[CTRL] Fwd: U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Ex-Homeowners To Live In Their Cars
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 10:01:12 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Ex-Homeowners To Live In Their Cars AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 1:13:18 AM PDT Subject: U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Homeowners To Take Refuge In Their Cars [[I use/check this site *very* infrequently/only when necessary. Only reason I'm here is because I cannot Send w/ either my email prog. OR my ISP's mail website! VERY weird!! (I assume due to T- Mars being conj T-Uranus in Aquarius!?) So, please continue to SEND to my USUAL addy, okay!?? If you want to send here, *BCC* one to my Usual addy, please!!]] http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=457122007 *U.S. Mortgage Crisis Forces Homeowners To Take Refuge In Their Cars* By SUE ZEIDLER IN LOS ANGELES The Scotsman Sat. 24 Mar 2007 THEY are victims of the United States' growing mortgage crisis -- low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime. But in Los Angeles, where having a car is as essential as owning a home, many are sleeping in their vehicles to ensure a roof over their head. Campaigners for the homeless expect more to hole up in their cars as they lose homes due to the problems that have dogged subprime mortgages -- those granted to low-earners with little capital of their own. The trend comes despite the fact that sleeping in a car is illegal in the Los Angeles area. The subprime meltdown is the kind of situation that pushes people into cars. It's a very common story, said Ruth Hollman, of Self- Help And Recovery Exchange, a group that helps homeless people. Advocates hope Los Angeles will adopt programmes in place in cities such as Eugene, Oregon, and Santa Barbara, California, that enable people to live in cars while receiving services they need to get back on track. It's an old saying in social services that most people are one to six paychecks away from being homeless. But if you can't make your mortgage, it's more like a month or two, said William Wise, of the relief agency St. Vincent de Paul of Eugene, which works to find overnight parking spots for homeless people. Without such spots, people forced to sleep in their cars fear being towed and ticketed by police, as well as being attacked by thugs and facing public scorn. Emily Love, 61, was sleeping in her car in Marina Del Rey, California, when two youths smashed her windscreen with a shopping trolley. A week later, she was back in the car. After her car was attacked, the former teacher sat staring at the shattered glass. I don't like to talk to the cops. They don't like people sleeping in their cars, she said in her car crammed with her possessions, including two cats. Government figures say there are about 754,000 homeless people in the U.S., about 300,000 more than available beds in shelters and transitional housing. Many of the temporarily homeless get into deeper trouble because they try to keep it quiet and do not seek help. Philip Mangano, of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, said he strongly opposed programmes that sanction living in cars. It's a national tragedy that we are resorting to these plans. It doesn't measure up to the promise of America, he said. Mr. Mangano has been working with cities to develop ten-year plans to end vagrancy through a new business-oriented approach that has cut homelessness in cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia. The number of people living in cars is hard to calculate, but Ruth Hollman said a recent estimate of 1,000 in Los Angeles was far below the actual figure. She said some people living in their cars pay gym memberships so they can shower, and attend training courses or have jobs. One man I know goes to college and people there don't even know he's homeless, she said. [Last updated: 24-Mar-07 03:22 BST] 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Iraq Is Vietnam - And You'd Better Believe It!
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 10:22:39 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Iraq Is Vietnam - And You'd Better Believe It! Vietnamization was not a military strategy. It was a public- relations campaign. The White House hoped that Vietnamization would keep the house of cards upright [until the next election], providing what C.I.A. veteran Frank Snepp famously called a decent interval that could mask the American defeat by declaring that the fate of South Vietnam now was the responsibility of the South Vietnamese. If they didn't want freedom badly enough to win, well, we had done our best. To make this deceitful drama work, however, the pullout had to be gradual. The plan (Vietnamization) had to be easily explained to the American people. And the U.S. training force left behind had to be large enough and exposed enough to provide visual signs of our commitment on the 6 o'clock news. Pictures of Americans shaking hands with happy peasants would support the lie that Vietnamization was succeeding. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 25, 2007 10:00:44 PM PDT Subject: Iraq Is Vietnam - And You'd Better Believe It! *Iraq Is Vietnam - And You'd Better Believe It* By John Graham t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Tuesday 19 December 2006 I was a civilian advisor/trainer in Vietnam, arriving just as U.S. troops were going home. I wasn't there to fight, but I hadn't been in country a week before I learned that the word noncombatant didn't mean much where I was posted, fifty miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that then divided South Vietnam from North. I got the message when a sniper's bullet whistled past my ear on the main highway twenty miles south of HuŽ. Joe Jackson, the burly major who was driving, yelled at me to hold on and duck as he gunned the jeep out of range, zigzagging to spoil the sniper's aim. Snipers or not, in 1971 it was the U.S. government's policy not to issue weapons to civilian advisors in Vietnam, even to those of us in distant and dangerous outposts. The reason was not principle, but PR -- and here begin the lessons for Iraq. Sometime in 1969, the White House, under siege from the public and faced with unrelenting facts on the ground, quietly made the decision that America couldn't win its war in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger didn't put it that way, of course. America was a superpower, and it was inconceivable that it could lose a war to a third-rate nation whose soldiers lived on rice and hid in holes in the ground. So, the White House conceived an elaborate strategy that would mask the fact of an American defeat. The U.S. would slowly withdraw its combat troops over a period of several years, while the mission of those who remained would change from fighting the North Vietnamese and Vietcong to training the South Vietnamese to carry on the fight on their own. At the same time, we would give the South Vietnamese a series of performance ultimatums which, if unmet, would trigger a total withdrawal and let us blame the South Vietnamese for the debacle that would follow. This strategy was called Vietnamization. Implementing it cost at least 10,000 additional American and countless more Vietnamese lives, plus billions of dollars. It was a rigged game from the start. All but the wildest zealots in Washington knew that the South Vietnamese would not and could not meet our ultimatums: an end to corrupt, revolving-door governments; an officer corps based on merit, not cronyism; and the creation of a national state that enjoyed popular allegiance strong and broad enough to control the political and cultural rivalries that had ripped the country's fabric for a thousand years. During the eighteen months I was in Vietnam, I met almost no Americans in the field who regarded Vietnamization as a serious military strategy with any chance of success. More years of American training could not possibly make a difference in the outcome of the war, because what was lacking in the South Vietnamese Army was not just combat skills but belief in a cause worth fighting for. But none of that was the point. Vietnamization was not a military strategy. It was a public-relations campaign. The White House hoped that Vietnamization would keep the house of cards upright for at least a couple of years, providing what C.I.A. veteran Frank Snepp famously called a decent interval that could mask the American defeat by declaring that the fate of South Vietnam now was the responsibility of the South Vietnamese. If they didn't want freedom badly enough to win, well, we had done our best. To make this deceitful drama work, however, the pullout had to be
[CTRL] Fwd: US Will Strike Iran in 10 Days, Russian Military Intelligence Sources Claim
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 10:31:00 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: US Will Strike Iran in 10 Days, Russian Military Intelligence Sources Claim http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/ April 6 Sneak Attack By US Forces On Iran Planned -- Russian Military Sources Warn WASHINGTON DC -- The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 a.m. on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well- known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly Argumenty Nedeli. Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account. - The Secret White House Communication System GWB43 is the name of an internet server owned by the Republican National Committee. The White House has its own internal email system, ending in the .gov suffix, as mandated by the Presidential Records Act. The law requires that public business be conducted on a public server. Yet documents made public in the course of the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal reveal that key Administration figures used such email addresses ending with gwb43.com. This story by Joseph Cannon deserves the widest possible circulation. Patrick Fitzgerald needs to see it. - The GOPedophiles Are Alive and Well Inside the George Bush Justice Department This is from World Net Daily! The conservative are turning on Gonzales. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's minor boy inmates. Among the charges in the Texas Ranger report were that administrators would rouse boys from their sleep for the purpose of conducting all-night sex parties. Sex with young boys! I knew the Gonzales case was lacking something. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Wall Street Is Paved with the Bones of 9/11 Victims
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 11:03:08 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wall Street Is Paved with the Bones of 9/11 Victims 9/11 remains possibly used on roads: court papers By Edith HonanFri Mar 23, 7:59 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/ts_nm/sept11_remains_dc Debris that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads, according to court papers filed on Friday. The charge was made in an affidavit filed in Manhattan federal court in an ongoing case filed in 2005 by family members of those killed in the attacks against the city. They say the city did not do enough to search for remains, denying victims a proper burial. Eric Beck, a construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the borough of Staten Island, where the rubble was taken after the Twin Towers fell, said in his affidavit that the process of sifting through the debris was rushed. Beck said he saw sanitation workers removing small pieces of debris containing possible bone fragments and loading them onto tractors, and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts. Kimberly Miu, a spokeswoman for the city's legal office, declined to comment on the latest filing, saying it would be inappropriate to talk about a pending motion. The WTC Families for Proper Burial, the group that filed the suit, has also battled the city over how to honor the 2,749 people who died in the attacks on the Twin Towers. Some relatives of victims have opposed any effort to rebuild on Ground Zero, calling it sacred ground and saying it would disrespect those who perished there. Construction of the planned memorial and skyscraper has repeatedly been delayed, in part due to concerns expressed by victims' families. The remains of about 40 percent of the victims were never recovered, and hundreds of bone fragments have been discovered in and around Ground Zero in the last six months, the lawsuit says. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Number One Priority in Bush's Justice Department: OBSTRUCTING Justice
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 10:51:19 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Number One Priority in Bush's Justice Department: OBSTRUCTING Justice Why did the Tom DeLay investigation stop? by: Texas Nate Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 14:07:34 PM CST http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3131 In the fall of 2005 dominos were falling fast in the Jack Abramoff investigation. And they were falling in one very clear direction, closer and closer to Tom DeLay. First DeLay's former communications director fell: On November 21st, 2005, Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff's partner in the Indian fraud and bribery schemes, pled guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Then DeLay's former deputy chief of staff fell: Tony Rudy pled guilty March 31st, 2006 to one count of Conspiracy. He was a former aide to Tom DeLay, a colleague of Jack Abramoff's and then a lobbyist at Alexander Strategy Group. He was named (Staffer A) as a coconspirator in Abramoff's plea The charge carries a maximum of five years, but because of Rudy's cooperation, prosecutors will recommend a sentencing range between two years and two years, six months. Rudy will pay at least $250,000 in restitution. And it looked like the former Chief of Staff was next: Ed Buckham, one-time chief of staff to Tom DeLay and later Chairman of the lobbying firm Alexander Strategy Group, appeared in Tony Rudy's guilty plea as Lobbyist B. According to the plea, Buckham helped in routing $50,000 in payments to Rudy's wife's consulting firm - the money was to bribe Rudy for his help defeating a bill on behalf of Jack Abramoff's client. The plea also states that Rudy worked to bring other congressional aides on a trip to the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in part to benefit Buckham. The CNMI was a client of Abramoff's, but he seems to have shared the CNMI with Buckham. In January 2006 Buckham shut down his business. In June 2006 the Washington Post revealed this choice nugget: A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the late 1990s for the wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of dollars to it while also paying her a salary to work for him from her home in Texas, according to sources, documents and DeLay's attorney, Richard Cullen. The account represents a small portion of the income that DeLay's family received from entities at least partly controlled by lobbyist Edwin A. Buckham. But the disclosure of its origin adds to what was previously known about the benefits DeLay's family received from its association with Buckham, and it brings the total over the past seven years to about half a million dollars. Since then.nothing. No Buckham plea. No indictments. Nothing.was a U.S. Attorney fired to prevent the investigation from continuing to inexorably close in on Tom DeLay? Nope. But something very fishy did indeed take place. The lead investigator was given a Federal Judgeship, a new division chief with connections to the GOP machine was appointed (AND REPORTEDLY, TO THE DELAY DEFENSE TEAM ITSELF) and presto...no more momentum in the investigation. Only trial attorney Martin Garbus spoke up at the time, in two the Huffington Post. First: President George W. Bush has not made many moves more unethical than offering Noel L. Hillman, the Abramoff prosecutor, a federal judgeship. Hillman has apparently been talking with Bush's representatives since last year, and on last Thursday, he publicly announced he was accepting the appointment. Let me make this perfectly clear. At the same time that Mr. Hillman was conducting a grand jury and submitting evidence aimed at Bush's allies and perhaps Bush himself, he was meeting with Bush, who was, in effect, offering him a bribe. Mr. Hillman, Bush is saying, leave the job, let me put someone else in your stead, someone I want. Forget, says Mr. Bush, that you have been in charge of the investigation for two years, that you have been involved on a day-to-day basis, and that your leaving seriously impedes the investigation. ... I do not personally know Mr. Hillman. Thus far, his public actions seem to warrant only applause. But Hillman's boss is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Neither has said a word about the offer and its acceptance. The public is entitled to know more. But Bush is getting away with it. There's been very little press coverage. Alito, Hamas, Iraq, and Oprah Winfrey have buried the story. The Democrats should insist on the appointment of a special prosecutor to fill Mr. Hillman's position. Attorney General Gonzales should not be permitted to designate Hillman's successor. This, unlike the botched up Alito hearings, is a war we can win. We should not let Bush appoint his own person, someone like
[CTRL] Fwd: Prviacy Rights?? HA!! The T.I.A. Continued Secretly Under D.H.S. th...
