[CTRL] torture missions, human trafficking, Mexico
-Caveat Lector- scroll http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1127557302245call_pageid=968332188492col=968705899037t=TS_HomeDPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAXtacodalogin=yes U.S. Navy contracted planes for torture missions SETHHETTENA SAN DIEGO — A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly contracted a 33-plane fleet that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used to fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. At least 10 U.S. aviation companies were issued classified contracts in 2001 and 2002 by the obscure Navy Engineering Logistics Office for the "occasional airlift of USN (Navy) cargo worldwide," according to Defense Department documents the AP obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Combat Human Trafficking - Establishes Human Trafficking as a Crime Strengthens Victims Compensation Fund http://www.governor.ca.gov/state/govsite/gov_htmldisplay.jsp?BV_SessionID=0625300294.1127861112BV_EngineID=addfmffcfngcfkmdffidfng.0sCatTitle=Press%20ReleasesFilePath=/govsite/press_release/2005_09/20050921_GAAS44405_Human_Trafficking_Signing.html article describes torture - fwd from L Moss Sharman - Bungling, cover-ups in 350 puzzling deaths - Mexican police, officials suspected of links to crimes by Ginger Thompson, New York Times 9/26/05 "International observers, human rights workers and federal authorities say it illustrates a disturbing pattern of malfeasance by state law enforcement authorities responsible for investigating Mexico's most gruesome murder mystery: the deaths of more than 350 women in this border area over the last decade, including at least 90 raped and killed in similar ways. Whether through incompetence, corruption or a lurid connection to the killings, the bungling and cover-ups are so extensive, federal investigators say, that the police and other officials have themselves become suspected of links to the crimes." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/26/MNG95EU1351.DTL 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] Fw: Lukashenko Belarus
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - Subject: Lukashenko Belarus Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen, To have an honest look at today?s world is the reason why state leaders haveconvened here at the United Nations. Together we must gain the understandingof the main thing: do we lead our countries and the mankind along the rightpath? We should answer this question for ourselves and our nations. Withoutthat we have no chance to get out of the deadlock that we are in.Fifteen years have passed since the break-up of my country, the USSR. Thatevent dramatically changed the world order. The Soviet Union, despite allmistakes and blunders of its leaders, was the source of hope and supportfor many states and peoples. The Soviet Union provided for the balance ofthe global system.Today the world is unipolar with all the consequences stemming from this.The once prosperous Yugoslavia was devastated and disappeared from the mapof Europe.The long-suffering Afghanistan became a hotbed of conflicts and drugs trafficking.A bloody slaughter in Iraq is continuing to the present day. The countryhas turned into a source of instability for the vast region.Iran and North Korea, Columbia, Cuba and other states are looked at throughgun sights.Belarus is a nation just like the majority represented in this hall. Havingemerged from the debris of the Cold War, Belarus has managed to become astate of advanced science and technology inhabited by ten million of highlyeducated and tolerant people. The UN ranked us as a developed country witha high level of human development.Like you, what we need from the world is peace and stability. Nothing more.The rest we shall create ourselves through our own efforts. My country isfree from conflicts. Different nations and nationalities peacefully coexistin Belarus each practicing religions of their own and having their own wayof life.We do not cause any trouble for our neighbours, do not have any territorialclaims, do not try to influence their choice of the way of development.We gave up our nuclear arms and voluntarily relinquished the rights of anuclear successor to the USSR.Today we shall sign the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of NuclearTerrorism. We also declare that we have decided to sign the Additional Protocolto the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the International AtomicEnergy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treatyon the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.We have established a lasting and successful union with Russia as our veryclose neighbour.We build our country using our own wits and on the basis of our own traditions.But it is obvious that this very choice of my people is not to everyone?spleasure. It doesn?t please those who strive to rule the unipolar world.Wonder how?If there are no conflicts - they are invented.If there are no