresistance in the area.An article on the New York Times last week highlighted the difficultiesfacing US military commanders: “[W]ith recent American troop levels—139,000now—they have been forced to play an infernal board game, constantlyshuttling combat units from one war zone to another, leaving insurgentbuildups unmet in some places while they deal with more urgent problemselsewhere...“High-intensity operations like the one at Fallujah are like driving a stakeinto a hornets’ nest, many American officers say. They scatter theinsurgents, who regroup and return as soon as American troop numbers arereduced. Seven months after Fallujah was recaptured, in ruins, pockets ofinsurgents still operate in the city. Tal Afar, Mosul, Qaim, Haditha,Samarra, Ramadi, Hillah—all have been targets of coalition offensives, onlyfor the insurgents to come back, starting the circle over.”As the article explained, the number of effective
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-Caveat Lector- http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/all-both.htmlKey Financiers, Organizers and Groups linked to the American Liberty League:American LegionAssociation Against the Prohibition AmendmentSewell AveryThomas L. ChadbourneChamber of CommerceChristian AmericaAlbert ChristmasDr. Samuel H. ChurchRobert S. ClarkWilliam L. ClaytonCommittee for a Sound Dollar and Sound CurrencyCrusadersBill DoyleThe Dupont familyAlfred W. EricksonWalter E. FrewAlbert W. HawkesWilliam R. HearstHoward HeinzE.F. HuttonWilliam S. KnudsenDouglas MacArthurHanford MacNiderGerald MacGuireAndrew W. MellonNathan L. MillerGeorge M. MoffettJ.P. MorganGrayson M.-P. MurphyNational Association of ManufacturersOrder of '76Pitcairn familyJ. Howard PewJohn L. PrattJoseph M. ProskauerJohn J. RaskobDavid A. ReedHal RoachRockefeller AssociatesPauline SabinJouett ShouseAlfred P. Sloan, JrAlfred SmithSentinels of the RepublicSouthern Committee to Uphold the ConstitutionWilliam H. StaytonJames W. Wadsworth, JrErnest T. WeirJoseph E. WidenerWilliam Woodward SrSources: The above articles on the organizers, financiers and groups linked to the American Liberty League were written by Press for Conversion! editor Richard Sanders. Although most of the references are listed at the conclusion of each article, other more general reference materials were also used.Click here for these and other sources on the American Liberty League and the plot to overthrow FDR!The American Liberty LeagueBy Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!Lurking in the background behind the plot to oust FDR was the American Liberty League, a pro-business think-tank and ultra-right wing lobby group. Its treasurer was Jerry MacGuire’s boss, Grayson Murphy, a leading J.P. Morgan broker. One of its top donors was Robert Clark, who also tried to recruit General Smedley Butler into the conspiracy to oust President Franklin D. Roosevelt.The origins of the League were very closely tied to an earlier organization of multi-millionaires, motivated entirely by greed and self-interest, that concerned itself with repealing the alcohol prohibition laws, The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.General Butler testified to the MacCormack-Dickstein Committee that when he asked whether anything was “stirring” with regards to Jerry MacGuire’s wealthy backers’ plans for a “superorganization” to coordinate the coup against FDR, MacGuire predicted the American Liberty League’s emergence, saying: “Yes, you watch; in two or three weeks you will see it come out in the paper. There will be big fellows in it. This is to be the background of it.”Jules Archer, in The Plot to Seize the White House (1976), said the “link between the conspiracy and the powerful interests…in the background” was “the most significant” part of Butler’s testimony. However, MacGuire’s foreknowledge of the League and its links to the fascist plot were deleted from the Committee’s published report.Archer notes that Butler was “stunned” and “genuinely alarmed” upon reading of the League’s formation:"For the first time it dawned upon him that if the American Liberty League was the ‘superorganization’ behind the plot, [as] it seemed to be, the country’s freedom was in genuine peril. Such money and power as the men behind the League possessed could easily mobilize a thinly-disguised Fascist army from the ranks of jobless, embittered veterans and do what Mussolini had done in Italy with the financial support of the Italian plutocracy MacGuire had outlined...the conspirators’ plans for a putsch [coup], indicating it would easily succeed...because …the American Liberty League, was behind it with money and arms MacGuire revealed that the people behind him... could... raise $300 million for the putsch."On January 23, 1936, Senator Schwellenbach denounced all the “rascals and crooks who control the American Liberty League.” Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., said it cannot “be expected to defend the liberty of the masses of the American people. It speaks for the vested interests.”The League, funded by Wall Street’s leading fascists, received $500,000 during its first year alone. So much of this money came from the du Ponts that U.S. Postmaster General, Jim Farley, called it the “American Cellophane League” because, he said, it was a du Pont product that you could see right through. The du Ponts – through their control of the Remington Arms Co. – were also prepared to provide weapons for the Croix de feu-like veterans’ organization that the conspirators wanted Butler to lead as part of their plan to overthrow the government.With a staff of 50 in their 31-room, New York City headquarters, the League was FDR’s most formidable foe. It launched chapters at 26 colleges and universities and spawned 15 front groups across the country to spread anti-labour, anti-communist and anti-Semitic hatred. The League distributed 50 million copies of extremely right-wing, often blatantly fascistic, pamphlets. It bankrolled a speakers’