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 5:52:07 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Prviacy Rights?? HA!! The T.I.A. Continued Secretly Under D.H.S. th... AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 9:37:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], com Subject: Prviacy Rights?? HA!! The T.I.A. Continued Secretly Under D.H.S. the N.S.A.!!. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ Click here for ordering information on books by Wayne Madsen. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Books%20in%20Print%20by%20Wayne %20Madsen.htm Read and endorse the Nuremberg Declaration calling for the United States to accede to the International Criminal Court and bring U.S. war criminals to justice. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/nuremberg_declaration.htm THE NEWS: March 26, 2007 -- *Coming this week: A remote pod cast on U.S. Attorneys firing scandal.* Also, U.S. and Israeli intelligence officers present in Bali before the 2002 terrorist bombings, havoc in the privatized Santiago, Chile mass transit system, and Nuclear Pakistan on the brink of a breakup. March 26, 2007 -- *WMR has been reporting for some time on the massive theft of personal data by a covert U.S. intelligence black bag program to populate a renewed secret Total Information Awareness System series of databases.* Since being cut off from funding by Congress in 2003, the T.I.A. has continued secretly under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. WMR’s sources in the Intelligence Community have told us on background that many of the so-called data thefts are being carried out by U.S. intelligence black bag teams operating outside of legal authority. T.I.A.'s former program director, Iran-contra felon Admiral John Poindexter, resigned in August 2003 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D.A.R.P.A.) Total Information Awareness Office (I.A.O.) after details of the project emerged. After Congress cut funding, the I.A.O. was closed and its logo, featuring a Masonic all-seeing eye atop a pyramid scanning the earth, was retired. T.I.A. was an offshoot of Poindexter’s Genoa project, a deep data mining system developed by SYNTEK, Inc., a company for which he served as Senior Vice President. Poindexter has also worked for other companies engaged in mass data surveillance, including Saffron Technology, Inc. and Presearch, Inc. However, according to Wired magazine, the T.I.A.'s clone has been developed, in conjunctions with Poindexter’s former assistants at I.A.O., by the government of Singapore, one of the most invasive governments in the world when it comes to personal surveillance. The new T.I.A., called Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (R.A.H.S.), was unveiled. In January, Poindexter joined the board of BrightPlanet, a Sioux Falls-based company that markets one of the most-invasive data-mining systems in the world and has the U.S. Intelligence Community as a priority target in its marketing plans. Poindexter's Total Information Awareness System is back, with chopsticks. BrightPlanet's partners include: -- Lockheed Martin, the world's largest war profiteer; -- Factiva, a Dow Jones company that gathers open source news information; -- Basis Technology, which extracts meaningful intelligence from unstructured text in Asian, European, and Middle Eastern languages; -- Convera, which markets software tools that searches video, image, and audio information, in multiple languages; -- ASP Solutions Ltd., which provides information services with Internet Monitoring Surveillance at the core; -- Klinx, which harvests content from sources throughout the Internet, including the Deep Web; and, -- Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems, which claims it is comprised of talented, visionary and dedicated individuals from around the globe who have come together with common cause. Embracing the forces of globalisation [sic] and technology, they embody the very spirit that the enemy seeks to destroy. Unrestrained by nationality and not beholden to political leaders, Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems represents the future of global security provision. Phoenix is composed of 40 concerned citizens who monitor the Internet to look for terrorists and pass tips on to the government. A cyber- vigilante group is more like it -- former C.I.A. Counter-terrorism chief Vince Cannistraro called Phoenix's work a vigilante kind of activity in an interview last August with the Argus (South Dakota) Leader. Wired reports that two of Poindexter’s chief assistants at I.A.O., John Peterson of the Arlington Institute, and Dave Snowden. Were top consultants on developing R.A.H.S. Snowden is
[CTRL] Fwd: IMPEACH
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 1:50:37 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IMPEACH IMPEACHMENT THREAT IS REAL John Nichols The Nation, March 27, 2007 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/opinion/main2612221.shtml Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough had me on his MSNBC show Monday night to talk about impeachment. It was smart, civil discussion that treated the prospect of impeaching the president as a serious matter. Scarborough took the lead in suggesting that Bush's biggest problem might be that Republicans in the House and Senate who — fearful of the threat Bush poses to their political survival — do not appear to be rallying 'round the president. The host's sentiments were echoed by two other guests, columnist Mike Barnicle and Salon's Joan Walsh. The impetus for the show was Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel's ongoing discussion of the impeachment prospect — Hagel's not quite a supporter of sanctioning Bush, more a speculator about the prospect — and a new column by Robert Novak that suggests Bush has dwindling support within the congressional wing of the GOP. Speaking about impeachment on ABC's This Week, Hagel said, Any president who says 'I don't care' or 'I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else' or 'I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed' — if a president really believes that, then there (are) ways to deal with that. Novak wrote The I-word (incompetence) is used by Republicans in describing the Bush administration generally. Several of them I talked to described a trifecta of incompetence: the Walter Reed hospital scandal, the FBI's misuse of the Patriot Act and the U.S. attorneys firing fiasco. 'We always have claimed that we were the party of better management,' one House leader told me. 'How can we claim that anymore?' Scarborough drew the two statements together for the purpose of asking whether Bush could count on Republicans to block moves by Congressional Democrats to hold Bush to account for high crimes and misdemeanors. When a conservative commentator who was on the frontlines of Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution entertains a thoughtful conversation about the politics and processes of impeachment on a major cable news network, it should be clear that the cloistered conversation about sanctioning this president has begun to open up. No, Scarborough is not jumping on the impeachment bandwagon. He is simply treating the prospect seriously, as did CNN's Wolf Blitzer earlier in the day. What I told Scarborough is what I have been saying in public forums for the past several weeks: We are nearing an impeachment moment. The Alberto Gonzales scandal, the under-covered but very real controversy involving abuses of the Patriot Act and the president's increasingly belligerent refusals to treat Congress as a co-equal branch of government are putting the discussion of presidential accountability onto the table from which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tried to remove it. Does this mean Bush and Cheney will be impeached? That, of course, will be decided by the people. Impeachment at its best is always an organic process; it needs popular support or it fizzles — as with the attempt by House Republican leaders to remove former President Clinton in a process that, fairly or not, seemed to be all about blue dresses. While the people saved Clinton — by signaling to their representatives that they opposed sanctioning a president's personal morals — it does not appear that they are inclined to protect Bush. With each new revelation about what Gonzales did at the behest of the Bush White House to politicize prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys, the revulsion with the way this president has disregarded the Constitution and the rule of law becomes more intense. And citizens are not cutting their president much slack. A new USA Today/Gallup Poll — conducted over the weekend — shows that, by close to a 3-to-1 margin, Americans want Congress to issue subpoenas to force White House officials to testify in the Gonzales case. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed say the president should drop his claim of executive privilege in this matter, while only 26 percent agree with the reasoning Bush has used to try and block a meaningful inquiry. If the president wants to get in a fight with Congress over how to read the Constitution, it appears that the people will back Congress. And that backing is what will begin to restore the backbones of House members who, despite Pelosi's attempts to quiet talk of impeachment, are getting more and more intrigued by the prospect of holding this president to account. As Hagel says, This is not a monarchy. There are ways to deal with (executive excess). And I would
[CTRL] Fwd: On the Brink of War with Iran, Pole Shift Occurs in the Middle East
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 8:57:04 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: On the Brink of War with Iran, Pole Shift Occurs in the Middle East Accept peace plan or face war, Arab World Tells Israel By David Blair, in Riyadh The Telegraph (UK), 28/03/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/28/ wisrael28.xml The lords of war will decide Israel's future if it rejects a blueprint for peace crafted by the entire Arab world, Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister warned yesterday. As leaders began gathering in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for today's summit of the Arab League, Prince Saud al-Faisal told The Daily Telegraph that the Middle East risks perpetual conflict if the peace plan fails. Saudi foreign minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal, right, and Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League Under this Saudi-drafted proposal, every Arab country would formally recognise Israel in return for a withdrawal from all the land captured in the war of 1967. This would entail a Palestinian state embracing the entire West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital. Every Arab country will almost certainly endorse this blueprint when the Riyadh summit concludes tomorrow. Prince Saud said Israel should accept or reject this final offer. What we have the power to do in the Arab world, we think we have done, he said. So now it is up to the other side because if you want peace, it is not enough for one side only to want it. Both sides must want it equally. Speaking inside his whitewashed palace, surrounded by luxuriant lawns and manicured flower beds resembling a green oasis in the drabness of Riyadh, Prince Saud delivered an unequivocal warning to Israel. If Israel refuses, that means it doesn't want peace and it places everything back into the hands of fate. They will be putting their future not in the hands of the peacemakers but in the hands of the lords of war, he said. Prince Saud dismissed any further diplomatic overtures towards Israel. It has never been proven that reaching out to Israel achieves anything, he said. Other Arab countries have recognised Israel and what has that achieved? The largest Arab country, Egypt, recognised Israel and what was the result? Not one iota of change happened in the attitude of Israel towards peace. Israel has numerous reservations about the Arab peace plan -- which was previously proposed at a summit in 2002. Israel fears any hint that Palestinian refugees would have the right to return to their homes in the event of a peace settlement. Prince Saud is the 66-year-old son of the late King Faisal. Relieved of the need to seek re-election, he has held office for 32 years. Flush with oil money, Saudi Arabia is playing a more assertive role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. As well as securing the Arab peace plan, the Kingdom brokered the agreement between Hamas and Fatah -- the two Palestinian factions -- to form a unity government. But western diplomats in Riyadh believe this resurgence in Saudi diplomacy stems from more than the kingdom's oil boom. The menacing spectre of Iran, the rising Shia power with nuclear- tipped ambitions for regional dominance, looms large across the waters of the Gulf. Saudi Arabia is quietly moving to contain its bellicose neighbour. Prince Saud offered conciliatory words to Iran, laced with coded criticism. We have no inhibitions about the role of Iran, he said. It is a large country. It wants to play a leading role in the region, and it has every right to do so. It is an historic country. But if you want to reach for leadership, you have to make sure that those you are leading are having their interests taken care of and not damaged. Saudi Arabia has privately urged Iran to stop enriching uranium, in compliance with United Nations resolutions and lay to rest any suggestion that it is seeking nuclear weapons. Prince Saud called for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons with no exceptions for anybody, be it Israel or Iran. Asked whether the kingdom would consider seeking nuclear weapons of its own if Iran managed to acquire a bomb, Prince Saud replied: We have made it very clear that we are not going down that road under any circumstances. He paused for a moment, before adding, under any foreseeable circumstances. -- Teheran backs Arab peace plan, say Saudis By Tim Butcher, Middle East Correspondent The Telegraph (UK), 07/03/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml;jsessionid=QB0FXOE2OXEAXQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/ 2007/03/05/wiran05.xml Saudi Arabia claimed an important diplomatic breakthrough yesterday when it said Iran had agreed to support an Arab peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. King
[CTRL] Fwd: Democracy Dreaming
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 1:38:03 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Democracy Dreaming http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ article17414.htm*Democracy Dreaming* By Joel S. Hirschhorn 03/26/07 ICH -- What is this thing called democracy? So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real. Pure democracy is not what our Founders gave us. Who would want a simple majority to control the minority? Instead, America was given a representative democracy within a constitutional republic where laws that protect all people trump majority rule. Standing between majority-won elections and government power are elected representatives: writing, overseeing and implementing laws. But when you can no longer trust the elected representatives what happens to American democracy? It becomes an oxymoron. We have arrived at a delusional democracy. Delusional because Americans overwhelmingly cannot admit the painful truth that their limited democracy no longer works for the good of most citizens. Instead, through corruption and dishonesty, our representative democracy has morphed into a plutocracy that serves the wealthy, power elites and corporate masters that control the political system and through that the economic system. The Framers of the Constitution had deep concerns about the long-term viability of the government structure they created. Some think that the checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government preserve its integrity. Really? The money that controls the legislative branch also controls the executive branch, and both of those control the judicial branch. Even worse, it has become clearer to increasing numbers of Americans that many parts of the Constitution -- the supreme law of the land -- have been directly or more deviously disobeyed or distorted. Constitutional rule is a myth. We have a Congress that gives its constitutional power to declare war to the President and refuses to impeach him for his many violations of laws. We have a President that openly signs laws but says he will not honor them. We have a Supreme Court that decides who becomes President rather than the voters and often amends the Constitution unconstitutionally. We have elections that are not to be trusted. We have a government using free trade globalization hogwash to sell out the middle class. We have rising economic inequality that is creating a two-class society: the wealthy Upper Class and the Lower Class for everyone else. Overlaid on this delusional system is the myth that having just two major political parties somehow is right and necessary for our representative democracy. In reality, partisan differences are just another layer of corruption, dishonesty and deceit. Artificial political competition distracts. Big money from the wealthy and corporate and other special interests controls both parties, producing mutually assured corruption. They are two faces of the same coin, two heads of the same monster, two puppets controlled by the same masters. Of course the two-party system provides stability. It has stabilized a criminally corrupt government. Delusional political competition supports a delusional democracy based on a set of delusional checks and balances. The whole system that once worked has become a sham.Did the Framers anticipate that their system could become such a travesty? They did. So, in addition to the better known parts of the Constitution, they imbedded what might be called a legal loophole -- a kind of escape clause, just in case things went terribly wrong. They have. The public is largely ignorant of Article V’s option for a convention, when asked for by two-thirds of states, to propose amendments to the Constitution. Worse, nearly all people with political power have opposed using it. Even worse, despite Article V explicitly saying that Congress shall call such a convention when a sufficient number of states have asked for one -- and that is the ONLY specified constitutional requirement -- for over 200 years Congress has willfully disobeyed the constitution and NOT granted a convention. In fact, Congress never had the integrity and constitutional respect to even set up a system of any kind to collect state requests for an Article V convention. Still, we know from the hard work of many that there have been well over 500 such state requests. People with power in the present corrupt political system fear an Article V convention. Operating independently of Congress and the White House, it might reduce their power and ignite widespread public interest in deep reforms. One trick of the power elites has been to fool people that an Article V convention would inevitably become runaway
[CTRL] Fwd: Sociopath's Rulebook
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 1:48:27 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sociopath's Rulebook Never allow the public to cool off; Never admit a fault or wrong; Never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; Never leave room for alternatives; Never accept blame; Concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it. -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi chief of propaganda *Propaganda: The similarities between G.W. Bush and Goebbels speeches* http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4433.htm http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cyjva5bab.0.8efxa5bab.iqnuv6bab. 16273ts=S0235p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info% 2Farticle4433.htm Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what happened once in 6,000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American experiment should fail, anarchy will rule the whole world forever after. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Bush's Supreme Court Gives Notice to Whistleblowers