pretexts for intervention - imaginary ones are created.To this end a very convenient banner was chosen - democracy and human rights.And not in their original sense of the rule of people and personal dignity,but solely and exclusively in the interpretation of the US leadership.Has the world really become so black-and-white, deprived of its diversityof civilizations, multicoloured traditions and ways of life meeting aspirationsof people?Of course not! The simple thing is that it is a convenient pretext and aninstrument to control other countries.Regrettably, the United Nations, though it belongs to us all, allows itselfto be used as a tool of such policy. I am saying this with particular bitternessand pain as President of the country that co-founded the UN, after sacrificingthe lives of one third of its people during the Second World War for thesake of our own freedom and the freedom of Europe and the entire world.The Human Rights Commission keeps mechanically stamping resolutions on Belarus,Cuba and other countries. Attempts are being made to impose such resolutionsalso on the UN General Assembly.But how can the United Nations be minding imaginary "problems" while unableto see true disasters and catastrophes? Those which nobody other than theUN as community of civilized nations can cope with?Quite recently, in the room next to ours we were shown maps and graphs allegedlydepicting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Were those weapons found?They do not exist. In the meantime, Iraq is bleeding, devastated, peoplebrought to utmost despair. Terrorists are threatening to use weapons of massdestruction against cities in Europe and America.Has there been an open and independent trial under UN supervision of theGuantanamo prisoners? How many of them are there and who are they?Who will defend the rights of the Abu Graib victims and punish all of theirtorturers without exception?Afghanistan was destroyed with rockets and bombs under the pretext of findingBin Laden. Was the world?s "number one terrorist" captured? Where is he now?He
[CTRL] Fw: [stopnato] US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: Fw: [stopnato] US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs Forward from mart The U.S. was caught red-handed,financing, aidingand *arming*anotherone it's "Orange Revolution" coups, this timeusingso-called "Islamic" insurgentsin anattempt to the overthrow the (formerly and up until now) "U.S.' best friend and ally",Uzbek government. Once again,further irrefutable proof that with"friends and allies" like the U.S. and NATO,you don't needs enemies! - mart via Rick Rozoff and Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs. Agence France-Presse- Sept. 27, 2005 http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050927215545.hyfdzuc0.html US military to leave Uzbek air base 'without further discussion': official TASHKENT - The US military will vacate a military airbase it had been using in Uzbekistan without furtherdiscussion, as demanded by the Uzbek authorities, asenior US official confirmed Tuesday. "We intend to leave the base without furtherdiscussion," Dan Fried, assistant secretary of statefor European and Eurasian affairs, told reportersafter meeting here with Uzbek President Islam Karimov. Fried also confirmed Washington would pay Uzbekistan23 million dollars for the past use of Karshi-Khanabadair base, also known as K-2, despite objections bymembers of the US Congress. Uzbekistan in July gave the US military six months toend operations at K-2, effectively severing apartnership that sprang up in 2001 on the eve of theUS military campaign to oust the Taliban inAfghanistan. Uzbek lawmakers ratified the evictionnotice last month. The base was a crucial staging area for US forcesoperating in northern Afghanistan, and after the warbecame a hub for flights carrying supplies for US and NATO forces in the country.Fried admitted to differences with Karimov during his meeting with the Uzbek leader. "We did not agree on all issues and made it clear we support civil society and NGOs around the world just like foreign NGOs can operate in the US [sic]," he said.He said his message to Uzbek officials was todetermine a basis on which US-Uzbek relations and cooperation could move ahead, provided such notions as democracy, human rights and political reforms were taken into account. He also denied allegations by one of 15 allegedIslamist insurgents on trial over the Andijanbloodshed that the US embassy had provided funding to his group. "The assertions about helping Islamic insurgents are ludicrous and not credible [sic]," he said. Fried was scheduled to meet representatives of Uzbek civil society groups on Wednesday, and was later due to visit Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for talks on bilateral and regional issues, including the fight against terrorism, officials said. = Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato To subscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == 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] PHARISEE WATCH: War, the American Tsunami, and Dilution, the Politicians' True Love
