[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] New Zapatista Caracol Crea ted in Mexico
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: "Daniel A. Feder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: November 17, 2005 7:57:04 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [narconews] New Zapatista “Caracol” Created in MexicoReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- FONT COLOR="#99"Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page/FONTA HREF=""http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM">http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A~- November 17, 2005Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,Throughout August and September, Narco News brought you the mostcontinuous, in-depth coverage of beginning of the grassroots politicalprocess underway in Mexico, let by the Zapatista Army of NationalLiberation and known as the "Other Campaign." All of us here in theNarco Newsroom, and Narco News founder Al Giordano in particular, putso much effort into these reports because the Other Campaignrepresents a major historical turning point in Mexico's struggleagainst imposition from above, with the potential to finally,concretely, unite the struggle of Chiapas' indigenous Zapatista rebelswith the rest of Mexico.The seed planted in those long August and September meetings isbeginning to bare fruit. As first-time Narco News correspondent JuanTrujillo Limones reports from Mexico City, a new "caracol," orZapatista base community, has been declared in the historicsoutheastern Xochimilco area of that sprawling megalopolis. It is aninter-generational effort, with a council of grandmothers at the leaddiscussing how best to educate the youth in their own history ofresistance.The centerpiece of Trujillo's report is a conversation with theinauguration ceremony's star attendant, José Félix Serdán Nájera. Bornjust two years before Zapata's death in 1919, don Félix has struggledall his 88 years for Zapata's ideals, fighting alongside originalZapatista leader Rubén Jaramillo in that revolutionary's decades-longfight for justice in the state of Morelos."I was born a few years before General Zapata died," don Félix tellsTrujillo, "but I can tell you what my parents would tell me... It hada certain similarity [to the caracol], because Zapata's ideals werealways on the side of the humble people; this is the same thing that'shappening now. Zapatismo, represented at a national level by theChiapas revolutionaries, has the same ideal..."..."Right now, we unfortunately have the problem that we are governed bythe corrupt, by those that don't aspire to serve the people, butrather to be served by the people! To enrich themselves or at leastraise their own economic status at the cost of the people's hunger.So, my view is that this caracol could be the beginning of a moreconcrete struggle in favor of the oppressed."Read the full story, here, in The Narco News Bulletin:http://www.narconews.comFrom 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 emportuguês brasileiro:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasilYahoo! 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Even While Going Down the Drain, Business As Usual for the GOP
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: November 18, 2005 9:30:55 AM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Even While Going Down the Drain, "Business As Usual" for the GOP Congressional Republicans Advance Budget, Tax-Cut Plans Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans in the U.S. Congress advanced plans to trim federal spending and extend tax cuts early today as the House passed $50 billion in budget savings and the Senate agreed to $60 billion worth of tax cuts. The House plan targets Medicaid, food stamps, student aid and other benefit programs and follows Senate passage earlier this month of $35 billion in budget cuts. Negotiators for the two chambers will combine the measures into final legislation. ``If we do nothing tonight spending automatically increases and we have to go to the taxpayers and ask for more money,'' Representative Jim Nussle, an Iowa Republican and chairman of the House Budget Committee, said yesterday before the vote. Failing to extend tax cuts [for the rich] would amount to a tax increase that would hamper economic growth, he said. The Senate tax legislation would spare 14 million [wealthy] families from paying almost $30 billion in higher taxes next year under the alternative minimum tax. It also contains a $4.3 billion tax increase on oil companies that is opposed by the Bush administration. Both the spending and tax cuts would be phased in over five years. Passage came hours after Republican House leaders suffered a setback when lawmakers rejected a $142.5 billion measure setting fiscal year 2006 spending for federal health, labor and education agencies. Some House Republicans said it was defeated because it would have stripped about $1 billion [--only 1% of the total amount--] for special projects in lawmaker's districts. The tax and budget measures are central to President George W. Bush's effort to cut the federal deficit in half by 2009 and encourage economic growth. Democrats argue that the poor are shouldering too much of the burden of the spending cuts, while the tax cuts mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans and will worsen the deficit. The federal budget shortfall reached $319 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Capital Gains The House later today may consider a tax cut worth $56.6 billion over five years, the bulk of which comes from extending the 15 percent rate on dividends and capital gains, which is due to expire in 2008. The Senate assigns most of its tax reductions to preventing the alternative minimum tax from denying popular exemptions, deductions, and tax credits to families with incomes as low as $75,000, and doesn't extend the investment tax breaks. House passage of the $50 billion in spending cuts, by a 217- 215 vote early this morning, marked the first effort since 1997 to trim increases in spending on benefit programs that grow each year with inflation. The House and Senate may clash over more than the amount of spending cuts as the Senate version includes a provision to open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling. Alaska Oil Drilling Republican House leaders failed to win support from party members for putting the Alaska drilling provision in the budget plan and had to remove it from the House version. They also scaled back cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and a school lunch program to win enough votes among Republican members. House leaders dropped from a transportation measure the designation of $442 million for projects in Alaska, including one dubbed a ``bridge to nowhere,'' in an effort to gain support for the budget-cutting plan. The vote is a victory for House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, who is under pressure from Republican lawmakers to prove his effectiveness after replacing Tom DeLay as majority leader in September. The Senate proposal to impose a $4.3 billion tax on oil companies by denying a favorable accounting rule regarding inventories was overshadowing the larger tax-cutting measure. Refused to Delete Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and the tax-writing panel's ranking Democrat, Montana Senator Max Baucus, refused to delete the tax on energy companies even after the White House warned it might veto the measure because of it. ``This provision would result in a retroactive tax increase by changing a long-accepted accounting practice,'' the White House's Office of Management and Budget said in a statement released late yesterday. ``The president's senior advisers would recommend that the president veto the bill if this provision remains in the final legislation.'' Idaho Senator Michael Crapo said that provision ``could bring the entire bill down'' if it is part of a final version voted on later this year. Accounting Rules ``The accounting rules we have for businesses around the country should be uniform and we shouldn't resort to gimmicks to try to punish a particular sector of our economy,'' Crapo, a
[CTRL] Court denies privacy bid, assisting victims of abuse
-Caveat Lector- scroll Court denies L.A. Archdiocese privacy bid AP Los Angeles 11/17/05 "The state Supreme Court has upheld an appeals court ruling that forces the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese to turn over the personnel files of two former priests accused of molestation. The ruling issued Wednesday is the latest development in a battle between the Los Angeles County district attorney, who subpoenaed the private files three years ago, and the archdiocese." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Los_Angeles_Church_Abuse.html The Joshua Childrens Foundation was created for purpose of assisting victims of sexual child abuse. A very high percentage of persons with Bulimia and Eating Disorders, Alcoholism, and Addictions Have Been Sexually Abused as Children. We Are Here to Assist Both Adults and Children who have suffered from sexual child abuse. We also provide links to education and information for prevention of sexual child abuse." http://www.joshuachildrensfoundation.org/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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