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 10:21:08 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush's Supreme Court Gives Notice to Whistleblowers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/ AR2007032700894_pf.html Court Rules Against Whistle-Blower By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press Tuesday, March 27, 2007; 4:15 PM WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court left an 81-year-old retired engineer without a penny to show for his role in exposing fraud at a former nuclear weapons plant in a ruling that makes it harder for whistle-blowers to claim cash rewards. James Stone stood to collect up to $1 million from a lawsuit he filed in 1989 against Rockwell International, now part of aerospace giant Boeing Co., over problems with environmental cleanup at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denver. A court eventually ordered Rockwell to pay the government nearly $4.2 million for false claims the company submitted. Stone could have received up to a quarter of Rockwell's payment, under the False Claims Act. But Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in the 6-2 ruling Tuesday, said Stone was not entitled to recover any money because he lacked direct and independent knowledge of the information upon which his allegations were based. Scalia said Stone had little connection to the jury's ultimate verdict against Rockwell. The company must pay the entire penalty anyway. The only question before the court was whether Stone would get a cut. The outcome was cheered by business groups that wanted the court to limit whistle-blowers in false claims lawsuits. Since Congress reinvigorated the Civil War-era law in 1986, those suits have returned $11 billion to the government. Recent high-profile cases include settlements with leading pharmaceutical manufacturers. Robin Conrad, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Chamber Litigation Center, said the decision is a very important victory for every government contractor. The decision will cause whistle-blowers, or relators, to think twice before they file false claims lawsuits, said Peter B. Hutt II, an expert in false claims lawsuits in Washington. The principal thing the court did is essentially try to preclude relators from engaging in fishing expeditions, said Hutt, a lawyer at the Miller and Chevalier firm. James Moorman, president of the advocacy group Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, agreed. Individuals whose information leads the government to pursue fraud can be told years later that they can't collect anything, Moorman said. No whistle-blower can afford to pursue a case to resolution under these circumstances, he said. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a leading congressional supporter of whistle-blower claims, said lawmakers should consider changes to the False Claims Act to make sure people are rewarded when they uncover wrongdoing. The Supreme Court has made it even more difficult to get to the bottom of waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money, Grassley said. The Bush administration sided with Stone, arguing that it was in the government's interest to encourage whistle-blowers, even though the government keeps more money now that Stone has lost. Hartley Alley, a Colorado-based lawyer who represented Stone, said the decision fails to recognize the importance of Stone's actions at Rocky Flats, now a Superfund cleanup site. He is the one primarily responsible for exposing the criminal activities of Rockwell International at Rocky Flats, Alley said. In nearly four decades, some 70,000 plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs were made at Rocky Flats. Production was halted in 1989 because of chronic safety problems, prompting a raid by FBI agents. The Cold War ended before production could resume. The company pleaded guilty in 1992 to violating federal environmental laws. Alley said Stone, who lives in Wheat Ridge, Colo., would not agree to an interview. Stone is pursuing one remaining unresolved claim about operations at Rocky Flats, Alley said. Once allegations are disclosed publicly, often by the media, individuals face a higher hurdle in bringing fraud suits on the government's behalf. Otherwise, people could read a newspaper account or an indictment and then rush to the courthouse to file suit. The major exception to this rule is if an individual is an original source of the information, which Stone said he was. Stone did not file suit until after problems at Rocky Flats became public. He did, however, approach federal investigators with information about environmental issues before news accounts were published. The company said his claim was implausible. Stone was laid off the year before Rockwell began submitting false claims saying it was meeting goals of
[CTRL] Fwd: Boundary-Line Cited by Blair in Dispute with Iran INVENTED by Britain
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 6:44:01 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boundary-Line Cited by Blair in Dispute with Iran INVENTED by Britain The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates where British sailors were captured by Iran, Ambassador Craig Murray writes. The Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist. It has been drawn up by the British Government. Only Iraq and Iran can agree on their bilateral boundary, and they have never done this. The boundary published by Blair's government is a fake with no legal force. Even accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land. Boundary Dispute at Root of Iranian Seizure of British Sailors By Jim Teeple Washington 29 March 2007 http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-29-voa64.cfm Britain continues to insist that it was within Iraqi territorial waters when Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized two small patrol craft and 15 sailors and marines. Iran maintains the boats were in Iranian waters. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, the waters in question have long been a point of dispute between Iran and Iraq. Vice Admiral Charles Style stands in front of a diagram depicitng when British soldiers were captured With modern navigation devices such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) a ship can determine its position down to scant meters, a far cry from the days when ships navigated by a sextant and the stars. But as Craig Murray, former chief of the Maritime Section of Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, points out, even the most sophisticated navigational devices are of no help in the current British-Iranian dispute because there is no clearly demarcated boundary. The major problem is, knowing where the ships were exactly doesn't help you know precisely where the boundary line is because that's what nobody really knows, because it [the boundary] has never been agreed, he explained. The British boats were in the Persian Gulf outside the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, a winding 193-kilometer tidal river that runs between Iran and Iraq. The waterway and the Gulf waters into which it flows have long been a source of conflict between the two neighbors. Control of it was one cause of the bloody Iran-Iraq War that ran from 1980 to 1988. Kaiyan Kaikobad is a professor of international law at Durham University in Britain who has advised the United Nations and written extensively about Persian Gulf maritime disputes. He notes that Iran and Iraq have still not agreed on a formal maritime boundary in that area where the Shatt-al-Arab flows into the Gulf. Once you're in the Gulf, there is no lateral boundary that the two countries have agreed upon by virtue of a treaty, he said. Now it may be that over these 15, 20, 25 years, they have a kind of de facto arrangement. British troops operate out of Basra, the Iraqi port near the Gulf. Under U.N. mandate, Royal Navy ships patrol the coastal area of Iraq. Craig Murray, who also served as ambassador to Uzbekistan, says the shallow shipping lanes shift with tides and seasons, making even a rough demarcation extremely difficult. British Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston tells VOA that Britain realizes that there are questions about the maritime boundary in the area. But, he adds, the British craft were not in any area of dispute. We are aware there are some issue over in clarity over the Iraq- Iranian [demarcation], over the exact borderline along parts of that coast, he said. That is an area, however, where there is no doubt whatsoever. This has never been a stretch where there has been any dispute over. So there's very, very little doubt that Britain is absolutely in the right here. Kaiyan Kaikobad says that even if British craft had strayed into what Iran claims as its waters, under international law, Iran had no right to seize the sailors. Even if a naval vessel, a warship, from Iraq or from the United Kingdom strays into Iranian territory by mistake, even if that is the case, you can't arrest it, he said. You can't board that craft. All that you do is you can ask that vessel, 'we want you to leave.' You can persevere in that. But you can't go about arresting them. You can't go about keeping their people in captivity. U.S. warships are engaged in exercises in the Persian Gulf. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Thursday the maneuvers are not aimed at threatening Iran, but to make sure the Persian Gulf remains open to commerce. The message is, we have 170,000 American troops in Iraq, we have obvious security interests throughout the Gulf region. The Gulf is not
[CTRL] Fwd: Colombian Army Linked to Terrorists Backed by CIA
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 5:57:36 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Colombian Army Linked to Terrorists Backed by CIA AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 8:30:57 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: C.I.A. Claims Colombian Army, Terrorists Linked Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/ 16971008.htm *C.I.A. Claims Colombian Army, Terrorists Linked* By Paul Richter and Greg Miller Los Angeles Times Posted on Sun, Mar. 25, 2007 WASHINGTON -- The C.I.A. has obtained new intelligence that the head of Colombia's American-backed army collaborated extensively with right- wing militias that the U.S. considers terrorist organizations, including a militia headed by one of the country’s leading drug traffickers. Disclosure of the allegation about army chief Gen. Mario Montoya comes at a time when the high level of U.S. support for Colombia’s government is under scrutiny from Democrats in Congress. The disclosure could heighten pressure to reduce or redirect that aid because Montoya has been a favorite of the Pentagon and an important U.S. partner in the U.S.-funded counterinsurgency strategy called Plan Colombia. The $700 million a year Colombia receives makes it the third-largest beneficiary of U.S. foreign assistance. Montoya has a long and close association with Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe, and would be the highest-ranking Colombian officer implicated in a growing political scandal in Colombia over links between the outlawed militias and top officials. The scandal has implicated the country's former foreign minister, at least one state governor, legislators and the head of the national police and has shaken Uribe's government. President Bush called Uribe a personal friend during a visit to Bogota, the Colombian capital, two weeks ago, and his government is one of the Bush administration’s closest allies in Latin America. The intelligence about Montoya is contained in a report circulated within the C.I.A. It says that Montoya and a paramilitary group jointly planned and conducted a military operation in 2002 to eliminate Marxist guerrillas from poor areas around Medellin, a city in northwestern Colombia that has been a center of the drug trade. At least 14 people were killed during the operation, and opponents of Uribe charge that dozens more disappeared in its aftermath. The intelligence report, reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, includes information from another Western intelligence service and indicates that U.S. officials have received similar reports from other reliable sources. In addition to his close cooperation with U.S. officials on Plan Colombia, Montoya has served as an instructor at the U.S.-sponsored military training center formerly called the School of the Americas. The Colombian general was praised by Marine Gen. Peter Pace, now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when Pace directed the regional military command for Latin America, and Montoya has been organizing a new Colombian counternarcotics task force with American funds. Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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] Fwd: CORP-WATCH ~ Iraq's Off the Books Oil Profits (Worth BILLIONS)
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 6:02:04 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: CORP-WATCH ~ Iraq's Off the Books Oil Profits (Worth BILLIONS) How much crude oil is Iraq actually exporting? Nobody really knows how much is being siphoned off by corrupt [US] officials because the US contractors in charge of fixing the meters have yet to calibrate them -- even four years after the invasion. http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14427 AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 3:14:10 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CORP-WATCH~Mystery of the Missing Meters: Accounting for Iraq's Oil Revenue Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH Holding Corporations Accountable http://www.corpwatch.org *Mystery of the Missing Meters: Accounting for Iraq's Oil Revenue* By Pratap Chatterjee March 22nd, 2007 How much crude oil is Iraq actually exporting? Nobody really knows how much is potentially being stolen by corrupt officials because the contractors in charge of fixing the meters have yet to calibrate them, four years after the invasion. http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14427 IN THE NEWS: WAR AND DISASTER PROFITEERING US: Iraq's Mercenary King http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14402 US: Senator calls for more aggressive investigation of war profiteering http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14424 AFGHANISTAN: BearingPoint Lands Afghanistan Project http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14418 UK: Spat erupts between medical journals http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=1441 US: Halliburton's Dubai Move Sparks US Political Ire http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14411 CORRUPTION FRANCE: France Begins Formal Inquiry on Oil Executive http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14431 US: In Transcripts, Bromwell Boasts of Comcast Ties http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14432 US: Judge OKs key witness in Colombian deaths case http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14426 NATURAL RESOURCES US: BP 'is to blame for Texas blast' http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14422 US: Coeur d'Alene Mines Loses Clean Water Act Court Case http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14419 PHILIPPINES: Court orders removal of oil storage facilities http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14400 HUMAN RIGHTS PERU: Human Rights Commission May Examine Violations at La Oroya, Peru http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14429 US: Chevron gets part of suit dismissed http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14420 INDIA: Amnesty International Public Statement: Deaths in West Bengal due to police firing during protests against new industrial project http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14414 COLOMBIA: Colombia seeks extradition of 8 people in Chiquita payments to terrorists http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14428 ENVIRONMENT US: Global-warming deniers feeling the heat http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14425 US: Chevron Faces More Scrutiny in Ecuador over Pollution http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14423 US: World Bank raps Exxon over Chad http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14430 DONATE TO CORPWATCH! Support CorpWatch's work to hold corporations accountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice issues through education and activism. Help us bring the critical information and resources that tens of thousands of you access every month by making a contribution to CorpWatch. http://www.corpwatch.org/donate __ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be removed from the list, send any message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For all list information and functions, including changing your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page: http://lists.corpwatch.org/lists/info/corp-watchers =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CorpWatch -- Holding Corporations Accountable 1611 Telegraph Ave, Suite 702 Oakland, CA 94612 USA 510-271-8080 / Fax: 510-271-8083 URL: http://www.corpwatch.org Also check out: http://www.warprofiteers.com Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Fwd: If Justice Dept Officials Refuse to Testify, TORTURE Them