-Caveat Lector- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHTT BOOKSTORE IS OPEN for phone orders and mail orders only WAR, THE AMERICAN TSUNAMI, AND DILUTION, THE POLITICIANS' MEAL TICKET By Charles E. Carlson, 8/18/05 Don't be too quick to blame the administration for its slow response to Katrina. With his popularity dropping, there is nothing the President wants more than to look like humanitarians and peacemakers. Mr. Bush just doesn't know how! The American Tsunami took Washington by surprise because Washington is on a wartime footing and doesn't know how to carry out a friendly rescue. Remember when the Indonesian tsunami came along? Bush made himself look foolish by leaving a couple of zeros off on his first offer of help. Our President offered something like one dollar per victim, making America an incredible cheapskate when compared to other, poorer countries. Maybe he just couldn't bring himself to say sorry, we're spending all our money for war. If politicians and those who groom, elect, and control them (WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS CALLS THEM THE WARMAKERS) could cause natural disasters like this one, wars would be unnecessary. They would just respond to the disasters with photo-ops showing them holding babies or passing out food and be reelected for life. The complete destruction of a city is the most valuable event that could happen for the Warmakers who control our President. It beats war all to pieces as a control mechanism; for they can smile all the while they impose more restrictions on us and dilute our money. Have you noticed that while gas prices spiked to as high as $6.00 per gallon the stock market is standing firm? Wall Street smells a mainline injection of adrenaline on the way from Washington. Disasters, like wars, have their fans! For openers, President Bush has just asked Congress for $62.3 Billion just to get the clean up started(later estimates are up to $200 billion for Katrina alone). You are making a contribution, but most of it will land in the pockets of contractors. $63 billion is about $210.00 for every American man woman and child, $1000.00 for the already dilution pressed family of five. The Superdome says it needs a cool $100 million just to fix its roof. Who do you think will pay for it? This is in addition to the private aid. Who would dare to deny the needs of the tsunami or Katrina victims? What if it does cost the taxpayers a bit of dilution in lieu of taxes, who can object? But wait until you see the results on our way of life! Already there are people being dragged from their homes to make way for the giant corporate occupation of New Orleans while Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) makes huge contracts with their business contacts. The Washington Post recently described FEMA as burning 500 million a day in contracts for temporary housing. The single most important goal of American political leaders (or any politician) is to keep job levels up and to create the illusion of rising prosperity. This is done by diluting the currency--the result of spending money on vitally necessary causes that are, in fact, usually worthless and destructive, like the occupations of Iraq and Palestine, which are also paid for by American taxpayers. Some call this inflation, which is the act of paying for jobs that don't produce anything. It is not easy to produce a valuable product that does not exist beforehand, such as a quart of milk or a pound of oatmeal. Ask any farmer. No government we know of has ever been as successful in doing this as a farmer, and that includes the state of Israel. But it is easy to pay broken people, like those in New Orleans, to pick up garbage or clean up flood-destroyed homes. Non-productive work is an art form perfected by the government. Spending deflationary dollars for questionable causes is the essence of controlling people at every level, whether it's for war or for relief of suffering. Before I go further, tell me readers, do you really believe the poor people in the Gulf coast cites will every get enough of the billions that will be spent, to replace their homes? Fat chance... that's not how the system works. The aid goes for corporate welfare, for the Halliburton's of the world, just like it's doing in Baghdad! The result will be cheap jobs, not cheap homes. When New Orleans is cleared and reclaimed some few years from now, and the dykes again declared to be safe, most of the land will belong to entirely different people than those who now own the little parcels covered with salt water. The owners will have long since defaulted on their mortgages or taxes and lost the land lost the land. The only way for Americans to avoid the dollar dilution that will eventually destroy the commerce of the country (including the stock market and the real estate market) as surely as if we were all under water in New Orleans, is for organized, educated, involved citizens to demand that the federal government stay out. The