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 11:26:30 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: If Justice Dept Officials Refuse to Testify, TORTURE Them TORTURE HER! by David Michael Green March 27, 2007 at 15:26:58 http://www.opednews.com/articles/ opedne_david_mi_070327_torture_her_21.htm So Monica Goodling doesn’t want to answer questions on Capitol Hill, eh? This top official in the Justice Department, who serves as its liaison to the White House, is now refusing to answer any congressional questions about the US attorneys scandal. You know, the one in which George and Dick and Karl and Alberto have been hiring and firing federal prosecutors based on their willingness to politicize the legal system. That scandal (it’s so hard to keep track of them these days). Her lawyer says that Goodling doesn’t actually have anything to hide, but rather that – just like the judicial travesty that recently took down Scooter Libby – a hostile and questionable environment has surrounded the case. As opposed to the good kind of investigations, you see, where the White House doesn’t bother to answer the friendly questions that Congress and the press don’t bother to ask. You know, like the last six years or so. So Goodling’s lawyer has just announced that his client will be invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination – even though, mind you, she didn’t do anything wrong! – rather than testifying to Congress. Fifth Amendment? Fifth Amendment? You mean like, the Bill of Rights? That Fifth Amendment? Doesn’t she know that the Fifth Amendment has been suspended? Doesn’t she know that all those amendments have been suspended? Doesn’t she know that the president considers that whole document that these amendments amend to be just a goddamed piece of paper? She’s joking here, right? I thought she worked for the Justice Department in the Bush administration? Hasn’t she heard? Or maybe she’s still waiting for her interoffice mail from the last five years to clear NSA. Boy, is she gonna be surprised. We all know how committed the Bush people are to protecting the country from evildoers. Next thing you know, little Miss Monica Goodling is going to find herself bound and gagged, and on a short but very uncomfortable flight to Guantánamo. And that’s if she’s lucky. If not, she’ll be getting a wee taste of extraordinary rendition to some place like Egypt or Syria. Those fellas know how to make a gal sing! Lemme tell ya, brother, there aren’t any pesky amendments in Syria, and there never were. I hope Ms. Goodling doesn’t think that her attorney will get the charges dropped for her. In fact, she won’t be having an attorney. I hope she doesn’t think that the evidence she presents will exonerate her. In fact, she won’t be presenting any. I hope she doesn’t think there will be a fair trial before a jury of her peers. In fact, she’s gonna be rotting away in a dank cell somewhere, never even charged with any actual offense. And she can forget about making a habeas corpus appeal, too. Even though it was considered for centuries to be one of the great traditions of Western jurisprudence, Dear Leader knew better than that and had the foresight to eliminate it, so that evildoers couldn’t get away on some minor legal technicality like unlawful imprisonment. Habeas corpus? Ancient history. Just like all the rest of that Latin mumbo-jumbo. Bag ‘em and tag ‘em are the legal lyrics we sing these days. This president’s a (nearly real) Texan! Don’t mess with Texas! Squeamish lily-livered liberals and their bleeding-heart fellow travelers might not like it, but I’m sure the president wants to get to the bottom of this just as much as he’s wanted to solve the puzzle of who outed Valerie Plame (which he will, I assure you, as soon as he can locate that scrap of paper with Dick Cheney’s phone number on it). That’s bad news for Ms. Goodling, because that whole annoying Geneva Protocol thing has now been determined to be both quaint and obsolete (didn’t Alberto tell you?). Uh-Oh. That means the t-word, I’m afraid. But, look, you gotta do what you gotta do to win the war on evildoers. So I say, torture her! Hell yes. If I know anything about this president, I know he won’t be afraid to attach electrodes to her genitals and make her scream a little. I know that he’ll waterboard her until she gives up the guilty parties (though certain names may have to be redacted, of course, but we have people for that). I know that nothing so quaint and obsolete as mere international treaties or constitutional provisions will stop our unfaltering crusader for justice from getting to the bottom of this obvious threat to our way of life. And I know that once he has everything he needs from her forced confession, he’ll have just the
[CTRL] Fwd: Facing Arrest, Tony Blair Threatens to Resign
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 11:24:31 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Facing Arrest, Tony Blair Threatens to Resign Police told Blair would resign if [questioned] By Andrew Alderson and Patrick Hennessy Sunday Telegraph, March 25, 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/25/ nhons25.xml Police officers investigating the cash-for-honours scandal wanted to interview Tony Blair under caution but backed off after being warned that it could lead to his resignation, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Tony Blair was interviewed twice in six weeks Allies of Mr Blair indicated to Scotland Yard that his position as Prime Minister would become untenable if he were treated as a suspect, rather than simply as a witness. Detectives had hoped to question the Prime Minister under caution during the second of two interviews at No 10. It is understood that they wanted Mr Blair to clarify comments he had made during his first interview about an alleged cover-up by his senior aides. Sources close to the inquiry said that there were difficult discussions before a political intermediary made senior detectives aware of the serious implications of treating the Prime Minister as a suspect. Make no mistake, Scotland Yard was informed that Mr Blair would resign as Prime Minister if he was interviewed under caution, said a source. They were placed in a very difficult position indeed. Eventually, Downing Street won the battle of wills: when two officers saw the Prime Minister for a second time, on January 26, he was again not interviewed under caution. A news black-out was placed on the interview for operational reasons at the request of the police, but this was lifted after six days. Scotland Yard has, however, not ruled out interviewing Mr Blair for a third time if there is important new evidence to put to him. It is even possible that, as the inquiry drags on, Mr Blair could be interviewed - possibly as a suspect - after he steps down as Prime Minister in some three months. Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who heads the cash-for-honours inquiry, told MPs this month that it would be unrealistic to set a deadline for completing the investigation. He said that he could not be rushed because some evidence raised complex and challenging legal issues. It can also be revealed that relations between Scotland Yard and Downing Street remain deeply strained. There were tensions over the first police interview with Mr Blair on December 14, which - unusually for a meeting not under caution - was tape recorded. Some days later, detectives sent minutes of the interview to Mr Blair's office to be signed off - for Downing Street to agree the typed notes were an accurate reflection of what had taken place. Downing Street refused to sign them off even when detectives reminded political aides that the interview had been recorded and they were merely supplying a transcript of events. More than three months after the interview, the issue remains unresolved. The restricted conditions of Mr Blair's second interview enabled No 10 to play down the significance of the police seeing him for the second time in only six weeks. A spokesman said at the time: The Prime Minister has been interviewed briefly to clarify points emerging from the ongoing investigation. He was interviewed as a witness, not as a suspect and co-operated fully. The fact that Mr Blair has not been interviewed under caution means it is unlikely any of the answers he has given so far could be used against him to bring charges. Legal experts say any solicitor is likely to argue that evidence from a routine interview - not treating someone as a suspect - should be declared inadmissible by a judge. Detectives have spent a year looking into allegations that Labour promised peerages in return for £14 million in secret loans to fight the 2005 general election. The inquiry has widened to investigate claims that senior aides were involved in a cover-up in which they sought to pervert the course of justice. Officers have interviewed more than 100 people and arrested four, including two senior party aides: Lord Levy, Labour's chief fund- raiser, and Ruth Turner, the head of government relations. The Sunday Telegraph has also learnt that the police are highly surprised that neither Miss Turner, 36, nor Lord Levy, 62, has been suspended from their positions given the seriousness of the cover-up accusations against them - even though they deny any wrongdoing, and no charges have been brought. Last night a spokesman for Mr Blair denied that he had been going around saying he will resign if that happened [being interviewed under caution]. It is not true that such a message was conveyed to the police. He
[CTRL] Fwd: Rise of a Very 'Loyal Bushie'
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 11:16:33 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Rise of a Very 'Loyal Bushie' http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/032707a.html*Rise of a Very 'Loyal Bushie'* By Richard L. Fricker March 28, 2007 If you want to know what the career path of a loyal Bushie looks like, let me introduce you to J. Timothy Griffin, a Karl Rove protégé who was slipped into the post of U.S. Attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now is at the center of the controversy over whether the Bush administration has sought to politicize federal prosecutions. Since college, the 38-year-old Griffin has been following the stations of the cross for a Republican legal/political operative with ambitions to rise to a position of power and influence in a government like the one headed by George W. Bush. Griffin has pretty much touched them all -- the Federalist Society, work for a Clinton-era special prosecutor, the Florida recount battle in 2000, opposition research and voter security duties for the Republican National Committee in Campaign 2004, a brief tour as a military lawyer in Iraq, a deputy in Karl Rove's political shop at the White House. But now this carefully groomed Republican operative stands out as Exhibit A for Democrats as they contend that the Bush administration imposed political litmus tests on federal prosecutors who wield enormous power over the lives of those they investigate. A U.S. Attorney not only has wide discretion over normal prosecutions but can tip a political race by either shutting down or starting up a criminal probe. Beyond being the personification of proof that Bush put political loyalty over legal competence, Griffin has become the test case for the use of new emergency powers in the Patriot Act to circumvent Senate confirmation for U.S. Attorneys. The administration’s gamble on Griffin was underscored by an e-mail in which Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's chief of staff Kyle Sampson warned that there is some risk that we'll lose the [Patriot Act] authority, but if we don’t ever exercise it then what’s the point of having it? Sampson's e-mail added, I'm not 100 percent sure that Tim was the guy on which to test drive this authority, but know that getting him appointed was important to Harriet, Karl, etc. references to White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and then-White House counsel Harriet Miers. Sampson also mapped out plans for frustrating any congressional objections to Griffin's interim appointment. We should gum this to death, Sampson wrote in a Dec. 19, 2006, e-mail to a White House aide. Ask the senators to give Tim a chance ... then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in 'good faith,' of course. The Mystery Yet, while it's clear that the White House was prepared to play political games and possibly pay a political price to install Griffin in Little Rock, the mystery is why? Why, given the political risks, did the administration remove the well-regarded U.S. Attorney H.E. Bud Cummins III to make way for Griffin? Though a staunch Republican, Cummins may not have been staunch enough. When I checked on Cummins's reputation in the legal circles of Arkansas, I found that he was praised by both Republicans and Democrats as a by-the-book prosecutor. One Democratic defense lawyer told me that Cummins was a prosecutor who dealt from the top of the deck. But the White House pushed Cummins out in 2006 along with seven other U.S. Attorneys who did not measure up as loyal Bushies, according to another Kyle Sampson e-mail. Given Griffin's history more as a political operative than an experienced prosecutor, he surely got higher grades on the loyal Bushie test. Some political analysts see Rove's dream of creating a permanent Republican majority as the motive behind the firings and Griffin's appointment. In April 2006, Rove told the Republican National Lawyers Association that there were 11 states pivotal to the 2008 election, Arkansas among them, according to a report by the McClatchy newspapers. With Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor expected to face a tough reelection fight, Arkansas could be a possible Republican senatorial pickup in 2008. Arkansas also has a large African-American population, and Griffin has had experience in voter fraud investigations that have targeted the registrations of black voters. Other observers of the rough-and-tumble world of Arkansas politics recall the scorched-earth investigations into the personal lives of Bill and Hillary Clinton during the 1990s and wonder if the Republicans might be hoping to unearth some more dirt about
[CTRL] Fwd: US Forces Simulate Air Strike on Iran / (Rumor) Iran's Missiles Hit US Ship
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 9:13:05 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: US Forces Simulate Air Strike on Iran / (Rumor) Iran's Missiles Hit US Ship Oil prices surge as tensions in Iran escalate March 27, 2007 | 8:40 AM ET CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/03/27/british-sailors-070327.html Crude oil prices rose to a six-month high on Tuesday, triggered by false reports of an Iranian missile attack on a U.S. ship as well as increasing tensions over Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines. The U.S. military was quick to deny rumours of the attack on one of its ships in the Persian Gulf. Military officials said they checked all their ships and no evidence of any attack was found. Still, oil prices rose by eight per cent. Meanwhile, Britain and Iran were battling over the British navy crew seized by Iran on Friday. Britain and the United States say the sailors and marines were intercepted after they completed a search of a civilian vessel in Iraqi waters near Iran. Iran claims the British crew was in Iranian waters. Demand crew's release British Prime Minister Tony Blair demanded the crew's release on Tuesday. I hope we manage to get them to realize they have to release them, he said. If not, this will move into a different phase. But at the moment, what we are trying to do is make sure that diplomatic initiative works. He did not specify what he meant by a different phase, but officials in his government were quick to clarify he wasn't talking about military action, rather that he is ready to release evidence proving that the crew was seized by the Iranians in Iraqi waters. Such evidence would show the Iranian ships strayed into Iraqi waters, which could spark a row between the two Middle Eastern countries, a British official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett echoed Blair's demands Tuesday, telephoning Iran's foreign minister to demand the crew's swift release. Iran would not address Britain's demands publicly. Instead, Mohammed Ali Hosseini, spokesman for Iran's foreign minister, would only say that the captured sailors and marines are being treated well. He said the only woman in the crew — 28-year-old Faye Turney — is being held separately to ensure her privacy. U.S. forces flex muscles in Gulf Iran has said it's questioning the British sailors and marines to determine if their alleged entry into Iranian waters was intentional or unintentional. Once Iran gets answers, it will decide what to do with the crew. Meanwhile, the U.S. navy instructed its warplanes to run through simulated attacks and manoeuvres off the coast of Iran on Tuesday. It was the United States's largest demonstration of force in the Persian Gulf since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. U.S. commanders said the exercises were not a direct response to the capture of the British navy crew. They said the demonstration was planned weeks ago. Untrue With files from the Associated Press AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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] Fwd: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 5:51:19 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign The Bush Administration cannot be allowed to decide how to deal with the problems now facing America -- problems which they themselves have created. We can expect only more of the same and worse. Most of the solutions favored by Bush and Cheney, for no reason other than to salvage their honor, pose even greater threats to the future of our society. Bush and Cheney cannot be trusted to accurately weigh the outcome of their choices. Expecting those with bad judgment to deal with the negative effects of their own bad judgment is the height of insanity. It promises, predictably, even worse results than pure bad luck. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 21, 2007 2:43:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign* By Charles J. Reid, Gilroy, CA George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney must resign their positions in the U.S. Government. The reason why they must resign is because their irrational decisions have placed their country in a horrific position from which it cannot extricate itself by any decision they or anyone else in their administration can make. Due to their decisions the United States of America is faced with a set of terrible circumstances in which all the options on the table are bad choices all leading to undesirable outcomes. Their decisions were irrational not necessarily by choice, but they are irrational by consequence. They are responsible for the consequences of their decisions. And one consequence of their decisions is that, as decision makers, they themselves only have irrational options, all of which will critically damage America and hurt Americans continuously over the next two years. America is faced either with two more years of bad decisions with unwelcome outcomes, including more waste of American blood and treasure not to mention the intensification of political hate and dishonor in our country with increased irrational attempts to save the day, or with the quick installation of a new Administration that will begin the process of leading America out of the mortal quagmire in which it finds itself. Any modern Western Government would have resigned long ago. A Japanese statesman of any stature would have committed sepuku. A British officer would have been give a pistol and left alone in a closed room. Lyndon Johnson declined to run for re-election. Today we are faced with a graver reality caused by decisions made by Bush and Cheney, and we are much more dreadful choices. As they take stock of this fundamental reality, the choice faced by Bush and Cheney to remain in office through two more years of irrationality or resign is an ultimate test of their true patriotism and political courage. They have failed. They have created a disaster. There is nothing they themselves can do to remedy the situation. Americans and others will continue to suffer and die, while the taxpayers waste more and more money. George Bush and Richard Cheney face the true test of their political honor in the midst of the shame they have already caused America. Let us overlook the appearance of dishonesty, dishonor, dissemblance, and un-American destruction of faith in the principles of our constitution in favor of fear for our security. Let's assume all actions and intentions were well-intentioned and squeaky clean. From a military point of view, the initial Blitskrieg to Bagdad, employing speed, mobility, and all components of the American military, was as successful as any military operation could be, even with the unexpected denial of the 4th Infantry Division's transit through Turkey to create a northern front. Aspects of the political agenda had merit: stop Saddam Hussein from paying the families of suicide bombers $25,000, after successful missions against Israel; overthrow a dictator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings; lay the groundwork for a more humane government in Iraq. Count these as successes, and prima facie, perhaps goals worth striving for one way or another. Unfortunately, the broader agenda -- all the components of which we do not know but can only wildly speculate on with varying proximity to the truth because of the secrecy of the Bush Administration -- failed. Bush and Cheney had no policy for implementing Victory. The cake walk turned into a path of quicksand. The Hail to the Saviors turned into Death to the Occupiers. And as we recall that Adolf Hitler rose to office in a democratic
[CTRL] Fwd: Children of Men
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 11:32:55 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Children of Men Just watched Children of Men, out on DVD. A sobering dystopia -- moving story. Highly recommended. Its Bonus documentary relates the story to the demographic impact (mass-migrations) of Global Warming. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Tony Blair learns that immigrants are eroding wages, increasing unemployment
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 7:39:34 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tony Blair learns that immigrants are eroding wages, increasing unemployment New immigrants eroding pay levels · Senior adviser warns Blair over east European influx · PM due to give key speech today on future of work Patrick Wintour, political editor The Guardian, March 30, 2007 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2046233,00.html The influx of immigrants into the EU from the 10 eastern European accession countries may be starting to push down wages among low- paid workers, leading to a rise in unemployment among unskilled workers, the prime minister has been told by one of his closest advisers. Tony Blair was given the politically sensitive information by Lord Turner at a seminar in preparation for a major lecture today on the future of work. The lecture is one of a series of valedictory addresses being given by the prime minister. Concerns over the impact of immigration are understood to be shared by ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions, even though the government's official economic analysis has not yet shown a clear link between falling pay levels and immigration from eastern Europe. Lord Turner, a former chairman of the Low Pay Commission and author of the government's landmark report on pensions, told Mr Blair that the latest evidence suggested that migrants were beginning to push down wages at the lower end of the income scale. They were displacing some less skilled workers, making it more difficult to persuade some of the long-term unemployed to seek work -- partly because the immigrant workers were more willing to work unlawfully for less than the minimum wage. The influx may also make it more difficult to increase the level of the minimum wage in the future. The introduction of the minimum wage in 1999 will be hailed by Mr Blair in today's speech as one of the major achievements of the Labour government. Since the 10 eastern European countries joined the EU, the UK economy has absorbed an estimated 500,000 migrant workers, although many of these will have returned to their native country. Mr Blair was urged by other academics at the seminar to do more to counter growing wage inequalities in Britain, on the basis that widening inequalities between senior executives and other workers within a company can reduce productivity. He has been reluctant to take such advice, arguing that any wage inequality has been driven by international competition for senior executives. In his speech, Mr Blair will argue that the Labour government has given a new meaning to the term labour flexibility, turning it from a euphemism for exploitation into a phrase which helps to empower workers with skills and rights. In the era of open economies, a flexible labour market is a desirable, indeed a necessary, thing, the prime minister will say. We saw flexibility as a two-way street. We wanted to give flexibility to the employee as well as the employer. This used to be posed as a choice: either a flexible labour market or rights for workers [Instead] we saw that you could have a flexible labour market and a flexible labour force -- indeed, that it was vital to have both. See what's free at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Pentagon Able to BLACKOUT European Mass Media Internet
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 6:11:14 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Pentagon Able to BLACKOUT European Mass Media Internet The U.S. Army 'mistakenly' jammed the satellite signals of many European news organisations -- including the French and Swiss national news agencies -- on January 23, affecting a large number of radio, television and internet services What can the Pentagon do to worldwide communications when it WANTS to, ON PURPOSE? AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 8:40:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: U.S. Army 'Jammed' Swiss and French Satellites Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/25/10113446.html *U.S. Army 'Jammed' Swiss and French Satellites* AP Published: 25/03/2007 / 12:00 AM (U.A.E.) Bern -- The U.S. Army mistakenly jammed the satellite signal of a number of news organisations earlier this year -- including the French and Swiss national news agencies -- in an attempt to shut down an Iraqi TV station, according to a Swiss newspaper. Daily Tages-Anzeiger reported in yesterday's edition that the incident occurred on January 23 and lasted about 24 hours, affecting a large number of radio, television and internet services, including those of Agence France Presse (AFP) and its Swiss counterpart Schweizerische Depeschagentur (S.D.A.). An internal S.D.A. memo states that the loss of all transmission signals via the Eutelsat satellite was caused by a mistaken attack by the US Army. Tages-Anzeiger says the reason for the mistake may have been a report in The Washington Post two days before the incident, in which the owner of Iraqi satellite channel Al Zawraa is cited saying his station would start broadcasting via Eutelsat in 48 hours. In fact, Al Zawraa, a Sunni station which broadcasts pictures of insurgent attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, never broadcast on the Hot Bird 8 satellite, although another station with a similar name did. Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ 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=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] Fwd: Where Were the NEOCONS During INSLAW/PROMIS (under VP George Bush)?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 11:48:51 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where Were the NEOCONS During INSLAW/PROMIS (under VP George Bush)? Spy Probe Scans Neocons by Jim Lobe http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6830.htm 09/01/04 IPS -- The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neo-conservatives and Israel dating back some 30 years. According to knowledgeable sources, who asked to not be identified, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has been intensively reviewing a series of past counter-intelligence probes that were started against several high-profile neo-cons but never followed up with prosecutions, to the great frustration of counter-intelligence officers, in some cases. Some of these past investigations involve top current officials, including Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith, whose office appears to be the focus of the most recently disclosed inquiry; and Richard Perle, who resigned as Defence Policy Board (DPB) chairman last year. All three were the subject of a lengthy investigative story by Stephen Green published by Counterpunch in February. Green is the author of two books on U.S.-Israeli relations, including Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, which relies heavily on interviews with former Pentagon and counter- intelligence officials. At the same time, another Pentagon office concerned with the transfer of sensitive military and dual-use technologies has been examining the acquisition, modification and sales of key hi-tech military equipment by Israel obtained from the United States, in some cases with the help of prominent neo-conservatives who were then serving in the government. Some of that equipment has been sold by Israel – which in the last 20 years has become a top exporter of the world's most sophisticated hi-tech information and weapons technology – or by Israeli middlemen, to Russia, China and other potential U.S. strategic rivals. Some of it has also found its way onto the black market, where terrorist groups – possibly including al-Qaeda – obtained bootlegged copies, according to these sources. Of particular interest in that connection are derivatives of a powerful case-management software called PROMIS that was produced by INSLAW, Inc in the early 1980s and acquired by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, which then sold its own versions to other foreign intelligence agencies in the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. But these versions were modified with a trap door that permitted the seller to spy on the buyers' own intelligence files, according to a number of published reports. A modified version of the software, which is used to monitor and track files on a multitude of databases, is believed to have been acquired by al-Qaeda on the black market in the late 1990s, possibly facilitating the group's global banking and money- laundering schemes, according to a Washington Times story of June 2001. According to one source, Pentagon investigators believe it possible that al-Qaeda used the software to spy on various U.S. agencies that could have detected or foiled the Sep. 11, 2001 attack. The FBI is reportedly also involved in the Pentagon's investigation, which is overseen by Deputy Undersecretary of Defence for International Technology Security John A. Jack Shaw with the explicit support of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The latest incident is based on allegations that a Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) career officer, Larry Franklin – who was assigned in 2001 to work in a special office dealing with Iraq and Iran under Feith – provided highly classified information, including a draft on U.S. policy towards Iran, to two staff members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups. One or both of the recipients allegedly passed the material to the Israeli embassy. Franklin has not commented on the allegation, and Israel and AIPAC have strongly denied any involvement and say they are co-operating fully with FBI investigators. The office in which Franklin has worked since 2001 is dominated by staunch neo-conservatives, including Feith himself. Headed by William Luti, a retired Navy officer who worked for DPB member Newt Gingrich when he was speaker of the House of Representatives, it played a central role in building the case for war in Iraq. Part of the office's strategy included working closely with the Iraqi National Congress (INC) led by
[CTRL] Fwd: Left at the Altar in Iraq -- Saudi Arabia's Oil-Lords Dump Bush, Embrace Iran
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 12:12:33 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Left at the Altar in Iraq -- Saudi Arabia's Oil-Lords Dump Bush, Embrace Iran SAUDI ARABIA CALLS IRAQ WAR ILLEGITIMATE OCCUPATION http://euronews.net/index.php?page=infoarticle=414053lng=1 One of America's closest Arab allies has attacked the war in Iraq as an illegitimate foreign occupation. Speaking at the start of a summit of the Arab League in Riyadh, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia hit out at the Bush administration. He accused it of putting Iraq at risk of a civil war and trying to unilaterally write the future of the Middle-East. It is set to be a very politically charged two day meeting. King Abdullah also demanded the immediate lifting of the international embargo against the Palestinian authority. And Arab leaders have voted unanimously to revive their 2002 peace offer to Israel. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon described the situation in the Middle East as dangerous. He said he had exhorted Israel to take a new look at the Arab peace offer which it rejected five years ago. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said this could be a last chance for peace with Israel. The Arab peace plan demands, among other things, an Israeli withdrawal from all land occupied since the 1967 war. Abdullah has always had a close relationship with president George W. Bush. On April 27th, 2005 when Abdullah came to the United States for a visit. He and Bush held hands and discussed the flower arrangements of the grounds where they met as they strolled together. Holding hands is considered a sign of close friendship in Saudi Arabia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia Iran-Saudi Arabian Embrace: A New Beginning? History shows that when interests coincide, rivals tend to cooperate Dilip Hiro YaleGlobal, 9 March 2007 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id= An unusual guest: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) is greeted by Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh. Will the hand holding mark a new beginning? LONDON: The news coming from the Middle East of late spoke of growing concern among Iran's Sunni Arab neighbors about the Shia state's growing power. That story line took a new twist on March 3 when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Riyadh to the warm embrace of King Abdullah, the ruler of Saudi Arabia and a longstanding ally of the US. The image – and the accompanying pledge by the two leaders to resist any attempt to spread the sectarian conflict in the Middle East for the good of the region in particular and the Muslim world at large – was in dramatic contrast to Sunni-Shiite conflict raging in Iraq daily. The image also stood in contrast to speculation in Washington about the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran intensifying to the point of each funding and training sectarian militias in Iraq to engage in full-scale civil war. So what does one to make of this unexpected scene from Riyadh? To assess the significance of the apparent beginning of détente, one needs to transcend the exclusively sectarian framework constructed recently. Viewed from the perspective of history, the Iran-Saudi relationship would confirm Lord Palmerston’s aphorism that enemies are not permanent, but interests are. Yet the ongoing Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq – against the background of Jordanian King Abdullah’s warning about the emergence of a “Shiite Crescent” in the Middle East – has colored the view of the American policymakers to such an extent that many now can’t help but view the Muslim world through the sectarian prism. In the eyes of American strategists, Iran’s power amounts to a security threat as the Saudi kingdom contains a quarter of the globe’s oil reserves. The petroleum reserves of Iran amount to only half of the Saudi Kingdom’s. This concern about Iranian power and a narrow sectarian perspective have led US officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to engage in demonizing the predominantly Shiite Iran. Sounding more Sunni than real Sunni Arabs, they assert that the Sunni Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the small Gulf monarchies are threatened by the emergence of a super-confident Iran, intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. However, the recent dispatch of carrier battle groups to the Gulf and heightened speculation about a US attack on Iran could just be saber-rattling meant to create division in the Iranian leadership. There are also reports that Saudis are trying to restrain both sides. An overview of the relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia – situated on the opposite sides of the Persian Gulf – since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, shows periods of both intense rivalry and active
[CTRL] Fwd: Mutants vs Adaptors
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 28, 2007 11:56:58 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mutants vs Adaptors DINOSAUR DEMISE DIDN’T SPUR EVOLUTION IN ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S MAMMALS, STUDY SAYS Associated Press, March 28, 2007 - Updated: 01:51 PM EST http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=191362 NEW YORK -- The big dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago didn’t produce a flurry of new species in the ancestry of modern mammals after all, says a huge study that challenges a long- standing theory. Scientists who constructed a massive evolutionary family tree for mammals found no sign of such a burst of new species at that time among the ancestors of present-day animals. Only mammals with no modern-day descendants showed that effect. ”I was flabbergasted,” said study co-author Ross MacPhee, curator of vertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. At the time of the dinosaur demise, mammals were small, ranging in size between shrews and cats. The long-held view has been that once the dinosaurs were gone, mammals were suddenly free to exploit new food sources and habitats, and as a result they produced a burst of new species. The new study says that happened to some extent, but that the [mutated] species led to evolutionary dead ends. In contrast, no such burst was found for the ancestors of modern-day mammals like rodents, cats, horses, elephants and people. Instead, they showed an initial burst between 100 million about 85 million years ago, with another between about 55 million and 35 million year ago, researchers report in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. The timing of that first period of evolutionary development generally agrees with the conclusions of some previous studies of mammal DNA, which argue for a much earlier origin of some mammal lineages than the fossil record does. The second burst had shown up in the fossil record, MacPhee said. But he said the new study explains why scientists have been unable to find relatively modern-looking ancestors of the creatures known from that time: without any evolutionary boost from the dinosaur demise, those ancestors were still relatively primitive. Some experts praised the large scale of the new evolutionary tree, which used a controversial ”supertree” method to combine data covering the vast majority of mammal species. It challenges paleontologists to find new fossils that can shed light on mammal history, said Greg Wilson, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature Science. William J. Murphy of Texas AM University, who is working on a similar project, said no previous analysis had included so many mammal species. But, ”I don’t think this is the final word,” he said. The study’s approach for assigning dates was relatively crude, he said, and some dates it produced for particular lineages disagree with those obtained by more updated methods. So as for its interpretation of what happened when the dinosaurs died off, ”I’m not sure that conclusion is well-founded,” Murphy said. John Gittleman, a study co-author and director of the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology, said the researchers considered a range of previously reported dates for when various lineages split. They found the overall conclusions of the study were not significantly affected by which dates they chose, he said. Researchers should now look at such things as the rise of flowering plants and a cooling of the worldwide climate to explain why ancestors of present-day mammals took off before the dinosaurs died out, Gittleman said. The cause of the later boom is also a mystery, he said. The study’s family tree includes 4,510 species, more than 99 percent of mammal species covered by an authoritative listing published in 1993. (Nearly 300 species have since been added to the listing, but the researchers said that doesn’t affect their study’s conclusions.) To construct it, the researchers combined previously published work that relied on analysis of DNA, fossils, anatomy and other information. S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, said the new work ”pushes the envelope in the methods and data, and that’s really important.” He said the demise of the dinosaurs may have affected mammal evolution by influencing characteristics like body size rather than boosting the number of new species created. Such changes wouldn’t be picked up by the new study, he noted. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing
[CTRL] Fwd: TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now!