[CTRL] Jimmy Carter, democrats and radical left wing marxist lenninistsenvironmental groups are dead wrong on anwr
-Caveat Lector- Jimmy Carter and the Rest of the Democrats Are Dead Wrong on ANWR by Walter J. Hickel Posted Sep 23, 2005 Story Options Text Size: S M L printer-friendly email to a friend respond to this article Related Stories Nasty Hurricane Season Is Merely Part of a Cycle Hurricanes Crimp U.S. Refining Abilities OPEC Plans to Add 4 Million Barrels Per Day of Refining Capacity Scientists Denounce Scaremongering Environmental Activists On September 13, Jimmy Carter wrote an article for the Washington Post on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge titled Arctic Folly. While I respect the former President, I strongly disagree with his position on ANWR. Hurricane Katrina has already taught America much about our nation, including our energy vulnerability. That one storm removed 1 million barrels of oil a day from Americas lifelines, contributing to the previously unimaginable price of $65 per barrel of oil, the skyrocketing price of gasoline at the pump, and two airlines declaring bankruptcy. That terrible act of God took us by surprise, and we need to learn from it. One lesson is to use the natural resources God gave America to meet our own needs and to stop relying on the fuel shipped from abroad, especially from developing nations where it is being ripped from lands and seas with little heed for the environment. The first, and most obvious step, is to encourage Congress to open the most environmentally protected and promising oil province in North America: the coastal plain of ANWR. This issue is reaching the boiling point, heated by the hurricane, the high price of oil and environmental fears fed mostly by misinformation. Drill for Oil Congress is poised to forward a budget reconciliation bill to the President that includes ANWR authorization. If he receives it, he will sign it, and America can step out from the darkness of ignorance. The bill will signal that, after 25 years of debate, we have finally found the courage to face the most shocking environmental issue connected with U.S. oil consumption: the ongoing rape of oil-rich developing countries that have virtually no environmental restraints. For the past 60 years, I have watched or participated in the decisions regarding Alaskas sweeping coastal plain. In 1967, as governor of Alaska, I insisted that Atlantic Richfield continue drilling at the North Slope when it announced plans to pull out. You drill, or I will, was my threat. They heard me, drilled at Prudhoe Bay, and discovered the largest oil field in U.S. history, just 55 miles to the west of ANWR. In 1970, as U.S. secretary of the Interior, I launched the environmental studies that led to the authorization of the trans-Alaska pipeline. Those fields and that remarkable pipeline allow millions of Americans today to fill their gas tanks and heat their homes with energy produced in the U.S. Without Alaska oil, dependency on foreign imports would rise well above todays 60% of U.S. daily consumption. At issue is oil exploration in the so-called 1002 area, one-eighth of the 19-million-acre Arctic Refuge, most of which is set aside permanently from resource development. This small segment of the coastal plain, however, has long been recognized as the most promising untapped oil province in North America. In 1980, Congress mandated it be studied in depth. The intent was to open the coastal plain carefully and responsibly, not to lock it up. Unfortunately, since then, Congress has been intimidated by political pressure from the domestic environmental movement and its political spokesmen. The studies of ANWR have long been complete, and Congress is ready to move forward to allow exploration to begin, but it needs public support. From an Alaskan point of view, we find it difficult to understand the opposition, especially from those otherwise credible national figures who are willing to stretch the truth. Scarcer than domestic energy, it appears, is domestic integrity. Meanwhile, the public is victim to a bumper sticker debate. Who then should you believe? The most credible views are those of the Inupiat Eskimo who have lived on the coastal plain for thousands of years and have co-existed with and benefited from oil development; the biologists who have studied our Arctic wildlife for two generations; and the engineers who have designed the least disruptive oil development procedures in the world. The vast majority of these people believe that oil can be developed on the coastal plain without seriously disturbing the wildlife, and they know what ANWR oil can do for America. More Caribou Here are key facts about North Slope drilling: * Did you know most wildlife in the 1002 area are present for only six weeks each year? If you were to fly over the area today, you would find it difficult to spot any animals at all in what the environmental community claims is Americas Serengetiour pre-eminent wildlife sanctuary.