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 9:57:10 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now! In order for [evangelical] Christians to escape physical death, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel must perish, soon. This is the grim trade-off in prophecy that fundamentalists seldom discuss publicly, yet it's the only real motivation for the movement's support of Israel. That is why they believe Israel must be defended at all costs by the West. If Israel were relegated to the sidelines, the Rapture would be delayed (again), indefinitely. Fundamentalism thrives on belief in an imminent Rapture, not a postponed Rapture. So, every time you hear, 'Jesus is returning soon,' you should mentally add, 'as soon as two-thirds of the Jews of Israel are [exterminated]'. Fundamentalists really DO believe they will not die physically, but to fulfill the prophecy of their own survival, they must help bring about an 'inevitable' holocaust for Jews. --conservative Gary North (slightly paraphrased for clarity) AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: Jim S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 26, 2007 1:21:29 AM PDT Subject: TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now! [[I use/check this site *very* infrequently/only when necessary. Only reason I'm here is because I cannot Send w/ either my email prog. OR my ISP's mail website! VERY weird!! (I assume due to T- Mars being conj T-Uranus in Aquarius!?) So, please continue to SEND to my USUAL addy, okay!?? If you want to send here, *BCC* one to my Usual addy, please!!]] http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell73.html *TV Evangelist John Hagee Wants War With Iran, and He Wants It Now!* by Bill Barnwell March 22, 2007 If anyone still thinks that the radical end-times prophecy movement is not a threat to peace and stability, think again. At the popular level, in terms of the TV preachers and the hot-selling prophecy books, the dispensational pre-trib stuff still reigns supreme. Most conservative-leaning Evangelical churches in America today are heavily influenced by popular dispensational theology to some extent. Even churches and pastors that don't teach pretribulationalism still are influenced by dispensationalism to varying degrees. The most dangerous element of this prophetic paradigm, however, is its doom-and-gloom view of the world. And in most cases, those who have a fascination with the end of the world have a particular fascination with war and militarism, as well. More problematic, it assumes that their wars of choice are not just their own foreign policy preferences or personal opinions. Rather they are ordained by God. In 2003, more than a few pastors and influential Christian figures basically said that opposing the Iraq war was opposing God's end-time plan. According to Evangelical end-times enthusiasts, if you opposed the Iraq war, you didn't just hate your country and the troops, now you were opposing God and the Bible as well. An even bigger obsession for dispensationalists has always been Israel. For the average dispensationalist, modern-day secular Israel is going to be the focal point in the end-times. Therefore, if the Bible really does teach in Daniel 9:27 that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is going to be torn down for a rebuilt Jewish Temple, why should any http://billbarnwell.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-are- dispensationalists-obsessed.html of us seek to prevent it? Sure, it very well might ignite a regional war and even ignite tensions around the world, but it's all part of God's prophetic plan. Not to worry though, things might not get really ugly until after the rapture, so the Christians today who are cheering for events that would bring about World War III won't have to worry about it anyway. Unless of course, they are wrong about the whole thing. Enter the Rev. John Hagee. March 22, 2007 http://www.jhm.org/ Hagee is the pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, where he has 18,000 followers right in his own congregation. He also has a global television ministry and has sold scores of prophecy books over the years. John Hagee is perhaps the most powerful and influential Christian Zionist figure in America. Hagee has a long history making strange predictions about world events that are almost always wrong. His books in the late 90's trumped up Y2K hysteria to ridiculous levels. He inaccurately predicted that the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was the Beginning of the End in the book of the same name. In every book, he writes, he is constantly warning of catastrophe in various forms right around the corner. According to
[CTRL] Fwd: USS Nimitz Deploys to Persian Gulf in APRIL
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 10:47:13 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USS Nimitz Deploys to Persian Gulf in APRIL Carrier Strike Group Wraps Up Joint Exercise Friday, March 09, 2007 http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ CarrierStrikeGroupWrapsUpJointExercise-206268.html SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11 and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 took their final steps toward deployment as they completed the Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) March 2. The exercise was designed to test the group’s ability to operate in a complex, hostile environment along with other U.S. and coalition forces. “This was a perfect opportunity for everyone to come together to hone their skills,” said Command Master Chief (AW/SW) Billy Ward. “It’s important the strike group has an opportunity to work together as a cohesive unit before we head to the tip of the spear.” Ward said JTFEX effectively simulated real-world situations Nimitz could encounter during its time in the Persian Gulf. “I know we have the talent and skill to take on any challenge and win,” Ward said. Capt. Ted Branch, Nimitz’ Commanding Officer, held captain’s call March 3 for the ship’s crew. This was his last underway period as the ship’s captain. “Nobody can remember the last time a strike group finished [JTFEX] early,” Branch said. “Nimitz did. It was just a stellar job.” Nimitz crew members also participated in a general quarters drill, a supply management inspection and hosted more than 50 distinguished visitors during the ship’s 10-day underway. “We have an incredibly talented and multifaceted crew,” Ward said. As a result of the strike group’s hard work and perseverance in successfully completing the JTFEX, U.S. 3rd Fleet Commander, Vice Adm. Barry Costello, is expected to certify the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group ready for deployment. More than 6,000 Sailors and Marines participated in JTFEX. The Nimitz Strike Group includes: Nimitz; Commander, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11; CVW-11; Commander, Destroyer Squadron 23; USS Princeton (CG 59); USS Higgins (DDG 76); USS Chafee (DDG 90); USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53); Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11; and Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadrons 37 and 49. Homeported in San Diego, Nimitz is the flagship for CSG 11. By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Alexander Ameen and Mass Communcation Specialist Sarah Bitter, Commander, Carrier Strike Group 11/USS Nimitz Strike Group Public Affairs -- New Captain takes the Helm of USS Nimitz Story Number: NNS070317-03 Release Date: 3/17/2007 11:30:00 AM http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=28365 From USS Nimitz Public Affairs Office SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Capt. Michael Manazir, Commanding Officer USS Nimitz (CVN 68), relieved Capt. Ted N. Branch at a change of command ceremony held March 16 aboard the Nimitz. Branch has had a 28-year career as a Naval officer. He pioneered efforts to attain and maintain a high degree of professionalism in all tasks, thereby achieving the ship’s superior combat capability. “[Branch] has been a great leader and has an absolute passion for people who, in turn, want to follow him,” said Vice Adm. James Zortman, Commander, Naval Air Forces. Branch, a native of Long Beach, Mississippi, has been the Nimitz’ commanding officer since Nov. 23, 2004. He will temporarily be assigned to Commander, Naval Air Forces based at Naval Air Station North Island. Capt. Manazir, the son of a career Marine Corps officer, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in May 1981 and was designated a Naval Aviator in April 1983. Manazir comes to Nimitz from Commander, Naval Air Forces based at Naval Air Station North Island where he served as operations and training officer. He has completed nine extended deployments to the Arabian Gulf and has combined more than 3,000 F-14 A/D flight hours and 900 carrier-arrested landings. “I recognize all the hard work that has been put in leading up to deployment,” Manazir said to his new crew. “I will run to catch up with the pace you’ve set.” Capt. Manazir will be commanding the Nimitz as they head out on their scheduled six-month deployment in April. Nimitz, one of 11 capital warships, is the flagship for Commander, Carrier Strike Group 11 and is homeported in San Diego. The crew consists of 195 officers and 2,915 enlisted. Commands, detachments and units deployed on board as tenant activities include: Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11, and Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 23. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds
[CTRL] Fwd: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 5:51:19 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign The Bush Administration cannot be allowed to decide how to deal with the problems now facing America -- problems which they themselves have created. We can expect only more of the same and worse. Most of the solutions favored by Bush and Cheney, for no reason other than to salvage their honor, pose even greater threats to the future of our society. Bush and Cheney cannot be trusted to accurately weigh the outcome of their choices. Expecting those with bad judgment to deal with the negative effects of their own bad judgment is the height of insanity. It promises, predictably, even worse results than pure bad luck. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 21, 2007 2:43:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Why Bush and Cheney Must Resign* By Charles J. Reid, Gilroy, CA George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney must resign their positions in the U.S. Government. The reason why they must resign is because their irrational decisions have placed their country in a horrific position from which it cannot extricate itself by any decision they or anyone else in their administration can make. Due to their decisions the United States of America is faced with a set of terrible circumstances in which all the options on the table are bad choices all leading to undesirable outcomes. Their decisions were irrational not necessarily by choice, but they are irrational by consequence. They are responsible for the consequences of their decisions. And one consequence of their decisions is that, as decision makers, they themselves only have irrational options, all of which will critically damage America and hurt Americans continuously over the next two years. America is faced either with two more years of bad decisions with unwelcome outcomes, including more waste of American blood and treasure not to mention the intensification of political hate and dishonor in our country with increased irrational attempts to save the day, or with the quick installation of a new Administration that will begin the process of leading America out of the mortal quagmire in which it finds itself. Any modern Western Government would have resigned long ago. A Japanese statesman of any stature would have committed sepuku. A British officer would have been give a pistol and left alone in a closed room. Lyndon Johnson declined to run for re-election. Today we are faced with a graver reality caused by decisions made by Bush and Cheney, and we are much more dreadful choices. As they take stock of this fundamental reality, the choice faced by Bush and Cheney to remain in office through two more years of irrationality or resign is an ultimate test of their true patriotism and political courage. They have failed. They have created a disaster. There is nothing they themselves can do to remedy the situation. Americans and others will continue to suffer and die, while the taxpayers waste more and more money. George Bush and Richard Cheney face the true test of their political honor in the midst of the shame they have already caused America. Let us overlook the appearance of dishonesty, dishonor, dissemblance, and un-American destruction of faith in the principles of our constitution in favor of fear for our security. Let's assume all actions and intentions were well-intentioned and squeaky clean. From a military point of view, the initial Blitskrieg to Bagdad, employing speed, mobility, and all components of the American military, was as successful as any military operation could be, even with the unexpected denial of the 4th Infantry Division's transit through Turkey to create a northern front. Aspects of the political agenda had merit: stop Saddam Hussein from paying the families of suicide bombers $25,000, after successful missions against Israel; overthrow a dictator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings; lay the groundwork for a more humane government in Iraq. Count these as successes, and prima facie, perhaps goals worth striving for one way or another. Unfortunately, the broader agenda -- all the components of which we do not know but can only wildly speculate on with varying proximity to the truth because of the secrecy of the Bush Administration -- failed. Bush and Cheney had no policy for implementing Victory. The cake walk turned into a path of quicksand. The Hail to the Saviors turned into Death to the Occupiers. And as we recall that Adolf Hitler rose to office in a democratic
[CTRL] Fwd: A New Planetary Ecology in 90 Years -- Adapt, Mutate, or Join the Dinosaurs!
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 27, 2007 9:56:42 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A New Planetary Ecology in 90 Years -- Adapt, Mutate, or Join the Dinosaurs! Warming May Create Climates, Cut Others By AP/RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2007 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1603320,00.html Some climates may disappear from Earth entirely, not just from their current locations, while new climates could develop if the planet continues to warm, a study says. Such changes would endanger some plants and animals while providing new opportunities for others, said John W. Williams, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Using global change forecasts prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, researchers led by Williams used computer models to estimate how climates in various parts of the world would be affected. Their findings are being published in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The IPCC, representing the world's leading climate scientists, reported in February that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observation of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level. Tropical regions in particular may face unexpected changes, particularly the rain forests in the Amazon and Indonesia, Williams' researchers concluded. This was surprising, Williams said in a telephone interview, since the tropics tend to have little variation in weather. But that also means temperature changes of 3 or 4 degrees in these regions might have more impact than a change of 5 to 8 degrees in a region that is accustomed to regular changes. Species living in tropical areas may be less able to adapt, he said, adding that that is speculative and needs further study. Areas like the Southeastern United States and the Arabian Peninsula may also be affected, the researchers said, adding that mountain areas such as in Peruvian and Colombian Andes and regions such as Siberia and southern Australia face a risk of climates disappearing altogether. That doesn't mean these regions would have no climate at all — rather their climate would change and the conditions currently in these areas would not occur elsewhere on Earth. That would pose a risk to species living in those areas, Williams observed. If some regions develop new climates that don't now exist, that might provide an opportunity for species that live there, Williams said. But we can't make a prediction because it's outside our current experience and outside the experience of these species. March 27, 2007 http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Global Warming Forecasts Creation, Loss Of Climate Zones Science Daily — A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's world. Global climate models for the next century forecast the complete disappearance of several existing climates currently found in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, while large swaths of the tropics and subtropics may develop new climates unlike anything seen today. Driven by worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, the climate modeling study uses average summer and winter temperatures and precipitation levels to map the differences between climate zones today and in the year 2100 and anticipates large climate changes worldwide. Climatic disaster looms for the US southwest, Mississippi basin, and Southern states to Florida. Note also the eco-catastrophes expected in the oil-rich Persian Gulf states, Indonesia, and India A new climate modeling study has identified regions of the world where greenhouse gas emissions during the next century are likely to cause the appearance of novel climates unlike anything that exists today, shown in YELLOW in this image created March 2007, and regions whose current climates will disappear completely by the year 2100, shown in BLUE. Novel climates appear throughout the tropics and subtropics, while the climates now found in tropical mountain ranges and near the poles may vanish. The work, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Jack Williams, suggests that climate change is likely to have serious ecological impacts, including increased risk of plant and animal extinction. (Credit: Courtesy of Jack Williams: University of Wisconsin-Madison) The work, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wyoming, appears online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of March 26. As world leaders and scientists push to
[CTRL] Fwd: Even 15 Years After Persian Gulf War, Soldiers Test Positive for DU Exposure
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 10:23:05 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Even 15 Years After Persian Gulf War, Soldiers Test Positive for DU Exposure Iraq diggers 'contaminated with radiation' By Rosemary Desmond Herald Sun (Australia), March 27, 2007 04:42pm http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ 0,21985,21456111-5005961,00.html TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said today. Any such admission from the Government would leave it open to millions of dollars in compensation, said Pauline Rigby, project co- ordinator for the group Depleted Uranium Silent Killer (DUSK). Urine samples from each of the men, who served in different areas of Iraq, were sent last year for uranium isotope analysis at the JW Goethe University in Germany at a cost of $1200 each under the auspices of DUSK and the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) in Canada, Ms Rigby said. The results, now being evaluated for publication next month in two scientific journals, showed both men had tested positive to depleted uranium contamination more than 15 years after their return from the first Gulf War. Ms Rigby said depleted uranium was the toxic and radioactive waste from the nuclear enrichment process. Denser and heavier than lead, it is used as a projectile to penetrate heavy bunkers and tanks. This is a huge issue about compensation which the Government would be determined they will never pay, Ms Rigby said. It's going to be Agent Orange all over again, except this time it's going to be a little bit worse because the mutations go into the general community from blood and organ donations. A 52-year-old Sunshine Coast man, known only as Frank (not his real name), said he was one of those tested. In 1991, he was an army medic in the mountains of northern Iraq, aiding Kurdish refugees fleeing the persecution of Saddam Hussein's forces. He cannot work and has suffered skin rashes on his face, arms and neck, swollen joints, chronic fatigue and dizzy spells but his doctor can only treat his symptoms because he is at a loss to explain their cause. Frank's wife, from whom he is now separated, had cervical cancer and burning semen syndrome, a condition reported by American Gulf War veterans or their sexual partners since returning from the Persian Gulf. They or their sexual partners have experienced a burning sensation after skin and/or vaginal contact with semen. But Frank says he only wants recognition from the Government. I'm not looking for millions of dollars in compensation, Frank said today. I just want to be treated fairly and I want our service recognised so that I can clearly have what I am entitled to and so my children can also seek and receive free of charge any and all testing and be honestly told and informed of where they stand. A Defence spokesperson said the department had no knowledge of the two men who had allegedly tested positive for DU. Australia had not used DU munitions since 1990 and Australian personnel were not in immediate proximity to sites in Iraq or Afghanistan where DU munitions were used by Australia's coalition partners. Accordingly, it is highly unlikely that any ADF personnel received significant exposure to DU residues in Iraq or Afghanistan, the spokesperson said. See what's free at AOL.com. 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=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] Fwd: Justice Dept's Secret Agenda: Fix the Vote Nationwide, Not Just Florida 2000
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 8:13:45 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Justice Dept's Secret Agenda: Fix the Vote Nationwide, Not Just Florida 2000 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe- rich29mar29,0,3371050.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail Bush's long history of tilting Justice The administration began skewing federal law enforcement long before the current U.S. attorney scandal, says a former Department of Justice lawyer. By Joseph D. Rich JOSEPH D. RICH was chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil right division from 1999 to 2005. He now works for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. LA Times, March 29, 2007 THE SCANDAL unfolding around the firing of eight U.S. attorneys compels the conclusion that the Bush administration has rewarded loyalty over all else. A destructive pattern of partisan political actions at the Justice Department started long before this incident, however, as those of us who worked in its civil rights division can attest. I spent more than 35 years in the department enforcing federal civil rights laws — particularly voting rights. Before leaving in 2005, I worked for attorneys general with dramatically different political philosophies — from John Mitchell to Ed Meese to Janet Reno. Regardless of the administration, the political appointees had respect for the experience and judgment of longtime civil servants. Under the Bush administration, however, all that changed. Over the last six years, this Justice Department has ignored the advice of its staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement in ways that clearly were intended to influence the outcome of elections. It has notably shirked its legal responsibility to protect voting rights. From 2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases were brought on behalf of African American or Native American voters. U.S. attorneys were told instead to give priority to voter fraud cases, which, when coupled with the strong support for voter ID laws, indicated an intent to depress voter turnout in minority and poor communities. At least two of the recently fired U.S. attorneys, John McKay in Seattle and David C. Iglesias in New Mexico, were targeted largely because they refused to prosecute voting fraud cases that implicated Democrats or voters likely to vote for Democrats. This pattern also extended to hiring. In March 2006, Bradley Schlozman was appointed interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo. Two weeks earlier, the administration was granted the authority to make such indefinite appointments without Senate confirmation. That was too bad: A Senate hearing might have uncovered Schlozman's central role in politicizing the civil rights division during his three-year tenure. Schlozman, for instance, was part of the team of political appointees that approved then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's plan to redraw congressional districts in Texas, which in 2004 increased the number of Republicans elected to the House. Similarly, Schlozman was acting assistant attorney general in charge of the division when the Justice Department OKd a Georgia law requiring voters to show photo IDs at the polls. These decisions went against the recommendations of career staff, who asserted that such rulings discriminated against minority voters. The warnings were prescient: Both proposals were struck down by federal courts. Schlozman continued to influence elections as an interim U.S. attorney. Missouri had one of the closest Senate races in the country last November, and a week before the election, Schlozman brought four voter fraud indictments against members of an organization representing poor and minority people. This blatantly contradicted the department's long-standing policy to wait until after an election to bring such indictments because a federal criminal investigation might affect the outcome of the vote. The timing of the Missouri indictments could not have made the administration's aims more transparent. This administration is also politicizing the career staff of the Justice Department. Outright hostility to career employees who disagreed with the political appointees was evident early on. Seven career managers were removed in the civil rights division. I personally was ordered to change performance evaluations of several attorneys under my supervision. I was told to include critical comments about those whose recommendations ran counter to the political will of the administration and to improve evaluations of those who were politically favored. Morale plummeted, resulting in an alarming exodus of career attorneys. In the last two years, 55% to 60% of attorneys in the voting section have transferred to other departments or left the
[CTRL] Fwd: The Costs of Global Warming
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 30, 2007 1:42:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Costs of Global Warming THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Top economist believes economies can still grow while taking responsibility for climate change By: Terence Creamer Published: 30 Mar 07 - 0:00 http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=105970 Renowned UK economist Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the now famed ‘Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change’, believes adaptive and mitigation action to stem the flow of carbon-dioxide emissions, viewed by most scientists as the cause of global warming, is not only urgent, but also not incompatible with a desire by governments and business to continue to grow and develop their economies. As arguably the leading economic scientist advocating intervention on an international scale, Stern’s main contribution to the debate has been to assign costs to the taking of action as against inaction. His conclusion is that the “costs of strong and immediate action will be far less than the costs of business as usual”. Stern, who visited South Africa earlier this month in a bid to galvanise the South African government’s backing for intervention, quanti- fies the cost of that intervention at a one-off 1% of global gross domestic product (GDP), as compared to a possible 5% knock to global GDP under a scenario of inaction. Even more bold, though, is his suggestion that there could be some real economic opportunities arising from a global campaign to reduce yearly CO2 flows and, ultimately, CO2 stocks in the atmosphere. Climate-change sceptics will, no doubt, contest this assertion, while some environmentalists will argue that fundamental human-behaviour change is needed, as opposed to business-friendly policy and regulation. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES Indeed, some environmentally conscious observers are deeply suspicious of what could be described as the ‘corporatised’ solutions being proffered, arguing that some of these could create new environmental problems, by, for instance, crimping biodiversity and allowing for the proliferation of nuclear energy plants. The other extreme, meanwhile, is that there are still a few scientists who believe the climate-change agenda to be nothing more than a cynical hoax, likely to divert attention and resources away from other pressing social and economic challenges. However, Stern is sanguine in the face of such criticism, arguing that his review is conservative in its adoption of the science, and proposes solutions that are imminently implementable, precisely because it balances regulation to ensure adaptation with incentives that will stimulate new behaviour by the private sector. Although he does admit that this market-friendly model could have unintended environmental fallout, which will need to be properly monitored and researched. One such unintended consequence could arise from the rush into lower-carbon biofuels, a strategy also being pursued in South Africa. The question is whether countries should pursue large-scale biofuels solutions based on crops such as sugar or maize that are, firstly, a source of food, and, secondly, require significant quantities of water and fertile ground. Stern acknowledges this could have serious negative implications both on food security and biodiversity and is, thus, an advocate of the use of crop residues and grasses that could be planted on “marginal” agricultural land and can grow without, or with minimal, irrigation. “If we can crack the problem of cellulosic ethanol, which is ethanol that comes from grasses and crop residues, then we will be able to plant the grasses on marginal land. At that point, we will be able to perceive biofuels as a big part of the mitigation story,” Stern asserts. THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ But Stern is also adamant that there has to be a sense of urgent pragmatism in dealing with the climate-change issue and that, for this reason, businesses have to be incentivised and/or disincentivised to change their behaviour. Indeed, as an economist first and foremost, Stern is a great believer in the use of policy ‘carrots and sticks’ to achieve the desired outcomes, particularly in an instance of market failure – he describes climate change as the world economy’s biggest-ever market failure. But why should the world be taking the climate-change issue seriously at all? The answer lies in the risk to current and future generations as well as entire ecosystems should the worst consequences of global warming actually occur – a risk that Stern believes would be “reckless” to ignore. But how can we respond? Here, it comes down to the issue of stemming carbon-dioxide flows, in a bid, ulimately, to deal with the
[CTRL] Fwd: Wars and Rumors of Wars
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 30, 2007 11:29:15 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wars and Rumors of Wars WHY THE DOW TOOK A NOSEDIVE JUST BEFORE NOON by Melly Alazraki Mar 30th 2007 1:04PM http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/30/why-the-dow-took-a-nose- dive-just-before-noon/ This was the Dow today: I'm sure you're all wondering what on earth happened. So here's some insight. An Israeli fringe news site that always claims to have inside information on matters related to the military, Debka Files, published that the USS Nimitz is set to sail to the Gulf on Monday, officially to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but in reality to add to the growing U.S. forces in the region. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSWBT00674720070330 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has not heard anything about U.S. citizens being advised to leave Bahrain, a senior White House official said on Friday. I haven't heard anything, the official said when asked if Americans had been advised to leave Bahrain. Rumors may have stemmed from a U.S. embassy note to U.S. residents posted on Thursday advising citizens to avoid being in areas where opposition activists plan to hold protests, which often turn violent. - March 30, 2007, 3:56 PM (GMT+02:00) http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3990 US financial sources in Bahrain report American investors in Bahrain advised to pack up business operations and leave The advice came from officers with US Central Command 5th Fleet HQ at Manama, who spoke of security tension, a hint at an approaching war with Iran. Arab sources report the positioning of a Patriot anti-missile battery in Bahrain this week; they say occupancy at emirate hotels has soared past 90% due mostly to the influx of US military personnel. They also report Western media crews normally employed in military coverage are arriving in packs. Thursday, March 29, Gen. Khaled al-‘Absi, Bahrain’s chief of air defense operations disclosed that new alarm networks had been installed and air defense systems upgraded to handle chemical, biological and radioactive attacks. The USS Nimitz and its support ships will be departing San Diego Monday, April 2, to join the John C. Stennis Strike Group in the Persian Gulf. The nuclear carrier is due to relieve the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower , but military sources in the Gulf believe all three US carriers will stay put if tensions continue to climb or if fighting breaks out involving American, British and Iranian forces. The mighty American armada is further supported by the USS Bataan and USS Boxer strike groups. Taking part in the big demonstration of American naval, air and marine force launched March 27 are the two nuclear carrier strike forces Stennis and Eisenhower , thousands of marines and 100 warplanes. Maneuvers on this scale in the tight, overcrowded waters of the Persian Gulf carry risks of a collision between American and Iranian craft. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Nimitz group is composed of the Princeton guided-missile cruiser, four guided missile destroyers – the Higgins , Chafee , John Paul Jones and Pinckney . The strike force is armed with two helicopter squadrons and a special unit for dismantling sea mines and other explosive devices. Earlier, DEBKAfile quoted intelligence sources in Moscow as predicting that a US strike against Iranian nuclear installations codenamed Operation Bite has been scheduled for April 6 at 0040 hours. Missiles and air raids will conduct strikes designed to be devastating enough to set Tehran’s nuclear program several years back. March 27, 2007, 11:40 PM (GMT+02:00) More than 10,000 US personnel, two aircraft carriers and 100 warplanes begin biggest simulated demonstration of force in Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the exercise was launched March 27 the day before the Arab League summit opens in Riyadh, to demonstrate the Bush administration’s determination not to let Iran block the Strait of Hormuz to oil exports from the Persian Gulf, or continue its nuclear program. Taking part are the USS Stennis and USS Eisenhower strike forces. The warplanes are flying simulated attack maneuvers on enemy shipping with aircraft and ships, hunting enemy submarines and seeking mines, off the coast of Iran. US Navy Cmdr Kevin Aandahl declined to say when the maneuver was planned or how long it would last. He said US warships would stay out of Iranian territorial waters up to 12 miles from the Iranian coast. Tehran does not recognize this limit and claims a deeper stretch of water. Our military sources explain the presence of the French naval strike group led by the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle which joined the two US