[CTRL] The Joy of Schadenfreude
-Caveat Lector- http://antiwar.com/justin/ September 28, 2005 The Joy of Schadenfreude The War Party is having a bad time of it hooray! by Justin Raimondo Ah, the joy of schadenfreude! There's really nothing quite like it. Wikipedia tells us there is no equivalent word in English, and defines this German _expression_ as meaning "pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune" or "shameful joy." In short, it means gloating, albeit of a very special kind, and these days there is plenty of opportunity to indulge in it to our heart's content and I intend to take full advantage of the opportunity. Let's start with the neocons' reactions to the gigantic antiwar march held in Washington this past weekend: if you like your humor dark and I do you'll get a horse laugh out of poor old David Horowitz, whose bile threatens to eat away at his insides until all that's left is a hollow husk: "100,000 Zarqawi supporters mass in D.C.," he screeches. Now there's a headline that surely deserves some sort of special recognition: Smear of the Year, or perhaps a prominent entry in Hysterical Outbursts of Note. And what vivid imagery it conjures! Seen through a Horowitzian prism, those 200,000-plus Americans from every walk of life who came to Washington to protest an unjust and intolerable war were really turbaned terrorists: instead of chanting "Peace, now!" what they were really saying was "Zar-qa-wi! Zar-qa-wi!" People like Horowitz, who made an abrupt right turn after signing on with the New Left in the 1960s and, in his case, filled a special niche as one of the leading groupies of the Black Panther Party are suffering from a severe form of ideological whiplash. So abrupt and traumatic was their turnaround, that, in many cases, they took leave of their senses: their brain rattled around in their skull so violently that the result was madness. The particular variety of mental derangement suffered by Horowitz manifests as a kind of political coprolalia. Although there may have been a time when he knew how to frame a real argument and make his case, his expostulations have degenerated, over the years, until they consist primarily of epithets. "Communist" and "Jew-hater" are two of his more mild descriptions of the marchers. By the beginning of the second paragraph, he is already comparing them to Hitler. This progressive derangement is not limited to Horowitz, but extends to his followers and employees (or do I repeat myself?). A recent item on Horowitz's appropriately named "Moonbat Central" blog denounces Lew Rockwell a man who would repeal the 20th century, and might not even stop there for being "leftist-like." The hallucinatory effects of drinking the Horowitzian Kool-Aid are readily apparent: if you don't support the war, the neocons, and the Bush regime, you're a "leftist." These people are so indoctrinated, so unwilling to consider anything outside their own narrow and cartoonishly simple paradigm, that they're no longer capable of perceiving even the vaguest outlines of reality. In this, they resemble nothing so much as old-time Stalinists, of the sort that Horowitz in his New Left Period at least pretended to abhor. This is fitting, as the American stance abroad increasingly takes on both the substance and style of Soviet policy toward Eastern Europe at the height of the Cold War era. Cato Institute analyst Justin Logan trenchantly describes our foreign policy as a "harebrained, warmed-over version of the Brezhnev Doctrine" the "Bushnev Doctrine" and the Sovietization of the conservative movement is one bizarre consequence of this development. Speaking of cartoons, another symptom of the ex-leftist-turned-neocon syndrome is the tendency to become a caricature of oneself, and surely Christopher Hitchens fits the bill in this regard. His reaction to the weekend's massive antiwar mobilization is that it represented a Popular Front of "fascism, Stalinism, and jihadism." No one can be sincere in opposing this war, according to Hitchens: we were all manipulated by an evil cabal consisting of the Workers World Party, which supposedly controls the International ANSWER coalition that co-sponsored the Washington march. No one has told Hitchens that Workers World has split into two rather tiny factions, and has left ANSWER: the two splinter groups, together no more than a few hundred, are hardly in a position to manipulate anyone. The main work of the march was accomplished by United for Peace and Justice, which Hitchens describes, somewhat grandiloquently, as "A very extended alliance between the Old and the New Left, some of it honorable and some of it redolent of the World Youth Congresses that used to bring credulous priests and fellow-traveling hacks together to discuss 'peace' in East Berlin or Bucharest." The hallucinatory effects of the neocon Kool-Aid are particularly strong in this little essay, where, it seems, time has run back. Suddenly we are living in the heyday of