[CTRL] Fwd: Easter Surprise: New 9/11 and Nuking of Iran
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 9:27:50 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Easter Surprise: New 9/11 and Nuking of Iran Former C.I.A. Officer Philip Giraldi chillingly noted that the Pentagon's plans to attack Iran were drawn up to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. Writing in The American Conservative in August 2005, Giraldi added, The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. ... This response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Chew on that one a minute. The Pentagon's plan would be in response to a terrorist attack on the U.S., but not contingent upon Iran actually having been responsible. How outlandish is this scenario: another 9/11 hits the U.S., the administration says it has secret information implicating Iran, the U.S. population demands retribution and bombs start dropping on Tehran. While even contemplating another 9/11 brings shudders, it's worth noting that last year, Congress quietly approved provisions making it easier for the President to declare federal martial law after a domestic terrorist incident. See what's free at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 9:24:47 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Easter Surprise: Attack on Iran, New 9/11 or Worse Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17440.htm *Easter Surprise: Attack on Iran, New 9/11 or Worse* By Heather Wokusch 03/29/07 There’s an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can’t get fooled again.-- George W. Bush, September 2002 This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous … Having said that, all options are on the table.-- George W. Bush, February 2005 ICH -- The Bush administration continues moving closer to a nuclear attack on Iran, and we ignore the obvious buildup at our peril. Russian media is sounding alarms. In February, ultra-nationalist leader Vladimir Shirinovsky warned that the U.S. would launch a strike against Tehran at the end of this month. Then, last week, the Russian News and Information Agency Novosti (RIA-Novosti) quoted military experts predicting the U.S. will attack Iran on April 6th, Good Friday. According to R.I.A.-Novosti, the imminent assault will target Iranian air and naval defense capabilities, armed forces headquarters as well as key economic assets and administration headquarters. Massive air strikes will be deployed, possibly tactical nuclear weapons as well, and the Bush administration will attempt to exploit the resulting chaos and political unrest by installing a pro-U.S. government. Sound familiar? It's Iraq Déjà vu all over again, and we know how well that war has gone. Seymour Hersh has published numerous articles in The New Yorker detailing the Bush administration's plans to invade Iran. His latest, The Redirection, discusses U.S. participation in Iran-based clandestine operations, the kidnapping of hundreds of Iranians (including many humanitarian and aid workers) by U.S. forces and the shocking revelation that an Iran-Contra-type scandal has been run out of Vice President Dick Cheney's office with some of the illicit funds going to groups sympathetic to al-Qaeda. The Redirection also reports that the Pentagon has been planning to bomb Iran for a year and that a recently-established group connected to the Joint Chiefs of Staff is formulating a assault strategy to be implemented upon orders from the President, within twenty-four hours. Hersh notes that current capabilities allow for an attack order this spring, possibly when four U.S. aircraft-carrier battle groups are scheduled to be in the Persian Gulf simultaneously. Meanwhile, the Democratic Congress busies itself with non-binding, timid resolutions on Iraq and recently altered a military-funding bill to make it easier for Bush to invade Iran . As Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) explained, language demanding that Bush seek congressional approval before attacking Iran would take away perhaps the most important negotiating tool that the U.S. has when it comes to Iran. Such sheer ignorance and blind denial would be laughable if it weren't marching us into Armageddon. But with this Administration (and this Congress, apparently) diplomacy be damned. It's now widely known that Iran had broached peace talks with the U.S. in 2003 -- Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice admitted as much in 2006 when she said, what the Iranians wanted earlier was to be one-on-one with the United States. Yet the
[CTRL] Fwd: Casualties of War Just Props in Bush's Political Theatre
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 30, 2007 12:44:06 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Casualties of War Just Props in Bush's Political Theatre GENERALS TO BUSH: SOLDIERS NOT PROPS Posted by Frank James at 1:15 pm CDT March 30, 2007 http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/ general_to_bush.html A trio of retired generals concerned that President Bush might use his scheduled appearance this afternoon at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to try and score political points against Democrats, urged the president, via a teleconference with reporters, to focus strictly on the problems with military medical care. The generals were spurred into action by news reports that suggested the president might use the event to take on Democrats as both sides clash over the Iraq and Afghanistan spending bills just passed by the Senate and House which include timelines Bush fiercely opposes for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Some of the pointiest of comments came from retired Army Major Gen. Paul Eaton who seconded the comments made right before him by retired Army three-star, Lt. Gen. Robert Garde, who welcomed the president's visit to Walter Reed, especially if it meant a faster solution would be forthcoming to the problems there and at other facilities. Eaton, incidentally, was known as the father of the Iraqi Army for his work in rebuilding the Iraqi army after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Eaton said: I'm equally happy, Gen. Garde is on target, that the president is going to visit our wounded soldiers. I'm convinced that he would honor them more if he would refrain from using soldiers as props in political theater. We have a commander-in-chief who does very well when he is unscripted, unrehearsed and engaging with soldiers. But too often those who handle his performances try to turn the American fighting man and woman into a political prop for the scenery. So I would be very happy to see him do the Water Reed visit more like the commander and secondarily as an inspector general instead of as a politician. The inspector general in the U.S. army is the fellow charged with ferreting out problems such as Walter Reed and delivering the nature of the problem to the commander. So it is best that the commander in chief pursue this visit to Walter Reed as commander in fact of the American fighting man and the American fighting woman. Retired Maj. Gen. Mel Montano of the Army National Guard echoed those sentiments. I think to use it as a means to discuss the Iraqi supplemental is an insult to the soldiers and what they did. Because it's political exploitation as far as I feel. I think he ought to address the issues concerning their treatment, Walter Reed, etc, etc, etc. But to take this captive audience that has no choice and use them as I mentioned to exploit and push this, his disdain of the Iraqi supplemental vote in the House and the Senate is completely without foundation. And I think he should know that and that it really doesn't sit well with the rest of us in the military. Garde wasn't as edgy in his comments as the other two generals. He used the opportunity to focus the reporters attention on cuts in the money being allocated to military medical care and the outsourcing of certain health services, such as mental health specialists, who aren't providing the level of care that had been given by their military counterparts, he said. I hope the president will focus on the need of these various medical installations to have adequate funding in the various operation and maintenance accounts… Garde mentioned that $650 million in cuts in money to military medical facilities have been proposed in the fiscal 2008 federal budget. The cuts are supposed to be made up through increased efficiencies. Garde was doubtful. He foresaw more service cuts or deteriorating buildings. He continued by saying: The surgeon generals have all testified that this will result in a cut in services at the very time we're highlighting that the services are inadequate. As I mentioned in a previous posting, the teleconference was put together by the Democratic-leaning National Security Network which is headed by Rand Beers. Beers ran the national-security policy shop for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. Beers isn't a general but he served in Vietnam as Marine officer. A reporter asked a question along the lines of how should political be defined. Beers said: My view on this issue is Walter Reed and the military medical situation is a serious enough issue deserving quite highly of a presidential visit and speech to reassure the military, their families the American people that the social contract between our government and our people and the people who serve in the military is in fact if
[CTRL] Fwd: (2) E. Howard Hunt's Legacy (Looking Back at the JFK Assassination)
-Caveat Lector- Hunt was NOT the tramp with the hat. Peace, K Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 8:36:51 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (2) E. Howard Hunt's Legacy (Looking Back at the JFK Assassination) http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/ Saturday, March 24, 2007 Most of the names in Howard Hunt's confession to his son (yesterdays post) are long time suspects. David Atlee Phillips was the subject of the very first post of this blog. Cord Meyer's role is news. Meyer was a senior CIA official. His ex-wife Mary was a free spirit who knew Timothy Leary and had an affair with John Kennedy. The day after Kennedy's assasination, according to Timothy Leary in his book Flashbacks, Mary phoned him and said: They couldn't control him any more. He was changing too fast. He was learning too much... They'll cover everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm scared. I'm afraid. Mary Pinchot Meyer was murdered on October 12, 1964, apparently a professional hit. Author C. David Heymann in his book The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club wrote: Asked to comment on the case by the current author (C. David Heymann), Cord Meyer held court at the beginning of February 2001- - six weeks before his death -- in the barren dining room of a Washington nursing home. Propped up in a chair, his glass eye bulging, he struggled to hold his head aloft. Although he was no longer able to read, the nurses supplied him with a daily copy of The Washington Post, which he carried with him wherever he went. My father died of a heart attack the same year Mary was killed, he whispered. It was a bad time. And what could he say about Mary Meyer? Who had committed such a heinous crime? The same sons of bitches, he hissed, that killed John F. Kennedy. Friday, March 23, 2007 Rolling Stone: The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt St. John still has the memo -- It has all this stuff in it, he says, the chain of command, names, people, places, dates. He wrote it out to me directly, in his own handwriting, starting with the initials 'LBJ' -- and he's decided it's time his father's last secrets finally see some light, for better or for worse. E. Howard scribbled the initials LBJ, standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under LBJ, connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words French Gunman Grassy Knoll. Later that week, E. Howard also gave Saint two sheets of paper that contained a fuller narrative. It starts out with LBJ again, connecting him to Cord Meyer, then goes on: Cord Meyer discusses a plot with [David Atlee] Phillips who brings in Wm. Harvey and Antonio Veciana. He meets with Oswald in Mexico City. . . . Then Veciana meets w/ Frank Sturgis in Miami and enlists David Morales in anticipation of killing JFK there. But LBJ changes itinerary to Dallas, citing personal reasons. David Atlee Phillips, the CIA's Cuban operations chief in Miami at the time of JFK's death, knew E. Howard from the Guatemala-coup days. Veciana is a member of the Cuban exile community. Sturgis, like Saint's father, is supposed to have been one of the three tramps photographed in Dealey Plaza. Sturgis was also one of the Watergate plotters, and he is a man whom E. Howard, under oath, has repeatedly sworn to have not met until Watergate, so to Saint the mention of his name was big news. In the next few paragraphs, E. Howard goes on to describe the extent of his own involvement. It revolves around a meeting he claims he attended, in 1963, with Morales and Sturgis. It takes place in a Miami hotel room. Here's what happens: Morales leaves the room, at which point Sturgis makes reference to a Big Event and asks E. Howard, Are you with us? E. Howard asks Sturgis what he's talking about. Sturgis says, Killing JFK. E. Howard, incredulous, says to Sturgis, You seem to have everything you need. Why do you need me? In the handwritten narrative, Sturgis' response is unclear, though what E. Howard says to Sturgis next isn't: He says he won't get involved in anything involving Bill Harvey, who is an alcoholic psycho. After that, the meeting ends. E. Howard goes back to his normal life and like the rest of the country is stunned by JFK's death and realizes how lucky he is not to have had a direct role. Even if it is true that Howard Hunt declined to take part in the conspiracy, and I am doubtful, he still knew that
[CTRL] Fwd: The United States of Paranoid-Delusional-Right-Wing-Nuttica
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 29, 2007 8:30:03 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The United States of Paranoid-Delusional-Right-Wing-Nuttica Wingnuttia Republican support is contracting to a base of [less than] 25% of the population whose views are getting more extreme, not merely because moderate conservatives are peeling off to become Independents, but also because of the party’s success in constructing a parallel universe of news sources, thinktanks, blogs, pseudo-scientists and so on, which has led to the core becoming more tightly committed to an extremist ideology. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/27/eumerica/ All it took to transform protestant Germany into a Third Reich that believed in Ultima Thule, the Holy Grail, the Spear of Destiny, and the power of runes and occult rituals handed down from Aryan ancestors in Tibet was a Nazi Party that was small in numbers but efficiently organized. See what's free at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/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] Fw: C.R.E.S.T. On U.S. Soil - Enough Oil for 200 Years
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Deborah Reid To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 21:14 Subject: C.R.E.S.T. On U.S. Soil - Enough Oil for 200 Years ALASKA'S GULL ISLAND OIL FIELDS COULD POWER U.S. FOR 200 YEARS Crude oil is the real `currency' of the world, said Lindsey Williams at a gathering of the Midwest Concerned Citizens group in Kansas City on July 22. But Americans will never hear about huge oil and gas reserves in the United States, which, if ever tapped, would bring today's fuel prices at least as low as $1.50 per gallon and make America more energy independent. As a Baptist missionary in the 1970s, Williams said he rubbed elbows with members of the world's power elite who boasted of detailed 30-year and 50-year plans to control the flow of oil and information. To read the rest of this interesting article click on link and scroll down a little: http://www.wisdomstore.us/survivalism-writings.html.0.html http://www.wisdomstore.us/survivalism-writings.html.0.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity a.. 5New Members Visit Your Group Give Back Yahoo! for Good Get inspired by a good cause. Y! Toolbar Get it Free! easy 1-click access to your groups. Yahoo! Groups Start a group in 3 easy steps. Connect with others. . __,_._,___ 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=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] Fwd: Company Charged with Trading with the Enemy -- Directors Linked to DoD
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 30, 2007 5:45:45 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Company Charged with Trading with the Enemy -- Directors Linked to DoD ITT FINED IN TECH EXPORT CASE Bloomberg News Boston Globe, March 28, 2007 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/03/28/ itt_fined_in_tech_export_case/ WASHINGTON -- Defense contractor ITT Corp. agreed to pay $100 million and plead guilty to two criminal charges for allowing the transfer to China of night-vision technology that is critically important in battle. ITT, the Defense Department's leading maker of night vision goggles, will be the first major defense contractor convicted of a criminal violation of the Arms Export Control Act, the Justice Department said. The company will enter the plea today in federal court in Roanoke, Va. There was a lot of illegal activity going on here, said John Brownlee, the US attorney in Roanoke. The government accused White Plains, N.Y.-based ITT of trying to cut costs over a 20-year period by shipping technology and components without export licenses to an unidentified Singapore- based contractor. That company began shipping the technology to a China-based optics firm around 2001, court documents said. China has been trying to get so-called Generation 3 night-vision technology to develop ways to counteract it, analysts say. ITT's Board of Directors http://www.itt.com/profile/board.asp includes: JOHN J. HAMRE http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_J._Hamre President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), a public policy research institution dedicated to strategic, bipartisan global analysis and policy impact Dr. Hamre, 55, was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of CSIS in April of 2000. Prior to joining CSIS, he served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2000 and Under Secretary of Defense / Comptroller [specializing in procurement issues]) from 1993 to 1997. Dr. Hamre is a Director of MITRE Corporation, Choicepoint, Inc. and SAIC, Inc. MITRE: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php? title=MITRE_Corporation. Among its Board of Directors: Richard J. Kerr, present in Cuba during Bay of Pigs, made Deputy Director of the CIA under Bush41, http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/kerr.html; Nixon man James Schlesinger, CIA Director 1973, CFR, Dubya's Homeland Security advisor, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php? title=James_Rodney_Schlesinger; Martin Faga, on Dubya's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/ faga.html; David Jeremiah, on Defense Policy Board under Richard Perle, director of Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, former chairman of the board at Wackenhut, http:// www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Jeremiah; James Busey, Dubya's Secy of Transportation (for FAA vis-a-vis Terrorism). CHOICEPOINT: Big Brother Inc -- privatized supplier of domestic intel data to government spy agencies, enabled Jeb Bush to weed out Democrats in the 2000 election, handled identification of 9/11 victims by using DNA samples: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/ S00193.htm http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/05/con06200.html SAIC: http://www.investor.reuters.com/business/ BusCompanyOverview.aspx?ticker=SAIsymbol=SAItarget=%2fbusiness% 2fbuscompany%2fbuscompfake%2fbuscompoverview He received a B.A. degree, with highest distinction from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and was awarded a Ph.D., with distinction, from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in 1978. Dr. Hamre has been a Director of ITT Corporation since 2000. CURTIS J. CRAWFORD President and Chief Executive Officer, XCEO, Inc., a leadership and corporate governance consulting firm Dr. Crawford, 58, is President and Chief Executive Officer of XCEO, Inc. From April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003 he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Onix Microsystems, a private photonics technology company. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of ON Semiconductor Corporation from September 1999 until April 1, 2002. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of ZiLOG, Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and its Chairman from 1999 to 2001. Zilog was founded in 1974 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Corp. by 1980. The company's management and employees purchased Zilog back from Exxon in 1989. Zilog became a publicly- held company in February, 1991. In March of 1998, Zilog was privatised, as a result of the merger and recapitalisation transaction by Texas Pacific Group (TPG). http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/foldoc/97/130.htm Dr.
